Archive for March, 2010
Livestock Benefit for Heifers
The 12th annual Livestock concert is tomorrow night at Bears Den Pizza. Livestock is a benefit concert sponsored by the Honors Council to raise money for the Heifer Project, a nonprofit, international aid organization based in Little Rock. Last year’s event at Juanita’s in Little Rock raised about $2,000. This year’s event includes live performances by Oakland, Townsend, Cerro Gordo [...]
Campus Catholics Mark Holy Week
The Catholic Campus Ministry is celebrating Holy Week with several events this week to commemorate Easter. Holy Week is designed to mark the events in the final week before Jesus was crucified on the cross. All the events will be held at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at 1115 College Ave. in Conway. The church will [...]
Police Report: Tuesday, March 30
The following information was taken from incident reports at UCAPD. Incident reports are filed daily by officers to document and describe each call they answer during their shifts. These reports are made available by university police after they are approved by a supervisor. That process takes a day or two, which delays our report a day [...]
Student Arrested for Child Porn
Steven R. Swanson, a UCA student, pleaded not guilty to 588 charges of possessing child pornography this afternoon in Faulkner County Circuit Court. Swanson’s bond was set at $10,000. His attorney, Brad Williams of Conway, said Swanson’s parents planned to post the bond later today. His next court appearance is scheduled for June 8. Swanson, [...]
Lessons on Being Successful Offered
Interested in learning the keys to success? The freshmen members of i.d.e.a.l. will explain it to you at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Center, Room 213 and Room 214. The success fair, called “I Just Want to be Successful,” will include guest faculty and staff speakers who will discuss success in the areas of [...]
Bears Begin Three-Game Series
The UCA Bears baseball team will take on the McNeese State Cowboys for a three-game series beginning tomorrow at Bears Stadium. The teams will play at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, 6:30 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday. It will be the Bears first meeting with McNeese State this year. Head Coach Doug Clark said McNeese State is much better [...]
This is Jesus Week at UCA
Easter is the holiest time of the year for Christians and one student group has planned a week of events to celebrate it. The Friends of Christ Uniting Students (FOCUS) is sponsoring its annual Jesus Week in this week preceding Easter. Yesterday, FOCUS took prayer request. Today, during X-period, they held “prayer in the courtyard” [...]
Police Report: Monday, March 29
The following information was taken from incident reports at UCAPD. Incident reports are filed daily by officers to document and describe each call they answer during their shifts. These reports are made available by university police after they are approved by a supervisor. That process takes a day or two, which delays our report a day [...]
Visiting Writer Reads Tonight
Davis Schneiderman is on campus today. Anything can happen. Schneiderman is a writer, critic, multimedia artist and English professor known for his aggressive style. He once published a book with a sandpaper cover so it would damage other books on the shelf. He made one YouTube video of himself cutting a book in half with a [...]
Want More Black Culture Courses?
If your interested in taking more courses about African-American culture, here’s your chance to help make that happen. A petition drive, organized by UCA student Serina Washington, is underway to add 10 courses on African and African-American topics to the university’s African/African-American Studies program. There is a separate petition for each proposed course. Each petition [...]
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