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Samuel of Springdale
by Beth Dedman Sept. 27, 2019 SPRINGDALE — “Hey, chief, how much for the gun belt?” He called everyone chief. Samuel Rivera Lopez looked much different from the rest of the vendors and shoppers at the Rodeo of the Ozarks antique car part show....
Big Ticket Drug: The Cost of Staying Alive
by Rachel Roberts Sept. 6, 2019 Your body killed your pancreas. Well, at least the part of it that provides insulin beta-cells. Whether because of its dysfunction or because your other organs received mixed signals and mistakenly attacked it, now the important cells...
The Remnant of our Ancestors
What makes someone Native American, and do I count as Chickasaw? By Beth Dedman
Let’s Talk About Sex
by Karen Sue McKenzie In the Bible Belt, abstinence is ideal, but oftentimes people choose to have sex anyways. In turn, rates of sexual infections in the South continue to rise. In July 2017 I worked at an ice cream shop. I was scooping a sample of...
As Memories Fade
How dementia affects those surrounding the diagnosed. By Katie Serrano
My Attempt at Veganism
I wanted to experience the health benefits of a vegan diet. Here’s why it didn’t work for me. By Ella Ruth Hill
Latest Essays
Worth the Risk? Students Continue to Use Fake IDs Despite Legal Implications
It was just after the second week of fall classes. Colin, a 20-year-old University of Arkansas student, parked his car in the parking lot of Liquor World on College Avenue. He was planning to buy alcohol using a fake ID.
The Most Private Public Place
The fact of the matter is this: Never have you been closer to witnessing total strangers mid-orgasm than when you glance their way as they reach the paramount point of physical exertion.
The Advent of Full-Time Gamers
I realized that my childhood dreams were finally coming true—people could actually play video games for a living.
Not Mexican Enough
Discovering my identity as the white descendant of Mexican-American immigrants By Andrea Johnson It shouldn’t have surprised me to see my grandfather cry at his brother’s funeral, but it did. My grandpa does not dwell on sentiments. He complains. He...
Jaded Conquest of Cannabis
In a house in Little Rock with a small group of fellow supporters, Ryan Denham, 34, sat in front of a TV for several hours. By 10:40 p.m., multiple news outlets had called it. He flipped from news channels to online media outlets to confirm it. KATV, KARK, marijuana.com––they all said the same thing. Issue 6 passed.
What No One Tells You About Trying To Do Good
But we were there as service learners, ready to not be those dastardly “voluntourists” who would travel all the way to the tip of the world to paint a house in a township only to have it get rained on that afternoon. I wanted my work to be meaningful and legitimately useful.
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