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Concealed Carry: Will Cedarville Pull the Trigger?

Cedarville’s administration is still considering changes to its firearms policy, but little progress has been made in the past 10 months. In April 2013, campus safety director Douglas Chisholm told Cedars in an interview that Liberty University’s recent changes to its firearms policy inspired Cedarville to look into similar changes. “After we got the information on Liberty, I passed it on to key people who are reading it,” Chisholm said. “There’s been more discussion on an ...

Cedarville Offers New Scholarship

Trina Jones is just like any other Cedarville student. She is a freshman getting used to life at Cedarville. But Jones has a unique back story. Jones grew up in the foster system and is the first student to attend Cedarville on the Students from Foster Care Scholarship. This is her first semester. Jones entered the foster care system when she was 2 years old and stayed in the system until she was 18 and became legally emancipated. Her mother was disabled and she only met her father ...

Is Grad School Worth It?

As 2003 Cedarville graduate Mike Kibbe discovered, one is never too old to listen to Dad. Immediately after graduating from Cedarville, Kibbe, a Bible major, enrolled in Dallas Theological Seminary to earn a 4-5 year Master of Theology degree. He dropped out two years into the program. “My dad told me it was a dumb idea to go right into grad school, and I didn’t listen,” Kibbe says, laughing. “He was right.” Kibbe says he went to graduate school because he wasn’t sure what ...

What Kind of Graduate Education Is Most Valuable?

Many factors are involved in choosing a graduate school. What kind of graduate school would be most valuable for you? Public vs. Private “I was more interested in what division of sports that they had because I’d be working with their athletes.” --Mary Bernecker, Wright State, Athletic Training “For graduate school, I knew it would be a little different because I knew I was going to be mostly at home, I would be commuting there and back, so it didn’t really matter to me as ...

Grad School Abroad

Attending an international graduate school can have a long-lasting effect on a student’s life academically, culturally, spiritually and financially, said Cedarville professors. Bible professors Greg Couser, Dan Estes and Jason Lee, attended graduate school in Great Britain. And though the language is (mostly) the same, they said the social and academic experience is quite different. For grad students and their families, they said studying abroad can be a positive, life-changing experienc...

Professionals Enjoy Time as Graduate Students at Cedarville

Cedarville offers four different master’s degrees and is looking to add more. The university supplies graduates with master’s degrees in business, nursing and education, along with a seven-year pharmacy program that culminates with a doctorate of pharmacy. Cedarville is also in the process of accepting applications for the inaugural class of the new master’s degree in ministry spearheaded by the school of Biblical and theological studies. Undergraduate students may wonder what the ...

Students to Choose New SGA in Friday Elections

Students will soon select their new leaders for the 2014-15 school year at Cedarville. On Friday, Feb. 21, students will vote in the SGA elections to select the new president, vice president and chaplain. The candidates for the presidency and vice presidency are Zach Curtis and Becca Davies running against JT Bennett and Allie Brown. The chaplain candidates are Stephen Clark and Andrew Gutberlet. Did you enjoy super hero night or Downpour? You have Zach Curtis to thank for that. Curtis, ...

Abortion Debate Ultimately an Ethics Debate

Doctors took a Texas woman off of life support on Jan. 26 after a drawn-out legal battle between the hospital and the woman’s family. And the case of Marlise Muñoz continues to highlight how Americans struggle with the issue of abortion as new ethical dilemmas present themselves to the medical world. Erick Muñoz found his wife lying unconscious on their kitchen floor on Nov. 26 after she been there for over an hour. Her husband found her and rushed her to the hospital. Doctors suspected ...

Recent Survey Shows Increasing Prevalence of Post-Christian Mindset

A recent survey reveals that 37 percent of Americans meet standards for having a post-Christian theology. Jason Lee, the dean of Cedarville’s school of biblical and theological studies, said post-Christianity is the replacement of Christian language, ideals and worldviews in a culture with secular ideals, language and worldviews. To examine the shift in post-Christian America, Barna Group, a research company aiming to integrate spirituality into culture, surveyed 42,855 Americans on ...

Creationism Debate Presented Views, No Clear Winner

Students filled the bottom of the Jeremiah Chapel in the Dixon Ministry Center as the time on the projected countdown clock slipped away. Students yelled to their friends, motioning them over to saved seats. Others literally skipped in. 5…4…3…2…1... The chapel erupted into applause as Ken Ham and Bill Nye appeared on the screens. All over the nation, thousands of people watched via live stream and in person at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., to hear Ken Ham and Bill Nye ...