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Friday, February 6,2004
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Student poll: How creative were you?
Classes at Gardner-Webb were can
celled on Jan. 26 and 27 due to bad road
conditions from winter weather.
While many students took the days
off to catch up on some much needed
sleep, others let their inner child out and
went out to do some sledding on some of
the hills around campus. Some students
used storage containers, football practice
mats, and other plastic objects to hurl
themselves down the icy slopes.
"There were three of us on
one sled and we went down
this really curvy and steep
hill. When we got to the bot
tom there was a creek so we
had to purposely fall off."
- Freshman Joanna Helton
"Me and a couple of friends
went behind the lake and sled
down on the tops of storage
containers."
- Sophomore Stephen
Rieman
"The light spray of ice on my
nose, the weight of my
friends piling on my back,
and the gleeful cheers
enveloped me as the bottom
of the hill loomed closer.
Rising out of the mist the track surfaced,
glossy like that of a mirror, rushed at my
face. I gripped the edge of the football
practice matt and embraced myself for
impact. Before my body could tell my
mind that we had slid to a halt, I was
already standing, rising onto that plateau
between reality and fantasy.. .a wasteland
of snow both terrible and extraordinary. It
is in that mystic realm that my heart still
lingers."
- Junior Bruce Wham.
"I wore shorts because it
brought back memories of
Alaska where I have been on
mission trips. We took a
piece of plastic and went with
it, took a running start, dove,
and hit some cars in the
LYCC parking lot."- Senior Jamie Pruitt
Department offers new course
Jennifer Menster
Pilot copy editor
It is hard to imagine how
a psychology class can be
hands on. Think about it. In
science classes, students
learn by interacting with
rocks and plants. In health,
students see bones and dif-
■ ferent types of foods. But in
psychology?:
Well not only is
Gardner-Webb professor
Frieda Brown teaching a
new concept of psychology,
but she also makes it hands
on.
"In class we have a lec
ture time where we learn the
different aspects of positive
psychology and at the end of
class we have time to prac
tice those aspects," said
Emily Davis, a senior.
Davis is one of 18 stu
dents in Brown’s positive
psychology, class. She Js
also one of few in the world
who are taking a class onthe
new area of psychology. ' ’ '
Positive psychology is a
brand new field of study
developed by a professor at
the University of
Pennsylvania. This new area
is the study of positive emo
tions, positive traits and
positive institutions. Brown
said. It focuses on one’s
strengths, happiness, for
giveness and overall opti
mism.
Brown, was one of 300
people from all over the
world who took a course by
telephone on positive psy
chology last year. She is
grateful GWU and the psy
chology department has
taken the chance on the idea
of positive psychology.
"The students are really
responding well to it,"
Brown said. "There is so
much excitement about
this." . . / - , .
One of the hands-on
projects the students have
already,taken on this semes
ter was a gratitude letter,
NEWS IN BRIEF
which was named one of
New York Time’s best ideas
of 2003.
Students wrote the let
ters to a person who helped
them on a professional or
personal level. Several of
the students read the letters
to their person with laughter
and tears.
"It was a really neat
experience," Davis said. "It
made me realize how grate
ful I really am for the people
in my life."
At the end of class, stu
dents also get a chance to
break down into small pods,
or groups, to talk more in
depth about the subject.
Davis said this is quite dif
ferent from other psycholo
gy classes she has taken.
"Dr. Brown wants us to
gain personal fulfillment
from this class and carry its
lessons into our everyday
lives,". Davis said. "I feel I
arn getting a lot out of this
pburse,".. '
Charlotte set to hold ROTC banquet
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
49er Battalion will hold the annual dining-out at The
Adam Mark Hotel in Charlotte at 6 p.m. on Feb. 20,
2004. It will involve cadets from Gardner-Webb
University, Johnson C. Smith University, Davidson
College, Belmont Abbey College, Winthrop University,
Catawba College, Wingate University and UNCC to min
gle in a social setting and experience another dynamic
aspect of Army life.
The Army dining-out is a tradition in the Army
that the cadets in the 49er battalion maintain. The dining-
out normally takes place during the spring semester. The
cadets and cadre wear their dress uniforms and are
accompanied by their spouses, or dates, for a night filled
with military protocol and tradition, humor, skits, dinner
and dancing.
- Amanda Yeck, Davidson ROTC
Deaf activities promote awareness
The silence spoke volumes Tuesday morning as deaf
performer Kevin Clark presented a mime in Dimensions as
part of Gardner-Webb University’s Deaf Awareness Week.
The Dimensions service began with a song performed
by the Joyful Hands Sign Choir and ended with Clark’s
mime.
"Can riches give you happiness? Can hard work? Can
education? Without Jesus, who died upon the cross and
three days later resurrected for your sins, these things are
nothing," said Clark through an interrupter. Clark is a stu
dent at the Tri-State School of Theology for the Deaf and
a part-time evangelist.
The Dimensions service was followed Tuesday night
by a deaf Bible study in Lindsey Hall. Missionary Tom
Lineberger signed to a group of about 10 students, faculty
and staff members about the need for evangelism among
the world’s deaf community.
Other events of the week included a coffeehouse social
at the Broad River Coffee Company prior to a trip to
Shelby Lanes Monday night, a presentation of the motion
picture Radio Wednesday night and a deaf performance
Thursday night at the Millennium Playhouse.
Friday’s events include a scavenger hunt and a silent
dinner.
Deaf Awareness Week is a weeklong, 15-year-old tra
dition that promotes awareness of deaf culture on campus
and in the community. It is sponsored by the GWU deaf
club. •
- Amanda Wood
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