Freshman Issue 2018

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COVER BY Elise Emmert

PREVIEW

TABLE OF

C ON TENTS

STORIES FROM THE SORTING HAT

TIMES TO LIVE BY

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CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS PAGE 6

THANKS FOR LIVING WITH ME Best friends and roommates PAGES 6-7

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE SAU ELEPHANT?

CHURCH HUNTERS: COLLEGE EDITION

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CASTING CALLS PAGE 12

FLATLINE PAGE 13

THE GRIND NEVER STOPS

First look at the new gym PAGE 14

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FROM A SENIOR TO UNDERCLASSMEN PAGES 15

YOUR SEPTEMBER EVENT SCHEDULE PAGE 16

EDITORIAL

Editor’s Note Elise Emmert | Editor-in -Chief

Maybe you’ve been planning for this school year since mid-June, or maybe you were scrambling to pack everything the morning of departure day only to arrive at your dorm and discover that you forgot your toothpaste. I myself have listened to the siren call of academia and bought a new schedule planner and some of my favorite pens.

No matter how you may have prepared, the same number of days await you this year, and you can fill them however you choose.

It’s easy to be frightened by what might be coming, especially if this is your first year here. But if I can give you any advice for how to approach your time here, it’s this: allow yourself to be malleable.

It might sound gimmicky or cliché, but the time you have on this campus – be it four years or one – can change and grow you, if you let it. Be challenged by

the ideas your professors present. Struggle with the beliefs your friends and roommates hold. Honestly and truthfully research things that bother you.

The time you spend here has the potential to reframe the way you see the world, strengthen your convictions and teach you new ways to understand and solve problems. But the years can only do this if you open yourself up to them and allow yourself to be influenced by the people around you. At the same time, don’t discount your own ability to be a catalyst for change. You have the potential to take what you know and believe and be a person who helps shape others.

The upcoming days, weeks and months stand before you, waiting to be filled with what Dr. Seuss might call your “you-ness.”

Use this time to change the world around you by allowing your you-ness to flow out of you, and let yourself be changed by the you-ness of others. And I promise, there’s more in store for you here than you could dream.

The Pulse Staff 2018-2019 Editor-in-Chief Elise Emmert Associate Editor Celeste Fendt Features Editor Caralyn Geyer A&E Editor Nathan Salsbury Sports Editor Alex Anhalt

Sales Manager Kaelyn Hale Design Editor Makana Geppert Designers Morgan Caroland

Sales Representatives Kelsey Brannon Mitchell Hodson Cole McEldowney Caytie Sprague Marketing Coordinators Aaliyah Winters Alyssa Pluta

Staff Writers Collin Caroland Connor Williams

Blessings, Elise Emmert

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TIMES TO

LIVE BY Dining Commons

*Located in Poling Center*

*Located in Dietzman Hall*

Monday–Friday Breakfast 7:15 a.m.–9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast 9:30 a.m.– 11 a.m.

Lunch 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Light Dining 2 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dinner 4:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Ada’s Kitchen Monday–Friday 11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Business Office/Financial Aid Monday–Friday 8 a.m.– 5 p.m.

Technology Service

Cougar Den

Monday–Thursday

Monday–Friday 11 a.m.–11 p.m.

Saturday–Sunday 7 p.m.–11 p.m.

Saturday Brunch 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Light Dining 1:30 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dinner 4 p.m.–6 p.m.

*Meal Exchange* Monday–Friday Lunch 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

Dinner 4:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Saturday–Sunday Dinner 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Sunday Brunch 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Light Dining 1:30 p.m.–4 pm.

Dinner 4 p.m.–6 p.m.

8 a.m.–7 p.m.

Friday

8 a.m.–6 p.m.

Saturday

8 a.m.–12 p.m.

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Ganton Art Gallery

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Smith Music Center

11 Dietzman Hall

16 Gainey Hall

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M&D

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Whiteman-Gibbs

12 Ralph Carey Forum

17 Lowell

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Poling Center

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White Library

13 Dining Commons

18 Spring Arbor FMC

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White Auditorium

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Ormston

14 Bookstore

19 Andrews Hall

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Sayre-Decan Hall

10 Muffitt

15 Cougar Den

20 Fieldhouse

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News

Arbor News: Changes on Campus Elise Emmert | Editor-in-Chief New Faces

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here’s always something going on around Spring Arbor University’s (SAU) campus. From construction to employees, here are some of the highlights of what’s new around campus this fall.

Cougar Den Facelift Your favorite spot to grab a quick meal got a little TLC this summer. The doors have been replaced and the counters expanded, all with the goal of making the Den easier to use. Here’s to late night Bosco sticks and lunchtime wraps.

Gainey has a new Resident Director (RD), Courtney Sanders.

She’s an SAU alumna who graduated in 2014 as a psychology major. You’ll see her at Movie on the Lawn, her favorite event, and hosting a new Gainey Hall event this spring.

The SAU library is under the new leadership of Amy James. Her subject specialties are computer science, English, HHPR and physical therapy, so if you need help with research in any of those areas, she’s your go-to.

Form No-Longer Frenzy?

Record Room Who needs the latest Apple and Beats headphones when the library has a new record room? Head on upstairs to check out the turntable and relax in a giant bean bag chair while listening to some of the library’s 45s and 78s. Give me the (soft) beat, boys (since we’re still on the quiet floor).

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Sleeping outside the Cross Cultural Studies office to secure your spot on the trip to Europe or India is on its way to becoming an urban legend. The staff is working on a new way to get everyone signed up - underclassmen, count yourselves lucky.

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Features

The Wizarding World of SAU

Nathan Salsbury | A&E Editor Collin Caroland | Staff Writer

Professor: Department:

House?

Allen Knight

Lori McVay

Brent Cline

Marketing

Sociology

English

Gryffindor

What house is Argus Filch in?

That one.

Ravenclaw Stag

an Patronus? image(also for Christ)

Owl, Cat or Toad?

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Cat

Favorite Class?

Ancient Studies

Cloak, Stone or Wand?

Invisibility Cloak (love to find out what my students are doing instead of reading the assigned articles and text).

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Siberian Cat

In a strange twist of fate, instead of an animal, my patronus takes on the form of Millard Fillmore, our 13th president.

I'm allergic to cats and I Hedgehog, because I’m contrary like that. eat frog legs, so let's be safe and say an owl.

My favorite class would be anything that allowed me to be mentored by Professor McGonagall (although she's a bit terrifying) and gave me access to that LIBRARY!

I'd rather have the cloak than the other two, but only because I think it's the least likely to make me go insane.

What I'd REALLY love is a Time-Turner...

Small Engine Repair I don't know what an elder wand or resurrection stone is.

I've never been able to get past the fifth book. So much yelling.

I feel like something just got spoiled for me. Dumbledore's OK, right? Right?!

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Tom Kuntzleman

Mark Correll

Dorie Shelby

Chemistry

History

Communications

Ravenclaw (but we’d really have to ask the Sorting Hat to be sure, wouldn’t we?).

I’m a Squib just waiting for Filch’s job to open up. Get the manacles ready.

I would definitely be in whichever house is closest to Mid-Century Modern in architecture and décor.

I adore Mid Century Modern. If none were available, I could also see myself in a quaint Cape Cod.

A combination of a husky, wolverine and a cougar (also known as a panther).

The cockroach from Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.”

I’d try to sneak Owl. “They’re dead useful.” Toads are a dog into just for duffers.

Hogwarts...

Potions, of course. In fact, I teach this class.

The Elder Wand.

Really? Would anyone choose anything else?!

History of Magic.

Binns is clearly the hero of the entire story.

Elder Wand.

I could set up a wand repair shop.

A yellow lab or a golden retriever.

Owls creep me out because of the way they turn their head, and I have a general aversion to birds because of Hitchcock. I prefer domesticated animals, so I’ll go with cat.

Definitely Potions.

The idea of being invisible is very intriguing, so I would say the Invisibility Cloak. Besides, you can buy all kinds of knock-off elder wands on Amazon.

Features

aving a class with a professor you’ve never met before can be scary. Will they assign obscene amounts of homework? Actually pay attention to attendance? Make you go to that night class right before break starts? Turn into a werewolf during a full moon? In“Harry Potter,” Harry and his friends were probably initially intimidated by the stern Professor McGonagall or the snarling Professor Snape. Although Spring Arbor University (SAU) might not offer Potions or Defense Against the Dark Arts, there are plenty of professors who may seem a little scary. To help you get to know some of your instructors (and help them pretend they understand pop culture), we’ve quizzed a few professors with some Hogwarts trivia.

Muggles: Kurt Hoffman Social Work I wish I could help. If you want commentary on “The Office” I could be your guy. I literally have no idea what those things are though.

Jeff Bilbro English Thanks for this line-up of questions, but though I’ve read and enjoyed “Harry Potter,” I don’t think I know the answers to any of these... I guess I have to brush up on my Potter lore.

Tom Holsinger-Friesen Theology I’m really sorry but I haven’t read the HP books. I’m one of the last on Earth not to have. But I hope to catch up soon.

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Features

SAU Unsolved: A Mystery of Elephantine Proportions Conner Williams | Staff Writer The SAU Elephant has shown up in some of the most unlikely places on campus. As far as incoming freshmen (and the internet) are concerned, it doesn’t exist.

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The elephant was originally part of a civic marketing campaign in downtown Jackson. There were multiple elephant statues (elephants, because Jackson is the birthplace of the Republican party).

Individuals could sponsor an elephant and have it custom-painted, and an SAU alumnus sponsored the SAU elephant. After the campaign was over, the alumnus took the SAU elephant and put it in a storage unit. Years later, the alumnus cleaned the storage unit and gifted the elephant to SAU. That was the beginning of the elephant’s history on the SAU campus.

Sometime between

2013-2015 The Elephant sits on the roof of student center

2017

The Elephant makes a second appearance at Lipsync; this time President Ellis lipsyncs to George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” as he rides the elephant.

2018

The Elephant appears on the roof of the library.

Present

The Elephant’s whereabouts are currently unknown.

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2015

The Elephant appears onstage at Lipsync with President Ellis and winning team.

Features

Finding A Church Away From Home Celeste Fendt | Associate Editor

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iving away from home for the first time undoubtedly comes with challenges. But adjusting to this new environment can get easier once you settle in and begin cultivating new relationships in Christ. Part of this comes with finding a church you like attending while at school. Check out this overview guide of a few nearby churches to find one that might work for you.

8200 King Rd. Jackson, MI 49283

1651 E. Litchfield Rd. Jonesville, MI 49250

2829 Park Dr. Jackson, MI 49203

Sunday 9 a.m., 10:45 a.m.

Sunday 8:30 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m.

Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

Sunday 10:50 a.m.

711 Francis St. Jackson, MI 49201 Sunday 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 5 p.m.

2395 W. High St. Jackson, MI 49203 Sunday 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m.

2620 Francis St. Jackson, MI 49203

2700 Spring Arbor Rd. Jackson, MI 49203

309 S. Jackson St. Jackson, MI 49201

Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Sunday 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m.

Sunday 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m.

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The Good Kind of Drama A&E

Get involved in SAU’s theater program Nathan Salsbury | A&E Editor

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he drama program at Spring Arbor University (SAU) is getting ready to call “lights up” on a new school year, which means plays and events are just around the corner. One such event is the Freshman/Newcomer show, where students who are new to SAU or to SAU’s drama program are invited to audition for short scenes directed by upperclassmen and recent graduates.

Jen Letherer, Associate Professor of Communication and Director of Theater, encourages students to audition no matter their background in theater. The program is small enough that students from any and all majors are invited to participate.

“We love for people to get involved,” Letherer said. “It doesn’t matter if the student has had experience or is just interested.”

Letherer also said that the Freshman/Newcomer Show is not a big

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time commitment. Auditions take place early in the fall, rehearsals happen throughout the semester and the performance nights are November 29 through December 2.

For students who are still hesitant to audition, Letherer wants them to know that at SAU, the philosophy for the drama program is a little different from other programs in high schools or other colleges. The focus is not on performing for one’s own benefit, but instead on giving a gift to the audience through the performance.

Another way to look at it, she said, is as a form of ministry and of “[putting] good into the universe.”

For the freshman who wants to get their foot in the door of the theater world, the senior who wants to try something new in their last year or the student who just likes the arts, the Freshman/Newcomer show is an opportunity to get involved in SAU’s drama program.

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SAU <3s Drama 2018-2019 Season Sept. 28-29 Lifting the Veil by Paul Patton Oct. 12-13 Christians in Theater Arts Roundtable Oct. 25-27 The Clouds by Aristophanes Nov. 29-Dec. 2 Freshman/ Newcomer Show Feb. 14-17 Musical (TBA), A Music Department/Drama Program Event Mar. 14 Monologue Night Apr. 11-13 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Qu!rk, a showcase of new works, will take place twice a semester.

A moodboard for the freshman experience A&E

Conner Williams | Staff Writer

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e at The Pulse understand that incoming freshmen are mystified about the experiences they will have at Spring Arbor University (SAU) and the emotional responses they will have. For the sake of providing clarity, we have arranged a moodboard to introduce new students to some of the primary feelings they will have in college.

Boy with lots of homework who played ping-pong too much.

Presenting your original idea in class.

Body full of ramen.

Mom calls. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fine, mom.

Carrying free food out of a campus event.

You and your roommate.

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New Year, New Gym Alex Anhalt | Sports Editor

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ast April, Spring Arbor University (SAU) announced plans for major renovations to its gym.

The new McDonald Athletic Center will have new bleachers, an updated press box, an expanded lobby and even renovated bathrooms. Now that the summer is over, how much progress has been made?

After graduation, the court was sanded down and the seating was ripped out. The old bleachers were the same ones the gym opened with in the 1970s, and they were starting to present safety concerns for older fans since they had no handrails. They are not being scrapped, though; according to Women’s Basketball Head Coach Ryan Frost, they’ve been donated to Michindoh.

If everything goes according to plan, fans will only ever need the edges of the new arena-style seats. The new bleachers are closer to the court, bringing the fans and players into a more united and intense game day experience.

The gym also has a new coat of paint.

The court has been updated with the snarling face of Cougar athletics, and the walls reflect SAU’s colors to round out the school spirit of the facilities.

According to Ryan Cottingham, Head Coach for Women’s Basketball, a new sound system and state-of-the-art video board will soon join these new features. He also says “the VIP suite, the athletic training room, the volleyball/ women’s basketball lounge and the public restrooms should be completed

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within the next couple of weeks.”

Coach Frost says there are also plans for a new lobby. The doors to the building will be extended to the current pillars outside the Fieldhouse, and the Hall of Fame plaques will be

been thrilled by the updates.

Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach Eric Salsbury thinks the new facilities “give a feeling of commitment by the school that recruits will be able to connect with.” Brandon Baum,

PHOTO BY Celeste Fendt

updated to touch screens that provide more details about players, donors and the namesake of the new gym, Coach McDonald. Expansion on the entrance will likely begin in October and finish up this winter.

Ask any of the coaches what makes the new facilities exciting, and part of their answer will be ‘recruiting.’ Coach Cottingham says “the visual impact of the whole package” will help create a better environment for recruiting, and several coaches said visitors have already

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Associate Coach for Men’s Basketball, calls the gym “an absolute game changer for our program.”

The first game on the new floor will be the season opener for the women’s volleyball team on September 8.

A&E

Join the Party Get involved in the goings-on of campus Elise Emmert | Editor-in-Chief College isn’t always about assignments, no matter what your professor might say. Be sure to check out these events coming up in the first month of school, and enjoy hanging out with your friends somewhere outside of class or a dorm room.

Arbor Nights

Block Party Sept. 8

Sept. 5

Come celebrate the beginning of a new school year before you get syllabi full of assignments that will fester in the back of your mind all semester.

Freshmen, get to know your COL and dorm friends a little better. Returning students, catch up with the people you haven’t seen for three months.

Plus, there’s good music and free food, making this a great way to finish off the summer before your semester starts.

Movie on the Lawn Sept. 7

Grab a blanket, some pillows and a few friends and cozy up in front of the library to watch “The Lion King” on a gargantuan screen. Enjoy popcorn and candy and join in when everyone starts singing along to “Hakuna Matata.”

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Do you like volleyball and cornhole?

Head outside of Lowell Hall on the 8th to unwind with your friends before the first full week of classes starts. There will be food, too (are you sensing a theme?).

Rock ‘N Bowl Sept. 15

Rent some bowling shoes at a discount price and do your best to break 100 points at this two-hour event.

Show your friends that you don’t need the bumpers anymore (or use them and bounce the ball back and forth, because zig-zags are fun).

Spiritual Life Retreat Sept. 21-23

Lowell Luau Sept. 14

This event is a Lowell Hall tradition.

Get a little tropical this Friday night and dance away the early semester stress with your friends.

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One of the most anticipated events on campus, the Retreat fills up quickly, so sign up early to secure your spot on this weekend getaway. Go to chapels, play games with friends and find the perfect spot for hammocking during this de-stress retreat that will help you re-center yourself after your first few weeks of school.