Ask anyone about the event they remember most vividly, and depending on age you're bound to get a variety of answers. You may hear about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the attack on Pearl Harbor, or the collapse of the Berlin Wall. To many current college students and young adults, however, these are merely chapters in a history book. The ... [Read More…]
Political news now gained in modern ways
During the fall, school begins, football season kicks off, temperatures drop (in some parts of the country), Starbucks releases it's Pumpkin Spice Latte - and a vicious battle often ensues, polluting television with awful campaign ads. It's a presidential election year. With such an important event under way, it is extremely important for ... [Read More…]
Division move won’t bring immediate change
The move to Division 1 will literally be a game changer. Goodbye, Angelo State and Tarleton. Hello, Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. It will be exciting to see ACU moving on to bigger and better things. To see how we measure up to these new schools. To be able to put a D1 school on our resumes. To be out of the same division as McMurry. It's ... [Read More…]
An open letter to Welcome Week relationships
You're the guy who found the girl of your dreams in college. In fact, you found her and began dating her before your first college class started. You found your Welcome Week Wife. Welcome Week is the time to adjust to college life, have fun, and yes, meet people. You'll meet many more people throughout your collegiate career than you have in ... [Read More…]
Dead Day proves voices can inspire change
Most college students don't believe they can make a difference on their campus. After all, they are just students and they don't have a say in anything. Right? The students and faculty of Abilene Christian University proved that through our thoughts and words, we can make a difference in our community. When we, the people of Abilene Christian ... [Read More…]
Editorials: a protected, fact based stance
Of all the content in a newspaper, editorials are arguably the most divisive. Where news presents factual events to the reader, editorials deliver opinion and judgment. Often, these judgements can offend readers of opposing stances. However, these verdicts do not come without a deep understanding of facts. It is every reporter's job to gather ... [Read More…]
Education can’t lose liberal aspects
Liberal arts colleges were designed to cultivate a habit of critical thinking in students. ACU seems to be making a consistent effort to keep critical thinking engrained in the curriculum for all majors. Yet, if it is necessary for critical thinking to be an element added into new things, like the CORE classes, then that must mean that the rest of ... [Read More…]
ACU should adopt tablet textbooks
Team 55 mistakenly sent out an email saying the university was considering adopting a policy requiring all students to have an iPad by 2013. And as long as the Mobile Learning Initiative team follows through on the idea, we think this would be a change that benefits students and the future of the university. There are a lot of genuine benefits ... [Read More…]
Inconsistent weather toys with life
Dearest weather, While we have enjoyed the last year full of snow days spent out of class, sunny days spent in the pool and those few weeks in between of actual, decent weather. It is time to make up your mind. We simply can not take any more of your mother nature inconsistency. You fluctuate daily, if not hourly, leaving us to question the ... [Read More…]
Religion is never normal, only familiar
An image has been floating around the internet that describes Atheism as "the belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything." So Atheism is an insane belief? No. When any religion is generalized it will seem equally - if not more insane - than this ignorant ... [Read More…]
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