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vol. 103, no. 13
friday october 3, 2014
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1 SECTION, 6 PAGES
Sing Song Hosts and Hostesses selected
what’s INSIDE NEWS Registration to vote in state wide election ends on Monday
James eldred staff reporter
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SPORTS Football dominates in win over HBU, third win in a row.
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OPINION Life isn’t as simple as the romantic comedies make it seem Page 4
NEWS Protests in Hong Kong carry weight for ACU students from Asia jarred schuetze chief Photographer
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A giraffe at the Abilene Zoo spends his last week in the original giraffe habitat with the pedestrian bridge overhead.
Giraffes’ feeding bridge closed
OPINION Plans to build a spaceport in Midland will bring economic and technological advantages.
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SPORTS Football looks to increase their winning streak to 4 against Lamar this weekend Page 6
Kynzie Newman student reporter The popular giraffe-feeding exhibit at the Abilene Zoo is under construction for major improvements and won’t be open again until fall 2015. With plans to spend $3.8 million on this project, the behind-the-scenes construction has already begun. The giraffes will stay in and around their new barn while the new Giraffe Safari exhibit is being built. The animals will be within view during that construction phase, but people will not be able to feed them. Zoo Director Bill Gersonde said the current ex-
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A series of car burglaries that took place on the same night has left ACUPD looking for a suspect. On the night of Sept. 20, three students’ cars were broken into and multiple items were stolen from each, said Jimmy Ellison, ACUPD police chief. “We are actively investigating the incident, but we don’t have any leads or suspects right now,” Ellison said. ACUPD responded to six car burglaries in the
Thompson said. The zoo launched two fundraising campaigns to raise money for the project – Buy-a-Spot and the Tall Neck Club. The Buy-a-Spot campaign for individuals and businesses consists of several levels of giving beginning at $100. The name of the donor, or the donor’s designee, will be displayed on permanent signage at the exhibit. “It will be a vast improvement,” said Thompson. This weekend is the last weekend for visitors to feed the giraffes before construccontact the optimist at jmcnetwork@acu.edu
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month of September. Three of those happened on the same night in the parking lot of Smith Hall and Adams Hall. The suspect walked in front of security cameras outside the dorm several times, which allowed police to pinpoint what time the burglaries occurred, as well as see what the suspect was wearing. However, not enough of his face was visible to identify him. Between the hours of 3:30 and 4:40 a.m., security cameras captured a white or Hispanic male wearing green shorts, an oversized gray shirt and a dark base-
ball cap breaking into cars in the Smith Adams parking lot. He arrived on foot, stayed in the lot for about an hour and then stole a bike from a bike rack in order to leave quickly. According to Ellison, the perpetrator was not only caught on camera. “You can see on the footage two different residents of Smith Adams coming and going from the dorm, but nobody reported him,” Ellison said. This was the most frustrating part of the incident,
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Screen capture of suspect from security camera outside see Police page 3 of Smith Adams patio area.
Stone-Campbell Dialogue comes to campus their common heritage in the Stone-Campbell movement. The Stone-Campbell The Stone-Campbell Dia- movement began in the logue will conduct a series early 1800s when Barton of meetings and worship Warren Stone and Alexanservices in Abilene on Oct. der Campbell came togeth5-6. er with the common goal The dialogue is an to restore Christian unity ongoing effort between through abolishing creeds Churches of Christ, Dis- and returning to the principles of Christ and Chris- ciples of the early churches tian Churches to discuss described in the New Tesovercoming divisions and tament.
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exhibit. Since the new exhibit will allow more space, the zoo will begin a giraffe-breeding program. It will receive the male giraffe, which is 18 feet tall, in the upcoming weeks. The highlight of the exhibit will be the new feeding deck where visitors will share an eye-to-eye experience with the giraffes as they hand-feed them. Kelly Langford Thompson is the marketing and Development Coordinator of the Abilene Zoo. “Feeding the giraffe is one of folks’ favorite experiences from a visit to the zoo, so we know people will be disappointed that they won’t be able to do that for a year,”
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hibit was outdated and no longer met professional standards. The bridge is a safety hazard to the giraffes because it is too low. The giraffes must duck to pass underneath. “There is a risk that the animals could damage their horns or any part of their heads on the current bridge,” Gersonde said. The new “Giraffe Safari” exhibit will double the size of the current facility, allowing the zoo to add to its giraffe family. A new covered feeding deck, a new bridge, new viewing areas, a new barn and the addition of three smaller exhibits of African animals, including Colobus monkeys, will complete the
Three men and three women have been selected as the 2015 Sing Song hosts and hostesses. The six students are: • Meggie Lewellyn • Joel Edwards • Ryce Garren • Cheryl Bell • Abbie Baird • Enrique Barrera Tom Craig, director of student activities and productions, said that the judges were very impressed by these particular candidates. “We’re very excited about this group of six,” he said. “They’ve got great voices that sound wonderful together.” Hopeful hosts and hostesses are scored on their technique and ability, with the top 12 moving on to the second round to evaluate how well their voices blend. “We teach them a song that they don’t know, so they have to learn it on the spot,” Craig said. The hosts and hostesses will begin some core training to prepare for the aerobic challenge of singing 16 songs back to back. A three-day retreat after Finals Week will allow them to learn all of the show’s musical numbers. “While Sing Song may seem to be a long way away, it actually starts right now,” Craig said. Garren, a senior musical theatre major from Amarillo, attended his first Sing Song in his freshman year. During the show, he told his girlfriend that he wanted to be a host at some point, and she encouraged him to follow up on it. “I was so interested in the process of being a host for the show,” he said. “I just wanted to have that experience.” “I’m just excited to be a part of the process with everybody, and to get to work with the backstage dance crews and all of the downstage groups,” Edwards said. The hosts and hostesses will be formally announced in Chapel on Monday.
In 1999, nine people from the three religious groups met in Cincinnati. They committed to begin a series of dialogues to develop relationships and to bring understanding and healing to rifts between the groups that shared the same beginnings. In 2009, ACU hosted an event called The Great Communion in Moody Coliseum to celebrate the 200th anniversary of
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Campbell’s Declaration and Address, a document that set the tone and direction for the Stone-Campbell Movement. “The Great Communion was a successful effort to bring Christians from both streams together to remember our common heritage and celebrate the love of God in Jesus Christ,” said Don Wilson, senior minister at the First Christian Church
of Abilene. The meeting will begin with a worship service, communion and a fellowship meal Sunday night at the First Christian Church in Abilene. On Monday, several sessions on ACU campus will discuss topics like non-traditional and emergent churches. The sessions are open to the public and are free of see dialogue page 3