Author Archives: Lauren Leatherby
Don’t Play it Safe: My Time at the UA
As my time at the University of Arkansas comes to an end, it’s hard to believe that this is the last issue of the Traveler to be published this year. As features editor, it has been an incredible year full …
UA Students Share Experiences with MS
A few years ago, she got her diagnosis – Multiple sclerosis. Jordan Carr’s mother, once a triathlete who ran eight or 10 miles nearly every weekday morning, has had to slow down significantly. Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a chronic, …
Community Garden Brings Fresh Produce to UA Campus
Emmy Crossfield walked through the garden, excitedly pointing out the fruits – literally – of her labor. “These are the strawberries, the onions, the broccoli. Over there are the peppers. The basil is on the other side,” Crossfield said, gesturing …
Magnolia Company Brings Character to Fayetteville
The haircuts at Magnolia Company are good, great actually, but customers come back for more than a haircut. Eric Lloyd, the owner of the Magnolia Company, spends his days with customers – mostly cutting hair, but sometimes just talking. He …
Senior Citizens Enjoy Free Tuition Opportunities at UA
Richard Murie, 88, served his country in World War II, earned a doctoral degree in analytical chemistry in the 1950s, and has taught chemistry courses at universities throughout the United States and Mexico. Now he sits among a handful of …
Circus Oz to Bring Bold Acrobatics to Walton Arts Center
This weekend marks the kickoff of Circus Oz at the Walton Arts Center. Beginning March 29, the “irreverently irresistible” Australian acrobats in steampunk outfits making up the Circus Oz troupe will boldly take to the Walton Arts Center’s Baum Walker …
Serving Up Coffee and Dreams, With Room for Cream
In a warehouse-esque building in the heart of Guatemala City, the 75 children in Mama Carmen’s orphanage are going about their day playing games, learning and eating. Mama Carmen, a small Guatemalan woman with a weathered face, takes care of …
UARK Memes Brings Laughs, Common Ground to UA Students
The recent fad sweeping the UA campus is the Facebook page UARK memes. In 24 hours, nearly 100 students posted memes on the Facebook page, making jokes about everything from the lacking air conditioning in Humphreys Hall to the Arkansas …
@UofA_Fresh_Move Brings Laughs, Unity
All UA students have one thing in common: they all have, at some point, been new on campus. And as upperclassmen know well from experience, being new on campus makes it hard to avoid a few blunders that give more …
Leftover Turkey Gains a New Flavor
For better or for worse, Thanksgiving break is over. Students are heading back to the UA campus with Tupperware containers full of leftover cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and, most of all, turkey. Students need not worry, though. Leftover turkey should …
Activism from Afar: The Syrian Revolution From a UA Professor
Fayetteville’s Syrian revolution activists gathered Sunday night in the living room of Dr. Mohja Kahf, a UA professor of comparative literature and Middle East studies. Laptops glowed before each of the five. Conversation, heard between the click-clack of typing, was …
A Long Way From the Village Called ‘Dirt’: UA Student Seeks Change
Housseine Mheimid is rarely seen without a smile. Though he is a Fulbright scholar with great career potential wherever in the world he might choose, Mheimid has decided to return to Mauritania. Mauritania, a sparsely populated country located largely in …
Conference Comes, Bringing Passion to UA Students
Tens of thousands of people, mostly students, gathered in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta last January. They weren’t gathered for a top bowl game or an NCAA basketball championship, they gathered as a part of a giant worship service and …
Bikes, Blues & BBQ: Cloud Nine for the Grease-Lover’s Soul
Barbecue, funnel cakes, Philly cheese steaks, ribs and deep-fried pickles – if there is any weekend to indulge, Bikes, Blues & BBQ is the time. Bikes, Blues & BBQ annually brings infinite amounts of deliciously buttered, fried and sweetened food …
