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Friday, November 19, 2004 ON THE WEB: cedarville.edu/cedars Vol. 53, No. 5 Junior Graphic Design Major Women’s Basketball Starts Strong “White Chocolate by Jim Sawin Raspberry Cheese- ence with her no-look passes. selves down 68-63 with just cake” Sophomore Brittany Smart over two minutes to go, ral- The Lady Jackets did not also had a fi ne game as she lied behind Flunker who tied disappoint the home crowd, connected on 7 of 9 shots from the game at 68 after nailing a kicking off the 2004-05 sea- the fi eld, chipped in 16 points, three-pointer and hitting two son November 5, by scoring and dished out a game-high 8 clutch free throws. The Wild- the fi rst 16 points of the con- assists. cats added a basket, and Flunk- test against Madonna. The The second ranked Lady er hit one of two free throws to Yellow Jackets went on to the Jackets came from behind make the score 70-69 with only Jeremy Raburn easy win, 85-67 and advanced against fi fth ranked Indiana 40 seconds to go. It was now Sophomore to the championship game of Wesleyan to continue their 26 time for Smart to shine. She the Cedarville Invitational. home game winning streak capped off her Cedarville In- Nursing Major Senior Kari Flunker led and win the Cedarville Invita- vitational performance by net- D. Snell|CEDARS “Pink polo shirts” the way with 19 points and tional. Sophomore Stacie Travis passes to senior Crystal Stuckey. 6 assists, dazzling the audi- Cedarville, who found them- See WOMAN’S B-BALL Page 13 Calhoun Continues Cabin Construction on CedarLake by John Hawkins are construction amateurs. Even so, the outside of the This November, Dr. Scott cabin is finished and ready Calhoun’s composition stu- for use. It is an exciting mo- dents looked more like con- ment for Dr. Calhoun, who Kip Tiger struction workers than writers originally designed the proj- Junior as Project: Walden construc- ect. Chemistry Major tion finally began. “I have had a long-stand- Jonathan Thomas For those who haven’t no- ing interest in Thoreau,” ticed, a wooden cabin is being he said, explaining that he Junior built at the base of the library wanted to build something Marketing and Manage- along Cedar Lake to commem- to correspond with his stu- ment Major orate the 150th anniversary of dents’ study of Walden. the publication of Henry Da- At the same time, the build- “Wieners and Buns” vid Thoreau’s book Walden. ing has practical uses. “Peo- The book emerged from the ple can come and read, pray, philosopher’s experiences in or relax,” Calhoun said. He Katie Brown a cabin he built with his bare wants to see students hang hands at Walden Pond, near their own art in the building Freshman Concord, Massachusetts. Un- or use it for outdoor perfor- Nursing Major like Thoreau, Dr. Calhoun’s mances and speech recitals. “Baklava” students used electric saws The building, worth around and ladders, giving them an $7,500 dollars, was financed unfair advantage over the by the university and supple- transcendentalist. Excluding Dr. Scott Calhoun and his crew of composition students recreate Thoreau’s cabin. B.Kouba|CEDARS the oversight of two experi- enced foremen, the students See WALDEN Page 3 The Laramie Project promises that people who aren’t fa- to be a catylist for Alpha Beta Phi Brings miliar or comfortable with discussion on homosexuality are more homosexuality. easily able to digest. The Social Issues to Christian community re- gards homosexuality as an Cedarville’s Theatre anathema rather than an is- sue that needs to be dealt by Sara Denhart with,” Director Sarah Clift of the Tectonic Theatre Proj- said. “Does anyone have the ect, is a series of balanced Originally, ABP advi- right, regardless of personal and accurate interviews sor Dr. Diane Merchant’s beliefs, to kill someone be- which the members collect- Theater of Social Change cause he or she is gay?” ed after the murder of Mat- class performed the Lara- This question embodies thew Shepard in the fall of mie Project for Assistant the purpose of Alpha Beta 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming. Professor of Communica- Phi’s (ABP) Shepard was tion Arts, Derrick Green’s, performance murdered be- Voices of Diversity class for this year’s cause he was last year. Since some ABP World AIDS a homosexu- members were in Mer- Will you pay No Brian Allen $1.60 for a cup of Yes Day on Dec. 1, Human beings that al. chant’s Theatre of Social Senior The Laramie Christ loves and died “The Lara- Change class, the members coffee at the new If I’m Project. The mie Project decided that The Laramie Mechanical Engineering Major desperate work, writ- for are dying horrible presents the Project would be excellent Vecino’s? deaths, and we largely “I hate coffee” Maybe ten by Moises issue of ho- VOTE ONLINE AT: Kaufman and ignore or respond mosexuality See LARAMIE Page 10 Cedarville.edu/cedars “offensively.” the members in a format 2 NEWS SPORTS 15 cessor has been the target these fi ghters will stabilize French peacekeeper camp. embargo on the Ivory Coast of violence. Muhammad the Sunni Triangle. The bombings were meant prompting accusations that Abbas, the interim Pales- The troops have secured the to target the rebel faction in the organization is a puppet SCOREBOARD tinian leader, was attacked streets, but continue to root the north. A tenuous peace of French President Chirac. Anthony Delimpo by Palestinians with assault out small pockets of remain- agreement between the reb- More than 10,000 Ivorians Men’s Cross Country #44 Men’s Basketball Center rifl es while greeting Arafat’s ing insurgents. Nearly 600 els, known as New Forces, have fl ed the country along 11/6 AMC Champion- 3rd of 13 mourners. He survived the insurgents have been killed and the government had been with 5,000 westerners. ship by Kristen Livingston “Our staff thought he was attack in which the attack- along with 22 U.S. troops. in place since July 2003. 11/13 NCCAA Champi- 5th of 22 a very good player and we ers denounced Abbas as an However, just as the bat- However, key deadlines set British Smoking Ban onship agent of the U.S. govern- tle for Fallujah seemed to by the two groups for legal The British Parliament an- Anthony Delimpo, a were interested” said Coach ment. be wrapping up, violence and government reforms as nounced plans to ban smok- Women’s X Country senior criminal justice Slagle. Death of Yassar Arafat Many see this incident as fl ared in the city of Mosul well as disarmament were ing from most public places 11/6 AMC Champion- 2nd of 14 major at Cedarville Delimpo joined the Yellow ship On Thursday, November indicative of power struggle on November 16. Analysts missed in October and Sep- in England. This ban applies University, began his Jackets and was more than 11, 2001, Palestinian leader likely to occur while the say that while the physical tember, placing the agree- to 80% of the country’s pop- 11/13 NCCAA Champi- 2nd of 20 just a basketball player. basketball career in the D. Tursack | CEDARS Yassar Arafat passed away people appoint a new leader seizure of the city occurred ments in jeopardy. ular pubs but not to the 20% onship Slagle said, “Our guys took in a French hospital of an before the January 9 dead- relatively quickly, the real The French reacted swiftly that serve no food and are backyard of his home in Women’s Soccer to Anthony immediately. He undisclosed illness. The 75 line. measure of victory will be with force against the Ivo- private clubs. Chesapeake, Ohio, at age have been given. As for 11/11 Spring Arbor W 1-0 is outgoing and friendly. He year-old leader was a mov- the ability of Americans to rians, destroying their air While some voters view this six, playing with his sister this season, they expect ing force as chairman of Invasion of Fallujah persuade Sunni leaders to force, seizing the capital, and as another encroachment of Men’s Soccer has been a great encourager Emily who is now on the to win the conference, the Palestinian Liberation U.S.