By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief The two men most directly responsible for changing day-to-day Chapel policy will appear before the Students' Association at its meeting Wednesday night to answer student questions. The meeting, which is open to all undergraduate students, will feature Brad Carter, director of Chapel programming, and Wayne ... [Read More…]
SA speech tradition ended: Candidates for executive office can’t speak in Chapel this year
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief The 60-year-old tradition of executive officer candidates delivering campaign speeches in Chapel will come to an end this April. Candidates instead will be allowed to speak after Chapel is dismissed, according to a decision by the Chapel Programming Team this past December. Dr. Bob Strader said the decision was ... [Read More…]
Rules undercut students and SA
I love Chapel. Or at least I used to. Once upon a time Chapel was my favorite part of the day; a chance to sit back, praise God, and hear more about what was going on in our community. Chapel was once a unique activity which combined building community with corporate worship, but it has lost that focus and instead continues to move in the direction ... [Read More…]
Students hurt by cutting SA speeches
The Chapel Programming Team's decision to put off SA candidate speeches until after Chapel is a poor substitute that harms the student body more than it helps. We are in the midst of a nationwide epidemic of apathy and low voter turnout-and on this campus, it's a plague. The worst thing to do would be to remove the last visible vestige of ... [Read More…]
Absences irk, cause debate: $95,000 budget passes at retreat with 24 no-shows
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief Congressional absences once again became a focus in Students' Association business Wednesday as one class officer issued a disapproving resolution regarding SA's retreat last weekend. SA ended up with exactly the half-plus-one quorum needed to approve the spring 2003 budget, 25-0, Saturday. The absence of 24 ... [Read More…]
SA to bring bands back: Caedmon’s Call, Jars of Clay return for Moody concert
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief Two of the nation's most popular Christian bands will return to campus this March, officials announced in Wednesday's Students' Association meeting. Caedmon's Call and Jars of Clay, which appeared here separately over the past two years, will play together in Moody on March 25 as part of the bands' nationwide ... [Read More…]
Revote passes SA trial period
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief In a shocking reversal, the senior class officers stood down in their battle with Students' Association president Jeremy Smith and presented a compromise that led to the passage of a one-semester trial period for Smith's plan to reorganize Congress. Senior class senator Elliott Pittman told Congress the ... [Read More…]
SA finally controls spending
Lost in the bigger news of Wednesday's Students' Association meeting was the fact that the Appropriations Committee and Congress worked together to neither waste nor hoard the students' money. The balance between a generally free-spending Congress and a generally frugal executive treasurer appears to have been reached after that treasurer, ... [Read More…]
Trial period for SA plan rejected
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief After about two hours of heated debate, the Students' Association Congress rejected a proposed trial period for the so-called "big shake-up." After being confronted with stiff opposition to the shake-up in previous meetings, executive president Jeremy Smith proposed that SA operate under the proposal next ... [Read More…]
Vote on SA plan delayed
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief Congress postponed discussion of a plan Wednesday that would cause a major shake-up of Students' Association structure. The meeting was prefaced by an apology from Jeremy Smith, SA executive president, who said he had stepped over the line in his defense of the proposal during last week's question-and-answer ... [Read More…]