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Category: Features

Behind the scenes: WOW Steering

Welcome to Ouachita’s world. After many hours of purchasing, packing and praying, you drive into Arkadelphia, pass Cliff Harris Stadium and head up the hill to a stop sign, where a few smiling students approach your overstuffed vehicle. “I loved hearing about the new friendships…

When abroad, do as the sloths do

For a month at the beginning of this summer, I lived with a family in San José, Costa Rica while I took Spanish courses at the University of Costa Rica. I obviously went with the intent of improving my fluency in Spanish and experiencing the…

Humans of OBU: Kenderick Scorza

“One time there was this girl that I was interested in and there was a big group of us sitting at the lunch table. It’s a big lunch table, lots of people laughing and giggling. I was complaining about the fact I’d never gone on…

Humans of OBU: Erin Jackson and Jacob Calhoon

Erin: “First time we held hands it was at a movie and we held hands the whole time. Both our hands were sweaty but neither one of us wanted to let go because we didn’t know what to do. It wasn’t that we wanted to…

Humans of OBU: Seniors

“So Michael and I were with this teammate through the IMB, his name was Tristan and he liked to abbreviate a lot of words, and we were also with two other American girls. Conversation gets going, where we just start abbreviating words. We’re going to…

Humans of OBU: Seniors

“In Flippen-Perrin, one time we blew up like 500 balloons and we somehow convinced this guy to let us use his room to do it. So we left the balloons in there and then when the RA was gone we filled his room with the…

Student Leader Highlight: Grace Finley

Grace Finley, a senior business administration major and mass communications minor from Bryant, Ark. is the lead photographer and editor of the Ouachita photo lab, which supplies photos for all of Ouachita’s major student publications. This is her story about how she came to this…

Humans of OBU: Seniors

“We had just come back from spring break and I slept in a loft but I forgot and I thought I was in my bed at home. So when my alarm went I swung my legs off the bed like I was in my bed…

Nathan Perry plays in humane society benefit concert

Ouachita proudly boasts much talent, and the singer/songwriter scene is not to be forgotten. Senior Nathan Perry, accounting major from Benton, Ark., is one of those talented artists the Ouachita community is getting to see a lot from lately. Perry, along with Kyle Jackson, sophomore…

Humans of OBU: Seniors

“My freshman year I was playing on the scout team, so basically we were just running the plays that the other team was gonna run that week. So I was playing receiver and there was this guy that was playing linebacker for the defense that…

Humans of OBU: Seniors

“Kind of a hobby is always checking up on the stock market on business news. So it’s a daily thing among our friends. At 8:30 in the morning we’re up watching the stocks to see what they’re gonna do and at 3 in the afternoon…