Cedars, November 2019

Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville Cedars 11-18-2019 Cedars, November 2019 Cedarville University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedars Part of the Journalism Studies Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons DigitalCommons@Cedarville provides a platform for archiving the scholarly, creative, and historical record of Cedarville University. The views, opinions, and sentiments expressed in the articles published in the university’s student newspaper, Cedars (formerly Whispering Cedars), do not necessarily indicate the endorsement or reflect the views of DigitalCommons@Cedarville, the Centennial Library, or Cedarville University and its employees. The authors of, and those interviewed for, the articles in this paper are solely responsible for the content of those articles. Please address questions to [email protected]. Recommended Citation Cedarville University, "Cedars, November 2019" (2019). Cedars. 751. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedars/751 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Cedarville, a service of the Centennial Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cedars by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Cedarville. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Award-Winning Student News Publication of Cedarville University November 2019 theyour porn brain addiction on porncrisis The DestructionIts ofdestructive Intimacy in powers our Minds are and infecting our Society minds and society Also Inside: Local Global Outreach, Trump’s impeachment trial, Student Assistant Profiles CAMPUS CHRISTMAS COMING SOON BEOC December 7, 2019 (Big Event On Campus) Campus Christmas at Cedarville University has become a tradition that includes music, Christmas movies, games, pictures with Santa and his elves, an evening Christmas breakfast, and hanging out at the Whites’ house. Campus Christmas provides students Table of Contents with the opportunity to enjoy festive activities and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. November 2019 / Vol. 71, No. 4 Grandparents Day Reflections 4-5 The Impeachment Timeline of Trump 6-7 Porn’s Effect on the Brain/The Talk 8-9 When Global Outreach Goes Local 10 Men’s Basketball Season Preview 11 Women’s Basketball Season Preview 12 Men’s Soccer Postseason Preview 13 Email: [email protected] Women’s Soccer Postseason Preview 14 Facebook: CedarsAtCU Student Assistant Profile 15 Twitter: @CedarsAtCU Professor Profile: Aaron Gosser 16 Instagram: @CedarsAtCU Faculty adviser Jeff Gilbert Album Reviews 18 Contact us [email protected] Student Spotlight: Noah Ayers 19 Cover design: Katie Wingert Page designs: Nicholas Baldwin, Ethan Ooms, Lauren Stieferman and Katie Wingert Tim Miller Breanna Beers Shelby McGuire Maddy Mosher Alexandria Abigail Hintz Carrie Bergan Editor-In-Chief Campus News Arts and Arts and Hentschel Digital Editor Photography Editors Sports Entertainment Entertainment Off-Campus 2 November 2019 Just Sayin’ ... Alex Hentschel The Real First Thanksgiving et’s leap into a heavy subject with a bit of a joke: If April houses abandoned? Well ... because three years prior, the popula- showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? tion was decimated by smallpox, which is the only reason why the L … smallpox. Pilgrims had any room to settle at all. How do we biblically Get it? No? Maybe wait until the end of the column. The Wampanoag entered into a compact with the British understand depression? As we prepare to spend Thanksgiving at home with our fam- from a position of weakness with their resources having been ilies this November, many of us can’t decimated but not of their own free will. Interestingly, the Brit - help but feel warm and fuzzy about the ish were willing to trade items like steel knives for beaver pelts, Breanna Beers time-honored American tradition of which Native American tribes typically found close to worth - Campus News Editor watching football and eating so much you less. Though some may argue that the Native American tribes According to the want to vomit. The historical origins of and European settlers engaged in a fair territory war, is it really National Institute of this holiday are quite important, however, a fair war if one side has bows and arrows and the other has Mental Health, 13.1% so give this a read before you dig in. bullets? of young adults ages American schoolchildren all learn This Thanksgiving, if you are spending it in Plymouth 18-25 experienced one story that we sometimes even car- Rock, Massachusetts, you can attend one of two events. You can depression in 2017. ry into our adulthood: The Pilgrims fled watch the Plymouth Parade, where people dressed like pilgrims That’s 549 out of Europe in an escape from religious persecution and arrived march to Plymouth Rock beating drums. Or you can stand on Cedarville University’s on Plymouth Rock. There the friendly Native American man a location known as Coles Hill with the indigenous people and undergraduate enrollment of 4,193. That’s four out of Squanto and the Wampanoag tribe taught them how to harvest their allies, fasting in observance of a “national day of mourn - your hall of 32. That’s more than one in crops. Then they all shared food together at the first Thanks - ing” in remembrance of the destruction of Native American cul - every eight people you know. giving table in 1621, in a heartwarming tale of forgiveness and ture and peoples. Depression doesn’t always look like love. The reality of America is that in many ways, our current tra- we expect it to. First, many who are The real story is not so simplistic or lovely. In fact, American ditions are predicated on dark origins. We have to understand the constantly being crushed under the settlers were breaking bread over feasts several years earlier, and sins committed by our ancestors in things like Native American weight of mental illness maintain a mask this was probably more of a routine celebration. Though the two genocide or the African slave trade necessarily affect our current in front of others. Second, depression is communities did come together, this simplistic narrative tends to culture, traditions and institutions. It is not beneficial to erase the an internal experience not necessarily argue that one dinner outweighs years of betrayal, false treaties, past. However, that does not mean we can’t rename or repurpose attributable to external circumstances, and the decimation of a native population. things like Columbus Day or Thanksgiving. We just have to en- though it can sometimes be triggered Several years earlier, British slaving crews introduced small- gage with them critically and understand that we are not a nation by grief or stress. Third, depression pox to these communities via livestock, killing over 90% of the lo- without a past. rarely has a simple fix; some people cal population. The true peace treaty that this feast was supposed I, for one, will be enjoying spending time with my family and may battle mental illness off and on for their entire lives. Healing may look less to represent had actually been signed seven months prior. It is telling them how thankful I am for them, while hopefully also en- like a cure and more like management also speculated that the starving pilgrims raided Native American gaging in meaningful conversation about what it means to be a — recognizing and responding to the graves and abandoned storehouses for corn. Why were the store- modern day American. experience rather than permanently eliminating it. Like many afflictions, mental illness can have a spiritual component. However, overcoming depression is rarely a Websclusives @ ReadCedars.com matter of simply trying harder. Treating depression as unaddressed sin often leads to alienation and further despair VIDEO PHOTO PODCAST rather than healing and restoration. So what does joy look like for someone being crushed under the weight of depression? And how can we in the body of Christ help these brothers and sisters? That’s what I recently spoke with psychology professor Dr. Kristen DeWitt about on Cedars’ new Ministry Moment podcast. To listen to our conversation go Men’s exhibition basketball Hoops season is here Mental health discussion to ReadCedars.com, click the Media tab and choose Podcasts. See interviews with Seth Dittmer, Quinton Check out Carrie Bergan’s galleries from Join campus news editor Breanna Green and Demond Parker following their the men’s exhibition games at Ohio State Beers for discussion about depression games at Ohio State and Dayton. and Dayton and from Moonlight Madness. psychology professor Dr. Kristen DeWitt. November 2019 3 CAMPUS Cedarville Students Reflect on Grandparents’ Impact Students share the stories that shaped their lives by Breanna Beers David Isenhower David Abraham Lauren Atienza Freshman Freshman Junior On Nov. 1, Cedarville University celebrated Grandparents Day. Several Isenhower’s grandparents taught Abraham described how despite never Atienza’s family came to the United students, including both those who par- him what it means to be dedicated to knowing either of his grandfathers, States thanks to the hard work of her ticipated in the campus activities and reaching a community for Christ. They both of whom passed away before he grandmother, Asuncion Barbosa Atien- those whose grandparents were unable used to take Isenhower and his siblings was born, their legacy has shaped his za. She was born to a lower-income to visit, took the opportunity to reflect to help at a food pantry and deliver life. He has seen their influence lived family in the Philippines but worked on how their grandparents’ influence supplies to retirement homes, rehabili- out in his parents. Abraham’s father hard through school and eventually has shaped their lives. tation centers and trailer parks. passed on the lessons of his own father, became a doctor. After marrying and giving Abraham a window into his having children, she eventually moved paternal grandfather’s leadership and to the United States alone and began sending money back so she could bring Ethan Doerstling wisdom.

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