By Rylee Walker, Staff Writer To serve others means setting aside our own selfish desires with humility and choosing to love others as Christ loves us. Through the Elrod Center, students have the opportunity to serve the Arkadelphia community in various ways, including through tutoring. The Elrod Center offers two tutoring programs: America Reads/America Counts, […]
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By Rylee Freeman, Staff Writer The OBU volleyball team is well underway with a hopeful season ahead of them. After tremendous effort, consistency and dedication during preseason, the team is determined to accomplish their goals for conference. The team is 5-4 overall and 1-0 in conference after defeating SAU in the conference-opener. With nine returners and […]
By Sadie Davis, Sports Editor For six days, Ouachita’s campus life steps into overdrive during TWIRP week, transforming the standard school night of homework into themed nights full of music and dancing. TWIRP is an acronym for “The Woman is Required to Pay.” As a part of this tradition, the Women’s social clubs, along with […]
By Emerson Thompson, Arts & Entertainment Editor “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified […]
By Lexi Lunsford, Guest Writer Learning to drive comes with many rules, all to ensure safety. Fasten your seatbelt, press the brake to start the car and ease onto the road with caution. Allow your eyes to constantly search for what comes next and keep…
By Madelyn Tullos, Online Editor-in-Chief 10 and two feels foreign. I’m strapped in against my will. I’m surrounded by buttons I’m supposed to understand. I do not. I glance affectionately at the passenger seat. I miss it. My seat holds too much responsibility. It’s almost…
By Charlotte Wood, Guest Writer If I have learned one thing, it is that stars do not fit into circles. You know those baby toys with plastic shapes — a triangle, a square, a circle and a star. One by one, a child learns where…
By Eli Wilson, Guest Writer 5.4 centimeters is all it took for 18 years of hard work to end. When the seniors were called forward for pictures, he didn’t move. He stood off to the side with the coaches, watching as the moment that was…
By Kate Chumley, Guest Writer The house is cold and bare. The shutters covering the dusty windows are shutting out the outside light. The rooms match the feeling of the house. There is emptiness within the house and there is no welcome. The house did…
By Kylie Kisgen, Guest Writer “Everything in moderation,” the saying goes. Practice, school, work, hobbies, down time, quiet time, eating, walking, driving, cleaning, grocery shopping, laundry. Don’t forget to take out the trash, pour into your relationships, walk the dog, turn in your assignment by…
By Lexi Lunsford, Guest Writer It’s 8 a.m. once again. Get out of bed. Get ready. Head to class. Take the same sidewalk to the same lunch table. Another class, with the same professor as yesterday. Head to practice. Same stunt group. Same cheer routine.…
By Madelyn Tullos, Online Editor-in-Chief Being a woman is hard. Or maybe we just decided to make it that way. We befriend the mirror but sometimes it feels more like an enemy. We’ve created girl math to excuse our expensive taste. We don’t like to…
By Kylie Kisgen, Guest Writer My biggest pet peeve is passive aggressive people. I extremely dislike this characteristic specifically in adults. I have seen passivity ruin cultures, environments, experiences, conversations, communities, and relationships. Passivity bleeds from one person to the other. I like to think…
