Goose Egg Football team shut out for the first time in 11 years vol. 101, no. 16
wednesday, october 17, 2012
1 SECTION, 6 PAGES
Sports Page 6
res life
Smoke bombs force dorm evacuation
INSIDE NEWS Many students expressing interest in Leadership Summit Page 3
NEWS Hardin Administration Building undergoing renovations
marissa jones
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managing editor Smoke filled the SmithAdams Hall kitchen after things went wrong for a sophomore making smoke bombs late Monday night. Two fire trucks responded to a call around 11 p.m. and residents were forced to evacuate as thick smoke overflowed from the kitchen, said a Smith-Adams resident. “I walked through the lobby thinking it was a false alarm and then I saw the smoke,” said Bailey Gaspard sophomore biology major from Anoka, Minn. “It felt fake when the alarm went off. After an hour, I went back into the lobby to get my laptop and homework, and the smoke was still thick even then. It definitely made me cough.” Sean Branchaw, sophomore finance and math major from Derwood, Md., was mixing potassium nitrate and sugar when it got out of his control and smoke began to fill the lobby. He is pledging Gamma Sigma Phi and claimed to fellow residents that he was making the smoke bombs for club.
NEWS Clinic adminstering $15 flu shots, chargeable to student accounts Page 5
OPINION Political ads should focus on issues, not opponent’s faults
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SPORTS Lone goal by Coppedge gives soccer team win over Incarnate Word Page 5
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Volleyball team wins first match against rival in more than six years
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ONLINE NEWS Intramurals to begin inaugural season for new sports soon acuoptimist.com
paige otway staff Photographer Jonathan Pruitt, senior criminal justice major from Brazil, participates in the King of Campus Court Debate in Hart Auditorium on Tuesday night. The winner of the competition will be announced in Chapel on Friday
campus store NEWS Annual JamFest concert to feature variety of student artists acuoptimist.com
Suppliers set margins melany cox online managing editor
NEWS Social clubs working on floats in preparation for Homecoming Parade acuoptimist.com
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Many students buy snacks from the Campus Store and Campus Center, though some students complain that items are overpriced. However, prices of food items sold in the Campus Store are determined by the food suppliers, not the store, said Scott Harsh, director of the Campus Store. Amber Rush-Jones, freshman math major from San Antonio said she be-
lieves the snacks available in the Campus Center are expensive. “I understand that they’re trying to make a profit, but we’re cheap,” she said. Rush-Jones said she doesn’t buy snacks from the Campus Center. Instead she buys them from a grocery store. “I have them in my room and I don’t have to go anywhere and grab anything,” she said. Many students purchase snacks in the Campus Center or Campus Store be-
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he uses Bean Bucks. “It doesn’t feel like you’re actually spending money,” he said. Harsh said the prices of food sold in the Campus amber rush-jones Store are set on suggested freshman math major retail, which is why prices from san antonio are slightly higher than those in grocery stores. cause of the convenience. “Food doesn’t have a Lewis Golmick, fresh- high margin on it and supman information technolo- pliers we use, they service gy major from McAllen, said a lot smaller accounts, it’s helpful to grab some- kind of like ourselves,” thing from the Food Court Harsh said. for breakfast if he wakes up Harsh said the cost of late. He said he is willing to see store page 5 pay more for snacks when
I understand that they’re trying to make a profit, but we’re cheap.”
It was incredible how much smoke filled the kitchen. It went all the way to the front door.” mat solomon sophomore computer science major from austin
GSP President Blaine Smith, senior biology major from Keller, said the smoke bombs were not sanctioned by the club. “He was apparently making them on his own time,” Smith said. “It wasn’t for club.” After smoke filled the kitchen and lobby, residents evacuated as fire alarms went off to their inconvenience, said Mat Solomon, sophomore computer science major from Austin. “I was doing laundry and was putting my stuff in the dryer when the fire alarm went off,” Solomon said. “I finished putting my stuff in the dryer and went outside. Fire trucks came, and we were out there from about 30 to 45 minutes.” Solomon said he was surprised at how pervasive the smoke was. “I think more than one smoke bomb had to have accidentally gone off,” Solomon said. “It was incredible how much smoke filled the kitchen. It was all the way to the front door.” contact jones at mnj10a@acu.edu
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Professor dies of sudden heart attack in 2002 after leaving editor in chief a consulting position A faculty member in the Colwith Arthur lege of Business AdministraAndersen in tion who died suddenly last Chicago. He week will be remembered taught coursjinkerson es on organifor his loving and caring personality, heavy involvement zational bein ACU academics and his havior, statistics and strategy. deep faith in God. Dr. Rick Lytle, dean of Dr. Darryl Jinkerson, as- COBA, was a classmate of sociate professor of man- Jinkerson’s at Harding Uniagement, died Friday after- versity. He said Jinkerson’s noon of a heart attack. sudden death came as a Jinkerson, 54, joined ACU surprise to everyone.
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“This loss is a shock to us all,” he said. “Our hearts are hurting right now.” Lytle said Jinkerson will be remembered for his close relationships with God, his family and his students. “He was a man of deep faith in God and a man who loved his family,” Lytle said. “Darryl was one of the most active faculty in the building: teaching, researching, serving, consulting, shepherding and leading a number of important initiatives for the college.”
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believed to be right,” Lytle said. “He was an authentic human being.” The ACU flag flying near the Judge Ely Boulevard entrance to campus is flydr. phil vardiman ing at half-staff in honor of associate professor of Jinkerson. mangement Dr. Phil Schubert, president of the university, sent What Lytle remembered an email to all faculty and most about Jinkerson was staff Friday evening to tell his passion for what he be- them of Jinkerson’s death. lieved in. “All of us held Darryl in “I can remember on sev- high esteem and his stueral occasions Darryl fightsee jinkerson page 5 ing hard for that which he
He was a good mentor, not just to his students, but to his peers.”