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Scholars Crossing 2000 -- 2001 Liberty University School Newspaper Fall 8-29-2000 08-29-00 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 1) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_00_01 Recommended Citation "08-29-00 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 1)" (2000). 2000 -- 2001. 1. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_00_01/1 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 2000 -- 2001 by an authorized administrator of Scholars Crossing. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LIBERTY UNIVERSITY - LYNCHBURG, VA - VOL. 18, NO. 01 ioTUESDAY, AUGUSnT 29, 2000 INSIDE Welcome back LU! Falwell v. • FOOTBALL SEASON'S HERE! Now Clinton Head coach Ken Karcher shares hopes and plans for the foot set for ball team this year. See page 12 for the elections scoop. • All NIGHT OF PRAYER Spiritual By Bill Murray, editor in chief Emphasis Week starts this weekend. Look for details on Liberty Chancellor Dr. Jerry Falwell is page 4. scheduled to make an appearance on the national stage this November, battling > BLOCK President Bill Clinton among others in PARTY federal court. OPENS Dr. Falwell's SCHOOL lawsuit, filed late YEAR last year, is Check out scheduled for a the photo Jury trial In spread on November. The page 5 and case will be heard article on at the U.S. Dis page 6. trict Court in Lynchburg. I WHY SHOULD YOU CARE? The case Editor Bill Murray challenges began in the students to become informed summer of 1999, and involved in this year's elec when the Wash- FALWELi tion. Check out his editorial on ington-based conservative page 8. Also, read page 5 for a organization Judicial Watch Informed Dr. brief summary of what's going Falwell that files were allegedly being on in the national news. stored by the Justice Department and the White House regarding himself and his ministries. Judicial Watch claims it learned of the files by an anonymous source. Dr. Falwell unsuccessfully attempted to gain access to these files. "We requested any files being kept on TUESDAY Liberty University by the president and Partly cloudy. the Department of Justice," said Jerry High 77, Low 68. JOHN FISHER Falwell Jr., Dr. Falwell's son and the uni FLYING HIGH — Senior Tyler Warkentien flips upside down on the 'Trampoline Thing" at the Block Party last Tuesday. versity attorney. They denied our requests. The lawsuit was then filed to • WEDNESDAY compel the production of these files." Partly cloudy. The lawsuit not only alleges that such High 86, Low 67. information is being kept, but it also reportedly suggests that the files are intended for use in smear tactics against Resnet speeds internet access Dr. Falwell and affiliated organizations. • THURSDAY Dr. Falwell contends the storing of Partly cloudy. By Justin Ridge, reporter Director of Technical Services, Phil Resnet offers access to all different the information is illegal under the Pri High 84, Low 68. Offield said. branches of the university. One aspect of vacy Act of 1974. Furthermore, the fail The new school year brings an excit The network came at a cost though— Resnet that Junior Clark Jones is ure of the White House and the Justice ing change. With the completion of the an additional $150 fee added to each pleased with is the convenience. "It's Department to produce those files is— • FRIDAY hardwiring that began last year, the resi student's bill. But the administration (Resnet) fast, efficient and relatively according to Dr. Falwell—a violation of Partly cloudy. dential area network, or Resnet, Is up and the ITRC feel that the fee is fair. "An Inexpensive compared to other schools," the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). High 85, Low 66. and running. agreement with Microsoft gives students Jones said. The Privacy Act was made law in No doubt many students wondered access to programs such as Word and "The school has needed this for some order to prevent the government from the worth of all the cables and electron Excel among others," Offield said. time," Jones said. "At the same time, I keeping files on a person or organiza Y SATURDAY ics that were installed last year. The According to Offield, Resnet gives stu believe many students know the school tion without lawful reasoning to justify Partly cloudy. slight inconvenience paid off though, as dents a reliable, constant connection to is young and that it has had other obli such information storage. The FOIA High 83, Low 65. students now have total Internet access the Internet. The networking also frees gations." gives access to government documents from the comfort and convenience of up the ITRC for more scholastic endeav SGA Executive Vice-President Nathan that have not been labeled as classified. their dorm rooms. ors. Cooper is pleased with the Resnet The FBI has admitted it has a data The network boasts a connection Future plans for Resnet Include an undertaking. "SGA worked very hard to base similar to Dr. Falwell's claims. It speed of 10/ 100Mbps. This connection upgrade in connection. "The entire net get Resnet for the students," Cooper says that the "VAAPCON" database, or speed is faster than the pre-network work is connected through aT-1 said. "It's so much more convenient and "Violence Against Abortion Providers ABOUT connection speed of 56Kbps. 1,5Mbps connection," Offield said. "After there is more access from home and Conspiracy," is in existence, but it is "As far as the speed of the entire net the strike is over, we plan to upgrade to a • SONG OF SOLOMON: This con work, everything is cutting edge," ITRC T-3 45Mbps connection." Please see RESNET, page 2 Please see FALWELL, page 2 ference features speaker Tommy Nelson and worship leader Michael Armstrong. It will be held Sept 15-16 at Thomas Road Baptist Church. The cost Lynchburg economy bursting with new business Is $15 for LU students. To regis ter contact the Dean of Men's By Diana Bell, assistant news editor dents can afford to buy the brands they office at ext 2320 or the Dean want. Some of those brand names are of Women's office at ext. 2313. In case you have not noticed, the not even offered in Lynchburg. town of Lynchburg is growing with new • RAPE AGGRESSION DEFENSE: To check out what The Rugged Wear- businesses. More places to shop include house has to offer, the hours are 9:30 There will be a self-defense The Rugged Wearhouse, Best Buy and a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, course In the Wrestling Room of Target. There are also two new places to and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sundays. Schilling Center II Sept. 25-29 eat—Cracker Barrel and The Parlor. The new Cracker Barrel provides the 6-8 p.m. The course Is limited to Check them out when you get a break opportunity for a change of pace in din 30 people, so sign up now from studying. ing off campus. through the Dean of Women's For those who want to be fashionable office at ext. 2313. Cracker Barrel prides itself on qual on a college student's budget, The ity food and seivice. It tries to take din Rugged Wearhouse may be the answer. ers back to a simpler, slower-paced > PRAISE IN THE PARK 2000: The It is a discount clothing store located in tfme. "It's old country cooking like praise and worship team This the Candler's Mountain Shopping Sta Grandma used to make," Jamie Naulty, Day, from VA Western tion. store manager, said. Community College, will be According to Jan Hill, assistant man leading believers In a night of The hours are 6 a.m.-10 p.m. Sun ager, the company's molto is "Outfitting praise and worship Sept. 22 day through Thursday, and 6 a.m.-11 America for less." p.m. Friday and Saturday. The store is starting at 7 p.m. it will be held SliAUNOltUiKEEN at Elmwood Park. It offers brand name clothes at a low located beside WalMart on Ward's Road. price and it gets new merchandise in BULLSEYE! — Lynchburg is ground zero to new businesses such as this new Target which twice a week. Hill said that college stu Please see BUSINESS, page 3 just opened this summer on Ward's Road in Ward's Crossing. < AUGUST 29, 2000 .Page 2, THE LIBERTY CHAMPION Ring ministers despite disability ministry. Many people told him By Diana Bell, assistant news editor the one he went to after a day of loved me, why did God take people pointing at him and say away my momma? If God loved he would never make it as a Evangelist David Ring visited ing, "Look, that boy walks me, why did God give me a crip speaker—that no one would Liberty University and Thomas funny. Look, that boy talks pled body?" invite him to speak. He has now Road over the weekend. Ring funny," or "Look, that boy can't Ring went to church one been speaking In churches for spoke in convocation on Friday, do anything right." He says she night, April 7, 1970, Just to over 25 years. at Thomas Road on Sunday was the only one who loved him please his sister. That night he People also told him he morning and in campus church just the way he is. did not want to listen to the would never find a wife, that no Sunday night.