The scenario is all too familiar. You push a button and pace until the elevator arrives. Doors open, revealing you won't be alone on your trek to the eighth floor. You nod to your fellow passenger, step inside, press the button, and fumble with your phone or watch while a looped track of bland jazz blares overhead. "ACHOO!" "God bless ... [Read More…]
Fraters ‘N Hollers
Waking for sunrise activities, wearing uniforms and complying with orders, pledging an ACU social club has often been likened to the experience of boot camp. However, unlike his fellow pledges, Joshua Hollers can empathize with the parallel. At 36 years old, the junior business management major traded a life in Marine blue for that of Frater ... [Read More…]
Fright of Frat: Frater Sodalis scares with 31-year tradition Haunted Island fundraiser
Frater Sodalis' haunted house is back for Halloween...and back from the dead. The 31-year club tradition takes a turn for the zombie-pocalypse, a theme sure to scare you half to death. As the longest-running haunted house in Abilene, planning for the club's creepy annual event began at the beginning of September and members went to work on the ... [Read More…]
Halloween is not a student’s holiday
Twerk or treat. Miley Cyrus costumes are flying off Halloween stores' hangers. The entertainer came in at No. 5 on the 10 most-searched Halloween costumes to date, according to last week's data by Google Shopping. Other top searches include characters of "Breaking Bad," "Duck Dynasty," Daenerys from "Game of Thrones" and Minions of "Despicable ... [Read More…]
GSP on probation for two semesters
Gamma Sigma Phi will be on probation for the next two semesters related to policy violations that took place last spring. Mark Jackson, associate director of student organizations and programs, confirmed the club began the fall semester on probational status. Jackson would not disclose the infraction or specify the club's consequences, but ... [Read More…]
Second-chance student
Justin Gibson is not your average student. The 27-year-old junior social work major from Gatesville first began his college career at ACU two years after graduating high school. Because of poor academic performance and for not meeting the Chapel requirements for two consecutive semesters, Justin was kicked out of ACU. But last semester, ... [Read More…]
ACU hail from the ACU fail
I'm currently on Chapel probation. I'm also on a four-year streak of opting out of Sing Song. The "World Famous Bean" maintained its fame for only my freshman year. The only social club T-shirts in my possession stumbled into my hands like The One Ring into Bilbo's. No diamond will twinkle from my hand by spring. And I hate ... [Read More…]
I will listen
For your rants, woes, confessions and worries, Reid Rivers is all ears. The freshman vocational missions major from Juneau, Alaska, can be seen standing in silence on the walkway between the Campus Center and the Brown Library, holding a cardboard sign with the offering: I will listen. Rivers took on the solo project, with sign out and ears ... [Read More…]
Midnight Worship attracts a crowd of night owls
With building relocation and booming crowds, the student-run Midnight Worship ministry plans for possible future changes. Roy Cervantes, a senior kinesiology major from McAllen, is one of Midnight's founders and worship leaders. He said the ministry was born as mixed-worship for the college student community. "I saw that something needed to ... [Read More…]
We Are Not Alone: Student-led group brings awareness to eating disorders
It is the rising plague among the nation's college campuses, a taboo topic gone unspoken and an affliction starving for awareness. "Eating disorders are such a lonely disease," said Emily Muhlberg, freshman marketing major from Boerne. "It shuts you down, makes you forget about everything you used to care about, and places unnecessary shame on ... [Read More…]