The Cabinet, which exists to plan free events for all students, will host ACU Paint Fest from 8-11 p.m. March 23. Ty Kelley, junior ITNS major from San Antonio and a student director of The Cabinet, said the event stumbled across the desk of Caddie Coupe, director of student and parent activities, last year and has been done at a variety of ... [Read More…]
TEDxACU to come to ACU
The fourth annual TEDxACU conference will tackle serious topics, from breast cancer to bullying. Speakers from the Abilene community, professors, students and others will join together to present talks to the local community from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 23 in Fulks Theater. TEDxACU is an independently organized event based on the bigger TED ... [Read More…]
Keeping up with the psychs
With straight faces sprinkled with the occasional nose ring, three female psychology graduate students sit on the leather couches in the Brown Library. Presenting in Houston at the Southwestern Psychology Association convention in mid-April, these students have learned to juggle classes and various research projects all while trying to advance ... [Read More…]
SA votes on new amendments
Students' Association sent out an email on February 20 including four resolutions to be voted on through a link. One of the questions caused controversy, leading Congress to void the ballot and resend an email including eight total resolutions to vote on. President of SA, Danny Burke, senior marketing major from Tulsa, Oklahoma said the ... [Read More…]
Women’s basketball captures historic victory
The Wildcats wrote their name in the history books Thursday afternoon, earning their first-ever victory in the Southland Conference Tournament by a dominant score of 88-66 over New Orleans. ACU played like it was possessed in the second-half, scoring 58 of its 88 points, with 29 coming in each quarter, after managing only 30 points in the ... [Read More…]
University to update policies for LGBT student employees
Editor's note: This story has been updated since it was originally published. The senior leadership team will update the student handbook for the next academic year to clarify policies for same-sex relationships. Students who are employed by the university will not be permitted to be in a same-sex dating relationship. Dr. Phil Schubert, ... [Read More…]
Wildcats prepare for first-ever matchup in Katy
Katy will be welcoming a new team to the first round of the Southland Conference postseason tournament as the Wildcats finished with a 9-9 conference record good enough for the seventh seed. ACU will go head-to-head with the University of New Orleans in its first-round matchup Thursday. The Privateers finished slightly better than the Wildcats ... [Read More…]
Econ students win contest channeling Lil’ Dicky
Students in a Macroeconomics class recently won a contest sponsored by Cengage Learning with a video titled "$pend Dat Money." The project started a year ago when a select group of students were charged with creating content that would challenge them to incorporate their knowledge gleamed from Macroeconomics into a music video spin-off of their ... [Read More…]
Easter wins best paper award
After a sixteen-month study in Canada, Dr. Sarah Easter decided to immerse herself into a coalition made up of more than 40 churches, non-profits, governmental and business organizations working toward one common goal – ending homelessness in Victoria, British Columbia. In the midst of working alongside other colleagues and her committee, Easter ... [Read More…]
Alumni raise LGBT issues in opposing petitions to board
Alumni started two opposing online petitions last week, asking the Board of Trustees to take a stand on LGBT issues. Darren Keyes, a 2000 graduate, said he is among a group of alumni that posted the first petition, called Concerned Alumni for Truth, or CATs. He said the petition had more than 100 signatures within 48 hours before it was taken ... [Read More…]
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