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A L E E U N I V E R S I T Y S T U D E N T P U B L I C AT I O NLEE CLARIONVolume 66, Issue 12 AprIl 13, 2012

EVENTS

Lee Day Music

Festival

CCR

@ 7 p.m.

4/13

Wind Ensemble

Concert

CCR

@ 4 p.m.

4/15

Chinese Virtuoso

Players

SQC

@ 7:30 p.m.

4/17

Masterworks

Concert

CCR

@ 7:30 p.m.

4/21

Opera Scenes

EMC

@ 3 p.m.

4/22

Midnight Breakfast

Deacon Jones

Dining Hall

@ 12 a.m.

4/25

ONLINE

Paul ConnsCrib

Lee University StudentMedia got the chance tocheck out Paul Connscrib away rom his crib.our this executive set-up

on campus, where Connhas elt at home or themajority o his presiden-tial service at Lee, with us.

Saturdays nolonger a day oservice or Leestudents

he Student LeadershipCouncil and the LeonardCenter have made the de-cision to cancel ServiceSaturdays due to a decreasein student interest, BethanyVance, chairperson orSLC, said.

Even though it will nolonger be oering ServiceSaturdays, the LeonardCenter oers multiple on-going projects or studentsto get involved in. Checkout the ull story or moreinormation on other waysto get service hours.

SSAC homegames conclude

Baseball wraps up itshome conerence sched-ule against No. 17-rankedAuburn-Montgomery, onApril 13-14. he Flamesare a perect 12-0 at homethis season against con-erence opponents and27-2 at home overall.

By Richard YeakleyManaging [email protected]

he 12th annualGreat Strides un-draiser or cystic

ibrosis research garneredthe largest turnout in theevents history and broke amilestone o dollars raised.

Boasting a record 823runners participating in the5K race and 26 teams walk-ing, this years undraiserraised $59,300 on the day othe race, March 31, alone.

Also, the money raised in2012 increased the grand to-tal amount o undrasing inGreat Strides history to overhal a million dollars.

he current total is$541,627.

aylor Rodgers, the stu-dent coordinator or GreatStrides and a Lee Clarionsta writer, said that studentturnout was one o the mostimportant aspects in the con-tinued growth o the und-raiser.

Student participationwas really high this year,Rodgers said.

Rodgers also said that agrowth in the understand-ing o cystic ibrosis has beenachieved among the mem-bers o the community sinceGreat Strides began.

he more we keep doingit, the more we make theseconnections [with those a-ected by cystic ibrosis], andthe more we realize we aremaking a signiicant dier-ence in peoples lives, Rodg-ers said.

Many Lee University or-ganizations support GreatStrides including residentialdorms, service organizationsand social clubs.

he joined dorms o

Cross-harp competed inthis years Dorm Wars to raisemoney or Great Strides, win-ning the title o Dorm WarsChampion as well as moneyor the undraiser.

he win and subsequentundraising eorts allowedCross-harp to donate $700overall to the undraiser.

I think that it mattersthat Lee is involved in [un-draising or cystic ibrosisresearch]; [it shows] we docare about things that aectthe community, Jamie West-erield said. Westerield is thesenior resident assistant orCross-harp, who helped inthe planning to donate thedorms winnings to GreatStrides.

Westerield said that her

dorm has seen that manyLee University students aredirectly or indirectly aectedby cystic ibrosis.

It is one way to show oursupport or people in theCleveland community andthe Lee community, Wester-ield said. It correlates thatwe are a Christian university... its not just care or peoplewho directly aect us, butcare or the greater good ohumanity.

Rodgers was also excitedwith the turnout o the com-munity to support the cause,

highlighting the involvemento several university Greekclubs and local organizationsand high schools.

More donations will con-tinue to be collected by orga-nizations that arranged un-draisers associated with butdisconnected rom the event.

he inal total o moneyraised or this year will beavailable later in April, ac-cording to the Oice o Stu-dent Development.

By Marshall PickardContributing Writer

[email protected] winners o Lee Uni-

versitys three most presti-gious academic awards havebeen revealed: Jamie Achten,Laura Sherwood and MeganSchertzer.

Lee presents three majorawards to exceptional seniorsevery year. Jamie Achten wasinormed she had won theF.J. Lee Award about a monthago, while Laura Sherwoodand Megan Schertzerwin-ning the Zeno C. harpAward and the Charles PaulConn Award respectively

were not announced as re-cipients until the acultymeeting on uesday, April 3.

According to Lees web-site, the F.J. Lee Award isbestowed to students whoexhibit high standards ointegrity, leadership, service,broad campus involvementand academic excellence.

Outside o the classroom,Achten spent much o hertime playing womens soccer ;she was National Associationo Intercollegiate AthleticsNational Player o the Yearor two consecutive years

and had her jersey retired a-ter leading her team to ournational championships.

Achten also enjoyed timewith her Greek service club,Delta Zeta au, and pursuedher hobby o painting beoregraduating in December2011.

here are a number ostudents in my class that ex-empliied amazing studentqualities, advertising majorJamie Achten said about herselection or the Lee Award.I eel humbled and blessedthat I was chosen.

According to CarolynDirksen, vice president oAcademic Aairs, the ZenoC. harp Award is present-ed to the student who theaculty believes shows thegreatest promise or makinga signiicant contribution toChristian ministry.

Biochemistry and the-atre major, Laura Sherwood,plans on serving as a careermedical missionary to Aricaater medical school at theUniversity o ennessee Col-lege O Medicine at Mem-phis.

She understands the prac-

tical applications her theatremajor will have in her uturemissions, like using non-verbal communication inArican countries that do notspeak English.

While originally, I want-ed to do theatre because Iwas passionate about it [Irealized] I can use this prac-tically, not just esoterically, inmy uture plans, Sherwoodexplained.

he Charles Paul ConnAward was created to cel-ebrate President Paul Connstenth anniversary as presi-

dent.his award is presented

to the student the acultybelieves demonstrates thegreatest promise o achieve-ment in graduate or pro-essional studies, Dirksenstated.

Megan Schertzer, also abiochemistry major, will in-tern this summer with St.Judes structural biology de-partment. She has also pre-sented material at a national

Great Strides breaks hal-million dollars raised

Tree seniorsreceive Leesmost esteemedacademicawards

See SENIORS on page 4

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**

The substantial total in 2009

was due in part to the un-

fortunate death of Nathan

Smith, a Lee University

alumnus who fought cystic

brosis.

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** Indicates race-day total. Thegrand total for 2012 has yet

to be released.


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2 NEWS LEE CLARION | April 13, 2012Lee Universitys Theatre

Department is scheduled to

perform its last show of the

spring semester on April

13-14 and 20-22 at 7:30 p.m.

and on Sunday, April 15 at

2:30 p.m. in the Dixon Center

Auditorium. Dan Buck, as-

sistant professor of theatre, is

directing.

Secret Church will come

to Lees campus on Friday,

April 20. The event will

include a six-hour study of the

New Testament at the Church

Street Annex. The study will

start at 6 p.m. and be led by

Mark Walker, senior pastor of

Mount Paran North Church of

God in Atlanta, Ga.

The 21st annual Kay

McDaniel Summer Tennis

Clinic will take place on

Lees tennis courts on June

4-8. The clinic gives chil-

dren ages 6-13 the opportu-

nity to work with and learn

from McDaniel, a former

world-ranked professional

tennis player.

Spring graduation is quickly

approaching. Commissioning

will take place on Friday, May

4, at 6:30 p.m. and Commence-

ment will take place on Satur-

day, May 5, at 9:30 a.m.

Matthew Melton, dean

of the College of Arts and

Sciences and chair of the plan-

ning committee for Lees new

communications building, said

that the committee currently

assessing space needs for

programs and productions.

LEE CLARION

The Lee Clarion is astudent-produced anduniversity-sponsored

publication o LeeUniversity in Cleveland,

Tenn.

MANAGING EDITORRichard Yeakley

NEWS EDITORKelsie Bowman

LIFE EDITORMeagan Bateman

SPORTS EDITORZach Southard

COPY EDITORCaleb Bell

ONLINE EDITORChristina Techentin

MULTIMEDIA EDITORJoshua Carlile

DESIGN EDITORLance Buchanan

MANAGINGPHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Lauren Carroll

ASSISTANTPHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Paul Howard

FACULTY ADVISERMr. Michael Finch

2012 Lee UniversityStudent Media

All opinions expressedherein are those o the

author and do not

necessarily refect theviews o Lee University orthe Church o God.

P.O. Box 3450Cleveland, Tenn. [email protected]

www.leeclarion.com

First People or Care and Learning symposium

Sports communication

on and o the court

By Katie CreelStaff [email protected]

People or Care andLearning hosted its irstsymposium in Lees RoseLecture Hall on March 30rom 2-8 p.m. and on March31 rom 1-4 p.m.

Figures rom organiza-tions such as Project Cure,United Way, Habitat or Hu-manity, Salvation Army, heCaring Place, Smoky Moun-tain Childrens Home and

Men and Women o Actionspoke in the sessions andpanels oered at the sympo-sium.

Each session ocusedon the nature o the pov-erty cycle, the resources thatare available and that areneeded, and solutions that

are currently in action andthose that are still on thedrawing board.

he irst lecture eaturedDouglas Jackson, presidento Project Cure, an organi-zation that provides and en-hances medical aid and acil-ities or the poor all over theworld. Project Cure, alongwith the Lazarus Founda-tion and other humanitarianorganizations, network withPeople or Care and Learn-ing.

he only way youll tru-ly be happy is i you seek andind ways to serve others,Jackson said.

During the lecture, Jack-son gave examples o ordi-nary people doing extraordi-nary things. He encouragedall the attendees that every-

one can lend a hand andanyone can accomplish greatthings with determinationand resources.

he role o these orga-nizations is to network andbuild on each other, as wellas collectively think long-term, in order to break thepoverty cycle.

Each non-proit repre-sented at the symposiumexplained that there is toomuch to be done to be ter-ritorial o who does what.

hey have to start some-where and take it one pieceat a time to work and eec-tively achieve progress.

rue collaboration oorganizations and groupsgets so much more done,Matt Ryerson o United Waysaid.

Between lectures andpanels were academic break-out sessions during whichstudents could ask any ques-tions and get inormationrom each organization rep-resented at the symposium.

People or Care andLearning has been based outo Cleveland, enn. since2002 and is a non-proit... humanitarian organiza-tion that cares or the poorby combining training withopportunities that give the

poor a working chance to-ward a brighter uture, ac-cording to peopleorcare.org.

he website explainsthat their holistic, system-atic approach to eradicatingthe cycle o poverty, worksby ocusing on education,

housing, eeding programs,business development, wa-ter and health, and childrenand widows, according tothe website.

Also according to thewebsite, PCL distributes6,400 meals monthly andprovides medical care eachmonth across eight medi-cal clinics to 828 patients.Members o the organiza-tion have dug 56 clean waterwells, built 105 homes, andput 529 roos over the heads

o people in need.PCL operates completely

on donations. Every git isused as designated; there-ore, nothing is deductedor overhead, operating ortravel expenses.

By Rachel DelauxContributing [email protected]

Along with child slavery,human traicking, and pov-erty, malaria stands amongthe top crises o our time.Its a silent killer, striking2,000 lives every day, andlike most global plights, it

will continue to ravage thenations unless we, the rav-aged, destroy it.

With this in mind, thoseat World Vision ACS start-ed a campaign called Acts toEnd Malaria to advocate orthe abolition o malaria by2015. Seeing that its 2012,the momentum is beginningto pick up, many wonderwhether this tagline (EndMalaria by 2015) is as real-istic as it looks on -shirts,posters, and other advocacyparaphernalia.

Similar to ACS is Invis-

ible Childrens current cam-paign, Kony 2012, that seeksto see the capture o the in-amous leader o the LordsResistance Army, JosephKony, this year. he questionisnt, as some would argue,whether these campaignsare realistic. he question iswhether we will act. Becausethe actualization o theserealities is partly dependenton us, many are realizingthat its our choice to end thesilence or let it linger.

heres not a magic or-mula in solving the prob-lems that pillage the earth.he answer is usand whilethis is an encouragingthought, its also terriying.Us? Yes, us.

According to the WorldHealth Organization(WHO) and oicial medical

research, the total estimateddeaths due to malaria in2010 was between 655,000and 1.24 million people,mostly Aricans. While o-icials say the death countcontinues to decrease rap-idly since its peak o 1.82million in 2004, in Febru-ary, according to BBC, re-searchers announced that idecreases [...] continue, ma-laria mortality will decreaseto less than 100,000 deathsonly ater 2020 (www.bbc.co.uk). While this is slightlyreassuring, it throws o the

ACS campaign by at leastive years.

In addition, BBC sci-ence reporter Matt McGrathstated that recent evidenceshows an increasing resis-tance to ront-line treat-ments or malaria, mean-ing that there are signs thattreatments could be losingtheir eectiveness.

Regardless, the truth isthat vaccinations, bed nets,and treatments (or the mostpart) or malaria victims are

proving eective. he ACScampaign has stepped intowaters that ew have entered,and they, along with mil-lions, believe that the eradi-cation o malaria is morethan possible by the end o2015. As mentioned, thismission is partly dependenton us, the advocators, along

with researchers, medicalpractitioners, and many oth-ers.

So what can we do as col-lege kids? We can advocate:go to www.actstoendmalar-ia.org, click Advocate, andtell our senators and repre-sentatives that we care aboutthis issue. We can also raiseunds to provide bed netsor those in malaria-pronenations$6.00 buys one netand can save two lives. odonate, go to the previoussite and click Give. In ad-dition, we can join millions

on April 25, World MalariaDay, in bringing awarenessto this issue.

Students can also join thisglobal movement by joiningthe C.O.R.E (the Council orRevolutionary Endeavors), agroup o social clubs at Leethat seeks to bring justice toglobal crises, like malaria,through prayer and aware-ness (we meet uesdays at 8p.m. in the Mayield Com-mons).

By Marshall PickardContributing [email protected]

Students in this semes-ters Sport and Commu-nication class experiencedsports public relations upclose and personal by vis-iting the Atlanta Hawksbasketball organizationWednesday, March 21.

his trip, along withother class development,was made possible by a$2,500 grant that ChristieKleinmann, assistant pro-

essor o communication,procured rom the ArthurW. Page Center or Integ-rity in Public Communica-tion. his 2012 Page LegacyScholar Grant supported aocused study o the sportsindustrys approach to cor-porate social responsibility,or CSR.

Kleinmann deinedCSR as this idea o beinga good corporate citizen[and] giving back to thecommunity and empha-sized that its just uniquein how dierent organiza-

tions approach it.She sent in an applica-

tion or the grant near theend o the all 2011 semes-ter, and she received a replysigniying that she wouldbe a receiving the award inmid-January.

Kleinmann had alreadyresearched social respon-sibility as a Page LegacyEducator in 2006, but thisteaching grant allowed ormuch more student in-

volvement. While studyingsocial responsibility wasalready a planned part oKleinmanns curriculumor the class, which she de-veloped hersel at Lee, thePage grant allowed her toexpand the curriculum.

he grant is a teach-ing grant where the stu-dents and I work togetherto really identiy what ...CSR look[s] like in sport,Kleinmann said.

One major area o thegrant study allows students

to encounter real-worldsituations through creat-ing antasy sport teams.Assignments were gearedtoward representing icti-tious sports organizationsin various situations, bothin scandals and in accom-plishments.

Students blind-picktheir scenarios ... so onestudent may have a scenar-io that says, Your star play-er just broke the record orthe most points scored,Kleinmann explained.Another student will have

their athlete ... caught ondrug charges.

Senior communicationstudies major Nick Holmeswas grateul that he wasable to practice represent-ing a basketball team in aclassroom setting as op-posed to in a real commu-nications position becausehe was able to make mis-takes without major con-sequence.

he most elaborate as-

pect o the grants provi-sions was the trip to meetwith Andrea Carter, theHawks director o com-munity development.

For us to be able totalk to someone at Lee,thats cool. But when youget to speak to someonethats [with the] NationalBasketball Association,thats huge, senior pub-lic relations major AndyWells said. hat gives us achance to see that level andwhat we have to do to get to

that level.he students even

watched a game whilein Atlanta. But, as theylearned, there is more to aplayers image than his on-court appearance.

[he Hawks commu-nity development depart-ment] talks a lot about cre-ating a ull image o theirplayers, Kleinmann said.he example they gavewas o their player thatgoes to read to children,even though, on the court,he is very intense.

he once-in-a-lietimeHawks experience wasbeyond memorable orHolmes.

Watching [the Hawks]on V, you are like, Wow,these are superstars that Imight not ever get to see ormeet, Holmes said. Andthen, when you go into theHawks acility, ... you eel[really] connected.

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NEWS 3April 13,2012 | LEE CLARION

First Latin American and Iberian Studies Colloquium hosted on campus

Shopping or Stylish Success

Diversity takes center stage at Culture Fest 2012

By Mary Beth GremillionStaff [email protected]

Lee held its irst LatinAmerican and Iberian Stud-ies Colloquium on March30-31. Lee University, aswell as surrounding collegesand universities, joined to-

gether to converse on issuesaecting Latin America andthe areas o Spain and Por-tugal.

Students and proessorsin the Department Englishand Modern Foreign Lan-

guages worked together tobring together this irst un-dergraduate interdisciplin-ary discussion on campus.he colloquium was orga-nized into two parts.

On Friday, students andaculty were able to social-ize at a potluck dinner andparticipate in a learning ex-perience o Latin dancingthrough a certiied Zumbainstructor.

he academic portion othe colloquium continuedon Saturday with six sepa-rate panels that representedspeciic issues importantin the Spanish and Latincommunity. Within thesespeciic panels two to threepresenters in each categoryshowcased their essays.

Alexander Steanell, as-sistant proessor o Spanishat Lee and aculty contactor the event, said he wantedthis colloquium to not onlyrepresent Spanish-speakingcountries, but also to bringlight to the social, political

and economic issues acingthese cultures.

he keynote speaker othe colloquium was RodFitzgerald, a bilingual di-agnostician, and in his pre-sentation I Speak a Foreign

Language (A Little): WhatDo I Do Now?, he discussedhis experiences o being bi-lingual in this day and agein the work orce and howit can beneit todays society.

his colloquium re-ally helped me have moreconidence in what I wantto do with my Spanish ma-jor, Rebekah Skelton said.It also was a great stage toshow some really interestingtopics in the Spanish world,culture and language.

wo o the 19 presenterso the day were Lee alumniIris Clement and RobertBennett.

Clements topic, Morethan Stamps in My Passport:Living and Learning in Lat-in America, showcased thechallenges and lessons shelearned rom traveling andhow to use them in educa-tion.

I wanted to highlightsome o the challenges andlessons Ive gained rom myexperiences in a way that

would beneit Lee studentswho have similar interests,Clement said. Clement iscurrently an English as aSecond Language teacherat a community college inNorth Carolina.

Robert Bennetts topicwas called Gabriel Gar-ca Mrquez: El RealismoMgico Frente a la EseraPoltica [he Magical Re-alism Against the Politi-cal Sphere]. he works oMrquez and his outlookon political history inspiredhim to present at the collo-quium.

Bennett is a Span-ish teacher o kindergar-ten through sixth grade inFlorida where he hopes tobridge the ever-wideninggap between cultures. Ben-nett said that he will do thisby teaching my students theimportance o other cul-tures, and that every voicecan and should be heard, re-gardless o language.

each a man a language,and he will speak to another.each a child a language,and he will understand an-other. each a child to un-derstand culture, and hemay understand the world,Bennett said.

By Megan GobbleFashion [email protected]

Most women relish theopportunity to spend a dayat the mall, scanning storewindows and racks, gossip-ing with riends, and bring-ing home a wardrobe o new,stylish clothes. When done

appropriately, shopping cangive you the to-die-or ward-robe we all desperately de-sire and the best part aboutstrategic shopping is that itcan also save you money.While impulse buys are excit-ing and should always be inthe mix, making your shop-ping primarily about seekingthose key items that will addversatility and wow to yourwardrobe, you can truly per-ect your style. Here are sometrendy tips that will help youshop without breaking thebank.

he irst step to shoppingsuccess is planning. Start yourplanning by irst determiningyour budget. Set aside enoughmoney to get the essentialswithout spending more thanyou can aord. Keep in mindthat winter clothes will bemore costly than your springwardrobe.

ake the time to make alist. Determine what itemsyou need to jazz up your cur-rent wardrobe, what eventsyou have coming up andthings you are always wish-ing you had. Put these items

at the top o your shoppinglist. Since stores are designedto push all your impulse but-tons, your list should give youthe strength to resist unneed-ed items. I you see somethingyou love that is not on yourlist, stroll around and consid-er the purchase, just becauseyour shopping smart doesntmean you cant shop un.

Dressing comortably oryour shopping sprees is agood idea. Chances are youwill be doing a lot o walkingand a lot o changing clothesso it is important to dress

accordingly. Wearing light-weight clothes and shoes thatare comortable and easy toget into and out o is a goodchoice.

he second step to thisshopping strategy is ocus.Focusing on your mission,needs and body is importantwhen placing purchases.

While it may not be asun, shopping alone can bethe most eicient. Its the bestway to concentrate on whatyou are looking or and can

save you time. I you preerto shop with riends, let themknow that you are looking orsomething speciic so you canavoid wondering aimlesslythrough stores or hours. Alsokeep in mind that while otherpeoples opinions are helpul,you will be wearing what youbuy.

Focus on what works oryou. Understanding whichcuts, abrics, colors and styleslook best on you can help youavoid making purchases thatwill just decorate your closet.Even i you are planning tolose a little weight, rerainrom buying smaller clothesas they will only make youappear heavier. Once you dolose the weight, you can al-ways have clothes taken in.he idea when making pur-chases is to look good nowand you will i your clothes ityour body in the most latter-

ing way.Shopping can sometimes

lead your ocus away romeveryday reality. A big part obeing chic is dressing or yourliestyle and being comort-able. I you desire the dresswith 6-inch heels look, butspend more time in jeans andlats, keep this in mind anddont buy something that willcollect dust.

Despite a disappointingday o shopping, dont buy outo desperation. hese pur-chases usually either led to areturn or more closet decora-

tion. Also resist the lure o thesale rack; i you wouldnt con-sider buying it ull price, skipit. Go ahead and go homeempty handed, you will bethankul when you have thatmoney or something youtruly love.

he inal step to this ash-ion renzy is to invest. Spendirst on basic items in solidcolors because they are themost versatile and rarely goout o style. hese basics arethe nuts and bolts that holdyour wardrobe together whenpaired with accessories and

standout items.We have all had thosepurchases that led to urthershopping ater we discoveredwe had nothing to wear withthem. hat is why it is im-portant to invest in comordto buy a matching set, do it,and dont assume that it willbe easy to match with otherthings. I you have alreadypurchased that item, bring aswatch or the entire garmentwith you so you can be certainyou ind that perect match.

By Katie CreelStaff [email protected]

Lees 2012 Culture Festdrew students and acultyalike to the Science andMath Complex lawn or reeinternational ood, give-aways and perormanceswhen it commenced onMarch 29 at 6:30 p.m.

Porshia Stacks, Ms. Di-versity 2011 and ormerpresident o IMAGE Stepeam, and J.R. Lilly, Leealumnus and ormer Diver-sity Council chair, led theevent. President Paul Connbegan the evening with aprayer or the estivities, andthen people were ree to ex-plore the oerings o each oLees diversity clubs.

Dean o Students AlanMcClung, Vice Presidento Administration WaltMauldin, and other aculty

and sta also attended theevent.

he exotic oods pro-vided represented regionsaround the globe as well asthe heritage o Lees veryown international students.A ood contest based on thestudents, as well as selectjudges, named the Baha-mian Connection Club thewinner with their dish orice and chicken.

here are seven diversityclubs and a Diversity Coun-cil on campus. he WorldArican Student Associa-tion, Asian Council, IM-AGE Step eam, Leetinos,Bahamian Connection Club,Umoja, and InternationalStudents Fellowship are allopportunities or studentsto plug in and learn aboutother cultures.

It is a wonderul com-munity o people to be in-

volved with; we are all oneby being made in the im-age o God, but our uniquebackgrounds and culturesmake us dierent yet stilltogether, Ayodeji Olukoya,current Diversity Councilchair, said.

raditional dances wereperormed by WASA, IM-AGE Step eam and the Fili-pino American Association.he Filipino perormanceincluded large wooden poleswhich the dancers weaved inand out o through rhythmand pattern. Inexperiencedstudents bravely volunteeredto attempt the dance ater-ward.

Later in the event, Nadyaand Fernando Mora, theowners o Clevelands Luv2 Dance Studio, perormeda Salsa dance. hey had atable with their inorma-tion to support Culture Fest

and to advertise their stu-dio or lessons, open loordancing and a drawing ora ree dance lesson with thecouple.

Several students and par-ticipants spoke on their spe-ciic clubs and the impor-tance o these outlets andopportunities being avail-able.

Git cards to Sub-way, Dunkin Donuts andWalmart were rewarded topeople in the audience thatcorrectly answered triviaquestions on world acts.Also, whoever could identiythe most national lags cor-rectly was given $50.

he Culture Fest serves asa reminder as well as a cele-bration o the students romaround the world and theirtraditions and liestyles thatbring rich diversity to theuniversitys student body.

each a man alanguage, and

he will speak to

another. each achild a language,and he will un-

derstand another.each a child tounderstand cul-ture, and he mayunderstand the

world.

Robert BennettElemetary Spanish eacher

Lee Clarion photo by Paul HowardCULTURED: Students gather to enjoy and share their cultures at Lees Culture Fest.

FASHION


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4 NEWS LEE CLARION | April 13, 2012

By Brannon RobertsStaff [email protected]

Inormation echnologySystems and Lee alumni havebeen in the process o devel-oping an upgraded websiteor the university.

he trial run will belaunched at some point dur-ing the month o April oronline visitors to explore andbecome amiliar with thenew look and unctions. helink to the trial website willbe located where the chapelgraphic on the Lee homepageis currently placed

he permanent imple-mentation will occur aterthe spring 2012 semester isover.

Director o I SystemsNate ucker explained why

the change is necessary.We recognized the need

or an update, ucker said.We wanted a resh look andeel.

Although the content isconstantly changing, Leeswebsite layout has not beenupdated since 2005.

Along with implement-ing a new eel to the site, thesite also needed a signiicantamount o downsizing.

ucker stated that it can becomplicated to navigate thecurrent site due to excessiveinternal and external content.

he new website will put allinternal content in Portico,Lees online portal that holdsstudent and aculty accounts.

When the project irst be-gan, the expected time spano development or the newwebsite was 18-24 months.

When deciding whowould design the new site, ISystems reached out to Leealumni graphic designers,and 36 people responded.hey elt that incorporatingalumni to develop the web-site would be the best optionbecause o the amiliarity andunderstanding that alumniwould possess rom once be-ing a part o Lees campus.

Ater a conerence call,ive or six companies submit-ted concepts to the university.he reviews lead to the choice

o a graphic design companycalled Whiteboard, which isbased in Chattanooga, enn.Another company, Ellucian,provides the sotware orcontent management. Alsoalumni owned, he Alder-man Group contributes stra-tegic content writing.

ucker said that the mainproblem with the currentwebsite is that it lacks a stra-tegic ocus, which needs to beresolved.

he ocus [o the newsite] will be centered aroundgetting students to this uni-

versity, ucker said.he new homepage will

eature larger images andphotography, and the site willbe heavily graphic-driventhroughout.

ucker said that the goalo the new site is to tell Leesstory. he assumption isthat website visitors wouldmuch rather experience Lee

through photographs as op-

posed to reading about it.he developers are strivingto duplicate the universitysatmosphere, replicate the ex-perience and translate it to anonline version.

Because o the beauty oLees campus as well as itswelcoming eel, once peo-ple come to our campus, itsusually a done deal, ucker

said. [From previous experi-

ence,] we know it is possibleor people to make the deci-sion to come here based o owhat they see online.

he enhanced new designand content is expected tobe a more accurate displayo Lee, while it provides pro-spective students with a bet-ter image o what our univer-sity is all about.

Campus student work-

er Jazmine Cox expressedher encouragement o thechange.

I think its necessary be-cause, right now, while [thehomepage] is very proes-sional, it doesnt quite portrayhow lively the Lee culture is,so I think having a websitedo just that will really makean impact, Cox said.

By Lauren GrossStaff [email protected]

he Leonard Center in-troduced a new orm o ser-vice relections March 19-23,allowing students to orgowriting the traditional two-page paper and instead stopby and engage in oral relec-tions. During the relections,students were asked ques-

tions about how the servicechallenged them academi-cally and spiritually.

Sta at the Leonard Cen-ter decided that it may behelpul or some students tovocalize their service hourparticipation as opposed towriting the paper, due to the

various ways students pro-cess inormation. RochelleMayberry, AmeriCorpsVISA correspondent orthe Leonard Center, helpedsponsor and coordinate therelections this year.

Mayberry said that sincethis was the irst time thatthe Leonard Center has triedthis method o relection, shedidnt know what to expect

or the turnout. By the endo the week, 33 students hadattended the oral relection.She also hopes that the Leon-ard Center will continue todo a week o oral relectionseach March and October.

Most students that I

have talked to seemed to re-ally like the idea o talkingthrough their service hoursas opposed to writing the pa-per, Mayberry said.

In the past, the LeonardCenter has accepted oral re-lections rather than paperrelections when it came toUrban Outreach and class-room participation, but thiswas the irst experience o

using oral relections withpeople and groups that hadnot done the same service.

I thought the experiencewas enlightening and, in myopinion, [much] more ben-eicial than typing a paper,junior Andrew Pealock said.

It gave me more incentive tothink deeply on my service,and I would love to go again.

Pealock also emphasizedthat it was more productiveto be surrounded by peoplewho were caring and encour-aging about the service proj-ects while he relected.

Currently, students arerequired to write a two-pagerelection paper or every 10

hours o service that theycomplete. In order to gradu-ate, students must completea total o 80 hours o service.

ighter regulations on thedue dates o service relec-tion papers were put in placelast year. Originally, students

could turn in their relectionswhenever they wanted to, aslong as they completed their80 hours. Jill Singerman, spe-cial projects assistant at theLeonard Center, admittedthat this had become a bigproblem.

We had seniors comingin that had completed theirhours but hadnt written anyo their papers, Singerman

said. We then had peopletrying to remember projectsrom their reshmen years,and since students are givenacademic credit or thesepapers, we want them to beas accurate and beneicial aspossible.

With the new guidelines,all relection papers are duein the all by November 1and in the spring by April 1o each year. Any relectionpapers on projects completedater the November 1 dead-line must be turned in to theLeonard Center by the April1 deadline, and any paperson projects completed aterthe April 1 deadline must be

turned in by Nov. 1.he Leonard Center

emailed those who attendedthe Oral Relection Week asurvey about their thoughtson the relections, and it isexpected that most will bepositive.

By Lauren GrossStaff [email protected]

Members o Lees Busi-ness Oice were selected topresent at this years StudentFinancial Service Conerencein Orlando, Fla., as they o-ered insight into some oLees strategies or its inan-cial services or students.

Each year, the NationalAssociation o College andUniversity Business Oicersholds a Student Financial Ser-vice Conerence or schooloicials. he NACUBOconerence is oered nation-wide to ellow student inan-cial members, and it includesgroup sessions on customer

service and connecting withstudents as well as individualsessions on special topics.

Representing Lee Uni-versity at the inancial con-erence were Kristy Harner,Business Oice bursar, andSheila Lee, collections man-ager, with their presentationInnovative Student Finan-cial Solutions. During thepresentation, Harner and Leediscussed the inormationalbusiness cards located at theront window o the BusinessOice, presentations that aremade in Gateway classes, and

the inal exam permit pro-cess, Harner said.

Beore the conerence washeld, NACUBO sent out aCall or Services in whichthe various university busi-ness oices can submit ideason what makes their oicerun smoothly and stand outin order to help other oicesout around the nation. Aterbeing selected, Harner andLee began working on theirpresentation.

We prepared by practic-

ing ourselves to death, Leesaid. Regina Collier, thedirector o publications, cre-

ated a slide show or us, andwe developed a speech to gowith the slides.

he conerence gaveHarner and Lee an oppor-tunity to showcase what theuniversity and the BusinessOice does or students.

It says Heres what weredoing, and were doing itwell, Harner said.

he conerence also pro-vided the opportunity orstas rom various univer-sities to make connectionswith their peers within inan-cial services in order to learnrom one another.

he meetings also giveus a chance to learn aboutthe compliance and regula-tion changes that are [goingto be in eect] that we needto be aware o within the o-ice, Lee said.

he Business Oicestheme or the upcoming is-cal year will relate to a bookcalled Unleashing Excel-lence: he Complete Guideto Ultimate Customer Ser-vice by eri Yanovitch. Ya-novitch ormerly workedwith Disney Institute, andHarner said that everyone

covets Disney philosophy.he book ocuses on

what should be done in cus-tomer service through thelens o the customer, Harnersaid. We want to take Dis-neys philosophy and apply itto Lee.

he oice plans to main-tain the processes that stamembers already use in theworkplace, but they will beprogressing in how they de-liver the material.

New Website or Lee soon to be launched

Leonard Center initiates oral relections

Business Oce presentsat national conerence

biology conerence, written apublished abstract, and doneresearch at the Universityo ennessee with Lees LoriWest, assistant proessor obiology, and Sherri Kasper,assistant proessor o biology.

[M]ost o my work hasbeen in the lab, and so thatsexactly what I want to dowith my lie, Schertzer said.

Schertzer balances all thissuccess in medical researchwith a ull-time job at OliveGarden.

Dirksen explained theprocess behind selecting astudent or these prestigiousawards. A student is chosenby the aculty o their depart-ment. hen, at the selection

meetings, the departmentheads present their studentnominee. he entire aculty

then votes, choosing betweenthe nominees.

he two aculty meet-ings, when we select these

awards, are the most movingmeetings o the year becausewe get to hear such wonder-ul things about studentsrom across campus, Dirk-sen commented.

All three students havedisplayed exceptional workethic and intrinsic motiva-tion.

I see my academics as anact o worship, Sherwoodsaid. I wanted to use that[academic ability] or [God],instead o mysel.

Everyone nominated istruly outstanding, Dirksen

said, and [selecting winners]is a very diicult choice.

SENIORSContinued rom page 1

Laura Sherwood, Zeno C. Tharp Award Recipient Megan Schertzer, Charles Paul Conn Award Recipient

Jamie Achten, F.J. Lee Award Recipient

Photo courtesy o Megan Schertzer

Photos courtesy o Communication Arts


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Lee day from an a-force perspective

LIFE 5April 13,2012 | LEE CLARION

aforce

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By Taylor RodgersStaff [email protected]

Students in the blue andcoral shirts play a criticalrole in making Lee Dayweekend a success. hesestudents, known as the Ad-missions Force, or A-Forceor short, do much morethan most people might re-alize.

Lee Day preparationstarts long beore the actualevent. he A-Force teamand the Admissions stawork months in advanceto prepare or the largeamount o students that willvisit on Lee Day each year.

We prepare or Lee Dayreally ar in advance, Ma-rissa Kurtz, junior A-Forcemember, said. At the be-ginning o the semester,small steps are already be-

ing made to prepare or theweekend. As it gets closer,there is a large ocus on LeeDay. It is by ar our biggestrecruitment event o the en-tire year.

In the weeks beore LeeDay, A-Force is constantlybeing inormed o all detailssurrounding the upcomingevent.

We usually have a meet-ing beore and typically along string o instructionalemails telling us where tobe when and what our tasksare at each event, EthanMartin, junior A-Forcemember, said.

hese students will work8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday,April 13, to ensure that theperspective students andtheir parents have the bestcollege visit possible. OnFriday, the A-Force teams

duties will include givingtours, taking prospectivestudents to classes, andhelping with the Fridaynight Block Party, a big bashthat lets the perspective stu-dents mingle with one an-other and get involved withLee students.

On Saturday, April 14,A-Force students will behard at work by 7:45 a.m.helping set up or the di-erent luncheons or thatday. Admissions sta hasto prepare or these lunchesby creating a theme, order-ing ood, organizing games,and acilitating the scholar-ship drawings.

he theme or this yearsSenior Luncheon is the2012 Olympics, and ShanesRib Shack will be cateringthe ood.

his years Junior/Soph-omore Luncheon will becatered by Zaxbys with atheme o School Spirit. helunches will begin at noonand conclude around 1 p.m.but the Lee Day weekenddoes not end or A-Forceuntil 3 p.m. when every-thing is cleaned up andback in its place.

So why do these studentscommit to working a 20-hour weekend? Kelsi Deel,a junior on A-Force, shareswhy she eels it is worth thetime and energy.

Lee Day gives me anopportunity to show whyI love Lee so much, Deelsaid. It gives me the op-portunity to share a piece omy heart with perspectivestudents.

Lauren House is a soph-omore and is new to the A-

Force team. She said she isexcited to be in the middleo the action and to seehow it all works.

his will be my irstLee Day as an A-Forcemember, House said. Be-ing able to play a major partin a decision that will aectthese high school studentslives is a big deal, and I amexcited to get to be a part othat.

hese students workhard, without pay, to boostour enrollment and helpstudents make one o themost important decisionso their lives. While theyenjoy what they do, it is notalways easy.

he hardest part o LeeDay is giving back to backtours in the hot sun withhuge groups o amilies andprospective students, Mar-

tin said. Although we dontget paid or the weekend, itis a great eeling knowing Ihelped a student make theirchoice or college.

he A-Force memberswork nonstop making surethat the weekend runs asplanned, with as ew glitch-es as possible. he eelingsthat come with Lee Dayvary between students, butKurtz summed up the goalo the weekend.

Lee Day is a strangemix o exciting and stress-ul, Kurtz said here isa lot o work that goes onbehind the scenes to makeeverything run as smoothlyas possible or the visitingamilies because they areour priority.

By Meagan BatemanLife [email protected]

With its witty dialogueand comical situations, LeeUniversitys production oSee How hey Run will be-gin Friday night in honor oLee Day weekend.

he play is a crowd-pleasing avorite, Dan Buck,assistant proessor o theater,said. Its comical and just agood time.

he play, written by PhilipKing, is set in a 1943 Englishvicarage and ollows the sto-ry o Penelope and Reverend

Lionel roop. When an oldriend o Penelopes, Lance-Corporal Clive Winton, stops

or a visit, he is persuaded byPenelope to wear Lionels suitand clerical collar in order toavoid being recognized at aplay Penelope wishes to see.Penelope says that Clive canpretend to be vicar ArthurHumphrey, who is coming tothe village to preach the Sun-day sermon.

Unaware o the situation,Lionel returns to the vicar-age, only to be knocked un-conscious and stripped o hisclothes by a Russian spy on

the run. o add even moreconusion and hilarity to theplot, Penelopes uncle, the

Bishop o Lax, and the realArthur Humphrey show uplater in the play.

At one point there areour vicars on stage at once,Buck said, laughing. heplay has a broad appeal. It isvery high speed.

Complete with a ull livingroom set and music to it themood and time period o theplay, Lees theater productionteam has brought out the bestin both set design and actors,as many o roles required

British accents.here are nine roles and

10 actors or the play, Buck

said.Charise Jordan, a seniortheater major, said she hasloved playing the role o Ida,the roops Cockney maid.

At times it was hard tokeep the [British] accent,Jordan admitted.

Even though the accentmight have been challeng-ing at times, Jordan said sheis excited or opening night.

I love comedy, and [thisplay] is deinitely a unnyshow, Jordan said. I hope

the audience thinks its hi-larious.

Because the perormances

are taking place during LeeDay weekend, Buck said he isexcited to see more than thetypical student-illed audi-ences.

ypically, there are hard-ly any students or no stu-dents at all during a FridayLee Day perormance, Bucksaid. Overall [or the entireweekend], 35% o the audi-ence is non-Lee.

Even with a varied crowd,Buck said he expects theaudience to enjoy the per-

ormance and have a goodnight.

I want the audience to be

transported by theater, Bucksaid.See How hey Run is

scheduled to be perormedFriday and Saturday nightat 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 2:30p.m., and again on April 20-22 at 7:30 p.m.

For more inormation onthe play or to reserve tick-ets, call Lees box oice at423-614-8343 or visit www.leeuniversity.edu/theatre.

See How Tey Run set to make audiences laugh

LeeDaygivesmean

opportunity to show

whyIloveLeesomuch.KelsiDeelJuniorA-ForceTourGuide

TOUR GUIDE: A-Force guide Martin Ethan gestures to the SMC.

Lee Clarion photo by Paul Howard


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6 LIFE LEE CLARION | April 13, 2012

Departments create community with studentsBy Caroline EatonContributing [email protected]

Lee Universitys uniquesense o community betweenaculty members and stu-

dents is unlike many otheruniversities. his close-knitcommunity allows or stu-dents to get personally ac-quainted with their advisors,proessors, ellow students,and other aculty members.

Students at Lee are able towalk into their proessors o-ice without an appointmentto sit down and simply talk,

and beore graduation, it islikely that a student will visitat least one o their proes-sors houses or a social gath-ering or study session.

Department chairs strive

to maintain this sense o com-munity by keeping open-door policies within theirdepartments, and stressingthe importance o studentinteraction to their acultymembers. Various depart-ments on Lees campus havedierent strategies on how toboost relationships betweenaculty and students.

Behavioral and Social Science

Communications Arts

Vocal Music

Health, Exercise Science,

and Secondary Education

Language and Literature

Teology Christian Ministries

Business

Jerey Sargent, Leealumnus and chairman o

the Department o Behav-ioral and Social Sciences,has been on both sides oa student-proessor rela-tionship at Lee, and said hebelieves the community isvital.

When I was here Iended up at Dr. Fishershouse or dinner, and thatstuck with me. I thought,his is the way it shouldbe; it should be the oneon one; I shouldnt be onein 500. Somebody shouldknow my name, Sargentsaid. hats why Im teach-ing here, thats why wereall teaching here. I thinkit comes across that some-body cares whether or not[the students] make it.

Sargent said that the De-partment o Behavioral andSocial Sciences has multipleprograms in place that re-quire aculty involvement,including honor societies,cross-cultural trips, andtheir teacher assistant posi-tions.

Our [teacher assistant]program is unique. I hearrom students that theadded value, in addition

to teaching [training], isthe mentoring relationshipthey have with their [pro-essor], Sargent said. Eveni its sitting around gradingwith your proessor, youregoing to start talking aboutlie, and it evolves into thatmentoring relationship.

Sargent said that hehears positive eedback

about the teaching assis-tant program rom both

students and aculty mem-bers. In the program, stu-dent assistant is required tomeet with their proessoror one hour a week, as wellas attending the class withwhich they are assisting.

You cant measure thebeneit [o the program] orthe student. I really appre-ciate my colleagues in thatwe see our role that way,we dont see it as ree labor.Its not about that; its an-other opportunity to men-tor. Most people here loveto mentor and we look orany opportunity in and outo the classroom, Sargentsaid.

he Department o Be-havioral and Social Scienc-es aculty also interact withtheir students outside o theclassroom with events suchas Lunch and Learn. hisis a time where HeatherQuagliana, assistant pro-essor o psychology, meetswith her students in smallgroups or lunch in order toget to know them more.

Another actor that en-hances student and acultyinteraction is one-on-one

oice time, which manydepartment chairs saidthey value and encourage.Sargent said that suite styleoices oer ample oppor-tunity or interaction whenproessors leave their oicedoors open, and studentsare ree to move betweenoices or conversation.

In the Communica-tions Arts Department,Michael Laney said that thesponsorships o clubs andhonor societies are wherethe most intentional inter-action takes place betweenaculty and students.

he aculty work ex-tremely close with studentsin groups like Clarion, Vin-dagua, PRSSA, AD Fed,Alpha Psi Omega, Shenani-gans and Lambda Pi Eta,Laney said.

Another area o inten-tional interaction in thecommunications depart-ment is through research.

Faculty members col-laborate with students onpresenting scholarly pa-pers, articles, or postersessions. Megan Moe [as-sociate proessor o com-munications] and ChristieKleinmann [assistant pro-essor o communications]have published researchwith students, taken them

to ACA conerences topresent papers, and havecollaborated on grants onViolence Against Women,and provided poster boardsessions, Laney said.

Laney also took studentsto the ennessee Com-munication AssociationConerence, where theypresented student/acultyresearch on communica-tion in a cross-cultural set-ting.

In each o these exam-ples, the aculty has the op-portunity to act as a mentoror students.

Im so proud o howour aculty are engaged inmeaningul relationshipswith our students outsidethe classroom as well. Wehave built riendships thathave endured, Laney said.

Laney also said that stu-dents and proessor buildrelationships on cross-cul-tural trips, a requirementor every Lee student.

In the Departmento Vocal Music, Lindahompson, departmentchair, said that on top o ap-plied instruction programthat is built into the depart-ment, aculty members arealso personally supportiveo their students musicalendeavors.

Faculty members veryactively support the stu-

dents by attending theirindividual recitals, etc., sothere is a very high levelo interaction betweenstudents and proessors,hompson said.

he Department o Vo-cal Music also boasts mul-tiple elective ensembles, inwhich the members andaculty grow close throughtravel and perormances.

In the Department oHealth, Exercise Science,and Secondary Education(HESSE), some proessorshave lead Bible studies withtheir students, and most othe aculty in the depart-ment teach Freshman Gate-way Seminar.

We in the Collegeo Education are prettyhigh-touch through outthe eacher Education

Program, William Estes,HESSE chairman, said.Most o us teach Gateway,which is very intentional increating student-teacher re-lationships.

Estes also said that someaculty within his depart-ment hold advising partiesat the end o each semesteror advanced class selec-tion.

Another departmentthat holds advising partiesat the semesters end is theDepartment o Language

and Literature.Chair Jean Eledge said

she sees a lot o social inter-action between aculty andstudents at these events.

Usually beore each ad-vance class selection we tryto have a get together withall our department majorswhere all our aculty are inone room and students canmeet with [their] advisors,Eledge said. hen whatI notice what happens atthese events is people staylonger than just that, sohave that opportunity to

hang out with various [ac-ulty members].Eledge also said that she

is constantly seeing stu-dents in proessors oice,and hearing about proes-sors having students intheir homes or dinner orreview sessions.

Language and Litera-ture also has active honorsocieties, which bring ac-ulty and students togetherthroughout the semester.Many proessors also re-quire individual coner-ences as a part o class time,so even though the studentsare getting credit or theclass, they are also gettingan opportunity to sit downwith their proessors one-on-one to discuss their as-signments and get to knoweach other.

Its really time wellspent; you create an oppor-tunity or students to come

to your oice, sit down oneon one, and you really canthelp but know your stu-dents better even though

it is connected with class,Eledge said.

Aside rom what is al-ready built into the pro-gram, the department plansa social gathering or alldisciplines at the end oeach semester.

Were planning thatnow, Eledge said. Itll bean outdoor picnic barbequethat we always have or allo our majors. And thatsjust a time when were injeans and shorts playingvolleyball together and ac-ulty members bring their

kids, and we like that be-cause then the students getto see the kids o the de-partment as well and get toknow the amilies.

Whether it is inside oroutside o class time, Eledgesaid she loves that the ac-ulty at Lee spends so muchtime with students.

I really do believe thatwere good at this at Lee,and [proessors] love teach-ing at Lee because this ispart o the campus com-munity that we want tobuild. We dont just teachour classes and get in ourcars and go home, Eledgesaid. We like being withstudents, we really hopethey come by during oicehours. Were not just tryingto do the minimum, we en-joy students and thats whowe are at Lee.

In the theology depart-ment, cross-cultural tripshave become an integralpart o relationship build-ing between students andproessors.

Every other year, theDepartment o heologysponsors a cross-culturaltrip to Israel, and this hasbecome an especially im-portant event or generat-ing lasting relationships be-tween students and aculty

members, Richard Moore,chairman o the heologyDepartment, said.

Special events plannedby the theology depart-ment, such as movie nightsand discussion orums, areanother way the acultyseeks to get to know their

students, Moore said.Along with events spe-

ciically designed to boostrelationships, the acultymembers in the Depart-ment o heology arealso encouraged to attendevents their students are in-volved in, or to simply indtime to hang out outside oclass.

he Department o he-ology also sponsors wor-ship and prayer services

throughout the semester,where students and acultycan come together or atime o worship. his timeo worship is unique to theSchool o Religion, as theDepartment o ChristianMinistries sponsors similarevents.

Along with these wor-ship events, disciplineswithin the Christian min-istries department havemultiple unique unctionsthat allow students to beinvolved in their majorhands-on, as well as inter-act with their proessors.

Each semester, eachdiscipline aculty havelunch with all their majorsto discuss new ideas andplans or particular majors,

Bob Bayles, director ograduate studies in Chris-tian ministries and proes-sor o disciples and orma-tion, said. he PastoralMinistry aculty hold anannual, required retreat orall PASM students to talkabout PASM issues. his

has been going on or manyyears and is a highlight othe PASM program.

Proessors within theChristian ministries de-partment also enjoy takingtheir students on educa-tional outings to churcho varying religious back-grounds. his serves to en-hance what the students arelearning in the classroom aswell as provide more inter-action time with students.

While an immenseamount o eort seems togo into building interactionbetween students and pro-essors within departmentprograms, there is also ahety amount o relation-ship building strategies oroutside o the classroom.

Dwayne hompson, De-partment o Business chair,said that his aculty alsospends time with studentsone-on-one in their oices.

Dr. Griith requentlyhas a long line down thehall rom students gettingone-on-one help, homp-

son said. Faculty are [also]encouraged to spend timewith students during advis-ing.

hompson also men-tioned the eorts o manyo his other aculty mem-bers, such as Ingrid Hart,assistant proessor o ac-counting, who is requentlyhelping students in the ac-counting lab.

hompson also said thatproessors such as Evaline

Echols, proessor o busi-ness education, and Bill Ja-ber, proessor o computerinormation systems, invitetheir Freshman GatewaySeminar students into theirhomes or a meal.

Student interaction is acore value or our depart-

ment. At the top o eachagenda, we have We existto provide opportunitiesor students now and in theuture, hompson said.

Also existing at Lee areclubs designed or speciicdisciplines, such as Phi BetaLambda, the business club.hese clubs are sponsoredby a proessor, and provideopportunities or directstudent-aculty interaction.

Lee Clarion photos by Gilbert Ruiz and Torrey Peterson


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LIFE 7April 13,2012 | LEE CLARION

Beware o Christians tour comes to Lee

Lee University supportsAutism Awareness Month

MainStreet Cleveland uniting community

Secret Church bringsunderground church to Lee

By Charity YodisStaff [email protected]

ired o the southernBible Belt and decid-ing not to ollow culturalnorms, our young guysset out to create their doc-umentary-style ilm, Be-ware o Christians.

Despite its seeminglycontroversial title, Bewareo Christians is a ilm aboutdiscovering what it meansto ollow Christ apart romtheir cultural context.

Sometimes its toughto see where Jesus its intoChristianity, Alex Carroll,co-producer and ellow castmember, said. We wantedto get away rom our dis-tractions and routines sowe could inally questionthe way weve been ollow-ing Christ.

he our college-agedmen rom exas who arepresented in the docu-mentary style ilm are di-rector, co-producer, andscreenwriter Will Bakke,co-producer Alex Carroll,screenwriter Michael Allen,and Matt Owen. he ilm

is created by Riot Studiosthrough the distributiono Provident Films, whichis responsible or the well-known titles such as Cou-rageous and Fireproo.

We make ilms thatchallenge people to think

honestly about what theybelieve and why they be-lieve it, Carroll said.

In the ilm Beware oChristians, Bakke, Carroll,Allen, and Owen embarkon a trip across Europe tospend time thinking abouttheir aith. hroughouttheir journey, they ace Bib-lical lie questions abouthow to truly ollow Christin dierent circumstances.

Lee University juniorJames urner purchased theDVD ater he saw an add onFacebook about the ilm.

he title intrigued me,urner said, so I went ontheir website and checkedit out.

Ater urner made thepurchase, he was contactedby the groups intern, KelsieCarroll, because she noticedthat urner had a Lee Uni-versity email address . Car-roll said the group was do-ing a movie tour and w antedto come have a presentationat Lee. urner contactedPastor Jimmy Harper whopassed the inormation upto administration.

Although urner only

heard o Beware o Chris-tians last all, Lee sopho-more Kevin an irst heardo Beware o Christiansduring the summer o 2010.When the creators o theilm did a presentation atthe University o Georgia,

an attended with some ohis riends or Young Lie.an said he has attempt-

ed to have the ilm crewcome speak at Lee or overa year. Ater an met withBakke during the most re-cent Passion Conerence inAtlanta, Ga., he began help-ing to plan the event or theour guys to come to Leeand get the word out so stu-dents could attend.

I think it will be a coolthing, cool showing, urn-er said. hey seem like re-ally cool people and reallydown to earth.

an said he is pumpedabout the act that they arecoming to Lee because othe way he says the movieaddresses what most Chris-tian college students experi-ence.

hese guys are like us,an said. hey are collegestudents just seeing what itis to give up on religion andollow Jesus. We all strug-gle. We shouldnt try to livethis super-Christian lie,but just try to do the bestwe can.

he makers o Beware

o Christians will have ashowing o their movie aswell as a discussion ater-ward at Lee on Monday,April 16 at 8 p.m. in theJones Lecture Hall. All stu-dents are welcome to attendand admission is ree.


In honor o April beingAutism Awareness Month,Lee University is helping tomake a dierence in a num-ber o dierent venues.

One way Lee is supportingAustism Awareness Monthis through Hoops 4 Hope,an annual basketball gamehosted by Lees basketballteams in order to raise moneyor Lee Universitys Develop-mental Inclusion Classroom(LUDIC). LUDIC partnernedwith local high schools tomake this a community-wideevent.

My ormer assistant coachMindy Kiser has a 4-year-oldson who was diagnosed withautism and that has beenthe driving orce behind ourteams involvement in raisingawareness and money, MartyRowe, Lee womens basketballhead coach, said.

his year, Rowe said thegames raised over $1,800 withall proceeds going to LUDIC.

LUDIC is a school or au-tistic children that meets inthe Church Street Annex.hey have ull time acultymembers as well as volunteersand students that come and

help with the students.LUDIC is a great oppor-

tunity or any student, not

just special education majors,Emily Adams, junior specialeducation major, said. It pro-

vides a hands-on opportunityto see what its like to workwith a classroom ull o autis-tic children. It gives people achance to learn that each per-son is special and amazing inhis or her own way.

Another way that Lee isgetting involved in AutismAwareness Month is throughLee Buddies. Mariah Varner,a sophomore double majorin early childhood educationand special education, is thedriving orce behind this newclub on campus.

Ater working as a coun-

selor at Special Friends Camp,a camp or mentally handi-capped individuals at Baptistconerence centers in CarsonSprings and Linden Valley,Varner said she decided thiswas something she wantedto bring back to Lee and givestudents the opportunity tomake a dierence in peopleslives.

Lee Buddies hopes to ad-vance student involvement inpublic service and to increasecommunity awareness o thecapabilities o persons withdisabilities, Varner said.

Each member o the group

will be paired with an autis-tic buddy. hey will meettwice a month individu-

ally and once a month as agroup to have an event oncampus. hese events will in-

clude scavenger hunts, movienights, art projects, and at-tending intramural games.

Ultimately, we strive topromote equality among per-sons with and without dis-abilities in all possible ways byshowing that, in the end, weare all exactly the same in thatwe are treasured possessionswho are beautiully and won-derully made and ind everyinch o our worth in ChristJesus, Varner said.

he term autism coversa group o complex disorderso the brain that are known to

take root very early in devel-opment, as stated by the web-site Autism Speaks. Accord-ing to statistics rom the U.S.Centers or Disease Controland Prevention (CDC), onein every 88 children - one outo 54 boys and one in 252 girls- is on the autism spectrum,meaning they have symptomso autism but the severity var-ies.

o learn more about Au-tism visit www.austismspeaks.org. For more inormationabout LUDIC, contact [email protected]. o getinvolved with Lee Buddies,

contact Mariah Varner at [email protected].

By Abby HasslerContributing [email protected]

As the spring season ar-rives, it brings with it the

promise o many events to beheld in the Historic Down-town area o Cleveland.MainStreet Cleveland is pur-suing a sense o greater com-munity or the residents othe city and has planned outvarious events in the squaresand parks around the down-town area.

he irst o these events isthe return o the Brown BagLunch concert series, whichbegan in April 2011. It willeature live music rom lo-cal bands every hursday inApril rom noon until 1 p.m.

his series o concertsbegan on April 5 with theWalker Valley High SchoolJazz Band, under the direc-tion o Alan Hunt. hursday,April 12, will eature Cleve-lands Community Quartet.Bradley County High SchoolRock Band 2012 will perormtheir concert he ButterySpud, which will ollow onApril 19. he concert serieswill end on April 26 with thegroup Vocal Rhapsody romCleveland State Community

College.Sharon Marr, execu-

tive director o MainStreetCleveland, considers theseconcerts a nice way to spend

the lunch hour by bringing alunch to eat in the park whilelistening to these local bands.

We are excited to o-er this great line up o en-tertainment and encourageolks to come out and enjoythe great music and beautiulspring weather, Marr said.

he next event will bethe 11th season o the Main-Street Cruise-In. It begins onApril 28 rom 3-9 p.m. andwill continue every ourthSaturday o each month un-til October. It will be locat-ed around the CourthouseSquare, and has averagedmore than 500 cars on dis-play at each event.

he events continue withthe Relay or Lie that ben-eits the American CancerSociety on May 4 and 5 atthe Courthouse Square, ol-lowed with the 18th seasono the Evening Shade Con-certs, scheduled or each Fri-day in May at Johnston Park,beginning at 6:30 p.m eachevening.

he third annual Maiest,

a German estival that ben-eits the Montessori Kinderand the Ocoee Region Mul-ticultural Services, is goingto be on May 19 at the First

Street Square.he series o events willend with the Five PointsFarmers Market, whichopens June 7 at the FirstStreet Square and will con-tinue each hursday ater-noon until the end o theseason.

First Street Square, a parkopened in July 2010, is agreat example o MainStreetClevelands mission. Previ-ously an old warehouse, itis now the park located onthe corner o Park and FirstStreet. MainStreet oicialspartnered with the city tocreate this venue where vari-ous community events couldbe held and provide a placewhere the residents o thecity can come together to en-joy the spirit o the city.

he Downtown has somuch to oer, it has a greatsense o place, Marr said.It has great entertainmentvalue and creates an overallcommunity spirit.


On Friday, April 20, Leewill be hosting the SecretChurch at the Church Street

Annex. his six-hour eventwill be an intensive study othe New estament, includ-ing worship and prayer ses-sions.

According to www.radi-cal.net/secretchurch, SecretChurchs oicial site, theevent is modeled ater themeetings o the persecutedchurch.

Dr. Mark Walker, Se-nior Pastor o Mount ParanNorth in Atlanta and amember o Lees board odirectors, will be leading Se-cret Church at Lee.

Jackie Leggett o Cleve-land, enn., will also besharing at the event abouther experiences with thepersecuted church. She is thewidow o aid worker ChrisLeggett, who was killed in2009 while serving thosewho are being persecuted.

he registration deadlineor this event is uesday,April 10. Admission is $10per person to cover the costo the study guide neededor the evening, but studentsare ree with student ID.

Secret Church began in

Birmingham, Ala., and isbased on the time DavidPlatt, author o New Yorkimes Best Seller Radical,spent in the undergroundchurches o Asia.

Faith in Christ and beliein the teachings o the Bibleare not only discouraged,but actually dangerous inthese countries. During histime there, he participatedin services where peoplewould gather or eight ormore hours simply to studythe Word o God.

When he returned to theUnited States, he decidedto implement this idea inhis church, he Church atBrook Hills. he attendancegrew so large that he part-nered with LieWay Chris-

tian Resources to providesimulcasts o these services.he movement o the SecretChurch has taken root allover the country throughdierent churches, pastors,and universities that arehungry or the Word o God.

According to MountParan North sta, Walkerheard about all that Platt wasdoing and wanted this ideato be implemented at hischurch. Ater meeting withPlatt, he was given permis-sion and Mount Paran beganholding these Bible studies.

Ater oering SecretChurch at Mount ParanNorth three times in the last18 months, we are excited tobring Secret Church to Lee,Jeremy Isaacs, Campus Pas-

tor or Mount Paran in Can-ton, Ga. said. Pastor Markhas a heart to present GodsWord and connect us to ourpersecuted brothers and sis-ters around the world. Itsgoing to be a great night.

Jimmy Harper, LeesCampus Pastor, is excitedabout hosting this event atLee.

Secret Church presentsus with a phenomenal wayto both recognize and prayor the persecuted churchacross the world, Harpersaid. Lee University is

honored to host this SecretChurch e vent.Katie Van Gorp, a junior

at Lee, said she is also look-ing orward to the event.

I have been to SecretChurch twice. It is wellworth the six hours anddoesnt even eel that long,Van Gorp said. I am thrilledthat it is coming to Lee and Ihope many people take ad-vantage o th is opportunity.

For more inormationcontact Harper at [email protected] or (423)614-8420.


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8 LIFE LEE CLARION | April 13, 2012

Charles Nelson:From Costa Rica to Cleveland

By Veronica EggerContributing Writer

[email protected]

Kony 2012. Its the slo-gan that has been all overFacebook, Youube, blogs,and the news since March5, when the nonproit groupInvisible Children, Inc., re-leased a short ilm with thesame title.

he 30-minute videowent viral in a matter odays, scoring over 86 millionYouube views as o April 3,according to MSNBC.com.

While rocketing to popu-larity, Kony 2012 has attract-ed huge interest, criticism,

and questions about whats

really going on.he ilm ocuses on In-

visible Childrens newlylaunched awareness cam-paign, which has the centralgoal o making a man namedJoseph Kony amous in aneort to raise support orhis arrest, according to theoicial Invisible Childrenwebsite.

Sarah Kade, a sopho-more accounting major atLee, moved to the UnitedStates rom her home in La-gos, Nigeria in Spring 2011.She said she supported theKony 2012 video becauseshe would not have known

about his crimes i she had

not seen it.I think that Joseph Kony

is doing the wrong thing be-cause the children [he hasabducted] cant do what theywant to do, and he is takingthem away rom their par-ents, Kade said.

Kelvin arukwasha, Gen-eral Manager o Sodexo atLee, said he also supportsKony 2012.

here are a lot o Aricanstudents interested in par-ticipating in the Kony 2012campaign, arukwasha said.We need to stop that guy.

For those unamiliarwith the details, Kony is the

leader o a rebel group called

the Lords Resistance Army(LRA), which was activein Uganda rom 1986 until2006, when it migrated tocentral Arica, according totravel.state.gov.

he Oice o the HighCommissioner or HumanRights (OHCHR) reportedin 2011 that the LRA wasresponsible or serious vio-lations o human rights lawswhich include child abduc-tions, killing, mutilation,and sexual violence. Konyand his top army command-ers are currently wanted bythe International CriminalCourt (ICC) or perpetrat-

ing these crimes.

Although the Kony 2012video has rallied supportrom youth, celebrities, andpoliticians across the nation,it has also been subject to se-rious criticism rom multipleparties.

Critics have accused theInvisible Children organiza-tion o numerous transgres-sions, including misrepre-senting the conlict and thewishes o Aricans involved,having a lack o inancial ac-countability, perpetuatingthe white mans burden,and promoting slacktivismin the United States.

here is also concern

about the United States sup-

porting the Governmento Uganda in the search orKony, because the Govern-ment o Ugandas military it-sel has been accused o warcrimes.

Invisible Children hasdedicated a section o theirwebsite to responding tomany o these critiques, andplans to release a sequel toKony 2012 to urther inormthe public.

Stop at Nothing is themantra o the Kony 2012awareness campaign. Fornow, Invisible Children andits supporters are movingorward with this declara-

tion.

By Lindsay ReedStaff [email protected]

Being a student is chal-lenging enough. ry addingin a husband or wie, kidsand a job into the mix.

Many non-traditionalstudents, including marriedstudents with children, areenrolled at Lee.

he question is, how dothey do it?

hese students agree thatalthough diicult, it is wellworth the hard work.

It was extremely dii-cult at times, but my kids areworth every bit o the eortI have attributed to get mewhere I am, senior CheriWood said.

rying to keep up withschool, a job, a spouse andchildren is quite the chal-lenge, senior Brian Hamonssaid, but he wouldnt changeanything.

With no doubt, yes,its been diicult, but wellworth it, Hamons said. Ibelieve my amily is strongerbecause o it as we ll. We haveall come together and be-come a well oiled machine;everyone has had to do theirpart to keep the householdrunning and in turn this hasbound us together.

Hamons said that his big-gest challenge as a ather andstudent is time. Prioritizinghas become a key actor.

I ind mysel desiring tobe a good husband, ather

to our, employee and thenwith whatever time I canind let in the day, ull-timestudent, Hamons said. Ihave to prioritize and wearmultiple hats simultane-ously, so that nothing or noone gets totally neglected.

here is so much involvedwith being a parent, and be-ing a student involves muchmore than simply show-ing up or classes. Children

come with needs and classescome with homework, Cath-erine Davis, a Lee alumnawho had a child while shewas in school, admitted.

Its hard to do a thought-demanding assignmentwhen you have a cute littlekid looking at you wantingto play, Davis said. Id sayi you can wait or kids un-til you graduate, do it. Buti youre like me and have asurprise kid, keep at it. It justtakes a lot o patience andcaeine.

As a student with a child,Wood said that understand-ing priorities is one thing,but knowing your prioritiesand actually playing themout are two dierent things.

[With my children] alsobeing in school it made itdiicult, because they hadschool activities and theywere my irst priority,Wood said.

Even with the diiculties,Hamons said that parentswith children consideringgoing back to school should

go or it.Do it. Even i its just a

couple o classes each se-mester at a community col-lege, Hamons said. It canbe done, but it wont be easy.

In contrast, Wood ad-vised students to wait untilgraduation to start a am-ily. Wood said that waitingto start a amily ater schooleliminates extra, unwantedstress.

I would never give upbeing a mother, but the ad-vice I would give any emaleas well as my own daughteris to inish your schoolingbeore you have kids, Woodsaid.

Wood is set to graduatein December 2012. Anxiousyet relieved, she said she willgain a sense o accomplish-ment or her hard work asboth a mother and a student.

Balancing school with aamily is not an easy task, ascurrent students with chil-dren have admitted. Howev-er, Wood said she can lookto the uture knowing thatshe is bettering hersel andthe well-being o her amily.

I know that when I walkacross that stage in Decem-ber I will most likely cry,Wood said. I have beenbound to prove to everyonearound me that it is pos-sible to pursue your dreams,while being a single mother[and a s tudent].

By Charity YodisStaff [email protected]

A riendly smile and thesmell o new tires are thetypical greetings at rail-head Bicycle Co., a local bikeshop on 1st Street. However,storeowner Charles Nelsonhas a passion or bikes thatextends ar beyond the bor-ders o ennessee to a timewhen he lived in Costa Ricain a missionary household.

My older brother by 13years had a bike up in theattic. I would see it and justdesire it. Ive always likedbikes and always riddenthem beore I even had one,Nelson said.

Although Nelson hasloved bikes as long as hecan remember, his passiontruly began when a buddy

taught him to ride at eightyears o age. It continued togrow into his later years as ateenager in Costa Rica. Hewas 17-years-old when hediscovered mountain bikingand said he just kept goingwith it.

Nelson later came toCleveland in order to attendcollege at Lee University asan Intercultural Studies ma-jor hoping to go into mis-sions. Upon graduating heworked at a laboratory tak-ing samples o sewer water.wo years later he took on a

new job managing a motor-cycle shop.

I was managing a smallbike shop which was actu-ally part o a motorcycleshop. Ater a year or a yearand hal o being there, theowner was like I need to getrid o bikes, do you want tobuy these bikes? Nelsonsaid. And at that point [mywie and I] already had plansto open a shop. So it was justlike one o those like Godalignment things, like ohyeah, I see where we are sup-posed to go.

Nelson said he was goinginto ministry and intercul-tural missions because healways assumed he would goback to Costa Rica and didnot have any concrete plans.

I always sort o thoughtI would open a bike shop,Nelson said, but I alwayssort o questioned i that waswhat I was supposed to do. Italways elt a little more sel-indulgent to do that. Andso I never really went or ituntil about six years o being

married. You know as a parto a body o Christ we allhave a particular unction,and not everyones unctionis a missionary. Being inbusiness, being in the mar-ket place, working on bikes

is part o the body. So thatswhere I it in. hats whereIm equipped. Its not sel-indulgent.

Nelson is now ulillinghis calling with railheadBicycle Co., where he staysbusy selling bikes, runningthe shop and doing bike re-pairs. However, his ocus isprimarily on the experienceo biking, not the proit.

We really want to ocusmore on events, and expe-rience. rips. Just more theactual experience o riding,and whatever else instead ojust selling. Which is cool,Nelson said.

rue to his words, Nel-son helps the communityexperience cycling througha number o events that heand his company host. Oncea week members o the com-munity and visitors can take

a group ride to either theChilhowee or the OcoeeWhitewater Center trails.railhead Bicycle Co. is alsoin charge o the Cohutta 100and Big Frog 65 mountainbike races.

For the upcoming race,which will take place onApril 28, there are 475 ath-letes already registered and70 more on a waiting list.Nelson said he is baled bythe amount o people wish-ing to participate.

[It] is really crazy be-cause it really is an elitelevel o athlete that can evenpull o riding a bike or 100miles o road, and they arejust lining up to do it, Nel-son said.

As much as Nelson caresabout the store and the ex-perience o biking, amily isthe most important aspect ohis lie.

I have a great wie andthree great kids, thats thehighlight o my lie, Nelsonsaid. My kids like to ridetoo, they are pretty awesomebike riders.

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10 ENTERTAINMENT LEE CLARION | April 13, 2012

By Lindsay ReedStaff [email protected]

Nathan McKays long-timeproject Te Pocketwatch

will soon be released.McKay, a Lee alumnus,began working on his lmproject, Te Pocketwatchin April 2010 aer speakingwith two inuential pastorsin his lie who both separate-ly conrmed that his visionswere rom God.

Aer talking with his pas-tors, McKay traveled to sev-eral churches raising aware-ness and nancial supportor his lm project that willpremier on April 27 in theLee University Dixon Center.

McKay said he did not ex-pect quite the response andsupport he received on set-ting out to make his visionbecome a reality.

From the very beginning,I had small ambitions or thislm, McKay said. I had onlyhoped to raise about $10,000at best, since I had no idea

how to even make a movie.o McKays surprise, theoverall production o his lmended up with a budget closeto $20,000, double his origi-nal goal.

[Now the lm] is an as-sociate production o NorthCleveland Church o Godhere in Cleveland and Vic-tory Hill Church in Carroll,Ohio, McKay said.

McKay said he acted aswriter, producer, director,and editor or his lm, andalso appears as an actor.

Te other cast and crew goare or the most part eithercurrent students or alumnio the Communication Artsdepartment o Lee.

McKay praised his cast andcrew or the time and eortthey invested in making thelm.

Te actors and crew who

labored tirelessly to make thelm were by ar the greatestblessings I ever received,McKay said.

Max Mospanyuk, sopho-more at Lee and productionassistant or Te Pocket-watch, said the lm was agreat learning experience orhim.

Te experience is reward-ing. Te good times comewith their difculties, butdespite every situation, itis a learning experience oreveryone involved, Mospa-nyuk said.

Even though productionwas sometimes difcult, Mo-spanyuk said he believes au-diences will be pleased with

the lm.I believe many students,

proessors, and sta will bepleasantly surprised with thenal cut, Mospanyuk said.

Te ofcial movie traileror Te Pocketwatch wasshown at this years Winter-est, a weekend retreat ormiddle and high school stu-dents by the Church o God.Here, over 20,000 youngpeople viewed the trailer orthe lm.

McKay said he is anticipat-ing the premier o the lmand excited to see the out-come.

It took two long years oproduction, but the team andI were able to create some-thing that only a handul ocollege students have everdone, McKay said.

McKays vision becomes reality in Te Pocketwatch

Te Pocketwatch iscentered around Lucasand his riends. Whenthousands disappearrom the world, Lucasis le with nothing buta ew trusted riends.O to nd a new lie,the group nds shelterin an old abandonedcollege. Without oodand water, their chanceo survival is unlikely.As they ght to stay

alive, they also try todiscover what hap-pened to the thousandswho disappeared. Lucasand his riends are on a

journey o nding truthand answers, in a worldo the unknown.

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SPORTS 11April 13,2012 | LEE CLARION

Lee mascot to make a return?By Shayne StubbsStaff [email protected]

Tere has been specula-tion lately regarding a returno Lees orgotten mascot,

Sparky the Flame. Previously,the university has entertainedans with the two Sparkymascots, but without an ac-tual costume or a person topersoniy a character, theidea o one returning remainsin limbo.

Sparky was the mascot orthe Flames in decades past,but has only made two recentappearances, according toLee Athletic Director, LarryCarpenter. At rst the Flamesused a reball as a mascot,but decided on changing to a

Dalmatian character becauseit went hand in hand with theCleveland Fire Department.

Te athletic departmenthas discussed on several oc-casions about bringing back a

mascot or the campus, evenlooking to the student bodyon what they would like tohave or a mascot and what itshould be named.

According to Carpenter,it has been difcult to keepa mascot or the school be-cause the school would needto nd a person who wouldlove to personiy the charac-ter. In addition, the concepto creating a Flame costumewould be relatively difcult toconstruct, according to Car-penter.

Ive talked to compa-nies that make mascots andFlames is a hard one, Car-penter said. Teres not a loto dierent ways that they cango.

Although a difcult task,Carpenter has had a ew peo-ple in the back o his mindwho he eels can represent themascot and university well.

It takes a special person todo that, Carpenter said. Ittakes somebody who has gotthe imagination, the energy,someone who can play to thekids, play to the crowd andget them involved.

Carpenter would love tosee what the interest aroundcampus would be or a mas-cot and some creative ideas

on what it would look likeand what it would be named.

Several ideas have beendiscussed on how the depart-ment can get the studentsinvolved and one idea that

came up would be to havea poll around campus ask-ing

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