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John Brown University’s Threefold Advocate staff attended the annual Arkansas College Media Association conference at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia on April 11th. ACMA aims to honor outstanding collegiate media across the state, encompassing physical and digital newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, websites, social media, TV and broadcast stations, as well as podcasts produced by Arkansas colleges.
A powerful earthquake disrupted the streets of Taiwan on April 3, starting at 7:58 a.m. With a magnitude of 7.4 on the Richter scale, this quake, the strongest in 25 years, resulted in at least 17 deaths and over 1,000 injuries.
The deadliest attack Russia has seen in decades struck Moscow on March 22 when 4 armed assailants broke into Krasnogorsk’s Crocus City Hall, a shopping and entertainment complex, chaos broke out as people sought to escape the gunshots and fires that the terrorists had started.
On March 4, France became the first country to protect abortion rights within its constitution, following an overwhelming majority vote by the country’s lawmakers. Though needing only 512 votes in favor to pass, the amendment passed with 780 votes in favor and 72 against.
On Feb. 19, the administration of John Brown University announced the introduction of a new major in Artificial Intelligence within its Computer Science Department, making it the first Christian institution in the United States to offer such major.
Under the direction of JBU associate professor and director Josiah Wallace, the theater department has put together what violinist Mary Patterson has described as a “modern take” on the classic play, with innovative lighting and sound effects being put together by the AVL team to emphasize the show’s central messages. This way, JBU has put on a show that has captivated audiences whilst maintaining Williams’ poignant memory tale of familial dynamics and broken dreams.
The previously considered peaceful South American country Ecuador has found itself thrust into the throes of a profound and escalating crisis. Culminating in the last few weeks of 2023, the nation has been grappling with a surge in violence over the last couple of years that has resulted in what the country’s president has declared a “state of war.”
Following the first round of presidential elections on June 25, in which presidential candidates Sandra Torres, who belongs to Partido Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (National Unity of Hope Party), and Bernardo Arévalo, member of Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement Party) came in first and second place respectively.
On Nov. 30, 2022, the company OpenAI introduced the artificial intelligence (AI) software known as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, more commonly known as ChatGPT, to the world. This language-based chatbot is designed to generate text responses based on user prompts, offering a significant development in the field of human-computer interaction.
The John Brown University’s (JBU) music and theater department will be presenting its very own rendition of Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields’ “The Play That Goes Wrong,” starting Sept. 29. The play has been developed under the direction of JBU associate professor of speech and theater Josiah Wallace, who has been teaching at JBU for six years. The play has been described by technical director and scenic designer Peter Rexford as a “ridiculous, hot mess,” but for all the right reasons.