Razorbacks statue to honor ’64 team
FAYETTEVILLE — A monument honoring the un- defeated 1964 Razorback foot- ball team will be mostly done by Sept. 1, with the approxi- mately $2 million project to be dedicated in a ceremony sometime this year, a Univer- sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville spokesman said.
The family of Dallas Cow- boys owner and UA alumnus Jerry Jones is paying for the sculpture through a portion of a gift announced in 2015, said university spokesman Kevin Trainor.
Jones was a member of the 1964 team named nation- al champions by the Football Writers Association of Amer-
ica.The Wild Band of Ra- zorbacks features 6-foot-tall bronze Razorbacks, six in all, with the full monument ap- proximately 20 feet high and 30 feet wide, according to information released by UA. It will be placed in the north- east entry plaza of Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Trainor said.
Dick Idol designed the sculpture, which also features work by custom manufactur- ing company Acutech Works and various subcontractors, Trainor said.
A statue of Frank Broyles, moved to allow for stadium renovation work, will return to the north end near the newly constructed Broyles Athletic Center, Trainor said.
New one-mile trail
to be on hill site
FAYETTEVILLE — Con- struction is scheduled to start in late September on new natural-surface trails on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville campus, said Eric Boles, director of UA’s Office for Sustainability.
Roughly a mile of trails, along with treated wooden steps, will be built in a wood- ed area known as the Oak Ridge hillside, near buildings that are a part of UA’s Sam M. Walton College of Business.
The project cost is about $200,000, Boles said. It is be- ing paid for with a $355,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation.
Boles said the plan is to add more trails on UA prop- erty, with one to run near Fay-
etteville High School.
The Oak Ridge hillside,
about a 3.5-acre area, has informal trails now, with the new trails to be open to both cyclists and pedestrians, Boles said.
He noted ongoing con- struction of the nearby Sta- dium Drive residence halls, which are being built to house more than 700 students, UA has said.
Alsous selected for poetry award
FAYETTEVILLE — Zaina Alsous has been named the winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.
The University of Arkan- sas Press will publish Alsous’ poetry collection, A Theory of Birds, next fall.
The press partners with the Radius of Arab American Writers to award the $1,000 prize to a first or second book of poetry written in English by a writer of Arab heritage.
Alsous is “a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora,” UA said in announcing the award. She was born and raised in North Carolina and is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Miami.