Zeta Rho has nine new members as of Wednes- day night. The girls’ club brought their pledges into their sisterhood af- ter two and a half weeks of pledging. New and old members celebrated the growth of their sisterhood through reminiscing about pledg- ing. “After we got in we took a ton of pictures, ate cup- cakes and laughed with one another about our fa- vorite pledging moments,” said Jordan Dockery, soph- omore nursing major from San Antonio. LJ Hood, junior youth and family and psychol- ogy major from Franklin, Tenn. and pledge mom for Zeta Rho, said “I’m excited to see how they will bless their sisters and commu- nity with their unique and awesome talents when those combine with the talents of our members.” Dockery is looking for- ward to the mentoring that the other women in Zeta Rho can provide. “I’m excited to have someone pour into me and then I get to pour into people who come into Zeta Rho later,” Dockery said. Spring and fall pledging have allowed Zeta Rho to add to their number year round. “We feel like we are ca- pable of having the same impact and intentional- ity in the spring as in the fall, and we’re thankful for that,” Hood said. Two men’s clubs, Pi Kappa and Frater Sodalis, also participated in spring pledging. Nine Pi Kappa pledges are still waiting to get into the club and anticipate that to be soon. The Frats only had one spring pledge, Josh Walters, who got into club after about a week and a half of pledging. The Student Alumni Asso- ciation is welcoming bands to audition for this year’s second annual SpringFest. Similar to JamFest in the fall, SpringFest is an event that occurs the weekend following Spring Break. SAA is looking for 6-12 bands to play for varying amounts of time. Last year, SpringFest featured seven bands, all of which included at least one ACU student. Zack Mor- gan, SAA president, said he would love to give groups the opportunity to play for the student body. “We are reaching out to all of the acts from last year, in addition to the acts that auditioned to play at Jamfest, and the groups that played together dur- ing Freshman Follies,” said Morgan, senior biology ma- jor from Keller. “Addition- ally, we are looking for ways to get groups or individuals that we do not know of to audition.” Auditions will begin Feb. 28 in Gym D of the Rec Cen- ter at 5 p.m. Interested per- formers can contact Morgan at [email protected]. “I’ll help them arrange a time in our interview sched- ule, and we will hear them Lindsey Lee Smith’s favorite pastime was country west- ern dancing. To honor her love for two-stepping in her trademark red cowgirl boots, students have organized a benefit dance concert on Saturday in her honor. The Lindsey Lee Red Boot Roundup, from 8-10:30 p.m. in Bennett Gym, will al- low students to participate in Smith’s passion of dance while raising money for the Lindsey Smith Scholarship Fund. Smith, 20, was killed in a head-on accident on TX- 36 on Jan. 25. She and five friends were headed to the Grand Ole Oplin dance hall for a night of two-stepping. “If Lindsey could dream up an event, this is what she would do,” said Anna Fuller- ton, junior psychology ma- jor from Garland and one of the event coordinators. “She would love this dance, and Abilene Christian University Arts Page 5 vol. 101, no. 39 friday, february 22, 2013 1 SECTION, 8 PAGES theoxfordcommablog. wordpress.com Marissa Jones, our Oxford correspondent, details her latest experiences abroad INSIDE acuoptimist.com Sing Song hosts, hostesses highlight fun of performing together Page 8 Page 8 Women’s basketball reaches 20 wins on the year COBA dean on post- doctoral fellowship away from campus Page 4 acuoptimist.com Instructor conducts smoking survey for dissertation Page 3 ONLINE flickr.com/acuoptimist Check our Flickr for more shots from Sing Song Roundup to honor Smith’s passion events contact greene at [email protected]Page 6 Church of Christ- affiliated university creates LGBT scholarship Page 4 In the age of raunchy comedies, movies with substance prevail josh garcia managing editor Dancing into the Sunset Omega’s co-founder looks forward to group’s future after her graduation Students, production team preparing for FilmFest competiton jocelyn nederhoff student reporter Athletics reaches deal with Adidas to sponsor all teams OPINION NEWS VIDEO PHOTOS OXFORD NEWS NEWS SPORTS SPORTS NEWS see roundup page 4 acuoptimist.com SA continues conference request funding NEWS SAA to conduct auditions for SpringFest events see concert page 4 zack morgan senior biology major from Keller We are reaching out to all of the acts from last year.” “ “The man with a plan.” That’s how classmates refer to senior family studies major from Plano, Nick Ta- tum. With the senior class’ win last Saturday, he is now “The man with four Sing Song golds.” However, before ACU, Nick Ta- tum never attended, much less heard of Sing Song. Tatum began his freshman year as a music major, but quickly changed to family studies. When the opportunity to interview for class director came around, Tatum found Sing Song could be a way he could still be involved with music. “I did some research and re- alized that this was something I would enjoy doing,” he said. “I got some friends together to interview with the Sing Song co-chairs, and the rest is history.” In February 2010, the freshman class donned redcoats as the Brit- ish Royal Guard, seen as the under- dogs then. Even then, the Sing Song novices were confident in their act. Tatum said many of his fellow freshman participants would say practices were intense. “Being new to the Sing Song scene,” he said, “I wanted to make sure that our act was perfect in or- der to do well in the competition.” And then the class of 2013 won. Their victory was the first time a freshman class had won overall since 2006. But the winning did not end. The next year, the class won Senior reflects on 4 Sing Song wins as director gabi powell features editor The man with 4 golds see tatum page 4 katie greene page 2 editor ZP pledges get in, Pi Kappa still waiting social clubs sing song mandy lambright chief Photographer Nick Tatum and the senior class celebrate their fourth straight Sing Song win. adrian patenaude staff Photographer ACU students crowd around a table at the Study Abroad fair to write notes to their friends studying abroad in Oxford, Montevideo and Germany. lj hood zeta rho pledge mom I’m excited to see how they will bless their sisters and community.” “
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Zeta Rho has nine new members as of Wednes-day night. The girls’ club brought their pledges into their sisterhood af-ter two and a half weeks of pledging.
New and old members celebrated the growth of their sisterhood through reminiscing about pledg-ing.
“After we got in we took a ton of pictures, ate cup-cakes and laughed with one another about our fa-vorite pledging moments,” said Jordan Dockery, soph-omore nursing major from San Antonio.
LJ Hood, junior youth and family and psychol-ogy major from Franklin, Tenn. and pledge mom for Zeta Rho, said “I’m excited to see how they will bless their sisters and commu-nity with their unique and
awesome talents when those combine with the talents of our members.”
Dockery is looking for-ward to the mentoring that the other women in Zeta Rho can provide.
“I’m excited to have someone pour into me and then I get to pour into people who come into Zeta Rho later,” Dockery said.
Spring and fall pledging have allowed Zeta Rho to add to their number year round.
“We feel like we are ca-pable of having the same impact and intentional-ity in the spring as in the fall, and we’re thankful for that,” Hood said.
Two men’s clubs, Pi
Kappa and Frater Sodalis, also participated in spring pledging.
Nine Pi Kappa pledges are still waiting to get into the club and anticipate that to be soon. The Frats only had one spring pledge, Josh Walters, who got into club after about a week and a half of pledging.
The Student Alumni Asso-ciation is welcoming bands to audition for this year’s second annual SpringFest.
Similar to JamFest in the fall, SpringFest is an event that occurs the weekend
following Spring Break. SAA is looking for 6-12 bands to
play for varying amounts of time.
Last year, SpringFest featured seven bands, all of which included at least one ACU student. Zack Mor-gan, SAA president, said he would love to give groups the opportunity to play for the student body.
“We are reaching out
to all of the acts from last year, in addition to the acts that auditioned to play at Jamfest, and the groups that played together dur-ing Freshman Follies,” said Morgan, senior biology ma-jor from Keller. “Addition-ally, we are looking for ways to get groups or individuals that we do not know of to
audition.”Auditions will begin Feb.
28 in Gym D of the Rec Cen-ter at 5 p.m. Interested per-formers can contact Morgan at [email protected].
“I’ll help them arrange a time in our interview sched-ule, and we will hear them
Lindsey Lee Smith’s favorite pastime was country west-ern dancing. To honor her love for two-stepping in her trademark red cowgirl boots, students have organized a benefit dance concert on Saturday in her honor.
The Lindsey Lee Red Boot Roundup, from 8-10:30 p.m. in Bennett Gym, will al-low students to participate in Smith’s passion of dance while raising money for the Lindsey Smith Scholarship Fund.
Smith, 20, was killed in a head-on accident on TX-36 on Jan. 25. She and five friends were headed to the Grand Ole Oplin dance hall for a night of two-stepping.
“If Lindsey could dream up an event, this is what she would do,” said Anna Fuller-ton, junior psychology ma-jor from Garland and one of the event coordinators. “She would love this dance, and
Church of Christ-affiliated university creates LGBT scholarship
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In the age of raunchy comedies, movies with substance prevail
josh garciamanaging editor
Dancing into the SunsetOmega’s co-founder looksforward to group’s future after her graduation
Students, production team preparing for FilmFest competiton
jocelyn nederhoffstudent reporter
Athletics reaches deal with Adidas to sponsor all teams
OPINION
NEWS
VIDEO
PHOTOS
OXFORD
NEWS
NEWS
SPORTS
SPORTS
NEWS
see roundup page 4
acuoptimist.com
SA continues conference request funding
NEWS
SAA to conduct auditions for SpringFestevents
see concert page 4
zack morgansenior biology major
from Keller
We are reaching out to all of the acts from last
year.”“
“The man with a plan.” That’s how classmates refer to senior family studies major from Plano, Nick Ta-tum. With the senior class’ win last Saturday, he is now “The man with four Sing Song golds.”
However, before ACU, Nick Ta-tum never attended, much less heard of Sing Song.
Tatum began his freshman year as a music major, but quickly changed to family studies. When the opportunity to interview for class director came around, Tatum found Sing Song could be a way he could still be involved with music.
“I did some research and re-alized that this was something I would enjoy doing,” he said. “I got some friends together to interview with the Sing Song co-chairs, and the rest is history.”
In February 2010, the freshman class donned redcoats as the Brit-ish Royal Guard, seen as the under-dogs then. Even then, the Sing Song novices were confident in their act. Tatum said many of his fellow freshman participants would say practices were intense.
“Being new to the Sing Song scene,” he said, “I wanted to make sure that our act was perfect in or-der to do well in the competition.”
And then the class of 2013 won. Their victory was the first time a freshman class had won overall since 2006.
But the winning did not end.The next year, the class won
Senior reflects on 4 Sing Song
wins as directorgabi powell
features editor
The man with 4 golds
see tatum page 4
katie greenepage 2 editor
ZP pledges get in, Pi Kappa still waitingsocial clubs
sing song
mandy lambright chief Photographer
Nick Tatum and the senior class celebrate their fourth straight Sing Song win.
adrian patenaude staff Photographer
ACU students crowd around a table at the Study Abroad fair to write notes to their friends studying abroad in Oxford, Montevideo and Germany.
lj hoodzeta rho pledge mom
I’m excited to see how they will bless their
sisters and community.”“
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All Day - Northern Trust Interviewing in Career Center
All Day - TRK - Lone Star Conference Championships
ACU Theatre presents its winter musical comedy, [title of show] in Fulks Theatre Feb. 22-23. For tickets, call 325-674-2787.
Spots are still available on Spring Break Campaigns go-ing to various locations. For more information contact Liz Lurz at [email protected], Wil-son White at [email protected] or stop by the SBC office in Bible 322.
In the Red Fashion Show is having a casting call Feb. 26 from 4-7 p.m. in the Campus Center Living Room.
Abstract submission for the Undergraduate Research Festival is now open. The 5th annual ACU Undergradu-ate Research Festival will be Apr. 4-5. To submit your ab-stract or get abstract writ-ing tips and information on the review of abstracts go to the Research Festival Blog at blogs.acu.edu/researchfest.
The Office of Multicultural En-richment and Black Students Association presents “Ruth” the 14th annual Black History Production on March 1-2 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 in ad-vance in the Campus Center or $7 at the door.
ACU Department of Music host the Brock McGuire Band, the finest in traditional Irish music on Feb. 28 at 7:30pm in the WPAC Recital Hall. There will be a short lecture at 7:00 p.m.
John Micah is teaching Prac-tical Applications of Karate Techniques Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. The first two sessions are free.
Scope is screening and host-ing a critical discussion of “Sound of My Voice” Feb. 22 at 9 p.m. in the Honors College Student Lounge.
The ACU Feral Cat Initiative will have an information booth in the Campus Center Feb. 22.
Student Social Work Asso-ciation is hosting the Second Chance Dance in Bennett Gym March 1 from 7-10 p.m. Admission is one hygiene product to donate to the do-mestic violence shelter.
Freshman Devo is Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Chapel on the Hill. Zane Wither is speaking.
2/14/2013 2:45 a.m.An area resident called reporting a suspi-cious male knocking on her door previ-ously at 2:00 a.m. Photo ID indicated the male was the same as mentioned in the previous entry. Resident was advised to call immediately, without delay, so police can respond and deal with the individual.
2/16/2013 2:03 a.m.A tenant requested ACUPD to investigate a loud noise party at The Grove, bldg. 5. The non-ACU tenants were advised to keep the noise down and they complied.
2/16/2013 2:34 a.m. ACUPD was requested to check for a prowler at a residence where the tenant’s dog was barking. ACUPD checked the area and found everything in order.
2/17/2013 1:13 a.m. ACUPD was requested to investigate a loud party in the 700 block of EN 14. A large post-Sing Song party was underway. The party was disbanded.
2/17/2013 4:31 a.m. A UP tenant reported a loud disturbance, possible assault in a nearby apartment. ACUPD investigated and found no assault but disbanded the gathering.
Police Tip of the Week: Avoid financial scams – Be suspicious if someone offers to pay you a fee for depositing someone else’s check into your account, then wiring them the money to a dif-ferent account.
Volunteer Opp0rtunities
Chapel checkup
The Center for International Education is looking for conversation partners for international students to practice English, conversations and cultural learning. Partners meet for one hour each week at a time and place determined by the partners. For more informa-tion contact Laura McGregor at 325-674-2821 or [email protected].
St. John’s Episcopal School is seeking volunteers to paint metal playground equipment anytime Monday-Friday after 3 p.m. and Saturday anytime. For more in-formation contact Rebecca McMillon at 325-695-8870 or [email protected].
Center for Contemporary Arts needs a gallery assistant to greet patrons, answer phones and answer basic questions about the Center and its programs. This opportunity is open Tuesday-Friday. The Center for Contemporary Arts is located at 220 Cypress Street. For more information contact Jessica Dulle at 325-677-8389 or visit: http://www.center-arts.com/.
Rescue the Animals is seeking volunteers to take pic-tures and videos in preparation for the launching of their new website as well as maintenance of the site after the launch. This opportunity is open Monday, Tuesday, Thurs-day and Friday from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. For more information contact Kathy Walker at 325-677-7722 or [email protected].
The National Center For Children’s Illustrated Literature is looking for volunteers to greet patrons, assist with art activities, sell books and make visitors feel welcome. Help is also needed for special events like Artwalk and exhibit openings. The NCCIL is located at 102 Cedar St. For more information on times and dates contact Debby Lillick at 325-673-4586 or visit: http://www.nccil.org/index.htm.
The Christian Ministries of Abilene: Food Pantry is searching for volunteers to greet and interview neighbors, do computer entries, shop with neighbors, take grocer-ies to vehicles, bag, stock and pick up orders on Mondays and Fridays from 9:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. and on Wednesdays from 9:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. The Food Pantry is located at 701 Walnut St. For more information contact Becky Almanza at 325-673-1234 or [email protected].
The Christian Service Center is seeking volunteers to help assist with filling requests for items such as clothing, bedding, kitchen utensils, etc. from the donation center, sort and organize donations and occasionally pick-up donated items. Volunteers are needed every weekday and the first Saturday of each month between 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. For more information contact Roberta Brown at 325-673-7561 or at [email protected]. For more information on the program visit: http://www.uccabilene.org/ministries/csc.htm.
The Food Bank of West Central Texas needs volunteers to help sort and stock food and other items any week-day Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. The Food Bank is located at 5505 N. 1st St. For more information contact Janice Serrault at 325-695-6311 or [email protected].
Meals on Wheels Plus needs volunteer drivers to deliver afternoon meals to seniors and adults with disabilities Monday-Friday between 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Drivers must be at least 18 years old and have a valid driver’s license. Training is provided. For more information contact Sa-mantha Barker at 352-672-5050 or visit: http://mealson-wheelsplus.com.
The Salvation Army is looking for volunteers for a variety of needs including sorting and pricing items in the thrift store, helping in the kitchen and/or doing yard work. Times are flexible. Volunteers are needed throughout the week Monday-Saturday. The Salvation Army is located at 1726 Butternut St. For more information contact J.D. Alonzo at 325-677-1408 or visit: www.satruck.com.
The House That Kerry Built is looking for volunteers to assist in the day care of medically fragile children any day Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. or 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Contact Keith Loftin at 325-672-6061.
The International Rescue Committee is seeking volun-teers to work with refugees who recently moved to the U.S., teaching English, helping with homework and men-toring. Contact Susanna Lubango to make an appoint-ment at 325-675-5643.
The Covenant Place of Abilene is seeking volunteers to lead singing and/or play piano for residents. For more information contact Ann Erwin at 325-793-1144.
University Place is seeking volunteers to help with the resident birthday party for residents the third Wednesday of each month at 2:30 p.m. For more information con-tact Linda Tijerina at 325-676-9946.
Breakfast on Beech Street is seeking volunteers to help set up, prepare and serve breakfast to homeless/lower in-come folks any Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 5:30 a.m. or Tuesday at 5 a.m. B.O.B.S is located at First Christian Church on 3rd St. and Beech St. Service times must be scheduled in advance. To serve on Mondays contact Jody Depriest at 325-669-3312 or [email protected]. To serve on Tuesdays contact Allen Daugh-erty at 325-660-6949 or [email protected]. To serve on Wednesdays contact Jane Harvey at 325-695-0092 or [email protected]. To serve on Thursdays contact Margaret Beasley at 325-692-4149 or [email protected]. To serve on Fridays contact Rachel Brown at [email protected].
Christian Homes & Family Services is seeking volunteers to do minor landscaping such as raking, trimming bushes, minor apartment repairs and general upkeep Monday-Saturday from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information contact Shaylee Honey at 325-677-2205 or [email protected].
The Abilene Public Zoo is seeking volunteers to help clean/feed animals, assist zookeepers and assist with educational classes any weekday any time between 12 p.m.-4 p.m. They are also seeking volunteers to help with general labor such as grounds cleanup and painting any weekday at any time between noon and 4 p.m. For more information contact Joy Harsh at 325-676-6487.
The CAC Department is seeking volunteers to partici-pate in Special Olympics, by helping mentally/physically challenged people play games and sports Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. For more infomation contact Angel Seca at 325-690-5235.
For additional volunteer opportunities visit: www.acu.edu/campusoffices/ccsl/ministry-service/volunteer-opportunities/
Weekly Stats for week of feb. 12-FEB. 19
Accident Administrative activity AlarmAnimal call AssistAttempt to locateBarricades Building lock/unlock Check building Disabled vehicleDisturbanceEscort Fingerprinting serviceFoot patrol Found propertyHit and runInformation report Intoxicated personInvestigation follow upMaintenance: University assets
Monitor facility/lotMotorist assist: Jumpstart Other UnlockNoise violationOtherParking lot patrolParking violation Patrol vehicle: Maintenance Refuel ProwlerPublic serviceRandom patrol Report writing Special assignment Suspicious activitySuspicious personTheft (non vehicle) Traffic stop
Total Events: 291
Interior design majors will redesign and renovate a local Abilene residence using their talents, skills and support from local businesses.
Students have named this service venture “Project Merge,” in hopes of strength-ening the bond between ACU and the Abilene community. The project is a yearlong ef-fort but the actual renovation will take place in April.
Project Merge began last year. This year students will continue the initiative with Morgan Hudson, senior in-terior design major from Abilene, as the team leader.
“This year we want to make it a hub or center for the whole community to fellow-ship,” Hudson said. “We get to use what we’ve learned in the classroom to give some-thing back, but this way [the
residents] will be paying it forward giving something to the community.”
Brandon Young, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design, is the fac-ulty advisor for Project Merge. He said the project is still in its infancy stage, being only its second year.
“Part of the challenge is figuring out our initiative with the community at large,” Young said.
Project Merge is com-pletely driven by donations. This year the leadership team, which consists of three senior and three junior inte-rior design majors, is hoping to raise around $15,000. They will renovate everything from plumbing and electric to paint and furniture.
The leadership team has been searching for the right family since the beginning of this semester. The selection process involves meeting sev-eral families in their homes
first, then narrowing it down to one family.
They are hoping for around 150 volunteers to help between Friday and Saturday the weekend of the renovation.
“We want the entire stu-dent body or whoever can help involved,” Hudson said.
The renovation process will start by taking everything out of the house and clean-ing it top to bottom. Then they begin with plumbing and electricity, finishing with paint and other cosmetic needs. The students head up all of the work.
“Project Merge is most successful as a student-led initiative,” Young said.
Anyone interested in vol-unteering or donating furni-ture, contact Morgan Hudson at [email protected].
Rebecca Dial and the Stu-dents’ Association are pro-viding students with the opportunity to improve the university through the Greatest Idea Challenge.
The Greatest Idea Chal-lenge is a competition that encourages students to present a plan for address-ing an issue on campus. The winner will ultimately present his or her idea to the administration for implementation next year. SA officially announced the challenge on Monday through social media and email.
Rebecca Dial, SA ex-
ecutive president, said last year’s SA president, Conner Best, helped inspire her to come up with the idea.
“I am very aware that SA does not represent all of the students on cam-pus and we don’t have a monopoly on good ideas,” said Dial, senior political science major from Lexing-ton, S.C. “I just wanted to create a way for students to get more involved.”
“There’s such a discon-nect between students and administrators of the high-er level, and so really bring-ing those two together for students to talk directly to administrators and admin-istrators to hear directly from students what they think should be done to
improve the school.”The challenge will in-
clude three levels of com-petition. The first round entails completing a short video detailing the issue
being addressed, including a proposed solution.
“Those will be judged by a committee of some ACU staff members,” Dial said. “We also have four
students who sit on the Student Life Committee as student representatives, they will be judges, and I will be a judge as well.”
The semifinalists will be announced the Monday af-ter Spring Break and invit-ed to a workshop on March 23 to help them further de-velop their ideas. They will then present their ideas to the strategic review team, who will be in three person panels and comprised of upper level administrators.
“It will be a more in-volved presentation to them than just the video,” Dial said.
The finalists will pres-ent to the senior leadership team, which includes Dr. Phil Schubert, ACU presi-
dent, and his senior level advisers.
“The finalists will be judged and the winner will be announced April 19,” Dial said. “It’s a really great way to talk to administra-tors who are really high up and can get things done.”
The winner will receive a $2,000 prize and will meet with administration to have his idea imple-mented. Runner-ups will receive $1,500 and $1,000 respectively.
“Even if your idea isn’t selected as one of the top three winners, senior level administrators have heard it,” Dial said. “There’s a possibility they can work on it in other ways with you even if you don’t win in this
competition.”Joseph Austin, SA ex-
ecutive treasurer, said he is excited about the challenge and will be participating himself.
“If you don’t get it this year, there’s always next year,” said Austin, senior accounting and pre-law major from Houston. “Greatest Idea Challenge doesn’t just expose stu-dents with great ideas, it exposes administrators.”
Submissions must be sent to [email protected] by March 8. Visit acustudents.com for full details and rules of entry.
Benjamin Starkey, Theatre Major from Garland, Texas, and Darby Rich, Elementary Education Major from Rockwall, Texas, check out the World Wide Witness booth inside the Bean.
Students are working dili-gently on finishing films for ACU’s FilmFest 2013, many taking advantage of the lengthened production pro-cess in this year’s competi-tion.
Students had a chance to begin working on films in the fall and turn in a rough draft of their movie before Christ-mas break for critiquing. The films were returned back to them after Sing Song with suggestions from reviewers so they could fine-tune their work before turning in final products on March 19.
“We’re going to have a lot more time editing,” said Cannon Spears, junior voca-tional missions major from Blue Ridge and co-chair of FilmFest. “Last year for Film-Fest you had about a week for editing. This year we are doing about three weeks for
editing.”Participants are learning
more about the movie mak-ing process through classes and workshops presented by FilmFest. The co-chairs are hoping more time spent on production results in more imaginative finished prod-ucts.
“When you have longer to do it, you have more time for creativity, more time to stretch your imagination, find better avenues to do cer-tain things,” said Stephen Es-trada, sophomore business management major from San Antonio and co-chair of FilmFest. “When you’re on a time crunch of five weeks, like before, you have to be a little more compacted.”
Students will have the chance to mingle with some of the industry’s best. Judge Randy Brewer, an ACU alum-nus, is the owner of Revolu-tion Pictures located in both Nashville and Los Angeles. Chris Young, another judge,
is a screenwriter and profes-sor at UCLA. Matt Maxwell, the founder of FilmFest will also be a judge.
Tom Craig, director of Student Activities, said par-ticipating in FilmFest is great way for people interested in visual arts to network.
“It opens you up to peo-ple in the industry which is a rare opportunity for people at the undergraduate level. You have the opportunity to sit down and talk with them not just about your film or work, but about opportu-nities in the industry,” said Craig. “It’s a great spring-board not just for informa-tion, but for contacts.”
The six movies that re-ceive the most awards will be shown at a red carpet gala event at the Paramount The-ater on March 22.
play,” Morgan said. “We are looking for as many groups to audition as are interest-ed.”
SpringFest is being fund-ed by SAA and the Students’ Association. Jamilah Spears, SA executive administrator, said SpringFest was success-ful last year.
“We’re hoping to bring back the same community and fun,” said Spears, se-nior communications major from Covina, Calif.
Spears said SpringFest
will feature a petting zoo and a mechanical bull.
“We’re going to bring back Cajun Cones,” Spears said. “We are planning to partner with a lot of student groups to do games and ac-tivities outside as well.”
SpringFest will begin at 4 p.m. on March 23 and will take place on the lawn near Faubus Fountain Lake. The concert will start at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
Dr. Richard Lytle, dean of the College of Business Administration, has been on post-doctoral fellow-ship with the organization CEO Forum since October 2012. Lytle has spent the time away from the ACU campus working on two large projects.
Both of these projects are focused on leadership in college-aged students.
“Leadership has been a passion of mine for 20 years and I hope these projects will be helpful and fruitful to the next generation,” Lytle said.
Lytle’s first project is with Wake Forest Univer-sity in conjunction with Duke University. This group is building a curric-ulum dealing with leader-ship based on faith and values. The project will begin beta testing the first week of June and launch in the fall of 2013.
Lytle’s second project involves research about next generation lead-ership through senior Christian CEOs passing on their knowledge to a younger generation. Lytle will do personal in-depth interviews with 50 Chris-tian CEOs before the end of the project. Jennifer Golden, director of COBA Connections, is parallel-ing Lytle’s work by hosting
focus groups with millen-nial students about what frustrates or worries them about for their future in the workforce.
“We want to capture the wisdom of senior Christian CEOs and pass that on to the next genera-tion,” Lytle said.
One of the planned outcomes of this project is an alumni program allow-ing alums in the mid-pro-fessional area of their life to be mentored by CEOs. These emerging leaders will benefit from the ex-perience and knowledge of senior CEOs.
Dr. Monty Lynn, associ-ate dean of the College of Business Administration, has picked up some of Ly-tle’s responsibilities in his absence. The college has missed Lytle’s presence, but has not struggled in his absence.
“We have a strong fac-ulty and staff team who lead and serve exception-ally well,” Lynn said.
Lynn hopes to learn from Lytle’s experiences during his post-doctoral fellowship.
“We anticipate learning from Rick’s experiences and reflection with Chris-tian leaders in the market-place. His work is at the heart of what we aim to do at ACU,” Lynn said.
A university affiliated with the Churches of Christ has introduced a scholarship for which the recipient needs to demonstrate commitment to the betterment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community.
Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., announced last week that it will begin accepting applications for the “Frank James ‘Buddy’ Vinci and George B. Ells-worth Scholarship,” a new need-based scholarship awarded to candidates who emphasize service, volun-teerism or extra curricu-lar activities dedicated to improving the mental and physical health of the LGBT community.
The donors, Vinci and Ellsworth, wanted to sup-port Pepperdine students who have actively demon-
strated sensitivity to pres-sures LGBT people face, said Jerry Derloshon, Pep-perdine’s senior director of Public Affairs.
“The scholarship is con-sistent with Pepperdine’s longstanding commitment to provide a welcoming and safe environment for stu-dents regarding sexual ori-entation,” Derloshon said. “Whatever their orientation, no matter their religious views or traditions, or ethnic backgrounds, Pepperdine ahs been committed to val-ues of kindness, compassion and respect for all. As an in-stitution of higher learning, Pepperdine respects the right of individual members of our community to hold different viewpoints and af-firms that those with differ-ing views should be treated with dignity and respect.”
Derloshson said the uni-versity is still holding to its Christian values, affiliation to the Church of Christ and
stance on sexual relation-ships in its Student Hand-book.
“Pepperdine affirms that sexual relationships are designed by God to be ex-pressed solely within a mar-riage between husband and wife,” he said. “As an institu-tion, Pepperdine’s policies respect and promote this viewpoint. The Vinci and Elleworthe Scholarship sig-nals only a continuation of the commitment to foster-ing a healthy environment for all of our students.”
Ed Kerestly, ACU’s di-rector of Student Financial Services, said ACU does not have a similar scholarship and he is “not aware of any-thing in the works to do so.”
Sexual immorality, in-cluding pre-marital het-erosexual and homosexual activity, is a Category Two violation of the ACU Student Handbook.
As recently as December of 2011, Pepperdine refused
to recognize a gay-straight alliance group, “Reach OUT,” as an official student orga-nization, according to the Pepperdine Graphic, the university’s newspaper. Mark Davis, Pepperdine’s dean of students, said the GSA would conflict with the school’s re-ligious stance on sexual mo-rality and did not “believe it is possible for a LGBT stu-dent organization to main-tain a neutral position.”
It was the fourth time the university rejected an appli-cation from a GSA.
However, in the univer-sity’s School of Public Pol-icy’s career services page, students can search through links to career opportuni-ties, including nonprofits like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network.
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again. And then won again twice more.
Under Tatum’s direction, the class raked in a trophy count of four consecutive Sing Song victories, dressed as Brits, cupids, Pharoahs and the Oz gang.
Last Saturday, the se-nior class became only the
third class in ACU history to sweep all four years.
While every year proved a winning feat, for Tatum, the Sing Song offseason was short-lived.
“Each year, I started planning the acts in full earlier and earlier,” he said. “I would have a plan for the next year only a few weeks after the previous Sing Song
has finished.”Executing a quality act
is developed over a long period of time, Tatum said. After Sing Song details had been set, he would take a few days at the beginning of winter break to arrange the music for each of the class acts
Even with early prepara-tion, the winnings were no
walk in the park.This is the first segment
of this feature on Tatum. Grab a copy of the Optimist on Wednesday for the rest of the story.
Tatum: Senior leads class to 4-year sweepsing song
Fullerton performed in Seekers of the Word, a stu-dent religious drama group, with Smith. Seekers and other groups will perform to honor Smith. Muddy Creek, a band that regularly plays at the Grande Ole Oplin, asked to play, and ACU student Alec Beustring will DJ the event. ACU hip hop com-pany Sanctify will perform to honor Deanna Romero, freshman international studies major from Omaha,
Neb., and Rebehak Cherniss, freshman Ad/PR major from Katy, who are members of Sanctify and were injured in the accident with Smith.
A large number of ACU students and individuals close to Smith are expected to attend, including Smith’s parents Todd and Linda Smith.
“Todd and Linda are amazing and a true testa-ment to having faith in trou-bled times,” one event co-ordinator said. The student chose to remain anonymous to keep the focus on Smith.
Kyndal Coleman, junior
accounting major from San Antonio, looks forward to the event and what it stands for.
“I’m excited to see the ACU community take an activity that was so close to Lindsey’s heart and turn it into an event that will honor her life and bring joy back to our spirits,” Coleman said.
The name of the event, Red Boot Roundup, came from Smith’s favorite acces-sory- her red cowgirl boots. Students are encouraged to wear red to coordinate with the theme.
The event is free, but a $10 donation at the door is
preferred. Shirts will also be available for $5 to support the cause. If students cannot attend and wish to contrib-ute a monetary donation, they can send it to ACU Stu-dent Life at ACU Box 29004.
“Dancing was Lindsey’s favorite thing to do,” Fuller-ton said. “She was the best dancer I knew, and dancing gave her the most joy. We are excited to honor her through this unique event.”
Roundup: Lindsey Smith’s parents to attend benefit concertevents
Wishing Well will be collect-ing art submissions at the Shore Art Gallery Saturday for their first art competi-tion.
During the months of March and April the art will be on display at the Cen-ter for Contemporary Arts. There will be a reception for the artists on March 21 dur-ing the Abilene Art Walk. The competition is open to all students and will sup-port efforts for Wishing Well’s next clean water well project.
Wishing Well is a stu-dent-led social justice or-ganization committed to bringing clean water to people around the globe. The subject of the show
is, “What does water look like?”
Students are encouraged to create art that reflects their perception of water.
“For example, you could portray how you see water as an accessible resource and commodity to us or you could show the injustices you see around the world when some countries lack access to resources like wa-ter, health, and education due to the water crisis,” said Wishing Well’s student di-rector, Brady Rains, senior art education major from Fort Worth.
ACU students and mem-bers of the Abilene commu-nity are being asked to sup-port this cause by bringing one dollar to vote for their favorite piece. One dollar gives clean water to one person for a year.
“This event highlights the global need for clean water and promotes lo-cal artists. Having the ex-hibit open during Art Walk makes it even more acces-sible. We will raise funds; we will raise awareness. What’s not to love about that?” said Dr. Curt Niccum, associate professor of New Testament and Wishing Well faculty sponsor. “I’m particularly eager to see the numer-ous ways people interpret water. The juxtaposition of Rwandan and American artistic renderings will, I think, tell an amazing sto-ry.”
Submissions are to be inspired by the water crisis and all are due on Satur-day from 9 a.m. to noon in the Shore Art Gallery next to Cullen Auditorium. All forms of media are accept-
able. Two-dimensional art must be framed.
“I’m a little nervous be-cause we have never done anything like this before,” said Rains. “This is by far one of the biggest and most public events we have at-tempted so it has been challenging. However, we experience a lot of success with our events that are stu-dent focused and different from the typical fundraising scene.”
Students can look to www.wishforwater.com for inspiration. For questions they can contact director Brandy Rains at [email protected].
To Kelcie Broom the 24th and final letter of the Greek alphabet, Omega, doesn’t necessarily signify the end, but merely the continuation of worship and expression through dance. The senior art major from Richardson created the Omega Dance Co. four years ago with former Wildcat Sarah Boleslawski.
As the dance company prepares for its spring show slated for the weekend of April 13 in Cullen Auditorium, Broom shared information about the origins of Omega, the goals which the group of dancers wishes to achieve, and the direction she hopes that the company will take in the future.
“As I got to ACU my freshman year, I danced at a studio in town and soon after
was encouraged to start a dance company on campus,” Broom said.
With the help of Boleslawski, the two spearheaded the operation and coined their newfound contemporary and jazz dance group, the Omega Dance Co.
“[The name Omega] was pulled from God’s name of the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and end. We are the last part of it. It isn’t about what we are doing personally per-se, but it’s more about what Jesus is doing through us.”
As the group has grown and matured over the past four years, they have performed at the Ethnos Cultural Show, Sing Song, Shades and Sanctify shows, as well as their own spring shows.
This year the theme for Omega’s upcoming spring show in April is “Consumed.”
“There are dances for different things that we tend to get consumed in, like
perfection, fashion, or money and of course the good things that we get consumed in being grace and Jesus’ love”
Paige Berry, junior art major from Houston and a member of Omega, shared her excitement about the upcoming
spring show.“My teammates are my sisters, and it’s
really cool to do what you love, with those you love, for the people you love.”
Through fundraising efforts, by the time of their spring show, Omega hopes to purchase a Marley floor, a specially coated surface for dancers to temporarily cover the existing stage in Cullen that can be rolled out just for performances.
Broom looks forward to Omega not being the only ones to profit from this venture.
“This type of floor is something that all dance groups would benefit from – because the floor in Cullen is splintery.”
As she leaves Abilene after graduating in May with the hope of becoming a dance instructor for a high school drill team, Broom is hopeful for the company’s direction.
Kelcie Broom, senior art major from Richardson, TX shows off some of her dance moves.
Co-founder recounts Omega’s beginning
Paige BerryJunior Art major from
Houston
My teammates are my sisters, and it’s really cool to do what you love, with
those you love, for the people you love’“
SWEEPING CAMPUS OFF
ITS FEET
Last weekend at the box office, the raunchy little-substance comedy Identity Thief took in a whopping 23.6 million dollars. Much further down the profit to-tem pole, the four-Golden Globe, eight-Oscar nod-ded Silver Linings Playbook raked in a mere 6 million.
This year’s domestic box office hit a record 10.8 bil-
lion dollars and the number of tickets sold increased for the first time in three years. With that statistic in mind, where is the justice for the award-winning films? Hol-lywood history has shown a clear distinction between movies taking home the trophies and those taking home the profit.
The Herald Sun report-
ed that most best-picture candidates have struggled to surpass 100 million dol-lars at the box office. Last year, of the nine Oscar best-picture nominees, only The Help managed to pass that threshold.
In more encouraging news, however, five of the nominated flicks, Argo, Les Miserables, Lincoln, Django and Life of Pi broke that 100 million dollar ceiling this year, with Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Linings Playbook close behind.
The pendulum swing is finally giving quality mov-ies not only critic recog-nition, but deserving rev-
enues as well.Formerly, award parties
have been filled with view-ers unfamiliar with any of the nominated or winning flicks. This Oscar season, there is more gambling than guarantee on which movies will take gold.
This year’s trend of the best-picture nominations is a focus on historical hap-penings or current issues. Whether or not this has con-tributed to their box office popularity, what were once exclusive films for the cin-ematic snobs have now be-come accessible to the com-mon theatre attendee.
As the San Francisco
Chronicle said in regard to this year’s Oscar selections, “The movies have been de-
bated, criticized, mulled over and tweeted. Above all, they’ve been relevant.”
This is not an endorse-ment for strictly drama genre films, simply well made ones. If American audiences put their ticket towards these movies, Hol-lywood will listen. The qual-ity of movies offered will improve if we are putting money in the right pockets.
We will always have Pitch Perfects, and Twilighters will always be among us, but this year’s Oscars have given a hope in the cinematic future for those theatres to be more empty and less grossing.
What exactly makes a question hard? 5x^2 + 19x + 12, that’s a relatively dif-ficult question. X could be any number of answers. “Are you going on that mis-sion trip?” “Will you buy this house?” “Should we take him off the ventila-tor?” These questions only have two answers to pick from: yes or no. Why is it when faced with them we are likely to think or say, “That’s a hard question?”
Solving for X is a hard process for me. But frank-ly, I do not care an iota what X is. Whether I get the
answer right or not means little to me. I have no per-sonal investment in the answer. X = -31/5 (tweet @acuoptimist and let me know if I got it right).
X can have an infinite rage of answers. “What car do you want” may have a hundred answers. “Do you want kids” has only two. A hard question is hard because it personally im-pacts us. And in reality it is not even the question that is hard, it is the thought that goes into the answer that is tough.
I feel like people don’t
like thinking in this day and age. We would rather feel something than think it. Many times I have re-sponded to a question with, “I’ll think about it.” Then I don’t. When the person asks for an answer
I end up whipping one out based on instinct, a feel-ing.
Putting thought into something takes effort and time. It can be hard, especially with ques-tions whose answers will permanently impact our
life. A responsible person takes the time to sit down and think. But who likes responsibility? Not me. I would rather go with my gut.
In this time of busyness and short attention spans we have lost the disci-pline to stop and consider. I think it is important to plan a little and not rush about making decisions willy-nilly. Thought is maintenance for our life. It helps us determine who we are socially, spiritually, economically. However, there is a time for every-thing. A time to think. A time to go with the mo-ment. A time to be still and know.
Sing Song is fun. Always a friendly competition, stu-dents look forward to the event’s outcome because they know if they don’t win, some of their friends will, and then everyone is happy.
Ideally, that would be the case.
Instead, if you didn’t know Thomas Hobbes was talking about life, you’d think he was describing Sing Song as “nasty, brutish and short.”
Forty years ago, Opti-mist columnist John Wil-liams wrote that, “Student rehearsals have reached the point where they inter-fere with other activities.”
Earlier this month, if your Sing Song practice schedule didn’t interfere with your entire life, you weren’t practicing enough.
Sub T-16’s act wasn’t just entertaining; it was needed. It’s good to see a club en-joy its time in the spotlight and make fun of itself (and ACU) at the same time. While the men of Sub T don’t care enough to seriously compete in the 57-year-old A Capella tradition, they are necessary. The show needs that counter-balance from the other clubs who care a little too much.
“Sing Song is also a com-petition, and that’s what makes it fun,” say the Sing Song co-chairs each year, and that’s true. But when the amount of time spent pre-paring for the three judged performances becomes overwhelming, it makes winning too important.
It makes some partici-pants trash talk others and put them down, sometimes causing a division between friends and classmates. It makes some people care
more about winning, in an event that means absolutely nothing to anyone outside the ACU community, than everything else, including school. It makes club mem-bers complain that their club wasn’t in one edition of the Optimist as much as another one, which was “hurtful” to many other members.
The grad class had it right. The smallest group in the mixed category, these guys are busier than you (fresh-men, if you think you’re busy now, just wait. It gets worse) and they still put in lots of hours to perfect their per-formance. Not for the tro-phy, but for the love of Sing Song. They made art funny and entertaining, which isn’t easy to do. If they had had a bigger group, the Optimist’s Hal Hoots probably would’ve predicted them to finish in the top 3 of mixed voices.
Speaking of which, if the Optimist predicts your act to win, prove it right. If it predicts you to not finish first, prove it wrong. Com-plaining does nothing.
Sing Song shouldn’t be about beating rivals. It shouldn’t include neglect-ing schoolwork. It defi-nitely shouldn’t make life more stressful. It should be about having fun with your friends, creating enjoyable performances and memo-ries. Rivalries will continue and some groups will win and many will lose each year. My hope is that the losers and winners both re-alize Sing Song is not more important than grades.
The Oscars: Substance still takes the goldthe issue
There is a lack of depth among former Oscar recipients and cur-rent popular movies.
our take
This Sunday’s event might prove otherwise, with nominations reflecting historical happenings and current issues.
Put class before Sing Song acts
BETWEENTHE BOXES
LUCIUS PATENAUDE
WELL, THIS IS AWKWARD
MARK SMITH
Answering the tough questions
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Haven’t have English this week. And it’s been fantastic.
Maybe next time ACU should ask its graphic design faculty and stu-dents for input before spending so much on a very crappy logo.
@ACUsports we gotta fix that kerning be-tween letters A & C in the new logo. Its giving all #GraphicDesign-Students an eye twitch #justsaying
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10:49 a.m. Feb. 18To the couple making out in chapel, I can see you, and so can Jesus
“Back so soon?” Said the lady making my Sharky’s burrito as she went down the en-tire line and made my burrito from memory. #SorryNotSorry
Watching birthing videos in class today. Good thing I haven’t had lunch...
@lndsylw
8:28 a.m. Feb. 19
I feel like people don’t
like thinking in this day
and age. “
The pendulum swing
is finally giving quality
movies not only critic
recognition, but deserv-
ing revenus as well.”
“
12:01 p.m. Feb. 19Brought my lunch to class and just remem-bered we are watching birthing videos today. Awesome. #chickfila #childdevelopment
While practicing my speech, I accidentally said that Jesus spanked a fig tree. This does not bode well.
2:30 p.m. Feb. 20
Oh you are wearing heels in a chemis-try lab, you must be single...
@Kerriefarrell24
9:07 a.m. Feb. 18
Welp, sing song was worth doing bad on that test I just took...
@GreeneKt
8:10 a.m. Feb. 19
Made coffee this morn-ing. Forgot to add the coffee. Tuesdays are rough.
The ACU softball team (9-5) struggled this weekend at the start of the NFCA D-II Leadoff Classic, but they found themselves sitting pretty by the end of the tournament with a bronze bracket win.
On Friday, the team had no problem getting on base, but they couldn’t seem to find their way home. The ‘Cats fell short to the Antelopes of Grand Canyon University 5-2, and the Sharks of Nova Southeastern 5-3.
The ‘Cats had many runners in scoring posi-tion in the first, third, fourth and fifth innings versus the Sharks, but couldn’t quite capitalize.
The experienced Pey-ton Mosley (2-2) did not start the day off as she ex-pected, but she finished as usual.
By the bottom of the second inning, the Sharks, had a 5-0 lead. Mosley’s pitching was superb for the latter five innings. Her defense stepped up when they didn’t let a single runner touch third base the rest of the game.
The Wildcat offense has struggled the past few games, but after re-cording 11 hits against the Sharks, they couldn’t quite make the comeback
they hoped for.Junior, Courtney Fla-
nary finished Friday go-ing 3-for-4. Lyndi Smith, Madison Buckley and Ke-anna Winkfield held their own on the offensive side as well.
Saturday was a differ-ent story for the Wildcats. The pitching of senior Caitlyn Crain and Mosley left batters confused.
Crain pitched her first complete-game shutout of the season against the Rangers of Regis Universi-ty, 6-0. She later recorded her first save against the Chargers of New Haven.
“It feels good to have a good full game under my belt,” Crain said. “Our de-fense also played really good that game, and our hitting came around great.”
Mosley struck out a season-high seven and walked only one batter against the Chargers.
However, the Char-gers recorded five runs against Mosley in the four innings she pitched. Crain left the Chargers scoreless until the sev-enth inning when she let a few hits earn two runs.
ACU’s offense was un-stoppable as they record-ed eight hits ending the game 11-7.
The team defeated No.6 in the nation Minnesota-State Mankato Stompers 5-2 and California State Uni-versity, San Bernardino 8-3 on Sunday. Mosley started
against the Stompers pitch-ing a complete game.
“It was a tough team to face, but I just worked each batter one pitch at a time, and knew that my defense was behind me,” Mosley said.
The team hopes to carry over their winning ways against regional ri-val Texas-Permian Basin of the Heartland Confer-ence for a 2 p.m. double-header on Saturday.
The Falcons are only
1-11 this season. Their lone victory came against Eastern New Mexico Uni-versity (2-14).
“I think we will defi-nitely carry our success over to next weekend,” Crain said. “I think as a team we’re starting to mesh really well, and see our potential.”
ACU is 10-0 all-time versus Permian Basin. Its most recent victory was a 2-1 contest in the 2012 Best Western Premier Spring Fling hosted by Texas Woman’s University.
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Baffle: Pitching duo shuts down McMurry just two hits in his first save of the season.
Offensively, the Wild-cats jumped all over Mc-Murry’s pitchers. The squad whacked nine hits and were aided by five McMurry errors to go along with nine walks.
Travis Schuetze, Rodge Macy and Chuck Duarte all recorded two hits apiece and infielder Seth Spivey scored three ACU runs.
The ‘Cats pulled away in the sixth with three runs crossing the board to make their lead 7-2.
The team then added more fuel to the fire when they scored three more runs between the sev-enth and eighth innings.
Duarte knocked in Schuetze on a RBI single to make it 8-2 in the sev-enth and in the eighth, a
walk and an error led to the final two runs.
“Having Kyle Giusti back in the lineup, who was out with an injury for 14 days, has really helped,” Bonneau said.
“We’ve got guys hit-ting in the seven, eight and nine holes who were in the top of the lineup last year. When they stick to their game, they can score a lot of runs.”
Herrera has enjoyed the offensive production early this year.
“It’s great when you have an offense,” he said.
“It makes you want to throw strikes. It takes a lot of pressure off the pitcher when you can score runs.”
ACU plays a four-game series against New Mexi-co Highlands University this weekend at Crutcher Scott Field. Game times are 7 p.m. Friday, a dou-bleheader Saturday be-ginning at 2 p.m. and a 1 p.m. Sunday start.
Second baseman Seth Spivey drops back to make a running catch.
jordon herrerastarting pitcher
acu baseball
It’s great when you have an offense ... It takes a lot of pressure off the pitcher when you can score runs.”“
Wildcats win UIW Spring Tourney The winner’s podium bled purple and white this past weekend as four Abilene Christian golf players fin-ished among the top 10 at the 2013 James S. Litz Me-morial Tuesday.
The tournament con-sisted of Lone Star Con-ference foes, Tournament host Incarnate Word and Midwestern State.
The first day of play
ended with senior all-America Alex Carpenter and junior Trey Sulli-van tied for first place at 2-over 146.
The two struggled the final day when each of them shot eight-over 80 to drop to a sixth place tie.
The veteran, Carpen-ter and Sullivan helped the Wildcats finish the first day of tournament play with a two-round total of 591, which held a comfortable 11-shot lead over second-place
St. Mary’s and 14 strokes over the Mustangs of MSU, who finished third.
“I definitely was not happy with the way I played this week,” Car-penter said. “I’m excited
for the rest of the year and I am still in shock that its my last semester of college golf, but I’m ex-cited for what God has in store for me after college as I pursue my career in professional golf.”
Sophomore and de-fending Lone Star Con-ference Freshman of the Year, Corbin Renner, fin-ished fourth overall, tied with Midwestern State’s Santiago Gomez.
Renner has made a name for himself over the
past two tournaments last fall when he finished first at the 2012 Bruce Williams Invitational in San Antonio. Renner shot a 12-under 204.
Carpenter attempted to win his 17th career tournament title, but fell five shots behind first place Austin Jordan of tournament host Incar-nate Word.
The team doesn’t suffer any from having young inexperienced players; which means
many of them have been in high-pressure situa-tions in which they’ve re-acted well.
“I definitely feel like this team can make it to, and win the national champi-onship this year in Penn-sylvania,” Carpenter said.
The team looks for-ward to play in Austin for the St. Edwards Invita-tional on March 4th.
The men’s club lacrosse team has started con-ducting regular practices as they get ready to face off in an upcoming tour-nament.
The team has a 20-man roster and has been practicing three times a week in preparation for the 2013 Lone Star Al-liance Invitational in Huntsville.
The tournament will take place in April and will give ACU its first
game experience against the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Ste-phen F. Austin State Uni-versity.
“It feels really great to finally get out on the field and start practic-ing,” said Aaron Johnson, junior art and psychology major from Oakton, Va.
“Right now we’re working on a lot of stick drill and fundamentals to really get a solid base before we start working on live, game speed situ-ations.”
“I never thought ACU was going to have any
kind of organized la-crosse team so I’m really happy because it’s been something I’ve been hop-ing for for several years.”
A contribution from the Student’s Association has helped the team work toward their goal of rais-ing $18,000, which they
will need to be able to participate in a full sea-son next spring.
If the team meets their fundraising goal, they will be able to join the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association. Lacrosse is played as a spring sport in this league. They will
have games every week-end and will be playing for a chance to compete in a national collegiate tournament.
Parker Tennet, fresh-man nursing major from Houston, is the club’s president and is helping the team prepare on the field, as the team doesn’t have a coach.
“It wasn’t that long ago that this was all just an idea so that fact that it’s come together so well is really exciting,” Tennet said. “It feels great to fi-nally be able to practice. The contribution from
the student congress has really helped us in reach-ing that goal.”
The team is excited to finally be out on the field but is still short of its $18,000 goal.
They are hoping for more support from the community so they can compete in a full season next year. Anyone inter-esting in donating can contact Parker Tennet at (832) 623-3176.
It was a tough team to face, but I just worked each batter one pitch at a time, and knew that my
defense was behind me.”“
alex carpentersenior
acu golf
I definitely feel like this team can make it
to, and win the national championship...”“
The ACU baseball team hosts New Mexico Highlands University for a four game series starting Friday at 7 p.m.
The softball team plays the University of Texas at Permian Basin Saturday and Sunday. The first game Saturday is at 2 p.m.
The track and field team is in the Lone Star Conference meet Saturday and Sunday.
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ACU released their Lone Star Conference Era starting five guards this week. Hunter Cooley and Randall Moore were the men that were honored. Deonna Moore and Anita Vigil were the women that were named to the all-Lone Star Conference era team.
Women’s basketball is ranked No. 2 in the first NCAA Division II South Central Region ranking of the year. This is the highest the ‘Cats have been rated since the 1997-98 season.
Women’s basketbll coach Ju-lie Good-enough has had an excellent first year
in Abilene. In January, Goodenough tal-lied her 300th career coaching win against Incarnate Word, and her team is currently in position to win the Lone Star Conference. The Wildcats won their 20th game on Tues-day, and the team is currently ranked 2nd in their region. ACU has won five straight games, and the team has won 12 of their last 13 contests.
ACU reaches 20th victoryThe Wildcats captured their twentieth win of the season on Tuesday at Moody Coliseum with a victory over Texas Wom-en’s University, 67-50.
The Lady ‘Cats eclipse twenty wins for the sev-enteenth time in ACU history, and first since 2004-2005.
“We have twenty wins this season, are ranked first in our conference and we are ranked sec-ond in the region,” senior Kelsey Smith said. “This shows that the ACU wom-en’s basketball program is for real.”
The win puts ACU at 20-4, 15-3 LSC and push-es their first place lead up to two games over second placed Tarleton (17-5, 13-3) with two games left in the season. The Wildcats improve their home court record as well to 10-2 af-ter being 6-6 at Moody Coliseum last season.
“We have worked so hard this season and have really had something to prove after having a dis-appointing past couple of seasons,” junior Renata Marquez said. “I also feel like we’ve exceeded a lot of expectations.”
The Wildcats came out of the gates ice cold shoot-ing from the field. They went into halftime with a 29-19 lead, shooting only 25.8 percent from the field, including 12.5 percent from beyond the arc.
The ‘Cats were able to find the bottom of the bas-ket easier and more often in the second half, as they scored 38 points and were sent to the free throw line a total of 31 times on the night. As a team, they shot 25-31 FT and were able to hold TWU to 38 percent shooting for the game.
“We let them hang around for a while and didn’t do a good job of closing out and finish-ing,” Smith said. “The second half, we came out ready to play and ready to
do all the small things we had to, to get the win.”
Junior Mack Lank-ford led all scorers with 19 points, including 11-12 from the free throw line to go along with three assists.
Junior Renata Marquez also had a solid night, with 14 points and a handful of rebounds. Freshman Kyn-zie Newman contributed
10 points on the night, after knocking down two clutch free throws to put the Wildcats up for good.
“I don’t think anyone besides the people on the team and the coaches know just how good we are,” Marquez said. “We have so many great players and players who can make big plays in big moments.”
Goodenough was hon-ored before the game Tues-day with a unique ACU jersey commemorating her 300 career wins as a head coach. Several members of ACU and Hardin-Simmons athletic departments greeted her at half court to congratulate her.
Goodenough won 188 of her 309 victories with
Hardin-Simmons from 1993-2002.
The Wildcats will face Incarnate Word on Wed. Feb. 27 at 5:30 p.m. on the road. The Wildcats defeat-ed the Cardinals 76-65 in their previous meeting.
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Freshman guard Kynzie Newman drives past a Texas Woman’s player and shoots a layup in Moody Coliseum.
The ACU Athletic Depart-ment continued their makeover by adding a new brand to their new logo.
Earlier this week that Athletic Department an-nounced that they have reached a three-year deal with Adidas, who will sponsor all of the ACU athletic teams.
“Adidas came to us with a package that is go-ing to allow us and our coaches to maximize their resources,” Director of Athletics Jared Mosley said. “The fact that we are going to be head to toe and all of our coach-
ing and sideline apparel is gong to match what we are wearing on the field allows us to do things in ways that the other ven-dors couldn’t provide.”
The Wildcats have nev-er had a department wide apparel provider before. But with the move to Divi-sion I on the horizon, the department had the per-fect opportunity to build their brand by partnering with Adidas.
“I think it is really ex-citing to bring all of our sports under one apparel provider,” Mosley said. “It gives us a better oppor-tunity to brand our pro-gram. With the new logo and the move into the Southland Conference
and Division I, it was a good opportunity to max-imize our situation.”
By connecting all of the ACU teams with one brand, Mosley hopes to add a sense of unity and profes-sionalism to the program as they make the jump to Division I athletics.
“When you look at Adi-das, they have some pretty big name clients,” Mosley said. “Hopefully we can provide a mutually ben-eficial relationship that not only pushes our mar-ket and our brand but also provides some value to Adidas as they try to ex-pand their presence in the college market.”
Some ACU teams have become synonymous
with brands in the past, including the ACU tennis team. Both the men’s and women’s team have rep-resented Adidas for years so the transition will be smooth for them.
“It comes down to a company a regional person that is going to take care of you when you need this or that,” head tennis coach Hutton Jones said. “I felt like the Adidas guy that I have known for a while was really good. We have pre-ferred Adidas here for a long time, so maybe this will be the start of a tradition.”
The deal will also have financial ramifications for ACU that will provide them with some long-term sta-bility with their apparel.
“Typically these deals include an outline as far as the price points on certain products,” Mosley said. “That will allow you to go out and budget and know the price points.”
“On the marketing side, Adidas will provide us some incentives when we go out and host tourna-ments where we can uti-lize them for polo shirts and things like that so we can market them in a posi-tive way. It is not just ap-parel it is truly a market-ing agreement to help us leverage each others’ suc-cess and visibility.”
McMurry University did not stand a chance against Wildcat starter Jordon Herrera and reliev-er Carter Hahn. The duo combined to punch out 16 War Hawks in a 10-2 blow-out win on Sunday.
Herrera and Hahn came only two strikeouts short of tying an ACU single-game record, 18 by the 1993 team against Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
“I came out this off-season trying to right the wrong from last season,” Herrera said. “Pitching coach Elliott Cribby has really helped us out and you can see an improve-ment in the entire staff.”
The ‘Cats improved to 5-4 after the victory and remain undefeated (7-0) in their history versus McMurry.
“I think our guys played with a lot of ener-gy,” said head coach Britt Bonneau. “That’s good to have when you’re playing a crosstown team.”
Herrera now has a perfect 3-0 record and fanned seven batters in 5.0 innings of work. His only trouble spot was in the fourth when he hit McMurry’s leadoff hit-ter then two batters later gave up a two-run bomb to left field.
Hahn took over for Herrera in the sixth and struck out nine War Hawks while allowing
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Infielder Chuck Duarte slides safely past the McMurry catcher on Sunday.
