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NOVEMBER 13, 2019 Volume 114 — Issue 11

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Art Show: Senior BA and BSA students showed off their college art work

Netflix : “The End of The Fucking World” season 2 deserves the hype.

Soccer: The men’s team wins first in conference.

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THE NEWSDESK FROM THE ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

I N T E R N AT I O N A L Australian state in wildfire emergency The New South Wales government declared a state of emergency Nov. 11 due to wildfires. Three people were killed in the fires and 100 have been treated for firerelated injuries. Firefighters are responding to 60 fires throughout the state with support from the Australian military. Hundreds of schools are expected close for the remainder of the week.

N AT I O N A L Vana White covers for Sajak after operation The filming of Wheel of Fortune was interrupted when long-time host Pat Sajak underwent emergency surgery Nov. 7 to address a blocked intestine. The surgery was successful, but Sajak is not expected to continue filming for two weeks. Co-host Vanna White is filming the show’s “Disney Week” episodes in Sajak’s place, while another person will take over White’s role of turning over letters on the board.

Wild turkeys scare New Jersey senior citizens

MLB player Todd Frazier appealed to Governor Phil Murphy through Twitter concerning the removal of violent turkeys in a New Jersey community Nov 9. Residents of a 55-and up community in Ocean County have been attacked by a group of up to 60 wild turkeys in the area. Animal Control is not legally allowed to address the situation due to laws protecting wildlife.

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Conway officer gets drunk, dances naked Conway police officer Cebron Hackett was issued a 30-day suspension with no pay following the release of a video of him dancing while intoxicated and completely naked in a Little Rock nightclub Oct. 13. Hackett struggled with security and then drove himself to his home in an impaired state later that evening. Hackett was not charged with a crime. He will have to complete remedial training before returning to work.

WHAT’S AHEAD IN OUR NEXT ISSUE “Feminism is Not a Dirty Word” poetry slam takes place

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Writer Harry Thomason goes through a story while speaking at the Bridges Larson Theatre at UCA Nov. 6. Thomason, who was on campus promoting his memoir, kept the audience interested with stories about Ford Pintos and Bill Clinton.

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Forum on homeless population brings on discussion, awareness by Kaitlyn Benight Staff Writer

The University of Central Arkansas’ Poverty Studies Work Group, in partnership with the Conway Homelessness Taskforce, hosted a public forum on homelessness Nov. 6. “The goal of [the] event is to gather some of the public’s perceptions about homelessness as an issue in Conway in order to share that with the homelessness task force and ultimately with our local government,” Leslie Graybeal, director of poverty studies said. Elected officials, UCA students and community members broke up into groups and were

asked to discuss a series of questions for 45 minutes. These included talking about individual perceptions about homelessness, as well as brainstorming about what the local community can do to help the homeless population overcome barriers that exclude them from the community. “The more we have conversations, the easier it is to find solutions for the most amount of people,” Phillip Fletcher, director of City of Hope Outreach (CoHO) and member of Conway Homelessness Taskforce said. “If people can put themselves in the situation of others, hopefully, they will be more sympathetic to those people’s problems.” In 2018, the U.S. Department of Housing and

Harry Thomason captivated his audience on the Bridges Larson Stages at UCA Nov. 6 as he promoted his memoir, “Brother Dog: Southern Tales and Hollywood Adventures.” Thomason, a native of Hampton, Arkansas , had been a football coach at Little Rock McClellan High School before beginning to work in the film industry. Some of his most famous work came when he began to be closer to former president Bill Clinton. Thomason even made the film that would be used in the 1992 Democratic National Convention, “The Man From Hope,” to help promote Clinton’s efforts for the presidency. Shauna Meador, the chair of the Department of Film, Creative Writing and Theatre, said that Thomason was someone she was very excited to bring to campus. “Having been such a

Urban Development found that 171 people reported being homeless in Faulkner County. Among these individuals, most were elderly. Conway doesn’t have an emergency homeless shelter, however, other services offered through nonprofit organizations are available to people experiencing homelessness in the area. For example, the Conway Ministry Center’s winter warming station opens Dec. 13, allowing people to stay the night while the weather is colder. The Bethlehem House offers a transitional shelter and a women’s shelter for victims

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fan of ‘Designing Women’ and ‘Evening Shade’ and the fact that the Thomason’s were local celebrities when I was a student here, I thought this would be a great opportunity to take advantage of,” Meador said. Meador had been a student at UCA from 1989 to 1992, which was amongst the primetime running of the previously mentioned shows. “Designing Women” and “Evening Shade” were both shows that ran during the late 1980s and early 1990s that Thomason had a part in producing. Speaking to a small group of people, Thomason kept the audience listening with every word. With his stories ranging from his time spent in Los Angeles, California, to filming “The Blue and the Gray” in Arkansas, he made the most of his roughly hour-long speaking time to captivate the audience. He kept the audience intrigued with detail. Thomason

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Community speaker urges students to serve in their communities by Kennadi Harris Staff Writer

The Arkansas Center for Research in Economic and the UCA Poverty studies Working Group came together to host author Nan Alexander Doyal, who lead a lecture on community Nov. 5 during X-period. Doyal lead a seminar titled after her book “Dig Where You Are: How One Person’s Effort Can Save a Life, Empower a Community and Create Meaningful Change in the World.” Nearly a full house of students came to hear Doyal’s seminar in the College of Business auditorium. Doyal began her seminar by introducing herself and explaining how she came to be in the position she is in today. Doyal took the audience back 30 years, where she was in the position of most people in the crowd: in college and not knowing what the future holds. But ten years after graduating, she joined a company called The International Forum. Her presentation included a slideshow with a compilation of photos of Doyal working with a

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Author Nan Alexander Doyal speaks about her 2017 book at the front of the College of Business cauditorium. Doyal’s novel was made teach people about how to make “a difference in the world by simply taking what we already know how to do” and “using it to make a meaninful change for the good,” according to her website at digwhereyouare.com

diverse group of communities and people. She described the International Forum as a company that designs “traveling learning experiences” for the CEOs of several companies. Doyal said they took several people to different parts of the

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UCA service learning students helped to facilitate the discussion on homelessness at UCA Downtown. The discussion consisted of students talking about individual perceptions about homelessnes and brainstorming about how the local community can assist those who are homeless in Faulkner County.

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world and thoroughly examined countries and their business systems, government, education and more. Doyal said that through working with this company, she met some extraordinary people. “They were not famous for

what they have done, there was nothing written on them, there were no movies about them, but they were solving problems in their societies that governments and well funded organizations had been challenged by for decades,” Doyal said.

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Doyal later captured the stories of these “extraordinary” people in her book, one of whom was a woman from northern Philidelphia by the name of Lily. Lily was an artist and previously, a professor. Lily transformed a vacant lot to an art park with the help of kids from the local neighborhood. The park became a community project that gave local kids a safe space from the troubles of their daily lives. After the park’s completion, Lily set out and transformed more than 100 other vacant lots into gardens, small businesses and other spaces that helped the community. Doyal also highlighted a man from Bombay, India named Joe. Joe was homeless for most of his life and lived in a poverty-ridden part of Bombay called the slums. However, Joe eventually went on to partner with the government to develop solutions for the poor conditions of the slums. Joe convinced the government to provide funding for toilets and running water and later went on to win a Nobel

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