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PARKING GARAGE? University President Dr. Bowling recently delivered his fifth annual State of the University address promising continual campus growth over the next eight years.

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STAFF LIST Nicole Lafond Exec. Editor

Thalyta Swanepoel Advisor

Justine Espersen News Editor

Destiny Mitchell Assist. News Editor

A.E. Sarver Campus Life Editor

A.J.W. Ewers Assist. Life Editor

Grace King Opinion Editor

Melissa Luby Assist. Opinion Editor

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Rachel Peterson Taylor Provost Emily Rush Matthew Taber ABOUT GLIMMERGLASS The GlimmerGlass is the official newspaper of the Associated Students of Olivet Nazarene University and a member of the Illinois College Press Association. The opinions expressed are those of each writer and are not necessarily held by the Associated Students Council, faculty, administration or students of the university.

Until 1941, the university newspaper was known simply as Olivet News. Former adviser Bertha Supplee proposed the name GlimmerGlass after visiting upstate New York, where she discovered a lake with the same name. The lake was as clear as glass and “glimmered” in the breeze. The newspaper staff adopted the name in spring of 1941, with the vision that it would symbolize the paper’s mission to reflect the truth and the values of Olivet Nazarene University.

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Previews of episode 2 in the web series “Hills,” Mitch (junior Dan Strasser) attempts to meet “the girl of his dreams” (played by sophomore Eva Winters). Left, Mitch talks with Vinny (junior Alex Philliips) who asks about a “mysterious proposition.”

Inspired from his experiences as a transfer student last For some actors, the web series embraced their awkward year, junior Dan Strasser – known online as Daniel Duane humor in actuality.

– recently created a web series called “Hills” to play as a “The series is really funny and awkward which is my dry-humor comedy parallel to his life. type of humor. My character is a tad too friendly and ob“My inspiration for the series is basically my life,” sessed with hugs,” Allen said. “The time I hugged Dan in Strasser said. “I struggled with trying to meet new people the first episode was the closest I had ever got to Dan.” and finding belonging in an alien place.”

Strasser and his peers have been working on creating the This three-episode web series released its first episode series since fall 2013, slowly adding to the script to come last Friday, Apr. 11, which featured Strasser’s character, to a point where he is able to film.

Mitch’s arrival to Hills and his search for his room while Everything in the film is completely original. Junior Truencountering the faces of his dorm. itt Murrow is the camera man and director of photography, A big fan of helping with ed“The Office,” iting as well, and “It has some of the extremes of different charac- sophomore Sam Strasser cast characters that he ters that one might find in dorm life, but then it Kwak worked already knew and with Strasser to gives it this dry humorous twist.” people who lived record his origiin Hills. nal work on the The cast includes junior Alex Phillips who plays the ukulele.

R.A. Vinny, who “doesn’t take his job seriously, he’s the Much of the cast knew each other already as Phillips is odd neurotic one, with good intentions,” sophomore Luke Strasser’s R.A. in real life and Pheasant has been his roomStrasser is Wolverine, “the awkward kid who covers his mate for the past three semesters; however, Pheasant plays face,” junior Nick Allen plays Wilbur who is “extremely Strasser’s new roommate in the series. enthusiastic” and “loves everyone with no barriers,” junior “Some of the stories portrayed in the web series are Ryan Smith plays Greg who is the football player with a loosely based on events that occurred but a lot of it is passion for dance, junior Simon Pheasant plays Peter who scripted by Dan and then there’s a bit of on scene improis Mitch’s roommate from South Africa, Dan Strasser plays visation,” Pheasant said. “I am legitimately South African, Mitch, the transfer student and sophomore Eva Winters however I don’t have such a heavy accent, I play it up for plays the girl Mitch falls for. the series.”

“I remember at the beginning of this semester, hearing “It has some of the extremes of different characters that just a little bit about Dan’s idea of a mini TV series mocku- one might find in dorm life, but then it gives it this dry humentary, comparable to the Office, only set in the dorms,” morous twist,” Pheasant added. “As the series progresses Winters said. “So when he asked me if I would consider Dan’s relationships with the various residents of Hills will being in it I thought ‘Hmm, I love the Office, so why not?’” grow.”

The series is focused about a “group of guys living in As far as the future of the series, Strasser mentioned the dorms trying to find their identities in life,” according he may do a “spinoff series” next year about his time in to Strasser.

Grand. However, Phillips expects a bigger picture from Although the episodes are meant to be told in a funny this web series. form, he wanted the series to be “heartfelt” – “serious and “How do I think it will progress? Have you ever heard of realistic to an extent, even though the characters are kind NBC? Yeah,” Phillips said. of crazy.”

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More buildings on the way

By Justine Espersen News Editor Olivet is committed to three broad priorities for the future: strengthening the core completing the campus plan and ensuring financial stability, University President Dr. John C. Bowling said during the annual State of the University address (SOTUA) to faculty and staff Tuesday, Mar. 25, in Kresge Auditorium.

This is the fifth annual SOTUA, as the first was held in 2009 to reassure faculty and staff in the time of the recession.

Specifically, Bowling noted several different aspects of “strategic expansion” to fulfill the Vision of 2022. Below is a list of some of the additions he mentioned in the address: -There will be an addition to the south end of Reed (between Reed and the Center for Student Success). Natural sciences and potentially the math department will be placed here. North

Reed will be ready to open in the fall.

-Classrooms with labs will be added to Wisner with the expansion to Nielson Drive, taking the faculty parking lot behind Wisner.

-There will be a wrap-around addition to the north of Larsen, between Larsen and Burke. This will include black box theater class, a recital hall and offices.

-A new dormitory will be added to accommodate all freshmen women in place of the Weber parking lot. This will hold roughly 450-500 women.

With the inclusion of new buildings over the coming years in current parking lots, a concern for parking came up during the Q&A of the address. A faculty member asked if they plan to accommodate for the loss of parking.

Bowling jokingly responded with, “I don’t seem to have trouble parking.”

However, he did say Olivet is considering including a parking structure, or garage, at the east end of chapel, but nothing is for certain.

Additionally, there will be an expansion to the Oakbrook campus since it has reached full capacity.

Bowling said they plan to expand and look for another location in Chicago, along with adding a new facility in Indiana. Olivet “extended their footprint and [their] mission impact” by opening a center in Lansing, Mich.

Bowling said Olivet hopes to “enhance the campus culture of student success” and work on increasing retention and graduation rates.

He also mentioned that faculty needs to internally develop a better “sense of shared culture” by “voluntarily going the second mile” with the “needy students.”

Faculty and staff were overall motivated by the SOTUA. “I’m really excited for the Vision 2022 plan,” Freshman Admissions Counselor Ali Carter said. “It’s helpful to know as I work in the office of admissions – it will help enhance the tours.”

The legal eagle has landed siastes mindset towards the world and forget that we are called to serve as we live now in the Spirit of Christ,” Though the government is not always he said. “The Center tackles this chalviewed through the lens of Christianlenging, and truly daunting task with ity, ONU’s Law Culture and Justice a steam of optimism and hope for the Institute offers students the opportufuture, and specifically to the most nity to do just that. hopeless professions of all.”

The institute is stationed on campus Though the institute is run from and is run by Political Science profesONU grounds, many other colleges sor Dr. Charles Emmerich. have chosen to endorse it, with Point “Essentially it is a two week instiLoma Nazarene tute that attracts University, East“Olivet is very pleased to be the host university bright students ern Nazarene from across the University, and for the Center for Law and Culture.” country to chalNazarene Bible lenge each other College being to integrate the biblical understanding Cataldo. some of the most recent to offer their of justice in their lives,” said Senior Addison Newell is the coordinator support.

Zachary Cataldo who participated in for the Law, Justice, and Culture In“Olivet is very pleased to be the the institute in the summer of 2012. stitute as well as assistant to Dr. Em- host university for the Center for Law He explained that students were merich. He was also a member of the and Culture. Professor Charles Emchallenged to “ formulate and imple- 2013 LJC Institute and “loved” it. merich gives strong leadership to this ment a biblical word view designed Newell calls the program a rich program,” said University President to inspire responsible citizenship, learning experience, citing the pro- Dr. John Bowling. explore what it means in the politi- grams Socratic methods and prompt ”Both Charles and Susan Emmcal and legal arenas to glorify God to for healthy debate conducive to stu- erich have the special ability to comserve ones newborn and to care for dents comprehension of the material. municate and articulate, passionate, God s creation, as well as strengthen He finds that the Center employs an and winsome Christian worldview the ability to analyze and reason and optimistic view on Christians in the with specific applications to law, justo articulate and defend positions. “ workplace. tice and environmental stewardship,” The institute involves intensive “It is so easy to develop an Eccle- he said.

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reading and discussion and requires heavy participation from its students.

To ensure full engagement with the program, the students are all assigned roles that mimic English medieval feudal class system.

“It takes so many ‘roles’ to become a common man than a knight then a noble. At the end of the institute the person with the most jobs is crowned king and second place is queen,” said

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After 35 years of working as Olivet’s Director of Career Services, Mary Anderson will retire with her husband, Dr. Gerald Anderson.

Anderson retires

By Destiny Mitchell Assistant News Editor After over three decades of service, Olivet will be losing one of its best and brightest. Mary Anderson, the Director of the Center for Student Success, will end her 35-year career at Olivet in June.

Anderson will be retiring with her husband, music professor Dr. Gerald Anderson, who has been at Olivet for 36 years.

The retirement didn’t come as a shock to the department of student development. The Andersons have been openly planning their retirement for a while.

“I think I’ve known for a year that this was going to be her last year,” said Beth Olney, also Director of the Center for Student Success. “I knew it was coming. She had said she wanted to retire when her husband retired so I didn’t want to keep her from that.”

As a worker in student development, Anderson’s job responsibilities include working with individuals or with groups on anything that’s career related. This includes resumes, cover letters, portfolios, and teaching students where to look for jobs.

She also presents workshops and seminars in academic classes.

“We do all of our workshops in classes so that we have a captive audience and [students] have to show up,” Anderson laughed.

The Center for Student Success handles close to 1000 students a year either through classes or appointments.

Anderson looks to help undergraduates—and a few alumni—prepare themselves for the task of entering the work force.

An important thing she teaches students is to market themselves as a “young professional” as opposed to a transitioning college student, because employers are looking for the former and not the latter.

Anderson found her tasks and titles always changing during her years at Olivet and said her job was never boring. As to why she has remained in one department for 35 years, the answer was simple.

“I like my job, it’s a very family friendly place to work,” Anderson said. She emphasized the welcoming atmosphere and the understanding nature of her supervisors.

Her absence will make a significant difference in the department.

“She has an expertise in her field that is very hard to replace, [over] 30 years of expertise,” Olney said.

35 years of dedication has given Anderson much recognition amongst her coworkers.

“Mary is one of the hardest working people I’ve ever been around.

She’s very responsible, she doesn’t quit until the job is done and she has very high expectations for her students,” Olney described.

Though Anderson isn’t exactly sure what the future holds, aside from a few planned vacations, she knows that she’ll definitely miss this large part of her past: the people of Olivet.

And the people will miss her too.

“She’s a colleague and a friend,” said Olney.

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Ritter ready to tackle ‘missioneering’

By Melissa Luby Assistant Opinion Editor

“One task of missions is to bring hope. When you bring electricity, you bring hope.” ing department, who found Ritter.

“Johnson reached out to me via email,” Ritter said. “My interview was in progress at the time of his death. I never got to meet him in person.”

Ritter called the move from working in the industry to a career in academia a “big shift” and added that he felt apprehensive about making his academic debut as department chair.

However, Ritter said he is excited about the opportunity and that it will be a “refreshing change.”

“It’s a more relaxed pace in academics,” he said. “It will also be nice to have summers off.”

Ritter is most excited, however, by the prospect of working with and influencing college students.

“I’m energized by college students,” he said. “When you work in the industry, most of your colleagues are older and biased and a bit cynical.

College students are more open.”

Ritter is also impressed by the

Dememonstrations of the International Technical Electrical and Construction were held in the Cenntenial Chapel parking lot Mar. 20 and 21. Dr. Ritter also attended this event.

Engineering Dept. hosts demo

By Melissa Luby Assistant Opinion Editor

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New engineering department chair Dr. R. Shane Ritter is leaving behind his own electrical engineering firm, Ritter Engineering, P.C., and the warmth of North Carolina to join the faculty at Olivet next fall.

For some, the decision to leave behind a decorated industrial career and a temperate climate would be difficult to make. For Ritter, the choice was obvious.

“I’ve always had a desire to teach,” Ritter said. “It was one of my longterm goals.” The decision to come to Olivet is more than just an occupational dream for Ritter. “I’ve always struggled to find ways to combine my faith and my work,” he said. “I wanted to de-compartmentalize.”

Ritter’s desire to unite his work and his faith led him to several missioneering projects before he found the opening in Olivet’s faculty.

“I use to Google ‘Christian’ and ‘electrical engineering,’” he said. “I talked to a few Christian colleges, but found that most weren’t as committed to faith as they had advertised.”

Despite the ardency of Ritter’s searches, it was the late Dr. Ken Johnson, then chair of the engineer-

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newly-completed engineering wing.

“It’s a great change,” he said. “My only concern is that, at the rate that we are expanding, we will outgrow the facility in just a few years.”

The expansion that Ritter mentioned is not only in number of students, but also in course offerings.

Ritter and Johnson had discussed the possibility of both adding more concentrations to the engineering program and making mechanical engineering and electrical engineering separate degrees. Separating the two concentrations is the first step towards building a graduate program in engineering at Olivet, a goal that Ritter, like Johnson before him, hopes to achieve. Johnson set the foundation for an engineering graduate program by creating a master’s program in engineering management, which debuted this year.

One of Ritter’s greatest goals, is to utilize the talents of Olivet students in the missions field. Ritter has done work in the past with organization such as Samaritan’s Purse, I-TEC, and JAARS and hopes his connections to these groups will create opportunities for Olivet students, particularly those in the electrical concentration.

International Technical Electric and Construction, better known as ITEC, visited the Olivet department of engineering to demonstrate their new power container on March 20 and 21.

The power container, which debuted on July 12 at the Lycoming County Fair in Pennsylvania, is designed to “provide reliable ‘clean’ power and provide very little maintenance when located in a remote part of the world,” according to the organization’s blog. The primary purpose of the container is to serve as a power source for missionary activities in remote parts of the world.

The power container consists of a shipping container outfitted with

solar panels, a battery and a diesel generator. The solar panels charge the battery, which is the main source of energy produced by the container.

The generator serves as a backup for emergencies and rainy seasons.

Besides being a low-maintenance source of energy, the I-TEC power container also provides several other advantages, which make it ideal for the missions field. The container can be assembled in the United States by volunteers and shipped to where it is needed.

The container’s prefabricated nature helps avoid problems with improper assembly and difficulty procuring materials that traditional electrical infrastructures often encounter.

Dr. R. Shane Ritter, who will take over as the chair of the engineering

department effective July 1, 2014 has worked with I-TEC in the past and was present for the demonstration.

Ritter said that one of his goals for the future of the engineering department is to become more involved in missions, adding that he thought that working with I-TEC would be an excellent opportunity for Olivet engineering students.

“One task [of missions] is to bring hope,” he said. “When you bring electricity, you bring hope and open the door to bring Christ.”

I-TEC is a nondenominational ministry that specializes in supporting missions and disaster relief through technology. For the past 25 years, I-TEC volunteers have built and installed electrical systems in over 40 Third-World countries.

Late-night TV changes again

By Jake Neuman Online Editor While taping “The Late Show” on Apr. 3, David Letterman announced his plans to retire from his late night gig in the summer of 2015. He informed CBS president Leslie Moonves before the taping of his intentions.

On Apr. 10, CBS announced that Stephen Colbert of “The Cobert Report” on Comedy Central will be replacing Letterman in 2015. Colbert told The New York Times, “I won’t be doing the new show in character, so we’ll all get to find out how much of him was me. I’m looking forward to it,” Colbert Said.

Letterman released a statement following the announcement saying, “Stephen has always been a real friend to me.

I’m very excited for him, and I’m flattered that CBS chose him. I also happen to know they wanted another guy with glasses,” Letterman said.

This leaves “The Late Late Show’s” Craig Ferguson’s

own position in question. It was reported on nypost.com that Ferguson would get at minimum $5 million if passed over to replace Letterman while some other sources claim it could be as high as $12 million.

After Colbert was revealed, Ferguson tweeted, “Congratulations to the hugely talented and fragrant and lovely @StephenAtHome on the new gig. Welcome to the CBS funhouse.”

According to ratings information Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers of NBC have been beating both Letterman and Ferguson. Kimmel’s new “Tonight Show” and Meyers’ new “Late Night” have been ahead of CBS’s late night programs by 22% and 51% by total viewers respectively.

According to the president of CBS, no decisions have been made about Ferguson’s spot. “We’re in discussions.

Our pat answer is, let us deal with one hour at a time,” said Moonves.

“The Colbert Report” will wrap up in eight months so Colbert can prepare to take over “The Late Show.”

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The Communication Department hosted a farewell party for Associate Professor Dr. Emily Lamb Normand Monday, Apr. 14.

Comm. profs come and go

By Taylor Provost Staff Writer “It’s a big puzzle that I don’t have all the answers to yet,” Dr. Jay Martinson, Chair of the Communication Department, said in response to departmental changes soon to take place.

While Martinson is not certain what specific changes are in store for the Communication Department, he said he is certain that the changes will be positive. With the addition of Dr. Heather Attig, Mark Bishop’s replacement, the return of Mark Bishop, and, most recently, the resignation of Dr. Emily Lamb Normand, the department is in the process of growing and expanding.

Lamb Normand’s resignation is simply a result of three children and a 45-minute daily commute, Martinson said. She found a job in her hometown at Lewis University, which Martinson called “a perfect fit for her.”

“While I was not actively seeking to leave Olivet, accepting the position at Lewis University allows my family the opportunity to live and work in the same community where our children will attend school. This has been a growing concern of mine as my children start school and get involved in extracurricular activities,” Lamb Normand said.

“Although I’m excited for the changes the move [to Lewis University] will bring, I am also incredibly sad to leave such a supportive and dynamic group of people: faculty, staff, and students alike. I feel so blessed to have been a part of the Department of Communication here at Olivet. They have helped me to become a better teacher, thinker, leader, follower, and friend,” she said.

“We [Communication Department] are happy for her, but upset because she’s leaving; she’s been here for seven years,” Martinson said.

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“This is why it gets weird – she [Lamb Normand] isn’t being replaced,” he said. “But what does that mean with my classes? What do I have to drop?”

Martinson asked.

Martinson said that the distribution of Lamb Normand’s classes amongst the other professors is still being figured out, but that Bishop’s return, while unrelated to Lamb Normand’s resignation, is “perfect timing.”

“It’s apples and oranges, though,” Martinson said of Bishop and Lamb Normand. The two communication professors do not have the same skills; Bishop’s return does not replace Lamb Normand. His return will, however, help “lighten the load” between Martinson, Attig, Dr. Thalyta Swane-

tinson said.

“It’s a toss-up; they’re both so strong,” Martinson said of Attig and Bishop. “When we had just Mark Bishop, we had a really good program here, but we only had one person [for Television classes]. We only had one perspective and we recognized that there were drawbacks to that,” he said. “We had always hoped that we could add a second [professor], and so now with Attig and Bishop, we’ve got that.”

Martinson said he told the Communication Department what this fall will look like in regards to classes offered, but he said more concrete planning on curriculum changes will not happen until the fall when the whole

“God confirmed to me more than ever where I need to be and where I need and what I need to be doing.” poel, and Prof. Carl Fletcher, who collectively form the department’s Multimedia team, affectionately dubbed by Martinson as “The Dream Team.”

Bishop agreed with Martinson.

“I especially missed my colleagues in ONU’s communication department.

We have a very unique team who feels more like a family than co-workers,” Bishop said. “The curriculum in ONU’s communication department is top notch, and I knew I needed to get back to the program I helped build for so many years.”

After Martinson met with Attig and Bishop, the three decided that this upcoming fall semester, Bishop will teach Scriptwriting for Multimedia, which Attig currently teaches but Bishop previously taught, because that is a strength of his. Bishop will also teach Television News; “that’s his specialty, not her specialty,” Mar-

Multimedia team can meet and decide what should change; “they’ve all got to be a part of that decision.”

“I’ve told them all, ‘hold on, fasten your seatbelts, come fall, we need to get our heads together and just imagine what this department could look like,’” Martinson said. “I don’t think we just need to split [classes] up and go from there; we need to take a broader look at curriculum review and ask ‘what can this department look like now that we’ve got Mark here and lost Emily?’ Let’s make the best of this.”

While there are no major curriculum changes the upcoming semester, Martinson anticipates departmental change over time.

Communication students Sam Steiber, junior, and Austin Siscoe, freshman, expressed their thoughts on the department’s near future.

“I don’t know Bishop yet, but I’m really excited as they plan to expand the department,” Siscoe said. “It’ll really help out some of my classmates, too.”

“I’ve really loved getting to know Dr. Attig this semester and I think she’s a great teacher, but I’m also really excited that Prof. Bishop is coming back. I think the two of them will be able to work really well together and make the Multimedia program even stronger,” Steiber said.

Bishop’s excitement for returning to Olivet is evident, as well.

“Olivet has been such a big part of my family’s life for the past 12 years,” Bishop said. “While we knew it would be tough to leave our home in Bourbonnais [last year], we didn’t factor in just how much we would miss family and friends that had become so important to us over the years.”

Bishop said that while Nashville is a “great city to live in” and “Trevecca [University] was very welcoming to us, our soul searching soon confirmed we were right where we needed to be when we were in Bourbonnais. We didn’t want to wait three or four years to act on it so we decided to come back as soon as possible.”

While Bishop is eager to start fall semester back at Olivet, he said he does not regret anything about “the past year’s events.”

“God confirmed to me more than ever where I need to be and what I need to be doing. I’m especially grateful to Dr. Jay Martinson, Dr. Dennis Crocker, and Dr. Houston Thompson for giving me the chance to return,” Bishop said. His family hopes to move back in June.

“We just feel so blessed,” Martinson said. “We don’t [want to] bring [Bishop] here and then just remain status quo; we want this resulting in departmental growth. We want what’s going to be best for the students.”

Nine faculty to retire

By Emily Lohr Staff Writer This spring marks not only an end of a semester for students, but an end of an era for several departing faculty members as a total of nine faculty members are leaving this spring.

Dr. Dennis Crocker, Vice President of Academic Affairs, is in charge of making final hiring decisions in regards to faculty at Olivet, something he calls getting “the right people in the right seats.”

When asked if the number of people leaving Olivet this spring was comparable to numbers in the past, he said he did not find the numbers “excessive.” He assures students that despite the number of faculty leaving Olivet, they can expect to see just as many, if not more faculty returning in the spring.

“What we try to do is be careful about creating new positions.

There will be a few new positions, I can’t say at this point how many… we try to balance need with the resources we have available before us,” Crocker said.

“And it’s a juggling act…we try to be good stewards of God’s resources.”

Although some new faculty members have already been announced, many offers are still pending. Dr. Crocker said a comprehensive list of arriving faculty will be released this summer.

Retirees Dr. Gerald Anderson, Professor in the Department of Music Mary Anderson, Director of Career Services Dr. Ray Bower, Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences Leaving Olivet Dr. Leo Finkenbinder, Professor from the Department of Biology Dr. Emily Lamb Normand, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Dr. Janna McLean, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Frank Moore, Professor from the School of Theology and Christian Ministry Dr. Susan Moore, Professor from the School of Education

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Athletics 4/19 – Women’s Tennis vs. Calumet College of St. Joe – 1 pm – Snowbarger -- Men’s Tennis vs. Calumet College of St. Joe – 2 pm – Snowbarger

Fine Arts 4/25 – Show Choir Concert – 7pm – Kresge 4/28 – Jazz Band/Jazz Combo Concert – 7 pm – Kresge 4/29 – Bands Spring Concert – 7 pm – Kregse 5/1 – Chamber Recital – 7 pm – Kresge 5/3 – Commencement Concert – 7 pm – Kresge

Clubs & Organizations 4/24 – Annual Night of One-Acts – 7 pm 5/2 – Spoons 4 Forks – 9 pm 5/5 – Senior Banquet – 6:30 pm – Odyssey Country Club (Tinley Park, IL) 5/9 – Phi Delta Lambda Banquet – 4:30 pm – Nash Banquet Hall

Spiritual Development 4/21 – Party with Jesus – 9 pm – Warming House 4/23 – Parlor – 7 pm – College Church 4/30 – Parlor – 7 pm – College Church

Academics 4/17-21 – Easter Break 5/5 – Final Exams Begin 5/9 – Social Work Pinning – 1 pm --Honors Program Reception – 1:30 pm --Nursing Division Pinning – 2 pm --Baccalaureate Service – 7:30 pm 5/10 – Commencement Convocation – 9:30 am --Graduate Commencement – 2:30 pm

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he #onuchapel hashtag is a needed aspect of life at Olivet, according to Chapel Worship Coordinator, Joey Ramirez. “[Onuchapel] gives students a voice and it’s something that started in a grassroots way … it is a good thing and a bad thing because people can say whatever they want,” Ramirez said.

And tweeting whatever they want is exactly what students do.

The hashtag first emerged in January of 2010, according to the Twitter analytics website, Topsy.com. The first recorded tweet posted to the #onuchapel hashtag was written by, then senior, Benjamin Coots.

“I would use it to point out funny things that happened in chapel. At the time not many people used it so I would vent about stuff,” Coots said.

“I remember #onuchapel turning much more positive the next year when it wasn’t just a small group of us using it, so that’s when I stopped.”

Coots said he has read the hashtag a bit since he left and called the nature of the tweets “much more positive” than when it first started.

Over the past four years the hashtag has grown in popularity.

Although the university does not officially endorse it, any student sitting in chapel knows about the hashtag, University Chaplain, Mark Holcomb said.

“The onuchapel hashtag is a part of who we are, it’s not going away.

I think that’s representative of the world we live in. Social media is a part or our world, and it is up to us whether we use it responsibly or not.” Holcomb said.

While less than 4 percent of the student body tweets to the #onuchapel hashtag on a regular basis, on average, between 400 and 500 tweets are posted to the thread during a chapel service, according to Twitter analytics website, keyhole.com. amirez, who reads #onuchapel tweets every other week, thinks the hashtag gives students the opportunity to be honest and begin discussions, but it also allows students the opportunity to critique without consequences, he said.

Ramirez often comes across positive and negative critiques about chapel worship via twitter when he reads posts to the hashtag.

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“I know that not everyone will be happy [with chapel worship] all the time and twitter is the outlet to say whatever you want without people really knowing who you are,” Ramirez said. “I don’t ever combat [critiques] with tweeting back at [students], I don’t think that ever fixes the problem.”

When Ramirez comes across negative tweets about chapel music or himself personally, he makes an active effort to meet with students and discuss questions or concerns they may have. hile Ramirez does not participate in #onuchapel tweets, he believes hashtags, overall, provide good opportunities to start conversations that need to be had, but most people do not use hashtags in a constructive way, he said.

“A tweet has no heart unless you know the person who tweeted. Until we know the heart of the person, a tweet isn’t going to change anything,” Ramirez said.

Junior Sierra Navarro, who has also been personally impacted by tweets posted to the #onuchapel hashtag, thinks students need to learn to be responsible for the things they post online. “[We should] use it to impact the world in a positive way,” she said.

Navarro, who has been unofficially coined the Laughing Chapel Girl, said she knows she has a unique laugh and often laughs more when she feels like she can relate with a message.

Her laugh is often heard above all other laughs, or sounds, in chapel and many students have taken to Twitter to express their disdain or appreciation for the Laughing Chapel Girl.

A hashtag was even made, #laughingchapelgirl, in September.

Navarro said she never noticed the tweets made about her to the #onuchapel hashtag until a friend told her about them. She ignored them until curiosity pushed her to sit down and read them all.

“I was laughing hysterically at them all, both positive and negative, and I made sure to favorite them,” she said. “It [didn’t] affect me negatively until it became personal.”

Although she appreciates the discussion the hashtag establishes, Navarro thinks twitter is the wrong

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place to express critiques.

“I like the positive and negative tweets because they help me see things the way other people view them … Frankly, a tweet is probably too short to help others to understand why you feel negatively about something. It doesn’t give you enough characters to explain yourself,” she said.

Holcomb shares a similar sentiment saying he decided early last Fall to stop reading #onuchapel tweets.

“I try not to read them at all, but will admit I do once or twice a semester out of curiosity. I don’t read them when I speak. Speaking is exhausting for me, so I don’t need to hear the critique in real time, neither do I want to go there to feel good about what I’ve said,” he said.

“Quite honestly, neither are good for me. They both lean toward co-dependency. I don’t think it’s a good practice to base whether what takes place in chapel is good or not based on 140 character sound bites,” Holcomb said.

While the #onuchapel hashtag may not have originally been developed for any particular purpose, Holcomb thinks the hashtag affects culture on campus by providing students a place for open discussion. This idea falls closely in line with the original intent of the hashtag. hris Messina, a social technology expert, was the first person to ever use a hashtag when he tweeted “how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp?” in August of 2007. He came up with the idea because he wanted to develop a virtual place for discussion via Twitter, according to hashtag.org.

“A hashtag is created by online users to discuss specific events and relevant issues. These are categorically arranged so that other online users can easily search for the topic and participate in the conversation, no matter where they are in the world,” Vanessa Doctor, a writer for hashtag. org wrote in a recent article on their website.

While the #onuchapel hashtag has evolved since it was first started by Coots and his friends, the purpose still falls in line with the universal role of the hashtag- to give social media users a safe place for commentary and discussion, Holcomb said.

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A new report has debunked theories that “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” is a forgery.

The Harvard Journal claiming to support the authenticity of a papyrus fragment that quotes Jesus as saying the phrase “my wife” has sparked controversy over what can be definitively known about Jesus and how early Christians viewed matters of gender and sex.

The discovery of the fragment was announced two years ago by Harvard Divinity School historian Karen King.

The initial discovery incited many accusations of forgery.

But the Harvard Journal has provided articles on the document’s composition, saying it probably dated from between the sixth and ninth centuries and might even be older.

King said the authentication of what she calls “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” doesn’t prove that Jesus was married but sheds light on early Christians’ discussions about whether the “ideal model of Christian life was a celibate one.”

Brazil is looking to swap publicity for the World Cup for carbon credits.

Looking to offer the carbon emissions generated by construction, travel and other activities related to hosting the 2014 Soccer World Cup, Brazil said it wants holders of United Nations-backed carbon credits to swap them for publicity during the games.

The World Cup begins June 12 and Brazil’s Environment Ministry said it has launched a program to convince owners of credits to exchange them for publicity in official documents of the event.

The country, which is spending $26 billion, is ready to prepare for the tournament, has no plans to buy offsets in the market, even if carbon prices are at historical lows.

“We talked to some holders of credits and they were receptive to the idea of donating credits,” said Eduardo Valente, an official working with the program.

The government will accept only certified emission reductions from Brazil-based projects of the U.N.’s Clean Development Mechanisms.

Nigeria’s military said its forces had freed most of the schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram militants, and are continuing the search for eight students still missing.

Islamist rebels duped the dozens of Nigerian schoolgirls into thinking they were soldiers who had come to evacuate them before abducting over 100 in their latest anti-government raid.

Gunmen suspected to be members of the radical Islamist movement Boko Haram swooped on Chibok town in Borno state and on its nearby all-girl government secondary school.

The mass abduction of the students aged between 15 and 18 shocked Nigerians and showed how the fiveyear-old Boko Haram insurgency has brought lawlessness to swathes of the poor northeast, killing hundreds of people in recent months.

“When we saw these gunmen, we thought they were soldiers, they told all of us to come and walk to the gates, we followed their instructions,” said 18-year-old Godiya Isaih, who managed to escape the abductors.

-Washington Post

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Pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine have seized six Ukrainian armored vehicles.

Reports say the occupants were disarmed after the vehicles were blockaded by locals in the city of Kramatorsk.

The incident came a day after the military began an operation to remove pro-Russian protestors from public buildings across eastern Ukraine.

After Ukrainian forces recaptured an airfield outside Kramatorsk armored vehicles began appearing in the center of the town.

Civilians witnessed challenging soldiers, who were also blocked by a crowd a few kilometers outside the town.

One officer said he had not “come to fight” and would never obey orders to shoot his “own people.”

Columns were blocked by local people with members of Russian diversionary-terrorist group members among them.

With many more incidents like this, the chaos and conflict doesn’t look like it will be coming to an end any time soon.

-BBC

Passengers aboard a sinking South Korean ferry faced a terrifying choice as the vessel rolled: obey commands to stay in place or don life vests and jumps into unknown.

“Don’t move,” a voice over loudspeakers warned. “If you move, it’s dangerous. Don’t move.”

Some witnesses worry that announcement may have cost some passengers on the ferry Sewol their lives.

“Kids were forced to stay put,” one survivor said, “so only some of those who moved survived.”

Rescuers searched the tumultuous waters for nearly 300 people who remained unaccounted for.

Some of those who jumped or made their way to the top of the ship were rescued, while some were plucked from the deck via helicopter.

Others were pulled from the water by crews aboard the many nearby fishing boats and military vessels.

Reports say that between 164 and 179 passengers have been rescued.

“It’s just an absolutely, positively horrific situation,” said David Gallo, director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic.

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CAMPUS LIFE Drum Beats: You most likely have seen her around campus. You have seen her famous mobile chair beautifully decorated with various trinkets and lights. Get to know the woman, freshman Grace Pelley.

Q: What is your favorite flavor of cake?

Homemade chocolate Q: How has coming to Olivet been a challenge to you?

[Coming to Olivet has been challenging] in a lot of ways. At first, it was really hard because no one knew me and no one knows what they are doing at first.

I also had to adjust to not living with my momma, who knows me better than anyone else. I also wear out easily and was tired all the time.

Q: What is your all time favorite movie?

Amazing Grace, because of all the great lines, not because my name is in the title.

Q: What would you say to people who treat you differently because of your disability?

“Jesus loves you.” I am different in a lot of ways, but I have a lot in common with everyone else. I want friends who like me for me, not because they feel bad for me.

Q: How has being in a wheel chair influenced your outlook on the world?

Everything is either too tall, too small or too fast. Also, most [people] realize how fortunate they are to be able to do everything they do.

Q: Who would you say Grace Pelley is?

[I am] one for whom Christ died.

Q: Do you ever worry about what people think about you?

Of course [I do]; but people who do dumb things do not know me, so they do not count.

Q: How do you like your eggs cooked?

Scrambled Q: What is your favorite milkshake flavor?

I do not have one.

Q: What is on your fridge right now?

I do not have one.

Do you know an interQ: If you could eat cake with any peresting person who marchson in the world, who would it be? es to their own beat?

[A picture of] my grandpa. He just Submit their name to the turned 80.

GlimmerGlass for our Q: Dr. Bowling invites you to a party, next Drum Beats profile. what do you bring? @TheGlimmerGlass Whatever my mom feels like making. glimmerglass@olivet.edu Q: Your freshman year is almost over, what do you hope for in your next three years at Olivet?

I want to earn a degree that will enable [me] to get a job I like.

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Do you enjoy investigating, reporting, talking to people, writing, or taking photos?

The newspaper can use you! Email glimmerglass@ olivet.edu for an application.

Mind games: now beneficial

By A.J.W. Ewers Assistant Life Editor What are the next three numbers in this series? 4, 6, 12, 18, 30, 42, 60, 72, 102, 109, …

It is brain puzzles like this that have intrigued the intellect of mankind since their beginning with the Greek mathematician Archimedes over two millennia ago. Since that time, games meant to test the mind have developed greatly and some are now considered beneficial for the brain.

One of the earliest known brain problems is called bovinum problema, or simply “Archimedes’ Cattle Problem,” according to Wolfram MathWorld. Archimedes’ was famous for his endless questioning of the world around him. In fact, his famous cattle problem took a computer almost eight hours to complete the problem in 1965, according to Wolfram.

While most people today don’t

have the time to sit around and listen to a Greek philosopher lecture about the world’s mysteries, there are easier options for those wishing to stimulate their brains. The digital media market offers games such as Luminosity that are available either for free or at a very low cost – each of which is based on the premise that it will make your brain more functional.

While games that promise brain improvement are aplenty, do they really work? There has been and continues to be many tests to understand the benefits of brain games. Early tests that researched the benefits of brain games were done on rodents, not humans, according to the Scientific American. However, as more studies attempting to understand the benefits of brain games, a more complete knowledge of exactly what they do is being formed.

According to Sheryl Willis of Pennsylvania State University, there are

benefits to the games – but the benefits don’t come in the way that you might expect. Rather than helping the entire brain at once, the games only help those areas of the brains that it is targeted at, according to Willis. So if a game is meant to increase hearing ability, it is only hearing ability that increases while you are playing.

While games may only benefit the area that is targeted by the game while you are playing the game, it does not mean that there aren’t overall benefits to partaking in digital stimulation.

Willis writes that these games eventually translate to actual overall brain health as the various parts of the brain are improved.

Many people today are looking for something that will keep them younger. Who know that the key to a youthful mind could be at the end of your fingertips?

In case you couldn’t figure out the puzzle at the beginning, the next three

Gigi’s Game Corner Can you complete these brain stimulating games and puzzles?

Take a crack at Gigi’s very own game corner!

The man living in the center house drinks milk.

Einstein’s Logic Puzzle There is a row of five different color houses.

Each house is occupied by a man of different nationality. Each man has a different pet, prefers a different drink, and smokes different brand of cigarettes.

The Brit lives in the Red house. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. The Dane drinks tea. The Green house is next to the White house, on the left. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. The man who

smokes Blue Master drinks beer. The German smokes Prince. The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water. Who has a fish in their house?

Einstein said that only two percent of people would be able to solve this incredibly difficult puzzle!

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Mind-teasing Riddles

1. They can trickle down, They can tickle too. Or make you sneeze, Or comfort you. Their rustling sound, you’ve rarely heard, Unless you’re a pillow or a bird! What are they?

2. There is a certain family with both a girl and a boy children. Each of the boys has the same number of brothers as he has sisters. Each of the girls has twice as many brothers as she has sisters. How many boys and girls are there in this family?

3. I herald the darkness which descends on all creatures; You will know my approach by moans and wracked features. I visit the hippo, hyena, and horse, But never go near snails and spiders, of course. I would circle the glove, leaping one to the other, should all the world’s people ever clasp hands together. What am I? 4. I am hip and sassy. I have hands of a baby but yet I am not one. I am small in stature but I am big in attitude. I have a back bone to stand up to the biggest of giants, but I am also gentle when need be. Who am I? Answers 1. A Feather 3. A yawn 2. 4 boys, 3 girls 4. Nicole Lafond

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Challenging others to think: The Prelude.

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By A.E. Sarver Life Editor Five bikes hanging on the wall. Used decorative rugs. Six creative comrades in a cramped garage. It’s coming, The Prelude.

They’re a new band that started with one man’s dream to use his music to get people to think.

The Prelude., a new Christian-Rock band, released their original debut album on Apr. 16 and are preparing for many upcoming events.

Made up of Olivet students and alum, each member was included for their unique musicianship.

Jonathan Burkey, former chapel worship coordinator for ONU, wrote songs for the student body while working at Olivet. His songs, such as “Make My Life Shine” and “A New Heart” are still sung in chapel. His songwriting led him to more ideas and he wanted to do something about his new songs.

“I’ve been sitting on these songs for a while. I knew if I didn’t record them with musicians I admired, I would regret it,” Burkey said. “And my wife, Mrs. B, said you’ve got to do it.”

The musicians he so admires in-

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2 1. Ben Cherney arranged all strings for The Prelude. He is on keys, synth, accordion and second vocals. 2. Jonathan Burkey is the lead vocalist, acoustic/rhythm and electric guitar. 3. Enos Hershberger is on lead electric and third vocals. 4. Isaac Burch plays bass and banjo. 5. Joel Deckard is on drums and percussion. The group hopes to use their music as a way to create conversation and challenge the way people think.

Photos by Joe Mantarian.

clude seniors Ben Cherney and Joel to their audio producer, Zach Harmon, goal was achieved. I talked to a lady Deckard, junior Enos Hershberger in order to finish his portion of the al- and she said she listened to the record and former student Isaac Burch. bum. But in the end, they successfully and thought of the Bible in a completely different way. Mission Ac“I’ve never done something so col- finished. laborative,” Cherney said.

“Parables & Promises” was re- complished.”

The journey has had some diffiTheir collaboration paid off. In leased on Apr. 16, but will also be three short and somewhat alarming available at their two release parties at culties for the band members, since many of them days, they recorded are still students their first album, are involved “Parables & Prom“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities that in other activities ises.”

It wasn’t a typical and purify your character and sensibilities, and one member a family and studio setting and and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a has travels two and a they had to prepare fountain of joy alive in you.” half hours to get ahead of time in to rehearsal evorder to accomplish -Dietrich Bonhoeffer ery week. their recording in “We all still three days. spend our time The alarming part came when Burkey met what he The Adventure Church in Bradley, Ill. in different ways. But we want to be calls “the death” and acquired the flu on Apr. 24 and Apr. 25 at 8 p.m. for as professional and excellent as possible,” Deckard said. that kept him in bed for the next few 10 dollars.

They have figured out how to make weeks. The rest of the band continued On Apr. 24, The Kindred Sisters recording. will open for The Prelude. and on Apr. it work, and they consider their mar“We’re not messing around,” Her- 25, The Fragmented & Complete will keting and media manager, Joe Mantarian, to have contributed to much of shberger said. open.

When Burkey remembered what The album reflects on life, relation- their success.

“What hasn’t Joe done for this they had accomplished, he turned to ships, God, the world and faith. them in disbelief.

“Our purpose is to create space for band?” Burkey said.

Sophomore Joe Mantarian manages “You guys! What an amazing thing. conversation and re-imagination by That’s so awesome.” challenging the way people think of every part of The Prelude. that isn’t Burkey had to drive twice to Ohio life through art,” Burkey said. “My musical. He organized and created

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“It was challenging because I was creating something new and we didn’t want to be like every other band,” Mantarian said.

Because they are all connected with Olivet, they have been able to work with other Olivet students and use resources even though they are not a band from Olivet.

“We’re blessed because we’re a part of Olivet,” Burkey said.

On their website, thepreludeofficial.com, it says, “For us, music serves as a centerpiece of life and personal expression. The gifts of melody, harmony, rhythm and lyric compose the soundtrack of the universe.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your characeter and sensibilities, and in timie of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”

Burch believes that music can be used to reach others well, “We want to reach people in the church. We’re using music not only because we’re musicians, but because music is an effective way to get that message across.”

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ON THE RECORD

A final letter from the editor

I’ve been recording reality since before I can remember.

It started as a hobby; I took notes during every sermon my father preached, I scribbled in my journal every night before bed, I wrote in the margins of my Lord of the Rings novels, I recorded class lessons and took notes at night to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Writing to remember has always been in my nature.

After graduating eighth grade, I remember coming home and sorting through the journals shoved under my bed, scouring for a blank page to embellish with the jitters of my young anticipation for high school. I wrote ferociously, as I often did, and eventually looked up to see my grandfather standing in the doorway, his eyes smiling.

“Nicole, you should be a journalist,” he said.

And from that moment on, I never wanted to be anything else.

Recording reality has always had its place in the fiber of my being, but as I sit here today on the verge of submitting my final edition of the GlimmerGlass as editor, I can’t even begin to convince myself that this is real. This year has been a rocky, transformative time of growth for this publication and I could not be more proud of the work my staff has done.

There is a theory in communication studies that comes from the sociocultural tradition called the Tenth Man Theory. Every institution, organization, company and university on this planet runs the risk of falling victim to a self-defeating ideology called GroupThink. When the desire for unanimity and harmony overrides a group’s motivation to assess all available plans of action,

GroupThink occurs. The organization’s primary goal then becomes consensus rather than good judgment and the group falls prey to a deadly trap that discourages diversity and smothers perspective.

It is the press’ job in every community to prevent GroupThink by playing the role of the Tenth Man. Every group needs an individual to challenge, ask questions, gage perspective and even play devil’s advocate. Because Olivet is such a special community, this task often proves to be challenging for the GlimmerGlass staff, but we firmly believe silence is deadly. And that is why we push and pester and praise because at the end of the day we want this community to be the best place it can be.

Olivet, I hope we have served you well this year.

And by serving you well I mean I hope at least one article in the GlimmerGlass made you angry.

I hope you read something that pushed you to have a conversation about your thoughts on a topic presented. I hope you were able to laugh with us when we tricked you on April Fools and I hope you were able to mourn with us as we reported on the tornado tragedy in Washington, Ill. I hope we made you uncomfortable. I hope we informed you. And I hope we elicited a spark of deep community.

Because at the end of all things, the human experience is our only reality. I hope we were able to record that for you this year.

Thank you for reading. Never stop asking questions.

-Nicole

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Michael Santella’s memorial celebrates his life

By Taylor Provost Staff Writer

On Apr. 12, Michael Santella, 18, was able to have a memorial service in celebration of his life – an event previously unimaginable to his mother, Beth Kirkman – thanks to months of support that his family received from the community and across the globe.

Michael passed away at 8:24 a.m., Apr. 1. His visitation was Apr. 11, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home in Bourbonnais, where his funeral service was held the following day at 1 p.m.

While Beth and family have been mentally preparing for this event since August when they found out Michael was to be put on to hospice care due to the severity of his lung failure, they were not certain how to prepare for the cost of an adequate memorial service. Michael had been denied life insurance due to his Down syndrome, and Beth had no funds to put towards a service.

However, after setting up a donation page for Michael’s service costs on youcaring.com, a website that allows you to virtually collect donations from around the world, Beth was shocked by the support she received. The page received worldwide attention and donations, and within a little over a week of sharing the page on Facebook, Beth’s goal of $12,000 was met, and exceeded shortly after – something Beth did not expect when creating the page.

Community support did not end for Michael or his family after Beth’s goal dollar amount was met, though. Posts of encouragement and sympathy from Facebook friends flooded Beth’s Facebook page daily, where hundreds of community members followed, liked and shared Beth’s regular posts about Michael in the recent months.

“It just keeps growing and growing,” Beth said in response to the support.

In addition to the support the family received through Facebook, community members ranging from close friends to nearly strangers appeared at Michael’s visitation to hon-

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Friends and family release balloons for Michael outside of Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home in Bourbonnais, just one of many sites where balloons were released. or his life. Two hours before the visitation even officially started, the entire Bradley Bourbonnais Community High School baseball team came to the visitation to pay their respects to Michael and family before going to their game.

Also attending early, BBCHS’ special needs program, Best Buddies, came as a group to visit the family.

The following day, as Michael’s service began, friends and family took turns speaking about Michael, sharing memories and stories that brought tears and laughs to the crowd.

Margie Hamilton, Michael’s teacher and family friend, called defining Michael similar to “defining air.”

She smiled as she talked about Michael’s “feel good” song that he used to sing in painful times – “Life’s a Happy Song,” by The Muppets.

“Everything is great, everything is grand; I got the whole wide world in the palm of my hand. Everything is

perfect; it’s falling into place. I can’t seem to wipe this smile off my face. Life’s a happy song, when there’s someone by my side to sing along,” she said, reciting the lyrics.

Clancy-Gernon in Bourbonnais was not the only area celebrating Michael’s life on Apr. 12.

Although some family was able to fly in from the East and West coasts, not everyone who wanted to celebrate Michael’s life could attend his services. Instead, people around the world chose to participate in an orange (Michael’s favorite color) balloon-release at the same time as his funeral service. Friends, family, and strangers in areas including Connecticut, New Hampshire, Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, England, Ireland, Florida, Chicago, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii took part, to name a few.

Funeral attendees in Bourbonnais were also given orange balloons on their way out of the service, which were then released on the count of three just outside the doors of the funeral home.

A burial was not held after the service, as the family chose cremation. The majority of his ashes are placed in an urn custom-made by local artist and musician, Jay Jackson, with a Wizard of Oz scene painted on it – a tribute to Michael’s favorite movie. But Beth plans on revisiting a secluded Oregon beach near Portland area, where all her children were born, this summer to spread some of Michael’s ashes. His grandmother’s ashes were also scattered there.

A dinner was held following the service at The Knights of Columbus in Kankakee, where food donated from multiple local restaurants was served to those who attended the funeral.

“Michael is a presence that is timeless. He’s in the rain as it refreshes my flowers. Michael’s in the rays of the sun as it warms my face,” Hamilton said. “Michael will never be far from my soul.”

Finding true north: Life Compass gives direction

By Stacy Knoderer Staff Writer

While there are many opportunities for service on Olivet’s campus, many more can be found right outside the doorstep.

Life Compass, a local church in Kankakee, has a variety of different ministries that reach out to children living in the inner city. Life Compass is located on 175 S. Wall Street, in Kankakee, Ill. Life Compass Ministries offers a unique blend of opportunities and lessons for inner city children. Activities and lessons include: dance, sewing, cooking, music, and art, all for free. Music lessons currently include: piano, guitar, and drums. Classes are for children grades two through five.

Meetings for the ministries are every Wednesday. Typically they have a snack time, followed by a time of devotions, and then an hour of lessons. Around 60 children come each night. Their ethnicities range from African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Caucasian American.

Students, Ben Geeding, Derek Delgado, and Joel Deckard are three volunteers who help with the music aspect of Life Compass Ministries.

Delgado, a junior physical education major, and Deck-

ard, an alumnus, help to teach drum lessons on Wednesday nights. Delgado started volunteering last spring, and Deckard has been volunteering for three years.

When asked about one of his favorite memories from Life Compass Ministries, Delgado stated, “The best memories are the relationships we build with the kids and watching them not only learn, but enjoying what they are learning.”

Delgado is passionate about playing the drums, and as an education major loves children. He found this opportunity to be a perfect fit.

Deckard was also asked about his favorite part of the ministry.

“I love being able to go each week and learn more about the students in my class. Getting the opportunity to interact with them and help them learn something is truly a blessing,” said Deckard.

Geeding, a senior music ministry major, also plays an essential role in Life Compass Ministries. Geeding is in charge of the music school, and is an Olivet liaison. Once he is done traveling with the Olivetians he will take over as music pastor.

When asked about his involvement Geeding shared his plan for the ministry’s expansion.

“The ministry has been around for a few years, and I am hoping to expand like crazy. I think the Church equips its surrounding community with what the community needs to thrive and be successful. That means feeding, clothing, and teaching practical skills. Plus, we are taking these inner city kids and building relationships with them in the hope of sending them into their culture to impact where they live in the name of Christ” said Geeding.

Geeding also shared how he has seen God working in the ministry.

“God has provided us with a $300,000 building for free, the kids are coming in for free lessons, there is a melting pot of cultures, and doors continue to open like crazy to further this ministry,” said Geeding.

Geeding leaves students with a simple reminder. “The Church exists for the community in which it’s located.

Third-world countries exist in our backyard and we can do something about it.”

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CAMPUS LIFE Photos taken from Blue’s Cafe’s menu.

The cafe has been around since 1954 and holds the same nostalgia it did from then.

Serving a slice of presidential pie

By Jada Fisher Staff Writer

Lemon Merengue, coconut crème, apple and cherry are popular pies baked fresh daily at Blue’s Café in Kankakee. University President John Bowling is beyond familiar with this local ’mom & pop‘ diner, as he is a weekly guest.

Blue’s opened in 1954, and has since been familyowned and operated. The red and off-white 1950’s styled booths, tables and bar counter, reflect a portion of Blue’s background. This year marks their 60th anniversary, said manager Julie Surprenant. “We take pride in making a homemade meal for a good price,” she said. Popular fixings like biscuits and gravy, pies and burgers are prepared by scratch every day. Biscuits are handmade, the gravy is made from their homemade sausage grease and burgers are never frozen.

“He likes to eat an omelet sometimes in the mornings,” said Surprenant of Dr. Bowling. On his plate for lunch is usually a cheeseburger and French fries. On Saturday mornings, Dr. Bowling brings Mrs. Bowling and some

Olivet friends. “Olivet is one of our biggest supporters; a lot of students and faculty comes here,” she added.

Blue’s serves up daily specials similar to a meal you might have at home. The Monday special is pork chops, meat loaf on Tuesdays, spaghetti is served on Wednesdays, fish is fried on Thursdays, and more fish and pot roast on Fridays. Another homemade special on the menu is noodles, which are hand rolled out and dried on Saturday nights. Between 15 and 17 flavors of the highly favored pies are baked fresh every day with a lard crust.

Dr. Bowling is one of many regular diners of Blue’s.

Some even have three meals there in a single day, said Surprenant. Bears owner Virginia Halas McCaskey has visited Blue’s, as well as many fans during Bears training camp and the pre-season.

The name “Blue’s” points back to the childhood nickname of the founder and Surprenant’s late-father, Raymond. “His nickname came from when he was a little boy because he used to wear blue pants all the time,” Sur-

prenant said. Before 1954, the café was previously down the street from the current location, near the now Shell gas station. That location was much smaller and only had four tables.

Surprenant and two of her three siblings took on the diner after their parents’ death. Though, Surprenant and her sister are the only present family members working at Blue’s, other employees have been around for the last 20 to 35 years. Surprenant grew up around the family diner and started working there at 15 years old. She watched and learned from her mother, who once made all the soups. Surprenant worked her way up from washing dishes, to the cooking line, to waitressing and now managing it all.

Guests of Blue’s have spotted other restaurants of the same name overseas in places like Paris and Italy. Pictures can be found near the right corner hanging on the wall.

Blue’s hours are Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., closed on Sundays.

Some coffee, some art and a whole lot of HeArt

By Lindsay Hathaway

Photographer

The smell of freshly brewed coffee and the sound of live music set the scene of the first HeArt art show. Art was displayed in Common Grounds on April 9 and from many student artists.

The ministry partnered with MIA to produce a show that had the same theme as the missions’ teams had this year. That theme was based off of Isaiah 58, which is centered on service. Each artist based their piece off of this scripture and spoke a little bit about their work and how it related to the scripture.

When the artists were not speaking, musicians Joey Ramirez, Tatiana Diaz, and Lauren Leidahl each provided live music. The art was displayed in Common Grounds for one week.

PHOTOS BY LINDSAY HATHAWAY

Left: Junior Mary Bass gives a talk at the HeArt event.

Upper right: The art of HeArt members was displayed for one week in Common Grounds.

Lower right: Junior Lauren Liedhal offers musical entertainment at the HeArt event.

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PHOTO BY NATHAN DICAMILLO

Above: Matt Warren shows off his “Don’t you wish your boyfriend had moves like me?” t-shirt with Zumba instructor Sydney Hunt.

Left: Nesbitt fourth floor dancing at a Zumba class.

PHOTO BY ABBIE MILLS

Nesbitt 4th steps into Zumba

One man’s story of friendship, self-discovery and defying stereotypes through aerobic dance

By Nathan DiCamillo Sports Assistant

“Zumba is the bomb,” Freshman Justin Lautermilch said.

Recently the men of my floor – Nesbitt fourth – joined the muchtalked-about Zumba classes in the Perry Center. The fitness dancing is becoming a growing fad among my floor mates. You can see them decked out in matching spray painted shorts and shirts grooving to the beat as they bond as a community.

What some would foolishly categorize as a female workout, going to Zumba proved challenging for each and every one of my fourth floor brothers. Not only is it hard work, but it takes a real man to unapologetically put himself out there and dance to the

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rhythm. After each song we high five each other and holler in triumph.

“When you’re in the room and the music is pumping, you just feel like you’re the only one there, and as the sweat drips off your body, you feel utter success,” Freshman Daniel Mitchell said. “It’s definitely a great workout. Cardio and core especially. It’s all around a great way to exercise.”

Men doing Zumba is not even necessarily a social phenomenon. It is healthfully beneficial for a man to hang out with his male friends and do activities with them, Oxford University professor Robin Dunbar said in a report. Zumba has become one of the things we spend time doing together

and exercises in which we can challenge one another.

Moreover, as much as Zumba is stereotyped as feminine, there really is no reason for it to been seen as such.

“I think men do have a place in Zumba because Zumba was created by a man. There’s two other men that own the company,” Zumba instructor Sydney Hunt said. “Because it is a fitness class, it can be geared towards both men and women. And I try to gear my Zumba more as a fitness face and less as a dance face because I know some guys aren’t comfortable dancing or aren’t comfortable in their dancing skills. I hope my class is a place where they can have fun and

also get a good workout.”

So why should stereotypes be so restricting? I hope my readers would be comfortable enough in their own skin to not be held back by social constructs from participating in an activity that could bring them a new challenge as well as joy.

That is what the guys and I enjoy most about Zumba. It is a time to get out of your comfort zone and live life.

We laugh.

Others are impressed at our abilities (“Hips don’t lie” is spray painted on the back of one of our t-shirts.). We get a good workout, and others enjoy the company. So why have you not tried Zumba?

Continuing a poetic journey of faith in unfamiliar cultures

By Laurel Dispenza

Contributing Writer

Walking forward. Stepping out. It’s through these things you discover what life’s all about. Asking questions. Learning to laugh at yourself. This is the road to life, and I must say, a hard yet beautiful route. The world is big, And the possibilities bigger. But you’ll kill yourself if you try to figure it all out, attempting to eliminate any possibility of doubt. Learning to live in the mystery, Embracing life for what it is. Humbly pursuing the truth that may seem hidden through the times of seemingly paralyzing darkness.

Seeing that all people long to be included, We all long to be invited in,We search for love-and it’s the same no matter what

country you reside in. From living at Peace and Plenty with Judy by the river, To waitressing to backpacking a part of the AT. From China, my life in Beijing, to time with my sister in the DR. From Costa Rican college, staying near and travelling far. Next back to the DR and who knows what’s to come, But each place, each journey, each step has taught me something.

Something about myself, about God, about faith, about people and cultures and how they all relate. But who am I kidding, I still have SO much to learn and so much to grow in. Also, spiritually, it’s pretty tough, but those beautiful moments shared between people prove there’s hope and Life

and reality in the midst of all the questioning. So I will continue to walk forward in this sojourn called life, Whether I’m a foreign land or at Olivet living the campus life. Through this distinct time in my short life, I’ve begun to see life through new (still developing) eyes. Life is my teacher.

And the world is my classroom.

Situations are my tests and experiences the lessons. The map is my lesson plan and my senses are my tools. The mixture of solitude and adventure is the environment when this school’s in session. The friends I meet become my classmates and I learn with and from them. I learn about myself. I see a bit more of my ugly heart,

a few more of my dreams, pet peeves are revealed as I begin to understand on a deeper level how I tick. I learn about decisions, how I struggle to make them, and the consequences that follow the direction I pick. I learn how people are people wherever you may be yet how they do differ from place to place, and you must learn to see how cultures are unique. And I learn that by humbling yourself you can increase understanding every single day.

So whether from country to country or class to cafeteria, I’m learning to walk forward, with nothing to lose and nothing to prove, embracing the moment and finding rest in the beauty of seeking the Truth.

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OPINION

Sunny secret to a less SAD you

By Meg Dowell Staff Writer

Have you been feeling SAD lately? Hang in there, numerous essential functions in our bodies.

Olivetians: your mood is about to take a turn for Adequate exposure to natural sunlight is the the happier (literally). most effective way to obtain this nutrient.

Summer will be here Studies have shown before we know it, but 15 to 20 minutes of it’s not just the break “Open your blinds, take a walk exposure to the sun per from 16-week classes without sunscreen outside with friends, study in day and tiring extracurricular can provide you with activities that puts smiles the quad, take any chance you enough vitamin D to on our sleepy college can get to soak up the sun.” promote optimal bone faces. The sun, which health and fight off we naturally see more of colds, and even to between the months of May and August here in combat depression no matter the time of year. the Midwest, is a major contributor to our levels of Open your blinds, take a walk outside with happiness during the summer season. friends, study in the quad, take any chance you can If the past few months’ dreary weather has made get to soak up the sun. (As long as you’re actually it hard for you to get out of bed when your alarm studying, obviously.) goes off, don’t worry too much about the reason.

Why else should you spend as much time in We don’t see much of Mr. Sun during the the sun as you can? There appear to be more winter, and while you may not actually have benefits to sunlight exposure than risks. Experts Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – depression are looking into how more frequent exposure that occurs only during the winter season – to sunlight affects alertness, brain function, and humans need exposure to sunlight, literally, to metabolism. brighten our moods.

Whatever the health benefits, a healthy you is One benefit of sunlight is the amount of a happier you. Or you could just be glad to wave vitamin D it provides. Research has proven that goodbye to biweekly chapel and to-go meals from supplements of vitamin D can’t give our bodies Nesbitt for awhile – or in the class of 2014’s case, enough of the nutrient we need to serve its role in forever.

Campus officers deserve to be treated with respect

By Nathan DiCamillo Sports Assistant Imagine giving a ticket to a student who chews you out for getting himself in trouble when he’s the one breaking the rules. It takes you getting the keys out of his locked car three times in order for him to apologize. These are kind of circumstances Public Safety officers like shift leader Caleb Williams has to deal with on a daily basis.

Helping students with flat-tires, locking and unlocking buildings, and dealing with crisis like gas leaks, fire alarms and more are just some of the duties our Public Safety officers must deal with and often work overtime to take care of.

They only ticket if things are going slowly, and they often ticket because of complaints about overcrowded parking lots, Williams said. The shift leader believes there would be no problems with parking or ticketing if every student would park only where he or she is al-

lowed.

“It’s just nine guys that make this all work,” Assistant Director of Public Safety, Darren Blair, said.

Outside of dealing with the chores of making campus runs smoothly, Public Safety makes sure students get to and from the airport during breaks. It also has a team of student ambassadors that help out with the transportation of disabled students.

Along with campus security, the department also takes calls from frantic parents who aren’t getting a response from their child. Public Safety reaches these students and helps the parents gladly.

“If [a student] is here doing everything within the parameters of Olivet, there will not be a problem, and they can still have fun. You still can have fun doing everything within the parameters here at Olivet,” Williams said.

Maybe the next time you are tempted to get angry at an officer for ticketing

your car or stopping you from breaking the rules, it would be best to approach him with a sense of humility and gratefulness that they are out there doing their jobs.

Dear editor, Why did the old, perfectly qualified and generally wellliked VP for Men’s Residential Life not get rehired in favor of a less qualified individual with no ASC experience? The new guy is friends with and worked for the Assistant Dean.

Why did a student get hired for a supervisor position in the SLRC with no prior experience in the building over students who have been working there for multiple semesters? He’s friends with the Director of Recreation Services’ Graduate Assistant.

It is not what you know, it’s who you know. And while that is assuredly the way the world works, I thought, perhaps in my own naivety, that Olivet was better.

Truth be told, I have worked with and gotten to know many people on campus who are in positions where they get to hire student workers or adult employees. They all are good people with the best intentions, and I am not here to cast dispersions on their character. I do, however, want to call into question the inbreeding of ideas, practices, and, yes, employees at Olivet, where the right last name is the only qualification you need.

Unfortunately, this school

has the bad habit of paying lip service to the holy living while making the conscious decision to avoid doing it. When they commit to live a Spirit-led life and proceed to make decisions based on politics, nepotism or self-service they are ignoring the faith they claim to live by and erecting gods of their own. On a more tangible note, they are creating an environment where originality, diversity and community cannot exist. The only community present becomes one of uniformity.

They have created a veneer where one Black, Asian, female and ginger student are gathered in a circle singing Kumbaya.

The problem is that the veneer hides the stodgy edifice that is crumbling beneath our everexpanding campus.

There are so many wonderful things about this school that I have loved while a student here.

Unfortunately, most of those were in spite of administrative decisions and not because of them. I have faith that God can do immeasurably more for this campus than they can, but they need to let him do it. My goal is to glorify God, not Olivet. That should be their goal, too.

- “Casual Observer”

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World Vision battles tradition

By Grace King Opinion Editor

Dear readers, If you’re anything like me, you might want to get that checked out.

But this also means you’re in the middle of a war. “But I don’t see tanks and bullets flying,” you meekly reply, peeking out your window. That’s because it’s a Culture war! Haha, Gotchya! Classic Christian shakeand-bake! Know that I’m high-fiving myself.

That’s right, without knowing it, everyone everywhere is out to hate and destroy your identity. Think of them as F-22’s out to napalm your beliefs.

Or, if they’re the passive aggressive types, maybe they’re drones? In any case, head to your bible bunkers and strap in!

Don’t believe me? Have you heard of a little something called Noah? No, not the old man trying desperately to save himself, but Russell Crow. “But wait,” you mutter, peeking out from underneath your bunker-bed, “Isn’t the fact that secular Hollywood is trying to take seriously the narratives in our holy text demonstrative of the influence the church is having on culture?”

First of all, no. Secondly, double no, and stop talking smart.

The point is, we should be furious.

Did you see what they did to Noah?

They made him awesome! He’s violent! He cries! He has a six-pack and a man beard! He chases Hugh Jackman in 18th century France! He, I don’t know, busts out of prison? I don’t know, like many good Christian reviewers, I didn’t see the movie. Because it’s unbiblical.

Where’s the cartoonish boat we see in nurseries? Where’s the holier-thanthou attitude? Where’s the drunk Noah sleeping with his daughter because he doesn’t understand God’s bigger agenda (Gen 19:33)? You know, the family friendly stuff we Christians want to see. And speaking of speaking, I was appalled at the touchingly emotional writing. Last time I checked, there’s no dialogue in the Biblical account.

Basically, if you want to support the cinematic arts’ attempt to bring JudeoChristian narratives to a broader audience in a meaningfully human way, avoid seeing Noah. Because if we can’t reach out to the world, they shouldn’t be allowed to reach out to us.

Flooded with disdain,

-Logan Long

A resounding cry of incredulity rippled through Christian groups when World Vision announced on Mar. 24 that they would hire gay Christians in same-sex marriages.

No more than 48 hours after that decision was announced, it was reversed after ten thousand child sponsorships were dropped.

I’m not going tell you whether or not World Vision was in the right. This isn’t about homosexuality. This is about those innocent children who might no longer be able to afford school supplies or clean clothes.

It’s about the children who will again know the pain of hunger because the evangelicals got riled up about a policy change.

We cannot let our prudish behavior get in the way of changing lives. What’s the point of tradition when it leads us astray?

During a Team World Vision Chicago Marathon conference on Mar. 29, Team World Vision coordinator Rusty Funk spoke to marathon team leaders about the importance of supporting World Vision and its mission, despite the controversy currently surrounding the organization.

“World Vision is a global partnership, so we don’t affect each other in bad and nega-

tive ways,” Funk said. For example, with this model, World Vision Kenya is protected from World Vision U.S., he said.

“We don’t bring our American baggage over to the field. We have Kenyans on a staff serving Kenyans, and that’s a beautiful model,” Funk said.

Founder of Team World Vision, Michael Chitwood, spoke at the conference about the impact World Vision is able to have on communities because of the way the organization goes in and interacts with the people.

They don’t just go in and take control of the situation; they work with the people to build wells and provide clean water.

When working on a well in Bartabwa, Kenya, where access to clean water was under ten percent, the first step World Vision took was to gain the trust of the locals. This mountainous community of 20,000 people greeted World Vision with doubt and uncertainty. Other organizations had already tried and failed.

They didn’t believe World Vision could be any different; they didn’t believe they could provide them with clean water. “[The people of Bartabwa] said, ‘We don’t

believe you. We’ve been told that by other organizations before and they all failed; no one’s really helped. We always hear about it, but we never see it,’” Chitwood said.

Not hesitating a moment, World Vision worked with leaders from Bartabwa building pipes through the mountains to transport clean water to the area. “Trust building,” Chitwood said.

World Vision isn’t defined by policy change, but defined by changing lives.

Through this trust building, World Vision is able to not only build wells but relationships as well.

In the original release of World Vision’s policy change, World Vision U.S. president Richard Stearns said to Christianity Today that the “very narrow policy change” should be viewed as a “symbol not of compromise but of [Christian] unity.”

This wasn’t an endorsement of same-sex marriage by a Christian organization. It was a small change that enabled professed Christians with different beliefs and lifestyles than the traditional values we hold so dear to work in an organization they could trust to continue to lead others to Christ.

Christianity in a secular environment is possible

By Melissa Luby Assistant Opinion Editor My next-door neighbor’s whiteboard reminds me that as I write this there are only 26 days of school remaining.

While many of you are counting the days until this “prison for your soul” gives you a three-month parole and a chance for fun, others – the graduating seniors and the cash-strapped – are bracing themselves for the reality of summer or full-time employment.

For us as Christians, especially if we aren’t seeking employment in ministry, balancing your career and your Great Commission can be a challenge.

What does it mean to be a Christian in the workplace? I’m not going to beat around the bush. Unless you are involved in full-time ministry or have access to Elijah’s waiter ravens, doing God’s work isn’t going to pay the bills or keep food on your earthly table. So at some point, we are going to have to do man’s work, and if we want to keep our job, we must do it well.

Of course, that’s not to say that our religion should be turned off when

we punch in and on when we clock out. You don’t have to be a pastor or missionary by trade to reach others.

Like Paul, we too can be tentmakers, people with ordinary, minimumwage jobs whose lives make a difference in the kingdom.

our local grocery store. My town’s rough history goes back to the Roaring Twenties, when Al Capone and other Chicago gangsters shot up the swanky lakeside resorts while vacationing in our town.

Things haven’t changed much

“Unless you are involved in full-time ministry or have access to Elijah’s waiter ravens, doing God’s work isn’t going to pay the bills or keep food on your earthly table.”

I’m not saying that you should hand customers their receipts with a tract wrapped up inside or ask if they want their Big Mac with a side of Jesus. Being a Christian in the workplace is about leading by example.

We are called to not just scrape by with the least amount of effort, but to give our best as if we are working for The Lord. When others see our dedication to our work, they see a vignette of our devotion to Christ.

A far greater example is set by the way we live our lives and treat others. I found this out as a cashier at

since then, except a world record for the most bars per capita and a statewide high concentration of STDs. Small wonder my parents chose to homeschool my sister and me and that I felt a great deal of mortification on a recent first date when I found out my date’s friends were from the area and would likely know my hometown’s reputation.

Being a Christian, a virgin, and a teetotaler is nearly unheard of in my community, and it’s something my peers struggled to understand.

I always feared that I would be os-

tracized for my convictions, but that was far from the case.

Although there was always curiosity about my views (“you mean, you don’t want to drink?”) my coworkers were usually accepting of my opinions. I would go so far as to say I was liked by my coworkers, many of whom I formed deep bonds with and still pray for regularly. We had our differences in backgrounds and lifestyle choices, but all humans, no matter their beliefs, understand and seek love. It’s a free, simple gift that we can give everyone, everywhere without whipping out your prepackaged sermonette.

We are called to be in the world, not of the world. And we need to make sure that as we minister in the workplace we are not tempted to sin.

At the same time, we need to be in the trenches, side by side with the people who need us, not just in churches and third-world countries, but in the simple, commonplace locations like summer camps and checkout terminals.

You can let your light shine without being Billy Graham in a Best Buy polo.

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PHOTO BY LINDSAY HATHAWAY

Women’s basketball clinic participants pose for a photo with WNBA player Elena Delle Donne.

WNBA star shares tips, tricks

By Nathan DiCamillo Assistant Sports Editor

PHOTO BY LINDSAY HATHAWAY

Pokey Chatman, head coach for the WNBA team Chicago Sky, teaches cheers to Example Sports atheltes during the basketball clinic Apr. 8.

PHOTO BY JANET MCDOWELL

“My goodness, I must be a good teacher,” Elena for participating in the clinic. boys and girls in the program. This has been Chicago Sky Coach Pokey Chatman told “I love [this experience]. It is awesome, a great opportunity—to have one of the the high school girls in the Example sports looking at the excitement on the young coaches of the Chicago Sky and one of the program in McHie’s basketball arena on lady’s face,” said Viola Burse, mother of top players in the world, Elena Delle Donne, April 8.

Example Sport’s player Martha Burse. work with our girls.”

“No, you’re a good teacher!” Chatman “I know this is the best thing they’ve Both Mya and Nicole had positive things said pointing to Barry Bradford, President of done, and the young ladies are all excited to say about both Elena and Example Sports.

Example Sports. about it because it’s encouraging and moti“I thought it was really awesome. I Partnering with ONU’s women’s basketvating to them knowing that someone of her learned a lot,” Nicole said. “I have a learned ball and Kankakee’s Example Sports procaliber would put in time with them.” a lot since [joining the program]. I’ve gram, WNBA Chicago Sky player learned not only how to be a post Elena Delle Donne visited Olivet but also how to be a guard.” with her coach Pokey Chatman to Example Sports is the AAU pro“We love Example Sports and all the teach high school basketball girls gram of the Kankakee County Solcoaches and what they are doing for diers, Barry Bradford said. Only the skills in a basketball clinic.

“I started coaching ten-year-olds,” all the boys and girls in the program. girl’s division of the youth program Chatman, who is in her 23 year of This has been a great opportunity- to was present at the clinic. coaching, said.

About sixty of the one hundred “That’s the age where they’re like have one of the coaches of the Chicago girls enrolled in the program were a blank piece of paper. You can write Sky and one of the top players in the present. a script, and they’re so attentive.

“Coach Pokey Chatman is a friend world.”

They can come to the three-hour of mine,” Bradford said. “[Elena and session, learn so much, and be really Chatman] heard about our girls, that excited about it. It’s really nice for they really love the game and wanted us professional coaches to come back to this Seventeen-year-old Martha has been with to work hard and decided to come down and level and teach some of the fundamentals. I Example Sports for four years. do a camp for them.” thoroughly enjoyed it.”

“She knows her business. Yes, she has This is Example Sport’s fourth year runChicago Sky has done eight basketball learned a whole lot. Her shooting abilities ning and every year it tries to do something clinics during this off-season, Chatman said. have picked up, she knows how to handle new with the program, Bradford said.

The students in Example Sports were easier the ball better, she has just improved overall.

“This is a great partnership with ONU’s for Chatman to teach because their skills and ” Viola said.

Women’s Basketball program, having coach abilities “were on a higher level.”

Martha had a “wonderful experience” Lauren as part of this too. The girls can see “You can tell that these kids have been while improving her skills at the clinic. She the next level which is college and the level involved in organized basketball: Coach found the WNBA player, Elena, to be “super after that—the pro’s,” said Bradford. speaks, they close their lips. Most kids who down to earth, real nice and laid back.”

Coach Pokey Chatman has coached aren’t used to being in that environment are Denise Johanson, whose daughters, 6th Chicago Sky for four years, coached on the bouncing the ball and kicking around, but grader Mya and 9th grader Nicole, are in college level for fourteen years and coached this group was really high level for us,” said their second year with Example Sports, a pro-league in Europe for a time.

Chatman. found the program to be “top notch.”

Elena Delle Donne was the 2013 Rookie Parents and children alike expressed “We love Example Sports and all the of the Year according to the New York appreciation for both Example Sports and coaches and what they are doing for all the Times.

ONU head women’s basketball coach, Lauren Stamatis talks to Elena Delle Donne during the basketball clinic.

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Eyes on Hannah Gardner

By Nathan DiCamillo Assistant Sports Editor

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Hannah Gardner is maybe the most consistent player I have ever coached. She brings her best effort every day,” Head Softball Coach Ritchie Richardson said.

“She is not only one of the finest players to ever wear the uniform here at ONU but also one of the finest players in the history of the NAIA. She recently became the NAIA’s alltime leader in RBIs.” With a background spotted with records and awards, senior softball player Hannah Gardner has kept the standard of excellence in her final year at ONU as she broke the NAIA RBI career record on March 13, according to ONU marketing.

Having “finished the 2013 season leading the team in most offensive statistical categories,” according to ONU marketing, Gardner is performing well with a team that already has over thirty wins this 2014 season and just two losses.

“This is a fun year because we have a lot of returning players. We are all matured. We all know our roles. We are really cohesive—we gel as a team. Everybody gets each other pumped up and we get rallying,” Gardner said.

“We just feed off each other. Everyone does their jobs and excels…It shows on the field.”

Gardner believes her team will

also remain consistent in the future, even as she and four other seniors graduate this year.

“The juniors right now who will be seniors next year—they’re very strong. They’re very talented and keep getting better,” Gardner said.

“Hopefully with that and good leadership the freshman will be developed quickly.

“We all had a rough time as a freshman. The upperclassmen get you into gear and show you how to do it.”

Gardner credits determination as her key to success. After getting through her freshman year, she learned to schedule herself.

Gardner credits her team’s success to her teammates’ talent and her coach’s knowledge. “[Richardson] brings in really good athletes. They’re always very talented. His knowledge in the game just makes us that much smarter and better. With the combination of good talent and him, it’s a very good program,” Gardner said.

Gardner came to ONU because of Richardson’s competitiveness and his knowledge of softball.

“When I met him and took the tour, I knew we could have a winning team and that he could make me a better person and a better player,” Gardner said.

Despite her busy schedule, being

Hannah Gardner up at bat during a regular season game.

PHOTO FROM ONU MARKETING

at ONU helped Gardner to get “out of [her] shell,” finding the people at ONU to be “very kind.”

Gardner, who has played softball

since she the age of 12, plans on going to grad school and coaching softball somewhere after ONU.

Spring and summer sports train off-season

By Ingrid Palmer Contributing Writer

Many college teams practice year round, and when there are no organized team practices, each player has to be responsible enough to keep in shape.

From morning and evening workouts, at home work outs, fitness tests and training, college athletes are constantly working hard.

Anna Stiker, a current junior on the Track Team, expressed how her team trains from September through January for their season. They have three lifting days a week, accompanied by running and the infamous ‘Gut Day.’ On Gut Day, members of the track

team perform extreme cross fit workouts Sydney Harris, a sophomore on the swim team, shared that most swimmers practice with a team near their hometown during the summer. In addition to their dedicated time to swimming, they run and lift weights.

Their practices off season look the same their on season practices. They have early morning swim practice, and then meet again in the evenings for weights or cardio and more swimming.

Lance Craft, a junior on the football team, explained that during the

summer off-season each player is responsible for the effort they put into their workouts. The coaches compile a packet of workouts that each player is required to follow; however, because it is independent there is more freedom with when and how long they workout.

A lot of the men on the Football Team enjoy lifting extra in order to gain the maximum amount of muscle, Craft said. But as for the Spring offseason, players scrimmage against each other to perfect their techniques before actual season games.

Jayne Stuart, a sophomore from

the women’s basketball team, said her team’s off-season has its highs and lows in regards to workouts. The team lifts weights three times a week and play pickup games twice a week, leaving the weekends off the basketball schedule for free time.

During the summer months the women’s schedule changes, the team begins to run five times per week doing ‘build-ups.’

A build up is a daily run that increases every day in order to build endurance. Stuart explained that sometimes they run for distance and other times they run for time.

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APRIL 17, 2014

SPORTS Roaring Tigers on the way to compete in Kansas

By Paul Wissmiller Contributing Writer

PHOTO BY JANET MCDOWELL

Senior swimmer Aaron Buchanan, on the right, races the backstroke.

Pee and sweat in the pool hurts swimmers

By Nathan DiCamillo Assistant Sports Editor Junior swimmer Samie Neil was struggling to breathe between sporadic coughs at a swim meet at the University of Chicago’s swimming pool during her winter season. She blamed her coughing on the amount of chlorine in the pool.

Although over-chlorination was the primary suspect, the amount of urine and sweat in the pool may have played a role as well.

According to Science Daily, scientists have found that the mixture of chlorine with sweat and urine in pools creates two harmful compounds in pools: trichloramine (NCl3) and cyanogen chloride (CNCl).

Scientists at the National Center for Biotechnology Information measured the level of both gases in a pool arena used for a four-day national swimming event. Over the span of four days, as the urine increased, so did the level of those gases.

Air pollution in pools is most often

caused by “jerks” peeing in the pool and not rinsing the sweat from their skin before entering the pool, biology professor Dr. Leo Finkenbinder said.

“If you make them get out of the water and go to the restroom that [air pollution] will go down. This has been tested,” Finkenbinder said. “If I know someone is going swimming and I see that they haven’t showered, I tell them to go shower. I don’t call them a jerk, that’s not diplomatic, but [that’s what] they are.”

According to the Water Quality and Health Council, one in five adult Americans admit to peeing in public pools. Freshmen swimmer Meredith Lee disputes this statistic, arguing it would be more like “four out of five.”

“Professional swimmers do [pee in the pool]. It’s definitely a thing and I’m against it,” Neil said.

Although little may be able to be done about peeing in the pool, lifeguards at Olivet’s recreation center should enforce a pre-swim showering rule, Olivet’s pool operator and aquatic technician Don Eylander said.

Eylander explained that sweat and dirt on human bodies, which could be removed by rinsing off, also depletes chlorine in the pool.

According to Eylander, however, Olivet’s superior facility makes it less prone to poor air quality.

Eylander said that a Salt Pure System automatically regulates the level of chlorine in Olivet’s pool, making it less prone to over-chlorination as other pools are.

The salt’s atomic structure, made up of part chlorine and part sodium, is split apart to chlorinate the pool.

Once the chlorine returns to the pool it eventually reattaches itself to the salt.

Aiding in the water’s disinfection, the water in Olivet’s main pool is filtered every six hours through UV light that kills most bacteria in the water, Eylander said.

The chlorine level of a pool should be between one to five parts per million. Olivet’s main pool runs between a narrower scale of two to four parts per million.

At 3:15AM the day before Easter, a select few members of Olivet’s Roaring Tiger Battalion ROTC program will be competing in what Olivet Senior and participant Kossi Komlassan calls “one of the hardest things you can do as an ROTC cadet.”

He is referring to the 20th Annual Ranger Buddy Competition held

by Kansas University ROTC. The competition is held at the City of Lawrence Sesquicentennial Park in Lawrence, Kansas. Over the course of 10 hours, approximately 90 male, 25 coed and 15 female ROTC cadet buddy teams will have their knowledge tested in 25 militaryrelated skills while being physically challenged in a 12-mile ruck run and six tactical lanes A ruck run is a weighted backpack run and tactical lanes test cadets’ tactical knowledge.

Sophomore cadet Luke Strasser, who participated in a competition as a member of a male team last year, called the event “the toughest [physical] thing I have ever done in my life”.

The day starts before the sun comes up with a 12 mile, 35 lb. weighted-ruck run over some of the toughest terrain in Kansas. After cadets complete the ruck, they must complete six graded time-sensitive lanes before finishing the day with a 2.5-mile “buddy run”.

Olivet is relatively new to the competition, having only participated once before – in last year’s challenge. The male team of cadets Roman Endrizzi and Samuel Pimpo placed 15 overall, finishing third in the ruck run.

Last year Olivet sent four all-male teams to the competition. This year, two of the teams are coed: cadets Paul Wissmiller and Natalie Vandenack, and cadets Kossi Komlassen and Sarah Ganster .

Freshman Ganster, an elementary education major and member of the cross-country and track team, is participating in the Ranger Buddy Competition for a number of reasons.

“I’m here to push myself,” Ganster said. “As one of the first female participants from Olivet in this competition, I’m ready to compete and represent ONU. Kossi, my partner, and I are shooting for a top-5 finish.”

“I know I can beat some of the male teams. I want to show everyone I can succeed no matter what the standard is,” Ganster said.

She was a gymnast and ran crosscountry in high school.

“Athletics has always been an outlet for me,” she said. “However, I’ve had to make some adjustments to my schedule since I came to school.”

To keep herself accountable, Ganster usually plans the events of every day out the night before. A major part of her schedule is working out.

“Ranger-Buddy workouts are every morning, five days a week and with track workouts on top of that in the afternoons, well, that’s a lot of running,” she said. At the same time she works to maintain a good GPA, which puts a lot of pressure on her ability to manage time.

Ganster said she is excited about the competition.

“There was a moment during training when I realized my dreams and really began to push myself.

It happened when my partner and I were doing a 30-minute ruck run on the treadmill. I did something I didn’t ever think I could do before and it just gave me so much motivation,” she said.

Ganster and the other members of the five teams Olivet is sending to Kansas will be prepared. Just last year, Olivet ROTC teams placed second overall in the annual Ranger Challenge competition and reached the playoff round of 16 in the Flyin’ Irish ROTC Basketball tournament, held at the University of Notre Dame.

Come Easter weekend, ONU cadets will get a chance to show what they are made of once again on a national stage.

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APRIL 17, 2014

SPORTS An ‘ultimate’ weekend Lindsay Hathaway Staff Writer The weekend of Apr. 11-12 was full of Frisbee and wind.

Olivet’s Black Penguins and Lady Penguins hosted a tournament at Fortin Villa; it was a conference for the boys team and regionals for the girls.

On Saturday the winds were high, and the girls lost their first two games: Knox five to eight and Valparaiso four to 13.

They came back to win the second two games 12-11 against North Park and 11 to six against Kalamazoo which placed them in a better place for the bracket play for Sunday.

On Sunday, the girls lost their first game to Knox five to 12, but came back to win their second game

against Kalamazoo 10 to seven, giving them a 3rd place finish for regionals.

The boys had a rougher start on Saturday losing all four of their games: Wheaton 10-11, Calvin six to 12, Bradley five to 10, North Park 11-15.

Despite a disappointing start they ended the day with several wins.

They won their first two games beating Kalamazoo 15 to seven and Bradley 15 to five.

They lost their next game to Wheaton (10-15), but still qualified for regionals.

“It was a rough weekend, and we didn’t play nearly as well as hoped, but when it truly counted we showed up,” junior Zac Carlton said.

“We have a phenomenal team, and a great chance to win regionals in two weeks,” he said.

PHOTOS BY LINDSAY HATHAWAY

Top: Ben Prince and Luke Vihnanek guard a Kalamazoo player. Above: Nick Geever poses with his family after game 3 on Apr.12. Right: Peyton Close attempts to throw the frisbee against a defender.

Swimming for water

By Nathan DiCamillo Assistant Sports Editor In October, after Rev. Steven Spear finished his message about running for water in Africa through Team World Vision, sophomore swimmer Calvin Price looked at junior swimmer Simon Pheasant and felt that they were thinking the same thing.

“We need to do something,” Price said.

Pheasant agreed. Both wanted to use their ability swim, rather than run. They began to discuss ideas and grabbed other swimmers along the way. They approached Spear and presented the idea of swimming for water in Africa: swimming in water for water.

From that initial spark a group of now sixteen ONU swimmers are independently planning to collectively swim sixty miles, more than two marathons, across lake Michigan in order to raise money for TMV’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (W.A.S.H.) program on Sept. 13-14 of this year.

The swimmers have a goal of raising $100,000 for the program. According to the program, $50 provides clean water for one person for life.

“One hundred percent, it goes straight into the W.A.S.H. program,”

Price said. “Every fifty bucks someone donates—it’s a whole life saved.

Someone donated a hundred bucks to our site the other day. That’s two lives.”

The swimmers may be swimming the sixty miles but have recognized that the name behind it is God, Pheasant said.

“We often say ‘swim for the glory of God for every race,’ and when you are swimming like that you do give God the glory, but you’re not exactly changing anyone’s life,” sophomore swimmer Andrew Fischer said. “This gives us an opportunity to change peoples’ lives which is great.”

Junior swimmer Samie Neil has always felt that God had called her to use her ability to swim to serve Him. “I want to make a difference in the world and using the talents I was given by God makes it that much better,” she said.

Pheasant recognized God’s hand in their planning as Spear’s message resonated with both him and Price and as they walked out of chapel after Spear’s message with already five swimmers. When approached about the idea, Spear advised the swimmers to pray for a month and, after a month, see if the idea was still on their hearts, Pheasant said.

“And a month later,” Price said, “we were are all still keen. We ended up starting something.”

After group meetings, Rachel Kearney, a graduate assistant working at Olivet’s Shine.fm and friend of the group, contacted TMV’s Tim Hoekstra and created a proposal letter for the team. Team World Vision granted their request and setup a donation page for their program called “Water for Water,” which can be found through this story on glimmerglass. olivet.edu.

The swimmers are also planning on holding a 24-hour swim, selling tshirts and even holding swim-a-thons with their home swim teams over the summer. But the team does not just need donations of money, but also “donations of conversation and time,” as they are looking to make connections with larger donors such as companies.

The swimmers also could use food, fuel, three boats and volunteer medics.

Pheasant was awed by God’s orchestration throughout their planning. The swimmers encourage people to pray for the initiative on top of donating.“Just pray that peoples’ hearts will be opened…and wallets,” Fischer said.