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No. 4 Women’s soccer team remains undefeated with win over Midwestern STate
Read why political primary dates should not be changed
Steve Jobs’ death initiates reaction from Apple users on campus
Abilene Christian University
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Organ donation will be at the heart of tomorrow’s Donate Life Walk on campus, and ABC will be on campus to re-cord the event.
Donate Life Walk will be held on campus Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Lunsford Trail. Students and other participants will start
the walk at the GATA Foun-tain and walk twice around the Lunsford, which is about a 5K walk. Computers and printers will be on site for anyone who wishes to be-come an organ donor, and participants can print out a donation card at anytime during the event.
Ryan Flores, freshman biology major from Spring, is the story behind the event. When Flores was
born in 1992, he only had 10 percent function in one kidney and zero percent in the other. Doctors knew
Flores would not survive without a kidney trans-plant. Since both were good matches, Flores’ parents had to decide who would donate a kidney. Flores’ fa-ther decided to donate his kidney to his newborn son, allowing his wife to take care of Flores’ 3-year-old brother while he stayed in the hospital. The transplant took place when Flores was about 16 months old.
“An adult kidney is about the size of your face, so [doc-tors] placed my dad’s kidney in front of my stomach so it would fit,” Flores said. “I still only have one 100 percent functioning kidney.”
Due to the medication involved in the transplant, Flores was diagnosed with lymphoma at age 5. After three months of radiation treatment, his cancer went into remission.
ABC’s Everyday Health, from the producers of The Biggest Loser, is a new tele-vision series about ordinary people facing health issues who give back to their com-munities. Everyday Health got wind of Flores’ story through his hospital and se-lected him for an episode. All episodes lead up to a charity event at the end. Everyday Health and Flores are work-
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vol. 100, no. 13 friday, october 7, 2011 1 SECTION, 8 PAGES
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Ravanne Harris, senior management and marketing major from Katy, reacts to nomination for 2011 Homecoming Court. Traditionally the nominees for queen learn of their selection via a kidnapping ceremony. Due to the nullifica-tion of the first round of homecoming court nominations, the plans were thrown off schedule.
Ten earn court spots after renomination
Organ donation walk to bring TV show to campus
Ten ACU women were “kid-napped” Wednesday, taken to a secret location and learned they had been cho-sen as nominees for this year’s homecoming queen.
Samantha Adkins, se-nior alumni relations of-ficer, said the nullification of the first round of home-coming court nominations delayed the traditional kidnapping, which was originally planned for the evening of Sept. 28.
“We had to adjust the timeframe and the way we were going to do the kidnapping,” Adkins said. “We’ve been on this time frame before – last year homecoming was a week early – but we’ve never had
to do a second nomination process, which is what re-ally threw us off. It really made us reevaluate how we do nominations.”
The homecoming com-mittee will probably find a new way to conduct queen nominations for future homecomings, starting next year, Adkins said.
Kelsi Wicks, animal sci-ence major from Tyler and Alpha Kai Omega president, said the suspension of the first nominations definite-ly changed her outlook on the process of selecting a homecoming queen.
“All of the campaign-ing really was getting out of hand, and the girls who get nominated should be the best representatives of the entire senior class, not just their individual clubs,” Wicks said.
Kelsey Davis of Ko Jo Kai, management major from San Angelo, said she completely supported the revote.
“I feel like it encour-aged others to reevaluate
their decisions and vote for individuals that have made some type of posi-tive impact in their life, or in the lives of others,” Da-vis said.
Despite the initial prob-
lems with campaigning, the group of girls resulting from a second round of court nominations seem to represent what the Alumni Relations office asks of their ACU’s homecoming queens
– students who embody the values and mission of the university.
“I have always enjoyed finding opportunities to get involved on campus and have eagerly become part of various places where I could be in fellowship with other students,” Davis said.
She said one of the or-ganizations she has most enjoyed is Lynay, which has taught her to strive to love her neighbors as herself.
Wicks said she has also been very involved on campus.
“I have been involved in band, spring break cam-paigns, welcome week, Honors College, ag club, and Delta Tau Alpha, as well as Alpha Kai Omega,” she said. “My parents were very ex-cited when I told them the
Bailey nealstaff reporter
zane goggansstudent reporter
Ryan Floresfreshman biology
major from spring
A lot of college people don’t think organ donation
is a big deal but it can truly change someone’s life.”“
Amy Archer, nursing major from Austin
Sarah Beardsley, family studies major from Keller
Arielle Collier, vocal performance major from Mesquite
Katie Cupit, exercise science/pre-physical therapy major from San Antonio
Erin Daugherty, English major from Stephenville
Kelsey Davis, organizational management major from San Angelo
Ravanne Harris, management and marketing major from Katy
Morgan Myer, psychology major from Richardson
Corri Anne Wesley, advertising and public relations major from Amarillo
Kelsi Wicks, animal science/pre-vet major from Tyler
2011 Homecoming Court
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08 09 10Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
10 a.m. Donate Life Walk at the GATA Fountain
3 p.m. ACU football at Eastern New Mexico
6:30 Ko Jo Kai Grub
7 p.m. Alpha Kai Omega Grub; Delta Theta Grub
7:30 p.m. GATA Grub
1 p.m. Pearson lecture in Hunter Welcome Center
4 p.m. ACU Women’s soccer vs. Eastern New Mexico (Pink Out Game)
6:30 p.m. Frater Sodalis Grub
7 p.m. Pi Kappa Grub; Sub T-16 Grub; Sigma Theta Chi Grub
1 p.m. ACU Women’s soc-cer vs. West Texas A&M
7 p.m. Galaxy Grub
6:30 Hockey Game in Campus Center Living Room
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announcements
A lecture featuring alumnus David Pearson will take place in the Lynay Room of the Hunt-er Welcome Center Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. The lecture is part of a se-ries hosted by the Department of Sociology and Family Studies for criminal justice students.
The Donate Life Walk will take place Oct. 8 at the GATA Foun-tain from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. There will be a $5 inscription which includes a T-shirt. The event will be filmed by ABC to be aired on national television.
The Fall Chior Concert, fea-turing University Choral, ACU Singers and A Cappella,
will take place Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Williams Perform-ing Arts Center Recital Hall.
The ACU School of Nursing will present a Faith in Prac-tice Series in the Campus Center Living Room on Oct. 12 from 6 - 7:30 p.m. The featured speaker will be Brad Gautney.
A fundraiser for the Wildcat Hockey team will take place Oct. 12 from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Chick-Fil-A located at the corner of Southwest Drive and Clack Street. A portion of the profits will be donated to the club.
Omega Dance Company will have a Bake Sale Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. in the Campus Center. All items will cost $1, and only cash or checks will be accepted.
An interest meeting for ACU for Fair Trade will take place in the Campus Center Living Room from 6 - 8 p.m. Oct. 13. For details and questions contact Ian Robertson at [email protected].
The Homecoming Carnival will take place Oct. 14 on the North-east Lawn of the Hunter Wel-come Center from 5 - 8 p.m.
Jam Fest will take place Oct. 14 from 5:30 - 9 p.m. on the Hunter Welcome Center East Lawn. There will be music, fun and fireworks. T-shirts will go on sale Oct. 10.
ACU’s homecoming musi-cal, The King and I, will be shown Oct. 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 16 at 2 p.m. in the Abilene Civic Center. Tickets can be purchased by calling 325-674-2787 or on-line at acu.edu/theatre.
The Homecoming Parade will take place on Oct. 15 from 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. The parade will begin on EN 16th Street.
Volunteer Opp0rtunities
Jane Long Elementary is looking for volunteers to help on Oct. 13 in preparation for their Fall Festival. They need help setting up air castles and other items from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. They also need help during the festival from 3:30 - 7 p.m. serving food, manning booths and air castles, face painting, etc. For more information contact Nina Leija at 325-671-4920, ex-tension 8937 or email [email protected].
The AISD Early Childhood Program needs vol-unteers to work in the children’s area Oct. 13 from 3:30 - 7 p.m. This includes air castle supervision, face painting, etc. The Program will be at the Abilene Civic Center located at 1100 N. 6th St. For more information contact Mary Mcleod at 325-794-1368 or email [email protected].
University Park Apartments is looking for artistic volunteers on Oct. 15 from 10:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. to decorate cars for Homecoming. Volunteers may start a volleyball game as well as interact with the apartment community. For more information con-tact Melanie Kirkland or Jodi Hatcher at 325-738-4600 or email [email protected].
Volunteers are needed to help the Abilene Volun-teer Weatherization Program on Oct. 22 from 8 or 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. The group winterizes homes of 40 -50 elderly, disabled or low income families. Many tasks are associated with this project. No experience is necessary. Contact Stacia Ellison at 325-668-2062 and leave a message or email [email protected].
The Oakridge Church of Christ is looking for volunteers to pass out flyers to their neighbors on Oct. 22 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. to spread the word about their Trunk-Or-Treat. Volunteers will meet at the church building located at 3250 Beltway South for coffee and hot chocolate. Heph’s Burgers will provide lunch. The church is also looking for volunteers to help with Trunk-Or-Treat on Oct. 29 from 6 - 9 p.m. at the church building located at 3250 Beltway South. Volunteers will help with set-ting up booths, working the booths, face painting and running games for the kids. To help with either event contact Emerald Lemmons at 325-370-1327 or email [email protected].
Rescue The Animals is looking for volunteers anytime between 1-5 p.m., Monday through Friday afternoons. They need help around the adoption center with general cleaning, socialization of the animals, helping potential adopters and other tasks. Contact Mindi Qualls at 325-698-7722 or
email [email protected] The center is located at 5933 S. 1st St.
Meals on Wheels Plus needs volunteer drivers to deliver afternoon meals to seniors and adults with disabilities Mondays - Fridays between 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Drivers must be at least 18-years-old and have a valid drivers license. Training is provided. A Cha-pel exemption is available if delivery time conflicts with Chapel. Contact Jessica Stewart at 325-672-5050 or email [email protected].
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Lit-erature is looking for volunteers to work Tuesday - Saturday from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. or 1 - 3 p.m. Volun-teers will greet patrons, assist with art activities, sell books and make visitors feel welcome. Help is also needed for special events like exhibit openings. The Center is located at 102 Cedar St. For more information contact Debby Lillick at 325-673-4586 or visit the NCCIL website.
Noah Project Inc. needs volunteers to help answer hotlines and do other office work any weekday at any time depending on the volunteers’ schedule. Training will be provided. For more information contact Yvonne Myers at 325-676-7101.
Breakfast on Beech Street is looking for volunteers to help set up and prepare and serve breakfast to homeless or lower-income visitors any weekday. Event begins at 5:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; 5 a.m. on Tuesdays. Serv-ing time is 6:30 - 7:15 a.m. B.O.B.S is located at First Christian Church on N. 3rd Street and Beech Street in Downtown Abilene. For more information visit the First Christian Church website.
The Abilene Zoo is looking for volunteers to help with general labor such as grounds cleanup and painting any weekday at any time between noon to 4 p.m. The Zoo is located at 2070 Zoo Ln. Contact Joy Harsh at 325-676-6487 for more information.
The House That Kerry Built is looking for volunteers to assist in the day care of medically fragile children any day Monday - Friday from 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Contact Dave Kraly at 325-676-3104 or email [email protected] for more infomation.
The Betty Hardwick Center is looking for volunteers to participate in Special Olympics by helping mentally/physically challenged people play games such as bas-ketball, track, and/or bowling Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. The Center is located at 801 Cypress St. Contact
Angel Seca at 325-690-5235 for more information.
The Salvation Army is looking for volunteers for a variety of needs including sorting items in the thrift store, helping in the kitchen and/or doing yard work. Time is flexible, and help is needed Monday - Saturday. The Salvation Army is located at 1726 Butternut St. For more information contact J.D. Alonzo at 325-677-1408 or visit www.satruck.com.
Abilene Hope Haven Inc. needs volunteers to pro-vide childcare while parents are in class, any evening Monday - Thursday from 6:45 - 8:15 p.m. Abilene Hope Haven is located at 801 S. Treadaway Blvd. For more information contact Kathy Reppart at 325-677-4673 or visit the Abilene Hope Haven website.
Abilene Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has vari-ous opportunities for volunteers ranging from visit-ing with residents to helping with Bingo. Volunteers are needed Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday from 2 - 3 p.m. The center is located at 2630 Old Anson Road. For more information contact Rita Raymond at 325-673-5101 or email [email protected].
The Food Bank of West Central Texas needs volunteers to help sort and stock food and other items any weekday Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. The Food Bank is located at 5505 N. 1st St. For more information contact Janice Serrault at 325-695-6311 or [email protected].
The Abilene Boys and Girls Club needs help any weekday between 3:30 - 6 p.m. helping children of all ages with games, art, gym time, reading and com-puter skills. Locations are 4610 N. 10th St. or 1902 Shelton St. Contact Mark Denman at 325-672-1712 for more information.
Habitat for Humanity needs volunteers to help with various construction tasks including carpen-try, painting, cleaning up, installing cabinets and other tasks. Volunteers are needed any day Mon-day - Saturday anytime between 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Contact Steven Legget at 325-670-0489 or email [email protected].
Westgate Church of Christ needs volunteers to help with their prison ministry. Help is needed with the women’s ministry, Family of Offenders support group meetings and more. Volunteers will work at the Middleton Unit and/or Taylor County Jail. The project is ongoing and timed vary. For more information contact Jeff Thigpen at 325-829-4149 or email [email protected].
Accident - 3Administrative Activity - 7Alarm - 2Assault - 2Assist - 4Barricades - 1Bicycle Patrol - 6Building Lock/Unlock - 13Check Building - 18Citation Issuance - 1Criminal Mischief - 2Direct Traffic - 2Disturbance - 2Domestic Disturbance - 1Found Property - 1Investigation Follow Up - 7Medical Emergency - 2Monitor Facility/Lot - 1
Motorist Assist: Inflate Tire - 1Motorist Assist: Jump-start - 3Motorist Assist: Unlock - 8Noise Violation - 3Other - 6Parking Violation - 5Patrol Vehicle: Maintenance - 3Patrol Vehicle: Refuel - 4Random Patrol - 1Report Writing - 2Suspicious Activity - 6Theft - 1Traffic Stop - 6Training - 1Welfare Check - 1
Total Events: 117
Weekly Stats for Sept. 27 - Oct. 04, 2011
Police Tip of the Week: Recent rumors of a rapist on campus are FALSE. Re-member that ACUPD will always distribute information about crimes which pose and imminent or ongoing threat to the safety of the campus community. If you ever have questions about matters related to the safety of the campus, call ACUPD at 325-674-2911 or email us at [email protected].
Police Log
09/28/11 8:40 a.m. DISTURBANCE: ACUPD officers responded to a domestic disturbance in the 1600 block of Campus Court.
09/29/11 3 p.m. THEFT: A campus visitor reported the theft of his iPad from Moody Coliseum.
09/29/11 11:35 p.m. MEDICAL EMERGENCY: ACUPD and Abilene Fire Depart-ment responded to a medical call at Gardner Hall.
09/29/11 7:09 a.m. FAMILY DISTURBANCE: ACUPD responded with APD to a family disturbance call in the 500 block of EN 16th.
09/29/11 11 p.m. DISTURBANCE: ACUPD responded with APD to a neighbor-hood disturbance at Avenue D and EN 18th.
10/01/11 2:20 a.m. NOISE VIOLATION: ACUPD responded to a citizen’s com-plaint of a loud music party in the 2100 block of Campus Court.
10/02/11 10:40 p.m. NOISE VIOLATION: ACUPD responded to The Grove re-garding a noise violation complaint at the volleyball area.
friday 10.07.113 campus news
International travel eliminated from Spring Break Campaign plans
Spring Break Campaigns has removed the interna-tional campaigns from its program this year, elimi-nating destinations in Central America.
The increasing cost of airfare, concern over inter-national risks and the im-mense planning involved in organizing the trips prevented SBC from con-tinuing the out-of-country campaigns. However, do-mestic trips will continue as usual.
Jen Rogers, director of student ministries, said the primary reason the trips were dropped was the expense. A trip in the U.S. can cost between $250 and $1,000 while an international trip can ex-ceed $2,000.
“The reality is, there are so many needs we have nearby, and we have more than enough na-tional locations this year,” Rogers said.
The Health Science Department will still do medical missions in Gua-temala. SBC felt it was best to leave it to the pre-med students and faculty to organize the medical trips while SBC trips changed their focus.
“Most campaigners learn that God is already at work no matter where they’re going,” Rogers said. “When students go somewhere that has a lot of similarities to where they already live, their eyes become more open to what God is doing back at home, whereas if you go to a totally different culture, you don’t always see how that relates at home.”
Evan Hernandez, se-nior history major from San Antonio, is the SBC committee chaplain. He said SBC is focusing more on what it can do locally
and putting more of the funds it receives to a better use than covering exces-sive travel expenses.
“For the most part, we try to focus on the service, the spiritual drive and how to build community everywhere that we go to serve,” Hernandez said. “That’s really what it’s about. We try to be as self-less as possible while on these missions.”
Hernandez said An-chorage, New York, St. Paul, Chicago, Seattle and Denver are among the lo-cations they are consider-ing for this year.
In past years, Hernandez said SBC would send as many as 300 people out on cam-paigns. Last year it declined to only about 150 people.
Hernandez said more and more people are be-
ginning to focus on en-joying spring break for themselves and, as a re-sult, the willingness to serve is declining.
“I feel people have lost the power of prayer and of listening to what the Lord God is directing them to,” Hernandez said. “People are refusing to look at the fact that college is not just a break from their parents but a time for them to grow into their own spiri-tuality, their own person, their own adult life. This is what we’re called to do.”
Students can sign up for SBC by picking up a lottery number in the campus center Oct. 31 through Nov. 3.
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Campus Activities Board undergoing construction
The Campus Activities Board, headed by new di-rector Mallorie Frank, is throwing around ideas for campus activities and has many projects in the making. Frank took over position June 1.
“We’re getting into the groove of what we are all working on and what we’re doing,” Frank said. “We’re playing it by ear.”
So far this semester, the board has already shown the movie Thor on campus free for students. It also helped students destress Wednesday by renting in-flatable obstacle courses and slides for Wellness Week in partnership with the Counseling Center, Frank said.
“Instead of students go-
ing to eat or to their rooms to study, it served as a time for them to de-stress, be healthy, jump around and have some fun.”
Frank said the Board is.Another possible activ-
ity is a ping-pong tourna-ment, Frank said.
“We thought that it would be fun to have some-thing active for our stu-dents to do,” she said. “We have a few things in the works, but we’re still work-ing on dates and times that are suitable for as many students as possible.”
Those who frequent activities put on by the Campus Activities Board, like Kara Stutesman, soph-omore journalism and pre-med major from Carl Junction, Missouri, say the events do a great job in connecting students.
“The board is good for students because when
they do certain activities, like the free movie nights, it brings a lot of ACU stu-dents together who you normally wouldn’t see,” Stutesman said. “I remem-ber, my freshman year, I met at least three new people each time I went to an event.”
Frank said she wants to break up activities to spread them over the se-mester.
“I’m trying to focus on more smaller events instead of having three or four really big events
throughout the year,” she said.
Events up for consid-eration include canvas paintings, girls’ night out, tailgates and more free movie screenings, one including the last install-ment of Harry Potter.
Frank said she sees a need for the board be-cause it affects the campus retention rate.
“If students don’t have anything to do, then they’re going to make their own fun,” she said. “If they don’t want to travel or they don’t have cars, that’s what we’re here for. We’ll pro-vide entertainment that’s diverse. We’ll go across all spectrums.”
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marissa fergusononline editor
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Mallorie frankCampus Activities
Board Director
If students don’t have anything to do, then
they’re going to make their own fun”“
Campus reacts to Jobs’ death
Steve Jobs, co-founder and former chief executive, died Wednesday at age 56 after several years of health com-plications.
Jobs, who started the company in 1976 with his high-school friend, Steve Wozniack, had been bat-tling pancreatic cancer for years. His death comes a day after Apple intro-duced the iPhone 4s key-note presentation.
He stepped down as chief executive of the company in August be-cause his failing health prevented him from per-
forming his duties. He is survived by his wife of 20 years and four children.
ACU’s Mobile Learning Initiative has been suc-cessful with the help of Apple’s products. Devices such as iPhones, iPads and Mac computers can be found all over campus. Be-cause of Apple’s influence on education and lifestyle at ACU, Jobs’ death has made a significant impact on the campus.
“He was young. He just completely changed our world technologically,” said Heather Newton, commu-nication sciences and dis-orders major from Austin.
“I thought it was kind of shocking since the
new iPhone just came out,” said Taylor Franklin, sophomore computer sci-ence major from Terrell, “but he died at the top of his game.”
Jobs founded Apple when he was 21. With the help of Steve Wozniak, he built the Apple I in his par-ents garage. Since then the company has unleashed revolutionary products including the Apple II computer, the iPod, the iPhone, the App Store and the iPad. Jobs also bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas. The studio became famous af-ter the release of the movie Toy Story.
The accomplishments
Jobs achieved are recog-nized, especially by fans of Apple’s merchandise.
“He was an advocate for good design, which is something lacking these days,” said Graham Rut-ledge, sophomore market-ing major from Dallas.
Logan Cole, junior family studies major from Abilene, said Jobs seemed intrigued by the idea of death and was ready to accept his cir-cumstances.
“Because of that reality of death, he didn’t let that hold him back,” Cole said.
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Walk: ABC to cover organ donor event
ing together to make Do-nate Life Walk possible.
Flores’ hospital, Texas Children’s Hospital in Hous-ton, called his family to see if he would be interested in being on Everyday Health. Flores received the call from Texas Children’s about two months ago. Flores said he was shocked to be consid-ered for the show.
“Our casting people called several hospitals across the country looking for amazing stories from ordinary people,” said Kristen Alexander, field producer for ABC’s Every-day Health. “Texas Chil-dren’s reached out to [the
Flores family] from there.”Attendees will be asked
to give $5 in order to par-ticipate in the walk. The cost includes a t-shirt, wristband and a sandwich from Subway. There is no cost to print out an organ donor card. The walk is open to anyone who wishes to attend. Everyday Health airs on Saturday mornings following Good Morning America on ABC.
“A lot of college people don’t think organ donation is a big deal,” Flores said, “but it can truly change someone’s life.”
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Meeting reveals SA with plenty to spend
The Student Congress still has more money to spend even after granting funds Wednesday to two student groups, so it extended the deadline for conference re-quests.
The Students’ Associa-tion distributed $1,600 to fully grant the money re-quested by Swing Cats and the Society of Physics Stu-dents for travel to out-of-town events. SA executive treasurer Carson Henley, senior pre-dental major from Colleyville, said about $1500 is still in the confer-ence request budget.
“Because that money
was allocated to confer-ences, we should open it up longer,” Henley said.
The deadline for students to submit money for out-of-town conferences extended to Oct. 12 from Sept. 30.
The conference requests budget isn’t the only fund SA is slow to spend. Each class was allocated $1,000 for the class officers to manage, none of which has been spent yet.
A special meeting was held after the general SA meeting for only the class officers and executive cabi-net members.
“Spend the money,” Henley urged the officers. “Come on. Try to find ways, talk to more people.”
SA Executive President
Connor Best said home-coming festivities were swiftly approaching and of-ficers are responsible for se-curing class float in the pa-rade. This would serve as an easy opportunity to spend the money, he said.
Best also told the offi-cers about a recent part-nering with Mark Lewis, assistant dean for spiritual life and Chapel programs, to institute a class Chapel next semester. Class of-ficers will organize a one-time class chapel where students will receive credit the third Tuesday of the spring semester.
“I think there’s a lot of value in it,” Best said. “Now that there’s more leadership responsibility, [class offi-
cers] can handle it.”Best also told the officers
they could organize a chapel this semester as a precursor to get students to attend next semester but Chapel credit would not be offered. He warned them that if they should attempt to do one, they should make it good.
Anthony Williams from business services spoke about the ongoing search for the perfect meal plan for the student body.
“I feel very good about the meal plan for under-classmen,” Williams said. “I will admit the meal plan for upper classmen is not all it needs to be.”
Williams told congress about his goal to have a pre-mier dining program. Mem-
bers of congress expressed their concern about the quality of food at the Bean throughout the day and Williams said Student Life will send a survey to stu-dents about the meal plan this semester.
Andres Saucedo, Bible building representative, introduced the first resolu-tion of the semester. His bill to allocate $30 of the budget for a hoodie as an incentive to participate in a survey he would distribute to those in the Onstead-Packer Bib-lical Studies Building was passed with overwhelming support.
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Clubs begin next step in pledging process, grubs
Court: Queen to be announced at football game
jake bellstudent reporter
Pledges for ACU’s social clubs will continue their initia-tion by hosting grubs all over Abilene starting Thursday.
Grubs include dinner and skits or slide shows done by the clubs’ pledges, said Morgan Myer, president of GATA. Pledges put together
the menu and entertainment with the help of the clubs so-cial directors. Each club has its own theme for their grub and guest are encouraged to come dressed in costume.
“My favorite part of grub is definitely seeing what ev-eryone shows up as,” Myer said. “I know a lot of people spend a lot of time coming up creative costumes. It’s almost like an unspoken
competition to see who have the best one.”
The themes for the grubs are usually based around the club’s name. The theme for GATA this year is “We go to- GATA.” Guests will dress up as things that are meant to go together like salt and pepper or peanut butter and jelly.
Everyone who attends a grub is invited to bring a date who also dresses in costume.
This includes members, pledges and club sponsors. The crowds usually range from 150 to 200 people. Jer-emy Winkler, president of Sub T-16, said his club is ready for the guests.
“My job is to make sure the pledges and social direc-tors have done an adequate job in the planning and preparation, then to come and enjoy,” Winkler said.
The theme for Sub T-16’s grub is Subber Night Live, the club’s take on the popu-lar variety show Saturday Night Live.
Grub is the only event the pledges get to help plan. It offers members and pledges a chance to exchange roles for one night. Houston Beas-ley, president of Gamma Sig-ma Phi, said his favorite part of grub is the skits pledges
put on for the members and their dates. Myer said grub was a welcome relief for club members.
“It’s a really nice break,” Myer said. “We work so hard on planning lots of pledging activities for the flames, but this they do for us.”
There were several representatives that did not attend the meeting. The names are as follows:
Marc GutierrezWPAC Rep
J.P. RalstonCOBA Rep
Amy MorrisCOBA Rep
Jeremy SealOff Campus Rep
Brady KileSophomore President
Aaron BrooksSophomore Vice President
Keaton TuckerSophomore Treasurer
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news. I am an only child, and they have always been very supportive of anything I’ve been involved in,” Wicks said.
Women of the court in-sist that feelings of loyalty to members of certain social clubs, while present, will not determine the winner of the homecoming queen race.
“A lot of the women on court are involved in social clubs, but rarely is that the only thing they are involved in,” said Morgan Myer, psy-chology major from Rich-ardson and GATA president. “They are known for their service and leadership in multiple areas on campus so I think that persuades people
to nominate them.” Myer said her family was thrilled to hear about her nomination.
“My mom is an ACU alum, [she] made me tell her every activity I would be in-volved in and I know they are all already on her calendar. She loves ACU, so to have a daughter on court is so, so exciting for her,” said Myer.
Adkins said that this year’s kidnapping was no different than previous years. Finding the girls went as planned, and everyone seemed to have fun.
“It went really well, the girls were all really excited,” Adkins said. “What I realized is I don’t get as much time to get to know them this year because of the time frame
and everything that’s hap-pened, but I’m still very ex-cited for them.”
“When we receive a reward or recognition from our peers is it very uplifting,” Davis said.
The nominees will be an-nounced to ACU for the first time Friday during Chapel. After that, the court’s duties and appearances will take
place mostly during the Fri-day and Saturday of home-coming week, including a queen’s tea, riding in the homecoming parade and the announcement of the winner at Saturday’s football game.
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Sheridan Forte stepped on stage in chapel last Friday to preform a spoken word poem. Seven minutes after that, most of the students in Moody Coliseum were on their feet.
Forte, a senior English major from Dallas, ap-proached Mark Lewis almost two years ago with the idea.
“Sheridan first ap-proached me when he was a freshman,” Lewis said. “We talked about the possibility of him doing a slam poem in chapel several times over the semesters, but never set an official date.”
In hindsight, Forte considers it a blessing that the event was postponed until this year having just recently finished the poem he chose to perform.
The performance is part of an attempt to combine creative arts with a spiritual setting in chapel.
“God has given us gifts that can be expressed in many different forms,” Lewis said. “While not all of those forms would neces-sarily translate well in the chapel setting, there are
several that can.”Forte is the first per-
former to take stage this semester.
“I was amazed at the natural way he delivered the message, and I was thankful for the strong student re-sponse of appreciation and support,” Lewis said.
Allthough there are no set plans for future performers, Lewis said he has his “eyes and ears open” to opportunities that may arise.
Forte enjoyed perform-ing to his largest audience yet and has since received invitations to present his poems elsewhere.
“It made me feel good to see that many people touched by the words god had gave me,” said Forte.
Forte realized his gift during a mission trip to in-ner city Washington, D.C.
“[The children’s] lifestyle touched me in a way where I began to hear words in my head that matched with their situa-tion,” Forte said. “I really can’t explain it, but it was beautiful the way the words were constructing them-selves inside of my head.”
Upon his return to Dal-las, he put these words onto paper and presented them
to his church where they garnered a standing ovation from the congregation.
Seeming like a singular event, Forte practically ignored the event until a similar thing happened a few years later.
“I was immature in the way I was thinking that it was mine,” said Forte. “But its not my gift. Its really God’s gift that He gave me.”
During this time, Forte attended Kennedy-Curry Middle School, considered to be one of the worst in the nation, both in academics and behavior.
The school, along with the entire school district, was shutdown in 2006 for unacceptable academic standards as well as allega-tions of educator-led cheat-ing on TAKS exams.
But it is this exact en-vironment that Forte says shaped him.
“I don’t regret those situations I went through because it made me who I am today,” Forte said. “Without those situations, those choices, who is to say where I would be.”
This external environ-ment was overcome by Forte’s faith and family environment.
“I grew up with a father
and a mother in the same house. A strong family, that was the foundation,” Forte said. “My environment was not pretty. What was pretty was the way my parents raised me.”
Forte’s lyrics focus on many Christian themes and are often presented in an encouraging way.
“I have to put Christian themes in because that’s what I know. We’ve been at
the bottom and there is no way we could have made it out of the situation by ourselves,” Forte said.
“Whenever I write I just focus on encouragement and how I can impact peo-ple in a way that will bring god the glory. Thats how it comes out. That’s me.”
Forte’s poems are often inspired by events.
“I don’t write as often as I should,” he said. “But the
times I do write, I see events that happen where people are not treated fairly.
Something about these events trigger Sheridan’s mind.
“And then I start hearing those words again.”
The ACU choirs will give their first major concert Tuesday. The performance will feature a wide variety of pieces sung by the music department’s three choral groups.
The University Chorale, the A Cappella Chorus and the new ACU Singers will repeat the performance the following Saturday at 11:45 a.m. for the Homecoming Choral Concert, a popular pre-game activity for many alumni and campus visitors.
The concerts will comprise pieces in many
languages and styles. Highlights will include a traditional Russian tongue-twister sung at an exhausting speed, a powerful arrangement of an African-American spiritual and a haunting dissonant tune sung with the words of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 – “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day.”
“The variety of genres we’re singing will be entertaining” said Joseph Burnam, freshman music education major from Mes-quite, Texas.
Burnam is a member of the A Cappella, a group that was generally not open to freshman until Dr. Sean
Pullen became director of Choral Activities in 2009. Pullen conducts all three ensembles and is always looking for more students to make their voices part of the school’s rich choral tradition.
The University Chorale has increased to 63 mem-bers this year. Membership in the U Chorale is offered to any student interested in choral singing each semes-ter. ACU’s audition-only A Cappella Chorus is made of 55 students this year. Dating back to 1932, it is the oldest A Cappella chorus in the Southwest. Students from any major may audition for a place in the A Cap-pella, and the current group
features students who study all across campus, such as Kaytlin Wiseman.
“I’ve been in choirs forever, and I’m not going to stop now.” said Wiseman, senior math education ma-jor from Glen Rose. “It keeps my voice in good condition for worship.”
This concert is will also premiere the ACU Singers, a newly formed group of 16 select students.
“The purpose of the group is to explore music that is meant for smaller vo-cal groups” Pullen said.
The group performs both formal works, and popular pieces like the Gershwin brothers’ I Got Rhythm.
Living up to his campus reputation, Pullen starts re-hearsals exactly on time and intensely uses every minute.
“Pullen has done an amazing job preparing us for these two concerts” says Arielle Collier, senior vocal performance major from Mesquite, Texas.
The concerts are next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Williams Performing Arts Center, and in the same location Satur-day at 11:45 a.m. Admission is free.
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Earlier this week, Apple introduced the new iP-hone 4S.
It was new CEO Tim Cook’s first time at bat for the software giant. The an-nouncement was held in a much smaller venue than usual, and the reaction wasn’t as big as the response to previous iPhone unveil-ings. But, one new feature really stole the show: “Siri,” a personal digitized assistant that listens to your requests via voice recognition.
As Cook introduced the new feature, he referred back to this concept as be-ing “teased at” by program-mers since computers were in their infancy. In most de-pictions of the future in sci-fi movie and television shows,
people talk to their comput-ers, belting out commands the computer completely understands and quickly ac-commodates after a frenzy of beeps.
Indeed, in the ‘90s and 2000s alone we have seen many attempts at voice recognition. Video games have tried it on many oc-casions, such as Ninten-do’s “Hey You Pikachu,” “Odama” and Sega’s “Sea-man.” Newer cars have used voice recognition along with iPod connec-tions to create a hands-free experience. Apple has even tried it themselves in some of the most recent versions of Mac OS X, though they tailored the device more towards handicap acces-
sibility. There’s also a rudi-mentary voice command system on the Apple device you might be reading this column on now.
But one of the things that will supposedly set Siri apart from these previous attempts is that it will un-derstand human language. You can talk to Siri like you can to any other person, in-stead of in a formulaic way the computer could under-stand. In other words, in-stead of having to say “Play artist Alan Parsons Project,” you might say, “Could you play me a song by the Alan Parsons Project?”
The real beauty of the hu-man language recognition concept is that it under-stands requests even when the sounds differ. However, this is also the part that holds it back the most.
An entire team of pro-grammers and linguists could spend months pro-gramming meanings of words and context algo-
rithms but only scratch the surface of the many ways that people say various commands. And it takes plenty of processing horse-power to analyze your voice while tuning out any back-ground noise.
So the question is, will it work? Tuesday’s unveiling showed it working flawless-ly, but many software com-panies “script up” presenta-tions like this to go exactly as they want, and judging from the footage, that was likely the case here.
But if Siri overcomes all these obstacles I have out-lined, we could see a new age of computer to human relations. It’s something that movie screenwriters could only dream about in the ‘80s. This future could be right around the corner, but don’t get your hopes up too much.
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Let the donkeys and el-ephants out, it’s campaign time. The time of year when everybody promises bipar-tisan leadership, but all shades of purple are purged from the political arena.
Every state will have a primary election for each party with more than one nominee before the gener-al election next November. Since Obama is running as an incumbent, the GOP primary gets all the atten-tion this year.
Florida jumped out of order by scheduling their GOP primaries for Janu-ary 31. This move places the state’s primary ahead of Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina. By law, these four states are allowed to
have their primaries first. Cue the chaos.
After that news broke, South Carolina announced their primaries would be even earlier, January 21.
That’s still not the end of it. After the news of South Carolina and Florida, Ne-vada announced that it would determine its new primary election date upon finding out what the new date will be of New Hamp-shire’s primaries.
Primaries are all a jum-ble and today’s politi-cal arena is similar to a poorly produced episode of Tom & Jerry.
Nothing good will come of this game of leapfrog. The new schedule will only end up hurting the candi-dates and the nation.
America’s election pro-cess is incredibly smooth compared to other coun-tries, but it’s still not pret-ty. And it’s only romantic in theory. We don’t want to prolong this process, but we don’t want it fast tracked either.
Moving the primaries into January truncates the race for the nomination, and the cock fight that is general election only gets longer.
Politicians always end up fighting dirty. As elec-tions draw closer, political ads quickly fill with scowl-ing faces, crying babies and terrible voting records. The debate is reduced to “vote for me, because that guy is a flip-flopping, ba-by-killing, warmongering communist.”
Campaign season quick-ly turns into a game with the average American serv-ing as the pawn.
The people benefit more from the primary than the general. The nation needs time to decide which candi-date is suitable for the next round. The longer primary season gives time for each of the front runners to be fully examined by the voters.
The only possible ben-efit that would come with the earlier primary elec-tion would be a chance for third-party candidates to make themselves better known once the primary hype is over. But because our nation has digressed into what is basically a two-party system, the likelihood of that happening is slim.
If the primaries are moved into January the nastiest political ads will interrupt network show-ings of Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving Special and A Christmas Story. Po-litical discussions already pepper family dinners; the extra prodding isn’t necessary. If there’s ever a time for peace, let it be the holiday season. Fam-ily dinners don’t need to be more awkward.
Moving the date of the
primaries into January adds to the dirtiness of debates, subtracts from the value of the issue and multiplies the amount of corporate endorsement money poured on the fire. We don’t want to have to vote for the person we hate the least.
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When I was a freshman, I lived on campus. Okay, technically everyone is supposed to live on cam-pus their freshman year. But when I say live on-campus I mean eat, sleep, watch TV, hang out and do homework all on-campus.
Students, like me, tend to get stuck in the ACU bubble and forget there is an entirely different de-mographic outside of our little campus. Toward the end of my freshman year though, I became involved with something that has changed the way I selfishly viewed my life.
A group of friends and I are part of a unique Wednesday evening church activity. The local church’s campus ministry employs us as Christian ambas-sadors to a low-income, government-funded apart-ment complex. Each week, we walk up to the housing and are greeted by a mob of shrieking children.
“Aaaaaaaah! You are here! It’s about time,” some of them say. They grab the bucket of toys we bring each week, excitedly tear off the lid, and the games begin.
So much is revealed dur-ing our time with the kids. While the kids are lively and fun, sweet and loving, the innocence of a child does not glisten in some of their eyes. Some of these kids live hard, troubled lives. Some of these kids witness things I have never seen in my 21 years of life.
When I notice this, the childhood stolen by trau-ma or neglect or hunger, I wonder if the weekly vis-its are making any sort of positive impact. After all, jumping rope or throwing
a frisbee will not fill their hungry stomachs or meet their family’s financial needs.
As I’ve reflected and wondered on what we could do to make this time together worth their while, I come to realize that may-be we are helping out, in a very small way. Most of the children living in the com-plex face adult issues. Our bucket of toys provides them a weekly time to play and have fun, a time to re-
gain childhood lost.Meeting and creating re-
lationships with these kids has been one of the most enriching pieces of my col-lege experience. Although we are not able to fully help the families living in the apartments, we can help them in a small way and hope to make a big impact.
So why is it important to get out in the “real world” to try to make a differ-ence? Our lives are not our own. We are called by Christ to serve others, to be witnesses to them for Him. I hope to continue to push myself to enrich my life by enriching oth-ers’ lives first.
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The offense just keeps getting bet-ter as the ’Cats exploded for 51 points last week. Against a weak Eastern New Mexico defense, both the running and passing games should open up for the purple and white attack.
Both defenses have their flaws. ACU’s secondary has given up over 800 yards in the past two games while the Greyhound defense has been burned for an average of 414 yards of total offense a game.
The Wildcat offense is very balanced with both Richard-son and Gale putting up the numbers they are capable of. ACU has scored at least 44 points against the Greyhounds in each of the last four games against them. That combi-nation does not play into Eastern’s favor. The Greyhounds are a pass first team, and an inconsistent ACU secondary might allow a closer than necessary game, but the edge has to go to the Wildcats.
This match-up has always seemed like a potential trap game for the Wildcats and this year might be no dif-ferent. Coming off two key home victories, the ’Cats can’t afford to get compla-cent. They need to attack the ENMU defense early with the run game and throw the ball effectively. If ACU can get some momen-tum, they should be fine.
This Wildcats team is fly-ing high after an impressive performance last week and an umblemished LSC record to boot as they square up against a lackluster ENMU team. Expect a heavy dos-age of the running game and a possible track meet for the players in purple. Mitchell Gale will put up big num-bers, and the Wildcats will continue to fly high.
ACU has another key LSC game this weekend. The Wildcats are unbeaten in the conference so far while ENMU still hasn’t found a win at home. I don’t believe the Greyhounds fortune is going to change on Saturday. The Wildcat defense will step up its game stopping ENMU from having too many scor-ing opportunities.
After the Wildcats’ exciting victory last week against WOU, the team will be hoping to maintain its undefeated conference record. The ‘Cats success will lie in its running game, that, if executed early, should be effective. If ACU remains as focused as it has the past two games, I expect a win against the Greyhounds on Saturday.
The key for the Wildcats will be to bend but not break. Despite the huge passing numbers put up against the ’Cats, they have only allowed seven passing touch-downs in four games. The ACU D has also been stingy once pinned in their own red zone, allowing a score only 50 percent of the time. An inconsistent secondary against a passing offense though might spell and up-set for the Greyhounds. This one is too close to call.
A lot like Shotwell Staium, ENMU’s home field is not located on its campus. Instead, it is placed right in the heart of nothing, where afternoon winds can affect even the shortest of passes. Most Texas high school stadiums are nicer than this place. One other oddity of the stadium is that the grass on the field is significantly taller than most of the close-cut natural grass fields still in use around the LSC.
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The ‘Cats were finally able to put all the pieces together as they put up 51 points against WOU. Eastern New Mexico is in need of a big conference win, but the ACU offense should prove too much for the Greyhounds to handle. If the ‘Cats will come out play-ing aggressive football, then they shouldn’t have too much trouble in this one.
The Wildcats will head to New Mexico this weekend to take on a LSC opponent that’s a little short on talent. ACU’s high-flying offense is up against a mediocre de-fense that has given up 30 or more points in three of their five games. Look for ACU to put up big numbers with ease throughout the contest against the Greyhounds.
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Greyhound Stadium. Not only is the Greyhounds’ football complex in the middle of nowhere, but throw in long grass, flies and gale force winds, and it is a tough place to play a football game in the fall.
ACU stumbles at Stillwater
ACU cross-country strug-gled in Stillwater last weekend at the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree with the women coming in 18th and the men finishing 23rd. OSU swept the team titles another year, with Indiana University win-ning both silvers.
ACU had a stronger show-ing at the meet last year. The men’s team finished 10th overall, and Amos Sang fin-ished fourth individually. The women’s team finished in eighth place, doing its best all season.
“From a team’s stand-point, we didn’t have a very good race,” said Head Coach Chris Woods. “On the women’s side, we had two pretty decent indi-vidual performers. On the men’s side, I’m going to be honest with you, we didn’t have our best showing.”
However, Woods said three of the top seven men didn’t compete at the meet because of injuries. The injuries are not season-ending; the men simply need to rest their bodies.
Alyse Goldsmith, junior accounting major from Katy, was not feeling well either, Woods said. She came in 78th place, pre-
ceded by teammate Chloe Susset in 58th. Woods said even though it wasn’t Goldsmith’s best race, he is pleased at how the two girls build each other up and make a good team.
Though the team didn’t perform up to its usual standard in Oklahoma, Woods has high hopes for the Lone Star Conference.
“We learned from the race, and now it’s time to pick ourselves up and put the team back together,” Woods said. “We are go-ing to have a good show-ing at the LSC Conference. Come conference time, we are going to have our best team out there.”
Woods said the men’s team will be “ready to bleed purple” and earn the title it has won for the last 20 years. The women, coming in eighth two years ago and third last year, are moving up. William Pike, who finished in 91st with the best time for the ACU men, ran two minutes fast-er this year than last.
“At the end of the day,” Woods said, “it doesn’t mean a thing in the world if we win the OSU Cowboy Jamboree but don’t win the LSC Conference.”
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Cross Country
Finish: Slate is key for ’Catsthe six game road trip. In that span, Cameron split two matches at Oklahoma Baptist and went unbeat-en at the Texas-Permian Basin Tournament (4-0).
Jennie Hutt was named to the all-tournament team this weekend in the Ramada Inn Lady Blues Fall Classic.
She scored 71 of the team’s 248 total points.
Hutt also posted a .278 hit-ting percentage, 63 kills, four aces and eight block assists.
Kelsie Edwards is fourth on the team, 58th nation-ally, with 4.75 digs per set.
Freshman Haley Rhoads has put up big numbers when the team has needed her.
She had 171 assists in the classic last weekend. 60 of those came against Empo-ria State University, setting a team and career season high.
ACU is 10-9 so far, (4-3 LSC) and 8-8 when playing away from Moody Coliseum.
Nationally, the ‘Cats rank 52nd in kills and 48th in digs per set with 12.91 and 16.65 respectively.
The Wildcats are at the bottom end of the barrel in the area of blocks, after hav-ing a season-best 10 in a loss to Truman State University.
Edwards feels the next stretch of games, all versus
conference opponents, is a key part of the schedule.
“Conference games are always important, but looking at where we’re sit-ting right now, we could really move up the lad-der if the team plays to its potential the next few weeks,” Edwards said.
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Cink, Graeme McDowell, Ricky Barnes, Davis Love III, and even Tiger Woods.
Now the name Alex Car-penter will be added to the list among these familiar names.
“It’s pretty cool to be in a tournament where so many big names have come be-fore me,” Carpenter said. “I can tell that it’s going to be one of the most fun tourna-ments I have ever been in.”
Patrick Cantlay of UCLA claims the prestigious titles Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year in 2011.
Carpenter upholds similar recognition. He was named Freshman of the Year the pre-vious year and was awarded Player of the Year for NCAA Division II last spring.
“I’m going into this tour-nament hoping to do my very best,” said Carpenter. “I’m going to enjoy the op-portunity to play and let my game do all the talking.”
The Western Refining Col-lege all-America Golf Classic will be Nov. 21-22 in El Paso.
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The ACU football team moved back into the No. 10 spot in the American Football Coaches’ Association Top 25 released on Monday.
ACU sophomore wide receiver Taylor Gabriel was announced as the LSC Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday. Against Western Oregon last Saturday, Gabriel returned a punt 55 yards for a touchdown.
Sophmore Andrea Carpenter was chosen as the Lone Star Conference’s Co-Offensive Player of the Week for the second time with Midwestern’s Kelsey Hill. Carpenter scored four goals and an assist in last week’s home victories against Texas Women’s and A&M Commerce.
Chicago Bears wide receiver Johnny Knox had three receptions for 48 yards and no touchdowns in the Bears 34-29 win versus the Panthers on Sunday, Oct. 2. Knox now has 12 receptions for 237 yards and zero touchdowns for the season.
Bengals running back Bernard Scott rushed for 13 yards on five carries in the team’s win against the Bills on Sunday, Oct. 2. Cincinnati won 23-20.
Danieal Manning, Texans safety, recorded five solo tackles on Sunday, Oct. 2 versus the Steelers. This season, Manning has 17 total tackles, no sacks, and one interception. Houston won the game 17-10.
The volleyball team travels to Lawton, OK on Saturday, Oct. 8 to play LSC opponent Cameron at 2 p.m.
Women’s soccer faces Eastern New Mexico at the Wildcat Soccer Pitch on Friday, Oct. 7 at 4 p.m. The team then hosts West Texas A&M on Sunday, Oct. 9 at 1 p.m.
Football goes up against LSC foe Eastern New Mexico in Portales, N.M. at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8.
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Sophomore forward Andrea Carpenter advances the ball against a Midwestern defender Wednesday at the Wildcat Soccer Pitch. Car-penter scored the Wildcats’ lone goal in their 1-0 against the Mustangs and leads the team in goals (10) and points (23).
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’Cats ready for weekend
The Wildcat volleyball team begins a long stretch of Lone Star Conference games this weekend that will finish the regular season.
ACU plays Cameron University at 2 p.m. Satur-day in Lawton, Okla. Cam-eron is 10-6 on the season and 4-4 in conference play.
The team is right be-hind the Wildcats in the
11-team conference – the ‘Cats sit fourth and Cam-eron is fifth.
Head Coach Kellen Mock said Cameron has shown improvement this year.
“Cameron has re-ally turned themselves around,” Mock said. “They’ve been at the bot-tom of the Lone Star Con-ference for the last couple of years.”
“The Lady Aggies have gotten to a point where their pushing to be apart
of the upper tier of the conference,” said Mock. “It’s hard to know what to expect from them. What-ever we see we’ll do our best to beat.”
Mock has been success-ful coaching against the Aggies; Cameron hasn’t came out on top versus the ‘Cats since the 2003 confer-ence tournament.
The Lady Aggies re-cently went 5-1 through
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Carpenter earns invitation to All-America tournament
Top-ranked golfer Alex Carpenter has been in-vited to play in the West-ern Refining College All-America Golf Classic next month in El Paso, which serves as a rare opportu-nity for the junior.
This is an honor not only for the school, but also for Carpenter, and it expresses the serious potential he has as a golfer, says Head Coach Mike Campbell.
The junior all-Amer-ican golf prodigy is the first player in the history of ACU’s golf program to be selected for this tour-nament, and he has al-ready made history as one the best players the Wildcats have ever seen.
Coach Mike Campbell thinks highly of Carpenter not only for his skill, but his attitude and character on and off the course.
“Alex is a very hard worker,” Campbell said. “He is very driven, and his focus is a great example, especially to his younger teammates. I expect a lot from him this year.”
It is this drive and fo-cus that landed Carpenter with an invitation to such a highly competitive tour-nament, said Campbell.
The 54-hole El Paso classic is made up entirely of Division I players – ex-cept for Carpenter.
He will compete against golfers from schools such as Illinois, Texas, Texas A&M, UCLA, Oklahoma, Okla-homa State, Arkansas, Stan-ford, Oregon State and Duke, as well as many others with extensive golf programs.
Among these athletes are many golfers that Car-penter knows or has com-peted against before.
“It really is an honor to play against such tal-ented players,” Carpenter said. “I know a lot of them and played with them in the summer. I can’t wait to see some of my bud-dies and compete in the same tournament.”
The tournament takes pride in hosting very suc-cessful up and coming college players.
In years past the El Paso tournament has seen players such as Stewart
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The No. 4 ACU women’s soccer team persevered against an abundance of second-half shots while holding on to a 1-0 win over Midwestern State Wednesday afternoon at the Wildcat Soccer Pitch.
The win brought the Wildcats’ unbeaten streak in tact to 16 matches and marked the conference season’s halfway point.
ACU will play all seven LSC schools again starting with Friday’s 4 p.m. home match vs. Eastern New Mexico.
“It feels good to make it through the first round of conference play un-
scathed,” Head Coach Casey Wilson said. “We have done some great things so far this season, and our re-cord reflects that.”
The Wildcats’ defense shined Wednesday, as they were outshot 10-3 in the sec-ond half and 13-11 for the match by the Zias’ offense.
Senior goalkeeper Elliott London withstood the Zia’s attempts, though, and com-pleted the shutout with four saves en route to her third shutout of the season.
“Elliott continues to be a solid rock in goal for us,” Wilson said. “She plays con-sistently well and we a re definitely reaping the ben-efits of her play as a team.”
A steady 20-mile per hour breeze was present throughout the game, and it played in favor to both defenses. Less than 50 percent of the shots taken were on frame.
Sophomore forward
Andrea Carpenter scored the lone goal in the game, which came in the 20th minute of the match.
The goal marked her 10th of the season, and she has now scored a goal in seven games on the season and three straight to this point.
The Mustang defense was solid before Carpenter’s goal, but the all-American finished off a scoring drive that was mapped to perfection.
The Wildcats (10-0-1, 6-0-1) connected on several passes up the middle of the field prior to Carpenter fin-ishing off the progression with a goal on a cross from senior Lyndsey Womack.
“My goal could not have been set up any better. There was textbook progression down the field and Lyndsey sent the perfect ball to me,” Carpenter said. “It was one of the more natural goals I’ve scored this season be-cause everyone contributed
to making it happen. With-out Lyndsey’s spot-on pass, I could not have been able to score. She is the one who did the work on that.
Making the most of that opportunity was critical for the Wildcats as chances to score following that goal were few and far between.
“We didn’t create as many chances offensively today as we’ve had in other games, but the positive thing is that the goal that we scored was a very nice, clean goal that included a crisp pass and a great finish,” Wilson said.
Wilson added the impor-tance of winning games in different fashions as well.
“Sometimes it’s nice to score a goal with less op-portunities than we’ve had in the past, so that’s a good way to win too,” he said.
Midwestern (5-3-2, 3-1) was on the offensive for the last 10 minutes of play, as the team fired five shots
and one corner kick.“Today I learned that our
team is capable of winning any type of game and that we can handle anything thrown our way,” Carpenter said.
Wilson echoed Carpenter and said that the win provid-ed confirmation for his team.
“Tonight we confirmed we’re consistently com-petitive and that the girls know what they want,” he said. “Even on a bad day, we have enough competi-tiveness to make up for any downfalls or obstacles we come up against.”
ACU will host Eastern New Mexico Friday at 4 p.m. and West Texas A&M Sunday at 1 p.m.
Seniors Ashley Holton, Lyndsey Womack, and El-liott London will be hon-ored prior to the game.