They Tell You To “Do Your Best But Just Have Fun.” Improv Is The Only Thing Where That Is Actually True. “I torched a bakery, for sure. Never considered bakeries beautiful, myself. They’re cesspools of human society.” That was one of many lines from the Blank Slate improv team that had me smothering laughs so […]
Last weekend, Union University’s debate team won the IPDA National Tournament, which was hosted virtually with over 62 schools and 132 teams competing. Rebekah Whitaker is the director of the debate team and the assistant professor of communication arts at Union. This is her second year coaching Union’s debate team. However, this was her first […]
Professor David Burke began our tour two days before opening night for the production Brigadoon behind the set itself. I introduced myself and went to shake his hand. “Oh I shouldn’t,” he said, holding up his hands so I could see how they were covered in shades of black, green and gray paint. I had interrupted him […]
The Union University debate team competed at Louisiana Tech University this past weekend and came home with an assortment of titles and a greater sense of confidence. The debate team won first in overall sweepstakes and in individual debate sweepstakes. Individual Union debaters won first place in novice (Amily Huddleston), junior varsity (Grant McLemore), varsity […]
The first time I ever met Sullivan Hogan was in a theater class. I, a non-theater major, walked into the room to see her, a theater major, sitting in a faded red loveseat, one of the many chairs from previous productions that occupied the theater room. Having never met me, she immediately introduced herself, along […]
Dr. Web Drake, department chair of communication arts, closed out his time as the head of Union’s debate team with yet another national title this past week in Shreveport, Louisiana. There was a representative of Union in the finals of four of the five divisions, securing enough overall points for the victory. This included team […]
Union sees many students coming in and out of school. We can agree that most are great, but only a few stand out. I can safely say that Alex Russell, a senior communications major, stands out among the crowd. From free-style rapping to sporadic comedic moments, Russell has it all. To capture his true aura, I am […]
It was February 2017. I was a senior in high school. I was on Union’s campus for a Scholars of Excellence weekend. I had no idea what I was doing, but this was the weekend when I needed to at least pretend like I knew what I was doing. It was a Friday night. I […]
With Union President Samuel “Dub” Oliver in attendance, the Union University Debate Team won the national tournament for the second consecutive year and the season-long title for the fifth consecutive year in a competition held on March 24-27 in Spokane, Washington. The season-long title, called the Founders’ Award, is given to the team with the […]
The double feature happening in the W.D Powell theatre Thursday April 19 through Sunday April 22 is sure to be an exciting one. Not only are these plays student directed, but one was even written and directed by the same student. Samuel Edgren, a senior here at Union with majors in theatre and English, wrote […]
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