The ACU Department of Theatre is set to perform this year's Homecoming musical Titanic this weekend, Oct. 8-10, at the Abilene Civic Center. Directed by Dawne Swearingen Churchville, the musical stars Peter Hardgrave as Captain, Eric Carter as Mr. Andrews, Blake Rogers as Barret, Carlee Cagle as Alice Beane and Payton Jones as Kate ... [Read More…]
SA issues 2010-11 Collegiate Card
For the past several years, the ACU Students' Association has used a portion of the Student Activity Fund to purchase Collegiate Cards. The card offers discounts at businesses all over Abilene, including restaurants, auto shops, floral shops, and car washes. Christopher Shim, senior finance major from Atlanta, Ga., and Executive Treasure of SA, ... [Read More…]
Outdoor clubs take it outside
Participants in the fifth annual Red Dirt Adventure Challenge lined up on Saturday to compete in the running-cycling biathlon organized by the ACU Outdoor Club at Abilene State Park. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and the general public were allowed to participate in the beginner-level adventure race, which, unlike past years, ... [Read More…]
Local band shoots video, charms audiences
"Consider our faces melted," wrote Outlaw Music Magazine about Hardin-Simmons-born hardcore band Close Your Eyes. Outlaw wasn't the only one impressed by CYE recently. The band shot a music video for its album, We Will Overcome, on Feb. 11, garnering attention from multiple music publications, fans all over Texas and the Abilene ... [Read More…]
Critical Mass: All students to have iPhone, iPod touch by fall 2010
ACU’s Mobile Learning Initiative will expand to include all full-time students, Executive Vice President Dr. Phil Schubert said last week. “We’re getting ready to fully saturate the mobile devices throughout the university. All full-time students will have them by fall 2010. We’ve been anxious for a long time to get devices in every student’s ... [Read More…]
Optimist to publish on new Apple iPad
The Optimist, ACU's student-run newspaper, will be available on Apple's new iPad device when it premiers in 60 days, making it the first collegiate student publication to take advantage of Apple's latest technology. Dr. Cheryl Bacon, chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, says students and faculty already are working to ... [Read More…]