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Cedars. 73. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedars/73 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Footer Logo 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]. You thought the Olympics were heated and WWinterinter OOlympicslympics iinn TTorino,orino, IItalytaly grueling, just wait till you read our letters to the Editor. — See Center Spread UUSA!SA! UUSA!SA! The Student Newspaper of Cedarville Universityrsity THURSDAYAY,,F FEBRUARYY 23,2 , 20062 CEDARS VOL. 54 ISS. 9 Weekend Weather Torino Arson Frightens Churchgoers Friday · Meghan Bates 41˚/33˚ Agent Eric Kehn, a spokesman for Games Domestic News Beat Partly Cloudy the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Joe Dugan · Firearms and Explosives, said, Provide News Editor Saturday “The initial forensic work is done. A fi re damaged an Etowah Now we are just working the 45/27˚ Suspense Rain/Snow County, Alabama church on Sun- scene, and it’s a big scene. We are · Geoff Peck · day, bringing the total number of out and about, in the community, Contributing Writer Sunday Alabama church fi res in the month pursuing leads. To date, we have of February to 12. over four hundred of them, and we 36/23˚ Light Snow Before the 2006 Win- Authorities have not yet estab- take them all seriously.” ter Olympic Games began, lished a defi nite link between the Witness accounts have pro- Features American eyes were fi xed on other 11 fi res and the incident at vided descriptions of two white M O fi gure skater Michelle Kwan, C Chatman’s Chapel, a small con- male suspects said to be in their . N G I Chapel: alpine skier Bode Miller, and S gregation of about 25 regular twenties or thirties. Authorities do E D 1 T I short track speed skater Apolo S worshippers. All of the vandalized not believe that racial issues were N Behind the A R Anton Ohno. T TRANSIT1DESIGN.COM churches were located in rural ar- a motive, noting that half of the af- Scenes Kwan seemed poised to The Winter Olympics are the pinnacle of cold weather sports. eas; with the exception of the Cha- fected churches were composed Ever wonder what it takes take aim for her fi rst Olym- pel, all were Baptist in affi liation. of mostly white congregations. to put on a 45 minute pic gold medal, but an injury American ice dancing partners the snow, costing her the gold Two hundred law enforcement Police and federal investigators worship service fi ve times sustained in warm-ups forced Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto medal. offi cials are working to determine continue to work together to halt per week? her to withdraw from what won silver, the fi rst medal the Returning to the ice, speed the cause behind the fi res. Special these acts of arson. —PAGE 2 will likely be her last winter United States has won for ice skater Shani Davis became games. Miller was expected dancing in thirty years. the fi rst African-American Bush Offers Energy Alternatives to medal in at least one of fi ve Lackluster on the slopes, male to win a gold medal in Showing events on the slopes but has Americans dominated the the Winter Olympics in the · Meghan Bates Bush said. the Love gone 0 for 4 so far. And Ohno, snowboarding events. Han- 1000m race. Teammate and Domestic News Beat Bush’s proposal includes re- who won gold and silver in nah Teeter and Gretchen Ble- rival Chad Hedrick fi nished and Joe Dugan · search for more effi cient batteries of Christ Salt Lake City, has settled for iler placed fi rst and second in fi rst in the 5000m event. And News Editor for hybrid cars, and investment to the Gay only a bronze thus far. the women’s half pipe event, while the American women’s President Bush outlined his in cleaner electric power sources. But while the superstars while Shaun White, “The Fly- hockey team was expected to most recent energy proposals on He also urged the importance of Community have failed to live up to their ing Tomato,” won the gold in vie for the gold medal against Monday in an effort to help re- developing cleaner biofuels, in- high expectations, several rel- the men’s competition. Canada, they settled for the duce America’s dependency on cluding “cellulosic,” an ethanol Even if we don’t agree atively unknown athletes have Seth Wescott eluded his bronze in a 4-0 victory over foreign oil. produced from wood chips. with their lifestyle, stepped up to take their places. fellow competitors to become Finland. Oil is commonly viewed as According to Bush, “We’re on shouldn’t we still be loving Emily Hughes, the younger the fi rst snowboard cross The Olympics would not one of America’s most valuable the edge of some amazing break- our neighbors? sister of Olympic gold med- champion in Olympic history. be complete without those resources. Sixty percent of U.S. throughs—breakthroughs all alist Sarah Hughes, will take His teammate on the women’s stories that tug at your heart crude oil currently comes from aimed at enhancing our national —PAGE 10 Kwan’s place on the ice as side, Lindsey Jacobellis, en- strings. Alpine skier Lindsey foreign countries. This “creates a security and our economic secu- many wonder if she can repeat joyed a comfortable lead in her Kildow suffered a severe crash national security issue, and we’re rity and the quality of life of the her sister’s magic of four years race. But on the second-to-last during a training run, leaving held hostage for energy by for- folks who live here in the United ago. jump, a premature celebration eign nations that may not like us,” States.” Wicca: A CONTINUED ON Elsewhere on the ice, trick left her tumbling onto PAGE 3 Christian CSPI Fights Against Obesity Response · Meghan Bates Think they got off easy last Local Hikers Flock to “The Gorge” Domestic News Beat ineffective. Richard Daynard, a issue? Our A&E Editor and Joe Dugan · law professor at Northeastern sets the record straight. · Ryan Simmons · 128 varieties of wildfl owers, sight of murky brown wa- News Editor University, said: “Selling sugared Local Beat —PAGE 12 and the endangered White ter fl owing through Massie The Center for Science in the soft drinks in schools is a good Arborvitae trees. It has often Creek. The Waste Treat- Public Interest (CSPI) has en- example. Asking them nicely Nature lovers praise the been a retreat for Cedarville ment Facility that sat above tered into talks with Nickelodeon to stop hasn’t worked. Only the Cedarville Gorge for its sce- residents and University stu- the creek less than 100 yards and Kellogg about the way they threat of litigation, which threat- Two Indoor nic views and its long wind- dents alike. In October 2002 from the gorge could no lon- advertise products to children. ens their […] bottom line, really Champs? ing paths that follow rocky it gained a new reputation as ger handle the job of keeping According to recent report gets their attention.” trails beneath giant over- the center of an environmen- the village’s water clean. fi ndings, 60 percent of U.S. Nevertheless, CSPI execu- Finally, someone besides hanging cliffs. The Gorge tal crisis. “The facility that had adults are overweight or obese, as tive director Michael Jacobson the Debate Team is is also home to one of only Hikers to the gorge in problems was built in the are nearly 13 percent of children. believes that these talks are es- bringing home the big win. fi ve Adena Indian mounds 2002 were greeted with the These startling statistics have mo- sential. “The industry has had CONTINUED ON —PAGE 14 in the entire state of Ohio, smell of raw sewage and the tivated the CSPI to communicate decades to clean it up its act, but PAGE 4 their concerns with nonchalant instead it has only intensifi ed its advertising practices. marketing,” he said. “Nickelode- Cedar Faces 2006 Staley Lecture Series: Dr. Darrel Bock Some analysts disagree with on and Kellogg engage in busi- Brian Clawson(12), and the CSPI’s strategy, noting that ness practices that literally sicken Sandra Wayde (12) · Nate Washatka · such moves have historically been our children.” Staff Writer Entertainment tions and a Jewish Lens.” articles on Luke and Acts. darville graduates at Dallas teresting perspective from a ·Mockingbird // Dr. Darrel Bock, re- “A lot of people wrestle His work has appeared in [Theological Seminary], well-known speaker.” Others Derek Webb nowned New Testament with how to present Jesus in Christianity Today, The Los and they were very well pre- disagreed.