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In memory of Beverly Reep By Mackenzie Selby October 23, 2020 The Reep family traveled to Europe on vacation in early March before the pandemic had reached their home state. While there, Beverly Reep, long-time history teacher and resident of Bradley County, contracted COVID-19. Arkansas Covid has reported 71,614 positive cases of Covid-19 in Arkansas…
Social Media & COVID-19: A Personal Account of A Lost Loved One
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By Natalie Demaree October 9, 2020 The trees are beginning to change on campus at the University of Arkansas, but significantly less students are able to enjoy the fall colors this year because of remote classes. “I feel we do have good protocols and guidelines in place. With limited face-to-face instruction, socially…
Leaves Fall, UA Leaders Make Calls: Campus Update on Covid-19
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By Tegan Shockley September 25, 2020 Ministries undertake the issue of sexuality, revealing how the religion has hurt and isolated believers. I grew up going to church on Sundays like most people in the Bible Belt. Maybe not so normal, I put my faith in Jesus after God asked me in a dream, “Tegan, are…
Growing Up in Silence: Christians Reclaim Sexuality
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Social Media Activism Reduced to Reshares Dec. 6, 2019 By Olivia Boardman Heavily-filtered selfies flooded your feed. You could follow anyone and everyone, from people you didn’t know to celebrities in movies you had never seen. Amateur, grainy photos evolved into heavily produced posts from your peers. It became a game of gaining followers and…
Slacktivism:
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Oct. 24, 2019 By Chase Reavis A week-long vacation to Beaver Lake Hide-A-Way Campground in October gave 32-year-old Stephanie Sims a much-needed break, not only from work but also from daycare costs for her 3-year-old twin girls, Jeanie and Sophie. The trailer they stayed in was small with all three of them, but…
Working parents drained by daycare costs find support in family
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by Beth Dedman Sept. 27, 2019 SPRINGDALE — “Hey, chief, how much for the gun belt?” He called everyone chief. Samuel Rivera Lopez looked much different from the rest of the vendors and shoppers at the Rodeo of the Ozarks antique car part show. Among all of the elderly white men, the 22-year-old Mexican artist…
Samuel of Springdale
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What makes someone Native American, and do I count as Chickasaw? By Beth Dedman
The Remnant of our Ancestors
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Why some twentysomethings aren’t clicking with Bumble. By Bethany Osborn
The Digital Dating Dilemma
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Inside today’s fight against sex trafficking. By Catherine Shackelford
How Seduction Became Slavery
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A Kenyan’s Take on Working to Live, Not Living to Work