Willard J. Houghton Library SPORTS Periodicals DepartmentENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CAMPUS? As vou niav alreaclv know, the SG.\ has been working on 7 e making our college more en\-11'onmentally fiiencilv. This week's Pc,LaRiS asked students. iliculty, ancl stall- what they thought about this issue. SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTION PoLaRiS0 December 6,2006 Volume 102 Issue 6 D THE HOUGHTON STAR il f music be the food of love, Pia On! Clara Giebel, staff writer Pantry and Wellspnng Ministries. Originally, these six had thought to Sometimes little class assign- support arts education for children ments can grow into gigantic projects in western NY, but as they continued that involve the whole school and planning, it became clear that nearest demonstrate our greatest purpose in to their hearts was helping people in life. Such was the case with six first their immediate vicinity. When Clara year music majors who were given Sanders and Alyson Shipman went to the assignment in their Music and the the Info Center to discuss various local Christian Perspective (MCP) class ministries with Kathie Brenneman, to plan and perform a service project they were touched to the core to hear involving themselves and their music. of children in Allegany county crying While many students fulfill this assign- in their hunger and were motivated to ment by helping with chapel services, aid the ministries in this area that are and playing and singing for the elderly working to meet these needs. Well- who live at the Waters nursing home, spring Ministries shares the gospel Clara Sanders, Emily Stuart, Dan Law- with those in Allegany County using son, Ruth Kenote, Jewel Buckwalter, words and actions. They operate a and Alyson Shipman stepped off of the soup kitchen, provide food and cloth- o beaten track to use music in a way that ing to needy families, and plan on would get the whole campus united in opening an area of temporary shelter service. for the poor and homeless, hoping in Out of this idea sprung "Play time to reintegrate the homeless into On!," a benefit concert supporting -continued on pg 3, PLAY The Play On! emblem above, drawn by Alyson Shipman, represents the power the Houghton Wesleyan Church Food of all different kinds of music to bring people together and to work for change in the world. The 2nd Annual Rothenbueler Treasure Hunt: The Hunt for Amazon Danie\White, sta#writer the real grand prize, regrettably not tition "mind boggling," as Dutton put [was] not easy, but we got it done the million dollar grant but rather a it. "We wanted to make sure that all of eventually. Turns out that people were The second annual Rothen- one-hundred dollar gift certificate to the answers were ones that couldn't be just skipping over plot points to get to bueler treasure hunt was full of Amazon.com. found by just typing key words in at the next clue though. Oh well, at least surprises. Teams met together on a This year's hunt was organized Google and seeing it in the first·«search they were excited." dark and stormy Saturday night in by the Rothenbueler dorm council led result. I don't think any of them were Johnathan Reilly, Erik John- Schaller Hall to be briefed by the new by President Jimmy Dutton, Vice Pres- like that; some answers were found son, Andrew Lundeen. and Andrew. professor of Enigmatology at Hough- ident Michael Biele, and Roth Resi- on Google, but with much difficulty." Gent of Team "Cakebutt" certainly ton, Dr. Tobias Hunt. Unfortunately dent Director Gabe Jacobsen. Jacobsen Because Biele and Jacobsen had big were excited as they were the winners Dr. Hunt was detained, and Houghton says of Biele, "He's actually the one plans for this year's hunt, the organiz- of this year's competition. Just as any security guard, Ray Parlett delivered a that thought of and orchestrated the ers also tapped professors to create true team would do, Cakebutt decided pre-recorded message in his place. In faculty clues. He was also the one who nearly impossible complex questions that instead of divvying up the hun- the message the teams were told of a really had the inspiration to make it big that could realistically be solved with dred dollars amongst the four winners sinister mystery surrounding the early (I had hoped it would get to this point outside help. they would spread the glory around to years of Houghton College. According some day, but he was the one who took Dutton relayed that one of the their home floor, the first floor of Roth. to Hunt, a shadowy woman known as it and ran with it) and put together all longest tasks to finalize in preparation "We all decided that this victory was Veronica Amazon, a supposed resident of our website stuff...all that to say, was the storyline of Veronica Ama- more important to the entire floor than of Houghton, stole a valuable million without him, none of this would even zon and Dr. Tobias Hunt. "We knew to just the four of us. We decided that dollar grant intended for the school. have come close to what it was.- from the start that a storyline would because it was a floor effort, we would Dr. Hunt was at present hot on her According to Dutton, prepara- improve the progress of the hunt. Who buy four or five DVD's and hang out trail but desperately in need of help. tions for the hunt began over a month knows how many people got this, but as a floor and watch them. We'd let the His video message asked the teams to and a half before it actually took place. the 'Amazon' from 'Veronica Amazon' original members take a DVD home search around the Houghton campus A major difference from last year's was based off of the prize from Ama-. and have some kind of competition for to help him track down Amazon and event was the time it took for par- zon:com." The entire dorm council -' the fifth DVD so someone could win recover the stolen money. ticipants to complete the clues. While imagined this scenario into existence it," says Reilly, RA of First Roth. Armed with a starter page of the 2005 hunt was much smaller and in order to boost the sense of urgency Although not every team cryptic clues, teams of four ventured shorter, this year the dorm council and excitement for the competitors. -continued on pg 3, ROTH out into the damp night in search of worked very hard to make the compe- Dutton, lying the clues together 2 EDITORIALS Revenge of the Anabaptist? A response to Richara Mouw's lecture And I think the former wa, Call me perverse. but I happen to think Dr. Meic Pearse. ./aculn· H·riter ing the state in this or any other way. Similarly. he reflected how grateful apostate. Mouw gave us lots of cuddl> it a good thing they failed. Because Prof. Richard Mouw certainly he was for the U.S. police who keep quotes from Calvin's piety (Augustine that's not what Christianity is. And even Mouw can see that, raised some important issues during order. the health and education work- gets the same kid-glove treatment: his evening lecture in the Wesley Cha- ers who looked after his children when we stick to his Confessions). But try too. really. I agree with him complete- ly that, when we want to argue against pei on Thursday, Nov. 16th. He began they were small, the legislators who this one: "I shall never permit him to by telling us that he commenced his keep the roads safe, etc.. All of these depart alive. if my authority counts for legalized abortion. it's best not to fall back on Bible verses to do so. But Cal- student days at Houghton as a com- services, apparently, would be rejected anything." And, as we know, the her- vin and the Boston Puritans would've mitted Calvinist. and left as one. I can as 'Constantinian' by Anabaptists. etic Michael Servdtus did not depart identify with that: I went to his lecture Really? Well. the Amish might alive. banged us both into jail for our godless a theological Anabaptist - and left as do so, I guess. And granted, as a non- This is no mere cheap shot. approach. one. pacifist Anabaptist, I'm a bit of an All of the Protestant Reformers - and And when, deep into injury But Mouw really did try. Ac- odd-ball at the other end of the spec- the Catholic and Orthodox authorities time, Mouw started arguing for human cording to him, Anabaptists encourage trum. But I doubt most Anabaptists - took the same view about killing rights, his Reformed heroes wouldn't disengagement from the wider culture: would refuse to work as schoolteach- heretics. But that's my point. Calvin's even have known what he meant by contrast. his own, Reformed tradi- ers, nurses or public officials (even remark was not an aberration or a - far less have agreed with him. At tion is. in Niebuhr's phrase, "cul- if they would be wary about joining one-off; it was the central meaning of this point, even I'm a better Calvinist ture-transforming". This phase of the the police because of the need to use his theological system. It was a blue- than Mouw! lecture (Anabaptist, bad: Reformed, firearms). Indeed, Pilgram Marpek, the print for running society-as-a-whole To be fair to Mouw, at least a good) took up the first 25 minutes or best sixteenth-century Anabaptist theo- - hence all those dodgy hermeneutics number of those who claim to speak so.