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Tigers Win 2012-13 GAC Championship

The Ouachita Tigers capped their 2012-13 basketball season as champions, downing their third straight opponent in three days to win the Great American Conference Tournament Championship March 10 at Bruin Fieldhouse in Bartlesville, Okla. The Tigers, seeded fifth in the tournament, beat No. 2 seed…

Libraries Host Muslim Studies Film Viewing

With the increase of various religions across the United States, the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), along with the American Library Association (ALA), has created the “Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys”. Each participating library, including Ouachita’s, Arkadelphia High School’s and Henderson State University’s, received 25…

Ouachita to host Tiger Day for prospective students March 11 & 15

Ouachita Baptist University’s Office of Admissions will offer two Tiger Days during the month of March: an afternoon session March 11 and a morning session March 15. Both will give prospective students and their parents the opportunity to preview a typical day on OBU’s campus.…

Ouachita to present All Night Theatre Festival March 9

Ouachita Baptist University’s Theta Alpha Phi chapter will host its 11th annual All Night Theatre: A 10-Minute Play Festival, on Saturday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Verser Theatre. Performances are free and open to the public. The festival is run, written, directed and performed…

‘Arkadelphia Smiles’ Receives 15th Anniversary Kluck Grant

2013 marks the 15th anniversary of the Elrod Center’s Kluck Student Enrichment Grant (KSEG) at Ouachita Baptist University. To celebrate, a special amount of $2,500 was awarded to Nicole McPhate and the students of the photo lab for their project, Arkadelphia Smiles. Dr. Wesley Kluck,…

Margaret Wright Remembered for Commitment to Students, Ouachita

Margaret Wright, a longtime faculty member at Ouachita Baptist University, died March 6 at age 70 following a 10-year battle with cancer. “Margaret Wright embodied the best of Ouachita,” said Ouachita President Rex Horne. “Her professionalism, commitment to students and devotion to Ouachita was exemplary.…

News Briefs: Recaps of the Week’s Biggest Stories

NATIONAL ― A teenage skier who was lost in an avalanche was found at 9 a.m. Tuesday, two days after he disappeared from Sugarloaf Ski Resort in Maine on Sunday afternoon. Nicholas Joy, 17, of Medford, Mass., was found on the Caribou Pond Road snowmobile…

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra to Honor McBeth

[easyrotator]erf_18_1362891263/erc_83_1362891279[/easyrotator] Photos by Dr. Wesley Kluck. The first Composer Laureate in the state of Arkansas, a former conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (ASO), and a talented composer with international prominence, Dr. Francis McBeth has left a legacy that will not soon be forgotten. McBeth,…

Play Festival Gives Students ‘Taste of Theater’

Ouachita’s 11th annual Ten Minute Play Festival, also known as “all-night theater,” is on its way. As students mentally prepare themselves for the auditions, the producers are busy preparing everything else as with any audition. However, all-night theater is not a normal production at Ouachita.…

Wright Discusses Pageant, Platform

Under bright stage lights after three and a half hours of nerves and held breaths, another Ouachitonian was granted the title of Miss Ouachita Baptist University last Saturday night in front of a crowded JPAC audience. “It was such a whirlwind,” said Kiley Jane Wright,…