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The Traveler
Stories from the current online edition of The Traveler.

• Buying back books: UA students decide where to sell used textbooks for best p...
  Finding the most reasonably priced textbooks can be difficult, but for UA students, the best option is to shop around before making a final sale.
  
  Many bookstores offer similar buyback pricing - typically 50 percent of the book's original value - if the book will continue to be used on campus.
  
• Can't find a boss? Try being your own
  For some ambitious seniors who want to run their own business, the future is filled with bright colors and artistic style despite the slumping job market and bleak financial future.
  
  Kristen Blowers, a senior interior design student owns Riffraff, Fayetteville's newest eclectic store.
  
• Career Center offers aid for job seekers
  Students are unaware of all the free opportunities the Career Development Center provides. From Mar. 1, to Mar. 10, 56 jobs and internships were posted on eRecruiting. Students applied for only 11 of those jobs, said Barbara Batson, director of the UA Career Development Center.
  
• Construction begins on Brough Commons this week
  When students enter Brough Dining Hall this week, they won't see the usual dessert bar, friendly faces and cereal line. Instead, they now are greeted by wooden beams, black tarps and a sign that reads "Brough - an exciting new look is coming … please pardon the disruption.
  
• Dogs become an issue on campus despite UA policy that bans pets
  UA students probably are accustomed to seeing dogs being walked on campus, playing Frisbee or jogging alongside their owners. But according to university policy, dogs are not allowed on the UA campus - and for student Whitney Jones, it would have been helpful if that policy had been enforced last...
  
• Economy's heart gets a jolt from U.S.
  Students who graduate next month will enter a job market fully feeling the effects of the recession, and experts say the end is not near. If the financial system does not recover soon, the recession might last beyond the end of the year, a UA economics professor said.
  
• Fayetteville School District finalizes plans to build new high school on same...
  Fayetteville Public School District officials recently decided to start building a new high school on the same site as the existing facilities. While learning in the middle of a construction zone might sound like a challenge, most members of the school board, the design team and parent and teache...
  
• Recruiting summit scheduled for June
  Colleges in northwest Arkansas are working together to help graduating students find jobs.
  
  The UA Career Development Center will host the College Campus Recruiting Summit from 9-11 a.m., on Thursday, June 4, at the UA campus.
  
  The objectives for this event include identifying key issues stud...
  
• The Clintons' first house now a history-packed museum near campus
  They were former UA faculty members and shared their first home on California Drive, a street directly off of the UA campus.
  
  It sounds like it could be the ordinary lives of a lot of UA faculty, except that he was the 42nd president of the United States and she was the second woman to be the U.
  
• UA School of Law ranked 94th in the nation
  U.S. News and World Report has ranked the UA School of Law 94th in its 2010 "America's Best Graduate Schools" edition, putting the school in the top tier of law schools in the country. "We are thrilled to be included among the top-tier law schools," said Cynthia Nance, dean of the UA School of Law.
  

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