The third annual Buffalo Gap Historic Village Zombie Run has been canceled and will no longer take place March 28 as scheduled. The event, originally based on the national Zombie Run called Run for Your Lives, consists of 50 volunteers dressed as zombies. Hundreds of runners each wear a belt with orange flags while running from the zombies ... [Read More…]
Issues SCOTUS and ACU share
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state of Michigan's decision in a 6-2 ruling to end affirmative action at its public universities on Tuesday. This is not the first or final decision around the issue of a race-based admission process, nor any racial controversies in higher education for that matter. Obviously ACU is neither a public university ... [Read More…]
Miss America Pageant crowning diversity
The Miss America Pageant is a long-standing American tradition. What first started as a beauty contest almost a century ago has since developed into a scholarship pageant. As the pageant has progressed, there have been many controversial "first" winners. On Sept. 15, Nina Davuluri made history as the first Indian-American to be crowned Miss ... [Read More…]
First black undergrad to speak in Chapel, forum
Dr. Billy Curl, ACU alum and member of the Board of Trustees, will return to ACU to speak in chapel Feb. 20 as part of the university's Black History Month events. 2012 marks ACU's 50th year as an integrated campus. Dr. Curl transferred into Abilene Christian College as a junior in 1962 becoming the first black student to register at the ... [Read More…]
Wise’s ideas reinforce Christian obligation
On Tuesday night, Tim Wise, a well-known anti-racist speaker and activist, spoke in one of ACU's most nontraditional forums to date. The forum, which lasted more than two hours, gave the audience a new perspective on white supremacy in society and our responsibility to change. We are glad Wise came to speak, and we think he hit topics that we can ... [Read More…]
Speaker encourages students to ‘Wise’ up to racism
Tim Wise does not hate white people, he says. He does, however, take issue with the racism that remains entrenched in America, though it often goes undetected. He also said it is this generation's responsibility, particularly those who benefit from what he labels "white privilege," to fight it. "We will clean up the mess, not because we created ... [Read More…]
Minority students combat prejudice
Although many consider higher education to be a noble pursuit, for minority students like Elroy Johnson, it is a struggle - a struggle he shares with students thousands of miles away. The Roma people, sometimes called Gypsies, are an ethnic group that faces extreme prejudice in Europe, despite their wide dispersal across the continent. Roma ... [Read More…]
Racial symbol reveals unacceptable prejudices
Racism, stupidity, bigotry, immaturity, hatred- however one chooses to describe it, last Wednesday's noose incident should not and will not be tolerated. Students' Association President Daniel Paul Watkins discovered a hangman's noose in the chair he was elected to sit in by the students of Abilene Christian University. This act of disregard and ... [Read More…]
Breaking the ACU Color Barrier: Integration of ACU sports promotes stronger teams, peaceful community
By Brandon Tripp, Sports Writer Henry Willis came to ACU in 1968 as a basketball transfer from Howard County Junior College; little did he know he was blazing the way for black athletes at ACU for more than the next 30 years. ACU was partly integrated in 1962 when Washington D. Harris enrolled as a graduate student to become the first ... [Read More…]
First African-American student recalls struggle
By Colter Hettich, Features Editor In November 1945, an Optimist staff member wrote a column, titled Colored Should Have Rights, But.., explaining how segregation has the best interests of both blacks and whites at heart. "I am not opposed to Negroes coming to ACC if ACC is equipped to care for them," the student wrote, warning that integration ... [Read More…]
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