Weekend Campaigns organizes weekend trips to serve people in communities. The student organization takes three or four weekend trips per semester around cities in Texas and Oklahoma. This semester the trips will take place at Texas Ramp Project, Medina Children’s Home and Shiloh Ranch Ministries. The campaigns help children, families, and ... [Read More…]
Wildcat Stadium near completion brings parking concerns
The best cure for the common parking problem among campus is to take your daily dose of “get over it.” The Wildcat Stadium, expected to be completed by September, is starting to raise concerns if there will be enough parking spots for everyone on game days, but even before construction started students have been constantly frustrated with ... [Read More…]
New student organization website more accessible for students
The new student organization website provides students an easier place to discover organizations on campus. Tom Craig, director of student activities and productions, said it was time to update student organizations through a website. “It was just time to bring that tool up to a more functional and dynamic web presence,” Craig said. “There ... [Read More…]
Adobe Days a two-day event for students, faculty and staff
Innovation Foundry is hosting Adobe Days, a two-day event for students, faculty and staff to get more insight into Adobe Creative Cloud products. Adobe Creative Cloud gives users access to an entire collection of Adobe desktop and mobile apps, including tutorials, Adobe stock, Behance, portfolio and creative cloud libraries. Marisa Beard, ... [Read More…]
Learning Studio offers branding photography workshop
Students will get to work with local Abilene businesses through the branding photography workshop offered by the Learning Studio this Saturday. The Learning Studio sponsors the workshops every semester to help students deepen their knowledge about camera equipment and photo editing tools available to them through Adobe Creative Cloud. Asia ... [Read More…]
Former flower shop building still vacant
The vacant building on campus court, previously known as Bitsy’s Flower Shop, is still looking for a buyer after the shop closed down three years ago. Tommy Simons and Associates Realtors is asking $379,000 for the property but is also willing to consider leasing the property. Tommy Simon, a sales executive, said the property is the only ... [Read More…]
Zeta Rho takes 30 pledges to revamp the club
Thirty women are pledging women's social club Zeta Rho in a process of revamping the club. Zeta Rho, founded in 1944, had 11 members when the fall rush process started. With more than 388 women in the pledging process, Tom Craig, director of student activities and productions, said this year’s pledging numbers are the largest in the university's ... [Read More…]
Sub-T to return after spring suspension
Men’s social club Sub T-16 will return to campus this semester with an improved structure, newly defined core values, and a clear vision as a group. The club was suspended for the spring semester after "they made some poor decisions in a Homecoming situation that was very public," said Tom Craig, director of student organizations and ... [Read More…]
Wildcat E-Sports, previously the League of Wildcats, revitalizes organization
Wildcat E-Sports allows students to come together, play games, win prizes and socialize. Will Solomon, junior management major from Abilene and current president of the organization said the reason the organization’s name changed from League of Wildcats to Wildcat E-Sports was because “Wildcat E-Sports last year was kind of falling off the ... [Read More…]
Tri-collegiate orchestra combines students, faculty and community performers
The Civic Orchestra of Abilene will create a new opportunity for students and faculty to play for an orchestra through a cooperative effort sponsored by Abilene Christian, Hardin-Simmons, and McMurry Universities. In addition to providing an orchestral opportunity for university students, it will also have “a very strong community outreach ... [Read More…]