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INSIDE Th e Hound of the Check, Please Review: Photostory: Decorating your THIS ISSUE: Baskervilles, p. 3 Lemongrass, p. 4 residence hall room, p. 5 Vol. 26 No. 6 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012 www.collegianonline.com Bob Jones University Greenville, SC • 29614 By: JESSICA KANE when a speaker really con- Staff Writer nects with the students and Monday kicks off BJU’s encourages them to at least Missions annual Missions Emphasis think about how they could Week, which continues until use what God has gifted Emphasis Thursday. This year’s theme them with to serve in mis- centers on Romans 15:8-9: sions,” Mr. Vowels said. Week to “That All People Might Glo- The primary way the rify God for His Mercy.” University informs students highlight Mr. Mark Vowels, head of about missions is through missions at BJU, has served the guest speakers in chapel. as the overseer of Missions This year’s speaker will be local, global Emphasis Week since he Dr. Philip Hunt, president of came to BJU in 2000. Prior Central Africa Baptist Col- organizations to his arrival, Mr. Vowels lege and assistant director of planted a Spanish-speaking Independent Baptist Mission church in Tampa, Fla., and (IBM) Global, a missions led its congregation for 10 agency. years. He was also involved Along with the messages in short-term missions work in chapel, nearly 150 mission in Cuba. board representatives will be “For me, the best part is Students speak to a missions representative during last year’s Missions Emphasis Week. Photo: Photo Services See MISSIONS p. 8 » start an IV, administer drugs For nursing or perform CPR if neces- sary—things they would not be able to do at the hospital students, in the case of a serious medi- cal emergency. In addition, one of the faculty members SimMan plays the role of the doctor, so students get input just like they would in a real-life mimics real- setting. The simulations help teachers structure classes to life patient ensure students experience as many situations as possible. “There’s no way that a simula- By: ERIN KIMBRO tion lab can ever replace what Staff Writer act process again, fine-tuning students do in the hospital, your reactions. Imagine the but the SimLab is a big help,” Imagine that you are a patient was not real and this Mrs. Haertlein said. senior nursing student. You’ve experience was a simulation. Students practice emergency medical procedures on SimMan, which simulates real symptoms. Photo: Stephanie Greenwood Kati Flannagin, a senior spent more than three years of Crazy? No—reality. nursing student, said that long hours attending classes, This past July brought medical procedures all the between the classroom and can assess the simulator the working in the labs helps her studying, taking tests and do- the newest addition to the time, but the difference the hospital. “Mistakes you same way they can assess a to apply what she’s learned in ing detailed labs, and now the University’s nursing depart- between this mannequin and can’t let a student make in person,” Mrs. Haertlein said. class to what she actually has patient in front of you is going ment: a high fidelity patient others lies in its ability to the hospital, you can let them The simulated labs are to do in working with a pa- into cardiac arrest. The moni- simulator. This patient respond to treatment. make in the SimLab,” she also more interactive than tient. “If something happens, tor beside you is screaming, simulator (called SimMan) is Nursing faculty running said. “In the hospital when clinicals, according to Mrs. you don’t have to panic,” she and the doctor’s instructions a life-sized model of a human the simulation can control they’re dealing with a live Haertlein. “With the SimLab, said. “All the alarms start seem like they’re in Greek. patient that, when used in blood pressure, heart rate person, you can’t let them the students have an opportu- going off, but you can calmly You begin CPR, but the conjunction with a computer and respiratory functions to make the mistake because nity to interact and to actually assess the situation and figure patient doesn’t respond. You program, will simulate the mimic situations that nursing you don’t want anything bad be the ones that take care of out what to do with it.” inject adrenaline—nothing. symptoms and reactions of an students will have to handle to happen.” the patient,” she said. “In the The University currently The monitor has descended actual patient. A product of in real life when working in Although it’s just a clinical setting the students has one SimMan and has also into a steady, piercing whine, Laerdal Medical, the Sim- a hospital, thereby prepar- mannequin, the SimMan would be pushed more into bought a SimBaby, which and the patient is gone. Man is designed to aid in the ing them to work with real imitates the symptoms of a an observational role.” arrived last week. The nursing But now, imagine that teaching of skills pertaining to patients. real person. It has a pulse and In the lab, students can do faculty hopes to eventually you could go back and do it airway, breathing, cardiac and Mrs. Jane Haertlein of heart, lung and bowel sounds everything they would need expand the lab to include a again—that the patient could circulation management. the nursing faculty said that and will respond to what the to do in a hospital setting. SimMom and a SimChild be brought back to life and Nursing students use simulation labs (SimLabs) students do by either getting They can put the mannequin to run further simulations you could go through the ex- mannequins for practicing help students bridge the gap better or worse. “Students on a monitor, take vital signs, including labor and delivery. 2 OPINION The Collegian . Oct. 12, 2012 the countryside charging COLUMN windmills as a knight-errant with Don Quixote or crash Bob Jones University Sunday school picnics look- Greenville, SC 29614 0001 ing for gold and jewels with www.collegianonline.com www.facebook.com/BJUCollegian Tom Sawyer. But you can use imagina- The Collegian is the Bob Jones tion as a valuable, powerful University student newspaper. tool in any field of study. The paper is published weekly By: KYLE SEISS As Timothy Williamson, with issues out on Fridays.For Staff Writer advertising information, contact professor of logic at Oxford Larry Stofer (864) 242-5100, University, points out, “Un- ext. 2728 campusmedia@bju. Imagination is one of the imaginative scientists don’t edu. All contacts © 2011, most magical faculties of the produce radically new ideas.” Bob Jones University. human mind. You can create Williamson says imagination worlds out of thin air, predict even has survival value in al- EDITOR future events based on past lowing people to predict con- Rachel Peed experience or compose songs sequences of chains of events [email protected] and stories—all inside your and prepare accordingly. head. Martha Nussbaum, pro- LAYOUT EDITOR When I was a kid—and fessor of law and ethics at the Hannah Stanley I know I’m not the only University of Chicago, says in Considering the call for one—I had a very active her argument for the impor- COPY EDITOR imagination. I miss the time tance of liberal arts studies short-term mission work Jordan Wellin when the woods behind my that we need imagination to house were Sherwood Forest help understand perspectives STAFF WRITERS The Collegian Editorial one day and the wilds of the of people with different back- Still, make an effort to pause and pray Kyle Seiss American frontier the next. grounds and experiences and about serving somewhere else. If you, like Lee Miller Now they’re just a bunch of learn to work effectively with During this coming week, campus will be many others, have to work at home this sum- Jessi Hargett Caitlin Allen trees that drop leaves I have them, especially in today’s filled with mission agencies recruiting work- mer, pray that God will give you opportuni- Carlie Maldonado to clear off the lawn every global society. ers, sharing their ministries and their passion ties to witness and serve in your area. Jessica Kane Thanksgiving break. And everyone has some for the Gospel to the student body. When we serve other people, we not only Samantha Loucks Of course, a vivid imagi- imagination, no matter how As busy students, it might be tempting to make an impact on their lives, but our own Erin Kimbro nation can also get you into latent. If you think you have ignore the thought of working on the mission lives will also be changed to conform us to trouble. Imagining oneself as no imagination, you’re prob- field during the summer, and many have be more like Christ. As Christians, we have SPORTS EDITOR a dinosaur does not com- ably just not exercising it never even considered traveling overseas to heard the “go ye” command so many times Abby Stanley plete the transformation, as I enough! spend a year or two on a short-term mission that it often doesn’t impact us, sadly. We tend discovered in the emergency As French psychologist trip. to tune out sermons about missions with SPORTS WRITERS room when I was little. (I Théodule Ribot says, “The However, it is important for students to the mindset that only Bible majors need to Jon Clute tripped over my “costume” overwhelming majority of recognize the opportunities before them and answer the call.

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