By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor Weck's World You're on, Danny. Just let me grab Terrell Owens' Sharpie and give you my signature of approval on this one- six-on-six intramural tackle football is sure to be a big smash. The possible addition of this fast-paced sport commonly found in smaller Texas high schools has been creating quite a buzz ... [Read More…]
A positive and negative side exists to every news story
I just read Mr. Paul Anthony's opinion on the Views page ("From now on, Views to be positive," Wednesday, Dec. 4). I could not agree with him more. A journalist has every right and responsibility to write the truth, the non-sugar coated truth, every time he or she puts pen to paper. You have a First Amendment right to say what is on your mind. ... [Read More…]
SA finally controls spending
Lost in the bigger news of Wednesday's Students' Association meeting was the fact that the Appropriations Committee and Congress worked together to neither waste nor hoard the students' money. The balance between a generally free-spending Congress and a generally frugal executive treasurer appears to have been reached after that treasurer, ... [Read More…]
Letter from the Editor: From now on, Views to be positive
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief "If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter." -Thomas Jefferson No more should negativity or skepticism be given a voice in the Optimist. No more should we ask why the Homecoming people couldn't clean up their own mess. ... [Read More…]
Beauchamp’s legacy remains
The ACU community lost not only a friend, but also a valuable wealth of history when Garvin Beauchamp, 82, passed away Monday morning. Beauchamp was head coach of Abilene's undefeated football team in 1950, dean of students from 1956-83 and vice president for student life from 1983-91. With each year, more of the men and women who helped ACU ... [Read More…]
Seeing through God’s eyes will bring about change in the world
Behind a poster board decrying human rights abuses on earth, I realized something. Many Christians don't care. We fixate on the pursuit of worldly things: a good job, more money, and more stuff-always more stuff. All the while, God is whispering above the cacophonous city noise: "Am I and my work not enough for you?" We would do well to slow ... [Read More…]
Purple Homecoming remnants nowhere to be found around campus
As soon as I read Jennifer McMichael's column in Wednesday's Optimist that the "town was still painted purple," I got in my car and drove around campus looking for remnants of Homecoming. Jennifer herself could have taken down the one bandana I found in much less time than it took to write her biting prose. That's oversight, not lack of clean ... [Read More…]
Corporate worship means considering others present
I'd like to say, first of all, that I agree that the Nov. 13 column ("Loud Chapel singers should turn it down") may not have been the best way to acknowledge this singing issue. The appropriate way to deal with a difference with anyone would definitely be to speak to them. But the discussion started, and has now continued, differently. Secondly, ... [Read More…]
Thanksgiving a time to serve
Amid fears of Saddam, Osama and snipers, ACU students are safe. As the national economy flails, ACU students are financially secure. While Indian children who suffer great injustice pray to see another day, ACU students know what they want to do with their lives. This holiday season ACU students can count themselves among the most physically, ... [Read More…]
Christians should focus on God, not man while worshiping
I am a Christian at a Christian school. I transferred here from a secular school where if people weren't your friends they didn't care about you. I came to a Christian school because I wanted not only a Christian education, but to be in a place where people you didn't even know loved you. The column written in last Wednesday's paper saddens me. ... [Read More…]
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