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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Vol. 99, No. 44
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CAMPUS
Technology team promotes QR codes Linda Bailey Editor in Chief
Square bar codes popping up around campus are not just for decoration. ACU innovators say they will help integrate the print and digital information worlds. The bar codes, called quick response codes, allow students to transfer printed information into
a digital format by simply scanning a code – and ACU provided all students with a free code reader download Tuesday After a student scans the QR code, content is immediately sent to the mobile device. Content ranges from calendar events to opening a Web browser. So, if a group plans to use a poster to advertise an event,
they can generate a QR code, add it to the poster, and when a user scans the code on his or her mobile device, the event will automatically upload to the phone, said Josh Tooley, Team 55/Help Desk Manager. The organization could add a QR code that would put contact information directly into a mobile device or send directions to the lo-
cation straight into the map on the device, he said. Other areas of campus also plan to implement QR codes. Tooley said Team 55 will use the codes to link to a website that will allow students to schedule time to meet with a Team 55 representative. Any office on campus can put a see SCAN page 5
FILMFEST
Host, hostess chosen for show Christina Burch Page 2 Editor
DANIEL GOMEZ // Chief Photographer
Janice Hahn, ACU alumna and city council member for Los Angeles, speaks in Chapel about her life at ACU and experiences in politics.
Hahn-orable Mention
L.A. Councilwoman, ACU alumna reflects on political, collegiate experiences
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Story by: Jeff Craig
anice Hahn makes a lengthy commute to work every day in her blue Honda Civic Hybrid. She calls in graffiti, downed trees and potholes during her 40-minute drive to work every day after stopping for a cup of coffee. However, Hahn isn’t your typical L.A. resident; she is one of 15 city council members representing the nation’s second-largest city. Hahn speaks with a degree of intensity and energy as strong as the city she
represents. She is confident and to the point with what she has to say. For Hahn, the road to political notoriety in the Golden State traveled through Abilene. The 58-year-old Los Angeles City Councilwoman and former candidate for California Lieutenant Governor won’t deny she’s a Californian through and through. However, the Long Beach, Calif., native says some of her most formative years were spent on the plains of West Texas and not the beaches of Southern California.
Hahn attended ACU from 1970-74 to study speech and physical education – hoping to one day become a gym teacher. Her career took a drastically different path. Hahn grew up in the Churches of Christ, but never had any intention of attending ACU. She and one of her friends, Marilyn Young, attended ACU together after daring each other to go to school in Texas – even though Young’s father, M. Norvel Young,
After a talented pool of students attended the FilmFest host and hostess auditions on March 3, the FilmFest production team has announced its selection. The 2011 FilmFest host and hostess will be Ben Miller, junior art major from The Woodlands, and Carrie Tansey, senior special education major from North Richland Hills. “I feel completely honored and blessed to be FilmFest hostess this year,” Tansey said. “I would like to thank those in charge of FilmFest for giving me this opportunity.” As FilmFest host and hostess, the pair will introduce the featured films, announce the winners of each category and keep the crowd entertained at the FilmFest Awards Show, which takes place from 8-9:30 p.m. on March 25 at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Abilene. Tickets are $5 and the attire is semi-formal. Both Miller and Tansey have been involved in ACU productions and have a history of performing either on stage or for amateur film.
see HAHN page 3 see MOVIES page 5
CAMPUS
Bowling alley to decrease hours days from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Saturdays from Contributing Reporter noon to 11 p.m. Joel Swedlund, manThe on-campus bowling alley was forced to cut its hours ager of the McGlothlin of operation as a result of the Campus Center, said the dropping interest in bowling bowling alley would still be available for bowling as a weekday activity. The alley’s new hours parties since many stutook effect Monday. The dents, faculty and groups lanes will now only be from the community ofavailable for use on Fri- ten rent it for their events.
Samantha Sutherland
Seth Thomas, junior computer science major from Abilene and bowling alley attendant, said the alley typically averages two or three bowling parties a night. “Sometimes I’d sit down here and never see a soul,” Thomas said. He said most weekends are relatively busy as stu-
dents try to find a fun and inexpensive activity. He also attributes some of the decreased use to an increase in personal video games and other activities. “It’s mainly about popularity of video games and stuff like that because every kid’s got a console in see LANES page 5
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inside opinion With criticism on the rise for Rob Bell’s newest book, the Editorial Board encourages readers to keep an open mind. page 4
sports Four ACU track athletes beat the odds to win the Indoor National Chapionship in New Mexico during spring break. page 6
TANNER FREEMAN // Staff Photographer
ACU’s bowling alley has six lanes for student and community use.
weather sportscast Sportscasters Ryan Cantrell and Ben Warton recap ACU’s 53rd NCAA Track and Field Championship and other spring break sports highlights.
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