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September 19, 2014Volume 109 - Issue 4

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BY ERICKA BUITENHUISFeatures Co-Editor

Among the new dining op-tions, bright-eyed first-years and smooth asphalt, Cindy Kok joins the list of changes occurring on Calvin’s campus this fall. Kok has been asked to serve as the interim vice president of student life.

Shirley Hoogstra, who served as the vice president of student life for the last 15 years, left Calvin to accept the role of president of the Council of Christian Colleges a nd Un ive r s i t ie s (CCC U ). Hoogstra’s last day was Sept. 5, 2014.

Amidst mixed emotions of ex-citement and nostalgia, Hoogstra speaks to the confidence from s t a f f m e m b e r s f o l l o w i n g the decision.

“Cindy was unanimously be-lieved to be the best person from the inside for interim,” recalls Hoogstra. “She knows what ev-erybody else does.”

This acquired knowledge stems from Kok’s experience as head of the Broene Counseling Center for the last four years. Students who visit Broene can receive help for a variety of psychological and emotional challenges from qualified professionals.

“ T he c ou n s e l i n g c e n t e r intersects with almost every area of my [student life] divi-sion,” says Hoogstra. “She’s a holistic choice.”

The counseling center isn’t the only place Kok has experi-ence at Calvin. She previously served as a faculty member. On the faculty senate, Kok worked with Entrada and helped with strategic planning in the last 15 years she has been on staff at Calvin.

The role of vice president is a large undertaking, as Kok will oversee various parts of the stu-dent life division, including cam-pus ministries, campus safety, career development, residence life and others.

John Witte, dean of residence

life, explained to Chimes how the role of vice president affects each these areas.

“She isn’t day-to-day in residence life,” says Witte. “She has too many areas that she will be supporting and looking out for.”

Witte explained that par t of h is role is to keep her informed and up-dated about issues and changes occur-ring in residence l i fe . Accord i ng to Wit te, as the search for a new vice president be-gins, the campus of Calvin College will continue to operate without any sig-nificant changes.

“[Kok’s] goal is to support how we are doing things now,” says Witte.

Hoogstra also said that not much change can be expected,

Cindy Kok installed as interim vice president

BY BETHANY COKOn-Call Writer

Despite recent discussions about opening Calvin’s library on Sunday afternoons, there are no immediate plans to imple-ment Sunday hours, pending further discussion.

This past spring, the Hekman Library Committee gave its ap-proval to a trial period of Sunday hours. However, at the end of this past school year, the deci-sion had not been approved by Calvin administration.

According to Glenn Remelts, the dean of the library, there have been no conversations or develop-ments since then on this issue.

President Michael Le Roy says t hey haven’t d ropped the discussion.

“It will be discussed again, I think it’s a serious issue. We just need some more time to talk about it,” said Le Roy.

“We want to be wise about this,” said Pastor Mary, who has been involved in ongoing discus-sions about Sunday library hours in the larger context of keeping the Sabbath. “Wisdom is rarely found when we rush. It’s found in community, and when people go to Scripture together and pay

attention to what God wants us to pay attention to.”

The importance of Sabbath is not an unfamiliar or unwelcome topic to Calvin students.

“I’m definitely an advocate for observing the Sabbath, and I don’t want to make anyone work ex-t ra on the Sabbath,” s a i d s o p h o m o r e Mackenzie Geels.

S e ve r a l s t u d e n t s h igh l ighted the fac t that many people do use Sunday as a day to finish work, regardless of whether the library is open or not.

“The library provides a quiet place of study, academic resources and a place for people to ac-complish work on a day in which, frankly, a lot of schoolwork is being done already,” pointed out junior Kylee Rosette, a student employee at the library:

“Opening the library for even just a few hours will enable students to be more ef-ficient and productive, potentially allowing them to take time off the rest of the day.”

Sophomore Kelsey Powers

discussed the challenges of find-ing a place to do computer-related homework on Sunday.

“I don’t have a computer, so if I have homework on the computer on Sundays, I go to the [residence

hall] basement and see if any computers are open ... Because of this, it would be nice to have the library open on Sunday for a couple hours.”

For Pastor Mary, the issue at hand is not primarily about Sunday library hours but about how Calvin College as an insti-tution approaches the discussion of Sabbath:

“We want to listen well to what our students, professors and staff members are saying. But how do we as a college shape a culture in which rest and saying no are seen

as values? Because what’s seen as value is ‘I’m so busy.’ How do we undo that? God didn’t design us to be frantic.”

Some students acknowledge that, regardless of their opinion on the topic, they wouldn’t use the library on Sunday even if it were open.

“The issue of the library be-ing open or closed on Sunday seems to be one where people are more passionate about the fact that the library shouldn’t be closed, and they aren’t nec-essarily interested in using the library on a Sunday,” said sophomore Landon Sterk. “The fact that it isn’t an option is a bigger deal than whether I would use it or not.”

As a way of engaging stu-dent questions and concerns about work-life-rest balance, Pastor Mary says campus min-istries is working on a study for the first six weeks of next semester that focuses on these topics.

“We want to be responsive to students and give them every resource for developing a life that reflects the values that God wants for his people. Whether or not the library is open on Sundays is only a small piece of this discussion.”

but admitted that “the na-ture of a college is that you will get unexpected things. When those challenges pres-ent her and the division, she wil l just lead well around the challenge.”

Even if challenges do arise, staff feel confident that Kok will lead well.

“She’s very insightful and calm in her leadership,” says Witte. “I think she can see a problem and say, ‘we need to solve it; here’s a solution and we can work on this together.’”

“There was no anxiety in the room around the transfer of leadership,” remembers Hoogstra when thinking back to the “passing of the baton,” as she fondly calls it.

Both Witte and Hoogstra were very optimistic and be-lieve Kok will be a valuable staff member in this time of transition. Witte concluded:

“We are very excited to have her stepping in; it’s a great choice for this interim.”

Sabbath discussion extends beyond library hours

Students study in the library in 1976.PHOTO COURTESY HERITAGE HALL

Kok served as the head of Broene. PHOTO COURTESY CALVIN.EDU

The installment comes after former VP Shirley Hoogstra left for top CCCU position

After much debate last year, Sunday library hours still remain unimplemented

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BY REBECCA WHEELERGuest Writer

Last week, more than 1,000 students and staff came out to the Comic Book Carnival in order to enjoy inflatables, music, games and food at Buck Friday’s kickoff event.

The event, which was held in-side this year because of weath-er, was a hit with new students like first-year student Jenna Van Donselaar.

“It’s more fun than I ex-pected,” said Van Donselaar. “I really like the theme because I love superhero movies.”

The weekend prog ram-ming team chose a comic book t he me to coi nc ide w it h the student activities off ice (SAO) show i ngs of “T he Amazing Spiderman 2” and “C a p t a i n A me r ic a : T he Winter Soldier.”

“We wanted to make it so that we and SAO were working collaboratively,” said weekend programming intern Mallory Brouwer.

The theme was well repre-sented by activities, such as Gotham City Dash, a Soaring Wo nd e r Wo m a n b o u nc e house and Thor’s Wrecking H a m me r, b u t fo r m a ny, t h e h i g h l i g h t o f t h e c a r n i v a l t h i s y e a r w a s the Extreme Air trampoline. Ex t r e me A i r a l lowed s t u -dents to “f ly like Superman” as they bounced and attempt-

Buck Fridays hosts 4th annual carnivaled f lips while strapped into a bungee system.

“It’s definitely harder than it looks, but it was so much fun.” said sophomore Maria M c C o y. U p p e r c l a s s m e n like senior Emma Camilleri also enjoyed the new attraction.

“It was crazy!” she said. “Being

that high up was awesome. I used to be in a wheelchair, and I never thought I’d be able to do some-thing like this.”

Situated at the end of orienta-tion season, the carnival attracted many first-year students as well as some returning, such as sopho-more Jessie Hartzman.

“I’m seeing more activities than last year,” she said. “There’s defi-nitely something for everybody.”

Many students also enjoyed the

return of fire spinner Kevin Higby. Higby, who also appeared at last year’s carnival, has been spin-ning for 12 years and performed

his routine of fire breathing and spinning a f laming baton for onlooking Calvin students.

Since the start of weekend programming four years ago, the carnival has been a tradition for Buck Fridays. The four pro-gramming interns--Brouwer, D e s t i n y N o b l e s , A n d r e w

Kol len and Laura Steele- -have been working on the inau-gural event since July.

Nobles stressed the impor-tance of other students pitching in for the carnival.

“This event can’t happen without a lot of collaboration with other people on campus,” she said.

Orientation Leaders, student senate and members of many student organizations pitched in to staff the food booths and the dunk tank.

“The carnival is always a staple…everyone comes to it,” said senior Brett Venhuizen.

“It’s the sense of community. The people who come here just really want to have fun.”

“It brings it all back to the cen-ter of campus,” said Nobles. “I think it gets the entire student body really pumped about being at Calvin and gives them the time to relax after a week and a half of class.”

Noble s ’ f e l low i n t e r n s agreed with her. Steele re-f lected, “It shows what we

can do and what other week-ends are going to be like, and what it’s going to be about this year: fun.”

Rain sent the carnival inside, but some students got wet anyway.

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AND LAURA SHEPPARDCampus News Co-Editors

On Friday, after two sets of interviews and hours of delib-eration, student senate appointed four first-year students to serve as student senators for the year. Anaiah Zainea, Devin Auld, Mall ika David, and Abigai l D e n t o n we r e officially sworn in Monday.

The four sena-tors were chosen from a pool of 15 candidates, all of whom filled out an online appli-cation and col-lected 100 signa-tures from their peers in order to apply.

The following step in the pro-cess was a group i n te r v iew for all the students who applied.

“We got to see how the ap-plicants worked together,” said Jonathan Manni, senate’s vice president of public relations. “From there we selected seven for indiv idual interviews the next day.”

T he uppe rc la ss se nator s stressed the importance of add-ing in first-year students every year. “We want to represent ever y s t udent on campus,” Manni explained.

For Zainea, a Chinese and business major, senate was an op-portunity for service. “I heard it

was a good way to build relation-ships but also to serve the school,” she said.

Auld, a mechanical engineer-ing major, agreed: “I thought it would be a great way to serve, a great way to use my talents to help other people.”

Mallika David, who studies speech pathology, echoes the emphasis on relationships:

“I t ’s a way of be i ng i n -

volved in the Calvin commu-nity, for being in a new place and understanding the place through the people.”

Hailing from India, David also looks to use her experience “being from a different culture” to offer a unique perspective to senate.

Abigail Denton studies English

secondary education and comes to senate with a breadth of ex-perience behind her, including being the president of her high school class.

“I know that God has blessed me with some leadership quali-ties, and I wanted to take a stab at leadership at Calvin to repre-sent a school that I believe in,” said Denton.

Jona Eigege, student body

president, said he was looking for applicants who were passion-ate about place and passionate about service.

“They need to be able to work here; they need to be able to see how their gifts and tal-ents are subservient to the or-ganization [but can be used],” he said.

“We also considered who best fit the roles that we were look-ing for in our teams,” added Manni. “We had already set up two teams on senate, and so it was important for us to find the other four members that would fill the roles on the teams that were empty.”

The first-year senators will join either “Team Maroon” or “Team Gold,” which will focus

separately on spe-cific projects on campus. Their ad-dition puts the to-tal at 10 senators, with five addition-al cabinet mem-bers including VP and President.

“ Pe o p l e a r e r e a d y t o g e t projects of f the ground, people are already excit-ed about the work that we’re doing,” said Manni.

“A lot of the p r o je c t s we’r e do i ng a re ju s t continuing proj-ects,” he contin-ued, pointing to the bike program and campus ren-ova t ion s . “We wanted senators t h a t wou ld b e wi l l ing to star t off running.”

Manni is opti-mistic about the new arrivals, adding: “We see a lot of passion.”

Denton is eager to start her work with senate.

“I just love collaborating with people and making things hap-pen,” she said.

“So f a r i t ’s b e e n a m a z -ing,” expressed David. “I have high hopes.”

Each student who applied for student senate had to collect 100 signatures from their peers.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL HSU

PHOTO COURTESY STUDENT SENATE

This year’s superhero theme complements SAO’s fall movie lineup

Campus News 3ChimesSeptember 19, 2014

forward with assessment and continued investment,” said Britton, ”we would only buy geared bikes.”

The program faces another problem in theft and damage, which both Altena and Britton estimated caused the loss of 10-12 bikes in the program’s three year history. Rent-A-Bike charges

renters a fee of $300 for a lost or stolen bike, with a $50 discount if the student files a police report.

Senate has not yet replaced the stolen bikes, but looks to make an additional $7,000 investment. “Before we do that,” cautions Britton, “we would want to get some feedback.”

As part of next steps for the program, Senate plans to sell old bikes to students and use proceeds to purchase new ones.

Ethan DeVries, head of the sen-ate team assessing the program, aims to ensure the program re-mains in operation and meets the needs of the student population.

“Moving forward, we will sur-vey how students are liking it and how we can make it better,” said DeVries. “Based on their opinions we will see what we can change.”

not yet been released to DVD. Calvin buys the f i lms in a bulk package and uses that collection for multiple campus events through the film arts committee, language depart-ments and other organizations on campus.

Though the SAO has hosted many post-release films, from “Monster’s University” to “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” to “Now You See Me,” many students are particularly excited about the pre-release ones, which are released out of theaters specifically for the college market.

In the upcoming season, students can purchase tickets for any film for $2 at the box office, or they can pay $8 for entry into five movies for the

price of four. K e n H e f f n e r a n d t h e

SAO hope that these t ick-ets buy students more than a night’s entertainment.

“Movies dream up worlds for us,” said Heffner. “You get to go into imaginary plac-es, but you still have to be wide awake.”

BY MADDIE HUGHEYGuest Writer

Last Fr iday, s t udents in Engineering 101 kicked off the semester by firing bottle rockets across commons lawn. Their as-signment required them to build a rock-et capable of f light using nothing but pop bot t les, duct tape and play-dough.

Sophomore Da n ie l W ha r ton stood in the cold with a red caution sign in his hands as he steered pedestrian traf f ic away from t h e r o c k e t s . H e said that so far no one had been hurt despite there be-ing one rocket that went haywire and soared towards the watching crowd.

F i r s t -ye a r e n -gineering student Anna Little warned, “If there’s anyone there, you definitely want to get out of the way.”

Despite the threat of dan-ger, students reported that the bottle rockets were a highlight of the class. As first-year student Audrey Frelier put it, “It was so fun! I mean, you get to shoot things off of launchers.”

Apart from the entertainment aspect, the project also gave

students an opportunity to apply what they learned in class to the real world.

“This project is a first try at getting students to understand the engineering design process,” said professor Gayle Ermer.

“We’re t r y ing to teach a

structured approach to solving problems, so we gave them flow charts that say when you have a new challenge, you’re going to do this, then this, then this,” said Ermer. “And the bottle rockets are a first way they get to test that out.”

Frelier agreed regarding the benefits of the project. “It’s re-a l ly impor tant because you get to work with the materials

Bottle rockets blast offand you get to practice work-ing with other classmates,” she said.

To students, the bottle rocket project was a positive intro-duction to the engineering program. Frelier stated that she chose Calvin’s program

because of its efficiency, with four years be-ing the average time until grad-uation. She also cited statistics indicating the effectiveness of t he prog ram, w i t h 8 8 p e r -cent of Calvin engineering graduates find-ing jobs with-in six months of graduating.

Little empha-sized the per-sonal aspect of the engineering program. “The professors are

great. There’s an awesome com-munity, especially for women engineers. My whole f loor is basically full of engineers, so we all struggle together,” she quipped.

Little added that spending class launching bottle rockets was a nice change in routine. “It’s the only reason it’d be totally okay to get soaking wet on a cold fall day.”

BY HAYLEY COXFeatures Co-Editor

During the first Passport of the summer, Calvin Information T e c h n o l o g y ( C I T ) a n -nounced their participation in Microsoft’s Office 365 Student Advantage program.

“Last year we made the deci-sion as a campus to move fac-ulty and staff to Outlook,” said Michael Mandeville, head of student technology services.

This change in email provider meant that they could offer Office 365 to all students.

Mic rosof t Of f ice 365 of-fers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access, Publisher, Outlook and Lync. The Student Advantage program provides all this to students for free as students of the college, with the exception of OneDrive and Lync.

“We had always been trying to get Office for students,” con-tinued Mandeville. We went to Microsoft. [However], licensing takes forever; Microsoft is not going to just hand it over.”

It took a lot longer than expected for the licensing to come through; it only became available in spring 2014, “but we didn’t want to in-troduce it right before exams,” Mandeville said.

“[The one] big annoyance is the @calvin.edu log in,” explained Mandeville.

Office 365 for students

BY JOHN MUYSKENS AND JACK VAN ALLSBURGPrint Editor and Staff Writer

As Rent-A-Bike enters its third year, student senate plans to re-evaluate the future of the program. Senate hopes to gather student input throughout this

process of re-assessment.The program has already faced

several rounds of re-evaluation. Senate’s bike initiative launched

in 2010 as the Community Bike Project with the aim, according to current bike program direc-tor Joel Altena, of offering an “efficient and effective way to get around campus.” Senate dis-tributed 40 yellow-painted bikes around campus that students were free to ride from place to place on campus.

The failure of the Community Bike Project resulted from bike vandalism. Altena recalls bikes found on top of buildings and in the Sem Pond.

In 2011, Senate rebooted the bike program with 80 bikes pur-chased using an initial invest-ment of $18,000 from the col-

lege. In 2012, senate purchased another seven smal ler bikes for $2,100.

Altena began his position in 2013, which he labels the pro-gram’s “most successful year,” and he aims to replicate. During that f irst year, Altena rented out every working bike he had available, a success he attributes

the program’s success to wider marketing efforts and student demand. “There are a lot of stu-dents who can’t bring their bikes,” observes Altena.

About 20 of the 58 bikes available for rental this semes-ter have not yet been rented. However, Altena and J.B. Britton, associate dean of campus involve-ment and leadership, are opti-mistic. “By the end of the month we will have them all rented,” said Britton.

Britton says senate initially over-estimated demand for fixed-gear bikes and short-term rentals. The high demand for long-term rentals and geared bikes led to senate’s removal of short-term options altogether; the program now offers only semester and year-long rentals. “If we move

Student senate re-assesses bike program

BY KATHLEEN VRIELANDGuest Writer

This summer, superhero and action movies dominated theaters across the country. And as this school year begins, the student activities office (SAO) has also shown a preference for that genre.

Only a month into the school year, the SAO has already played “Divergent,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” with “Edge of Tomorrow” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” yet to come.

Ken Heffner, director of the SAO, said that their office wants people to see movies, so they choose big blockbuster movies like “Spiderman” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

However, the SAO choos-es movies for more than just their popularity. Heffner emphasizes the “discern-ment approach to the popu-lar arts” that’s commonly taught at Calvin, encourag-ing students to watch movies for more than just entertain-ment. Heffner’s vision is that students learn how to view movies for their artistic and moralistic purposes.

“How do we love God and love the world at the same time? We want you to do that and watch the movie,” said Heffner.

S o p h o m o r e L a u r e n Vandezande agrees that the movies Calvin brings in aren’t simply fun to watch. She said about the SAO, “They choose the movies in which more thinking is involved.”

Va nd ez a nd e a d d e d t h a t she appreciates having mov-ies on campus because she may not get a chance to see them otherwise.

Calvin purchases the rights to movies shown on campus, which allows them to show older films as well as ones that have

PHOTO COURTESY ANNA DELPH

FILE PHOTO

Two-dollar movies draw crowds.

Students can’t use their @stu-dents.calvin.edu email to log into the program. Rather, they must use the shortened version typi-cally used for faculty and staff.

“We can’t change it,” continued Mandeville. “It tells Microsoft you’re a member of Calvin. We tried @students, but it didn’t work. It’s not ideal but you only need to do it once when down-loaded. At least it’s not a completely different username.”

T h e f r e e a c c e s s l a s t s until graduation.

“This is our first year doing it so we don’t know exactly how it’ll work,” said Mandeville. “It’s all due to licensing. It will probably switch to trial version.”

Student Advantage is avail-able on mobile devices (including both iPhones and Androids) and up to five computers (Macs and PCs alike).

More detailed information on logistics and use can be found under the “students” section of the CIT homepage.

Mandeville explained how thrilled he was about the new offer and CIT’s ability to work directly with students to grant access.

“I’m super excited about this,” Mandeville said. “From a CIT standpoint, we’re just turning on access and then everything else is Microsoft. No middle man. It may seem like we’re not helping, but it’s actually better.”

SAO films at CalvinCampus seeks to discern superhero movies

Microsoft program now free of cost

The Calvin bike program is in its third year and will be assessed by senate.

Engineering students gain hands-on experience. PHOTO COURTESY CALVIN ENGINEERING

LOCAL NEWS4 “

”Grand Rapids was named Beer City USA this year, and people have come to see this business as a craft, an art.

Jamie Springer, “ArtPrize”

BY KATE GUICHELAARGuest Writer

It’s that time of year again in Grand Rapids; as the weather cools down, the popular com-petition ArtPrize is ramping up. People from all over will be f locking into Grand Rapids to see thousands of ar t sub-missions throughout the city. This year, one entry may leave onlookers salivating.

Jamie Springer, “pinky queen of cakes,” is a local culinary art-ist and roller derby enthusiast operating out of Skywalk Deli on Monroe Avenue. Her hope is to open a storefront in the future. By adding “first artist to enter a culinary piece of art in ArtPrize 2014” to her already extensive list of awards, including 2012 Felt Cupcake Wars Champion, she is optimistic this will happen sometime soon.

“I want people to understand that what I’m doing is art,” said Springer. “I have a passion for it, a respect. Grand Rapids was named Beer City USA this year, and people have come to see this business as a craft, an art. The same goes for what I do. I’ve done everything in the culinary world, from being a dishwasher to pastry chef. People pay a lot of money to

BY AUDREY ENDERSOn-Call Writer

T h e W e s t M i c h i g a n Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) will host its 11th annual Grand River Cleanup this Saturday at 9 a.m. at Sixth Street Park. And after attracting a record 670 volunteers last year, WMEAC expects even more sup-port this year.

Volunteers for the cleanup, which is sponsored by Founders Brewing Company, will be pro-vided with a light breakfast before shuttle buses arrive to take them to the cleanup site. And after the cleanup, Founders will host a celebration for volunteers fea-turing free beer and live music. Students interested in volunteer-ing for the cleanup can sign up through Calvin’s Environmental

Stewardship Coalition.According to WMEAC, over

the past eleven years, volunteers for the event have picked up more than 120,000 pounds of waste from the Grand River bank and the banks of its tributaries. However, according to WMEAC executive director Rachel Hood, trash is not actually the biggest threat to the river.

“It is not just trash that is pol-luting the Grand River,” Hood explained in an interview with The Rapidian. “There is storm-water pollution flowing into our streams that is causing even more damage than the bags of trash. We hope this event will be able to showcase how all the communi-ties around the Grand River can work together every day to keep the Grand River clean.”

Grand Rapids mayor George Heartwell, who plans to volunteer

11th annual Grand River Cleanup

go to culinary school. It’s not just a pastime, and there are so many incredibly talented chefs and bak-ers right here in Grand Rapids.”

Springer was surprised no one

had tried to enter an edible piece of art in the previous five years of ArtPrize:

“I’ve seen magnificent ice sculp-tures in the past years. I guess those are edible, but wouldn’t you rather have sugar?”

Since there is no culinary art

category, she will be entering her creation under the 3-D cat-egory. In order to last the 19-day

competition, the cake itself will not be edible, but “everything visual will be edible,” Springer reassured. “Even the things that won’t look like it. There’s wood,

glass, paper, brass, flowers, all of it made with a variety of sugar sculpting techniques.”

The cake wi l l s tand over four feet tall and will have a cultural theme.

“I wouldn’t necessarily call it a traditional wedding cake, but it’s not totally out-of-the-box either. It won’t be white, but will be along a wedding theme. There will be symbols for things like happiness, good luck and unity within the culture. Some things might seem a little out of place or crazy, especially if you don’t know much about the culture I chose.”

Springer is keeping that spe-cific culture’s identity a secret to maintain some mystery sur-rounding her art.

This piece will be pleasing not only to the eyes but to the taste buds as well. On Thursday, Oct. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m., Monroe Community Church will be host-ing “A Taste of Monroe,” where ArtPrize visitors will be able to enjoy a “taste” at each site and mingle with the artists.

The queen of cakes will be of-fering her samples on this night, and you can like her Facebook page, “Bakery 73/Pinky Queen of Cakes,” to find out when more samples will be handed out.

Springer wants people to “ap-preciate good art and good food, this Art Prize.” She hopes her creation can accomplish that.

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at the cleanup, also hopes to use the cleanup as an oppor-tunity to educate people about other environmental issues in the Grand Rapids area. Heartwell’s involvement in the cleanup effort follows a long history of advocating for en-vironmental issues. He played an important part in enacting a sustainability plan that began in 2011 and will continue to 2015. One year into the plan, 24 percent of its objectives had been completed. Mayor Heartwell told the Rapidian he believes Grand Rapids is on its way to 100 percent sustainable power by the year 2020.

In addition to Heartwell, m a y o r s S t e v e M a a s o f Grandville, Mark Huizenga of Walker and Jack Poll of Wyoming will all be adding their support to the event.

BY ERIN SMITHStaff Writer

Local First is working to pro-mote local businesses, protect the environment and develop mean-ingful relationships in the Grand Rapids area.

“Grand R apids has such an awesome collection of lo-cal businesses that really care about this city and its people,” said Calvin alumna Catherine Kramer. “Local First is a great resource to find out about those businesses and learn more about the important role they serve in our community.”

The organization hopes to improve West Mich igan in many ways, including events, a directory and a number of other resources.

“We lead the development of an economy grounded in lo-cal ownership that meets the basic needs of people, builds local wealth and social capital, functions in harmony with our ecosystem, and encourages joy-ful community,” reads Local First’s website.

Over 700 businesses in West Michigan are members of Local First. Membership is recipro-cal, benef it t ing the business through Local First’s market-

ing and events and benefitting Local First through the business’s commitments to local economy and sustainability.

“A 2008 study of Kent County commissioned by Local First determined that just a 10 percent shift in consumer spending to-ward locally owned businesses would create $140 million in new economic activity, 1,600 new jobs, and $50 million in new wages,” reads the website.

“According to the research f irm Civic Economics, when West M ich iga n consumers choose a locally owned business over a non-local alternative, 73 percent more money stays in the community.”

This weekend, Local First will be hosting one of their big-gest events of the fall, Lakeshore St reet Par ty. Simi lar to the Local First Street Party held in Grand Rapids in June, the La keshore St ree t Pa r t y i n Holland is “a family-friendly celebration of local music, food and beverage,” according to the event website.

Local First will be hosting addit iona l events th rough-out the fal l, as well as their continuous Eat Local Challenge. Mo r e i n fo r m a t io n c a n b e found on the organizat ion’s website, localfirst.com.

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“Ambitious as ‘Destiny’ is, it seems to be working.”

Thomas Brown “Destiny”

BY THOMAS BROWN Guest Writer

“Destiny” is an ambitious game. Activision, its publisher, has admitted to spending $500 million to help develop and publish the game.

This number doesn’t take into account the amount spent by the game’s devel-oper, Bungie. All that money was spent on a brand-new, u nproven f ra nch i se t hat seems to be trying to create a hybrid shooter/massive mul-tiplayer online (MMO) game, something that has never worked on consoles. “Destiny” seems even more ambitious given that Activision and Bungie announced before the game was even on sale that they plan on “Destiny” having a lifespan of at least a decade with new downloadable con-tent and games.

Perhaps the plan is a bit too ambitious, because at first glance “Destiny” seems like a poor MMO. It’s much small-er and more confined than the average MMO, and what little there is seems spread thin. The world looks some-what large and spacious, but is composed only of a collection of open areas connected to each other in a fairly linear fashion by buildings that have only linear corridors. It is deeply frustrating to walk through a building to explore, only to find that every door is locked except the one into the next room. There is only one path, and you must follow it.

Confined though the game is,

what little space it has is filled to bursting with events, enemies, and things to do. You can scarcely walk a hundred feet without finding a new side-quest or some-thing shooting at you. If you want to fill your time, “Destiny” will

do it as fast as you can put in the disk. You can log in, grab your starting jumpship (known in the forums as the Space Corolla because of how common the standard model is) and start out right away in Old Russia, tak-ing on enemies to your heart’s content. Your robot companion,

called a “ghost” and voiced by Peter Dinklage (leading fans to nickname it “DinkleBot”), will keep you appraised of the situation and help you find side-quests to do.

Interwoven into all the cha-

os and conf lict, “Destiny” has the feel of an epic story cen-tered around a hero in which great achievements are nar-rated in an elevated style. The characters speak in poetry and f lowing speech, leaving you to discover for yourself what is meant by, for example, “Every

end crawls from the same pit, rising from the schism to swal-low matter, light and life. It will not be stopped, but here it can be slowed.” This type of speech may be f rustrat ing to some, but it lends an air of weighti-

ness to the game that strongly benefits it. The speech gives you a sense that you serve a higher purpose than just slaying the next enemy that meets you and increases the immersion in the story immensely.

Perhaps what impressed me the most was that “Destiny” keeps

opening up more and more things to do as you play. It gives you more planets, locations, stories, enemies — more of everything.

It isn’t until Level 15 that you start to realize how little of the game you’ve played and how

many locations and missions you haven’t gone to.

At Level 15, the “Crucible,” t he g a me’s mu l t i p l aye r m a t c h m a k i n g , b e c ome s viable; to play before this is a lmost cer ta in suic ide considering the lack of ad-equate weapons and armor available earlier.

I have completely finished the story and am a Level 21 character, but looking through all the missions and things I can do — even just the ones I know about — I only feel like I’ve only played through half the game.

“Destiny” may start out ap-pearing small and constrictive, but by the end, the pendulum swings the other way so that it almost seems to have too much content, if that can be called a problem. Now I feel that I might never get to all “Destiny” has to offer.

Ambitious as “Destiny” is, it seems to be working. Within 24 hours of its launch, it made $500 million.

There is already a strong online community centered

around finding the best gear in the game and speed-running through the different missions.

“Destiny” may have its small flaws, but if the rest of the fran-chise is as full, enjoyable and creative as this first installment, I would bet on this ambitious plan being successful.

Ambitious “Destiny” creates an immersive player experience“Destiny” treats gamers to fast moving entertainment bursting with events and levels to acheive

BY JON HILKEMAStaff Writer

As U2’s career lasts into an-other decade, it starts to resemble more a papacy than a typical tenure in the rock business.

I doubt Bono would shrink from such an honor, given that his band has reigned unopposed as the “world’s biggest rock band” for more than twenty years. For at least that long, it has remained almost rigorously committed to the same religious and aesthetic principles.

The band has deviated from its arena rock template on occasion –– 1997’s “Pop” comes to mind –– but the surprise iTunes release “Songs of Innocence” is no devia-tion. It’s not even a gentle swerve. Despite the guidance of producer Danger Mouse, it has planted itself firmly in the mainstream of U2’s canon. In a rock genre stuffed with successive U2 heirs and imitators, it fails to con-vince this listener that 2014, or any future year, needs a new U2 record.

Though the record is thor-oughly boring, it deserves more than a word of appreciation as well. Producer Danger Mouse’s contributions, including his sig-nature distorted keyboards and sharply defined mixing, make enough of a mark to be noticed.

His work doesn’t change the typical U2 formula. The e c ho i n g g u i t a r “c h i me s”, marching drum beats and titanic

Bono vocals still remain, and the entire album still projects to the cathedral ceiling.

Relationship songs “Song For Someone” and “Every Breaking Wave” are perfect examples of this. Bono’s voice has stayed remarkably sharp and power-ful as he ages, but the effect has worn t h i n . T he ba nd fares much better on “Cedar wood Road,” which, tell-ingly, mines Bono’s memories of h is youth to portray a sense of menace and distress.

Youth and the past are primary themes in “Songs of Innocence,” but, as usual with U2, it is difficult to parse specific events or themes from a tidal wave of universal appeals and vague gestures at ques-tions of faith and global “issues.”

Most of the times the album deviates from the band’s anthemic tem-plate are to quote U2’s influences. “California (There Is No End To Love)” begins with a quota-tion from the Beach Boys, and tributes to Johnny Ramone of the Ramones and Joe Strummer of The Clash also appear. The

latter song, “This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now,” could eas-ily support a case that U2 differs from The Clash primarily in being blander, less rhythmically

arresting and more vague.One lyrical standout is “Sleep

Like a Baby Tonight,” whose music and words skewer religious hypocrisy in the church.

Even there, Bono’s use of screeching falsetto seems de-signed to unsettle but merely

annoys. “Songs of Innocence,” then, is not without enjoyment or technical precision, but those merits get lost in songs that usu-ally fail to come alive. They’re

so plagued by ambivalence and gazing backwards that they fail to justify their own existence except as a continuation of the career of “the world’s biggest rock band.”

The primary virtue and undo-ing of “Songs of Innocence” is its

consistency from the outside in. This digital album’s cov-er is a mostly blank LP cover, perfectly encapsulating its mix of sentimental nostalgia and

digital disposability. No one needs to lis-

ten to this album, and, as if to drive that point home, U2 and Apple have given it away to hundreds of millions of customers.

Li ke U2 desce n-d a nt A r c a d e Fi r e , th is I r i sh band ob -sesses over it s own youth and the loss of innocence that aging entails. What’s miss-ing from both of those bands is forward think-ing or any attempt to overcome the confu-sion and mistiness that plague their music.

Instead of honesty, we get platitudes like “a broken heart is an open heart,” or worse, “free yourself to be yourself.”

T ho u g h i t s p r o -d u c t i o n i s s h a r p a nd i t s m a r k e t i n g campaign i ronclad, “Songs of Innocence”

mostly muddles the issues it addresses, both personal and political, and ends up being just another U2 album.

Fans will no doubt appreciate it and its tributes to the band’s predecessors, but for anyone else this record is utterly inessential.

“Songs of Innocence” is pleasing yet utterly inessential albumU2’s surprise album will be loved by its fanbase but outsiders will be unmoved

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“Destiny” is Bungie’s latest offering in fantasy gaming. The game offers an open-world experience.

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FEATURES6

Cindy KokINTERIM VICE PRESIDENT OF

STUDENT LIFE

Irene KraegelINTERIM DIRECTOR OF BROENE

COUNSELING CENTER

Jane Hendriksma DEAN OF JUDICIAL AFFAIRS

Laura ChampionDIRECTOR OF HEALTH SERVICES William “Bill” Corner

DIRECTOR OF CAMPUS SAFETY

Glenn TriezenbergDIRECTOR OF CAREER

DEVELOPMENT Christina EdmondsonINTERIM DEAN OF MSDO

Bob CrowDEAN OF STUDENT

DEVELOPMENT

Noah and Megan KruisINTERIM DIRECTORS OF SERVICE-

LEARNING CENTER

CAMPUS MINISTRIES

Rev. Dr. Mary HulstCOLLEGE CHAPLAIN

Rev. Nate and Rev. Aminah Bradford

CO-ASSOCIATE CHAPLAINS FOR RESIDENCE LIFE

Rev. Paul RyanCHAPLAIN FOR WORSHIP

Rev. Matt PostmaINTERIM ASSOCIATE

CHAPLAIN

Lisa JousmaMENTORING PROGRAM

COORDINATOR

John WitteDEAN OF RESIDENCE LIFE

JB BrittonASSOCIATE DEAN OF CAMPUS

LEADERSHIP AND INVOLVEMENT

RESIDENT DIRECTORS

RESIDENT ASSISTANTSRESIDENCE HALL EXECUTIVE TEAM

BARNABAS

MULTICULTURAL ACTIVITIES COORDINATORS

CULTURAL DISCERNERS

ACAMDEMIC HEALTH AMBASSADORS

SOCIAL EVENTS TEAM

SUSTAINABILITY COORDINATORS

Kok oversees and supports all of the departments under the umbrella of student life, from campus safety, to health services, to residence life. of departments at Calvin. As the representa-tive for the student life division to cabinet and the board of trustees, Kok also plays a role in the decision-making process for the college as a whole. In her position, Kok hopes to help create a campus community where students learn, f lourish and grow as whole people.

Corner works to ensure that Calvin is a safe and orderly en-vironment, including: educating students and staff about personal safety, reviewing and communi-cating campus-wide safety poli-cies, preparing Calvin to respond to emergency situations and training student campus safety officers to keep Calvin safe.

Hendriksma works with stu-dents to help them persevere through and grow from the dif-ficult experiences in their lives, working specifically with stu-dents who are facing a crisis, either as a consequence of their own actions or due to the actions of others.

Kraegel’s role is a blend of clini-cal and administrative work. This includes managing staff, psy-chiatric services, marketing and daily operations while continuing to hold counseling sessions for groups and individuals.

Dr. Champion develops, implements and evaluates the policies and procedures, strategic plans and care planning for the health center in accordance to the goals and values of Calvin College. Additionally, she pro-vides administrative guidance within the health services depart-ment and collaborates with the student life division on overall planning and budget activities.

Triezenberg manages a staff of career professionals who focus on helping students discover the will of God for their life, both when it comes to choosing a major and selecting a career path. He spends 50 percent of his time managing other staff members and devotes the other 50 percent of his time to working directly with students on career counseling.

Edmonson oversees both the multicultural student develop-ment off ice (MSDO) and in-ternational student develop-ment office (ISDO) as well as the Perkins Fellows Program, Retention Committee, and the CARE Team. She and her team aim to create programs that cre-ate a sense of belonging through intentional support, multicultural programming, anti-racism educa-tion and Christ-centered intercul-tural reconciliation.

Crow’s main duties include helping with the college’s orienta-tion programs, working with both off-campus students and adult-learner students, coordinating the Alliance living-learning com-munity, assisting in divisional key performance indicators and assessment strategies and sup-porting the work of the service-learning center. In the Grand Rapids community, he serves on the city’s “Good Neighbor” com-mittee and is the Calvin College liaison for neighborhood associa-tions, the city of Grand Rapids and the police department.

The Kruis’s play a three-dimen-sional role as directors of the SLC: the first dimension is supporting student leaders within the SLC. The second is equipping faculty to integrate meaningful service-learning experiences into their courses. The third is fostering relationships with community partners and college constituents to provide meaningful commu-nity service and effective learning opportunities for students.

Witte oversees all the on-cam-pus housing operations of the col-lege, which includes everything from hiring resident assistants to training dorm leadership to setting dorm policies. He is also responsible for the living-learning programs on-campus in van Reken and off-campus through Project Neighborhood. His job often requires collaboration with other departments at the col-lege, such as food services and campus ministries.

Britton coordinates a wide range of programs and services, including new student orienta-tion, student organizations, stu-dent senate, weekend program-ming and the student activities office. He works with various student groups and student life professionals to create a dynamic campus culture.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP COORDINATORS

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BY HAYLEY COX AND ERICKA BUITENHUISFeatures Co-Editors

E v e r y y e a r , t h e C a l v i n d o r m s s e e m t o a d d a n e w l e a d e r s h i p position. At this rate, some fear that students not in leadership will soon become the mi-nority in the dorms. So what’s with all the leadership positions? Who runs the show? What does student life actually do? This “student life tree” illustrates the organic — though inverted — chain of command and job description of every titled player in the student life division at Calvin.

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”[W]e are confident in our ability to finish in the top four in the MIAA conference.

Taylor TenHarmsel, “Women’s Soccer”

BY HOLLY ZUIDEMAGuest Writer

After finishing 0-3 for the week, the Calvin women’s soc-cer team “maintains a positive outlook on the remainder of its season,” according to team captain Taylor TenHarmsel.

The week’s f i rst games ended in two consecutive 1-0 losses to Alma and Trine. TenHarmsel describes the matchups as “rough games because the team had a dif-ficult time connecting pass-es, and not everyone was working hard.”

Calvin’s third matchup for the week was against the sec-ond ranked team in the nation, Wheaton College. Last season, Calvin tied Wheaton 2-2 in double overtime.

Before the game, coach Mark Recker stressed play-ing with passion and working collaboratively as a team. To fix some of the team’s fun-damental glitches, he also altered the team’s formation and personnel from the sea-

BY BRIAN EXNERSports Editor

The volleyball team lost two matches at the four-match tour-nament at the Wittenberg Fall Classic this past weekend. This marks the first time they have

lost a match since Oct. 18th dur-ing 2013 National Championship campaign when they lost against Hope in five sets.

Coach Amber Warners had to shuff le the lineup earlier in

the week when freshman setter Jenna Lodewyk went down with an ankle injury during warm-ups at Kalamazoo. In her stead, fresh-man Megan Van Solkema and ju-nior Jamie Kooiman adopted the role temporarily.

“We had to totally change our lineup around — we took our

setters from the back row. We ended up going with a 6-2 and will continue to do that until [Lodewyk] gets healthy again,” coach Warners said.

P l a y i n g n i n t h - r a n k e d

Friday September 19Volleyball vs. Adrian 6:30 PM

Saturday September 20Women’s Soccer at Albion 12:00 PM

Volleyball at Hope 2:00 PM

Men’s Soccer vs. Kalamazoo 2:30 PM

Monday September 22Men’s Golf at MIAA Tournament at Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo CC) 1:00 PM

Tuesday September 23Men’s Soccer vs. Hope 4:00 PM

Wednesday September 24Women’s Golf at MIAA Tournament at St. Mary’s (Blackthorn GC) 1:00 PM

Volleyball at Alma 6:30 PM

Women’s Soccer at Adrian 7:00 PM

Stay tuned for the results of the rivalry games!

son’s previous games. Ca lv i n ma naged to hold

Wheaton to a scoreless first half, yet walked off the field with an-other 1-0 loss.

Although the Knights did not come out victori-ous against Wheaton, they still displayed an impressive per for-mance, holding their opponent scoreless until the 60th minute. Throughout the game, they had a couple of good chances on net and upheld a strong de-fense. With three first years on defense, “the young players proved their ability to contrib-ute to the team by only allowing eight shots on goal,” TenHarmsel remarks.

M a k i n g a d j u s t -ments from the week’s previous games, “everyone on the team played aggressively and did their part,” says TenHarmsel. “This provided encouragement and reassurance for the season’s up-coming games.”

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Although the team’s record currently stands at 1-4-0, “the team remains in good spirits. The remainder of the season is promising as the team will gain experience and continue to build

confidence,” TenHarmsel adds. “At this early point of the sea-

son, the postseason is always up in the air. However, we are confident in our ability to finish in the top four in the MIAA con-ference,” says TenHarmsel.

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Wittenberg and tenth-ranked Washington University with an altered lineup was not part of the plan, but coach Warners didn’t want to use injury as an excuse. She noted that there are parts of the game, such as serving, that do not depend on who is on the court:

“I think we can get bet-ter with th is l ineup. We have to be able to adapt to whatever lineup we put out there; we have to be able to play every par t of the game well.”

Two losses were just one aspec t of th i s weekend. The Knights returned the nex t day of t he tour na-ment to pick up two wins a ga i n s t Oh io Nor t he r n and Otterbein.

With a 2-2 f in ish, the Knights moved into double-digit wins with a record of 11-2 and only dropped to the fourth position on the AVCA coaches poll.

Senior libero Elise Biesboer was named to the all-tourna-ment team, compiling 63 digs along the way.

On the offensive end, ju-nior Maggie Kamp had 62 kills, while sophomore Laura Danhoff and senior Emily Crowe combined for over 50. Kooiman and Van Solkema provided 127 assists over the 14 sets they played in.

C o a c h Wa r n e r s w a s pleased that her team did not give up this weekend and looks back on it as an opportunity to grow:

“When we get [Lodewyk] back , hopef u l ly th i s week, we will be able to get back on track to where we need to be. If we don’t get her back, we will continue improving our current lineup.”

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After three losses, Calvin Women’s soccer wants a winKnights have big wins

BY BRIAN EXNERSports Editor

Four Calvin teams came up with big performances last week-end to improve their records.

Women’s Cross CountryWhen the top three Calvin

runners finished 1-2-3, the prospect of winning the Knight Invite was promising; they didn’t stop there — the last two scoring runners for the Knights finished 8th and 13th. Scoring runners for the Knights were Cassie Vince, Lau ren St rohbeh n, Sarah Danner, Kimby Pen n i ng and Pa ige McGahan. The Knights finished with 27 points, while the second place team finished with 109. Vince finished with a time of 17:50.0 which was 20 seconds ahead of Strohbehn.

Men’s SoccerSenior forward Travis Vegter

scored a hat trick and added two assists on the side as men’s soccer had their scoring boots on in a 7-1 rout of Cleary College. After a 1-1 scoreline at the half, the offense scored six goals and managed to tally nine assists by the end of the game. Vegter added two more goals as Calvin defeated Alma 4-0. They improved their record to 4-2 on the season.

Men’s Cross CountryDefending the home course,

t he men were a l so able to

snatch a victory, finishing with 55 points, 25 points ahead of second place St. Francis of the NAIA. Sophomore Zac Nowicki took second place with a time of 25:28.0. Finishing in the top ten as well were junior Andre Otte and senior Steven Haagsma, who finished ninth and tenth respec-tively. Junior Jeff Meitler and

freshman Andrew Philipose were the last two Knights who scored.

Men’s GolfWith a second place f inish

in the latest MIAA Jamboree at Adrian, the Knights moved into sole possession of second place in the standings. Senior James VanNoord shot a 73 that was good for third place overall, while first-years John VanNoord and Ben VanScoyk followed up with a 74 each. In the overall standings, Calvin leads Trine by two strokes and trails Hope by 10 strokes.

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September 16Women’s Soccer vs. St. Mary’s (Ind.): Calvin 0 St. Mary’s 1Volleyball at St. Mary’s (Ind.): Calvin 3 St. Mary’s 0

September 17Women’s Golf: 7th place - Aquinas Invitational (Scott Lake GC)

Notable results from the past week

science andtechnology

“ ”Data models predict that by the year 2080, more than 50 percent of North American birds studied will lose over 50 percent of their cur-rent climatic range.

Leira Lew “Climate change projected to threaten birds”

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BY JOHN MUYSKENSPrint Editor

Motorola unveiled its f irst smartwatch, the Moto 360, two weeks ago. If you didn’t notice, I don’t blame you. The product announcement was a modest press event sans famous rock band. The Moto 360 didn’t re-ceive nearly as much attention as Apple’s forthcoming entry in the smartwatch race, yet it gives the Apple Watch a run for its money both in terms of hardware and software design, and is avail-able today.

The Moto 360 runs Android Wear, an operat ing system by Google which is tailored for wearables. Rather than attempt-ing to squeeze the functionality of a smartphone OS onto a watch, Wear is an opinionated interface intended to complement rather than replace your smartphone.

The first thing you will see on an Android Wear device is, of course, thetime. Customizable watch faces can be installed in a range of styles from minimal to ornate.

Notifications from your phone show up as a series of “cards” with g lanceable snippets of information. Users can swipe up or down to navigate through cards, or swipe right to clear a card.Wear also takes avantage of Android’s rich notifications, which can feature images and action buttons. Images show up as the background of a card and ac-tion buttons can be accessed by swiping left. Tweets, for instance, can be favorited or retweeted from your watch.

Wear features cards from the

Google Now app, which uses your search history, email, cal-endar and other data stored by Google to predict information that you want to see. In the morn-ing, Google Now displays the day’s weather, driving times to my usual destinations, and events on my calendar.

Apps on your smartphone can also trigger contextual cards on y o u r w a t c h . F o r i n -stance, whi le using Google Maps to navigate, your next turn will show up as a card on your watch. While using the cam-era on your smartphone, your watch wil l show a button to trigger a countdown and take a picture.

Another way to use Wear is through voice commands. S a y i n g “ O K G o o g l e ” o r double-tapping the watch’s dis-play triggers the voice inter-face. Examples of voice com-mands include “Send a text,” “ S e t a t i m e r ” a n d “ Ta k e a no te .” Voice com m a nd s can also be used for text in-put, for instance, responding to a text.

Wea r s ucceed s i n c rea t-i n g a g l a n c e a b l e a n d i n -tuitive user experience. App screens feature condensed in-formation in glanceable chunks. Most interactions are swipes or presses and there are rarely more than two options per screen.

By reacting to the user’s con-text, Wear minimizes necessary interaction. The genius of the wear interface is that I rarely have to interact with it. It does a good job of showing me the informa-tion I want to see when I want to see it.

The Moto 360 is sleek, elegant

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a bezel around the edge of the display. Motorola opted to place this hardware, along with an am-bient light sensor, in a small bezel at the bottom of the display. This

allows the display to flow to the edges of the device, but means that it is not completely circular. This bezel is an imperfection, but it blends well with the metal frame on the black model and I rarely notice it.

The sc reen has excel lent viewing angles and outdoor

visibility, even in direct sunlight. It is not high resolution, but it is meant to be glanced at from a distance. The watch’s battery life is adequate but not extraordinary.

In practice, the Moto 360 lasts me an entire day — averag-ing about 16 hours. The watch charges wirelessly through a provided dock.

The Moto 360 is far f rom perfect, yet it offers an attractive and compelling vision of the future of personal computing.

scientists, who enter data into online databases all over the country. Nationwide projects such as the Christmas Bird Count unite bird fans and help spur the collection of data. The study is an example of citizen-science coopera-tion at its finest.

Af ter three decades of dedicated data collec-tion, scientists were able to determine species’ cli-matic ranges and how they have changed. Next, scientists used scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions recognized globally in the science community to predict the changes in bird species’ climatic suitabil-ity over an 80-year time frame starting in 2000.

“Each bird species is finely tuned to a set of en-vironmental conditions,” said Langham, referring to the specific conditions l ike temperature, pre-c ipitat ion and chang-ing seasons. Scientists used data from projects such as the Christmas Bird Count and the North American Breeding Bird Su r vey to de te r m i ne the climate suitabi l ity for each species. However, when the climate condi-tions of North America cha nge, t he re cou ld be a r i s i ng ques t ion as to whether or not the inhabiting bird species will sur-vive the change in climatic range.

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BY LEIRA LEWGuest Writer

According to a groundbreak-ing National Audubon Society (NAS) study released earlier this month, data models predict that by the year 2080, more than 50 percent of North American birds studied will lose over 50 percent of their current climatic range. Likewise, by 2050, 30 percent of the beloved 588 species studied will lose over 90 percent of their current living and breeding ar-eas, endangering their survival as species.

“It’s an urgent message ... and if nothing is done to abate this threat, many of the bird species we love could disappear forever,” said NAS chief scientist Dr. Gary Langham.For both Michigan bird residents and bird lovers, this could mean a drastic shift to the areas the birds now call home.

Michigan is a par t of the Mississippi Flyway — the popular “highway” running from the for-ests of Ontario all the way down to the swamps of Louisiana. Sixty percent of North American bird species f ly this route during the change of seasons. For Michigan, the study predicts that in the years between 2000 and 2080 about 30 percent of our state’s species will lose the majority of their win-ter climatic range, and a stunning 94 percent are predicted to lose the majority of their summer climatic range.

This study procured thou-sands of observations from vol-unteer data collectors, or citizen

ing to not just their climate but any part of their habitats, such as water bodies, plants and food sources,” said biology pro-

fessor Keith Grasman. “Those factors wi l l a lso respond to cl imate change, each dif fer-

ently and are also important to consider.” Indeed, too often it is easy to glance at a headline and accept the science without

invest igat ing the r igor of a study. So how reputable is this study performed by NAS?

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“As far as the study’s thor-oughness, Audubon is a highly reputable organization,” biol-ogy professor Darren Proppe

comments. “In addition, they’ve also taken advan-tage of a collaborative effort between citizens, scientists, and other orga-nizations. So this study is not just of Audubon, but also of citizen sci-entists.” Proppe brings u p t h e n u m b e r a n d quality of people and or-ganizations involved to support the validity of the study.

“It ’s not surpr ising in one sense,” Proppe added. “It’s fitting with the pas t and c ur rent publications. We have known that bi rds are declining and a lot of species are becoming m o r e s c a r c e . W h a t i s pe rhaps a la r m i ng is the dramat ic num-b e r o f s p e c i e s t h a t the study predicted to decl ine. Over 50 per-ce n t o f s p e c ie s w i l l lose half of their cur-rent range, according to the report. That is ex-tremely high and even higher in some regions.”

The f indings of the study show a grim fu-ture for our birds if the rate of g loba l war m-i n g cont i nu e s . NA S

has also published many in-teract ive graphs and results online to inform citizens.

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Even as we use new tools and techniques, we remind students that effective ministry is ultimately relational. It’s about stu-dents inviting other students to follow Jesus.

Greg Jao, “Intervarsity”

Intervarsity unrecognized at CSUBY KATELYN BOSCH

Religion Editor

InterVarsity, a well-established youth ministry organization, lost recognition at California State University effective the 2014-2015 school year.

This is due to the organiza-tion’s policy that its leaders must agree to a Christian doctrine. The university believes the stance is in offense of the 2010 ruling that a public university can deny rec-ognition to student organizations that are discriminatory. This includes religious organizations.

Although InterVarsity wel-comes all students to be involved, it requires leaders to adhere to Christian doctrines.

InterVarsity began as a move-ment in England in 1877, making its way to Canada in 1928 and to the U.S. in 1938.

While over 40 colleges have questioned the organization

in terms with the new law, the University of California is the largest university to not recognize the organization. This affects InterVarsity’s involvement on 23 campuses around California.

University spokesman Mike U h len kamp sa id they gave InterVarsity a year to change their policies, and they did not comply with the law.

“They can’t ask their leaders or members to sign a statement of faith,” he said. “We have not asked them to leave the campuses. There’s no ban on them. They’re actually welcome on campus. The idea that they would not be recognized is what’s at stake.”

The organization released a statement on Sept. 9, 2014, that outlined a plan of procedure say-ing the organization is “forced to f ind new ways to operate in California.”

The statement outlines the ways that InterVarsity has already been successful and says they will

continue to do their work outside the institutional recognitions.

Greg Jao, InterVarsity’s na-t ional f ield director, said in the Sept. 9 statement that the chal lenge of lack of campus access will “give this generation of students an opportunity to re-invent campus ministry. Even as w e u s e n e w t o o l s a n d techniques, we remind students that effective ministry is ul-timately relational. It’s about s t u d e n t s i n v i t i n g o t h -er students to follow Jesus.” While the organization re-mains hopeful they will be able to continue to do their work, they have lost access to significant re-sources, like university funding, college fairs and other college recruitment avenues.

The organization will rely more heavily on recruitment methods that do not require university outlets, such as social media, mobile banner stands and interactive displays.

BY JONATHAN MANNIStudent Senator

Last October, former student senator Hannah Biggs began compiling a list of area churches for students to use as a sort of “directory.” The project was inspired by a desire to create a unified tool students could use to find local churches they want to visit. The idea came out of an all-senate brainstorming session at the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year.

Biggs developed a form for area churches to submit details about their church regarding mis-sion, service times and identifying keywords. In addition, the survey asked churches where Calvin students could

serve at their location and they provided information for many opportunities that were directed at college students. After collect-ing all of the responses from the 125 churches that were polled, the information was compiled into a

final “find a church“ tool by John Muyskens, the web designer for the project.

The website can be found at churches.calvin.edu and is searchable by church name. In ad-dition, a map enables users to get

a visual sense of where a church is located relative to Calvin or where they live.

* *ed i tor ’s note. T h e r e a r e m a n y churches in Grand Rapids and it can be difficult to know which to go to, what time the service is, or where to go. The C hu rch d i r ec to r y serves as a compila-tion of local church-es and a resou rce for direct ions, ser-vice times, and mis-sion statements for each church.

Update: church directoryStudent Senate reminds Calvin students about last year’s church directory project

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11“ ”[Multi-tasking], like everything in life, simply requires good judgement and communication skills.

Lauren DeHaan, From the Editor

quently text from my comput-er, the device on which I also take notes in class. I can check all three of my email accounts from my phone while I am out to dinner or at a movie.

It is not just me. I see many peers do the same. I almost don’t notice when my friends check their phones anymore. If you google “millennials and technology,” you will find over nine million results. These re-sults will argue for and against the use of technology for com-munication. They will praise and criticize millennials for their fast-paced, “multi-task-ing” ways.

I have read many of these articles and opinions and can appreciate both sides. There are times I feel as though I can sense someone’s annoy-ance with my attention to something else. There are other times when I feel like my promptness in responding to someone, regardless of what-ever else I am doing, is very much appreciated.

In short, I’m caught at a crossroads. I don’t want to feel as though I have to choose between productivity and the appreciation of a friend or a professor. Maybe I don’t have to. In “ignoring” the person in front of me, I am valuing the other person with whom I am communicating. Perhaps, just like everything in life, this sim-ply requires good judgement and communication skills.

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From the Editor

Calvin’s dating problem BY KATE PARSONS

Campus News Co-Editor

If you ask someone how many people they’ve dated at Calvin, many will answer with how many boyfriends or girlfriends they’ve had. We seem to jump, here, all at once from friendship into deep commitment. And though my facebook feed and social group attests to the number of happy engagements and marriages that produces, it leaves a lot of single people lost.

I think it’s safe to say that at Calvin we have a prob-lem with dating. Almost everybody wants it, but no one seems to know how to turn those “cam-pus crushes” into some-thing more.

And no one seems to know what dating means either. There’s a reason that the “defining the relationship” talk, or DTR, has become a sort of Christian ver-sion of second base with couples. Famously, it’s the talk where two individuals who are acting like a couple actually admit that they are one.

The scenario plays out like this: two people meet on Calvin’s small campus and feel a sort of attrac-tion towards each other. They return to their separate groups of friends and begin analyzing every word of every conversa-tion they’ve ever had together.

The two begin to spend more and more time together, waiting months in a sort of undefined purgatory of “just friends.” Only after they’ve vetted each other through weeks or months of “friendship” do they commit to dating each other, a commitment, it seems, that has an astonish-ingly high chance of leading to a marriage.

We should all know that a first date isn’t a marriage proposal. But people seem to be so con-cerned with not dating anyone that they couldn’t potentially marry that they lose sight of the

“potentially.” With marriage even on 18- and 19-year-olds’ ho-rizons, Calvin becomes a terrible place to date.

We all know the couple who were high school sweethearts and have always known they were right for each other. But most of us don’t have any idea what we’re looking for. The pseudo-courtship principles preached from many youth groups don’t translate well to a campus where we’re far from the guidance of parents. And so we’re left without a way to navigate the terrifying

waters of showing interest and asking someone out.

What happens is that the stakes become far too high. The fear of rejection keeps many silent, while the fear of a relationship they may not be ready for dissuades others. When a date means an invita-tion to “be dating,” it’s far too weighty a thing to ask of a casual acquaintance or crush. And that, I think, robs us of the chance to learn what we like and don’t like, who we’re attracted to and who we definitely aren’t.

This also makes break-ups more painful. I can’t speak for

all of Calvin, but I don’t know anyone casually dating more than one person at a time. This means that instead of a field of casual inter-ests slowly progress-ing into one serious relationship, students are living lives of serial

monogamy – each subsequent relationship with its own, some-times brief and painful, lifespan.

Some Calvin students are ready for marriage. Others of us don’t feel that way yet. But I don’t think this dating culture is help-ing either of those groups.

Fortunately, I think there’s an easy f ix to this. Friends, classmates: ask each other out on dates. Learn to take no as an answer, and learn to move on. But friends and classmates: when you’re asked, why not say yes?

BY JEREMY SMITHGuest Writer

Most Calvin students would agree that dating rituals on our campus are a bit odd. Our strange practices of floor dates, pearling and gaining a ring before spring fail to correlate to practices out-side of our bubble. So what’s hap-pening in the dating scene for the broader culture? For over 7.5 mil-lion users between the ages of 18 and 24, Tinder is making the cut. This smartphone app designed to match you up with a potential love-interest is gaining popular-ity, and Calvin students should seriously consider Tinder and its role in today’s dating culture.

First, Tinder makes short work of the pressure usually accompa-nied in dating culture on campus. The simple process of swiping right for a “like” and left for a “nope” changes the game of ex-pressing interest. As you come across a potential interest’s ar-ray of photos, the first question you’d ask probably isn’t “will I marry her?” Instead you might acknowledge an interesting ex-pression in her photos. The ini-tial aim when matching up with someone on Tinder is to spark a connection and not trying to fig-ure out if your first trip to B-Quiv together means more than a trip to B-Quiv.

This is the moment where we address the elephant in the room and discuss the physical attrac-tion so deeply woven into Tinder. Clearly, Tinder acknowledges the component of physical attraction in romantic connections and I

wouldn’t dare deny this stigma; without a doubt, Tinder points to-ward the survival of the sexy, the witty and the dog-loving. Though this is true, it is also true that what appeals as attractive or funny are qualities that lie on a spectrum. Swiping on Tinder allows space for someone’s photos, interests and bio to inf luence interest. Essentially, Tinder highlights preference.

And with preference, inevita-bly, the choice of “like” or “nope” comes up. but the unique nature of Tinder’s swipe-and-match feature disseminates the risk of initial rejection. According to Dr. Brene Brown, professor of research at Houston Graduate College of Social Work, “vulnerability,” in any setting, “is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” But rejection in mo-ments of vulnerability can seem like anything but a catalyst for positivity and creativity. Tinder, by design, curbs the risk of receiv-ing direct rejection. There isn’t a question if the person finds you interesting or attractive, you’ve already both swiped right when you match up and the door is open to be yourself.

So, in the end, we return to face the culture of dating here at Calvin. In another place on the spectrum there’s a culture of dating in Tinder. Maybe you find yourself comfortable with the status quo, but maybe you’re curi-ous; you’re ready to try something new. Curb the curiosity by con-sidering the principles of Tinder in your own life. And if you’re curious if I’m on Tinder, you’ll just have to swipe and find out.

BY JOSIAH MAJETICHGuest Writer

Johnny’s Cafe is great place to relax after a long day of classes, grab a bite to eat, socialize with friends, or enlist for service in the world’s largest military. Johnny’s Cafe is a designated area for orga-nizations to set up booths in order to inform students about oppor-tunities outside and within the Calvin community. A wide variety of organiza-tions set up their booths throughout the school year in Johnny’s Cafe—Camp Rogers, off-campus semes-ters, Student Senate, and two Wednesdays ago, the U.S. Army. While the na-ture of these informational booths are casual and not representative of Calvin College, the presence of Camp Roger’s recruiters carries with it a much dif-ferent connotation than the presence of U.S. Army recruiters. The result of involvement with Camp Rogers is most likely camping trips, marsh-mallows, or maybe even a canoe trip. I can guarantee you, the logi-cal result of involvement with the world’s largest military, currently involved in nearly 150 countries worldwide, is by no means analo-gous to Camp Rogers.

Of course this comparison is laughable and by no means the basis for an argument in itself, it draws attention to an important concern nonetheless: how are we to respond to the presence of the American Empire on our cam-pus? The U.S. Army recruiters’ booth promises direction, pur-pose, and financial stability. The brochures display smiling faces against background of American flags and soaring eagles. I believe this narrative is one that needs to be confronted. In allowing the U.S. military into the causal context of Johnny’s Cafe, we have already legitimatized the

Empire’s narrative. What is really on the logical

end of involvement with the U.S. military? I am not going to at tempt to outline a com-prehensive argument for non-involvement or discuss where I believe Christian allegiances lie. For those of you interested in exploring these themes in more depth, I suggest reading John Howard Yoder, Gregory Boyd, or

Nicholas Wolterstorff. My purpose in writing this ar-

ticle is to ask us to consider what should be our proper response to

In my advanced oral rhet-oric class, a student boldly stood up in front of the class and listed his two pet peeves: dirty bathrooms and “being ignored.”

I have been aware, as of late, that I am guilty of ignoring people sometimes — actually, let’s make that frequently. I frequently choose to work on more than one thing at once. I keep talking on the phone while I order my beverage at Starbucks. I send out some emails during a class lecture. I text my cousin while talking to a friend.

It seems the more responsi-bility I take on, the more things I try to do at once. It is not that I am not interested in the per-son, discussion or presentation before me. It isn’t even that I am not paying attention. In fact, I oftentimes find that I have paid more attention to a lecture when I am also work-ing on something else. I think it has to do with the fact that I am keeping my mind and my hands active instead of dozing off or getting lost in thought.

While this is a confession in itself, I will now tell you my true confession: I do not feel the need to apologize for working on two things at once. I find I am more productive this way. I feel better about tackling everything on my plate when I am working on them continually.

Every year, I find it a bit easier to accomplish all this “multi-tasking.” I now fre-

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the presence of U.S. Army recruit-ers on campus. Is this an institu-tion currently human flourishing and shalom? Is the long history of U.S. military abuses in some way legitimized by allowing such a group onto our campus? Do the deaths of 121, 227 civilians during the Iraq War find a place in the narrative these recruiters are presenting? What would the response of Jesus Christ—a man

who ruled by towel, not sword—to the presence of the U.S. Army within the walls of a Christian institution?

I believe the presence of U.S. Army recruiters is not a neutral, benign occurrence, but rather an indicator that as a commu-nity we have been seduced by an American national-ist narrative at the price of loving justice for all people. Loving justice is as theologian Karl Barth calls it, “entry into a con-flict…revolt or rebellion”. In the never-ending epoch

of Empire, loving justice enters us into conflict with the Empires narratives constantly—even oc-casionally in Johnny’s Cafe.

Discernment on Tinder

Johnny’s not a place for army recruitment

“The U.S. Army recruiters’ booth promises direction, purpose, and fi-

nancial stability... I believe this narra-tive is one that needs to be confronted. In allowing the U.S. military into the casual context of Johnny’s Café, we

have already legitamized the Empire’s narrative.”

“We should all know that a first date isn’t a marriage proposal. With marriage even on 18- and 19 year- olds’ horizons, Calvin

becomes a terrible place to date

12 Photo essay September 19, 2014

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