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Dedicating the Liberty University Garden in memory of the late Henry and Elvira Morris, President Jerry Falwell, Jr., and the Liberty University community gathered atop Liberty Mountain in celebration of new life, Friday, Oct. 25. Students, faculty and staff enjoyed food samplings, cooking demonstrations and a tour of the Morris Campus Garden. However, before anyone could take part in the festivities or pay compliments to Executive Director of Sodexo Chef Craig DaSuta for his bruschetta, hot soups and pumpkin pancakes, members of administration participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony, offering kind words toward the Morris family. Henry and Elvira Morris’ son, Chip Morris, and his family were also in attendance. Reminiscing over the campus’ past, Falwell addressed those in attendance about a time before Jeffersonian Architecture filled the campus. “Henry Morris made it his mission to beautify Liberty University,” Falwell said. “Even in the years before we had beautiful buildings, nice architecture and red brick, we received compliments all around campus because of what Henry Morris did to make it beautiful.”
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PUMPKINS — Students participate in fall activities at the Equestrian Festival. Story on B8.
Panel encourages writers
Keynote speakers talk to students about publishing trends and building an audience Nathan Skaggs ncskaggs@liberty.edu
The Department of English and Modern Languages partnered with the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Wednesday, Oct. 23, to host “Writing Culture: A Panel with Christianity Today’s Her.meneutics.” Attendees enjoyed refreshments while a panel of four professionals took turns speaking on various writing topics, which included publishing trends, writing for an audience and building an audience using social media. Dr. Karen Prior, an English professor, said the panel was part of a lecture series that seeks to enhance students’ educational experience. “I began this lecture series … because
when I was a student, I attended a university where lectures were a vital part of the intellectual life,” Prior said. “I have been very pleased to find that there is a hunger among Liberty students for this kind of intellectual engagement with the world.” Prior kicked off the evening speaking on publishing trends and using her most recent non-fiction work “Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me” as an example. Nick Olson, editor and writer for “Christ and Pop Culture,” followed Prior’s lecture by talking about how Christian writers should know their target audience, as it is qualitative to the biblical command to “love thy neighbor.” Olson said knowing the audience will allow a writer to package a message properly.
“We as Christians sometimes struggle with having both good content and good form,” Olson said. “I would emphasize that you care about the form of what you write as much as the content.” Suzanne Kuhn, owner of Suzy Q , an author promotion and retail development firm, provided tips for writers to appropriately use social media to engage and relate with their audience. “We need to be approaching (social media) in a way that is not self-promoting and not pushing an agenda,” Kuhn said. “We want to have a dialogue versus a monologue.”
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Daughter honors parents in essay Andrea Giovanetto writes her winning essay about love, grace and second chances Mary Helen Norris mhnorris@liberty.edu
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DAUGHTER — Giovanetto wrote a story about her parents.
Andrea Giovanetto’s essay about love, grace and second chances was chosen as this year’s winner of the Outstanding Parent of the Year Award. According to Theresa
Dunbar, director of Parent and Family Connections at Liberty, Giovanetto’s essay depicted the “endless grace and love her adoptive parents provided for her.” This is the fifth year for the contest, which ended earlier this month. Ac-
cording to Dunbar, students are given a chance to honor their parents for the love they have received, the example they were given and the sacrifices their parents have made to send them to Liberty. After the deadline, three judges read the 92 essays,
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and Giovanetto’s essay was in the top two, according to Dunbar. When the top essays were selected, a fourth and final judge was brought in to read them and narrow it down to the top three. From there, Giovanetto’s essay was chosen because,
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according to Dunbar, “It was well written and told her wonderful life story.” According to Giovanetto, she was inspired to nominate her parents because of the sacrifices they had made for her.
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