Jonathan Ardoyno was born with cerebral palsy and totally blind. Doctors told his mother he would always lie stiff in his bed. He would never walk or talk. But by age 2, his vision began to return, and by the time he was 3 years old, he started talking. Now he works, volunteers, audits college classes and goes to every women’s social club event he ... [Read More…]

The menu is small but mighty – one-size-fits-all, no cream, no sugar, no blended, syrupy concoctions called by some version of the word ‘frappe.’ With only black coffee on the lineup, the men of Pour Man’s Coffee are bringing their customers the richest coffee in town. David Neill and Daniel Sotelo, both recent ACU graduates, started out on this ... [Read More…]

On election night 2008, Taylor Crumpton stayed up late with her grandmother, watching election results come in slowly.  As a black middle-school student in a primarily white community, most of what she knew about Obama came from her friends who said what their parents said. She said she realized having a black president was important when her ... [Read More…]

For many ACU students on the cusp of adulthood, teaching a classroom of high school students about thesis statements and outlines remains as terrifying as it is unlikely. But, for Sarai Valenzuela, wrangling a herd of high school students is a daily occurrence. Just three years after she graduated high school, Valenzuela, a senior English for ... [Read More…]