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Friday, August 27, 2010
Vol. 99, No. 3
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STUDENT LIFE
Collegiate card offers student discounts Taylor Edwards
Contributing Reporter
For the past several years, the ACU Students’ Association has used a portion of the Student Activity Fund to purchase Collegiate Cards. The card offers discounts at businesses
all over Abilene, including restaurants, auto shops, floral shops and car washes. Christopher Shim, senior finance major from Atlanta, Ga., and Executive Treasurer of SA, re-ordered the cards from the Collegiate Card vendor in June
and began distributing them the first week of school. “We were excited about Collegiate Cards, because I honestly feel like it’s one of the best ways a student can instantly get a return on their student activity fee. It’s an opportunity
for us to give back to the student body a part of what they put into their fee. Every cent helps, and there are so many restaurants that participate in the Collegiate Card program,” said Shim. Though the cards are free and readily available,
Shim said that in the past, fewer students than expected took a card. “It seems like mainly freshmen and a handful of returning students come to get cards. In order to reduce waste and help with cost, we ordered fewer cards this year because we’ve had boxes of
them left over in the past. This year we ordered 1,200 cards, and the student body’s obviously much bigger than that, so students need to get one before we run out,” Shim said. The goal of the program is to connect local see CARDS page 5
STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL
Congress petitions available Friday Linda Bailey Editor in Chief
Students interested in running for Students’ Association Congress can pick up petitions at noon on Friday at the SA office. “SA Congress is a great way for students to have their voice heard in the ACU community, it’s a great opportunity to meet a lot of different people from different grades and different classes and see how ACU works from the inside,” Jared Elk, SA vice president and senior political science major from Savoy, said. Sophomores, juniors and seniors can run for class senator, dorm representative or academic representative, and freshmen students can run for class senator or dorm representative. To run for class senator, students must be members of the class they will represent; to run for dorm representative, students must live in the dorm they want to represent; and to run for academic representative they must have a major housed in the building they will represent, Elk said. After picking up a petition, students must get 10 percent of their
photos by JESSICA FLOE // Contributing Photographer
Serge Gasore, graduate student from Rwanda, sits in between Sindayigaya Arthemon (left) and Raymond Remezo (right) during the first ceremony of the two-day wedding.
Cultural Vows African wedding brings international traditions to Abilene
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Story by: Linda Bailey
he gymnasium at South Side Baptist Church was transformed into an African village on Friday afternoon, the first day of the traditional African wedding ceremony of ACU student Serge Gasore to Esperance Namuseke Gasore. The entire wedding spanned two days and incorporated both American and African traditions. In August 2005, Serge came to ACU from Rwanda to study and run track
and cross-country. Now in graduate school, Serge is studying global information technology. Esperance will is attending Cisco College. Originally from the Congo, she and her family later fled to Rwanda, and moved to Abilene two years ago as refugees. Serge wanted to have the wedding in Africa, but Esperance’s family thought it would be best to for the couple to travel back to Africa only after they were married. To keep everyone happy, Serge agreed to have a traditional African wedding ceremony in Abilene.
“I love her so much so I said I’ll do everything I would do back home,” Serge said. He said they will move back to Rwanda in two years after he finishes his schooling in the U.S. Serge’s father wasn’t able to make the trip to the U.S. for the wedding, but his aunt traveled to Abilene from Rwanda. An uncle and a close friend, both originally from Rwanda but living in Haiti, were also able to join see GASORE page 5
see STUDENTS page 5
FACULTY
University grants tenure to eight faculty members Christianna Lewis Senior Reporter
Dr. Donnie Snider, associate professor of education, was greeted with confusion when he called his youngest daughter with the excit-
ing news that he had received tenure. “She said, ‘Daddy, I thought you had eight or nine years of teaching, not 10!’” Snider said. Snider is one of eight professors awarded the permanent status of ten-
Childers, associate professor of the Graduate School of Theology. Childers is chair of the Committee for Tenure and Promotion, comprised of seven faculty members from various colleges. It examines
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inside news Students and faculty spent nearly a year giving the ACU website an updated look and feel. page 8
ure this semester. This position secures exemplary professors’ appointments until retirement. Professors who apply for tenure endure a laborious process that usually takes four years to complete, said Dr. Jeff
arts Read a review of the Department of Theatre’s latest musical, I Do! I Do! and find out how you can catch the last shows. page 6
professors for excellence in four areas: teaching; scholarship, including research and creative activity; service, both to ACU and the community; and collegiality, the individual’s treatment of colleagues.
Dr. Susan Lewis, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, said putting together a portfolio that demonstrates her progress in these areas was see TENURE page 5
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