The Department of Theatre will showcase Little Women on Feb. 16-19 as this year's spring play. The play is being directed by Dawne Swearingen Meeks, department chair and associate professor. Little Women follows the story of the March family members. It focuses around sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March and how they deal with choices throughout ... [Read More…]
Residence Life to give students more of a say in housing decisions
Residence Life is changing its lottery system to make University Park Apartments and sophomore housing decisions more fair and accessible for students. The new system not only gives all students an equal shot at where they potentially want to live but also allows them to have more of a say in the final decision of roommates and room ... [Read More…]
New Member Orientation begins after system change, new challenges
As New Member Orientation commences, sororities and fraternities are taking their second spring new member classes. NMO started Friday on the heels of the implementation of a new system for the rushing and joining process for the 2022-23 season, Campus Director. The cap number of new members that sororities or fraternities can take is 60; ... [Read More…]
Student trip to Austin delayed due to weather
A group of faculty and students' planned trip to Austin has been delayed due to last weeks inclement weather. The trip was originally scheduled for Jan. 30-31 and is now pushed to an unknown date. The group of students that will be in attendance includes the Jack Pope Fellows program, as well as ten journalism students. The students on the trip ... [Read More…]
Arch apartments receive complaints from students, issues with communication, maintenance
Multiple students have expressed reliability and security concerns while residing in the local apartment complex The Arch. The Optimist attempted to contact management of The Arch for comment via email and phone and received no response. One of the major issues students have expressed with The Arch apartments is communication. Emma Schecter, ... [Read More…]
Undergraduate Research, Creativity and Innovation Festival accepting abstracts for presentations until Friday
The Undergraduate Research, Creativity and Innovation Festival is accepting abstracts until Friday. The URCI festival is an event for students to broadcast their projects and research. It will be for ACU students, but also for students from surrounding universities and will take place on April 11 at the Hunter Welcome Center. These projects ... [Read More…]
Annual Lunar New Year celebration held by ASO
The Asian Student Association (ASO) celebrated the Lunar New Year Saturday at Hillcrest Church of Christ, welcoming the Year of the Rabbit on the Chinese Zodiac calendar. The event was supported by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Office of International Students And Visiting Scholars with a goal of bringing everyone together to ... [Read More…]
Student life implements new software, updates rushing process
Greek Life has started a partnership with Campus Director, a software company that works with universities all over the country. The Campus Director software has an algorithm programmed to match rushees to clubs, implementing a more modern method to the current ranking and voting system. Rushees rank which sororities and fraternities they want ... [Read More…]
Conversations about extension of Brown Library hours continuing
Student Government Association passed a bill during the fall semester that would extend the ACU Brown Library hours from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m from Sunday to Thursday, but no official changes to hours have taken place yet. The bill was presented by Hannah Maniscalo, junior class vice president and junior political science major from Spring, with the ... [Read More…]
Dead Day events bring atmosphere of liveliness
Dead Day is a significant day for college students stressed about finals to catch up on sleep, studying and relaxing before the last week of fall semester. The 2022 Dead Day events truly brought life back into the heart of the students to finish the semester strong. Events were hosted by SGA, CAB, ACU Honors and other departments who simply ... [Read More…]
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