Author Archives: Emily Hughes
Cardwell wins secretary
The first thing Megan Cardwell plans to do as Associated Student Government Secretary is get to know her senators, she said. Cardwell plans to start one-on-one conferences with the senators elected in the fall as soon as possible when she returns from summer.
Different Hughes
Do you remember your first official arrival on this campus? I’m not talking visits or tours here. I mean, the day you moved in, set up camp, slipped on those shower shoes and finally realized that this was your new existence.
I remember mine vividly. I loaded up everything I’d ever owned since the age of 6 and got ready for the trip.
Different Hughes
When I was a kid, we went to Little Rock for almost every purchase we had to make. England, Ark., as you can imagine, just isn’t the Mecca for, well, anything at all.
Different Hughes
This is what I heard at my workplace Monday when I mentioned I was writing about The Bachelor: “Like Jesse Palmer can’t get a date.” There is some truth to that statement.
Different Hughes
Babies are so cute and cuddly. Most of the time this aspect makes people forget that those huggable little sacks of love also mess up diapers and spit up meals. Regularly.
And errrybody who has a baby thinks his or her baby is better than all the others. Even when the babies are in that newborn scrunched-up-and-splotchy-raisin phase.
True graduates won’t need ‘Visa’s’ advice
Doing laundry, cooking (a little), managing money, procrastinating … these are all skills I learned in the college years. I know what insurance is and how to keep a bank account.
Different Hughes
If you walked into my bedroom in my childhood home, you’d see that the d?cor doesn’t quite fit my personality. Well, I hope you would.
Hold your horses
Today and tomorrow, more than 14 breeds of horses will be galloping into the Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Arena. No, it’s not some crazy mass equine escape, it’s the annual event where saddles are sold, trained horses do tricks, and animal science students raise money for the Dorothy E.
Policy forbids entering dorm when drunk
Entering a UA residence hall drunk – regardless if a student is of legal age – can result in being kicked out for the night, even if a student is an on-campus resident.
Different Hughes
The realization came to me only a few days ago. I’m getting married this August. (No, not that – calm down. I’ve got that under control. Well, almost.)
Different Hughes
Fourteen weeks, four days, seven hours and 59 minutes. As of yesterday around 2 p.m., that’s the length of time until Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen turn 18.
All-University Judiciary seats open for year
Each year, 16 students get to decide the fate of others who violate any of the UA Student Standards of Conduct.
Those 16 people make up the All-University Judicial Board – also known as the J-Board.
Hughes: Get out! Well … wait a minute
I really hate to say it, dear readers (all six or seven of you) – but I’ve got senioritis.
Maybe you don’t understand the magnitude of this statement.
