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Bible majors to see tuition reduction
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cuss the possibilities. “We met as a campus online managing editor leadership looking at everything from financial A tuition reduction for aid to admissions to each Bible majors has been ap- of the offices involved to proved and will be imple- be sure this is something mented for next year’s in- that is affordable and is coming freshmen. it something that we can Dr. Robert Rhodes, offer and sustain,” he provost, said the College said. of Biblical Studies offered Rhodes said each stuthe initial idea, and cam- dent would know they pus leaders met to dis- would not pay more than
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half of the typical tuition coming in, which is typically the case with students already through scholarships and aid from the CBS. This way potential Bible majors would know ahead of time that cost will not be as big a factor as they might have originally thought. He said the College of Biblical Studies will establish guidelines and
review procedures similar to those for other scholarship recipients to monitor applicants and funding. Rhodes said several things prompted the reduction. He said more ministry training programs have been implemented in ACU’s sister schools. As a result, students have more and more schools
and programs to choose from, so the programs are getting smaller. Rhodes said the schools have different price points. All schools provide a cost calculator on their website that starts with total tuition. He said most students don’t pay total tuition but, as Bible majors look see tuition page 5
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NEWS A Master’s degree in Occupation Therapy is now offered at ACU Page 3
OPINON The Editorial Board discusses the relevancy of an iPad requirement.
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SPORTS Wildcat soccer blows out Golden Eagles on the road Page 6
NEWS Students now have the opportunity to learn Korean Garon Goodspeed Staff Photographer
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SPORTS Sophomore defensive back Tyler Chapa shows promise in his first two games
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OPINION Read Alikay Wood’s opinion on our culture’s obsession with Fifty Shades of Grey. Page 4
SPORTS Matt Sloan breaks down the first week of the NFL season Page 5
ONLINE VIDEO Watch students kick-off of the intramural season with flag football
Josh Haffner, sophomore kinesiology major from Seguin, and Thomas Evans, senior marketing major from Westlake, participate in a bean bag toss at the all-club tailgate rush before ACU’s game against McMurry at Shotwell Stadium.
Engineering dept. doubled in size Physics and Engineering , said it had only 30 students last year but more than 60 students call The Engineering Depart- themselves engineering ment starts its second majors this year. year as an established “The number of stumajor with more than dents we have now is the double the number of stu- number of students we dents than last year. thought we’d have after Dr. Rusty Towell, chair five years,” Towell said. of the Department of “We’re growing much
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faster than we had anticipated.” In the past, students were only offered the physics major and had to go to graduate school to learn about engineering or enter into the field right out of college. Dr. Kenneth Olree, the director of the department of engineering, said
the department was created to satisfy the high demand for an engineering education. “For some students, they might have found it a little harder to get into the engineering field from physics,” he said. “In some cases, students decided they really wanted engineering and so
they would go to another school.” Before coming to ACU last year, Olree was a part of Harding University’s new engineering program. “What was exciting to me about coming to ACU was I could get in at the see Engineering page 5
Feral Cat Initiative sets up feeders gabi powell features editor A minimized melody of meowing can be heard on campus compared to years past. Last semester, Campus Management took action against a cat-crowded campus by implementing a new program named the Feral Cat Initiative. Corey Ruff, executive director of facilities and campus management and main advisor for the initiative, said around 40 cats total have gone through the program and the number of kittens is noticeably smaller this semester. He said the program is making progress, with three cats having gone
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through the program since the start of the semester. The Trap-Neuter-Return program has the cats inspected by a local veterinarian, who determines if they are in a condition to be spayed/ neutered. Each cat is then ear-tipped for identification and given a rabies shot. The entire process is completed within a matter of hours, ending with the cats’ return to campus. This semester, the first feeding station has been set up on the west side of the Central Plant. “We are fixing to put out two more feeding stations in areas of campus that have a higher Garon Goodspeed STaff Photographer
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ACU has implemented feral cat feeding stations around campus for our furry friends.
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