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While most of us were just waking up, six John Brown University students were walking up to a starting line of the Little Rock Marathon. The 10th annual Little Rock Marathon took place in Little Rock, Ark. on Sunday, March 4, 2012. JBU students, senior Haley Gilbert, junior Emily Schad, […]
It’s 11:17 on Tuesday night, and you have the sudden urge to see “Casablanca.” Never fear! The recently expanded movie collection in the library can help! The collection includes a great bunch of Academy Award winners for Best Picture, The American Film Institute’s top 100 films, and several spiritually significant […]
Behind every scar there is a story. Some are prominent, visible to the naked eye while others fade away with time but one thing is guaranteed, not one is the same. As for Sierra Rabenold’s the six inch scar on located on her right arm serves as a reminder to […]
The Caveman walks across the field. His long ponytail moves to the beat of the breeze and his slow pace. Upon entering his cave, a dark space filled up to the ceiling with all sorts of artifacts, the sight of unfinished projects reminds him of his place in the pack: […]
Friday afternoon comes along and nine JBU students load the van and head towards the Juvenile Detention Center in Fayetteville. While driving, our conversation is always the same: we finalize lesson plans and prepare for what is to come. After arriving, we enter the blocks; my partner and I have […]
Politicians seem to enjoy retracting one day what they felt so strongly the week before, as exemplified by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s remarks on Feb. 26. He said that a famous 1960 speech by then-presidential candidate J.F. Kennedy about freedom of religion made him want to throw up. Santorum […]
I’m glad our college campus is located near a graveyard. I don’t typically think about that fact, but one morning I wanted to get out for a walk, a desire which ended up with me wandering through the cemetery. God has been teaching and reminding me of many things about […]
Your social media self projects much more than you may realize. In fact, that promiscuous bikini shot from your spring break spent in Florida or that anger-ridden status update about how unfair your professor is really isn’t that private at all. The Threefold Advocate argues there is no such thing […]
Public Displays of Affection, commonly known as PDA. Blech. We all know the scene. A couple that can’t stay away from each other, oblivious to the world and definitely not paying attention when a mutual friend awkwardly comes up to say hello and interrupt their lovey-dovey moment. I used to […]
Just yesterday I stumbled across a fascinating article on the BBC News website. It was after the Brit Music Awards and before the story of Nelson Mandella’s brief hospitalization. It talked about the science of sleep. It pointed out reference after reference in literature written before the 1900s to a […]