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Archive for December, 2011

Webcast: Go Home

This is it. The end of the semester and the end of The Fountain for the year. We leave you with one last webcast. P.S. We’ll be back next semester.  

Police Report: Dec. 1-4

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 few days, which delays our report by a [...]

Student “Bottled” for Charity

If you’ve been to Farris Hall today you may have noticed a guy camping in the lobby. No need to panic. It’s Michael J. Hinds and he is ”bottling” himself in the lobby for charity. Hinds will be bottled in the lobby for up to 57 hours as long as students donate a can of food an hour. His [...]

Panel: Football Season Roundup

This week’s Channel 6 Scoreboard show is a special holiday edition with the panelists discussing the Bears’ loss to Montana, what their FCS playoff appearance meant to the athletic program, who the team’s most valuable players were and head coach Clint Conque’s future. The weekly program features two panelists debating the topics and a moderator [...]

Police Report: Nov. 23-30

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 few days, which delays our report by a [...]

UCAPD: Police Woman

Since this was my last ride-along with the campus police this semester, I tried to change things up. You know, get a different angle. After all, I don’t want to bore you. As luck would have it, I ended up riding with Officer Sarah Garrett, one of the three female officers at UCA. When many [...]

SGA: Eliminate Fall Break?

Do we really need fall break? Should we trade it for a longer Thanksgiving break? That question was brought to the Student Government Association (SGA) this week in its final meeting of the semester. The senators were asked to consider eliminating fall break and using those days to make Thanksgiving break a full week. The idea originally came up [...]

Police Report: Nov. 20-22

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 few days, which delays our report by a [...]

The Echo Names New Editors

Mary DeLoney will be the new editor of The Echo next semester and Lisa Burnett will be the assistant editor. DeLoney, a senior journalism student, has been the news editor at The Echo for the past two semesters and was the assistant news editor three semesters ago. Burnett started as a staff writer three semester [...]

FCS Run Ends in Montana

The FCS playoffs ended in a 41-14 loss for the football Bears yesterday in frigid Montana against the fifth ranked Montana Grizzlies at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. The Grizzlies picked up their eighth straight victory while handing the Bears their first loss since September. The hot streak for the Bears was frozen Saturday against a Montana team that’s been to [...]