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producers without any clue of what they are auditioning for. After everyone who wishes to audition has finished, the producers decide which play to place them in. The students will not know who their director is or the play they have been cast in until they walk into the room they are assigned to rehearse in, which they will be told via their student email. “I enjoy the fact that it’s fast because I am super busy as are most college students,”
Arkadelphia residents and students of Ouachita and Henderson alike all know that our quaint little town is known more for its small city charm, local businesses and community atmosphere than for its retail and larger than life entertainment aspects. Our town is flourishing on the up rise and this points largely due to a very dedicated group of people; an organization by the name of the Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance, or for short, the Arkadelphia Alliance. The Arkadelphia Alliance’s main purpose is building up Arkadelphia and helping it grow economically. The organization was formed as a way to better the quality of life for the residents of Clark County, Arkansas. They oversee the Clark County Chamber of Commerce locations in Arkadelphia, Amity and Gurdon along with the Clark County Industrial Council. The Alliance’s goal is to increase employment for residents, recruit new businesses for economic development and build good relations with businesses on the county, state and national level. To ensure the success of such big endeavors, the Arkadelphia Alliance and Chamber
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Play festival gives students ‘taste of theater’ By MATTIE BOGOSLAVSKY
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Ouachita’s 11th annual Ten Minute Play Festival, also known as “all-night theater,” is on its way. As students mentally prepare themselves for the auditions, the producers are busy preparing everything else as with any audition. However, all-night theater is not a normal production at Ouachita. It has a very unique process behind the scenes. Usually, when an actor auditions for something, they know exactly what show they
are auditioning for, who the director is and who wrote the production. But with this particular production, the students are completely in the dark. Months in advance, students are allowed to send in scripts that they have written to be performed in the play festival. Students are also allowed to send in applications to be a director. But when these people are picked, no student aside from the producers is allowed to know which has been chosen. “Any audition is always
nerve-wracking,” said Jalin Wesley, sophomore musical theater major. “But this one was particularly scary because you are auditioning for a plethora of shows that you know nothing about. But thankfully the directors saw a spark in me. The play I was in last year for all night theater was one of my favorite and most challenging roles.” Auditioning students will come into the theater and read a short part of a script chosen for them in addition to any other small things they are asked to do in front of the
Symphony Orchestra honors Ouachita’s Francis McBeth
For those of us who had him as a professor, this will be a special event . . . he was a neat, neat professor, very funny, and he knew a lot about church history and Baptist history.
passed away in January of last year, and now the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will play a concert on campus to honor his life and many accomplishments. The concert will take place tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Performing Arts Center. The orchestra plays this concert not only to honor McBeth as a distinguished Arkansas composer, but also to thank him for his crucial service to the orchestra in its beginning stages. The ASO was officially established in 1966, but struggled greatly to stay alive for the first few years. “In the early 1970s, the symphony orchestra asked Dr. McBeth if he would come and conduct, try to get the orchestra on its feet and raise enough money to actually have a season, and he essentially saved the orchestra,” said Dr. George Keck, professor emeritus of music and member of the organizational committee that planned the upcoming concert. “He conducted for about three years and by the time he left, he had literally resurrected the orchestra.”
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The first Composer Laureate in the state of Arkansas, a former conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (ASO), and a talented composer with international prominence, Dr. Francis McBeth has left a legacy that will not soon be forgotten. McBeth, who spent 39 years as a professor of music at Ouachita from 1957 to 1996,
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Students have a universal mindset. We all believe professors conspire to schedule tests on the same week, and that they eat, sleep and live on campus. This mindset has attributed these behaviors into the idea of a secret society of professors. Ouachita does not have typical students or professors, however; this secret society is not made up of vengeful professors seeking to plot against
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shop will be serving a variety of pastries and juices. Officially called the Library Café, the old coffeehouse was referred to as Starbucks by the majority of students because of the brand of coffee they sold. “The Starbucks connection
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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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students, but is made up of well rounded adults seeking to read books. It is called the Gutenberg Conspiracy, but don’t be fooled by its name, it’s simply a liberal arts book club created by professors at Ouachita. After being created in the early 70s, the Gutenberg Conspiracy has become a highly attended monthly book club that allows professors to interact with colleagues in other fields, and become acquainted with books they may not have read. “While it’s not a book club
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-
is important to have a reminder of where the school came from and the people who had a hand in making OBU what it is today.” Dr. Jack stands out as a symbol for Ouachita and is more
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where everyone is able to get the book read, it is a club that allows discussion and the furthering of our education as professors,” said Johnny Wink, Betty Burton Peck professor of English. “The club works on two principles. It is a setting where one: people can argue their points and their thoughts. And two: it is a setting where those who didn’t get a chance to read the book can get a sense of what the book is about. In a sense, it is a see CONSPIRACY z 3
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