Arm like Peyton Former walk-on turns leader in her senior year Sports Page 7 vol. 102, no. 55
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About 80 percent of SA budget spent
INSIDE ARTS Multiple blockbusters hit the screen this summer
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OPINION The Editorial Board humbly suggests some requests to improve campus.
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SPORTS Men’s tennis wins NIT tournament to conclude season
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NEWS After the Chapel bells went on hiatus, they’ve begun ringing again
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A freshman destroys an orange at Alpha Chi and Trojan’s traditional fruit smashing rush on Thursday. More than 400 students have registred to pledge in the fall.
The Students’ Association has spent about 80 percent of its budget, said Treasurer J.P. Ralston. SA receives about $180,000 of student fees each year to divide among campus organizations. But any money that is not spent goes to a restricted account for SA. “Any student funds that come through SA, if they’re not used, stay with SA,” said Jan Meyer, interim vice president of student life and dean of students. “They go back to a restricted account for Students’ Association.” Each department on campus is given an operational budget with a fiscal year from June 1 to May 31 and some have restricted accounts as well, accounts in which the funds are allocated for a specific purpose. “Everybody has an annual operating budget,” Meyer said. “Some areas, like SA, have a special restricted budget, which is money that is to be used for a specific thing.” Unused funds are kept in this restricted account indefinitely and are used only for SA, but are not reallocated to them the next year. “SA can propose to utilize some of those funds if there’s a specific need,” Meyer said. “It serves as a fund so that SA doesn’t lose it, but in order to use it, they have to have specific purposes requested.” Ralston, senior finance and accounting major from Plano, headed the task of cresee budget page 4
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SPORTS Baseball hosts last home series of the year this weekend
New stadium to benefit students place under the festive glow of fireworks. But what the drawings don’t show is the stadium The full-color render- sitting idle – unused and ings of the planned Wild- empty during the 360 days cat Stadium at Anthony per year ACU doesn’t host Field show a sports venue a football matchup. packed with purple for That’s because, rathgame-day action. Fresh er than sticking with a from tailgating, crowds in football-only format, the the pictures pour into the university is seeking ways pristine complex as the to make Wildcat Stadifootball on the field takes um multi-purposed and
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NEWS Offices move to the Campus Center basement in preparation for construction Page 3
NEWS SALT hosts its annual recycling event on Dead Day, offering free snowcones Page 3
community-based. Kevin Roberts, vice president of planning and operations, said the group developing the plans specifically wanted to make sure from the beginning that the new field would not be one-dimensional. “Our primary design element is that we don’t want this facility to be used eight days a year,” Roberts said. “Whatever it
takes, whatever we need to do from a design perspective is what we’re still trying to work out right now. That stadium will be something we all use on a regular basis, so we’ve talked at length in our meetings about how to design the stadium for multiple uses and student use. Right now we’re throwing around ideas like having spaces inside the build-
ings for students to eat, things like that. We want everyone to be included there.” With the new location on campus, the stadium will be easily accessible to all students. As a result, plans are in development for student activities to take place at the stadium. Existing traditions, such see stadium page 4
Leftover Bean Bucks to be donated Bean Bucks and place them in donation buckets in the Campus Center throughout finals week. At the end of fiStudents will have the nals week, the donations will chance to donate leftover be taken to the local nonBean Bucks during finals profit. week to help aid Love and Julie Brinkman, junior voCare Ministries. cal music education major Students will be able to from McKinney, and Janessa buy non-perishables from Beach, junior math educathe Campus Store with their tion major from Van Alstyne,
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thought of donating leftover Bean Bucks to help others when they were freshmen. The two are founders of ACU For the Least of These. “[Janessa] had an older brother who came here and he would say a lot of people would just go buy as much candy and soda, just anything they could so they could use the money,” Brink-
man said. “So we were like, ‘what if we could use that money elsewhere?’ So that’s where the idea for ACU For the Least of These was created.” During their freshman year, Brinkman and Beach gave students the opportunity to donate any amount of Bean Bucks they chose, which then went to buy-
ing Chick-fil-A sandwiches, chips, water and cookies for the Love and Care Ministries food truck. Love and Care Ministries distributed the sack lunches to the homeless community of Abilene. “It was really successful,” Brinkman said. “People wanted to do it again.” see bucks page 4
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Denzil lim student reporter Former New York Yankee legend Bobby Richardson visited campus last Tuesday as the the key speaker at a luncheon organized by ACU and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Richardson spoke about his success in baseball, unwavering love for God and his dream for young, faithdriven athletes. According to an article by Lance Fleming from ACU Sports, Richardson was an eight-time All-Star and fivetime Gold Glove winner from
1955-66. Respected as one of the most talented second basemen during his time with the Yankees, Richardson led his team to three world championships. He played in eight World Series and is the only player in baseball history to be awarded MVP honors from a losing team. He was a close friend and ministered to Mickey Mantle. Mantle eventually made the decision to accept Christ as his savior. After battling liver cancer, Mantle’s funeral was officiated by Richardson as a national event. Since retiring from baseball, Richardson has coached for Liberty Uni-
versity and Coastal Carolina University. He is a national leader in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. ACU’s Center for Building Community partnered with FCA and ACU Athletics to fly Richardson to Abilene. Dr. Gary McCaleb, vice president of ACU and executive director of the Center for Building Community, emceed the luncheon in the McCaleb Conference Center. The event was held in the Hunter Welcome Center where the public could purchase individual tickets for $30 or a table for $200. During his opening
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Former NY Yankee, Bobby Richardson, speaks to faculty, staff, and students from multiple Universities about his accomplishments as a Christian.