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Carmichael helps contain spread of COVID-19

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Johnson announced lockdown in England Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a fourweek national lockdown on Saturday to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed

by COVID-19.

While schools, universities, construction sites and manufacturing businesses will remain open, bars and restaurants will be takeout only, non-essential businesses will be closed and foreign holidays are banned.

Government officials are concerned that the lockdown might last longer than intended if numbers don’t fall quickly.

N AT I O N A L Walmart has pulled firearms from stores

By Sadie Clark Staff Writer

UCA’s quarantine residence hall and off-campus isolation housing has worked since the beginning of the fall semester to keep coronavirus cases low on campus.

The university has reported 263 total COVID-19 cases as of Oct. 28.

Associate Director for Housing and Residence Life Craig Seager said the Student Health Center is working with Housing and Residence Life to make the process efficient for students and staff.

If students believe they have been exposed to COVID-19, they are able to call Student Health where workers will fill out information in a shared Google document that housing staff can see. This helps front desk workers at Carmichael Hall know who to expect beforehand.

Carmichael Hall is serving as quarantine housing on campus for the fall semester.

Carmichael was expected to be shut down for the 2020-2021 school year due to undergoing renovations, but finished during the summer, Seager said.

“We were fortunate to have a building to be able to do that,” Seager said. “A lot of schools don’t have that option, so I think that has kind of helped a lot with slowing the spread.”

Students who quarantine in

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Carmichael Hall is serving as quarantine housing on campus for fall semester. The residence hall was expected to be shut down for the 2020-2021 school year due to renovations, but was finished during the summer.

Carmichael Hall are considered closed-contact, which means they are considered healthy.

After showing symptoms, students are moved to isolation housing off-campus.

The biggest difference in operation between other residence halls and Carmichael Hall is that it has a 24-hour service desk, Seager said.

“We’ve taken precautionary measures with plexiglass and different things of that nature

Walmart reversed their Thursday decision to remove guns and ammo from shelves on Oct. 30. While Walmart originally said they were going to continue to sell the SPRING BREAK products, just not display them in public areas, they announced Friday they believed the civil unrest that caused damage to several stores were geographically isolated and had decided to return the product to the sales suggest the return to campus floor. This is the second time by Ashley Savage this year Walmart has pulled Sports Editor following Spring Break 2021 will President Houston Davis be no different. firearms from their stores, the first in June during the announced, on Oct. 21, that the “I cannot thank you enough university plans to proceed with for your patience, resilience and George Floyd protests.

Spring Break 2021 as normal. commitment to health and success Over the span of a few weeks, we have navigated this academic Biden campaign bus several health professionals, as Student Government Association, year together,” Davis said.

Universities all over the world ambushed in Texas Faculty Senate and Staff Senate The FBI is investigating the were each spoken with and have altered teaching methods, harassment of a Joe Biden included in the decision making modified academic calendars and redesigned college life to fit campaign bus in Texas by process.

“Having so much feedback the guidelines for safety since motorists displaying Trump allowed us to determine what we 2020 flags. The bus was needed to have in place in order COVID-19’s arrival in March.

The uncharted territory this ambushed by a “Trump to proceed with health and safety Train,” with nearly 100 at the center of our decision,” semester has presented both the students and the staff of UCA with vehicles surrounding on UCA’s Provost and Executive Vice all sides. At one point, the President Patricia Poulter said. levels of stress and fatigue unlike vehicles slowed the bus to “It was a complex and important any semester before.

“We know the past seven around 20 MPH, attempting decision, so it required deep months have been challenging for to stop the bus in the middle consideration of all options.”

Since the return to campus our entire campus community,” of the highway, and at in August, tremendous efforts Davis said. “Maintaining our another point attempting to have been made in prioritizing the original spring break dates will run it off the road. safety of students and staff. The allow us to counteract some of return to campus following Spring the overload and fatigue many are S TAT E Break 2021 will be no different. experiencing this fall.”

The university testing Citations for passing protocol This recent decision is and its Conway Regional one that will hopefully provide Health System partnership has school busses Conway police and school reported 263 total positive students and staff with a slight bus drivers are working COVID-19 tests since March. On sense of normalcy.

“Part of looking out for the together to stop vehicles Oct. 28, the university reported from illegally passing school that there are 28 active positive health of our UCA community includes mental health. If we could busses. In 2020, 30 people, cases.

“I am extremely proud of safely have a spring break, we felt so far, were charged with passing a stopped school all that we have accomplished it was important to do so,” Poulter bus. Officers have been together this year, and I continue said. following school busses, and to be inspired daily by your As for what students will do in some cases even riding ongoing commitment to your and where they will go during on them. When officers education, your health and the aren’t around, bus drivers health of our campus community,” the allotted spring break, the university has left that freedom to provide as much information Davis said. them. as possible; and if they Extreme safety precautions “We owe it to one another to can provide a license plate have been implemented all over make wise choices to protect one number, a citation is sent to campus since the return to the the owner of the vehicle. another,” Poulter said. university in August. These For more information on tremendous efforts have been campus testing/tracing and made to ensure that the safety of WHAT’S AHEAD modifications made to the UCA’s students and staff reign academic calendar, please visit IN OUR NEXT ISSUE priority. https://uca.edu/coronavirus/.

President Davis and Executive GoFundme for an international Vice President Poulter player’s mom to see him play.

for our desk assistants as well as our residents,” Assistant Director for Residence Life Sherita Kern said.

The lobby is open in the residence hall but students are encouraged not to be there in order to make sure they are in quarantine for a short time, Kern said.

“We know it’s an inconvenience,” Kern said.

“We want them to do their 14 days and then not have to stay

any longer so they can return back to their normal residence hall.”

Each room in Carmichael Hall houses one person in order to minimize any possible spread, Kern said.

The student capacity in Carmichael is broken down into three phases, but so far it has not moved past phase one, Seager said. Phase one allows all students to have private

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bathrooms, and phase three would call for students to share bathrooms due to capacity.

“They’ve worked really, really hard to make sure we keep this under control,” he said.

The staff overseeing operations have been holding meetings every week to plan for the future in case things change, Kern said.

Meetings are held to plan what things would look like moving forward, how to keep students safe and coordinate meals with Aramark and having them delivered, Seager said.

There are also contact tracers working on campus to track down people who might have been exposed to COVID-19 in the last 48 hours.

Most contact tracers are student workers on campus who have gone through training and are pursuing a career in the medical field, Kern said.

The responsibility students are taking to social distance and wear masks makes is a large part of why COVID-19 cases on campus are low.

“In big letters, please be responsible,” Kern said.

“We are only as strong as our students and your actions, so if we want to continue setting those standards for college campuses in Arkansas, then we have to keep doing our part.”

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Following the most recent donation to UCA, the name of the second floor commons in the College of Buisness building will be now be the Centennial Bank Student Commons.

Centennial donates to College of Business’ enhancement fund

by Ronak Patel Editor

Centennial Bank donated $25,000 to the UCA College of Buisiness, which will go toward the College of Buisiness’ enhancement fund.

The college’s enhancement fund has been used to fund student programming, learning opportunities and professional development for students as well as faculty.

UCA College of Business Dean Michael Hargis credits Centennial Bank for being one of the college’s biggest supporters, “Their consistent support and partnership enables our college to provide important learning opportunities for our faculty, staff and students,” Hargis said to UCA News.

Centennial has played a role in helping UCA students

in the college find work after graduation, “Centennial Bank is one of our college’s most involved partners and supporters,” Hargis said.

In 2019, Centennial Bank became the first bank to have an endowment with the school.

Over 40 alumni and current students are employed

by Centennial Bank.

Centennial Bank has helped the college allow guest speakers to speak to the students and faculty. In 2016, Centennial created the Johnny Allison Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, named after cofounder of Home BancShares.

Through the Johnny Allison Entrenprenueruship Speaker Series, the college has been able to bring 20 speakers to campus. Notable speakers include: Bunny Adcock, Marshall Stewart, Karen Garrett, Rush Harding, Rick

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In addition to supporting students, Centennial Bank has supported the faculty of the college. For the faculty, the bank created the John W. Allison Entrepreneur Endowed Professorship Fund to help the Innovation and enterpreueurship program, which now has 80 members in the program.

Centennial Bank is a part of Home BancShares, which has a co-founder who is currently on the Board of Trustees, Robert “Bunny” Adcock.

Following the donation, the name of the second floor commons in the College of Buisness’ building will be now be the Centennial Bank Student Commons.

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The following information is compiled from UCAPD incident reports

by Assistant News Editor Kaitlin Benight

Student given drug violation

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Fatima Garundo was given a drug violation after a routine traffic stop.

Officer Josh Heard smelled marijuana coming from inside the vehicle, and Garundo confirmed she had been smoking in the car with two other students. Around 2.5 grams of marijuana were confiscated.

Cynthia Arrington was given a warning for speeding and a warning for marijuana after officer Taylor Berry pulled her over on Oct. 30.

Arrington had a legal 9mm Taurus handgun under the driver’s seat and a marijuana blunt in the center console, where she told Berry it would be.

No charges are being filed against Arrington.

An unknown male was seen looking into the windows of two Stadium Apartment residents around 1 a.m. on Oct. 28.

Officer Durwin Lasker saw the man while he was doing a building check.

He approached the man, who began to flee on foot.

Video footage also shows the man trying to open the doors on multiple vehicles. Officers Lasker, Vazquez, Heard and Sumner all searched for the man but he wasn’t found.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Campus will stay fully operational for the remainder of fall semester

by Kaitlin Benight Assistant News Editor

While classes might go online after Thanksgiving break, campus will stay fully operational through the end of the semester to those who continue to live on campus.

The pandemic planning committee is sending out a survey asking about students’ plans to stay on campus after Thanksgiving break and are encouraging people to fill it out.

For additional study opportunities, four extra study rooms in Old Main and two in the Student Center are now open to

students through finals week, with hours extended until 10 p.m.

UCAPD will be hosting a safety walk on Nov. 12 at 5:30 p.m. Student organizations and individual students will walk through campus with police to point out areas that need improvement and to suggest things that could promote safety.

On Nov. 10, the parking and traffic committee will be holding an appeals meeting for violations. It will start at 1:30 p.m. in the Student Center.

Additionally, the Student Activity Fee Allocation committee allocated

over $120,000 to over 50 registered student organizations, with most getting all or most of their full funding. The vote to approve the allocations will be next week.

The UCA Foundation scholarships application opened Monday to all students and will be available until Jan. 21.

SGA is also looking for representatives from the college of mathematics and sciences and the senior class.

SGA is busy preparing for its Centennial Celebration with current and former SGA senators which will take place Feb. 21.

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FINANCIAL AID

Laptop initiative will expand to all student classifications

by Heidi Mackey Staff Writer

UCA has a goal to ensure any incoming freshman, who have financial difficulties, are able to obtain a working laptop to help with their studies.

Due to COVID-19, they have expanded this initiative to cover all classifications of UCA student that may be experiencing trouble.

This decision was made on Oct. 22 for all students to be able to apply for help.

This initiative is funded by the federal CARES Act. This initative is completely different from the Technology Grant program where UCA provided more than 5,000 students with a $400 grant to purchase a laptop.

To be eligible for this

initiative you must be enrolled in at least one UCA class, had been enrolled in spring 2020 semester or are a first-time freshman student. As well as, been directly impacted by COVID-19, have a 2020-2021 FASFA on file with UCA and have no access to a working laptop.

Not everyone is eligible for this initiative due to it being funded by the CARES Act. If you don’t have an approved 2020-2021 FASFA, enrolled in a fully online program, International students, DACA students, concurrent enrolled students and students not in a degree seeking program, then you are not eligible for this initiative.

The Assistance Program for Students with Exceptional

Circumstances (APSEC) committee will be making the decision as the applications come in. The decisions made by this committee are based upon the student’s statement of needs and financial aid history.

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Applications will be UCA Department of Physical Therapy factuly members (left) Kevin Garrison and (right) Steve Forbush were reviewed in the order they were elected to the American Physical Therapy Association House of Delegates. Forbush will serve a 3-year term as received, until the supplies of chief delegate and Garrison will serve a 2-year term as a delegate. laptops have run out. Students will receive an email stating if their application has been accepted or denied. This is not a cash award and accepted students will receive a laptop that has been ordered from the IT department.

You can apply for this initiative at https://uca. by Lauren McLemore physical therapists here in the profession. So it’s very helpful e d u / s t u d e n t s u p p o r t / Senior Writer state of Arkansas,” Garrison to have that connection,” l a p t o p - i n i t i a t i v e Two UCA faculty members said.

Forbush said. from the Department of Garrison believes that He said that when moving Physical Therapy have been APTA allows him to be a channel from working in the field to elected to represent Arkansas to students to make them more teaching, involvement with physical therapists in the aware of opportunities to be APTA has helped him maintain American Physical Therapy involved. his awareness of changes and Association (APTA) House of “I feel like it’s very news in the industry.

Delegates. Associate Professor important from an advocacy However, the association Steve Forbush was elected standpoint,” Garrison said. has changed since he first got as chief delegate and will Arkansas has a total of 3 involved years ago. serve a 3-year term. Interim elected delegates — Forbush, “Now we do year-long Chairperson and Associate Garrison and Park Tipton of governance, which means Professor Kevin Garrison was Monticello, a UCA physical instead of looking at motions, elected as a delegate and will therapy program alum. creating motions, getting them serve a 2-year term.

Elections occur by the vote of presented in the early spring, In 2020, the annual the membership, which took looking through everyone national meeting of over 400 place by mail this summer. else’s stuff, having debates and delegates took place virtually The House of Delegates discussion for a brief period over the summer. In 2021, for is an APTA policy-making of time and then voting in the first time, it will take place body made up of voting June, now we start from the in the fall, Sept. 10-12, 2021, chapter delegates, non-voting minute the house ends from rather than in the summer. delegates — such as the Board the previous year, and we Forbush hopes that by next of Directors and section, discuss things throughout the fall, they are able to meet safely assembly and PTA Caucus entire year,” Forbush said. in person in Washington D.C. delegates — and consultants. “We have a blog and postings Forbush has been involved It meets annually to make and corrections in language all with APTC for over 30 years, decisions on issues that may through the entire year until having served in a variety of have far-reaching implications our next meeting.” offices for Florida, Georgia and for the association and for the Forbush has been at Arkansas. This is his reelection profession of physical therapy.

UCA since January 2006. as chief delegate.

According to their website, He received his PhD in PT “Chief delegate is part of “The mission of APTA Arkansas from Nova Southeastern the congress of the national is to represent and promote the University in 2009 and MS body. It’s the chief of our profession of physical therapy in Physical Therapy from delegate body from Arkansas,” in its endeavors; to meet the The University of Alabama Forbush said. physical therapy needs of in Birmingham in 1979.

Garrison has also been society; to develop and improve Garrison has been at involved with APTC for over the art and science of physical UCA since August 2005.

30 years. At UCA, he has just therapy including practice, He received his PhD in recently moved into the role education and research; and to Biomedical Engineering of interim chair and is in the meet the needs and interests from Marquette University process of shifting his focus of its members in the state of with an emphasis from teaching and research to Arkansas.” on rehabilitation more administrative tasks.

“It’s really important to bioengineering. His BS in “I’m excited about this me to be very involved in the physical therapy and MS in opportunity to become more association. It lets me know interdisciplinary studies plugged into the association what’s going on in the world were both completed at and getting to represent the and what’s going on with our Texas Tech University.

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Around Campus: Fall Career Fair

9:00a.m to 12:00p.m, Nov. 4, BearX and Career Services and cooperative education will be hosting a career fair for all majors on Zoom.

Register now on CubConnect to get access to this amazing opportunity.

Smash Bros Tournament 4:00p.m to 6:00p.m, Nov. 6, Phi Sigma Kappa will be organizing a gaming tournament in the Student Center Ballroom for Uca Students in a CDC safe way.

Participate in these fun events and show off your Smash Bros skills.

Kevin Spencer Comes to UCA At 10:00a.m and 6:00p.m Nov. 20, and 2:00pm Nov. 21, Reynolds Performance Hall will be presenting a two day show by well-known illusionist and performer Kevin Spencer who will be showing off his amazing talent. Tickets for the two shows are available now and can be purchased by calling UCA Ticket Central at (501) 450- 3265. The first day tickets will be $5 for kids and $10 for adults, as for day two all tickets will be $5. This show will be open to the public and is limited for CDC Guidelines .

Texas Tenors at UCA

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Homecoming Queen Natalie Burklow and Homecoming King Tre Williams pose next to Bruce D. Bear and Sugar Bear. The 2020 homecoming game took place at Estes Stadium on Oct.31.

Homecoming Queen Natalie Burklow and Homecoming King Tre Williams pose next to Bruce D. Bear and Sugar Bear. The 2020 Homecoming game took place at Estes Stadium on Oct. 31.

Homecoming persists despite pandemic

by Sarah Coleman

Associate Editor Despite living in the time of COVID-19, UCA decided to keep the tradition of crowing a homecoming queen and king alive.

On Saturday, October 31, Senior Natalie Burklow and senior Tre Williams were crowned as the 2020 homecoming queen and king.

Both Burklow and

Williams were sponsored for Homecoming by Delta Zeta. Burklow is the current president for Delta Zeta and Williams is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Burklow was also sponsored by the men of Beta Upsilon Chi. Burklow described the experience of being an incredible honor on an instagram post.

“Thank you to the women of Delta Zeta and the men of Beta Upsilon Chi for supporting me and letting me represent you...I am overjoyed and completely in shock. I hope to be as great of a queen this year as Kamoni was,” Burklow said.

Williams also described his gratitude in an Instagram post. “To my family, friends,

line brothers and all the various organizations I have been a part of --- I want to personally thank you for the support and pouring so much love into me throughout the entire experience. Thank you UCA for all of the great memories with the people I won’t forget,” Williams Said.

Williams and Burklow will serve UCA as Homecoming queen and king until

Homecoming 2021. Williams is the second homecoming king to ever be named in UCA history, following Jarrett Counts.

The Homecoming princess and prince for 2020 are Emma Cheek - a member of Alpha Sigma Tau, and Jamaal Lockings - The Student Government Association president.

ZOOM HOLIDAY

2:00p.m to 3:30p.m and 7:30 p.m to 9:00 PM, Nov. 14, Reynolds Performance Hall will host a performance from the Texas Tenors, a music group who became the third highest earning group in the history of America’s Got Talent.Tickets on sale now through the box office Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in person or call (501)450-3265.

Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band Concert 7:30p.m to 10:00p.m, Nov. 17, the UCA band will be having a concert in Reynolds Performance Hall stay updated Tickets to be announced. If your interested in attending call the box office at (501) 450-3265.

Visiting Writer: Carmen Gimenez Smith 7:00p.m to 8:00p.m, Nov. 5, the Creative Writing Department will be having a Zoom and facebook live public reading and Q&A with poet and editor, Carmen Gimenez Smith. It’s an open event for UCA students and the public.

Following the 5th, at 11:00a.m to 12:00p.m, Nov. 6, will be the second and final event with Smith, it will be a craft talk on Zoom and Facebook as well.

To join this event tune into @ cahssuca on Facebook.

Artist Talks in McCastlain Starting at 5:00p.m, Nov 10, Baum Art gallery will be hosting the first part of “Artist Talks” in McCASTLAIN 143 where four BFA Exhibitors will be discussing their art, its meaning and more.

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Latino Student Association members and non-members show off their completed sugar skulls after decorating them with glitter, paint and icing of various colors. The event was held over Zoom at 6:30 on October 29.

Students decorate sugar skulls during a virtual Dia De Los Muertos celebration

by Madison Oogle Staff Writer

The Latino Student Association held a sugar skull decorating contest on Oct. 29 via Zoom, sharing personal stories of Dia De Los Muertos and exploring the meaning behind the celebration.

“For those who celebrate the holiday, it’s a way to welcome the souls of their loved ones for a reunion filled with food, decorations, drinks, and much more,” LSA president, Esmeralda Ramirez said. “Dia de Los Muertos is a celebration to demonstrate love and respect for loved ones who have passed.”

Those attending the event were required to RSVP on Oct. 26, citing whether or

not they wished to decorate a sugar skull.

Students who chose to decorate were able to receive their prepared skull later that week at the Office of Diversity and Community, alongside decorations to use in the process.

“Sugar skulls represent the souls of those who have passed. They are placed on the tombstone and/or the altar to honor the return of their spirit,” said LSA advisor, Maria Negrete Padron.“They are decorated with glitter, paint, colorful icing, sparkly tin and colorful paint.”

During the virtual event, LSA members presented a slide show concerning the significance of Day of the Dead, its

origins, symbols within the celebration, what happens during the practice and how the event is not just limited to Mexico.

Some students also shared their personal experiences with the event. “I don’t remember much, but I do remember going to church with my mom and taking flowers, cempasuchiles, to my grandma’s tomb,” Padron said. “When I lived in Mexico, I remember doing an altar in my school for our P.E. coach who passed away in a car accident on his way home.

We added many decorations and food he liked.”

The event was open to both members of the association and students not in the group. A prize was offered to whoever won the

contest. Members of LSA were eligible for a $25 cash prize while non-members were eligible for an alternate mystery prize. The winner will be whichever student receives the most likes on a photo of their sugar skull posted to Instagram. The results will be announced Nov. 1.

“The Latino Student Association is latinx based, but not Latinx exclusive.

We focus on learning about different Hispanic/Latinx cultures and create a safe environment for discussion.

Our mission is to eliminate stereotypes that tend to follow latinos and educate one another on what makes our distinct latin roots and learn about others as well,” Ramirez said, “We are seeing

more involvement of students of different ethnicities and races in our organization than previous years and we are so excited!”

The group holds events that allow COVID-19 guidelines to be maintained while offering an environment for students to socialize in.

“We have had to host meetings over zoom but have worked on finding appealing ways to have them attend our meetings, such as door prizes.” Said Ramirez.

The organization has relied on multiple platforms for advertising, including social media, CubConnect, CubHub and email. The LSA Instagram handle is @lsa_uca.

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Students win expensive prizes at virtual Boom Boom Bingo event

by Kelly Rico Staff Writer

The Office of Diversity and Community hosted a homecoming event, Boom Boom Bingo, on Wednesday via zoom as a part of the homecoming week celebrations where students could play for prizes worth $2,000.

Potential prizes included a Chewbacca cardboard cutout, a Buddy cardboard cutout and a poop emoji pillow.

The bingo game commenced once everyone filled the chat with their eagerness to start.

The rules varied between rounds with the first round requiring players to have one row of five numbers marked out, the second round required two rows to be marked out, and the final, and most difficult, round required players to have their entire card marked out.

Each round allowed for

two players to win; once a player had won they could not win again.

“It was fun, the dancing was kind of distracting and boring but the bingo and trivia was fun,” UCA junior Jordan Billingsley said.

In the first round of the bingo game, Anacaren Ramos won an Airfryer and Aliyah Hardwell won a UCA blanket.

Patpreous Lewis won Beats Solo 3 headphones and Jordan

Billingsley was awarded with an HP laptop which she plans to use as a backup.

In the third and final round freshman Ryan Taneja was able to mark all of his card in order to win the new XBOX One S. “I saw the event on UCA Student Life’s instagram,” Taneja said. “I thought the event was really fun and interactive.

I feel great about winning my prize! I am so thankful!”

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Junior Abby Hamby “I would just focus a lot more on school and things that matter, and devote time to my school work sooner than later.”

Sophomore Hannah Jones ”I would begin reading my books on the first day of class and take notes more thoroughly. It would be better if COVID wasn’t around but i think learning online is a new way of learning.”

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Chelsea Arrick’s dog, Huxley, enjoying a Pup Cup. The event, which was original postponed due to weather, took place on Oct 29 instead.

Puppies, popsicles and costumes

by Olivia Snelson

Staff Writer On Oct. 29 at 6 P.M. Sigma Kappa hosted an event at their

house called Puppies and Popsicles.

The event was originally scheduled for Oct. 15. Lola Simmons, Sigma Kappa’s Public Relations Chairman, came up with the idea to have the event. Her along with her committee helped to make this event happen.

Simmons came up with this event in order to help bring people together. “I wanted to create a community event where anyone within the UCA community could attend and hang out with people and puppies. These are very stressful times we

are living in and studies show that spending time with dogs helps to relieve stress.

This was the goal for the event as well as to promote connections and friendship within the Panhellenic and Greek communities” Simmons said.

At the event there were goodie bags containing treats and toys for each dog and even a bucket of tennis balls for them to play with.

For the owners, there were popsicles, candy, and other snacks available.

Dogs could also enjoy “Pup Cups” which were tiny cups filled with whipped cream.

Because the event was so close to Halloween, owners could dress their dogs up

in costumes, but weren’t required to.

A couple dogs did come dressed up as a butterfly unicorn and a taco.

Chelsea Arrick, a member of Sigma Kappa, attended the event with her dog Huxley.

Huxley, who is a Labrador Retriever and Pitbull mix, is 6 months old. “I got him from a pound [because] he just absolutely stole my heart” said Arrick.

Huxley is Arrick’s only dog and she’s had him for almost a month.

“Some of my favorite things about him is he groans so loudly like an old man when he’s tired. He is a huge cuddle bug and loves to learn new tricks. Instead of

running when he’s asleep, he just kind of moves his paws and whines when he dreams.

Also a crazy thing about him is when he dreams he rolls his eyes to the back of his head and you can see his eyes move and it’s super creepy” said Arrick.

Simmons said that she would definitely consider this event a success.

“We had at least five dogs attend dressed in costumes and at least 30 people in attendance… everyone in attendance had a fun time and the puppies were able to socialize with one another as well as the people in attendance. This was a fun, stress-free event for the people who came.”

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“I would devote more time to studying for tests! I’m paying for these classes myself and i hate that i’ve wasted money on classes that i’m not even doing good in.”

“I’d go into it with a different mindset and attitude and not slack off as much on school work, id treat it as a job instead of an extra activity.”

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THE SHOW MUST GO ON

Rivals’ virtual showing perseveres

by Ashley Savage

Sports Editor UCA’s theater department proved that ‘the show must go on’ even amid pandemic after executing its first virtual performance via Zoom on Thursday.

The department streamed its performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s, “The Rivals” on Youtube and Twitch.

“The Rivals” is a comedy of manners that has been executed in various adaptations since its original release in 1775.

This virtual theater experience comes after the country’s nearly nine-month long battle with COVID-19.

The pandemic conditions have inevitably altered the theater experience for universities all over.

However, UCA’s department has not let life under a pandemic prevent students and staff from experiencing just what it has to offer.

“The online experience has allowed

us to show how resilient we are, and how much the need to tell stories is a fundamental human need,” associate professor of theater, Kevin T. Browne said.

Browne has almost 30 years of experience in professional and academic theater roles and directed the virtual performance on Thursday.

The two hour Zoom adaptation required students to execute their roles from the safety of their own space.

Senior Blake Johnson, who played Captain Jack Absolute, said, “The obvious challenge is not actually being in the same room as your screen partner. It’s definitely an exercise in imagination when you don’t have someone right in front of you to react to.”

The determined cast did not let Zoom hinder the visual aspects of their performance. At times, screenpartners would hand books and other various items to the eachother

by creating visual illusions between their Zoom cameras. The dedication to the virtual adaptation was highly appreciated. “[Viewers at home might not know] how much work it takes to create the illusions that they experience. Each actor is in her own separate space, yet it doesn’t appear so,” Browne said.

Streaming the show caused the cast to take the virtual setting and make it as appealing as they could for viewers.

“It’s a testament to the creativity and resilience of people who work in the theater,” Johnson said.

The department came to realize their performances would be best on Zoom after conversations were had in terms of safety regarding COVID-19.

“It was during this summer, 2020, that we first planned to do anything via Zoom,” Browne said.

“We were faced with the choice of

performing with limited audiences, everyone masked and distanced, or trying a Zoom experiment.”

Performing via Zoom is not the ideal set-up for everyone involved in the university’s theater department.

“COVID has seriously interfered with the live experience,” Browne said. “We like to say that in the theatre everyone ‘breathes the same air.’ That’s what distinguishes theatre from film, for example.

That’s what makes live performance so special.”

Despite the trials and tribulations of performing “The Rivals” through Zoom, for a virtual audience, the adaptation of Sheridan’s work came with little to no technical issues.

“In the midst of all of this, the fact that we were still able to pull something off like this is amazing.

It shows that theater will live on,” Johnson said.

For more information and updates on the theater’s upcoming shows, feel free to check out uca. edu/theater/

Photo taken by Sarah Coleman

Bruce D. Bear dances to the Bear Marching Band’s performance of Aretha Franklin’s “Bridge over Troubled Water.” Bruce wore his homecoming gear for the inaugural UCA Homecoming Coronation on Oct. 31.

People of UCA: Janya Lopez

by Kelly Rico Staff Writer

The University of Central Arkansas has brought people from different backgrounds together for many years. Among those, talents are discovered, dreams are followed and if a student doesn’t know what they would like their career to be, they’re able to try out their interests before they graduate.

Janya Lopez, a first generation american and senior majoring in psychology and minoring in biology, decided that she wanted to explore her possible career paths at UCA. She chose UCA for its size, which she said allowed the “student body and campus to be a more connected community,” something that was different to her experience growing up in Springdale, Arkansas.

Lopez said that another reason she chose UCA was for their dance program which interested her since she has danced competitively for several years.

As Lopez pursued her dance career at UCA, she realized that she didn’t want to make dancing her full time job after graduating.

“I knew I wanted to be someone in the medical field and I saw that UCA was a great health centered school,” says Lopez, “I not only want to work with people, I want to be there and help them. To give them a source of safety, security and comfort.”

Lopez credits her discovery to her family, who gave her the freedom to find herself in college and continuously encouraged her

to do so.

“There’s pressure in being the first child to graduate from college,” Lopez said.

“I felt this huge weight on my shoulders to know and have everything planned for my future. My family would ask ‘What are your plans after?’ or ‘Are you sure this is what you want to do?’ I get this gutted feeling that maybe I’m not ready or that this may not be what I really want to do.”

“Thankfully, my parents tend to not only ask me tough questions, but motivate me to try different things while I still can,” she said, explaining that she is trying to set a good example for her younger siblings.

Lopez believes that with the hardships her family has experienced that she would be

able to help those are walking in similar shoes find the solace that she had been able to obtain.

“My experience with my own mental health and traumas encourage me to continue in that specific path. Going through it with my family, [and] sometimes alone, was tough.

Having a doctor there to make you feel comfortable to face your traumas helped me in ways I can’t start to describe,” Lopez said. “I want to be that doctor for someone.”

Though she may not be in medical practice now, her plans after graduating in spring 2020 involve looking for a job or volunteer work in order to gain experience in the medical field and continuing her studies to obtain her master’s degree.

Photo courtesy of Bradley Widding.

Lopez encourages people to be kind and motivates her closest friends to do the same. Her fond memories at UCA include meeting new people and making lifelong friends.

Sports

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Editor’s Take

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Jutsin Turner took to the field to celebrate the Dodgers’ series win, despite knowing he was positive for COVID-19. The MLB has issued an investigation since several thousand people commented on it.

Justin Turner’s postgame actions were inexcusable and deserve follow-up consequences

By Ashley Savage Sports Editor

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UCA Bears celebrate a large win over Missouri Western State on Halloween afternoon. Junior quarter back Breylin Smith earned high praise after he threw 17-23 with 283 yards and 5 touchdowns.

Bears defeat Missouri Western State in 52-10 Halloween game

By DJ Jones Staff Writer

The UCA football team defeated Missouri Western State 52-10 in front of their home crowd on homecoming night, giving them win number four of the season.

Missouri Western were first to put points on the scoreboard off of a 1-yard rushing touchdown from sophomore running back Jared Scott, giving the Griffons a 7-0 lead after the extra point field goal.

The Bears came out of the gate firing early, scoring two touchdowns in the first quarter.

The first touchdown was a 71-yard pass from junior quarterback Breylin Smith to sophomore wide-receiver Tyler Hudson.

The second touchdown was a 56-yard passing touchdown from Smith to Hudson again, giving the Bears a 14-7 lead over the Griffons.

Early in the second quarter, the Bears went out and scored another touchdown, this time off of a 32-yard passing touchdown.

The scoring pass from Smith to junior wide receiver Lujuan Winningham, gave Smith his third passing touchdown of the half and gave the Bears a 21-7 lead over Missouri Western.

On the following drive, the Bears were able to stop the Missouri Western offense with a fumble recovery from sophomore defensive lineman Logan Jessup, taking it 26 yards to score a touchdown.

The Bears scored again on the next drive,

Justin Turner is facing serious criticism following his choice to put other people’s lives at risk following the World Series game — and it is well-deserved.

The comments came after the MLB player made an appearance on-field post-game, despite being contagious with COVID-19.

Turner was pulled mid-game after the league was informed that he had tested positive for COVID-19 just hours earlier. Despite knowing that he was contagious, Turner joined in the eruption of celebration that took place on-field after the Dodgers won the series.

In his burst of celebration, he hugged fellow teammates, took his mask off and sat to take pictures with the rest of his team. The ridicule of his actions came immediately following his appearance on field.

Several thousand people took to twitter to discuss how shocking Turner’s actions were. photo courtesy of ucasports.com One tweet even went on Sophomore Midfielder Alexsi Morel takes flight as he fights for possession of the ball on Georgia to mention how Turner had Southern’s side of the field late in the second half. The UCA Bears beat the Georgia Southern Eagles taken seat, without a mask, 1-0 on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, on Senior Day for the Bear’s last home game of the regular season. next to a fellow teammate and cancer survivor following the Dodger’s win. His actions stem from a selfish decision to refuse to sit-out on the “During difficult moments situations, but as I said, the

By Rob Davis on-field celebration even we stayed strong and most important thing for Staff Writer though he knew lives would worked together.” us was getting that clean immediately be put at risk if Midfielder Soren sheet,” Jensen said. “We The UCA men’s he chose to join.

Jensen, one of the had a bunch of seniors in soccer team (3-4, SBC It’s important in times Bear’s seniors, displayed the starting 11 today, a lot 3-2) picked up a tough like these to hold people leadership to get their team of people with experience, conference win against the accountable for their actions, composed. and they know how to Georgia Southern Eagles no matter how famous or “I saw a slow start. handle these stressful (1-7, SBC 0-5) on Senior likable they may seem.

I saw a little bit of an situations. It was a stressful In all seriousness, people’s Day for their final home unorganized team, but I game going back and forth, lives are more important than match of the fall, with think that we regrouped but I think we regrouped the Bear’s junior Alberto a photo-op with the World and we battled hard,” well and I think that is Suarez heading a goal in Series trophy.

Jensen said. “There are something that comes with on the 24th minute for the Anybody with respect going to be times where great communication.” only goal of the contest, for their teammates and we play beautiful soccer The Bears were winning 1-0. staff, would’ve followed the and score three or four able to play some great guidelines the MLB issued goals, but it’s important to defense of their own as and kept their safety in mind.

The UCA Bears also keep the clean sheet the Eagles tried hard to MLB said, “Following the battled against their own and that is what’s more push the tempo against the Dodgers’ victory, it is clear mental errors early on in important today.”

Bears. that Turner chose to disregard this contest after being The Bears started the “We got the job done. the agreed-upon joint issued a yellow card only second half against the I think on the balance protocols and the instructions a minute into the match.

Eagles aggressive as they of play, it was a very he was given regarding the However, they fought back looked to get that second even game, and Georgia safety and protection of hard as they quickly found goal, putting even more Southern also had a good others.” themselves leading the pressure on the Georgia performance. It was difficult Since Turner’s choice to game 1-0 after Redshirt Southern team that was for us to win the match. I’m partake in the post-game Sophomore Pablo Azcona reeling. The Eagles played not happy with the way we trophy celebration, the and Senior Kyosuke hard defense though, not played, I’m just happy that MLB has issued a statement Kubota worked together to allowing the Bears many we got the job done and that it will be pursuing an send the ball over to junior opportunities to capitalize that the guys had it in them investigation in Turner’s post- Alberto Suarez for the on plays on their side of to finish the match,” Coach game celebration. header.

1-0 VICTORY FOR BEARS

this time on a 45-yard field goal from junior kicker Hayden Ray, giving the bears a 31-7 lead.

UCA ended the first half strong, scoring on another passing touchdown from Smith to Winningham. This pass gave Smith his fourth touchdown pass of the game and gave UCA a 38-7 lead going into the halftime break.

Early in the third quarter the Bears scored again on a 4-yard pass from Smith to sophomore tight end Austin Eldridge, giving the Bears a 45-7 lead and giving Smith his fifth touchdown pass of the game.

Late in the third quarter, the Griffons were finally able to add points to the scoreboard with a 33-yard field goal from their junior kicker Roland Tyson.

Early in the fourth quarter, UCA scored the final touchdown of the game off of a 67yard run from freshman running back Marshun Douglas, giving the Bears a 52-10 lead to close out the game.

Smith had a great game passing the football for the Bears. Smith threw 17-23 with 283 yards and 5 touchdowns.

UCA had a huge night from their outstanding wide receiver duo, Winningham and Hudson, both combined for 198 yards, 7 receptions and 4 touchdowns.

The Bears also had a strong game rushing the football, ending the game with a total of 235 rushing yards.

UCA will play its next game against Eastern Kentucky on Nov. 14 at home.

BEARS TREATED WITH WIN ON OCT. 31

Men’s soccer earned rough 1-0 win against Georgia Southern Eagles

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The Bears faced Missouri Western State on Halloween night and left the Griffons with a scary defeat. This 52-10 victory was the largest points earned by the Bears since their win over Inccarnate Word last November. This win left the Bears with a record of 4-4 before their next.

o open fall Tennis season

“Communication is something that you can control. You can’t always control the bounces or the referees, but controlling the words you communicate with and the tone you use is what I think was a positive for us today,” said Head Coach Ross Duncan.

the field.

“We thought that since we had the lead going into the 2nd half, we wanted to stress them and get another goal to close the game. We had the chances for it, but we needed to be a little more composed in the critical

Duncan said.

The Bears will play the Georgia State Panthers (82, SBC 3-2) for their final regular season game on Friday, Nov. 6, with a start time of 1 p.m., right before the start of the Sun Belt Championship Tournament starting on Nov. 13.

photo by Sarah Coleman

UCA’s wide receiver duo, Winningham and Hudson, both aided in the success of the Bears’ Halloween win. The two combined for 198 yards, 7 receptions and 4 touchdowns.

The Bears are taking this win against Missouri State Western and preparing for their upcoming game against Eastern Kentucky. The Bears will face off against Eastern Kentucky at 3 p.m. on Nov. 14.

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Why everyone should detox from social media Getting away from social media is the best shouldn’t try to compare themselves to other thing for a person, period. people and celebrities like Kylie Jenner Name a time when you stayed off your because it’s impossible to become someone phone more than a few hours, days or weeks else, and having plastic surgeries over and over without wondering about what’s happening or to become someone else is dangerous, creepy stressing about others. and not going to improve the situation.

That is a successful Social Media detox.

All of us in our own way were made perfectly You’re at such a good mental state that and our parents always told us that, but we lost nothing bothers you like it used to, and that way of thinking because everyone else on you don’t need to see your phone every these media platforms is telling us differently.

5 minutes because Situations like that lead you’re genuinely not people into eating disorders interested anymore. or depression because they When we are glued slowly started believing what to our phones, we are they were told about their losing more and more appearances. natural, in-person Before phones everyone social skills. seemed happier and people Social media took didn’t have issues with self away our natural skill esteem because no one felt that of communicating in pressure of being “perfect’’ person, and now over that this new generation of 50% of people rather people are experiencing. communicate with each It’s crazy how much power other digitally instead a person can have with social of in person, even when media and not realize it, they are in the same and it’s astonishing how room. much better someone

by Haley Melendez Most people can’t could feel without their even hang out with their phones and social media Assistant Campus Life Editor friends without getting accounts in hand 24/7. distracted because I tried this experiment of a snapchat, or a of staying off social media notification from Instagram and twitter. for a week, and my results were surprisingly It seemed like life before all the high tech amazing. was simple and easy. It was a life that was less I no longer feel that need to be on my stressful and even less depressing. phone or need to socialize through the media This new life full of all these social media anymore, and what’s amazing is that I feel way outlets not only damages an active social life; better and less stressed as I did a week or two it also affects people mentally. ago.

A person could just scroll through their It’s a process that I would recommend Instagram feed and see someone and think, for many others to try, especially if they are “OMG she’s super pretty” or “wow I wish I overstressed or they are unhappy and find had abs like that.” What that’s doing is just themselves just lying down looking at their slowly damaging their self esteem. It starts phone all day. with questioning their appearances, like they Now I rarely go on my phone and when I do, are no longer perfect because everyone online I can guarantee it so I can look at Pinterest for is encouraging a certain body shape and a craft ideas. certain face, and if you don’t have those you A social media detox is the perfect thing to need to change your looks to match what they do so you can re find yourself and gain the self say is considered beautiful or handsome. love that you didn’t know you needed.

In reality, that’s not real life, a person

There is nothing wrong with binge watching shows With the amount of uncertainty and often times even comedic. anxiety that goes on in our lives it is No matter how difficult of a subject, important everyone has a sitcom they can sitcoms have this ability to still leave watch to escape every now and then. audiences feeling good about the world and Sitcoms are the one thing everyone can the people around them. agree are great. It’s just a matter of finding Without a way of taking a break from our one whose characters you like and story line lives and what is going on in the world, it is you enjoy following. easy to go crazy. Not everyone can be like the There are sitcoms for everyone and with Kardashians and hop on a plane and go to a streaming services like Netflix, it is easy to private island, but most of us can binge watch go back and watch some of the classics or a sitcoms on streaming services. modern one.

There is nothing wrong with binge We should take advantage of the amount watching sitcoms, stand up, sports highlights, of sitcoms available to us. playing video games or As journalists, we spending all day looking constantly tell people to at decor on Pinterest. pay attention to the news There is such a and during the election negative stigma attached cycle and this pandemic to binge watch your that message has been favorite tv shows or amplified even more. playing video games all Yes, everyone should day and that needs to stay informed on the stop. issues but is also Sometimes people

by Ronak Patel important to take a just need to take a Editor break. break and that might Watching the news be their only means and panicking every to getting that escape waking minute about it won’t realistically from their problems. end every problem that is going on, so save No one has to be productive every minute yourself some time and peace and take a of every waking moment or have to go on break. some exciting trip in their free time.

Sitcoms are a great way to take that break Everyone spends their time differently we need from our lives and the news cycle. and we shouldn’t shame people for choosing Sitcoms do a great job of taking the issues their time doing something that is harmless we face in our lives and as a country and put like binge watching Netflix series or playing them in a form that is easy to understand and video games all day.

If the university decides to expand the range of hours for classes to be held, students could find the decision very beneficial, but some students as well as teachers could experience difficulties from it.

Talks have been spreading around the university of expanding the hours of classes to be held not mostly during an 8 a.m. through 2 p.m. timespan, but throughout the entire course of the day.

However, there will be pros and cons to this decision if it is going to be implemented.

Expanding the timespan for classes to be held could be very beneficial to students.

Plenty of students work jobs outside of school and have difficulty finding a good schedule that fits.

Some employers need to schedule their employees during the daytime, when a student would usually be in class.

If the university implements this action, many students could potentially gain more hours at their job, being able to find more flexibility in their availability for attaining income to provide for themselves.

Another positive aspect is that students could find more time to focus on their studies.

Some may be able to focus better going to back-to-back classes. Unfortunately, not all students are similar.

Some students may need an hour or two between classes to complete assignments, study, eat a meal or even just to take a break and meditate.

Where this plan could go wrong is the availability of students that have set schedules.

Broadening course hours can negatively affect students’ academic performances and professors’ job performances.

Lots of students have set schedules and routines in their daily life, which is shaped by school a lot of the time.

Many people who attend classes tend to work weekends and evening shifts due to classes being held in the earlier hours of the day. If the university was to expand its hours of courses, some students may not be able to attend their courses due to their work schedule.

On the other hand, some students may not be able to work as many hours and provide income due to their university schedule.

Furthermore, students who have a healthy evening routine may be disrupted, which can result in depreciating mental health.

This could mean the disruption of going home, studying, exercising, eating dinner at a good time, maybe spending time with family and going to sleep early.

Alongside students being affected would be professors.

Because professors tend to work within the same hours every semester, their schedules will surely be affected as well.

If professors’ schedules are thrown off, this could result in professors having trouble finding time to grade assignments, prepare course material, spend time with family and nourish their physical and mental health.

Professors spend plenty of time out of class to continue doing their jobs, but they need to have time to rest as well. The potential plan to expand course hours could affect this aspect for better or worse.

Surely, no students want grumpy professors.

Lastly, the expansion of course hours could help everyone at the university come in less contact with people, avoiding a higher risk of contracting COVID-19.

The plan could potentially decrease COVID-19 rates at the university, but could result in potentially poor academic performances from students.

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New This Week Movies

Nov. 6 — Let Him Go (R), directed by Thomas Bezucha, starring Kevin Costner, Diane Lane.

Nov. 6 — True to the Game 2: Gena’s story (R), directed by Jamal Hill, starring Vivica A. Fox, Rotimi, Andra Fuller

Nov. 6 — The Informer (R), directed by Andrea Di Stefano, starring Joel Kinnaman, Ana de Armas

Music Nov. 6—Book of Curses- Adulkt Life Nov. 6 - Fit Pitcher- Art Contest

Sequel to “Borat” just as wacky as original, cringe-worthy

by Madison oglge

Staff Writer

The sequel to feature Sacha Baron Cohen’s infamous character is titled “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” and was released Oct. 23 to Amazon’s streaming platform, Prime Video. This film brings Borat back and adds Tutar, Borat’s daughter to the lineup.

The film begins with a short recap of the previous film, explaining where Borat has been since 2006. We find out he has been confined to physical labor for the past 14 years due to the embarrassment his first film brought the nation of Kazakhstan. Premier Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, later proposes a mission for Borat — gift a monkey to Mike Pence so that Kazakhstan may gain Donald Trump’s respect.

Once in America, we find that Borat’s daughter, Tutar, snuck into the shipping crate with the monkey and made her way to the United States against her father’s wishes.

Borat discovers that the monkey

“Who Is America?” where he disguised himself and interviewed political figures, the most memorable being a clip with Republican Jason Spencer from the Georgia House of Representatives. This clip showed Spencer mocking Chinese people, pulling his pants down, and yelling the N-word more than three times.

Ultimately Cohen performs brilliantly in this film and what makes it better is that many of the most jarring moments in the production maintain Cohen’s streak of authenticity and offer honest insight into photo courtesy of www.screencrush.com the current climate of America.

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as infamous character Borat, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”. “Borat Subsequent The most interesting moments being when Borat lives with two Moviefilm” can be streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

Republican conspiracy theorists the hate behind antisemitism and when Rudy Giuliani finds has been eaten, leaving him to government. propose giving his daughter to Initially, the film may and misogyny. There is also, himself in a bedroom with Tutar, Mike Pence instead. seem to be a simple rehashing oddly enough, a subplot about who poses to be a 15-year-old When Borat’s plan to bring of the first movie, with the the strengthening of a father- girl in the film.

I often found myself having Tutar to Pence goes array, same public pranks but a daughter bond.

Sacha Baron Cohen is a to pause the movie because Tutar proposes a new candidate more politically driven plot. even though the pranks are —Rudy Giuliani. In the However, as the film progresses professional when it comes to hilarious, the second-hand process of getting to Giuliani, we realize Cohen has advanced playing devil’s advocate. In the embarrassment sometimes Tutar is inspired to become his practical jokes to a further first Borat film, Cohen pulled became unmanageable. independent and leave her extreme, most commanding some of the most outrageous However, “Borat Subsequent father. This leaves Borat to find full-body cringes. A character quotes from people, many of Moviefilm” Is guaranteed to her in the midst of a national revision for Borat is an added them completely unstaged. leave your head spinning in quarantine, before he faces aspect as well, making Cohen’s Cohen continued the hopefully, all the best ways execution by the Kazakhstan character eventually realize practice in his 2018 show possible.

DOCUSERIES

MUSIC

Nov. 6- Medicine EPBaby Queen Nov. 6 -The Four Five Three- The Jacques Nov. 6- Confetti- Little Mix Oct. 23 —no one else, not even you EP- Mae Muller Nov. 6 - Naked EPOctober Drift

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Sam Smith’s “Love Goes” can be listened to on all streaming platforms.

Nov. 6 - Eyes Rest Their Feet- Thaba Nov. 6 - Summer Sleeping EP - Thunder Dreamer

Netflix Nov. 4 - Christmas with a Prince Nov. 4- Love and Anarchy

Nov. 6- Citation

Nov. 6- The Endless Trench

Nov. 9- Undercover (Season 2)

Nov. 10- Dash and Lily

Nov. 10- Trash Truck

Top 5 Sinners Made Whole

List compiled by Olyvia Gonzalez Staff Writer

Sam Smith encourages fans to love again with new album

BY LAUREN MCLEMORE SENIOR WRITER

Sam Smith’s third and latest album, “Love Goes”, released Oct. 30, 2020, is not surprisingly, an artwork fueled by heartbreak, intertwined with the perfect balance of deeply personal emotional ballads and upbeat partystaple bops.

The album was originally titled “To Die For” and was scheduled to release in July, but was pushed back due to COVID-19. It features the already familiar charttopping favorites, “To Die For,” “Diamonds” and “How Do You Sleep?”

The 28-year-old English singer has been very open in the past about his battles with body image and now goes by gender-neutral pronouns. Not ironically, the album gives off an air of liberation and acceptance, especially when it comes to the broken heart we know all too well. This isn’t the John Mayer-esque album you break out to finish off a post-breakup pity pint of chocolate chip cookie dough, though. This is windows-down driving dramatically down the coast realizing you were too good for that boy all along. Whether you’re always getting the short end of the stick for giving too much or being afraid to love because you’ve been hurt so many times before, Smith is out here giving hopeless romantics

everywhere a reason to believe in love again.

The album opens with “Young,” a beautiful acappella confession. “I wanna be wild and young/And not be afraid to lose/ Cry on my own, me and my bottle....

Can’t you see that all I wanna do is/ Get a little wild, get a little high/ Kiss a hundred boys and not feel like I’m tied to them?”

While, as I mentioned before, there’s not shortage of dance music like “Dance (‘Till You Love Someone Else)”, the album is mostly made up of emotional pleas and tender serenades led by tug-atyour-heartstring piano chords like in “For the Lover That I Lost” and “Forgive Myself.”

An ode to the lovers who care too much, “Love Goes” is a vulnerable journal entry; a uniting anthem for the rejected, the hurt, the confused and the introverted overthinkers — “So Serious” says it best: “Put your hands in the air if you sometimes ever get sad like me/Put your fingers on your chest and your body and pray ‘Let it be.’”

Featuring guests Max Martin, Shellback, Amy Allen, Ryan Tedder, Demi Lovato and Burna Boy, Smith has created a gold-star, diverse album that will take all your thoughts and fears and weave them into encouragement to accept, with reckless abandon, the person you are and the lover you can be.

1. Saul of Tarsus

2. David (2 Samuel 11)

Imagine being so filled with anger that your life was consumed with taking the lives of others who have the one thing you need: a relationship with God. This was the life of Saul; a man who devoted his life to the persecution of Christ’s followers. He found ways to imprison, beat, and even kill the believers. Stephen, found in Acts 7, was stoned to death at the feet of Saul. Saul received a new name in Christ: Paul. Paul went on to be the biggest apostle of his time and wrote much of the New Testament.

King David was a murderer and an adulterer. Uriah was an elite soldier for David’s army and a faithful husband to Bathsheba.

David saw Bathsheba bathing on her roof and knew he had to have her. What started as a one night stand ended with a baby on the way and a lie that needed to be concealed. So, David sent a letter to his army commander stating: ‘set Uriah in the frontlines of the most intense battle and move away from him, so that he may be killed’. Even though David had this on his record, he showed modern-day Christians how to pray and found favor in God’s eyes before he died.

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Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 2” was released Oct. 19 on Netflix.

“Unsolved Mysteries” features cold cases that will keep you up at night BY

HAYLEY MELENDEZ

Assistant Campus Life Editor

With Netflix there is always a show or movie they make that has you questioning their choices. Usually it’s because something was too inappropriate or it was so bad that no one even wanted to watch it, however this one docu-series makes you wonder about the choices of the police force who are telling their stories. With this series, each episode throws you a whole new curveball that they never prepared you for, and makes you wonder what more they could have done.

It throws you stories from a mother going missing from her church, to an alien abduction (no seriously people said that), and all the way to a first degree murderer getting a prison furlough (a granted leave from prison and they return at a specific time) so he could go Christmas shopping and then never came back. My mother even said “the person who gave

3. Rahab (Joshua 2) It does not matter if it is 1406 BC or 2020, prostitution is always brought up in hushed tones. It is not the American pastime nor something that is being legalized on our voter ballots. Rahab was a lady of the night and by chance found herself in the presence of two Israeli spies who had been sent by Moses’ assistant: Joshua.

She hid them from her village in Jericho and because of her sacrifice/faith in hiding these men, she became a part of the lineage of the spotless Lamb of God. She is one of five women listed in the lineage in Matthew 1.

him furlough is stupid, of course he’s not going to come back I dont know they were expecting”. The man’s name is Lester Eubanks and has been on the run and missing from police custody since 1973 and has still not been located.

It’s a chilling series to watch because these cases are exactly what’s expected, Unsolved and irritating, to this day not a single case has been solved. These cases and stories that they share with us have been cold cases for months and in some cases years or even decades.

Although they have made these cases public knowledge to show everyone, it has caused a small amount of problems for the officers involved.

People are distraught and questioning the system that’s supposed to protect them because of how long it has been or how long it is taking for these cases to be solved. It causes an overflow of questions by people that they cannot answer because they don’t

4. Samaritan Woman (John 4)

Samaria was able to receive the revelation of the Messiah due to this woman’s open heart. Jesus found her at a well gathering water for her home. In a brief conversation, Jesus was able to get through to her hardened heart by ‘reading her mail’. This woman went through five husbands and a boyfriend; this was not a custom of this time. She was known as a whore and slept where she chose.

Jesus died for the imperfect and this lady was able to see this first hand. God came manifested in the flesh to die for her sin.

know it themselves.

However, it is admirable and smart that they made this series in a way that they are recruiting help from the entire world instead of keeping these cold cases quiet from the public anymore. They not only inform the audience of the information and what evidence they gained during the cases, they also put a tip hotline for people to call if they know any information or find anything involving the cases at the end of each episode.

This hotline has been blowing up since the series first 6 cases were released, and now with these new stories coming to light the hotline has yet to cease ringing with more and more tips. Finishing this series of cold cases, I had a sad feeling come over me at the realization that the families involved still do not understand or even know what happened to their loved ones, and I hope that these cases can get solved so they can finally have peace.

5. Prodigal Son (Luke 15) Churchgoers use terms like ‘backsliders’, but we have all fallen short of the glory of God. The parable that Jesus told was addressed about an actual man that he knew. This rich man was heartbroken by his son who had chosen to leave all they knew and live a life away from normalcy. He used all the money his father had gave him and lived a life of prodigal: drinking, partying, women, and luxury. This all changed when he hit rock bottom; when he came to the end of his sin. In the end, the son was restored and found home back in the father’s house.

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SPORTS

8/ November 4, 2020

UCA STATS CORNER SPORT

OPPONENT

RESULT

RECORD

Football

Missouri Western State

52-10 (W)

(4-4)

Women’s Soccer

Missouri State

1-0 (W)

(8-2-1)

Men’s Soccer

Georgia Southern

1-0 (W)

(3-4)

Tennis

University of Missouri

3-4 (L)

(0-2)

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Junior Tania Nuñez works each day to balance life as a public relations major and a UCA golfer. Nuñez

recently lead the UCA women’s golf team in the Callaway Gardens Invite with 11 birdies.

Junior golfer talks patience and diversity at UCA

by Delaney Van Wilpe News Editor

Impressive, driven and optimistic are just a few words to describe UCA golfer Tania Nuñez.

Nuñez, originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, is a junior at the University of Central Arkansas. She is majoring in public relations and is expected to graduate in May 2022.

Nuñez has found her a place for herself at UCA. “I cannot picture myself being somewhere else,” she said.

She explained that the wonderful opportunities that UCA offers has brought so many different people to the city of Conway. “It’s so cool to realize how different everyone is,” Nuñez said of the small, diverse women’s golf team.

Nuñez recently contributed to the women’s golf team’s first win since the Little Rock Golf Classic in 2018. At the 2020 Callaway Gardens Invite, Nuñez led the team with 11 birdies for the tournament.

Efforts from Nuñez and other teammates, such as Elin Kumlin,

Pear Rittawee, Pim-Orn Thitisup and Camilia Moreno, “produced the lowest round in UCA history with a team score of 860,” according to ucasports.com.

Despite many potential and definite setbacks from COVID-19, the women’s golf team were able to overcome those obstacles.

“We know we’re good. Even though we didn’t practice or do much over the summer, we know what we’re capable of. So, we just pushed and practiced really hard,” Nuñez said.

Nuñez reveled in the fact that their team is one of the few who had an opportunity to go out and play this fall.

“It felt unreal because it was like ‘we’re actually playing, and we’re actually playing really well,” Nuñez said. “We just have to be glad that we are able to be out there doing what we like. It sucks to have a bad shot, or whatever, but I would rather have a bad shot than sit out a whole season.”

This season, just as any, has made room for Nuñez to grow as a player and an individual.

“The biggest thing I learned this semester that works for me is patience. Knowing that it’s going to come eventually, no matter if it’s tomorrow or next month, it’s going to come,” Nuñez said.

Nuñez is not oblivious to the fact that the right attitude and hard work give favorable results.

“You need to look at adversity and say ‘this is my chance to grow’; using those obstacles and bumps to grow, and not looking at them just as setbacks,” Nuñez said. “I know it’s easier said than done, but it really does help. This applies for everything in life, not just sports.”

Her motivation to keep pursuing her passions and endeavors is her mother. “I know it sounds cliche, but she really does.

Everything I do just goes back to her,” Nuñez said.

In the future, Nuñez plans to continue to stick to the realm of sports. She has plans to develop a sports driven school back home in Mexico. This school will hopefully give opportunities that are not currently available, at an affordable price, to students.

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UCA’s tennis team battled head to head with the University of Missouri, but ultimately fell short. This was the final fall match for the Bears and they will pick back up in Texas on Jan. 8.

Tennis falls short vs Missouri Western State on Friday in 4-3 final fall match

By Megan Holder Social Media Editor

UCA tennis team battled the University of Missouri in a doubleheader Friday, Oct. 30.

Overall, the Bears fell short but still played strong matches. The final score was 4-3, favoring the University of Missouri.

Sophomore Chunxi Xin and Sophomore Fuka Nonoyama doubled up to receive another victory.

The two took on the number one duo from Mizzou, Gabrielle Goldin and Elys Ventura.

For a while, the match was steady but the Bears pulled it off in the end winning 6-3. Mizzou took control of the other doubles taking the first points to get them the wins.

According to ucasports.com, head coach Casey Wharton said, “I would say that this is really positive in many ways, we got to play a good team and play them at home in beautiful weather. Even though we didn’t win, we did have people play well and had some wins. Overall we competed hard and smart and gave ourselves

chances, that was my main takeaway.”

The Bears weren’t too far behind when playing singles. The score was split 2-2.

Xin took the first set against Ventura. Ventura turned around and took the second set against Xin. Ten points in, Xin took control to break the tie with a 6 point lead. Ventura caught back up and went on a run scoring at seven apiece. Xin wasn’t done as she finished the rally 3-1.

Nonoyama met the same expectations as her partner and won her match.

She dominated the first and third set.

Junior Yada Vasupongchai kept the crowd on their toes forcing a one-sided second set. The Bears split the singles play.

The point was awarded in doubles play and the Bears fell short 4-3.

The second doubles match was similar to the first.

Xin and Nonoyama took the victory, 6-4 against Serena Nash and Gabrielle Goldin.

There were only two single matches that didn’t make it to the third set.

Out of the four tiebreakers, UCA conquered three.

Vasupongchai was the first to win a tiebreaker.

She finished 10-8 to win 2-1.

Freshman Sumomo Hamanaga and Jaeun Lee were the final two to end the day.

After winning the first set, Hamanaga had trouble keeping up in the second.

She was able to find her pace and contributed plays that led the Bears to points.

Hamanaga finished the final set 10-4 and gave the Bears their second point of the match.

Lee played a different style. Her and Missouri’s Valentina Vazquez played neck and neck throughout the match.

Lee won the first match by two. She fell short in a tiebreaker in the second set. During the next set, Lee was the last to finish.

She then found her rhythm and took a 10-3 win which gave the Bears their third point.

This was the Bears last fall match. They will begin their spring season on Jan. 8 at the TCU tournament in Fort Worth, Texas.