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Scholars Crossing 2003 -- 2004 Liberty University School Newspaper Spring 4-27-2004 04-27-04 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 21, Issue 21) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_03_04 Recommended Citation "04-27-04 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 21, Issue 21)" (2004). 2003 -- 2004. 18. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_03_04/18 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 2003 -- 2004 by an authorized administrator of Scholars Crossing. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Congratulations Grads! Ethics in Journalism The Price lakes flight Check out the messages from parents, Commentary explores the problems in the Liberty's favorite columnist remi friends and family saluting Liberty's news media today, and seeks solutions for nisces about his greatest personal graduates. Congratulations on a job the downward spiral in media ethics. triumphs in his last article. well-done! See pages 8-9 See page 9 See page 2 The Liberty SERVING LIBERTY UNIVERSITY FOR TWENTY YEARS VOL. 21, NO. 21 ioAPRILn 27, 200 4 RETAIL WAR: Businesses bicker with city Hobby Lobby Sign ordinance opts to sell causes controversy By Sara Lesley By Sara Lesley NEWS EDITOR NEWS EDITOR Hobby Lobby, the billion dollar craft store chain, "We're driving people out of the city," said Bill officially donated the $10.3 million Ericsson facility to McRorie, the leader of the Business Friendly Net Thomas Road Baptist Church last Monday. The move work in Lynchburg. McRorie, who formerly served came as no surprise to TRBC, which already began as the general counsel for First Colony Life Insur renovating the 80-acre complex this year. However, ance on Main Street, formed the BFN with several Hobby Lobby will now ditch its plan to build a $25 area businessmen to protest restrictions on retail million shopping center on a small piece of the prop signs. erty. The 35-acre patch of land is now up for sale at a The proposed sign ordinance, which the Planning hefty fetching price of $3.9 million. Commission passed on Feb. 18, calls for stricter According to Rachel Flynn, the Director of the guidelines for signs within the city limits. The pro Lynchburg Planning Commission, an engineer for posed ordinance will be voted on by Cfty Council on Hobby Lobby met with the planning office last fall to June 8. The guidelines call for advertisement signs discuss the rezoning and retail development of the to be limited to 15 feet and large lettering will be property. "We wanted to create a town square or restricted. plaza-like atmosphere," Flynn said, adding that she "Businesses can still advertise," said Lynchburg would like to see "a fountain or a garden" included in Planning Commissioner Rachel Flynn, who is the the landscape. Hobby Lobby's proposed plan called main voice behind the proposed ordinance. "We are for "a classic strip mall development and we said all not taking away the right for free standing signs." along we wanted a more pedestrian-oriented devel She said the ordinance will create a more beautiful opment." environment for the citizens of Lynchburg. The proposed shopping center had tenants such as "It is my feeling that Rachel Flynn is a very gifted Hobby Lobby, Old Navy, Ross Dress for Less and and talented person that is attempting to remold Kohl's department store. Flynn said the plans were Lynchburg into something we are not," said Dr. abandoned "probably because of location," and not Jerry Falwell. "She is a typical environmentalist who because of the planning office's suggestion to rede is anti-business and is determined to jam her philos velop the site. ophy of community likeness down our throats," he But this is not the case, according to Chris Doyle, said. the Vice President of CB Richard Ellis, the real estate Flynn said the proposed ordinance will create an broker which represented Hobby Lobby. Doyle said atmosphere similar to the Wyridhurst development the planning department's "heavy handed approach project off Enterprise Drive. Other cities such as to business could cost the city this project and tax Roanoke and Martinsville have similar ordinances. base." Yet according to McRorie, retail corridors such as Doyle said notes from the meeting included sub Wards Road cannot be compared to Wyndhurst. He stantial changes to the facade, parking and floor said Wyndhurst used to be "one large tract of land" space. "What Rachel is doing is micro-managing that one developer easily revamped because there everything," Doyle said. "She's trying to determine were no existing businesses or homes in the area. He what brick is chosen, what flower is planted and what said the main problem with the ordinance is the city tree is saved." Doyle said because of these extensive will impose "unified signage" on a pre-existing retail changes, "the project has been floundering ever SUSAN WHITLEY zone. "The city is coming in after the fact and pro since." posing drastic new rules," McRorie said. BUSINESS FRIENDLY? - Lynchburg businesses, such as Chevron on the corner of Wards Road and Candler's Mountain Road, protest Planning Commissioner Rachel Flynn's plans to redevelop the city. Please see HOBBY LOBBY, Page 3 Please see SIGNS, Page 6 Nursing students hone their skills Seniors gear up for graduation ical hours she completed and the hands-on practice she gained from those hours, she got a job over nearly By Mike Brady a passionate conservative Christian leader, 400 other applicants. Warren will be CONTRIBUTING WRITER is a former president of the Southern Bap working with Duke's labor and deliv tist Convention and is currently serving as ery. On May 8, 2004, Liberty University will the president of Southwestern Baptist The Dr. Deanna Britt, Liberty's Nursing conclude the 2003-2004 academic year ological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Department Chair, said that changes and bid farewell to its 31st graduating The administration requests that no in curriculum beginning this fall will class. More than 2,000 students will grad pictures be taken during this service. Fol add an additional 200 hours to the uate, a total that not long ago mirrored the lowing the program, a reception will be already 800 clinical hours. "The class school's entire student body population. held for the graduates in the Lynchburg of 2007 will have completed over In preparation for commencement, all Christian Academy gymnasium, which is 1,000 hours," Britt said. graduates that are participating are adjacent to TRBC. Most nursing students complete required to attend the commencement Then on May 8, at 10 a.m. in the Vines their hours at Lynchburg General and rehearsal on May 7 fit 1.30 p.m. in the Center, commencement exercises will Virginia Baptist Hospital. "The nurs Vines Center. At this time, eligible gradu begin. The primary event during com ing faculty firmly believes that stu ates will also receive honor cords in recog mencement will be the reading of the MATT TRENT dents learn best by doing. It is not suf nition of their academic achievements. names of the graduates as they receive HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE - LU nursing students work diligently at their ficient to sit in class and read books Preceding the commencement exercises their diploma's, culminating in the com assignments at Lynchburg General Hospital early Monday morning. about how to be a good nurse. You on Saturday, the administration requests mencement address to the class of 2004 by learn to be a good nurse by working as a the presence of all walking graduates in Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to President nurse with the supervision and teach DeMoss Hall at 8 a:m., where instructions George W. Bush. By Elizabeth Anspach ing of an experienced nurse," Britt said. concerning the meeting locations for the Rove has been active in politics for over CONTRlItUTINCi WRITER During their sophomore year, students begin various academic colleges and the proces 30 years, providing consulting and mar doing basic nursing skills and begin assessments sional order will be given. Plan accordingly keting strategies for many major Republi Among the ranks of hundreds of tiiousands of like physical exams. In their junior year, students for time to park, due to the large influx of can candidates both nationally and within nursing students in the nation, Liberty's future begin caring for several patients at a time, doing people on campus. his home state of Texas. He has been cred nurses stand out above the rest. To say that they all the nursing skills, including IV medications, This special weekend, a time that cele ited in part for the recent conservative graduate experienced in their field is an under patient teaching, full assessments, documenta brates accomplishment, completion and domination of state offices in Texas. Rove statement. Completing over 800 clinical hours tion and therapy. By their senior year, nursing new beginnings, promises to be a very was heavily involved in the success of the upon graduation, our nursing students gain crit students function in the RN role, caring for a full exciting time for not only the graduates 1984 Reagan-Bush campaign for the presi ical skills in the medical profession. load of patients. but also their families and friends. As Lib dency and more recently has served as Corrie Warren, a senior nursing student from Britt said," A lull load may be six to eight erty students have come to expect, men chief political strategist to the president in Liberty University who will begin work at Duke patients on a medical/surgical floor, or may be that are highly accomplished and well the 2000 presidential campaign.

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