University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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Bright fall colors lure art students from the studio to the outdoors near Hill Hall. Even the busy campus environment didn’t shelter students from the events in the Persian Gulf as students watched news reports and worried about friends and family serving in Desert Storm. D. HOUSE PHOTO V the year exploded into a frenzy of activity. For collegians on the hill and for student soldiers on foreign ground, the year went down in the history books. Approximately 14,600 students watched as campus and world events commanded attention. On campus, an alleged sexual assault, involving four Razorback basketball players, sparked one of the most heated state-wide controversies in years while subjecting the University to a daily barrage of negative headlines. Internationally, Desert Shield became Desert Storm and students were called to active duty in the Gulf. From August to May and from Arkansas to Iraq, students not only studied history, they made it. HoME safely, fifteen members of the Fayetteville-based 362nd Psycho¬ logical Operations Company returned home after coaxing several hundred Iraqi soldiers into submission. Capt. Eldon Dryden Pence III addresses the crowd that gathered at Drake Field. W. COOKSEY PHOTO