The Office of Minority Services, the Student Goverment Association and The Spanish Club tomorrow will host "Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month." The event, which will take place on Thursday, Oct. 9 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the UCA Student Center Ballroom, will feature Al "Papa Rap" Lopez and the cast from the television show What … [Read more...]

The National Pan-Hellenic Council includes nine traditionally African-American Greek organizations, and UCA is the only university in Arkansas that currently has all nine groups represented. In honor of UCA Homecoming week, NPHC will present $900 to Ida Burns Elementary School in Conway. All nine organizations were founded at institutions of higher learning, and the UCA chapters want to help the … [Read more...]

Raymond-Jean Frontain, professor of English, recently published the following: "Silent Signs: Fuller, David, Writing," in The Sacred and the Profane in English Renaissance Literature, ed. Mary A. Papazian (University of Delaware Press, 2008); "Donne's 'Upon the translation of the Psalmes' and the Challenge to 'Make all this All,'" John Donne Journal 27 (2008); "Donne's 'Valediction of the booke' … [Read more...]

The UCA chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha tomorrow night will host a debate between the candidates for Arkansas State Senate District 30 in Faulkner County, Republican incumbent Gilbert Baker and Democratic challenger Joe White. The event will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the UCA Student Center Ballroom. Pi Sigma Alpha is the national honor society for undergraduate and graduate students of political … [Read more...]

The 2008 UCA Homecoming activities begin tonight with the Homecoming Pep Rally at 5:30 p.m. in the Farris Center. This year's Homecoming theme is "Building on 101 Years of Tradition," and other activities include: * Alumni & Friends Homecoming Party on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Agora Events Center. Tickets are $30 per person, which includes heavy hors d'oeuvres and beverages. * Half Century … [Read more...]

Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing, just returned from Texas where he was commissioned to fish for alligator gar and do a series of interviews with the British production company Icon Films for the series "River Monsters" to appear on the Animal Planet channel next year. Four alligator gars were caught and released; ranging from three feet long to six-foot-eight, 126 pounds. Dr. Mary … [Read more...]

Communication scholar Dr. Bill Benoit, an expert in political campaign communication and image restoration, today is an Artist in Residence at UCA. "I wanted to bring a communication scholar to UCA who would have a wide appeal to students and faculty," said Dr. J.J. McIntyre, assistant professor of speech communication and the faculty sponsor for the residency. "With this being an election year, … [Read more...]

The UCA Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Ricky Brooks, will present a Fall Concert tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in the Reynolds Performance Hall on the UCA campus. The concert is free and open to the public. Guest conductor with the Wind Ensemble will be Dr. Joseph Missal, director of bands at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Guest soloist for the evening is Dr. Blake Tyson, … [Read more...]

Garry Craig Powell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, has had his short story "Plunge Pool" accepted by Exquisite Corpse magazine, and his story "Kamila's Price" has finally appeared in Talking River, after that journal suspended publication and reputedly had its printing press burned to the ground. "Plunge Pool" will be the ninth story from Powell's linked collection, "The Gulf," … [Read more...]

Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters & Life, founded and edited by celebrated author and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu, is now based at the University of Central Arkansas. This legendary literary journal has been a major icon in contemporary American literature for more than twenty-five years. Founded in 1983, it has been edited since then by the celebrated author and … [Read more...]