By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor The ACU Counseling Center brought in two prominent members of the Christian community for the sixth annual Healthy Relationships Week, called Sacred Relationships Week this year, which emphasizes friendships, marriages and community in the context of authenticity and spirituality. Christian recording artist Dennis ... [Read More…]
Essence of Ebony elects president
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor James Graham grew up color blind. Or at least that's how Graham, sophomore Bible major from Abilene, describes his multi-cultural upbringing, (his father is Caucasian and his mother is Mexican American) and his diverse group of friends. Graham accompanied that group of friends to an Essence of Ebony chapel his ... [Read More…]
Student to work at Disneyland, earn credit
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor When Sandra Larson was in elementary school, she made a poster saying when she grew up she wanted to work at Disneyland. More than ten years later, Sandra's about to live up to the dream that she keeps pinned to her wall. Sandra, junior interdisciplinary major from Tuscan, Ariz., recently received her acceptance ... [Read More…]
Recycling issue, free bowling for students discussed at SA meeting
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Students can celebrate environmental awareness with a free game of bowling, thanks to Wednesday's Students' Association meeting. With push from an environmental science class, the Outdoor Club, the Evangelical Youth Climate Initiative and now the Students' Association, campus may boast 15 to 20 new recycling ... [Read More…]
U.S. plays a role in global slavery
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Thoughtful Ramblings Modern-day slavery always seemed distant to me - somewhere, across an ocean and in a world wholly different from my own, I knew people were living horrific lives as someone else's property. But when the speaker at IJM's Chapel forum last Thursday dangled shackles that are in use today, slavery ... [Read More…]
Class project begins fair trade brew on campus
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Tucked away on the bottom floor of the Hardin Administration Building, just underneath the stairs, a small room bids students to come inside for a cup of social justice. A new sign, typed, recently replaced the handwritten sign that once read: "Suggested donation: 25 cents (to cover part of the cost of the coffee)" ... [Read More…]
SA learns art of grant writing: Members of SA recently attended a conference in Boston and learned to write grants. SA is working on a grant to receive money to open the south entrance of the Brown Library.
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor On the edge of Tyler Cosgrove's desk a thick handbook rests, a jargon- filled souvenir from his recent trip to Boston for a grant-writing convention on behalf of the Students' Association. Cosgrove, SA executive treasurer, plans to write two of his own and tailor them to suit the needs of student organizations and ... [Read More…]
The Cowboy Way
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor James Francies, 76, asks a very direct question he said he likes to ask and waits for eyes to shift downward and people to squirm uncomfortably. "What would this world, or [the] United States be like, had it not been for slave labor?" he asks, never releasing eye contact. "Ever thought about that?" Then he ... [Read More…]
SA tackles Lectureship policies: A resolution was passed Wednesday to support a more lenient attendance policy during Lectureship so students can benefit from the sessions.
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Students desire a larger role in Lectureship, but feel they can't play it-and there's a Facebook group to prove it. The new Lectureship student track offers a venue tailored for student involvement, and the 40 student members of the committee that helped organize the 15-hour student track plan to strike a ... [Read More…]
Absent Congress members halt SA resolutions, action: SA executive president said attendance at SA meetings usually decreases in the spring semester but is not a concern as long as two-thirds of Congress is present.
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Valentine's Day and Sing Song stress took their toll on Students' Association Congress on Wednesday, when only 27 members attended the meeting - exactly enough to make the quorum, but not enough to pass anything since two-thirds of Congress (36 members) must vote on important issues. The meeting was adjourned after ... [Read More…]
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