Who will be crowned "Joe of the Year" for 2013? Last year, during the first ever "Are you Joe Enough?" fitness competition, nearly 50 participants battled to see who was motivated enough to be called "Joe of the Year." Hopes are high that this year even more contestants will participate in the campus-wide fitness challenge, […]
On Nov. 14, 52 student volunteers and numerous faculty members at University of the Ozarks hosted more than 120 high school students from throughout the region who competed for coveted awards during the university's seventh annual Science Day. Students from Lamar High School show off their certificates following the awards ceremony at the U of […]
The seventh season of Project Poet has broken attendance records nearly every week, and the final episode did not disappoint. A record 187 audience members watched as Will Holifield, a freshman music major from Rogers, Ark., won a first-place check of $750 and the title of Poet Laureate of the Spadra Valley. Tuesday night, the […]
Jacqueline Jurcik, a senior accounting major from Dover, Ark., won week four of Project Poet, the infamous "Winter Formal" round. The "Winter Formal" challenge is a Project Poet tradition and considered by many to be the most demanding as the contestants are asked to write three poems all with strict forms: a haiku, a limerick, […]
In its seventh season, "Project Poet!" seems to have taken on a life of its own. For the third week in a row, the poetry competition has blasted its attendance record as 182 audience members crammed the Black Box theatre Tuesday night to hear 10 poets recite their responses to the latest challenge. Faced with […]
Tuesday night, The Black Box Theatre played host to 166 students, faculty, and staff as Utah Robertson, a freshman theatre major from Wichita Falls, Texas, fought off stiff competition to win the second episode of "Project Poet!" season seven. This week’s challenge was to pick a figure from myth, history, or popular culture and to […]
Over 150 spectators packed the Black Box Theatre Tuesday night as season seven of Project Poet premiered with a combination of emotion, humor, and sing-alongs. With a record number of competing poets and an increase in prize money, this season of Project Poet promises to be a fierce competition. Seventeen contestants recited their poems depicting […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- It's almost September, and that means that Ozarks' annual poetry competition, "Project Poet," will soon be underway.? The first competition in season seven will be held on Tuesday, September 11 at 9:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre in the university’s Walton Fine Arts Building. Dr. Brian Hardman, Ozarks associate professor of English […]
During the week of April 15-21, University of the Ozarks celebrated the spirit of Earth Day with a series of events, all designed to raise awareness and environmental issues and promote stewardship of the earth.?But three of the events were planned with something else in mind - to bring out the creative talents of the […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- Dr. Brian Hardman has announced the winners in the seventh annual University of the Ozarks Earth Day essay contest. This year’s contest focused on environmental issues in our own backyard by asking the essayists to consider the following question: What are the most pressing environmental issues in Arkansas? Andrea Muffuletto received the […]