By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Students can celebrate environmental awareness with a free game of bowling, thanks to Wednesday's Students' Association meeting. With push from an environmental science class, the Outdoor Club, the Evangelical Youth Climate Initiative and now the Students' Association, campus may boast 15 to 20 new recycling ... [Read More…]
University to launch 21st Century Vision
By Mallory Schlabach, Editor in Chief In an attempt to set the university apart from its main competitors including Texas A&M, Baylor and University of Texas, ACU will seek to increase the level of academic challenge in the classroom, said Dr. Royce Money, president of the university, in a faculty and staff meeting Wednesday. Wednesday's ... [Read More…]
Class project begins fair trade brew on campus
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Tucked away on the bottom floor of the Hardin Administration Building, just underneath the stairs, a small room bids students to come inside for a cup of social justice. A new sign, typed, recently replaced the handwritten sign that once read: "Suggested donation: 25 cents (to cover part of the cost of the coffee)" ... [Read More…]
Making Choices Week 2007
Students learn the dangers of drinking and driving by riding a DUI simulator that was brought to campus during Making Choices Week. Video/editing by Hutton Harris ... [Read More…]
SA learns art of grant writing: Members of SA recently attended a conference in Boston and learned to write grants. SA is working on a grant to receive money to open the south entrance of the Brown Library.
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor On the edge of Tyler Cosgrove's desk a thick handbook rests, a jargon- filled souvenir from his recent trip to Boston for a grant-writing convention on behalf of the Students' Association. Cosgrove, SA executive treasurer, plans to write two of his own and tailor them to suit the needs of student organizations and ... [Read More…]
The Cowboy Way
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor James Francies, 76, asks a very direct question he said he likes to ask and waits for eyes to shift downward and people to squirm uncomfortably. "What would this world, or [the] United States be like, had it not been for slave labor?" he asks, never releasing eye contact. "Ever thought about that?" Then he ... [Read More…]
Video: Warm weather offers fun in the sun
As the sunny Spring weather emerges over the ACU campus, students are finding more ways to remain outdoors. Students take a break from the books to hang out, eat, play and study all under the sunshine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOeOY99p0Z0 Video/editing by Cody Veteto ... [Read More…]
Warm weather offers fun in the sun
As the sunny Spring weather emerges over the ACU campus, students are finding more ways to remain outdoors. Students take a break from the books to hang out, eat, play and study all under the sunshine. Video/editing by Cody Veteto ... [Read More…]
SA tackles Lectureship policies: A resolution was passed Wednesday to support a more lenient attendance policy during Lectureship so students can benefit from the sessions.
By Kelsi Peace, Features Editor Students desire a larger role in Lectureship, but feel they can't play it-and there's a Facebook group to prove it. The new Lectureship student track offers a venue tailored for student involvement, and the 40 student members of the committee that helped organize the 15-hour student track plan to strike a ... [Read More…]
Search narrowed for new College of Arts and Sciences dean
By Mallory Schlabach, Editor in Chief Five potential candidates for the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences position will begin meeting with various groups on campus during the next month. Each candidate will spend two days in Abilene meeting with the department chairs, faculty, staff in the dean's office, Provost Dwayne VanRheenen and Dr. ... [Read More…]
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