41 People take oath for citizenship

On Friday October 23, 2015 41 people to the oath of citizenship to become a legal citizen of the United States. These 41 citizens came to the United States from over 29 countries. United States District Judge Gina M. Groh presided over the ceremony in her courtroom in the Federal Building at 217 W. King St.in Martinsburg, West Virgina. Many Americans took for granted on what these 41 new Americans had to learn in order to gain citizenship. The 44th President of the United States Barack Obama even congratulated these new Americans stating that "today was a special day in your life. You took a long path to get here. Use your talent to enrich your new country and write the next great chapter of the American story." Many of the new Americans were asked why they decided now to become a citizen of the United States and many of them said that they have always enjoyed the United States and felt that the time was right to become a citizen of this great country. I honestly feel that any person that lives over seas and wants to immigrate and come over to the United States to gain citizenship should have that option to. The United States is the land of opportunity and a great place to live. Home of the free and home of the brave.

Listening Posts

In my hometown of Camden, Arkansas there are not many places to go in town where people go and chit chat. But there is one place that I can say that is a popular stop for elderly people to spill the gossip and that is a little restaurant called the Cardinal Cafe. The Cardinal Cafe is located at 212 Cardinal Southwest in Camden. The Cafe is a popular place amongest the elderly people. Most of them usually go there early in the morning, grab a plate of breakfast, a cup of coffee, read the newspaper, and chit chat with their friends and family. I can remember when my grandfather was still alive going just down the street from his house and go to the Cafe to meet with his friends and talk sports and political news. Most people that go there can spend almost 4 hours there just talking. Now the restaurant is a very great place to go grab a bite to eat anytime of the day. 

Public Records Part 2

The Camden Police Department were dispatched to the local Walmart in Camden to respond to a burglar. The CPD were notified that there was a man who picked up some beer and walked out of the store without paying. While CPD were speaking with employees who work in the customer service department, they noticed that the same man walked back into the store. Officers were notified a few minutes after talking to customer service that the man was back in the drink section, drinking another alcohol beverage. The man tried to hide from the police but was unsuccessful. The man had a strong odor of alcohol on him and told the police that he was going to pay Walmart for the beer but only when he got paid himself. The man was then placed under arrest and transported to the Ouachita County Sheriff's office for shoplifting and public intoxication.
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Public Records

Many in people in the great state of Tennessee are disagreeing over weather viewing public records should be a crime or not. People in the state are very confused if they will now have to pay a fee to view public records after Rep. Steve McDaniel and Sen. Jim Tracy sent a bill to the Tennessee office of open records counsel stating this claim. Many people in the state are concerned over the claim to charge to view public records because many believe it hinders government hindsight and leaves room for abuse with the records. Deborah fisher the executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government said that “This is very concerning. We think that if there are fees charged to inspect records, it will essentially shut down access for people." This is a continuing story in the state of Tennessee as many people in the state are still fighting and trying to not have pay for free public records.

100 years of SAU Homecoming

 

Southern Arkansas University celebrated 100 years of Homecoming this past weekend. There were many events going on during the week of Homecoming that not only the students and faculty of SAU could take part in but the general public as well.

The Homecoming festivities began on Monday with a Pep Rally taking place in the Greek Theater. The Pep Rally helped introduce the 2015 SAU Homecoming court as well. Also on Monday the Rankin College of Business’ held their third annual “Light for the Fight” ceremony. Many events took place in the Mall area on campus on Tuesday with Hot dogs and Burgers being cooked and sold to the faculty and students. And as well were other extra curricular activities in the mall area as well occurred. The festivities continued on Wednesday night with a drive in movie held in the Reynold's Center parking lot. The movie that was shown to the students that came was "Ant Man", Thursday had the annual Spirit Log and street painting on the Farm road. As Friday came upon us it saw a long list of events taking place such as Greek SAU Camp out and Bonfire, the Alumni Golf Tournament, Homecoming Heartbeat, Hall of Fame dinner, and the Black Alumni Dinner. 

Then the big day came on Saturday. It all began with the 100 years of Royalty Brunch followed up by Mulegating on the Ridge. Then finally the 2015 SAU Homecoming court were presented to the fans at the Homecoming game against Oklahoma Baptist. Mia Hyman was crowned Queen and Jacob Johnson was crowned King. The Muleriders capped off a great homecoming week with a win against Oklahoma Baptist winning by a score of 38-20

Campus Crime

A University of Central Arkansas student was arrested on Monday October 6th after a terroristic threat on campus. Samuel Davies an 18 year old student at UCA made this post on the social media site YikYak stating "Fellow Yaks, you all seem like good people and I care for you, so if you read this, please stay in your dorms or off campus next Wednesday, I care too much for you all to fall victim of the event."

Within an hour of Davies making the post authorities came and took Davies out of his Thompson Hall classroom and arrested him. Police do say that the threat was an empty one after searching his campus dorm and found no weapons or any kind of firearms. Davies did state that he "did not mean to post it" police said they do not know what he meant by this statement.

Davies has not been charged as of yet and he is being held in the Falukner County jail on a $15,00 bond.

http://www.katv.com/story/30189047/uca-student-in-custody-following-online-post-of-possible-threat-on-campus

SAU Tech helps out of state student achieve her education dreams

SAU Tech in Camden, Arkansas is a 2 year technical college that offers many people fresh out of high school or adults looking to go back to school the opportunity to further their education. Katrina Clark moved to Camden from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2010 to make a better life just not for her self but also her children. Clark wanted to obtain her GED after working in her sister's day care for a while and decided that wasn't the career field that she wanted to pursue. After taking the GED test the first time Clark was a few points shy of passing, but she quickly turned that around and took it again and passed it finally on the second try. Clark then wanted to enroll at SAU Tech but was turned down due to a loan balance issue. Katrina decided not to get down but to work to pay off the existing loan balance and enroll in school at SAU Tech. In August of 2014she began classes at Tech with sights set on an Associate's degree in Business Administration. Clark is looking forward to walking across the stage to receive her degree in no time. That just goes to show that you can never give up and always try your best to achieve you eventual goal.