Spring Break
UCM President Aaron Podolefsky will keep his position at the University, based on a decision by the board of trustees of the University of Central Arkansas Thursday. Allen Meadors, chancellor of the University of North Carolina, was offered the Arkansas university's presidential job, after the hiring pool had been narrowed to four candidates.
The summer is when most UCM students take a break from the classroom to take internships, get part-time jobs or just relax until August rolls around. There aren't many parties going on in Warrensburg, and Thursday nights on Pine Street look more like Sunday morning on Maguire.
Charity Townsend Caldwell wasn't even going to go to her own graduation that day, but a friend talked her into it at the last minute. As the new nursing graduate hustled out of the rain into the DeSoto Civic Center on May 2 and saw a crowd gathered around a man, her instincts kicked in.