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100 Years in Print The Student Movement: 1915-2015

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The Centennial Issue

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THE STUDENT MOVEMENT

Why Have a Student Newspaper?

Table of Contents Why Have a Student Newspaper?

p. 2

On Editors

p. 3

History of the SM p. 4 Interview with Pres. Andreasen

p. 5

100 Years of War

p. 6

Why News?

p. 8

Why Ideas?

p. 9

Justice, Protest & Controversy

p. 10

Why Pulse?

p. 12

Why Humans?

p. 13

PHOTO BY DARREN HESLOP

Why Arts & Entertainment?

p. 14

Dear Editor

p. 15

The Last Last Word

p. 16

Why Have a Student Newspaper?

August 19, 1915 | No thought, im-

pression, or feeling is fully realized until it has been expressed; and again, expression greatly stimulates and invigorates activity. If the preceding statement is true--and I am sure that it is--and if we can be assured that the thought, the impressions, the feelings, and the activity of Emmanuel Missionary College which the student paper is to express, are right and wholesome, the question “Why a Student Paper?” is abundantly answered.

Such a paper should be a great blessing not only to the school, but also to the constituency which the school serves. if Emmanuel Missionary College, in its life and activity, is a positive factor for good, its blessings and influence should have a more complete expression than they now have. And in sharing our blessings with others, the blessings to us will be multiplied and not divided.

Will Keep People in Touch with School Former students, parents, those who are interested, and those who ought to be, will be given an opportunity to learn more of what Emmanuel Missionary College stands for, and as a result many young people should be influenced to become members of the E.M.C. school family.

Managed by Students Students and teachers, of course, will work together in making the paper a success, but the financial responsibility and the initiative in editorial work will rest largely upon students; hence the workers and burden bearers of the future will learn while yet in school to bear burdens, share responsibilities, and to develop initiative that is worth while.

Not Possible Before Since there are so many blessings

to flow from such a student paper, the question, no doubt, arises in some minds, “Why have we not had such a paper before?” The answer is that we have not had a sufficient number of persons interested in it to make it a success financially and otherwise. But now it seems that the demand for a forward move is too persistent and earnest to be longer denied. Evidently “the time is ripe and the people are ready.”

Now Opportune Time Possibly some one is asking why the paper should be started during the summer vacation instead of during the school year. Not for a year will there be such an opportune time to begin the work as now, while students are in the field and in touch with those who are interested and those who can be interested. This is the harvest time for getting subscriptions. Then, also, the advertising value of the

paper to the school is greater now than it will be again until next summer.

We should have four hundred subscribers, and three hundred students by September 15. What are you doing about it?

Let us all work and pray that our new paper may ring clear the best and most wholesome ideals that God has for Emmanuel Missionary College.

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On Editors

100 Years of Editors

1915-16 Howard Wilcox

Edna Fitton 1916-17 Edwin Thiele 1917-18 Olive Woodward 1918-19 Walter Murray 1919-20 Geraldine Young

Lester G. Sevener 1920-21 Lester G. Sevener

Eldine W. Dunbar 1921-22 Lyndon L. Skinner

Gladys Bond 1922-23 Gladys Bond

Roy Cummings 1923-24 Roy Cummings

Robert Bickett 1924-25 Ellis Maas

Frederick B. Fuller 1925-26 Opal Hoover-Young 1926-27 Frank L. Marsh

Warner McLure 1927-28 Russel Swartz

Robert K. Boyd 1928-29 Russel J. Swartz 1929-30 Ivan M. Angell

Humphrey Olsen 1930-31 Murray Deming 1931-32 G. Clayton Sowler

Vincent M. Elmore 1932-33 Edward Heppenstall 1933-34 Alberta Beardsley 1934-35 James Hagle 1935-36 Mark Johnson

Albert Ambs 1936-37 Rolland Howlett

Leonard Nelson 1937-38 Leonard Nelson

Julia McCormack Fox 1938-39 Julia McCormack Fox 1939-40 Julia McCormack Fox 1940-41 Grace Fields 1941-42 Betty Jean Shadel Fleming 1942-43 Marjorie Jones Brown 1943-44 Jeanne Wagner Jordan 1944-45 Jeanne Hutchison Burdick 1945-46 Virginia Drury Reedy 1946-47 Willard Mauro 1947-48 Duane Cronk 1948-49 Marilyn Anderson Jorgensen 1949-50 Al Dybeck 1950-51 Kenneth Strand 1951-52 Edward E. Kopp 1952-53 Donald Webster 1953-54 Herb Ballinger 1954-55 Larry Croxton 1955-56 Esther Ruf McNeal 1956-57 Adell Haughey 1957-58 Deloris Bigler

Charles Knapp 1958-59 Mitchelene Tolbert 1959-60 David Bee 1960-61 Barbara Johnson Jacobsen 1961-62 Grosvenor Fattic 1962-63 Doris Stickle Burdick 1963-64 Marilyn Wilkinson Gregg 1964-65 Jane Allen

1965-66 Charles Self 1966-67 Karen Altman 1967-68 David Evans

Eldyn Karr 1968-69 Tom Robbins 1969-70 Eric Anderson 1970-71 Roy Benton 1971-72 Robert Bouchard 1972-73 David Ruskjer 1973-74 Craig Anderson 1974-75 Bob Barker 1975-76 Bruce Dillon 1976-77 Susan Slikkers Ringwelski 1977-78 Royson James 1978-79 Kevin McLanahan

Doug Register 1979-80 Meri Gec 1980-81 Royce Regester 1981-82 Sheree Strom 1982-83 Monica Peinado 1983-84 Carolyn J. Perrine 1984-85 Greg Dunn 1985-86 Myrna Castrejon 1986-87 Al Cristancho 1987-88 Troy Storfjell 1988-89 Ted Robertson 1989-90 Lee Seltman 1990-91 Christopher Carey 1991-92 Alvin Vitangcol 1992-93 Tom Gammon

Rebecca De Wind 1993-94 Alvin Vitangcol 1994-95 Karon Powell 1995-96 Heidi Straw 1996-97 Kaleb Cockrum 1997-98 Shereen Devadas 1998-99 Matt Lee 1999-2000 Matt Lee 2001-02 Erin Fitzgerald 2002-03 Erin Fitzgerald 2003-04 Michele Krpalek 2004-05 Janis Leacock 2005-06 Cécile Bruso 2006-07 Andwele Worrell 2007-08 Amy Holder 2008-09 Ashleigh Burtnett 2009-10 Stephanie Oliver 2010-11 Kristina Penny 2011-12 Kristina Penny 2012-13 Samantha Blake 2013-14 Melodie Roschman 2014-15 Melodie Roschman

Hats Off to All Those Editors Scott Moncrieff | When I think of

the job of Student Movement Editor I am reminded of Ernest Shackleton’s famous advertisement* for an expedition to the South Pole— which, incidentally, also took place about 100 years ago:

MEN WANTED for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success.

It might be adjusted as follows:

STUDENT EDITOR WANTED

long nights, intermittent danger, staff of mixed abilities, equipment malfunctions, little honor or recognition, chance to serve the public with a written record of history as it happens.

Fortunately, even incredibly, year after year someone steps up to the plate and delivers. It’s a hard job, but arguably the most important and meaningful student job on campus. Editors need writing skills, people and managerial skills, news sense, a healthy balance of toughness and compassion—and having the wisdom of Solomon (before he took wife two) wouldn’t hurt.

But what a cool opportunity. Each week your team works together to tell the story of the university, brings interesting people in front of the campus community, recounts successes and failures, what’s new and what’s old and unnoticed. The paper is also a place to discuss ideas, a project at the heart of university life. And all of this is choreographed by the editor.

*in a fitting footnote, further research indicates that no original source has been found for the famed Shackleton advertisement despite arduous searching, leading to the conclusion that it was likely a fabrication of the 1940’s which was picked up and disseminated by so many later writers it seems like it has to be true. Which leads to a final quality needed by editors: the ability to separate fact from fiction.

So let’s take our hats off to the present editor and all her predecessors.

Thank you for chronicling the richness of Andrews University, warts and all, and I hope you get a good nap this afternoon.

for arduous labor, small wages,

Editors Remember 1995-1996 “I came to be the 1995/1996 Student Movement editor-in-chief for the slightly unusual reason that the actual voted one was removed from office before the school year began. But that year turned out to be the most fun of my entire Andrews experience and what makes me most proud of my time there.

The fun came from assembling a large staff of talented people to work with and the pride from accomplishing our goal of turning it into full sized, professional student newspaper. A few things I re-

member include: We upgraded our computers to 4 new 256KB!!!! Mac computers. (Yes that was the total memory capacity of the entire computers...and they were over a $1,000 a piece.)

We doubled the size of the paper from 15 to 30 pages and managed to get it out on time every week.

Our graphics design guy Hero redesigned the entire paper (the design later won a competition).

Though he was so meticulous it seemed like every night before the deadline I was up with him

all night. He’d play the first Jars of Clay album over and over again and I still can’t hear that without feeling sleepy!

We still referred to the internet as the ‘World Wide Web.’ We sold a lot of advertising as I made a deal with one of the business students to pay him on commission.

Pastor Dwight (yes he was still around way back then!) came onto the team to write a column for us.

We covered such exciting stories as “Campus Safety Traffic Stop

Causes a Near Riot” and “How come the girls are always locked up in the dorm but the guys get out all the time and no one cares”.... perhaps that last one was just a story I wanted to write.

Heidi Straw Camargo

Editors Remember 2005-2006 What I remember is being tired. It felt like no matter how many articles, words, images, and ads we prepared for the upcoming issue, the night before the paper went to the printer was always a long and laborious one, an all-nighter. And it was always a shock. We’d always start early, with big smiles, thinking that tonight was the night we would actually finish the paper before the morning. Tonight was the

night! It was never the night.

We would sleepily watch as all normal students slowly trickled out of the Student Center. We would be insanely jealous. Where were they going? Were they going to go to sleep, going to have fun?

What is that like? We’d talk about how our off-campus staff members were definitely going to get a ticket tonight, and how unjust that was.

Didn’t Campus Safety know we

were doing important work down here?

I also remember learning: this is what depending on others is; this is what it means to have a voice, a platform. I learned what it was to fail others in a public way; and what it was to be failed. I learned that what felt like the end of the world was indeed not the end of the world. Most importantly, I learned what it meant to work as a

team, and that a team works well when they have feasted on Baguette de France.

Cécile Bruso Engeln

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History of the SM

The History of the Student Movement Joelle Arner | 1915. The year that

the Coast Guard was designated as a military branch by the U.S. Congress. The year that the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place, Babe Ruth hit his first career home run, and Alexander Graham Bell in New York called Thomas Watson in San Francisco, the first transcontinental telephone call. It was the year that the second Ku Klux Klan was established in Stone Mountain, Georgia, the year that Frank Sinatra was born and Ellen G. White died.

And for the more important and significant purpose of writing this article: the year that the Student Movement was born.

So now, just as Barbara Walters used to take us through the past year’s highlights and disappointments when entering a new year, I’m going to walk you through some of our most historical moments as a university. When the very first Student Movement was published on September 30, 1915, it praised the university for its “overflowing” numbers of “over two hundred being enrolled, compared with less than fifty…seven years ago”. Those numbers seem small now compared to the 3,418 we have enrolled for the 2014-15 school year. Another fact you may find interesting is that until this time, 12 boys lived on the fourth floor of the “Ladies’ Dormitory”, which would mean that at one point in its lifetime Andrews University (then referred to as “Emmanuel Missionary College”) had co-ed dormitories…until the numbers increased and the boys were kicked to the curb to live in cottages or in the campus’ Printing Office.

In January of 1943, with the

national draft law in force, more than 5,000 Seventh-day Adventist youth participated in training camps, a majority of them assigned to medical units. Andrews University created a special curriculum to prepare those who would be working in the medical field, including classes such as “medical cadet” and “clinical sanitary methods”. In February, forty-four young men had withdrawn from school for military reasons and the campus continued to look emptier each week. On Tuesday August 7, the announcement of V-J day and the end of the war was celebrated

noted that the General Conference session decided to delay a decision on women’s ordination until the 1990 session. Andrews University President Richard Lesher stated “In the last analysis, we had to say we’re not sure of Biblical evidence for or against ordination of women. . . . With proper education, the issue could be moved toward ordination.”

In November 1992, the Student Movement published a controversial Letter to the Editor from a man by the pseudonym of “Jeremy Phillip”. In this letter Jeremy expressed his feelings on family val-

“The boys were kicked to the curb to live in cottages or in the campus’ Printing Office.” with honking horns and people yelling “Fill ‘er up” at “Ringer’s and Kuhlman’s garages as they raced to their picnic lunches on Lake Michigan” as well as confetti being thrown by a group of College Press girls. On Wednesday the school day was cancelled and an official, more formal, celebration was held with a flag-raising ceremony in the morning, ball games in the afternoon, and a band concert in the evening. It was a day of true celebration.

An April 10, 1985 cover story

ues and marriage. In it he said, “As a christian I believe in marriage.

I see marriage as a blessing from God. When I hear people talk in favor of premarital sex and aborting healthy fetuses it makes me sick.”

It was towards the end of his letter, after talking about his recent marriage, that the plot twist came when Jeremy stated, “My husband is my husband, and I am his husband. In other words, we are homosexuals.” I had to read it twice to make sure that the Student Movement published an article

on homosexuality from a gay man (who was married no less), in 1992, when just last year we made waves for what I thought was the first time with our LGBTQ issue. His letter brought strong responses.

In seemingly less interesting news, but still rather amusing, apparently the gazebo, otherwise known as the Snack Shop back in the day, had slow service back then also. One article complained “Service is slow, hours that the Snack Shop is open have been considerably reduced…food does not seem as good as in years past, but perhaps most noticeable, the general atmosphere of the Snack Shop does not seem conducive to a friendly, relaxed meal.” Allegedly the Snack Shop workers were rude and patronizing towards their customers, making them feel rather unwelcome. For a time, students also had to pay three cents for a packet of ketchup, until the “Free Ketchup Movement” was started by some enterprising engineering students. They offered free ketchup for students with the option of offering donations to their “Operation Splash”.

These are just a few of the many highlights over the past 100 years of the Student Movement. And we’re still making history with issues like our issue on Women’s Ordination from this year. It’s been an incredible journey so far and it will be interesting to see the ways the Student Movement continues to make history in the years to come. Thank you to all who have been a part of the journey so far and to those who may one day become a part of it in the future.

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Interview with President Andreasen

President Niels-Erik Andreasen

by Scott Moncrieff Faculty Advisor What was Andrews University like when you arrived as a student, back in the 1960’s?

[laughs] Yes, it was in the sixties; I graduated [Bachelor of Divinity] in 1966. When I came the university was very, very new [Emmanuel Missionary College, with the transplantation of Potomac University to Berrien Springs, became Andrews University in 1960]. The Seminary Building had just been completed; the present administration building wasn’t here, so the president, Richard Hamill, had his office in the Seminary Building. I remember, as a graduate student, sensing the tension, or friendly competition, between the “college,” and the “newcomers,” the seminary people, who lived on

University Boulevard in very nice houses made of brick, and they had offices with a secretary for every two professors. And I heard the English Department, History, and so on complaining about having no secretary at all, just a student reader if they were lucky. So how these two institutions had to fit together—you could feel, as a student, that it was a work in progress.

I used to work in the library to keep body and soul together. They paid me 95 cents an hour. I was responsible for managing the Seminary Library at night, when the regular librarian went home. We had two collections: one following the Dewey system, which was the old

EMC collection, and the other was the Library of Congress system, which came with the Potomac University collection. So one side of the aisle was Dewey and the other side was LC, and I had to shelve books in both of these systems and help students find them. All that has been changed, of course, but at that time we were just bolting these two institutions together.

Did you have Leona Running as a professor?

Yes. She taught me Hebrew. She was a very, very caring teacher.

We were like her children. And she spoke to me and about me as one of her children, even in her last years, because she remembered me in the class.

So you’ve been president now for 20 years?

I came in 1994, so it’s worse than that [laughs].

What are some of the changes that have happened since you came as president?

I think Andrews University has gained more confidence as a serious academic institution. When I came the university was going through an accreditation visit. The director of the site visit—the president of Oral Roberts University, talked with me about Andrews and all the problems we had here, this and that, and the university had struggled with five-year periods of accreditation, and he was determined to give us another five years. I remember thinking to myself “that should not be.” So we worked on it—Professor Lang in Engineering [who led the next accreditation preparation] was really good at it and next time we got our ten years, which is a way of saying we’ve grown up, they don’t need to look over our shoulders all the time. The increased amount of research, the professional accreditations, are a sign of maturity; new degrees, many more doctoral degrees—they’re expensive, but it means there’s a need for them, and Andrews has grown up enough to do them with good quality. And then, to round out educational changes, there’s the acquisition of distance education with Griggs University coming to Andrews. We have now more students signed up there than are enrolled on campus. Of course they’re not full time students. Eventually I think this might grow to be three times as big as on campus enrollment. We had to get into distance education, and this threw us in there and taught us to swim [laughs]. And then a lot has happened with buildings on campus: the church was expanded, the Seminary building was doubled in size, the Howard Performing Arts Center was added, the dining center was renovated, the new entrance built, the new building at the dairy, Buller Hall, the Nethery remodel, Damazo Hall, and some smaller pieces.

And now we’re looking forward to the new Wellness Center. We got a contribution of a million in cash for that last week.

A few more weeks like that and we’ll be in good shape.

[laughs] We need that, with our long cold winters.

PHOTO BY SCOTT MONCRIEFF

One can actually exercise in the snow. It’s good for you. Scandinavian people do it all the time. But I think in some sense Andrews is a little vulnerable. Think of it: it was Battle Creek College at a time when

the whole Adventist church was in Michigan. Since that time the Adventist church has been bleeding out of the Midwest, going South, and even in the Southern Hemisphere—that’s where it’s happening right now. North American Adventists live in a cloud. They think this is the beginning and end and this is where Adventists live.

Not so. We’re a sideshow. The real church show is in Brazil and SubSaharan Africa and Southern Asia and those places. That’s where the big universities are. We’re a baby compared to Babcock, or Samyook, with its buildings all the way to the

One of the things that presidents do a lot of is meeting former students.

I’m constantly meeting Andrews alums, and almost all of them are so happy and enthusiastic about their stay at Andrews. So you get a sense that it has been worthwhile, even though there is snow and dark days, running out of money and this and that. I just came from Spring Council, connecting with our worldwide church. We had a consultation about Andrews and all these leaders of the church were saying “what a wonderful place that is, cranking out these people to do wonderful things in

“You get a sense that it has been worthwhile, even though there is snow and dark days, running out of money and this and that.” sky. So how do we keep a strong, Christian, Adventist university in a place that’s slowly and steadily being abandoned by the population? We can’t move the university.

It’s not just Andrews; it’s also Harvard and other universities in the snow belt. So we need to make this a “preferred destination” for serious Christian students. And that means we need to give them things to do that are meaningful, including the social part of their life. I want the Wellness Center to be a new gateway for Andrews. I’d like to tell students when they come to visit the campus “come in here, have a Gatorade and a power bar.

This is your building. Spend as much free time as you have here.

This is where you’ll stay well. Play with your friends, run on the track play racquetball, do whatever you like to do, swim.”

the world.” Sometimes they irritate us a little bit [laughs], because they have some expectations we can’t meet, but when you put that aside and come to the real bedrock attitudes toward Andrews it is really positive. Andrews has a very, very good reputation amongst the people it serves. So all this gives you a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction.

Changing tracks, I’m sure there are a lot of headaches to being president. What are some of the parts of the job that you enjoy?

Particularly if they think it’s a terrible article that shouldn’t have been published [laughs]. I explain, of course, that this is a student paper, not a university paper, but that doesn’t really cut ice with the critics of the paper. They say, “well, it’s an Andrews paper and Andrews is Andrews whoever speaks or writes for the institution.” But the student paper, in my judgment, is part of an education that prepares students for responsible citizenship. How to communicate with the greater public. Not only “how do I write?” but “how do they read?” Learning that distinction is hugely important.

I sometimes look out my windows—you can see half the campus from these two windows—at the students passing by throughout the day, and I say to myself “fancy that: all of these students are learning something new every day, and we’re doing it for them.”

Think of all the foolish people in the world who do stupid things.

We’re trying to keep people from doing that by educating them. It’s a wonderful kind of work to be involved in.

Do you read the Student Movement from time to time?

I do. In fact, I have the latest issue in my briefcase and I was going to read it last night, but for one reason or another I couldn’t do that, but I will read it.

I’m sure there’s some community people that will tell you if they think there’s an article that they think you should read.

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100 Years of War

One Hundred Years of

War

Khaki News February 18, 1918 Dear Friend, If it were not for the humorous side of life here, I think it would soon become too monotonous for many of us. yesterday I had my first drill with the litter. It is similar in many respects to rifle drill, so was not very difficult for me. There are always a few, of course, that find it very hard to do the shoulder litters, order litters, carry litters etc. Nearly everyone can keep his proper facial expression when everything is going alone nicely, but when the Sergeant walks up to one who has been exhibiting a bit of ivory and says, “straighten up there, we’re not supposed to have any jack knife soldiers here. Hold that litter properly, you act as if you thought it a fish pole,” it is beyond me to keep from smiling.

In nearly every company they have what is called the “awkward squad.” One day a sergeant had his pet squad out trying to awaken some inspiration in them. He very carefully went thru a certain movement explaining how it should be done, and then gave the order. Everyone failed to properly execute it. Then he told them he would relate something of his life while they stood at ease. “My friends,” he began, “when I was a little boy I was very fond of toys.

My favorites were a number of gaycolored wooden soldiers. I would play with them from morning to night. They made me more happy than all my other toys. But one day

but after saying good-by and receiving their congratulations, I took the first train for home.

-Academy Boys Leave for Army

Herschel Wheeler

New Training Offered 17-Year-Olds January 28, 1943 Staff | With the national draft law

I felt sorry to leave the other boys behind,

I found them all broken in pieces, and they never could be used again. I sat down and cried and cried. Finally my mother came to me and said, ‘Never mind, my dear boy, some day your soldiers will come back to you.’ I had faith in my mother, and so I waited. Today, my friends, her prophecy is fulfilled.”

Very likely this month will be our last in Old Michigan. We will either go south or to France. One special order came to us the other day that seems to indicate this. It was that no one should make any statement concerning the destination or route traveled in leaving camp, or overseas movements. We cannot tell how many men we have now in the Division or give any information to anyone about the military work. “Censorship” is the one word for it all, of course, and it must be done.

I am thankful for the good work that is being done by the bands that have been organized there. I believe it will mean a blessing to each of the boys, and help them to be better men, and better soldiers, and more loyal to the Great Commander, Christ. And it will benefit not only us, but will be a real blessing to the members of the bands as well. We are not going to forget our duty of doing all we can for those with whom we come in touch in giving them of the Water of Life.

With best wishes to all,

now in force, eighteen-and-nineteen-year-old boys will be mandated to Army service. There are now more than 5,000 Seventh-day Adventist youth in training camps, a large majority assigned to medical units. These are recognized as noncombatants and have Sabbath privileges and freedom from bearing arms.

In order to prepare high school or academy juniors and seniors for service in the medical units, the College has arranged to give a special pre-induction course with certificate which will be of material assistance in medical classification for these youth. It consists of the following program and credit values:

Medical Cadet - 2 hours Clinical and Sanitary Methods - 4 Medical administration - 4 Special Bible course - 4 Typewriting - 2 Total - 16 The ordinary prerequisite for this instruction will be twelfth-grade standing. The tuition charges are on the same basis as for other college work. Write to Mrs. Wanda MacMorland, the registrar, without delay. Registration is open until January 31.

All courses will be given in the afternoon so as to permit students to work in the industries in the morning.

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100 Years of War

Academy Boys Leave for Army Medic Receives Five Honors January 28, 1953 February 16, 1945 Through recent weeks more and more empty chairs have been noticed on the boys’ side of chapel as a result of the induction of several students into military service.

Jay Herford and Ronald England were the latest respondents to the call, but the latter returned in a few days with a rather unusual experience to relate, the story of which is given below.

The continued drain upon the Academy enrollment through induction was forcibly brought to mind the other day when Principal Brooks reported that in the past eighteen weeks 44 withdrawals had been issued, many of them for military reasons. These vacant seats are rather solemn reminders of how definitely the war is touching every activity and enterprise.

These former school friends are truly missed by those fortunate enough to be privileged to remain.

Ronald’s account of his brief camp contact follows.

“On reaching my eighteenth birthday I registered according to the selective service regulations, and was called for induction December 18, 1944. A petition to finish the school year was denied, but a subsequent request to be allowed to finish the first semester’s work was granted.

In due time another notice informed me that I should present myself for induction on January 25, 1945. I very much desired to complete my senior year in the Academy, so another petition was sent to the Board requesting a postponement of induction to finish the year’s school work. This petition was not granted and the time came to say good-by [sic] to my parents and friends.

It was with reluctance that I entered the bus, but I was determined to serve my God and my country wherever I might be placed. Several friends and classmates were in the same group which made it

easier than being alone.

At the induction center I went through the regular procedure.

When nearly completed, my examiner inquired as to my school work, and when informed that I was in my senior year in the academy, and after consulting with my other officials, granted me a deferment for six months, or until July. The Lord had granted me more than I had asked for.

I felt sorry to leave the other boys behind, but after saying goodby and receiving their congratulations, I took the first train for home. I had not eaten much all day, but food was forgotten in my anxiety to get back and tell my parents how the Lord had worked in my behalf. I arrived home near the beginning of the Sabbath and never enjoyed vespers so much as I did that night. I am continuing my school work, and want to prove myself worthy of God’s continual guidance and blessing.”

V-J Day and End of Conflict Celebrated with Enthusiasm August 14, 1945 Celebration of the end of the war brought an announcement from [university] President Johnson of a full day’s holiday in classrooms and industries. The excitement reported from all the cities of the nation on the evening of August 7, following the radio announcement of the acceptance of Japan of the Potsdam ultimatum, was matched in a somewhat milder, but no less happy way by the campus and community.

Dean King and Garth Thompson rushed over to get as much jubilation as possible out of the college bell, a small but noisy cavalcade of automobiles made merry with their horns as they raced several times around the paved highways on the college property, and bicyclists with screeching buzzers followed in their train. One group of College Press girls, who had been saving the punched-out bits of paper from thousands of sheets of job work for just such an occasion as this, used their confetti with telling effect upon smiling passersby.

On Wednesday, August 8, a more formal celebration was held, with flag raising ceremonies in the morning, ball games in the afternoon, and a brief band concert in the evening preceding a patriotic thanksgiving service. Dean King of Burman Hall arranged the program, which drew an attendance of several hundred students and

community folk.

Dr. A. W. Johnson read appropriate scripture and offered prayer, in which he invoked the wisdom of heaven on both victorious and defeated nations for adjustments of the terms of peace. “God Save the Flag,” written long ago by Oliver Wendell Holmes, was sung as a congregational hymn of praise.

Dr. McCumber of the history department reviewed the political backgrounds leading up to the conflict which has just ended.

Mr. John Hafner accompanied

by Prof. Verne Thompson played Schubert’s prayer, and this was followed by a brief address by Prof.

H. M. Tippett on the topic: “In This Hour of Victory.” A vocal quartet consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kraner and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwards sang Hibbard’s “Praise for Peace” which was followed by a prayer of thanks and dedication

by Elder W. E. Straw. With the singing of “America” the audience was dismissed with a recording playing of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor.

While the students marched to happy music on the tennis court on Tuesday night, everyone was generously served with ice cream cones as a treat by the college administration, and on Wednesday evening the Student Association under the leadership of its enterprising president Garth Thompson

served huge slices of watermelons to students and staff.

Not the least interesting aspect of the day was the procession of campus cars which for the first time in three years shouted “Fill ‘er up” at Ringer’s and Kuhlman’s garages as they raced to their picnic lunches on Lake Michigan.

A former student of EMC, Alvin Joyner, of Madison, Wisconsin, was the first conscientious objector in the Korean War to win a medal for heroism, announces the Detroit Free Press.

Joyner, who attended EMC from 1947-1949, has been awarded the Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. He witnessed the death of his best friend by a Communist ambush and is carrying three pieces of shell fragments in his body, but he does not hate the enemy and has not tried to kill a man.

During the battle of Bunker Hill, Joyner temporarily lost his sight under his first Communist artillery barrage. Thirty-one men of his company were hit in the first half hour, he said, and he “couldn’t leave the men lying there.” While

trying to get to one man with his arm half blown off another shell came in. He began to crawl with the wounded Marine, but then realized he couldn’t see. He had been blinded by powder burns from the flash of the exploding shell. For the rest of the night Joyner kept on giving blood to the wounded, feeling his way with his hands. He said that his conscience would not let him go back after hearing the cries of the men. For this he received the Bronze Star.

After evacuation and quick treatment, Joyner returned to his company with only a blurred vision.

He received another wound on his first night back.

The Silver Star was awarded him for a combat patrol that “never had a chance.” The enemy spotted the patrol and began to fire in mortars.

A little fellow everyone liked was hit. The man who began to carry him was hit also. Joyner was giving the little fellow some plasma when a mortar blew the plasma bottle from his hand. Since both patrol leaders were killed or wounded it was left to Joyner to lead the men back to their lines carrying the little fellow, through a maze of mine fields.

Joyner is due to return home soon as he has three Purple Hearts for wounds. Even after a year in Korea he has maintained the standards of his church by not smoking, drinking, or swearing. He does not carry a weapon in combat.

“I’m not trying to be different,” he stated. “It’s just the way I feel.

I think you can be a conscientious objector and still be a good citizen.”

U. S. Viet Nam Policy Debated in Assembly November 11, 1965 A panel of our students discussed the U.S. government’s Viet Nam policy in Tuesday’s student assembly at the physical educational building.

Dr. Leif Kr. Tobiassen, professor of history and political science, moderated the discussion. Tobiassen asked each panel member to give his opinion and advice on the Viet Nam situation.

Carlos A. Schwantes and Robert Wayne Clough, junior history majors, were opposed to U.S. policy.

Lowell Peterson, graduate history student, and Edwin L. Buck, junior history major, were in favor of present U.S. policy.

The U.S. is supporting a minor-

ity government that would not exist if the U.S. had allowed the 1956 elections, stated Schwantes. The U.S. government did not approve of popular communist leader, Ho Chi Minh.

Peterson said Red China would have a South Vietnamese puppet if the U.S. did not protect the present free government. Clough charged the U.S. with “gross internal meddling” because of the block to the 1956 election.

“The South Vietnamese asked the U.S. for protection, and the U.S. must give the aid to protect the free world,” said Buck. Moderator Tobiassen asked the panel what present U.S. action should be.

Buck and Peterson agreed that continuance and expansion of the present military policy would ultimately bring a settlement at the conference tables. Schwantes and Clough disagreed with the present military policy, and Clough advocated “pulling out.”

Schwantes and Clough asserted that the present policy of placing Vietnamese in strategic villages and bombing all other villages was ineffective.

Peterson said the bombing would stop the flow of arms to rebels and help them to “get the message.”

Buck said the bombing would build U.S. strength and boost negotiating power.

Remembering 9/11 - September 11, 2002 Gillian Sanner | The smell. The

dust. Trying to comprehend the fact that I was standing on the spot where thousands of people had lost their lives.

I remember September 11, 2001 like it was yesterday. I mean, really, who could forget? I was a senior at Blue Mountain Academy in Pennsylvania. Just minutes after the planes hit the Twin Towers, my whole school knew what had happened. And that was when our little “BMA Bubble” popped. Reality hit, and it hit hard.

The hours after the attacks were pure chaos. Everyone frantically tried to locate family and friends

who worked in or near the World Trade Center. Nobody knew what was going on or what would happen next.

The following month my entire school chose to take a service day trip to New York City. First stop was Ground Zero - and that memory will be forever etched in my mind.

I walked from the subway and immediately covered my nose. The stench was sharp and sickening, unlike anything I’ve ever smelled.

I passed street signs curved away from the World Trade Center. The wall of falling debris had bent the signs out, and balls of wadded-up trash were still stuck between the

pole and the signs. A rescue vehicle came up out of the rubble carrying an orange body basket - an empty orange body basket. I looked up, up, up to the tallest buildings surrounding the site where the Twin Tower had stood. I couldn’t believe that even taller buildings had once stood there. Now all that was left was the soot that layered the street and flew through the air and burned my eyes. How could buildings so big disappear to absolutely nothing?

Now, a year later, I still vividly remember the thoughts that crossed my mind when I saw the exact spot where the tragedy happened.

I was reminded of how fragile life is--a person can be here one minute and then gone the next. I was shocked at the number of lives lost.

I couldn’t believe that some people could be so cruel. How could anyone kill so many innocent people?

And I gained a deep respect for those who gave their lives in an attempt to save others.

Yes, time has passed and yes, people have begun to move on with their lives. But I know that no matter what new things life brings, a part of everybody’s memory will be devoted to what happened in New York City that September day.

9/11 will never be forgotten.

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Why News?

Givan Hinds News Editor

Why News? …because history is important.

I never thought of myself as a historian growing up. Yet, recording and keeping memories was part of my life ever since I could remember. I loved shooting photos, from capturing moments with disposable cameras in the late ‘90s, to contributing to my high school yearbook with my first SLR, (I was quite proud of my Nikon D60) as a Freshman. To this day, I immensely enjoy looking back at the plethora of moments my father captured.

Photos of me, my family, and some of our most proud and poignant moments were preserved on film to be enjoyed throughout the years. I was very much impressed by the past. Old buildings, clothes, and traditions that revealed how folk lived and what they had lived for, fascinated me. I took every opportunity to wear my mother’s clothes from the 80s, and experiment with all things vintage, from hairstyles to philosophies. The stuff of museums, storybooks and archives excited me. Yet, the clincher was the recording of past thoughts and everyday happenings. I kept a detailed diary since the age of six, and continued to record the everyday events of my life off and on clear through college. I gobbled up the fictional diary of princesses from all around the world in “The Royal Diaries” series. I was fascinated with the stories of girls around the world who lived in Byzantium or Hawaii hundreds of years ago. I kept working on my signature and constantly signed

my name after each diary entry, always conscious that 100 years from now, somebody would have insight into what it was like to be a glasses-wearing, Guyanese American, black child living in a small Adventist village in the 2000s. I was certain that I would be making a grand contribution to the history of the world.

But what did it all matter?

You may have used history as a teaching tool and stepping stone to further own knowledge, or someone else’s. You may have connected your desire to become a missionary doctor to your mother’s re-telling of your grandmother’s nursing in the Amazon.

Perhaps your great aunt’s participation in the March on Washington in 1963 inspired you to march and protest against injustice today.

Your actions and choices may not be due to a News story in the Student Movement, but at one point in time, the events that happened before had a profound influence in your present.

News stories make up what will be remembered as history. Without News, the official Centennial issue of the Student Movement which you are about to read would be impossible. Though different sections in the SM have covered everything from opinion pieces, to interviews, to critiques of restaurants, the News section of the SM has over the years provided insight into important, challenging, and thought-provoking topics.

Some of these topics have sparked

much needed discussion and debate from topics of race and justice, LGBTQ issues, United States foreign affairs, and domestic campus affairs. It is important to share news, not only because it allows for conversation, dialogue, and deep thought, but because such discourse is extremely useful to future generations in understanding how we thought in the past.

Their looking back will inform why they think the way they do in their present day. In the future, when journalists have done their factchecking, grammar-checking, and style-checking as accurately as possible, they present a narrative from which others may draw their own opinions, actions, or even clarifications.

Ask any Hegelian philosopher, and he/she will explain the concept of “zeitgeist,” a German term translated as “spirit of the time” which codifies the culture and spirit of society in a certain time period. I would claim that each memory made, each thought provoked, and each action taken during our time at Andrews University represents the grand spirit of our school. Every controversial topic that has stemmed debate, every celebration of student research, every reminder of the next upcoming AUSA event, and all of the actions and reactions that took place because of these declarations cumulatively represents the Andrews experience. When you record News, you write it down. When you write something down, others

will read it, and when others read it, they react to it. Contributing to the body of history in this way says something very important about the age in which we live. All of our photos, Post-it scribbles, emails, English papers, and sound bytes will be useful information for the future humankind.

But why should we care if future humans have an idea of the spirit of our time? I think the important thing about keeping track of my coming of age, relationships, and future plans, was that I treasured the day when I could look back on what I went through and learn from it, see how I’d grown, and gain better understanding of where I came from. As Christians, we are part of a movement that celebrates testimonies, an effort to recognize, remember, and re-interpret how we react to the present.

Why is history important? Because looking back can inform the future. This is why we fight for representation of African American children in history books. This is what is so important about humanizing those in the LGBTQ community in our church. This is why we write, record, and remember.

Because knowing the experiences we went through can encourage, inspire, and remind someone in the future that greatness can be achieved.

So why News?

Because we’re making history.

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Why Ideas?

Erik Vyhmeister Ideas Editor

Why Ideas?

What ‘Ideas’ is and what it is not The Ideas section is devoted to increasing general understanding of whatever topic is being discussed. This means that we need to recognize issues as complex, with multiple (often conflicting) ways of understanding them, as well different views on how they should or could be resolved. This means that articles published in this section sometimes represent views contrary to the Student Movement’s views or those of Andrews University. We expect readers to be discerning in differentiating fact from expression of opinion, though we strive to make that clear.

Why ‘Ideas’ is Important For many of us who have grown up within the Adventist community, deep-seated conflicts within the church have been kept from us because we were young. Even if they haven’t, there is great need for understanding and unity in our church. We are going to be the leaders of this coming generation, and in a world where diversity of belief and ideology is more and more common, we need to know how to deal with these dis-

agreements on both a personal and organizational level. The more experience we have dealing with them in a (hopefully) safe environment (open discussion with peers), the better equipped we’ll be to deal with them in the workplace.

The advent of the internet has made the world a lot smaller, and has eased the diffusion of philosophies from one region to another.

Unlike the Amish, who believe that spiritual purity requires physical separation from the world, we believe that we are called to be missionaries *into* the world. We are called to interact with and witness to people who do not know Jesus as the Savior. However, deep meaningful dialogue can often only take place if we actually strive to understand the other person’s perspective. However, to understand it, we first have to hear it, listen to it, and process what it means. This is skill acquired through experience in trying (and failing) to understand others.

Both inside and outside the church, we’re going to come into contact with people who hold ideas vastly different from our own. These differences may be mi-

nor, or they could come from vast differences in worldview / a priori assumptions. If we want to be able to influence people and lead them to Christ, we have to interact positively with them. This requires us to be discerning and to have intellectual integrity. With much of the non-Christian consensus being that Christians are not and cannot be academically minded because of our faith, it is imperative that we be educated and discerning when interacting with them.

Too often, most controversies are presented as pitting one “side” against the other, as if there were only a limited number of options.

While this is sometimes true, more often there are alternatives. In addition, most of us are either ignorant or misinformed about the details behind major controversies. If we want to contribute to the discussion (and hopefully solution) to these situations, we have a responsibility to be informed about what is actually happening -- not just what somebody else said about it. We also need to think outside the box: many times, there are two competing solutions to a given problem, and they are mutually exclusive. If there isn’t a clear major-

ity favoring one solution, nothing happens. The world needs freethinkers who come up with options that more people can agree on. The Ideas section aims to expand our conceptions of what is possible so we start to think outside the “box” we’re used to.

When we dialogue with people unfamiliar with our ways of thinking, we must express what we believe carefully and precisely or we will likely be misunderstood.

To the inexperienced, misunderstanding is inevitable, but over time and continued interaction, one learns to express better, more politely, and more productively.

Andrews University’s tagline is “Seek Knowledge. Affirm Faith.

Change the World.”

Seek Knowledge: the Ideas section is dedicated to promoting the seeking of knowledge for its own sake. All knowledge is valuable, though it must be studied and assessed for usefulness in one’s own life in keeping with Biblical principles.

Affirm Faith: while faith does not require understanding of God, the study of the Bible (and, by proxy, God) is certainly helpful. In matters concerning belief, it is im-

portant to understand why we believe what we do.

Change the World: how can we expect to interact positively with people we don’t understand if we’ve never learned how to see through somebody else’s eyes?

People are complicated, and none are exactly the same as we are. If we want to change the world, we have to first be able to see through others’ eyes – this means listening and understanding their stories and their beliefs. It is impossible to forcibly change someone’s mind, but the first step towards a good relationship is to understand. It is not possible to have meaningful discussion if you discount another person’s experience as invalid.

You may disagree with their conclusions, but you cannot say (with any credibility) “you didn’t feel that.”

So why do we have a section in our newspaper devoted only to the discussion of ideas – wouldn’t that promote inaction? By discussion with people we don’t agree with, we come to a better understanding of both their beliefs and our own. We develop or discover rationale for our own beliefs, so that we are not standing on shift-

ing sand or an unknown base. Just as we cannot be saved by the faith of another person, we should not depend solely on third-party information to define ourselves. Plato wrote that Socrates said “the unexamined life is not worth living” – something I hold to be very true.

Individually, we need to know who we are, what we believe, and why we believe it. Then, when we dialogue with others, we can contribute consistent well thought out ideas to the conversation.

Why is it useful to talk about ideas? Because it teaches us how to understand people, appreciate our differences, and have positive relationships through any kind of controversy. I hope whenever you talk someone you disagree with, you at the very least walk away with a greater understanding of who they are and what they believe, as well as respect for them and their beliefs, whether or not you think them valid.

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Justice, Protest & Controversy

True Journalism Inherently Reflects Christian Ideals November 16, 1983 Dear Editor, One of my favorite reporters walked into the Student Movement office and closed the door. “What do you know,” he asked us. Within minutes, we were on top of a big story - the kind of story that makes being on a newspaper staff worth the late nights and slave’s wages.

Before the week was out, I saw the light go out in our reporters’ eyes since they’d picked up the story.

Eagerness that met me via student’s [sic] grabbing that Wednesday’s SM out of my hands was followed by “If you guys couldn’t print more than this, why did you run the story?”

What happened? Our faculty sponsor, Dr. Bayley, came to our first meeting and told us the administration would prefer to make a statement about the arrest and charges against [university president] Dr. Smoot to our doing an article. We told Dr. Bayley because of the nature of the story, we believed an administrator’s statement alone would not be the whole story. He said he would pass on the message, and we proceeded with the story, contacting the officer that made the arrest in Maryland, and the Montgomery County Journal that first reported the arrest.

The administration met and decided that the final version of our SM story was to be in our sponsor’s hands by 9:00 a.m. Tuesday the 25th (later amended by phone to a more reasonable 2:00 p.m.) and copies would be distributed to Drs. Schwarz, Smith, Bauer and Andrea Steele at that time. If the story was exceeding the requirements of “Christian journalism,” “some change might be necessary,” and because a picture of Dr. Smoot

would visually associate him with “a great many untruths already circulating,” pictures were forbidden. In the end, the SM was denied printing information from sources outside the University, and made the story’s focus essentially David Bauer’s statement at the Week of Prayer meeting that Friday plus a few University reactions.

It appears Andrews’ administration still doesn’t know what journalism is. The SM is neither the Andrews Inquirer or Andrews Lampoon. In the past years I have been with the SM, I have yet to experience editors and staff who were using the SM as a tool to “get” anyone. Perhaps because administration and its policies are generally retributive in nature, it suspects student organizations to behave the same way? In several cases, the administration wished to throttle the SM’s coverage of controversial issues, and in some cases, they did. I felt then as I do now, that in none of these instances was the administration’s health and well-being or legal status threatened, and that presenting facts as objectively as possible and allowing student, staff and faculty alike to respond to these facts in clearly marked separate sections of the paper should never be something an honest administration need fear. Journalism is solely an exchange of information, not the manipulation of information for a desired effect.

I believe our readers have a right to all the verified facts about our school and church. If Andrews’ or Adventism’s credibility suffers for having verified facts aired, it’s time that they be aired. If there are skeletons in our closet, people who own the closet have a right to know what’s in them. It’s not the respon-

sibility of journalism to clean out any closet, it is journalism’s responsibility to shine the light. As an employee of the SM, I felt extremely helpless and foolish as at least two Indiana TV stations covered the Smoot story (in our own back yard as it were) while the SM was only allowed to tell half of the story.

“Christian journalism” is neither. Think about it. True journalism has no bias, as the modifier “Christian” suggests. That many publications are propagandistic in nature, use the word “NEWSpaper” (emphasis supplied), and shame the word and concept of “journalism” is no excuse for the SM not to be a real newspaper. And Christians seek ultimate truth and meaning in their relationship to the universe, God and their fellow creatures. Where there is obstruction of this truth-seeking process, there is heresy; sin. Protectionism or telling half the truth got Ananias and Sapphira in a lot of trouble, not to speak of what happened to Eve when she believed half the truth, as we read in the Bible.

It is irresponsible and wrong for student, SM staff and administrator alike not to demand truth through investigative journalism in Andrews University’s student newspaper, the Student Movement.

It does not now fully exist, as we have seen in the censorship of the SM story on Dr. Smoot. I challenge everyone involved (students, staff and administration) to demand a responsible solution to the obstruction of student journalism at Andrews.

John Jay Ullotch Senior/Architecture

“I believe our readers have a right to all the verified facts about our school and church. If Andrews’ or Adventism’s credibility suffers for having verified facts aired, it’s time that they be aired. If there are skeletons in our closet, people who own the closet have a right to know what’s in them.”

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Justice, Protest & Controversy

Hydrant - A Conservative Underground Newspaper October 16, 1969

Classes Cancelled for April 22 Pollution Fight April 17, 1970

Staff | The Underdog’s Fire Hy-

Staff | Classes after 10:30 a.m.

drant. Editor: anonymous. Publisher: unknown.

Circulation: uncertain.

One of the most widely circulated “underground” newspapers on the AU campus in recent memory deserves some acknowledgement by the campus’ aboveboard publication.

For those students who have not seen a copy of the one-page newspaper, the Fire Hydrant proposes “to present divergent views of current campus problems so that constructive measures may be taken to remedy the situation.”

In accordance with this aim, the Fire Hydrant’s unknown authors state their “divergent” opinions on AU’s university-student relationship, and on the University’s movie policy.

In a paragraph addressed to President Hammill, the Hydrant editors declare that the publication “is not meant to be destructive or disruptive,” but that it is intended to provide “the true insight of current student thought.”

True to their word, the editors of the Hydrant refrained from using the vituperative style that is characteristic of most underground newspapers. Their argument against the so-called “love it or leave it” philosophy of Andrews University is calmly and logically developed.

Their criticism of AU’s movie policy, however, is more emotional and therefore more obscure. Apparently, the authors feel that the University should either allow theater attendance, or not show any feature films at all on campus.

But sweeping statements such as “more and more sensitive and refined people are revolting against their (feature films) nearly complete degradation,” and confusing word choices such as “sufficient sources of high quality entertainment…make it possible to discontinue the baptism of this rather spotted medium,” tend to conceal rather than strengthen the author’s opinion.

On the whole, the Fire Hydrant can be classified as a somewhat conservative underground newspaper.

will be cancelled on April 22, Earth Day, as a result of an action in last Sunday’s faculty meeting.

The day will be devoted to an anti-pollution teach-in and work-in sponsored by the AUSA. According to Joe Cooper, Community Action Committee chairman, the campus activities will be part of a nationwide consideration of environmental problems on April 22.

Plans for Earth Day action range from a “pollution flotilla’ down the St. Joseph river, to clean-up projects in back areas of the campus, to a letter-writing booth in the student lounge. Three films, on- and off-campus teach-ins, and miscellaneous work projects are also scheduled.

According to Cooper, Earth Day events will begin with a rally in the A. W. Johnson auditorium at 10:30 a.m.

FKM: A Vocal Protest Segregation November 11, 1965 September 23, 1965 Staff | Enterprising engineering

students have been recently rendering patrons of the Snack Shop a gastronomical favor. For a few hours the harried eater, seeking to camouflage the delicate taste of cold French fries, did not need to fumble in his pocket for three cents with which to purchase ketchup. Instead he could go to the Free Ketchup Movement table just outside the entrance of the Snack Shop and obtain the desired sauce, and if he so wished, he could leave a donation to Operation Splash.

The Free Ketchup movement is one of the more vocal protests to the present quality of the Snack Shop.

Business, service, quantity, and quality of food offered by the Snack Shop have deteriorated within the past several years. Service is slow, hours that the Snack Shop is open

have been considerably reduced-sometimes even opening later than its scheduled time--food does not seem as good as in years past, but perhaps more noticeable, the general atmosphere of the Snack Shop does not seem conducive to a friendly, relaxed meal.

While many other shortcomings may be excused, this last one can not be. Who would want to patronize an establishment that makes the customer feel unwelcome? A situation like this only compounds the difficulties of the other problems the Snack Shop faces. Friendliness could make the customer forget these other inconveniences.

If the Snack Shop is to gain a more favorable status among the student body of Andrews University, perhaps it should begin here.

Leif Kr. Toblassen, Professor of History One of the major causes for the racial conflict that is now tormenting the American nation is the lack of education.

The colored person often has been denied a sufficient education; he cannot compete with other job applicants who are better trained.

This perpetuates poverty.

The white person often has been denied an education that is sufficient for multi-racial understanding and cooperation. Too many are educated under the influence of only one culture and one outlook and one tradition.

If there is a remedy for the racial conflict in America today, it is education: more widely diffused educational opportunities for all

members of all community groups, and opportunities that will provide an education for inter-racial and inter-group understanding and cooperation.

In addition to education, the basic remedy is exercise of personal responsibility in the local and national community. Even in communities where the majority is composed of decent and wellmeaning community members do not act upon their convictions; they allow the ignorant and prejudiced and the radical to exercise initiative alone. Too few decent members of our communities take personal, practical action to rectify injustice and combat prejudice and provide a basis for interracial cooperation.

After a break for lunch the work crews and the flotilla will start at 12:30.

The flotilla on the St. Joe will be, according to Cooper, “a floating march to Lake Michigan. If we can obtain cooperation from local boat-rental agencies, we will send boatloads of students down the river to St. Joseph, bearing signs about the state of the river,” says Cooper.

“This would not be carried out unless there was no question as to the safety of those involved. The number would be limited,” added Cooper.

Specific work projects include cleaning up and improving trails in the AU lowland area, testing Lemon Creek for pollution, removing junk from the back campus and Tin Town areas, possible planting of vegetation to prevent erosion in the area of the Pathfinder building,

and beautification at Weko beach, among other activities.

The AUSA will send out several student groups for teach-ins in area high schools. Then, at 3:30 there will be a teach-in on campus in the student lounge.

At press time a symbolic burial of an internal combustion engine was tentatively planned for 5:00 p.m. Evening activities will consist of a recap and report of the day, according to AUSA president Tom Robbins.

The only exception to the class cancellation is classes numbered over 450 which meet after 4:20 p.m.

“We are rapidly making our earth unlivable,” says Cooper. “It’s important that AU students take advantage of this day off to join in an attack on the problems of pollution.”

Student Chooses Beard Over Job January 15, 1970 Staff | Although AU students

are not prohibited from growing beards, Meredith Steele, senior behavioral science, claims that when he returned to school this quarter with whiskers, he was politely asked to shave.

His work supervisors at the custodial department made it clear, he says, that if he intended to work in the department, he had better shave.

As a result of this, and “several similar cases,” Senator Dick Hamstra says he is going to introduce a motion in Senate tonight declaring opposition to dress and appear-

ance standards beyond those of the University in any work department.

V. E. Garber, vice president for financial affairs, said he knew of no University policy against bearded workers. “Beards are in order if they are neat and trimmed,” he said.

When questioned about the custodial department policies, department head Arthur Davis said, “I’d rather not go into that.” “We try to discourage beards,” he said.

Steele still has his beard, but he now has a new job.

--continues--

Moratorium Group Begins Activities at AU December 11, 1969 Staff | A group advocating unilat-

eral US withdrawal from Vietnam plans to support the moratorium movement here at AU. Calling itself the Andrews moratorium Committee, the group intends to sponsor a booth in the Student Lounge which will dispense political literature Dec. 10-12. Tom

Martinson, sophomore political science and an unofficial spokesman for the committee, says that it is a “grassroots political movement.”

Tonight the group will sponsor a debate in the Gold Room on Nixon’s policy as evinced in his speech of Nov. 3. The debate be-

gins at 7:00 with Dr. Robert Firth and Dr. Edward Specht on the opposing sides.

The Andrews Moratorium Committee will also seek signatures for a petition to President Nixon calling for unilateral withdrawal, according to Martinson.

Martinson was asked if he ex-

pected the committee’s activities to inspire the formation of an anti-moratorium. “We would like a counter-group,” he replied.

Martinson, who emphasized that he was not speaking in his capacity as AUSA vice president, stated the committee’s primary interest is in “political education” rather

than demonstrations.

“We will not interfere with university activities,” he said.

If this month’s moratorium observances are a success, says Martinson, the committee will organize and elect officers.

In charge of the Student Lounge booth are Richard Christenson,

sophomore, and Betti McDonald, senior-psychology. Buttons and stickers will be on sale to offset committee expenses.

The Andrews Moratorium Committee is affiliated with the Michigan Moratorium Committee which has headquarters at Central Michigan University.

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Why Pulse?

Tim McGuire Pulse Editor

Why Pulse?

I was born on February 24, 1993, in Framingham Massachusetts. Shortly after that my parents left the tiny apartment for the sunshine state of Florida. After five years of struggling to land a consistent job, we left Florida to my Dad’s home state of Maine, where he he got a gig as a delivery man for a juice company. We ended up staying in Maine for the next 16 years.

During this time my parents refused to send me to public school, and where we lived there wasn’t any other option, so I was homeschooled. While I say homeschool, it’s not really what you think. In fact I hardly ever did school. All the way up until 6th grade I stayed home, sometimes teaching myself math or reading, but most of the time you could find me outside, throwing up a baseball and hitting it over the street in front of our yard. Those were lonely days.

I had no connection with anybody else, no one but my parents, sister and two little brothers. So for the longest time what would make my days is waking up at around 5am to eat breakfast with my Dad before he went to work. I would try occupying my time by pretending to be Drew Bledsoe throwing the pigskin for the Patriots. Other times I would be dribbling a tiny ball on my driveway and trying to dunk on

my little plastic rim. I didn’t really have any form of entertainment on tv or video games. All I had was me and my sports.

Andrews University is a school that is known for its scholastics, diversity, and Seventh-day Adventist principles, but it has never been confused with an athletic powerhouse. Nevertheless, there are a number of people that attend this school that are here mainly because of the values sports taught them. They are not here because of a church, not because they had a lot of money, not because they could play music or sing, not because they were brilliant, but because of sports. How do I know that there are people like this? Because I myself am one of them.

Around five o’clock in the afternoon I knew that my Dad was soon coming home. So I would take my bike and ride to the end of the road. There I would wait for Dad to get home. Sometimes it would take a while, but that didn’t stop me.

When it wasn’t winter time and there was still some sun, we would eat really quickly so we could go outside and play any sport imaginable. From football to whiffle ball, we did it all. My dad and I got so good at football that we could whup anybody. I was only about 10 and my Dad getting pretty close

to 50, but there was nobody that could hold us down. That led to me dominating my football team at the ages of 6 and 7. Watching my highlights as a kid kind of gives me goosebumps--no lie I was good.

However, in 3rd grade, my mom decided that football was too violent.

Apparently Ellen White speaks out against it. This really hurt me. My football dreams were done.

In the SDA church people like the president Ted Wilson seem very passionate about why kids shouldn’t compete in sports, electing to bring it up in his sermons.

He will say how competitive sports is bad for a Christian. What people like Mr. Wilson don’t understand is that sports can be the only way to bring out the best of someone. We are not all inspired through music, reading, writing, or preaching; some of us can only be reached through the avenue of athletics.

Eventually my parents moved closer to an Adventist school so that I could attend. After trying to play little league baseball while being scared of the ball, I tried to play soccer on the school team.

While this was fun, it just wasn’t replacing the passion I had for football. Then I found the sport of basketball in my freshman year.

Once I found basketball it took off for me. In high school I began to

excel in basketball. While my team was never very good, individually I was getting recognized. I played year-round; AAU in the spring and summer-league in the summer. My goal was to play for WAU which at the time was a Division II NCAA competitor that even played division I schools like Howard, and Longwood University. When I got to the school I realized that I may have gotten in over my head. They were way better than anyone I had ever seen. All but two of them were on scholarship, but the coach had a brief tryout for anyone that wanted to walk-on. The tryout didn’t go too great, but I seemed to have made him notice enough to keep me on his mind. After working out with the team’s starting point guard for a few weeks and attending practice every day, the coach offered me a position as a walk-on.

To be honest it was more of a year long tryout, but to me it meant the world.

My goal was to become the team’s backup point guard by my second year. These dreams were short lived as mentally I couldn’t take the constant belittling the coach gave me and so I quit and I came to Andrews. I didn’t think I would ever touch a basketball again.

Sports has up and downs, it

teaches you lessons. Life is up and down, and if you don’t learn your lesson early enough you won’t survive. This world will knock you down, it will tell you that you are not good enough, that you can’t do it, like my coach did. I would love to say that you can’t let that get to you, but I would be a hypocrite for saying so.

I hated Andrews, I had almost no friends, a failing relationship, and basketball was a past thing.

But during my second year I made a decision. My brother, Shawn, had something terrible happen to him.

This situation really ripped my family up. I know that my brother looks up to me a lot; he told me that he was really hurt that I gave up basketball. This hurt me, and after what had happened to him, I decided to do the only thing I could.

I began swimming, lifting, doing pilates, and of course, playing basketball. I worked out a lot in the summer by myself, and also with my brother’s high school team near our new home in Orlando, Florida.

My goal was to make the Cardinals basketball team. To some it might seem corny, but to me it meant so much, I just wanted my little brother to be proud of me. Regardless of what the outcome was, I was going to give this my best shot. The tryouts came, and even though I was

popping Advils to try and keep the pain down in my sprained foot, I did my best. After a two week process of tryouts I got a call that I had made the team. The first person I called was my brother.

Sports and I have gone on a long journey, from the times of playing all day by myself and with my dad when he got home, to my senior year feeling like a star. It has been a journey. I won’t be young forever, but as long as I am I will be playing sports. I have so many more lessons to learn from sports, and those lessons will help me when I get older. How to work hard, how to be successful, and how to get up when i’ve fallen.

It all became real early on in the Andrews alumni game when I checked in at the point. I had shown myself that if I work hard, if I listen to the people that are closest to me, I will succeed. That is a lesson I wouldn’t have learned any other way. So if people ask me, “why sports?” Because I wouldn’t be here without them.

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Why Humans?

Dakota Hall Humans Editor

Why Humans?

It is stories that rule us.

In 2010, Brandon Stanton started his Humans of New York (HONY) page on Facebook. In the years since, the page has garnered over twelve million followers, including me. Stanton uses the page to tell the stories of everyday New Yorkers, on their way to work, after a bad date, or just sitting alone in the park. Stanton’s goal is to show the world the diversity and wonder of the humans of New York. With each photo, he attempts to tell at least a small part of each person’s story. Now, these stories are being told to a huge audience, which each picture receiving thousands of comments and hundreds of thousands of likes. Stanton accompanies each photo with a quote he acquires from his conversations with the subjects of the portraits.

Stanton’s big motivator in this endeavor, he says, is from the realization that “We walk down the street and see all these people and we do kind of wonder about their stories.

The celebrations and the victories; that’s what people are engaging with.” By telling each person’s story, Stanton hopes to unify his city in a way that it hasn’t been in the past.

With stories, we find ourselves and others.

When Melodie interviewed me for the position of section editor for one of the new sections of the SM she was engineering, I knew that I

wanted to model it after Stanton’s plan as much as possible. Prior to the Humans section in its present incarnation, there had never been anything quite like it in the SM. In the past, the humans of Andrews that were profiled in the paper were usually those involved in campuswide activities who were covered in the news sections. Elsewise, most years, the SM included a section with person-on-the-streettype sections. In the past, this has been called “The People,” “he said, she said,” and “In Your Opinion.” These were generally styled as a question, such as “What do you want for Christmas?” or “How do you feel about your fellow students participating in the human auction?” posed to a diverse group of students who then answered in a few short sentences. For a while in the early 2000s, this included a “Smiles of the Week” section.

While these sections were able to include the voices of a multitude of students, I intended for my section to be different. I wanted to actually tell those students’ stories, not simply have them say something just to build a public facade.

I wanted to find out real things about how the students feel, think, and live. My section was going to help Andrews University become more acquainted with its students.

When I walk across campus, I pass many people without ever speaking to them or knowing any-

thing about them. I wished for the section, which I named “Humans” in the hopes of drawing parallels to Stanton’s work, to change that.

I wanted to tell all of the stories that I could of the amazing people on our campus. This job gave me an excuse to talk to everyone, and it presented an avenue for others to talk to new people as well. I had fantasies of students reading about other students and falling madly in love with them, or at least wanting to become friends with them immediately. They would pursue them, casually bumping into them one day and striking up a conversation, and then it would all be set. In taking this job, I not only wanted to tell stories, but I also wanted to instigate new ones.

While I am unsure whether or not anything even closely approximating this ever happened, I can be sure that stories that would not have been told on a campus-wide level were told.

Stories bring us out of the dark, unknowable void of the past and future to bind us together.

When I took this job, I assured Melodie that my goal would be to tell the stories not of the people making the news and doing big things, but of the underappreciated and the marginalized. Each person at Andrews University is exceptional and, while I am not a fan of propaganda, I wanted to

indoctrinate that idea in our campus. Despite my small-town roots, I have never been very school-spirited; however, here, among the past, present, and future world-changers, I wanted to be.

In the past two years, my writing team has interviewed humans who have reached national popularity for their music, hung up Justin Bieber cutouts in their windows, and studied abroad. Andrews students have expressed their views on naps, hula hooping, and the pursuit of coolness. We presented stories about the struggles of being LGBTQ+ on this campus, about wild adventures, and about the joy of making friends. Through all of this, we have told the stories of the Humans of Andrews University.

It seems wrong, after all that I have said, to end with the words of a single person. Instead, I will close my time on the Student Movement with the voices of some of the members of my writing team, without whose amazing work I could not have told so many of your stories.

Kari Logan: The Humans section of the Student Movement is important because it gets the most variety. You never know who is going to be interviewed and what you’ll learn about them. There is no constant ‘theme’ to it so it never becomes predictable or boring.

Also I like to think that this is how everyone has a chance to get their

face in the newspaper, you never know what something so small could mean to someone.

Ryan Logan: Writing for the Humans section gave me experiences I never could have had otherwise. I’ll always cherish the moments I spent talking to perfect strangers about their everyday lives – the quietly astounding people are the ones who make this campus such an inspirational place.

Mercedes McLean: Working in the Humans section gave me the opportunity to see the incredible variety of people on campus. We walk by hundreds of people every day who have unique and interesting stories and it’s been a privilege to have a good excuse to talk to a few of them.

Scott Moncrieff: Ordinarily we walk our well-traveled paths populated with well-known faces, and that’s fine. But that’s also part of why I love “Humans.” It gives me a perfect excuse to meet people you or I may not know and ask them lots of questions. They invariably have many interesting things to say, and by talking with people from all over campus, and sharing that in the Student Movement, I feel like I’m doing one small thing to bring our diverse and fascinating multitude closer together.

Rebecca Myshrall: When I started writing for the Humans

section, I didn’t expect to learn as much as I have. Through the interviews I’ve conducted, I’ve realized that there are so many interesting people her at Andrews and their voices need to be heard.

Isabel Stafford: The strength of the Humans section is that it allows us to see how cool and varied the inhabitants of this campus are.

We often forget that people outside of our immediate friend groups and majors are fully realized people with lives and interests that are just as complex as our own, and the Humans section gives us a glimpse into the lives of all of these people. It’s awesome.

Chris Wheeler: Writing for the Humans section has meant a lot to me. As a lover of stories, I try to find them wherever I go, so interviewing people for the Student Movement has given me many opportunities to find the unknown stories of our students and staff.

I appreciate being able to share these untold stories to the university through this newspaper, memorializing the individuals who attend and work here. And even if my articles are not read by a significant portion of campus, I will at least have personally benefited from the experience of meeting and getting to know the diverse crowd of people, all from various walks of life, who comprise the population of Andrews University.

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Why Arts & Entertainment?

Shanelle Kim Arts & Entertainment Editor

Why Arts & Entertainment?

I remember when I first read the Arts & Entertainment section of TIME magazine. I was about eight years old, and I was reading Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry. The title character talked about how she and her dad both had a habit of reading magazines and newspapers from back to front, and because I liked the book so much, I decided I wanted to make that a habit of mine, too. I found a huge red stack of back issues of TIME and I sat down and started going through them from back to front.

At the time, the back of the magazine was devoted to talking about entertainment news and the arts, and I quickly grew absorbed into reading about people and artifacts I had never heard of, like Andy Warhol or Björk’s album Homogenic. Even though I was too young to catch a lot of the nuances in the articles, I loved—and still love— reading personal interviews with bands, artists, writers, and directors about the creative process as well as art reviews that talk about what’s problematic or what’s uplifting in a work. The arts section has remained my favorite part of any publication since then, and to this day, I still read magazines and

newspapers from back to front— because that’s usually where the good stuff is. This is just a small list of reasons of why I love the arts and why I think they matter.

The arts take us away from the stress of daily life.

This aspect of the arts is easily taken for granted. “Stress reliever” makes something sound like a fluffy indulgence, and that’s often how we think of our books, our movies, our music, our TV shows.

But we need stress relievers. That something gives us rest and enjoyment doesn’t make it any less valuable—in fact, I would say it makes it more so. Exercise relieves stress, but it also keeps us healthy. The arts do the same—in providing us with a respite from daily life, they prepare us to face it again.

The arts show us what amazing things our classmates can do.

Looking through the archives of old Student Movement issues, I was surprised to learn how young the Arts and Entertainment section is. It’s only within the last ten years that the Student Movement decided to devote a whole section of the

newspaper to the arts, though the arts have always had a presence in the paper. Since its inception in 1915, the Student Movement has focused mostly on highlighting the creative accomplishments of students—promotions for student concerts are scattered throughout the News section, and the early Literary section showcased student poetry and creative nonfiction.

Articles like our Senior Spotlights showcase the artists we know and see around campus, and give us glimpses into their creative process that we might not otherwise have access to and to help us value people we see every day. This year, we saw the creation of the Andrews University Theatre Wing, which I hope will become a major part of our campus culture. Judging from their debut performance of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, it already has.

They show us what’s going on and what needs to be fixed.

The Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz once said, “Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.” I disagree--I think that

the arts can solve problems. It makes us aware of what we need to fix, and it expands our imagination and creativity on how to fix them. Often, as Christians, we try so hard to be the city on a hill in this world that we forget how to live in it. It’s easy to lock ourselves away in our white towers, concerning ourselves only with our own purity and peace of mind, ignoring what’s actually going on outside for fear of the mess. But that’s not what we’re called to do. Jesus always knew what was going on— what issues were at stake, what people were suffering from—and he worked for change. In one of my classes, the professor talked about how the powerful British Empire fell because of novels; people read about the horrific effects of British imperialism in books like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and they decided to do something about it, which was to stop supporting the government in its colonialist endeavors. The arts show us what’s wrong, and help us expand our minds to imagine what’s right.

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Dear Editor

Letters to the Editor Black Non-American Criticizes Elimination of Negro History Week April 17, 1970 Dear Editor: I was chagrined to read in the last edition of the Student Movement that Negro History Week will be essentially eliminated from Andrews University. As a black non-American, I eagerly looked forward to the annual event which has played a significant role in the reduction of my ignorance concerning the exciting role of the Black American in this country.

Reading the article reminded me of Thoreau’s statement about those who march to the beat of a different drummer.

It is a noble deed to focus on the brotherhood of all men. No one will deny, however, that the experience of the Black American in this country is entirely different from that of any other ethnic group.

It was not the Chinese, Japanese, or East Indian who were held in slavery in this country. It was the black man who built this country and whose rightful role has been

denied and blotted out of the history books and from the minds of most residents of this country.

It is my opinion, sir, that the elimination of Negro History Week is but another index that we are still infected with the malignant virus of racism.

Last year I was told by one administrator that the reason there are not more black teachers on the faculty is that qualified Negroes can’t be found - i.e. none with PhDs. A check of the current bulletin reveals that there are 101 teachers with only Masters degrees and 9 with only a bachelor’s degree. In view of these facts, I fail to see the validity behind their claim.

Yes sir, AU does march to the beat of a different drummer, but the crucial question is can we afford to.

Certainly, as an international university, we should emphasize all men but not to the detriment of

SM: Dust Collector February 14, 1979 Dear Editor: “I like cafeteria food.” I can hear the pleasant laughter trailing this remark whether at faculty party, classroom, or bull session. Are we convinced the food is really that bad; or has this odious incense of complaint been ascending for so long it has become hallowed by tradition and has produced another EMC sacred cow?

Evidently these gastronomic scoffers, grumblers, and groaners were raised on a table d’hote of birds’ nest soup, chocolate covered ants and pate de foie gras, their taste buds so highly honed to be able to distinguish between a Dom Perignou ‘99 and a Bolinger ‘51 that appreciation of savory soy-furter is utterly beyond their sensitivity range. I suspect the opposite. The warped ideas of this small, but unfortunately vociferous group of gastronomaniacs has drowned out all decency and intellectual honesty over the matter.

Arise, awake ye mumblers, com-

plainers and fellow travelers!

Abandon the planktonic anonymity of the herd; speak out, but if afraid to become outspoken or eccentric, you need not divert yourselves of the comfortable mantle of security. Join another herd. Say after me, “We like cafeteria food.”

Sincerely, David Rees Junior Pre-law

some. I commend the University for finally recognizing its need to emphasize the brotherhood of all men--something which should have been done long ago.

The words of Jesus to the Pharisees were certainly apropos. “These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”

Sincerely yours, Victor O. Wallen Seminary

How to Be a Concert Wrecker October 24, 1962 Dear Editor: Anyone who faithfully follows the suggestions below can become an “Expert Concert-Wrecker” at Andrews University: Come in during the artists’ opening number. Bounce up the balcony stairs three at a time--those steps echo nicely, so everyone will know you have arrived. Trip over a few seats before you slam into an empty one. Drop your umbrella on the floor.

Listen to the artists when you aren’t whispering. Keep clapping when everyone else has stopped.

In a few minutes, decide you don’t don’t like the music. Talk eight or ten of your friends into leaving

In Defense of Mustached Males November 2, 1986 Dear Miss Editor, After a precursory survey of the article which appeared in the SM, “On Men and Mustaches,” I felt that such an injustice born of a generalization of personal opinion should not remain unchallenged.

Of sixty people a friend and I contacted at random, we found only two who thought that mustaches were insufferable and none thought that they were unsanitary or vermin-ridden. Now, is this a significant majority in support of the previous article’s premise, “mustaches are unsanitary”?

We of the mustache set do not feel that we are more prone to suffer from delusions than the ordinary person. It has been suggested that ours include the delusions of higher intelligence, a distinguished look, and being more dashing looking. Remember it wasn’t man that put hair on the lip.

The statement “a beard creates lice not brains” is irrelevant to the conflict at hand, since for the information of a certain involved party, beards and mustaches are entirely different. We sincerely believe that you will find no more vermin in a modern man’s mustache than in a modern lady’s eyebrows.

A man with a mustache certainly is a marked man--by his own choice.

He is thus able to express his own personality. We find that men as well as women need to be slightly different in order to retain their individuality.

Is it for those of the fairer sex, who use the most cunning methods ever devised to gain attention, to condemn us?

Better believe it--mustaches are here to stay!

Lewis Michel

with you. Without waiting for the intermission, all of you leave during a number. Try to slip on the balcony stairs--somebody will surely hear you crash. Bang the balcony door as you go out. Discover you left your umbrella behind and stomp back to retrieve it. Repeat your noisy exit.

Decide you left too soon. Re-enter during another number and sit on the main floor. Change your seat several times during numbers to get the best view. Finally conclude that you should have gone sooner.

Wait until a soloist begins, then go out through a steel side door; it’s certain to bang. Above all, don’t show any Christian courtesy to the artists or those who want to hear

them.

A few in the audience, aged from six to sixty, followed every one of the above “rules” at a recent Saturday evening’s concert. What must the artists think of us!

An embarrassed alumnus, Charlotte V. Groff

Cafeteria Solicits Feedback October 6, 1954 Dear Students: I know that “food” is the subject of considerable discussion here on our campus. I don’t claim perfection for our methods or products, but we are striving to please our many patrons. We are placing ourselves wide open for constructive criticism; so if any item is not

served to your liking, give us your suggestions. We are always ready to improve our services.

Sincerely, E. L. Knecht, chef

We Want Dinner Music November 3, 1954 It has been noticed among the students that there has not been music during dinner hour as there was at the beginning of the year. The general feeling of the student body is high. They are tired of eating to the tune of knives and forks. There are not many times during the day when the student can relax; even the dinner hour is rushed.

The students believe that since there is a phonograph, records,

and a public address system, they should be used for their enjoyment as often as possible.

Respectfully submitted, Bradley Stephan

THE STUDENT MOVEMENT

The Last Last Word THE STUDENT MOVEMENT STAFF

Melodie Roschman Editor-in-Chief

Why We Still Need a Student Newspaper Journalism has become a lot less dramatic in the last few decades. Investigative reporters often get the scoop by acquiring a confidential flash drive or sifting through emails instead of meeting a source by the docks at midnight with a notebook and trench coat. Late nights on production are spent typing in a Word document, editing video, and fiddling with Photoshop instead of inking moveable type and sorting through snowdrifts of news clippings.

Even if I want to, I can’t bark “Have the articles on my desk by Monday!” since I don’t accept articles on paper, nor do I have a desk to put them on. Obsessed as I was as a child with dressing up and acting out exciting scenarios, I would have been supremely disappointed to realize that The Student Movement is created mainly with a halfdozen laptops and Google Drive.

Despite all of the shifts in format, however, and the fact that the world it describes has arguably changed more in the last century than in the rest of world history, at its core The Student Movement has stayed the same. When the SM published its first issue one hundred years ago on August 19, 1915, the editors set out to publish the “thought, the impressions, the

feelings, and the activity” of their school. Over the decades that followed, come war, financial crisis, disaster, or scandal, the SM did just that.

It’s easy to feel removed from the generations of students who came before us. Some of the articles in this issue accentuate that: controversy about movie theaters, facial hair, and computers can feel quaint or artificial, as if college students back then were much younger or much older than we are. The strange slang and phrases add to the effect, as does the facts that they lived through events that we usually classify as belonging exclusively to history textbooks.

But then you realize that for one hundred years, people have been complaining about cafeteria food.

For one hundred years, they’ve been fighting for social justice and arguing with the administration and struggling with math classes and falling in love. And, for one hundred years, they’ve been reading and writing all about it in the Student Movement.

When one Howard Wilcox sent that first issue of the SM out in 1915, he likely wasn’t thinking about the fact that he was pioneering a tradition of student journalism that would gradually spread from one

Adventist campus to another, inspiring the Clocktower, the Collegian, the Southern Accent, the Campus Chronicle. He certainly couldn’t have anticipated that the Student Movement would see the Spanish flu epidemic and the JFK assassination, the Space Program and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In all honesty, the SM’s first editors didn’t expect that their little publication would be around this far in the future at all. They wrote about concerts and board meetings and fundraisers. They were simply relating the ordinary happenings of a country college in a sleepy little village to a handful of readers.

But that is always way of it: while narrating everyday life, they inadvertently kept a record of history.

So why do we still need a student newspaper? This centennial edition is steeped in the past: what relevance does that have for the future?

My answer is simple. Beyond arguments about freedom of the press and access to information, beyond technology, beyond art and innovation and circulation and legacy, the Student Movement is yours. It always has been, and will continue to be, your personal and independent and collective

voice.

According to a 2012 Business Insider article, in 1983 90% of American media was owned by 50 companies. Today, that same 90% is owned by six companies: Comcast, News-Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS. As major sources of news and entertainment become more and more homogenized, the best way to resist, to ensure the continuance of dissenting opinions and minority storytelling and critiques of the system, is the small and independent voice. The Student Movement can tell your story and spread your opinion even if you’re not a celebrity or a CEO. On the second most diverse campus in the nation, it can represent truth through communal conversation, by allowing the many to speak instead of the privileged few.

No one person has been there for the entire history of this paper, yet every reader and writer, photographer, designer and editor has contributed to making it the multifaceted, messy, and utterly important institution that it remains today. Together, we have been the Student Movement.

We will continue to move.

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Melodie Roschman Editor-in-Chief Givan Hinds News Editor Erik Vyhmeister Ideas Editor Tim McGuire Pulse Editor Dakota Hall Humans Editor Shanelle Kim Arts & Entertainment Editor Joelle Arner Photo Editor WayAnne Watson Copy Editor Bennett Shelley Copy Editor Amy Beisiegel Layout Editor Dori Moore Multimedia Manager Scott Moncrieff Faculty Advisor

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The Student Movement is the official student newspaper of Andrews University. Opinions expressed in the Student Movement are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors, Andrews University or the Seventhday Adventist church.

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