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Thrice as Nice vol. 101, no. 47
wednesday, april 3, 2013
1 SECTION, 6 PAGES
Conwell ties ACU record with 3 homers in one game
chapel
organizations
High school student revives Run for Water
INSIDE OPINION ACU classes should be canceled the Monday after Easter
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melany cox online manging editor
OPINION Christians should disagree on the gay marriage issue with love Page 4
NEWS ACU Opera to perform a ‘Soap Opera Opera’ Page 3
FEATURES
Two faculty couples reliving the dorm days in Nelson, Barret Halls Page 5
SPORTS Women’s tennis team riding 6-match winning streak vs. Cameron Page 6
Bob Goff, author of ‘Love Does,’ speaks in a Chapel forum on Monday night as part of Justice Week.
GONE GOFFING ‘Love Does’ author opens Justice Week josh garcia managing editor
NEWS SA meeting discusses success of intentional living communities Page 3
ONLINE NEWS Studentr pre-registering for Run or Dye 5K acuoptimist.com
NEWS Dr. Suess sculptures to be unveiled at Everman Park next week acuoptimist.com
One Chapel forum opportunity remains as part of this year’s Justice Week. The annual Justice Week features events revolving around international social justice. The week kicked off Monday with a presentation by Red Thread Movement and a Chapel forum led by author Bob Goff, who also spoke during Tuesday’s Chapel. Gerald Britt, vice president of Public Policy and Community Program De-
velopment at CitySquare ner at Bonterra Blu at 7 – Dallas, led a forum Tues- p.m. and will provide a farmers’ market the folThere is a little bit lowing day at 5 p.m. Later Thursday evening at 6 for everyone at every p.m., journalist and activforum.” ist Sally Fallon will lead a Chapel forum on ‘justice for small farms.’ At 7:30, the Amphitheater will play sarah ratliff justice week head host to a sampling of slam chair poetry. Justice Week will wrap up Saturday with the In day evening, followed by the RED Fashion Show at Ryan Groves, CEO of Wish- 7:30 p.m. in the Windsor ing Well. Hotel. Proceeds will go to No forum is scheduled fighting sex trafficking in for Wednesday, but the Nepal. ACU Locavore club will Sarah Ratliff, senior conduct a fundraiser din- marketing major from
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crossing his office in editor in chief McKenzie Hall. “But Halfway through his late this year is morning meeting with Re- special besLife area coordinators, Dr. cause I’m John Delony realized that it leaving.” delony was his favorite day of the Delony year: April Fool’s Day. That’s told Dr. Jan Meyer, interim when he realized why all dean of students, on March of his staff was late for the 26 that he will leave ACU meeting. after nearly six years of lead“They do this every year,” ing Residence Life. Effecsaid Delony, associate dean tive June 1, he’ll be headed of students, as he pointed to Lubbock to serve as asto the blue streamers criss- sistant dean of students at
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the Texas Tech University School of Law. “I’ll be working more directly with students and with the law school itself instead of the broad departmental goals here,” Delony said. “It’s very similar, but the major difference is I won’t be dealing with housing like I do here.” Delony said the Tech law school has about 700-800 students, so he’ll be working much more closely with students than his current position.
“You can really get to know students and plug into their groups and dreams, which will be pretty neat,” he said. Delony and his wife, Sheila, attended Lubbock Christian University and have many connections and friends in the Lubbock area, which was one of the draws to the position at Texas Tech. Shannon Kaczmarek, area coordinator for McDonald and Nelson Halls, said those who work directly with Delony enjoy
his playful personality, and show it right back. Monday afternoon, Easter eggs and folded pieces of paper covered his table, desk and files while he searched for where they hid his laptop. “He is a really beloved boss here,” Kaczmarek said. “He’s created an environment where you feel supported but not managed. One of his strengths is that he’s always willing to entersee delony page 3
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GSP brings back ‘club stud’ student reporter
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Associate dean to leave for Tech
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VIDEO
The second annual Anabel Reid Run for Water will take place Saturday from 8 a.m. noon. at Chapman Field in Lubbock. The event will honor the life of Anabel Reid, the ACU sophomore who was killed in the Nov. 4, 2011 bus accident. The goal of the event is to raise money for the Water 4 Anabel Reid Memorial Fund. Water 4 is a charity that provides clean water to impoverished areas, an issue Reid was passionate about. This year’s Run for Water was revived by a Lubbock High School senior, Bethany Rolan. Rolan attended high school with Reid. She said she always looked up to Reid, even though they were several years apart. She described Reid as a “beacon of service.” Rolan said she wanted to have a fundraiser in Lubpaige otway stafF Photographer bock so it would be easier for Reid’s friends and family to attend. She emailed Shelly Reid, Anabel’s mother, at the beginning of the year to express her interest in coordinating the event. Rolan said the Lubbock High School National Honor Society, the Reid family, Red Mango and House of Ink will sponsor the event. She said Lake Kiowa and Justice House of Ink will provide Week head chair, said she the T-shirts for the run and was happy with how Jus- Red Mango will serve frozen tice Week has turned out. yogurt and smoothies to the “There is a little bit for participants. everyone at every forum, She said the bleachers so I encourage students at the field will be open for who are ready to adopt participants to fellowship Bob’s ‘let’s do something’ and talk with each other and attitude to attend and find the Reid family. She also said a way to get plugged in,” Water 4 will be there showing she said. a documentary, passing out For a complete list of literature and demonstrating Justice Week events, visit how a well works. http://acujusticeweek.com/ Rolan said, as of Monday, full-schedule/. 132 people had registered for the event and 15 NHS members had agreed to volunteer. Shelly Reid said she plans
Men’s social club Gamma Sigma Phi will be reinstating its Club Stud position this semester to go along with its other current elected positions. “Club Stud is probably the most prestigious thing you could achieve in a social club, definitely more prestigious than being a social club president,” said Blaine Smith, senior biology major from Keller and former GSP
president. “Club Stud is a member of GSP that is determined, by the club’s discretion, to be the studliest member of GSP,” said Curtis Christian, senior electronic media and secondary education major from McKinney and former GSP historian. “Essentially what they get is a title on the officer row of our composite. It’s not an officer position, just a recognized position.” Christian said the last club member officially named Club Stud was Justin
Gibson in 2010. “He’s still around on campus, and he’s actually helping with bringing it back since it hasn’t been done in a couple of years, but that’s just because it’s usually headed up by the last Club Stud,” Christian said. Like many things involved with clubs on campus, the Club Stud position is somewhat of a mystery to those who aren’t actually in GSP. While many of the details about what the Club Stud does, or who the next person appointed to the
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position will actually be are kept secret by the members of GSP, Smith was able to give a very short, and somewhat vague description of the Club Stud’s duties. “They’re kind of like a figure head, like the queen in a constitutional monarchy. They’re there, there’s a lot of prestige, but they don’t actually do much. It’s more of a symbolic thing,” Smith said.
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