A capella music is the foundation for community at ACU. From winter performances to Sing Song, I have seen a cappella groups take root and flourish throughout ACU. While performing with Foundation, the freshmen a capella group, there hasn’t been a single time that I have regretted my decision to join. Both the family environment and strong ... [Read More…]

I’m a student-athlete, making random drug tests a part of my life. Two types of drug tests might be demanded in any given week – the first is the NCAA drug test, and the second is an ACU drug test for different substances. The NCAA tests for all kinds of drugs, but the top three are stimulants, illicit drugs and beta-2 agonists. If I test ... [Read More…]

A few years ago, tour guides stopped bringing prospective students to Moody Chapels during campus visits. Leslie Hayes, director of campus visits, said all admitted student and senior tours stop at Chapel, but daily visits and other preview days do not. Because the latter two are shorter, Hayes said trying to pack all necessary information into ... [Read More…]

Two years ago when I was part of student congress, I passed a bill to fix the lights on the Lunsford Trail. I had just gotten into running and became passionate about safety at night. Concerns were raised to congress about the safety of students who had to walk home to Smith-Adams Hall about a quarter-mile from campus. Before Wildcat Stadium was ... [Read More…]

Although competition has always existed among club and class acts, it was amplified this year as students took to social media where feuds were formed, claims were made that the show was rigged and participants blamed their losses on the number of alumni supporting other acts. Some students took personal offense to the annual predictions by the ... [Read More…]

There were 372 cases of measles in the U.S. last year, and in the first two months of 2019, there have been 127 cases. This is just over a third of the amount reported last year. Eight of those cases are in Texas, but measles was declared eradicated from the U.S. in 2000. Think about that for a second. Measles was no longer a problem in ... [Read More…]

Black History Month is here, yet outside of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, there have been few mentions of this important annual celebration. Sadly, it is overshadowed at ACU by a bigger February event: Sing Song. A group of historians created Negro History Week in 1926. In 1976, President Gerald Ford extended the celebration to what is ... [Read More…]

Sing Song has become one of the most endeared and long-standing traditions at ACU since its implementation over 50 years ago by Dr. Bob Hunter. It's an event designed for everyone, no matter how much singing or dancing experience they have. Students, alumni, faculty, staff and the Abilene community come together each year, whether to enjoy a new ... [Read More…]

When I first tell people I’ve never done Sing Song, their initial reaction is complete shock, as if I’ve just confessed to committing a crime. The conversation becomes one of those in which you keep looking at the clock, thinking of all the other things you could be doing. As editor of the Optimist and a few other things, my experience is an ... [Read More…]