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Students first coined the term “JBU bubble” to refer to the tendency to stay inside the John Brown University community. The Student Ministries Leadership Team is attempting to “burst the bubble” by encouraging students to reach outside of the University and volunteer in the community of Siloam Springs. Junior Adam […]
This weekend the Lady Eagles will travel to Baldwin City, Kan. with an 8-1 record. There they will face off with four other teams. Their first game is against Graceland University (Iowa) and is likely to be the most competitive game of the tournament. Graceland is ranked 17th in the […]
John Brown University officially reached zero landfill status as of July 2. Instead of sending waste to a landfill, which costs about $50,000 per year, the University sought creative ways to recycle or dispose of all trash without a scrap ending up in landfills, at about half the cost of […]
Welcome to campus, whether it is your first semester or your tenth. As you are settling into the routine of the school year, The Threefold Advocate wants to offer its ideas about what John Brown University is and some tips about how to get the most quality out of your […]
A current conference shakeup may find John Brown Athletics between a rock and a hard place later. The Sooner Athletic Conference, of which the University is a member, is at a crossroads. As of next season, the conference will be down to seven schools, having lost five schools in two […]
His alma mater’s big game is one of college basketball’s fiercest rivalries. Now his new school’s big game is one of college basketball’s quirkiest traditions. John Brown’s new sports information director, Nicholas Robinson, graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., whose rivalry with nearby Hope College is arguably the […]
Welcome to The Threefold Advocate’s Op/Ed pages. We are excited to start a new school year with our diligent readers. If you are new, we invite you to continue to join us every Thursday, as we share varied points of views and commentary on what’s going on in and out […]
While this semester brings many additions to campus—construction by the dining hall and townhouses, new parking lots, a new incoming class—something will be missing: the president. President Chip Pollard announced to students at the first chapel that he would be taking a sabbatical for three months in Sydney, Australia. His […]
Let’s start with boiled eggs. To make sure I knew what I was talking about, I went down the hall to the kitchen to boil an egg. I whipped out my trusty saucepan given me by my mother (one of my parents’ wedding presents that’s still kicking). I filled it […]
This summer I did my internship at Casa Kim, an orphanage in Tekax, Yucatan in Mexico and I could not have been more excited. When I landed at the airport in Cancun I had several expectations of what my time in Mexico was going to look like, and let’s just […]