Scholars Crossing 2005 -- 2006 Liberty University School Newspaper Spring 4-11-2006 04-11-06 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 23, Issue 20) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_05_06 Recommended Citation "04-11-06 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 23, Issue 20)" (2006). 2005 -- 2006. 19. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/paper_05_06/19 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 ion Tips on tipping Not an eaq hunt |Waitors work hard and Life! gives creative ways to ^deserve a fair tip. A4 celebrate Easter. B6 Science author, Canyon Ministries founder to speak at LU By Angeja Franuloylch_ NEWS REPORTER His book sparked a national con­ However, despite continued and around the canyon with account for the theoretical time troversy in 2003 and throughout opposition from the evolution striking photography and contri­ required for organisms to evolve 2004, after seven top-ranking community and an investigation butions from some of the world's from a common ancestor. Liberty University's Center for evolution scientists petitioned by the Interior Department, most prominent creation scien­ Therefore, they generally teach Creation Studies will host a talk the National Park Service to Grand Canyon bookstores still tists and researchers. that the canyon's rock layers by the author of the controversial remove it from park bookstores* offer Vail's book to the park's According to creation scien­ formed over millions of years and book "Grand Canyon: A Different As the petitioning scientists more than 4 million visitors each tists, the issue behind the contro­ that the canyon was carved by the View" on April 18. said, "The book is not about geol­ year. versy has to do with each camp's Colorado River over time. Tom Vail, the book's author, is ogy but, rather, advances a nar­ Vail's book promotes a young- interpretations of the evidence. a Grand Canyon rafting guide and row religious view about the earth creationist interpretation of For example, evolution scien­ co-founder of Canyon Ministries. Earth." the natural formations found in tists require an old Earth to Please see VAIL, page A3 Cooley Sunday's wins SGA Easter ByJoanne Tang ASST. NEWS EDITOR festivities The ballots have been cast, By Hilary Dyer the votes have been tallied, the NEWS REPORTER numbers have rolled in and Nathan Cooley, 21, has been Easter weekend is chosen as next year's new stu­ approaching, and while dent body president. many students will be head­ "I work for Student Life," ing home to spend time with said Cooley, "and we were set­ their families and celebrate ting up for Casting Crowns at their home churches, even that night, so I didn't really more students will be celebrate." remaining on campus. If you His plans for the next school are looking for a special year range church service to attend, from there are several in the reaching Lynchburg area, including out to the Campus Church. communi­ This Wednesday, April 12, ty to put­ Campus Church will be hav­ ting choco­ ing a special Easter Communion service. It will COOLEY late chips back into begin in the Vines Center at the dining hall. 6:30 p.m. "The entire service Last week, Cooley was calm will focus on reflecting back and collected when it came to to the cross of Calvary (and) his campaign. He and oppo­ remembering what Christ nent Emily Ahmet set up in accomplished by his death, the halls of DeMoss. Both can­ burial and resurrection," didates were on hand to inter­ according to the Splash Page SHANE SOMERS announcement. act with students and faculty. CFAWS IN THE MIDST — Almost 1,700 visitors came to see Liberty and were given a look at the university and i diverse faculty and students. Ahmet had short animated On Easter Sunday, clips playing on a laptop, and Campus Church will hold a Cooley and his campaign sunrise service at 7 a.m. on aides set up a sitting area Weekenders descend on Liberty the Hancock Lawn. Pastor using one of the couches in Dwayne Carson will be DeMoss. While students By Jennifer Maxfield dees packed the house for the sold-out cial aid, admission counseling and preaching a message entitled streamed by on their way in NEWS REPORTER Casting Crowns concert on Friday scholarships. "Headlines: the First Easter." and out of classes, the two night. College for a Weekenders also Petey and Robert Updike are broth­ The evening service will be addressed issues about which The final College for a Weekend for had the opportunity to attend the the­ ers from Staunton River High School held at its regular time, 7:15 they were concerned. the 2005-2006 academic year was ater production of "All My Sons" and in Moneta, Va. Both brothers attended p.m., with doors opening at Ahmet wanted to work on held at Liberty University this week­ had the privilege of viewing the sev­ College for a Weekend. "College for a 6:30 p.m. for prayer and campus beautification, mak­ end. Kristin Conrad of the Visitor's enth annual Juried Student Art Show. Weekend was fun," said Petey. The quiet time. ing Liberty more aesthetically Center estimates nearly 1,700 visitors There were also hiking trips, putt-putt visit may factor into their decision Thomas Road Baptist attractive, and doing things were on campus. Admission statistics and late skate at Funquest, ice sakting, about which college to attend next Church will not be having a such as putting water back in report that over 50 percent of students basketball tournaments and an all star year. "I was thankful for such great sunrise service, but will con­ the fountain in the courtyard. who attend College for a Weekend hockey game, as well as various other Christian role models, and I hope I get duct services at the regular Cooley said he would like to make the decision to return to Liberty activities. The university also offered to hang out with them more often," times, 8:30 and 11 a.m. and 6 see development on a cam­ to receive their college education. an information session for prospective said Robert. p.m. There will be no Sunday pus-wide transportation sys­ As with every College for a Weekend, nursing students. In addition to the School. tem. there was no shortage of activities for entertainment workshops, a variety of Contact Jennifer Maxfield atjmax- Please see SGA, page A3 visitors. College for a Weekend atten­ subjects were offered including finan­ [email protected]. Please see EASTER, page A3 • '•'•' Kohl's moves in Juried art show held at Liberty By Alicia Wotring ect. If all goes according to EDITOR IN CHIEF plan, Wards Crossing will By Jennifer Maxfield This year's art show holds a be ready for a fall opening. NEWS REPORTER special sense of promotion for Campbell County is "We anticipate to open the new Visual ready to roll out the red the first phase in October, You may have noticed the Communication Aits Degree, carpet for Kohl's, Old and that's going to be a extraordinary artwork hang­ proposed to be available to Navy, Ross Dress for Less Kohl's, a very popular col­ ing on the walls of the ILRC students in the Fall 2006 and a number of other lege store called Old Navy computer lab. DeMoss Hall is semester. This degree will stores that will be joining and Ross," said President currently hosting the seventh allow students to concentrate Wards Crossing West this of Compson Tom annual Juried Student Art in graphic design or studio art. October. The new shopping Comparato. Show. The show runs from The new degree will also offer center is located near Comparato said that April 7 through May 5. The minors in graphic design and Liberty University off of after those stores open, student art expo features a studio art. Drawing 1 and 2, Wards Road south of there will be an additional variety of media, including Introduction to Design, Target by the 460 West 22,000 square feet of "a graphic art, paintings and Desktop Publishing and entrance ramp. variety of convenience and photography. Digital and Basic Photography Compson Development, hard goods, like books and "The show gets better each are some of the classes that which is developing the music." year as more quality pieces are will be offered with the major. land, has already started submitted," said Professor AI.KX TOWERS construction on the proj­ Please see KOHLS, page A3 Cam Davis. Please see ART, page A3 THE BIG SHOW — Students presented digital art and photography. 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