“Hot Girl Walking” Through Life

Viral exercise trend aimed at inspiring confidence creates a welcoming community for women in Northwest Arkansas. By: Emma Dannenfelser We’ve all seen it. The girl walking down the street in her brightly colored athleisure. Her headphones are in and probably blaring a...

“Life Begs For Comedy”: Jennette McCurdy on Her Time in Therapy, Her Mom and Her Best-Selling Book.

By Natalie Murphy As Jennette McCurdy speaks at the Distinguished Lectures Committee, the audience is very familiar with her. Simply put, the first time the mostly college-age attendees heard of and watched her on TV was when they were in middle school. But she is no...

Dear Freshmen: Now is the time

Story by Alyssa Crutcher Starting college can be an intimidating experience. Going from a 2,000-student high school to a 30,000-student university is enough to make anyone feel lost in a sea of thousands. While the number can seem scary, college is actually the...

‘Tis the Seasons for Sustainable Gift Giving

By Natalie Murphy It's time we acknowledge that while we like to think the holidays are still a time for religious remembrance and getting to see family, it has become much like every other holiday: yet another time for our capitalistic economy to thrive. And with the...

Women of Fire

By Emma Dannenfelser Firefighters are an integral part of society, and they have been throughout much of history, as well as the average American’s life. Children’s books, movies or cartoons, you name it, we were raised on stories about a man in that heavy, puffy suit...

Throwing Out the Milk by Paige Babcock

How do you separate the savory from the rotten and the sour from the sweet? Going through the days, I’ve gotten lost in obscene thoughts and nooks and crannies of my mind. Maybe tomorrow or yesterday, I can find the answers I’m looking for. While life goes by I ponder...

 


Latest Features


The Payoff

The Payoff

By Alyssa Crutcher With hustle culture being so prevalent, especially in younger generations, there is a lot of pressure on working hard and pushing yourself to perform at 110%. They say if you’re not exhausted, you didn’t work hard enough. With that, there are so...

Women of Fire

Women of Fire

By Emma Dannenfelser Firefighters are an integral part of society, and they have been throughout much of history, as well as the average American’s life. Children’s books, movies or cartoons, you name it, we were raised on stories about a man in that heavy, puffy suit...

Pearl’s in the Diamond State

Pearl’s in the Diamond State

By Marin McGrath As soon as a customer walks through the door, they hear the chime of an old fashioned bell and they are met with a rolling library ladder that takes after the one seen in “Beauty and the Beast.” Whether it is the forest green shelves filled with...

 


Latest Essays


Silver and Gold- Joshua Droll

It’s raining. Of course it is. It had been forecasted for a while now.   It should have been obvious, The wisps of white that mimed Paul’s Revere, The temperature reaching a fever pitch, The air itself seemed to sweat so that the Earth Must wipe it all away,...

Grabbin’ for Babin’s Artwork

Grabbin’ for Babin’s Artwork

By Alyssa Riley Creator TikTok is hit or miss – you either strike gold and get millions of likes, or your content reaches 20 of your closest friends and its kaput. Summer 2021, when Logan Babin, 22, posted a TikTok of her abstract painting, she was astounded at the...

 


Latest Photo Stories


2018 Magazine Art Contest Winners

We asked University of Arkansas student artists to interpret the theme of the 2018 edition, “No Longer Unspoken.” Victoria Waters’s and Justice Henderson’s works were published in the magazine as contest winners.   “Motherland” By Victoria Waters...