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IheStudentA*perHogbton OAge Volume 105, Issue 8 November 7,2008 Committee on Spiritual Life Reviewing Chapel Policy Victory for Obama: Election Overview corporate gathering are expressions chapel services each semester. By Katarina Kieffer of this identity We desire these Administrator Brian Webb has By Joel VanderWeele conducted research for the CSI. The issue of Chapel attendance gatherings to reflect the varied that compares Houghton's policy Culminating one of the most - addressed by President Mullen composition and needs of our with three groups of colleges: exciting U.S. presidential races in her most recent chapel - is one community of faith and academic "cross-application" schools that in living memory, Democratic often debated and even protested at Houghton's prospectives also candidate Senator Barack Obama Houghton College. Many students The Committee on Spiritual consider; schools that are similar defeated Republican candidate over the years have attended Life (CSL) is currently reviewing but refused to scan, and last fall the mission statement and the rest to Houghton, like Gordon. and Senator John NicCain by a wide the four other Wesleyan colleges. margin on Tuesda> night, recording members of the underground of the Chapel Policy. paying special Brittain said this research was an at least 350 electoral votes. student group"Viva la Revolucion" attention to how Houghton's and attempt to examine more closely Democrats also registered large went so far as to steal the chapel requirements disciplinary the oft-made student claim that gains in Coneress, adding at least scanning equipment. measures match up with similar fifteen seats in the House and as Senior Daniel Giles, a schools. Houghton's policy is "the most draconian school...that our chapel many as nine seats in the Senate. Humanities major who served as John Brittain, Dean of Chapel, requirement is much more severe When the Star went to press, an RA in Shenawana last year, has noted that the current mission however, it appeared that Democrats, refused to scan into chapel for the statementwasformedapproximately than any other school." would add onlv seven Senate scats, last two semesters. five years ago. "I think that's a Webb found that Houghton's policy is actually one of the least and fail to reach 60 seats. "It's not about chapel," Giles snapshot of that committee, that Election night in 2()08 lacked insisted of his choice not to scan. year, and those students," Brittain restrictive when compared with other "dashboard" schools like much of the suspense of the 200() "I really do like chapel, I still go. said. "It's something we should Roberts Wesleyan, Wheaton and and 20(14 election evenings. Before It' s the way that it is often enforced, look at every four to five years, and Cedarville that also have required 10 p.m.. all of the major media the way they handle it- it seems to my guess is that the concerns will .weekly chapels Houghton requires networks had called a number of hurt the community" be different [for this generation of students to attend 67% of services, toss-up states for Sen. Obania. As Community is one of the students]" while the average for the eight soon as polls closed on the West foundational aspects of Houghton's At Houghton, the method for comparison schools is 79.3%. The Coast at 11 p.m. EST, Sen. Obama Chapel policy As stated in the ensuring that these "corporate other schools' chapels are longer, had already accumulated enough current Chapel Mission Statement, gatherings" are attended by the as well, with an average of 52.5 electoral votes to reach 270, and "The purpose of chapel is to affirm majority of the community is to minutes, compared to Houghton's media networks declared that he our corporate identity as part of the require full-time students to scan could claim the presidencj: Sen larger body of Christ. Our times of in to or out of at least two-thirds of • Chapel continued On page 3 j kCain called Sen. Obama shortly after 11 p.m. to congratulate him. What the evening lacked in Scheduling Difficulties Complicate Meal Times drama, however, was made up for in the lunch hour as a brief lime at least retrieve food to eat in class). by the historic significance of Sen. By Cecily Hardy of rest before leaping back into Some students feel that this group Obama's victory The first African- American to ever be elected It goes without saying that, classes. The scheduling change has of students is only doing what they President, Sen. Obama's election in any given semester, students eliminated a lot of class overlap, feel they must, while others find it marks an important milestone in will encounter scheduling issues, which was the intent, but it has also to be tremendously disrespectful. the history of I.S. civil rights. whetheritbedealingwithconflicting eliminated students' brief lunchtime Whatever the opinion though, the Sen. Obama delivered his victory courses when scheduling their respite, and the inconveniences it fact remains that it happens, and speech to a raucous crowd of semester in the first place, or making has caused seem more troubling. if it is to be prevented, some sort 125,000 crammed into (}rant Park room for extracurricular activities Students with both twelve o'clock of incentive may be necessan in Chicago. Illinois. and he traced once the semester has gotten into and one o'clock classes have been Students are not the only ones this semestefs the life experiences of an 106-year- full swing. No one, however, has given the option of pre-ordering confused by old woman from Atlanta. Georgia needed to worry about squeezing a sack lunch. Sack lunches cost schedule. Many facult> members to illustrate how far .America has in a meal -- until this semester Pioneer a lot in time and labor, as have been inconvenienced b> the progressed in the last century. With classes booked through they have to provide normallunchas change as well. "I don't understand "America, we have come so far," he the lunch hour, some students well as fifty to seventy sack lunches why the daily schedule was changed declared. -We have seen so much. struggle to find time for a midday per day, as opposed to the ten or for this year, given that it's going to But there is so much more to do.- meal, sometimes even resorting twelve per da) last )'ear. "We' ve have to change again next year when three-hour classes are eliminated.- -It there is an>one out there to leaving chapel early in order to tried to do everything we could to said Philosoph> Professor Chris u ho still doubts that America is a run to the cafeteria, grab lunch, and make it as palatable as 9,5 si bl 0,, ' place u here :ill things are possible. run to class. While some see the said Food denice I)irector, Fred Stewart, who has had to linagle se; cral of his classics to lit with who still nonder,i if the dream 4,1 scheduling change as a necessan Libick, -but it is a sack lunch. the new schedule The schedule our founders ts .iliu' in our lime, evil while Houghton transitions to a Students with classes through has als,o limited students' abilin k, w ho still questionh the poner 01 four-credit academic s> stem, others. their lunch hour also have the our denic,cr.ic>." he n r>l> .idded. see it as an unnecess:in nuisance. option of going to lunch early. This, participate in lunchtime 1.Inguage hon ever, has caused some Nludenls tables - which. 48>. I..inguage "The only thing that keeps me profeshor Nan I luhsen, "are intrmw. 1-roni complaining loudly- and to chronically [cave chapel earh then- tradilional ch:int of '-Ye. Hc 1-urcefully is the fact that 1 enjob m> There :irc several o],lilionh ainong to the language progr.ini here other than a trill." She .ilse} mcillic,lied tivelve o'clock class, said I=iura the student bod> about the students Jackson. Man) students have, who feel melined w Icave chapel • Schedule continued on p(iKe 2 • 1':lectic) 11 c,Ititimied on pitge 2 in past seniesters. taken reluge carli in order to eat before cluss (or Inside R-Rated Christian From the Editor's Desk: Artist of the Week: Kaylie Sauter this Film to Debut Operation Christmas Child 1ssue... - - Page 7 Page 8 THE HOUGHTON STAR NOVEMBER 7,2008 • Schedule continued from page I semester may have problems next THE WORLD that this year's schedule "has had semester. "If things remain the a limiting effect on the Faculty way they are. I will be unable to Forum,-a weekly faculty lunch for complete my minor because the last research presentations. "To me. the class 1 need for it overlaps every By Joel VanderWeele rockets into Israel, injuring three Facult> Forum is one of the great science lab that's offered. As a Israeli soldiers and destroying a perks of working here.- Hussey Biology major, doing without labs Controversial Ballot Measures: nearby home. Despite the worst said. -But w·ith the new afternoon for an entire semester is simply Gay Marriage Out, Abortion In violence since a cease-fire was schedule. we either have to cut back not an option." said Bretta Hixson. agreed upon in June, IDF claims on socializing. or leave before the a Biology major and a student As well as voting on who will to remain committed to the peace presenter has finished." representative on the CRC. She, and other students like represent them in Washington agreement.