03.06.14 9 IN THIS ISSUE:
Free Concert Wind Ensemble to present annual concert, p.2
Business Savvy PUREnovation wins OBU/HSU Business Plan Competition, p.2
Campus Royalty Newly-crowned Miss OBU, Abby Lindsey, talks with the Signal, p.3
Dr. Wesley Kluck zCourtesy Chris Rycraw speeds past a Henderson defender during the Battle of the Ravine 2013. Ouachita is set to offer a new degree in Sports Management beginning fall of 2014.
Business school to offer new ‘Sports Management Program’ By DIXON LAND
Assistant Sports Editor @dixoncland
Windy City Ouachita student’s Chicago Semester experience (in poem form), p. 4
Batting Practice Baseball catcher reflects on influential win, p.5
Beauty Queens Pageant photos from Miss OBU 2014, p.6
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The Hickingbotham School of Business will offer a new sport management emphasis next fall under it’s business administration major. The Sport Management program was developed by Dr. Kent Faught, associate professor of management and the Heflin Chair of Business. The program will become an
emphasis within the business administration major and will feature four classes to be taken, along with an optional internship. “In one sense, the sport management emphasis came in very quickly. I spoke with Terry DeWitt and he asked me why we didn’t have a sports business program on campus and I told him that I’d be interested in pursuing one,” Faught said. Faught had always been a sports fan and after read-
ing “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” started to implement strategies presented in the book into his Management Strategy and Policy class. Following a meeting at the North American Society for Sport Management annual conference, Faught, along with Mike Reynolds, met with Dr. Bryan McKinney to discuss structure of the program. “The meeting was very informative and helped direct development of the empha-
sis,” Faught said. “It was written up and reviewed by the Curriculum Committee in November, then presented during December’s faculty meeting, where it was approved without dissent.” The emphasis will feature four different classes including Big Data/Data Mining; Sport Law; Program Design and Management, an existing course offered within the Kinesiology department; and, see DEGREE z 2
Ouachita to host opera director for free musical theater workshop March 7 By TRENNIS HENDERSON News Bureau
Ouachita will host opera and musical theater director Dr. Mark Ross Clark in a musical theater workshop on The workshop, which is free and open to the public, will be held tomorrow from 3-5 p.m. in Jones Performing Arts Center. The first half of the workshop will include movement exercises to help prepare participants for singing and performing. Clark will then work with four students in a master class, critiquing their performances of musical theater selections for the benefit of all workshop participants. “I hope that students will gain tools they can use for preparing their vocal repertoire,” said Dr. Maggie Garrett, assis-
tant professor of music. Garrett was a student of Clark’s in the Indiana University opera workshop while pursuing her Master of Music degree and explained that Clark previously conducted an opera workshop at Ouachita in 2010. “Dr. Clark requested to come to OBU because he was impressed with the high caliber of our students when he was here to present a workshop in 2010,” Garrett noted. She added that the workshop seeks to provide dual outcomes, giving students the opportunity “to try out physical exercises they can take home and apply to their singing.” Additionally, she said, “During the master class portion, attendees will see how see WORKSHOP z 2
z Courtesy Dr. Mark Ross Clark, an opera and musical theater director, will be on campus Friday to host a musical theater workshop. The workshop is designed to help students improve their performing ability.
School of Social Sciences to host Finke for sociology lecture By TAYLOR TOMLINSON News Bureau
Ouachita will host Dr. Roger Finke, professor of sociology and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, as part of the endowed Birkett Williams Lecture Series. Finke’s lecture, set for next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall, is free and open to the public. The lecture series is held each semester and rotates among Ouachita’s seven academic schools. This semester, OBU’s W.H. Sutton School of Social Sciences invited Finke as the guest lecturer. His speech is titled “Origins and
Dr. Roger Finke z Courtesy
Consequences of Religious Restrictions: A Global Overview.” “Academically, this fits right into the sociological discussion of the effects of governmental regulation of religion,”
said Dr. David Caddell, associate professor of sociology. “On an international level, Dr. Finke has made a big difference with this research in his discussions with various leaders (including China) on the benefits of opening up their religious marketplace.” “For over two decades, Professor Finke has contributed to empirical investigations of religion,” added Dr. Randall Wight, dean of OBU’s Sutton School. “What a pleasure to have someone with his insight coming to speak on matters of such importance to the Ouachita community.” Since earning his doctorate in sociology from the University of Washington, Finke
has become “one of the leading and most prolific scholars in the sociology of religion,” Caddell noted. Finke currently serves as director of the Association of Religion Data Archives, the largest clearinghouse for religious data in the world. He also is the author several books, including Places of Faith: A Road Trip across America’s Religious Landscape, The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the 21st Century and Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. A few of Finke’s published see LECTURE z 2