Amanda Rushing's poem about Dora the Explorer and racism took top honors in the second round of Project Poet, held Tuesday night in front of an audience of more than 160 students, faculty and staff in the MacLean Hall formal lounge. Amanda Rushing took home top honors in the second round of Project Poet with […]
Samuel Binns, a sophomore English major from Hot Springs, Ark., took top honors at the opening night of the ninth annual Project Poet, held Tuesday in the formal lounge of MacLean Residence Hall. In front of a crowd of approximately 160 fellow students, Binns bested 17 other entrants in the memory and metaphor challenge with […]
Tuesday nights are about to get a lot more exciting around the University of the Ozarks campus! Project Poet, the much-anticipated annual campus poetry competition, will begin its ninth year with the season premiere at 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30, in its new location, the MacLean Formal Lounge. Project Poet challenges students to draw on […]
Matthew Phillips' essay titled "The Devastating Effects of Hydraulic Fracturing" took first place in the ninth annual University of the Ozarks Earth Day Essay Contest. The contest took place throughout April and judging was held last week. Phillips is a concurrent high school student from Booneville, Ark. According to Dr. Brian Hardman, associate professor of […]
A presentation by the student business organization Enactus took top honors in University of the Ozarks' second annual Advanced Research and Creative Highlights (ARCH) Symposium, held on campus last week. Enactus won the Alumni Board Award, the overall top honor, for its oral presentation about a series of community service projects that the organization was […]
University of the Ozarks will become a tobacco-free campus on Jan. 1, 2014, and to ease the University into the new policy, the Student Life and campus health offices have designed a “Change is in the Air” educational campaign. As a part of this campaign, they are encouraging everyone on campus to participate in the […]
On Oct. 22, 157 students, faculty, and staff filled the Black Box Theatre for the season finale of Project Poet and watched as David Pluebell, a senior theatre major from Plano, Texas, was crowned the season eight winner and Poet Laureate of the Spadra Valley. Tasked with writing three poems - one about love, one […]
After last week, eight poets will advance to the Project Poet semifinals, which will take place Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 9:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, located in the Walton Fine Arts Center. Last week, contestants had to write an ekphrastic poem, where the subject is a painting, a sculpture, or other work of […]
During the second week of Project Poet: Season Eight,?Emily Gorham, a junior from Fort Worth, Texas, won over the crowd of 165 students, faculty, and staff to take first place for the night. Sixteen contestants in all performed their poems in response to the second challenge: to write a poem that takes a character from […]
The eighth season of Project Poet, the annual campus poetry competition, got off to a heated start last night as 178 students, faculty, and staff packed the Black Box Theatre for the season premiere. The competition was fierce as 19 students performed their childhood memory poems in front of the audience and three faculty judges. […]