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Volume 104 | Issue 5

THE HENDRIX COLLEGE

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THE PROFILE

CONTENTS

Volume 104 Issue 5 March 2016

Photos by Megan Prettyman

NEWS 3 Miller Center Trips

San Antonio and Los Angeles

4 Martin Party Names Should they be changed?

5 Dr. Jaeger

Publishes new book

5 Dr. Barth

Named ENACT Faculty Fellow

OPINION 6 Meaning of Drag How it applies to Miss Hendrix

6 Senate Notes

By past senator Isaac Filat

FEATURE 8 Miss Hendrix Contestant biographies

10 Making Miss Hendrix Behind the scenes

pg. 8: Miss Hendrix

11 Choosing Charities The selection process

12 Campus Kitty Week Schedule of events

13 List of Charities 2016 Campus Kitty charities

SPORTS 14 Tennis Season underway

15 Baseball/Softball Preseason expectations

THE PROFILE STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MARY KATHERINE BARKER 501-213-5885 BarkerMK@Hendrix.edu

MANAGING EDITOR

JACKIE OAKLEY LUCY MORGAN

PHOTO EDITOR

MEGAN PRETTYMAN

CASEY HAWKINS 501-231-6216 HawkinsCT@Hendrix.edu

COPY EDITOR

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

PHOTOGRAPHERS

BROOKE NELSON

CULTURE

LAYOUT EDITORS

16 Riverdale Theater “The Big Lebowski”

17 Kings A Conway staple

18 Calendar ISSUU.COM/THEHENDRIXCOLLEGEPROFILE

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JAMES OWEN

MADISON DEALING JORDAN MAY ADITYA KATKE

STAFF WRITERS

CONNOR NEWTON GINNY GREER MCKENNA JACQUEMET BAYLEY KRELL SARAH GILMOUR MARLEE BIRD GREER VEON

NEWS Photos courtesy of Dr. Robert Williamson

Miller Center Service Trips Groups travel to San Antonio and Los Angeles

By Marlee Bird

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or the last week of winter break, two Hendrix groups left the comforts of home for service opportunities in San Antonio and Los Angeles.

Rev. Wayne Clark and Miller Center program assistant Hanna French led a group of 10 students to Camp C.A.M.P in the hill country of Texas, on the outskirts of San Antonio. Dr. Robert Williamson, Employment Connections Coordinator Jamie Groat and Director of Student Activities Tonya Hale led another trip to Los Angeles, where 10 Hendrix students worked with an organization called DOOR (Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection) to serve the homeless and food insecure in the city.

Camp C.A.M.P – the acronym stands for “Children’s Association for Maximum Potential” – is a camp for children and young adults with disabilities and is largely run by Brandon Briery, a Hendrix alumnus and Clark’s friend. The two had been in contact for a while about organizing a service trip with current Hendrix students. “[Brandon and I] reconnected probably 10 years ago,” Clark said. “And then about five years ago he started having volunteer groups come down and asked if we would like to come.”

Upon arrival at the camp, the group immediately got to work clearing fields, building a shed, landscaping the entranceway and painting the cafeteria. At the end of the week, students were greeted by campers for a respite weekend.

“When the campers arrived it was complete chaos, but it was organized chaos,” senior Joyce Lauritzen, a student on the trip, said.

Throughout the whole experience, students were able to bond with and gain a better understanding of the campers as well as the people who make the camp run smoothly.

“The dance was really fun…my camper and

I bonded during the dance and that was really special,” Lauritzen said.

About 1500 miles west, another group of Hendrix students served those in need in inner-city Los Angeles. Sophomore Giorgy Sarishvili was prompted to go on the trip for service experiences that had never been available to him in high school.

“I always wanted to give back to society in some way,” Sarishvili said. “And so I figured I might as well apply.”

Freshman Susannah Stubbs, also a student on the trip, explained how the group worked with DOOR to connect to different nonprofits, including Project Angel Food, Homeboy Ministries, the LA Foodbank and The Center. Stubbs enjoyed visiting The Center, which functions as a community for the homeless, where she attended a writing class with members of the community.

“It was really interesting to be in that class, because I was in a group with all these people who had just been living on the street but they wrote really beautiful and clever things,” Stubbs said.

Both groups gained valuable insights from their trips.

“I think we grew in our capacity to do physical work as well as emotional work, and we saw what we could and couldn’t do,” Clark said of how he and his students grew at Camp C.A.M.P. On the other hand, Stubbs learned from being in and around the climate of homelessness and food insecurity.

“One of the best things you can do is let them know that you know they are there,” Stubbs said.

*The Miller Center emphasizes that these trips are “service” and not “mission” trips. While some may think that these trips have a religious purpose, the trips are inclusionary for any and all backgrounds and beliefs.

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The Great I

Debate

Photo by Jordan May

Does Martin Hall need to rename its parties?

By Greer Veon

n the past year, the names of Martin Hall parties have created much controversy among students. “You’re not inclusive,” some claim.

“You’re not supporting equality,” others say. But many on campus ask, “What exactly is going on?”

“It’s an issue that’s been a topic of discussion for years at Hendrix, but there are certain party names that include very sexist, bigoted, misogynistic language,” senior Marissa Lee, chair of the Committee on Gender and Sexuality (COGS), said. “I think that perhaps as Hendrix students have become more impassioned about the issue, they’ve become more vocal about it as well. So even though this has been a real problem for years before any of us were students at Hendrix, the discussion about it has sort of been rejuvenated lately.”

As a campus that recently made the pledge to move forward toward a more inclusive community, many students find that a party culture based on degrading terms towards others in our community blocks such growth.

With such a wide range of views, the campus is encouraging a conversation. Sophomore Mari Thomeczek, president of Veasey Hall Council, explained the dorm’s decision for holding an open meeting over the issue.

“We invited all Veasey residents to express their opinions about the party names so that we could gauge the level of people’s concern,” Thomeczek said. “A lot came up during the discussion and there were definitely both positive and negative comments about the party names. We talked about how there is a wide range of reactions to Martin party themes; what offends one person might empower another. We also talked about how we as a dorm can foster a safer and more inclusive environment on campus by looking out for each other and offering alternative events on the nights that Martin Hall has parties.”

The conversation shows that students on campus want to make changes.

Solutions are not only coming from those who feel degraded by the names for these parties, but also from the Martin Hall men.

“It’s incredibly important to note that Martin Hall has made and continues to make very real efforts to deal with these issues,” Lee said. “Robots is now officially ‘Robots and Aliens.’ Members of Martin Hall Council work on rounds on party nights to make sure that non-Hendrix students aren’t there without a Hendrix friend. Last year, an incredibly misogynistic com-

ment was made at a Martin party, and Hall Council made the decision to shut the party down immediately.”

The recognition of Martin Hall’s efforts have also been noted by other students and most recently in the Veasey Hall meeting.

“Some girls noted that they were glad that Martin Hall Council has deliberately shortened party names from what they were in previous years,” Thomeczek said. “They felt that this was a clear effort to phase out party names that might be offensive.”

As a campus that strives to think about community in its entirety, though, students should remember that this is not strictly a Martin Hall issue. Lee agrees.

“There’s a real issue with only condemning Martin Hall for party names,” Lee said. “By no means is this behavior limited to Martin. Party culture at Hendrix as a whole needs to change. There have been problematic party names in recent years that were in no way associated with Martin. To place the blame for the party culture at Hendrix solely on Martin in no way addresses the root of the problem: that we as a student body have created a culture that prioritizes ‘fun’ over the respect, dignity and equality of our fellow students.”

The facts are there: “Playboy” and “Bae Watch” also degrade women but are not thrown in Martin Hall. Even “White Trash Bash,” a party making fun of individuals with low socioeconomic statuses, also happens outside room 101.

So are we moving forward? If so, how does the Hendrix community work together to move past this problem within our party culture?

“No one entity on campus can solve this problem,” Lee said. “Not COGS or Senate or Martin Hall. But the reason this is such a prevalent topic of discussion on campus right now is that students, no matter what opinion they hold on the subject, care. The hope is that student leaders can respectfully approach the issue from either side to reach a resolution that is satisfactory for all students - that we can still keep the wild, fun spirit of Hendrix parties that everyone loves while also refraining from the use of discriminatory language.”

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“So Many True Believers”

NEWS

Dr. Tyrone Jaeger has new book published

By Marlee Bird

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ired as a Writer-in-Residence in 2008, Dr. Tyrone Jaeger now teaches creative writing as Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hendrix while simultaneously crafting his own stories.

Published by Queen’s Ferry Press, his newest work, “So Many True Believers,” is a set of intertwined stories that “gives voice to the wanton, the restless, and those hell bent on self-destruction,” as the publisher’s synopsis puts it, and seeks to examine how beliefs shape and motivate humans, as well as how different beliefs interact with each other.

For several of the stories, Jaeger drew inspiration from his time as a high school teacher. The story stems from a fictional school called the Nat Mota School for at-risk youth, but it ventures farther than the school to examine the characters and their misguided dreams.

“I’m fascinated by the way in which people really depend on belief,” Jaeger said when discussing why he chose belief as a major theme of the story collection. “There’s a famous Joan Didion quote, ‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live.’

And that has to do with trying to interpret and understand the world…We construct this narrative based on things we don’t quite understand.

But in extension to that, it is quite important for people to believe a certain narrative about the world or about themselves.”

Jaeger collaborated with members of the Hendrix community in advertising for his work. Photography professor Maxine Payne took Jaeger’s author photo, which also features his daughter.

Seniors Ali Bair and Kate Engler shot the trailer for the novel.

“We think the trailer will expand the range of the short story collection’s promotion,” Bair said. “[Dr. Jaeger] plans to share it across different social media platforms and we all hope its strangeness will attract a wide and unexpected range of fans.”

The trailer focuses on a particular character of the book with radical beliefs about life and death. This specific character follows “the Heaven’s Gate Cult.”

“I was interested in the Heaven’s Gate Cult,” Jaeger said. “They were a group in 1990s Palo

Alto California who believed that when the Comet Hale-Bopp passed by Earth the mothership was behind it, and the way to ascend to the next level was to leave your earthly vessel, what most people would refer to as suicide. And so this group of believers took their lives with the intention of getting on the mothership.”

Written over a period of 15 years, “Believers” takes on many ideas that relate to radicalism, youth and motivations.

“There is Jeremy, mourning the loss of his girlfriend to a UFO cult; Harold, the betrayed husband exploring intimacy in unfamiliar waters; and Ginny, the teenage runaway hiding out with a band of video-obsessed squatters,” the publisher’s synopsis explains.

Although Jaeger’s own experiences were a part of the creation, he acknowledged that the book stands alone as its own entity, working through and speaking on the struggles that we as humans all encounter.

“Oftentimes with extreme beliefs, one person’s belief is another person’s tragedy,” Jaeger said.

Dr. Barth Named ENACT Faculty Fellow Spearheading new educational program at Hendrix

By McKenna Jacquemet

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endrix professors are known for being innovative and enthusiastic, each remarkable in his or her unique way.

One professor, Dr. Jay Barth, has been named a Faculty Fellow for the Education Network for Active Civil Transformation (ENACT) at Brandeis University.

ENACT is a new program created with the goal of engaging young people in state-level legislative change. Students enrolled in ENACT courses will learn how to work with advocacy organizations, legislators and other entities involved in the legislative process.

“It’s an interesting project to give students the tools to be more effective in terms of policy change at the state level,” Barth said. “The state level is really interesting because it is a place where folks can really have a direct impact in ways that I think Washington is very difficult.”

Barth’s academic work includes research on the politics of the South, LGBTQ politics, state government and politics, political communica-

tion and the achievement gap in Arkansas.

A native of central Arkansas and a Hendrix alumnus, Barth’s vast knowledge and interest in Arkansas governance shows. For several years, Barth has taught Arkansas Politics and Government: Seminar and Practicum, a two-course academic experience where students complete a traditional seminar and then get to put their newfound knowledge to use through a semesterlong practicum experience. In this practicum, the student is involved in the state’s legislative session through legislators, advocacy groups, political parties and media outlets.

“I’m really excited about creating an opportunity to re-tool that course a little bit with some of the [ENACT] goals,” Barth said. “My hope is that, whether it is in that class or elsewhere, that as part of the civil engagement work here at Hendrix, that students become more deeply involved in that kind of political change in Little Rock and other state capitals.”

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senior class Faculty Appreciation Award, and was also named 2007 Arkansas Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). In 2014, he was named winner of the Southern Political Science Association’s Diane Blair Award for Outstanding Achievement in Politics and Government.

Barth’s excellence in instruction and concern for the welfare of Hendrix students is without question and it makes one excited for what he will do in the future, especially with the added resources of being an ENACT faculty fellow.

“This is the inaugural class so I am excited to hear the ideas of other folks teaching and doing work like this around the country,” Barth said.

“I am sure that there are great lessons to be learned there. It really does highlight the way in which Hendrix’s location near Little Rock does really provide us with opportunities to use state government as a place where we can watch the theory of the classroom play out in the real world.”

The Meaning of Drag Photo by Lexi Adams

Understanding the significance of Miss Hendrix

By Ginny Greer

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iss Hendrix” is one of the most anticipated social events of the school year.

Each spring, Hendrix puts on a drag show to raise money for charity. While the fundraiser itself is enormously successful, students and faculty on campus have been questioning how the show contributes to an understanding of drag culture and gender identity.

While the show has been a beloved tradition for decades—being from Little Rock, I myself have been aware of Miss Hendrix since high school—some people are starting to rethink what it communicates to the Hendrix and Conway communites.

Senior Evan Mitchell is a contestant in the Miss Hendrix drag show this year, performing as an original character, “Evian Michelle.” He ex-

Hendrix, We Have a W e all know them. We see them chatting around Mills. We see them talking to professors in the Burrow. And of course, we see them every Tuesday night in Campbell discussing something or another.

They’re the Senate clique.

We all know it exists; yet, we often ignore it.

They are the kids “speaking” on our behalf. They are the ones that are making changes for our campus. They are the ones doing … well … most of us don’t actually know what they are doing.

That is the problem with our student Senate.

pressed that the process of creating a character and a show has been deeply personal for him.

“The process for me has been very emotional.

I’m doing my own character based off myself— a persona I feel like I’ve had from a younger age when dealing with my sexual orientation,” Mitchell said. “I could tell that I would be more masculine at some times and more feminine at others, especially when I felt more comfortable.”

Problem

It is a group of individuals that we know, some are our friends, but we don’t know what they are saying on our behalf. Beyond that, most of us don’t care.

Do you know how Senate functions? Here is the rundown: The clique walks into Campbell around 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday night. They then proceed through a list of reports and bring up arguments and discussions along the way.

After two or three hours, the senators shut their laptops, and they run off to send you cute little emails with colors and YouTube videos.

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The problem: they don’t know what you think.

This is a collective issue, and I won’t target the senators. We as a student body have not been proactive. We haven’t crashed their party or tried to infiltrate the clique.

In my honest opinion, it is time that everyone shared his or her honest opinions with Senate.

All of us complain about things around campus; however, we rarely ever show up to a Senate meeting or contact our representatives on Senate.

Additionally, the few students that actually

OPINION Mitchell has been attending Miss Hendrix since his freshman year, but finally being in the spotlight is a surreal prospect for him.

“Going to it is one thing but being in it is another,” Mitchell said. “I don’t know what other opportunity I’ll have to have 800 people cheering me on.”

Creating this character has been both rewarding and exhausting for Mitchell, as it has required meticulous efforts to produce an artistically pleasing performance while also being mindful of the message his performance is communicating.

“To me, it has been so hard to get everything that I want it to be, and being sensitive, kind, thoughtful and considerate to everyone,” Mitchell said. “I think my character is my more fem side feeling like its time to be celebrated.”

He takes respecting and creating positive work very seriously and sees this event as an important part of addressing issues of gender identity and sexual orientation.

“I would hope that every person who is competing or attending Miss Hendrix is willing to challenge themselves to explore the deeper questions of what exactly is it that we’re doing and what it means,” Mitchell said.

While Mitchell enjoys the event, he sees much room for improvement for the show in how it is presented and understood by the Hendrix community.

“I think as much as Hendrix has been at the forefront of colleges addressing issues of gender and sexual orientation, as far as drag and ways trans communities—the ways they’ve worked together and against one another—we’re playing catch up,” Mitchell said. “I think that if we were truly up to date with the conversation the nation is having, we’d have a more open application process. We wouldn’t just have men, we’d have more original characters, and the tone of the

show wouldn’t be so overtly sexualized.”

Mitchell believes that the show has been serving and representing a limited audience.

“Having, historically, mostly cis straight white men performing in the show, we’re not being very diverse in the event,” he said.

One way that Mitchell suggested the show could improve is to shift the focus of Miss Hendrix from a charitable fundraiser—which lowers the standards for sensitivity and conscientiousness and puts the focus on doing the most comical and over the top things to entertain—to a show that properly displays drag culture and informs people on gender identity.

“To start, we have to start functioning as a party separate from an entity designed to raise money for charity,” Mitchell said. “I think that distracts from the social issues we’re dealing with. It could still be a fundraiser, but that shouldn’t be the central focus.”

Tahn Lemish, an employee of Residence Life and a local drag king, has put a lot of thought into Miss Hendrix. Being well-acquainted with drag culture, Lemish has many ideas.

“I’ve compared past Miss Hendrix shows to what I’ve seen other drag queens do in performances, and there is a lot of work to be done,” Lemish said. “Drag is meant to show that the norms of society—the boxes people are put into based on gender—are terrible. It’s showing that men can be effeminate and still be confident and strong, and that women can do the same thing.

It breaks down gender roles.”

Lemish has been disappointed by the carelessness and levity of past Miss Hendrix shows.

“In past shows, some of the men put no effort into costuming, padding, makeup, or presentation—and part of the experience of drag is going through the process and feeling the work that women go through,” Lemish said. “By them not even trying shows that they don’t understand or

appreciate the art.”

Mitchell expressed that the process of creating Evian Michelle has opened his eyes to some issues of gender and body image that he did not experience before.

“Some of these expectations we have for women are ridiculous,” Mitchell said. “ I’ve never felt as self-conscious about my body as I did when I started to do Miss Hendrix. I look in the mirror and I don’t look how I want to look or what I see in other people. I find myself buying new things and realize that it’s a vicious cycle. I should be happy with how Evian Michelle looks.”

Lemish expressed that the drag community is not monolithic and that many identities and experiences are reflected in the culture.

“A lot of drag kings are in transition,” Lemish said. “A performer who identifies as a woman is different from a trans man. How I perform is authenticating my stature, my identity as a man, rather than me getting up on stage and destabling gender roles for men. The conversation needs to include them, too.”

Mitchell hopes that Miss Hendrix can become an agent of change in the community.

“We need to start breaking down all of these gender barriers, and Miss Hendrix would be a great place to start,” Mitchell said. “But we need to have people from the community see that Hendrix is actually celebrating all gender identities, but we have a ways to go.”

Lemish believes that Miss Hendrix has the potential to be more than just an event that humors and entertains, and should become something that is treated with dignity and seriousness.

“Miss Hendrix could be a catalyst to showcase a larger social change in gender norms, but it needs to not just be a night of debauchery,” Lemish said. “It needs to be...educational and powerful.”

Demystifying the Senate Clique

By Isaac Filat, past senator contact their senators tend to provide an overarching voice for the student body–whether or not they actually represent the student body.

When senators speak about campus concerns, they are only speaking for themselves (or the one or two sporadic emails they may receive) because they have nothing to reference.

I would never call Hendrix a democracy. However, our Senate should be representative of the student body. We have this bureaucratic institution at Hendrix that we “vote” for, and it is not representing us. If we have a problem, we need

to either: (a) run for Senate or (b) make our voices heard to those already in office. We need to make sure that they aren’t in Senate solely for housing preferences.

At the end of the day, it is their job to represent us–not the views of the clique. If they want to make a certain change, that is great. But they need to make sure that the student body wants that change as well–and that will require schoolwide participation and discussion.

Get to know your senator. It’s important.

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“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”

-Mark Twain

* While this column talks about Student Senate in generalities, please note that it does not reflect the views of all of Student Senate or the views of The Profile. The writer’s opinions are his own.

Campus Kitty Campus Kitty presents:

MISS HENDRIX Boisin MyV In the dark, steamy depths of Gotham, Batman’s sexiest foe lurks. Poisonous to the touch, Boisin MyV captures any who come into intimate contact with her. Her verdant vines entangle any man willing to entertain her. She is one of the few to arouse the bat out of the batcave, and she always makes the Batman come back for more. No one can resist her sweet, toxic lips, so she manipulates all until they ultimately succumb to her will. You can never trust a big butt and a smile because that girl is poison.

Wetty Cocker Need someone to butter your muffin? Meet Wetty Cocker. Whipping all day long, Wetty creates the most extravagant recipes that are orgasmic to the mouth. Wetty Cocker is not your average housewife. She likes to make her brownies extra dark and dirty, possibly adding a few nuts to the mix. When she is not in the kitchen, Wetty is out helping her community learn how to cook and make even bigger, stickier messes. Leaving your mouth dripping wet, she’ll have you begging for more. Tonight, she is here to serve you a big bowl of her famous meat pie oozing with her special vanilla crème and garnished with a squirt of her cream cheese icing. She’ll give you an all-you-can-eat buffet where getting seconds are encouraged and maybe even demanded. The only thing she is looking for now is a long, hard spoon and a man with an appetite. Are you the man for Wetty Cocker? If so, open up wide because dinner is ready and she just pulled the biggest, juiciest surprise out of the oven.

Elsa the Blow Queen The ruler of Arendelle, Elsa the Blow Queen exerts full power over ice, snow and her igloo down below. Don’t be fooled by that crown because this dancing queen knows how to get down. Tired of being the good girl she always had to be, Elsa has left the confines of her castle and now everyone in the kingdom knows that she’s let it all go. Elsa’s been working very hard at earning her dirty nickname; so hard that she’s transformed all the boys in the kingdom into her naughty little hoemen. The Blow Queen refuses to reveal the secrets of her magical mouth, but it’s clear she knows her way around a popsicle. When she isn’t watching over her kingdom, Her Royal Ratchesty, as she is sometimes known, enjoys watching lumberjacks lug their hard wood and getting her tongue stuck on frozen poles. She may spit that reindeer game, but Elsa isn’t looking to play with princes and kings. Instead, Elsa is forever faithful to her BlowSquad, who always has her back. If you’re wondering what kind of show this frosty vixen has in store for Miss Hendrix, she’s only told us this: The Blow Queen is ready to “freeze, tease and please.”

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FEATURE

Meet the Girls: Photos by Megan Prettyman

Clitney Spears Clitney Spears is a feisty pop star born in good ole Mississippi but was raised in Louisianal.

She can spot a womanizer when she sees one *cough* Justin Timberlake *cough*. Clitney is an independent woman but she doesn’t mind being a slave 4 you. While on her way to the top of pop stardom, she may have had to pop a few other things along the way. She reached her stardom by lip-syncing here and there, which means she has a good set of lips on her. Of course, we all know the sole reason she shaved her head: she likes to have her drapes match her carpet. Whenever she gets a little wet, she always has an umbrella, broken or fully functional, for protection. She can handle any sticky scenario thrown her way.

Evian Michelle Daughter of a mountain and son of a lion, Evian Michelle prowls on unsuspecting gender norms all over campus, waiting for the right moment to take the gender dichotomy down.

You might see Evian roll by uncontrollably on a pair of blades or casually crawl up a wall, head spinning, but no need to worry: Evian is always in control and NOT possessed by a demon, mom! Simply put, Evian is unpredictable, but there is one thing you can count on: Miss Hendrix gender will NEVER be the same. Evian’s debut performance might make you question your sexuality, but don’t fret. We all know it, everyone is a little gay - even you. 8=D With a team of only women, you better believe the show will be far from any heteronormative crap that typically plagues the stage. The female dancers are there to have a good time, not to be sexualized. Drag is being whoever you want to be, and Evian is a force that wants to shake things up. ({‘}) -P.S. definitely not possessed by a Demon. ;)

Flannery O’Cummer Hailing from the small town of Midgeville, Georgia, Flannery O’Cummer has since become one of the most prominent American writers of erotic short fiction. As a Southern Gothic writer, her stories are known for their grotesque characters and often end with dramatic—and even violent—climaxes. However, as a devout Catholic, her stories also embody her faith, verging into theological and philosophical quandaries such as: If one combines masturbation with deep, fervent prayer, will that lead to a more profound, intense, and spiritual orgasm? Does a secret fetish for authority figures in uniform hamper one’s sublime connection to the greatest authority, God? And how does our understanding of the Holy Trinity change when represented metaphorically by a lesbian threesome between a haughty preacher’s daughter, an old prostitute and a middle-aged housewife still clinging to the ways of the Old South? Some of her most notable works include the voyeuristic tale “Good Country Peepholes,” her foray into interracial gay erotica “Every Peen that Rises Must Converge,” and her much anthologized S&M classic “A Good Man Is Hard to Bind.” When she is not writing, she enjoys caring for her 40 colorful peacocks, the only cocks she ever needs in her life.

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Photos by Megan Prettyman

Campus Kitty

The Making of

MISS HENDRIX: What goes into our well-loved tradition

By Bayley Krell

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ith Miss Hendrix quickly approaching, the entire Hendrix community is anticipating the event. The company dancers sketch eight-counts in their mirrors before bed and the contestants are ordering their heels.

But what exactly goes on to ensure that Miss Hendrix goes off without a hitch?

“I feel like I email half the school,” junior Payton Rausch, Miss Hendrix director, said.

“Normally I have at least three meetings a week.

I think on average I put in about three hours on a slow week. But now, it’s probably close to six.”

Rausch is in charge of planning and organizing Miss Hendrix in its entirety. She began her brainstorming when she first discovered she had been chosen as Miss Hendrix director last April.

However, the more hands-on planning began in late August.

“We had the interest meeting, and then after that, applications were due,” Rausch said. “Then we met and decided who the contestants were.

During that time, we decided to schedule the rehearsals for swimsuit, guy-guy, girl-girl, and we also did auditions for the company dancers.”

Senior Ann-Marie Hayre is this year’s music and dance chair. It is her responsibility to choreograph all of the dances, with the exception of the contestants’ talent pieces, which are choreographed by choreographers of the contestants’ choice. While Hayre set to work on the dance aspect, Rausch continued to work behind the scenes.

“I helped the contestants plan when their tal-

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ents pieces were. I’ve had to email people about using different spaces like Staples and Reves for practicing,” Rausch said. “We’ve also been in close contact with Lynette [Long] who helps us to schedule all of our events. Dom [Kelleybrew] has helped us make purchases. Right now we’re trying to get all of the miscellaneous purchases: tickets will be bought; we have to buy the tiaras and all the awards. We’ve worked with Tonya [Hale] to schedule the drag queen.”

The most difficult of all these tasks has been scheduling. There is limited space on the Hendrix campus that all organizations must share.

This has required a lot of communication to ensure each organization has their needs met.

“We share Staples with the band, so we have to wait ‘til they move out so we can move our set in... People use Staples now for prayer services on Sundays. We want to respect them and using Staples for their service so it’s quiet and they’re not hearing all of this music. We’ve had to adjust our schedule a lot so everyone can use what’s available to them,” Rausch said.

Throughout all of the planning, there has been support from local businesses and the Conway community. Several businesses place ads in the program and donate items such as flowers that help offset the cost of the event so more money can be provided to charity.

“It’s really unique and pretty amazing how much support you can find within Hendrix and the Conway area for this event and how passionate everyone is about it and trying to make it work as best they can,” Rausch said.

FEATURE

Charitable Choices

A brief look into the process of choosing charities for Campus Kitty

By Sarah Gilmour

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very year, members of the Campus Kitty Committee must go through the long process of selecting approximately 10 non-profit organizations to receive funding raised throughout the year.

According to sophomore Kendra Schwartz, the donations and fundraising director for Campus Kitty, the process starts very early in the year.

“People submit RFPs [Request for Funding Proposals], and basically from there, there is a committee that decides on that,” Schwartz said. “It’s a subcommittee of Campus Kitty, the awareness committee, and that’s the one that Taylor Pate is the head of and Mattie [Thacker] was the head of last semester. They look through all the RFPs, and they’re looking for a number of different criteria. They’re looking at if we have helped them out in the past, what they do, and the biggest thing we’re looking at is if this non-profit is something that Hendrix students can promote. It’s something that Hendrix students would want to donate their money to.”

Campus Kitty receives approximately 30 RFPs in a year and must determine which proposals to fund. RFPs are a very important part of the process, so the applications are quite extensive.

“The way it works is they get to choose three different projects,” Schwartz said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be three projects, but there is a certain cap you can have on spending, and for each of the projects you can dole out the spending however you want. Let’s say you have one big project- you would use all three projects’ finances to cover that, but you can also choose three different projects that all do different things. Sometimes, as far as funding, we will only fund one or two projects instead of all three. It just kind of depends on what we feel comfortable giving our money towards.”

Current awareness chair senior Taylor Pate explained that there are other factors considered in distributing funding as well.

“We want to efficiently provide as much money as possible in ways that we feel are going to more immediately impact those people that are being served,” Pate said. “Basically, we will look into if an organization received funding in the last year; we will still definitely consider it, but that is a consideration. Or, if the funding is

going towards something that can immediately help someone. For instance, this year we are funding the Faulkner County Single Parent Scholarship Fund, which we funded last year.

Those funds provide immediate scholarships to people who are going back to school. That’s something more direct.”

All of the charities chosen are based in Central Arkansas and have direct effects on the lives of community members.

“GMeal and Quapaw Community Breakfast are both hunger-related organizations,” Pate said. “Those directly affect people because they’re applying for funding to buy materials that will immediately go out to the community.

“We want to efficiently provide as much money as possible in ways that we feel are going to more immediately impact those people that are being served.”

- Taylor Pate We also always choose organizations that are in the Central Arkansas region, in which those projects are going to be aiding people living in Central Arkansas.”

The committee also aims to maintain an assortment of different causes to support, from helping LGBTQ youth to feeding the hungry.

“Every non-profit is different and doing a very different thing,” Schwartz said. “It’s not all, for example, giving food to homeless people which is the typical, what you’d expect from nonprofits. Not that that’s a bad thing - of course we want to help them out too, but I like how we’ve branched out this year and really got involved in helping different kinds of people in different kinds of situations.”

Sometimes, however, technical issues like timelines or the amount of funding that is requested can be a deciding factor in which charities receive funding.

“We look at things like budgets and timelines

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too,” Pate said. “Like, if you have an organization who is trying to fund a project that is going to take a year or something, that’s a consideration that we make - other technical things like that. But generally, I think it is just what is going to help as many people as possible.”

The selection process was somewhat simplified this year by the previous awareness chair, junior Mattie Thacker. In the new system, charities are sorted into immediate “yes,” “no” and “maybes” and then divided amongst the awareness committee and the general committee. Schwartz believes that the new system was very efficient this year.

“I feel like the awareness committee did a really good job this year, especially with the new process this year,” Schwartz said. “It was very efficient.”

Schwartz was especially enthusiastic about one charity in particular.

“I really like that we are funding Conway Cradle Care,” Schwartz said. “They basically help people who are teens that get pregnant and help them take care of their kid. I feel like that’s a really good goal and it’s a way that we can be active in our community.”

Pate also had a certain cause which she was personally excited about.

“Hunger relief and social justice is something I’m really passionate about,” Pate said. “It’s something I’m pursuing in my future, so I can really appreciate the work that GMeal and Quapaw Quarter Community Breakfast are doing because they do provide meals for people. I think food, for me, is a great source of community. I have always felt really strongly about feeding people, and I love to feed people.

That’s really exciting that they are doing that and that we can fund them and help them to feed people. I think food is like love to me, so that really excites me.”

Additionally, Campus Kitty attempts to fund causes that they believe would be well-received

by Hendrix as a whole.

“I guess a good example would be Pridecorps,” Schwartz said. “Hendrix is a very accepting community, especially towards LGBTQ individuals. Pridecorps basically helps LGBTQ youth, so we look for non-profits like that which support causes that we assume Hendrix would support, or at least the majority of Hendrix kids would.”

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Campus Kitty

Campus Kitty Week Schedule Friday, March 4 Miss Hendrix Ticket Sales

Saturday, March 5 Baggo Tournament

Monday, March 7

Tailgate for Baseball and Women’s Lacrosse

“Monday Madness”

Tuesday, March 8

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture - “A Blueprint for Ending Poverty…Permanently,” by Dr. David Grusky (6 pm, Mills B)

Bike-a-Thon (10 am - 2 pm, Burrow)

Wednesday, March 9 Cafeteria Theme Day

Thursday, March 10

Q&A, Forum with Non-Profits (4:15 pm, Murphy House)

Project Pericles (12:10 pm, Campbell Dining Room)

Friday, March 11

Karaoke Kitty (ZaZa, in the evening)

Red Light Revue (7 pm, Burrow)

Saturday, March 12 Miss Hendrix Miss Hendrix After Party (Worsham)

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The Charities: Conway Interfaith Clinic

The Conway Interfaith Clinic’s mission is to provide access to medical and dental services for those individuals and families in Central Arkansas who do not have access. They offer full dental care to uninsured and underinsured children and families, and pain management to adults in need. The clinic was founded by a group of church and civic leaders to assist in seeing to the needs of Central Arkansas residents who do not have health or dental insurance. The clinic is funded primarily through grants and donations and is a United Way partner agency.

Single Parent Scholarship Fund

The mission of the Single Parent Scholarship Fund is to enable single parents to attain self-sufficiency through post-secondary education. The Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Faulkner County provides supplemental financial assistance to single parents pursuing a course of instruction, which will improve their income earning potential. The goal of the Scholarship Fund is to create an Arkansas in which single parents have opportunities to complete their education, achieve financial independence, and meet the needs of their families; there are support systems in place that enable single parents to attain meaningful, prosperous work; single parents are seen as valuable, contributing members of Arkansas’ society; and there are sustainable educational endowments for single parents.

Quapaw Quarter Community Breakfast

Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church has provided feeding programs to low income citizens and homeless people for the past 30 years. The community breakfast began 12 years ago to meet the need for a Sunday morning meal program targeting the downtown homeless population. The rationale for the program was to fill the void of breakfast programs and is currently the only consistent Sunday breakfast program in Little Rock. Every Sunday morning, volunteers from various Methodist congregations serve 150 plates. Toiletries and clothing are also available to those that attend the breakfast.

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Pridecorps

Pridecorps, the LGBT Youth Center of Arkansas, offers LGBT youth between the ages of 14 and 20 a chance to be themselves and connect with others throughout Central Arkansas.

Members have the unique opportunity to network and establish connections and friendships with peers, educators, religious leaders, health care providers, and other community leaders. Pridecorps offers members a safe place to take part in facilitator-led group discussions on the topics of coming out, substance abuse, mental health, suicide prevention, bullying and harassment, self-esteem and more.

Safe Place

The Safe Place was established in 1995 to provide safe shelter for victims of domestic violence, as well as their children.

They are dedicated to educating both victims and society about domestic violence and abuse, empowering victims and their children to desire and achieve living violence free. Services and goods that are provided include safety planning, an emergency shelter, a crisis hotline, food, clothing, advocacy, transportation, group and lay counseling, parenting and life skills classes, and education about domestic violence.

Conway Cradle Care

Conway Cradle Care’s mission is to help teens that become pregnant or have a child complete their education by supporting their academic and emotional needs as well as the developmental needs of their children. Conway Cradle Care provides mentoring for teen parents and a safe, quality state-certified, low-cost daycare for the infants and toddlers. While the parent is in school, Conway Cradle Care works to ensure that each infant and toddler is given the best of care by providing an environment filled with age appropriate books, toys, educational materials, and childcare specialists. Conway Cradle Care is open to students of all races and religions who are enrolled in a Faulkner County school district. Students from other counties are welcome if space is available.

Faulkner County Council on Aging

GMeal

The Faulkner County Council on Aging, Inc. strives to identify and meet the nutrition, social, and transportation needs of senior adults. Their goal is to help seniors remain active, independent, and enhance their quality of life. They help to accomplish this by providing home delivered meals to homebound individuals (86,000 meals projected this year); meals and activities at any of their six senior citizens centers (50,000 meals projected this year); and transportation to life-necessary destinations such medical appointments and grocery stores.

GMeal is a free weekly meal offered to anyone who wants to eat each Wednesday evening during the school year. They also serve free meals to those who attend the young adult community on Thursday nights, which is also open to the public.

Beginning in January 2015, they expanded to include a partnership with the Grace Learning Center, a new full-time, year-round non-profit preschool. That partnership works to teach preschoolers how to grow, plan, and prepare healthy, natural meals, and it also partners with the families of the Grace Learning Center to introduce ways to bring healthy meals into their households. Among GMeal’s goals is the establishment of a community garden, cooking classes, and free meals that can be taken home.

Bethlehem House

The mission of Bethlehem House is to encourage, equip and motivate homeless individuals and families to take the necessary steps to improve their life situations. The vision of Bethlehem House is to be Faulkner County’s leading resource in providing meaningful support and empowerment for homeless citizens. Bethlehem House provides housing for up to two years; one-on-one case management; transportation to and from work, interviews, doctor and legal appointments within city limits; and life skills training for residents. For non-residents, Bethlehem House offers a nightly soup kitchen, laundry facilities, shower facilities, and a food pantry that allows individuals and families to pick up food boxes every 30 days.

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Community Service, Inc.

Community Service, Inc. is a nonprofit youth and family services organization serving at-risk youth. Community Service’s mission is to be a leader in providing quality services to youth and their families that will empower them to attain success in their homes, schools, careers and communities. The service professionals at Community Service, Inc. are committed to helping youth in need through prevention and education, therapeutic foster care, day treatment, substance abuse services, mental health services and juvenile justice.

Skills Warrior tennis acing the SAA

By Jordan May

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he tennis season for college athletes is already underway.

The men’s and women’s teams started the new spring season off with exhibition games against a tough Division II Harding University team at home on Feb. 9 and 10. While Harding won the exhibition games, these were the Warriors’ first losses for the men’s and women’s teams, making both sides 2-1 before the conference schedule began. Harding’s team was also ranked 10 in the Central Region of Division II. Junior Pratheepa Ravikumar and sophomore Kiran Chakka offered insight into what it is like being on the traveling tennis team. Most practices are at 6 a.m., “so it can take a lot of dedication and motivation to come to every practice and give it your best,” Ravikumar said. “But I don’t think we mind giving that up for all of the fun we have traveling and playing together as a team.”

Both Ravikumar and Chakka have relatively distinct styles of play. Like most sports, tennis requires strength and agility; however, it is different than other sports in that an opponent can run you rampant with placement in the corners. Tennis requires a level of athleticism, but when it comes down to it, an opponent can win through precision and technique–much like golf.

Ravikumar’s style is more aggressive than the typical player. She loves to drive the ball with low, fast-paced shots. Her serve is also a little flat, meaning it does not have too much spin, but

with that she is able to hit her serves wide, pulling her opponent off the court.

Chakka also has an aggressive style. However, instead of hitting the ball hard, driving it fast to his opponent, he hits the ball with as much spin as possible. This makes it easy for the opponent to see where the ball is going, but it also makes it harder for them to return the ball since the spin makes the ball’s bounce unpredictable.

The men’s and women’s tennis teams have high hopes this season.

“The team this year is stacked,” Chakka said.

“There are a ton of capable freshmen this year. I think we’ll be able to do very well. Our offseason showed a lot of promise, and we were able to soundly defeat a team that has beat us in our last two or three encounters.”

Typically the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) has no single extravagant team in tennis that wins everything. All the teams are fairly matched, but “Sewanee and Rhodes will definitely be tough to play for sure,” Chakka said. “A lot of the other teams seemed to barely edge us out last year, and I think that with our improvements this year, Hendrix will be a strong factor in the SAA.” The Warriors’ first SAA games for both the men’s and women’s teams were on Feb. 27 at home against Rhodes. The next games will be on March 5 at home against Austin College.

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Photos by Madison Dealing

Serving Up

SPORTS

Photo by Aditya Katke

Hoping for a Home Run Baseball and softball teams anticipating successful seasons

By Bayley Krell

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eading into the spring semester, a new bunch of athletes are stepping up to the plate.

Literally up to the plate, as the baseball and softball teams head to the field for the beginning of their 2016 seasons. For the baseball team, this season promises to be fundamentally different from the previous season.

“We graduated nine players last year,” head baseball coach Neil Groat said. “So early on, it’s going to be figuring out what everyone can do and how are we going to be able to mold into what we could be by the end of the season.”

Although they’re young, the freshmen baseball players will have a great impact on the team.

Knowing he was going to graduate so many players, Groat put a high emphasis on recruiting in the off-season.

“I think [success this season] started with trying to address some needs that we had in our team from a recruiting standpoint,” Groat said. “We wanted to get a little more athletic.

We wanted to get hopefully a little more power

in our offense. I think that we’ve been able to do that.”

While the incoming freshmen will give the team a boost, Groat is looking to the older players to provide leadership and solid performance on the field that the younger players can look up to.

“I think that group is one that early on is going to have to set the tone for us just because they are the veteran guys,” Groat said. “They are the returners. They are the guys who have had success in the past.”

While individual work is important, returners and new recruits coming together and working as a team will be crucial to constructing a winning season.

“It’s about tying to figure out what everyone’s individual abilities are, how can we enhance that and how can that make the group better as a whole,” Groat said. “So that we may be able to… put it all together and put the best product on the field.”

Both the baseball and softball teams are facing

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tough seasons and will have to work hard in practice in order to win on game days. While the coaches and players from both teams are aware of this challenge, they are prepared to compete.

“It’s very tough league. There are no bad teams. We just won’t have that luxury,” Groat said.

Despite the pressures of having difficult schedules, the baseball and softball teams haven’t lost their winning attitudes. The baseball team in particular is just as interested in improvement as they are in a winning record.

“I think from a playing standpoint you always want to see development. You want to see guys improve over the course of a season, especially with some of the young players we have,” Groat said.

Both the Warriors baseball and softball teams are now in the midst of their seasons, with the softball team playing their next two games on March 5 and 6 against Berry, and the baseball team playing on March 5 and 6 against North Park.

Riverdale and “The Big Lebowski”

By Connor Newton and Guest Writer Jerad Fisher

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’m sure most mid-sized towns, like Little Rock, have it: that one movie theater that you know you’d never go to for any number of reasons. The seats are uncomfortable; the prices are too expensive; the floors are perpetually sticky; the roof leaks; the sound crackles; it’s in the wrong part of town, and the list goes on.

Well, down in Little Rock, it used to be (and it’s nice to use the past tense) Riverdale 10 Cinema.

Now, luckily, the theater is bouncing back, and doing so in a big way. Riverdale 10, located at the bottom of Cantrell hill around the Rebsamen Park area, has recently undergone a few changes, turning a once cringe-worthy theater into a hot spot.

It used to be that the only place in Little Rock to see an independent film was Market Street Cinema, but it had its own world of problems.

It was when Market Street Cinema took over the Riverdale 10 building that everything changed. Suddenly, the problems Market Street had with location and building problems were solved, and the lack of quality at Riverdale 10, which had closed, could finally be resolved.

The new and improved Riverdale 10 was not only outfitted with new digital projectors and state of the art sound systems, but in aiming for a new market and demographic of movie goers, they also tore up all the old seating and installed comfortable, leather recliners. Often when you go to the movies, you’ll see lots of empty seats, meaning wasted space and money for the theaters. Riverdale 10, by having fewer (but comfier) seats, is giving the viewer more. Without drastically changing ticket prices, as was the case with the west Little Rock theater, Riverdale 10 wants to bring you in with quality and comfort.

In an age where home streaming looks to be the dominant form of engagement with media, Riverdale 10 wants to duplicate that feeling of “luxury” you have at home, bringing it into the theater. They have fancy snacks, electric recliners, movable trays to place your food on, beer!, and quality pictures. Moreover, it’s coming at a great price.

What’s helping Riverdale 10 the most is the way they are promoting their business after this

transition. Whether it was Riverdale or Lost Forty (a local brewery down in Little Rock) who reached out first, I don’t know, but a staple of the old Market Street Cinema was beer, and, once again, they are bringing it to the new and improved theater.

Riverdale has partnered up with Lost Forty to not only stock and supply their beer, but to do a series of promotional events, mixing the fun of booze and flicks together. Starting out with an

online poll via Facebook, the duo took suggestions as to what film they should screen for the event. What started out as a one-time deal has quickly turned into a monthly screening after the poll results were so strong and so many people were excited about the event. Their first screening was of “The Big Lebowski,” and this month they’ll be showing David Bowie’s “Labyrinth,” followed up by “Office Space” in April.

I decided to invite a car-load of friends for the screening of “The Big Lebowski,” knowing that

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my friend Jerad was a Lebowski lover. I invite you all the like the “Lost Forty Brewing Night at Riverdale 10 Cinema” on Facebook and attend some of these enjoyable, comfortable movies.

And now, I figured no one could do it as much justice as a Lebowski expert, so I give you Jerad Fisher and his musings on the Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski:” If you haven’t seen “The Big Lebowski,” don’t worry about spoiling the movie by reading this—it’s hard enough to pick out the point of the film, anyway.

The film is a cross-section of the life of Jeffrey Lebowski, aka “The Dude,” as he tries to replace his peed-upon rug, and in the process, gets caught up in the kidnapping and ransom of the other (Jeffrey) Lebowski’s wife, Bunny. In between are the highs and lows, from bowling league victories to the Pasadena police chief’s wrath.

The enjoyment in “The Big Lebowski” isn’t in finding out what actually happened to Bunny, or even in the outrageous host of characters that have you laughing along the way, but in the way The Dude seems to take it all in stride. His experiences become meshed with his reactions, creating loops in phrases and feeding back into entire dream sequences. The Coen brothers (who scripted nearly every line) time the placement of recurring words and images to tie together large parts of the film into single scenes.

Although deliberate, this reuse doesn’t seem to always imply something.

That may be my greatest enjoyment in the movie: for The Dude, the significance of events isn’t determined by their forwarding of some singular plot; they simply work together to help him piece together how and why that plot even exists to begin with.

And that’s how you should watch “The Big Lebowski”: like The Dude, taking it all in stride. Having a White Russian doesn’t hurt either.

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Kings

Feel Good Photo by Aditya Katke

By Connor Newton

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t was the other day, in fact, during a conversation between a couple of friends, that the subject of Kings Live Music came up. Standing in Kings, looking around at the people, the place, the music being played, we couldn’t believe that this was an actual thing/place/bar/venue.

Kings is impossible to sum up with any one word.

Yes, you might want to call Kings a bar, but it feels unlike any bar I’ve ever been to. And that’s what we were astonished by: that looking back in a few years, we’d have so many fond memories at Kings Live Music. It’s seriously such an odd place, but that’s what makes it so perfect.

Thanks to the voters of Faulkner County, there is a significant lack of bars and booze in the Conway area. You’ve got your ZaZa, more of a restaurant, and you’ve got your grungy, loud bar, Bear’s Den, but Kings floats in a world of its own. Kings functions more as a social space. Kings is honestly a bar that wants to build a community around it: from the local Conway artists to the smaller tour-

ing bands of Arkansas, Kings draws music towards itself, knowing that people will follow.

I’ve seen fellow students play there: Daniel Grear and Travis Kish.

I’ve seen smaller acts: Arkansauce, The Driftaways, and, my new personal favorite, Groovement. Arkansauce functions as a large folk band, playing floorstomping songs. The Driftaways are a sick ska band, fronted by a guy who plays the trombone with a variety of electronic effects and mutes. Finally, Groovement is a funk/rock fusion group with amazing voices and catchy songs.

Kings brings in such a wide variety of music, and generally one of these bands will be playing at Kings once every two months. What I enjoy about these smaller shows is that the music isn’t always the main draw. Maybe you just want to have a good time on a Saturday night; well, the music as Kings doesn’t impede. Most bands aren’t packing the main room; instead, the music aids in the fun of the night. And I should mention the best part about Kings: if you have your Hendrix ID on you, then you get in for free, which is even

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more incentive to see these great acts.

Kings does bring some bigger acts, too. For the past three years, Kings has hosted the KHDX Hat Trick Festival, which is a threeact concert based around a variety of sounds and artists. For this year’s show, Girlpool performed.

I find these shows to be some of the most fun just for how crowded the venue can get.

People can surround the stage from a variety of angles—there is no barrier or wall between you and the performer. You feel so close to the musicians and the performers, especially because of the giant mirror behind the stage, which functions to place you, the crowd and audience, on the stage with the artist.

Kings is all about creating a community, a community dedicated to loving music and feeling good. Kings is wacky and inclusive, and unlike any place in any other collegetown, I’m sure. It’s a place where the young, middle-aged, and old can all drink, dance, and commune together.

Also, they have free foosball, which is where you’ll most likely find me.

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CALENDAR CONWAY, LITTLE ROCK & CENTRAL ARKANSAS MAR. 1 - MAR. 5 Tuesday, March 1 4 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. Central Baptist. Conway.

9 p.m. ASO Chamber Music – Mendelssohn’s String Symphony. Clinton Presidential Library.

Little Rock.

Wednesday, March 2

7 p.m. Warrior Men’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Piedmont. Conway.

8 p.m. Harvest Thieves. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

Thursday, March 3

8 p.m. Brokencyde. The Rev Room. Little Rock.

Friday, March 4

8 p.m. Caleb Ryan Martin. Kings Live Music.

Conway.

9 p.m. Mojo Depot. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

9 p.m. Frank Foster. The Rev Room. Little Rock.

9 p.m. Salsa Night. Metroplex Event Center.

Little Rock.

Gable Bradley Band

Saturday, March 5

9 a.m. Warrior Men’s Tennis. Hendrix vs. Austin. Conway.

9 a.m. Warrior Women’s Tennis. Hendrix vs.

Austin. Conway.

11 a.m. Warrior Women’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Birmingham Southern. Conway.

1 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. North Park.

Conway.

4 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. North Park. Conway.

Warrior Men’s Golf. Hendrix vs. Dallas. Conway.

Warrior Women’s Golf. Hendrix vs. Dallas.

Conway.

8 p.m. Grind - An Alice in Chains Tribute. The Rev Room. Little Rock.

MAR. 6 - MAR. 12 Sunday, March 6 12 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. North Park. Conway.

Warrior Men’s Golf. Hendrix vs. Dallas. Conway.

Warrior Women’s Golf. Hendrix vs. Dallas.

Conway.

Monday, March 7

4 p.m. Warrior Men’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Susquehanna. Conway.

Tuesday, March 8

Saturday, March 12

7 p.m. Warrior Women’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Ottawa. Conway.

7 p.m. Rodney Carrington – Here Comes the Truth. Verizon Arena. Little Rock.

5 p.m. Warrior Softball. Hendrix vs. Nebraska Wesleyan. Conway.

7 p.m. Warrior Softball. Hendrix vs. Nebraska Wesleyan. Conway.

7:15 p.m. Warrior Men’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Drew. Conway.

MAR. 13 - NOV. 19

Wednesday, March 9

Thursday, March 10

8 p.m. Gable Bradley Band. Kings Live Music.

Conway.

8 p.m. Howie Day. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

Friday, March 11 7:15 p.m. Warrior Men’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Daniel Webster. Conway.

7:30 p.m. Luke Bryan – Kill the Lights Tour.

Verizon Arena. Little Rock.

8 p.m. Tennessee Stiffs. Kings Live Music.

Conway.

9 p.m. Micky & The Motorcars. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

9 p.m. Salsa Night. Metroplex Event Center.

Little Rock.

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Sunday, March 13 8 p.m. Andy Frasco & The U.N. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

Monday, March 14

7:30 p.m. Hendrix College Wind Ensemble Concert. Staples Auditorium. Conway.

Tuesday, March 15

5 p.m. Warrior Softball. Hendrix vs. Ozarks.

Conway.

6 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. UT Dallas.

Conway.

7 p.m. Warrior Softball. Hendrix vs. Ozarks.

Conway.

Wednesday, March 16

3 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. UT Dallas.

Conway.

5:15 p.m. Warrior Men’s Tennis. Hendrix vs.

Texas Lutheran. Conway.

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The Oh Hellos

8:30 p.m. Autolux. The Rev Room. Little Rock.

Thursday, March 24 Friday, March 25

7 p.m. Warrior Men’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Berry. Conway.

Warrior Men’s Track. Hendrix vs. Hendrix Multis. Conway.

Warrior Women’s Track. Hendrix vs. Hendrix Multis. Conway.

9 p.m. Salsa Night. Metroplex Event Center.

Little Rock.

Saturday, March 26

1 p.m. Warrior Women’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Rhodes. Conway.

Warrior Men’s Track. Hendrix vs. Hendrix Multis. Conway.

Warrior Women’s Track. Hendrix vs. Hendrix Multis. Conway.

9:30 p.m. Stephen Neeper & The Wild Hearts.

Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack.

Little Rock.

MAR. 27 - MAR. 31 Sunday, March 27 12 p.m. Warrior Men’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Oglethorpe. Conway.

Monday, March 28

8 p.m. Supersuckers. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

Tuesday, March 29

Micky & the Motorcars Thursday, March 17 2:30 p.m. Warrior Men’s Tennis. Hendrix vs.

John Brown. Conway.

2:30 p.m. Warrior Women’s Tennis. Hendrix vs.

John Brown. Conway.

Friday, March 18

9 p.m. Wade Bowen. The Rev Room. Little Rock.

9 p.m. Salsa Night. Metroplex Event Center.

Little Rock.

Saturday, March 19

12 p.m. Warrior Softball. Hendrix vs. Millsaps.

Conway.

12 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. Oglethorpe. Conway.

2 p.m. Warrior Softball. Hendrix vs. Millsaps.

Conway.

4 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. Oglethorpe. Conway.

6 p.m. Warrior Men’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Millsaps. Conway.

9 p.m. Caleb Caudle. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

MAR. 20 - MAR. 26

Sunday, March 20 12 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. Oglethorpe. Conway.

12 p.m. Warrior Softball. Hendrix vs. Millsaps.

Conway.

Monday, March 21 Tuesday, March 22

6 p.m. Warrior Baseball. Hendrix vs. Ouachita Baptist. Conway.

Wednesday, March 30

8:30 p.m. The Oh Hellos. The Rev Room. Little Rock.

Thursday, March 31

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12 p.m. Warrior Women’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

New Paltz. Conway.

8:30 p.m. Blackfoot Gypsies. Sticky Fingerz Rock ‘N’ Roll Chicken Shack. Little Rock.

Gable Bradley Band

6 p.m. Warrior Women’s Lacrosse. Hendrix vs.

Oklahoma Baptist. Conway.

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Wednesday, March 23

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Micky & the Motorcars

1600 Washington Ave Conway, AR 72032