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Honesty Details about submitting entries for Honesty Project, p.2
Pass the Salt Career Services hosts interview dinner tonight, p.3 Tyler Rosenthal z The Signal Junior Caleb Cunningham dances with his partner during the competition portion of last year’s Spring Swing. This year’s Great Gatsby themed Spring Swing will take place March 19 in Walker Conference Center.
Honors students to host Gatsby themed Spring Swing Model Students OBU Model U.N. students travel to St. Louis, p.4
iPhone Addicts Focusing on the screen distracts us from the now, p. 5
By BRITTANY EWART Staff Writer
It’s time to get out the flapper dresses and the threepiece suits because it’s time for Spring Swing and it’s the best one yet: Great Gatsby themed. The honors program is hosting this event full of dancing, food, contests and fun. It will take place Wednesday, March 19, at 8:30 p.m. in Walker Conference Center. The prices will be $5 for couples, $3 for individuals and $10 to enter the
dance competition. This relatively new event is not only a great fundraiser for the honors program, but it is a fun dance similar to TWIRP, where students can come and dance, eat and have a great time with friends. Sarah Davis, a senior Christian studies and theatre arts double major, and Madeline Martin, a junior biology education major, are working together to plan this Gatsby themed extravaganza. Davis and Martin are hop-
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the Charleston. There will be prizes for winning the contests. “We have been doing all of the behind the scenes work to make this event the best yet, including shopping for Gatsby themed decorations, gathering the most exciting judges, promoting the event and recruiting competitors,” Martin said. In addition to the contests and dancing, there will also see SWING z 2
Riley-Hickingbotham Library to host discussion panel for Created Equal Project
Print Lives Print journalism is not dead yet, only changing, p. 5
Loyalty Advantage Do players who stick with one team do better in the long run? p.6
ing that the event will be a fun event for all students to attend. “What I think is interesting about this event is that it’s really unique,” Davis said. “It’s going to be different than a stereotypical TWIRP event. Not only is it a different theme that allows you to dress up and have a lot more fun with it, it’s an actual dance.” There will be a dance contest, costume contest and also step-by-step teaching of swing dancing, including how to do
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Emily Terry z The Signal T.J. Bailey will release his album, “This is My Father’s World” at a concert Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Arkadelphia.
Senior to hold album release concert Friday By Emily Terry Editor-in-Chief
@emilymterry On Friday night at 7:30 p.m., senior worship arts major T.J. Bailey will host an album release concert for his album, “This is My Father’s World” at the First United Methodist Church of Arkadelphia. The album, which features 12 songs, is the first for Bailey and is a culmination of a lifetime of loving music and a couple years of songwriting. “I’ve always known I wanted to do something like this,” he said. “It was just a matter of when I was going to do it.” Bailey hopes to use the album as a means to bring people together in worship. “I wanted to do something
that would bring people from different generations and different cultures together to worship,” Bailey said. In the making of the album, he brought in many different people in the recording process, resulting in a sound more like a group effort than a solo project. “There were a couple songs where I went to some theology professors and made sure the lyrics were okay,” he said. “For the music, I arranged and wrote every single song except one song where [Tony Terry] arranged some string parts and one song that Zeke Garcia and I wrote together. Other than that, I did the rest on my own.” For the musicians on the tracks, Bailey called on friends see ALBUM z 3
Ouachita Baptist University’s Riley-Hickingbotham Library will host a panel discussion on civil rights Monday, March 17, at 6 p.m. in Walker Conference Center Room A. The event, which is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)’s Created Equal Project, is free and open to the public. The discussion will highlight the history of the civil rights movement in the U.S. and more specifically, civil rights issues in Arkansas and Arkadelphia. Background for most of the discussion will come from the documentary film “Freedom Riders,” which recounts the harsh realities of the Freedom Rides of 1961. “The panel will bring together a cross section of historians and active participants of the civil rights struggle,” said Lacy Wolfe, assistant professor and circulation/reference librarian. “Every student should take this opportunity to learn firsthand about the impact of the civil rights movement from people who participated in it.” The three panelists leading the discussion will include Dr. Martin Halpern, professor of history at Henderson State University; Dr. Lewis Shepherd, vice president for student and external affairs at HSU; and Kyle Jones, scholar coordinator for the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program at HSU. According to the NEH website, Created Equal is an
initiative to “encourage communities across the country to revisit the history of civil rights in America and to reflect on the ideals of freedom and equality.” “From my perspective, the perspective of someone who grew up in another world to which I would not want to return, this session is not to be missed by people of good will who are also willing to be reminded of what good and ill will look like in the arena of human society,” said Dr. Ray Granade, Ouachita director of library services and professor of history. Henderson State University’s librarian, David Sesser, received a grant for the Created Equal project, in partnership with OBU’s Riley-Hickingbotham Library and the Arkadelphia Public Library. In addition to the panel at OBU, the public library will host an article discussion over the short film “Slavery by Another Name” on Thursday, April 10, at 10 a.m. and a children’s program Saturday, April 12, at 10 a.m. HSU also previously hosted a lecture as part of the project. “These events are important as they help bring the ongoing struggle to campus so that students and the local community can connect with them,” added Wolfe. “The civil rights movement is relevant today as people across the country continue to strive for equality for all in the United States.” For more information on the discussion panel, contact Lacy Wolfe at wolfel@obu.edu or (870) 245 5119. n