Letters from the Editor
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Saba Naseem on December 7, 2011 at 12:57 am • 0 Comments •
As I walk across campus, the cold wind bites my face and snow flurries dance wildly around me. I pass Starbucks and the urge for a White Chocolate Peppermint Latte becomes irresistible. Inside Starbucks, the relaxed atmosphere, soft music and ...
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Saba Naseem on November 1, 2011 at 12:08 am • 0 Comments •
As I sat at home finishing up my French essay Monday morning, I received a call from my father, who works in the UA’s Engineering Department.
“I can’t find your paper,” he said. “It’s not here.”
Minutes later, I got a text ...
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Saba Naseem on October 20, 2011 at 12:02 am • 0 Comments •
For more than a century, The Arkansas Traveler has been serving the UA campus as an independent student publication, providing students with a news outlet that strives for honest and objective reporting.
Formerly known as The University Weekly, the Traveler started ...
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Saba Naseem on August 22, 2011 at 11:56 am • 0 Comments •
I watch from the window of my plane as it begins its decent into Northwest Arkansas. Excitement and relief fills my body—excitement to be back home after two months abroad and relief to end this long journey of buses, airports ...
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Saba Naseem on June 2, 2011 at 4:54 pm • 0 Comments •
It was only three years ago when I was standing in line at orientation, waiting to get a picture taken for my I.D. card.
“Turn your head a bit to the right, chin up. Now smile,” the lady with the camera ...
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Bailey McBride on April 27, 2011 at 1:02 am • 0 Comments •
In the interest of fulfilling our duty as the fourth branch of government, we at the Traveler don’t shy away from criticizing the members of the Associated Student Government when they don’t do their best to serve the student body or ...
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Bailey McBride on March 11, 2011 at 6:06 pm • 1 Comment •
Managing Editor Mille Appleton had a freshman experience that not many other students have: She was hit in the head by a tile that fell from the ceiling of her class in Kimpel Hall.
Many of the investigative pieces we have ...
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Bailey McBride on February 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm • 0 Comments •
It’s that time again.
That time where freshmen legislators join their veteran counterparts in capitols across the country, get settled in their new offices and begin writing their first pieces of legislation.
On the national level, legislators are tasked with debating and ...
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Bailey McBride on February 8, 2011 at 11:59 pm • 0 Comments •
Three years ago this Tuesday, the day after Valentine’s Day, one of my best friends died in a horrible and unexpected accident.
Isaac Perrault was intelligent, witty, hilarious — the kind of person I could take around any friend or any ...
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Bailey McBride on February 7, 2011 at 4:10 pm • 0 Comments •
#Snowmaggedon. #Snowpocalypse. #NWASnow11. #Snowtorious. My personal favorite, #ohmygodwereallgoingtodie.
From the two days before to the heat of the storm, the internet has been atwitter with talk of the storm and the blizzard conditions we are all by now well aware of.
We ...
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Bailey McBride on January 25, 2011 at 11:59 pm • 1 Comment •
A map a friend of mine posted on facebook this week made me rethink what I had initially planned to write about.
The map, titled The United States of Shame, was compiled by Jeff Wysaski of pleated-jeans.com. The map uses Census ...