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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 [...]

Nature Reserve: A Video Tour

The Jewel Moore Nature Reserve is a unique treasure on our campus. It is the last remaining 15 acres of a 2,500 prairie that was here before the city of Conway was built and one of only two such native prairie areas left in the state. It has been part of the classroom for biology [...]

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 [...]

Give Nature Reserve a Hug Today

The group of Honors College students trying to save the Jewel Moore Nature Reserve is organizing a “Bear hug” for the reserve during X-period today. The students, who created the Green Bear Project as a class project in associate professor Donna Bowman’s senior seminar class, hope to gather about 400 people to form a human [...]

Honors College Claims Independence

The Honors College announced this morning that it is separating from the university to become an independent private school. The change is effective immediately. Access to Farris Hall has been closed to everyone except Honors College students and students with documented proof that their IQs are above 140. Faculty members announced plans to begin construction of [...]

Poll: Were We Wrong?

We’ve been listening to the debate on our site about our rights and responsibilities as journalists that erupted following our stories last week about problems between some Honors College students and some members of Sigma Phi Epsilon. We are intrigued. We want to know more. Here’s the central issue. Should we have stayed in a meeting where we [...]

Honors, Greek Rift Not Resolved

Tension between some members of the Honors College and some members of Sigma Phi Epsilon remains unresolved after a two-hour meeting to address the problem Wednesday night. A second meeting has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday in Farris Hall to continue the discussion. Despite efforts by the two moderators of the meeting, associate professor Adam [...]

Police Beat: Tuesday – Thursday

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 [...]

Honors College Faces Budget Cuts

The Honors College is feeling the effects of the budget cuts with a drastic reduction in scholarships, travel grants and research grants. According to Rick Scott, dean of the Honors College, President Allen Meadors has cut the number of full Honors College scholarships from 100 this year to 60 next year, a 40 percent reduction. [...]

Harry Potter: A Class of It’s Own

The Harry Potter books were runaway bestsellers and box office hits and now they are an academic topic. Six classes based on the books are being held on campus through April 7. The classes started last week but the second class is at 6 p.m. today in McAlister Hall, Room 302, also known as The Forum. The [...]