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	<title>The Optimist</title>
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	<description>A product of the JMC Network student media at Abilene Christian University</description>
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		<title>Men finish third at championship, women 14th.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ACU men&#8217;s track and field team finished third at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championship. The women&#8217;s team finished in 14th place.
Adams state won the men&#8217;s title and Lincoln won the women&#8217;s championship. St. Augustine&#8217;s streak of four consecutive men&#8217;s championships ended with their runner-up finish.
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		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/men-finish-third-at-championship-women-14th/</link>
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		<title>Video: Football Update: Spring Ball yields promising talent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ACU football team held a scrimmage March 11th at Shotwell, as they continue to prepare for the next season.
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Video/Editing by Jimmie Jackson
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		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/video-football-update-spring-ball-yields-promising-talent/</link>
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		<title>Electric bills soar, students scramble to cover costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter has its perks; students particularly enjoy snowball fights and snow days. But this year’s chilling temperatures delivered an unexpected blow to students living in University Park.
Between 70 and 80 percent of UP residents exceeded their $30 electricity allowance during the last two months. Tammy Samford, UP bookkeeper, said those residents owe an average of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/electric-bills-soar-students-scramble-to-cover-costs/</link>
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		<title>NFL Draft has booms and busts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For three days at the end of April, all eyes will turn toward pro football once again. The NFL draft will be a boom or a bust for 32 teams.
With the draft approaching, it&#8217;s a good time to look at some of the great steals of past drafts and also those who failed after going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/nfl-draft-has-booms-and-busts/</link>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s tennis blasts Tarleton 8-1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wildcats cruised to an 8-1 victory against No. 21 Tarleton State in Stephenville on Wednesday night.
This marks the team’s sixth straight win, and the Wildcats improve to 13-2 on the season; the TexAnns fall to 8-5.
The Wildcats won the first three doubles matches to take a quick 3-0 lead. Dina Pavlin and Jaclyn Walker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/womens-tennis-blasts-tarleton-8-1/</link>
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		<title>Golf team wins Red River Intercollegiate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ACU golf team brought home its first tournament win of the spring season Tuesday morning. The 24th-ranked Wildcats placed first at the Red River Intercollegiate in Thackerville, Okla., with Cameron finishing second and Midwestern State coming in a close third. The Wildcats finished with 593 points overall, just 11 points above Cameron’s 604.
ACU freshman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/golf-team-wins-red-river-intercollegiate/</link>
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		<title>Down the rabbit hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hannah Barnes
Features Editor
Johnny Depp’s glowing yellow eyes, Anne Hathaway’s floaty presence and Helena Bonham Carter’s massive head – these are just a few of the details that gave Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland its character. Obviously, more significant criterion led to the film’s blowout weekend, and as with most movies, some things could have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/down-the-rabbit-hole-2/</link>
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		<title>CNCS honors university</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACU made the honor roll. For the third consecutive year, ACU was included on the Corporation for National and Community Service’s President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
Nancy Coburn, director of Service-Learning and Volunteer Resources in the Center for Christian Service and Leadership, said the honor roll is the CNCS’s way of recognizing service and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/cncs-honors-university/</link>
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		<title>QEP Team develops accreditation method</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has written a paper on how to write a paper can sympathize with the challenge facing the Quality Enhancement Plan Development Team – researching how to do research.
Yet the team’s success in this potentially boring task will result not in a grade but in the entire accreditation of the university. The Southern Association [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/qep-team-develops-accreditation-method/</link>
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		<title>ISA, Wishing Well unite to provide clean water abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Students&#8217; Association&#8217;s food festival will do more than bring together diverse people and tastes. This year, the event is a joint effort with Wishing Well, and all proceeds will go to providing clean water for people in developing countries.
The purpose of the event is to help raise awareness about the diversity at ACU [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acuoptimist.com/2010/03/isa-wishing-well-unite-to-provide-clean-water-abroad/</link>
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