Archive for April, 2011
Closed for the Summer
The Fountain is closed. Our class is over. There is nobody here to write the stories. Thanks for reading us this semester. More than 10,000 of you visited our site more than 21,000 times in the 12 weeks we published. You averaged about three minutes a visit and read more than 62,000 pages. According to [...]
Q & A with Sohji Izumi
When the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan,Sohji Izumi began looking for a way to help. He organized the UCA Save Japan Foundation which has raised $18,632 for relief efforts in Japan. The group has organized events, set up booths around campus and sold T-shirts to raise the money. All of it is donated to the American Red [...]
Toadzilla Invades Bear’s Den
It’s study day on campus but that won’t stop the Toadzilla rock show tonight at Bear’s Den Pizza. The show begins at 8 p.m. and features four student bands. They are Don’t Stop Please featuring William Krzeszinski, Joel Ludford, Nick Caffrey, Marly Feliciano, Robert Gaiser and Will King; Es Lo Que Es featuring Drew Skarda, Aaron [...]
Festival Features 3-D Film
The seven best student films of the year, including a 3-D production and a music video, will be shown in Reynolds Performance Hall at 5:30 p.m. today at the seventh annual UCA Film Festival. Admission is free and you’ll get a chance to vote for your favorite film. The line up includes seven short narratives, six [...]
Police Report: April 20-25
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 [...]
Who Makes What on Campus
About this time last year, we printed a story with a spreadsheet containing the salaries of all UCA employees. It’s one of the most popular things we’ve done so we decided to repeat it this year. We know it’s not polite to discuss people’s salaries but we aren’t disclosing any secrets here. All this information is [...]
Fitness 101: Arms
You have the ab workout. You have the legs workout. To finish off the semester, I’ll leave you with a few exercises to tone up your arms. Adding a little tone is not too hard and is easily noticed, especially with summer and its short sleeves approaching. The benefits of having stronger arms? You can [...]
Weekend Baseball Recap
The baseball Bears dropped two of three games against UT-Arlington in their Southland Conference series at home last weekend. The series was originally scheduled to begin Thursday but was rained out. The schedule change prompted a doubleheader Friday and pushed game three to Saturday. The first game of the doubleheader Friday produced a whooping 32 runs [...]
Police Report: April 18-19
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 [...]
Jewel Moore Supports Students
At first glance only sections of feathered, snow white hair were visible through a screen door behind overgrown bushes, tall grass and ivy-wrapped trees. Her ivory top stood out from the freshly green backdrop and the sun’s rays defined its edges like the wildflowers in bloom bordered the retired biology professor’s home. Jewel Moore, 92, [...]
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