The creation of a student activity fee has generated mixed feelings among students. The fee, which will be $25 per semester, is effective next fall. This will produce $95,000 that will go toward funding students entertainment, such as concerts, and hiring a part-time position to find said entertainment and of course all the allocations to student ... [Read More…]
Is age a factor in keeping professors relevant?
Young people complaining about old people is a first-degree cliche. So we just want to clarify: that's not the point of this editorial. The point is that universities are one of the few environments where a large group of people in their early twenties spend their days listening to and learning from people twice their age. And this age gap affects ... [Read More…]
ACU marketing inconsistent with technology in classrooms
You're sitting in class and you observe the students surrounding you"”trying their best to ignore the professors. There is the guy in front of you watching the golf tournament, the girl on your right scrolling through Pinterest and the students next to you iMessaging each other while simultaneously planning their spring break trip on their ... [Read More…]
Why we report on indictments of students
On Page 1 of this publication, one of our reporters wrote a story on the sexual assault indictment of Jacob Windsor, who was enrolled as an ACU student last semester. Though we as staff realize the sensitivity of this story and of the allegations in the indictment, we determined it was important enough information to share with the student body ... [Read More…]
Ritualistic behavior discovered in northern hemisphere
Anthropologists in the northern hemisphere recently discovered the ceremonies of a southern-located population. In their study, they found this particular tribe of people to have practiced and perfected a specific ritual more what they date as almost sixty years. According to records, the ritual engrossed more than 63 percent of the tribe, ... [Read More…]
SA makes wise choices with smaller budget
On Wednesday, the Students' Association met to pass a bill for their spring budget. It looked and sounded a lot like last fall's budget meeting, but there were a few differences worth noting. The most significant probably being the size of the budget as a whole. When the SA budget goes down, it usually means enrollment is down. But whatever the ... [Read More…]
Here’s to developments bringing more burritos
Community leaders in Abilene met with officials in the ACU Endowment Office last week to discuss the possibility of developing the northeast side of Abilene. ACU owns a lot of the land sitting over there. About 600 acres of land actually. While it is just waiting there patiently to be developed, building a bunch of suburbs seems peculiar for a ... [Read More…]
Student speech is restricted at SA budget meeting
The Student's Association cabinet is not allowing student groups to debate at the SA budget meeting this semester. The Student Congress' official Rules of Order does not address students who attend open SA meetings but who are not members of SA. It does not say that they can take the floor, nor that they cannot take the floor. Yet come next ... [Read More…]
A call to students
In the past several months, we've spent hours scanning Yik Yak for positive, comical Yaks to feature on the editorial page. Us editors have seen good, pure comedy, as well as comments we could only hope came from somewhere outside the ACU community. This past week, during Chapel's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., was ... [Read More…]
Out-of-state students would benefit from shuttle
Finals week brings a list of challenges - tests, projects, cleaning and checking out of dorms, packing, etc. But some students have the added challenge of trying to find a way home at the end of the week. The majority of ACU students are from a nearby or relatively close town in Texas, making it easy for them to drive home for winter or summer ... [Read More…]