The Optimist Print Edition: 10.06.10

On the evening of Oct. 1 Freshmen Dylan Brugman and Shay Tuttle stepped out of their friend’s car into downtown Abilene, prepared to spend the weekend homeless.

Brugman, a political science and international relations ma-jor from Denver, was assigned a project on global poverty in his Bible class, but instead of volunteering at the Salvation Army or a local soup kitchen, Brugman thought he’d get a little closer to the poverty line.

“We’re doing a project on Christianity in global poverty and our responsibilities as Christians to the global community,” Brugman said. “I’ve gone to soup kitchens before, but this time I really wanted

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The University selected its new Mobile Learning Fel-lows for the class of 2010-2011 this fall. The 11 faculty members awarded will re-search mobile integration

and cutting-edge technol-ogy to encourage ACU’s push towards innovation.

Created to support the Mobile Learning Initia-tive, the Mobile Learning Fellows engage in research studies to incorporate and refine the current use of

technology on the ACU campus. Dr. Scott Perkins, coordinator of mobile learning research, said the group was developed in 2008 as a response to ACU’s commitment to evaluate the mobile learn-ing program.

“This is the future, and we try to be proactive,” Per-kins said. “If we didn’t move in a good, creative, innova-tive spirit, then we wouldn’t be getting good use out of these mobile devices.”

As a candidate, each of the fellows had to submit

his or her research plan to a panel for a faculty peer review. Each research plan was evaluated based on its academic value and wheth-er or not the panel believed ACU should support and invest in the candidate, Perkins said.

The Mobile Learning Fellows are Dr. Brian Bur-ton, assistant professor of information technology, Dr. Susan Lewis, assistant professor of journalism and mass communication,

University selects Mobile Learning FellowsChristina Burch

Contributing Reporter

FACULTY

Abilene has simultaneously experienced a drop in aver-age wages and a slight in-crease in employment over the past year.

And according to an Abilene Reporter-News arti-cle, wages dropped by $4,000 for full-time, year-round Abilene workers between 2008-2009. But Abilene’s un-employment rate dropped to 6.8 percent in July, a tenth of a percent lower than August’s rate of 6.7 percent, according to a report from KTXS News.

Chief Financial Officer Kelly Young said Abilene’s economy has declined over the last year or two, but he preferred to view Abilene’s flat economy as a sign of stability.

“If it were a growing econo-my, I’d say it was stagnant, but since the economy’s declin-ing, I’d say it’s stable,” Young said. “We’ve just been flat – other cities have shrunk.”

The structure of Abilene’s economy protected it from suffering the fate of many other cities, said Dr. Monty Lynn, professor of man-agement sciences. He said the four largest sectors of Abilene’s market come from retail, Dyess Air Force Base, health institutions and higher education institutes.

While retail fell in 2009, the other three sectors have been stable, Lynn said. This has kept Abilene’s economy steady during a time when

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Freshmen Dylan Brugman and Shay Tuttle relax by reading the newspaper during a weekend spent homeless in Abilene.

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The Red Dirt Adventure Challenge, organized by the ACU Outdoor Club, brought the outdoor en-thusiasts of Abilene togeth-er for a biking and running duathlon Saturday.

“The event went really well. It was very chill,” said

Jarrod Bray, junior out-door studies major from Abilene and the ACU Out-door Club’s event director.

Jonathan Martin, fresh-man biology major from San Antonio, finished first in the Hardcore division. Daniel Tomkins, senior physics, math and com-puter science major from College Station, took first

place in the Just for Fun category. The winners re-ceived trophies and Cam-elBak hydration packs.

A trainer from Abilene-based fitness center, Ever-fit, began the festivities with a pre-race warm-up and yoga session at Abilene State Park. Along with biking and running, participants were faced

with additional surprise challenges during the race courses.

“There is no way you can guess or prepare for them ahead of time,” said Jessica Floe, senior art ma-jor from Arlington, Wash. and president of the ACU Outdoor Club.

STUDENT GROUPS

Students experience great outdoors

Matthew WoodrowOpinions Page Editor

A Mile in Their Shoes

Two ACU students spend a weekend in poverty

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Jonathan Martin, freshman biology major from San Antonio, carries his bike at the Red Dirt Adventure Challenge.see DIRT page 4

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Brugman and Tuttle rest at United Supermarket on E.N. 10th Street. see POVERTY page 4

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11 a.m. Small group Chapels meet in various locations around campus

Intramural Volleyball sign-ups will be Oct. 13- 19. The entry fee is $75 per team. Games will begin Oct. 25.

Titanic, the Department of Theatre’s fall Homecom-ing musical, will show at 8 p.m. on Oct. 8-9 and 2 p.m. on Oct. 10 at the Abilene Civic Center. For ticket-ing information, call (325) 647-2787 or visit acu.edu/theatre.

JamFest will take place from 6 - 9 p.m. on Oct. 8 on the East Lawn in front of the Robert D. and Shirley Hunter Welcome Center.

Homecoming Queen Voting is open online until Oct. 6 to any ACU student. To vote, visit www.acu.edu/queen.

Homecoming Choral Concert The A Cappella Chorus and University

Chorale preform at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9, in the Williams Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information call (325) 674-2199

Flu shots are now avail-able in the ACU Medical Clinic in McKinzie Hall. Call (325) 674-2151 for more information.

Graduate and Professional School Fairwill be held from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 in the McCaleb Conference Center (Hunter Welcome Center). Recruiters from graduate and professional schools from across the country will answer questions concerning the programs their schools offer and the admission process. Featured schools include: ACU, Dallas Baptist

University, Hardin-Simmons University, McMurry University, Texas Tech, University of Texas and University of North Texas.

FCA, the ACU chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Atheletes, meets at 9 p.m. every Thursday in the Living Room of the McGlothlin Campus Center.

Table Tennis Club is look-ing for new members who enjoy casual and ranked matches. For more infor-mation, contact Benjamin Hayes at [email protected].

ACUltimate, the univer-sity’s ultimate frisbee club, meets at 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Interested students can contact Kyle Thaxton at [email protected]. ACU Computer Auc-tion will start at 1 p.m. on Oct. 16 in the Teague

Special Events Center. Over 200 computers of various makes and mod-els will be available. For more information visit www.acu.edu/auction or call (325) 674-2603

Karen Witemeyer, author of Head in the Clouds will have a book signing from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Texas Star Trading Company in downtown Abilene and from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Lifeway Christian Store.

LST, a group for those inter-ested in traveling and study-ing abroad, has a meeting from 4 - 5 p.m. in the Living Room of the McGlothlin Campus Center.

Sing Song Host and Hostess Auditions Those wishing to sign up for a host or hostess audition slot must do so in McK-inzie Hall Room 122 no later than Oct. 13.

October 6, 2010 CAMPUS NEWS

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Royal Flyover CareerCenteroffersjob help

The ACU Career Center provides resources to help students find interesting job fields, develop academ-ic abilities and gain experi-ence to be successful.

Cynthia Cooke is the ca-reer development manager of ACU’s Career Center, where she assists students by guiding their career paths. After students select a field, she helps them with career preparation and lo-cating internships. When seniors are about to gradu-ate, she helps with their professional communica-tion, which includes writ-ing resumes, cover letters, and confidently interview-ing for jobs.

Cooke believes it’s best to start early, freshmen can gain insight by attending the Career Center’s Discov-ery Program. The Discovery Program is a five-week ses-sion that takes place multi-ple times each semester. It helps students find good-fit career paths by either confirming or selecting a major. The Career Center also offers psychological assessments for students to learn about their indi-vidual personalities, inter-ests and talents.

“There are some things that we can train ourselves to do or work hard to learn how to do, but it’s usually better just to find things to do that come naturally to you,” Cooke said.

ACU Career Center profes-sionals encourage students to gain experience from a variety of things to prepare for any job they are offered after gradua-tion. Besides internships, stu-dents’ volunteer experiences and leadership positions in student activities contribute to developing skills as well.

“One of the things that students need to value are the things you may not have been paid to do,” Cooke said.

Rachel Elam, office manager of the Career Center, said that about 90 students have had indi-vidual appointments this semester, and 175 have signed up for the Discovery Program. Another session of the program will be open to students on Nov. 2.

Students pay a fee of $50 for the discovery pro-gram that includes a series of personality assessments and a one-hour session with a licensed counselor.

Daniel Orozco, associate director of the Career Center, said that at ACU resources are more available to students than at larger universities like Texas A&M because a smaller campus allows him to see students more often.

“I could meet with stu-dents at Texas A&M once or twice a semester, but it’s different here. I can see stu-dents multiple times a se-mester and visit with them regularly,” Orozco said.

Brittany Partridge, sopho-more political science and history major from Annan-dale, Minn., said she went to the Career Center twice and met with Orozco four times in the library to prepare a re-sume. She said while she was completing an internship abroad in Amsterdam, Hol-land, Orozco sent her encour-aging Facebook messages.

Advertising and Public Re-lations students have a new home with the opening of the Morris & Mitchell ACU Student-Run Ad/PR Agency.

The new agency, located on the first floor of the Don H. Morris Center, will offi-cially open its doors with a ribbon cutting Oct. 12. The new location features an of-fice with three desks and an adjacent conference room.

“It gives us room to breathe and a place for cli-ents to come,” said Joyce Ha-ley, instructor of journalism and mass communication and faculty advisor to the agency. “We picked the first floor of the building for the new location so we could be more visible and accessible.”

The ACU Ad/PR agency was founded in the fall of 2009, and plans to construct a permanent location for the agency were finalized last spring. The agency’s first location was a small

room Haley said was not much larger than a closet.

“We started really small with hardly any space and hardly any students,” Ha-ley said. “There are many ways Ad/PR agencies are done across the country. We learned there is no one right way.”

The agency’s first project was a makeover for Christian Village of Abilene, a senior citizen housing complex near campus. Haley said the new location will allow the agency to grow. She said she had re-ceived 10 inquiries within the past week about the agency’s availability for projects.

Elizabeth Coffee, senior advertising and public rela-tions major from San Anto-nio and the agency’s group account director, said the new space will allow stu-dents to work together and brainstorm more effectively.

“It not only gives us more space, but it is a lot more conducive to functioning as a team,” Coffee said. “In our old space it was difficult to

work together; it was messy.”Coffee said the new

location also gives the agency a boost in legiti-macy and credibility.

“It adds credibility to our name and is much more professional,” Coffee said. “People can now identify

us; it really brands us.”Will Moore, senior in-

tegrated marketing and communication major from Arlington, said the new agency also allows more students to get in-volved. Ad/PR students are now required to work

in the agency as well.“It allows us to have

more people to get in-volved and creates more opportunities to think col-lectively,” Moore said.

Keyi ZhouContributing Reporter

JOBS


Monarch butterflies rest on a tree Tuesday. Abilene is in the migratory path of the butterflies that make an appearance on campus every fall.

New Ad/PR agency nears openingSTUDENT GROUPS


A new location for ACU’s student-run Ad/PR agency will celebrate its grand opening Oct. 12. The new facility is on the first floor of the Don H. Morris Center.

Jeff CraigManaging Editor

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‘Chapel guy’ kisses pig to support charitySTUDENT CLUBS

Thanks to the women of Alpha Kai Omega, students had the privilege of watching Assistant Dean for Spiritual Life Mark Lewis kiss a pig after Chapel Monday. The event was a success, raising $200 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Kaios recruited Mark Lew-is, Dr. Jean-Noel Thompson,

Dr. Richard Beck, and Presi-dent Phil Schubert as can-didates for the kiss that took place Monday. Students then made donations under their favorite candidate’s name, and the candidate with the most money won the oppor-tunity to kiss a pig.

“There was a close race between Mark Lewis and President Phil Schubert,” says Vanessa Butler, Alpha Kai Omega Vice President.

“Mark Lewis actually kissed three pigs; the first one was for Alpha Kai, the second was because it was cute, and the third was for his son, who missed it the first two times.”

“My favorite part was watching Mark kiss the first baby pig that was squealing incessantly,” said Michelle Nix, Alpha Kai Omega President.

Judy Moore of Tuscola, and friend of Alpha Kai Ome-

ga, supplied the litter of three -week-old piglets.

“I’m always hugging and kissing them. Buyers always say my pigs are spoiled,” said Moore.

Moore says the piglets will be sold as show pigs.

“I also try to help out local agriculture and 4H kids who can’t afford a pig by donat-ing some of my pigs,” Moore said, “I think the experience of being responsible for an

animal is a valuable one.”This is the first year that

Kaios have held the pig-kiss-ing fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but officers Michelle Nix, Van-essa Butler and Lezli Boren say they may host the event again next year. In the past the club has held fundrais-ers for other organizations.

Laura GasvodaStaff Reporter

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Schlotzsky’s opens new location on Judge ElyLOCAL

Schlotzsky’s, a fast-food delicatessen with loca-tions in 35 states, official-ly opened its most recent location Sept. 25 on Judge Ely Boulevard near the ACU campus.

The restaurant primar-ily serves sandwiches and pizzas but also shares the facility with its sister com-pany, Cinnabon, which serves cinnamon rolls

and other baked goods. Both offer a 10 percent discount to students.

Jon Herod, manager of the new restaurant, also owns the Scholtzsky’s on South 14th Street. Herod, a former accoun-tant, purchased the first location from one of his clients six years ago. The new location features all of the franchise’s newest designs and products.

“The restaurant décor uses circles representing

Schlotzsky’s round sand-wich buns, versus Sub-way’s long sandwich buns,” Herod said. “The décor is Schlotzsky’s new concept, ‘Lotz Better’ look. The slogan is used to market Schlotzsky’s products.”

Schlotzsky’s sand-wich bread is made from scratch every day. The restaurant also serves personal-size pizzas, and in a few weeks, they will be adding 14-inch pizzas to their menu.

“So far, Schlotzsky’s restaurant has been busy everyday, and my goal is to satisfy my customers and make them happy,” Herod said.

Yingting Zhuang, senior business management major from Guangzhou, China, said she likes the type of food Scholtzsky’s serves and said it was un-like anything she has tried in her native country.

“I’m Chinese, and this is very different from what

I used to eat. I like it, and I would like to tell my friends to come and try it,” Zhuang said. “Also, I like the design of the restaurant; it feels very fresh.”

The restaurant is open every day from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. And in two to three weeks, the restaurant will open the drive-thru at 7:30 a.m. to serve baked goods from Cinnabon.

Meiqi ZhangContributing Reporter

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October 6, 2010FROM THE FRONT

Poverty: Freshmen look to gain understanding

to see what it was like to be homeless.”

Shay Tuttle, a mu-sic major from Decatur, did not have to give up his weekend slumming around Abilene, but chose go along with Brugman out of friendship and to prepare himself for later Christian service.

“I want to work with impoverished people lat-er on in life,” Tuttle said,

“How can you preach to somebody if you don’t understand them at all?”

Dr. Victor McCracken, associate professor of Bible and honors stud-ies, had assigned vari-ous projects to all the students in his Life and Teachings of Jesus class, with topics ranging from global poverty to the eth-ics of war and capital punishment.

“The project is part of a sequence of lessons that’s

designed to focus the stu-dents to examine claims about Jesus’ life and how Christians should be dis-ciples around the world,” McCracken said. “After the project is over I hope they can find some way to con-nect their faith to the world and be spurred on to fur-ther Christian service.”

Brugman and Tuttle left their comfortable heated dorm rooms, each with one shirt, one pair of jeans, one empty backpack, no money, no shoes and one cell phone in case of emergencies.

The homeless adven-turers spent the night under two large bushes outside the Abilene Civ-ic Center, wrapped up in American Classifieds and feet stuffed into their backpacks for insu-lation against the 51-de-

gree temperatures.Just 19 hours after ar-

riving in downtown they each had large bags un-der their eyes, tired bod-ies and sore feet. Their toes were covered in dirt; black filth showed under their toenails, and yet both were excited about the experience.

“TOMS has opened my eyes to the fact that so many people are bare-foot around the world,” Brugman said. “We want-ed to throw the global economy scale into the project and see what it’s like to not wear shoes.”

“The hardest part has

been the constant walking to get places,” Tuttle said. “I don’t know how far we’ve gone, but I don’t think I’ve ever walked this far in my life, especially barefoot.”

The boys only had one meal over the 36 hours they spent in downtown. Donations from passers-by gave them just enough to share a lunch from Chicken Express.

“We found out a quarter goes a long way. When we eventually got $6, we felt like billionaires,” Brugman said. “If you see someone hungry, please help them out. If they just get enough for a McChi-cken, that may be the only

meal they get for the day.”While on the street,

they talked to one man named Earnest who earns his living pushing a lawn mower around, knocking on doors to earn money.

“I can’t imagine living every day like that,” Tuttle said. “I’m looking forward to getting back, a hot show-er, a comfortable bed and eating a whole, whole lot.”

The experiment changed the way the stu-dents looked at the world and those around them.

“It’s important for peo-ple to empathize,” Brug-man said. “We’re not say-ing everybody should be homeless, but try to spend some time walking around in other people’s shoes.”

Or lack thereof.

STUDENTS

Learning: Faculty to submit plans for mobile research

Dr. Kenneth Pybus, as-sociate professor of jour-nalism and mass commu-nication, Mike Wiggins, assistant professor of art and design, Dr. Brad Crisp, assistant professor of in-formation systems and management sciences, Dr. John Ehrke, assistant pro-fessor of mathematics, Dr. Jason Holland, associate professor of mathemat-ics, Kenny Jones, associ-ate professor of art, Dr. Mark Phillips, assistant professor of management sciences, Dr. Cynthia Pow-ell, assistant professor of chemistry, and Dr. Au-tumn Sutherlin, associate professor of biochemistry.

The research plans of the Mobile Learning Fel-lows will be used in the Fel-lows’ various classes. As a third-year Mobile Learning

Fellow, Dr. Cynthia Pow-ell continues to integrate technology into the class-room by using podcasts in her chemistry labs.

“We’re living in a time where technology is changing quickly, and mobile devices are be-coming mainstream cul-ture,” Powell said. “It’s really benefiting the stu-

dents, and it’s a great op-portunity.”

Another fellow, Kenny Jones, plans to involve his art students in research to build an iPhone applica-tion, allowing students to virtually interact with ACU campus landmarks.

FACULTY

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quick factsThe university has selected its 11 Mobile Learning Fellows. The selected faculty will reasearch mobile integration into education.

n Dr. Brad Crisp, information systemsn Dr. John Ehrke, mathematicsn Dr. Jason Holland, mathematicsn Kenny Jones, art and designn Dr. Mark Phillips, management sciencesn Dr. Cynthia Powell, chemistry and biochemistryn Dr. Autumn Sutherlin, chemistry and biochemistryn Mike Wiggins, art and designn Dr. Brian Burton, information technologyn Dr. Susan Lewis, journalism and mass communicationn Dr. Kenneth Pybus, journalism and mass communication

How can you preach to somebody if you don’t understand them at all?

SHAY TUTTLE// freshman music major from Decatur‘‘ ’’

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economies dependent on manufacturing or inflated real-estate have contract-ed, Lynn said.

Though ACU has felt the blow to the economy, it is putting more into Abilene than it’s taking out, Young said.

“We and the other uni-versities clearly have a big economic impact on Abilene,” Young said. “We help the Abilene economy through the purchases that our employees make, that our students make and with our building projects.”

Students & Jobs

Higher education in-stitutes employed 2,409

non-student workers in 2008, making up 3 per-cent of Abilene’s work-force, Lynn said. ACU employs between 750-800 full-time staff and faculty, not including students or construction workers, Young said.

Many nationwide facul-ty are brought in, but most staff positions are filled by Abilene natives. The average salary for an ACU employee is $52,000, well above Abilene’s 2009 aver-age earnings of $39,422.

Students help create jobs by taking low wage and volunteer jobs, Lynn said. Abilene’s student population also makes Taylor County one of the youngest districts in its area, increasing its attrac-tiveness to businesses.

An Economic Impact

Aside from job cre-ation, Abilene businesses profit from the colleges and universities around town, Lynn said. He has performed studies of the effect of higher education-al institutes on Abilene’s economy. These studies are commissioned by the Abilene Chamber of Com-merce every two years.

Abilene’s eight colleges and universities – including ACU – contributed $61.6 million di-rectly into the city’s economy in 2008, Lynn said. Students were directly responsible for 27 percent of that contribu-tion. Students were also be-hind most of the $6.3 million visitors spent in Abilene, as most visitors were coming to see their children, Lynn said.

ACU alone put $756,949 into local businesses with staff and faculty purchases during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, according to purchase-card records from the Ac-counts Payable Office. This number includes payments for office supplies, fuel, rent-al cars and restaurant meals.

Most of the $4.5 mil-lion ACU annually spends on health benefits is spent in Abilene as well, Young said. While contractors use much of that money to buy materials and equip-ment, part of the money goes to hiring workers, who put that money back into Abilene’s economy.

Effect on ACU

Though Abilene is sur-viving the recession, the

weak economy has hurt students’ ability to pay tuition and donors’ abil-ity to supplement tuition, Young said. ACU employ-ees have also experienced a salary freeze since 2009, Young said. August brought most of ACU staff and faculty the first pay raise in a year.

“We have to be very careful that we hold things at a good value in a down economy because of what people are able to give and pay,” Young said. “Last year we cut almost 6 percent out of our operat-ing budget in response.”

But cutting cost isn’t ACU’s long-term response to a recession, Young said.

“The other way we’ve responded is trying to im-prove quality, so we have

more demand for what we have to offer,” Young said.

ACU has worked, not only to keep the programs it offers available, but to keep expanding the ways it shows donors and stu-dents the university is an institution worth invest-ing in, Young said. Yet ACU also uses caution in deci-sions it is making during tight times.

“I think the question on everyone’s mind right now is what the future of the economy is,” Young said. “This may not be a time to add a lot of proj-ects and dollars, or it might be an ideal time. The bottom can be the time to do things.”

contact Lewis [email protected]

Abilene: Higher education drives local economyLOCAL


Most of these challeng-es involved riders dis-mounting their bikes and competing in unusual and physically demand-ing activities.

“There was one chal-lenge where they had to carry their bike up a really steep hill, and another one were they had to climb over hurdles with their bikes for 10 to 15 yards,” Bray said.

The event included lunch and entertainment from the band WaxWings following the challenge.

The Red Dirt Adventure Challenge was sponsored by the ACU Students’ As-sociation, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Road iD, Bike-town and STEMS.

The registration fees paid by the racers went towards the cost of the event, although the club anticipated losing money. Asa Kusama, junior com-

puter science major from Annandale, Va., and this year’s Red Dirt Adven-ture Challenge Master, explained that the club planned on losing money due to the huge cost of insurance for this kind of event and the presence of an on-call ambulance during the challenge.

This year’s event did not involve any serious inju-ries, although some battle wounds were inevitable.

“There was some gnarly scraped knees, but we could deal with scrapped knees. So, fortunately, there wasn’t a need for the ambulance,” Bray said.

After five years, this could be the last year for the Red Dirt Adventure Challenge. The club is

discussing replacing the challenge with a trail run.

“Running appeals bet-ter than biking. Abilene isn’t exactly the best place for cycling,” Bray said.

Whatever the decision, the ACU Outdoor Club will continue to offer the com-munity a chance to experi-ence the great outdoors.

“There is no such thing as taking the same trip or climbing the same rock twice. Every trip brings new memories, friends and experiences that are unique,” Floe said.

For more information about the ACU Outdoor Club, visit www.acuout-doorclub.org.

Dirt: Club conducts racesSTUDENT GROUPS

Continued from page 1There is no such thing as taking the same trip, or climbing the same rock twice.

JESSICA FLOE// senior art major from Arlington‘‘ ’’

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FocusOctober 6, 2010

HANNAH BARNES // Features Editor

Butler uses various signs to help promote her campaign.

Ghandi once said, “Be the change that you want to see in the world.” Laci Butler, sophomore nursing major from Sunnyvale, is doing exactly that. She partnered with Brad Gautney and Global Health Innovations and is spear-heading a campaign called “Nothing but Nets” here on campus.

After going on a mission trip to Af-rica, Butler came back to school and asked herself what she could do as a college student to make a difference for those in poverty around the world. Many people go overseas and want to make a difference, but the challenges often seem too daunting or overwhelm-ing to make any tangible changes to the lives of those in need.

However overwhelming the chal-lenges, Butler refused to sit and do nothing. While looking for ways to help, Butler was told to contact Brad Gautney. Gautney, a nurse, is the founder of an organization called Global Health In-novations that works in Haiti and Africa. Their mission is “to design, implement and manage programs that prevent and treat deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Malaria in children and mothers liv-ing in areas of extreme poverty.” Butler contacted Gautney and asked how she could help.

A partnership was formed, as Gaut-ney had already been planning on partnering with college students to do “Nothing but Nets” campaigns at differ-ent universities across the country.

Students at Pepperdine, Lipscomb, and Tennessee Tech are doing similar campaigns.

“Nothing but Nets” is a campaign whose goal is to raise funds to buy mos-quito nets to prevent Malaria. These nets are treated with insecticide and protect individuals from mosquito bites that can cause Malaria. These nets can be purchased for $8 each, and the nets that ACU purchases will be going directly to the village of Tonge in Malawi. Gautney stresses that GHI does not simply send money but works amongst the people, educating and building relationship, which makes their program much more effective. In founding Global Health In-novations, Gautney’s original mission was to work to prevent HIV/AIDS, but as he began to do research and work

amongst the people, he realized that Malaria was causing many more deaths than HIV/AIDS, and the fact that it is a preventable and curable disease made it a much more important mission to undertake. According to the GHI web-site, Malaria causes twice as many child deaths than HIV/AIDS every year, and every 30 seconds a child dies of Malaria. Although the statistics are alarming, But-ler is adamant.

“We must not forget that each sta-tistic has a face, a name and a family,” said Butler

Butler believes that as Christians it is our obligation to help those in need. Butler was drawn to this fundraising campaign because it is doable for college students. Every student can give up $8, he says.

“That is a meal, a movie ticket, or a t-shirt that you can do without,” said Butler.

The goal for the ACU campus is to raise enough money to buy 1,000 nets, which is $8,000 to be distributed in No-vember. As of now, a little more than half of that goal has been raised. The deadline for these funds has been ex-tended, and Butler believes the goal can be met. Students can donate funds by finding the “Nothing but Nets” booth in the campus center or by going to www.crowdrise.com/abilenechristian and do-nate by credit or debit card.


Alex Sanchez, freshman biology pre-med major from Conroe, holds a mosquito net. Every 30 seconds, a child dies from malaria, and these tent-like nets help prevent the spread of the disease.


Supporters of “Nothing but Nets” gather to demonstrate the number of people that can fit under-neath a mosquito net.


“Nothing but Nets” is meant to create change for those in impoverished conditions. Butler wants to inspire Abilene residents to “Be the Change.”

Casting tHEiR nEts

Student’s campaign provides mosquito nets to help prevent malaria in Africa

Brian Johnston Contributing Writer

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On Sept. 28 Colton Tooley fired around 10 shots on the University of Texas campus before taking his own life.

Last Monday, Brookhaven College in Dallas shut down while police searched for a suicidal student.

Yet we are lucky to live in a country where incidents like this are rare, and here at ACU we have a police force dedicated to protection of students, staff and faculty.

Students can call 674-2911 for on-campus emergencies and to notify security. Stu-dents may also sign up for

the emergency response sys-tem to receive text message alerts about anything from canceled classes on snow days to armed intruders on and around campus.

Sign up only takes a few minutes at http://www.acu.edu/campusoffices/acu_po-lice/acualert/.

We look at instances of school shootings and shudder, but we also need to look backward in histo-ry and be thankful for how far we have come.

Most colleges and American universities have

open campuses. Visitors can come in and explore, interact with students, use the libraries and even eat in the cafeterias.

But colleges have not al-ways gotten along so amica-bly with the cities in which they are located.

Colleges in Europe are surrounded by huge stone walls, and as much as tour-ists enjoy looking at the gar-goyle-ridden walls, this was not their original purpose. They were meant to sepa-rate the townspeople and protect the scholars.

One of the most famous clashes between students and villagers occurred on Feb. 10, 1355 in Oxford, England. An argument went wrong at a tavern over the quality of the beer, and armed riots ensued. Two days later more than 90 people had died. This is now known as St. Scholastica Day.

More than 600 years later in America, U.S. mar-shals, military police and National Guardsmen were brought into Ole Miss to protect students during race riots over integration on Oct. 1, 1962.

But even with how far we have come, several people were recently at-tacked by a former student with a baseball bat right here on ACU’s Lunsford Foundation Trail.

Attacks on students can come from anywhere inside and out, and we’re thank-

ful they are few and far be-tween. Our prayers go out to the Tooley family and the UT community. And the ACU and Abilene police have our thanks for all they do to protect us every day.

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I liked candlelight devo because it was cool to see all of the lights and listen to the speaker.TYLER PINKERTFreshman business management major from Red Oak

I liked the service project. I got to know a lot of people and my group and I had a blast.

Tutor discovers gift of learning

COLUMN

Altitude SicknessBy Juliana Kocsis

Last weekend I received a phone call from a Bhutanese refugee here in Abilene. In English so much improved from when she first ar-rived in the U.S. two years ago, she asked if I would look over a paper she wrote for a college class she’s taking.

I said of course, and spent a half hour over chai tea, correcting her spell-ing mistakes and finding no explanation for strange grammatical rules of Eng-lish other than “because it just sounds right.”

Her paper was like the ones I was writing in third grade, but later she was glowing when she told me she’d received a nearly-perfect score on it.

I would estimate I spend less time writing eight pages of analytical argument than she does three pages of simple narrative. And unless I’m reading Kant or Nietzche (which I never do), I don’t struggle to read every other word like she does, because English just so happens to be my first language.

That isn’t to say I feel somehow superior or more educated. What struck me as I was reading her paper is how often I take for granted that I am in the fortunate 6.7 percent of the world’s population that holds a college degree – and having done so little to find myself in that situation.

I’ve spent fifteen years often working just hard enough to impress my teachers, spending just enough time on assign-ments to make good

grades and studying just long enough to memorize what I need to know for a multiple-choice test.

My friend, on the other hand, pores over her stud-ies – on top of a 40-hour week to help raise two chil-dren, pay the U.S. govern-ment back for a flight from Bhutan to Abilene and fund a college education.

When I ask her, incred-ulous, how she manages everything, she tells me she feels “so blessed” to be working toward a col-lege degree, something I came to expect, how-ever vaguely, by the time I walked across the stage at kindergarten graduation.

So I have to wonder what education would

look like if it was ap-proached more as a bless-ing than as a duty; if it was treated as the long-sought, invaluable gift that it is for my friend and the count-less others who didn’t re-ceive it through a middle-class American birth.

I don’t say this to inspire an overwhelming sense of guilt across college cam-puses in America. I think maybe it just calls for a quiet sense of gratitude, even when walking to class early in the morning or reading Shakespeare late into the night.

If nothing else, maybe it calls for a rediscovery of that sense of excitement we felt when we finally got to our first day of kindergar-ten – the kind of excitement I see each time my friend reminds me she finally gets to go to college.

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Almost everyone I know at ACU has read Blue Like Jazz, and lots of those people really loved it and will say that it had some effect on their spiri-tuality. I felt an even stronger con-nection to Don Miller’s follow-up book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years, where he discusses writing the screenplay for the Blue Like Jazz movie and how it affected his life.

However, Don Miller posted on his blog the Blue Like Jazz movie will most likely not be made, mainly due to lack of funding. Don explained, “The folks who invest in Christian movies were scared to death of Blue Like Jazz. While it has a PG-13 rat-ing, there is language, drug use and

a scene where the protagonists put a giant condom on a steeple. To me, it’s the only movie that takes an honest look at a Christian kid coming of age in America, a story experienced by tens of millions of students each year. But students don’t fund Christian movies, old-er white guys do, and they find it hard to relate to the theme.”

The great news is, there is still a chance for this movie to be made. By going to www.savebluelikejazz.com, you can donate money to this film and learn how to help save it. I plan on donating money and think it is important that you do as well.

We as young Christians complain

all the time about Christian media and entertainment, and for good reason. Almost every movie that I’ve ever seen with Christian themes has been incredibly cheesy and unre-alistic. I long for a story that shows real human struggle, a story honest about the Church, one that is criti-cal of our approach and yet hope-ful about how we, through God, can learn to show his love properly.

We cannot continue to complain about the lack of quality Christian entertainment if we let this mov-ie go unmade. We have to show that when the traditional funding structures let this script down, we stepped in to make it happen.

Sandra Amstutz junior information technology major from La Feria

Christians need to support Blue Like Jazz

By Morgan DavisThe Funny Funnies

I have to wonder what education would look like if it was approached more as a blessing than as a duty.

the issueThe recent suicide on the University of Texas campus prompted us to take a look at our own safety at ACU.

our takeHistoric violence at universities around the world lets us appreciate the protecive systems we have today.

Brown Library is, and ought to be, the centerpiece of our academic institution. It contains and rep-resents a “cloud of witnesses” of learning. These witnesses radiate beams of light into each classroom and lecture hall on ACU’s campus. All of our professors stand on the shoulders of those whose works sit enshrined between covers on shelves in Brown Library. The weighty shadow of the great de-

mocracy of those authors reminds professors and students alike that academic tyranny is unacceptable, and the cause of learning is fur-thered through integrity, respon-sibility, accountability and open dialogue—and by listening to the voices of the past.

Why, then, does ACU’s website marginalize Brown Library—the centerpiece of our academic insti-tution? Surely access to the book-

present members of our communi-ty should be just as easy as accessing the physically present members accessible through ACU’s online di-rectory. Consequently, ACU should not demean Brown Library by rel-egating it to the bottom of ACU’s homepage, where it is invisible un-less one scrolls down looking for it. Rather, it should be given a place of honor at the top of the homepage alongside the online directory.

Brown Library deserves more recognition

Wesley Dingman graduate student of theology from Abilene

October 6, 2010 FROM SPORTS

Look beyond the numbers

I’ve been guilty of it. When catching up on the day’s sports happenings, I tend to carelessly glance only at the main highlights or statistics and not think anything of the context of the game or what sto-rylines were p r e s e n t prior to it. S k i m m i n g the surface is another way to describe it. Just show me the numbers, and I’ll move on.

But the problem with this style is that we don’t dig deep enough to ap-preciate the context sur-rounding the game or the meaning of a simple sta-tistic. As causal fans or channel surfers, we owe it to the participating parties to have some prior knowl-edge before tuning in.

So many times, we solely focus our attention on the analytical part of sporting events. “How many homer-uns did he hit this year?” or “I wonder how many points he will score for my fantasy team today.”

Last Saturday, I was watch-ing the Boston College/Notre Dame football game when I heard one of the commen-tators utter something along the lines of “Mark Herzlich with the tackle.” I knew I had heard that name before, so I became curious. Sure enough, Herzlich had been in the news recently because this was his first season back

since he was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, in his left leg.

He was diagnosed af-ter his junior season and had to undergo extensive chemotherapy treatments throughout his senior year, and was medically red-shirted. The ACC Defensive Player of the Year, Butkus Award finalist, and first team All-American, Her-zlich was a lock to be select-ed as one of the top picks in the NFL Draft after his junior season. But a little thing called chemotherapy got in the way of the then 22-year-old business major and his dreams of becom-ing an NFL player.

However, in Lance Armstrong-esque fash-ion, Herzlich perse-vered through everything placed in front of him and prevailed, cancer-free on September 29, 2009.

Simply playing in an-other collegiate game was a miraculous feat for the Boston College linebacker.

While the stat sheet for Herzlich last Saturday was by no means eye-popping, his three tackles signified something much more to those who knew his story and were aware of his past.

Those seemingly insig-nificant three tackles were a source of hope, inspiration and encouragement for those who know what num-ber 94 has been through.

Try putting a statistical figure on that.

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Shaking It UpBryson Shake

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Regionals: Men win singles, doubles

Hach had a 30-minute rest after winning the sin-gles championship before he teamed up with senior Bryan Joiner to compete in the doubles tourna-ment. The pair entered the tournament ranked first, and proved they de-served it by winning the championship in dramat-ic fashion.

Hach and Joiner played the second-ranked team of Edward Boone and Mick Walter from St. Ed-wards in the champion-ship. They came back

from a 4-2 deficit in the first set to defeat the St. Edwards’ duo 7-6 (12-10). Hach and Joiner then won the second set in a tiebreaker 7-6 (8-6).

“Winning the doubles title was something we’ve worked for since day one,” Joiner said. “In the finals there were a lot of ups and downs, and we saved more than 10 set points in each set to stay alive. We stayed together and ended up winning the points that mattered.”

Hach and Joiner both earned spots in the na-tional championships

with their regional victo-ries. They also matched their Lady Wildcat team-mates, Mongin and Walk-er, stride for stride with the exact same victories the ladies had the week-end before.

When asked about teammate Hans Hach, Joiner said, “This week-end showed a lot of ma-turity from my doubles partner [Hach]. Being on the court for 10 matches in three days takes a lot out of somebody mentally and physically. Being able to win both titles in his first year amazes me.”

Joiner and Hach are still excited about their success from last weekend but are ready to start preparing for next weekend. They will join Mongin and Walker in the National Small College Championships next week-end in Mobile, Alabama.

“It was an awesome feeling to get the regional title my senior year,” Joiner said. “Now we’re focused on next weekend and look-ing forward to seeing what we can do at the National Tournament.”

TENNIS


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Pass: Top defense shows weak spot

Wildcats down the field us-ing Edmund Gates as the mainstay of the drive. Gates had two catches on the drive, the last one a 26-yard strike that put the Wildcats up 14-0 heading into the break.

ACU looked to be in complete control of the game until the Javelinas struck back. Running back Connell Davis made Jav-elina take an option play 59-yards to the end zone, finally putting the Javelinas on the board with 8:05 left in the third.

The Javelinas struck quickly in the fourth quar-ter when Nate Poppell found Division I transfer Delashaun Dean to pull within striking distance 31-17. Poppell finished the night just 24 of 57 for 279 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.

With just 3:15 left, Poppell dropped back again, looking for Robert Armstrong, but af-ter the ball was tipped in the air it found Darien Williams instead. The interception halted a Javelina drive to tie the game, and ACU won by a final score of 31 to 24.

“I dropped a pick earlier, and I knew once I saw that ball in the air, I had to go get that,” Williams said. “It’s a big win for us. We have never been tested like this before.”

Whatever offensive wor-ries Wildcat fans had com-ing into the season, it is safe to say this offense will not be a hindrance this season. ACU is averaging over 100 yards more per game than

they did last year in total offense and 98 yards more through the air.

For the first time this season Mark Sprague and the punt team had a punt blocked, which proved a very costly mistake for the Wildcats.

“We have to clean some of those things up,” said Thomsen. “We had a chance to put them away, but credit them with the nice plays.”

The blocked punt was reminiscent of many from last season, a sea-son in which the Wildcats had four punts blocked; three came at the hands of Texas A&M-Kingsville.

The secondary issues were, again, a fault in an otherwise good night for the Wildcats.

Although Poppell com-pleted under 50 percent of his passes, it was more the Javelinas problems on of-fense that led to the low completions than the ACU defenders. More than a handful of times Kingsville receivers beat the Wildcat secondary down field, Pop-pell just overthrew them, or they dropped the passes. Nevertheless, when called upon, the secondary made the stops with a huge inter-ception towards the end of the game.

The Wildcats will be back in action this week-end for a homecoming showdown with Midwest-ern State.

FOOTBALL


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...I knew once I saw that ball in the air, I had to go get that.

DARIEN WILLIAMS // junior defensive back from Vernon‘‘ ’’

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Briefs

n The ACU volleyball team jumped to No. 21 in the latest AVCA Top 25 Poll after their three wins this week-end. It is the Wildcats’ first time in the Top 25 this season.

n The Wildcat golf team is ranked second in the nation in the lat-est Golfstat poll. ACU also ranks No. 10 in the latest Golf World/NIKE Golf Division II Coaches’ poll.

PlayerProfile

n Ashley Holton is a junior soccer player from San Diego, Calif. Last Saturday, Holton scored a hat trick in ACU’s game against East Cen-tral Uni-veristy in Ada, Okla. and then scored an-other goal Sunday against Northeastern St. in Talequah, Okla. Holton has scored eight goals on the season, and is showing no signs of let-ting up. A transfer from Cuyamaca College in California, Holton scored 41 goals in two seasons and holds records in scoring, assists and overall points.

Ex-Factor

n Bernard Scott had 2 carries for 7 yards in the Bengals 23-20 loss to the Browns Sunday. Scott now has 15 carries for 74 yards on the season.

n Johnny Knox caught one reception for 26 yards in the Bears’ 17-3 loss to the New York Giants Sunday night. Knox now has 12 receptions for 258 yards on the season. Danieal Manning had 11 tackles in the effort, bringing his season total to 25 tackles on the season.

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Holton

Holton’s hat trick energizes ’CatsThe Wildcats remained un-beaten on the road last week-end, winning two conference road games against East Cen-tral University and Northeast-ern State University.

The Wildcats knocked off the Tigers of East Central 4–2 on Friday before travel-ing to Tahlequah on Sunday. The Wildcats would score two early second-half goals against the RiverHawks, giv-ing them a 2–1 victory.

“We played very well this weekend, even with having some girls who were sick or

hurt,” Head Coach Casey Wil-son said. “With the pressure on us and being shorthanded, we were able to come through and win as a team.”

In the first game, Ashley Holton stole the spotlight, scoring three goals in the first half alone. Holton is just the third player to record a hat trick in ACU’s school history. It did not take Holton long as she scored her first goal in the first 50 seconds of play. She would add her second one in the 20th minute and her final one in the 38th minute.

“Ashley played great this weekend. She stays so com-posed when she is out on

the field,” Wilson said. “Even when she is not scoring, she is creating chances for others, and we are very pleased with the effort she is putting in.”

Andrea Carpenter scored her ninth goal in the 43rd minute to continue her goal streak at eight consecutive games. This streak would end Sunday, but Carpenter still has nine goals in nine games. She is just one goal shy of tying the school record for most goals in a season at ACU. The Wildcats took a 4–0 lead to the half and were able to hold on in the second for the victory, despite giving up two goals.

ACU scored two goals in the first 10 minutes of the second half against the Riv-erHawks for a 2–1 victory. Courtney Wilson got the first goal in the 50th minute, and Holton scored the second of the game and her fourth of the weekend in the 54th minute. NSU would score in the 80th minute to make it interesting, but ACU’s de-fense shut down the River-Hawks the rest of the game, not allowing another shot.

Senior defender Bree Craig helped shut down the River-Hawks late in the game.

“I think we played very well this weekend. We had to

deal with a couple of injuries and illness, and despite that, we played well,” Craig said. “It was definitely great to get two conference wins, I think that the energy we have will help us carry this momentum.”

The Wildcats improved to 7–2 overall and 2–1 in confer-ence, while the RiverHawks fell to 4–3–2 and 0–2–1. ACU will have two home games this weekend at the Wildcat Soccer Pitch. ACU will play West Texas A&M Friday at 4 p.m. and Eastern New Mexico on Sunday at noon.

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SOCCER

Wildcats hog-tie Javelinas

The Wildcats moved to 5-0 in the season with a wild win down in Kingsville – by far the closest game this season for ACU.

Mitchell Gale led the Wildcats to victory, com-pleting 34 of 51 pass at-tempts for a career-high 417 yards and three scores. Gale’s performance earned him Lone Star Conference

South Division Offensive Player of the Week honors for the second time this season. Edmund Gates and Kendrick Johnson led the ACU receiving core with 135 yards and 134 yards re-spectively. Gates scored one touchdown in the second quarter to put the Wildcats up 14-0. ACU totaled 440 yards in the game, amass-ing nearly 250 yards more than any other team this season against Kingsville.

“It was a little bit of a surprise with that kind of defense,” said Head Coach Chris Thomsen.

ACU came out firing from the get-go, taking the opening drive 67-yards, hitting four different re-

ceivers on the drive. Dar-rell Cantu-Harkless made his third consecutive start and capped the drive with a four-yard touchdown run to put ACU up 7-0. Cantu-Harkless had just 18 yards on the ground on

10 carries, and the Wild-cats amassed just 23 yards on 26 carries.

This would not change for most of the first half, as the Wildcat defense stepped up and held the Javelinas to just 134 yards in the first half.

Just before half the Wildcats were backed up deep in their own territory. But Gale calmly led the

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FOOTBALL

DANIEL GOMEZ // Chief Photographer

Mitchell Gale had a career night against Texas A&M-Kingsville in a 31-24 victory. Gale completed 34 of 51 pass attempts for 417 yards and three touchdowns. The performance was enough to earn Gale his second Lone Star Conference South Offensive Player of the Week award this season.

Hach, Joiner follow women to nationals

The ACU men’s tennis team traveled to Maryville, Missouri this weekend for the ITA South Central Re-gional Championships. The women’s team swept their ITA Regional Cham-pionships the weekend before, allowing two play-ers, Julia Mongin and Ja-clyn Walker, to advance to the national champion-ships. The pressure was on the men to match that performance, and the men didn’t disappoint.

Freshman Hans Hach entered his first ITA Re-gional Championship ranked seventh in the singles tournament. Hach came to ACU last year, but was unable to play tennis, making this the first time

Coach Hutton Jones would witness him play under pressure. Jones had high expectations for Hach, and he succeeded those expectations by winning the singles tournament with ease.

Hach did not lose a set in any of his six singles matches. He never lost more than three games in a set and defeated top-ranked Malcolm Harrison of host school Northwest Missouri State in the championship, 6-3, 6-3.

“I knew he had a great chance of winning the re-gional title,” Jones said. “He continues to get better and better every match he plays. He has amazing tal-ent, and I expect even more great things from him in the future.”

Jeff JohnstonSports Reporter

TENNIS

ZAK ZEINERT // File Photo

Bryan Joiner and partner Hans Hach won the double title at the ITA South Central Regionals.

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It was a little bit of a surprise with that kind of defense.

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