By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor The Service Action Leadership Team, a student organization, is beginning its new program, Neighborhood Partners, to send students into the community. Students will become better neighbors this year as they begin walking nearby neighborhoods and establishing relationships with ACU neighbors. Through the program, ... [Read More…]
Freshmen to perform in Follies production
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Freshmen will ask "What's Next?" in solo acts, hall acts and a large chorus at the Freshman Follies performances Friday and Saturday. Performances, which will take place in Cullen Auditorium at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday and 1, 3 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, are expected to last about two hours with an intermission, ... [Read More…]
Chili’s teams up with universities in North Abilene
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor The colored peppers plastered on the walls of the new Chili's represent the many ACU students who eat at the restaurant. A vivid pink and green pepper advertises social club Ko Jo Kai, while a darker pepper reads "Galaxy." In fact, peppers colored by students represent almost every ACU social club and many ... [Read More…]
Bob Hunter displays his prize elephant collection
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor One morning, Dr. Bob Hunter opened his front door and found an elephant staring back at him. The pony-sized stuffed elephant was wearing a tutu and waiting to become the newest addition to Hunter's elephant collection, a smorgasbord of crafted elephants, ranging from cloth to crystal works of art. This particular ... [Read More…]
Famous Bulgarian student adjusts to ACU
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor When Pavlin Bazovski attended his first U100 seminar class, one of his classmates said he could have been mistaken for a soap opera star. And though Bazovski is no television star, he is well known. In fact, he has claimed a top three spot on the Bulgarian music charts with his work. Bazovski left behind friends, ... [Read More…]
Tri Kappa Gamma rebuilds club
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Women's social club Tri Kappa Gamma is ready for more members. After being re-chartered in spring 2005, TKG has been working to increase its numbers, said Brittany Groves, the club's president. Groves said the club had four pledges this year, one more than the previous year. "This year we really need to work on ... [Read More…]
New time, new faces for Flying Cats this semester
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor With just four weeks to prepare to tumble, vault and perform, the Flying Cats will have their first meeting Tuesday from 1:45 to 3 p.m. in the gymnastics room of the Gibson Health and Physical Education Center. Ben Zickefoose, Flying Cats sponsor, said the team will perform after Homecoming Chapel Friday, Oct. 13, ... [Read More…]
Quick Technology breeds laziness
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor I discovered in my Sociology class Thursday that Radio Shack has taken to laying off their employees via e-mail. According to an article in USA Today, Radio Shack headquarters in Fort Worth e-mailed about 400 employees to dismiss them, using what is obviously a mass-produced (and insulting) message: "The workforce ... [Read More…]
ACU student named Rodeo Queen at West Texas Fair
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Personality, poise and presentation paid off for one ACU student in the 2006 West Texas Fair and Rodeo Queen Scholarship Pageant. Lara Klopp, junior animal science and pre-veterinary medicine major from Ramona, Calif., received the honor after winning the speech, personality and appearance categories in the ... [Read More…]
Art professor’s work featured at gallery in Austin
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor After a summer spent immersed in his art studio, Dr. Dan McGregor, professor of art and design, emerged with a solo exhibition at Concordia University in Austin to show for his efforts. McGregor's exhibition, "Martyrs Mendicants Machines, relics for modern man," is on display in the Gallery at Concordia, located in ... [Read More…]