Articles by: Zachary O'Neal

UCA graduate Charlotte Green encouraged students to stay in school, to connect and to graduate at the annual minority freshman dinner Sept. 12 in the Student Center Ballroom. The event is designed to make students feel more welcome on campus. “[Green] is an alumnus of UCA, so she’s able to [...]

UCAPD is sponsoring events throughout the month to promote safety during National Campus Safety Awareness Month. The College of Business was the host of the campus safety video, “Shots Fired,” presented by the Center for Personal Protection and Safety on Sept. 11. The video will be screened every Tuesday this [...]

The UCA Theatre opened the 2012-13 season with “ART,” a Tony-award winning comedy that questions “What constitutes art?” in the Snow Fine Arts Studio Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 6 and Friday Sept. 7. “ART,” written by Yasmina Reza, is about Serge who purchases a large, all-white painting for 200,000 francs. [...]

UCA’s Kendo Club kicked off its first practice of the semester Sept. 7 in the HPER Center, introducing a different style of martial arts to students. Sayaka Givens, president of the kendo club, described kendo as a form of Japanese martial arts that started in the samurai era. Kendo uses [...]

Young Americans for Liberty, an organization to help students become more aware about their political philosophy and the importance of politics, has installed a new chapter on UCA’s campus. The organization embraces the idea that people should have liberty over their life and money. Senior Zak Kubin, president of YAL, [...]

The Student Orientation Staff hosted Battle of the Halls, a series of competitive events for freshmen, on Tuesday, Aug, 21 on McAlister lawn for welcome week. Junior Josh Dabney, an SOS staff member and the host of the competition, said he felt the turnout was great. “I had a blast,” [...]

After an impressive, second place showing at the Ole Miss BancorpSouth Invitational, the men’s golf team shifts its attention this weekend and the Southland Conference Championship in McKinney, Texas. “We’ve come off two good tournaments the past two weeks we played,” coach Richard Johnson said. “We’ve beaten all the competition [...]

Institute Justice attorney, Robert Frommer came to the College of Business April 11, to bring awareness to the audience on the subject of government making things unfair for the future entrepreneurs. “It showed me that organizations like this exist,” junior Jake Schichtl said. “I didn’t know about their company, but [...]

The Bears lost four games on the road over the weekend to conference opponents Texas State and Texas-San Antonio. The Bears lost both games of a doubleheader to the Texas State Bobcats on Friday in San Marcos, Texas. After being allowed only two hits and being shutout in a 2-0 [...]

Picking up an album at random, one of Shinedown’s recent releases, “Amaryllis,” has made its way to my list of likeable music for me. This is the American rock band’s fourth studio album. With a mixture of alternative rock, hard rock and post-grunge, it resulted in a wonderful turnout. The [...]

The Sugar Bears fell short to the UMKC Kangaroos, 4-3, Sunday in their last home match of the season. The loss moved the Sugar Bears to 7-14. “We played well in doubles,” coach Jeff Borengasser said. “We won the two and the three slots. I think the things we were [...]

Senior mezzo-soprano Aubrey Hoult delivered an enlightening hour to the crowd with her voice Tuesday in Snow Fine Arts, performing a variety of songs in her Senior Voice Recital. “I thought it was fabulous,” junior Jonathan Pillow said. “It was extremely good. My friend deserved it. It was a fantastic [...]

The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders put together a seven-run rally to finish off the sweep against the Bears on Saturday at Farris Field in a 7-6 victory. “We started off pretty good this game, better than last game,” freshman second baseman Tiffany Roby said. “We just couldn’t keep it going.” [...]

The Bears finished off a sweep of the Sam Houston State Bearkats in their weekend series with a 6-0 shutout performance in the finale on Saturday at Farris Field. The Bears (24-10, 4-0 SLC) scored one run in the bottom of the first inning without hitting a ball into play [...]

After a first glance at the previews of this game, I bothered not to try to get it due to the recent titles Capcom published, “Marvel vs. Capcom 3” and “Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.” I thought this was going to be another cheesy fighter for the skill-less gamers to [...]

Rain postponed the Bears’ Southland Conference opening series against the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners. The two-game set has been postponed to April 7 when the Bears will take on the Roadrunners in a double-header in San Antonio, Texas, starting at 1 p.m. The Bears are currently on a four-game winning streak [...]