There have been only three female Student Association (SA) presidents in school history. The first was Susan Brady in 1977; the second was Susan Vaughn-Hassmann in 1990, and now, 18…
In 1988, then sophomore India Medders-Galyean took to the stage as a Spring Sing hostess. Thirty years later, her daughter, sophomore Ava Galyean will continue her legacy as a hostess…
I am an avid GPS user. I’d like to say it’s because I think GPS is convenient, but really, for me, the GPS is necessary. I am what my parents call…
Junior Toria Adkison is known at Kibo Midnight Oil Coffeehouse (MO) as a jack of all trades. She serves as a barista, baker and chalk artist for the local business.…
“When I hear the word adoption, I think of the word ‘grafted.’ Kind of like a tree, you’re putting on another branch, essentially,” alumnus Kurtis Laughlin said. Grafting was what…
“People are very strong and resilient,” Jim Galyan, counselor at The ReGroup psychotherapy facility in Searcy, said. “They’re really good at masking it. Someone can be in a deep depression…
In my years at college, I have discovered that I am a grandma. With this title comes a lot of jokes, particularly that I’m going to be a little old…
Born in China but raised in New York, senior Nikki Strittmatter, believes her adoption has given her a deeper appreciation of humanity. “Living in America with the family I have…
On national adoption day, Nov. 18, 2017, President Bruce McLarty posted several pictures of those impacted by adoption on our campus. After seeing the large number of students, I decided…
Right before coming back to school, I saw one of my campers for the first time since leaving camp two months before. He ran up to me and proudly proclaimed…
There’s a note on my phone that is simply 21 tally marks. Twenty-one laps my sister and I walked around the track at a Relay for Life last year. Twenty-one…
On Friday, Oct. 20, Unity Health hosted the 24th annual Barbara Montgomery Memorial Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon, where cancer survivor Kathy LaFerney, a math teacher at Harding Academy, shared her…
All my life, I’ve wanted to be a part of a demolition crew. Shows on TV always made it seem so empowering. You knock through drywall with a sledgehammer and…
We often hear the phrase “God is good.” We sing it in songs, we declare it from pulpits and we throw it at the end of our social media posts.…
Having grown up in a Muslim household, Lectureship speaker Wissam Al-Aethawi is not what one would call a stereotypical Christian. However, Dr. Dan Williams, vice president of Church Relations and…
Starting the season with two losses is not where the Bisons football team hoped to be, coming into their third week of competition. However, head coach Paul Simmons feels these…
“When people think of Cuba, they think of the embargo and the trade and all of the government and communism, but no one knows there’s a Cuban church, let alone…
Yankee: someone from a Northern state. The first person to ever call me a Yankee was Bruce McLarty. In fact, he called me a Yankee a total of three times…
According to a study conducted by the National Bureau of Justice, 76.6 percent of prisoners released from prison in 2015 were rearrested within five years, a statistic that Likewise College,…
When we open our bank-breaking books, we are typically greeted with words in our own language and pictures from our own country. Developing nations like Haiti aren’t as lucky. They…
“Kobusingye” is a Western Ugandan word meaning peace; however, Anitha Kobusingye’s life has been anything but peaceful. Now a graduate student in the counseling program at Harding, Kobusingye is the…
This year’s Harding baseball team headlines 12 freshmen, not including those that will be redshirting. Several of these new additions will be making their debuts at home, Feb. 5, against…