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The Heart of Campus: Burke and Kennedy prepare for upcoming school year

April 28, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

As most students prepare for finals week, graduation, the end of another semester and the start of summer break, two students are already planning for the new school year. The student body elected Danny Burke, junior business marketing major from Seymour, Indiana, and Julia Kennedy, sophomore English major from Lubbock, as the new Students' ... [Read More…]

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Before Peter Pan: ‘Starcatchers’ shows how Peter Pan became the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up

April 21, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

The Department of Theatre will open its last show of the semester this weekend with Peter and the Starcatchers. The show is a theatrical adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's best-selling book of the same name. The show is a prequel to Peter Pan, telling the story of how the orphan became the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up – including pirates ... [Read More…]

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What to do when you don’t know what to do

April 21, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

Time is cruel. It feels like four years have gone by faster than I could say “Convergence Journalism Major” and now I don't know what comes next. How do I cope with the realization that after years of going to school, I’ll be leaving the only life I can remember? In kindergarten – learning colors, words, and how to make friends. In high school – ... [Read More…]

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FilmFest awards unintentionally presented to non-ACU participants

April 3, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

Two FilmFest awards were unintentionally presented to two non-ACU students during the FilmFest gala on Friday. During the gala, Best Sound Design was presented to Isaiah Garcia for Stalked and Best Visual Effects was presented to Christian Funderburk, Intergalactic Tales of the Delusional Mind. Non-ACU students or non-ACU affiliated ... [Read More…]

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8,000 miles from home: Rwandan Iryamukuru adapts to U.S. culture as an international student

March 24, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

Olivier Iryamukuru is from a "little bitty country in central Africa" – Rwanda. He found out about ACU in a program called Reach to Rwanda that takes students in Rwanda and helps them find universities in the U.S. – so when he finished high school, they helped him find a Christian university. "I decided to come here because ACU is a Christian ... [Read More…]

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Pre-health students accepted to medical school

March 22, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

The Pre-Health Program has a total of 19 students continuing on to various medical schools and programs after graduation, including 10 students into medical school, four into dental school, two into pharmacy school, one into podiatry school and two into physician's assistant programs. Cynthia Powell, director of the pre-health professions program ... [Read More…]

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Feminist Chapel supports Day Without a Woman strike

March 9, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

Members of the Feminist Chapel supported a Day Without a Woman on March 8 by wearing red and skipping class or work to raise awareness about the need for equality. The goal of Feminist Chapel is to educate and inform students on feminist issues and to create a supportive place for students to ask questions, said Mollie Spaulding, administrative ... [Read More…]

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For the Dreamer: ‘The Mountaintop’ offers a new perspective of Martin Luther King Jr.

March 3, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

The Department of Theatre has turned Fulks Theatre into the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, circa April 4, 1968 – just hours before civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The Mountaintop imagines a series of events that could have taken place the night before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, said Adam Hester, ... [Read More…]

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Students studying abroad respond to current American politics

February 24, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

The state of U.S. politics has long been a hot-button issue, but in recent months it seems as though the controversy surrounding our government has increased. However, for study abroad students spending the spring semester in Oxford and Leipzig, they get the unique opportunity to observe American politics while living in a different country. Dr. ... [Read More…]

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Welcome back, baseball

February 24, 2017 by Abbey Bowling

Since I wrote a column when the Texas Rangers’ season ended back in October, I feel like it’s only right for me to write another column graciously welcoming the return of baseball after four long, cold months without it – as Roger Hornsby said, “People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the ... [Read More…]

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