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Adams Center continues to search for next director

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Changes are coming to the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning as a result of personnel changes and vacancies. "The search committee for the next Director of the Adams Center began its work in January," said Dr. John Weaver, dean of library and educational technologies. The committee consists of seven professors from multiple disciplines on ... [Read More…]

ACU’s appropriate ‘Bend and Snap’

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Over the Christmas break, many "ring by spring" dreams came true. Most likely if you didn't get engaged in the last two months, you know at least one person who did. So what about the rest of us? Us - the single, maybe ready to mingle type girls. Don't worry ladies we still have options. You can always turn to Hollywood. My all-time favorite way ... [Read More…]

Delta Theta moves forward with mentors

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Months after being inactive the members of Delta Theta began to take steps to be rechartered with the selection of three mentors - one of which is Pam Money, wife of Dr. Royce Money, chancellor of the university. "We went to Pam Money and asked if she would just be willing to give us guidance and change our image," said junior family studies major ... [Read More…]

Marching for the Dream

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Forty-four years after the assassination of a civil rights icon, residents in Abilene residents march in a city where he never stepped foot to remember his legacy. Nearly two hundred people gathered Monday, the national holiday in his honor, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge on East Highway 80 to march and sing songs in tribute of ... [Read More…]

SA talks Chapel, basketball, office hours

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"Good morning and welcome to Chapel," jokingly began the unlikely visitor and guest speaker during Wednesday's Students' Association meeting. Congress reconvened after the Thanksgiving holiday to meet with Mark Lewis, the assistant dean of spiritual life and chapel programs, and to discuss office hours, the Christmas Basketball Slam and the ... [Read More…]

Speaking the language of a Disney generation

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Growing up, I thought the kids that could watch rated R movies in elementary school were savages, barely even human. Now, I just feel sorry for them, because they can't relate with the songs and one-liners we all know best. But it wasn't until I was humming a song and a friend shouted out "we must be swift as the coursing river, with all the force ... [Read More…]

ACU student hit by car and hospitalized

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An ACU student was hit by a car Friday while crossing Judge Ely Boulevard. The female student, who's name has not yet been released, attempted to cross the street in front of Taylor Elementary School. The outside lanes yielded to the pedestrians but the inside lane did not. Police officers said that the cars had the right-of-way in the accident. ... [Read More…]

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