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…]
What will be your Sing Song face?
By Jonathan Smith, Editor in Chief A scared high school senior slunk into the double gym in Moody Coliseum among hundreds of people he didn't know in February 2002 on a mission for someone else. The sea of people wore pounds of stage makeup and brightly colored and sparkly costumes. Ridiculously large smiles and wide-eyed gazes were plastered on ... [Read More…]
Christmas Eve tradition skips a year
By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something My mom rushes out of the candlelight service at church as soon as the congregation finishes the last hymn every Christmas Eve. She hurries home to light the candles in the Bunsen burner underneath the Swedish meatballs, mix the cran-rasberry juice with the 7-Up to make punch, spread the ... [Read More…]
Nona offers valuable change of view
By Mallory Sherwood, Managing Editor Face the Facts I made a new friend this week named Nona. She doesn't come from a background like mine, and she doesn't even know where Ohio is. Nona's mom died of cancer when she was young, and she loves dogs so much it makes her that she doesn't have one. She has two older foster sisters, and both are ... [Read More…]
Column Like I See ‘Em: Fall brings thoughts of new roommates
By Steve Holt, Opinion Editor I love Fall (whatever that means in West Texas). Fall is typically characterized by football, sweatshirts, looking forward to Thanksgiving break, and in many university residence halls, that slow-burning, passive-aggressive tension that exists between non-compatible freshman roommates. Some of you freshmen know what ... [Read More…]
College habits are real world crimes
By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something Think before you commit a crime, and if you're going to buy a lottery ticket using stolen funds, at least use cash. Last week a woman from a town near my home in Oregon was arrested for using a stolen credit card to purchase a winning lottery ticket. She won $1 million but could wind up ... [Read More…]
Good laugh keeps sanity intact
By Mallory Sherwood, Managing Editor Face the Facts Dressed as a prom queen whose peak was in the 1980s, I, along with seven others paraded around Abilene on Monday night, arriving on the doorsteps of our professors' homes. Once they arrived at the door, they were surprised to see their students dressed up with eager faces, begging for candy. It ... [Read More…]
C.S. Lewis lives on in silver screen
By Jaci Schneider, Copy Editor Much Ado About Something In the fourth grade, I remember telling my teacher, Ms. Mitchell, I wanted to read something "different," and so Ms. Mitchell introduced me to C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and gave me a lifelong appreciation for fantasy. With the The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ... [Read More…]
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