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Student’s blog becomes Beretta job

More and more people are being discovered on the Internet these days — from YouTube series like EpicMealTime to every day people immortalized via Internet meme. Beretta Firearms recently decided it was time to tap into the Internet’s near infinite talent pool with a writing competition posted on its Twitter page. Tweet

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Easter Weekend POTSI

Ouachita students share about their plans for their three-day Easter weekend. Tweet

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Slideshow: Spring Fling

Campus Activities Board hosted Spring Fling, a carnival event on campus that featured booths, inflatables and games. Tweet

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Student Center Renovations Planned

Evans Student Center will look very different in the fall, thanks to extensive renovations planned for this summer. The upgrade — which is paid for through gifts to the university — includes a new restaurant, a relocated Starbucks, expanded seating areas, a concert stage and movie screen. Tweet

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Mass Communications Moves to Lile Hall

After 22 years of calling the dungeon-like basement of Mabee Fine Arts Center home, the mass communications department is moving to Lile Hall. Tweet

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Ouachita’s Literary Journal, Scope, Accepting Art, Writing Entries

Scope literary magazine is giving poets, artists and writers of all kinds the opportunity to submit their ideas to the fourth annual issue to be released on Monday, April 16. Tweet

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POTSI: March Madness

Ouachita students share what they know about March Madness and their final four picks. Tweet

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Healthy Relationships Week Strives to be More Inclusive

Healthy Relationships Week is the new, more inclusive name for Dating, Engagement and Marriage Week. The name was changed to be more open to single students, some of whom felt the week was for couples only. Tweet

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Slideshow: Miss OBU 2012

The 2012 Miss OBU Pageant was held Saturday, Feb. 25, in Jones Performing Arts Center. Seventeen women competed for the title, along with awards for lifestyle and fitness, private interview, poise and presence in evening gown, talent and onstage question. Tweet

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Winter Jam combines glitz, Gospel

What do Jesus, music and fire all have in common? They are all a part of something that is affectionately known to thousands as Winter Jam. 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 [...]