Waking for sunrise activities, wearing uniforms and complying with orders, pledging an ACU social club has often been likened to the experience of boot camp. However, unlike his fellow pledges, Joshua Hollers can empathize with the parallel. At 36 years old, the junior business management major traded a life in Marine blue for that of Frater ... [Read More…]
Fright of Frat: Frater Sodalis scares with 31-year tradition Haunted Island fundraiser
Frater Sodalis' haunted house is back for Halloween...and back from the dead. The 31-year club tradition takes a turn for the zombie-pocalypse, a theme sure to scare you half to death. As the longest-running haunted house in Abilene, planning for the club's creepy annual event began at the beginning of September and members went to work on the ... [Read More…]
Second-chance student
Justin Gibson is not your average student. The 27-year-old junior social work major from Gatesville first began his college career at ACU two years after graduating high school. Because of poor academic performance and for not meeting the Chapel requirements for two consecutive semesters, Justin was kicked out of ACU. But last semester, ... [Read More…]
I will listen
For your rants, woes, confessions and worries, Reid Rivers is all ears. The freshman vocational missions major from Juneau, Alaska, can be seen standing in silence on the walkway between the Campus Center and the Brown Library, holding a cardboard sign with the offering: I will listen. Rivers took on the solo project, with sign out and ears ... [Read More…]
We Are Not Alone: Student-led group brings awareness to eating disorders
It is the rising plague among the nation's college campuses, a taboo topic gone unspoken and an affliction starving for awareness. "Eating disorders are such a lonely disease," said Emily Muhlberg, freshman marketing major from Boerne. "It shuts you down, makes you forget about everything you used to care about, and places unnecessary shame on ... [Read More…]
Presidents’ Address
Peter Parker advised, "With great power comes great responsibility." No statement sticks closer to the ten elected presidents of ACU's social clubs. The presidents' itinerary includes weekly meetings with Student Life, leading club meetings, organizing events, communicating with club sponsors, delegating tasks to their officers and the ... [Read More…]
Bringing Joyce to students
In an industry best known for manipulation and consumerism, advertising and public relations professor, Joyce Haley is showing students how advertising can be used for the greater good, an ambitious mission earning her the title as ACU's 2012-13 Teacher of the Year. Haley, a 1981 graduate of Pepperdine University, hit the professional ground ... [Read More…]
ResLife Rehab
A college career spent in the ResLife system can be summed up in one word. "Community," said Jake Hall, senior English education major from Springtown. Hall, the assistant director of Smith-Adams Hall, is on his third ResLife round, a job he said goes beyond the title of midnight curfew checks to nurse or nurture the hall residents. The ... [Read More…]
The making of the Maker Lab
ACU's Mobile Learning Initiative and the AT&T Learning Studio put the school on the map as a technology trailblazer in higher education. And with the university's newest development, the "innovative and real" mantra never held more true. During this year's homecoming events, the Library will open its Maker Lab, providing creative tools ... [Read More…]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 29
- 30
- 31