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March 24,2010
Campus News
Page 3
CULTURE
Native American artist to perform on campus
Shea Rattan
Contributing Reporter
Michael Jacobs, a Chris-
tian musical artist and
a Cherokee, will be per-
forming on campus free
of charge this spring,
thanks to the Office of
Multicultural Enrichment.
The concert is one of
the main events spon-
sored by the OME this
year. It will be at 8 p.m.
April 15 in the Williams
Performing Arts Center
Recital Hall.
Jacobs has been in the
music business for almost
10 years. He is known for
writing and singing not
just about issues facing
Native Americans, but also
about human issues such
as peace, suffering, the en-
vironment and justice.
Jacobs has performed
at more than 15.0 col-
leges and universities
in 25 states. He also has
received many awards
during his career. Ac-
cording to his Web site,
www.sacrednation.com,
his debut album received
the 2003 Native Ameri-
can Music Award for the
Best Independent Re-
cording; his third album
won the 2006 Indian
Summer Music Award,
and his latest album
earned two 2008 Indian
Summer Music Awards
for Best Pop Recording
and Best Rock Record-
ing. Director of Multicul-
tural Enrichment George
Pendergrass commented
on the novelty of Jacobs’
music.
“It’s Native American
music fused with con-
temporary music, and it
fascinates me,” Pender-
grass said.
Before his evening
concert, Jacob will speak
in a class and at Chapel
that morning. He will
also perform a concert
later that afternoon, pri-
marily for music majors
and students interested
in the music industry. Ja-
cobs’ time at Chapel and
his afternoon concert
will include a question
and answer period.
“Several students on
our campus are inter-
ested in music careers,”
Pendergrass said. “A lot
of our students want to
know what that’s like;
they want to see the
good, the bad and the
ugly.”
Pendergrass said the
OME is excited to have
Jacobs come to campus,
since Jacobs addresses
many issues of social
justice, and ACU works
hard to address many of
the same topics.
“Our school is trying
desperately to get rid of
the major polarization
that exists and is try-
ing to bring light to the
plight of minorities,”
Pendergrass said.
During his concerts, Ja-
cobs almost always leaves
time to address the issues
he writes and sings about.
Pendergrass’s graduate
assistant Laza Razafiman-
jato, a graduate student
of higher education from
Antananarivo, Madagas-
car, said Jacobs’ con-
certs do not have much
structure.
“When he performs, he
performs based on how
he feels at that time,”
Razafimanjato said.
Jacobs said he is look-
ing forward to performing
at ACU for the first time.
Photo courtesy of www.reverbnation.com
Michael Jacobs writes and performs contemporary Native
American music that often deals with issues of social justice.
“I’m excited to engage
people in meaningful di-
alogue,” he said.
Jacobs said he thinks
many sensitive issues in our
culture are the ones that
need to be discussed the
most and loves to do his
part to make a difference.
“People don’t realize
the wealth of different cul-
tures,” Jacobs said. “I’m
just trying to do my part in
affecting social change.”
contact Rattan at
optimist@jmcnetwork.com
ENVIRONMENT
TECHNOLOGY
ACU dining ‘To Go Green’
Whitney Puckett
Contributing Reporter
ACU dining is going green,
replacing more than 6,500
Styrofoam to-go cartons
with 500 To Go Green
plastic containers.
The green initiative al-
lows students, faculty and
staff to enjoy take-out
food while preserving the
environment. After eating
their meal and the extra
food from the container,
the participant must re-
turn it to one of the drop-
off locations found in the
Bean or any campus cafe.
The container is then
exchanged for a To Go
Green membership card
that is required for the
next purchase.
“This is our first run,”
said Daniela Smallwood,
marketing coordinator of
ACU Food Services. “At
some point we would like
to phase out Styrofoam
completely.”
ACU looks forward
to adding this initiative
to the other ways it has
chosen to go green in
the past, said Anthony
Williams, chief auxiliary
services officer. “We’ve
had this program in the
making for some time
now, and it’s great to see
it come to fruition,” Wil-
liams said. “This is just
the beginning; we want
to continue to partner
with the student body
in regards to green and
sustainable programs,
which are an important
part of supporting the
21st Century Vision.”
contact Puckett at
optimist@jmcnetwork.com
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Mobile Computing class
creates SA voting ‘apps’
Alan Cherry
Contributing Reporter
A class of only five stu-
dents could have a big
impact on campus in the
coming months. The Mo-
bile Computing class has
designed and submitted
to Apple an iPhone ap-
plication that will allow
students to vote for the
Students’ Association’s
proposed constitutional
amendments.
The class had hoped
to have an app ready that
would allow students
to vote for SA and class
officers, but it won’t be
finished in time for this
year’s elections. How-
ever, several other apps
have been completed,
including the one to vote
for the SA amendments.
Students using the
app will receive an e-mail
with a personal code to
ensure secure voting. Stu-
dents who do not have an
iPhone or and iPod touch
can visit a student-devel-
oped Web site to make
their voices heard.
Brian Burton, assistant
professor of informa-
tional technology and the
class instructor, says he
expects to receive word
from Apple later this
week telling him if the
app has been approved.
“It’s amazing how much
paperwork goes along with
all this,” Burton said.
The Mobile Comput-
ing class is relatively
new to ACU’s myriad of
class selections; it was
first available for the
2009 Maymester. Rich
Tanner, senior infor-
mation technology and
computing major from
West Plains, Mo., has
been in the class every
semester it has been of-
fered and is now help-
ing to teach the class
alongside Burton.
“I found [application
development] to be a lot
of fun,” Tanner said. “If
ACU is going to be a lead-
er in learning technology,
we need to have more
student-developed apps.”
Since its inception,
the class has completed
four projects for release
to students and several
other projects for non-
commercial use within
various departments.
Also in the works is a
student-developed intra-
mural app that will help
students find information
about upcoming games
and team standings. The
app is scheduled to be
finished and submitted
to Apple for review by the
end of the month.
fiach student in the
class brings something
different to the appli-
cation-creating process,
Tanner said.
“It was a team effort,
but everyone played to
their strengths,” Tanner
said.
The class consists of
students from the School
of Information Technol-
ogy and Computing but
is open to any student
who has completed the
Programming 1 and Da-
tabase classes.
contact Cherry at
optimist@jmcnetwork.com
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