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 managing ... [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…]
Nine ‘Nauseating’ alumni
The 1940s makeshift music group of student known as the Nauseating Nine left a legacy of laughs on campus, students as fans and administration with frowns. The group's humble beginning can be traced back to childhood friends Joe Clayton ('50) and Bill Scott ('50) growing up in Shawnee, Okla. After a move separated the childhood friends, the two ... [Read More…]
Band of Brothers
They clock more hours at the Williams Performing Arts Center than home. They have a better attendance record than football player mothers. They are "bandies." They are a family. They are The Big Purple. For Audrey Schaffner, junior English major from Vernon and two-year Pit Captain in the band, buying into the family business took little ... [Read More…]
Taken by Storment
Highland Church of Christ's Jonathan Storment is known for his on-stage, caffeinated nature. Since being christened to the church's head pastor pulpit three years ago, he engages the sanctuary with visual aids and colorful stories every Sunday at 10:15 a.m. and once more at 5 p.m. But on a late Thursday afternoon, there is no going around it, ... [Read More…]
Mother, son to graduate together
Like mother, like son. Graduation announcements have been sent out and congratulation cakes have been ordered. Come May 11, while most parents will be in the audience snapping pictures of their child collecting their diplomas, Jo Ann Evans will follow her son Bryan Evans to receive her own. Jo Ann Travis Evans first arrived on ACU campus in 1976 ... [Read More…]
Feeding frenzy: Sharky’s continues to attract students
Emily Teel, sophomore art major from Abilene, sees her friends every time she's at work. Teel works at Sharky's Burrito Co., the popular build-your-own-burrito restaurant located near the Abilene Christian University campus. One of the few burrito places in Abilene, it is frequented by many students from ACU and Hardin-Simmons University, as well ... [Read More…]
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