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SA develops senior candlelight devo

March 20, 2014 by JC Peeples

The Students' Association passed a bill that will allocate funds to host a candlelight ceremony to graduating seniors. The bill will allocate $1,300 from the Congressional Project fund to host this event. $700 will go to buy the candles and $600 will go to purchase plastic to cover the steps near the Tower of Light. The date of the event has ... [Read More…]

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SA begins officer elections for next year

March 18, 2014 by Grace Coan

The Students' Association is preparing for this year's elections and are encouraging students to run for officer positions. "My greatest hope is that in this upcoming election a lot of people run because competition brings excellence," Benac said. Dylan Benac, senior political science major from Boerne and SA president, has served as vice ... [Read More…]

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Campus wide voting moved to online site

March 6, 2014 by Denzil Lim

Students' Association and the Association for Computing Machinery collaborated to change the voting system on campus from ballots to an online site. Rather than heading to the Campus Center in person, students will soon be able to vote during elections through the internet. The ACU voting website is still in beta testing but will be implemented ... [Read More…]

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Online voting available for SA elections

March 4, 2014 by JC Peeples

Students' Association passed a new bill that will fund an online voting initiative. SA president Dylan Benac, senior political science major from Boerne, said online voting has been brought before Congress before but never proved successful. In 2004 Congress voted against an online voting site. A few years ago SA tried a voting app that did ... [Read More…]

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SA to host annual dodgeball tournament

February 25, 2014 by Catherine Blakemore

The ACU Students' Association is putting on the annual school-wide dodge ball tournament this Friday and Saturday in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The event has been organized in the past by the current executive officers. This year, the executive officers chose to put the freshman class officers in charge of the planning with ... [Read More…]

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Congress solidifies spring budget

February 12, 2014 by JC Peeples

The Students' Association passed a budget of about $46,500 on Feb. 5. SA treasurer JP Ralston and financial officer Victoria Garza worked to create a new format to propose the budget in front of Congress. "Victoria and I worked 50 hours on this new budget," Ralston said. SA based the new budget off of how much organizations spent last ... [Read More…]

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SA renovates office with allocated funds

December 5, 2013 by JC Peeples

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…]

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ACU represented at Dallas marathon

December 4, 2013 by Shera Niemirowski

ACU's Students' Association and ACU alumni are gearing up for the Dallas Marathon taking place on Dec. 8th. SA has been working hard to prepare for this year's marathon, recruiting runners and creating a shirt for participants to wear at the race. J.P. Ralston, SA treasurer and senior finance accounting major from Plano, regularly runs in the ... [Read More…]

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Lighting up the night purple and white

November 19, 2013 by Marci Hoxworth

The ACU tower is one of the most visible structures of Abilene, seen all over campus and even from Abilene's highway. When lit purple, it blares Wildcat pride. The Students' Association is working closely with administration and the maintenance crew to create policies so that the purple glow will have a prideful purpose in Wildcat country. SA ... [Read More…]

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SA passes four new bills, allocates funds

November 14, 2013 by Brittany Jackson

Four bills to allocate funds towards events on campus were passed at Wednesday's Students' Association meeting. The first of which was "Thanksgivmas," presented to Congress by Beau Carter, sophomore political science major from Farmers Branch. He requested that SA allocate no more than $300 to provide Sharon's Barbeque and other refreshments ... [Read More…]

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