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Joe Castillo, the sand artist who was featured on NBC’s “Amer-ica’s Got Talent,” will be performing at the University of theCumberlands during Homecoming Weekend on October 4,2013. Castillo was featured on the finals of Season 7 of “Amer-ica’s Got Talent,” where he was fifth place overall.

Castillo, who has performed in front of millions of people,says he is honored to participate at UCs homecoming. “To tell the truth, I have never been the headline performancefor any Homecoming. For that reason, it is an honor and a thrill.It should be great fun and I hope that everyone in attendancewill feel the same when it is all over,” Castillo said.

Castillo also enjoys performing in front of live audiencescompared to performing in front of a television camera. “Thereis a great disconnect when performing on television. Eventhough there was always a live audience when I performed for“America's Got Talent,” it seemed strange to know that the vastmajority of people watching were miles away watching on asmall TV screen with no way to directly interact,” Castillo said.

Castillo is also excited to perform at UC because of thestudents. “I am excited every time I perform but young audi-ences are my favorite. They are lively, energetic and respondwith great enthusiasm,” Castillo said.

Lisa Bartram, the director of UC’s Campus Activity Board,states that they chose Castillo due to his popularity and hisChristian faith. “He does the sand art about the Passion, whichis the story of Christ. We thought he would be a great fit forus,” Bartram said.

Castillo was originally due to perform a week after Home-coming, but after talking with Rick Fleenor, the director of con-vocation at UC, Bartram agreed that Castillo would make agreat headliner for Homecoming. “With a performer of thismagnitude, we thought it would be a great thing to bring in forour Alumni and Family Weekend,” Bartram stated.

Castillo’s unique talent is called SandStory, which is de-scribed on his official site as “art images created by Joe Castilloas he draws in sand with his Hands-on light table.” Castillo’sperformance is scored and choreographed to music with a videoprojected on a screen for large audiences. Castillo discoveredhis talent after a trip to the hardware store; he accidentally pur-chased sand instead of mulch, which led him to discover sandstories as an art form.

Castillo will be performing on Friday, October 4th from 9p.m. to 11 p.m. in the O. Wayne Rollins Center on campus.

Enter Sandman‘America’s Got Talent’star to headline duringhomecoming festivities

BY ALEX WILLIAMS

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Homecoming 2013 Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 3• Exhibits at Cumberland Museum*• Moonbow madness – 9:30 - 11:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 4• Creech-Boswell Club Luncheon & 1963

Class Reunion – 12 - 2 p.m.• Golf team 3 person scramble – 12 - 5 p.m.• Registration – 3 - 5 p.m.• “Shining Our Light” – 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.• Music dept. concert – 7 - 8:30 p.m.• Joe Castillo – 9 - 11 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5• Registration – 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.• Cornhole tournament – 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.• Boswell 5K run/walk

registration – 8:30 - 9:15 a.m.• Homecoming brunch – 9 - 11 a.m.• Reminisce & reconnect – 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.• Boswell 5K run/walk start – 9:30 - 10 a.m.• Carnival – 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.• UC football vs. Lindsey Wilson – 1:30 p.m.• “Shining Our Light” – 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.• Alumni Dinner – 6 - 8 p.m.• Fireworks display – 9 - 11 p.m.

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The UC music depar tment faculty and scholarship recipient, Tyler Vaughn,

a fter per forming for the PRW concert.

University of the Cumberlands music department held its 21st annual Phyllis RichardsonWood Scholarship Benefit Concert Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. The scholarship was created byMary Wood Stuart and Amelia Wood Carey, in 1992 as a way to honor their mother, PhyllisRichardson Wood. Wood graduated from Cumberland College in 1932 and was a long timesupporter of the arts in Williamsburg, Ky.

As a way to raise funds for the scholarship, the UC faculty performs for the concert. Thefaculty that performed this year was James R. Corcoran, Jr., vibraphone, David Etter, tenor,Kay Dawn McFarland, piano, Jeff C. Smoak, JR., baritone, Steven Sudduth, trombone andDavid Threlkeld, clarinet.

Each year, the PRW Scholarship is awarded to a deserving student who is majoring inmusic and is outstanding on his or her primary instrument. In addition to receiving the schol-arship, the recipient is given the opportunity to perform with the UC music department’s facultyduring the PRW Benefit Concert. This year’s recipient, Tyler Vaughn, is from Mt. Vernon, Ken-

tucky. “I am so honored to be this year's scholarship recipient and to have the opportunity toperform with the amazing and talented faculty members of UC's Music Department” saidVaughn. Vaughn is a senior majoring in music with a vocal emphasis and is under the instructionof Dr. David Etter, vocal professor at UC.

“This was an excellent concert with outstanding performances from all of the music facultymembers. And I thought that Tyler Vaughn presented the music department very well in his fineperformance” said Etter.

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BY CHRISTIN MILLER

Editor-in-Chief

UC music departmenthosts concert

UC music department hosts 21st annualPhyllis Richardson Benefit Concert.

Rumors have spread around campussince the end of last semester about what allthe construction around the football stadiumand athletic fields are for. Upon arriving backon campus this semester. students saw thatmore buildings had been removed as well asthe hillside on the outskirts of UC’s campushad been cleared and marked off.

Let the rumors be put to rest. KyleGilbert, vice president for operations at UC,informed us that in the past few months theuniversity has purchased land between themain campus and the Cumberland Inn. All ofthe land in between is now considered a partof campus and has expanded the campus foot-print approximately 30 acres.

Coming from the Inn toward the maincampus on the left along 10th street, UC will

have three athletic fields built consisting oftwo lacrosse fields and a women’s softballfield.

Randy Vernon, athletic director at UC,said, “We’ve had a softball program for a longtime and during that entire time we’ve alwaysused the city field and we appreciate the factthat the city has worked with us during thesemany years we’ve shared it with WilliamsburgHigh School softball league and other adultsoftball league. It hasn’t always been to wherewe could schedule the way we wanted to, hav-ing our own softball field will allow us to becompletely in control of our softball season.”

According to Vernon, the universitywanted to bring a lacrosse team to campus be-cause it’s one of the fastest growing sports inthe country right now. The administration is in

the process of hiring coaches for both a men’sand women’s team. One of the lacrosse fields will primarily beused for a field for a games and the other willbe a practice field. The men and women’steams will share both fields but due to thewear and tear the sport can produce, they wanttwo fields, one that can be played on every dayand the other that will be specifically forgames.

The other main addition to campus that isin the works is a new entrance into campus.Across from the James H. Taylor II Stadiumon 2nd street, the hillside will be cut down andopen up the main campus. A new entry boule-vard will be built that will go up the hillsideand connect in front of the Hutton School ofBusiness.

“The Main Campus, the Football Sta-dium, the new athletic fields and theCumberland Inn will all be connected and vis-ible as one large University.” said Gilbert.

The construction on the athletic fieldswill continue this fall and the new entranceconstruction is expected to start in early 2014.

This entrance will offer a direct path intothe academic side of campus making it easierfor visitors and commuters who will not haveto drive through the residential side of campusto get to the buildings that classes and eventsare held at.

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What could make University of the Cum-berlands’ homecoming week better than everbefore? Adding a music festival for everyoneto enjoy, of course. It’s no secret that UC haslots of talented musicians and vocalists. Fromthe band field to the doorstep of Roburn Hall,you can hear the faint twang of an acousticguitar or the beating of a drum.

Several bands, including OH! Divide, OfThe Spheres, The Unfortunate Freshman andUnder Innocent, which are all UC student-ledbands, will be performing on the lawn of theBoswell Campus Center on Tuesday alongwith The Kingdom Productions, Foreveratlast,The Protest, Grown Up Avenger Stuff, JoshuaBrown, and Flying Colours.

University of the Cumberlands seniorRyan Coots, along with Campus ActivitiesBoard and UC Cru, has rounded up some ofthe campus’ most talented students and foundtouring bands to participate in “Live andLoud,” the Boswell Music Festival.

Coots said, “I had been brainstormingdifferent ways to unify the campus. I wantedto present something that could speak to thewhole campus. I shared this idea with Lisa

Bartram, CAB director, last year and sheseemed down so, we ran with it.”

Many of the bands are filled with yourown classmates while some of the other bandsare prominent in the music scene and are cur-rently touring. Having “clean” lyrics was theonly rule although it seems as if most of themusic will be Christian rock.

Tyler Bird, a UC senior and member ofOH! Divide, said, “This was a way to makehomecoming more fun and to get everyone in-volved while sharing our music. It’s also coolbecause a lot of the bands were recommendedor related back to UC in some way. I’m reallyexcited about it.” Coots worked hard finding the bands for theevent, admitting that the more popular groupsgave him less trouble than the others.

“Strangely, the more ‘famous’ bandswere the easiest to work with. Playing in aband of my own (Of The Spheres) and shame-lessly handing out demos to the ‘real’ bands, Ilearned they were human and that helps.”

While creating this event, Coots focusedon the importance of unity. Coots wanted todevelop something that the whole community

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A new kind of grooveLive and Loud is set to bring a new

sound to Homecoming

could show up to.“It couldn’t just be a worship night be-

cause I wanted the community to be involvedas well. So, I made flyers and took them tohigh schools. I talked to Lisa and the membersof CAB. They had a budget that we stretchedsuper far and we just made the logistics hap-pen,” said Coots. “I really hope to replicate itagain if it goes well, but this time with openinvolvement from other organizations. I hopethat next time there will be more rap and coun-try, as I am always on the lookout for more tal-ent.”

The Boswell Music Festival will be heldon the Boswell Campus Center lawn on Oct.

1 from 3 p.m. until approximately 9 p.m. Thisfree event is open to the public.

UC students, don’t miss your chance tosee some awesome talent and cheer on yourfellow classmates as they share their music.

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We have all been there; it’s something that we all have experience with and it has been the topic of many entertaining conversations with our closest friends. If you are anything like me,then you have had your fair share of awkward and uncomfortable first dates. There was the one guy who wanted me to pick up the tab because I had a better job at the time than he did. Thenthere was the one who said I intimidated and scared him, so he refused to make eye contact and barely spoke the entire time. Thus, I was left to fill the awkward silence with a meaningless one-way conversation with myself. I’m pretty sure I know what you are thinking, and I wouldn’t have believed it either, but I promise these are both true stories.

On both of these occasions, as well as numerous other times, I should have ran to the bathroom, called a friend to come pick me up and climbed out of the window. I could probably write a decent book on all of these stories, but I’m pretty sure no one wants to suffer through my hideous attempts at starting a relationship. But then again maybe you love

to laugh at other people’s misfortunes. If that sounds like you, then please keep reading. Three brave souls took time to share a few funny stories about their experience with awkward first dates.

Awkward first dates

BY JANNICA BR ADY

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Matt Johns, a senior at University of theCumberlands, had an awkward first date hisfirst semester of his freshman year at UC. Hemet a girl in his freshman Insights class andall semester she had kind of given him the runaround. So, after many attempts, she agreed togo out with him during finals week right be-fore Christmas break. “I was like every otherperson on campus, what little money I didhave I had spent on my Christmas shopping.So I didn’t have much extra cash so we de-cided to just go to Wendy’s,” said Johns.

Well, apparently she was not a fan ofWendy’s. “She didn’t order anything and onlyate a few French fries off my plate,” Johnsadded. In the end, the relationship obviouslydidn’t work out.

Rhyana Barker, a junior at UC, had adoozie of a first date. The poor, clueless guywho asked her out, knew next to nothing aboutwomen. Not only did he not pick her up, buthe wasn’t even on time. “He was 30 minuteslate, so I had to sit there by myself,” Barkersaid.

Barker and her date, let’s call him“Steve,” had originally met while they were

still in high school. “He was a couple of yearsolder than me. I went against my better judg-ment and agreed to go out with him.” Barkeradded.

When Steve finally did show up, hepulled into the parking lot in a beat up redDodge truck, with both the front and backbumpers missing. When the waitress broughtthe check after they had ordered and ate theirfood, things got worse. Much worse. “He pro-ceeded to complain about how expensive theticket was,” Barker said.

After dinner they headed over to themovie theater and before he would go insidehe needed to smoke a few cigarettes.

“He basically started chain smoking rightoutside the entrance to the movie theater andthe manager came out and asked him to move25 feet away from the entrance. Steve did notappreciate being asked to move so he pro-ceeded to yell at the manager and made him-self look like the biggest jerk,” Barker said.

By the time the whole ordeal between themanager and Steve was over, they had alreadymissed the movie that they were supposed towatch. “We had to settle on a movie that nei-

ther of us really wanted to see,” Barker added. About three-fourths of the way through

the movie, Steve left to go to the bathroomwhere he texted Barker and asked her to repayhim.

“My phone went off and I saw that Stevehad sent me a text. He wanted me to pay himback for my part of dinner and my movieticket. He said that he was running low oncash and didn’t have enough money to put gasin his truck. I never replied back to his mes-sage and ran out of the theater before he cameback from the restroom,” Barker said.

After this horrific experience, needless tosay, Barker never went out with Steve againand deleted all her contact information forhim. “Looks like I dodged a bullet with thatone,” Barker said.

Jasmine Newport, a junior at UC, wenton a date with a guy last spring and let’s justsay it never went on to a second or third date.“I had been talking to this guy and he finallyhad asked me out on a date. He wanted toknow where I wanted to go so I choseO’Charley’s, I figured everyone had been toO’Charley’s or at least had some experience

with a restaurant like it,” Newport said. Well, I guess she thought wrong. “It was

obvious that he had never been to a nice sitdown restaurant before, because he had noidea what to do. He didn’t realize that after thewaiter brought the check, you were supposedto put your money in the checkbook. He alsodidn’t know that they would bring him hischange back. I am still not sure what was moreawkward, the fact that he didn’t know how toact in the restaurant or the fact that I had tokeep telling him what to do,” Newport added.

There are very few things in life thatplague us all, but one thing that is pretty muchuniversal is that everyone has some sort of ex-perience with first dates that have gone wrong.Sadly, some of us have more experience withthis than others, but more than likely you willat some point in your life have at least one datethat goes horribly wrong.

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Homecoming Weekend is a time when UC students –from those who are in their first semester of classes to thoseattending their 50th class reunions – come together to celebratethe University and reminisce about the history of this smallsouthern school. For the most part, these people are comingfrom all the corners of the country where they now live andwork, but there are a few who seem to never have left.

One of these, Dr. Jolly Sharp, is currently a professor ofEnglish at UC. She is an expert on southern fiction writer Flan-nery O’Connor, and wrote a book about her that was publishedin 2011, entitled “Between the House and the Chicken Yard:The Masks of Flannery O’Connor.” In her book, Sharp exam-ines O’Connor’s own writings, both public and private, to de-termine how O’Connor presented herself to her friends, family,and to the world. For anyone interested in southern literature,grotesques in fiction, or the concept of presenting an image ofoneself at different times and in different circumstances (wear-ing a mask), Sharp’s book would be an enjoyable and inform-ative read. In the meantime, I’ve asked Sharp to share somememories about UC with the students of today.

EMILY HEMPHILL: What is your favorite story fromUC's past?Dr. Sharp: My favorite story dates back to the early 1930s

when my mother was a student at Cumberland. Her work study was in the cafeteria, which was located in the basementof Johnson Hall (now Gillespie). Growing up in a large familyin a small rural area of Whitley County, Mom had never usedan electric mixer. Her first attempt sprayed potatoes that wereonly partially mashed onto the walls. She managed to cleanthe walls before her supervisor knew about the experience,though.

What is the biggest thing you have seen change at UC be-tween now and when you were a student here?So many changes have occurred since my time at Cumberlandand now. One is the way that a student registers for class. Inthe early 1970s, all professors sat at long tables in what is nowthe Intramural Gym. Each student had a registration card andwent from professor to professor to gain a signature for eachcourse. What a lengthy and hot process!

What do you think Flannery O'Connor would have to say if she came to visit our school“A Good Man is [still] Hard to Find.” Or, “I wonder if thesefolks know themselves, their region, and their God?”

Is Dr. Sharp perhaps implying that today’s UC studentswear masks of their own? Certainly students today present theexact image of themselves that they want people to see –whether by appearance or through social media – just like O’-Connor and other past residents of the south. Maybe this justproves the old saying true: the more things change, the morethey stay the same.

Masks of UC

BY EMILY HEMPHILL

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21st century treasure hunting

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Ever find yourself wondering what onearth to do with your free time on campus? Ofcourse you do. As we all know, there isn'tmuch to do in this small town. Fortunately,there is a more to do than you might have orig-inally thought.Geocaching.

What is this, you ask? Geocaching is aworldwide outdoor treasure hunting gameusing a GPS device or your smart phone. Par-ticipants navigate to a specific set of GPS co-ordinates and then attempt to find thegeocache, or container, that is hidden at that

location. It's happening right now, all around you.

There are over 2 million active geocaches andover 6 million geocachers worldwide.

The only necessities are a GPS device ora GPS-enabled phone so that you can navigateto the cache and a membership with geo-caching.com. Once you find the general areawhere the cache is you can read the descrip-tion that helps you narrow down the possibil-ities of the cache's exact location.Geocaches vary in size and appearance. Youcould see anything from large ammo cans to

film canisters to fake rocks with secret com-partments. It is helpful to your search to findout what size the cache is because it will helpyou eliminate certain hiding locations in thearea.

Okay, so you're probably wondering whatthe rules are. It's simple. Once you find thecache, if you take something from the con-tainer leave something of equal or greatervalue. If the cache is big enough people willtake an item and leave one in return. Makesure it is appropriate as folks of all ages par-ticipate. There will be a log book inside for

you to sign your name as proof that you foundthe cache. Once you have done this, return thecache to the exact location you found it so fu-ture finders won't have to look for a cache inthe wrong location. From there you can moveon to the next cache!

Happy hunting.

Micro - These are typically only large enough to hold a logbook. Example:A film canister

Small - Example: A sandwich-sized plastic container or similar

Regular - Example: An ammo can about the size of a shoebox

Large - Example: A large bucket

Other - Read description on Geocaching app

Cache Sizes

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This year, I began my fifth and final yearat the University of the Cumberlands with afeeling of nostalgia. Recently, I realized I hadcome full circle, and here I was back where itall began— with the Patriot Adventure Club.One of my first memories and experiences atcollege was a caving trip I had been invited togo on, and since caving was something I hadnever done, I gladly went. I made some of mybest friends on that trip.

After yet another amazing adventure onSeptember 12, 2013, trudging through themud, climbing, and bear crawling with mycamera dangling from the strap clinched in myteeth through the cave, I caught up with BenClayton, staff sponsor of the Patriot AdventureClub, to talk about all things PAC.

What is the Patriot Adventure Club allabout?

It’s all about giving people an opportunitythat would like to try new things, sports, gohiking or camping, or caving or learn to makea fire. It’s all about giving them the opportu-nity and the knowledge to do that. A lot of kidsthat come to college, they are from inner cities

or they have never been outside in the out-doors, or maybe they didn’t have a father ormother that taught them those things or tookthem adventuring. So this is kind of an oppor-tunity for them to do that and for people thathave more experience to show leadership andto get out and help me lead other people indoing those things. So it’s all about finding ad-ventures and making the most of life, not justsitting in your room playing videogames.

How do you get people involved in PAC?Well, today is the day of Facebook and

Twitter and all that so really we try to hit it uponline, get people and show them pictures andvideos. We are gonna have some awesomepictures and videos from the past trip so thatshould really boost us. Besides that, just goingaround and saying, “Hey, this is what I did ona Thursday night, what did you do?” and justword of mouth, talking about it, showing it tothem. We are gonna be sending out someemails and maybe announcing at some differ-ent campus events just trying to get peoplemore involved.

What are some other upcoming events thatyou have planned?

We are taking a look at a skydiving trip;we’re just working on getting funding for that.We will be doing a couple of backpackingtrips, some hiking trips; there’s the possibilityof a ski trip, but once again it’s just all aboutfunding. A lot of college kids don’t have asmuch money and things cost money like gas.Oh, we are planning on going rock-climbingin Knoxville. There is an awesome placecalled Riverside Sports; they have an awe-some indoor rock-climbing wall. Apart fromthat, maybe go bear watching out in thewoods. Whatever you can think of, we wannatry to do.

What does the cost look like for students?The different trips, the ones that are more

local, let’s say the drive is an hour or less,those are typically free trips. If we do anovernight trip, generally we can get food fromthe cafeteria and they will supply that for us,so they don’t have to worry about paying forfood or anything like that. It’s the trips wherewe go and do other things, maybe like sky div-

ing or white water rafting or rock-climbing,those are generally the ones that cost moremoney because we are going through a differ-ent organization.

And anything you would like to say tosomeone who is considering joining?

It doesn’t matter what your experience is,if you’re a newbie and never even been out inthe woods or anything like that, just come on.It’s gonna be fun; we will teach you how to doit and have a good time. We’ll laugh with you,laugh at you, but either way it’ll be a goodtime and you will meet a lot of friends— life-long friends, and it will be a blast. So comejoin the Patriot Adventure Club.

If you are considering joining, find The PatriotAdventure Club on Facebook.

BY CARLEEN FLETCHER

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The distracting noise of sets being builtnext door in the Kohn Theatre interrupt ourconversation as I sat down in the office of Dr.Kim Miller, associate professor of theatre atUC, for an interview.

Over the summer, Miller was promotedfrom assistant professor to associate professorof theatre. Miller said, “I was very grateful forand excited about it. What I like about the Uni-versity of the Cumberlands, at least from mypoint of view, you really can’t tell which pro-fessors have tenure, which don’t, who’s work-ing at what rank. I have been at other placeswhere once faculty reaches a certain level,they’re either burnt out or don’t really con-tribute as much. Everyone here is working totheir full capacity and beyond.”

Miller is starting her sixth year at UC; shebegan in 2008 as the assistant professor of the-atre to teach acting, directing and theatre his-tory.

As an undergrad, Miller attended KnoxCollege in Galesburg, Illinois. After graduat-ing from Knox with a degree in English andwith an emphasis in creative writing, Millerwanted to stay in the area for a while so shegot a job in retail management and worked forabout a year and a half. Then, she attendedgraduate school at Iowa State University

where she earned her master’s degree in Eng-lish but while there she also got more involvedin theatre and doing research. She then de-cided to get her Ph.D. in Theatre from Univer-sity of Kansas.

During her senior year as an undergrad,Miller met a former student who worked as adramaturg, someone who works as a supportperson for a theatrical production doing thingslike research, special training and audienceoutreach activities. This particular personworked with the actors and showed them howto carry themselves.

Miller says, “When the actors came onstage, I had to do a double take; these peoplehad transformed themselves into different peo-ple. I was very impressed with what her re-search and what her coaching had helped themto do. So, when I went to graduate school, Itold my advisor I was very interested in dra-maturg and she hooked me up. I served as thedramaturg with the Iowa State University The-atre for a year and did a lot of research withthem.”

After graduating, Miller began workingwith the University of Kansas for a while butwanted to look for something more perma-nent, which led her to UC. Miller said, “Thisone came open and it seemed like a good fit

and they seemed to think I was a good fit andthat’s the way it’s been.”

Miller had very little exposure to the areashe now resides in when applying for jobs buthad visited briefly when she was in highschool for a mission trip. Despite having noassociation with University of the Cumber-lands prior to her being hired, Miller was al-ready adjusted to the small town culture ofWilliamsburg since she grew up in a smalltown herself.

Miller says, “I connect with the smalltown culture ideas. I feel very comfortablewith having to drive to another place to get toa movie theatre or shopping mall. I trusted itwould be a good thing so I came here.”

In the fall of 2012, Dr. Jim Taylor, presi-dent of the University of the Cumberlands,asked Miller to adapt a stage play from hisbook “A Bright Shining City Set on a Hill,”which he wrote for the centennial anniversaryof the university 25 years ago.

“He told me his vision for the play whichwas to spotlight the families that really pulledtogether for the commitment to have a schoolhere in Williamsburg, Kentucky and the peo-ple that made it happen. I’ve taken his bookand a little bit of other research and that’s whatI’ve created the play out of.”

Despite a few challenges, Miller has enjoyedher important task of adapting a stage play thatshowcases the history of our school. Millersays, “I feel a stronger tie to the university, be-cause I know more about it. I appreciate howthe university has been impacted by the largerworld and vice versa. Every day I come towork there’s something that reminds me of theplay or something in the play that reminds meof something I do.”

As a part of her work with the UC theatredepartment, Miller has helped put on 10 majorproductions at UC; “Shining Our Light” willbe the 11th.

“Shining Our Light” will debut overhomecoming weekend as a celebration toUC’s 125th year of operation, to be sharedwith students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Kayli Gizel, a UC senior double majoringin theatre and communication art who workedwith Miller in UC’s productions of “KingLear” and “Into the Woods” says, “She’s agreat professor, great director, very profes-sional and very friendly. I enjoy working witha director who takes the time to get to knowher actors and her students.”

It’s no doubt Miller has made quite animpact in her time on campus and will con-tinue to shine her own light at UC.

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Some of the sta ff of The Patr iot newspaper

pose before a game of kickball.

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Julie Paris and Katie Reid make bows at the Angel Dale House a ll girls sleepover.

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The cast of “Shining Our Light” during rehearsals.

The Disciples Drama team performs for Convocation on Sep. 26.

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The room echoes with a serious tone as apoem is recited and the snapping of fingerssignifies an intuitive end to the page. Then,suddenly, the audience of 70 plus roar with ap-plause as each new performer dances, sings orraps for the crowd.

Perhaps all the people came for the pop-corn, mini candy bars and Kool-Aid drinks butthe booming sound of excitement as studentslike Emily Rose, Jake McPheron and CalebEaly take the stage begs to differ.

“What is this commotion?” you ask asyou pass by the mid-BCC at eight on a chillySeptember night. It’s Open Mic Night – anevent hosted by an organization on campusknown as The Kingdom Productions.

“Kingdom Productions is all about ex-pressing yourself. It's a great outlet for you toshowcase your talents,” Katie Reid, a sopho-more at the University of the Cumberlandsand member of the TKP team, says.

Her words are true. The Kingdom Pro-

ductions is a student-led organization thatstarted on campus last year in order to make apositive influence and spread creative thought. “You get to build a lot of core relationships,and it’s not just one group of people that come[to the events] – there’s diversity,” says Reid.

What began with a few mics and somerap battles brought about a group of UC stu-dents with a drive to change the world, oneviaduct at a time.

The Kingdom Productions doesn’t just

host Open Mic nights but also an event calledConfabulation where they have open debateand discussion about topics such as abortion,racism and school policy. Other events includethemed parties and their comedy nights – alsoreferred to as Hoopla.

The Kingdom Productions plans on hav-ing their second event for the semester on Oc-tober 9 at 8 p.m. in the mid-BCC.

“If you’re game for that, then you shouldget involved,” says Reid.

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BY HAYLEY DAVIS

Online Editor

The Kingdom Productions

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University of the Cumberlands alumnaMichelle Warnky recently competed on thepopular NBC television show “AmericanNinja Warrior.” “American Ninja Warrior”features an extremely difficult obstacle coursedesigned to showcase the competitors’strength, courage, determination and heart.

Warnky began her journey on “AmericanNinja Warrior” last year and became a finaliston the show and competed at the Las Vegasstage of the competition, becoming only oneof a select few females to make it to Vegas tocompete. Her run on “American Ninja War-rior” aired on G4 and NBC about one monthago. Warnky failed to make it past the LasVegas leg of the competition, but she wascalled, “one of the most promising femalecompetitors” by one of the hosts.Growing up in a family that put a lot of em-phasis on physical activities and competition,Warnky knew that this was something sheneeded to try. Warnky said, “Growing up Iloved doing any kind of challenge, climbingthings and playing sports. I had never actually

heard of ‘American Ninja Warrior’ until lastsummer, when three friends told me that Ishould try out for the show.”

Warnky’s journey on “American NinjaWarrior” has been an incredible one that hasbrought her closer to her family, friends andGod, but that does not go without saying thatit didn’t have its challenges. Warnky startedwatching the show last summer and began toresearch the application process. “I connectedwith a group page on Facebook and saw thatthere had been an American Ninja Warriorevent in New Jersey at Chris’ Warrior Lab, butI had missed it. I contacted Chris Wilczewski,the owner of Chris‘ Warrior Lab, and he toldme I was welcome to come train at his gymanytime,” Warnky said.

Amanda Walton, an admissions coun-selor at UC and Warnky’s close friend, said,“Michelle is 100 percent passionate abouteverything in her life. She is very adventurousso I had no doubt she would go very far in thiscompetition.”

It was during Warnky’s road trip from

Ohio to New Jersey that she realized how dif-ficult this was going to be. “I knew this wasgoing to be my make or break moment. But Ifelt like I owed it to myself to at least try,”Warnky said.

While in New Jersey training at the War-rior Lab, Warnky came across the infamouswarped wall. After nearly two hours of con-stant training and practicing scaling the wall,Warnky became the first female to ever masterthe warped wall at Wilczewski’s gym.

Warnky said, “God, taught me so muchthrough my failed attempts as well!”

Warnky went all over the United Statestraining and competing to gain extra practiceon the various obstacles that she would facein Las Vegas at the “American Ninja Warrior”finals. For some time Warnky had wanted tobuild obstacles in the gym where she workedin Columbus, Ohio, her boss gave her the go-ahead to start the construction. “Building theobstacles at the gym where I work, not onlyhelps me with my training, but it gives otherpeople in the area a place to train. We actually

held our first Ninja event in March,” Warnkysaid.

During this whole journey Warnky hasbeen passionate about her love for God andhelping to spread his light to others. “I prayedabout this constantly about opportunities toshare about God as well as to meet and havefellowship with other Christian ‘ninjas’, likehaving our first ‘Ninja’ Bible study and prayertime in Las Vegas, something one of the vet-eran ninjas has been praying for for years andsomething I prayed for all this past year,” saidWarnky.

Warnky may have not made been thisyear’s winner of the competition, but thatdoesn’t mean she is giving up on her dream.She plans on competing again next year withhopes of making it farther than she did thisyear.

Walton said, “Next year when Michellegoes to Vegas a group of us from college aregoing to go and show our love and support forher. I love her so much and am so blessed tobe able to call her my friend.”

Warnky competes on ‘American Ninja Warrior’BY JANNICA BR ADY

Sta ff Writer

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According to the United States CensusBureau, the current approximate population ofthe world is about 7,109,940,000 people.Those people, as diverse as they may be in theareas of age, race, gender, sexual orientation,cultural tradition, and economic status, can bepretty easily divided into two separate groups– group A, who are extroverts, and group B,who are introverts. How do you tell themapart? Finding someone from group A is easy-- chances are, they’ll tell you about it. Andthen they’ll talk to you about their grand-mother. And then about baseball. And thenabout the salad bar in the cafeteria. And thenprobably even more about something else.

For those that aren’t so quick to speak,chances are they belong to group B. One ofthe best ways to tell is to check to see ifthey’re sweating (look at the hands); it’s hardto avoid seven billion people for very long,and trying to do it for an entire lifetime has atendency to make a person anxious and fear-ful. Other introverted candidates for group Binclude: The girl awkwardly staring at the ceil-ing or tying her shoes for several minutes at atime as you try to talk to her, the guy who ishovering uncomfortably just outside a circleof people with his hands in his pockets, andthe guy who eats four or more pieces of cakeat a wedding because he’s afraid to dance withother people around.

These are all things that I do. For a whilenow, I’ve aligned myself loyally with those ingroup B, though I’ve never been entirely con-fident in my choice. (Confidence seems to bean issue for people in this group.) Group B is

most comfortable for me, but I’d be lying if Isaid there was nothing alluring about com-manding the complete attention of a person orgroup of people for any length of time. It’s in-triguing, to say the least.

But things like that are give-and-take. Ifyou want to be paid attention to, sometimesyou have to give up your own time and atten-tion to someone who wants it. So I came upwith an idea last November– for three days, Idecided that I wanted to shatter the line be-tween group A and group B by becoming atotal extrovert and offering my full attentionto every single person that I saw. Yes, everysingle one. This, I hoped, would allow me tosee from the eyes of someone not at all likeme. It would allow me to be outspoken and toattract the attention of plenty of people every-where I went. Ideally, this kind of experimentwould provide for me a new perspective onmy current surroundings and some interestinginsight into the lifestyle of someone (or agroup of people) very different from what I’mused to. Sounds like a plan.

But I knew I’d need some rules first. Be-cause I live on a college campus, I didn’t wantto annoy or offend anyone I’m going to haveto see for the rest of my college career. At thesame time, controlling an experiment like thisreally limits its effectiveness, and, as a result,whatever the outcome. Knowing this, I did mybest to come up with three simple rules. Herethey are: 1. If any person came within ten feet of me, Ihad to acknowledge them somehow. This usu-ally meant saying hi, waving, or both. Eye

contact was a bonus, but it didn’t always hap-pen. 2. If I knew someone’s name, I had to say itwhen I addressed them. This allowed for morepersonalization in my greetings and it gave theillusion that I was genuinely interested inspeaking to them at that time and not just ful-filling the requirements of this experiment,though it wasn’t always one or the other.3. If someone started a conversation with me,I had to finish it. I could not walk away untilthey had said what they needed to say. I choseto do this because I wanted to know how it feltto ask for and to hold someone’s attention; todismiss it so quickly after obtaining it wouldbe unfair to them, to me, and to the experi-ment.

These rules, however, weren’t perfect --they required amendments. To avoid redun-dancy and to remain inconspicuous, I chose tomake two exceptions to these rules:1. If I approach a group, I can address them alltogether. This way, I’m not saying hi to everyperson in a group as they try to ignore me in-terrupting their conversation. My go-to line inthese situations was, “Hey guys.”2. If I’m in the cafeteria or any other highlycrowded area, I could limit myself to acknowl-edging only those people who make direct eyecontact with me. Otherwise, I’d have to makea visit to each table in the cafeteria and I’dnever get to eat anything.

Turns out, this experiment proved evenharder than I expected. My three days werefilled with plenty of failures and, even know-ing that, I still estimated the number of people

I spoke to at somewhere around three hundred– about a hundred people a day. The thoughtalone makes me cringe.

Day one was spent in much the same wayI’d spend any other day going from place toplace – my hands were pocketed, my head wasdown, and I walked at a pace that most wouldconsider a slow jog. The only difference isthat, for every three or four steps, I’d raise myhead up, say hello to someone, and then dropit right back down.

I tackled that day like I was some uglyHalloween decoration that only activateswhen someone gets close enough to trigger itsmotion sensor – my actions were unexpectedand probably creepy to the people around me.This showed in the responses that I got fromothers, too; most of the time I didn’t even geta response, and when I did, it was just as un-enthused as my initial greeting.

The result I had achieved was a mutualdisappointment between my new acquaintanceand me – the opposite of what I had intendedwhen I started the experiment.

I learned quickly that getting this experi-ment to work the way I wanted it to wouldmean more than simply saying hi to each per-son I passed by on my way to class or tolunch; I’d have to completely change my ap-proach. In the same way that painting racingstripes on a Kia doesn’t make it Nascar-wor-thy, teaching the group B, quiet, look-down-at-the-pavement me to wave at a few peopleI’ve never met doesn’t make me outgoing. Itmakes me a faker. Even these people that I’dnever spoken to before could tell that.

Nice to greet you:An introvert’s attempt at being an extrovert

BY RYAN POYNTER

Sta ff Writer

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But days two and three weren’t much ofan improvement, unfortunately. I’d decided bythose days to make eye contact with people afew paces and try to smile before I said hello,hoping to let them see that I was more open toconversation and more interested in who theywere and what they were doing. This conceptwas somewhat new to me, and I had some in-teresting results. I must’ve forgotten how un-comfortable it is for most people to maintaineye contact with a stranger for any more thana brief moment. Most of the time when Ilooked up and into the eyes of someone Iplanned to greet, they’d look away – oftendown – and ignore me entirely. Backfire.

There were even a few times I forgot to smileas I approached someone, so instead of look-ing friendly and open as I had intended, theeye contact just made me look unapproachableand really mad about something.

Three days of that was enough to makeme confident in saying that I am a full-bloodedintrovert. In 72 hours, I had spoken to over300 people. Yikes. That’s probably about 15times the number of people I usually speak toin that amount of time. It was mostly awkwardand uncomfortable and I finished my last dayfeeling like I hadn’t accomplished much at allin the way of progress. But then I thought ofsomething: It’s interesting to try to estimate

the amount of influence I might have had onthose individuals that I saw and greeted if Ihad really taken the opportunity to capitalizeon it.

Most of them I doubt will even rememberme, and the ones that do will likely not re-member much positive (the creepy smile andstare, maybe). But even so, my opportunity forinfluence was outstanding. The chance to meetnew people, or to learn more about both my-self and someone else by chatting with anotherperson for only a few moments. The possibil-ity to allow a stranger’s grin to give me one ofmy own, when all I really wanted was to cre-ate a situation uncomfortable enough for both

parties to be written about. These are all op-portunities that I discovered because I choseto look for them, and they’re all opportunitiesthat I had missed before when I chose not to.I won’t always take these opportunities, butI’ll be glad for them when I do, and I think re-alizing that means that my experiment saw atleast some success. That, I suppose, is enoughto keep my head up about.

Photo by Carleen Fletcher

The CounselorIn theaters October 25

Brad Pitt stars in “The Coun-selor” as an ambitious lawyer whoquickly finds his own money hungryego to be the ultimate downfallwhen he gets tangled up with thewrong people in the world of drugtrafficking. This original screen playis written by American novelist Cor-mac McCarthy, author of “TheRoad” and “No Country for OldMen,” and that fact alone has a lotof movie critics buzzing. “TheCounselor” is going to be overflow-ing with drama from familiar facessuch as Michael Fassbender, DeanNorris, Cameron Diaz and PenelopeCruz.

Thor: The Dark WorldIn theaters November 8

Chris Hemsworth returns as thegod of thunder in “Thor: The DarkWorld.” A sequel to the first “Thor”staring Hemsworth, “The DarkWorld” has high expectations fromaudiences across the nation. Thefirst “Thor” brought home five winsand 15 nominations from variousaward shows, therefore reasonstands that this follow up film willmatch, if not exceed, its predecessor.With this pressure and the brief con-troversy surrounding star NataliePortman (who tried, but failed, toback out of her role of Jane Foster)what audiences are looking for is tosee if director Alan Taylor was reallyable to keep it together.

The Wolf of Wall StreetIn theaters November 15

A film based upon the truestory of the rise and fall of wealthystockbroker Jordan Belfort, playedby Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolfof Wall Street” is a film that willhave more crime and corruptionthan audiences can fathom. Lacedwith action and extravagance thisfilm just may be what DiCaprioneeds to score his first Oscar.There’s no doubt that director Mar-tin Scorsese, who worked with Di-Caprio in “Shutter Island,” had ahand in DiCaprio landing this rolebut this lead role selection is raisingthe eyebrows of critics everywhere.Earlier this year DiCaprio landed hismost highly praised role to date in“The Great Gatsby” so it will be in-teresting to see if he is capable oftopping that. And if the trailer is anyindication, this role will pass“Gatsby” with flying colors.

The Hunger Games: CatchingFireIn theaters November 22

Perhaps the most highly antici-pated movie of the year, the gamescontinue and Jennifer Lawrence re-turns as Katniss Everdeen in “TheHunger Games: Catching Fire.”Everdeen has sparked a fire in thesouls of the impoverished and ruf-fled the feathers of the status quoand those higher up don’t approve.Another round of games is createdthat brings back all the winners fromprevious years games in what seemsto be a direct attempt on the life ofEverdeen. More of the same high-quality acting, special effects andscreenwriting are expected. How-ever, viewers still want more. A filmthat has already been nominated fortwo awards just based off of itsposter, my prediction is that “Catch-ing Fire” will be the film of the year.

The Hobbit: The Desolation ofSmaugIn theaters December 13

The journey continues forBilbo, Gandalf, and the dwarves asthey fight against Smaug, a dragonwho is holding their gold captive.Director Peter Jackson has alreadyworked on the highly successful“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy andthe first “The Hobbit” film which re-leased last year; therefore, there isno contest that he will bring thesame level of excellence that audi-ences fell in love with before. View-ers who have read the novel createdby Tolkien will know what to expectand they’ll also realize that screen-writers have added an original char-acter not found in Tolkien’s work,but that is not expected to diminishthe quality of the film in any way.

The top five films of FallIn 2013 alone American movie goers have fought alongside multimillionaire Tony Stark and then with girl scouts Lucy, Agnes and Edith. This is the same year that audiences have watched

the birth of Clark Kent and the death of Jay Gatsby. With the monsters having gone off to school and the wolf pack leaving for Vegas, how could 2013 get any better? Well, Hollywood isn’tdone quite yet. Film addicts across the country can expect the final four months of the year to be packed with more drama and more adventures to create the ultimate movie-going experience.

BY KRISTINA SMITH

Sta ff Writer

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Guns and God

“Duck Dynasty” recently made its way to University ofthe Cumberlands, well not quite, but something similarenough. Camo-wearing, gun-bearing, and God-fearing ChuckMcAlister treaded Cumberlands soil on Thursday, Sept. 19. McAlister opened his convocation speech by talking about hisaward-winning hunting program, “AdventureBound Out-doors”. He reeled the audience in by quickly making the state-ment, “We don’t harvest [deer], we blow them tosmithereens.”

McAlister grew up in South Carolina and was bred tohunt from a very young age. He spoke of going hunting withhis father and grandfather from the young age of four. “They taught me lessons about life and what is importantwhile we were out hunting,” stated McAlister, “But I knownot everybody had the father or grandfather I had.”While talking, McAlister began making his way towards theback of the stage where he went and grabbed a Stevens 12gauge, single shot and jokingly said, “I don’t think there’s everbeen a gun in this place, that is until now.”

McAlister explained how this particular gun belonged tohis grandfather and how engraved throughout the gun werelife lessons that he learned. He pointed to the gunstock wherethere was a mark. He recollected disobeying his grandfatherand going to hop a barbed wire fence. Just before the fence

caught young McAlister, his grandfather caught it using hisgun stock and said, “Every time you disobey, you leave a markon your character, just like you did on this gun.”

He continued sharing stories about marks on the gun andthe significance of each blemish. He spoke on the importanceof marriage and staying faithful by pointing out a knick madefrom his grandfather’s wedding band. He fired off story afterstory and concluded this segment in a Phil Robertson-likemanner saying, “And that’s why this is so precious to me andwhy no government on earth is going to get this gun from me.”Gatliff Chapel exploded with clapping and amen’s through-out.

McAlister waited for the cheers to subside and then rem-inisced to Christmas morning where he got his first gun, a .410shotgun. He talked about anxiously waiting up that night inanticipation of going quail hunting with his father, grandfather,and dogs.

While out in the field, as he had done countless times be-fore, he looked for the dog’s tail to wag as a signal that thequails were in sight. With the wag of the tail, he took threesteps back and went to signal to his left at his grandfather andto his right at his father so they could move in for the kill.However, this time was different.

“I stepped back and felt my dad and grandfathers hands

on my back. They looked at me and said, ‘Step up son, it’syour time’,” said McAlister, “It was right there that I was in-vited into the fraternity of men.” It was those very words,“Step up son” that would resonate in his mind from that pointon.

Fast forward years down the road and he recounted a verysomber time while serving with the U.S. Army in South Korea.He stated, “It was Christmas Eve and all I wanted was to behome with my family. I wanted to cry but knew I couldn’t be-cause the tears would freeze to my face. Then all the sudden,I heard that voice say, ‘Step up son’.”

McAlister then transitioned into his testimony of faithusing these three powerful words. He spoke of acceptingChrist in a National Guard Armory a few years later. He stated,“You see, the Father and the Son were alone in the Garden ofGethsemane and it was there that God told Jesus it was timeto step up, son.”

Through McAlister’s all-American values, wholesomeand down-to-earth nature, and unique representation of thegospel, he challenged those individuals in attendance to stepup. Though he is an avid outdoorsman, McAlister was aimingon winning people to Christ. At the end of the night, the targetwas hit and 12 people had made the decision to finally stepup.

BY ABBEY CHERRY

Sta ff Writer

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Chuck McAlister stirs up convocation

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You know the sight: a toad was trying tocross the road – and he failed. The car ran himover and the sun baked him. There he is dryand crusty on the pavement. That’s what I was like. Disobedience to Godhad squashed me. I couldn’t stop disobeying.The result was gross and ugly but it was worsethan that. It was hopeless. How can a toad thatis dead ever fix his problems? But God, because of His great love with whichHe loves me, breathed into my dry bones andgave me life again. Not only that, but He alsotransformed me from a toxic toad into a frog. Frogs are not toxic, and better yet, they havethe potential to turn into princes. But frogs arealso famously cold-blooded animals who ad-just to their surroundings. The story goes thatif you slowly brought a pot of water to a boil,a frog would simply try to adjust to the tem-perature and allow himself to be killed. Re-search has shown that this is not entirely true;however, frogs will still try to be comfortableat unnaturally high temperatures. I am the same way. Even though God gave menew life and a new identity I still tried to blendin with the world around me. The result wasthat I found myself caught up in sin again.The result could have been disastrous, but Godis better than that. He guided me to a solution:meditation on His Word. Memorizing versesfrom the Bible, repeating them and thinkingabout them have the power to renew a per-

son’s mind. When we think in terms of God’swords we have the tools we need to resisttemptation. I’m not a prince yet. The devil still is comingat me and trying to skewer me on the end ofhis frog gig. But as I put my trust in what Godhas said, He shields me from all of that andcontinues to transform me into the likeness ofHis Son.

“But because of his great love for us,God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive withChrist even when we were dead in transgres-sions—it is by grace you have been saved.” - Ephesians 2:4-5 (NIV)

Jesus made me a frog

God’s mercy has a way of overwhelmingthe soul with peace and gratitude. However,God’s gift is costly, and we are designed toshare it with others. The age-old problem is, Ioften act like a three year old and don’t sharevery well. Mine! God’s gift to me! But howdare I accept God’s grace and refuse to give itto someone else. I would literally have to hatethem to be that cruel, but if I serve the Alphaand Omega, and He is love, I’m required toforgive. But forgive who?

For starters, forgive yourself. The firststep is admitting that you need help. (Truestory.) If this is hard for you, please take onthe yoke of Jesus which is light and let himfree you from this burden of the law. Accepthis rest. Move past your imperfections andonto the prize Christ holds for us. MakeMatthew 11:28-29 your memory verse.

Once you have bit into the undeniablysweet peace hand-crafted by our Savior, makesure to let others have a taste. Forgive thosethat have deeply wronged you. Yes, it is terri-bly painful. Yes, it burns what seems beyondrepair. But your arch-enemies waste too muchof your gospel-spreading energy. Think of allthe love you could be giving if you weren’t sobusy hating someone who rightfully deservesa little anger. Don’t publicly or privately be-little your foes any longer.

Your forgiveness may or may not be ex-pected or accepted, but their “apology ac-

cepted” is not required for your peace – onlytheirs. If they desire to cut off ties, that is theirown choice. You leave your door unlocked forthem. Not open, but unlocked.

In God there is great freedom from sin.Grudges have a way of trapping us instead ofthe guilty one, but if we would let go and letGod, we could break the chains. We couldhave freedom to give, love, and serve; not be-grudgingly, but willingly. Eagerly. Freedom isa universe of peace that was always intendedfor us to dwell in since Eden. Let God start thehealing process. Yes, it’s long. People do themost “God-awful” things to each other some-times, but even still, God stands with openarms, ready to forgive if we choose to be par-doned. He isn’t holding back, so why are we? Negative is a much easier charge than posi-tive, but it’s not really worth it. I don’t wantto be angry anymore. I want to free myselffrom the grudges. And I have a feeling thattonight will be a good night if I not only acceptGod’s forgiveness, but give it to others – timesseventy. Try to do the impossible this weekand forgive. Because through God all thingsare indeed possible.

“Instead, be kind to each other, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, just as Godthrough Christ has forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32 (NLT)

BY CALEB HETRICK

Sta ff WriterBY HAYLEY DAVIS

Online Editor

ForgivenessFaith & Ministry

Football has come a long way since Walter Camp. Football has come a long way since the formation of the NFL. Football has come a long way since the Miami Dolphins’ perfect season. And by the time our children are in college, it will have come even further. But itmay not be for the better.

The men playing at the professional level nowadays are machines. They are conditioned from an early age to run faster, jump higher and hit harder. It’s ingrained in them. It’s how they’ve played the game their entire lives. Now, the NFL wants them to stop.

Anyone who follows professional football on even a semi-regular basis should be aware of the giant conversation looming over the sport about safety. So many rule changes havebeen placed on the game that it doesn’t even look like it did in the early to mid-‘90s when Istarted watching it.

And the real truth is that rule changes aren’t going to make football safe. Professional football has been compared to the old games of Roman gladiators. It’s a dangerous gameand you can only make a dangerous thing a little less dangerous, but never safe.

“The United States of Football” is a new documentary that chronicles head trauma from the pee-wee level to the NFL. In the film, director Sean Pamphilon interviews wellknown author Malcolm Gladwell, who believes professional football is reaching a moremajor shift. Gladwell said, “We will go to a middle position where we will disclose the risksand essentially dare people to play. That's what the Army does. So we leave the Army forkids who have other options, for whom the risks are acceptable. That's what football is goingto become. It's going to become the Army.”

Basically, he’s saying that football will be left for those who are the most desperate.The thing is: we are already witnessing that. A vast majority of NFL players came frompoverty. They found something they were good at and decided to try and ride it out. Com-munities like where these players come from will never let go of football. It’s too importantto them. And the rewards that are reaped from making it to that next level will always seemto offset the very high risk of playing.

While football may be changing, it isn’t dying. It might be getting safer but it isn’tgetting any less dangerous. Maybe it’ll look different in another 20 years, but it’ll still be football.

How I see it:A changing game

BY TIMOTHY W YATT

Assistant Editor

The University of the Cumberland’smen’s golf team captured their third straightBill Sergent Invitational at Crooked CreekGolf Course in London, Ky. They finished thetournament by shooting a two day team totalof 580 (+4), winning by 14 shots over HolyCross College.

The Patriots started off in control after thefirst day leading by four. The second and finalday topped the first day performance as UCblew out the field by 10 strokes to their nearestthreat. The Patriots were lead by Isac Lam-bartsson shooting a two day total of 144 (E)and earning All-Tournament team honors.

Head golf coach Chris Kraftick said, “Ididn’t really know what to expect with such ayoung team, but I am excited to see what therest of the season holds.” The B team also hada successful performance for the first tourna-

ment of the fall season, tying for third place asa team with a team total of 595 (+19).

The women’s team had a strong perform-ance in the season fall opener as well. Theladies came right out of the gate on the firstand got out to a comfortable lead after the firstday of the tourney leading by 21 strokes.They continued their strong play throughoutthe tournament and captured first place aswell.

UC’s men’s C team and women’s B teamboth made places in the tournament, finishingin ninth and second place respectively. Withthe men shooting a team total of 618 (+42).

Both teams will be back on the courseSept. 30 at the Conference Fall Tournament inGeorgetown, Ky. at Cherry Blossom GolfClub.

Three in a rowBY CODY ELLIS

Sta ff Writer

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Are you a human being between the agesof 13 and 31? If so, you’ve probably heard ofApple’s newest addition to their tried and truesmartphone line: The iPhone 5s. However, forthe first time ever, Apple also introduced asecond model in the form of the iPhone 5c.The announcement of the two devices also co-incided with the launch of Apple’s latestsmartphone operating system; iOS 7. Are youconsidering adding one of Apple’s latest fla-vors to your technology portfolio? Read on tosee if the iPhone 5s (or 5c) is right for you.

Traditionally, Apple has launched onlyone smartphone each year. Due to increasingpressure from Google’s Android operatingsystem, which now controls over 80 percentof the worldwide smartphone market, Appledecided to plunge into the murky waters ofbudget smartphones alongside their traditionalplace as quality king. Android smartphoneshave a habit of declining in price rapidlywithin a few months of their launch. For ex-ample, the Samsung’s Galaxy S4 smartphone

can be found for as little as $120 online (witha new two-year contract), a decrease of 40 per-cent since its launch. Apple’s iPhone line, onthe other hand, rarely comes down in priceuntil a new model launches. Usually, Appleattempted to capture the budget smartphonemarket by offering the previous-generationiPhone model for a $100 discount. By launch-ing the iPhone 5c, Apple is trying to woo cus-tomers with a low cost option that is still freshand new. The iPhone 5s stands in the tradi-tional role of high quality with a higher price.So what’s new and exciting in this launch?Unfortunately, not much. Both phones keepthe same “retina” display from the previousgeneration, which was outmatched long agoby flagship Android devices such as the HTCOne and Samsung Galaxy S4. The screen re-mains on the small side at 4 inches. On thepositive side, the camera has been upgradedwith a larger sensor in order to capture betterphotographs in low light, a welcome changefrom most smartphone cameras.

The 5s features a fingerprint scanner builtinto the home button which, while admittedlypretty cool, has rather limited functionality.Internally, Apple overhauled the central pro-cessing system and graphical processing sys-tem, though the average user will likely notnotice the difference. The iPhone 5c is allabout color. And plastic. I was very disap-pointed with Apple departure from aluminumas their material of choice in the iPhone, it wasone of the last things setting them apart fromSamsung in the smartphone arena. Other thanthe slightly improved camera, faster process-ing, and fingerprint scanner, the iPhone 5s isreally no different from the iPhone 5. It is im-portant to note that the iPhone 5c has identicalinternal hardware to the previous generationiPhone 5 and did not receive the same over-haul internally that the iPhone 5s obtained.

So, should you buy one of the newiPhones? Maybe. First and foremost, Istrongly advise against buying an iPhone 5c.Yes, it is $100 cheaper, but fundamentally it is

an old device. Considering that you’ll morethan likely be stuck with it for 2 years on acontract, $100 is a small price to pay for amuch nicer product. Secondly, wait a monthor so. Last year, the iPhone 5 went on sale foras little as $130 relatively soon after launch, itmay be that the 5s will follow the same trend.Finally, especially if you already own aniPhone 5, ask yourself if a fingerprint scanneris really worth a new contract and $200.

My advice? Wait for the iPhone 6. Usu-ally, Apple’s “s” iPhone models are a babystep above the original device. The iPhone 6will likely feature a larger, more detailedscreen, new wireless technologies, a more re-fined fingerprint scanner, and whatever magicdust Apple decides to throw in. If you ab-solutely must have a new iPhone, then buy the5s. If you can be patient, wait for the iPhone6. Or, consider trying out Android. Check outLG’s new Optimus G2 or the HTC One, whichhas a camera that handily beats the newiPhones in low light performance.

Apple’s latest flavorBY CALEB VANDER ARK

Sta ff Writer

The day before Apple’s iPhone an-nouncement, Asus revealed a new product thatmostly slipped under the radar. However,Asus’ new tablet they introduced may be wor-thy of more praise than Apple’s latest rehashof their iPhone. Why? Because Asus is fi-nally giving us a product that runs Windows 8and actually makes sense for the average con-sumer.

The Asus T100 builds on Asus’ venerableline of Transformer tablets. The concept is

simple: A tablet with a full keyboard andtrackpad dock that is specifically designed towork with the tablet and add functionality.When Windows 8 first launched, Asus andother companies released similar devices. Un-fortunately, they all resided somewhere northof the $700 range, far too much for a low-power tablet. With the T100, Asus is throwingall that out the window. It starts at a mere$350. Additionally, they are including thekeyboard dock by default even though it is tra-

ditionally sold separately. Furthermore, Asus is also bundling the

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013suite with the tablet for free. The T100 is a perfect example of what a Win-dows 8 device should be. It combines the ver-satility of a tablet with a full-fledged operatingsystem. The included keyboard dock gives asignificant edge in productivity over similarApple and Android tablets, especially sinceAsus indicated that they compared the key-

board with those found on Apple’s Macbooksand Lenovo’s Thinkpads to make sure it wasof high enough quality.

For $350 with Microsoft Office and thekeyboard dock included, the T100 is an excel-lent choice for students. The portability of atablet with the productivity of a laptop at anincredibly affordable price.

The Asus T100 hybrid – what Windows 8 is meant to beBY CALEB VANDER ARK

Sta ff Writer

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