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Track and field at starting line this weekend

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A new semester marks the start of the track and field season. With a combination of 27 returning competitors and 18 newcomers, the team hopes to surpass previous accomplishments. Johnathan Farquharson, junior from Freeport, Bahamas, and Daniel Block, senior journalism major from Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, are returning runners that finished in the top ... [Read More…]

SAAC brings teddy bears to Hendrick Medical Center

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The Student Athletic Advisory Committee is raising money to buy teddy bears for children at Hendrick Medical Center. Young patients at Hendrick Medical Center have been wishing for more teddy bears, and with the holidays coming up, SAAC felt it would be a good idea to make their wish come true. SAAC wanted to make their holidays a little ... [Read More…]

SA seeks to Lighten Your Load during finals

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The Students' Association will conduct Lighten Your Load Week to help students de-stress during the week before finals. With the tension high and pressure on, the Student Association wants to help their students take a load off before stepping into their test rooms. "Lighten Your Load Week is something SA started last semester as a means to ... [Read More…]

BSA to host first talent show

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The Black Students' Association will conduct "A Night at the Apollo" Friday, an original ACU talent show. The performance will begin at 7 p.m. in the ACU Amphitheatre and will be emceed by Khaylor Pruitt and Ryan Woods. BSA facilitates community-forming and relationship-building events each year, but this is will be its first time to have a ... [Read More…]

Bible lectures to feature Baylor professor

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The 28th Annual Carmichael Walling Lectures will take place at Chapel on the Hill on Thursday with Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa, a Baylor professor, as the featured speaker. The event is themed "God's Outsized Faithfulness: Rethinking Romans" for Romans chapter 9-11. It will be at 4 and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in room 114 in the Onstead Packer ... [Read More…]

KACU fall pledge drive donations look promising

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KACU, Abilene's public radio station, commenced its fall pledge drive last weekend with an increase in donations. This will be the first of two pledge drives this year; the second will be in the spring. KACU opened its phone lines on Oct. 18 with a goal to raise $40,000 by the end of the fundraiser. "Experience Abilene" was the fundraiser's ... [Read More…]

Wildcats head to Louisiana looking for a win

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The volleyball team will continue conference play Saturday when it travels to Hammond, Louisiana to play Southeastern Louisiana University. The Wildcats will be coming away from playing New Orleans, and the Lions will have just faced Incarnate Word, another Southland Conference rival. The Lions have an even record in conference play with ... [Read More…]

Cross Country has high expectations for conference championships

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The cross country teams have finished their regular season meets and will attend the Southland Conference Championships Nov. 1. The women's team has only had one finish lower than third place the entire season, when the team took 11th place at the Chile Pepper Festival on Oct. 4. They took first place in their first meet of the season, the West ... [Read More…]

Wildcats have a strong season finish

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Cross country placed first and fourth in the Incarnate Word Invitational last weekend. The women's team came in first with 33 points, finishing in front of Southland Conference rivals Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Incarnate Word. The conditions were not ideal as rain slowed the runners down, but that didn't stop Diana Garcia-Munoz or ... [Read More…]

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