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LIBRARY
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
ABILENE TEXAS
VTHE
FRIDAY
March 4 2005
UPTIMIST
Vol. 93 No. 42
1 section 8 pages
www.acuoptimist.com
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Abilene Christian Uimcrsiiy
Serving the ACL) community since 1912
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" book movie franchises.
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Staff looks for occupancy to go UP:
University Park Apartments managers are trying
to reach out to their target audience of sopho-
mores to increase the number of tenants.
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team advanced to flit semi j ;
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Changes
Barret McDonald halls
will house women;
Morris to be men's hall
By LORI BREDEMEVER
lsriM InnoR
Students living on campus
next f.ill will have iliffcrcnt halls
to choose front depending on
their classiriution and gender
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Judy Chant nurse praclioncr for the medical clinic moved from Victoria British Columbia in 1994 to Abilene a town the had never
heard of. She began working pari time for Dr. Tony Rector medical director for clinical services in 2003.
Finding the cure
Nurse practitioner found her
way to ACU from Canada
B JONATHAN SMITH
ri'iioms Cmtr
Jud) Chants rrid.iv did not begin
with an 8 o'clock but she had work to
do before her l) o clock At least she
would be done after Chapel
Chant began her third stmt in college
last semester
This time around she will not put
Congress
approves
Rec Center
funding
Bill provides free pool
Xbox for students
until end of semester
By JONATHAN SMITH
rniii'R in Cmir
The Students' Association
unanimously approved funds
on Wcdncscla) to provide free
use of the pool tables and Xbox
video games) stems in the Rcc-
reation Center of the Campus
Center for students for the re- I
maindcr of the school ear i
The bill winch was brought
before Congress bv freshman
senators Brandon Smith and '
Jordan Williams will cost the j
Students' Association SI 00
each week for the icmaining I
seven weeks of the semester.
SieSAl'age4 '
made to
Morris ll.ill currcullv hous-
iii; sophomoic women will
house sophomore .uul freshin.m
men McDonald ll.ill. a frcsh-
iimii men's lull will become a
freshman women's h.ill ami Ru-
nt Hall which is still under
construction will hoii'c sopho-
more women
Dr Muni Barnard director of
Kesideiuc Life nduiation and
Housing said Morris and Mc
heiself through 8a m classes aliersleip
less nights or long das on little nutri-
tion Her job is to lake care of the Mu
dents who put thcmsilus through that
and l lie lumdieds of olhirs who go
through the mediial chine each wnk
Chant bigau as a pan lime muse
practitioner in the mediial ilime in Teh
ruarv 2001 llcrourne to Cl and Ah
dene itself brought he i scviial thousand
mdis and into a dilfcienl niidiial spi-
nal!) She was born in icloria Bnlisli Col
BRIAN srtmiDT'UIrl I'hotnjraplicr
Bobby Reed of Bontke Brothers Construction Compan) digs up a
section of the Sikes Hall parking lot Wednesda) in ordir to con-
nect it with the Williams Performing Arts Center lot.
Students
Some plan to spend
break at home others
look to minister
By EVAN BUCK
buniNt Kiromm
Studints are p.uking sun
spring break is in sight
Although many students are
preparing to depart to 35 Spring
housing
Donald have housed nun and
women at dilfcrcnl tunes siiue
thc weie built ami switching
the diinograpluisofa hall is not
uncommon
She said she and otlui cam
pus offuials mil to lllsellss tin
enrollment procclions lor next
ear to deeide how to use the
resilience halls
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spring forward to
llieak Campaign loiations an
even gri.itu numhir ol sui-
ilcnls are not
ApptoMinalcl) 511 students
will go on campaigns this )car
said Cla) Ruh simoi aiioum-
ing and finance m.tor fiom
Abilene and ihair ol the SliC
eomimllie
Minimis have mail) le.isons
not to sign up lor a campaign
Rich said
Residtnct hall
changts
The addition of Barret
Hall will prompt change for
two other halls.
McDonald HH: freshman
women Bible and business
majors
Morris Had: freshman and
sophomore men Bible and
business majors
arret HaM: sophomore
women
iimhi.1 where she speiu much of her life
on the water and aioiuul national parks
she optid to go back to nursing school
in hir inid-20s.ind begin working in the
c.udiae unit of the hospital
I was the fust musing student ihcv
hi nun the lauhai unit at that hospital"
Mum said
She loiitinuid working in the cardiac
unit with her husband a cardiologist
who vviin to school al I mors Univcrsit)
s. CHANT .!.
Sikes parking lot renovated
SA rep worked
since last semester
to help traffic flow
By JACI SCHNEIDER
OliMi N I lllll'R
Siiidints who park near
Sikes Residence Hall or the
Williams Peiforming Alts Cen-
ter will notice something miss-
ing on their return fiom spring
break
I lie small strip of land ami
lonuile between the bikes
lurking lot and WI'AC parking
iol will be lemovcd dining
1.111 'll'lll IICCM II' ll.C
the week just to lest" Rich said
'Bui I would ineourage stu-
dents id go on al least one dur-
ing their tune at AC U "
botne students like Cara
C umiiugliam junior speech
paiholog) major from San
Antonio said inonc) is a den-
sive factor
"I think ISpring Break
Cainpaignsl are a good i.uise"
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Campus cuts
deal for KRBC
to air on cable
Station now available;
Cox cable local NBC
affiliate still feuding
STAFF REPORT
Officials completed negoti-
ations that hae allowed them
to add the NBC network back
to campus cable which look
effect March 1
NIIC and its local affiliate
KRBC-TV hac not been
broadcast on Co cable
which the campus receives
since Jan 1 because of a ills-
agreement between the two
companies Those who sub-
scribe to Cos cable have onl
been able to access KRBC b
unhooking the cable and
using "rabbit car" antenna
Jim Triclsch associate
chief information officer for
the univcrsit) said ACU made
an agreement with Mission
Former Congress
members to visit
Men to speak to classes
student groups as part
of two-day campus tour
By LORI BREDEMEVER
MVSUIMi Union
Two former members of the
House of Representatives will
visit i.imptis March 14 and 15
as part of the Congress to
Campus Program Harrv Volk-
nier D-Missoun and Robert
V Daniel Jr. R-Virginia will
speak to several classes and
student groups and lo two
Abilene Kiwanis Clubs during
their stav
The Congress lo Campus
Program coordinates with
schools to send ex-Congress
members to colleges and uni
spring break and the two park
ing lots will he connected
1 .iiiren Hart sophomore
integrated marketing commu-
nication major from Austin
and Students' Association rep-
resentative for Sikes Hall
wot kul with SA officers and
uimirsiiv administrators to
have the $7000 project com-
pleted last fall Hart spoke with
women in her resuleme hall
about the parking lot issue she
thought the fact that the two
p.uking lots vverent connected
was a problem
Trclt) much ever)one I
trips campaigns
Cunningham said 'But they
conic uilh a big cost "
Spring Break Campaigns this
)car range in price from S220 to
SI 200
Cunningham said she will
spend her break al home with
her famil) and bo) friend who
attends Texas A&M University
in Corpus Chrtsti
Cunningham is not the only
one who plans to spend spring
Broadcasting which owns
KRBC to he able to broadcast
the channel on campus
'Wc have an antenna simi-
lar to what )ou can do at
home ou can put an
antenna on an existing TV at
home and get KRBC just off
the air and we're mixing It
into our on-campus lablc ss-
lem" he said
Triclsch also said ACU was
able to broadcast KRBC
which is Channel 5 on cam-
pus because the university
controls its own program-
ming and Information Ser-
vices is paing a fee "to pro-
vide NBC as a service to our
students "
"ACU's cable s)stcm is
independent of Cox cable"
he said "Wc receive channels
from Cox but wc don't
rcbroadcast all of them so
we're free to mix in other
channels as wc want to "
versities for two-and-a-half
das to share their experiences
and promote careers in public
scrv ice 1 he
university par-
ticipated in the
program once
before when
Rep David R
Minge D-Mln-ncsota
and
Rep George
Wortlc) R-
New "iork vis-
ited in ihc spring of 2003
Dr David Dillman profes-
sor of political science said the
students and facultv can all
learn something from the men
'Wc need to have some bet-
ter understanding of Con-
5.. CONGRESSMEN r.. 4
talked to said it was a prob
lem Hart said
As Sv representative Hart
made the- parking lot her
semester project bhc began the
process of tr)ing to have the
parking lots connected by
sending petitions to students
living in Sikes Hall students
who attended class in the
Mabee Business Building and
in WPAC
"Then I wrote up legislation
and presented it lo congiess"
Hart said "It was unaninunisl)
passed "
SIKES r. -i
Dillman
break with Tamil)
"I just want to be with in)
family because 1 never see
them" said Jon-Daniel Todd
sophomore marketing major
from Blue Ridge
Todd who has never partici-
pated in mission work said he
lias not put much thought into
Spring Break Campaigns
s.. BREAK ragei '
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