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Bears Beat Devilettes in Softball

The UCA Bears softball team defeated the Mississippi Valley State Devilettes, 10-2, yesterday at Farris Field.  The Bears had 11 hits off the Mississippi Valley State pitching staff, including six for extra bases.  Freshman pitcher Kelsie Armstrong recorded the win for the Bears with a complete game performance that included 14 strikeouts. Armstrong only allowed two hits from the Devilettes offense....

World Premiere: “Table at Luigi’s”

The world premiere of “Table at Luigi’s” is at 7 p.m. today in Reynolds Performance Hall. The feature-length film is the largest project ever produced by the UCA film program. It has taken almost a year to finish the film. Joe Dull, assistant digital film professor, led a group of faculty and students in producing the movie last summer to prove to his students that a quality film...

Kris Allen Here Today for Benefit Walk

You are being asked to shed your shoes today and go barefoot to raise money to buy shoes for children in Rwanda.  If you need some encouragement, Kris Allen, a former UCA student and reigning American Idol, will be on campus to support the event. Allen will share his recent experiences in Rwanda and perform some songs.   It’s all part of the national ”One Day Without Shoes” event...

CBC Coach Wins Home Run Derby

Jason Anderson, the softball coach for the Central Baptist College Mustangs, won the home-run derby on campus Wednesday and took home a 26-inch Vizio flat-screen television and a Best Buy gift card. The derby was held immediately following the softball game between the Bears and the Ouachita Baptist Lady Tigers. The competition was open to anyone willing to pay $2 for six pitches. You could hit three...

Corliss Williamson is New UCA Coach

Corliss Williamson is the new coach of the Bears basketball team, UCA Athletic Director Brad Teague announced this afternoon. Williamson is an Arkansas native who played high school ball for the Russellville Cyclones and became a statewide legend playing for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks. He was on the Hogs’ 1994 national championship team and was named the Most Outstanding Player of...

Step Show not Stepping Tonight

The “Best of the Best” Step show scheduled for tonight in the Ida Waldron Auditorium has been postponed until April 23. It seems that the hosts of the annual show, the Iota Pi chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, couldn’t find enough UCA police officers to provide security at the event. The UCAPD officers are busy preparing for a campus drill on March 11. This year’s show...

Amber Kaufman: A Conversation

Amber Kaufman is a senior at UCA and primary senator-at-large in the Student Government Association (SGA). She graduated in 2006 from Wonderview High School in Hattieville, about 10 miles north of Morrillton in Conway County. She was co-valedictorian of her graduating class of 35 people. She is in the Honors College and working on a thesis that involves developing plans to teach environmental lessons...

Ain’t Nothing but a Thang

A play about an African-American family struggling with AIDS is being performed at 7 p.m. today in Ida Waldran Auditorium. AIDS awareness ribbon “Ain’t Nothing but a Thang” features UCA students as actors and is being presented by Minority Services as part of Black History Month observances on campus. The play is sponsored by the UCA chapter of the NAACP, the Keep a Child Alive charitable...

Accused Killers Face Death Penalty

The four men accused of killing two UCA students on campus 16 months ago will face the death penalty at their trial this summer, according to published reports.  They are each charged with two counts of capital murder. They are accused of driving onto the campus Oct. 26, 2008, and fatally shooting Ryan Henderson, 18, of Little Rock and Chavares Block, 19, of Dermott outside Arkansas Hall. Martrevis...

Actor on Campus Today, Tomorrow

Ivan Rogers, an internationally-acclaimed actor and filmmaker, is on campus today and tomorrow to critique students’ work, conduct workshops on producing films, and host a public screening of Forgive Me Father (2001) – a film Rogers wrote, directed, and starred in. You can see a trailer of the film here. He has also starred in Laserhawk (1997) and is currently working on the film, The Payback...