The Falcon | Volume 81, Issue 26 |
Published 6/02/10 | Log In |
Beginning on July 1, students 21 and over may now consume alcohol without breaking SPU Lifestyle Expectations, as long as this activity takes place off-campus.
President Philip W. Eaton made the announcement, which he referred to not as a change but as a “newly clarified policy,” in an e-mail titled “One Last Message of the Year.” He sent the message to all SPU faculty, staff and students on the morning of Friday, June 4.
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For a population-based community health project, five nursing students organized a health fair that addressed homeless women's needs and provided information and resources for dental and vision services, mental illness, heart disease and hygiene, senior Annika McInnis said. The fair also supplied nutritional information, music therapy sessions and free mammograms. >>
As she sat making clothes on her mother's 60-year-old sewing machine, junior Jackie Ahrens' father told her she had two options: get a job or start a business.
Her business, Designs by Jackie Ahrens, would be the first step toward making her passion for sewing into a thriving business. She was 13 years old.
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Last Friday at 7 p.m., 72 Seattle Pacific women squeezed into 15 cars and traveled 900 miles down to San Francisco, where they helped serve the poverty stricken population of the city's Tenderloin District. >>
After 32 years of teaching at SPU, Weathers will retire this month. Weathers has taught 56 courses at SPU in four different departments. More often than anything else, he has taught courses in scuba diving and various forms of wellness courses, he said.
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Other than traveling abroad to teach in Ukraine and the occasional sabbatical, Professor of New Testament Eugene Lemcio has taught at Seattle Pacific continuously since 1974.
Now, after 36 years of teaching, Lemcio will retire at the end of this school year.
"Thirty-six years is a long time in one place," Lemcio said. "So (retirement) just seems natural."
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Of the six laptops that have been stolen from residence halls since March, Zdenek and Borcherdt's are the only two safely recovered so far.
However, the Seattle Police Department has identified a separate suspect whom they believe to have stolen another laptop, and they are working on getting an arrest warrant for him, said Vic Peirsol, associate director of Safety and Security. This other laptop, stolen on April 20 and belonging to Fourth West Ashton resident freshman Jacob Schmitt, has not yet been found.
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Professor of Educational Ministry Ed Smyth loves Oreos. His affection for the chocolate sandwich cookies dates back to the time when his family would feed them to ducks while relaxing on their boat in Boston, Mass.
Smyth enjoys them so much that, if he was about to die, he would want to eat just one more box of the cookies before he died, he said.
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Junior Kelsey Ricker picks up 5-year-old Drew and 8-year-old twins Elsie and Carmon at 3 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday from St. Anne School. She brings them home, helps them with their homework and keeps the children from fighting.
Other Seattle Pacific student nannies wait with Ricker to pick up children outside the school.
"It's so funny," she said. "I see other SPU people."
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Pastor Mark Abbott has devoted most of his life to ministering. In addition to going on missions trips to Haiti, the Philippines, Central Africa, South East Asia and India, he has ministered at several churches, including First Free Methodist Church, where he has been senior pastor for the past 28 years. >>
Last summer, senior and ecology major Daniel Congdon spent time handling wild deer with Eric Long, assistant professor of biology, as part of Long's research on deer movement.
Last Thursday, roughly 20 students and faculty, including Congdon, gathered in the Library Magazine Room. As attendees screened video footage of a helicopter shooting a net onto a deer, jaws dropped. Before setting the deer free, researchers outfitted the animal with a radio collar.
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Senior Amy Lipko, 34, and her husband Jonathan Lipko, 36, decided to get married while hitting golf balls at a driving range near their home nine years ago.
"Let's just do it," she said to him.
Three days later, the two married in Hawaii.
"I have no regrets (about eloping)," she said, tucking her feet into an armchair in Weter Lounge. "Other than I wish I had flowers in my hair."
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Senate approved the 2010-2011 ASSP Constitution at its final meeting of the year on Monday night. The approved document, which includes multiple bylaw changes and a constitutional amendment, will be used by next year's Senate. >>
On May 14, Faculty Senate voted down a proposal to recommend a new general education model that would have revamped the current Exploratory Curriculum.
The results reflected the divisiveness of the subject, with just 51 percent voting against the recommended model. Out of the 143 votes submitted, 73 voted against the proposal while 70 voted for it, according to an e-mail sent to all faculty by the Chair of Faculty Senate, Margaret Diddams, professor of industrial and organizational psychology.
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In passing the proposal, Senate voted to cut $19,807 from student pay, instead of the $23,307 from the task force's original suggestions. The updated numbers emphasized relatively equal cuts to all positions. As a result, media groups and ASSP positions were cut less than originally suggested, while cuts to ministries and STUB remained the same. >>
It is 6:30 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. The air is brisk and cold. It is late February and the sky is light grey as the sun slowly rises over the 520 Bridge and Lake Washington.
Husky Stadium is empty and silent. After sliding time cards upon arrival, Air Force ROTC cadets enter and form into their "flights" of 30 people at the end-zone on the field.
Murmurs of "good morning, cadet" float through the still, damp morning.
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Elisabeth James has been in business all her life, whether in a family-owned restaurant as a child or as general manager of Seattle's Westin Hotel, where she works now.
As part of a lecture for the School of Business and Economics' Dean's Speaker Series last Thursday, James emphasized the importance of having a practical strategy when entering the business world.
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On Friday evening, Steensma was one of roughly 50 Seattle Pacific students to attend University of Washington's Professor of Pediatrics Douglas Diekema's keynote address, "The Case of Vaccine Refusal: Medical Science, Parent Conviction, Child Welfare and Community Good." >>
Professor of English Tom Trzyna said his new novel, "Meeting God," is the culmination of a lifetime of experience. This includes his research in different aspects of Islamic culture and history, several business trips to the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, and a meeting with a peculiar man at a bar in Paris. >>
For freshman Bethany Thiel, whenever conversations switch to remembering a childhood toy or sitting on Santa's lap, she is left out. Sophomore Jonathan Hoover has not watched a single episode of "The Office." And when junior Samantha Smith went to Panda Express for the first time, her reaction was, "What is this?" >>
After six weeks of discussion, Senate approved the Allocation Board proposal. Senate also approved maintenance changes to the vice president of campus activities bylaws, but did not pass a proposal to change the Elections Task Force bylaws.
All of the changes will be incorporated into the ASSP Constitution, which will appear before Senate for approval during their final meeting next Monday.
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