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Graphic by CECILIA NUTT Ruby Bridges inspires Academy students SARAH DIXON room class to complete a teacher-directed things that happened. They don’t understand a difference for people.” head copy editor drawing and writing assignment. at all how that could have happened or how Third-grader Shelby Payne said that “One of my students wrote about how it people could think that,” Myers said. “We learning about Black History Month is In Tiffany Myers homeroom class at inspired him to be more kind to everyone,” talk about that. We talk about how fear important for everyone. Harding Academy, third-grade students Myers said. “(I like) just seeing their reactions makes people do things that aren’t neces- “We learn about Black History Month drew pictures of and wrote about Ruby and how they apply it to their lives.” sarily right. I think it’s really important to so that we don’t think that just because of Bridges after her recent visit to Harding Third grade student Hunter Griffin said see that we can learn from those things, our skin color that we’re all completely dif- for the American Studies Institute’s (ASI) that she wrote about how Bridges’ story but also that there has been growth in our ferent and have to treat people differently,” Distinguished Lecture Series on Feb. 9. impacted her. country. I want them to know that this can Payne said. Bridges’ story of bravery as the first black “She didn’t care what other people thought go on; it’s not over. And their attitude going The class’ drawings and letters about Ruby student to attend William Franz Elementary of her, and she just wanted to do something forward toward these things can really make Bridges are on display at Harding Academy. School in New Orleans in 1960 has inspired good,” Griffin said. “She was able to walk audiences of all ages, particularly this group through that crowd without doing anything of third-graders, according to Myers. mean to anyone.” “It was really interesting to hear her story According to Myers, it was important to from her point of view,” third-grader Ford her for her students to know that Bridges Corder said. made a difference as a young elementary Myers said the students learned about student. Bridges and other Civil Rights leaders in “It’s someone they can identify with,” their social studies class, and attending the Myers said. “They can identify with Ruby ASI lecture was originally offered as an extra Bridges, and in fact, in their writing they credit opportunity. wrote about how she was brave and didn’t “After they went, they came back and yell back when people were yelling things any of them that went, they could not stop at her. I think it was really identifiable for talking about it,” Myers said. “They were them. I love watching their growth in their telling all the stories that she told.” understanding of that and how they can apply Third-grade student Ava Ellis attended it to things happening today in the world.” the lecture and recounted how Bridges had Third grade student Ellie Morgan said to walk through an angry mob every day she found Bridge’s actions to be very brave. before school. “When she got in the school, all the “She said a prayer for them as she walked parents went in there and took out all their through them,” Ellis said. “It was brave for kids,” Morgan said. “She thought it wasn’t AMANDA FLOYD | The Bison her because she could’ve not done that and about black versus white; she thought it was gotten really scared.” evil versus good.” Harding Academy third-grade teacher Tiffany Myers, along with her students It was then that Myers decided to create According to Myers, the third-graders Ava Ellis, Shelby Payne, Ford Corder, Luke Bradford, Hunter Griffin, Eli Frep- a new assignment specifically about Bridges have also been learning about Black History pon, Ethan McCown, Ellie Morgan, Jonathan Nwokeji, Josh Ramsey, Maddie and her story. She said it was a spur of the Month and its significance. Rollins, Aiden Sims, Catcher Smith, Emma Jo Smith, Madden Mae Taylor, and moment thing, but she wanted her home- “It blows their minds when we talk about Macy Turner show off their Ruby Bridges art in the hallway of the Academy.

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SA art contest, 2A | riay ebrary Student Association hosts art competition RANEISHA STASSIN According to senior class the halls.” student writer representative Kirk McDaniel, the Students can submit their art Tpieces submitted must be no larger or photographs to SA president The Student AssociationB | (SA) riay than 2 square ebrary feet and no smaller Noah Watson. The winners will is hosting an art competition than 1 square foot, and it must be then be selected by the Ezell’s through March 3, to decorate the able to hang on the walls. Students building manager, Terry Smith. Ezell Center and help students can submit drawings, paintings and Watson hopes that students will remember where their classrooms even photographs, all of which must submit Harding-related pieces to are, according to SA vice president be Harding appropriate. Of the be displayed. senior Daniel Evans. students who submit pieces, the “We hope that there will be a “It’s very confusing in the hallways top three winners will receive gift good number of students that turn to walk around and know| riay which cards ebrary to Kibo Midnight Oil. First in things,” Watson said. “People can one is the right one,” Evans said. place will win a $50 gift card, second express the things they love about “So we just needed to do something place a $30 gift card and third place Harding and be appreciated for that.” to make the hallways different.” a $20 gift card. Members of the SA According to Watson, the SA When faced with the challenge hope this will be incentive enough will be announcing the winners of getting art pieces, the SA came to get students involved. whose art will be recognized in up with the idea of holding a “We want as many people chapel after spring break. The AMANDA FLOYD | The Bison competition that would allow all to submit art for it as possible,” chosen pieces are scheduled to be Senior class rep Kirk McDaniel demonstrates the size require- students on campus to get involved | riay McDaniel ebrarysaid. “The hope is to get displayed in the halls of the Ezell ments for art submitted for the SA art competition. Art may be and submit their own work. several pieces of art to hang across by the end of the semester. submitted to SA president Noah Watson through March 3. Fayetteville displays ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner DELILAH POPE relevant, that they are visible, and that positive reception. that there is not an African-American serving Teditorial assistant their life matters,” Jones said. “When we “To me, it’s not really surprising to see in city government, and there is also not an B | riay ebrarysay ‘black lives matter,’ it’s not a political something like that,” Kelly said. “From what African-American presence as it relates to Fayetteville, Arkansas, received national statement.” I understand, the goal of the Black Lives business,” Jones said. “Dickson Street is famous in February due to its inclusion of the Pattie Williams, Jones’ co-leader of the Matter movement is to be aware of racial in Fayetteville, so we felt that if we placed it words “Black Lives Matter” in a Black Black Lives Matter team and founding oppression and to work to end that and in Fayetteville’s most premier locations, that History Month banner hanging in the city’s member of Compassion Fayetteville, to work toward equality throughout races, makes it make it even more appealing.” downtown sector. The banner was originally echoed Jones’ positive sentiments, and throughout genders, throughout sexual Compassion Fayetteville plans to continue hung last year by the Black Lives Matter expressed that the group has received very orientations. And so I think Fayetteville is their community involvement through team of CompassionT Fayetteville, but it few negative responses, but among those very welcoming to ideas and to promoting activism, education and discussion, but Kelly sparked national interestB this| yearriay after a receivedebrary were allegations that the group equality among people, and so it’s not does not want people to ignore the positives photo of the banner was tweeted by a former was inciting racism. something that is surprising to me on that as they engage in activism. Fayetteville resident. Jones stated that in spite of this, the front. And then to have a banner that is put “Even though the statistics and the Compassion Fayetteville is a chapter of reception both years has primarily been up doesn’t really shock me either, because numbers show that there is a majority race the Charter for Compassion organization, a positive, even with this year’s heightened downtown on the street where it was put and there is a majority white population in group whose mission is to transcend cultural, interest in the banner. up, there are banners that are put up for all the area ... it would be great to see much religious, political and ideological boundaries “I was made aware of a few comments, sorts of different events.” more diversity there, and I would love to in order to foster communities of inclusion but I believe that they were outside of The banner was originally hung on see much more diversity there,” Kelly said. and understanding, according to the group’s Fayetteville,” Jones said. “So for the most Dickson Street, which leads directly to the “It is a city that’s welcoming to that. And Facebook page. D’Andre Jones, co-leader part, as it relates to Fayetteville, Fayetteville University of Arkansas. According to Jones, so that number is not necessarily noting of Compassion Fayetteville’s Black Lives has been very welcoming to inclusion, this location was chosen for its high visibility that. Nothing against, it but it’s just saying Matter team, affirmed that the goal of the particularly (to) Black Lives Matter.” and cultural significance to the city, primarily this is where we are and we’re making banner is to promote unity. Junior Miranda Kelly, a Harding student to encourage the growth of black-owned progress and we’re working towards better “We wanted to make sure that African- and resident of Springdale, Arkansas, credited businesses in the area. diversity, better understanding people and American residents in Fayetteville are the culture of Fayetteville with the banner’s “This month we’ve noticed in Fayetteville better equality.” McLarty takes the plunge for Special Olympics

AMANDA FLOYD | The Bison President Bruce McLarty jumps into the Benson fountain for the Special Olympics Polar Plunge on Thursday, Feb. 21 after 10 a.m. chapel. The student education organization Scholars Advancing Learning and Teaching (S.A.L.T.) raised $1,050 for the Special Olympics this year. Black Student Association to host panel discussion JAISA HOGUE relate to others.” to know them.” news editor According to BSA president, junior Jewels Edmerson, According to Westbrook, the BSA meets to discuss the theme for the panel is “It’s not my fault, but it’s my black history, culture, Civil Rights and equality. He said the The Black Student Association (BSA) will host a panel problem.” Edmerson said the goal is to discuss racism and organization supplies students who may feel underrepresented discussion Friday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Administration how it has changed over the years and is still present today. with a place they can gather to share common experiences as Auditorium that will feature Rizelle Aarons, Arkansas’ state “We want to connect how racism was here before anyone well as build relationships with those different from them. representative from the NAACP. on this campus was even alive or thought of, but how it “The overall message that BSA is trying to convey at “It’s a good opportunity to listen to something you might continues to morph,” Edmerson said. “We’re still in the same Harding is one of support but also education,” Westbrook not hear on a regular basis, a topic that’s not discussed in situation, it just looks different now. We can combat that said. “Together we would like to see progress on campus to regular talk,” junior BSA member Taylor Flewellen said. by having diversity on campus and building relationships raise race consciousness towards peaceful reconciliation.” “It’s good to come with an open mind, and I think it will with one another.” Flewellen said she became a part of the organization in really help people receive another perspective on how to Assistant professor of Bible and faculty sponsor for BSA August of 2016 and hopes the club will encourage equality. Tim Westbrook said Edmerson formed the organization “Coming to Harding, I kind of struggled with being and invited him to be a part of it in the spring of 2016. a minority and looking out in my classrooms and feeling Community Banking It became an official organization at the beginning of the alone sometimes,” Flewellen said. “I felt like I couldn’t really that will... 2016 fall semester. connect with others as well, but (BSA) just breaks barriers “I saw that it would probably be better for the university and allows you to see that we are all equal … we’re Christians, and more representative of the body of Christ if it’s not and we’re striving toward the same goals.” just an exclusive group, but opened up to everyone to join,” Edmerson said the BSA meets every other Thursday in Edmerson said. “I think one of the biggest problems we have McInteer 125 at 8:30 p.m. and extends an open invitation to in society is that we like to stay in our clusters of people that any student who wants to be a part of the meetings, service Find us on we’re comfortable with. We often don’t get to meet people projects or events. The next meeting will be held March 2. Facebook that are different from us. When you live in a society that’s For more information about the BSA, email Jewels 2401 W. Beebe Capps Expy. • 800 E. Beebe Capps Expy. • 2801 E. Race St. like that, you’re missing out on people, and you don’t get Edmerson at [email protected]. i e T B i e i e A sweet escape hannah j. moore grant malone it’s whole day gone, and all I had to show for fictional problems with nobility and honor complicated it was further proof that Meryl Streep is on “The West Wing” than read about the one of the greatest actresses who has ever latest Trump incident. I would much i rather e guest lived (but I could spend a whole article on watch Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone fall writer that alone, so I’ll spare you). I had to ask in love in “La La Land” than muster up myself the question, “What is it about film the courage to talk to the girl that I have that makes time pass so quickly? How is it a crush on. I would much rather watch that I can spend an entire day looking at Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer a screen and not even realize it?” And one combat racism in “Hidden Figures” than ‘Hoodie Weather’ word came to mind immediately: escape. Ttry to stand up to the person making t’s no secret: I love film. In fact, that’s If we’re being honest, the reason we racially insensitiveB comments. i And why?e always feel the need to include a disclaimer when a gross understatement. I have three love film (and television and live theatre) Because it’s easy. I don’t have to put any this happens, but I cried while writing this column. Ishelves full of movies in my apartment. I so much is because it allows us to escape. effort into it. I only have to sit there and I had to step away from the computer and lie down can’t leave Walmart without stopping at We watch people experience the horrors get swept away by the magic. But is that on the couch to decompress for a while. Why? I’ve the $5 movie bin to see if there are any of war or cope with the loss of a loved one really living? If I’m being honest, it’s not. been attempting to juggle job searching on top of my new additions. While most people host or try to recover from a failed relationship, None of this is to say that we should classwork, and it’s ridiculously hard to say in the least. Super Bowl parties, I host Oscar parties, and we think to ourselves, “At least that’s boycott the film industry. On the contrary, A prerequisite to searching for jobs is deciding and when I get bored in class, I make not me.” Even if we have experienced a I’ll probably watch NetflixT as soon as I finish what kind of work you want to do, and I can’t even lists of Oscar predictions for the coming similar situation in our own lives, there writing this article. But Bthe principle i is this: figure e that out. I have so many interests that I can’t year (to any of my professors reading this, is something therapeutic about watching life is about real people, real relationships, possibly pick just one as a career. I don’t feel comfort- sorry). So I think it’s safe to say I’m a film someone else trying to overcome the same real action. Maybe, every now and then, able committing to anything right now, yet I need to aficionado. But you don’t have to have an conflict. We laugh with them, we cry with instead of putting in our headphones, we convince somebody to pay me money in exchange for obsession like me to appreciate the art of them, we hurt with them and we forget all should call our families or talk to our friends my labor, like, right now. filmmaking. After all, how many of us about our own problems, that is, until the or just sit in the sunshine and reflect on I just don’t feel grown up enough to be doing these look forward to Saturdays when we can credits roll. And that’s where binge watching the beauty of God’s creation. Because life kinds of things. I’ve been the same height since I spend hours curled up in bed with Netflix comes in. We get to keep escaping, over is a gift, and it is meant to be lived in real was 10 years old, so I often just feel like a little child and junk food? and over again, as many times as we want. time, not through a screen. doing adult tasks. I feel like I’m playing pretend, that It was on my most recent Netflix The more I reflect on this notion, the I’ve put on my mom’s clothes as a costume and I’m binge that I had an epiphany. I looked more I realize that I spend far too much writing a made up investigative story about my Bratz at the clock and realized that I had been time watching other people live their lives G RANT MALONE is a dolls getting in a fight on one of those small memo watching movies for seven hours straight, on a screen and not enough time living guest writer for the Bison. notebooks. stopping only to replenish snacks or take my own life. I would much rather watch He may be contacted at One thing that has always soothed my soul in restroom breaks. I was utterly horrified; a President Josiah Bartlett try to overcome [email protected]. times such as this is music, and one line from a certain song really puts everything in perspective. Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? Specifically at the beginning of my senior year of high school, when a Top 5 SuperBowl Commercials letter was sent to my house about the insufferable senior pictures and quotes. Among Harding Students I don’t like getting my picture taken (a trait I picked up from my grandmother) but I would have rather taken a bad photo than face the embarrassment of not having one in the yearbook. My family couldn’t afford much, so we went to the cheapest photo studio around. You get what you pay for, and they turned out 33% to be really cheesy (more like rotten bleu cheese), but I just remember being really mad that the photographer 15% didn’t edit out my terrible shoulder acne. I ended up picking the one with the best view of my glorious emo bangs and put a really thick filter on it. 15% 20% As for my senior quote, I initially didn’t have *Based on a 138 student online anything in mind. I’ve always found inspiration from poll conducted by the Bison the words of others, so I knew I wanted to include 17% on 2/13-2/17. one, but there had never been one up to this point Graphic by DARRIAN BAGLEY that really stood out to me. I listened to all of my favorite songs hoping I would find something worth attaching my legacy to, and in the end, I chose a line from the bridge of the song “Hoodie Weather” by the ‘Did he who made the Lamb make thee?’ pop-punk band The Wonder Years. I chose it because it referenced growing up, and I thought it sounded suzannah thompson dependent on my parents for that to hap- can go anyway. I can start small. Or big. prophetic. And I thought choosing a song lyric made pen and for many other things. I know I You can make phone calls from a cubicle me look really, really cool. am supposed to compete and be the best and change the world. You can cook good “Growing up means watching my heroes turn guest at whatever I do in order to be respected. food and make someone warm for a while. human in front of me.” writer “On what wings dare he aspire? / What You can go to Alaska and give tours from It’s said that Dan “Soupy” Campbell, lead vocalist the hand dare seize the fire?” bush planes. You can work for the BBC and lyric writer for the band, wrote this line in refer- But amidst the chaos of details and ap- directly from London. You can write a book ence to the band New Found Glory. He had grown plications, I know I want to save just about or a screenplay. You can teach children to up listening to and practically worshiping this great everyone on this planet, because the world sing. You can hold a grandmother’s hand pop-punk group, and now he was touring with the seems smaller every time I open Twitter. while she learns to speak again. same people he looked up to as a kid. He formed y father, a 1986 Harding alumnus, Two words, real world, are an enigma and So as we look for, hope for, pray for personal relationships with some of his heroes and had a column in this very publication a weapon of fear. and yes, work for real jobs, know we have came to realize that they were just regular humans. Mtitled “Given to Extremes.” He wrote a “What the hammer? what the chain?” dream jobs too. Know that we are thinking I don’t know exactly how or why, but this obscure piece called “The Harding Epic: Journey There is so much we can see as soon as big but feel small, and we want to make song lyric that I haphazardly chose a little over four to Find a Real Job.” Though the piece was we decide to look for it. News, good and a difference that lasts. We climb atop our years ago helped me relax a little bit. I don’t think I’ve published in 1985-1987, the pain-soaked bad, is a touch away. Pain is all around us, ambitions and quest forward, armed with completely reached adulthood yet, and that’s okay, satire rings true today. Inspired by my father and yes we are privileged, and that was curiosity, good will and knowledge. We but I do think I am at least in the process of growing and guided by the words of William Blake’s given to us. A product of generosity. We know what we face. You have told us. up. Recognizing that the people I idolize had to go “The Tyger,” I continue: are grateful. If nothing else, we are grateful. “What immortal hand or eye / Dare through the exact same situation I’m struggling with As college students and millennials, we However, you have to understand we frame thy fearful symmetry?” brings me an immense sense of comfort. One day I are cursed before we start by judgments bear the weight of the future now. We Be we Lambs or Tigers, we are, as a will wake up and feel completely content with the and expectations. The comparisons grow feel it, every one of us, just as you did. The generation, unprecedented and unbound. life I’ve made for myself. I’ll look around at my peers more crippling every day. No, I have not world is breaking in different ways today The ground is ours to beat, limitless. and know that I’ve finally made it to where I want than yesterday. There are different solutions. This is a heroine’s journey. This is my been in the trenches. No, I did not know to be. It won’t be tomorrow, but it will be some day. I what it was like in your cloud of smoke. There is more listening to do than talking. Father’s world. I only want to make it better have no clue what it’ll look like, but it’s a day that I “In what distant deeps or skies / Burnt There is more healing than fixing. In these if I cannot make it right. definitely look forward to. the fire of thine eyes?” holes, there is room for writing, painting, I do not know your battles, but I know singing and dreaming out loud. mine. I am looking down a different barrel. “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” SUZANNAH THOMPSON is a HANNAH J. MOORE is the opinions editor I know I have to go to graduate school in Sometimes, I feel like I should be taller guest writer for the Bison. for the Bison. order to practice in my field and in order to when I stand up. Most of the time, I feel She may be contacted at She may be contacted at [email protected]. be taken seriously. I know I am completely my reach will never go as far as I yearn. I [email protected]. Twitter: @hannah_j_moore staff Joshua Johnson Hannah J. 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joshua johnson Life Lessons in Evolution same song, second verse 3B riday ebruary 2 217 Peace out of transition t 22 years old, soonB to be released riday from ebruary 2 217 college, I find myself determined to simplifyA my life. This means giving away, throwing away and somehow or other disposing of anything and everything I can live without. There are two developing piles on the Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior floor of my room. Basically, my life is 10/16/08 Throwback Illustration by CHRIS BINGHAM being divided into an “old” and “new” me. The former will be discarded in a variety of ways. The latter will be stowed away in ‘Beauty is universal’ plastic totes. It should be the definition of chaos. Yet here in the nostalgic wreck of emily wheeless word “ideal,” you will find words like “perfect” Our worth is not found in things of this my bedroom, I find unprecedented peace. or “that which one seeks to attain.” If you think world, but as believers, our worth is found in Many of the items scattered around my about it, the majority of the television shows, the Lord. We have been told since we were childhood home are easy to categorize. Pens guest commercials and ads that we are exposed to young that the Lord made each one of us embossed with the names of businesses writer contain women and men alike who always beautiful in our own way, and as I have gotten unheard of, books I have never read and have the perfect body or face. We are taught older I have acknowledged the overwhelming have no intention of reading, baseball cards I that we should fit into this certain mold that truth of that statement. Of course, we all have once collected so religiously, notepads upon society wants us to be in and to attain the flaws, but that is the point. There is not one which I had scribbled illegible ideas for the perfect look, when we should be doing the ideal image because there is not one person next bestselling paperback to grace the New complete opposite. who is perfect. York Times — all these things and more s I sit on my couch, enjoying an oversized This past week, I did a presentation over the Regardless of whether you are a glamorous find their way into the corner of my room Reese’s heart that was 50 percent off at Dove Real Beauty Campaign. This campaign movie star in California or a college student that seems to define the “old” me. Walmart,A watching another episode of “Gossip was one of the first campaigns in the media in small-town Arkansas, we are all beautiful Some objects pose a bit of a challenge Girl,” a few questions pop into my mind. to put a halt on the standard model type that because each one of us is different. to my sentimentality. In many cases, to I ask myself, “Why can’t I look like Serena has been shown as the ideal image. By using discard a certain object is the equivalent of van der Woodsen?” Or “Why can’t I have women of different ages, shapes, races and Esau forfeiting his inheritance for a bowl of clothes like Blair Waldorf?” heights, Dove showed that beauty is universal. EMILY WHEELESS is a stew. One such artifact is my grandmother’s The beautiful characters of “Gossip Girl” Not one person or idea is beautiful, but the guest writer for the Bison. ceramic duck — an item she had treasured are just one example of the ideal image that our unique and different looks that each person She may be contacted at faithfully until the end. How that ugly thing society deems beautiful. When researching the has are what makes our world a beautiful place. [email protected]. ever ended up on my dresser, I’ll never know. Still, it represents the “old” me. Another challenge is my vintage record Interested in writing a guest column? player, purchased for $1 at a yard sale when Contact Hannah J. Moore at [email protected]. I was 10 years old. I loved vinyl albums as a preteen. Many happy hours were de- voted to indulgence in Mozart or one of the other symphonic greats. A period of intense pop appreciation came and went as well, and much of my puerile allowance Just the was spent supporting the likes of Michael Clax The last greatest show on earth Jackson, A-Ha, and other popular bands who topped the music world during one little over a century ago, President trigger warning. And speaking of trigger decade or another. Woodrow Wilson attended the Barnum warnings, the next two paragraphs will be This record player is one of a kind. It &A Bailey Circus in Washington, D.C. With about clowns. So if any readers need to curl also weighs 35 pounds and defies the very michael the election of 1916 just six months away, up into a ball, I understand. nature of portability. So, 12 years later, even most Americans assumed the president claxton You see, as I have lamented in a previous this sentimentally irreplaceable object ends would run again, but he had not officially column, the once beloved reputation of the up in the “old” pile. announced his candidacy. As the circus band American clown has gone belly up. Emmett My nostalgic adventure does not end played “Hail to the Chief,” Wilson had an Kelly, Red Skelton, Bozo, and Clarabell might here. I discover other artifacts that I value idea for a little showmanship. He took off all be looking for work in today’s clowna- nearly on the level of my own life. There his top hat and tossed it into the center ring. Ten years after putting his show on the phobic world. A series of bizarre incidents are practical items like my first computer: The audience understood the gesture, and road, the showman teamed up with James last year in which people in white makeup five-and-a-half years old, but containing the place went wild. Bailey in 1881, and their circus empire and red noses were caught stalking various many, if not all the thoughts and secrets of And now, after 146 years, the iconic Ring- eventually merged with one started by five neighborhoods has not helped, but public my psychological existence. Items like this ling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus brothers from Baraboo, Wisconsin. The two opinion had been turning against clowns lie scattered around the section of bedroom announced last month that it would close shows traveled separately until 1919, when for years. An entire generation has grown dedicated to the “new” me. I discover a the center ring and put its legendary show to together they formed the extravaganza that up with an obsession for labeling things penknife my father entrusted to me at pasture after one final season. Whether that nearly survived long enough to celebrate as “creepy,” and grown men in oversized the age of 8. The blade is now broken, but is good or bad news, of course, depends on its sesquicentennial, a word that, you’ll be shoes were a perfect target for the favorite still useful. The scissors lost their elasticity your point of view. Activists have protested pleased to know, I typed correctly the first Millennial put-down. years ago and have to be manually opened the touring spectacle for years because of its time without spell-check. In the past, if you were said to be “clowning and closed between forefinger and thumb. use of performing animals, filing injunctions Profits for the RBB & B Circus have around,” that simply meant you were engaged My “world’s best editor-in-chief ” mug, in city after city to keep the entertainment been declining for some time, a twin victim in playful antics. Maybe they involved a the keychain I used to hold my first set of giant tied up in the courts. of two changes in American culture. The first squirting flower or a whoopee cushion or car keys, my Bible — for whatever reason I can’t help but wonder how long P. T. is the increasing distaste people have for the a banana cream pie. But now, if you clown these items, among others, find themselves Barnum would have kept fighting. The spectacle of performing animals. Though around, someone will call the police. destined for the plastic totes. bombastic showman courted controversy his circus folk dearly love the animals in their So with the double whammy of public Throughout this introspective journey, whole life. He once glued the skeleton of a care and insist that they are not abused in distaste for elephants in sparkly headdresses I find myself overwhelmed with a peace monkey to the skeleton of a fish and claimed any way, today’s audiences are less and less and nationwide hysteria over adults in rainbow that can only described as a transcendent to have discovered a “Fiji Mermaid.” When comfortable with the idea of lions jumping wigs, the RBB & B was doomed. And I for calm in the eye of a hurricane with a well- he exhibited the fake remains in his New York through flaming hoops while humans munch one say it’s a shame. The circus was the only known, dreaded and rightfully feared name: museum in 1842, Barnum wrote unsigned cotton candy in the stands. place many people got to see live elephants or transition. The inevitable divide wherein the letters to the newspapers denouncing his own The other change, I believe, has to do with tigers, and the skills of these animals can be “old” becomes the “new” or is lost forever. exhibition as a fraud. Then he wrote other a complete reversal in how the American quite dazzling. For generations, the smell of But in this stormy soon-to-be wasteland anonymous letters defending it. Thousands public feels about clowns. sawdust and peanuts has drawn huge crowds of what should be emotional turbidity, I flocked to his museum just to see what the There is a concept in linguistics called to what was billed as “The Greatest Show find peace. After all, what is peace if not a ingenious ballyhoo was all about. pejoration. Words often change meaning on Earth.” temporary, fleeting calm? While wandering throughout the build- over time, and when a word goes from a The circus will survive and adapt, of course. In many ways, the very definition of ing — which contained everything from positive connotation to a negative one, Minus the animals, and maybe with a little peace is that of quiet reflection amid levels modern appliances to bearded ladies to flea that’s called pejoration. The word “silly,” for less white face paint. But those talented ac- of oscillating activity. Graduation is near. The circuses — many visitors followed a sign example, meant “holy” or “blessed” in the robats, trick cyclists, jugglers, trapeze artists leaves on the trees rustle in premonition of that said “To the Egress.” One by one they Middle Ages, but these days it’s no spiritual and comedians will carry on their craft and the storm to come. Yet I find myself here, in walked through a marked door, hoping to compliment to call someone that. Similarly, delight us well into the next century. That the eye of the hurricane, where there is quiet. find out what kind of strange creature the the word “petty” once simply meant “small in is, until the OSHA regulators show up to Goodbye to the “old.” Hello to the “egress” was, only to discover that it was the size.” But now it has degenerated in usage to take down the high wires. “new.” For now, I welcome the peace that Latin word for “exit.” Duped by Barnum’s mean “trivial.” The opposite phenomenon, is transition. JOSHUA JOHNSON is the gag, visitors always had a good laugh. That by the way, is called amelioration. MICHAEL CLAXTON is a guest editor-in-chief for the Bison. is, until they realized that they had to pay I realize that some readers may not have writer for the Bison. He may be contacted at another admission fee to get back into the been expecting linguistic terminology in He may be contacted at [email protected]. museum. today’s column. I should have given you a [email protected]. 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Make the call, ‘ Magic The Los Angeles Lakers made a massive change to their front office on Tuesday when they decided to fire their general ‘ manager, Mitch Kupchak, and name a former Laker player, Magic Johnson, as president of basketball operations. Johnson played for the Lakers from 1979 to 1991 before leaving the NBA for a few years after being diagnosed with HIV. He came back to the league for one more season in 1996 before officially retiring from the game of basketball. He was and still is considered one of the greatest point guards to ever play the game, winning four NBA titles and three league MVP’s. Graphic by CECILIA NUTT It is no secret that the Lakers have struggled in recent years. Former Bisons football player Ty Powell opens up They have acquired some good, young talent in the past few NBA drafts, but injury and a about his time at Harding and as a player in the NFL lack of experience have kept them out of the playoffs for TAYLOR HODGES some time. sports editor A few weeks back, Johnson made a statement about his role “Harding football really is a brotherhood. It has the greatest level FROM THE with the Lakers, and what he of diversity on campus, and the guys would do anything for one an- would do if he were in charge other,” former Harding football player Ty Powell said. “As players, we FIRST TIME HE of the team. worked on taking care of one another. I still have a very close bond “First call I make if I’m in with all of those people and will travel a long way to be with them.” charge? Kobe Bryant,” John- Powell began his football career at Harding in 2011 after trans- STEPPED ON son said in an interview on “ ferring from De Anza College in California. He played two seasons ESPN’s First Take. “Because for the Bisons at multiple positions, and was drafted in the seventh CAMPUS, IT Kobe understands winning. round by the Seattle Seahawks in the 2013 NFL draft. He understands these players. “I’ve always enjoyed any opportunity to help my team win,” Powell … Whatever time he has, I said. “During my last eight years of playing football, I played six WAS PRETTY want him to come and be a different positions. Playing defensive end at Harding gave me the part of it.” opportunity to start each play closer to the guy with the ball, which OBVIOUS THAT This would be the perfect meant less running to go get it.” first move for Johnson to make As a defensive player, Powell spent a lot of time under the wing of in his new position with the then defensive coordinator and current head coach, Paul Simmons. WE DIDN’T Lakers, and here are a few “Ty had offers to every Division II school in the country,” Simmons reasons why: said. “But he told me that he came to Harding because we had what HAVE ANYONE First, if there is anyone who he was looking for. He really wanted to be a part of a brotherhood.” knows the Lakers organization Powell said that while he was playing football in California, he better than Magic Johnson, was faced with different challenges, but football was not one of them. LIKE HIM. it is Kobe Bryant. Bryant “My time playing in California was a bit demanding,” Powell spent 20 seasons in the NBA, said. “The part that was not demanding was showing up for school, every single one with the Los playing football and all the other aspects of being accountable as a Angeles Lakers. He won five student athlete. The demanding part was the fact that for a whole year, -Head Coach championships in LA. He is I drove approximately 140 miles each day to be that student athlete. the Lakers all-time leading But that was just a minor sacrifice. I had a mission to complete, and scorer (which is impressive the adversity raised my level of determination and intensity.” Paul Simmons if you think about all of the Simmons said that Powell’s work ethic and intensity were obvious ” great players in Laker history). from the moment he came to Harding and stepped onto the field. He has been around the team “From the first time he stepped on campus, it was pretty obvious through all its ups and downs that we didn’t have anyone like him,” Simmons said. “He was a tre- in the past 20 years, and there mendous talent the second he stepped foot on campus and on the is nobody that knows the field. He really can do anything.” organization like he does. After moving to the defensive end position, which he had never The second reason why played before, Powell started catching the eye of nearly every NFL team. Magic should call Kobe is that In Powell’s last year at Harding, he led the team in tackles for Kobe’s basketball IQ is off the loss with 12, had 8.5 sacks and had a school-record four blocked charts. You don’t play with one kicks. He was also a Second Team All-America honoree, and his team for 20 years and become talents got him invited to the NFL Draft Combine in Indianapolis, one of the all-time greats by Indiana in 2013. accident. He has played with “Ty came to us as a free safety, but there was some discussion most of the young guys on the among the coaches to move him to defensive end, so we did,” Sim- team already, so he knows how mons said. “That fall, I think we had 31 of 32 NFL teams on campus they work. Being in a position to see him. It really is amazing what he did. As a division II player, of authority will give Kobe the he played defensive end one year of his life, and he was good enough chance to work with those to get drafted.” young guys on a different level than he did while he see POWELL, 2B was playing alongside them. Finally, I think Kobe and Magic would work great together. Kobe’s rookie year was in 1996, the same year that Magic retired. And being the two best Lakers of all time, they have a connection that most NBA front offices wouldn’t have. So Magic, if you’re reading this, you need to call Kobe Bryant. It would only mean great things for the already promising future of the Los Angeles Lakers. TAYLOR HODGES is the head sports editor for the Bison. He may be contacted Courtesy of TY POWELL at [email protected]. Twitter: @thodges_2 Ty Powell was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in 2013, but spent the majority of his NFL career in Buffalo with the Bills. riy erury T B riy erury Bisons and Lady Bisons play big conference games riy down erury the stretch, seniors honored PARKER SAMUEL “We had some bad stretches of some turnovers that student writer led to some easy baskets for them,” Bisons head coach Jeff Morgan said. “When you give a team, especially as The Bisons and Lady Bisons basketball teams played explosive as a team as Arkansas Tech, extra possessions, the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys and Golden Suns Mon- it just kills you.” day, Feb. 13 and the Henderson State Reddies Thursday, The Bisons improved in their shooting in the second Feb. 16. The men fell to Arkansas riy Tech 78-59, erury giving half to 50 percent over shooting 29 percent in the first, the Bisons their fourth straight loss. They then defeated but were unable to prevail Arkansas Tech’s offensive at- the Reddies 87-82 to break the streak and get a victory tack. Junior guard Tim Wagner scored the team high of for their final home game. The Lady Bisons defeated 15 points, followed by senior guard Will Francis with 14 Arkansas Tech 64-62 and the Henderson State Reddies points and sophomore guard Filip Medjo added 13 points. 84-58, extending their win streak to 7. In Feb. 16’s game, the Lady Bisons defeated another The Lady Bisons had a strong start against the Golden conference opponent, the Henderson State Reddies to TSuns, shooting 56 percent in the first quarter to lead 29-19. extend their win streak to seven. The Lady Bisons took “In the last few games we have made a bigger effort to charge with a 17 point lead of 46-29 going into the half. get off to Ba better start,riy and that’s erurywhat happened against They were able to maintain and extend the lead, ending Tech,” Lady Bisons head coach Tim Kirby said. the game 84-58. Hogue led the team in points scored with The Lady Bisons held a comfortable lead at 58-47 with 16. Junior guard Falan Miller had 14 points, 12 of which 4:23 remaining. The Golden Suns then proceeded to go were from the 3-point line, and Haney led the team in on a 11-2 run on the Bisons in the next 3:20, putting the assists with nine. This victory secured the top spot for the score at 60-58. Lady Bisons in the Great American Conference (GAC) A free throw from sophomore center Sydnie Jones, tournament in March. two free throws fromT senior guard Andi Haney and a The men’s basketball team followed with another free throw from sophomoreB guard riy Riley Rose erury were the victory for Feb. 16. Senior forward Stefan Andelkovic only points scored in the last minute of the game. With 5 led the team in points with 25 and in rebounds with 11. seconds left and the score at 64-62, Arkansas Tech missed Wagner added 19 points and Francis added 16. The Bisons their last shot attempt as time expired. had a lead of 13 points with 3:13 left on the clock, but EVAN SWEARINGEN | The Bison “We have to get better at keeping a lead,” Haney said. the Reddies went on a 10-0 run to cut the lead to three. “We had a comfortable lead and then let them get it Wagner secured the 87-82 victory by making all of his Sophomore Sydnie Jones shoots a layup over within two and have a look at a shot.” last four free throws. Henderson State on Thursday night at the Rhodes- Jones led the team in scoring with 17 points. She was After the Lady Bisons game, seniors Haney and forward Reaves Field House. followed by Haney and sophomore forward Caroline Correy Moyer were honored. After the Bisons’ game, seniors Hogue with 13 points each. Francis and Andelkovic were honored, ending their time advantage during his career at Harding. The men’s team followed this game with a loss. While to play in the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. Haney and “I want to thank the cheerleaders, band and Rhodes the Bisons had an early lead of 21-15, Arkansas Tech made Francis shared their feelings about playing in the Rhodes. Rowdies for creating a great atmosphere the last four a 23-5 run up until the end of the second half, putting “It's easy to want to play at home because we have years,” Francis said. the Bisons behind 38-26. The Bisons struggled to keep such a great crowd and support team, especially for girls Both teams played Saturday, Feb. 18, at Southern the ball during possessions with nine turnovers in the basketball, and compared to other teams,” Haney said. Arkansas University in Magnolia, Arkansas. The women first half and eight in the second. Francis had a similar appreciation for the home-court won 49-46, and the men lost 58-88. POWELL, from 1B

Simmons added that while he thinks Powell is the most would stop and say ‘thank you’,” Simmons said. “We were the talented person to ever come through Harding, there is one ones that thought we should be saying ‘thank you’ to him.” thing that really stuck out to him. Powell was the first Harding football player to be drafted “The thing that stands out to me about Ty, even though to the NFL since the Denver Broncos selected Bruce Baldwin he might be the most talented guy that has ever been at in the 1983 draft. The Seattle Seahawks drafted Powell in Harding, is that before every game, he would walk the the seventh round of the 2013 draft, and he went on to win sideline, he would seek out every coach on the staff and he a Super Bowl with the team. “When I was a young kid, I walked past a TV and saw a college football game,” Powell said. “Right then, I knew I iPhone Service would play the game. From the first time I put on a helmet, I have believed that I could play at any level. One of the first things I remember telling coach Simmons was that I plan on playing in the NFL.” Powell was later picked up by the New York Giants Courtesy of TY POWELL where he spent some time on their practice squad, and was Ty Powell makes a tackle during his time as a Quality O ce, Inc. then picked up by the Buffalo Bills, and was added to their Bison in 2011-12. He spent two seasons with the 304 South Main Searcy, AR 72143 53-man active roster. He appeared in 19 games for the Bisons and recorded 47 tackles, 10.5 sacks and Bills and recorded 23 tackles and one sack. He missed the two fumble recoveries. 501-268-5862 entire 2015 season due to a torn ACL, and elected to retire qualityo ce.com from football in 2016. He is now the strength coach at the could give it, and I gave it everything I had. The doors it has iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac Computer, iPad, iPod, University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. opened for me have been unbelievable. There’s nothing left “The journey that this brilliant game took me on was my but to pay it forward to let the next young man looking to In-warranty and out-of-warranty own fairytale,” Powell said. “It gave me more than what I give all he has, unselfishly. Then do it again for someone else.”

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AMANDA FLOYD | The Bison Junior Juan Prieto left his home country of Venezuela in 2015 to study at Harding after conflicts with the Venezuelan government. His immediate family has since settled in the U.S. and applied for political asylum. Leaving Venezuela, country of ‘tyranny’ The first installment in the two-part ‘Redefining home’ series

SAVANNA DISTEFANO York Times reported consistent inflation and increased was happening, why everyone was running away, and we features editor government control in a response to the declining economy. were just there trying to figure it out.” After spending the afternoon in front of the school, Prieto and his friends decided to flee the scene. Students gathered in a schoolyard in Zulia, Venezuela, the teenagers later joined university students who were “When I started running, I felt a soldier grab me by the for their morning routine of prayer, announcements and protesting in the plaza at the center of the city. Soon after, shirt, and they kind of pulled me in, and I said, ‘I wasn’t singing of the national anthem on a January day in 2014. Venezuelan soldiers gathered at the plaza, too. During doing anything, just let me go so I won’t have any charges It was the senior class’ turn to hold the flag and lead the their protest, the students held signs condemning the against me,’” Prieto said. “I was so confused, I was kind students, faculty and staff in song. current Venezuelan president, Nicholas Maduro. Accord- of still in shock.” Junior Juan Prieto stood on a balcony with his classmates ing to Prieto, the choosing of Maduro was a result of the Prieto said his father was passing through and inter- as the rest of the student body turned their gaze on the flag previous controversial leader, Hugo Chavez. Papers with vened between him and the soldier. The soldier then beat they held. Following their previously planned statement, handwritten messages were meant to criticize Maduro’s his father, perhaps as punishment for obstruction of justice, the seniors halted the anthem and flipped their country’s lack of college education. Prieto said. flag upside down — a sign of rebellion. According to Prieto, the soldiers remained standing “I really couldn’t do anything,” Prieto said. “I was “That day we were all kind of nervous about it, and we around the plaza for approximately three hours before they screaming for help, I was pushing their shoulders, but I weren’t sure if we were going to do it,” Prieto said. began approaching the protestors, who took a step closer was not as strong as they were. That’s when the university The school director prohibited Prieto and his classmates to them. The soldiers pulled out their weapons. students came over and kind of helped us out.” from attending school for the day. He did not want them “We got closer and closer, and they said, ‘No, you’re Prieto said his family was then harassed by federal sol- to lead by example. The students took advantage of their not going,’ so they pulled their guns out and they were diers for six months. The soldiers followed the family, drove day off and led a peaceful protest in front of the school. just holding their guns,” Prieto said. “We all got scared, around their neighborhood in military vehicles and allowed Some parents joined the students in making a statement but we didn’t leave … I guess the soldiers had to be there strangers to live on the empty lot where they planned to build against the government they considered unfair and corrupt. until we left, so they pointed at us, but they didn’t shoot a house. In hopes of alleviating the harassment, Juan Prieto’s “Venezuela is a very beautiful country,” Prieto said. “Sadly, … that made us really nervous.” parents agreed to allow him to study in the U.S. He began however, the government is not the best. The situation in According to Prieto, a motorcycle coincidently drove by applying to a list of U.S. schools; however, the government Venezuela has been tyranny.” as the soldiers held their weapons. A pop from the engine withheld his high school diploma after graduation, which According to The Washington Post, Venezuela depends mimicked a gunshot, scattering the people. did not allow him to fulfill requirements and meet deadlines on oil for 95 percent of its export revenue. The Post reported “Everyone thought the soldiers had shot, so everyone for the colleges he applied for — except Harding. Venezuela’s oil exports have fallen by half in recent years, started running away,” Prieto said. “I was with my friend The second installment of this series will appear online at which has weakened the country’s economy. The New Samuel, and we were just kind of there (wondering) what thelink.harding.edu on Friday, March 3. Alumna serves Harding on Board of Trustees HANNAH MOORE did not include some element of not to take ourselves too seriously. opinions editor song or theater,” Rivera said. “When Once we found that rhythm, life you visited our home, you knew that away from home became so much Alumna Errica Rivera was chosen you would somehow be entertained. easier.” for the Harding Board of Trustees When there was nothing to do, we “(At Harding) we on Oct. 28, 2016. Board members would make up things to do … learned so much about are chosen after candidates are create and record our own version one another and how recommended by a current member. of soap operas, make up songs about The committee within the board any and everything, play games and to deal with this unique then reviews and interviews the practical jokes on one another … obstacle course called potential candidates with final full our home was filled with laughter ‘life.’” board approval. She was added at and love and never a dull moment.” this time along with Rodney Waller While a student at Harding from -Trustee Errica Rivera and will attend her first board 1986 to 1991, Rivera was a member meeting in May. of women’s social club Regina and After graduating, she worked President Bruce McLarty said the Good News Singers as well as a at Northeastern Christian Junior that the board is essential to the Spring Sing host in both 1989 and College in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- operation of the university and 1991. In 1990 she became the first vania where she met her husband. explained what each member’s role African-American homecoming They married in 1993 and have looks like. queen. Rivera graduated in 1991 two children aged 12 and 6. She “The primary tasks of the board with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. has also worked for Coca-Cola are to ensure the university’s faith- “So many wonderful times and and Nationwide Insurance, and fulness to our mission and that the rich memories were made during she now serves as the director of university’s finances are in good my years at Harding … probably associate advocacy and culture for order,” McLarty said. “(Board most significant was the opportunity State Auto Insurance Companies. members) serve as advocates and to meet lifelong friends who I now “The primary responsibility ambassadors for the university. consider to be extended members of this role is to develop people They hire and regularly evaluate the of my family,” Rivera said. “During partnerships with senior leadership president. Their importance to the this time, we learned so much about to define and implement annual university cannot be overstated.” one another and how to deal with organizational goals for corporate Rivera was born in Buffalo, New this unique obstacle course called culture enhancement, associate York. Growing up, her family created ‘life’. As young adults, we were engagement, talent attraction and a traveling singing group called very new to this ‘life away from diversity and inclusion,” Rivera the Melodious Acapella Singers home’ reality, so we basically grew said. “As a marketing major, I am and her brother wrote songs such up together on campus and learned able to exercise those muscles a bit as “Cool Inside” and “Heaven’s on that the key to maintaining any as well in driving the development Courtesy of ERRICA RIVERA the Other Side.” level of sanity while away from and articulation of a compelling Errica Rivera was added to the Harding Board of Trustees “Our family was a very musical home was to keep God first, keep employment brand to enhance the on Oct. 28, 2016. She graduated in 1991 and was the first family, so there wasn’t a weekend, a core of supportive friends nearby, flow of highly qualified, diverse tal- African-American homecoming queen in 1990. fellowship or youth function that minimize outside distractions and ent toward careers in our industry.” | riy erury T B | riy erury | riy erury | riy erury T B | riy erury T B | riy erury Black History Month events in Arkansas GARRETT HOWARD Jones Gibson, the creator of “Because of to gaze into the soul of the photographed of the Stevens Art Gallery is hosting its lifestyle editor Them We Can,” in the university’s Walton individuals. This project is held in the library’s annual photography show in celebration Reading Room of Mullins Library. The Reading Room. of Black History Month, with expressions Black History Month is wrapping up, event will begin at 6:30 p.m. Fayetteville’s Public Library is hosting highlighting former president Barack Obama but there are still a few ways you can get Feb. 28 — Head to Arkansas Tech Uni- another project, titled “A Visual Arts San- and former first lady Michelle Obama. The engaged in celebrating heritage with these versity in Russellville, Arkansas, for Soul foka.” This exhibition aims to evoke specific photography display is open from 8 a.m. to 5 Arkansas events. Food Sunday, where you can enjoy food, a aspects of the African-American experience p.m. on weekdays and will run until March 3. Feb. 25 — The Parkview Arts and Sci- musical presentation and a guest speaker by exploring young artists’ perceptions of the Harding is also displaying a number of ence Magnet High School will partner with starting at 3 p.m. world through the African-American lens. paintings by the late Lee Watts, an artist the Clinton Presidential Center in hosting If you can’t make any of these last events, This project is held in the library’s Children’s who did many of the paintings of Harding Parkview’s Black History Program, which or if there was an event from earlier in the Reading Room. presidents and donors around campus. Watts’ will celebrate voices of the Abolitionist month you missed out on, then you’re in luck. The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in paintings are displayed in the Art and Design Movement, from Frederick Douglass to There are several month-long or ongoing Little Rock, Arkansas, is hosting “A Living Galleries, featuring portraits of a 93 year-old Sojourner Truth. The event will be held at activities from the beginning of the month History: The Arkansas Black Hall of Fame” gentleman known as “Ole Jolly,” who was a the Clinton Presidential Center in Little to the end, so be sure to check them out if on the third floor. This exhibit highlights art, teenager during the Civil War. This exhibit Rock, Arkansas, from 11 a.m. to noon. you’re interested. music, sports, education and Civil Rights will be viewable until 5 p.m. on Feb. 24, so if Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, The Public Library in Fayetteville, Ar- by emphasizing the achievements of black you’re interested in observing Watts’ work, Arkansas, will host an open forum discussion kansas, is hosting a photographic project, Americans beginning in the 20th century. you better hurry. at noon on the #BlackLivesMatter and titled “Let There Be Light: 100 Black Men,” In addition, Harding University is hosting The Black Student Association is hosting #AllLivesMatter movements. all month long. This project aims to make its own month-long celebration of Black a panel on Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Admin- The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, black lives more relevant and visible in History Month for students who are not istration Auditorium discussing racism and Arkansas, will host an evening with Eunique Northwest Arkansas by allowing the viewer able to travel out of town. The second floor how it has changed. Best snoozing spots for Public Sleeping Day HANNAH MOORE one of them at least twice, so these would 3. The Heritage If it’s muddy, I would recommend trying opinions editor be a great place to intentionally snooze. Go lie down on the black stone ledge out a classic Harding swing. You don’t The green one facing the side TV is my surrounding the wall-terfalls for a chilled need a significant other and a ring; you A few weeks ago, I scrolled down a personal favorite. Curl up with a good surface and relaxing water sounds. There’s just need yourself and a dream. list of obscure holidays in the month of book and something decaffeinated. You two of them, so take a friend. While trying 5. The Student Center Elevator February and found out that National are trying to get some shut–eye here. out this spot I figured out that the plants “Student Center elevator? Where is Public Sleeping Day is celebrated on the 2. The Pit there are in fact real, so be careful not to that?” This is an actual question our features 28th. If you decide to celebrate and want At the back of the ramp into the pit, lie directly on top of those if you choose editor, Savanna, asked me while I was to sleep somewhere other than in your adjacent to the fireplaces in the Stu, is a to recline there. writing this article. This elevator is rarely classrooms, here is a list of the best places small alcove, which I am calling the pit of 4. The Front Lawn used, so while it is technically public, it’s on campus to catch some z’s. the pit. I wouldn’t go here right after chapel, Of course you could hammock, but very secluded. 1. Starbucks but there is literally no one anywhere near why would you do that when you could If you participate in National Public You know them and you love them: the the pit mid-afternoon. I think this would lie prostrate directly in the center of the Sleeping Day, mention @hustudentpubs Starbucks multipurpose community room be a great place to build a fort, so lots of quad? You don’t even need a pillow and a in a Twitter picture using the hashtag, couches. I’ve accidentally fallen asleep on pillows and blankets are recommended. blanket, the ground is pretty comfortable. #husleeps, to share your siesta. TOP 5 PLACES TO SLEEP ON CAMPUS

Graphic by DARRIAN BAGLEY Because the caged bird sang, the future is brighter yet GRANT STEWART boyfriend after she moved away from beaten with a switch by her grand- “From an English studies per- perceptions of Arkansans developed asst. copy editor Stamps at the age of 8, and the man mother for using “the way” loosely spective, she uses language very (such as) ignorance, racism (and) was found murdered shortly after. and irreverently. It was in this second beautifully,” Qualls said. “Even if poverty, but she also showed a re- “Today is yet to come/ In Arkan- Angelou was afraid that she was the trip to Stamps that Angelou learned you don’t share any of her experi- silient community in Black Stamps sas./ It writhes. It writhes in awful/ cause of such violence and horrors the importance of her voice and ences, like growing up in poverty or which rallied around one another to Waves of brooding,” Maya Angelou and became nearly mute. She was the power of words, and she would dealing with abuse or growing up overcome these barriers and which writes in her poem, “My Arkansas.” sent back to Stamps to escape the carry this with her throughout the as a black child in rural Arkansas, helped to give her the inner strength Angelou was born in St. Louis world that had been so viciously rest of her life. you can just appreciate the way she to find solutions to her own obsta- in 1928, but she spent her formative turned upside down for her in St. Later on, Angelou fought to uses language to tell these different cles and challenges. That change in years in a small town called Stamps Louis. It was during her second stay make a difference in the world so stories. There’s something beautiful perception has affected Arkansas’ in southwestern Arkansas with her in Stamps that she met one of the that people might not have to deal in that, and with that, you can reach present, both internally, as it gave brother, her grandmother (who she most influential people in her life, with the same hardships that she a wide, wide audience.” Arkansans an example of powerful called Momma) and her uncle. Mrs. Bertha Flowers. endured. She worked with Martin Senior English major and Arkansas art created from within their own “If growing up is painful for the Flowers was the “aristocrat of Luther King Jr. and wrote against native Jonathon Lance also believes communities, and externally, as Southern Black girl, being aware Black Stamps.” Angelou saves some injustice in every form. Maya Angelou Angelou has shaped Arkansas’ pres- it gave those living elsewhere an of her displacement is the rust on of her most beautiful language in “I has become a name recognized all ent drastically. Lance said he thinks opportunity to reconsider what life the razor that threatens the throat,” Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” for over the world, and it continues to Angelou is so influential because of in Arkansas could be like.” Angelou wrote in “I Know Why the Flowers. She describes her as always be heard in her home of Arkansas. her ability to change set stereotypes Caged Bird Sings.” looking graceful and beautiful while Dr. Amy Qualls, Harding English of people of color and even the “From an English The first few chapters of her au- also being kind and generous. It is professor, says she believes that while negative perception of Arkansas to studies perspective, tobiography deal with her life in the Flowers who encouraged a young Arkansas has certainly progressed the rest of the nation as well. He she uses language very small Arkansas town and the racial Angelou to speak again, as Flowers since Angelou’s childhood, there said Arkansas had never really been beautifully.” hostility that was ever present. She believed vocal communication to be is still room to grow. She believes considered an artistic state like New describes in great detail certain events an essential facet of human existence. that Angelou’s work has and will York, California or Mississippi until -Professor Amy Qualls such as having to hide her crippled She encouraged Angelou to memorize continue to make a difference in Angelou came along and showed uncle during a Ku Klux Klan raid in and recite poetry to her often, and Arkansas. Qualls said she believes them what Arkansas had to offer. Stamps and the harshness of young Angelou learned the weight that her good education will lead to a more “Maya Angelou provided a different Angelou felt a brooding in girls and sheriffs alike throughout voice carried. Almost immediately successful state, and believes that model for who an Arkansan could be. Arkansas because of the injustices the city and in her church. after her first interaction with Mrs. with Angelou being taught in most She was black and an intellectual,” she felt as a child, but because of But the terrors in Angelou’s life Flowers, Angelou returned home to Arkansas classrooms, this will be Lance said. “She showed the terrible her life and her work, her legacy did not end with racism. She was Momma and declared that she had feasible because Angelou makes things which served as the kernels is a continuous statewide stirring abused and raped by her mother’s gifts, by the way. However, she was herself so relatable. of information around which public for enhancement.