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The  offical  student-­run  newspaper  of  Sterling  College

Today

24 Hour Prayer @ Sputnik, 11 PM

Friday

Book of Common Prayer @ Union,

7:30 AM

Saturday

Cross Country KCAC Champion-

ship @ McPherson, 10:30 AM

Football vs. Bethany College, 1:30

PM

Kahvista @ Upper Wilson, 8 PM

Rave @ Campbell Basement, 10

PM

Sunday

Chapel @ Culbertson Auditorium, 7 PM

THISWEEK

Football team awaits NAIA ruling on eligibilty violation

Following a self-reported violation, the Sterling Col-lege Athletic Department is currently awaiting a ruling from the National Associa-tion of Intercollegiate Athlet-ics (NAIA), which could strip the Sterling College football team of 3 of its 4 wins from the current season. The vio-lation came as a result of a transfer student on the team whose paperwork had not cleared the NAIA office by the time he saw action on the field, making him ineligible to play. Under the official handbook of the organiza-tion in Article VI, Section B, Rule 8 it is stated that an institution that has played an ineligible player must, “forfeit all contests in which the ineligible student partici-pated”. Whether the player was in for one play or the entire game is irrelevant, as the punishment will in every case be forfeiture of wins.

“I was kind of upset about it [the potential violation], you know, but at the same time mistakes do happen,” Senior cornerback and potential All American Mike Talton said. “If the wins are taken away, which I think they are going to be taken away, you know it’s just, it’s still an experience

man. You know, I won’t let it take away anything that I’ve experienced with the team or anything that I’ve learned.”

Shortly after Sterling’s de-feat to Ottawa University on October 22nd, Sterling’s athletic department noticed a potential issue of eligibility with one of its players. The student, who played mostly on special teams, partici-pated in wins against South-western College, University of St. Mary, and Bethel Col-lege, which if ruled against could be deemed forfeits, changing SC’s record on the year from 4-5 to 1-8. As this is an ongoing case and due to a matter of confidentiality, the student has not been named and Sterling Athletic Direc-tor Gary Kempf declined comment at this time.

Everyone who participated in this story felt it was impor-tant to mention that although Head Football Coach Andy Lambert has taken most of the blame upon himself for the incident, that it was not intentional and not represen-tative of the kind of program he has established at SC.

“Andy Lambert has run a tremendously clean pro-gram,” Student offensive line coach Mike Danski said. “He’s a big reason why Ster-ling is growing. He’s a very good man, a very good foot-

ball coach. It [the potential violation] was simply a mis-take. It was a simple over-sight that I guarantee that he won’t make again, that he hasn’t made before, and it certainly wasn’t intention-al.”

For the football team itself, this has been a time to rally around one another.

“We have 23 seniors on the team, which is a very big senior class for a foot-ball team,” Talton said. “I took it upon myself and the other seniors to try to keep everybody up… As far as the whole team chemistry goes everything is still legit… I mean, we definitely want to be in a different situation, but you know, you got to re-spond to adversity, so that’s all we can do.”

Although both the players and coaches ac-knowledged the legitimacy and purpose of the rule, they also admitted how frustrat-ing the situation has been over the last week.

“You put a lot of time in camp getting these guys ready, you spend a lot of time in the week practicing, all that time watching film with them just to get them to win the games,” Danski said. “So, when it comes down to a situation where all that work is erased based off of a sim-

ple oversight, it’s deflating to me personally, the number one reason being seeing the players realize that all that work, it almost feels like it’s wasted.”

Following a similar inci-dent last year that saw the Sterling baseball team forfeit two games due to an ineli-gible pitcher and that placed the team on probation for the 2011-2012 season, Talton believes that this could be a wakeup call for the college’s athletic department.

“It [the incident] opens up the eyes of the other coaches, the other players, just to be focused and to be aware of what’s at stake,” Talton said.

Although the season may not turn out as the seniors on the team or coaches would like, they still have learned a lot of valuable lessons and look forward to the remain-ing two contests this season.

“I’m going to encourage everyone to still come out and support us,” Danski said. “This is a real good football team we’ve got here. I mean they’ve got it where it counts. They’ve got a lot of heart, a lot of character, and they’re going to keep fighting. At the end of this incident/scandal, whatever you want to call it, I really strongly believe that Sterling football is going to be better.”

By TIM LUISIEditor-In-Chief

By VANCE STEGMANStaff Writer

Full time Juniors and Seniors are invited to submit an essay which addresses an urgent ethnical issue to The Elie Wi-esel Prize in Ethics Essay Con-test 2012. Samantha Carlin, Essay Content Coordinator writes that “[s]ince 1989, The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics has encouraged students to write thought-provoking personal essays that raise questions, single out issues and develop rational arguments for ethical action.”

A panel of readers evalu-ates the essay submissions, and the most effective essays are given to a jury, headed by Elie Wiesel, which chooses the winners. The top essay win-ner receives a $5,000 award. Second prize receives $2,500, third prize $1,500, and two honorable mention winners receive $500 each.

According to the PRNEWS-WIRE, May 18, 2011, “[t]housands of young people have participated in the Foun-dation’s Prize in Ethics since its inception in 1989.” The 2011 winning essay, “Rocks in the Sun: Sous le ciel d’Haiti,” written by Jonathan Calloway, a then Senior at East Tennes-see State University in John-son City, Tennessee, described Calloway’s “experiences wit-nessing suffering and hope as a volunteer in Haiti.”

Interested students are re-quired to partner with a fac-ulty member who will over-see their writing and verify the quality and integrity of the submission. Essays should be between 3,000 and 4,000 words. The deadline for sub-mitting your essay is Decem-ber 5, 2011 by 5:00 p.m. PST. Winners will be announced in Spring 2012.

For more information, con-tact Dr. Squires or go to www.ethicsprize.org. For more in-formation about The Elie Wie-sel Foundation for Humanity, please go to www.eliewiesel-foundation.org.

Essay contest seeks

submissions

While many students went home or stayed on campus to compete in athletic events during Fall Breather, a small group of students ventured to Colorado, singing at ten different locations. This group, the Highland Sing-ers, consists of 16 students with Professor Mark Clark directing and Dr. Brad Nix accompanying.

The Highland Singers start-ed their tour early Wednes-day morning and did not get back to Sterling College until Monday at 1 a.m., not leaving the students much time to catch a breather from class. Professor Clark felt the scheduling for the tour dur-ing Fall Breather, however, was the most convenient.

“This year it worked out best because where the musi-cal fell and Cara [Spencer]’s play,” Clark said. “It just made more sense having it then because of less con-flict.”

Although it was not much of a break, Clark and Nix agreed, as well as a majority

of Highland, that this year went better than other tours in the past in terms of crowd response. Out of the ten loca-tions they stopped, five were of churches and the other five were schools.

“This year was definitely better than last year,” com-mented junior Rachel Gard-ner. “The schools we sang at were more responsive than last year.”

Perhaps more importantly than the responses were the locations themselves, as the group was allowed to per-form in completely new ter-ritory than in past tours.

“Usually we are not able to

perform in publics schools, but this year we had the op-portunity to do so,” Nix said. “I was actually surprised as the public school kids were even more responsive than those at private Christian schools.”

Members of the Highland Singers consist of: Ryan Eh-resman, Kaleb Knighton, Shane Rogers, Ryan Bretch-es (Bass); Matt Hastings, Ian Sparks, Stuart Parman, Ben Jones (Tenor); Kaedra Dix-son, Cara Spencer, Tillie Wil-beck, Rachel Gardner (Alto); Larissa Versaw, Kacie Rog-ers, Ashley Hasart, Emily Konrade (Soprano).

By VANCE STEGMANStaff Writer

Highland Singers fall breather tour a success

Highland Singers, pictured above, toured for the entirety of fall breather, from Wednesday, October 19th and returned Monday, October 24th. Photo Courtesy of Christopher Steen

If you missed Fuel on Thursday October 27, then you missed great music, a fire, good food and the mean-ing of life. Yes it’s pretty safe to say that the second fuel of the year, which was held in Upper Wilson was fairly eventful. The Speaker, John Thompson, formerly of the band The Wayside was flown in to speak to us by Compas-sion International. Thompson, who only played two songs, gave us a detailed account of his testimony.

The evening went smoothly as Thompson shared about his work with Compassion International. Compassion who paid to have Thompson come speak to us, is an orga-

nization that sponsors kids in poverty stricken parts of the world. With them they had about twenty five kids that they wanted to pair with stu-dents or groups of students for sponsorship. Thompson also sold several CD’s and was handing out free Worship Samplers from artists whose songs his publishing company had published for.

The evening started with food provided by CAB and as students found their seats they were quickly drawn in by Thompson’s story of grow-ing up with a Christian moth-er and a conman father. He talked about how many times he had to move around and how Degarmo and Key had inspired his Christian Faith. When all was said and done Thompson gave us his version

of the meaning of life. “We need community in our

lives, people who know you and love you unconditionally and will challenge you when you’re off base…and service,” Thompson said.

The event brought a good response from SC students, several of whom were in-spired by Thompson to spon-sor children overseas.

“I feel like it went re-ally well,” CAB President Alex Lawhon-Bush said. “It seemed like one of the highest turnouts for fuels. We (CAB) counted 147 people. John had a really interesting story to tell, and I think a lot of people were moved by the children. I know a few people adopted a brother/sister and I hope that his message sticks and people continue to think about it.”

CAB’s Fuel hosts John Thompson, sees record turnoutsBy JON FAULKNERStaff Writer

In the month of November, thousands of people around the world unite under a single activ-ity that not only affects the par-ticipant, but also those around them. No, I am not talking about No Shave November, but Na-tional Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo!

NaNoWriMo is a writing “contest” where participants are challenged to write 50,000 words in the 30 days of Novem-ber. The prize? Self-satisfaction and an award certificate in a PDF file where you can type in your name, print it out, and frame it for everyone to see. To the un-trained eye this doesn’t seem like much of an award for such a daunting tasking, but for those that have the passion to write or tell a story, it is more than enough.

One must write at least 1,666 words or about three or four pages every day. Between class-es and work finding time to write can prove to be difficult, but with enough determination and concentration it can get done within an hour or two. If things start moving slowly, start talking to your friends about your novel and their interest will spark your creativity back to life.

For any more information on NaNoWriMo or you already know you want to sign up for it, go to nanowrimo.org or I am more than willing to talk about it with you. In the month of No-vember, it’s time to abandon that inner editor and write.

November is Novel

Writing Month

NEWSBITESFather of Professor Gordon Kling fu-

neral services this Sunday

Gordon King Sr., father of Professor Gordon Kling, passed away over the week-end. Funeral services will be held at the United Presby-terian Church in Sterling on Monday, November 7th, while visitation will be available at the Birzer-Sillin Funeral Home in Sterling Sunday, November 6th, from 7-8 PM.

Daylight Savings Time?

Be sure to set your clocks back an hour as you go to sleep Sunday night as Daylight Sav-ings Time comes to an end. It will get darker quicker and will definitely start feeling winter once again. On the bright side of things, you should get an extra hour of sleep, so hurray for that!

Guy Fawkes Day November 5th

Saturday, November 5th rep-resents Guy Fawkes Day, a holi-day immortalized by V for Ven-detta. It was on this day in 1605 when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament. This event is still celebrated across the world to this day. So, if you see someone on campus in a Guy Fawkes mask on Saturday, don’t be afraid and make sure to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day in whatever way seems best to you.

SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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Talking Cinema With Tim

Captain AmericaThe last of The Avengers

prequels, Captain America

is a solid if slightly generic

entry in the superhero genre,

and while it does enough to

get its audience excited for

what is to come in next year’s

film, as a stand alone effort there is little to applaud.

In his first major onscreen incarnation, the title char-

acter as portrayed by Chris

Evans faces many of the

same problems of Superman;

mainly that he is without a

flaw of any kind and thus is somewhat dull to follow. Be-

fore he is granted his powers

through a super soldier se-

rum there is something inter-

esting about the character: an

underdog looking to find a place for himself in the world.

Continually applying for the

military and pushed back at every

turn Ev-

ans does

his best

w o r k in these

early se-

quences,

showing

a scrappi-

ness that is unfortunately re-

placed by an all-too-familiar

and stereotypical hero as the

plot progresses. Once he has

been given super strength

the character becomes flat, confident in himself, but not overly so, lending neither

brash arrogance nor des-

peration to the character, but

rather a tedious consistency,

making it difficult to ever re-

ally care about what he’s go-

ing through.

In typical Marvel fashion

(aside from Thor’s Loki), the villainous Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) is equally as one-­dimensional. The filmmak-

ers seemingly have refused

to give Weaving any kind of material to work with and despite the masterful effects

that make up his face, create a character with no real mo-

tivation and who due to his

minor presence throughout

the film never seems like a genuine threat to the hero.

His evil plot is similarly un-

derdeveloped, making it ob-

vious that he has plans for

destruction, but showing no

real methods as to how he

will achieve this annihila-

tion or what his ultimate end

game is. It’s not enough to

say that he wants to be a god;

there simply needed and

could have been more here.

His cronies are equally for-

gettable, brandishing weap-

ons that would seem lacklus-

ter in a new video game and

which are even more unwel-

come in a modern day block-

buster like this. Perhaps the film could have

been saved from its boring

screenplay if only there had

been a more inspired choice

of director. While Joe John-

ston is technically competent

and is able to string together

some decent action sequenc-

es, there never seems to be

any real stakes or sense of adventure within his choices.

Although obviously trying to

emulate Raiders of the Lost

Ark, what with the Nazi vil-lains, the pursuit of a sacred

object, etc., none of the action comes close to generating

the excitement of a Spielberg

chase scene, nor is the hero

even remotely as thrilling as

Indiana Jones. The best way

perhaps to describe John-

ston and the film he has as-

sembled is entertaining, but

bland. Especially compared

to Thor, Marvel’s other 2011

blockbuster, nothing here feels special.

While much of the film is indistinguishable from a

large host of better films, it is deserving of praise in at

least a few areas. To begin

with, the production design

is top-notch, creating a be-

lievable version of the 1940’s,

one filled with immense de-

tail and more character than

the hero

who in-

habits it.

The cos-

t u m e s

are gor-

g e o u s ,

the art

d e s i g n

immacu-

late, and the visual effects

(especially involving the

Captain’s transformation) are stunning. While both the

hero and the villain are com-

mon to the genre they inhab-

it, the supporting cast across

the board is admirable in

their attempt to bring life to

this at times lifeless vehicle.

Tommy Lee Jones is reliably

humorous as the drill ser-

geant who watches over the

Captain. His performance, while not a stretch for him in

the slightest way, will remind

audiences why he has always

been one of the more beloved

stars. Stanley Tucci, is like-

wise dependable, lending be-

lievability to a world which

might not have deserved it.

His scientist, which is thrown away with little screen time,

is perhaps the best thing

in the film and would feel at home in any of the great

war films of the past. Haley Atwell, who plays Captain

Roger’s love interest, brings

an interesting presence to

the screen, and like Tucci is much better than the film she resides in. Her performance is natural, feeling like a clas-

sic star turn from the 1940’s

and will hopefully give her a

chance at better roles in the

future.

Captain America is not a

bad film and its ending lends hope that the film that will follow will truly be some-

thing special. It’s fun for

what it is and moves along at

a fine pace, but there is noth-

ing that will demand future

viewings. When all is said

and done it will probably be

the second weakest in this particular series. It was ad-

mirable what the filmmakers were trying to do by setting

it in World War II era Amer-

ica, but in this case the end

product never matched the

project’s ambitions, creating a film that while entertaining in the moment is forgotten as

soon as the credits roll.

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The City Harmonic I Have a Dream album reviewBy JON FAULKNERStaff Writer

Canada has always had a

knack for producing great Christian bands. Groups

like Thousand Foot Krutch, Downhere, Hawk Nelson and Code of Ethics have

made major contributions to the music Industry over the

past decade. Last year a new

Canadian piano rock group named The City Harmonic joined these bands by burst-ing onto the scene with their

debut EP Introducing The

City Harmonic. They immedi-ately gained a large following

because of the success of their

song Manifesto and so it was

time for the quartet to put out

a full length album consisting

of entirely new material.

Unlike with most new groups it would be hard to

put The City Harmonic into one specific category. They seem to be able to do what-

ever style they feel like do-

ing at the moment. Indeed,

the whole album almost feels

like a Jack-­of-­all-­trades with no specific mastery with the exception of the Anthem.

The opener “Yours” almost

sounds like something you’d find on a U2 album. It’s a good rocker and a solid opener. The next two tracks “Spark” and “Mountaintop” are both rock anthems but the former tran-

sitions perfectly into the lat-

ter by using a part of MLK’s Mountain top. The songs also

have similar beats and proba-

bly wouldn’t have worked so well had they not been placed

one after the other. “Wake Me Up” screams of 80’s rock influence, putting the spot-light on the guitars and Elias

Dummer’s raw vocals. The

band also shows that they can

slow down and worship with

the well composed “Be Still

My Soul.”

As was the case with their

EP The City Harmonic doesn’t seem to show any fear when it

comes to producing deep and

meaningful lyrics. The emo-

tional “Yours” starts things

off with the need for surren-

der and sacrifice. “Spark” is a cry out to God for His love to enter and rekindle the fire in

our hearts (“Could a spark of your love, light a fire in me, just a spark warm my cold heart, it’s living, let breathe”). “Falls Apart” deals with our tendency to walk away from God and how we fall apart

when we do. This track is con-

trasted beautifully by “Be Still

my Soul” which is a passion-

ate song about the desire to be

lost in God. “Love” starts by

exploring the role emotions

play in our hearts,transitions

to 1st Corinthians 13 and fi-

nally settles on the idea that

God is love.

It’s clear that The City Har-

monic didn’t fail to pull out

all the stops for their first full length studio album I Have a Dream (It feels like home). This debut could mark the be-

ginning of a very promising

career within the Christian

Music Industry.

The Lady Warrior Volleyball team was

on the road for two of three matches last

week, taking on three KCAC conference rivals as they tried to secure a spot in the

conference tournament. On Monday

the Warriors hosted the Bethel College

Threshers at the Gleason Center. Ster-

ling came out flat and couldn’t seem to get any offense rolling as Bethel took the match in three sets.

The ladies played their first of two road games on Friday when they traveled to the University of St. Mary. The Spires

came out and won the first set, which as it turned out was a bad idea. The Lady

Warriors lost the first set 23-­25 igniting the spark that led to three straight set wins, good for the match.

To wrap up their week, Sterling trav-

eled to Ottawa to take on the Braves of Ottawa University. Against Ottawa, the

Warriors were the exact opposite of their

previous match against St. Mary’s. Ster-

ling won the first set and continued to drop the next three and the match.

After the week was over the Lady War-

riors found themselves with an overall

record of 18-­13 and 10-­7 in KCAC play (good for a tie for fifth place). In their last regular season game of the season,

the Lady Warriors will host the McPher-

son College Bulldogs on Wednesday

evening. Game time is set for 7:00 P.M.

The Men’s Soccer team took on the Uni-

versity of St. Mary Wednesday in their

second-to-last conference match of the

year. At the 42nd minute, Victor Sanchez broke the scoreless silence when he ham-

mered home a free ball out in front of the

Spires’ goal. St. Mary’s didn’t go quietly,

scoring two minutes later with just over 40 seconds on the clock to tie the game at 1-1 going into the half. The entire second

half went scoreless for both sides and

the match went to golden-goal overtime.

Overtime didn’t last long when Senior

Cuyler Prichard, at the 97th minute, con-

nected with Sanchez for his second goal and the match’s winner.

Because of the win, the Warriors

found themselves in a win and advance

situation for their final match against the Bethel College Threshers on Satur-

day. After a rough first half the Warriors found themselves in a 3-1 hole. The lead

that Bethel held on to early proved to be

enough as Sterling fell to the Threshers

4-3, ending their hopes for the post-sea-

son.

The Women’s Soccer team’s hopes

for the playoffs also disappeared when

they fell to St. Mary’s University 4-2 on

Wednesday. The women did, however,

finish the season off on a high note, beat-ing Bethel College 2-1 in a very intense

and exciting match. Although neither

team advanced to the post-season, both

teams consider the season a success and

a learning experience in preparing them-

selves for the next few seasons.

By ERIK DAHLSports Editor

The Weekly Sports Wrap

The Freshman

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