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Mixed Signals: Snapchat

Opening Snapchat, you see that yellow box and you know someone new has added you as a friend. It’s your wannabe bae. Immediately you add them back and they send you a selfie. What next? I think it’s safe to say many of us have…

Career Services to hold Career and Networking Expo

Ouachita’s annual Career & Networking Expo is set to take place Thursday, February 16 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Walker Conference Center. The expo will provide students with the opportunity to have conversations with employers in their field of study. “Students have had…

“Dear Miss Day” revisits glamour of old Hollywood

Ouachita’s Rosemary Gossett Adams gallery will play host to a unique exhibit during the month of February. “Dear Miss Day” and “Hollywood’s Golden Age” will be on display on the gallery’s first and second floors, respectively, now through February 24, free of charge and open…

Elrod Center to host Alzheimer’s awareness event

The Elrod Center for Family and Community, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association, will host two Alzheimer’s awareness programs in the Elrod Center this afternoon at 3 and 5 p.m. Both programs, which are being offered as a part of Ouachita’s Christian Focus Week (CFW),…

Immigration policies make many Americans wary of Trump

After months and months of grueling campaigns plastering every media outlet, I had hoped that the chaos would finally end after President Trump’s inauguration. Sadly, the mayhem seems to just be beginning, continuing the cycle of political turmoil in the United States. Although I was…

A unique Christmas: Hannah Walker adventures to Chile

For many, Christmas Break consists of binge watching Netflix and Hallmark Christmas movies and relaxing with friends and family back home. For freshman, Hannah Walker, however, Christmas Break was the perfect opportunity for an adventure. Over Christmas Break, the Walker family went on a five-day…

“Just follow me”: Hillary Hill in Zambia

As she listens to the pastor’s sermon from Luke 9, Ouachita senior Hillary Hill hears two words loud and clear. “Follow me.” “Lord, first let me go and bury my father,” the pastor reads. “Follow me.” The pastor continues, “I will follow you, Lord; but…

Sundance 2017 reflections

In 1978, Robert Redford began what would become the largest independent film festival in North America, as well as the most prestigious film festival in the world. 39 years later, Redford’s dream is still alive. After the Sundance Institute committee pored over thousands of entries,…

Hines and Williams take on Chicago

For most of us at Ouachita, returning from winter break just means getting back into a familiar routine, but for Hannah Hines and Victoria Williams, it is a complete change of pace. This past fall semester, Hines, a junior musical theatre and mass communications major,…

Three continents going on four

“The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.” —Augustine of Hippo. Brooks Parker, a junior business management major from Little Rock, grew up on three continents. His parents were teachers and church-planters in Africa and India for a large…