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Rec Center to offer free group exercise during dead day
The Royce and Pam Money Student Recreation and Wellness Center is giving life to dead day this semester by hosting X-perience the Day on Monday. Dr. Kerri Hart, director of training and fitness programs, said the event will provide a chance for students to try group exercises offered in the Rec Center during the semester for free. Hart said the ... [Read More…]
Students invited to stand up, speak out at slam poetry event
Students will be able to experience more of the slam poetry they have been exposed to this semester at Wishing Well "Speak Up" slam poetry event at 8 p.m. on Thursday in the lobby of Edwards Hall. Sarah Fatheree, marketing director for Wishing Well on the ACU campus, said slam poetry is about personal expression. "I think it is all about people ... [Read More…]
Foreign language department anxious for merger
ACU's Department of Foreign Languages will merge with the Department of English, effective May 31, 2012. Foreign languages classes will be listed under the English department once the transition is complete. Harland Rall, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages said the faculty and students of the department had not been completely informed ... [Read More…]
Ethnos Cultural Show to open this weekend
Students, faculty and staff are invited to travel around the world with the performers in this year's annual Ethnos Culture Show. The performance put on by the International Students Association will show Friday and Saturday in Cullen Auditorium. This year Ethnos features 13 international acts and 150 performers, said Ethnos Producer and ... [Read More…]
Waterball returns to campus intramural sports
Imagine a game of soccer in which hands are used and tackling is legal. Now, throw that sport into the pool, and the ferocity of waterball is created. A campus intramural favorite, waterball, is returning again to ACU. After missing a year because of the construction of the Royce and Pam Money Student Recreation and Wellness Center, waterball will ... [Read More…]
Bachelder to present at distinguished speakers series next week
The College of Business Administration will continue its Distinguished Speakers Series this fall with Cheryl Bachelder, president and CEO of AFC Enterprises, parent company of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. Bachelder will speak at a luncheon at 11:45 a.m. on Nov. 3 at the Robert D. and Shirley Hunter Welcome Center. She is one of eight significant ... [Read More…]
The Optimist reaches 100-year benchmark
In the fall of 1912, ACU student Arthur Slater of Clyde established and distributed the first edition of the Optimist to Childers Classical Institute. This year, the Optimist is celebrating its 100th volume. The Optimist is a constant icon on campus and has been a part of ACU for all but six years of its existence. Dr. Cheryl Bacon, professor and ... [Read More…]
Homecoming theme is nixed
The Alumni Office has decided to not have a Homecoming theme in order to maintain decorum at the reunion dinners. However, the parade will still have a theme - I Heart ACU. Samantha Adkins, senior alumni relations officer, said the Alumni Office decision was made for a number of reasons. "We don't really like to theme the Homecoming dinners ... [Read More…]