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Out with a Bang
vol. 101, no. 52
wednesday, april 24, 2013
Women’s tennis team wins LSC championship
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administration
University to apply mentoring institute
INSIDE OPINION The editor-in-chief disagrees with the editorial board about ACU’s attendance policy
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managing editor
said. “We are so blessed.” J.J. Blass, senior business management major from Arlington who traveled to Australia with Jinkerson, assisted with the tournament. “He was very involved,” Blass said. “A very passionate man about what he did and so a lot of us decided to hop on and share in that with everything we could.” Garrett Sublette (’03), who played in the tournament, was in the first class Jinkerson taught at ACU and often played golf with
Dylan Benac, junior political science major from Beorne, was announced as the winner of the first annual Greatest Idea Challenge in Chapel Friday. The final five ideas were presented the senior leadership team April 9. JP Festa and Cole Brenthem suggested creating a food delivery service from the Campus Center; Naomi Johnson suggested creating a free bus service for students; Joseph Austin suggested installing water fountains along the Lunsford; Nathan McClain’s idea was to allow the use of Bean Bucks offcampus; and Dylan Benac’s idea was to introduce a mentoring institute between students and faculty and staff. Festa and Brenthem took third place and $1,000, while McClain took second place and $1,500. Benac’s mentoring program was chosen by ACU President Phil Schubert and the senior leadership team as the greatest idea. Benac received $2,000 for winning. Additionally, as per the rules of the competition, the administration will now move forward with implementing the idea on campus. Benac, SA vice president and president-elect, said there was a lot of opportunity for students and faculty to interact in non-traditional ways. “I think you need someone who is an older authority figure, not to tell you what to do, but to encourage you to think differently or to work through your decisions,” Benac said. Students and faculty and staff members can be voluntarily placed in a pool and paired together based on interests and academia, determined by filling out a form. Benac said he wouldn’t define how individuals’ mentorships needed to look after being paired up. “I think it’s important not to say, ‘This is what it has to look like,’ because that limits the person that’s being the mentor,” Benac said. “I don’t think this is something we need to put
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curtis christian staff photographer Tucker Mack, junior accounting major from Lubbock, tees off in the Jinkerson Scramble while the rest of the foursome look on.
HOLE-IN-ONE linsey thut student reporter Ninety-one students, faculty and community members forming 24 teams, gathered together to play in the Jinkerson Golf Scramble Friday to honor the memory of an ACU professor and raise funds for a scholarship in his name. Dr. Darryl Jinkerson, former professor of management, died six months ago of a heart attack. After his death, Jinkerson’s daughters and his close friend, Dr. Phil Vardiman, associate professor of management, started the Darryl and Cindy Jinkerson Study Abroad Scholarship Endowment in his honor.
Jinkerson Golf Scramble raises endowment’s target M.C. Jennings, recruiter and marketing manager for COBA, said a starting fund of $25,000 must be met in order to start an endowment. Although the final total from the day has not yet been added up, Rachel Goodman (’11), Jinkerson’s daughter, said she thinks the golf scramble may have raised around $10,000. This is twice the amount they expected to receive. “We raised about $15,000 before the tournament, so hopefully we’ll get the $10,000 today,” Goodman said.
Cindy Jinkerson, wife of the late Dr. Jinkerson, was overwhelmed by the amount of money they were able to raise. “People kind of discouraged us from doing an endowment when we started. They said it would take a long time to raise that $25,000,” Jinkerson said. “It’s amazing that we might do it by April when we just started in December.” Vardiman said the support they received at the tournament exceeded his expectations. “I was very pleased and it lifted my spirits,” Vardiman
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The Alpha Epsilon Sigma club for agricultural and environmental science majors will conduct its annual fundraiser. The 58th Annual ACU Rodeo: They Call The Thing Rodeo, will be this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the horse barn at the Taylor County Expo Center. The horse barn is located directly across from Shotwell Stadium. The money raised at this event will help the AES on different events such as their Critter Dinner and Beast Feast, as well as service projects the club wants to hold for homecoming and graduation. Most ACU Social Clubs are planning on having teams compete in the rodeo. Will Morales, the co-vice
president for the event and junior environmental science major from Rotan said, “It’s a great opportunity for individuals to step out of their comfort zone and do something they might not normally do.” The rodeo will include several events, such as calf branding, double mugging and steer saddling for the guys. A calf scramble, udder madness (contestants try to clip clothespins to the udder of a goat), and goat dressing (Yes! Contestants literally try to dress a goat). Individual competitions include the Roughie competition, which will be steer riding, and the Queen competition which will have a goat flank and tie. Merissa Ford, senior agriculture business major from Maple Valley, Washington, said, “The rodeo is a total blast. It’s a time for the student body to get dirty, chase
mandy lambright chief photographer Taylor Langston, senior journalism major from Lubbock, hangs out with the horse ACU Rodeo brought to campus last week to promote Thursday’s event.
around animals, laugh really hard and make some memories.” ACU students Tiffany Lutz, Riley Morrow and Emily Schuster are all on the board for planning the event.
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Kathleen Henderson, senior environmental science major from Rockport, is in charge of the advertising for the rodeo. She designed, printed and distributed all posters and rodeo banners. She put together a slide to
show in Chapel and for the ACU log in events page. Riley Morrow, freshman animal science major from Bellvue, Colorado, is the covice president of the rodeo see rodeo page 4