Coffee. Sometimes I make it, sometimes I buy it and sometimes I find it for free - the best mornings are when I find it for free. However, this particular morning I paid $2 for a cup of vanilla hazelnut from Einstein Bros. Bagels. Don't get me wrong, it was delicious, but it was still $2. And 33.9 oz. of Folgers is still going to run you about ... [Read More…]
Clubs to eliminate physical pledging requirements
Pledging will look a little different next fall. Administrators eliminated the use of calisthenics as an approved pledging activity and shortened pledging to five weeks from six weeks. Calisthenics is defined as systematic rhythmic bodily exercises performed, usually without apparatus, according to Webster's Dictionary and the ACU Anti-Hazing ... [Read More…]
Childers & Childers: Professor explores Egypt with daughter
Rebekah Childers has spent four years at ACU researching and studying the world's holiest places through other's eyes. But earlier this month, she got the opportunity to experience a holy place firsthand - with her dad in tow. "My dad and I are a lot alike, and we get a long well together and have a lot of fun together," Rebekah said. "This was ... [Read More…]
Technology team promotes QR codes
Square bar codes popping up around campus are not just for decoration. ACU innovators say they will help integrate the print and digital information worlds. The bar codes, called quick response codes, allow students to transfer printed information into a digital format by simply scanning a code - and ACU provided all students with a free code ... [Read More…]
The great outdoors of dining
When flipping through college brochures, prospective students almost always find pictures of college kids enjoying a lazy day on campus basking in the warm sun. As a senior in college, however, I've noticed that few students take advantage of outside opportunities - especially when it comes to dining. Now that winter is over and spring has sprung, ... [Read More…]
Grease fire destroys ACU students’ kitchen
A grease fire at 665 E. N. 21st St. engulfed the kitchen of three ACU students early Friday evening. Multiple fire trucks lined the street to put out the fire of the house, occupied by Jordan Kahla, resident of the house, Austin Sumner, junior accounting major from Marshall, Seth Groveunder, senior finance major from Temple and Brandon Schmermund, ... [Read More…]
Japanese students attempt to contact families
A massive earthquake and powerful tsunami smashed the coast of Japan last night, causing concern among ACU's 16 Japanese students. All of the students who have been able to contact their families have said their families are ok, but some are still having trouble getting through the phone lines, said Laura Blake, assistant director of International ... [Read More…]
Tuition hikes cause faculty concerns
As tuition rises, so do some related faculty concerns. The Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition nearly 10 percent for the coming school year, and some faculty members say they are concerned it could outprice some prospective students, including children of faculty, and leave other students with mounds of debt. Tuition for the 2011-12 academic ... [Read More…]
Students’ Association Congress passes sound system bill
The Students' Association Congress passed a bill Wednesday allocating $1,500 toward purchasing a sound system for various student group use. After granting student groups a combined total of $3,630 in the past two semesters for sound equipment for events, members of SA decided it would be more cost effective to buy one sound system for student ... [Read More…]
University on track for accreditation
Members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges will travel to ACU in April to complete the peer review portion as part of ACU's reaccreditations process. In September 2010, Dr. Nancy Shankle, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said she and other members of ACU's SACSCOC leadership completed the ... [Read More…]
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