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Scholars Crossing 1984 -- 1985 Liberty University School Newspaper 3-27-1985 03-27-85 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 2, Issue 14) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_84_85 Recommended Citation "03-27-85 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 2, Issue 14)" (1985). 1984 -- 1985. 12. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_84_85/12 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 1984 -- 1985 by an authorized administrator of Scholars Crossing. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Virginia lieutenant gov With the SGA election finally Flames Baseball goes 10-4 with a ernor hopeful, Richard Vig- over, Steve Leer decides to run for loss to Shippensburg on Saturday. uerie shares his thoughts on next year's president position. Thursday they face Norfolk State in conservatism. Page 3. Page 2. a double-header at home. Page 6. SI1BERIY CHAMPION Vol. 2, No 14. .Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. II Cor. 3:17. March 27, 1985. Student Singers chosen jumps from car from 180 people By John Peters churches and to recruit prospec By John Peters tive students." Approximately 180 students According to the chairman, the An LBC student received only auditioned for spots on the Light team is being cut because a new cuts and bruises when she and Youth Quest singing teams scholarship program eliminates jumped from her car before it at the March 5 and 7 tryouts, Dr. the Singers' main purpose. smashed into a parked motorcy David Randlett, chairman of the Two-year scholarships, which cle and car, flipped off the road LBC division of fine arts, stated. certain pastors around the nation and landed upside in the ravine Randlett also revealed that the are being authorized to distribute across from Dorm 1 at 4:45 p.m., LBC Singers, after nine years of to prospective students in their Thursday, March 21. service, are being cut from the churches, have become LBC's According to the driver, LBC musical outreach program and main recruitment tool, Randlett student Tamara Day, the car's ac that the Sounds of Liberty had explained. celerator stuck as she left cam held open tryouts for the first Another musical team, The pus. The brakes then bumed out time. Sounds of Liberty, also had audi while she was trying to stop, In past years Randlett has cho tions for new members; but re leaving her unable to bring the sen the Sounds. quired present members of the car to a halt. According to Randlett, the team to re-audition for their The Appomattox County resi first and second tryout cuts for spots. dent said that with the accelerator all teams are based mainly on Randlett described the require jammed, she slid across Can musical ability. Other judging ment as a "quality-control meas dler's Mt. Road onto the shoulder factors include neatness of ap ure. across from the college sign as pearance and presentability to a "(It's) just like an athletic she attempted to turn the car church audience. team," he explained. "If you start around to come back to campus. After the field has been nar one year, that doesn't mean Warren Smoot, a Lynchburg rowed under these criteria, each you'll automatically start the next resident, and LBC junior Tracy person is directed to the particu year." Cooper both saw Day's car slid lar group in which he or she ex He added that he did expect ing. pressed an interest. Then each each of the current members who "I saw a cloud of dust and the ACCIDENT—LBC security guard Neal Adanti begins the clean person is interviewed, and his weren't graduating to return to car coming out of it," Smoot up after Tamara Day's car rolled down an embankment after academic and behavioral record the team next year. said. smashing into a parked motorcycle. Day was treated and released is also checked. Randlett added another reason Continued on page 3 at Lynchburg General Hospital.—Photo by Tony Virostko As the students auditioned, for the auditions this year: five they found that their chances seniors on the Sounds are were narrowed somewhat be graduating, the largest group to cause of the decision to cut LBC graduate from the team. Club president elected to office Singers. Announcements of who made Randlett said, "The LBC Sin By Dcnise Floyd to serve as an advisor and to do service and pay $12 per the various teams would proba strenghthen the club while year for dues. gers were formed in 1976 to bly be made in April, Randlett LBC senior Jeannie Falwell lieutenant governor. travel to represent LBC in local stated. was recently elected to the posi Besides these responsibilities, tion of lieutenant governor of the Falwell is required to attend vari / a Circle K Club for the State of ous meetings across the state. Virginia. "Mostly I have to travel to Falwell, who is currently pres clubs in our division. Outside of •Y^^^^V^HH ident of the LBC chapter of the that, it's up to me," she stated. 1 B club, said that becoming in According to Falwell, the volved in the organization was membership of the LBC club has an unexpected experience. increased rapidly since the begin "First of all, I had been work ning of last semester. 1 Jr ing for the bloodmobile for two 'This past fall, we started off years here on campus. I had with three members, one of •S^H • heard of the Circle K Club, but which was myself," Falwell I really didn't know what it was," added. "But membership has the biology/math major been growing, as well as the explained. amount of community service." "I finally joined because they The organization has jumped %|f-feyC| were doing things I was doing from three members to 60 mem anyway." bers. Falwell has seen the change Falwell said that she was and wants more members. fl^Bfe BL elected to the club's state level "I think it's good to become a w8^ through a district convention held involved. We're rendering ser in Fredericksburg, Va. vices to others and providing the m t m 1 **• "You have to be nominated at students the opportunity to be die opening meetings of die con come involved in the communi vention," she explained. "You're ty," she said. asked questions through an open "It's also an opportunity to fel -••• • —•-'^^ ^. caucus. Then mere is a closed lowship with one another. It's an ballot of delegates, and the dele all-around organization." WORLD RECORD HOPEFULS—Hoping to sociation marathon volleyball team members gates vote," she said. To become a member of die top the Guiness world record of 75 hours, 30 watch a teammate attempt to spike during prac Falwell added mat she plans club, one must have a wiliingne ,s minutes with 80 hours, Muscular Dystrophy As tice.—Photo by Bryan Burton Page 2 March 27, 1985 The Liberty Champion The Mountain Monastery Commentary College can't hinder the light By Jennifer Steele phanage. Shoney's and Mister Donut. The club, sponsored by Bill "Each time, we have devotions Scientific advances place While living on the "Monas Shook, meets every Saturday and prayer," said Debbie. "It's tery on the Mountain" it's possi morning at 10:30 in SH 119, rewarding. They're not only ble to thrive on the gospel glow "where it has a Bible study and blessed; but we are, too." the church in the middle of Bible classes, enjoy Christian then goes out to witness. Pick up a pen. Many students In a society that has reverted to killing babies and adopting dolls, friendships and attend church ac "We're hoping it will grow," write to unsaved friends, rela it seems ironic to even mention genetic engineering: the process that tivities, and still forget that the said Vice President Tami Crabill. tives or pen pals in other coun most people think will deliver mankind from disease and deformity. unsaved are starving for the light. Currently the club has about 15 tries. Genetic engineering ranges from the innocent challenge of growing So, how should an LBC Chris members. Freshman Patty Grover writes bigger, sweeter fruit to the man who, prior to undergoing a sex-change tian's candle burn? Go ye into Be a friend. Twenty LBC stu to a Muslim pen pal in Turkey operation, froze a sample of his sperm hoping to impregnate himself the world, thrust the gospel torch dents are part of Thomas Road's through the Friends of Turkey following his 'liberation.' in unsaved faces and run? Big Brother/Big Sister program. pen pal program. Instead of In the middle of this proverbial scale of agricultural advancement Why not show a non-Christian Students serve as "special criticizing his religion, she lets and sexual perversion stands the Christian upset and silent once again. the light through a ministry of Christian friends" to Lynchburg him see Jesus in her life through Genetic engineering revolves around deoxyribonucleic acid love? Here are some tips on how children that are having problems her letters. (DNA); this remarkable substance dictates your sex, the color of students can be involved in get at home or that just want a friend. Make it known. No matter your eyes and hair, and your intelligence. ting out of the Monastery and into According to sponsor Dave how much homework may get in Altering the wonder-stuff can produce a pure society without dis lives.