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CREATING LOMAAPPAREL/ p. 13

Q&A WITHETHAN

HAMILTON/ p. 3

Today the polls will open or stu-dents to vote on two major changesthat ASB wants to make or the up-coming year. Last Monday, current

ASB Vice President Lauren Harrisand ASB Vice President-elect HaleyCourtney led the orum which ex-plained the proposed changes. There

were 32 people in attendance.Weve discovered through the

years, especially with student con-gress, which was created about nine

years ago, that the organization is notas ecient as it could be, said Har-ris. We also want to ll in the missinggaps in the constitution.

There are two main changes ASB

wants to make. One o them is creat-

ing a student senate, which will makeup 16 elected students, our rom eachclass. These students will be respon-sible or connecting with students and,in an eort to establish checks andbalances, the student congress will beproviding accountability to the ASBpersonnel to make sure that their job

is getting done.Other than keeping the ASB mem-bers accountable or doing their job,they will also have the responsibil-ity o doing something called Cam-pus Voice Outreach (CVO). Everymonth, senate members will go outon campus to seek student opinionsand create initiatives that will refectstudents opinions, which will then bepresented to administrators.

We will only be sending out theseocial proposals once all o the re-

search has been done and once the

Diversity Forum discussesresults o campus-wide survey

amy williamsstaff writer

[cont. DIVERSITY FORUM, p. 2]

guimel sibingostaff writer

>> TOTAL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS GRADUATING:577

> GRADUATED FALL 2012: 64

> GRADUATING SPRING 2013: 411

> GRADUATING SUMMER 2013: 102

>> TOTAL GRADUATE STUDENTS GRADUATING:260

>> MOST COMMON STRENGTH OF THE SENIOR CLA SS: ADAPTABILITY

>> LEAST COMMON STRENGTHS OF THE SENIOR CLASS: SELF

ASSURANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE (TIE)

>> TOP MAJORS: NURSING (65), GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY (42), EXERCISE

SCIENCE (37), LIBERAL ST UDIES (34) BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (30)

CEDAR CREEK FALLS

BOSTON MARATHON

Senior Brad Hess describes his

experience rom the fnish line

CLASS OF 2013#seniorstats

NOTABLE SURVEY RESULTS

Positive Cross-RacialInteraction:

> PLNU undergraduates had a signif-

cantly higher level o positive interaction

with diverse peers than other participat-

ing institutions.

> 71% o PLNU undergradu-

ates repeatedly had mean-

ingul and honest discussions

about racial/ethnic relations

outside o class with students

rom a racial/ethnic group other

than their own.

Perceptions of InstitutionalCommitment to Diversity:

> PLNU undergraduates had a signif-

cantly lower perception o the campus

commitment to diversity than other par-

ticipating institutions.

See more results on page 2[cont. ASB CHANGES, p. 2]

Voting or ASB constitutionalchanges begins today

Popular hiking destination Cedar Creek Falls back open or summer

In East County San Diego, a pop-

ular hiking destination or swimmersand cli jumpers is now reopened tothe public ater a two-year closure.Park ocials say the public is onceagain welcome to access Cedar CreekFalls, but should be aware o some newstrictly enorced rules.

Outdoor enthusiasts are now re-

quired to pay $6 or a one-day permitavailable only by reservation. Ocialssay that only 75 permits will be admin-istered each day in order to preventovercrowding. The public is allowed

to swim in the creek; however, the sur-rounding clis will remain closed.

Climbing, jumping and diving arestrictly prohibited, as well as alcoholand campres. Park rangers and sher-is deputies plan to strictly enorcethe new rules by citing, ning or ar-

resting those in violation.

PLNU student Morgan Wall vis-ited the alls beore the closure. It wasawesomeme and a ew o my riends

went rock climbing along the side othe alls, which was really un at rst,

but then got really scary, she said.Students visiting the alls today wouldnot be able to share in this experiencedue to the new rules. However, Wallstill recommends checking it out. It'sdenitely worth it, she said.

NBC San Diego reports that the

U.S. Forest Service closed the area

gerrit hoeksstaff writer

[cont. CEDAR CREEK FALLS, p. 2]

photo by ian crane. info reported by christina kilpatrick.

Our rst concernwas for my mom.

We couldnt help but

believe that she was

either injured or

dead but hoped that

this wasnt true.See his ull refection on page 2

At a university where one racialgroup outnumbers the rest with 70percent o total students, a survey thatstudies diversity is bound to provide

some interesting responses.Last week, a orum was held todiscuss the results o the responses toa research project and survey aboutPLNUs campus climate, or the recog-nition o dierences and perceptionso diversity within the campus.

Hosted by PLNUs DiversityCouncil, the orum was held in orderto analyze the research conducted bythe Diversity Council to students,aculty and sta and put together byPLNUs Director o Institutional Re-

search Brent Goodman.The ocus o the orum was also

to bring to attention how diversitycan best t into the curriculum and toeducation at PLNU.

Diversity is just a symptomowhat the real world is like, and in or-der to eectively and realistically pre-pare students or the world they haveto have some baseline knowledge o

what the world is really made o, saidJerey Carr, chie diversity ocer.The world is not homogenous, itsnot just one group o people [and] itsa disservice to our students to not havediversity and inclusion [as] part o ourcurricular and co-curricular programshere, because that is the world thatthey will be a part o.

In response to this concern, theDiversity Council seeks to eect cer-tain changes on the administrativelevel. According to a summary o the

survey results posted on the

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My mother has been runningmarathons my whole lie, and it wasno surprise when she ound out shehad qualied or the Boston race thatI would be attending to support her.

When we arrived in Boston, the

city was bustling with excitement andanticipation or Mondays event. Ev-

eryone in the city was sporting theblue and yellow colors o the Boston

Athletic Association, which puts onthis historic race. At every place we

went the people oered their supportto my mom and any other runner that

was near. The city was excited and sowere my amily and I.

On the morning o Monday, April15, being the only one with a smartphone, I was in charge o trackingmy mom via GPS and relaying thatinormation to my aunt and Dad,

who were spaced out along the 26.2milelong course. My mom gener-

ally nishes her marathons around 3hours and 50 minutes, so I planned tobe at the nish line around 1:30 p.m.

When I got there it was socrowded I had to walk a ew blocksbeore I could even break throughto see the runners. I began to travelalong the racecourse until I thoughtI reached the perect place to see her.

I was standing along a row o

fags across rom the grandstandsthat held VIP seating, just in ront

o the nish line. I remember think-

ing how lucky I was to squeeze a spotalong the ence since there were somany people behind me.

As I waited or the next 30 min-utes, I took a ew pictures o the crowd,and then I began to get antsy since my

mom was taking longer than usual andit was uncomortably chilly. I receiveda call rom my dad, saying that whenhe saw my mom earlier in the race she

was running slow and was going to bea little longer.

We hadnt eaten all day, so he

invited me down the street to graba quick lunch while we waited. I wasreluctant to give up my good view-ing position on the starting line butheaded out anyway. The restaurant

was only two blocks away but it tookabout 15 minutes to get there be-cause o the crowd.

As I was just outside o the res-taurant I heard and elt a giant noise,

like a jet that had just broken thesound barrier. I turned around to see

a cloud o white smoke driting about50 eet in the air.

Since no one immediately react-ed I initially assumed that it was parto the planned ceremony or PatriotsDay, which coincided with the mara-thon. Then the next explosion wento and panic set in.

The glass in the buildings aroundme had shattered, police were run-ning with guns drawn and people

were screaming. It all occurred soast that my mind didnt want to be-

lieve this could actually be happen-ing in real lie.

Ater reality set in I made eyecontact with my dad, who was at a ta-ble in the restaurant, and he gave methe what was that sign by shrug-ging his shoulders with a concernedlook on his ace. I immediately beganto wave my hands and yelled, weneed to go now! through the door.Oddly my dad still paid the bill, butran outside to meet me.

Our rst concern was or mymom. We couldnt help but believe

that she was either injured or dead

but hoped that this wasnt true. Mydad and I needed to nd her as soonas possible and, choked by ear and

worry, we began to run into an alleythat paralleled the nish line.

Three women covered in blood

were walking slowly by us, and twopolicemen were carrying anotherwoman who had her oot severed.My dad decided that it was best tond a landline since no cell phonecalls were going through, so westopped inside a nail salon and asked

to use their phone.We could only reach my uncle,

who was here in Caliornia, but hetold us that he was tracking my momon the GPS app and that she was stillmoving. The eeling o relie thatcame over me was unimaginable.

Ater nding out the cross streetsthat she was at I immediately took oin a ull sprint to meet up with her,

while my dad stayed behind on thephone to gure out what was going on.

She was about a mile and a halaway and had no idea that my dad orI were still alive. I wish I could havetimed mysel because that was theastest mile Ive ever run in my lie.

When I reached her she was crying,cramped and cold but her relie at see-ing me took all o that away. My momand I then walked back through thecrowd to where my dad was and we

were nally reunited as a amily.The rest o the day was spent

traversing through the sea o po-

lice, ambulances and military Hum-vees that occupied the streets. All

o the bridges out o the city wereclosed, the taxi services were closedand the roads were shut down. At 8p.m. we nally made it back to ourhotel and began to watch the newso what had unolded.

Ater having time to refect onhow blessed I was to have moved romthe exact spot the bomb went o justminutes beorehand, had my whole

amily avoid injury and returned saeto our hotel, I can only thank God.

CEDAR CREEK FALLS cont. rom p. 1

PLNU student portal, the goalis to increase institutional com-mitment to diversity.

One o the ways to do so is toincorporate a diversity/inclusion

component to FYE 100, Core Val-ues and Convocation courses re-quired by all reshmen and transers.

Point Loma Nazarene Univer-sity has a great academic program,but part o our academic excellence

will always have to revolve aroundinclusive excellence, Carr said. Itneeds to revolve around the idea thateveryone is included and is done soin an intentional manner.

Issues covered by the survey

ranged rom curricular inclusiveness(whether school curriculum refects

diversity) to interpersonal validation.Some o the positive conclusions

written in the survey summary onthe portal are that PLNU is a hos-pitable campus where students eel a

high sense o belonging, communityand interpersonal validation. Thereis no signicant dierence betweenthis sense in whites and nonwhites,although nonwhites eel less o asense o belonging and communitythan do whites.

On the negative side, however,students are unhappy with lack o di-

versity, do not see a commitment byaculty and administration and dontperceive curricular and co-curricu-

lar inclusiveness.The issue o interpretation o

data was also discussed at the orum.Because o the small sample size, thepercentages or dissatisaction withdiversity were seemingly small, giv-ing the idea that diversity is not a

pressing issue. Proessor o sociologyand Director o the Center or Jus-tice and Reconciliation James Gatesexpanded on this.

The most dicult part aboutreading all this data is interpreting

what it means, Gates said. Whenwe say 13 percent o nonwhite ac-ulty and sta responded [that they]requently or occasionally elt dis-criminated against compared to twopercent o white respondents[that

is] six times what white respondentsdid, so its more dramatic than what

it seems likeespecially with a verysmall number o aculty o colorthat should be a cause or concern.

Twenty-one students, aculty andsta attended the orum. Senior Lau-

rita Torres attended the orum becauseshe has always been interested in andpassionate about diversity issues.

Diversity is part o the eldthat were going to go into no mat-ter where we are, Torres said. Thereality is that diversity is growing, soi I can be part o that change or thatstart o awareness or my campus, Idlove to take part o that.

Jasmine Maleche, a junior, saidshe didnt want to come to the orum

at rst.I didnt see the rst hal o re-

searchI [didnt] know i I shouldgo, she said. Will they say thingsthat I wont be able to understand be-cause I didnt gobut it was actuallyreally interesting.

Although hesitant at rst, Malechesaid she recognizes the role o diversityin the PLNU community.

I dont think that you cangrow personally, spiritually andintellectually without dierentperspectives rom dierent peoplein general, she said. I you havea homogenous group you wontgrow. We need more perspectivesrom dierent people, rom dier-ent backgrounds, dierent ideolo-

gies. I think we need that to growand really challenge ourselves.

DIVERSITY FORUM cont. rom p. 1

administrators give the go-ahead,because at that point, it wont be taken

as a surprise to them, said Courtney.The other proposed change is orthe school to make a separate undcalled the Fair Trade Fund. Thisund will request three dollars rom

the student body each semester togo toward air trade purchases. Fairtrade includes items that consumerspurchase every day, like coee, thatcome rom people who are being

paid or their labor instead o orcedslave labor.

According to Andrew Schalin,a student congress representative,i the proposal passes, PLNU willbe the rst school in the nation tohave a air trade und. All o these

proposals need a two-thirds vote inorder to pass.

Voting on these proposals startstoday ater chapel and will be openuntil Wednesday.

back in July 2011 in response

to the death o 16-year-old JosephMeram. While hiking, Meramslipped and ell down a steep cli,landing in the water below.

Brian Harris, who works or the

U.S. Forest Service, says these newrules are not only in response to theatalities. Due to social media, Ce-dar Creek Falls experienced a spikein popularity. Harris says there was

also a spike in the number o rescues

needed at the creek.Some people are not so excitedabout the new changes. Je Ed-

wards, a cli jumping expert whohas jumped at Cedar Creek Falls,

says, This is all just a way to makemoney. Outdoor adventures are mypassion; charging Americans accessto land our taxes pay or is illegal.In act, the 14th Amendment to the

U.S. Constitution orbids it. Both

Harris and Edwards expect therewill be plenty o visitors who violatethe new rules. Some will even be in-dividuals willully breaking the new"law" as an act o deance. Edwards

advice is, Dont push your luck. Itwill be $75 every time you jump.

ASB CHANGES cont. rom p. 1

On April 15, two bombs exploded

near the nish line o the Boston Mara-

thon, killing three people and injuring

more than 140, according to the Associ-

ated Press.

PLNU senior Brad Hess was in

Boston to watch his mother, KathrynHess, run the race and was standing in

the very spot where the rst bomb ex-

ploded just minute s beore it happened.

He and his ather had moved two blocks

down the road to have lunch when the

rst bomb went o.

His mom was part icipa ting in

her 35th marathon and was at mile

25.9 out o 26.2 when the explo-

si on we nt o .

Senior Brad Hess took this photo rom the storeront area at the nish line othe Boston Marathon where a bomb exploded minutes later. Hess moved two

blocks over to eat lunch beore the bomb exploded.

photo courtesy of brad hess

photo courtesy of brad hess

Senior Brad Hess stands with mother Kathryn Hess at an exposition in Bos-ton. The Boston Marathon was his mothers 35th marathon.

Senior Brad Hess refects on his experience at the nishline o the Boston Marathon

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Ethan Hamilton is in his ourth

year acting as the Athletic Director or

PLNU. Having worked previously as

the head coach or mens basketball, he

now oversees the schools 14 athletic pro-

grams and helped institute PLNUs new

place in the NCAA Division II and the

Pacic West Conerence.

The Point Weekly sat down with

Hamilton to look back and refect on

PLNUs rst year in the PacWest.

Point Weekly: How did the

various sports teams do this year?

Ethan Hamilton: I think we didwell. It was the rst year under a newconerence, and so we are kind o

learning and transitioning and g-uring those things out. A lot o our

teams are really young, and so weknew that there would be some highmoments and low moments thatcome with that. But I am pretty en-couraged and excited or the uture.

PW: What was your overall im-

pression o the new conerence?

EH: Its denitely dierent,

youre just getting to know dier-ent people, dierent schools. A ew

o the schools we had been with in aprevious conerence that was Azu-sa Pacic, Cal-Baptist and FresnoPacic but getting to know every-thing rom personnel, to coaches, tonew locations that we were visitingSome o that was just new and part othe transition, but I think next yearitll be that much smoother.

PW: How well do you think

PLNU sports perormed as a

whole this year?

EH: I think we did okay. I thinkI always want us to be excellent, butagain I kind o revert back to [that]

we had some teams that either hadinjury issues or had people that weresitting out this year. So Im again re-ally excited or next year and eventhe year ater that just because we

have some teams that are younger.

PW: What are some o thehighlights rom this year?

EH: One [thing that] wouldprobably be a cool highlight, some-thing that just triggers in my mind,is when we were playing Dixie StateUniversity or volleyball, and I wentto that game I have been kind ointerested to see, because now weare aliated in a conerence with

schools that arent all Christianschools. And so it was neat ater a

match that we played at Dixie State,we huddled up with them and prayedater the match.

PW: What adjustments do you

think need to be made or next year?

EH: I dont really think there aremajor adjustments. I think its morein terms o weve kind o gotten our

eet wet and now know what we needto do. Theres been some things that

weve done behind the scenes or in-ternally to try to give programs evenmore opportunities to be successul.I think something that were alwayslooking at long term is just improve-ment o acilities and improvemento the experience here or the stu-dent-athletes. And so always on ourradar is, can we get a weight roomor tness center? those dier-

ent things that would obviously bebenecial to the whole campus and

every student. But those are thingsthat would have a direct eect on ourathletic programs as well.

PW: What is your outlook or

next year?

EH: I think were going [to] be

better in every single sport that wehave moving orward. I think everyteams going to have a lot o return-ers. I think every teams going to ex-perience what we did last year. Werenot going to have any new coaches we had two or three coaches that

were new this past year and so Ithink were kind o building on someo the momentum rom this year.

PW: Are there any specic im-

provements that you think need

to be made?

EH: I cant think o any Imean, I think theres always littlethings that we can better. I mean,I think weve made really goodstrides in the classroom [and] aca-demically. I think were proud o

who our student-athletes represent,and I think were getting good tsin terms o the mission o the uni-

versity and I think thats continuingto get better. I mean, theres always

things that you can do better at. Ithink we are doing a better job at

just our whole department beingon the same page in developingsystems and processes that will besuccessul and benecial and try tobe a smooth well-oiled machine as

we moved orward in the uture.

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Q&A with PLNU Athletic Director Ethan Hamiltonjonathan soc h

staff writer

PLNU Athletic Director Ethan Hamilton (shown here coaching the mens basketball team in 2011) has overseen the schools move into

the NCAA Division II and the Pacic West Conerence. Hamilton says he is excited or the uture prospects o PLNUs sports teams,

because many o this years squads were younger or troubled with injury.

photo courtesy of plnu sports information

Two PLNU alumni are l aunch-ing Bob Jones Universitys rst in-tercollegiate cross country team.

Landon and Katie Bright, ormercross country and track athletes atPLNU, will be co-coaching to pre-pare the new BJU team or com-petition in the National ChristianCollegiate Athletic Association(NCCAA) this all.

Both possess the knowledgeand ability to get the program othe ground, said Bruins Sports In-ormation Director Jonny Gamet.

A Christian liberal arts univer-sity in South Carolina, BJU was

attracted to more than just sportsknowledge when they hired theBrights. Gamet says they havebrought a spiritual component tothe game plan, not just ocusingon wins and losses, but on men-toring athletes to grow in Christ.

BJU launched its rst intercol-legiate sports teams just last year(2012-2013), so not only the crosscountry team, but the entire inter-collegiate sports program at BJU is

a novelty. As o now, the Brights areonly set to coach cross country, but

based on how the team perorms

this all, Gamet says the Brightsmay consider orming a track andeld team as well.

While enrolled at PLNU,Landon made our NAIA (National

Association o Intercoll egiate Ath-letics) National Championshipappearances, was an NAIA All-

American or both cross countryand track and was named the Most

Valuable Athlete in both sports h issenior year. Katie was also an ac-complished athlete and student,being named a our-year NAIA andGolden State Scholar Athlete dur-ing her college career at PLNU.

All that time spent at PLNUnot only allowed the Brights to

compete in intercollegiate athlet-ics, but was also an integral part otheir personal development.

Point Loma really shaped whatI wanted to do with my lie and howI wanted to do it, Landon said.

PLNUs cross country coach,Jerry Arvin, still speaks ondlyo the pair, saying that Katie andLandon were both spiritual andathletic leaders on the team, notonly coaching athletics, but coach-

ing lie with Christ. And whileArvin celebrates their accompli sh-

ments, he is really the reason orthe Brights new coaching position.

Being coached by CoachArvi n helped me see how much

passion he had or the sport, saidLandon. That was something I

wanted as w ell. Landing this opportune job in

such a short time since he graduat-ed in 2009, Landon seems to know

the secret to success. But ratherthan keeping it a secret, his advice

or college students, whether ath-letes or not, is to keep a long-term

vision o what you want to achieve.Youll go as ar as you want to go, so

just be patient.

Former Sea Lions lead new collegiate cross country teamamy cyr

staff writer

Alumni Landon and Katie Bright (Browni ng) ran cross country and track and eld during their time at PLNU. The couple recentl y

accepted jobs as the head cross country coaches at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. This all will be the rst season BJU elds a

cross country team, and the Brights will be in charge o helping to grow the program.

photo courtesy of katie bright

...I think were

proud of whoour student-

athletes rep-

resent, and I

think were get-

ting good ts

in terms of the

mission of theuniversity...

sports

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FOR MORE SCORES AND STATS, CHECK OUT: WWW.PLNUSEALIONS.COM

WOMENS TENNIS BASEBALLMENS TENNIS4/15 W 8-1

vs. Vanguard University4/19 W 9-2, W 8-4 (DH)

@ Holy Names University4/15 L 4-5

vs. Vanguard University

4/18 L 0-5vs. Fresno Pacifc

4/19 W 5-0vs. Hawaii-Hilo

WOMENS GOLF4/15-16 5th place

PacWest Championships4/20 L 2-5

vs. BYU-Hawaii4/18 L 0-5

vs. Grand CanyonUniversity

4/19 L 0-5vs. Academy o Art

4/20 W 5-3vs. Dominican University

4/20 W 8-6, W 8-4 (DH)@ Holy Names University

Monday, April 22, 20134 | sports

PLNU reliever Garret Levsen (pictured above) was named PacWest Conerence PItcher o the Week or the week o April8-14. The junior picked up three saves during the Sea Lions our-game sweep o Fresno Pacic University, including

closing out a no-hitter. Ater sophomore pitcher Sam Sadler pitched 6.2 hitless innings, Levsen came on with the basesloaded and recorded the nal out. Levsen currently leads the PacWest with nine saves on the season.

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The PLNU tennis teams traveled to Hawaii last week or their rst ever PacWest Championship Tournament. Ater allingto Fresno Pacic in the rst round, the men swept Hawaii-Hilo beore alling to BYU-Hawaii 2-5 in the th-place match.The women lost to Grand Canyon and then Academy o Art in their rst two matches, but they rallied to beat Dominican

5-3 and capture seventh place.

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TENNIS TEAMS COMPETE IN HAWAII

Jakes Take: When its

more than just a game

As a runner, I make it a pointto ollow every major race or meeteach year. Its not uncommon or

me to ollow along with the lateston Twitter, read updates on Flo-Track (a websi te or track nerds li keme) or even watch the live videoeed online.

And sure enough, I was watch-ing live last Monday when Ethio-

pias Lelisa Desisa outkicked Mi-cah Kogo o Kenya to take rstin the 117th Boston Marathon. Ialso watched the next ew nishersbeore packing up my belongingsand meeting up with my girlriendbeore heading to class. It was sup-posed to be like any other race.

I was in class when the newso the bombings rst broke. From

that point on, I wasnt even reallypaying attention to the discussion

(sorry, Dr. Greer!). Just as I had aew hours earlier in the day, I satthere with Twitter open, lookingat results or #bostonmarathon.Except instead o displaying racetimes or a leaderboard, my screen

was showing me a body count.Why target the Boston Mara-

thon? Surely it wasnt or the cli-entele; marathon runners are aboutas tough as they come. These werea bunch o people who ran 26.2miles just or un. In act, reports

suraced ater the bombings o run-ners nishing the race and heading

straight to a blood bank to donateblood. Makes me eel pretty pathet-ic or complaining about ab work-outs at track practice.

And i there was any city thatwould remain strong, it was Boston.Beore the Bruins game Wednesdaynight, the rst major sporting eventollowing the bombings, the entire

sold-out arena belted out The Star-Spangled Banner at the top o theirlungs. Absolutely chill-inducing.

In the wake o the attack, itseemed like the entire country im-mediately banded together in sup-port o Boston. Everywhere I looked

online, I saw #prayorBoston. Pro-essional baseball, basketball andhockey games around the country

were held or a moment o silence.Even the hated New York Yan-

kees showed their support. Duringthe third inning o their Tuesdaynight game against the ArizonaDiamondbacks, the Yankees playedNeil Diamonds Sweet Caro-

line a staple at Boston Red Soxgames over the PA system.

Every once in a while somethinghappens on the court, the eld orthe course that transcends sports.

And it i s in those moments that themost beautiul acets o sports teamwork, dedication and the un-

wavering will to persevere shinethrough. As last Mondays tragedyin Boston showed us, everyone isultimately on the same team.

jacob rothsports editor

SEA LIONS SCOREBOARD

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The PLNU baseball team hasquite the reputation around campus,and it is not a good one.

Ive had someone say to me be-ore, Are there any Christians on

the baseball team? said senior An-nie Miller. I thought that was prettyindicative o the overall reputation othe players. The reputation is bad;a lot o my riends will sco whena players name or the team is men-tioned. Guys hate them and think

theyre cocky tools and girls thinktheyre also just players.

With such a bad reputation, beinga baseball player at PLNU can be di-cult. Having to combat reputationsgiven to them by players beore themhas been a tough thing or seniorpitchers Garret Levsen and JustinLawrence, but something they whole-heartedly agree needs to be done.

To be a baseball player here isspecial and at the same time pretty

hard, said Lawrence. We have areputation that not many o us evenulll, but since its a reputation thathas been given to us by teams beoreus, you have to deal with it and proveto people that youre actually a genu-ine human being.

Other students have also beenmaking an eort to support thebaseball team more and ll the voidbetween baseball players and the stu-dent body.

One thing is the Green Sea

coming out and supporting us now,said Levsen, so theyre trying to ll

the gap between [PLNU] and PointLoma baseball.Students have not always wanted

to go out and support a group o menknown as douchebags.

Head Coach Joe Schaeer believesthe group o guys he has on the cur-rent team are the urthest thing romtheir reputation.

I think this group o guys is one

o the best groups that weve had in avery long time in terms o characterand in terms o what they do in theclassroom, said Schaeer. Our teamGPA was over 3.0 last semester, whichis signicant progress rom previous

years. I think academically were con-

tinuing to improve, and what we doo the eld seems like its improving.So where does such a reputation

stem rom i the men on the team noware not those people? Past players mis-

takes have now negatively aected thelives o men who had no part in thingslike hazing and constant drinking.

Miller is a student who disagreeswith the teams reputation. As some-one who has personally gotten toknow the men on the team, she seesthem as people not just baseballplayers and does not understandhow people who have never talked tothem can make any judgment about

who they are.Im not really sure why they have

gotten that reputation, because mosto the people who think a certain wayabout them have never even spoken tothem, said Miller.

She believes there is a dierence inhow students approach their thoughts

about the baseball team compared toany other team on campus.Lets say there is a jerk on the

gol team or the soccer team or thebasketball team ... does everyone goaround calling the entire gol team,the entire soccer team or the entire

basketball team a bunch o douches?No, said Miller. They individualizethat person and say hes not a verynice guy. I dont understand why theentire baseball team always has to beconsidered just one bad unit by thepopulation o our school. Its super

judgmental and totally wrong.So why be a baseball player here?

It seems there may be no reason why

a player should desire to come toPLNU and stick himsel into a repu-

tation that does not t him as a per-son. But Schaeer believes the men onhis team are here or more than justthe desire to play baseball.

I think that we have guys on ourteam now that i we told them theycouldnt play baseball here anymorethey would still be here and they

would go to school and graduate,said Schaeer. Thats our goal in therecruiting process, to nd guys that

want to be here or reasons other thanto play baseball.

Lawrence decided to attendPLNU to ulll his mothers dream;

the baseball program was just agreat bonus.My mom was the main reason

why I came here, said Lawrence.She always wanted me to come here.People who are in my amily havegraduated rom here so that was oneo the main reasons, kind o keep alegacy going on in my amily and rep-resent us on the baseball eld.

Levsen says it was a balance be-tween both wanting to be at PLNUand wanting to play specically orthis baseball program.

I wanted to come here becausewere a winning team, and I wanteverybody to work hard and hope-

ully get back to that at some point,said Levsen.Academics can be a tough area

or student-athletes, as time is limitedand motivation to do anything ater

practice and games is hard to nd.The 2010 NCAA GOALS study

on the student-athlete experienceound that 63 percent o baseballplayers chose to attend a school basedon academics and not athletics. Base-ball players spend an average o 32hours on academics per week, and 52percent said they would preer moretime in college or academics.

According to Schaeer, PLNU

baseball players in the past have notalways been the most stellar students

in the classroom. He eels the currentteam has changed that reputation

immensely and that they are work-ing harder than ever beore to provethemselves academically.

I think academically we justhave more driven student-athletesnow than weve had in the past, saidSchaeer. I think theyre motivatedon their own merits ... theyre doingtheir job.

The reputation o the douchebagbaseball player is common acrossthe board, not only at PLNU. Evenhigh school baseball teams have this.

Levsens team in high school had sucha reputation, but he says it was easier

there because all the other teams werethere to support them.In high school we had that repu-

tation, but it wasnt too bad becausemy high school was small so every-body got to know everybody, saidLevsen. The biggest dierence romhigh school to here was that all theathletes were really close together,so our ootball team, our basketball

team, each season we would go toevery game and support everybody.

Whereas here its kind o separated;you have your sport and you go thereand no one else rom another team

will go support you.Lawrence played at Mesa Com-

munity College prior to coming toPLNU and did not experience such areputation there.

As ar as the reputation aroundschool, you were just a baseball play-

er; it wasnt negative or positive. Wewere good riends there, we becamegood riends, but at the same timehere its a dierent environment. Ithink that just comes as a product othe school; its a very small school.

Miller believes students should shunthe common reputation o baseball play-ers and get to know them on their own.

As with anything in lie, youcant knock it unless you try it, said

Miller. I dont think that the play-ers should have to try to change their

reputations. The proo is in the pud-ding. People should talk to them and

see i they really are as mean as theirreputation says they are. The ault lies

with judgmental students, becausepeople are really just going to believe

what they want to believe, and therewill always be someone that hates youeven i you do everything right.

Even with all the negativity sur-rounding the baseball program atPLNU, both Lawrence and Levsenagree that playing or this school hashad a lasting impact on their lives.

Id say Ive just learned a lot rom

other people, said Lawrence. Noteven just rom baseball but other teams,

what its like to be a good person, to be agood Christian and just to live your lieor others, not or yoursel.

The impact o his ellow team-mates has been huge in Levsens lieand he eels he has learned a greatdeal rom them in being both a betterperson and a better baseball player.

Just do your thing and be your-sel, said Levsen. And learn rom

other players too because other play-ers are doing the same thing you do,

playing baseball, and taking advicerom them every once in a while al-

ways helps. Coaches can coach you toa certain point but at the same time

your peers are some o the ones thatcan teach you the most.

Lawrence and Levsen graduate inMay, but they hope to see the reputa-tion o the baseball program continueto improve ater they are gone andhave passed knowledge on to youngerplayers to make sure that happens.

Anyone you meet, be yoursel

with them, dont give them the coldshoulder, said Levsen. Just try to

meet as many people as you can, be-ing nice to them and showing themthat youre a person, not a baseballplayer. We want everybody to comeout and support us and support ourteam and the biggest thing, especially

with new players coming in, is makingsure they stay out o trouble.

Unraveling the myth o the douchebag baseball playergreta wall

staff writer

Senior Justin Lawrence (center) is a pitcher on PLNUs baseball team. He says he believes the baseball teams reputation is based on

speculation. He has ound it challenging at times to be a baseball player at PLNU, because he is orced to constantly prove that he does

not meet the description that many PLNU students assume ts every player on the team.

photo courtesy of plnu sports information

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

TYLER GARKOW

BASEBALL

At the PacWest ConerenceChampionships in El Cerrito,

Cali., Stockton led the Sea Lions to

a th-place team nish. She shot a

161 (82-79) in two rounds to nish

ourth individually.

The sophomore rom Rocklin,

Cali., picked up rst-team All-

PacWest honors or her stellar play

in the Sea Lions rst conerence

tournament as members o the

PacWest.

SAMANTHA STOCKTON

WOMENS GOLF

Garkow pitched ve strong

innings Friday in the opening gameo the Sea Lions 4-0 sweep at Holy

Names University. The senior gave

up just two runs while allowing only

one walk and striking out nine.

With the win, Garkow, a native

o Glendora, Cali., improved to 7-3

on the season. Ater sweeping Holy

Names, the Sea Lions improved to

25-20 overall and 21-11 in the

PacWest.

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I could talk about the rst dayo NSO, about how my parents andI had to skip a session so I could

cry my heart out in the Subwayparking lot. College was as terriy-ing or me as moving alone to thesub-Saharan nomad village where Igrew up would be or you. I could

talk about how hard the nursingprogram was. How it made mequestion everything I had ever be-lieved about mysel and humanityand God.

I could talk about how Cauca-sian this school is, including my-sel, and how I yearned to hearsome dierent accents being spo-ken. I could talk about the ashionand the body image issues and theunspoken rules that everyone elseseemed to know instinctively. I

could talk about getting/missingout on your ring by spring.

But I guess that sounds kind obitter. I am not bitter toward mycollege experience. I look back nowand my heart says, It was good. Iactually remember something rom

The Road Less Traveled, romPsych 101. I think the last chaptersays something about grace beingthe one reason that all our livesare not steadily disintegrating into

chaos right now. OK, so maybe I

dont remember a whole lot romthat book. But its unny to me howsomething I read and orgot abouthas come back to be a dening

word in my lie.

I know we talk about grace a lotat a Christian University. Probablysecond only to the word Com-munity (ironically Im terrible atliving out both o those words).

We say grace and peace to each

other. We thank God or his grace.We have riends whose names areGrace. We listen to songs by U2called Grace. But my our yearshere have taught me the true mean-ing o the word as ar as actuallyliving it out with mysel and other

people.Grace means understandingthat people at PLNU look and act acertain way, and thats OK. Its alsoOK i you are the one who looks

and acts dierently. Grace meanslooking everyone in the eye and ac-knowledging them even when theymight respond to you like you haveour heads and are painted green.Grace means getting burritos withpeople who have opposite politicalopinions as you. Grace does notmean you have to be a happy per-son all the time. But it does meanthat when others are not happyand you are, you get to give thema little hope, make them eel a little

more like a real person, regardlesso who they are.

And grace is or me as much asit is or other people. I am grateulto God or using PLNU to teachme what grace is. It is looking ev-eryones aults, including my own,right in the ace and saying, Well,God, it is what it is. Heres my lie.

Make it what you want.

Thank you or your grace.

Thank you or Jesus.

There is a box sitting in the cor-ner o my dorm room right now.So ar there are three books and adisorganized binder ull o paperspiled inside. Over the coming days I

have a lot to cram in boxes: clothes,books, pictures. My lie these past

our years.I didnt want to come to PLNU.

I begged my Dad to take me homeat the end o NSO. I was araid. Ididnt want something new. I didnt

want to ace the unknown. Ater therst week o school I reluctantly un-packed my boxes and convinced my-sel that I would leave in December.God disagreed.

Four years later I think about theways that God has provided such arich and meaningul experience or

me. I think about the reshman I wasand the senior I am. I think about how

ast these past our years have goneeven when it seems like the nightso studying have dragged on. I thinkabout the pleasure Ive had serving asstudent body president. I think about

the mistakes Ive made and the graceIve been shown.

I get stressed just looking at thestu in my dorm that I need to pack.

The tex tbooks, my collection o Camugs, that horrible uton. But Immore stressed about what I cantpack. How do I pack the riendships,

the challenges and the rewards oour years in a cardboard cube?

How do I neatly old the conversa-tions that happen long ater the Caempties? Where do I stu sunrisesrom the top o Brown, all-nightroad trips to the Grand Canyon andlibrary dance parties?

Im terried o these past ouryears collecting dust in some box bur-ied deep in the attic o lie.

But i college has taught me any-thing it is that ear o the unknownis the most oolish o ears. God hasgiven us a box ull o experiences,

memories, heartache, joy and, mosto all, hope. Hope that whatever the

Sunday ater graduation brings, Godis already there waiting to add to ourstories. This is not the nal chapternor the most exciting one, and thereis so much more God wants to add to

the box o our lives.I eel like I am ready to graduate.

Not because I am sick o this place,but because I think that this place hasgiven me what it needed to. There willalways be more to learn, more oppor-tunities to practice our aith and moretime to grow in community. And that

doesnt have to all happen here. Theimportant thing is that we take our

passion or learning, our desire to beaithul and our pursuit o community

wherever we go.So when you pack the past our

years o your lie ater graduation andblow past that stop sign on Lomalandor the last time, remember that onebox ull o things that shouldnt t anddont belong in a box. And whereverthe next journey starts, whether in

Mission Beach or Malaysia, unpackthat box rst. Its ull o the things thathave brought you to where you are to-

day because o this place.

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QUOTE OF THE WEEKIt does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and orget to live.

- Proessor Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone(Movie)

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Senior refections: looking back on theirdays at PLNU

ian mckaycontributor

karisa hamstaff writer

What cant be packed in a box, with Ian McKay

Finding grace in potential chaos, with Karisa Ham

PHOTO COURTESY OF KARISA HAM

[Grace] doesmean that when

others are not

happy and you

are, you get to

give them a little

hope, make them

feel a little more

like a real per-son, regardless of

who they are.

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Not many people at PLNUmight know Eric Maliepaard. As oneo the shuttle drivers working or the

school, he is responsible or drivingthe on-campus shuttle in the earlymornings on Tuesdays and Thurs-days. He can be recognized by hisshort beard, black jacket and ever-

present gol-style cap.Maliepaard has been working at

PLNU or more than ve years andlives near SDSU with his wie andtwo daughters. He says that he rstgot a job driving the shuttle whenhis riends ather asked i he couldtake over or the previous driver.He had originally driven buses orhis church beore he was asked tocome to PLNU. He decided to takethe job, but had originally told theschool that he could only stay or a

ew years. He didnt intend to con-tinue the job or long.

I have known Eric or ouryears, said ellow shuttle driver andsenior student Stuart Ballew.

He is one o the unniest, mostinteresting, but... the most gener-ous person I know, hands down,said Ballew.

According to Ballew, its a gen-erosity that is always present withEric. Its never to try and take care

o himsel. He always gets it when

it comes to people taking care oeach other in really realistic ways,Ballew said.

I just ell in love with the atmo-sphere at the school, said Maliepaard.We all help each other out and it is a

very healthy work environment.

Although his early hours couldpose a problem, he claims that theyare not too dicult since he enjoysdriving or the students.

The places I take them are

un as well, he said. Maliepaardis oten responsible or driving thestudents to special or o-campuslocations in addition to driving theon-campus shuttle.

I would pay to go to the places Iget paid to go to, he said. My avor-ite is when I take a class and get to tagalong and learn about places.

Although his hours driving orthe school are long, he stills enjoyshis work.

I am used to being on the road,

he said in regard to driving studentsto and rom events. So when I gosomewhere ar, although I miss myamily, I always enjoy exploring newtowns and usually get plenty o timeto do so. I just have to be on time topick up the group.

Despite the act that he spendsso much time driving, Maliepaardloves working on bicycles. He likesto build and restore bicycles and mo-torcycles as well as mopeds, scooters

and all things in between.

Ater he ni shes wi th his bikes,he oten sells them. Although hehas not sold many recently, he doeshope to nish the prototypes ortwo bikes that he is currently work-ing on. For the past 10 years he hasbeen working on a small motorbike

prototype that he hopes to eventu-ally mass-produce.According to Ballew, working

on bikes is something he and Ericdo together.

We make bikes all the time.Sometimes hell give me a bike thathe has and Ill help him sell it, or vice

versa, Ballew said.As a [hobby and ministry] I

work with lm, so the plan is to plugthe bikes into some kind o docu-mentary, said Maliepaard.

He hopes to und his ministrylms by selling his bikes, though hesometimes donates them.

One o the lms that Maliepaardhelped work on was a documentary

called The Road Trip U.S.A. Thelm, a documentary about three men

who travel across the U.S. and teachabout Christ, is available on iTunes.

You guys are amazing. Theplaces I get blessed to take you areun, he says. I thank God or my

job and all o you.

Volare is not a restaurant to im-press your date with, its not a placeto go i you like being waited onhand and oot and its most denitelynot somewhere you want to go i you

want a romantic, Italian atmosphere.

Oh, and did I mention that its locat-ed directly next to a sex shop?

However, i you are in the moodor a steaming hot plate o homecooking and comort or a greatprice, Volare is the place or you.

Pomodoro Ristorante Italiano ismy avorite Italian restaurant in San

Diego that Ive tried so ar. Fabulous

ood, air pricing, heaping portionsand wonderul service (requently

rom attractive Italian males, ladies).Ater making plans to go to Pomo-doro and then learning that it closedat the time we were planning on go-ing, we jumped on Yelp and ound

Volare, which had great reviews and

that marvelous, single $ next to it.Volares atmosphere is not wel-coming. Besides being located nextto Barnett Ave. Adult Superstore, theinside looks as i it hasnt been up-dated since opening in 1978. As theour o us walked in, we awkwardly

stood in the entry or several minutesbeore peeking around the cornerand realizing that nobody was goingto seat us anytime soon.

Ater seating ourselves at a tablewith a green tablecloth and paperplace mats, we were given menus.Several minutes later we ordered wa-ters, which took at least ve minutesto make it to our table.

We were served by an Italianwoman speaking broken English,

who I assumed was the Ma in thisMa-and-Pop kind o joint. We or-

dered our ood and about 10 minuteslater it was delivered to us.

I asked or the gnocchi (little po-tato pillows) and holy ravioli it wasdelicious. For $8.50 it was an enor-mous portion, which pleased my

growling stomach. Gnocchi is hit ormiss at most restaurants; its an ex-tremely temperamental dish to make,as even the humidity can aect theoutcome o the dumplings. Volaresgnocchi was perectly cooked and thesauce was rich and favorul.

My group o three riends or-dered the eggplant parmesan ($6.25),a hal plate o cheese ravioli ($4.95)and ettuccine alredo with chicken($8.25). I tried the eggplant parme-san and thought it was delicious;however, my riend who ordered itand requently makes it hersel didntthink it was anything too special. Ialso tried the alredo and thought

it was wonderul. The chicken wasfavorul and quality meat and the

sauce was creamy, but not so muchto where it overpowered the favors.

Both the eggplant parmesan and thealredo came with enough or let-overs. We also ordered garlic bread(which or some reason was noton the bill), and although it tastedgood, it wasnt quality whatsoever. It

looked like a plain ol toasted sesamehot dog bun lathered in butter andgarlic.

Our entire meal came out to$30.45. Not bad or our entrees andan appetizer.

Although I truly appreciate

Volares delicious home cooked ood,cheap prices and Ma-and-Pop vibe,I dont plan on returning. Betweenthe lack o service and unwelcom-ing atmosphere, I wasnt impressed. I

will be sticking to Pomodoro or thedays when I need a delicious, Italiancarbohydrate x.

3528 Barnett Ave

San Diego, CA 92110

A Taste o San Diego: Volare Italian reviewkaylie pullinstaff writer

Volare Italian Breakdown:

Food: 4/5

Atmosphere: 1/5

Service: 2/5

Cost: 5/5

Total: 12/20 Go if youre in the

area.

Taste of

San Diego

PHOTO COURTESY OF KAYLIE PULLIN

Whos Who at PLNU: Hats o to shuttledriver Eric Maliepaard

jonathan soc hstaff writer

PHOTO COURTESY OF JONATHAN SOCH

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Meteor shower, which Mallory saysmight be one o the biggest o our lie-time

Persedis showerYearly meteor shower

Hey riends. A&E editor, @the_icrane hereagain. This time Im not calling you out or all o

your unsightly ashion crimes, so ret not and sittight in your Uggs and leggings. Always one othe most highly anticipated parts o the summeris summer concerts and tours. Nothing eels moresummery than sweaty thighs in denim cut-os andringe booties that are too warm but oh-so-cute the summer concert uniorm. Following are mytop ve recommendations or must-see tours thissummer. The cool thing about tours is that theystop all across the country, so be sure to check out

the dates near you!

I anyone didnt think this would be my numero

uno, they didnt see me screeching like a child inthe ARC during Beys Superbowl perormance.Beyonces The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour iskicking o in Los Angeles on June 28 and ending

with a three-day hometown concert in BrooklynAugust 3-5. Queen Bey will be making 23 stops

in between and most dates are already sold out, soyou should all be logging yourselves onto Craig-slist and haggling some tickets, like, now. Photoso Beyonces costumes or the tour are already sur-acing and girrrrrrrl, please is all I could think

when looking through slideshows. This tour willbe quality.

This tour is guaranteed to be #glittercity and

highlight party anthems Die Young, Cmonand other hits rom Warrior, Ke$has newestalbum, along with TiK ToK, Your Love is myDrug and Blow, songs that made us (me?) allin love with Ke$ha. Ke$ha will be touring withPitbull and I am low-key skeptical about this, asPitbull honestly scares me a little bit, but there isnothing getting between me and K$ this summer(except or the hundreds o people who can aordbetter seats than I can), so Ill brave the Bull. #ke-shasparty2k13 kicks o on May 23 in Boston andthe party dont stop till June 28 in Tampa, FL,according to keshasparty.com, where tickets can

be purchased. Nothing is more summer than glit-ter, ringe and Ke$ha, so get yoursel to one o thistours stops.

This one may be a shocker to see ater Bey andKe$ha, but I went through a phase. Classic rockgroup Fleetwood Mac will be reuniting or a 48-stop tour this summer or the rst time since 2009.

The tour has already begun, with the rst stop tak-

ing place in Columbus, Ohio on April 4, and willend in Sacramento on July 6. All o the Rumors-

era members will be reuniting, with the exceptiono Christine McVie, so one can expect to see Ste-

vie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie andMick Fleetwood take the stage. All #scandalsand-drama aside, this will be a signicant show or aband that has been around since the 1960s.

Ater a three-year hiatus brought on byhealth issues, John Mayer will be going on tour

with Phill ip Phillips this summer. Mayer s bluesybeats are sure to foat through the thick, humidair and into the hearts o each and every love-

struck concert attendee. #yesplease. Born andRaised World Tour, Mayers summer 2013 tour,

named ater his 2012 album o the same name,will be making over 40 stops starting in Tusca-loosa, AL, on April 25. Born and Raised will go

well into the all, with the l ast stop t aking placeon October 5 at the Hollywood Bowl.

With the wild success o Heartthrob, this

sister-duos newest album, a tour is denitely inline. While Tegan and Sara will not be headlining atour o their own, the duo will be touring with un.,the group responsible or huge hits Some Nightsand We Are Young. Some Nights, un.s U.S.tour named ater their 2012 album o the samename, begins July 9 in Cleveland, Ohio and ends

on September 26 in Charlottesville, VA. SomeNights will be stopping at 25 cities in between.Featuring Tegan and Saras emotional classics Callit O and The Con to hits rom Heartthrob,including singles Closer and Drove Me Wild,

this tour will be sure to make you weep, laugh andremember the togetherness that we share in emo-tional experiences. It may be cheating to recom-mend a tour because o the openers, but I dontcare. un. is wonderul and would be number six onmy list, anyway. This is a pairing not to miss.

Whether you are seeing these shows or others,be sure to get out, wear your cutest summer outtand get hot and sweaty with other humans enjoy-ing the same music as you. Dance your heart out,

weep your eyes out or just stand there and absorbthe music. I dont know your lie but just get out

there and experience it. The community o con-certs is unbeatable and these are just a ew summertours not to miss. I look orward to reading vicioustweets about how out o touch I am with music.

#NotBotheredDotCom, @the_icrane

Youre a college student,which means, i youre likeme, you keep saying you

wish you had more time toread or un. Well, summeris almost here, and yourerunning out o excuses. But

where to start? In case youhavent noticed, there are a

lot o book s out there, manyo them quite good (or so

Ive been told; I havent beenreading much or un thesedays either). Here are somepicks rom people who readthings or a living on what

you should take with you onyour car trip or that ham-mock in the shade.

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt VonnegutThe Selected Poetry o Yehuda Amichai

NW by Zadie SmithThe Year o the Flood by Margaret At-

wood

Walking on Water by MadeleineLEngele

The Abolition o Man by C.S. Lewis

Sandman by Neil GaimanLes Desorientes by Amin MaalouPerdido Street Station by China Miville

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Few things get me more excited than a sum-mer at the movies. And, so ar, this summer isshaping up to be better than most. No matter

your preerred genre, there really does seem tobe something or everyone at the cinema. So grab

your buttery, overpriced popcorn and join us or aew o our top picks in dierent genres.Top pick, superhero movies Beore you

see it: Superman, Superman II, WatchmenThis summer will see new and exciting

entries in the Iron Man, Wolverine andKick-Ass series. But, without a doubt, themovie with the most riding on it is the artsy-looking Superman origin story Man o Steel.

There hasnt been a good Superman movie aslong as Ive been alive, so to call this lm an-ticipated would be an understatement. Fans arecautiously optimistic, as the lm is directed by

Zack Snyder, who has a reputation or visuallystunning yet narratively unsatisying lmmak-

ing (see: 300, Watchmen, Sucker Punch).But the act that Christopher Nolan, directoro the acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy, is pen-ning the screenplay along with his collaboratorDavid S. Goyer should propel Man o Steelback into hotly anticipated territory. Oh, anddid I mention Russell Crowe is playing Jor-Eland Amy Adams is playing Lois Lane?

Top pick, Romance/literary adaptation

Beore you see it: The Great Gatsby (book),Romeo + Juliet (directed by Baz Luhrmann)

Also known as the shiny new adaptation othe only book in high school lit class you ac-tually enjoyed, director Baz Luhrmanns lmlooks to be garish, overproduced and complete-

ly awesome (not unlike his previous adaptation,Romeo + Juliet). Featuring an inectious

modern hip-hop soundtrack and perect cast-ing all-around (how could Leonardo DiCaprionot play Gatsby?), the lm is ambitious to saythe least. I you dont know the basic story bynow, how did you make it to college? Read thebook now! I youre not excited or this movie,

you ocially dont have a pulse. However, iGatsby isnt enough to satisy your hunger ormodern literary adaptations, theres also Joss

Whedons (director o The Avengers) moreintimate version o Shakespeares Much Ado

About Nothing, shot in just 12 days.

Top pick, sci- Beore you see it: District 9,Planet o the Apes, Dark City, 12 Monkeys

This is the very denition o a stacked cat-egory. Some might call it the summer o sci-.

Theres the new installment in J.J. Abrams StarTrek reboot, Will Smith in Ater Earth andGuillermo Del Toros much-ballyhooed Pacic

Rim. But my pick has to be Elysium. In NeillBlomkamps stunning directorial debut District

9, the director proved adept at combining po-tent social commentary with solid genre thrills.Look or a similar ormula here as humanitycirca-2154 is divided between the wealthy, wholive on a man-made space station where all dis-eases can be cured, and the rest o humanity, whoare struggling to survive on this scummy placecalled Earth. Cue Matt Damon, who accepts amission to break into the space station in hopeso bringing equality to humanity. I youve seenDistrict 9, you know youre already lookingorward to this one.

Top pick, comedy Beore you see it:anything starring the multiple unny actorsin this lm

Recommending comedies is dicult or me,because not only do I not watch very many, but

there are just so many being made these days. Re-gardless, the concept behind This is the Endis genius: a bunch o hilarious comedians arehanging out at a party when they are aced withthe impending apocalypse. That may sound likea thin plot, but with the likes o James Franco,

Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride andJonah Hill around, what else to you really need?I you like your apocalypse-themed comediesmore British, theres The Worlds End starringSimon Pegg and Nick Frost. Other anticipatedcomedies include The Hangover III, TheHeat and the animated adventures Monsters

University and Despicable Me 2. I you likewatching terrible comedies or some reason, youshould get a dearth o laughs rom Grown Ups2 and Smurs 2.

Top pick, action Beore you see it:Dawn o the Dead, 28 Days Later,

World War Z (book)This summer doesnt look to be a particu-

larly exciting one or pure action movies, butthe action/thriller/horror/sci- lm World

War Z is shaping up to be a tense summershocker. While many ans o the book arecrying oul over the seemingly loose adapta-tion, actor Brad Pitt and director Mark For-ster are looking to innovate the zombie pic-ture with what is being touted as the mostexpensive zombie movie ever made. Sure,money isnt everything, but i one look at thelms poster isnt enough to get you excited,I dont know what else I can do. I youre abit burnt out on zombies, theres the sixth in-

stallment in the Fast and Furious ranchise(yes, theyre still making those), Disneys

The Lone Ranger, Red 2 and 2 Guns.

Junior

I am most looking orward to mywedding this August and honeymoon to

Bora Bora.

SophomoreI am looking orward to being able

to relax and work with the children atmy summer day care camp.

FreshmanI am spending my summer work-

ing at Pottery Barn.

FreshmanI will spend my summer working out

and swimming.

kyle lundbergeditor-in-chief

illustration by

lara khodanian & rachel harrell

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A ew weeks ago, you mighthave had a riendly, smiling studentknock on your door and ask youto write down a prayer request. Iso, then you probably have a rafe

ticket somewhere in your roomthat matches one that is attached toa prayer. And i you have that, then

your request has been prayed or bya stranger our times through The

Watch, a group started by PLNUseniors to intentionally pray or thePLNU community.

Those involved with The Watchcollected anonymous prayer requestsrom students and sta and havebeen meeting to intentionally prayor those requests. All students were

invited to participate in prayer nightsin the ARC on April 8, 9, 15 and 16.

Senior Corey Schwarz helpedto instigate the group with ellowseniors Charis Branch and AubreeLew. The three arrived at the idea

when they realized they wanted toleave PLNU having made a dier-ence. They elt that God was callingthem to pray.

We prayed and brainstormedwhat our senior class could do to

not simply coast through our lastve weeks, but to oer everything

we have in urthering the kingdomo God in this place, said Schwarz

via email.

The group believes that thiskind o intentional prayer is impor-tant because it allows participantsto both submit prayers anony-mously and have them prayed or

in a ocused way.I think that there is something

really important about us steppingoutside o ourselves in prayer, saidBranch. There are so many thingsthat people could use prayer or thatare completely going unrecognized

just because there might not be theopportunity to share.

The act that the prayer requestshave been submitted anonymously ispart o what sets The Watch apart

rom other prayer groups. That way,students and sta can submit prayers

without eeling constrained abouthow others might perceive whats ontheir hearts. Senior Katie Haeuser

was able to join or one o the nightso prayer in the ARC.

I think the act that there is ananonymous actor allows students tobe open and vulnerable in a way thatthey wouldnt in a setting where they

would be verbally sharing prayer re-quests, said Haeuser. The authen-

ticity is extremely raw.The Watch will culminate in a

prayer and worship night on top othe library on Tuesday. There, stu-dents and sta are invited to prayor the collected prayer requests and

join in worship. During nals week,the prayers gathered rom students

will be given back to the dorms,

where the students who wrote themcan pick them up using correspond-

ing rafe tickets.We are able to participate in this

incredible act o having honest con-versations with God, yet we so otenorgo it, said Schwarz. We believein the power o prayer and the uniy-ing consequences o it.

OPINION10 |

Dr. Wilder is a proessor and

mentor who has orever impactedme. She is a gentle soul who is highlyintelligent and passionate about her

work. She has overcome so manyobstacles in her lie and has inspiredso many students with the sharing oher journey. This is a woman wholives her lie completely or the gloryo her Savior. She is not only a won-derul proessor and Chairperson orFCS, she is also highly involved inher community and church. She issomeone who has truly prepared me

or my uture. I am so excited thatshe will be able to spend more time

with her amily and watch her littlegrandchildren grow up. Althoughthis change will be a hard one, Iknow that she is ollowing the Lordscall and shall nd joy through thesenew experiences.

kelsey bergstromcontributor

Leaving PLNU:Students refect on retiring aculty

callie radkefeatures editor

PLNU seniors start prayer group or ellow students

called The Watch

Dr. Wood is single-handedly one

o the best people that I have metthroughout my time at PLNU. Sheis by ar one o my avorite proes-sors, and I can honestly say that sheis one o the reasons that I will be

walking across that stage in May. Sheinvests in her students beyond aca-demics and actually takes the time toget to know them. She has years o

wisdom and always has good adviceto give i youre willing to ask. Every-thing that Ive ever heard rom herhas been encouraging.

PLNU was lucky to have Dr.Wood as a proessor, and all the stu-

dents that had her should considerthemselves ortunate to have been inany o her classes.

Proessor Noble has served as

the community health guru orPLNUs school o nursing or sev-eral years. Her unique position wasnot as a teacher o a one-semestercourse, but rather as an ongoinginstructor throughout the program.Every semester she would visit eachnursing course and provide use-ul community health inormation.However, what Deanna Noble willbe remembered or is perhaps notthe curriculum she taught. As heradvisee, I look to her as a mother

gure one who genuinely caresor me, one who would never accept

a one-word answer in response tothe question, How are you? Sheconstantly provides me with encour-agement and armation. Her gentlesmile and sweet disposition will begreatly missed on this campus!

With his reti reme nt this year,

Proessor Ben Foster will con-clude a 45-year career as acultymember and coach at PLNU. Heentered Pasadena College as astudent and athlete in 1964 andupon graduation in 1968, joinedthe college as a coach and kinesi-ology aculty member. Since thattime he and his student-athleteshave earned a noteworthy collec-tion o honors. When asked aboutthe ocus o his work, Foster isclear: Im a proessor at Point

Loma Nazarene. I have not beenin the business o sport. Ive been

in the business o education. Ivejust had the priv ileg e o teac h-ing through the medium o sport.

That s pret ty mean ingul t o me.

Hadley WoodKay Wilder Deana Noble Ben Foster

plnu commencementprogram biography

shannon leonardcontributor

deyanira kronckecontributor

Four proessors will

be departing PLNU this

year: Kay Wilder, proes-

sor and department chair

in amily and consumer

science; Hadley Wood,

proessor o French and

literature; Deana Noble,

associate proessor o nurs-ing; and Ben Foster, associ-

ate proessor o kinesiology

and the head coach o mens

gol. To get an idea o their

massive impact on the com-

munity, students who were

close to them refect on the

proessors time here.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARK MANN

PHOTO COURTESY OF COREY SCHWARZ

We believe in

the power of

prayer and the

unifying conse-

quences of it.

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stephen goforthassistant pr ofessor of

journalism

The aculty reshmen: rst-year acultyon entering PLNU

I thought I would be dodg-

ing raindrops in Vancouver rightnow. A Canadian school made mea generous oer to join their ac-ulty and I was ready to head northo the border. Beore leaving thedeep South or ice hockey and TimHortons, my daughter and I agreed

we would rst visit a small privateschool in San Diego.

I had never heard o PLNU or

the university bearing its name. Inact, I had only stumbled on a post

advertising an opening or a journal-ism proessor at Point Loma Naza-

rene University because my son wasconsidering a graduate school in thearea. During our visit, I kept the Ca-nuck oer tucked inside my rontcoat pocket as a reminder that i Ididnt like what I saw, I had some-

where else to go.Like most campus visitors, we

were wowed by the view o thewater. But thats not what broughtus to PLNU. In a very natural way,the proessors showed me their pas-sion or learning and teaching. Theirrespect toward my daughter showedher an attitude that extended to eacho their students.

This is the kind o place whereyou can make the argument that do-

ing something is in the best inter-est o the students and it will carry

weight. This is the kind o place thatgenuinely cares about the younglives entrusted to it.

I want my daughter to know thatkind o support and care during herormative college years. You may

have seen the photo she took thatgraced the ront o this years PLNUChristmas card. Like that gorgeousocean sunset, my rst year at PLNUis winding down. It was both ex-hausting and exhilarating. It was agreat choice or both o us.

Stephen Goorth: trading raindrops or the pacic

Ivan Filby: siting through dirt to plant seeds o hope

My rst year at PLNU has been

challenging and wonderul in equalmeasures. It has been challenging

because, or the rst time in 21 yearso marriage, I have been separatedrom my wie and children. My wieand daughter have remained in Il-linois so that my daughter can n-ish her senior year o high school

without moving states; my son is areshman at Seattle Pacic Univer-sity. It has been wonderul becauseexceptional riends and colleagues in

the Fermanian School o Business,Provosts Council and throughoutthe university have surrounded me.I have been challenged to rethinkmy views o sustainability, art andtacos! More than that, the year has

rearmed my commitment to theChristian liberal arts. A Christianliberal arts education is intended tobe transormational both or studentsand proessors. It helps us to think

deeply about complex issues thatmatter and to personally and corpo-

rately be transormed as together westruggle to nd truth. I have oundPLNU to be a place where proessorsand students are unaraid to addressthe dicult questions o our time. Iam delighted that my daughter willbe at PLNU next year to experienceall o this.

I am also thrilled to see how theHoly Spirit is moving on this cam-

pus. I have enjoyed meeting withstudents in my apartment, during

Tuesday Night Fire, in Chapel andover coee in Bobby Bs. Like you,I keep singing that God would Set are down in my soul that I cant con-

tain, that I cant control; I want moreo you, God. Christian liberal artseducational institutions oten remindus o how we need to be transormedby the renewing o our minds (Ro-

mans 12:2). That is certainly true,but this only really happens in the

context o oering all o ourselves asliving sacrices to the God who callsus together to be his arms and eet.

So back to my year o living apartrom my amily: it has been a won-derul year. It has been a year in

which I have been able to pray moreand enable God to search throughthe pain and dirt in my own lie andplant new seeds o hope and transor-

mation. It has been a year in whichI encountered God again and again.PLNU is a good place to be.

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Commencement

Events

Thursday, May 2

Senior Celebration 5:45-7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 3

Nursing Pinning Ceremony 2 p.m.Spring Music Festival

7:30 p.m.

Department o Art and DesignHighlight Exhibit All Day

Saturday, May 4

Graduate Commencement 10 a.m.Undergraduate Commencement 1 p.m.UndergraduateCommencement

4 p.m.

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Coachella. Coach-el-la. Coach-

ella. A three-syllable word withserious street cred swag in the worldo music ests, Coachella is a wordthat, no matter who you are or how

you say it, will always drip with Val-ley Girl intonations. Begun as ahumble Pearl Jam concert in 1993,

the now three-day ull-fedged artsand music circus has cloned itselinto two weekends a cruise ship.

Bearing a reputation that alls

somewhere between mythical anda ull-blown Christmas-o-sorts orhipsters, Coachella keeps it metal bylocating itsel in Satans armpit o theU.S. Palm Desert.

Set among the Empire PoloFields, location, location, loca-

tion is a key ingredient o this epicmecca o Instagram-worthy oddity.

Artully wedged with palm treesor beauty, blazing temperatures

so you eel warrior-like and gnarly,Coachella primes itsel to be a whirl-

wind o weird.And therein lies the appeal. Part

circus, part crash-course sociologycourse, Coachella has become a con-temporary xture in the music sceneless or its credibility as an amazing

venue and more or its ability to col-lage together bands that would never

otherwise shake hands, much lessshare a stage.

Melding technological sparklewith a snowglobesque set-up, asiderom the bands and art scatteredaround the est, Coachella exists asa Cirque-du-Soleil o people-watch-ing. Aside rom the changing lineup,hit up the est any day, any hour, any

year or a cornucopia o epic oddity.Attending Coachell a is an

agreement to participate in history,rom resurrected zombies (holo-gram Tupac) to the reality that

you will probably share intimate

droplets o sweat with a raver Dadduring an emotional Bon Iver set.

Coachella produces minutes thatbecome moments, and momentshave become our cultural currency.

We are people o story, butoremost, we are people o history;Coachella, somewhere along the

way, grew enough momentum tomake a scene o itsel. Coachella is,or the time being, our generations

version o a cult classic.

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casslyn ser

staff writer

alexa mangrumalumna contr ibutor

haley jonswoldstaff writer

4/25 Film & TV Fe stival, 6:30 p.m. @Salomon Theater

4/27 Michelle Law in Vocal Recital, 3 p.m. @ Crill Performance Hall

4/27 Will Unkefer in Recital, 7:30 p.m. @ Crill Performance Hall

4/28 Aida Alberro in Recital, 7:30 p.m. @ Crill Performance Hall

4/29 Phil Dannels in Recital, 7:30 p.m. @ Crill Performance Hall

5/2 Jen Johnson in Vocal Recital, 7:30 p.m. @ Crill Performance Hall

5/3 Spring Music Festival, 7 p.m. @ Crill Performance Hall

[Music] is a dierent way o sto-rytelling, said Ryan Shoemaker, a

reshman visual arts and philosophydouble major and one member o thePLNU band Coldsons.

Coldsons is a our-member bandconsisting o PLNU students HaplinHills, Curtis Northum, Kenny Orte-ga and Ryan Shoemaker.

According to the band members,playing music is their way o express-ing lie as Christians. The band isaware that it is easy or Christiansto be portrayed in a stereotypical,cookie-cutter way, but Coldsons at-

tempt to be a dierent kind o band,sharing real messages through theirlyrics and melodies.

An alternative/indie band, Cold-sons music is infuenced by bandsincluding Bon Iver, Death Cab orCutie, From Indian Lakes, As CitiesBurn and The Strokes. While this mayseem like an eclectic variety o bands,the members o Coldsons admit thatthe sounds that come rom their bandare eclectic as well. Curtis Northum, a

junior philosophy and theology major,said that they even have some music

that sounds more punk.Coldsons released their rst re-cord, Florence, in February o 2012.Now, Coldsons is launching their new-est record, To Break Down These

Walls, on Indiegogo, an online und-ing platorm. They reer to themselvesas our riends who intentionallyparticipate in community through theoutlet o music, with the goal o releas-ing our second record.

The band recorded To BreakDown These Walls over Christmasbreak and, according to the band mem-bers, this has been one o their mostmemorable experiences. The memberso Coldsons said that this record is quitedierent rom Florence.

[To Break Down These Walls]is dierent mostly because o the mu-sic we have. We have all progresseda lot and the guy who records usprogressed a lot as well, said Shoe-maker. Its all very relational andits pretty sae to say God is in it andthrough it, because we are all Chris-tians. Mostly Kenny and Happy

write the songs about the emotionsthey eel and the story kind o justorms around it, said Shoemaker o

Coldsons music.Coldsons new release is being

sponsored by riends and amily onIndiegogo. Shoemaker quoted hisband member, saying, Happy says itreally well: A lot o music tries to say

youre welcome and we want to say

thank you.Their new record does just that,

and the band members are more thanappreciative o all o their riends andamily who are involved in helpingColdsons succeed.

Music means a lot to us and so

does playing together as a whole,said Shoemaker.They continue to perorm in

churches and caes such as Ch Cae.We played at SOMA and it was

really cool, Northum said. WhenI was in high school, I saw a lot obands play at SOMA. I was playingon the same stage as the really goodbands I saw play on, and it was reallycool or me.

Coldsons continue to say thank

you to their audience through theirmusic. Perorming Thursday nightat Musoee, they opened their new-er songs up to PLNU students tohear and enjoy.

I dont really know whereColdsons will be in ve years, saidShoemaker. Two o us are studyingabroad next year. I know we will allstill be making music, but hopeullythis springs us on to musically think-ing about the way we live.

PLNU band Coldsons produces new album

#COACHELLAFLECTION

Choral spectrum

Concert Choir and Chorale perormed or a ull house on Friday night

in Crill Perormance Hall. The event was called Choral Spectrum and it isthe choirs culminating show o the year.Ater touring 10 dierent locations throughout Caliornia this semes-

ter, the more than 60 students o Concert Choir, conducted by Dr. DanJackson, perormed with Chorale, conducted by Tina Sayers, or students,aculty and the community.

The show encompassed a wide variety o music, rom Deus in adiuto-rium muem intende to Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky.

Concert Choir and Chorale will have just one more perormance thisyear. They will be singing with the rest o the music department in the

Spring Music Festival, honoring the graduating seniors on Friday, May 3.

Coldsons perorming at SOMA last November. From let: Haplin Hills, Kenny Ortega, Curtis Northum, Ryan Shoemakerphoto courtesy of lara khodanian

photo courtesy of google

Above, rom let: Jen Johnson, Anthony Whitson-Mart ini, Ian Stubbsphotos courtesy of casslyn ser

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Almost every day, a student can be seen

wearing a Loma Apparel hat or shirt. But

where did Loma Apparel come rom? The

Point Weekly sat down with the owner,

Carter Rhoads, a Business Administration

major, to talk about this business.

Point Weekly: Why did you

start this business?

Carter Rhoads: I love theschool, I love the people and I love

the campus. But I noticed there isvery little school spirit, and a lot o

people thought it was because wehave a small school. But Duke Uni-versity has 6,000 kids and they havethe most amazing basketball ans oall time. So I said, thats not it.

One day, I was going to get asweatshirt or a T-shirt rom the bookstore. First thing I noticed is that ev-erything is way out o date. NothingI would wear. This is stu that my

mom or dad would wear, and theyresuper old-ashioned southerners.Secondly, I was going to buy thispullover sweatshirt and I noticed thatit was, like, $55. What a joke! Its soexpensive. And I was like, There hasto be a better solution. So I thought,

Why dont I just start a clothingcompany called Loma Apparel?

PW: Where did you come up

with the logo?

CR: My brother and I came up

with the design. We were just go-ing to do LOMA with the A upsidedown. This school is so plain thatI wanted something dierent and

something thats noticeable. So that

was the design.The next step was to brand the

company. I love hats that have littlethings that stand out rom other hats.I decided that I wanted it to be a lionhead and I couldnt think o any com-panies that had a lion. So I searchedonline or probably three weeks inthis night class that I had. Every day,I would go through ree clip art. Tenthousand o them, every line and, -nally, I saw it. It had some stu in itthat I didnt like, so I gave it to my

graphic designer and I wanted him tocrop out some o the stu on it.

I was at the embroidery shop,about to give them the lion head, andmy brother, the graphic designer,

was like, Hey, I added a trianglearound it. It looks great.

Im at the embroidery shop,about to give them the OK on therst design, and I check the new de-sign out and I love it.

PW: What do you sell?

CR: Hats, tank-tops and crewneck sweatshirts. Were also goingto be selling hoodies and eventu-ally T-shirts.

PW: On Loma Apparels Insta-

gram bio, it says that the company

is giving back. Can you tell me

more about that?CR:We give back 10 percent tove dierent non-prots. I thoughtit was super important that, i thiscompany was going to be protable,

I wanted to give back to what Godgave to me. Im a huge believer intithing. So I decided that, i Godsgoing to make this business success-

ul, then I want to give back.

The rst non-prot I chose isGuatemala Medical Missions. Ivebeen super impacted by that. Ivebeen to Guatemala 10 times and Imleading a trip o 48 people on June 1or eight days.

The second one is King o KingsChurch, a large church in South

Arica. I went there or 20 days andthe ministry really touched me, so Iknew it was something that I wantedto give back to.

I think that its really important

to give back to the environment, soI chose a ministry called San Diego

Coast Keepers, and thats a way togive back to keep the beaches clean.The next one is called Iron and

Fire