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all of the tenants committed.” The building will have a makerspace, a place for students to collaborate and share resources. The building will also include more traditional shops and business like Uncle T’s Food Mart, Blue Sail Coffee, a UCA apparel shop, Marble slab, Great American cookie and Mosaique bar and grill.

Courtway also touched on the potential difficulties with obtaining the liquor license for Mosaique bar and grill.

“There will be, I believe, some limited opposition that I have heard of to the alcohol permit,” Courtway said. “We’ll just cross that bridge after it’s filed and see where that goes.”

The construction on the Conway Corporation Center for Sciences is also on track. “I talked to Richie Arnold, who is the CEO of Conway Corp., at lunch a minute ago,” Courtway

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Students launch boat travelling from US to UK A fourth grade class from Charleston, South Carolina launched a boat in May 2015 in the Atlantic Ocean and expected it to land in Florida. The small boat traveled 4,000 miles and was discovered on a beach by Helen Hinks and her three-year-old son ,William.

William’s school plans to send the boat back to South Carolina after the fourth grade class sends necessary tools to repair the boat for its trip home.

Pope Francis shares his death penalty opinions On Feb. 21 the Pope asked Catholic world leaders to cease executions for the remainder of the year. His remarks preceded the international conference against the death penalty that took place Feb. 22. The conference is called “A World without the Death Penalty.” Pope Francis also requested prison conditions improved during his speech.

President Tom Courtway welcomed staff, faculty and students to the Feb. 16 Campus Talk in the Board of Trustees Meeting Room to discuss the recent campus death, construction, school senates and finances.

When addressing the death of Charlotte Fant, a program advisor in the Physical Therapy department, Courtway said “we are saddened by the tragic passing of someone who was a colleague and friend to many. I placed a call during the noon hour to her sister in Texarkana to let her know about that and condolences from the campus.”

The construction of the new residence hall is on track.

“Donaghey Hall is coming along nicely,” Courtway said. “We have

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Author, Harper Lee, died in sleep at 89 in Alabama photo by Lauren Swaim

The cast and crew of Dead Man’s Cell Phone performed Feb. 11-13 and 18-19 in the Black Box Theatre in the Snow Fine Arts Center. The play was directed by guest director Jim Harris, from the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton’s Theatre Program.

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The Physical Therapy Department, as well as the university, suffered a loss on Feb. 15 when former program advisor Charlotte Ann Mills Fant died in her office.

According to Fant’s best friend Professor and Department Chairperson Emogene L. Fox, Fant was feeling ill earlier in the day, but didn’t go to the hospital so she could meet with a student.

“Evidentially she was walking into her office and either had a massive heart attack or stroke,” Fox said. “I thought they would revive her and we would go to the ER. But her heart didn’t even flutter, she didn’t revive.”

Fant’s pressence is missed in the department by more than just Fox. “Everybody is still in shock and sad,” Fox said. “It’s a real loss because she was always kind of funny and she would check on

everybody.”

Fant was a graduate of UCA and served two years as a girls’ basketball coach in Hughes, Arkansas before working at the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service in Little Rock and later accepting a job as an academic advisor for UCA. “She was an excellent advisor who cared about her students,” Fox said.

According to Fox, Fant’s 300 students will be directed to a new advisor, though she is not sure who will take the students or when.

While working at UCA, Fant was a member of the Arkansas and American Associations of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Women for Physical Education Majors and Minors, Arkansas Women’s Extramural Sports Activities, Women’s Recreation Association and Association of Women Students.

Fant also received the UCA Employee Of The Year Award

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UCA’s Student Government Association led SGA members from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock and Arkansas State University in Jonesboro in the discussion of higher education at the inaugural Arkansas Association of Students (AAS) on Feb. 19.

Three out of the eight higher education four-year institutions gathered in the skyboxes in Bear Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with guest speakers Dr. Brett Powell, Director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, Tara Smith, Senior Associative Director for Institutional Finance of the ADHE, Kelley Erstine, UCA Chief of Staff, Steven Shook, UCA Assistant Director for Student Leadership and Charlotte Strickland, Strictly Speaking UCA Professional Development and Training Coordinator.

SGA members were informed about statistics of remediation and graduation rates, higher education funding, the Legislative Budgeting Session in Arkansas and brainstormed ideas to guarantee success of the AAS. “The hardest thing to do is get something started,” President Tom Courtway said as the first AAS meeting kicked off.

Students were told about the importance of higher education as Powell said that 97 percent of good jobs go to degree holders and that the value of degrees are rising.

Powell said that 6.2 percent of scholarships are awarded based on need and that, “we are moving to make it more about need,” instead of merit-based financial aid.

“We are an under-educated state.”

“Arkansas, even more than any other state, needs it [AAS],” senior class president Stephanie Daigle said. “Students need this

sort of voice and support before our legislature. In trying to serve students in the best way possible, this organization is the best way to go.”

Daigle sponsored the event that was two years in the making from an idea UCA SGA members gained from a Conference of Student Government Association at Texas A&M. AAS is expected to help lobby and create strong relationships with legislatures and get every school onboard.

“This is something that I was real passionate about two years ago,” UALR SGA Vice-President Chris Donovan said.

Donovan said that UALR worked on smaller projects within the school instead of working with legislation.

However, he said he will discuss ideas with UALR’s SGA and bring back issues that they will

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Physical Therapy academic advisor dies in office SGA allocates $300 to Living Tree News Editor

Hendrix Chemistry student Dylan Rogers was arrested Feb. 19 for manufacturing controlled substances and was charged for five other drug possessions. Rogers was arrested by the Conway Police Department Narcotics Division after the investigation began in July of 2015. Rogers faces fines up to $10,000 and 3 - 10 years in prison.

Two members of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) recently filed a report with the Interfraternity Council (IFC) against Sigma Tau Gamma’s members for racial slurs towards one of their brothers during Intramural games.

The incident happened during an Intramural basketball game at the HPER center.

According to the Interfranternity Council complaint form, “during an intramural game with Sigma Tau Gamma, a number of Sig Tau made multiple racial slurs towards Cesar Ramirez and most of them came from their sideline.

Ramirez also asked the refs to handle the sideline and their comments, but was ignored.”

There was also an IFC judicial

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Hendrix student arrested for drug possesion, lab

meeting summary, which had accumulated information from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1. According to the IFC judicial meeting summary, the game seem to be fairly intense, and FIJI was down by many points. Ramirez then walked off the court, because he claimed that racial slurs and personal attacks were occurring on the Sig Tau sideline. He ended up not playing the second half out of fear that he would get into a fight.

Sigma Tau member, Michael Betyo said “There were both sides jawing at each other, its almost like you can talk trash but cant take it.”

Also reported on IFC judicial meeting summary, the accused

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The Beatles’ star got a haircut 50 years ago before the filming of “How I Won The War” in 1967. The four-inch lock of hair was kept and sold to an unnamed buyer in the United Kingdom.

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John Lennon’s lock of hair sold for $35k in UK

Author Harper Lee died in her sleep Feb. 19 in Monroeville, Alabama at The Meadows, an assisted living facility. She was well-known for her first book in 1960, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice that sold over 40 million copies. She published “Go Set a Watchman” in 2015, that was written before “Mockingbird” but is set 20 years later. Lee was buried in the Lee family plot on Feb. 20 in Monroeville.

said. “They’re pleased with the way it is developing, also with the way the entryway is going to have things about Conway Corp. and it’s support of higher education in Faulkner County since 1929.”

Courtway went on to discuss the planetarium in the new science building and how he thinks it could be a vital marketing opportunity for the university.

“We can bring a lot of K-12 school districts here during the week and have productions for those school children,” Courtway said. “Maybe expose them to some science things that they have never thought about or they don’t have the capability of doing in their local school district.”

The renovations of McCastlain Hall should be finished before the First Folio, a collection of

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“Charlotte Fant was a very dedicated and loyal employee who wroked very hard to make sure that our students received great advice and guidence as they moved toward their career,” President Tom Courtway said.

“She will be greatly missed.”

Courtway is in the process of planning a memorial service in Fant’s honor, and memorials for the Charlotte Mills Fant Memorial Scholarship can be sent to UCA, Box 4986.

UCA’s Student Government Associated allocated no more than $300 from the foundation account to fund brochures for the Living Tree Memorials.

The money will go toward 1,000 brochures that will be distributed throughout the campus. People will be able to know about the living tree memorials and a map to direct them to each memorial.

The total cost is $750 but $590 have come from other groups including University Relations.

“It is extemely important because we can help support former students and we can educate current students,” Vice President Corey Parks said.

The motion passed unanimously.

International students can look forward to a weekend shuttle so students will have more

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“Community Engagement and Campus Resources hope to work on a weekend shuttle because it is a big concern for international students as having a way to get to campus during the weekend,” Senior Class Representative Mollie Henager said.

Flyers can be found in all buildings concerning food allergy awareness after being discussed for many weeks.

Potholes around campus are currently on the to-do list and are already being filled so the roads will be much smoother.

Another concern from Campus Resources was the absence of ramps at some crosswalks.

Despite the pot holes currently being fixed, the ramps are more costly so a survey will be sent out to students regarding the issue.

SGA meets every Monday at 5 p.m. in the second floor of the Student Center.

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Reynolds Performance hosts ‘Mamma Mia’ to sold out audience, earns standing ovation

by Caroline Bivens Staff Writer

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Reynolds Performance Hall hosted the Broadway show ‘Mamma Mia!’ at 7 p.m. on Feb. 15 and 17. The show originated in New York, but now travels internationally.

“Mamma Mia!” was a night of spandex, sparkles and sexual innuendo, but mostly singing and dancing.

Reynolds Performance Hall was packed the nights of Feb. 15 and 17 with an audience eager to see the performance of the Mamma Mia! cast.

Director of UCA Public Appearances Amanda Horton brought the show to us.

“For many, many years we have had requests from students, faculty and community members to bring Mamma Mia! to the hall,” Horton said. “This year it finally came together. The first show was sold out and we sold over 1000 tickets to the next.”

The musical was originally performed on Broadway and was taken internationally. According to the official Mamma Mia! website, over 54 million people across the globe have enjoyed the production.

The musical was written by British playwright Catherine Johnson who based the story of Mamma Mia! on the catchy songs of ABBA, a popular pop group of the 1970’s.

Mamma Mia! was also made into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfriend and directed by Phyllida Lloyd.

The film was nominateed for Best Motion Picture and Best Performannce by an Acress in a Motion Picture during the 2009 Golden Globes.

Some well-known ABBA songs featured in the musical were “Dancing Queen,” “Take a Chance on Me” and of course, “Mamma Mia.” The story unfolds on an island of the coast of Greece, 20-year-old Sophie (Kyra Belle Johnson) is getting married. She wants her father to be the one to give her away at her wedding, if only she knew her father was. She finds her mother’s (Erin Fish) old diary in which she tells of three intimate dates with three different

men.

Sam Carmichael (Chad Fornwalt), Bill Austin (Ryan Hunt) and Harry Bright (Andrew Theo).

Sophie figures that one of those men must be her father and invites all three to her wedding.

The story continues with the celebration of love, laughter and a surprising twist at the end.

“The musical was well produced, well choreographed and it had great energy,” UCA Academic Advisor Marie Smallwood said. “It’s one of those plays that makes you laugh and I’m glad it was local.”

The performance received a standing ovation, as if the crowd was saying: “thank you for the music.”

For more information concerning Mamma Mia! tour dates and tickets visit www.mammamiaontour.com.

For more information concerning Reynolds Performance Hall shows and tickets visit www.uca.edu/publicappearances or call 501-450-3265.

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Assistant professor aims to bring printmaking out of the dark

by Kayla McCullough Entertainment Editor

“Under Pressure” a printmaking exhibition, took place Feb. 4th in the Black Box Student Gallery. The show featured works from assistant professor Jessie Hornbrook’s Fall 2015 Printmaking classes.

The gallery walls were adorned with elaborate prints from intermediate and advanced printmaking students.

The Printmaking Program at UCA has been flying under the radar for the past decade, and Hornbrook has high hopes for turning the program around.

She explained that due to circumstances that previous professors of the discipline could not prevent, there was a decline in the attention the printmaking program received.

After gathering experience in working in art galleries and teaching at universities in Louisiana, Hornbrook took the position at UCA, and is elated to see her students trying so hard.

“The students could have been really resistant, to me personally or my teaching methods, but everyone has been welcoming and wonderful and trying really hard

at building printmaking back up,” Hornbrook said. “The students have been both vigilant in their work and extremely creative.”

With the assortment and variety of the prints displayed in the gallery, Hornbrook’s teaching philosophy is evident. She utilizes the strengths of each individual artist when they walk into the printmaking studio, and pushes their skills in order to produce portfolio worthy artwork.

“If someone has a specific strength already from another medium, I want them to be able to use their skill set for what they like to do, so not just a nice print, but nice art work,” Hornbrook said. “Overall the students have been really wonderful as far as getting through the tricky parts of printmaking and making beautiful art work in general.”

Junior Kate Bramante’s piece in the show used an intricate silk screen process and was inspired by lichen she observed. Bramante is pursuing a BFA in printmaking and said that she’s always been interested in the medium.

“I’ve always liked printmaking because it’s one of these mediums where you don’t have complete control over the outcome,” Bramante said. “I find that

things you don’t plan on that you can’t plan for end up being very beautiful and very interesting.”

Bramante said that there is huge variety of imagery that artist can get from different printmaking techniques.

“People think about printmaking and think about etching or engraving, which is a very precise kind of technique,” Bramante said. “You can combine them and you can make them multi-media and you don’t have to constrain yourself to an oldfashioned print.”

Sophomore Lindsey Colston spoke about her process in creating her piece, titled “Bedroom Floor,” which she created with a Soft Ground Etching process.

Colston said that people don’t realize how much time goes into printmaking. Her piece took her a week and a half to plan out, and then another week to actually complete the piece.

“The process is so intense, and it’s not just with Intaglio, or silk screen, it’s with all of them,” Colston said. “Every single aspect of printmaking is time intensive.”

With the effort of the artist aside, Hornbrook is training her students to let the artwork speak for itself.

“For me, what I want to do as an artist and a teacher is pull people in with the ‘Wow’,” Hornbrook said, “Educating people about the amount of work that goes into it is not necessarily part of my duty, but hopefully the work speaks for itself, like the beauty in the work and the juicy colors and the juicy inky velvety quality. I want the effort and the time to be visible, but mostly the wonder of the image.”

With the combined efforts of the students and Hornbrook’s dedication to the printmaking program, she is hoping to expand the program.

Hornbrook said she wants more students, more levels of printmaking and more equipment.

She hopes that Print will be a major thing at UCA where professional artists are enticed to visit.

“We have a small collection of prints,” Hornbrook said “I would like it to grow and have this be a place where printmakers want to come and make work with the students, and have it be more important in Arkansas in general.”

The next event taking place in the Black Box gallery will be an upcoming collage show, with exact dates and time of the event to be released within the next two weeks.

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Conway Alliance for Arts now taking local artist nominations

by Mary Kate Mansfield Staff Writer

Artists from all over Conway have a chance to be recognized for their artistry and key role as artists in the community in the Conway Alliance for the Arts (CAFTA) awards that are currently taking nominations at the award ceremony at 7 p.m. April 5 in the Trieschmann Fine Arts building at Hendrix College.

According to Faulkner County librarian, Nancy Allen, the CAFTA awards are an extension of the Faulkner County Library Achievement in the Arts awards started by former head librarian Ruth Voss.

The Faulkner County Library Achievement in the Arts awards merged with the CAFTA awards.

“When CAFTA emerged as a community leader in the arts, the Faulkner County Library joined with them in creating an awards

program that honored several levels of artistic endeavor and support.” Allen said.

Some of the awards given include Outstanding Student Achievement, Mayor’s Award for Community Advocate in the Arts, Rollin R. Potter Patron of the Arts, Outstanding Individual Artist, the previously mentioned Faulkner County Library Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award and the Outstanding Arts Educator Award.

One past winner of the Outstanding Arts Educator Award was Deborah Kuster.

“My teaching, scholarship, and service are centered on influencing the practice of art education including a focus on curriculum development and community collaborations,” she said. “After 11 years, I have quite a network of former students, art teachers, and arts organizations that I have the privilege to work with to promote

the arts and arts education in our community.”

These awards are open to any artist in Conway or any artist who has made an impact on the Conway art scene according Gayle Seymour the CAFTA board chair and the Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication quoted in the press release for this event.

After the deadline of Feb. 29 the CAFTA board members will then review the nominees to these awards and select the winners from the pool of nominees.

Some of the past winners of these awards include: Sheila Parsons, Gene Hatfield and Finton Shaw.

The CAFTA awards seem to emphasize the need for art in the community of Conway and involving the community in the arts in order to promote cultural awareness in the community of Conway.

“The Conway Alliance for the Arts is very pleased to take the lead in recognizing some very talented individuals who have helped enrich all of our lives,” Seymour said.

This ceremony and reception will include musical, literary and dance performances as well as hors d’oeuvres prepared and served by the Culinary Club of Hendrix College. According to the CAFTA website, nominees do not have to live in Conway but must have an impact in the Conway art community.

Forms to submit a nominee for the CAFTA awards can be found online at www.artsinconway.org/awards or picked up at the Conway Chamber of Commerce, the Conway Public Library or the Reynolds Performance Hall Box Office and must be submitted by Feb. 29. Students and the public are welcome.

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Blake Weaver and Taylor Brandon play in the Jazz Ensemble Feb. 17 at the Snow Fine Arts Center.

Multiple jazz bands perform during ensemble presentation

by Amanda Nettles Staff Writer

The UCA Jazz Ensembles brought down the house in the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall Thursday evening.

The show started with the UCA Dixieland Band. It was a slightly small group of musicians with incredible talent. The band performed the works, “Royal Garden Blues,” “Basin Street Blues,” and “Way Down Yonder In New Orleans.”

The group captured the New Orleans jazz sound. The band used a tuba, banjo, drums, piano, saxophones, clarinet, trombone and trumpet. Dr. Jackie Lamar announced that the band will be performing at South on Main on March 1.

Jazz Ensemble II performed the second segment of the show.

The group was much larger with a variety of musicians who played instruments ranging from saxophones, trumpets, trombones to rhythm sections.

Dr. Gail Robertson was the director. Robertson chose the works “Walk, Don’t Run,” “Buffalo Breath,” “God Bless The Child,” “Mack the Knife” and “Absoludicrous.”

Nearly every musician had a solo throughout the Jazz Ensemble II performance. Trombone player, Joseph Berry left the audience in awe while performing a solo during God Bless The Child.

Freshman tenor saxophone player, Blake Weaver said that “Buffalo Breath” was his favorite song. Weaver said, “I liked it because I had a solo.”

“Absoludicrous” was the final performance of Jazz Ensemble II

leaving the audience on their feet.

The work was lengthy and also had solos throughout the piece.

Jazz Ensemble I was the final act of the show. Larry Jones was the director.

Jones said that he chooses songs based upon the level of the band. He said about half of the band is new or playing different parts. He said it is all about trial and error.

Jones chose the works “Manteca,” “Ko-Ko,” “Pleasin’,” “April in Paris,” and “Katy-Do.” The overall performance brought an amazing energy to the recital hall.

Jones said that the most difficult song for the band was “Kaity-Do” because it is a more relaxed type of pace and most people want to speed it up.

Freshman trumpet player, Woody Boyd has been playing the trumpet for seven years. Boyd enjoyed the piece “April in Paris” because of the low ballads and Boyd said “Manteca” was the most challenging to play.

The final performance by Jazz Ensemble I was “Manteca.” A drum solo was performed during the song by Junior, John Vinzant.

He left the audience on their feet, completely speechless. It was the finale for the entire jazz performance.

Vinzant said that he also studies other percussion instruments. He said “Manteca” was the most difficult performance because it is easier for him to play with the band as a whole. He said soloing is more difficult for him but the energy in the hall made it so much fun with the band as a whole.

Police Beat The following information is compiled from UCAPD incident reports

by Assistant News Editor Jennifer Buckley.

Student fell down stairs at Bear Village, suffered minor injuries

Speeding student arrested for Faulkner County warrant

Student reported missing wallet out; last seen in cafeteria

Student claims damage to his car while parked on campus

An officer from UCAPD was contacted after non-student, Katelyn Trinidad, fell down the stairs while leaving Bear Village on Feb. 9. Trinidad had a nosebleed along with cuts and scrapes down her arms and face. She stated that she hurt all over and seemed disoriented.

Trinidad was taken to Conway Regional Medical Center for further treatment.

Student Jessica Dorsey was pulled over for speeding 11 mph over the speed limit near the Student Health Center on Feb. 9.

After UCAPD stopped Dorsey, they checked her driver’s license and were notified that there was a warrant out for her arrest for assault.

Dorsey was then arrested and taken to the Faulkner County Detention Center for processing.

Student John Sunga reported his wallet had vanished from his pocket on Feb. 10 between 5 p.m. and midnight. Sunga noticed his wallet was missing when he was entering the Torreyson Library.

Sunga’s wallet contained a credit card, his UCA ID and an expired State of Arkansas ID. He last remembered having his wallet in the Christian Cafeteria.

Student Zachary Rice reported damage to his car on Feb. 11. Once UCAPD arrived, Rice stated that he drove straight to campus for class and then straight home afterwards and that is when he noticed the damage on the rear area of the drivers side. The damage involved a white paint transfer and the trim around his tire was slightly separated from the car.

The damage was estimated to be $50.00.

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4 Continued from page 1 Shakespeare’s works, arrives on campus. “That’s going to coincide with the performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

“We have, for the first time, broken the knuckles of Hendrix College,” Courtway said. “We are going to have the Shakespeare outdoor performance on the lawn in front of McAlester Hall.”

Dean Wright also pointed out that our university bested the University of Arkansas for the First Folio.

The Staff Senate has many proposals before it seeks funding.

They will be putting out a call to the campus in the near future to submit ideas that need funding.

“Some of the things we’ve funded through this process in the past include the water filtration stations installed on several water fountains around campus,” Staff Senate President Collin Stanton said “If you’ve got ideas for things that we can spend this money on, let us know.”

The Vice-President of Faculty Senate Kaye McKinzie was on hand to share an update from the Faculty Senate.

According to McKinzie, the entire budget for the Faculty Senate this year has already been allocated.

McKinzie recounted that last year the Faculty Senate budget was focused on ergonomic desk chairs and also funding some benches and picnic tables around campus.

“This year we added money to the benches and picnic tables

to go around campus,” McKinzie said. “We allocated the remaining money to adjustable, ergonomic desktops.”

A question poised concerned changes in the university’s insurance.

Our university was one of the last state institutions to become self-insured, according to Courtway.

“We were about the largest employer in the state, certainly in higher education, that was still fully insured,” Courtway said.

“Many other employers with smaller workforce numbers than us had already gone self-insured.”

Courtway took time out to reassure the audience of what procedures would be used in safeguarding health data now that the university would be selfinsured.

“We’re working on some email encryption systems to help prevent the egress of that type of information from our campus,” Vice-President for Information Systems and Technology Christopher Davis said.

As a part of the changes, the university has created a new health and wellness committee on campus.

“Faculty and the staff are going to have the voice in the program,” the Associate VicePresident of Human Resources and Risk Management Graham Gillis said. “This is going to be the group of people who are going to set the direction of the wellness program.”

Gillis went on to say that

the health data the health and wellness committee uses would be aggregate data.

“What we do want to know is our problem diabetes, is our problem hypertension, is our problem cholesterol,” Gillis said.

“We can’t pull a program off the shelf. Our committee will utilize our professionals on campus in nutrition, exercise science, occupational therapy, physical therapy, nursing, you name it.”

An update on how the search for a vice-president of advancement is progressing was given.

“We may bring one or two possible candidates to campus over the next couple of weeks,” Courtway said. “There will be more announcements to be made about that as we move ahead.”

The university now owns the homestead of Mathilda Hatfield, the assistant director for assessment initiatives, located on Donaghey Avenue. “We acquired her home place last Friday,” Courtway said. “We appreciate everything, working with her and her family on that.”

Courtway stated that that acquisition was the only one that they have made recently.

“We have a couple others we are looking at, but they haven’t come to fruition yet,” Courtway said.

Another question submitted online to the campus talk, dealt with seeking and dealing with external grants.

Courtway described the question as, “A frustration over the bureaucracy of the university

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Comments made towards FIJI members were both in person during the game, texts after; Sig Tau charged with violation of student handbook 4 Continued from page 1 member from Sigma Tau Gamma, Chandler Russell was seated in the front at the basketball game.

While the basketball game was been played the referees told him to calm down.

Although he said, “any small things he heard were from people behind him.” On the summary Russell also states, “he knows better than to cross line with racially charged comments.”

Betyo said “there were other people there that weren’t a part of my fraternity, that were saying stuff.”

After the game, Ramirez sent texts to vice president of Recruitment, Benjy Richards of

what was said during the game.

According to the texts he was told to “go back to where he came from, they don’t play this in your country, shouldn’t you be drinking tequila the one with the worm in it, how do you pronounce your last name” and more.

Fiji member, Pablo Lopez said, “when people start talking down on us, that means we are doing something right.”

According to the letter sent to President of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity Connor Rasmussen.

“Sigma Tau Gamma is being charged with violating the Student Handbook and IFC Code

of Conduct. More specifically: Offenses Subject to Disciplinary Action.

There was a scheduled UCA Greek judicial Board hearing on 4 p.m. Feb. 15 at in the Student health center room 238.

Associate VP for Communications Christina Madsen said “The issue was discussed and resolved. Student Life leaders are now discussing with Intramural program staff, as well as Greek members and leaders, how to implement measures to reduce or minimize trash-talking during sporting events.”

SPOTLIGHT

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Junior Sara Shumaker is currently working on her sculpture major, after achieving Bachelors of English from the University of Northern Iowa and a Masters of English at UCA.

by Kayla McCullough Entertainment Editor

We tend to think of college as a place for only 18-22 years to plan out their future, when in fact nontraditional students maintain a significant margin of the college demographic. For Sara Shumaker her first choice in a discipline was not the right fit. It took one bachelor’s degree, moving to an entire different state and raising a child to determine her niche in life.

Originally from Iowa, Sara received a Bachelor’s of Art in English from University of Northern Iowa. After dabbling around, she made her way South to UCA to receive her masters in English in 2002.

“I really like this area,” Shumaker said. “I was never an education major, and I was scared to teach, but wanting to stay here I decided I wanted to teach adjunct at universities.”

Initially working in the writing

Department, Shumaker added to her work load a stint teaching in the English department, and editing an on-campus journal.

After 2010, Shumaker’s life changed with the birth of her son.

She took three years off and then came back to continue teaching adjunct; however the rewards of teaching were soon outweighed by the difficulty of being an adjunct professor.

Realizing that teaching was not her path in life, she decided to challenge herself in a whole new way.

She decided to humor a joke her husband made about signing up for a drawing class. She admits she had a rough start, but with dedication her skills started to develop.

She found her fit with sculpture and was hooked. She was suddenly trying to calculate how to manage time to work in the early morning and then try to get back to her house in time to get her son ready for daycare and her household

running before returning for her afternoon classes.

“I love literature, I love teaching, but I love this too,” Shumaker said. “I think the difference is with this I have the opportunity to be my own boss, as a mother that is really important to me.”

Shumaker ultimately has aspirations to work professionally as an artist.

“I’m in a spot that a lot of students wouldn’t be in,” Shumaker said. “I have a really supportive spouse, I have experiences, and a lot of things that can supplement my income.”

To be a professional artist, Shumaker said that stamina is crucial: that trying and failing is the best way to grow and succeed.

Shumaker said she misses teaching and her students, but making her own hours is so substantial to her life.

Shumaker said she believes in people being as well-rounded as possible. She encourages people to find what gets them going whether it is running, making art, or reading; then to balance that with a hearty home life.

“Be curious about everything,” Shumaker said “Choose the things you put time into carefully.”

Shumaker remarks on the way that being too absorbed in books, while it feels safe, was not the way she was going to live her life. She found the courage to transform herself into the character she wanted to be, finding her voice, and writing her own story.

procedures in either seeking external grants or once you obtain an external grant, dealing with an external grant.”

Courtway called on the person who submitted the question to work with him to identify the issues in utilizing these funds.

“Anytime you get governmental funding there is going to be strings attached and there is going to be forms and there is going to be red tape,” Courtway said. “What we don’t need to do is have things on our campus that somehow operate to impede that process.”

Courtway took time to call attention to the looming Higher Learning Commission (HLC), visit in November.

“I know it’s a long way off – you think November is a long way off but it really isn’t,” Courtway said. “If you’re involved in the self study, I think August sometime is the date for our self study to be submitted.”

The shortcomings of the last HLC were addressed.

“There is always something out there, if you’re not careful,” Courtway said. “I feel very good about where we are as a campus and what the site visit team will find when they visit this fall.

The board of trustees will have a retreat on March 31.

“There will be a small action agenda in here before that,” Courtway said. “Then we will get going from that.”

The next campus talk is expected to take place in April.

Unity:

AAS plans to bring funding, gun control concerns to state capitol; speaker stresses the importance of speaking in groups

Are you voting

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in the primaries?

story by Jennifer Buckley photos by Lauren Swaim

Senior Will Dane

Senior Ryan Roshee

“I plan on voting, I think it’s important to vote, especially for young people”

“I’m voting because I think if we want a voice in how our nation is run, we need to vote”

Sophomore Olivia Cleveland

Senior Travis Parks

“Yes I am because I want to give Bernie all the chance that I can”

“Hopefully yes, because I don’t want a crappy president like Donald Trump”

4 Continued from page 1 discuss at the next AAS meeting.

“We’re going to bring the issues of diversity and inclusion and student debt because those are huge topics on our campus as well as across the nation,” ASU SGA President Logan Mustain said.

AAS will bring issues to the Capitol such as funding and gun-carry concerns to represent the 90,000 students attending four-year higher education institutions.

The biggest threat to AAS’s issues is the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department.

“You’ve got to start somewhere and as a voice, you’re a lot more effective in a collective way than a singular way. You speak a lot louder as a collective,” Erstine said to the SGA members as they realized the large competition.

The Day at the Capitol is scheduled at 9 a.m. on April 8 at the Arkansas State Capitol Rotunda and is open to students and the public.

Freshman Jasher Henderson

Junior Jessica Dorsey

“Yes because I believe it’s is the civic duty of every American to be involved in democracy and engage in it”

“No because I’ve never voted before and I’m not into politics”

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February 24, 2016

Intramural debaucle sheds light on systemic racism

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Supreme Court controversy harming judicial process

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With the 2016 presidential election underway, politics are dominating the news. Candidates are trying to gain their place in the White House as they argue about which direction the United States should go and their plans to make the county a better place.

With the election comes more political drama. Republicans and Democrats are fighting to place a new supreme court justice on the stand following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Republicans want the next president to appoint the new justice while the Democrats want to continue with the traditional appointment process.

According to the Constitution, the current president has a duty to nominate a justice and the Senate should give that justice both a fair and timely examination and vote to confirm whether they will serve on the bench.

The Republicans currently control the Senate and are threatening to filibuster until the next president is in office. When the Republicans threaten to not fulfill their duties, it interrupts how the Supreme Court operates.

The split court of four conservative justices and four liberal justices could create a 4-4 deadlock and keep the Supreme Court from accomplishing anything until a ninth justice is put back on the

bench.

The longest wait for the Senate to confirm a justice was 125 days.

Eleven months are left in the current presidential term, and there is no reason why President Obama should not be able to appoint a new justice with his remaining time, as long as the Republican party cooperates with the appointment process.

This is not a lesson on who would do a better job but on what is right. Not allowing President Obama and the Democratic Party to nominate a new justice would set a precedent for the years to come.

If a president cannot

by William make appointments in his Middleton final year of office, nothing Staff Writer stops a president from not making appointments in their final two years of office and so forth.

The Republican Party is not guaranteed to win the presidential election.

If the Republicans were in control of the executive branch they would want to appoint the new justice in the final year of office just as the Constitution requires.

Continuing with the appointment process and letting the Senate fulfill its duties would be what is best for the country and what is constitutionally right.

Not fulfilling these duties could cause problems in the Supreme Court for the next 11 months and set a precedent that is sure to cause problems in the future.

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As a mixed race American, I have faced prejudices and stereotypes that my Caucasian friends have never, and will hopefully never, have to understand.

That being said, people of all ethnicities are screaming to be heard as individuals and not just seen by the color of their skin, myself included.

It is time that people understand the importance of the things they say and how to appropriately discuss race.

I was recently asked two questions. The first was “What are you?” This question pained me. I knew the person asking was referring to my race, but my race is only a fraction of what I am.

I am a human and I deserve to be seen as that from the beginning.

I am not saying that it is wrong for somebody to question another’s ethnicity, but when taking the approach of “what are you,” you are implying that the only thing that a person is is their race.

This is not only annoying, it dehumanizes the individual being asked.

By asking “what are you,” I am just a mixed person in their eyes, instead of a person that happens to be of mixed race.

If we allow this standard of racial questioning to become an appropriate tactic, then we are allowing the idea that people of different colors and backgrounds are not like everyone else.

Continuing to categorize people by their race makes it impossible to allow true racial equality to happen.

Eventually, though, I did end up telling the person that I am half black and half white, which he

responded to with, “Why don’t you act black?”

This is my least favorite question to be asked. A person’s behavior tends to reflect where they grew up and the people they were surrounded with, but it also shows who they are on their own.

I am a firm believer in being yourself, and because of that, I don’t meet the expectations that society has for either of my races.

I am proud of where I come from and both races that my many family members embody. Telling a person they don’t act or match their race’s behavior is forcing stereotypes on a person and is also pushing them out of their own racial bracket.

As a whole, including people of color, we must stop accepting stereotypes and start letting go of racial expectations.

When we deem it appropriate to only see people as their race, and

By Darian accept the ideas that Whitmore people have created Staff Writer about that race, we are forming self-fulfilling prophecies that don’t need to be met.

Tolerating this accidental discrimination leads to bigger problems such as racial discrimination, gang violence and police brutality. No progress can be made until little things start to change.

So next time you meet somebody and are interested in their racial background or ethnicity, instead of saying “what are you” politely ask them “if you don’t mind me asking, what is your ethnicity?”

If they don’t match your criteria of their race, consider asking them more questions about their race in a respectful way, or just accept them for them and carry on— learn more about them on a personal level rather than a superficial one.

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This past week, a few Sigma Tau members were subject to a disciplinary hearing by the Interfraternity Council for shouting racial slurs at members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity during an intramural basketball game.

It is commendable that the IFC had a hearing and, furthermore, charged the Sigma Tau members with violating the Student Handbook.

According to Denn-Warren Tafah’s article on the matter in this edition, the offenses are “subject to disciplinary action.” One member of Sigma Tau was reportedly suspended and barred from using the HPER, but there is no clear information about what other disciplinary actions other members of the fraternity may face.

Although the Council handled this matter responsibly, it is troubling that the incident happened in the first place, and that the referees on duty at the time reportedly did little to nothing about the behavior.

UCA takes pride in being a diverse campus. The university even has an Office of Diversity and Community, which helps underrepresented groups on campus educationally and through cultural programs.

The slurs shouted by Sigma Tau members were reported to have referenced a Phi Gamma Delta member’s Hispanic heritage.

According to the Office of Diversity and Community, the Hispanic population at UCA as of Fall 2015 was 4.6 percent.

This basically means that the Sigma Tau members who shouted these racial slurs decided to take out their frustration or “excitement” on a community that is woefully underrepresented on campus.

It doesn’t matter how heated a game gets or how rowdy boys can be in collegethere is no excuse for using this kind of language in any context, let alone an intramural basketball game.

There are several problems at play here. First, we treat young men in college as if they can’t be expected to restrain themselves, especially when around their peers.

Of course, this treatment is usually reserved for white young men- a mostly white fraternity can generally get away with a racial slur here, a drunken party there. So we are training young men to believe that their behavior is okay, or at least that they can get away with it.

Second, we act like there is no racism problem until it rears its ugly head at times like this. By the time we get to college, people assume that we are adult enough, educated enough and cultured enough to get along with everyone, and to understand that everyone should be equal. And for the most part, white people get along with their black, Hispanic and Asian peers.

However, when in the heat of a game or at a moment of anger a person reacts with violent or offensive racial slurs, there is obviously an underlying issue regarding race.

This doesn’t mean that Sigma Tau members are racist. This just means that we live in a culture that lets these things slide. Casual racism is generally forgiven or accepted, especially in the south but generally everywhere in the United States. And when racism is casual, people don’t tend to see it until it is literally yelled in their faces.

There is a race problem on campus, but it didn’t start here. It started in the homes and on the televisions of most white and some minority families, and no one ever looked back and said, yeah, that’s wrong.

We are all products of our upbringings, but we need to step outside of ourselves and really take a look at who we are, and what we believe. It’s easier to keep the same convictions and prejudices you’ve always had, but it is better to try to end the cycle of racism starting with yourself.

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February 24, 2016

Millennials should think ahead, start saving I often hear people talk down about the take care of the family like he has.. millennial generation. Millennials are often Like I said, things that come out of the blue referred to as “lazy” or “entitled.” like this tend to make one reflect. Post-reflection, The consensus among the older generations is hopefully it spurs action. that we have little foresight and rely heavily on our The prospect of being responsible, not only for parents. myself, but for my parents as they get older is not Sometimes I think they are right. I see so many one that fills me with dread or stress. of my friends waste their money on things with It propels me to work hard as a young man. little or no thought to budgeting or saving.

Between bar shifts and my job here at the paper, I Two things make the difference between an scrape up enough for savings. adult and a child. As our generation buds into The reason this event spurred me into financial adulthood there are some things that we all have contemplation is that the inevitability of aging to remember. carries with it some truths and two options.

To save and budget will not only keep us out of In recent years it has become normal to put the red, but might also save our keister when we your loved ones in a care facility or even in the find ourselves in a jam. hospital.

Traumatic or unexpected events can often With the busy lives that we all live, it is hard to shock a person into reflection and action. be there for the ones that were there for us.

Just over a year ago, But there is something my mother was diagnosed off-putting about that idea with breast cancer. to me. I am no doctor.

Meanwhile, she was I know minimal struggling to walk with a information about most herniated disk in her back medical issues. But despite

by Joe Kramer that left her in a walker. that I feel an obligation.

Editor Both my parents are a Even though it has little bit older than most of become socially acceptable my peers’ parents. and maybe even the norm That never really to put our loved ones bothered me much as a who we can’t take care of kid. anymore in homes, that option is a last ditch effort My father is an exceptionally healthy man who for me. never drank or smoked and was always outside But I digress. working on something, when he wasn’t working in Let’s get back to the money. the office.

This isn’t to make you pick a side on the issue My mother has always been healthy apart of retirement homes or care facilities. from a little arthritis and the occasional cold. So It is merely an attempt to illustrate the need to you can imagine my shock when all too quickly my be prepared as a young adult. mother’s health declined.

We often don’t save or plan ahead. But when When I got the news I wasn’t exactly appalled things go awry and we find ourselves in tough or scared. situations, it is best to have a backup plan.

I didn’t stress too much, but it did get me That plan often requires money and time. thinking. What would I do when my parents are no Time is somewhat free for most of us, or at least longer able to take care of themselves? we can make time.

Luckily, my mother is healthy now after some But when it comes to money, we have to plan surgery and a few rounds of chemo. ahead.

My father was a pillar for the family and took So even though your parents may be healthy, care of everything. I could tell he didn’t want us or your car might be brand new, or what have kids to get stressed out over it. you, it is necessary to begin saving for those little But I did realize that there would be a point disasters that punctuate the novel that is life, when my father isn’t around or won’t be able to sooner better than later.

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Ambiguous male and female signs signify the blurred lines between genders. In recent years, cisgender and transgender have become buzz words that start a lot of controversy, especially in online communities.

Cisgender hate in LGBTQ+ community harmful Let’s talk equality.

Facebook with the comment “damn cis women.”

I have friends that identify as part of the After reading the post, I understood that she LGBTQ+ community littered across social media, was referring to the rude, insulting women in the and as a supporter of that community, I typically article. However, when I initially saw that post, I don’t mind seeing the posts, rants and memes was infuriated. associated.

Seeing posts like that automatically subject me However, recently I have seen a lot of rude into that group of ‘damn cis women.’ comments that are As a supporter, I don’t want considered “cis hate.” to be associated with a group According to the that is viewed as intolerant, Oxford Dictionary crude and ignorant. website, being cisgender What makes this worse means that you are is that by saying ‘damn cis

by Morgan Embry someone whose women,’ you’re doing to me News Editor personal identity and what you are fighting against gender corresponds people doing to you. with your birth sex.

You can’t gain equality by Before I delve any talking crap about another further, let it be known group of people. that I am not trying to offend anyone.

You can’t gain equality by shutting out those I fully support people to make their own who support you. decisions and have their own opinions on this You can’t gain equality by stereotyping people, topic.

With that being said, as a cisgendered woman, I when you hate being stereotyped yourself.

I’m a supporter, friend and roommate to get very frustrated when I see posts by members of members of the LGBTQ+ community, but I am the LGBTQ+ judging or stereotyping cisgendered not one of those ‘damn cis women’ that people men and women.

Recently, my friend posted an article on stereotype me as.

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Mental health ignored by many students

by Ashley Godwin

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Hillary Clinton supporters hold up signs. Who young women vote for in this election has stirred up fights between Sanders and Clinton supporters over whether sex should be a factor in the race.

Clinton supporters lable activist as sexist ironically Earlier last week, a spokesperson delivering a forget is that their very actions literally fall into the rally speech for Bernie Sanders in Atlanta, Georgia definition of sexism. said, “A uterus does not qualify you to be president.”

Sexism is defined as prejudice or discrimination That man is Michael Render, also known as the of someone based on their sex. rapper of “Run the Jewels,” Killer Mike.

So immediately casting your vote for someone This quote caused an outrage among a very based on sex instead of their policies or beliefs vocal sect of Hillary Clinton supporters, who seems to fit the bill. labeled him as sexist and misogynistic.

Sexism, as Jane Elliot said, falls under social This backlash demonstrates a clear justice, which is something that reaches far beyond misunderstanding and lack of knowledge on behalf genders and into race, sexuality, class and so on. of that sect of Clinton supporters.

Bernie is also the only candidate in this current The full quote that apparently went over the race that has consistently stood up for all types of heads of the people making the outrage was, “A people throughout his long political career. uterus does not qualify you to be president, the The same can not be expectations should be said about Hillary, whose social justice.” views on the LGBTQ Of course, that last community changed only half was ignored by many when it became popular to of the journalists writing change them. sensationalist articles at the Bernie, on the other

by Johnathan time it happened in order Woodson hand, has consistently stood to push their own personal Assistant Opinion Editor beliefs. up for every type of person, This is a no-no in even before beginning a journalism, where the career in politics. reporting is supposed to be This is documentedunbiased. there are photos of him protesting and being Another fact the Clinton supporters labeling arrested for protesting during the civil rights anyone with a different opinion than theirs sexist movement. ignore is that Killer Mike was quoting one of the Another flaw in the logic of the people who most famous woman activists of all time, Jane Elliot. support Clinton and think she is as progressive as This perfectly illustrates a large problem with Sanders is their blindness to the fact that Hillary very vocal section of activists who label any critique Clinton endorsed federal mandatory minimums in against a woman as sexist. the mid ‘90s.

This same group is the one harassing Killer Mike This impacted the LGBTQ community in a for his speech and voting for Hillary just because harmful and negative way. Bernie stood up for she is a woman, and then calling other women who everyone, even before it was popular. don’t vote for Hillary a traitor.

Consistency goes a long way in proving that you As outrageous as it seems, what that very vocal and seemingly uneducated group of people who mean what you say and that you’re not just acting love to throw the term “sexist” at everything seem to the part to get elected.

It wasn’t until I was lying on the ground in the fetal position that I knew something was wrong and I had to take back control of my life.

The National Alliance of Mental Illness conducted research that found that 50 percent of students have stated they have struggled in school due to their anxieties, and that 40 percent do not seek help.

College is one of the hardest times in a person’s life. Not only are there a lot of changes going on to your body mentally, but there are a lot of changes in a person’s environment that can lead to a great deal of stress.

A student has huge workloads in college, plus the added factors of social events, extracurricular jobs and family are a lot for one person to handle.

This is why mental health is something every young person in school needs to take care of.

I didn’t realize what was wrong with me at first.

In the beginning, I thought it was just a lot of stress and it would go away, but it continued to get worse and worse.

When I discovered I was having panic attacks, I thought I was one of a few struggling with this

illness. I knew I had to get my life back if I was going to continue going to school, so I had to make a decision.

UCA has tons of options for people struggling with a mental illness, like the counseling center and peer groups.

The counseling center gives each student 10 free sessions per semester and extra help if needed.

I went and talked to a counselor who told me I was not alone and we figured out a plan to get me back on track.

Most students do not get help, because they do not realize the benefits to getting better.

It was only until after I started to smile again and love life to the fullest that I realized how bad it had really gotten.

Now, I am doing so much better after having the help from my friends and family, and the counseling center.

I am able to enjoy my time in college and not focus so much on my anxiety. Remember you are not alone.

Everyone has mental health instability at least once in his or her life.

Just because you are hurting doesn’t mean you are any less than a person. It’s okay to ask for help.

FAFSA simple way to get money for school

by Tyler Hollowell Financial stress is a real issue for college students and isn’t always an easy topic to discuss.

Thankfully, with help from the government, assistance often times is rewarded to those who qualify for financial aid.

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) is an application for college students to determine if they are eligible for loans or grants through the federal government.

Without the necessary funding, some individuals would not have a way of paying for college.

There are preparations that can be made in advance however that can eliminate that financial burden.

Financial aid offices have information regarding criteria for scholarships, grants, or workstudy programs.

Many schools offer grants or scholarships on an as-needed basis, so if your family falls within the income area, you could be eligible.

Work study programs can help reduce financial stress while attending college by offsetting the tuition expenses for part-time work, some positions even offer a stipend for living expenses or books.

Get ahead of the crowd and make the move fast, each Spring semester you know that FASFA is coming back around.

Take the initiative to think proactively and make the necessary steps to better yourself financially in the future and not worry about stressing.

Entertainment

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February 24, 2016

DEADPOOL

Disney surprises Marvel die-hards with new hero

New This Week Movies

Feb. 26 — ­ Eddie the Eagle (PG-13), directed by Dexter Fletcher, starring Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Jo Hartley, Tom Costello, Jack Costello, Mark Benton, Edvin Endre, Rune Temte, Iris Berben, Jim Broadbent and Christopher Walken.

by Mary Kate Mansfield Staff Writer

Feb. 26 — ­ God’s of Egypt (PG-13), directed by Alex Proyas, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Chadwick Boseman, Elodie Yung, Courtney Eaton, Rufus Sewell, Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush and Bryan Brown.

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Feb. 26 — Dig In Deep - Bonnie Raitt

Feb. 26 — For All Kings - Anthrax

Feb. 26 — I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It - The 1975 Feb. 26 — Zoetic - The Rocket Summer

Netflix Feb. 26 — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), directed by Yuen Woo-ping, starring Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh and Harry Shum Jr. Feb. 26 ­— Fuller House: Season 1, directed by Rich Correll, starring Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber and Soni Bringas.

Feb. 26 — Theo Von (2016), A Netflix original, comedian Theo Von’s stand-up special will be released.

Feb. 29 — Ashes and Embers (1982), directed by Haile Gerima, starring John Anderson, Evelyn A. Blackwell and Norman Blalock.

Hulu debuts new Miniseries, starring James Franco as a man sent on a time-traveling mission. Episodes will be available every Monday.

Miniseries holds potential to break monotony of cliché Hollywood plots

by Joe Kramer Editor

As time passes, Hollywood seems to have gotten lazy. With a new superhero movie dropping almost monthly, viewers have been getting recycled characters, story lines and shots. Despite this seemingly endless monotony, there is one show which recently aired that has my interest peaked.

“11.22.63” is a new Hulu miniseries written by Bridget Carpenter brought to the screen by fiction power duo Stephen King and J.J. Abrams that harkens back to “The X-Files” and “The Twilight Zone” era of television. While the feel might be similar, the premise and development is a breath of fresh air.

Starring James Franco as our protagonist, high school teacher Jake Epping, viewers get to watch as an ordinary guy finds himself in a rather unusual situation.

Epping must go back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Things get interesting when the scene cuts to Epping at his local diner, owned by Al

Templeton, played by the veteran actor Chris Cooper. Cooper is a Vietnam veteran that goes into the back to grab some supplies and comes back two minutes later looking rough.

After some questioning, Templeton explains that in the back of the restaurant there is a sort of wormhole that transports to 1960. Once Epping goes to see for himself, he finds himself sent on a mission by Templeton. Kill Lee Harvey Oswald.

Now this may seem cheesy to some of you, but the cheesiness is swept away by the way this show is written and shot.

The scenes in the present are normal enough. But when Epping gets transported into the past, the glitz and glamour of the ‘60s comes out in full swing- pink poodle girls and pompadours galore.

But it isn’t the visuals that I found the most interesting. It was the varied storylines that seems to spring up throughout the first episode. King and Abrams do a great job of leaving subtle subplots that will no doubt come up later in the series. These subplots are what make the episode and the

concept of the show altogether so appealing.

There are so many avenues to take as the season progresses and those progressions are far more interesting than the whole time travel thing, which isn’t exactly original.

The show’s originality stems from the characters and the interaction between different characters not only in the present but also in the past.

As Epping accepts the mission and begins his work in the past, we see all the sci-fi-esque motifs that pop up throughout, spicing up the solid but not exactly dynamic character that is Epping.

What this show holds more than anything is potential. As of right now I can’t tell you if the show is going to be a great one or not.

What I can say is that this first episode is intriguing and holds a bundle of mysteries that will no doubt come to light as the season progresses. It is surely worth the watch.

“11.22.63” is available for streaming on Hulu. Episodes are released every Monday. Hulu plus may be required for viewing.

ALBUM

When Disney bought out Marvel, many people were worried how upcoming comic and superhero movies would be portrayed.

Given the childish stereotype typically assigned to Disney, and sometimes even its affiliates, some felt as though these stereotypes would be reflected in Marvel’s mature characters.

Superhero fans who are wary of the Disney-Marvel merger should not worry about Disney’s infamous past; the newest installment in the Marvel universe, “Deadpool,” is an instant hit, making $132.4 million its opening weekend (which was only slightly lower than the projected $135 million, according to USA Today).

“Deadpool” managed to make cinematic history by being the highest-grossing R rated film to have hit the box office.

The film was intelligent, witty and a fantastic date movie.

Despite the controversy around the rating for “Deadpool” and the mixed signals parents were getting from the media, this movie had a fantastic amount of support and a great turnout overall.

From the opening credits to the closing scenes the film was well written and did a great job on flashback transitions The writers obviously knew they had some big shoes to fill in the Marvel universe.

Motivated by the pressure of Marvel’s dedicated fan base, writers and producers distinguished “Deadpool” from all the other superhero movies by showing Deadpool as a neutral character.

This mercenary with a mouth is neither villain nor superhero, his motivation is not helping people or making a the world a safer place.

His motivation is not world domination or anything else sinister, instead it is love for a woman and doing right by her.

This motivation not only shows the complexity of the Deadpool character but is a main theme throughout the movie.

The writers did a great job showing the complexity of the main character and storyline.

Most of the previews for this movie highlighted the comic aspect of Deadpool.

The main character and the movie itself were just as funny as promised, but it also had a balance of comedy and drama that is difficult to balance.

Another great aspect of this movie is that the writers and producers had no qualms about poking fun at the studio, themselves, or other franchises throughout the movie.

This fun-making is called “breaking the fourth wall,” which is generally looked down on in the mainstream side of the film industry.

As defined by MerriamWebster this is, “an imaginary wall (just like one that would be at the opening of a modern stage production) that keeps performers from recognizing or directly addressing their audience.”

Deadpool’s character breaks the fourth wall more than once and blatantly shows that the writers of this movie knew their audience and the demographics of their audience well.

The writers also stereotype the entire genre of superhero movies and attempt to parody them all, while striking the all-important balance between serious, suspenseful, playful and funny.

This movie, while a “stereotypical” superhero movie, has an aspect to it that everyone will love: Ryan Reynolds.

“Deadpool” is now playing at Cinemark Theaters in Conway.

It is rated R for strong violence and language throughout, sexual content and graphic nudity.

SERENADE

Rapper’s newest album on drugs, women Musician reflects on childhood in Arkansas

by Erica Nicolas

by Brandon Jones

Future’s new album, “EVOL,” rekindles the fire brought with his previous collaborative album “What A Time To Be Alive” that featured Drake.

His fourth studio album dropped on Feb. 5, two weeks after he dropped his mix tape “Purple Reign.”

“EVOL” is pronounced as “evil” and spells “love” backwards.

The music is more about the different forms of love, rather than the process of falling in or out of it.

“EVOL” opens with the song photo courtesy of freebandz.com “Ain’t No Time,” where he talks about his wealth and taste in Future makes digs at his ex in his new album. He boasts about money, expensive fashion that he wears girls and drugs. on a regular basis.

In the first verse he said, “Look options.” It suggests that Future could care less if they speak the like I stepped on the runway. They is getting more girls left and right same language because they can communicate through their try to tell me to calm down.” Every and they obey his every word.

Although his previous lines mutual love for sex and drugs. time Future performs he dresses The Weekend was featured in in his freshest attire because he expressed his dissatisfaction can afford brands such as Chanel, toward his ex, he said that he will Future’s song “Low Life,” which reciprocate respect to those who created a killer song by the fiery Saint Laurent and Tom Ford. duo. The two rappers share the Further in the song, he justifies love and respect him.

One of his most addictive same love for drugs and women his past actions of robbery and other criminal misconduct by songs in the album to listen to was and boast about being evicted saying that he is a product of his “Xanny Family.” That song could from luxury hotels for turning environment and did what he had be played on repeat a hundred rooms into strip clubs.

Future’s lyrics in verse two, times and I would not be annoyed to do to survive.

“If she catch me cheating, I will Future takes a jab at his ex- one bit.

“Xanny Family” is full to the never tell her sorry,” expresses his fiancé Ciara in the song “Photo Copied.” The rapper suggests that brim of drug references such refusal to ever admit to cheating Ciara is a fake personality; this as Valium, “dirty Sprite” and with another man’s woman. He comes after her marriage to NFL obviously Xanax. Future boasts of also said that he will never tell her quarterback Russell Wilson of the his plethora of drugs along with sorry, which probably is another Seattle Seahawks. the many women he has gained jab as his ex-fiancé Ciara.

Jam-packed with wealth, drug Rumors of Future’s own from all over the world. infidelity do not phase the rapper, The line, “She ain’t speak no and sexual references, “EVOL” as he illustrates his “hoetry” by the inglo but I know she like to tweak is available for purchase on the line “Once I adapted I got more that coke,” illustrates that Future iTunes store for $10.99.

“Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues and Coming of Age Through Vinyl” is Rashod Ollison’s fascinating memoir about his experience growing up in Arkansas with only his mother, two sisters and rough extended family.

The book follows Ollison’s life from when he was six-years-old when his parents divorce, to his father’s death as he prepared for college.

Though Ollison’s parents divorced when he was young, his father had a music collection that the two of them bonded over.

When his father left, Ollison found comfort from the problems in his life by listening to the music, hoping that his father would one day return.

Ollison cleverly uses italicized paragraphs to explain passages and show how his music and father affected him.

In one instance, Ollison had a dream in which he saw his father as the young man he remembered, who only told him that he needed to listen to the music and he hadn’t really left him.

Ollison had other family members to help his mother, mostly women, but many of them were loud and brash in his eyes— leaving him with nowhere to turn but his music.

Growing up, Ollison had no friends his own age in school and often moved to different parts of Arkansas as his mother found cheaper places to live. This made it more difficult for him to find a place to fit in.

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Ollison said he often retreated into his music and books and his intelligence caught the attentions of his teachers.

The isolation that Ollison felt due to his introversion and constant moving is something that many people feel and shows the kind of coping mechanism that can help with these feelings.

Poetry became a hobby of his—a way of expressing himself— that helped him be noticed by teachers and the residents of his church..

During important moments in Ollison’s life, he would see his father standing nearby as a ghostly figure; always as the young, slick man that he remembered. This was reflective of the fact that Ollison didn’t see him for years after he left, clinging to the childish image he originally had of his father.

Even when he was in high school and participated in a writing competition in Florida, he saw his ghostly father give him a wink from the audience before fading away.

Ollison saw his father again twice in his life: the first during his father’s prison sentencing for failure to pay child support and then years later, a few months before his death.

Each moment came as a shock to Ollison, who still held onto his childlike view of his father. At the first reunion his father looked bloated in plain clothes and in the second meeting his father was frail from drugs and looked as old as his grandparents.

With these moments, Ollison shows the transitions he went through as he got older and got

a more realistic understanding of his own situation.

Throughout the book, characters say things to and about Ollison hinting at his later realization that he is a homosexual.

People insulted his mannerisms and called him “faggot” which lead him to believe there was something wrong with him.

Moving from childhood to adolescence, Ollison struggled with the fact that he had always been different from everyone else. His sexuality struggle can be related to as he expresses the confusion he felt as a teenager.

Much of the book’s intrigue comes from Ollison’s use of the dialect he grew up hearing. The dialogue between people in his prose clearly expresses the childlike wonder he went through early on in his life.

As a child, Ollison hears and encounters words and situations he doesn’t understand: like his father calling him a “music freak,” his mother telling him not to wear a pair of pants he likes because they’re too tight and to not throw his hands around as he talks.

“Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues and Coming of Age Through Vinyl” is a fantastic book that does well in keeping a reader hooked. Ollison’s story is interesting and an excellent read, particularly for those who relate to Ollison’s introversion and selfintrospection.

“Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues, and Coming of Age Through Vinyl” is available on Amazon. com for $17.02, or on Kindle for $24.99.

1. Achievemephobia – fear of success

2. Kosmikophobia – fear of cosmic phenomenon

3. Novercaphobia – fear of your step-mother

4. Politicophobia – fear or abnormal dislike of politicians

5. Menophobia – fear of menstruation

If you have achievemephobia, you are comfortable with your current situation and are not looking for any change. It also means that you have the fear of not being able to handle success when you have it. Reasons for having this phobia range from fears of failure, not wanting to be in the spotlight, or fear of outshining your friends or family.

Hollywood has made a living off of fear of the end of the world, particularly an end involving the moon colliding with Earth or asteroid impacts, like in “Armageddon,”but kosmikophobia doesn’t just include meteor showers. People with this phobia fear the solar and lunar eclipses, the northern lights, and sometimes alien invasions.

Generation upon generation of couples have dreaded the time when they had to meet the in-laws. Some may be very nice and loving, but then there are the “monster”-in-laws. And this isn’t just another Jane Fonda movie.

Some of the unfortunate sideeffects of this phobia include anxiety, followed by nausea, vomiting, or, in Jennifer Lopez’s case, hives.

There is a reason why young people do not want to vote: they don’t want to encourage the ageold battle of Republican versus Democrat. There’s a small chance that will ever happen. Of course this is not an excuse not to vote.

If you hate all candidates, simply choose the candidate you hate the least, or someone who you think won’t blow up the country.

I have no doubt in my mind that they would fear it. Periods come with stress, and women who suffer from menophobia will prevent their menstruation cycle at all costs. This phobia may stem from not being properly educated about the process beforehand. Fear of shame or being embarrassed is also a cause. Treatment includes taking Advil or other pain relievers.

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Week at a glance

Sophomore forward wins SLC player of the week

By Malachi Thornton Assistant Sports Editor

The Sugar Bears are continuing to accomplish great feats as they wrap up the 2016 regular season. UCA for the first time this season has had two players receive honors for Southland Conference Player of the Week. The award went to sophomore forward Taylor Baudoin after it previously was awarded to junior guard Maggie Proffitt in December. Baudoin turned in her best week of the year scoring a season-high 20 points while grabbing nine rebounds in UCA 70-56 win over McNeese State. She then followed that performance with a 19 point seven rebound display against Sam Houston this past Saturday as they went on to win 73-63. The team is putting up some of its best numbers and thanks to stellar play Baudoin this season and especially over the past few weeks. Ironically both players hailing from Columbus, Mississippi and both playing on a high level is one of the many firsts for the Sugar Bears this season.

The players are nominated and voted on weekly by the women’s basketball sports information directors. The Sugar Bears now sit at 22-3 as they look ahead to the remaining handful of games left on their regular schedule. They will first look to Sam Houston again on Wednesday before they have their final road game of the season against Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday. The Bears are in a great position as they are tied for the top seed, another win would guarantee them to one of the top two seeds insuring them a double bye to the tournament semifinals. Two wins would secure the top seed for the second time since 2012.

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Senior outfielder Austin White connects for a hit in game one against Missouri State on Feb 20. The Bears fell to Missouri State in all three games of the weekend series.

Bears drop opening series against Missouri State

by Joe Kramer Editor

The Bears stumbled in their opening series at Bears Stadium this past weekend against the No. 25 ranked Missouri State University after dropping all three games to MSU 12-1, 6-5 and 10-6.

Friday proved a tough day for the Bears as they faced a baseball powerhouse for their opening game. Senior centerfielder Tyler Langley felt good heading into the series but admits to some opening day jitters.

“On Friday, we had the first game jitters and didn’t play loose,” Langley said. “Our expectations going into this weekend were to just play our game and win each half inning. We had to do both of those things to have success. We needed to do the little things right, but we had quite a few defensive errors on the weekend and didn’t swing the bats as well as they did.”

Central Arkansas was put behind early as MSU put two on the board in both the first off a homer to right field from senior infielder Aaron Meyer who brought in freshman outfielder

Hunter Steinmetz.

That lead was further punctuated in the third inning after MSU was able to stack two more runs after an error by the Bears.

Senior pitcher Connor Gilmore struggled in the opening innings but was able to level out in the third. Despite regaining his composure, Gilmore was taken to task by the MSU offense as they were able to fire off five hits driving in seven RBIs bumping the score margin to 11-0 in the bottom of the fifth. The final nail in the coffin would come in the form of yet another RBI driven in by MSU’s junior outfielder Blake Graham’s RBI single to left field.

The Bears ended the day with a offensive showing of just five hits against the MSU starter Jordan Knutson who managed to give up only one earned run off of four hits. Sophomore catcher Justin McCarty accounted for two of those hits going 2-3 on the day leaving senior third baseman Logan Preston to round up the other three going 3-4. Central Arkansas made three errors in the field on the day.

Central Arkansas was able to get on the board late in the game with an RBI from McCarty as he drove in Preston off a stinger out to the left-center gap to bring the score to 11-1.

The loss went to Gilmore who was able to strike out five while walking four in his four innings on the mound. Sophomore Tyler Gray came in to finish the game for the Bears. Gray gave up three hits and two runs while managing to retire five on the MSU lineup.

Saturday proved no better for the Bears, despite their hot start, as Missouri State finished the sweep with a 6-5 and 10-6 win in the double header on Feb. 20. Senior second baseman, Matt Anderson, popped off a triple to left center to get things started.

McCarty doubled to left center to drive in Anderson. Junior infielder Butch Rea and senior outfielder Austin White filled the bases after two consecutive walks by MSU. Senior centerfielder, Tyler Langley came in clutch early in game one that brought the score to 4-0 with a grand-slam over the left field wall.

The Bears held their lead for

the rest of the game until the top of ninth inning when the Bears’ 5-4 lead slipped after a homer from MSU’s sophomore infielder Jake Burger that drove in Meyer.

The second game of the day was much like the first with UCA jumping out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning. After maintaining that lead through the second inning, MSU made a comeback tying it up with freshman infielder Jeremy Eierman coming in to score.

There would be some back and forth throughout the rest of the game with Missouri piling on runs in the fourth and fifth innings pushing the score to 10-4. Central Arkansas rallied back late in the ninth. Preston sent a long fly ball to drop between MSU outfielders in left center, driving in the pair of sophomore outfielder Jacob Richardson and senior catcher Brandon Montalvo.

Central Arkansas was able to draw three walks off of MSU’s AllAmerican closer Bryan Young but were unable to even up the score.

Moyer took the loss after leaving the mound in the third with an injury.

With a full week ahead,

LOSS

WIN

Men’s basketball falls to Sam Houston

by Kirby Smith Staff Writer

Baudoin

Upcoming games Men’s Basketball

Feb. 27 at Southeastern Louisiana University at 4 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

Feb. 24 vs Sam Houston State at 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 at Southeastern Louisiana at 1 p.m.

Baseball

Feb. 24 vs Tennesse Tech University at 12 p.m.

Feb. 26-28 vs Eastern Illinois University at 6 p.m.

The UCA men’s basketball team (6-17 SLC) fell 75-105 to the Sam Houston Bearkats (15-12) Feb. 20 at the Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum in Huntsville, Texas.

According to UCA sports, turnovers were the weak point for the Bears against Sam Houston.

The Bearkats took advantage of the Bears’ miscues by scoring 26 points off of turnovers.

SHSU added to their good reputation of scoring off of turnovers, as they average a total of 14 points per game from those turnovers. UCA had 15 while SHSU only had five turnovers.

SHSU scored most of their points by making 16-33 three pointers. UCA was 7-17 threepointers.

“It begins with our defense, and we feed off that to lead to our

offense,” sophomore point guard Jordan Howard said.

Howard led the team with a total of 19 points, including five field goals, two of which were three-pointers, and seven free throws. Foreman followed close behind with 16 points, including five field goals, three threepointers, plus three free throws.

UCA did win the battle of the boards, out rebounding the Bearkats 34-32. Of the UCA rebounds, nine came from Kamba, with Brooks and Zuilhof also contributing with six rebounds each.

Of the 15 assists from UCA, junior point guard Jeff Lowery recorded four assists on the night for the Bears.

The season is coming to an end with five conference games remaining on the schedule. While the win/loss record may not be everything the Bears hoped for

this season, there is still much to be excited about for the future of the program.

“The most rewarding part of the season has been playing with the younger guys,” Foreman said.

The Bears have a great opportunity to finish the season on a high note, with the remaining two conference games against McNeese State (6-18) and Nicholls State (7-2.) The Bears are currently placed ninth in the Southland Conference.

McNeese State comes in holding onto eleventh place and Nicholls State follows in the twelve spot.

“I think we will play well, as long as we play together and as a collective group like we have in our past three wins, we can beat anybody,” Howard said.

The Bears will face off with McNeese March 3 and Nicholls March 5.

SWING

Small-town kid finds home in the city via golf

By Brody Arnold Staff Writer

Growing up in a small town leaves a person with a lot of free time. For Brad Lamb, that free time allowed him to participate in many different sports.

Starting at Mount Pleasant elementary, and ultimately graduating from Melbourne High School, Brad was involved in sports wherever he went.

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Lamb Lamb started playing golf when he was just six-years-old.

Even though basketball was his favorite sport growing up, Brad started gravitating towards golf later in high school. “I sucked at basketball and baseball, but I was

good at golf,” he said.

Lamb had two main inspirations growing up. “My dad was always there, taking me to play golf, hunt and fish,” he said. “Tiger Woods was my main inspiration when it comes to golf simply because he was the best. He was sort of the Michael Jordan of golf, and really helped make the sport a lot more popular than it was.”

“I went to Harding first, but then I decided I didn’t want to go there anymore,” he said “One of the only places that would allow me to walk on was UCA, and my parents went there, so it was a pretty easy decision.”

Moving to Conway from a town of just 2,000 people was a bit of a culture shock for Lamb. “It’s very different here,” he said. “I don’t have to drive 20 minutes just to get milk anymore,” he said. “But, I can no longer walk out my back door and kill my dinner.”

When not practicing his swing, Lamb spends a lot of his free time hunting and fishing. “I really like being outside,” he said.

Lamb has had to battle through a couple of injuries in his career. “When I was a senior in high school, I pulled two or

three muscles in my left side when taking a golf swing,” he said.

“I couldn’t play for about three months, and even then it took about a year for the pain to go completely away when swinging,” he said. Lamb also injured himself with a similar injury in his freshman year of college, but recovered from it much quicker.

“Golf swings are all left side abs for right handed people, so it’s easy to get these kinds of injuries. It’s hard to recover from, because it’s almost impossible to not use your core in everyday activities.”

Lamb has many golf accolades.

Lamb was a 2A State Champion in high school and a Junior Arkansas Stroke Play champion at age 18.

Lamb is a health education major, while also taking some chemistry classes.

“I’m going to try my best to be a college golf coach,” he said. “I have an extra year of school left where I can’t play golf so I’m going to try to be a graduate assistant for the gold team, and hopefully be able to get a coaching job somewhere after I graduate and if not, then hopefully my grades are good enough to get me into physician assistant school.”

the Bears look to bounce back after getting those first games under their belts. McCarty felt that despite the losses over the weekend there were some positives to take away.

“It was nice to finally to get out and play another team instead of the scrimmages we have been playing since October. And lastly it was great to have such a big crowd come out and show support opening weekend,” he said.

Both McCarty and Langley agree that the losses this weekend came down to the fundamentals of the game.

“Things we took away were to just stay focused through all nine innings, pay attention to the little things and make the routine play, don’t miss double plays when you get the chance, and don’t miss your pitch when you get it. Those are also the things we are focused on going into the games this week,” Langley said.

The Bears will continue their home stretch as they take on Tennessee Tech on Feb. 24. They will then finish the series out with a four-game weekend against Eastern Illinois starting on Friday.

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Sophomore forward Taylor Baudoin drives to the basket against McNeese. Baudoin scored 20 points for the Sugar Bears

Sugar Bears beat Cowgirls

By Des’ree Dallmann Staff Writer

The UCA Sugar Bears defeated the McNeese State Cowgirls 7056 - breaking a three-game losing streak against the Cowgirls Feb. 17 at the Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

The Sugar Bears (21-3, 11-2 SLC) scored 35 seconds into the game jumping out to an early lead starting the game with eight points. They stayed in the lead for the remainder of the game.

With the win, the Sugar Bears gave the Cowgirls (16-10, 8-6 SLC); only their second home loss of the season.

“It was a very challenging game, we had more energy than them so we were able to get the win,” junior guard Sandy Jackson said.

Sophomore forward Taylor Baudoin dominated the first quarter of the game scoring the first six points, with junior guard Brianna Mullins scoring the next two before the Cowgirls scored their first points of the night, making the score 8-2.

Ending the first quarter with a three-pointer the Sugar Bears remained in the lead by nine points leaving the score 19-10.

The Cowgirls struggled to catch up, scoring several times throughout the second quarter only to fall further behind again.

The Sugar Bears remained in the lead with a score of 40-25 at the end of the first half.

As the third quarter opened, the Sugar Bears remained ahead as they reached their largest lead, by 18 points, two and a half minutes into the third quarter.

Putting up a fight the Cowgirls continued to work their way back into the game scoring 17 points in the fourth quarter, the highest percentage of points for the Cowgirls throughout the game.

The game ended with a successful layup from the Cowgirls with just six seconds left, lowering the score gap by three points and giving the Sugar Bears a 14 point win.

According to UCA Sports, Mullins led the team in scoring with 24 points, followed closely by sophomore forward Taylor Baudoin who recorded her season high of 20 points. Forward Kendra Watts registered a team-high nine rebounds all within 29 minutes.

Senior guard, Jameka Watkins scored 12 points in the game and had a game high seven assists.

Junior guard Maggie Proffitt, the Sugar Bears leading scorer this season who was averaging 14.8 points per game before the contest scored four, brought down six rebounds and earned two blocks.

The win against McNeese State places the Sugar Bears second place behind Abilene Christian.

The Sugar Bear’s will be back on the hardwood to play back to back games against Sam Houston State Feb 20 before returning home to play the Bearkats again Feb 24.

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Freshman QiLi Ma waits to hit the ball earlier in the season. Ma helped lead the Sugar Bears to clinch the overall win.

Tennis comes away with back-to-back win

by: Austin Savell Staff Writer

The 3-3 Sugar Bears returned to the tennis courts last weekend, visiting the Salukis of Southern Illinois and in-state rival Arkansas State.

The Sugar Bears faced off against the 7-3 Salukis, who were undefeated at home and riding a six game winning streak into the matches. Southern Illinois came into the doubles portion of the day strong, with Xiwei Cai and Ana Sofia Cordero defeating UCA’s Nataly Yoo and Amiru Shimoguchi 6-2 and Vitoria Beirao and Meagan Monaghan beating the Bears’ team of Xylia Chunan Xiang and Marli Van Heerden 6-3.

This would give the Salukis the 2-0 victory in doubles as QiLi Ma and Rada Manataweewat’s match with Athena Chrysanthou and Yana Golovkina would go unfinished with them trailing 4-5.

The Bears would turn things around quickly in singles with Xylia Chunan Xiang quickly taking down Athena Chrysanthou in straight sets, 6-0, 6-1. SIU would come back soon after, however, as Xiwei Cai beat Nataly Yoo 6-4, 6-0 to put the Salukis back in the lead 2-1.

UCA’s QiLi Ma and SIU’s Meagan Monaghan followed this up with an intense threeset match. QiLi would take an especially close first set 7-6 before falling 4-6 in the second set. Ma would come through in the clutch

in set number three, winning 7-6 and tying things back up 2-2.

Amiru Shimoguchi kept things going strongly for UCA, defeating Ana Sofia Cordero 7-6, 6-4.

This gave the Sugar Bears a 3-2 advantage and either Marli Van Heerden or Rada Manataweewat a chance to clinch the day with a victory in either of their coinciding singles matches.

The freshman Van Heerdan would make the most of the opportunity, winning a three-setbattle against Yana Golovkina 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to give the Bears a 4-2 overall victory for the day.

Manataweewat’s match would go unfinished with her trailing 6-2, 3-0.

This would improve UCA’s record to 4-3 and end SIU’s long winning streak, as well as giving them their first home loss of the season.

UCA would carry their momentum from the day before into the doubles portion of matches with Nataly Yoo and Amiru Shimoguchi ending their short doubles losing streak with a 6-1 victory over Victoria Roberts and Julie Gauguery and QiLi Ma and Rada Manataweewat following soon after with a 6-2 win over Sabina Jeresic and Sofia Krsmanovic to give the Bears the doubles point in the day’s games.

Amiru Shimoguchi continued her stellar play in singles competition, defeating Victoria Roberts 6-3, 6-2 to drive her singles record to 7-1 on the season

and extend her winning streak to four. Shelby King would soon get ASU on the board with a 6-3, 6-3 win over QiLi Ma, but Xylia Chunan Xiang would fire right back by defeating the Red Wolves’ Julie Gauguery 6-4, 6-3.

Senior Krizia Buck was especially impressed with Rada, saying, “This weekend I’d say that Rada stood out to me. She didn’t play well Saturday in Illinois, but she didn’t let it bother her. The very next morning she was able to take control of the match early and earn the fourth and deciding point for us. She could’ve easily been down on herself and played timid, but she went out swinging with a great attitude.”

This victory brought UCA to 5-3 on the season and marks the first time this year.

Senior Krizia Buck returned to action on the morning of Feb. 21 against ASU in a match that would go unfinished, playing her first match in nearly two years.

Fellow senior Nataly Yoo was very impressed with her performance, saying “She hasn’t played in about two years because of her shoulder injury but she went out against ASU and was taking care of business as if she hadn’t stopped playing. I really wish she would’ve gotten the chance to finish out the match.”

The Sugar Bears will return to play this weekend, hosting Southland Conference opponents Stephen F. Austin and Northwestern State.

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Softball falls to ranked opponents in Louisiana

By Jordan Johnson Opinion Editor

The Sugar Bear softball team was swept at the 30th Annual Louisiana Classics on Feb. 20-21 in Lafayette, Louisiana.

The Sugar Bears’ (5-2) first two games on squared them off against the University of Oregon Ducks (73), ranked fifth in the nation at the start of the tournament. Oregon came out on top in both games.

Pitcher Payton Herman said that the Sugar Bears knew Oregon would be tough to beat going in to the tournament.

“We went into the tournament knowing we were going to have to give it all we got,” Herman said.

“We hoped for a better end result but we executed our team goals really well.”

For most of the first two innings of the Saturday game against Oregon, neither team had much luck batting, and no runs were made during the first inning or the top of the second.

At the bottom of the second inning, Oregon’s Janelle Lindvall hit a homerun out of left center field to drive in two.

At the top of the third, the Sugar

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Bears were unable to get past third base. Oregon scored again at the bottom of the third as Koral Costa hit a double down the right field line, allowing teammates Nikki Udria and Alyssa Gillespie to score two points.

At the bottom of the fifth, Oregon scored two more runs and another at the bottom of the sixth.

The final score was 8-0. UCA batted 18 times with one hit, a double by center-fielder Hannah Stirton.

During the second game against Oregon on Feb. 21, the Sugar Bears scored first at the bottom of the second inning when Stirton walked and third baseman Sam Forrest scored. Herman said that she was proud of the team during this moment.

“I believe our strongest moment in the tournament was being the first to score,” Herman said.

After the Sugar Bears scored, Oregon quickly caught up in the second inning with two runs.

At the top of the third, Oregon increased its score from three to 13, giving them a 12-point lead.

The Sugar Bears were unable to bat successfully until the bottom of the third. Outfielder

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Brianna McArthur lined a double, allowing catcher Jessie Taylor and outfielder Briana Whisenhunt to make it to home, resulting in a 13-3 score.

The game ended at the bottom of the fifth with a score of 19-3 Oregon. UCA went 5-21 with three runs scored.

UCA’s third and final game on Sunday was against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Ragin’ Cajuns (8-1). Louisiana is ranked number eight in the nation.

Louisiana started out strong in the bottom of the first with a homerun from junior second baseman Haley Hayden. Rightfielder Aleah Craighton hit a second home run in the first inning, driving in first baseman Kelsey Vincent.

During the bottom of the second, Louisiana scored seven more points, with two homeruns from Lexie Elkins and Vincent.

At the top of the third, UCA shortstop Kate Myers slammed a homerun down the left-field line, resulting in a 10-1 score. At the bottom of the third, Louisiana’s Elkins scored after DJ Sanders’ popped up to right field. The game ended at the bottom on the fifth with a score of 11-1.

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