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For the sake of spirit, it’s a matter of pride

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Wildcat football will make its season debut tomorrow evening, donning their new Div. I standing, new uniforms and hopefully, a different student body of supporters. Cheerleaders are having to work overtime for a school spirit overhaul, trying to raise a brio barometer currently at a dwarfan degree. Before the semester started, the Big Purple ... [Read More…]

Keeping traditions: A letter to freshmen

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It's the start of another new school year, and there are plenty of bright-eyed and eager new faces walking these hallowed halls. While the university tries to impart as much wisdom as it can on freshmen during Welcome Week, certain details always seem to fall through the cracks. ACU is all about traditions. You've already experienced the ... [Read More…]

The importance of Opinion

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What makes the Opinion Page so different from the other pages of the newspaper? While the rest of the paper deals in facts, this page allows members of the Optimist staff to provide their opinions about issues to which the audience can relate. The written products and cartoons published here are the works of the Editorial Board, a ... [Read More…]

The ebb and flow of time in Wildcat Nation

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Life is all about change. The familiar is comfortable though, like a warm blanket keeping the cold uncertainty of life at bay. Yet change is one of humanity's most important characteristics. The ability to reinvent one's self, the opportunity to strike out and do something completely new is the most formative force in life. Change, good and bad, ... [Read More…]

How to survive your final week of school

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Well gang, it's that time of the semester again- when sleep is a distant memory, caffeine is being administered via IV drips at a Starbuck's near you and trying to get an open computer in the library is like trying to beat all of the other Districts into the Cornucopia. That's right, everyone. It's time for finals. Now, we all know how stressful ... [Read More…]

‘ACU Appropriate’ shouldn’t be all-inclusive

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"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore." Such is the declaration when visiting one of ACU's fellow "Christian" universities. For ACU students, so foreign is the concept of mixed-gender bunking dormitories and Sundays spent sans church. In the opposing corner, so strange is the thought of a school with rulings against shorts and mandatory meal prayers. ... [Read More…]

Attendence policy should be re-thought

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Students pay a lot of money to attend ACU. They should have the right to skip class as much as they want. After a late night of homework, watching movies, playing Xbox or staying out with friends, the last thing anyone wants to do is wake up for an early class. At the beginning of the semester it's easy to skip a class here and there. However, as ... [Read More…]

Kim Jong-un picking unecessary fights

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In 1948, a political disagreement in Korea caused a split between North and South. When the communist regime of the North attempted to conquer the right-wing South, the United Nations, led by the US, stepped in to stop the spread of communism. With hostility, North Korea has resented the intervention ever since. Just as permeable Western culture ... [Read More…]

Weather responds to student complaints

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Students, Thank you for contacting the Weather. We are aware that many of you have expressed frustration with some of our policies. We appreciate your feedback and believe that you deserve the right to a response. As you know, we have been developing our services since the dawn of time. Throughout this period, we have cultivated a variety of ... [Read More…]

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