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Hastings is located in Fiesta Square

Hastings in the Fayetteville Square is going out of business due to lack of profit.
I talked to several students; all of them were suprised, and many were angry.
Kelsey Bryan said she prefers hard copies of DVD’s and books to their digital counterparts. She also mentioned that Hastings brings back memories of growing up in Fayetteville.
Despite good prices on movies, books, games, and music, Hastings has been out done by electronic mediums like Netflix, the iPad and Kindle for reading books, and iPods for music.
The store is closing in early June, and all merchadise must be sold.

-Danny Henkel, UATV News

Safety in Public Places from Tucker Travis on Vimeo.

By Tucker Travis

After national bombings and threats to campus safety in the past week, it’s a scary thought that the target of an attack could be anywhere. Although public areas are difficult to completely protect, campus security professionals say that all it takes is a call.

“I would be unfair to say it’s easy to secure the University of Arkansas campus,” said Reggie Houser, Assistant Director for Logistics and Risk Management.

Spreading over three hundred acres and 200 buildings, the university’s public ground is vast and easily left vulnerable for an attack. An attack that could be similar to the one seen at the Boston marathon on April 15th. To some, that possibility is worrisome.

“What we have to do is get past that and stop ignoring things, and go ahead and have those things checked so be sure everyone is safe,” said Lt. Gary Crain, Public Information Officer at University of Arkansas police department.

Public places and even events, such as the red and white scrimmage game this past Saturday, are usually the target terror bombers choose. Especially since Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium holds more than 70 thousand people.

To help protect you and your surroundings it’s important to be aware of them. Reporting questionable activity is much better than ignoring it, such as an unattended backpack with no owner near.

“There are a lot of faces to providing safety to the U of A. It’s not just one department’s ability. It’s all of us working together,” said Lt. Crain.

Keeping a realistic idea of the threat of an attack is important, but not to dwell on it is key. “I just believe that people need to go about their business, be happy everyday that they’re at a great university and a great part of the country, but at the same time they need to be diligent,” said Houser.

There are many efforts put towards campus safety whether its by the police department or university housing. The U of A is only as safe as we make it.

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With the school year coming to an end, U of A greeks are trading in their study groups for recruitment practices. The Panhellenic houses are getting ready for the potential new member seeking to become apart of a greek organization.

This is a tune that Kappa Delta Recruitment chair Sadie Aronson has become very familiar with.

“Door songs are basically apart of my life now because we sing them at every practice , many times and so they are always stuck in my head! “

Sorority recruitment takes months of preparation. With most houses starting weekly practice in January, Aronson says it’s a necessity.

“Without these months of preparation recruitment would just be a mess for us and so these months are really valuable for us to learn everything and get everything right before rush week.”

It is in these weekly practices; girls cover when and how every single detail of rush will be carried out.

“ We practice the room set ups that we go into we also practice conversation workshops so we kinda learn what to talk to the PNM about and how to make them feel really comfortable when they come visit KD during recruitment.”

“ Being a potential new member I never realized how much work really went into it but now being on the other side for the first time I realized how much we have to practice and how much work you really have to put into it. “

During practices girls also review the rules Panhelenic sets for each house to follow in dealing with the potential new member, commonly referred to as a PNM.

“We have rules that have to do with like spacing we have to always make sure the PNM’s are in close contact with one another we cant isolate them to where they are just with a sorority member by themselves. “

Each house will have to put in a lot of time to prepare for the expected 180 new members, but it is time well spent according to House Mom MeMe

“I know when they finish, what they started, its going to be excellent”

Kody Walker feature from Logan Wilson on Vimeo.

An Arkansas running back has been steadily working toward a comeback and the Razorbacks got good news when doctors cleared him to play in the final week of spring practices.

Kody Walker has been a member of the Arkansas football team for two seasons, but has only been able to play in five games because of two unrelated leg injuries. In 2011, Walker suffered a stress fracture in his shin and last year, he broke his leg on punt coverage against Louisiana-Monroe.

Walker started the 34-31 loss to the Warhawks at fullback in place of Kiero Small, who checked out of the hospital with a season-ending injury the day Walker checked in.

“Me and Kody, yeah we were rehabbing buddies,” Small said. “It’s a little bit easier to come out and work hard when you’re practicing every day, but man, Kody was coming in at 6:30 in the morning with Matt Summers, training and training and we knew we weren’t going to play. So, you saw a lot of work ethic out of Kody and we kind of pushed each other.

“Just to see him out there playing in the spring game was big for us.”

Walker wore number 40 in his first two seasons on the team and scored six touchdowns in that jersey, but he said superstition caused him to make a change.

“When I got up here, getting hurt two years in a row, I was thinking 40 was bad luck, so I had to ditch that number for something new and get my swagger back,” Walker said.

The Jefferson City, Mo. native decided to switch to No. 24, which he says is a better fit. Fellow running back Jonathan Williams said he is supportive of the number change as well.

“We joke about that a lot man,” Williams said. “That 40 wasn’t a good look for him, but that 24, he’s looking real nice in that.”

Arkansas offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said it has been good to finally see Walker play and he thinks the 6-foot-2, 244-pound running back will bring a key component to the Razorbacks’ offense in the fall.

“He’s excited. I think he’s moving past his mindset of worrying and just playing football, Chaney said. “It was good to see him get out there and mix it up a little. He’s a big, heavy young man and he brings a load when he carries the ball. I’m glad to have him back in the offense as we try to continue to establish the mindset of physicality.”

Walker rushed for 40 yards on seven carries in the annual Red-White game. He received a medical redshirt after undergoing surgery for the stress fracture in 2011 and has three seasons of eligibility remaining.