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Something phishy: Hackers reroute payments

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The university was informed on Tuesday afternoon that six employee payments had been rerouted to out-of-state bank accounts and a total of 17 myACU accounts had been accessed by the perpetrators. Before Thanksgiving break, several ACU email accounts received a phishing email that, when responded to, allowed the perpetrators to attain account ... [Read More…]

Faculty uses CourseSites as alternative to OpenClass

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CourseSites is becoming a more widely-used learning management system in the university's classrooms as OpenClass has proven to be difficult in navigation for professors and students. Berlin Fang, director of instructional design for the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning, said more faculty members are beginning to adopt CourseSites outside ... [Read More…]

207 walk in winter graduation

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The university will grant degrees to more than 200 students during commencement at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13 in Moody Coliseum. The 207 students receiving degrees is fewer than the 250 students last year, so Dr. Eric Gumm, registrar and director of the First-Year Program, anticipates this year's ceremony to be slightly shorter. Gumm expects between ... [Read More…]

Faculty donates $29,000 to United Way

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Faculty and staff collected $29,000 in donations during the past month for the Abilene-based, non-profit organization, United Way. Clint Buck, director of Financial Operations at ACU, was in charge of coordinating United Way donations this year. He said the ACU staff has donated money to the organization each holiday season since 1996. "Very ... [Read More…]

SA renovates office with allocated funds

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The Students' Association was allocated a budget of $2,000 from Student Congress to update the six rooms in their office. Dylan Benac, SA president and senior political science major from Boerne, said that the office is mainly focusing on repainting. "It has been years since the office has been redone," said Benac. "We want the office to ... [Read More…]

The reasons behind doing what we do

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Another semester is coming to a close and few students have spent it working as hard as those on the Optimist staff. In addition to balancing schoolwork and other on-campus activities, we somehow manage to put in long hours writing stories, designing pages, updating the website and editing photos and videos. Through it all, deadlines are looming ... [Read More…]

Saying goodbye to black and white

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After five wonderfully hectic semesters, my time at the Optimist has come to a close. Walking into the newsroom three years ago, I couldn't have fathomed the impact this magical institution would have on my life. This place is my home and leaving it is like leaving a small piece of me behind. I have come a long way since the mild-mannered, ... [Read More…]

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