Optimist the
Vol. 98, No. 21
The Best Medicine
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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BREAKING NEWS, VIDEOS, PHOTOS, DISCUSSION AND EXCLUSIVE CONTENT TECHNOLOGY
University vies for Trike spot Christianna Lewis
termine which sites – and universities – will be next Contributing Reporter on the map. The Google Trike conThe new Street View Trike test was announced on is bringing previously inaccessible sites to Google the official Google blog Earth. ACU is battling for Oct. 16 and lasted until nomination in the nation- Oct. 28. Any user could wide contest that will de- suggest a location for the
Google Trike’s next visit. The nominations fell into six categories, including landmarks, theme parks and university campuses. Google will review the requests and open the vote on the final nominees Nov. 11th.
Following Google’s announcement, ACU began calling for alumni, faculty and students to vote to “put ACU on the map.” Links to the nomination site were posted on the ACU Web site, as well as on Facebook and Twitter. The
response was encouraging, said James Langford, director of web integration and programming. “We’re just trying to get to the second round,” Langford said. see TRIKE page 4
Photo courtesy of BLOG.DK.SG
FILM
ACADEMICS
Festival to show foreign films Bailey Neal Contributing Reporter
it as a field of study. Two years later, the Center for the Study of Aging opened; it was renamed the Pruett Gerontology Center in 1994 in honor of Zack and Geneva Pruett, who provided a $1.5 million endowment for its creation. Austin Holt, junior biblical text major from Granbury, said he thinks the gerontology courses will benefit him in his future
The Paramount Theatre will present a collection of 21 films, each less than 20 minutes, as part of the 11th annual 24fps International Short Film Festival on Friday and Saturday. In a little more than a decade, the short film festival has grown from a local competition used to celebrate Halloween to a largescale operation, said Barry Smoot, artistic director for the Paramount. He says in its early years, the competition received few entries, and those were from only Abilene and the surrounding Texas communities. The selection process for entries was the same this year, but the selections from which to choose were not. “We take the field of submissions and narrow them down to 20 to compete and be screened for the public,” Smoot said. “We ended up this year with 21, we had such a hard time cutting them down.” 24fps is open to any student or independent filmmaker worldwide, according to the 2009 24fps
see PRUETT page 4
see FPS page 4
JOZIE SANDS Chief Photographer
Alyssa Matthews, senior family studies major from Kansas City, Kans., looks over an assignment in Dr. Charlie Pruett’s adult development and aging class.
Pruett Center offers gerontology certification Ben Warton
service administrative coordinator for the Pruett Gerontology Center. Contributing Reporter Courses can be taken as electives and include Sociology and Aging; Exercise and ACU now offers graduate and undergraduAging; Death Education; and Adult Developate certification in gerontology for students ment in Aging. interested in how we age. Gerontology is the study of the social, The courses offered to gain certification are designed to coincide with multiple ma- psychological and biological aspects of agjors, including sociology and family studies, ing, Brokaw said.. ACU has been involved with gerontology social work, psychology, communications, Bible and exercise science, said Jan Brokaw, since 1984, when the university first added
SPRING BREAK
Students register for domestic, international campaigns Brittany Brand Contributing Reporter Spring Break Campaign signups began this week offering students 16 national and four international campaign destination choices for the holiday break. The registration process began Monday and
will continue through Thursday. Registration is accomplished through a lottery system, and lottery tickets are available to interested students immediately after Chapel throughout the week in the Campus Center. Students are then
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time designated on their ticket number. I like to travel and see how God is However, a lower lotacting in different places. tery number does not BEN ROGERS guarantee and earlier Senior finance major from Athens signup time. Series of tickets will be selected required to visit the SBC ens, said students will at random; for example, Web site to register with be allowed to register for 001-050 might be the sectheir desired SBC location ond troup to sign up, said their lottery number. Ben Rogers, senior fi- in the Campus Center on Daniel Burgner, an SBC nance major from Ath- Thursday based on the committee member.
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SPECIAL EFFECTS OR gritty drama might appeal to your edgy side, but try rewatching a film you loved as a child. You might enjoy it more than you did 10 years ago. Page 6
According to the SBC Web site, spots will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis with preference given to current students. The campaigns to Denver and Guatemala usually fill up fastest, Burgner said. The trip to Guatesee SBC page 4
Online WILDCAT FOOTBALL kept its playoff hopes alive with their 47-35 win over A&M-Kingsville on Saturday, despite Kingsville blocking three of the Wildcats’ punts. Page 8
VIDEO
LOUD+CLEAR
Did you vote in the Google Trike contest? a. Of course. Let’s put ACU on the map. b. No. What a waste of time. c. What’s a Google Trike? Frater Sodalis Haunted House
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