Many students buy snacks from the Campus Store and Campus Center, though some students complain that items are overpriced. However, prices of food items sold in the Campus Store are determined by the food suppliers, not the store, said Scott Harsh, director of the Campus Store. Amber Rush-Jones, freshman math major from San Antonio said she be- lieves the snacks available in the Campus Center are expensive. “I understand that they’re trying to make a profit, but we’re cheap,” she said. Rush-Jones said she doesn’t buy snacks from the Campus Center. In- stead she buys them from a grocery store. “I have them in my room and I don’t have to go any- where and grab anything,” she said. Many students purchase snacks in the Campus Cen- ter or Campus Store be- cause of the convenience. Lewis Golmick, fresh- man information technolo- gy major from McAllen, said it’s helpful to grab some- thing from the Food Court for breakfast if he wakes up late. He said he is willing to pay more for snacks when he uses Bean Bucks. “It doesn’t feel like you’re actually spending money,” he said. Harsh said the prices of food sold in the Campus Store are set on suggested retail, which is why prices are slightly higher than those in grocery stores. “Food doesn’t have a high margin on it and sup- pliers we use, they service a lot smaller accounts, kind of like ourselves,” Harsh said. Harsh said the cost of Smoke filled the Smith- Adams Hall kitchen after things went wrong for a sophomore making smoke bombs late Monday night. Two fire trucks respond- ed to a call around 11 p.m. and residents were forced to evacuate as thick smoke overflowed from the kitch- en, said a Smith-Adams resident. “I walked through the lobby thinking it was a false alarm and then I saw the smoke,” said Bailey Gas- pard sophomore biology major from Anoka, Minn. “It felt fake when the alarm went off. After an hour, I went back into the lobby to get my laptop and home- work, and the smoke was still thick even then. It defi- nitely made me cough.” Sean Branchaw, sopho- more finance and math major from Derwood, Md., was mixing potassium ni- trate and sugar when it got out of his control and smoke began to fill the lob- by. He is pledging Gamma Sigma Phi and claimed to fellow residents that he was making the smoke bombs for club. GSP President Blaine Smith, senior biology ma- jor from Keller, said the smoke bombs were not sanctioned by the club. “He was apparently making them on his own time,” Smith said. “It wasn’t for club.” After smoke filled the kitchen and lobby, resi- dents evacuated as fire alarms went off to their inconvenience, said Mat Solomon, sophomore com- puter science major from Austin. “I was doing laundry and was putting my stuff in the dryer when the fire alarm went off,” Solomon said. “I finished putting my stuff in the dryer and went outside. Fire trucks came, and we were out there from about 30 to 45 minutes.” Solomon said he was surprised at how pervasive the smoke was. “I think more than one smoke bomb had to have accidentally gone off,” Sol- omon said. “It was incred- ible how much smoke filled the kitchen. It was all the way to the front door.” A faculty member in the Col- lege of Business Administra- tion who died suddenly last week will be remembered for his loving and caring per- sonality, heavy involvement in ACU academics and his deep faith in God. Dr. Darryl Jinkerson, as- sociate professor of man- agement, died Friday after- noon of a heart attack. Jinkerson, 54, joined ACU in 2002 af- ter leaving a consult- ing position with Arthur Andersen in Chicago. He taught cours- es on organi- zational be- havior, statistics and strategy. Dr. Rick Lytle, dean of COBA, was a classmate of Jinkerson’s at Harding Uni- versity. He said Jinkerson’s sudden death came as a surprise to everyone. “This loss is a shock to us all,” he said. “Our hearts are hurting right now.” Lytle said Jinkerson will be remembered for his close relationships with God, his family and his students. “He was a man of deep faith in God and a man who loved his family,” Lytle said. “Darryl was one of the most active faculty in the build- ing: teaching, researching, serving, consulting, shep- herding and leading a num- ber of important initiatives for the college.” What Lytle remembered most about Jinkerson was his passion for what he be- lieved in. “I can remember on sev- eral occasions Darryl fight- ing hard for that which he believed to be right,” Lytle said. “He was an authentic human being.” The ACU flag flying near the Judge Ely Boulevard entrance to campus is fly- ing at half-staff in honor of Jinkerson. Dr. Phil Schubert, presi- dent of the university, sent an email to all faculty and staff Friday evening to tell them of Jinkerson’s death. “All of us held Darryl in high esteem and his stu- Abilene Christian University Goose Egg Football team shut out for the first time in 11 years Sports Page 6 vol. 101, no. 16 wednesday, october 17, 2012 1 SECTION, 6 PAGES page 4 Political ads should focus on issues, not opponent’s faults OPINION NEWS acuoptimist.com Watch the seventh Ken Collums Show VIDEO INSIDE Page 3 Many students expressing interest in Leadership Summit NEWS Page 3 Hardin Administration Building undergoing renovations NEWS Page 5 Clinic adminstering $15 flu shots, chargeable to student accounts NEWS Intramurals to begin inaugural season for new sports soon acuoptimist.com Page 5 Lone goal by Coppedge gives soccer team win over Incarnate Word SPORTS Page 6 Volleyball team wins first match against rival in more than six years SPORTS acuoptimist.com Social clubs working on floats in preparation for Homecoming Parade NEWS acuoptimist.com Annual JamFest concert to feature variety of student artists NEWS ONLINE acuoptimist.com Pura Vida Salon & Spa striving for pure foundation VIDEO marissa jones managing editor Smoke bombs force dorm evacuation see store page 5 mark smith editor in chief Professor dies of sudden heart attack paige otway staff Photographer Jonathan Pruitt, senior criminal justice major from Brazil, participates in the King of Campus Court Debate in Hart Auditorium on Tuesday night. The winner of the competition will be announced in Chapel on Friday obituary melany cox online managing editor Suppliers set margins contact jones at [email protected]see jinkerson page 5 res life campus store amber rush-jones freshman math major from san antonio I understand that they’re trying to make a profit, but we’re cheap.” “ dr. phil vardiman associate professor of mangement He was a good mentor, not just to his students, but to his peers.” “ mat solomon sophomore computer science major from austin It was incredible how much smoke filled the kitchen. It went all the way to the front door.” “ jinkerson
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Many students buy snacks from the Campus Store and Campus Center, though some students complain that items are overpriced. However, prices of food items sold in the Campus Store are determined by the food suppliers, not the store, said Scott Harsh, director of the Campus Store.
Amber Rush-Jones, freshman math major from San Antonio said she be-
lieves the snacks available in the Campus Center are expensive.
“I understand that they’re trying to make a profit, but we’re cheap,” she said.
Rush-Jones said she doesn’t buy snacks from the Campus Center. In-stead she buys them from a grocery store.
“I have them in my room and I don’t have to go any-where and grab anything,” she said.
Many students purchase snacks in the Campus Cen-ter or Campus Store be-
cause of the convenience.Lewis Golmick, fresh-
man information technolo-gy major from McAllen, said it’s helpful to grab some-thing from the Food Court for breakfast if he wakes up late. He said he is willing to pay more for snacks when
he uses Bean Bucks.“It doesn’t feel like
you’re actually spending money,” he said.
Harsh said the prices of food sold in the Campus Store are set on suggested retail, which is why prices are slightly higher than those in grocery stores.
“Food doesn’t have a high margin on it and sup-pliers we use, they service a lot smaller accounts, kind of like ourselves,” Harsh said.
Harsh said the cost of
Smoke filled the Smith-Adams Hall kitchen after things went wrong for a sophomore making smoke bombs late Monday night.
Two fire trucks respond-ed to a call around 11 p.m. and residents were forced to evacuate as thick smoke overflowed from the kitch-en, said a Smith-Adams resident.
“I walked through the lobby thinking it was a false alarm and then I saw the smoke,” said Bailey Gas-pard sophomore biology major from Anoka, Minn. “It felt fake when the alarm went off. After an hour, I went back into the lobby to get my laptop and home-work, and the smoke was still thick even then. It defi-nitely made me cough.”
Sean Branchaw, sopho-more finance and math major from Derwood, Md., was mixing potassium ni-trate and sugar when it got out of his control and smoke began to fill the lob-by. He is pledging Gamma Sigma Phi and claimed to fellow residents that he was making the smoke bombs for club.
GSP President Blaine Smith, senior biology ma-jor from Keller, said the smoke bombs were not sanctioned by the club.
“He was apparently making them on his own time,” Smith said. “It wasn’t for club.”
After smoke filled the kitchen and lobby, resi-dents evacuated as fire alarms went off to their inconvenience, said Mat Solomon, sophomore com-puter science major from Austin.
“I was doing laundry and was putting my stuff in the dryer when the fire alarm went off,” Solomon said. “I finished putting my stuff in the dryer and went outside. Fire trucks came, and we were out there from about 30 to 45 minutes.”
Solomon said he was surprised at how pervasive the smoke was.
“I think more than one smoke bomb had to have accidentally gone off,” Sol-omon said. “It was incred-ible how much smoke filled the kitchen. It was all the way to the front door.”
A faculty member in the Col-lege of Business Administra-tion who died suddenly last week will be remembered for his loving and caring per-sonality, heavy involvement in ACU academics and his deep faith in God.
Dr. Darryl Jinkerson, as-sociate professor of man-agement, died Friday after-noon of a heart attack.
Jinkerson, 54, joined ACU
in 2002 af-ter leaving a consult-ing position with Arthur Andersen in Chicago. He taught cours-es on organi-zational be-
havior, statistics and strategy. Dr. Rick Lytle, dean of
COBA, was a classmate of Jinkerson’s at Harding Uni-versity. He said Jinkerson’s sudden death came as a surprise to everyone.
“This loss is a shock to us all,” he said. “Our hearts are hurting right now.”
Lytle said Jinkerson will be remembered for his close relationships with God, his family and his students.
“He was a man of deep faith in God and a man who loved his family,” Lytle said. “Darryl was one of the most active faculty in the build-ing: teaching, researching, serving, consulting, shep-herding and leading a num-ber of important initiatives for the college.”
What Lytle remembered most about Jinkerson was his passion for what he be-lieved in.
“I can remember on sev-eral occasions Darryl fight-ing hard for that which he
believed to be right,” Lytle said. “He was an authentic human being.”
The ACU flag flying near the Judge Ely Boulevard entrance to campus is fly-ing at half-staff in honor of Jinkerson.
Dr. Phil Schubert, presi-dent of the university, sent an email to all faculty and staff Friday evening to tell them of Jinkerson’s death.
“All of us held Darryl in high esteem and his stu-
Abilene Christian University
Goose EggFootball team shut out for the first time in 11 years
Political ads should focus on issues, not opponent’s faults
OPINION
NEWS
acuoptimist.com
Watch the seventh Ken Collums Show
VIDEO
INSIDE
Page 3
Many students expressing interest in Leadership Summit
NEWS
Page 3
Hardin Administration Building undergoing renovations
NEWS
Page 5
Clinic adminstering $15 flu shots, chargeable to student accounts
NEWS
Intramurals to begin inaugural season for new sports soon
acuoptimist.com
Page 5
Lone goal by Coppedge gives soccer team win over Incarnate Word
SPORTS
Page 6
Volleyball team wins first match against rival in more than six years
SPORTS
acuoptimist.com
Social clubs working on floats in preparation for Homecoming Parade
NEWS
acuoptimist.com
Annual JamFest concert to feature variety of student artists
NEWS
ONLINE
acuoptimist.com
Pura Vida Salon & Spa striving for pure foundation
VIDEO
marissa jonesmanaging editor
Smoke bombs force dorm evacuation
see store page 5
mark smitheditor in chief
Professor dies of sudden heart attack
paige otway staff Photographer
Jonathan Pruitt, senior criminal justice major from Brazil, participates in the King of Campus Court Debate in Hart Auditorium on Tuesday night. The winner
of the competition will be announced in Chapel on Friday
10 a.m. The Disability Re-sources Inc. Pumpking Patch will be open at 3602 N. Clack St. For more information call 325-677-6815.
Oct. 18
7:30 p.m. A performance of the muscial “Return to the Forbidden Planet” will be perfomed in the Amy Graves Ryan Fine Arts Building at Mc-Murry Univeristy. Tickets are $12 and students will receive a $5 discount. For more infor-mation call 325-793-3889.
Oct. 19
12 p.m. The Premier Vintage Market will be in Colorado City, Texas and will feature over 65 unique vendors with antiques, vintage finds, furniture, clothing, cool junk, repurposed items and jew-elry. The entry fee is $5.
Oct. 20
6 p.m. The Abilene Derby Dames will be hosting their home bout against the East Texas Bombers in the Roller Derby at the Abilene Civic Center. Tickets are $12.
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.
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 [email protected].
Students will have the opportunity to join ACU President Dr. Schubert for a meal in the bean Oct. 18 at 11:30 a.m. For more information email [email protected] or visit the SA Office.
ACU Swing Cats is hosting lessons for be-ginner 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.
The 26th Annual Homecoming Chemis-try Circus is Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m. in Walling Lecture Hall.
Leadership Summit will be having an in-terest meeting Oct. 30 and Nov. 16 from 11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. in COBA 201. Chapel credit will be provided.
The Black Student Association is having a free skate night to celebrate ACU’s Home-coming at The Skating Place Oct. 19 at 11 p.m.
Elevator Pitch registration is now open. Early registration is until Oct 31 and costs $10. Late registration is until Nov 6 and costs $20.
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.
JamFest will be Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. on the HWC east lawn.
The Homecoming Carnival will be Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. on the WPAC north lawn. General admisson is $3.
ACU will be shooting off fireworks Oct. 19 at 8:15 p.m. on the HWC east lawn.
Volunteer Opp0rtunities
The Center for Inter-national Education is looking for conversation partners for international students to practice Eng-lish, conversations and cultural learning. Part-ners meet for one hour each week at a time and place determined by the partners. For more in-formation contact Laura McGregor at 325-674-2821 or [email protected].
St. John’s Episcopal School is seeking vol-unteers to paint metal playground equipment anytime Monday-Friday after 3 p.m. and Saturday anytime. For more infor-mation contact Rebecca McMillon at 325-695-8870 or [email protected].
Center for Contemporary Arts needs a gallery assis-tant to greet patrons, an-swer phones and answer basic questions about the Center and its programs. This oppotrunity is open Tuesday-Friday. The Cen-ter for Contemporary Arts is located at 220 Cypress Street. For more informa-tion contact Jessica Dulle at 325-677-8389 or visit: http://www.center-arts.com/.
Rescue the Animals is seeking volunteers to take pictures and videos in preparation for the launching of their new website as well as mainte-nance of the site after the launch. This opportunity is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. For more information contact Kathy
The National Center For Children’s Illustrated Lit-erature is looking for vol-unteers 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 lo-cated 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 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 Becky Almanza at 325-673-1234 or [email protected].
The Christian Service Center is seeking volun-teers 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 infor-mation contact Roberta Brown at 325-673-7561 or at [email protected]. For more information on the pro-gram 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 weekday Mon-day-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 infor-mation contact Samantha Barker at 352-672-5050 or visit http://mealsonwheel-splus.com.
The Salvation Army is looking for volunteers for a variety of needs includ-ing 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 informa-tion contact J.D. Alonzo at 325-677-1408 or visit www.satruck.com.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is seeking volun-teers to help in their baby room by interfacing with clients, hanging clothing, cleaning, and packaging on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. For more information contact Peggy Valentine at 325-829-3425. House of Faith is seeking volunteers to participate in the after school Backyard Bible Club on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and/or Thursdays for elemen-tary children or with the Thursday Xodus program for middle school chil-dren. For different club locations, contact Denise Davidson at 325-370-3642.
The International Rescue Committee is seeking volunteers to work with refugees who recently moved to the U.S., teach-ing English, helping with homework and mentoring. Contact Susanna Lubango to make an appointment at 325-675-5643.
University Place is seek-ing volunteers to help with the resident birthday party for residents the third Wednesday of each month at 2:30 p.m. For more information contact Linda Tijerina at 325-676-9946.
Breakfast on Beech Street is seeking volunteers to help set up, prepare and serve breakfast to home-less/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 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 con-tact 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 Thurs-days contact Margaret Beasley at 325-692-4149 or [email protected]. To serve on Fridays contact Rachel Brown at rdb08a@acu.
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wednesday 10.17.123 campus news
Admin renovating to prepare for Ag move
Renovations are being made in the Hardin Admin-istration Building and are planned for the Zona Luce Building in anticipation of moving the School of Nurs-ing into Zona Luce.
Scot Colley, executive di-rector of Risk Management and Construction, said the renovations in the Hardin Administration Building are being made in the first floor of the southwest wing.
“It’s mostly a cosmetic clean up,” Colley said. “We’re going to paint it, put in new carpet where we can, move a few walls, create an office suite and remodel some classrooms for them.”
Colley said last year the Foreign Language depart-ment moved from the Ad-min building to Chambers Hall when the English and Foreign Langauge depart-ments were combined. This provided an opening for the Agricultural and Environ-mental Science department
to move into the first floor offices when the renova-tions are completed.
“What we’ll do is move a few non-load-bearing walls, spruce it up, take two smaller classrooms to create a larger classroom for them and provide all their offices to move them over here,” Colley said.
The School of Nursing plans to take the place of the Agricultural and Environ-mental Science department in Zona Luce.
This is all being done in anticipation of possible changes in the nursing pro-gram.
The nursing program is currently an intercollegiate school with Hardin-Sim-mons and McMurry. The nursing program takes ACU students off campus for their last two years.
Dr. Becky Hammack, as-sociate professor for the School of Nursing, said, “We want them to be part of ACU. We want them to have that ACU experience all four years rather than have two years, then leave.”
The School of Nursing, if it gains approval from the Broad of Nursing, wants to use the Zona Luce Building to keep their students on campus for all four years of their schooling.
“We have submitted our proposal to the Board of Nursing, and we’re just wait-ing to get that approval from them,” Hammack said. “And we anticipate that being in January.”
Hammack said they will receive the board’s deci-sion by January, just in time for the renovations in Zona Luce to begin.
Renovations in the Ad-min building are expected to be completed by the end of December, while reno-vations in Zona Luce are planned to start sometime after January. Colley said the exact time is still under dis-cussion.
“We hope to have plans for Zona Luce complete by July of 2013,” Colley said.
The limited number of spots available for a busi-ness short course in Colo-rado are already being filled.
The College of Business Administration’s Leader-ship Summit course will take place during the first week of January in rural Colo. The course will fea-ture guest speakers who are successful in entre-
preneurial business man-agement and leadership, interactive group activities and question-and-answer sessions designed to en-hance students’ internal leadership abilities and their Christian perspec-tives in business.
Tim Johnston, assistant dean of COBA and admin-istrator of the Leadership Summit, said the number of students going to the Colorado ranch will be limited to about 120.
Johnston said the guest
speakers will bring new and challenging ideas, les-sons and perspectives to students.
“It brings you a great opportunity to learn from business leaders of power and position and to gain context about how busi-ness fits into society,” Johnston said. “This year, an executive vice president of Walmart will be speak-ing about some of the chal-lenges of business.”
Leadership Summit, led by Dr. Rick Lytle, dean
of COBA, is open to all students, not just busi-ness majors. Johnston said about 40 percent of the students who attended last year were not in COBA.
“Even students outside of business majors will be involved with the busi-ness world in their ca-reers,” he said.
Nuria Hall, academic adviser in COBA, said dur-ing the first day of advising she talked to several stu-dents who were going to apply. She said she under-
stood why they were inter-ested in applying.
“I wish I could go,” Hall said. “I’ve heard from stu-dents that it was their best experience as a student. The material they learn prepares them with infor-mation they’ll be using in the world.”
The week-long program will take place in Fron-tier Ranch in Buena Vista Colo., about 90 miles west of Colorado Springs. The group from ACU will join a small group from Lub-
bock Christian University. The $650 fee to cover room and board is in addition to tuition for the three-hour course, BUSA 435 Christian Leadership Per-spectives. All students are responsible for transpor-tation as well.
Construction crews work to renovate the first floor in the Hardin Administration Building. The Agriculturual and Environmental Science department will move in when renovations are complete.
In a recent debate, presi-dential nominee Mitt Rom-ney told the moderator “I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m going to stop other things. I like PBS, I love Big Bird. Actually I like you, too. But I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”
Though Mitt Romney
spoke only a few sen-tences on this topic, the audience, specifically President Obama’s cam-paign, has eaten it up. The Obama campaign released an ad titled “Obama for America: Save Big Bird and PBS,” filled with sarcasm and derogatory comments aimed at Romney.
Though the com-mercial is funny, should there be such a big a deal
made over what Romney said? More so, should political ads focus on the faults of the opponent instead of addressing issues that the people should consider before we vote?
By merely focusing on an opponent’s mis-takes, nominees belittle the democratic process. The Big Bird discussion is just one example of this, and both sides are guilty of focusing on the other candidate’s faults instead of the issues at hand.
When candidates at-tack the character of their opponent, the re-sult is a weak form of discussion. The masses deserve to know what a political candidate stands for and how they intend to solve this na-tion’s problems. Our intelligence is insulted when they do not do so and it undermines the election process.
One bigger issue the ad could have been pointed out is that the majority of funding for PBS does not come from the government.
The government allo-cates $420 million to the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but the ma-jority of that is distributed to the National Public Radio and various other stations, leaving only about 5 percent to PBS. And according to a state-ment from PBS, the fed-eral investment in public broadcasting is only about
0.00012 percent of its en-tire budget in 2011.
The Obama campaign could have focused on this aspect of the is-sue and pointed out the small statistic, but in-stead they created a sar-castic ad that focused on mocking Romney.
Our economy is facing
serious difficulties that candidates should focus on, such as unemploy-ment, our trillion-dollar debt and weakening for-eign polices.
Do we really want to focus on a laugh, gri-mace or an ill-timed word, or should we focus on the serious problems
occurring in our world?When we spend our
time on petty, insignifi-cant issues, it is impos-sible to discuss and be-gin to understand what really needs to be fixed.
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When I was young, I thought I was going to go bald.
It started with a con-versation I overheard when I was six. My Mom was talking to a lady at church about my hair. I had very impossible, curly hair.
“Kids usually lose their curly hair when they get older though,” my Mom said.
Of course she was re-ferring to the fact that hair loses its curl, but I just assumed that she meant because my hair was curly it was going to fall out when I grew up.
I didn’t immediately freak out or panic. But it was a fear that pervaded my life. A fear I had accept-ed but that stuck with me.
It was like being told
by a large bully I was go-ing to get beat up at the end of the school day and having to sit in my desk all day, accepting the in-evitable pain but feeling dull fear in the pit of my stomach.
My execution date was set.
I never mentioned this fear to my parents. I never wondered why I didn’t see more bald-ing curly-haired people walking around.
I don’t remember when it occurred to me I wasn’t going to go bald anytime soon. It was a gradual re-alization, the kind that
comes when your brain develops more.
Though I don’t re-member very many spe-cific moments from my early childhood without the aid of photos or home videos, this fearful mem-ory has stuck with me.
The interesting thing
is I haven’t completely grown out of it.
Trips to the hair dresser make me abnor-mally nervous. I don’t trust them. I just know they’re going to mess up somehow.
I’ve heard a story of a lady going to get her hair cut and her hair dresser had a stroke of some sort while cutting her hair. The hair dresser contin-ued to violently cut and cut and cut the lady’s hair until someone re-alized there was some-thing wrong with her.
That really scares me.Before school started I
went to get my hair cut. I told the lady I wanted a trim. I guess her defi-nition of trim is wildly different from mine. She cut off more than four inches. That was a dev-astating moment when my fear was realized and confirmed.
You learn to get through a bad haircut though. Life goes on.
Until the day my friend found a gray hair on my head.
Nothing is cooler than dinosaurs.
They ruled the planet for millions of years, then, mysteriously, they all died. But they left all of their awesome bones in the desert for us to find and daydream about.
As a kid, nothing cap-tured my imagination as much as the movie Juras-
sic Park. It was the per-fect movie. They brought dinosaurs back to life, something I’d been wish-ing would happen for the first 14 years of my life.
The movie was ridicu-lous, (-ly awesome) held together by Hollywood ‘science,’ and everyone knew we could never ac-tually bring extinct dino-saurs back to life ... yet.
If you were like me, you always hoped that someday, science would catch up to Hollywood, and create a real life Ju-rassic Park (or at least the hover-board from Back to the Future 2).
But last week my dreams were shattered.
A group of Australian scientists have discov-ered that DNA has a half-life of about 521 years. So after that amount of time, half of the chemi-cal bonds holding that DNA together would decay, and after anoth-er 521 years the bonds would be halved again,
and so on and so on. This means that the
oldest usable DNA we could potentially use to bring a creature back to life is a measly one mil-lion years old; after that any usable information has all but decayed away.
Sure, this leaves hope for Wooly Mammoths, Sabertooth Tigers, Moas, and other extinct spe-cies (I’m looking at you, Dodo), but none of those are nearly as awesome as a full-f ledged dino-saur. And if you paid at-tention in middle school you know that the last dinosaur died about 65
million years ago, just 64 million too early. Suffice to say, I was crushed.
Now, perhaps it was all a false hope to begin with, and even without the short DNA half-life, bringing back an extinct creature was impossible.
Perhaps God planned for the dinosaurs to stay dead, and we would merely be messing with powers greater than our-selves? Or maybe, God gave us the ability to cre-ate and learn, and bring back dead dinosaurs somehow?
I had hope before, and I think I still will after this, because I can think of nothing cooler than riding a Tyrannosaurus Rex to work.
Political ads favor attack over platformthe issue‘Mudslinging’ has practically become an understood part of the campaign process. But these attack ads overwhelm those who hope to truly understand a candidate’s platform.
our takeThe candidates are human. So instead of focusing on a minor mistake, we need campaigns that promote the positives of their own platforms.
Science proves ‘Jurassic Park’ an impossible dream
boutta do a credit check an email yall slackers YA GOTS TO GET TO 55 HOMIE
Skipping chapel to get my nails done... again... #priorities
It’s ACU Grub week. Goodwill sales have increased by 80%
Yellow, upper respira-tory infection. Meet homecoming week. Now try to not kill me, please and thanks.
Homecoming week will kill my sleeping!
Headed to ACU to speak in chapel. I’m supposed to talk about the flood story...so it’ll be a real pick me up kind of morning.
By merely focusing on an opponent’s mistakes,
nominees belittle the democratic process.”“
I didn’t immediatelyfreak out or panic. But
it was a fear thatpervaded my life.”“
Maybe, God gave usthe ability to create and
learn, and bring back dead dinosaurs somehow?”“
dents loved him for the many ways he cared for and mentored them,” Schubert said in the email.
Jinkerson earned his Bachelor’s degree at Hard-ing in 1980 and graduated from Northeast Louisiana University with a master’s degree in 1982. Five years later he received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois Uni-
versity at Carbondale.Jinkerson was a member
of the University Assessment Committee, a Sam Walton Fellow, he served as ACU’s Students in Free Enterprise chapter and served several terms on Faculty Senate. He led the study abroad pro-gram for COBA and served as chair of the Department of Management Science from 2004-2008.
Dr. Phil Vardiman, associ-
ate professor of management and Jinkerson’s closest friend, said Jinkerson truly loved his work and his family.
“He was a good mentor, not just to his students, but his peers,” Vardiman said. “He’s a really good example of what a Christian teacher and husband should be.”
Dr. Don Pope, assistant professor of management, said Jinkerson’s invested interest and involvement
in COBA made a great im-pact on the college and its students.
“His students remem-ber him as a professor who cared deeply for them, opening class with a prayer,” Pope said. “We will miss him deeply.”
Jinkerson was a regular member and elder at Uni-versity Church of Christ.
He met his wife Cindy in the registration line dur-
ing their freshman year at Harding in 1976 and were married three years later.
Jinkerson is survived by Cindy and three daugh-ters; Whitney Olsen, Rachel Goodman and Amanda Carpenter, and one grand-daughter. He’s also survived by his mother, LaVerne of O’Fallon, Ill.; two brothers, Richard of Lake in the Hills, Ill., and Perry of Starkville, Miss.; sister, Cheryl Hamm
of St. Louis; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A viewing will be con-ducted at Piersall Fu-neral Home in Abilene on Wednesday from 6- p.m. The funeral service will take place the following day at 2 p.m. at University Church of Christ.
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ACU Clinic offers students, faculty flu shots
October is the unofficial start of f lu season and the ACU clinic is offering f lu shots to help keep stu-dents healthy.
Only 46 percent of Americans get the f lu shot every year, accord-ing to the Center for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion. Even though the
past few f lu seasons have been mild, Inf luenza is notoriously unpredict-able.
“I have taken the f lu shot since I was a child and I have yet to get sick during f lu season,” said Tommy Evans, junior marketing major from Southlake. “I am sold on the f lu shot and plan on taking it again this year.”
ACU is offering the f lu shot at the clinic behind
Moody Coliseum. The f lu shots are offered at $15, a relatively cheap price. Students can charge it to their account.
The f lu is a conta-gious respiratory illness caused by inf luenza vi-ruses that infect the nose, throat and lungs. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The best way to prevent the f lu is by getting vaccinated
each year.Symptoms of the f lu
include feelings of a fe-ver, cough, sore throat, headaches or fatigue. The ACU clinic began offer-ing the shots in Septem-ber and will continue to do so until they run out. The clinic expects to use all of their f lu shots by mid November or early December. They are open from 8 - 10:30 a.m., closed during Chapel and open
again from 1 - 4 p.m.Not everyone agrees
that f lu shots are neces-sary to prevent illness.Many people are very hesitant about sticking a needle into their body.
“I will never put a needle in my body even if I have a chance of get-ting the f lu. I just cannot do that and never will,” said Beth Goodall, junior special education major from Irving.
The f lu vaccine is not equally effective for all people. It is most effec-tive in healthy adults and young children. But the sooner the f lu vaccine is administered, the better. The risk of getting the f lu becomes greater further into the f lu season.
Store: Margins not to be the same as large storesfood is slightly higher than prices in grocery stores be-cause the Campus Store doesn’t buy in high quanti-ties like grocery stores.
“To offset some of the higher costs we try to sup-ply a good assortment of items,” he said. “Obviously we’re more of a convenient store type of setting, just trying to provide things people might need on the run or real quick.”
He explained the reason prices are slightly higher in the Food Court is because those prices are deter-mined by Aramark.
Harsh said prices fluc-tuate and are at the discre-tion of the suppliers. He said the Campus Store is working on increasing se-lection and they have seen some sales increase be-cause of that.
At Walmart, a box con-taining six Clif bars can be purchased for $5.58, excluding sales tax. This means that a single Cliff bar would cost less than a dollar. At the Campus Store, a single Clif bar can be purchased for $2.19.
Harsh said the Campus Store shouldn’t be com-pared to big grocery stores like Walmart and Target because the stores have a huge amount of buying power.
“We can’t really com-pete because we’re buy-ing for us, whereas they’re buying for a whole national chain,” he said.
For example, the Cam-pus Store can’t buy prod-ucts directly from Nabis-co. They must instead go through a middle man who will supply them with Nabisco products and be willing to deal with their
small account.“I wish we had a lot
more capabilities for a broader selection and lower price, but for the size we are and the indus-
try we’re in it’s just hard to come up with a lot of options to lower prices,” Harsh said. “It’s probably one of our smaller mar-gin areas in the store and
we’re not making a ton of money off that stuff, even though with the prices, you would think that we are. It’s just that, for us to supply it, we have to pay
Upset: ‘Cats end 7-year drought vs. WT six-time LSC champions.
The victory capped a weekend where the Wild-cats went 2-0 in Moody Coliseum. The squad has played well the past two weeks losing only one game in a six-game homestand. The other win over the weekend was against East-ern New Mexico University on Friday, 3-0 (25-19, 25-23, 25-19).
The ‘Cats had a much tougher time in sets two and three against West Texas than in set one. ACU jumped out to a 9-1 lead in game two, but the Lady Buffs stomped back to pull within one point, 11-10.
“We were so frustrated at that point,” Mock said. “WT went as hard as they could when they were down and we had to learn how to deal with that.”
WT would later grab their first lead of the match, 20-19, after scoring five consecutive points. Sopho-more Sara Oxford delivered
a clutch kill to steal the lead back. Outside hitter Rachel Riley shut the door on the set by smacking three kills during the team’s final pos-sessions.
WTAMU built a 5-1 lead in game three. After falling behind 20-17, the Wildcats made a late surge after an-other kill by Riley and a ser-vice ace by freshman Sarah Siemens.
The Lady Buffs would eventually tie the score at 21-21. ACU reached match point several times during the next stretch of points however, West Texas A&M would not give up the fight.
Loerch recorded her 15th kill to give the team the lead, 26-25. She had a chance to end the match on her serve the very next play, but hit the ball into the net for an error. Fortunately, West Texas also commit-ted an error on their serve which gave the ‘Cats pos-session again.
This time, the team made sure they did not give WT anymore chances for a
comeback. Oxford smashed the match-winning point and the celebration began.
“If we would’ve lost that game because of that, I’d have been in a depression forever,” Loerch said.
“From 20-17 to the end of the match was the hard-est the girls have fought all year,” Mock said.
Loerch finished the match with 15 kills while Siemens had 43 assists. Madison Hoover recorded 18 digs and Corrie Reeder had five of the team’s eight blocks.
In the Eastern match, Oxford was the leader in kills (14) and points (17). ACU dominated the Zias with a season-high .400 attacking percentage and out-blocked them, 7-0.
The ‘Cats hit the road this Friday and Saturday when they travel to Angelo State University and Tar-leton State University.
The ‘Cats celebrate after sweeping No. 8 WT in three sets, 25-17, 25-22 and 28-26.
Coppedge leads team to 1-0 upset over UIW
The women’s soccer team fell short 1-0 to Angelo State on Friday, but came back with a 1-0 upset against Lone Star Con-ference top-ranked In-carnate Word at Wildcat Soccer Pitch.
The ‘Cats and Ram-belles were tied 0-0 un-til the 33rd minute when Maggie Schaffer scored
for the Rambelles from 30 yards out. She was assist-ed by Kara Edwards. It was the only goal of the game.
ACU outshot Angelo State, 7-6 but failed to follow though. Several of those shots came early in the second half as the Wildcats pushed for a tie, but they were unable to overcome the 1-0 deficit. The Wildcats returned to the field on Sunday ready for a win.
“We played well enough
to win both games this weekend,” head coach Casey Wilson said. “We finished our opportunity Sunday to win.”
The game remained scoreless until the 86th minute, when senior mid-fielder Julie Coppedge fired her fourth goal of the year in from 18 yards back off of a corner kick by junior midfielder Ashley Craig.
The ball sailed past Car-dinals goal keeper Karly Brightwell, and was the
only goal of the game.Coppedge now leads the
team in goals this season.“Julie had a few lever-
age shots on Friday, but were just off frame a bit,” Wilson said.
“It was nice to see that one go in and keep us from overtime.”
The ‘Cats held the Car-dinals to only three shots in the second half. Wild-cats senior goalkeeper Arielle Moncure made five saves in Sunday’s
match. It was her fourth shutout game of the year.
ACU junior midfielder led the ‘Cats with three shots.
Sunday’s win brings the Wildcats within two points of Texas A&M-Commerce, and the fi-nal spot in the Lone Star Conference post-season tournament with three more matches left to play. The ‘Cats play Commerce this weekend.
“The team knows our backs are against the
wall,” Wilson said. “We need to want it more this weekend, as we lost to Commerce last time on our own mistakes.”
The Wildcats return to action this Friday when they play Commerce at 4 p.m., and Texas Woman’s University at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Wildcat Soccer Pitch.
Football hosts Midwestern State University on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. for homecoming.
Soccer hosts Texas A&M University-Commerce and Texas Woman’s University this weekend. The Commerce game is at 4 p.m. on Friday and the TWU match is at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
The volleyball team will travel to Angelo State University and Tarleton State University this weekend. The Angelo match is at 7 p.m. on Friday, while the TSU match is on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Men’s golf competes in the Bruce Williams Memorial tournament in San Antonio on Monday and Tuesday.
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Tennis player Hans Hach was a recipient of the James O’ Hara Sargent Sportsmanship Award. The award is presented to players who display oustanding sportsmanship and exemplify the spirit of college tennis.
Freshman Jennie Loerch and Sarah Siemens were named Lone Star Conference volleyball players of the week on Tuesday. Loerch was the co-offensive player of the week, while Siemens shared the setter of the week award.
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Houston Texans safety Danieal Manning re-corded six total tackles against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. He had five solo tackles and one assist. The Texans lost 42-24.
St. Louis Rams running back Daryl Richardson had 76 rushing yards on 11 carries in a 14-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. He also had two recep-tions for 23 yards.
The Wildcat tennis teams concluded their fall season over the weekend with four of their players participating in the Division II finals of the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships.
Senior Julia Mongin and sophomores Borja Cortes and Brittney Reed com-peted in the tournament, but it was junior Hans Hach who had a chance to make school history.
“Hans is a great player, he worked really hard to make it and he deserved
it,” Mongin said. “I am glad that he is at ACU and I knew that he could go to all the way to finals.”
Hach reached the champi-onship match where he faced number one ranked Georgi Rumenov of Armstrong At-lantic. After a competitive match, Hach could not hold on as Rumenov took the vic-tory with a 6-2, 6-2 score.
“I knew that I was going to do my best and that no matter who I faced, I was going to give everything I had,” Hach said. “I faced a very good player and he was better than me on that day. But I am happy on how I played overall this year.”
In doubles, Hach and Cortes placed third overall after defeating Concordia’s Daniel Piludu and Andrey Boldarev, 6-3, 6-3, in the third-place match.
“To get third out of the en-tire nation, feels pretty good,” Cortes said. “I felt we should have been playing for the championship, but you can’t change that. Hans and I had a great season together and I really learned a lot from him.”
For the women, Mongin placed fourth in the singles tournament. She outplayed Drury’s Natalia Kozel in the first-round, 6-2, 6-2, but lost to third-seeded Barbora Krtickova of Armstrong At-
lantic, 6-4, 7-6 in the semifi-nals. Then in the third round match, Florida Tech’s Kristina Huba upset Mongin 6-3, 6-1.
“I was really happy to be able to play nationals for three consecutive years,” Mongin said. “It means a lot to be able to go to nationals and fight hard on the tennis court representing the uni-versity and yourself.”
On the doubles end, Mongin and Reed finished fourth after beating their first-round opponents Fan-ni Varga and Mehak Singh of Southwest Baptist in three sets, 7-6, 6-7, 10-2. They then lost to number one ranked Annie Hwang and
Sherry Liu of BYU-Hawaii.“We really had fun and
played our best,” Mongin said. “We had a really good match against BYU Hawaii in the semis, even if the score does not reflect our performance. It was a plea-sure to play with Brittney, she is a great player and I was happy to be able to share nationals with her.”
The teams are now preparing for their spring season. The 2013 spring schedule will be released late November.
In the last game of the big-gest rivalry in the Lone Star Conference, ACU was shut-out 36-0 by No. 20 West Texas A&M University.
The ‘Cats traveled to Canyon for WT’s home-coming and could not get anything going offen-sively in a hostile environ-ment. The ‘Cats were last shut out in 2001, a streak of 121 games. West Texas had not pitched a shutout since 2008.
“I think when you don’t score points, it’s very ob-vious you can’t get any-thing going,” quarterback Mitchell Gale said. “They
played good on defense and we didn’t play good on offense.”
ACU had only 113 yards of total offense in the first half and 210 total yards for the game. Gale was pres-sured all night by the Buffa-lo defense. He was sacked eight times, the last being the 100th of his career.
Head Coach Ken Col-lums said the offensive line was getting beat by the defense.
“Sometimes it was scheme stuff that they did and sometimes we just got beat,” he said. “The play action pass is used to cre-ate more time to throw and we weren’t creating time even doing that.”
The Wildcats were helped
by their own defense in the first half. Other than a cou-ple of long plays, West Texas was held to only 13 points and one touchdown.
WTAMU’s first touch-down came on a pass from quarterback Dustin Vaughan to receiver Trevor Hammargren.
Sergio Castillo kicked a career long 56-yard field goal to make it 13-0 at halftime.
West Texas opened up the second half with a 75-yard drive on eight plays and a four-yard touchdown run to make it 20-0.
The Buffaloes pulled away in the second half aided by a 75-yard touch-down pass to WT wide re-ceiver Jarrian Rhone and
Gale’s second intercep-tion of the game.
“Their offense just beat our defense in the sec-ond half and their defense beat our offense the entire game,” Collums said.
The interception came in the WT endzone in the third quarter. ACU was driving down the field at the time and looked to cut into their 27-0 deficit.
West Texas continued to swarm to both the football and Gale in the second half. Defensive end Shane Pennix sacked the ‘Cat quarterback in the endzone for a safety in the fourth quarter to make the score 29-0, Buffaloes.
Gale was 17 for 29 with two interceptions and 207 passing yards. Running back
Charcandrick West had six receptions for 56 yards. Wide receiver Darian Hogg led the team in reception yards with two for 75 yards.
The Buffs offense slashed ACU’s defense for 475 yards. Vaughan threw for 359 yards and three touchdowns.
“The bottom line is Vaughan had time to throw and our guy didn’t,” Col-lums said.
ACU falls to 4-3 overall after the loss and 2-3 in the LSC. They return home next weekend for home-coming. The game is at 2 p.m. against Midwestern State University.
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Quarterback Mitchell Gale lays on the turf in Canyon after a sack by a Buffalo defender. Gale was sacked eight times in the game, the last being the 100th of his career. The ‘Cats were shut out by WT, 36-0.
‘Cats upset WT in emotional match
The Wildcats did some-thing Saturday that had not been accomplished in over seven years. The team beat No. 8 West Texas A&M University by an astound-ing 3-0 mark.
Freshman Jennie Lo-erch still has trouble finding words to describe the match.
“I can’t even explain it,” she said. “It’s like we won a championship or some-
thing. The best part was the entire team clicked. We were crying at the end and I’m still high off that win.”
It was a win head coach Kellen Mock had been wait-ing for since she took over the reigns at ACU. Mock was winless against the Lady Buffs before Saturday and had not won a set against them since 2009. The ‘Cats last victory against WT was on Nov. 3 of 2005.
“That was the best I’ve seen our team play men-tally from start to finish,” Mock said. “The team that
played here in Moody on Saturday was the team I thought we’d have all sea-son long. They are so tal-ented.”
“That could’ve been our last meeting with WT, so to finally get that win is great,” she said. “I was in tears by the end of the match.”
The team (9-12, 5-6 Lone Star Conference) won the three sets by scores of 25-17, 25-22 and 28-26. WTAMU is the defending
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Setter Sarah Siemens sets up the ball for her teammates.
