ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Ouachita Baptist University’s Hickingbothom School of Business recently held its inaugural Business Plan Competition. Participating students formed teams or worked individually under the supervision of a faculty member to create a start-up company for rewards of up to $4,000.

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ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Reflecting on the life and legacy of longtime Ouachita Baptist University staff member Mac Sisson, peers and former students consistently highlight the words “friend” and “mentor.”

Sisson, who served almost three decades as assistant director of public relations at Ouachita Baptist University, died March 8 at age 62 in Arkadelphia. In addition to his public relations role, he held the positions of OBU News Bureau director and sports information director. He also was active in directing a number of major campus events, including the annual Miss OBU Pageant, Tiger Tunes and Tiger Traks as well as working closely with the Miss Arkansas Pageant.

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ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Ouachita Baptist University will welcome a representative from the U.S. Census Bureau in April as part of the 2010 national census.

“Census information is important,” said Phil Hardin, OBU’s compliance officer and assistant to the president for administration. “Among other things, it is used to help determine representation in Congress and funding for school districts and other government services. Ouachita staff members will assist census representatives in achieving an accurate count of our students.”

The census requires that all students living in college housing facilities be counted in the city where their college is located rather than in their hometowns. The count will include citizens and non-citizen residents. It will have no effect on residency status of non-citizens, however.

When the representative arrives at Ouachita in April, the official forms will be distributed to students at each university housing facility. Each student will be asked to complete a form and return it as instructed. There are 10 questions on the questionnaire, and it should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.

Census information is confidential and protected by law. No census data will be shared with any other individual or organization, even other government agencies.

For more information, contact Margaret Frazier, director of campus housing, at frazierm@obu.edu or (870) 245-5220; Judy Jones, registrar, at jonesj@obu.edu or (870) 245-4298; or Phil Hardin at hardinp@obu.edu or (870) 245-5400.

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He began playing the game when he was old enough to swing a club. Where he grew up, there was no country club, driving range or putting green, nor did he have his own clubs. What he did have was a set of hand-me-downs his father gave to him. His favorite club was an old 7-iron he found that had black masking tape wrapped around the top as a makeshift grip. When he wanted to practice, he and his father would drive out to his grandmother’s cow pasture with those old clubs and work on certain skills and techniques. To Eli Fuentez, this cow pasture was his playing field.

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