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Board Suspends Investigation

The Board of Trustees voted yesterday to suspend all internal audits and investigations of the Aramark deal that led to the resignation of former president Allen Meadors. The vote was taken at brief meeting at 9 a.m. yesterday with board members Rush Harding, Victor Green and Bobby Reynolds attending by telephone. Pam Massey, the director of the office [...]

Faculty, Staff Condemn Chairman

The senate representing the faculty and the senate representing the staff passed resolutions this week asking Board of Trustees Chairman Scott Roussel to recuse himself from the Aramark investigation. Both resolutions condemned Roussel for not telling the other board members about a contract extension tied to Aramark’s offer to donate $700,000 for the renovation of the [...]

Lu Hardin Returning to Campus

Former UCA president Lu Hardin plans to move into the basement of the president’s house this weekend where he will live for the foreseeable future, according to current UCA president Allen Meadors. “It’s no big deal,” Meadors said. “Just helping a brother out.” Hardin is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last month to felony federal [...]

Merry Christmas Break

The semester is ending and The Fountain must end with it. This is our last post. We have published more than 200 stories this semester that were read in 70 countries and 47 of the 50 states. Nobody in West Virginia, Wyoming or Idaho found us but we were popular in Canada (116 hits), China (101 hits) [...]

Press Coverage Unfair, Meadors Says

UCA has gotten more coverage in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette during the past year than any university in the state but not for the things that President Allen Meadors wants the newspaper to write about. Most of the stories have focused on problems and controversies at the university. Some of the stories have directly included Meadors and raised [...]

Native Americans Share Stories, Dance

You could hear the drums and chants throughout the Student Center last night as a group of Native Americans entertained about 100 people as part of Native American Heritage Month. Members of the Indian Inter-Tribal Association of Arkansas (INARK) wore traditional ceremonial costumes and danced to several traditional drumbeats and chants. Tribal member Milinda Houlette [...]

Sophomores Tackle Cafeteria Smell

The smell of freshly cooked food isn’t the only odor wafting from Christian Cafeteria and the SGA representatives of the sophomore class plan to do something about it. Michael Murphy, sophomore class president, has made eliminating the odor of discarded food and used grease the sophomore class project for the year. Their project prompted a [...]

UCA Tuition, Fees Highest in State

Our tuition and fees are the highest of all the public universities in the state. We pay $6,908 annually. That’s up from $6,215 three years ago, which also was the highest in the state at that time. The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville ranks second at $6,767. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is [...]

Pike’s “Party of the Year” Today

Pi Kappa Alpha calls today “the best time of the year.” That’s because the fraternity is holding its 13th annual Alumni Crawfish Boil at the Circle B Ranch on Dave Ward Drive west of campus. It starts at 1:30 p.m. and continues until late at night. Tickets are $25. You don’t have to be alumni to attend. The party includes [...]

SGA Condemns Reality Show Crews

The Student Government Association has sent a resolution to the Conway City Council condemning the harassment of UCA students by camera crews for the reality show “Campus PD.” The SGA unanimously approved the resolution at its weekly meeting Monday night. The resolution said the television program on cable network G4 “might defame the character of [...]