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Turnovers prove costly in early season losses

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By Jared Fields, Sports Editor After all of the preseason hype and expectations to win the Lone Star Conference South Division, the women's basketball team began the first three games of the year with a 1-2 record. The Wildcats got off to a good start by winning their first game, a 73-51 victory over Incarnate Word in Austin. The next day the ... [Read More…]

Tickets on sale for Sing Song’s 50th annual production

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By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Although Sing Song is still more than two months away, organizers have sold more than 800 tickets for the final show. Kendall Massey, director of student productions, said more than one-third of the tickets have been sold for the Feb. 18 performance, not including the tickets that hosts and hostesses and co-chairs ... [Read More…]

Your Voice: Letter to the Editor

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I know that I may be a bit biased since I am his brother. However, I was wondering why there was no article done on the outcome of FilmFest and the winner, Brady Rector. I remember last year there was a front-page article on the winner and this year, just a mention of it in a story about what it takes to put on FilmFest. There was also an article ... [Read More…]

Thanksgiving blessings from Editorial Board

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Thanksgiving is a time of surplus nostalgia and thankfulness; a time that brings people's attention to aspects of their lives they often fail to remember. Although one should be thankful all year, the inevitability of an increased awareness of blessings is to be expected. The Editorial Board members have decided to share with you what they are ... [Read More…]

Casting Crowns to perform in Moody in April

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By Denton Josey, Student Reporter Casting Crowns, a platinum-selling Atlanta-based Christian band, is scheduled to perform in Moody Coliseum. The seven-piece band will play at 7 p.m. April 24. The tour, entitled The Lifesong Tour, is named after Casting Crowns' recently released album, which has been highly successful in the Christian ... [Read More…]

Moody Maniacs bring energy to basketball games

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By Denton Josey, Student Reporter This season when people enter Moody Coliseum to watch a men's basketball game, they will notice a group of students who look more like extras from a Braveheart battle scene than basketball fans but with more purple and basketball motifs. In an attempt to enhance the efforts of an already effective group, raucous ... [Read More…]

Cross country teams prepare for NCAA Division II National Championships

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer As an orange sun set Wednesday over the last official practice of the season, head cross country coach Derek Hood sat back in his seat and sighed. Maybe for the first time all season, Hood was in a position of complete surrender, depending completely on the training he had orchestrated for his men and women up to that ... [Read More…]

ACU opens season on the road against Incarnate Word and St. Edward’s

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By Jared Fields, Sports Editor A year after advancing to the NCAA II South Central Region Tournament when the women's basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the South Division, the Wildcats enter the 2005-06 season as the favorites to win the LSC South Division. The Wildcats didn't let last year's success lead to a settled mood in the ... [Read More…]

Thanksgiving evokes bittersweet memories

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By Sarah Carlson, Arts Editor I Am The Enemy The Thanksgiving that changed my life came in 2000. Five years ago today on the rainy, bleak Saturday before Thanksgiving, I went to the grocery store to buy curl-enhancing shampoo and red lipstick and stood behind an old man in line, listening as he told me about days gone by. I left with a smile on ... [Read More…]

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