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Flu Season Prevention
by Nicolas Bravo FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — With the arrival of Fall weather, Flu season begins in Northwest Arkansas. The Pat Walker Health Center offers flu shots for students who are interested. The Health Center accepts most major insurances, but if not, the cost of the vaccine is $20. Madi Lenow, a Freshman Biology major, experienced…
Mullins Renovation To Add More Study Space
by Nicolas Bravo FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Last year the UofA announced plans to renovate Mullins Library, but over the year it has sat mainly empty. The first step in the renovations was removing a large portion of the books and placing them on an offsite location but still available for students to access. The official…
Employees at the U of A Assist Each Other for Upcoming Holiday Season
By Steven Erbacher FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— The University of Arkansas Staff Senate offers a program where the staff has the opportunity to help colleagues and their families. The program is called RazorGifts, and it debuted in 2015 for the holiday season. Michael Rau is the Student Support Coordinator in the Office of Special Programs for the…
Native American Healer Helps Youth
by Catherine McCarley BENTONVILLE, Ark. – On a mild Saturday morning in early October, Felicia Ruiz walks past the Museum of Native American History, heading for a tent on the front lawn. A tall woman wearing a colorful scarf and determined expression, she is a guest of the museum, here to teach the third in…
Fayetteville High Schooler Leads Local Climate Action Fight
by Samson Tamijani FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fayetteville town square held not one but two climate change awareness strikes last week, inspired by efforts of 16-year old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. But most may not know the coordinator of Fayetteville’s events was local high school student Amelia Southern. Southern is the same age as Thunberg…
UREC Pushes Students and Faculty During FITOBER
By Justin Liddle FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — October is here and for UREC it means the fifth annual FITOBER begins. For the entire month, students and faculty are challenged to stay active and complete 600 minutes of exercise by the end of the month. UREC recommends 150 minutes each week. In the past, FITOBER only counted…
Last Saturday Fayetteville is NWA’s Little Known Tradition
By Michael Adkison FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Twenty-nine days of the month, Houston Hughes doesn’t do much. “I don’t have a lot of consistency,” he said. “I run a YouTube channel called ArkanSense.” But on that thirtieth day, he lets loose, because Houston is the emcee of Last Saturday Fayetteville, a slam poetry variety show held…
University’s Largest Scholarship Winner Tells Story
By Justin Liddle FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — An annual $18,500 scholarship is the biggest the University of Arkansas offers to students of the Sam Walton College of Business Administration. Mary Pham, a freshman business student, won the premier scholarship. Pham wasn’t sure she wanted to stay in state, but after touring the campus she decided to…
Vaping Claims Lives
By Justin Liddle FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The use of e-cigarettes boomed over recent years. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 14 people died from vaping related illness and more than 800 lung injuries occurred. Of these cases, only 16% had a patient under the age of 18. Click here to read the report. When…
LAN Party Makes Debut on Campus
By Steven Erbacher FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— Friday, September 27, marks the start of a new era on the UofA campus. Afterlife LAN and UARK E-Sports co-hosted a LAN party in the Verizon Ballroom of the student union. This was the first time there had ever been such an even on the campus. LAN is short for…