Sing Song co-chairs will institute a new, revised three-strike policy during the 60th Sing Song festivities this weekend. After dealing with incidents involving alcoholic beverages, unnecessary shouting during acts and tampering with props, co-chairs placed stricter rules to avoid disasters. Co-chairs can give strikes to clubs for a number of ... [Read More…]
Black History Month events call all races forward
Black History Month rallies students together to celebrate the remembrance and progression of black Americans. Black History Month began in 1915 when alumni from the University of Chicago traveled to Washington, D.C., in celebration of Illinois emancipation. Thousands of African Americans travelled across the nation to congregate together and in ... [Read More…]
What Not To Wear
Lets face it; people judge you based off [ON] your outward appearance. There is no way around it. [IF YOUR FOCUS IS FEMALES, SAY SO FROM THE START] From the way you wear a dress to the type of jeans you buy that specify to your body type, society has created an anonymous [IS THIS THE RIGHT WORD? NOBODY KNOWS WHO IS MAKING THE JUDGMENTS?] code of ... [Read More…]
Students prepare for Chinese New Year celebrations
The Chinese Student Scholars Association will ring in the New Year with bright red decorations as preparations commence for the Chinese New Year festival at 6 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Hunter Welcome Center. The Chinese New Year occurs on the second new moon of the winter solstice and celebrates the end of winter and beginning of spring. Steven Qin, ... [Read More…]
Bean Not Famous Among Current Students
Students have the right to be served high-quality food. With the amount of money paid to attend this university, students deserve quality food including its preparation, presentation and service as each one passes the through the lines. However, that does not seem to be the case. ACU students are fed food that is un-proportional, ... [Read More…]
OMA recruits students for paid internship opportunity
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is looking for applicants for an internship opportunity in Fall 2016. The Students Culture Affairs Council will be a paid internship for any students looking for an encounter with different cultures across campus. Prentice Ashford, director of OMA, said the paid internship will be a program where students ... [Read More…]
Community joins hands in remembrance of King
Students and faculty joined hands with citizens of the community to take part in the Martin Luther King Jr. March Monday in downtown Abilene. In 1963, King led more than 200,000 Americans across Washington Boulevard in Washington D.C. as part of a political rally for freedom and equality. The march ended with King's famous I Have a Dream ... [Read More…]
Students create a race for Endangered Species
Four students have collaborated to create the Dash for Endangered on Nov. 7 as part of their end-of-the-year class project. With a passion for endangered animals and their grade on the line, the students were responsible for starting a group project for their environmental and technological science course that can be locally organized and change ... [Read More…]
ACS students beautify their campus
Students and the ACU community united with the Texas Trees Foundation to plant trees on the Abilene Christian Schools campus. On Oct. 9, the Texas Tree's Foundation and KERA, a non-profit public broadcasting channel, planted 10 trees on the Abilene Christian Schools campus in celebration of KERA's "Go Green" movement and in partnership with the ... [Read More…]
SA supports baking for a cause
The Students' Association passed a bill to fund a bake sale in observation of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Kendall Wermine, freshmen biochemistry major from Frisco, proposed to SA to fund a bake sale where volunteers would bake homemade desserts to sell during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Influenced by a friend's ... [Read More…]