Entertainment

  • by Erica Wilson As fifth-year senior Madeline Kendall watched the Hannah Montana movie when she was around eight, it ignited a passion in her for Taylor Swift that would follow her throughout her childhood and into college. Swift wrote two of the tracks in the movie and also made a brief cameo, performing her song…

    Growing Up with Taylor Swift

  • By Alyssa Riley B-I-N-G-O, You’ve Got a Drag “Drag is an art form, and I think any art form can either rub some people the wrong way or bring some people together.” Bryan Duncan A lottery channel, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the Providence v. UCONN men’s basketball game is playing on the televisions stationed around the…

    Dilemma Downpour for Drag

  • By Marin McGrath FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— On Saturday Feb. 20, families and college students alike patiently awaited the floats and attractions that the Fat Saturday Parade of Fools has to offer. No one seemed to mind the chill in the air and the cloudy sky, they were there for an entertaining time.  It’s been 30 years…

    Fat Saturday in Fayetteville

  • By Erica Wilson    Professor Nophachai Cholthitchanta wanders the organ room in the music building, observing his students create their own clarinet reeds. They have spent weeks curing the cane, using a guillotine to split the material, gouging the cane into blanks with an aggressive blade and examining its arcs to select the perfect tip. They…

    The Details Behind the Details: A relentless pursuit of musical perfection 

  • By Natalie Murphy As Jennette McCurdy speaks at the Distinguished Lectures Committee, the audience is very familiar with her. Simply put, the first time the mostly college-age attendees heard of and watched her on TV was when they were in middle school. But she is no longer the character we knew her as. Not Sam…

    “Life Begs For Comedy”: Jennette McCurdy on Her Time in Therapy, Her Mom and Her Best-Selling Book.

  • How do you separate the savory from the rotten and the sour from the sweet? Going through the days, I’ve gotten lost in obscene thoughts and nooks and crannies of my mind. Maybe tomorrow or yesterday, I can find the answers I’m looking for. While life goes by I ponder a time where I realize…

    Throwing Out the Milk by Paige Babcock

  • It’s raining. Of course it is. It had been forecasted for a while now.   It should have been obvious, The wisps of white that mimed Paul’s Revere, The temperature reaching a fever pitch, The air itself seemed to sweat so that the Earth Must wipe it all away, leaving a gray streak in its…

    Silver and Gold- Joshua Droll

  • I am pressing this pen to paper  Forcing ink to spill and smudge  Constant pressure in one spot  Tears through several pages    I want to translate my thoughts into words  But I have exhausted the alphabet  Racing sentences too fast to be rational  I am speechless  

    Speechless by Jasmine Sylvia James

  • When I was 7, I feared the dark  The monsters under the bed and skeletons in the closet  So I slept with a night light   When I was 14, I feared losing my sight  The flowers I would never see and faces I would never meet So I spent every possible moment under the…

    New Fears by Jasmine Sylvia James

  • By Alyssa Riley When David Gomez was four years old, his kindergarten teacher, exasperated with his inability to sit still in class, gave him watercolors to occupy his overactive mind and body. Surpassing its original purpose, this act unfolded the future of young Gomez’s promising artistic ability, one saturated by paintings, competitions and art shows. …

    The Art of Creating Peace of Heart

  • Growing Up with Taylor Swift

    by Erica Wilson As fifth-year senior Madeline Kendall watched the Hannah Montana movie when she was around eight, it ignited a passion in her for Taylor Swift that would follow her throughout her childhood and into college. Swift wrote two of the tracks in the movie and also made a brief cameo, performing her song…

  • Dilemma Downpour for Drag

    By Alyssa Riley B-I-N-G-O, You’ve Got a Drag “Drag is an art form, and I think any art form can either rub some people the wrong way or bring some people together.” Bryan Duncan A lottery channel, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the Providence v. UCONN men’s basketball game is playing on the televisions stationed around the…

  • Fat Saturday in Fayetteville

    By Marin McGrath FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— On Saturday Feb. 20, families and college students alike patiently awaited the floats and attractions that the Fat Saturday Parade of Fools has to offer. No one seemed to mind the chill in the air and the cloudy sky, they were there for an entertaining time.  It’s been 30 years…

  • The Details Behind the Details: A relentless pursuit of musical perfection 

    By Erica Wilson    Professor Nophachai Cholthitchanta wanders the organ room in the music building, observing his students create their own clarinet reeds. They have spent weeks curing the cane, using a guillotine to split the material, gouging the cane into blanks with an aggressive blade and examining its arcs to select the perfect tip. They…

  • “Life Begs For Comedy”: Jennette McCurdy on Her Time in Therapy, Her Mom and Her Best-Selling Book.

    By Natalie Murphy As Jennette McCurdy speaks at the Distinguished Lectures Committee, the audience is very familiar with her. Simply put, the first time the mostly college-age attendees heard of and watched her on TV was when they were in middle school. But she is no longer the character we knew her as. Not Sam…

  • Throwing Out the Milk by Paige Babcock

    How do you separate the savory from the rotten and the sour from the sweet? Going through the days, I’ve gotten lost in obscene thoughts and nooks and crannies of my mind. Maybe tomorrow or yesterday, I can find the answers I’m looking for. While life goes by I ponder a time where I realize…

  • Silver and Gold- Joshua Droll

    It’s raining. Of course it is. It had been forecasted for a while now.   It should have been obvious, The wisps of white that mimed Paul’s Revere, The temperature reaching a fever pitch, The air itself seemed to sweat so that the Earth Must wipe it all away, leaving a gray streak in its…

  • Speechless by Jasmine Sylvia James

    I am pressing this pen to paper  Forcing ink to spill and smudge  Constant pressure in one spot  Tears through several pages    I want to translate my thoughts into words  But I have exhausted the alphabet  Racing sentences too fast to be rational  I am speechless  

  • New Fears by Jasmine Sylvia James

    When I was 7, I feared the dark  The monsters under the bed and skeletons in the closet  So I slept with a night light   When I was 14, I feared losing my sight  The flowers I would never see and faces I would never meet So I spent every possible moment under the…

  • The Art of Creating Peace of Heart

    By Alyssa Riley When David Gomez was four years old, his kindergarten teacher, exasperated with his inability to sit still in class, gave him watercolors to occupy his overactive mind and body. Surpassing its original purpose, this act unfolded the future of young Gomez’s promising artistic ability, one saturated by paintings, competitions and art shows. …