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A UA opera alumna performed Sunday at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in an event sponsored by the John Harrison Opera Foundation.

It was the first homecoming performance for Sarah Mesko, who received her bachelor’s degree in music from the UA.

“We were very excited to have [Mes-ko],” said Christopher Lacy, president of the board of directors for the John Harrison Op-era Foundation. “She is a young singer on the verge of an international career.”

Aurelien Boccard, Mesko’s pianist, has a master’s degree in music from the UA. Boc-card has volunteered with the opera founda-tion for years.

“He is not a background performer — he knows what he’s doing,” Lacy said.

The performance was a fundraiser for the Fayetteville-based opera foundation. The pro-ceeds will go toward scholarships for four-year opera students as well as funding for fu-ture opera performances in Fayetteville, Lacy said.

The recital was minimal compared to large opera performances, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, Lacy said.

Shortly before the show, Lacy and other members of the board of directors decided to fill the house by offering tickets “at prices that students could afford.”

This was the first time the John Harrison Opera Foundation officials used the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall for a live perfor-mance, said Olivia Clawson, board member for the foundation.

“Since this is an alumni concert, we opt-ed to do it at Stella Boyle Smith concert hall so we could include more seating,” Clawson said. The concert hall, which seats more than 200 people, was nearly half-booked prior to the show.

Lacy said that the UA has offered the con-cert hall to the John Harrison Opera Founda-tion for upcoming performances.

The next opera recital is planned for April.

by EMILY JONESStaff Writer

As winter blew into Northwest Arkansas, Fay-etteville city o!cials blew out Occupy Fayette-ville’s small encampment in the town square. Al-though many Occupy camps across the country faced eviction, for the most devout members of the Occupy movement, evictions were only a mi-nor setback.

A strong believer in the Occupy movement, UA student Abel Tomlinson carried the hot-but-ton issue of corporate personhood all the way to the Occupy State Convention in Little Rock.

“[Corporate personhood is] an issue on top of the agenda of Occupy Wall Street,” he said. “I per-sonally feel it’s the most important issue.”

"e history of the judiciary branch granting

corporations constitutional rights dates back cen-turies, Tomlinson said. Citizens United, the most recent case of corporate personhood, has been at the forefront of many national debates.

“"e courts were the scene of the crime,” he said. “It’s an issue that wasn’t voted on by the peo-ple, it wasn’t voted on by Congress, it was done by the Supreme Court, who is appointed.”

Grant Hodges, president of UA College Re-publicans, agreed with some of the Supreme Court’s rulings giving certain rights to corpora-tions, including the 1886 Santa Clara v. Southern Paci#c Railroad case applying the 14th amend-ment to corporations.

“"e precedent for calling corporations peo-ple isn’t new, but this campaign #nance issue is,” Hodges said.

"e Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that the gov-ernment should play no role in restricting a cor-poration’s political speech gave birth to a $ood of corporate in$uence in the 2010 mid-term elec-tions. "is in$uence arrived in the form of “Su-per-PACS,” and has already a%ected the ongoing presidential primaries.

For example, a&er strong debate performanc-es in late November, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich surged to 33 percent in an Iowa poll, outpacing former Governor Mitt Romney. A&er the surge, a pro-Romney Super-PAC un-loaded $2.7 million on negative advertising in the state, according to Real Clear Politics.

As the money $ooded in, Gingrich’s poll

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Gym’Backs Celebrate DecadeArkansas gymnastics celebrates its 10th anniversary with a record-setting win.

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Primaries, Caucuses and CandidatesA rundown on the nomination selection this election season.

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UA Student on Teen Vogue WebsiteApparel Studies student Brittany Arroyos is becoming a popular !gure in the world of fashion blogging.

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Interactive Textbook - The New Bookstore?Are e-readers and tablets the next big thing for college students? Why e-textbooks a good idea for college stu-dents. Page 4

Students Enter NASA ContestUA students entering a contest that could lead to stationing people on the moon.

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Briefly SpeakingA list of the weeks events including a study abroad meeting and designing a business plan.

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KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERMembers of the public gather in front of the John Paul Hammerschmidt federal building for Occupy the Courts Friday, Jan. 20

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numbers plummeted and he ! nished fourth place in the caucuses.

Gingrich regained his foot-ing a" er a pro-Gingrich Su-per-PAC spent $1.6 million in South Carolina, according the the Associated Press. Buoyed by a pair of strong debate per-formances, he won the primary.

“I personally despise Super-PACS,” Hodges said. “I hate how by and large they don’t have to disclose donors. I think most people agree that you should have to disclose the people that are donating money.”

# ough most donors go un-disclosed until a" er elections, billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s $5 million donation to a pro-Gingrich Super-PAC was made public.

It’s also important to note that some conservatives feel money should equal free speech, Hodges said.

However, “I’m writing about how terrible it is that one per-son can single-handedly ! -nance a presidential campaign,” he said. “I just don’t think it’s healthy for democracy when one person has the ability to basically drown out everyone else’s voice in an election.”

Just as both major politi-cal parties plan on increas-ing record amounts of mon-ey this year, 80 percent of Re-publicans, Democrats and

BRIEFLY SPEAKING:Jan. 23UA Community Development in Belize Summer 2012 Information SessionStop by WCOB 326 from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. to learn about the Community Development in Belize summer program. # is unique program is an international service learning project for six credit hours in Belize during Summer Session one. Projects are currently being planned for Business, Engineering, Agricul-ture, Literacy and Health Professions, and all projects will be open to students of all majors. Food will be served.

Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship Info MeetingCome ! nd out more about this study abroad scholarship for students and get tips on perfecting an application. # is schol-arship is open to undergraduates who are United States citi-zens, receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the time of application or during the term of study abroad, and participating in a study abroad program that is no less than four weeks. Meeting will take place in JB Hunt 207 from 3 to 4 p.m.

Jan. 24Writing A Business Plan & Designing A Business Model# is in-depth seminar discusses the business planning process in detail. Participants will learn about the importance of plan-ning and the elements that go into a good plan. Registration is required. # e seminar will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. in Donald W. Reynolds Center room 202.

Jan. 252012 Business Forecast Luncheon# e Center for Business and Economic Research is hosting the 18th annual Business Forecast Luncheon at the John Q. Ham-mons Convention Center in Rogers. # e event will be moder-ated by Robert Hopkins from the Little Rock branch of the Fed-eral Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Luncheon will take place from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Poetry Slam with Bobby LeFebrePoetry Slam with Bobby LeFebre in RZ’s from 7 to 9 p.m. # is event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Univer-sity Programs Co$ eehouse Committee.

Jan. 26UA Health Plan Weight Management Information FairBeing overweight can not only a$ ect how you look and feel about yourself but can ultimately lead to illness. To help at-tain or maintain a healthy weight, the University of Arkansas Health Plan is adding nutritional counseling for all members and weight management options for those who qualify. To learn more, an informational fair will take place from 9:30 to noon in the Union Ballroom.

Location Based ServicesLocation based services are a fast growing form of mobile so-cial media and can be a great tool for marketing businesses with a physical location. # is course will cover what LBSs are, how they work, why they are important, the di$ erences between the major LBS tools, and strategies and tactics to use them e$ ec-tively. Registration is required. # e course will take place in the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce from 11 to 1 p.m.

Jan. 27Microsoft Access 2010 Basics# is instructor-led course covers the basic functions and fea-tures of Access 2010. A" er an introduction to database concepts and the Access environment, students will learn how to design and create databases. Students will then learn to create queries, forms, and reports. Course will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the UA Global Campus in downtown Fayetteville.

Ron Zimmer Lecture on E! ect of Closing SchoolsRon Zimmer, associate professor of public policy and educa-tion at Vanderbilt University, will give a lecture titled “Closing Schools in a Shrinking District: Do Student Outcomes Depend on Which Schools are Closed?” in the UA Graduate Education buidling, room 343 from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Holcombe Geography Series PalestineHolcombe International Living Learning CommunityRamz Shalbak, an international student from Palestine, will share her culture and perspective on peace. # ere will be danc-ing and food. # e program will take place in Holcombe Hall from 5 to 6 p.m.

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independents opposed un-limited campaign contribu-tions, according to a 2010 ABC News-Washington Post poll.

“Citizens understand how money can corrupt elec-tions,” Tomlinson said. “It’s a really unifying issue that cuts across party lines.”

“# is movement is gain-ing steam and spreading like wild! re,” Tomlinson said.

Attesting to Tomlinson’s statement, dozens of cit-ies, colleges, unions and po-litical organizations have passed Move to Amend’s res-olution denouncing corpo-rate personhood, according to the organization’s website.

While Hodges wants re-strictions on campaign contri-butions, he does not support Move to Amend’s resolution.

“I might support limit-ing [corporation’s] rights from contributing to campaigns, but I wouldn’t support taking away all their rights,” he said.

# e resolution states that “privileges” awarded to “arti-! cial entities” by government should not be mixed up with inherent, inalienable rights.

“Once we have multiple cit-ies on board, then we would try to pass a state resolution. Once we have states and cit-ies that pass it, the ultimate goal is to amend the U.S. con-stitution,” Tomlinson said.

“We want to amend the constitution to say that natu-ral persons, only living, breath-ing humans like you and I de-serve constitutional rights.”

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BEN FLOWERS PHOTO EDITORUA Alumna Sarah Mesko performed at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Story on page 1.

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UA students will com-pete in NASA’s 2012 Luna-botic Mining competi-tion at the Kennedy Space Center in Flor-ida to create a proj-ect that could lead to astronauts back to the moon.

! e project could “potentially lead to the pos-sibility of station-ing people on the moon for extended periods of time or having the moon act as an outpost for mis-sions to further distant planets,” said UA profes-sor Scott Smith.

! e idea for the competi-tion is for students to design and construct a Lunabot that can mine and deposit moon soil within 10 minutes, ac-cording to NASA’s website. ! e Lunabot must also be con-trolled via remote control and comply with speci" c size and weight limits.

“A project like this is impor-tant to NASA because it will al-low them to mine materials, for example oxygen, in ‘moon dirt’ and use it in turn as fuel,” Smith said. “! is may allow them to produce breathable air and pro-vide an opportunity to erect a colony on the moon.”

Smith will lead a team of six students: electrical engineering undergraduates John Monkus and Ryan May, undergraduate business majors Eric Boum-gardner and Nathan Hill and electrical engineering graduate students Brett Sparkman and Chris Farnell.

“Competing against several universities nationwide and in-ternationally will allow the UA to become more well-known,” Smith said.

Fashioned as an electri-cal engineering senior design project, Smith and his team of students are using the Lunabot prototype to enter NASA’s de-sign competition.

“! is type of assignment is very good for the future careers of the students,” Smith said. “It gives them good group collab-oration and provides project experience from the concep-tion phase all the way to build-ing a prototype and the testing phase.”

! e Lunabot NASA sends might ultimately be a hybrid of design entries, Smith said.

“! e plan that NASA has for the competition is to get a # ow of ideas,” Monkus stated. “It’s

about g r o u p concepts on " gur-ing what would be some of the best ways to mine regolith on the moon and mine it autono-mously.”

! e group’s mission is to make the Lunabot as mechani-cally simple as possible, Smith said.

“We want to design it in such a way that should any problem arise, it could be " xed easily,” he said.

“I’ve always been interested in robots, as a result of science " ction,” Monkus said. “To have a senior design project on ro-botics is very interesting and a lot of fun.”

! ese students do " nd this project to be entertaining, but also educational.

“! is project is great be-cause a lot of the skills that we gain from building this robot translate to the civillian sector,” Farnell said.

Graduate student Brett Sparkman particpated in the event last year and will compete again this year.

“I participated last year as well, and for me it was amazing going through the design pro-cess and seeing something start as a pile of metal and evolve into a functioning robot doing exactly what it is supposed to do,” Sparkman said. “Seeing it in action is amazing.”

! e students also enjoy the technical aspects of the compe-tition.

“What I’m really excited about is building a small part of the Lunabot’s motor control board to make it highly e$ -cient and provide it with many options to allow it to be easily controllable,” Farnell said.

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that the competition incorporates di% erent " elds in engineering.

“One of the reasons I want-ed to join this project is that you’re not exclusively using the concepts of electrical engineer-ing. We are also incorporating aspects of mechanical engi-neering,” May said.

Business majors Boumgard-ner and Hill will serve as fund-raisers and " nance coordina-tors for the project’s engineers.

“I really enjoy and relish the challenge,” Boumgardner said.

An increased amount of funding has sparked one stu-dent’s interest.

“I came on board because unlike last year, this year the group did not get any fund-ing,” Hill said. “I wanted to do my part to ensure that these guys get the chance to build something from a pile of rub-ble that can eventually walk on the moon. ! at’s what school is suppose to be about,” Hill said. “It’s suppose to provide you with opportunities to do projects like these, and not hav-ing the money in my opinion is wrong.”

Excited by the project’s pos-sibilities Hill went on to say, “we’ve gotten community on board and Engineering Depart-ment o$ cials are assisting us in obtaining some more funding.”

With the competition dates posted towards the end of May, Professor Smith hopes to have the Lunabot completed and read for testing by March to allow for extensive testing to achieve the best design.

“If we do well, the University of Arkansas will garner positive commendations,” Smith said.

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MADDIE LOGAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERAt the University of Arkansas Research Center, Professor Alan Mantooth explains how Smart Grid works. They are currently working on shock absorbers for the grid that helps energy flow better when certain malfunctions happen.

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Is Campus ConstructionDriving New Hogs Away?It’s nothing new that the University has been adding

on, ripping down and placing a mountain of construction across campus, but has the line been crossed for having too much production?

With the most recent project taking away a student parking lot on campus, the construction now extends from Old Main to Razorback road, prompting us to ask whether the hundreds of projects are helping or hurting campus?

While most of us have become accustomed to weav-ing our way through the mess of fences, giant holes in the ground and “do not enter” signs, is the mass of change af-fecting the number of potential Arkansas students? For high school juniors and seniors trying to decide on where to attend their college years, is the campus construction turning heads? Though we might know what the Univer-sity of Arkansas looked like in it’s prime, our potentials won’t. While we hope that’s not the case, our campus may be driving away tuition-paying students. If we rely on pho-to boards and plans to get us through the next few years of constant construction, can we really expect students to take as much interest?

Since the campus construction began, we now have 11 current construction projects on campus, with everything from dorm building restorations to the more obvious sci-ence-engineering auditorium and Pi Beta Phi gate projects. In the grand scheme of things, 11 projects doesn’t sound like too much work, but when it’s squashed into a campus with thousands of students it becomes a much larger prob-lem. Our campus, right now, seems like one large construc-tion site with a few buildings still standing, and while we can look forward to the finished product, most 17-and-18 year olds aren’t too concerned with projected finish dates – they want to go somewhere that looks good and is a great place to be.

Though we have a large freshman class coming in the fall 2012 semester, we as a campus have to consider wheth-er these projects will eventually drive away students look-ing for a place to call home. Many students are already sick of taking detours to get anywhere on campus, and with more projects going up each week, we may be getting over-run with construction, posing not only aesthetic issues, but also space issues. If you haven’t noticed, classes have be-come more cramped, and it’s not just because of the influx of students last semester. With less buildings and auditori-ums available as we renovate and rebuild, we can’t ignore the fact that our attendance numbers are growing while our space numbers decline.

The solution is simple – take a break from adding more projects until the current ones are completed. We need to show that while we are constantly trying to advance and expand our school, we still care for our current space. You wouldn’t go and buy a brand new car just because you got a raise at your job, we shouldn’t tear everything down on campus just because we can rebuild it.

To make campus a great place to be for both the stu-dents who are currently here, and new students consider-ing Arkansas on their application list, maybe we need to finish what we’ve started before adding any more fences. It’s an easy solution that needs to happen in order to bring more Razorbacks into our University of Arkansas family and make the campus an enjoyable place.

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A# er spending almost ev-ery day since last August post-ing on Facebook, tweeting, and retweeting in support of Jon Huntsman, you can imag-ine how heartbroken I was last Monday when he suspend-ed his campaign for the 2012 presidency.

Huntsman, former Utah governor and U.S. ambassa-dor, most recently to China under the Obama adminis-tration, was the apple of my eye in this long GOP primary race.

Others may have been crushed ! ursday, as Rick Perry abandoned his cam-paign for the White House, and endorsed Newt Gingrich.

If you’re just now getting into the “primary season,” you’ve missed some “astound-ing” individuals as they’ve withdrawn from the race, such Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) or for-mer Minnesota governor, Tim

Pawlenty.If you don’t know much

about the current race, many are criticizing the long “pri-mary season,” positing that it is creating ri# s in the GOP, or displaying Republican weak-ness as a whole. Also, some vehemently believe that this “primary season” has been a waste, as there are no strong Republican candidates in the limelight.

Yet, one must take a closer look at this primary season.

First, what everyone needs to remember about the race is that “it’s a marathon, not a sprint.” Yes, this “golden rule” has been empirically proven to yield strong candidates.

A# er being tried mul-tiple times by members of their party, Republican nom-inees will have already with-stood tough pressure needed to stand a chance against an incumbent in the November general election. Proven al-ready in the " rst-in-the-na-tion Iowa Caucus, negative advertisements can kill a can-didate.

A# er PACs supporting Mitt Romney released mil-lions of dollars in negative television advertising against Newt Gingrich, the former house speaker withered away from a strong showing to fourth place with just 13.3 percent of the vote, just three percent more than Gov. Perry.

Something else has been important about Iowa, too.

! ere was an abundance of back-and-forth specu-lation of who had won the race, Rick Santorum, or for-mer Mitt Romney. ! e for-mer Massachusetts governor had the chance the make his-tory by winning the " rst three caucus and primary contests, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, but it looks like Romney will have to set his sites on the presidency as GOP o$ cials in Iowa have de-clared the contest had no win-ner.

! e neck-and-neck results of its contests highlight the importance of a long primary season - Republicans haven’t made a decision.

Moreover, many posit that this signi" es the crumbling of the Republican Party. ! e long-term advantage is that produces the strongest and most-likely candidate to de-feat President Barack Obama in November.

Especially since Obama, for the most part, has had to result to vague advertise-ments, and released some of its " rst “anti-Romney” ads on Friday.

When asked if ‘dirty laun-dry’ coming out about current GOP candidates is a dooming curse of the long primary sea-son, Reince Priebus, Repub-lican Party Chairman noted

that it has no e% ect on the out-come of the race.

“If you look at Lee Atwater and Bob Dole, or Bush 41 and Reagan, Clinton and Obama, it’s very much part of Amer-ican history,” Priebus said Wednesday. Priebus is over-whelmingly correct.

Speci" cally looking at the most recent election, Obama had household recognition as a candidate who won in a very long " ght for the Democrat-ic nomination. On the other hand, John McCain swi# ly won in the Republican prima-ry season.

! ree years of abysmal job creation and poor macro-economic management later (looking at you, Keystone), we know who won that general election.

Instead of dreading the lack of a de" nite candidate, Republicans should be thank-ful that this process has re-moved the skeletons from the candidates’ closets. Moreover, it’s clear that this process will not only provide a quali" ed candidate to man the White House, but one who is elect-able.

! is process could quite clearly make this election sea-son—the year of the elephant.

Joe Kieklak is a freshman majoring in philosophy and journalism. His column ap-pears weekly, every Monday.

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GOP Primary: It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Over the weekend, Ap-ple came out with an interac-tive textbook program for the iPad. As I read the headline in the news, I immediately felt my heart pound – it was one more reason to convince myself to go out and buy one, even though I knew it was de" nitely not a necessity. ! ough, if e-text-books were involved, maybe, just maybe, the $500 price tag would be worth it.

As I kept reading, I was rather unpleasantly surprised. ! e e-textbook program was for high school students — because that makes sense. Wouldn’t making their inter-active textbooks available for college students be a much more lucrative market? Sure, high schools are advancing their technology, but I can’t imagine a high school using, and more importantly trust-ing high school students with,

brand new iPads. If they were to open up the market to col-lege students, however, the campus bookstore might have just a little more competition.

! is sparked a question in my mind – are e-textbooks re-ally the future, and should we buy into the idea that digital text could be just as useful as physical books? Let’s face it – for the most part we are all technology-hungry people, looking for the next shiny, new item that allows us to compart-mentalize and organize our lives into an even smaller, more lightweight space.

! ough you might not have given in to buying an e-reader yet, simply because you just can’t bring yourself to spend the few hundred dollars when there are perfectly good campus and public librar-ies in town, now that college textbooks are becoming more available, this could change our outlooks completely. Text-books can range from $10 to $150, and let’s face it – most

of them aren’t in the $10 price range. Nook o% ers up to 60 per-cent savings on e-textbooks, and Apple projected that their textbooks would be under $15 each, making the cost nothing to complain about. While the initial cost of the tablet or e-reader can empty your wallet, in the long run saving the hun-dreds of dollars each semester makes it a good student buy. And while you’re saving the money on your books, why not cut out having to deal with the hassle of the infamous “student book buy-back,” where 50 per-cent of the cost is guaranteed back but somehow it always ends up being pennies on the dollar.

As e-textbooks have grown in popularity over the past year, users now have the abil-ity to highlight, bookmark and add notes to their textbooks. Let’s be honest, you really can’t beat that. Buying into the e-reader notion would mean no more grimy, used books com-plete with rips, tears and stains.

No more lugging heavy books to class each day. Just a clean, digital slate to read, edit and study – it’s a student dream come true.

While the Apple technology isn’t there for college text yet, hopefully soon textbooks we can use will be added to their interactive program, giving more incentive for students to shell out the one time cost and save for the rest of their col-lege career. While e-textbooks aren’t where they need to be to completely cater to college stu-dent needs right now, over the next couple of months you may start to see more incentives to turn from the bookstore to the e-reader for an easy, cheap and organized way to learn. It’s time to turn to the digital age.

Emily Rhodes is the opinion editor for the Traveler. She is a journalism major.

Her column appears every other Monday.

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“[Corporate personhood is] an is-sue on top of the agenda of Occupy Wall Street,” he said. “I personally feel it’s the most important issue.”

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Becoming an esteemed fashion blogger and vintage clothing guru before your 21st birthday may seem impossible. ! at is, unless you are Brittany Arroyos.

For nearly a year, Arroyos’ highly ac-claimed blog Itty Bitty Bomb has held the number 26 spot on Teen Vogue’s Fashion Click list of Top 100 blogs. Arroyos works at Fayetteville’s Grey Dog vintage boutique and has even represented the UA as a fashion guru at collegefashionista.com. So where did this style whiz begin on the road to a highly impressive resume?

Like many of us, Arroyos dove into the college experience unsure of her major.

“I started out like every freshman. I was a biology major and then pre-med,” Arroyos said. “I just wasn’t happy, though.”

It wasn’t until Arroyos took a shot at ap-parel studies that she " nally found her niche.

With her impending graduation in 2012, Brittany has come a long way since the un-certain days of freshman year. Her blog is a favorite among fashion enthusiasts and Teen Vogue.

“I was kind of nervous at " rst,” said Ar-royos of her Internet fame. “A lot of the other featured bloggers used more expensive cloth-ing in their posts.”

A self-proclaimed “creature of comfort,” Arroyos prefers the elegant charm of a# ord-able pieces available to fashionistas of every budget.

In fact, Arroyos currently works at Grey Dog, a comely vintage boutique on College Avenue. At Grey Dog, Arroyos sells stunning antiquarian garments of many sizes, colors, styles and decades. Her favorite part of the job, however, is working for such an

outstanding boss. “Molly [Clark, owner of Grey Dog] is so

great at what she does,” Arroyos said. “She has worked under Marc Jacobs and truly has an amazing eye for fashion.”

Another perk of the vintage market is the availability and a# ordability of modern high fashion.

“Many of the runway trends of 2012 are inspired by the ‘20s and ‘70s, for instance,” Arroyos said. “At Grey Dog, you can " nd these looks without having to leave Fayette-ville.”

Brittany derives inspiration from “a little bit of everything.” ! ough a huge fan of TV personality and upcoming designer Alexa Chung, Arroyos also appreciates the simplic-ity of menswear.

“I really love Bob Dylan’s style,” she said. “What other man could pull o# polka dots?”

And with the times, the styles—they are a-changin.’ Arroyos describes her personal look as ever-transformative.

“My style is always evolving,” Arroyos said. “My look will be pseudo-tomboyish one day, and very feminine the next.”

So what is next for this already established fashion guru? Arroyos hopes to work in the trend forecasting " eld.

“I’d really like to work as a brand devel-oper,” she said.

To all the bloggers and UA fashion gurus, Arroyos o# ers words of hopeful enthusiasm.

“In the beginning, I was excited to have " ve followers, and now I have more than four hundred,” Arroyos said. “! e key is to always be comfortable with your own style.”

To learn more about Brittany and her blog, visit Ittybittybomb.com to see some of her favorite out" ts, along with DIY fashion ideas and some pretty adorable photos of her cat Zeus in a fetching scarf.

by CAITLYN SWAINStaff Writer

It's 2012, and that means con-tenders for the presidency are " ghting through the early stages of the nominating process—the pri-maries and caucuses.

In November, one of the four current Republican candidates—Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul—will face o# against incumbent Demo-cratic President Barack Obama in the general election.

Primaries and caucuses, which always coincide with a slew of de-bates and massive campaigning by the candidates, are two processes used in the United States to deter-mine who will get to compete in the presidential election as the of-" cial candidate for the Democratic and Republican parties.

“! is really determines what are the two choices you get to pick from [in the general election],” said Andrew Dowdle, a UA political science professor and editor of the American Review of Politics.

! e process is also important because it gives voters time to get to know and compare the candi-dates, explained Dowdle, who spe-cializes in the study of the presi-dential nomination process.

! e process began with the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 and ends with the Utah primaries on June 26.

Even though primaries and caucuses serve the same purpose—determining presidential candi-dates—how they reach that end is signi" cantly di# erent.

Whether a state uses a primary or caucus and when the events are held is determined by lawmakers and the political parties at the na-tional level, Dowdle said.

PrimariesPrimaries play out very

similarly to general elections, Dowdle said.

In each state voters have a designated day to stop by a poll-ing station and cast their support for a given candidate or delegate, he said, and they may also be able to vote early or submit an absentee

ballot in some cases.But di# erent states have adopt-

ed di# erent forms of primaries.Some states—New York, for

example—have closed primaries in which voters can only vote for members of the party with whom they are registered, he said.

Other states, including Arkan-sas, have open primaries: in an open primary, any registered vot-er can vote for any candidate from any party on the ballot, Dowdle said.

Most states—37 of them this election year—use primaries as their nominating process for the Presidential elections because they are less expensive and more streamlined than caucuses, accord-ing to Dowdle.

CaucusesHow caucuses work varies from

state to state and party to party. Es-sentially, though, they are deliber-ative bodies in which party mem-bers go through multiples stages of debating about and voting for del-egates and candidates.

“! e idea is there's supposed some sort of discussion or debate,” Dowdle said.

He used the Iowa Democratic Caucus to illustrate how “convolut-ed” caucuses can be.

In Iowa the process begins at the precinct level—and Iowa has nearly 1,800 precincts.

In each of the precincts, caucus-goers typically meet in college dorm basements, schools, " rehouses, or even private homes, he said.

There,

they go through two rounds of de-liberations in which they deter-mine which candidates to support and select delegates to participate in each of the state's 99 county con-ventions.

From there the process moves to the district level and the state level, where each time the num-ber of delegates is cut down until eventually 56 delegates are chosen to participate in the Democrat-ic National Convention, at which the party's o$ cial candidate is un-veiled, he explained.

However, because Obama, the Democratic incumbent, is running for re-election, the Iowa Demo-cratic Caucus was streamlined this year, according to the Des Moines Register.

For a more detailed and il-lustrated explanation of how the Iowa Caucuses work, visit the Des Moines Register's website: http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/how-to-caucus.

! e First ! ree: Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Since the general election isn't until November, some may be wondering why—or if—these " rst primaries and caucuses are important, especially considering the fact that the Iowa Caucuses only determine one or two percent of the delegates at either party's n a t i o n a l

convention.Dowdle's explanation: the " rst

few primaries and caucuses send out signals to voters, campaign contributers, the media and politi-cal elites about which candidates are viable and which are not.

“If you do well in these " rst couple of contests,” he said, “You're likely to end up getting the nomi-nation.”

Another question some people raise is this: Why do Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina go " rst in the process?

“! ey're " rst because is in the past they've gone " rst,” Dow-dle said. “It's just kind of a legacy thing.”

! e reasoning is also that these states are relatively small and easy to campaign in, he explained, which gives candidates with less money a better chance to compete in the nomination process.

Iowa has a population of only 3 million. California, on the oth-er hand, is three times the size of Iowa geographically and has a pop-ulation of 37 million; it would be a much more di$ cult place for a candidate with a smaller budget to begin campaigning, Dowdle ex-plained.

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! e process is also important because it gives voters time to get to know and compare the candi-dates, explained Dowdle, who spe-cializes in the study of the presi-

! e process began with the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 and ends with the Utah primaries on June

Even though primaries and caucuses serve the same purpose—determining presidential candi-dates—how they reach that end is

Whether a state uses a primary or caucus and when the events are held is determined by lawmakers and the political parties at the na-

In each state voters have a designated day to stop by a poll-ing station and cast their support for a given candidate or delegate, he said, and they may also be able to vote early or submit an absentee

“! e idea is there's supposed some sort of discussion or debate,” Dowdle said.

He used the Iowa Democratic Caucus to illustrate how “convolut-ed” caucuses can be.

In Iowa the process begins at the precinct level—and Iowa has nearly 1,800 precincts.

In each of the precincts, caucus-goers typically meet in college dorm basements, schools, " rehouses, or even private homes, he said.

There,

isn't until November, some may be wondering why—or if—these " rst primaries and caucuses are important, especially considering the fact that the Iowa Caucuses only determine one or two percent of the delegates at either party's n a t i o n a l

a much more di$ cult place for a candidate with a smaller budget to begin campaigning, Dowdle ex-plained.

Registering to VoteAccording to the county clerk's o$ ce,

these are the requirements for registering to vote in Washington County:

1. Be a U.S. Citizen.2. Have resided in Arkansas at least 31 days. 3. Be age 18 or turn 18 on or before the next election.4. Not be a convicted felon whose sentence has not been discharged or pardoned.5. Not be presently deemed mentally in-competent as to your ability to vote. 6. Not claim the right to vote in another county in Arkansas or another state.Washington County voter registration

forms can be downloaded at: http://www.co.washington.ar.us/Modules/ShowDocu-ment.aspx?documentid=586.

Forms may also be picked up at the county clerk's o$ ce in the county courthouse located at 280 N. College, Suite 300 Fayetteville, AR 72701.

To be able to vote in a primary or election, you must have registered at least 30 days in advance, according to the county clerk's o$ ce.

COURTESY PHOTOBrittany Arroyos, author of ittybittybomb.com, shows off an original outfit on her blog.

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Q: What did one angel say to the other?

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One grape lived for lying around in the sun. It was his “raisin d’etre.”

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BASKETBALL

! e most important member of the Arkansas Razorback basketball team " nally showed up to play

Saturday a# ernoon --the fans.! e Palace of Mid-Amer-

ica was absolutely rocking. It was like the old days again.

! e crowd was in on every possession. ! ey made a vil-lain out of Zack Novak, booing him every time he touched the ball and even a genuine roar whenever he put up an airball.

! ey made a hero out of BJ Young by taking up for him a# er the hard foul from the aforementioned No-vak. It has been a long time since I have seen a basketball game like the one Saturday.

Going into my senior year at this " ne university I have sat through some, how should I put this, terrible basketball games.

I have seen Bud Walton Are-

na, the Palace of Mid-America, turned into a ghost town. ! ere was a product on the court that the fans did not believe in.

Now all of this is starting to change, the crowds are getting bigger, the players are more exciting, the style of game is what the fans were longing for and the faces on the bench (and behind it) look familiar.

It smells like the 90’s again in Bud Walton Arena and the fans are starting to notice. ! ere is a new energy around this basketball program.

I believe it all started with the Connecticut game. ! e young Razorbacks went on the road to UConn to take on the defending nation-al champions and they gave

them a run for their money. Even though Arkansas

would ultimately end up los-ing the game by 13, in the fan’s eyes it was a lot clos-er. A feisty Arkansas team gave UConn their best shot.

UConn could never get rid of the Hogs and the fans watch-ing appreciated the e$ ort. Ar-kansas kept coming at them and kept putting the pressure back on the Huskies to make shots and try to seal the deal.

You can’t fool the fans, es-pecially in basketball. What the fans saw in Arkansas that night was a young team, without their best player and leader, never give up on the game they were playing.

! ey saw a team that wasn’t

happy with just competing and a coach who was not going to accept a moral victory. ! e fans completely respected them.

! e team has a di$ erent swagger about them this year and you can see it on the court.

Marvell Waithe is play-ing like he has been on this team since he was a freshman.

BJ Young thinks he can score every time he touch-es the ball (not since Joe Johnson has Arkansas had a freshman this ready to ball).

Mardracus Wade has stepped into the posi-tion of 3-point specialist.

Devonta Abron has not backed down one time this year to anybody.

Rickey Scott can get to

the hole whenever he wants.Michael Sanchez

has crazy hair.! is is not the same team that

was on the court a year ago. While most of the players are the same, the di$ erence in philosophy has transformed this team into what the fans have been longing for years -- an actual team that loves to play basketball.

With the fans back in the Bud this team will continue gain steam. It can be like the old days again, when Arkansas was one of the most feared places to play in college basketball.

Harrison Stan! ll is a guest columnist for ! e Ar-kansas Traveler. His col-umn appears every Monday.

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Arkansas rebounded from its worst loss of the season Tuesday against Ken-tucky in a big way Saturday, upsetting No. 19 Michigan 66-64 in front of a season-high 19,050 fans in Bud Walton Arena.

Michigan freshman point guard Trey Burke missed a clean 3-point shot at the buzzer that would have giv-en the Wolverines the victo-ry, allowing the Razorbacks to hang on for the win.

The Razorbacks (14-5) were propelled by a hot start, connecting on their first 11 shots, four of which were 3-point baskets. Fresh-man guard BJ Young once again led the Razorbacks in scoring, finishing with 15 points to go along with four rebounds and three assists.

“It was a great atmo-sphere, great fan support,” Young said. “Great team ef-fort and we got a good win.% It was a great atmosphere, really packed and I think we really fed off the crowd.”

Arkansas played in front of its largest crowd since March 1, 2009, when 19,724 fans attended its 89-67 win against Georgia.

The crowd on hand Sat-urday afternoon witnessed the first home game against a Big Ten opponent since 1982 and was supportive of the football program who was awarded the Cotton Bowl trophy at halftime as part of one of the biggest re-cruiting weekends in school history.

“I think the nation got a chance to see, Razorback fans got a chance to see, our students are back in full force,” Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said. “I feel peo-ple are excited about this team. They play a relentless style. It’s not pretty all the time, but the kids play their hearts out, and I think ra-zorback fans appreciate that. For two hours it’s entertain-ment.

“Whether you’re for the Razorbacks or Michigan, it was entertainment today.”

Arkansas led by 34-14 with less than seven minutes left in the first half. Michi-gan was able to cut the defi-cit to 46-33 by halftime.

“We couldn’t come out with a better start than what took place, making our first 11 shots, but you’re not go-ing to shoot the ball like that all night long,” Anderson said. “You hope to, and true

enough in the second half we had some opportunities.”

Michigan (15-5) jumped out on the Razorbacks to start the second half, constructing a 10-0 run, sparked by three consecu-tive baskets by sophomore forward Jordan Morgan. Morgan finished the game with 16 points and six re-bounds in 25 minutes.

A scary moment oc-curred for the Razorbacks at the 13:40 mark when Young stole the ball from a Wolver-ine player and went up for a dunk attempt. Young was slow to get up after being fouled by Michigan’s Zack Novak.

“I was going up to dunk and he knocked me out of the air,” Young said. “It was a good, hard foul,% but I hit the ground coming down.% When I did it was pretty hard hit but it’s OK. I know fouls like that hap-pened all the time.”

Novak was eventually charged with a flagrant-1 foul. Young would return to the game during a dead ball seven seconds later.

Arkansas turned the mo-mentum, building its lead back up to as much as 13 points with 6:50 remaining in the game.

Michigan went on a 12-4 run to close the gap to two, but Razorbacks freshman Hunter Mickelson scored the final two baskets for the Hogs, including the even-tual game-winner with 36.7 seconds left.

“It was a great play,” Mickelson said of the game-winning basket. “BJ had great sight hitting on that pick and roll.% He handled it well and we ended up getting the bucket and that kind of% - I don’t know if that pushed us over - but it gave us a lot of confidence going into the last stretch.”

Mickelson finished the game with 11 points to go along with four rebounds and two blocks. The forward from Jonesboro, Ark., now has a block in each of his 19 collegiate games and played a big role in the Hogs’ sec-ond win against a ranked team.

“I think a lot of things came together,” Anderson said. “To me it was fitting, maybe not how it ended, but it was fitting that we win. It went down to the last sec-ond. We were very fortu-nate, but for me it’s great to see that. It’s great to see peo-ple talking about Razorback basketball.”

RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman forward Hunter Mickelson scored two of his 11 points, including the eventual game winner, to go along with four rebounds against No. 19 Michigan and the Hogs 66-64 win over the Wolverines. Mickelson also extended his streak to 19 games in which he has blocked at least one shot.

Hogs Hold On Against Wolverines by ZACH TURNER

Asst. Sports Editor

A   school-­record   crowd  of  5,537  fans,  including  vis-­iting  football   recruits,   foot-­ball   and   basketball   players,  celebrated   the   10th   anni-­versary   of   Arkansas’   gym-­nastics   program   Friday   in  Barnhill  Arena.  Co-­coaches   Mark   and  

Rene  Cook  have  built  a  pro-­gram   that   has   produced   28  All-­Americans,   seven   con-­secutive   top-­15   finishes,  three   top-­10   finishes   and  two  NCAA  regional  wins.This   season,   the   cur-­

rent   team   has   achieved   a  program-­best   No.   3   rank-­ing.   The   Razorbacks   post-­ed   a   school-­record   score  in   dispatching   No.   25   LSU  197.225-­196.325  on  Friday.“They   respect   what   the  

girls  have  done  before  them,  they   have   a   lot   of   pride   in  the  program  and  I  think  they  just  wanted   show   off  we’re  proud   too   and   here’s   what  we’re  doing  now  and  just  do  a  good   job   for   the   alumni,”  Rene  Cook  said.The   current   team   got  

the  opportunity   to   show  off  

for   alumni   in   front   of   eight  members   from   the   original  2003  team  and  13  other  Ar-­kansas   gymnastics   alumni.  The   anniversary   allowed  the  Cookes  to  catch  up  with  the   former   athletes   they  coached.“We   went   through   all  

the   classes   and   said   a   lit-­tle   thing   about   each   person  on   Facebook,”   Rene   Cook  said.   “One   of   the   girls   was  like   ‘Wow   you   remember  every   single   person.’   Well,  yeah.  You  know  we  recruit-­ed  them  all.”Getting   to   celebrate   the  

past   and  present   in   front   of  a   record   crowd   just   sweet-­ened  the  night.“Having   all   the   fans  

their   and   breaking   a   record  with   attendance   helped   a  lot,”   sophomore   Katherine  Grable   said.   “It  was   just   so  amazing   I   couldn’t   ask   for  more.  The   crowd  was   there  cheering   with   us.   It   was   a  great   feeling   having   their  support.”Grable   and   her   team-­

mates   are   off   to   a   5-­0   start  this  season    and  all  five  wins  have   come   against   ranked  opponents.

G y m ’ B a c ks C e l e b r a t e D e c a d e

by HARRISON STANFILStaff Writer

GYMNASTICS

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas co-coach Rene Cook and the Razorbacks Gymnastics team celebrated their 10-year anniversary with a school-record victory against No. 25 LSU.

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERArkansas co-coach Mark Cook has helped build a program that has fi nished in the top 15 seven consecutive seasons and won two NCAA regionals with his wife Irene.

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