Letters from the Editor
Growing Up, Moving On
Our ride is coming to an end, my friends, and what a wild one it has been. I’m not usually one for grandiose, sentimental moments, but I suppose there’s room for an exception. Growing up I thought my college years …
A Final Letter From the Editor
Toward the end of my third year of college at the UA I was faced with a choice. I was a double major at the time majoring in political science and journalism and in order to graduate on time I …
Intersession: Taking All the Information In
A couple of years ago I took my first summer course at the UA. This was a six-week journalism course with about 12 students and the class met Monday through Friday. I was annoyed I had to take the class …
Romney Offers Better Advice For Future, Barely
With confidence, I can argue that many of the high school debaters that I commit to judge on weekends could do a better job debating foreign policy than President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney did Monday evening. There were …
Boardwalk, Do You Want to Buy It?
My mom taught me not to play Monopoly conservatively. If you’re not familiar with the game, the concept is total market domination by players as they travel the board. Each player has the opportunity to buy different properties such as …
Diverse Perspectives Important For Holiday Season
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 …
Monday’s Traveler Missing
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 …
Happy 106th Birthday Traveler
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 …
UA Provides Opportunity for New Experiences
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 …
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
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 …
Thanks for a Great Year, ASG
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 …
Kimpel Should be a Priority
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 …
The Good, The Bad and The Really Bad
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 …
Letter from the Editor: Do You Realize?
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 …
Letter From the Editor: Don’t Let Snow Distract Too Much
#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 …
