By Kyle Peveto, Arts Editor Rolando Diaz paints with flowing lines and deep, vivid colors. Reds, greens and yellows, the colors of a salsa dancer's dress, surround a woman cradling her baby. Caribbean Ocean blues saturate an angel playing a violin. Diaz attempts to paint the souls of his often bright and lively subjects. Diaz has made his living ... [Read More…]
Love on the Side: Mary Anne Johnson
By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor Upon first glance, she's just a cafeteria worker in The Bean, but with every piece of fried chicken and scoop of mashed potatoes, Mary Anne Johnson is serving up a little slice of love. Generally speaking, one person in everyone's life has the potential to make an impact. It could be a parent, a teacher, a coach, a ... [Read More…]
Half a World Away
By Steve Holt, Opinion Editor Mario Santoso had quite a commute ahead of him when he left his hometown to study music in August of 2000: 10,484 miles and 30 hours by plane. But the distance was an easy sacrifice for the opportunity to study the love of his life. "Without music, this life would be dry," Santoso said. Mario's hometown is ... [Read More…]
On Their Toes
By Melanie J. Knox, Page Editor The dancers move lightly, heads up, eyes straight ahead, glancing occasionally at the wall-to-wall mirrors. Anslee Craig and Andrea Edwards, both ACU students, push themselves up the tip-toe of their "point shoes," finally balancing and gracefully raising their arms. "It doesn't look that hard," Craig said ... [Read More…]
Fun and Games: Students find ways to relieve stress at Putt-Putt
By Lori Bredemeyer, Student Reporter With finals approaching and the stress that comes with finishing a semester building, some students are beginning to need a retreat from school. Putt-Putt Golf & Games is one place to go in Abilene with a group of friends to take a break from studying. Located at 201 S. Danville Drive between K-mart and the ... [Read More…]
To Protect and to Serve
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief Aaron Taylor's eyes are always moving, darting this way and that. He passes other motorists, and his eyes begin their constant search. Seatbelts. Stickers. License plates. Headlights. Windows. It's a habit now-he doesn't even think about it. "In police work, it's a disease," Taylor says as he drives his white ... [Read More…]
The Joke’s on Them
By Steve Holt, Opinion Editor At 7:40 a.m. Dr. Jeff Childers is climbing the steps to the Biblical Studies Building, as he does each morning before his 8 a.m. classes. It's April 1, 1999, and the associate professor of Bible, ministry and missions has no reason to believe this day is any different than the other days this week. Walking down the ... [Read More…]
A tie that binds
By Joshua Parrott, Page Editor Major sat behind the podium, gazing at the Chapel crowd. Students were hysterical, quite a feat considering Major never spoke a word. Major, the pet bulldog of Richard "Fuzzy" Lunsford, a student at ACU from 1951-55, was brought to Chapel to impersonate the late Don H. Morris, Abilene Christian College president ... [Read More…]
Friendship key to balancing marriage, careers for Bill and Sherry Rankin
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief Students stop short when they walk into Dr. Bill Rankin's office. The busy wall fills their view, and their eyes move slowly, trying to take it all in. Their mouths drop open as they begin to comprehend what they see. And then they laugh. Covering an entire wall in the office are panels upon panels of comic ... [Read More…]
Persevering
By Melanie J. Knox, Page Editor Five years ago, on the way home from a three-and-a-half week mission trip to South Africa, she started feeling flu-like symptoms and spent five hours sleeping in a Swiss airport lounge. By the time her plane was over Chicago, the pilot decided to make an emergency landing. Shiloh Webb had been throwing up for eight ... [Read More…]