Strong finish Women’s basketball earns a tough win on the road Sports Page 7 vol. 102, no. 41
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CCSL drops five Campaigns
INSIDE NEWS ACU students compete in the third annual Miss Frontier Texas Page 3
ARTS Abilene knows how to do Mexican food right, but which restaurant does it best?
The annual SBCs are canceled after five student trips lose members
“In terms of the traditional Spring Break Campaigns, the four places we had, none of them had enough people in them to make them a sustainable trip,” Meyer said. Dr. Jan Meyer, interim Meyer, who oversees the linsey thut vice president of Student Center for Christian Service features writer life and dean of students, and Leadership, said missaid while more than 100 understandings might have The traditional Spring students will participate been one of the reasons the Break Campaigns that in other campaigns during trips didn’t work out. have taken place for more the break, this year’s Spring “Maybe we were hinthan 40 years will not hap- Break Campaigns will not dered in the fact that things pen this year. be like past year’s trips. were late getting started for
traditional campaigns,” Meyer said. Last October, miscommunication between administration led to the cancellation of SBCs. The decision was reversed, and SBCs, which had been handed off to the Halbert Institute for Missions last spring, was again placed under management of the CCSL. This delayed the organization of the campaigns to St. Paul, Minn., Seattle, Wash., Chicago, Ill.
and Fairfax, Va. Mary Beth Cuevas, coordinator for campus Spring Break Campaigns, said because of short time and not having started planning until Nov. 17, students who signed up for the four locations dropped out. “They didn’t have time to connect with each other and do fundraisers,” Cuevas said. “Slowly they just started dropping out.” see sbcs page 4
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OPINION The Editorial Board discusses the pros and cons of short term mission trips
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SPORTS Men’s basketball loses on the road to McNeese State 95-91 Page 8 Jared schuetze Staff Photographer
Lisa Shannon, author of “1000 Sisters” speaks with Chantal Mwiza, sophomore marketing major from Kigali, Rwanda, and Jessica Bailey, sophomore education major from Brownwood, at the Peace Walk held in the Rec Center.
NEWS Dr. James Langford retires after 27 years of working at ACU Page 3
NEWS COBA graduate students create a start-up business that is already attracting attention Page 3
OPINION Brittany Jackson relates some trusty life lessons she learned from her parents Page 6
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Board chooses three new members Marissa Jones editor in chief The ACU Board of Trustees welcomed three new board members during its meeting Sing Song weekend. Rick Atchley, Bill Minick, and Marely B. Shedd were voted to the university’s governing body and officially began their terms on Feb. 15. They help comprise the 32 members of the Board of Trustees. For 25 years, Atchley has served as the preach-
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NEWS The first Choral Artistin-Residence was invited to ACU Page 4
ONLINE VIDEO Watch a recap of this week’s news on the JMC Network’s newscast
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ing minister for The Hills Church of Christ. He recently was name ACU’s Outstanding Alumnus of the Year. In 1978, Atchley graduated from ACU with a B.A. in communications and a minor in Bible and received a M.A. in religious communications with a minor in Bible
and a Master of Laws degree in taxation at Southern Methodist University School of Law. Minick also serves on boards and committees for Pepperdine University and the City of University Park. He has three children and is married to Dr. Melissa Tonn, who serves on the Board of Regents for Texas Woman’s University. Shed is the regional president at First Financial Bank for Abilene, Odessa, Albany, Clyde and Moran. She graduated from Baylor University with a B.B.A. in finance
and economics in 1983. She also serves on the board of Abilene Arts Alliance and as board chair of the Community Foundation of Abilene and the Hendrick Medical Center Foundation and is vice president of the Development Corporation of Abilene. She and her husband, Glen, have two daughters. Dr. Barry Packer, ACU Board of Trustees chair, said the new members will be provided with a thorough orientation this see board page 4
Online voting available for SA elections jc peeples
Baseball wins in walk-off fashion agaisnt Missouri this weekend
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in 1982 at ACU. A t c h ley and his wife, Jamie, have three children. Minick shedd is president of PartnerSource, the largest consulting firm on alternatives to workers’ compensation, after practicing law for nine years. In 1982, he graduated with a B.B.A. in finance. Minick received his J.D. degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1985
staff reporter Students’ Association passed a new bill that will fund an online voting initiative. SA president Dylan Benac, senior political science major from Boerne, said online voting has been brought before Congress before but never proved successful. In 2004 Congress voted against an online voting
site. A few years ago SA tried a voting app that did not work. “We believe this new website will be more efficient than the previous models,” Benac said. SA worked with The Association for Computing Machinery to create the voting website. Students will be able to go to www.vote.acu.edu to vote for new SA officers, homecoming queen, Mr. and Miss ACU and other
campus-wide elections, according to the bill. Login will be the students regular user name and password. From there students will see pictures of the different candidates they can vote for. After the elections are over, the results will be calculated on an excel worksheet to determine the winner of the election.The entire project cost $300. Kaitlyn Tui, sophomore international studies ma-
jor from Washington, D.C., said she thinks the online initiative will ease the stress of voting. “You used to have to wait 10 minutes before you could cast your vote the old way, because of the process,” Tui said. “Now students can vote three minutes before their class starts. Simple.” Tui said the website will be easier than a mobile app because students will be able to see the voting
requirements easier. “We are more likely to finish something on our laptop than on our phone,” Tui said. “I believe this new way of voting will help turn out more voters.” The bill to fund the online voting initiative was passed unanimously by Congress. contact the optimist at jmcnetwork@acu.edu
Ukraine conflict could affect mission efforts kirsten holman copy editor
Political unrest in Ukraine surges on, and even though Jeremiah’s Hope has not been affected physically, its mission efforts could be impacted. Jeremiah’s Hope is a nonprofit organization based in the Ukraine that works with Read more at at-risk children. acuoptimist.com Andrew Kelly, co-founder
of Jeremiah’s Hope, graduated in 2001 from ACU and moved to the Ukraine in 2004 where he met his wife who has lived there for 17 years. “I went to Ukraine as a high schooler and went over with a ministry to do work in camps and teaching the Bible, and met orphan kids and fell in love with them,” Kelly said. “So I continued for eight years through high school and college every three months, and after eight
years and 20-some trips I decided to move there and open a home for teenage orphans coming out of the orphanage.” Once he married his wife, they moved north of Kiev and began developing the ministry compound that has a camp, rescue shelter and medical and dental outreach. “We haven’t been affected at all,” Kelly said. “Everything that has been going
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on has been happening in Kiev the capitol. We live in a rural community, we have no paved roads and we have no running water in our community. People in our community are subsistence farmers, they have 16 kilowatts of electricity for the entire village, our ministry property has 164 kilowatts just for our property. And so you can see there is nothing in our community. And so we haven’t been affected at all
because its untouched, even the town of 10,000 next to us, nothing has happened there either because it is of no political value.” Still, church groups and organizations have been cautious in sending over missionaries. “We have teams right now that are coming this summer that are starting to panic and one team backed out, and we see ukraine page 4