'Kirkbride Preacher' Here to Stay Some Students Tune out Sp~Aker's Religious Beliefs
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And not just at the University world. He said he of Delaware. chose Kirkbride Hall in senate body Johnson also preaches at the University because there are of Pennsylvania, ·Temple University, always students sit BY JOSH SHANNON University of Maryland, Baltimore County ting in the courtyard. Editor in Chief and Towson University. Over the years, The Student Government Throughout the year, students can see Johnson has made Association is undergoing a com Johnson with his arms in the air, gesturing friends through his plete restructuring this year, a pronouncedly as he shouts his messages, work, like fellow change officers say will make the ranging from marriage, the church, fornica preacher Joe Toy, organization more representative of tion and politics. who also works out the student body. "I met Jesus when I was a college stu side of Kirkbride THE REVIEW/Ayelet Daniel The SGA senate, previously dent many years ago, and it's the Lord's com Hall to gain the atten Mark Johnson (right), pictured with Joe Toy, has preached in made up of all registered student mand to preach the gospel to the lost," tion of students. It is front of Kirkbride hall for 13 years. o~anization presidents, now con Johnson said. Toy who creates Sists of 28 members, who are elect Although Johnson has been preaching many of the drawings Preaching is his only job, and his income ed or appointed for a year-long here for more than a decade, a job he says used by both preachers. comes from the churches and religious indi term. does not follow societal norms, he never Johnson's messages are felt rather than vidualS" in the surrounding area who support Though last year's system envisioned himself here. planned and the drawings that he keeps on him financially. Johnson said it is every allowed hundreds more to vote in Prior to his current role as a preacher, his easel are often done by himself or by Christian's job to preach, but in his case, it is the senate, few showed up on· a reg Johnson worked at a ballistics lab, but real friends. Johnson said he tries to write mes also his livelihood. ular basis, SGA Vice President ized he had a new path, and began to preach sages on the board in large print so that even Although many of the messages he Corrie Bonham said. full-time. students who do not want to stop will see preaches are Evangelical-based and are dif "There was no commitment "The Lord has a way, and when you sur what he is talking about. ferent than those of some students at the uni involved -you could come if you render to the Lord you give up your will to "It comes out of personal time with the versity, he said he has had very few fights or wanted to or you didn't have to his will, and he actually makes what you Lord. I am staying fresh my relationship with altercations with students. come if you didn't want to," want to do desirable to you," he said. "So I him and it comes out of that," he said. "If you Bonham said. "It was kind of would never have thought I would be doing try to put a message together, it's unnatural." see page 8 Ki:RKB~E see SGA page 9 University lawyer tar-gets exam-sharing Web site BY MARINA KOREN Cihan Cobanoglu, hotel and restaurant recently searched the site to make sure no books and assignment solutions posted on Assistant News Editor _ management associate professor and Faculty materials from his course had been the site, which is illegal and unprofessional CourseHero.coin, a Web site that allows Senate·president, said the university is inves ~~~~ ' when no consent was given by the professor students to posk~xam questions and home tigating CourseHero because it may contain "I'm an author myself, and I have a text to make the work public, he said. work solutions, ltas raised legal issues for materials copyrighted by university faculty book," Cobanoglu said. "If I were to see this "If you do research and you found professors and faculty, causing the universi such as old exams, handouts and scanned on there that I spent years writing - first of something, of course you can share it ty's lawyer to take action against the poten textbooks. all, it would be illegal, and second, it would because that's your own work," he said. "But tial misuse of copyrighted intellectual prop- Posting such material without a profes make me upset." . erty. sor's consent is illegal, Cobanoglu said, who Cobanoglu said he found pages of text- see WEB SITE page 7 1 News 10 Editorial 11 <?pinion 13 Mosaic 17 Media Darling 23 Classifieds 24 Sports 2 October 20, 2009 Letter from the Editors Dear readers, This week, we're excited to debut a new weekly feature in the News section, the ReviewThis page. 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