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Nurses abroad vol. 102, no. 50
wednesday, april 09, 2014
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Three students provide medical help in Guatemala
INSIDE SPORTS Women’s tennis continues dominance in Southland Conference
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OPINION The Editorial Board discusses the fake parking ticket incident and how it was handled
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Features Professor Jim Gash speaks in Chapel to pre-law students
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Students line up before Chapel and sing praise songs wearing white to support victims of racism and to advocate for a more united campus.
Suspects identified as HSU students Five males confess to fake parking ticket incident
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identified the five suspects on Tuesday. Later that day, they were identified to the public as HSU Five males involved in the students in a statement fake parking ticket inci- released by HSU president have been identified dent Lanny Hall. as students from Hardin “These shameful acSimmons University. tions do not ref lect the ACU Police Depart- values, attitudes or charment announced it had acter of Hardin-Simmons
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SPORTS ACU softball claims extra-inning win at Stephen F. Austin last weekend
University,” Hall said. “On behalf of HSU, I strongly denounce the actions and wholly reject both the racism expressed in the offensive messages and their sexually offensive nature.” HSU’s Office of Student Life is investigating the incident, and disciplinary actions will be addressed through the student misconduct process, Hall said. On March 18, 13 fake
parking tickets were reported to have been placed on students’ cars. Eleven of the tickets had sexual innuendos and sexist statements written on them, and two tickets contained racially offensive comments. The names of the five suspects have not been released to the public or to ACU administration and will not unless formal charges are filed, said ACU Police Chief Jimmy
Ellison. If a victim decides to file a criminal charge, ACUPD would present a case to the district attorney for consideration of charges. The DA will determine what charges can be filed against the suspects. Ellison said ACUPD made this case a top priority when it first occurred. Ellison said ACUPD spent an untold number of see tickets page 4
Six co-chairs chosen for Sing Song micah hermsdorf Page 7
SPORTS Sports Director Matthew Sloan talks about racism in the world of sports Page 8
NEWS World Wide Witness prepares students for summer missions abroad Page 3
NEWS Miss Frontier Texas contestants advance in the competition and learn to cook and ride horses Page 3
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student reporter Though still 11 months away, the co-chairs for ACU Sing Song 2015 have been chosen. Zeke Morgan, Amy Sloan, Brance Armstrong, Ashley Crisp, Kirk Farrell and Cheyenne Rawlings represent the new team
excited and couldn’t wait to get started.” Sing Song co-chairs are responsible for organizing in three areas: upstage, downstage and production. “Last year, I worked on the downstage production staff and had a blast,” Rawlings said. “It was during my time working downstage that I began
to consider being a cochair.” This year, Rawlings is working in the production area. This role includes all business aspects of Sing Song, such as ticket sales, ushering the crowd to their seats and controlling the f low of traffic on and off stage. Preparing for this is no easy task. “It will involve count-
less hours, hard work, occasional anxiety and lack of sleep, but it is to be expected when you are putting on a show as large as Sing Song,” Rawlings said. “I feel incredibly blessed to have gotten this opportunity to work Sing Song, and I look forward to working with everyone to see co-chairs page 4
Springboard finalists compete for $1500 lanthropy. Litton was quoted previously on the Griggs Center blog, but was unable to be The Griggs Center at ACU reached for a comment. announced the 2014 Spring“We are excited for the board Ideas Challenge final- teams that have advanced to ists last week. They will com- the final round of the compete for cash prizes in front of petition. Next week they will a live panel of judges. compete for over $40,000 in The competition, now in cash prizes,” Litton said. its seventh year, has students Business plans are classubmit their mini-business sified into Community – plan with the goal of having Growth Finalists, Communithe opportunity to pursue ty – Small Business Finalists, their entrepreneurial ideas. and College Finalists. Dr. Jim Litton is the direcGrand prize winner of the tor of the Griggs Center for Community – Growth catEntrepreneurship and Phi- egory will get $15,000, the
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Community – Small Business category will win $5,000 and the College category will win $7,500. On April 15, the winners of the 2014 challenge will be announced at an awards dinner. Before the announcement and dinner, there will be an exhibit of the business ideas from this year’s competition. Tickets to the event are $15 per person or $150 per table. Jason McVey, junior business management major from Austin, and Rudy Garza have made it to the finalist round in the College group for their project NovaScore.
“NovaScore is a software, website, and smartphone app to aide in test taking and scoring,” McVey said. “Our app allows students to use their phone to record their answers for a test and our website lets students and professors analyze the information created during test taking.” Ian Robertson, graduate student in Psychology from Abilene, and Kyle Gainey entered their Crowd Meets Science project into the competition under the Community – Growth groups and have made it to the final round.
“Crowd Meets Science is a business concept I’ve been working on over the last year,” Robertson said. “It is essentially a crowd funding platform for science research and science related expenses such as conference travel and paper presentations. We really want to target and work with students. But in the future we would also really like to expand to career scientists and researchers.”
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Students react to shooting at Fort Hood of eight minutes before turning the gun on himself, according to CNN. While the shooters’ Fort Hood, the Army base true motives are not cerin Killeen, was home to a tain, Lopez’s records show fatal shooting for the sec- a history of treatment for ond time in five years on anxiety and depression. April 2. Spc. Ivan Lopez, However, CNN found that the suspected gunman, the request for transfer killed three soldiers and Lopez had submitted had injured 16 in a matter been denied just before
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of students involved in the year-long process of organizing one of ACU’s annual traditions. “When Tom Craig told me that they wanted me to be a co-chair, I may have squealed,” said Cheyenne Rawlings, junior marketing and management major from Houston. “It was not my most professional moment, but I was super
the shooting started. Eric Ambrose, senior music major from Killeen, has a sister, a cousin and an aunt who work on base. He said his fear over the incident isn’t so much about whether it will happen again, but how this will affect those stationed at Fort Hood. “I am fearful for my
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friends and family who work and live out there,” Ambrose said. “I am fearful of how this will affect my friends stationed there, how this will shape and impact them and the families of our heroes who live there. For the men and women who live and serve in the first Calvary and fourth infantry
divisions, they are all heroes.” For Lindsey Emmons, senior sociology major from Killeen, the shooting brought back memories of the 2009 shooting where an Army major fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 othsee hood page 4