Archive for January, 2010

Lady Wildcats back on track

Before Wednesday night’s loss to conference rival Taylor (Ind.) University, the No. 7-ranked Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats had won seven straight games. On Saturday, the Lady Wildcats looked to get back on track and start a new streak with a win over Goshen (Ind.) College. They did just that with a 79-63 victory over the Maple…

The reach for new heights in film is a success with “Avatar”

It may be an old story, but it has a new face. James Cameron brought back the storyline of Pocahontas using special effects and computer graphics to create one of the best movies to grace the big screen in a very long time: “Avatar.” With years in the making and a $500 million budget, James…

Business as Missions

Jacob Wheeler (so) has the vision for students like himself to see missions in a different way. Recently Wheeler launched Business as Missions (BAM), a new organization on campus in partnership with Doulos. The idea of business as missions is about “a for-profit business residing in a multicultural environment that intentionally shares the gospel internally…

Robertson: Haiti “pact with Devil”

An Evangelical Christian view is that God is sovereign and in control even in the wake of natural disasters such as the recent earthquake in Haiti. According to William Cowper (1731-1800), God sometimes works in mysterious ways. What some would disagree with is that the victims of these tragedies deserved this destruction. Pat Robertson, televangelist…

Bleeding the Sacred and the Secular

A friend introduced me to Joshua Longbrake’s photography around this time last year. It’s hard for me to say this without exploiting every cliché in the book (here I go already), but I immediately fell in love with Longbrake’s work, viewing his blog during class, linking friends to his Flickr account. He is somewhat of…

Republican Senator in Mass.

On Jan. 19, Mass. elected state Senator Scott Brown to fill the vacant Mass. Senate seat that was previously occupied by Ted Kennedy. His surprising victory over the state’s democratic Attorney General, Martha Coakley, has all of congress scrambling to create a new strategy for 2010.
According to Mass. state records, the last republican to occupy…

Letter to the Editor

During one of my classes this past week, we were discussing some the places on campus where there is not peace. In our group, the tension between Indiana Wesleyan University and its surrounding community was mentioned. We discussed some ways that we, as students, could begin to change that. Now, please don’t get me wrong….

GLOBE Theatre gets box office hits

Movies that are shown in the Globe Theatre do not simply appear onscreen. They must go through a process before they are made available to students on campus for the weekends, and this process is overseen by Jim Taylor, manager of the Student Center.
A student manager and student assistant manager join Taylor to discuss what…

Skin Deep: Senate plans to place tax on tanning beds

Looking like you just got back from a spring break may hurt you more than you think.
On Dec. 24, 2009, voters passed a new tax that will place a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning. The tax, proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from Nevada, will be part of the $871 billion restructuring of…

The Tonight Show With ________ ?

“The Tonight Show” has been on the air since 1954. Called “the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting” by Conan O’Brien, the show has been hosted by household names such as Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and O’Brien himself.
For the past 17 years, this generation has observed Leno as the face of “The…