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Staying in Tune: Tuning pianos has taught Ken Claunch much more than technical skill – it has taught him humility and perspective

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By Colter Hettich, Features Editor Linda Claunch came home one day to find her beloved piano on its way out the front door. As she tells the story, her husband, Ken, grins like a boy guilty of a practical joke gone awry. Evidently, a woman told Ken she was in the market for a certain piano that the Claunches just happened to own - Linda's ... [Read More…]

The Second Family: At a West Texas university, a love for a global game brought together players from 13 countries. The diversity that once divided them now serves as their greatest weapon.

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By Colter Hettich, Features Editor While school campuses in Abilene sit lifeless on Sunday afternoons, Mann Middle School transforms into a battleground. Across the street a white, church steeple stands just higher than the mesquite treetops. Weathered homes with toy-littered lawns line the bordering streets to the north and west. A few steps ... [Read More…]

Faculty plan to integrate art into campus life

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By Kelline Linton, Staff Writer A couple entwined arms under the shade of soft-yellowed stone and smiled for the camera, while a small girl climbed playfully around a bubbling baptismal pool, away from her mother's watching eyes. Across the path, a group of visiting parents gazed up at the metal ladder with angels and snapped their photos. They ... [Read More…]

Like the good ol’ days

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By Colter Hettich, Features Editor Time has a tendency to change things - sports included. But the men of the Buffalo Gap Vintage Base Ball Club (BGVGGC) do not want people to forget the history of what America has traditionally called its favorite pasttime. Jeff Batsche attends McMurry university, and though he only recently discovered the ... [Read More…]

The unconventional Abe Brown finds his calling as an assisant coach on the ACU track and field team

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By Jared Fields, Editor in Chief Spending the previous two years in comfortable retirement, Abe Brown thought he left coaching track and field for good, enjoying his hobbies and helping coach former athletes who asked for his help. "I just thought that I'd given a lot to the sport, and the sport had given a lot to me," Brown said. "High-powered ... [Read More…]

Spicin’ up the drive-thru: How Donnie Lamar Harden ‘thinks outside the bun’

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By Colter Hettich, Features Editor "Take your time, sit back and recline, relax your mind and order whenever you're ready. This is Taco Bell. You may think outside the bun." This original jingle might be new to some, but for anyone who frequents Taco Bell on South 14th Street, it may ring a bell. Donnie Lamar Harden, Taco Bell employee for more ... [Read More…]

Let the Children Come: How two families changed the streets of Tenali, India- half a world apart

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By Colter Hettich, Features Editor How much does it cost to heal the blind? In India about $200 will do. Thanks to a sponsor donation, a widow who was blind from birth due to extreme cataracts can now see. Ray and Amanda Pettit, founders of Sanctuary Home, have a vault's worth of stories like this one. Sanctuary Home provides sponsored orphans ... [Read More…]

Serge Gasore ran for his life in Rwanda., today he lives to run

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By Jared Fields, Editor in Chief We watch war movies for entertainment. The horrifying scenes of war- death, gunfire, explosions, agony, fear - many of us only see on a screen. Serge Gasore lived those scenes. Though not on television, movies, a computer or in books. He saw it all in a Rwanda church. Beginning in April 1994, extremists of the ... [Read More…]

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