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Construction for the road on Old Main Lawn started Tuesday, Sept. 6, UA o! cials said. " e road gives access to the renovations sites at Vol Walker and Ozark Hall for vehicles and equipment said UA director of planning.
“It will be here for two years,” said Bob Beeler, UA director of
construction and design.” It will meander a bit through the trees where we have carefully selected a route and come out between Ozark and Old Main.”
Several precautions are being taken to protect Old Main Lawn from the damages that can occur from this project and to preserve it so it can be restored to what it was before the road, Beeler said. Some of the smaller trees were
moved while some larger ones, several damaged by previous years ice storms, were cut down. " e portion of the rock wall on Dickson Street that was disman-tled will be rebuilt and the senior walk will have protection from weight damage, said Jay Huneyc-utt, UA director of planning.
A UA student was struck by a vehicle and injured while cross-ing Garland Avenue Monday, ac-cording to an accident report by UAPD.
Dylan Vail, freshman biol-ogy major and her friend Jessica
Morales were crossing in a non-crosswalk area on Garland Ave-nue when Vail was hit, according to the report.
Vail and Morales were cross-ing by the campus Walmart trying to get a ride on a bus when they stopped on a concrete median and a vehicle in the le# lane, driven by Tyler Dunlap, stopped to let them
cross, according to the report.Jebaraj Asirvatham was pass-
ing the stopped vehicle when Vail and Morales walked out in front of him, according to the report.
Asirvatham tried to stop when he realized that the two girls were running out in front of him, but was unable to come to a full stop before hitting Vail, according to
the report.Asirvatham’s right front tire
struck Vail in the right foot, ac-cording to the report.
Asirvatham stopped and carried Vail to the side of the road while a bystander called
Old Main Road Construction Continues
ASG President Appoints Multicultural Center Liaison
ASG Senators, Secretary Inducted Tuesday
UA Ranks Among Top
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by LANDON REEVESStaff Writer
In This Issue:
LULAC Prepares for Hispanic Heritage MonthMembers of LULAC began the cel-ebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Hiring Expectations2011 job outlook better than previous years.
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Razorback FootballDennis Johnson attends practice for the ! rst time in two weeks, expecting to see action for the Troy game.
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Middle East Film Club O! ers Culture, DiscussionNadi Cinema gives students an alternative to Hollywood-made movies.
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Readjusting After Life AbroadStudents coming back from study abroad programs encounter reverse culture shock.
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College Stress Makes Girls Body ConsciousTraveler managing editor Mattie Quinn discusses how a stressful environment can make girls overly image conscious.
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SARAH CHAMPAGNE PHOTO EDITORConstruction workers continue to tear apart the front lawn along Dickson Street. The newly constructed road is just feet away from touching the senior walk.
Student Hit While Jaywalking
For the second straight year the UA was ranked one of the top 200 schools in the nation by America’s Best Colleges, which is an annual consumer survey created by U.S. News and World Report.
“" e University of Arkansas continues to maintain a strong and reputable position in the annual U.S. News survey,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart.
" e UA ranked at 132 overall, tied with Oklahoma State and Se-ton Hall among others, and it has the 65th best ranking of all public schools, according to the report.
“Our ranking as number 132 nationally is something that is pretty prestigious. It places us among a group of the top colleg-es in the nation as well as being ranked in the top 100 for public institutions,” said John Diamond, the UA associate vice chancellor for university relations.
“Our overall rating went up six points, which is a pretty good jump I’d say,” said Steve Voorhies, Manager of media relations.
“Overall, the survey results produce two meaningful con-clusions. First, we are indeed a high-performing academic insti-tution. And second, we maintain widespread respect among high-er education leaders as a nation-ally prominent public university,” Gearhart said.
" e rankings are based on cat-egories such as academic reputa-tion, faculty resources, graduation and retention rates, student qual-ity and alumni giving.
“" e academics have seemed $ ne to me. It’s fairly rigorous but still enjoyable at the same time,” said Jacob Pinter, freshman.
One thing that has set the UA apart from some of the other schools on the list is the ability of the university administrati to keep the price of tuition and fee’s lower than most of the other schools. With most of these schools having to pay tuition and fees somewhere in the range of $40,000 per year, UA students pay $7,000 (in state) and $18,000 (out of state) per year, according to U.S. News.
Joana Murcia wishes she had more time. " e senior architec-tural studies major won a state scholarship this year that re-quires her to take 15 hours each semester.
“As a senior, I wish I could take a little less [classes]. I wish I could take a full-time job, but I have to take a part-time job,” said Murcia, who actually takes about 17 hours in the average semester.
It pays the bills, though. Many students need the help of schol-arships and grants to pay tuition, which costs $239.11 per hour, ac-cording to the UA $ nancial aid o! ce.
Even so, it’s important to re-search the requirements of a scholarship, which can be com-plicated and vary widely, said Su-zanne McCray, vice provost for enrollment and dean of admis-sions.
Scholarship requirements can be demanding, and include a minimum for credit hours and grade point average, McCray said.
" is year marks the creation of a new Associated Student Government posi-tion, the Liaison to the Multicultural Center, o! cials said.
" e liaison is Nicholas Locke, whose job will include spreading word of upcoming events and promoting greater involvement in diversity programs from ASG members, said Cedric Kenner, director of the Multicultural Center.
“It is a great opportunity for ASG to show the student body that the UA is moving forward with our diversity e% orts on all fronts,” Kenner said. “We recognized there were areas that had to be improved within both organi-zations to achieve the diversity initia-tives set forth by the Chancellor and Diversity A% airs.”
Renovations to the Multicultur-al Center gave Locke a late start. His $ rst assignment is to promote Hispan-ic Heritage month, which runs from
Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. " e responsibilities of the position
are still taking shape, Locke said.“We need to establish a well-struc-
tured framework for this position, giv-en that it is critical for the growth and development of the position in the fu-ture,” he said.
He wants to promote the Multicul-tural Center to as many students pos-sible, Locke said.
“My main goal for the organization and the UA is to create a more diverse
atmosphere,” he said. “Many people think the Multicultural Center is only for the minority students. Everyone is welcome.”
" e change is a long time coming, said Macarena Montero, a senior psy-chology major.
“I always thought that the univer-sity needed more diversity, and now seeing that the ASG is contributing to work on it, I know it will be a success,” she said.
KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERNew members of the ASG senate are sworn in by ASG president Michael Dodd and Chancellor Gearhart Sept. 13.
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“! e department of fa-cilities management went through and marked each of the stones on Tuesday morning and chiseled them out of their space . . . the stones were then load-ed on to palates and kept in a storage unit until we get ready to rebuild the wall,” said Charles Alison, spokesperson for univer-sity relations.
“! e city of Fayette-ville Parks Department
has pretty good standards for preserving trees dur-ing construction and the State Forestry commission suggest that we use them,” Huneycutt said. “! ere will be steel plates cover-ing the senior walk. It (the road) will be " lled with a geo-textile fabric that pro-tects the soil and gravel will be placed on top of it.”
! e geo-textile fabric UA plans on using is " -berglass carpeting that helps control erosion and protects from run o# , said Huneycutt.
Safety is also a major
concern, there will be a pre-cast concrete block wall on the sides of the road to cut o# pedestrian tra$ c, UA o$ cials said. Also there will be person-al at major intersections to protect pedestrians from the % ow of tra$ c, UA of-" cials said.
“! ere going to have % agmen there to make sure people stop when they should be stopping,” Huneycutt said.
Previous plans to have the road's entrance on Maple St. or Arkansas Ave. were rejected because
of current construction and fear of damaging the brick walk in front of Old Main, Alison said.
“We looked at coming in from Arkansas Ave,” said Alison. “But there were residents of Fay-etteville who rejected to that because they felt like that front wall is a lit-tle bit more sacred and it needed to be treated with better hands then what we planned to do. So we eventually looked at Dick-son St, and weighed it as our best option.”
“It’s remarkable that we can keep this status as well as keeping our tu-ition lower than some oth-er schools of the ranking,” Diamond said.
“We can do this be-cause of the emphasis that the chancellor has put for-ward to put students " rst. By steering our resources to improving academic and to provide the stron-gest learning experience possible not only in the
class, lab and libraries but as well as in the learning community here in Fay-etteville,” he said.
Another factor that has allowed the UA adminis-tration to keep their rank-ing is their ability to main-tain their student to facul-ty ratio at 18:1, according to U.S. News-World Re-port.
“It’s important to note that as we have had re-cord enrollments in previ-ous years that as the num-ber of students grows so do the number of faculty.
Without the growth of the faculty we couldn’t keep the ranking,” Diamond said.
Some students, howev-er, are still doubtful about the rankings.
“I don’t agree with that. Just because you’re keep-ing the ratio doesn’t mean you are getting good pro-fessors. I mean there are a few classes in the Union Ballroom as well as in Barn Hill Arena. How can we learn in there?” said ju-nior Ben Davis.
! is ranking is impor-
tant for UA students and graduates.
“! e value of a degree from the University of Arkansas continues to be perceived very highly na-tionally. ! is is not only important for the current students but also for the alumni. ! e University of Arkansas being one of the top public schools in the country speaks well for the work they did in school to get that degree,” Diamond said.
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The value of a degree from the University of Arkansas continues to be perceived very highly nationally, said John Diamond, associate vice chancellor for Univer-sity Relations. “This is not only important for the current students but also for the alumni.”
911, according to the police report.
No citation was issued to Vail, according to the report.
O$ cer Jeannine Jones explained to Vail that she was at fault, not the driver of the vehicle, according to the report.
! is was “one of the few times somebody has actu-ally been struck in a non-crosswalk,” said UAPD Lt. Matt Mills.
Most accidents of this nature occur on cross-walks, he said.
Vail was taken to the hospital where she learned that she had fractured her foot in the accident, she
said.“I was very scared,” she
said.It wasn’t very busy on
Garland Avenue when the two friends crossed the road, Vail said.
“I was waving at the guy in the " rst lane and he waved back,” Vail said.
She didn’t realize how close the driver of a Toy-ota Corolla was, she said.
Vail’s friend Morales was behind her when the accident occurred, Vail said.
! e two friends were in a hurry to catch a bus and did not use the crosswalk that was “pretty far down,” she said.
“Not everybody uses crosswalks,” she said.
Students choosing not
to use crosswalks has be-come a concern for UAPD o$ cers.
UAPD o$ cers began an educational campaign and media announce-ments about the impor-tance of using crosswalks, Mills said.
! ere will also be in-creased patrols in the area where Vail was hit and of-" cers will start issuing ci-tations, he said.
A judge sets the " ne for such a citation, he said.
! e growth of the cam-pus and addition of more retail has caused students to cross roads where they wouldn’t normally cross in order to get from one point to the other, Mills said.
“For whatever reason”
more people are crossing roads in non-crosswalk areas, Mills said.
Extra patrols will be added in other areas as well, based on complaints by pedestrians and obser-vances made by UAPD, Mills said.
Crossing the street in a non-crosswalk area, or jaywalking, is against the law, Mills said.
Students coming from di# erent areas might have to adjust to di# erent re-strictions.
“In high school I didn’t have to use crosswalks,” Vail said.
Vail attributed the ac-cident to not being accus-tomed to having to use the crosswalks.
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NEWSPAGE 3 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERLULAC members get food after dancing at an event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 8th held in the Union Ballroom. Sponsored in part by the organization, LULAC members took part in dancing, eating, games and other activities.
LULAC Members Prepare for Hispanic Heritage Month
“In any given semester, a student may have a di! cult class, so they cannot take as many hours. I do not see us going over 15 hours a semes-ter,” she said.
Scholarships issued by the state -- such as the Arkansas Academic Challenge Schol-arship, which Murcia won -- require that students take 12 credit hours their " rst semes-ter, and 15 hours starting the next semester, McCray said.
UA scholarships are more stringent. # ey require that a student complete 27 credit hours their " rst year and 30 credit hours each year a$ er that.
Many scholarships also re-quire that students maintain a certain GPA to continue to receive funds. # e UA, which McCray said has special crite-ria for calculating a student’s GPA, requires that students maintain a 3.0.
Some scholarships also
have other requirements, Mc-Cray said.
For example, the Arkansas Academic Challenge requires that a student complete any remedial work within the " rst 30 hours of being at the UA, McCray said.
McCray stresses that stu-dents see an advisor to discuss scholarship issues and to go to the " nancial aid o! ce.
Adriana Martinez who has been studying at the UA for " ve years learned about schol-arship requirements the hard way, she said.
She is a community health major from Roland, Okla., so she would have to pay out-of-state tuition, she said.
She received a scholarship that made her eligible to pay tuition as an Arkansas resi-dent instead of an out-of-state resident. One stipulation of this scholarship is that it only last four years, she said.
“At least [I paid] in-state. If was out-of state tuition, I wouldn’t be able to go to school here, Martinez said.
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It’s not a new topic: girls fall victim to media manipulations of what beauty is supposed to be. Eating disorders, plas-tic surgery and shopping ad-dictions are dominated by fe-males. From as far back as Ma-rie Antoinette strutting around Versailles in her tall wigs and corseted gowns, girls have had some sort of image to aspire to and emulate. While I have al-ways noticed fashion trends, the need to stay physically " t and hairstyles coming in and out of vogue, the college years have by far, in my experience, been the most treacherous of the comparison game.
It didn’t take me long to re-alize that college was a whole new ball game when it came to “girl world.” In high school, jeans were acceptable to most parties. Suddenly girls looked
like they were the newest cast member on “! e Hills” when they would go out. Friends of mine who never before cared much about weight were sud-denly eating salads all the time. I, too, started to feel a little bit of the “freshman 15” and en-tered a gym for the " rst time in my life, where I began to go as o# en as I could. A girl I once came into contact with freshman year told me she was afraid of eating lunch because she had two bagels for break-fast. “Whatever, she’s gotten fat here lately anyway,” is a com-mon retort I have heard when a girl vents about a friend, enemy or roommate. On the surface, you would never notice this ob-session. Most girls don’t dress up to go to class. Girls are (gen-erally) nicer than they were in high school and aren’t as caught up in the status quo. However, spend an extended amount of time with almost any college girl, and you will see appear-ance is a de" nite issue, and it probably intensi" ed once they got to college.
So if college is a time of in-dependence, freedom and aca-demia, why does the preoccu-pation with appearances seem to deepen once girls move into that freshman dorm room? A large part of it deals with the whole issue of independence.
Many girls have the luxury of a family who provided a sup-port system during the middle and high school years. Most girl would not like to admit it, but now that they no longer have mommy to sit with and pro-vide comfort a# er a long day of school; it can be stressful. Not to mention that girls are forced to live with at least one other girl in a small room for nine months. It’s in human nature to compare, but put a 19-year-old girl in a cell block with anoth-er girl for an entire school year, and the feeling will amplify. I lived with my very best friend one school year, and I would be lying if I wasn’t occasional-ly jealous of something, be it a haircut, a compliment she had received or just the fact that she looked skinny in that out" t. In high school, almost every one plays some sort of sport, and that number dwindles drasti-cally in college. I noticed many former athlete friends of mine struggle with the fact that they no longer burned 600 calo-ries a day playing their sport of choice.
Having said that, all of these things are excuses for why girls are so hard not only on each other, but themselves, in col-lege. I know that I occasional-ly forget to stop beating myself up over things that are trivial.
I will never be a waif like Kate Moss, and that’s OK. No mat-ter how much you exercise and weight watch, you will not stay the same weight you were in high school. No matter how good you think you look before you go out, there will always be a girl who you think has a bet-ter out" t on once you get to that party. Don’t feel guilty a# er you ate that Taco Bell, college is stressful, you deserve to in-dulge every once in a while, just don’t make it your diet. Com-pliment that girl on her cute out" t, it’ll make you feel good about yourself too, believe it or not. When it’s rainy outside, stay in and watch Net$ ix, you don’t have to go to the gym. As long as “! e Real Housewives,” Kate Middleton and Facebook photos exist, the pressure to be " t, pretty and somewhat fash-ionable will always be there. Like everything else in college, it’s sink or swim time. We can use it to be insecure and catty, or we can use it to better our-selves. How we handle this pressure is up to us.
Mattie Quinn is the 2011-2012 Traveler managining edi-tor. She is a senior majoring in journalism.
Her column will appear bi-monthly on Wednesdays.
College Stress Turns Girls Body Conscious
by Mattie QuinnTraveler Managing Editor
From the Managing Editor
MCT CAMPUS
Technology Can Unite, Help Fix ‘Implicit Racism’
FROM THE BOARD
One of the most valuable ex-periences of an undergraduate education is that it forces you to interact with a wide range of indi-viduals whose backgrounds and experiences di% er radically from your own. ! is is particularly im-portant to remember when one turns their attention to the per-vasive force that social prejudice imposes on our community as country.
! e most prevalent, archaic and distinguishable form of so-cial prejudice is manifested as rac-ism. You physically look di% erent than me, so you are, by necessity, entirely di% erent from me. ! is thought, as simple and naïve as it appears, has led to an embarrass-ing anthology of moral incompe-tence within both our nation’s his-tory and the world’s as a whole.
It appears we are past the worst of it. Any argument based on out-landish racism is almost always dismissed as primitive, erroneous and vile by the bulk of our soci-ety. Yet, a subtle level of racism still exists in our culture and it is time that we recognize and aban-don it. ! e form of racism I am referring to can be categorized as implicit racism, that is, the belief that amongst the di% erence eth-
nic races of the world, each race has inherent capabilities that can be qualitatively evaluated with respect to the other races. Some seem to believe that when viewed objectively, certain races are bet-ter or worse at certain things than other races.
Sometimes implicit racism can appear harmless. Asians are the best at math. African Amer-icans are the best athletes. “So what? ! ese are complimenta-ry and should be o% ensive to no one”, the implicitly racist mind concludes. Here’s the problem, and it’s a big one: ! is perspective of the world believes the physical and cognitive capacities (or lack-there-of) pertaining any given race objectively exist in the world, regardless of our evaluations.
Proponents point to history, genetics and physiology (espe-cially neurological physiology) to assert that the dissimilarity be-tween races inherently exists in the world and we can, and should, judge accordingly.
! is is a profoundly $ awed line of reasoning. Why? ! e val-ue judgments that predicate im-plicit racism do not exist outside the con" nes of our own minds.
Our brains are programmed to organize millions of informa-tion-packed sensations and to make subsequent self-referential value judgments on those packets of information based on their cor-relations to previously obtained information. Problem is, when it comes to judging other think-ing objects (i.e. people), we don’t have nearly enough informa-tion to make an accurate value-based judgments on the capabili-ties or character of an individual,
let alone make generalizations on what we construct as types of people. So, through a process that cognitive psychologists refer to as mentalization, we simulate the absent, inaccessible information by predicting the intentions, de-sires and emotions of other peo-ple. Futilely, we try to make solid judgments on those types of peo-ple based o% of the predictions of our imagination.
One of the reasons that im-plicit racism is nearly inescapable is that our brains uses one set neu-ral pathways to mentalize those we perceive as similar to ourselves and another set to predict the qualities of those who are di% er-ent. ! is dissimilar means of pro-cessing may underlie the forming of stereotypes of people perceived to be di% erent. Individuals are instantly and physically divided and categorized by the same tool through which we experience life and this causes us to experience each individual as friend (same) or outsider (di% erent). Once placed in the outsider category, our brains have no choice but to supplement information from the culture imbedded in our memo-ry. Only problems, culture tends to miss the mark almost as o# en as our brains do.
In an article published in the Nature, anthropologists Mark Pagel and Ruth Mace reason that racism and xenophobia have a deep-seated cultural basis dating back to the Stone Age. For tens of thousands of years, prior to the rise of agriculture in about 8,000 B.C.E., human societies lived in close-knit tribes of hunter-gathers that survived best if they distrust-ed outsiders. But this aversion
was more than simply protecting territory; it also ensured the great-est degree of cooperation within a community. For the majority of our history, humans have found it more advantageous to collaborate unsel" shly than to live in groups where individuals can be more self-centered.
It is this reasoning that cata-pulted our cultural evolution to its current degree of sophistication. Yet, individuals who fail to coop-erate can undermine this altru-ism. ! e best way to avoid this is to have a healthy distrust of out-siders because it ensures people know each other and thus mini-mizes cheating.
Ironically, thanks to culture in the form of technology we no longer need to distrust and des-ignate anyone as other. An indi-vidual living in the 21st century has the power to communicate with almost everyone in almost any area of the world. ! e world is our community. We have more sophisticated, albeit imperfect, systems of averting cheating than re$ exive xenophobia.
Of course, there is something to be said about a being whose operating system subconsciously integrates implicit racism into its experience of the world. Perhaps, it is not our fault, but merely our nature. But then again, there’s even more to be said of the fact that we have the power to not only recognize this, but to also override our natural instincts. Here’s hop-ing that we continue to do so.
Devin O’Dea a Traveler colum-nist. His column runs bi-monthly.
Mind the Gap
by Devin O’DeaTraveler Columnist
“! e value of a degree from the University of Arkansas continues to be perceived very highly nationally. ! is is not only important for the current
students, but also for the alumni. ! e University of Arkansas being one of the top public schools in the country speaks
well for the work they did in school to get that degree.”
-John Diamond, associate vice chancellor for University Relations “UA Ranks Among Top Schools,”
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well for the work they did in school to get
-John Diamond, associate vice chancellor for University Relations “UA Ranks Among Top Schools,”
well for the work they did in school to get
-John Diamond, associate vice chancellor for University Relations “UA Ranks Among Top Schools,”
“! e value of a degree from the University of Arkansas continues to be perceived very highly nationally. ! is is not only important for the current
students, but also for the alumni. ! e University of Arkansas being one of the
University of Arkansas continues to be perceived very highly nationally. ! is is not only important for the current
students, but also for the alumni. ! e University of Arkansas being one of the top public schools in the country speaks
Band Article Sparks CriticismIn Monday’s edition of The Traveler we ran a story about
items that were reported stolen from the UA band, “UAPD Of-ficers Arrest Student for Stolen Instruments.”
Since then our reporter has received a handful of messages via Twitter and Facebook that claimed a multitude of things including that the reporter was inconsiderate, hateful and that she should have stayed out of the situation.
As a journalist, part of our job is to report campus news and events truthfully; from time-to-time this gets us criticized. Gen-erally these critiques come via our website —www.uatrav.com— , and comments on the content of the story. They are gener-ally not personal attacks on the reporter for doing his or her job. Furthermore, a blatant lack of knowledge about the First Amendment and what is part of the public record leaves us wor-ried.
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Arkansas’s soccer team has had one week o! to recover from a four-game losing skid.
" e Razorbacks have been outscored 16-1 in losses to Kansas, No. 7 Oklahoma State, Nebraska and Missouri State.
“We’ve really been focus-ing on scoring goals, getting around the goal more o# en, and getting more comfortable in front of it,” coach Erin Au-bry said. “We’ve been practic-ing creating a lot of game-like scenarios in front of the goal.”
" e team is young and only seven of the 33 players are up-perclassmen.
“We have so many new fac-es on the team,” Aubry said. “Even our experienced senior Kailey Anders is new to the po-sition of forward.”
Arkansas has had trouble scoring goals and keeping its opponents o! the scoreboard. In the last four games, the Ra-zorbacks allowed an average of four goals per game. Starting goalkeeper Emily Lillard is a freshman this year.
“We’re just making sure we
continue to focus on how well we can do defensively, speci$ -cally with our goal-keeping,” Aubry said.
" e last game the Razor-backs played was a 2-0 loss to Missouri State Sept. 6. " e team will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., this weekend to take on Air Force and Col-orado College before starting Southeastern Conference play against Ole Miss on Sept. 23.
“We’re itching to get some goals in the back of the net — that’s the agenda for this week-end, and it certainly won’t be easy against two very good defensive teams,” Aubry said. “" is is really our last $ nal weekend to make sure we have all the holes in the dam $ lled up and we’re ready to play Ole Miss for the SEC opener.”
" e nine-day layo! between games has allowed Arkansas a chance to regroup.
“We had a great team meet-ing " ursday evening where we kind of refocused ourselves for the season and recommit-ted ourselves to the task at hand,” Aubry said. “" e whole team has really recommitted it-self and that is great to see.”
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Arkansas playing both Tyler Wilson and Brandon Mitchell throughout the season could be e! ective.
Now, Wilson is the clear-cut starter and Petrino made the right choice, unlike Brian Kelley at Notre Dame, who de-cided on Dayne Crist over Ty-ler Rees to start the season. You can ask former Arkansas Trav-
eler sports editor Bart Pohlman about that.
In Arkansas’ win over New Mexico, the Razorbacks piled up 56 more yards rushing with Mitchell under center. " e Hogs’ running backs also av-eraged 5.8 yards per rush with Mitchell, as opposed to 2.1 with Wilson under center in the $ rst half.
Wilson won the starting job during spring practice and fall camp for obvious reasons and has still been the premier quar-terback through the $ rst two games. His accuracy, decision-making, for the most part, mo-bility factor and leadership have all been greater than Mitchell.
However, Mitchell’s con$ -dence rose from game one to game two and it was evident on the $ eld.
Mitchell didn’t have as high of completion percentage, 8 of 13, as he did in the season opener against Missouri St. 10
of 11, but he gave the receivers more room to work and elimi-nated mistakes. He also ran for an impressive 59 yards on $ ve carries including his $ rst career rushing touchdown.
" is was a New Mexico team that went 1-10 last sea- son, but all quarterbacks have to start somewhere.
Wilson put in a 48-yard ef-fort on the ground, but has made two or three poor deci-sions. He is running the foot-ball but not sliding and, instead, taking hits from bigger defend-ers. Wilson had to leave Satur-day’s game with “concussion-like” symptoms a# er a rush-ing touchdown in which three Lobo defenders collided with him at the goal line.
Mitchell has the size advan-tage on Wilson, 6-foot-4, 230 pounds, as opposed 6-foot-3, 215 pounds. He’s also more ath-letically gi# ed, which makes him a lesser injury risk. With
All-SEC tailback Knile Davis out for the year, the Hogs can’t a! ord to have Wilson miss any time during the conference slate.
" is tandem should not be evenly split in the amount of reps each gets during the rest of the season. " at is not my point at all.
If Mitchell gets two, possi-bly three drives a game, though, this could help the Razorbacks have a more % uid o! ense.
" e reason for this pro-posal is that something is go-ing to have to give for Arkansas to leave Tuscaloosa victorious next weekend. Arkansas hasn’t found a balance in the rush-ing attack with starting back Ronnie Wingo and backups De’Anthony Curtis and Kody Walker.
Just imagine the game play-ing out as follows. Wilson sets the tone early with a few big passing plays early. Maybe gets
some solid yardage out of Win-go or some special teams yard-age from the solid punt and kicko! return e! orts of Joe Ad-ams and Marquel Wade.
" en to keep the defense on its toes, Michell enters the game and Arkansas runs its forma-tions out of the pistol style of of-fense, opening the way for some big rushing opportunities.
Call me crazy, doubt this will work or say whatever, but it has worked for other teams in the past.
Last season, LSU went with a two-quarterback system for all of the season. " e Tigers quarterbacks were played more equally than I am suggesting Wilson and Mitchell should, but they did go 11-2 and re-bounded from a $ nal regular season game loss to Arkansas to obliterate Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl 41-24.
Another use of this sys-tem was the 2006 BCS Nation-
al Champion Florida Gators. " at season, senior Chris Leak was the starter with heralded freshman Tim Tebow getting reps as quarterback and used mostly in running situations. Leak and Tebow o! ered a bit di! erent skill set than Wilson and Mitchell, but Florida coach Urban Meyer was able to $ nd a medium between the two that paid o! for the 13-1 Gators.
To start the game and to be the guy with the game on the line, I am taking Wilson all day, but in the middle of the game I don’t see why Mitchell get-ting his shot to prove his worth would be a bad idea for the Ra-zorbacks moving forward.
Zach Turner is the assistant sports editor for " e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Wednesday. Follow him on Twitter @zwturner.
Two-Quarterback System Could Prove Valuable
FOOTBALL
Arkansas junior run-ning back Dennis Johnson returned to practice Tues-day and might play Saturday against Troy after missing the Razorbacks’ first two games of the season.
The 5-foot-9, 213-pound-er has missed the Hogs’ last 13 games after he suffered a season-ending bowel injury. Tuesday was his first practice back since fall camp.
“He looked fine,” spe-cial teams coordinator John L. Smith said. “I thought he looked pretty good.”
Johnson could help the run game. He had just nine carries before his injury last year, but had a 127-yard game against LSU as a freshman and ran for 107-yard game against Flori-da as a sophomore.
Johnson is Arkansas’ ca-reer leader in kickoff return yardage and has two kick re-turn touchdowns.
“That would be a nice duo
back there,” Smith said. “That was kind of the way we had started and then Dennis of course got hurt. We’ll have to wait and see if Dennis gets healthy and gets back and gets going, and does what he can do, what we expect him to do.”
Saturday will be Johnson’s last chance for play time be-fore the SEC action begins.
“He looked great for his first day back since he got hurt,” senior receiver Joe Ad-ams said. “He looked like the old DJ. He seemed excited.”
Offensive Line Still Learning
The offensive line paved the way for the Hogs to rack up 259 rushing yards, while allowing just one sack against New Mexico.
“Coach Petrino made the comment that we played a lot faster and you could see it on film,” senior offensive guard
Grant Cook said. “We weren’t hesitating as much. We were where we needed to be, right when we needed to be.”
The trio of running backs – junior Ronnie Wingo, se-nior De’Anthony Curtis and true freshman Kody Walker – combined for just 24 yards on 11 carries in the first half, but had 101 yards on 18 carries in the second.
“It was exciting to see. You have to give credit to Wingo, De’Anthony and Joe when they run the ball,” Cook said. “They’re doing a really, really good job for us.”
Opponents Avoid Ad-ams, Wade
New Mexico avoided
punting the ball to Adams and true freshman Marquel Wade, after Adams returned two punts for touchdowns against Missouri State and Wade returned a kickoff 85 yards for a score earlier in the game against the Lobos.
This year, Adams has sev-en punt returns for 173 yards and two touchdowns, while Wade has two kick returns for 103 yards and a touchdown. The crowd at War Memorial
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Stadium in Little Rock, Ark., booed New Mexico when they kicked out of bounds, away from the duo.
“Yeah, we’re booing and we want those guys to catch the ball,” Smith said. “You have to understand that’s go-
ing to happen and people are probably going to not kick to those guys, at least some peo-ple are going to not kick to those guys. We just have to make people fear what we’re going to do when we catch it.”
Volleyball Set for Start of SEC Play
GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas placed three players on the all-tournament team at the West Point Challenge. Senior Kelli Stipanovich, junior Jasmine Norton and Janeliss Torres-Lopez Sophomore
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Arkansas’s volleyball team wrapped up its nonconference play this weekend at the West Point Challenge and will begin Southeastern Conference play at Alabama this weekend.
Arkansas (8-3) brought home another championship ti-tle at the West Point Challenge a# er defeating Dartmouth in a four-set match. " e Razorbacks also beat NJIT and host Army in three sets in West Point, N.Y.
“It was a very good week-end for us,” coach Robert Pul-liza said. “It was not only a great volleyball weekend from a vol-leyball standpoint, but from a lifetime experience. " e people at West Point were unbeliev-able- cadets, soldiers, every-body. It was a great, great ex-perience. Along with that came some great volleyball, especial-ly in our last match. I thought we played our best volleyball in our last match a# er a really long weekend.”
“I liked our e! ort. I liked our desire to win and be good and take it to the next level,” Pulliza added.
A back row tip from senior outside hitter Kelli Stipanovich in the fourth set against Dart-mouth made her the 15th vol-leyball player in program histo-ry, and second player this year, to reach one thousand career kills. She was named MVP of the tournament and selected to the West Point Challenge All-Tournament Team along with teammates Jasmine Norton and Janeliss Torres-Lopez.
“Kelli has just been steady from beginning to end all sea-son long,” Pulliza said. “She came ready for preseason and she just kept getting better and better. " at’s been back-to-back weekends named MVP. She’s just playing great overall volley-ball. She had I think 15 digs and 12 kills against NJIT, and those are big-time numbers so I’m ex-cited about her play.”
“Janeliss has been an unbe-lievable surprise,” Pulliza said. “We had that setback with her in the spring where she got hurt. As the preconference schedule has been going along, she had a really good weekend named to the All-Tournament Team and we are looking forward to her working some. " is will be her
$ rst weekend of practice in six months, so we are excited for her to come from an all-tourna-ment award to now $ nally prac-
tice so she can get better.”" e Razorbacks claimed two
preseason tournament champi-onship titles.
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Readjusting After Life Abroad: Reverse Culture Shock
Studying abroad involves adjusting to an entirely different culture, learning a new language, taking breathtaking risks and exploring in a constant adventure, but then students return home - that’s the easy part, right?
Students returning from a life-chang-ing study abroad trip may come to find it’s harder than they think - they miss life abroad, and their old friends can’t relate to their new experiences and are tired of hearing, “This is JUST like that one time in France.”
This is when students come down with what they never even knew existed, let alone thought they would fall victim to: reverse culture shock.
“Reverse culture shock is an altered state of awareness felt by people about their home country after spending an
extended period of time abroad,” said Mandy Prorok, an advisor at the UA Of-fice of Study Abroad and International Exchange. “While abroad, we all make adjustments, however small, in order to successfully understand, accept and as-similate to our new envi-ronment.”
Adjusting to a new cul-ture changes students’ per-ceptions of their home en-vironment, where even the most mundane and widely accepted American prac-tices seem a little weird.
“For the majority of my life, I never thought too much about the fact that in the United States, we happily wear our shoes throughout every inch of our homes, put them up on furniture, etc.,” Prorok said.
When Prorok returned to the United States after spending four years in Japan,
where it is culturally inappropriate to wear shoes in the home, she began seeing the practice differently.
“I found myself religiously taking my shoes off just inside the door of any home I was in, especially my own,” Prorok said.
“All the while, I found myself wondering why people around me were so content to dirty their floors, couches, bed sheets and more with their dirty shoe soles. These were thoughts I never had about this as-pect of American culture before I lived in Japan.”
Even as soon as students leave the air-
port back in the United States, things be-gin to feel a little strange.
“Using American currency again for the first time is always an interesting expe-rience,” said Devin O’Dea, secretary of the Study Abroad Students Association. “It
somehow feels awk-ward and unnatural
to use something you are so famil-iar with. Actually, most of American culture feels like that for the first couple of hours.”
Beyond the fact that U.S. practices and customs may seem a little odd, some-times students may find themselves deep-ly missing the country where they studied abroad.
“I was definitely depressed for a couple of months after returning from Spain,” said Ellen Barber, a senior who has stud-
ied abroad three times. “There was not a single hour that went by that I didn’t think about the friends I made there and the amazing experiences that I had.”
Students’ lives have changed abroad, and their friends at home haven’t been through the same experiences.
“Adjusting to being back can be hard, especially when you didn’t study abroad with anyone from home,” Barber said. “I didn’t know anyone in Spain or London before I got there, so I didn’t have any-one back in Fayetteville who had been through the same experience I had.”
It’s important to realize, though, that it is not Fayetteville that has changed, but it is the student that has been abroad.
“There’s not much to do about the re-alization that everyone back home is ‘the same’; you studied abroad and they didn’t,” O’Dea said. “It’s you that needs to adjust to your daily routine back home to match up with your expanded habits and interests.”
Feeling strange to be back and missing the country where they studied are very normal for returning students, but fortu-nately there are ways to combat this.
“You kind of have to go through a pro-cess of grief in a way. It sounds dramatic, but it’s true,” Barber said. “You have to let yourself be sad that the incredible experi-ence is over, but I think it’s important to focus on all of the great things that hap-pened and to be grateful for all of your op-portunities.”
The best way to move forward is not to sulk, but to get back into the routine of en-joying life in Fayetteville.
“Just do things,” O’Dea said. “Go to your favorite restaurant [which you probably have already planned to do while abroad], exercise regularly and get caught back up with American news.”
A great remedy for reverse culture shock is to seek out other students that, while they may not have studied abroad in the same country, have shared similar experiences.
“As much as people close to you want to be supportive of your experience, if they themselves have not had an experi-ence abroad, it’s difficult for them to relate, which makes it difficult for them to want to listen to and comprehend all of the sto-ries you want to tell, look at all of your pic-tures and watch all of your videos,” Prorok said. “Debriefing, so to speak, about your experience abroad with others who have had similar experiences gives you a cap-tive, empathetic, supportive audience for the prolonged, detailed stories you really want to share.”
Fortunately, the UA has plenty of RSOs that help students connect with other students that have studied or worked abroad or who are even from for-eign countries. One organization, they didn’t,” O’Dea said. “It’s you that needs to adjust to your daily routine back home to match up with your expanded habits and in-terests.”
Feeling strange to be back and missing the country where they studied are very normal for re-turning students, but fortunately there are ways to combat this.
“You kind of have to go through a process of grief in a way. It sounds dramatic, but it’s true,” Barber said. “You have to let your-self be sad that the incredible ex-perience is over, but I think it’s important to focus on all of the great things that happened and to be grateful for all of your oppor-tunities.”
! e best way to move forward is not to sulk, but to get back into the routine of enjoying life in Fay-etteville.
“Just do things,” O’Dea said. “Go to your favorite restaurant [which you probably have already planned to do while abroad], exercise regularly and get caught
by LAUREN LEATHERBYFeatures Editor
! e Eli Young Band is set to rock the AMP September 14. ! e Texas-based country music group has performed throughout the United States, but say they’re especially excit-ed to return to Arkansas.
! e band has established it-self in 11 years of relentless touring, starting in small clubs and progressing to larger ven-ues. Now, the old touring van and rugged equipment have given way to professional gear and a national presence.
“Crazy Girl,” on the band’s fourth studio album “Life at Best,” has been certi" ed gold by the Recording Industry As-sociation of America for sales of more than 500,000 down-loads. Its popularity has earned the band a new level of success
and respect throughout the music community. ! e album itself debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Country Chart.
“You know, we haven’t really had time to soak it in but we feel like it’s the next step and we’ve always made it a prior-ity to remain grounded,” said Mike Eli, guitarist and lead vo-calist.
! e musicians met at the University of North Texas in Denton. ! e duo of Mike Eli and James Young (guitar) started playing together, and eventually Jon Jones (bass) and Chris ! ompson (drums) joined to form an electric and eclectic sound that spread quickly throughout the region.
“We started when we were 18 years old, and the fact that we were able to hold this together for all this time is pretty cool,” Eli said. “We feel really fortu-
nate that not only are we mak-ing music, but that we’re still making music together.”
! e success of the Eli Young Band has led to television ap-pearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and ! e Tonight Show with Jay Leno. ! ey have also shared the stage with several national acts.
“Playing on tour with the Dave Matthews Band was huge for us and it was our " rst big tour to go out on,” says Eli.
He credits Don Williams, U2, Bruce Springsteen and Si-mon & Garfunkel as in# uences for the band’s style and sound.
Eli says they hope to re-lease another single by the end of the year. Look for the Eli Young Band this fall when they hit the road with Dierks Bent-ley for the Country & Cold Cans tour.
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To many Americans, the term “Middle Eastern Cinema” can be as enigmatic as the word “movies” is familiar.
For every mystical connota-tion that the Middle East might bring to the front of an Ameri-can mind, movies seem to con-jure up a boring one. Formu-las are set in stone, plots are remade every year, and cliches endure like bad Muslim stereo-types.
Joel Gordon, founder of the Nadi Film Club, hopes the enig-ma of the Middle East and the comfort of movies will com-plement each other: shrouding movies in the mystery that they once had, and making Middle Eastern art accessible to even the most reluctant Arkansans., he said.
“Films were made to be watched in spacious dark
rooms with friends and strang-ers, and on screens much big-ger than our home systems and, certainly, our laptops and tab-lets,” Gordon said.
“Nadi Cinema is a way to expose people to " lms that they might never have an op-
portunity to see,” he said. “For those who do seek out ‘foreign’ " lms on their own, it provides a framework for discussing the cultural, social, and o$ en polit-ical contexts.”
Ahmet Akturk, a PhD stu-dent in history from Istanbul, Turkey, has attended the " lm club since he took one of Gor-don’s classes.
“As a student of history, I en-
joy seeing and analyzing mov-ies dealing with historical is-sues,” Akturk said. “Nadi Cin-ema lets me do that in a more relaxed environment than a classroom; we watch movies, and then we talk about them.”
! e club began at students’
request a few years ago.“Nadi Cinema started as an
outgrowth of a graduate semi-nar about six years ago,” Gor-don said. “I started reserving rooms on campus to show the seminar students extra " lms at their request. ! e following se-mester they suggested I keep at it—and open it to the university and local community.”
One of Gordon’s goals is to
show that Middle Eastern mov-ies aren’t just for " lm schol-ars: “I do try to break popular American perceptions,” he said, “like that all Turkish or Iranian " lms are esoteric or very artsy. ! ey also make great romantic comedies and tear-jerkers.”
Showing a$ er showing, the " lms continually shi$ themes, genres and geography.
“Each semester I try to " nd a mix of genres—comedies, ro-mances, and thrillers, usually with social or political content. I try to mix in some classics. And I always try to " nd a mix of countries: we generally al-ways see at least one " lm from Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Palestine and Israel,” Gordon said.
Lama Hamoudi, a Syrian do-ing her PhD work in compara-tive cultural studies with a fo-cus on " lm studies, said she is
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“Mark Twain says ‘travel is fatal to prejudice’; I think watching movies is
fatal to prejudice too.”- Ahmet Akturk, PhD Student
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Nadi Cinema will show Egyptian film Chaos at 7 p.m. tonight, Sept. 14, by the last film by Egyptian great Youssef Chahine in Mullins Library.
LAUREN LEATHERBY FEATURES EDITOR While studying abroad in Morocco, features editor Lauren Leatherby rides camels with fellow study abroad students in the Sahara.
“Adjusting to being back is hard, especially when you didn’t study abroad with anyone from home.”
- Ellen Barber, senior
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attracted to Nadi Cinema be-cause it gives her the opportu-nity to watch a variety of ! lms from di" erent parts of the Mid-dle East.
“Nadi’s ! lms stretch from the Maghreb region to India and Pakistan—covering ! lms from Egypt, the Levant, and Iran. “For people in the Arab world, Egyp-tian cinema is the most watched; it is regarded as their ‘Holly-wood.’ Other than that and Indi-an cinema, ! lms from other ar-eas are not really popular. Nadi Cinema has opened the door for me to cinemas I have always as-pired to know about but never had the chance to.”
To Gordon and many regular attendees, Nadi Cinema is about more than just movies. “I want people to gain a wid-er appreciation for ! lm as an expression of popular culture on both local and global scales,” Gordon said. “[I want them] to be less wary of subtitles and ar-tistic forms—and, at times, to realize, for better or worse, the way in which our own ! lms im-pact and are impacted by global trends and fashions.”
Students will ! nd that the ! lms shown at Nadi Cinema have an altogether di" erent appeal than the cookie-cutter structure of Hollywood ! lms that Americans have come to know.
“Current students will be in-troduced to a di" erent aesthetic, a di" erent cinematic language, a di" erent visual and verbal ex-perience than what they’re used
to,” Hamoudi said. “# ey might end up appreciating this dif-ference. # e other thing is that Nadi’s ! lms provide them with glimpses about Middle Eastern cultures, and give them an idea about some issues in that region.”
And while the movies show homegrown Americans a new side of popular culture, Ham-oudi said it’s the discussion a$ er-wards that really expands their world view.
“I do not think that watching Middle Eastern movies neces-sarily helps get rid of negative stereotypes of the Middle East,” Hamoudi said. “Sometimes it’s di% cult for viewers to break away easily from their world views, which they probably use to read foreign ! lms. # e ‘! rst aid’ that Nadi o" ers to these peo-ple is the open discussion. Pro-fessor Gordon is an expert in his-tories of the Middle East, an avid reader of the region’s cultures, and a researcher.”
# e discussions probe even deeper into Middle Eastern cul-ture with its participants from across the region.
“Nadi’s audience is made up of several viewers who are original-ly from the Middle East,” Ham-oudi said. “# e discussion is usu-ally very interesting and helpful for viewers who want to acquaint themselves with or know more about issues raised by Middle Eastern ! lms.”
“Mark Twain says ‘travel is fa-tal to prejudice,’” Aktur said. “I think watching movies is fatal to prejudice too.”
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For students, one of the most important parts of campus life is connecting with others who share their interests and beliefs, as well as learning about and connecting with those whose opinions di" er from their own. An extensive list of Registered Student Organizations on cam-pus makes this connection a cinch.
One RSO that aims to con-nect students with similar be-liefs is Christ on Campus. # e organization has been reaching out to UA students for 30 years, and it meets in # e Rockhouse, a rock building on the corner of Arkansas Avenue and Dickson Street. Many students know it by that name or by its nickname, “ConC.”
Mike Armstrong, the campus minister at # e Rockhouse, said the group’s mission is threefold.
“We want to engage the uni-versity community with the per-son of Jesus Christ and the im-plications of following him,” Armstrong said. “We want to equip and prepare students to be servant leaders wherever their lives take them. We want to serve the University of Arkansas and Fayetteville community.”
Armstrong said it’s impor-tant for college students to get involved with a religious group, because college will be the ! rst
time they’re making their own spiritual choices and not follow-ing their parents’ lead.
“# ey need to ! gure out what they really believe and how much of their faith is their own,” Armstrong said. “# ey will also face situations that they have never faced before and ideas they have never heard before.
Many will need others to help them sort out how these new ex-periences ! t in with their faith.”
Armstrong also said students need a community that can sup-port them through academ-ic challenges, relationship is-sues, roommate issues, ! nancial struggles and all the other hard-ships that go along with college life.
Austin Brown, an associate minister at # e Rockhouse, said he has met and built relation-ships with a diverse group of people during his six years with Christ on Campus.
“People who call themselves Christians and people who have nothing to do with anything that has the label Christian on it; people from all di" erent back-grounds and all around the
world.”UA student Shane Adams,
who has been involved with the group for four years, said that diverse group of people has be-come his family.
“[Christ on Campus has] been a home away from home, com-munity of friends, awesome spiritual leaders, and just a great
atmosphere to worship God,” Adams said. “# e more time I put in with God and the people at Christ on Campus, the more I learned about myself and my life. I can honestly say that I have a family here at the U of A with ConC.”
UA student Jessica Hawley, who started going to # e Rock-house three years ago, said the Christ on Campus group has be-come like a family to her, too.
“# e atmosphere of the Sun-day church meetings is a relaxed one full of love, acceptance and friendship,” Hawley said. “I love going there just to hang out with the people I love, but also to be able to worship Jesus with them.”
Adams and Hawley have both done outreach work with Christ on Campus, and they said the
experiences have made a di" er-ence in their lives. Hawley went on a mission trip to Mexico with the group, and she said her fa-vorite outreach program is serv-ing hot dogs on Dickson Street on Friday nights. Adams has also gone on mission trips with Christ on Campus, and he said they have completely changed his life.
Brown said his years at Christ on Campus have taught him many things about what it means to identify himself with Jesus Christ, speci! cally when it comes to loving and serving others.
“When I ! rst arrived here, ‘service’ was not a word that I got excited about, and the idea of things like serving a meal for Seven Hills Homeless Center, which we do once a month, was a little intimidating,” Brown said. “God has completely turned that around for me, and the more I have been willing to put aside my agenda and take up his agen-da, the more he’s taught me and the more I’ve been able to be a part of meaningful things that really impact lives. Jesus him-self came not to be served, but to serve. How can we say we follow him and expect to do any dif-ferent?”
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back up with American news.”A great remedy for reverse cul-
ture shock is to seek out other students that, while they may not have studied abroad in the same country, have shared similar ex-periences.
“As much as people close to you want to be supportive of your ex-perience, if they themselves have not had an experience abroad, it’s di% cult for them to relate, which makes it di% cult for them to want to listen to and comprehend all of the stories you want to tell, look at all of your pictures and watch all of your videos,” Prorok said. “Debrie! ng, so to speak, about your experience abroad with others who have had similar experiences gives you a captive, empathetic, supportive audience for the prolonged, detailed stories you really want to share.”
Fortunately, the UA has plenty of RSOs that help students con-nect with other students that have studied or worked abroad or who are even from foreign coun-tries. One organization, the is ‘the same’; you studied abroad and they didn’t,” O’Dea said. “It’s you that needs to adjust to your daily
routine back home to match up with your expanded habits and interests.”
Feeling strange to be back and missing the country where they studied are very normal for re-turning students, but fortunately there are ways to combat this.
“You kind of have to go through a process of grief in a way. It sounds dramatic, but it’s true,” Barber said. “You have to let yourself be sad that the incredible experience is over, but I think it’s important to focus on all of the great things that happened and to be grateful for all of your op-portunities.”
# e best way to move forward is not to sulk, but to get back into the routine of enjoying life in Fay-etteville.
“Just do things,” O’Dea said. “Go to your favorite restaurant [which you probably have already planned to do while abroad], ex-ercise regularly and get caught back up with American news.”
A great remedy for reverse cul-ture shock is to seek out other students that, while they may not have studied abroad in the same country, have shared similar ex-periences.
“As much as people close to you want to be supportive of your ex-perience, if they themselves have
not had an experience abroad, it’s di% cult for them to relate, which makes it di% cult for them to want to listen to and comprehend all of the stories you want to tell, look at all of your pictures and watch all of your videos,” Prorok said. “Debrie! ng, so to speak, about your experience abroad with others who have had similar experiences gives you a captive, empathetic, supportive audience for the prolonged, detailed stories you really want to share.”
Fortunately, the UA has plenty of RSOs that help students con-nect with other students that have studied or worked abroad or who are even from foreign coun-tries. One organization, the Study Abroad Student Association, is just for students returning from study abroad programs.
“Study Abroad Student Asso-ciation was created so that all stu-dents who have studied abroad or who are interested in studying abroad could have an organiza-tion in which they could share their stories, pictures and les-sons with other like-minded stu-dents and members of the com-munity,” O’Dea said. “Basically, you just gotta do what you did when you studied abroad - get out there!”
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! e idea of engineering students hanging out a frater-nity house on a school night is not usually the " rst thing that comes to mind with the dif-" cult major; but just across Cleveland Street, right behind Reid Hall, there are engineer-ing students doing just that. ! e red house with the Greek letters “theta” and “tau” is the property of ! eta Tau Profes-sional Engineering Fraternity.
! eta Tau has been an or-ganization at the UA since 1928, but it is still a mystery to some students. ! e purpose of ! eta Tau is to develop and maintain a high standard of professional interest among its members and to unite them in a strong bond of fraternal fel-lowship, according to thetatau.org. ! e purpose, which every potential member is required to memorize, highlights the fact that ! eta Tau is not the stereotypical fraternity.
While a normal fraterni-ty house shelters around 100 guys, ! eta Tau is currently the home to six men and four women, all who have the same interest of earning a degree in engineering or computer sci-ence. ! is commonality is the main requirement to becom-ing a member of this coed pro-fessional fraternity. ! ere are currently 24 active members, but the eight week pledging process has recently begun for potential initiates.
“I joined because I was in-vited to the house, and the people made me feel like I could relate to them,” said Nicholas Shapter, an alumnus of ! eta Tau.
! eta Tau brothers have bonded with each other through camping, tailgating, community service, ropes courses and regionals.
“! e ropes course is my fa-vorite because it gets us out-side as a group and it gives us a chance to show our strengths and weaknesses while we work
together,” said David Rockwell Long, ! eta Tau regent.
Every semester the group secludes themselves from the normal college atmosphere and heads to Madison country for a weekend camping trip.
“My pledge brothers and I bonded through team work in loading " rewood and setting up tents,” said Andrew Palmer, a sophomore member of ! e-ta Tau. “Looking back now we bonded indirectly as a pledge class by trusting each other throughout the weekend to support one another.”
Fayetteville is home to the Upsilon chapter of ! eta Tau, but, like Greek fraternities, there are other chapters across
the nation. ! e UA chapter is in the Southeastern region with Oklahoma State Uni-versity, Texas A&M, South-ern Methodist University and University of Texas chapters. Once a semester a chapter in the region hosts regionals where members get to learn and bond with brothers from di# erent places.
“One of my favorite memo-ries of ! eta Tau is regionals,” Shapter said. “It was a good mix of fun and getting to know other students who are inter-
ested in the same " eld.” ! e fraternity focuses on
balancing academic success while having fun, and they also " nd time to complete community service. ! e Up-silon chapter adopted a part of highway 112 as their bi-annual community service project.
“It is awesome to drive down the highway and see our ‘! eta Tau Upsilon’ sign,” Long said. “We clean our road at least once a semester”.
While ! eta Tau is small in numbers it is large in brother-hood.
“Ever since I walked in the door, I felt welcome,” said An-thony Douglas, a sophomore member of ! eta Tau. “Every-
one is so down to earth and genuinely nice.”
! e professional aspect in-$ uences many members to join, but the friendships made allow ! eta Tau to become a real home for the members.
“When I graduate, the main thing I will remember about our fraternity is the bonding experiences with my broth-ers,” Long said. “My favorite road trip was with two of my brothers, and even though we drove to Florida and back in the span of a weekend, it was a great experience,”
Four years may seem like a long time when earning a de-gree, but graduation comes soon enough and students must be motivated to venture into the competitive world of " nding a job.
“! eta Tau de" nitely helped me make me connec-tions professionally,” Shapter said. “It did not get me the job, but it is a bene" t when you in-terview with a person who is also a ! eta Tau alumni, even if they are from a di# erent lo-cation.”
! e large red brick house across Cleveland Street may be unique, but the engineer-ing fraternity shares at least one commonality with all UA students: “While we may be physically o# campus, we are all Razorbacks at heart,” Long said.
Theta Tau Brings Community, Engineering InsightChrist on Campus at w w w. f a c e b o o k . c om / A r-kansasRockhouse and C h r i s t o n C a m p u s . o r g . Christ on Campus meets for worship at The Rock-house every Sunday at 11 a.m.
Armstrong said Christ on Campus is “decidedly Christian,” but students of all denominations are a part of the group. He said there are also students from other religious backgrounds and non-re-ligious backgrounds who attend.
“We believe that we are all on spiritual journeys, but in different places,” Armstrong said. “We in-vite students to come and listen, learn, share and discuss the Bible and what it teaches us about God, humankind, and life.”
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“Ever since I walked in the door, I felt welcome.”
-Anthony Douglas, sophomore
by STEPHANIE ERHLERStaff Writer
LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERMembers of Theta Tau hang out in their house, across the street from Reid Hall. The engineering fraternity houses six males and four females.
