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The Optimist
Wednesday August 28 2002
Spider-Man leaps into Cullen
Watch out for the teeth
Movies free for
ACU students - one
dollar for others
Adam Chamberlain
realuret editor
Spider-Man was released
in theaters only 3 months ago.
Friday it will be shown in
Cullen Auditorium. The
Campus Activities Team
which puts on the movies is
able to show movies like
Spider-Man that may still be
in theaters by obtaining them
through Swank Motion
Pictures a non-theatrical
market distributor.
Swank Motion Pictures
Inc. distributes major movies
in non-theatrical markets.
The company is a public performance-licensing
agent
that works with companies
like Walt Disney Touchstone
Pictures Warner Bros. United
Artist and several independ-
ent studios to make movies
available for public perform-
"We do these
movies for the
students."
Anidiiilil Spell director of
ciim;ins (irlhlllos leant
ance at places like college
campuses. Swank provides
movies for cruise ships and
correctional institutions as
well.
One cha- "
nge in the free
movie pro-
gram this year
is the intro-
duction of a
one-dollar
admission
charge for mmmm
those without
an ACU stu-
dent ID. It was decided to
institute an admission charge
after attendance at the free
movies increased and crowd-
ing became a problem. "In the
past there hadn't been the
seating issue; there was last
year" said CAT leader
Amanda Spell. "We don't
want to deter people from
coming" said Spell "but this
is primarily for ACU stu-
dents." The amount of the admis-
sion charge was made low
enough so that It was still
affordable and so that it
would allow ACU students
enough seating. "We wanted
to make the cost
minimal most
people can han-
dle a dollar; peo-
ple could still
come if they
wanted but it
would still give
primary seating
mm to students
Spell said.
The free
movie program doesn't make
a profit. The goal of showing
the movies is not to make
money.
"We do these movies for
the students" Spell said.
Bringing a movie cost free
to students costs CAT around
$750 to S950. A student activi-
ty fee goes to pay for the cost
of showing the movies.
Other movies scheduled to
show this semester are The
Rookie on September 13t and
Signs on October 1 1.
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Skull or Leo the Lion received in January from the Abilene Zoo. Leo was a 17 year old African
lion who died of kidney failure. Leo and other specimens arc used in the biology department
for teaching and research.
Lion size accreditation
Zoo lion now part
of Biology Depart-
ment collection
Paul Gibson
Online editor
The ACU biology depart-
ment's mammal specimen
collection was given full
accreditation by the
American Society of
Mammalogists over the sum-
mer and earlier this year
received an African Lion from
the Abilene zoo
After coming to inspect the
collection in Ian. the
American Society of Mam-
malogists gave ACU full
accreditation and the Abilene
Zoo donated an African Lion
to the biology department's
already extensive collection
of specimens last winter.
"It is not a rubber stamp
accreditation" said Dr. Tom
Lee associate professor of
biology who went on to say
that Virginia Tech only
received partial accreditation
until some changes could be
made.
Leo the Lion a 17 year old
African Lion died of kidney
failure at the Abilene Zoo and
was donated to the biology
department which now has
840 mammal specimens
"I don't think it is that
common to have a lion in a
collection" Lee said.
Before receiving Leo ACU
also received a polar bear
skull but other than that the
biology de
partment had
not received
that many spe-
cimens from
the Abilene
Zoo until Jeff
Bullock be-
came the new
Zoo Director.
Previously
the Abilene
Zoo usually
gave specimens to Angelo
State University but when
Bullock became director he
decided to give the speci-
mens to Abilene Universities
instead.
Lee said zoos do normally
donate specimens to univer-
sities but it usually because
universities do not make the
effort to ask.
In the US it is becoming
more unusual for universities
to have collections like ACU's
because many of the small
collections arc being absor-
bed by larger collections
according to the American
Society of Mammalogists.
"We have a really nice col-
lection I think It is really well
put together" Lee said.
The bulk of
"I don't think it
is that common
to have a lion in
a collection."
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the mammal
specimens
were collect-
ed after Lee
started teach-
ing in 1994
although he
said there was
already an
impressive
collection of
shells and
insects along with quite a few
reptiles and amphibians The
collection is used mainly for
teaching within the biology
department but is also used
for researcli as well.
The collection is available
for the public to view .as long
as they call Dr. Lee before
coming and schedule in a
time for a tour.
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