The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 35, Ed. 1, Friday, January 26, 1990 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 77 Number 35
Friday January 28 1990
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Sing Song tickets available
By H.Todd Thomas
Optimist Staff
Ticket sales for Sing Song '90 are going
well said Doug Hall Sing Sortg co-chairman.
Tickets arc being sold in McGIothlin
Campus Center for all shows he said.
The prices are $6 $7 or $8 depending on
where the seats are said Don Hcyen Sing
Song host.
All tickets will be sold until show time
including the student special which
oliows students to get $1 ofF the Friday
evening tickets.
The student special does not apply to
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Enrollment
By Rebekah Glbbs
Editor In Chief
Spring enrollment fell 310 students from
the fall semester making the present
enrollment 3876 students said Dr. Royce
Money vice president and provost.
The total enrollment for the fall
semester was 4186 students and for the
1 988 fall semester was 4 1 8 1 .
ACU profs visit Berlin Wall in
By Mlchaol O'Connor
Optimist Staff
The Berlin Wall came tumbling down
and two ACU professors have brought
back some pieces.
Ted and Ellen Presley had planned to
visit her parents in Wiesbaden West
Germany over the Christmas holidays
and mentioned to Paul and Marilyn
Schulze that they might want to come
along.
Paul Schulze Physics Department
chairman said he had never been to
Europe before and thought it would be a
good idea to go.
Ted Presley director of the interna
Students to be chosen for awards
by committee on merit character
By Unco Fleming.
Optimist Staff
The ACU Student Life Committee will be
selecting students for several national and
campus honors said Bob Stradcr
associate dean of students. .
The committee made up of eight teach-
ers four students and two administrators
will select recipients for the national
Who's Who Among Colleges and Univer-
sities award and four campus honors. The
four awards include the Honor Man and
Honor Woman Award Trustees Award
Dean Adams Achievement Award and the
B.Shcrrod Scholarship.
"Every college based on its size and
history gets to select a certain number of
people for the Who's Who award"
Stradcr said. "ACU will be able to select
85-100 people."
Stradcr and Cynthia Cooke associate
dean of students arc the administrators on
the Student Life Committee.
Saturday performances said Hall senior
finance major from Lilburn Ga.
Hall is optimistic about this year's Sing
Song which will be performed Feb. 16
and 17.
"We're going to do great" he said ad-
ding that one of the goals of this year's
Sing Song will be to "follow on the pro-
ceeds" by giving more money back to stu-
dents. He said by decreasing cost and thus sell-
ing more tickets they plan to increase
their revenues. Sing Song is financed
strictly by ticket sales Hall said.
Because of increased revenues more
money will be left for other projects such
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decreases
Enrollment for spring 1989 was 3961.
Money said the fall in enrollment is the
result ot several variables.
One variable is that fewer courses arc of-
fered in the spring resulting in a smaller
enrollment every spring he said.
Money also said the December
graduating class was larger last year than
previous years resulting in more students
not returning in the spring.
tional division said the recent events in
East Germany prompted the couples to
include a trip to Berlin in their plans.
The couples took a hammer and chisel
to chip oft pieces of the wall but found
their hammer Was too small to do an ade-
quate job Schulze said.
He said they borrowed a hammer from a
man who was breaking off pieces of the
wall and selling them to people for five
marks approximately $3.
They also borrowed a hacksaw to cut
pieces of the reinforcing steel he said.
Pieces of the wall along with photogra-
phs and the tools they took with them arc
on display in Brown Library.
Both men said standing with the crowds
Two or three students will be selected
for the campus awards Stradcr said.
Nominations for the awards were due
Friday but Strader said the committee
would take nominations from teachers un-
til mid-February when the committee
makes its decision.
In a letter that Strader distributed to
teachers the criteria for the Who's Who
award included leadership honesty ser-
vice integrity dependabilty at least a 2.0
grade point average a good Chapel grade
and graduation by August.
"These requirements are set by a na-
tional committee" said Lucy Hatch
education professor and Student Life
Committee chairwoman. "Afier we select
the students we send the names back to
the deans of the different colleges for their
approval."
The criteria most often listed fot the
campus awards include character a good
Chapel grade and a GPA of 2.0 and
above.
as campus beautification or campus
lighting he said.
Several projects have been drawn up
and are pending administrative approval
he said. These projects which benefit the
students will be voted on by the different
classes.
Halt expects tickets for the Saturday
afternoon and evening shows to sell out.
He said some $6 seats are available for
Saturday evening and few tickets remain
for Saturday afternoon.
The community is being notified so that
they can prepare for the Sing Song
crowds Hall said.
Billboards will be put up as announce-
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But freshman retention has improved
this year. Only 8 percent of the freshmen
did not return this semester as opposed to
the usual 10-14 percent that do not return.
Money said the difference is insignifi-
cant. The enrollment is usually slightly
less in the spring and a little more in the
fall.
"The head count will vary from spring
to spring" he said.
December
gathered at the Brandenburg Gate was one
of the most significant memories "of the
trip.
"There's a place on the Western side
where you can stand and it looks down on
that no-man's land" Schulze said. "And it
brought back memories of thirlgs I'd heard
about people trying to get across that
area and getting shot. Just seeing that kind
of sends a chill up your spine realizing
you're a part of history now."
Ted Presley said they saw long lines of
people going to the West.
"My impression is the East Germans
arc leaving East Germany in order to buy
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Practice makes perfect
Ko Jo Kai members Brooke Owen sophomore from Fort Worth center and
Lonetlo Davis sophomore from Abilene right look over thalr linos during
Sing Song practice Tuesday altornoon In Gardner Dornr
ments and advertisements for Sine Sone
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Hotels are nearly always full during
Sing Song which means good business
said Carl Meras assistant general manager
of Kiva Hotel and Conference Center.
For the Embassy Suites Hotel Sing
Song isone of their biggest moneymakers
said assistant manager Danny Walker.
Both Walker and Mears commented that
alumni past students and friends of the
university who know they'll be back for
Sing Song usually make reservations as
much as a year in advance in order to have
a hotel room during Sing Song and Bible
Lectureship.
Republicans
encourage
student voter
registration
By (Catherine Potoot
Optimist Staff
"Vote Every One Matters" is the
theme of the voter registration drive being
conducted by the ACU Republicans and
the office of State Repiesentative Bob
Hunter said Mike Carr president of the
ACU Republicans.
The drive which started Monday and
will continue through Feb. 11 is an effort
to encourage people to register to vote in
the Democratic and Republican primaries
said Carr senior English major from
Tulsa Okla.
He said the drive's theme sums up how
important it is as Americans and as Chris-
tians to exercise the right to vote.
Registration cards can be filled out at a
table in McGIothlin Campus Center dur-
ing lunch. If enough interest is shown the
table will be set up during dinner and
breakfast times also Carr said.
Every One Matters.
The ACU Republicans are going door-to-door
in the dorms and will try to have a
voter registration table set up at any major
ACU event he said.
Although the ACU Republicans are
conducting the drive Carr said he wants
everyone to know it is a nonpartisan ef-
fort. "I would love to work with the Young
Democrats in this project" he said.
In addition to encouraging people on
the ACU campus to vote Carr said he is
asking local businesses to put out registra-
tion cards.
The ACU Republicans also will do
some precinct walking he said. Carr said
he especially wants to reach out to the
Hispanic communities.
' The Hispanics have no repre-
sentation" he said. "We want to en-
courage them to vote so they will have a
voice."
Carr said posters encouraging Hispanics
to register will be printed in Spanish and
placed in Hispanic businesses.
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Members of the public relations
club will learn from professionals first
hand for a day during Pro-Am Week.
Abortion p. 3
ACU professor speaks out about
what he feels to be an issue of the
heart.
Track p. 6
Indoor season continues with men
and women's teams at Texas Tech in-
vitational. Secord receives
Iran probation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Richard
V. Secord sentenced to probation for
his role in the Iran-Contra affair is
accusing former President Reagan of
not supporting the participants in the
scandal.
"I think former President Reagan
has been hiding out; I think it's
cowardly" Secord told a news con-
ference after his sentencing on
Wenesday.
"I think that he should have stood
up and taken the heat ... just as
previous presidents have done'! in
failed covert operations Secord said.
"But instead of that (Reagan's aides)
built a vall around ... him.
Secord was placed on probation for
two years by U.S. District Court
Judge Aubrey Robinson. The retired
Air Force major general pjesfguil-
ty Nov. 8 to making a false statement
when he told congressional in-
vestigators he was unaware any
money from the Iran-Contra affair
had benefited Oliver L. North.
Heart association
to label safe foods
NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration took a
last-minute stand against a plan to
label foods deemed safe by the Ameri-
can Heart Association but the
organization says it will go ahead
anyway.
The program known as Hear-
tguide is scheduled to begin Monday.
It's an ambitious effort by the associa-
tion to make consumers smarter
shoppers by identifying products low
in saturated fat total fat cholesterol
and sodium.
The program has been in the works
for three years but Acting FDA
Commissioner James S. Benson told
the association Wednesday it risked
regulatory action if it proceeded with
the plan.
"FDA believes that your program
will increase consumer confusion and
hamper any comprehensive solution
to the food labeling program" Ben-
son wrote to the group.
Groups to replace
standardized tests
WASHINGTON (AP) - When A.
Graham Down taught American his-
tory in college he would ask his stu-
dents such questions as "How 'new'
was the New Deal?" or "Should
President Truman have dropped the
bomb?"
Down says such broad questions
aimed at snowing the depth of stu-
dents' understanding of subjects
should replace the standardized
multiple-choice questions that are
now used to assess what students
know.
Bryant pursues
full Collider funds
V SHINGTON (AP) - Rep.
John Bryant launched a new effort to
secure funding for the superconduc-
ting super collider after hearing
White House staff comments that the
Texas congressional delegation was
slacking off its lobbying for the giant
atom smasher. v
Bryant a House Budget Committee
member from Dallas told President
Bush he was "concerned bjr sugges-
tions by one of yourMslsjants that ...
the delegation 'ncedJRoJbc a little bit
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