Critics are forever condemning the loss of social interaction brought on by the current generation's obsession with the internet and video games. Such games have been around for decades, each new gaming system more complex and "realistic" than the last. Even real-time online games, where you interact with players elsewhere, leave you to do so […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- The University of the Ozarks has announced its honor lists for the Spring 2010 Semester. To be included on the President’s List, a student must carry at least 12 hours and maintain a 4.00 grade point average. To be included on the Dean’s List, a student must carry at least 12 hours […]
"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees." -- Abraham Lincoln If anyone on campus can preach the ways of the bees, that man is Dr. Buddy Smith. Professor of Mathematics at the U of O since 1980, Dr. Smith has been a bee keeper […]
Christianity has always struggled in the face of changing times, new technologies, new influences. This problem is in no way new to our age. Though Christian worship goes back twenty centuries, the permutations of this worship have changed again and again. Dr. Stewart Dippel’s book The Sacralization of the World in the Seventeenth-Century: The Experience […]
Clarksville, Ark.-The University of the Ozarks Sports Information Department has been honored in the annual publications contest conducted by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Ozarks’ Sports Information Office received two awards in CoSIDA’s media guide contest for the 2009-2010 athletic year. The baseball media guide ranked third in the “Division C” category […]
Clarksville, Ark.-Former University of the Ozarks standout pitcher Curt Dixon signed with the Kalamazoo (MI) Kings, it was announced on Tuesday. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound McAlester, Okla., native has spent the last two seasons with the Big Bend Cowboys in Alpine, Texas, where he is currently 4-0 with a 2.10 ERA in 34.1 innings of work. […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. But what about duckweed? Taylor Crutchfield conducted her senior biology research on how the common water plant, duckweed, could be used to help purify contaminated water. Botanically assigned to the Lemnaceae family, duckweed is the smallest flowering plant […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- National Public Radio's recent story on a documentary called "The Mighty Uke: The Amazing Comeback of a Musical Underdog" enlightened its audience to a happy and surprising fact: the ukulele relegated to dim memories of Tiny Tim playing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips," or perhaps the odd Beatles song featuring the plucky little […]
Mundo Maya wraps up with a sixteen day trip touring the most prominent archeological and cultural sites of the ancient Mayan civilization, all the way from Merida to Playa del Carmen. Dr. Kim Van Scoy, one of the course instructors, sent this story of one of the stops on the trip. Dr. William Clary and […]
To paraphrase the famed W. Somerset Maugham on the subject of novel-writing, "There are three rules for growing orchids. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." “In the marsh pink orchid’s faces With their coy and dainty graces, Lure us to their hiding places-- Laugh, O murmuring Spring!” -- Sarah Foster Davis, Summer Song Actually […]