The best ACU stories seem to come from Study Abroad trips. Rogue cows, runaway bicycles and broken limbs, if played correctly, can make you the life of the party for years to come. Contrary to what some students believe, ACU is still sending a few students who didn't make the Oxford cut to South America each semester. I'm a witness. I once saw ... [Read More…]
Walking the Line: ACU seeks to balance faith, academia
Cortney Snyder didn't know what a church was until she was 10 years old. She grew up in Belton - a "Church of Christ hub," she says - but she didn't consider herself a Christian. In high school, her peers started inviting her to youth group activities at the Belton Church of Christ - where many of the students planned to attend a small, private ... [Read More…]
Secretary resigns, administration looks ahead
Less than two weeks after the election of the new Students' Association executive officers, Melanie Wheeler resigned from her position as executive secretary. Wheeler, who served as executive secretary for the past year and had been selected to do so again next year, said she decided to resign Monday after a meeting with the three newly elected ... [Read More…]
KACU prepares for HD broadcast
At 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, James Thompson, broadcast engineer for KACU, fired up the new transmitter that will allow KACU to be the first radio station in the Big Country broadcasting in HD. "We wanted to lead the way in our market, here in West Texas, with the first HD digital radio signal broadcasting NPR and other public radio content," said John ... [Read More…]
Crazy relatives keep things exciting
The phrase "all-American family" conjures images of grills and puppies, happy mothers and fathers and two-and-a-half children in clothes from Baby Gap - all of the things my fiancĂ©'s family is not. I'll admit I have crazy relatives. Some of them have married into the family, and some of them are unfortunately and unavoidably related to me by ... [Read More…]
Spelling fanatic ponders to bee or not to bee
Until Saturday, I'd forgotten how terribly fun - and just plain terrible - spelling bees can be. Let me start by saying spelling bees are one of the oldest forms of torture known to man, second only to medieval menaces like the thumbscrew and Grandpa Fred at a nude beach. I coordinated the Scripts Regional Spelling Bee this year, and more than ... [Read More…]
Radical Christianity exists at home
At some point, I'm either going to have to stop attending Invisible Children events or stow away on a cruise ship headed for sunny Northern Uganda. Every time I watch a video or hear someone speak about the injustices perpetrated there - or in any number of countries - I feel compelled to fight it. I want to commit acts of greatness, of strength ... [Read More…]
Da’Cipher This
"Big Mike" Prado is from East Los Angeles. Until recently, he was a fourth-generation member of the Maravilla gang, one of the oldest street gangs in the United States. He's been on drugs; he's been in prison; he's been shot at close range with an AK-47. This hulking but soft-spoken man has seen just about everything there is to see. And he lives ... [Read More…]
COBA joins DECA’s National Advisory Board
The College of Business Administration has a new target market for recruitment - COBA is one of the newest members of the National Advisory Board for Distributive Education Clubs of America, an organization of more than 185,000 high school students that attempts to prepare interested students for careers in marketing. "It was the organization that ... [Read More…]
SA budget questioned by student organization
The Students' Association Spring 2010 budget, announced Friday morning, was its most contested in several years. The meeting to finalize the budget began at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, and about 50 students made an appearance - not including members of the SA Congress. Elroy Johnson IV, sophomore marketing manager from Frisco and president of the ... [Read More…]
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