Angelos Yearbook 2011 part 1

002-003 Opener 004-005 Fall 006-007 ISP 008-009 New Student Orientation 010-011 Soccer 012-013 TWIRP 014-015 Kinesiology 016-017 Global Village 018-019 Rebecca Trupp 020-021 ROTC 022-023 Fortuna Bowl 024-025 Behavioral Sciences 026-027 Places 028-029 Music 030-031 Music 032-033 History and Criminal Justice 034-035 Man/Woman Week 036-037 Golf 038-039 Brisco's 040-041 Online Professional Studies 042-043 Diversity 044-045 Midnight Madness 046-047 Winter 048-049 Parents 050-051 Cross Country 052-053 Christian Ministries 054-055 Guitar Guys 056-057 Nursing 058-059 Wrestling 060-061 Four Year Roomates 062-063 Yule 064-065 Engineering 066-067 Weddings 068-069 Intramurals 070-071 Swim/Dive 072-073 If I Ruled CBU

Doodling 074-075 Basketball 076-077 Third Culture Kids 078-079 Executive Council 080-081 Tarp Surfing 082-083 December Commencement 084-085 Spring 086-087 Volleyball 088-089 Homecoming 090-091 Smith Hall 092-093 Communication Arts 094-095 Baseball 096-097 School Of Business 098-099 Cheerleading 100-101 Language and Literature 102-103 Water Polo 104-105 Theatre 106-107 Woo Week 108-109 Living in the Moment 110-111 Math and Sciences 112-113 Alternative Sports 114-115 Softball 116-117 Education 118-119 First-Time Followers 120-121 International Chapel 122-123 Wendy Rice Memorial 124-125 Mugs 126-177 Index 178-201 Closer 202-203 Colophon 204-205 Insert 206-207

When I started at CBU my freshmen year, I was a cheerleader, a resident of Simmons 1B, a member of the CBU ambassadors, and a "nerd" in the Honor's program (it's ok, we take it as a compliment). My hall mates were missionary kids, ASCBU members, musicians, international students, soccer players, photographers, student leaders, journalists, actors, and one Costco employee. I was taught by a range of faculty- from young to old, both women and men who were passionate about Jesus, yet from different denominational backgrounds. From my first day on campus, I realized that this school is filled with diverse students and faculty. Like a spectrum of colors, everyone at CBU shines in their own unique way.

CBU is a university founded on Jesus Christ. Everyone at the school is united under Him and He shines His light through each one of us. When that light shines, the unique way we reflect Him is revealed. This is just how a prism, works. Although we are different, we are united under His light. 1 Corinthians 1:10 describes this beautifully, "I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought."

The gorgeous colors in a prism are not uncovered until you take it to the sun. Before that, it just looks like a piece of glass. In our lives, our full potential and range of talents is not uncovered until we go to the SON. Jesus is the one who has distributed each of our gifts and when we go to Him, we discover them and how we can use them for His will. Furthermore, we learn how to use these gifts in unity with others. "It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ," Ephesians 4:11-13 explains.

Though diverse, we are unified in Christ. A range of beautiful colors only seen through Him. A prism.

Written by Alexx

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"The promise from Revelation 7:9 is that there is going to be someone from this people group who is going to worship before God for eternity," Jared Dobbins, leader of the South Asia: Trekking team and assistant director of mobilization said.

International Service Projects (ISP) sent out over 47 teams to 21 different countries last summer. Most ISP participants took taxis, busses and subways within their places of service. However, the ten individuals on the South Asia: Trekking Team ventured out on foot.

After landing in South Asia, the team trekked 40 miles in five days to reach a village in the Himalayas - their final location of service. Their destination was 11,000 feet in elevation, approximately 8,000 feet above their starting point.

The team's task was to build relationships in the town that was the focus of their field worker's ministry.

"The hardest part was convincing the team that we needed to keep going," Dobbins said. "Not from a physical standpoint, but from a spiritual standpoint."

During their five days of hiking, the team stopped in villages for meals and lodging. "Right before nightfall we would walk into a village and the next morning we would get up and leave," Dobbins said. "You know, and your team knows, that you're sleeping in a village, just for the night, where no one has heard about Christ."

Dobbins, along with co-leader Amanda Breault, reminded the team that their purpose, in that moment, was to make it to the final village. Throughout the trek, Dobbins told the team, "We need to pray for others to come behind us to share the gospel."

Daniel Heihn, who plans to live overseas after graduation, was adamant about the region's need for local field workers. "We need to send more people over there, for long term, to connect with people and build relationships with them," Heihn said. "Then, we need to send more people."

Aly Quesada was overwhelmed by the task of reaching people in the Himalayas. "There are a few thousand villages and they speak thousands of different languages," she said.

Quesada recalled spotting a village atop a mountain. "I asked my leader, 'How do people get up there?' He said, 'They don't. That village has been there for thousands of years and no one goes down and no one goes up.'

"It was just so high; no one could reach it," Quesada said.

The team bonded through each struggle. "I honestly looked at my teammates as my brothers and sisters at the end of the trip," Quesada said. "When put in that situation, you can't help but grow together."

[Left to right] Chris Cline, Santiago Ibenez, Daniel Heihn, Ericka Phillips, Aly Quesada, Jared Dobbins, Olivia Martin, Amanda Breault, Mackenzie Fages and Jared Colvin were part of the South Asia: Trekking Team. ISP sent out over 38 team comprised of over 400 students to different nations all located over the world.

(Photo: Jared Dobbins // Design: Ashley Wilkins)

At the ISP Intensive Training Weekend, team members opened up to one another. "Everyone asked questions, personal questions, and we got to know each other really quickly," Heihn said.

Made up of five men and five women, "the team dynamic was amazing," Olivia Martin said.

The team did not participate in any group physical training before departure.

"You could be the strongest, most athletic person but you really need mental support from your team just to get through the trek. That was more important than physical training," Quesada said.

The second day of trekking was the most physically challenging, Martin recalled. "We were trekking up this hill and we called it 'El Diablo' because it was the steepest incline with pouring rain and switchbacks all the way up," Martin said. During their climb, the team would regroup for a moment of prayer before pressing onward.

"I had to rely on the Lord each moment," Martin said. "There was not one thing I could have done of my own strength."

Buddhism and strong ties to rituals act as barriers to the gospel, Quesada said. "Not many people know God. If they do, they can't accept him because they'll get kicked out of their villages."

Despite the difficulty of spreading the gospel, the team saw God at work, Dobbins said. The team met a girl who attends college in Missouri, but had just returned to her village in the Himalayas for summer break. Several team members shared the gospel with her.

"She told our team, 'I was so excited when I left the States because I thought I was running away from Jesus,'" Dobbins said. "'But it looks like Jesus followed me all the way here.'

He finished, "We went all this way, to this one village, in the middle of nowhere, and God sent us there, if only for this one girl, to tell her about Christ."

Written by Nicole Jessen

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Clash n’ Bowl gives freshmen the chance to dress crazy and meet new people.

Ouch! That’s got to hurt! The Belly Flip Contest is always an NSO favorite.

Tyler Cook is the ball in a round of human bowling at the New Student Retreat.

Date: August 24th Event: LAST DAYS OF SUMMER You counted down the days and now IT is here - the time for packing up your room, waving good-bye to your best friends, walking your dog one last time, kissing grammy and grandpa on their wrinkly cheeks and looking back at the memories of your old life through the rearview mirror of the car while heading toward your new home at CBU. Date: August 25th Event: NSO After the kick-off, 990 new students from all over the world (biggest group CBU has ever had) gathered under one roof to begin their new life adventures during NSO. The words "nervous" and "unsure" summed up the emotions of almost every student, but the vibrant, energetic Focus leaders immediately tried to change their moods into a fun and more relaxed state. Timid and shy, each new student enjoyed getting in groups of guys and girls, crawling out of their shells and learning about one another. Freshman Rebekah Rubio explained, "I became more comfortable," after her nerves settled while engaging with her Focus group.

Date: August 26th Event: CAR-LESS DRIVE-IN Fast forward through the Kugel Walk, the ice cream social, informative sessions, academic workshops and crazy Bookstore Bunko, and then it was time for the Car-less Drive-In Movie. Having a thousand new people this year meant the guys could meet half that many girls and vice versa. One freshman girl, Vivian Le, relayed her reaction towards ALL of the new guy faces: "OMG! There's like so many guys to meet! This is so exciting!"

Date: August 27th Event: BYE BYE PARENTS The time to say "goodbye" was here. A river of tears flooded the Van Dyne Gymnasium when it was time for the new Lancers to say farewell to their moms and dads. The faculty handed out boxes of tissues while the parents gave their hugs, said their "I Love Yous," wished their child good luck, prayed and slowly drove away from the CBU campus. Though the majority of the freshman population cried, many were at ease and in agreement with Rebekah Rubio's statement, "I knew I would see my parents really soon." The transfers had previously experienced this stage in life. With dry eyes, Texas transfer student, Sophia Vaughn, announced, "It wasn't necessary to cry this time since I am used to living on my own now."

(Photos: Mike Sampson // Design: Andrew Hochradel)

Date: August 28-29th Event: New Student Retreat (NSR) The depression was over! Rainbows were in the sky and the new students were listening to their iPods or MP3 players on over 16 buses as they left for New Student Retreat. Upon arrival, all eyes were on the big hill they had to climb every day. Rubio shared, "Walking up that hill was definitely not an enjoyment," but that did not stop anyone from having a good time in the woods. Funny moments and memories occurred during the retreat activities. While playing food Twister, Vaughn laughed, "The guy spinning the Twister wheel told me to put my right foot on green.

I put my left!"

The chuckles continued as Joe Adcock conducted music of laughter. During one session, while Adcock's bald head was used as a drum, a freshman beat-boxer spat a sick beat and everyone chanted: "Baby shark. do do do do do. Mama shark do do do do do. Daddy shark. do do do do do."

"Even though it was challenging at times with about one thousand kids and trying to make sure everyone felt important," a worried Adcock shared, "having it all go well and pulling it off gave me a feeling of accomplishment for a hard-to-reach goal." With plans being altered, extra staff support, necessary team meetings and new video screens to use for presentations, NSR was a blast! From the silent cheers during Bop-It games to the Pictionary drawings to the body bowling on the slip-n-slide, every exhausted retreat camper slept on their way back to school.

Adcock explained, "I love that CBU has such great traditions. Retreat was a great way to start the school year, and to top it off, I enjoyed the way the Lord worked in students' lives during decision time!"

With the sun setting and first day of school approaching within hours, each new Lancer had said their prayers before going to bed and thanked God for their entire week. Everyone at CBU agreed with Adcock when he said, "On a scale from 1-10 new student orientation overall was definitely a NINE!" Written by Cassidy Edison

[Left] Kylee Nicassio dominates in the backfield. [Top] David Salguero proved time and time again that his ball handling skills are second to none. [Right] Ready. Aim. Fire. Jacquelyn Witz blasts a ball toward the opposing goalkeeper.

(Photos: Mike Sampson // Design: Dayana Ramirez)

A year that was filled with so many changes allowed the team players to grow stronger, on and off the field. They not only welcomed the new players with pride, but they also cherished the final moments they had with the players that were getting ready to leave.

The chemistry that the players share not only as teammates, but also as friends outside of the field, seems to grow stronger as the years pass by. Their greatest strength is that they can work well with one another and accomplish the purpose of playing soccer. "Our greatest strength is our chemistry," the women's soccer coach, Kristen St. Clair, said. "The team is like a group of sisters."

When the teams go out on the field and face teams from opponent schools, they come to the realization that soccer is not all about winning or being the best.

Playing soccer is about unity and forming long-lasting friendships with the rest of the team.

The players on each team understand that by working together they can accomplish much more than if they were only to focus on one individual. This is the case not only when playing soccer but also as the team comes together for study groups.

"My team has definitely helped me stay focused," defender of the men's soccer team, Jared Dusha, said. "We get together and study whether we have the same majors or not. We also form Bible study groups and pray together while we share the things we experience throughout the week."

Growing together and praying together, the teams have learned to understand that God plays the major role in their lives and that with His power He has given them strength to keep on going no matter the situation.

"We honor Him in everything we do," said St. Clair. "We play to an audience of God." Indeed, soccer is a gateway to the growth of the players, not only physically, but also with the development of each as an individual person and how they express themselves both on the field and in the real world.

God's presence was widely acknowledged as the players of both teams moved on to play teams in various areas, facing some of the best players and gaining understanding that it is important to learn from their mistakes, but also to thank God for all of their opportunities.

"As coaches, we work on how the players grow into men," the men's soccer coach, Ryan Jorden, said. "The team has learned to express themselves in different ways and know that they can because God has given them those strengths."

[Far right] Marc Hope, nicknamed by fans as “Flashbang�, knows that his team is always there to support him.

[Right] With unity like a brotherhood, the Lancers faced every game as a new challenge.

The team players know that there will be hardships in soccer whether they deal with injuries, weather conditions or even events that hurt them emotionally, but they always thank God and the coaches they admire.

The defender of the women's soccer team, Kylee Nicassio, said "It is the biggest blessing to play at a school with girls that I love and coaches that I love."

No matter the circumstances, both teams learned to practice integrity and created bonding relationships with one another along the way.

"We're always trying to play the best we can," Jorden said. "We work to grow as players."

Sometimes the process is a horror story, not a romance novel. TWIRP. The Woman Is Required to Pay. At CBU, TWIRP is an annual event that is looked forward to and elaborately and extraordinarily planned. Girls buy tickets, arrange transportation and take their suitors on dates. Many young ladies even plan out elaborate ways to ask their dates out.

Although TWIRP often leads to many happy relationships and one may dare say, marriages; unfortunately, TWIRP doesn't always produce a positive outcome. In one circumstance, a few young women staged a kidnapping in the orange groves to ask their men of interest to TWIRP. This went horribly, horribly wrong.

Will Secor and Trevor Graifman were TWIRPed by Holly Kieling and Mallory Munroe. Although a fake kidnapping is extremely creative, the intended results weren't exactly as planned.

"We didn't really have a plan before we went out, we just knew we wanted to kidnap them because they wanted to be asked creatively," Kieling said. "But we had no idea what we were going to do when we got out there."

After being unable to find a parking spot at a nearby park, the girls resorted to the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in the orange groves. Once they got the guys out of the back of Kieling's car, they left them there for a certain amount of time.

They decided to turn back because there was a car behind them and when they got back to the spot where they had left the guys they were nowhere to be found.

Apparently, the guys heard the car that was behind Kieling and Munroe drive by them twice and took off their blindfolds to find themselves alone in the dark orange groves, and ran for their lives - Secor, without shoes. They went door

This is Trevor Graifman.

He is lost.

to door to the very spread-out grove houses looking for someone to give them a ride back to CBU. Meanwhile, the girls were back at the spot where they had left their suitors, worried about their whereabouts. "At first we thought that the joke had just been put back on us and that they were just hiding in the bushes. So we were yelling at the bushes for like 15 minutes," Kieling said.

"Then we started to get scared and were like holding each other in the middle of the street," Munroe said, laughing at the memory. They had heard noises in the bushes and thought for a while that it was the guys, but after they didn't come out, the girls started to get really freaked out.

Finally, they decided to head back to CBU after hearing from a friend that the guys had made it back to campus. "I was so worried that Will would be mad at me; I apologized a hundred times. He pretended to be mad but he really wasn't,"

Munroe said. In the end though, the guys told the girls yes and it was a relatively happy ending for all.

TWIRP is usually a fun week that not only gets new students involved with campus life, but can sometimes lead to a life-long romance. But what happens when TWIRPs go wrong? Is the embarrassment so deep that you don't even want to speak to that person anymore? Do you blow it off and try again? Or do you TWIRP someone else? On the bright side, you probably won't have to ask yourselves these questions while stranded in some foreign orange groves at night.

Written by Cassandra Wyatt

This is Will Secor.

He is lost too.

(Photo and Design: Andrew Hochradel) TWIRP 12-13

Under the new College of Allied Health, students get the practice that they need for real world scenarios.

Vaguely remembered and mostly disregarded, dreams reveal the deepest fantasies of the subconscious. Whether forgotten or constantly recollected, they may manifest themselves in our future aspirations.

The newly developed Allied Health program was not necessarily a dream but a desire imagined years ago. "We didn't have the same opportunities that we'are creating for the students when I was an undergraduate," said Sean Sullivan, associate dean of the college of allied health. Newly appointed Dean and visionary for the College of Allied Health, Charles Sands, is doing all that he can to ensure students the opportunities they did not receive.

Some students seem excited over the expansion of CBU's health department, but others areapparently baffled at what allied health even is. "Allied health is a group of careers or pathways you can take in the clinical healthcare professions that are distinct from medicine, dentistry, and nursing," said Rasha Abdrabou, adjuct professor of kinesiology. "For example, if you wanted to become a dietician, an athletic trainer or a paramedic then the allied health program would provide you with the knowledge and training to achieve your goal. Of course, the list of professions is not limited to just these fields."

Graduating seniors like Vicente Andrade are disappointed that they will not be able to really see what the new program has in store. "The new recreation area they'are building would have been so great for some of our classes. We used to have classes down in the basement of the James building or in the gymnasium.

Everything that will be in the recplex would have been very useful to us since it would be a big space with a lot of materials," said Andrade. Being involved in sports, Andrade loves being a part of the Kinesiology program since he is able to learn in the classroom and then apply it to his life.

Many might overlook the new Allied Health department as just a new addition of majors to further complicate their career choice.

Yes, it is a diverse school with many different pathways you can take instead of just the single concentration that kinesiology offered, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. The program delivers a broad range of studies with the added benefit of hands-on training to further students' knowledge in the field. "We want to get involved in the community," began Sands. "Whether it is just the CBU community or the community around us as a whole, we want to reach out with the help of our students."

This outreach has already begun within the CBU community. For the past two years, there have been fitness classes that students, faculty and staff may attend each morning for eight weeks at a time. "I haven't really been involved with the fitness program yet, but I think it's great that they'are promoting physical wellness," Sands said. Not only are they offering these classes, but they are also hoping to have a nutrition guru" go to the Alumni Dining Commons and offer advice to students on healthier food choices. "What we'are focusing on as kinesiology majors is to convince people to be active throughout their lives because it really affects your whole being," Andrade said. According to Andrade, people who exercise and stay physically active are actually able to focus better in their classes.

Whether you are trying to become a dietician, athletic trainer,or just trying to stay fit, the new Allied Health program is using all of its resources to educate the community as well as aid in helping people achieve their career or fitness goals. "God created everything perfectly and it's just so amazing to learn about the body and then actually notice the movements when you are just walking to class," said Andrade.

Although the Allied Health program may just seem like a foreign area of study to psychology or art majors, it does offer an assortment of benefits to everyone in the CBU community.

Written by Erene Abdelmeseeh

(Photo: Haley Helfer // Design: Ruth Richards) KINESIOLOGY 14-15

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(Background Photo: Aaron Kim // Top Photos: Sarah O’Keefe) (Design: Nichelle Trulove)

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Hannah Pearce

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Leyi Ling

A global mind set. Each student at some point during their time at CBU touches or sends the kugel at the entrance of the school into a spin. The kugel sits upon a marble cylinder which is engraved the Great Commission.

Within the University Place 300 apartments is an area known as Global Village – a place where students of varying cultures live and learn together. Bethany Scott, the previous RD for UP 300, explained, "We are a university committed to the Great Commission and a lot of that has to do with not only going, but then receiving, too, and being able to have an opportunity to work with some of the international students that come to us. We wanted a place where diversity was encouraged and we wanted a living, learning environment where the American and International students could live together and learn from one another and we could use that to promote diversity both internationally and domestically."

Supporting Scott's account, Leyi (Lois) Ling from Zhejiang Province, China said, "Last year was the first year I lived with Americans. They really love my culture and love to know me and love to understand me. They really love me as their sister. It's like they really care about me. They tell me a lot American cultural things. One of these things is don't mention 'fat' in front of Americans. In China, it doesn't matter. We always have some event going on here, I can get to know other cultures."

Stella Impano from Kimironko, Rwanda agreed with the importance.

She said, "I've seen how the Americans who are interested in learning our cultures are. How they really want to know, they want to experience things we experience in our countries back home. I learn from them each day whenever I say hello. And it's nice when some of the apartments have stuff from my country. I wanted to live with Americans, but those specifically who want to know about my character."

Proving that local students are willing to embrace the diversity, Hannah Pearce from Riverside, Calif. stated, "I thought this would be a really cool way of living more long term in another culture, and reaching out more to those around me, to be able to live firsthand and see how the

Kayla Friend

people from other cultures live. My roommate taught me some Chinese. I am blessed to live here. It's really cool to see how other people do things that you wouldn't have thought of before, even just as simple as cooking something."

Yue (Joanne) Zhou from Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China gave an example after being asked what a difference it has made. "People are very helpful because when I first moved in, I didn't have pot and Tiffany was willing to lend me one. Lois helped me because she always calls me to her place for dinner and hangs out with me. Even though I don't know anyone who lives there, but when we're walking across, we will say 'hi' to each other and I feel she's my friend. If I miss home, I will hang out with Chinese friends. If I want to know more about Americans, then I can hang out with American friends."

"I can't always going to my home. The people are very friendly.

I don't miss my family for long time, because I have friends here, like roommates and teammates. They can help me to live well, study well. It helps me meet more people and they become my friends. I hope next year, I can live with Hannah too. I love my roommate," agrees Linjun (Ji) Ji from Shanghai, China.

Reiterating the importance of a place like Global Village and embracing diversity, Kayla Friend from Hemet, Calif. said, "It's a huge blessing because you learn so much about the world outside of the the U.S. just in your apartment. It's not just that 'oh hey, I'm there learning about their culture, helping them with their English,' you're also learning a lot about yourself and about how God can use you among the nations because you are living with a person that is of a different culture. I would really encourage students to do that."

Matthew 28:19-20 KJV, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."

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INSPIRATION "I didn't think she was going to make it," Head Cross Country Coach, Wade Watkins said.

Rebecca Trupp was a passenger in the second of three vans carrying cross country runners to a training camp in Mammoth Lakes, Calif.

"A car coming in the southbound lane spun out and started tumbling towards us," explained Watkins, who was driving the first van. "I moved out of the way and then it came back and hit the second van."

Watkins was the first on the scene of the Aug. 9 car accident that took the life of Head Cheer Coach Wendy Rice and two women in the SUV. Assistant Cross Country Coach, Sean Henning and Watkins got athletes out of the van through the back door and a broken, side window. The two coaches could not get to Trupp, Marisa Benson, Alicia Cantanese and Rice.

"When I saw Rebecca in that car, it was the worst thing you can imagine," Watkins remembered. "I couldn't recognize her until I noticed her hair cut. She had just gotten a hair cut beforehand."

Trupp was in extremely critical condition. She was airlifted to a hospital in Reno, Nev. and underwent several surgeries.

"I suffered a traumatic brain injury, brain hematoma, eight inch scalp degloving to the back of my head which needed staples, fractured eye orbits and nose and stitches on my eyelids, lips and shoulder," Trupp said. "My leg was badly bruised and required staples as well. My front tooth was chipped and my front teeth got pushed in.

There are so many injuries that I probably forgot something."

The day of the accident, Trupp, a freshman, moved on campus and met her roommate. Her last memory before the accident was getting into the van after the team stopped for dinner.

"I didn't really understand the situation for a couple of weeks," Trupp said.

"When I did finally comprehend the severity of it all, I couldn't stop crying and kept asking questions, especially when Coach came to visit."

President Ron Ellis and other staff members visited Trupp during her threeweek stay in the hospital.

"Coach Watkins was very inspirational for me and cheered me on as I walked my laps around ICU," Trupp said.

(Photo: Kenton Jacobsen // Design: Aaron Kim)

In addition to the CBU community, Trupp and her family received support from friends and teachers of her alma mater, Martin Luther King High School.

"Coach Peters, from King, came up for one day and brought a large suitcase filled with well wishes from cross country, track and band, as well as my neighbors," Trupp shared.

Brad Peters coached Rebecca during her four years in high school cross country and track.

"Rebecca was a real treasured part of the team. She modeled everything we want out of a cross country runner," Peters said. "She is full of integrity and very giving. She would organize shoe drives for homeless people and drive the shoes to L.A. herself."

Trupp also participated in Project Lead the Way, a rigorous, four-year engineering program at MLK. Michael Martin, MLK engineering teacher and CBU alumnus, proudly displays Trupp's final project on the wall of his classroom. The project was created to assist the blind.

"She stood out," Martin explained. "That project was one of the better projects that has ever been done in all the years I've been working with this program."

Martin praised not only Trupp's work, but also her character.

"She is not going to let things slow her down," Martin said.

Trupp dedicates four to five days a week to physical, vestibular and cognitive therapies in addition to frequent doctors' appointments.

"My life now revolves around my recovery," Trupp said. "This is the season but one day I will be able to get back onto the path that I had planned to start after high school."

God's presence gives Trupp the strength to confront challenges.

"I know that God is real," Trupp affirmed. "Although we can dream and plan our life out, God sometimes has other plans in store for us. Sometimes we just have to go with the flow. We don't always get the answers we want, but God provides us with what we need."

Written by Nicole Jessen

They run in the early morning hours and in the afternoon, they drill. The committed cadets of CBU's ROTC program not only have the endurance to handle a full school load, but also the drive and passion to become a future officer in the United States Army.

The goal of ROTC is to give cadets leadership training that will ensure personal success. Cadets are instructed by army faculty which is complemented by physical training and military science classes.

The ROTC program at CBU offers scholarships for college students who want to become officers in the US Army. This scholarship includes full tuition and fees as well as full room and board and stipends.

ROTC instructor Sergeant 1st Class Jay Villasenor has been in the army for over 20 years and has been an ROTC instructor for four years.

The schedule of an ROTC cadet is very rigorous, with physical training every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. as well as classes throughout the week. The freshmen have classes on Thursdays, sophomores have classes on Mondays and Wednesdays and upperclassmen have leadership labs on Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

"I would not be able to last in ROTC. I'd probably get kicked out for dyeing my uniform pink or something. They work so hard in this heat!" Rebecca HabeebSilva said, referring to her roommate who is a cadet in the ROTC program.

Villasenor also commented that the number of women joining the ROTC program has significantly increased over the past few years, which is wonderful considering the fact that women in the military were once almost taboo.

One of the women who is part of the ROTC program at CBU is engineering major Lorelyn Lucas. She said she first considered ROTC because of how generous the scholarship program at CBU is, but has really come to enjoy it. "We always find ways to have fun, even when we're doing stuff that isn't fun," Lucas said.

Lucas explained that the way a person's training is decided for active duty service once they graduate is based on their success at an assessment camp for ROTC cadets. Upon entering the ROTC program, cadets choose three areas in which they would like to work and after their assessment, their job will be decided. Another aspect of the cadets choosing what they would like to do is that some of the jobs don't have to be involved with their major.

(Photo: Mike Sampson // Design: Andrew Hochradel)

The assessment camp Lucas spoke of is a test of leadership skills as well as the application of the military battle training learned throughout the program.

It is only taken once upon graduation and determines the area of more extensive training the future officers will experience during their time of service.

"If I wasn't joining the army," Lucas said. "I would definitely find something in the engineering field. But since I'm in the army I'll have four years of active duty, and then another four as a reservist."

Whatever military career they decide on, the skills and training they learn

through ROTC combined with the dedication they show everyday will

make them very successful in their futures.

Written by Cassandra Wyatt

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(back): Chelsea Alden, Mimi Santiesteban, President Ellis, Suzy Rayhbuck, Hannah Price, Samantha Hauser, Tatiana Fontes, Rebeccamay Derbyshire, Danielle Phillips, Kelly Leonard, (front): Kelsie Cloud, Nicole Saar, Monica Baughman, Erin Abramson, Shelbie Krieger, and Kristen Amerine led the Bus Drivers to yet another Fortuna victory. (Photo: Chris Hardy)

Dynasty. The Bus Drivers. Young and Reckless. SWAT.

These four teams stood above the rest for intramural football. But the question remained, which team would reign supreme? This was answered at the Fortuna Bowl.

At CBU, the Fortuna Bowl is the equivalent of the Super Bowl and this year it was even bigger than expected with fully painted endzones, a Jumbo-Tron, announcers, In-N-Out and $250 cash prizes for the best dressed fans in the crowd at each halftime. This year, the Fortuna Bowl did not fail to impress.

People cheered and yelled for their team's victory, and each team fought valiantly; however, only two teams: one women's team and one men's team, could win the coveted Fortuna Bowl trophy.

For the women's team, it was The Bus Drivers, second year veterans at the Fortuna Bowl, who drove out a nine to zero win against SWAT. The Bus Drivers introduced their team by riding up in a yellow school bus to the song "The Wheels

Arron Bethel, Joel Brown, Kamden Lang, David Skane, and Danny Cross fought with their team, Dynasty, to snag the team’s second Fortuna victory.

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on the Bus," which was a crowd favorite. SWAT pumped up the crowd by throwing out custom t-shirts with their logo on them along with fly-swatters.

For the boys' team, it was Dynasty - a four year team composed of mostly juniors and seniors with Josh Mott at the captain's seat - who conquered with a nine to nothing win against Young and Reckless - a newly formed team this year composed of mostly sophomores with Scott Jones as captain.

Both teams played well, but Dynasty came out on top. Many of the people at the game, like Andrew Winegarner, expected Young and Reckless to win in an upset, but Dynasty was able to establish a touchdown early on in the game and then keep that lead with a strong defense through the rest of the game.

The Fortuna Bowl was definitely a hit this year; however, its success is due to the massive work put in by CAB. Chris Cox and Wil Byers were responsible for planning this year's Fortuna Bowl and the results were amazing. With painted endzones set up to look like a professional football team's field as well as both

a Jumbo-Tron for the score and Joe Adcock as an announcer, the night was a big hit. ASCBU was responsible for paying for In-N-Out, making it free for the first 750 people.

The setup for the Fortuna Bowl this year was a massive undertaking, starting at eight am the day of the games, and finishing only a few hours before game time. Mott, a CAB board member as well as a Fortuna Bowl player, said that this year, "The focus is more on the fans. We want the fans to really get involved and that is why there was free In-N-Out and the giveaway at halftime. We wanted to get the fans hyped for the game, and we wanted them to have as much fun as the players out on the field."

One thing is for certain, they definitely succeeded.

Written by Dylan Bowman

With over twenty years of experience under its belt and the introduction of two new anthropology degrees, CBU's School of Behavioral Sciences has shown great signs of growth. Even with its academic progression, this department has been holding onto its mission to teach knowledge with the integration of a solid Christian perspective. It is dedicated to building others through their faith and knowledge as well as preparing them with the tools for a rewarding career within that department.

"I've been here 12 years and seen a lot changes," Professor of Psychology Ken Pearce said. "When I first got here there were one or two computers. Now we have 23 professors on staff."

This department has now become one of the leading Behavioral Science departments throughout Christian universities. Led by Dean of the School of Behavioral Sciences Bruce Stokes, this department has continued to develop with the introduction of the two bachelor degrees of Cultural Anthropology and Psychological Anthropology.

These anthropology degrees are a start to a new chapter in the department and there are quite a few students who are enthusiastic to join these programs. These select students are excited about the globally focused viewpoint presented by the CBU faculty of professors.

"I think that anthropology equips students for working in the world. It's not about gaining knowledge. It's about learning about the different kinds of people we have in this world," Cultural Anthropology major Kayla Friend said. "It is from a Christian and mission perspective. It helps you to gain a better understanding of the world and how we can show Christ's love through it."

In a country that has tended to focus upon individuality and the desire for one's own goals, these new degrees offer an alternative to the latter. This alternative is the knowledge that we as Christians can let go of ourselves and learn to seek out others no matter what national background they may have.

"I think that we are supposed to have a global mind set as Christians," said Psychological Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology major Brooklyn Wagner, who hopes to use this degree for mission work. "It has helped me see the world as a whole and also realize that there are many parts of it that are important.

Not every anthropologist is a Christian, but every missionary, as far as the great commission goes, should have an anthropology background. They should be culturally relevant. They should know that God made the world and it is not just western culture."

"It is a great degree for missionaries," said Pearce, "Cultural Anthropology would be good to take since there are several different spheres of learning about people groups. We should not just tolerate people but should be wary and understanding of other people groups."

Written by Mark Gomez

“IT’S NOT ABOUT GAINING KNOWLEDGE. IT’S ABOUT LEARNING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE WE HAVE IN THIS WORLD.” (Photo: Haley Helfer // Design: Andrew Hochradel)

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A. The Swamp

B. Front Lawn

-Matthew Yocum

"This area on campus is what got me interested in CBU. I would pass by the school and thought it was beautiful and so I decided to check it out."

-Jaclyn Wickham

C. UP Balcony

D. Pillars Near the Kugel

"You can see the front lawn and all the activities that go on."

"It's usually cool and offers a great view for peoplewatching and it's a little secluded."

-Kayla Lewis

-Laura Waterbury

"Well, there are dragons in the swamp."

E. Prayer Chapel

F. Wanda’s

"It's a small, cool little kind of secluded place and you can get a lot of prayer and thinking done."

"It's air conditioned, you can buy coffee, food or water, surf the internet, or hang out with your friends."

-Daniel Gauronski

-Cristin Massey

G. Copenbarger Deck

H. Yeager Lounge

"You can overlook everything in the main part of campus."

"It is where I always go when I have breaks between my classes and I feel comfortable there."

-Dylan Cataline

-Alyssa Carter

I. James Building Lounge

J. Own Bed

"A great place to study or take a nap."

"I put Christmas lights in the rungs above my bed to remind me of how beautiful life can be."

-Brennan Cackett

-Trinity Cuff

K. Alumni Dining Commons

L. Annie Gabriel Library

'Everyone has to eat at some point in the day, so you meet so many different people."

"Discovering the film section of the library was definitely a highlight."

-Brianna Nelson

-Bianca Johnson

M. Newsroom

"J at CBU rocks!"

-Jon Beam

N. Rose Garden Bench

'The first time I found the spot it was like entering Narnia, being surprised to find this place in such an unlikely spot."

-Amanda Gruntz

O. The Kiln

P. Harden Square Gazebo

'When it's winter and you're out on a late night walk, you can stop by and warm up real quick."

'It is the perfect place to study, pray, carry a conversation or gather with friends."

-Kristin DeLaCruz

-Ashley Hawley Q. JoAnn Hawkins Music Building

R. Volleyball Courts

'It's quiet and people don't care if you sing while doing homework."

'Once we were out there playing with at least 25 people for four hours and it was so fun."

-Taylor Rogers

-Caleb Smith

S. The Post

T. Lancer Arms Courtyard

'I feel like it kind of makes the campus feel bigger because we have such a small campus. It's cool."

'It is usually pretty shady with a nice breeze."

-Brian Morris

-Lindsay Smith

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Marisa Giorgetti, the new choir director for New Song, is just over five feet tall. Don't let her fool you, though; this small, charisma-packed, passionate woman of talent took the New Song Women's Choir by storm this year. "I want us to be the best women's choir that has ever come out of CBU. I want the girls to understand that they are vital to the School of Music, and not just another women's choir," Giorgetti said.

She has already made a big impact on the ladies of New Song, too. Jessica Frey, a New Song member, said, "Something we talk about in New Song is being a sisterhood. When people think 'women's choir,' they think drama. So I really appreciate and love the fact that Marisa encourages us to uplift and pray for one another."

Giorgetti upholds more than just prayer in her group, however. "My goal in life is to be a creative and thoughtful musical leader who brings glory to God," Giorgetti commented, "and if I could tell the world one thing, I would tell people that we serve an amazing creative God and I love the fact that He created us to be creative."

Being a servant-leader for her students is one of her passions, though sometimes she struggles. We, as students, sometimes see our teachers as the endall, know-all beings of supreme knowledge, not to be questioned or doubted.

Giorgetti, though, as a former student, enjoys seeing it from the other side. "I don't know everything, but I know enough. It's kind of nice being on the other side because it is like you see behind the wizard and it is an encouragement walking into the teacher's role and understanding that they don't always know everything," she said.

Her transition from student to faculty was easier than she expected. As a master's student two years ago, she was hired on as an adjunct faculty member to teach voice. She took advantage of that time and learned how the Shelby and Fern Collinsworth School of Music operates. She understands the expectations of excellence placed on her as a choir director and teacher.

"The more interesting thing is having these people who were my teachers, and now having them as friends and calling them by their first names," Giorgetti said with a chuckle. Having the Dean of the School of Music, Gary Bonner ("Doc")

as her boss has been a neat experience as well. "Having Doc as my boss is nice because he is able to teach me humbly, and because I was his student I am still willing to learn [from him]," she said.

When asked why Giorgetti was chosen to be the new choir director on staff, Judd Bonner, assistant dean of the School of Music, said, "She was one of the best small group leaders that we had ever had. She proved that she was a good musician and she proved that she was able to make groups sound good. She proved she had the ears and she proved she had the ability to improve a group.

We needed someone with energy, and someone we knew we could be confident in to win the girls to her, and that could make the group sound good and, so far, she has. The group sounds great."

Giorgetti has always known she wanted to teach and has never had the career-crisis that most students experience. Growing up in a musical home gave her such an advantage. Her father was a high school choir director, and every member of her family possesses some form of a musical gift, including vocal talent. "I thought everyone did four-part harmony at church like my family. I didn't know we were weird," she said.

Giorgetti has a love for all types of music, but not just for the songs themselves. She expounded on her philosophy on music, and what she said is both brilliant and passionate: "Music is so cool because even though at first it looks like something printed on a paper, it started with an idea: One person had this theme going through their mind, and they wrote it down. Then someone else gets to handle it, print it and make it pretty. Then, from there, anyone can pick it up. Music is free, there's this freedom in it, but within that, you take what's on the page and it's always different, always new, always changing. It's the coolest thing to have a job that's a part of that. I have the best job in the world."

Giorgetti will soon begin working for her Doctorate in music and desires to someday start a community music school at CBU where local kids could come learn to play an instrument from current music students. She loves Skip-Its, Jesus and can pinch people really hard with her toes.

Written by Riley Hagel

“if I could tell the world one thing, I would tell people that we serve an amazing creative God and I love the fact that He created us to be creative.�

-Marisa Giorgetti

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Excellence is a way of life. There is no room for the mediocre when the goal is excellence. Excellence requires discipline, sacrifice and attention to details.

The struggle, however, is always worthwhile when that moment of pure enjoyment and satisfaction in what you have accomplished with excellence finally comes. True excellence is to become so transparent as to completely disappear and let Christ's light shine through unhindered.

This year, over 10 percent of the CBU population is enrolled in one of the primary performing groups of the music program. Each of these students has been changed by their experiences and most have come away with lessons they can apply to their daily lives.

Hannah Di Molfetto, a vocal performance and theater major, has enjoyed being a part of New Song Women's Choir. "It's changed me a lot. The most important thing that I have learned is really how to be a unit because I've never been in a choir that is all focused on that one main goal. That's only possible through Jesus Christ to portray His love to other people. That's what makes us such a unit," she said.

Another choir member, Manny Martinez, explained, "I've definitely grown spiritually from being in a choir. I know people think, 'it's only music, it's just choir,' but we do devotions before every concert and when we sing the songs, we don't just sing them. We worship through those songs and it puts a lot more meaning into the song when you're worshipping while you're singing."

Martinez transferred in from Maine and immediately became a part of the Male Chorale. "I've never been in a singing group, but once I got into it, it became all about the singing. I'm into music a lot and I wanted to become a better singer so taking private lessons has really helped me develop my voice. It's been really fun. Everybody is really friendly. I joined late and I didn't know anyone when I first came, but they took me under their wing and helped me out."

Mitchell Tant, a new member of the University Choir and Orchestra and a music major, first heard about the CBU music program through his high school choir teacher. However, it was not until he got to the school that he realized what an opportunity he had received. "The choir is one of the best performance groups that I have seen, and I've been viewing quite a few colleges and performance groups. UCO just has such high expectations and such a great way of moving forward and proceeding in that excellence.

Doc [Gary Bonner] is a very inspirational man. He knows what he wants, he knows what's going to get done, he knows how he's going to make it happen and he knows how to pass it on to everyone in the choir.

He's a visionary of music," Tant said.

Victoria Wooldridge is a music major and accompanist for New Song Women's Choir. "Being an accompanist is different because even though you are with the group, you are kind of on your own. If you are one of the 90 singers and you mess up or don't show up, people might notice or they might not, but if you're the only one playing, everyone notices."

"I like that because it pushes me to grow and stretch myself more than if I could hide behind a group," Wooldridge explained. It isn't just the choir experience that has affected her life. "Being a part of the music department, I have learned that I have to be ready and willing to perform at any time. I also have to look presentable and be prepared all the time because I never know when or if I'm going to be put on the spot. This has forced me to never procrastinate because you can't always do it later. Knowing this, I have a more consistent work ethic than I did before."

Lauri Walker, a music major, thought back to the most important thing she has learned so far in the music department. "I remember once, when I was in Women's Choir, Dr. Miller said that we wanted to be the type of choir that looks just as good close up as we do far away. We need to apply excellence

in all the areas of our lives so that we don't settle for less than we could be." Applying this to her own life, Walker is now a part of the University Choir and Orchestra as well as two other performing groups and spends multiple hours in the practice rooms working to make her best even better.

"It's cool how the music department lets everyone from the beginners to the professionals have a chance to sing and praise God together. They also encourage the beginners to step up and worship God with excellence," Gabriel Newman, a member of Male Chorale, thoughtfully explained. "Dr. Judd Bonner's choice of music and the way he uses God in his directing really magnifies the worship experience, which becomes addictive. It makes you glad to be in choir every time you walk into a rehearsal."

Vincent Schmutzer summarized the experience of the music building, expressing his love for the atmosphere as he walks down the halls. "I like being around a building where you can hear music constantly. Walking through the hallways you hear a women's choir in one room, a male choral in another room, and then a full-fledged orchestra and choir going on in another room."

"It's a great feeling knowing there's music all around," Schmutzer continued. "You come here for music and even if you're not in music, you're going to hear it, you're going to experience it, and that's a good thing!"

The Shelby and Fern Collinsworth School of Music gives students a unique and very practical way to apply the principles of excellence. Every rehearsal is an opportunity to learn more about how to be confident and exemplary in one's abilities. It is clearly evident that the music students are indeed learning and applying these lessons to their own reservoir of knowledge and experience.

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Criminal justice, political science, history, social science and public administration. This family of majors, minors and master's programs housed under the department of history and government is saying "hello" to their brand new arrival – the international studies major. Because of the unique qualities that are a part of CBU's department of history and government, it is constantly expanding and making room for new members.

Professor of Political Science Chris McHorney described the addition to the family. "It's a major that I've actually wanted to create since coming to CBU. It's an interdisciplinary major but it's housed in the department of history and government. It's designed to prepare our students to work globally. The marketplace is much more global than it's ever been. They take a core set of classes which will prepare them to be much better informed about what the world looks like and then they choose one of three concentrations, either international relations, international business or global ministry. Students take those courses and are also required either to study abroad for a semester or make two short-term mission trips that are essentially three weeks or longer so that they are forced to live there long enough that they have to deal with the culture."

Meredith Moore is the first, and currently only, member of the international studies major. She is unsure what she wants to do with it yet, possibly work for a government company overseas, but she chose this major because, as she elaborated, "it just fit really well and everything worked together. All the classes seemed like classes I wanted to take so it was a really good fit for what I want to do."

Moore continued, "I like how it's really broad yet it teaches you practical stuff you're going to need for a career. I like how it requires you to get a multicultural or international experience with your major. I did an ISP trip last year to Uganda so I might do a study abroad this summer."

Another relative of the history and government family who is interested in the international realm is Lucas Wehner. Wehner is an international student from Germany. He is a double major in business administration, with a concentration in management, and political science, with a concentration in international relations. He has already had many opportunities in these areas, including work in public diplomacy at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., acting as a political advisor to local conservative senators in Germany and working in foreign policy decision making in the German Parliament. He was also the Director of

International Educational Affairs in his hometown in Germany and is now a member of the Advisory Council for Education and Social Affairs in that same town. Currently, he works in the International Center at CBU. In explaining why he was drawn to work in the International Center, Wehner said, "I feel really attracted to the idea of having a lot of nations in one place. If you want to do missions, if you want to share the Gospel, you don't necessarily have to travel to China, Australia or Africa. You can do it right here.

That's what's really cool for me. Often in my jobs with the government, I can't really share the Gospel because there is a constant conflict between politics and the Word and that's why I need a different outlet and the International Center is the perfect outlet. I mean, I love sharing the Gospel."

The Gospel is one of the reasons CBU's history and government clan is special.

McHorney explained that compared to other schools, "we have some course offerings that you may not see. For example, we've created a class called Christianity and Citizenship and it's designed for our senior political science majors. The hope is that when they take it, they're really going to examine what it means to be a Christian citizen and that they don't see those two roles as distinctly different, but see where there are overlaps between Christian faith and day to day life as a citizen.

They can see how their Christian faith should influence their role as a citizen."

In addition, exceptional mentors make a tribe stronger. Wehner pointed out that great professors are his favorite part of the program.

McHorney agreed, "The faculty are all really good. Criminal justice has a really nice mix in the professional side – we have John Higley who is a retired lieutenant in the Orange Police Department, we have Jim Bishop who is a retired judge and Troy Hinrichs is an attorney who worked within the Texas legal system, so they all have very unique and valued gifts they bring to the institution. In political science, we have John McCarthy who worked in politics for a couple of years before coming to us. All are excellent teachers."

CBU's department of history and government is one unique family.

According to McHorney, it is also a rapidly growing one. For example, the criminal justice major alone has grown from about 60 majors a couple of years ago to 115 now. With the expansion due to the new international relations major, the department of history and government will only continue to grow and beckon new members because of the global focus, emphasis on the Gospel and quality faculty.

Written by Alexx Lommori

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1 Corinthians 11:8-9,11-12 reads: "For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man; In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman.

But everything comes from God." Men and women often forget that we are not in this world to compete against one another. Competition invades the ideals that we grow up with. From an early age, we learn right from wrong and that sharing is caring. Then suddenly, as we reach an older age, we start competing against one another.

Men compete with each other, deciding who has the best car, the best girlfriend or even the best grades. Women, in a similar way, are always interested in looking better than any other girl. Competition is inevitable, but we must ensure our focus is on serving the Lord.

As we go from class to class and run from one place to another, we often forget the truly significant things in our life.

This year, man and woman week focused on the integration of the CBU community as a whole, allowing the women on campus to "Just Be" and challenging men to "Dig Deeper" in their relationships.

Man and woman week has only been part of the CBU community for three years, making it one of the newest additions to the events that are held every year on campus. This year, the main target was the students, unlike years prior, when faculty was mostly encouraged to attend the events.

The outcome this year was very positive according to student reactions. "What I enjoy the most are the students' responses; it is then that I know that all we do is worth it," Toni Jauregui, director of woman week, said.

This year, man and woman week took place during the same week as midterms. It encouraged the students to take some time out of their busy schedules to simply relax and enjoy their time together.

"I had a really great time of fellowship with my RA. We were bonding and talking about things we don't usually get to talk about.

I really liked the fact that we were able to get together after such a long time of not really seeing each other," Marti Barsoom said.

This is the first time that man and woman week has had a theme for each gender, but both of them dealt with growing deeper as friends and learning to do so with the help of God. "It's a great idea - the way they're going out with godly examples of female to female and male to male relationships," Lailani Kings said.

Man week gave men the opportunity to come close and enjoy the time they spend together that they often take for granted or use to compete against one another.

"Men's chapel was all about the love between brothers.

Whether it is your dad, your friend, your brother or someone you don't even know, you can always love them, just like Jesus did," Francisco Lievano, a nursing student, said.

"As guys we have relationships with other guys, but we need to dig deeper with our friendships with other men. God created us to love and learn how to love one another," Rick DiFlorio, RD and director of man week, said.

Every year the students learn new things and come together to participate in the different events that are held. They come out with different experiences that will help them with their relationships on campus.

Written by Dayana Ramirez

(left top) The “Rock, Paper, Scissors” tournament put a competitive spin on a childhood favorite. (left bottom) Can you feel the bromance in the air tonight? (right top) Women’s Week provided women to opportunity to bond with each other over fun events. (right bottom) Laurel Bunker from Bethel University spoke to the women about the difference between “sistahgirls” and “sistahfriends”. (Photos: (left) Kenton Jacobsen, (right top) Cayla Ames, (right bottom) Riley Hagel // Design: Nichelle Trulove)

O’Neill Cowan knows that even though golf is an individual sport, your teammates are still a vital part of improving your game and encouraging you.

Nathalie Silva is just one of the golfers who has to stay mentally focused in order to do her best on the green.

"An average golf swing only take two seconds. An average round of golf takes four and a half hours. So, let's say you shoot par 72. Each swing has only taken two seconds, but you've only used up two minutes physically hitting the ball out of four and a half hours.

The rest is done in your head. You know it's all about concentration."

Lane Pace has been the head coach of the men and women's golf teams for the past five years. Last year, the men's team finished 16th in the nation and this year, the women's team finished third with Nathalie Silva as the national champion.

This year, Lane said, "Our goals are always- if they're really broadto go to the national tournament and to win the national tournament. Our goal is also to have the highest team GPA. We do a couple other things but our broad goals are all scholars, all Americans, and win the national championship. Everything we do is to try to build core values."

Those goals are also focused on the team as a whole. "When I was in college, it was about the team. I was lucky; I won some college tournaments, but I always wanted the team to do well first," Lane explained.

"It is an individual sport but we play it as a team."

"I definitely feel like it's a team sport," Kirsten Keyser, a freshman on the women's team, said. "You go with your team and you travel with your team. You're with them for four days. You get to know them pretty well, which is good. It helps you with the team aspect of the sport. I think it is a team sport, it's just very different from basketball or something."

Explaining the paradox of golf as a team sport, O'Neill Cowan, a sophomore on the men's team, described, "We all know everyone's going to give their best effort. We just try to keep each other motivated to do our best. It's like there are five guys that go to a tournament. You can only control your ball, so you just do your best. But it's like the four other guys are just encouraging you."

"You're just going to have to do your individual best and then we put it together to make a team sport," Cowan added.

"It's a challenge with personalities and how we approach everybody," Lane said. "You may be a person who likes to play more and practice and learn things that way, where I may be the guy who likes to just hit balls out on the range. We have to try to figure out what works best but still try to make it a team. It's a challenge but it's pretty unique where an individual sport plays as a team."

Besides being played individually, golf also differs from other sports in that it is incredibly mental. "If you're playing basketball, I pass you the ball. You don't think about it, you catch, look, and shoot," Lane described. "There's no thought process. You react. But you know a golf ball is just sitting there. You have to make the move and you have the thought process."

"That's one thing: you're always fighting yourself," Cowan added.

"You have to forget about everything and make the target as small as you can, and try to focus everything towards that because if you try to think of anything else, it divides your focus and you won't be focused enough to hit the shot. Doing that all day gets pretty tiring and people don't know that."

Keiser concluded, "When you're on a golf course, and there are some golf courses that are so beautiful, and you look at the scenery, you think, 'Okay, this is God's creation. I'm actually playing on God's creation.'

That's pretty amazing."

Written by Matthew Shade and Laura Manimtim

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We've all been there: after staying awake until three in the morning to study for a midterm, we struggle to stay awake through our first class and yearn for that precious 10-minute break. It provides the opportunity to obtain some nourishment to fuel the mind so we can focus on the test. There's not enough time to go to the ADC, but luckily that is no longer an obstacle in our pursuit of sustenance. There is another option. There is Brisco's.

The dedication ceremony for this new oncampus eatery was held on Sept. 30. Among the attendees were Tom and Terri Brisco, university friends the building was named after. Along with long-time CBU supporters Eugene and Billie Yeager, the Brisco's donated the funds needed to see the project through to the end. "It's always gratifying when a project comes to completion and you see that the donor is very pleased with it. That's the best possible outcome," shared Assistant Vice President of Institutional Advancement Erin Phillips with a smile.

The Brisco's project has definitely come a long way since the idea's inception two years ago. The location was chosen by examining where there was

(Photos: Aaron Kim // Design: Ruth Richards)

new development on campus as the student population grows. As with any project, there were alterations along the way and creative input came from a variety of sources. "President. Ellis had the vision to add the front patio, which was an awesome idea. So it really, really extended it. To me, it's just that total California indoor-outdoor vibe. I love it," explained Kipp Dougherty, CBU's director of food services.

Students have had an opportunity to voice their opinions regarding the new establishment and according to Dougherty, there has been much positive feedback. "I usually have classes in the morning with only an hour block in between when I can eat, and then I go. For me, the convenience is easy because of the fact that I live so close," said Rose Garden village resident Nnaemeka Ejiaga.

Self-proclaimed health nut Katie Powell shared her appreciation for the work that is put into keeping the place tidy as she stated, "they do a good job of cleaning and making it nice."

One of the biggest appeals of Brisco's is that it has provided a new location where students can use their meal plan, which has helped reduce the crowd

at the ADC. "I think I only go to the caf like twice a week now. I think I come to Brisco's for every other meal," laughed Cassie Kristensen. Many students have said that they prefer the new to-go plan that the opening of Brisco's has made possible, with a variety of items available to grab for the individual on the go.

So far Brisco's has been a hit, and with more ideas in mind for future development, it will only get better from here. When asked if he had any thoughts to share about the new establishment, Ryan Cathers expressed many students' opinions when he declared that "it's quick, it's easy, and they do a good job."

Written by Ruth Richards

In the age of the technology, it seems we sometimes lose our identities in the digital stream. At CBU, Online and Professional Studies (OPS) division seeks to represent the CBU identity of faith fused with quality academics in the digital format.

"It actually used to just be called the degree completion program here at Cal Baptist," Ted Meyer, director of enrollment services for online and professional studies, explained, "and when they created the online and professional studies division they encompassed more than just degree completion - they encompassed online programs that were on the graduate and master's side, as well as any doctoral programs that are coming. As long as they are online they will be encompassed under the OPS division."

"We think both our market research and our existing student body have been clamoring for more and more online," Dirk Davis, academic dean for online and professional studies, informed. "Because of our mission, which, in my mind, has always been rigor, quality, the great commission and student-teacher relationships, the feeling is that we don't want to do online poorly."

Despite this shift, the division's goal is to provide the same quality of education CBU is known for. "We're putting systems and structures into place to make sure that before it goes online we can put our stamp of approval on it that says: rigor, quality, mission-focused - all of those things are in place," Davis said.

"It's the same as everything at CBU, at least in my experience. That's what we all want for all our programs. All we're doing is changing the delivery medium."

"They need changes in the way that education is delivered," David Poole, vice president for online and professional studies, said. "They are looking for a delivery model that works with their schedule."

"The structure of the program has changed through the years. The main difference now, with the changes, is that now more and more classes will be taught online, purely online," Jeff Cate, professor of New Testament who has been teaching night classes for 13 years, added.

Professor Jeff Cate teaches Bible courses online and in the evening for Online and Professional Studies. (Photo: Clint Heinze // Design: Andrew Hochradel)

Another significant aspect of CBU's identity, aside from academic excellence, is faith. "It's about doing your work for God and implementing everything - your heart, your body, your soul - into helping these students get a Christian education," Meyer said.

"The way faith integration is handled is all across the board," Davis explained. "I know in the education courses I talk about it all the time, not only management and discipline, but in teaching approaches. It's the basis for much of what I do and what I teach. My sense is many of the faculty that I know personally also add that component as they share their personal experiences: 'here's how my faith impacted a particular experience.'"

Other professors, as Davis explained, handle the fusion of faith with academics in different ways. "I start my classes with prayer and I make myself available to students because I am an ordained Baptist minister so that's in my heart," Cate said. "That's part of my calling and who I am. I let them know and try to be personable so that if they want to talk about these things one-on-one and personally, I very much encourage that."

The digital age is here. Our modern world depends on technology and rather than let technology wash out our uniqueness, CBU has utilized it to display that character to an even wider audience through OPS. As Meyer said, "It's an exciting job to have and it's exciting to know that you're affecting all these different people in so many different ways, and that this program might help someone change their life."

Written by Matthew Shade

(Photo: Haley Helfer // Design: Andrew Hochradel

Today, the bond of brotherhood is replayed in the lives of three roommates all from different walks of life. They come together under one roof surrounded by walls that are covered in personal interests, humorous jokes, passions, desires and even dreams.

Drawings of strong hands cupping tiny baby feet hang over an aged old man whose finely penciled-in wisdom is gracefully revealed through his wrinkles.

Neighboring magazine pages of tennis pros shot in mid-swing glance at little African figures walking the fireplace frame.

The drawings on Aaron Kim's wall reveal a childhood dream that developed into an artistic passion. "I wanted to be an art teacher when I was younger," Kim said. "It didn't matter if I was good at it; I just knew that I liked it."

Apart from sharing his almost obsessive enjoyment of tennis, Kim explained his display of small wooden African animals as a reflection of his time spent in Africa growing up as a missionary's kid.

"Aaron's creativity shines like his attitude. He's a super friendly guy. He's always so nice, and with his sense of humor, he's easy to get along with," Nelson Romero said.

Band poster after band poster lined Romero's wall, broadcasting his love of music to all who walked through the front door.

"I started playing drums when I was in seventh or eighth grade because my brother had a drum set.

Everything is because of my brother," Romero laughed.

"My older brother was always doing stuff. I wanted to, you know, be like him. I saw that he had fun doing it, so I wanted to do that too."

With previous childhood dreams of becoming a professional skateboarder and drummer, Romero's future plans shifted in his freshman year of high school.

"I got an internship at a pre-school and daycare.

It was for ROP [Regional Occupational Program]. It was something where you get credits if you volunteer.

They were like, 'Well the only opening we have is at a pre-school and daycare,' so I said, 'I guess,'" Romero explained. "And I worked with kids at my church in high school, so I kind of knew that's where I wanted to be, working with kids because it's fun."

Fellow "brother" and current roommate David Chambers shares in Romero's passion. Chambers said, "I enjoy working with the youth. A lot of times they don't have anyone to look up to. It's really cool how Nelson is a part of my life right now because he is doing what I plan on doing one day - working with youth."

Similar to Romero, Chambers' wall is wrapped in band posters and pictures that depict his personal style: punk. On first glance, black and red pandemonium sweeps the eye, but a second look displays X-men standing in-between chaotic posters, keeping the peace across the wall.

"When I was little I wanted to be an X-Men. I wanted to be Beast - the one with the least coolest super power," Chambers said.

Chambers did not grow up big, buff and blue, with superhuman agility and enough strength to lift 10 tons, but he did experience a mutation that has shaped, and will continue to shape, him - an encounter with love, grace, and mercy. Romero simply said, "He has a heart for others. He's always down to help people."

Three roommates. Three friends. Three "brothers." Though from diverse backgrounds and experiences, they are united under one roof. Their unique differences are shared via wall art, making their apartment into a visual carnival of personalities that make up this bond of brothers.

Written by Alexx Lommori

The Lancers have gone mad!

Ten minutes left of the pre-party and the students were getting antsy.

"Tonight is going to be crazy good!" M.C. Jay Stovall confidently said. The noise was loud, entertainment was exciting, and sweat was dripping from the nocturnals' bodies as they stood in the never-ending line.

Nocturnals? Yes! These kids were most active at night. Jonathan Jorge explained how interesting it was guarding these restless night owls before the doors opened. "It was an honor and definitely entertaining watching everyone's actions. It was quite crazy!"

It was five minutes before the chaos began and everyone was already hyped from the Shady Berry performance, dance-off, and the CBU boys' song.

Game cheerleaders, Alexis Strate, Kathryn Mcbride and Amanda Swearengin expressed, "We are excited to encourage our competition cheerleaders during their performance. Most of all we hope to make Wendy Rice proud!"

The excitement built up once the Lancers entered through the doors. Fog machines, techno music, music videos blaring, and flashing bright lights were the least of what was planned for the night.

Junior Tim Glaser, who had attended the previous Midnight Madness events, explained, "So far it has been way more hyped and eccentric than any other year!"

Once every seat was filled, the madness began. M.C.s Andrew Hochradel and Josh Mott picked up the microphones and the evening of insanity started. These crazy boys, along with their gang, The Crazy Eight, heightened the atmosphere with free prizes and t-shirts, while making everyone scream their lungs off for the section scream-off. According to Hochradel, the audience members this year were "five levels higher in intensity than the years before!"

Even Mascot, Daniel Scott, was feeling the heat and intensity while he commented, "I seriously almost died! Usually I take bags of ice and tape them all around my body while I'm in the suit, but this year I didn't and it almost killed me."

But that did not stop our mascot from keeping the crowd involved, dancing with random students on the side and controlling the energy level.

Finally, it was time to introduce our men's and women's basketball teams.

De'Jon Prescott shared, "I expect tonight to be exhilarating, loud, a lot of energy and fun."

It was definitely all of the above. Each player had a huge smile on their face as they stood in the spotlight waiting for their friends and the entire CBU family to yell and go crazy. "I am looking forward to the crowd cheering and screaming my name," teammate John Williams had announced before walking onto the court.

It was then time for the three point contest. In an energetic upset, lady basketball player, Brenna Hahn won the three point contest, beating out competitor Nick Paulson who represented the guys.

But the boys showed no signs of nervousness during the dunk contest.

Proud dunk contest champion, Ivan Patterson, excitedly shared, "I was not nervous because I have experienced this before. Did I think I was going to win? Yes, and I am happy I did."

At 11:59, one minute left until Midnight Madness came to an end, Bekah Sonke expressed her overall experience. "On a scale of one to five, it was truly a twenty-five. No doubt about that!"

Midnight! The Mad House was closed, the crew was cleaning up, and the CBU nocturnals were satisfied and ready to talk about their crazy night the next day during classes. Like Gabriel Newman said, "It was unquestionably an insane time of unreserved fun!"

Written by Cassidy Edison

(right top) Mike Teruel kicks off the pre-party. (right middle) The cheerleaders got the crowd going to start the madness. (bottom middle) Sammy Ramos got so excited that it hurt. (bottom left) Andrew Hochradel and Josh Mott planned crazy antics for the insane night. (Photos: Cayla Ames // Design: Andrew Hochradel)

WINTER 46-47

"Ring, ring!" It's early in the morning and Caleb Vera has to wake up for his 8 a.m. class. He drags himself out of bed and gets ready, then walks from his on-campus house to his class. His classes last until noon, when he takes a little two hour break until male chorale. He does his homework during those two hours, goes home to visit his four children or works on his internet business.

Male chorale practice lasts a few hours and then he has hours of private lessons. The last one starts at 8:30 p.m. When he's finally done with school for the day, he comes home to his pregnant, and therefore, very tired wife. She wants to go straight to bed, so he gets the babies ready for bed and tucks them in. As soon as the house is asleep, he goes to work, studying until one in the morning.

When he finally goes to bed, he knows he'll wake up to do it all over again, plus working for five hours as an after-school music program coordinator.

This schedule is typical of many student parents. How do they do it all? Between God, school, work, choir, church, a spouse and children, how do they stay sane? Everyone seems to agree with Amanda Madrid, who said, "Time management is the most difficult thing, balancing between God, your husband, your kids, your school and your work. It's like you have to find a happy medium."

Madrid is a nursing major who has two children; Kayla is five and Raymon is two. She was working as a licensed vocational nurse in Loma Linda for four years, when her husband helped her realize she was in a dead-end career. "I was content: I had my career, I had my family, but doors just opened one after another after another leading me in this direction," she explained.

Vera, a music theory and composition major, has a similar story.

He did school for a year and a half in Denver, Colo., then quit and was working full time for six or seven years. He said, "I was encouraged by my parents to go back to school with this economy. I was kind of just going from job to job, looking for the money but not really being fulfilled, but God worked it out. The Lord put everything in place for us to come out here, from us moving to getting the financial aid, to finding a home out here and stuff."

Vera has four children. His two stepdaughters are Zoe, who is twelve, and Sasha, who is eleven. His son Asher is two, daughter Tirzah is one, and there is a fifth child on the way!

Cristina Martinez is another parent with one on the way! She has a twenty-two month old daughter named Maria and she and her husband are both students at CBU. "I'm a psychology major.

I'm interested in working with young people, possibly in the school system doing counseling or mentoring. With my own experience with school, I had a pretty broken home so I went to counseling in elementary school and having someone to talk to really helped."

Having two parents in school is an extra challenge. She explained, "All of a sudden you go from 'it's always been school' to 'right now, we need to balance.' Who's going to watch the baby? Are we playing with her enough? Do we do our homework right now or do we play with her?" Martinez is lucky in that she and her husband have been able to balance school and work so Maria has never had to go to childcare.

Part of this balance, for all the student parents, is taking advantage of the time when the children are asleep. Madrid explained, "I probably look very tired, but I have to study at night.

When I get home, it's dinner and time with them and reading with them, just them. Then there's my husband. So once the house is quiet and everyone's asleep, that's when I take my books out and I study.

I always make it a priority that they know they're not secondary to school or work; they know that they are first."

Martinez added, "Naptime is a good time, too. That's two hours for reading."

Vera, Madrid, and Martinez all had good advice for other student parents. Martinez said, "Don't doubt yourself. When you find out you're expecting, especially when you don't plan for it, you tend to get a lot of opposition. 'Oh, you can't do school now. You need to drop out now.' Have perseverance and know God put you in this situation for a purpose."

Vera continued, "It's going to be hard for a few years, but the payoff is going to be grand. Look at the bigger picture, you'll have your education and then you know, you're always going to have your kids. It's investing in your future and also your kids."

Madrid concluded, "If you don't have a support system, it's not possible. If God's not first, it's not possible. Try to go through life without Him, forget it, it's impossible."

No matter if you are a student and a parent, or just a student, that is inspired advice for anyone.

Written by Alexx Lommori

Chris Vera realizes that a bigger family means harder work, more stress, and a greater faith in God. (Photo: Kenton Jacobsen // Design: Andrew Hochradel)

PARENTS 48-49

Running. For many it invokes the imagery of athletes training for their sport, be it basketball, baseball, football or something else. It is a means to an end: a tool to reach the basket, base or yard line. However, for some athletes, this means is the end. For some, running is not an arduous task meant to prepare them for their sport, but is instead the sport they compete in just as intensely as anyone in basketball, baseball or football.

At CBU, this dedication to running is quite visible, though the training for CBU cross country athletes sounds deceptively easy: one to one and a half hour practices every day. These times belie an excruciating distance covered in just 60 short minutes. Sergio Rodriguez, one of the men's team runners, said that during the course of a single practice they would run about 10 miles in that hour. Amazingly, this means Rodriguez and his teammates can average a six-minute mile for 10 miles.

These intense practices pay off. Head coach Wade Watkins explained, "The team is doing fairly well. The men's team is very strong, with 12 runners competing for seven spots, so the competition on the team is intense. On the women's side, we are doing much better than last year and competing well against other GSAC teams, which happen to make up the best conference in the nation."

"I feel the guys have a real shot at winning conference and competing well at Nationals. We are hoping to get the women into the National rankings, which would be a great achievement."

In light of these accomplishments, it's surprising that CBU's cross country team is only in its third year. Watkins shared, "The first year or two, it was about getting numbers. We went from 14 people on the whole team the first year, to 24 people the second year, and this year we topped out at 42 cross country runners. Now that we have established the team, and brought in some quality, it's time to develop the team and begin to compete at the National level. We have one of the largest, if not the largest, teams in the GSAC." Besides practice, cross country and track runners prepare themselves to compete in other ways. The night before the race, Rodriguez explained that "I really just try to relax, try not to think about it. Some people try to carb-up, and it doesn't really work for me. Maybe it works for them, but it definitely didn't work for me. I raced badly when I tried it. So, I normally just drink a lot of water. Oh and I eat a lot of peanut butter, just like straight from the jar."

Right before he races, Rodriguez triple knots his shoes because they come undone if they are double knotted and only tucks in his left shoelace because "the right one comes out anyway." He also said, "When we're warming up, doing strides, I'll do two, walk one, then pray and draw a cross on the ground."

One member of the girl's team, Marisa Benson, said, "I always listen to the song 'The Words I Would Say' by The Sidewalk Prophets. It encourages me and pumps me up to race as it talks about being strong in God and never giving up hope. I never race without listening to it beforehand! I also pray before I race."

Alyssa Neimeyer shared, "I usually prepare for a race by eating pasta the night before a race and getting enough sleep and hydrating.

I always eat oatmeal for breakfast, and listen to hip-hop music while I warm up before my race."

Derrick Glasby is another CBU runner who has a unique way of preparing to race. He warms up, stretches, prays, tries to visualize how he is going to run the race and then sticks to that plan.

Christ is an important aspect of preparation for both teams, in fact. Watkins said that prayer is one of the pre-meet rituals. CBU's teams are set apart from other schools' teams in that, as Watkins explained, "I really do feel that this team has a nice balance of focus on Christ, determination to do well in the classroom and the drive to put in the mileage and compete at a very high level."

Benson added, "Our team is different because of how close we are. We have a bond that can never be broken. Our season started off with a car accident but it brought us closer. We know our lives are a gift from God and what a gift it is to be here and be able to run. That is what makes us unique: we value our ability to run and do it with each other."

Written by Cassidy Edison

(top right) Kody Petersen, Mitchell Moore, Juan Romero and Sergio Rodriguez have trained with the team for countless hours to prepare for races. (bottom right) Both cross country teams pray before races to keep themselves centered on Christ: the real goal of the race. (Photos: Mike Sampson // Design: Andrew Hochradel)

Tune

It Up A girl walks around campus, minding the monotony of her everyday business.

As she rounds the corner, She is surprised to find she hears music. Beautiful music created by a guy who simply strums an instrument under the direction of his talented fingers.

Guitars have become a rather popular trend on the CBU campus. There are plenty of good Christian guys who could easily serenade the girls on campus; however, there seems to be more to this fad than just that.

One of these guitar players, Matt Ching, is a creative, fun-loving guy who makes friends extremely easily. While sitting under the nicknamed "tree of life" in the middle of the cottages, he spoke of his love for singing and joy of playing his guitar, and, yes, his ukulele. He explained that he brings out his instruments to play because "for my ukulele I just play for fun, but when I do guitar, basically I want to do worship."

Ching has printed off guitar tabs of well-known worship songs that usually attract a crowd of both boys and girls singing praises to the Lord. Whether playing the ukulele or guitar, others come and sing songs with him such as Jason Mraz selections and the song "Over the Rainbow." To him, playing around campus is just a way to worship the Lord our God. Jeremy Escudero, having only been developing his skills for two and a half years, is extremely talented when it comes to playing and singing with his guitar.

He could be classified as a 'hipster,' chilling with his glasses and fedora on a daily basis. Escudero taught himself to play, sharing, "For like the first year I just kind of fiddled around with the guitar, learning how to play the songs. The last year – this last year and a half. I've been really focusing on different ways I can make myself sound better. I taught myself music theory so that I could know the guitar in and out and then instead of playing other people's songs, I just focused on core progression and different sounds that I can make my own."

Escudero writes a lot of his music and has actually written over 20 songs.

When asked about the topic of most of the songs, his answer was the simple word, "love." He writes beautiful music and lyrics discussing relationships between men and women, in addition to worship songs that relate to God through love. Love is a very important factor in his music.

A third guy can also be seen walking around at night strumming on his guitar music that he has just recently written. Daniel Urban is an extremely chill guy who can be found crunching on the childhood favorite, pop rocks. Whenever he passes someone he knows, he flashes a huge friendly grin across his face. Urban really enjoys creating brilliant music pertaining to his own personal relationship with God.

Urban plays mostly at night "because my roommates are sleeping, and also because I figured other people would like live music instead of just listening to it on their headphones."

The final player, Christian Cannon, is a tall and lanky guy with fair skin and bright blonde hair. With a goofy smile, huge eyes and cool glasses, he really engages people in conversation. Cannon has been playing guitar for about four years. "I taught myself. To learn the basic chords, it didn't take really long at all. To learn to sing and play at the same time, however, took quite some time."

He further explained, "I play for the love of worshiping my Father.

The fact that it is fun is just a plus." As a FOCUS leader, his heart is truly set for the Lord, and he uses his guitar as a tool that creates beauty in the eyes of the Lord. He also writes his own music and lyrics mentioning what he usually writes and sings about. "Most my songs are about God, but I include His creation in my songs.His children, creation, attributes, and character."

At CBU, guitars are used the majority of the time for worship, which is a very uplifting thought. In today's society, people sometimes associate guys playing guitars with groups of girls around them in a negative way.

However, at CBU it does not seem that way at all. Guitar playing is not just about being cool, but a deeper vision of life and the emotions in our lives expressed musically.

Written by Kira Kramer

Date: August 24th Event: LAST DAYS OF SUMMER You counted down the days and now IT is here; the time of packing up your room, waving good-bye to your best friends, walking your dog one last time, kissing grammy and grandpa on their wrinkly cheeks and looking back at the memories of your old life through the rear view mirror of the car while heading towards your new home at CBU. Date: August 25th Event: NSO After the kick-off, 990 new students (biggest group CBU has ever had!)from all over the world gathered under one roof to begin their new life adventures during NSO. The words "nervous" and "unsure" summed up the emotions of almost every student, but the vibrant, energetic Focus leaders immediately tried to change their moods into a fun and more relaxed state.

Timid and shy, each new student enjoyed getting in groups of guys and girls, crawling out of their shells and learning about one another. Freshman Rebekah Rubio explained, "I became more comfortable," after her nerves settled while engaging with her Focus group.

Date: August 26th Event: CAR-LESS DRIVE-IN Fast forwarding through Kugel Walk, the ice cream social, informative sessions, academic workshops and crazy Bookstore Bunko, the Car-less Drive-In Movie took action. Having a thousand new people this year meant the guys could meet half that many girls…and vice versa. One freshman girl, Vivian Le, relayed her reaction towards ALL of the new guy faces: "OMG! There's like so many guys to meet! This is so exciting!"

Date: August 27th Event: BYE BYE PARENTS The time to say "goodbye" had passed. A river of tears flooded the Van Dyne Gym when it was time for the new Lancers to say farewell to their moms and dads. The faculty handed out boxes of tissue while the parents gave their hugs, said their "I Love Yous," wished their child good luck, prayed and slowly drove Written by Dayana Ramirez away from the CBU campus. Though the majority of the freshman population cried, many were at ease and in agreement with Rebekah Rubio's statement, "I knew I would see my parents really soon." The transfers had previously experienced this stage in life. With dry eyes, transfer student from Texas, Sophia Vaughn, announced, "It wasn't necessary to cry this time since I am livingNeal on my ownplays now."for friends. (Top Right) Will Palmer (Topused Left)toGuitar Frank practices in his room. (Middle) Brandon Carroll prepares to play and (Bottom) Edward Tran relaxes by playing his guitar. Players were abundant in Smith Hall, filling the dorms with harmonious, beautiful music.

(Photos: Ashley Wilkins: Design: Ruth Richards)

Ruben Alonzo agrees that it is not about gender, CBU Lancers are involved in the School of Nursing simply because they just want to help people out.

CBU is proud to say that we have one of the best private Christian nursing schools in California. An interesting fact about our nursing program, and this is true for most nursing programs in the country, is that the rate of men enrolled is only about 8 to 10 percent!

Does that surprise you? It should. There is as much need for male nurses as female doctors, yet the rate of men that are nurses is shockingly low. How many guys do you know that have been or are in the nursing program here at CBU? There aren't many, but they do exist.

"In the masters program the percentage of male students is different. Close, but different. They differ quite a bit; I don't like to stereotype the students. We have wonderful students.

Our graduates are doing very well," reported Constance Milton, Dean of the School of Nursing. "We teach them that every human being is an image bearer of God, so they approach everyone with dignity and respect. People tell us that when our students are there, they are just different from the other universities' students. They exist in the role of nurse. It's a very difficult major; it's very rigorous, and they are held to a very high standard."

"It's cliche but I chose nursing because I want to help people out. I had a lot of influence because we have family members that are nurses. What pushed me in that direction was the clinical setting," Matthew Alvarez shared, "when I would go into the ER with family and watching the difference between the interactions between the doctor and the patient and the

(Photo right: Sarah O’Keefe // Photo left: Josefina Llanes) (Design: Ruth Richards)

nurse and the patient — the doctor would come in and give their report and the nurse would have to do damage control and explain what different things meant. That kind of tipped me over the edge., I want to be that person; the person that someone can look to and feel better about their situation in the hospital."

According to Milton, the standards are the same for all the students in the Nursing department. Male or female, everyone is treated the same in the educational setting.

Yet as everyone comes to find out, the workforce is nothing like what we expect when we're still in school. "For the guys, we're almost held at a higher standard . As we progress we always need accountability because we're almost more liable than women," Ruben Alonzo said.

There is something wonderful about seeing that men can take up such a selfless profession. Garrett Newman added, "Our sole purpose is to consistently serve people. As long as your heart and mind are in the right place and you keep in mind the reason that you're there, you'll see that the encouraging times far outweigh the discouraging times. You can just have one good and encouraging patient that reaffirms what you're doing."

"Nursing will bring out some of the ugliest things in people, but then when you really open your mind to what's in front of you, you start to see that it's one of the most rewarding professions," concluded Michael Alvarez.

Written by Bonnie Koenn

NURSING 56-57