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Horsin’ around with Hendrick rehab The Hendrick Center for Rehabilitation offers Hippotherapy to children with disabilities, page 5 Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Abilene Christian University Serving the ACU community since 1912 October 10, 2007 WEDNESDAY Vol. 96, No. 13 1 section, 8 pages www.acuoptimist.com THE Playing in PrimeTime New entertainment center opens Wednesday offering games, go-karts and more, page 3 Meant to be broken Wildcats 58-7 win breaks scoring record, propels team to 5-1, page 8 O PTIMIST By Karie Schmidt STUDENT REPORTER The Grace Museum, located in downtown Abilene, opened a historic Library of Congress exhibit Thursday Oct. 3. “Bound of Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943,” is a traveling exhibit that the Li- brary of Congress has created to allow multiple museums to share a part of American History — the Depression era. According to the Grace Museum, this is the first major exhibit of the little- known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information. The exhibit is comprised of 70 digital prints made from color transparencies that were originally only seen in black and white. These pho- tographs show vividly how people of the Depression era in small and large populations grew out of the Depression in a tireless effort to overcome economic challenges. “It’s really a documentation of these people’s lives during the Depression and how they overcame this era, said Judy Deaton, curator of the Grace. “It’s really patriotic.” During the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal worked to get America out of the Depression by cre- ating many organizations. One specifically, the FSA, whose original goal, according to the Grace Museum press release, was to record the ravages of the Depression on America’s rural population in hopes to spur Congress and the Ameri- can public to support govern- ment relief efforts. Famous artists like John Vachon, Jack Delano, Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott went out across American to take pictures of the Depres- sion. According to Deaton, Grace opens Library of Congress exhibit By Sara Snelson ARTS EDITOR Numerous organizations at ACU and throughout Abilene are focused toward college students mentoring younger kids, but Flight is different. Flight is a new group on campus for college females looking to share life with older women. Women of the faculty and staff, as well as wives of the faculty and staff, are joining together to men- tor the women on campus and pursue a spiritual bond among female students. Tabitha Vail, ACU alumna and leader of the Flight group, came up with this idea after go- ing to women’s Chapel. With such a great response from the female students at the Chapel, she said she thought plenty of students would love New group takes Flight among ACU women By Lauren Sutton COPY EDITOR The 2006 Crime Statistics Report numbers have not fluc- tuated much in the last year. The ACU Police Department released its Annual Crime Statistics Report this month informing the ACU commu- nity about the incidents of crime, on-campus arrests and disciplinary actions/ ju- dicial affairs referrals that have taken place this year, as well as the department’s policies. Under the Clery Act, every institute of higher learning is required by federal law to notify its campus community of the department’s jurisdic- tion, policies and crime stats. The act requires the report of eight categories of crime and three categories of arrest. “Our numbers have held steady for the past several years,” said Jimmy Ellison, ACU Chief of Police. The statistics show a slight decrease in several categories, including drug law violations, which had five reported inci- dences in 2002 and three in- cidences in 2006, while charts show an increase in categories of burglary, forcible sex offens- es and liquor law violations. Ellison explained that vio- lations that fall under the disciplinary action category — liquor law violations, drug ACU police release annual crime stats TRIO launches balloons for Columbus Day By Laura Acuff STUDENT REPORTER ACU TRIO programs, which pro- mote higher education among disad- vantaged students, offered free soft drinks and released balloons in front of Moody Coliseum after Chapel on Monday in celebration of Columbus Day with the help of ACU and Abilene High School students who participate in the programs. “It’s Columbus Day, and so we need something to get big attention,” said Mark Upton, director of the Edu- cational Talent Search Program. “As we release the balloons, we get every- body excited about soaring and flying and everything going up, so it’s a real positive move. It’s the concept of dis- covering what may be out there. These balloons will go anywhere. There’s re- ally no limit to where they’ll end up, so what we try to do, metaphorically, is show the kids that there’s no limit to their education – that they can go anywhere they want to go.” The Talent Search Program, Upward Bound, Student Support Services of- fered through Alpha Programs and the McNair Scholars Program are all grant- funded programs within TRIO. The Tal- ent Search Program and Upward Bound work through the public school system, while SSS and the McNair Scholars Pro- gram are campus-based, Upton said. Sarah Peters, freshman special education major from Austin, partici- pated in Monday’s balloon release and is part of the Alpha Program, which assists first-generation students, stu- dents with financial need or those with a documented disability. “I think [the program] is awesome because I can go there and take tests, and there’s free tutoring, which is re- ally nice,” Peters said. “Everything’s free, so it’s really helpful.” Talent Search Program partici- pant Rebecca Gindratt, Abilene High School sophomore, has been involved in TRIO programs since the sixth grade. The Talent Search Program as- sists promising students in answering questions about college and deciding which is right for them. “It’s been good,” Gindratt said. “It’s fun. [We] went on a lot of trips to dif- ferent colleges. I think [the balloon] release was real cool. We helped blow some of the balloons up. It was fun being a part of it.” Another Talent Search Program participant Zach Gonzales, AHS sophomore, also appreciates the Flight of the balloons By Mallory Edens PAGE 2 EDITOR Dr. Ron Sider, a widely known evangelical speaker and writer, will be in Abilene Monday and Tuesday to speak on so- cial justice at ACU and Har- din-Simmons University. Dr. Sider is a professor of theology, ho- listic ministry and public pol- icy, as well as the director of the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary. He is the president of Evangeli- cals for Social Action, has spo- ken on six continents and has published 27 books and many articles. Sider is the publisher of PRISM magazine and a con- tributing editor for Christian- ity Today and Sojourners. One of his books, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, was rec- ognized by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most influ- ential religious books of the 20th century. Brad Carter, Executive Ron Sider to speak at ACU and HSU MATT NEWHOUSER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Scott Self, director of Alpha Academic, participates in the annual TRIO balloon release Monday to show support for the four programs on campus. KATIE GAGER CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER The Library of Congress exhibit at The Grace Museum includes a model of what a 1940s home could look like when Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his “Fireside Chats.” Sider Ellison See SIDER page 7 See FLIGHT page 7 See TRIO page 4 See GRACE page 7 See CRIME page 7
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Horsin’ around with Hendrick rehabThe Hendrick Center for Rehabilitation offers Hippotherapy to children with disabilities, page 5
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Abilene Christian University Serving the ACU community since 1912
October 10, 2007
WEDNESDAY
Vol. 96, No. 13
1 section, 8 pageswww.acuoptimist.com
THE
Playing in PrimeTimeNew entertainment center opens Wednesday offering games, go-karts and more, page 3
Meant to be brokenWildcats 58-7 win breaks scoring record, propels team to 5-1, page 8
OPTIMIST
By Karie SchmidtStudent RepoRteR
The Grace Museum, located in downtown Abilene, opened a historic Library of Congress exhibit Thursday Oct. 3.
“Bound of Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943,” is a traveling exhibit that the Li-brary of Congress has created to allow multiple museums to share a part of American History — the Depression era. According to the Grace
Museum, this is the first major exhibit of the little-known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information.
The exhibit is comprised of 70 digital prints made from color transparencies that were originally only seen in black and white. These pho-tographs show vividly how people of the Depression era in small and large populations grew out of the Depression in
a tireless effort to overcome economic challenges.
“It’s really a documentation of these people’s lives during the Depression and how they overcame this era, said Judy Deaton, curator of the Grace. “It’s really patriotic.”
During the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal worked to get America out of the Depression by cre-ating many organizations. One specifically, the FSA, whose original goal, according to the
Grace Museum press release, was to record the ravages of the Depression on America’s rural population in hopes to spur Congress and the Ameri-can public to support govern-ment relief efforts.
Famous artists like John Vachon, Jack Delano, Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott went out across American to take pictures of the Depres-sion. According to Deaton,
Grace opens Library of Congress exhibit
By Sara SnelsonARtS editoR
Numerous organizations at ACU and throughout Abilene are focused toward college students mentoring younger kids, but Flight is different.
Flight is a new group on campus for college females looking to share life with older women. Women of the faculty and staff, as well as wives of the faculty and staff, are joining together to men-tor the women on campus and pursue a spiritual bond among female students.
Tabitha Vail, ACU alumna and leader of the Flight group, came up with this idea after go-ing to women’s Chapel. With such a great response from the female students at the Chapel, she said she thought plenty of students would love
New group takes Flight among ACU women
By Lauren SuttonCopy editoR
The 2006 Crime Statistics Report numbers have not fluc-tuated much in the last year.
The ACU Police Department released its Annual Crime Statistics Report this month informing the ACU commu-
nity about the incidents of crime, on-campus arrests and disciplinary actions/ ju-dicial affairs referrals that have taken
place this year, as well as the department’s policies.
Under the Clery Act, every institute of higher learning is required by federal law to notify its campus community of the department’s jurisdic-tion, policies and crime stats. The act requires the report of eight categories of crime and
three categories of arrest.“Our numbers have held
steady for the past several years,” said Jimmy Ellison, ACU Chief of Police.
The statistics show a slight decrease in several categories, including drug law violations, which had five reported inci-dences in 2002 and three in-
cidences in 2006, while charts show an increase in categories of burglary, forcible sex offens-es and liquor law violations.
Ellison explained that vio-lations that fall under the disciplinary action category — liquor law violations, drug
ACU police release annual crime stats
TRIO launches balloons for Columbus Day
By Laura AcuffStudent RepoRteR
ACU TRIO programs, which pro-mote higher education among disad-vantaged students, offered free soft drinks and released balloons in front of Moody Coliseum after Chapel on Monday in celebration of Columbus Day with the help of ACU and Abilene High School students who participate in the programs.
“It’s Columbus Day, and so we need something to get big attention,” said Mark Upton, director of the Edu-cational Talent Search Program. “As we release the balloons, we get every-body excited about soaring and flying and everything going up, so it’s a real positive move. It’s the concept of dis-covering what may be out there. These balloons will go anywhere. There’s re-ally no limit to where they’ll end up, so what we try to do, metaphorically, is show the kids that there’s no limit to their education – that they can go anywhere they want to go.”
The Talent Search Program, Upward Bound, Student Support Services of-fered through Alpha Programs and the McNair Scholars Program are all grant-funded programs within TRIO. The Tal-ent Search Program and Upward Bound work through the public school system, while SSS and the McNair Scholars Pro-gram are campus-based, Upton said.
Sarah Peters, freshman special education major from Austin, partici-pated in Monday’s balloon release and is part of the Alpha Program, which assists first-generation students, stu-dents with financial need or those with a documented disability.
“I think [the program] is awesome because I can go there and take tests, and there’s free tutoring, which is re-ally nice,” Peters said. “Everything’s free, so it’s really helpful.”
Talent Search Program partici-pant Rebecca Gindratt, Abilene High School sophomore, has been involved in TRIO programs since the sixth grade. The Talent Search Program as-sists promising students in answering questions about college and deciding which is right for them.
“It’s been good,” Gindratt said. “It’s fun. [We] went on a lot of trips to dif-ferent colleges. I think [the balloon] release was real cool. We helped blow some of the balloons up. It was fun being a part of it.”
Another Talent Search Program participant Zach Gonzales, AHS sophomore, also appreciates the
Flight of the balloonsBy Mallory Edens
pAge 2 editoR
Dr. Ron Sider, a widely known evangelical speaker and writer, will be in Abilene Monday and Tuesday to speak on so-cial justice at ACU and Har-din-Simmons University.
Dr. Sider is a professor of theology, ho-listic ministry and public pol-icy, as well as the director of the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary. He is the president of Evangeli-cals for Social Action, has spo-ken on six continents and has published 27 books and many articles. Sider is the publisher of PRISM magazine and a con-tributing editor for Christian-ity Today and Sojourners. One of his books, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, was rec-ognized by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most influ-ential religious books of the 20th century.
Brad Carter, Executive
Ron Sider to speak at ACU and HSU
Matt newhouser STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Scott Self, director of Alpha Academic, participates in the annual TRIO balloon release Monday to show support for the four programs on campus.
katie gager CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Library of Congress exhibit at The Grace Museum includes a model of what a 1940s home could look like when Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his “Fireside Chats.”
Sider
Ellison
See SIDER page 7
See FLIGHT page 7See TRIO page 4
See GRACE page 7
See CRIME page 7
7 p.m.The Call will take place in Brown Library Auditorium.
Service Saturday
8 a.m.The Alzheimer’s Memory Walk will take place at Nelson Park. Registration begins at 8 a.m.
2 and 7:30 p.m.“North by Northwest” will be shown at the Paramount Theatre.
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Sign up for Service Saturday in the Campus Center until Friday.
Voting for Homecoming Queen will take place Wednesday-Friday online at www.acu.edu/queen.
The Medical Clinic will host a flu vaccination clinic Monday and Nov. 1 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Cam-pus Center Living Room. The shot costs $25, and it can be charged to a student account or paid in cash or check. Flu shots are also cur-rently available on a daily walk-in basis in the Medical Clinic. For more information, contact Kathy Stokes at (325) 674-2625.
The Abilene Art Walk will be held Thursday from 5-8:30 p.m. in downtown Abilene. The Art Walk is free and will feature many activities, entertainment and events. For more information about the Art Walk, con-tact Jamie Shelburne at (325) 677-8389 or [email protected].
The Paramount Theatre will show a special presentation of “North by Northwest” Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Nominated for three Acad-emy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, “North by Northwest” is listed on the American Film Insti-tute’s list of the 100 Greatest Ameri-
can Movies. The show will cost $6 for adults and $5 for students, se-niors and members of the Military. For more information, call the Box Office at (325) 676-9620 or visit http://www.paramount-abilene.org.
Dr. Ron Sider, a widely known evangelical speaker and writer, will be in Abilene Monday and Tuesday to speak on social justice. He will speak on Monday at ACU’s Chapel on the Hill from 7-8:30 p.m. on the topic “New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America.” This event is sponsored by Connecting Caring Communities and the Abilene Association of Congrega-tions. Dr. Sider will speak at Hardin-Simmons University’s social justice
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Volunteer Opportunities
Abilene elementary schools need volunteers to read with kids on a weekly basis. Time slots are available for a variety of days. For more information go to the Vol-unteer Service-Learning Center downstairs in the Campus Center by the Bean Sprout.
Fellowship of Christian Ath-letes needs 15-18 volunteers in the press box at the Fields of Faith event on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at Shotwell Stadium. Each volun-teer must have a laptop computer with Excel in order to enter student information data. To help, contact the Volunteer Service-Learning Center in the Campus Center.
The House That Kerry Built, a day care center for medically frag-ile children, will host a Halloween respite night on Friday from 5:30-9:30 p.m. Volunteers are needed to help paint faces, serve food and clean up.
Ushers are needed for the Homecoming Musical on Oct. 19, 20 and 21. Ushers will get to see the musical for free at the Abilene Civic Center, and volunteers will need to commit to being on time.
The Alzheimer’s Associa-tion needs volunteers for the annual Memory Walk on Sat-urday at Nelson Park. Help is needed between 6 a.m.-noon to help set up tables and chairs and serve refreshments.
Abilene Habitat for Human-ity needs volunteers for the annual Steamboat Challenge on Oct. 27 from 6:15 a.m.-2 p.m. This event includes a half-marathon road race and 35 and 60 mile bike races. Vol-unteers will serve refreshments, monitor the finish line and do other related jobs. All proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity.
8 p.m.Linda Egle, president of Eternal Threads, will speak in the Onstead-Packer Biblical Studies Building room 117 about her experiences working with Indian women in poverty.
10:15 p.m.Freshman Devo will take place in the Amphitheater.
7:30 p.m.“North by Northwest” will be shown at the Paramount Theatre. The show will cost $6 for adults and $5 for students, seniors and members of the Military.
Chapel on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.The Shore Art Gallery will host
the Biennial Faculty Show until Oct. 25. The exhibition features new works by ACU faculty in the Depart-ment of Art and Design. Admission is free, and the gallery is open to the public Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Jennifer McGregor, interior de-sign alumna, will host several speak-ing events on the ACU campus on Oct. 18. McGregor, marketing direc-tor for Holabird and Root, a prominent architectural firm in Chicago, along with company principal Jim Miller, will make presentations on sustainable initiatives. More information on this event will be available soon.
Record the model and serial numbers of your valuables, such as laptops and cameras. If they are stolen, serial numbers greatly increase the odds of recovering the stolen items. Report all suspicious activity to the ACU Police Department at (325) 674-2305.
Mon., Oct. 1, 20072:15 a.m. Assisted Abilene PD with group of people at 700 EN 14th 9:50 a.m. Assisted with DUI simulator at the Campus Center 12:15 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at Sewell Lot 1:30 p.m. Unlocked vehicle off campus 3:10 p.m. Exposing person at 500 EN 23rd3:13 p.m. Burglary of a mo-tor vehicle on Oliver Jackson Boulevard7:40 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at Shell Station on Judge Ely Boulevard
Tues., Oct. 2, 2007 1 a.m. Parking violation at Gardner Lot 1:04 a.m. Fire alarm at Zona Luce, Abilene FD responded, no fire, alarm reset 8:15 a.m. Traffic stop at Ave F and EN 16th for expired regis-tration plates 8:35 a.m. Parking violation at the Administration Lot 2:10 p.m. Jumpstart vehicle at the Campus Center Lot2:15 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at Wal-Mart Lot 3:39 p.m. Vehicle accident in front of University Park Apartments4:35 p.m. Unlocked vehicle on Oliver Jackson Boulevard 6:36 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at Big Purple Lot 8:34 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at the Bible Lot
Wed., Oct. 3, 2007 8:01 a.m. Burglary of a Motor Vehicle at 500 College Dr.8:15 a.m. Medical emergency at Chambers Hall, no transport 8:45 a.m. Medical emergency at Foster Science Building, student transported to Hendrick Medical Center10:40 a.m. Assisted student with flat tire at the Bible Lot 12:58 p.m. Assisted motorist on Teague Boulevard 2:10 p.m. Fingerprinted student at the Station for license certification 2:45 p.m. Theft of a bicycle at McKinzie Lot2:58 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at WPAC Lot 7 p.m. Unlocked vehicle off campus 11 p.m. Unlocked vehicle off campus 11:37 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at 700 N. Judge Ely Blvd.
Thurs., Oct. 4, 2007 9:40 a.m. Found benches placed in Gata Fountain. No damage. Grounds notified. 9:52 a.m. Checked on two tran-sients at Ambler and Hwy 351, one subject placed on criminal trespass 10:40 a.m. Unlocked vehicle at Bible Lot 11:55 a.m. Unlocked vehicle at
Bible Lot 1:41 p.m. Report of criminal mis-chief to vehicle in McKinzie Lot, no damage to vehicle, no report 2:58 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at University Church Lot 4:20 p.m. Report of possible kidnapping7 p.m. Incomplete 911 at call box on Oliver Jackson Boule-vard, checked, no one around 7:20 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at Barret Lot 7:37 p.m. Medical emergency at Mabee Hall7:47 p.m. Report of disturbance at Mabee Hall, student transport-ed to Abilene Psychiatric Hospital
Fri., Oct. 5, 20076:17 a.m. Incomplete 911 at call box on Lunsford Trail, checked, no one around 7:47 a.m. Unlocked vehicle at Sunset Arbor 11:55 a.m. Unlocked vehicle at 600 EN 16th12:58 p.m. Theft at Mabee Hall3:45 p.m. Unlocked Motor Vehicle at Wells Field 4:06 p.m. Parking violations at Morris Parking Lot4:10 p.m. Parking violations at University Park Apartments6:20 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at 782 Chanticleers8:38 p.m. Fire alarm at Sikes Hall, room 331; burnt popcorn
Sat., Oct. 6, 20071:10 a.m. Excessive vehicles blocking driveway at 663 EN 18th10:14 a.m. Unlocked Campus Center2:37 p.m. Possible domestic disturbance at Campus Center, checked, all OK. 3:13 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at Smith Parking Lot6:24 p.m. Unlocked Brown Library Auditorium for Spring Break Campaigns6:24 p.m. Education Building sculpture found at Jacob’s Dream 8:32 p.m. Unlocked vehicle at ACU Drive10:03 p.m. Suspicious vehicle at Allen Farm; requested to leave10:46 p.m. Citizen reported a bonfire in the back yard of 666 EN 21st. Advised to extinguish. No citations issued.
Sun., Oct. 7, 20072:26 a.m. Citizen reported a loud party at 626 EN 23rd. Advised to move party inside, lower volume. Complied. No citations issued.2:05 p.m. Criminal mischief at Morris Parking Lot4:10 p.m. Alarm at book store in Campus Center6 p.m. Locked Onstead-Packer Biblical Studies Building, Mabee Business Building, Don Morris Center and Campus Center
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ACU Police Tip of the Week
CorrectionIn the article, “Dance party pro-motes generosity,” which ran in Friday’s issue of The Optimist, MSP Productions, which hosted a charity dance party at Monks cof-fee shop, was incorrectly labeled “Maple Street Production.” The acronym, MSP, actually stands for “Madison Street Posse.” The Op-
timist apologizes for this error.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Page 3CAMPUS NEWS / FROM THE FRONT
By Laura TouchetteStudent RepoRteR
Women’s social club Del-ta Theta has had 12 individ-uals de-pledge after having its largest pledge class in recent years of 37 women.
DT has felt the effect of the new lottery system that was implemented this year. Since Bid Night, DT had the 12 women de-pledge dur-ing phase one.
“I think we have had so many girls de-pledge be-cause of the new lottery system,” said DT president
Christie Thomas, senior graphic design and adver-tising major from Austin. “The different phases re-quired us to cram a lot into two weeks. Our pledging is already hard, but when there is a lot in a short amount of time it makes it harder.”
In order for a woman to de-pledge, there is a certain process to follow. In DT, the women call the Biddie Mom, and if she has her decision made she tells the Biddie Mom and another officer. Then the woman meets with the ad-
ministration to make it of-ficial, and they de-pledge the social club.
“We are always sad to lose a girl, but ultimately as a club we want what is best for the girl. We want everybody to be happy,” Thomas said.
DT is not the only so-cial club to have people de-pledge. Alpha Kai Omega has had one woman de-pledge while Gamma Sigma Phi has had three men de-pledge.
Disenchanted de-pledgees depart
By Chandler HarrisStudent RepoRteR
Students were treated to a free movie night on Friday, courtesy of the Campus Activities Board (CAB). The movie, The Bourne Ultimatum, was shown in Cullen Audito-rium free of charge.
“Cullen was pretty full on Friday night,” said Erika Goldman, sophomore el-ementary education major from Denver, and co-direc-tor of CAB. “We had a few hundred people come out and enjoy a movie that is still in theaters, for free,” Goldman said.
CAB tries to always show movies that are still in theaters in order to generate more interest. “We can show movies that aren’t released on DVD yet by ordering them through an online movie company,” said Hannah Anderson, ju-nior elementary education major from Waco and co-director of CAB.
“We also give out door prizes at every event we have. At the movie night, we gave away a new iPod Nano,” Goldman said. No fee is re-quired for the door prizes; you just have to be in atten-dance, Goldman said.
CAB hosts many differ-ent events throughout the semester all free of charge to students. It is funded by ACU. “The next event we are hosting is a free night out on Monday, Oct. 15, at Cold Stone Creamery,” Goldman said.
“On that day, students can pick up a ticket in the Campus Center for free ice cream that night,” Gold-man said.
“Other events this se-mester include another movie night in November and Sadies Week during the week of Nov. 5-9,” said Anderson. Sadies Week will include five free date nights in which girls can come to the Campus Cen-ter and pick up tickets for free activities, said Gold-
man. “For example, last year during Sadies Week, we had a free dessert night at Spaghetti Warehouse.”
“I’m really glad they host these free events be-cause it’s a great way to hang out with friends and not have to worry about spending any money,” said Jonathan Garner, business management major from Plano. “It’s also a good way to show people who don’t know much about Abilene what it’s really about.”
“CAB is student led and is always looking for vol-unteers to help,” Goldman said. “By volunteering, ser-vice hours can be acquired. Some of the jobs include concessions, selling tick-ets, and checking ID’s.”
If anyone is interested in helping with future events they can contact Erika Goldman by e-mail at [email protected].
CAB treats students to film
By Yuri SudoStudent RepoRteR
Bowling, miniature golf, go-carts, bumper cars, X-D theatre, laser tag, billiards, Skyline restaurant and Star-bucks coffee will soon come to Abilene’s first entertain-ment center — Prime Time. The entertainment center will open Oct. 15, and college students can get in from 6 p.m. until midnight.
Assistant General Manager Carol Casey said she hopes people will come and spend all day in the 43,000-square-foot facility.
“We are open late at night to accommodate college stu-dents,” said Casey. “On the weekends we will be open until 2 a.m., and on week-nights we will be open until midnight. We have Starbucks
coffee coming in, so students can bring their laptops, have some coffee and study.”
The average cost of all the at-tractions is $5, although some attractions are more expensive.
Everyday from 8 to 10 p.m. Prime Time offers “cos-mic bowling.” Black lights go on, and the bowling balls glow in the dark.
“We have college nights,” Casey said. Every Monday from 6 p.m.. until midnight, if college students bring their ID, they can play bowl-ing and golf for half price.”
Brandon Sayre, a graduate student from Lawrence, Kan. said Abilene doesn’t have many places where college students can hang out after midnight. “This is interest-ing; the college students’ discount sounds good too.”
Even though Prime Time
is not open yet, already peo-ple can use the party rooms.
“I’m excited. My husband and I have been worked for this for three years,” Casey said. She said she wants people to like and enjoy the place and hopes they come back to Prime Time repeat-edly. Many people are al-ready booked or have come to parties at the facilities. Kids who visit Prime Time said they are going to book their parties here. “The kids really liked it,” Casey said.
Prime Time’s Web site is, www.primetimeabilene.com. The grand opening is Oct. 20. On the Web, there is more information, coupons, and party bookings avail-able.
Prime fun at Prime Time
Todd Piersall SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Scott Westle, part of the Dyess We Care Team, helps rebuild Ft. Imagination at Nelson Park Saturday.
to have a mentor to connect with. Most women Veil talk-ed to said they were inter-ested in having a mentor but never knew how to go about it and if there were older women out there who could invest time in their lives.
This thought came to a stand still until Veil trav-eled to Oxford last sum-mer with the Department of Journalism and Mass Com-munications. There, she was challenged with learn-ing how to build communi-cation through mentorship and how to make a program that would be flexible for everyone involved.
In February, she present-ed the mentor program in women’s Chapel and had a good response. After presenting there she knew there were women who were excited about the program
and she presented it to many other organizations on campus to see what they thought.
Veil, who now lives in Washington D.C., is trying to stay involved in Flight since this is the first year that it is being put into action.
“Taking a job in D.C. was very unexpected, but I knew as a senior I should have started the program no matter where I would be the next year,” Veil said. “I have a solid group of girls who are very involved and work-ing with me to get this men-torship program started.”
Women who are already involved in Flight are look-ing to start various activi-ties around campus that would be fun for all to at-tend as they get to know other students and female faculty and staff.
This Friday they will host their first event; a lock-in at
University Church of Christ from 9 p.m. - 8 a.m. The lock-in is for any female student who wants to come and spend quality time with other students, play games, eat, fellowship and spend time in the word.
“We are starting out small but are confident that Flight will grow as more girls be-come aware of the program,” Veil said. “There is a need for mentors among college women and this program is for them.”
There will be numerous activities for all women throughout the year, and they meet in women’s Cha-pel every Thursday.
To learn more about Flight you can e-mail them at [email protected] or visit their Web site at www.flight-mentorship.com.
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A non-profit organization in Abilene is hosting a fund-raiser at a pumpkin patch Oct. 2-31, in order to fund-raise for its organization.
Men’s social club Frater Sodalis pledges helped Dis-ability Resources Inc. un-load pumpkins from a de-livery truck Oct. 2.
According to its Web site, Disability Resources, Inc., a non-profit organization that began 20 years ago, “aims to assist developmen-tally disabled individuals to achieve their full potential in a Christian environment.”
The organization has seven homes for developmentally disabled adults, who may have autism, Down syndrome or permanent head injuries.
“These are people who can’t necessarily make it on their own. We provide a safe and protected environment, as well as a place to live and work,” said Susan Hickmott, administrative assistant at DRI.
Individual donors, resi-dential fees, the government and different fundraisers
held throughout the year all help finance DRI.
The Pumpkin Patch is one of many fundraisers DRI holds. Proceeds from the Pumpkin Patch are used for the organi-zation’s residents in order to keep fees as low as possible for them, Hickmott said. The organization also hosts the Big Country Celebrity Quail Hunt, the West Texas Celebrity Dove Hunt and a golf tournament at 3602 N. Clack.
The Pumpkin Patch is in its second year and offers the venue not only as a place to purchase pumpkins but also to take seasonal photographs.
There are about 1,000 pumpkins to choose from, ranging in prices from $.50 to $20, depending on size.
As of Monday, DRI had al-ready raised $3,000.
“In just a few days, we’ve
already made almost half of what we made altogether last year,” Hickmott said.
The Pumpkin Patch is lo-cated off Hwy 277 North and just south of the KTXS stu-dio. It is open seven days a week and close at dusk. For more information, visit http://www.driabilene.org/Pumpkin%20Patch.htm.
Frater Sodalis pledgee Josh Lopez, sophomore psychology major from Grape-vine, is handed a pumkin by Jared Ohrmundt, sophomore exercise science major from Hurst, at Disability Resource, Inc.’s annual pumpkin patch Oct. 2.
“In just a few days, we’ve already made almost half of what we made altogether last year.”
Susan Hickmott, administrative assistant at Disability resources, inc.Disability Resources, Inc. is a non-profit organization that began 20 years ago and serves to assist and care for developmentally disabled adults. The pumpkin patch is a way for the organization to raise money, so the cost of living is cheaper for its residents.
n This is the second year for the pumpkin patch.
n There are around 1,000 pumpkins to choose from.
n It is open seven days a week.
n You can get a seasonal photo made.
DiSAbility RESoURCES
By Denton JoseyFeatures editor
Brenden Baker isn’t your typical cowboy.
Riding a horse in Grif-fin Arena at the Taylor County Expo Center, Brenden literally has a following. It’s not be-cause he’s riding with-out a saddle or that he’s only 4 years old. It isn’t even because he some-times rides backwards or catches and throws a ball while in transit.
Brenden is surrounded by three volunteers be-cause he is in therapy with the Hendrick Equine Re-habilitation Opportunities program. His shouts of “Horse!” and “Ball!” echo throughout the arena.
Like the stoic cowboy in many Westerns, Brenden didn’t speak when he be-gan the program because his core muscles were too weak. He could barely cry. However, after two years of H.E.R.O., he has found his voice.
A patient at Hendrick Cen-ter for Rehabilitation since he was an infant, Brenden was born with Desbuquois Syndrome, which causes weak joints and, most no-ticeably, what is known as dwarfism. Through the H.E.R.O. program, which helps children with any of a number of medical condi-tions rehabilitate and devel-op, Brenden and his peers
find help in the arena.The average 4-year-old
stands around 43 inches tall and weighs nearly 30 pounds; Brenden is 22 inches tall and weighs 15 pounds. His unique condi-tion requires him to go to physical therapy twice a week and speech therapy once a week.
JoBeth Huber-Willis, physical therapist at Hen-drick, facilitates Brenden’s physical therapy. Willis said Brenden goes to H.E.R.O. for 20 to 40 minutes a week to improve his coordination, balance and speaking skills.
“He was not walking yet, and he had such poor trunk strength and respiratory weakness,” Willis said. Willis said within two months of therapy Brenden improved greatly in his balance and coordination, as well as speaking skills.
“The first time he got up on the horse was the first time he was eye-to-eye with anyone,” Willis said. “It gave him a tre-mendous amount of self esteem and confidence.”
Willis’ involvement with H.E.R.O. goes back six years, but the program is 15 years old. H.E.R.O. reaches 75 cli-ents a year, and Willis esti-mates hundreds of children have ridden one of the 11 H.E.R.O. horses.
This year Brenden rides a horse named Abby. Abby’s walk helps Brenden with his balance, which was one of
his weak areas when he be-gan the program.
Known as Hippotherapy, referring to the Greek word for horse, the motion of a horse’s walk helps patients because it is similar to a hu-man body’s motion: rhyth-mic, variable and repetitive. The patients of H.E.R.O. de-velop better strength, coor-dination, motor skills, pos-ture and mobility as a result of riding the horses. Some children, such as Brenden, even see improvement in their respiratory system.
Willis, who works with 40 to 50 children a week, said Brenden is delightful to work with.
“He has such enthusi-asm; there are no pretenses with him,” Willis said. “He can make anybody’s bad day become a very good day very quickly.”
Willis isn’t the only one who enjoys working with the program. H.E.R.O. hosts four full-time vol-unteers and 90 part-time volunteers annually.
Beth Byerly volunteers because she “loves kids and loves horses.” Byerly, whose work spans 10 years, helps train the horses to work with kids and walk with vol-unteers on all sides, some-thing a horse typically does not do.
Byerly said they expose the horses to people walking around them and to the toys used in the kids’ rehabilita-tion exercises before they begin taking riders around the arena.
“Horses have to have the mindset and mentality to deal with what we put them through,” she said.
With activities that build
stronger neck and trunk muscles, such as playing catch while riding the horse or stretching to hang plastic rings on a PVC tree in the middle of the arena, the chil-dren hardly notice they are in therapy.
“You have such a dif-ferent atmosphere here,” Byerly said. The kids can hear birds, see trees and, of course, see and feel horses, she said. “They don’t realize they’re doing therapy be-cause they’re playing ball.”
Brianna Allen, junior pre-occupational therapy major from Abilene, said the kids enjoy the therapy so much because working with hors-es is different from other therapy they go through during the week. “The hors-es make it more like play, but they’re still working and improving.”
“I just love working with people,” Allen said. “It’s re-warding to see kids have fun and playing with horses and doing something they wouldn’t normally do.”
Brenden doesn’t adorn himself with the chaps, spurs or hat cowboys often wear. He always sports a helmet when he’s on a horse and sometimes he wears a bright yellow shirt that reads, “Grand-pa’s Little Sidekick.”
Bruce Bachmann, Bren-den’s grandfather, takes Brenden to H.E.R.O. some weeks and enjoys watch-ing Brenden improve. “All
his mobility has greatly im-proved,” Bachmann said. “We were a little bit leery about how much this would do for him, but the change is amazing.”
“Anytime he sees horses he talks about it,” Bachmann said. “He really enjoys com-ing out here.”
Bachmann said Dwarfism has more than 200 varieties, but Brenden’s is so rare only 30 people in the world have it and he isn’t expected to grow taller than 3 feet.
For now, Brenden gets around on an electric wheelchair or a walker, but Willis said the goal is to help him reach a level of age-appropriate function-ality and independence.
Like any cowboy and his horse, one of the goals of Brenden’s therapy is to see him get on and off the horse by himself. Willis said she also wants to see Bren-den speak more clearly and in sentences.
The vision for improve-ment isn’t limited to Bren-den; Willis wants all the cowboys at the H.E.R.O. ro-deo to make strides in the therapy and to increase awareness locally.
“Our goals are just to be able to see as many [patients] as we can and let the community know we’re here.”
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EMILY SMITH SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Maygan Holdridge, a 4-year-old H.E.R.O. client rides a horse to stretch her legs.
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Brenden Baker, a 4-year-old H.E.R.O. client with dwarfism works with the ring stand to build muscle and increase stability.
H.E.R.O. Riders
H.E.R.O. helps patients with any number of conditions. Each patient is evaluated on an individual basis and must be referred to the program by a physician. Some of the conditions of patients include:
n muscular dystrophy n multiple sclerosisn Down syndrome n stroken arthritis n cancern spina bifida n traumatic brain injuryn polio n developmental delayn cerebral palsy n autism
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The issue:The Campus Store is adding a new, sweatshop-free clothing line to its racks.
Our view:HeartBeat clothing is coming to campus, which is a great step in the right direction.
The solution:Adding HeartBeat to the Campus Store is good because it helps people overseas, and we hope everyone on campus recognizes and supports the addition.
HeartBeat clothing line a welcome additionThe university’s step toward
changing the world with the non-sweatshop clothing line HeartBeat deserves applause.
The HeartBeat line uses American Apparel Fabric, which wisely pays laborers Fair Trade compensation.
HeartBeat also cares about designs of T-shirts. It will re-lease three designs each semes-ter and will feature this semes-ter the designs of Ryan Feerer (‘05), Brent Couchman (‘05) and Ben Hernandez (‘06), all ACU alumni graphic designers.
The university will donate
some of its profits to an organizat ion that needs fi-nancial sup-port, which allows Heart-Beat and ACU to influence even more people.
Stephen’s Children, an or-ganization that works with youth in poor urban commu-nities in the Middle East, has been selected as the first orga-nization HeartBeat supports.
In the future, HeartBeat will include more student
input by adopting a voting system to decide which orga-nization it wants to support with the profit. This system could raise more students’ interest and awareness in the worldwide support that HeartBeat makes possible.
The Campus Store has dealt in non-sweatshop or
Fair Trade products for several years, an excellent policy. All the clothing c o m p a n i e s
that the store deals with now are Fair Trade companies.
Although the university is changing as a whole, if we want to prove that we, as individu-als, care about and support Fair Trade, we should also re-evaluate our own consuming habits beyond the campus.
Knowing cruelty of work-
ing environment that labor-ers, possibly children, were put in, should make us feel guilty for buying sweatshop products as Christians and as humans.
Sweatshop products ap-peal to retailers and consum-ers because of low prices, but we ignore the moral ques-tions to satisfy our selfish and mindless needs.
The university’s step toward changing the world with the non-sweatshop clothing line HeartBeat
It doesn’t matter if some-one is talking about Iraq or abortion. Hardly any-one seems to care any-more, and the sadness of that is over-whelming.
C u r r e n t affairs are one thing, but when Amer i cans
begin to ignore their histo-ry, it’s time to make people realize that our society has gone the wrong way.
I recently attended a con-vention in Washington, D.C. and visited the National Ar-chives while I was there.
I hope most know the Na-tional Archives house the original Declaration of In-dependence, the Constitu-tion and the Bill of Rights.
Visiting the Archives and seeing those documents was one of the highlights of my trip. While I was at the Archives, a large group of French tourists arrived be-hind me.
Knowing a bit of French from my high school days, I decided to eavesdrop a little and try to translate the con-versations because I’m a nerd like that and wanted to hear an international perspective.
Each French person I heard was practically ecstat-ic to see the Declaration and everything else in that room. They knew all the details of the hallowed documents and kept exclaiming how excited they were to be there. Some were even reciting the begin-nings of the Declaration as we waited to see it.
How many Americans
would feel that way? How many would be completely thrilled to see that amazing part of our country’s history?
I’m sure a few would, but if it weren’t for our high school history classes that required us to memorize the Preamble and Declaration, most Americans wouldn’t know anything about them, or care to know anything about them.
I’m glad the French tour-ists were excited to see our history, but it saddened me to realize that most Americans just wouldn’t care that much.
Citizens from another country are more excited about our history and gov-ernment than the citizens in this country.
I think the growing problem of American apathy is about to reach its pinnacle, and I
hope Americans soon realize that the blessings we’re given in this country aren’t ones to be taken for granted.
We have so many amazing opportunities in this nation, and no one wants to grasp them. Instead, we groan ev-ery time we hear someone telling us how important his-tory is and how lucky we are to be in this country.
I learned a lesson from that group of tourists the other day. I learned that be-ing a citizen of this country is something to be proud of, and that our nation’s history is something to be celebrated — not ignored.
The freedoms we’re given are the same freedoms that allow us to be so apathetic. Ironic, isn’t it?
Value American history; don’t ignore it
I fell in love with someone I’ve never met.
Not romantic love, though. Not really love at all, but after watching the Dallas Cow-boys beat the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Foot-ball I wish I could make Nick Folk my older brother — he could even have
the inheritance. As much as recapping
the game is tempting, I can’t imagine how any self-respect-ing Texan would not know about it by now. For the non-Texans who missed the game, the Cowboys won in one of the most exciting finishes I’ve ever seen, and Nick Folk kicked the winning field goal — and the entire population of Buffalo — twice.
Monday night’s game was full of more ups and downs than the average CW televi-sion show relationship. I may or may not have somehow lost my shirt during the process of the game or balled up in the fe-tal position and covered myself with pillows and peeked out just to feel safe if something went wrong. And my room-mate may or may not have punched a hole in the wall.
In the end, I felt like watching the game was a refining process akin to Navy SEAL training or at least what Paris Hilton went through while she was in jail; in the end we — the Cowboys and I — came out better people.
I’m proof the Cowboys are America’s Team: a native Floridian, I don’t jest when I say my life would be differ-ent without the Cowboys in it — we have a history.
I reckon most people appre-ciate Thanksgiving and maybe even think about football on that holiday, but for Cowboys fans it is different — it is as important as the turkey and maybe even some of the dis-tant family members. Due to the distance between Florida and Texas these days, I’ve not been able to make it home some Thanksgivings; as a re-sult, I’ve spent more Thanks-givings with the Cowboys than my own family.
Come to think of it, my re-lationship with the Cowboys really is like the dynamic be-tween family members. Some-times I don’t like what they do (fire Jimmy Johnson, let Quin-cy Carter wear a jersey, make
Tony Romo the holder for field goals, etc.) but I always love ‘em. And when you don’t live in Texas it can be tough.
I’ve survived silly Dolphins, Bucs and Jaguars fans while living in Florida, but the worst was living in Kansas City dur-ing the late 90s.
The Cowboys weren’t doing too well these years, but I was still a stalwart fan. When the Cowboys came to Kansas City to meet the Chiefs I donned my XXL Deion Sanders jersey and puffy Cowboys Starter jacket and headed to the game.
It was wonderful to see Troy Aikman before he retired, but the Cowboys lost. Maybe if my voice had changed the ‘Boys would have heard me better and won the game, but I can only speculate. I remember as I left the game a drunken Chief’s fan poured his beer on me from the walkway above; as frustrat-ed as I was, it felt good to suffer for my cause.
True Cowboys fans don’t mind enduring persecution for the faith.
My other testimony to the Cowboys comes from when I was a freshman at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. I came to ACU for a missions workshop, but the Cowboys also played in Texas that week-end. To make a long story short, I only saw ACU’s cam-
pus for an hour before head-ing to Dallas and seeing the Cowboys. As a result, I missed the bus back
to Nashville. Did I mind that they lost or that I had to take the midnight Greyhound bus 15 hours back to school and go straight to class? If you watched the Cowboys Mon-day night and always be-lieved they could pull it out, you know my answer.
So in my own, small way, this is my tribute to the Dal-las Cowboys. It is for games like Monday night that we watch and risk hours of time that could have been spent on homework, hoping for an out-come that won’t ruin our week-end/weeks. And now there is a special place in my heart for Nick Folk — a man who made it onto Wikipedia within an hour of the game’s end.
After reading Nick’s entry on Wikipedia I discovered he can’t ever be my older brother — I’m older than he is. But we’re still like family: me, Nick and the Cowboys. And though we may never meet, we’ll always be to-gether for Thanksgiving, just like a family should.
The “right to healthcare” heralded in Daniel Johnson’s column is not really a right at all. Our Constitutional rights to life, liberty and property are negative rights, namely rights not to be physically harmed, constrained, or stolen from. On the contrary, positive
“rights” such as healthcare and education are a claim on someone else’s life and liveli-hood, a right to be provided healthcare and education at the cost of legal servitude.
Certainly, there is some degree of medical need in America. Voluntary charity is an appropriate response for concerned Christians. However, need does not justify interven-tion by government coercion, which is ultimately violence. Benevolence with one’s own
money is moral; forcing others to be benevolent is not.
Furthermore, Johnson’s re-peated comments on the profit motive in the American medical were ignorant at best and insult-ing at worst. Incentives matter; what capitalism we have left in the American medical system drives quality and innovation, saving many lives. Additionally, doctors are not the slaves of al-truism. They have a right to en-gage in the free trade of servic-es for compensation, whenever
and however they so choose. To summarize, 2 Corinthi-
ans 9:7 says “[e]ach man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
a 29-yard field goal by junior kicker Matt Adams with 9:31 remaining in the first quarter. Two minutes later, freshman wide receiver Edmund Gates ran a 29-yard end around off a handoff from Malone.
Northeastern senior quar-terback Joe Hogan started the game for the River-Hawks. But after going down 10-0 in the first eight min-utes of the game, Northeast-ern turned to junior quarter-back Jarrett Beal. However, the switch did not help the RiverHawks as the Wildcats scored again on a 15-yard pass from Malone to fresh-man running back Kebron Lampkin. ACU was up 17-0 after the first quarter.
“We tried to kill them before they killed us,” Lampkin said.
Lampkin did plenty of kill-ing himself as the 15-yard touchdown reception was just his first of three touch-downs in the game. His sec-
ond score came late in the second quarter and didn’t happen before ACU tacked on three more touchdowns.
Junior wide receivers Rod-ney Freeman and Johnny Knox each caught a touch-down in the first seven min-utes of the second quarter. Junior running back Bernard Scott also capped off an 11-play, 58-yard drive with a 2-yard run for a touchdown. Scott finished the game with 32 yards rushing, 66 yards re-ceiving and one touchdown.
The Wildcats took full advantage of the River-Hawks’ mistakes. North-eastern turned the ball over five times in the game, each leading to ACU points.
“The defense did well. Those guys come out with a great passion,” Thomsen said. “They’re getting better every week.”
The Wildcat defense caused trouble for the Northeastern quarterbacks as Hogan threw three inter-ceptions, while Beal threw
one and also fumbled once. ACU defenders Josh Henry, E.J. Whitley, Tony Harp and Josh Wise each had an in-terception. And freshman linebacker Fred Thompson recovered the fumble. The Wildcats allowed the sec-ond fewest point total by an opponent this season as Northeastern posted seven points. ACU held Southeast-ern Oklahoma State to only three points on Sept. 15.
ACU finished up the first half with two more touch-downs, both scored by Lampkin. Lampkin ended up with 90 yards rushing and 17 yards receiving to go along with his three touch-downs. With his scores, the Wildcats went into halftime leading 51-0.
“We were able to throw the ball,” Malone said. “It was really good.”
Backup junior quarter-back Nick Bird started the second half for ACU. With him, coach Chris Thomsen played his bench and sat his
22 starters for the rest of the game. Northeastern man-aged to get on the board in the third with a short rush by sophomore running back Josh Lewis, and ACU sopho-more running back Patrick Washington countered the score by rushing into the end zone in the fourth.
ACU finished the game with 475 yards in total of-fense, while limiting the Riv-
erHawks to only 243 yards. ACU also gained more first downs with 20 over North-eastern’s 14. The Wildcats will take its powerful of-fense on the road this Sat-urday against Angelo State. The game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
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Northeastern St. 0 0 7 0 — 7Abilene Christian 17 34 0 7 — 58
First QuarterACU — FG Matt Adams 29, 9:31.ACU — John Nation 29 run (Adams kick), 7:09ACU — Kebron Lampkin 15 pass from Billy Malone (Adams kick), 2:44
Second QuarterACU — Rodney Freeman 21 pass from Malone (Adams kick), 13:39ACU — Bernard Scott 2 run (Adams kick), 9:16ACU — Johnny Knox 18 pass from Malone (kick failed), 8:22ACU — Lampkin 1 run (Adams kick), 5:09ACU — Lampkin 75 pass from Malone (Adams kick), 2:15
Third QuarterNSU — Josh Lewis 7 run (Jared Homer kick), 5:25
Fourth Quarter ACU — Richard Havins 2 run (Adams kick), 2:40
Team Statistics NSU ACUFirst downs 14 20Total net yards 243 475Rushing yards 38-156 35-95Passing yards 87 380Kickoff returns 5-97 1-33Interceptions Ret. 0-0 4-82Comp-Att-Int 10-30-4 20-32-0Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 1-2Punts/Avg. 7-37.4 5-37.8 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-Yards 7-60 7-67Time of Possession 30:05 29:55
Individual Statistics Rushing — NSU: Josh Lewis 19-65; Domingo Codner 4-62; Joe Hogan 7-47; Jarett Beal 8-(-18). ACU: Havins 14-43; Scott 9-32; John Nation 3-30; Lampkin 6-17.Passing — NSU: Joe Hogan 8-23-3; Jarett Beal 2-7-1. ACU: Malone 17-24-0; Nick Bird 3-8-0. Receiving — NSU: Damein Henderson 4-51; Lewis 3-0; Anthony Alexander 1-14; Anthony Moody 1-13. ACU: Knox 4-80; Scott 3-66; Rodney Freeman 3-50; Lampkin 2-90; Jon Ferguson 2-23.
ACU 58, NSU 7
maTT newhouSer STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior defensive back E.J. Whitley pulls away from Notheastern State players after intercepting a pass from Northeastern quarterback Jarrett Beal.
year, the bar has been set a little higher.
Head women’s basket-ball coach Shawna Lavender hopes to carry over the suc-cess as well as develop a team first identity.
“We have a very young but experienced team coming back with nine of the 14 play-ers being freshman or sopho-mores,” Lavender said. “We have good leadership com-
ing back but the team must be willing to sell out and be about the team first.”
Senior guard Alex Guiton and junior center Audrey Maxwell return with first team all-Lone Star Confer-ence South Division honors but will look to rely on the experience of the younger players to help contribute.
“We have so many people, but the main focus is team-work and knowing your role,” Guiton said. “There are a lot of people who can do differ-
ent things but we are really excited about the season.”
Pre-season polls place the men’s team to finish seventh in the Lone Star Conference, while the women are picked to finish second. However, the polls do not mean much to both coaches.
“Pre-season does not mean anything,” Copeland said. “It is based off the year before but our guys have improved so the polls cannot tell much from that.”
Although the women are
picked to finish higher, the same goes for Lavender.
“It is nice to know other coaches respect our team but we must go out and get it done on the floor,” Lavender said.
Practice for each team be-gins on Monday and they both open their season on Nov. 16.
The men will open against Hillsdale Freewill Baptist in Abilene while the women face Incarnate Word in Austin.
Basketball: Season slated to start in NovemberContinued from page 8
Washburn was the best team we’ve seen all year,” Mock said. “Washburn was an ex-tremely well-balanced team; lots of players that could put the ball away, some of the best ball control I’ve seen all year.”
The Wildcats bounced back on Saturday against No. 6 Truman State. ACU gave Tru-man State a run for its money, but in the end fell 30-20, 18-30, 30-23, 31-29. Lowry led
ACU 23 kills, while Curry and sophomore middle blocker Michelle Bacon contributed each with 10 kills.
Curry had 10 digs to give her a double-double. Sopho-more defensive specialist Amy Wilson and senior libero Liz Snoddy also finished with a double-digit dig count, each with 13 digs. Moronu also stepped up with 51 assists.
ACU’s final match of the weekend against No. 23 Em-poria State also ended in four games. However, the Wildcats
lost the match 26-30, 30-14, 30-25, 30-24.
Bacon led the Wildcats with 16 kills on a .255 hitting-per-centage. And freshman middle blocker Shawna Hines led all players with 5.5 total blocks.
“I feel like we had a great chance at beating Truman and Emporia this weekend,” Mock said.
At the end of the Lady Blues Classic, Lowry was honored as the Lone Star Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week in addition to being named to
the all-tournament team. Af-ter the weekend, Lowry now has 1,347 career kills, which is sixth on ACU’s all-time list. She needs just 98 more kills to move past Misti Germany.
Lowry will get a chance to add to her kill count this Thursday as ACU resumes Lone Star Conference play by hosting Angelo State at Moody Coliseum. The match starts at 7 p.m.
Kansas: ACU back to conference matchesContinued from page 8
Director of Connecting Caring Communities, said Dr. Sider has been highly influential in the evangelical ministry.
“He has been a player in this game for a long time,” Carter said. “He has had an ongoing commitment to what needs to be changed on every level of evangelism, social ac-tion and poverty. He has influ-enced so many people in help-ing us think about the facts of how to live — what does being a Christian mean?”
Hardin-Simmons University brought Dr. Sider to Abilene. He will speak at ACU’s Chapel on the Hill on Monday from 7-8:30 p.m. on the topic “New Vision for Overcoming Pov-erty in America.” This event is sponsored by Connecting
Caring Communities and the Abilene Association of Con-gregations. Dr. Sider will then speak at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the Hardin-Simmons social justice chapel.
Carter said he hopes people come to hear him speak, and that students get involved.
“We brought Dr. Sider to ACU and Hardin-Simmons to expose him to students,” Cart-er said. “It has been about five to 10 years since he last came to Abilene. This is a great op-portunity to hear from one of the nation’s leading experts to talk about problems [of social justice.] We want to utilize him to educate, inspire and spur others on to love their neighbors to make Abilene a better place.”
Sider: Local groups host social justice speakerContinued from page 1
program’s perks. The safe community offered on some campuses appeals to Gon-zales, and while he doesn’t
have any one university in mind now, because of the program, he knows he wants to attend one eventually.
“I guess [The Talent Search Program] helps motivate stu-dents to do better things in
their life and not just slack off, and it makes you want to be something and not a no one,” Gonzales said. “In sixth grade, I didn’t really care much about school. I figured I would drop out,
and now I have straight A’s, so I think it’s made a big im-provement in my life.”
the program intended to in-crease employment opportu-nities that were artistic while using its passion to raise the awareness of the poor during the Depression.
These photographs were
locked away in governmen-tal vaults, Deaton said, and were discovered by a histo-rian in the early 1970’s.
After the discovery, digi-tal images were created and “the color was shocking.” She also said when com-paring the black and white
photographs to color pho-tographs, a different image appears.
“I would say it’s not trag-ic, even though they lived hard lives, this color gives it a positive spirit of overcom-ing the Depression.”
The Grace Museum is
open Tuesday through Sat-urday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays they are open un-til 8:00 p.m. with free admis-sion from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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violations and illegal weapons possessions — do not include ACU policy violations, but rath-er violations of law. Also, while the Clery Act wants to know the types of crimes people are concerned about, the statistics do not display all the crimes that occur. The reports do not show more minor crimes like vehicle theft.
Because the Clery Act’s pur-pose is to offer the campus a broad picture of criminal inci-dents, the act does not differ-entiate those incidents.
Ellison said that while stu-dents may read the statistics and become nervous in the increase of forcible sex of-fenses, the statistics do not re-veal that each were incidents of date rape as opposed to a stranger attack.
“I want to emphasize that though these are the numbers
and that crime does happen, the big picture is that ACU is an extremely safe campus,” Ellison said.
Ellison encourages students and faculty to observe the sta-tistics at the ACU Police De-partment’s Web site, which can be accessed through the ACU home page. And while he rec-ognizes that viewers’ main at-traction is the crime statistics, Ellison encourages the com-munity to read through the police department’s policies in order to get a glimpse of what is happening on campus.
“In a perfect world, I would like to report all 0’s, but crime is real,” Ellison said. Still Ellison challenges the ACU community to stay informed and reminds the public, despite the criminal incidents, of the campus’ overall safety.
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n The intramural schedule in the Optimist is subject to change and is not permanent. Any changes can be viewed on the intramural bulletin board in Moody Coliseum.
Scoreboard as of Monday
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Briefs
Lowry named LSC Co-offensive player of the Week
n ACU senior outside hitter Ab-bie Lowry earned the honor of Lone Star Conference Co-offen-sive Player of the Week after hitting 73 kills in four matches last weekend. Lowry is now sixth on ACU’s all-time kill list with 1,347.
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The ACU women’s tennis team swept the Lone Star Conference Fall Individual Championship Tourna-ment, and the men’s team brought back three titles this past weekend.
“The women won everything they could have won,” said head coach Hutton Jones. “It’s never been done before, and to win every title was really good.”
Jones said players Sarah Drum-mond and Aina Rafolomanatsiatosi-ka were unable to play in the singles tournament, so he brought up fresh-man Lauren White and junior Alex-sandra Vucic to play.
“The most exciting thing is the depth of our team,” Jones said. “It’s great to see how tough and deep our team is even with two of our top six players gone. To have that kind of depth is really reassuring to me as a coach.”
Jones said he was excited about the women’s performances, but he felt the men’s team could have per-formed better.
“We brought home two singles titles and one doubles title, but I think we could have done better,” Jones said. “Competition was tough, but we’ll have plenty of chances to redeem ourselves against them in the spring.”
Each ACU player won the first matches on day one in the semifinals, so the teams went into the finals matches 18-0.
Juniors Irene Squillaci and Juan Nunez won the No. 1 singles section of the tournament for the teams.
Squillaci said she didn’t expect the women to sweep the tournament.
“I expected us to win more than half, but to win all of them is so hard to do. It’s never been done before by an ACU team, so it’s pretty histori-
cal,” Squillaci said. She also said her finals match
against East Central Oklahoma was the most difficult, but she was at her best.
“There was a big chance to win,” Squillaci said. “Tennis is a sport that if you’re not playing at your best in, it won’t help you win.”
Nunez said since this was the first year he’d won the title, it was a great feeling.
“I played really good, and I felt re-ally confident,” Nunez said. “Playing that way before we go to nationals was a great feeling. I knew if I focused hard, I’d play great. I just stay in there and try to be the most professional player on the court.”
Nunez, Squillaci, Rafolomanat-siatosika and Ryan Hudson will rep-resent ACU in doubles competition at the ITA Small College National Cham-pionships on Wednesday.
ACU players dominate LSC Championships
By Grant AbstonStudEnt rEpOrtEr
After productive offsea-sons, the ACU men and wom-en’s basketball teams aim to capture Lone Star Conference championships as well as re-turn to post-season play.
With a new crop of talent to accompany already experi-enced rosters, the ACU men and women’s basketball teams have set their goals high. How-ever, each team’s success will rely on team chemistry with the new additions.
After missing the postsea-son the last nine years, men’s basketball head coach Jason Copeland is excited about the possibilities and the added depth this offseason.
Transfer guard Brandon Callahan (Morehead State), guard Corwin Ragland (Ste-phen F. Austin), and cen-ter Stephen Musa (Lamar) look to strengthen the team along with returners junior
forward Cam Holson, sopho-more guard Riley Lambert and last season’s leading scorer on the team, senior guard Cortnie Ross.
“We added quite a few guys including three NCAA Division I transfers,” Cope-land said. “We have a lot of depth and will utilize a lot of guys. We have to see who will step up.”
The women’s basketball team enters the season look-ing to add to their success from last season. After reach-ing the Lone Star Conference
Chemistry key to season’s success
Katie gager CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior Alexsandra Vucic serves a ball during a match in the ITA Central Regionals on Sept. 22.
By Michael FreemanASSiStAnt SpOrtS EditOr
The Wildcat volleyball team picked up a victory before losing three straight matches to top 25 teams last weekend at the Wash-burn University Lady Blues Fall Classic.
However, in the three loss-es, ACU didn’t go quietly. Nev-ertheless, the Wildcats now own an 8-11 overall record with a 3-2 conference record.
“I think this weekend was successful in some ways,” head coach Kellen Mock said. “When you look at the win-loss columns, it was not a success. But this was one of the toughest tournaments ACU has ever been to.”
ACU’s first match was
against Missouri Western on Friday. Four Wildcats fin-ished the game with double-digit kills as ACU dropped Missouri Western by the count of 30-23, 31-29, 30-32, 30-22. Senior outside hitter Abbie Lowry led the Wildcats with 23 kills, while sopho-more middle blocker Krys-tine Cethoute had 16 kills, junior middle blocker Lauren Leone finished with 13 kills and sophomore outside hit-ter Erin Curry completed the game with a double-double of 10 kills and 13 digs.
“One thing I was really proud of was that we took
care of the game against Mis-souri Western,” Mock said. “The girls saw the opportu-nity to take a win and really took care of business.”
ACU ended the game with a team hitting-percentage of .279, but the Wildcats’ hitting went downhill in the second match and hit a flat .000 against Washburn. No. 5 Washburn downed ACU 30-19, 30-22, 30-20. Lowry was the only Wildcat with double-digit kills as she finished with 13.
“Personally, I believe Washburn was the best team we’ve seen all year,” Mock
ACU drops three at Kansas tourney
Matt NeWHOUSer STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior libero Liz Snoddy digs a ball during practice on Oct. 2. ACU is now 8-11 after losing three games to nationally ranked teams this weekend.
n The ACU women’s basketball team was picked to finish second in the LSC.
n The ACU men’s basketball team was picked to finish seventh in the LSC.
EARLY pREdICTIONS
Basketball
By Michael FreemanASSiStAnt SpOrtS EditOr
ACU jumped one spot in the NCAA Division II nation-al poll to No. 14 thanks to a dominating 58-7 victory over Northeastern State at Shot-well Stadium on Saturday.
The Wildcats, ranked No. 8 in the Southwest Region, pushed its record to 5-1 overall and 4-0 in the Lone Star Conference with the
win. Meanwhile, the River-Hawks fell to 1-5 overall and 1-4 in conference play.
“I thought that they did a good job at just coming out with a really good focus on what they had to do,” head coach Chris Thomsen said. “That’s what I’m most proud of them is each week they’re
coming out with great inten-sity and focus.”
The victory marked the Wildcats’ fifth straight game scoring 40 points or more with 51 of those points com-ing in the first half.
The Wildcats’ first 51 points scored set a school-record for points in a half, breaking the old record of 47 points set on Oct. 23, 1993 as ACU defeated Tarleton State 57-15. And
ACU’s 58 points for the game were the most scored by an ACU football team since Oct. 10, 1970, when the Wildcats defeated East-ern New Mexico, 61-7.
Junior quarterback Billy Malone played for only the first half in Saturday’s re-cord-breaking game as he ef-ficiently completed 17 of 24 passes, threw for 343 yards and four touchdowns and helped give ACU to a 51-0
lead at halftime.“We came out focused,”
Malone said. “We just want-ed to come out and make a statement right off the bat.”
In the first half, ACU’s dy-namic offense, ranked No. 9 in the nation in scoring, con-verted all eight of its posses-sions into scores. ACU began its offensive onslaught with a 29-yard field goal by junior
A Rout for the Record
Matt NeWHOUSer STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Freshman backup running back Kebron Lampkin dashes past two Northeastern State defenders during ACU’s 58-7 rout on Saturday. Lampkin finished the game with three touchdowns.
