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Cedarville University DigitalCommons@Cedarville Cedars 9-20-2007 Cedars, September 20, 2007 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 uthora s 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, September 20, 2007" (2007). Cedars. 585. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedars/585 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]. Virtual Money M anagement Lending . Person to person loans change the face of lending. PAGE 5 Falling through th e SFcy A Cedars reporter goes The famous liberal school down the street attempts to pull itself together on assignment 10,000 amid skepticism, fundraising drives, and the mysterious absence of it's feet up. president. V@/NUMEERSf i l « V BYTHE _ A Safer Cedarville IOOKIT our picks 2 BACK OF THE FRONT 20 September 2007 "We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of *i m j | ......... ....... I ‘ ** M I * * * C ed a r s Managing Editor; Nathan Washatka News Editor: Brandon Smith Viewpoints Editor: Dennis Nangle Arts & Entertainment Editor: Jenna Marcum The Current Editor: Nick Erber Sports Editor: Andrea Walker Copy Editors: Camille Morse, Ann Foley, Jessica Whitebait Design Editor: Kyie Jackson Designer & Illustrator: Rachel Duarte Photography Editor: Crystai fiippin Webmaster: Jeremy McDuffie Office & Circulation Manager: Timon Reiner Staff Devin Babcock Angela Bacon Bryce Bahler Whitney Burch Anna Cummings Jessica Daugherty Joseph Ellis Zach Freed Grant Goodman Grant Hansen John Hawkins Keri Hilty Sarah Hoffman Rachael Hubin Justin Keller Kate Klein photo credit Crystal Fiippin Grant Letizia Garrett Lowe Sterling Meyers Kelly Miller Whitney Miller Ryan Mosher Michelle Mostaed Sarah Petersen Nathan Reed Timon Reiner Keith Rice Josh Saunders The Letter John Schirmer Michael Shirzadian HI I 11 1.1 ■ Dresden Soules Jessica Swayze I have a friend who, for one reason or Alyssa Weaver another, is almost always laughing. Some Geneva Wilgus Daniel E. Zimmerman times she laughs at jokes or dogs with bad hair jobs, but mostly she laughs at herself. It’s not self-deprecating laughter, though, and she doesn’t do it to break the ice. She '..A n d Sonn«rKrneSi.X «W + Kn<svV laughs because, after she has tripped, stam X. ju&d- -futA U k c3 « n bdurv^ vvatcV pid! mered, or ordered diet instead of regular, there’s no reason not to laugh. My friend seems to be a well-adjusted ASSOCIATED and generally happy person, so at various COLLEGIATE 42% Chuck's Demo Line times I’ve tried to imitate her approach to PRESS things; I’ve tried to laugh at myself, honestly j and earnestly. It’s harder to do than I’d like ■ li— ^ IB iaDani Bnd to admit, and — herein lies the real danger ■f civ™' v M st 8w»««w m ' ■. / HWWi — sometimes I forget to take myself seri ously. Milner Paint Job Which is the But, then again, I suppose that’s the point. best addition to Cedars is a serious student publication, New Hive Doors our campus? one intensely dedicated to professional and responsible journalism. But Cedars isn’t perfect. It isn’t printed on leaves of ham Cedars goal is to provide mered gold, and it certainly isn’t above news. Information, and Johannah Leightenheimer viewpoints about our focal, criticism. national, and international We want to be taken seriously, but we worlds. Cedars strives to also want to recognize who we are and the offer accurate information This week someone mentioned that my old childhood friend, Mad and thoughtful opinions role we play on this campus. So keep us which promote biblical eleine L’Engle, had passed away. If that name sounds familiar, you level this year. Let us know what you think. thinking and participation in are probably one of the thousands of children from around the world Send letters, give suggestions, and tell us the communities in which we Madeleine who enjoyed reading L’Engle’s award-winning A Wrinkle In Time. when we’ve goofed. We’ll try to improve, live. The opinions expressed Often compared to the likes of C.S. Lewis or Diane Duane, L’Engle in Cedars are held by the and we’ll try to watch ourselves with comic individual writers and are not L’Engle wrote stories in which religion, magic and science blend to create skepticism. necessarily held by the mystical worlds where lonely and thoughtful children have fantastic Laughter may not be the cure-all, but I Cedars staff or by Cedarvtlle adventures and learn truth about life. This emphasis on truth coin sure feel better in the meantime, and I usu University. * cides with L’Engle’s philosophical conviction that stories are one of ally do things better the next time. 1918-2007 the best modes by which we communicate truth. A public memorial 251 N. Main Street service will be held on or around her birthday, November 29, at the Cedarville, OH 45314 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. Memorial gifts may 937.766.3456 Cedars Managing Editor [email protected] be made to Crosswicks Foundation, Ltd., 924 West End Ave, Apt. 95, New York, New York, 10025. 2.Q..S.c.pieiD.b£r.2Qfil NEWS 3 Trouble at Antioch Doesn’t Stop with Finances --Josh Saunders & Brandon S m ith - five years,” said Daily. “As of today we have provided no explanation for Lawry’s three- Staff Writers However, in late August the UBT gave ex clusive rights to the AB to formulate a new $12 million in cash and pledges.” month premature departure. Lawry could not business plan for the college. The AB will be reached for comment. The parties involved in the battle for the fu Some have high hopes that the AB’s plan present this plan at the October 26 meeting; if ture of Antioch College are unified in that will provide the changes the college needs, According to alumni, the faculty voted no the UBT determines that the plan is usable, it they pursue the same goal. Antioch students, but for others, suspicion and distrust abound. confidence in the chancellor of the univer will adopt it and the college will stay open. If faculty and staff, administration, trustees, On July 26, the college’s president, Steven sity, Toni Murdock, within a few days of the not, “that will be the end of Antioch College alumni and even the residents and business W. Lawry, announced his resignation ef- incident. as we know it. The brilliant faculty that we es of Yellow Springs all love the Beginning in the 1940s, Antioch began to school and want to see it stay build a reputation as an epicenter of student open. But Antioch did not make activism in southern Ohio, an image which itself famous by valuing unifor culminated in the 1960s as Antioch gained mity. The college, about seven national recognition for its Vietnam War miles from Cedarville, built its protests and New Left activities. The col nationally recognized identity lege was among the first in the U.S. to admit around a spirit of activism that black students and to teach men and women is, ironically, proving to be a the same curricula. Antioch fought hard for roadblock to the efforts to keep civil rights and boasts Coretta Scott King the institution alive. among its alumnae. Antioch College is in financial However, Antioch’s worldview could not be trouble. The 155 year-old school further from Cedarville’s. For example, what has been borrowing money from Cedarville calls “gender roles,” Antioch calls the profitable Antioch Universi “gender stereotypes.” During the university’s ty system it created in the 1970s recent “sex week” students were encouraged and 80s because recently the col to attend university-sanctioned parties while lege has failed to recruit enough pretending to be of the opposite gender. students or receive enough do nations to support itself. Cedars reporters observe that the students seem to be interested in Jesus, but for either This past June the Antioch Uni his historical context and cultural impact or versity Board of Trustees (UBT) his place as a pop culture icon. One student decided it would close its found Antioch College students chat after class tells us she has a rug depicting DaVinci’s The ing college after the 2007-2008 Last Supper on the floor of her dorm room. school year. The UBT hopes that a four-year have will leave, and we will lose the impor hiatus for building renovations and curricu fective December 31, 2007. On August 31, The college’s accreditation board has barred tant institutional memory of Antioch,” said however, Lawry suddenly ceased his post in lum redevelopment will attract more students Judith Wolert-Maldonada, a 2005 graduate the school from recruiting students until the unclear circumstances that have provoked and contributions. According to this plan, the of the college and a coordinator for Antioch- trustees decide to keep it open.