The archive
It is hard to believe it, but February has quickly crept its way onto our calendars and along with it, one of society’s most controversial holidays; one that brings inspiration to some but despair to others, a day that has the power to change the…
“It’d be hilarious if right as we pulled up, we saw a bunch of guys with BBQ sauce all over their faces getting carried out on stretchers,” We laughed at the time, but little did we know, there would be nothing to laugh about by…
In last week’s edition of the Signal, we published an editorial outlining our thoughts on gun control. We have had much response to this, including a flood of comments on this website. But there seems to have been a bit of confusion about what an…
On December 14, 2012, 17-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., after killing his mother. Five months earlier, on July 20, James Holmes, dressed in tactical clothing, went into a midnight screening of “The…
We have been living in a culture for the last couple of decades in which everyone is worried about offending one another. Our society has become one with an “I don’t agree with you, but I don’t want to stand up for what I believe…
Let’s rewind back a couple of years. I was a freshman moving into the fabled Flippen-Perrin dorm here on campus. Like most freshman, I was both excited and nervous for starting the next chapter of my life here at OBU, and as I moving into…
[easyrotator]erf_97_1355433569/erc_7_1355434940[/easyrotator] Photos by Dr. Wesley Kluck. It is Monday night the week after Thanksgiving, and Ouachita Concert Choir students file into Jones Performing Art Center. Students mingle amongst themselves as Dr. Scott Holsclaw, dean of the school of fine arts, and Dr. Gary Gerber, director…
You know it’s Christmas when every time you walk through the living room to get to the kitchen, you catch 30 seconds of some old Christmas movie that has been playing every hour of the day on at least one channel since the eggnog hit…
Well, I have put off writing this letter for as long as I possibly could. Something about writing a “goodbye column” terrifies me – probably because it means that it’s actually happening. I am actually leaving this place that has been my home for the…
As you flop down on your mattress in your heated dorm room, snuggling up beneath your covers as you lay your head on your pillow, know that there exists a behemoth, nine feet tall and weighing upwards of six hundred pounds, whose sole purpose is…
In all of comic book history, there haven’t been any villains as iconic, as flashy and as unforgettable as those who have been spawned by the creators of DC Comics’ Batman. From Bob Kane’s original graphic illustrations to the film adaptations by Tim Burton and…
You and your friends are driving out to the lake one Friday night when somebody gets the bright idea to unplug the iPod and see what’s on the normal radio. About halfway through the second playing of some early 2000’s abomination that everyone over-enthusiastically sings…
