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I N T E R N AT I O N A L Students speak their truth by linking arms.

Hundreds of school children, uniformed, wearing masks, linked arms in support of the protest of the chinese ruling Hong Kong. This is unique in the fact that the protest is running so deep it is influencing school aged kids to reach out and stand up for what they believe in.

The protest started peaceful and ended in around 1300 arrests, fires in the street, and vandalism at the Mass Transit Railway.

by Daniel Adams and Lauren McCabe Staff Writer and Editor

N AT I O N A L Baby Jesus jailed for resisting arrest in TX

photos courtesy of UCA Wesley Foundation Facebook and Alexis Faupel on Facebook

[Left] J Alexis Faupel’s doorway to her room decorated in rememberance of her life and legacy at UCA. [Right] Faupel working with a service project. Faupel was

On August 4th a Texas man involved the Ozark Mission Project as a college staff member. known as “Baby Jesus” was arrested for evading arrest on a motorcycle. Jesus Sebastian Gomez surrendered to the Tariff County Sheriff’s office with a felony charge of evading arrest, with bond set at $15,000. Gomez was doing motorcycle tricks by Daniel Adams and knew exactly what you needed.

She was the one to give you a hug while weaving in and out of Lauren McCabe when you needed it the most, [or] traffic, causing several near Staff Writer and Editor sending you that text message of accidents.

Senior Alexis Faupel died encouragement.”

Sept. 2 after a short battle with A roommate and close friend ovarian cancer. Along with being of Faupel’s, Nolan McNeil, was Bee unit added to NYPD a kinesiology major, Faupel asked to give a speech about how The New York Police was a member of the Wesley Faupel impacted his life both Department has a new Foundation at UCA as well as inside and outside college. surprising unit, The Bee an avid volunteer with the Ozark “Although Alexis and I lived Unit. This bee unit is head Mission Project and the Bryant together and worked together, up by two officers, Officer United Methodist Church. our relationship goes back ten Darren Mays and Officer Faupel’s friends and family years,” McNiel said. “We grew Michael Lauriano. The held a memorial service on up in youth group together. purpose for this unit is to Friday, Sept. 6, at the Cabot But believe me, I never thought safely take the bee swarms United Methodist Church. A we would become as close, and foster them in a safe slideshow played — full of pictures especially within the confines of environment where they can and videos — that highlighted her the ministry.” be cared for and not pester life and community legacy.

McNeil reflected on the society. These bee swarms Bailey Faulkner, executive memories he shared with started to occur when urban director of the Ozark Mission Faupel, and even credited her bee keeping was legalized in Project, spoke about Faupel with helping him overcome his New York in 2010. These stood out to her in the project’s addiction to drugs. bees have nothing to do college staff the first time she saw As a tribute to Faupel before with forensics, but the bee here. her memorial service, the Wesley keepers work hard to keep “Alexis loved other people,” Foundation allowed anyone who the streets of New York as Faulkner said. “No matter who came by the Wesley house on sting-free as possible. you were or where you were, she 1903 College Avenue to write

Student with cancer remembered for dedication to local church ministries, impact felt across state

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Vending machine treats kids with books

In England, Arkansas, England Elementary School has taken a new approach to encourage child literacy. A new vending machine was set up to replace snacks on August 4th. This vending machine is a reward system in which books are sold. Kids are given tokens for good behavior and when they have enough tokens they are able to cash them out for a book of their choice. These books vary in reading level and genre. England Elementary School is hoping that this will be a catalyst in other

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Scholarship day at local church unites universities in Conway

by Marcus McClain Sports Editor

Conway lived up to its “City of Colleges” nickname Aug. 25 at the annual College Day hosted at True Holiness Saints Center.

Presidents from UCA, Hendrix and Central Baptists were all in attendance, as well as Conway’s mayor, Bart Castleberry.

Various departments throughout the city of Conway, such as the fire department, Conway Police Department and the city council were represented as well.

“The three colleges always partner for College Day,” pastor of True Holiness and UCA Board of Trustees member E.C. Maltbia said. “It makes us all more effective in welcoming students into the Conway community.

That’s really the purpose of college day, to welcome freshmen and greet upperclassmen. This is our 23rd year hosting college day and it always includes delegation from several agencies in the city of Conway,” Maltbia said.

College day also helps students pursue their careers and further their education by awarding scholarships.

This year, True Holiness presented two $250 scholarships, a $500 scholarship as well as one $1,000 scholarship.

Application requirements included writing an essay, a copy of a transcript and a current class schedule.

UCA seniors Kiaunna Johnson, Elisabeth Russell, Sidney Hunt and sophomore DyJuana Davis were all recipients of the scholarships.

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she let you know [what] hurt her the best part of [our] friendship was that it was real. It was a real relationship.”

UCA graduate student Maggie Rogers said that Alexis was a comforting person in her life while have she had gotten to know her through the Wesley Foundation.

“She was one of those people who made everyone comfortable in her presence,” Rogers said.

“She was one of those people that was definitely life giving, not life draining.”

According to her obituary in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, her family requested that donations be made in her name to the Wesley Foundation as well as Ozark Mission Project through the Cabot Methodist Church, in lieu of having flowers at her funeral.

Donations to help with burial and medical costs can be made at a Go Fund Me page titled “Burial & Medical Fund for Alexis Faupel, Age 21.”

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letters to Faupel that would be delivered to the Cabot United Methodist Church for her family to have.

Abby Barkhimer, a 2018 graduate of UCA, first met a bubbly and outgoing Faupel at a 2012 Ozark Mission Project camp in Texarkana, AR, and said that she was always truthful and open to whoever came her way.

“She was kind to everyone regardless of anything,” said Barkhimer. “She spoke the truth and kept it real, even when that meant uncomfortable conversations.”

Several students at the Wesley Foundation echoed the sentiments of Barkhimer when asked about Faupel.

McNiel, who was present to see students sign and write letters to the Faupel family, said that Alexis was someone who always saw potential in people.

“Not only did she see potential, she encouraged you to do good things, McNiel said. “As a friend,

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“The scholarships are given by the Maltbia Foundation as well as the Good Neighbors Foundation which is made up of private donors,” Maltbia said.

Despite it being Hunt’s first time experiencing College Day and helping prepare for it, he is already sold on its significance in the community.

“It brings us closer together,” Hunt said. “Knowing there is a support system behind you even when you are hours away from home is something special. That’s exactly what college day does for the students of UCA and all the other campuses in Conway.”

Hunt also expressed his gratitude for being a scholarship recipient.

“It was really amazing,” Hunt said. “I was definitely

caught off guard when my name was called. I was really excited to know I was being rewarded with some school money, especially in these tight college days.”

However, this wasn’t Hunt’s biggest takeaway, as the process of preparing for college day brought him a sense of joy.

“I just know being able to serve the community is always something that I enjoy and experiencing this brought that joy right out of me,” Hunt said.

“It also impacted my leadership skills. Just knowing what to do and when to do it is crucial.

College Day really underlined that process for me and because of it, I feel like a more competent leaders.”

College Day at True Holiness Saints Center shows no signs of stopping and has become a staple in the local community.

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The Paul L. Revis memorial scholarship is a newly created privately-funded scholarship expected to be made available in the spring semester. The scholarship was established by the Revis family in memory of their son, Paul Revis, who died in March of this year.

Paul Revis was a freshman history major known as “an exceptional college student with a passion for history and a love for learning.” He graduated from Conway High School with honors and enlisted in the Army shortly after to serve his country in 2013. He returned to Conway five years later and enrolled as a freshman at UCA. As a history major, he was passionate about learning and setting goals for the future to attend law school. Revis later wanted to serve as a public defender. He was posthumously admitted to the Schedler Honors College as his application was pending approval prior.

Given the guidelines set by UCA, including a policy that excludes discrimination, the Revis family has the ability to seek applicants who model the strong citizenship and service much like that of their son.

Paul Revis was an exceptional student who was dedicated to serving others and his community.

“Endowment lasts forever,” Executive Director of Development Mary Lackie said, “The Paul Revis Memorial Scholarship will carry on as long as there is UCA.” The recipient of the scholarship is required to be a full-time student with the classification of sophomore, junior, or senior who has completed 24 hours or more while maintaining a GPA of 3.3 or higher in his or her previous academic year at UCA. The student should be pursuing a degree in history, political science, or an area of public service. In order to narrow down the applicant pool of those who meet the initial requirements, the family’s preferences are of students who represent their son. These preferences include students who have service as a veteran, service in another area of public service, or students who are in the Honors College at UCA with financial need.

The scholarship will most likely award a minimum of $1,000 to at least one student and the fund is expected to expand in the future. It is expected that the application to apply for the scholarship will become available to eligible students in the spring semester, alongside the other privately funded scholarships for students.

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Sexual campaign encourages STD testing

by Lauren McLemore Associate Editor

UCA Student Wellness Center is having their 8th annual Get Yourself Tested campaign to help bring awareness to STDs on college campuses. According to the CDC, 1 in 2 young people who are sexually active get an STD by the age of 25. College campuses are common places where young people can get an STD. Davidson was inspired by the CDC to bring awareness to UCA. “One reason why I like this campaign is it is evidence based by the CDC, so its not something our office is just creating. It is on the CDC website, it comes with really great graphics, social media post that are pre-made, even PSAs. They have everything laid out for us to push it out to the students,” Davidson said.

Jenna Davidson who is the director of student wellness and development at UCA hopes that having this campaign every year will

encourage people on campus to get tested, “We’ve been doing it for a while, we want to keep it going so it becomes ingrained in the culture and something people start to notice,” Davidson said.

One of the common misconceptions people have is that STDs are rare.

“College students don’t think that STDs are that common and they don’t think that it will happen to them.

They are very common and alot of times they don’t have symptoms. Students won’t even realize they have one.

That’s why it’s important to utilize our student health clinic, part of the campaign is to get tested,” Davidson said.

Davidson hopes that the campaign will bring awareness to the importance of communication.

“Another part of the campaign is to increase communication among couples and partners. Some people think that this is embarassing to talk about,” Davidson said.

One of the challenges the campaign faces with bringing awareness about safe sex is the stigma that people have about it.

“Alot of people think that when we educate about protection, sexual health, or STDs that we are promoting sex and that’s not the case.

That’s a misconception we have to deal with,” Davidson said.

One of the resources the student wellness center is providing for students to help with sexual safety is free testing for STDs. Students are given one free testing each semester on campus.

To stay informed on the Get Yourself Tested campaign students can attend the sexual safety fair hosted by the wellness center on September 18th in the Student Center Ballroom from 10-2. An open panel for students will be included.

For students unable to attend the fair, they can follow the UCA Wellness Center on Instagram or their Twitter page @ucawellness.

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Inform launch connects community at UCA

by Lauren McLemore Associate Editor

UCA faculty and staff received an email Aug. 27 that announced the launch of UCA Inform, an online communications platform on which they could share campus news and announcements. The first email from UCA Inform, after the announcement email, was sent Sept. 3.

According to the announcement email, faculty and staff will log into a UCA Inform portal to “post announcements, event schedules, lectures and other campus happenings.”

It also says that employees will receive an email each day that includes the postings and that each posting will be reviewed by the Department of University Marketing and Communications.

Suzanne Massey, the academic services coordinator at UCA, said that, althought she has not yet used it, she expected that people would love the new platform.

“The nice thing about the platform is any faculty or staff can submit requests,” Massey said.

Massey also said that the platform was developed by and will be managed

by Executive Director of University Marketing and Communications, Mark Heffington.

Fredricka Sharkey, who works for University Marketing and

Communications as the director of communications, said that the idea is not new.

“UCA Inform was created as a way to communicate internal news and announcements at the University of Central Arkansas, as well as potentially streamline the volume of emails employees receive,” said Sharkey. “The idea of a daily communication piece such as this one has been discussed for several years. Within the last six months to a year, we began to take steps to make this idea a reality.”

• Any UCA employee can post to UCA Inform, but it must adhere to the following guidelines: • Messages must align with the mission, vision and values of UCA. • All posts should be sponsored by a UCA college or department and approved by a department head.

• Items must relate to university business, be of general interest and importance to a sizable number of staff and/or faculty and/or be significant to the university as a whole. Users are encouraged to use other forms of communication to disseminate information that affects smaller groups (e.g., individual direct emails, department newsletters or phone calls).

• Messages must be proofread prior to submission.

University Marketing and Communications is not responsible for the accuracy

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Suspicious frat house break-in

Intoxicated man fakes ride home

Fire alarm leads to alcohol violation

Officer Talia Mcdaniel was dispatched to the lobby of the police department upon request of The Assistant Director of Housing Maintenance, Joseph Hooker on Aug. 30th. Hooker discovered the Sigma Tau Gamma house was broken into. Hooker claims that it had to have happen sometime this week, but isn’t sure when. Hooker stated the wood board that was screwed to the house to block entry from the back door was pried open. Mcdaniel asked Hooker if he knew where entry into the fence was made and he advised he wasn’t sure, there is no noticeable damage to the fence. Hooker advised the only damage is the board that was pried off. Hooker could not tell if anything was missing from the house or the construction area Hooker stated that before he left the house he secured the entryway.

On Aug. 30, officer Tyler Loudin was opening the gates to campus in the parking lot north of New Hall. While opening this gate, Loudin observed a white male, who was later identified as Cody Calhoun, appearing to be highly intoxicated walking by a vehicle in the parking lot of Bear’s Den Pizza.

Loudin then drove back to the area of Bear’s Den to see if this individual had received a ride. He was then sitting in the passenger seat of a Kia Rio in the parking lot. Loudin parked around by the Child Study Center for approximately 15 minutes. Loudin went back to the parking lot once more, and saw that the individual had moved from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat, and the vehicle was running. Calhoun was then asked to step out of the car and placed under arrest.

Officer Quincy Tims was dispatched to a fire alarm at New Hall on Sept.

3. Officer Weber and Tims arrived shortly afterwards, the officers reported smelling marijuana in the hallway.

The officers noticed that the floor was wet, and smelled of bleach. The door to the shower was open where there was a candle burning. a large unopened bottle of vodka was on the sink near the shower area. Weber returned with the residents Novelynn Landes and Emelee Keck.

Landes and Keck were questioned about why the shower was on and why it smelled like bleach. Landes stated she had smoked marijuana with a friend.

There was no marijuana in the room.Upon being asked if there was any more alcohol inside the room,they both showed the officers four more bottles. The alcohol was disposed of in the sink.

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“Staff in the Department of University Marketing and Communications spoke to representatives from other universities with similar systems. From those discussions and other research, we wrote the UCA Inform guidelines,” Sharkey said. “In writing the UCA Inform guidelines, our major objective was to keep the focus on UCA and our internal UCA community.”

Sharkey said the possibility still exists that students will also be able to receive these daily emails.

When The Echo asked her if the creation of this platform was in any way a response to the mixed reactions following President Davis’ response to the LGBTQ library sign with the Lady Gaga quote on it, she responded, “No”.

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could potentially change yearly.

There is no doubt that this scholarship fund will make a positive impact on many generations of students to come

while honoring the memory of Paul Revis.

To donate to the Paul L. Revis fund, one can visit http://uca. edu/go/PaulLRevis.

GIVING

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[Top] IFC fraternities set up outside of the softball field in order to collect canned food and donation money. [Bottom] UCAPD and fraternity members get ready to play head-to-head softball on Sept. 5. The “Strike Out Hunger” event was hosted in partnership between UCA IFC fraternities and the UCAPD in order to raise donations for the Bear Essentials Food Pantry

Benefit softball game results in win for charity

by Lauren McCabe

Editor As the sun set behind the UCA Softball Field Sept.

5, members of UCA Greek fraternities and UCAPD battled head-to-head in a softball game to create meaningful studentpolice relationships and also help out the local Conway community.

The event, titled “Strike Out Hunger” drew in a crowd of students and Greek life organizations to the charity softball game. In order to get in, attendees either had to donate a canned food good or pay $3 for admission. Funds and canned goods collected went to the UCA Bear Essentials Food Pantry.

Senior and Sigma Tau Gamma Inc. member John Penn has participated annually with his fraternity and has witnessed the positive impact the event makes.

“It’s really a good thing for the [Conway] community and the Greek community in general,” Penn said.

“Everybody does philanthropy and service on their own, but to come together and actually raise money and canned food — that’s really what’s special about it.”

With the beginning of “Strike Out Hunger” in 2015, UCA IFC fraternity members and UCAPD officers take an evening every fall semester to put on either a purple or gray team shirt, and are split into two teams, with representation from IFC and UCAPD on both teams.

UCAPD chief-of-police, John Merguie, sat among the bleachers as he watched fellow officers run around on the field, catching and pitching softballs.

“Part of this is about kind of getting the police department and the fraternity guys together — and on a positive note,” Merguie said. “We get to meet one another right before [fraternity] rush as well so the [fraternity] recruits can see that there’s a correlation between us and the students.”

Merguie recalls that the event started as an idea to integratethe police department and the fraternities, but it has also turned into a friendly competition to show both Greek and non-Greek students that the campus police officers are there to help.

“We want to work with the students, and we’re not just bad guys,” Merguie said. “This event is also a way of community involvement. Our people look

forward to it every year.”

In terms of the donations of money and canned food, IFC advisor Katie Frazier sees what good the collections from “Strike Out Hunger” does for the community every year.

“We donate the money raised to the Bear Essentials Food Pantry so that they can go out and buy whatever they need,” Frazier said. “We also have a bunch of food items that students can take, or whoever might need it.”

Frazier also said that the fraternities are always up for service opportunites and challenges such as “Strike Out Hunger.”

“We love service when it comes to fraternities and Greek life,” Frazier said. “It’s a big part of UCAPD and their motto to serve. But we also see a lot of positive interaction between our fraternity men and our police officers on campus — they get to build a relationship that naturally wouldn’t be there.”

To find out how to donate food to UCA studentsand those in need, visit the food pantry services located in Old Main room 108, or contact the food pantry coordinator Brian James at bearessentials@uca.edu.

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Spoken Word Artist From 7 to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, spoken word artist Shane Romero will perform in the Student Center Ballroom.

Climate Strike

On Friday, Sept. 20, at the Student Center there will be a climate strike with signmaking, button-making, postcard-writing, post-it note brainstorming, voter registration and a line of UCA climate strikers stretching from the Student Center to Wingo Hall.

Memorial

At 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept.

21, there will be a memorial for Dr. Norb Schedler at the McCastlain Ballroom. He is the founder of the UCA Honors College. The service is open to the entire UCA community.

Movie: John Wick 3

From 7 to 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, the Student Activities Board will be showing John Wick 3 in the Student Center Ballroom. There will also be free pizza, popcorn and door prizes.

Singer/Songwriter

From 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17, singer and songwriter Nelly’s Echo will perform at the Student Center Amphitheater.

Diversity Workshop

From 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12, there will be a diversity workshop at Mashburn Hall room 103.

The workshop will feature Angela Webster, the associate vice president for institutional diversity and inclusion at UCA.

Accounting Automation

From 1:40 to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12, at the College of Business room 206, there will be accountants from Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Little Rock coming to discuss automation and its impact on accountants.

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Makerspace workshop teaches 3D printing basics

by Rose McGarrity Staff Writer

Makerspace hosted a training on Sept. 5, to showcase and explain how to use its resources.

According to the UCA website, “The UCA Makerspace is a place for students and community members to make, design and dream. It is a collaborative, interdisciplinary workspace with tools to prototype concepts, make new things and take ideas to the next level.”

Makerspace opened in 2017 and students have been using it ever since.

“I’ve been to Makerspace probably six or seven times. Most of the time I was going because I had friends who were making things,” senior Joshua EddingerLucero said.

According to Makerspace’s website, “Makerspace is a free, shared space open to people of all ages, from all disciplines.”

Before people can use the equipment at Makerspace without supervision, they must complete one of Makerspace’s training sessions.

At the session last Thursday, led by Jason Huselton, a master maker at Makerspace, about 15 people were in attendance.

Huselton began the session by describing Makerspace’s purpose.

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At 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, Jason Huselton, the master maker at Makerspace, gives Makerspace training to several individuals. The trainings are required before people can use the equipment at Makerspace without supervison.

“What we do here is help people build prototypes...we do 3D printing, laser engraving and CNC [computer numerical control] work,” Huselton said.

According to the Makerspace website, “in the workshop, you will meet the

Maker ambassadors, tour the space, learn the rules and regulations of the space and learn how to safely use the equipment.”

During the training, Huselton gave an overview of how to use websites, such as

Cura, Sculpturis and Inkscape, all of which help people design their Makerspace creations.

People can use these websites to create items to print using a 3D printer. Additionally, Huselton said pre-made designs

Award-winning author visits UCA campus

By Olivia Snelson Staff Writer

Award-winning author and professor of black horror and afrofuturism, Tananarive Due, visited the UCA campus Sept. 6, spending a total of two days sharing her expertise with students and staff.

Due is known as a “leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years”, according to a pamphlet promoting her appearance.

She’s won multiple awards that include an American Book

Award, a British Fantasy Award and an NAACP Image Award.

Due held a lecture in a conference room in Win Thompson Hall, where students aspiring to be prose writers, playwrights, poets and screenwriters filled the room.

Several professors and the dean of the college of liberal arts was also in attendance. Due, with only 50 minutes, managed to provide an abundance of influential information and advice.

Due stressed the importance of the opening line and outlining

a story ahead of time to avoid “writing by the seat of your pants.” She said the outline stage is essential in order to “diagnose issues before you’ve written 200 pages.”

She told the audience that when writing a scene, they should ask themselves, “has every scene earned its real estate in [any] story?” followed by her introduction of the “Oh Crap!” method, which is the introduction of a conflict or challenge in the story. Due made a point of this being not only in the opening scene, but every

scene.

Due kicked off the college of fine arts and communication’s artists-in-residence program as the first artist of the year. She has written several novels and several short stories over the course of her career, as well as some screenplay. She talked about how she had received several calls from producers trying to auction her books and decided that she wanted to be more involved in the process.

Currently, she is about to sell a script written with her husband.

At a reading Due held on

Comedian: Zainab Johnson From 7 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Student Center Ballroom, comedian Zainab Johnson will be performing.

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Nonprofits show ways students can get involved

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Meet the Firms

From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Student Center room 203 and 204 on Wednesday, Sept. 18, UCA will have a sexual health fair. The fair allows students to have access to resources and information that addresses the spectrum of sexual health topics including pregnancy prevention, STI transmission and healthy relationsihps.

campus, she read an excerpt from her book of short stories, “Ghost Summer: Stories.” The story featured video-chatting, something that wasn’t available when the story was written.

She started out as a journalism and creative writing major and spent 10 years at a newspaper before leaving to pursue prose-writing full-time.

In the Q&A that followed, a member of the audience asked

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From 5 to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, the NPHC will host a Go Greek Night at the Student Center. The event is designed as an information session for interested and potential members. The event provides an avenue for potential members to learn about the Greek community and specific chapters, while becoming educated on the membership intake process and requirements of each NPHC Greek letter organization on campus.

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From 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16 at Brewer Hegerman Conference Center, over 20 firms who are interested in hiring UCA accounting students will be at UCA. The requirements for attendance are; junior, senior or MAcc level standing and students must be dressed in professional attire.

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UCA students get sprayed by foam cannons during the foam drop dance party on Friday, Sept. 6. The party was held by the Student Activities Board and is the replacement for the annual paint party.

Foam party starts off SAB activities

by Lola Simmons Staff Writer

The foam drop dance party was held Sept. 10 at the Irby brick pit from 9 p.m. to midnight and featured colorful strobe lights, a DJ booth, glow sticks and lots of foam.

The event was hosted by the Student Activities Board (SAB) as an introductory event for all UCA students to attend.

“SAB’s role on campus is to bring cool, creative, innovative events that bring fun and relaxation to the school community,” senior and SAB Social Media Chair Monika Cunningham said. “We bring

things on campus that are fun for the campus community to be involved in.”

In previous years, the glow party has been the first event on campus hosted by SAB, but this year is the first type of dance party that has featured foam instead. SAB was looking to make the transition from paint to foam in order for the event to be less messy for students and the cleanup crew.

“The foam is more feasible [than] the paint,” Cunningham said.

Students of all classifications showed up to the dance party to get down and dance in the strobe lights while foam rained down on

them.

“I had a great time at the foam party,” freshman Jordyn Lane said. “Since I got soap all over me now I don’t have to go back to Arkansas Hall and use the community showers.”

The DJ played a number of top hits along with some older favorites that were remixed. The DJ booth also came with two large foam cannons, which shot foam into the dancing crowd on time with the beat drop.

SAB is always hosting new events and is always looking for volunteers to create and get involved with these events. Prior to the event, SAB handed out white tank tops featuring the

SAB logo and the foam party event information.

SAB will be putting on more events for students to enjoy and relax throughout the school year.

Some of these include Sunday movie nights where they will be showing everything from “Toy Story 4” to “MIB: International.”

Other upcoming events include spoken word artist Shane Ramero and comedian Zainab Johnson.

To learn more about SAB and to see a calendar of events, visit their website at ucasab.com or sign up for CubConnect at my.uca.edu/tasks/cubconnect.

Booths and students were scattered throughout the Student Center Ballroom from 1-3 p.m. Sept. 3 to learn about what volunteer opportunities UCA and the Conway community has to offer at the annual Volunteer Fair.

UCA’s nonprofit community partners and wcampus volunteer organizations were present with tables set up to convey information to students of all classifications on how to get involved, build their résumé and make a difference through volunteering.

Sierra Fisher, the Community Engagement VISTA for Our House, a nonprofit organization based in Little Rock that serves homeless families in the Central Arkansas area, was excited to talk to students about the many volunteer opportunities available within the organization.

“Obviously, being in Little Rock, we would love to have people come out and volunteer during the summer,” Fisher said. “During the summer, our summer program is going on in our children’s center, so we’re always looking for enthusiastic people to come out and help out the classrooms, come be a tutor, come be a mentor for school age kids — it’s really something exciting that we do in the summer.”

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“We’re hoping to provide an opportunity for the upperclassmen to meet the lowerclassmen and help them form relationships, as well as giving them an opportunity to explore the offices and meet the professors,” Duncan said.

Freshmen were given an outline of their course requirements, while upperclassmen and staff introduced themselves over lemonade and cookies.

There was also a raffle for free books.

Students in the department really enjoy their classes.

“Religion classes are really

The Department of Philosophy and Religion at UCA held a meet and greet Sept. 3 to familiarize incoming students with the department and allow upperclassmen to introduce themselves to new students.

“It’s daunting for freshmen to seek help or figure out where to go we want to let them see that this is a safe place,” said Taine Duncan, chair of the department of philosophy and religion and director of gender studies.

The department is hoping that this opportunity will help freshmen feel more at home on

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my favorite,” senior Elayna Taylor said, “We often ask philosophical questions about religion and how to make it accessable to everyone.”

The philosophy and religion department offers clubs like PhiRe (philosophy and religion).

“The main goal [of PhiRe] is to try to get more students who aren’t philosophy majors into philosophy, although it usually turns into philosophy and religion majors hanging around and turning out ideas,” senior PhiRe president Nicholas Wiench said.

Essentially, PhiRe members want to carry the conversations they develop in class over into

an informal setting and foster different discussions so that religion and philosophy students aren’t in an echo chamber.

“Philosophy has a lot of field misconceptions and misconceptions about what happens in the classroom,”Wiench said.

They also host an event called Ethics Bowl, where participants are given 15 cases containing difficult ethical situations to work out.

To learn more about UCA’s philosophy and religion department, and to learn about future events go to uca.edu/ philosophy.

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What restaurant would you want UCA to add to the Student Center?

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Nonprofit organizations host volunteer event in Student Center Ballroom

4 Continued from page 3 Along with Our House, organizations such as the UCA Bear Essentials Food Pantry, The Bethlehem House, Make a Wish and more came out for the afternoon to answer questions and provide brochures for those looking to add to their volunteer hours within their campus organization, or simply wanting to be more involved with the local communities around Conway.

Ezell Breedlove, the volunteer program coordinator for VolunteerAR, told those who stopped at his volunteer table about an online system through which those who volunteer can keep up with their volunteer hours by logging them virtually.

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“Through VolunteerAR, you can create an account and find volunteer opportunities based on whatever your interests [are] or your location is,” Breedlove said.

According to its website, volunteerar.org, the organization works to “engage citizens in meaningful and impactful volunteer opportunities” that allows people to “tackle chronic social issues that keep Arkansans of all ages from living up to their full potential.” “[Volunteering] is a great thing to do because volunteering obviously helps your community,” Breedlove said. “As a college student, you can get some valuable work

experience — and that’s one of the main things jobs look for when you graduate. Even though it’s an unpaid position, [volunteering] can put yourself above someone who doesn’t have that experience.”

Breedlove’s words seem to have rang true for students looking to better their work skills and time dedication.

Junior Mackenzie Hoogshagen said she enjoys volunteering and is always looking for new ways to get involved.

“I like to meet other people in the area and at [UCA],” Hoogshagen said. “I think location is a big thing I look for [in a volunteer job] and what you

get to do, whether it’s something you enjoy doing, or something you’ve never done before.”

For students who are looking to volunteer, but have never done so before, Fisher advises to choose something that sticks out or interests you the most, and isn’t just a one-time thing.

“For yourself, you should feel like you’re contributing well somewhere,” Fisher said. “Start with somewhere that the mission of what they’re doing really speaks to you and somewhere that would be easy for you to get out to multiple times.”

For more information about volunteer opportunities, visit uca.edu/outreach/volunteer.

Freshman Makayla Campbell

Junior Callie Self

“I would put Taco Bell just because it’s my favorite.”

“I would choose Panera Bread because they’re really good and they have healthy options. There’s very few healthy options that don’t take 12 minutes to wait for. They are more expensive, but I’d splurge for it every once in awhile.”

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Sophomore Meredith James

Freshman Brad Reese

“Panda Express. Hands down, it’s probably my favorite restaurant ever and I love Chinese food.”

“Probably Taco Bell, because my friends and I go to Taco Bell every night and it’s a long drive.

It would be better to just walk here and get Taco Bell.”

Sophomore J.T. Thomas

Junior Nsisong Archibong

“I would say some kind of dessert place like Great American Cookies or something like that.”

“I really like Asian foods, so I would say an Asianrelated restaurant.

Maybe something like Fuji or Naruto because I’ve been to both of them and I really like them. So either one of those would work.”

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Author Tananarive Due speaks to creative writing undergrad students and a handful of professors in Win Thompson Hall Room 331 on Sept. 6.

As the first visiting artist in the Artists in Residence Program’s Craft Talk and Q&A series for the 2019-2020 school year, Due discussed craft elements she has found useful when writing speculative fiction.

how Due incorporated supernatural elements into her works. Her response was to use impeccable details as a way to hook the readers. Someone else asked for advice on handling

writers block, to which she declared that she doesn’t believe in writer’s block so much as a disengagement from the story because of emotional issues surrounded by it.

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Her final advice to aspiring writers in the audience was “write your bliss” and make sure what you’re writing is, “something you’re absolutely in love with.”

For a full list of artists-inresidence that will be at UCA this fall semester, go to uca.edu/ cface/artists-in-residence or sign up for CubConnect to see more events at UCA.

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cases can be made with 3D printers, Makerspace has one large 3D printer and a smaller one as well.

“Most of our printers fit on anything that fits on an 8 inch by 8 inch by 8 inch box,” Huselton said.

The equipment at

Makerspace can be reserved for individual use, and 3D printers can be reserved for the day.

Reservations can ban be made on Makerspace’s website.

The wait time varies for each design and type of equiptment used.

Besides using the 3D

printers, people often using the engraving equiptment. People have photographs engraved on wood, but Makerspace does not provide the items to be engraved.

Makerspace is located on the 1st floor of UCA’s Donaghey Hall, and it is open every weekday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The next Makerspace training is Thursday, Sept. 12 at 5:00 p.m. The trainings are open to anyone who is eight years of age or older, and people can register for the trainings online. Spaces for Makerspace trainings are limited.

PEOPLE OF UCA: Pearl Doiphode

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Graduate assistant Pearl Doiphode calls on students during class.

Pearl Doiphode interned at UAMS this summer to help with patients who had hip surgery regain their balance.

Pearl Doiphode is a native of Mumbai, India, and moved to the US in 2018. Doiphode is currently a graduate teaching assistant for the physical therapy program at UCA. Being a graduate teaching assistant can be a difficult task because graduate assistants have the responsibilities of both a student and a teacher at the same time.

In her first two weeks of working as a graduate assistant, Doiphode enjoyed her first experience teaching in a classroom.

“It has been great so far. It doesn’t feel like my first time, my students have been so good and I get to learn from them too,” Doiphode said.

One of the biggest goals

Doiphode has as a teacher is providing students with skills that not only help them pass her class, but will help them in the real world.

“I believe in gaining enough knowledge, so you can put it to good use in your day to day life,” Doiphode said. “I don’t want my students to just come to class and memorize things for the test and then once the test is over, they forget everything.”

The most important lesson Doiphode wants students to walk away with from her class is knowing that there is more to life than just making money in their field of study.

“I would want my students to know it’s very easy to run behind money because there’s this big rat race and that is what everyone has been doing. I want my students to be so good at what they are doing that the success will automatically come

to them, and they will be earning enough. I want them to be the best in whatever they are doing, it doesn’t matter what they do,” Doiphode said.

Doiphode has enjoyed her experience teaching at UCA and is open to the idea of returning to India and teaching.

“I have walked in here and it has opened so many horizons for me that I didn’t know I’d explore,” Doiphode said. “It has made me very confident about myself and if I were given the chance to teach in my country, I would like to teach there.”

In addition to the work she does with students, Doiphode works with UAMS to conduct her own physical therapy research “I was an intern with UAMS. I worked with soccer players and golfers on their golf swing and these were the patients who [underwent] total hip arthroplasty and knee

arthroplasty,” said Doiphode.

In Doiphode’s research, she wanted to find ways to help these patients regain their balance.

“We worked with them before their surgery and after their surgeory to see how their golf swing has changed and see if it has affected their balance.

We looked at their balance and how we could improve that. We created parameters to see how their overall game had changed,” Doiphode said.

The stress and challenges of being a graduate teaching assistant can be very challenging, but having a great support system has helped Doiphode be successful.

“I have been blessed with so many good people through this journey,” Doiphode said. “They have seen me grow, seen me fall, and helped me get up each time and they celebrate my success.”

Sports

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Cross country hosts first meet at Beaverfork Lake

Upcoming Games Women’s Soccer

5 p.m., Sept. 13 at Louisiana at Monroe

by Megan Holder Staff Writer

Volleyball 6:30 p.m., Sept. 13 vs. Ole Miss Men’s Soccer 8 p.m., Sept.13 vs.

Dayton Football 6 p.m., Sept. 14 vs.

Abliene Christian

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Sophomore wide receiver Lujuan Winningham fights to cross the goal line Sept. 7 against Austin Peay State University.

Winningham has already surpassed his season totals for catches and receiving yards from the 2018 season.

Bears continue 4th quarter heroics

by Marcus McClain Sports Editor

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Despite falling short of her 24th Grand Slam, Serna Williams earned her 100th major tournamet victory. Her influence in the sport continues to grow daily.

Tennis coming full circle with young stars influenced by legendary sisters

by Marcus McClain Sports Editor

For the bulk of recent tennis history, the Williams sisters have been at the forefront of the sport.

The greatness they’ve displayed on tennis courts around the world have earned them a level of respect that is nearly unmatched in the world of sports.

Now however, despite being later in their careers, their influence and cachet is stronger than ever.

The true sense of their influence is seen in all the young girls they’ve inspired to pursue the sport.

We are now finally getting the chance to see these young girls in action and proving to be shooting stars. These new faces present a different view of the admiration for the Williams’ sisters, while also allowing fans to fall in love with today’s young stars.

Players like Sloane Stephens and 15-year-old Cori “Coco” Gauff are taking the sport by storm and their influence from the Williams sisters is glaring to say the least, but still, they bring their own flair to the sport.

Being able to embrace these young talents, while still showing respect to the legends who have paved the way, is something that makes the sport feel as if it has come full cirlce.

While still looking forward to the long careers ahead of the new stars, this offers a moment to see how far the sport has come and how much farther it can go.

This is something other careers in the field of sports can learn from.

The essence of sports is always the head-to-head competition the desire to compare different players.

In this case, a different feeling has risen to the top. But still, it offers the same fulfillment of being a crazed competitive fan.

This is an extreme rarity in sports, but it’s also something that should become more normal.

It’s time the culture of sports makes sure to appreciate the great athletes we see on a daily basis, rather than only choosing a side and missing out on supporting the greats.

For the first time since 2010, the UCA Bears opened the season 2-0, this time behind a 24-16 victory over Austin Peay State University (1-1) at Fortera Stadium on Sept. 7.

The opening half was focused heavily on the defensive side of the ball as neither team found the end zone. However, the Bears were able to take a three-point lead into halftime behind a 25 yard field goal from junior kicker Hayden Ray. Action picked up in the third quarter as sophomore quarterback Breylin Smith connected with freshman receiver Tyler Hudson on a 27-yard pass for the first touchdown of the game, extending their lead to 10-0.

Still, UCA was forced to pull off another fourth quarter comeback to come out on top.

The Governors responded to the

Bears’ 10-0 lead by scoring 16 unanswered points. Austin Peay senior kicker Logan Birchfield contributed nine of those points, converting on kicks from 39, 32 and 27 yards.

The lone touchdown for the Governors came on a 76-yard long ball from senior quarterback Javaugh Craig to junior receiver Baniko Harley.

Down 16-10 early in the fourth, the stage was set for UCA to display its late game heroics.

Belief and confidence fueled the Bears’ down the stretch, scoring two touchdowns in the frame.

“We just know we can win,” sophomore receiver Lujuan Winningham said. “We know every week that we can come out on top.”

This mindset and the chemistry between Winningham and Smith proved to be lethal for the Governors, as the two connected twice, both for touchdowns, in the fourth quarter.

Their first scoring link completed a five play, 95 yard drive for the Bears as Smith found Winningham for a 43 yard pass with 12 minutes remaining in the game.

Smith and Winningham were able to find the end zone again with just 1:46 left on the clock with an 18 yard pass, pushing the lead to 24-16. The chemistry between Smith and Winningham has led to 318 yards and four touchdowns in just two games for the Bears.

“Breylin gives me a chance and I just make the most of it everytime,” Winningham said.

The defense went on to seal the game from there, as junior defensive back Robert Rochell nabbed his second interception of the season.

Junior defensive back Davis Harrison and junior defensive end Nathan Grant led the Bears with seven tackles each.

The UCA women’s and men’s cross country teams wasted no time on getting a win under their belt on Sept 7 at Beaverfork Lake.

With the effort the Bear’s put into practicing and training for these events, the scores were no surprise.

The women’s team dominated its way into first place this meet with 15 points. The men’s team finished in second place with 24.

As her new personal record in the 4K, sophomore Gracie Hyde succeeded with a time of 14 minutes 32.1 seconds.

Sophomore Hunter Henderson contributed to the success of the men’s team by conquering his personal best time in the 6K course which was 19:08.5.

Henderson said that overall, it was a pretty good day at the meet and everyone came together as a team. It was a lot of work, but he was very confident.

Henderson also said he prepares for each meet by loading up on carbs the night before to retain his energy for the big day — as he said hydration levels make a big difference.

Of course with it being so hot, Coach Beau Theriot said his runners train in the heat and practice every afternoon, so that they’ll be more prepared for the conditions.

Although the meet was pretty steady for the guys, Henderson

said before the next meet he hopes he can lead the guys to run more as a team.

To any future college runners out there, Hunter believes that wherever you’re at in the running career, it’s important to listen to your body and take breaks when you need them.

Coach Beau said overall Saturday’s meet was a great success, the course is in great shape, and the team did excellent.

Beau stated that one of the key components leading to the victory was the freshmen stepping up. Something that Beau wants to improve on before their next meet is the communication between the runners.

Beau also wants the runners to push certain areas of the race.

As for the guys, he said they need to go out slower at the beginning of the race and believes their take off was a little too fast — and it showed throughout the race.

For both teams, the outcome of the meet had successful results, and it was proven in the numbers.

Placing in second for the women, senior Erin Woodward completed the day with a time of 14:47.4.

Not too far behind, freshman Sara Steimal finished with a time of 14:55.7 putting her in third place.

Freshman Parker Jackson made his way to third place on the 6k course for the men’s team with a personal best time of 19:13.2.

On Sept. 21 the men’s and women’s teams will head to Terre Haute, Indiana for the John McNichols Invitational.

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Junior midfielder Anika Sultan fights for possesion with Oklahoma State sophomore midfielder Grace Yochum. Sultan is averaging 0.4 points per game this season.

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The UCA volleyball team celebrates a big score Sept. 7 at the Kansas State Inviatational. This was the Sugar Bears first time losing three straight games since the 2016 season.

Sugar Bears drop three at Kansas State

by Lauren McCabe Editor

The Sugar Bears volleyball team (4-3) fell to all three of their opponents this weekend at the K-State Invitational Sept. 5-7 in Manhattan, KS. In their opening game, the Sugar Bears found themeselves going head-to-head against the Omaha Mavericks (5-2) in the tournament opener. UCA started the game off strong, as the Mavericks committed two errors giving the Sugar Bears a early 5-2 lead. However, the Mavericks saw the fire the Sugar Bears brought, and matched them up, taking the next two points in a row.

Sophmore outside hitter Lexi Miller then helped lead a 9-1 run by the end of the first set, thanks to her seven kills, giving the Bears an 18-11 lead and eventual set win.

Set two saw both teams fighting for points as both teams reached a 8-8 tie. But unfortunately for the Sugar Bears, the Mavericks caught a flame and went on a 5-0 run to take a 13-8 lead. Omaha gave the Sugar Bears one last chance with three straight errors that made it 21-17, but the Mavericks

cleaned the court with three straight points to close the match at 25-19.

Sets three and four started and ended in the same way for the Sugar Bears. As the team trailed behind, the Mavericks continued to take advantage of the room to score.

Within the beginning of sets three and four, the Mavericks held a 6-2 lead. Set four was ultimately determined by Omaha converting an 8-1 run to take a hard 19-8 lead. UCA tried to prolong the set with three straight points which made the set score 23-13, but an error ultimately ended the Sugar Bears’ first day.

Sept. 6 saw the Bears have a close encounter with the Clemson Tigers (4-2). The Sugar Bears found themselves in range to win at the end of each set, but the Tigers handled their own business and blocked any attempt for the Bears to have a taste of victory.

Within the first set, sophomore right side hitter Madi Bowles sparked a killer 3-0 run that pulled the Sugar Bears team within one, down only one 2120.

After a 2-0 response from the Tigers, the Sugar Bears

continued to ride Bowles’ strong game as she delivered three straight kills to tie it at 23.

However, the late surge would not be enough to keep Clemson down and out, as they came out of a timeout and got a kill, along with adding a Bears service error, to take set one 25-23. Bowles finished with a set-high 9 kills.

By set three, UCA jumped out to an early 6-2 lead for the second time after back-to-back kills from freshman middle blocker Kailee Moon and redshirt-sophomore and middle blocker Ravin Rhodes to jumpstart the set.

Clemson wasn’t swayed and instead shifted the line with an 11-4 run that gave them the 18-17 lead. After Bowles performed kill no. 19 to tie the score, Clemson responded with yet another run and took the next four points to take a 22-18 lead.

By the end of the day, the Sugar Bears attempted to stay alive with a 4-1 run, sparked by two Miller kills, fell to Clemson’s grasp on the match after a Bears attack error made it 25-23.

Even after their second defeat of the tournament, junior middle blocker Amari Mitchell

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The UCA women’s soccer team (0-4-1) fell on the road again as they lost to the Oklahoma State Cowgirls (4-0-1) 5-0 on Sept. 6 and had a 2-2 tie with the UALR Lady Trojans (1-4-2) on Sept. 8.

Facing off against another difficult opponent, the Bears were unable to match the scoring of the Cowgirls from the start.

With a goal already under their belt in the second minute, Oklahoma State continued their attack and took a 3-0 lead into halftime.

Shots from sophomore midfielder Savannah Tidd and junior midfielder Hadley Dickinson almost got UCA on the board in the second half, but they were unable to convert.

Things were different though as the team traveled to Little Rock on Sept. 8.

After the Bears got out to an early lead in the seventh minute, thanks to junior forward Lauren Hargus, UALR would match them with a goal ten minutes later from sophomore defender Natalee Geren.

The Trojans would then take the lead later on in the 75th minute but a last-minute shot in the 90th minute by UCA junior defender Bridget Mansour saved the Bears chances at winning.

However, 20 more minutes of play would leave both teams tied and the game ended in

the latest round of the 1-40 Showdown with a 2-2 tie.

Head coach Jeremy Bishop said the team still had some work to do despite coming away with the tie against UALR for the last part of their road trip.

“I feel like we have been a bit unfortunate to not win a couple of these matches and for the score to have not been closer against OK State,” Bishop said. “Playing on the road can be difficult, but I think our group has done a good job of blocking out the distractions and playing well.”

Assistant coach Derek Nichols felt that the team still had positives they could work with despite not coming away with wins over the past week.

“We feel that we are pretty deep, so when we do make changes in game we don’t really have a drop in production,” Nichols said.

“We are getting better day by day and feel as we come to our last weekend of non-conference games we are heading in the right direction and will be ready for conference play.”

The Bears will finally get a break from being on the road with their next two games being at the Bills Stephens Track/Soccer Complex.

They’ll face off against the University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawks on Sept. 13, at 5 p.m. followed by a game with the University of Memphis on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m.

Opinion

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The Echo Staff Lauren McCabe Editor

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Sarah Coleman News Editor

Matt Smothers Campus Life Editor

Aysha Dixon Opinion Editor

Macy Davis

Entertainment Editor

Marcus McClain Sports Editor

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Debtor’s prison violates constitutional rights Imagine that you’re living alone, working a incarcerated for their inability to pay off their legal minimum wage job and surviving paycheck-to- debt. In short, it’s discrimination against poor people. paycheck. One day, you stay late at work to receive It’s unfair and it’s still, no matter how low the state is overtime because you have a large utility bill due soon. on funding, highly illegal. It’s also not as uncommon On your way home, you’re pulled over for having as one might think. a broken taillight and then you realize your driver’s In 2016, Dade v. City of Sherwood took place license has expired. You receive a ticket for driving involving a federal lawsuit that was filed against the without a license and another ticket for your broken City of Sherwood in Arkansas for a “hot check” court light, and then you receive a court date. You can’t miss that imposed thousands of dollars of fines on people another day of work and you can’t pay for anything who wrote checks that bounced for as little as $15. until after you pay your utility bill so that you’re able As of November 2017, a settlement was announced to have running water and electricity. The court date under which that court could no longer incarcerate passes and a warrant is put out for your arrest. You’re people who couldn’t pay the fines associated with pulled over again for the tail light and this time you’re a bouncing check. The ACLU website said that the arrested, not given a hearing to find out whether settlement also “requires the court to evaluate each or not you can afford to pay a fine, and taken defendant’s ability to pay before determining to jail until your debt is paid. You now owe the person’s sentence.” fines for all traffic violation tickets that With nothing but crickets from include both accounts of driving with Congress when it comes to designating any an expired license and both accounts of kind of legislature addressing the issue, driving with a broken taillight, a fee to much of the fight against these prisons is get your license renewed, a fee to have done by nonprofit organizations much like your tail light replaced, a processing fee ACLU. One way that courts often get for taking up a cell, a fine for missing around the issue is by threatening your court date, and your utility offenders during their hearing, bill — which still hasn’t been if they are lucky enough to get taken care of. one, with jail time if they can’t Now imagine that this come up with the money scenario is illegal — because for the fine — money that it is. can sometimes be scraped Yet an alarming rate together, but often comes of people are imprisoned from an emergency stash (if at this very moment for

by Lauren McLemore one exists) or another pile their inability to pay Associate Editor of cash that the individual or court-imposed fines for family wouldn’t otherwise even low-level, non-violent touch. Parents and siblings, offenses.

According to American Civil Liberties Union if the offender has any, often go weeks without water (ACLU), “imprisoning someone because she cannot or electricity putting any extra money towards getting afford to pay court-imposed fines or fees violates the their loved one out of jail.

Plain and simple: incarceration of people who Fourteenth Amendment promises of due process and can’t pay their legal fines is not just a violation of the equal protection under the law.”

The concept of debtor’s prisons was formally law and the constitutional rights of Americans, it is abolished in the United States nearly 200 years ago, a discriminatory scheme that targets and punishes yet many, including an unproportional and quickly non-dangerous, low-income individuals simply for growing number of poor people, are still being being poor.

Reparations are necessary, but so is ending systematic racism

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Arguing that reparations for also an education. School funding is determined by African-Americans are unneccessary is a false property taxes and the lower the property taxes are, narrative used by many Americans to avoid admitting the less funding local schools receive. The best way to we have yet to repent for our biggest sin. keep a group of people from prospering is to remove This summer when I studied abroad in Paris, I their opportunities to gain wealth and a quality spoke with Dr. Angela Webster, who is the associate education. vice president for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion America is still actively oppressing its Africanat UCA, and she told me what it was like to witness American population, and the only difference Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give his final speech, is that they have learned to be more “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”. It’s amazing discreet. When an African-American to speak to someone who was able to witness says he or she is oppressed, it is not an a historical event of that magnitude, but it exaggeration. also opened my eyes to the harsh reality that I completely understand the many African-Americans face. Dr. Angela massive debt Germany accrued by Webster is the same age as my dad, and that providing the Jews billions of dollars helped me realize that African-Americans in compensation after the Holocaust who are my age come from households that and how that restitution wrecked are still directly impacted by slavery and their economy. However, Jim Crow. We often see slavery in we shouldn’t allow our history books and assume that to stop us from we are far removed from that providing some form time period. That is far from of reparations to those the truth, because there are still that we have oppressed.

by Ronak Patel many systems in place to stop Reparations don’t have Staff Writer African-Americans from to be completely in the experiencing true equality. An form of money. Ending article in the Washington Post systems like redlining, details how one of the systems that made it difficult ending the mass incarceration of colored people for for African-Americans to accumulate capital in the non-violent drug offenses, providing more funding past still exists to this day. for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and According to that article, “racial discrimination advocating for fair representation in media are all in mortgage lending in the 1930s shaped the forms of reparations. I’m aware that this conversation demographic and wealth patterns of American is uncomfortable for many people because the same communities today, a new study shows, with 3 out of systems that oppressed African-Americans also 4 neighborhoods ‘redlined’ on government maps 80 lead their families to great prosperity, but this is a years ago continuing to struggle economically”. crucial conversation we must have. We shouldn’t The people that have been and continue to be blame ourselves for the crimes of our predecessors, impacted the most by the practice of redlining are but instead, we should focus on holding ourselves African-Americans. Redlining is a form of segregation accountable and stepping up to abolish the oppressive that not only makes it difficult to gain wealth, but systems our ancestors created.

Last Wednesday, it was reported that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the retail sale ban of sweet, fruity, minty and methanol-flavored vaping products — making Michigan the first state to pass this law against vaping. Whitmer’s reasoning behind the ban is to prioritize kids’ safety.

Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Oregon have recently reported deaths due to llung disease from e-cigarette usage, according to the Center for Disease Control. With the increase of lung disease cases, Arkansas’ decision regarding age escalation for the sale of vapor products to people of 21 years of age was necessary.

Over 200 cases of vape-related lung issues have been reported around the country recently. Four cases are currently under investigation in Arkansas. Conway has seven tobacco shops total, not including gas stations, that offer a variety of tobacco and vape parahinellia. The CDC reports that the health of people living in urban cities are more impacted by tobacco use due to socioeconomic factors, culture, policies and lack of proper healthcare.

Arkansas’ June 2019 decision to increase tobacco sales’ age limit is clearly a result of the ongoing discussion surrounding adolescent e-cigarette use. Advertisements for vaping deceive potential users into believing that vaping is a healthy alternative to cigarette use, when the product is just as harmful as cigarettes — especially for users that use more than one vape cartridge a day.

These advertisments mimick early Joe Camel advertisements, which use color, sex appeal and popularity to coerce teens into using their products. Not only are these advertisements actively recruiting tobacco users, but they’re downplaying all of the side effects of consistent tobacco use.

Although Michigan’s proposed law only prohibits a limited amount of vape products, these products are the ones that are being Over 200 cases used the most. of Flavors like strawberry vape-related watermelon, blue lung issues have raspberry, mango and been reported pink lemonade are the around the most used vape juices. country These fruity flavors seem recently— to distract from the four cases are habit forming liquid’s currently under long-term investigation in effects.

Pictures Arkansas. of “popcorn lungs”— a medical condition that damages the bronchioles, the lung’s smallest airways and causes the lungs to have spotted scarring — have surfaced on social media as a warning to young e-cigarette users. The flavor varieties offered by vape pen companies contain diacetyl, the chemical that causes popcorn lungs.

Almost 14 percent of Arkansas high school students reported using electronic vapor products, compared to 13.2 percent nationally.

Arkansas’ age increase law for tobacco sales does not fully protect teens from the dangers of smoking or vaping, however. The law reads, “sale of vapor products, e-liquids or any component thereof prohibited to persons under age 21, unless the person is active-duty military or has attained the age of 19 years as of December 31, 2019”. So, although the law is restricting adolescents from using tobacco products, there is still a loop-hole for active military members, who have statistically been targeted by tobacco companies in the past.

Retail restrictions for vaping products were necessary, especially during a time when tobacco use was nearly extinguished.

Big tobacco companies have used vaping and e-cigarettes as a means of reentering society when cigarette smokers were declining annually.

Although there is no prediction if Arkansas will follow Michigan’s lead and restrict any retail sales of certain vape products that are commonly used by adolescent teens, the decision to up the age requirement of purchasing tobacco products were necessary when the saftety of users are considered.

If research surrounding the long term effects of vapor products, and other tobacco alternatives, continue to surface, hopefully there will be a decrese in emerging tobacoo products.

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New This Week

New alternative album shares heartfelt love stories

Movies

by Sarah Coleman

September 13— Hustlers, directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Cardi B, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart

Lana Del Rey has turned heads and wowed the music industry with her jazzy alternative albums for years. Del Rey released her newest album, “Norman Fucking Rockwell” Aug. 30.

“Norman Fucking Rockwell” is Del Rey’s fifth major album and is receiving the same amount of attention as all of her previous albums.

Her most popular albums are “Ultraviolence”, “Paradise” and “Born to Die”. Some of Del Rey’s most notable songs are “Summertime Sadness” and “National Anthem” from her album “Born to Die”, which was released in 2012 but can still be heard on pop radio stations such as KBMJ 89.5 FM and KLRO 90.1 FM. This album differs from some of Del Rey’s previous albums, being noted with more jazzy undertones. Del Rey sings about love, lust, life, loss and lingering hope.

Del Rey’s work is simply inspiring. She sings from a modern woman’s point of view. She does not hesitate to allow her sexuality to slip into her work. She allows her relationships with men to not be a total waste, but to become a whim for musical genius.

Del Rey’s hit song, “Norman Fucking Rockwell”, which is also the album title, speaks to insecure men dating

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The cover of Lana Del Rey’s new alternative music album shows a funk pop design and an American flag behind a couple. “Norman Fucking Rockwell” is now streaming on all music services.

women who they are not willing to treat right in the moment they have them. In the line “you’re fun and you’re wild, but you don’t know half the shit you put me through,” Del Rey depicts a man who understands a good time, but who does not understand how to love a woman well.

Del Rey is also unashamed of her perception of the needlessness that is perfection. Del Rey normalizes imperfection in relationships in both men and women.

In her song “Love Song”, she sings about herself in a vision of a messy, puppy love relationship. In the lyrics

INFLUENTIAL

by Kennadi Harris

Travis Scott has made a name for himself not only as a rapper but as a true artist and visionary. His music, visuals and shows push the September 13— Miracle boundaries of hip-hop, giving Pill — Goo Goo Dolls fans an exhilarating experience.

A new Netflix documentary “Look Mom I Can Fly” takes September 13— The Practice of a closer look into his artistry Love — Jenny Hval and personal life by showing his journey to becoming a Platinum-selling artist.

September 13— Circle of The documentary begins with a clip of Scott on a Dolls— KXM rollercoaster while giving his take on his most recent and critically acclaimed album, September 13 — Carnage “Astroworld”. The footage of Bargain — The Paranoyds him on the thrill ride smoothly transitions to an animated video of a more intense roller coaster, Netflix which takes the viewer to the rest of the documentary.

Several clips of footage from September 12 — The I-Land, his performances are shown. directed by Brian Oakes, starring Each clip shows an energetic Keith Richards, Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’, Scott performing for enormous crowds and giving attendees the Bonnie Raitt time of their life. It also presents grand visuals including fire and elaborate stage displays. Scott September 12— The Mind even invites his fans to be in the spotlight, allowing them to get Explained, starring Aimee on stage and crowdsurf. This is Carrero, AJ Michalka, Marcus one of the reasons Scott’s fans Scribner believe he is a good performer.

The clips from his sold-out performances are significantly September 13 — The Chef Show: different from a clip from 2014 Volume 2, shown later in the documentary. director by Wayne Blair, starring During one of Scott’s performances in the early Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, part of his career, around 15 Jessica Mauboy people were in attendance. The five year difference in Scott’s popularity is one of the most September 13 — Hello, inspiring highlights of the film.

Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea, It demonstrates that if someone has their mind set on something created by Diego Enrique Osorno, Veronica Velasco, Epigmenio Ibarra, and they work hard enough, they can achieve it. starring Pablo Lyle, Ana Layevska, The film shows where it all Leonardo Daniel began with Travis in 2017 by going back to his hometown.

It’s evident throughout the September 13— Tall Girl, directed documentary that Travis loves his city. After all, Houston

by Andrea Arnold, starring Sasha birthed the original theme Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough park Astroworld that inspired Travis’s most successful album that goes by the same name.

1.Billie Eilish Billie Eilish’s album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” hit number one on the Billboard Hot 200 in April 2019. At the time, Eilish was 17. She was the first 2000’s artist to have an album make the cut. Just recently, she knocked Lil Nas X out of the top spot in the Billboard Hot 100 with her song, “Bad Guy”. Everyone has probably heard Eilish’s name in a conversation at least once, and most people only have good things to say about her.

2. Zendaya Zendaya is an incredible actress, inspiring role-model for the Disney channel family and an incredible vocalist. She is also known for the HBO television series, “Euphoria”. In the show, it is clear that she has transitioned significantly from her persona on Disney Channel to a more realistic representation of the average teen who deals with pressure in everyday life.

The scenes portrayed in the show are more relatable than one may think. She always tries to share positivity through life’s pressures.

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a girl that’s already hurt…if he’s as bad as they say, then I guess I’m cursed; looking into his eyes, I think he’s already hurt”, is sung in part of the chorus.

This song is a great reminder of the growth that can come from a breakup. Just as a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, people can also change for the better.

Del Rey is not married. Her love life has rarely been in the limelight. She is not known as a lovesick celebrity. However, this album gives insight into her sense of longing.

It often seems like young women are painted in a light

that seems to say that without a relationship, they are in some way failing. Del Rey has proven this ignorance wrong by being successful, single, unafraid and unashamed of her own singleness and the messiness in her love life.

In her album “Norman Fucking Rockwell”, Del Rey speaks volumes to fellow young women to inspire them to feel confident outside of the societal norms of relationships. She speaks to the women in love, out of love, in lust, living life and everything modern women experience.

SEQUEAL

New documentary looks into rapper’s inspiration We see his journey to create his Astroworld movement, from working on the album until the release date, preparing for the Astroworld festival and going on tour. Scott knew “Astroworld” had to be bigger than an album and he made sure it was.

Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston had fans breaking down the gate to get in.

Astroworld not only had rides, including a ferris wheel, but also a concert from Scott himself.

The amusement park scenery was so elaborate that even Scott was in disbelief when he saw what he had accomplished.

This documentary not only shows Scott’s creative and professional side, but it also shows his personal side. It sheds light on his relationship with Kylie Jenner, giving us intimate moments they have shared, including footage of Jenner’s pregnancy. We also saw Scott filled with joy and amazement after his daughter Stormi was born.

Everything wasn’t always good for Scott. There were a couple of low moments in the film such as Travis being arrested in Northwest Arkansas for starting a riot and putting a minor in danger and not winning any of the nominations “Astroworld” received for the grammys. Despite this, Scott always prevailed. All of his hard work wasn’t for nothing.

The mayor of Houston officially declared Nov. 18 as Astroworld Day. As the “Astroworld” tour ended in Houston, the mayor awarded Scott the key to the city and made the announcement that Scott inspired the production of a new amusement park, making Scott’s dream of bringing back his favorite theme park as a kid official a reality.

“Look Mom I Can Fly” gave us insight into Scott’s life that we had never seen before. It showed us that even though he is considered one of the greatest artists of our generation, he started out like the rest of us.

“Look Mom I Can Fly” is now streaming on Netflix.

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“oh, be my once in a lifetime, lying on your chest in my party dress, I’m a fucking mess”, Del Rey sheds light on a young, desperate-for-love woman that I believe all women can relate to.

However, this album is not only a sad girl anthem; it also depicts images of true happiness. In her song “Happiness is a Butterfly”, she sings of the ability to overcome heartbreak.

Del Rey doesn’t just sing about heartbreak from one point of view; she also explains the hurt that comes from all sides of failed relationships. “If he’s a serial killer, then what’s the worst that could happen to

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Pennywise the clown looks menacing behind the silouette of a red balloon.”It Chapter Two” is now playing in theatres everywhere and is rated R.

‘It Chapter Two’ creates more laughs in audience than moments of horror

by Kedran Young “It Chapter Two”, which came out Sept. 6, is a three-hour film filled with jump scares, laughs and characters that everyone could relate to.

Based on the 1986 novel written by the greatest horror novelist, Stephen King, the movie did not disappoint in its similarity to his original writing and the previous “It” sequel, which made an appearance in 1990.

Following the 2017 prequel, “It Chapter Two” ties up loose ends with flashbacks starring the characters from the first movie.

With the adult roles played by seasoned actors such as Bill Hader, Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, the personalities and personal issues of the characters were made clear and presented well.

It was just as easy to become as attached to the adult characters as it was the children in the prequel.

However, the sequel did not have the suspenseful and hair-raising feel of the first, but rather a dark and comedic one.

“It Chapter Two” is not a movie that can be watched without seeing the prequel.

A long 27 years have passed

for Beverly (Jessica Chastain), Richie (Bill Hader), Bill (James McAvoy), Mike (Isaiah Mustafa) Ben (Jay Ryan) and Eddie (James Ransone), all of whom were members of the self-created loser club, and all of whom made promises and parted ways at the end of “It” (2017).

Mike is the only member of the loser club that remained in Derry after 27 years, and he spent most of his time learning about Pennywise the clown (Bill Skarsgård) and how to defeat him.

When Mike notices a similar trend to the events the seven children had experienced years earlier, he begins to contact the other six members to remind them of their promise: every member of the losers club would return to Derry if Pennywise started killing again.

Even though the children had grown into successful adults, comedians, authors and more, something compelled them to return to Derry and reunite.

These original seven find that Pennywise returned stronger than before and ready to feed off of their fears and secrets.

“It Chapter Two” is categorized as a supernatural horror film. However, it presents itself as a dark comedy

as well.

There are just as many laughs at the humor presented by certain characters and situations as there are scares from the many forms that Pennywise takes to terrorize the children, and now these seven adults, of the town.

When Richie was on the screen, the audience knew they were going to be laughing.

In one scene, Richie and Eddie travel through the sewers on a search for Pennywise. They eventually come to a halt. They have to choose between three doors labeled: Scary, Very Scary and Not Scary At All. There were more special effects in “It Chapter Two” than in the prequel, and while they were made to scare the audience, they were cheesy and fun to laugh at rather than scary enough to make everyone hide their eyes in fear.

Many of the topics that cause controversy in society, such as homosexuality, were acknowledged in “It Chapter Two”, both in the first scene of the movie and in the secrets and fears of the seven members of the loser club.

“It Chapter Two” is now playing in theatres everywhere and is rated R.

3. Khalid We all know Khalid from at least one song, but do you know how much he has given back to his community? First, he gave away three $10,000 scholarships through The Great Khalid Foundation. Khalid also gave backpacks to children of El Paso on the backpack tour through the same foundation. He’s made many more contribution efforts, but most importantly, after the mass shooting in El Paso, he held a benefit concert and the proceeds went to the families that lost someone in the August shooting.

4. Lizzo A beautiful, self-loving, body positivity gal, Lizzo is the perfect role model and had a successful summer starting with her BET performance. Two years ago, Lizzo released “Truth Hurts”, and two years later, that song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Lizzo knows how to make good music, and she is on the rise. One of the best qualities Lizzo has is staying true to herself and never being ashamed of who she is. “Truth Hurts” is an anthem, and Lizzo is definitely underrated.

5. Lil Nas X Last, but definitely not least, Lil Nas X is a record holder for 19 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 with the hit song, “Old Town Road (Remix) Ft. Billy Ray Cyrus”. A few weeks after his song became popular, he announced that he is gay on World Pride Day. People had varying reactions to his announcement, but it didn’t tear him down. He also won a Grammy for “Old Town Road (Remix)”, and he put on an incredible Grammy performance with “Panini”.

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SPORTS

UCA STATS CORNER

SPORT

OPPONENT

RESULT

RECORD

Football

Austin Peay State

24-16 (W)

(2-0)

Women’s Soccer

UALR

2-2 (T)

(0-4-1)

Volleyball

Kansas State

3-1 (L)

(4-3)

Men’s Soccer

Incarnate Word

2-1 (W)

(2-0-1)

LAST MINUTE

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Sophomore defensive lineman Caden Brown has three tackles so far for the Bears this season. In high school, Brown was 4A All-State in 2015 and 2016 and was named to the 2015 All-USA Arkansas team.

Family ties drive Brown to success

by Lauren McLemore Associate Editor

Junior defensive tackle Caden Brown loves football, sushi, and most importantly, his family. Growing up in Dardanelle, Arkansas in a tightknit, athletic family with two sisters and one football-playing brother, Brown was inspired to get into sports.

“My dad didn’t necessarily want us to play ball, he wanted us to do what we felt [made us] happy,” Brown said. “I just felt like I was led to it at a young age.”

While football was a passion of his, Brown also saw the sport as an outlet to help him obtain his education.

He said if he wasn’t playing ball, he would have probably went straight into the workforce.

“That was kind of the driving force - to go to school for free, or with as little pay as I could,” Brown said. “I thought I might as well put all I got into it so I don’t have to take out loans.”

Brown saw redshirt freshmen at other schools get to have their weekends off to relax, but as a UCA Bear, he was required to travel to every game, which quickly became a source of frustration.

However, Brown knew the value of bonding with teammates, and in the midst of his discomfort, digging into that desire for unity was exactly what he did.

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“[I’m in college] to play football and go to school and get your school paid for, whereas in high school, you’re just doing it to play with your brothers,” Brown said. “I think if I can be a good role model for those players that I [will be coaching], then I can teach them to be better men in society today and really excel their life and whatever they want to do.”

Ultimately, Brown, not surprisingly, wants to stay close to family and one day have his own.

“The whole goal is probably stay in Arkansas and be able to stay close to my family - family is a big thing to me,” Brown said.

“I’m going to do what my parents did and not push [my future kids] into sports, because then it’s not fun, but if I teach them from a young age that this is really fun, the friends and the bonds you’ll make and the enjoyment you’ll have within sports - it creates memories for a lifetime that [they] will never forget.”

A hopeful and humble team player, Brown also knows the importance of education and how sports can be the door to that opportunity. “[Sports] is an outlet, so it can pay for [my future kids’] school one day, so it will be able to further them and further them mentally too so I hope my kids are smarter than me,” Brown laughed.

Smith and Winningham continue their hot starts

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Harrison was also awarded Southland Conference defensive player of the week.

Smith ended the game with 283 passing yards, completing 19 of his 30 attempts and converting for three touchdown

Volleyball: 4 Continued

“Keep your mentality high and find a good group of guys to bond with,” Brown said about advice he would give another frustrated redshirt freshman. “It sucks having to redshirt, [but] if you take the weight training, and better your fundamentals, then you’ll gain so much that a true freshman won’t have [after] that redshirt year.”

Brown attributes his desire to succeed and build his team up to having close relationships with his family.

He knows where his priorities are and makes sure to keep his eyes on the prize - his career.

“It’s tough and it’s work and you miss out on a lot of family time,” Brown said.

“It’s more about getting a degree, getting your education paid for and furthering your life than being worried about social aspects.”

This driving force of wanting to succeed overflows into a desire to teach others the things that he has learned while juggling school and playing football, as well as building relationships with his teammates.

A student in UCA’s Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) program, Brown hopes to bring the things he’s learned about life from playing football to younger high school players, and maybe one day be an athletic director.

passes.

Winningham finished with 136 receiving yards to go along with the two touchdowns, earning his second consecutive Southland Conference offensive player of the week award. Hudson

followed with 120 receiving yards on four cathces.

Up next, the Bears will open Southland Conference play at Estes Stadium against Abilene Christian University on Sept. 14 for their home opener.

photo by Ronak Patel

Sophomore defenders Alberto Suarez and Ole Kjoerholt celebrate a clsoe victory Sept. 7 at Bills Stephen Track/Soccer Complex. Suarez finished the game with one goal and two shots on goal.

Clutch play gets Men’s Soccer late win

by Ronak Patel Staff Writer

The UCA men’s soccer team (2-0-1) survived and won a 2-1 nail- biter game Sept. 7 against Incarnate Word, thanks to a penalty kick from senior forward Niklas Brodacki in the final minutes of a game where both teams were struggling to score.

Coach Ross Duncan was proud of the team for closing the game out the way that they did. “It’s a good feeling, I won’t lie,” Duncan said. “A goal in the last minute is essentially like an overtime goal that ends it, because you got a minute to see it out.

We brought our best guys in the air onto the air for the last minute and they did a great job sealing the victory.”

UCA started this game off slow, allowing Incarnate Word to score in the first 9within the 9th minutes.

UCA answered back and tied the game 15 minutes later,

thanks to a goal from sophomore defender Alberto Suarez. After those two goals, offense was hard to come by for both teams.

UCA learned from their mistakes early on in the game and didn’t allow Incarnate Word to score the rest of the game.

Senior goalkeeper Marc Olsen, who finished the game with three blocks, credits the team’s discipline to their ability to shut down Incarnate World’s offense for much of the game.

“We recognized the mistake we made and we adjusted to it,” Olsen said. “We stopped playing risky ball with our two midefeilers and then played a couple balls in behind, which stretched the other team.”

Olsen and the defense’s focus on controlling the midfield paid off. “We created more space in the midfeild to receive the ball and really dominated the game,” Olsen said.

Even though UCA’s defense looked great on Saturday, Olsen feels the team could work on not giving up goals early in the game.

“It was huge for us but we need to not give one away so early. No matter what time it is, we gotta manage that. We been working a lot on that and for the last 70 to 80 minutes of the game, we did a really good job of it besides a couple,” Olsen said.

Turnovers are another area the Bears will look to improve.

“If you look at the game, the only time they were dangerous, was when we gave the ball away in the midfeild, cause then they could counter us,” Olsen said.

“We’ve done really well this season of not giving any chances away, so we have got to fix that.”

With their exciting victory on Saturday, UCA stays undefeated for the season.

Incarnate Word came into the game 2-0 on the road and UCA managed to end their streak despite their slow start to the game.

For their next game, the Bears will be back at Bills Stephens Track/Soccer Complex to compete with the University of Dayton Sept. 13 at

Despite giving good effort, the Sugar Bears were unable to overcome the non-conference competition.

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wasn’t going to let down the idea that the Bears had already done an outstanding job throughout the weekend.

“Something we’ve learned about ourselves is we need to finish and know that we are a great team and can hang with the big dogs and upset them,” Mitchell said. “I’m extremely proud of my team for coming out this weekend and grinding it out.”

One last chance was available for the Bears to make a comeback against the Kansas State Wildcats on Sept. 8 in the Bramlage Coliseum.

After three ties occurred within the first six points, the

Sugar Bears created some separation off a 4-0 run to make it 7-3 early on. Junior outside hitter Abbie Harry delivered one of her five set kills to give the Bears the 13-7 advantage.

The Wildcats packed on the heat to the Sugar Bears a few points later and got two kills that started a 3-0 run to pull within one at 14-13.

By set two, both teams were clawing back and forth, refusing each other any slack until K-State was able to make a 4-0 run and go up to 13-8 midway through.

Eventually, the Bears would attempt to scare the Wildcats with a quick 2-0 run, but the Wildcats would get a Sugar Bear

error and win it 25-22.

UCA Sports reported that the third set was “instant entertainment for the crowd and ESPN+ viewers” when neither side could get past a score of three.

While the Sugar Bears were able to go up three after a junior defensive specialist Emily Doss service ace, the set shifted as the Wildcats went on a crucial 6-0 run to take a 17-14 lead. After a K-State service error at the end of the set tied it at 23, the Wildcats got a kill and a Sugar Bear service error to win it at 25-23.

Going into set four, K-State responded with a 3-0 spurt and put the Sugar Bears to rest.

Associate head coach, John Newberry, spoke to UCASports after the last game — highlighting that while the team expected some challenges this tournament, the matches proved to the Sugar Bears there is still a lot of room for improvement.

“We knew coming into this tournament that it was going to be extremely challenging,” Newberry said. “We started off the tournament aggressive with a killer instinct. Unfortunately, we didn’t finish the rest of the match versus Omaha with that mindset. I thought we competed well versus Clemson and Kansas State We fought hard throughout most of the match.”

Mitchell also has made room in her mindset for improve, and plans to take those thoughts of training for success into account as the season continues.

“Our team’s strength is the energy, we always have positive energy even in tight moments,” Mitchell said. “Our weakness is finishing matches. The only way we can overcome that is with confidence and determination.

Fighting as hard as we did in the beginning to get that lead to the very end. My one [personal] goal is consistency, I want to have a consistent mindset when I am playing, energy and execution for myself and the team.”

Despite the three loses faced

by the Bears, there was still good that came out of the K-State Invitational.

Doss was recognized for her weekend’s performance after the match when she was named to the K-State Invitational AllTournament team.

Doss played through 11 sets with a team-high 54 digs — improving her season total to 119.

The next game for Sugar Bears will take place at the Prince Central for the Central Arkansas Invitational beginning Sept. 13.

The Sugar Bears will face the Ole Miss Rebels on night one at 6:30 p.m. in front of their home crowd for the first time this year.