In January this year, ACU’s Board members made the final push to change the Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) to the Office of Intercultural Engagement and Belonging (OIEB).

This alteration, paired with the past events within the 2023-2024 academic year, was met with the creation of the student group Wildcats for Inclusion. While the Board’s decision was met with backlash from some ACU students and some faculty, OIEB is set to change its name again by the first of April.

In conjunction with this, ACU has the most campus surveillance worldwide pressuring ACU students to forego holding hands or giving forehead kisses without getting called out on Yik Yak or getting talked to by their club chaplains. All these little instances have added up, and the board deemed it appropriate to rename OIEB to the Office of Overly Personal Stuff (OOPS) so that students have not only an on-campus resource to feel like they interculturally belong but also to find solace from the small campus where everyone knows everyone.