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Scholars Crossing 2005 -- 2006 Liberty University School Newspaper Spring 3-7-2006 03-07-06 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 23, Issue 17) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_05_06 Recommended Citation "03-07-06 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 23, Issue 17)" (2006). 2005 -- 2006. 16. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_05_06/16 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Liberty University School Newspaper at Scholars Crossing. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2005 -- 2006 by an authorized administrator of Scholars Crossing. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Liberty MARCH 7, 2006 SERVING LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOR 23 YEARS VOL. 23, NO. 17 •••on onovo ion Warming Up Missions Trips Global temperatures warrant Liberty groups serve world preventative measures. A4 wide for Spring Break. B5 Korean fencing club aims and scores high at LU By Hilary Dyer a Korean adaptation of Japanese Kendo and would occasionally and is now the Kumdo master. NEWS REPORTER Kendo. According to the British bring his armor into class to He leads a group of 20 students It's Saturday afternoon at Kendo Association, Kendo show his students. Word spread, who practice Kumdo in the Liberty University. A few stu means "way of the sword" and a and Melton decided it was time Schilling Center two to three dents walk into the Schilling discipline based upon the tech to start a club on campus. An times a week. Center to shoot some hoops. niques of eighth century announcement was posted on the Six of the 20 are preparing for They stop in their tracks. It Japanese warriors. It was intro Liberty Web site. their first competition. It will appears that the gym has been duced to Korea during the That's how Liberty University take place on March 25 at the taken over by Samurais. Six fig Japanese occupation. senior Min Kang became World Kumdo Association ures donned in hakamas, wield Kumdo found its way to involved. Kang has been practic Midwest Championships in ing swords and shouting, Liberty University during the fall ing Kumdo for 15 years and was Chicago. "Muhri! Sommok! Huhri!" are semester of 2005. Dr. Brian on the Junior National Team in gathered on the basketball court. Melton, a history professor at the Korea. He holds a third degree Please see KUMDO, page A3 It is Kumdo practice. Kumdo is university, was involved in black belt. Kang joined Melton ADAM BISHOP ROUND ONE — The dub hopes to win at championships. Military Steve Saint chaplain brings shares Amazon tribe to life stories By Kari Mitchell NEWS REPORTER By Kari Mitchell NEWS REPORTER Steve Saint, 5 at the time, Military chaplaincy was remembers watching his the emphasis of the March 3 father fly into the jungles of Seminary Ignite. Chaplain the Amazon every day, he Col. Richard Hum, the 1 Executive convoca- Director of t i o n . H e the Armed remembers Forces one day in Chaplaincy particular, Board, the day his shared a dad did not message come back. about its His mother impor- ADAM BISHOP LICENSE AND REGISTRATION, PLEASE — While patrolling campus and surrounding areas, Officer Josh Dryden stops a vehicle on Wards Road. had told SAINT HUM *a n ce • him that his Everyone father had made contact with likes to see a chaplain before an Amazonian tribe, the a life-threatening experi Behind the scenes with LUPD Waodani Indians. ence," said Hum. Since the Saint's father never Revolutionary War, chap returned to his family. HisJ ByJoanne Tang Wards Road and both 460 routes to Those lights come to life, and follow the lains have provided soldiers father, Nate Saint, was ASST. NEWS EDITOR ensure students are staying safe by car down the ramp. Pulling over at the speared. "My whole universe on the battlefield and in obeying the speed limits and the traffic Sandrof auto body workshop at the remote locations with the revolved around my dad," he The sun is shining bright, the birds laws set in place. He also answers any base of the slope, the driver was ready said. Saint's dad and four : freedom of religion. The are chirping with all the energy they calls put through by dispatch and will with his registration and license when First Amendment is what other missionaries gave their can muster and the weather lacks the investigate if he is in the area. Tuttle got out. lives for the Waodani. allows the military to pro usual nip of winter chill. What better Driving past the dining hall, Tuttie "It's great when they already know vide this service to its sol Even after the loss of these day for Cpl. Aaron Turtle to catch parks at the back of the parking lot and what they've done," Tuttle said, with a missionaries, Saint's family diers today. speeders and stop sign malcontents? At waits. The Wards Road ramp intersect laugh.;., Hum shared the story of continued praying for and 4 p.m. Friday, March 3, Tuttle begins ing the train tracks is a busy place for Heading back to Vfiain campus, Tuttle ministering to the Waodani four men who personified his patrol, his dark blue car a familiar drivers who are getting to Sonic or watches a group of pedestrians cross the ideals of chaplaincy: people. His Aunt Rachel was sight for many students as they walk down to Wards Road. It is equally as the road from the bottom of the hill invited to live with the tribe. Rev. George Fox, Rev. Clark around campus. busy for drivers coming onto campus or steps, presumably on their way to the Poling, Father John His mother and his two sib Tuttle's job holds one central pur going towards the baseball field. As dining hall for dinner. lings moved to Quito, Washington and Rabbi Tuttle waits, a red Subaru flies through, "You know how they say pedestrians Alexander Goode. pose: to keep the peace. As part of the Ecuador, where they would second shift at LUPD, which runs from ignoring the stop sign completely. The have the right of way?" Tuttle said. visit Rachel and the 3 to 11 p.m., he drives around campus squad car engine rumbles to life, and Amazonian tribe during the Please see HUM, page A# and the surrounding areas such as the red sedan doesn't stand a chance. Please see LUPD, page A6 summer. _ Please see SAINT, page A3 Art expo shows students' true colors Liberty up for review Among the guests you may opment of a quality enhance By Jennifer Maxfield Students from all majors dis organizer Alise Chandler Gwynn Gardener, Joel Guelzo see on campus March 21 to ment plan (QEP). This plan NEWS REPORTER played a variety of artistic tal from student activities in the and Ryan Mix. 23, are members of the On- must center on "a carefully ent. Student Life office. Sarah Yates, a psychology Site Review Team from the designed and focused course The LaHaye Student Center "We love art... this was an The Drowsy Poet provided major in her junior year, Commission on Colleges of of action that addresses a hosted the first art expo of its event to bring artists (at coffee and refreshments, entered several paintings. the Southern Association of well-defined issue or issues kind Friday, March 3. Liberty) together," said lending a very relaxing Yates even incorporated psy Colleges and Schools, which directly related to improving atmosphere to discuss the chological concepts into her reviews schools in its mem student learning." Various artwork. The art on display painting "Phenomenological bership every 10 years. This university committees have included photography, paint Me." year is Liberty's time to have been discussing the QEP ings, crafts, drawings, typog "My inspiration," comes its reaffirmation of accredi since the fall of 2004. raphy, mixed media and short from a love of "writing, music tation examined. The focus decided upon is films. Some of the artists and nature," said Yates. The committee will assess one of "enhancing the writ included Wing Sze Ng, Jenny Joanna Cannon, a graphic how well the university is ing skills in first-year gradu Adzima, Gregory Yates, Claire design major in her sopho meeting requirements in ate students through Ayendi, Cameron Daigle, more year, entered a mono such areas as financial increasing peer interaction Christy Hyde, Mabel Rose chromatic, acrylic painting of resources, academic pro and faculty to student inter Gwynn, Rebecca Fitch, Daniel her little brother. grams, faculty and library action," according to a press Lunde, Courtney Gravley, resources. release. Giselle Colbert, Erik Landin, At the core of the reaffir Si a IN FINKKI. Sarah Yates, Lindsey Foote, Please see ART EXPO, page A3 mation process is the devel Please see SACS, page A3 PAINT EXPRESSION — Student Emily Anspach contemplates student artwork. Page A2.THK LIBERTY CHAMPION MARCH 7, 2006 Creationist leaves legacy /f^fwwiiwqi*"' By Angela Franulovich Virginia Tech. From there he would serve as NKWS REPORTER president of the Creation Research Society, and later co-found Christian Heritage College, starring aaron bennett "The Christian faith is not founded on wish the. Institute for Creation Research and the Last week, you doubtlessly remember, I quite flashy enough. In other words, keep it ful thinking or blind acceptance of tradition, Trans-National Association of Christian began gracefully disseminating ground going. but rather on a tremendous body of real, objec Schools. breaking tips on the art of perfecting hilar Other person: "How are you?" tive evidence," wrote Dr. Henry M. Morris in Throughout his life, he wrote more than ity.