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m ^0 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Nonprofit org. U.S. Postage Paid Lynchburg, Va. The Champion Permit No. 136 "... Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty." M Lynchburg, Va. Tuesday, February 11,1992 Vol. 9, No. 17 County school board News The Lynchburg School Board recently explored appoints Yarbrough various solutions to By GRACIE COWELL Recreation Committee, Yarbrough wisdom is drawn from athletic and overcrowding. For details, City News Editor worked closely with Eddie Gunter Jr., coaching experiences. "You learn to see Page 2. Dr. Roy Yarbrough, professor of recently elected to the Campbell make decisions quickly, and some­ sports management at LU, left the County Board of Supervisors. Gunter times they're the wrong ones. But you The Genesis House Campbell County Court House on recommended Yarbrough to fill the leam from those, so you don't make provides Lynchburg abused Feb. 6 with one position after his elec­ the same mistake twice," he said. children with a unique more role to fill. tion to the board of During his 12 years at LU, service. See Page 2. Yarbrough has been supervisors. Yarbrough Yarbrough has been a teacher to some, appointed to serve will serve on the board a coach to others and even a jogging Time, research and hard on the Campbell for the remaining 3 1/2 partner for a few. He is responsible work make up the formula County School years of Gunter's term. for the birth of LU's intramural sports for the number-one ranked Board and will as­ Overshadowing most program and shares credit with Dr. debate team. See Page 3. sume responsibili­ other issues being faced Dale Gibson, director of sports man­ ties immediately. by the board is the agement, for bringing the sports man­ He is eager to budget that must be agement major to LU. Opinion begin serving the approved in March. "I Coordinating internships is also a The Champion discusses community in this am a realist when it task that belongs to Yarbrough. He the nuisance of prank capacity. "I want comes to money mat­ has had opportunities to contact both others to see that I ters," Yarbrough said. semi-pro and professional team or­ phone calls on Liberty amjustaconcerned Mountain. See Page 4. Dr. Roy Yarbrough "You just have to look ganizations in placing his students. citizen who has an Dept. of Phys. Ed. at what you have, ana­ Yarbrough also holds the rank of Dave Adams, executive interest in my com­ lyze it, make a decision Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. munity," he said. and live with it, just like in coaching." photo by Sharon Pick director of the Center for LU student Phil Lotspelch buys his girlfriend flowers. Youth Ministry, offers LU Serving on the Campbell County A lot of Yarbrough' s down-to-earth See Yarbrough, Page 3 students advice in the dating game. See Page 4. LU students set to program a radio telescope Liberty faculty members discuss the foundations on By AMANDA SCHWEINSBURG doing real research," Barnhart said. courses, because if you consult some­ this may already be true, the NRAO is further explained the remoteness of which marriage should be Copy Editor The class members will be creating body else it's considered cheating. currently constructing a new radio- the area: built. See Page 5. Thirteen LU computer science a computer program that will operate That's not the way it works in the real telescope that will have a dish over "The radio telescopes have a lot of majors will learn the value of team­ the 40-foot radiotelescope. Their goal world — you have to work as part of 300 feet in diameter. problems with interference," Greg work this semester as they collec­ is to replace the current program, a team," he continued. Barnhart ex­ Armfield said. "We had to take diesel JSports tively create a user-friendly program which is difficult to use. "There have been plained that both the trucks to get to them. No gasoline en­ Matt Hildebrand paced that they hope will someday control a Although the students will be graded some nice computer enormous sizes of gines were allowed because their the Flames team to its 11th radio telescope at the National Radio on how well the completed project programs that have these radio- spark plugs produce interference." consecutive win at home. Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in works, Barnhart believes that every been written by telescopes and their "(The observatory) isrelatively near people working by For more, see Page 6. Green Bank, W.Va. aspect of the assignment is a vital part remote location are to S no wshoe," Jonathan Barnhart said. To start ihe project thesoftware en of thfriearning process, • !KenYj?-lv»sp- buv--U> •ess««vtt»t- to- their '^1 say rftl«tively-near-— that's about Rick Reeves and the Lady gineering class, taught by Dr. Richard "The important thing in the class write anything sig­ success. the closest major landmark that any­ Barnhart, associate professor of is that we go through the entire proc­ nificant, those days "(The radio- body would know. Flames evened their are over. So, we have conference record with a computer science, recently travelled ess of producing a piece of software. telescope) is the "I mean this is like the middle of to the NRAO to receive a crash course big companies which 78-61 win over Coastal They will be graded on how well it granddaddy of the nowhere, but one of the reasons that in radioastronomy. works, but whether or not it works, have teams of some­ state flower of West Carolina. For game story, the radio observatory is there is be­ Radioastronomers study objects in they've gone through the process," times hundreds of Virginia, which cause it is the middle of nowhere, and see Page 7. space by means of the radio waves Barnhart said. programmers, and people jokingly say a lot of people aren't making a lot of they emit, rather than by sight. The that's the way that is the satellite dish," Theresa Bream Is enroute The incentive for the students to Dr. Richard Barnhart radio noise." NRAO is home to several radio tele­ work as a team is strong because half he said. He ex­ Classmate Mike Wilson added: to Atlanta for thel 996 mostofourgraduates Dept. Of Comp. Sci. scopes, ranging in size from 40 feet to of their grade will be collective. "In are going to work — plained that satellite "The town is not that big — if there Summer Olympics as a 140 feet that are used to track and other words if the project gets a B, on a team," Barnhart said. dishes are common in West Virginia was a town. Well Green Bank is the member of team handball. measure these radio waves. everybody got a B for 50 percent of Barnhart described the radio tele­ because the mountains block most town, but... somebody said that the See Page 8 for details. "I think the trip was very stimulat­ his grade," Barnhart said. scope for which his team will be pro­ television signals. closest movie theater was 30 minutes ing for a lot of the guys, because they "It's teamwork, which is something gramming as, "the little brother of Three senior computer science stu­ away. That's how far out in the middle got to talk to real people who are that they don't get in their other everything else in the place." While dents who are working on the project, of nowhere this is." Coping with Guillermin, senate discuss future of College stress By DAWN K. LOONEY cafeteria, university financial status By REBEKAH HURST locked into the age of 22, and it's however they want. I think it's a Guillermin expressed interest. Things News Editor activities that distract them. They Champion Reporter sometimes hard to change the minds tragedy that you have to spend that mentioned included: ramps for better Editor's Note: This is the final say, 'I'd rather do the fun things right Liberty University president Dr. A. of the board." kind of money at all," he said. entrances to the university; a new story in a three-part series deal­ now andputoffthenecessary things.' Pierre Guillermin held a question and The issue of the university's finan­ This raised a question about the administrative building that would ing with stress and its relation to That's a lack of planning." answer session with members of the cial stability was another point of Business Office running out of cash house most of the offices so that the college students. To combat the lack of planning, student senate following the regular interest and concern. Questions were for students. Guillermin responded: dorms would be stricdy used by stu­ Nelson suggests students buy a date Stress. The ability to deal with it meeting Thursday afternoon. raised about the background of the "I am very much aware of the situ­ dents; and the use of the Vines Center planner or calendar and record all can make a difference in an aca­ The question of financial prob­ ation . they are under so much for church services instead of the major projects, papers and exams at demic and professional career. primary interest lem and how the pressure, and it's not at all what it's Multi-Purpose Center. Other issues the beginning of the semester. Not In part one of this series the defi­ was the opening university cur­ supposed to be. We do have an office discussed included later hours for the only will a calendar help in prevent­ nitions and causes of stress were date of the new rently stands.

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