Arkansas Blog

So Gearhart graduated from Westminster in Fulton. Wonder if he's ever read Churchill's 1946 Iron Curtain speech.

Cato, the two graduates from Westminster I know just about know Churchill's Iron Curtain speech by heart. Of course they attended earlier than Gearhart.

"White said he now regrets letting Broyles take a previously planned trip to Augusta, Ga., that week rather than stay in Fayetteville and meet with Richardson over his remarks."

I once knew a v-p at the UA, a likable fellow, who was amazed after being there 3-4 years that Frank of Ozarks could burst unannounced into a UA president's meeting and disrupt it just to tell the president or another v-p that he had scheduled a name-brand game. So, I'm wondering just who this White fellow thinks he was?

I think one of the most amusing things Daddy Frank ever said during his 50 years as Boss Hog was right after it had become apparent that the UA board had admonished White to retreat from his plans to "request" that Frank sort of, you know, step aside as athletic director. For Frank's on good, of course, considering his age and all. A reporter asked Broyles if he'd maybe, you know, sort of intervened with friends on the board to get White off his back. Frank replied that, Lord no, he hadn't been involved at all: "I don't know a thing about politics," he explained.

As a fellow '74 Westminster grad, I can confirm Gearhart's statement that he did not participate in any political protest while he was in college. No one at Westminster did.

Westminster in the early '70s (pre-coed) was something else. When I saw "Animal House" for the first time, I thought that it was a documentary.

The biggest protest that occurred while I was there was over the amount of money that the student government spent to bring William Kunstler on campus for a lecture. Someone figured out how many kegs of beer could have been bought with that money.

Funny arkie!

If the new chancellor wants more student's butts in UA seats, he's going to have to loosen the purse strings on that billion dollar endowment he's sitting on. My son had the grades and test scores to be offered the top scholarship at ASU, the presendential scholarship at UCA, and a scholarship at SAU, a school he didn't even apply to. UA? Not one thin dime. As much as it costs to send a child to college today, you can't just send them to a certain school for the so called prestige. If I could afford to do that, then it wouldn't be UA. I would send my child to a truly prestigeous school, not UA Fayetteville. It's a shame a student at-the-lete can score a 23 on the ACT and get a full ride and a regular student can score much better and get nothing. Where are the priorities? I guess we all know, don't we.