inside this issue Northwestern College reinstate the bra run PAGE 2 v-day for singles PAGE 4 women tie records BEACON PAGE 7 Volume 80 Number 14 February 8, 2008 Student wins T-shirt design contest RENEE NYHOF The objective for the contest was Wright was astonished, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR to communicate the nature of the yet excited to fulfill Scorza’s Junior Amanda Wright is the Siouxland Blood Bank through the wishes. 2008 winner of the annual “Be theme of “Be a Hero,” according “I made it really fast, so I’m a Hero” T-shirt design contest to www.siouxlandbloodbank.org. surprised it turned out so well,” sponsored by the Siouxland Other rules included creating a two said Wright. Community Blood Bank. color design for the front and back The winning design is Various high school and college of a T-shirt. used on thousands of T-shirts graphic art departments in the “I was excited to make the T- given out for the Siouxland tri-state area were encouraged shirt design because I give blood Community Blood Bank’s to include the T-shirt design every chance I can, and I’m always “Be a Hero” program, which contest in their curriculum or ask hoping to get one of the free T-shirts. recognizes any volunteer blood the students to design a shirt on Now I’ll be getting my own,” said donor who donates four times their own, according to www. Wright. in the calendar year. Wright siouxlandbloodbank.org. A Dordt student won last year’s will also receive a plaque for “Scorza made it an assignment contest according to Phil Scorza, her achievement and a $200 for my graphic design class,” said instructor of art, who was hoping savings bond. Wright. “We had the option of for Northwestern to bring it home submitting if we wanted.” this year. DESIGNS COURTESY OF AMANDA WRIGHT Northwestern musical talent to be displayed BY TEDI SWANSON your soulmate and our need for Life without e-mail STAFF WRITER music to express what our lives are Tw o m e m b e r s o f t h e made of.” How long? Northwestern music community Ackerman’s enthusiasm added to BY KIM EASON hours, and although the server was will share their talents this weekend the amount of preparation she has NEWS EDITOR up again early Thursday morning, in separate performances as a put into the pieces deems her recital We’ve all experienced it in most of campus had little success student and faculty member give worthy of a spot in your Sunday the past few days: clicking the accessing their e-mail. their respective recitals. afternoon schedule. “Campus e-mail” link, supplying Again, Jorgensen contacted Heidi Ackerman Juyeon Kang our username and password and the software company and they “Life, Love, Song,” this is the After being awarded the getting to a blank page that says recommended restoring it from theme of senior Heidi Ackerman’s Northwestern College Endowed “HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable,” a prior version. As of Thursday vocal recital, to be performed at 3 Research Fellowship for the summer and feeling frustrated once again. night, that restoration was still in p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10 in Christ of 2007, Juyeon Kang, assistant Ten minutes later we’ll check it process. Chapel. professor of music, began the project again, hoping for different results, The burning question in With assistance from her vocal of recording a classical piano music but to no avail. everyone’s minds: When is it going coach, Emily Lodine, Ackerman CD. As part of the dispersion plan The rumors going around campus: to be fixed? has chosen and practiced her music for the project, Kang has been giving the FBI is investigating something “Last night, I would have told throughout the course of the year. recitals that involve the music from at Northwest Iowa Community you today,” said Jorgensen. “But The pieces include “A Woman’s Life her CD in several locations, one of College (NCC), and because we that’s not the case.” Jorgensen hoped PHOTO BY CLARE WINTER and Love” by Robert Schumann, a which includes a performance in Senior Heidi Ackerman will perform her share a similar bandwidth, they had to have the problem fixed by last selection of Bach’s Cantata No. 170, Christ Chapel tonight at 7:30 p.m. senior recital this Sunday. to shut ours down, too. Another: night or today. “I Am in Need of Music” and “On Kang will be performing pieces someone on NCC’s campus was “If it keeps going down, there’s Music” by Ben Moore, as well as such as “Thy Song Expands My e-mailing Al-Qaeda and corrupted just another step in figuring it out,” pieces by Leonard Bernstein and Spirit” by Samuel Adler, and the whole system. said Jorgensen. William Vollinger. “Sonata No. 5, Op. 53” by Alexander The real problem: the e-mail There is a glitch in the computer “We chose these pieces because Scriabin, as well as pieces composed server is down. system, and until they figure out they are good and challenging by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes It was Monday night at 10:30 p.m. what that glitch is, Computing literature. Plus, each of them carry Brahms and Claude Debussy. when Harlan Jorgensen, director of Services is unable to tell anyone special emotional and expressive “Since my CD title is ‘Joyful Computing Services, received a call exactly what went wrong this qualities,” said Ackerman. Noise,’ I tried to choose some pieces that the e-mail wasn’t working. He week. Although Ackerman has put a lot that sound happy. Also I chose my came in that night and managed to This is the first time in nearly 10 of time and hard work into preparing favorite pieces to reflect my joy get it running again, but by Tuesday, years that NW’s e-mail server has for her recital, she feels that it will through them,” said Kang. the server was dropping again. had problems. be a wonderful experience. With the true joy that Kang tried He contacted the software Jorgensen hopes the problem “I am so excited for my recital. to incorporate in her music, as well company and they managed to will be resolved quickly, echoing I think the pieces I’m singing will as an entire summer of hard work, figure out that the storage location the sentiments of many students touch the hearts of everyone in the faculty piano recital she will in Northwestern’s software was and faculty on campus. As soon as attendance,” Ackerman explained. hold will be a fun way for students corrupted. They recommended the problem is fixed, a notice will “My theme is ‘Life, Love, Song’ and to see a professor in her element of restoring it from the last good be posted above the Informer on that is what the music is about. The expertise. PHOTO BY CLARE WINTER backup available, which was from the Campus Net, with a mass e- Juyeon Kang will share piano pieces from pieces are about living life to the her classical music recording tonight. Sunday night. Unfortunately, the mail explaining the problems that fullest, glorifying God, longing for restoring process takes six to eight happened. 2 OPINION February 8, 2008 Is there a problem? front desk BY TRACEY PRONK majority), causing much heartbreak roundhouse kick to the face that WITH AMANDA WRIGHT Seven percent of Colenbrander for women who wanted a half-naked rivals the entire series of “Sex in Hall greeted me in the Fern lobby on ritual of their own. the City.” Faking fame Sunday wearing nothing but socks, Why the obvious double- Yes, men struggle with lust. Yes, tennis shoes and several layers of standard? In my high school youth the female body is beautiful. But underwear. group, the women had a yearly talk we are doing our Christian brothers It has been another rough year for our beloved celebrities, and Oh yes, in anticipation of writing about dressing modestly so as to and sisters a disservice if our sexual the stream of juicy gossip never seems to end. There always seems this article, I waited for the almost keep our Christian brothers beliefs stop there. Many women to be a new pregnancy, a new haircut, a new trip to rehab or a new thirty-year tradition of Great White from “stumbling.” The struggle with lust, though it may scandal to grace the covers of tabloids from coast to coast. Will North to accost me with their half- men, in turn, were taught take on a less obvious form than it ever end or will these crazy girls and their scandalous nights nakedness and off-key melodies. to keep their minds pure something like pornography. continue to make them even more and more famous? I’m not going to lie. I laughed when from sexual immorality. What message are we sending Where is the line drawn? When does famous turn into the 14 shirtless men tried to sing to These paradigms have been to these women if men give infamous? Look at celebrities now: they are the same ones that an intelligent caf worker through passed down year after year no thought to while growing up were sweet and innocent, singing songs about the glass door she was intent on until it has become a “moral being shirtless young love and acting in our favorite movies. Since then, they keeping closed. I thought to myself, fact” on our Christian on the green, but men have not only gone downhill, they have plunged right off the “Traditions like this are what makes campus that and women are equally deep end.