OUGHTON LIBRARY PERIODICALS DEPT. HOUOH-ION, NY 14744 **vuaht; Ozl i Vol. 95.8 Wednesday November 3, 1999 Published by students at Houghton College Gala Opening Weekend Women's Leadership Conference Celebrating New Center for the Arts Planting Seeds and Emil\· Betich This past weekend's dedica- "Growing Leaders" lion of the new Center for the Arts Knmn leach began Thursday evening when stu- dents and faculty covered up works Thirty-three sophomore, junior, and of art on campus fur -A Day without e/ -2 f. '. senior women participated in the -Growing Art" to make students sensitive to the 5-5P, ,1' rEE1. · Leaders- Women's Conference on October 29- impact of art on our lives. The fast ' 1&*- 00 1 0< 17-P , ,;84 30. The Career Services and Student Life of- from art included abstinence from fices co-sponsored the event. Julie Anderton, music and singing during the chapel an Associate of the Hestenes Center for Chris- program, and one music major tian Women in Leadership. was the featured claimed that she would not even at- speaker. tend the chapel meeting that day be- Friday evening at the Chamberlains' cause she could not stand the silence. home, Anderton addressed a variety of topics The experiment finally ended Friday evening the audience maring. Leax followed. typically through lecture. discussion. and small groups. at 5:00 when a blast of trumpets signified a re- beginning with some wry and gleeful remarks Using the Parable of Talents in Matthew 25: turn to normalcy. and effecting a nearly invisible transition be- 14-30. she described how women often paral- Shortly thereafter, professors Doug tween person and poetry. He read a number lei the third servant with a preoccupation with Gaerte, John Leax and Jim Zoller of Houghton's of excerpts from a larger work in progress, an insecurities. humbleness. and cautiousness. department of English and Communication extended poem dealing equally with child- Workshops that evening included Christian celebrated the art of literature at a Readers The- hood, adolescence and adulthood, and gov- feminism. discerning gifts, vision. and disci- ater performance and poetry reading held in the erned by the theme of vision. pline. Several women faculty and staff pro- new Recital Hall. The theme of the evening On Saturday the celebration of the arts vided desserts. which students enjoyed during centered on "school" and the Readers Theater extended from morning until evening. The a break time between seminars. productions engaged subjects from the shame Ortlip Gallery was open nearly all day. In the The workshops continued Saturday of poverty in grade school children to Garrison meantime students, faculty and visitors could morning in the basement of the campus center Keillor's portrayal of one dreamy adolescent's enjoy a Saturday morning brunch, tours of the after a light breakfast. Students examined how escape from his parents in his advancement to Center for the Arts, an alumni recital. an they manage conflict and the strategies they use college. Zoller read a number of poems and evening music gala including every musical to combat it. Anderton recommended that they other works, including an essay that he pref- ensemble sponsored by the school, and an use the Negotiated Principled Agreement to aced with the phrase "something different," evening reception in the Adelmann Atrium. settle discord in situations or relationships. It about a quirky school field trip-a piece that kept Continued on page 3 Continued on page 3 INSIDE Jubilee Market to Change Hands EDITORIAL Owners to Change, Name Will Not Letter from the editor, p. 2 - Letter to the editor, p.2 Stephen Maxon NEWS The Fillmore Jubilee super-mar- - Houghton helps the United Way, p. 3 ket, formerly known as the Market Bas- ket, is in the process of being sold to a FEATURE partnership, which includes Doug Reeves, the man who once ran the store. .·,4 - Voting and Houghton, pp. 4&5 Reeves and Randy Ellis are pur- COMMUNITY chasing the Jubilee from its current owner, the Fleming Company. How- - Play Profile: Avery Munger, p. 6 ever. the sale is currently on hold. says - Ministry Moment: ACO, p. 6 Reeves, because of accidental paper- work problems involving Fleming. He ENTERTAINMENT expects the deal to be completed by the - Motoi on Music, p. 7 middle of November. chandise and everything will still come from - Five Iron plays Roberts, p. 7 Reeves expects a smooth transition the same distributor. so you'll be able to find when the ownership changes, he says. with the same products," An improvement in cus- SPORTS only a few, subtle changes. And contrary to tomer service will be the number-one priority. - Week in review, p. 8 popular belief, the store will not convert to an he says. - Player Profile: Rochelle Hershey .R8 IGA. but will stay a Jubilee. "We're not going Reeves owns two IGA stores in to change the name," Reeves said. 'The mer- Bolivar. New York. and Galeton, Pennsylvania. EDITORIAL Letter from the Editor: Letter to the Editor: "Tetris Shocked" "The Problem With Pleasure" 77m Gra#am possible to know what the future "For what is a man prof- that extends outstretched on a tree, will bring (kind of like that famous ited, if he shall gain the whole knowing full well that it does not We've been playing a lot box ofchocolates, you never know world, and lose his own soul? Or deserve to be there, and releases ofTetris on the old (i.e. classic) 8- what you're going to get). what shall a man give in exchange control. "Father, forgive them, for bit Nintendo at Stone House, In what was probably a for his soul?" they know not what they do." We partly because it is a good game, symptom of the mid-semester I- The success ethic is alive as Christians are taught to shine as but mostly because we don't have have-huge-pile-of-work-looming and well at Houghton College. lights, so the world may know who cable. doldrums, I was talking to one of Somewhere between Sunday we are and whence we come. For those who don't my housemates (while playing morning and first period Monday, There is no other way to shine than know. Tetris is a simple video Tetris) about those depressing we have lost-the idea that people to be the hand of mercy that ex- game of fitting various falling times in life when it ceases to be come first and life and its living, tends itself and gets crucified so shapes together to fun, when existing love and its giving, are what Chris- that others might live. "Verily, ver- make lines that sub- becomes work. I ob- tianity is all about. Instead, we have ily. 1 say unto you. except a corn sequently disappear served aloud while become possessed with knowing of wheat fall into the ground and 1 f you don't fit the playing that when all that our bills are paid, that our die. it abideth alone: but if it die. blocks right the> the pieces are fitting grades are up, and that we have that it bringeth forth much fruit." build up. and if the so well in the game crucial sweater from J. Crew. This And this is the bottom piled blocks reach vou never really no- is satisfaction. -If I make it through line. Whom are we living tor? Are the top of the screen tice. but when the the day." we think, "with all my we living for our future. so we can your game comes to wrong piece comes homework done. halfan houratthe have that job we dream of'. and that an end. The more or you make an ill- gym and some time to relax, then family everyone adores? That lines you make dis- advised move. the it will be a successful day." Why would be nice, wouldnt it? Secu- appear at one time. system is fouled up is it that feelings of accomplish- rity. success and 2.5 kids. The the higher your score. The most and remedying the situation be- ment and achievement stop curi- American dream. isn't it? This lines you can get at one time are comes a battle. With all attention ously short of burdens lightened seems so tempting. Surely there's four, known as a Tetris. hence the directed toward solving the prob- and shoulders offered? Sadly, nothing wrong with wanting this. name. Anyway. I've come to find lem. you miss out on all of the fun. though, this is the state of affairs But there is a deeper way, the way IU*ip like,agame ofTetris: some- 1 was babbling incessantly at Houghton and many other Evan- of uncertainty, the way of vulner- (kind of like this editorial) about gelical intellectual meccas in ability. This is the way that opens and sometimes it goes bad in the good times and bad times and how America today. What is it about our ourselves up and readies ourselves blink of eye. you never recognize the good times faith that is missing, which allows to be sucker-punched by life and Yes. I am comparing life until they turn bad until my us to forgo necessities for periph- by all that we seek after. This was to a video game and no, rm not housemate put it in perspective eral and sacrifice for stuff? What the message of the cross, that the kidding. Tetris is a puzzle game. curtly when he said, "That's what have we given away in exchange battle is not to the strong, but to The game of life can be puzzling.