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Healing body and soul: Zambia Medical Mission brings God and medicine to Africa

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By Mallory Sherwood, Managing Editor After flying for 23 hours with more than 100 people from across the United States, Lane Miller was ready to disembark from the South African Airways airplane. He looked around the plane at the group of people sitting and sleeping in their black T-shirts with Zambia Medical Mission printed on the front, knowing ... [Read More…]

Tearing down history: Dealing with the demolition of a dream

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By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor As a young boy in 1962, Ronnie McQueen remembers taking lunch to his father while he helped build the first section on the Industrial Technology building. McQueen's father was a student enrolled in a metal working class and was getting hands-on experience during the summer by constructing a cinder-block structure in ... [Read More…]

Holding Down the Fort

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By Brian Roe, Sports Writer Steve Sargent sleeps peacefully in his bed. The clock ticks closer to 1 a.m. when the loudest and possibly most annoying sound known to mankind will rudely awaken him. He quickly gets out of bed, dresses and runs out the door. The fire alarm has gone off again. Sargent is the director of McKinzie Residence Hall, and ... [Read More…]

An Unsung Hero

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By Lori Bredemeyer, Managing Editor The assorted possessions in Eddie McFadden's office recall his past and describe the philosophy of his job. An aged metal and glass doorknob, several old sockets and light switches, and various other electrical devices line his shelves. Two bright yellow hard hats inscribed with 'ACU Physical Resources' lay on ... [Read More…]

Sweetwater’s snakes alive

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By Mallory Sherwood, Features Editor Lions and tigers and snakes, oh my. Perhaps not the lions and tigers, but snakes slithering across the West Texas landscape soon met their match as the 47th annual world's largest rattlesnake round-up began in Sweetwater, 39 miles west of Abilene on March 10 The Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-up, always ... [Read More…]

Loving Her Choice: After working Special Collections for six months, Carisse Berryhill knows she made the right decision

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By Jonathan Smith, Editor in Chief Carisse Berryhill loved her Bible comic book on Esther as a child. She remembers flipping through its pages many times. "In fact, the one I had got worn out because I read it so much," she said. Now, almost 50 years later, Berryhill works to make sure none of her books ever wear out again. Except her books are ... [Read More…]

Second Wind intramural team playing strong

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By Lori Bredemeyer, Managing Editor The team on the intramural field could at best be described as unorganized. Their uniforms, if they could be called that, consist of various shades of red, and one player doesn't even match the team in her black T-shirt. As the flag football team, Second Wind, breaks from the huddle, instead of one solid word ... [Read More…]

A life changed

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By Jaci Schneider, Opinion Editor Paul Goncalves easily blends into the crowds of students loitering campus; students would have trouble picking him out from a crowd of young men with shaggy hair and baseball caps. He's similar to most young men his age; he fiddles around on the guitar, plays soccer in his residence hall hallway, and he's still ... [Read More…]

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