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Northwestern College, Iowa NWCommons The Beacon, 2010-2011 The Beacon 10-8-2010 The Beacon, October 8, 2010 Beacon Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/beacon2010 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Beacon at NWCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Beacon, 2010-2011 by an authorized administrator of NWCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 83 Number 5 Northwestern College, Orange City, IA October 8, 2010 Month of art BYColor KATE WALLIN ofcentral the purpose behindweek: the revelry going Red!on, it’s entirely possible Red! to championship Red! game. Props go out BYand LEANN JOHNSON music CONTRIBUTING WRITER remains: A strengthened and have forgotten the finer points of to the women’s bracket winners, EDITOR As all the fun of Homecoming more well-connected Northwestern all the festivities. But never fear, “Hurricane Earl,” and the men’s “The Last Five Years,” a musical 2010 dims into warm memory, the community. Still, with so much Northwestern! Here are some of the winners, “Return of the Man initiated, directed and acted by two highlights you might have missed Children,” who clenched their Northwestern students, will be the as we celebrated “spreading red.” second consecutive title. next production to hit the England The Spread Red Shootout The Homecoming celebrations Theatre stage. Written by Jason ended Saturday in a surprising wrapped up Saturday night with Robert Brown, the show will run at fashion as Abe Klafter and Nathan the traditional dance in the RSC. 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 and 23. Mastbergen tied with seven kills Entering the gym, revelers were The musical follows the five-year each. The competition gave players greeted by a red lantern and relationship of Jamie Wellerstein, the hours between sunrise and twinkle-light lit corridor delivering an up-and-coming novelist, and sunset to “kill,” using their NW them onto a crowded dance floor. Catherine Hiatt, a struggling actress. rationed squirt gun, another specified The tunes, a mix of everything from Their artistic temperaments both opponent. The Shoot-Out produced techno, 80’s and 90’s, country, dance connect and separate them as the imaginative tactics including hits and current Top 40 favorites, relationship progresses. hiding in shadows, bushes, the were spun by SAC member Keely Each character sings throughout Zwemer tower, apartments, and Wright, making it her second time nearly the entire production. the LRC. to DJ a NW dance. Among Jamie’s songs are “Shiksa For anyone interested in As attendee Alex Wendel said, Goddess,” about breaking his Jewish participating next year, competitor “It was fantastic - the strawberries mother’s heart by falling in love with Jesse Baldwin said, “Do it! It was a and the people. Seeing everyone a Protestant girl, and “Moving Too lot of fun.” come and hang together, I really Fast,” about the impressive success Wednesday night concluded enjoyed it.” of his first novel. a fierce two-day fight between And while collected opinion Cathy sings “A Summer in Ohio,” teams as they battled for the title remains mixed on the chocolate a sarcastic ditty about her summer of “Dodgeball Champs.” As the fondue, it is clear that Homecoming away from Jamie, and “Climbing RSC gym filled up Monday and 2010 was true to intention. Still, Uphill,” about trudging from one Tuesday evenings with same- if 50’s starlet Deborah Kerr is in unsuccessful audition to another. gender teams composed of floor- anyway right in her poetic waxing Sarah Fisher, a senior music mates, teammates or friends, the that, “Winter must be cold for those major, has the role of Cathy. Jamie excitement in the air was thick. with no warm memories,” it is sure is played by junior theatre major In double-elimination style, teams that NW will be keeping warm this Andrew Stam. The duo proposed PHOTO BY AUSTIN KING fought hard to realize their dreams winter. the production as a student- NW students Abe Klafter and Jeff Hubers show off their moves and fancy shoes at the of making it to Wednesday’s initiated project and are directing Homecoming dance . themselves; they are accompanied by junior Erica Graber on piano. Tickets for “The Last Five Years” are free; reservations are not Alumnus to bring back passion, talent required. Doors open 30 minutes BY TYLER LEHMANN Facebook profile. pastor at The River, a church in president in April after leading faith- before show time, and seating is CONTRIBUTING WRITER Fraaza admits to losing his Kalamazoo. Julie Cook, a member based organizations for 20 years. first-come, first-served. “Life is pretty messy. Nobody’s spiritual moorings in his late college of The River who has Illustrator comes to campus perfect. I’m one broken dude, but years. During this time of searching, performed with Fraaza, From maps to caricatures of there is hope. I want people to know he stopped playing music. describes him as “a Sarah Jessica Parker, illustrator Jesus…I want them to experience the “But as God pursued me, real dude just trying to Barry Nichols knows how to use his transforming power of His love…I He brought some healing and figure out his Maker.” artistic talent. Students will be able want people to learn what it means wholeness, and I believe He Other upcoming to view some of this talented work at to worship Jesus.” This is the cry redeemed music for me and points of interest include Nichol’s art exhibit on display in the of 32-year-old Christian singer/ brought it back,” Fraaza said. Wednesday’s chapel Te Paske Gallery Oct. 22 through songwriter and Northwestern The joy Fraaza finds in his speaker, Derek Lane, Nov. 19. A public reception with the alumnus Brian Fraaza, who will renewed relationship with God is the new president of artist is scheduled for Friday, Oct. be performing a free concert in evident in the title track of his most Mendenhall Ministries, 22, at 7 p.m. the England Proscenium Theatre recent album, “I Love:” “And I don’t an organization many Now retired and living in tonight night at 9 p.m. know where I would be if You had NW students have Orange City, Nichols, a California Fraaza describes his musical never rescued me, but I’m alive, and collaborated with for State University alumnus, spent his style as “a crazy mix-up of rock, I am new, and this is all because of Spring Service Project. career as a news artist for papers in blues, funky, and jazz.” Many of his You.” Fraaza found inspiration for M e n d e n h a l l Oregon, North Carolina, Kansas, songs reflect on trials he has faced. these lyrics in 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ministries seeks to Arizona and Washington. “Our experiences shape us. They “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he address the spiritual, Nichols’s work won several bring out the best and the worst in is a new creation; the old has gone, social, intellectual, first-place awards for newspaper us. Brian Fraaza found this to be the new has come!” economic, and physical illustration in the Pacific Northwest true as he began to write music as Fraaza currently lives in needs of rural poor Excellence in Journalism a means of coping and processing Kalamazoo, Mich., with his wife families and to facilitate PHOTO COURTESY OF MLIVE.COM Competition of the Society of the messy events of his world Adrienne and their daughter racial reconciliation. Brian Fraaza, a NW alumnus, comes back to his alma Professional Journalists. several years back,” reads his official Madelynn. He serves as the worship Lane became the fifth mater to perform for students and the community. 2 NEWS October 8, 2010 In vitro developer receives Nobel Prize for efforts BY KATI HENG Brown, told reporters, “It’s fantastic process. Eggs that are fertilized seen in such a CONTRIBUTING WRITER news, me and mum are so glad that in vitro, meaning in an artificial negative way, Years after helping with the one of the pioneers of IVF has been environment, have been harvested yet she feels creation of the first “test tube given the recognition he deserves. from the mother and placed in a that couples baby,” British biologist Robert G. We hold Bob in great affection and petri dish. Doctors then add the should have Edwards received recognition at are delighted to send our personal sperm from the father and watch the chance to the 2010 Nobel Prize in physiology congratulations.” for fertilization to occur and cells have one of for medicine for his work in the Sadly, Patrick Steptoe, the to begin the process of division those specially development of techniques used for gynecologist who partnered with called mitosis. After seeing that the made “test tube in vitro fertilization (IVF). Edwards in the creation of IVF, embryo is viable, doctors implant babies.” Edwards, now 85, began his work died in 1988 before receiving Nobel it in the mother’s womb. Normal Whether or in the 1950s and is to thank for the recognition. physiological processes kick in, not it is morally lives of approximately four million “The only sadness is that Patrick and the rest of the pregnancy goes right, there are people conceived using the in vitro Steptoe has not lived to see this on naturally. about 300,000 PHOTO COURTESY OF NYTIMES.COM method. day,” said William Ledger, head of The controversy arises over babies born Biologist Robert Edward’s work from 1950 on has helped parents conceive over four million children.