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Students Protest for National CauseAbout 100 UA students
and staff gathered be-tween Brough Commons and Humphreys in 80 de-gree heat wearing hoodies Monday to protest the kill-ing of Trayvon Martin, the Sanford, Fla. teen who was shot and killed in late Feb-ruary.
The showing was the first major demonstration in Fayetteville.
The Trayvon Martin case has ignited a national race debate, a conversation that will hopefully carry over to other examples of injustice, said Amy Carson, senior.
“Anything dealing with injustice or race is always an uncomfortable topic,” she said. “So it’s a lot eas-ier to ignore it than to say something about it.”
“Not to say that everything’s going to be perfect from here on out, but I think it’s going to open people’s eyes a little bit,” Carson said. “We’re not going to be silent about something that we feel
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Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino was “resting comfortably and encouraged by the progress of his recovery” in the hospital late Monday af-ternoon, less than a day a! er being hospitalized following a motorcycle accident, UA ath-letic director Je" Long said in a statement.
Petrino was hospitalized overnight a! er operating the motorcycle in a single-vehi-cle crash on Highway 16 near the town Crosses in Madison County at around 6:45 p.m. Sunday, Arkansas State Police spokesperson Bill Sadler said.
Petrino su" ered broken ribs, a neck sprain and numer-ous cuts and bruises, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Ga-zette. He was “in stable condi-tion and expected to make a full recovery,” Long said Mon-day morning in the # rst of UA two statements released the day a! er the crash.
“Late this a! ernoon I had an opportunity to visit with coach Petrino and Becky at the hospital,” Long said in the Monday a! ernoon statement. “I know that he is very much looking forward to returning
to spring practice at the earli-est opportunity. In the course of our visit, the Petrinos ex-pressed their appreciation for all the thoughts and well wish-es that have come in from all over the country.”
$ e Razorbacks have prac-tices Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday this week, but UA ath-letic media relations personnel wouldn’t comment on whether Petrino will miss any practices.
State police responded to the accident and Petrino spent Sunday night in an unidenti-# ed Washington County hos-pital. Crosses is about 22 miles southeast of Fayetteville.
$ e report from the wreck hasn’t been released. Troopers have two to three working days to submit a report, according to state police policy.
In 2008, Petrino talked to the Morning News of North-west Arkansas about his inter-est in motorcycles and how he owned four bikes at the time.
Early internet message board reports about Petrino’s crash surfaced Sunday night, but were largely passed of as an April Fool’s joke.
Kristen Coppola contributed reporting to this article.
Four buses will be add-ed to the Razorback Transit for the next year as a result of increased enrollment and an increase in population in Northwest Arkansas, a Ra-zorback Transit o% cial said.
Northwest Arkansas has grown to include parts of 18 cities and more than 295,000 people, according to the 2010 census. $ is growth is positively correlated with federal funds given to public transportation in the region, transit o% cials said.
In light of the new data, the region will receive $300,000 to $500,000 more towards public transporta-tion in # scal year 2013, said Phil Pumphrey, executive director of Ozark Regional Transit.
Ozark Regional Transit is just one provider of public transportation in Northwest Arkansas. $ e other provid-er is the UA’s own Razorback Transit.
“For the last seven years, they have split 55-per-cent and 45-percent of the funds,” said Je" Hawkins, di-rector of the regional plan-ning committee.
However, the federal funds come with a stipula-tion. For all operation costs, which include fuel, salaries and insurance, the transpor-tation service must match any federal funding it uses, said Gary Smith, director of Parking and Transit.
For capital costs, which include purchases of new vehicles and major mainte-nance, it must be matched 80 to 20 percent.
Razorback Transit match-es the funds it uses through student fees of $2.41 per credit hour, which generate about $1.3 million, a federal grant, a state tax, and some charters by exception, Smith said. $ e federal grant is the reason that Razorback Tran-sit is free and available to
by JACK SUNTRUPStaff Writer
Petrino “Stable” After Accident
by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor
New Garden Added To Maple Courtyard
‘Pink Slime’ Not Bad, UA Prof. Says
Turpentine Creek: Big Cats in Arkansas
An Arkansas DREAMer Searching for Corners The Farmers’ Market: Truly Green?
A new community garden was planted in the UA Maple courtyard.
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! e hype over ‘pink slime’ in ground beef is based on false information, according to a UA professor.
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A rescue for big cats outside of Eureka Springs brings in lions, tigers and more.
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One man’s journey from an undocumented student to a U.S. citizen.
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Redshirt freshmen Davyon McKinney and Kelvin Fisher are competing for playing time at cornerback in spring practice.
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A Traveler columnist discusses whether locally grown food is better for the economy.
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KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudents walk down the stairs in front of Mullins library as part of the Trayvon Martin march.
by KRISTEN COPPOLAStaff Writer
see TRANSITon page 2
Razorback Transit to Expand
The Wonderful World of Oz
MARY MCKAY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERCircus Oz, a high energy circus set to rock music, blends a comedic performance with acrobatic feats. The Australian group’s final performance is tomorrow at 7 p.m.
see PROTESTon page 2
Turpentine Creek: Big Cats
in ArkansasPage 8
NEWS
The women and men of the University of Arkansas Police Department, in partnership with the community, are committed to protecting the future of Arkansas by promot-ing a safe and secure environment.
The Transit and Parking office handles parking permits and passes and transit for students, including bus routes and GoLoco Ride Sharing. Students with parking violations can contact the office to appeal their citation.
NEED TICKETS? CALL 1-800-982-4647
NEED A RIDE AT NIGHT? CALL 575 - 7233
NEED EMERGENCY HELP? CALL UAPD 575-2222
HAVE A TICKET? CALL 575-7275 TO RESOLVE IT
Otherwise known as 575-SAFE, the mission of the Safe Ride program is to provide students with a safe means of transportation from any uncomfortable or inconvenient situation. Safe Ride brings you home safely.
Don’t forget to call early and reserve your student football tickets for the 2010-2011 season. The ticket office is located on Razorback Road next to Baum Stadium.
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Kip. S. ! orneLectureA
Kip S. ! orne is the Feynman Professor of ! eoretical Phys-ics, Emeritus at the Califor-nia Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif.
7:30 - 9 p.m.Old Main
Derby DaysBlood DriveB
! e Derby Days blood drive will be in HPER gym 4 on April 2-4 from 12-6. Free shirts, pizza, snacks and drinks. Remember ID, eat a meal, and drink plenty of water before donation.
12 - 6 p.m.Gym 4HPER
Holcombe Geography Series MauritaniaC
! e signature program, Ge-ography Series, will welcome Houssein Heimid, an interna-tional student and Mauritania.
5 - 6 p.m.Holcombe Residence Hall
Career Fest 2012
! e week will include an em-ployer panel discussion, a din-ing etiquette dinner, network-ing and social media job search workshops, and drop-in resume reviews and mock interviews.
Various locations on-campus
anyone in the area.Each year, the Razor-
back Transit " eet expands by two buses, but because of to increasing enrollment, it will instead add four bus-es this year, gradually grow-ing from 21 buses in Febru-ary to 25 buses in August, Smith said.
! e buses will be used to alleviate crowding on the Red, Purple and Tan routes, Smith said.
But there are some issues with the funding that are still up in the air, because the funds won’t be available until # scal year 2013.
“We may get more mon-ey, but with new restric-tions,” Smith said. “It will help as long as we get to used it.
“In this instance ORT
has historically had issues matching whereas the uni-versity system has been over matched,” Hawkins said.
“[ORT won’t expand] unless there’s a change in the regional funding,” Pum-phrey said.
! ere is a quarter cent county-wide sales tax on the ballot to be voted on May 22, which would “probably provide $7.5 to $8 million toward transit operations,” Hawkins said. “ORT’s plan is if the sales tax were to pass and they got it – it’s not up to them how it is distributed – they would allow substantial ex-pansion to transit services.”
Any funds that are not used or are not able to be used by ORT would be made available for Ra-zorback Transit to use, Hawkins said.
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A new community gar-den was placed placed in the UA Maple Courtyard, officials said.
Officials broke ground on the garden Monday, said Madeline Orlander, RIC Sustainability chair.
“A lot of work has al-ready been done on the gar-den, and we will soon start
planting,” Orlander said. “It’s an exciting addition on the UA campus.”
The UA Grow Green RSO fostered the idea for the garden. The RIC and ASG Sustainability chairs joined planning shortly af-ter, Orlander said.
Both RIC and ASG are helping with the process and upkeep of the new gar-den, she said.
“The community garden
is being funded through donations of several busi-nesses,” Orlander said. “Ar-kansas Natural Foods is probably our largest con-tributor. Money has also been allocated through the ASG and RIC budgets.
“We are trying to raise awareness of the new gar-den being planted so that we may start recruiting help to manage the garden,” Orlander said.
A schedule of volunteer duties and work times will be compiled soon, Orland-er said.
“If students are interest-ed in helping with the new community garden, they should contact the Grow Green RSO on campus,” Orlander said. “The garden is a great way to give back to the community and keep our campus beautiful.”
New Garden Added to Maple Courtyard
by BAILEY KESTNERStaff Writer
JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERChancellor Gearhart helps plant in the in the new community garden dedicated in the Maple Hill courtyard Monday. Emily Crossfield, an honors biochemistry student lead the effort and has been working on the project for the past two years. The produce and flowers will help supply the Full Circle Campus Food Pantry, recently honored by the White House .
strongly about. It’s the start of breaking the silence.”
Several students called the killing and subsequent coverage as a “breaking point” for instances of ra-cial inequality.
As students and staff marched from Brough Commons to the Union singing “We Shall Over-come,” and chanting for justice, the overarching theme of increased activ-ism carried over with the keynote speaker Charles Robinson, UA vice provost for Diversity.
“What you want is jus-tice, but justice is not some-thing that is determined in the media,” he said. “That is something that is going to take place, we believe, over time. With the involvement
of our federal government, with the involvement of people all over the country who are interested in see-ing justice take place, we have to believe that we are going to find that justice.”
As students hoped ac-tion would transfer into awareness of racial issues, Robinson urged students to use their education to have a longer lasting impression.
“What you can do now is to become that person who has the power to transform lives of people outside of that opportunity,” Robin-son said. “Don’t let this be just a rally so that you can get on TV and say that you were part of this moment. Let this be something that starts a conversation about moving forward and go-ing into other moments to make real change for you and real change for others.”
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NEWS
! e hype over “pink slime” in ground beef is based on false information, according to a UA animal science pro-fessor.
“Pink slime,” known in the beef industry as lean beef trim or lean " nely textured beef, is made from le# over scraps af-ter a cow is butchered for cuts such as steaks and roasts. ! is product is mostly fat.
“! ey take that fatty trim and heat it up to about 100 degrees,” said Animal Sci-ence Professor Janeal Yancey. Heating it up so# ens the fat, she said.
! ey then put it through a centrifuge process, she said.
A centrifuge is similar to that amusement park ride that spins quickly in place and holds people up against the wall, she said.
“! e di$ erent densities are going to be pulled in the cen-trifuge at di$ erent rates,” she said. ! is process separates the muscle, or lean parts, from the fatty parts.
! e lean parts are saved but because they are heated, up they are susceptible to mi-crobes such as disease caus-ing bacteria, Yancey said.
! ese bits are then ex-posed to a pu$ of ammonia gas, which reacts with the water in the muscle bits and forms ammonia hydroxide, she said.
Ammonia hydroxide is “a food grade ammonia that kills bacteria,” Yancey said. She said the chemical com-pound raises the pH level of the meat. ! e change is enough to kill any bacteria, she said.
“We’re not doing anything out of the ordinary using it in a ground beef product,” she said.
An o% cial with Chartwells said she didn’t know if the ad-ditive was used in ground beef products on campus.
Kim Johnson, the market-ing director for Chartwells on campus, said she hadn’t heard back from the company’s sup-pliers.
Students eating hamburg-ers in Brough Commons Monday said they didn’t know if the additive was dan-gerous.
“I haven’t seen a lot of facts about it,” said Dakota Sriven-er, who is a senior studying mechanical engineering. He said he would prefer seeing more studies about the addi-tive.
If they do use it in their hamburgers, Srivener said, he preferred they wouldn’t use too much.
Another student said he
too was unsure about the ad-ditive.
“Is it really all that harm-ful?” said Jared Datzman, who is a junior studying psy-chology and classical studies. “I don’t think so.”
“I have faith that it’s not going to kill me,” he said.
A recent study by a UA student found that the ad-ditive actually improved the fresh and cooked quality characteristics of ground beef patties.
! e study was completed in October 2011 by Courtney Moon, a student in the Ani-mal Science Department.
Using instruments, Moon studied the color and tender-ness of ground beef with ei-ther 10 or 20 percent of lean beef trim added to a mixture of ground beef that was either 82 or 93 percent lean, or mus-cle. ! ese were compared to a control group that had none of the additive.
About 750 pounds of ground beef were studied, Yancey said.
! e patties were frozen, thawed and placed in a sim-ulated retail display for " ve days before cooking, accord-ing to a press release from the Department of Animal Sci-
ence.Patties with 20 percent of
the additive didn’t discolor as quickly as those without the additive, according to the study’s abstract. ! e complete study hasn’t been published.
A large percentage of ground beef available in stores contains lean beef trim and has for about two de-cades, Moon said.
Large grocery chains, in-cluding Walmart, are pulling ground beef with the additive or o$ ering beef that does not contain the additive. A state-ment from Walmart in March said the company was work-ing with suppliers to have fresh ground beef in stores as soon as possible.
Moon and Yancey dis-agreed with this decision.
“It’s going to a$ ect the whole industry,” Yancey said.
“We have the smallest cow herd that we’ve had since the mid-50s,” Yancey said.
! e beef industry is doing a better job now at producing more beef with fewer cows, she said.
Lean beef trim is one of the technologies responsible for increased beef produc-tion, she said.
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HEALTH & SAFETYSpecial Traveler Beat
An ASG committee will write a letter of support for paid maternity and pa-ternity leave for UA fac-ulty and staff to the Chan-cellor’s Commission on Women, an ASG senator said.
The purpose of the let-ter is to show student sup-port for the implementa-tion of paid maternity and paternity leave for faculty and staff, said Kayln Wil-liams, who also serves as the student representative on the Chancellor’s Com-mission on Women.
The letter will not be a prescribed policy but in-stead just a recommenda-tion, she said.
“The UA could be a leader and other schools can follow suit,” she said.
The UA gives employ-ees up to 12 weeks of un-paid leave per year for the birth or adoption of a child, placement of a child
in foster care, to care for a spouse or an immediate family member with a se-rious health condition, or when unable to work be-cause of a serious health condition, according to the UA human resources website.
The UA complies with the Family and Medical Leave Act, which became law in 1993. The Act en-titles eligible employees to take 12 weeks unpaid ma-ternity leave, according to the United States Depart-ment of Labor website.
Yet, there is not a set maternity or paterni-ty leave policy, Williams said. The only school in the Southeastern Confer-ence to offer paid mater-nity or paternity leave is the University of Florida, whose faculty and staff are eligible for up to six months of paid paren-tal leave, according to the UF Extended Leave of Ab-sence Policy on the UF website.
ASG Proposes Paid Maternity and
Paternity Leaveby SARAH DEROUEN
Staff Writer
by JON SCHLEUSSStaff Writer
Pink Slime Not Bad, UA Prof. Says
COURTESY OF UA ANIMAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT“Pink slime,” known in the beef industry as lean beef trim or lean fi nely textured beef, is made from leftover scraps after a cow is butchered for cuts such as steaks and roasts. This product is mostly fat.
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OPINIONPAGE 4 TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
FROM THE BOARD
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MARCUS FERREIRA Sta! Cartoonist
Springtime has arrived, which means it’s time for a fa-vorite Saturday pastime in Fay-etteville: the Farmers’ Market. ! e market opens this Satur-day at the Square, and for those who have never been, it is an eccentric mix of local farmers, artists, and the like. People mo-tives for buying their produce at the market vary, but most will likely say that local food is better for the environment and fresher. I can’t argue the latter, but we’ll take a stab at the for-mer.
! e conventional argument goes that shipping a head of let-tuce from San Joaquin Valley in California to Fayetteville, Ark., emits large amounts of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide, thus increasing global warming and harming the environment. ! e idea is that eating locally grown produce reduces those emissions.
! ere’s a slight problem in this line of thinking. Close to 50 percent of the social costs of the modern food system have nothing to do with the lettuce making it to the grocery store and everything to do with how you, the customer, got there. If every one of us is driving sepa-rately to pick up that one head of lettuce, there will obviously be many more emissions per
head and per mile during that leg of its journey.
Now, if the customer mode of transportation is the main culprit of emissions, is driv-ing to the farmers’ market any more environmentally friendly than driving to Walmart to par-take in the evil empire of the modern agriculture industry? Inherently, no.
We also have to consider the farmers’ modes of transporta-tion as well. If they pack their produce less densely with just a few hundred pounds of car-go and drive pickups that get low miles-per-gallon, then they frankly are producing more emissions per pound of food than “industrial agriculture.” Ships and rail are more e" -cient means of transportation because economically it makes sense for that ship owner to load it up with as many items as possible just to cover the sheer cost of ownership and opera-tion.
“But wait Mike, I bike to the farmers’ market, buy my pro-duce in season and freeze it throughout the winter. Aren’t I being environmentally con-scious,”? says the thoughtful reader.
Well, not exactly. Run-ning your freezer throughout the winter uses up electricity, which came from coal-pow-ered power plants and emit-ted carbon in doing so. Even
if that electricity came from wind power, it’s still not exact-ly energy conservation. And if someone likes growing green-house tomatoes in Fayetteville throughout the winter, that too uses energy and emits carbon. ! ere’s a reason we ship fruits and vegetables from warm re-gions to colder regions. ! ey have the comparative advan-tage to produce those items at a lower cost than we do.
I will recognize there is a major # aw in our current food economy that is leading to less-than-e" cient market out-comes. Our economy is not tak-ing into account carbon emis-sions, essentially the Earth cost of shipping that head of lettuce from California or those grapes from Chile. (Some options to incorporate the cost of carbon into the market would be a car-bon tax or cap-and-trade.)
Without the cost of car-bon, we as consumers have no clue which option is truly bet-ter for the environment. Once that is actually included in our price, we can compare between that local and San Joaquin let-tuce, leading to greater gains for those who emit less carbon through more e" cient process-es. Until that day, it will be very di" cult to discern the greenest option among the pack.
It may surprise you to now that even then, those Chilean grapes may not be that bad
for the environment. Profes-sor Christopher Hope, a well-known carbon emission expert, estimates the cost of a ton of carbon to be between $3.50 and $50, averaging at about $20.
Roughly 350 pounds of Chilean grapes would have to be shipped to the U.S. to consti-tute a ton of carbon dioxide. Af-ter including the added damage of aircra$ emissions, the added carbon cost of that bunch of grapes would be less than twen-ty-% ve cents, maybe even less than a penny.
So remember that shopping at the farmers’ market shouldn’t be a guilt trip for the environ-ment. Heck, if you drove there, you may be doing more dam-age. Eating local, and in season, can and should be more about getting fresh food and support-ing local economies, so if you’re in it for that, kudos. But, never forget there is a reason we have a global economy. Every coun-try and region has an advan-tage at producing something. If we capitalize more on those ad-vantages, we can go a long way in trading for a better, greener future.
Mike Norton is an agricul-tural economics and poultry sci-ence major, and a Traveler col-umnist.
His column appears every other Tuesday.
The Farmers’ Market: Truly Green?
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Saba NaseemMattie QuinnEmily Rhodes
“What you want is justice, but justice is not something that is determined in the media.
! at is something that is going to take place, we believe, over time. With the involvement of our federal government, with the involvement of
people all over the country who are interested in seeing justice take place, we have to believe that
we are going to % nd that justice,”- Charles Robinson, UA vice provost for Diversity, “Students Pro-
test For National Cause,” page 1.
by MIKE NORTONTraveler Columnist
Comments From the Traveler WebsiteRe: Neighborhood Shooting Causes
National ControversyRicksuperfun: Good article. People with an agenda
have oversimpli% ed the events surrounding Trayvon Martin’s death... ! ere is no evidence that Zimmerman pulled a gun on Martin before being assaulted. Our legal system is, thankfully, based on evidence and witness testimony. It is not based on mob rule and petitions signed by people who have watched 10 minutes of sensationalized coverage on CNN.
Jeremy People need to be patient and wait for su" cient information before throwing their name or person behind an idea. ! ere have been and always will be examples of people’s lives being irrevocably torn apart because of such rash action. ! e import of the nature of the accusation is far less important than if it actually happened.:
Re: Speaking Out: Life As An Undocu-mented UA Student
Camille Richoux: I think it’s interesting how many other places would consider impoverished people coming to this country as refugees, yet we see them as pests. they are people.
and for the children, they were brought here. they are as american as you or me. keeping them from being able to be successful is deplorable, and sending them back to a country they don’t even know or identify with is terrible.
Stan Oliver: : If they are illegal. ! ey they are illegal. How long do they have to be here before we feel like they should legally be allowed to stay? I cannot help it that Tyson and a few builders hired their parents to work here. You need to take that up with whoever hired them. Fact remains if they are illegal they should not get the same education bene% ts as the rest of us. I know the racism card will be played with me but it has been played so many times before that I just laugh about it. If they are here legal I do not care where they are from. I agree the government needs to help them. If they are illegal, the government needs to for one time, do their job and deport them.
Re: Newer Dorms Consume Far More Energy
Taylor : I feel a lot of that has to do with the fact that people don’t worry about leaving lights on, running water, etc. when they think that the building is conserving energy for them. ! e same thing happened when seatbelts % rst became mandatory in all cars/trucks (people got in more accidents because they didn’t feel accountable for their own safety)
Community Garden Comes to UA Campus
Monday marked a big day for UA students involved in beginning the campus community garden.
! rough a dedication to the new garden on campus, the Monday event kicked o& the start of the community garden, which will provide # owers for university events and produce for the Full Circle Food Pantry, a student-run program that provides food and supplies to students in need, as well as community garden volunteers.
Led by honors student, Emily Cross% eld, more than 50 students have come together to work on creating a community garden that will bene% t those both on and o& campus. Donating a portion of the food grown at the garden to students in need through the food pantry, students will grow produce such as broccoli, tomatoes and herbs. Students participating in the community garden project will also have the opportunity to take home produce grown in the garden.
Not only is the community garden a great way to bring locally grown food to Fayetteville, but it’s one more way for students to get involved and meet people on campus. ! ough the summer is nearing and the academic year is coming to an end, getting a head start in the community garden project now can ensure that we meet new people to spend the upcoming year with. With the thousands of students attending the UA, the community garden gives students interested in the project an opportunity to meet others and get involved on our campus.
For those of us who missed the dedication Monday, there are still plenty of opportunities to check out the community garden. Head over to the Maple Hill courtyard to see all of the produce currently being grown and % nd out how you can get involved.
As a campus of outdoor-loving students, a community garden is a great way to bring the outdoors to our campus and enjoy locally grown food right outside our classrooms. Make sure to take an a$ ernoon and head to the garden with friends this week, and see everything our students have been working towards.
CORRECTIONS
Monday, information in the article “Res-idents’ Interhall Congress To Begin Elec-tions,” was incorrect.
Rachel Slank, not Rachel Frank as reported, will be running for the presidential spot. Voting will take place through an email ballot, not through the vote.uark.edu website.
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Arkansas is a long way from the natural habitat of big cats, but tigers are a whole lot closer to UA students than many may think. Students who want to see lions and leopards alike need only drive about half an hour northeast of Fayetteville.
Turpentine Creek, a refuge for large unwanted or abandoned animals, is located seven miles south of Eureka Springs in the Arkansas Ozarks. ! e refuge specializes in the care of large endangered cats such as lions, tigers, leopards and cougars.
! e refuge was started in 1992 by the Jackson family. It now includes 450 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks including 16 habitats for the large animals.
! e refuge is a UFDA licensed fa-cility for large carnivores. It provides the animals with the medical attention and care they need a" er they are res-cued from their previous owners.
Turpentine Creek is currently home to 139 animals. ! ey house 116 cats including tigers, lions, bobcats, African servals, cougars, leopards, and ligers. ! ey also have six black bears, a grizzly bear, and a rhesus macaque.
“Almost all of [the animals] have been rescued from private owners,” explained Stephanie Scott, an intern for the refuge, “People trying to raise
them as pets but soon realize that they are not able to. We also take animals when other facilities that have been shut down.”
When an animal refuge in Branson, Mo., shut down, Turpentine Creek res-cued nine of their animals.
Emily McCormack, curator for the refuge, said that because of the econo-my, the refuge is not receiving as many donations as they have in the past.
“Any time we recue an animal it is a huge expense just to get them their vet care,” McCormack said. “Being a non-pro# t, there is never enough funding coming in. We are just trying to build this facility. We have 459 acres to build on, the potential is phenomenal.”
McCormack says that people can help grow their facility by volunteering or just donating as little as $5 a month. Students can also get involved by vol-unteering at events. ! e refuge also sponsors alternative spring break op-tions with universities were students can help out with the animals.
“Word of mouth is the biggest help,” McCormack said. “Just spread the word. ! is is a large problem in the United States. ! ey estimate 10,000 tigers in private hands in the United States, and we are located right here in Eureka Springs”
! e refuge also supports public education and awareness. Instead of owning these large cats as pets, the
refuge encourages people to come visit the cats. Tanya Smith, the presi-dent of Turpentine Creek, hosts school programs where she and her sta$ go to schools in NWA and educate them about the animals at the refuge.
! e Turpentine Creek sta$ is made up of interns and volunteers who give the animals the respect and attention they deserve.
Scott became an intern at the ref-uge a" er she graduated with a degree in biology. She heard about the intern-ship from an email from her universi-ty. She researched the opportunity and applied to become an intern.
“I have always been an animal lov-er,” Scott said. “My dream job would be to work in the Kansas City Zoo. I am from Kansas City, and I have grown up going to that zoo my entire life. Hope-fully this experience will lead me to a career with large cats.”
! e sta$ also encourages the pub-lic to get involved with their programs through adoption or sponsoring an animal.
“Adoption basically costs a di$ erent amount based on the size of the ani-mals,” Scott explained. “Twenty adop-tions is equal to one sponsorship. All of the money goes in the same fund. If you sponger an animal you pay the to-tal cost of the maintenance and care for the animal for the entire year.”
Visitors can adopt or sponsor an
animal for just one year or for as many years as is desired. Turpen-tine Creek also o$ ers payment plans for the sponsorship to break up the cost into monthly pay-ments.
Turpentine Creek is open every day to the public except for Christmas day from 9 a.m. until dusk. An all-day admission fee to the refugee is $15.00 for adults, and $10.00 for veterans, se-nior citizens, and children ages 3-12. ! ey o$ er hourly guided tours.
Guests are also welcome to stay at the bed and breakfast located at the refuge. It includes two suites as well as a tree house for guests to stay in.
Turpentine Creek also o$ ers guid-ed photo sessions with the cats. All proceeds from the photo session go to-wards the care and upkeep of the ani-mals.
For more information about how to get involved with the programs at Turpentine Creek, visit their website at www.turpentinecreek.org.
Turpentine Creek: Big Cats in Arkansas
An Arkansas DREAMer: One Man’s Journey Shines Lighton the Experience of Being an Undocumented Student
Rafael Arciga Garcia graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2010, despite having enrolled as an un-documented student. When Garcia, a so" -spoken man, quietly announced this fact to a roomful of Latino stu-dents during a recent university re-cruitment trip to Lincoln High School, the gravity of his accomplishment si-lenced the chatter-# lled counseling center as he shared his story.
Garcia had persevered against tre-mendous odds: as an undocumented student, he couldn't legally drive or own a car or get a job. He was not eli-gible for state or federal scholarships. And because he did not have legal res-idency in the U.S., deportation was a constant and very real threat.
Garcia--now a legal U.S. resident and a leader in the UA’s Latino recruit-ment e$ orts--stood before the group as a living testament that the fruits of higher education, although not eas-ily reached, are attainable for undocu-mented students in Arkansas.
Crossing the BorderAt age 14, Garcia le" his home in
Ario de Rosales in the southwestern Mexican state of Michoacan. His fam-ily had arranged for him to be smug-gled across the border to join his mother, who was working for a poultry company in Green Forest, Ark., some 2,500 miles away.
She had told him stories of her seven day border-crossing journey, of eating canned food in the desert and drinking from puddles just to survive.
Garcia and a boy two years young-er would travel with a smuggler and a driver who was a U. S. citizen.
“Being the oldest, I wanted to show that it was okay,” Garcia said, recalling the experience. “But inside of me I was just thinking it was an adventure.”
As they pulled up to a bridge across the border into Texas, the driver slowed down and stopped.
“Okay, get out. Get out,” Garcia re-membered the smuggler saying.
! e two boys got out of the car with the smuggler and watched as the driv-er crossed the bridge into the United States. He made it through the border checkpoint without any trouble.
Following the smuggler, the two boys crawled across a walkway parallel to the road, hugging the concrete wall to keep from view. ! ey made it across without being spotted, jumped down o$ the side of the bridge and squeezed through a hole in the border fence.
Garcia was in the United States, but he wasn't safe yet.
! ey started running, but the rum-ble of a truck stopped them, Garcia re-called. Fearing the border patrol, the boys dropped to the ground, but the truck passed, leaving them in the clear.
As they ran through a sugarcane # eld in single # le, the sharp, sticky sugarcane leaves whipped behind
them, cutting the boys' arms. When the younger boy started falling behind, Garcia waited for him to catch up.
“Come on, don't stay behind,” Gar-cia remembered saying. “We don't want anything to happen.”
Garcia put the younger boy in front of him, and together they fought through one # eld of sugarcane. ! en another # eld. Finally, exhausted and covered in cuts, they reached a high-way where the smuggler was waiting for them.
! ey drove into Hidalgo, Texas, and from there, Garcia made it safely to Arkansas, where he was reunited with his mother and began life as an undocumented immigrant.
“A Nation of Immigrants”Arkansas has about 185,000 peo-
ple of Hispanic or Latino origin, and in Washington and Benton counties alone, some 65,000 people—more than 15 percent of the two counties’ popu-lation—are Hispanic. It is not known exactly how many undocumented im-migrants there are or how these # gures might change if the state’s undocu-mented immigrants were included.
! e Hispanic population of North-west Arkansas is not re% ected in the UA's Hispanic population, where less than # ve percent of students are La-tino, according to the most recent en-rollment report.
Until recently, the UA had not been doing as much as it could when it comes to recruiting and retaining La-tino students, said Luis Fernando Re-
strepo, a professor of Latin American Studies and the director of the recently created La O# cina Latina, the O& ce of Latino Academic Advancement and Community Relations.
Garcia, who is in charge of admis-sions at the new o& ce, is helping Re-strepo and his team pursue their mis-sion “to promote Latino academic ex-cellence, provide equal higher educa-tion opportunities, and create an inclu-sive and diverse campus community.”
Chancellor G. David Gearhart has also been an outspoken advocate of con-necting the regions' Latinos with higher education oppor-tunities. He has written news-paper editorials and letters to politicians and has testi# ed before state legislators on the subject.
He even helped raise private fund-ing to assist nearly 20 undocumented students in paying for tuition when a 2008 letter from Governor Mike Bee-be's o& ce prevented all state universi-ties from granting in-state tuition to undocumented students—even if they graduated from high schools in Arkan-sas—in a measure that more than dou-bled the students' tuition costs.
“We are a nation of immigrants,” Gearhart said in a recent interview. “As an educator, I feel that I've got to take a stand for the students—that all they really want to do is get an education. And I wouldn't deny anybody the abil-ity to do that, regardless of who they are.”
! e Undocumented LifeA" er Garcia arrived in Arkan-
sas in 2000, his mother enrolled him in Green Forest High School, though he spoke almost no English. With the support of several teachers, Garcia did well in school, he recalled. College, however, seemed out of the question.
But a recruiter from the UA visited the school and met with him and his teachers, encouraging him to apply to the UA a" er graduating. At the time, undocumented students were eligible to attend the university without a so-cial security number and could pay in-state tuition as long as they met the same minimum requirements as legal Arkansas residents. Today, however, undocumented students must pay out-of-state tuition.
Garcia took the ACT, and his score combined with his high school GPA quali# ed him for admittance to the UA. In 2004, he was the # rst La-tino graduate from Green Forest High School to become a Razorback.
But being an UA student didn't change the di& culties involved with being undocumented. He still didn't have a social security number. He still didn't have a driver's license. He had to walk 20 minutes—rain or shine—from the single-room living space his moth-er rented for him just to get to the bus that he rode to campus everyday. And he could still be deported at any time.
Plus, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, more commonly known as the DREAM Act, had failed to pass through Congress. ! e highly politicized piece of legisla-tion sought to provide a fast track to legal U.S. residency for young undocu-mented immigrants if they went to col-lege or served in the military.
For Garcia, the failure of the DREAM Act meant that even if he did make it through college, it could easily
take a decade or more for him to be-come a legal resident of the country.
“My depression got so bad that I just wanted to give up,” he said.
One hot day during the spring 2005 semester, Garcia made his usual walk home from the bus stop. Sweaty and mentally exhausted, he arrived at the house and shut himself in his room.
“Two days. Two days, and I didn't come out at all. ” he said. “I was just in bed—that's it.”
His room was simple—a bed, nightside table, desk and a TV. But on the wall by his bed he had a red Razor-back % ag. He was proud of being a Ra-zorback, but now he had doubts.
“Why am I doing this?” He remem-bered thinking. “I don't have to go through all this trouble to go to school, to do something that is uncertain.”
On another wall in his room, Gar-cia had a poster of John Lennon's face and with the singer's famous quote: “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.”
Garcia's dream was turning into a nightmare, an experience that is not uncommon among undocumented students.
Sharing a Renewed PassionHunger # nally drove Garcia to
leave his room -- hunger, and the re-alization that he simply could not give up. A college education was his moth-er's dream, too. As a single parent, she saved for years to pay for his tuition.
“I knew I wanted to be something, to be someone,” Garcia said. “But most importantly, it was not to let anyone down of those people who believed in me and trusted me and gave me their support. It wasn't because of me that I came out, but because I was thinking of somebody else.”
But a" er his third semester at the UA, the money for tuition and funds from his private scholarship ran out and he was forced to take a break from college.
Remarkably, during that semester o$ , Garcia's Green card application went through, and he was able to get a job and save enough money to return to the UA in the fall of 2006.
He rejoined the Razorback family with a renewed passion. He didn't have to explain to people why he couldn't have a job.
“It was just a relief,” he said. “From then on, it was just my mindset that I wanted to do something.”
He became an outspoken supporter of the DREAM Act and an activist for undocumented students. He became the president of the campus chapter of the League of United Latin Ameri-
can Citizens and a founding member of the Latino frater-nity and the Latino Alumni Society. He participated in rallies in Little Rock, speaking to state politicians and policy-makers in Washington, D.C.
In 2010, he graduated with a degree in international relations. Fi-nally, the years of struggle had paid o$ .
And his mother: “She was super happy, super happy,” Garcia said. “She cried. It was all because of her. She was the one who made the # rst sacri# ce.”
Only a decade before graduating from the UA, Garcia had been living in Mexico. He could tell time in Eng-lish, but that was about the extent of his English skills. Now he works as the UA Admissions Counselor for Diver-sity and is an integral part of the e$ ort to recruit and retain Latinos—includ-ing undocumented students—in plac-es like Lincoln High School.
“Not many of you may be in the position that I was,” Arciga said to the students gathered in the counseling center. “But we want to let you know that it is possible. We believe in you.”
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animal for just one year or for as many years as is desired. Turpen-tine Creek also o$ ers payment plans for the sponsorship to break up the cost into monthly pay-
Turpentine Creek is open every day to the public except for Christmas day from 9 a.m. until dusk. An all-day admission fee to the refugee is $15.00 for adults, and $10.00 for veterans, se-nior citizens, and children ages 3-12. ! ey o$ er hourly
Guests are also welcome to stay at the bed and breakfast located at the refuge. It includes two suites as well as a tree house for guests to stay
Turpentine Creek also o$ ers guid-ed photo sessions with the cats. All proceeds from the photo session go to-wards the care and upkeep of the ani-
For more information about how to get involved with the programs at Turpentine Creek, visit their website at www.turpentinecreek.org.
Turpentine Creek: Big Cats in Arkansasto do something that is uncertain.” that it is possible. We believe in you.”
“As an educator, I feel that I’ve got to take a stand for the students.”
- G. David Gearhart, UA Chancellor
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Arkansas’ coaching staff is scouring junior college and high school ranks trying to find unsigned talent that can make an impact in the 2012 class.
The early signing date starts April 11 and runs through May 16, a time pe-riod Mike Anderson will spend trying to sign a player who can make an impact for the Razorbacks next season.
The night before the sign-ing period begins, Anderson will find out if he will get
his biggest recruit, freshman guard BJ Young.
Young submitted his name for consideration for the NBA Draft on Friday, but hasn’t hired an agent, allow-ing him to retain his amateur status. He has until April 10 to make a decision on wheth-er to return to school or head to the next level.
Anderson and the Ra-zorbacks better hope Young comes back for a sophomore season to improve his draft stock. He was the Hogs’ only consistent scorer who could create his own shot last sea-son.
There are several reasons why jumping to the NBA makes sense.
Offensively, Young has shown he has the skill and athleticism to succeed. If he turned pro, he wouldn’t have
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Young Corners Getting ChancesArkansas starting corner
Tevin Mitchel went down with a hamstring injury just moments before the Hogs’ first scrimmage Friday.
Enter redshirt freshmen Davyon McKinney and Kel-vin Fisher.
The duo combined to get Mitchel’s reps with the first-team defense.
“It was like Mitchel was still there because the young guys can play too,” start-ing safety Eric Bennett said. “You saw Fisher, Kelleybrew and then you saw Davyon can play, too. We have some good depth at the corner and safety position. They are just young so we need to get them more reps.”
McKinney was part of the 2011 recruiting class and
came to Arkansas as a re-ceiver, but was moved to cor-nerback during fall practice prior to last season.
“He’s really done a nice job in the five practices (this spring),” coach Bobby Petri-no said. “He gets better every day out there. He is smart. It means a lot to him. He comes in and studies hard.”
On the first drive of the scrimmage, McKinney gave up a 55-yard touchdown to senior receiver Cobi Hamil-ton. He held his own the re-mainder of the scrimmage, though.
“I guess the best thing you can say is he’s only going to get better going against the older receivers we got,” Hamilton said. “I’m proud of the way a young guy went out there with the one’s (first team) and competed. It is all about competing. That’s
what spring is about.”Though Hamilton got the
best of McKinney to start, Petrino said he liked the way the 6-foot-3 cornerback re-sponded.
“He got picked on there one time for a touchdown, but he is going to learn a lot through spring practice,” Petrino said. “I really like what I have seen from him.”
McKinney, who goes by the nickname Sleepy, has earned respect from the more-experienced Hamil-ton.
“Sleepy is a great compet-itor,” Hamilton said. “He is only going to get better and be a great corner. He has the talent and the work ethic.”
Fisher is another young corner that made splash-es in the Hogs’ first scrim-mage Friday, while also seeing some time with the
first team. The 5-foot-11, 190-pounder was recruit-ed as a corner, but moved to running back during fall camp in 2011 after the injury to Knile Davis.
The Queen Creek, Ariz., native has been moved back to the defensive side of the ball for spring practice and unofficially had a team-high three passes broken up dur-ing the first scrimmage.
“He is really smart and knows our offense,” Petrino said. “He has been cheating a little bit; he was listening to a few calls. I was watching him over there listening to some calls because he knows our offense from last year. He has done a nice job in the five practices though.”
Petrino said Mitchel’s
RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore cornerback Tevin Mitchel injured his hamstring prior to the Razorbacks’ first scrimmage Friday, but redshirt freshmen Davyon McKinney and Kelvin Fisher filled in for Mitchel’s absence on the first-team defense.
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TENNIS
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As The Rotation Turns
DJ Baxendale has struggled in his past two starts, both re-sulting in losses for the Razor-backs.
Baxendale has started each of the Hogs’ Friday games in their other seven weekend se-ries, but the right-handed sophomore has allowed 17 hits and 12 earned runs in his last two Southeastern Conference starts.
Coach Dave Van Horn said Baxendale’s recent performanc-es are due to mechanical issues.
“I think his arm slot is a little too low,” Van Horn said. “Coach Jorn and DJ started working on that on Saturday, before the game working in the bullpen. Get that arm slot back up, get a little more movement. I think he’ll be hitting the strike zone a little bit more.”
Van Horn said he plans to change the starting rotation for this weekend’s series with No. 25 Georgia.
“We’ll probably go with Stanek on Friday,” Van Horn
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Women’s Tennis Looking for Answers
On its ! nal weekend at home for the season, Arkansas women’s tennis team dropped a pair of matches against Missis-sippi State and Ole Miss, con-tinuing a late-season slide in Southeastern Conference play.
" e Razorbacks (10-9, 2-6 SEC) have lost ! ve of six con-ference matches and are ! # h in the SEC West with four match-es — three in SEC play —$ re-maining before the conference tournament.
" e struggles are a stark
contrast from the start of the season, when Arkansas started 6-1 and was ranked No. 24 in the nation.
“We’re still focused on our goal of playing our best tennis at the end of the year and still have two more weeks to get better before the postseason starts,” coach Michael Hegarty said.
" e Razorbacks had a tough 6-1 loss Friday against the No.17 Rebels (12-7, 4-3 SEC).
" e only Arkansas doubles
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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman Catherine Parenteau was the only Razorback to win both her doubles and singles matches in the team’s 4-3 loss to Mississippi State.
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TRACK
Irwin Vaults Into Record BookIn track, a sport with as
much emphasis put on in-dividuals’ results, it doesn’t take long for an athlete to make an impact on a team.
Freshman Andrew Irwin has done that for Arkansas.
A highly-regarded pole vaulter coming out of Mount Ida High, Irwin had offers from multiple pres-tigious colleges, but chose to follow his mother’s foot-steps and attend vault for his home-state school after a high school career that in-cluded him wining the state Gatorade Track & Field Athlete of the Year.
It didn’t take long for the high school standout to make his name known with the Razorbacks.
In January, just his sec-ond meet in an Arkansas uniform, Irwin set an Ar-
kansas indoor pole vault record in the Texas Dual Meet while sealing the Ra-zorbacks’ win against the Longhorns and earning his trip to nationals.
The rest of the season went differently for Irwin than his first home meet, he never managed to break
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Hogs have quest ion marks in s tar t ing p i tching staf f
said. “I mean it’s not set in stone. We’re going to mix it up a bit. Sometimes that’s a good thing. DJ (Baxendale) will probably be in that rotation and just % ip his days. Just let him watch and he’ll be ! ne.”
Baxendale is carrying a 5.23 ERA and allowed ! ve runs while striking out four in 2.1 innings Friday as the Hogs fell 10-6 to LSU in the series sweep by the Tigers.
Moore Progressing To-
ward Starting RoleSophomore right-hander
Brandon Moore threw a perfect outing last weekend against the
Irwin
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas right-hander DJ Baxendale has struggled in his past two starts for the Razorbacks , allowing 12 earned runs on 17 hits while running his season ERA up to 5.23. Arkansas hosts No. 25 Georgia after getting swept by LSU last weekend in Baton Rouge, La.
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Arkansas senior running back Dennis Johnson talked
How did you feel about your performance during
I feel like I had a pretty good day. I feel like we all had pretty good days, the defense and offense included.
How did the three plays you score on develop that
Two of them were the same play and one was a differ-
two plays, I just read Kiero Small and hit the hole. On the third one, it was press and cutback play, but I pressed it and cut back to the right, then cut back to the left.
After making many big plays during actual games,
how good does a scrimmage performance like this feel
It’s fun to go out there and scrimmage everybody. If you love the game, you’re going to have fun.
What are your thoughts about Tenarius Wright
I like Tank at linebacker. He’s a pretty good lineback-er. He came in as a linebacker. I don’t know why they moved him, that was a coaches’ decision, but they moved him back and I like him there.
How do you feel about the team’s progression after
ing to keep progressing as the spring goes on.
Was this a typical scrimmage for coach Petrino go-
whatever it was is really nothing new to me. It’s just an-other day at work.
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hamstring injury was not se-rious, but didn’t give a time table for his return. With his absence, McKinney and Fisher will continue to take first-team reps across from two-year starter Darius Winston.
The extra practice time
could prove beneficial for the duo as they try to com-pete for playing time.
“He has to understand when he gets tired, he really needs to lock in on his keys and not worry about being tired so much,” Bennett said about McKinney.
For Fisher, grasping a better understanding of the position is an improvement
coach Petrino said he needs to make.
“I think playing offense last year will help him be-cause he understands con-cepts and schemes,” Petrino said. “He just has to work hard when he is on one-on-one coverage and being right with his technique. It is re-ally a technique issue with him.”
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team to win was the senior duo of Emily Carbone and Stepha-nie Roy, who beat Ole Miss’ Gabby Rangel and Erin Ste-phens 8-7. Senior Kate Lukom-skaya was the sole player to win her singles match, defeating Vivian Vlaar 6-3 and 7-6.
Mississippi State (7-10, 1-7) came to town winless in SEC play, but didn’t leave that way.
! e Sunday match started
o" much like Friday with only the Razorbacks’ doubles team of Lukomskaya and Catherine Parenteau winning as the Bull-dogs earned the doubles point.
Arkansas had much more success in the singles match-es with all six players winning their # rst sets, but then the struggles began and only three Razorbacks won their match-es, allowing Mississippi State to rally from a 3-1 de# cit for a 4-3 win.
“! is was obviously a tough
match for us,” Hegarty said. “We had the match going exact-ly how we wanted with # rst set wins at all six courts, but credit Mississippi State for not giving up.”
Parenteau, Roy and sopho-more Laurie Gingras all swept their opponents in two games in singles play.
“Three of our girls played some of their best tennis of the season today and it showed in the results,” Hegarty said.
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to take another class and could start making money.
There are also reasons why returning to Arkansas makes sense.
At 6-foot-3 and just 175 pounds, Young could use an-other year to get stronger.
His defense could also improve, a constant point of emphasis from Ander-son this season. It probably wouldn’t hurt to fine-tune his point guard skills, too.
If he turned pro in the next week, Young would likely be a late-first round to mid-second round pick. On the other hand, NBADraft.net projects him as the No. 10 pick in the 2013 draft, as-suming he declared after his sophomore season.
Either way, Young is go-ing to get picked. It just de-pends on if he wants to play another year in college or get started on his professional career.
Anderson better hope it’s the former.
The Razorbacks should be a better team next season if Young returns, players prog-ress and Marshawn Powell makes a full recovery.
Anderson is trying to sign another big man this spring, but the develop-ment of Hunter Mickelson and Devonta Abron between their freshman and soph-omore seasons could give the Hogs a much-improved frontcourt.
Arkansas struggled to score inside this season, but a healthy Powell would do a lot to change that. He has the skill to score inside and out-side.
The Razorbacks don’t have a clear-cut point guard, but have a lot of options. Ky Madden showed the poten-tial to run a team effective-ly as a true freshman and should be much improved after an offseason.
The Hogs haven’t had a consistently effective true small forward since Son-ny Weems graduated, but 6-foot-8 Jacorey Williams could fit the bill. He averaged
27 points as a high school se-nior this season and has the offensive skill and length to impact.
Arkansas needs a go-to scorer, though. Young was becoming that down the stretch of the season when he averaged 19.4 points the final eight games.
Anderson had to re-re-cruit Young to stay commit-ted to the Razorbacks af-ter Anderson replaced John Pelphrey, the coach who re-cruited Young.
Whether or not Ander-son actively tries to re-cruit Young to stay for his sophomore season, there’s no doubt what Anderson would like for him to do.
Young’s presence could be the difference between the Razorbacks breaking their four-year postseason drought and getting to the NCAA Tournament.
Jimmy Carter is the sports editor for The Arkan-sas Traveler. His column ap-pears every Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @jicarters-ports.
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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior Kate Lukomskaya was the sole player to win her singles match in the Razorbacks 6-1 loss to Ole Miss over the weekend, defeating Vivian Vlaar 6-3 and 7-6.
Tigers and is recovering a$ er taking a line drive to his fore-arm.
“He took a pretty vicious line drive,” Van Horn said. “! e ball hit o" his arm was a changeup. ! at was one of the # rst pitches he le$ out where the hitter got a good swing and a good view of it, and hit it right back at him.”
Moore pitched four shutout innings against LSU out of the bullpen, striking out three and allowing only one hit in the appearance. Moore is 2-0, has two saves and carries a .65 ERA in 10 outings so far this season.
“He (Brandon) is so valu-able out of the bullpen,” Van Horn said. “Brandon is kind
of that middle guy. You can bring him in the second in-ning and he’ll get you through the eighth. He’s de# nitely a guy we can start, but I don’t know if we’ll start him this weekend. I really like him out of the bull-pen.
Bouncing back with sched-ule ahead
No. 13 Arkansas (22-6, 5-4 SEC) took its # rst series loss on the road this weekend to No. 15 LSU (22-6, 6-3 SEC), but a strong conference play sched-ule still remains.
! e Hogs battled with the Tigers but fell 10-6 on Friday, 2-1 on Saturday and 3-2 on Sunday.
“! ey were a lot better than us this past weekend,” Van Horn said. “! ey played bet-ter, they pitched better, they hit
better. Our guys pitched well, but not as good as they usu-ally do.”
! e Razorbacks upcoming schedule includes six games against two ranked SEC foes at Baum Stadium, beginning with Georgia on Friday. ! e Hogs will open the series with the No. 25 Bulldogs on Friday at 6:35 p.m.
“Georgia beat Kentucky in game one of a series last week-end. ! is is a team coming in needing a win, so it’s going to be a great series,” Van Horn said.
Arkansas’ second series of ranked opponents includes No. 10 Kentucky next weekend in Baum Stadium.
“We’ve got a chance to make a move and get back in the race,” Van Horn said.
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anymore records, and also rested some during the season to get ready for na-tionals. Irwin later won the NCAA Indoor pole vault ti-tle, earning the runner-up Hogs 10 valuable points.
After a few weeks off, Irwin and Arkansas be-gan the outdoor season. He didn’t miss a beat, win-ning the opening meet of the outdoor season with an
Arkansas outdoor record pole vault record of 18 feet, 4.5 inches at the Arkansas Spring Invitational.
“I wasn’t really expect-ing to jump this high to-day,” Irwin said. “I was using a short approach but everything just really clicked today. It took me a little bit to get my run di-aled in when I started prac-ticing outdoors. The depth perception was a little off so it took me a little bit to get used to that but I got my
run dialed in and was ready to go today.”
His record-setting per-formance came after taking time off between indoor and outdoor seasons.
“Just another day at the office,” assistant coach Doug Case said. “Once again we’re running from a shorter approach than usu-al so we’re not even all the way back. We’ve trained all week and he’s good, he’s a good pole vaulter. It was good, that’s al l I can say.”
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