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Food Festival spotlights various culinary cultures By ANNA KUMPURIS Staff Writer
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Tunes host, hostess auditions Annual emcees play important ‘campus celebrity’ role By BREANNE GOODRUM Staff Writer
It is that time of the year when the Jones Performing Arts Center becomes transformed into the American Idol stage as students compete for the elite spot as Tiger Tunes host or hostess. Under the direction of Joey Licklider, production manager and technical director of Jones Performing Arts Center, and with the assistance of choreographer and 2010 Ouachita grad, Grace Whitaker, auditions for the 2013 hosts and hostesses will be held this Saturday. Licklider coordinates the show itself but he also oversees costumes, music selections and
said Alexis Pace senior musical theatre major from Sugarland, Texas and former Tiger Tunes hostess. “It was nice having someone who had done it in the past, so we weren’t all new at it. He gave me a goal to work towards.” About 40 to 50 students from around campus will line up and perform for their chance to become one of the eight hosts. “This the 35th annual Tiger Tunes show so we might get a chance to do some special things this year. The tryouts will be very much like previous years. Once the new group is picked, we will start working right away on any special ideas for the anniversary year show,”
You don’t just sing on the stage like most people think, you represent the school for that semester. Everybody knows you and looks to you as an influence. — Rachel Schrader rehearsals. “Joey had a lot of input on the songs, telling us if they had been done in the past or if they were available for us to do,”
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Hundreds of people, many in colorful, ethnic outfits, live musical performances of various styles, a bluegrass band, flags and foods from dozens of nations around the world, a global train station designed to take you on a quick trip to countries you never thought you would visit, all assembled here in Arkadelphia for two hours next week. The International Food Festival, which has been an annual celebration of the many cultures and nations represented at Ouachita since the early 1970s will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 19 from 6-8 p.m. Tickets for the festival will be $5 at the event. A team of nine dedicated students and two staff members in the International Office has been working on putting the festival together since late last October. The team consists of international students, missionary’s kids, and also American students who want to be a part of it. “There’s quite a bit of stuff going on so it’s helpful for us to start in the fall so that we’re not just running
around trying to pull it all together in the spring,” said René Zimny, assistant director/grant center coordinator of international recruiting. “We plan for three or four months and so that evening it’s just a lot of fun and it’s great to see how it all comes together. “ Zimny, a former international student from Namibia, has been working in the International Office for the past three years. He is co directing the International Food Festival with Sharon Cosh, lecturer and coordinator of the English as second language department. “It’s different every year because the students are different and the community is different,” Zimny said. “We do some of the planning and stuff but the students do all of the leg work, and it’s kind of nice to see them be so willing to take their own time to do it. They have their own thoughts and so every year the theme is different and they bring their own thing to it.” This year’s theme, Global Junction, a global train station, was chosen by the students of the planning committee who have dedicated see FOOD FEST z 2
Grant funds new faith, independent film studies class By KATHLEEN SUIT Staff Writer
Ouachita professors have been putting their time, efforts and creativity to the test this year as they applied for educational grants that will benefit their students and everyone involved. Not everyone who applied for a grant received one. Out of 17 applicants only, were accepted. One of the grants was awarded to Rebecca Jones, assistant professor of communications, and Dr. Doug Sonheim, chair of the department of English and modern foreign languages and Clarence and Bennie Sue Anthony Professor
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of Bible and Humanities. With this grant, they plan on creating a class that dives in to the idea of integration between Christianity and the secular film world. Before the start of the class, students will have the opportunity to join Jones and Sonheim in attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah along with the Windrider Forum which coincides with the festival. “I can’t wait to take students to Sundance,” said Jones. “We’ll go to the film festival for the first time in January of 2014 and then the class will take place throughout that spring semester.” A majority of the hours
spent for the class will take place during that first week when students are at Sundance and participating in Windrider. So, the class will not meet as many times a week as a traditional 3 hour course would. The Windrider forum is put on by the Priddy Brothers Production Company, alongside the Fuller Theological Seminary. They host a workshop during the Sundance Festival that revolves around the concept of integrating faith into film and our culture. Windrider uses the power that film has over people’s emotions and our society at large, and challenges students at many levels to let their faith interact with
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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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son, vice president of communications. “He was elected president in 1886 at age 29 and was responsible for recruiting students, hiring faculty and developing the Arkadelphia campus.” As Ouachita’s first presi-
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be a first for Ouachita next spring, Jones has had firsthand experience with the Sundance and Windrider events. She was able to attend as a student as well, two years ago as a part of a doctoral course on the rhetoric of independent film. She said that her visit was “nothing short of transformational”. “I’m delighted and so grateful to have been selected for a Strategic Initiative Grant that will be used to help build a course that will allow students to experience the Sundance Film Festival,” Jones said. “I can hardly wait to begin interacting with stusee FILM CLASS z 2
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