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The Award-Winning Student News Publication of Cedarville University October 2014

Students Minister Through CU Outreach

Where do they go?Cedarville students go in groups to minister on different college campuses in the area Monday through Friday nights.

What do they do?Cedarville students work with like-minded ministries on the campuses to share the gospel with students without taking them out of their comfort zone.

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Local Ideas for a Fun Fall Break

Cedars Digital: What You Missed Online

CU Prepared for Infectious Diseases

Stepping Up Their Game: JV to Varsity

ROTC Cadets Trained over Summer

Hair Care in the ‘Ville

Midterms Could Sway 2016 Election

‘Little Women’ Gives Laughs, Advice

by Emily FinlayFall break is the first real break of the school year and often the first chance for stu-

dents to go home since they arrived in August. But for some students, the long week-end is too short to go home, or even to leave campus. For those who are staying on campus during the break, here are some alternatives to spending the weekend at the veritable ghost town that Cedarville becomes during break.

2nd Street Market Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 2nd Street Market is a great place to

get food, produce and homemade products. Located in a historic former railroad building, the market is a great place to spend some time with friends and get some yummy treats. Location: 600 E. 2nd Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402 Hours: Thursday & Friday 11:00 a.m.—3:00 p.m.; Saturday 8:00 a.m. —3:00 p.m.

Cincinnati Freedom MuseumThe museum features stories of freedom, both long ago and recent. Explore sto-

ries of heroes in the fight against slavery during the late 1800s and stories of people who battle human trafficking today. The museum looks over the Ohio River, which served as the border between slave and free states during the Civil War and is the perfect backdrop for the museum experience.Location: 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Hours: Tuesday—Saturday from 11 a.m.—5 p.m. (Last entry at 4 p.m.)

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Featuring animals from Australia, the Congo, Asia, North America, Africa and

the ocean, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is great for a day trip. See tigers, ele-phants, alligators, stingrays, gazelles, bears, sharks, wolves, zebras, tigers, manatees and many other animals. Location: 4850 West Powell Road, Powell, Ohio 43065 Hours: 10 a.m.—5 p.m.

Yellow SpringsWhether you go for the shopping, the food or just to experience the uniqueness,

a visit to Yellow Springs is a must for every Cedarville student. Walk the streets, enjoy street music from local “buskers,” explore the shops and find the things you were expecting…and many things you weren’t. Appreciate the small town for what it is and get a look at a way of life that is far different than life at Cedarville. Location: 101 Dayton Street, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 Hours: Check for each store and restaurant

Emily Finlay is a senior journal-ism major and campus news editor for Cedars. She loves writing, reading, making obscure refer-ences in normal conversation and every type of geekery.

Local Ideas for a Fun Fall Break

The StaffLauren Eissler, Editor-in-Chief; Anna Dembowski, Managing Editor/Arts & Entertainment Editor; Emily Finlay, Campus News Editor; Laura Jani, Off-Campus News Editor; Jon Gallardo, Sports Editor; Erik Johnson, Just Sayin’ Columnist; Jillian Philyaw, Photography Editor; Kate Norman & Jen Taggart, Copy Editors; Mary Kate Browning, Digital Editor; Shannon Eighmey, Design Director; Cheyenne Padgett, Designer; John Grinalds, Adver-tising Director; Kelly Gilbert & Emily Paul, Multimedia Team; Andrew Spencer, Graphics; Jeff Gilbert, Faculty Adviser

Photo by Lauren EisslerStudents looking to get away from campus can have a fun afternoon walking around Yellow Springs with friends.

16-17A Resounding 25 Years for Student Radio

18Student Spotlight: Joseph Vadala

19Just Sayin’: Be Where You Are

You can read more fun ideas for fall break on our website at

cedars.cedarville.edu/2014/10/fall-break-fun/

In Case of a Zombie Apocalypse

Outreach Initiative Growing at Cedarville

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IGITALCedars

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Welcome to Cedars’ Digital Page! Each month, this page will contain content from Cedars’ social media and ReadCedars.com. Be sure to check it out every issue, and then visit us online in between print issues for timely content. The page is part of an ongoing effort by Cedars to better serve you, our readers, through our online presence.

What Am I Reading?

Who to Follow On Social Media Whether you’re new to Cedarville or new to social media, here are some people

and orgs you’ll want to be sure to follow this year:

Student Government Association (Twitter: @sgaville) Stay up to date about what’s happening with this year’s philanthropy project as well as SGA events.

Cedarville Athletics (@CUJackets) The #1 source for all things Yellow Jackets. Plus, they occasionally have guest Tweeters livetweet games!

SCAB (Student Center Activities Board) on Facebook Their Face-book Events are the only way to know what’s going on, no joking!

Scott Huck (Instagram: @Scot-tHuckPhoto) Official campus photog-rapher, follow and enjoy his stunning photos of life at Cedarville.

But, wait! There’s more:University President, Dr. White

(Twitter: @DrThomasWhite) VP Student Life & Christian

Ministries, Jon Wood (Twitter: @jonathanawood) SGA President, JT Bennett

(Twitter: @jt_b92)SGA Vice President, Allie Brown

(Twitter: @Allienater)SGA Chaplain, Stephen Clark

(Twitter: @SteveC41) And Cedars, of course!

(Twitter/Instragram: @CedarsatCU)

Top Online Stories for September

We loved hearing what songs YOU love, is there any more you’d like to hear? Tweet @CUResoundRadio to tell us

your favorite song!

58 Days Until Krispy Christmas!

by Mary Kate Browning

#1 Org Hosts Water Balloon Fight To Fundraise For Safe Harbor House by Taylor Hobbs“It is not often that students get the chance to combine making charitable donations with a night of fun, but Phi Epsilon Beta (PEB) will provide stu-dents with the opportunity to do just that with their event ‘Soaked for Safe Harbor.’” Read the full article online at Readcedars.com.

#2 Movie Review: ‘The Maze Runner’ by Emily Finlay “When Thomas wakes in a supply-filled box, hurtling up an elevator-like shaft, he finds his memory is a blank slate. He knows nothing – not how or why he got there, or even where here is. He can’t even remember his name.” Read the full review online at Readcedars.com.

#3 Album Review: ‘Anomaly’ by Conner Ghiz“Christian rapper Lecrae released his new album, “Anomaly,” on Sept. 11. The album is named “Anomaly” because of his unique testimony. Anomaly kicks off with the dark, piano-laden track “Outsiders.” Combining strings and pi-anos with a snappy, hard-hitting base-line, “Outsiders” is an outstanding intro track to the album.” Read the full review online at Readcedars.com.

“The Maze Runner” © 20th Century Fox. “Anomaly” © Reach Records.

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CU Prepared for Infectious Diseasesby Emily Finlay

As Ebola is spreading across the globe, some might wonder what would happen to Cedarville students if dealing with an

infectious disease on campus.“We really are going to have to be more

aware of our health and just staying healthy be-cause we have a very global society and what-ever is happening somewhere else, eventually is going to come here,” said Deb McDonald, director of University Medical Services (UMS).

To protect students, staff, faculty and the community, Cedarville has developed an infec-tious disease outbreak response plan to deal with cases on campus and the nearby area.

McDonald said the university has a team of people from UMS, the public relations de-partment, campus safety, residence life and a professor who work together to deal with any illness-related issues.

“We’re here to serve the academic depart-ment,” she said. “We’re all here so we can keep the students well. This is our ministry.”

This team met recently to discuss the Eb-ola outbreak in West Africa and educate them-selves about the disease, McDonald said. Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, much like HIV and HBV, she said, and there is not much chance of it directly threatening the campus.

Indirectly, however, she said, there are several ways of bringing a disease to campus, and the team has to be aware of each one.

“Any of us could get an infectious disease anywhere,” she said, “so we need to be mind-ful of our surroundings, where we’re going and then, if we’re sick, definitely don’t share.”

Cedarville has students going to and from several different countries throughout the world, exposing themselves to possible ill-nesses and potentially bringing them back to campus during the school year. McDonald said there is traffic from admissions, global out-reach projects, stateside ministry teams like HeartSong, academic programs such as clini-cals, travel during breaks and studying abroad.

The administration must be aware of all of these, McDonald said, sometimes having to make tough decisions.

“We have to be particular about where we send our teams,” she said. “We want to help, we want to minister, we want to share the Gos-pel, but we also want to be wise about that and protect our students and our teams.”

Response PlanDoug Chisholm, director of Campus Safe-

ty, said students who might have an infectious disease would be sent to the hospital for evalu-ation. If serious enough, the student would re-main in isolation at the hospital for treatment. If allowed to leave the hospital, the student would be placed in isolation on campus, either in an empty residence director’s apartment or, if there were several sick students, in a lounge.

“The big thing is really isolation,” he said. “It’s finding out what it is ahead of time, getting the person diagnosed and separated from others and using the isolation techniques.”

If students have a long-term sickness, Chisholm said, he would prefer to send them home. Unfortunately, depending on the travel arrangements, the illness’ severity and how

contagious the student is, the Greene County Health Department might not allow the stu-dent to travel.

“Depending on if they have to fly, how contagious the disease was,” he said. “There might be concern that you’re taking the disease from here and taking it to another community, another state.”

2009 H1N1 OutbreakAlthough it is unlikely that infectious dis-

eases will affect campus, it is not impossible. The response plan was created in May 2009, Chisholm said, and it was put to the test a few months later when several students contracted the H1N1 virus during the fall semester.

When the first student was diagnosed, McDonald said, she was taken to the hospital and then sent back to the university. She was placed in an empty resident director’s dorm to isolate her from other students. The team stays up-to-date with recommendations from the CDC and the Ohio Department of Health, she said, so they can respond appropriately. By the time the other students were diagnosed, she said, they had learned that the CDC was rec-ommending self-isolation within dorm rooms instead of complete quarantines.

“That was honestly, for the campus and for our department especially, that was a great ex-ercise in how we would handle mass illnesses like that,” McDonald said. “A lot of the things we do now are as a result of going through the H1N1 and putting our policies in place.”

The university took other precautions as well, even cancelling chapel for a week based on the recommendation of the Greene County Combined Health District’s Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Unit.

The university’s team met with the Ce-

darville Fire Department, which would most likely transport patients to the hospital, and the Greene County Health Department once or twice a week during the pandemic. Once it was over, Chisholm said, the health department was so impressed, they asked if they could use Cedarville’s response plan.

“The health department told us, they said,

‘Wow, is it OK to use you guys as a model on other campuses in Ohio? Because you seem to have it down really good,’ and we said, ‘Sure,’” he said. “So, they learned a lot themselves in just working with our situation over here.”

CU Preparedness Tested AgainThe school’s preparedness was also test-

ed when influenza affected several people on campus. Influenza is highly contagious, Mc-Donald said, so UMS created ‘flu kits’ to help contain the virus.

“One of the things we learned is that we really do need to have flu kits,” she said. “I think we’re ready for (an epidemic), but I pray we never have anything like that.” The kits are paper bags that include tissues, hand wipes, a plastic thermometer, masks, medicine and a meal pass, all designed to hold the student over and protect others until they can get their own supplies.

Whenever a student comes down with an infectious disease, McDonald said, they treat not only the student, but those in their close circles. This is especially important, she said, when roommates or friends have predisposed health conditions that increase their chances of becoming ill. These students are contacted and often prescribed preventive medicines to protect them from harm.

Although UMS is equipped to handle most illnesses on campus, McDonald said, some are dangerous enough to require drastic measures. If a student had the measles, for example, they would be required to leave campus until they are no longer a threat to others.

“It’s just for everybody’s safety. It’s not to treat people like they have cooties or anything. We have to put the greater good of everybody (first),” she said. “We’re very aggressive with

“We really are going to have to be more aware of our health and just staying healthy because

we have a very global society and whatever is happening somewhere else, eventually is

going to come here.”Deb McDonaldDirector of UMS

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the health of the community in mind, as well as that person.”

If the threat was severe enough, Chisholm said, they would cancel chapel, classes, sport-ing events and any large gatherings. Food in the cafeteria would be served by staff members instead of being self-served.

“If it was a large situation, we might have to close down the university and just have emergency essential personnel only,” he said. “It could possibly even come to that kind of situation.”

Chisholm said Ebola in the U.S. does not affect the university much because it is unlike-ly the disease will come to Ohio.

“I don’t think it changes a whole lot for us at this point,” he said. “Other than just staying abreast of the situation.”

Cedarville: PreparedDespite this unlikelihood, McDonald said

the school is prepared to battle diseases both on campus and in the community.

The school has agreed with the Ohio De-partment of Health to serve as a closed Point of Distribution (POD). This means that, in the event of a disease outbreak in the area, vacci-nations will be shipped to the school for dis-tribution.

UMS received a shipment of H1N1 vac-cines during the epidemic. Unfortunately, it arrived during Christmas break.

“I have a picture of myself in my coat,” McDonald said. “I put it on Facebook. I said, ‘It’s here! Alas, the students are not because everyone went home.’”

The local fire, EMS and police depart-ments, as well as the local health departments, conducted a drill in April to test the communi-cations system that would inform agencies of a disease outbreak incident and to confirm that they would be able to receive and store any vaccinations. The drill went well, McDonald said, and she thinks the Greene County Health Department was pleased with the outcome.

Additionally, the Doden Field House can be set up to serve as a medical center for the community or, if there are hundreds of sick students, for university residents.

Although there are several ways the uni-versity is prepared to fight infectious diseases, McDonald said it is important for students to take their own precautions to protect others from getting sick.

Using alcohol-based sanitizer to kill germs, maintaining a distance from others and having good cough etiquette is important, Mc-Donald said. She also advised students to do

their best to maintain good health even before getting sick.

“Personally, take care of yourself,” she said. “Reduce your stress, drink lots of liquids, eat well, so you’re getting some nutrition. Eat right, sleep right, drink lots of water.”

Experts are now recommending a good intake of vitamin D, instead of the oft-recom-mended vitamin C, to stay healthy, McDonald said, along with multivitamins. Stress can also play a factor in health, she said.

“What we’re trying to do by taking care of ourselves is keeping our immune system strong,” she said. “Stay healthy, because if you’re healthy your immune system’s going to be healthy and if you do get whatever’s going around, it may be a very mild form of that.”

But McDonald said staying educated is most important.

“It’s a well-known fact that people that are more educated tend to do better with their health,” she said. “If we stay educated about health, then we are going to do better.”

Students can read about Cedarville’s student health policies at http://www.ce-darville.edu/offices/university-medical-services/student-policies.aspx

Graphic by Andrew Spencer

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Cedarville is prepared for the threat of an infectious disease on campus, but would happen if campus was affected by… a zombie apocalypse?!

Zombies are featured in several popular movies, shows and books, including “The Walking Dead,” “World War Z” and the “Maze Runner” series. Often, the ravenous undead are created by a global virus that decimates the world’s population.

While (very, very highly) unlikely, the question remains: What should Cedarville students do if a zombie apocalypse strikes?

PreparationThe Center for Disease Control’s “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” blog recommends stocking up for zombies much the way you would when faced with a natural disaster like a hurricane or a pandemic. They suggest stocking:

• Water (1 gallon per person per day)• Food (stock up on non-perishable items that you eat regularly)• Medications (this includes prescription and non-prescription meds)• Tools and Supplies (utility knife, duct tape, battery powered radio, etc.)• Sanitation and Hygiene (household bleach, soap, towels, etc.)• Clothing and Bedding (a change of clothes for each family member and blankets)• Important documents (copies of your driver’s license, passport and birth certificate, to name a few)• First Aid supplies (although you’re a goner if a zombie bites you, you can use these supplies to treat basic cuts and lacera-

tions that you might get during a tornado or hurricane)Survival StrategiesPrepared or not, you will eventually have to decide on a plan of action. Or have the decision made for you and probably get eaten. Sorry. Here are some strategies you can choose from:

Option 1: RunStaying in a populated area during a zombie apocalypse is definitely a bad idea. The Zombie Research Society recommends staying away from all crowded stores or areas. Stores might be great for getting supplies, but odds are that everyone else thinks so too. They also suggest buying a survival guide to increase your chances of survival in the woods. Keep running, they say, unless you can find a place isolated enough to serve as a safe living area. Only take what you can carry, so you’re not weighed down when you have to run.

Option 2: Stay in a DormThe article, “Preparing for Z Day: What to Do When You’re at College and Zombies Attack,” says this is the worst possible solution. Even after the initial wave of people turning into zombies, dorms will be buffets, full of scared people to munch on. So, grab what you need and get out.

Option 3: Stay in Another Building On CampusIf not a dorm, then where? “Preparing for Z Day: What to Do When You’re at College and Zombies Attack” recommends science buildings, or in our case, the ENS or HSC. You can use some of the equipment, such as bunsen burners for sterilizing weapons or cooking, and there are various chemicals that could be useful. Whichever building you choose, just remember: if you think it’s an obvious choice for survival, other people probably think so, too.

SurviveIf you’re going to work with others, remember that less is more. Having too many people draws attention and quickly depletes supplies. Staying with friends can work, as long as you’re not bringing your entire hall, but just make sure that everyone is prepared and willing to pull their weight. There’s no room for slackers when dealing with zombies.

Gather weapons, food and water and take care of your own. Cedarville’s rural location will help, but if worse comes to worst, maybe you should follow the advice given in the “Preparing for Z Day: What to Do When You’re at College and Zombies Attack” article: “If a group of zombies advances on you and you see no way out, remember that this is survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten. So don’t beat yourself up about it, and trip the slow bugger next to you.”

Emily Finlay is a senior journalism major and campus news editor for Cedars. She loves writing, reading, making obscure references in normal conversation and every type of geekery.

by Emily Finlay

IN CASE OF A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

IN CASE OF A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

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Outreach Initiative Growing at Cedarvilleby Taylor Hobbs

The Global Outreach division of Cedar-ville’s Christian Ministries provides students with opportunities to put their

knowledge into action, giving their faith feet. “Here at Cedarville we get a lot of the

‘know what it is’ and ‘how does it play out in our lives’ understanding of the gospel,” said Keith Holcomb, assistant director for Global Outreach. “Living it out and sharing it is what Global Outreach is about.”

One of the specific ministries of Global Outreach is CU Outreach, a program that min-isters to students attending local universities.

Holcomb said this ministry focuses on getting Cedarville students into the commu-nity. The students minister on different college campuses in the area Monday through Friday nights.

“It is a unique experience to go and take everything we are poured into constantly at Cedarville,” said Chris Nunan, senior student and CU Outreach leader. “To take what we have learned and what we know, and invest it in the lives of others in an environment radi-cally different from Cedarville.”

He said Cedarville students work with like-minded ministries on the campuses to share the gospel with students without taking them out of their comfort zone. While the ulti-mate goal is to witness to others, Nunan said Cedarville students understand that it is also important to create relationships for this to happen.

“You meet a lot of other students from other colleges,” said Hannah Gallardo, a soph-omore student with the ministry. “The time that you get with the students and just con-necting with them is really important.”

Ellen Raquet, a freshman student in-volved in the ministry, said CU Outreach is about more than pushing an agenda.

“It’s about creating a relationship, then speaking to their heart,” said Raquet.

While the program has existed for many years under Nunan’s guidance and the name “The 28:18 Project,” the program has been re-vamped over the past few years.

Not only has the name changed, but the level of student involvement in the outreach ministry has also seen a dramatic change.

Nunan said last year there were approxi-mately 20 students involved in the ministry, but this year the number has jumped to over 90 students.

To help equip the students, CU Outreach hosts two weekly events focusing on the minis-try. Nunan said these gatherings offer students a chance to connect with others and discuss their struggles and triumphs of the week.

On Sunday evenings, Nunan runs evan-gelism training to help students feel more pre-pared to share their faith.

And Gallardo is responsible for planning the Tuesday night CU Outreach prayer nights. Gallardo explained that at the prayer night, students come together and pray specifically for the ministry and the people they have been able to talk with.

This time also provides students with a chance to reflect on where their focus is and, if needed, an opportunity to shift it back to God.

“It’s talking to God, relying on him and acknowledging that you can’t do it on your own,” said Gallardo. “This is evangelism. This is about sharing God’s gospel. We are so privi-leged to share it. If you focus on you, you lose

the point.”Nunan said, “Without God we can’t do

anything. Ultimately, we are not the ones that can change hearts. Lifting them up in prayer is a huge aspect of the ministry.”

He said learning to put faith into action is an important step in the journey of a Christian.

“Witnessing forces you to know intimately what you believe,” Nunan said.

In order to be effective witnesses, Gal-lardo said students need to look inwardly and understand what they believe. The experience is a way for students to grow in Christ and in their understanding of their faith, she said.

Raquet said, “One of the takeaways from the night was that I had never had such a bur-den for people before.”

Holcomb said, “We encourage students to be a part of CU outreach, wanting them to go and practice what they heard and develop a heart for the lost.”

Students looking to get involved in the ministry, either by going to the campuses or through prayer, can contact Chris Nunan by email.

All students are also invited to join in praying for the ministry in BTS 208 from 8-9 p.m. every Tuesday.

Taylor Hobbs is a freshman psychology ma-jor and reporter for Cedars. She enjoys ste-reotypical Canadian things like saying “Eh” and watching hockey.

Photo by Kyria LuxonCedarville students like (from left) Ashley Belles, Daniel Benson, Jenna Parker and Derek Renner build relationships with students on other local college campuses as part of Global Outreach’s CU Outreach evangelism initiative. Over 90 Cedarvillle students make up this year’s outreach teams.

“This is evangelism. This is about sharing God’s gospel. We are so privileged to share it. If you focus on you,

you lose the point.”Hannah Gallardo

Sophomore

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Stepping Up Their Game: JV to Varsity

by Byron Brown

The chasm between JV and varsity sports is much greater at the collegiate level than in high school. It takes more than

determination, sacrifice, time and athleticism, although it still requires all of these elements, to move from junior varsity to varsity in col-lege. It takes something more.

Ethan Lee, a senior finance major and forward on the soccer team, is another athlete

who made his way from JV to varsity. During his freshman year at Delaware’s

Seaford High, Lee worked his way onto the varsity soccer squad. Throughout high school, he attended camps where colleges came to look for potential players. Cedarville’s coach asked Lee to play for the Yellow Jackets, and he de-cided he wanted to go to Cedarville.

He came to Cedarville, expecting to play what he called “a reserve role.” Unsure of what that meant, he showed up on campus think-ing he would have a minor role on the var-sity team. But during his freshman year, Lee played on the JV team, a team he didn’t know existed until he arrived.

Lee said the transition from high school to JV was difficult because the game was much more competitive. Lee continued to work hard and push himself through every ob-stacle, and the coaches took notice.

“A few weeks into the JV season, freshman year,” Lee said, “my coach pulled me aside and told me he had been watching me and recom-mended me to the varsity coach, who also liked my level of performance. I began practicing

with varsity for the rest of the season, except when I had JV games to play in that conflicted with practice.”

Even though he was practicing with the varsity team, his spot on the team was far from solidified, because he was still playing on the JV team. Then, another obstacle found its way into his life. He sustained a hip-flexor injury that required months of rehab.

Once he fully recovered from the injury, Lee started practicing with the varsity team again, but everything still wasn’t clear. He continuously asked the coaches when scrimmages and workouts were and whether he could come. Finally, Lee decided he needed as-surance.

“I had a final discussion with the coaches because I needed to know where I stood for several reasons, including the fitness regi-men I would do over the summer, whether or not I would work the team camp in July, and whether or not var-sity practice gear would be ordered for me,” Lee said. “It was then that the coaches, somewhat hesi-tantly, moved me

to varsity full time; I could tell they weren’t sure themselves what to do with me. The move paid off in the fall as I began my sophomore year on varsity and was starting by the fourth game, a role I held for more than half the games that year.”

Cedarville men’s soccer head coach Brett Faro said he liked what he saw in

Lee. “The transition from

JV to varsity for Ethan was seamless,” Faro said. “He is the type of kid who will give you 100 percent every day and desires to see him-self and others improve on a daily basis.”

Lee has had his ups and downs with

the varsity team, but overall he said he has

loved playing varsity.“It has been a tough but

rewarding journey,” Lee said. David Dinnie, a senior at

Cedarville, began his colle-giate basketball career

Photo By Malia Rickards Ethan Lee successfully transitioned from JV to varsity his sophomore year, and described his time on varsity so far as “a tough but rewarding journey.”

Transitioning from JV to varsity is difficult because the game’s more competitive, but Ethan Lee and David Dinnie both moved up

“The intensity (in varsity) is definitely a lot higher. The speed

is a lot different. Definitely a couple steps up from JV.”

David DinnieSenior on the varsity

basketball team

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on the JV team, but moved up to the varsity team two years later.

Shane Williams, a current member of the JV basketball team, played with Dinnie in high school. Williams said Dinnie “is an example of someone who has worked hard on and off the court to better himself. He thinks second of himself and is more interested in being a team player.”

Dinnie began playing varsity high school basketball for Grove Avenue Christian High School in the seventh grade. He completed an impressive career for the Richmond, Va., school, averaging 18 points and 12 rebounds. He was the captain all four years of his high school basketball career.

Dinnie wasn’t recruited out of high school and came to Cedarville with the intention to only play intramural basketball. However, when he heard about the JV team, he decided to give it a shot. Dinnie tried out and made the team his freshman year, and he made the team again the next year.

His junior year, though, turned out to be the turning point in his college athletic career. Two assistant coaches for the varsity team asked Dinnie if he would be willing to be a “practice player.”

The varsity team was in need of a big man with some skill, and Dinnie was the player they were looking for. He eagerly accepted the of-fer and shortly thereafter, began practicing and lifting with the varsity players. Ever since then, Dinnie has been evolving from a “prac-tice player” to someone who might see some increased playing time this upcoming year.

Dinnie said that there are several differ-ences between JV and varsity.

“Time commitment is probably the big-gest, you miss out on a lot of breaks and such,” Dinnie said. “The intensity is definitely a lot higher. The speed is a lot different. Definitely a couple steps up from JV.”

Dinnie said he became a better player be-cause he accepted the coaches’ offer and ap-plied himself to the task. Williams said Dinnie has become a better player mentally and physi-cally due to an improved work ethic.

“Once David was able to use his size to his advantage, he became more of a player that was able to let the game come to him,” Wil-liams said. “He understood the game and was able to mentally will himself to play harder and tougher. I believe that the hard work David put in this past year in his first varsity year will reap good results in his second year of varsity.”

Patrick Estepp, the head coach of the men’s basketball team, praised Dinnie’s dedi-cation to the team.

“I am really proud of Dave and the amount of work he has put into making himself a better player,” Estepp said. “Dave would attempt to run through a brick wall if I asked him to. It is evident that he is all about the team and wants to do whatever he can to help us win.”

Byron Brown is a junior global business ma-jor and sports reporter for Cedars. He plays for the JV basketball team here at Cedarville.

OFF-CAMPUS NEWS

10 October 2014

ROTC Cadets Trained Over Summer

By Laura Jani

During the summer, several Army ROTC cadets from Cedarville University par-ticipated in training opportunities as

well as cultural immersion and teaching. Cadets received slots to attend Airborne

School, Air Assault School, a Culture Under-standing and Language Proficiency Program (CULP), Cadet Troop Leader Training (CTLT), a Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC) and a Leader’s Training Course (LTC). One cadet also cross-trained with cadets from West Point.

Cedarville provides its students with the opportunity to participate in Army ROTC by joining the Marauder Battalion at Central State University. Fifty-two cadets from Cedar-ville participate in Army ROTC.

The selection of cadets to participate in these summer events is based on the order merit list (OML), which ranks all the cadets in the nation on a numbered list based on academic performance, physical training and evaluations by the cadre. The Marauder Bat-talion is awarded a certain amount of slots, which they assign to cadets based on the OML.

Kyle Culbertson, a cadet who attended Airborne School, explained how important it is to take a slot if it is offered to you.

“It is very difficult to get the slots for ca-dets as it is,” he said. “It is respectable to take the slot.”

Culbertson, a junior biology pre-med ma-jor at Cedarville, attended a basic airborne in-troduction course in Fort Benning, Ga.

The course involved jumping out of air-planes to skydive with a static line. Connected to a wire that runs the length of the interior

of the plane by a static line, cadets jump out of the plane. The line extends to 15 meters in length and then opens the parachute.

Culbertson had never jumped out of a plane before and said the most challenging part was just the idea of jumping out of a plane.

The drill sergeants who run the airborne school, the “Black Cats,” talked about every-thing that could go wrong and gave specific ex-

amples of things that have actually happened. He was the first cadet to jump out of the

plane during jump week. “The moment you jump out of a plane, it is

the most amazing sense of quiet you could ever experience,” he said. “It is like being on top of a mountain, only better. It is the biggest rush of adrenaline, followed by the most peaceful

feeling you could ever imagine.”

He said it was the most frightening and exhilarating 30 seconds of his life.

C u l b e r t s o n jumped from 1,250 feet up in the air be-cause the purpose of airborne operations is to get a very large number of people on

the ground very quickly. He learned to keep his eyes on the horizon

while at airborne school, explaining that if you look up at the horizon, you keep your legs in the correct position to land on the ground.

Culbertson said this can apply to life as well. If you are constantly looking down at the obstacles, he said, you reach out for those, and get broken down. But if you keep your eyes on

the horizon, or the main goal, it will allow you to go a lot further — avoiding hurt and injury in life.

Culbertson said he joined ROTC because he thought it was a good opportunity to serve his country while allowing him to practice medicine. He said he has always wanted to help people and heal people, so the opportu-nity seemed like a perfect fit for him.

Culbertson was not the only one from the Marauder Battalion who jumped this summer.

Three cadets from the Marauder Battalion attended Air Assault School for 12 days in Fort Benning and had the opportunity to do a live helicopter repel.

ROTC cadet Michael Retzlaff, a sopho-more exercise science major at Cedarville, said that a typical day of training involved class-room learning, physical training and practical exercises. The cadets learned sling load opera-tions, repelling and fast load operations and had an introduction into aircraft marshalling.

Retzlaff described the sling load operation training as hooking up something such as a cargo bag or a Humvee to the bottom of a heli-copter so that it can be transported.

“We were working on those for hours, working on chains, ropes, counting chain links,” he said.

The participants also did a lot of repel-

Photos provided by Cedarville ROTC cadetsMichael Retzlaff, Caleb Stockdale and Brendan York attended Air Assault School during the summer and completed a live helicopter repel.

Many Cedarville cadets trained both in the U.S. and overseas this past summer, gaining valuable experience

“It is very difficult to get the slots for cadets as it is. It is respectable

to take the slot.”Kyle Culbertson

ROTC cadet, attended Airborne School

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11October 2014

ling in the third phase of the course, which built up to the pinnacle of the course, the live helicopter repel.

Retzlaff said the jump was the coolest thing he has ever done.

Retzlaff said the academics of the course were a challenge. There were a few written tests, which outlined several procedures for bringing in air-crafts and setting up a landing zone.

The cadets also learned the se-quence of inspection for the specific order for the sling load operations.

Cadets participated in a 12-mile ruck march, as well. Each one had a 30-pound ruck and rifles, and they had to do 12 miles in under three hours. Retzlaff said that the pace would be a mixture of running with some walking, though some ran the whole time.

“A big part of my success in the course was the people I had praying for me throughout the course,” Retzlaff said. “I could have not done it on my own strength.”

He said the training was exhilaratingly worthwhile.

Retzlaff said he has always felt like he wanted to serve his country in some way, and he said that the military is the best way to do it.

“It is cool to see the dream of a 12-year-old to join the army come true, and getting a great school like Cedarville almost paid for is great, but there was a big desire to want to serve there as well,” Retzlaff said.

Cadet James Dyksterhouse, a sophomore public administration major at Cedarville, said his time in Bulgaria this summer through the CULP program for ROTC was unexpected.

Dyksterhouse went to Bulgaria for 24 days to teach English to Bulgarian officers at a uni-versity as part of the CULP program.

Two hours each day were spent in class

teaching military officers how to speak Eng-lish. During the rest of the time, the cadets involved in the program traveled around the country to see the lifestyle and the culture, and spent time with the Bulgarian officers.

Dyksterhouse said that the language bar-rier was a very challenging aspect of the trip, despite the fact that he tried to learn some Bul-garian before he went to the country. He said he had never been out of the U.S. before and had to get a passport for the trip.

He said the friendships he formed with the Bulgarian officers were the most worth-while part of his time in Bulgaria.

“One guy, Dimitar, was a really cool guy, who had the same interests as me,” Dykster-house said. “He was a fan of the same hockey team as me, the Red Wings. There was a con-nection there, and he still emails me. We just talked last week.”

He said the people in Bulgaria were really surprised to hear that Dyksterhouse had a car

and that he had a garage at his house. “I was like, yeah, I have a three-stall ga-

rage, and they didn’t know what that was,” Dyksterhouse said.

“Most of them had cars, but only because they were officers,” he said. “That is a good paying job over there.”

Dyksterhouse had the opportunity to view the U.S. vs. Germany game of the World Cup while he was in Europe.

Future plans for Dyksterhouse include graduating from college and going active duty after school. He said he hopes to pursue avia-tion or quartermaster — the logistics of the army. He has a brother in the military and says that he is following in his footsteps.

Laura Jani is a senior nursing major and the off-campus news editor for Cedars. She en-joys a freshly brewed cup of coffee, learning the Spanish language and traveling to new destinations.

Army ROTC cadets participated in training programs this summer.

Zach Winters is one of the 52 cadets in Cedarville’s Army ROTC program. Winters participated in the Leader’s Training Course this summer.

“A big part of my success in the course

was the people I had praying for

me throughout the course. I could have not done it on my

own strength.” Michael Retzlaff

ROTC cadet, attended Air Assault School

OFF-CAMPUS NEWS

12 October 2014

Hair Care in the ’Ville

By Kaity Kenniv

Hair Limits gives the town of Cedarville affordable haircare in a place where the people take an interest in the

needs, concerns and joys of others.Located on Main Street in Cedarville, Hair

Limits offers a variety of services including haircuts, eyebrow waxes and prom and wed-ding hairdos.

Men, women and children get their hair done at this salon. It is a family-friendly busi-ness with a small area containing toys and games for children.

To expand its offered services, Hair Limits recently hired esthetician Kim Collum to give pedicures, manicures and facials.

In 1982, Janet and Mike Pettit opened Hair Limits. At the time, the Pettits owned a Hair Limits in Xenia as well. When a building in Cedarville became available, they decided to start a second salon. The Pettits operated both shops until closing the one in Xenia in favor of the Cedarville location.

Becca Revenaugh has worked at Hair Limits for three years, since she was 19.

She said they see a myriad of customers. “Literally, we see everyone from baby — like first haircuts — to roller sets,” Revenaugh said. “I have a 96-year-old coming in for a roller set later. We get different nationalities and different styles from around the world because

of the university.” Revenaugh said the best part about work-

ing at Hair Limits is the people. “We’re really laid back,” she said. “It’s like

working with my friends. And all my clients I

call my friends. I get to hang out with people all day long and make them look good.”

Revenaugh cut Cedarville student Emma Salisbury’s hair to a pixie cut.

“My favorite thing (about Hair Limits) has

been that Becca is my friend as well as my hair-dresser,” Salisbury said. “They are just very personable, and they do a great job.”

Hair Limits recently invited Cedarville residents to celebrate the retirement of Linda Curtis, a Hair Limits employee of 14 years, and offered salon-goers cookies, cake and punch. Curtis retired after 52 years as a hairdresser.

“I started doing hair the day after Labor Day in 1962,” Curtis said.

Curtis owned and operated two of her own hair salons in Cedarville before coming to work for Hair Limits in 2000.

When talking about her customers, Curtis said, “We care about one another. We pray for one another. We might just stop right here and circle and have a prayer.”

Curtis has served four generations of Ce-darville students since she started working as a hairdresser.

She even went to high school with Dr. Da-vid Jeremiah and his sister.

“I did Dr. Jeremiah’s wife’s hair,” she said. Cathy Durham, a frequent customer,

came into the shop to give Curtis a card and a friendly hug. Curtis has been doing Durham’s hair for about 38 years.

Durham said her favorite part about com-ing to Hair Limits is the interest the people there show about her life.

“Whenever I would come in, (Linda) would always ask me about my kids and my friend Marcie who has melanoma,” said Durham. “My mother had a stroke and her hair needed taken care of. I would bring her down here and Linda would do her hair in the wheelchair.”

While Curtis’ goals for Hair Limits are customer-focused, she said she works to keep Christ at the center of her occupation.

“The unique thing about Cedarville is that I can always express my faith,” Curtis said. “My chair was like my mission field. If I got you in that chair I was going to let you know that I believed in the Lord.”

The employees and the customers each understand and love the people-focused atmo-sphere of the business.

“That’s my favorite part of my job, pe-riod,” said Revenaugh. “I love living life with people — as they go through their college ca-reer, as they go through life.”

For the guys, Cedarville offers a barber-shop, Barber of the ’Ville, that has attracted many customers in recent years.

Tony Pergram, known as The Barber of the ’Ville, has operated a barbershop in Cedar-ville for 11 years.

Since high school, he wanted to cut hair. Thirteen years ago, his dream became reality after he completed barbering school and re-ceived his barber license.

Photo by Jillian PhilyawCedarville Main Street’s Hair Limits salon has been a part of the village since 1982. The salon offers haircuts, pedicures, manicures, facials and special-occasion updos.

“That’s my favorite part of my job, period. I love living life with people — as they go through their college

career, as they go through life.”Becca Ravenaugh

Hair Limits Employee

A salon and barbershop add character to Cedarville

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13October 2014

At first, Pergram worked as a barber in Fairborn. Customers would often drive from Cedarville to have their hair cut, because Ce-darville had a beauty salon but no barbershop.

“There was nowhere guys felt comfortable to be,” Pergram said.

Seeing the need, he opened his own bar-bershop in Cedarville on August 31, 2003. The barbershop was located where Stoney Creek is now. He called it The Ville Barbershop.

“As soon as I named it, I had to get an email address,” said Pergram. “So I got bar-beroftheville@yahoo.com, and I was like ‘Man! Why didn’t I name it that?”

Pergram moved in 2009 to the shop’s cur-rent location just a few buildings down from Stoney Creek. He named it Barber of the ’Ville.

Pergram had a unique vision for Barber of the ’Ville.

“Most barbershops are the old school mug-and-brush type with the barber pole and everything,” he said, “I wanted to do some-thing different, something where guys under the age of 40 can be comfortable.”

The shop is lined with guitars, and the TV is switched to the sports channel.

Pergram said, “You won’t come in and have soap operas on TV. It’s not your dad’s barbershop, that’s for sure. It’s a place where men can come and be themselves.”

Pergram doesn’t advertise his services but relies instead on word of mouth. Through the reviews of others, he gets customers of all ages and occupations including college students, farmers, college professors, maintenance workers and people just traveling through.

The shop’s exterior also draws customers. “About once a week somebody will stop

their car, point their phone and take a picture and keep going just because the front is so cool,” Pergram said.

Pergram said the people are what matter most to him.

“It’s so much fun to have 15 minute con-versations with people and get a little of their lives,” he said, “and then when they come back in six weeks later, ask how that went.”

Pergram said many take advantage of the community-friendly nature of the barbershop.

“I have a lot of people just come hang out,” he said. “You might think there’s a half-hour wait when actually there’s nobody in the chairs — just people lined up playing music or talking about the weather or whatever it is.”

Pergram talked about his second custom-er he had in Cedarville, Paul Cope.

“I married his daughter,” he wrote in an email. “His daughter Myndi and I have been together almost 11 years and have a 2-year-old daughter named Murphy.”

He said he is beginning to see another generation rise up.

“It’s kind of cool, you get to know people. I’ve seen kids grow up and now I’m cutting their kid’s (hair) because I’ve been here for eleven years,” Pergram said.

The shop has no phone. Pergram said he believes it interferes with focusing on the cus-tomer in the chair at the moment.

Instead, he updates customers about his

whereabouts through his Facebook page. The Barber of the ’Ville offers one simple

service: haircuts. “That’s one thing that makes the barber-

shop different from the salon,” he said. “When you come in, you won’t be smelling people get-ting perms or hair color.”

Pergram said that customers receive quick service, because individual haircuts take about 12 minutes each.

“Even if there are two or three people in front of you, you know that you’re going to be taken care of in the next half hour,” he said.

Nolan Russell, a customer, walked into the barbershop for a haircut. When asked about what made Barber of the ’Ville unique, he responded, “The barber!”

Austin Becton, a Cedarville student, wrote, “I love Tony's barber shop because he gives fantastic haircuts, and he is a great mem-ber of our community. He promotes business in town and is a great friend to many students and citizens.”

Pergram said he has worked hard to make Barber of the ’Ville a welcoming and fun place where guys are comfortable.

“It’s a reflection of me,” he said. “Almost every guy can walk in and find a piece of them-selves in here.”

Kaity Kenniv is a junior Biblical studies major and a reporter for Cedars. She loves reading by a blazing fireplace, taking long walks in the autumn and a cup of hot tea in the morning.

Photo by Jillian PhilyawTony Pergram has operated Cedarville’s Barber in the ‘Ville barbershop for 11 years.

Photo by Kaity KennivBecca Revenaugh gives Cedarville student Emma Salisbury’s hair a pixie cut.

OFF-CAMPUS NEWS

14 October 2014

Midterms Could Sway 2016 Electionby Brandon Best

On November 4, American voters will elect 435 congressmen to the House of Representatives and 33 Senators to

make up the 114th Congress.“I believe this is a very crucial election

and the presidential election after is very cru-cial,” said Richard Tison, professor of history at Cedarville. “Should (Republicans) pick up control of both houses and go on to win the presidency, then they have an opportunity to affect change.”

The Democrats hold the majority in the Senate with 55 out of the 100 seats. The Re-publicans hold the majority in the House of Representatives with 234 out of the 435 seats.

While Washington Post’s Election Lab re-ports the odds of a Democratic House of Rep-resentatives as less than one percent, control of the Senate is up for grabs.

Mark Smith, director of Cedarville’s Cen-ter for Political Studies, said, “I think there is a reasonable chance the Republicans will take control of the Senate. There’s still a ways to go, and public opinion can always change when we get involved in things like foreign conflicts.”

Cedarville history professor Marc Clauson said the key races to watch will be in Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina and Kansas, as well as a few more states. He also said most Repub-lican candidates look like they are even or are slightly ahead in those states.

Tison, Clauson and Smith said they expect gridlock to continue until at least 2016 when Republicans may be able to control the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Execu-tive Branch.

Tison also said the Republican party lead-ership needs to maintain their ties with the more conservative tea party faction. The Tea Party looks to cut government spending and lower taxes. Reconciliation of the Tea Party to the Republican Party leaders would help the conservatives present a united front.

Senate Races by the StateTo get the majority, Smith and Clauson

said the Republicans need to win the Senate races in Iowa, Colorado, North Carolina, South Dakota, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Reuters reports that many prominent Re-publicans support Joni Ernst, a contender for the Senate seat in Iowa. The race for the Senate is still unanimously predicted as a tossup; the latest Rasmussen Reports poll called it a tie.

The Washington Post reports the Colora-do Senate race between Democratic incumbent Mark Udall and Republican Cory Gardner will be a “nail-biter.” A recent poll by Quinnipiac University claims Gardner has an eight-point lead in light of their first debate.

In North Carolina, Democrat incumbent Kay Hagan has jumped ahead of Republican Thom Tillis following their first debate, Re-uters reports. Hagan leads Tillis by four points, according to an Elon University poll.

In South Dakota, with the Democratic incumbent retiring, two-term governor Mike Rounds is controlling the race with a nine-point lead. The New York Times predicts Rounds has a 99 percent chance of winning.

In Arkansas, Republican Tom Cotton is challenging incumbent Democrat Mark Pryor. Polling indicates Cotton is slightly ahead, but still within the margin of error.

Louisiana will be a tossup as well, Real

Clear Politics reports. Though Republican Bill Cassidy is leading Democrat incumbent Mary Landrieu, neither seems to be able to get a majority in time for the election. If neither re-ceives a majority, the race will result in a run-off that will take place December 6.

Obama and the ElectionThe Washington Post reports that Presi-

dent Obama is one factor adding to the elec-tion, particularly for the Democratic party. Declining poll numbers across the country are making races tough on once popular Demo-cratic candidates.

Even if Obama loses control of the Sen-ate in his last two years, Mark Smith said he doesn’t believe this would have a tremendous effect on the president’s legacy.

“It would be a black eye that will be a mark on his record, if he loses control of the Senate, but it isn’t all that unusual,” Smith said. “Ron-

ald Reagan lost control of Republican Senate when he was in his sixth year of office.”

Smith also said it would not affect Obama’s legislative accomplishments, since the House of Representatives remains under Republican control. If Republicans are a majority in both legislative houses, Smith says the next couple of years could be dramatic.

“It does increase the possibility of a sig-nificant crisis,” he said. “In the past, when we’ve seen presidents go through significant conflicts with Congress it has often been after they have lost control of Congress.”

Will this year’s midterms affect the 2016 presidential race?

Smith said that if the Republicans take control of the Senate and are able to put for-ward an agenda that the voters support, even if President Obama vetoes it, then they could give the party some momentum heading into the presidential election.

Clauson said he agrees that taking control of the Senate will most likely add strength to the 2016 Republican ticket.

“That could give Republicans some mo-mentum going into the campaign season,” he said. “If they put forward some good, articu-late, clear candidates, and if they get the Sen-ate, it could have a snowball effect for them.”

Smith said he believes the possible mo-mentum depends on candidate selection, world affairs and the economy.

“Two years is an eternity in political time, so it’s difficult to say,” Smith said. “How the parties react to Russia, Syria, immigration is-sues and other issues can sway people.”

2016 Presidential ElectionClauson said everyone is pointing to Hill-

ary Clinton for running on the 2016 Democrat-ic ticket, but Clinton is giving mixed signals.Most other potential Democratic candidates are further left and would be unattractive to the average voter.

Clauson said the Republican 2016 presi-dential candidate could be Ted Cruz or Rand Paul. Clauson said the next president will like-ly be from Congress, so whomever emerges as an articulate leader in the next two years will be immediately labeled a potential candidate.

As for Obama’s legacy, Clauson said, “He’s been trying to circumvent Congress by using executive orders and they can’t really stop him unless they pass legislation to specifically over-ride what he does in executive order. That could have a significant effect on what he tries to do.”

Brandon Best is a freshman English major and writer for Cedars. He enjoys writing, life and all the seasons of the year.

“Two years is an eternity in political

time, so it’s difficult to say. How the parties react to Russia, Syria, immigration issues and other issues can

sway people.”Mark Smith

Center for Political Studies Director

November’s election will determine momentum for parties’ presidential campaigns

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

15October 2014

‘Little Women’ Gives Laughs, Adviceby Anna Dembowski

Cedarville Theatre’s “Little Women” cap-tivated audiences on opening night as it presented one year — from Christmas to

Christmas — of the March family’s struggles, hopes, disappointments and happy-go-lucky days.

The play begins with the four March sis-ters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — discussing what each of them will buy with their Christ-mas dollar. But as money is tight during the Civil War, the sisters realize that if they buy themselves something, they cannot give Mar-mee, their mother, any Christmas gifts.

So cue the first of many lines reflecting selflessness in Peter Clapham’s adaptation.

“Let’s each get (Marmee) something for Christmas and nothing for ourselves,” says Beth, the second youngest of the March girls.

Discussion of what it means to be selfless and sacrificing your own comfort to help others is prevalent throughout the entire two-and-a-half hour play. The audience learns Mr. March is absent from the home because, though he is too old to be drafted, he has volunteered himself as a chaplain for the soldiers. Mar-mee and Beth are no stranger to the Hummel family, German immigrants and a neighbor of the March family who are desperate for food, warmth and restored health. The Marches give the Hummels some of their own frugal Christ-mas dinner fixings and, towards the end of the play, compromise Beth’s health to serve them.

Mr. Laurence, Laurie and John Brooke, neighbors to the Marches, join in the display of selflessness by becoming faithful friends of the family — accompanying Marmee to Wash-ington, giving Beth a piano, visiting Amy daily while she stays at her dreadful aunt’s house, and giving Jo, the second eldest of the sisters, the brother-friend she’s always desired.

Positive themes of individuality, happi-ness, having pride in one’s work, humility, friendship and family unity also run through-out the play.

But in no way is “Little Women” boring. Yes, it is heavy on the dialogue and big-picture life lessons, but the show is full of humor.

David Widder-Varhegyi brings his usual ir-resistible humor to the stage, this time as Lau-rie Laurence. And Andrew Poplin’s character, elder Mr. Laurence, breaks away from the typi-cal stuffy and rich old man. So, too, does John Brooke, Laurie’s tutor, played by Caleb Curby.

These three male leads in the show bring a refreshing and comical perspective to the dia-logue. With a show called “Little Women,” it’s to be expected that more than half of the cast is female, emotions are well-played and fast-paced — and loud — dialogue is not a problem

to present. But Widder-Varheygi, Poplin and Curby surely quicken the pace of the show with their antics, gentlemanly remarks and quirky humor.

Jo March, played by Rebecca Levergood, is a very headstrong character who often wishes she was a boy and “has a very great weakness for reading,” as Marmee says. Her presence fills the stage, especially when she is actually galli-vanting around it.

Meg, on the other hand, is quite proper. And

Madison Hart portrays her to a T.

The other two sisters — Beth and Amy — played by Emma Kowatch and Katie Gilbert are well-cast, too. From Amy’s temper tan-trums to Beth’s shyness, the March sisters are

very relatable to today’s average family with four daughters.

Marmee, played by Sarah Largent, and the family’s housemaid, Hannah, played by Ra-ven Simmons, are the voice of sensibility in the household. The March sisters face “boy prob-lems,” inevitable sisterly conflict, sickness and inadequate self-esteem, but Marmee and Han-nah always point the girls to what’s really impor-tant in life — great bits of wisdom we all gain as onlookers.

But life isn’t always so peachy for the March family.

Enter: Aunt March, Scarlet fever, a father off to war, and a dying child in Beth’s arms.

Aunt March is that relative families have a hard time even pretending to love. She’s ab-solutely dreadful inside and out, from head to toe. But she’s supposed to be, and Amy Cundall does a great job at conveying this.

At the simplest level, “Little Women” is a dose of reality. But it’s packed with little re-minders that are still applicable today, over 150 years after Louisa May Alcott’s novel was written. The play is presented in such a way that you’ll feel like you’re growing wiser while laughing a great deal.

Filled with a fair amount of Christmas sur-prises, romantic interests and a few tear-jerking moments, there’s no reason to miss out on the remaining performances of “Little Women.”

The show continues in its last weekend, Friday, Oct. 10 to Sunday, Oct. 12.

Anna Dembowski is a junior journalism major and managing editor/arts & entertainment editor for Cedars. She likes nearly anything that is the color purple and enjoys spelling the word “agathokakological.”

Photo by Tianle LeeIn “Little Women,” family and friends unite through the conflicts and joys of life.

Photo by Tianle LeeMarmee comforts her daughter Jo.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

16 October 2014

A Resounding 25 Years for Student Radioby Anna Dembowski

In a time before Spotify, Pandora or even the Internet at Cedarville, there was stu-dent radio. And before the extinction of re-

cord turntables, Cedarville had student radio.Resound Radio, as it’s now known, has

been a part of the Cedarville experience since 1990. It’s been broadcast on the AM and FM dials, through the campus intranet and at re-soundradio.com.

James Leightenheimer, associate profes-sor of communications and faculty advisor to Resound, said student radio started when he was a Cedarville student in the 1970s. Cedar-ville College, as it was then called, had an FM radio station, but student workers had been replaced with professionals. Leightenheimer said this limited students’ opportunity to gain professional experience while at Cedarville.

Leightenheimer said, as a student, he dis-cussed with the new professor at the time, Wes Baker, the need for a student radio outlet.

“I actually did a paper as a senior on the feasibility of developing a student radio station at Cedarville,” Leightenheimer said. “I gradu-ated. I was gone for several years. I came back, and Dr. Baker encouraged me to pick that pa-per up and to proceed and make that one of my projects.”

Leightenheimer joined Cedarville’s fac-ulty in 1983, but the station was not a reality until 1989. He said it took those six years to raise the necessary funds to start the station and get everything in place.

“It was not inexpensive to do,” Leighten-heimer said, “so we worked on putting a sta-

tion organization together — developing an infrastructure — but then also developing — raising the money to buy the equipment.”

About $15,000 had to be raised to cover the cost of the equipment needed for the sta-tion start up. Once the funds had been raised, the station team spent much of their time in-stalling the equipment, which was not easy to do, Leightenheimer said.

“We had to install a system that took the signal from the studio by phone line down to maintenance where it was split out,” he said, “and where by phone line it was sent out to each dormitory where we installed a coupling unit and a transmitter.”

Leightenheimer said he remembers pull-ing cable underground from Lawlor Hall to Maddox Hall, and then once in Maddox, up to the attic where he crawled through with cable tied to his ankle so that cable could be run down into the power room.

The station’s first broadcast aired in 1990 at AM 530 — the bottom of the radio dial — as WSRN, the Student Radio Network. The third floor of the now-destroyed Collins Hall was home to WSRN, thus explaining the station’s slogan, “From the top of Collins Hall to the bottom of your dial.” While WSRN broadcast every day of the week, its hours were limited to 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. to midnight on the AM signal.

Its first musical playlist received a fair share of resistance from the university’s lead-ership when it was proposed in 1989, Leight-enheimer said. Among the artists to be broad-cast were Sandi Patty, Larnelle Harris, Steve Green and 4Him.

“We were planning on going on the fall of ’89, but we actually were slowed down to spring of ’90 — we didn’t go on until April 5 — because we had to work through quite a pro-cess to make people comfortable with where we were going,” Leightenheimer said. “We had to make some concessions along the way to earn the privilege of going on the air the first time.”

And that first broadcast stirred up quite a bit of excitement on the campus.

Leightenheimer said the first song the sta-tion aired the evening of April 5, 1990, was by Buddy Greene, an artist familiar to students. The song was played off of a record.

“That’s where the technology was in 1990,” Leightenheimer said.

He said Paul Dixon, Cedarville’s president at the time, was present for the dedication of the first broadcast. In addition to praying over the station, Leightenheimer said Dixon threw out the first song.

“He actually turned the turntable on,” Leightenheimer said. “He flipped the switch to play the first song.”

Baker, Leightenheimer, the station’s stu-dent leadership team and representatives from Cedars and student government were also present at the inaugural broadcast.

“The campus was pumped about it,” Leightenheimer said. “You have to remember in 1990 we didn’t have as many media options out there. There was no computer network on campus. People were still turning in papers typed on typewriters. People listened to the ra-dio a lot back then, so there was a tremendous amount of enthusiasm.”

Photo by Jillian PhilyawResound Radio moved to its current location in the lower SSC in 2000 and has been broadcasting fully on the world-wide web since 2006.

WSRN, U99.5 and Resound Radio have given students professional experience

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Bobby Hile, senior pastor at Southgate Baptist Church in Springfield, Ohio, was the station manager at the time of the inaugural broadcast.

“It was one of those history-making mo-ments where this is something the school hasn’t done before, so we were the first ones to do it,” Hile said. “And then to now see where it’s gone and how it’s grown, and it’s a whole lot better than it was than we were back then, that’s I think really, really encouraging.”

In 1996, student radio moved from WSRN to U99.5 on the FM dial, as Cedarville changed from a college to a university. Student radio remained in Collins Hall, but Leightenheimer said the frequency move was necessary, be-cause the university began allowing refrigera-tors in the dorms and instituted CedarNet.

“And those things, because of the AM technology we used that was coupled to the electrical signal in the dorms, it trashed our signal,” Leightenheimer said. “You couldn’t hear us anymore, so we had to do something else.”

He said Cedarville’s electronic media technician Dave Bastress, also an FM engineer, built the station a low-power FM transmitter.

The antenna for the transmitter was placed under the ball on the top of the campus water tower so that the signal could reach the dorms.

Leightenheimer said U99.5 decided to start streaming its signal via the campus in-tranet in 2003 in addition to its FM signal.

But another change for Cedarville’s stu-dent radio came around 2006.

Research showed students only listened to the radio when in their cars, so the FM signal was losing its audience, Leightenheimer said.

“We upgraded our streaming capability,” he said. “And at the same time that we did that, we reimaged our self as Resound Radio, which is where we’re at today. Since that time, we have changed our streaming. We’re not just us-ing the campus intranet now; we’re streaming on the world-wide web, 24/7, 365 days a year.”

The station moved to its current location in the lower level of the Steven’s Student Cen-ter in 2000.

“I think by and large the administration has been very supportive of what we’ve done,” Leightenheimer said. “I feel that. Being in this building was a huge statement, giving this kind of real estate, this much space at this location, that was a statement.”

Despite the changes in location and broadcast medium, Leightenheimer said the one thing Cedarville’s student radio has kept constant is its “heartbeat.” As the first station manager, Hile chose Ephesians 4:29 for the station verse: “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who lis-ten (NIV).”

“We really wanted the radio station to be something that would benefit those who lis-tened to it, and that the words that would be spoken on the station would be, obviously, in line with what the Word of God says and to encourage those who are listening,” Hile said. “That’s really rewarding and exciting to see that that’s still the theme verse for the station.”

Hannah Moyer, Resound’s current sta-tion manager and a senior broadcasting and digital media major, said it is key while leading the station to have a consistent vision of where the station should go. Resound’s mission state-ment is to connect and establish relationships with listeners.

“We not only want to be kind of a hub of learning radio and having students being able to learn that,” Moyer said, “but also be able to serve the student body.”

Leightenheimer said Resound has been a part of Cedarville for so many years because students know that Resound is a place to get professional experience and network with Cedarville grads. Moyer said the connections she’s made for internships, the experience she has gained and the relationships she has built during her three-and-a-half-year involvement with Resound have been an incredible benefit of her Cedarville experience.

“It’s kind of crazy to see where God has taken alumni,” Moyer said. “We have people all over the world, all over the country.”

Notable graduates of Resound include Jim Houser, manager for Steven Curtis Chap-man, Brandon Heath and other artists at The Creative Trust; Paula Faris, Good Morning America host on ABC; and Joy Summers of WAY-FM radio.

The combined experience of media de-partment faculty Simon, Leightenheimer, Baker and Kragel, is over 95 years. And that’s 95 years of media contacts that students can draw from for internships and careers, Leight-enheimer said.

The satisfaction of seeing Resound staff leave Cedarville and get plugged into careers right after graduation is the most meaningful part of Resound, he said.

“The network we’ve developed from our graduates — from the people who have gone through Resound — that’s helping students,” he said. “That is just the most beautiful thing.”

Anna Dembowski is a junior journalism major and managing editor/arts & entertainment editor for Cedars. She likes nearly anything that is the color purple and enjoys spelling the word “agathokakological.”

Photo by Jillian PhilyawAmp Up, the afternoon show on Resound Radio, gives students Angela Schweinitz and Stephen Green professional experience as on-air DJs.

“We not only want to be kind of a hub of learning radio and having students being

able to learn that, but also be able to serve the student body.”

Hannah MoyerResound station manager

by Nate Spanos

Joseph Vadala, leader of the band High-land, turns life’s discord into rock music.

When his long-distance girlfriend blindsided him with a break-up, he wept and watched “Everybody Loves Raymond.” He stayed in his room. He didn’t eat or drink for 50 hours.

Finally, he went to his keyboard, and within 30 minutes he had written a song called “Won’t Be Tonight.”

“The verses are very much my tears on pa-per,” said Vadala, a senior and computer sci-ence major.

That song emerged not only from loss of romantic love, but also from the loss of his grandfather. Vadala said he believes some-times we just have to endure this kind of hurt.

“Often, we are told we need to just pull ourselves up by our bootstraps (or) get over our hurt,” he said. “(But) sometimes we can’t. Sometimes we just need to hold on and wait until God gives us the strength.”

Vadala’s band, Highland, expresses this desparation in its music.

“I describe a lot of the music like (this): you’re in a tunnel, and you can see the light at the end of it, but it’s really far away,” Vadala said. “Some songs don’t end with the problem being resolved because that’s not life.”

“Won’t Be Tonight” is one of the hits on Highland’s first album, “The Night Doesn’t Last Forever.” The album was released in Feb-ruary 2014 and is available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.

Vadala wrote the lyrics, sang the vocals and played the piano.

Sam Parson, also a senior computer sci-ence major, recorded all the guitar riffs. Abra-ham Church, a senior computer engineering major, is Highland’s drummer. Jacob Secor, a senior computer science major, has played bass for Highland on occasion.

Most of the songs the band has recorded in its four-year lifespan have been written by Vadala. Highland’s debut album is a fully mixed and mastered album.

“(The album) was about three years in the process,” said Parson, who left the band this summer because of the time commitment. “We kept finding more and more ways to make it better.”

However, a downside to their emphasis on studio work was a lack of live practice.

“The idea was that (playing) live would be easier after recording because we’d already have a demo tape,” Vadala said. “Time will tell whether that was a good idea.”

Parson and Vadala met in an academic advisee meeting their freshman year at Ce-darville. Soon after, they had a chat in Chuck’s about starting a band.

Before long, they were meeting in Lawlor

to write songs and audition new members. Though the band as it’s now known began

in the earliest days of Vadala’s freshman year, Highland predates Vadala’s arrival on campus.

In high school, Vadala and his best friend were worship leaders at Highland Baptist Church. When they decided to make a band, they didn’t have to look far for a name.

“We chose ‘Highland’ as a testament to where we came from and what, at the end of the day, is most important,” Vadala said. “Not the church in particular, but (the fact) that we’re Christians.”

Yet, Vadala doesn’t consider Highland a “Christian band.”

“We are Christians. Firmly, 100 percent. (But) I don’t want to be put in a box,” he said. “If you write songs about whatever inspires you, (people) can take hope from that. Hope-fully through that you have a doorway into good witness.”

Vadal said that good witness is established first by avoiding disreputable material and then by being honest, human and transparent.

“Our vision was (to make) music that any-body could relate to,” Vadala said. “(Relatabil-ity) is probably the most important thing from a songwriting standpoint.”

Highland’s musical style has evolved over the past few years.

Parson describes the early material as “adult contemporary,” but Vadala said he holds to a musical ideal of “true rock.” He said that means music marked by a certain “raw-ness” and “epicness.”

Vadala said three different bands define this conception.

“I see most of Highland music as (finding its way in between) that triangle of Vertical Horizon, Five for Fighting and Breaking Ben-jamin,” he said. “They are three very different artists, (but) the one thing they have in com-mon is that they’re all very good lyrically.”

Vadala and Church are currently creating Highland’s second album. They aim to com-plete it before graduation. Afterward, though, they may disband.

“My goal is to get a real job rather than try to be a professional rocker,” said Church.

But Vadala wants to keep it going.“(After college) I want to rebuild (High-

land) because I believe in what it is,” Vadala said. “There’s nothing like performing (a song you wrote) with your friends. Humanly speak-ing, it’s a couple steps from heaven. There’s no feeling like that except for laying under the stars with the girl you love. That’s the close second.”

But if Highland doesn’t work out, Vadala said he won’t be devastated.

“I will always write songs, and I will always do music to some extent,” Vadala said, “but I fully expect (to be) a computer scientist. (And) after God, being married with kids is number one. I’d choose that over the band life any day.”

Nate Spanos is a senior music major and a reporter for Cedars. He co-authors a blog about growth in Christ called Understory. You can explore it at jesusknife.com.

18 October 2014

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Joseph Vadala: Band Leader

Photo by Caleb SmithJoseph Vadala and three other Cedarville students make up the band Highland. The foursome released an album called “The Night Doesn’t Last Forever” in February.

19October 2014

by Erik Johnson

It’s fall in Ohio. The days are warm and nights are crisp. The leaves will be at their peak colors in the next couple weeks, and Peifer Orchard has amazing apple cider slushies for two dollars. Young’s should have the corn maze up and running, and Fairborn has a

wonderful disc golf course. The sunsets at Buck Creek easily rival Cedarville’s, and Yellow Springs will be having the street fair soon. The day after this is put in print if I am correct. And who could forget Pumpkin Spice Lattes at one of our local coffee shops? Falls here are not too shabby.

But soon enough the corn will all be cut down, and Cedarville will be greeted with an incessant wind for the remainder of the year. If you don’t know what it means for a breeze to cut through you, you’ll learn soon enough. It won’t be long before your hair freezes on the walk to your eight o’clock class, your ears are numbed by negative degree windchill and you are wondering what in the world you are doing in such a place as Cedarville, Ohio.

And if you’re anything like me, school is not really your thing, and you have been won-dering the same thing for a few weeks now. It takes me a long time to bring myself back into school mode after summer break ends. I sit and daydream about being back in the Adiron-dack Mountains of upstate New York where I have spent four out of my last five summers. One of my first thoughts upon arriving back at Cedarville this year was that I had enough money saved up to realistically thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. I have just about all the equipment I need. Food would be my primary concern. But as much as I love to entertain these thoughts in my head, I know I can’t just pick up and go. Especially with this being my last year here.

Some of you may be in a similar place right now. Maybe classes aren’t going as well as you had hoped they would. Maybe you haven’t been able to make any really close friends yet. Chances are you aren’t thinking about hiking the AT like me, but you would rather be anywhere else but here. Maybe you’re a senior who is suffering from a severe case of se-nioritis like I am. Maybe all you want is some homemade cookies and a hug from a parent or sibling. Thankfully, fall break is coming fast.

Many times when I start feeling like I want to be anywhere else but here at Cedarville (yes, it happens), I think back to a chapel message from Dr. Brown during my freshman year. I can’t remember exactly what his message was, but he talked about being purposeful where you are right now. He wanted us to remember we have been put in our current circumstances for a reason. And any time we start wishing to be anywhere else but where we are, we should remind ourselves, “This is where I am, and this is what I am doing.”

That quote has pulled me through the last few years at school. It’s so easy to want to just be done with school and move on with your life. Each year the pull is just a little stronger. The lure of finally entering the mystical “real world” is quite appealing. The problem with viewing life after school as the “real world” is it’s an entirely wrong way of thinking about life. What makes your time at Cedarville any less real than after you gradu-ate? Sure, you most likely will not be in as much of a bubble as you are in Cedarville. But your life is happening right now. Your time here is more real than any future you are planning for your life at this point.

For some of you freshmen, you are really missing your friends from high school, and it is really starting to dawn on you that life will never be quite what it was the last few years. I remember sitting in my room freshman year when I realized just how good I had it in high school. There is nothing wrong with this, but you can’t let your thinking be entirely captivated by a longing for the past. The problem with this kind of thinking is that if you are not careful, you will find yourself doing the exact same thing four years from now. And you will wish you had realized how good you had it while being in college. Learn from your past and appreciate where you are now before it is gone too.

This is where I am. This is what I am doing. I can’t promise reminding yourself of this quote will make everything work out the way you hope. From my experience, most things won’t. But

so many times we are so preoccupied wishing we were somewhere else that we fail to see how incredible it is just to be alive and breathing. Don’t wish your life away just because your current circumstance is not everything you want it to be. I believe it was Greg Dyson who reminded us in chapel to be careful what we wish for because God may just give it to us.

So the next time you find yourself lacking motivation to write that 10-page paper or do your math homework, think about that quote. This is where you are. One way or another, you ended up at Cedarville University. This is what you are supposed to be doing right now. It may not be exactly what you want to hear, but it’s what you need to hear sometimes. It’s not bad to look ahead toward the future or reflect on the past, but to do so and neglect the present is dangerous.

Erik Johnson is a senior journalism major and sports editor for Cedars. He competes on the track team. Follow him at @edgejohnson49.

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Cedarville Homecoming 2014

Photos by Jillian PhilyawTop left: Bob Rohm, Cedarville Distinguished Service Award recipient, waves during the Homecoming Parade. Top right: Jubilate soloists Brittney Mitchell and Caleb Peterson sing during the Prism of Praise concert. Center left: Members of Sigma Phi Lambda perform exercises as they walk through the Homecoming Parade. Center right: A crowd gathers to watch the fireworks over Cedar Lake. Bottom left: Two freshman engineering students drag their cardboard canoe to the finish line. Bottom right: A volunteer hands out balloons during the Homecoming Parade.