The Echo | April 19, 2017

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Korean Vice Minister says ready for war against U.S. North Korean Vice Minister Han Song Ryol said he is ready to go to war with the U.S. if that’s what President Donald Trump wants. Ryol was referrring to Trump’s tweets, which were adding fuel to a “vicious cycle” of tensions in North Korea. Ryol said if the U.S. continues to show signs of their “reckless” military aggression, he is ready to launch a strike of his own. He said North Korea will continue to build its military in response to Trump’s tweets.

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[Top left] Senior Rayne Cottrell’s “Cannabis” hangs in the Baum Gallery. [Bottom left] Senior Hope Gillham’s “The Bunny’s Demise” is installed in the Baum Gallery for the Senior BA/BFA exhibition. Gillham’s work, as well as the work of the 16 other artists, can be viewed until April 27. [Right] Senior Rayne Cottrell is one of the 17 artists who has work installed in the Baum Gallery for the senior BA/BFA exhibition.

Baum Gallery showcases student art in spring exhibition

by Cody Macomber Staff Writer

N AT I O N A L

Discrimination lawsuit in North Carolina dropped The Trump administration dropped a lawsuit accusing North Carolina of discrimination against the LGBT community in response to the state’s decision to retract its “bathroom bill” that defines the restroom use of transgender people. Advocacy groups say they will continue with a separate federal lawsuit.

Man accused of gun store burglary now in custody A man accused of burglarizing a gun store and sending a manifesto to President Trump is in custody after a week-long manhunt found him camped on a Wisconsin farmer’s property. Wisconsin native Joseph Jakubowski allegedly stole 18 firearms and was considered “armed and dangerous.” He was also accused of sending the president a manifesto filled with anti-religious and anti-government remarks.

The Baum Gallery is hosting its spring semester senior exhibit April 6 through April 27 to showcase the work of bachelor of arts and bachelor of fine arts students graduating from UCA. Baum Gallery Director Brian Young said this is a very important exhibition for UCA. “The reason why it’s one of the most important exhibitions that we do is because part of the Baum’s mission is to serve the BA and BFA students,” Young said.

Works included pencil sketches, oil paintings, porcelain wall art, wall murals, a video and 3-D graphic animation.

Each work includes an

artist’s statement that describes the piece displayed. Some of the students gave thorough descriptions for their art and others gave very general descriptions to leave the interpretation up to the viewer.

One artist, senior Rayne Cottrell, displays a message of social injustice through her art.

She created a colorful mural of tobacco cartons and 3-D printed shreds of cannabis in plastic bags along the wall.

“Through the work, I’m trying to show cannabis in comparison with tobacco and let people draw their own conclusions,” Cottrell said. “It’s an effort to subtly expose this clear form of hypocrisy in our community.”

Many artists, includng Cottrell and senior Missy Fowler,

feel that this is a great chance to display their hard work.

Fowler displayed a video on living a great life even after being scarred by life-changing events in life, like rape.

“I’ve been working on the video since last semester.

Overall, it was about a five-month process,” Fowler said. “The emotional response that people have told me about has been very surprising. The impact that it’s made on others and getting to show my work has been very exciting.”

Young said the exhibit allows seniors to not only show off their work, but also to gain courage for future art endeavors.

“It’s a validation. It’s also reaffirming to the student that their work is worth being shown,” Young said. “If you

UCA welcomes first Latina sorority

by Caroline Bivens

and motivation to the Latina community and to help them with today’s immigration situation.

Hermanidad de Sigma “[We want] them to not feel Iota Alpha is UCA’s first Latina alone and to help them adapt sorority and is only the second into the new college life at UCA,” Latina sorority in the state.

Ventura said. “We want to be SIA was first established their home away from home.” at the University of Arkansas Ventura said that to her, the at Fayetteville, and last year sorority means that they are a group of women at UCA all inseperable and united by established the Sisters in Action the bonds of friendship and S TAT E RSO to help bring the sorority to sisterhood. campus.

“Being a part of this Sophomore Soledad Flores sisterhood has given me that Group protests executions is one of the four founders of love, support and courage … outside Governor’s home the sorority and to continue said the process p u r s u i n g Before the scheduled Arkansas was long and my dreams,” executions took place on April 17, challenging, Ventura said. various legal battles have occured , over but that it has Flores said whether or not the injections would been completely the sorority occur when they were scheduled. worth it. She hopes to Throughout Arkansas and the federal said it could not participate in court executions were halted and have been done events held by others were scheduled for a later without the help other Greek time. Inmates, Bruce Ward and Don of UCA Greek organizations.

Davis were scheduled to be executed Life.

She said April 17. There have been a hold on Photo courtesy of Karla Ventura “A l t h o u g h she’s excited to the executions due to botched lethal each of us come Left to right: junior Alejandra Cuellar, senior Karla Ventura, Jessica show Greek Life injections in other states. from different Galan (U of A founder, SIA sister) sophomore Soledad Flores, sophomore SIA’s own style of b a c k g r o u n d s Abigail Galicia Romero. Sigma Iota Alpha is the first Latina Sorority on strolling. and have UCA’s campus.

They will our unique hold elections personalities, we were able to “I joined with the purpose to and recruitment in fall 2017 and IN OUR NEXT ISSUE put our differences aside to give back to my community and will promote their informational bring this organization to UCA,” and social events. grow personally, academically Flores said.

She said they would also and professionally while Archivist, Jimmy Bryant was Flores said SIA was created enjoying like to promote their sorority the sisterhood,” recently appointed to the Arkansas to expand the Latino culture by visiting local high schools to Ventura said.

History Commission. encourage young Latina girls to among its members and Ventura said that although pursue college. the community, to promote the soroity is a Latina-based UCA welcomed its first sisterhood and friendship, to sorority, anyone can join.

Latino fraternity, Phi Iota Alpha, serve as role models and to She also said that the sorority hopes to bring encouragement in December 2016. empower women.

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“In high school I didn’t associate with many Latinos.

It wasn’t until I came to college that I found more Latinos with similar backgrounds and goals as myself,” Flores said “Through SIA I have met other hardworking, motivating, involved and strong women to help and encourage me.”

Senior Karla Ventura is also one of the founders of SIA and said she joined because she wanted to be around people who shared her values and to empower women.

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didn’t have this gallery then these students would just make this work and there would be no challenge and chance for them to build the courage to show their work.”

Students like Fowler and Cottrell already have plans for their art once the senior exhibition is over.

“I’m trying to get my art displayed at Good Weather Art Gallery in North Little Rock after my work is taken down from Baum,” Cottrell said. “It’s been ranked nationally as an up-and-coming contemporary art gallery and that’s a pretty big deal.”

Fowler plans to submit her video to the UCA Film Festival and has had interest from the Pasadena Film Festival as well.

She plans to try to get her

CENTENNIAL

Occupational therapy celebrates proclamation

by Des’ree Dallmann Online Editor

UCA celebrated 100 years of the practice of occupational therapy April 7 at the Arkansas Capitol building with Gov. Asa Hutchinson and will celebrate once more on April 19 at its centennial event at UCA Downtown.

At the capitol, a group of UCA’s occupational therapy faculty and students, along with The American Occupational Therapy Association, attended a ceremony in honor of Occupational Therapy Proclamation Day. Gov. Asa Hutchinson rewarded the group with a proclamation in honor of its 100 years in practice.

UCA will also honor the centennial celebration at “Cheers to 100 Years,” which will be held at UCA Downtown.

Professor of Occupational Therapy Jennifer Moore said the proclamation and the centennial event are a way to show gratitude to the occupational therapy profession for all that it does in meeting the needs of the

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community members it serves.

“Our department just wanted to celebrate this significant milestone in our profession just to recognize all that occupational therapy has done for so many people,” Moore said. “Since UCA is the flagship university program in the state we just felt the need to show respect for our profession and to the many practitioners in our state that do so much every single day for those that they serve, [this is] our way of thanking them for all that they do.”

She said the event will feature live music performed by occupational therapy students and artwork from artists who have benefited from occupation al therapy.

She said they are hoping practitioners from around the state can attend and that the department invited everyone they could.

According to a UCA press release, occupational therapy service providers and educators from programs across the state are expected to attend along with UCA staff, students, alumni and board of trustees members.

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work displayed in other art galleries after it goes through the film circuit and she wants to work with sexual abuse programs to see if her video could help others.

Friends of the artists, the UCA community and Conway Citizens have come to see the exhibit so far, including a group of 20 students from Westside High School in Greers Ferry, Arkansas.

The work displayed was chosen by UCA’s art faculty.

The Baum Gallery displays this exhibition twice a year­— once in the fall semester and once in the spring — for arts major graduates. It is a requirement for BA and BFA students to showcase their art in the exhibition before they graduate.

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WWII veteran examines PTSD, past experiences

by Sophia Ordaz Entertainment Editor

On April 12, WWII veteran Alan Moskin took the stage at the Student Center Ballroom wearing a patterned suit jacket, dress pants and a timeworn navy blue cap emblazoned with a 71st Infantry Division patch.

“I always wear this cap,” Moskin said. “I wear it because it makes me feel connected to a lot of my buddies who were less fortunate than me ... I feel their presence when I speak.”

For 50 years, severe PTSD prevented Moskin from speaking about his experiences fighting in WWII. He broke his silence on June 10, 1995, when he was invited to speak at the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education in Suffern, New York. “[Speaking about my WWII experiences] was like a catharsis,” Moskin said. “It was like all that garbage that I’d kept inside of me just poured out.”

Now Moskin speaks at high schools and universities across the country about his experiences as a concentration camp liberator and a staff sergeant for the 66th Infantry of the 71st Division under Gen. George Patton’s Third Army.

“Alan Moskin is a man who can tell the students firsthand what it was like during WWII as he served under Gen. Patton and assisted in the liberation of a concentration camp,” Student Activities Director Kendra Regehr said. “There aren’t many people who have firsthand knowledge of this, as most are no longer with us.”

Moskin began his basic training in 1944 after being drafted into the military service

at age 18. Although New Jersey native Moskin encountered a firearm for the first time in basic training, many of the southern trainees were familiar with using firearms because of their hunting experience.

Moskin recalls being taken aback when several of these southern trainees hurled racial slurs at one of Moskin’s African-American friends.

“I couldn’t fight the war in the South, and the reason I tell it, the only reason I tell it, is that I was a young boy going over to fight the Nazis, the bad guys, and I got guys on my side talking like [them],” Moskin said.

Moskin vividly recounted how he lost many close friends to bloody conflicts in France, Germany and Austria.

“I was on the front line,” Moskin said. “Something hit the top of my head … I reach up … and I’m holding a bloodsoaked arm … On the wrist is a tattoo of an eagle, and I started screaming, ‘Rancy, Rancy Rancy.’ [My friend] Rancy had an eagle tattoo on his wrist, and he was going to soar like an eagle after the war.”

After killing an enemy soldier who almost killed one of his friends, Moskin felt guilty.

On the inside of the German soldier’s helmet, Moskin discovered a photograph of his parents with “I love you, Mom and Dad” scribbled on it in German.

“Even though in the rational part of my brain I knew that I was following orders, I did my job, I couldn’t get [rid] of that picture of that man and woman,” Moskin said. “I killed their son, and they weren’t ever going to see him again … I was a good soldier. I did my job. I killed plenty, but I didn’t like it one bit.”

On May 4, 1945, Moskin’s Company liberated Austria’s Gunskirchen concentration camp, a subcamp of the Mauthausen-Gusen camps.

None of the soldiers were aware of the concentration camps’ existence, but a sickening smell that spread for miles around the site alerted the Company. “[There was] the most offensive, nauseating stench,” Moskin said. “It was a smell that got into your nostrils, that got into your brain … And all of a sudden, I remember looking through the woods, the trees.

[There was] this barbed wire, a big compound.”

The Gunskirchen camp had been abandoned by SS guards only days before. Upon entering the camp, Moskin was immediately appalled by the piles of skeletal corpses at the camp.

“What I witnessed entering that camp was the most horrific sight I’ve seen or ever hope to see,” Moskin said. “[The bodies] were so emaciated it defies description. They all looked alike to me. Their teeth were all hollowed out. Their eyes were sunken back into their sockets…

They were like zombies.”

The malnourished survivors asked the soldiers for food, cigarettes and water. Survivors would unravel cigarettes to bite and chew the tobacco, Moskin said. When Moskin offered survivors some of his rations, they started choking on the solid food because they had gone so long without eating. Behind the barracks, Moskin discovered other survivors eating the entrails of a dead horse.

Although Moskin was Jewish, he could not speak Yiddish or Hebrew because his parents had encouraged him to speak only English during his

childhood. In broken German, Moskin told the survivors that he was also a Jew. “When I said that I was an American soldier, an American Jewish soldier, [one of the survivors] went down on his knees and started kissing my boots,” Moskin said. “My boots were caked with feces and blood and vomit and who knows what … I picked him up and embraced him. I felt his tears on my cheek. I’m not embarrassed to say that I started to cry.”

After the camp was liberated, the survivors went to displacement camps, Moskin said. Moskin would stay in Europe as a member of the U.S. Army of Occupation until June 1946. It was often his duty to inform survivors that their entire families had perished in concentration camps.

“It’s so hard for me even today to try to comprehend, to try to verbalize, the enormity of the bestiality,” Moskin said.

“It left a mark on me. It left a mark right here on my heart. I wish I could get rid of the mark, but I can’t. It’s tattooed. It’s permanent.”

Moskin concluded his speech by urging students to take a stand against injustice, hate and intolerance because prejudice lives on today.

“To me, indifference is the same as consent,” Moskin said. “Inaction is the same as consent. You’ve got to get up.

You’ve got to be an up-stander.

There’s enough bystanders who sit around and don’t do anything. I keep wanting these young people to change things because my generation failed.

My generation didn’t get rid of this hate, this prejudice.”

NEWMAN CIVIC FELLOW

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President Houston Davis speaks to the crowd at the “Off The Clock” event on April 11 in the Conway Corporation Science Center.The event brought together business owners and leaders in Conway.

Chamber of Commerce hosts networking event

by Cassidy Kendall Staff Writer

The Conway Chamber of Commerce held an “Off The Clock” networking event for Conway business owners at the new Conway Corporation Center for Sciences on April 11.

The goal of the event was for businesses to conduct business casually and to make new connections.

Conway Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Brad Lacy said the businesses encouraged to attend included a broad range of the businesses within the community — from small retailers to large businesses.

“The Chamber does a really good job of putting these events on in order to get people in town together and network with different professionals,” H+N Architects co-owner Liz Hamilton said. “As architects and owning our own business in Conway, we want to do business in Conway and make sure we are in front of people that also want to do business in Conway.”

Hamilton said that an event like “Off The Clock” allows her and her partner Joanna Nabholz to meet and get to know people while introducing their business to potential clients.

Freelance graphic artist Robin Stauffer said the event has greatly benefited her because she works from home.

Stauffer said it gives her the opportunity to meet people in the community that she wouldn’t otherwise meet.

“Something the Chamber

of Commerce does really well is creating networking opportunities for local businesses,” Old Chicago general manager Charles Frost said.

Frost said the Conway Chamber of Commerce does an outstanding job with providing opportunities such as “Off The Clock” for Conway businesses to connect with one another.

During the event, UCA President Houston Davis recognized the new Conway Corporation Center for Sciences as an invitation to the people of Conway to experience the sciences.

The newest addition to UCA was completed in October 2016, and “Off The Clock” is just one of the many events it has been utilized for since its completion.

CEO of Conway Corporation Richie Arnold said the building benefits both students and faculty.

“Since Conway Corp was founded in 1929 its main goal has been to support higher education,” Arnold said.

The presenting sponsor for the event was Conway Regional Health System and the underwriter was Smith Ford. The supporting sponsors included Preston Palmer Studios providing live music and Mosaique and Great American Cookies provided catered food.

The next “Off The Clock” will be a celebration of Bret Carroll’s appointment as the new Conway Corporation CEO at the new Conway Corp building on June 22.

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Junior Morgan Sweere, a biology major, has been honored as a 2017 Newman Civic Fellow. Sweere and other members of the fellowship will travel to Boston in November for a seminar about leadership and service.

UCA student receives nomination from President Davis

by Brody Arnold Staff Writer

UCA President Houston Davis named junior biology major Morgan Sweere a Newman Civic Fellow.

According to the Campus Compact website, “The Newman Civic Fellowship recognizes and supports community-committed students who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country.”

Members of the fellowship will attend a seminar in Boston in November. “It’s kind of like a discussion about leadership and service and how we can all better our communities,” Sweere said.

Sweere hopes her nomination will help the service programs she is involved with get more attention. She also

feels that being a Newman Civic Fellow confirms her involvement in service when she applies for medical school.

Sweere is part of the Big Event Committee, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Association of Future Alumni, Greek Judicial Board and LEAD Team.

Sweere’s service thesis is about disaster preparedness. “I started out doing some disaster volunteer when I was in high school,” she said. Sweere was doing EMT clinicals when a tornado stuck Vilonia, Arkansas.

She was in the hospital when it hit. “It got really busy because of everything that was happening, and so I just wanted to really continue helping out from there on,” she said.

Sweere then became a Disaster Services volunteer and a Server Arkansas volunteer.

According to Sweere, Disaster Services goes out after devastating events and helps clean up, finds places for people

to stay, and works on roads. “So basically whenever something happens I kind of expect to get a call,” she said.

Sweere recently started an RSO called Bears Respond.

“What we’re trying to do is be ambassadors for disaster preparedness and emergency education,” she said. Sweere said that while doing research for her proposal, she learned that college students are vulnerable to emergency situations and disasters. “They’re not able to recover well just because we don’t have any money and we’re far away from the people we’ve been dependent on for a long time,” she said.

Sweere said that being involved in so many different organizations and programs came from a desire to get out of her comfort zone.

She described herself as “really introverted” during high school, but she recognized

that if she wanted to make a difference she needed to put herself out there. She tried to meet as many people as she could her freshman year, and joined anything that sounded interesting to her.

“Now whenever I see something I think, ‘Oh, I should probably get involved in that,’” she said.

Davis said Sweere’s nomination was brought forward by several faculty and staff members. “Her credentials pointed to a commitment to community engagement and social justice, both core elements of the Newman Fellows program,” he said.

Davis said that university presidents make the official nominations.

“I was delighted that we had a nominee of her caliber and am proud for her and UCA to have the designation,” he said.

SGA discusses proposed tuition increase for 2018

by Caroline Bivens Assistant News Editor

At their last meeting of the year, SGA was informed about the proposed tuition increase for the 2018 fiscal year.

Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance Diane Newton said the increase is needed so the university can attract and retain faculty and staff, fill positions for critical programming, incorporate strategic initiatives and increase scholarship offerings.

For students taking 15 hours a semester, tuition would increase by $300.

Room and board costs with an All Access plus 50 Dining Dollars and a double room would increase by $270.

President Houston Davis said UCA wanted to have a “robust” pool of money for last dollar scholarships.

“We don’t want kids who are in academically good standing to be purged from their classes because they’ve run out of

money,” Davis said.

Newton said the university has also made room in the proposed budget to renovate either Carmichael Hall, Conway Hall, Hughes Hall or State Hall.

The board of trustees will make the final decision at its meeting on May 5 at 10 a.m..

SGA was unable to vote on the issue because they were not informed about the proposed increase soon enough and were unable to draft a resolution before the meeting.

SGA also reviewed their Student Activity Fee Allocation fund that they allocated to student organizations over the year. The allocations funded SGA’s free printing service, student workers, I.D.E.A.L. programs and readership programs.

“This is a lot of money and it’s all for a good cause,” Senior Vice President of Finance Ryan Pfaff said.

SGA also voted unanimously to make SGA Graduate a fully functioning committee.

Police Beat

The following information is compiled from UCAPD incident reports

By Assistant News Editor Caroline Bivens

Students reports keyed car, note found on windshield

Couple reports damaged car Police find marijuana in car, after driving through chains man confesses

Student Laura Wortman said her car was keyed on the passenger side front door on April 10. Wortman said she parked in the lot southwest of Reynolds when she found a note in a female’s handwriting that said “Next time leave a [explicative] can opener so people can get in the cars,” on her windshield. There were multiple scratches and a small dent that appeared to have been made by a car door.

The damages were estimated at $500.

Non-students Georg Anderson and his wife Annabelle reported damages made to their car after driving through a chain that blocked off their designated parking spots on April 10. The Andersons said the white chain was difficult to see.

Mrs. Anderson had been on campus to see a play in Reynolds. The couple are donors to Reynolds, which allowed them to have their own parking spots.

Deont’e Fisher was charged with possession of drugs and driving at night without headlights on April 12. Police reported Fisher’s car was leaving Fox Run apartments without its headlights on, which caused police to conduct a traffic stop. Police reported the smell of marijuana coming from Fisher’s car. Fisher confessed that there was a gram of weed in the car. Police found 20.7 grams of weed, six prescription pills, a scale and $612 in cash.

Two non-students possess marijuana, alcohol in car

Non-students Mara Flood and Kelly Keathly were found with marijuana and alcohol in their car on April 12. Flood was driving the van with a suspended license and a warrant because Keathly was too intoxicated. Police reported the smell of marijuana coming from the car and found part of a marijuana cigarette in the ashtray. Several cans of beer were found, one of which was open in a cup holder.

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‘Diversity in Islam’ The Muslim Students Association will present “Diversity in Islam” at 4 p.m. on April 20 in the Student Center Ballroom. The presentation will cover diversity in the Islamic faith and teach people about Islam. For more information, contact MSA President Sinaly Karamoko at skaramoko1@cub.uca.edu.

‘Mary Poppins’ Conway High School will perform “Mary Poppins” at 7 p.m. on April 20 and 21 in the James J. Clark Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students grades four through 12.

For more information, contact Conway High drama teacher Anthony Spiridigliozzi at spiridiga@conwayschools.net.

‘Unfinished Business’ The Conway Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert titled “Unfinished Business” at 7:30 p.m. on April 22 in Reynolds Performance Hall. The concert will feature guest artists Kelly Johnson on clarinet and winner of the Conway Composers Guild competition Ryan Key playing a commissioned piece. Tickets range from $20 to $38. For more information, visit the Orchestra’s website at conwaysymphony.org.

Relay for Life UCA’s Relay for Life 2017 will be held from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. on April 21 in the Farris Center. Relay for Life is hosted by the Colleges Against Cancer organization and is open to everyone in the UCA community, including students, faculty, staff and alumni. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the American Cancer Society. For more information, contact CAC President Treslyn Fletcher.

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[Left] Suzanne Rogers attended UCA in 1964 and returned Friday to donate blood at a Red Cross Blood Drive in the Student Center. [Right] Taylor Ogle, a former UCA Bear, traveled to UCA on Friday to participate in The Red Cross’s blood drive in the Student Center.

Low iron leads to multiple defferals at blood drive

by Cassidy Kendall Staff Writer

A Red Cross Blood Drive was held on the second floor of the Student Center on April 13 and 14.

Red Cross Account Manager Sharon Hawkins said that during this blood drive they have encountered a lot of deferrals due to low iron.

“We need to do a better job about educating our students to eat iron enriched foods about three days before they donate, the second day they donate and the day before they donate.”

Hawkins said. “They need to eat iron enriched foods such as green leafy vegetables, nuts, peanut butter, fish, chicken and

beef and and drink of water.

And if we can do a better job of educating the students to eat well we will have fewer deferrals.”

Hawkins said another thing that hurt the success of the drive is people refusing to donate because of a needle phobia.

She said the sacrifice of a pinch and a poke to save a person’s life provides you with instant gratification.

“I give blood regularly.” senior Allison Ford said. “I’m O Negative, so since I’m a universal donor, I donate whenever they come to campus.”

According to the Blood Connection website, O Negative blood cells are called “universal,” meaning

they can be transfused to almost any patient in need, and only 6.6% of the population has O Negative blood, making their commitment to donating regularly essential.

Ford said Red Cross sends her incentives in the mail to encourage her to continue to donate regularly.

Hawkins said males have the opportunity to donate Power Reds.

According to the Red Cross blood website, a Power Red is similar to a whole blood donation, except a special machine is used to allow an individual to safely donate two units of red blood cells during one donation while returning the plasma and platelets to him.

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Although donating Power Reds takes 30 minutes longer than donating whole blood, a benefit of donating Power Reds is the commitment to donating regularly is extended to every four months rather than every 56 days.

Another benefit of donating Power Reds includes the increase of your bodily health because all of your platelets and plasma is returned to you along with some saline.

“I donate blood because I feel that it’s a worthy cause and I feel that we should use the health we have for the people that do not temporarily have it,” senior Caleb Webb said.

To make blood donating easier and quicker, Red Cross

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Faculty read from published writings

by Harry Glaeser Opinion Editor

‘Heavenly Days’ The UCA Concert Choir will perform its concert “Heavenly Days” at 7:30 p.m. on April 24 in the Snow Fine Arts Recital Hall.

It will be the choir’s final concert on campus for the semester and will feature a variety of songs, including ‘Viderunt Omnes’

by J. Michael Haydn and “The White Birds” by Eric Barnum. The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Director of Choral Activities and Conductors of the UCA Concert Choir John Erwin at 501-450-5757.

Literary launch party “Arkana,” an online literary magazine, is hosting a launch party for its second issue at 3 p.m. on April 24 at The Lantern Theatre in downtown Conway.

The magazine is published by the Arkansas Writers’ MFA program at UCA. For more information, contact supervising editor of the magazine and Assistant Professor of Writing Jennifer Case at 501-450-3341.

‘Exam Jam’ The Social Justice League will host “Exam Jam” from 8 to 10 p.m. on April 26 in the Indoor Sports Facility. The event is for students hoping to relieve stress before finals week begins.

There will be music, inflatables and puppies at the event. For more information, contact SJL President Marisa

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Senior Danielle Casey works on her honors thesis in a nook in the Torreyson Library. Many students do their work in the cozy atmosphere of the library.

MUSIC

Dancers United honors choreographer

by Brandon Jones Staff Writer

UCA’s Dancers United presented head choreographer Brittany Kimbrough a picture and gift card after performances to remixed music at their show on April 13 at Reynolds Performance Hall.

The night started with a YouTube video showing members of the group talking about what being a member means to them.

Kimbrough said anyone who has a love for dance can come to the group.

“It’s really about being yourself,” Kimbrough said. “We welcome everybody to come dance.”

Senior, president of Dancers United Candice Ball said the group hopes to spread happiness with their performance.

“A lot has been going on in the world, so we just want to put a little positivity in the atmosphere,” Ball said.

According to the event’s playbill, the first section was a

Bruno Mars mix that involved all the dancers.

This was followed by “Focus”, then “Don’t Hurt Yourself” with the Dancers United women.

A Chris Brown mix came after, performed by the Dancers United men, and the final piece before intermission was “Rivals.”

After the intermission, the Dancers United women performed to “Q.U.E.E.N.S” and “What is Love.”

Following this was “Comfort Inn” and “Long Walk.” The night ended after a solo dance to “Soul Fly” and a finale that featured the Born Artistically Bold Dance Company.

Kimbrough performed during one of the dances in the event, they presented Kimbrough with a picture of the group, which they all signed, and a gift certificate to Sonic.

Kimbrough was one of the founders of the group, and after she graduated she came back to be the choreographer.

This has provided her the opportunity to get to know many people, which she said can be

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RapidPass allows you to complete the online pre-donation and health history questionnaire at your own convenience on the day of your appointment, saving you 15 minutes at your next appointment.

Red Cross also provides an app called “Blood Donor

by American Red Cross.” The app allows you to schedule appointments, access your donor card, track donations and claim rewards for giving blood.

Hawkins said appointments are good, but with the amount of no-show appointments during every drive, walk-in appointments are graciously welcomed.

The next campus blood drive will be in June.

both fun and sad.

“It’s always fun because it’s sad to see some people go, but I know I have a new group coming in,” Kimbrough said.

The group focuses on hip-hop, but they have done lyrical pieces, jazz influences, afro jazz and praise dancing.

Thursday’s performance had been in the works since January, when everyone came back for the semester.

Kimbrough said they were glad to have the performance in Reynolds, both because it is a more professional setting to perform in and because more people might attend.

Kimbrough said the show is important because people will come see the performance or see their videos on YouTube and may decide they would like to take part.

Dancing gives the students a good outlet and Kimbrough said she is happy to be a part of it.

Future events for Dancers United include a date auction on April 17 and a “Clash of Cultures” program on April 20.

UCA’s English and writing departments’ faculty members hosted a public reading of their original creative works on April 13 in Irby Hall, featuring writing by Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Sandy Longhorn, Professor of English James Fowler and Assistant Professor of Writing Jennie Case.

The reading was designed to promote original works written by faculty members from various UCA departments and has been a tradition for the departments in past years.

The reading featured a collection of poems written by Fowler, a collection of poems

by Longhorn from her book “The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths” and a creative nonfiction piece by Case titled “Habitats Imprinting.”

The poems Fowler presented encompassed a wide variety of topics ranging from monster movies to new theories in physics and were written in a surreal and figurative voice.

In addition to being a writer and a professor, Fowler is also the editor of “Slant,” UCA’s annual poetry journal that has been published for 31 years.

Longhorn’s poetry focused on her experiences in her home region of midwestern America and is influenced by traditional fairy tales and religious symbolism.

This is illustrated in her “Cautionary Tale” poems and her “Saint” poems, some of which she read at the reading.

“My poetry in my first two books focuses extensively on the landscapes of the Midwest,” Longhorn said. “While I was writing my second book, I was reading the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales in translation — the bloody versions, not the Disney versions — and I was also

reading about saints in different religions. So I started imagining what the Midwest would be like without thinking about any outside influence and without thinking about the fairy tales or any known religion.”

Case’s piece explored the human cognitive complexity that accompanies moving to a new place and addresses the difficulties of moving away from home, including references to various biological and psychological research relevant to the topic of moving.

Her piece pulled heavily from her personal experience of moving away from her home state, Minnesota, to various metropolitan and rural areas across the country for educational and occupational purposes.

“The piece was actually the first piece that I completely drafted in Arkansas,” Case said.

“So it was fun to share it with an Arkansas audience.”

The public reading was hosted by interim chair and Professor of English Conrad Shumaker, who introduced the speakers and has spoken at past readings.

“What we’re trying to do is promote writing from faculty of all departments here at UCA,” Shumaker said. “A year ago in the spring, we actually had someone from the sociology department and read some of the things that he had written.

We’re always looking for other people other than professors in our departments who might be interested in reading from their creative works.”

After the readings, Shumaker and audience members asked questions to Longhorn, Fowler and Case about their individual works and their particular creative processes.

The writing and English departments intend to continue the public reading events indefinitely, with a reading scheduled to take place in the fall semester.

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Why did you decide to vote in the SGA elections?

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Graduate student Jun Zhu, freshman Shelby Linam, senior Brent Welch, sophomore Augustin Nguyen, freshman Mikayla Hicks and sophomore Akayla Jones sing during a dress rehearsal of “Avenue Q” April 12 in the Bridges/Larsen Theatre in the Snow Fine Arts building. Besides showings

‘Avenue Q’ addresses adult anxieties with crude humor

Freshman Whitney Dobbs

Freshman Tori Vector

by Caroline Bivens

“I think voting is important and I want to exercise my right to vote. All the candidates seemed very experienced and qualified and I liked that.”

“I voted for the people I had a personal connection with and had strong leadership on campus. I thought they would be good for their positions.”

Junior Ashley Henderson

Junior Sarah Barakat

“I voted to get people to stop pestering me about voting, but also I’m a part of the UCA institution and if you don’t have a hand in the people that get elected they don’t really represent you.”

“I feel I need to practice my civic rights by voting.

SGA runs the school and I love this school too much not to vote.

I think it’s important for my voice to be heard.”

Senior Ty Hollowell

Freshman Abraham Hedlin

“I think it’s important because everyone should have their voice heard. I’m also graduating soon so I want to help those lowerclassmen fill those leaderships roles.”

“I feel like students should have more say in what goes on around UCA campus. I think UCA can be mundane and these should be more activities and SGA could help with that.”

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UCA Theatre’s production of “Avenue Q” on April 13 was a night of songs, laughter and puppet sex scenes that held nothing back.

“Avenue Q” is a popular Broadway musical that addresses problems and anxieties about entering adulthood after college through puppetry. The music and lyrics were written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, and is based on a book by Jeff Whitty.

The writers wanted to address that the idea that children are special and can do anything they want - popularized in popular children’s television shows like

“Sesame Street” - are not true in real life.

The story opens with the character Princeton (sophomore Augustine Nguyen) who is coming to terms with adulthood and his unavoidable unemployment as he tries to find his purpose.

He meets many new friends at his new home on Avenue Q, New York, like Kate Monster (freshman Mikala Hicks), Brian (freshman Shelby Linam) and his fiancé Christmas Eve (graduate student Jun Zhu), Nicky and Trekkie Monster (seniors Brent Welch and Emily Brooks), Gary Coleman (sophomore Akayla Jones) and Rod (Nguyen).

Princeton and his friends soon realize that they all

have something in common: they aren’t more special than anyone else.

“It’s all about teaching people how to adjust to adulthood, which is exactly what we college students need,” Welch said. “[Avenue Q] deals with a lot of important issues that people face in their day-to-day life.”

The characters faced issues like hookups, breakups, their sexuality and the temptations pushed by two devilish bears.

“Every second is to be taken with a grain of salt and a bowl of sugar,” Welch said “’Avenue Q’ is all about the laughs.”

Several different puppets were used throughout the show. The set featured three dilapidated apartment fronts to

set the dismal mood.

“So much work has been put into this production …

I’m sure more than 1000 hours have been put into making this show the best it can be,” Hicks said.

The musical featured two acts with 22 total songs and a 15-minute intermission.

“Avenue Q” taught many important lessons through song, some of which were “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” “The Internet is for Porn” and “You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You’re Makin’ Love).”

This production features harsh puppet language, explicit adult puppet activities and sexual puppet gestures that are for mature audiences only.

WRECKING BALL

UCA Social Justice League breaks down wall symbolizing hate

by Taylor Fulgham Assistant Online Editor

The UCA Social Justice League hosted its annual teardown of the Wall of Hate on April 6 in front of Arkansas Hall as a part of One World Week, a week of events the RSO sponsored to bring attention to various social justice issues.

Assistant Director for Residence Life Craig Seager, who also supervises SJL, said the Wall of Hate initiative has been powerful since it was first implemented at UCA in 2012.

“It is a means for people to publicly identify words that they personally associate with hate or words that have been used against them by others to convey hate,” Seager said.

“When people paint their

words of hate on the wall, which many times are trigger words for them, it is meant to be a symbolic gesture of release for them rather than bottling up their emotions.”

Seager also said that the wrecking of the wall is a cathartic moment for students, allowing them to break down the words that plague them.

“When the wall is finally torn down, it is meant to symbolize the destruction of the power that each of those words possess,” Seager said.

Junior Ryan Brophy said he felt empathy for those who wrote the words on the bricks.

“I felt like I understood what they were going through and felt bad that verbal abuse is still occurring,” Brophy said.

Seager said students

react in various ways to the wall, but it always generates conversation in one form or another.

“This project has always turned heads, made people uncomfortable, and generated a great deal of conversation, and that is exactly what the program is designed to do,” Seager said. “The uncomfortable feeling that people experience when seeing the wall of hate is meant to represent the program participant’s feelings associated with those words or when those words were used against them.”

For the project, students painted large concrete masonry blocks with words that had been used against them, many including profanities or slurs against students’ race, religion

or sexuality.

Both Hahn and Seager said this experience had profound influence on them and that they are glad to see it affecting students in a positive way.

“I hope students use this experience to express themselves and to reclaim the power that those words of hate had on them,” Seager said.

Along with the Wall of Hate, SJL partnered with the Student Government Association, Resident Housing Association and the Student Activities Board to bring programs such as Dear World, the Hunger Banquet and Take Back the Night to campus.

The Social Justice League plans to sponsor the Wall of Hate building and teardown again next spring.

SPOTLIGHT

PEOPLE OF UCA Caleb Brown

by Waid Rainey Staff Writer

photo by Waid Rainey

Caleb brown, a freshman international trades student, attends UCA hoping to open doors allowing him to travel the world.

Caleb Brown, a freshman in the College of Business, has an affinity for traveling, a love he he hopes to indulge through an emphasis in International Travels. He loves to see and experience new places and embraces any and all opportunities to travel abroad.

Graduating from Van Buren High School in 2016, Brown initially wanted to take a year off to travel and see the world before earning his bachelor’s degree.

“It feels like everybody goes to college, and then gets a job, so after I feel like I have to get a job,” Brown said. “Next thing you know I work 30 years behind a desk and never travel anywhere.”

Brown eventually decided

continue his education straight out of high school and went to join his older brother, who also studies business at UCA. His brother is in his senior year and is graduating in December. Brown also has an older sister studying education at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville.

Brown expects to graduate with his bachelor’s degree a semester early. In high school he was able to earn 20 hours in college credits taking “pretty much every college course that my school offered,” he said, allowing him to be able skip many general education classes after beginning college.

Brown loves to travel and, as a first-year college student, has already collected a long list of visited locations. From New York, Washington D.C. and Florida on the East Coast

to Colorado and California, he has managed to see many of America’s sights through his hometown church’s youth group. Brown’s trips have generally taken place during spring and summer vacations and helped cultivate his passion for traveling. “My favorite part was playing soccer on the beach. And you know, if you’re in California, since you’re on the West Coast you can see the sunset on the beach.”

After graduation he says he will probably travel to Central America because he is minoring in Spanish. This Christmas he plans on going to Spain with an international student he met at school.

When asked where he wants to go to most he said, “I do have a top of the list,” he said “I definitely want to go to Bora Bora.”

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Why you shouldn’t get killer tans at tanning beds Every time you get into a tanning bed, you are exchanging your health for a more socially acceptable appearance, an act that is as superficial as it is harmful.

A tanning bed causes damage to your skin every time you lay in it, even if the only thing you can see in the moment is your newly tanned skin.

While you may think that tan skin is beautiful skin, the truth is that tan skin is damaged skin.

According to Healthline’s website, tan skin is an indication that ultraviolet rays have caused skin cells produce more melanin.

This darkening process is your skin’s defense against UV damage, and while the tan will fade, the damage to your skin is long-lasting.

The United States Department of Health and Human Services website has declared UV rays a carcinogen, or a cancer-causing substance, because they rapidly increase the speed of mutations within your body.

According to a study from the University of California in San Francisco, indoor tanning is linked to more skin cancers than cigarettes are to lung cancers.

According to the Melonoma Foundation of New England’s website, the increased risk of melanoma associated with tanning bed use is 59 percent for people whose first exposure to artificial UV rays in a tanning bed occurred before the age of 35.

That risk increases with the number of tanning bed sessions per year.

To shed some light on what exactly melanoma is, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, melanoma is caused by a tumor of high malignancy that starts in melanocytes — skin cells — of normal skin or moles and metastasizes rapidly and widely. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer.

The risks of indoor tanning doesn’t stop with increasing your risk of skin cancer. Other risks include premature aging, damage to your eyes and immune suppression.

According to the Healthline website, the light from a tanning bed can put your eyes at risk for cataracts and corneal burns.

Tanning also causes your skin to lose elasticity and develop early wrinkles, and UV radiation may negatively affect your body’s immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to disease.

Indoor and outdoor tanning both pose a threat to your health, but outdoor tanning is much less harmful because it provides a more gradual exposure to harmful UV rays.

According to

by Cassidy the Melonoma Kendall F o u n d a t i o n’s Staff Writer website, not only is using a tanning bed for 20 minutes equivalent to spending one to three hours a day at the beach with no sun protection at all, but tanning beds also put out three to six times the amount of radiation given off by the sun.

One benefit from minimal outdoor tanning is that it provides your skin with the vitamin D it needs, which is absorbed through exposure to sunlight.

According to the Melonoma Foundation’s website, five to 10 minutes of unprotected sun two to three times a week is enough to help your skin make vitamin D, but getting more sun won’t increase your vitamin D intake.

Overexposure to sunlight will merely increase your risk of skin cancer.

If you insist on joining in on the fad of having the sun-kissed look or simply a darker complexion, the safest alternatives to both indoor and outdoor tanning include sunless tanning lotions and spray tanning.

These often look identical to tanning bed tans and are completely harmless, so why would you want to put your body under harmful conditions for a simple tan?

Christians should revere God, not be afraid of him If God ever announced that hell or eternal damnation did not exist, the estimated 2.2 billion Christians in the world would reduce drastically because the fear of “going to hell” would dissapear Yes, hell is a place of torment and punishment that lasts forever, but that should not be the motivation for a relationship with God. Fear can produce surprising results in people — it’s a very unhealthy motivator.

If I could create an idea and sell it to people as more frightening than hell, people would probably be under my control, and once someone is under control, they’re being manipulated, misused and abused.

Fear isn’t just something that limits or imprisons you mentally, but it can also cause you to make very impulsive decisions.

When runners are in their positions at the start of the race, it’s a feeling of anxiety that makes them “jump the gun” and get disqualified from the race for starting too early.

Yes, hell is real, but your relationship with God should not be powered by fear; it should be inspired by the concepts of philos, eros and agape love.

First, philos love is a love based on shared experiences, like siblings when they grow up together.

Eros is the greek word for longing and desire.

This is the kind of love we have in a romantic relationship or a marriage.

Finally, the last form of love is agape love, which is divine love.

It’s the kind of love that is apart from our feelings, the kind that allows us to love our enemies and to love and revere our God unconditionally.

After all, it is a relationship, and not just any

relationship, but a marriage. The day you accept him into your heart, you receive a covenant ring.

That’s why Jesus is coming back for a bride: the church.

He has been waiting for over 2,000 years for his bride to prepare for the wedding feast. He came to Earth to leave behind his divinity, take on humanity, walk perfectly inside humanity and give us divine humanity so we could match him.

If you serve God or have tried to serve God from the perspective of fear, you will see it as a collection of rules and laws that you can’t fulfill, and you will ultimately give up.

As college students, this is something that we often struggle with on a day-to-day

by Dennbasis, with sin and vice Warren following each of us Tafah around almost every Sports Editor corner.

Imagine being in a relationship or being married to someone and being afraid of them.

Yes, you might do everything they say, but you would serve an almost robot-like existence, which defeats the whole purpose of the relationship. The kind of fear God requires from us is the kind of reverence or great respect that can only be gained through true, genuine love.

So if you view God as an entity ready to punish and destroy you every time you mess up, then you’re mistaken. When the prodigal son came back home, his father ran to him and embraced him.

He also gave him the best robe for his covering, and a signet ring of the spirit and killed the fattest calf for his enjoyment.

We must remember that God does not view the world out of any sort of spite.

We are his creations and he is our father, and this relationship is one ripe of agape love, divine in nature and more beautiful than any fear-stricken believer could ever conceive of.

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A majority of us view the life of a homeless person as a lifestyle that we will likely never have to adopt.

A vast majority of us, simply based on the fact that we are all attending college, have it pretty figured out and have a list of effective measures to keep homelessness far out of the picture, whether that be parental assistance or a hefty and well-maintained saving’s account.

However, the homeless lifestyle is not one that people typically decide to adopt.

It’s not like there are many children out there who list “homeless” as something they would be interested in becoming when they grow up.

We need to be more thoughtful about the fact that there are American citizens who have nowhere to go, no one to fall back on and probably nothing to subsist on for their very survival.

According to software organization Social Solutions, over half a million Americans are homeless — about 206,286 entire families, and about a quarter of the entire population are children.

This number doesn’t seem too surprising, though it is a rather astonishing statistic.

I mean, we see people on the side of highways or in front of businesses all the time, begging for money or food to meet their basic needs.

This is something we most likely encounter weekly, since there are over 150 people living without anywhere to go in Faulkner County alone.

More people should be aware of the helplessness that is exhibited here.

Many claim that people living without homes or means are simply lazy or unwilling to find work to make a sufficient income, but these people actually lack most of the opportunities that many people view as basic and abundant.

As college students, it’s typically difficult for us to understand how life could be devoid of the help of family and friends. The altruism that we are exposed to from those who care for us is something that some people out there do not get the pleasure of benefitting from.

There are those out there who are trying to gain a perspective of the homeless lifestyle, such as those who participated in the “Night Out for the Homeless” here on campus, during which students camped out in front of Old Main to simulate being homeless for 24 hours.

However, we will never know exactly the hardships that these people experience on a daily basis until we ourselves have nowhere to go and no food to eat, which is something that I hope none of us have to go through.

Simply put, the world should not be a place where even a single human being has to struggle for the simplest of physiological needs. Of course, this issue transcends America; according to The United Nation’s website, an estimated 100 million people are homeless worldwide and about 1.6 billion people lack adequate housing.

It’s hard to gain a perspective of this widespread crisis as we live delightfully in our nice houses with our parents or have enough money to pay the rent of an apartment with an eight-foot swimming pool in the back.

There are many, many people out there who struggle to find the opportunities that come so easily to us, and we should have more of a perspective of this fact as we go about our lives in priviledged splendor.

The greater qualities of life should be the persuit of the humans that live it; seeking fulfillment, accomplishing goals and watching oneself grow as a person should be the worries of the people of the world as we live out our short time on Earth.

Basic physiological needs, such as finding shelter and food, should not have to be something struggled for in anyone’s daily life.

We need to be more thoughtful about the fact that there are American citizens that have nowhere to go

Everyone does.

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Entertainment April 19, 2017

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New This Week

Lamar confronts fear with raw introspection

Movies

by Sophia Ordaz

April 21 — Born in China (G), directed by Chuan Lu, starring John Krasinski.

With his fourth studio album “DAMN.,” hip-hop luminary Kendrick Lamar tempers vice with virtue, fame with street cred and lofty expectations with unabashed authenticity.

After the groundbreaking “To Pimp a Butterfly,” Lamar, like it or not, became a voice for contemporary protest. As the unofficial anthem for many Black Lives Matter activists, Lamar’s single “Alright” sparked controversy with “militant moderate” journalist Geraldo Rivera, who reacted to Lamar’s 2015 BET performance of the song by declaring that “hip-hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years” on a Fox News segment.

Lamar lambasts Rivera in the dizzying “YAH.,” lethargically rapping, “Fox News wanna use my name for percentage … Somebody tell Geraldo this nigga got some ambition.” This track follows

April 21 — Free Fire (R), directed by Ben Wheatley, starring Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer and Cillian Murphy.

April 21 — Phoenix Forgotten (PG-13), directed by Justin Barber, starring Florence Hartigan, Luke Spencer Roberts and Chelsea Lopez.

April 21 — The Promise (PG-13), directed by Terry George, starring Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac and Shohreh Aghdashloo.

April 21 — Unforgettable (R), directed by Denise Di Novi, starring Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson, Geoff Stults and Isabella Rice.

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Music April 21 — Wrangled - Angaleena Presley April 21 — Cuidado Madame - Arto Lindsay April 21 — Love and War. - Brad Paisley April 21 — Narkopop - Gas April 21 — 8 - Incubus April 21 — Jason Eady - Jason Eady April 21 — Electric Lines - Joe Goddard April 21 — Unseen Forces - Justin Walter April 21 — Risk to Exist - Maxïmo Park April 21 — Americana - Ray Davies April 21 — Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock April 21 — The Last Rider - Ron Sexsmith

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Kendrick Lamar poses in a promotional image for his fourth album "DAMN." In the wake of the ablum's release on April 14, online rumors speculated that a secret second album may be released on April 16.

the climactic “BLOOD.” and the belligerent “DNA.,” both of which skillfully sampled the notorious Fox News segment.

Fox News grievances aside, Lamar spends much of “DAMN.” scrutinizing himself as if under a microscope. On “FEEL.,” Lamar is breathless, feverish and brazenly vulnerable. Jazz instrumentalist Thundercat’s leaden bass supports producer Sounwave’s full-bodied sample of “Don’t Let Me Down,” a song by Memphis electronic artist Fleurie.

Many uphold Lamar as the lyrical prophet of his generation and as a sort of Christ figure. Although people praise or “pray” to the rap artist, Lamar candidly intones that “ain’t nobody prayin’ for [him].”

Lamar questions this widespread admiration on “PRIDE.,” one of the most meditative cuts from the album.

Neo-soul guitarist Steve Lacy’s reverberant, atmospheric vocals warn of the dangers of pride at the track’s beginning. Lamar meekly confesses his vices with some of

FOOD

NETFLIX

Mosaique satisfies taste buds, upsets wallet

by Amanda Nettles News Editor

After months and months of impatiently awaiting the arrival of a new restaurant to the Conway food scene, the Mosaique Bistro, a southern cuisine eatery located at Donaghey Hall, officially opened on April 3.

As a young, relatively poor college student, the only issue I had with the restaurant was that, excluding side dishes, everything on the menu is priced from $10 to $25. In fact, my mom and I argued for about 30 minutes on whether or not we should go to Mosaique in the first place because the restaurant is a bit pricy.

The restaurant's environment is clean, chill and relaxed. It’s definitely a great place to grab a drink or an appetizer after a long day of class.

The menu is organized differently than typical menus.

The front of the menu lists appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches and entrees.

Although I was expecting the back of the menu to list

drinks and desserts, it instead detailed special entrees — the restaurant's most expensive food choices — and shareable sides.

If you feel like breaking your bank account’s heart, flip the Mosaique menu over and treat yourself.

I started with a glass of water and a beer. I had my heart set on a shrimp po’ boy with a $5 side of mac and cheese, but alas, a shrimp po’ boy is considered a sandwich, and Mosaique doesn’t serve sandwiches after 4 p.m.

As I glanced through the menu, I couldn’t decide between ordering the chicken fried chicken — a dish I’d never tried — or wham bam shrimp with a side of mac and cheese.

Because I’m a huge fan of shrimp, I opted for the shrimp and mac and cheese. The food was definitely my kind of meal.

My mom ordered the classic shrimp and grits.

The food was quickly delivered to our booth.

Everything smelled divine and looked delicious.

A melt-in-your-mouth batter and a light, sweet sauce covered the shrimp.

Because the mac and cheese was a shareable side, it was a large dish containing three or four servings of the cheesy pasta. I took a few bites of it, and my God, was it scrumptious.

Different cheeses coated the elbow-shaped noodles. The pasta got better and better with every bite. I was happy to take the leftovers home.

My mom got shrimp and grits — or what I used to call barf. I managed to snag some of her shrimp, which were grilled with Cajun spices and perfectly cooked to a soft pink color. My mom and I loved how the entire meal became spicy when she mixed the shrimp with the grits.

Although I’d never tried grits, I did at Mosaique, and they were quite tasty.

Mosaique’s food was absolutely fantastic and deserves a five-star rating, but the restaurant should make the food more affordable, since it is located on a college campus.

Mosaique should also extend the times when sandwiches are served, so I can hopefully get a shrimp po’ boy before I graduate this semester.

April 21 — Be Myself - Sheryl Crow April 21 — Death Song - The Black Angels April 21 — Love is Love - Woods

Netflix April 21 — Girlboss, Season 1 (2017), created by Kay Cannon, starring Britt Robertson, Ellie Reed and Alphonso McAuley.

April 21 — Bill Nye Saves the World, Season 1 (2017), written by Cece Pleasants, starring Bill Nye, Karlie Kloss and Nazeem Hussain.

April 22 — The Secret Life of Pets (2016), directed by Chris Renaud, starring Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart and Jenny Slate.

Video Games April 25 — Dragon Quest Heroes II (T), for PS4.

April 25 — Puyo Puyo Tetris (E), for Nintendo Switch and PS4.

April 25 — Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 (E), for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

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his weightiest lyrics to date: “See, in a perfect world, I'll choose faith over riches … I'll make schools out of prison/I'll take all the religions and put ‘em all in one service.”

Lacy’s jangly guitar is contrite as Lamar repentantly confronts his inadequacies: “See, in the perfect world, I would be perfect, world.” “HUMBLE.,” ironically the album’s most hubris-filled track, follows the solemn reflection of “PRIDE.” Although Irish rock band U2

is the most unexpected feature on “DAMN.,” their appearance marks a zenith for the album. “XXX” is a sonata of numerous movements.

Dark beats and jarring piano chords initially interrupt the track’s subdued synths. Samples of an engine revving and Lamar’s aggressive exclamations give way to a sublime chorus from Bono. Throughout this dynamic soundscape, Lamar criticizes the current state of the U.S., calling out the broken public education system, gang violence and Donald Trump.

With the album, Lamar bravely exposes his fears of pride, disloyalty, lust, judgement and God, but he’s left “wonderin’ if [he’s] livin’ through fear or livin’ through rap” on “FEAR.” This raw fervor permeates “DAMN.,” from its abrasive album art to its stark trap beats to Lamar’s unrestrained vulnerability.

“DAMN.” is available for purchase on Google Play and iTunes and is now streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.

FILM

Rifftrax hilariously lampoons awful '90s movie

by Emily Gist Staff Writer

American production company Rifftrax created a humorous commentary for “Samurai Cop,” a horrendously awful 1991 action film.

Those who are familiar with Rifftrax’s predecessor, the television series “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” will know exactly what I mean when I say Rifftrax is the modern “MST3K.” For those of you who aren’t familiar with the iconic series, “MSTR3K” was a comedy series that first aired in 1988 and starred three men and two controlling puppets who made fun of horrendously bad movies in a simulated movie theater.

The stars of “MSTR3K” were like those annoying kids at the movie theater who tell lame jokes during the movie, but they were paid to tell jokes that were actually funny.

Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy, all of whom starred in “MSTR3K,” reunite for the Rifftrax film series, but instead of cracking jokes in front of a simulated movie screen, the actors now 1. “Would you like anything else with that?”

Although spending your money at restaurants isn’t exactly the most financially responsible thing to do, we can ease our consciences by ordering from the cheaper section of the menu. At McDonald's, instead of my usual double quarter pounder, I try to purchase two McDoubles from the Dollar Menu. But if they ask me if I’d like anything else with my order, I cave: “You’re right, mischievous cashier. I’ll take the McBiggestBurgerYouHave.”

perform live in sequences that are broadcast to theaters around the U.S. On April 13, the Rifftrax team hosted a limited release of a live showing of “Samurai Cop,” a movie about a cop who also happens to be a samurai.

In the movie, Samurai Cop Joe Marshall (Mathew Karedas) and his partner-against-crime Frank Washington (Mark Frazer) fight the Katana, a Yakuza gang that wants to sell drugs and cause violence in Las Vegas.

“Samurai Cop” is convoluted and directionless. It’s not a samurai movie because the characters use guns and drive cars in addition to fighting with katanas. It’s not a cop movie, either, because fight scenes end immediately when arms are cartoonishly chopped off. The film’s expletives and penis jokes fail to make it edgy. “Samurai Cop” tries to do everything, but succeeds at nothing.

“Samurai Cop” is only part of the equation. As always, Rifftrax introduced this “masterpiece” with a short. In the short, a chalk creature teaches manners to a misbehaving kid.

Then, Rifftrax reacted to 2. “Your total is …”

Sometimes your stomach convinces you that you are incapable of doing anything until you get five orders of mozzarella sticks. Seems logical enough. And of course you’ll have to add an order of tater tots, a few ice cream sundaes and a couple of drinks to really top things off. After all, this snack is just what you need to get to work again. All is fine and well until the cashier brings you back to reality with your order’s total.

Cashiers don’t play games.

the movie. Nelson, Corbett and Murphy managed to defend the movie because it was “so bad, it’s good.” The riffers ripped apart some notable scenes, including a scene where a burning van driver (Orlando Quijano) was taken to a burn ward, which was illogically right next to a dental office.

Another ridiculous scene involved a character aptly named the penis-grabbing henchman (Rick Garcia), who referred to Washington’s penis as his “black gift” and threatened to cut it off.

The riffers brought this scene up as a recurring joke throughout their commentary.

In some scenes, the camera would film an awkward close-up of Washington who, according to Nelson, was making “faces to try to make a baby laugh in another room.”

If you hate bad movies, then you’ll love Rifftrax. If for some reason you value paying attention to the plot in bad movies, then you’ll hate Rifftrax.

But there’s no denying that the Rifftrax team makes laughably bad movies even better.

“Rifftrax: Samurai Cop” is rated R and is available for purchase online.

3. “Your order number is …”

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like every time I try to order, the most obnoxious employee in the restaurant yells out an order number for someone waiting in the restaurant — as if the person was waiting on the other side of Conway. I understand that they have to shout to make sure their customers hear, but when the cashier shouts for order 371, I might as well pitch my tent and camp for a while because my order number is 399.

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In "13 Reasons Why," Katherine Langford plays Hannah Baker, a high school student who committed suicide. The Netflix series is based on the 2007 book "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher.

'13 Reasons Why' intensely tackles depression, suicide

by Brandon Jones Staff Writer

With its first episode, “13 Reasons Why” introduces a diverse cast of characters, a story that doesn’t shy away from graphically detailing depression and suicide and commentary on how society reacts to people with depression who struggle with suicide.

Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), who committed suicide about a week prior to the series’ events, narrates the series.

Cards, pictures and pinwheels decorate Baker’s locker. Protagonist Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) watches as two girls capture a photo for Instagram instead of mourning and gush about how pretty Hannah was.

Jensen encounters Justin Foley (Brandon Flynn), a school athlete who accuses Jensen of being too curious about Baker's death.

The series sheds light on how the warning signs of depression and suicide are overlooked in the classroom.

Although Jensen's teacher tells students what the warning signs for depression are, she doesn’t find it odd that Jensen is vacantly staring at Baker’s desk and only tells him to pay attention.

The characters are never one-dimensional. Even the athletes targeting Jensen are clearly hiding ulterior motives.

Everyone talks about the tragedy of Baker’s suicide, but no one seems to care enough to understand why or how she tooke her own life, other than Jensen.

Jensen finds a box with his name on it outside his house.

Inside are cassette tapes and a map of the town.

Jensen plays the first tape and hears Baker’s monologue from the beginning of the episode. She explains that the tapes describe 13 events that led to her suicide and that she sent 4. “We’ll fix that for you.”

I consider myself a reasonable customer. When there’s a piece of lettuce in a quesadilla, I just pick it out and finish my meal, but when they put onions in a cheese roll up, I’m a little less forgiving.

How do you mess up cheese and bread? The workers happily fix it, but I know that they’re secretly recording every detail about me — my height, my eye color and probably my social security number — to make sure I’m on the list of people to serve terribly the next time around.

tapes to the people who were responsible in some way for those events.

Jensen travels to the different locations that Baker said were significant in her downward spiral, but in the process he is injured in a car accident.

Flashback scenes demonstrate that Jensen had a crush on Baker when she first moved to the town, but she was interested in Foley.

Classic high school tropes set up the beginning of Baker's problems at school.

Baker and Foley are typical teen romance characters. Baker pretends to bump into Foley to get his attention, and Foley goes out of his way to appear cool.

Technology realistically plays into the two’s romance.

Baker anxiously waits by her phone for Foley to send her short text messages. The series shows how impatient and worried people get without immediate gratification in a world of instant messaging.

After a seemingly pleasant date, Baker goes to school the next day to find that rumors about her actions the night before and an upskirt picture of her going down a slide are circulating among the students.

Although Foley spreads rumors about what he did with Baker, he seems upset when his friend spreads the photo of Baker.

The episode demonstrates how people become judgemental after hearing rumors.

No one bothers to ask Baker what actually happened, and the picture gives her a bad reputation The series sheds light on what it’s like to be sexually stigmatized, a problem women have to face constantly.

Although some scenes are graphic, the series provides warnings for these intense moments. All 13 episodes of “13 Reasons Why” were released on Netflix at once, so if you have time to kill and you’re looking for an intriguing, dark series, it’s worth watching.

5. “Sorry about your wait.”

Employees understand that I didn’t want to wait 45 minutes for an order of curly fries. But sometimes when I’m adventurous and order a few more items, I’m curious what they’re referring to with “Sorry about your wait.” Are they actually referring to the time I waited, or are they referring to my weight because I ordered so many items? The latter may seem unlikely, but the looks on some employees’ faces tell me that fries aren’t the only things that are salty at fast food restaurants.

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Editor’s Take

NBA playoffs will expose teams lacking chemistry

By Denn-warren Tafah Sports Editor

This is the first time in my life watching basketball that I can’t tell who will win the NBA championship — even with dominant teams like the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers participating.

Most NBA fans expect the finals to be between the Warriors and Cavaliers.

However, those teams still have a chance to lose to the others.

The champion is always either a team filled with superstars or a team that has awesome chemistry — and the Warriors and the Cavilers are superstar teams.

However, teams like the Utah Jazz, San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets have great chemistry together.

It’s pretty hard to tell who will win, because if a team with good chemistry can spread the ball around, they can upset the superstar teams.

The Western Conference is tougher because the top three teams in the power ranking are Western Conference teams.

If I was to pick a team from the Western Conference, I would choose the Houston Rockets, and from the Eastern Conference, I would choose the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Other teams like the L.A. Clippers, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Chicago Bulls will play big parts in slowing down the Cavaliers and the Warriors.

NBA analysts are saying the Warriors will go through more of a fight before they play the Cavaliers and will be gassed out by then.

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Junior outfielder Dusty Wright plays during the UCA baseball team’s game against Dallas Baptist University on April 14 at Bear Stadium. The Bears lost 4-0, and won one of the three games they played against Dallas that weekend.

Bears baseball wins one out of three games

by Amanda Nettles News Editor

The UCA Bears baseball team (19-18) won one game out of a three-game series against the Dallas Baptist University Patriots (20-15) on April 13, 14 and 15 in Conway.

Before the consecutive-game series, redshirt freshman pitcher Mark Moyer said it was cool to have a team like Dallas Baptist play against the Bears at home.

He said Dallas Baptist University would be a challenging team to play.

“We are getting the groove of it now. We had a rough patch

spot at first but we are showing what we are made of now,” Moyer said.

During the first game on April 13, the Bears scored seven runs during the seventh inning, which immediately put them in the lead late in the game.

According to the UCA Sports website, the Bears outhit the Patriots 12 to nine.

Junior first baseman and catcher Justin McCarty hit his third home run of the 2017 season.

The Bears took home the win for their first game. During the second game on April 14, the Patriots wiped out the Bears by scoring four runs.

The Patriots scored two

runs during the third inning and scored a single run during the seventh inning, and one more single run during the eighth.

This left the final score at 4-0.

According to the UCA sports website, junior right fielder Jansen McCurdy was the only UCA player to record multiple hits.

On April 15, for the final series game, the Patriots scored five runs near the end of the game, during the eighth inning.

This robbed the Bears of any possible retaliation.

According to the UCA sports website, the Patriots hit four home runs during the game; one was a grand slam by junior

RUN

catcher Matt Duce.

The Patriots left Bear Stadium with the final 7-1 win.

The Bears will play in another three-game series against Sam Houston State University April 21-23 at Bear Stadium.

“It is great for our guys to sleep in their own beds and maintain a familiar routine, which helps them prepare mentally and physically. Most importantly, they can stay in class, which eliminates some of the extra stress they have when we are on the road. Our boys love playing in front of what we believe is the best crowd in the Southland Conference.

The energy in the stands is

P I TC H

UCA softball wins last game in series

Upcoming Games Baseball

by Harrison Glaeser Opinion Editor

6 p.m. April 21 4 p.m. April 22 1 p.m. April 23 vs. Sam Houston State at Bear Stadium Beach Volleyball

4 p.m. April 20 vs. University of Tennesse at the Sugar Bears Beach Courts Softball

5 p.m. April 21 at SLU in Conway, Arkansas Tennis

11 a.m. April 20 at Texas A&M Corpus Christi in Belton, Texas

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Senior Sofia Ramirez participates in the women’s triple jump April 15 at Hendrix’s Young-Wise Memorial Stadium. Her teammate, junior Logan Morton, won second in the triple jump and first in the 400-meter hurdles.

UCA track teams win at meet

by Denn-Warren Tafah Sports Editor

The UCA track team hosted an open at Young-Wise Memorial stadium at Hendrix on April 15. Both the men’s and women’s team combined for eight wins in different events.

According to the UCA Sports website, “The men’s squad grabbed five first places while the women won three events, including a school record 12 feet by freshman Olivia Groeber in the pole vault, breaking her own mark,” First, junior Eric Moore won the high jump with a height of 2.10 meters. The second field

event win came from freshman Darius Herl, who won the javelin toss with 187.03, which was the sixth-best throw in school history.

On the track, senior Grant Williams won the 5,000-meters with a time of 15:49.96 and junior Alonzo Pollum was right behind him with a time of 15:50.60 for second place. Junior Brant Cook won the 1,500-meter race with the fifth-best time in school history at 3:53.73.

The final win for men came from freshman Zachary Jewell, who won the 100-meters with a time of 10.88 seconds.

For women, according to the UCA Sports website, “senior

contagious,” assistant head coach and pitching coach Nick Harlan said.

Harlan said Moyer is healthy and has matured on the mound.

“He is a constant learner that wants to be the very best pitcher he can be. He has provided consistency in our rotation that has given our team tremendous confidence when he pitches. His competiveness gives our team a chance for success every time he has the ball in his hand,” Harlan said.

He said the team is determined to get better everyday. He said if the Bears stay focused on that process the result will take care of itself.

Hadley Swanson won the long jump with a leap of 18-09.25, the third-best in UCA history.

Junior Logan Morton finished second (18-09). Morton won the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 1:04.10 and was second in the triple jump (38-07.75), a top 10 mark at UCA. Senior Brigette Caruthers won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:21.64, the fifth-best in school history.”

Freshman Skylar Lange placed third at the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Freshman Aysha Anderson finished second in the 110 hurdles with a time of 15.82 “I think everyone did well but our times wasn’t the best because of the win,” sophomore Marcus Johnson said.

The UCA softball team (17-29) played a three-game series against the Lamar University Cardinals (22-21) on April 14 and April 15 in Beaumont, Texas.

The Bears received two losses for the two games on April 14, losing 2-0 in the first game and 5-4 in the second, but won the April 15 game 2-0.

The Bears’ first game began with a double-steal executed by Cardinal junior centerfielder Brittany Rodriques and junior third baseman Sable Hankins, which resulted in a 1-0 lead for the Cardinals in the bottom of the first.

Cardinal senior left fielder Ashley McDowell also scored a point in the third inning for the Cardinals, resulting in a 2-0 winning.

The night’s second game began with a 2-0 lead for Central Arkansas in the top of the first inning, when senior right fielder Briana Whisenhunt and freshman first baseman Kaylyn Shepherd both scored, giving the Bears their first lead of the day.

Lamar established a 2-2 tie at the bottom of the first inning before establishing a 3-2 lead in the third inning.

By the top of the fifth inning, the Bears established a 4-3 lead with points scored by junior catcher Ryan Holdiness.

This lead was short lived, however, as Lamar established a 4-4 tie in the bottom of the the

fifth inning.

Hankins scored a point for the Cardinals in the seventh inning, giving Lamar a 5-4 win for the game and their second victory for the day.

Lamar’s sweep of wins was soon ended by the Bears’ 2-0 win on April 15.

The game featured an exceptional performance by senior pitcher Kayla Gomness, seemed to give Lamar hitters trouble throughout the whole game with only one hit by Lamar in the seventh inning.

The Bears established a 1-0 lead in the second inning, with a point scored by junior shortstop Kate Myers.

The Bears scored again in the fifth inning, furthering their lead with a point from senior centerfielder Briana Whisenhunt, making the score 2-0.

This trend continued through the rest of the game, resulting in a 2-0 win for Central Arkansas.

Lamar’s only scoring threat throughout the whole game was a pair on in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Central Arkansas will play next on April 18 against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

UCA will also host a graduation ceremony for seniors Whisenhunt, Hannah Stirton, Gomness, Randi Wallace, Tylor Dodson and Bailey Reynolds prior to the Bears’ game on April 21 against Southeastern Louisiana University at home on Farris Field.

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SPORTS

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UCA STATS CORNER

SPORT

RESULT

SCORE

RECORD

Baseball

L vs. DBU

7-1

(19-18)

Softball

W vs. LU

2-0

(17-29)

Tennis

W vs. SFA

5-2

(19-5)

M Soccer

W vs. MSU

2-0

(5-0-1)

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CONFERENCE

Junior Bror Thiron is a health science major, with an emphasis in physical therapy. He has been running track for nine years, since he was in the seventh grade.

Transfer athlete gets no breaks

by John Anderson Staff Writer

Some may say that track is boring, but junior distance track player Bror Thiron loves the sport with all of his heart.

Thiron said he decided to do track because he thought he was good at the sport.

Thiron went to the University of Arkansas at Monticello. “I also like the sport because it helps pays the bills,” Thiron said. “With the first school that I went to it paid for almost of all my tuition.”

Thiron said a lot of the track runners come to UCA for a better scholarship. There are very few runners that are on a full paid-scholarship, but a lot of them have enough money to at least pay for their books.

However, some track players are on big-name scholarships. A lot of them have no choice but to play because they are getting paid to do so.

Thiron ran track in high school, and said there was a

lot of glory for the individual players, but in college it is more of a business.

If you don’t perform in college then your scholarship is cut, but in high school you have more time to develop into a better player.

In high school track, the players practiced one time a day, whereas in college Thiron is practicing three times a day plus weightlifting.

“When we are doing weights, we try to focus on the muscles we don’t usually use,” Thiron said.

The track team doesn’t have an offseason like other sports do. The team performs in the fall, winter and spring. The team has an indoor and outdoor track facility to practice and play in case of rainy weather.

“When a teacher tells us that we need to take a [certain] class on our offseason, we literally look them in the face and say to them that we don’t have an off season,” Thiron said.

Thiron said the track team has learned that UCA’s

Faculty Senate decided that the some professors don’t have to approve or excuse athletes from classes when they have a game.

Thiron said some of the professors think the track players come in with some kind of stride, but that all the players want is for the professor to help them.

It is rare for college track players to graduate on time because of the amount of practices and meets the players go to.

“It was a big slap in the face for us. We were wondering how we were going to pass,” Thiron said. “We will not be able to make up a test or a quiz, so our GPA is always going to drop.”

Thiron’s fellow players have nothing but positive things to say about him.

“I’ve known Bror a long time. We’ve been teammates for going on seven years,” senior Grant Williams said. “He’s the most genuine person you’ll ever meet. He sacrifices more than most people would for his close friends.”

SUGER BEARS BAT AWAY THE LADY MUSTANGS

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Sophomore Morgan Felts bats against Central Baptist College during the game Wednesday April 12, 2017 at the Farris Field

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Junior Louis Tomlinson takes a sroke at the Missouri Tiger Invitational April 11 at The Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia, Missouri. Tomlinson finshed 14th individually, while UCA finshed 11th overall.

Men’s golf team ends 11th place

by Des’ree Dallmann Online Editor

The UCA men’s golf team placed 11th in the Missouri Tiger Invitational on April 11 after tying for seventh place after the first two rounds on April 10.

The tournament was held at The Club at Old Hawthorne in Columbia, Missouri. In the final round, the UCA men’s golf team shot a final round of 304 and finished with a 908 total.

According to the UCA Sports website, junior Louis Tomlinson finished 14th individually, sophomore Luis Obiols tied at 31st, senior

Ryan Shuttleworth tied at 58th and sophomore Mason Keller finished at 91st.

“We didn’t finish nowhere near where we expected to finish,” Obiols said. “Conditions were tough; we had to make a couple of changes to the roster and none of us had their A-game.”

He said that despite this, the team is looking forward to the conference tournament coming up in two weeks. In the first two rounds on April 10, UCA tied for seventh place. The team shot rounds of 306 and 298 finished with a total of 604.

According to the UCA Sports website, their score put

them in a four-way tie with Drake University, Indiana University–Purdue University Indiannapolis and Northern Iowa University.

In these rounds, according to the UCA Sports website, Obiols shot a total of 146, tying him for 12th place. Junior Louis Tomlinson tied for 16th, senior Ben Taylor tied for 52nd with a score of 154 and Shuttleworth and Keller both tied for 77th place.

UCA men’s golf will next compete in the Southland Conference Championship April 24-26 in Mckinney, Texas at the Stonebridge Ranch Country Club.