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Miners rescued after two months Suspect in local shooting is released Man throws book at Obama during rally 4autumn keiss [email protected] 4cathy schutt [email protected] Sophomore Hannah Crowder has a job on campus through the work study program. This is her second year working in the Athletics Department. 4jessica cohea [email protected] Almost 300 Olivet students purchased TOMS shoes. The shoes can be picked up Friday, Oct. 15, in the quad. 1941 2011 photo by meagan ramsay
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LocalSuspect in local shooting is releasedBEECHER, IL — Accord-ing to The Daily Journal, a Lynwood police officer was arrested on Friday, Oct. 8, for the shooting of three men on Oct. 5.
Brian Dorian, 37, was ac-cused of firing at three men, killing one and wounding another, while the third escaped unharmed. They were working on the reha-bilitation of a burned home in Beecher. The gunman then shot a local man in Lowell, Ind., after talking with him about beekeep-ing.
However, Dorian was released late on Tuesday, Oct. 12, because police investigators found “com-puter keystroke evidence,” giving him an alibi. Ac-cording to local authori-ties, the shooter is still on the loose.
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Man throws book at Obama during rallyPHILADELPHIA — CNN reported that a man threw a book at President Barack Obama as he was conclud-ing his statements during the Democratic National Committee rally on Oct. 10.
Secret Service agents de-tained the man after the in-cident and concluded that he is not a threat; rather, he is an author who threw his book onto the stage in hopes that the president would read it. No charges have been filed against the man.
Miners rescued after two months SAN JOSE MINE, Chile —Thirty-three miners have been rescued after spend-ing two months under-ground, USA Today report-ed. The men were lifted to the surface one by one in a custom-made capsule nick-named “Phoenix.” The res-cue began on Tuesday, Oct. 12, and lasted 22 hours.
The men had been trapped in a shaft system half of a mile underground since a collapse in the mine on Aug. 5.
Shoe sales help kids in need
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Throughout the week of Sept. 27, 270 students bought a pair of TOMS shoes for themselves. In doing so, they provided 270 chil-dren from all over the world with a pair too.
Almost 300 Olivet students purchased TOMS shoes. The shoes can be picked up Friday, Oct. 15, in the quad.
In celebration of this, the quad will be filled with live music, sidewalk chalk, and students dec-orating their new shoes starting at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15.
TOMS is a company that is de-termined to provide children in need with a pair of shoes. Blake Mycoskie, founder of this move-ment, was inspired to help in
2006 as the result of a trip to Ar-gentina.
The TOMS official website, toms.com, lists three reasons why wearing shoes in “developing” countries is important:
A leading cause of disease in developing countries is soil-trans-mitted diseases, which can pene-trate the skin through bare feet.
Wearing shoes also prevents feet from getting cuts and sores. Not only are these injuries pain-ful, they also are dangerous when wounds become infected.
Many times children can’t go to school barefoot because shoes are a required part of their uniform.
See “TOMS” on Page 2
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The amount of money that funds the work-study program at Olivet was
decreased at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year.
The federal government uses the work-study program to help students who have to work in order to attend school. Every year, they give each university funds
meant to help students secure on-campus jobs.
“The government cut our work-study in half this year so there’s been a crunch on campus,” said Greg Bruner, Director of Financial Aid at Olivet.
Cut-backs in this program may make job hunting more difficult for students.
“When students in work-study work on campus, 75 percent of their wages come from that
Decrease in funds leave students jobless
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allotment,” Bruner said. That means “the typical department pays only 25 percent of the wages of a work-study student, so budget-wise, it makes more sense to hire a work-study student.”
Of the 1,015 students who worked on-campus last year, 433 of them were in the work-study program.
Some students, like Junior Sarah Durazo, who is starting her second year working for intramurals, have not been affected by the reduction of the work-study program.
“I have work-study, and only applied to one job,” Durazo said.
However, not all work-study students apply for only one position. Freshman Lindsey Ramirez, a Fine Arts department worker, applied for many jobs before finding success.
“I applied for five jobs,” Ramirez said. “Only one showed an interest in hiring me.”
Her roommate applied for even more jobs and has still not found anyone willing to hire her.
“Everything seems to be full or given to upperclassmen.”
Freshman Christine Caven is thankful that she did not have to search for weeks to find work.
“When I came to Olivet I wanted to find a job, but I didn’t
Sophomore Hannah Crowder has a job on campus through the work study program. This is her second year working in the Athletics Department.
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have time to look for one,” Caven said. “I was offered a job in Alumni Relations. I’m thankful for how smoothly everything came together.”
While on-campus jobs may be convenient for some, they are not the only option. Junior Ron Rottmann works at Subway instead.
“I tried a couple of places on campus,” junior Ron Rottmann said. “It was late in the semester so a lot of places weren’t hiring.”
Not only are there different types of jobs, there are also different reasons for working. Ramirez works so she can buy groceries. Caven uses her job to pay for her tuition, to earn spending money and to help her establish contacts.
In past academic years, 78 percent of undergraduate students held jobs, according to the American Council on Education, an organization that gives a “voice” to higher education facilities. Though this is the trend, some students will decide to focus on class work instead to ease time management.
“I haven’t ever worked on-campus,” Junior Brad Millikan said. “Right now I have a really busy semester so a job would be overload.”
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Milby Clock Tower has been silenced. According to Matt Whitis, Physical Plant
Director, it was decided that the clock tower was “too short.” So the administration decided to have the roof pulled off the tower to add 25 feet to the top and a new dome.
“We wanted to make it a little better,” Whitis said, adding that the new look will tie in better with the adjacent Strickler Planetarium.
He said that they hope to be done with the tower by winter. They are waiting for the dome, or the cupola, to be completed and sent from Kentucky.
Some students, however, think that re-doing the clock tower is a waste.
“I think that the school is wasting their money on that,” junior Holly Schacht said. “They should put that money toward things that would benefit the students. Everyone hates the clock tower anyways;
it goes off at six in the morning.”“I guess for Olivet Nazarene, size does matter,”
said senior Nick Klomstad, who at 6 feet 8 inches knows what it means to stand tall. “I think it’s trivial.”
However, despite what students may think, the beautification will continue as the school uses money given to them in a grant from the Independent Colleges Capital Program (ICCAP). As the GlimmerGlass reported on Sept. 17, the ICCAP provided private colleges in Illinois money to renovate a part of their campus.
According to Whitis, the rest of the landscaping around the clock tower should be done before Homecoming.
“Everything else should be cleaned up in the next three or four weeks,” he said.
The next phase of the beautification project will be a new street from Miller Business Center to Ludwig. Whitis said the whole project is expected to take two to three years.
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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 in the GlimmerGlass are those of each writer and are not necessarily held by the Associated Students Council, facul-ty, administration or students of Olivet Nazarene University.
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out the evening. The TOMS Jamboree has been
coupled with One Day Without Shoes, according to Jennifer Mc-Clellan, Spiritual Life Advisor, as the final event in Missions Week.
“I don’t want to just provide trips,” she said. “This is a way of doing international missions without leaving the country.”
Students help TOMS donate shoes
One Day Without Shoes is ex-actly what it sounds like. Students will have the option to go barefoot that day to raise awareness that children in some foreign coun-tries do not own a pair of shoes.
“It’s all for the symbolism of depriving ourselves of some-thing as a comfort and a luxury for a day, so that we can be put
in the shoes, or the ‘non-shoes,’ of someone around the world that doesn’t have any,” Karg said.
Students will need to carry a pair of flip flops if they are not wearing shoes around campus that day in case a professor pre-fers shoes to be worn in the class-room or when the student enters a dining area, McClellan said.
Kyle Lowry, Bethany Abbott, Joy Matthews and Ashley Cook wear TOMS so that kids in third-world countries can receive their own pair.
photo by aly gibson
Clock tower keeps getting bigger
photo by aly gibson
The clock tower is being ex-tended to better fit with the new look of the campus.
GlimmerGlancesOct. 15-Oct. 29
Oct. 15
Day Without Shoes,TOMS Jamboree
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If they don’t have shoes, they don’t go to school. If they don’t receive an education, they don’t have the opportunity to realize their potential.
Now, thanks to Mycoskie, peo-ple all over the country are buy-ing a pair of shoes for themselves and sending a pair overseas at the same time. The shoes come in a wide variety of styles and colors, but they all aid one movement: the One for One movement.
Olivet’s event is hosted by the Associated Student Council. The student leaders donated $1,000 in order to have coupons available when students were purchasing their shoes.
“Some students even got theirs for free,” said Student Body Pres-ident Evan Karg.
Students that did not order shoes can still come and decorate pieces of canvas, listen to mu-sic and color the sidewalks with chalk, he said.
Nick Bays’ Band and Joey Ramirez will be playing through-
‘I guess for Olivet Nazarene, size does matter.’
No decisionyet for BearsThe Chicago Bears are still deciding where training camp will be held after summer of 2011, according to Scott Ha-gel, Senior Director of Cor-porate Communications.
“The Bears have had ongo-ing discussions with Lewis University [and the Village of Romeoville], but no deci-sions have been made at this point,” he said. “We continue to value our great relation-ship with Olivet Nazarene University and look forward to hosting training camp there again next summer.”
–Cathy Schutt,[email protected]
Tennis teams go to regionals
SPORTS, PG. 11
Students minister in Nicaragua STUdENT LIFE, PG. 5
Oct. 16KVPD corn maze
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CROP Walk
“Dig Pink” volleyball game
Oct. 22 Orpheus Variety Show
Oct. 27Homecoming Coronation
Oct. 29
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This fall the opportunity to become CPR certified is available to students and faculty. Classes will be offered for free to both fac-ulty and Olivet-employed students, as well as the general student population for $15.
Classes are taught by Public Safety of-ficers and will meet at 12 p.m. in McHie Arena on Saturdays for the rest of October. November dates are not set yet. Students may sign up for classes on Blackboard.
CPR classes are very hands-on and en-courage students to visually understand the principles of CPR. Physical skill is empha-sized. Students must score at least an 80 percent on the exam for certification. This class does not count for academic credit at Olivet.
Currently 31 faculty members and 65 students have been certified through these classes. The officers’ goal is to have 300 students and staff certified at the end of the program, which will be 10 percent of the entire university, according to Public Safety officer, Jordan Prewitt.
Interested students can email Prewitt at [email protected].
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Card readers may replacekeys to access buildings
ONU students may see the instal-lation of a card reader system in all buildings on campus.
This new technology will re-place keys as the means of getting into buildings; instead, students and faculty will swipe their Ol-ivet ID to open doors.
Referred to as “Access Control” by Public Safety and Information Technology, this new project will cost millions of dollars and has been approved to be installed in the Centennial Chapel, as well as in current buildings such as Reed Hall of Science, Larsen Fine Arts Center and Benner Library. In ad-dition to these buildings, it has been suggested that Access Con-trol be installed in all dormitories, on each individual door, creating a system similar to a hotel.
The current campus policy is set up so that doors to main build-
unscheduled to meet the radio personalities. With the card sys-tem, the door will be locked at all times, and the only entrance will be by those with an ID or by switchboard operators buzzing a person in.
According to Craig Bishop, Di-rector of Public Safety, this proj-ect is not intended to be a “Big Brother” situation. It is merely intended to better cater to student needs and to make the campus safer for them.
Although the exact date for the installation of Access Control is not determined yet, students can expect to see its progress take shape in the next few years.
ings are locked at a specific time designated by professors, and if students wish to enter after that time they need to have Pub-lic Safety open the door. This is an inconvenience that would be eliminated with the card system, because students would be able to open the doors themselves.
The second goal of the card system is security. Professors will have control over who en-ters the building when, and after students enter and leave the door will lock.
One of the focuses of this proj-ect will be the Shine.FM studio. Complaints have been made re-cently about people stopping by
Public Safety Officer Ted Borchardt has to unlock doors for students now, but students may soon be able to get into buildings with just the swipe of a card.
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On Wednesday, Oct. 6, a man was seen committing the act of inde-cent exposure on the 400th block of Grand Ave. The incident was reported at 11:50 p.m., according to an email from Public Safety. The incident is still under inves-tigation.
The subject is described as a white male of average build be-tween the ages of 30 and 40 years old. The man was wearing khaki shorts and a gray fleece sweatshirt
at the time of the incident. Public Safety is urging any-
one who sees this man to call the Bourbonnais Police Department or Public Safety at 815-939-5265 immediately. Do not approach him.
Students should also lock their doors and windows when they are not in their rooms and keep their curtains closed at night.
–Cathy Schutt,[email protected]
Flasher seen near campus
photo by aly gibson
graphic by paul conzen
MVNU student dies of gunshot woundMichael Gehrett, a junior criminal justice major at Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio, died of a gunshot wound on Thursday, Sept. 16.
According to the Mount Vernon News website, Gehrett’s ex-girlfriend allegedly received a text message from him and was concerned about his safety. She then informed the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. The KCSO allegedly reported these concerns to the Office of Student Development at MVNU.
The Nazarene Communications Network, at ncnnews.com, reported that the KCSO informed the University later that they found Gehrett and were life-flighting him to Grant Hospital in Columbus. He died between 3:30 and 4:30 that morning. No foul play is suspected.
The funeral took place on Tuesday, Sept. 21. Olivet students, faculty and staff - including Student Body
President Evan Karg and Chaplain Mark Holcomb, sent their condolences. Holcomb called on Olivetians to pray for the student body of MVNU as well as Gehrett’s family.
• Any Olivet student who is suffering from anxiety, depres-
sion or suicidal thoughts should seek help from Counseling Services in the Center for Student Success.
–Jessica Cohea, Beth [email protected]
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Nothing’s impossible
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I can’t do this.Send an African girl to
college? Are you kidding, God? How am I supposed to raise $16,000 for someone else to go to school when I don’t even have enough money to pay for my own education? There’s no way.
That’s what I was thinking a year ago when God called me to do something impossible. Since then I’ve learned - with God, there’s always a way.Planting the seed
During the summer of 2009, before my senior year at Olivet, I spent two months in Nigeria through Youth in Mission. While there I became good friends with 18-year-old Evelyn Udofia, the daughter of the pastor we were staying with. Evelyn was a hilarious, bright, beautiful, outgoing Nigerian girl who helped us out so much. She taught us about Nigeria, and without her, our ministry wouldn’t have been nearly as effective. She was constantly asking me questions about college and what it was like to leave home and go to school. It was obvious to me that she needed to branch out and experience independence, and that an education would lead to a better life. So my heart broke when I realized that her family didn’t have the means to send her to college. I knew Evelyn would thrive at a university and deeply wanted to attend Africa Nazarene University in Kenya, but didn’t know how this was possible.
After tearfully saying goodbye to Evelyn and her family, I returned to America, enjoyed eating cheeseburgers and milkshakes again (they don’t have dairy in Nigeria) and got geared up for my senior year of college.
Through all the busyness of senior year, I had a tiny, nagging thought that wouldn’t leave. I experienced the nervous feeling
I used to get when God would call me to stand up and testify in church – that sense that I was frightened, but if I didn’t do what I was afraid of, I would regret it. I felt God calling me to send Evelyn to college.No Way
For about a month I fought it. How could God expect me to do something like that? I was just trying to graduate without losing my sanity. When I finally told some people what I was feeling, my resistance broke. I remember lying on the floor in my Olde Oak apartment with my journal open, writing as fast as I could to get out all my anxiety and fears about what He was asking me to do. That night I told God I would do it. I would send Evelyn to college.Following through
Getting started on this feat was a huge deal. After I figured out the cost, and where to send the money, I finally felt comfortable with raising money for Evelyn. But then my last semester of college got in the way. I put everything aside until after my diploma was safely in my possession.
Once school was over, I buckled down and approached my home church in Marietta, Ohio, for some help. I spoke in church and received a very generous offering from my church family. I was blown away by how willing they were to help Evelyn – a girl they had never even met. I also cleaned out my house and had a yard sale that made about $300 – more than I expected, especially since we didn’t advertise for it, and it rained that day. I also decided to send my own contribution to Evelyn every month – after all, how could I ask others to donate to her cause if I myself wasn’t giving of my finances?
I continued to pray and trust God, but sometimes when I thought of Evelyn, I would get stressed out about my promise to God and my fear that I would fail them both.
Simply To Go is simply deliciousSomething to Chew On
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What do you do when it’s two o’clock in the afternoon, you have had four classes back-to-back, are scrambling to get to your next class while absolutely starving and won’t have time to eat until 6 pm that evening? The answer is “sim-ply” obvious! You can grab a quick meal from the new and improved Nesbitt Hall dining featuring “Simply To Go.”
This year the meal equiva-lency food venue on campus has moved to Nesbitt Hall, and
it is anything but average. Serv-ing around 1000 meals a day, this new food “hot spot” has re-ally set the bar for Sodexo here at Olivet, and I highly recommend it for those needing a quick meal to grab. From the wide selection of healthy choices, to the helpful and kind employees, Nesbitt Hall is an excellent dining choice.
The open hours of Nesbitt Hall are conveniently 9 am to 7 pm Monday through Thursday and from 9 am to 4:30 pm on Fridays. Some may ask- Who wants lunch at 9 in the morning? I have good news for you! Sim-ply To Go features a scrumptious breakfast including hot breakfast sandwiches, fresh fruit bowls,
homemade muffins, and freshly brewed coffee.
Melody Kennell was Executive Editor of the GlimmerGlass from 2009-2010. She graduated in spring of 2010 from Olivet.
Then in the beginning of September I got an email from the missionary to whom I had been sending the money, saying that “on good faith” he had purchased a plane ticket for Evelyn and she had started school at ANU.
At first I didn’t believe she was really there. I hadn’t expected her to start so soon. But when I got on Facebook, I saw that she had a new profile, and her current city was listed as “Nairobi, Kenya.” She was really there. Not done yet
I still have a lot of money to raise (about $14,000). It’d be terrible to get Evelyn to college and then not have the funds to keep her there. But I’m confident that He who started a good work will be faithful to complete it (Philippians 1:6).
I know this is not my doing. On my own I’m weak, timid, selfish and clueless. But God has been faithful to guide me and bless this endeavor. As someone told me when I first accepted this call: If He called you to do this; then obviously He knows you can do it. And He’s going to help you.
So be encouraged. If God is calling you to do something big, don’t ignore Him. It’s scary and difficult, but extremely rewarding to be doing His Will. I’m still learning how to trust and obey, but God is showing me how I can make a difference in the life of one person. It’s definitely worth the sacrifices.
Of course, being raised a good Christian girl; I always knew the standard phrase: Nothing is impossible with God.
Now I really know it’s true. If you’re interested in helping
Evelyn, I could definitely use your support. Any donations or fundraising ideas would be greatly appreciated. Email me at [email protected].
EvelynUdofia (above) carries water on her head while texting. Olivet graduate Melody Kennell (bottom far right) stands with Megan Fouts and Sarah Whittenberg of Southern Nazarene University as well as Evelyn Udo-fia of Nigeria. Kennell, Fouts, and Whittenberg were in Nigeria with Youth in Mission.
‘How could God expect me to do something like that? I was just trying to graduate without losing
my sanity.’
Simply To Go lunch and din-ner features are several different delectable options including tuna and turkey sandwiches, micro-wavable pasta entrees, and hot, homemade soups.
According to employees Bren-da French and Sandra Cervantes, Simply To Go is always striving to provide a variety including several healthy options. French says that there are always a hand-ful of vegetarians so having the veggie wraps is a must.
Besides providing variety, you should be happy to learn that serving safe food is their number one goal.
“We make sure we are continu-ously watching the temperatures
[of the food],” Cervantes said. I enjoy grabbing Simply To
Go, especially the veggie wrap (lettuce, onions, cucumber and summer squash with hummus). The only downside of Simply To Go is the meal size. I feel that the meal equivalency is not exactly equivalent to the all-you-can eat buffet in Ludwig. One entrée, one side and a dessert simply does not fill up the common athlete or the extremely hungry student.
However, with fresh food full of flavor, a plethora of variety and convenience, how could anyone not enjoy the new Simply To Go? If you have yet to eat at Nesbitt Hall, you simply must.
Bon Appétit!
when I got to work with the chil-dren and with VBS,” she said. “I feel this experience helped me as I prepared for college because I want to earn a degree in teach-ing to continue to work with the church. My ultimate goal is to be a missionary and a teacher.
The work was hard because there was no electricity or run-ning water in the village of LaRi-oja. That meant hauling water in buckets about 80 yards from the well to the work site, mixing all the cement for the floor on the ground by hand and using picks
Student Life 5October 15, 2010 GlimmerGlass
Instead of heading for a warm beach or an amusement park, Olivet freshman Makenzie Parks and Danyne Harris were among 50 volunteers who spent the first two weeks in July working on a project in the mountains of north-ern Nicaragua.
Volunteers from Nazarene churches in Ohio, Colorado, Illi-nois, Minnesota and Alaska flew into Managua and traveled about 200 miles north to the base of operations in Somoto, a commu-nity of about 40,000 people. The majority of the population, about 25,000 people, lives in 48 villages in the surrounding area. It is not an affluent area, with subsistence farm families averaging daily wages of about $2, making up the majority of the rural population.
The trip, organized by the Nazarene Church, focused on the construction of a 30-by-80-foot building in LaRioja, one of the rural villages near Somoto. The team continued work on the church building that will also be used for community events.
The work and witness volun-teers also cleared away vegetation and dug trenches. This work was needed to put in the foundation for three classrooms designed to provide a secondary school.
Parks said the trip was special for her as she prepared to go to college. She worked on the con-struction projects, but the part of the trip she liked most was help-ing local residents do three-day vacation Bible school sessions for local children.
About 50 children from the LaRioja area attended the three days of activities there, while in the nearby community of Marti-nez Village, about 110 children attended.
“I gained a better understanding
Tom Munds is a reporter for Colorado Community Newspa-pers.
Freshmen travel to Nicaragua
photos courtesy of tom munds
Danyne Harris enjoyed working with the children. She played with them and comforted them after injuries. Her time with the kids reinforced her goal of becoming a teacher and a missionary someday.
of how important it is to be able to speak to the people in their own language, and I am happy I have taken so many Spanish classes,” Parks said. “I also like the fact I got the chance to work with the children. I enjoyed the two weeks so much and it breaks my heart not to be able to stay there and get to know the children better.”
Harris agreed. She said the con-struction work was hard but team members were great and almost like family.
“The construction work was good, but what I really liked was
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Before the two girls arrived at olivet, they ventured to Larioja to continue construction on a local church and help out with Vacation Bible school. they also worked closely with the children in the village.
Makenzie Parks runs quickly to evade a team member while playing games with children from the Nicaraguan mountain village of LaRioja.
and shovels to dig the trenches for the classroom foundations.
Both Harris and Parks said the children were great and they loved each of them.
Harris said there was a lan-guage barrier but there was a lot of communication through hand signals, body language and facial expression.
As the project was wrapping up, Parks smiled and said being in the rural village helped her enter Ol-ivet with a little different attitude, particularly about such things as not having a room to herself and
about the joy of hot showers.Harris agreed and added that
being in the rural village made her wonder about the real impact of all the things we take for grant-ed here in the United States.
The efforts of the volunteers were well received by the resi-dents of the area. They held a meeting to greet the team, and Somoto Mayor Wilson Pablo Montoya Rodriguez attended.
6 In-Depth GlimmerGlass October 15, 2010
How
safe is your computer?
Have you “Skyped” your friends lately? The ability to turn on a simple webcam, launch a pro-gram and instantly see friends face-to-face is appealing and incredibly convenient. But what if the camera stayed on? How would you feel if someone has direct access to you and your personal life through the com-puter screen?
It was a situation similar to this that presumably led to the suicide of Tyler Clementi.
Clementi, 18, an accomplished violinist and freshman at Rut-gers University in Piscataway, N.J. allegedly took his own life after a live feed of a gay sexual encounter was broadcast on the Internet, abcNEWS reported on Sept. 29. Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge after posting the message “Jump-ing off the gw bridge sorry” on Facebook.
The musician’s roommate Dharun Ravi, 18, and friend Molly Wei, also 18, have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy following the transmission on Sept. 19, Mid-
The Internet can be useful anywhere from paying bills to keeping in touch with friends, but think twice before pressing the enter button. Online dangers are a reality and can do seri-ous damage if you’re not careful. Learn how to stay safe before logging in.
4Samantha Sparrow & KrISta SKELton
The Digital Dilemma:
dlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Rutgers University Police Chief Rhonda Harris said in a statement released Sept. 30.
Ravi also faces two additional counts of invasion of privacy “for attempting to use the cam-era to view and transmit another encounter involving [Clementi] on September 21, 2010,” accord-ing to the statement. Invasion of privacy is a sexual offense under New Jersey law.
New channels of communica-tion pose new risks. In order to stay safe, people should know where the pitfalls lie and take steps to avoid the spread of pri-vate information.
According to an L.A. Times blog about Internet safety (latimesblog.latimes.com) there are several ways to stay safe. Alex Pham offers the following pointers:
• Avoid using weak passwords. Mix upper and lower case letters along with numbers to make it more difficult for hackers to gain access to personal information.
• Never list full birth dates. Ac-cording to consumer reports, 38 percent of users posted their full birth dates on Facebook. Posting this information makes them easy targets for identity theft.
• Make contact information private on social networking sites. To do this on Facebook, click on “contact information” under the “info” tab in your profile and edit your preferences. Too much in-formation online can help cyber predators to gain easy access to bank accounts and identities.
Hacking is now much easier than in previous years as well. There are YouTube tutorials to teach almost anyone how to hack into a computer - and even into webcams. Just typing the phrase “how to hack a webcam” on YouTube gives over 5,000 re-sults. Typing the same on Google yields at least 2.5 million results.
According to webcamsafety.org, a website created to educate Internet users about the preven-tion of online victimization, “anything on your webcam can be recorded without your permis-sion.” Once videos are streamed, they are in cyberspace. Unless the data is deleted, it can be re-trieved and shared on multiple websites.
Another very real danger in today’s society is cyberbullying. According to the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use (CSRIU), it is hard to differenti-ate between posts that are joking
and actual threats. A cyberthreat is a direct threat which can be any sort of distressing material or general statement that implies the writer is emotionally compro-mised and may consider harming him/herself or others.
Cyberbullying can start out small and grow into a monster. Cyberbullies use fictitious ma-terial to hurt other people. A simple rumor or joke between friends soon becomes the talk of the school at someone else’s expense. It is not just limited to “hate” words either. According to the CSRIU there are different types of cyberbullying. “Flam-ing” is the exchange of angry and vulgar language during an online fight. It also includes harassment and “denigration,” the act of be-littling someone online. Other forms include “outing,” (reveal-ing someone’s embarrassing se-crets), as well as impersonation.
A similar activity, cyberstalk-ing, is more than just the average “Facebook page creeping.” Cy-berstalking is intense harassment including threats to purposefully leave the victim very afraid.
In general, “don’t make threats online [and] report threats or dis-tressing material,” according to the CSRIU.
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safe is your computer?
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The latest technology can be seen in the library, in the classrooms and even in the hands of students walking to class. Students, like Joni Miller (above) use technology to communicate with friends and family, to complete group projects,to watch movies or listen to music. Safety in all as-pects is key though.
According to an Oct. 12 article on the National Public Radio website, embarrassing pictures of a poorly known Democratic candidate for Congress, Krystal Ball, were being circulated on the Internet. The pictures were of Ball dressed as a skimpy Mrs. Clause at a Christmas party six years ago, in a private home. Ball believed the pictures made their way to a conservative blogger through someone who was at the party with her. Whether this will
affect her political status is cur-rently unknown.
Although Ball did not post the pictures of herself on the In-ternet, this story still shows the devastation that misuse of the Web can do. The Internet can-not only cause embarrassment, but can be potentially danger-ous as well.
Another article, posted on the MSNBC website, says that 20-year-old Amy Boyer of Nashua, N.H., was murdered on Oct. 15, 1999. AmyBoyer.org, the website Boyer’s family put up after her murder, said Boyer
was stalked and murdered by Liam Youens, a man obsessed with her since the 10th grade. Youens was not able to use a car to follow Boyer around, so in-stead he turned to the Internet to find all of the information about Amy.
Websites are not friends. They are not meant to be trusted and are not created to keep infor-mation private. Even with all the prevention software that is available now, hacking is still a very real danger. Being cautious when online can save a reputa-tion or a life.
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Privacy Not ProtectedIn the rush of the day, students need to pay attention to what personal information goes online.
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Junior Megan Grise should not be alive.
“I turned twenty years old on October third, which is nothing short of a miracle,” she said.
In nine years, Grise’s parents had seven children. Only four of them survived. One was a still-born, one was a miscarriage and one died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome fourteen months after his birth.
Grise’s mom had always want-ed four children, so if any of those three children had survived, Grise would not have been born.
Grise was born with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the same syndrome that killed her brother.
“When I would cry, I held my breath and passed out. It baffled doctors and I was constantly hooked up to monitors measuring my brain function in to figure out what triggered it,” she said.
The doctors were unsure if Grise would survive because her brother had died from the same thing. During this time of uncer-tainty, Grise was surrounded in prayer.
“There were members from my church and my family con-stantly praying over me, that I would outgrow it, that it would just be a phase. The Lord is faith-ful and after many long months, many tests and many prayers, I was healed and I did not have a breathing episode again,” she said.
Grise’s rough beginning shaped her spirit for the rest of her life.
“Growing up knowing where
I have come from and what God has done for me has given me such hope and purpose. I do not know why God chose me to live through what killed my brother, but He had that planned from the start,” she said.
Grise is sure that God has a special plan for her life, and that she is here for a reason. She is ea-ger to be a witness to others for the wonderful things He has done for her.
Her favorite verse is Romans 8:28, “And we know God uses all things for the good of those who
Life saved thanks to God’s blessings
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Junior Megan Grise says she is lucky to be alive today.
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There comes a time in each of our lives when we have to choose whether to live for God or live for the world.
This moment guides our de-cisions, shapes our personality and defines our future.
This moment happened for me at 18 years old when I was searching for my purpose in life. I had been raised in a solid Christian home, but I started asking myself why I was cre-ated and what I could do with my life to make a difference in this world.
Looking back, those six months were the unhappiest time of my life as I struggled between finding my purpose in the Lord and chasing momen-tary satisfaction. What finally broke me was hearing a mes-sage on the Holy Spirit.
I knew the Holy Spirit was missing from my life. Yes, I was a Christian and I knew right from wrong, but I had not experienced a life of daily com-munion with the Holy Spirit.
That day I decided to cut things out of my life that were displeasing to God. It started with ending a relationship with
a guy I had formed my life around, building other relation-ships up instead of tearing them down and surrounding myself with encouraging friendships. The more these things were re-fined from my heart, the more joyful I became and the closer I grew towards the Holy Spirit. I was being transformed by be-ing in His presence.
In Luke 1, Mary, Elizabeth and John the Baptist each have an encounter with the Holy Spirit that radically shifts the course of their lives. Mary, who was a virgin, had the “Holy Spirit come upon” her and she conceived Jesus Christ. Eliza-beth, who was barren, bore John the Baptist through the power of the Holy Spirit. He was strong in the Holy Spirit from birth and it would later be said, “among those born of women there is none greater than John.” (Luke 7:28)
There is a distinct change when the Holy Spirit begins directing one’s life. Mary birthed the Messiah, Elizabeth bore a son in her old age and John proclaimed the coming of Jesus.
Are you living for God or for the world? Is your life one that is filled with freedom and joy, or temporary satisfaction?
A game that quickly became popular on campus last year is not being played on campus any longer because of its violent manner. For now, the game has been postponed, but the leaders are looking for a new location to play at.
The capture-the-flag-style game, known as “the zombie game”, was played with two teams, the hu-mans and the zombies, and the point was to kill the opposing team.
Director of Public Safety, Craig Bishop said the game was stopped because of the use of weapons.
“We have a zero tolerance policy on weapons at ONU, including guns and look-a-like guns. We err on the side of caution.”
The game began last year when then fourth floor Nesbitt Resident Assistant Lincoln Butler (now Resident Director) was discussing a game called “Assassins” with friend Kevin Walsh. It is similar to “The Zombie Game” except there are no zombies.
“We were all talking about what we would do if a zombie attack did in fact happen. What we would do, where we would go, and stuff like that,” Butler said.
Walsh had a more elaborate plan worked out than just talking about it though.
“I actually wrote down a plan for when zombies attack,” he said, “and I think I even made copies and handed them out to people.”
From that conversation alone, the zombie game
was created and came to life on campus. Sophomore Lucas Fain started playing last year
and soon became the game leader when Butler and Walsh “passed the torch on to him”.
This new leader changed the human versus zom-bie battle to suit the students’ needs. Now there is a game schedule and a time limit that is voted on by the players, whereas last year, the game continued day and night.
“We were more concerned with getting hit by the other side than getting to class on time,” Fain said.
Fain also created a Facebook page, “Olivet Zom-bies Sessions”, so any student that is interested can sign up and play. Games usually have between 10 and 30 people and consist of both men and women.
“We are just as competitive as the boys,” said sophomore Freya Patrick.
Patrick has been involved in the game since the beginning of her freshman year.
“Lucas got me involved in zombies on campus and I’ve been playing since,” said.
While the general purpose of the game is to have fun, Fain has learned some skills from it as well. For example, he has sharpened his leadership and teamwork abilities. He has something else to take away from this game though, too.
“The most important thing I take away from this game is memories,” he said.
Patrick agreed. “It is full of strategy, teamwork, camaraderie and
you meet new people. It’s athletic, social and gets you away from the rush of classes.”
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love Him,” because it reminds her that God will work through everything. He has a purpose for her.
Grise says that God’s purpose for her life right now is “to live out loud the life God has given me and lead others to Him. It is the least I can do after all He has done for me.” Grise is in-volved in different ministries on campus that give her opportuni-ties to do this. She participates in Mission Possible, a ministry for prison immates, as well as Gospel Choir.
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‘The Social Network’ proves to be another successful Fincher film
Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg play Sean Parker and Mark Zuckerberg in the new film “The Social Network.” In it’s first two weeks open in theaters nation-wide, it has topped the box office, grossing a total more than $46 million.
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In 2003, I talked to all of my friends in person. If I had a ran-dom thought, I’d forget it.
Today, I communicate with half of the people I know online. The first thing I did after seeing “The Social Network” was write some of my thoughts about it online. The sites I posted to include Fa-cebook; I never thought real life could get so meta. This film, the latest from director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, shows how we came to this state.
Near the beginning, Mark Zuckerberg comes up with (or kind of- sort of steals) the idea for “the face book.” We watch him refine the idea, represented by the development of features such as the relationship status, and the gradual expansion of the site. The movie subtly depicts the shift in real-life behavior as people adjust to consider the online dimension to their interactions. By the end lovers are fighting over the rela-tionship status. And yet most of the events portrayed in the film cover less than the first year of the site’s existence; this was before it really took off.
The visuals are saturated in shadows and muted colors, hang-ing a heavy mood over the pro-ceedings. Trent Reznor’s musical score, composed of eerie ambient tones, sounds like it belongs in a spy thriller if you listen to it on its own.
There’s a palpable atmosphere of tension, anticipating the im-
pending detonation of a sociolog-ical hydrogen bomb. This is not to say that the movie is somber or distressing. Sorkin, known for his rapid, witty dialogue, delivers on all fronts with his script. It’s a joy to watch and listen to the people on screen interact. This is a very funny movie, even if it won’t make you laugh out loud per se. I laughed out loud, though. Be-cause I’m a dork.
Of course, the other half of good dialogue is whose mouth it comes out of, and the actors make it work wonderfully.
Jesse Eisenberg delivers a laud-able, blistering performance as Zuckerberg. He’s irritable and shifty but at the same time funny and just sympathetic enough to keep you invested in his story. Andrew Garfield’s Eduardo is earnest and good-natured but continually befuddled and frus-trated. Garfield’s career has just recently taken off, and he’s cer-tainly someone to watch, not just because he’s playing the next Spi-der-Man but because he’s really good at rousing your sympathies.
Justin Timberlake is the slick but slimy, and almost pathetic, Sean Parker. Timberlake has been demonstrating his chops for years, and hopefully this will finally quiet his doubters. But I think special attention needs to be called to Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins. He’s so good that I thought actual twins were in the role before I read the credits and did a double-take. Pun intend-ed and not apologized for. It’s a testament both to his performance and the subtle special effects that
two distinct characters have been created from one actor.
The true story of Facebook in-volved a lot less sex, nastiness, and drama than there is in the film. I recently read a Christian Sci-ence Monitor article: “The Social Network: Four things the movie got wrong.” It points out inaccu-racies in the depiction of certain characters (especially Zucker-
berg) and events. But that article and complaints like it are missing the point; the movie gets nothing wrong because it doesn’t try to tell the actual story. Rather, it uses the factual events as a framework for the themes it wants to convey. And it does so with aplomb.
By the time this review is pub-lished, the movie will have been out for around two weeks. But
just in case you haven’t seen it, then I’d be remiss not to tell you that you should. This is one of the best films of the year, possibly the best. Fincher, Sorkin, and com-pany have taken college kids and web coding and spun them into a funny, compelling story about ambition, communication, and betrayal. It may not be true, but the message it sends is.
Professors (from left) Sue Williams, Bill Dean, and Kristy Ingram answer questions about forgiveness .
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Could you forgive a person who murdered your family?
Junior Eboni Berry thinks it’s possible.
This is the question that was posed by the 2008 Academy Award-winning documentary, “As We Forgive,” shown in Wis-ner Auditorium Tuesday, Oct. 5.
“How can people grow and move on if they don’t forgive?” Berry said. “What else are they going to do except hold on to the anger, bitterness, discord and dis-unity that they had before?”
This 53 minute documentary is about two Rwandan women look-ing to reconcile with the neigh-bors who slaughtered their fami-lies during the 1994 genocide.
The rival between the Hutu tribe and the Tutsi rebel group sparked a haunting time in the country of Rwanda, leaving many families torn apart and displaced from their homes. Over 100 days, approximately one million people were murdered.
“The film tells the story of for-giveness as a living entity that cannot help but transform those affected,” ONU professor Kristy Ingram said. “It is this transfor-mation that makes reconciliation possible, and I think the film cap-tures that in an intimate way.”
Ingram and Sue Williams, chair of the English and Modern Lan-guages department, agreed that this film captures the feelings of the victims and perpetrators, the pain from the genocide, and the beauty of forgiveness.
After the viewing of the film, there was a discussion time led by Professor Bill Dean, chair of the History department, Dr. Lisa Gas-sin, associate professor of Behav-ioral Sciences and Psychology, and Ingram. The discussion gave students a chance to ask questions about the film.
Ingram and Williams both saw
the film at the Festival of Faith and Writing conference hosted by Calvin College in April, which prompted them to show it on Ol-ivet’s campus.
Berry saw “Hotel Rwanda” and noticed the significant difference between the two.
“‘Hotel Rwanda’ told the story as a day-by-day process...whereas ‘As We Forgive’ showed the his-tory behind it and other people’s views,” she said.
Berry believes that the people of Rwanda could learn from and strengthen each other as a people: as God’s people.
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Faith findsplacein art
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The Brandenburg Gallery is cur-rently featuring a national exhibi-tion of faith-based faculty artists.
The invitation to participate in the show was sent out all over the nation to all the school’s art faculty as part of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universi-ties. Olivet is one of 114 schools in the CCCU and ranks in the top five art programs.
Professor Scott Dombrowski, the coordinator of the gallery, set his sights higher when it came time to set up the faculty show.
“I wanted to do something big-ger,” Dombrowski said.
The variety of participants in the show is meant to bring aware-ness to the art department and gal-lery.
The show’s theme is “Art as Faith, Faith as Art.” All the works submitted are interpretations of how each artist incorporates faith and Christianity into their work. Each piece is drastically differ-ent. Instead of giant crosses and glowing white angels, there are representations such as a ceramic sleeping bag with spark plugs or simple pictures of landscapes. In fact, many of the pieces do not have religious titles or any reli-gious symbols at all. The artist’s faith is observed through the na-ture of the piece because the piece represents the person.
In one section of the gallery, artist Tanja Butler is represented by an oil and acrylic piece named “Abraham series: God comes to dinner.” Neither Abraham nor a white, glowing representation of Jesus is present. Instead, you see colorful picture of normal people serving each other. Could service be the true depiction of “God at dinner”?
Professor William Greiner painted a picture that represented love.
“Love is what kind of holds it all together for us,” Greiner said.
What better way to represent faith than expressing God’s love?
His piece is overflowing with color and has some hidden mes-sages. The movement in the piece comes from the top and “over-whelms” the heart in the middle. If one looks at the piece carefully, one can see the words: “Love isn’t blind, it sees what matters.” Through his work, Greiner shares his testimony with the world: God takes us for who we are.
“Jesus measures our heart, he doesn’t measure us,” Greiner said.
The show lasts through Octo-ber 25. It is located on the bottom floor of Larsen and the Strickler Planetarium. More information about the gallery and the shows can be found at brandenburggal-lery.blogspot.com.
Along with the many attractions Perry Farms offers during their “A Night in Sleepy Hollow” event, they also let visitors take their picture with the Headless Horseman. Taken last year, a few young girls re-enact their fright while the Horseman poses alongside them on a real horse used during the interactive story-telling.
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Every October, as Halloween ap-proaches, there are countless sto-ries retold that highlight playful and scary times from yesteryear. Some cause laughs, some cause fright, but each one equally en-tertains.
One of those stories is the Leg-end of Sleepy Hollow.
While most people enjoy lis-tening to the words, some long to relive the tale, just as it was all those years ago in the tiny Dutch village north of New York City in the countryside.
For almost 20 years, Perry Farms has brought the Headless Horseman back to life with its in-teractive story-telling production of “A Night in Sleepy Hollow.” This year, they continue their tra-dition, as well as showcase a few new upgrades for both young and old visitors looking to participate in Halloween fun.
The event, which started in 1991, began as a fundraising opportunity for the Exploration Station, a children’s museum in
Bourbonnais, Ill. The annual at-traction showcases the classic tale, based off of the short story by Washington Irving, of Ichabod Crane, a school teacher in Sleepy Hollow who wants to marry Ka-trina Van Tassel, the daughter of a rich farmer in town. One night on his way home, Crane is pursued by a headless horseman, and is never to be seen again. Countless retellings of the story have been performed, as well as the popular 1999 film of the same name, star-ring Christina Ricci as Van Tassel and Johnny Depp as Crane.
The first year the production was held, it brought in over 200 visitors. Since the event was so popular, the children’s museum decided to continue on with its famous story-telling adventure each year, bringing in more and more guests as the years passed on. Even to this day, it attracts around 4,000 people annually from Bourbonnais, Bradley and Kankakee, as well as other sur-rounding towns.
So what draws in such a big crowd?
Julie Kokos of the Bourbonnais Township Park District says it is
the telling of a great story.“[It] is a timeless adventure of
Sleepy Hollow and its headless henchman,” she said.
From 5:30 until 7:30 p.m., the night’s activities are aimed at younger children and will be “less scary” Kokos said. The park, lo-cated in Perry Farms, hosts a list of entertainment, and even a few new attractions this year.
Visitors can enjoy hay rides, straw mazes, and campfire stories told by actors who volunteer to bring the story to life. In the past, Olivet’s theater students have of-ten been involved as actors for Sleepy Hollow. There will also be short films, a monster egg hunt, a slew of games, and a costume contest for children 12 years old and younger. One of the newest additions to the line-up this year is also mini golf. A course is set up around the farm which children and their families can play while celebrating the harvest season.
Another new and exciting at-traction is Perry Farm’s “Corri-dors of Chaos.”
This event, which is com-pletely separate from the “Night in Sleepy Hollow,” showcases a
more frightening side of Hal-loween, and is aimed at those who are older and looking for a scare.
The “Corridors of Chaos” is an outdoor, haunted maze that is 2,300 square feet that includes seven rooms featur-ing “several pathways with live experiences so horrific your blood will run cold,” ac-cording to the Bourbonnais Township Park District web-site, btpd.org. Groups will be admitted by fours, walk-ing through the maze and en-countering whatever haunts wait ahead.
Since the effects of “Cha-os” are scarier, anyone who enters must be 12 years old or older, making it more excit-ing for those older in age.
With the annual attractions as well as a few new addi-tions, Perry Farms boasts a plethora of events for any age. From a “Night in Sleepy Hol-low” to the adventure through the “Corridors of Chaos,” visitors can expect loads of fun and fright without paying loads of cash.
perry farms hosts annual sleepy hollow production
“A Night in Sleepy Hollow” - Where: Perry Farms, Bourbonnais - When: Oct. 15, 16, 22, 23 at 5:30 p.m. - Tickets: $6, kids 2 & younger free - The first part of the show will be geared towards a younger crowd. The scarier portion will be later.
“Corridors of Chaos” - Where: Perry Farms, Bourbonnais - When: Oct. 16, 23, 30, 31 - Tickets: $10, $30 for groups of four - This new outdoor maze should be a frightening experience.
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Tiger football games streaming liveOlivet football has reached a new milestone this year with the launch of online streaming of football games.
Shine.FM and Olivet are team-ing up to provide a live online broadcast of certain sports games, as well as other events happening on campus.
The live stream is taking place of the coverage Shine used to have of Olivet football and men’s basketball games.
“It was a tough decision to re-move the broadcasts of the men’s basketball and football games from WONU, but after several years of discussion, it was the best time to do so,” Shine.FM di-rector Justin Knight said.
“When I realized that this would enhance all Olivet events and all athletics, that sealed it for me,” said Alumni Relations Di-rector Gary Griffin, who has been announcing football and men’s basketball games for 34 years. “The opportunities are endless. Not only can families watch at home, but a dad on a business trip can watch his son or daughter’s game from his hotel room.”
Instead of having radio cover-age of only select sports, olivet.edu will be providing a link to a live stream of audio and video of all football, men’s basketball, volleyball, and women’s basket-ball home games. In addition, there will be a live play-by-play and statistics of all football and men’s basketball games, as well as audio at all away games and video at a select few.
There will also be live video of chapel and revival services, as
well as other events like concerts and the recent Prime Time event.
Griffin said they plan to cover more sports and further develop the coverage they already have as they increase the quality of the live stream.
“We would like to cover other sports like soccer and baseball, but there are a lot of factors to consider first, such as weather,” he said. “However, for example, when the baseball team travels to Minneapolis in February to play a tournament in the Metrodome, we will be able to cover it.”
Shine.FM wanted to appeal more to its growing audience. Griffin pointed out that many potential listeners may be lost if, on a search for quality Christian
music, they come across a college football broadcast. This was when the decision was made to stop air-ing games but rather have them streamed online. Though Griffin was hesitant at first, he now real-izes the benefits.
“Some people think we’re tak-ing a step back,” said Griffin. “But really we’re taking a big step forward.”
Olivet students were excited about the new option as well.
“For those parents that can’t at-tend the games, it’s a great way for them to still be a part of their child’s life,” said Devin Johnston, a sophomore member of the wom-en’s soccer and basketball teams. “I know my parents hate missing my games, but if they ever have
to, they will still get to be a part of the games, and they won’t miss my game-winning shot.”
The stream has been up and running on Olivet’s website since August.
There are already archives of football games, volleyball match-es, chapel services, the recent fall revival, as well as other events that are available for anyone to watch at any time.
Griffin said they are still im-proving the stream to make it even more professional, but both he and Knight expressed that they thought it was going great.
“This whole venture is excit-ing,” said Griffin. “I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a program with so much potential.”
Past games:West Virginia University of Technology L, 9-31McKendree University L, 0-41Coe College (Iowa) L, 7-45St. Xavier University L, 17-56Walsh University (Ohio) L, 17-45Trinity International University L, 40-41
Upcoming games:Oct. 16: Marian University (Ind.) 1 p.m. ESTOct 23: University of St. Francis 1:30 p.m. Oct. 30: University of St. Francis (Ind.) 1p.m. Nov. 6:Taylor University (Ind.) 1 p.m. ESTNov. 13:Malone University (Ohio) 2p.m. EST
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Paulsen brings life lessons from EuropeEarly in life, he lived in Europe. He then moved to Addison, Ill. at the age of 12. Now, as a sopho-more, Jordan Paulsen lives on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University. Life may have taken him all over the world, but he has landed at ONU for one reason: sports.
This world-traveler now plays outsider hitter on the club volley-ball team, played shooting gurard on the basketball team, and ran on the track team.
Sports have always been a pas-sion of Paulsen’s.
“Sports teach you discipline, ambition, perseverance, and teamwork. Everyone has a part to do and you can apply that to any aspect in life. It allows you to be yourself and is like having another family,” he said.
His biological family was an important aspect in his life too, though. They always encouraged athletics, religion, and academ-ics.
“My mom did a great job of teaching me the fundamentals of Christianity. She always encour-aged us [Paulsen and his siblings] to do our best and strive for ex-cellence. My dad always pushed us to do the things we loved and succeed,” he said.
Before the community college years, this Olivetian-to-be was homeschooled. He did not really enjoy it, though, because there were not many sports opportuni-ties.
Homeschooling and time spent in Europe essentially made Pauls-en the young man he is today.
“Being in Europe is a life-altering experience and changes your perspective. It makes you more appreciative of what you have and less of a complainer,” he said.
Views on life are another no-ticeable difference.
“[Life is] not about luxury, it’s more about survival,” said Pauls-en. “They understand you have to work for something whereas in the United States there is a sense of entitlement.”
In his opinion, life is a lot sim-pler there. There is actually time to enjoy life.
Outside of athletics, Paulsen enjoys being with friends, par-ticipating in ministries (like Fel-lowship of Christian Athletes), and playing the drums. After he graduates, Paulsen would love to work in a church and to do mis-sion work with a sports camp.
“I’m excited about were God is taking me. I’m excited and ner-vous at the same time. My Savior is going to take care of me”, said Paulsen.
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Sophomore Jordan Paulsen has always been an enthusiastic team player. He was a on the basketball team, the track team, and is now on the club volleyball team.
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Tiger football fans can now listen to the games wherever they are. Just because the crowds may not be at ONUor an opposing team’s campus to watch the action, does not mean they are not keepin up on the Internet.
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12 Sports GlimmerGlass October 15, 2010
Girls volleyball remains undefeatedOlivet’s volleyball team ended September with an undefeated conference record of 4-0 and an overall record of 11-6 with a win over Purdue University-North Central on Sept. 30th.
The team’s season looks good on paper; however, Coach Brenda Williams knows this is not the top quality effort that her players can give. She mentioned that this sea-son would have some “growing pains” due to the departure of key seniors last season and getting a new freshman setter.
“No, the season hasn’t gone quite the way I thought it would. We always start the season with
high expectations,” Williams said. “I know the team has the tal-ent and potential, they just have to use it and be consistent.”
The Tigers are not short of tal-ent on the team. Seniors like Sara Byrne, Tara Schmidt, Laura Kirst and junior DeeAnn Garvin all contribute to the Tiger’s talent.
Byrne is 19 in the U.S. for hit-ting percentage among female college volleyball players while Schmidt has been named to the CCAC All-Conference First Team for three straight years. Williams noted that all the play-ers do well. They just need to find their rhythm.
The girls have struggled to find consistency so far this season. The players know the have the
Tennis goes to regionals
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Olivet’s men and women’s tennis teams competed in their regional tournament Sept. 24 and 25.
ONU won both the men and women’s singles competition and women’s doubles. The men took second place in doubles.
The tournament played out in two parts. There was both an A singles bracket and a B singles bracket.
Those who competed in the A bracket were the top four players from each team and those in the B bracket were players 5 and 6 of each team.
Only the winning doubles team and the winner of the A brackets advanced to nationals.
The men’s team had success in the A bracket. Three of the four players in the quarterfinals were from Olivet.
Freshman Landon Williams made it to the semifinals where he lost his match in a tiebreaker.
Also in the semis, sophomore Diego Gonzalez beat the player Williams lost to, while senior Ju-lian Kurz won his match against team member junior Sebastian Esquetini. Gonzalez and Kurz ad-vanced to the finals, where Kurz won the tournament.
In the men’s B bracket, sopho-more Josue Sanchez made it to
the second round and senior Hugo Moriya won it.
In the men’s doubles com-petition Gonzalez and Sanchez made it to the quarterfinals. Es-quetini and Moriya competed in the semifinals, while Williams and Kurz played in the finals. All three Olivet teams lost to teams from McKendree University.
The men’s tennis team was not the only team to succeed at the re-gional tournament. The women’s team had several players compete in the final rounds.
Junior Alicia Cullen and soph-omore Taylor Stephens made it through the first round of match-es in the A bracket. In the final, freshman Aziza Butoyi beat se-nior Erica Engelbrecht.
In the women’s B bracket, sophomore Meagan Ramsay made it to the final match and teammate Ashlan Allison won the consolation draw.
In the women’s doubles com-petition, Allison and freshman Lindsey Peterson made it the quarterfinals. Stephens and Aziza beat team members Cullen and Engelbrecht in the semifinals and then won the tournament.
On Oct. 14-17 Kurz and Butoyi will advance to nationals in sin-gles and Butoyi and Stephens in doubles. Kurz and Williams also progress in doubles after McK-endree’s winning team withdrew from the national tournament.
Hugo Moriya (above) and Cassie Brainard (left) prac-ticed with their teams at least five time a week to pre-pare for the regional competitions in September.
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talent within the team, though.“We’ve had our ups and
downs,” Williams said. “How-ever, we always bounce back. We don’t ever give up.”
According to Williams, the team has yet to really trust each other on the court, but they know they can do it.
Despite the less-than-perfect season, the team is still continu-ing to win and is maintaining the second place position in the CCAC. They now have the stress of living up to their winning repu-tation.
“Other schools know we are no longer an underdog so they’re out to get us. They want to knock us off the top of the mountain,” Wil-liams said.
The girls’ volleyball team is ranked second in the Chica-goland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
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