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Season of Lent at NNU I Singles Awareness Day NNU students take part I There is no reason to be in the 40 days of sacrifice * depressed on February 14. before Easter. ’ c a m pu s LIFE 17 I 3 I OPINION I . _____________ “Unite the pair so long disjoined, knowledge and vital piety” -Charles Wesley Darfur Men’s basketball keeps Garyc \ Skaggs in recovery divestment 1 the dream alive bill hits Justin Parnell and Joel Ryman lead the campus way with combined 46 points on Saturday by DEREK DEROOY night. Students lobby The Crusaders never While one Crusader pulled out a big lead the Idaho state m played the best four min first half. H ot 3-point representatives to utes many had ever seen, shooting on the part of the divest money from another just didn’t seem to visiting Yellowjackets kept the game close, as the score Sudan I cool down all night. |p -Ja^if^Pamell scored a ■ was ded seven timesin the r season-high 26 points, 13 first half. The Jackets even in each half, and Joel Rymanaged a 7-point lead at by AMBER FORD man pitched in with 20, one point during the first leading the Crusaders to half A group of NNU stu a 90-77 victory against But Ryman went off in dents, led by junior Political Montana State Universi Science major Tony Napier ty—Billings on SaturdaySEE “BASKETBALL” PG. 9 and sophomore Interna tional Studies major Joelle Friesen, have began an open dialogue with Idaho State President Hagood and Vice President Skaggs present Dr. Darrell Marks with an award SGA hosts Awareness Week senator Curt McKenzie on for Distinguished Service during the Homecoming 2007 chapel (photo courtesy of NNU behalf of Senate Bill 1367. Marketing). centered around local issues The bill, if passed, would require the Public Employee The Vice President of University Retirement System of Idaho by AMBER FORD rather than globally Every to divest all of its assets from Advancement undergoes brain surgery one hears about problems companies who have heen This week marks the in places like Darfur, but identified to be the most byALLI SCHISLER The diagnosis occurred memory confusion. annual SGA Awareness I want to bring light to “egregious” offenders in sup after MRIs and subsequent Skaggs was accepted into Week, organized by SGA the things around us thar porting the Sudanese gov Gary Skaggs, Vice surgery Thursday, Februarythe Barrow Neurological Communiry Relations Co we can affect now,” said ernment; who are currently, Presidenr for University 6 at Saint Joseph’s Medical Insriture at Phoenix and ordinator Eric Knape. This Knape. according to Human Rights Advancement, has been Center in Phoenix, Arizo was admitted Tuesday, year, Knape has narrowed In order to bring lighr Watch, committing geno diagnosed with glioblas na. Skaggs was diagnosed February 5. An MRI de his focus down locally to these situations, Knape cide in the southern region toma, an “aggressive form wirh tumors and lesions in termined that there was an rather than globally will be doing a number of brain cancer,” says Presi his brain in early January “I want to bring more SEE “DIVEST” PG. 2 dent Richard Hagood. after complaining of some SEE “SKAGGS” PG. 2 awareness to needs locally SEE “AWARENESS” PG. 7 Index Weather SATURDAY NNU News Briefs Mostly stinny From the National Weather Service News 2 Hi: 49° I Low: 27° Opinion 4 Eight freshmen will first NCAA team next fall. hit SGA" and "Missing join NCAA men's soccer 10k" in the September Campus Life 6 THURSDAY SUNDAY Sports 8 program next fall From the staff of'The 26 edition of "The Cru A&E 10 Mostly sunny. Mostly sunny NNU men's soccer coach Crusader' sader." The staff would Humor 12 Hi: 43° I Low: 25° Hi: 48° I Low: 29° Coe Michaelson an It has been brought to like to apologize for not nounced the signing of our attention that former contacting Mr. Blowers, Quote of the week eight student-athletes to SGA Business Manager as it would have been FRIDAY MONDAY best Journalistic practice "Hard work never killed National Letters of Intent Mike Blowers was not Mostly sunny Mostly sunny to include his perspective anybody, but why take to attend NNU and playcontacted about the arti Hi: 43° I Low: 27° Hi: 48° I Low: 29° on the matter. a chance?" soccer for the Crusaders' cles titled "Budget issues 2 NEWS FEBRUARY 13, 2008 Organization Construction projects experience delays works for love due to weather and permits To Write Love on Her Arms works by ANDREA HALL outdoor field turf instal past few weeks have delayed inablility to get proper nu amazing ministry for teens lation is over a compacted the tractors; workers will trition into their branches. The two main construc dirt base.” have to wait for the snow “The final price has been byCALLYBEKKEDAHL clinic. “We become her hos tion projects on campus The next two phases of to melt and the ground to set and all (or at least most pital and the possibility of have met their share of de the renovation process will thaw before digging. all) the money is in the To Write Love on Her healing fills our living room lays and plan changes. Theinvolve surrounding the The nine tree stumps bank,” said Nogales. “We Arms is an organization with life. It is unspoken and unusual winter weather has field with hockey rink-style between Wiley and the li are currently working on dedicated to preventing there are only a few of us, laid several inches of snow sideboards and plexiglass, brary will be pulled up at fundraising $1 million for suicide, depression, and but we will be her church, on the ground that the new installing overhead netting, the same time the founda new equipment for nursing the trend of cutting one’s the body of Olrist coming science building is to be and building four offices at tion is dug. “Sorry,” said and science to go into the arms and wrists. Students alive to meet her needs, to built on, and in the John the north end of the facil Nogales, “but they had building.” at NNU showed up with t- write love on her arms,” son Sports Center, the ren ity, according to Sanders. to go...the building was “We are still on track shirts bearing this organiza says Jamie Tworkowski on ovation of the indoor soc Despite the appearance moved a little to save the for January of ’09,” stat tion’s name. the group’s webiste, www. cer field has only reached of inactivity, according to pine tree between Emer- ed Nogales. Despite the The truth is, suicide is a twloha.com. He continues, 50 percent completion. very heartbreaking, lonely “I might be simple but The soccer field was decision. It happens every more and more, I believe hoped to be completed by day. No one ever sees the God works in love, speaks homecoming weekend last signs, maybe because we in love, is revealed in our semester, but athletic direc refuse to, or maybe it’s be love. I have seen that this tor Rich Sanders stated that cause these people feel like week and honestly, it has the renovation was held up they have no one who un been simple: Take a broken by the city’s permit process. derstands, no one to talk girl...Tell her something Construction did not start to, and no one who loves true when all she’s known until January because of them. Many young peopleare lies. Tell her God loves those delays. who cut themselves just her. Tell her about forgive “We are currently about to feel something. It is not ness, the possibility of free 50 percent complete in something to laugh at, to dom; tell her she was made phase one of the project,” just label “emo” and move to dance in white dresses. said Sanders. Phase one in on. Young people all over All these things are true. We cludes closing off old stair the nation are hurting and are only asked to love, to of wells, filling the pool with alone. TWLOHA wants fer hope to the many hope dirt and skirting it with The remains of what used to be NNU's indoor pool, now being prepped for conversion everyone to feel loved. They less. We don’t get to choose concrete, as well as paint to an indoor soccer field (photo by Robin McConkey). want people to look at their all the endings, but we are ing and switching out the arms and instead of seeing asked to play the rescuers... light fixtures in the room. Dr. Dan Nogales, the sci son and the new building.”weather and other delays, a canvas ready to be de We were made to be lov The pool, once filled ence building is still com Many of the trees that were the construction will soon stroyed by a razor blade, toers bold in broken places, with dirt, will be covered pletely funded and readyremoved to were not very begin. see tbe word “LOVE” and pouring ourselves out again by field turf. “I would anbegin construction. “You healthy anyway, according It is still uncertain as to remember God’s uncondi and again until we’re called ticipate that the surface should see tractors moving to professor Bill Campton. when the sculpture garden tional love. home.” would be more forgiving dirt as soon as the weather The older elms were not and fountain in front of This group had a very in This group was able to to athletes as they run on clears up,” he said.