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TAYLOR UNIVERSITY Celebrating 100 years as Taylor’s News Source SINCE 1913 1 VOLUME 100, ISSUE 13 WEEKLY EDITION www.TheEchoNews.com FRIDAY/THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 - DECEMBER 13, 2012 Headlines All-nighters: Your GPA’s worst nightmare Lack of sleep can cost students Holiday Concert during finals week The Mississinewa Valley jazz band and IWU steel drum and percussion band will CORRIE DYKE be performing this Tuesday. Page 3 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF College students are recommended to get an average of eight to nine hours of a sleep Season’s Previews a night. Cut that number in half, and you Hollywood promises a long list of block- have the actual amount of Z’s being caught busters to hit theaters in December. on college campuses, especially around the Check out our list of highlights. Page 8 time of finals. “The first thing that students need to do is actually believe that they need more sleep Losing than they are getting,” said Bob Neideck, di- rector of Taylor’s Counseling Center. “As long Consumerism as they think they’re functioning well on two Senior Diann Jones sees life differently to three hours of sleep then chances are they since losing her dad to cancer two years won’t make any changes to their sleep hab- ago. Life’s fragility reminds her to place it s .” value in the eternal, not material world. According to a Nov. 29 article from US Read her story to see consumerism in a News & World Report, trading sleep for new way. Page 9 studying can actually work against college students. Neideck agreed, citing a study done by re- Tiny Satellite searchers at the Laboratory of Neurophysi- ology at the Massachusetts Mental Health Graphic by Timothy P. Riethmiller Nearly Ready The results of a recently-released Taylor survey show that alumni’s greatest concern for the university’s future Center in Boston. The study reported that is its cost. Administrators hope to take that feedback into account in future decisions. college students’ performance on a new skill does not improve until after more than six, preferably eight, hours of sleep. The study went on to show sleep as the time when your brain consolidates what you have learned. The cost of being elite When you sleep only a few hours, your brain Survey results show appreciation, concerns on rising cost does not have time to process information. The Harvard students studied could not put new information into their memory because JON STROSHINE of insufficient sleep. NEWS EDITOR Eleven Taylor students and faculty are When Garien Hudson (’05) was a Tay- The results of Taylor’s summer sur- The survey indicated many positive “The first thing that students building a nanosatellite that is near- lor student, he worked at a job vacu- vey of 510 alumni were released last feelings toward Taylor. Ninety-nine need to do is actually believe ing completion. Read more about their uming the dining commons, and he Friday, Nov. 30. They indicate that percent said that Taylor was signifi- preparations before NASA launches and his co-workers would talk about the price of Taylor tuition is the big- cant to their lives in some way, and 89 that they need more sleep the TSAT into space. Page 5 their lack of money. gest concern alums have for Taylor, percent believed the university is go- than they are getting.” Money is still a concern for Hudson, with half of those interviewed listing ing in the right direction. but now it’s because of student loans, it as the most important issue for the “Taylor’s alumni overall mood and - Bob Neideck not sweeping carpets. school to tackle. attitude is extremely positive,” Wilson Middle East “It’s definitely hard to look at the Seventeen percent hoped their chil- said via email. “As we had hoped, these This research, and most experts, found Madness money that I’m . putting toward dren or grandchildren would be able conversations proved to be a good pulling an all-nighter before an exam does the student loan, being able to apply to attend Taylor but feared the cost, form of accountability.” not benefit student performance. The study Are you losing track of the conflicts that it elsewhere, that’d be nice,” Hudson while 11 percent worried that increas- The alumni wishing to keep the cost recommended the best thing to do is sleep riddle this region? Now you can take a said. “All the different options that you ing tuition would threaten Taylor’s of Taylor low is a concern for Taylor at least six hours the night before an exam. deep breath, because we’ve done your could potentially be using that money socio-economic diversity. administration while moving forward, The best time to study is in the evening homework for you. Catch up on current for, that’s always at the forefront of my “University leadership is constantly according to Director of Financial Aid between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m, Dr. Philip Alapat, events. Page 4 mind when I’m signing over that check putting great thought into the cost of Tim Nace. medical director of the Harris Health Sleep or sending that electronic payment to a Taylor education — and the message Nace said that although the cost Disorders Center, and an assistant professor Weekend the U.S. Department of Ed.” we received is that we need to con- is rising, the amount of financial aid at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, While paying for Taylor is a person- tinue making this a top priority,” said given by the university is also going up. said in the US News & World Report article, Forecast al concern for many alums, it is also a Director of Parent Programs Amanda as that is when alertness levels are highest. concern of theirs for future students. Wilson via email. COVER STORY CONTINUES ON PG. 2 Students should avoid studying in the early afternoon, Alapat added. FRIDAY A general lack of sleep combined with the occasional all-nighter and drinking caf- High: 51° Study shows Lighthouse trips increase feinated beverages puts students at risk for Low: 44° developing insomnia, and affects mood and academic performance, according to Alapat. cultural consciousness Neideck spoke of another study reported in the College Student Journal which showed SATURDAY Finds that Lighthouse trips aid many areas of intercultural development short sleepers — those who got six or fewer hours of sleep — had an average GPA of 2.74 High: 46° MEREDITH SELL compared to longer sleepers —nine or more Low: 40° STAFF WRITER hours — with an average GPA of 3.24. Taylor Lighthouse Co-director junior most difficult things to bring about cultural perspectives, which they were Another factor in sleep deprivation among Noelle Smith thinks through her Face- through intercultural studies — and asked about through the Taylor Uni- college students was the absence of curfew book posts. Since going to the Czech one the Lighthouse program accom- versity Intercultural Inventory (TUII). or bedtime. Noted by Alapat, this along with SUNDAY Republic last J-term, she has become plishes. The survey was administered to the other stimulants (caffeine), contributes to High: 51° more intentional in the way she por- A long-term study conducted by class in their freshman orientation college students’ tendency to sleep less. trays Christ through her cultural iden- the Psychology Research Program on groups, to individuals before and after Rebekah Stargel, a freshman graphic de- Low: 34° tity — especially online, where Czech the 2011 graduating class found that intercultural experiences — whether sign major, has pulled two all-nighters this friends read her statuses. participants in Lighthouse, a set of Lighthouse, Spring Break or semesters semester. On average she said she gets about FULL 7 DAY FORECAST ON PAGE 3 “I see their posts a lot, so I’m very Taylor student missions trips that take abroad — and to the entire class again four to six hours of sleep a night. conscious that not only is my online place every January, grew significantly in the Senior Seminar class. “It’s not surprising that I’m an art major presence for my friends here or at in the following areas of intercultural Comparing the accumulated sur- who doesn’t sleep much,” Stargel said. home, but I also have a presence over development: knowledge, awareness, veys of Lighthouse participants with Neideck’s advice for students searching Follow Us in the Czech,” Smith said. behavior, interpersonal, intellectual nonparticipants, the research team, for sleep is to examine other things that can This change in behavior, according and spiritual. spearheaded by Kendra Edwards, be set aside until projects and finals are TheEcho_Taylor to Director of the Psychology Research Growth was evidenced by students’ Program Steve Snyder, is one of the abilities to see things from differing COVER STORY CONTINUES ON PG. 2 COVER STORY CONTINUES ON PG. 2 facebook.com/TaylorUniversityEcho Contents News................Pg1, Pg2 A&E................Pg8 Local News......Pg3 Features............Pg9 World................Pg4 Opinions...........Pg10 Sci & Tech.......Pg5 Sports...............Pg11, Pg12 Life & Times...Pg6, Pg7 “We should never be ashamed of the gospel’s teaching for the sake of cultural relevancy- a phenomenon that unfortunately is building in the church today.” STIGMAS STINK 10 Owww.TheEchoNews.comPINIONS December 7, 2012 FRIDAY Praising soldiers: America’s fiscal cliff response to A lesson from Wile E. Coyote LUCAS SWEITZER ‘Inglorious LOCAL EDITOR Imagine Wile E. Coyote, chasing our hero chicken. Soldiers’ Roadrunner through the mild Arizona Though “jumping” would reduce the countryside. Roadrunner is headed deficit more than either the Democrats’ BRADLEY ROSENFELD straight for a cliff ’s edge (unbeknownst to or the Republicans’ plans, it’s almost CONTRIBUTOR Mr.

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