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Track teams compete around country

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By Jared Fields, Managing Editor Head coach Don Hood will send his men's and women's teams to three different meets this weekend to qualify or better his team's marks for the indoor national meet in Boston on March 9-10. Hood will take people to meets at Texas Tech, Arkansas and Iowa State. Hood now wants to get everyone he can qualified for ... [Read More…]

Campus Center renovations scheduled for summer

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By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor The McGlothlin Campus Center could look like a food court next fall if Anthony Williams gets his way. Williams, the director of retail and purchasing, said the university plans to expand the food retail area of the Campus Center this summer and renovate the World Famous Bean in summer 2008. Williams updated the ... [Read More…]

Spring enrollment slightly decreases

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By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Future spring semesters may see less transfer students because many are choosing to come at the beginning of the school year, said Gretchen Etheredge of the Office of Admissions and Recruiting. This spring, 94 new and transfer students joined the ACU community. "I think we're getting more [students] from the ... [Read More…]

Immigrants help, not harm, America

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By Mallory Schlabach, Editor in Chief Face the Facts Anti-immigration activists believe that more immigrants arriving in the country will take away native-born American's jobs, cause the country to lose its English tongue and plunge the economy down the drain. If immigrants take away everything Americans have worked so hard to create, what about ... [Read More…]

Backstage pass: ‘Logos’

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By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Ryan Bowman is the voice of God, or at least he is this weekend in the Black History Month Production. Providing God's voice is just one of his many roles. Ryan, senior communication major from Orlando, Fla., said being the voice of God is his favorite role in the production. "It's kind of a humbling experience," ... [Read More…]

End the worship monotony in Chapel

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ACU prides itself in being a university where multiple ethnicities are represented, but the one thing that ties faculty, staff and students together is the same thing that drives a wedge between students of varying ethnicities: Chapel. Chapel is a large component of student life. It is a platform where ideas are heard by thousands, and voices are ... [Read More…]

ACU track continues to qualify

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By Jared Fields, Managing Editor "It didn't start off with a bang but it sure ended with one," Hood said. "I think everyone came back and realized we're going to be really good." The Wildcats automatically qualified for two events at the national meet at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. last weekend. The women's distance ... [Read More…]

ACU’s playoff hopes still alive

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By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor The ACU men's basketball team still has a chance of making the Lone Star Conference postseason tournament, but it won't be easy. After finishing the first half of conference play with a 87-67 loss to Tarleton State on Saturday, the Wildcats are last place in the LSC South and will play first place Midwestern State ... [Read More…]

Sweep starts ’07 season

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By Daniel Johnson, Sports Editor The ACU baseball team is used to starting a season undefeated, and this year is no different. The nationally ranked Wildcats, who has started undefeated in four of its last seven seasons, swept Henderson State in its first three games of 2007. ACU won both games on Saturday 10-5, 3-2 and the final game on Sunday ... [Read More…]

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