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Letters from the Editor

    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...
    By 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 ...