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Buffalo strike leaves student teachers out to lunch

Bethany Schwartz situation, and the students responded that transition for them to make from the inner they did not want to leave the schools they Houghton student teachers have city to the suburbs. but the Lord will work were originally assigned to. The faculty did been permanently moved from inner city things out. Something good will come out of eventually decide that it was necessary to this." schools after the Buffalo teachers went on the students' educational experience to be Not only has this strike affected the strike three times in the past two weeks. moved to different schools. The majority of Houghton students, but also many student Teachers did not report to work on the Houghton student teachers who are placed second day of classes, then called two more teachers at other colleges, the children in the in these schools are there because they strikes in the early morning, the last of schools, their parents. and surrounding want to teach in the inner-city and are suburban schools have been affected. The which being on Thursday. Schools reopened disappointed now to be moved to other inner-city, poverty-stricken children cannot on Friday, but because of the uncertainty in schools. Fortunately many of the schools in go to school when the teachers are striking, the negotiations, twelve of the thirteen student teachers Houghton had placed in the city schools have been moved. The teachers are upset about the lack of support that they feel they are receiving; they feel there is not sufficient retirement incentive or health care for retired

teachers. The strike is also aimed at increas- ing salary, lowering class sizes, and having |F liilll 111 111 more instructors to teach music, art, and physical education. Because of the lack of agreement with the Buffalo Board of Education, the teachers chose to strike again this past Thursday. Once an agreement is reached, the teachers will be signing con- the suburIB of Buffalo are willing to help and many parents do not know whether they tracts that extend through the next four out and have made arrangements for all should stay home with the children and twelve of the students to do their student years. To strike in the state of New York is perhaps lose their minimum-wage jobs, or against the law. and the Buffalo Teachers teaching at other schools. Although many leave the children home unattended. About Federation can be charged with contempt of of the student teachers are not happy that two hundred children were left waiting for court, or have jail sentences and fines issued they have been placed in other schools, buses around 6:40 am on the two days when against them. they are glad that there are other schools teachers went on strike early, but fortunately Wednesday night the education department willing to have them in their classrooms. no one was lost or injured in any way. The of Houghton College had a meeting with the "The suburban schools have been great "domino effect" resulting from the strike is thirteen students who were supposed to do with finding classrooms for our students: not beneficial to anyone, so many people are their student teaching at these schools. said Susan Martin, who is in charge of the hoping that these issues will soon be resolved During the meeting the faculty asked the student teachers at Houghton. "It's a hard and school will once again be permanently in students what they wanted to do about the session.

Ready For Monday ready to rock

Steve Dunmire

This Friday night at 8 PM vocals) make up the 5-piece band. and Houghton's own Ready for Monday Jamie Waldron is their manager. is throwing a ginat CD release party In the words of the band's drummer. in Wesley Chapel. A $1 donation is Nate Meloon, "Our goal is to use our being asked, and will not only get music to draw people in and show them students in you in the door, but will that being a Christian has to be an every also give students a chance to win an day experience. We could be playing the RFM T-shirt, CD, poster, and stick- catchiest tune in the world, but if there's ers. The show starts at 8 PM with no message, there's no ministry." opening act The Dune (folk singer/ The band spent this past summer songwriter), followed by the "raffle," travelling to youth camps. and Nate before the band takes the stage. comments that, "This summer was an David Bancroft (keyboards, acoustic amazing growing experience. Spending & 12 string guitars, vocals), Chuck 9 weeks together helped us grow closer Gibson (electric & acoustic guitars, musically, and spiritually as a band and say that though they recognize that they are in many and vocals), Nate Meloon (drums), individually." ways a "Worship Team," they believe that they are Mike Shipman (electric guitars, and The band is hoping to develop headed towards becoming a band with a unique and vocals), and lan Velez (bass, and an original alternative-pop sound, and Continued on page 8 2 NEWS Houghton Star College facing year without 66book"

Rosa Gerber about the possibility of there even being a yearbook this year-a The Houghton Boulder possibility which leaves many is ready to plunge into the new students sour. Senior Mark school year and put together Paliani says. "It is disappointing. another great yearbook. They this is the final year for the class are all ready. having purchased of 2001. and we might not have a new equipment. including two tangible way to look back on it." computers. a scanner. and a The Boulder is willing to train digital camera. But even with those studenb interested in all the right equipment. the working. and working hours are Boulder is still missing the fiexible. so students can work as people needed to write articles. their schedule allows. to organize pictures and pages. Regardless of interest in editorial and to take photographs of all positions, the contribution of Houghton events. The posi- pictures is also a vital need. Any tions of editor-in-chief and student who is interested in photo editor are still not filled, helping. however, should contact leaving many students to worry Kris Clester or Jeanette Nolan. The Boulder office has sat unused since the beginning of school. THE WORLD OUT THERE

and medals, check out for Oct. 3rd, 11 th, and 17th, word "rats" as part of "bureau- W ics Com whil ir running mates will crats" so the ad would look Oct. 5th. Polls show visually appealing, and the holds on to his modest letters that appeared first spelled Bush, while minor "rats" was merely coincidental. didates Ralph Nader Fuel Protests: Rosa Gerber uchanan continue to Last week in Belgium and the United Kingdom, The Olympic Games protesters organized a weeklong The 2000 Olympic oil refinery blockade that Games opening ceremony took RATS Campaign paralyzed traffic and closed place on Friday, September 15, businesses and schools. These in Sydney, Australia, with the. National Committee demonstrations, which were torch being lit by Australian held over fuel prices, ended runner Cathy Freeman. Days epublican candidate, Syd the platypus, one of three George W Bush, clash once Thursday after protesters agreed two and three of the Olympics Olympic mascots to smaller-than-demanded saw action in archery, basket- again over campaign advertise- settlements. The military was ball, beach volleyball, boxing, ments, this time involving an ad used for transporting fuel to track cycling, fencing, field Debates Set for Bush and fundedty the RNC that flashes the word "RATS" over a Gore emergency services as the hockey, gymnastics, shooting, Gore: prescription drug plan. Bush demonstration led thousands of soccer, swimming, triathlon, After two-weeks of commented the ad was not gas stations to close and food to water polo, and weightlifting. discussion, Republican candi- intended to send a subliminal be rationed in some supermar- The medal standings as of the date, George W Bush, and kets. Though, by the end of last end of day three were the message. "We don't need to Democratic candidate, Albert week, the protests in the UK and United States leading with 11 play cute politics. We're going Gore, have settled on dates on Belgium have backed down, (four gold, five silver, two to win this election based upon which to debate. While some demonstrators in Spain, Poland bronze), Australia with nine issues," Bush told reporters, details still need worked out, the and Ireland were launching new (three gold, two silver, four according to CNN News. The two major parties' candidates campaigns and protests were bronze), and China and France ad's creator, Alex Castellanos, have agreed to three televised claims that he did not intend to continuing in Germany, where tied with six each. For updates debates, each lasting 90 minutes, the first blockades began. on the Olympic events. news. create a subliminal message with the commercial; he flashed the

The Houghton TAR Contributing Writers:

Maria Behrns Jeremy Martin Elizabeth Bence Stephen Maxon Editor in Chief Glenn McCarty Janet Decker Richard Mehring Managing Editor Lindsay Ackerman Shelley Dooley Motoi Nishihata Layout Editor Jennifer Adams Rosa Gerber Bethany Schwartz Business Editor Emily Townsend Philip Hassey Kari Stiansen Tammy Joubert Job Tate Aaron Mack Advisor: Bruce Brenneman

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The Star, CPO Box 378 (716)567-9210 [email protected] Houghton Star arthouse 3 arthouse

A look at the intersection of faith and art

Bait * (out of four) starring Jamie Foxx

Richard Mehring At the same time, a professional thief raids the

When I go to see big Federal Gold Reserve in Man- Even Jamie Foxx can't save Bait studio movies in the theatres, 1 go hattan, stealing over $40 million in with certain expectations. I and killing two guards. His director to enliven the proceed- Sunday) hits all the tired notes ' assume the plots will necessarily partner double crosses him, ings at all. when he's required to be funny, be recycled from familiar formu- takes the bullion, and winds up As an example of and all the weak ones when it las, the characters will be of the in the same jail cell as Alvin on a technical ability, Bait also falls comes to melodrama. I don't stock variety, and on-screen DWI charge later that night. flat. I mean, seriously, how can know whether I speak.for the action will serve as the primary After confiding some vague you change from amber to blue average viewer here, but I find it force that dictates the progression secrets about the whereabouts of filters to capture the exact same sort of difficult to root for a of events. A few directors will the gold to Alvin, he dies of a scene in two successive shots? character who curses and swears operate within these boundaries heart attack during an interroga- They create two totally conflict- out the side of his mouth in a and manage to create truly tion with the FBI. After pump- ing tones and completely ruin jittery little voice when things memorable and exhilarating ing Alvin for information any photographic impact the don't go his way. David Morse pictures (John Woo and James regarding the gold they decide to filmmakers were trying to as the detective is given the role Cameron are outstanding ex- enlist him as an unwitting achieve. The camera work too is that I guess was suppsed to be amples). But usually a filmmaker volunteer to lure the thief who's also reprehensible. Some of the "the likeable tough guy." The will produce passable entertain- looking for the gold, out of chase scenes are done in such only problem is that he's utterly ment following these parameters. hiding. They have someone hit extreme close-up that a viewer unlikeable. He beats people up Some. however. fail even at this. Alvin over the head in the prison loses all sense of place, and the and lets them suffer heart atiacks Antoine Fuqua's Bait is a prime yard. and while he's uncon- picture shakes around so much without allowing them medical example. scious. surgically implant a tiny that you wonder if the director attention. and when someone Bait touts itself as a tracking device in his lower jaw. hung the camera from a piece of offers him a suggestion. he just thriller/comedy about an unsus- After pinning responsibility for twine and then erratically jerked scowls really hard to make them pecting petty thiet who's used to the double cross on Alvin it around during shooting. back down. The murderous lure a big-time thief out of hiding. without his knowledge. they set In one scene Alvin has to drive a thief, played by Doug Hutchison. van with a bomb in it to a safe Unfortunately. il's neither thrill- him free. hoping the thief will is at least an attempt at creating a ing nor funny, and the result is a contact him. distance away from a crowded character of passing interest. but near two-hour groaning ordeal What follows is an stadium before it blows up. all he does is behaviorally swing without the slightest glimmer of extended sequence of predict- Driving through fences. bump- back and forth from controlled inspiration. able events including a love ing over grassy ground. and professional to raving lunatic. The film opens after a interest. old enemies. and (yawn) finally crashing through a huge In all. the movie is an frantic montage credits sequence the inevitable confrontation with display screen, you have no idea inane racket. The directing. of where he came from or where of a soldering iron and circuit the antagonist at the end. com- acting. and script (oh. [ wont boards that has nothing at all to plete with the usual car chase, he went until eventually a shot even start with the writing) are do with the rest of the movie, and gunfire, explosions. you think from far away reveals it all. The atrocious and nothing about their on a character named Alvin by he's dead but he's not. whatever effect isjarring and makes you failure is the least bit endearing. Jamie Foxx who's robbing a and ever, amen. None of it feel as if you're being shaken In the name of all that is good around inside of a tin can. seafood storehouse. "They're generates any tension at all and decent about the making of prawns," he insists, trying to keep because it's already so tired and Acting also deserves movies, stay away. harsh criticism. Jamie Foxx his buddy from walking away. cliched and also because there's ( Rated R for profanity, violence. He gets caught and thrown in jail. no effort on the part of the (who was good in Any Given and a sexual scene)

sical identity. Not content to re- Delirious: 66Shiny" Happy Worship? main classified simply as a 'wor- ship band," (which. by Christian delifi=Lis-7 : Glen!1 McCarty industry standards would be ad- mirable). Delirious used their One glance at the top sell- 1998 release Mezzamorphis to ers should be enough to show the connect with mainstream radio. influence that Delirious has had on and succeeded in pushing two Christian music. Beginning as a singles from Be album to Top of worship team in Littlehampton, the Pops, Britain's pop count- down. England nearly five years ago. De- lirious has strikingly influenced With this in mind. their emerging bands, as well as shap- new release. Glo (releasing July 29. UK/October 10. US) is some- ./4, ing the worship landscape in both Britain and America with songs thing of a throwback to their early such as "I Could Sing of Your days as a worship band par excel- Love Forever" and "Did You Feel lence in England. The Christian the Mountains Tremble?" Despite message runs closer to the surface the immense impact they have had than in either of the two prior pop on the industry, Delirious has also albums and likewise, the musical been one of the most tirelessly cre- pendulum swings back to more ative bands, constantly seeking to straightforward melodie pop-rock push the boundaries of their mu- Continued on page 8 4 FEATURE Houghton Star DORM DECOR

Students show you don't have to be Martha Stewart to decorate

Shelley Dooley and Jett Jackson

l have always been one to keep a fairly clean room. The maxim "a cluttered floor is a

cluttered mind" stuck with me through childhood and has driven me to instinctively and fastidiously impose order on my surroundings wherever I am. Although this has always led to peace of mind on my part. it may also be the very reason that I have had a new roommate for almost every semester of my college career. For many, the term 'dorm room" may trigger many responses, ranging from mildly unpleasant memories of cramped. dirty. or poorly lit living quarters, to olfactory hallucinations. In reality this is frequently the

norm. Dormitories are the college The retro lounge of 31 Park Street facilities that usually receive the

least amount of money when the that stand out above the rest. In Shenewana Hall, R.A. naturalize the surroundings. annual college funds roll in, and In the CLO category, Brian Emerson has used some That's pretty uncommon for a as is often the case, that's the Beau Beckwith/Richard effective decoration strategies to men's dorm. A tall floor lamp in nothing. Sometimes. schools are Mehring abode at 31 Park Street make a typical dorm room into the corner diffuses light up to the even left having to increase features the '705 retro motif. something quite elegant. First of ceiling providing indirect room and board rates without Walking in the front door, one all, several potted plants are illumination, and a desk lamp making any improvements to the will find an entertainment placed around the room to facilities. Continued on page 5 center, complete with Such an environment as this a 26" television, DVD doesn't always easily lend itself player, and surround to aesthetic improvement on the sound. bordered on part of the inhabitors. Most the left by an authen- students go to some effort to tic 1978 Red crushed I

improve their rooms, but fre- velvet couch with a 0 quently (and particularly in the Zebra print comforter , men's dorms) this consists of a and covered in ,/.0 haphazard array of posters, some leopard print pillows. scatter pictures, and in the Continuing to the unlikely event of a plant, a Right sits a black . 4 sickly, dying, or plastic one. leather couch and a *A Those students, however, who matching, hand- go above and beyond this level painted coffee table. to make their living areas On the opposite side , . something of a work of art are of the room stands a

rare and truly noteworthy. table with a black and Here at Houghton College, we 1.>: have some true visionaries of interior decoration, and although tit:lt2sttlle :A././ room is well lit by we werent able to account for two floor standing lamps and the The island paradise ofAaron Harrington and David Gleason them all. we have selected a few glow of a green lava lamp. In Question: What is the coolest thing you have in your room here at Houghton?

'My United States Gymnastics poster." "The Cappucino poster that I 'borrowed' from McDonalds."

Dana Basnight (senior) -L Jason Kennedy (Freshman) Houghton Star FEATURE 5

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with a yellow-tinted glass shade adds a sophisticated touch of class. (Quote). In Stone House, the fairly domestic-looking living room of the Moisio, Paliani, 4 il Wilton, Withero residence covers up a little basement room known as "the cellar." After descending some stairs in the adjacent garage, and crossing the concrete foundation. one will come to a small room with a card table in the center. and 1 leaturing a distinct. Prohibition- era look. On the green felt table Mands a banker's lamp and the shelves on the rear wall are adorned with c,Id bottles. An c,Id. worn sofa to the left gives what could have been a hole-in- the-wall type room a warm, comfortable atmosphere. eclectic look with individual In the Disco Barn color of royalty. From handmade to dihCUSS decorating ideas with seniors Aaron Harrington and decorations that have merged purple curtains to similar. but not both parties involved. Maybe David Gleason walk into a into one of the most inviting quite matching, purple quilts on the Backstreet boys and Pink tr<,pical oasis each time they rooms on campus. The most their beds, the two sophomores' Floyd posters don't quite mesh enter their apartment. in true prominent feature of the room is decor is easy on the eyes. Sprays well. but with the right attitude I uau spirit. a straw roof covers a hammock chair hanging from of flowers pepper the walls and they can live in harmony. A an overhang from the kitchen the ceiling that not only con- butterfly lights hang from the room. whether it is ready for a and seashells dart the shelf serves space but also looks like a ceiling. Next door Pillsbury and luau or simply a place to sleep. landscape. Purple, orange and fun place to sit. Each girl added McCaffrey decided to make is an important part of every white leis hang from the walls her own posters to the walls and everything match. Light green college students' life, so make and a unique homemade bonsai a playful large blue rubber ball and blue comforters and curtains the most of it! Conserve space tree adorned with fake green sits on the floor. The girls' even coordinate with their bath by using crates and under-the- leaves make all who enter feel as entertainment systems would towels and a matching Berber bed containers, liven up walls i f they have journeyed to Ha- make any guy on waii, instead of what (without campus proud with the creative genius of Harrington over 300 CD's, a and Gleasion) would be a rather TV and a Nintendo drab apartment. Tiki torches 64. To bring a bit hang next to a "tonight's spe- of their childhood cials" sign (last Friday, they back onto campus, were "offering ribs for $3) and the girls brought bright pink plastic flowers add a several beanie bit more color to the room. At babies with them the bar, two wicker stools sit and added Sesame beneath the straw roof that Street to their beckon their guests to pull up a bathroom with a chair and imagine they are rubber ducky drinking from glasses with paper shower curtain. umbrellas floating in the top, In Lambein, The seniors planned on livening rooms 606-607, the up their white walls this year and home of Crystal are still in the process of deco- McCaffrey, Kristen Pillsbury, The Lambein shrine to Abercrombie rating. Several large plants are Karen Adams, and Beth Maples on the way courtesy of · would please the eyes of even rug covers the rough carpet on with strange mementos from Gleason's relative to cover every the harshest interior decorator. the floor. The most important home. and bring in a few plants spare inch of the living room, Both sets of girls decorated characteristic of both rooms is to generate a -homey"look. If further converting it into a cheaply searching discount the Abercrombie and Fitch guys one is truly a decorating disaster. Houghton paradise. bedding stores and fashioning who peek from beneath ever> even the Internet can help at In the ghetto of East curtains from sheets showing inch of spare wall space. http:Uadserver.chickclick.corn/ Hall (basement old. room I) that not everything fun in life has In order to make a room html-ng/pos=1?968817043760. Becky Sedley, Cathi Hackett and to be costly. Adams and Maples pleasing to the eye and pleasant Jessica Horton went fur ati adorned their abode with the for the occupant. it is important

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"My Bone#2.(comic "A life sized cutout book) first print." of JC from N'Sync with the head of Justin Spiegle pasted on top!"

Spike (Sophomore) Karen Adams (Sophomore) 6 Houghton Star

profound implications for the songs and write poems about way I think on the subject of faith in God such as were VOX voice faith. I have always heard that written during this era. Her faith is the evidence of things answer was simple-those who expressions of a community of faith not seen, but still have spent wrote the songs and poems were countless hours trying to solve those who believed that they this riddle, twisting the words were going to be freed, and then around in my head, rearranging lived their lives as if they them so that perhaps they might already were. This certainty of make better sense. My conclu- deliverance that accompanied sion is always the same-how do Daniel in the lion's den also you have evidence for some- accompanied the slaves as they Glenn McCarty rom the Desk Editor in Chief thing you can't see? Almost hoped towards the day when and laughing, the answer comes not if their deliverance would back to me-faith. The circular draw near. When, Not If nature of faith has always This, then, is the key to faith- frustrated me, antil those rare one simple word. When. It is not moments when I stop to realize a matter of f we will see the Each week, 1 put the It is that simple... but also that it is not my job to figure out deliverance, but when it will fate of the newspaper in the tormenting. For the hours of time what faith is-it's just my job to occur. For myself and the hands of a man I have never we spend each week writing, do it. Until put into practice, newspaper, I have a fairly short seen. To me, he is simply Mr. photographing, scanning, proof- faith is like, well, it's like a time to wait. We drop the paper Foley, and all I know is this: if I ing, editing, and laying out the screen door on a submarine (to off Tuesday morning, and by take it, it will come (the news- paper, each week it is always in quote an old view of this Wednesday, I see the reward. I paper, that is). Somewhere in the hands of Mr. Foley to make subject). There are a thousand am lucky. In other situations, it Belfast, down the street from sure the paper reaches its final different facets to faith, but until may be weeks, or even years the local high school, is a little destination. This can be ex- we give up trying to understand until deliverance comes. For the house, and connected to that tremely anguishing for someone it, and simply place our faith in Israelites it was four hundred house is a small porch. on who can be a bit of a perfection- God, we won't understand. I years, but it came. This sort of which we leave a disk contain- ist (my room notwithstanding) heard a beautiful illustration of mindset allows the fiercest and ing the files that comprise the when it comes to matters such as faith by Maya Angelou last year most joyful type of trust, as we Houghton Star. I do not know these that are outside my power. at a conference. Speaking on realize that with faith all things how he does it, I do not even From the time we drop it off until slavery and the condition of the are possible, and it's not a know why, but l know this-it the time we pick it up, I must Africans who had been brought matter of (f but when. gets done. Week after week, I only wait and hope that all will over to America and lived for deliver to him this disk. and turn out as expected. generations in captivity, she week after week. we receive a I am learning to realize, however, asked how we, looking back. newspaper. the value of trust, and it is having can think that anyone in that situation would be able to sing

TOP TEN ... lonl wim lemnw manin Signs your intrdmural soccer team stinks 66In the Heat of the Moment"

lowing the game I had one of the greatest learning experiences in my time at Houghton. Dean Danner was waiting just outside Stephen Maxon the locker room and l knew that he had seen what I had done. I started to tell him I was sorry, but before I could finish he stopped me. He explained that it was a mistake, but also an example of 10 After three games. an area in my character that 5 Your defenders regu- needed development. The key you've collected zero wins and larly abandon their position to Sports are an intense, was to learn from the experience. zero goals - but an impressive go chasing after "really cool- competitive thing. On nearly a I don't know if that will eight broken windows in the looking toads" daily basis in practices and be my last technical foul, but I Luckey Building games, athletes are pushed to hope so. The intense moments in 4 Opposing goaltenders physical and mental limits 9 Your team motto? sports can bring out the best or routinely leave at halftime to rarely approached elsewhere in the worst in people. When "Picked Last In High School go pick up dinner for the rest daily life. It's a unique feeling weaknesses are revealed, there's of the team to be caught up in the emotion a lesson to learn. 8 The only effect from of sport. Unfortunately, those Houghton athletes and your "lucky training fuel" of 3 You lost a scrimmage emotions are not always coaches carry both the Houghton Spaghetti O's and Diet Coke is to the junior varsity - from channeled into the right actions and Christian name into every a bad case of scur» Fillmore Elementary School. The intense moments in sports game, but they are not perfect reveal not only strength of and do sometimes make mis- 7 Your starting goalie is 2 First mistake: naming character, but sometimes a takes. In those moments, it's a determined to make each and your team "Pretty In Pink." weakness as well. time for compassion and learn- every save with his ample , Second mistake: trying to Last year during a ing. This is not an excuse for stomach prove it with the one-piece game with Roberts Wesleyan I mistakes that any other athlete or uniforms and six-inch heels. was given a technical foul for I have made, but merely some 6 A simple misunder- arguing with a referee. The thoughts from someone who has standing of the term "tackle," 1 You're always opening thought that I had disappointed been caught in the heat of the and your biggest two players up a pre-game can of"Whoop the team and myself haunted moment. get ejected from the league US." me the rest of the game. Fol- 7 vox/voice Houghton Star

The bike he purchased in August of 1999 now has close Driving with the Dean to 2000 miles on it. "My goal was to ride 1000 miles before I One Girl's Experiences on 66The Bike" had to put i't away for the winter." he told me, and yes. thank, to some beautiful days in December of last year. he completed hiA goal. The normal route for Dean Danner is a 14-mile loop towards Caneadea leading through the backroads of' Fillmore then returning him to Houghton. Once while feeling ambitious, he even took a trip to Wellsville, which by the way. is around 50 miles. He even told me that speeds of 30 to 32 Mph have been reached while coating down the big hill that leads up to campus ! This is no surprise being that the fastest land time was recorded while on a recumbent bike going 50.5 km/hour by Francois Faure io start in England during 1905 and bike happened almost by 1938. only to be broken in accident. Last week I called was then described "as comfort- Jea Adams 1984,46 years later! able as a rocking chair". This is the Danner residence to speak For anyone interested with Mrs. Danner about the true, since the rider sits down in this not-so-normal looking I've always liked to zip into the seat, there is no stress on art exhibit I was currently but extremely invigorating around. As a kid, I spent countless the lower back, shoulders, arms reviewing. Dean Danner bicycle, you can contact Peter afternoons riding my bike on a or behind like can be sometimes picked up the phone and Stull at the Bicycle Man shop in beat-down dirt trail called 'The experienced while riding a being friendly, I asked him Alfred Station. the same place Doggie Path,', making ramps with a standard bike. In fact. the word how his bike riding was where Dean Danner purchased buddy of mine and seeing how recumbent means"to lean" or going, being that the majority his bike. Stull not only has the much of a vertical flight we could "recline" which is exactly what I of people on campus have largest selection of recumbent actually take. Recently while I was seen him at least once on that did; it was a similar position to bikes, but he's a strong Chris- visiting my boyfriend at Penn State, cool looking contraption. that of driving a car or sitting in a tian with a heart for God. he talked the saleslady into letting "Maybe we could go biking comfortable chair. Dean us take a test-drive around the store sometime. You could take the Danner first heard about recum- (Jea Adams would like to bent biking when his younger on one of those new fangled recumbent; I'll take my extend special thanks to: Dean scooters that everyone has now. brother Thomas, who lives in mountain bike," offered Dean Danner, http:// Now, both my childhood mountain Danner. So it was set, and this Ohio, found this way of biking to www. bicycleman.com, and bike and that scooter I tried out be great exercise. Danner took past Saturday we did just Dana Basnight for her photog- were really neat, but nothing the advice of his sibling and tried that-- go for a bike ride. raphy assistance and inspiration compares to what 1 got to ride the The recumbent bike one out to find that not only is it during the ride.) other day...a recumbent bike. is different from the standard extremely comfortable. but fun My ride with the recumbent everyday model. It got its too.

There is a middle-aged couple 12:30 a.m. Pink Highway Driving eating hot fudge sundaes from streaks split the blue sky, and McDonald's. Clearly, they didn't the stars seem to have been perceptions. stop to chat, but to have a reason spilled out of the glowing Janet Decker The sky is a patch- to be comfortably silent for a few' moon. Construction signs work of shadows, substance minutes. scream of a Lane Shift ahead. I didn't start out ah a and voids. entertaining me as There is a man in his Counting down the rest areas highway driver. After driving out the road grows longer. The early sixties. He is quite jolly for passes the time as the road to school alone for the first time. moon is a funny shape this time of day and smiles at us winds on and off of the normal my hands ached after gripping the tonight...almost a full circle. as we stare in our caffeinated path. steering wheel w tightly fur wi[h just one corner mashed daze. His hair is graying with a What's the point to all seieral hours. Now here lam. in, like an orange that has messy part on one side. He of this? Perhaps it was logic four years later. It is almost 2 a.m. been dropped on the floor. wears a grainy blue shirt with induced by too much caffeine. and Im more than halfway home. While we ride we talk...we some sort of a company patch on but life in itself is quite the I'm urging Esmerelda on. past talk of life, of love, of God, it. Clearly, he has made this trip roadtrip. There have been tractor-trailers. slow minivans. and and of the random thoughts before. He fills his thermos at random sights, bizarre yet exit signs at a good pace. My car that we will never think again, the counter and brings it back to noteworthy people. and the is like an old hermit...something nor remember a half-hour be doctored. He dumps sugar occasional danger of a tractor- new breaks. rattles. or squeaks from now. We play pididdle. into the mug cap of the thermos trailer swerving way too close every day. She still likes the What do you call a car with and then pours a cup of coffee in. to me. The speed limit seems highway, though, and if 1 give her four headlights? Signal He then transfers the steaming to keep flying upward. and like good enough fuel. and I've learned towers make interesting liquid back into the thermos. Esmerelda, I have to trick to trick her into going faster than shapes...like goalposts on a Once again, he pours more into myself into believing I can she believes she can. football field wrapped in red the mug cap. He repeats the keep up. But when some of the 9:45 p.m. It's time to head lights for Christmas. process a few more. times and -rest areas" at college include for home, granted a late start, but 12:12 a.m. We stop then fills up his travel mug. midnight Perkin's runs. scrub- we fly over the back country hills at a rest area for hot coffee Leaving, he slips out the door bing a construction cone in a anyway, the blinding lights of and a cup of consciousness. like a shadow. just as he had bathtub. and learning that towns rising up to greet us. It will What peculiar places rest entered. I wondered what he certain fast food restaurants be a long night. The windshield is areas are, especially in the drove, but he slipped away start serving breakfast at 2 filthy...1 guess I need to change my first hour of the morning. before we could find out. a.m., who can beat the ride? 8 Hou hton Star

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SPORTS September 13-19

Men's, women's cross Sports Results country teams victorious

Staff report Men's Soccer: Volleyball: At the Hobart and Kristin Pillsbury-21:52.24-27th Friday: Friday: William Smith College Invita- Men's results: tional, both the men's and 1 st place overall(32pts) T, Tiffin University, 2-2 W, Carolow College, 3-0 women's cross country teams 64 runners total Saturday: Sturday: came home with first place Pat Weaver-26:50.99-lst place L, Ohio Wesleyan Uni- finishes overa.ll. The top overall W, Mt. Aloyisius, 3-0 W, U Michigan- finishers follow: Geoff Thurber-27:00.86-2nd versity. 3-0 Girls Results- (5k)-1 st place overall Women's Soccer: Dearborn, 3-2 overall 49pts 63 runners total Joe Kidd-28:28.35-8th Tuesday: Field Hockey: Kim Sayre-20:02.39-3rd place Paul Inge28:30.31-9th W, Daemon College, 5-0 Friday: . overall Tim Cook-28:46.96-12th .g

Amanda Miller-20:05.83-4th Zech Zehr-29:26.23-24th Wednesday: L, Assumption College,.f place overall Chris Mancuso-30:08.47-32nd W, Gannon University, 3 2-0 Eunice Thompson-20:29.09- Chirs Buell-30:09.52- 2 Saturday Ilth 30:09.52-33rd L, Bentley College Emily Munro-21.02.7415th Mike Ryan-33:10.58-53rd Erin Lawlis-21:14.70-16th Peter Sumner-33.17.92-56th 2-0 Liz Horner-2 1:46.90-25th Matt Dickerson-34:32.90-58th

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Men's Soccer: (4-2-1) Women's Soccer (8-0): Field Hockey: (3-3) Volleyball: (11-5) VARSITY VARSrrY: Tuesday @ SUNY Friday @ Mt. Saturday, Roberts Saturday @ Carlow Brockport, 4:00 pm Vernon Nazarene Tourna- Wesleyan College, 7:00 pm College, 1:00 pm ment Tuesday @ Roberts JUNIOR VARSITY: Wesleyan College, 4:00 pm Tonight @ SUNY Cross Country: JUNIOR VARSrrY: Alfred, 4:00 pm Saturday, Houghton Saturday @ Roberts Saturday @ Erie College, 11:00 am Wesleyan College, 2:00 pm County CC, 1:00 pm

Delirious continued the drum groove on top 6f the s'*gmentiii*& thatiuch 8 RFM focuses on opening monastic chants. When leaps in tempo and emotion as oc- than the experimental sounds qon- the monks get through, a 150- cur over the course of the songi expanding their tained in Mezzamorphis. voice choir joins the band for a seem namral. boundaries Fans of big-time stadium rock in few times through the chorus. A Though there are someexperimen- the vein of Oasis or Blur will find three minute instrumental "jam tal moments to the album, espe- Continued from page 1 a lot tolikeinthe 15 tracksof'Glo. session" followed by a key cially the- sparse. vibey .Jes;M They certainly aren't afraid to change and lead singer Martin Blood," the club bass and pro bring the muscle, as evident on the Smith leading the choir in the gnmming is givena backseat to 9 band with a unique and conta- massive licks that open "God's question "We're going to the more organic process of makiq gious sound. Romance" and "Glorious," but house of God, are you coming?" rock and roll. American influences The new CD, "Free what separates Glo from prior re- closes the opening track Whew ! can also be seen creeping in: mati¢ Me," contains 10 tracks (plus leases, however, are the band's Clearly, this is not your mother's dolin is the glue holding "Every- one hidden track, recorded in superb transitions from these mo- worship music. thing" together; dobro is the key Houghton College's own ments of full-on. high-octane Despite the massive up-tempo to the slightly blues-y "What chapel). The band says that this adrenaline to moments of equal "head rush worship." it is in the Would I Have DoneT' CD release party is to give intensity with less machismo. subtler moments that Glo really Glo finds Delirious? mturning to ownership of the band to When it comes to the dramatic, the succeeds, numbers where the their roots as a band grounded in Houghton students, and to serve boys know how to shift gears bet- tempo and intensity shifts are less leading the Church in self-pro- as a thank-you to them for all of ter than a '65 Aston Martin, as it pronounced allowing the songs claimed "everyday anthems," their support. were. -God You are My God" to develop at theirown pace. "In- while at the same time seeking tc "Right now we're opens with a choir of monks that vestigate" begins with elegantly make their mark on mainstream writing some new songs... leads immediately into a straight picked acoustic guitar over the music as a quintessential British planning on pushing forward ahead amp-fed guitar and snare/ pleading lines, "Investigate my rock band, taking i:ues from U2, and looking at our options for tom and kick drum groove. After life and make me clean. shine Radiohead, and even the Po next summer and getting our two and ahalfminutesofthis wor- upon the da[kest place in me," Whether they accomplish this '' music and message out there," ship-chorus-over-stadium rock at- building to the chorus, built of popularity remains to be says Meloon about the band's mosphere, the soqg immediately around a supeeb plans. "Who knows where the segues into the subtler tones of tar solo evers . Lord will take us, it's been an acoustic guitar and cello for a cals. The mel awesome ride so far." mini-verse. which kicks back into shifts ever so de'