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Holcombe Hall recent-ly received the Institution-al Diversity Award, o!cials said.

“We strive to make Hol-combe the on-campus desti-nation for global awareness and education, and the con-versations and cultural ex-changes that occur as a re-sult of that setup go a long way into making Holcombe what it is,” said Jack Bre"e, HEI Program Coordinator.

It was Holcombe’s #rst time to be nominated and recognized for the annual award, which is presented by the Southwest A!liate of College and University Of-#cials.

$e institutions were ranked by their contribu-tions to cultural diversi-ty, quality of diversity pro-grams, timeliness of the

programs and the issues and the e%ectiveness of the programs in addressing and moving forward issues of di-versity.

Holcombe was nomi-nated for its multifaceted approach to diversity edu-cation. $e dorm regularly hosts global programs such as Night Market and Dance Around the World. Hol-combe also hosts events de-signed to increase awareness about human rights and so-cial justice advocacy, such as the Rwanda Genocide Re-membrance.

“I’m exceptionally proud of the individuals that make the International Living/Learning community pos-sible,” Bre"e said.

$e Institutional Diver-sity Award is one of many honors bestowed upon the

Holcombe Wins Institutional

Diversity Awardby MATILDE BONIFAZ

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The Last Hoorah

KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudents, faculty and members of the public attend John Orr’s MFA thesis exhibit, Marais des Cygnes, at the sUgAR Gallery in Bentonville.

Gi%els Auditorium will have performances of the George C. Wolfe play “$e Colored Museum” $ursday, April 19 and Friday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m.

$e play, directed by as-sistant drama professor Clin-nesha D. Sibley, is the latest in a series of annual spring per-formances hosted by the Af-rican and African American Studies program.

$e play consists of 11 di%erent scenes and mono-logues presented as a “mu-seum” of African American culture. $e scenes are indi-vidually titled and presented as exhibits.

With titles such as “Soldier with a Secret and “Cookin’ with Aunt Ethel,” the scenes serve as a summarization of African American culture as a whole. Each scene in the play is unique, ranging from monologues between two

hairpieces to the experiences an African American soldier.

$e play earned author George Wolfe a Dramatists Guild Award a&er its pre-miere at the Crossroads $e-ater in 1986, according to the True Colors $eater online forum.

Wolfe was one of the #rst students to attend a deseg-regated high school in his hometown of Frankfort, Ken-tucky. $e discrimination he experienced during those

years in'uenced many of his plays.

$e mission of the African and African American Stud-ies Program is to “dissemi-nate knowledge that will em-power people to see the vast expanse of human possibili-ties,” according to the African and African American Stud-ies Program website.

$e program has hosted

Giffels Presents ‘The Colored Museum’by SYDNEY GANUS

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As the semester comes to a close, students are constantly re-minded that summer is close at hand with the shorts and tank top weather. Some students believe that nothing goes better with sum-mer clothes than a summer tan.

For many people, this is the time of the year when they lie out to get a natural tan. Other students prefer tanning lotion, spray tans, or tanning beds to achieve their summer glow.

Meg Strobel, a nursing student, said she loves lying out at the pool during the summer to tan. She also uses tanning lotion to get a little color during the winter and to enhance her tan in the summer.

“I feel like with lotion you can better control your color,” Strobel said. “I would consider getting a spray tan, but I don’t think I would

ever go to the tanning bed because of all the health risks.”

Indeed, those who choose to tan in indoor tanning beds are 74 percent more likely to develop melanoma than those who have never tanned indoors, according to statistics from the Skin Cancer Foundation. To many students, these statistics are enough to deter them from indoor tanning.

Still, though, o! en the summer glow and Vitamin D make tanning more enticing than remaining pale year round.

Fayetteville o" ers plenty of op-tions for tanning outside and tan-ning beds. Many of the o" -campus apartment complexes have pools where residents can tan. Some stu-dents even tan outside their resi-dent halls when the weather is nice.

Lauren Kulva, a psychology major, believes that the bene# ts of tanning outweigh the health risks

involved. She usually buys tan-ning packages during the winter months to maintain her tan. Dur-ing those months she goes to the tanning beds about three times a week.

“I’ve never gotten a spray tan before, but I think it is a good op-tion for people who want a tan but do not want to worry about the health risks,” Kulva said.

$ ere are at least six tanning salons in Fayetteville, including Premiere Tans, $ e TAN Compa-ny, Glo Tanning, Body Re% ections, Tan with TLC and Ultimate Tan.

Premiere Tans on College Av-enue o" ers four levels of tanning beds. $ ey also o" er spray tans and tanning lotions.

$ e lotions that Premiere sells are MR International products, which use the latest tanning

“What would you rather know, the sound of one hand clapping or the meaning of life?” I am propo-sitioned by a man with a scraggly beard and searching eyes.

“$ e meaning of life?”“Well, kiddo, the meaning of life

is simply to live it. If you want to know the sound of one hand clap-ping, you’ll have to come back an-other day.”

It may sound like I am visiting with a spiritual leader, but I am sit-ting in the living room of Sat (pro-nounced sought) and Teresa Pictor, the owners of $ e Mystic Melon, a home business that has been in Fay-etteville since 2000 a! er relocating from Berryville, where the business had been in operation since 1997. $ e Mystic Melon is an art gallery as well as jewelry and antique store located next to the Fayetteville Pub-lic Library. $ e home is instantly recognizable from the outside, with watermelons painted all over. From the inside, the house is even more eye-popping, with walls painted in shades of hot pink, yellow, green and purple. $ e business takes up the front three rooms of the house, with brightly colored bead curtains sepa-rating the rooms.

“$ is is a folk art gallery, but we speci# cally work with ‘found’ objects and junk,” Teresa explains. “Quite a bit of the artwork is mine, and some of it is by Sat and other family mem-bers. I just # nd myself doing primi-tive art, which is art without formal rules.”

Teresa pushes the beaded curtains aside to reveal the jewelry and gem-stone part of the shop.

$ e display cases show o" every-thing from watermelon earrings to beaded bracelets and even a couple

of painted pet rocks. In the back cor-ner of the room is a handful of bold fashion rings, that would not be out of place at a store like Forever 21. “I used to keep a dozen of rings like this in stock. $ ese days I don’t want to torch anymore; it is more dangerous now that I am getting older,” Sat said.

$ e city of Fayetteville is no stranger to home-grown businesses run by quirky personalities, but the Pictors are not your run-of-the-mill “Keep Fayetteville Funky” hippies. $ e couple admit they do not earn enough money o" of the “$ e Mys-tic Melon” to make a sustainable in-come.

Wearing a T-shirt with “Par-ty Monster” emblazoned across the front and speaking in a distinct Northern accent, Sat shows o" his workroom. Trays of gemstones clut-ter the main table, and he methodi-cally puts them in a closet.

“I grew up an only child in Bal-timore, Md. and became a part of a street gang called Hamilton pretty early on, in the 1960s. My father was a part of the Purple Gang that was wiped out by the Ma# a, but he was only 14 at the time, so they let him live,” Sat said. “Even a! er that, grow-ing up my family always had ties to the Ma# a.”

Sat’s full name is Sat Karm Singh Pictor, with Sat Karm Singh being a title given to him by the Yogi Bhajan, who introduced Kundalini yoga to the U.S. and died in 2004. Kundali-ni yoga is a form of yoga that Sat has mastered.

“Kundalini is more than just stretching, it is about the whole metaphysical experience. People will come up to me and say ‘Hey, I can bend my feet over my head now,’ and I will go ‘Great. Have you ever met

Have you ever stepped through a door and felt as if you have just le! the real world and entered an alter-nate universe? A place where almost everything that surrounds you seems like it could be found in a work of # c-tion? Such a surreal place exists right in the heart of Fayetteville. Making its home on the square, Little Bread Co. is a place where you might # nd the Mad Hatter and the March Hare squabbling over some tea. It’s a place where you # nd some of our town’s unknown yet beloved characters, a sort of Wonderland.

Intentionally surreal or not, the owners of Little Bread Co. are de# -nitely doing something right. $ e uniqueness goes much further than the people who come through the doors. $ e atmosphere and the fare also paint quite the pretty picture in our memories. $ e storefront is a patchwork of multi-colored bricks, and the inside is all yellow and earthy tones that make you feel instantly at ease. A mural of a woman bearing bread and fruit draws your eye to the back of the small room; then you no-tice that, although the room may be small, the contents are quite big.

Inside the retro, oversized pas-try case are quiches, tarts, cakes and cream pu" s that look bizarrely huge. In the other, croissants, cinnamon buns, mu& ns and cookies that ap-peared to be made for a family of giants. $ e more I looked at every-thing, the more I thought it was all a hoax. $ is being my # rst time vis-iting, I was not prepared for cookies that could double as a dinner plate or cream pu" s that could be mistaken for a football.

I perused the hand-written chalk-board menu of sandwiches and came to the conclusion that a Chicken

Cordon Bleu sandwich could po-tentially be the best thing I’ve ever heard of. Of course, my entourage had dined here before, so their deci-sions were relatively quick and easy. One went with the Chicken Floren-tine sandwich and the other, the to-mato, basil and mozzarella quiche. Rest assured, we were de# nitely go-ing back for dessert.

We all shared bites of our meals and complimented each other’s de-cision, although food envy was not an issue this time around. We each

thoroughly enjoyed our orders. $ e quiche was herby and cheesy, the fresh basil and mozzarella being showcased exquisitely. $ e Chick-en Florentine was full of % avor with its spinach feta spread and citrus mayo, and the baguette was toast-ed to perfection and gave the sand-wich a crunchy bonus. My Chicken Cordon Bleu was everything that is right in this world. Served on their homemade “rustic white” bread, I literally had two separate sandwich-es on my plate. It was toasted, mak-

ing the provolone % awlessly meld the ham to the roasted chicken. $ e to-matoes, onion and lettuce were all fresh and wonderfully crisp, but the % avor I adored most was the whole grain mustard. It was the cherry on top and gave the meal the perfect amount of spice and tanginess.

Once we regained consciousness enough to take a second look in the pastry cases, we settled on a slice of their peanut butter chocolate cake and a chocolate croissant. $ e four-layers of cake were dense and thick,

and it was perhaps some of the best cake I’ve ever had the pleasure of encountering. $ e icing was peanut buttery enough, but not overpower-ing. Perhaps it was more of a cream cheese-peanut butter blend? If you were in dire need for that peanut butter # x, there was a healthy por-tion of it on the top layer of icing. Real peanut butter atop a thick coat of peanut butter icing; it was inge-nious. $ e chocolate croissant was light and % aky. Chocolate not only drizzled on top, but also inside. It was not the easiest thing to eat with-out getting chocolate all over your face, but when has that ever stopped us from feasting?

We were experiencing eupho-ria in the form of chocolate, and next think we know, a crew of three guys with a large camera entered the relatively small bakery with its gi-ant bready delights. Apparently we made it in time for the Little Bread Co. commercial shoot. $ e timing was unreal, and as we laughed about how randomly amazing the trip had been, a guy wheeled his bike into the establishment and bee-lined for the back room. What was next, a mon-key on a unicycle? We escaped be-fore the camera started rolling or be-fore the next mind-boggling thing walked through the door. Our brains couldn’t handle any more sober pseudo-hallucinations.

If you’re in the mood for a rus-tic meal with a rustic atmosphere on rustic bread, there’s no other place to go. Little Bread Co. is de# nitely top dog in what they do. $ ey close shop at 5 p.m., so if you want to experi-ence the Little Bread Wonderland yourself, remember that the early bird gets the worm…or the last giant cinnamon bun.

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JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSenior Laine McConnell tans in preparation for summer.

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God?’” Sat says.Leading me to the chilly yoga

room, Sat points to a framed photo of himself leading a yoga class. “! is is me in the 1970s at the University of Maryland. I was the " rst person to teach an accredited yoga class on the East Coast,” he says with pride.

It becomes apparent that this “folk art gallery,” is actually very small part of the ! e Mystic Melon, much like Kundalini yoga is much more than just stretching.

“! is house is more than just art hanging on the wall. It is a draw for people who are into the spiritual

movement,” Teresa said.Married in 1989, Teresa and Sat

met at a psychic fair in Fayetteville. Sat found himself in Northwest Ar-kansas a# er “some hippie friends had bought land here,” and Teresa, an Arkansas native, had developed a love for Fayetteville early on.

“Friends introduced us, and we got to talking, and it was incredi-ble. We were living together in Hot Springs within three months,” Teresa said.

Sat does not have any children of his own, but Teresa has two daugh-ters from “two separate marriages, ten years apart.” Her grandson Rob-in, her oldest daughter’s son, lives with them. A 9th-grader at Ramey

Junior High, he is skinny, dressed in black, with a lip ring and a tie on over his T-shirt. Talking to him one on one, he is warm and sweet.

He moved in with his grandpar-ents because living with his two au-tistic siblings made for a “stressful home.”

“People ask where I live and I say ‘! e Watermelon House,’ and they instantly know what I am talking about. I want to stay here and even-tually go to the UA,” Robin said. “I mean, I’ll probably inherit this house and I’ll de" nitely keep it the same,” he says with a grin.

Having their business at home has allowed the Pictors to become close to their neighbors.

“I couldn’t tell you when Teresa and Sat " rst moved next door to me, but I can tell you they have been my friends ever since they moved to this neighborhood,” said Joetta Harri-man, the Pictors’ 91-year-old neigh-bor. “! ey are good people and my good friends.”

To help make ends meet, Sat gets disability bene" ts from health issues he encountered in his early 50s and twice a week, Teresa works “Moth-

ers Morning Out,” a church program that allows stay-at-home mothers to have a morning o$ . Even then, “sometimes we will have months where we only have $15 in the bank.”

! at doesn’t bother them, though.“Unless you are Mr. Roller Wil-

son up the street, that is just the life-style of artists,” Teresa says matter-of-factly. “You live month-to-month. You % y by the seat of your pants.”

LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe Mystic Melon, on the corner of West and Mountain Street next to the Fayetteville Public Library, is filled with treasures. All of the art is hand-crafted by the owners in their home.“I don’t advertise,” said Sat Pictor, the owner of the Mystic Melon. “I let people be drawn here for a reason.”

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product research to give you the best tan for your skin type. Premiere Tans also o$ ers lotions from companies such as Mineral Sun, Intelligent Tanning and Tantanomy. ! e lotions can be used for outdoor tanning or in the beds.

According to a representa-tive of Premiere Tans, they do sell a lot of spray tans. Spray tans seem to appeal to larger amounts of people, especially in recent years.

Bekah Wittke, a business major, says she also only uses the tanning beds in the win-ter and on special occasions. During the summer months she tans by lying out by the pool.

When she was younger, Wittke used to get spray tans, but she said they would peel a# er a couple of days.

No matter what type of tanning students are comfort-able with, there are plenty of options during the summer months, winter months and for special occasions, to help students achieve their tan.

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Associated Government Senate members passed legislation Tuesday night that forbid current ASG executives from publicly endorsing any candidate or slate of candidates.

There was a lot of talk from members opposing the bill — including next year’s Senate Chair Mike Norton— about the bill stripping ASG executives of their first amendment rights or preemptively passing legislation for a problem that by ASG President Michael Dodd’s own admission he didn’t know if it had happened in the past.

As part of his argument against the legislation, Norton said this rule wasn’t applied to national elections therefore it wasn’t needed for ASG.

Norton is right that there isn’t a law forbidding a sitting president or vice-president

from endorsing a candidate during the primary season or even during the general election.

But let’s be honest. The ASG president doesn’t have the megaphone or sway that a U.S. president has in potentially kingmaking, and let’s be fair no one does. It seems to be pretty common knowledge at least to those within ASG that President Billy Fleming supported Kayln Williams, and yet Michael Dodd won last year’s election. Maybe when the ASG election turnout gets closer to even the U.S. turnout, I’ll start to be more worried —or worried at all— that an ASG president could purposely sway enough people to decide who his or her successor is.

So why is this legislation a good thing? Despite Norton’s First Amendment argument, the rule adds professionalism to ASG. As Sen. Ellie Keffler pointed out in her speech for the legislation, it says to students, these are our priorities. We think it’s important that our executives remain publicly unbiased and professional during an ASG election.

The executives this year said they made it their goal to be unbiased, good for them. That doesn’t mean without this legislation every

ASG executive would follow their example.

But the bill is also undercut by limiting itself to public speech meaning in a group of more than five people and, more importantly, allowing executives to work on one of the candidates campaign. How much more of a public endorsement could you give besides being out on the corner of Brough or in front of the Union giving out t-shirts for X candidate?

The legislation specifies that you have to do it as an individual and not in an official capacity. Realistically though if someone saw an ASG president, let’s call this hypothetical president Joe Smith, campaigning for a candidate outside of the Union because Joe is also that candidate’s campaign manager, a student would still likely think—assuming they know who the ASG president is— “hey there’s Joe Smith, the ASG president, campaigning for X candidate.”

Saying the ASG president, vice-president or one of the other executives can only campaign “as an individual” tries to put an unrealistic wall between the office and the person. Being ASG president, like most other leadership positions,

is a title that someone holds from the time they are sworn in until their predecessor is sworn in, and whether someone likes it or not—and I would imagine sometimes not— everything they do especially publicly becomes reflective of that office.

Interestingly enough the legislation also included social networking websites as areas where executives should try to remain unbiased. I have no idea how strict the ASG judiciary will be on this. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone argued that a Facebook like suggested bias. (The debate has been going on for a while amongst journalists about that theory.)

The legislation also altogether avoids the can of worms known as private endors ements—me aning speaking to less less than four people. Either way because there isn’t a lot of precedent either for this legislation or punishment for bias, ASGJ should have an interesting case on its hands if and when election violation complaints come before them.

Jordain Carney is a Traveler columnist.

Her column appears every other Thursday.

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Razorback Red-White Game Wraps Up Spring Practice

Finals are right around the corner, and many of us are consumed with ! nishing projects, studying our stacks of " ash cards and preparing for our end of semester tests. Yet, this weekend it’s time to take a break and head to the stadium for the Razorback football Red-White game, which wraps up spring practice and gives fans a chance to get excited for the upcoming season.

Admission to the game is free, and o# ers an a$ ernoon of fun for students and locals, with music, games, giveaways and a chance to see our student athletes.

% ough our busy and hectic schedules seem overwhelming right now, get ready to take a break this weekend and enjoy a little football on campus.

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% e Einstein Brother’s kiosk planned for Bell Engineering has been postponed until the fall 2012 semester.

Campus dorm Humphrey’s Hall will have the air conditioning turned on for the ! rst time since 1961.

% e Donald W. Reynolds Foundation gave $1.25 million to the building of the UA Student-Athlete Success Center.

UA students had the opportunity to opt in to Gmail email provider this week.

UA head football coach Bobby Petrino was ! red last Tuesday by athletic director Je# Long.

Finals begin in less than two weeks for UA students enrolled in spring classes.

George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin last Wednesday.

Creator and host of “American Band-stand,” Dick Clark died Wednesday of a heart attack.

% e Razorback baseball team lost both games 4-5 and 1-2 Saturday against Kentucky.

A Texas nurse was charged Wednesday in the shooting of a Texas mother and the kidnapping of her newborn child.

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As summer approaches, I’m slowly start-ing to transition from cooking delicious yet rather unhealthy meals to providing my family with healthy, energy packed snacks that will be perfect for on-the-go meals. My husband and I are both working at the Boys and Girls Club this summer, and boy, is re-membering to eat breakfast essential. Hang-ing out with over a few hundred kids on a daily basis takes a toll on my energy levels, so I decided to create an energy-boosting breakfast that can be enjoyed anywhere.

Granola bars are a snack widely enjoyed by the kids at the club, so what better than to share the same mid-morning snack, but make it homemade, healthy and delicious. Packed with almonds, peanut butter and honey, these granola bars are sweet, crunchy and chewy, and will keep you going all morning, no matter what you’re plans entail in the last few weeks of school.

Ingredients5 cups old-fashioned oats1-cup all-purpose ! our2/3-cup butter1 teaspoon baking soda1" teaspoon vanilla extract" cup honey" cup brown sugar1 " cups sliced almonds1-cup peanut butter" teaspoon allspice Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Mix

the oats and ! our in a large bowl until well mixed. Add the baking soda and brown sug-ar and incorporate. So# en the butter in the microwave (about 10 seconds) and add to the mixture. Mix well, then add the honey and vanilla.

One you have your basic granola mix-ture, add the sliced almonds, peanut butter and allspice, and mix thoroughly until you have a sticky mixture that still holds togeth-er. Scoop the mixture out of the bowl and only a baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes or until the granola is golden brown. Let the granola cool for 5 minutes, and slice into squares, removing carefully with a spatula or pie slicer. If the mixture falls apart, push down with a spatula and let cool for addi-tional time.

Crumble over yogurt, serve with fresh fruit, or take on the go for a breakfast that will keep you full and focused on the day ahead. Whether you are spending nights studying at Mullins, have an early start to prepare for those last projects and tests, or simply need a way to jumpstart the day, this recipe is sure to please. Chewy, delicious and packed full of ! avor, this recipe is simple, in-expensive and tasty. Try experimenting with other ! avors, by adding dried fruits such as cranberries, raisins and apples, or add pine nuts, pecans or walnuts for a totally di$ er-ent taste.

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WEEKEND ON THE HILL

April 19 and 20, 2012

! e Colored Museum! e Colored Museum will be presented April 19 and 20, at 7:30 p.m. Performances will be in Gi" els Auditorium, located on the second # oor of Old Main.

7:30 p.m.Gi! els AuditoriumOld Main

! ursday,April 19, 2012

Avenger Movie Series- ! orShowing of ! or in the Uni-versity Programs ! eater. ! ere will be free soda and popcorn.

7 - 9 p.m.University Programs " eaterArkansas Union

April 16 - 19, 2012

2011-2012 Student AwardsAn exhibition of recent works by University of Arkansas art students competing for schol-arship awards will be on view April 16 - 19.

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HPER, Jones Center to Host 10th Annual Juggling Festival

! is weekend will mark 10th Annual Northwest Ar-kansas Juggling Festival, hosted by the Razorback Jugglers and the Institute of Jugglology, o$ cials said.

! e festival, which be-gins Friday at 1 p.m. in the HPER and continues Satur-day at 10 a.m. at the Jones Center for Families, will feature a performance by world-renowned profes-sional juggler Brad Weston.

“I have been juggling for a little over six years, but I don’t think my abili-ties could ever match Brad

Weston’s. He’s a juggling god,” said freshman Casey Wagoner.

Weston’s juggling rou-tine has been featured on “! e Ellen Degeneres Show,” “! e Tonight Show,” “! e Today Show” and sev-eral others, according to the Brad Weston Experience website.

“Whether it’s juggling chainsaws, balancing bowl-ing balls, or performing his escape artist routine on a unicycle, his sophisticated physical comedy and quirky style will make a memora-ble experience for everyone in the audience,” according to Weston’s website.

Friday night will feature free juggling performances, lessons and refreshments. Saturday night’s festivities will include a ra% e, games and juggling races.

! e Razorback Jugglers is a UA student organiza-tion founded to “create in-terest in juggling, unite jug-glers on the University of Arkansas campus, and edu-cate students and faculty on juggling and how to juggle,” according to the Razorback Jugglers mission statement.

! e Institute of Jugglol-ogy hosts free classes every ! ursday night from 5:30 until 8 p.m. at the Jones Center in Springdale.

by SYDNEY GANUSStaff Writer

spring plays in recent years and continues to “rig-orously explore the lives and experiences of people of African descent in order to illustrate their impor-tance to history and the for-mation and function of the

modern global community.”Admission to the play is

free. Immediately following the April 19 showing, au-dience members will have the opportunity to partici-pate in a talkback session with the cast. ! e following night’s performance will be followed by a reception.

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dorm in recent years.Ramz Shalback, who pre-

sented during the hall’s Ge-ography Series, won the Diversity Program of the Month, and program assis-tant Namiko Bagirmvano last year won Advisor of the Year.

“We want residents wherever in the world they are coming from, to feel Holcombe is their home,” Bagirmvano said. “! ey live together and they learn from each other’s di" erenc-es. ! ere are programs al-most every week in our liv-ing room space.”

Holcombe aims for a population equally split be-tween international and

American students, encour-aging a true cultural immer-sion experience for all resi-dents.

“Since the moment I walked into the Holcombe Hall, I felt the international community helped me feel more welcome and adapt to the university community” said Lucas Ivanovic, indus-trial engineer major.

! e award is a huge hon-or, Bre% e said, but there is more work yet.

“As proud as I am of the sta" and students which make Holcombe a success, I can see so much more po-tential for our program here to grow and develop in the future, and I’m excited to see how some of our inno-vations turn out for the fu-ture,” he said.

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University ! eater will present the WWII-themed musical “Cabaret” Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., and again April 25 to 28 in the Fine Arts Building.

Tickets are free for stu-dents on the April 22, 25 and 26 showings. Students will also receive a $3 discount to the $14 non-student price, said director Kate Frank.

“‘Cabaret’ takes place in 1930s Berlin, prior to the rise of the Nazi party,” Frank said. “! is is the 1998 revision, so it’s new. Even if people have seen the movie or other ver-sions of the play, it’s a new show.”

“Cabaret” may appeal more to students because of all the students involved, she said.

“It involves a lot of hard work from a lot of students, about 60 students,” Frank said. “! ere are about 11 jazz musicians in the pit. It’s a big, beautiful production. It’s fun and sexy and funny.”

! e story will also appeal to college students because it takes place in a time that is “pretty racy” when peo-ple were experimenting with gender roles and involving themselves in the nightlife in Germany, Frank said.

Opening weekend is ex-pected to be lighter than the second week, when Frank ex-pects the show to sell out, she said.

“It’s just a really good show,” Frank said. “It’s fun, but it ends up sad. People will be laughing but they could end up crying too.”

by JANNEE SULLIVANStaff Writer

University Theater to Premiere ‘Cabaret’

COURTESY PHOTOUniversity Theater will present the WW-II themed musical “Cabaret” Firday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. , and again April 25 to 28 in the Fine Arts Building.

On the Run

MIKE NORTON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSenior Emily Evans has been running for years to stay in shape. To take it to the next level, she plans to run in local 5Ks this spring.

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THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER WEEKENDER

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Two roaches were munching on garbage in an alley. “I was in that new restaurant across the street,” said one. “It’s so clean! The kitchen is spotless, the fl oors are gleaming white. It’s so sanitary the whole place shines.” “Please,” said the other roach, frowning. “Not while I’m eating!”

Q:How did Hitler tie his shoesies?

A: In little Nazis.

Q:What’s green and smells like red paint?

A: Green paint.

Q:What do you call a cow without no legs?

A: Ground beef.

THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER WEEKENDER

SPORTS PAGE 9 THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 SPORTS EDITOR: JIMMY CARTER ASST. SPORTS EDITOR: ZACH TURNER

FILE PHOTOArkansas starting quarterback Tyler Wilson and the Razorback offense will be under the play-calling of offensive coordinator Paul Petrino during the team’s annual spring game Friday. The Hogs return two of their top four receivers from last season and senior wideout Cobi Hamilton and senior tight end Chris Gragg.

F e e d t h e S t u d sArkansas star wide receiv-

er Cobi Hamilton noticed a change in Paul Petrino’s coaching when the offensive coordinator returned after a two-year stint at Illinois.

The Razorbacks’ playcal-ler has ramped up his focus of getting his playmakers the ball on offense, a gameplan Ham-ilton said is called “feed the studs.”

“It means get the ball to the playmakers and clearly he has

been doing these few weeks of spring,” Hamilton said. “He has been getting the ball to the guys that make plays and we have done a good job at com-mending him for doing that.” Hamilton was a big play threat for the Hogs his first three seasons. The 6-foot-3 senior receiver has touch-downs of 85, 80, 64 and 58 yards among 13 total touch-downs for his career.

After leaving Arkansas fol-lowing the 2009 season, Petri-no orchestrated the Illinois of-fense to its best offensive sea-

son in school history. The Illini broke the total

points and points per game school records with Petrino calling plays on Ron Zook’s staff, something he didn’t do while on older brother Bobby Petrino’s staff.

“I think it helped because when I was up there I ran ev-erything offensively,” Petrino said. “Coach Zook was a de-fense and special teams guy so he kind of left me alone in the offensive room. I think just some time away you mature more, you grow up and there

is no question I am a lot more prepared right now.”

While at Illinois, Petrino coached a 1,600-yard rush-er in running back Mikel Le-shoure in 2010, as well as a 1,200-yard receiver in AJ Jen-kins during the 2011 season.

One of the top offense tar-gets for the Razorbacks’ of-fense is senior tight end Chris Gragg. As a first year starter in 2011, Gragg hauled in 41 passes for 518 yards and two

FOOTBALL

Philosophy Change: Hogs Hitting

by ZACH TURNERAsst. Sports Editor

see FOOTBALLon page 10

Arkansas players made it clear they want to keep the current coaching sta! intact to maintain continuity for the 2012 season a" er Bobby Petri-no was # red April 10.

$ e rest of the coaching sta! has changed the way the Ra-zorbacks practice in their # rst week without Petrino, though.

“We kind of went a little against the norm and did a couple of live periods,” defen-sive coordinator Paul Haynes said. “We focused on the run. So it was all run. Stopping the run. O! ense running the foot-ball. We were in full pads both of those days.

“So real challenging for our guys physically and mentally, but our guys have down a great job this week with our e! ort and our attitude.”

$ e midweek contact peri-ods were a change from Petri-no-run practices, when there was rarely live contact periods in non-scrimmage settings or

more than once per week.$ e Hogs have a Friday

walkthrough practice, but will get to hit for the third time in # ve days Saturday during the 2 p.m. Red-White game.

Last season, the coach-ing sta! picked two teams in a dra" . $ e setup Saturday will be di! erent.

“We’ve talked about it a little bit and we’re going to talk about it here in the next couple days — how we’re going to handle it,” Haynes said. “We’ll probably put the ones together against the rest of the guys.”

$ e Red-White game will be junior college transfer de-fensive end Austin Flynn’s # rst opportunity to play in front of a big crowd in Reynolds Razor-back Stadium.

“I’m really excited,” Flynn said. “I can’t wait for Saturday. I can’t wait to see how many fans are out there to support. I know the defense is going to be ready. It’s going to be fun. I can’t wait to get out there and compete.”

RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas assistant Taver Johnson and the rest of the coaching staff has included live contact periods during practice Tuesday and Wednesday, a departure from Bobby Petri-no’s normal practice routine.

Offensive coordinator Paul Petrino plans to get Arkansas’ playmakers involved often

WOMEN’S GOLF

Women Hosting SECsThe women’s Southeast-

ern Conference Golf Cham-pionship is finally returning to Arkansas.

The competition will take place Friday to Sun-day at the Razorbacks’ home course, the Blessings Golf Course in Johnson.

It has been more than a decade since Arkansas host-ed the conference champi-onship. Razorbacks coach Shauna Estes-Taylor was part of the Georgia team then.

“It’s an awesome privi-

lege to be able to bring the championship here to Fay-etteville,” Estes-Taylor said. “The last time it was played here was twelve years ago at Pinnacle Country Club. I was actually a senior in college so it’s all really cool to be on this end of it and have all these teams come to town and be able to show-case our main facility, our university, our town.

“We’re just super excited to get this thing going.”

Sophomore Emily Tubert leads the team going into this weekend and is ranked third in the nation by Golf-Stat.com, with an average

score of 72. She shot a 68 as her lowest score earlier this season.

Competition this week-end won’t be easy. Tubert is joined by seven other mem-bers in the SEC in the top 20 scoring average in the na-tion, including three players from the University of Ala-bama.

She is ranked one spot behind Brooke Pancake of the Crimson Tide.

“Oh my gosh, it’s so ex-citing,” Tubert said. “We’ve been preparing for this for a

UA MEDIA RELATIONSArkansas sophomore Emily Tubert, the No. 3 ranked golfer by GolfStat.com, leads the Razorbacks into the Southeastern Conference Championships in Johnson, Ark., at the Blessings Golf Course. Alabama enters the SEC Championships as the top-rated team, ranked No. 2 overall in the nation.

GYMNASTICS

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore Katherine Grable sat out with an injury last time the Razorbacks traveled to Duluth, Ga. for the Southeastern Conference Cham-pionships. The Razorbacks return to Georgia but this time for the NCAA Championships and are looking to score higher than their season-low 194.175 score they got their fi rst time in Duluth this season.

C h a m p i o n s h i p M e e t

Arkansas’ gymnastics team is tired of waiting.

The No. 8 Razorbacks ad-vanced to their fifth straight NCAA Championship ap-pearance and sixth overall af-ter finishing the NCAA South Central Regional second be-

hind UCLA two weeks ago.Arkansas players and

coaches have been preparing for the NCAA meet in

“I think everyone is com-pletely upbeat, excited, posi-tive and looking forward to going back down to Duluth and doing a much better job than we did last time,” Ar-kansas co-coach Rene Cook

said. “We are certainly a dif-ferent team than we were just a month ago. I think we are all just pumped up to get back out there and compete and show what we are made of.”

This is Arkansas’ second trip to Duluth, Ga., in the

G y m n a s t i c s t e a m c o m p e t i n g i n N C A A sby HARRISON STANFILL

Staff Writer

by MONICA CHAPMANStaff Writer

see GYNASTICSon page 10

see WOMEN’S GOLFon page 11

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

see HOGS HITTINGon page 10

PAGE 10 THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 SPORTS

touchdowns.“Coach Paul has really been

scripting me and Cobi a lot of balls,” Gragg said. “He said when we first started spring ball he was going to try and wear us out because when the games come we are the players he is going to want and get the ball too. He has done that.”

Senior All-Southeastern Conference quarterback Tyler Wilson will be the one distrib-uting the ball to the Hogs’ top targets.

Wilson, also a first-year starter in 2011, racked up 28 total touchdowns and threw

for more than 3,600 yards while leading Arkansas to 11 wins. As the spring has pro-gressed, Wilson has continued to impress his offensive coor-dinator.

“You would be hard pressed to find a quarterback out there that has had a better spring that him,” Petrino said. “If he did, than he is Superman. Be-cause he has been real sharp.”

With Petrino calling plays for the Razorbacks after Bob-by Petrino’s firing, Hamilton said the practices have been fun for the offense.

“He is a guy that I have looked up to ever since I have been a Razorback,” Hamil-

ton said. “With him calling the plays and me being in the huddle, it is a great honor and I love it.”

Petrino is in his third sea-son overall with Arkansas. He’s getting to call plays again, but said there is a difference between running the offense for the Illini and for the Ra-zorbacks.

“The difference being it is already in place,” Petrino said about the offensive structure. “When I went up there I had to teach the offense, teach how we practice and teach how to do everything. These guys al-ready know how to do it, we just have to keep on doing it.”

from FOOTBALLon page 9

Sta! “disappointed” in Gil-bert

! e coaching sta" will wait until linebacker/defensive end Tyler Gilbert is through with the judicial process to take fur-ther action a# er his Tuesday ar-rest, assistant coach Taver John-son said.

Johnson suspended Gilbert inde$ nitely a# er the 6-foot-3, 244-pounder was arrested on felony aggravated burglary and the# charges, including the the# of $285.

“We have to let the process take place and a# er the process

does that, we’ll go from there,” Johnson said.

Gilbert was booked in the Washington County Deten-tion Center at 11:19 a.m. Tues-day, before being released on $10,000 bail at 4:27 p.m.

Gilbert’s arrest was the latest o" -$ eld issue in an eventful o" -season for the football program, including the April 10 $ ring of Bobby Petrino and three player arrests.

Gilbert joins o" ensive tack-le Jason Peacock as Razorback football players arrested on fel-ony the# charges this spring. Redshirt freshman receiver Kane Whitehurst was arrested

on a charge for possession of a controlled substance April 1.

Haman transferringRedshirt freshman lineback-

er Brock Haman received his release from Arkansas, Haynes said Wednesday.

Haman —% a Scottsdale, Ariz., native — will meet with Arizona State, according to an ASUDevils.com report.

“! ere was nothing negative there,” Johnson said.

Haman had to redshirt in 2011 a# er injuring his foot and having surgery late in fall camp in August. He was healthy when he decided to transfer, Johnson said.

BASEBALL

Hogs Headed to Oxford

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas right-hander Brandon Moore has won each of his two starts this season for the Razorbacks and will get his first Friday start this weekend when the Hogs travel to Ole Miss for a three-game series against the Rebels.

No. 17 Arkansas will be back on the road this week-end for a conference se-ries at No. 22 Ole Miss. The Razorbacks (27-10, 8-7 Southeastern Conference) dropped six spots in the Base-ball America poll after losing two out of three games to No. 3 Kentucky in Baum Stadium last weekend.

Arkansas will enter the

weekend of conference play on a positive note, though, af-ter winning a doubleheader against Stephen F. Austin on Tuesday. Freshman designat-ed hitter Joe Serrano led the Hogs in game two with three hits and the game-winning RBI in a 4-3 win.

Arkansas’ starting rotation will be changed this week-end. Sophomore right-hand-er Brandon Moore (3-0, 0.95 ERA) will make just his third

by MARTHA SWEARINGENStaff Writer

start this season and his first Friday start in the first game of the series.

“Brandon comes in and he throws strikes,” Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. “When we usually bring him in, it’s a tight situation. He’s just solid. He doesn’t get rat-tled too much and you pretty much know what you’re going to get out of him.”

Sophomore right-hand-er Ryne Stanek (6-1, 2.41) — the Friday starter the last two weekends — will start Satur-day, while junior right-hander DJ Baxendale (6-2, 3.88) will start Sunday.

This season, sophomore first baseman Dominic Fi-cociello is leading the Hogs on offense, hitting .343 with four home runs and 25 RBIs. Senior third baseman Matt Reynolds is hitting .323 with four home runs and 26 RBIs.

Ole Miss (25-12, 7-8 SEC) defeated Mississippi State on Tuesday evening on the road in a 4-3 victory. Senior first baseman Matt Snyder led the Rebels in the win with three hits and two RBIs.

The Razorbacks are a game ahead of the Rebels and Au-burn in the SEC West stand-ings and three games behind

see BASEBALLon page 12

Arkansas Spring Depth ChartWR Julian Horton Jr. 6-1 194Marquel Wade So. 5-11 185Hunter Jarvis Jr. 5-8 171

WR Cobi Hamilton Sr. 6-3 209M. Humphrey Jr. 6-3 185Kane Whitehurst Fr. 6-0 175

WR Javontee Herndon Jr. 6-1 204Keante Minor So. 6-0 205Q. Funderburk Fr. 6-4 200

TE Chris Gragg Sr. 6-3 236Austin Tate Jr. 6-6 253Brett Weir Fr. 6-5 250

OT David Hurd Jr. 6-6 300Jason Peacock Sr. 6-4 305

OG Tyler Deacon Sr. 6-4 300M. Danenhauer Fr. 6-5 300

C Travis Swanson Jr. 6-5 305Mitch Smothers So. 6-4 296

OG Luke Charpentier So. 6-4 305Alvin Bailey Jr. 6-5 312

OT Brey Cook So. 6-7 308Chris Stringer So. 6-7 304

QB Tyler WIlson Sr. 6-3 220Brandon Allen Fr. 6-3 212Brandon Mitchell Jr. 6-4 230 RB Knile Davis Jr. 6-0 226 *Ronnie Wingo Sr. 6-3 231Dennis Johnson Sr. 5-9 213

* Will not participate due to injury

OFFENSE DEFENSE

DE Chris Smith Jr. 6-3 251Austin Flynn Jr. 6-5 260D. Kelly-Thomas Fr. 6-4 230

DT Bryan Jones Jr. 6-2 312 Alfred Davis Sr. 6-1 318DeMarcus Hodge Fr. 6-1 301

DT Robert Thomas Jr. 6-3 308 DeQuinta Jones Sr. 6-5 299Horace Arkadie Fr. 6-4 270

DE Trey Flowers So. 6-4 243C. Miles-Nash Sr. 6-6 261

LB Matt Marshall Sr. 6-1 230 Jarrett Lake Jr. 6-3 223Daunte Carr So. 6-3 224

LB Alonzo Highsmith Sr. 6-1 233 *Austin Jones Jr. 6-2 230Robert Atiga Jr. 6-3 240Terrell Williams Sr. 6-3 232 LB Tenarius Wright Sr. 6-2 252Braylon Mitchell So. 6-3 232Tyler Gilbert So. 6-3 244

CB Tevin Mitchel So. 6-0 192Davyon McKinney Fr. 6-3 190

SEric Bennett Jr. 6-0 206 Alan Turner So. 6-0 212Houston Pruitt Jr. 5-11 192

S Ross Rasner Sr. 6-0 212Jerry Mitchell Jr. 6-1 219Rohan Gaines Fr. 5-11 190

from HOGS HITTINGon page 9

FILE PHOTOArkansas deep-threat wide receiver Cobi Hamilton has touchdown catches of 85, 80, 64 and 58 yards during his three seasons as a Hog. Hamilton will be the Razorbacks’ No. 1 receiver this season for the first time in his career.

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long time. I can’t believe it’s already here. When I was getting recruited, I was like oh yeah we’re hosting SECs in 2012, it seemed so far away and here we are SEC week.”

Along with excellent competition coming to Fay-etteville, Estes-Taylor said she thinks this is one of the best courses to compete on for the SEC championship.

“It’s a championship style golf course,” Estes-Taylor said. “It’s very demanding. It takes a lot of game plan and strategy. It’s in amaz-ing condition, in my opin-ion, the best condition of any championship course we will see. It’s also one we’ve set up fairly. I think it will be a good test. I think the best will rise to the top un-der the setup that we have.”

The Razorbacks could have an advantage playing on their home course.

“It’s definitely one of the hardest courses I’ve ever played, but it’s also one of the best,” Tubert said. “Like Shauna said it is absolutely in perfect condition right

now. They’ve done such a great job preparing for this event and it’s one of those courses you learn every time you play it. It’s a good cham-pionship golf course. It de-mands your full attention and focus. You can’t for one second let up or else it will eat you alive.”

The Razorbacks came in fourth during last year’s conference tournament and are still searching for their first conference champion-ship.

“It would be so awe-some,” Estes-Taylor said. “Our women’s golf program has never won an SEC cham-pionship. To have the op-portunity to do it would be something super special in front of our fans and sup-porters. We’ve worked really hard. I think we’ve done all the preparing we can do.”

Estes-Taylor said she has faith in her team and knows now it is up to them to win this weekend, but knows they are prepared.

“Like I told the girls yes-terday, it’s about imagining yourself being there,” Es-tes-Taylor said. “They have all the shots and they’ll be ready to go come Friday.”

from WOMEN’S GOLF on page 9

What has the attitude been like in prac-tice since Bobby Petrino was fired?

The mood has been a little different. It’s just different, I would say. I wouldn’t say it was bad. I wouldn’t say it was just terrible out there. Our team came out and worked hard in practice every day. We still have our same goals on trying to be a national cham-pionship contending team in the fall and I think we’re still striving for our goals.”

Has there been anything that’s helped lessen the blow of his firing?

Just because of our teammates. The guys we went through the offseasons with. The guys who we’ve been in the summer runs with, that’s the guys we’re playing for. We’re the ones putting in the work. We’re the ones that have to go out there and perform when the lights come on. That’s what we go out there and work for.”

On the field, how has the spring gone?

I think it has gone pretty good. Every day at practice I think our offense gets a lit-tle bit better. Defense gets a little bit better. We’ve just been coming together as a team. There’s been trials and tribulations like you all know, but I think we still have came to-gether pretty good.

How has the coaching staff handled it?

They have made it normal. We still have meetings and everything. Everything has still been the same. The coaches have still had their fire and intensity that they always have had. the players have come out and just want to get better. That’s the whole thing. Come out and get better. Perfect your craft. So we can go and try to get this national championship in the fall.

Do you think the team is built to handle distractions?

We have a lot of fifth-year seniors. Espe-cially starting. I think that has helped. Espe-cially the younger guys. I think they see that we didn’t let the adversity mess with us that much. We just came out there and still came to work every day.

How has Tyler Wilson looked this spring?

He’s been real sharp. He’s getting his checks down. Coach Paul is not hollering a lot of things that he’s messing up about. So he’s done a lot.

How have the receivers looked?I always knew Marquel (Wade) was go-

ing to be a great player. He works extreme-ly hard. He goes with every group of ones, twos and threes. Cobi Hamilton he’s been here just one year less than I have. I’ve al-ways seen his work ethic and how he comes to practice every day. So i knew he could step up.”

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LSU for the division lead. “We’re pretty much even

in the standings,” Van Horn said. “Offensively you look at their numbers, they’re pretty good. They have a couple of guys that can really hit. This is a very important series. Start out the second half, western division team; there’s a lot on the line.”

With the Rebels’ win against their in-state rival and an Ole Miss spring football scrimmage scheduled for next

weekend, Van Horn said he is expecting a big crowd for the series.

“It’s going to be a good at-mosphere down there, espe-cially since it’s a football week-end, so there’ll be some extra fans.” Van Horn said. “The only way you can calm down fans a little bit is score runs and stop them on defense.”

The Rebels have not an-nounced the weekend’s start-ing pitchers, but sophomore right-hander Bobby Wahl (5-0, 2.13) started Friday last weekend against Georgia, while senior right-hander R.J.

Hively (3-3, 3.15) started the middle game and senior right-hander Mike Mayers (3-2, 4.15) opened Sunday.

Mississippi has five play-ers batting above .300. Snyder is hitting .374 and has seven home runs and 40 RBIs.

“Snyder seems like he’s been there for five or six years and all he does is hit and hit for power,” Van Horn said.

The Razorbacks’ series with the Rebels will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday and continue at 4 p.m. Saturday. The series finale will start at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas first baseman Dominic Ficociello is leading the struggling Hogs’ offense, which ranks eighth in the Southeastern Conference in team batting average, with four homeruns and 25 RBIs while hitting a solid .343.

Arkansas was without All-American Katherine Grable, who was kept out of action with a severe an-kle sprain that caused her to miss four meets, at the SEC Championship.

Grable returned to the lineup during the NCAA Regional, competing in three of the four events and scoring a 9.8 or better in all three. After a gutsy perfor-mance at the regional, Rene Cook said she thinks Grable is finally ready to compete in the all-around again at the high level that they are used to.

“Kat vaulted yesterday for the first time in six weeks and she was phenomenal, she is just a pure athletic talent when it comes to our sport,” Rene Cook said. “She

is really excited. She wants to help the team and has in-dividual goals herself. This gives her the opportunity to do both as she gets back in the all-around.”

The Razorbacks posted a 196.825 at the NCAA re-gional in Fayetteville two weeks ago after fighting through late-season strug-gles and injury problems this season.

“Not much is going to change from Regionals,” Mark Cook said. “That was a really good lineup for all four events. We had good rhythm for that meet, I don’t we will deviate from that lineup much at all other than getting Kat back in the lineup on vault.”

The Razorbacks will be competing against the other 11 best teams in the nation, including UCLA.

“We have to perform well

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and not count errors. We have to be aggressive, be calm, and stay within ourselves and per-form and not care about any-body else,” Rene Cook said “If we can do that other teams will start to tighten up, and let them make the mistakes not us.”

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