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Tutor discovers gift of learning

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Last weekend I received a phone call from a Bhutanese refugee here in Abilene.   In English so much improved from when she first arrived in the U.S. two years ago, she asked if I would look over a paper she wrote for a college class she's taking. I said of course, and spent a half hour over chai tea, correcting her spelling mistakes and finding ... [Read More…]

University police protect students

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On Sept. 28 Colton Tooley fired around 10 shots on the University of Texas  campus before taking his own life. Last Monday, Brookhaven College in Dallas shut down while police searched for a suicidal student. Yet we are lucky to live in a country where incidents like this are rare, and here at ACU we have a police force dedicated to protection ... [Read More…]

Brown Library deserves more recognition

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Brown Library is, and ought to be, the centerpiece of our academic institution. It contains and represents a "cloud of witnesses" of learning. These witnesses radiate beams of light into each classroom and lecture hall on ACU's campus. All of our professors stand on the shoulders of those whose works sit enshrined between covers on shelves in Brown ... [Read More…]

Christians need to support Blue Like Jazz

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Almost everyone I know at ACU has read Blue Like Jazz, and lots of those people really loved it and will say that it had some effect on their spirituality. I felt an even stronger connection to Don Miller's follow-up book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years, where he discusses writing the screenplay for the Blue Like Jazz movie and how it affected ... [Read More…]

Text abbreviations do not belong in conversation

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OMG. This is OOMWPP, BTW. Why do we AENAD? In MOO, using TL outside of TM is SNF. Translation: Oh my goodness. This is one of my worst pet peeves, by the way. Why do we abbreviate everything nowadays? In my own opinion, using texting lingo outside of text messages is so not funny. Before I begin my non-abbreviated diatribe against using texting ... [Read More…]

Marijuana needs to be legalized

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More and more states across the nation are legalizing some uses of marijuana. A variety of messages come from the media, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Christian groups and actual users. The editorial board has chosen to outline the pros and cons of the argument, allowing readers to consider opposing viewpoints on the issue and come to their own ... [Read More…]

Current drug laws should stand

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More and more states across the nation are legalizing some uses of marijuana. A variety of messages come from the media, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Christian groups and actual users. The editorial board has chosen to outline the pros and cons of the argument, allowing readers to consider opposing viewpoints on the issue and come to their own ... [Read More…]

University color opposes morals

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Sometimes I wonder why I went to a university whose school color is purple. We claim we are Christian and have a huge focus on the 'C' in our name, yet our color is blatantly unchristian. At VBS I learned a song called "Jesus Loves the Little Children." This song seems to have a pretty inclusive title. Yet in the middle of the song it has clear ... [Read More…]

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