By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief An ACU freshman from Austin was arrested and jailed Oct. 7 after the ACU Police Department found a small bag of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the student's room in Edwards Hall. ACU Police Chief Jimmy Ellison said ACUPD officers were called to the residence hall after several students and Kevin ... [Read More…]
Provost retiring, moving West
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief After almost 40 years of work in higher education, Dr. Dwayne VanRheenen is leaving college. VanRheenen, who served as the university's Provost for 13 years, announced his plans to retire at the end of the fiscal year at a Faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon. The announcement came as a surprise to some ... [Read More…]
SA awards more than $3,000
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief The Students' Association Congress voted to give a student group more than $3,000 Wednesday, the largest amount Congress has given this semester from the Student Request Fund. A motion to give Alpha Psi Omega, ACU's nationally recognized honorary theatre society, $3,668.30 to help fund two trips to the ... [Read More…]
Obama adviser talks religion, politics
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief Dr. Shaun Casey, senior religious adviser for presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, urged ACU students throughout the day Thursday to rethink the Christian's role in politics - Christians must participate in the political process, he argued. Casey, an ACU alumnus and associate professor of Christian ... [Read More…]
SA decides to help fund student trip
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief The Students' Association Congress voted to grant money to help a student organization attend a conference and appointed two new members to the Congress on Wednesday. After debating numbers for about an hour, SA voted to give more than $99 per member of the ACU student chapter of the Society for Human ... [Read More…]
Abilene representative votes against bailout bill
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief Congressman Randy Neugebauer (R-Tex.) voted on Monday against a bill in the House of Representatives that would have approved the most sweeping government intervention in the United States' financial markets since the Great Depression. Neugebauer is the representative of the 19th Congressional District, ... [Read More…]
Donors provide funds for student media room
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief Dr. Charlie Marler returned to Abilene Christian College in the fall of 1974 to find an Abilene "newspaper man" eager to re-ignite the ill-equipped mass communication program. Marler, professor emeritus and senior faculty member of the Journalism and Mass Communication Department, came back to Abilene ... [Read More…]
SA votes to award funds to society
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief The Students' Association Congress voted to give a group of ACU physics students a little help Wednesday. Daniel Jumper, engineering physics major from Richardson and president of the Society of Physics Students,came before Congress to request $2,200 to help pay for the society's trip to the Sigma Pi Sigma ... [Read More…]
Garrett ties righteousness to grace
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief In front of an audience of more than 2,000 people Sunday, Dr. Leroy Garrett challenged those filling the seats in Moody Coliseum to rethink how they define the Apostle Paul's writings on God's righteousness. Rather than accept what he called the popular translation of Paul's words in Romans 1:17, Garrett ... [Read More…]
‘Radical’ to launch Theme Conversations Sunday
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief When Dr. Leroy Garrett takes the stage at the Summit opening Theme Conversation in Moody Coliseum Sunday, it may be a moment of vindication for the 89-year-old scholar who was known throughout his life as a radical in the Churches of Christ. "During the '60s, '70s and '80s I would go to the Lectureships ... [Read More…]
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