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CAMPUS NEWS
SING SONG
Sing Song attracts visitors, floods campus
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MANDY LAMBRIGHT CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
The women of Sigma Theta Chi perform during Wednesday night's full dress rehearsal.
ADMINISTRATION
Crowds will fill Moody Coli-
seum for Sing Song 2012,
which will feature 14 social
club and class acts.
The 56th annual per-
formance of the university
tradition will attract large
crowds from around the
state and throughout the
country. Tom Craig, direc-
tor of student productions,
said the event will again fill
up Moody more than once.
“Most of our guests come
in from out of town on Fri-
day,” Craig said. “Over the
course of three shows, we’ll
have more than 8,000 peo-
ple in the audience. Early in
the week we knew the Sat-
urday night show will be at
capacity.”
Hunter Turner, sopho-
more information technolo-
gy major from Trophy Club,
said his family had been
planning on coming for Sing
Song since last semester.
“My sister told me she
was going to come all the
way from Austin just for
Sing Song.” Turner said.
Craig said he's pleased
to see how well the upstage
acts balance out the perfor-
mances downstage by the
hosts and hostesses, jazz
and percussion bands, and
four dance groups.
“The jazz band will be
playing in the pit in the
middle of the downstage
and the percussion band
will be on the floor,” Craig
said. “In addition to that
and the hosts and hostesses,
Shades, Santify, Omega and
Swing Cats will also perform
throughout the show.”
Preparation for the
concert-like performances
began during the middle
of last semester and has
run smoothly on-schedule
through the past week lead-
ing up to the shows. Craig
said it was tricky to keep all
the different components of
the shows on schedule.
At the same time ...you’ve
got people on the other
side working to turn Moody
into a concert venue.”
TOM CRAIG
DIRECTOR OF STUDENT
PRODUCTIONS
“We had to coordinate
the upstage and downstage
performances,” he said. “At
the same time of all the dif-
ferentperformances coming
together, you’ve got people
on the other side working
to turn Moody into a con-
cert venue. It takes about
36 hours of work to estab-
lish concert lights, concert
sound, concert setup, and it
all comes together to make
one creative event.”
Kendyl Cooper, sopho-
more convergence journal-
ism major from Mineral
Wells, said the practices have
been tiring but it will all be
worth it'this weekend.
“I feel like all of our
hard work has paid off
and I have loved gaining
friends thoughout it all,”
Cooper said. “I’m excited
about being a part of my
first Sing Song.”
Craig remembered his
experience in Sing Song as a
student and from what he’s
observed as director, it’s
an experience that creates
SEE PERFORMANCE PAGE 7A
Provost search to begin initial interviews
Interim
Provost
Straughn
won't apply for
permanent
position
Hill
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The deadline to apply for the
position of provost passed
last week, and the provost
search committee will be-
gin the first interviews with
candidates next week.
Dr. Phil Schubert, presi-
dent of the university, ap-
proached Dr. Stephen John-
son, dean of the Honors
College, to chair this com-
mittee late last semester.
Schubert asked the provost
at the time, Dr. Jeanine Var-
ner, to step down near the
end of last semester. Dr.
Greg Straughn, who began
as interim provost at the
beginning of this semes-
ter, said he decided to not
apply to be considered for
provost.
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We’ve narrowed a pool of
candidates for the initial
interviews, which will be the
next step in the process.”
DR. STEPHEN JOHNSON
CHAIR OF THE PROVOST
SEARCH COMMITTEE
“I’ve talked to Dr. Schu-
bert and deans and several
faculty members and told
them I’ve struggled with
trying to decide whether
to apply or not,” Straughn
said. “But as I look at the
needs of my family, this is
not the right time for me
to apply for the position of
provost.”
Johnson said the search
reached one benchmark
and is moving towards the
next step in the course of
finding the university’s chief
academic officer.
“We reviewed the com-
pleted applications we re-
ceived after the deadline
and did an initial screen-
ing of those,” Johnson said.
“We’ve narrowed a pooh of
candidates for the initial
interviews, which will be
the next step in the process.
We’ll begin those next week,
SEE SEARCH PAGE 7A
SUMMIT
Summit 2012 reveals theme based on story of Hosea
The Summit 2012 theme,
“Intimacy: Return to God”
will focus on the story of
Hosea and how it is rel-
evant to society.
Elaine Heath, Walter
Brueggemann, and Dallas
Willard will participate as
featured speakers.
In the story, God tells Ho-
sea, an Old Testament proph-
et, to marry a prostitute.
Dr. Brady Bryce, direc-
tor of ministry events, said
it is not a typical ACU dat-
ing story.
“We’re going to unpack
the story of Hosea at great
length this fall,” Bryce
said. “It’s a story that has
significant application for
our contemporary world,
and ACU Summit will be
a place we can talk about
some of these things and
embrace them. It will
stretch all of us.”
Bryce anticipates rivet-
ing discussions to emerge
during the 2012 Summit.
“We’ve been having
these conversations for
106 years, and the topics
we’ve discussed and the
places we go don’t always
feel safe,” Bryce said. “But
at Summit, we have a safe
place for conversation, not
by dealing with safe issues,
but creating a space where
Christians can dialogue
and embrace all kinds of
views and perspectives.”
Elaine Heath, McCre-
less associate professor of
evangelism at Southern
Methodist University, is an
ordained minister in the
United Methodist Church.
She has been asked to speak
about her book “The Gos-
pel According to Twilight:
Women, Sex and God.”
Walter Brueggemann,
retired professor of Old Tes-
tament at Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary, focuses
his study on Old Testament
theology. He has more
than 58 published books,
most recently being “The
Practice of the Prophetic
Imagination,” released in
January.
Dallas Willard, profes-
sor in the School of Phi-
losophy at the University
of Southern California, is
a renowned philosopher.
Willard is a bestselling au-
thor, and his most recent
book, “Knowing Christ
Today,” was published in
May 2009.
“I'm very excited about
the speakers. It’s a really
amazing group of folks,”
Bryce said. “Dallas Willard
has been especially forma-
tive in my own life, and I’m
very excited about him be-
ing here/’
Well-known Church
of Christ ministers Mitch
Wilburn, Colin Packer,
Chris Goldman, Jeff Chris-
tian and Jerry Taylor have
also been invited to speak
and expand on the scrip-
ture of Hosea.
Summit will also feature
the iron pour, a slam poetry
concert, concerts featuring
M.A. Double and The Light
Parade, and a screening of
FilmFest entries.
“My hope is that when
people leave Summit, they
feel equipped to return to
their field and minister,”
Bryce said. “People will
see how we all are unfaith-
ful to God on some level,
and we have a need to re-
turn to greater intimacy
with God.”
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 2012, newspaper, February 17, 2012; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1060140/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.