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OCTOBER 23 , 2019 Volume 114 — Issue 8
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I N T E R N AT I O N A L Australia promotes freedom of the press News outlets in Australia banded together in the name of press freedom with the “Your Right to Know” campaign launch October 20. The campaign seeks to end the suppression of information claiming that current secrecy is harmful to citizens. Secrecy surrounding governmental operations has been a growing concern. Newspapers with blackedout front pages and television advertisements are being utilized to draw attention to the issue.
N AT I O N A L L.A. fire threatens affluent residences The Los Angeles Fire Department ordered the evacuation of homes in the Pacific Palisades area after a fire broke out October 21. The fire burned 40 acres of brush and threatened 200 affluent homes. Residents of the neighborhood include many celebrities. Two injuries have been reported. One civilian was hospitalized
US soldiers die in car accident while training Three U.S. Army soldiers were killed in an accident during training October 20. The soldiers were riding in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle at Fort Stewart in Georgia when the vehicle was rolled over into water. Three other soldiers were injured in the incident. Their injuries were found non life-threatening and they were released from the hospital.
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Tornado leaves five injured, wind damage Five were injured in Tyronza after a tornado struck overnight October 20. Strong winds damaged several buildings in the small town south of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Damage prevented Tyronza Elementary School from holding classes Monday. The same storm caused one death in the northwest part of the state. Parts of Texas and Oklahoma were also affected by the storm.
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There are many programs to help non-traditional student mothers with shelter, utilities, and food, but there are not many that assist with diapers or wipes. However, the UCA NonTraditional Student Office is looking to change that. The Bear Bottoms Diaper Program is one in which students and faculty can donate items such as wipes, diapers and pull-ups to the Non-Traditional Student Office in room 205 of Bernard Hall. The program, developed during this past summer of 2019, was set into gear by Dr. Kathy Clayborn, the executive director of Career Services. Clayborn was approached with questions about what, if anything, the Non-Traditional Student Office offers for students that are also parents outside of classes. “UCA non-traditional students have many challenges they are likely to face,” Clayborn said. “The two most common are
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Diapers, wipes and pull-ups sit inside the Non-Traditional Student Office upon a shelf before they are taken and distributed to student-parents and other locations around campus. The Bear Bottoms Diaper Program was created after the need for supplies and resources to non-traditional students was expressed to Dr. Kathy Clayborn.
balancing financial obligations and family commitments [and] finding time to study and work.” That’s when, senior Cecilia Ladye Albini said, the idea of a diaper donation program came about. “I was tasked with naming
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UCA professors accepted to present addiction research by Ronak Patel Photo Editor
UCA’s College of Health and Behavioral Sciences will have professors Duston Morris, Lisa Ray, Stephanie Rose and Anita Sego present their research relating to the correlation between substance use and exercise addiction at the 2020 Society of Public Health Education Annual Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia. The title of their work is “Substance Use and Exercise: Are We Moving From One Addiction to Another?” looks into the ways exercise can become an unhealthy addiction. Within the team’s research, addicted to exercise is evaluated as a substitute addiction for substance abuse. Morris and his fellow professor researchers got the idea to look into this topic after looking at how alcohol is consumed at sporting events. “We see this issue in our social construct,” Morris said.“Just take a look at where you go, we associate substance abuse with athletics. If you prepare to watch to the World Series...I guarantee you there is gonna be advertisments that will associate with alcohol beverages. You see athletic events are sponsored by companies that sell alcohol. A lot of time we see students who are engaged with athletic events engage in alcohol use — whether they are a participant or just a spectator.” Morris detailed how pushing substance abusers toward excersize to overcome their addiction isn’t as helpful of a solution as it seem. “We have to look at the way systems are designed when we think about healthcare and whether they are actually leading to actual better quality of life or are they unintentional ways
of leading us down the wrong paths,” Morris said.“We think of an addiction as a drug addiction. We try and move them out a drug addiction and one of the things we’ll do is have them engage in exercise. Exercise is healthy. It is healthy and the research supports this. But if we aren’t careful, we can easily shift someone having an addiction to substances to becoming addicted to exercise.” Rose shared how in the discussion of addiction, addictions like exercise can be overlooked. “With any other behavioral addiction, those are ignored kind of like gambling addiction, sex addiction, food addiction and different things like that,” Rose said. “They can disrupt people’s lives — especially when they cut into their relationships, work obligations and ignoring muscle injuries.” But the dangers of relying on coping methods with substance abuse doesn’t always cure what is actually causing addictive behaviors. “From a prevention specialist point of view, we have to be really careful to make sure the things that we assume are healthy outlets for us [and] that we do them in a very balance way,” Morris said.“Anything can become a problem, whether it is an addiction to substance or exercise. Sometimes it seems like we are trying to pick the lesser of the two evils. We don’t want you to be addicted to a drug. That’s really bad. But [some people think] it’s okay if you are addicted to exercise. Sometimes the dysfunctinal patterns that are in an exercise addict are very similar to the dysfunctional patterns of somebody who is a drug abuser.”
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diapers this week to the lactation suites on campus and making a donation to the Bear Pantry as well.” Donations to the Bear Pantry will include canned goods and non-perishable items. “We hope in the future
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the program, creating a marketing plan to include flyers and the distribution of, and working out the details of where and how this program would operate,” Albini said. “We are starting to receive donations, and will be distributing the
to expand the Bear Bottoms program to include new diaper bags and new baby bottles, as well as breastfeeding supplies,” Albini said. According to theatlantic. com, the demand for such campus-based support programs for parents is growing. The number of college students who are raising children reached 4.8 million in 2011 — making up more than a quarter of the entire undergraduate population. But, they are facing heavy odds, nearly 70 percent have low incomes and are less likely to complete their degree or certification within six years. “I wouldn’t say necessarily that they are more susceptible to needing help...but I would say that [non-traditional student] needs are different than those of traditional students, in general,” Albini said. But even though this program has just begun, the Non -Traditional Student Office isn’t new to working to provide nontraditional students additional opportunities for help in college
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Performers of the Core Dance company take to the grass on the McCastlain Hall Lawn Oct. 14 to showcase their choreography. Patrons attending the numerous performance days that the group had scheduled got to experience a wide variety of dances dedicated to showcasing themes of poetry, humanity, and French culture.
Dance troupe performs compelling numbers by Lauren Mclemore Associate Editor
Award-winning contemporary dance company, Core Dance, returned to UCA for “The Empathy Project” — a multiperformance event that took place on campus Oct. 10 - 13. The event was organized by Gayle Seymour, associate dean of the UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication, and Sue Schroeder, co-founder of Core Dance. It also featured French poet Sarah Turquety. The Planetary Dance for Healing, a dance developed in 1990 by Anna Halprin, took place Oct. 13 and was led by Core Dance and UCA Drummers but also invited attendees to join. The purpose of the dance was to create a living mandela where participants enter one of three concentric circles. The outer circle runs, the next inner circle walks and the innermost circle stands. “It’s a beautiful way to bring a community together to heal personally and collectively in a shared space
and time. It was beautiful to see people “dance” together,” Schroeder said. The large turnout of attendees were all invited to also call out dedications of their movement to people or causes that they believed needed healing. Schroeder said the event was “a beautiful environment created by the students in Dr. Duncan’s Philosophy of Sex and Love class and 8 Drummers.” A second event, “If … a memoir,” a theatrical poetry performance, took place on the McCastlain Hall lawn Oct 14. and a shorter version was performed in the Baum Gallery Oct. 15. The dance, which featured Turquety, was a collaboration of artists’ talents that sought to create emotional responses between the performances and the audience — revealing the raw, human emotions that connect them to one another. In a description of the piece, it is described as “a love song written for humanity.” A second aspect of the performance is that the minds behind the finished product come from various corners of the world.
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“The collaborators on this project are international – Composer is German, Poet is French, Cinematographer is British and there is diversity by gender and ethnicity within the cast. All this is important as we seek to show connection as humans. As artists we must live the knowledge we are teaching [and] sharing with our audiences and communities,” Schroeder said. “We do not simply put an idea on stage. We walk the talk.” The first performance was all in English, but the poetry in the second performance was spoken in French. Many French students attended and were able to engage in a discussion after the performance was over. “It gave the French students an opportunity to converse in French and to learn more about our project, our collaboration and performance practices,” Schroeder said. “Very compelling and thoughtful questions were asked and discussions were quite meaningful.” Schroeder said that they taught five additional classes
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