November 17, 2011

!e weekly editorial, wri"en by a member of the Editorial Board, does not necessarily re#ect the opinion of the Collegian sta$. Rather, the edito-rial is the opinion of the editorial writer, who is voicing his or her opinion on a topic deemed newsworthy or impor-tant. Members of the editorial board are as follows:

Anna Leon, executive editorRiah Lawry, managing editorHannah Cummings, news editorRebecca Price, opinion editor

IN THIS ISSUE

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!e men behind !e Coop Show

!e musical cast in a performance of Once on !is Island

Functional and a"ordable #nds for college students at IKEA

Camaraderie in the cafeteriaw

Photo of the week: students don mustaches for No Shave November

THE STAFFAnna Leonexecutive editor

Letter Policy Editorial Board

Hillary Fisherfeatures editor

Jane Brannengraphics editor

Joseph Changphoto editor

Riah Lawrymanaging editor

Rebecca Priceopinion editor

Erika Grahamlayout editor

Courtney LeMaycopy editor

Hannah Cummingsnews editor

Will Houpsports editor

Brittany Howardweb editor

Sarah Rublebusiness manager

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!e Asbury Collegian, established in 1914, is the weekly student newspaper of

Asbury University in Wilmore, Ky.

12An argument for ditching the co"ee in favor of tea

13Women’s and men’s basketball game coverage

Photo by Riah Lawry

The Coop Show

Julianne WyrickSenior News Writer

Zack BrewerSenior Opinion Writer

Sam WitheyAsst. Photo Editor

Sara BissigAsst. Sports Editor

Cover photograph by Joesph Chang

15!e ultimate guide to surviving your holi-day road trip

Under the direction of Jessica Lyons (‘09), the Asbury Equine Center has been working since July to meet the standards neces-sary to receive the Certi!ed Horsemanship Association’s Site Ac-creditation.

At the !nal inspection on Oct. 31, the Equine Center met all 113 standards successfully. Of the 113, 71 standards required writ-ten documentation, while 42 were discussion and received oral responses.

A"er the evaluation, the statement by the Program Director Pol-ly Haselton Barger said, “What a great job you and your sta# did in preparing for the CHA Site Accreditation visit … You have cer-tainly met your goal of ‘se$ing the standard’ for this program with CHA. I hope to continue the relationship with CHA and Asbury.”

%e CHA is a well-known and respected organization that has organized a list of standards to which equine-related procedures and practices can be compared. As the website explains, “%e focus of accreditation is on safety practices at the facility, the op-eration of its program, [and] the management of the equestrian establishment.”

%e accreditation does not certify that the dangers associated with horses has been eliminated, but that the risks are recognized and addressed according to the high set of standards set out by the CHA.

According to Lyons, the CHA asked Asbury University to pro-vide the horses for their International Conference held Oct. 27-29 at the Kentucky Horse Park.

“In return for the use of our horses, they told us they would waive the facility accreditation application and visit fees if we wanted to apply to have our program be a CHA-accredited site,” Lyons said.

%e criterion for accreditation includes two lists&those that are mandatory and those that are recommended&for a total of 113 standards. To pass the CHA evaluation, all the mandatory stan-dards and 80 percent of the recommended standards must be met. By improving minor details, Asbury’s Equine Center met those standards.

As Equine Center Director Harold Rainwater explained, most improvements made in preparation were minor, including such things as mounting signs concerning liability, adding a !rst aid sta-tion, cleaning up fences, improving the trails, and making a few changes to the way things are set up in the main arena.

“Our overall goal in doing this is to be be$er and get be$er at

what we do, which is serving God, helping people, and improving horses,” Rainwater said.

Since the Equine Center uses the CHA Composite Horseman-ship Manual in the program, most of the current operating stan-dards will remain the same.

“We already use the CHA student handbook, so things will still be pre$y much the same as it has been this semester,” sophomore Johanna Rodig said.

Most of the alterations were safety related and were not drastic enough for most visitors or students to notice.

“We had to alter the way we did few things, but our program is be$er because of the improvements that were made,” Lyons said.

Negotiators in the House and Senate have agreed on a comprehensive spending bill. %is bill includes cuts to NASA and community development projects while leaving nutrition programs intact. (source: Associated Press)

Washington, D.C.In her !rst televised interview a"er the shooting, Rep. Gabrielle Gi#ords expressed an interest in returning to Washington. %e Congresswomen, who was shot in the head in Jan. 8, has been making signi!cant improvements in health. (source: Associated Press)

Washington, D.C.Manha$an police broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments a"er a judge ruled that the protestors’ freedom of speech did not extend to pitching tents. (source: Associated Press)

New York City

Equine program granted accreditation

By Mike RoseckyContributing Writer

By Heather TesheraContributing Writer

Short-term mission trips could actually prove to be detrimental to the local area, not bene!cial in making disciples of all nations.

Christians frequently take short-term mission trips all over the world. %e intent of the trip is to accomplish some sort of task or mission for a given group of people in a certain place.

“I got started in missions taking short term trips. %ey can be good,” Ron Busroe, Major in the Salvation Army, said. “%e emphasis needs to be on the receiving place and not on creating an experience for those going.”

Busroe went on to say, however, that short-term missions should focus on providing for the people what they cannot provide for themselves.

“%e team should not be doing things the re-ceiving country can do for themselves,” Busroe said. “Work should be done side-by-side nation-als. If members of the team have special skills, let them teach those skills.”

Multiple mission trips can lead to a certain place being dependent on missionaries. %e trips that seem to make the most impact are ones that need to implement a certain strategy.

Isaac Harrison, a missionary kid born in Hong Kong, has seen the e#ects of short-term mission trips. “We have had churches from the U.S. come

and do VBS at a school my parents teach at,” he said.

Harrison went on to say that that particular mission trip proved to be bene!cial to the local community because the short-term missionaries were able to bring publicity to the school and the locals were able to practice their English. Howev-er, he said that from what he was exposed to, mis-sion trips were based on building relationships, something a short-term trip cannot accomplish well.

Short-term mission trips can be best imple-mented when supporting a long-term mis-sionary. Building “disciples of all nations” is a long-term process that long-term missionaries

acknowledge. %ose missionaries are able to be there when the short-term missionaries leave. When short-term missionaries go to a place to make an impact and leave without having some-one there to further the discipleship, li$le long-term impact is done.

%e cross-cultural department realizes this strategy when planning experiences for stu-dents.

“We make sure that they are partnering with someone and that the groundwork has been laid,” Kathryn Hendershot, director of the Cross-Cultural Experience, said.

“Teaching can be done, but discipleship is about relationships,” Busroe said.

Short-term missions: hurtful or helpful?

“Our overall goal in doing this is to be better and get better at what we do, which is serving God, helping people, and

improving horses.”Harold Rainwater

NEWS p. 3

When “Sein!eld,” a hit sitcom billed as “the show about nothing,” aired, a national audience sat down for twenty minutes on a weekly basis to enjoy watching four friends stumble through daily life. Recently, the Asbury student body found their own local “Sein!eld” through a weekly YouTube series called %e Coop Show.

Zachary Cooper, Nathan Wagner, Taylor Dekker and Shelby Watson, media communication students who live on the same dorm hall, began !lming the show a"er an unexpectedly lucky roll during %e Dice Game, a game where participants will assign dares to numbers on a die and the player is forced to complete the dares based on the roll.

According to the group, Wagner thought of the idea to do a weekly YouTube video during the game, and Cooper played for it.

“I thought the idea was awesome, so I just kept rolling for it,” Cooper said.

Originally, the show was !lmed as a funny video for the group’s hall to enjoy.

“%e thing is, I just wanted it to be some kind of blog where he would tell funny stories,” Wagner said. “I just thought it’d be something funny for our hall to laugh at. I never thought anyone outside of the hall would see it.”

One month and !ve episodes later, the show had received over 2,500 views on YouTube. “I think just word of mouth and Facebook is how it started to spread,” Cooper said. “I keep trying to tweet Conan about it too, but he’s not tweeting me back.”

%e a$ention raised through social media sites ended up a$racting audiences inside the classroom as well. “I !rst heard about it while checking Facebook,” communications professor Stephen Hillis said in an email interview. “I brought it up in class because I was talking about mediated communication and the fact that historically and by de!nition mediated or mass communication is produced by large and complex organizations. It is now possible, however, for an individual with a camera and laptop to produce something that is available for large numbers of individuals to see.”

Although Cooper and Wagner were the original creators of the show, Dekker and Watson joined the group early on to produce animations and music for each of the episodes as well as help out with creating the episode topics.

“We all bounce ideas o# each other, which I think really helps,” Wagner said.

However, there isn’t an actual script produced before !lming any of the episodes. “It’s just really basic ideas,” Dekker said. “Like, let’s make a rap about girls.”

In the future, the group plans to continue posting episodes on a weekly basis, even though it’s not always an easy accomplishment.

“Fall break really did a number; we did that episode in a day,” Wagner said. “%at’s why that episode is called ‘%e Apology.’”

Regardless of how the sketches are created, the !nal product has garnered laughs from many di#erent audiences on campus. “My roommate loves it and she introduced it to me,” freshman Katie Pi$man said. “I think that it’s really silly, and it brings joy to a lot of people.”

Hall-of-fame jockey Pat Day visited Asbury on Tuesday, No-vember 8, to be a part of a panel discussion organized by the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department.

Day and the other panelists spoke about their health, physical education, or recreation-related careers.

Day has had more than 8,800 victories and has won the Eclipse Award for leading jockey four di#erent times. Day’s talk centered around how he became a jockey and how a conversion-type experience 10 years into his career changed his outlook on life and his career.

During the panel discussion, Day said that a"er high school he went to di#erent rodeos around the western United States because he wanted to become a world champion bull rider. %rough a series of events, he ended up working for a man who owned racehorses and discovered his natural talent for being a jockey.

“I was tailor-made to be a jockey … As you can tell, I haven’t grown up a lot; I’m still 4 foot 11,” Day said during the discus-sion. However, success came too fast, according to Day.

“At the end of the day, I was looking for higher highs,” Day said. He said this caused him to become involved with alcohol and drugs.

Ten years later, Day was still looking for something as a source of satisfaction.

“I’d won several individual race meets, but I didn’t have any national acclaim, and as I’m creeping up on the national riding title I’m believing that that is going to satisfy the longing in my heart,” Day said.

According to Day, he won the title but discovered that the feeling of success was temporary, which sent him searching again.

One night in a hotel in Miami, he woke up sensing a presence in the room with him.

“I walked over, turned the TV set on … [a televised crusade of] Jimmy Swaggart was still on TV … he was having an altar call,” Day said during the panel discussion. “At that moment it was like the scales were removed from my eyes. I recognized, realized the presence there with me was the spirit of the living God and this was my personal altar call.”

Day said a"er that experience he was ready to go straight into the ministry.

“As I prayed about that and sought godly counsel, the Lord revealed to me that he had sent me to work within the racing industry, not to leave it,” Day said.

He became involved a ministry called tge Race Track Chap-laincy of America and continued this involvement even a"er his retirement from racing in 2005.

“All the races I’ve won and all the accolades I’ve received&all the trophies I’ve acquired all pale in comparison to being a part of leading one into the knowledge of the saving grace of Jesus Christ,” Day said.

Up to 90 people were killed Monday in Syria as the violence in the country continues to rise. %e incident happened a"er Syrian troops began !ring at civilians. %e a$ack soon escalated out of the government’s control, leaving both civilians and soldiers dead. (source: Associated Press)

SyriaItaly’s Prime Minister designate Mario Monti met with the Italian president yesterday to unveil his plan for the new government. (source: Associated Press)

Italy

By Julianne WyrickSenior News Writer

By Erika GrahamLayout Editor

Jockey Pat Day shares his testimony

The Coop Show Photo by Riah LawryNathan Wagner, Taylor Dekker, and

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FEATURES p. 5

Writers are often viewed as odd individuals. After all, most students would rather be assigned a 20-hour proj-ect than a five page paper. The curious thing is we all devour stories. Think of the last time your friend ran up to you with wide eyes and huge smile and told you a tale that began with “guess what?!” You, like a good friend, did not guess and instead waited for them to spill their tale. While some friends have definitely mas-tered the art of storytelling more than others, in all like-lihood you still laughed and enjoyed the moment.

So don’t deny it, you like stories. In fact, we devour them like crazy in the form of movies — short or fea-ture length. Sadly, though, many screenplays written by students are written like ev-erything else in college. Stu-dents think it’s only the writ-ing that matters. I mean, as long as the grammar’s good, the punctuation is in the

correct spot, and it’s fairly stylish and deep, professors will tend to give a nice grade, right?

You’ve got to ditch this approach for screenplays. Think about it, when you write a screenplay, you’re writing to a completely dif-ferent audience. All that fluff and fancy language you add to your papers for your gen-eral education classes won’t make a good screenplay. Your audience isn’t going to sit through it.

So how do you write a winning screenplay for Highbridge? Here’s some-thing I’ve heard from several professors, specifically Prof. Overbay and Prof. Bandy — if you want to do well in Highbridge, start with an awesome story. For this first step, forget about the gram-mar, punctuation and pretty descriptions. Write a story that will make us truly care about your characters. When you make your audience care, you win the most valu-able thing a writer can ever win: you win their attention. As a journalist, the best com-

pliment is a comment, any comment. It shows someone read and cared about my ar-ticle, and that’s pretty cool in my book.

Story matters. Getting your audience to care about your characters is essential. I’m sure of this. The difficul-ty is figuring out how to ac-tually find and write that sto-ry. If you’re wanting to write a screenplay specifically for Highbridge, then there’s also

the added difficulty of writ-ing a story within the eight minute time limit. It can be done, though.

I wish I could tell you all about my experiences writ-ing jaw-dropping screen-plays, but I’m afraid I’m rather new to this form of writing as well. Don’t wor-ry; I have a back-up plan. I took my questions to those more experienced than I am and asked them how to

write and, if you’re wanting to direct a Highbridge short film, how to choose a good screenplay. There’s more to come, too. Out of a per-sonal interest, I’m continu-ing to interview professors, Highbridge participants and hopefully some experts out-side Asbury. Updates will be posted on the Asbury Col-legian website: www.theas-burycollegian.com.

How to write a winning Highbridge screenplayBy Riah Lawry

Managing Editor Avoid these mistakes.

A script with too many locations. Have two or three at the most. A perfect location is one location.

People always tend to focus on the visual. The biggest problem is always with audio. Get someone to help.

Getting your friends as actors.

Tips from Professor Bandy

Want to get your film in Highbridge? Read on.

We love one-minute films. Punch lines at the end that make everyone laugh get in.

The most important thing is the story. Sometimes we’ll fudge a little if the story is good, but we still have a certain level.

Tips from Professor Bandy

Students have a much better chance of getting their film in if it’s under 5 minutes. We’re trying to give as many stu-dents as possible an opportunity.

The writing process.

More things to chew on

Work on a treatment or outline; it forces you to focus on the events, and that’s where you have to start.

You need to be able to receive criti-cism. But you need to be choosey about the people you talk with be-cause some people may not give you the best advice. Find people you trust and respect.

The only metaphor is to think of it as your child; you have to become very accustomed to allowing your chil-dren to be adopted.

A good film story does not have one unnecessary word or visual. Everything is absolutely important

People with any major should think about story-telling.

Students get a bit indulgent with certain shots. They let shots linger too long.

Think about something that’s per-sonal to you. Have that burning passion.

Most of the winners last year had no dialogue.

Tips from Professor Overbay

Tips from Professor Bandy

After you settle on a theme, you need to understand the basic story ele-ments: beginning, middle and end; a character with a weakness; a lesson to be learned.

The first thing you have to have with a good story is how it ends.

Wanting to direct a short film? Where to find a screenplay

If you don’t connect with it, don’t do it.

If you’re going to try and get a film in Highbridge then the thing you need to focus on is your script. It has to be a well-told story.

There are opportunities with the creative writing students.

One of the best experiences a director can have is to work with a writer from the beginning.

If you’re going to be directing some-one else’s work, the first thing you have to ask is “does this resonate with me?”

It’s a pretty tight community. Ask around. In Writing for Media this semester we’re going to have 40 scripts coming out of that class specifi-cally formatted for Highbridge.

Tips from Professor Overbay Tips from Professor Overbay

Talk to professors

Pet Peeves

You have to get me to care about the char-acter. Most of the time I don’t with Asbury shorts.

Stories that take too long to develop.

Tips from Professor Overbay

Heavy-handedness. Preachiness.

Collegian photo

FEATURESp. 6

%e smell hit me with a gust of air as I walked through the oversized metal door leading into the cafeteria dining room. %e odors from the vegetarian, specialty and main food lines twisted and twirled around each other, competing for dominance and permeating the clothing and bel-lies of its consumers.

“Why aren’t my doors closed yet?” said em-ployee Aaron Hill jokingly to supervisor Noah Malcolm as Malcolm walked by to check the food levels in the line of dull silver serving pans.

Malcom wears a blue shirt that stands out among the sea of purple shirts worn by the rest of the sta# in order to show his supervisor status.

“We still have 20 seconds,” Malcolm said quickly with a smile as he passed.

At 7 p.m., 15 minutes past closing, employ-ees of the Johnson Cafeteria can !nally start the cleanup process that will eventually allow them to go home. A SWAT team of purple polos emerges from the kitchen, armed with spray bo$les that are !lled with a too-tangy disinfectant. %e long, faux wood tables are deserted now, with the exception of mashed potato residue, pieces of le$uce, and various other le"overs that have escaped the ceramic plates of hungry Asbury students. Joan Je$ and the Blackheart’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” blasts from the speakers in the kitchen, providing a rather buoyant soundtrack for an otherwise monotonous job. Somewhere between this focused work ethic and playful at-mosphere is a connection between sta# mem-bers of all positions and a respect for authority that unites this diverse group of workers.

Malcom took some time to talk with me in between double-checking the cleaning job of his workers. “It’s a balance between a good rela-tionship and good task working,” Malcom said. “Some employees will take advantage of that so you have to have a balance.” When asked what the best part about his job is, his answer was quick and simple. “Doug,” he said, referring to Doug Howland, the Assistant Director of Food Services of 16 years. Howland spent many years as a military chef and is loved by the sta# for his easy-going personality. When asked about the worst part of his job, the response was just as fast. “%e trash room,” he said. “It’s like the zombie apocalypse, but worse.”

Zombie apocalypse aside, I wanted to !nd out what happens behind the scenes. As sophomore manager Sonneline Woolls took me on a tour of the kitchen and backrooms of the cafeteria, the factory-like atmosphere struck me. Shiny metal pipes crisscrossing over the ceiling provide a canopy for the gigantic food factory. I looked one way at the multitude of vats, stoves and ov-ens only to look the other way and see the washer and dryer used daily to clean soiled towels and

rags. %e radio was now within a ten-foot radius and my ears were overloaded by the combination of roaring machinery, cla$ering dishes, and the pop sensation Ke$ha belting out her latest single. I moved closer, straining to make out Woolls’ slightly foreign-accented voice among the chaos.

“We all do the same dirty work,” Woolls said as we passed an employee bobbing his head and singing to the music while rhythmically loading pot a"er pot, pan a"er pan, into a massive dish-washer.

However, there is con'ict and while the inter-actions I observed seemed more than coopera-tive, the cafeteria is no exception.

“A few weeks ago I asked one of my workers to do something and he responded with, ‘%at’s not my job. I’m not going to do it,’” Woolls said. “It’s hard as a manager because I know I should write him up. It’s like, I’m trying to separate my-self to make the wisest response, but I got really defensive.” Malcolm described a similar situation to me in which a worker refused to do his job.

It was then that I learned the cafeteria con'ict remedy. “People always go to the cooler to let out

emotion. Sometimes you just need to scream or sing or pray and the cooler is sound proof so it’s the perfect place to go,” Woolls said, laughing.

On another night while I sat in the nearly empty dining room with some of the sta# as they ate together before the dinner shi", Malcolm joked casually with co-worker Jake Nelton, one of many high school sta# members.

“Well, look who’s wearing a blue shirt,” Mal-colm said lightheartedly. “Going for the supervi-sor look I see.”

“I have my purple shirt right here,” Nelton said a li$le too quickly.

It was then that Howland appeared behind me. Dressed in a starched white bu$on up and tie, his large frame appeared even more outstanding from a si$ing position. %e entire table looked up, and while no words had been said, some were smiling merely at his presence. Placing his hands on Malcolm’s shoulders and playfully rocking him back and forth like a bobble head, he spent some time making inside jokes and going over the night’s procedures before walking over to stir some sort of stew in the main food line.

Malcolm and Nelton proceeded to entertain each other by doing Doug impressions, exagger-ating his famous catch phrases and recounting Howland’s frequent military stories that are “o# the record” and therefore o# limits to me.

“I remember one time I asked Doug if he was old enough to be using the knife he was holding,” Nelton said. “Doug was like ‘Son, do you even know how old I am? Old enough to do what I want.’” As Nelton said this, he lowered his head to help him deepen his voice to Howland’s pitch and laughing at the experience.

It’s now 4:43 p.m. as cafeteria employee Rob-ert Volker checks his phone from across the table. “Guess what time it is?” Volker said rhetorically as he collects his plate and crinkled up napkins, singing an unrecognizable tune while making his way to the conveyor belt to dispose of his dishes. With two minutes until the doors open and the early dinner crowd comes trickling in, the rest of the employees disperse one at a time, swallowing !nal bites of chicken and sweet potato fries be-fore going to man their assigned positions.

By Cassie GerhardsteinContributing Writer

Behind the purple shirt: Life as a cafeteria worker

Photo by Joesph Chang

FEATURES p. 7

By Hillary FisherFeatures Editor

IKEA is easily recognizable with its strikingly Swedish blue and yellow theme that comprises its logo, gigantic warehouse-sized stores that scream “Hello, Scan-dinavia!” from the highway, and trademark large tarp bags. It wasn’t until I recently received the afore-mentioned large bags as a gi" that I realized I needed to experience IKEA myself.

As a !rst time IKEA shopper, I was surprised by the sheer enor-mity of the store (it has a cafeteria in it, for goodness’ sake!), the vast array of products in every category imaginable, and the relatively in-expensive nature of the products. %is aspect combined with IKEA’s goal of space optimization makes !nding items for the dorm on the college student budget possible. Here are some examples of things that could be useful and inexpen-sive.

IKEA: functional, affordable

I don’t think I’d even consciously chosen to dine at Taco Bell un-til freshman year. Something about tacos at night or whenever I wanted just didn’t seem all that appealing … frankly, I wasn’t im-pressed. Grimy tacos stu#ed and rolled by worn, underpaid work-ers in a kitchen that looked and smelled like big business. Sure, I’d snag some cinnamon sticks in their single-serving-sized paper bags or choose between a hard or so" taco every now and then, but I still just wasn’t impressed. “You’re crazy,” friends and friends-of-friends would say. “Taco Bell beats McDonald’s any day of the week!” In my head, I’d try to imagine a cheap, delicious taco or chalupa or quesadilla spino#; nothing would satisfy my imagina-tion. But then it happened. I don’t know what it was, but it hap-pened. A"er a long day, I jumped into a car full of dormmates and headed o# to what would become the most life-changing fast food experience of my young life. Now, I exaggerate when I say “life-changing,” but let’s just say that it was. Five or seven of us (too many for one car) piled into a

Dodge Magnum&a bullet of a car, meant for families that enjoy the luxury of legroom or the sense of being shot out of a cannon while accelerating. %e leather interior gleamed with possibility; the smooth, cold seats laid in wait to take us to what could have been anywhere. But this incredible night, we didn’t care about any-thing else: we wanted tacos. %is journey was di#erent than any other trip to “Baco Tell,” as some called it; something was di#er-ent. Was I afraid? Was it nerves? Maybe it was the caf ’s gray, lifeless food that refused to get me all the way to midnight … What could it be? Majesty. Flavor. Cheese. Every taste bud screaming with joy as the pilgrimage of meat, cheese and beans made its way to my mouth. Bite a"er bite tasted be$er than the !rst. How do they get all this tasty crap into this thing?! I. Was. Sold. I understood. “%e Fourth Meal,” for when I simply can’t go another second without sustenance. Why hadn’t someone come up with this earlier? Had Taco Bell stumbled upon some fast food minesha" and recovered this golden genius without anyone knowing? Whatever it was, it just worked. %e night seemed to glow with the brilliance of dis-covery. On the drive back to school I didn’t speak a word. Something

in me had snapped; my heart had skipped a beat and my brain had shut down. Somewhere, a cog had slipped loose and caused all the rest to chew and grind until they screamed to a rusty halt. I would never be the same. Taco Bell had won. Sure, the golden arches shine 24 hours a day and %e King refuses to stop surpris-

ing people in their beds and classrooms with sandwiches, but does it ma$er? I can buy a taco for a dollar whenever I want. You don’t even know, man; this kind of thinking is going to change the world. %e giant, green monster costume that is Taco Bell will beat the Power Rangers 9 times out of 10.

The day Taco Bell WonBy Taylor Dekker

Contributing Writer

Majesty. Flavor. Cheese. Every taste bud screaming with joy

16-piece flatware set - $3.99

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Ansley woven rug - $19.99This rug is reversible and can add some color to your room.

Komplement multi-use hanger - $7.99While this hanger takes up the same amount of space as any other, it can hold 28 di!erent acces-sories.

LACK side table - $7.99This table is lightweight and can serve whatever purpose it needs to.

Work lamp - $8.99This lamp has an adjustable arm and head and can be clamped to many surfaces.

Unfortunately, our closest IKEA is in West Chester, Oh. (near Cincinnati), but IKEA’s website carries most products. Also, all IKEA furniture and some other products are self-assembled.

Distant shoresThis past weekend, the Asbury theatre department presented “Once on This Island,” a musical about love that crosses social barriers of caste and overpowers even death.

The musical will open for three more performances at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 17-19. Student tickets are $5.

Clockwise from left: The musical cast takes their bows at the end of the show; Papa Ge (Nick Crockett) takes control of peasant girl Ti Moune (Lucy Shea); Andrew Hunter listens reluctantly to his betrothed, played by Hannah Wilcox; Andrew Hunter illustrates the Beauxhomme fam-ily history; Hannah Henriques and Michael Culver debate the dangers of adopting an orphaned girl; Andrew Hunter and Lucy Shea enjoy the prospect of a carefree life together.

Photos by Joseph Chang

Distant shoresThis past weekend, the Asbury theatre department presented “Once on This Island,” a musical about love that crosses social barriers of caste and overpowers even death.

The musical will open for three more performances at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 17-19. Student tickets are $5.

Clockwise from left: The musical cast takes their bows at the end of the show; Papa Ge (Nick Crockett) takes control of peasant girl Ti Moune (Lucy Shea); Andrew Hunter listens reluctantly to his betrothed, played by Hannah Wilcox; Andrew Hunter illustrates the Beauxhomme fam-ily history; Hannah Henriques and Michael Culver debate the dangers of adopting an orphaned girl; Andrew Hunter and Lucy Shea enjoy the prospect of a carefree life together.

Photos by Joseph Chang

Is it ever constitutional for a government o(ce, state or federal, to give praise or honor to God Almighty? According to a recent ruling from the Kentucky Court of Appeals concerning a lawsuit against the commonwealth’s Homeland Security, the answer is yes. %e basis of the ruling opinion was that any phrase such as pronouncing “dependence on Almighty God” is mere historical jargon. “%e legislation…seeks to recognize the historical reliance on God for protection,” Judge L.B. VanMeter said to Louisville’s “Courier Journal.” Indeed, Kentucky has a rich religious heritage, as does the rest of the nation; however, this doesn’t necessarily mean that government o(ces should make public statements of faith.

Well isn’t America a Christian nation? %at depends by what one considers a “Christian nation.” If one means that Christianity has the largest following, then yes. If one means that it has been an integral part of the U.S.’s history, then no. A"er all, the United Kingdom has an older Christian background than America ever, since 4th-century monks led pagan kings of the Britons to Christ and the bloody con'icts occurred between Catholics and Protes-tants. However, it is a very secular state despite such a remarkable history.

But doesn’t the phrase “endowed by their Creator” in the Dec-laration of Independence indicate a religious nation? Yes and no. %e phrase does appeal to some higher power like a deity, but it

does not specify as to which one. %e Articles of Confederation make a similar ambiguous statement in the last paragraph, and the Constitution has no mention of a god whatsoever.

Does this mean that the Founding Fathers intended America to be a secular nation that merely tolerates those who believe in God?

To the disappointment of the American Atheists Society, the answer is no. What the Found-ers wished to create was a free society that had no basis in old Europe. Roman Catholic na-

tions such as France were controlled by the church and oppressed anyone of another faith as political enemies of the state. With Prot-estant nations like Switzerland and England, the opposite was true. It was the government that controlled the church and painted dis-senters of the state religion as enemies to the church.

%e only solution that could be made was to draw up the frame-work for a pluralist country. Understandably this angers many Evangelicals, since that term suggests all religions are equally cor-rect. However, this wasn’t the intent of the framers. Rather they be-lieved that le$ing faiths and political ideologies compete amongst themselves would o#er the most freedom, since no single faith or faction would be able to dominate all the others. Even if this were to occur, the other factions would have the means of removing the one in power. Such pluralism would then require that references to God in any government edict or o(ce be ambiguous, if not le" out entirely.

OPINIONp. 10

Historical jargon or religious bias?“Dependence on Almighty God” ruled constitutional

By Patrick La MarColumnist

MythfireBy Richard Rutledge

Photos of the Week

Photos by Katie Oostman

Freshman Katie Oostman and her sister, Kelly Oostman, a high school junior visiting from Albuquerque, N.M., try on the Collegian’s stylish mustaches from the Nov. 10 issue, which covered No Shave November.

You’ve seen the quaint photos of far-o# lands and heard your friends rave about the mission trips they went on over the summer. You’ve noticed how people all around you have been bi$en by the “Travel Bug,” and you’ve found yourself wanting to be bi$en, too. Not to mention that you kind of have to, with the Cross-Cultural require-ment and all.

However, travel isn’t always as picturesque as it might seem. Es-pecially if your dream is to go to the far reaches of the world, you’ll have to deal with an insane amount of jet lag that will mess you up for days a"er. %ey say it takes a day to recover for each hour gained or lost, so be ready to be disoriented for awhile a"er your 'ight.

No ma$er how romantic it may seem in the new hit show “Pan Am,” 'ying is actually quite tax-ing. %e air in planes is extremely dry, and the felt-like blankets they give you are not warm at all and generate static electricity that makes your hair stand on-end. %e bathrooms are tiny and the toilets sound like World War II when they’re 'ushed.

However, a big perk of 'ying internationally is the personal tele-vision screens. Since I can’t sleep in planes, I can occupy myself by

watching just-released movies for hours on end. If you’ve had bad experiences with domestic 'ights, you’ll be glad to know you are treat-ed much be$er on international airlines. My family has even been bumped up to !rst class on two di#erent occasions. I don’t want to brag, but once we got hot wash-cloths to put over our faces. Our pores were thoroughly cleansed by the time we arrived in Philadel-phia.

Depending on your destination, you may have to deal with language barriers. And even if the language is the same, there will de!nitely be di#erences. Maybe their accents will be so thick that you won’t be able to understand them anyways. %is may prove to be frustrating, but remember that this is all part of the excitement of going overseas&meeting people who are di#erent from you and learning to com-municate with them in ways other than speech.

You’ll have to accept the fact that you will look like an idiot at some point. And that’s ok&it’s all part of the process of ge$ing out of your comfort zone. Cesare Pavese once said, “Traveling is a brutal-ity. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly o#-balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the

sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

Don’t let your goal as a tourist be to simply see the beautiful sights and snap a few pictures for the folks at home. Remember to experience the country you’re going to in its entirety, because a"er all, travel is about the people you meet along the way. James Michener said, “If you reject the food, ignore the cus-toms, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might be$er stay at home.” So wherever you go, go with an open mind. %e food may look disgusting, but it could turn out to be delicious.

So I guess my point is to have re-alistic expectations when you trav-el. Don’t expect all of your wildest dreams to come true. But even though travelling can be stressful, scary and exhausting, it is truly one of my favorite things to do. As St. Augustine once said, “%e world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

You’ve been reading the same page entitled “America,” “Ken-tucky,” or even “Wilmore” over and over again. Here at Asbury is your perfect opportunity to !nally turn that page. And if you don’t believe me, please believe your fa-vorite childhood author, Dr. Seuss, when he said, “If you never did you should. %ese things are fun and fun is good.”

Editorial: The travel bugBy Rebecca Price

Opinion Editor

For nine years, I played football. Span-ning from second grade to tenth, I was al-most exclusively a lineman: guard, tackle, center and&if I was lucky&a defensive end or nose-guard. I even started a game as a freshman, facing o# against towering behemoths three years my senior (there was a reason this only happened once).

For just as many years, I fell asleep every night watching the third re-run of that night’s SportsCenter. It didn’t ma$er if it was the tenth time I’d seen that punt return or the twentieth time I’d seen that dunk, I couldn’t get enough of watch-ing these amazing athletes&the great-est on the planet&in competition with one another. Somewhere around fourth grade, “Around the Horn” and “Pardon the Interruption” (two daytime staples of ESPN) replaced Dragon Ball Z as my go-to naptime television, my calorie-free comfort food.

I have been to at least one game in all four major league sports and count-less college and high school events. I have jerseys; I have autographed trading cards; I have heroes; I have cried; I have screamed; I have cheered; I have painted my face, all for love of the game. I love sports.

I say all of that to say this: I understand Joe Paterno’s legacy: his wins, his bowl victories, his national championships, how untouchable he is on the !eld, how many people he has inspired, and that

he is Penn State University football&so don’t take these words as those of a naïve passerby who doesn’t “get” sports. I do. But who gives a crap? Sometimes you just have to realize that your heroes aren’t who you thought they were.

When a game or a sport or a team be-comes the de!nition of who you are, it can, to say the least, get in the way. Frank-ly, the fact that anyone could be upset at the !ring of Joe Paterno demonstrates a very warped view of humanity. %is is a guy who allegedly covered up a col-league’s repeated rape of children. %ink about that for a second if it hasn’t sunk in yet. And Paterno has somehow earned and deserves a grand send-o#&you know, despite the whole kid rape thing.

Now, let’s be clear. Paterno didn’t sexu-ally abuse anyone, and I understand that literally no one is advocating or condon-ing Sandusky’s actions in any way, regard-less of how they feel about Paterno’s exit. But can you really feel sorry for a guy who didn’t do everything he could to put an end to such horri!c acts? Perhaps the story has been twisted and we’ve been wrong about Joe Pa’s role in everything that happened, but… if not? If he wasn’t the leader that he was supposed to be? If he didn’t step up when lives were being ruined? If he didn’t immediately stop the rape of innocent children? %en his “leg-acy” doesn’t mean anything. What mat-ters is what happened to those kids. Lives are not a “game” you play&football is.

“Just a game”By Zack Brewer

Senior Opinion Writer

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Growing up, I was familiar with the smell of coffee coming from the kitchen on a Sunday morning. We had tea in the house, but only odd flavors in cheap boxes. To me, tea was something people sipped over in the United Kingdom or China. Grown-ups drank coffee. College students went out for coffee. I wasn’t allowed to have coffee until I was older, so naturally, I loved to drink it when my parents weren’t around.

It wasn’t until college that I actu-ally started drinking tea. I worked close by to a small shop called Teav-ana that brewed loose-leaf tea. I had an eight-hour shift that day and was terribly sick with a cough and stuffy nose. My manager suggested I go to Teavana to get something that would clear me up. I walked in and

looked at the wall of tea behind the barista. I had no idea what I was do-ing. “What would you like?” a sweet hippie girl behind the counter asked. “I don’t know. I’m sick so I just need something to clear me up.”

“Stuffy or runny nose?”“Stuffy.”“Cough?”“A little. Mostly just a sore

throat.”In just a matter of minutes, my

tea remedy was made. Instantly my throat was soothed, and for the next few hours I could actually breathe through my nose. I had just discov-ered the miracle of tea.

I still enjoy a nice cup of coffee, but I prefer my tea almost any day. It’s simpler to make, cheaper to buy, and if you think about it, it is better for the environment.

Tea leaves can be steeped more than once, which saves you a whole

lot of money. And there is no real prepping for it either. You boil the water to the right temperature and let the tea sit, and it’s ready to go. Coffee needs to be ground and put through the coffee maker or French press (which is even harder!). And as far as the environment goes, let’s not talk about all those one-time use coffee filters you go through on a weekly basis.

If you drink coffee for the flavor, then there is not much I can do to convince you to switch. Coffee has a unique flavor that tea cannot match. But, in my opinion, there is a flavor of tea out there for everyone. Whether it is fruity or more of an Earl Grey, I bet you can find something to suit your taste if you only look.

However, if you drink coffee for the caffeine boost, then allow me to in-troduce you to Maté teas. According to Teavana.com, “Maté is a wild shrub

f ro m A r g e n t i n a that makes a delicious, flavorful tea. Maté tea contains a stimulant similar to caffeine, al-though without the jitteriness or addictive tendencies.” So basically you will still get that boost you need, but you will most likely be able to sit still during class and still take a successful nap in the middle of the day.

So yes, coffee tastes great and can be your best friend during midterms or finals week. But think about all the money you can save, the trees you can preserve, and the flavors your can introduce to your study lifestyle. Make the switch!

It has lately come to my a$en-tion that food is disappearing from our fridges&the very fridges that we once held as the fortresses of safety and nutrition. Yes, even the accessibility of our kitchens themselves, formerly strongholds of comfort and warmth for all student-kind, has been called into question as food has vanished and messes remained, leaving inno-cent bystanders to bear the pun-ishment.

I had suspected a problem my freshman year, when my half-eaten, melted-then-refrozen pint of ice cream was nowhere to be found in the freezer in the Glide-Crawford commons. (Ice cream doesn’t just walk o#, you know.)

If my memory serves correctly, it was this same year that we lost privileges of borrowing from the dorm’s stash of kitchen gear: pots, pans, bowls and baking sheets, or something of that sort. But these grim circumstances were nothing compared to such grievances seen this semester alone. Dorm kitch-ens le" in !lth and disarray, whole pizzas baked and gobbled up, and even entire bags of bagels pillaged from the common freezers in one foul swoop&my dear classmates, this should not be!

While there is nothing wrong with using the kitchens or shar-ing food, there is a huge di#erence between sharing something and taking advantage of it. %is line has been crossed long ago, and it is time for us to take a stand. You can try to hide behind this whole

buzzword idea of “community,” but the truth is: we aren’t in some sort of socialist society here. We still have personal property, even if it is stored in a public location. %e fridge is not a free table. If someone’s food is in the fridge, it doesn’t magically become “our food” just because we can see it. Honestly, I thought we all moved past that whole idea a"er our ele-mentary school years of screaming “MINE!” at every toy in the class-room. We’re all adults here, or at least expected to act like adults, so let’s start by not taking what isn’t ours.

Whether it is from a fridge, a friend’s room or even the hallway, you should not assume it’s fair game unless you have permission&be it food or anything else. O"en any-thing important enough to go into

the downstairs fridge or freezer is a special treat; I can’t imagine the disappointment the owners must feel when they !nd someone else has treated herself to their food. You might as well have literally slapped them in the face; it’s that rude. And sometimes, this thiev-ery is not even done in secret&I’ve le" cookies by a friend’s door only for her to discover a stranger outside eating them. What really blows my mind is how someone could have the nerve to take the time to cook an entire pizza that wasn’t theirs, especially with how long it takes for the GC ovens to work. I just don’t understand how people are that unconcerned with anything but their own stomach.

But this acting out of some sick sense of entitlement does not end there! We have been blessed

with nice dorms&sure, they aren’t home, but they have what we need&and these dorms are furnished with kitchens for every resident to use. And how do we repay our fearless Res Life leaders? By breaking appliances and leav-ing disgusting messes for them to deal with. Glide-Crawford girls have lost “anytime” kitchen privi-leges because of this atrocity&a problem easily solved by the man-tra “leave it be$er than you found it”&but I know we aren’t the only students to abuse kitchen privi-leges. So either we need to grow up and respect other people’s stu#, or there’s a much greater problem we have all overlooked. %ere are starving, illiterate people roaming around Asbury, and they need our help!

Freeze, thief! You’re ruining our kitchen privileges.By Courtney LeMay

Copy Editor

A “taste-tea” alternative to coffeeBy Jessica Malloy

Columnist

OPINIONp. 12

SPORTS p. 13

On Tuesday, November 15, University Asbury women’s bas-ketball played against Kentucky Christian University for their !rst home game of the season. %e Eagles lost in a competitive match against the Knights 88-83.

KCU led Asbury by a solid seven points in the !rst half, but Asbury came back in the second half with a 16-point turn-around to take the lead by nine points. In the end, however, this lead was not enough to bring a victory for the Eagles.

%e Knights, who are the Eagles’ main rival outside of con-ference, brought a competitive game to Wilmore. Because the Eagles did not put a strong focus on defense, the team did not perform as well as they could have. “We need to focus on win-ning the small ba$les, even if we are losing the game,” junior Dorian Downs said. “We need to play e#ectively with be$er re-bounding, running be$er o#ence, and being in the right place at the right time.”

%e match against KCU was a close one, but even with a re-deeming second half, the Eagles could not pull through. Even so, the team can see each game as a good experience to learn from and adapt to challenges. “We couldn’t pull through in the end and lost,” senior Ashlea Hollon said. “We will respond to this by learning how to advance the game by leading and con-tinue to learn how to seal a game.”

Highlights of the game against KCU include leaders Trenia Barbee and Laura Carroll, both juniors. Barbee led Asbury with a total of 27 points for the game, and Carroll assisted in scoring for the Eagles with a total of 16 points.

%e Eagles began their season with a rocky start, losing !ve of seven games to date. In response they have established long- and short-term goals to target during weekly practice in order to accomplish a successful season. %e Eagles hope to see the e#ectiveness of their goals and in result work together as a uni-!ed team with a vision to win future games.

“Mentally we don’t know if we are going to win when entering a game,” Hollon said. “As a team we need to be prepared men-tally, give more heart, and put larger e#ort for a longer amount of time into the game.”

Despite the home game ending in defeat, the Eagles have a good season ahead of them with a full opportunity to accom-plish the goals they have set for them early on. %e Eagles have motivation to conquer the remaining schedule and pick up where they are currently struggling.

Learning to Lead

By Sara BissigAssistant Sports Editor

%e men’s basketball team re-turns from the Bulldog Classic in Barbourville, Ky., 1-1. %e Eagles fell on Friday to Union College 89-79 but rebounded with a 70-63 victory versus Reinhardt Col-lege. Asbury is now 3-3.

“I knew it would be tough,” Coach Will Shouse said. “I want-ed a chance to go 1-1, and I’m pleased with it. Reinhardt was No. 2 in the preseason ranking of their conference.”

In the Union game, Asbury shot 39.4 percent in the !rst half but held within four points to the Bulldogs, 37-33. %e Eagles came back and shot 52.9 percent in the second half, but Union answered with a 57.9 percentage, and the Bulldogs out-scored Asbury in the second half 52-46. Senior Brock Hurtle led Asbury with 16 points, connecting on 4 of 9 three-point shots. Sophomores Austin Flannery and Cam Rich-ardson each hit 3 of 5 from the behind the arc, scoring 10 and 14 points respectively.

Asbury struggled keeping Union o# the boards. %e Eagles were out-rebounded 33-47. “Our focus wasn’t good against Union,” Shouse said. “I felt like we played, but we didn’t compete.” Union muscled their way to 50 points in the paint and called on their bench for 33 points.

However, the Eagles defense shi"ed against Reinhardt. “We

chose one thing to work on in this game, and we chose defense,” Shouse said. %e Eagles held them to 19 points in the !rst half on 8 of 31 shooting. Reinhardt !nished with a 33.8 !eld goal percentage. Reinhardt did out-rebound As-bury 50-38. “We gave up 20 of-fensive rebounds; if you take half of those away then it’s a blowout,” Shouse said. “[Rebounding] is a focus for us, and it comes down to us wanting the ball more.”

Nevertheless, Asbury pulled away from Reinhardt with a 41.7 three-point percentage, knocking down 10 of 24. Flannery led all players with 24 points, and junior Nate Johnson put up 13. “Teams have been laying o# [Nate] to help against our [inside play-ers],” Shouse said. “And he’s been making them pay.” Johnson has scored double digits in three of the Eagles’ six games. Richardson came o# the bench and scored 10 points to be the third Eagle in double digits. Asbury visited the free throw line 30 times, connect-ing on 20 of them.

%e Eagles’ next two games are exhibition games against More-head State and Kentucky Wes-leyan. Morehead State beat the University of Louisville last year in the NCAA tournament to ad-vance to the top 32. %e Eagles next regular contest will be on Nov. 22 against Blue!eld College, whom Asbury beat 90-81 on Nov. 5.

By Will HoupSports Editor

Asbury men’s basketball returns from tough weekend at Union

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A"er straight sweeps in the !rst two rounds of the KIAC tournament against Brescia and Indiana Southeast, the women’s volleyball team fell to Indiana East 28-26, 27-25, 25-19. With the loss, Asbury falls out of con-tention for the NAIA national tournament.

In the !rst two Indiana East sets, the Eagles held the set point but weren’t able to !nish. “We could not close the door,” Coach JP Rader said. “Against good teams you have a certain window to capture a win, and we couldn’t. %at match came down to a handful of points.” Sopho-more Allison Rehner led the Eagles with 12 kills while hi$ing .370. Freshman Sarah Sterling re-corded 11 kills, and senior Lind-say Ibold recorded 10. As a team, the Eagles hit .208; however, Indiana East hit .295, and their sophomore Caitlin Burroughs led both teams with 16 kills.

%e Eagles fought back against Indiana East’s early leads. %e Red Wolves went up 16-11 in the !rst set before Asbury rallied at 20-20. %en the teams held set point at three di#erent points: 24-23, 25-24, 26-25. In the sec-ond set, the Eagles trailed 21-14 but ba$led back to a 24-22 lead. However, the Red Wolves re-

corded !ve of the next six points to !nalize their victory.

“Overall, I thought we played really well,” Rader said. “I wasn’t disappointed with the tourna-ment.” %is was the !"h straight year that the Eagles had reached the KIAC championship game. Asbury has played Indiana East for the fourth straight year and lost for the third.

In the !rst round, Asbury held Brescia to hi$ing -.043 with a 25-9, 25-11 and 25-5 victory. Senior Dena Busse led the team with 10 kills while hi$ing .529, and Ibold recorded 8 kills with a perfect hi$ing percentage of 1.000. %e Eagles hit their tournament-best .435 against Brescia.

Against Indiana Southeast, Busse led the team again with 12 kills and hit .688. Indiana South-east hit .018 against Asbury. %e Eagles won 25-19, 25-18 and 25-8.

With a 14-1 conference re-cord and shared regular-season KIAC title, the Eagles had three players selected to the All-KIAC Volleyball Team. Ibold, Busse and sophomore Kelly Cole were selected. Ibold leads the NAIA in a$ack percentage with .419. She ranks twenty-second with 136 blocks. Busse recorded the third most kills on the team with 330 and the second most blocks with 112. Cole ranks seventh in the NAIA with 786 total digs

and thirty-second with !ve digs per game. She is one of six play-ers in team’s history with over 1,000 digs; Cole has 1,176 in 83 matches.

%e volleyball team will play in the NCCAA Mid-East Re-gional Tournament at Oakland

City, Ind., this %ursday. In the six-team pool, Asbury is the No.1 seed and plays Covenant College then Trevecca Nazarene. %e semi-!nals and !nals are set for Friday a"ernoon, and the region winner will travel to Kis-simmee, Fla., for the NCCAA National Tournament on Dec. 1. Last year, Asbury lost to Camp-bellsville in the semi-!nals 3-2.

By Will HoupSports Editor

Volleyball team comes a few points short of KIAC title

“Against good teams you have a certain window

to capture a win, and we couldn’t.

That match came down to a handful of points.”

Coach JP Rader

Now the team sets their eyes on the NCCAA tournament

Road trip scenarioThe ultimate guide to surviving the long ride home

Scavenger hunt__Christian billboards__Abandoned cars__Drivers head-banging__Dogs’ heads out of windows__Hawaii or Alaska license plates__Wa)e Houses__Llamas__Cows__Most awkward bumper sticker __Best Cracker Barrel billboard __Best window paint __Best license plate __Best roadside sign-holder costume

The Snorkel GameEveryone wears snorkels and hangs fake !sh from the ceiling of the car so it looks like you’re underwater.

The Cow GameWin points by being the !rst to say “cow!” whenever you see a bovine specimen. To kill other players’ cows, yell, “Bury your cow!” when you see a graveyard, and everyone else returns to zero points. Whoever has the most points at the end of the trip wins.

Act like a pirateTalk in pirate voices and refer to the driver as “captain.” Tell bad pirate jokes and wear bandanas. To complete the character, try on a mustache. (See p. 13 in your Nov. 10 edition of the Asbury Collegian.)

Asbury-appropriate pirate joke:Q: Where do Kentucky pirates go to college?A: Arrrrsbury!

Embrace your [risk-free] artistic sideBring dry-erase markers in your car and draw washable art on the windows.

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Photo by Joesph Chang