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Cedars. 26. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedars/26 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]. The Student News Publication of Cedarville University December 2012 Christmas Around The World MKs and international students celebrate holidays both similarly, differently Also inside ... Chuck retires; Campus bike theft; Basketball players who transferred; Reviews T ble of Contents December 2012 Vol. 65, No. 5 Just Sayin’ ... Page 3 The Word Became Flesh December Calendar t’s Christmas time gin named Mary and slept his first night in our Pages 4-5 once again. Strands world as a human in a manger. Angels truly did Bike Theft a Real Threat on Campus of a million lights are appear to a group of shepherds to tell them the Page 6 I hung around the houses; Messiah had been born. Wise men who studied Farewell, Chuck evergreen trees find their the stars traveled a long distance with a most Page 7 way into our living rooms; unusual star as their guide, eventually leading In Court: The Next Four Years shoppers spend hours them to the place where the Savior was. These Page 9 searching for the perfect were all real people, not simply characters in a Bell Ringing Continues Despite Challenges gifts; radios blast holiday story, and their experiences are far more than Pages 10-11 tunes for an entire month a seasonal tale. Becca Powlus ad nauseam; and children Christ’s miraculous birth is only the begin- A Global Christmas behave their best in hopes ning of a grander story planned by God. Jesus Pages 12-13 of receiving gifts from the jolly old St. Nick. As was born into our world, grew up in our world Professional or Personal? Facebook and wonderful as all those things are, they pale in and died in our world. He knew there was no Professors comparison to the ultimate reason to celebrate better way to reach the people he loves than to Page 15 Christmas. become one of them. And although Jesus was Basketball Players Find New Home at To those who don’t know Christ, it might just like us, he was so different from us. He Cedarville seem strange that we Christians find such joy didn’t just die in our world; he rose again from Page 16 and place such hope in an infant born 2,000 the dead. The entire mission of Christ defies years ago. Whether or not Christ was actually what we would consider limits of possibility. TV Review: ‘Hart of Dixie’ born during this time of year, the point is that Author Peter Larson writes: “Despite our Music Review: Lindenbrook’s ‘Grit Your he came and that is the reason we celebrate. efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life Teeth’ We celebrate his birth because of everything it of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: Page 17 indicates. ‘a virgin’s womb and an empty tomb.’ Jesus Movie Review: ‘Lincoln’ Without Christ becoming flesh, becoming entered our world through a door marked ‘No Page 18 one of us, we would still be bound to ritualis- Entrance’ and left through a door marked ‘No Movie Review: ‘Breaking Dawn Pt. 2’ tic and burdensome laws. Christ was born for Exit.’” Movie Review: ‘Skyfall’ a singular purpose – to set us free. He came to I am proud to serve a God who delights in Page 19 set us free from death, sin and hopelessness. doing the impossible. This Christmas season God could have easily redeemed humanity in take a moment away from the hustle and bus- Opinion: Battle for CHRISTmas is Misled a different, perhaps easier, way. But he chose tle, put away any and all cliché sentiments and to send his Son to earth, to be born as a help- truly ponder the implications of our Savior’s less infant and to be raised by the people he birth. Dwell on the crazy truth that the mighti- would one day die to save. It’s miraculous, and est being, the Creator of all, humbled himself, Holly McClellan it’s mind-blowing. gave up everything he had to live among us in Managing Editor The whole story of the nativity is won- a sin-stained world and offered his perfect life derful and whimsical, but it’s more than just as the recompense for our treacheries. That is Zack Anderson a great story. Everything really happened as love, and that is why Christmas is worth cel- Assistant Managing Editor the scriptures record. Jesus was born of a vir- ebrating. National/International Editor Becca Powlus Arts and Entertainment Editor Watch for a new issue of Madison Troyer Campus News Print Editor Cedars every month. Crystal Goodremote Campus News Online Editor Jesse Silk Newsstands are located on Sports Editor Kate Norman, Lauren Eissler Copy Editors the upper and lower levels Jenni Hodges Design Director of the SSC. Radleigh Wakefield Cover and Infographics Kristen Craig, Jillian Philyaw, Kaleigh Shonk For more news, go to Designers ReadCedars.com Jeff Gilbert Faculty Adviser 2 December 2012 CALENDAR December 2012 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - Student Farewell for - General Recital - Jazz Band Concert - Christmas Chapel - Women’s Basketball Chuck McKinney vs. Indianapolis - Encounter: Night of - Men’s Basketball Worship vs. Ohio Christian 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 - The Last Laugh with - Women’s Basketball DTR vs. Mount Vernon Nazarene ----------------------------------------------------------- Final Exams (No Chapel) --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christmas Break ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 31 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, December 8th Saturday, December 8th December 2012 3 CAMPUS NEWS Bike Theft a Real Threat on Campus by Crystal Goodremote that were unlocked. It’s their fault if they were their bike where it had just been thrown down unlocked anyways because they should lock and smashed,” Chisholm said. ike thefts at Cedarville have been an them.” Junior student Stephanie Swanson said increasing problem throughout the last Unlocked, nice bikes are what serious per- that is what happened to her bike. Bthree to four years. Douglas Chisholm, petrators look for as well. At least that’s what “Last year my bike went missing. I could the director of Campus Safety, said it is impor- one perpetrator did last year. not find it for about a week, and then one day I tant to invest in a bike lock if you plan to ride a Last year, junior Nathan Paddock said was walking out of the upper SSC, and I see my bike on campus. that he found a nice mountain bike on classi- bike, and the lock is still on it. Someone had Most of the time, Chisholm said that these fieds for $4o. taken my bike with the lock on it. They obvi- bike thefts occur from what he calls “joyrid- Paddock replied to the ad and agreed to ously tried to pedal with it because the lock ers.” He said he estimates that joyriding ac- meet the guy selling the bike in the Apple park- was all gridded down, and you could tell that counts for 75 to 80 percent of the bike thefts ing lot. someone had tried to bike with it.” that occurr on campus. “He didn’t want to meet on campus at Swanson said that although she did lock However, students often think that their first. Then he was like, ‘We’ll meet in the Apple her bike, she locked it within itself instead of bike will be safe because they are on a Chris- parking lot, and I’ll let you drive it around and to a fixed object. tian campus. stuff,’” Paddock said. “I lock it all the time now, and I like to lock “Basically everyone was telling me to get “It was a great bike, so I paid him 40 it to a fixed object like a bike rack or a railing a lock and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’ll get around bucks.” of some sort,” Swanson said. “I’ve realized that to it,’” Olivia Harvey, a junior student, said. “I The next day, Paddock said that he rode people will take your bike if you do not lock it, just delayed getting one, but I was like, ‘Well the bike to ROTC training and his friend, even if it is for a brief 10 minute time period. it’s a Christian campus, no one’s going to steal whose bike had just been stolen, said, “Pad- “It is disappointing. You can’t trust peo- my bike.’ Little did I know, people do steal all dock, that’s my bike.” ple.