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Twitter and Reddit and Facebook, Oh My!
Whenever I have an unfinished assignment due soon, I can guarantee that I’ll find something wildly and incredibly interesting to divert my attention. By wildly and incredible interesting, I mean something that is extremely important and really makes my life …
Hog Fans Don’t Give Up After Two Games
This year we set very high expectations for our Razorback football team. Some predictions even gave the Razorbacks a spot in the 2013 National Championship game. It is hard not to coming off of an 11-2 season and a …
‘Four Pockets’ Have Taken Over at UA
An epidemic is sweeping the seemingly serene hills of Fayetteville that makes H1N1 look like “Bieber Fever.” It could be called the silent social killer; an infected victim can go months — even their whole lives — without realizing that …
The Youth Vote Has Burned Out
Fall semester has begun and we are in the midst of another electrifying election year. In one corner, we have Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: The Republican duo who promise major changes in Washington, D.C. In the other …
The Voice of a Veteran: Our Civic Duty
Pushups, situps and running may not seem like a big deal to the average person, but they are irreplaceable in the life of a soldier. I wouldn’t begin to know the amount of those exercises I performed or the distance …
Avoid the One in Four: Pat Walker
One in four college students will contract a sexually transmitted disease during their stay in school, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This is an incredibly high number that many are unaware of and, often times, …
Getting Back to Our Roots, We Cannot Forget
“Well, my lordy! Aren’t you lookin’ something fine today?” echoed throughout the room, interrupting my thoughts as I was waiting for church to start last Sunday. This didn’t come from a fresh, young lad trying to sidle up to his …
Use 140 Characters Well: Stay Positive
This weekend, my Twitter and Facebook pages focused primarily on two things: politics and football. In addition to these two topics, there was another common theme: negativity. “Did you see that fumble? Terrible!” “Romney is just a rich bigot!” As …
Cheating: The Student Epidemic
I was in class the other day, and my teacher returned some worksheets that we had worked on in groups during class. He politely mentioned to us not to sign peoples’ names to the sheet if they were not …
Our Convention Has Slipped Away
The original purpose of a national convention was for each party to nominate a candidate to represent their party in the general election. Delegates come from across the country to cast votes for their respective regions. This year there …
Diversity Grows Amid UA Construction
The school year begins again and so do the hog calls, nearly 24,600. UA is growing as enrollment continues to climb. Despite this historic allotment; its effects are all too apparent on campus. Congestion outside of Kimpel Hall is at …
Taking the Leap, The Honors College
When I applied to the UA as a senior in high school, I did not know what to expect. At orientation my advisor signed me up for biology and chemistry. I thought he wanted me to fail out of college. …
So Many Steps Forward,Then Back
It’s March, 1951. Jackie Brenston released what is controversially known as the first rock and roll record (others debate it was Roy Brown’s Good Rockin’ Tonight). The 1950s in America was classified as the birth of rock and roll; bringing …
Residents’ Interhall Congress, For You
Often when I tell students that I am the President of Residents’ Interhall Congress, I am greeted with a blank stare followed by the question “What’s that?” At times it’s discouraging, but I take that as an opportunity to …
We All Have an Arkansas Razorback
When I was 6 years old, I had a swing that was worthy of a Norman Rockwell painting — it had a flat two-by-four as a seat and a pair of long chains covered in blue plastic tubing that stretched …
