News for the University of Arkansas and Beyond
![Senior Afsaneh Nimroozi participated in #GivingTuesday by donating to The One Missions.
“I think [#GivingTuesday] is a good idea because it gives non-profits an opportunity to get their name out there,” UA senior Afsaneh Nimroozi said. (Photo by Whitney Green, LEMKE NEWSROOM)](http://wordpress.uark.edu/razorbackreporter/files/2012/12/IMG_3911-150x150.jpg)
By Whitney Green Lemke Newsroom The recession and an increase in holiday spending are not factors in people’s decision to support charities – especially during the holidays, according to interviews. Organizations have created social media initiatives to encourage younger generations to donate to charity. Charitable giving increased by $6 billion in 2011, almost 4 percent [...]
By Whitney Green Lemke Newsroom Northwest Arkansas homelessness increased 36 percent in two years, according to the UA most recent homeless census. Shelters have prepared to help the nearly 2,000 homeless people prepare for cold weather. Many organizations in northwest Arkansas have resources available for the homeless to receive food and clothing, but The Salvation [...]
By Nick Brothers, Lemke Newsroom. In a booming age of mobile phones and wireless technology, campus police are using social media, tablet devices, and mobile emergency programs as part of their daily operations. New in the fall semester, the addition of smart911 to the UA community allows students to register their phone number with their [...]
By Mason Carr, Lemke Newsroom. Arkansas law that prohibits smoking on state property has left UA neighbors littered with cigarette butts. Students who live at 508 N. Lyndell Ave., a property owned by Baptist Collegiate Ministries, said they sweep and clean up litter from smokers a couple times a month, sometimes weekly. “I don’t think [...]
By Karen Stigar LEMKE NEWSROOM Time is precious. That’s clear in the voices of women inmates whose work was presented in the “Prison Stories Project” performance recently at St. Paul’s Episcopal. Nine women participated in the program and their work was written into a script that was performed actors, said Kathy McGregor, prison stories project [...]
By Greg Tavarez, Lemke Newsroom. UA construction projects totaled about half a billion dollars since 2011 toward the goal to place Arkansas among the top 50 universities in the nation with “state of the art” facilities. That pursuit has not come without disruption; class schedules have been adjusted because of lab and classroom construction, an [...]
By Sarah Villegas, Lemke Newsroom. Diversity in the college of engineering is at an all-time high because minority scholarships and the Engineering Career Awareness Program (ECAP) offer opportunities and resources designed to retain students, UA officials said. There were 638 students enrolled in the freshman engineering program for the fall semester this year. Of those [...]
By Karen Stigar, Lemke Newsroom. Jousting, sword fights and the renaissance era came to Fayetteville when the Ozark Renaissance and Fantasy Faire converted the Washington County Fair Grounds. Knights and belly dancers might seem an unconventional way to bring revenue to Fayetteville but visiting patrons’ need for lodging, food, entertainment, transportation and their other discretionary [...]
