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CU Students for Life Protests Pro-Choice Rally in Cleveland

(photos by Naomi Harward) A group of students from Cedarville’s Students for Life (SFL) organization traveled to Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday, Sept. 10  to protest a pro-choice promotional concert sponsored by the All-Access Coalition. The Coalition advocates for unrestricted abortion being made available to all American women. For this free concert in Cleveland, the Coalition recruited several celebrities to perform at and to host the event (including the singer Sia) in order to ...

Cedarville Partners with Answers in Genesis for Creation Conference

Cedarville University is partnering with Answers in Genesis (AIG) on Sept. 15-16, 2016 to present a conference highlighting the importance of a biblical worldview concerning creation. CU President Thomas White said both groups hope the Creation Conference will show their shared commitment to the authority of scripture, particularly in regards to man and the origin of the universe. “I suspect this issue will be one of the major worldview challenges Cedarville graduates will face,” ...

Welcoming Back “Amazing Grace”

Watch highlights of Norman's homecoming

Meet Jennifer Taggart, Cedars’ new editor-in-chief

Jennifer Taggart is a senior journalism major from northern Ohio. She first came to Cedarville as a high school student for a summer journalism camp. The past three years, she has worked as a reporter and section editor for Cedars. Watch this video for her personal story. It was produced near the end of last school year by freshman journalism student Keegan D'Alfonso, who is serving as the off-campus news editor this year.

Former Cedars Editor-in-Chief Wins SPJ Award

Anna Dembowski won second place in the Best College Feature Writing category at the Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.  Her winning article Safe Spaces and Speech: A Wordless Battle was published in the December 2015 issue of Cedars. Dembowski, former Cedars editor-in-chief and 2016 Cedarville journalism graduate, is now a reporter at the Community Impact Newspaper in Texas. Ohio's Best Journalism Contest chooses winners based on the ...

Born Out of the Fires of Failure

Andy Graff hadn’t written one creative sentence since editors rejected the novel he’d spent seven years writing. Two years had passed since the manuscript he’d labored over through college, grad school and beyond found a home in his dresser drawer, never to be read by anyone else. So he sat in front of his fireplace on a Wisconsin winter night, feeding old college papers, notes and syllabi to the flames. As he went through the boxes, throwing the reminders of his college ...

Cedarville to Launch Cybersecurity Track in Fall 2016

Cedarville University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science is launching a cybersecurity track within the computer science major for the 2016-2017 school year. In a post-Edward Snowden, Apple v. FBI age, cybersecurity is in the news nearly every day, and Cedarville's program will allow its students to be competitive in the computer science field. According to Dark Reading, a cybersecurity news site, there is a lack in cybersecurity education. Of the top 10 computer science and ...

Ethics and the Pharmacist

Controversial issues such as late-term abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and contraceptives have dominated the news in recent month. Because of their controversial and difficult nature, these issues represent the need for the study of ethics. Merriam-Webster defines ethics as “an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior; a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right and wrong.” Because ethics and healthcare are closely tied, ...

Comparing Pharmacy Graduate Programs

Students in Cedarville University’s School of Pharmacy are already making their mark in healthcare, despite the program’s youth. As the first class of doctoral students graduates on May 7, who are Cedarville’s competitors in the pharmacy profession? What professional opportunities or concentrations do other graduate programs offer pharmacy students? Cedars researched six pharmacy graduate programs at Midwest or faith-based institutions to provide a summary of Cedarville’s competiti...