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Sweeping up competition
The Wildcat baseball team swept three games from
Northeastern on its opening homestand this week-
end. Sports Page 10.
A time off worship
Nino o'clock devo has become an ACU
tradition every Sunday night. A look at
its history Plus Page 3
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If The Optimist
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Wednesday Feb. 12 2003
Chapel leaders
to go before SA
Carter Barnard will
present 5-ycar plan
answer questions
Paul A Anthony
LiliMr In Chief
The two men most directly
responsible for dunging day-to-day
Ch.ipel policy will
appear before the Simians'
Association at its meeting
Wednesday night to answer
student questions
1 he meeting which is open
to all undergraduate students
will feature Brad Carter direc-
tor of Chapel programming
and Wayne Barnard dean of
Campus Life. The meeting
begins at 5 p m in Room 1 1 1
of the Biblical Studies Build-
ing "I think things will go well
Carter said "I'm not real wor-
ried or antsy about an) thing "
Carter is the author of the
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The five-year plan
Excerpted strategies listed In
Campus Life's five-year plan
for Chapel:
Change Chapel time to
earlier in the day by 2004 05
Purchase and use porta
ble ID card readers by 2004
05
Change attendance poll
cy to "reflect academic cred-
its" meaning a grading scale
by 2004 05
Purchase and Install new
screen and projector by 2005
Develop a small group
Chapel program to replace
Moody Chapel every Thurs
day in 2004 05
Purchase or build block-
ades for stairwells next to
Sing Song stage by 2004 05
Budget crunch
could hurt TEG
State's deficit forces
education cutbacks
might affect ACU
Jonathan Smith
Sfnf Mtfti-i
lexas' niultibillion-dollar
budget deficit could cause a
decrease in ACU students'
lAiition rqualiation Grants
.mil lexas Grants for the
2001 (M school) ear
1 1 Gs and lexas Grants
could be cost-cutting targets
after Gov Hick I'errj's olfice
ordered all state agencies to
decrease their 20IH budgets
by 7 percent. ACU should not
feel die effects of the possible
grant decreases until next
school jear because stu-
dents' grant funds have
already been assigned for
this semester
" The slate budget this
) car will be the most difficult
we've had to face in several
ears" said Dr Hob Hunter
71st District state represen-
tative and ACU senior vice-
president emeritus in antici-
pation of the reported SIO to
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Manager:
prejudice
has caused
sales drop
Anti-Muslim bias blamed for
40 percent decline at Joe's
Steve Holt
C i'ji) Muni
Business at .m Abilene restaurant has
decreased about 10 percent since Sept. 11
and its owners claim the drop may be relat-
ed to their Muslim beliefs
Brothers Alex and llasi Mehmcdi who
own loe's Italian Grill at 3905 S 1st St say
business dropped sharply immediately fol-
lowing the Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks and has
been down ever since
Alex who along with his brother hails
from Albania said Joes was bringing in
about SI 2000 per week before the attacks
and that number has dropped to about
$7000 since.
He said the owners' religion shouldn't
determine whether a person cats at his
restaurant or not.
"I don't think that's fair We never did
anything" lexsaid 'People figure' I hey're
Muslim: they support tcrrorisml."'
While man) businesses and restaurants
nationwide suffered drops In sales immedi-
ately following Sept 11 the National Res-
taurant Association reported a December
2001 sales total that surpassed even prc-
attack amounts
Restaurant neighbors of Joe's all report
steady or only slightly decreased sales since
the attacks.
"We still do the same business after and
before" said Jack Kaikratok manager of
China Star at 360 IS 1st St.. "Ma) be a 5 per-
cent loss that's it. You can't tell "
Phillip Hill manager of LI I enix Mexican
restaurant at 3241 S. 1st St said sales were
steady alter the initial drop immediately
following the attacks
"We haven t noticed it at all" Hill said.
"Maybe the first two days but it hasn't
affected us "
Joe's cmplo)ce Anabellc Gardcea said
that in the four years she has worked at
Joe's the restaurant has never fallen on hard
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Laying out the culture
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Cortney Armstrong freshman computer science major from Mesquite performs in Essence of Ebony's black history program "Portraits of
Color" last weekend.
"Ym coping because I know where he is. "
David Jorwt father of student Caite Jones and best friend to Cmdr Rick Husband
Flying home on a shuttle
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Commander Rick Husband of
the space shuttle Columbia
Student lost one of her
best friends in last
week's Columbia tragedy
Amanda Baker
liye Tuo CJitcr
When Caite Jones sophomore
social work major from lubbock
was In middle school she received a
phone call from her father's best
friend
Unit friend Hick Husband who
would later become commander of
the space shuttle Columbia had
promised her that when he reached
his goal ol becoming an astronaut
lie would speak to the students at
her school.
"I was the second person he
called after he told his family" Jones
said "He said he was an astronaut
and he could come to my school
now. He did and everyone thought
it was cool "
I eh 2 Jones found out with the
rest of the nation that the space
shuttle broke apart in I lie atmos-
phere killing all seven of the crew
members
' When the news showed the pic-
tures of the astronauts I lost it"
Jones said ' I cried all day Saturday "
Husband had invited the Jones
family to the shuttle's landing hut
David and Itisa Jones could not
attend because of work. Instead
they woke up early Saturdav morn-
ing to watch the shuttle fly over
Lubbock.
'We stood out in the street and
watched it come across" said
David who had known Husband
since elementary school "It was still
kind of dark but you could see a
bead of light that went across the
sky 1 lost sight ol It about two-thirds
of the way across the sky and I
thought I just lost it in the sun "
I hey then went hack inside to
watch the lauding on IV and
learned that the shuttle had not
been lost in the sun but had been
destroyed I ater that da) they Hew
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Valentine events mark loved hated day
At a time reserved for couples
singles make their own plans
Britney Youno
Student Rept Her
Tor Valentine's Day four
students arc taking the 'sin-
gle" route and are going to
cruise with friends instead of
with a significant other.
Jenny Stephens senior
psychology major from Angle-
ton said she will spend her
day expressing love to friends
with food.
"I love giving things to peo-
ple" Stephens said. "I'll prob
ably bake strawberry cup
cakes and send them to
friends of mine and give them
cards."
Byron Patterson senior
biology major from Haskell
said catching a significant
other is on his mind but that
he will probably pursue alter-
native plans.
"I'll bait my love traps and
see what I catch" Patterson
said. "Nab I'll probably just
have a big bachelor bar-
bequc." Some students' birthdays
fall on Valentine's Day and
the) share the celebrated
moment with friends and
clout think about being single
'I know my friends have
something in mind" said
I nicla Allajbcu senior politi-
cal science major from Alban-
ia "It will be a good celebra-
tion with friends and giving
God the greatest gift: love."
Some have not yet thought
about the upcoming holiday
and do not really have any
specific plans
"I hadn't thought that far
ahead" said Shane Tollcson
graduate Bible student from
McKlnney.
Valentine's Day events
12th Armored Division
Memorial Museum: World War
II Valentine's Day exhibit
Paramount Theater: My
Big Fat Greek Wedding
Thursday Saturday.
KUF-TV National Broad-
casting Society: Airing of
Valentine's messages on Ch
7
Association of Computing
Machinery: Distributing re-
sults of compatibility test sur-
veys for $1 in the Campus
Center through Friday
Museum cxbibit
displays WWII
memories this week
Auison Herod
SintfUillri
Leoda met Woodrow on a
blind date Sept. 9 1')I2.
Woodle called to ask leoda
out again for the next night
but she already had another
date.
Wnodie was a second lieu-
tenant when she met him and
Woodie and I coda Aten mar-
ried on June 27 IU4.1 after
they saw each other a total of
six times and knew each other
onl) nine months
I he Atens were only mar-
ried 1 1 months before Woodle
was shipped overseas for 15
months During the lonely
months the two were separat-
ed Leoda filled It) volumes of
love letters they had written to
each other. Those letters
along with other World War II
memorabilia can be v iewed at
the 12th Armored Division
Memorial Museum on 1211') N.
2nd St.
leoda and Woodie's love
letters can be viewed )ear
round hut a special display
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