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Winning on the way Coach Golding will bring a winning program to ACU vol. 102, no. 33
friday, january 31, 2014
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INSIDE ARTS ACU is home to a varitey of student a capella groups
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SPORTS Women’s basketball goes 2-2 during their homestand in Moody Coliseum
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OPINION The Editorial Board talks about the pros and cons of Buzzfeed
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Students gather to Moody Coliseum to remember the Rwandan Genocide. The Honors College partnered with Rwandan students who performed songs and dances native to Rwanda. The documentary, “Rising From The Ashes”, was shown, and speakers discussed Rwanda’s past and future.
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NEWS ACU’s IT school created working video games in 48 hours Page 3
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Students and faculty got the opportunity to watch the remarkable story of how cycling legend, Jock Boyer, moved to Rwanda, Africa to help a group of struggling genocide survivors pursue their dream of forming a national team. Rising from Ashes, a documentary by T.C. Johnstone and narrated by actor and ex-
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OPINION New Editorial Board member Brittany Jackson encourages students to work towards what they want Page 4
managing editor Students who were in Ukraine a few weeks before riots broke out are keeping up with the developments as violence escalates. Ukraine protests arose in late November. Riots in Kiev have since formed, with protestors fighting to become part of the European Union. According to CNN, demonstrations began as a peaceful method of opposing Ukrainian President
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The Maker Lab purchased a Google Glass that will For a recap of this soon be available to stuweek’s news and dents for check-out. The sports, check out the optical device allows stunew JMC Network dents to pursue their interests for development newscast available in the wearables field of online technology. The Google Glass is still in development and obtainable through closed invite only. Even if one is able to grab a spot, there is still a fee for the glass. The glass is an optical, head-mounted display much like using Read more at a smartphone in a handsacuoptimist.com free format. It is capable
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From April of 1994 to July 15, 1994, it is estimated that from 500,000 to a million people were killed, resulting in the elimination of nearly 20 percent of the Rwandan population. “I hope that through the movie, students will come to appreciate the way in which we are connected to the rest of the world,” said Dr. Stephen Johnson, dean of the Honors College. “Because we are human, we are all
connected. It is important that we remember one of the most tragic moments of human suffering and injustice.” When Johnson and others in the Honors College first heard about the documentary, their goal was to find a way to bring the movie to ACU to share with students, faculty and staff. “We learned about the film and began exploring see rwanda page 3
Viktor Yanikovych’s rejection to signing the EU charter. Instead, he chose to form closer relations with Russia. However, since declaring independence from the Soviet republic in 1991, the people of Ukraine have attempted to recover from decades of soviet rule. This has resulted in a general distaste for Russia. As of Tuesday, NBC reported six people have been killed, with hundreds more injured in the intensified clashes with police forces. Brantly Houston, junior ad/PR major from Abilene,
was in Ukraine just weeks before the riots broke out. He and his classmates were able to see the demonstrations before they became tainted with violence. “It felt like you were walking through history,” Houston said. “I think some of us were kind of nervous and didn’t know what to expect, but it was totally calm and tame at the time. But I can see how it could very easily turn violent.” Houston said the demonstrators set up in Kiev’s Independence Square was a mix between the “Les Mis”
barricades and Hoovervilles. Inside, many protestors camped out, with someone either giving a speech or singing Ukrainian songs on a make-shift stage without ceasing. Savannah Pybus, freshman art education major form North Richland Hills, was also on the trip. “They’re really fighting for it because they’re trying to be as anti-Russian as possible,” she said. “They want to be their own country; they just want to be Ukraine.” Pybus and Houston ac-
companied the Hillcrest Church of Christ university group on a mission trip to Kolenski, Ukraine from Dec. 27 – Jan. 4. They and about 14 other students volunteered with Jeremiah’s Hope, a non-profit organization that works with atrisk children in Ukraine, to host camps for the children of Kolenski. Pybus said many children of the area are from troubled households, with their parents regularly becoming intoxicated to fight see riots page 3
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Rising from the Ashes tells the story of how four young Rwandan men were led by Boyer to train and try to create the first national cycling team from Rwanda. The documentary shows the past of each of the four cyclists, and discusses what they had to endure to reach their dream. During the early 1990s, tribal conf lict rocked Rwanda as the Hutu tribe began to cleanse the nation of the Tutsi tribe.
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ecutive producer Forest Whitaker, brings to life the struggles that are still prevalent in modern day Rwanda. The Chapel forum took place Wednesday night in Moody Coliseum. Before the showing, there was live music performed by Rwanda natives. After the conclusion of the documentary, there was a question-and-answer session for those who wished to discuss the movie in depth.
of almost every function found in a phone through voice-commands or a touch-menu on the frame. Nodding one’s head or saying “Ok, Google” will activate the Google Glass. The Maker Lab was able purchase a Google Glass a month ago because of the early action of Dr. Brian Burton, assistant professor of information technology. Burton applied for a Google Glass spot last summer when they were first unveiled. “When Google Glasses was first announced, I saw it as a natural outgrowth of what ACU has been doing with mobile computing,” Burton said. “It was the next evolu-
tionary step in where mobile technology was headed. So I thought, let’s get one on campus so we can start developing on them.” Burton received his spot in December and passed it on to Lyndell Lee, Maker Lab educational technology specialist. “Rather than buying it for just one department, especially since the amount of time they’ll have to use it is pretty low,” Lee said. “Dr. Burton approached me for buying one that can be used by the whole campus. So the Maker Lab bought it.”
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Lyndell Lee, Maker Lab educational technology specialsee glass page 3 ist, tries out DET’s new Google Glass.