The Traveler

Members of the community, including a variety of religious leaders from Northwest Arkansas, gathered at the Fayetteville Town Center Tuesday to break the Ramadan fast with the Institute for Interfaith Dialog.

"The Institute for Interfaith Dialog is an organization that fosters conversations between religions," said Father Lowell Grisham, a priest at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church.… Post the First Comment

The UA is joining the federally established Energy Star program in another move toward sustainability.

The UA is the first institution of higher education in Arkansas to join the program, according to a UA press release.

Energy Star provides research and resources to help us decide on products to use on campus, said Steve Voorhies, manager of UA media relations.… Post the First Comment

By way of Mexico, El Salvador, Missouri and Minnesota, an author spoke Wednesday evening about the importance of sharing and looking for stories.

Sandra Benitez, author of "A Place Where the Sea Remembers" and "Night of the Radishes," was the fourth distinguished Latin American author to come to the UA, a tradition that has become a staple of the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations.… Post the First Comment

Students are required to change their passwords every 120 days or risk having their accounts locked, according to new guidelines from the Department of Information Services.

"The program was written for over a year, and the changes were announced back before the students left campus," said Pamela Hudspeth, manager of information and web services.… Post the First Comment

The Associated Student Government Senate considered a bill Tuesday which would require the ASG Press Relations Committee and ASG President Nate Looney to work with UA administration to develop a system for synchronizing clocks across the UA campus.

"At no point and time during the day can students travel between two buildings and see the clocks set for the same time in every building or the clocks in the same building set for the same time," according to the bill, introduced by Sen. Jonathan Powell of the College of Engineering.… Post the First Comment

The Associated Student Government will be accepting applications for this year's Rolling with the Razorbacks until Friday , Sept. 28.

The program, now in its fifth year, will take 100 students to the Oct. 20 game against Ole Miss in Oxford.

The program costs $25 and includes transportation, food, a T-shirt and a ticket to the game.… Post the First Comment