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Wings: a student's
daily accessory
Matt Lowe
Page editor
Wearing pink fairy wings
and -headphones Kim Elling
perches on a third floor railing
and works at a sketch for her
art class.
Yes she might answer an
inquisitive passer-by; "I am
wearing pink wings." And
"Yes I wear them almost every
day."
Elling first wore her wings
several years ago; when she
was 16 she said. She was
working with a group of third-
graders and needed a costume
to wear during their fall festi-
val. The costume couldn't be
too scary so she decided to go
as a fairy princess and she
built some wings - pink and
silver ones with elastic straps
that she could loop under
either arm and keep the wings
fastened to her back.
The kids loved the wings
she said and she liked them
loo: they were fun. So she
kept wearing them.
"Everybody asks why I
wear them" said Elling fresh-
man art major from
Brownwood. "They think
there's some special signifi
Aggie Club serves
Nikki Brenner
Student Reporter
A small wooden outhouse
on a trailer passed by in the
Homecoming parade. Many
spectators laughed when the
walls fell down revealing a
man dressed in red long-johns
sitting on a toilet.
Not only did the Aggie Club
receive an award for their float
but it also brought many laughs
as it rolled along in the parade.
Besides the Homecoming
parade the Aggie Club partici-
pates in many other activities.
Members volunteer at
Christian Village an assisted-
living home for elderly every
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how it compares to a list of 10
warrants found in the manual.
These include things like the
volume of traffic on the main
street the volume of traffic on
the side street and the volume of
traffic during the peak hour.
Beard said an intersection must
meet one of the warrants and
come close to meeting several
others in order for it to remain
on the list.
If an intersection meets the
criteria of one or more of the
warrants it is placed on a prior-
itizing list. Money is a big factor
that determines how many if
any traffic signals will be
installed Beard said.
"The average cost for a signal
that will effectively control traf-
fic ranges from $50000 to
$100000" she said. "We can't
pay for all the intersections that
need lights so we have to deter
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cance to it but there's not. I
just like 'em and I have to be
different."
In addition to the wings
Elling wears a shiny little dec-
oration on her forehead that
resembles a bindl - a decora-
tion worn by many women in
India. Ellingfc bindl a sparkly
little plastic jewel is .stuck to
her forehead with eyelash
glue.
"I think if 1 didn't wear the
wings and the bindi no one
would know who I was" she
said.
But it seems that even fairy
wings can get dull: Elling has
collected several other pairs of
wings - angel butterfly and
ladybug - as well as a halo
horns and antennae to wear
on her head.
Elling said she wears her
wings almost everywhere
except in Chapel - the seats
are too close together - and
sometimes she takes them off
when she goes to church.
"I don't usually wear them
for church on Sunday morn-
ing" she said. "Some people
might not appreciate that
But I do wear them on
Sunday and Wednesday
nights."
other Thursday during Chapel.
They also serve outreaches in
other towns on various week-
ends. During these outreaches
members teach Sunday school
classes and lead worship servic-
es at small churches in different
towns.
Members also put on the
intramural rodeo organize the
annual rodeo and spring ban-
quet for the Aggie Club judge
an Aggie field day for agricul-
ture high school students and
attend a quiz bowl at the
national convention for Delta
Tau Alpha an honor society for
agriculture students.
The Aggie Club's purpose is
to promote agriculture while at
mine the ones that need a signal
the most."
After the necessity of a traffic
signal at a give intersection is
determined the area surround-
ing the streets is inspected. In
the case of East North 10th and
Washington the surrounding
area moved it lower on the list
Beard said.
"The area around East North
10th is not developing heavily
right now" she said. "We have
been observing the traffic and it
is remaining status quo."
Beard said there is not a large
amount of vacant land in the
area of town near East North
10th unlike the intersection of
Texas and Corsicana.
"The intersections that are
above the Washington intersec-
tion are high areas of develop-
ment which made them a high-
er priority on our list" she said.
Another reason the
Washington intersection is not a
high priority is because
improvements were made on
East North 10th about 5 years
ago and Beard said for now
three universities will partici-
pate in Intercollegiate Service
Day Oct. 28. Sign up in the
Campus Center after Chapel
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
For more information on these
other opportunities visit the
Volunteer and Service Learning
Center in the basement of the
Campus Center Ext. 2932.
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Jamin Phillips junior youth and family major from Aspermont Toby Burge senior
electronic media major from St. Louis Mo. and Jaime Dahman senior secondary
education major from lola show their spirit at the Homecoming football game.
across city and campus
the same time serve God said
Aggie Club president Crystal
Dryden senior animal science
major from Loyalton Calif.
Every Wednesday Aggie
Club members meet and hold a
small group Chapel where they
lead a short devotional and give
club announcements.
The club is made up of
mostly agriculture and environ-
mental science majors but any-
one is invited to join Dryden
said.
Six pre-professional clubs
make up the Aggie Club. These
include Delta Tau Alpha an
honor society for agriculture
students; Block and Bridle an
animal science club; Range an
those seem to be working.
"We added turn lanes on that
road because drivers were hav-
ing to come to a dead stop in the
middle of the road to turn" she
said. "They seem to have
reduced many of the problems
on that street."
Proposals for traffic signals
were made this year with the
Capital Improvements Program.
City departments submit proj-
ects to the City Council that
need to be completed but can't
because of funding.
The Traffic Engineering
Department will resubmit their
request next year after the new
budget has been approved
Beard said. However even if the
department receives the money
to pay for signals at the intersec-
tions that are in the top three
positions in the list Washington
is not guaranteed a traffic light.
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Science Club; AgriBusiness
Club; Rodeo Club and the
Collegiate FFA4-H Club.
Aggie Club members also
participate in intramural
sports which provide a time to
get to know other members.
Everyone gets a chance to
play said Michelle Baldwin the
Aggie Clubs women's intramu-
ral director and senior agribusi-
ness major from Thornton.
Seniors however have first
priority in playing time
Dryden said.
"Even if you haven't played
the sport before you are going
to get to play" Baldwin said.
The Aggie Club's men's
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intramural director Casey
Kelley sophomore communica-
tion major from Abilene said
members take their games seri-
ously. "We like to have fun but we
play to win" Kelley said.
About half the members par-
ticipate in intramurals Baldwin
said. They play most of the
sports provided and members
have participated in volleyball
and flag football this fall.
Members also give each
team lots of support Dryden
said. She said the Aggie Club's
men cheer for the women's
games and the women support
the men's teams.
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CaSaundra Jackson
Page editor
Despite complaints about
ACU's Web site substantial
changes will not be made any-
time soon.
Many organizations on cam-
pus such as the Campus Store
have expressed their want for
more visible links on ACU's
main homepage.
"Everyone always wants to
be more visible" said Jeremy
Parish Web project coordina-
tor "Part of my job is to deter-
mine who will get more visibil-
ity and who won't."
Although plans for recon-
struction of the Web site are
not for the immediate future
Parish says he and the Web
team arc working on more
ways to make the site more
user friendly.
"We are trying to structure
the page toward the viewer
meaning that we want to reach
the needs of who ever comes to
the page" Parish said.
One of the ways Parish and
his Web team are looking to
accomplish this is by breaking
the page into categories like
alumni and students. In this
format the content will be
behind each category instead
on the front
Breaking the page into cate-
gories allow viewers to go to
information that pertains to
them the most Parish said.
Parish said ACU's Web site
has made dramatic improve-
ments in recent years.
"The page used to be loaded
down with so much content
that it was hard for people to
sift through it" Parish said.
Parish said he will probably
always hear from people about
the Web site.
"There is nothing that we
are going to be able to do that
can please everybody" Parish
said. "The best solution is to
try to make a site that will sat-
isfy the most people."
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