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“It is a story about a fa-ther… and this father … was a man I admired,” Randall Wallace said about Todd Bur-po, author of “Heaven is for Real.”

Wallace, the director of “Heaven is for Real,” and Burpo visited Liberty Univer-sity Wednesday, March 26, to encourage students from the Zaki Gordon School of Cin-ematic Arts to pursue success in filmmaking as well as show a screening of their film.

Both Wallace and Burpo explained they had many ob-stacles to overcome to get to the place they are at today, and none of it would have been possible without God.

“Everything I am is noth-ing unless God transforms it … ,” Wallace said. “I happen

to know how weak and worth-less I am unless God makes me into something new, and it happens everyday. So the cre-ative process … is an act of faith, and you can’t make that act of faith unless you believe you are going to fall into the arms of God.”

In a question-and-answer session with cinematic arts students, Wallace spoke about his journey of becoming an Oscar award-winning Holly-wood director and screenwrit-er. He explained how he first majored in religion before trying to become a songwriter in Nashville, Tenn., and then finally writing “Braveheart,” the movie that kick-started his career.

“Over and over I was re-jected,” Wallace said. “How easy do you think it should be to talk to the whole world?”

According to Wallace, he

wrote 12 drafts of “Bravehe-art” before it was even con-sidered by a production com-pany. He encouraged students to never quit, but always fin-ish strong.

“You don’t have to be per-fect today, you just have to be willing to learn tomorrow,”

Wallace said. “You are here to be leaders, but what will you do with that leadership? I believe the only way to be a true leader is to be a follower of Jesus.”

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Representatives encourage peers to vote Emily [email protected]

With City Council elections right around the corner, Liberty University’s Dean of Students Office has positioned students in the hallway of DeMoss to pro-vide their peers with the opportunity to register to vote in the May 6 elections as well as to communicate the importance of voting.

Bradley Milks, assistant director of programming for the Dean of Students Office, expressed how important it is for students to register to vote for the City Council elections.

“Registering to vote, and voting, allows students the opportunity for their voice to be heard by local politicians,” Milks said. “If students fail to register to vote, or vote, local politicians will not know their specific needs.”

Those running in the citywide race for the three at-large seats in the City Coun-cil include Keith Anderson, H. Cary, Joan Foster, Randy Nelson, Rhonnie Smith and Treney Tweedy.

Milks pointed out that those elected will make decisions regarding the Lynchburg City Code, which will have a direct im-pact on Liberty students. He said the City Council helps govern the city of Lynch-burg and “is the chief legislative body of the municipal corporation.”

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Wallace premieres movieStudents attend free screening of “Heaven is For Real” at Lynchburg theater

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Dean of students runs for Lynchburg City Council

Anderson campaigns

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Keith Anderson, Liberty University dean of students and pastor of HiliFa-vrd Ministries, has been fighting to run in the May 6 election as an independent for Lynchburg City Council.

Anderson is no stranger to serving and taking on a leadership position, he ex-plained. He spent 15 years as a military officer and has been pastoring for more than 21 years. But he has not been ready for campaigning for City Council until now, as the past two years of his life were shaken by the death of his daughter, Sta-cia Nicole Anderson, in January 2012.

“I’m just now getting to the point where my life is stable enough to return to my natural personality of community ser-vice at work,” Anderson said. “So when I looked down, and I saw an opportunity to be a part of helping advance Godly prin-ciple and really come alongside in helping citizens of this community, I thought this was a perfect time to continue what I’ve always known, and that is helping people.”

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Liberty University’s History Department will be hosting a Civil War seminar April 4 and 5 with keynote speaker Dr. James Robertson. This is the 18th year that Liberty has had a Civil War seminar, according to Kristina Burdeaux, office administrator for the History Department.

“Eighteen years ago, Kenny Rowlette and Cline Hall were the ones who started it,” Bur-deaux said. “They just had a passion for the Civil War. They wanted to get that information out about the war and teach young people.”

Robertson is a distinguished professor of history at Virginia Tech and is one of the most sought-after speakers on the Civ-

il War in his field, according to Virginia Tech’s website. He will be giving a speech Friday, April 4 entitled “How the Civil War Still Lives” and another Satur-day, April 5 entitled “Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks: Uncom-mon Soldiers.” Other speakers at the event include Dr. Jonathan White, Dr. Kyle Sinisi and Greg Starbuck.

According to Burdeaux, this year’s seminar will focus on the year 1864. According to the United States National Park Service, Lynchburg, Va, played a part in the Civil War June 17 and 18 of that year, when Union Gen. David Hunter attacked Confederate depots in Lynch-burg. Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early fought Hunter back, resulting in a Confederate vic-tory. The battle resulted in 900

casualties out of 44,000 troops, according to the National Park Service.

Usually, there are approxi-mately 150 people from the pub-lic who attend the event each year, Burdeaux explained.

“The amount of Liberty stu-dents that attend varies each year but it is usually close to 100,” Burdeaux said.

The seminar is free for Lib-erty students to attend and will include door prizes, according to Burdeaux.

“It would be successful if some of the students learned some-thing they hadn’t learned about the Civil War before, and enjoy the speakers that we are having this year,” Burdeaux said. “It is good for everybody to learn more about our country’s history and be aware of what sacrifices

were taking place so that we can keep our freedom.”

Liberty students already have this opportunity, as Liberty is home to the National Civil War Chaplains Research Center and Museum Foundation that fea-tures Civil War artifacts and guided tours. The museum was created by Rowlette and exists to educate the public on the role of chaplains during the Civil War, according to the museum’s website.

“Come on out,” Burdeaux said. “We’d like to pack the rooms completely.”

Tickets may be purchased at the ticket center. For more infor-mation, visit the seminar web-page at liberty.edu/civilwar.

EBRAHIM is a news reporter.

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FIGHT FOR FREEDOM — Speaker Dr. James Robertson will give a speech entitled “How the Civil War Still Lives.”

SA offers new Loyalty ProgramStudent Activities now offers free prizes for those participating in sponsored eventsJesse [email protected]

Free prizes. That’s what Student Activities (SA) began offering stu-dents through their new Loyalty Program in the 2014 spring semester.

The Loyalty Program provides students with a loyalty card that gets stamped at SA events and can be turned in at the SA office in exchange for free prizes, according to the SA website.

“We decided to cre-ate this program because we recognized a lot of the same people at our events,” SA Event Super-visor Elizabeth Karr said. “We thought the loy-alty program would be a great way to thank them for their support and to keep them coming back.”

Karr said loyalty cards can be received and stamped at every SA event at the promotion table.

Students must attend 10 events to fill the loyalty

card, according to the SA website.

“I think it (will) bring more people to come to student activities, espe-cially if it’s giving away free prizes,” senior Chelsi Murray said. “Students always like free things.”

Resident Advisor Han-nah Solem said she is excited to introduce the program to the girls on her hall.

“We really encourage girls to go (to SA events),” Solem said. “You can grab a group of friends and go off to an activity, and for them to get priz-es—that’s a great idea.”

Karr said there is no limit to how many cards can be filled out per stu-dent, and the program restarts every semester.

“Once you finish one card, you can go ahead and grab another,” Karr said. “We have exclusive (SA) promotional items for people who have 10 punches on their card.”

She said students can win prizes such as a ce-

ramic tumbler mug or a large gym bag with the Liberty logo on it.

“The cards are free, they’re easy, and you can win exclusive items just for being loyal to our events,” Karr said.

According to the SA website, the loyalty pro-gram is “just one more way to say a very spe-cial thank you” to their supporters.

“I think it’s really good, especially for freshmen

coming in,” Solem said. “It gets them involved in school right away, …(and) it’s a great way for them to make friends.”

Karr said students have responded very well to the Loyalty Program.

“It’s an opportunity for them to get awesome prizes for coming to awe-some events,” Karr said. “Who wouldn’t love that?”

SA creates more than 80 events for free or at dis-

counted prices through-out the school year, ac-cording to its website. Events include concerts, movies, trail races, trips and more.

For more information about the Loyalty Pro-gram and SA events, call the SA office at 434-592-3061 or email [email protected].

SPRADLIN is a news reporter.

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Liberty University has re-cently introduced a rewards app that allows students to keep a virtual punch card to earn free drinks and food at restaurants on campus.

According to QBOT’s web-site, the app works similarly to your standard punch card of any loyalty program, but in-cludes a few extra benefits.

The user can search for participating locations by city or category. The next step is to “love” a merchant, which earns an automatic reward.

“I downloaded it because I love innovation,” freshman Anna Schlueter said. “QBOT created a new way of expand-ing the term ‘coupon.’”

By selecting Lynchburg, Va., students can see that the participating restaurants on campus are Brioche Dorée, Dunkin’ Donuts, Flames Zone, Pizza Hut Express and the Sub Connection in DeM-oss Hall.

According to the website, the app was created in 2012.

“QBOT is specifically de-signed for you, the merchant, with one goal in mind, and that’s to keep your customers coming back,” QBOT’s web-site states.

QBOT’s instructional vid-eo to potential clients says that the “love” feature is offered as a way of reeling the customer into the merchant’s location and opening the door to fu-ture loyalty purchases.

“The QBOT app encour-ages me to try products that I never would have tried be-fore,” Schlueter said.

By “loving” a business, the customer has given them per-mission to send emails and push notifications, according to QBOT’s website.

When a customer purchas-es an item, they may scan the QBOT QR code displayed in the business. This earns them a punch, which QBOT calls a “loyalty scan.”

Rewards can be redeemed by punch amounts of two, four and six. A customer may cash in the two punches they saved up, or they can contin-ue collecting in order to accu-mulate six for a higher-priced reward.

The QBOT app tracks your savings in dollar amount and allows you to earn badges.

“Its very basic format makes it easy and fast to use, perfect for running on a bud-get and a schedule,” Schluet-er said. “I will continue to use it, because I can’t wait to see what other coupons and pro-motions it will add.”

For more information on QBOT, visit qbot.com.

JONES is a news reporter.

HAHN is the news editor.

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Lt. Col. Dave Grossman spoke to students about killology, the study of kill-ing, at a Criminal Justice Club meeting in Williams Stadium March 27, ac-cording to Katie Godwin, president of the Criminal Justice Club.

Grossman is a former West Point psychology pro-fessor of military science and an Army ranger who has become the founder of a new field of scientific endeavor called killology,

according to Godwin.Grossman spoke to the

students and law enforce-ment about his research with killology and his book, “The Bulletproof Mind.”

“Today, he is the direc-tor of the Killology Re-search Group, and in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, he is on the road almost 300 days a year, training elite military and law enforcement orga-nizations worldwide about the reality of combat,” Godwin said.

Godwin explained she

was challenged by two mentors to try and reach out to Grossman.

“My mentors and pro-fessors proposed he would be a great speaker for our club,” Godwin said. “They know that when something is put out as a challenge, I try that much harder to achieve it.”

Godwin explained she was able to contact Gross-man through his website, killology.com.

Although the event was only open to the Criminal Justice Club, Godwin said she is hoping Grossman

will be able to return to Liberty in the future, pos-sibly for a larger event.

This event is a step-pingstone for the Crimi-nal Justice Club, who only three years ago had a total of five members, Godwin said.

“Our (Criminal Justice) Club has grown to be one of the most active clubs on campus and has some of the most hands-on involve-ment in our field,” God-win said.

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Cinematic arts senior Zach Boyd said he enjoyed being able to hear from Wallace about his experi-ences in the film world.

“It was great, he is real down to earth,” Boyd said. “You would never think he is the ‘Braveheart’ writer and director. It was like ‘Wow, gosh, he is a legend.’ It was definitely really cool to listen to his story.”

Wallace then spoke about his writing process and how he loves to cre-ate stories about love, hope and honor, explaining how these qualities motivate him.

“My job is to inspire oth-ers, and I can’t do it if I’m not inspired myself,” Wal-lace said.

Burpo and Wallace also discussed “Heaven is for Real” and what it was like to make the story based on true events come to life.

“‘Heaven is for Real’ is about the biggest conflict

— what do you believe, and when do you believe it,” Wallace said. “I’m proud of … Todd (for) standing up for his son and the guts to share the story.”

According to Burpo, he was nervous about telling the story to the public, be-cause he did not know how people would receive it.

“Everyone thinks I was a willing servant to this pro-cess, but I have been reluc-tant the whole way,” Burpo said. “I wrote ‘Heaven is for Real’ years after it hap-pened to protect my son.”

Burpo explained how his success had an effect on his church and himself as a pastor.

“Success is something church people cannibal-ize each other for,” Burpo said. “Do you know how many people are mad at me because my son came back, but their child didn’t? I get that all the time. ‘Well what makes you special? Why did God answer your prayer, but he didn’t an-swer mine?’”

Success can be volatile in the church, Burpo said. Af-ter he wrote “Heaven is for Real,” many people left his church, cutting his attend-ees nearly in half, from 140 people to 80 people.

“A pastor is not supposed to have a lot of money, and a pastor isn’t supposed to be important,” Burpo said. “He is supposed to be the waiter for everybody in the church, and all that stuff changes when you have success.”

Despite the uncertainty created by his success, Bur-po said he does not regret sharing his story.

“With our story, I think everyone recognizes that you aren’t going to get a more pure or more inno-cent or more accurate wit-ness than a child,” Burpo said. “People cannot ex-plain away what he saw by the drugs or the chemi-cals creating memories he never had. He either ex-perienced this or he didn’t and, if he did, a heavenly answer is the only answer

you are going to come up with, period.”

Wallace said he contrib-utes the success of “Heav-en is for Real” to faith in God.

“I felt Todd’s story was about true living,” Wallace said. “If we didn’t believe where we were going, we weren’t going to be able to do it. It was a leap of faith. … Faith is not the absence of doubt, faith is what you do in the presence of doubt and the presence of the unknowable.”

As Burpo and Wallace finished talking with cin-ematic arts students and faculty, Liberty students were already lining up at the Regal Cinema for the free showing of “Heaven is for Real.” Although Lib-erty rented out an extra theater for the screening, creating 1,000 more seats for students, seating filled quickly and many people had to be turned away, ac-cording to Johnnie Moore, Liberty senior vice presi-dent for communications.

President Jerry Falwell, Jr. explained that he is excited for the future of Christian films and Chris-tian filmmakers coming from Liberty.

“I think they are going to make a huge impact on society,” Falwell said. “The attention span of students these days, they won’t sit and watch a two-hour ser-mon anymore … but they will watch a film, and I

think that is the medium of the future to spread the good news.”

The movie will open in theaters nationwide April 16. For more information about the movie, visit so-nypictures.com/movies/heavenisforreal.

HAHN is the news editor.

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Phrases like “edgy,” “ahead of the curve,” “cutting-edge” and “hip” are not what we think when we see an advertisement, article or statement endorsing the Republican Party. It seems as if the Democratic Party has moved forward, leaving the Grand Old Party (GOP) in the dust of their laced-up hipster boots.

The Republican National Committee has kicked off an advertisement campaign starring Scott Greenberg, a young, hip Public Relations firm owner from Washing-ton, D.C.

“So much of my paycheck ends up going to gas,” Greenberg said in the advertisement. “We haven’t even talked about my heating bill at home.”

However, from the moment the 30-second web promo starts until the screen fades to black, you can tell Green-berg is reading off of a teleprompter. His words may be true, but they could not sound more lifeless.

I could not tell you if it is Greenberg’s lack of eye con-tact or his straight reading off the script that is more dis-tracting. In any case, this cheap attempt to compete with the millennial zeal of President Barack Obama’s market-ing techniques is a flop.

Here is my proposal to the GOP: Get new marketing. Too often, we speak too kindly of those we align with, whether it be politically or otherwise. Honesty is the only way to fix the campaigning problem.

Forty-eight percent of millennials say word-of-mouth is their sole influence, according to a 2010 Intrepid Study. That being the case, advertisement campaigns must be personal, emotional and reminiscent of our experiences. After all, if what we are seeing does not draw us in, more interesting content is only a click, swipe or scroll away.

I could place two advertisements in front of you on

the economy: one talking about quantitative easing and monetary economics and the other telling you a story of a single dad, working two jobs, trying to raise his 7-year-old daughter.

We are more often drawn to the latter. It is raw and vul-nerable. It is human. We are hearing a story — not getting a lesson in statistics and economics. The Democratic Na-tional Committee (DNC) gets this, even to a fault.

Emotions and entitlement have taken center stage in the ongoing battle over the heated contraception controversy. Religious liberty is being threatened, in part, because of the DNC successfully pandering to our natural self-cen-tered desires — a difficult strategy to compete with.

According to the Pew Research Center, only 50 percent of all eligible voters from age 18-28 voted in the 2012 election. In order to be successful in the 2014-midterm

elections, and ultimately the 2016 presidential election, the GOP needs to depoliticize politics. Ditch the establishment “politics as usual,” and jump on board with Rand Paul-style energy.

In the grand scheme of elections, you want to make real connections. When Americans see an advertisement campaign, they want to see themselves on the screen. In other words, it cannot be “the Republicans say” or “the Democrats say.”

As a millennial myself, I can tell you, I want to see something that resonates with me. That is why Paul’s campaign style works. I care about Internet freedom and privacy. So do millions of other 20-somethings.

GOINS-PHILLIPS is an opinion writer.

I attended my last Liberty University Coffeehouse Saturday night, March 29.

Like many of my friends and fel-low graduating se-niors, I expected to be overcome with a bittersweet feeling watching the bian-nual Student Activi-ties (SA)-held show-case for the last time. However, with each British-themed act to take the stage, the realization that this was the begin-

ning of the end of my time as a Lib-erty student became overshadowed by the extraordinary amount of talent on display.

Despite the recent trend of focusing on disappointing Coffeehouse acts, the response to Saturday’s Coffeehouse was overwhelmingly positive. Even President Jerry Falwell, Jr. expressed his approval of the show.

“Tonight’s #SAcoffeehouse is the best that I have attended in the last seven years at LU!” Falwell tweeted Saturday night.

After performances of songs such as The Beatles’ “Come Together” and The Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” as well as one of the funniest Coffeehouse videos in recent memory involving one Liberty student awkwardly holding hands with strangers set to The Beatles’ “I Want

to Hold Your Hand,” I have to agree with Falwell.

Despite attending the event with multiple friends who will also gradu-ate this May, the nostalgia of past Cof-feehouses and the knowledge that this would be our last before graduation faded as our focus shifted to the stage, and with good reason.

The amount of talented Liberty students I have watched in the eight Coffeehouse shows I have attended is nearly immeasurable. After almost ev-ery one of those eight shows, Liberty students took to Facebook and Twitter to express their amazement at the gifts God has given their peers. Whether through dance, music or comedy, Lib-erty students never cease to amaze me.

Although I am sad that my last Coffeehouse is behind me, I am

glad that the final one I attended exceeded the enormous expectations that students often have for the event, thanks to SA and the students who performed.

As Liberty quickly becomes a part of my history, the nostalgia that neglected to overwhelm me that night is slowly making its way to the forefront.

As I reminisce about my time at Liberty, I have realized that this year’s Coffeehouse stands as a monument of my time here. Though there have been ups and downs, good grades and dif-ficult classes, good friends and trying times, I will leave this place knowing that my collegiate career far exceeded my expectations.

For that, I will be eternally grateful. So in the spirit of the British, “Cheerio.”

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GOP — Republicans should take notes from the Democratic Party on marketing and advertisement campaigns.

Republican party behind the timesIf the GOP has any hopes of political revival in 2016, it must seek to actively engage millenials’ interests

Attkisson’s abdication a bigger problemGovernment officials are becoming increasingly afraid to speak with the press under Obama’s administrationDavid Van [email protected]

I used to think the news was a form of information given to the public in an ob-jective and truthful manner, putting ac-curacy and honesty first. Then I watched MSNBC after watching Fox News, and I realized I was young and naïve.

As I discovered the reality of media bias and what it means for us as American citizens, I thought about the implications that our political system has on the news-gathering industry and how it has affected investigate reporters trying to do their job.

One of these investigative reporters is Sharyl Attkisson, a journalist who always questioned the questionable and never took no for an answer. Her reporting was seen by many as objective and exhaustively investigative. Unfortunately, this honest and accurate reporting caused a chasm of inordinate measure between her and the CBS brass, resulting in her departure from “America’s Most Watched Network.”

As I read through the reports and looked into her reporting, I saw an interesting pat-tern that CBS denied. Her thirst for truth and transparency in a White House ad-ministration most adverse to these qualities did not line up with that of CBS’ agenda.

However, something deeper lies within the problem of Attkisson’s conflict with CBS. It is not just the issue of media bias. The real problem lies within what inves-tigative reporters have been saying about the Obama Administration. After promis-ing transparency and openness, Obama’s administration is now known as one of the most closed-off and opaque White

House administrations in the history of the presidency.

“In the Obama Administration’s Wash-ington, government officials are increas-ingly afraid to talk to the press,” Leonard Downie, Jr. wrote in a special report for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). “Those suspected of discussing with re-porters anything that the government has classified as secret are subject to investiga-tion, including lie-detector tests and scruti-ny of their telephone and e-mail records.”

As I studied the report, I started to realize the real issue.

“An ‘Insider Threat Program’ being implemented in every government depart-ment requires all federal employees to help prevent unauthorized disclosures of in-formation by monitoring the behavior of their colleagues,” Downie wrote.

Media bias has been around for a while, and will continue to be. However, in a na-tion where journalism is encouraged and

transparency is rewarded, the Obama ad-ministration is waging a war on leaks and thorough investigation for fear of their ac-tions being shown to the public.

“I think we have a real problem,” New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane said in a statement to CPJ’s spe-cial report. “Most people are deterred by those leaks’ prosecutions. They’re scared to death. There’s a gray zone between classi-fied and unclassified information, and most sources were in that gray zone. Sources are now afraid to enter that gray zone. It’s hav-ing a deterrent effect.”

Attkisson herself will be speaking about the challenges of investigative reporting within the Obama Administration in her book entitled “Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington.”

Reading through this special report — which I highly suggest you read — I was amazed as 30 journalists from a number of news agencies talked of the struggles they

faced as they attempted to investigate and uncover the truth of the current adminis-tration, just like Attkisson tried to do while under the leadership of CBS.

Whether the reports were on the Beng-hazi attack, the Fast and Furious gun scandal or the IRS targeting conservative groups, the White House Administration has been closed off and belittling of any journalist who dares look any further.

Some may question why so much atten-tion should be given to things which have been proven to lead nowhere. To this, I re-spond by asking how much attention a rob-bery in a hotel, which happened to be called Watergate, should have been given. How-ever, two journalists knew there was some-thing deeper, and they began one of the biggest political investigations in American history, eventually leading to the impeach-ment of the president of the United States.

If a hotel robbery was given this much attention, why should an attack on our own embassy in a highly dangerous area be swept off the table?

I am disappointed in this administra-tion’s efforts to keep information within the white-washed walls of a building once known for serving, protecting and inform-ing the American people. I can only hope the future president will restore integrity and transparency to the White House so people like Attkisson can do their job ef-fectively and accurately.

VAN DYK is an opinion writer.

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RESIGN — CBS investigative correspondent announced she was leaving March 10.

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The recent release of the movie “God’s Not Dead” has stirred Christians and non-Christians alike, causing many to run to their comput-ers and post their thoughts and opinions on social me-dia as to why Christian films continue to miss the mark of good filmmaking.

I must agree that Christian films lack a quality that the big names in Hollywood create, and “God’s Not Dead” is no exception. Cheesy scripts and bad acting continue to plague faith-based films, and I have begun to expect this whenever I sit down to watch a Christian movie.

However, I went into the theater with high hopes for “God’s Not Dead,” and de-spite the occasional chuckle at the poor performances of a few of the actors, I thought this movie showed more professionalism than other Christian films of sim-ilar budgets.

Despite this, many have taken the release of an-other unashamedly Chris-tian movie as an opportu-nity to bash the Christian

filmmaking industry. John Speed, a Christian blogger, published his opinions on his blog Gospel Spam, stat-ing “God’s not dead, but Christian screenwriting is.” His argument provides posi-tive qualities of the movie, but the majority of his blog states this movie is littered with blasphemy.

“God does not need us to defend him, as the hero of this movie states,” Speed wrote. “The atheist needs us to declare the truth to him so that he can be rescued from the wrath of God. To state the former and miss the lat-ter is blasphemous. When we — even with the best of intentions — place God on trial in our personal evange-lism or in big screen movies, we give the enemies of God occasion to blaspheme. And they are doing exactly that.”

Others made comments on the website Rotten To-matoes such as “God may not be dead, but I’d be will-ing to wager this movie at least gave him a faint wave of nausea” and, “Any just God would likely recoil from the ham-fisted and spuri-ous defense put forth in this film.” However, despite the fact that the website award-

ed the movie with a 20 per-cent rating, the general au-dience gave it 87 percent.

I would have to agree with the 87 percent of peo-ple who voted for this mov-ie. While some, like Speed, believe that evangelism should be left to “every-day Christians,” and “Jesus did not command us to go into all the world and show movies,” we, as Christians, have the responsibility to reach as many people as we possibly can with the hope of the gospel. And this movie does just that. If we have the opportunity to use an industry that people all over the world have access to, then we need to take ad-vantage of this industry in order to spread the name of God to all nations.

True, the evidence pro-vided by the young college student in his defense of God may not give airtight proof for the existence of God, and not all atheists show the same hatred as the professor in the movie, but the story was powerful and provided an unashamed message of our forgiveness in Jesus Christ.

As with anything in the public eye, critiques, both

positive and negative, come with the territory. But the critiques from Christians should not simply bash an industry that is continuing to grow. True, it is frustrat-ing to watch faith-based films with the expectation that they will not be equal to that of a film produced in Hollywood, but how helpful is it to those who create and write these films when all they hear consist of reviews that tell them how terrible their work is? Will this encourage them to continue striving to make better movies, or will it de-ter them from continuing to try and improve if their fel-low believers will not stand behind them?

If there are aspects of this movie that contradict our beliefs, as Speed felt, then this is an opportunity to take a deeper look at the Bible and decide how we would provide our own answers

if someone told us God is dead. Will we all have the chance to stand up in front of a class and an atheist to defend our beliefs? Probably not. But this movie provides an example of how neces-sary it is to be able to defend your faith, regardless of the quality of the script or the performance of the actors.

1 Peter 3:15-16 says, “Al-ways be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentle-ness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.”

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The year 2014 has brought the Bible to the box office with a bang. The most recent of these Bible-based epic releases was director Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah,” starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.

Even before “Noah” hit theaters, it received a flood of controversy and reviews from both mainstream and Chris-tian sources. The numerous blogs, social media posts and commentaries — most of them criticizing the movie’s departure from accurate bib-lical portrayal — made the movie a must see in my mind.

Wanting to join in on the conversation, I did my re-search and bought my ticket, excited to see how Hollywood would tackle one of the Old Testament’s best-known and most dramatic stories.

What I found was a movie that was refreshingly unpre-dictable — a feat difficult to accomplish with a story as recognized, and oftentimes trivialized, as Noah. Was the movie an exact biblical rep-resentation? No, absolutely not. In fact, there were nu-merous extra-biblical ele-ments in the film. But was

it a movie worth watching? Yes, I believe that it was.

Despite the non-biblical elements of the film, Aronofsky captured a visual picture of the flood that has never before been brought to audiences via such a widespread and powerful platform as the big screen. More importantly, audiences were given a glimpse of the powerful thematic elements of justice and mercy.

Aronofsky and writer Ari Handel worked diligently and extensively — 16 years in fact — to create a thor-oughly researched script. Great lengths were taken to build the ark to exact biblical proportions, and Paramount Studios was respectfully will-ing to post a disclaimer that “the film is inspired by the story of Noah” in order to inform audiences that artis-tic license was indeed taken while still attempting to re-tain the value and integrity of the original story.

Rather than the typical, Sunday school version of the story, filmmakers cre-ated complex characters that challenged audience members to take a second look at the story in a whole new light. With this movie, I saw possibilities I had never

before considered. While these possibilities

may indeed be subjective, and there is no way to ever prove their accuracy either bibli-cally or historically, the movie highlighted the grotesqueness of humanity and the deprav-ity of a fallen, sinful world.

For the first time in a long time, a Bible-based film took a spectacularly fearsome and unabashed look at sin. This adaptation was auda-cious, and in the end, audi-ences were reminded of the extraordinary saving grace of God and the greater ideas of mercy, forgiveness and basic goodness.

Whatever extra-biblical elements may be present in the film, it does not overcome the fact that Hollywood spent hundreds of millions of dol-lars to produce and promote a Bible story. There is evidently something extremely compel-ling and captivating about the Bible, and by avoiding a predictable retelling of the story, Aronofsky was able to combine grandeur with grace in an ambitious, visionary mo-tion picture that showed mil-lions its irresistible power.

Paramount Pictures is first and foremost a business, and a secular film business at that. Should we as Christians

really expect for the movie to be 100 percent accurate?

Rather than being hos-tile toward the inaccuracies, Christians ought to recog-nize the opportunity we have to participate in what will be a national conversation for the next few months. Rarely do cultural events emerge that allow Christians to pres-ent their side of the story. And yet, with this incredible opportunity placed before us, Christians stand to waste the opportunity if we are not willing to watch and engage with those who are watching.

Instead of withdrawing from the discussion, we should seize the opportunity and use this film to our advantage. Instead of making Hollywood the enemy, we should look at it as a mission field and strive to lead and direct the emerging conversations.

When we attack and peti-tion against biblical films in the box office, we damage the powerful opportunity we

have to share our faith in a hostile culture, and we stifle the effort of those who seek to produce films based on the Bible when, instead, we should be supporting it.

Nothing has been detract-ed from the power of God’s word through the release of this film. Biblical truths re-main as absolute as they did before this film, and they will continue to stand despite any of society’s attempts to alter or distort them.

Separate the motion pic-ture and the pulpit. Recog-nize the powerful medium of film and applaud the ef-forts of those who seek to expose millions to a piece of the greatest story ever told. Enjoy “Noah” for what it is and have intentional con-versations with those around you about the heart of the story: Christ’s redemption.

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When students re-turned from spring break, they found the second-floor computer lab remodeled while the third-floor, once bustling with commotion, was gutted and locked.

Students had been noticing changes in the second and third-floor computer labs since Christmas but a majority of the big changes hap-pened over spring break, Connie Allison, director of IT communications, explained.

“It is difficult to do this kind of change while classes are happening but Liberty did an excel-lent job of juggling the classroom moves in a non-disruptive manner,” Allison said.

Despite the elimina-tion of the third-floor computer lab, jobs were not lost during the pro-cess. According to the Chief Information Offi-cer of Information Ser-vices Matthew Zealand, there were approximate-ly four - six local contrac-tors per day assisting on the IT installation and rollout.

“For years, we have offered free computer support to students in the Green Hall IT Help-

Desk location,” Zea-land said. “Having the location in Green Hall meant that students had to travel across campus from where the majority of their classes were held to get support. The new office will offer all of the same services our Green Hall location offers at a location that is more con-venient to students.”

This support pro-vided by the HelpDesk includes software sup-port, virus and malware removal and hardware repairs on certain brand

computers by Liberty certified technicians, Zealand explained.

According to Zea-land, by combining the second and third-floor computer labs and mov-ing the IT HelpDesk, students are now able to access and communicate all of their computing needs in one single loca-tion. These changes have also freed up space on the third floor for pur-poses that have yet to be announced.

“A walk-in location for the IT Marketplace is

also being established in the second-floor lab, al-lowing students to enjoy educational discounts on a large variety of computers and software titles,” Allison said. “The combination of these services should make the new computer lab very beneficial for the student body.”

There are currently 208 computers in the open lab on the second floor, according to Zea-land, which is approxi-mately the same number of computers as before.

However, 73 seats will be added once the construc-tion of the quad stations — 4-sided tables used for collaboration purposes with a computer on each side — have been completed. A total of 18 open-lab computers have been gained due to the renovations in DeMoss Hall.

“As a senior, it’s a lit-tle unsettling that there are times when I walk around campus and say, ‘Wow, that’s new,’” Keyla Dalee Mori Ramos said. “But it’s definitely worth it in the spirit of change and advancement. I also appreciate how it feels more structured instead of one big hangout room. I can study easier now.”

Junior Katie Rheber-gen described how much easier it is to find a com-puter without having to walk around searching for long periods of time.

“I think it’s great that everything is all on one floor now, it’s definitely more convenient,” Rhe-bergen said. “There is also a lot more computer availability, which makes it easier for me to find a seat.”

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Anderson said eco-nomic growth is his No. 1 goal for Lynchburg. He also wants to find ways to promote small business vibrancy.

“The measures that I would take to keep (small businesses) is to keep taxes low. … We have one of the highest food taxes in the nation, and that is all in an attempt to generate revenue for (the) municipality,” An-derson said. “I think that if we had a more vibrant local economy, we have more people in a tax pool, and we won’t have to have such a high tax rate in order to generate the revenue needed to provide general services to the municipality.”

Student education is another issue that An-derson, who served for six years on the Lynch-burg City School Board, is passionate about. An-derson attributes a large part of his increased in-vestment in Lynchburg’s students to his daughter.

“The passion through which I engage life now is to not allow her mem-ory to die and reinvesting

myself in the success of students, regardless of their age group,” An-derson said. “Especially to the Lynchburg city children, I have a lot of love. I have a lot of fa-thering experience that I don’t have the benefit of pouring out on one child. … I have a vested interest in the success of those young people. And much of that is fueled by my faith and by the love that I have to share for my daughter who is no longer with me.”

According to Ander-son, he wants the people of Lynchburg to know

that he is not just Liber-ty’s candidate, but he has the interest of the entire city in mind.

Integrity is a large part of his campaign. Ander-son said he believes the attraction to his cam-paign comes from voters who know his story and have a personal connec-tion with him.

“Those who know me and know my work have been totally supportive,” Anderson said. “The people that I person-ally come in contact with who know my personal integrity, who know my history, who know my

stance on promoting business, who know my stance on addressing social issues such as im-proving education and student achievement, they are the ones who are supportive.”

According to Ander-son, the biggest struggle in the campaign is the lack of resources and delivering his message to the roughly 77,000 people who live in Lynchburg.

“I have the desire to reach as many people as I possibly can, but because I run as an in-dependent, I don’t have the political endorse-ments and resources in order to have the propa-ganda and those types of things,” Anderson said. “The challenge is help-ing communicate my message.”

Schea Communi-cations founder Isaac Schea, who is involved in Anderson’s campaign, said he believes Ander-son’s biggest obstacle is the fact that he is a new-comer to this type of election, as he has never run for office before now.

“Where some of the other candidates that we are running against are experienced and

have had some prior campaigns that they’ve worked with or have been a part of, this will be Keith’s first rodeo,” Schea said.

Another challenge for Anderson is running against two members who are currently hold-ing office for one of the seats on the council, An-derson stated.

“I would say that for the most part, there are five candidates who are running, two of which are incumbents,” Schea said. “The primary ob-stacle would be, since there are two incum-bents, usually those can-didates have a shoe-in on the position. So it’s really three candidates fighting for one seat instead of five candidates fighting for three.”

According to Ander-son, his position on City Council would not af-fect his role as dean of students at Liberty Uni-versity, as the meetings for City Council are only twice a month.

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The Dean of Students Office invited students to participate in the Town Hall meeting April 1, the second of two Town Hall meetings this year.

According to Dean of Stu-dents Keith Anderson, Town Hall meetings are designed to give students the chance to voice their questions and concerns re-garding Liberty administration. Through this special event, stu-dents have a chance to develop a sense of leadership and “allevi-ate the communication barrier” between themselves and officials from all departments.

Anderson said administrative officials from various offices of Liberty will take an hour from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in DeMoss Hall 1101 exclusively to address stu-dent questions from the audience about anything from dress code to campus safety. Officials from the departments of Student Con-duct, Auxiliary Services, Liberty University Police Department and Transportation Services will participate in the event.

“It is a platform where I give students the opportunity to speak directly to the administration re-garding issues that might affect the student population,” Ander-son said.

The last Town Hall meeting brought some noticeable changes around campus, Anderson said, including permission for men to wear T-shirts and non-collared shirts as well as approved use of R-rated films for educational purposes.

“If they provide a viewing list from the academic dean’s office to my office, they wouldn’t be banned (from viewing certain R-rated films),” Anderson said, emphasizing the education-only criteria for the films.

According to Anderson, one of the main goals for the Town Hall is simply to encourage stu-dents to become active in local government.

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Abolition Week at Liberty University concluded with the Military Appreciation Gala at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at Williams Stadium.

Tau Sigma National Honor Society President Erica Stew-art and Junior Class President Chelsea Andrews organized the event through Young Women of America.

Stewart said that 2014 is the first year the Military Gala was a benefit event.

According to Andrews, the Gala provided dinner for the guests, donating 100 percent of ticket proceeds and other contri-butions to the Wounded Warrior Project.

U.S. Army retiree R. James Cook and former U.S. Marine Mark Finelli addressed the au-dience, sharing their military experience and encouraging the

audience in their support for wounded warriors.

Cook shared the importance of respecting veterans when they return from service.

“We don’t need to pamper them,” Cook said. “The pendu-lum needs to go into the middle — we need to balance it.”

Cook shared that he joined the military at age 17, but not simply to defend his country.

“It was a job,” Cook said. “But at some point, this job be-came a profession, and at some point, this profession became a passion.”

Finelli, a native New Yorker, was in the South Tower of the World Trade Center the day of 9/11 and escaped by running down 61 flights of stairs.

“All of a sudden, the North Tower just exploded,” Finelli said. “By the time I got to the ground floor, it was complete anarchy.”

Finelli said the bravery of New

York firefighters inspired him to join the military.

“I ran down and out, they ran up and in,” Finelli said. “After seeing the firemen run into that building … I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.”

Finelli cautioned those in the service not to “expect a Swiss picnic” when they leave the military.

“It’s going to get harder, not easier,” Finelli said. “You got to take your time to readjust.”

Finelli shared that 22 service members commit suicide a day, and most people have the tough-est time of their lives when they first get out of the military.

“Don’t get down on yourself when you get out,” Finelli said. “There’s hope, there’s good things. Follow the good waves.”

To benefit wounded warriors, Finelli started a fundraiser called the 100 Mile Hump. The fund-raiser is a hiking event currently active in Arizona and Virginia

and raises between 8,000 and 12,000 dollars a year.

“These people put their lives on the line for you,” Stewart said. “Help us honor them by getting involved in the wounded warrior project.”

Associate Dean of the Helms School of Government Stephen Parke said the Military Gala is a yearly event that every student who honors the military should attend.

“I am so humbled and hon-ored to be a part of the Military Gala,” Parke said. “It is well worth (the) time. It is a fantasti-cally well-prepared and well-done event, and the food is out-standing.”

Andrews said the Wounded Warrior Project is a great cause people need to be more aware of.

“We think about (soldiers) on the front lines, going through battle,” Andrews said. “We don’t think about what happens when they’re done with that term.”

Sophomore Rachel Leininger said she was shocked to hear the suicide statistics of service members.

“It was heartbreaking,” Leini-nger said. “It’s nice to see that there’s hope, and there are peo-ple working to stop that and sup-port people when they return.”

Andrews encouraged people to reach out to the wounded warriors in their communities.

“Any way that you can get in-volved, whether it’s money or it’s time … they just need assistance and help,” Andrews said. “Get involved as much as you can.”

The donation page will be open until Saturday, April 5. To donate to the Wounded Warrior Project, visit support.wounded-warriorproject.org/group-fund-raising/liberty.

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Gala benefits ‘Wounded Warriors’Veterans share inspirational stories about their experiences before, during and after joining the U.S. military

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HONOR — This was the first gala organized as a benefit event by the Young Women of America for the Wounded Warriors Project.

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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virgin-ia, visited the campus of Liberty University to speak with students at Convocation in the Vines Cen-ter and talk with local business-men at a preceding Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce event in the Caudell Reading Room of the Jerry Falwell Library, March 26.

In a brief address during Con-vocation, Warner praised Liberty for its stable financial infrastruc-ture and encouraged students to persevere through failure.

Warner said he invested $5,000 and went to work for a startup company after gradu-ating. In six weeks, he had helped the business go entirely bankrupt.

“I failed in that, and I failed in my first time in politics,” Warner said. “One of the most impor-tant things you can learn, I be-lieve, in college is you’ve got to be willing to try and fail.”

Facing failure was not only a theme of Warner’s Convocation address. It was also a key com-ponent of his discussion with Lynchburg business leaders at the chamber event.

The senator expressed con-cern for the current national def-icit as well as inefficiencies in the

ObamaCare plan. “We are in a business plan

right now that is totally unsus-tainable,” he said.

In an effort to lessen the more than $17 trillion of national debt, Warner said he hopes to work with both Republicans and Democrats to modify entitle-ment programs and reform the tax code to create more predict-ability for the private sector.

In addition to discussing plans to lessen the national debt, the senator said he supports the Af-fordable Care Act but believes some issues need to be resolved.

“The rollout of the health care plan was a disaster,” Warner said. “I would have fired people if it was that poorly rolled out.”

According to Warner, he will soon introduce a series of “fixes” for the bill. His proposals include adding cheaper plan options and heightening the number of em-ployees needed for a business to be required to purchase insur-ance from 50 to 100.

While Warner said he believes the Affordable Care Act needs

changes, George Caylor, a finan-cial advisor in the Mass Mutual Financial Group, challenged the bill altogether in a question-and-answer session following War-ner’s Chamber address.

“I manage money,” Caylor said after the session. “I’m not managing as much money now, because the people that were putting money into their 401k and (individual retirement ac-count), they haven’t got it to put in … because they’re spending so much more on insurance.”

Along with domestic policy, Warner mentioned the need for changes in foreign policy, partic-ularly in America’s relationship with Russia and Ukraine.

He said he believes the United States should ensure Ukraine is operating within the boundaries of the law before providing any financial support, and he shared a plan for the Ukraine to export natural gas to Europe.

“That would create more American jobs, and that would cause (western European) coun-tries to be less dependent on

Russian energy sources,” War-ner said.

Warner currently holds a 15-point lead over opposing Senate candidate and former Republican National Commit-tee Chairman Ed Gillespie in

the Quinnipiac University poll, released March 24. He will de-fend his seat in the upcoming Nov. 4. election.

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According to The City of Lynchburg’s website, lynchburgva.gov, the members of the City Council are the community’s de-cision makers.

“The Council also focuses on the com-munity’s goals, major projects, and such long-term considerations as community growth, land use development, capital improvement plans, capital financing and strategic planning,” the website states.

Liberty encourages students to register and vote by making announcements dur-ing Convocation, providing registration

forms for students and inviting candidates to speak with students and staff in order to provide awareness, according to Lib-erty’s website.

According to Milks, Liberty should con-tinue to educate students on their civic re-sponsibilities through the use of staff and resource materials that would enhance the registration initiative.

The City of Lynchburg receives citizen participation during the decision-making process for the City Council, according to the website.

“Because professional local government management offers government of the people, by the people and for the people, it sets the stage for citizen activism by en-

couraging open communication between citizens and their government,” the web-site states.

Liberty student Nathan Munson said he has registered to vote in the past and believes it is important for other students to register as well, because they are citi-zens of Lynchburg.

“I think we do have a voice in this city itself, because we are a big part of Lynch-burg, and we should be at the forefront and making decisions and trying to get the best people in office,” Munson said. Lynchburg citizens vote for members of the City Council on even numbered years, according to The City of Lynchburg’s website. The Council has two regular

meetings each month, which are broad-cast live on Lynchburg Government Channel LTV 15.

Virginia voter registration forms can be picked up at the Dean of Students Office in Green Hall 1830, DeMoss Hall near the Career Center, or online at sbe.vir-ginia.gov/forms.html.

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UNDER THE LIGHTS — The Flames delivered a 9-7 victory against the North Carolina State Wolfpack Friday night.

Titans seek to conquerLiberty alumnus leads semi-pro team

Flames claim three event victoriesLiberty’s track and field teams set two new program records and a conference record after competing in multiple meets

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After losing their last

two games by three points, the Liberty Flames (9-3, 2-0 SELC) collected two victo-ries against the North Carolina State Univer-sity Wolfpack (5-4, 2-1 SELC) and the Auburn University Tigers (0-11, 0-3 SELC) March 29-30.

Attacker Ryan Mill-er led the way for the Flames, scoring five goals in two games.

LU 9, N.C. State 7Early in the fourth

quarter with rain drenching the turf, mid-fielder Miguel Lozada picked up a ground ball

and charged the left side of the field. After ma-neuvering through the Wolfpack defense, he launched a shot into the back of the net, bring-ing 4,000 fans two their feet.

After the goal, Lib-erty’s defensive inten-sity increased, elimi-nating the Wolfpack’s momentum.

“I just wanted to step up,” Lozada said. “I’m one of the seniors on this team, and I wanted to rally the troops a bit. My goal wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t receive the picks from Kurt (Tobias) and Ryan (Miller).”

In the first quarter, the Flames jumped out to an early 4-0 lead.

However, the Wolfpack stormed back and tied the game at four.

At halftime, the game remained tied, but N.C. State exited the first half on a wave of momentum.

“Once we got the lead, we got a little lax,” Lozada said. “We start-ed to make mistakes and (N.C. State) started to capitalize on our mis-takes.”

The steady rain did not help either, forc-ing the Flames to com-mit several unforced turnovers and plac-ing the defense in bad situations.

“The weather did not help, especially when it

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Wolfpack chased downLiberty defeated both N.C. State and Auburn this weekend to improve to 9-3


HUNGRY LIKE WOLVES — The Flames devoured the Wolfpack.

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During one of his business classes as a Liberty University student, Da-vid Polley was asked to draw what he wanted his ideal job to look like. He proceeded to draw a basketball arena with fans, a parking lot and a team. He knew what his dream was, and he did whatever he could to accomplish it.

In 2011, the Lynchburg Legends, an American Basketball Association (ABA) team played its first game. Founder, CEO and Liberty gradu-ate Polley watched as his dream of creating a semi-professional bas-ketball team had finally come to fruition after two years of rigorous planning and preparation.

“I had to start it back in 2009,” Polley said. “That’s when I first started laying the groundwork for the Lynchburg Legends. I had to do a mini-feasibility study in the city of Lynchburg to make sure it could support a semi-professional basket-ball team, and that was just getting to know the demographics — pick-ing a target audience, finding a ven-ue, locating the sponsors … from 2009 to the fall 2011, which was all spent doing the groundwork for Legends.”

The Liberty alumnus said he had to “wear many hats” while creat-ing his team. He did not have the money to hire a staff to aid in the project and had to do most of the heavy lifting himself, such as creat-ing a website and marketing plans. Funding soon came through spon-sors and other companies willing to support Polley and his project, and 2011 became the inaugural season for the Legends.

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After a busy weekend March 27-29 at three dif-ferent meets, Liberty’s track and field teams re-turned home with three event titles and several program and conference records.

Despite slippery condi-tions on the track due to rain, redshirt junior Ca-leb Edmonds and senior Josh MacDonald finished in the top 15 of the men’s 5,000-meter race at the Raleigh Relays. Edmonds finished in 14:02.84 for 10th place, while Mac-

Donald crossed the finish line a few seconds later at 14:05.87 for the 13th spot.

Liberty also sent several athletes to compete in the 87th Clyde Littlefield Tex-as Relays, where four Lady Flames combined for two new program records and a Big South Conference record.

Redshirt sophomore Ansley Gebben broke the Liberty record she tied last year in the 400-meter hurdles. Gebben finished in 1:00.42 for 14th place out of 62 competitors.

Gebben captured an-other program record with the help of junior Abigail

Flower, freshman Oasis Hernandez and redshirt senior Meghan Burggraf in the sprint medley relay. After two 200-meter legs, a 400-meter portion and an 800-meter anchor leg, the quartet came out with a time of 3:53.34. The team won their heat and finished seventh overall, breaking both the Liberty and conference records in the process.

The group bettered the previous program record, which was set in 2001, by more than four seconds and broke the Big South record, set in 2008, by more than three seconds.

In addition to their suc-cess on the track in Texas, the Lady Flames received a boost from junior Jenni-fer Nicholson in the field.

Nicholson threw the dis-cus to a new personal best of 164-11 for second place in her section. The discus landed farther than all but six of her competitors in either section. Her throw currently sits atop the Big South season rankings by more than 30 feet

“My performance this weekend was a great en-courager, because even though I had a

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Editorial: Kolter’s pleaNorthwestern University football team unionizes

Alex [email protected]

One week into spring at Liberty University, there has been a little bit of snow, rain, sunshine and, for the first time of 2014, a little bit of football. The Flames finally got out onto the Wil-liams Stadium turf after months in the weight room when spring practice began March 19.

“It feels good to be back,” Flames running back Des-mond Rice said. “We’ve been in the weight room the past two months, and we’ve been working hard down there, but it’s all about get-ting the pads on and getting to fly around to get ready for this upcoming season.”

The last time the team suited up was Nov. 23 for its final game of the regu-lar season against Charles-ton Southern. After a four-month hiatus from football, everyone has had to brush off some dust.

“The first three practices, you could definitely tell we hadn’t been out here to-gether,” quarterback Josh Woodrum said. “Everyone was kind of rusty. But (now), I think we’re clicking pretty well.”

However, with games not on the horizon until late Au-gust, practices do not have quite the same feel or strat-egy that a mid-October ses-sion would.

“We’re not scheming, we’re not game-planning

(during spring practices),” Flames Head Coach Turner Gill said. “This is more ex-perimental and for looking at specific things that we might want to change from what we did last year.”

Also, not only does the routine differ from a regu-lar-season practice, a famil-iar bookend to the week is also missing — game day. The annual intrasquad spring game will take place April 12, but that still is not the same as a regular-season game in the minds of the players.

“Spring ball is a really tough scenario to be in, be-cause you practice all week and you’re expecting to play the game at the end of the week, but we come out and

we just hit each other for a scrimmage,” Woodrum said. “You have to have a lot of internal motivation.”

Still, the team knows prac-tice in March and April is all about preparing for a sea-son-opening date with Foot-ball Bowl Subdivision op-ponent University of North Carolina (UNC). Flames de-fensive end Chima Uzowihe said he is already hearing the buzz around the team and around campus about the Aug. 30 matchup with the Tar Heels.

“Our focus is on UNC,” Uzowihe said. “The only way we’ll beat UNC is to get better every day, so every day I come out here (and say to myself) ‘UNC.’ Every day I visualize (playing UNC), and it pushes me to get through something I don’t want to do.”

Despite some of the dif-ficulties of spring ball, Gill said he has been happy with the energy and focus of his players. The damp air was filled with encouraging foot-ball chatter mixed in with plenty of chest bumps and high fives during the Flames March 28 practice session.

“Everybody’s trying to get better, focusing on being a teammate, encouraging each other.” Gill said. “Guys are motivated, and we want to improve from last year.”

TICHENOR is a sports reporter.

VICTORIES continued from B1

personal-best throw, I still have some ar-eas that I can still improve on,” Nicholson said. “My goal at the moment is to (throw more than two feet) further this season. … (I’m) really taking every practice as a growing time so that I am able to compete to my full potential.”

The Flames also excelled at the Win-throp Invitational. In the field, the Flames recorded top-three finishes in six different events despite rain, mud and waterlogged throwing circles.

Redshirt sophomore David Scouten won the hammer throw with his 179-6 heave. Scouten beat out 2012 and 2013

conference champions with his throw, which was also a new personal record by more than 16 feet.

Scouten also finished second, and first among college athletes, in the discus with his personal-best throw of 167-5. The mark currently ranks first on the Big South season rankings list by more than six feet.

“I am excited about the results in the hammer and disc considering the amount of rain and mud,” Scouten said. “Those conditions make throwing more difficult, so I am excited to see what I can do in more optimal conditions.”

Redshirt senior Jacob DeValve followed with first and second-place finishes in the javelin and shot put, respectively.

DeValve’s first javelin throw soared to 182-7 and was the best throw of the day. In the shot put, DeValve added a second-place finish with his 52-10.25 throw. The throw was the farthest among all colle-giate competitors in the event and is cur-rently at the top of the Big South season standings.

Freshman Zach Davis also brought home an event title for the Flames with his personal-best 22-1.75 leap in the long jump. Davis also tied for third place in the high jump with his 6-8.75 jump.

“(W)inning long jump was a huge bless-ing,” Davis said. “… I am working toward clearing seven feet in the high jump. … I plan to do everything within my capabili-ties to improve, and then let God do what

he does best.”Liberty will again divide its teams for

the next two meets. A few distance run-ners will race in the Stanford Invitational, while most of the athletes will compete in the first home meet of the outdoor season, the Liberty Collegiate Invitational, Friday and Saturday, April 4-5.

BROWN is a copy editor.

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College football players generate plenty of revenue for institutions across the United States. And now, for at least one university, the student athletes are one step closer to getting a piece of the pie.

The National Labor Board in Chicago granted the Northwestern University football team per-mission to unionize March 26, saying scholarship athletes are employees at the school and North-western is their employer.

The decision came after a petition led by for-mer Northwestern Wildcats quarterback Cain Kolter argued that football players at the school work 20-50 hours a week and generate millions of dollars for the university.

While Kolter may not be far off in his as-sertion, with college sports generating $16 bil-lion annually according to bloomburg.com and Northwestern’s football team producing a large portion of the $235 million the school takes in from its athletic programs, the football players are definitely getting their share.

Northwestern’s 85 scholarship football play-ers are each awarded $75,000 a year for playing, according to theblaze.com, which is more than enough to cover the average cost of attendance per year — $63,228.

When a reporter questioned the exorbitant scholarship amount, Kolter responded by saying the football players are given the money “to play football, to perform an athletic service.”

Kolter’s petition also contained the idea that Northwestern football players should be provided with better medical coverage, especially in light of a seeming influx of concussions and other seri-ous injuries taking place in the sport.

Although Kolter has a legitimate reason for wanting the medical care, his idea that football players are performing an “athletic service” should not be reason enough to grant the oppor-tunity for players to unionize.

The football players’ athletic ability will last for only a few years in time in the grand scheme of things. Academics is the area in which North-western excels, and getting a quality education should be the main objective for any student at-tending school, not getting money to play a sport.

Kolter has opened the door for other schools to form unions not only in the football realm but also in other college sports. Colleges are now feeling pressure and are bracing themselves for a ripple effect to occur, as other student athletes may soon follow Northwestern football players’ example.

Schools should not be considered the employ-ers of student athletes. They provide a service by promoting athletes’ talents on a national scale. Scholarship athletes receive more benefits than regular students, and athletes should be satisfied with what they have. Although giving more med-ical coverage to student athletes may be a good idea, allowing college athletes to unionize is a gi-ant step in the wrong direction.

BATTLE is the sports editor.

‘We talkin’ about practice’The Flames have already begun their training for the upcoming season


GETTING STARTED — Liberty opened up spring practice March 19 in preparation for the season in August.


SPRING BALL— Liberty football players stretch before practice.

FYI Jennifer Nicholson’s top discus throw currently

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Earlier this spring, a handful of guys from dorm 7-2 at Liberty University were dunking on a miniature basketball goal they had laying around their dorm when Cabot Phillips had an idea.

Inspired by the dunk pranks made pop-ular on Vine — holding a goal over a bliss-fully unaware victim’s head and poster-izing them, sneak-attack style — Cabot Phillips, his twin brother Hudson Phillips and friends Timmy Steffens, Christian Glackin and Jon Milograno decided to give the video a shot (no pun intended).

No stranger to viral videos — Cabot Phillips was also behind a clip of a friend catching a fish with his hair — the group put substantial thought into the project. They gathered dunk ideas and spent one day gauging the reactions of their unsus-pecting participants.

“We didn’t want to do it if it was go-ing to make people upset,” Cabot Phil-lips said, “But everyone was really cool about it.”

Sufficient positive responses gathered, the guys decided to make a full video — one much longer than the six seconds of fame the prank usually garners — that involves several famous faces of Liberty. They dunked on Flames football Head

Coach Turner Gill, courtesy of some as-sistance from his daughter, and Campus Band’s Justin Kintzel. The highlight of the video, though, was an appearance by Flames power forward Drew Smith, who has appeared in SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays twice.

“I didn’t know him, but I’ve been to

basketball games and knew if we were going to make the video, we had to have someone like Drew doing it,” Cabot Phillips said.

On a whim, he fired off a Facebook message to Smith. To his surprise, Smith not only responded the next morning but was excited about the idea.

“He gave us about 40 minutes of his time — really nice guy,” Cabot Phillips said. “We were all just, like, marveling at his ability to dunk on people, so it was pretty funny.”

Now, more than 23,000 YouTube and 300,000 MSN views later, all the work that went into the making of the video has more than paid off, according to Cabot Phillips. Not motivated by class credit or career goals, Cabot Phillips said he enjoys making videos, and the group plans on making more. Cabot Phillips explained that because he does not intend to pursue anything in the film or media realm pro-fessionally, the project was nothing more than good, clean fun. He said the video was, first and foremost, a sort of celebra-tion for the dorm as a whole.

“This is the last year of dorm seven,” he said. “They’re tearing it down (for the new dorms), and we’re going to be split-ting up, so we wanted one final hurrah for all the guys together.”

While the simple idea for that hurrah turned out to be a slamming success — literally, it is unlikely it will be as final as Cabot Phillips’ group previously thought. Their growing fan base is clamoring for more videos, and the guys of 7-2 plan to deliver.

RUSH is a sports reporter.

Dunk prank video goes viralStudents from dorm 7-2 dunked on random people and students across the campus of Liberty University

CHASED continued from B1came to picking up ground balls,” Lozada said. “The ball was slick, and it was also difficult to maneuver with our sticks.”

N.C. State continued to place pressure on the Flames but was unable to gain a lead.

Goalie Ethan Kamholtz had 11 saves, while Miller and To-bais scored two goals apiece.

LU 18, Auburn 4Liberty extended Auburn’s

losing streak to 11 games, de-feating the Tigers 18-4 Sunday, March 30.

Yet again, the Flames got out to a quick start, scoring five con-secutive goals in the first quarter. By the end of the second quar-ter, Liberty added six more goals to go into halftime with an 11-1 lead.

In the first half, the Flames stayed aggressive and outshot the Tigers 26-11.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Liberty continued to add to their lead by taking ad-vantage of the Tigers mistakes. Although they were limited to only four shots on goal, the Flames converted on three of their opportunities.

Auburn was limited to 25

shots on goal for the entire game. Kamholtz had 14 saves, and Miller and midfielder Chad Moore had three goals each. To-bias, attacker Stephen DiPaola and midfielder Derek Haywood had two goals each.

The Flames have not lost a home game since falling to the Richmond Spiders April 15, 2012.

Liberty will host George Washington University Satur-day, April 5 at 3 p.m. at the Lib-erty Lacrosse Fields.

BATTLE is the sports editor.

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Student plays key role in local martial artsElizabeth [email protected]

Liberty taekwondo assistant coach and sophomore Brian Preiser has many accomplish-ments under his belt. Now, he can add one more to that list.

Preiser was recently elected vice president of tournament operations in the Atlantic Col-legiate Alliance of Taekwondo (ACAT).

“With his new title ... Brian will work alongside students of other colleges in order to bring a level of competition to the south-east never before seen on the col-legiate level,” Jesse Wilson, head coach of Liberty’s taekwondo team, said.

Wilson became the coach two years ago when Liberty first de-cided to add taekwondo as a club sport. At the time, there were no college taekwondo competi-tions in the southeastern United States.

“I started making phone calls, sending emails, looking through Facebook for any college that had a taekwondo team in the southeast,” Wilson said. “It turned out that all of the major colleges in the area had a team.”

Wilson met with the coaches from Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, and to-gether, they created the idea of the Virginia Collegiate Alliance of Taekwondo. By the end of the year, the name was changed to Atlantic Collegiate Alliance of Taekwondo due to the inter-

est of out-of-state schools such as Duke and the University of North Carolina. Wilson said that today, ACAT includes 11 official member schools.

ACAT is run primarily by stu-dents, and in January, it released the names of its official board of directors, which now includes Preiser.

“I was excited to begin a new chapter in my martial arts ca-reer,” Preiser said. “For many years, I was the competitor. ... It was good to be able to step to the other side of the table.”

Preiser began studying martial arts when he was 8 years old. He said his parents actually signed him up because his sister want-ed lessons. Preiser was initially reluctant, but when his sister quit six month later, he chose to continue.

“Fourteen years later, and I still have never quit,” Presier said.

In 2013, Preiser received his third-degree black belt in United States Black Cat Kanpo, a fusion of taekwondo and a few other martial arts.

“I love the martial arts,” Pre-sier said. “It is something that has drastically changed my life.”

In spite of Preiser’s strong competition background, Wilson decided he would make a bet-ter leader than competitor. He made Preiser the team captain first before promoting him to as-sistant coach.

“Brian immediately, unknow-ingly started to motivate the rest of the team,” Wilson said. “He

was very straightforward with everyone, but his demeanor was one in which he drew respect.”

Preiser said that he has learned a great deal about leadership while studying martial arts. He said his new position as tour-nament operator gives him the chance to utilize those skills. He is now responsible for organizing

and planning the competitions, which includes coordinating with everyone from referees to coaches to venues.

“From the registration to the game-day events, my hand is in each and every aspect of the tournament,” Preiser said.

According to Wilson, Prei-ser now has the ability and op-

portunity to take tournaments to another level with his new position.

“Brian is a natural leader and has the vision to see how (ACAT) has the potential to grow into something huge,” Wilson said.

BROWND is a feature reporter.

Brian Preiser was elected vice president of tournament operations in the Atlantic Collegiate Alliance of Taekwondo

Lauren adriance | Liberty champion

KICKSTART — Brian Presier practices the art of taekwondo.

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PLAY BALL — MLB Hall-of-Famer Ozzie Smith started a petition to make Opening Day a holiday.

Editorial: Crossing the lineShould MLB Opening Day be recognized as a national holiday?Dylan [email protected]

“MLB Opening Day is more than just the beginning of the season. It’s a symbol of rebirth. The coming of spring. The re-turn of America’s national pas-time. It’s a state of mind where anything is possible.”

So reads part of the petition that was led by Budweiser and Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith and submitted to the Obama administration on the White House website. The pe-tition to make MLB Opening Day a national holiday reached almost 103,000 signings March 26 — just over the threshold to require a response from the White House.

Seriously? A federal holiday for baseball? This is a whole new level of ridiculous. This idea belongs in an April Fools’ Day prank.

There is absolutely no solid reasoning to support the idea that MLB Opening Day should be a federal holiday. The propo-nents of this idea — which are a staggering minority of Ameri-can sports fans — just want an excuse to skip work for their fa-vorite source of entertainment.

MLB fans may have dubbed the sport “America’s pastime,” but it is far from being the most popular sport in America. The Harris Poll, which has been conducted by Harris Interactive

since 1985, clearly shows that the NFL is America’s chosen form of sports entertainment.

An overwhelming 35 percent of Americans say the NFL is their favorite sport. While only 14 percent of Americans claim it as their favorite — hardly a larger group than college foot-ball lovers at 11 percent.

According to Gallup polls, baseball has not been the most popular sport in America since professional football took over in 1972. Baseball viewership and ratings have steadily de-clined ever since.

Even more substantial than the opening day of baseball’s lack of popularity is how mar-ginal its importance is to other significant days in the year that are not federal holidays.

Halloween is not a federal holiday. Neither is Father’s or Mother’s Day. Good Friday is not a federal holiday. Valen-tine’s Day is not a federal holi-day. Even Election Day, which is arguably one of the most im-portant days of election years, is not a holiday.

A minority of the American people think they should get a federal holiday to spend time watching their favorite sport, when the day that every Ameri-can citizen gets to exercise his or her right to vote does not have that distinction?

That is insane. Baseball fans need to realize

a simple thing: just because you want to go to a season-opening baseball game instead of going to work does not mean that your behavior should be validated or encouraged.

When Halo 4 came out in 2012, I skipped classes and took off work the next day so that I could stay up all night playing. I did it because it was a hobby that I enjoyed with friends and millions of players online.

That might sound like a stu-pid use of time to a lot of peo-ple, but it is uncomfortably simi-lar to playing hooky from work to go to an MLB game.

I never had the audacity to claim that my hobby should warrant a day off, even though millions of Americans shared my particular interest. I chose to sacrifice going to class and work to instead be a part of some-thing that I considered special.

It is the same thing that more than one million baseball fans do every year on opening day.

No sport is worthy of a na-tional holiday, especially not baseball. Recognize hobbies for what they are: a pleasurable way to pass time. Federal holi-days should signify more than just people’s pastimes.

Please, fight and petition for something worthwhile instead of this nonsense.

FRIBERG is an opinion writer.

TITANS continued from B1

During the Legends three-year tenure in the ABA, Polley’s team has produced six players that have received contracts from pro-fessional teams in different coun-tries. Legends games were also broadcasted live on the radio and television through local Comcast providers. Polley had created something that was functioning, and it caught the attention of Tom McGinn, commissioner of the Premier Basketball League (PBL).

“I was originally contacted by the commissioner of the PBL in the earlier part of 2013 while I was still in my ABA season,” Pol-ley said. “They just reached out to me and said they liked what was going on with the organiza-tion, particularly my game-day operations, (because) we had live broadcast of radio, and we had the TV broadcast. … We had the commentators. We had live enter-tainment. So they liked the way we carried ourselves as an orga-nization, and that on the court, we were competitive. … We had structure.”

The PBL has existed for around six years as the second-highest semi-professional basket-ball minor league in the United States. According to Polley, the PBL originated in the Midwest, which is where the majority of the teams were once located. This made him initially reluctant to join the league, as traveling would be very difficult to fund.

However, the PBL expanded and added an eastern division, which allowed the Legends to join without sustaining a major fi-nancial setback. But joining came with one minor condition. Polley would have to change the name of the team.

“When we switched leagues, there was already a team out of Lafayette,” Polley said. “They were the Lafayette Legends. I really wanted to keep the name. You know, I already grew at-tached to it, but the team in La-fayette already had the name, and so it came with the territory.”

In December 2013, the Lynch-burg Legends left the ABA and became the Lynchburg Titans. According to Polley, going to the PBL allows his team to play in better venues, provides the team with better publicity and gives his team better competition. Accord-ing to Polley, the league has plenty of recognition around the world for the talent it produces. He also

said the league has athletes who have once played for NBA teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers.

“Starting back in 2011, you could see a level of commitment that the guys had to the game,” Polley said. “Forty-eight minutes in a professional basketball game is a long time, and to be able to play at a high level for that long, you have to train harder. You have to be a lot more dedicated. You have to be able to train your body physically. So the guys knew after our first game that, ‘Hey this is something I’m going to have to take seriously.’ So I can see the commitment level.”

The Titans first game as a PBL team was a 35-point loss to the Pee Dee Vipers from South Caro-lina. The Titans currently have a 1-10 record in their inaugural season, but neither Polley nor his team are discouraged.

Following the Titans two re-maining games of the season, they will begin preparations for their second season. They will adjourn with the current league-leading scorer, Jamal Francis, and an owner who has a love for bas-ketball and his team. Polley said that after his first season, he is much more prepared and ready to go into the offseason and do all that is necessary to bring success to his team.

“Every day that I wake up, ev-ery game that we have, every time I talk to a player, or when I’m re-cruiting, or when I’m here doing an interview, it’s kind of surreal,” Polley said.

HAYWOOD is a sports reporter.

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Liberty University alumna Juli Peak made the leap from teaching in Amarillo, Texas, to creating her own business of gourmet foods when she discov-ered her talent for mixing hot cocoa flavors and developing unique recipes of cider, tea, co-coa, coffee and popcorn.

She called the business Snookie Snookerwitz after a nickname her father gave her. The shop is currently located at the Lynchburg Development Center near Graves Mill Road.

“We started with cocoa, cof-fee and cider,” Juli Peak said. “We added on the chai later.”

Snookie Snookerwitz sells a variety of types of cocoa, in-cluding frozen chocolate cocoa, cinnamon cocoa and original chocolate cocoa. In addition to cocoa, the shop also sells coffee flavors such as hazelnut mocha, peppermint mocha, vanilla mo-cha and vanilla caramel latte. Snookie Snookerwitz’s selection of teas includes chocolate chai, spiced cider, spiced chai and vanilla chai. All drinks come with directions on the bottles for preparation as hot or cold beverages.

Along with specialty drinks, Snookie Snookerwitz also of-fers an assortment of popcorn flavors, including chili-pepper popcorn, cinnamon-toast pop-corn, classic kettle corn, jalape-no-cheddar popcorn and salted buttercrunch popcorn.

While the original idea was hers, Juli Peak is not alone on her adventure with the business. She and her husband, Kevin Peak, became a team soon after they met in 2006 while studying at Asbury seminary in Wilmore, Ky.

“As our relationship grew in those early years, we realized that

we complemented one another as a hope-giving team to those who were hurt, stuck and bro-ken,” Kevin Peak wrote on the Snookie Snookerwitz website.

“I always wanted to start a business,” Kevin Peak said. “But, I didn’t have the same kind of personality (Juli) has to help it take off. She is very organized, and she makes a strategy.”

According to Juli Peak, what makes her business so unique is that all of her products are tailor-made.

“Everything we make is total-ly from scratch,” Juli Peak said. “We get all of the raw ingredi-ents, then we blend all of them, put them in the bottles, and we label them. We do everything, (from) start to finish.”

The Peaks believe that their beverages and popcorn snacks can be very beneficial for stu-dents, especially since all of their products can be ordered online and delivered by mail.

“I think there (are) a lot of op-portunities for students to buy and enjoy the products, because if you don’t want (to go out to buy) coffee and cocoa, you don’t have to go off campus,” Kevin Peak said. “You can have a bot-tle in your room or a bag in your room … and you just make it with hot water.”

While Kevin Peak notices the practicality of the products, Juli Peak keeps the fun of their unique items in mind.

“(Our products are) also kind of a cute, little, cheap gift, like for your friend’s birthday,” Juli Peak said. “And the shelf life is long. It is about a year. So, peo-ple can get, like, six bottles and just give them whenever their friends’ birthdays are, and that’s kinda fun.”

Juli Peak first developed the business’s basic products in Texas before moving to Ken-tucky. In 2007, the couple then

moved to Virginia, bringing the business with them, and in 2009, Juli Peak began working on a master’s degree in counsel-ing at Liberty. She graduated in September 2012 and is now a counselor who is working on her licensure in addition to run-ning her business.

Though the business is begin-ning to take off, the Peaks view it as a way to connect with peo-ple rather than a way to make a profit.

“We’re not in (the business) just to make money,” Kevin Peak said. “In our business, we look at it as a means to do min-istry. This is, kind of, a means to

an end. So, that is really what the business is to us, and maybe we fall in line with what Liberty is trying to do.”

Snookie Snookerwitz will have work positions opening in the summer and welcome any Liberty students who would like to apply. All of Snookie Snookerwitz’s products can be purchased individually or as gift baskets at snookerwitz.com. More information on the busi-ness and ways to contact Kevin and Juli Peak can also be found on the website.

BROWN is a feature reporter.

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SWEETS — The gourmet shop offers a variety of uniquely created food and drinks.

Gourmet business growsAlumna Juli Peak’s business comes from a childhood nickname, Snookie Snookerwitz

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for underclassmen who have won ADDY awards.

One such exception is junior Cassie Foster’s work. Foster garnered three ADDYs for her photographs in both the color and black and white categories.

Foster is a graphic design major with a minor in both advertising-public relations and studio art. She expressed her excitement at being a winner of multiple ADDYs and hav-ing her work displayed as a part of the Senior Graphic Design Exhibit.

“Winning three ADDYs in one year is amazing,” Foster said. “Hav-ing my work displayed as a junior was an incredibly awestruck moment for me. The fact that the ADDYs ranked me with the seniors was a sweet and rewarding moment.”

Having work displayed in the ex-hibit allows family and friends from outside Liberty to see the work.

“On opening night of the exhibit, the line was wrapped all the way from the art gallery to the elevators,” O’Neal said. “It was so cool to see all these people had come out just for our work. … My family got to come and actually see my work off a com-puter screen, framed and hanging on the wall. … It was great.”

Foster also commented on how great it was being able to share her vision behind her work and see the reactions from loved ones.

“(T)he best part had been being able to share my stories behind the photos,” Foster said. “Two of the three were taken while doing mis-sions work in Guatemala, so I am able to tell them about my passion of using photographs to show the need of clean water wells in rural coun-tries.”

The exhibit is located on the fourth floor of DeMoss Hall in the art gal-lery and will be on display through April 13. The display is open Mon-day-Friday, 8:30 a.m.–7 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.

For further information on the Senior Graphic Design Exhibit or the SADA Department, email Todd Smith, the department chair, at [email protected].

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On the rainy Saturday after-noon of March 29, more than 60 dog owners attended Lynchburg Humane Society’s Slobberfest at Boonsboro Ruritan Club in or-der to help raise money for the organization.

Dogs of many shapes, sizes and breeds, from Mastiffs to Chihuahuas, competed in games like Snoopy Says (a canine ver-sion of Simon Says), Musical Chairs (with hoops), Tennis Ball and Frisbee Toss and an Agility Course, among other events.

This is the second year that the Lynchburg Humane Society has held the event, according to Kim Haywood, development and out-reach manager for the Humane Society.

“Attendance has doubled since last year,” Haywood said. “We definitely plan on doing it again.”

According to the Lynchburg Humane Society website, the Petco Foundation was the title sponsor of the event, but many other organizations sponsored

Slobberfest as well.“I thought the event was ex-

traordinarily successful,” Make-na Yarbrough, executive direc-tor of the Lynchburg Humane Society, said. “With the weather being what it was, we were a little nervous, but I was pleased to see this many people coming out.”

The Boonsboro Ruritan Club allowed for most of the events to occur indoors, an option that was not available at last year’s Slob-berfest, which was held at Peaks View Park.

The Lynchburg Humane Soci-ety is striving to become a no-kill organization, according to Yar-brough. The save rate for Lynch-burg Humane Society last year was 92 percent, which is up from 73 percent in 2009, according to the organization’s website.

“Events like this help us sup-port our no-kill mission,” Yar-brough said. “It helps support the programs and enables us to save the animals that we help and we care for. We are at about (a) 92 percent (save rate) right now.”

Though the total amount of money raised has yet to be tal-

lied, the Humane Society had raised more money going into the event than the total amount raised at last year’s Slobberfest, according to Yarbrough.

The Lynchburg Humane So-ciety has many opportunities for volunteer services, and approxi-mately 45 percent of the volun-teering at the Humane Society is done by Liberty University students, who can receive Chris-tian/Community Service credit, according to Haywood.

“We love having the Liberty students coming in and volun-teering,” Yarbrough said. “There is a real surge when they are in town to come and help us in these events, to help walk dogs, to help socialize cats, to help clean. I mean, they do everything in our shelter.”

For more information on the Lynchburg Humane Society’s future events or how to become a volunteer, visit lynchburghu-manesociety.org.

EBRAHIM is a news reporter.

A slobbering successEvent raises money in support of Lynchburg Humane Society

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CARE — Fundraisers help support the shelter’s mission to become a no-kill facility.

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Members of the Alpha Lamb-da Delta (ALD) Honor Society, which are Liberty University honors program students, gath-ered in the DeMoss Hall Grand Lobby Wednesday, March 26 for an evening of whimsical mu-sic, fine dining and celebration of academic accomplishments.

In anticipation of Commence-ment in May, ALD recognized more than 150 students for their academic achievement and gen-erosity to their community.

“Alpha Lambda Delta Hon-or Society was founded in the spring of 1934 at the Univer-sity of Illinois,” the ALD web-site says. “It was established to encourage superior academic achievement among students in their first year in institutions of higher education while promot-ing intelligent living, a continued high standard of learning and assistance to men and women in recognizing and developing meaningful goals for their roles in society.”

As the evening progressed, members of the Liberty Uni-versity ALD Honor Society and keynote speaker Barbara Sherman, director and associ-ate professor of individualized programs of study at Liberty, of-fered congratulations and words of wisdom to the seniors.

“All work is worship – a gift to the Lord,” Sherman said. “What a person carries out into the world is emblematic of all that they have learned in life.”

According to Sherman, it is what these seniors remind themselves of in scripture and prayer each day that will en-sure their success, as well as the fulfillment of the late Dr. Jerry

Falwell, Sr.’s vision.As the attendees sat attentive

to Sherman’s message, students, their families and Liberty fac-ulty absorbed all she said with silence, laughter and applause.

“Professor Sherman spoke extreme wisdom into the stu-dents,” sophomore and ALD Historian Lauren Creekmore said. “Her words were unforget-table and definitely something that the seniors could carry out into the world for the rest of their lives.”

After Sherman’s address, Dr. Marilyn Gadomski, faculty advi-sor to the Liberty chapter, and the ALD officers presented students with honors cords, senior certifi-cates and other academic awards.

“These cords are a symbol of all the hard work that these stu-dents accomplished in their first few years at Liberty University,” Gadomski said.

One of the students to receive the awards was Maria Vitullo, a graduating senior in the nursing program.

“The event was a beautiful reflection of all that we have accomplished over the last four years,” Vitullo said. “Receiving my cord was very humbling and just a great representation of all my hard work.”

However, the cords were not the only awards presented, as former ALD President Brian Mauldin received the Maria Leonard Senior Book Award, an award presented to the student with the highest GPA.

After receiving their awards, seniors in the honors pro-gram now only have to wait until May 10 to accomplish the final step of their undergraduate careers.

BEALE is a news reporter.

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PERFORMANCE — James Bond, Queen, Adele and other parts of British pop-culture made appearances in Saturday night’s show.

‘Come Together’ at CoffeehouseFrom The Beatles to One Direction, Liberty let the British invade the Vines Center Saturday, March 29

Seniors display years of hard workStudents show off their artwork through an annual graphic design exhibit put on by the Studio and Digital Arts DepartmentJessica [email protected]

Seniors from the Studio and Digital Arts Department (SADA) were given the opportunity to showcase their best work from their college career in the Senior Graphic Design Exhibit that be-gan Thursday, March 20.

Students submitted various types of work, from photographs to digital paintings. Stacy Can-non, a SADA professor, said the exhibit only happens once a year and is required for all seniors graduating in May.

“All seniors have to take a portfolio class, which requires them to submit a piece for the exhibit, but they ultimately get to

pick their favorite piece overall,” Cannon said.

According to Brianna O’Neal, a senior SADA student, the Se-nior Graphic Design Exhibit is an excellent opportunity for stu-dents to show off their work to not only their professors but also to their families.

“I think it is a good experi-ence for the students, because at this point, we haven’t really had to professionally show our work,” O’Neal said. “It is so cool to show off your work to your family, friends and the whole university.”

O’Neal has a few pieces dis-played on the ADDY wall of the exhibit, a wall that showcases the work from American Advertising Awards winners. O’Neal won

five gold ADDYs, and one of her pieces went on to win silver at the district-level competition. All of her winning pieces are in the ADDY portion of the exhibit, along with the piece she chose to showcase from her portfolio.

“I love seeing my former stu-dents’ work in the exhibit, I just get really proud,” SADA pro-fessor Monique Maloney said. “I really only teach them in the foundational classes, so to see them advance and win awards is so exciting. … I get to see all their hard work pay off and say, ‘I told you you could do it.’”

While the exhibit is exclusive to seniors, there are exceptions

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DIGITAL — Students had the option to submit photographs or other digital work.

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When the doors of the Vines Center opened an hour before showtime Saturday, March 29, students eagerly pushed their way to the front of the line and quickly filled the stadium to enjoy Student Activi-ties’ (SA) British Invasion Coffeehouse.

As they waited in anticipation of the acts to come, students answered British trivia questions and relished the chance to be seen on the jumbotron, posing for the video cameras and entertaining their classmates.

At precisely 11:30 p.m., a video portray-ing how the British have invaded America through television and music set the stage for the upcoming acts. Then, the students cheered as David and the Dukes opened by playing the Beatles’ hit song, “Can’t Buy Me Love.”

Returning Coffeehouse host Dylan Stine came on stage after the first perfor-mance of the night to give his opening speech for the event. Stine explained that

SA chose to go with the British Invasion theme to commemorate The Beatles’ first performance in America on the Ed Sul-livan Show 50 years ago.

“(The Beatles’ performance started) what is commonly and peacefully known as the British Invasion led by The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, and The Kinks,” Stine said. “The British Invasion was the start of, basically, America’s obsession with everything in British culture, including bands that start with the word ‘the.’”

For the next hour and a half, spectators watched performances by the Last Minute Lads, Tea in the Harbor, Melodies from Heaven, London, Argyle Architects, The Dundys and Juan Direction, among others. The bands performed mash-ups of popular songs by British artists, including Coldplay, Adele, The Who, The Beatles, Ellie Gould-ing and One Direction.

Haley Greene, a sophomore at Liberty and founder of the Faces at Liberty Face-book page, said that this Coffeehouse was one of the best she has seen at Liberty so

far. She has been to four Coffeehouse events since becoming a student.

Between on-stage performances, stu-dents in attendance saw videos that de-picted anything British, and Stine also found people in the audience to play games like British Trivia or read notecards in British accents.

Greene said her favorite video involved a male student walking around campus grabbing strangers’ hands, titled “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” Mark Jones, a senior at Liberty, said he enjoyed the “Doctor Who” enactment video, which featured Johnnie Moore as the Doctor.

“For the people that were Doctor Who fans, it captured the goofiness of the show with references to pretty much everything, combined with a unique Liberty twist, which made it really funny,” Jones said.

Jones said this was the first spring Cof-feehouse he attended at Liberty, although he has been to two Christmas Coffeehous-es in the past.

“I thought that this Coffeehouse was

better than the other Coffeehouses that I’ve been to,” Jones said. “It was more en-tertaining. It was a little bit longer, (and) I thought the talent was better.”

Toward the end of the night, Stine re-turned to the stage and thanked everyone who was involved with Coffeehouse for their hard work before introducing the last performance of the night.

“It has been an honor to be here to-night,” Stine said. “Now, we just saw a Beatles song, we started the British Inva-sion with a Beatles song, so what better way to close out the show (than) with something that is continuing the British Invasion. So, please, welcome to the stage Juan Direc-tion. Pip pip, cheerio and goodnight.”

Juan Direction closed the night with a mash-up of One Direction songs such as “The Story of My Life” and “Midnight Memories.”

For more information on SA events throughout the semester, visit liberty.edu/sa

BROWN is a feature reporter

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