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Students seek cheaper options for buying textbooks

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With the dawn of a new semester comes a new list of books that need purchasing. For some college students, this can be a heavy financial burden to bear. College Board put the national average a student spends on books at a four-year public college at $1,168 for the 2011-12 school year. ACU's College Board profile estimated books to cost $1,250 ... [Read More…]

Map guides tour of area Christmas lights

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[googlemap width="510" height="480" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=202332242471809427205.0004b35fb9914d83c8211&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=0&z=13&output=embed"] View ACU Light Tour in a larger map Also see the Optimist photo gallery by photographer Adrian Patenaude: [flickr album=72157628311921919 num=14 ... [Read More…]

The making of a movement

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Two years ago, I was beginning my first year at ACU. My potluck roommate, Brittany Partridge, junior political science major from Annandale, Minn., and I were looking to get involved somewhere and began volunteering two days a week at the Eternal Threads warehouse downtown. What started with hours of burning DVDs and importing data into a computer ... [Read More…]

ACU alumni open My Sister’s House boutique

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This week, My Sister's House, a women's consignment sale, filled 181 Pine Street with racks and shelves brimming with second-hand clothes, accessories and furniture. Sisters Kate Stover and Summer Walters, both ACU alum, started My Sister's House two years ago and are now in the middle of their fourth sale. "This is something that we wanted to ... [Read More…]

Teacher of the year embraces humility

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Harris had a desire to form a community among students that nurtured commitment to following Jesus more radically. He believed there were a number of guys and women out there that would like to see how far they can go in their relationship with Christ and he knew the near impossibility of taking that on alone. He started mentoring a group of guys ... [Read More…]

Students strive to find freshmen identities

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ACU welcomed hundreds of fresh faces to campus last week during Welcome Week. The week consisted of events such as a massive Twister game, the Candlelight Devotional and a canned food drive. It gave freshmen a chance to share in rich ACU traditions while familiarizing themselves with campus and the other students. Students were welcomed to campus ... [Read More…]

A Tale of Two Travelers: Women traverse the Middle East

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Ellie Hamby and Sandy Hazelip travel the world together. In past years, they have visited Siberia and Mongolia, on the longest train ride in the world. They traveled across Southeast Asia, taking trains and buses through several countries. When traveling, the two opt out of any type of tourist excursions and live like the natives of the land they ... [Read More…]

College Bound: ACU helps students of an Amarillo elementary school encourages college at early age

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In a room painted purple and white, a class of third graders write letters to their pen pals - ACU students - using pencils with ACU logos. They end each school day with a Wildcat chant. If you ask the students where they are going to college, 75 percent of them will say ACU, said Robin Carlile, their teacher. The children at San Jacinto ... [Read More…]

Anson lights remain mystery

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Some say a lost soul roams the hills northwest of Anson; others believe it's a ghost swinging a lantern back and forth. Skeptics say it's an unremarkable phenomenon easily explained by logic - but the only thing certain about a mysterious light in the sky near Anson, Texas, is no one is certain. Anson, a town of 2,500 located about 30 miles north ... [Read More…]

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