Student Life
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How I started the journey to no longer feeling like a fraud in my own body. Story by Abbi Ross I didn’t sneak my first cigarette until the Thanksgiving break of my freshman year of college. I was driving out of Fayetteville on a gray, fall afternoon making my way to the split that would…
Fooling Them All
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Story by Carly Lidzy. Photo by Alexander King. The University of Arkansas Associated Student Government has officially announced the new class of Freshman Leadership Forum recruits, along with the new school Senate chairs. The Associated Student Government is a student-led organization that focuses on the betterment of the campus community. They are split into the…
UofA Student Government Supplies Opportunities and Platforms
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Story by Sophie Brock, April 21, 2021 A self-defense class may seem like a fun event hosted by the University for Greek Life’s Panhellenic Spirit Week, but for women it’s one of the many precautions that’s taken to be safe. The goal of this self-defense class, hosted during Greek Life’s Panhellenic Spirit week, was to…
More Than A Self-Defense Class
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Story by Sophie Brock April 16, 2021. Photo courtesy of Mary Elizabeth Baldwin. The nursing program at the University of Arkansas is not only a competitive program, as listed by the program’s website, but it’s also been one of the most severely impacted by COVID-19. While other majors are automatically entered into their program upon…
The Impact of COVID-19 On Nursing Students
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Story by Sophie Brock, Photos Courtesy of Katie Allen March 18, 2021 March 12th marks the one-year anniversary of the University of Arkansas going virtual. While most students can recall where they were on campus when they received the email that sealed their fate, students studying abroad, were unaware of what was awaiting them at…
The Day COVID-19 Changed Everything: A Study Abroad Perspective
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Story by Victoria Hernandez, March 17, 2021 Many University of Arkansas students have been taking online classes this semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students are learning from their childhood bedrooms, from their dorm rooms and some even from Hawaii. Out of around 3,000 colleges, 10% have moved to be fully online, according to…
Hogs in Hawaii: With Online Classes, UA Students Are Getting Creative With Their Learning
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Story by Katelynn Tyner, March 8, 2021 University of Arkansas students on tickets “Make it Matter” and “Vision – Your Voice, Our Mission” campaigned for the executive offices of the Associated Student Government Feb.17 to March 3, prioritzing programs for diversity and inclusion and addressing racial inequality. March 5, the ASG announced Vision as the…
Candidates in the Associated Student Government Election Discuss New Programming for Fostering Diversity and Inclusion, Vision Ticket Wins Election
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Story by Sophie Brock, Photo by Natalie Demaree, February 24, 2021 Even in the aftermath of the economic disaster that Covid-19 created, small businesses across the country continue to struggle as they attempt to pick up the pieces that were left behind. However, for small businesses in college towns there is hope on the horizon…
More Students Should Support Small Businesses
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Story by Victoria Hernandez, February 19, 2021 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—A Holocaust survivor spoke to University of Arkansas students, staff and faculty Feb. 11 over Zoom. Arkansas students are ranked last in regard to their knowledge of the Holocaust out of the entire United States, according to a study by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
Holocaust Survivor Speaks to UA Students
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Story and photos by Beth Dedman, December 21, 2020 NEW YORK CITY—The smell of urine lingered in my mask as I emerged from the filthy subway station onto 42nd street. For all of the promises of sanitized trains, the A Train [B1] [B2] that carried me up from Brooklyn was littered with trash from the…
As the City Slept: Life in quarantine in the epicenter of COVID-19