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How to move in freshmen and leave your car running

August 16, 2016 by Emily Guajardo and Maggie Farias

Wildcat Week leaders, Steering Committee members and ResLife staff have been hard at work since 7 a.m. moving incoming freshmen into their new dorm homes. ResLife changed the move-in system this year. Students were assigned a move-in time based on their room number and proceeded to move through ResLife's drive-thru before unloading their cars ... [Read More…]

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Substitute hired as permanent jazz director

May 5, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

The Department of Music hired a new jazz director, Mike Rogers, to direct the jazz programs and instruct music theory courses permanently this year. Rogers, a graduate student from the University of North Texas, was previously hired as one of the many jazz substitutes since Derek Brown, former Jazz Director, left ACU to pursue a performing ... [Read More…]

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Fifty students recognized as University Scholars

April 22, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

Fifty students were recognized as University Scholars for their academic excellence within their designated departments last Thursday. The students were honored based off their knowledge and skills within their department, overall academic excellence and previous undergraduate research. After careful selection and consideration, the students ... [Read More…]

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Ladies and gentleman, here comes Mrs. President

March 31, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

[YOUR PORTRAYAL OF HISTORY IS NOT ADEQUATE HERE. ACU JUST LOST A FEMALE VICE PRESIDENT. WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE FEMALE DEANS OF COLLEGES. WE'VE HAD FEMALE BIBLE PROFESSORS (ALMOST UNHEARD OF IN CHURCH OF CHRIST UNIVERSITIES). ACU HAS ALSO INVITED FEMALE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS TO SUMMIT. MY POINT IS NOT THAT THE SCHOOL DESERVES MORE CREDIT, BUT THAT YOU CAN'T ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Columns, Editorials, Opinion

SAAC to dedicate baseball game, honor Hudson Wade

March 24, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

The Student Athlete Advisory Committee will dedicate a baseball game April 2 to honor Hudson Wade and his family. Hudson Wade, the 11-year-old son of ACU alumni Kirk and Laura Wade, was diagnosed with leukemia and battled the disease for the last four months of his life. During Hudson's treatment, he was given an Wildcat baseball jersey as well ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: For The Record, News

Art students place surprise pieces around campus

March 24, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

Several students placed different pieces and types of art around campus as part of a new art project. The art presents itself in new forms and requires some thought as well as creativity from the art students themselves. Unlike other projects, the students were required to create a piece that would cause the audience member to not see it as art ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Life, News

Awkwardness is the name and Formal is the game

March 23, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

As spring blooms its first petals, chirps its first song and shines its first warm rays on the golden brick paths, one agonizing hunt begins to settle upon campus. A dark, deep, foggy and, perhaps, terminal event lurks around the corners of April and May; Spring Formal. Women and men search like hunters for the perfect date, perfect outfit, ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Columns, Editorials, Opinion

Please Use The Nearest Exit

March 3, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

From the moment you stepped foot on this campus, you were told over and over of the ACU Mission: to educate students for Christian service and leadership throughout the world. Through this, you have been told repeatedly of the various culture groups around campus and why you should join. That you should learn about another's culture, so that you ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Opinion

Students study technology addiction

February 26, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

A group of students have begun to research and analyze the technological addictions students have and the effects it has on someone's attention span. With technology changing every minute, millennials have acquired a taste for technological advancement by checking for the latest trends, ideas, news and social interactions through any electronic ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: News

Lost in the Election

February 18, 2016 by Emily Guajardo

I WAS GOING TO CRITIQUE THIS, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE FINISHED, RIGHT? Election season is one of the most complicated, divided and stressful times within our nation. Red, white and blue hang around our necks and stand on our yards in proclamation of new order and corresponding rulers. Voices leak through the TV and radio screaming "VOTE! ... [Read More…]

Filed Under: Editorials, Opinion

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