The start of the school year brings construction and the use of the new Barret Residence Hall on Campus Court, a street that is now more dangerous for students to cross than it has ever been and where parking spaces are scarce. Because of the lack of crosswalks, students crossing Campus Court to and from Barret Hall and those driving the street ... [Read More…]
Theatre Department delivers act of peace
The Theatre Department lost four months of preparation time two weeks ago when controversy caused it to change its Homecoming Musical from Aida to Seussical. The decision came after members of the community expressed concern that a lead role, a Nubian princess, was given to a white actress. Adam Hester, associate professor of theatre, said he ... [Read More…]
Freedom and justice for all
... with liberty and justice for all. The last line of our Pledge of Allegiance demonstrates two elements of freedom that Americans value and that this nation's founding fathers, supporters of the antislavery and suffrage movements and many others have fought and died to obtain. Others are fighting and dying around the world, some in an attempt ... [Read More…]
Use your voice in SA elections
In the 2004 presidential election, the voter turnout rate among 18-to-29-year-olds was at 51.6 percent, a drastic increase from the 2000 election percentage of 42.3, according to voterunlead.org. Perhaps in the most recent election, young people chose to abandon previous thoughts that their vote wouldn't matter or they weren't represented by the ... [Read More…]
Readers can expect viewpoints here
The Optimist opinion page: probably one of the most widely read, controversial and misunderstood pages in the paper. No page inspires more letters to the editor from readers than this-many of which could be avoided if the paper could do a better job of explaining the purpose of each element on the opinion page. Here is the guide. This is what can ... [Read More…]
Staff ranks top 10 stories
At the end of each year, we tend to reflect. In academia, where so many things already defy conventions, we look back at a "year" that in fact began only nine months ago and bridges two calendar years. Nonetheless, after surveying the staff and the front pages of our 52 issues to date, we determined the Top 10 news stories of the 2003-04 school ... [Read More…]
We thank you for years of service
ACU will lose the faithful service of many when this semester ends next week. Instructors, coaches and hard-working personnel will retire, some after decades of service to this institution. Their years of expertise and love for students made ACU what it now is, and our campus will miss them greatly-and probably call on them for assistance in years ... [Read More…]
“The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.” – Edmund Burke, Parliament member, colonial sympathizer, 1775
In tragic times, leaders must choose between allowing freedom or succumbing to fear. This month, we have remembered tragedy after tragedy where an extremist minority has attempted to impose its fanatic will upon an institution. Columbine. Oklahoma City. Waco. America values freedom. The Constitution would be a relic today had not its authors ... [Read More…]
Protect the government’s checks
Rep. Ron Lewis, R-Ky., introduced legislation to allow Congress by two-thirds vote to override U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act, or H.R. 3920, was created "in an effort to redress recent cases of activist judicial rulings," according to a House of Representatives press release. This Act ... [Read More…]
9/11 panel shouldn’t scapegoat
Government officials have an opportunity now with the Sept. 11, 2001, commission to look back on the events leading up to the terrorist attacks to learn what went wrong and how to prevent such oversight from happening again. However, the commission has turned from learning opportunity into election-year politics and a thinly veiled guise for ... [Read More…]
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