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Journalist, Author Here Today

The Black History Month events continue on campus today with a visit by ReShonda Tate Billingsley, an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. You have two chances to meet Billingsley. The best opportunity to talk to her will be during a reception at 4:30 p.m. in room 103 of Stanley Russ Hall. She also will sign her books after a 6:30 p.m. lecture in McCastlain Hall. The topic of her speech...

Miss Essence Pageant Tonight

The  35th annual Miss Essence Scholarship Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. tonight in the Reynolds Performance Hall. Admission is free. Since the pageant began in 1975, Students for the Propagation of Black Culture (SPBC) has spearheaded the event. For the past 10 years, UCA’s Minority Student Services has been a co-sponsor. The pageant features six African-American female students – Candice...

Bears Fall to Trojans 9-5

The UCA Bears baseball team fell to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Trojans 9-5 at Gary Hogan Field in Little Rock yesterday afternoon. The loss drops the Bears’ early season record to 1-2. The Bears out hit the Trojans 11-10, but just couldn’t seem to plate runners against the Trojans’ pitching staff. Sophomore first baseman Blake Roberts led the Bears with three hits, going 3...

Actor on Campus Today, Tomorrow

Ivan Rogers, an internationally-acclaimed actor and filmmaker, is on campus today and tomorrow to critique students’ work, conduct workshops on producing films, and host a public screening of Forgive Me Father (2001) – a film Rogers wrote, directed, and starred in. You can see a trailer of the film here. He has also starred in Laserhawk (1997) and is currently working on the film, The Payback...

Administrators Available for Questions

Here’s your chance to talk directly to President Allen Meadors, Provost Lance Grahn and the other people who make the rules around here. They will all be at a town hall-style meeting the Student Government Association is holding at 4 p.m. today in East McCastlain Ballroom. Meadors and Grahn, who also is dean of the faculty, are scheduled to make opening remarks, then field questions from students....

Dancers Bring Jazz to Pageant

Dancers United, UCA’s urban dance student group, will be performing at the  2010 Miss Essence Scholarship Pageant at 7 p.m. tonight in Reynolds Performance Hall. The pageant is a 35-year-old tradition on campus and is sponsored by Minority Student Services and Students for the Propagation of Black Culture. This year’s event features six African-American students competing in tradition...

Got Sag? Researchers Want You

If you are one of those guys who walks around campus in saggy pants, there are people in the Department of Physical Therapy looking for you.  Does sagginess affect posture? PT students are doing a research project on the effects of sagging pants on a man’s walking posture. You know the pants we are talking about here. They are the ones that hang lower than the waistband of the underwear and...

African-American Workshop Today

Is there a future for African-American Studies on the UCA campus? That question will be the focus of a roundtable discussion sponsored by the African-American Studies Program at 4 p.m. today in Irby Hall, room 215. The featured speaker is Dr. Isiah Lavender, director of the program and an assistant professor of English. Students are invited to attend and ask questions about the program. Dr. Isiah...

Not Everyone Safe@UCA

UCAPD’s Safe@UCA program has fewer than 3,700 subscribers, a troubling statistic on a campus that already has experienced a fatal shooting. "Safe @ UCA" The program provides students, faculty and staff with text alerts, telephone calls and email notifications if there is an emergency on campus. The university spent thousands of dollars improving the notification system after the...

The Corpse Hits the Streets

The Exquisite Corpse introduced its second annual print edition Saturday night with a “Launchapalooza Extravaganza” at Bear’s Den Pizza.  The Corpse is a national literary journal produced by the UCA Department of Writing and Andrei Codrescu, who founded the magazine in 1983. It has been published online only since 1999 but UCA introduced the annual print edition when Codrescu moved...