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#HRW2014 Daily schedule for next week’s events and sessions, p.2
Resume, please Career Services hosts annual Career Expo for students, p.3 Bekah Hall z The Signal Instructor Tiffany Eurich speaks to the ladies of Ouachita during last year’s “PJs and Pizza” breakout session at the Elrod Center during Healthy Relationships Week. Healthy Relationships Week 2014 will be March 2-8 with more breakout sessions and events for students.
Ms. Carolyn Everyone’s favorite Soxedo worker, p.4
Healthy Relationships Week returns March 2-8 By EMILY TERRY Editor-in-Chief
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Versatile Seating Many benefits of being a dedicated lawn chair owner, p. 5
Healthy Relationships Week returns to campus next week, March 2-8, with several breakout sessions and events focused on “Learning to relate well to others.” Healthy Relationships Week, formerly known as Marriage and the Family Week, then Dating, Engagement and Marriage Week,
is a program of the Elrod Center for Family and Community that is committed to helping students strengthen relationships. “Part of being a wellrounded person is knowing how to relate well to others,” said Judy Duvall, assistant director of the Elrod Center and coordinator for Healthy Relationships Week. “We don’t automatically know how to do this. We learn how to relate well to others from practice but it is also impor-
sions for the week will be led by individuals who have experienced joys and successes and disappointments and failures and through their life experience have learned how to love others well,” Duvall said. Many of the speakers for the week are Ouachita faculty and staff that students are already familiar with, but maybe don’t know well. Through these sessions and see WEEK z 2
Pulitzer winner to give lecture tonight
Jesus Journalism The connection between religion and journalism, p. 5
By TRENNIS HENDERSON News Bureau
700 Career Wins Getting to know Lady Tiger Coach Garry Crowder, p.6
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tant to learn from individuals who are a little farther down the road [and] have some life experience.” Because of this, the week will be full of events, breakout sessions and panels led by faculty, staff and other special guest speakers, many of whom are alumni who understand the specific relational pressures that Ouachita students experience. “These mentors are not perfect people. All of them have stories to tell. Our ses-
Nicole McPhate z The Signal Miss OBU 2012, MaryLacey Thomson, crowns Kiley Wright at last year’s Miss OBU pageant. Miss OBU 2014 willl be held in JPAC on Saturday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m.
Miss OBU 2014 to be crowned Saturday By ANNA MCCULLOCH Staff Writer
Ouachita will host the Miss Ouachita Baptist University Pageant Saturday in Jones Performing Arts Center at 7:30pm. The contestants will be judged on their private interview, onstage question, swimsuit, talent and evening gown. The pageant is hosted by Ouachita’s Student Senate and Office of Campus Activities and directed by Ouachita Alum Justin Harper. Former Miss OBU and Miss Arkansas
Kristen Glover will emcee the pageant. The 12 contests this year are senior history major Jessica Allen, sophomore mass communications and speech communications major Bethany Arrendondo, freshman mass communications major Abbey Little, sophomore pre-medicine major Kathryn Barfield, senior history major Kelsi Bodine, junior communication sciences and disorders major Morgan Brothers, senior vocal performance major Ashley Bundy, freshman pre-medicine major Mariah Gough, sesee PAGEANT z 3
Dr. Douglas Hofstadter, a noted physicist, mathematician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is making a return visit this week to Ouachita for a series of speaking engagements across campus. Hofstadter will deliver a lecture on “Worshipping the Message Whilst Walloping the Medium: This Is Called Translation?” on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in Young Auditorium. He also will speak at a Faculty Colloquium on Friday, Feb. 28, at noon in McClellan 100 and speak in various classes during his two-day visit. Hofstadter, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his first book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He serves as Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University and director of its Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Discussing his Thursday evening lecture, which is free and open to the public, Hofstadter said, “Of late, many translators into English have chosen to place ‘content’ on a sacred pedestal while throwing ‘form’ entirely out the window. But is there actually something objective called ‘content’ and something else called ‘form,’ and are they really cleanly separable?” Using a short poem written about 1,300 years ago in ancient Chinese by poet Wang Wei as an example, Hofstadter will compare and critique several contemporary English
translations of the poem. “I will point out what I consider the weak and strong points of these translations, and then I’ll show my own version, with its own weak and strong points,” Hofstadter explained. “Naturally, though, I’ll defend my own as being by far the best of all! “But don’t you worry,” he added. You don’t need to know a single word of Chinese (let alone ancient Chinese!) to enjoy Wang Wei’s poem, or to understand my lecture.” Dr. Johnny Wink, Ouachita’s Betty Burton Peck Professor of English, is among professors in the department of English and modern foreign languages, who will host Hofstadter during his visit. Recalling when he was first introduced to Hofstadter’s writings by one of his students, Wink said when he received the book, Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, “I was charmed, fascinated and moved from the word go. I don’t expect ever to read a more profound meditation on the nature of language than I encountered in those pages. Nor do I expect ever to read a greater love story. Love and language, for a thousand pages! I go back and back to that book. I dote on it.” Wink and Hofstadter begin corresponding and developed a friendship that led to Hofstadter delivering a series of lectures at Ouachita in 2009. Wink described Hofstadter as a man who is “a physicist, a mathematician, a cognitive scientist, an essayist, a poet, a translator, a phenomenologist, a thoroughgoing student of at least a dozen languages” and much more. n