The Echo: October 4, 2013

TAYLOR UNIVERSITY Weekly Edition Taylor goes to Hollywood Page 6 Women’s soccer dominates the field Page 8 You are the voice. We are the Echo. Since 1913 1 Volume 101, Issue 6 Friday/Thursday, October 4 - October 10, 2013 TheEchoNews.com HEADLINES Political, religious TAYLOR OPENS Enactus overhaul for Italy Italy’s pope and parliament made controversial headlines this DOORS ON returns week. Read more on Page 3 After a year and half hiatus, Cam Glass: A CAMPUS CENTER Enactus is back in action lucky fame Hannah Haney PLANS News Co-Editor Enactus is back after a year and a half of inactivity. The organization reintroduced itself on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at its kick- off event in the Euler atrium. Enac- Cam Glass is only a freshman but already is well known on campus. Check out tus enticed students with free pizza, his journey to Vine famosity. Page 5 games and T-shirts for the first 50 attendees. It was an opportunity The Switchfoot for the organization to share with Experience Illustration by Design Collaborative students who they are and what A first look at the campus center they do. Fundraising begins “We are looking at having six op- Enactus, formerly known as SIFE for the LaRita R. Borne Plans are in place to relocate the tions for the new dining space, so it’s (Students In Free Enterprise), is a Campus Center tennis courts and campus police gonna be more of a food court per- worldwide, nonprofit organization headquarters, though a new spot has spective, and that doesn’t mean we that works to bring students and Hannah Haney not been decided at this point. are going to have six outside vendors business together to aid those in News Co-Editor Rediger Chapel will be refreshed coming in, but we are also not pre- need, according the Enactus website. as a result of the new building. The cluding outside vendors being a part The Taylor branch of Enactus has Claire Hadley seats—installed in 1972—will be re- of this,” Trudeau said. chosen “Make Your Mark” as their Contributor placed, and the stage, among other “I think the heart of the Taylor theme this year, basing it on Ephe- With new music and a new feature film, features, will be enhanced. An over- sians 1:3. alternative band Switchfoot rocked experience is the interaction Fort Wayne Wednesday night Page 6 When Nussbaum was completed in flow area with seating for 255 extra SIFE was a large presence on cam- the ’60s, university president Milo students is also part of the plan. that happens between faculty pus until 2011. The organization be- Cost of efficiency Rediger noted that, now that science “It could be used to show mov- and students, students and came inactive when the leader left Pluses and problems of a free was taken care of, it was time for a ies, smaller theatrical productions . students, staff and students” to start his own business. Coupled market. Learn about it on Page 7 campus center. smaller concerts and overflow for with other leadership and faculty Almost 50 years later, his dream for chapel,” said Skip Trudeau, Dean of The university is open to revisiting changes, the group became relative- Parents vs. Presence a new campus center is being realized Students. “We will have the ability to Taylor’s student meal plan, given that ly silent. Family has its place. But what happens all over again. televise it liv e .” the dining area in the campus center SIFE became Enactus in 2012 to when college, classes and community vie The new gathering place for stu- The first floor of the campus cen- will be about as big as the area in the reflect the organization’s focus on Page 7 for your attention? Read more on dents will be 50,000 square feet, ter will include the Campus Store, the DC. This would maintain the sense of their commitment to entrepreneur- almost three times the size of the cur- Calling and Career Office, the Office community at meals and abolish the ial opportunities. Enactus can be Women’s soccer gets rent Student Union. The center will of Intercultural Programs and the stigma that the Grille is just for up- broken down into three parts: “En” back on track be built around Rediger Chapel and Jumping Bean. In addition, the first perclassmen, according to Trudeau. for entrepreneurial, “Act” for action The women’s soccer club cruised to an easy 4-1 win on Wednesday behind a pair of will expand across the Chapel park- floor will include a dining area that and “Us” to represent the people in goals from junior Amanda Roden. Page 8 ing lot and the tennis courts. will seat 400. Taylor Continued on page 2 the organization. Junior David Hershberger is president of Enactus this year. Enactus will feature new projects this year as well. Shut down “We have a lot more technolo- WEEKEND WEATHER gy-based projects, and we’re also The U.S. federal government using not just business majors but Today closes “non-essential” different people from every major,” programs while waiting Hershberger said. 86° for Congress to pass One project coming this year is called TU Marketplace. TU Market- 66° federal funding budget place is a Taylor business run by students, according to senior Meghann Saturday Abigail Pollock Bowman. Students will be able to World/National Editor order basic products for a slight 85° markup in costs, and then an Enac- The U.S. federal government entered tus team will make a weekly run to 58° a partial shutdown on Oct. 1, 2013. Walmart and deliver the items di- Shutdowns have happened 17 pre- rectly to the dorms. TU Marketplace Sunday vious times in the history of the Unit- existed back in 2011 but died when ed States when Congress has failed to SIFE became inactive. 68° pass a federal budget. Enactus is also involved with an On Tuesday, the Republican-led organization called The Communi- 44° House sought to use the shutdown ty Cloth. as a bargaining chip to decrease fed- “It’s an organization that is a mi- eral spending: beginning with the Pa- Government shutdown takes affect cro-enterprise for refugee women in tient Protection and Affordable Care Houston, Texas,” Bowman said. “So Act. For President Barack Obama and government funding is not reached shutdown costs. National parks and these women will make scarves or the Democratic Senate, however, de- before this date, the U.S. would have museums closed. The Justice Depart- hats and all kinds of handicrafts and FOLLOW US funding health care reform is not ne- to default on its debt payments, ac- ment suspended civil cases. U.S. mili- then we’ll sell them. And then 100 gotiable, at least not on a large scale. cording to BBC. tary academies are unable to function, percent of the profit goes straight @TheEcho_Taylor Currently, there is talk from both “For the United States to default, it and if the shutdown lasts for more back to the women who made it .” @TheEcho_Sports sides on a “grand bargain” for a long- is unthinkable,” said Hadley Mitchell, than a couple of weeks, the Depart- Enactus is currently looking for term fiscal solution: but only after professor of economics. “If our coun- ment of Veteran Affairs will no longer people to get involved. Available Congress passes a federal budget that try defaults . the entire world expe- be able to pay disability claims and positions include project man- does not cut funding for Obamacare, riences an economic downturn. So pension payments, according to the agers and volunteers. All majors according to Politico. we either request to raise the limit Washington Post. are welcome. Facebook.com/ Stephen King, head of Taylor’s Po- on our loans, we pay down our debt The cost of furloughing 800,000 Although Enactus isn’t officially a TaylorUniversityEcho litical Science Department, pointed or we stop spending.” federal employees, from food and pes- Christian organization, it aligns with out that the impasse over Obamacare The U.S. is the only nation in the ticide regulators to NASA engineers, Taylor’s missions and values. Their funding is a microcosm of the con- world to engage in government shut- is $12.5 million an hour, according to mission statement of empowering tinued fiscal struggle between those downs as a political tool, as the rest of NBC. others through entrepreneurship who want to cut spending and those the world looks on in concern—and “No government worth its salt . can be used to make the world a bet- who want to raise revenue for govern- sometimes amusement. can afford to waste taxpayers’ money ter place, according to Bowman. CONTENTS ment funding. “Constant-shutdown, perma- in this manner. But our government Hershberger agrees. “The politicians know what they nent-emergency governance is so seems to think otherwise. The powers “It’s a great way to give back us- have to do. But they don’t have the destructive that no other serious that be are throwing political punch- ing the gifts that God has given you News .........................Pg 1, Pg 2 fortitude to make the necessary country engages in or could toler- es right and left, and unfortunately and just making things sustainable.” World & National ........ Pg 3 changes in fiscal policy,” King said. ate it,” said political analyst James the American people are caught in Hershberger said. “This is about Life & Times ........Pg 4, Pg 5 However, lawmakers do not have Fallows in The Atlantic. “The United the middle,” said Stephen King, pro- sustainability.

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