Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Meet the New Alumni Advisory Council
More "Day in the Life" Photos
For the "Day in the Life" photo essay in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue, we edited more than 1,000 frames down to just 38. It wasn't an easy task. Here are a few that didn't quite make the cut (photos by Steven Jones unless otherwise noted):
Tuning Up Your Own PC
In the Spring/Summer 2012 issue, Information Technology Chair Dr. Rick Massengale talked about "tuning up" your own PC rather than paying to have it done. We promised to post his step-by-step instructions online, so here they are:
More About Huaca Pucllana
Last May, a team of UAFS students and faculty traveled to Peru to help explore and map the massive, Pre-Inca adobe pyramid called Huaca Pucllana. Using ground-penetrating radar along with GPS and GIS technologies, they marked "hotspots" likely to hold not only artifacts but also human remains. Our brief story on the expedition concentrated on the likely discovery of those mummies, but the team did much more in Peru. Check out The City Wire's longer story on the trip, as well as a computer animation of the site created by students.
More About Miranda Martinez '92 and The Ouija Experiment
In the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of Bell Tower, we ran a short piece about actress Miranda Martinez '92, who had recently appeared in The Ouija Experiment, a fun, low-budget horror film produced by Josey Wells, a Northside High graduate like Martinez. The movie was screened in Fort Smith in April. See the trailer here and more about Martinez--who went by Susan Miranda when she was a at Westark--on her web site.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
A Blaze of Nerdy Glory
Team Underfist wins first Quidditch tournament at UAFS
November. Saturday morning. The leaves have changed, the air is crisp, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Family gatherings, tryptophan-induced comas and dreams of gridiron glory are at the forefront of everyone’s minds.
Well, not everyone’s minds. Some have instead mounted their brooms in search of a different kind of glory—the kind that can only be had by snatching a tennis ball-stuffed sock from the waistband of a guy wearing yellow sweats.
Only the sport of Muggle Quidditch offers this nerdy glory. And to its players, the sport is gloriously nerdy.
"It's a fantastical sport," said Kim Stevens of Lions Quidditch, one of three organized teams at UAFS. "It's whimsical. There's no logic to it."
For those not in-the-know, Quidditch is a fictional sport played by the students of Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The term “muggle” is from the same and means “a person without magic.” Though a little hard to take seriously, Muggle Quidditch is quickly becoming a real sport.
The numbers don’t lie. When you combine both divisions, NCAA Football has only 244 teams. The International Quidditch Association is comprised of over 1,000 teams from 13 nations. College football may draw bigger crowds, but the muggles from big football universities like LSU, Virginia Tech, Michigan State, and yes, Arkansas, now have Quidditch teams. Even Ivy Leaguers like Harvard and Yale are getting in on the action.
It was only a matter of time before UAFS jumped on the broomstick bandwagon On November 5th, UAFS proudly hosted the first ever Lions Quidditch Fall Cup. Three teams competed: Lions Quidditch, the Theatre Department’s Team Underfist, and a team comprised of both members of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry and UAFS faculty. At the end of the fourth round, Seeker Shawn Mann captured the Golden Snitch (that’s the tennis ball sock thingy) for a stunning upset, securing final victory for Team Underfist, and for himself, undying nerd glory. —Bryce Albertson
November. Saturday morning. The leaves have changed, the air is crisp, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Family gatherings, tryptophan-induced comas and dreams of gridiron glory are at the forefront of everyone’s minds.
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| photo by Kevin Ledford |
Well, not everyone’s minds. Some have instead mounted their brooms in search of a different kind of glory—the kind that can only be had by snatching a tennis ball-stuffed sock from the waistband of a guy wearing yellow sweats.
Only the sport of Muggle Quidditch offers this nerdy glory. And to its players, the sport is gloriously nerdy.
"It's a fantastical sport," said Kim Stevens of Lions Quidditch, one of three organized teams at UAFS. "It's whimsical. There's no logic to it."
For those not in-the-know, Quidditch is a fictional sport played by the students of Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The term “muggle” is from the same and means “a person without magic.” Though a little hard to take seriously, Muggle Quidditch is quickly becoming a real sport.
The numbers don’t lie. When you combine both divisions, NCAA Football has only 244 teams. The International Quidditch Association is comprised of over 1,000 teams from 13 nations. College football may draw bigger crowds, but the muggles from big football universities like LSU, Virginia Tech, Michigan State, and yes, Arkansas, now have Quidditch teams. Even Ivy Leaguers like Harvard and Yale are getting in on the action.
It was only a matter of time before UAFS jumped on the broomstick bandwagon On November 5th, UAFS proudly hosted the first ever Lions Quidditch Fall Cup. Three teams competed: Lions Quidditch, the Theatre Department’s Team Underfist, and a team comprised of both members of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry and UAFS faculty. At the end of the fourth round, Seeker Shawn Mann captured the Golden Snitch (that’s the tennis ball sock thingy) for a stunning upset, securing final victory for Team Underfist, and for himself, undying nerd glory. —Bryce Albertson
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