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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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Gospel Choir extending reach
By Patrice Blackmon
Pilot staff writer
The Gospel Choir has had
a busy semester, perform
ing at the Verge, the Gospel
Explosion and churches in
the area. It’s all part of the
group’s plan to partner with
other ministries on the Gard-
ner-Webb University cam
pus.
Thanks to an invitation
from its praise and worship
leaders. The Verge has been
one of the Gospel Choir’s
main performance venues.
This fits in with the choir’s
plan to reach a wider cam
pus audience, said Quinnon
Isom, president of the Gospel
Choir.
“These past few minis
tries and other events that
have taken placed across
this campus, whether it be
the Verge, Dimensions or
the Gospel Explosion, has
truly strengthened not only
, the members of the Gospel
Choir, but the student body of
Gardner-Webb University in
their spiritual realms,” Isom,
a junior sports management
and psychology major. “I be
lieve that the Lord is show
ing us that diversity and truly
loving one another under his
creed is the way it should be
done.
“For if we cannot love
someone because of their
race or color, then we cannot
love God. The Bible says,
‘Those who say, I love God,
and hate their brothers or sis
ters, are liars; for those who
do not love a brother or sister
whom they have seen, cannot
love God whom they have
not seen. The commandment
we have from him is this:
those who love God must
love their bothers and sisters
also.’
“Being one with Jesus
in the same body and mind
with our brothers and sisters
is what he has called us to do
in this new year,” said Isom.
Gospel Choir Director
CharKetia Anderson, a ju
nior majoring in American
Sign Language, agrees with
the need to work with other
campus groups.
“Yes, we will be work
ing more with the Verge,”
said Anderson. “We realize
that in ministry we have to
stretch out and minister with
our fellow co-laborers of the
gospel, and so we want to
fellowship with our Verge
staff We will be frequently
ministering there and hope
they will be able to minister
at our Gospel Explosion in
April.
“We don’t think us being
in ministry with the Verge
will better them - the Bible
says that ‘iron sharpens iron’
meaning we all encourage
and strengthen each other, so
we’re praying that that’s ex
actly what will
The Gospel Explosion
event earlier this month
helped infroduced some
thing called “Team Micah,”
according to LaQutta McK
inney, vice president of the
Gospel Choir
“It’s an event formed by
the new club on campus,
‘Team Micah,’ after our non
profit organization House of
Micah, Inc.,” said McKin
ney, a junior sociology ma
jor. “This event was formed
to allow multi-cultures to
be able to come together in
worship. The event will in
troduce the club and organi
zation both, with pamphlets
about their programs and
mission behind them.”
Photo by Jessica Jones
First row: Cynthia IWilam, Leslie Jane Hallquist, Demaris Bailey Ford,
Lori Hall, Lina Meyer, Jennifer Vaught Second row: Pamella IVIitchell, Scott Dewitt
Darnell, Linda Cox, Debra Kay Brown, Jessika Raduly, David Joe Philyaw, Ryan
Burris Third row: Steven Kinney, Jr, Jeffrey Kniceley, Roy Hadley, Scotty Beck,
Edward Shifflette III, Kern Phillip, William Tuten
Business honors society inducts new members
The Gardner-Webb University School of
Business inducted 31 new members into the
Kappa Chi chapter of Delta Mu Delta Sunday
at 2;00 p.m. in the Dover Chapel.
The new members represent the top busi
ness students in the day, GOAL and master’s
programs.
Delta Mu Delta is an international aca
demic honor society. Membership is earned
academically; students must be in the top 10
percent of their class, with a GPA of 3.8 for
undergraduates or 3.9 for graduate students.
Delta Mu Delta are to promote higher
scholarship in training for business, and to
recognize and reward scholastic attainment
in business subjects.
Contributed by Professor E. Denise
Smith, Faculty Advisor
For seniors and forward-thinking freshmen,
the hunt for employment is just a step away
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McLaren; Challenge Christianity’s status quo
By Christopher Shaver
. Pilot staff writer
About 200 people gath
ered over the first week
end in February to discuss
how to make the world and
the church a better place,
when confroversial author
and speaker Brian McLaren
started his “Everything Must
Change” book tour in Char
lotte.
“I can’t help but to get
this feeling that I have just
woken up from a really bad
dream,” said the Emerging
Church proponent.
The event consisted of
McLaren speaking four
times; times to meditate;
small break-out groups
where participants could talk
about change; and music per
formed by The Restoration
Project.
“If there is a mantra we
have this weekend, it’s love,”
Tracy Howe, the lead singer,
said.
McLaren addressed his
critics and showed how
many others have gotten the
Emerging Church movement
wrong.
“We aren’t watering down
the Gospels. The fact is that
they have already been wa
tered down,” McLaren said.
He explained how the
story behind Jesus was polit
ical for its time, and showed
how others can apply this to
their lifestyles. He stated that
the church needs creative
Christians who are willing to
challenge status-quo Christi
anity.
McLaren said society
has created a suicidal system
based around ignorance and
greed. This system cannot be
sustained through anything
other than the Revolution of
Hope found through Jesus.
McLaren warned the
crowd against was to be wary
of quick fixes. He said he
knew that standing for Jesus
and against the suicidal sys
tem he explained would take
a vast amount of time.
“I have recently found the
joy of composting old banana
peels, and I even get excited
when I have to change my
light bulbs to a more envi
ronmentally friendly bulb,”
McLaren said.
“I don’t do this to try to
change the world, but doing
this to see how it changes
me. When we do this, we are
pledging allegiance to the
Kingdom of God.”
The Metrolina Career
Fair will be held at the Char
lotte Convention Center Feb.
28, from 9 a.m to 1 p.m.
Holly Sweat, director of
Career Services, said it is the
biggest event to hit North
Carolina this year.
More than 100 employers
from Washington, D.C., New
York City, Chicago and other
major areas will be present
and looking for employees
and interns. There are vari
ous opportunities for seniors
of all majors, alumni, gradu
ate students ‘ and students
seeking work experience in
the form of internships.
“Everything you can
think of will be there,” Sweat
said, naming well-knovm
businesses such as Wacho
via, Bank of America and
even NASCAR.
Sweat stressed the impor
tance of job hunting before
graduating.
“Once you’ve graduated,
you’re unemployed,” she said.
For students not gradu
ating yet, an internship is a
great way to gain experience
and, later, perhaps ajob.
“It is vital that you get
your foot in the door,” Sweat
said. “Seventy-five percent
of all hires are gotten through
internships.”
Students are encouraged
to check out the Career Ser
vices Web page (http://www.
gardner-webb.edu/careers/
events.htm) which has job
listings and information.
Recruiters want to hire Noel students
By Rebecca Clark
Pilot editor
Gardner-Webb University
offers all students a gateway
to many careers, including
those students in the Noel
Program, which offers re
sources and assistance to stu
dents with disabilities.
“We have our students all
over the place,” Holly Sweat,
director of Career Services
said.
Through Workforce De
velopment, students with
disabilities have gotten jobs
and offers from Homeland
Security, FBI, CIA and the
Pentagon, among other pres
tigious places.
WFD, a federal program,
is based out of Washington,
D.C., that works with dis
abled students. All employ
ers that receive federal fund
ing have to show diversity in
their hires, which includes
disabled students, minorities,
etc. The students are inter
viewed and entered into a da
tabase which agencies look
ing to hire can access.
Last August, Sweat re
ceived a call from the federal
government “to speak on be
half of four-year colleges on
what Gardner-Webb has been
doing with the Workforce De
velopment Program,” she said.
Sweat presented at The
Southern Association of
Colleges and Employers a
regional conference in San
Antonio, Texas. This confer
ence consisted of 15 South
ern states including Wash
ington D.C.
She spoke about what
GWU does “with disability
students and what we do to
help them be recruited into
federal agencies.”
Through GWU’s alliance
with Workforce Develop
ment, students have the op
portunity to pursue presti
gious careers that could take
them to Capitol Hill and be
yond.
Facebook users can now
completely delete profiles
By Ethan Klapper
The Eagle (American U.)
Photo by Ashley Carter
The new Boiling Springs YIVICA is being built just up the road from Gardner-Webb. It will contain the new
Boiling Springs Public Library.
You can’t spell ‘new library’ without the Y
By Jacob Conley
Pilot sports editor
When the new Boiling Springs
YMCA opens later this year, members
of the Cleveland County community
will also have a preview of the new pub
lic library.
“It may just have to start as a reading
room,” said Nancy Blalock, a member
of the library planning committee. “We
may not have all the books in by the
time the YMCA opens.”
This fact does not dampen Blalock’s
enthusiasm, however.
“This is a great thing for everybody.
We want to reach patrons from all over
western Cleveland County, not just
Boiling Springs,” said Blalock.
She does not just want the library to
reach out to a single type of patron, but
to all demographics, which is a need that
Gardner-Webb’s John R. Dover Memo
rial Library can’t meet.
“In order to check out material from
the Gardner-Webb Library, you must be
a student or alumni,” said Blalock. “We
want to serve everyone from children to
senior citizens.”
In order to accomplish this goal, the
library will offer several demographi-
cally specific programs such as a sum
mer reading program for children or
computer classes for senior citizens.
“We want to supplement the public
school libraries, so we will focus heavi
ly on AR [accelerated reader] material,”
said Blalock.
She said that the library will offer
something for patrons in between those
two age groups, and will also provide
assistance in the completion of high
school senior exit projects.
There will be opportunities at the li
brary for GWU students as well.
“Volunteering at the library is a
great way to receive community service
hours,” said Blalock. “Also, any mem
ber of the university community would
benefit from a public library.”
Although it may only be a reading
room when the YMCA opens, Blalock
and its other supporters plan for it to
grow into something great.
(U-WIRE) WASHING
TON - Facebook users can
now delete their accounts
completely after the compa
ny added instructions Tues
day to the help page on its
website.
The social network’s ac
tions come days after The
New York Times reported
that many users were having
trouble completely deleting
their accounts.
Previously, users could
only deactivate a Facebook
account, which would re
move all public data from
the website but still kept an
archive of personal informa
tion on the server. It is now
possible to request your ac
count to be deleted through
a contact form on the Web
sites help page.
However, many users are
still reporting that the new
method of account deletion
is incomplete.
“Users who have re
quested to be deleted via
the recently introduced form
are only partly deleted, even
though the deletion is con
firmed by Facebook staff,”
Facebook user Magnus Wal
lin stated in a posting Fri
day on his Facel50ok group,
“How to permanently delete
your facebook account.”
vFacebook representatives
did not return calls for com
ment by press time.
According to Facebook’s
help page, deactivating an ac
count rather than completely
deleting it is a convenience
measure.
“If you reactivate your
account, your profile will be
restored in its entirety,” the
help page stated.
Facebook was previously
hesitant to comply with dele
tion requests, with one user
succeeding only after threat
ening legal action, according
to The New York Times.
American University
School of Communication
professor Kathryn C. Mont
gomery said she has always
been concerned about Face
book’s privacy practices.
“I’ve been warning my
students about Facebook and
privacy for years,” she said.
Though Montgomery
said she was not sure if Face
book was sharing the deac
tivated account information,
she said it was a possibility
and stressed that the Web site
is turning into a tool for mar
keters.
The site threatens stu
dents’ privacy, said Steven
Rutman, a freshman in the
Kogod School of Business.
“Why should they even
share that information in the
first place?” he said.
A user has every right to
delete his or her information
from Facebook, said Andrew
Woods, a sophomore in the
School of Public Affairs.
“When you get rid of your
Facebook, you don’t expect
it to return,” he said.