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rmprknt,Friday,February13,1987
The Yellow Brick Road of Career Plannim
Career Services workshops /
by Student Vocational
Advisors
Career Services will be conducting a series of workshops for students on effective means of securing employment. These hour-long sessions are open to all students and will be held in Needles Hall room 1020. Sign-up sheets are available one week prior to the workshops in Needles Hall room 100 1. Self-assessment and preparing to write your resume sessions will be offered February 17 from 1 I:30 to 12:30, February 26 from 12:30 to 1:30 and March.10 from 3:30 to 4:30. An interview skills workshop will be offered on Feb- _ - ruary 19 from 11:30 to 12:30. Helpful hints in writing an effective resume sessions will be offered February 18 from 11:30 to 12:30, March 3 from 12:30 to I :30 and March I 1 from 3:30 to 4:30.
by Alan Vanderhoek Imprint staff
Debunking: After the last less-than-cordial reception 1 received from the Maranatha Christian Fellowship, 1 was pleasantly surprised to find a much more civil (dare 1 say friendly‘?) group of people at last Monday’s presentation of the movie The Silent Witness, a film dealing with the evidence supporting the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. The guest speaker was Hunter Fite, a native of Alabama who was quite . prepared to give me a chance to voice my opinions and who kept the lively audience debate just rolling along. And even though Mr. Fite and 1do not come close to seeing eye to eye on religious issues, he was more than happy to discuss any of the points, religious or scientific, that 1 raised. All in all, a major improvement over last week. And having said that, I can now savage the film with a clear conscience. As a quick refresher course, the Shroud of Turin is believed to be the burial shroud of Christ, based on the faded but unmistakable images on it of a man who has suffered crucrfixion. The shroud contains both a frontal and dorsal view of the body and carries the marks commonly associated with Christ’s crucifixion - nail holes piercing the wrists,
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Sessions on overseas jobs will be offered February 25 from 1 I:30 to 12:30 and March 12 from 1I:30 to 12:30. Small business: is it for me‘? - this three-part series will examine such areas as advantages/ disadvantages, getting started, drafting a business plan, obtaining financing, types of business and legal advice. These ses- -, sions will be held on March 2 from 1I:30 to 12:30, March 4 from II:30 to 12:30 and March 6 from II:30 to
Burnout
“I’ve spent most of the last 20 years of my life asking, where am I, why’s it going so fast, and how do I get off. Agree or‘disagree .” The above is a newly discovered test for student burnout. The questionnaire presented last term by the good Reverend York on this topic seemed a trifle on the average (yawn) side, but you’ll be pleased to know that following extensive research 1 was able to boil his test down into this one lone statement., The Reverend York’s version, it will be remembered, failed to get to the heart of things, dealing only with surface symptoms easily discernible by anyone possessing even a smattering of personal insight. An item in the good Reverend’s quiz which particularly amused me was “I have no interest in sex.” In reality, the need for sexual expression is always present, regardless of how you do your fucking (options include fucking up, fucking the dog, etc.). What’s important about sex is n~hjf you do it rn the first place. (eg. instinct, higher cerebral motivation, or whatever) as well as hoti’ the animal urges are modified by the grinding nrocesses of university life.
by Robert Day Imprint staff
Bring your own resume for analysis to one of the resume critiquing sessions on February 23 from 3:30 to 4:40, March 4 from 12:30 to 1:30, March 13 from IO:30 to 1 I:30 and March 18 form 3:30 to 4:30. A workshop on asserting yourself in the job interview will be offered February 26 from 3:30 to 5:30. A session on creative job search strategies will be offered on March 5 from 12:30 to 1:30.
One way in which the sex drive is transformed over the course of a semester is that the normal lust for flesh slowly develops into a craving for true love and compassion. For those of you with something less than perfect mental health, this is also the period when the walls of your world begin to close in upon you, and you hear demonic voices keening in the night-wind of your mind. So you reach out and clutch someone. Close, to your heart, only to gratefully discard them when exams are over and it’s Time To Go Home. In any event, if you agreed with the test question, as I did, it is quit possible that much of this article will have significant meaning to you, will strike a responsive chord in your soul, if you have one. If you disagreed, and have managed to remain burnout-free, 1 congratulate you and predict great things for your future, including, but not limited to, a successful research career in Library Science and the acquisition of a (smallish) house in the suburbs, complete with station wagon and pink flamingos on the lawn
T-he Shroud of Turin
lance wound in the side, and unbroken legs. The last point is significant since it was normal practice to break the legs to speed the onset of death, while the nails are unusual as it was common to simply tie the victims to the support. All of these characteristics are used by believers to support the allegation that this is indeed the Holy Shroud. Unfortunately, one of the most damning sources of evidence against the accuracy of these marks is, strangely enough, the Bible itself. One searches in vain through the Gospels of Matthew, Mark or Luke for any mention of these specific wounds; the appropriate verses mention simply “crucifixion*‘, nothing else. The sole source of these gory details is the fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John, where John 19:35 seems to imply that John is getting his information from a reliable witness, “And he that saw it bare record, and his record was true . . . “ And why should we believe this witness? No problem, says John, “Forthese things weredone, that the scripture should be fulfilled. . . “, referring to predictions made in Exodus, Zechariah and Psalms describing the precise injuries Jesus would suffer. Are you getting the impression that John is trying awfully hard to get his narrative to fulfill previous
Biblical predictions, possibly at the cost of objectivity? In addition, modern Biblical scholars such as G. Bornkamm and H. Conzelmann have stated that, because of the theological conception that has been incorporated into the Gospel of John, it cannot be- taken seriously as a historical source. p Another problem with the shroud lies in the orientation of the images. The shroud measures 1.1 by 4.4 metres, and the images are situated as if the body had been placed face up with the feet at one end, and the excess shroud above the body had been folded over top back down to the feet. This certainly contradicts the widespread belief of how victims were placed in a shroud, and again contradicts passages in all four Gospels, which state that Jesus was either “wrapped*’ or “wound” in the shroud. The film glossed over this by simply stating that this should not be considered unusual. And to think 1 had worried about this picky little detail. Silly me. All of the above, however, pales in comparison with the most devastating e.vidence against the authenticity of the Shroud - its own history, or sin-. gular lack of it. The very first written reference to the Shroud is from 1357, when it first appeared on display in Lirey, France.
There was absolutely no indication of where it had been for the previous 13 centuries, and it was immediately denounced as a hoax by a local clergyman, Bishop Henri de Poitiers. His protests cancelled the exhibition, but by 1389 they were in full swing again;prompting de Poitier’s successor, Bishop Pierre d’Arcis, to write a nasty letter to Pope Clement ‘VII, explaining the situation. A translation of the letter appears in Ian Wilson’s book The Shroud of Turin, and makes for fascinating reading. In the letter d’Arcis, referring to the shroud, writes that de Poitiers “. . . after diligent inquiry and examination. . . discovered the fraud and how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who painted it . . . ” (emphasis mine). The response from Pope Clement was an order that the exhibit should be accompanied by a notice stating that the cloth was a “copy or repres-
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entation.” Needless to say, this disclaimer eventually wandered off and the rest is history. This entire incident was dismissed by the film with the statement that, after the shroud appeared in Lirey, a local clergyman claimed it was a fraud. You blinked, you missed it. Given all of this unfavorable evidence, one would think that there would exist at least a healthy skepticism concerning the Shroud. Not so. Even though the Vatican, to their credit, has never taken an official stance on the Shroud, it is worshipped by millions as a genuine holy relic, which eventually resulted in the formation in 1978 of a serious scientific research team who took it upon themselves to deal, with this nagging issue once and for all. Was it or wasn’t it? Only .the Shroud of Turin Research Project team knows for sure, and you can read about their earthshaking, mind-boggling (and ofttimes bone-headed) conclusions right here, one week from today.
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