One and Done Soccer team ends season with 1-0 loss in LSC tournament vol. 101, no. 20
friday, November 2, 2012
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INSIDE NEWS SA discusses university opportunities, problems and more with task force Page 3
NEWS PULSE A Capella group looking for logo design
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OPINION Melany Cox remembers her best friend, Anabel Reid, one year after her death in the bus accident Page 4
OPINION President Schubert writes a guest column about the Optimist’s endorsement curtis christian staff photographer
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Wesley Racca, junior biblical text major from Odessa, toys around with the decorations as the men of Frater Sodalis prepare for the club’s haunted house.
Frats scare in ‘Lost Island’
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The sports staff predicts a weekend football loss Page 5
SPORTS Black team beats purple in annual preseason baseball scrimmage Page 6
Frater Sodalis cebrated 30 nights of fright this Halloween with their haunted house “The Island Lost in Time.” For 30 years, the men’s social club, Frats, has hosted a haunted house in the fall as a fundraiser for the club. Wesley Racca, the fundraiser for Frats, said the Bermuda Triangle inspired this year’s theme. “It’s a place where anything could happen and everything could be there,” said Racca, senior Chris-
tian ministry and youth and family major from Odessa. The haunted house added an 80-foot-long bridge and made the tour longer with different routes from last year, Racca said. Racca said after hosting the house at Play Faire Park two years ago, they were able to return to the land on the east side of loop 322 they had previously used. “We came into contact with the landlords, and we made a deal with them and were able to come back,” Racca said. “This year however, they sold the land. The new landlord is excited about working with us in the future.”
Racca said 40 percent of the proceeds will go to the landowners. Frats will use their profit to help with club dues, the end-of-the-year trip and formals. “We also donate a monetary gift,” Racca said. “Last year we gave $500 to the Anabel Reid Memorial Fund. This year we’re not sure where we’re giving it, but we’re looking for a way to help out our community.” Club members began preparations for the haunted house in August by clearing the land and then started creating the experience at the beginning of October. “Frats are just a bunch of good
guys who want to entertain people and help everyone have fun,” Racca said. “We’re excited about doing it and continuing to do it for many more years.” During this year’s haunted house, Garrett Lane, sophomore youth and family ministry major from Fresno, posed as a clown and a man about to be executed. “I got the chance to dress up, wear a mask and scare people,” Lane said. “Who wouldn’t want that?”
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Service remembers Anabel, accident audrey schaffner
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A year after the death of Anabel Reid and of the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences bus accident on Nov. 4, the university honored Reid’s memory with a special Chapel service on Friday. 19-year-old Anabel, a sophomore environmental science major from Becton, died after the department’s bus veered off the
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highway and hit a concrete culvert, nearly ripping the bus’ body from the frame. The 15 other Reid passengers were taken to hospitals immediately after the accident, and some of them are still coping with injuries from the wreck. Jan Meyer, assistant dean of Student Leadership Development and executive
director of Christian Service and Leadership, took part in planning the Chapel service. She said the service was intended to pay tribute to Anabel while drawing meaningful worship components from people involved in the accident. “We asked all of the people who were involved in the accident to give us some things that have been meaningful to them over the last year – songs, scriptures, thoughts – some things that have sustained them or some
messages they have personally received and that they want to share with the ACU community,” Meyer said. Mandy Scudder, administrative assistant in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, said this time was needed for students, faculty and staff alike, to pause and remember. Students involved in the accident equested a video be made to show to the Chapel audience. “They wanted the op-
portunity to share their story and their testimony of the journey that they have been on since the accident,” Scudder said. A few other events are scheduled to follow Chapel. The department will plant a tree in remembrance of Anabel Friday afternoon. Scudder said once the department moves from the Zona Luce Building into the Hardin Administration Building over the Christmas see anniversary page 5
social clubs
Pledging reaches long-awaited end elizabeth weiss student reporter Pledging, and the noisy rituals that come with it, is over. Zeta Rho pledges were the first to be let in, last Thursday night. Lacey Medlock, sophomore physics major from Garland, is relieved to finally be in club. “I’m happy I don’t have to do any more of the pledging stuff and that it’s just over and done with now,” Medlock said. “We’re in and it’s less worrisome and stressful. I had fun pledging, but I definitely don’t want to do it again.” Sigma Theta Chi pledges officially became members Tuesday night and the girls were very surprised. Ko Jo Kai, GATA, Gamma Sigma Phi and Frater Sodalis pledges all got in Wednesday night. With the
pledging experience finally over, some now-former pledges reflected on their pledging experience. Angela Salvatore, sophomore nursing major from Wethersfield, Conn., was ecstatic to be a part of Ko Jo Kai. “Words cannot explain how excited, honored and blessed I am to finally be a part of Ko Jo Kai,” Salvatore said. “Pledging was a challenging experience, but because of it I grew so close to all of the Kojies and my sisters in my pledge class. “Pledging was tough,” said Cede Patterson, sophomore English major from Katy who pledged GATA. “But it definitely brought me closer to so many different girls and I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world.” Gamma Sigma Phi see pledging page 5
Mandy lambright chief photographer Tyler Eidson, sophomore marketing major from College Station, works through Gamma Sigma Phi’s Bid night activities. Five weeks later, pledging is over and Eidson is a Kinsman.
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