Spring Serenade SpringFest brings music on-campus Saturday
vol. 100, no. 45
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“Lemonade” - by Asia Todd
“Light of Ray” - by Jonny Hill, Cannon Spears, Stephen Estrada
Set to fun, folk music, this short film highlights the ups and downs life takes and draws from the common phrase, ”When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.”
“Light of Ray” presents a love that is destroyed by tragedy. This film shows the pain and anguish of losing someone, and how freeing forgiveness can be.
“Liberation” - by Jacob Kitts
“Yemiffimey” - by Caitlin Bradford and Ben Weaver
Intended to exploit sex trafficking, “Liberation” is meant to tell a story through the slave’s eyes. Packed with action and special effects, this film will keep you watching.
Creative and unique, “Yemiffimey” is a stop-motion video with bright colors and bold shapes. Stop-motions are not easy to make, much like “Yemiffimey” is not easy to say.
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Student entries submitted to FilmFest 2012 will be shown Friday at the Paramount Theatre at 8 p.m. Watch these videos at acuoptimist.com
“Pride of Life” - by Lucius Patenaude and Adrian Patenaude
“In Light of Death” - by Jamie Swallows and Michelle McAllister
This short film emphasizes the importance of loyalty to a greater cause. It explores the subject of friendship when their loyalty lies in different places.
“In Light of Death” is about a girl struggling with the idea of death and losing a close friend. It shows the redemption that comes with letting someone go.
university
Education dean to move to Adams Center done the job that I came editor in chief to do.” Dr. John Dr. Lesa Breeding has W e a v e r , been appointed to serve dean of liand as executive director of brary the Adams Center begin- educational Breeding ning June 1. Breeding technologies and chair of serves as dean of the Col- the search committee, oflege of Education and Hu- fered Breeding the posiman Services, a position tion in the Adams Center. she has held since its cre- Breeding said she wants to fill a particular need at the ation six years ago. “Any professional worth Adams Center. “One of the things I their salt should ask themselves whether or not learned about myself in they’ve done their job and doing this is that one of how well they’ve done it,” my gifts is an ability to reBreeding said. “I think I’ve imagine organizations, to
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get them started and going,” Breeding said. Dr. Greg Straughn, interim provost, believes this to be a great chance to use Breeding’s gifts of leadership and education for the whole campus. “I believe she’s a very collaborative academic leader,” Straughn said. “Seeing that she helped found the College of Education and Human Services, which didn’t exist before she was dean, I think the Adams Center will benefit from her expertise.” Dwayne Harapnuik, former director of faculty
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I believe she’s a very collaborative academic leader.”
search in January, hoping to fill the spot by the end of the calendar year. Straughn looks forward to Breeding’s influence on the Adams Center. “I think it will be helpDr. Greg Straughn interim provost ful for the Adams Center to look at where to go from here,” Straughn said. “Are enrichment in the Adams we going to continue doCenter, left last summer ing all the same kinds of for a position as assistant things that we’ve done or provost at Concordia Uni- do we want to launch into a versity College of Alberta different area? I’m anxious in Canada, and Dr. Nancy to see what will happen.” Other changes in leadShankle now serves as interim director. Weaver ership roles on campus are and seven professors from expected soon. The search each college began the for interim deans to fill the
College of Biblical Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences. Straughn did not say whether Breeding’s position would be filled with an interim or permanent appointment. “I know that conversations have been happening with the academic chairs in both the College of Biblical Studies and Arts and Sciences,” Straughn said. “Dr. Schubert is very close to being able to make an announcement.” contact BARNES at HAB07A@acu.edu
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Education department to add new master’s degree for undergraduate students next week. managing editor Dr. Dana Pemberton, department chair, said the The Department of Teach- new graduate level degree er Education will add a has been in the works for Master’s degree option, be- several years. “We needed an opporginning Spring 2013. The faculty affirmed a M. Ed. tunity for graduate studin Teaching and Learning ies that was meaningful for the student proceeding Monday. The department will through the program for host four interest meetings initial certification,” Pem-
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berton said. “We’ve been talking about this degree for about five years, but we had a lot of work to do before instituting it. We needed to transform the undergraduate program, increase academic standards, increase field experience and academic rigor.” Student interest was the main reason for the degree’s creation, Pemberton said.
“About three years ago we had a session at our Alumni in Action conference and we hosted a graduate panel to talk to students about pursuing their Master’s,” she said. “The first time we did it we had about 10 students there. The next time we did it, the room was packed so we knew we really needed to look at it seriously because the de-
partment, the culture and, most importantly, the students were ready for it.” Pemberton said she began presenting the degree plan informally to different administrative teams and councils at the beginning of this semester to get the go-ahead for a formal application. The plan then had to pass several more steps before it could go to faculty vote.
“We took it through Teach Education Council, our College of Education and Human Services Council, the Graduate Education Council and then finally to full faculty vote,” Pemberton said. “A new program has to go to full faculty vote and ours was affirmed with an incredibly high percentage.” see master’s page 4
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