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Over the past few years, universities across the U.S. have seen a spike in sexual assault cases that have caused an uproar amongst students. As investigations rage on, it is becoming clear that the universities themselves are increasingly at fault. Faculty trained in handling such cases are often at the […]
On Oct. 21, news from the film industry shocked the world when notable actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a crewmember with a prop gun. The film’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, died after she was struck in the chest with an actual bullet. Joel Souza, the film’s director, […]
The Siloam Springs middle and high school mountain bike teams competed and won individual hardware and had the best overall season in the state competition on Oct. 31. They call themselves the Siloam Springs Pedal’rs and they are a part of the National Interscholastic Cycling League. The Arkansas NICA league […]
For months, the Gabby Petito case has garnered the attention of millions as the almost unreal experience has unfolded. The murder of the vanlife YouTuber and subsequent disappearance of her fiancé and lead suspect, Brian Laundrie, have dominated the news cycle as America latched onto the case. As new details […]
“We are short-staffed,” read a sign outside a Sonic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Please be patient with the staff that did show up. No one wants to work anymore.” Photos of signs such as that one have gone viral on social media as an increasing number of Americans are quitting […]
Over the past few weeks, the migration and eventual dissolution of a large group of Haitians made headlines for their involvement in the controversial conversation on immigration. At its peak, the encampment in Del Rio, Texas, was 15,000 strong. Images surfaced in the following days that revealed they were stuck […]
At the beginning of the fall 2020, just over a year ago, John Brown University’s Creative Dining Services greeted students with new protocols. The deli was only available for mobile orders. Students would have to wait in single file lines around the perimeter of the cafeteria in order to get […]
Last spring, John Brown University purchased the Lakeside Manor, a long-time leased property outside of Belfast, Northern Ireland. After an entire summer of renovations, the nearly 100-year-old house is not ready to welcome students yet. Melissa Stevenson, Coordinator of International Education at JBU, commented that this was due to new […]
The John Brown University community celebrates a commendable achievement: The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (THE) named JBU as the #1 Arkansas university on their 2022 college rankings. For a second time in the last three years, the university has received this distinction, surpassing over 40 institutions of higher education […]
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Ever since then, the U.S. has been reeling with the social, political and emotional toll that the disease has taken. As America has continually mourned over 638,000 deaths, the divisive standpoints on vaccines, lockdowns and masks widen with […]