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Ouachita hosts 29th annual meeting of Consortium for Global Education By KATIE KEMP News Editor
Ouachita is hosting the 29th annual meeting of the Consortium for Global Education this week. The annual meeting began yesterday, September 14, and will continue through Friday, September 16. The Consortium for Global Education is a non-profit global organization for American private Christian universities that supports global development in education. At the annual meeting, representatives of member campuses will be able to attend lectures and addresses on international education programs. The meeting will also allow member campuses and partner institutions to provide updates on new programs or information they would like to share regarding international education. The consortium provides a formal structure through which members may help and inform each other regard-
ing their international education enterprises. Ouachita’s membership in the consortium provides access to upto-date information on global academic issues. The organization also provides access to international universities seeking to form relationships with American universities. There are currently 34 members of the CGE and seven affiliate members. Representatives from each member campus are expected to attend the meeting, and about 150 representatives are expected to attend in total. This year’s annual meeting is significant because it celebrates the 30th anniversary of the consortium’s founding. Ouachita has had a relationship with the organization since it was founded, as former Ouachita president Dr. Daniel Grant spent a decade after his retirement from Ouachita as executive director of the CGE. “We have always been involved with the organization, and several of our presidents have served as chairperson
of the organization,” said Ian Cosh, Ouachita’s vice president for community and international engagement and member of the consortium’s board of directors. “This is a very important part of Ouachita’s legacy.” Yesterday’s events included a tour of campus for international guests, a forum on turning expertise into global opportunities and a welcome address from Ouachita president Dr. Ben Sells. Today, the meeting will provide several workshops and lectures on topics ranging from faculty involvement overseas to recruiting students abroad. A keynote address from Cambodian parliament member H.E. Nhem Thavy Thursday morning will explore the topic of schools in rural Cambodia and baseball as a door-opener sport, and is expected to be a highlight of the meeting. Thursday night, a keynote address from Dr. Joshua Walker will discuss the CGE’s responsibility as a global voice. Walker currentsee Consortium z 2
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9 a.m.-12 p.m.--First Plenary Session 9:10-9:30 a.m.--“Engaging Global Trust”,Dr. Carolyn Bishop 9:35–10:00 a.m.--Keynote Speaker: H.E. Nhem Thavy, Cambodia 10:10–10:35 a.m.--Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Haidostian, Lebanon 10:35 a.m.--Break/Displays 10:55–11:55 a.m.--Track Sessions – Part One 12–1 p.m.--Special “Celebrate 30” Luncheon 1:30-4:30 p.m.--Second Plenary Session 4:30-5 p.m.--CGE Annual Business Meeting 7-9 p.m.--Banquet hosted by Ouachita Baptist University with keynote speaker Dr. Joshua Walker
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8:30-9:30 a.m.--Track sessions 9:45 a.m.-12 p.m.--Third Plenary Session 9:45–10:45 a.m.--New Impact Areas for CGE: Myanmar, China, Egypt, Italy/Spain 10:45 a.m.--“Impact in Iraq--More Than a Decade Later” 12:00 p.m.-- Adjourn
New Rave Mobile Safety App Career Services provides insight to students provides on-campus protec- seeking direction in college and beyond BLASE tion for smartphone users ByStaffWILL Writer By JULIE WILLIAMS Copy Editor
The rise of a new smartphone app has made its way to Ouachita’s campus. The safety purposes included in the app are a modern approach to keeping the Ouachita family safe by accessing your data in times of emergency. Dr. Welsey Kluck, vice president for student services, explained that this app has two components, the first being the use of an online service called Smart911. While functioning separately from the app, Smart911 services operate by allowing a subscriber to create a profile of information. “Put any information that you may want all the way down to your dog’s name,” Kluck said. “You can put health issues, family names, and anytime you call 911 on your smartphone, all your information pops up on the screen in the 911 office.” Kluck went on to explain that any 911 dispatch with the software capacities can access this information when a 911 call is made. Not every law enforcement community has this ability, but Kluck assured that most do at this point in time. The service is GPS activated, meaning that it can be used anywhere in the United States. The second component is the use of the Rave Mobile
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Safety App, or more often called, The Guardian App. Having been developed over the past five years, this app made its way to campus in January of 2016. “Ouachita pays a yearly fee for this, but all you have to do to get this app is have an OBU ID and email,” Kluck said. Account setup on the app can be tied to your Smart911 information, but aside from 911 options, this app offers the availability of the OBU Safety Office at your fingertips. If you are unable to make a 911 call, you can simply click the link, “Call 911,” or “Call OBU Safety.” This account information allows you to sign up “guardians” who will be notified of your status when they have signed up on the app. “This can be your mother, your roommate, anybody you want to name,” Kluck said. A number of features associated with the functions of The Guardian App create a plan for personal protection and safety, one of the most valuable, according to Kluck, being the Safety Timer. This can be used for any number of everyday activities. Kluck further clarified, “If you go jogging, set a timer for 25 minutes and don’t make it in that time, it will ask if you’ve made it. If you don’t respond, it will then notify your guardians that you haven’t made it. Evensee Safety z 2
Everyone knows that their first resume looms stressfully over them. Career services aims to help students in need of direction. Ouachita’s career services works to help students with resumes, cover sheets, mock interviews and even finding jobs and internships right out of college. Career services is located on the first floor of Cone Bottoms, in Suite 125, Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Rachel Jones and Hannah Pilcher act as coordinators for career services. The two manage relations with outside employers, arrange workshops for students and offer their assistance with resumes and internships to all OBU students, free of charge. OBU alumni are also available to access career services. Students are able to start from scratch, during their resume preparation or build onto previous resumes. If a student has a previous resume that they wish to replace, career services will help. Career services provides the same services for preparing a cover sheet for students’ resumes. For students still searching for a major, career services provides a test called Focus 2. The test gathers a general area of interest in an attempt to direct students towards majors and areas that they seem to be interested in. Focus 2 is mainly for freshman students, but all current
Ouachita students have access to the test. The test can be located on the obu.edu/ career website under the tab labeled “students.” Students looking for internships will find that career services makes every effort they can to cater to student wants, as well as needs. Seniors looking for long-term internships will receive help finding an internship or a potential job, whereas younger students will mainly be helped with finding summer internships. Students can visit the career services office or use the web search Tiger Career Connections, which is available to current OBU students via their student ID. Alumni also have access to the search tool. Graduates within the past five years can use their student ID to access Tiger Career Connections. If the user graduated more than five years ago, career services can help as well. Tiger Career Connections, updated daily, is located at obu.edu/career under the “student” tab for current students and the “alumni” tab for all alumni. Many students have never had to undergo serious interviews, such as one for an internship or graduate school. Career services provides tips and training for interviews, as well as providing mock interviews to better students’ confidence and skills. Career services also offers workshops throughout the school year for students
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Wesley Kluck z Courtesty RACHEL JONES, coordinator for Career Services, provides services to students hoping to get a head start on post-graduate life.
interested in jobs and internships. The Ouachita Graduate and Professional School Fair, a workshop for students interested in graduate school opportunities, will be held Wednesday, September 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The fair will have 20 universities present, representing their schools and helping potential students learn more about the programs. There will be a Career Services Workshop on Wednesday, October 26, and a Missions Throughout Your Career Workshop, with guest Tacos 4 Life, Wednesday, November 14. For more information visit obu.edu/career, contact Career Services at (870) 245- 5593 or email careerservices@obu.edu. Rachel Jones can be contacted at jonesrm@obu.edu and Hannah Pilcher can be contacted at pilcherh@obu.edu for further questions. n
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z Continued from Page 1 tually, it will notify Campus Safety, who can find your location.” The “Report a Tip” option button will allow you to send anonymous tips to the Campus Safety Office, regarding any number of safety concerns. The office will be able to communicate back for more necessary information, but will only know your identity if you allow them to. If you choose to unmark the anonymous option, it will allow them to see your information. “We’ve had it used for a few things around campus, such as noise complaints,” Kluck said. The emergence of this app at Ouachita came from Kluck’s desire to add some extra safety measures. “I felt
that we were not adequately provided with enough protection through our current systems,” he said. “So I researched and called around last fall, and decided that this is what we wanted. It mainly provides an extra layer of protection besides just calling Safety.” According to Kluck, there is no security concern regarding personal information. No information other than what an individual includes in a profile will be accessible unless otherwise allowed. Almost 50 percent of the nation’s universities use this software, providing a new level of comfort to its young adult users. For more information regarding the use of the Guardian App or Smart911 services, contact Dr. Kluck in the offices of the Student Center, located across from the Safety Office. n
RAVE MOBILE Safety App has been adopted as a campus-wide safety feature on Ouachita’s campus. Some of the app’s primary features include a safety timer, an anonymous tip service, a shortcut to call campus safety directly and a Smart911 feature that provides information with 911 dispatches.
Restaurants Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbins and Little Caesar’s joint location to open in Arkadelphia By KATIE KEMP News Editor
A joint location for Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbins and Little Caesar’s is set to arrive in Arkadelphia early next year. Construction is expected to begin on the building in the coming weeks, and the project is set to open in February 2017. The opening of this location follows the likes of similar locations in Hot Springs, Hope, Little Rock and Texarkana. Business owner Eric McDuffle owns the other locations throughout Arkansas that host the three franchises and hopes to see similar success in the Arkadelphia location. “We see an opportunity to serve that community,” McDuffle said. “We pass
Shelley Loe z Courtesty PLANS FOR the joint Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin Robbins and Little Caesar’s Arkadelphia location on Pine Street. The building is set to be complete in February 2017.
(Arkadelphia) every day, so it made sense.” The building will be located on Pine Street. Building components and steel have been ordered, and construc-
tion is expected to begin in the next couple of weeks. The construction of this site will mark the first location for any of the three businesses in Arkadelphia. n
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z Continued from Page 1 ly serves as Vice-President of Global Programs at APCO Worldwide, a leading strategic communications firm and is passionate about global affairs, specializing in the Middle East and East Asia. “(Walker) is very knowledgeable about how, at governmental levels, these things work, and I think he’ll be a very interesting speaker,” Cosh said. Events on Friday will include various workshops, lectures and addresses. In these lectures, attendees will hear from representatives from universities in Myanmar, Lithuania, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the Middle East, as well as national leaders from Cambodia, Russia and Korea. Cosh believes that serving as host for the meeting will be beneficial for Ouachita, as Ouachita’s relationship with
the organization is so longstanding and several prominent leaders from the consortium will be on campus for the meeting. The organization has been involved with Ouachita’s Grant Center for International Education since the CGE’s founding, particularly with its deep commitment to global education specifically within Christian universities. “There’s also a deep commitment here to the Great Commission and using education as a vehicle to proclaim the Gospel,” Cosh said. “When a professor or a student goes to a country, as Christian men and women, we hope that they would be faithful to the faith. So it’s not only an educational organization; it is an organization that understands that we are involved in the missions enterprise as well.” To learn more about the Consortium for Global Education and its annual meeting, visit www.cgedu.org. n
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Danielle Droste z Photo Lab THE REFUGE band, led by senior music majors Nathan Street and Emily Weeden, help pastor Clay Cunningham kick off the 2016 Campus Ministries Fall Retreat with an evening of worship.
Students connect and grow at CM Fall Retreat By ETHAN DIAL Staff Writer
After a fun, musicfilled car ride with lots of laughter and much anticipation, you pull up to a somewhat desolate camp in the hills of Paron, Arkansas. Getting out of the car, you make the long trek with all of your luggage for the night up the hill to where your cabin is. Nervous about how you will sleep, you open the door to find old metal and wooden bunk beds dispersed around the one-room cabin with a bathroom on one end. Thankful that you only have to stay one night, you drop your stuff down on your bed and head to dinner, where you will begin what many describe as an experience that could shape the rest of your time at Ouachita. Around two hundred students, faculty and CM leaders took this journey this year at the Campus Ministries Fall Retreat. The retreat, held at Paron Baptist Camp, took place the last weekend of August. It is where many freshmen are known to have begun lifelong friendships with students who are equally nervous and excited about the upcoming experience known as college. Campus Ministries hosts this retreat annually where students come to worship, learn about and hear from God, play games and meet new friends. James Taylor first attended the retreat his freshman year in 1995. Now, as the Campus Ministries Director, Taylor is in charge of planning the retreat and strongly encourage students—es-
pecially freshmen—to attend. “When people have just gotten to campus and they haven’t met a lot of people, it’s a great way to meet people, but it’s also a great opportunity to connect with some different campus ministries if they want to get involved,” Taylor said. Although meeting
time, the students can attend two worship sessions where they not only hear from God’s word through what the speaker has to say, but also through the Refuge band leading in a song service. The theme this year was “The Lord’s Prayer.” Each aspect of the retreat focused on different parts of the prayer and encour-
the school year,” Taylor said. The other main goal is to encourage students to get involved with Campus Ministries, and this seems to be the case for one student, Kinzie Schmidt, who attended the retreat both this year as a sophomore and last year as a freshman. Schmidt, one of the CM Tiger Tunes leaders,
Danielle Droste z Photo Lab DR. REBECCA Jones leads a student small group session at the Campus Ministries Fall Retreat.
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Danielle Droste z Photo Lab SOPHOMORE JOSH Altenbaumer (left) and Senior Collin Battaglia (right) enjoy a game of nine square.
people and making new friends is a very important part of the retreat, Taylor’s favorite part is on Saturday morning when the students spread out around campus to open their bibles, pray and participate in a quiet time. “I like all aspects of the retreat, but for some reason that’s probably my favorite, because it’s a little quieter, it’s a little cooler, and it just seems like a time of pause that I like,” Taylor said. Along with a quiet
STUDENTS who attended the retreat engaged in worship, attended small group sessions and made new friendships.
aged students to pray throughout their everyday life. Taylor says that one of the multiple goals of the retreat is to give students a time to pray and think about their upcoming semester. “[It is] a chance for people to hear from God, listen to His word being preached, spend some time praying and just thinking about what they want their semester to look like and to refocus their own faith as we get started in
unknowingly became a CM leader due to her association with Tiger Tunes. “Because I’m the Campus Ministries Tiger Tunes Director, it apparently makes me a ministry leader, which I didn’t know going into it, but I’m so excited because our team of ministry leaders got to go on a retreat before school started,” Schmidt said. At this retreat, Schmidt’s eyes were opened to how she could use Tiger Tunes as
a ministry to freshmen. “We just talked a lot about finding the vision for your ministry, and so that was great. It was a really good time of praying and really talking about, ‘ok, this is for the community and building community among freshmen,’” Schmidt said. Although she planned on going to the CM Fall Retreat anyway, because she met so many of her friends there last year, Schmidt was excited to get to share about her plans for Tiger Tunes to freshmen this year. While Schmidt enjoys many parts of the retreat, she does have a favorite. “I love game night of course, but I honestly loved the speaker. Clay just did a really good job,” Schmidt said. Clay Cunningham, a pastor, former Ouachitonian and the speaker at this year’s retreat, touched many students’ lives, including freshman Maggie Johnston’s. Johnston, who enjoyed many aspects of the retreat, couldn’t narrow down her favorite part to just one thing. She loved listening to the message, worshipping and getting to make new friends. “Even strangers would just come up to you and start worshipping with you and you felt like you were all there for the same purpose, same reason, and you all connected because we all understood and were engulfed in the message. So we all felt connected in that way,” Johnston said. This seems to be the case for all who attended the retreat. It is a time for fun, but also a time to concentrate on God and what He can do throughout your upcoming semester. n
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Dr. Lori Hensley z Courtesy OUACHITA ALPHA Chi students spent the majority of the previous academic year conducting scientific and psychological research on the use and perception of medical marijuana. Pictured from left: Stoni Butler, former psychology major and alumna, Rebekah Davis, former biology major and alumna and Jace Bradshaw, senior biology, chemistry and physics major.
Students present research on medical marijuana By EVAN WHEATLEY Features Editor
“would you be supportive of a family member who was considering medical marijuana as a treatment?” While this group was more likely to rate that question more highly than those presented with the actual data, the latter was more likely to indicate that they had learned more about medical marijuana as a whole. Overall, the team found that the personal stories presented in the anecdotal evidence were more persuasive to the larger group of participants, with science majors
Butler and Davis hopped on a plane with Dr. Hensley to the nation’s capital. In the little free time they had in the capital, the three students sat down for a meal at the Old Ebbitt Grill, a historical restaurant that had served many former presidents, visited a few famous monuments and even enjoyed a bit of snow outside of the White House. The team was not there for a vacation, however, and when it came down to business, Ouachita Alpha Chi delivered. The three students were judged based on three criteria: a 10-page research paper they submitted in February, the poster showcasing their research and findings and their eight-minute presentation of the poster. While the team was not required to present their poster the night they arrived, all three students stood by their poster for more than three hours, presenting their work to hundreds of students and faculty members from schools across the nation. And it was because of this, according to Dr. Hensley, that “their presentation improved dramatically, their confidence soared and the
really good day for OBU.” It had been a monumental day for OBU. In addition to the team winning Best Chapter Strengthening Session, Bradshaw was elected as a Region II student delegate to the national council and won the Edwin W. Gaston, Jr. Scholarship for his research in synthetic biology at Ouachita. Dr. Hensley was elected president of Region II and received two national awards for Outstanding Sponsor. And, for Butler’s second year in a row, the team brought first place and $5,000 back home to Ouachita.
Medical marijuana. “What we were looking While twenty-five states for in the research were and Washington D.C. have items about testing cell vilegalized it in some form or ability and the ability to fashion, the use of it remains limit metastasis (the spread highly controversial. We see of cancer from one part of intense debates about it on the body to another) of difthe news. We may even read ferent cancer types,” Bradabout new findings pertain- shaw said. “In doing so, we ing to the subject, but how tested different cannabimuch do we actually know noids and how they might about the medical use of be able to limit those things. marijuana? Since 2004, Dr. Lori Hens$1,000 and an uncertain fuley, J.D. Patture terson Chair of Biology and An uncertain future lies Ouachita’s ahead for Dr. Hensley’s reAlpha Chi search. While she seeks to faculty sponpublish parts of her research sor, has been each year, her primary focus working with is investing in her students cannabinoid in the lab and the classroom. compounds – “The goal of my research found in mariis not to change or even injuana – for the fluence the way people view initial purpose Dr. Lori Hensley z Courtesy medical marijuana, but of developing merely to educate families new treatments BUTLER, BRADSHAW and Davis attend the 2016 Alpha Chi national honors society convention. about alternative options for multiple for treatment for children sclerosis. In 2008, however, After looking through the being the least susceptible. with historically few opshe and others in the sci- data, we saw that we should “The results of the psytions and poor prognosis,” ence department began be looking at ajulemic acid chology study showed us Dr. Hensley said. “More iminvestigating these com- and cannabidiol as our that, especially in the sciportantly, the pounds as potential thera- treatments for the study.” compounds peutics for pediatric cancers “We’re dealing with, in we use have with low survival rates. some cases, nanomolar no psychoac Through their award- quantities, which are retive properwinning presentation at last ally, really small amounts ties, making spring’s Alpha Chi national of the drug, and we’re them far less honors society convention, administering it to these controversial senior Jace Bradshaw and cancer cells and we’re acthan marijuaalumnae Stoni Butler and tually seeing them die. na itself, and Rebekah Davis sought to We’re seeing tumors stop making these take Dr. Hensley’s research growing,” Bradshaw said. compounds in a whole new direction. “Things like that are remuch more ally astounding to me bea p p r o p r iate C ont r ove rsial can n a- cause you see that we are for a pediatric getting closer to a cure, bi noi ds population.” or at least a more effecDr. Lori Hensley y Courtesy Upon return Each year, a select group tive treatment than what’s ing to Ouachiout there.” of students from Ouachita’s currently Alpha Chi chapter partici- Once the biochemical re- BRADSHAW, DAVIS and Butler present their research to instructors from other universities. ta, Bradshaw, Butler and pate in a themed research search had been compiled, project to present at the the team took the data and ences, while we think a lot end result was an award- Davis each received $1,000 presentation.” of the prize money. In national convention. Last created study packets for about the educational value winning spring’s theme was “Tran- the psychology portion of of an argument, it may not The months of hard work addition to their financial scending Boundaries,” the project, which sought be the most important as- and the years of research be- award, the students were which the team managed to measure how much a pect,” said Butler, a former hind the project took center blessed with a memorable to do not only through student’s background in- psychology major currently stage in the team’s official experience that will bentheir topic, but also through fluenced his or her view in graduate school at Ohio presentation, and it came as efit them for years to come. medical marijuana. State University. “So when no surprise to them when “I am so proud of Jace, collaboration between of their different majors. They did this by present- you’re trying to come up Ouachita’s name was called. Stoni and Rebekah. Though “I’ve never actually they have different majors Bradshaw, a biology, ing some Ouachita students with a campaign, it’s im- chemistry and physics ma- and faculty with a control portant to have a little bit won anything before, so and goals, they were able jor from Arkadelphia, and group, some with hard facts of both and to pay atten- it was really exciting. I to come up with a meanDavis, a former biology from their research and tion to your audience.” think our project was by ingful project that brought far the best one. We had together several fields of major currently attending others with a story about medical school in Little a woman who turned to Winning big in Washington solid research and we fit the study and investigated a theme so well,” Davis said. timely and relevant quesRock, began the project medical marijuana after by looking through years exhausting all of her op- In early April, after sev- Bradshaw added, “I was tion,” Dr. Hensley said. of Dr. Hensley’s research tions for cancer treatment. eral months of research, really pumped. I tried to “They are demonstratto see where the team To the anecdotal group, surveying and presenta- play it all pretty close to ing the real meaning of a needed to take the project. Butler asked questions like, tion practice, Bradshaw, the vest, but it had been a liberal arts education.” n
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Pivotal moments: when the tough times become the best times By KATHERINE CARTER Ed/Op Ed Editor
Every once in a while, if we’re lucky enough, we will receive an idea or experience a moment that will change the course of our lives forever. These ideas or moments often occur when we’re at our lowest, when it seems as though the whole world were against us. I was fortunate enough to have one of these moments almost 10 years ago when my whole world turned upside down. My dad was called to the ministry in the early 2000s, and he left the financial security of the family business to pursue God’s plan for his life and ours. While money was tight, God provided for us, and, considering that I was around 8 or 9 years old at the time, things weren’t all that different for me. I accepted Christ in early March of 2002, and I was later baptized on St. Patrick’s Day. I was 6 years
old at the time, so even though I was definitely old enough to comprehend the decision I was making, I didn’t really understand the gravity of what that decision would do to me. I was coasting through life. My dad’s ministry wasn’t something I really understood at the time. I didn’t know what was going on between the Lord and him. I didn’t know what God was telling my dad to do. It wasn’t until around Christmastime in 2005 that my dad gathered us all around the dining room table to share some shocking news: we were moving to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I didn’t really know what to think. Here I was, a 10 year-old-girl with her whole life in Arkansas. All of my friends and family were here. I hadn’t even heard of Myrtle Beach, let alone thought about it as a nice place to live. It was as though I were watching this all unfold from the sidelines, a mere spectator, looking at someone else’s family. Naturally, my siblings
and I weren’t happy with being uprooted. Neither were my parents, initially, but they knew that this was something that the Lord wanted them to do. God was leading us down an unknown path, and I didn’t know what to expect. We sold our house and moved in the summer of 2006, right around the time of our eleventh birthday. Easily one of the worst birthdays of my life. Despite the fact that I had my own room for the first time (when I had been sharing a large room with my sisters in my old house), I would’ve given anything to go back. I hated Myrtle Beach. I didn’t know why God was doing this to me. Why would he take me away from everything that I knew and loved? Why would he put me in this strange place where everything was covered in sand and all the people were from the Northeast? Why would he take me away from my friends and family? Why would God, my heavenly Father, hurt me
this way? I questioned him for the longest time. I was angry at him. I was angry at my parents. All in all, I was just angry. School started, and my siblings and I clung to one another, not knowing a soul in the entire building. We soon made friends, but wow was it hard at first. Making friends is not an easy task for me, and despite the fact that I did make some eventually, I felt incredibly alone. I would often shut myself in my room and weep. I was homesick. Here I was, alone, surrounded by nameless, faceless people. Because of the Lord, I was stuck in this forsaken place called Myrtle Beach, and I was left alone to fend for myself. It was then that I realized that I was never alone; the Lord had been with me the entire time. This was the moment that I look back to as the pivotal moment in my walk with the Lord. It was at this moment that I realized that I had to put my complete faith in him,
and once I did, everything changed. I started having a daily quiet time. I started listening to Christian music instead of the mindless tween music of the mid-2000s. I began to have a true relationship with the Lord, and it blew my mind. I had never realized how wonderful the Lord was, and I felt like I had missed out the entire time. The Lord gave me good friends, and I was finally happy. While my relationship with the Lord often makes life harder to live, it makes it worth living, and I have Myrtle Beach to thank for it. Although I moved back to Little Rock two years later in 2008, those were easily two of the most pivotal years of my life. I would not be the person I am today if it weren’t for those years. I thank God every day for the experiences he gives me, even if they are challenging. Life would be boring without a challenge anyway. All that is to say, you never know what moments will turn your world upside down, but welcome them when they come. n
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Remaking classics: why it’s best to stick with the originals By JULIA WILLIAMS Copy Editor
I’ve recently discovered something that deeply, utterly disturbs me: “Dirty Dancing” is being remade. My little heart stuttered to a stop as I read that the classic dance movie was going to be recast and filmed as a television movie. I can’t ever fully explain how much of a disappointment that this is, but I’m going to take a fair whack at it. There is a growing trend in the movie industry to simply remake films as they celebrate some important mile-marker anniversary. Not only does this show a lack of artistic originality, but it just upsets the world of movie-lovers that someone dared to reproduce something like a classic. One of the few exceptions was the 2010 version of “True Grit.” Originally released in 1969, it starred Kim Darby as Mattie, Glen Campbell as Texas Ranger La Boeuf and “The Duke,” John Wayne, as Marshal Rooster Cogburn. This all-star cast seemed “nigh uncatchable,” as the older generation would say, but in the 2010 version, Jeff
Bridges and Matt Damon performed extremely well. Even the newcomer, Hailee Steinfeld, portrayed her stubborn, “12-year-old going on 20” character with phenomenal professionalism and class. The addition of Barry Pepper as the leader of the elusive “Lucky Ned Pepper Gang” was a welcome flavor of originality. Overall, I thought the new script was very well developed, the simply structured grammar contributing to the precocious nature of the child within the story. And as much as I love “The Duke,” I still thought that Jeff Bridges aced the disgruntled, drunken old man. My father summed it up best, I believe, saying, “If John Wayne were still alive, he’d be carrying Jeff Bridges’ luggage.” Aside from this, I don’t know of many movies successfully remade. In fact, I can produce a significant number of examples to suggest that remakes are never okay. The first of which being “The Sound of Music.” This epic 1965 musical starred the elegantly flawless Julie Andrews and the ever-chivalrous heartthrob, Christopher Plummer. Their portrayal of the Von Trapp family sponsored generations of Allied pride after the Sec-
ond World War, years of inspiration for the Western dreamers and numerous family movie nights. Just a few years ago, ABC produced a live version featuring Carrie Underwood as Maria Von Trapp. As talented as she is, I hate to say that she simply was not the timeless classic that Julie Andrews was. I spent the entire show wanting it to be over, on the verge of tears, but still hoping that they might pull it off. I was inevitably disappointed. Another example lies in the 1985 American drama, “Red Dawn.” This also stars Patrick Swayze and an all-star cast of anybody who was anybody in the ‘80s. Depicting a Cold War conflict, this teen story exemplifies the American fear of Communism and the will to fight back against it. The remake, released in 2012, was a serious blow to the old magic. Replacing the Russian invaders with North Koreans was the best possible option, but this addition had a loose application to life. Russian paratroopers in the mid‘80s was definitely influential, but the plot-line of this film was loosely strewn together. The only bright spot was the performance by Chris Hemsworth, and he looked pretty good in the meantime. Perhaps the most infu-
riating of remakes was the attempt at “Casablanca.” (Why would you even try that?) This 1942 film has been graven into the marble halls of film fame. Six of the movie’s quotes have been listed on the American Film Institute’s Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time list. In 1980, they tried their hand at a spinoff with some convoluted South American twist and titled it “Caboblanco.” Two miniseries tries joined the queue in 1955 on ABC and 1983 on NBC. The biggest heat that ever came up was when a production team paid to have it colorized in 1984. The list could go on and on with titles like “Sabrina” (1954 and 1995), “Psycho” (1960 and 1988), “BenHur” (1959 and 2016), or “Planet of the Apes” (1963 and 2001). There are some movies that can be remade, as I conceded above, but a classic never can. You can’t hear “Frankly, my dear,” without hearing Clark Gable sigh at a sniveling Vivian Leigh. You can’t hear, “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine,” without seeing Bogart crying over his bourbon in Rick’s Café Americain. There is no “A boy’s best friend is his mother,” without Anthony Perkins awkwardly stut-
tering to a nervous Janet Leigh, and no one can quote lines of T.S. Elliot better than Dennis Hopper in the wilds of Vietnam. Abby Scuito once said on “NCIS,” “A camera doesn’t think, it just records.” I think this best explains the situation. There are some scenes, some expressions, some lines and some faces that will never be replaced. Some moments were just lucky. The tears on Ingrid Bergman’s face when Rick leaves, the sweat on Charlton Heston’s brow as he kills a Philistine, the fear in Martin Sheen’s eyes as he awakes from a nightmare and the giggles from Jennifer Grey as Johnny Castle teaches her to dance. Those can’t be replaced. They can’t be engineered with a fancier camera or an expanded budget. Those moments are glimpses of American history, ageless artifacts of a simpler time. To try some advantageous marketing ploy on previous success is not just cheating and unoriginal, it’s embarrassingly sinful. While I know my foolish rants will get me nowhere, I still pray that this production team won’t put “Dirty Dancing” ‘in a corner,’ because any deviation from a black-leather clad Patrick Swayze would be a sin against art. n
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson By CHUCK FARMER Staff Writer
For this week’s article, I was told to write about the biggest mentor in my life. I struggled for a long time to find someone worthy of putting in the paper until I remembered my childhood. I was constantly surrounded by a multitude of family and friends, which is why I have decided to pick Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. I bet you didn’t see that one coming. When I was young, my dad and I watched wrestling all the time, and this was an era where some of the greatest wrestlers of all time emerged. You had people like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Kane, The Undertaker, The Big Show and the People’s Champion: The Rock. I know what you’re saying to yourself. You’re saying, “Chuck, how can you possibly say that The Rock is your greatest mentor if you have never met him?” To this I would say the same thing that Dwayne Johnson would say in the ring, “IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!” Sure, I’ve never met the guy. But do I look at old clips of his wrestling days on YouTube and watch all of his movies? Yes. I do, and if you don’t…then shame
on you. The Rock would come out before a match and just roast everybody before he gave them “the people’s elbow.” In many ways, he taught me how to be a man. Before you beat someone, you should make them feel bad on an emotional level. Genius. He would also ask people to introduce themselves into the microphone, and before they could say their name he would grab the mic and yell, “IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!” It was awesome. To be real for a second, most wrestlers are roidraging bags of insanity, but when I was a kid, they taught me how to have a spine. They dealt with their problems, not with diplomacy or compromise, but by utterly destroying them and everything they ever loved. It’s kind of beautiful if you think about it. I’m not sure why I liked The Rock more than anybody else; it was probably because the guy was a winner. He won a national championship when he played for the Miami Hurricanes, he was the first third-generation wrestler the WWE ever had and he was a triple crown champion, holding the World Heavyweight Championship, the Tag Team Championship and the Intercontinental
Championship. Basically, he was the GOAT. I was amazed. I was like the kid in the Nintendo 64 YouTube video when he came out for a match. I was up in arms every time he was in a TLC match, which doesn’t stand for tender loving care. It stands for tables, ladders and chairs. As he moved on to movies, I was a little disappointed because the first couple were piles of garbage, but eventually he became really good. At the time, people told him that he couldn’t act, and I will admit that even I was skeptical. But this year he was listed as the highest paid actor of 2016. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world for this year, and a popular muscle magazine named him “Man of the Century.” The Rock is the best teacher for perseverance. Everybody said that he couldn’t act, and now he’s making millions of dollars. So if someone tells you that you can’t do something similar, you should imitate The Dwayne by putting on some spandex, throwing on your Ray Bans, raising one eyebrow and yelling “IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!” Basically, If you don’t like The Rock, I don’t like you. n
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Thursday, September 15, 2016 u page 7
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In Memoriam: Antwion Patterson, Class of 2015 By IAN CRAFT Sports Editor
Impact. It is not something that can be measured by a tape measure or a yard marker. There are no statistics to define the amount a person leaves behind in their lifetime. There are no scales, balances or tools to tell an exact measurement of the people’s lives someone touched or the moments shared. For someone who plays sports, their life revolves around stats. In Antwion’s case, sacks, hurries, pressures and tackles led the way when talking about his performance on the field. That is part of Antwion that can be measured. What we can’t ever fully comprehend, though, is the amount of influence he had on those around him. The people in his life that he touched, those who remember his jokes and smile, they’re the ones he impacted, and that half of Antwion can’t even begin to be measured. Antwion Patterson, who came to Ouachita by way of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Ga., was an impact player the moment he stepped onto campus. Although he didn’t play much his freshman year, in the eight games he made it onto the field he left his presence known, both as a defender and a vocal leader. His sophomore season, he caught fire. With two sacks and four forced fumbles, he was a force to be reckoned with along the defensive line. In 2012, he had 69 tackles, two more sacks and four forced fumbles. Four times he was named Defensive Player of the Week. What was even more incredible about these feats was his size. Along the defensive line, these players are expected to be huge. Antwion was not, but what he lacked in size, he more than made up for with a motor that never quit, blinding speed and well above average upper body strength. So that was Antwion on the field. He’s arguably one of the most talented players to ever play for the Tigers here at Ouachita, and a menace to offensive lines across the GAC. So why tell all of his statistics on the field? People talk a lot about leaving their footprint on the world. The footprint he left on the field was massive, as you can see, but off the field is where his influence was felt the most. “Antwion was the kind of guy that you immedi-
ately liked. He never failed to share his smile with the world, and man was it a great smile. I’ll never forget that about him. You were a member of his OBU family the minute you met him, and he treated you as if you were the most important person in his life at that moment. Antwion never gave up when the going got hard. He always responded to a challenge, and I always believed that he would win no matter what the odds. He simply wouldn’t give up. We lost
at his memorial service in Berry Chapel recently. “You see, Antwion loved people, and he had a way of making you feel like you were a member of his family. He had several families here. He loved his OBU football family and made deep and fulfilling bonds there. His influence on the lives of dozens of young men [and] several older ones will last deep into the future. Those influences are certain to reach into generations to come. He loved playing beside his
Dr. Kluck z Photo Credit Patterson (left) and teammate Rickey Brown (right) celebrate after a game against Valdosta State. Antwion led the team in forced fumbles during that season.
Dr. Kluck z Photo Credit Dr. Jess Kelly, assistant professor of biology presents the devotional at the memorial for Antwion. The memorial was held on the 8th of September in Berry Chapel.
a father, friend and family member way too young last week. I do celebrate knowing that Antwion was a Christian and that he is not gone, but merely has gone ahead of us. We will see him again,” said Dr. Jess Kelly, assistant professor of biology. Dr. Kelly had the privledge of honoring Antwion
brothers, and he was fiercely loyal to his football family. He also loved his Ouachita family. I observed this many times. Each one of you here today were lucky enough to be a part of his OBU family because he loved and valued each of us as one of his own, and we were. He loved this home away from home and each of you who became his
OBU brothers and sisters. What joy you brought to his life and he to ours. He also loved his Clark County Foster Children’s family, where he gave of himself to make others happy and to let them know in some form what a family was like. He was a solid influence, reliable and a light to others in a dark and uncertain world. He just loved everyone and he always wore a milliondollar smile doing it. What a godly example that he set for each of us to strive for,” Dr. Kelly said. Being there for others is what he based his life around, whether it was his teammates, his friends, or those at the Children’s Home. “He spent a lot of time working with kids at the local Boys and Girls’ Club. He would bring them to Ouachita football games, and once the game was over, he would lead them onto the field for photographs with our current players. He had a soft place for children in foster care, or those who needed the support of the community in that way. He gave the most precious commodity anyone can give—his time—to make them happy,”said Dr. Casey Motl, associate professor of history. He left a mark on each and every one of them. If you ask them about him, they’ll always tell you about his trademark smile. No matter what he was doing, whether work or play, you would never find him without a smile on his face. His friends noticed this, and so did his teachers. “One of the things that people often cite about Antwion is how big his heart was. I think the primary reason for that is that, whenever he connected in a meaningful way with another person, his heart grew in size to embrace them. I think his ‘essential spark’ came from connecting with people. Having and caring for a family was the most important ambition of his life, and because he felt that way, he had a broad understanding of the definition of ‘family’ above and beyond kin. It included friends, professors, coaches, fans-anyone who touched his life in an affirming way, he saw as family and invested back in them. Wherever he went, light, warmth and joy traveled with him. I consider him a member of my family, and I’m humbled and honored to know that he felt the same way,” Dr.
Motl said. In caring about so many people, Antwion had a strong sense of family. It meant more to him than most anything. “Antwion loved family. One of his life’s dreams was to be a father and husband and lead his own family one day. He loved each of his family members dearly and was so proud of those two beautiful little girls Addy and Aubree. A strong love for family was something you never doubted about this good young man. You, his family, blessed every single day of his life, and by doing so, you blessed each of us who knew him because Antwion shared his blessings with all of us in many special ways,” Dr. Kelly said of Antwion. He also left a big smile and a huge impression on every single person on the team. “Antwion had a huge impact on my life. The only reason I’ll probably be graduating in May is because of Antwion Patterson. I met him as a freshman while moving in the dorm; he came down and helped me move in. At the time I didn’t think anything of it, but as the years went by, that’s just who he was. He always helped, no matter what the situation was; he loved putting everyone before him. When I decided to leave school to chase after a football dream, Patterson told me to stop by on my way to Dallas so he could see me. Well when I got here, we talked, and he told me how much he wanted to see me make it to the NFL and other little things. Right before I got in the car, he gave me $300 ‘in case of emergency.’ He didn’t have to do it, I didn’t ask him; he did it because he just wanted to help people any way he can. He never asked for it back. So if I could think of one word to describe Antwion it would be ‘selfless,’“ said former teammate Chris Rycraw. Impact. It’s not something that can be measured. If it could, we would still be counting up Antwion’s. For all the stats, the sacks and tackles, the terrified faces of opposing quarterbacks as they scrambled to get away from his incredible speed, he left more smiles and memories. Antwion is missed greatly, but he is not gone, rather he is gone ahead. We can all take solace in that amazing fact, because now he knows perfect peace and love, and we should celebrate for him all the more.n
Dr. Kluck z Photo Credit The Ouachita Tigers run onto the field at the start of their game against Valdosta State in 2011 in Arkadelphia. Antwion (center), wearing 21 in the picture, switched to nine after the season.
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From Brazil to Arkansas, travel and tennis By MARCELLUS HILL SPORTS WRITER
At some point in our lives, we all experience changes. These changes may be unexpected, expected, unwanted, or wanted. Regardless of what the scenario may be, we all experience changes throughout the course of our life, and for Camila Ferreira, a dramatic change occurred as she left her home country, Brazil, to play tennis and study abroad here at Ouachita. Camila Ferreira, a senior kinesiology pre-professional major, has lived the majority of her life in Brazil. She is from the city of Sao Paulo, and she made note that she wasn’t into playing sports for a good portion of her childhood. “I was never into athletics, I had zero coordination until I started playing tennis; but I always liked sports so I would always watch soccer and volleyball,” Camila said. In high school, Camila suffered an injury while playing handball that resulted in her not being able to play any sports with impact. While tennis may be the sport Camila eventually chose to play, she also mentioned that she loved volleyball. “My dream was to be a volleyball player, but I could not jump because of my injury,” Camila said. It wasn’t until she paid her aunt a trip to the hospital when she developed an affection for tennis. Her aunt had just given birth at the time, and her uncle (who was also there) was playing virtual tennis on a PlayStation Portable and insisted that she give it try. “I started playing on the PlayStation Portable and thought that it was so cool that I decided I was going to play tennis,” Camila said. When people think of Brazil, nine times out of ten, soccer would be the sport associated with the country. Hardly any would associate tennis with her country, and Camila knew that. She made note that, in fact, tennis is not popular in Brazil. “It’s not popular at all because it’s expensive. If you want to take lessons, it’s expensive. Buying the tennis rackets and balls is expensive, so it’s a really expensive sport,” Camila said. Camila didn’t begin playing tennis until she was 15 and had to work extremely hard to develop her skill level before college. When she first started taking tennis lessons, she really didn’t improve in the beginning because she said her coaches weren’t the best and were primarily interested in making money. She then made a switch, and she liked her new coaches because of how considerate they were in making sure she got better while also covering the majority of her expenses for the lessons. “My coaches back at home were angels because they basically let me play for free,” Camila said. Camila has always wanted to come to the United Stated ever since she was young.
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SENIOR Camila Ferreira, of Sao Paulo, Brazil (right), with teammate Vanja Bogetic (left), a senior from Budva, Montenegro.
Dr. Kluck y Courtesy FRONT ROW: Baylee McBride, Camila Ferreira, Valeriya Mansvetova. BACK ROW: Mallory Tabler, Vanja Bogetic and Polina Tsymbalova.
According to her mother, she would always talk about how she wanted to come to the United States, even if it was for only a day. Camila did make note that she originally had no idea that she could attend a college in the United States and play tennis for that college as well. At one point, she almost quit playing tennis because she felt it wasn’t getting her anywhere. “One of my coaches told me that I could play tennis for a university in the U.S and get scholarships. That’s the main reason I kept playing,” Camila said. The next three years were very stressful for Camila, as she basically had no free time to do anything. She would attend school from 7 a.m-12:45 p.m. and would basically train in tennis for the remainder of the day. “After school, I would go home, eat something quick, take the bus to the facility, play from 2-8, come home
and study. So I basically had no breaks,” Camila said. The recruiting process for Camila was slightly different than that of an American high school athlete. For Camila, a company called Daqui Pra For a, played a huge role in leading her to Ouachita. This company also helped other foreign student athletes to come to Ouachita. “Basically what this company does, is you tell them you want to go to the U.S. You tell them your sport, and they help you with your tests (SAT and ACT). Once you [are] done with all of your tests, [they] put you in contact with universities. They’ve been in the market a long time, so they already know a lot of places and universities,” Camila said. Camila saw Ouachita as the best fit for her, mainly due to the fact that she received good scholarships. “Because my GPA coming out of high school was really good, they gave me a lot of
scholarship money on top of tennis,” Camila said. After arriving at Ouachita as a freshman, Camila found it difficult adjusting as a student athlete because she really didn’t know English well at the time. “It’s hard for everybody being a student athlete to keep up with everything, but for me it was even harder because I didn’t know English. I was taking a bunch of English classes while being a student athlete so at the beginning it was really hard,” Camila said. However, Camila made note that she is much more comfortable managing her time as a student athlete due to her knowing the English language better. Camila also explained some of the cultural differences between the United States and Brazil. One of the differences she mentioned was the way people greet in America compared to Brazil. “In Brazil, people are
warm, and when you greet them, you give them a hug and kiss on the cheek. Here, people shake hands,” Camila said. The decision to come to the United States was very sudden for Camila. “My senior year, after taking exams for college here (Brazil) and there (U.S.), one day I decided I’m leaving. That’s my shot, because everybody back home has that dream to leave, but they are still there. They would keep planning and planning, and I knew if I stayed [that] I would get comfortable,” Camila said. Although she left her family, Camila says that her family is 100 percent supportive of her coming and living in the U.S. Sometimes a change is needed, and for Camila, she knew that coming to the U.S. was that change. Following graduation, Camila wants to go home for a year to catch up with family while also applying for jobs in the U.S. and in Brazil.n
“It’s hard for everybody being a student athlete to keep up with everything, but for me it was even harder because I didn’t know English. I was taking a bunch of English classes while being a student athlete, so at the beginning it was really hard.” --Camile Ferreria