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What's Inside: Faculty, staff and fellow students offer words of wisdom to incoming freshman students. Buzz Aldrin makes a stop in Little Rock to promote his latest book. A preview of the upcoming soccer season, the first under new head coach Adrian Blewitt. Local bands, food and entertainment!
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Resident Assistant, Renata Shirlee, supervises as paretns help students get settled into their new home at West Hall. Vehicles lined the parking lot during freshman move-in on Aug. 14.
UALR will be closed September 2, 2013 (Labor Day)
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Freshman FrenzyThe time of taking exams
and making new friends has arrived once again. For most freshmen students, this is their fi rst encounter with the college experience. UALR stu-dents and professors have of-fered some advice to ensure all incoming students succeed, both academically and social-ly.
Dustin Rhodes, a junior Early Childhood Education major, suggests that the most important way to get off to a good start is by simply attend-ing class.
“Don’t skip class,” Rhodes said. “I’ve been to a class where I thought I knew ev-erything and could pass eas-ily, so I thought I’d skip some. I skipped a few and ended up making not the best grade I wanted to.”
Professors agree that atten-dance is crucial. Sherry Rob-ertson, director of fi rst-year composition, insists that show-ing up for class is a necessary fi rst step.
“You have to come to class even when you do not do
your homework, you’ve got to come,” Robertson said. “Some-times, I think students feel hes-itancy to show up if they are not prepared. And even if they are not prepared, we want them to come.”
But attending class is only half the battle. Getting to know the professor is a must, and Robertson says it is even ap-propriate for the student to let the professor know what grade he or she expects to earn in the class. Such conversations are sure to place a student on the professors good side because it shows the student takes educa-tion seriously.
“Come to me the fi rst week of school and say to me ‘I’m re-ally trying as hard as I can to get a B in this class, at least a B. I really want to do well and I want to have some type of ac-tion plan for me to do well.’”
John Kirk, professor of his-tory, insists that getting to know the teacher can occur even before the fi rst day of class.
“Go to the department web-page,” Kirk said. "Take a look at what they’ve published which will give you a good idea of their own background.
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Per the request of the UALR Diversity Council, the UALR Institute of Govern-ment Survey Research Cen-ter conducted a campus wide survey about faculty, staff, and student sentiments on diversity. The results of the study were released in June.
The research began Oc-tober 3, 2012 with a self-ad-ministered survey presented to Faculty via web. Accord-ing to the report, Faculty is defi ned as current full-time faculty.
The Staff, non full-time faculty, subsequently re-ceived the survey. Both Fac-ulty and Staff participants underwent personal inter-views. Finally, students were given the survey during the spring semester of 2013.
“After updating and clean-ing the data, the population database consisted of 494 eli-gible faculty members, 1,046 staff members and 12,295 students.”
The fi ndings from the
Campus survey reveals perceptions on diversityKenDrell Collins
study reveal how the three groups perceive issues such as race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.
The results suggest that Faculty may be slightly un-aware of how students per-ceive issues of diversity. When asked to gauge how comfortable students would feel talking about diversity issues in class, faculty said only 18 percent would be “very comfortable.” On the contrary, the survey shows that 62 percent of students are actually “very comfort-able” with discussing these matters in a classroom set-ting.
Another major fi nding is that nearly 25 percent of Fac-ulty and Staff said they have experienced unfair treat-ment on the basis of age, race, disability, gender, reli-gion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
“Of the Faculty who report having experienced unfair treatment, 51 percent cite unfair treatment was based upon Gender. Of the Staff who report unfair treatment, 56 percent indicate it was
due to Race.”As for students, only 15
percent reported personal experiences of unfair treat-ment but 20 percent claim to have personally witnessed such treatment. Additionally, over half of the students who experienced unfair treat-ment fi rsthand stated that it was due to race.
The report states, “Nearly one in fi ve students indi-cate that they ‘do not know’ where to go to report unfair treatment at UALR.” Some indicated that they would inform a Dean, others said a professor or faculty mem-ber.
Uncertainty also exist in regard to how the University deals with discrimination issues. About 50 percent of students said they were un-certain whether UALR ad-equately addresses incidents relating to race or gender.
Moreover, 23 percent of students said they were “not very confi dent” discrimina-tory situations would be re-solved. Sentiments among Faculty and Staff mirror those of students, with near-ly 20 percent and 26 percent, respectively, feeling “not very confi dent.”
Faculty and Staff were also asked their position on policy regarding benefi ts for the spouse of a university employee. About 68 percent of Faculty and 54 percent of Staff are in favor of benefi ts for opposite-sex domestic partners.
An even higher number, 76 percent of Faculty and 55 percent of Staff, indi-cated that the same benefi ts should be given to same-sex domestic partners. These results suggest that there is consensus among UALR fac-ulty and staff that employ-ment benefi ts should be the same irrespective of sexual preference.
To read the UALR Campus Diversity report in its entire-ty visit ualr.edu/chancellor/diversity/.
Illustration by Byron Buslig The � gure depicts student, faculty, and sta� con� dence in the University’s ability to solve discrimination issues on campus.
Freshman Diana Arias participated in the CLC “Reach 13,000” kickball tournament. The event, which took place Aug. 18, is meant to serve as a starting point in collecting canned food to distribute to the Arkansas Food Bank and the Sta� Senate Helping Hands program.
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It’s time to consider cost-e� ective alternatives to textbooks
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What do you do in order to save money on textbooks?
“Make friends with people who have the book for the class and study with them.”
- Mark Hulsey
“I either rent or buy my books from Textbook Brokers because it is relatively close to UALR. Ama-zon is also a great option.”
- Holly Warg
“@TheUALRForum To save money, I use sites like Chegg to rent! $400 books costs me $30 for the semester! Also, I buy ebooks for iPad!”
- @PaulaSparks87
Photography EditorDallen Shields
“In order to save money on textbooks, I do a number of things. I ask my friends to see if I can get some textbooks free or at least very cheap. And I also shop around by comparing prices at Amazon, Chegg, Barnes and Noble, and Textbook Brokers.”
- Jessica Kay Taylor
“To save money for my text books i will do a list of things serially.
1. Try to fi nd the text book in UALR Library, then lend it.2. If not available then set a re-quest to have it.3. If still do not get it then try to lend it from others who has it and did not need it.”
- Rafsan Jani Rafi
Just like Pavlov’s dogs, we have been trained to associate textbooks with college necessity.
Like tuition rates, textbooks have skyrocketed. Since 1978, the cost of college textbooks has risen 812 percent. Yes, that number is correct: 812 percent. That number is pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index.
Nearly all students have been cajoled into thinking physical text-books are another must-purchase item every semester.
It’s 2013, people. The bigger question is why are we still buy-ing them? Or at the very least, why haven’t they improved?
We are living in the digital age and most information in our text-books can be found on the Internet. Not only that, most of the informa-tion can be accessed for free or at greatly-reduced prices.
What if a professor told his or her class: “I’m going to require you all to NOT purchase a textbook for my class”?
Can you imagine? The savings in one classroom alone would be ob-scene.
How about we put it on the pro-fessors to fi nd trustworthy, reliable and practical information online that supplements what they teach you in their classroom.
In this scenario, the professor would send out an email to his or her students with links to reli-
able and trustworthy websites that supplement what was taught in the classroom. The professor would be happy that the students are engag-ing in the material. The students would be ecstatic that the professor is trying to appeal to them on a me-dium on which they spend the ma-jority of their time.
If a professor did not feel com-fortable linking students to some-one else’s published material, they could be encouraged to build their own website of virtual supplements. It would be graphics-heavy, littered with YouTube-embedded videos, podcasts, links to Twitter and Face-book and more.
Perhaps the reason higher educa-tion is faltering is because we are catering to the professor and not to the student.
Perhaps this is wishful thinking. But perhaps this could be reality at some point
What is factual, at the moment, is that we are still buying expensive textbooks; however, there are ways to alleviate those costs while we wait for a better solution.
We have compiled a list of alter-natives to buying textbooks:
Rental programs are a sure-fi re way to save some money.
In most cases, especially in your general education classes, once you’ve fi nished a class, it is likely that you’ll never open that textbook again. (This could be because the same information -- or likely, more up-to-date information -- could be
found much more quickly on the Internet.) So, why not just rent the textbook for a few months and then turn it back in?
If you feel it’s necessary to keep your dust collector (err, textbook), buy it used and buy it from an on-line retailer.
What could be even better is to fi nd a buddy in your class, go in to-gether, rent a textbook and split the total cost for even more savings.
Our attention and gaze is affi xed to tiny glass screens called smart-phones and tablets, so maybe some-one will realize that and make our learning and studying an interac-tive and engaging experience.
Learning and studying from a textbook is so 1800s. Let’s bring our studying and learning into the digi-tal age.
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Chief Graphic DesignerByron Buslig
“I usually try to search around online at fi rst on Amazon, eBay, and Chegg. If I am unable to fi nd a decent price, I use Textbook Brokers because they are cheaper than the campus bookstore. I also try to rent versus buy because it is generally cheaper. My husband and I saved about $500 renting versus buying this semester.”
- Lisa Crawford
“I also shop and compare prices at many places. However, half.com usually wins out for the cheaper prices. This time I am going to try kindle versions of two books! I usually save a substantial amount every semester.”
- Ashlea Collins
“I order my books from amazon using a student account. It allows me to try amazon prime free for 6 months with free two day ship-ping. I can order a book Monday and have it Wednesday.”
- Jerrell K.L. Hardnett
“I also search around online. My two favorite websites are Ama-zon and chegg. If the book is real expensive then I will rent verses buying. I also sell my books back to these websites and they pay more than local bookstores.”
- Cynthia Wills Shuffi eld
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Congratulations to Lisa Crawford! Because she replied to our question on Facebook or Twitter, she was eligible to win two tickets to see Bill Maher in Little Rock on Sept. 14. Her name was randomly drawn as the winner of the tickets!
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UALR has shown time and time again its commitment to creating a facilitative environment condu-cive to learning. The big changes at the Disability Resource Center are upholding this commitment by improving accommodated testing services.
The testing accommodation al-lows students with disabilities an extended testing time in a reduced distraction environment. Before when a student at the center need-ed testing accommodations, the professor and student would have to work out where and when the test would be administered. The test would usually be given in pro-fessors’ offi ces or departmental conference rooms. Not only does this process make testing a hassle to schedule, but also the testing lo-cation is unpredictable.
Now with UALR’s Testing Servic-es’ collaboration, these accommo-dated tests will be administered at the Testing Services in the Student Services Center. Sharon Downs, director of the Disability Resource Center, put it best when she said the new facility “creates an en-vironment that tests a student’s knowledge not his/her disability.”
“I think professors have done a marvelous job over the years doing the best they could, but there are so many variables that are out of their control […] this take all those variables out of the picture so stu-dents will have a very predictable environment for testing where stu-dents don’t have to worry about a crying babies or construction be-cause the whole design is for test-ing.”
Students will now not only have a reduced distraction envi-ronment, but also a consistent, predictable testing environment, which will allow complete focus on the test instead of testing pro-cedures. There are tables with car-rels, which are designed to block a student’s peripheral vision, and, therefore, reduce distractions in surroundings. There are private rooms available as well for stu-
Big Changes at the Disability Resource CenterMehr-Zahra Shah
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dents who for example need facili-ties like voice recognition software to write. The change is not just benefi cial for students. Faculty members will no longer have to spend time coordinating and proc-toring exams.
The faculty notifi cation system for student accommodation has also gone through a major change; it has gone digital. Before, stu-dents with disabilities had to fi ll out a form available online with information such as the name and course number of their classes. The students would then have to print out the form on a letter head, which they would need to get from the Disability Resource Center of-fi ce, before they could fi nally hand deliver it to their professors. This whole system felt like an added burden for some students. As a result, avoiding the entire process seemed much easier than having to deal with such a lengthy, ardu-ous process. The new faculty no-tifi cation system has, in fact, been enabling for students due to its easy to use interface. For student James Rowe the new system was
Do your homework on a professor.”Kirk also encourages students to de-
clare a major early. He cautions, how-ever, that one's major should be chosen based on the student's interest, not a career.
“The secret to success, really, at a university, is to do what you enjoy," said Kirk. "If you do what you enjoy, you will be more engaged in it and you will be more successful at it ... Find out what you're good at. Follow your inter-est. That can lead you to interesting roads.
Even after discovering an academic niche, it can sometimes be intimidating to enter a classroom without knowing anyone. For this reason, it is important to reach out to classmates.
College algebra professor Rebecca Streett insists there are plenty of ways to break the ice.
“Realize that most everyone is in your same boat,” Streett said. “Ask someone to go get coffee with you.”
Streett understands that some sub-jects can seem diffi cult or even bor-ing at fi rst, especially those that have caused problems for a student in the past.
“Instead of just rolling your eyes, ask your teacher – not in a sarcastic way – ‘Tell me when can I use this?' If we can make that connection, it makes it easier for you," Streett said.
What about surviving on a social lev-el? Getting involved on campus by join-ing an organization is one way to meet people who share your hobbies and in-terests. But beware of overcommitting.
Life in the dorm room can be just as challenging as life in the classroom. Gortrell Cox, a senior criminal justice major, is a third year Resident Assistant who has seen it all. His advice to resi-dents is to embrace the opportunity of living on campus.
“Be open to the experience,” Cox said. "Be respectful to your roommates and everyone around you. Just treat them how you want to be treated." He also recommends that students consid-er a room change in the fi rst two weeks if there is a problem that seems unre-solvable.
Another golden rule to social success is prioritization. Work must come fi rst, and selectivity is vital when search-ing for friends. Hanging out with the wrong crowd can quickly turn a moti-vated student into a mediocre one, Cox said, and students should be wary of these individuals.
"They’re just here for the college ex-perience, but they’re not really here to graduate," Cox said. "They’re not here for the long haul.”
Physical health is equally vital to so-cial and intellectual well-being. Spend-ing an hour at the fi tness center can be the perfect stress reliever during a semester fi lled with assignments to complete and deadlines to meet. Like-wise, personal counseling is offered in the Student Services Center for those having diffi culty adjusting to college. Expressing one's feelings orally can be useful therapy for times when the in-evitable case of homesickness arises.
Ultimately, keeping life in perspec-tive is a great way to maintain a positive outlook throughout the school year. During the 2013 Freshman Convocation ceremony, Laura Smoller, professor of history, told students things she wish she had known at the start of her col-legiate career - one of which is savoring these special years.
“You are lucky. There are people around the world who will never have the chances that lay before you right now. And even in our own state of Arkansas, only about a quarter of the population holds a college degree.”
UALR Chancellor Joel Anderson of-fered a nugget of wisdom at the convo-cation as well.
“The most valuable advice I can give you as you start freshman year is this: During your fi rst semester, hit the books. Study hard. Go to class. Do your assignments. If you make good grades in your fi rst semester, the odds are you will be on top of it all the way to the fi n-ish line.”
empowering; he said “This is the fi rst time I have ever done any-thing for UALR on the computer by myself without having anyone help me. It was very gratifying and uplifting” (used with permis-sion).
The new system has cut down on this laborious process because of the new interface created by UALR’s IT services. When stu-dents now go onto the link on the Disability Resource Center website, their class schedules are immediately available, since the link automatically uploads their schedules from BOSS. Therefore, students simply have to select which professors they would like to send a notifi cation. Professors are emailed the notifi cation im-mediately and a copy of the noti-fi cation is sent to both the student and the Disability Resource Cen-ter.
More information about the ac-commodated testing procedure and faculty notifi cation process is available on the UALR’s Disability Resource Center website.
continued from page 3, Freshman
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FLASHThe 2014 American Society of Comparati ve Law Confer-ence will be held Oct. 10-12 at the UALR William H. Bowen School of law.
The Bowen Alumni Schol-arship Luncheon will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel Grand Ballroom on Friday, Oct. 12.
Students pursing an E-Com-merce degree or taking at least two courses at UALR Benton Center are exempt from the First-Time Fresh-men Housing policy.
A welcome recepti on for Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22. The event will take place in the Dean’s gallery of the Bowen School of Law.
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Kickball kicks o� Reach 13,000 Brady Jackson
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Reach 13,000, a canned food drive led by the Chancellor’s Leadership Corps that aims to collect 13,000 canned goods for the Arkansas Food Bank or a similar mission led by the Staff Senate, will be-gin with kickball Aug. 18 and last until Nov. 15.
The tournament will last from 5 to 11 p.m., though the CLC will begin col-lecting food and money at 4 p.m. Dinner will be provided from 5 to 7 p.m., the event webpage said.
The CLC took over the program in 2011, at which time they could only play kickball in one fi eld. Last year, they had access to more fi elds, so they could have more teams. This enabled them to col-lect more cans, because 60 dollars or cans are required to register a team. Last year, the CLC also made participa-tion mandatory for all its members.
The CLC will celebrate Constitution Day, anniversary of the 1787 signing of the constitution, Sept. 17 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Donaghey Student Cen-ter food court and Diamond Cafe. CLC members will serve ice cream and apple pies for one dollar or four canned good donations. Students can also hear music from a disc jockey, receive miniature constitutions or fi ll out a voter registra-tion form.
Reach 13,000 will conclude with Bat-tle of the Talents, a student-organized and led talent show, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. CLC wants to bring in 3,000 food items at Battle of the Talents alone. Admission is 10 Kool-Aid drink mix packets or ra-men noodles, the event webpage said. Tryouts for Battle of the Talents will take place Oct. 21. Performance applications are on the CLC website under 2K13K.
Additionally, there are canned good drop boxes in every department, and
the department that collects the most cans by the drive’s end will get a pizza party. The organization that brings in the most cans will get a pizza party, as well.
“If everyone on campus would just give one can, we could reach our goal of 13,000,” said Nick Steele, CLC coordina-tor.
Reach 13,000 was conceived by the Student Government Association in 2009. It was originally called Reach 12,00o because that was the university’s population at that time.
When the CLC took over the drive in 2011, it collected 6,000 cans but did not reach their goal. Last year, however, the organization surpassed their goal by collecting 14,000 cans.
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Book tour lands astronaut in Little Rock
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to ever step foot on the moon, visited Little Rock Aug. 14, when he made a stop at the Robinson Center Music Hall to promote his latest book.
Photo by Jacob Ellerbee
“Magnifi cent desolation.”Those are the words Dr. Buzz
Aldrin, the second human being to ever step foot on another world, used to characterize the moon when he gave a lecture at the Rob-inson Center Music Hall August 14. The lecture was sponsored by the Clinton School and the Clinton Foundation.
A crowd of more than 2,500 people sat in their seats, seem-ingly breathless as they listened to the words of the man who helped put the United States on the celes-tial map.
The former astronaut provided a fi rst-hand account of what it’s like to leave the atmosphere of this planet and land on surface of another. Aldrin, 83, was joined on stage with Leonard David, the co-author of his latest book, “Mis-sion to Mars: My vision for space exploration.”
As Aldrin guided the crowd through various details of that celebrated and revered era of the United States space program, he was quick to shift to the present – a time when “$65 million per pas-senger” is paid to the Russians, so American astronauts can “travel to our $100 billion station.”
Aldrin said the National Aero-nautics and Space Administra-tion receives about one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget. He estimates that in NASA’s prime, circa 1967, the program received approximately 3.5-4 percent of the federal budget. Aldrin said NASA can’t do the things they want to do when they receive such a low per-centage of federal funds.
One way to help fund the vari-ous space projects brewing at NASA is to forge partnerships with other countries, Aldrin said. “Re-invite the Chinese to come to the space station. Right now, we buy rides on Russian rockets.”
“We have to open the door wide-ly,” Aldrin said. “I think space is
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It happened at Columbine. It hap-penewd at Sandy Hook. It happened at Virginia Tech. Could it happen at UALR?
Active shooters are killers who target confi ned, populated areas, like malls or schools, a Department of Homeland Security Manual said. They kill indis-criminately, often with fi rearms. Most of these attacks end within 15 minutes, it said.
Edward L. Smith, campus chief of police and director of public safety at-tended at FBI-sponsored tabletop dis-cussion about active shooters in April. These shooters are usually young – 28 is the average age – and overwhelm-ingly male, he said. They generally act alone or in small groups, he added.
“I don’t think we’re anymore at risk than anyplace else,” he said. “I don’t think we’re anymore at risk than Mc-Cain Mall or an elementary school.”
“At the moment, I’m not too worried about it because we haven’t had much social upheaval lately,” said Sarah Pen-tecost, a junior technical writing and international business major. “It’s kind of one of those situations where you don’t know what you would do until it happens,” she said.
Pentecost added that she was con-cerned that campus police might not be able to handle an active shooter because of their limited numbers and resources. Smith, however, said they would be ready.
“We’d have to be; that’s our job,” he said, adding that he was considering having a table top discussion at UALR that would inform people about what to do if an attack happened.
An active shooter would test the de-partment’s resources, because there may only be four or fi ve offi cers on campus at a time, Smith said. Because of this, they would call local police departments, the FBI, Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services and the Little Rock Fire Department for back up, he said.
Campus police would quarantine the campus and send out campus alerts. They would also immediately try to stop the threat by taking out the shooter, Smith said.
“After Columbine, there was a para-digm shift in how law enforcement approached shooters,” he said. Before Columbine, offi cers waited for backup before taking action, he noted. Now, even in small groups, police will try to stop the active shooter; every second
could cost more lives.“People think that’s nuts, but that’s
what we signed up for,” Smith said.There would be other considerations
for law enforcement, as well. Detec-tives would try to identify the shooter, Smith said. The Department of Com-munication would help set up a media station to keep the press and public in-formed, he said. Traffi c control would also be a consideration, he added, be-cause police would block campus en-trances and exits.
If there is an active shooter, people should call Department of Public Safe-ty, or call 911 and ask the dispatcher to alert the department, Smith said. They should give them information about where the shooters are and what weapons they are using, he said. They should also give their contact informa-tion in case police need a witness.
Depending on where they are in re-lation to the shooter, people can either “shelter in place” by securing their area, or they can try to escape, Smith said. As a last resort, people may try to disarm the shooter, the DHS man-ual said. When police arrive, people should follow their instructions, stay calm and keep their hands visible, it said.
Students can adopt a “see something – say something” attitude to help pre-vent shootings, Smith said. If someone is dwelling on violent thoughts, let po-lice know, he said, because there are always warning signs. For example, if someone seems unconcerned about the future, that could be a warning sign.
“A lot of people will say they just snapped. No, they didn’t just snap,” Smith said. Active shooters follow a particular “pathway to violence” that consists of dwelling, planning and re-searching before they prepare for and carry out the attack, he said.
Smith said he did not believe strict-er gun control would prevent active shooters.
“It’s not realistic considering how many weapons are out there in this country,” he said. Also, guns are not the only weapons used in these at-tacks, he noted.
“[These attacks] are not occurring because we have guns; they’re occur-ring because we have mental health is-sues in this nation that we’re refusing to address,” Pentecost said.
“We defi nitely need to put out fl yers. We have fl yers for everything at UALR, but one thing we don’t have fl yers for is the fact that we have a mental health clinic here – we don’t have fl yers for that,” she said. “I know a lot of people
who need mental help but don’t have insurance and don’t know that exists.”
“I think our mental health system in this country can play a major role in mitigating some of this,” Smith said. He added that because it can be diffi -cult getting potential shooters into the system, it may be best to alert police if someone seems threatening.
“What mental health center is avail-
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the way to do it. And relations on the surface would be much better,” he added.
Aldrin displayed a chart, com-plete with timetables and descrip-tions of goals, of what needs to oc-cur so that the United States can reach Mars by 2035. Some of those steps involved setting up a lunar base to act as sort of an extended launch pad to Mars’ moons and eventually the Red Planet itself.
Before his time on stage ended, Aldrin invited questions from the audience. The inquiries ranged from how space has affected his body to his reasoning for punching Bart Sibrel (“He called me a liar and a cheat. What do you expect me to do,” Aldrin said to laughter and applause.)
Before exiting the stage and tak-ing a seat in the lobby to sign cop-
able 24/7 and makes house calls the way police do?” he asked.
It happened at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro. It happened 84 times in the fi rst decade of the 21st century, a Texas State University study found. Could it happen at UALR?
If it does, campus police say they will be ready.
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ies of his new book, Aldrin com-mented on two brief videos that were shown to the crowd.
One shows Aldrin talking about the two things he enjoys most, “space exploration and hip-hop.” Aldrin is seen in the video laying down rap lyrics in a studio with the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg (now known as Snoop Lion).
The other video teased an un-released simulation-based video game called “Space Program Man-ager,” which will apparently let us-ers experience what it took to get the space program to its 1960s and 70s glory.
Aldrin is one of only 12 human beings to walk on the surface of the moon. His new book is avail-able now.
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PAULINE MOTHU
French Pressed
Everyone has a story - let me tell you mine. My name is Pau-line and I am an international student from Orléans, France, studying at UALR for the third year now. Things here are sure-ly different than in France.
Imagine you are a French student who just graduated high school and is about to go to col-lege in Orléans.
It is July and you just fi nished high school, but you already have to register for college and decide on your major. Make the right choice; it will determine the department you will be in, as well as the schedule you will have for the next three years!
Earning a bachelor’s degree in France takes three years in-stead of four, like in the U.S., be-cause students only take classes related to their major. They do not have required classes be-cause, if they are in college, they were supposed to have mastered topics like composition, history and geography in high school. Depending on what you decide to study, you will have between 20 and 35 hours a week. It is dif-ferent from UALR, isn’t it?
Now it is September and you have chosen your major, paid the $500 tuition fees and have your schedule for the semester. You are ready to go!
All the classes are in the same building, so you cannot get lost. It is the fi rst day of class. You go to your fi rst class with the other students. Unlike classes at UALR, this class is composed of 40 students. This is a small classroom here; some courses have more than a hundred stu-dents. The teacher explains how the school year will be: you will have two midterms and fi nals in January and May. You need a grade of 10/20 to pass (50/100 in the US). But the most impor-tant thing for students is that you will have one week of vaca-tion in October, one in February, one in April and two weeks for Christmas!
The fi rst day of class in France is quite similar to a fi rst day of class at UALR. Teachers take at-tendance; for most classes, this will be the only time attendance is taken. Most teachers do not
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take attendance because they assume that students are old enough and responsible enough to decide whether or not they go to class.
After taking attendance, teachers explain how the class will be. Most classes are lec-tures, and there is not a lot of discussion between the teacher and the students. Be prepared to take a lot of notes - they will be helpful for the fi nals! Also, do not use a pencil for the fi nals like most students do at UALR. I had a teacher in high school who warned us he could erase what was written in pencil, and then not grade the paper. Use a pen instead or a fountain pen, like most of the French students.
Teachers in France are more severe concerning grading than instructors are at UALR. Let’s be honest; it is not too diffi cult to get an A at UALR, whereas it can be challenging to get 10/20 in France. Getting 13/20 (65/100 in the US) is considered to be a good grade, and it is almost im-possible to get more than 16/20 (80/100). Though passing a class can be challenging, that is why there are another session of fi -nals in June for students who did not pass some classes. That way, they do not have to take it again the following semester. Fi-nals are taken in an amphithe-ater and are anonymous to pre-vent any kind of discrimination.
Enough talking about school. What can you do during your leisure time? Most students like to go to one of the four cafete-rias (called the Bistros) to have a snack or coffee, or to simply sit down and talk. Others like to walk around the lake and watch the swans. You can also play sports such as basketball, soc-cer, tennis and handball as well as volleyball and judo.
When they have a longer break, many students go down-town. It is very easy to go there - you can take your car - but most of the students take pub-lic transportation because it is cheaper and more convenient. To go downtown from the uni-versity, you just need to take the tramway for 30 minutes. While there, you can go shopping, see a movie, eat, have a drink or simply hang out with friends.
You are now all set up for col-lege!
The thing that’s missing about going to college in Orlé-ans is the feeling of belonging to a community. There are no teams, mascots or big school events, but there is a lake with swans, and you spend all your classes with the same people, which is nice.
Whether you study in the U.S. or in France, college can be fun and you can make longtime friends!
A bientôt pour de nouvelles aventures! (See you later for other adventures!)
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Hang out at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry aka The Metro BCM across from South Hall. We're usually either eating good food or singing songs of praise. Either way, good times!
There's a scripture (Matthew 6:34) that says: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." And it's true. Post-graduation is a long time from now, and I will worry about that once I get there.
For me, my involvement in SGA is giving me the leadership opportunity of a lifetime. I'm able to participate on administrative committees and play an integral role in the decision-making pro-cesses on campus. Not to mention, I get a pretty nice office.
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FeaturesAugust 22- September 3, 2013ualr.edu/forum 7Student sets his sight, hopes on college wrestling team
Steven Savagecontributing Writer
Some have said being able to see and having no vision in life is worse than being blind.
A UALR student is us-ing his disability as a way to push himself to work harder than those around him and start an organization on cam-pus. Anything junior Eric Yarberry may lack due to his inability to see he compensates for through self-determination and passion to accomplish his goals.
Yarberry is a blind stu-dent that started the first UALR wrestling club. The metropolitan university currently does not have a wrestling team in its ath-letic department.
Yarberry said he decid-ed to create the organiza-tion because it is a sport he is passionate about and would like to see flourish as an intramural sport at UALR.
“Wrestling is growing as a sport in the state of Arkansas, and we would just like to build the wrestling atmosphere into affordable univer-sities,” Yarberry said. “Since I am visually im-paired, catching a foot-ball or hitting a baseball were never things I got to enjoy.”
Students do not need to have any wrestling expe-
rience to join, but if they do, that would be a big help to beginners. Yar-berry said he welcomes anyone who is willing to learn and share their wisdom about the sport.
At the first interest meeting, Yarberry said many people were “hesi-tant to stop and ask ques-tions, but once they re-alized the club would require no experience, and starts fall semes-
“It’s too early to tell, but I think what he’s setting out to accomplish is going to be great.”
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ter, they were excited to join.”
Yarberry plans to have wrestling practice twice a week. “I want the club to be for those who want to get in and stay in shape,” Yarberry said. “I would like to fill all fourteen weight classes within the club that way we can look forward to competing against clubs in neighboring states.”
Weight classes are divi-
sions of competition used to pit competitors against someone their own size.
Yarberry said the road to building a club from the ground up was tough, but support from family, friends and faculty kept him going.
“The staff is generally pleased to see a new club on the horizon,” Yar-berry said. “My family and friends knew that I would be the one to start a wrestling club some-where. UALR just hap-pened to be the place.”
Access consultant of the Disability Resource Center Reed Claiborne advised him through the process of getting his organization started. He had experience with starting a sports club during his college years and was happy to help Yarberry.
“You could tell Eric missed wrestling from high school and wanted to continue it here, so he enthusiastically did the research and we found an organization that was willing to give us some
Eric Yarberry is working diligently to establish the school’s � rst ever wres-tling club. Yarberry said the club is open to all levels of experience.
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Great White vocalist out to ‘prove everybody wrong’
“This is what I do. This is why God put me here: to be a singer. I fought and fought and fought to get back and I wasn’t going to take “no” for an an-swer.”
Jack Russell is no stranger to over-coming adversity in his storied career as vocalist for Great White, a band whose hit album, “…Twice Shy,” went 2x multi-platinum within six months of being released in April of 1989.
In the late 1970s, Russell served time in prison for his role in an armed rob-bery.
In 2003, Russell was on stage per-forming at a venue in Rhode Island called the Station, when pyrotechnics sparked a fi re in the ceiling, engulfi ng the building and killing 100 people.
In 2010, Russell’s body began to fail him after more than three decades of decadent life on the road as a rock star, according to a press release issued by his band members on their website last year. He was later diagnosed with a perforated bowel, which required him to be in the hospital for three months.
“My wife...she really pushed me to stay strong,” Russell said by phone while on the road in Sturgis, South Dakota. “There were times when I couldn’t even walk. I was literally 137 pounds, I had been in the hospital for three months with a colostomy bag and I came out and I couldn’t even stand up.”
“[My wife] had to pick me up, put me in the shower, wash me, change my bag, put me in the bed, feed me, clothe me, everything,” he said.
Russell said he did not want to go on disability and said he was determined to get back out on the road.
“I just pushed myself. I went to phys-ical therapy, started going to the gym, just really really worked and worked and worked at it.”
As Russell recovered and began to show signs of being in touring shape, he learned that his band mates drafted a laundry list of conditions that he had to meet before returning to the band, most of them dealing with restricted drugs and alcohol use.
During a televised interview on VH1 Classic’s That Metal Show, Russell said the animosity between the two camps stemmed from him being injured and costing the band some money. On the television program, Russell relayed the
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info that his doctor told him, which was that he may be on pain medication for the rest of his life.
Finally, Russell said he would be tak-ing the band name, Great White, and touring as “Jack Russell’s Great White.” His old band members have been tour-ing under the original name of the band, but with a new vocalist. Russell asked the band not tour under the name Great White and eventually sued his former band mates in March 2012.
However, this past July, various me-dia outlets reported the band settled the lawsuit regarding usage of the name Great White. The two camps are agree-ing to let both sides use their current touring names: Great White and also Jack Russell's Great White.
“I’m over it. I hold no grudges, man. I’m just glad it’s over. I’m glad we decid-ed to agree to split the name because we all worked on it, we were all a big part of it and we all deserve to make a living off of it,” Russell told The UALR Forum.
Jack Russell’s Great White launched their current tour, “A Pirates Life,” in July and will make a stop in Little Rock on August 27 at The Revolution Music Room.
Russell said this is not his fi rst time stopping in Little Rock and in fact, he ac-tually recalls the fi rst time he and Great White performed in Arkansas in 1984:
“We were on our fi rst tour in 1984. The tour manager is telling us about this girl in Little Rock, Connie [Hamzy, a local woman who wrote a book in the mid-90s, alleging her sexual encoun-ters with roadies and famous rock stars when they performed in Little Rock]. And we’re going, ‘Oh yeah, the [Grand Funk Railroad] song,’ you know? We’re thinking: he’s pulling our leg, that’s not a real chick, that’s a song. And he goes ‘No, that’s a real chick.’”
“So, we pull up to the venue and there were like 20 guys standing outside in line in front of the tour bus door. And I looked at him and I go ‘Connie?’ He goes, ‘Yep.’ And I go, ‘God, you weren't kidding!’”
“So, we got to meet later on and actu-ally we sat and talked for a while. She was a second grade school teacher and she had a little protégé out with her that was going take over for her when she re-tired. She was a lovely woman, second grade school teacher, just a lovely wom-an. And she just liked doing what she did. She liked taking care of rock guys, you know? I guess she wrote a book and I guess Peter Frampton got the short end of the stick on that one and she was
banned from all these shows after that.”Reeling the conversation back to the
present, Jack said he's thankful for the seemingly constant support from fans.
"I appreciate the fact that people want to come see you, especially after all these years. When you're young, you think it's never gonna end. You think you're gonna be 25 forever, you know? And all of a sudden you blink your eyes and you're 50. And you're like, 'Wow, what happened to my career?"
"I just feel so fortunate to have the support of the fans and the promoters and everything else after all that I've been through," Russell said."
"Last year, a lot of folks took a lot of chances on me. The other side was say-ing a lot of negative stuff about me, like: he can't pull it off, he's not in good shape, he's gonna cancel shows, his voice isn't working, etc," Russell said. "And, I had to go out and prove everybody wrong."
Jack Russell, the vocalist of Jack Russell’s Great White, is set to perform with his version of Great White when they come to Little Rock August 27 at the Revolution Music Room.
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EntertainmentAugust 22- September 3, 2013ualr.edu/forum 9Groovecluster’s new
album exhibits latest note in his progression
Where can you listen to live music while you camp under the stars amid artists and perform-ers, and explore your own artistic talents? At Quantum Flux, a music festival in Little Rock Aug. 23 and 24 planned, in part, by a UALR stu-dent.
“I was the one who said ‘let’s make a baby,’ and now it’s our – the three of us – baby,” said Nick Sumbles, business major and co-organizer with Cat Innergy Hicks and Zachary Robert. In addition to organizing the festival, Sumbles will play music as Sick Numbles.
“Quantum Flux is a sort of mini-festival, one-night camping and concert experience meant to pro-vide a space for creative commu-nity expression,” Hicks said. The festival will include musicians,
Jackson Diner, a sophomore mass communication major known to the mu-sic scene as Groovecluster, half-smiles as he plucks his electric guitar. He dawns golden headphones and nods rhythmi-cally behind a laptop, shaping the beats and notes into music that has, until now, existed only in his mind.
By the end of August, Diner said, that music will be available for all to hear when he releases his fourth solo album, Bubbleluster. “Expect a new take on some of my older styles,” he said.
After 11 years of making music, Din-er describes his work as partly electron-ic dance music and partly progressive, experimental rock. Much of his music is available on Soundcloud and Band-camp, he said.
Diner began his musical journey when he received a guitar for his thir-teenth birthday. He took a few guitar les-sons, he said, but taught himself to play bass guitar, keyboard and synthesizers, and his computer, which he counts as an instrument.
“I think anything that makes original sound is an instrument,” he said.
In 2009, Diner composed his fi rst solo album, “A Strange Change.” Two years later, he released the fi rst offi cial Gro-ovecluster album, “News to Me,” which he called “a step in a different direction” because of its experimental emphasis. In October 2012 he released “Discor-diathèque,” one of his most ambitious projects so far, he said.
Diner’s fi rst major musical project was Hot Cognition, a four-piece progres-sive rock band that existed from 2008 to 2012. The band made one album, “Mer-chants and Liars,” which was never of-fi cially released, although a few people have copies, Diner said. They hope to produce a remastered version soon, he said.
Diner currently co-hosts Per-fect Glitch, a radio program that airs Wednesday nights on KABF 88.3FM.
“It’s one of the highlights of my week,” he said. “It’s always fun to im-provise live, on-air. I hope to introduce people to music they don’t normally hear anywhere else.”
Diner has played alone and collab-oratively at several venues in Arkan-sas, most recently at The Rev Room and ReCreation Studios. He says he prefers to play at smaller, outdoor festivals and is part of the lineup for the upcoming Quantum Flux music festival.
He says playing on stage is like noth-ing else. “It’s a defi nite natural high, and it’s also terrifying at times,” he said.
Diner said his biggest challenge is feeling confi dent in himself and his music. “Sometimes you can be really critical of your own work. Getting to the point where you are ready to share it with the world is the toughest part.”
The positive response he received from live shows and from his work on the radio has given him the confi dence to share his music, he added. He said he wants to continue making progress as a musician.
“I’d like to continue to fi nd new ele-ments to incorporate and, at the same time, refi ne my personal style,” he said. He added that he would like to expand on his live Groovecluster shows by add-ing more instruments and incorporat-ing other musicians.
“I always have a certain sound in mind,” he said. “What I want to go for and do best is create what’s in my head. A lot of times, I don’t have the technique or skill for that. The better I get as a mu-sician, the closer I get to what I imag-ine. When I can do that, that’s when I evolve.”
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dancers, yogis, visual artists and video jockeys, she said.
Hicks explained the festival’s name, saying, “‘Flux’ sums up the event as a fl ux of energy or a fl ux of space – vibrating waves…and the ‘Quantum’ makes it very cere-bral.”
A portion of the festival’s pro-ceeds will benefi t KABF 88.3FM.
“It’s a community radio run on donations,” Hicks said. “Their level of commercial infl uence is much lower than other stations, but it provides a voice for the peo-ple. If you want a radio show, just call them up and talk about get-ting a slot. You can’t do that with Clear Channel.”
“We want to show KABF that we do really care and that our com-munity does exist and it gives in a different way,” said Corey Star-dust, one of the festival perform-ers and co-host of Perfect Glitch,
Chances are that if you’ve lived in Little Rock for a few years, you’ve heard of Big Or-ange. The gourmet burger res-taurant, fi rst opened in 2011, has become the favorite place of your signifi cant other, your co-workers, your best friends. It’s been featured on count-less blogs and serves as one of the area’s few restaurants that consistently lives up to its hype. Now, with this sum-mer’s addition of a new loca-tion in the Midtown Shopping Center, the Big Orange praises will only grow louder.
The restaurant’s propri-etors, which include John Beachboard, Herren Hicking-botham and Scott McGehee, are hardly strangers to suc-cessful ownership. They’re also the minds behind ZaZa Pizza Co. and Local Lime, a Mexican restaurant that opened in West Little Rock last year. But the demand for more Big Orange goodness has no doubt made it one of their big-gest success stories, and it was this enthusiasm that led to the new location’s opening in late July.
Among the restaurant’s as-sets is the atmosphere, which is carefully cultivated to pro-vide a modern twist on an old American standby. The decor, a mix of mid-century pieces and hipster-chic color palettes, immediately impresses with clarity and impact - a refresh-er from burger joints that can go awry with design. While re-fi ned, it also feels comfortable, with hordes of people chow-
Big Orange Midtown serves up more burgers, praiseing down amidst friendly chat-ter and affable attention from staff members.
But the main attraction, as it should be, is the restaurant’s di-verse and delicious assortment of eats. Big Orange West’s fare has attracted thousands of cus-tomers since its opening, and the Midtown location proves just as satisfying with their selection of gourmet burgers, waffl e fries and unbeatable drinks. The Atom Bomb burg-er, a personal favorite, con-tinues to amaze with farm-to-table beef blending nicely with pickled jalapeno, sriracha and
fresh sweet potato fries.Highlights are not limited to
Big Orange’s food menu. The restaurant has also gained no-toriety for its drink selection, featuring national brands as well as regional beers from Diamond Bear and Boulevard. Hard liquor concoctions made by bartenders Dylan Yelenich and Lee Edwards far from dis-appoint, with new drinks like the Corpse Reviver - a lethal, delicious potion of gin, ab-sinthe and lemon juice - join-ing the ranks of old standards. Some options vary between the two locations, but goodness is always a guarantee.
A notable difference be-tween the two locations is the seating capacity, which has improved tremendously with Midtown’s opening. There are plenty of fans - myself in-cluded - who have sometimes strayed from the place in West Little Rock because of the wait. But the addition of more seats (close to 200 people) allows for faster turnover, making for shorter waits and quicker ac-cess to addictive food. A cov-ered patio and a large, open area are also available, with the latter reserved for private parties and similar functions.
A fi nal note: because of Big Orange’s devotion to cus-tomer satisfaction, the menu also includes some options for those who prefer not to stom-ach the beef. Regular burgers can be substituted with turkey or vegetarian patties made from sauteed vegetables and a “three-bean mix.” Because of the restaurant’s use of bread from Little Rock’s Dempsey Bakery, customers can also go gluten-free, again proving that a menu with limited options is still capable of satisfying just about everyone.
Although the place may be packed for a while because of its “newness” novelty, it’s cer-tainly worth the wait. Big Or-ange, we salute you; welcome to the club.
Big Orange Midtown is now open in the Midtown shopping center, located at 207 N. Uni-versity Ave.
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which the station airs Wednesday nights. “KABF is really important to this community,” he added.
All the musicians are local, Hicks said. The musical line-up features Cory Stardust, 7HR047 P1x3L5, S!Bass Cadet, Sick Numb-les, Spot Wade, Dustin Searcy and Kyle Owen, Zora McBride, and Groovecluster, also known as Jackson Diner, a sophomore mass communication major.
Unscheduled musicians can perform on stage from 12:30 to 2 a.m. Casual festival goers can participate in drum circles, com-munity painting and an alchemy workshop, in which they make an elixir made from herbs, spring water and crystals, Hicks said. She added that she would like the fes-tival to be educationally and cre-atively stimulating.
The festival grounds, which were provided and cultivated by Robert, feature a chemical-free pool, Hicks said. There will also be food and laundry services avail-able, she said. Entry is $5 or $10 dollars for camping and entry. Ad-ditional details are available on the Quantum Flux Facebook page.
“I’m defi nitely expecting an intensifi ed, diverse collective of individuals coming together to bring you an incredible journey,” Sumbles said. “It’s defi nitely an opportunity for [artists] to expand and explode and show people what they’ve got.”
“I would people to come out and experience a festival-type life-style, by which I mean come out and see people having genuine fun and being able to be a group with everyone in tune with each other,” Stardust said.
Tag Jackson, who will play elec-tronic music as S!Bass Cadet, said he would like to see “lots of booty shaking, and a lot of people get-ting along, having fun, and put-ting aside differences and barri-ers.” He added that the festival will help give local artists expo-sure.
Quantum Flux fi rst took form in July, when Sumbles approached Hicks, who had prior experience organizing festivals, and Robert, who had wanted to host a festival for a while.
After donating to KABF, remain-ing proceeds will help fund future festivals, Hicks said. “We have a lot of great ideas to make the next event bigger and better and even more dynamic,” she said.
“Everything is leading up to this point,” Sumbles said, “but it’s not the end of the journey; it’s the be-ginning of another journey.”
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Ezra Lbs members Daniel Craig (vocals/guitar) and Nathan Houser (vocals/bass) perform at the Shakemore Music Festival in Westminister, MD. to celebrate the release of their new EP.
Local act does it themselves with new releaseite among the college set, has built their entire existence on this idea, and continues to deliver a pulsating, De-scendents-like message with “Eepee,” a 10-track record re-leased July 25 on Thick Syrup Records.
Ezra Lbs was formed in 2009 by Daniel Craig and Dan-iel Olah, who’d shared suc-cess with previous forays into music (Craig with solo proj-ects, Olah with Ginsu Wives). Lucas Murray and Nathan Houser soon joined their ef-forts and after a few one-
There are plenty of bands, local and national, that at-tempt to retrieve the “indie” ethos: zines, merchandise, self-made music that’s good news for people who love bad news. But with genres rush-ing here and there with ri-diculous names, it’s hard to weed out the chosen few who are in it for the good, (some-times) clean fun. Little Rock’s own Ezra Lbs, an indie-punk outfit that’s become a favor-
shot tracks released through online outlets, the band re-corded its self-titled debut in 2012. The album, met with positive reception in the Lit-tle Rock scene through gigs and promotion, paid tribute to the funnier side of alterna-tive and punk, and “Eepee” only furthers this trend.
Judging from the eclecti-cism featured on the new re-cord, these guys know how to meld together parts of songs from their all-time favorites. With pulsing fury Ezra Lbs delivers a product that chan-
In an age of spin-offs and re-hashes, it’s difficult to predict whether you’re in for a thought-provokng tale or something of D-grade, “SyFy” quality. We’ve seen prequels create some phenomenal character portraits while others have nearly destroyed landmarks with bad revisions and tasteless plotlines. Thankfully “Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border I: Ghost Pain,” an anime film released this summer, delivers an apt begin-ning to the monolithic franchise.
The “Arise” series consists of four original video animations (OVAs), a term that describes direct-to-video releases. OVAs, which are common practices in international media, are created as one-shot productions that pro-vide insight into characters that wouldn’t otherwise fit into the structure of a series. This addition to the “Ghost in the Shell” saga is aimed at not only re-imagining the plot itself, but also establish-ing the cyberpunk climate in which Motoko Kusanagi and her division, Section 9, become cen-tral components.
Unlike reboots in other me-dia, the basic plot of “Ghost Pain”
brings few complaints. Urgent, ac-tion-based scenes and emotional zest familiar to fans of the fran-chise make appearances, with the main role taking center stage in new beginnings. The story flows smoothly, lacking some of the hyper-intensive concepts in its predecessor, “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,” and invit-ing a new generation of fans into its futuristic core. But unlike the original “Ghost in the Shell” film, released in 1995, the restructured plot makes its portrayal of manu-factured reality less cheesy or “Matrix”-like in nature.
Not yet a Major with Public Se-curity, the young cyborg Kusanagi is painted as an A-class fighter and expert hacker. Her ability to “ghost hack” -- to overtake the cy-bernetic mind of another person -- has made her a god-like pres-ence in her niche universe. But “Arise” brings a vulnerable side of the character that’s merely touched upon in previous install-ments, with the titular “ghost pain” serving as her emotional weakness. Other staple charac-ters, such as the gruff Batou, are similarly depicted, with humanity making itself known among artifi-cial brains and bodies.
In spite of this refreshing re-
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Cyborg Motoko Kusanagi’s origins (and weaknesses) are revealed in the new anime feature, “Ghost in the Shell : Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain.”
New addition to anime saga brings imagination, concern
hash, the significant shift in char-acter design remains one of the film’s biggest concerns. Kusanagi has undergone several changes since the franchise’s 1989 in-ception, ranging from a buxom toughie to a masculine, soulless figure with plenty of elbow grease to spare. But as the character took on a fan service-oriented ap-proach with the 2002 television series, it’s obvious the creators of “Arise” were searching for a way to combine all three versions without losing any key qualities.
Whether their final product is successful is another matter. Good cop Togusa may have finally lost his mullet, and Batou may not look so much like a “Tekken” al-ternate. But Kusanagi’s child-like features do little more than ham-mer home the fact that “Arise” is a prequel. She retains a forced, un-comfortable expression until the 40-minute mark, when she final-ly begins to assume the identity that’s so thoroughly cultivated in the GITS canon. As someone who has identified with the “strong fe-male” archetype for two decades, it’s agonizing to wait for the real Kusanagi to emerge from the falsi-fied shell.
Another notable change came with the voice cast, commonly known as “seiyuu” among the otaku crowd. In the past the stu-dio has kept several actors on retainer whenever a new install-ment was created, but Production I.G. assembled an all-new cast -- a risk in any reboot venture. Un-like the shift in design this was a quality that proved successful, with much of the seiyuu revealing themselves suitable for their char-acters. Because of this develop-ment it’s likely that Funimation, the American studio that acquired rights to the series, will follow suit in finding a new ensemble cast (even if it means losing the talents of Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Melissa Fahn).
A final, personal gripe about “Arise’s” first chapter is the ab-sence of composer Yoko Kanno. Kanno is a well-established figure known for the stellar, sweeping sounds of “Cowboy Bebop,” and with “Stand Alone Complex” she released four soundtrack albums and a handful of singles. In her place is guitarist Keigo Oyamada, better known as Cornelius, who
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nels alt-rock’s signature art-ists like the Dead Milkmen, Yo La Tengo and Lou Bar-low’s Sebadoh. The diverse, sometimes humorous lyrics and passionate experimen-tation offer listeners a crash course in subgenre history, leaving behind cheesy song-writing in favor of more an appealing and accessible product.
While members com-bine influence and experi-ence into a great record, the group’s gusto lies in its vibe. “Eepee,” unlike simi-lar efforts made by local and national bands, retains a “basement tape” qual-ity, the one treasure that could’ve been discovered in a mid-90s mass of medi-ocrity. Picture a cool friend or older sibling - perhaps a character akin to “Dar-ia’s” Trent Lane - plucking guitar strings, unearthing bands like Sugar and Ameri-can Music Club long before anyone could comprehend such creations. This is an experience Ezra Lbs resur-rects, and it’s no surprise that tracks like “Saint Igna-tious” and “No Means No,” which could have appeared on Blind Melon or Dinosaur Jr. records, give the EP its soul and offers promise to this young, great bunch.
Ezra Lbs’ “Eepee” is cur-rently streaming on Spotify and can be ordered at Thick Syrup’s website.
fills the film with music that con-trasts deeply with Kanno’s en-dearing eclecticism. Cornelius’ flailing licks aren’t without sub-stance, but the young musician hardly matches his predecessor in terms of diversity, ultimately disappointing audiences given his grand opportunity.
Noting that “Ghost Pain” is only one of four in the new series, it’s impossible to be judged as a standalone. A valid assumption would be the story will continue to bubble with surface changes, but whether it will adhere to what’s been made standard is an-other story. Production I.G. has gone out of its way to promote “Arise” as a reinvention of the Motoko Kusanagi character study, and because the entire “Ghost in the Shell” franchise centers on her subjective reality, it’s possible the past will be equally affected.
“Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Bor-der I: Ghost Pain” is now available on Blu-ray via Japanese vendors. While Funimation is planning to unveil an English dub by the end of this year, the second install-ment, known as “Border II: Ghost Whisper,” will be released in Ja-pan Nov. 30.
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After ending last season with a 13-14 record, the Trojan volleyball team will tip off its 2013-2014 season Fri-day, Aug. 30 at the Maroon Classic in Starksville, Miss. with games against Southeast Missouri State and Missis-sippi State.
The team started its offi cial practice Aug. 7. “We’ve worked on skills and drills, we worked on offense. We only had one offi cial practice,” Head Coach Van Compton said.
Earlier this month, the Trojans vol-leyball team was one of the four Sun Belt Conference teams honored as an recipient of the AVCA (American Vol-leyball Coaches Association) Team Ac-ademic Award for the 2012-2013 aca-demic year. This was the team’s fourth year claiming the academic award.
The Trojans will bring back fi ve re-turning players including junior out-side hitter Edina Begic, who was named 2012 Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year after leading the nation with 5.12 kills per set. Also returning for the Trojans are junior setter Marleen de Zoete, who led the team in assists with
10.98 per set, junior defensive special-ist Allison Wyatt, who fi nished with a total of 286 digs, sophomore outside hitter Mikakah Booher, and junior middle blocker Adisa Hodzic, who lead the team with 106 blocks.
Compton also brings in an addi-tional eight players to the team for the following fall 2013 season with fresh-man Whitney Leech, freshman Megan Mathis, sophomore Sonja Milanovic, freshman Carli Owens, junior Capri Rino, sophomore Edina Selimovic, freshman Rachel Williams and sopho-more Carolee Dillard, who is also on the Lady Trojans basketball team.
“We have four freshmen. It will take them a little bit. They have to learn the system,” Compton said. “Carly Owens is a middle (middle blocker), Rachel Williams is a middle (middle blocker), Kelsey Leech is a defensive player (defensive specialist), Sonja was red-shirted last year and she should be an impact player. And we have Capri, who is a junior college transfer.” Compton said she expects Capri to come around for the team and Sonja because she was redshirted last year.
Last year, the team saw early inju-ries that left them with only eight play-ers on the roster who could compete.
Compton said that numbers would help them team this year; there will be more people to play each position to help strengthen each position on the fl oor. “We have more pieces to the puzzles. We have true middles, true outsides, true setters, true defensive specialist. As last year, we had to con-vert players that were not their posi-tions,” she said.
This year’s goal for the Trojan vol-leyball are to win the conference and advance to the NCAA tournament. The Sun Belt Conference realigned the standings into one division instead of an east and west division due to an odd number (13 teams) of conference teams.
“We [have] only had one o� cial practice.”
- Van Compton, head coach
Trojan volleyball team readies for season, eyes NCAA tournament
C.J. WatersStaff Writer
The UALR Trojan Men’s Bas-ketball team ended its trip to Canada with a 1-2 record, win-ning their last game Saturday after losing the fi rst two con-tests in the three-day event.
The Battle of the Border ex-hibition tournament took place at the Jack Simpson Gymnasi-um on the campus of the Uni-versity of Calgary Aug 14-17.
The Trojans opened the tour-nament Thursday with a 71-68 loss to the Calgary Dinos. The Trojans managed to cut a 14 point, second-half defi cit to one on a shot by senior Will Neigh-bor, but came up short as the team missed two threes in the
Basketball team blames Canada for two losses
fi nal seconds. Neighbor led the team with 15 points and 7 rebounds, while sophomore James White added 14 points and 9 boards.
A cold shooting night doomed the Trojans in the second game of the tourna-ment where they fell to the Alberta Bears 80-67. Sopho-more Josh Haggins led the team in three categories points, 14, rebounds, 7, and assists, 5. It wasn’t enough to offset the 33 percent the team shot from the fi eld.
The third and fi nal game found the Trojans in a re-match against Calgary where they fared better and took control of the game in the sec-
On Aug. 8 2013 the NCAA stopped selling player jerseys on its website. The phrase “too little, too late” can be applied to the situation that the NCAA currently fi nds itself in. For the NCAA, this action was an admission to what many have said over the years - that the NCAA profi ts wrongly off the names and likenesses of the athletes at its schools.
The business of college athletics is just that: a business. But this multi-bil-lion dollar industry makes its money on the backs of young, and in many cases poor, unpaid (offi cially, at least), amateur athletes.
The move by the NCAA comes at a time when there is a pending lawsuit by Ed O’Bannon against the NCAA and video game company EA Sports. The lawsuit states that the NCAA profi ts from the illegal use of the names and/or likenesses of athletes in video games and other sources.
Ironically, while this lawsuit pro-ceeds in court, the NCAA is investigat-ing Texas A&M quarterback Johnny “Football” Manziel, who allegedly signed his autograph on thousands of items and may or may not have been paid for it. It’s ok for the NCAA to profi t off the names and efforts of these ath-letes, but it’s against the rules for the athletes to do so.
It’s important to note that in the Manziel case, he comes from a wealthy family and seemingly has no real ne-cessity of the money that may have been paid to him in exchange for his autograph(s). Manziel also seems to have a real problem with authority and a disdain for the NCAA rules for athletes that some fi nd hypocritical.
Manziel taking money against NCAA rules would be a case of him thumbing his nose to that hypocrisy. The Heisman trophy winner would most certainly have left for the NFL, if not for rules mandating that he remain in college. College football has and will continue to benefi t fi nancially from Manziel’s presence.
The argument has always been that a college scholarship was enough of a payment for a college career and that anyone should be happy to play a sport to put themselves through school.
But the counter is that college sports are now a big business responsible for millions of dollars and at major schools these athletes earn their coaches huge paychecks. (See: Nick Saban’s report-edly $4 million plus annual salary.)
It makes you think a little differ-ently about the best college basketball players in the nation, who are only re-quired to be one year removed from high school before they are eligible to play in the NBA.
What would we do if we had the same opportunity? Most of us would take the money and the ones who say they wouldn’t are either lying or not like everyone else. I would like to think that I would be one of those weirdos to stay in school, but I’ve never been offered boatloads of money to play a sport, so I can’t say for sure.
What I do know, with at least some certainty, is that the NCAA is at a cross-roads when it comes to the student ath-lete. This realization of athlete rights didn’t come overnight. EA Sports, who are also named in the O’Bannon law-suit, probably saw the writing on the wall. The video game company stopped making their college basketball game several years ago, citing low sales.
Perhaps part of the reason was that you can’t hide a player’s face behind a helmet in basketball, making it easy for a player to recognize himself in a game. “Hey that’s me!” gave way to “Hey, they can’t do that, where’s my money!”
If the decision is made in court that the NCAA is wrong with the current student athlete scholarship model, then it will be very interesting to see where it goes from there. South Caro-lina coach Steve Spurrier says that the players should be paid. So then would that mean every player gets money or just the football and basketball play-ers? How much is a Johnny Football worth?
What about schools like ours, that just cut the tennis program because of money issues? How can we afford to pay our athletes? I don’t have the an-swers and paying college athletes is a Pandora’s Box that the NCAA would like to keep heavily guarded. Besides, that’s where all the money is.
“Timeout”
Alton YoungEditor
ond half. Neighbor again led the
team in scoring, but it was fresh-
man Marius Hill who provided an
unexpected boost by going a per-
fect 5 for 5 from the fi eld to chip
in 15 points. The defense held the
Dinos to under 40 percent from
the fi eld.
Arkansas State also participated
in the four team exhibition.
Before the trip coach Shields
was looking forward to having the
team together during the summer
to practice. “We should get a good
head start heading into the fall,”
he said. “And that’s why you go on
a foreign trip.”
For new players like Hill, the
coach said the trip to Canada
“would be great experience for
our young guys and most impor-
tantly we get ten days of practice,”
he added.
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After a disappointing campaign last sea-son, the Trojan Soccer Team prepares for the 2013 season with a new coach and a new di-rection. Coach Blewitt takes over the reins of a team that mustered only two victories last season.
He brings with him the experience and success of turning around each program that he’s coached before UALR.
“This is the fourth program that I’ve taken over that’s been bottom of the conference when I got there. We’ve won the conference inside two to four years,” Blewitt said.
“I can’t promise that’s going to happen, but I know at least I’ve got the support and re-sources here to give it a good go. We’ll do our best,” he said.
The reason that Blewitt decided to take over such a challenging position is a simple one.
“I think I was ready to make the jump to Division I. It’s one thing to be successful at the Division II level, but in my mind it’s still the B level,” Blewitt said. “I know I can do it at the Division I level.”
To help achieve that success on this new level may require more than just the usual Xs and Os.
Coach Blewitt, who is married with a child, plans to bring his home to work by infusing the team with a family atmosphere.
“I think they (the team) want the family atmosphere to exist here amongst each other and how we run our program,” Blewitt said.
“That togetherness has to be there, for you to progress your program,” he added.
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The program returns four seniors and seven juniors along with 14 new players, 11 of which are freshmen.
“We have some experience and some youth. It’s just a case of getting those two groups to work together,” Blewitt said.
Helping to meld that youth and experi-ence will be seniors Ashley Barksdale (Biol-ogy major) and Paige Mason (Art major), who both know that team unity will be a key.
“It’s important (for) the returners to set an example for the incoming girls,” Barksdale said. “I think what I want to focus on is being there for the incoming girls - just being there to support them, if they need anything,” she said.
As far as work on the fi eld, the focus is on starting with the basics. “One thing that I thought was cool that coach Blewitt does is that he would set up multiple drills for us,” Mason said. “I think the organization is a lot fi rmer and I feel confi dent with the drills that we do, like there is a purpose with this drill,” she added. Barksdale added that “if he (coach) noticed something that I wasn’t do-ing technically right, he would take me off to the side and show me how to do it after, or he would pause the drill and show us all how to do it correctly.”
The focus on family and fundamentals make both seniors feel like this is the start of a “new era”, a sentiment shared by the coach. “I think that they’re very excited, but I also know that they’re also nervous. I like the vibe, the environment amongst our team right now, it’s a good excitement, a good ner-vousness. It’s a good time for our program. I think we’re going to start kind of a new little era here,” Blewitt said. “It’s going to happen, it’s just a case of when.”
New coach brings new hope to soccer program
Coach Blewitt instructs players to focus on drills during practice as they prepare for an exhibition match against Christian Brothers in Memphis, which takes place Aug. 21.
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