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Friday, November 5, 2010
Vol. 99, No. 22
REPUBLICAN
SWEEP Election results present no surprise for students
GOV.
REP.
TEXAS STATE
Rep. Rick Perry 69.49%
UNITED STATES
Lib. Kathie Glass 2.63%
Rep. Randy Neugebauer 75.58%
Lib. Richard “Chip” Peterson 3.08%
Dem. Andy Wilson 21.34%
Dem. Bill White 27.35%
Jeff Craig and Laura Gasvoda Tuesday’s election results came as no surprise to most ACU students. Many said they expected Governor Rick Perry to win the Texas gubernatorial race and anticipated the GOP’s return to power in the U.S. House of Representatives. Members of ACU’s College Democrats gathered at the Taylor
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County Democratic Party headquarters to watch election results. ACU’s Young Republicans watched election results from a classroom in the Hardin Administration Building, and other students watched from home.
TOTAL VOTES:
TOTAL VOTES:
1,884
1,901
see REPUBLICANS page 4
STRAIGHT-PARTY VOTES: each person represents about 100 people. Republicans: 853; 80.01% | Democrats: 198; 18.57% | Libertarian: 10; .44% | TOTAL: 1,066
Data from precincts 402 and 403, which vote at University Church of Christ and Hillcrest Church of Christ.
STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION
FACULTY
Professor integrates faith, business SA to fund buses to football game Jeff Craig
Managing Editor
Dr. Monty Lynn was honored at a national conference in Florida last month for his work in integrating personal faith and business. Lynn, associate dean of the College of Business Administration and professor of management sciences, received the Johnson Award from the Christian Business Faculty Administration. The award, given only once each year, generally goes to a member of CBFA, a nationwide organization with more than 400 members. “It’s very humbling to receive it, and in large part it’s because so many folks have been helpful research partners,” Lynn said. “This is an award shared with many – colleagues at COBA and in other institutions.” Lynn said he was humbled by the recognition and attributed his ability to conduct scholarly works to the uni-
Department, Marketing and Student Life will also Editor In Chief help fund the trip. SA’s Students’ Association portion of the funding Congress unanimously will come from the Conapproved a bill during gressional Project Fund. Students interested in Wednesday’s meeting to help fund a charter bus riding the bus can sign up to transport students to from 1-5 p.m. Friday in Saturday’s football game the SA office with a student ID for $5. The names in Canyon. Sikes Representa- will go into a lottery systive Rebecca Dial, junior tem, and 50 students will political science major be randomly selected and from Lexington, S.C., and notified by 6 p.m. All stuAdministration Building dents not selected will be Representative Keri Gray, reimbursed Monday. SA Treasurer Chris junior political science major from Longview, Shim, senior finance presented the bill to al- major from Atlanta, Ga., locate $1,000 toward the said he anticipates many bus. Dial said the Presisee MOTION page 4 dent’s Office, the Athletic
Linda Bailey
DANIEL GOMEZ // Chief Photographer
Dr. Monty sits in front of a bookshelf in his office on Nov. 2. Dr. Lynn recently received the Johnson Award from the Christian Business Faculty Association. versity’s encouragement of research. “Many years ago, COBA faculty were enabled to have a one-course reduction in their teaching load to do research,” Lynn said. “Now, campus-wide, thanks to academic
leadership, research is a component in tenure for all. COBA in particular has been supportive of research as long as I’ve been here.” see LYNN page 4
FUTURE STUDENTS
Admission changes could reduce total applications Linda Bailey Editor in Chief
The Offices of Admissions and Enrollment expect changes to ACU’s admissions process to decrease the total number of applicants – but those who do apply will be more serious
about attending ACU. Buck James, chief enrollment officer, said beginning this year ACU will not wave the application fee and has significantly expanded the application to provide a better picture of each student. “Both of those things together are kind of going to
The extended application will go beyond looking only at GPAs and standardized test scores. James said the new application will look at the full picture of the student and show how he or she might fit into ACU. The official number of early applicants has not yet
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inside news Dr. David M. Vanderpool and his wife Laurie Vanderpool send a group to Haiti to provide medical service and spiritual guidance. page 3
weed out the people who are kind of casual shoppers and get people who are really serious,” James said. “We knew in doing that, that we would have slightly less applications, but the ones we would get would be more serious and probably a better fit for ACU.”
arts A weekend international film festival will show at Abilene’s historic Paramount Theatre this weekend. page 7
been determined, but Mark Lavender, director of admissions, said overall applications are down by a couple hundred compared to this time last year. However, he said the office has seen a much higher percentage of students who are completing their applications, suggest-
ing the changes have been successful in creating a more serious applicant pool. Enrollment Management made the switch in 2009 from a rolling deadline system to set deadlines. In the past, prospective students could see EARLY page 4
weather video The Abilene community and ACU students watched the election results on Tuesday night.
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