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Scholars Crossing 1999 -- 2000 Liberty University School Newspaper 11-16-1999 11-16-99 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 17, Issue 11) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_99_00 Recommended Citation "11-16-99 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 17, Issue 11)" (1999). 1999 -- 2000. 7. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_99_00/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Liberty University School Newspaper at Scholars Crossing. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1999 -- 2000 by an authorized administrator of Scholars Crossing. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Liberty LIBERTY UNIVERSITY . LYNCHBURG, VA • VOL. 17, NO. 11 TUESDAYio, NOVEMBEnR 16, 1999 Business office pursues change By Chris Edwards, editor in chief The letter said students who meet the activated for lunch, Jan. 17, Lowe said. Lowe said the departments are con GOT IT!: Men's basketball deadline will be mailed a confirmation The Student Accounts office, for sidering Monday-Wednesday-Friday trampled VASDA-USA 95-57, The Student Accounts office has package over Christmas break. Those merly known as the Business Office, or Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday Monday night. Read the high renewed its "skip check-in" initiative who do not partici is also considering some organiza options. If the departments adopt a lights of for the spring 2000 semester. If stu pate in the program » » ~~~"~~"•"•*•™"*T™~•~~^—"~ tional changes for three-day plan, Lowe said the EDP the game dents can complete their payment will be required to If yQU do skip check- the spring 2000 Business Office window would remain on page worksheets by Dec. 16, they can avoid return by Jan. 17 for a . semester and open to take payments and hand out 12. lines at the start of classes, according complete financial in, you can get in the beyond. refund checks. to the plan. check m. ciassregis night before ... resettle According to Since his arrival in September, I BAD "If you do skip check-in, you can be Lowe, his office and Lowe has instituted plans to improve BOYS, WHAT get in the night before ... resettle into rrrr„ ,7 into your room and hit the Financial Aid customer service to students. Current YOU GONNA your room and hit classes on Jan. and is. Those who do classes on Jan. 19. office are consider initiatives have seen refund checks DO?: LUPD 19," said Doug Lowe, director of Stu not check in by Jan. ing changing their turn around in three to five days. Lowe receive new cars. Read about the dent Accounts. 17 will be assessed a to being open only also hopes to continue improvements upgrade to Liberty's security Lowe said the university mailed let $40 late fee. Doug Lowe, director Of three days per to the billing process with continued system on page 3. ters and worksheets to parents early The "express check- week. use of the new computer system. this week. Students can also pick up in" initiative, where stu- ^ Student Accounts "It (financial aid) Plans for the future include a reor • PRAYER worksheets and get more information dents make advanced » is taking so much ganized lobby, updated technology ^^^^^M .HUDDLE: in the Student Accounts office. Last financial arrangements and return early to time answering questions from students and the contracting of payment serv ^^^^*^!^*^3 Athletes year, more than 3,500 students took validate meal plans is for new and transfer about why their loans are late... that the ices to an outside vendor — eliminat f^'SgL -'""S^T jm minister to advantage of the program, according students only. Campus students utilizing loans are not getting processed," Lowe ing the need for post-dated check and % lhe w rici to university officials. "skip check-in" will have their meal plans said. credit card payments. w H ^ilF'Jf^?t both °on and aiSI 1 4MHP^ off the court. Read of their gospel-shar Presidential ing expert- ences oh page 5. Cathy knows chicken CHRISSY'S CONFESSION: The candidate assistant editor comes clean Chick-fil-A CEO with her introspective talks about his thoughts of Liberty. Check out speaks at her first and last column on career in restaurant page 7. By Suzanne McDuffie, news editor area college After Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A founder and CEO, threw out hun By Hannah Ladwig, copy editor dreds of "Eat mor chikin" cows to a swarming student mob, when he Presidential candidates are hitting the cam spoke in convo Nov. 12, he proved paign trail earlier than ever before. Republican he was no ordinary 78-year-old. presidential candidate Sen. John McCain visited t TUESDAY Cathy is not afraid of strangers. Hampden-Sydney College, an all-male college in Partly Cloudy After he gave an interview to the Farmville, last Tuesday. High: 58 Champion, he walked over to a table Reporters swarmed the door of his van when Low: 32 of random people — three children McCain reached the college, but he nimbly stepped out and their mother. the other side. When he stood up to speak, the audi > WEDNESDAY "What does a cow say?" he ence gave him a standing ovation. Cloudy asked. McCain praised the college for being "a bastion of High: 62 "Moo," the three children said. young Republicans" and said his great-great-great- Low: 35 "No, Mama, do you know what great grandfather had been a member of the board the cow says?" Cathy asked. of trustees when the college was founded in 1776. • THURSDAY "Moo. No? Moo doesn't work?' His stop at Hampden-Sydney was one step in the Clear the mom asked in surprise. gathering of Virginia voters for the Virginia primary, High: 64 Suddenly Cathy pulled three scheduled for Feb. 29, 2000. Low:37 stuffed "Eat mor Chikin" cows from MICHELLE WARNER Recent polls show him to be virtually tied with behind his back. FREE CHICKEN — Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A CEO, hands out free chicken front-runner George Bush in New Hampshire, "Eat more chicken," the seated coupons to the delight of Liberty's chicken sandwich fans. where the first Republican primary will be held. • FRIDAY quartet read on the poster board trustee of Mercer University, Clay down to three, the list caught top This is a jump from last summer; since then he has Clear swinging from the cows' necks. ton State College Foundation and reasons to eat chicken: "It is tastee," climbed 22 percentage points and Bush has High: 67 "I can't hear you," Cathy the Lord's Day Alliance of the U.S. "It is good for you." and "It is not us!" dropped eight. Low: 39 taunted. He is also a member of the Rotary Next up for the cows is a stunt as "Running for president is fun," McCain said dur "Eat mor Chikin!" they yelled. Club. Not to mention that he runs Santa Claus, a retro hippie look and ing his speech. • SATURDAY Cathy may be a senior citizen 890 Chick-fil-A outlets in America a modeling shoot for their own "cow- "I've been spending a lot of time in New Hampshire, Clear but this doesn't stop him from and South Africa. landers." strangely enough, but I've been having fun." • High: 69 sparking up friendships with "Mr. Cathy knows people, scrip Cathy loves to make people During his speech, McCain carefully avoided Low: 41 nearly every child he passes, while ture and chicken,;' said avid fan and happy. attacking his opponents directly but focused on his still maintaining the third-ranked author Marabel Morgan. "A lot of the joys you get are experience in a national governing body (the Sen chicken fast-food restaurant in His most popular accomplish worth more than dollars and ate), his experiences in foreign policy and his war the nation. ment, at least at Liberty University, cents," he said. time experiences, which the other Republican can At home, he teaches a weekly is his "Eat mor chikin" cow. With national awards vary didates lack, he said. BOUT Sunday school class of 13-year-old During Super Bowl XXXIU's ing from "Caring" to "Big Heart" McCain spoke briefly about his 22-year Navy boys at the First Baptist Church of advertisements, the popular cow to "Shining Light," Cathy cap career, including the time he spent as a fighter pilot • WINTER PLAY AUDITIONS: Try- Jonesboro, Ga. He also fathers 110 broadcast a mock performance of tured the respect of the busi during Vietnam. He was shot down during a bombing outs for Steel Magnolias will foster children at 11 foster homes. late-night talk show host David Let- ness world in a different way run over Hanoi and spent five years in a Vietnam take place in the Fine Arts cen He oversees his own camp for boys termen's Top Ten List. prison camp. ter, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and and one for girls. He serves as Though the cow shortened it Please see CATHY, page 3 Nov 17 at 4:00 p.m. Please see MCCAIN, page 3 > THANKSGIVING CANNED FOOD DRIVE: Donate your non-per ishable goods to needy fami lies. The FACS department LU hosts largest debate tournament of season provided boxes in front of SH By Rick Clark, reporter Science Hall. The district tournament The banquet makes us feel welcome 132. DH 109 and AS 122. proved to have unique results as Michi ... the debaters look forward to it," Phil Once again Liberty hosted the gan State won the tournament in the Warkin, former director of forensics at » IN-CONCERT: Bishop N.B. largest debate tournament of the sea varsity division for the first time at LU.