Fin

This is it. Our last story. The 216th of the semester. 

We are a journalism class and the class ended yesterday. The Fountain must end with us. It will return in the fall semester with a new staff. 

We had humble goals and expectations when we put our site on the Internet with the publication of our Declaration of Principles on Feb. 5. We wanted to learn how to do journalism online and this was our class project. It turned into something much bigger. 

We had more than 31,000 page views and almost 8,000 visits from 31 countries. We were particularly popular in Canada. People there visited our site 27 times. We had 14 visits from the United Kingdom, six from Australia and three each from Poland and Germany. We also had multiple visits from such places as Italy, Egypt, Switzerland, Mexico, Malaysia and Brazil. 

Domestically, we were visited by readers from 42 of the 50 states. We were most popular in Arkansas. No surprise there. The vast majority of our visits, about 80 percent, came from Conway. We also had 844 visits from Little Rock, 63 from Russellville and 44 from Fayetteville. In all, we got visits from 52 Arkansas towns. 

Texas liked us, too. We had 251 visits from there, second only to Arkansas. We had 204 visits from California and 106 from Georgia. New York made 56 visits, Illinois made 46 and Missouri made 32. 

The Fountain staff

We leave you with this list of the 10 most popular stories we published this semester. Thanks for reading us. Have a great summer. 

1. Student Arrested for Child Porn - This story registered 475 views. Our site was visited a record 300 times that day.
2. Tuition Hike to Hit 600 Students - This was our most popular story for most of the semester until the child pornography story was published. This story got 391 views.
3. Tunnels Under Campus? It's True - We couldn't believe it either when we discovered this. Our audience felt the same. The story got 352 views and it's still growing.
4. Reality Show Crews Harass Students - We were the first in the world to publish this story. The Conway newspaper called us for information after reading our story. Our story got 333 views.
5. Who Makes What at UCA? - This was a little investigative reporting on our part. The story got 276 views and still gets read daily.
6. Lu Hardin Buys Naming Rights - The ex-president still has a presence of campus. This April Fool's Day story got 231 views.
7. Meadors "Never Liked Purple" - Another April Fool's story. This one got 164 views. We know a couple of people who actually believed this story.
8. Cabaret Wows Most, Offends Others - Our Aprille Hanson writes the best art and theater reviews in Arkansas. This one got 148 views.
9. Student Film Showcases State Beauty - One of our longer stories. It included the trailer for this student-produced film. The story got 141 views.
10. Free Cats - Another piece of investigative reporting, this time about feral cats living on campus. This one got 138 views.

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