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Love at first bite

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Things have been spicy these past few weeks with two fast-food restaurants giving Abilene something to taco 'bout. Recently, Taco Casa, an Abilene-based franchise, used their outdoor sign to ask Chick-fil-a to marry them. John Windham, general manager of Taco Casa, said the restaurant chain wants to use its signs to grab attention and promote ... [Read More…]

Thirty-two students participate in spring pledging

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Spring pledging started on bid night last Friday for three social clubs on campus. In order for clubs to be eligible to accept pledges in the spring semester they must have less than 50 active members. Frater Sodalis, Pi Kappa and Zeta Rho accepted a cumulative number of 32 students. Joel Childers, Frater Sodalis president, said the club ... [Read More…]

Dynamic Duo: Escobedo brothers take passion overseas

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Two ACU brothers have been selected to play in an international rugby tournament in New Zealand. Juan Escobedo, junior nutrition and exercise science major, and Adrian Escobedo, freshman health promotion major, are from Round Rock and have been playing rugby since they were in high school. Their first exposure to the sport was through their ... [Read More…]

Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers to open in May

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Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers broke ground on an Abilene location Monday and is set to open in mid-May. The new location at 1602 E. Overland Trail near I-20 will be the company's 113th restaurant in Texas, according to a press release. “We have wanted to come to Abilene for years, and I can’t tell you how excited we are to finally break ... [Read More…]

Victims of bike theft start online fundraiser

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Four students found themselves victim to bike theft after coming back to campus from winter break. The students whose bikes were stolen are: Nelson Nicholson, a sophomore finance major from Argyle, Carter Johnson, a sophomore agricultural business major from Lake Travis, Hunter Rhodes, a sophomore finance major from Lake Travis and Reed “Beep” ... [Read More…]

Anticipation builds as Wildcat Stadium rises

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Director of athletics Lee De Leon said construction on the new Wildcat Stadium is on time and almost exactly on budget. The football stadium, which will cost $44 million, and the soccer stadium, costing $6 million, have a combined budget of about $50 million. With the help of donors, the Office of Advancement has reached about $39 ... [Read More…]

Galaxy honors former student through organ donor drive

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A former student who passed away in the fall is being honored by his social club through an organ donor drive in the Campus Center. During the past week, the men of Galaxy have been in the Campus Center helping students and faculty sign up to be organ donors to raise awareness and honor Landon Powell, a former student and member of ... [Read More…]

Students travel to Capitol for presidential inauguration

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Twenty-three students attending the presidential inauguration during the Civil Discourse in Politics short course say they are just as divided among their views as the rest of the nation. Braden Crow, a junior biblical text and communication double major from Fort Worth, signed up for the short course because he is interested in politics in ... [Read More…]

Junior starts shoe business

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A junior is stepping his way into entrepreneurship by recreating his own shoe business. TJ Ademola, a junior business management major from Katy, started thinking about becoming an entrepreneur in elementary school, when his mom sarcastically told him to get a job. “I was a sweet tooth, and my mom used to buy us candy, and she finally got ... [Read More…]

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