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On the court ACU basketball hosts A&M Corpus Cristi vol. 102, no. 35
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INSIDE NEWS The senior art show “Shake the Dust” opens at 5:30 p.m.
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NEWS
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Rick Lytle begins the “Entrust” intiative to encourage the next generation of business leaders
THE 2014
WINTER
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OPINION
GAMES
The Editorial Board discusses why it would have been a mistake for America to boycott the 2014 Olympics
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SPORTS The track and field team travels to New Mexico looking to break some records Page 6
NEWS A premarital Chapel is offered to couples considering marriage Page 3
SPORTS The softball team starts their season at home against Texas Lutheran this weekend weather permitting Page 6
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Top: Despite the cold, Kayla Flatley, freshman psychology major from Colorado City, Kasidi Gorneau, freshman political science major from Meridian, and Bret Wheeless, freshman management major from Frisco, gather with fellow students on their day off for an epic snowball fight. Left: Garrett Lane, junior biblical text major from Fresno, and Ramsey Towell, junior computer science major from Abilene, sled down the hills behind Smith Adams. Right: Despite the cold, students gather together on their day off for an epic snowball fight in front of Nelson Hall.
Surprise snow freezes school Several students braved the single-digit windchill on Thursday and participated in snowball fights The forecast predicted half and sledding. an inch of snow, but stuThe hills behind Smith dents woke up and were Adams Hall were a popular surprised to find Abilene destination for sledders incovered in over two inches cluding Chris Cope, junior of snow – enough to cancel biblical text major from classes and shutdown the Abilene. university. “It was great to have an
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NEWS ACU Clinic increases its hours because of students’ suggestions Page 4
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unexpected snow day, and what better way to spend it then to sled in the snow?” Cope said. “It was exhilarating.” A snowball fight involving more than 70 ACU students was coordinated in front of Nelson Hall by Tim Savage, accounting graduate student from Abilene. “I always try to have a
good time when it snows in Abilene since those times are so rare. I thought that since classes were cancelled, I would just invite everyone I knew at ACU to take advantage of the potential of having an epic snowball fight,” Savage said. “I think the best part was seeing all the college students play around like
5-year-old children.” Students can thank a committee of administrators for the the decision to cancel school. The committee, officially known as the ACU Weather Delay/ Closure Committee, is coordinated by ACUPD Chief of Police, Jimmy Ellison see snow page 4
Couple receives Young Alumni of the Year student reporter
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This year’s Young Alumni of the Year award will be given to a husband and his wife. Two young alums will be honored for their dedication and sacrifice to a local neighborhood in Fort Worth. Dr. Randy Brown and Anda Brown are married and live in one of the worst places in Fort Worth. Randy Brown decided, after years of meditating with God and
sweethearts that met again on campus. Randy, who was a pre-med major, and Anda, an English education major, married one semester before Randy’s graduation in May and Anda’s in August in December, 1993. Randy brown anda brown Randy’s dream of being talking to his wife, to a life of a doctor always stuck with full-time ministry to teach him since the age of five, and minister to children, when his mother said the including seven of theirs, in family needed a doctor. the Como neighborhood. He always had a calling According to ACU Alum- towards ministry, Anda said. ni Association, Randy and “When he talked about Anda were high school missions, I thought he was
crazy,” she said. “I really wanted the typical doctor lifestyle. Thankfully, God had other plans.” While in school, Randy and Anda participated in many Spring Break Campaigns. One trip to Romania had the biggest impact on Randy. He said he felt a strong calling from God to quit medical school and focus on ministry. When Randy revealed his plans to Anda, she said, “We had been married six months, so that was unset-
tling.” On a month-long mission trip to Togo, West Africa in 2000, Randy felt the calling again to do missions fulltime. However, the couple was not in agreement. The family moved a lot because of Randy’s practice in residency, and they joined the Christ Fellowship Church in Grapevine. The Browns settled into a nice home with their three children. They had everysee alumni page 4
ACU student first to study in Japan linsey thut features writer A junior from Arlington was sent as the first student from ACU to study abroad at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka, Japan. School officials hope to send more students in the future. Rachel Katagiri, international studies major, said she will take classes such as Japanese language and culture, Chinese language and conversation and international business when school starts. KSU does not offer in-
ternational exchange classes to help students learn the language just yet, she said. Katagiri said she grew up in Japan so she knows enough Japanese to get by. “My hope is that KSU will be able to offer classes in English that will teach the Japanese language,” Katagiri said. “This would be something similar to ESL, but the opposite, JSL , or Japanese for Speakers of other Languages.” Katagiri is in Japan working at Starbucks to make money for school, but she said school won’t start until
April 1. Japanese universities break classes up into two semesters, so each class takes a year to complete. “Part one of most classes will be taken during April to August,” Katagiri said. “Part two will be taken from September to January.” Katagiri said she hopes students will be able to travel to KSU for the April to August semester in 2016 so they can still start their Fall semester at ACU as normal. “I would absolutely love to see other ACU students go to KSU and study in Japan as exchange students,”
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she said. “My dream is for ACU students to have the marvelous opportunity to study in Japan if they so desire.” Stephen Shewmaker, executive director of the Center for International Education, said an international agreement between ACU and KSU has been in place since the 1990s which allows students to spend a semester at each school. However, though many KSU students have taken advantage of the agreement each year, none of the ACU students have traveled to Japan.
Katagiri said when she found out about this agreement she wanted to be the first to try it out. “I wanted to be able to experience what it’s like to be a student in Japan,” she said. Shewmaker said students who travel to Japan in the future will stay for only a semester under the agreement, but that Katagiri decided to stay the second semester on her own. contact thut at lct10a@acu.edu