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Wildcats end 12-game skid on senior night

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Senior night provided some much needed magic for the men's basketball team Tuesday night in Moody Coliseum. In the team's final home game of the year, the Wildcats jumped out to a 20-10 lead halfway through the first half and never looked back. ACU would take the game, 83-71, and end its losing streak a game under a baker's dozen. "I'm really ... [Read More…]

Local music store serves as vessel for music and community in Abilene

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For three years, The Record Guys has been off of Leggett and South 7th. The music shop sits on the corner with a big red text banner and the words "Records, tapes, record players." The shop is stocked with piles and stacks of organized vinyl records and cassette tapes, an ode to the history of music. Old fashioned bar lights hang from the ceiling ... [Read More…]

ACU debate team tops state schools

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ACU's debate team has become one of the nation's best this year, traveling across the country to compete against, and defeat, top schools. The team has traveled all over the U.S. this year to locations such as Berkeley, California, Kansas City and Bellingham, Washington. Dena Counts, debate team coach and director of forensics, said the team ... [Read More…]

ACU professor casts statues for summer festival

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The National Center for Children's Literature has commissioned two statues from an ACU professor for the annual children's literature festival. Geoffrey Broderick, associate professor of art, was asked to cast the sculptures into bronze for the Children's Art and Literacy Festival in June. "Every summer, the festival connects with the NCCIL ... [Read More…]

Football to open against Baylor for 2018

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The ACU football program will begin its 2018 season in Waco with a game against the Baylor Bears. Athletic Director Lee De León made the announcement Thursday afternoon. The game is one of five non-conference games ACU has scheduled against FBS opponents from 2015-2019. The Baylor game will be ACU's highest-profile opponent in the programs ... [Read More…]

First exchange student in Japan returns

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Though born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Ann Rachel Katagiri was mostly a stranger to the United States until the age of 14. At 6 months old, she moved to Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, near Tokyo. She had family in Texas, her mother's home, whom she visited every two years. But it wouldn't prepare her for her unexpected move to the South to attend ... [Read More…]

Singular Success: Tournament wins propel Reed to conference honor

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Brittney Reed, the lone and leading senior for the women's tennis team, was selected as the Southland Conference's Women's Tennis Player of the Week. Reed is the second Wildcat to win the award in three weeks after her total 4-0 victories in singles and doubles after matches against Prairie View A&M University and Trinity University. This is ... [Read More…]

GSP, Siggies and seniors win Sing Song 2015

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The men of GSP won their first Sing Song act since the end of their four-year streak in 2012. The class of 2015 will now graduate in May with its first Sing Song victory under its belt, and the women of Sigma Theta Chi won their 14th Sing Song title. GSP director Phillip Jackson said he was glad because no one in their act had won a GSP Sing ... [Read More…]

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