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‘A Movie Musical’ makes world premiere on Ouachita campus

Grab your popcorn and a friend for the first Campus Activities Board (CAB) sponsored student film, “A Movie Musical.” Rance Collins, a junior, co-wrote and produced the film with his childhood friend, Grace Whitaker, a junior at Baylor University in Texas. Inspiration struck in the summer of 2007 when the duo saw the movie “Hairspray” [...]

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Women gather for annual Soiree Chic dinner, fashion show

The women of Ouachita will gather in the Walker Conference Center for the second annual Soiree Chic on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. Soiree Chic, hosted by Becky Horne, wife of Rex Horne, president of Ouachita, will include dinner, a style show and guest speaker for $5. Tweet

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Married students becoming more common on campus

The saying “ring by spring” is one that often gets repeated around Ouachita’s campus, especially by single women during their senior year. And while a fair number of Ouachita students are married immediately after graduation, this summer the trend has been reversed. Tweet

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Ouachita, Henderson students sponsor race to make a difference in literacy, kids’ lives

As National Make a Difference Day rounds the corner the community is preparing to do just that. This Saturday, Oct. 27, at 9 a.m. the seventh annual Race for Books will take place at Ouachita’s cross country track. Tweet

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Turnitin creates plagarism detection, “even playing field” for students

Ouachita has an honor code, intelligent and knowledgeable professors and now it has Turnitin.com. Turnitin.com is a Web site with the goal of preventing plagiarism. The company behind this Web site, Paradigms, was started in 1996 with the aim to “monitor the recycling of research papers” according to Turnitin.com. From there, they started “the world’s [...]

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History of Little Rock integration celebrated, remembered today

An event marking one of the greatest changes in America celebrated its 50 year anniversary in Little Rock, Arkansas, today. On this day in 1957, nine African Americans entered Central High for their first day in an integrated school. Although the day progressed peacefully, the events beforehand were far from calm. Tweet

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Seniors take youth interim positions

Park Hill Baptist Church recently named two Ouachita seniors co-interim youth ministers. Aubrey Rutland, a Christian studies, English and Russian major, and Stephen Ray, a music major, have a history of working with this youth group as volunteers and interns. Tweet

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Inside The Battle of the Ravine

Everyone knows the importance of the “Battle of the Ravine“. It’s the Good Guys vs. The Bad, the Tigers vs. [...]

Skeet shooting with Steve

Ever heard of shooting skeet? It is a sport you may have seen while flipping through the channels on TV, [...]

Jody Persson earns Children’s Literature Association award

Jody Persson earns Children’s Literature Association award

  Ouachita student Jody Persson has been awarded the 2012 Carol Gay Award for her essay “Take It to the [...]

Kinesiology students teach local children at river

An honors seminar focused on developing a place-based education course around the Ouachita River was presented many years ago, sponsored [...]

A first for everything: Covering an NBA game press-side

Tension, anxiety, and raw excitement could all be words used to describe the initial feelings I had when covering my [...]

Feel the chemistry: students present at national meeting

Students from Ouachita’s American Chemical Society (ACS) student chapter went to the 243rd ACS National Meeting at the San Diego [...]