By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something Cajun Cones - the sweet, icy concoctions define the culture at ACU, a signal of springtime, of blossoming flowers and romances, and a notice to all that finals approach rapidly, and the semester will soon screech to a halt. A sign announcing opening day beckons and teases students, as they ... [Read More…]
Honesty brings questions, truth
By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something Monday a lesbian I was interviewing asked me: "Do you think I have to change? Am I not OK the way I am?" I hadn't known this woman very long, but the short time I had spent with her had already begun to challenge some of my ideas about homosexuality. I wished she hadn't asked me because I ... [Read More…]
This paper is very valuable. Really.
By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something Don't throw away this newspaper. Ever. The editors don't really care if you read the whole thing through, just don't throw it in the trashcan. Though recycling on campus has become more difficult this semester, you can do innumerable creative and useful things with a used newspaper, and ... [Read More…]
Be transformed on and off campus
By Jonathan Smith, Editor in Chief Students begin scattering to all corners of the country and world today as Spring Break Campaigns begin and willing students take the Gospel and the message of Christ to people they do not know and have never met. A commendable goal to be sure as students try to live out the words of the Great Commission. But ... [Read More…]
Compassion hits home in Tyrone
By Mallory Sherwood, Managing Editor Face the Facts For the third time, I signed his little black book - well technically, it was a yellow index card this time; but nonetheless, I knew he would slide it into his notebook when I finished writing my cell phone number. It didn't seem to matter that I had already written my number twice, but since ... [Read More…]
Intelligent Design and Evolution: find common ground
By Jonathan Smith, Editor in Chief The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald penned these timeless words in his novel The Crack-Up. Unfortunately, scientists, politicians and Christians have not heeded ... [Read More…]
Editor salutes end of lectureship era
By Jonathan Smith, Editor in Chief Sing Song's first half a century came to a close this weekend. The beginning of the end of an era of Bible Lectureship begins this week. The ends of both also bring to close an era for the Optimist as well. For almost every one of the past 50 Februarys, the Optimist has covered Sing Song and Lectureship during ... [Read More…]
Sing Song bizarre but beautiful
By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something I'm standing in the concourse of the coliseum. My toes feel like ice cubes through my socks. It's 3 a.m., and I just want to find my shoes and go home to bed. Suddenly, someone hectically motions for me to move to the wall. As I do, I see a line of young men approach. They're all wearing ... [Read More…]
Running down the collegiate dreams
By Mallory Sherwood, Managing Editor Face the Facts Steve Fossett broke the world record Saturday for completing the longest nonstop flight in aviation history, traveling 26,389 miles around the globe in 76 hours. He stopped only because of mechanical problems. The 61-year-old millionaire adventurer left the Kennedy Space Center in Cape ... [Read More…]
Give a girl a flower, make her day,
By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something Valentine's Day my freshman year ranks with one of the best I've ever had. My mom sent me a box of cookies, one of my guy friends ordered me flowers, and Blake gave me a tulip. Blake was my February crush, and I wasn't the only girl who found myself wishing the sophomore with the big smile ... [Read More…]
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