A new university program has launched to bring churches and ministers closer together with ACU. Dr. Phil Schubert, presi- dent of the university, an- nounced the launching of the Siburt Institute of Church Ministry on the first day of Summit. The min- istry is named in honor of the late Dr. Charles Siburt, a missions faculty mem- ber and administrator who died over the summer after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. “This past year we lost one of the greatest church leaders we have ever known,” Schubert said. “Charlie Siburt was more than his titles; he was teacher, leader, encourager, mentor and scholar. He spent his life furthering the kingdom of God.” Schubert said the Siburt Institute of Church Minis- try will serve as a place for churches and church lead- ers to grow and recuperate. It will promote constructive and collaborative relation- ships between ACU and churches, providing re- sources and responding to needs. “It’s not possible to re- The Students’ Association is preparing to launch a new program, dubbed the “Greatest Idea Challenge,” which will provoke students to compete with each other to present ideas to improve or innovate life at ACU. The focus of the chal- lenge will be to solve issues on campus or take advan- tage of an opportunity to improve campus life. The competition will be con- ducted over a series of rounds that will begin with teams of up to four submit- ting a video of their pro- posal. Further stages will include a workshop for the ideas and ultimately a se- quence of presentations to panelists who can approve a proposition. SA is antici- pating approximately 30 applications. Because of the nature of the competition, the Greatest Idea Challenge will not be held yearly, but SA is planning on incorpo- rating prize incentives to encourage students to par- ticipate. Rebecca Dial, SA presi- dent, said the idea had been considered and discussed in SA for several years. Dial suggested finally imple- menting the plan after re- searching and receiving input from administrators during the summer. Dial Abilene Christian University Inked Up Local tattoo parlor offers ink varieties Features Page 5 vol. 101, no. 10 wednesday, september 26, 2012 1 SECTION, 8 PAGES page 6 Muslim riots show difference in religious reactions OPINION NEWS acuoptimist.com See the fourth installment of the Ken Collums show VIDEO INSIDE Page 3 Mu Phi considering competing in Sing Song next semester NEWS Page 4 Effect of iPhone 5 release on mobile learning unclear NEWS Page 3 Student-run boutique next to Pura Vida in pre- planning stages NEWS ACU Swing Cats to host Fall Stomp on Thursday Page 4 Page 8 Volleyball team shut out in first two home matches of the season SPORTS Page 8 Football team disappoints in San Angelo SPORTS acuoptimist.com Fishing Club preparing for new season, first meeting NEWS acuoptimist.com Chapel forums, Rec Center to promote Wellness Week NEWS ONLINE flickr.com/acuoptimist Go to our Flickr page for more photos from the football game PHOTOS The plan to require all full-time ACU undergrad students to have an iPad by August 2013 is nearing a conclusion. Dr. Robert Rhodes, provost of the university, hopes a final decision will be made within a week.. “We want to come to a conclusion so we can get the word out to incoming freshmen,” Rhodes said. Rhodes and the educa- tional innovations team have met three times with faculty to discuss aspects of the iPad mandate. “Because I came into this conversation late as the new provost, I asked for permission from the rest of the group to take a couple of weeks to go back and talk to faculty about what their perspective is,” Rhodes said. “I wanted their perspective as in- structors and also from the students about what they really think is a vital plan.” The team will meet again on Thursday with individuals who would handle the support and training related to iPad distribution. “We want to show them the plan and see how real- istic is it for distribution, support and training that would be needed,” Rhodes said. “Then we’ll submit a proposal to the group.” Rhodes said even though the plan hasn’t been approved, he expects the final plan to be similar to the one they have now. “People are positive about the distribution of iPads,” Rhodes said. “Most plans that we’ve discussed talk about an extensive use for freshman and sophomores and then spe- cific use for junior and se- nior and then we continue to roll that out as we build more courses.” Rhodes said the uni- versity wants to be com- pletely prepared for the iPads so they will be fully utilized by students, not wasted. “We didn’t want it to be so simple as to replace iPhones and just give stu- dents iPads,” Rhodes said. “Because the market has changed so much with new apps, capabilities and electronic text books, part of the delay in the decision is so we can step back and see what we’ve learned, what’s available and what the best plan will be.” marissa jones managing editor Final iPad mandate decision looms mobile learning mark smith editor in chief New church institute to honor Siburt ministry see institute page 4 josh garcia staff reporter SA to issue idea challenge Students’ association contact jones at [email protected]E D see idea page 4 brittany williams staff Photographer Hispanos Unidos sponsored its annual Entra a la Plaza event on Friday, featuring free food, music and entertainment. rebecca dial sa president It will be a great opportunity for students to really fully participate and feel heard by the administra- tion because you’re talking directly to them.” “ After collapsing during her Lifetime Wellness class and spending three days in an induced coma, Meghan Hancock, sopho- more physical therapy major from Fairview, has made improvements and is now out of the hospi- tal and at home with her family. After collaps- ing on Sep- tember 4, Hancock was rushed to Hen- drick Medi- cal Center where she was admitted to the Criti- cal Care Unit and put in a medically induced coma. Her body was put on a cooling system to help preserve her vital organs. By the next day, doctors began to warm her body and she began making small movements. After three days in a coma, Hancock opened her eyes and was respon- sive to touch and sound. Last week, Hancock was fully released from the hospital and made the trip home to Fairview with her family. Hancock is now seeing a heart doc- tor in Dallas who is re- quiring her to spend two weeks relaxing to help her body recover. “A week ago I felt pretty weak and I wasn’t really moving around,” she said. “Now I am doing things on my own but I still have to take it easy.” Hancock will spend the remainder of the semester at home but has plans to david singer opinion page editor Student released to recover at home student life megan hancock sophomore physical therapy major from fairview Now I am doing things on my own, but I still have to take it easy.” “ see hancock page 4 An electrical fire in Ed- wards Hall lobby was put out quickly earlier this week while residence life officials evacuated the building. ACU Police Chief Jimmy Ellison said the fire alarm, which sounded at 10:37 a.m. on Monday, sparked immediate reaction to prevent any spread of the smoke. “There was a slight pres- ence of smoke in the lobby and TV room, along with a very distinct odor of elec- trical burn,” Ellison said. “Abilene Fire Department Station 5 responded and the building was evacu- ated immediately. The source was determined to be wiring in an air condi- tioning motor in the base- ment.” The air conditioning unit serviced the TV room, which is why the smoke was seen there. Ellison said the unit was quickly shut down and repaired. Ellison said the evacu- ation went very smoothly, running just the way the university practices. “This is a good reflec- tion on the res life and risk management staffs,” Elli- son said. “The source was located quickly, isolated and turned over to facili- ties management for re- pair.” Phillip Lamborn, soph- omore political science major from San Diego, was in the shower when the fire alarm went off. He had to wait outside for about 25 minutes wearing only a towel before the residents were allowed to come back into the building. “I put on a towel to check if it was a drill or not,” he said. “I looked into the hallway to see my AD run- ning down the hall yelling to get out, so I did. Waiting outside in just a towel is not how I planned to spend my morning, but the fire de- partment and ACU Police were able to put the fire out quickly.” mark smith editor in chief Small fire in Edwards quickly put out res life contact smith at [email protected]Hancock
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A new university program has launched to bring churches and ministers closer together with ACU.
Dr. Phil Schubert, presi-dent of the university, an-nounced the launching of the Siburt Institute of Church Ministry on the first day of Summit. The min-istry is named in honor of the late Dr. Charles Siburt, a missions faculty mem-ber and administrator who died over the summer after a nearly three-year battle with cancer.
“This past year we lost one of the greatest church leaders we have ever known,” Schubert said. “Charlie Siburt was more than his titles; he was teacher, leader, encourager, mentor and scholar. He spent his life furthering the kingdom of God.”
Schubert said the Siburt Institute of Church Minis-try will serve as a place for churches and church lead-ers to grow and recuperate. It will promote constructive and collaborative relation-ships between ACU and churches, providing re-sources and responding to needs.
“It’s not possible to re-
The Students’ Association is preparing to launch a new program, dubbed the “Greatest Idea Challenge,” which will provoke students to compete with each other to present ideas to improve or innovate life at ACU.
The focus of the chal-lenge will be to solve issues on campus or take advan-tage of an opportunity to improve campus life. The
competition will be con-ducted over a series of rounds that will begin with teams of up to four submit-ting a video of their pro-posal. Further stages will include a workshop for the
ideas and ultimately a se-quence of presentations to panelists who can approve a proposition. SA is antici-pating approximately 30 applications. Because of the nature of the competition,
the Greatest Idea Challenge will not be held yearly, but SA is planning on incorpo-rating prize incentives to encourage students to par-ticipate.
Rebecca Dial, SA presi-dent, said the idea had been considered and discussed in SA for several years. Dial suggested finally imple-menting the plan after re-searching and receiving input from administrators during the summer. Dial
Muslim riots show difference in religious reactions
OPINION
NEWS
acuoptimist.com
See the fourth installment of the Ken Collums show
VIDEO
INSIDE
Page 3
Mu Phi considering competing in Sing Song next semester
NEWS
Page 4
Effect of iPhone 5 release on mobile learning unclear
NEWS
Page 3
Student-run boutique next to Pura Vida in pre-planning stages
NEWS
ACU Swing Cats to host Fall Stomp on Thursday
Page 4
Page 8
Volleyball team shut out in first two home matches of the season
SPORTS
Page 8
Football team disappoints in San Angelo
SPORTS
acuoptimist.com
Fishing Club preparing for new season, first meeting
NEWS
acuoptimist.com
Chapel forums, Rec Center to promote Wellness Week
NEWS
ONLINE
flickr.com/acuoptimist
Go to our Flickr page for more photos from the football game
PHOTOS
The plan to require all full-time ACU undergrad students to have an iPad by August 2013 is nearing a conclusion.
Dr. Robert Rhodes, provost of the university, hopes a final decision will be made within a week..
“We want to come to a conclusion so we can get the word out to incoming freshmen,” Rhodes said.
Rhodes and the educa-
tional innovations team have met three times with faculty to discuss aspects of the iPad mandate.
“Because I came into this conversation late as the new provost, I asked for permission from the rest of the group to take a couple of weeks to go back and talk to faculty about what their perspective is,” Rhodes said. “I wanted their perspective as in-structors and also from the students about what they really think is a vital plan.”
The team will meet again on Thursday with individuals who would handle the support and training related to iPad distribution.
“We want to show them the plan and see how real-istic is it for distribution, support and training that would be needed,” Rhodes said. “Then we’ll submit a proposal to the group.”
Rhodes said even though the plan hasn’t been approved, he expects the final plan to be similar to the one they have now.
“People are positive about the distribution of iPads,” Rhodes said. “Most plans that we’ve discussed talk about an extensive use for freshman and sophomores and then spe-cific use for junior and se-nior and then we continue to roll that out as we build more courses.”
Rhodes said the uni-versity wants to be com-pletely prepared for the iPads so they will be fully utilized by students, not wasted.
“We didn’t want it to
be so simple as to replace iPhones and just give stu-dents iPads,” Rhodes said. “Because the market has changed so much with new apps, capabilities and electronic text books, part of the delay in the decision is so we can step back and see what we’ve learned, what’s available and what the best plan will be.”
Hispanos Unidos sponsored its annual Entra a la Plaza event on Friday, featuring free food, music and entertainment.
rebecca dialsa president
It will be a great opportunity for students to really fully participate and feel heard by the administra-
tion because you’re talking directly to them.”“
After collapsing during her Lifetime Wellness class and spending three days in an induced coma, Meghan Hancock, sopho-more physical therapy major from Fairview, has made improvements and is now out of the hospi-tal and at home with her
family.A f t e r
c o l l a p s -ing on Sep-tember 4, H a n c o c k was rushed to Hen-drick Medi-cal Center where she
was admitted to the Criti-cal Care Unit and put in a medically induced coma.
Her body was put on a cooling system to help preserve her vital organs. By the next day, doctors
began to warm her body and she began making small movements.
After three days in a coma, Hancock opened her eyes and was respon-sive to touch and sound.
Last week, Hancock was fully released from the hospital and made the trip home to Fairview with her family. Hancock is now seeing a heart doc-tor in Dallas who is re-
quiring her to spend two weeks relaxing to help her body recover.
“A week ago I felt pretty weak and I wasn’t really moving around,” she said. “Now I am doing things on my own but I still have to take it easy.”
Hancock will spend the remainder of the semester at home but has plans to
david singeropinion page editor
Student released to recover at homestudent life
megan hancocksophomore physical therapy
major from fairview
Now I am doing things on my own, but I still have to
take it easy.”“see hancock page 4
An electrical fire in Ed-wards Hall lobby was put out quickly earlier this week while residence life officials evacuated the building.
ACU Police Chief Jimmy Ellison said the fire alarm, which sounded at 10:37 a.m. on Monday, sparked immediate reaction to
prevent any spread of the smoke.
“There was a slight pres-ence of smoke in the lobby and TV room, along with a very distinct odor of elec-trical burn,” Ellison said. “Abilene Fire Department Station 5 responded and the building was evacu-ated immediately. The source was determined to be wiring in an air condi-tioning motor in the base-ment.”
The air conditioning unit serviced the TV room, which is why the smoke was seen there. Ellison said the unit was quickly shut down and repaired.
Ellison said the evacu-ation went very smoothly, running just the way the university practices.
“This is a good reflec-tion on the res life and risk management staffs,” Elli-son said. “The source was located quickly, isolated
and turned over to facili-ties management for re-pair.”
Phillip Lamborn, soph-omore political science major from San Diego, was in the shower when the fire alarm went off. He had to wait outside for about 25 minutes wearing only a towel before the residents were allowed to come back into the building.
“I put on a towel to check if it was a drill or not,” he
said. “I looked into the hallway to see my AD run-ning down the hall yelling to get out, so I did. Waiting outside in just a towel is not how I planned to spend my morning, but the fire de-partment and ACU Police were able to put the fire out quickly.”
6:30 p.m. The Wagon Wheel Squares will sponsor a square dancing workshop at the Wagon Wheel in Tye.
Sept. 27
1:15 p.m. First Central Presby-terian Church will be hosting a free iPhone workshop.
7 p.m. The Mitche County Se-nior Citizens Country Western Dance will be at the Colorado Civic Center at 157 E. 2nd St. Admission is $5.
Sept. 28
12 p.m. The Big Country Bal-loon Fest will be at Redbud Park.
Sept. 29
10 a.m. The Disability Re-sources Inc. Pumpkin Patch will be open at 3602 N. Clack St. Pumpkins of various sizes will be sold.
Students interested in joining The Wild-cat Reign can sign up at thewildcatreign.com. The Wildcat Reign aims to provide students the ability to facilitate Wildcat pride on campus and serves as a linking point between students and Wildcat ath-letic events.
ACU Career Center is conducting mock interviews Sept. 13, 18, 21, and 26. Sign up for an interview time by creating a Career-Link account on the ACU Career Center homepage. Dates and times can be found under the events tab on the CareerLink homepage.
The ACU Roller Hockey Club Team is accepting new members who are inter-ested in playing roller hockey. For more information on the team, you can post on the ACU Wildcat Hockey Facebook page or email at [email protected].
ACU Speech and Debate Team is seeking new members interested in speech and debate. For more information email Dena Counts at [email protected] or text/call 325-428-6699.
Donate blood Sept. 26 from 11 a.m. -6 p.m. between the Admin Building and the Library.
ACU Theatre presents their 2012 home-coming musical 42nd Street Oct. 19-20 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 21 at 2 p.m at the Abilene Civic Center. For tickets call 321-674-2787 or purchase online at acu.edu/theatre.
ACU Swing Cats are hosting lessons for beginner and intermediate levels of swing dancing Thursday nights in SRWC Studio B. Intermediate lessons are at 8 p.m. and Be-ginners are at 9 p.m. Social dancing begins at 9:30 p.m.
ACU Study Abroad Fair will be in the cam-pus center Sept. 26 where interested stu-dents can pick up applications, ask alumni questions, and find out more information about upcoming study abroad programs.
Phi Alpha Theta will be screening the se-mester’s first movie, The Four Feathers, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. in Admin 310.
Registration begins Sept. 28 for Run for the Water, a race created by ACU alumnus Gil-bert Tuhabonye to raise money for digging water wells in rural Burundi.
Volunteer Opp0rtunities
The Abilene Zoo is looking for volunteers to help with general labor such as grounds cleanup and painting on weekdays any time between noon and 4 p.m. The Zoo is located at 2070 Zoo Ln. Contact Joy Harsh at 325-676-6487 for more information.
Child Protective Services needs volunteers for clerical work as well as volunteers who can organize a play-room. Volunteers are needed on weekdays anytime between 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Child Protective Services are located at 3610 Vine St. Background checks are re-quired and are done at the center. Background checks are usually cleared in about two weeks. For more in-formation call V. Danette Cummings at 325-691-8214.
Medical Care Mission is looking for volunteers to as-sist medical or dental staff with patients any weekday from 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. For more information contact Dave Kraly at 325-676-3104 or email [email protected].
Abilene Hope Haven Inc. needs volunteers to pro-vide childcare while parents are in class, any evening Monday-Thursday from 6:45 - 8:15 p.m. Abilene Hope Haven is located at 801 S. Treadaway Blvd. For more information contact Kathy Reppart at 325-677-4673 or visit www.abilenehopehaven.com/volunteer.
Volunteers are needed to enjoy a free lunch with students at Bonham Elementary School on a weekly basis. This would be sometime between 10:00 a.m. and 1:15 p.m., and would involve spending lunch time with students and having a positive impact on their lives. Contact Jason Shaw at 325-639-3745 or e-mail [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. and 1 p.m. Drivers must be at least 18 years old and have a valid driver’s license. Training is provided. A Chapel exemp-tion is available if delivery time conflicts with Chapel. Contact Jessica Stewart at 325-672-5050 or email [email protected].
The Big Brothers Big Sisters program is looking for volunteers to participate in Lunch Buddies. Bigs and Littles will enjoy lunch together at the child’s school once a week. Students can earn Chapel credit for each visit. Big Brothers Big Sisters is also looking for volunteers for its Community Based program. Bigs are matched with Littles in a one-on-one relation-ship and spend four to six hours per month togeth-er in the community. To sign up or learn more visit www.bbbstx.org or call 325-674-3113.
HomeFront Apartment Ministries is looking for vol-unteers to serve the families withing the apartments surrounding the Mission Abilene church. For more information call Heath at 325-665-2489.
New Life Alliance is looking for volunteers to help with their after school program on Monday-Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. Volunteers will help with snacks, homework, crafts, games and other activities in addition to men-toring and building relationships with youth. Contact Ashley Kee at 325-672-1636 or e-mail [email protected].
The House That Kerry Built is looking for volunteers to assist in the day care of medically fragile children any day Monday-Friday from 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Contact Dave Kraly at 325-676-3104 or e-mail [email protected] for more information.
Rescue The Animals is looking for volunteers anytime between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. They need help around the adoption center with general cleaning, socialization of the animals, helping potential adopters and other tasks. Contact Mindi Qualls at 325-698-7722 or email [email protected]. The center is located at 5933 S. 1st St.
Young Life Ministries needs volunteers Mondays, Tuesdays and weekends from 6-9 p.m. Volunteers will hang out with kids, experience leadership roles, serve others and introduce students to Christ. Young Life is located at 1917 S. 6th St. For more in-formation contact Chuck Rodgers at 325-676-1211 or email [email protected].
Disability Resources, Inc. is looking for volunteers to assist developmentally disabled residence. Help is needed with activities, art projects, reading books, ex-ercise activities, assisting with vocational training needs and other interactions Monday-Friday from 9 a.m-4 p.m. For more information contact Becky Moody at 325-677-6815 or e-mail [email protected].
Da’ Cipher 360, a program for at risk children, is look-ing for volunteers on Monday evenings from 5-8 p.m. at the Rose Park Activity Center, 2625 S. 7th St. Vol-unteers can help in a variety of ways including helping with set up, learning activities for kindergarten-3rd graders, tutoring 4th-8th graders, and assisting with clean up. Contact Alvina Scott at 847-333-7026 or e-mail [email protected].
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 infor-mation contact J.D. Alonzo at 325-677-1408 or visit www.satruck.com.
The Food Bank of West Central Texas needs volun-teers to help sort and stock food and other items any weekday 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].
Access Learning Center is looking for volunteers to help elementary school students with homework, reading, computers and games. The center is located at 2102 Ambler Ave. For more information contact Bret Hines at 325-670-9727. Call ahead to schedule a time to volunteer.
College Heights Friendship House needs child men-tors Monday-Thursday from 3 - 5 p.m. Contact Dusty Garison at [email protected] for more infor-mation.
Center for Contemporary Arts needs a gallery as-sistant to greet patrons, answer phones, and answer basic questions about the Center and its programs. This oppotrunity 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/
The National Center For Children’s Illustrated Litera-ture 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
Breakfast on Beech Street is seeking volunteers to help set up, prepare and serve breakfast to homeless/lower income folks any Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 5:30 a.m. or Tuesday at 5 a.m. B.O.B.S is lo-cated 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 Daugherty 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].
The Christian Ministries of Abilene: Food Pantry is searching for volunteers to greet and interview neigh-bors, do computer entries, shop with neighbors, take groceries 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 Camilla Becton at 325-672-1890 or email [email protected].
Volunteers are needed to read to Taylor Elementary School students Monday-Thursday afternoons at UCC from 3:15-4:30 p.m. Enter through the south entrance. Contact C.G. Grey 325-668-2842.
For additional volunteer opportunities visit: www.acu.edu/campusoffices/ccsl/ministry-service/volunteer-opportunities/
Chapel checkup
The K-12 Digital Learning Institute is taking the in-novation of mobile learning at ACU and applying that knowledge to the classroom in order to impact others globally, locally and indi-vidually.
Five years after the cre-ation of the Mobile Learn-ing Initiative, ACU’s cam-pus is seeing the impact and integration of mobile learning on the many dif-ferent aspects of learning.
Dr. William Rankin, Honors Fellow and profes-sor of English, said the tech-nological advances of the world are creating a shift in teaching.
Rankin said when they began conducting confer-ences, they expected col-leges and universities to be interested in the learning initiative, and they were surprised to find the mas-sive numbers of K-12 edu-cators who were interested in the program.
“The reason for that in-terest was that K-12, in the US and globally, is realizing that there are fundamental shifts happening, not just technologically, but there are fundamental shifts hap-pening pedagogically, in how you teach and how you learn,” Rankin said.
Rankin said the system of learning is changing, just as it did when the printing press was developed.
“For, say, the last 800 years, teachers have been the deliverers of informa-tion. But, we now have in-formation that not only moves very freely, but we also have information that is quickly findable. So the question is, ‘Do the teach-ers need to continue deliv-
ering information?” Rankin said.
Rankin said the new job is for teachers and students to work together to evaluate information and to create with what they have gath-ered. He said he thinks they need to build and create things with the informa-tion we have on-hand and teachers need to be guides for students rather than de-livers of pure information.
Rankin, who has worked with schools and techno-logical development pro-grams in over 30 countries, said he has seen this new teaching role succesfully implemented in several dif-ferent programs.
“What we’re seeing hap-pen all over, is teachers stepping out of the role of delivering information and into the role of guiding stu-dent creation with informa-tion,” Rankin said.
The department of teacher education is in the process of develop-ing programs, within their own teaching at ACU, in Abilene’s schools and other school districts, to help per-form this role change.
Michelle Faerber, tech-nology integration special-ist for the department of teacher education, said the K-12 Digital Learning Insti-tute and the teacher educa-tion department’s focus on technology is helping them to move more effectively into a modern way of teach-ing.
The K-12 Digital Learn-ing Institute, a summer program focused on profes-sional development with educators from around the country (specifically Texas), has helped share ways that technology can impact teaching.
Faerber said one of the blessings of mobile learning
has come through AT&T’s gift to the department of teacher education.
“Most of our local part-ners are working with iPads that we have been able to give to them through the AT&T gift,” Faerber said.
She said the teachers who come to the program in the summer are able to develop teaching strategies and apply them in the class-room.
“They teach each oth-er too because they ex-plore with these programs throughout the year. We keep up with them through-out the year, and we’re very present at Reagan Elemen-tary, Ortiz Elementary and Taylor Elementary. We’ve got a lot of student teach-ers there, and our faculty is constantly on campus,” Faerber said. “What we hope is that technology is no longer a separate entity, but it’s just a full integra-tion. “
Faerber said the Mobile Learning Initiative has been helpful in the development of the K-12 Digital Learning Initiative and the two have been able to share informa-tion and resources, work together and collaborate on new learning techniques.
“We’re kind of all in this together, it’s not just one department or the other,” said Faerber.
Individually, the Mobile Learning Initiative and the K-12 Digital Learning Insti-tute are also changing the ways the teacher education department approaches learning with their teacher candidates.
Melanie Catteau, senior elementary education ma-jor from Dennison, said she has seen the impact of mo-bile devices when applied to teaching as a part of her education program.
Catteau is student teach-ing and said working with technology like the iPad really helps teach younger students in a way that is helpful and entertaining.
“I love it,” said Catteau. “The students are engaged because it’s technology that they don’t have at their house. They are so engaged that they have their own and it’s amazing how well they can work them.”
Catteau said students are excited to learn and can experience lessons in a dif-ferent way because every student has an opportunity to learn in his or her own way and at their own pace.
wednesday 09.26.123 campus news
Mu Phi considers joining Sing Song acts
The ACU Music Depart-ment’s social club equiva-lent, Mu Phi Epsilon, is considering participating in Sing Song for the first time in their history this spring.
Mu Phi Epsilon or Mu Phi, is a coeducational, professional musical fra-ternity.
“This is the first year we have really considered doing Sing Song. In the past, it wasn’t tangible but this year it could be,” said Brooke Trapp, junior piano performance major from Texarkana. “Sing Song is a big deal. Most of us aren’t in a normal social club so we haven’t been able to have this ACU experi-ence.”
Parker Gordon, Mu Phi vice president, said,
“We’ve considered it in the past. Now we’ve got the membership participa-tion that we need to have a considerable sized group. That’s why we’ve waited.”
Time has been a factor in past years in deciding whether to do a Sing Song act.
“Being music majors, we do not have the time to commit that most people in social clubs can,” said Gordon, junior oboe and
political science double major from Stephenville. “We just don’t have those four hours a night to re-hearse.”
Mu Phi members are trying to not concern themselves with the musi-cal community’s past ex-periences with Sing Song, like when the Big Purple Marching Band was asked to no longer compete in Sing Song several years ago.
“I’ve been told that the band used to be able to participate in Sing Song, but were asked not to par-ticipate any more,” Gor-don said. “We are hoping not to run into that prob-lem in the future.”
“Our main concern is having fun and enjoying the experience,” Trapp said. “This is my third year in Mu Phi and I really hope we get to participate in Sing Song.”
Trapp said members know it won’t be easy to enter as a new group in Sing Song. However, they are eager to participate.
“Although it’s intimi-dating coming in as a new group,” said Gordon, “we would like for this to be the year.”
After the controversial opening of Pura Vida Sa-lon this semester there is the possibility that a bou-tique may open next door.
“We are in the pre-liminary stages of inves-tigating a student-run boutique,” Jim Litton, di-rector of the Griggs Cen-ter said. “It’s very early in the process and no deci-sion has been made.”
Though the boutique is still just an idea, it has peaked the interest of some students.
“I am excited about the possibility of a boutique,”
said Laine Foith, a sopho-more family studies ma-jor from Plano. “I think it will be a very good idea because it is easily acces-sible and it creates job op-portunities for students.”
“I think it would be great to have a boutique on campus.” said Em-ily Morrical, a sophomore family studies major from Wylie. “It would most likely get good business because I know a ton of people who love little shops like that.”
While some students seem excited about the boutique, Andrew Steen-burg, a sophomore crimi-nal justice major had a different take.
“It will probably draw one demographic of peo-ple,” Steenburg said. “If I’m interested, I’ll go.”
While students seem to be interested in the open-ing of a boutique, there is little information about when it would open.
“Given that we have just begun looking into the opportunity, nothing is concrete right now,” Litton said.
Book fair raises funds for speech pathology students
Last week a book fair was conducted in the Don Mor-ris Center to raise scholar-ship money for speech pa-thology students.
The ACU Chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-and Hearing As-sociation (NSSLHA) put on the book fair where a vari-ety of books were offered. Any student or faculty member could shop at the
fair, but the sale was aimed towards speech pathology and education students.
The communication sciences and disorders students were also in-volved in running the fair.
Dr. Denise Barnett, as-sistant professor of com-munication sciences and disorders, said that the fair was very beneficial for stu-dents in her department.
“They use these books a lot with children, and here is a perfect way to acquire them right on campus,”
Barnett said.The money earned will
fund scholarships for speech pathology students and assist with the cost to attend a professional con-vention in the spring.
Denysha Taylor, a ju-nior speech pathology ma-jor, said she bought books at the book fair so she can use them in her field where she hopes to work with children.
“Books like these are good therapy for kids,” she said. “They will help me
in working with them and helping them to learn.”
Taylor said she was im-pressed with the fair’s se-lection and was happy to see some of her childhood favorites on the shelves. She said when working with kids, the books can’t be too easy or too hard, and they have to keep the child’s interest, so variety is always a good thing.
Though the fair was ori-ented toward students in-terested in teaching, adult and teen books were also
sold.Dr. Barnett is not sure
if the NSSLHA will put on the book fair next year.
“We’ve had some good sales, but it was a lot of hard work and crazy with Summit going on in the midst of everything,” she said.
She said better sched-uling will be necessary next year if they fall on the same week again.
Other fundraisers are conducted throughout the year to help the de-
partment’s students earn scholarships. Cookbooks with student and alumni recipes can be purchased for ten dollars in the com-munication sciences and disorders office in the Don Morris Center to help raise money.
Penny Peng, graduate student from China, enjoys the food offered at Entra la Plaza outside the Williams Performing Arts Center.
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ACU Swing Cats to host annual Fall Stomp
ACU Swing Cats invites the Abilene community to join them at their annual Fall Stomp on Thursday at 8 p.m. in The Grace Museum ballroom.
Members and commu-nity members are encour-aged to dress in vintage
attire for an evening filled with dancing to the tunes of the ACU Jazz band. A free beginner lesson starts at 8 p.m., so even those who might not know how to swing dance will be able to join in.
“Swing Cats really try to get people who are not involved with the club to go just so they can experi-ence what its like to dance
to a live band,” said Rachel Smith, a junior english major from Wiggins, Colo.
Last year’s Fall Stomp pulled in dancers from the surrounding Abilene area and from Lubbock and Fort Worth. It was also able to generate more interest in Swing Cats.
“We ended up with about 10 people who went to Fall Stomp who later
switched over to being members of Swing Cats,” said Carole-Marie Wiser, a senior advertising and public relations major from Richmond.
Swing Cats hopes for a similar turn out this year. With the addition of a photo booth, new location and the return of the ACU Jazz band as the draw. More interested students
can join the Swing Cats due to the change in the dance policy.
“Since the dance poli-cy has changed, we don’t have to cut off our mem-bership so we’re hoping we can attract more people,” Wiser said.
Students interested in learning this form of dance can participate in weekly lessons led by the Swing
Cats. These lessons will be held every Thursday night in SRWC Studio B. Inter-mediate lessons start at 8 p.m., beginner lessons start at 9 p.m. and social dancing starts at 9:30 p.m.
Apple released its lat-est iPhone to the public last week, and the Mobile Learning program has yet to decide how it will use the new device.
Saltsman, the executive director for innovation in learning and education-al technology, revealed that not much has been planned in response to Apple’s new release. Some have questioned whether or not the mobile learning program would continue, but Saltsman said that specific question could
not be answered fully.“The mobile learning
program is always under evaluation to ensure that it continues to move us forward,” Saltsman said. “We’ve not had specific conversations about the iPhone 5 per se. It’s a great step forward and one that continues to advance us into the post-PC world.”
Saltsman said the mo-bile learning program provides students with the most current shipping version of an iPhone or iPod touch. In this case, students who transfer in next semester, or others who are up for renewal mid-cycle would receive
the latest version.There have been mixed
reviews of Apple’s new product. While some say it is the greatest phone yet, others have yet to see any big changes to the iPhone 5’s predecessor, the iPhone 4S.
Chase Schubert, senior history education major from Allen, said he didn’t think it was that big of a deal.
“I’m happy it came out because I have an iPhone 3, and now I can get the 4 at a cheaper price,” Schubert said. “I know it has a bigger screen and the connector is different, but from what I’ve heard, it doesn’t seem
to be a big step up from the iPhone 4.”
Apple’s home web-site shows comparisons among the 5, 4S and 4. The iPhone 5 is lighter, a near ounce difference in weight from the iPhone 4S. It’s taller, giving it an extra row in apps. It has increased its battery life to 225 standby hours; 25 hours more than the 4S, but still 75 hours less than the 4.
The charging connec-tor is a brand new model called Lightning. The downside is its incompat-ibility with the 4S and 4, but its small size gives it a greater chance of survival since the 30-Pin model has
had problems with dura-bility.
There are a few other perks to the new model, but no huge changes. Saltsman says the phone itself won’t change much for the mobile learning program.
“It’s an incremental gain that allows us to move incrementally forward,” Saltsman said. “The faster processor will allow more advanced learning apps to be constructed and the larger screen will allow for more data to be viewed on screen.”
The mobile program’s key findings were that the learning outcomes for
those utilizing mobile de-vices and remote teaching pedagogy were significant-ly higher than their tradi-tionally instructed coun-terparts. Students taught remotely demonstrated a better grasp of course content than those taught via traditional methods. From the amount of suc-cess that the mobile learn-ing program has achieved, it’s likely the program will continue into the future.
Hancock: Student recovering after recent comastay busy.
“I just want to help out wherever I can,” she said. She expects that she will spend time working with her high school volleyball coach or helping her moth-er, who works at a local middle school.
While in the hospital, Hancock was visited by family and friends as well as Carrie Casada, wife of psychology professor Dr. John Casada, and Molly Bagley, junior occupa-tional therapy major from Bedford, two of the first responders when she col-lapsed.
Support has poured out from the ACU commu-nity and others resulting in cards wishing her well from students she didn’t know and a “Praying for Meghan” Facebook page which has over 3800 likes.
“There as been a lot of support from everyone,” said Hancock. “The face-
book page is crazy to me. To see how many people are praying for me is amaz-ing.”
Although it came as a surprise to Meghan, her mother felt the response was something that falls right in line with ACU’s reputation.
“Everything that’s hap-
pening, the staff, Phil Schubert, people who have come up here, it’s exactly what we expected from ACU,” said Stacey Hancock. “That’s why we have our daughter here. It seems so foreign to people outside of this community but I promise you it doesn’t happen at other colleges.”
Hancock will focus on regaining strength in her heart and plans to return to ACU in the spring and continue classes.
Institute: New ministry program to benefit churchesplace Charlie, but we can continue his legacy,” Schubert said. “In honoring him, we ultimately honor God by continuing to pro-mote Jesus Christ. ACU will continue to train church leaders and support church-es to promote the kingdom of God.”
Schubert said he couldn’t think of a better person to
lead the new ministry than Dr. Royce Money, chancel-lor of the university and new executive director of the ministry.
Money said the univer-sity began working on the institute in January, but a name wasn’t decided upon until a few months ago. They then decided to announce the program’s launch at the beginning of Summit.
“Dr. Schubert and I were
having a conversation about church relations,” Money said. “I suggested that to raise the visibility of the importance of ACU and its connection to churches and service to them, that we cre-ate an institute for church ministry.”
Siburt played a signifi-cant role in the develop-ment of the planning pro-cess for the institute, which would help one of the fields
he worked in and focused on during his career at ACU.
“Shortly after Dr. Siburt’s death, Dr. Schubert came back to me and asked me to get it started and stick with it for a year or two un-til someone can carry it on,” Money said. “Dr. Siburt was involved in these meetings, so he was fully aware of what we were working on. In Au-gust, Dr. Schubert and I both quickly agreed it would be a
very good thing to name the institute in honor of Dr. Si-burt.”
Money said the institute will focus on empowering churches of all denomina-tions and their ministers, and is working on several different projects already.
“The institute is a large canopy under which any-thing to do with church re-lations operations,” he said. “I’m working on increasing
our web presence, special-izing in services unique to ACU and developing a cur-riculum library. These are projects that will take some time.”
For more information on the Siburt Institute of Church Ministry, go to www.acu.edu/siburt-institute.
Idea: SA challenges studentsalso said the Greatest Idea Challenge could provide students with a better un-derstanding of how the campus works as well as how new ideas are incorpo-rated into campus life.
“I think it will be a great opportunity for students to really fully participate and feel heard by the adminis-tration because you’re talk-ing directly to them,” said Dial, senior political sci-ence major from Lexington, S.C. “It also allows students to think more fully about their ideas.”
Dylan Benac, SA vice president, said that there’s a lot of excitement within SA and among students who have become aware of the challenge.
“I think there’s a lot of students on campus who want to see their ideas for change actually take place,” said Benac, junior political science major from Boerne. “Granted, there probably are some odd ideas out there, but sometimes it’s the one that no one’s thought of that will make a difference.”
The Greatest Idea Chal-lenge is set to officially be-gin next semester r to allow freshmen time to become familiar with ACU campus life. The major roll-out of the challenge is currently planned for Feb. 25, with video submissions due on March 8.
Cliff Pruett, junior biochemistry teacher from Abilene, Matt Bowman, senior music major from Brookhaven, Miss., and Mark Arrington, senior management major from Abilene, grill out at the Trojans cookout rush.
Heflin’s new book to prevent falling out of windows
Dr. Houston Heflin, assis-tant professor in the depart-ment of Bible, missions and ministry, has written a new book, “Teaching Eutychus”, to encourage new methods of teaching that will keep students interested in class.
Eutychus, the name in the title, is the young man
in Acts who, while Paul was speaking, fell asleep and tumbled from a win-dow and died. Heflin sees the similarity between Eu-tychus and students today.
“My wife was the one who brought up the imag-ery of Eutychus,” said He-flin. “I wrote this book be-cause we need to find ways to keep the students inter-ested and awake,” Heflin said. “One-hour long lec-
tures aren’t always the best way to go about teaching.”
Heflin understands the diffictulty in teaching while also engaging students’ at-tention.
“One of the things I do, that I included in my book, is when I ask the class a ques-tion and have them sepa-rated in to smaller groups to discuss it, I don’t just have them sit there in their groups when they’re answering
the question,” said Heflin. “I have them walk around outside in their groups while discussing their answer.”
Meredith Platt, a graduate student from Midland that Heflin has taught in the past, helped him edit his book.
“It is a good and useful source. Anyone interested in teaching should consid-er it,” Platt said. “He’s got a lot of really good ideas.”
Platt teaches at Highland
Church of Christ and says that she uses some of Hef-lin’s ideas when she teaches on Sunday and Wednesday nights.
“It was a big honor for me to get to read it and help with editing it. You can tell he real-ly cares about what he’s writ-ing,” Platt said. “He wants to help volunteer teachers do the best that they can.”
Heflin said he has found that the best way to teach
is to be excited about what you are doing.
“Passion is one of the most important parts of teach-ing,” Heflin said. “It’s hard to get the students passionate about what they’re learning when you aren’t passionate about what you’re teaching.”
A dutch phrase is tattooed on the inner bicep of a customer at Sacred Art Tattoos and Piercings.
Local shop masters art of tattooing
THE INNER WORKINGS OF
INK
Clayton Foreman sits and endures the pain of the tattooing process while Brad Worrell inks a cross desgin on his back.
Ink is just one of the tools of the tattooing trade.
Brad Worrell and Richard Culwell offer their services to the people of Abilene. Sacred Art Tattoos & Piercing is located at 3534 North 6th Street in Abilene, Texas.
Photography by Brittany Williams.
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Protests over an anti-Islam-ic YouTube film, Innocence of Muslims, have spread like wild fire throughout the Muslim world. The film insults Islam, mocks Mu-hammad and has resulted in rioting mobs.
This is not the first, or the last, time the Islamic world has protested against insults to their religion.
There seem to be large differences between Mus-lim reactions and Christian reactions to the mockery of religion. South Park has
been allowed to air mul-tiple episodes that satirize Christianity. An episode satirizing Islam, however, was censored. Multiple films ridiculing Jesus have been produced and played in theaters. An amateur documentary of Islam was posted on Youtube and countries exploded - buildings burned.
Why do Muslims react so strongly to stabs at their religion, and Christians seem to not care?
There are many differ-
ences at the root of this question and it’s impossi-ble to point a single finger at the answer. Both cul-tures differ in their socio-economics, politics and history, and each culture defines certain ideas dif-ferently.
America’s passionate protection of free speech plays a large part in the difference. But so does the American pursuit of iden-tity through individual-ism. We like to to stand out.
Islamic identity, how-ever, is defined by a group - family, religion, nation, etc.
When Americans put so much value in being original, it’s hard for us to understand why insult-ing the Muslim group of Islam causes such feroc-ity. Maybe this ferocity is a
passionate defense of their family. And love and zeal for family isn’t necessarily a bad thing, is it?
Christians are called to devote themselves to a family, too- the Body of Christ. But we don’t always live or defend that family passionately.
Maybe there are some qualities in these riot-ers that are surprisingly admirable and should be
learned from.Now we aren’t suggest-
ing every time Christian-ity is criticized or satirized Christians should grab their torches and pitch forks and riot. Far from that. We’re just hoping Christian passion is equal to the pas-sion behind the Islamic riots, but is channeled in other ways. Just imagine if the intensity of the Mus-lim riots was placed behind eradicating homelessness in a city. What if instead of burning buildings down, homes were being built. In-stead of proclaiming a mes-sage in a way that pushes people away, Christians lived a message that draws people in.
Hopefully, Christians’ lack of reactions to insults stem from the teachings of
Jesus and not from com-placency. That they are turning the other cheek and not a deaf ear. But in a society that allows and en-courages the practice and advancement of any reli-gion, it’s easy to become complacent. In a country filled with turmoil such as Libya, passion comes a bit easier.
At ACU, which is basi-cally a really expensive Christian resort, the very real danger is to become complacent, indifferent or too comfortable. And though it probably won’t make the news, we chal-lenge you to find passion of riot proportions.
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This summer, after back-ing out the previous year and reluctantly forking over a $100 registration fee, I competed in my first ever sprint distance triath-lon. This weekend, I will be competing, and hopefully finishing, my second.
Now, everyone knows that triathlons are made up of three separate events: the run, bike and swim.
What I learned the first time, that will hopefully help me this go around, is that there are two more triathlons of sorts: a before and after. These can also be broken into three events.
Leading up to race day there is training, spending and regret.
Training is an obvious one, but considering my normal “workout sched-ule” involves going for a run whenever I’m not busy or tired, this was very different. Adding two more events and a test of my abilities at the end
means that my mornings are earlier, my free time is severely cut and my nights are later.
(Let’s just say I know what the Lunsford Trail looks like at 1 a.m.)
Spending is something I didn’t actually foresee. First, there is the previ-ously mentioned regis-tration fee, and did you know goggles and a swim cap cost money? Did you know a triathlon suit costs money? Did you know a bike tune up costs money? Did you know a USA Tri-athlon membership costs money?
Well it does. They all do. A lot.
The third event, regret, came about two weeks be-fore the race. Now, it was nothing serious but I cer-tainly thought about the possibility of drowning. I may have watched the video of Chris Legh col-lapsing 50 meters before the finish of the 1997 Iron-
man Triathlon and I defi-nitely wondered what the heck I was thinking.
All these things aside, race day went perfectly and I soon experienced the wonders of the post-race triathlon: swag, eat-ing and sleeping.
By far the best part of the experience was the free swag all the race sponsors were giving out. Seconds after crossing the finish I had a branded water bottle and a Clif Bar placed in my
hand. After catching my breath, I perused the tents set up and was quickly giv-en a tote bag.
And, oh, how handy that was.
I filled it with more energy bars and drinks. Coupons. Advertisements. Koozies. A toothbrush. There was even a mas-seuse on location. (Pre-sumably for sore arms caused by tote bags.)
A Sunday brunch was next and the only reason
I say “brunch” is because I actually ate two meals worth. We’re talking 2000 calories of thick and hearty Cracker Barrel bis-cuits and gravy.
The last event, the sleep, could also be de-scribed as a hibernation.
It started on the car ride home and, a aside from a barely conscious walk from driveway to bedroom, ended around the time that normal hu-mans go to bed.
Through the experi-ence, I learned that there is a lot more to a triathlon than what I had thought at the start. But that is exact-ly where I’ll be at 7:30 a.m. this Saturday morning.
And getting free stuff dropped in my lap at the finish line is hopefully what I’ll be doing a little while later.
Good and bad things arise when you live at UP.
The cable quality is terrible. Some chan-nels are okay. Some are unwatchable. Most are somewhere in between.
Nearly every channel has some audio or visual issue. The HD channels come in terribly, but at least I get to see how much better they would
be than the standard, if they actually worked.
But management and maintenance are always helpful and nice.
Unfortunately, I know this because my room flooded.
I lived in UP for the last two months of summer while I worked on my in-ternship. Both my room-mate’s parents and mine
wanted us to live in UP, so we signed that lease. Two weeks into my internship, I slept in on Saturday, de-siring a slow, quiet week-end. I finally sat up at 11:45 a.m., put my feet on the floor and stood up.
Uh-oh.Worry immediately
hit me, as the carpet was soaked from the middle of the floor to under my bed, my main storage place.
Luckily, nothing was damaged – besides my Office poster and Miami Dolphins beanbag.
I’m allergic to mold, so I’m very grateful for maintenance’s help get-
ting the moisture out of our apartment.
Another problem I al-most ran into (literally) was when the gate nearly killed my car. Don’t fol-low other cars out too closely or it’ll give you a good scare.
For some reason, the grass nearest my apart-ment is always wet. Ab-sent exaggeration, it is wet whether the weather is wet, dry, humid or windy (a typical day in Abilene). I’ll never know why that grass refuses to dry.
The laundry room has a ton of washers and dry-ers, a welcome change
from the dorms, when the entire res hall only had four machines. Un-fortunately, so far in my three-month residency here, I’ve always had to re-dry or re-wash at least one laundry load.
One time, I went in to do laundry, and all but one washer was taken. Later, 11 of the 14 dryers were running, all with the exact same time remaining.
Did someone really take that many machines at once? I don’t even know how that’s possible.
The best part about liv-ing in UP: I save money on gas, and I am forced to
exercise by walking across campus. I lived in Smith-Adams last year, which meant I ended up driving every day I didn’t leave 15 minutes before my 8 a.m. classes started. Which means I drove every day.
Before I moved here, I had heard many nega-tive things about UP. I had also seen its ads and promotions where every-one looked happy. It’s no walk in the park, but it’ll do. I just wish the cable was worth watching.
Christians need to find passion of riot proportionsthe issue
An anti-Islamic film has led to many in the Muslim world taking offense and some resorting to riots and violence.
our take
While violence is not condoned, what can we learn from the incredible passion that they have for their religion? Something we often lack in Christianity.
HOW HARD IS BYRON MARTIN AND CO. ABOUT TO GO RIGHT NOW
Finally! Praise Friday the way it was intended to be! #praise
Praise Day went off at @ACUChapel today!
Why can’t Friday chapels be the ones to go an extra half hour long?
Praise Friday has got some SOULL POWA today! BEST praise day ever.
We’re hoping Christian passion is equal to
the passion behind the riots, but is channeled
in other ways.“
wednesday 09.26.127 sports
ACU’s offense has talent at every posi-tion, but injuries have been enough to derail them early in the season. Nearly everyone on the team is battling the in-jury bug, and on a short week, it will get worse before it gets better.
Despite a 1-2 record, Delta State has played well defensively this year, giving up less than 20 points a game. The States-men have two players with multiple inter-ceptions, showcasing their ability to flock to the ball and create turnovers.
The Delta State rushing attack has been outstanding so far this year, averaging over 200 yards a game. Led by their dual threat quarterback Trevor Wooden, the States-man will look to keep the ball away from ACU and create a shorter game, which has plagued the Wildcats so far this year. If ACU can forcce Wooden to pass, they could take advantage of a couple of errent throws and create some turnovers. The Statesmen are healthier than the Wildcats, and that gives them an advantage.
The ACU defense is much the same as their offense, a lot of talent, but also tons of trips to the train-ing room. Even the players that will be on the field are banged up, which will cause problems for ACU because of the physical nature of a run-first team. Once again, when ACU is healthy, their team is just as menacing as Delta State, but the Wildcats will struggle to put out their top f light defense on a short week on the road.
Offense DefenseDeltaPICK:
ACU (2-2) at Delta State (1-2)Game Preview
DeltaPICK:
desperate need of a win. Coach Collums is going to get his men ready for battle, and lead them to Mississippi with something to prove. Look for ACU to f ly around the field and do everything in their power to get this team back on track, with a game that has the potential to grab some elusive momentum. ACU is hurting, but the ‘Cats will come out of the tunnel with a ton of heart.
Intangibles ACUPICK:
Coming into the season, both teams were planning on deep playoff runs, with Delta State coming off of a national semi-finals appearance and ACU seap-ing with talent. However, both teams have struggled early and are in
The ‘Cats in many ways are just as physical and talented as the States-men, however several in-juries and last weekend’s disappointing loss in San Angelo has left the Wildcats discouraged and vulnerable. The ‘Cats are desperate for a big win, but Delta State is going to be a tough team to beat on the road.
After a lackadaisical per-formace last week, the Wildcats have to turn around and travel to Delta State. The Statesmen are a much tougher team than Angelo was and this game has huge implications to-ward how ACU finishes the rest of this season. The Wildcats are plagued with injuries and that may fac-tor into this contest.
Resilient. That’s the best way to describe this Delta State team that has proven them-selves in circumstances of adversity. The States-men lost multiple sea-son games last year and fought their way to a semi-finalist spot in the playoffs. Talented. Tough. Delta State over ACU: 21-10.
Last week’s defeat has left the Wildcat’s in a state of emergency. The ‘Cats are in need of a desperate win, which may not come this week as they travel to Mississippi to take on a very physical Delta State team. The Statesman are a much better team than San Angelo, especially at home. The ‘Cats will make it interesting, but won’t be able to keep up.
When the schedules came out, this game was circled on everyone’s calenders. Although the matchup has lost some luster, two talented teams will square off on Thurs-day looking for a big win. Look for the linebackers to stuff the running at-tack, and the Wildcats to get a much needed win.
Pick: ACU 24-21
Matthew Sloan Daniel Zepeda
Ken Collums show continues this Saturday
The Ken Collums Show will air at 10:30 a.m. this Sat-urday on KTXS. The show runs every Saturday during the football season at 10:30 a.m.
Wildcat tennis concluded this weekend with strong showings on both the men’s and women’s fronts. The men’s team played in the New Mexico State Aggie In-vitational, while the women participated in the Law-rence, Kansas tournament.
“We had a lot of good wins this weekend at the Kansas Invitational,” senior Hannah Kelley said. “I think after having last weekend’s tournament under our belt, as a team, we performed better. I also think being at a Division I tournament, we want to be able to prove that we are just as good as any-one else. And personally, I think we did prove that.”
On the men’s side, se-nior Hans Hach has proven early that he is the team’s MVP, winning his second consecutive singles title at the tournament by defeat-ing Western New Mexico’s Rodrigo Almeida, 6-2, 6-0. In doubles, he and sophomore Borja Cortés combined to win the championship, 8-1, over the Aggie tandem
of Daniel Fernandez and Naveen Manivannan.
“Without a doubt, game ball to Hans Hach, he keeps showing everyone the kind of player he is, by winning the whole tournament and probably many more to come,” senior Alfredo Desi-ati said.
The rest of the men’s squad played well, as the tournament proved to be a test of stamina and physical strength.
“I think this prepara-tion got us all ready for the New Mexico tennis ‘mara-thon,’ that’s how I like to think of this tournament,” Desiati said.
The lady Wildcats also performed at a high level for their tournament in Kansas. They were led by the excep-tional play of doubles teams Julia Mongin and Brittney Reed and also Micah Herms-dorf and Hannah Kelley.
“Two of our doubles teams beat a tough Kan-sas State team who I think is ranked in the top 25 in preseason ITA rankings,” Kelley said.
The women’s team was also led by freshman Kay-sie Hermsdorf, who was the
only one to win her draw be-hind a 3-0 record.
“She (Hermsdorf) beat some good opponents from three different Division I schools-UMKC, KU and Wichita State,” said Kelley.
The rest of the women’s team represented well. As a team, they posted an over-all record of 29-14 (.674). This combined mark in-cluded an 18-9 (.667) sin-gles record and 11-5 (.688) doubles record.
“I am very confident in this team, we all are step-ping up and playing for each other and seeing results,” Kelley said. “We are working hard in practice and fitness to be the best we can be. I think we have a chance to go to the final four again or even the finals of nationals.”
With the way ACU’s ten-nis teams have played so far, big things are expected for this year. They have finished their tournaments with
eight out of nine Wildcats obtaining winning singles records.
“I am extremely confi-dent in this team because everybody trained hard over the summer and it showed because everyone has im-proved,” sophomore Kyle Plum said.
“I feel hopeful and con-fident that we are going to accomplish our goal of a national championship be-cause we did not lose any
one and we added two great freshmen,” junior Emily Conrad said. “We are better than ever and I am excited to see what the future holds.”
The Wildcat tennis teams will be in action at home this coming weekend, Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, as hosts of the ITA Re-gional Championships.
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I can speak for every single player, there is a fire burning in the pit of our stomach right now.”“leaving the Wildcat de-
fense on the field for more than 39 minutes.
“Well part of the rea-son we were out there so long is we weren’t getting stops or forcing three and outs,” Linebacker Thor Woerner said. “We have to force them to get off the field fast when they get on the field.”
However, the purple and white hung tough, and kept the ‘Cats within strik-ing range. Linebacker Jus-tin Stephens had a nose for the football all night, rack-ing up 13 tackles.
Another standout on defense was Mike Wal-lace, who registered seven solo tackles, a sack, and an interception. Wallace played a key role in slow-ing down a Ram’s offense that looked menacing throughout parts of the game.
The loss is debilitating, but not devastating for ACU. If the ‘Cats play well
the rest of the way, a Lone Star Conference champi-onship is still a possibility.
ACU will look to get back on track this Thurs-day when they travel to Cleveland, Miss. to take on a Delta State squad that made it all the way to the national semi-finals last year.
“I can speak for every single player, there is a fire burning in the pit of our stomach right now,” Woerner said. “I’m excit-ed that we get to play in five days instead of seven, and I know a lot of those other guys are too.”
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Quarterback Mitchell Gale is sacked by two Angelo State defenders on Saturday.
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Football will travel to Cleveland, Miss. Thursday to play Delta State University. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m.
Soccer plays at home tonight against Midwestern State at 6 p.m. at the Wildcat Soccer Pitch. The ‘Cats will travel to Denton on Friday to play at Texas Woman’s at 7:30 p.m.
The volleyball team will travel to San Antonio on Friday to play Incarnate Word at 7 p.m., and then to Kingsville to take on Texas A&M- Kingsville at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Men’s and women’s cross country will be in Stillwater, Okla. this weekend to compete in the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree.
Men’s and women’s tennis will play at home this weekend at the ITA Invitationals.
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Football is not ranked for the first time in American Football Coaches’ Association poll since 2006. The Wildcats were previously ranked No. 19 before going into last weekend’s loss against Angelo State.
The No. 13 ranked golf team was tied for second with Incarnate Word Monday after the first round in the Territory Classic hosted by Cameron University in Duncan, Okla. The tournament ended Tuesday night after the Optimist went to the press. For complete results, go to www.acuoptimist.com
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Running back Daryl Richardson had four catches for a total of 16 yards for the St. Louis Rams on Sunday. The Chicago Bears beat the Rams 23-6.
Free safety Danieal Manning had three to-tal tackles on Sunday in the Texans’ win against the Denver Broncos: two solo and one as-sist. The Texans beat the Broncos 31-25.
The ACU football team travelled to San Angelo over the weekend to play a less-talented Rams squad, but lost 28-23.
The Wildcats jumped out to an early 9-0 lead, but the rest of the game was all Angelo State. ACU struggled to move the ball against the Rams’ defense.
Quarterback Mitchell Gale was unable to get into a rhythm in the pass-ing game, and was under pressure the entire night. The Rams defense ac-counted for seven sacks and knocked down Gale many times.
The Wildcats also had their fair share of dropped passes, with several play-ers failing to make catches they routinely make.
“The missed passes
are just the beginning,” Head Coach Ken Collums said. “The problem is we dropped some balls that we should have caught,
and gave up pressure on the offensive line. It is dis-appointing that we didn’t make them earn the stops that they got.”
However, the Wild-cats were resilient in the fourth quarter and almost completed a double-digit comeback.
A couple of quick scores in the final 15 min-utes added drama to the game on Saturday. ACU was closing in on a third
touchdown in as many drives when the Angelo State defense made a stand and capitalized on a Gale pass that was de-flected into the air.
A Ram linebacker was in the right place at the right time, and the pigskin fell right into his arms and sealed ACU’s fate.
Angelo State dominated-ed in time of possession,
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Wide receiver Demarcus Thompson drops a pass from Mitchell Gale in San Angelo. The Wildcats lost to the Rams 28-23. Thompson had five receptions for 131 yards and one touchdown. He led the team in all purpose yards with 162.
Team shutout in first home matches
The volleyball team was best-ed by two Lone Star Confer-ence opponents in their first home games of the season.
The Wildcats could not claim a set over the week-end. They were defeated by Tarleton State University on Friday, 3-0 (26-24, 25-19, 25-22) and lost to No. 11 Angelo State University, 3-0 (25-13, 25-13, 25-17) on Saturday.
The two losses drop ACU’s record to 4-8 overall and 1-3 in the LSC.
The match versus the Tex-Anns was the closest of the two contests. Tarleton out-blocked the ‘Cats 11-3.
Head coach Kellen Mock
said the team could not stop one player in particular.
“Tarleton has a player that we have a hard time dealing with Nikki McNorton,” she said. “She was a big difference maker in that game.”
“They’re a good blocking team,” Mock said. “But we gave them some opportuni-ties to block us rather than letting them earn it.”
Freshman Corrie Reeder said the team lost its focus throughout the match.
“We weren’t seeing the open shots,” she said.
Sophomore Sara Oxford and Reeder were the scoring leaders among the team. Ox-ford had 17.5 points against TSU while Reeder recorded 10.5 points.
Oxford also led in kills with
16 total. Reeder smashed nine kills of her own and assisted in three blocks.
ACU and Tarleton were tied 13 times and had nine lead-changes in set one alone. When the score was knotted at 24-24 in the first set, the Wildcats made two costly ball-han-dling errors that gave the TexAnns a 1-0 lead.
“That was a pretty big blow mentally to the team,” Mock said.
TSU had a commanding 11-6 lead in the second set, however the ‘Cats racked off six of the next seven points to tie the score at 12-12.
Senior leader Kalynne Al-len had two points during this stretch and was the server during the final three points.
The TexAnns took control of the second game when they put together seven con-secutive points after the game was tied 16-16.
The Wildcats held the lead for much of the third set, but Tarleton had a late 8-5 run that put a damper on the match for ACU.
Angelo State played domi-nate volleyball in Moody Col-iseum on Saturday. They hit .460 as a team and had four players score in double digits. The Rambelles’ are undefeat-ed in LSC play at 4-0.
“Angelo is able to take away everything you like to do,” Mock said. “They force you to play uncomfortable.”
Allen whacked seven kills in the match and tied with freshman Jennie Loerch for
the team lead in points (8.0). Freshman libero Madison
Hoover recorded 12 digs. Set-ter Sarah Siemens had all but two of ACU’s 25 assists.
The ‘Cats are having to deal with the injury bug early in the season. Juniors Neely Borger and Madelyn Robi-nett and sophomore Haley Rhoads have missed games due to various injuries.
“That’s put a lot of men-tal stress on us,” Reeder said. “I think it’s made us a lot stronger as a team though. It’s stressed us in ways that we wouldn’t nor-mally be stressed.”
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Coppedge leads ‘Cats to 1-1 weekend
The Wildcats gained their first conference win on Fri-day against Eastern New Mexico, but fell short to West Texas A&M on Sunday.
After losing both opening LSC games to Incarnate Word and Angelo State last week-end, the ‘Cats came ready to rebound in Friday’s match.
In nearly the 34th min-ute of the first half, junior forward Andrea Carpen-
ter made a break down the sideline, chipping one in for the Wildcats. The all-Ameri-can’s second goal of the sea-son made the score 1-0.
Only minutes later, senior midfielder Julie Coppedge was fouled in the box, giv-ing ACU the opportunity to up their lead with a penalty shot. Coppedge sailed one in past Zias goalkeeper Xan Ortiz making the score 2-0.
Arielle Moncure, senior goalkeeper for the ‘Cats was barely challenged during the game. It wasn’t until the final
10 minutes of the match that Danielle Thurman of ENMU was able to slip a goal past her amidst a group of crowd-ed defenders.
The Wildcats finished their first LSC victory 2-1.
But on Sunday, the LSC-top ranked Lady Buffs proved too much for the ‘Cats to handle.
West Texas A&M struck early, earning their first goal in the 11th minute. Af-ter the Wildcats turned the ball over on defense, Lind-say McHorse picked it up
before passing it to Leslie Briggs. Briggs chipped the ball in past Moncure from about 7 yards out.
The Lady Buff’s second goal came in the 25th min-ute after Moncure attempt-ed to clear a corner-kick.
After a scramble near the top of the box, Briggs sent it to Rachel Roth, who punched it in, giving WTAMU a 2-0 lead at halftime.
Senior midfielder Julie Coppedge returned in the second half with a goal for the ‘Cats in the 50th min-
ute assisted by senior de-fender Stephanie Heron.
But minutes later, Jessie Thomas answered with an-other goal for the Lady Buffs.
The ‘Cats out-shot WTAMU 17-8, but didn’t capitalize on several op-portunities in the 3-1 loss.
ACU returns to action Wednesday night when they play Midwestern State at 6 p.m. at Wildcat Soccer Pitch.
