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Cedars. 27. https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedars/27 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Footer Logo DigitalCommons@Cedarville, a service of the Centennial Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cedars by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Cedarville. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Student News Publication of Cedarville University January 2013 As Ruby Resigns, Students Worry - Gredy Says CU Not Changing “Is Jesus really at the center, or is he just part of our brand?” - Dr. Ruby, on what he wants students to remember him for T ble of Contents January 2013 Vol. 65, No. 6 Just Sayin’ ... Page 3 A difficult time for Cedarville and the world January/February Calendar or a number of dif- tion in our government and court systems at Pages 4-6 ferent reasons, we every level, with turbulent happenings in the Philosophy Major’s Future Unsure as are in the midst of Middle East and around the globe, the situa- Students and Alumni Fight to Save it F a very difficult time here tion can appear overwhelmingly bleak and ter- Page 6 at Cedarville. With fresh- rifying. Questions Surface over Ruby Resignation man student Joshua Gen- Yet in the midst of all this turmoil and Page 8 eral in a rehabilitation perplexity, there remains a grounding com- Marksmanship Org Aims center and senior student fort: the person and promises of the Savior we to Educate, Expand Peter Voland recently di- serve. Scripture is laden with the truth of God’s Page 9 agnosed with Hodgkin’s presence in our lives and his sovereignty in ev- Becca Powlus lymphoma, many within ery situation. Nothing takes him by surprise. ‘We Are Only as Good as Our Last Meal’ the Cedarville family are Before the foundation of the world, he knew all Page 10 anxious and concerned about the outcomes as that we would currently be dealing with. We Case Outcome May Raise Textbook Prices they faithfully pray for the recovery of these can take comfort in the fact that he is still on Pages 12-13 two students. his throne and still cares deeply for us. Kony Legislation Signed, Search Continues Furthermore, there has been a lot of con- In times of distress, turning to the Psalms Pages 14-15 cern on campus about the resignations of Dr. can be of great consolation. Rather than let- OSU’s Hayes Born in Clifton, and That’s It Brown and, more recently, Carl Ruby. A lot of ting the unknowns of the future cause anxiety Page 16 people are asking questions and waiting for and despair, we should have the mindset of the answers that haven’t come yet. This is a trying psalmist in Psalm 18:2 - “The Lord is my rock Concert Review: Gungor time as numerous faculty, staff, alumni and and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my TV Review: ‘Continuum’ students have said goodbye to a man who has rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the Page 17 substantially impacted this campus for Christ. horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” Movie Review: ‘The Hobbit’ We do not know what will happen in the weeks It is so easy to lose sight of Christ when we Movie Review: ‘Liz and Dick’ and months ahead, and that can certainly are overwhelmed with troubles and confusion Page 18 cause a sense of apprehension and concern. on all sides. But the only guarantee of comfort Movie Review: ‘Les Miserables’ Lately I’ve been wrestling with some dif- and peace is found in running and clinging to Page 19 ficult questions myself. During the missions Jesus. He isn’t impressed when we try to han- Opinion - A Cultural Battle: Undoing the conference at the beginning of the semester, dle things on our own. He desperately wants us Dr. Ron Blue presented a message attempting to run to him; he wants to wrap us in his love Hate of Westboro Baptist Church to answer the question of salvation for those and calm our fears. He is our Father and longs in complete isolation who have never heard to love us as his children. of Jesus Christ or the gospel. Questions like I don’t know what is going to happen in that and the doctrine of hell are not easy top- the lives of Joshua and Peter, and I don’t know Holly McClellan ics to cover. Honestly, it bothers and disturbs why these trials have come upon them. I don’t Managing Editor me when I think about some of my friends and know how Cedarville will change now that Dr. family members spending an abandoned eter- Ruby is gone and Dr. Brown is leaving. I don’t Zack Anderson nity in a lake of fire. It bothers me to think that know the answers to complex theological ques- Assistant Managing Editor a person who has never heard of Christ would tions and debates. I don’t know the future of National/International Editor be allowed the same fate. I know what the Bible America or the rest of the world. I just don’t says and what the traditional interpretation of know. But I have placed my hope in the One Becca Powlus Scripture implies, but it is still not, and I doubt who does know. Regardless of the insurmount- Arts and Entertainment Editor will ever be, easy to swallow. And maybe it’s able unknowns swirling around us, Christ is not supposed to be. still our rock and our fortress and our deliv- Madison Troyer In the world around us, many other un- erer. It does no good to focus on the questions Campus News Print Editor settling things are taking place. With tragedies and fail to trust the God who has the answers. like the shootings at Sandy Hook and the re- In the midst of this wavering world, be com- Crystal Goodremote Campus News Online Editor spark of the gun control debate, with corrup- forted and take hope in our unshakable Lord. Jesse Silk Sports Editor Watch for a new issue of Cedars Kate Norman, Lauren Eissler Copy Editors every month. Jenni Hodges Design Director Newsstands are located on the upper Radleigh Wakefield and lower levels of the SSC. Cover and Infographics Kristen Craig, Jillian Philyaw, Kaleigh Shonk For more news, go to Designers Jeff Gilbert ReadCedars.com Faculty Adviser 2 January 2013 CALENDAR January / February 2013 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 - The Dream - General Recital - The National - 100 Days Party - Worship 4:24 - Worship 4:24 - Town Hall Meeting Urban Education - TNL (Thursday Night Conference Conference with Dr. Gredy Conference Live) - Winter Career Fair - Men’s and Women’s B-Ball v. Central State 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 - GNO (Girl’s Night - Charter Day - Opening Night: - Winter Play (Joseph) - Winter Play (Joseph) Out) Joseph and the - Track Meet - Track Meet Amazing Technicolor - Men’s and Women’s Dreamcoat B-Ball v. Salem Intl. - Christian 3 4 5 Camp Fair 6 7 8 9 - Majors Assembly - Christian Camp Fair - General Recital - Lil’ Sibs Weekend - Lil’ Sibs Weekend - Foreign Film Series: - 180 Movie Screen - Winter Play (Joseph) - Winter Play (Joseph) Monsieur Lazhar - Men’s B-Ball v. Ohio - Women’s B-Ball v. Mid-Western Trevecca Nazarene 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 - Music Showcase - Winter Play (Joseph) - Men’s and Women’s - Trade of Innocents - Music Showcase - Music Showcase - Poverty Simulation B-Ball v. Urbana Movie Screen - ALT Night - W B-Ball v. Ursuline - Faculty Duo: - Open Dorms - M B-Ball v. Mortensen/Anderson Wilberforce 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 - Bach’s Lunch: - Foreign Films - Bach’s Lunch: John Women’s Choir Series: Jiro Dreams Mortensen of Sushi - GLOW Night - TNL 24 25 26 27 28 - GNO (Girl’s Night - Encounter: Night of - General Recital - TNL Out) Worship January 2013 3 CAMPUS NEWS Philosophy Major’s Future Unsure by Zack Anderson decision. At the Jan. 22 SGA town hall meeting, Thomas Cornman, academic vice president, efore a meeting for philosophy majors said Cedarville’s colleges choose programs ev- and minors, major Rachel McKinley ery May to review. This has been happening Bsaid the students were joking around since 2010-2011. If a major has trends of de- about their futures. creasing enrollment, it is put to a higher level “One girl even said that she had of review. thought about coming back to Cedarville and “We drive it initially on quantitative data, teaching philosophy,” McKinley said. but we also ask the department to provide But that girl’s future, as well as qualitative data for those decisions,” Cornman McKinley’s, is up in the air. Philosophy profes- said. sors David Mills and Shawn Graves told phi- Steve Winteregg, dean of the college of losophy students at that meeting the first week arts and sciences (which houses the philoso- of the semester that Cedarville’s Academic phy major) who recommended after the review Council is recommending the major be cut.