The Optimist - 10.12.12

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Costly Errors Mistakes hurt volleyball team in loss to Dallas Baptist vol. 101, no. 15

friday, october 12, 2012

Sports Page 6

1 SECTION, 6 PAGES

sing song

Judges select six hosts, hostesses

INSIDE NEWS ACU Museum renovated recently to improve marketability Page 3

NEWS ResLife advises ignoring cats on campus instead of feeding them Page 3

mark smith editor in chief More than four months before one of the most anticipated events at ACU, the hosts and hostesses for Sing Song have been chosen. Austin Anderson, Jace Reinhard and Jarrett Ward will be the 2013 Sing Song hosts. Abbie Boyd, Bree Hembree and Amanda Jarufe will be the hostesses.

Forty-two students auditioned on Monday in front of a panel of 11 judges; some of the judges are associated with the university, some not. The panel invited 14 of the 42 back for final auditions, evaluating the tryouts for vocal technique and quality, blend, stage presence and overall entertainment quality. Anderson, senior predentistry major from Flower Mound, was one of the three

men selected as a host. He said the auditions were intimidating because of how talented the other auditioning performers were. “I felt good about my initial audition, but had no idea what the outcome would be,” Anderson said. “When I found out I had made it, I was ecstatic but dazed at the same time.” Anderson said he was resee auditions page 5

SING SONG HOSTS AND HOSTESSES Austin Anderson

Amanda Jarufe

Abbie Boyd

Jace Reinhard

Bree Hembree

Jarrett Ward

Senior biochemistry major from Flower Mound Junior elementary education major from Austin Junior vocal performance major from North Richland Hills

NEWS

Senior theatre major from Coppell Senior theatre major from Greenville, Ill. Junior vocal performance major from Houston

crime

Athletics director tells SA that game admission will remain free for students

Abilene PD on lookout for assault suspect

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OPINION Fashion advice from the editorial board for the fall season

marissa jones managing editor page 4

SPORTS Four tennis players are competing in national tournament Page 6

SPORTS Our sports staff predicts the football team will fall in tough game at WTA&M

deanna romero staff Photographer Ellen Donaldson, freshman music education major from Richardson, smashes a mirror at the Beyond 31 Chapel outside Nelson Hall on Thursday.

Abilene Police are continuing an investigation on an attempted robbery case that occurred near the ACU campus last Friday. A 19-year-old female reported a suspect attempted to rob her while she was jogging near ACU on EN 19th St. The victim reported to the ACU Police that around 1:15 p.m. a white male hit her, demanded money, knocked her to the ground and forcibly searched her pockets before leaving on foot. The suspect was described to be in his late 30s to early 40s, about 5’10” tall, weighing about 200 lbs. with a dark complexion and beard. The suspect was wearing a dark gray hoody with worn sleeves and a rip in the collar and dirty blue see assault page 5

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NEWS About 20 students have de-pledged since Bid Night Page 3

ONLINE NEWS Many students expressing interest in Leadership Summit acuoptimist.com

NEWS “Olympics”, “Alphabet Soup”, a couple social club grub themes acuoptimist.com

VIDEO

homecoming

Voting for Queen nearing end end, and the nominees are excited about the Homecoming events still to come. Ten in all, the president Friday is the final day of each women’s social club to vote for Homecom- was nominated along with ing Queen. Students can two Siggies and three Kojie choose from among the 10 officers. senior Homecoming Court Samantha Adkins, senior nominees until voting clos- alumni relations officer, is es online at 5 p.m. in charge of the HomecomThe Homecoming fes- ing Court and helps organize tivities began when four Ko- events that the court memjies, three Siggies, one Kaio, bers will be involved in. one Zeta and one GATA were “It’s an honor to be nomkidnapped by the Home- inated and usually shows coming Committee two the girls are active on camweeks ago to serve as the pus and that people think 2012 Homecoming Court. of them in a positive light as The annual kidnap- role-models,” Adkins said. ping got the ball rolling for see queen page 5 Homecoming next week-

THE 2012 HOMECOMING COURT

audrey schaffner copy editor

Becca Clay

Speech pathology major from Salt Lake City

Zeta Rho President Leigh Foith

Ad/PR major from Plano Ko Jo Kai Historian

Jocelyn Groves

Biology major from Lubbock Sigma Theta Chi member

Sarah Kelly

Ad/PR major from San Antonio GATA President

Sarah Miller

Accounting major from Irving Sigma Theta Chi President

Bethany Morgan Ad/PR major from Nocona Alpha Kai Omega President

Erica Porter

Kinesiology and nutrition major from Kerrville Ko Jo Kai Chaplain

Mary Elizabeth Shive

Speech pathology major from Fort Worth Ko Jo Kai Vice President

Ali Wren

Speech pathology major from Arlington Ko Jo Kai President

Suzanne Zeller

Family studies major from Abilene Sigma Theta Chi member

service

Watch the JMC Network newscast, covering voting, Wellness Week

Ag department to return to Medina mark smith editor in chief

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VIDEO See footage from Bid Night activities

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Eleven months after an accident that injured more than a dozen students and faculty members and killed one student, a group more than twice the size will leave on Friday to participate in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’s annual service trip to Medina Children’s Home. On last year’s trip, the group’s minibus drifted off the highway and crashed into a culvert, throwing almost all of the 12 students, three faculty members and a faculty spouse from the bus. Anabel Reid,

a 19-year-old sophomore environmental science major from Becton, died in the accident. Merissa Ford, junior agricultural business major from Seattle, went on the trip last year and was injured in the accident. She said she had been looking forward to the project. “We never made it there,” Ford said. “This year, I want to make it there, work hard and bless some kids.” The group will detour around the crash site. About 30 students, a larger amount of students than usual, and all of the faculty in the department will be going this year. Ford said many of the larger group wants to go

because of last year’s accident. “Last year, several people signed up and then couldn’t go,” Ford said. “I think it’s kind of a support thing.” Dr. Michael Nicodemus, assistant professor of environmental science and the driver of the bus last year, said the volunteer trip has become a staple of the department for about seven years, but the work they do at Medina varies. “We do whatever they ask us to do,” Nicodemus said. “One year we picked pecans that they sell to raise money, and one year people cleaned houses.” Nicodemus said he

Abilene Christian University

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mandy lambright chief Photographer A member of the ACU community participates in the candlelight vigil held after the bus accident in November last year.


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