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Pride Monday, April 26, 1999 Campus Minister Continued from page 1 for these kinds of things, and I believe that if the process had been allowed to work, I believe that the process would have rec ommended that I return.” Reverend parrish likes the “interaction with the community” and has enjoyed working with Methodist College students. “I’m an interactive person. Interaction with students has particularly been absolutely wonderful. Of course, I enjoy interaction with all age levels, but I have deeply ap preciated the students here. My mission, I think, has been essentially with the student body and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It truly enriched my life. I will miss it.” Since Reverend Carrie Parrish has been the campus minister, worship ministry has increased significantly. Although the chapel is not filled to capacity at every service, it has been filled many times. The semester before Reverend Parrish’s arrival, atten dance averaged in the single digits. For her first service, 18 people were present. To day, approximately 110 students, faculty, and staff attend worship services each week. "On campuses, I think you can expect attendance to tlip-tlop some. You can ex pect it to rise and fall. It’s interesting. I no tice that in the fall when you come back from fall break, a lot of things take a nose dive. We understand why. In the spring, with spring break, the weather gets warmer and suddenly finals and papers are staring you in the face, things take a nose dive. But still, our worship ministry is strong.” Reverend Parrish stated that she has tried to include a lot of student leadership in worship. She continually evaluated and enriched the worship programs. She has included more music and more guest speak ers to diversify the services and make them more enjoyable. One of the programs that Reverend Parrish is most proud of is the mission model that was created five years ago. The model has three components: local, na tional, and international. A team of students travels every fall break and every spring break to various areas to assist in relief pro grams and to experience cultures beside their own. In the spring of 1995, students traveled to Lima, Peru. They have traveled as close as the Habitat Village in Fayetteville, a Hispanic mission in Sanford, Redbird Mission in Beverly, Kentucky, and have participated in three hurricane recov ery programs in Homestead, Florida— two years after Hurricane Andrew devastated the area, in South Carolina after Hurricane Fran, and Currituck after Hurricane Bonnie. “I like to help our students expand their global consciousness. Our students con sciousness of a world beyond Methodist College and their comfort zone has a chance to expand with this program.” Another program that has been imple mented since Reverend Parrish’s arrival is the Host Family Program. It began with only one church and now there are approxi mately eight churches that participate in the program. The goal is to “adopt a freshman.” Freshman apply to participate in this pro gram, and they are given a host family here in the community to serve as a “home away from home.” Only nine students were placed at the inception of this program. However, this year, approximately 65 stu dents have an “adoptive” family that they can share experiences with. Cookouts, dis cussions, emotional aid, and attendance at athletic events are some of the benefits host families have to offer. This program is a wonderful solution to solving the homesickness dilemma that many new students face when arriving at the college. “This is a very successful pro gram. It offers great visibility for Method- Students Perform Last Recital Of Semester By Jonathan Barber Contributing Writer The Methodist College Music Depart ment presented its final student recital of the 1999 Spring semester on Friday, April 16, in Hensdale Chapel. Students are re quired to participate in a specific number of public recitals based on the number of credit hours of applied lessons that they are taking. The program opened with Lynette Capps, soprano, performing “The Beati tudes” by Albert Hay Malotte, accompa nied by Mrs. Jane Gardiner. Donald War ren, baritone, performed “Amarilli, Mia Bella” by Giuho Caccini, accompanied by Dr. Sue Snyder. Angalie Quinn completed the vocal portion by performing ist College,” Reverend Parrish said. Monarch Movers is another program started by Reverend Parrish. Upperclass man assist new students with the process of moving-in. Their job is not only to as sist with the hard work, such as lugging computers and televisions up the stairs, but also to aid in the transition issues. It is a program about caring. Thirty-eight upper classmen helped incoming students this year. Reverend Carrie Parrish has certainly left her mark on the Methodist College campus. She will be missed. Her dedica tion to the college community has been nothing short of outstanding. Her new min istry appointment is at Christ United Meth odist Church on Raeford Road. “Reverend Carrie” implores students to stay in touch. “Heidenroslein” by Franz Schubert, also accompanied by Dr. Snyder. The instrumental portion included Marshall Carter performing “Etude #2 - Andantino” by Mareo Bordogni on the baritone horn. Rachel Schultz, flutist, per formed two movements from “Sonata I in E Major” accompanied by Mr. J. Michael Rogers on the piano. The final piece was “Sonata, Op. 29” by Robert Muczynski featured Jason Taylor on saxophone with Mrs. Jarie Gardiner playing the piano ac companiment. Student recitals are always open to all Methodist College faculty, staff, and stu dents. Recital schedules are available each semester from the Fine Arts Division sec retary at campus extension 7100. SGA ELECTION RESULTS President: Eddie Price Vice President: Jessica Kupper Secretary:None Treasurer: None Chief Justice: None Senators: Ana Maria Ayala, Mary Johnston, Kristi Moss, Leighann Rastede, Erin Schablik, Lindsey Spitzer, Steve Vinci Relationship Issues One Too Many Men Dear Darlene, I have a big problem. I have a boy friend here at college. We get along great and I think the world of him, but we will be hundreds of miles apart all summer. When I went home over Spring Break I met this guy who really liked me. I can see a lot of potential for having a great time with him. I do not want to spend the summer alone, but I do not want to hurt my boyfriend. I am having a hard time thinking about my classes with this prob lem on my mind. Please help me decide what to do. One Too Many Men Dear Too Many, I can certainly see why you have a hard time concentrating with this problem on your mind. It must seem like if you choose to do the honorable thing you will be miserable all summer. Of course, if you do a dishonorable thing; that, too, will make you miser able. When you are truly in love with someone and deeply committed, being apart for the summer is hard. It is hard, though, not because you must give up having fun with someone else, it’s hard because you miss your lover and you long to share your daily life with him. I think this is a dilemma for you because you want to avoid hurt ing your boyfriend. I don’t think you are troubled because you are truly un sure of whether or not you want to spend the summer being faithful to an absent lover. It seems clear that you really don’t want to do that. Do yourself and your boyfriend a favor: Get honest. Tell him that you are not ready for that kind of commit ment yet. Let him know the truth about your honest desire to have fun ’this summer and date other people. There is nothing wrong with that Most college students are not ready for deep commitments. Just because your boy friend is ready doesn’t mean that you are on the same time table and must also be ready to commit. If you are honest, you will hurt your boyfriend. No doubt about it But you will hurt him far more if you make promises that you really don’t want to, and may not be able to, keep. Agree ing to date others this summer isn’t necessarily the end of your relation ship. Some relationships become stron ger after such a time apart. Few rela tionships survive dishonesty and cheating. If you value this relationship, honesty is the best policy. BEST WISHES, Darlene Darlene Hopkins, Director of Coun seling and Psychological Services at Methodist College, is the author of “Re lationship Issues.” If you would like to submit a letter to “Relationship Issues,” please send it to the editor of Pride, via campus mail. If you would like a confi dential reply to a letter, you may send it to Darlene Hopkins, Counseling Center via campus mail.
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