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Career Center to test new externship program

December 4, 2015 by Collin Thompson

The ACU Career Center, in conjunction with the ACU Alumni Office, has been developing a new externship program for ACU students. The program would pair students with ACU alumni, which would better equip students in their respective desired fields by observing those in that field. Different from internships, externships, specifically concerning ... [Read More…]

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Student Life scoops up limited supply of Blue Bell

November 19, 2015 by Collin Thompson

The Office of Student Life is planning an event this Friday that will bring Blue Bell ice cream back to the university's campus for the first time since April. The popular brand of ice cream was carried in the Bean before the company was linked to 10 illnesses, including three deaths at the hands of listeria monocytogenes, a type of bacteria ... [Read More…]

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SA to install water bottle filling stations on campus

November 13, 2015 by Collin Thompson

Students' Association passed a bill to fund the installation of water bottle filling stations in multiple locations on campus. The water bottle filling stations will cost around $500 a piece and will be expected to be placed in the Brown Library, the Campus Center and the SRWC. Logan Dyer, senior class president and marketing major from ... [Read More…]

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Miss Everything: Williams proves talents across the board

November 11, 2015 by Collin Thompson

Whitney Williams has a drive that is matched by few. From being a Div. I tennis player to competing in the 2012 Arctic Winter Games to being the Miss Alaska Teen USA 2014, when Williams puts her mind to something, she does it. Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, sophomore Whitney Williams began her tennis career as a four-year-old. Her mom, ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Features, Sports Tagged With: Women's Tennis

Golf wraps up fall season, looks forward to spring

November 6, 2015 by Collin Thompson

The fall season of the ACU men's golf team came to a close on Oct. 27 when the final day of their trip to the rural town of College Grove, Tennessee was met with rain, causing The Grove Intercollegiate tournament to come to an end early, leaving the Wildcats in 10th place. Now the team wait as they prepare for their next tournament, The ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Golf

Honors students reflect on wilderness at Big Bend National Park

November 2, 2015 by Collin Thompson

The ACU Honors College took 13 students and two faculty members to Big Bend National Park over Fall Break as part of a Wilderness colloquium that is offered through the honors department. This was the second time that the trip to Santa Elena Canyon has been offered, with the first happening in 2013, and Dr. Cliff Barbarick, who went on the trip ... [Read More…]

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Golf headed to Tennessee for final tournament of fall

October 25, 2015 by Collin Thompson

The ACU men's golf team's fall season is coming to a close as they head to College Grove, Tenn. on Sunday to compete in the Grove Intercollegiate tournament. The largest storyline of the team's few days in Tenn. will be how they finish the three-day tournament, as they have yet to finish in the Top 10 in any of their previous three tournaments ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Golf

Seniors prepare for bittersweet last ACU season

October 22, 2015 by Collin Thompson

Senior men's tennis players Marco Bensley, Brandon McCarty and Jason Proctor are currently in their final fall season of ACU tennis and will start their final spring season next semester. Despite this year being their last as Wildcat athletes, they are looking forward to their experiences going forward and looking back on how the program has ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Features, Showcase, Sports Tagged With: Men's Tennis

Wildcats not focused on troubles after tough tournament

October 15, 2015 by Collin Thompson

FINAL RESULTS The men's golf team competed in the Bayou City Collegiate Classic at the Golfcrest Country Club in Houston on Monday and Tuesday, playing against multiple Southland opponents including Lamar and Sam Houston State. The team finished 12th out of 14 teams, and although it was the team's third consecutive tournament finishing 11th ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Golf

Staying on Par: Carpenter battles injuries in return to men’s golf

October 12, 2015 by Collin Thompson

On June 26, 2014, Luke Carpenter had surgery to repair the torn hip labrum on his left side, which required six months of recovery. His next surgery the next December was for the same issue, this time on his right side. The second surgery came with another six months on the sidelines. After more than a year of recovery, Carpenter's long journey ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Features, Sports Tagged With: Golf

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