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Ivory towers and academic bias

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How do professors handle conversations of diversity if they can't identify with the group? Last semester I was in a film class where, as the only female, I had a very educating experience. I’m pretty privileged. I'm pretty privileged to belong to a female dominated major, at a female dominated university, so this atmosphere was a little ... [Read More…]

Experiential learning needs to be more holistic for students’ sake

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Experiential learning is the buzzword you hear the most from within the ACU community whether that be from departments, administration or the marketing team.  ACU is advertised to be a small school with a tight knit community that provides more experience than any state school can and to some extent that is exactly right.  However, when ... [Read More…]

Student journalists are students too

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I started taking journalism classes in middle school and enjoyed it so much that I transferred to Northwest High which offers an academy for media. Through this academy, I went on to national competitions and conferences (Student Television Network) and even helped the school win an Emmy from the Lone Star Emmy chapter. After spending all of that ... [Read More…]

Three-point defense will be crucial for men’s basketball to have successful season

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In the past few years, Wildcat fans have been spoiled with men's basketball teams that were successful in the regular season. So seeing the team lose five straight games in conference play, one of the longest stretches without a win in years, was surely alarming to some fans. A lot of people have started wondering what went wrong. One factor ... [Read More…]

Is Galaxy receiving special treatment while G*L*XY publicly breaks terms of suspension?

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Updated Feb. 7, 2022:  To the Optimist Editorial Board: Since December, ACU’s administration has been meeting with sponsors, officers and members of Galaxy to conduct intentional training around diversity, community membership and leadership. Galaxy’s infractions resulted from deeper cultural concerns that highlighted the need for ... [Read More…]

Current campus COVID regulations are not enough

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Omicron is raging across the United States, Abilene hit an emergency level six and ACU positive cases hit a high since the fall of 2020.  Last year, when positive cases on campus were in the low 70’s, the campus shut down for two weeks. Classes, rushes, club meetings, you name it, were either canceled entirely or moved to Zoom.  Surely ... [Read More…]

‘Watch Out for Wildcats’ campaign not a real solution to crosswalk safety

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In one semester on campus, at least four students were hit by cars, and two of those incidents resulted in hospitalization. After the multiple accidents and consistent, fearful caution coming from students crossing the busy streets each day, surely the university would be working to take drastic measures to prevent this from happening.  What did ... [Read More…]

Take care of yourself as the semester comes to an end

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The end of the semester is stressful in a lot of ways. Final projects, book reviews, papers. Final plans with friends before leaving them for the winter. Social club events. Money also adds a lot of stress at the end of the semester when Bean Bucks start running out and Christmas shopping becomes an obligation. With the end of the semester upon us, ... [Read More…]

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