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“Guns-in-trunks” becomes law; Trevecca looks at options

Beginning July 1, faculty and students who have a hand-gun permit might be able to bring a gun to campus if they lock it out of sight in their ve-hicle.

A new Tennessee state law will allow permitted hand-gun carriers to bring their guns anywhere in the state, including college campuses, provided that they are kept locked in their ve-hicle and remain out of sight.

Tennessee’s Governor, Bill Haslam, signed the “guns-in-trunks” bill into law after it passed through the state house and senate. The proposed bill has been a topic of debate since it was first proposed in 2009.

Currently, Trevecca’s 2012-2013 student handbook states that, “Firearms, including all types of air guns and toy guns, are not permitted on campus.”

However, state law will more than likely supersede any university or private place of business’s rules against bringing guns on their private property as long as it is kept inside the ve-hicle.

“We are waiting for an in-terpretation as to whether the

right to have that gun concealed in your vehicle on campus trumps the right of an employ-er to have in [their] employee handbook that an employee [or student] of the university is not permitted to have a gun on cam-pus,” President Dan Boone said.

If this is the case, it will still be against the law for anyone to bring a gun on campus, as it has always been. If not, however, then there is no legal action that can be taken if a permitted hand-gun carrier leaves a gun in his or her vehicle on campus.

Currently the law has left Trevecca in what Boone calls a “legal no man’s land,” meaning it is unclear whether or not some-one could be fired or suspended if they violate terms of their con-tracts by bringing a gun and leaving it in their car.

“So that’s the big ques-tion,” Boone said. “Can we still put that [gun policy] in the con-tracts and fire a person because they have broken one of our ethi-cal rules, or…can they sue us for firing them?”Who can legally leave a gun in

their vehicle?Tennessee’s carry permit

law is similar to most of the coun-try in that the person must be 21 -years-old, be free of any felonies

and complete a handgun safe-ty course. This would rule out most undergrad students from being able to qualify for a carry permit.

Students with a carry per-mit from another state will also be allowed to leave their guns in their vehicles, given that they are registered in their home states and have the permit with them at all times. According to usacarry.com, the state of Ten-nessee accepts carry permits from every state in the nation except Vermont, Illinois and the District of Columbia.

Last spring, Boone testi-fied against a similar bill that was being proposed in the Ten-nessee State House, and a year later he has not changed his stance.

“ It actually does [worry me]. There are 30-year-olds in the world that don’t have full control of their emotions, and the college years tend to be quite emotional years over all kinds of issues,” Boone said.

How this affects security With the possibility

of having multiple handguns on campus for the first time in school history, Boone and the administration will be working closely with campus security

to figure out the best way to re-spond.

There will be multiple options on the table from which to choose from, but one that would be the biggest change on campus would be the possibility of arming security, becoming the first Nazarene school in North America to arm security.

“[We have] studied [arm-ing security] twice since I’ve been here. And both times the re-sponse has been history has not given us a valid reason to arm our security,” Boone said.

However, having guns on campus in locked vehicles, along with a more paranoid pub-lic perception on guns and gun violence, may lead administra-tion to change that opinion.

The debate will not be an easy one. It will range be-tween Christian non-violence, and protecting the community.

“Am I willing to not use force available to protect another person [like students]? Do I have the right to make that choice for them? That’s where the ethical dilemma comes in,” Boone said. “I think administrators work from the point [where] we are respon-sible to protect those who can-not protect themselves...Going to be a tough question to answer

either way it goes.” When asked about

his thoughts and possible re-actions from security, Norm Robinson, director of campus security, declined to com-ment.

One of the fears of arming security, Boone said, is that if a criminal came onto campus with the intention of doing harm, a security guard with a gun may only invite confrontation.

Other options Arming security is

not the only option available in order to help ensure cam-pus safety.

One way Trevecca can use the new “guns-in-trunks” law to its advantage is to use professors who are per-mitted carriers to leave them in their vehicles, and, if there were to be some sort of emer-gency where it would be ap-propriate, grab their gun from the vehicle.

This form of campus crisis response has been im-plemented at some universi-ties, Boone said, and is some-thing that Trevecca would look into.

FNL back to Benson, twice as nice

Toby Haydel, a sophomore, preforms a footloose-like skit about dancing at FNL.

Tyler Whetstone

Editor-in-Chief

Friday Night Live returned to Benson Auditorium last Friday.

Tommy Byler, resident di-rector of Shingler and Wise male apartments, hosted FNL in its re-turn to the original stage of one of the year’s most anticipated events.

“I struggled with the fact that I’m an RD, so I needed to make sure that I could be a part of it while still maintaining being an RD as far as not being too of-fensive,” Byler said. “It was just me trying to think, ‘okay, can I still do it and still be funny, and still not get in trouble with the administration and still not of-fend anyone.’”

With this in mind, Byler still performed. His opening monologue on the “top 10” rea-sons why he was the best RD, set the mood for the laughter filled night.

Last year, FNL was forced to move to the Boone Business Building due to remodeling in Benson Auditorium. The massive

room accommodated everyone, but it wasn’t the same.

This year, even in a smaller setting than what FNL is normally in front of, the atmosphere and audience’s laughter was better than last years, Adam Crum, se-nior, said.

“I think it was a great show. The reaction and the reception from the crowd was a lot better than I expected,” Crum, social life director, said.

To accommodate the smaller capacity, FNL ran at both 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Both shows were sold out with all 188 chairs filled and standing room only, Crum said.

Previous favorite skits such as “The Weekend Update” re-turned, while new videos and skits making fun of every aspect about campus life from the ath-letes to the hipsters were joked about.

“We had a lot of people in-volved. We had athletes involved, we had SGA involved, [Byler] was involved so you have the RDs thrown in there [and] the RAs made videos,” Crum said.

The show began with Bri-an Johnson, senior, telling his friends of his surprise engage-ment party, while his friend, Sydney Maxfield, junior, freaked out excessively. This became one of several jabs at engaged couples on campus.

Graham Scott, senior, portrayed “Security guard Dave” on “The Weekend Up-date,” who just received his weapon for patrolling campus after the new “guns-in-trunks” law was passed March 15.

A committee began form-ing ideas for the show in Janu-ary, and up until the last min-ute, Crum wasn’t sure if they were going to be able to pull it off.

“You should have seen us at 2 p.m. the day of. We didn’t have lines memorized; we were still working the kinks out. And then the lights went up, and all of a sudden every-one got it down and the show went smoothly and the crowd thought everything was funny,” Crum said.

Tyler Whetstone

Editor-in-Chief

Photo by Griffin Dunn

More on “guns-in-trunks” on page 4

Letter from the Editor

The debate of which campus leader-ship positions are the most important has raged for decades, I can only presume.

This debate comes to a head every summer at Trevecca’s Leadership Summit where staff ed RAs, elected RHA members, peer mentors and elected SGA offi cers battle it out in fun competition.

I have attended two of these slug-fests, but couldn’t tell you the score. A silly balloon-toss game (harder than it sounds) shouldn’t determine which grouping of leaders are the best.

Its cliché and annoying, but we all fi ll a roll. No one is greater than the other. We all end up blazing one trail or another.

And I’m admittedly biased, as I fi nish my second year on SGA. I’ve ac-cepted the off er to edit the TrevEchoes newspaper for another year, which means another year of being a part of SGA.

I’ll be joined on SGA’s executive council by elected members who will try to represent the students as best as possible. However, going into the week after elections, there’s a spot missing, and I think it’s one of the most undervalued positions on campus.

Trevecca’s social life director position is vacant as of March 19. This isn’t good. You see, my position debatably assists all of Trevecca and rarely is a po-

sition for memory making for the student body.However, the whole idea of a social life director is someone who will

create events and spaces and places that directly impact all of campus and serve to create memories that students will remember for the rest of their lives.

Friday Night Live, 72 Hour Film Festival, Trojan Idol, Boonaroo, Wel-come Week, Dave Barnes and other concerts and many more events are put on every year because of the work of the social life director and his or her committee.

Sure it’s a lot of work, but that’s true for any leadership position. Some-body needs to run. I want more of these types of events. I want to continue making memories that help defi ne the year.

If you’re interested, talk to student development on the third fl oor of Jernigan.

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Letter to the editor: Dale Maddox’s thoughts on gun controlFirst off, I would like to say

that I greatly appreciated Nicole Wood’s article “Gun control: should history be policy?” I felt it was honest and unbiased. How-ever, I feel like there is much more to say. It is my aim to offer this writing from a place of respect, humility and love. In addition, this kind of topic weighs heavy on my heart and has caused an internal conflict that I have been battling for years with exten-sive research and much writing. Odds are, I won’t be able to fully explain myself in this article, but I want to encourage the reader to come and ask questions; I wel-come it. Although, it must be said that I don’t want to be attacked - I’m not saying I’m right. I’m just briefly expressing my beliefs and the results of many years of research. I hope that we can ex-pand each other’s opinions and learn from each other in order that we all may become better servants of Christ.

It is far too easy to pick a side and defend it to the end of the earth. It is much too tempt-ing to take statistics of the an-nual murders and to categorize

them down to what was used to commit the crime or to use some sort of simple logic--pencils are the cause of spelling errors, spoons make people fat, etc. It is easy to use the claim that ac-tion was taken in self-defense and rebut that claim by stating that there are other ways of de-fending oneself, such as martial arts. It can also be claimed that the cheapest and easiest form of self defense is firearms, and that banning firearms is only taking the weapons from the law abid-ing citizens because criminals won’t follow the laws anyway; that’s why they are criminals. It is even too easy to say that if we look historically at nations that implemented gun bans, the gov-ernments had absolute power and subjugated the people of the nations because the people didn’t have means of defending themselves.

I, truthfully, am not sure about where I stand. There are too many things to consider. I think it boils down to each indi-vidual person in different given circumstances, but even that is too easy of a claim.

I think we should all look at the topic on a deeper level

and stray away from the typical standpoints and arguments. In-stead of being firm in one posi-tion, I pray that we can humble ourselves to thoughtfully hear the other side.

Furthermore, in the inter-est of a firearm ban or increased firearm control, we should ask the questions of, “What will this mean to law-abiding citizens?” “What will this mean to the criminals?” “What will this mean to our military and law enforce-ment?” “What will this mean for our government?” We shouldn’t just stop there, but we should also ask what the effects are of each and how one affects the other. We should ask scholarly questions and seek educated answers.

On an individual basis, it becomes extremely complicat-ed. What are a person’s convic-tions? Can God call someone to be a trigger-puller? I think so. Theodore Roosevelt, my favorite president, once said, “In a mo-ment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” There could be exten-sive philosophical conversations and debates on the topic of the

right thing to do. I think it is a lit-tle subjective. For instance, I be-lieve that someone who chooses to act, even if it may be a violent act, can be right if the motive is just. Also, someone who chooses the passive route can be right in not acting out.

Most people think that ‘doing nothing’ in a physical al-tercation is actually doing noth-ing. However, it is actively being passive. I think doing nothing is doing no thing--basically, ignor-ing or pretending that any issues exist. This has the potential to be naïve. So, someone punching and someone getting punched can both be right; it depends on the situation. This is where discernment comes in. The call-ing that God has for your life de-pends much on discernment and what you choose to do in given situations. We are a community of believers, and we all have dif-ferent roles in which all have a powerful testimony.

Let’s really look at what is important here. It’s not that our ‘rights’ are being infringed upon. It’s not that the government is trying to control our lives. It’s not that the government is trying to screw us over. It’s not even who

is ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ I think what is really impor-

tant is how we can share the love of Christ in our daily lives, and how we can show that we are disciples of His great love.

What does that look like? Discipleship lies in the discipline of loving God with all your heart, soul, strength and being. There are many implications with that, and the largest is that we must RUN after Christ so that we may walk with Him each minute of each hour of each day. For dif-ferent people, that walk will look different, but one thing that we must remember is that we are all in this together and that we must love one another because He first loved us.

Which brings us to a whole other animal- what is LOVE, and how might we express this to everyone, even to our enemies? Who are our enemies? Is it possi-ble for us to love as Christ loves? These are things that many peo-ple have been trying to figure out for centuries, and I am still trying to figure it out.

Dale Maddox , senior.

Dale Maddox

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CAMPUS NEWS4 - March 2013

Amateur Night at the Apollo

You won’t be in Harlem, but Harlem will come to you.

Excel will be hosting Amateur Night at the Apollo on Friday, March 25, an interactive talent night in which the audience will be directly involved in choosing who is the star of the night.

Excel is a partnership program between Trevecca and the Memphis Leadership Foundation, which pro-vides scholarships for high school seniors in the Memphis commu-nity who show leadership skills and scholastic ability. Selected students are then recommended to attend Trevecca.

Excel was formed in 2009, and there are currently seven students in the program that attend Trevecca.

This is the first time that Trev-ecca will hold this event, which is based on an old game show set in Harlem, New York.

The show, which aired from 1987 to 2008, was a game show that featured both professional and un-professional singers and perform-ers trying to win the audience’s ap-proval in order to continue in the competition.

“Since we see this as an op-

portunity to introduce a culturally different event, we actually tried to keep some of the classic touches of the original Amateur Night at the Apollo,” Amy Murphy, coordinator of student disability services and Excel sponsor, said.

Some of these classic touches will include allowing the audience to choose who the winner will be. This will be done by having the au-dience clap for who they like and boo who they don’t.

Trevecca will add its own touch to the event.

“The original show has a good-luck wood stump that con-testants rub on their way onto the stage,” Murphy said. “We plan to use the Trojan helmet instead. I expect that our audience will have a lot of fun, but given Trevecca cul-ture, I also expect our overall at-mosphere to be somewhat gentler than the original Apollo.”

Amateur Night at the Apollo will take place in Benson Audito-rium located in McClurkan. Admis-sion will be free.

“We have a lot of talent and a good bit of variety. Of course we have singers, but we also have spo-ken word artists, a comedian, musi-cians, and dance performers”.

Carlos Ruiz

Staff Writer

On July 20, 2012, the country was shocked by news that an armed gunman had opened fire inside the crowded audi-torium of a Colorado movie theater. Five months later, a shooter entered an elemen-tary school in Connecticut and took many lives, including those of twenty children.

These tragedies reminded the world of the horrific massacres at Virginia Tech and Columbine.

“There’s no question in my mind that there will be another attack, and it will be equally tragic if not more so,” Dan Spross, professor of Biblical Theology and Litera-ture, said. “The question will then become, ‘Could it have been prevented? Did we do everything within reason to prevent it?’”

Spross and Nate Kerr, associate pro-fessor of religion, agreed to share their opinions and theological insights regard-ing the possibility of arming Trevecca’s se-curity force with guns, one of many options administration will begin looking into after Governor Bill Haslam signed the guns-in-trunks bill into law on March 15 (page 1).

According to Kerr, violence is not merely a category of human actions but a power, presence and product of sin.

In his understanding, the move to outfit the security force with guns would outwardly redefine Trevecca’s community.

“To arm ourselves is to define our-selves by this power of violence,” Kerr said. “Do we define ourselves by violence and fear?”

Kerr said that arming security will send a message to the community outside of campus.

“This campus has always been an en-clave in a violent and poor neighborhood,” he said. “If we feel the need to protect our-selves against other people, we are refus-ing to love them as our neighbor. We are telling them that we see them as potential enemies. There’s no trust there.”

Spross, himself a gun owner and huntsman, acknowledged that the intend-

ed use of a tool is a moral issue. In re-gards to arming Trevecca’s security force, he said, “Now we’re not talking about a tool per se, but a tool used exclusively as a weapon.”

“I think there are students here that on logical grounds, on biblical grounds and on theological grounds, would say that they hate guns,” Spross said. “I don’t have a theology of guns, because I don’t have a theology of tools. Like all tools, [guns] are morally neutral.”

Spross said arming security guards won’t automatically mean safety, but it might cause someone to think twice be-fore committing a violent act on campus.

“I don’t know that [arming security] will say much more than when we built a fence around much of our property and closed some streets,” Spross said. “I think it will say to some, ‘You will need to think twice about if you want to do a massa-cre at Trevecca.’ But I do not think it will guarantee our safety.”

Kerr said refusing to arm follows the example of Jesus.

“From the biblical perspective, this is exactly what you don’t do. You don’t

arm yourself against the world,” Kerr said. “When the world goes for its gun, we don’t have to. We refuse to, in fact. We see this throughout Jesus’ ministry.”

The potential move to provide cam-pus security with guns has prompted many questions in the minds of these two professors:

“Would Trevecca security having guns make this a safer place to live and work?” asked Spross.

“Is our community defined in terms of something that has to be protected against the outside world?” asked Kerr.

There are many more questions that will be asked as the administration looks into making Trevecca as safe as pos-sible as it continues to decide what to do about the guns-in-trunks law.

What questions do you have? Email them to us at trevechoes@gmail.com

Dillon Jones

Staff Writer

Religion professors weigh in on guns on campus

Research on post grad spirituality

A Trevecca student wants to know if going to a Christian univer-sity makes a difference in post-grad-uate lives.

Rachel Ridgill, a senior psy-chology and communications major, is using her senior seminar course to research the question: Does going to a Christian college have a unique ef-fect on the spiritual lives of students?

More specifically, Rid-gill is researching the various affects attending a Christian university or a public university can have on in-volvement in church and volunteer organizations in students’ post-grad-uate lives.

She is doing this by sur-veying the parents of graduated col-lege students from public and pri-vate universities in the southeast dis-trict of the Church of the Nazarene.

“Although surveying parents is not necessarily an ideal research method, it is the easiest method in this instance. Due to the nature and scale of this particular research study, as well as the resources avail-able to us, surveying parents is the best option.”

Though she is using Naza-rene churches as a polling base, the survey will focus on Christian college alumni in general. “Their kids could have gone to any Christian school, not just Nazarene, and not just Trev-ecca,” Ridgill said.

“Other studies,” Ridgill said, “have shown that there is a positive correlation between attending a Christian university and the level of involvement within the church and service organizations after gradua-

tion.” Crystal Martel, junior, has

attended both a public and Chris-tian university. She believes her experience at Trevecca has been formative.

“I have gone to two non-Christian schools in the south, and the teachers still talked about God, but it wasn’t as open as it is at Trev-ecca. Here, I know the teachers are actually praying for me personally.”

Dan Boone plans to pres-ent the findings at District Assem-blies, the first of which is in April.

If Ridgill’s research yields results that provide a factual foun-dation for Martel’s statements, they can be used to show the benefits of a Christian education to prospec-tive students and parents.

Nicole Wood

Copy Editor

As Trevecca looks into all of the possibilities of arming campus security, TrevEchoes searched for which schools currently had armed security.

All eight of the other Nazarene universities have unarmed security. Olivet Nazarene is the closest to arming their security, and has begun looking into what that would look like, similar to what Trevecca is doing.

Here is a list of other universities in and around Nashville and their level of security.

• Belmont – armed• Lipscomb – armed • Nashville State - not armed • Middle Tennessee State - cam-

pus police department (armed)• Tennessee State - campus police

department (armed)• Freed Hardeman – armed• Lee – not armed • Vanderbilt - campus police de-

partment (armed)

A look at local universities and their security

CAMPUS NEWS March 2013 - 5

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Three freshmen are back in class af-ter a car accident before spring break.

Matt Fuhrman, Aubrey Wessel and Zade Gundling were all hospitalized after the car they were riding in on their way to church struck a telephone pole.

After a few weeks healing, Gundling

has to wear a back brace for a while, Fuhrman, who currently has to use a wheelchair, will be staying off his hip for six weeks and Wessel, who was not injured as badly, is doing her best to take care of Fuhrman and Gundling.

On Feb. 24, Wessel was driving her 2006 Honda Civic on Edmonson Pike in Nashville while Gundling sat in the pas-senger seat and Fuhrman sat in the middle back seat.

“[To begin with] I had a feeling that maybe I should drive, but decided it was no big deal,” Fuhrman said.

On their way, Fuhrman was looking down at his phone while Gundling was looking down at a grapefruit that she was about to eat.

At about the same time, they looked up to see a large utility pole just a few feet in front of them as Wessel lost control of the vehicle at 55 miles per hour.

Wessel was unable to swerve out of the way, and hit the pole head on.

As they hit, Gundling’s grapefruit wasn’t the only thing flying through the car.

Fuhrman, who wasn’t wearing a seat belt, was thrown toward the windshield.

“I remember looking forward and I remember thinking one thing, ‘I can’t hit this windshield. I can’t die,’” Fuhrman said.

Just as he thought he was going to hit the windshield, he said he felt a strong, divine presence come upon him, keeping him from the death that may have oc-curred.

“It was a presence that was pull-ing me back into my seat and setting me there,” Fuhrman said.

With dust and debris in the air and tiny pieces of glass all over their skin, the students made their way out of the car.

Fuhrman had to pull himself out of the car first to let Gundling, whose door was jammed, out.

There was a nurse driving by right as they were climbing out of Wessel’s car, and she immediately was on the scene helping stabilize the students and telling them everything was going to be okay.

Fuhrman was put on a stretcher and taken away first, since he was in the most critical condition. Wessel and Gundling followed shortly after.

Fuhrman had to go under anesthe-sia to have a dislocated hip put back in place.

While Fuhrman was getting his hip put back into place, Gundling was be-ing kept under close watch because her spleen had cracked and was bleeding, which can have deadly results.

Wessel, had the fewest injuries.The three student have become

better friends and more aware of God’s presence during difficult times, they said.

“I learned a lot about myself and God; how he’s there in tragedies,” said Gundling.

Brennen Finchum

Staff Writer

Three students injured in wreck

Earlier this semester, Trevecca launched its new mobile app. Ac-cording to Trevecca’s blog, the free app is intended to provide students, alumni, faculty, staff and the public with information about the univer-sity.

“We created the app because the Trevecca website isn’t super mo-bile-friendly,” Kristen Steele, online communications manager, said.

The app features more than 20 tools, many with their own sub-features. According to Steele, the Athletics tool is particularly popu-lar, providing information for each of Trevecca’s sports team, including schedules.

“I love the directory,” Steele said. This tool provides users with the extensions of each faculty mem-ber and office on campus and allows calls to be made directly from the app.

The app is particularly useful for prospective students. Within the

Admissions tool, users can find and contact the Admissions Counselor for their region by entering their zip code as well as request general infor-mation from the university.

Additionally, visitors can use the app to take a self-guided campus tour using the GPS feature of their phones, complete with information about Trevecca’s buildings.

In addition to accessing videos through the app, users can also con-nect to Trevecca’s new Live Stream-ing program to watch sporting events and chapel services.

“Sorry, but no chapel credit,” said Steele.

The mobile app was designed by Straxis Technology, the company that also designed Vanderbilt Univer-sity’s mobile app.

The app is available both on Apple products and Android devices.

According to Steele, more than 550 people in 14 countries have downloaded the app from the iTunes store alone.

“Trevecca is all over the world with the mobile app,” Steele said.

Dillon Jones

Staff Writer

App spreads Trevecca’s reach

Commuters seek community

More flexibility for eating op-tions in the cafeteria would go a long way towards making commuters feel more a part of campus, said some commuter students.

Students who attend classes at Trevecca but opt not to live on cam-pus say rules about bringing outside food into the cafeteria and the price of buying their food in the cafeteria make it difficult to feel like they be-long in the Trevecca student com-munity.

“The current structure our school is endorsing is not one that includes the commuters, but rather excludes them,” said Micah Jordan, a junior commuter.

In the past few years, commut-er students have organized and lob-bied for changes such as a commuter lounge and a newsletter.

Occasionally, the cafeteria does offer $1 lunches to commuters, and once a month there are free meals for commuters, Maurine VanHouten, president of the commuter council, said.

However, some commuters still feel excluded from the on-campus student body by not being able to participate in the social hub on cam-pus—the cafeteria.

Commuters can eat in the caf-eteria if they purchase a commuter meal plan which allows commuters to eat breakfast and lunch, but they are not given credit for dinner, under the assumption that they would eat at home.

“It would be helpful if it was offered more often or if commuters were allowed to stay in the caf all day,” Paige Yant, commuting senior, said. “As it is right now, commuters can’t come in very often, and, when they can, it’s only for two hours. So, if your friends aren’t able to eat lunch during that time, you still miss out

on that chance for community. However, I do appreciate what is offered.”

Donna Cavin, food services manager for Pioneer who runs the Trevecca cafeteria, said it has never been their goal to make commut-ers feel unwelcome.

“It is never our intent to make someone feel left out or os-tracized,” Cavin said. “No one has ever been allowed to just come in and ‘hang out’ in the caf without some form of payment. From my understanding, that is why the stu-dent lounge was built, and that is what the Hub is for.”

One of the reasons the caf has been restricted, Cavin said, is limited seating.

“[Even with only paying cus-tomers entering], we sometimes have people waiting on seats.”

Also, there are health code violations that would be violated once the caf’s doors become open.

“We cannot allow outside food like sack lunches for two rea-sons,” Cavin said. “Health Depart-ment code violations [is one], and we know from past experience that some people who ask to come in and sit take advantage [of the situ-ation] and grab a drink or food [is the other].”

Local schools, such as Vanderbilt and Belmont, use a form of a “declining points” system. The student ID does not provide unlim-ited access, but, instead, works like a check card.

Food is purchased with these points, and each purchase causes a decline in points. Commuters and residential students are allowed to dine together in a communal sit-ting area, but no one is allowed to get food without paying for it.

For more information about the Commuter Council contact Ma-rine VanHouten at mevanhouten@mail.trevecca.edu.

Photo by Blake Simoneaux

Photo by Blake Simoneaux

Nicole Wood & Sarah Suits

Copy Editor & Staff writer

Top: Wessel’s 2006 Honda Civic is completely totaled after hitting the utility pole. Bottom: the air bags de-ployed and the passenger’s seat broke in the accident.

Q&A With Ben Tyree Lady Trojans softball head coach Ben Tyree is in his fi fth season at

Trevecca. Tyree’s record at Trevecca is 151-56-1 and his softball team fi nished 3rd in the NCCAA National Tournament a year ago.

He took time to answer a few questions for TrevEchoes.

Justin Cockrell

Staff Writer

You’ve had some success in the last couple of years; how do you plan to continue that success and maintain the quality of performance that Trevecca is striving to be known for?

-I think by recruiting great student athletes that are look-ing for a good education and are able to compete at a high level. We want players of high character but also willing to work hard and know what it means to compete for a championship.

What do you expect from athletes that sign on to play for Trevecca?

-To know what it means to be a team player and do what-ever it takes for the team to win or succeed in whatever we are doing. Team is fi rst, “I am second.”

What is your favorite thing about coaching softball? -Watching our players doing well on the fi eld and the class-

room, getting that degree at the end of their time here on cam-pus. Also, watching our players celebrate and cheering on their teammates and not taking anything for granted. Introducing new players and fam-ilies to our school that did not know much about it previ-ously.

Where did you learn about softball to want to coach it?

-I have always been involved in athletics my entire life, but helping my daughters and coaching their teams made me learn as much about the sport as I could. Former TNU Coach Reyn-olds taught me a bunch about the game of fastpitch and what it takes to compete.

What are you looking for as far as student body sup-port?

-The athletic teams have been a big part supporting each other. We would love to have those Moore Maniacs create a huge home fi eld advantage for us and to support our team that works and prepares very hard.

Baseball remaining home gamesMarch 26 North Alabama 6 p.m.March 29 Cedarville University 2 p.m. Cedarville University after game oneMarch 30 Cedarville University 12 p.m. Cedarville University after game oneApril 19 Urbana University 4 p.m. Urbana University after game one

April 20 Urbana University 12 p.m. Urbana University after game oneApril 24 Union University 6 p.m.

Softball remaining home games March 23 Cedarville University 2 p.m. Cedarville University after game one March 28 Ursuline College 2 p.m. Ursuline after game one March 29 Georgetown College 2 p.m. Georgetown College after game one April 3 Kentucky Wesleyan 4 p.m. Kentucky Wesleyan after game one April 15 Bryan College TBA April 16 Tennessee Wesleyan 3 p.m. Tennessee Wesleyan after game one April 20 Urbana University 12 p.m. Urbana University after game one April 23 Bethel University 3 p.m. Bethel University after game one April 25 Union University 3 p.m. Union University after game one

SPORTS6 - March 2013

Baseball: starts slow, gets hot

The Trojans (14-10), lead by the bat of reigning G-MAC player of the week, Jordan Fore-man, have won seven of their last eight games, including the last fi ve in a row as of March 18.

A record with several more wins than losses would indicate that the Trojans are play-ing well so far this season, but it is a record that Schmaltz thinks could be much better, and there is room for improvements to be made.

“I thought we would be off to a better start than [14-10], but I did schedule more chal-lenging games that should help us out down the road,” Schmalz said.

In order to do that, Schmaltz knows that defensively the Trojans will have to be sharp, as they have let mental mistakes in the fi eld hurt them up until this point in the season.

“The area that needs to improve the most is our defense, we need to clean up some plays that we have missed early in the season,” Schmalz said.

The record is also impressive considering the harsh weather that the team has faced in or-der to prepare for and play their games in so far this season.

“It is a challenge to practice this time of

year. We have had some inconsistent weather, but it has been relatively dry all spring. We will practice in the cold as long as the fi eld is dry, but the weather is really something that we have to overcome and rise above as a team. We try hard not to let it become an excuse,” Schmalz said.

In other baseball news, Jordan Fore-man was named G-MAC Offensive Athlete of the Week March 12. Foreman hit .526 and drove in four runs on the week and lead the Trojans and the G-MAC with a season batting average of .548. Tim Bowles has also been named the G-MAC pitcher of the week on a week in which he struck out a team high sev-en batters and only allowed one earned run.

Softball: weather slows season’s start

The Trevecca Women’s Softball team has started their 2013 season with a record of 4-4 as of March 17.

The team has had a hard time putting to-gether a streak of any kind this season because of the gaps in play due to weather. The lady Tro-jans have had three games canceled already this season, all taking place at a point in the season where they had won two games in a row.

“Hopefully, we will continue to get some game experience and get some of our players healthy,” head coach Ben Tyree said. “We have run into some weather problems and injuries that have kept us from getting where we want to be,”

The fi rst G-MAC games are set to take place later this month, beginning on March 23. The team will be facing new opponents and begin-

ning new rivalries. “In some ways, it is exciting to see who

will be some of our new rivalries while giving up some old ones,” Tyree said. “We played Ce-darville last year at the NCCAA nationals, so I assume they will be one of the teams we will be looking forward to play.”

Lady Trojans lose in G-MAC fi nal

The Lady Trojans (20-8) fell to Urbana Uni-versity 70-63 in the fi nals of the G-MAC tour-nament, ending their fi rst season in their new conference.

Lady Trojans battled their way to a regular season G-MAC championship with a win against Urbana University on February 23rd, avenging a loss to Urbana on February the 2nd. However, they were not able to repeat the success and lost once again to Urbana in the fi nals.

“It looked like a dominating performance by them, but if we make our free throws we win. We won almost every statistical category but the most important one,” head women’s bas-ketball coach, Gary Van Atta, said.

The Lady Trojans did, however, bring home the regular season G-MAC championship, fi nishing with a 7-1 conference record in their in-augural season as members of the conference.

“There has never been a championship team in women’s basketball at TNU, so this

is huge for this team. They went through so much adversity last season with all the season ending injuries, they deserve to be Champions,” Van Atta, said.

The loss to Urbana also meant the end of four seniors’ careers at the University, in-cluding Heather Miller, Rachel Raby, Lauren Wasson and Anissa Ragland.

“We will really miss the four seniors, not just because three of them are post play-ers but because of how they led this team on and off the court,” Van Atta said.

With the loss of the seniors comes the arrival of three very promising freshman for the 2013-2014 season. These freshman in-clude 6’0 Sarah Raby (Class A Ms. Basketball Finalist from Moore County) and 5’11 power forward Megan Kilburn (Region MVP) and 5’8” shooting guard Morgan Long (District MVP).

In other women’s basketball news, Ra-chel Raby and Christina Curtner were named to the NCCAA Mid-East Region Team.

Tyler Comer

Sports Writer

Tyler Comer

Sports Writer

Tyler Comer

Sports Writer

Cade Seeley, junior, waits for a pitch against Asbury University.

Natalie Papini, senior, delievers a pitch against Austin Peay University.

Photo courtesy of Greg Ruff

Photo courtesy of Greg Ruff

ENTERTAINMENT March 2013 - 7

After a decade-long hiatus, one of the most influential musicians of all time has released a full-length album. “The Next Day” is exactly what you ex-pect from David Bowie – unpredictable, unapologetic and somewhat unexplain-able.

With “The Next Day,” Bowie has put to music a feeling of resigned fear in a world seemingly incapable, or at least unwilling, to learn from its past. Ironically, an album whose title implies a theme of newness features a great deal of deathly imagery. Even the al-bum cover is a statement in this vein: a large white square imprinted with the words “The Next Day” covers the art-work from his widely popular 1977 al-bum, “Heroes.” The message seems to be that the ‘Next’ is nothing more than what can be created in the space left by the dwindling of the ‘Prior’ (consider the track “How Does The Grass Grow?”).

“The Next Day” is a rock album through-and-through, built on the many sounds Bowie helped create and popularize. The music is dense, thick with bass and drums. On top of the rhythm section, sound synthesizers and saxophones with guitars and Bowie’s voice fill out the sound.

Lyrically, Bowie has again tapped the intellectual depth he is known for.

Album Review: The Next DayThe track “Where Are We Now?” evokes the same feelings of transient, almost ghostlike traveling found in early Hemingway. “Heat,” the album’s closer, speaks to the sometimes painful aspect

of expression: the artist’s struggle to represent his or her perceived world and its truths truthfully. “I am a seer,” Bowie sings, “but I am a liar.”

At the ripe age of 66, Bowie has crafted an honest album speaking to his years of experience. Like many elders of art, what he has seen and what this has taught him are not the most uplifting impressions. However, like many great artists, Bowie finds beauty even in this apparent gloom. “The Next Day” is cer-tainly worth checking out, if for no oth-er reason than to experience the latest creation by a music legend. It’s David Bowie. It’s quite strange. It’s very good.

Dillon Jones

Staff Writer

March not only marks the halfway point to this semester, it also marks the halfway point to the explosion of sum-mer movies that are due to be released. Until that time comes, however, you can use these selections and new releases to hold you over.

Netflix• Cloud Atlas• Rise of the Guardians• The Untouchables• Playing for Keeps• Zero Dark Thirty• The Collection• Killing Them Softly

DVD and Bluray• Rise of the Guardian• Smashed• Life of Pi• The First Time• In Their Skin• The Details• Zero Dark Thirty• The Hobbit: An Unexpected

Journey• THIS IS 40• Les Miserables• The Collection• Lincoln• Killing them Softly• Wreck it Ralph• The Twilight Saga: Breaking

Dawn Part 2Theater:

• Oz: The Great and Powerful• Dead Man Down• The Incredible Burt Wonder-

stone• The Call• Olympus Has Fallen• G.I. Joe retaliation• The Host

Redbox: • Wreck it Ralph• Playing for Keeps• The Untouchables• A Dark Truth• Skyfall• Rise of the Guardians• The Man withe Iron Fists• Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away• Seal Team Six• Argo• Zero Dark Thirty• Lincoln• Killing Them Softly• Atlas Shrugged Part 2

What to watch in MarchJon Brooks

Staff Writer

Nashville is warming up, and it’s been a long winter looking forward to spring. With that being said, here are a few things that you can do now that the weather finally permits it.

Parks Parks are a great idea, and they’ve

been mentioned in previous articles, but it’s been three months since it’s been warm enough to enjoy them. Centen-nial Park is always lovely in the spring as things begin to bloom around the Par-thenon. Dragon Park off 21st Avenue, is also nicer when it’s warm. There are plenty of other places that haven’t been mentioned yet, such as Parkwood Rec-reation Center (3220 Vailview Dr), Fannie Mae Dees Park (2400 Blakemore Ave) and Percy Warner Park (7311 Hwy100). A few other places that also are great for springtime activities are The Centennial Sportsplex (222 25th Ave N), Climb Nash-ville( 3630 Redmon St) and Warner Park Nature Center (7311 Hwy 100). These are great ways to get you into the spring

mood before the spring cleaning and final exams set in.

21st Avenue North, about 10 minutes from campus, is a street with many shops and places to eat. One of these places includes Mc-Dougals, which is a local chicken place that has roomy outdoor seat-ing. The Belcourt Theater, site of Trevecca’s 72 Hour Film Festival, is also located here, along with Fido’s, a small coffee shop. All of these are right next to Dragon Park, which was previously mentioned. It’s a little stretch that reminds me of a small town place located down-town.

Perhaps you are a thinker, one who appreciates nature, art and gardens. If you are such a person then consider giving Cheekwood a visit. It has a selection of art that can be enjoyed on their property, which changes depending on the time of year. Year round, they of-fer a botanical garden tour. Chee-kwood will have a selection of five other gardens as well, which are all becoming beautiful with the recent change of weather. Currently they are hosting an exhibition of an art show called “Light.” Whatever your taste may be, it seems that if you en-joy nature and art then Cheekwood is definitely a place worth checking out. It is located at 1200 Forrest Park Drive, Nashville TN, 37205

Also, consider that there are many others to view outside of Nashville as well. Don’t limit your-self to just local attractions.

Spring Fling: what to do with the nicer weather

Food review: The PharmacyMarch has ushered in spring. Folks

are tossing Frisbees in the quad, airing out their jorts and the cherry blossom trees are in full bloom. What better time to take a large dose of fresh air and Ten-nessee beef, compliments of The Phar-macy Burger Parlor and Beer Garden?

This burger joint has the hip vibe East Nashville eateries tend to embody, mixed with a bit of old-timey charm rem-iniscent of the idyllic soda shops of yore. I might add, it is an appropriate spot to try your hand at the classic two-straws-one-milkshake-with-your-love moment.

The burgers are made with Ten-nessee beef, supported by a soft roll baked by Provence Breads and Cafe.

Maybe it is less about the beef, and more about the toppings for you. The menu includes a unique selection of ex-tras to make things interesting (wasabi aioli, muenster cheese, curry ketchup, fresh jalapenos, etc.).

The soda at the Pharmacy is home-made and free of caffeine, preservatives, corn syrup, and artificial flavoring. It is

sweet, fizzy and delicious! The “beer garden”, as the out-

door dining area at the Pharmacy is referred to, is a grassy yard with picnic tables and strung lights. It is altogether intimate and casual, with the feel of a neighborhood cookout.

Bear in mind that parking can be a challenge. Also, there tends to be a hefty wait for dinner on the weekends.

Highlights: Creamsicle (orange soda, cream, vanilla syrup), The Farm Burger (TN beef, tripp country ham, emerald glen farm bacon, willow farm egg, maple mustard), Wurstchen (Housemade sausages served on a Provence roll with house kraut, horse-radish and beer mustards)

Location: 731 McFerrin, Nashville, TN

Hours: Sun-Thurs 11am - 10pm, and Fri - Sat 11am-11pm

Jon Brooks

Staff Writer

The climbable dragon statue is a must see part of Nashville’s parks.

FEATURE8 - March 2013

Meagan Smith – Tennessee Hall

Where are you from? Oswego, NY [which is] right on

Lake Ontario, closer to Niagara Falls than New York City.

Where did you go to school?I did my undergrad program with

a double major in journalism and music at the State University of New York at Oswego, and I fi nished my Master’s de-gree in college counseling and student development at Azusa Pacifi c University in Southern California.

What is something interesting about your background?

I have two younger sisters and an awesome brother-in-law. I’ve landed a parachute by myself. Ira Glass is my ce-lebrity crush. I know all the words to Bo-hemian Rhapsody. I won a reading com-petition in fi rst grade. I sewed my own prom dress. I got left at the Sistine Cha-pel when I was in Italy and had to fi nd my way back to the hotel where the group was staying. If none of that is interesting, then I guess I’m not, either.

Where were you before coming here?

I was living in northeast India working with Hope Beyond Today, a child sponsorship program that some friends of mine started about eight years ago. Before that I was the assistant direc-tor of the Center for Academic Service-Learning and Research at Azusa Pacifi c University.

You’ve had a semester to settle in to Trevecca and its campus; what can you say about living here and being an RD?

There are some pretty amazing people at Trevecca, and I have really enjoyed being part of this welcoming community. Being an RD is a crazy but wonderful life, and I’m so thankful for this opportunity.

Do you enjoy what you do?Definitely. I love to journey with

people as they wrestle with the real stuff of life, and I get to do that every day in my job. Each day is diff erent and occa-sionally people laugh at my jokes – how could life be any better?

Do you think you’ll stick around

for a while since you’ve had your fi rst semester with the job?

The Tennessee Hall team is pumped for what God has in store for us. I’m excited about the goals our RHA and RAs have for themselves and the residents here. It’s really a privilege to be part of seeing those dreams come to life.

How important is a connection with your girls in the hall you’re in charge of?

I love getting to know the resi-dents. It’s an honor to have someone share a piece of their story with me, whether it’s a book that’s changed her worldview or a prayer request that’s weighing heavily on her heart. Every resident has diff erent needs, and not everyone is looking for a deep connec-tion with their RD, but my goal is to be approachable and live authentically so that I am available in whatever healthy ways I can be.

Do you feel that you can really have a positive aff ect on the people you are responsible for?

Absolutely. And it’s because of the miracle of grace, not because I pos-sess some amazing skill set or secret knowledge. I think the greatest gift we can give to others is the beauty of their brokenness, because that is the place of miracles and freedom. Can I just say that is not a fun road? Ouch. But can I also say that if you see any joy, love, compassion or strength in me it is be-cause we serve a God who does not leave us in our depression, fear, judg-ment or shame? I carry the Spirit of resurrection within me, and that spirit brings life wherever it goes.

What is your favorite part about Nashville?

I love the hiking, the music, the friendly people and the opportuni-ties to learn new things. The new bike share program downtown is great.

What was your favorite event at Trevecca?

My favorite times this year have been the meaningful conversations I’ve had with students and co-work-ers. There was also one day when I got cookies in the mail. That was a great day.

Get to know the new RD: part two

“Chips and Drink?!” Many students at Trevecca

Nazarene University have been asked this question at some point in their col-lege career, standing in line at Trevecca’s sandwich shop “The Cube,” located in the Boone Business Building. For many stu-dents, however, this question is a trade-mark slogan of Trevecca food service employee Dennis Clay.

Students who have interacted with Clay at some point during their time at Trevecca know that he has an infec-tious positive personality. Clay enjoys in-teracting with the students during meal times and when he sees them around campus. It’s not hard for Clay to stay posi-tive.

“It takes less muscles to smile than it does to frown… ‘He’s got a big smile on his face.’ That’s what kids tell me everyday. ‘Dennis I don’t care what we do or what happens you always have a smile on your face.’ I think it’s permanent sometimes,” Clay said.

Born and raised in Nashville, Clay has been involved with food service

for most of his life. At 18-years-old and upon completion of high school, Clay joined the United States Army and was part of one of the first groups from Tennessee to leave for Operation Des-ert Storm in Saudi Arabia.

During his time in the army, Clay worked mainly in supply, and part of his job entailed ordering food for mess halls. During this period of his life, Clay realized that he enjoyed dealing with and helping people.

Clay retired from the army after 18 years. Between his time in the army and his time at Trevecca, Clay has worked at Tennessee State University, First American Bank and as a banquet captain at Holiday Inn Express.

According to Clay, one thing students may not know about him is that his nickname is “hamburger.” When Clay was younger he was more heavyset than he is now and weighed close to 265 pounds. When he returned from Saudi Arabia Clay lost some of his weight due to sickness.

In addition to his job at Trev-ecca, Clay also works with Trevecca Community Church (TCC) on Wednes-days after he gets off work. Clay deliv-

Jonathan Wright

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ers foods to other churches some nights, while other nights he stays on campus and serves food at TCC.

Clay spends his weekends play-ing a little golf, spending time with his grandkids and doing various things around the house.

Clay is a familiar face around campus.

“I see everybody, I meet every-body,” Clay said.

Today he can be spotted work-ing in the cafeteria, but in the past 10 years Clay has worked in every location on campus that serves food. Starting in the cafeteria, Clay made pizzas for two years. He graduated from the cafeteria to become the manager of The Hub for four

years, but then had to leave Trevecca because of health issues.

During his time away, Clay underwent triple bypass surgery, and was told he would not be able to work again. After a year, however, Clay re-submitted his application to Trevecca and was hired again.

“I knew the Lord was good,” Clay said.

Clay hopes he will continue to work at Trevecca for some time to come. His wife of almost two years, Gwynne, also works for Trevecca as a stewardess, which really makes Trev-ecca feel like a family for him. He sees himself working at Trevecca as long as Trevecca will have him, he said.

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