As Students’ Association Executive Cabinet members, it is our mission to be good stewards of our God-given gifts - to represent the diverse needs of the student body through both activity and advocacy - and in so doing, hold ourselves, the student body, the faculty, staff and administration accountable to each other and God. Each year, cabinet to ... [Read More…]
Upperclassmen need to participate in SA
Upperclassmen roll their eyes as freshmen with bright eyes and excited faces enter the plethora of student organizations. They just seem so happy. They haven't seen anything yet. While freshmen eagerly attend Students' Association interest meetings and run fierce campaigns, upperclassmen participation in SA elections dwindles each year. But ... [Read More…]
Where my boys at? Get hustling
Growing up, girls were told 'you go, girl' or 'you can do anything you want' and were expected to break the girly stereotypes and crash through the glass ceilings of male supremacy. While this may sound great, an alarming societal shift has begun to take its course. With this semester starting, I've noticed the overwhelming and alarming amount of ... [Read More…]
A letter from the Editor
Welcome back to school! Whether today is your first day of college or your twenty fifth year working here, thank you for picking up the newspaper and at least glancing at the following pages. In the future, this space will be used to discuss various topics and ideas, like the issue box included at the beginning. But today, I wanted to take a ... [Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Science, objective truth, and democracy at stake in ‘bathroom bill’ fight
By Adam Nettina Aside from egregiously misrepresenting the concern many people have over the issues created by the so-called "bathroom-bills," Mercedez Hernandez has shown a fundamental disregard and contempt for the real problem of allowing individuals to use a public restroom of their non-biological gender. It is not only an issue that opens up ... [Read More…]
Conversations need to be started about LGBT students
The Board of Trustees has released a framework for a task force created by the university administration intended to help it in the process of evaluating the university' sexual stewardship code. The reevaluations come as a reaction to the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case of July 2015 that federally required each state to recognize ... [Read More…]
Transgender rights can’t be ignored
After the civil rights movement of the 1960s, it is often thought the fight for equal rights was won a long time ago. But for transgender Americans, the fight for those rights is an uphill battle. Only 18 states have laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity, and out of the remaining states that have no such protections, a few ... [Read More…]
To my future employers: pick me, pick me
As I look back on my time here at ACU and working on the Optimist, I can't help but get sentimental. Sure, that might be the pre-finals sleep deprivation getting to me, but I am so blessed with all the life skills I've acquired through my time as editor. I can't wait to share my talents with my future employers and with the world, but I'll give you ... [Read More…]
University is right to focus on retention, but will central advising help?
The university is making plans to centralize its advising system that will take advisers out of various departments and colleges and put them in a single location. Advisers will be housed under enrollment and marketing beginning in August. University officials say it will allow advisors to take advantage of new software called Degree Works to ... [Read More…]
ACU Athletics lacks transparency needed for Div. I reputation
A lot of students, faculty and alumni had an opinion when they found out head track and field and cross country coach Keith Barnier was relieved of duties and would not return after three years with the university. Some thought it was a justified move. Others thought it was madness. Based on our responsibility as media to function as watchdogs, ... [Read More…]
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