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Culture event to educate campus

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International Education Week will make its grand appearance next week. Lucy Dawson, immigration specialist for the Center for International Education, is helping organize events throughout the week. Dawson said there are around 170 international students from 42 different countries who have not claimed permanent residence in the ... [Read More…]

Student religious diversity increases

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The Church of Christ demographic within ACU students is in a slow decline. According to the Religion Headcount provided by Lisa McCarty, assistant director for the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment and the institutional researcher for the university, 54.6 percent of the student body claimed to be Church of Christ in 2009. As of ... [Read More…]

New group spreads suicide awareness

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The James Project, a new suicide outreach program on campus, will host its first interest meeting 1 p.m. on Saturday at Jacobs' Dream. Mallory Snowden, freshman environmental science, political science and public programs major from Midlothian, is founder and president of The James Project. She said she saw a need on campus and decided to take ... [Read More…]

Career Center brings in camps

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Several summer camps will be visiting ACU to recruit students for employment next summer. The Career Center organized all visits and events. Summer camps such as Camp Olympia and Pine Cove will be set up in the Campus Center throughout the week. They will have information for students interested in working for them this coming summer. Jill ... [Read More…]

AES club prepares for Friday’s barn dance

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Agricultural and Environmental Science club officers look forward to hosting the Barn Dance after its success last fall. ACU students will, once again, have an opportunity to put their cowboy boots on and enjoy some two-stepping while supporting the AES club. "The barn dance is a fun social opportunity with a little country flare," said Kevin ... [Read More…]

Virtuous Sisterhood annual event speaks to women at ACU

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Virtuous Sisterhood hosted their annual Beautiful. Professional. You. event this past Saturday to promote women in the workforce. Virtuous Sisterhood holds this event every year to allow young women to network and learn from other women in the ACU community. "It is a way for women at ACU to hear speakers give advice on different professional ... [Read More…]

ACU alumnus opens children’s home in Rwanda

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Serge Gasore, a recent ACU graduate and survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has started a children's home in Rwanda. Gasore graduated in 2013 with a masters in global information and leadership and is working to earn his second masters in global service. Gasore and his wife, Esperance Gasore, have started a home for children who are ... [Read More…]

Shinnery Review hosts writing workshop

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The Shinnery Review, a student run publication, hosted a writing and photography workshop on Saturday. The Shinnery Review is a literary and arts magazine that publishes every spring. Students submit their work to the magazine and the editors choose which pieces will make it to publication. Erik Ringle, senior English major from Springdale, ... [Read More…]

Fraters ‘N Hollers

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Waking for sunrise activities, wearing uniforms and complying with orders, pledging an ACU social club has often been likened to the experience of boot camp. However, unlike his fellow pledges, Joshua Hollers can empathize with the parallel. At 36 years old, the junior business management major traded a life in Marine blue for that of Frater ... [Read More…]

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