the sounding board | april 26, 2012
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SOUNDING BOARDTHE
the voice of Grace College students since 1953Volume 58 Issue No. 22 Winona Lake, Indiana
April 26, 2012
With the end of one school year quickly approach-ing, Grace College is already making ready for another, and as the campus continues to grow, the housing options for sophomores and upperclass-men continue to shrink.
Student Affairs and ad-minstrators are working on se-curing additional housing for students.
According to Aaron Crab-tree, the associate dean of stu-dents, campus housed 785 stu-dents in fall of 2011 and plans to house approximately 850 in fall of 2012.
Such massive growth obvi-ously requires some extra hous-ing. ““As those who attended the housing lottery know, we
are still in need of additional space for residents.” said Crab-tree.
In order to make room, Beta and the male sections of Westminster and Indiana Hall will be home only to freshmen, leadership, and leaderships’ roommates next year, Crabtree said.
Other housing options for male residents include the pe-rimeter houses, Orchard Man-or and Delta (Yellow House), which opened last fall, as well as new perimeter options.
Stone Cottage, located on King’s Highway near Miller Field, and Lake House in Wi-nona Lake Park will become men’s housing, while the wom-en will use perimeter housing on King’s Highway in a brick house, currently called the Thompson House. Crabtree
said he and Randy Kleinhans, the director of Physical Plant, “walked through countless houses” while Tom Dunn, the chief operations officer, took charge of the business aspect of housing.
Fortunately, Grace will not have to renovate any of the new houses, Crabtree said. The current owner of Stone House is taking care of renovations, and the city will work on Lake House, replacing siding and flooring, possibly while stu-dents are living there. Crabtree said that the students moving in have been informed of the plans.
While changes to campus housing are certainly in the works, the off-campus policy will remain the same.
“We’re trying not to move the off-campus policy,” said
Crabtree. According to Crab-tree, Student Affairs is “main-taining our residential philoso-phy: to continue to stress our belief that the Grace educa-tional experience includes liv-ing in the dorms and what is learned there.”
Despite the tidal wave of new students, current students will be housed, said Crabtree. Even with the new perimeter housing, where some students are going to live next year is still uncertain.
“We’re continuing to look at other locations,” Crabtree said. He also assured students: “For those who didn’t get a room, we’re still working dili-gently and tirelessly.” Realizing the stress of rooming uncer-tainty, he said that issues will be resolved as quickly as pos-sible.
While housing has cer-tainly created some challenges, a surge of students is no sad event. Crabtree said that per-haps the rush stems from the Reimagine Program, improved marketing, and student satis-faction. “I’d like to think Grace has gained an even better rep-utation,” he said. He also cred-ited the admissions staff: “Our admissions counselors are awesome. I hear from a lot of students that their admissions counselor was so caring.”
Whatever the cause may be, Grace will welcome many new and returning students in the fall. And Student Affairs is committed to finding places to house them.
Look for our final issue on May 10 for more informa-tion about changes in student housing.
The solution? Student Affairs and adminstration add more perimeter housing
What’sINSIDE
BY RACHEL SCOLESStaff Writer
Grace College to authorize Fort Wayne
charter school
“Take Me Out To The Ball Game...’’ a photo recap of
game day
Ken and Sina Locke lead a Go Encounter trip to
Iceland in May
Blue Like Jazz is not your average Christian
film: A review
No Vacancy
No Vacancy
No Vacancy
Housing CRUNCH
For the men in Beta Hall, Westminster Hall, and Indiana Hall only freshman and those in leadership will live there. Students Affairs is working to bring more perimeter dorm options.
Graphic by Josh Dillman
Pg. 2
CAMPUS NEWS SPORTS
Pg. 3
FEATURES
Pg. 5
ARTS & CULTURE
Pg. 7
As the student body continues to grow, spaces for students on-campus continue to shrink
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CAMPUS NEWS
SOUNDING BOARDTHE
the voice of Grace College students since 1953
The Sounding Board is a weekly publication of Grace Student Organizations and the Journalism Classes at Grace College. The Sounding Board exists to glorify God by impacting people’s lives with relevant and timely news that connects them with the campus and the greater community, by providing excellent education in the field of journalism and by acting as a medium of student expres-sion. Editorials and opinions are those of student journalists and do not necessarily represent the official view of the administration of Grace College. All copy, art, and photography are property of The Sounding Board and cannot be reproduced without the permission of the editor. Letters/replies are encouraged and must be signed. Letters are limited to 250 words and The Sounding Board reserves the right to print and edit for length and content as necessary. The Sounding Board is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and is printed in cooperation with The Papers, Inc. Please send emails to: [email protected].
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Staff Writers:Sarah Kraus Alex Lerner Katie Graham Katelyn Mithoefer Paul Morales Rachel MinerJoy Martin Haley Bradfield Rachel ScolesWhitney Worthen MariJean Wegert Mary Ellen Dunn
Grace College Senate has been able to accomplish much this year in the way of re-organizing and setting up a system for the next school year.
Under Student Body Presi-dent Jonathan Haag’s leadership, some of that re-organization has included the rewriting of the con-stitution for the government. This re-write has helped to further de-fine the roles of the members of the Senate. It has also defined the process of how the government is to be run and what happens when a member must step down.
The effort put into writing this constitution will result in an organized Senate next year, ready for the new leadership of Stu-dent Body President-elect Jackie Seal. This will allow for less time to be spent on organization and more time spent on tackling issues around the campus.
According to Haag, the amount of work Senate has ac-complished is worthy of admira-tion. “I am most proud of the re-structuring that we accomplished this year,” Haag said. “We’ve refo-cused the organization and set it up for success.”
Senate will also be tackling is-sues on campus this year. As a fi-
nal project, Haag assigned projects to class representatives and then dorm representatives, and other members of Senate were assigned as helpers to the class representa-tives.
These projects include a Grace College student government web-page, a student resource form, bicycle rental, the GSO meeting space, purchasing fridges and mi-crowaves, and work on clubs and organizations.
The projects were chosen for a variety of reasons. Haag explained that some of the issues were ones that he had campaigned on during the 2010-11 school year. “Some of the projects I chose for the end of the year were ideas that I had campaigned upon (Bicycle Rental) last year and felt that I had a re-sponsibility to turn them into real-ity,” Haag said. “Some of the other projects — Student Resource Form, Club and Organization streamlining — were ideas that came to us as we ran into problems this year. Our hope is to provide a solution to those problems.”
Jackie Seal is the leader of the project to work on creating a Grace College student government web-page. She and her two helpers are hoping to work with Brandpoet to create a webpage because, accord-ing to Seal, students do everything online and it will allow for students
to know what is happening in Sen-ate. Seal is excited for this project because “It’ll allow us to learn how to work together as a team to ac-complish a goal and get something done, which is exciting!”
Lindsey Tomer will be work-ing on improving the GSO area. This is, according to Tomer, “to give the space a more usable feel, while changing it to look professional. So
much of the events and clubs for the Grace campus start and are for-mulated through the people who slave away in the offices of GSO — Serve, Senate, SAB, Sounding Board, etc.”
Kayla Salchert and other members of Senate will be work-ing on creating a student resource form. This will be a sheet of con-tact information for those on cam-
pus who can address common stu-dent problems. JT Jacobson and others will be working on creating a system to rent bicycles and per-haps even longboards on campus.
The Senate is continuing to work hard to address issues on campus and serve the students’ needs.
As of July 1, 2011, Grace College is the “authorizer” of an all-boys charter school in Fort Wayne.
As an authorizing body, Grace supports the charter’s school cre-dentials. All charter schools are re-quired to have an authorizing body, such as a college or university.
Grace is not held financially responsible for the school or for its support financially.
The Smith Academy for Ex-cellence, or SAFE, is founded by Thomas Smith and his two sons, Cameron and Corey. Corey gradu-ated from Grace College with a Bachelor of Science degree in el-ementary education.
The three men desire to build
a school for boys to be developed into strong, successful young men and “leaders of consequence” in the community.
The Smiths plan to build the charter school on the southeast side of Fort Wayne. Recently, the high school, middle school, and elementary school in the district where SAFE intends to build were closed due to financial need. The students from those schools are now being bused to other area schools, which is reportedly an unsatisfactory resolution for many involved.
SAFE anticipates most of its students coming from the close surrounding area, though any school-age males from Indiana will be able to attend. The found-ers cite the need for their school
in this area because of the area’s lack of other schools, the high per-centage of homes without a father — 50 percent — and the demo-
graphics of the area. The area is mostly composed
of minority races, and males of a minority ethnicity have statistical-
ly shown substandard performance in academics.
The goal for this school is to build on the family and com-munity support to develop “elite scholars who exhibit responsibility, dignity, character and an instinct of service that will revolutionize Fort Wayne’s southeast community.”
The Smiths have stressed that they intend to train the boys who will attend their school “holisti-cally,” through a liberal arts cur-riculum and intentional character education, as well as community-centered service projects.
The school is set to open this fall. They are hoping to have 200 sixth-to-ninth grade boys this year. Over the next several years, the grades will expand until it is a K-12 school with a maximum enroll-
ment of just over 1,200 students, but always only boys.
In their charter school appli-cation, Thomas Smith and his sons quoted ten of Dr. Stephen John-son’s reasons for having all-boys’ schools, citing their high energy level, separate developmental and maturity rates, and need for male role models, as well as stating sum-marily that “boys are different than girls.” Through having a school that is only boys with male teachers, the learning styles and energy levels of boys can be catered to much better than in a co-ed setting.
Once they graduate from the SAFE school, Grace grad and Chief Academic Officer and teacher at SAFE, Corey Smith, said that, “Grace would be a natu-ral fit for a lot of them.”
Grace College authorizes Fort Wayne charter schoolBY JOY MARTINStaff Writer
BY KATIE GRAHAMStaff Writer
New proposals introduced in Senate
Cassie Gareiss | Sounding Board photo
Members of Senate, Joshua Hamlett, Lindsey Tomer, Jackie Seal, Rachel Israel, Kayla Salchert, J.T. Jacob-son, and Megan Getts discuss the new proposals at the Senate meeting on Tuesday, April 17.
The goal for this school is to build on the family and com-munity support to
develop “elite scholars who exhibit
responsibility...”
3THE SOUNDING BOARD | APRIL 26, 2012
CAMPUS NEWS
AT THE PLATEOn Saturday, April 21, the men’s
baseball and women’s softball teams held doubleheader games against Indiana Wesleyan and Calumet Col-lege of St. Joseph.
Saturday was Senior Day for men’s baseball, honoring the Lancer senior class of Nate Wottring, Josh Petry, Brad Heintz, Brent Easterday, Reagan Eakins, Derek Zwier and Kyle Knapp.
Above: Carissa Buttermore plays cornhole at the GIP sponsored event on Saturday, April 21. Left: Barna-bus Brown, Bill Barrea, Dylan Andersen, and Shawn Mason attend the doubleheader games. Photos by Cassie Gareiss
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FEATURES
Among the many pre-sentations and displays that Grace’s Art Department has around campus and through-out the year, one that stuck out particularly during Com-munitas was that of Grace sophomore, Tenli Anderson.
Tenli is an Illustration major with a minor in Busi-ness. She had several pieces, canvas and other, displayed in her corner of the OCC, portraying the negative cycle of the Mexican drug-trade. Her theme was meant to express the effects this trade has on the whole society and the many downward spirals it has induced on everyone in Mexico.
Her artwork was and is very beautiful and powerful in painting a thousand words. This talent of Tenli’s probably comes from the fact that its background comes from the same country she grew up in. The middle child to mission-ary parents, Tenli was born in Ecuador. Her family lived there until she was one year old, then moved to the Unit-ed States. They moved down
to Mexico when Tenli was ten. During this traveling, Tenli’s interest and enjoy-ment in art was sparked as she’d spend the long driving hours sketching on any paper she had. In Mexico, she had an art teacher who really en-couraged her and taught her basic art skills. Though four states and a U.S. border sep-arated her from Grace Col-lege, Tenli heard about it (and its art program) through her uncle, Dr. Jared Burkholder, a professor in the History Department at Grace.
“I’d had no real art classes before Grace,” Tenli says. “I never realized there were so many things to think about in one artwork.”
Tenli’s favorite medium to work with is gauche paints, but she enjoys learning any-thing and everything new she can about being a good artist. When starting a new piece, she will find subject manner that appeals to her or keeps her attention. Then, it’s one sketch after another, each a different test to see what works and what doesn’t
for the direction she’s taking her art.
The whole college expe-rience, in and out of the art room, has truly been a jour-ney for her. “I come from a very practical family,” Tenli laughs. “Sometimes even I don’t fully understand how God would use my art. But I realize life is about people and as long as I can use art as a tool to connect with people and not see the tool as more important than the people, then God will use me.”
Her strongest suite in be-ing used by God is through incorporating her Mexican past. Tenli loves to paint Az-tec symbols and scenes from her village. She feels it helps to keep her heritage alive while she’s in the states. She relays how she and her fam-ily live in a village on the side of a mountain.
Every weekend, they drive down the mountain to do their laundry and buy groceries from what is called the “market town.” One year though, it had been rain-ing for three days straight
and the side of the moun-tain became nothing but one big mudslide. In order to do their laundry, the family had to walk down in ankle-deep mud. And she goes on to de-scribe the seven-hour drives through gorgeous desert, the amazing sunsets across the flat sand and from the mountain side. It all repre-sents a scenery and a culture that are very much a part of her, which Tenli carries over
proudly into her artwork. Her parents and younger
sister, Karis, still live and mis-sion in Mexico. Tenli happily visits them every vacation she can, creating new memo-ries and inspirations for her artwork. Tenli’s unsure where God will take her and her art, but her one wish is to il-lustrate chapter or children’s books, and finally have her own studio space. A wish spoken like a true artist.
Jessica Norris“Until We Have Faces” by C.S. Lewis- It challenged my views on relational love versus possessive love.
What is the best book you have read?
A. photographs by Scott Schloss
Ashley BrewsterBiographies about President Ron-ald Regan- From everything like end-ing the Cold War, to revamping the economy, he was still a kind and caring person - even to the most insignificant staffer.
Stephen Hartman“The Treasure Tree” - It’s nostal-gic, because I read it all the time growing up. The artwork was very intriguing, and you could al-ways relate to at least one of the characters.
Rogge Merriman“The Harry Potter Series”- I grew up with them, and they present a rich world where there’s more to discover.
Ian Line“Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card- It was a very descriptive and action type of book to read. It was very good to read in high school.
Q.
Art student Tenli Anderson weaves her experiences of Mexico into her artwork
An Inspired Canvasby Haley BradfieldStaff Writer
5THE SOUNDING BOARD | APRIL 26, 2012
FEATURES
Chuck Colson, widely known founder of Prison Fel-lowship, died Saturday after-noon at the age of 80.
Described by The Christian Examiner as “One of America’s most dynamic Christian lead-ers and orators,” Colson’s influ-ence was widespread. His story is well-known: once the hatch-et man for President Nixon and his corrupt administration, Charles “Chuck” Colson ac-cepted Christ when a friend pointed out C.S. Lewis’ words from “Mere Christianity” about the dangers of pride.
He spent seven months in prison for his participa-tion in the Watergate scandal and went on to found Prison Fellowship and Break Point Ministries. Prison Fellowship is an organization that min-isters to prisoners and their families. Break Point is a radio and broadcast ministry whose vision, according to their web-
site, is “a revived Church re-newing culture and awakening the world to Truth.”
Terry White, journal-ism professor at Grace Col-lege, worked under Colson for ten years as Vice President of Communications for Prison Fellowship, traveling with him to worldview conferences all over the country and work-ing closely with him on Break Point broadcasts.
“[Colson] had an incredi-ble mind – he was so insightful about movements in society, and through his knowledge developed a concern for bibli-cal thinking,” said White.
As a result of his grow-ing concern, Colson started the Colson Center for Chris-tian Worldview three years ago as an off-shoot to Break Point broadcast ministries. “He considered himself a modern-day William Wilberforce,” White explained. “Wilber-force had two main goals: to abolish slavery, and to reform manners. Colson, along with
his prison ministries, wanted to challenge people to think biblically.”
White recalls Colson’s character and charisma as “very inspiring. You couldn’t hear him speak without getting ex-cited. There was an electricity about him - He never wasted words...He had an ability to talk to people of all levels of life. He had had an office right next to President Nixon... but he could go into a prison full of murderers, thugs, moonshiners, and speak to them on their lev-el, say to them ‘I’ve been where you are’ … that just dazzled me, his ability to communicate across so many levels.”
Colson published his au-tobiography, “Born Again,” in 1976, and it became an in-ternational bestseller, spread-ing his story of redemption to millions. In the introduction to his book, Colson wrote: “While my inclination was to think in terms of grandiose reforms, God seemed to be saying that the renewal of our
national spirit can begin with each person – with the renewal of individual spirit. If you want to do something, submit your-self to me and I will guide you
were the words implanted on my mind.” His life, not just his book, was a testament to his obedience to that command.
Everyone has a heritage. For Sina Locke it comes from a small Nordic island in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Locke, an Executive As-sistant for Grace College’s Student Affairs Department, has a strong connection to the country of Iceland through her father who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1950s.
Her husband, Ken Locke, is the Community Minis-
tries Director at the Warsaw Salvation Army. His mater-nal grandparents immigrated from Norway. Sina claims that their Scandinavian heri-tage is something that they both share along with a love for collecting Icelandic Viking memorabilia.
Sina and Ken are especial-ly close to one of Sina’s uncles and his daughter’s family. It had been 40 years since Sina had visited the country of Ice-land, her father’s homeland. Sina first traveled to Iceland
when she was 9 years old with her two brothers and her fa-ther. For Sina, it was a “dream-come-true” to be able to go again in 2007. Sina and Ken left their 2007 trip to Iceland having connected with Sina’s relatives in new ways and with a newfound love for Iceland’s beauty. Most importantly, they felt a huge burden for the spiritual need of the Icelandic people.
The Spiritual Reality in Iceland
Sina’s relatives drove
home the spiritual poverty of Iceland. Sina and Ken wit-nessed how few people re-ally attended church service at the Salvation Army which sparked a curiosity on their part. There were not many more than 20-30 people at a given service and the couple saw how difficult the mission field in Iceland is. Salvation Army missionaries complete a 3-5 year service term in Ice-land and then are re-located. This is to prevent burn-out. Through conversations with relatives, Sina and Ken get the sense that what would be considered an “active faith” to Grace students is now con-sidered extreme to Icelanders.
IcelandersIcelanders are “extremely
proud of their heritage.” Sina mentions that Icelanders take preserving the pristine beauty of their natural landscape very seriously. Icelanders are warm and friendly people, who de-pend a lot on tourism and are curious about the outside world because they are so se-cluded. The younger genera-tion seems especially curious.
Sina explains that “the process of returning to the country five years after the ini-tial 2007 trip is part of a very personal journey,” for Sina and Ken as a couple. The Lockes sense that God is at work in
their hearts and in the heart of the Go Encounter team.
The Lockes hope to once again connect with the Salva-tion Army during the trip this upcoming May. The Go En-counter trip will be primarily based at the Salvation Army Hostel in Reykjavik where students will help assist in the church service, day care center, and secondhand shop. There will be a two-day excursion to Selfoss where the Grace team will be staying with Sina’s rel-atives.
Grace students will visit Reykjavik’s museums and churches, swim in the “Blue Lagoon,” tour geothermal springs, and take a day-long tour of Iceland’s famous “Golden Circle.”
When asked about how she feels about taking eleven college students on a trip to Iceland, Sina says she’s a bit nervous but mostly excited as the trip gets closer. She feels “like in a way [Ken and I are] taking our kids on a big trip; I’m trying to coordinate the details while trying to still remember that I’m not your mom.”
Sina and Ken are very grateful that Grace has given them this opportunity to lead the Go Encounter trip to Ice-land, and they don’t take that responsibility lightly.
Iceland holds a special place in the hearts of Ken and Sina Locke
Chuck Colson: Remembering his work
BY MARY ELLEN DUNNStaff Writer
BY MARIJEAN WEGERTStaff Writer
Ken and Sina Locke will lead the Go Encounter trip to Iceland in May. Sina’s father immigrated to the United States from Iceland in the 1950s. Photo by Cassie Gareiss
Terry White, a journalism professor at Grace, worked for Colson for 12 years at Prison Fellowship. From left to right: Chuck Colson, his wife Patty, Helen White, and Terry White.
An Inspired Canvas
W h i c h country re-ceived finan-cial aid from other coun-tries in the 1960s, but f i n anc i a l l y s u p p o r t e d other coun-tries in the
1990s? The economy of this coun-try grew incredibly quickly, and the country came to be known as one of the Asian Tigers. It is handling the global financial crisis remark-ably well so far. You may not have guessed, but this country is South Korea. Today, I want to talk about Korea in the aspect of economy.
First, Korea had a difficult time after the Korean War. During the Korean War, people destroyed parts of what could be seen as their own nations. They destroyed build-ings and factories, and Korea lost
all the facilities of infrastructure. The situation appeared desperate.
However, Korea overcame the damages well. At first, Korea received financial aid from the United States and other coun-tries. During the administration of Park Chung-hee, the government supported economic projects like building roads, and enterprisers borrowed money from European banks and invested the money in their businesses, based on the sup-port of government. The coopera-tion of government and companies had synergic effect. Also, Korean people travelled abroad and worked hard. They earned and saved mon-ey, and sent it back to South Ko-rea. The economy of South Korea showed marvelous recover speed. Korea went from a country in need of financial aid to a country capable of supporting others.
The size of South Korea is similar to the size of Indiana, but the GDP of South Korea is three times bigger than the GDP of In-diana. In 2011, the nominal GDP
of South Korea was $1.16 trillion and 15th rank in the world. Korea uses won currency. It is a high-in-come developed country and is a member of OECD. South Korea is called one of the Asian Tigers along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Samsung and LG are global electronic companies from Korea, and the market share of Hyundai automotive is growing quickly.
In 1999, a financial crisis hit Asian countries including South Korea. Many companies went bankrupt, and some people killed themselves due to unemployment. However, people did not give up fighting against the financial crisis. Many companies in Korea reorga-nized their structure and changed their process to work more effi-ciently. They started the campaign to gather gold. Many people joined in the campaign of gathering gold. They tried to overcome the tough situation. The gold from the cam-paign was not enough to cover all costs of the financial crisis, but it
showed that people were eager to recover from the crisis.
In 2008, the global financial crisis that began in the United States hit the rest of the world. In 2011, another global financial cri-sis started from European coun-tries and hit the rest of the world. During these two financial crises, Korea was able to avoid a recession because people learned a priceless lesson from the prior crisis. Com-panies had prepared for another financial crisis since 1999. They had well-organized structures and saved money instead of spending it.
Also, companies like Samsung and Hyundai considered the crisis as a chance to increase their mar-ket share, instead of just defending against the crisis. So they invested in research and development ag-gressively.
So far, we examined South Korea from the economic side. People can check the potential power of the economy of South Korea through the successful past
experience. Now, the companies and government in South Korea keep investing. After passing this crisis, South Korea will have more influence on other countries, and the economy of South Korea will grow quickly. It is good time to catch the Asian Tiger before it runs faster. Pay attention to South Korea.
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PERSPECTIVES
D a t i n g . So many defini-tions surround the word. Many of us have had our fair share of meeting people and going out on the traditional date. For some, it ends after that first encounter,
while for others a lifelong relation-ship is formed. For many others, though, trying to meet and go out with people the old-fashioned way isn’t as appealing.
As Americans have come into the Internet era, we have slowly be-gun to incorporate the Internet into every part of our lives—shopping, social life, e-cards, couponing, and yes, even dating. Online dating has become a world phenomenon. You have companies competing to have the best “success rates.” If you’re looking for a Christian relationship, don’t worry, online dating compa-nies have that covered, too.
So what is it about these online dating sites that makes them attrac-tive? Are they really worth it? What about old-fashioned dating? People have been meeting, dating, and get-ting married for years without any help from the Internet.
Of course, that 50 percent di-vorce rate hasn’t been going down. So maybe the old-fashioned way of dating isn’t so solid. Online dating is all about finding the person you are most “compatible with.” Apparently, online dating sites believe they do a better job at finding compatibility than you do on your own.
No one can deny the fact that people can successfully meet through online dating sites and end up in a loving, Godly marriage. Ev-
eryone I know knows at least one person who is on an online dating site.
My brother is getting married this Friday, April 27, and met his fiancee on match.com. After years of trying to meet people through social events, work, mutual friends, etc., they both decided to give on-line dating a shot.
Now they, just like many oth-ers participating in online dating, went on dates with quite a few duds. But then they spotted each other’s profiles, did a little chatting via the website, and abra-kadabra, they were on their first date and the rest is history.
Online dating certainly has its pros. You can see the person be-fore having to actually meet them and possibly avoid disappointment. You can read about their interests and activities and decide if you’d be bored to death or intrigued. You can do all these things without having to hold an actual conversation with the person.
Ok, but let’s not forget about the cons of online dating. Anyone can put his or her best foot forward on an online dating site. The guy who has a two year old picture on his profile turns out to be quite a few pounds heavier than he was two years ago. And his activities say he loves taking long walks through the woods and skiing, but he hasn’t done either of these since high school.
The point is that online dating can be a risk. Just like the Brad Pais-ley song, a guy who actually works at a pizza joint and drives an old Hun-dai can have an online dating pro-file that says he is a model for GQ and drives a Maserati. Nonetheless, online dating has its advantages. For those who are tired of the old-fashioned dating routine, they may be ready to step outside the box. As the old saying goes, “The greater the risk, the greater the reward.”
Korean Life: Learning about Korea’s economyBY CHANWOO MOONGuest Writer
Admit it—chapel can be frustrating.
First of all, it’s re-quired. There are definitely days I weigh my homework load against my number of cha-pel skips. In a
single semester, Grace students are required to attend almost 50 cha-pel sessions. We demand creativity, uniqueness and humor from our speakers. We demand popular songs, conviction and good vocals from our worship band.
Unfortunately, the number of not-so-great chapel speakers seems to me to have risen this school year. Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I would much rather write a paper than go to chapel. I wish ev-ery speaker had a brilliant sense of humor, fascinating information, and Kondo Simfukwe’s accent.
Chapel is one place on campus where most of the student body has gathered to hear the same informa-tion, yet we all process this informa-tion differently. Students on campus are at all stages of “spiritual matu-rity.” There are those who make the best Growth Group leaders, and there are those who skip Growth Group at all costs, with all other sorts in between.
This means each person has to approach chapel in his or her own way. This year I have been spiritually burnt out and extremely apathetic. I’m sure others feel the same way, while the rest are strongly passion-ate or somewhere in the middle.
How, then, are we to approach chapel? For me, there are several op-tions:
1. Skip every day and get sus-pended.
2. Endure the hour by sleeping. 3. Same as above, but by cro-
cheting. 4: Intentionally determine
what good I can take away from a speaker’s message, then push away the bad.
Basically, chapel is not as much about entertaining us as it is about teaching us to separate the good from the bad around us. Living as a Christian in a secular, struggling world is all about discernment; learning within a Christian setting may instill in us enough good infor-mation that we instantly recognize the bad. Grace gives us a chance to learn as much as we can, and then it is up to us to learn to think for ourselves.
By analyzing the information we are given, and comparing it to the Bible and the views of intelligent people around us, we can determine what is good (other than Beta).
Chapel is a place where we can experience some controversy in a safe environment. Students are encour-aged to get involved in chapel itself through Student Seminars, Com-munitas, and Missions Week. These events give us a chance to voice our own opinions and receive feedback; we continue to learn as we give and take our ideas and thoughts.
For those of us who are frus-trated with chapel, how do we re-main intentional in our busy lives? We need to make the most of this learning opportunity and fine-tune our discernment skills. Listen to what a speaker has to say, determine what is good and applicable, then push the rest aside.
Personally, I try to find at least one strong idea I can take away from chapel. By concentrating on the good, my overall attitude re-mains positive.
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7THE SOUNDING BOARD | APRIL 26, 2012
ARTS & CULTURE
For the sake of bias hon-esty, I am a Donald Miller and Steve Taylor fan. Both are willing to examine the elements of this sub-cul-ture called evangelicalism, criticize it, make fun of it, but still associate themselves with it. “Blue Like Jazz” is no exception. Like the fic-tionalized Don Miller con-fessing his faith and failures, apologizing for the non-Je-sus things he has done in Je-sus’ name, Miller and Taylor continue to produce art that seeks an honest, comedic, vulnerable, and humble ap-proach to following Jesus.
“Blue Like Jazz” the movie is loosely based on actual events in the life of author Donald Miller, par-ticularly focusing on his fundamentalist Baptist up-bringing and experiences on the campus of the liberal arts school Reed College in Portland, Oregon, which considers itself the most godless campus in Amer-ica. The fictionalized Don (Robert Allman: “Prison Break” and “True Blood”) leaves home for Reed when he finds out his divorced mother is sleeping with his youth pastor.
From a man in a pope suit handing out condoms to a lesbian peeing in the urinal next to him, Don finds himself in a world that doesn’t share, or like, his faith and values. Lauren (Tanya Ramonde: “Lost,” “Malcom in the Middle,” and “Death Valley”), the girl who peed in the urinal, informs Don that a previ-ous Mormon student only lasted three days, and if he wanted to make any friends he should, “get in the closet Baptist boy.” Don takes the advice, becoming an outspo-ken critic of religion, going so far as to help the school pope place a giant condom on the steeple of a Catholic church, along with a sign that discourages their repro-duction. As it turns out, the church they condomed was attended by Don’s love in-terest Penny (Austrailian ac-tress Claire Holt: “H20: Just Add Water,” and “Vampire Diaries”). When she con-fronts him and learns of his closet Christianity, it sparks something in Don that sets him searching again for God.
“Blue Like Jazz” is not your typical “Christian” movie. In attempting to honestly recreate the world of Reed College, it missed
an R rating by half a sylla-ble. Swearing, drinking, and drug use are prevalent. The point of the movie is not to preach the gospel or specifi-cally state a particular moral by the movies’ end, which isn’t to say that it doesn’t say
anything at all. Miller and Taylor trust
that their target audience is intelligent enough to dig for themselves; and from the digging comes gold. “Blue Like Jazz” delivers thought-ful and deep suggestions as to what it means to be a
follower of Jesus outside of the walls of the evangelical sub-culture. Don is forced to come to terms with his faith, his family, and his new surroundings, which is pre-sented in a non-cliche way that brought a grace-laced conviction in regard to my own failures.
You know how people say, “It had great acting, for a Christian movie”? Well, “Blue Like Jazz” simply had great acting. The cin-ematography was poetic, the storyline gripping, and the dialogue hilarious. In the aftermath of an open-ing weekend that saw three thousand ticket sales in its forty or so opening theaters, “Blue Like Jazz” is shaping up to be a hit dialogue on faith, receiving rave reviews from atheists, Christians, artists, and even an enthusi-astic recommendation from Chuck Colson only days before his death. If you’re looking for something along the lines of “Courageous” or “Fireproof,” this isn’t for you. But if you’re looking for a poetic, convicting, and non-demonizing commen-tary on faith and life, some-thing that drives you toward Jesus, then “Blue Like Jazz” is right up your alley.
Much like the Jazz that inspired it, it doesn’t eas-ily resolve, but it does speak to the heart, bringing both conviction wonder as you put all the pieces together.
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Blue Like Jazz:It doesn’t easily resolve, but it speaks to the heart
BY JASON ROPPGuest Writer
Based on Donald Miller’s bestselling book of the same name, “Blue Like Jazz” opened on April 12, after it raised $345,992 on its Kickstarter campaign.
“Blue Like Jazz” delivers a thoughtful and deep suggestion
as to what it means to be a
follower of Jesus outside of the walls of the
evangelical sub-culture.
8THE SOUNDING BOARD | APRIL 26, 2012
SPORTSNear-End Season Report
Track and Field
The men’s and women’s track and field teams have enjoyed success this spring they have not had for years. In only his second year as head coach, Jeff Raymond, has helped rebuild the track program behind seniors Randy Sterk and MariJean Wegert.
The Lancers have also had significant contributions across the board that have led to a turnaround season. Freshman Zach Speckman has set two school records and qualified for the NAIA Outdoor Championships, while the track team has won a total of 22 individual events
in six meets so far this spring. The Lady Lancers also won their first track meetin recent memory on April 5, another remarkable success.
The track and field team will have a chance to build on their already stellar season April 27-28 at the MCC Championship in what is sure to be a good test.
Grade: A
GolF
The men’s golf team has seen significant improvement this season, adding to the team’s success during the fall. In three events so far, the Lancers have placed seventh at the Bethel
Invitational, ninth at the USF Invitational, and fifth at the IWU Invitational.
The team is led by sophomore transfer Trey Stoll, who finished first overall at Bethel and third overall at IWU. The Lancers other strength is their depth, as Ben Reno and Caleb Rovenstine each contribute regularly, but lack consistency after Stoll.
If the golf team can play well collectively, they can be dangerous in their final outing. The golf team will have to overcome an injury to Kal Denlinger, but can have a strong showing at the MCC Championships on April 30-May 1.
Grade: B+
SoFTball
In a year that seemed to point to a breakout season, Olivia Winget has had predominantly a solo act for the Lady Lancers’ softball team.
Winget is one of two players with a batting average higher than .265 and leads the team in three offensive categories (batting average, slugging percentage, and home runs) and has the lowest pitching ERA.
The Lady Lancers, with a 10-38 record, have already surpassed last year’s win total (nine), but are still eighth in the MCC, up one spot from 2011.
The softball team’s most glaring weakness is its lack of hitting. The team’s combined batting average of .247 is significantly less than their opponents’ combined average of .313. For the Lady Lancers to win regularly, their bats must heat up soon.
That, coupled with the concussion of captain and senior Genevieve Benson, who is second on the team in batting average and third in RBI, gives reason for the Lady Lancers to be wary heading into the MCC Tournament on May 2.
Grade: B-
baSeball
Just three weeks ago the baseball team was 8-6 in the MCC. Now they are in a late-season slump that has seen the Lancers lose 13 of their last 16 games.
The Lancers currently sit at 14-29, and need two more wins to match their win total from 2011. A season that started with high expectations has seen the Lancers fall back to second-to-last in the MCC.
The team boasts eight players that are hitting better than .285, but the Lancers are still being outscored by an average of 2.46 runs per game. This is due mostly to the struggling pitching staff, whose 6.82 ERA is much higher than the team’s combined opponents’ ERA of 4.07.
The MCC Tournament, which will start May 2, can be a great starting point for a team that is building for the future as current head coach Josh Bailey will not return next season, following his announced resignation.
Grade: C+
A Look at How Spring Programs are Doing
Olivia Winget, only a sophomore, has already set records at Grace and will continue to lead the Lady Lancers going forward.
Player of the WeekCliff Buttermore, Baseball
Cliff Buttermore is this week’s Player of the Week after throwing a one-hit shutout of Indiana Wesleyan on Tuesday. In seven innings of work, the junior allowed one hit while walking none and striking out six.
His efforts helped the Lancers defeat the Wildcats 1-0, despite the team only mustering three hits. The Wildcats’ lone hit came in the bot-tom of the first inning.
Buttermore’s performance followed up the gem he threw in his last outing on April 19—a seven strikeout, one earned run win over Spring Arbor. Buttermore has now thrown three complete games in his last four starts, lowering his season ERA to 3.39. His ERA currently ranks 12th among MCC pitchers.
MISHAWAKA, Ind. – Olivia Winget became the first Lady Lancer to record 10 home runs in a season when she homered in the second game in Grace’s doubleheader with Bethel on Tuesday.
The Lady Lancers (10-38; 5-13 MCC) fell 9-0 and 14-3 to Bethel in their final conference series of the season but not without the record-setting moment of Winget’s blast.
Winget had already broken Liz Thomas’s record of six single-season home runs set in 1998, but she further cemented her name in Grace’s record books with a solo home run in the top of the fifth inning in the second game, after having the only Lady Lancer hit in the first game with a single in the fourth inning.
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BY ZANE GARDSports Editor
Senior Josh Petry (pictured on the right) is one of seven seniors on the baseball team who look to end their careers at Grace on a high note in the MCC Tournament.