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Beards and Bibles vol. 102, no. 51
wednesday, april 16, 2014
Duck Dynasty members visit campus
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Heartbleed attempts attack on ACU server
INSIDE SPORTS ACU softball takes down the Cardinals in a walk-off winner
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A computer bug called “Heartbleed” has forced another change of ACU login passwords. This is the same bug that forced all students, staff and faculty on campus to change their ACU-login password for precautionary reasons last October. ACU’s technology department placed a warning on the myACU homepage to alert faculty and students and encourage them to take caution in case Heartbleed emails them for personal information. Heartbleed has not attacked the ACU server, but its attempts to acquire personal information, such as passwords, credit card information and emails is enough to require password changes. Kaileb Holland, junior information technology major from Houston, believes the bug could be harmful to openSSL library, which is responsible for about two-thirds of online servers, and is a cryptographic protocol that secures data exchanged between websites and servers. Many people may know the server name “https://” which is what openSSL runs out of. ACU, however, does not use the openSSL library. “It does not really pertain to ACU at all,” Holland said. “It only affects web servers that are openSSL. ACU’s tech department did a great job in preventing any harm to students, staff and faculty by taking the appropriate measures.” Some students complained recently about having to change their ACU login password. Now, students know the importance of ACU’s choice to require the password change. “I’ve heard about the Heartbleed threat a while
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OPINION The Editorial Board champions the benefits of sidewalks and why Abilene needs them
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NEWS Chapel observes the days before Easter with Holy Week
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Rodney Johnson, junior marketing pre-law major from Odessa, speaks at the SA debate for president. Andrew Tate, junior biology major from Abilene, explains his goals if elected for treasurer. Beau Carter, sophomore political science major from Farmers Branch, runs for vice president.
SPORTS ACU baseball loses two games to Sam Houston
SA officers prepare for fall
About 1300 votes are cast using new online system Meigan gardner student reporter Page 7
SPORTS Matthew Sloan explains why we should stop looking for the next Tiger Woods Page 7
NEWS The Abilene Zoo receives national accreditation Page 4
NEWS Beltway Baptist selects a leadership team for the new North Campus as construction continues Page 4
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The three students elected to the Students’ Association executive cabinet already are making plans of how to serve the student body next year. Cabinet members were elected Thursday when 1304 students voted using an online voting system
for the first time. SA saw an increase in student participation with about 120 more votes than last year. Rodney Johnson, current SA vice president, was elected president with 682, or 53.9 percent, of the votes. “I have been preparing myself for this role throughout my college career,” Johnson, market-
SA ELECTION RESULTS President Rodney Johnson 682 David Sanderson 581 Abstain 41
Treasurer Andrew Tate Chantal Mwiza Abstain
831 439 34
Vice President Beau Carter Abstain
Overall
1304
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ing pre-law major from Odessa, said. “I have assumed the highest form of Congress for my age throughout my years and
ACUPD closes ticket investigation Brittany jackson managing editor None of the students who received false tickets with degrading language on it will be filing charges against the HSU students responsible for the incident. Instead, students are continuing to advocate for better representation of minorities on campus. Chief of Police Jimmy Ellison said ACUPD’s further
investigation on the case has been terminated. “As of this week, all victims/recipients of the offensive citations have been contacted, interviewed and all have declined to file any charges related to the matter,” he said. However, months before any tickets were placed on students’ cars, one student began researching the more subtle forms of discrimination on campus. Kholo Theledi, senior so-
ciology and family studies major from Pretoria, South Africa presented information during the Undergraduate Research Festival regarding student group’s representation of minority groups. “Just being in meetings with different leaders of those groups, it had come about that they were feeling a sense of not being appreciated by the university,” Theledi said. “Even though they felt like their efforts were very important because they were
trying very hard to increase the awareness of diversity.” She interviewed student leaders of about nine multicultural enrichment groups on campus and recorded their perceptions of equal representation on campus. T’neise Ragland, president of Black Students’ Association and senior education major from Dallas, said the physical representation of discrimination helped to bring about awareness of the multicultural student groups
on campus. “Now that they’re acknowledging us, I hope they realize it’s important and it’s a necessity to have these groups on campus,” Ragland said. She said the ticket was just the beginning of a longstanding issue of discrimination against students in minority groups. “There’s a definition of institutional racism that says see tickets page 4
Jam session promotes ASA, entrepreneurs “I don’t think people know we have an ASA on campus,” Mwiza said. “We’re trying to reach other The African Students As- kids on campus by offersociation hosted a Jam Ses- ing them something that sion on Tuesday in Cullen everyone’s interested in Auditorium to raise aware- by using artists who are ness of their club, as well as known on campus.” support student entrepreMwiza said she wanted neurs at ACU. to use the Jam Session as Chantal Mwiza, sopho- a way to raise money for more accounting major next year’s ASA activities, from Kigali, Rwanda and instead of having to rely on treasurer of ASA, said she Students’ Association. hoped the Jam Session “We want to try and figcaught the attention of ure out ways to raise monmultiple students around ey for ourselves,” Mwiza campus. said.
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The Jam Session had performances by Claire Heath, Wes Robbins Band and Anthony Hill, and it also featured on-sale items from student-run businesses. Tim Rappaport, freshman kinesiology major from Jackson, N.J., was one of the entrepreneurs featured at the Jam Session and also sponsored the event. He runs a company called “Fixit” that repairs iPhones. He said when Mwiza
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Dancers perform at Jam Session in Cullen Auditorium. The event was hosted by the African Student Association.