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Musical, first to be performed in Jones, opens tonight

By MATTIE BOGOSLAVSKY Staff Writer

Twenty-five years ago, “Hello, Dolly!” was the first show to grace the stage in Jones Performing Arts Center (JPAC). This weekend, Dolly is back.

In the title role, Bethany Swiontek, a senior musical theater major, leads a cast of more than 40, with many more behind the scenes.

Freshman theatre major Walter Dodd, said he believes it is going to be a great show.

“This show has a lot of extravagant spectacles in it,” Dodd said. “There are a lot of wow-factors: two people playing a horse, crazy costumes with feathers and bright colors and other non-sense and the characters themselves are even ‘over the top’ in nature.”

He has been in theater for seven years and still loves it.

His favorite part about being involved in musicals and plays is working with the cast and crew.

“You’re always with each other, so you develop friendships and strengthen the ones you have already,” said Dodd.

“And because you’re always together you all can help each other with.”

Minnie Fae is Dodd’s favorite character, because she’s bubbly, energetic, and always has a smile on her face.

“She’s part of the cute factor of the show, which is always a crowd favorite,” he said.

“When Barnaby and Minnie do their dance numbers, you just can’t look away.”

Minnie Fae is played by freshman musical theatre major Hailey Weiner and senior

musical theatre major Heather White, and Barnaby is played by junior musical theatre major Garrett Whitehead.

“This entire show has been an adventure,” Whitehead said. “Playing opposite some of my best friends has been such a blessing. Barnaby is the goofy, easily amused sidekick, and I feel as though this is the first character that reminds me of myself. I owe a lot of my success with this part to Mary, Dr. J. and Chad because without them my work would be mediocre.”

The show has already sold more than 900 tickets in presales, which is the most the musical theater department has ever sold before the show has opened. There are more than 40 people in the cast with see DOLLY z 3

Halaby to present paper, ‘Crystal Bridges,’ in Denmark

By SAM CUSHMAN News Editor

@SamuelCushman Dr. Raouf Halaby, professor of English and visual arts at Ouachita, has been invited to present a scholarly paper at the Sixth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Statens Museum for Kunst, the National Gallery of Denmark, on April 22-23.

According to the Inclusive Museum’s website, Halaby’s paper “explains the important role the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art plays in providing museum goers the opportunity to view a rich concentration of American art.”

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There are many questions students face when entering college and even more as they begin the voyage into the “real world.” What am I doing, where am I going and how do I get there? Where do my priorities lie and what will happen if I can’t do it all? Before getting too bogged down, students can rest assured that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Career Services is available as a launching point for every Ouachita student, no matter their classification.

Whether you are an upperclassman preparing for your life ahead or a freshman that doesn’t know where to begin, you are not on this journey alone. Career Services is an organization at Ouachita whose main goal is equipping students with the answers, opportunities and connections needed to succeed both on campus and off. It’s never too early to start taking advantage of all that Career Services has to offer.

“I really hope that more people will get involved with Career Services as a freshman or a sophomore,” said Aly Smith, a sophomore Mass Communications major, “be-

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On Jul. 30, 2012, Dr. Jay Curlin, professor of English, had a poem featured in The New Yorker. Curlin never submitted the poem, but after a remarkable set of circumstances, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, contacted Curlin and asked him whether he might publish it in the magazine. The poem, entitled “Evidence of Things Not Seen,” was written in the fall of 2010 to feature

By Tanner Ward two words that appeared in the Editor-in-Chief Daily Word Game utilized by ight students and two professors got what will professors to enhance students’ probably be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in vocabulary. The words were May. They, along with a community member, were “Higgs-Boson,” the legendary granted an almost unheard of invitation to tour god particle and “hirsute,” a Saudi Arabia, a country typically closed to tourism outword meaning hairy. The poside of religious purposes. em’s title is a reference to the Dr. Barbara Pemberton, associate professor of Christian Bible verse Hebrews 11:1. missions and one of the professors who attended, said “After a couple of years of the trip was the result of years of talks between herself, playing the daily word games, a tour company in Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Arabian [Jay] would put [them] in his Nicole McPhate z The Signal embassy in thethe United Theofcertainty of the trip was in the reading in poems he STUDENTS ENJOY newStates. features Dr. Jack’s Coffeehouse recentlyquizzes renovated Evans Student Center. The first president’s unknown evenhelp to the last minute. wrote that he called lexical iconic mutton chops to reinforce the sense of school heritage among students.

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Every morning the line in front of Dr. Jack’s Coffeehouse stretches across the student center as students line up to get their fix of Starbucks brand coffee. Beginning next semester, however, the Starbucks will be no more.

When students return in August, the coffee available at Dr. Jack’s will be coffee with a cause. All the new coffee will be made from original recipes specific to Ouachita, and every purchase of the coffee will help support an orphanage in Honduras that is part of the World Gospel Outreach (WGO) ministry.

“It started last summer when we were getting ready to open the new coffee shop,” said Dr. Brett Powell, vice president for administrative services. “We knew we needed a name for the shop to give it some kind of identity, so we had a couple of meetings just to think through what name to put on the coffee shop, and Dr. Jack’s came out of that.

“After we got the name and the logo it was just such a neat concept that we started thinking about what else we could do with it.”

Around the time that the planning for Dr. Jack’s took place, Enactus, a student organization with the school of business, was working on a project with WGO. “WGO is a Christian organization that operates a mission house and an orphanage in Honduras,” said Judith Brizuela, senior psychology and business major and president of Enactus. “The organization’s work is supported through the sale of coffee grown at the orphanage. In addition to creating a small business curriculum for local

entrepreneurs, our Enactus team wanted to help WGO sell more coffee so that it could to support more orphans.”

“With the work that Enactus was doing with WGO, and us thinking about coffee for Dr. Jack’s, we just made the connection that maybe there’s someway we could find a way to sell coffee that has some kind of purpose behind it,” Powell said. “Every time a student buys a cup, something happens that does some good.”

The new recipes will be created this summer. Although it will not be the Starbucks everyone is used to, students can rest assured that the Honduran coffee is of good quality, and since the coffee is coming from the WGO ministry, they can be sure that it is fair trade.

Since these will be original recipes made specifically for Ouachita, the bookstore will sell packaged versions of the coffee so students can have their morning coffee in the dorm room without having to walk all the way to Dr. Jack’s.

“We’ve met with a couple of different people who work in the coffee industry to see how we might be able to do all this and create our own recipes, what help we need and what we can do on our own,” Powell said. “Now we’re working on branding and the packaging for the coffee.”

The new coffee will add to the unique identity of Ouachita and Dr. Jack’s.

“It gives us a way to connect outside the university and it helps the students to see that we’re doing something other than just serving ourselves, that we’re serving other people through the things that we do,” Powell said. “I’m just looking forward to drinking a cup of the new Dr. Jack’s coffee.” n

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The paper, under the title “The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Silences Snobbish Critics,” defends the Crystal Bridges museum from criticism that harshly attacks it and which Halaby believes to be “chauvinistic and ethnocentric, if not downright biased.” The paper also praises the museum’s architecture and its art collection; it also praises the role Alice Walton has played in helping place a great collection of American art in the heart of America. In the paper, Halaby writes: “I would like to state that what the Medici’s were to Florence and to the Renaissance, Alice Walton is to the United States and American

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“HELLO, DOLLY!” will take place tonight through Saturday from 7:30- 9:30 p.m. in JPAC. For more information, contact: Scott Holsclaw at holsclaw@obu.edu.

DRIVE-IN MOVIE will take place tomorrow night from 8:30-10:30 p.m. in the football field parking lot. For more information, contact: Breanna Bullington at hol47921@obu.edu.

REFUGE will take place tonight from 9–10 p.m. at Second Baptist Church.

For more information, contact: James Taylor at taylorja@obu.edu.

SPIRIT SQUAD TRYOUTS will take place Saturday from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. at SPEC Arena and classroom 304.

For more information, contact: Brian Bridges at brianjbridges@gmail.com.

LIVE MUSIC at Dr. Jack’s Coffeehouse will take place tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. in the Evans Student Center. For more information, contact: Allison Sweatman at sweatmana@obu.edu.

JAZZ BAND CONCERT will take place Monday, April 22, from 7:30- 9 p.m. in JPAC. For more information, contact: Scott Holsclaw at holsclaws@obu.ede.

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There were two subsequent z Continued from Page 1 controversial events when Alice Walton wanted to purchase art. And just as the Medici’s “The Gross Clinic” by Thomas were criticized for their vast Akins and the Georgia O’Keefe wealth and the power they collection from Fisk University. wielded in Tuscany and Italy, Halaby also said that some the Waltons continue to be crit- criticism ensued shortly before icized for a myriad of things.” and right after the opening of According to Halaby, many the museum. of the critics would not de- “Some critics questioned lineate between the Crystal whether ‘a world-class mubridges museum, Alice Wal- seum in such a remote area of ton, the Walmart Corporation the country’ made sense,” he and the Walmart Foundation. said. “The attitude of a lot of “I wish that they had re- the critics from the Northeast frained from conflating was that if you are going to Walmart and its practices with have a world class museum, the museum itself,” he said. then it should either be in New “Although, I might add, that York, Boston, Philadelphia or one or two critics were justi- maybe Chicago. In fact, one fied. For example, one critic critic referred to Arkansas as pointed out that there is not a ‘a fly-over state.’ I took issue good representation of folk art with this and felt that this was or naïve art. In that regard, I an elitist attitude and that this fully agree because folk art is criticism was unjustified.” not only a very legitimate ar- This research, Halaby said, tistic expression, but it is also consisted of four years’ worth an integral part of a rich genre of gathering information from in American art.” a variety of sources, including According to Halaby, the newspaper clippings, profescriticism of Walton started sional journals, magazines, back in 2005 when she bought radio interviews and the Interthe painting “Kindred Spirits” net. He would find and read

by Asher Brown Durand. The these articles, clip them, print painting was hanging in a New and Xerox all relevant informaYork public library and Walton tion and file them by content. wanted to buy the work. When In addition to this, Halaby the transaction became pub- joined his three art colleagues

“@prophiphop” Ben Thomas, senior

and a group of 12 art majors on a trip to Bentonville for the museum’s 11-11-11 opening back in November 2011. Halaby said that the trip proved to be a historic and fruitful experience for art majors and for the art faculty. Halaby said that he was very impressed with the museum and has subsequently made other trips.

“I think it’s a great museum that exhibits a great and rich collection of American art in a chronological manner and in one location,” he said. “The other thing that impressed me was the beautiful architectural design. It blends in with the environment. It’s a modern architectural design; the inside is very inviting.”

“Besides,” Halaby added, “this museum affords folks who live in the American heartland the opportunity to view great art that delights and instructs. My highest praise for Alice Walton’s efforts to bring culture to rural America.”

The name of the museum Crystal Bridges comes from the name Crystal Creek, which runs through the land on which the museum rests.

When they built the museum, they dammed the creek and created two pools on which the major structures rest. The museum’s architecture gives

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it the appearance of bridges.

Halaby says that from a distance the impression he gets of the museum is of giant turtles perched in a creek.

“For me there is something symbolic about that,” he said.

“A turtle carries all of its vitals on the inside and so you have this beautiful structure with a lot of beautiful artwork in the interior space.”

While studying art history, Halaby took two courses on museum studies and he said his interest in museums comes from a professional perspective.

“Once a year the International Inclusive Museum organization brings together museum staff, scholars, artists, art educators, UNESCO officials and government officials from across the globe to present new research findings that deal with all aspects pertaining to museums, large or small,” he said. “You wouldn’t believe the wide range of papers that will be presented.”

Halaby said that after a brief introductory narrative on the Waltons, Walmart, the structure and the museum’s collection, the concentration of his presentation will be on the caustic criticism that the museum received by “ethnocentric, effete and downright pomp-

Abbey Jamieson z The Signal RAOUF HALABY, professor of English and visual arts, will present his paper on Crystal Bridges Museum in Denmark.

ous” critics.

While at the conference, Halaby will attend two receptions, a tour of the Statens Museum for Kunst and a tour of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen.

Coincidentally, scholars have indicated that the latter Danish museum’s design influenced Moshe Safdie, the architect of Crystal Bridges. Halaby also plans to visit Tivoli Gardens, the second oldest amusement park in the world. He also said that while he is there, he plans to “immerse himself in Danish culture.” n

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NATIONAL ― Investigators have

recovered part of a circuit board that is believed to have been used in one bomb detonated in Boston on Monday.

They also found the lid of a pressure cooker they think housed one of the deadly devices. The twin bombings, which were set off close to the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon, killed three people and wounded more than 180. A law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, confirmed that investigators have recovered what they believe are some of the pieces of the explosive devices. It had been revealed Tuesday that the bombs had been contained in pressure cookers -large, sealed pots that serve to make a ‘low explosive’ bomb even deadlier by allowing pressure to build before the blast goes off. n

WORLD ― Sixteen people were

injured yesterday in a bomb blast near the ruling BJP’s office in Bangalore, which Karnataka deputy chief minister R. Ashok said was an act of terror. Government sources in New Delhi said the bombing was indeed a “terror attack” and the city was lucky to have escaped a major tragedy since a huge crowd was milling around the BJP office. Elections in Bangalore are scheduled to take plac on May 5 and today was the last day for the filing of political party nominations. The banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM), who is responsible for several bombings in different parts of the country, was suspected to be behind the blast. Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde yesterday said that he will order an inquiry into the blast that took place outside the BJP office in Bangalore. n

SCIENCE ― Astronomers have

discovered a new type of cosmic explosion. Scientists working at the University of Warwick have identified an undocumented type of gamma-ray burst, the product of massive stars destroyed in a way previously unknown to astronomers. Gamma-ray bursts are among the most powerful forces in nature. As a supergiant star goes supernova, it shoots out directed beams of concentrated gamma-rays across vast distances. A typical burst can release as much energy in a few seconds as the sun does in its entire 10-billion-year lifespan. These events are extremely rare, and the only ones that have observed to date have occurred outside our galaxy. Scientists believe it is possible that the Ordovician extinction, which happened about 450 million years ago, was caused by a gamma-ray burst. n

HEALTH ― The U.S. Food and Drug

Administration approved yesterday an updated labeling for Purdue Pharma L.P.’s reformulated OxyContin tablets. The new labeling indicates that the product has physical and chemical properties that are expected to make abuse via injection difficult and to reduce abuse via the intranasal route. Additionally, because original OxyContin provides the same therapeutic benefits as reformulated OxyContin, but poses an increased potential for certain types of abuse, the FDA has determined that the benefits of original OxyContin no longer outweigh its risks and original OxyContin was withdrawn from sale for reasons of safety or effectiveness. The government agency will not accept or approve any abbreviated new drug applications that rely upon the approval of original OxyContin.n

Compiled by Sam Cushman, News Editor. Sources: bbc.co.uk, ctvnews.com, hindustantimes.com, fda.gov

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The show is directed by Mary Handiboe, a Ouachita graduate and current professor. She played Ernestina in the original showing of the play at Ouachita, which is now played by senior musical theatre majors Shay Michael and Lola McClendon.

“This is a delightful musical and our students are doing a fantastic job with the style and comedy needed for such a vintage show,” Handiboe said. “Since performing in the production 25 years ago, I have often wanted to revisit Dolly.

It’s proven to be great timing with the majors we have now, coupled with the anticipation of the musical theatre reunion we’ll host in conjunction with our Saturday show.”

Several people involved in

the original production will be joining the cast, including the show’s director, Gene Ellis.

“It will be exciting to watch his reaction to how we have grown as he recognizes what he helped start back in 1988.”

Handiboe said.

The show opens tonight at 7:30 pm in JPAC and will run through Sunday. The tickets are ten dollars each, and current students can get one free ticket with their student ID cards. n ABOVE: Ray Granade, director of Library Services, appears on stage with Swiontek in a cameo for “Hello, Dolly!”

FAR LEFT: Bethany Swiontek portrays the charachter Dolly.

LEFT: Swiontek, Garrett Whitehead and Chad Burris perform during “Hello, Dolly!”

Photos by Tyler Rosenthal.

SCHOLARS’ DAY 2013 - PRESENTATION SCHEDULE Wednesday, April 24 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Group A: 1:45-3:00 p.m.

Riley-Hickingbotham Library

Janeal Murphey, Sarah Moore. “Willpower: Would YOU Conform?”

Lindsay Johnson. “Identification and Morphological Characterization of Eleven Mycobacteriophages from Arkansas” Trevor Meece. “Genomic Analysis of a Mycobacteriophage identified in Arkansas” Lauren Telford, Tiffany Ohman. “The Walking Dead Meets Urie Bronfenbrenner” Courtney Hemeyer, Matt Peckat. “Constructing Specific Biological Parts Using Synthetic Biology” Joyce Johnson. “Sensory Evaluation of Cornbread Prepared with Sugar Substitutes” Kara Reynolds. “How Shoes Affect Balance and Posture” Natalie Whisenant, Kate Collins. “Survey of outdoor activities of Ouachita Students” Andrew Russell. “Ajulemic Acid as a Treatment for Cancer” Jose Medina, Allison Smith. “The Effects of Attractiveness and Education in Employment” Colt Fason. “An ACL Prevention Workout Plan to Reduce Knee Injuries to Active Students and Athletes” Mary Whisenhunt, Abbey Smith, Stephanie Simpson. “Knowing is Not Enough” Elizabeth Blankenship. “Effects of Ajulemic acid on Thrombospondin Production in Ewing’s Sarcoma” Ryan Tibbets. “Utilization of the Full-Depth Squat and its Effect on Vertical Jump Performance” Kristen Johnson, Stephen Raines. “Quantifying Abiotic Stress Resistance in Tobacco Plants Constitutively Expressing a Glucose-Oxidase Transgene” Carrie Lieblong. “Toxicity of Aspirin to Daphnia Magna” Dayla Brogdon, Morgan Pitchford. “Effects of Caffeine and Exercise on Attention” Cody Stroud. “Creation and Testing of an OBUPride Lysogen” Thomas Boles. “Positive Effects of Core Strength on the Performance of Football Players” Austin Lindsey. “Population Study”

Sara Huneycutt, Caroline Gill. “Anti-Tumor Effects of Ajulemic Acid on the Ewing’s Sarcoma Family of Tumors”

Parlor, Summertree”

Cara Cox. “The Analysis of Bis-Phenol A in Water Samples Using Solid-Matrix Fluorescence”

Sarah Davis, Rachel Harris. “Duck Pond, Act II, Scene I (Henry V)”

Teresa Mursuli. “Does Kinesio Tape Help with The Range of Motion of The Shoulder?”

Jena McCarty. “Sensory Evaluation of Fudge Cake Prepared with Various Fat Substitutes” Ryan Newsom. “Head and neck injury prevention” Stephen Raines. “Gene Expression Measured in Transgenic N. Tobacum using RT-QPCR” Aubree Fry. “Calcium Fortification” Akane Forbess. “The effect of eating snacks on self-esteem and future snack choice” Ryan James. “The Effects of Ajulemic Acid on VEGF Production: Relevance to Angiogenic Potential in Ewing’s Sarcoma” Sunhye Kim. “The Response of Arabidopsis thaliana to light intensity and vector under simulated microgravity” Monica Smith. “How Does Psychology Factor Into the Rehabilitation of a Shoulder Injury?”

Brad Thomas. “Intervention for College Aged Athletes Experiencing Shoulder Pain Study” Rebecca Zandstra. “Bacillus Phage Hunt” Meagan Stiles, Macy Fouse. “Mood and Memory for Congruent and Incongruent Stimuli” Colby Petty, Amelia Lindsey. “Interaction of Phototropic and Gravitropic Responses of Arabidosis thaliana” Whitney Collier. “Effect of Hypobaria and Light Intensity on Arabidopsis thaliana” Gretchen Gosser. “Food Choice and the Effect of Peers” Amberly Green. “Summer 2012 Nutrition Education” Kevin Tello. “Difference Concussion Baseline Measurements Between Male And Female College Soccer Players”

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W. Francis McBeth Recital Hall Christopher Mazen. “Piano Blues No. 1”

Shelby McWhorter. “Performance Enhancement of Softball Distance”

Jillian Turner. “Sonatine”

Jeremy Cooper, Mary Zucha, Holly Wray. “The Relationship between Startle and Recall of Positive & Negative Words”

Drew Ervin. “A Little Prayer” Courtney Stanage. “Novelette Op. 21, No. 1” Molly Salmon, Terri Lucas. “The Faces of Love”

William Ball. “Sampling of Mills Creek”

Chad Burris, Phyllis Walker. “Whoop Dee Doo!”

Kody Moffatt. “Biomechanical Research in the Support of Swimming”

Kassie Johnsen. “Absolute Music”

Ramsey Vaughan. “The Effects of Age on Skill Performance in Adolescent Gymnastics”

Sean Jackson. “Polichinelle Op. 3, No. 4” Hannah Garner, Susan Monroe. “Ordinary Days”

Haley Fox, Chelsea Hill. “Social Learning Theory” Lindsay Johnson. “Identification and Morphological Characterization of Eleven Mycobacteriophages from Arkansas” Trevor Meece. “Genomic Analysis of a Mycobacteriophage identified in Arkansas” Chelsea Morehead, Lindsey Upshaw.

“Identification Among Individuals in Groups”

Sarah Davis. “Buttons”

Cody Webster. “Transfection of PTEN into Tf-1a cell lines”

Taylor Neeley. “Modified Porphyrins for Photodynamic Therapy of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer”

Group B: 3:15-4:30 p.m.

Riley-Hickingbotham Library

Timothy Drennan. “Act V, Scene III (Much Ado About Nothing)”

Bethany Swiontek, Louis Menendez. “Robert le diable” Bret Steed, Brent Nessler, Drew Ervin, Justin Massey, John Whitmore. “Summertime”

THEATRE SCENES 4:00-4:30 p.m.

Verser Theater

Lola McClendon, Terri Lucas. “Days of Plenty (Little Women), That’s Rich (Newsies)” Timothy Drennan, Gemma Guiomard. “Funeral

PRESENTATIONS 2:00-4:15 p.m.

McClellan Hall 205

2:00 – Aaron Cooley. “Confucian Influence on Chinese Government”

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Verser and Hammons Galleries

3:00 – Nicole McPhate. Hammons Gallery: “How Internships Shaped My Education” 3:20 – Rebekah Poyner. Verser Gallery: “Made Visible in Light” 3:40 – Courtney Sharp. Verser Gallery: “Details Surfaced”

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Group A: 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Walker Conference Center A 2:00 – McCrae Jones. “Psychological Techniques in Jury Consulting” 2:30 – Stacy Beck. “Networking and Revolution: How the Social Media has shaped the Arab Spring” 3:00 – Raley Howard. “The Making of Erased”

2:45 – Shelby McAdoo, Brittany Proffer. “John Locke’s Philosophy of Education” 3:00 – Megan Massey. “The Overtones of Instrumentalists and Their Personalities” 3:30 – Maegan Hodge. “Enriching Lives: Exploring the Benefits of Engaging in Meaningful Context” 4:00 – Caitlyn Johnson. “Seeing the World through Children’s Literature”

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McClellan Hall 206 2:00 – Sophie DeMuth. “Cultural Exegesis of Muslim Immigrants in Southern France” 2:15 – Ben Fryer. “Speaking Silently: Pictures over Words in ‘Stitches’” 2:30 – Timothy Ferris. “The American Dream: Simple vs. Complex” 2:45 – Lilia Sokolova. “Painting Towards Nirvana” 3:00 – Hunter Wolf. “History of Economic Thought as Applied to Modern Economics”

3:30 – Jason Curlin. “This Frightful World”

Group B: 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Walker Conference Center C 2:00 – Kiley Gamble. “Neuroplasticity and Speech-Language Pathology: What it Means for Language Development and How to Apply it to Therapy” 2:30 – Adam Curlin. ”Effects of Antidepressant Metabolites on the Fresh Water Algae, Psuedokirchneriella subcapitata” 3:00 – Charlton Diaz. “Exploring the Effects of Lead (Pb+2) Toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster Using Agilent DNA Microarrays and Sociability Interaction Testing” 3:30 – Valerie Nickel. “The Influence of Coiledcoil Isoleucine Zipper on the Trimerization and Endosomolytic Activity of the E5-TAT-mCherry Protein”

PERFORMANCE THESIS

3:00-3:30 p.m.

W. Francis McBeth Recital Hall 3:00 – Rachel Harris. “Going Mad: a Comprehensive Study of the Mad Scene in Gaetano Donizetti’s opera, Lucia di Lammermoor: A Lecture-recital including historical background, musical analysis, character analysis, staging, costumes, and vocal performance (Actors, John Tneoh and Joel Rogier, Musicians, Elizabeth Baker and Drew Ervin)”

3:45 – Ksenia Gromovia. “Measurement of Retinol Concentration in Anti-Aging Creams”

2:15 – Katy Wood. “Exploration of 2nd Grade CCSS for Reading” 2:30 – Jake Sowell. “Teacher Sexual Misconduct”

SENIOR EXHIBIT PRESENTATIONS

3:30 – Kelsey Willis. “Analysis of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D2 and 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 using High Performance Liquid Chromatography”

3D CASE STUDY PRESENTATIONS 1:45-5:30 p.m.

McClellan Hall 100 1:45 – Jennifer Coon, Emily Hastings, Jena McCarty.

2:00 – Lauren Bundy, Mikey Sullivan, Megan Clay, Julie Stanley.

2:15 – Cara Cox, Logan Kuhn, Abby Emanuel.

2:30 – Sarah Bishop, Rebekah Ward, Crista Riggs, Kelsey Willis, Jason Stevenson.

2:45 – Rebecca Zandstra, Jason Pullano, Kelsey Brum, Dawson Pritchard.

3:00 – Madeline Martin, Kyle Hargis, Brad Hunter Heird, Megan Scarbrough.

3:15 – Kaylee Barnett, Paige Onyuru, Mallory Burroughs, Hannah Cooper.

2:00-3:30 p.m.

Young Auditorium

3:30 – Sydney Belcher, Kris Wright, Allie Smith.

2:00 – Lindsey Fowler. “TrustedWills.com: Providing Peace of Mind That is Truly Priceless”

3:45 – Laura Strossner, John Butler, Kirby VonEdwins, Will Wooten.

2:30 – Tanner Ward, Judith Brizuela, Brittney Jones, Justin Trewitt, Rachel Gilmer, Jared Whisenhunt, Griffin Peeples, Claudia Brizuela.

“OBU Enactus Annual Presentation”

4:00 – Brianne Baley, Pete Brunson, Austin Ingram, Jamie Barker.

3:00 – Payam Pourjavad, Aarika Boggs, Arianna Tieppo, Matt McBride, Charles White, Mark E. Byrne. “Controlled Drug Delivery from Therapeutic Contact Lenses: the Need for Accurate Release Studies” 3:15 – Marissa Thornberry. “A New Creation: The Conception, Gestation and Birth of a Poem” 3:30 – Signa Reed. “Belles, Balls and Barbecue: Southern Literary Nostalgia through the Life and Works of Josephine B. Crump”

2:00-4:00 p.m.

Hickingbotham Hall 200 2:00 – Bailey Nichols. “Observational Study of the Metabolism of Escherichia coli, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter aerogenes in Splenda® Media and Glucose Control Media” 2:15 – Timothy Horton. “Application of Computational Docking to Examine Metabolism of Chiral Drugs by CYP2C9” 2:30 – Hollyn McCarty. “Computational Analysis of PPARy Similar Proteins” 2:45 – Taylor Stanford. “The Effect of Spent Media Isolated from Lactobacillus plantarum WCFs1 on Biofilm Formation by Staphylococcus aureus” 3:00 – Shelby Cobb. “Computational Docking Analysis of Enantiospecificity in CYP2C9 Drug Metabolism” 3:15 – Crista Riggs. “Identifying Proteins that Bind to UBE2Q2 and Exosome Compenent 7”

4:15 – Kevin Smith, Kelly Cortez, Kristin Johnson, Anthony Melillo.

4:30 – Lauren Dunklin, Ashley Johnson, Alli Goodson.

4:45 – Trey Oliveto, Garet West, Andrew Davis, Josh Ratliff.

5:00 – Sarah Pollock, Alex Morrison, Shelby Pierceall, Jala Rainey.

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Dr. Wesley Kluck z Courtesy PRESIDENT DR. Rex Horne and wife Becky greet friends following the wedding of the couple’s son Truett on campus last June. Horne is wrapping up his seventh year as president of Ouachita.

From Pulpit to President

Horne reflects on life leading university, day-to-day duties

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@EmilyMTerry He is the one to officially welcome every incoming class to Ouachita. He stands before us every fall during convocation chapel, dressed in a robe and shiny medallion to ring in the new school year. He strolls across campus, hand in hand with his wife, greeting students and bringing a certain brightness and warmth wherever he goes.

His voice immediately gets noticed and guides every ear toward his next word.

He owns between 12 and 15 purple ties.

Dr. Rex Horne is more than just the president of Ouachita Baptist University. He is a long-time friend to the school, a respected pastor, a part-time teacher and a constant smile on campus.

Horne became president of the university on June 1, 2006, after spending time on the Board of Trustees and pastoring Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock for 16 years.

“The search committee came to me and asked if I would consider it,” he said. “I had great respect and appreciation for Ouachita.”

Horne said he was somewhat surprised by the offer, since he had spent his life fulfilling his calling of working in a local church. However, he couldn’t shake the feeling that it was meant to be.

“It’s kind of like the still-small voice in the Scriptures. That’s the sense of what I had,” Horne said. “I didn’t understand all the reasons why or why not but just felt deep within that it was the right thing to do.”

Horne said the biggest adjustment from pastoral ministry to presiding over a university was dealing with more types of people in more places.

“In a local church, you’re dealing with church members and people in the community,” Horne said. “On a university level, you’re dealing with those who study here, those who serve here, families, alumni, business interests, donors, potential students and others.”

Another major difference for Horne was keeping to a more structured schedule.

“At Ouachita, most of the time, things that are scheduled generally happen.

There might be a cancellation and you have to readjust. Then you do the same

thing tomorrow and then the next day,” he said. “Whereas in the local church, a phone call during the middle of the night can change your whole week depending on the need of a family or a crisis or whatever.”

Though his schedule is varied from week to week and takes him all over town and across the state, Horne tries to keep as normal of a routine as possible.

He begins his day around 6:30 every morning by watching the news and responding to emails received overnight.

He then spends time with his wife, Becky, before jumping into his day.

“We usually take a pretty long walk every day for exercise,” he said.

Once getting to work, his schedule varies tremendously from one day to the next.

“Meetings are fairly regular, particularly with the administrative staff counsel I have,” Horne said. “I’ll meet with students along the way about various things and some meetings are related to our (Baptist) State Convention.”

Horne is also a member of a bank board and a child advocacy center board, which adds to the number of meetings he is responsible for attending on a normal basis.

In addition to regular meetings, Horne usually teaches one class per semester. He is currently teaching Advanced Christian Ministry and will be teaching a one-hour servant leadership course in the fall.

“It’s a way for me to get to know the students a little closer and for them to know me,” he said. “Also, I hope it’s a way to impart some lessons that I’ve learned. Sometimes by maybe doing things right and sometimes through mistakes I’ve made and learned from.”

During the days and evenings, Dr. Horne and Mrs. Becky can be spotted at a multitude of campus events, including recitals and dinners.

“We enjoy it so much. It’s at a time in our lives where we’re able to do those things because our children are grown so we don’t have anyone at home and are free to come and go whether it’s day or night,” Horne said. “It’s been one of those things I’ve enjoyed and learned to appreciate that kind of work.”

Horne says his and his wife’s ability to attend so many diverse events on campus is a great privilege.

“I really enjoy the wealth of expertise

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Ouachita President, 2006-present Birthday: July 4 Hometown: Camden, Ark. Favorite Color: Blue Favorite Food: Steak Favorite Music: I like all music, but I listen to more country.

Biggest Influence: My dad, who has been in heaven for 22 years. and interests and passion that people have for the various parts of university life,” he said.

Though he loves the “university life,” Horne and his wife spend most weekends traveling to various churches to preach.

“I still preach most Sundays,” he said. “Out of 52 Sundays a year, it’s not unusual if I’m preaching 35-40 of those.

I think it allows me to fill part of the calling that I’ve had.”

A major benefit of Horne’s continuous travel is his ability to take the name and spirit of Ouachita wherever he goes.

“I think it’s particularly good for me to be involved in the churches and relate to them and maybe meet potential students and some of our alumni,” he said. “It’s a pretty full life!”

These future and former students are part of what Horne considers to be the best part of his job, which is simply impacting students’ lives and watching them grow.

“I can look out the windows from time to time and see students walking back and forth to class or just visiting and it’s always a reminder of why we’re here,” he said. “If we can do things through the classroom or extracurricular opportunities or through spiritual things and can impact the lives of our students and encourage them to be difference makers wherever they go, then that’s been a real joy and a real sense of accomplishment.”

That vision of students scurrying across campus is also what keeps Horne and other faculty motivated during the

As a child, I wanted to: go into vocational ministry. I sensed that God was leading me there even in Bible school.

If I had to choose another job, I would be: some kind of consultant or mentor at a university or church. empty, quiet summer months.

“Vacation time is good but it doesn’t take long for me to get rested up and ready for the students to get back because that’s what brings life to the place,” he said. “It gets awful quiet here!”

Someday in the future, Horne suspects those returning students will include some of his grandchildren.

“They love coming,” he said. “Instead of coming to Arkadelphia, they say they’re coming to Ouachita. They talk about Ouachita and they like it. I think there may be some future Tigers in the family.”

For now, however, Horne has enjoyed his past seven years of service to Ouachita and looks forward to year number eight.

“Our students are great. The staff and faculty are wonderful. We’re large enough that we can do what we need to do and we’re small enough that everyone knows each other. It’s a neat thing,” he said. “It’s a unique university and I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have been given the privilege of leading Ouachita during these years.”

Over the past seven years of leading Ouachita, Horne has become somewhat of a celebrity across campus, leaving students star struck from a genuine hello and a kind smile.

“I don’t know about (being a celebrity),” he said with a chuckle. “It is fun being the president of Ouachita. Walking across campus and seeing folks smiling or speaking to one another is a pretty special treat. I’m enjoying the journey.” n

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Cell phones interfere with real world through constant social media access

By KELSEY LAMB

Get off computer, take action KATHLEEN SUIT Staff Writer

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How often are you catching up on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and texting? Cell phones may be the main cause of awkward social encounters. The majority of people are on their cell phones more than they are talking face-to-face with an actual human being.

I recently read the book “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle; this book opened my eyes to just how much we use our cell phones. The book explains how our generation uses our phones as a comfort zone and as our main form of communication.

When cell phones were first created, they were invented to be used as emergency contact devices. Later on, cell phones added texting. Adding texting may seem like the issue, but a few years ago all we had was texting on our phones and we were not quite as obsessed with them as we are today.

Recently, social media has found its way on to our iPhone and taken over. The easy access to social media through apps on our cell phones is causing people to constantly have their nose in their phones, keeping people from interacting with one another face-to-face. I am guilty of this myself. By being connected with social media and having the ability to text, we feel like we are constantly in the loop of what is going on, and that is a good feeling.

This may not seem like that big of a deal, but it is hurting our personal relationships. It is hard to hold a conversation with someone in person because we are all so consumed with what is going on inside of our phones that we completely check out from reality.

If my cell phone was taken away from me for a few days, I would feel completely lost. That is pathetic. Needing technology so bad and needing to constantly be in contact with other people through technology is not how we should be. We are slowly getting used to not having to have face to face contact with other humans, and this is making us awkward and unable to hold a conversation like we could before the age of cell phones.

Not only is it making us less comfortable with face-to-face conversations, it is also becoming a distraction when we have the opportunity to talk to someone in person.

Taking into consideration that not everyone is connected to social media, a lot of people are using e-mail or just texting or even playing games on their phones. We spend a large amount of our time on our phones, staying connected with people.

We not only use our phones as a way to stay connected to social media and texting, but also as a way to distract ourselves from the world around us. We use our phones as a barrier to keep us from having to talk to people. We hide behind our technology because we can.

The next time you are sitting in the cafeteria or walking to class, watch your surroundings. Take notice of how many people are invested into their phones. We are all guilty of this; it is just how our generation seems to be programmed. n

your way here to the middle of the paper today due to a recent sparked curiosity about what you might find here. I think most all of us saw the editorial that our hardworking, intelligent and not-given-enough-credit-for-all-their-work editors here at The Signal compiled and printed in the paper two weeks ago on the booming subject of equal rights.

Opening up even just one of my social media pages proved to me just how quickly word can travel. It seems that there is a very apparent fence that has been constructed among our readers in response to the column, as presumably was expected.

I see a few tweets thanking our editors for writing this, and reassuring their allegiance to Ouachita, stating that this is why they love our school, and then I scroll down and see just as many tweets from appalled readers furious for their choice of opinion and claiming it is bad representation for our school.

My first thought? Wow, guys, we finally found out a way to get people to read all of our hard work! I will take that! As far as the nasty, distasteful comments (and this is for all parties represented on both sides of the fence), please refer back to the February 7th, 2013, edition article entitled “Letter from the Editor: Respecting, Responding to opinions”. It can be found in the opinion section of our online paper at www.obusignal.com (some other not bad reads found there as well while you are at it).

Want to know my opinion? I hate controversy. It makes my skin crawl. But if there is one thing that our generation needs, it’s something to light a fire under us; something to pluck us right off our comfy couches of complacency and infill us with a collective passion. Some common ground to get us excited, lead us out of wandering in the maze of mediocrity and into greatness—to get us thrilled about changing our world. And in all honesty, a task of that magnitude takes controversy.

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Thinking back on the history of our nation, each generation has been full of steadfast people, chasing after a cause. First we sought independence, and then no tax, later we banded together in abolishing slavery, then followed with the women’s suffrage. Later the generations would stand up for peace, and then go crazy in support of free love. Whether a righteous cause or not, there was this unifying bond that connected the people, that made them care about making a difference for what they believed in.

And then we get to our generation, generation Y. Gosh, what a nightmare it would be if we were chalked up in the history books with our biggest stand being for Justin Bieber and our outlandish attempts to keep him from smoking pot.

It’s time we start to think about what kind of world we want to live in, how it will affect the future, and take some action to fulfilling these plans.

Take a peek outside the fishbowl and it will make you start to think. Are we a generation with all of our battles fought for us? I don’t think that’s the case. There are so many needs out there that are desperate for us to address. We just need to step up to the plate!

The continued functionality of our world is going to be based on the decisions we make from here on. We can’t make everyone happy, but we can do our part.

Let’s not feel justified by sitting around and tweeting on what we don’t agree with. It’s time for us to go to action, pick up our cross, love people and as a result — impact our world. n

Let’s not feel justified by sitting around and tweeting on what we don’t agree with. It’s time for us to go to action ... and impact our world.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Top five Christian disqualifiers Same-sex unions would degrade U.S. morality Dear Editor, I am an inveterate listmaker. I love a list. I make lists of books read per year. I make Doby lists which tell me what I need to try to do by Monday mornings at 8. I once made a list of all the commas and pairs of socks Hannah West filched during her brilliant — albeit checkered — career in Creative Writing. I’m a listmaker born and bred.

I got to thinking about a particularly longlived list of mine, a mental list, when I read the other day in The Signal about some people’s having called into question the Christianity of the members of the paper’s editorial board.

I’ve been accumulating this list since the late Jurassic Period. The items on it have been gleaned from student papers I’ve read, from stuff I’ve perused in The Signal and other campus publications, and from things I’ve heard around campus.

Exploring it the other day, I picked out a Fave Five of things that can get you disqualified from Christianity, at least in

the minds of some. I’m going to go in reverse chronological order here, beginning with the one that compelled me to write this letter and going all the way back to 1974 with the last one. I am prepared to swear on a Bible—nay, on the proverbial Bible!—that I’m not making any of these up.

Here goes: You cannot really be a Christian if: (1) you believe in same-sex marriage; (2) you are a Democrat; (3) you are Catholic; (4) you support the ERA (not to be confused with the NRA, membership in which is not, at least according to my list, a disqualifier); (5) you believe that it’s all right for Blacks and Whites to marry.

See what a vividly variegated bunch you’ve joined, Editorial Board Members, by having gotten yourselves disqualified from Christianity in certain necks of certain theological woods!

Dr. Johnny Wink

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Dear Editor, I appreciate your use of free speech in “It’s time for equal rights,” issued in the April 4 edition of The Signal. You stated your opinion concerning the legalization of homosexual marriage. I disagree with you as to whether or not homosexual marriage should be legalized — but that is not why I am writing you.

I am writing you because it hurts me to see how far people have gone to categorize their lives into secular and spiritual.

My brothers in Christ are beginning to accept the idea that truth is relative, that “Christ following” is a religion to be thrown in with the rest of them, and that the Constitution has greater authority on how we live as a community than the Bible does. When Christians consider truth to be relative, Christianity loses its distinctiveness and the Bible stops being the authority of truth.

You defined marriage in your article as “in its basic form a contract between two people.”

Your definition is not true.

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In Matthew 19, Jesus, speaking about divorce, says that “what God has joined together, let no man separate.”

He then refers to Adam and Eve’s union as the way marriage was intended.

Jesus specifically says that marriage is something that God joins together. The severity of divorce is not that you are breaking a contract with your spouse, but that you are breaking a contract with God. Scripture is very clear that marriage is not just a contract between two people.

Some food for thought: • Is your logic based on definitions by man or definitions

by God? • Loving homosexuals does not mean you cease to oppose their way of life. A better way to love homosexuals is to stand up with grace and open arms against their way of life. Justice and the Gospel go hand-inhand.

• From what I read in your article, you have yet to establish God as the center point of your logic. You have yet to grasp the urgency that God

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wanted Jonah to have for Nineveh — that God wanted King Josiah to have for his law and Israel.

• Just because many Americans will call us crazy for telling them that they must obey God on a national level does not change our responsibility to proclaim truth and to call the nation of America to repentance.

• Equal rights has to do with being human, not with societal norms. Are you saying homosexuals were born gay? This contradicts what the Bible says about sin.

• Why don’t I have the right to walk around OBU naked?

I don’t have the right because society has enough morals to say “No”. By legalizing homosexual marriage, could we be helping to further degrade the USA’s morality? You yourself admitted that homosexuality is a sin.

May God bless you and your continued efforts to make The Signal a well-programmed paper.

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Razorback coach’s daughter: her story

By CAYLIE GILLUM Staff Writer

If you’re strolling around campus and your eye lands on a smiling blonde — most likely sporting her favorite EEE tank and a glittery headband — you may be looking at the lovely freshman mass communications and Christian studies major Hollan Van Horn.

As a diamond doll for the OBU baseball team and a member of the EEE Women’s Social Club, she has made a point to become as involved as possible.

If you are yet to meet her, it’s most likely because this is only her first semester as a Ouachitonian — she transferred from Belmont University — but don’t worry, you are bound to hit it off with this socialite in due time.

Aspiring to be either a news anchor or a global missionary, Van Horn is from Fayetteville, home of the University of Arkansas.

Though she ultimately decided to call Ouachita her home, her family has always been very involved at the Uni-

versity of Arkansas — particularly when it comes to the Razorbacks’ baseball team.

“My dad [Dave Van Horn] is the head baseball coach at the University of Arkansas,” she explained. “His job affects everything about our family, but in a good way. We have been able to travel all over the United States, and next summer when he coaches Team USA, all over the world.”

Upon hearing this, one may assume that the high demands of a job such as this would have a negative effect on the dynamics of her family, but Van Horn stated that this is actually very far from the truth.

“My dad is not only a great leader when it comes to coaching, but he has been a great leader to my family. He took my sister and I to school every day before I could drive, he was at every volleyball, soccer and football game he could be.

He even missed his first baseball game to come to my high school graduation,” she noted, clearly admiring his willingness to sacrifice for his family.

“He has been a great witness to hundreds of players and

coaches over the years of what a good father, coach and Christian man should look like. I wouldn’t trade his occupation and growing up around baseball for anything.”

Van Horn is obviously very thankful for the opportunities and experiences that have been made available to her family through baseball.

However, one couldn’t help but wonder, “How much baseball can a girl take?”

Surely she has gotten tired of calling the Hogs and watching hit after hit, run after run, and pitch after pitch over the years—right? Wrong.

In fact, that notion couldn’t be farther from the truth. Van Horn was eager to express her enthusiasm and passion the sport that has played such a huge role in her life.

“I love everything about baseball. I could watch baseball every day for the rest of my life and never get bored!” she said.

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Dr. Wesley Kluck z Courtesy JACE MELBY swings at a curve ball, smashing it out of the field, against Arkansas Tech.

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Pitchers Prevail in Doubleheader Split Against Ark. Tech

By JOSH FINK

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Saturday afternoon at Rab Rodgers Field left the Ouachita Tigers with a series victory over Arkansas Tech, splitting Saturday’s doubleheader after winning Friday’s game with an eight run rally in the seventh inning.

They lost the first game in a pitcher’s duel by a score of 2-1, before Luis De Jesus turned in a three-hit shutout on the mound in a 5-0 Tiger win.

The first game of the afternoon was a pitching duel between Ouachita’s Josh Everett and Tech’s Ryan Taylor. Everett threw a complete game, recording four strikeouts, but gave up two runs throughout the game, which ended up being enough for the Wonder Boys. Taylor took the win, throwing 8.2 innings and recording two strikeouts. He gave up a single run to the Tigers (19-19-1, 11-13 GAC) while also giving up three walks.

Arkansas Tech (27-16, 14-10 GAC) struck first, when a fourth inning double from Johnathan Finnegan scored a runner and gave the Wonder Boys a 1-0 lead. They came out in the fifth and stretched their lead another run, when a single to center allowed another runner to cross the plate.

The only run of the game for the Tigers came in the sixth, when Duncan Collins hit a sac fly to left field, allowing Jace Melby to score from third. The Tigers made some noise in the bottom of the ninth, putting runners on first and second, but weren’t able to capitalize.

The Tigers struck first in the second game of the afternoon, with three runs, coming on a 2 RBI triple from Tyler Faught that scored Landon Moore and Will Wallace.

Keegan Ghidotti followed up Faught’s triple with an RBI single that scored Faught and gave Ouachita a 3-0 lead after two innings.

In the fifth, the Tigers added to their lead with one run on an RBI single from Duncan Collins that scored Parker Norris, followed by a sacrifice fly from Ghidotti that scored Landon Flax. The two runs gave Ouachita a 5-0 lead after five innings.

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Set aside distractions, remember those lost CHELSEA BYERS Sports Editor

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It was fourth grade. I was sitting next to Dillon, my grade school crush, listening to the teacher drone on about something in history.

Little did we know, something that would make history was about to happen. Our principal knocked on the door and motioned for our teacher to come outside.

We all sat around whispering, wondering what was going on. We heard crying, and soon my teacher came back in with puffy eyes and a graven face.

Our school was being let out early for some unknown reason. My third grade class filed out of the classroom, still in the dark about what was going on around us.

My mom came and picked me up from school, and for the first time she didn’t ask me how my day had been.

Once we got home, she turned on the television to the news station.

I was young, but I understood fear in someone’s voice, and pain in someone’s eyes.

My mother told me that my life and the life of every American would never be the same from that day on.

She could not have been more right.

September 11, 2001, changed all of our lives and we will never forget those lost.

This week, another tragedy rocked our country, bringing the public together in a whirlwind of anxiety, frustration, anger and pain.

This is an occurrence that we will never forget, a day that we will always remember, and an incident that will change our lives yet again.

You may be wondering why this is the sports column for the week. I was wondering that myself.

I realized, while being gone this weekend, that it being the Boston Marathon, a sporting event, and having received all of the information and updates via my Scorecenter app on my phone, it was only fitting to write on the subject.

We, as Ouachita students, and even those outside of Ouachita, should

realize that this is something that affects us all.

This was an attack on innocent Americans, innocent people, innocent children.

I know I find myself sometimes just shaking these things off and moving on with my life, focusing on my problems, caring more about what I have to study for that night rather than who I should be caring about.

Now, I’m not saying we should spend hours agonizing over tragedies like this one, but we should give more respect and regard to them.

Even if it’s just a prayer for those directly affected, taking a day off of Twitter or spending a minute in silence, it still shows that you care.

It can be easy to get so caught up in what the latest news is in the world of sports, what Tim Tebow is up to these days, how amazing Chandler Parson’s buzzer beater was, I do admit that, but when our nation is threatened, our innocence is diminished, our families are endangered, that is when sports should be set aside and our conscience and compassion should come into play.

When our nation is threatened, our innocence is diminished, our families are endangered, that is when sports should be set aside and our conscience should come into play.

— CHELSEA BYERS I commend those teams who made the decision to postpone their games on Monday and Tuesday, and I applaud the players who acknowledged, respected and prayed for the people in Boston.

So let us set aside our favorite pastimes, our baseball obsessions and our sports addictions and let us remember and never forget. n

STATS & RANKS

Men’s Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–0, 4th Women’s Golf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2–1, 4th Brand New Sports Talk Show OUT WEDNESDAYS AT 12:15 p.m.

Baseball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-21-1, 8th Softball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15–30, 8th Weekly Topic: Student’s Choice - Tweet your Men’s Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–7, 1st topics to @TheRundownOBU Round Table Topic: Roundtable special, Women’s Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–12, 6th (wins – losses, conference rank)

question and answer, student’s choice

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