the clause for march 5, 2014
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SPORTS COUGAR CATCH-UP: TENNIS’ SUCCESSFUL START 10
LIFESTYLE A LOOK AT THE WORLDWIDE MISSIONS THIS SUMMER 6
OPINION THE ‘I WENT TO AFRICA AND IT TOTALLY CHANGED MY PROFILE PICTURE’ TRAP 9
ClauseWEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014 – VOL. 50, NO. 13 – WWW.THECLAUSE.ORG
student voice of azusa pacific university since 1965
POST-GRAD LIFE 5
Annie Z. Yueditor-in-chief
Soon-to-be gradsattend sessionson networking,
nancial successand post-grad
transitions
Seniors
prepare for
‘Life After
Graduation’
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Hospitality tosee changesHospitality Services will
adopt earlier hours to
accomodate new class
schedules and implement
a “point system” for dining plans. 5
Do you know what
you’re eating?A look at potentially-harmful
ingredients you may be
consuming on a daily basis. 7
Cedric Roldan PHOTO
Be aware of some ingredients,
like xanthan gum, that arefound in common foods.
Kimberly Smith PHOTO
Upcoming ‘point system’ planwill allow students to purchase
items à la carte.
Katie Richcreekassistant news editor
The team headed
to Florida fortheir rst national
tournament
Counseling Center, SGA discuss gender identity
Ethics Bowl team competes nationally
ETHICS BOWL 3
APU Sports Information COURTESY
Jessica Melcher:PROFILE
Sophomore returns
with updated
swing 10
Kimberly Smith GRAPHIC The sessions explore the importance of sensitivity to and awarenessof sexual orientation and gender identity issues.
Azusa Police Department COURTESY
RAINSTORMS & MUDSLIDES: The strongest rainstorm since 2010 prompted
mandatory evacuations over the weekend for about 1,200 homes in Azusa and
neighboring areas. Many homes were in areas affected by Colby Fire.
Kimberlee Buckstaff writer
GENDER 5
Second educational
event leads to
upcoming student
summit on gender
minorities
Several dozen seniors at-
tended a “Life After Graduation”
event late Saturday morning to
prepare for post-graduation life,
with a light breakfast, three semi-
nars, professional head shots and
networking with alumni over a
Chick-l-A lunch.
The event cost $10 per stu-
dent and was coordinated by
Kristi Hawkins, assistant director
for the Ofce of Alumni & Parent
Relations, with help from Career
Services, the School of Businessand Management and the Omega
Program. There were 55 seniors
on the RSVP list, according to
Hawkins.
Senior communication stud-
ies major Allessondra Goble said
she decided to attend because she
“realized how real the real world
is.”
“One of the best things about
this university is that they are so
intentional about equipping stu-
dents in every way possible,” she
said.
The rst “Life After Gradua-
tion” was hosted last fall, although
Azusa Pacic’s Ethics Bowl team
headed to nationals for the rst time
this week and ended up placing 12th
in the nation at the Intercollegiate
Ethics Bowl National tournament in
Jacksonville, Fla. APU was one of 32
universities to compete.
According to associate philoso-
phy professor and faculty adviser
Rico Vitz, the ve-member team
nished as the top-performing uni-
versity from the California Region
after placing second overall in theDecember regional competition and
being the only Council of Christian
Colleges & Universities school there.
The team members received the
cases for nationals in January, al-
lowing only eight weeks of prepara-
tion, according to Vitz. Additionally,
there were 15 cases as opposed to the
twelve cases in the fall regional com-
petitions.
“The funny thing about nation-
als is that we have less time to work
with the cases but more cases to work
with,” said sophomore English and
philosophy double major Alain Leon,
who joined the team this academic
year. “You’re breathing, eating and
sleeping cases.”
Azusa Pacic won two of its
three morning rounds Thursday but
did not qualify to advance to thequarternals. The tiebreaker between
the teams that went 2-1 in the morn-
ing sessions was determined by the
total of each teams’ points received in
the three rounds.
The two victories came in rounds
against Gonzaga University and Uni-
versity of Oklahoma. Against Okla-
homa, the team argued cases on the
naming of a park after Confederate
Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
and the ethics of mandatory quar-
antine for patients after radio-iodine
therapy.
Senior political science and philos-
ophy double major Austin Humphrey
More than 50 students gathered
in LAPC Monday night for a meet -
ing on gender identity, hosted by
the Counseling Center and Student
Government Association.
The educational session came one
week after the rst event on sexual
orientation. Both events were orga-
nized to prepare students for an up-
coming summit on sexual minorities.
“When we were conceptualizing
these seminars, talking with SGA, I
felt like sexual orientation and gen-
der identity get merged together but
really are two distinct topics,” said
Bill Fiala, director of the University
Counseling Center. “I wanted to be
able to blur those lines a little less.”
Fiala began the night answering
anonymous questions about identity
and sexual orientation, which were
placed in a box by students during
last week’s session.
One student asked why admin-
istrators were not present in the last
session. Fiala told the audience that
he specically asked them not to
come.
“Our administration is do-
ing their own session,” Fiala said.
“I want us to be able to have a
free conversation without faculty
members making students feel like
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The following are selected inci-
dents as reported from the Daily
Media Log from Feb. 23 through
Mar. 1, courtesy of Campus Safety.
■MONDAY, FEB. 24
HOLLYVALE AVE
Reporting person reported
a part from her vehicle was
stolen.
■WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26
PARKING LOT I
RP advised her car was bro-
k io. Ofcs spodd
and took an incident report.
■WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26
ALOSTA PLACE
RP called to advise items
were stolen from her garage.
■THURSDAY , FEB. 27
PARKING LOT F
RP reported his secured bi-
cycle was stolen. Only the
front tire and the u-lock were
f. A ofc spodd
and took a report.
■THURSDAY , FEB. 27
ALOSTA PLACE
RP reported her locked ga-
rage had been broken into
and her property taken.
■THURSDAY , FEB. 27
PARKING LOT K
A subject was detained by
Azusa Police in Lot K. Of-cs assisd by si up
a perimeter around the scene
to prevent students from
walking through. No students
entered the area and the sub-
ject was released.
■Weekly Numbers
Keys lost/found......................4
ID cards lost/found...............10
Cell phones found..................2
Wallets lost/found.... .............3
Unsecured bikes found.........5
False fre alarms.....................2
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CALENDARWednesday, March 5
Lunch concertLive music on Cougar Walk will begin at 12 p.m.
Wednesday, March 5
Night marketThe International Center will host a night market on Cou-
gar Walk directly following Kaleo Chapel where students
can taste foods from different regions of the world in honor
of International Student Awareness Month.
Friday, March 7
Grandparents DayGrandparents are invited to spend the day on campus with
their student. Cost is $25 per person and includes breakfast,
a banquet lunch and program and on-campus transportation.
Parents are also welcome. For more information con tact the
Ofce of Alumni and Parent Relations at (626) 812-3026.
Friday, March 7
Leadership AwarenessThe Ofce of Human Resources will host the rst session of the
three-part Discovering Your Leadership Identity series from 1to 4 p.m. in Duke. The series is open to all APU employees. For
more information, contact the ofce at (626) 815-4526.
compiled by katie richcreek
REMEMBER
1. If you see something, say
something.
2. Safety is everyone’s busi-
ness.
3. Dial 911 for life threatening
emergencies.
4. Non emergencies: Cam-
pus Safety (626) 815-3898.
5. Lock all doors and win-
dows to your dorm, apart-
ment and vehicle.
6. Keep all valuables securedand out of plain view.
7. At night, keep to well-lit
areas.
8. Always be aware of your
surroundings.
9. Uiiz oys, safy
escorts or walk in groups.
10. Avoid places where you
are vulnerable and there are
no exits.
11. Avoid texting or talking on
the phone while walking as
you may be distracted.
12. Avoid walking and jog-
ging alone.
13. Secure your bike with a rec-
odd Kyoi U-lock.
Katie Richcreek PHOTO
Senior business management major Evelyn Kenney checks students in at the Intern-
ship Forum hosted by Scholars for Business Achievement on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
The Ofce of Discipleship Min-
istries’ women’s mentorship orga-
nization Heart to Heart hosted a
“Painting as Prayer” event Sunday to
help connect women to God through
art.
The 12 participants were given
donuts, handouts regarding Lent and
Holy Ground and art supplies as in-
spiration as they spread out among
the Mentorship Ofce and the Rose
Garden to paint.
“Painting is just expression; it’s
just a different way to journal or sing
a song,” said Spiritual Mentoring
Coordinator Jeanine Smith.
This was the fourth time Smith
organized an APU event that incor-
porated painting as a medium of
spiritual formation.
“I try to give mentors and stu-
dents different opportunities to get
together that are sort of outside of
the normal ‘sit and chat,’” Smith
said.
This out-of-the-ordinary means
Heart to Heart hosts ‘Painting as Prayer’Women’s
mentorship
organization puts
paint to canvas as
a spiritual practice
Gina Enderstaff writer
Kimberly Smith PHOTO
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of expression brought the participants
a creative outlet to share their hearts
with one another about current life
struggles and other situations.
“I realized that I’m focusing on
discipline for the year. I either feel
like I’m overly disciplined and glori-
fying busyness or lazy. I’m trying to
nd that balance,” said junior liberalstudies major Lauren Sutton.
Sutton’s pastel watercolor paint-
ing reected this, as she shared with
the group that the blues and greens
of the piece represented peace and
the pinks and yellows reected
discipline all blending together,
while the gold streaks that spread
throughout “symbolized God’s di-
vine nature” in both aspects of her
life.
Sutton said she plans to continue
in “quiet time to reect what [God]
is showing [her]” in nding time to
process, since “college students are
so busy and never take time for them-
selves.”
A common theme among the
women present was the desire to set
aside time to reect on God through
art.
“Reection makes you stop [to]
pause on everything calling at you
and just think about your relation-
ship with God,” said mentor Yolana
Young.
Young came with her two un-
dergraduate mentees to interact in a
new way with them and with God.
Though she has drawn and written
poetry as an outlet of prayer before,
Young explained that she had never
before painted to share her spiritual
experiences.
This opportunity to paint brought
back memories of another time
Young felt God working in her life,
and she incorporated this revelation
into her art.
“Years ago, I was driving to San
Diego for a conference for work,
and I feel like the Holy Spirit told
me, ‘Look over there,’” Young said.
“There was this mountain of beau-
tiful owers and I felt like He said,
‘Those are for you.’”
Young’s painting shared this ex-
perience, as she incorporated “what
God gave [her] in beauty through
mountains and owers.”
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“We do this to give[the students] the best
possible understandingof the resources thatare available to them.”
– Judy Hutchinson, Center for Academic
Serivce-Learning and Research exec. director
Azusa Pacic University, Citrus College
and California State Polytechnic University
Pomona hosted their third annual 8th Grade
Majors Fair Thursday for 750 middle-school
students from local school districts, including
St. Frances of Rome
School.
The eighth-grad-
ers learned about the
25 featured majors
through informative booths sponsored and
hosted by professors
and college students
from the three col-
leges and universities.
The event was hosted
at Memorial Park
North Recreation Center in Azusa.
“It’s the rst one, as far as we can tell, in
the nation,” said Center for Academic Service-
Learning and Research Executive Director Judy
Hutchinson. “Some colleges have Career Day,
but it’s not the same as having kids think about
in eighth grade what they want to major in col-
lege, [and] therefore, what they should take in
high school.”
Hutchinson stated that the three schools’
participation in the event was a strategic op-
portunity to provide the young students the
best possible representations of all academic
colleges and levels: Citrus is a community col-
lege, Cal Poly a California State University, andAzusa Pacic a private institution.
“We have physics from APU and physics
from Citrus. We do this to give [the students]
the best possible understanding of the resources
that are available to them,” Hutchinson said.
The fair featured middle school-friendly ac-
tivities to engage the students. At the Cal Poly
physics booth, a teacher and his students attempt-
ed to throw a paper airplane into a wicker basket.
Center Middle School Assistant Principal
Robert Velasco recalled the fair’s inaugural year
and how the program has grown in size.
“Three years ago,
[APU] did a pilot at
our school. … We were
sort of the guinea pigs,”
Velasco said. “Since
then, they’ve blown itup and made it a grand
exposition of all these
majors coming out and
exposing our students
to what they can possi-
bly get into in college.”
According to Velas-
co, the fair has exposed students to majors that
may lend themselves to the recently enacted
common core standards that the federal gov-
ernment says aim to encourage and challenge
students to become critical thinkers. Previously,
educators were utilizing the California State
Standards.
“With the exposure, hopefully they see that
there are opportunities and hopefully one day,
they get accepted into a two-year or four-year
college and take on their dreams,” Velasco said.
led the debate on the Confederate
general case, and said he had “moreof a personal stake” in it due to his
French-Creole heritage.
“I thought I didn’t present the
case well enough. I thought I let my
emotions get to me at one point,”
Humphrey said. “While the judges
were deliberating, I was really ner-
vous ... [but] we won, so I was pretty
stoked. When we left the room, we
were two wins and one loss. ... I
thought that record could get us into
the top eight, the quarternals, but we
were tied [and] lost with the point dif -
ferential for the last spot.”
Oklahoma also went 2-1 in the
morning rounds before advancing to
the quarternals on the tiebreaker and
nishing second overall.
The APU team’s one loss came
against Providence College in what
Vitz described as a close round. The
cases argued then dealt with the re-
ward and penalization of employers
who offer wellness programs as part
of the Affordable Care Act and the
APU competes in Ethics Bowl Nationals
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Emily Leyvastaff writer
Colanders hung from the ceil-
ing and food from all around the
world was showcased at the FU-
SION Global Cooking Challenge
hosted by the International Center
Friday, Feb. 28 in Adams lounge,
kicking off International Student
Awareness Month, which will con-
tinue throughout March.
Eight teams were broken into
two categories, international and
fusion, and prepared dishes forguests to taste and vote on, accord-
ing to International Center intern
Autumn Dickens, a senior English
major. The dishes served included
desserts, salads and entrees from
Africa, Belarus, Mexico, China and
more.
“It was fun to see international
and American students come to-
gether,” Dickens said. “Cooking is
a powerful thing, especially when it
comes to uniting people.”
The Mosaic Mamacitas team,
which included senior psychol-
ogy major Roxanne Ramirez and
leadership graduate student Tania
Zakharchenko, made Olivier salad,
a Belarus side dish which blends
chicken, peas, eggs and other vari-
ous ingredients.
“It’s not about winning. It’s
about getting to know different cul-
tures,” Ramirez said.
The Mamacitas’ team motto,
as displayed on its table, read, “In-
ternationalism; rather than [being]
looked at as a melting pot that is
blended, we view it as multicultural
mosaic with various ingredients
that keep their individual character-
istics while interconnecting.”
The Taste of TESOL team wascomposed of students in the Teach-
ing of English to Speakers of Other
Languages program. The team pre-
sented three dishes: “Guess What,”
“Picasso” and “Chicken Sandwich-
es.” Guess What was a mystery
dish, served in an effort to explain
a game they use to teach English to
international students.
“I like the competition because
it connects people from different
cultures, especially though food,
and it teaches them teamwork,” said
Taste of TESOL team member Josh
Xie, a TESOL graduate student.
After the judges collected the
nal results, the favorites of each
category were announced. Theinternational crowd favorite was
team Asian Invasion and the fusion
crowd favorite was the Fusionistas.
Team Hamburgulars received an
honorable mention.
The judges’ choice, however,
was Yellowstone. The team had
served a triple-layer cake, blending
both American and international
foods to design a Chinese ag.
Yellowstone won rst prize,
which was a basket full of cook-
ing supplies and a $25 gift card to
Applebee’s. Other prizes included
smaller baskets of cooking-related
goodies.
ISAM aims to tell the stories of
foreign students at Azusa Pacic.
The next ISAM event will be a
night market on Wednesday, March 5
on Cougar Walk after Kaleo chapel,
where students can sample food from
around the world. ISAM will host an-
other event March 7 that will focus on
awareness for international women.
International Center hostsFUSION cooking challenge
IC kicks of
International
Student Awareness
Month with Fridaychallenge
Ashlee Polareckstaff writer
ETHICS BOWL, fo Pg. 1 potential limit of off-label antipsy-
chotic drug usage.
Vitz said he believed APU pre-
sented the better case in the roundagainst Providence College, which
nished the competition in the top
eight.
“We have three goals. One of
them is performance, which we can’t
control the outcome of,” Vitz said.
“The higher goal, then, is to manifest
intellectual virtue.”
The adviser described the team’s
third and most important goal: to
manifest Christ-like virtue.
“If they achieve their perfor-
mance goal but not Christ-like virtue,
then it’s a fail,” Vitz said. “I was re-
ally proud of them for doing both of
those things.”
The team was formed fall 2011,
when Vitz arrived at APU. This year
the squad will graduate Humphrey
and senior philosophy major Ysabel
Johnston.
Johnston was on the team in fall
2012 but could not join it last fall due
to scheduling conicts. However,
when senior Stefano Richichi from
last semester could no longer make
nationals, Johnston was asked to
come back on the team.
“I was very excited. ... I loved being on the team the year before,”
Johnston said. “It worked out really
well.”
Johnston said that although ve
members are not required, it is “ex-
tremely helpful” to be able to break
up 15 cases among more people. And
as the only female member, she said
it was also helpful and “a little more
sensitive” to have a female on the
team to speak about specic cases
that pertained to abortion and wom-
en’s rights issues.
Leon said if the team has “the
same intelligence” next year, he
knows members will return to nation-
als and hopefully make it to nals.
Vitz expressed hopes to continue to
attract students with “character of
heart and intellectual character.”
“In a world where many people
think Christians are intellectual and
moral lightweights, having students
like this gives them a chance to break
those stereotypes,” Vitz said.
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it was much smaller and included an
“etiquette lunch.” The fall event cost
$15 per student and listed 17 names
on the online attendee list.
“We nd that seniors really aren’t
thinking about this stuff until they’re
closer to graduation,” Hawkins said.
“And so for May graduates, second
semester works better.”
Hawkins said she hopes Life Af-
ter Graduation will become a yearly
spring event for graduating seniors.
The event kicked off at 10 a.m.
with a continental breakfast before
students split up into three groups
to rotate among three different ses-
sions on networking, nancial suc-
cess and post-graduation transitions.
Julia Russell Toothacre, marketing
and outreach coordinator for Career
Services, led the networking session
and told attendees that the best op-
portunity to nd job positions is via
networking. “I see a need on our campus for
students to understand that their ca-
reer journey starts earlier than their
senior year,” said Toothacre, who
also works as a career counselor for
Career Services.
The session hosted three alumni
who, after describing their career
backgrounds, gave advice and tips
primarily on interviewing skills.
Whitney Johnson, 2008 alum and
recruiter at AEG, stressed the impor-
tance of researching and said her rst
question in conducting interviews is,
“What do you know about my com-
pany?” She also warned against hav-
ing no questions to ask at the end of
an interview.
“If you have no questions, that
says, ‘Well, are you really interest-
ed?’” she told the audience.
Ashley Caldwell-Morris, 2009
alum and human resources business
partner at Target, advised students to
get involved with Career Services for
interview preparation, and 1994 alum
Alex Aquino, co-founder of cloth-
ing company Barnabas, suggested
students make sure to practice being
personal in interviews.
“We really want to know you’re
human,” he told the audience.
Toothacre said she hopes stu-
dents realize Career Services is avail-
able to alumni free of charge for their
entire lives.
“When they graduate, they don’t
have to feel like they’re alone, or that
APU isn’t here to support them, be-
cause we are here,” she said.
Alums Andrew Price and Jus-
tin A. Tyrrell, both nancial execu-
tives at Trilogy, led the session that
focused on nancial management.
They discussed roadblocks to nan-
cial success, which included a failure
to account for ination in nancial
planning and procrastination on sav-
ing for retirement.
“Procrastination is the No. 1 en-
emy to nancial success and meeting
your goals,” Tyrrell told the audience.
They also covered other top-
ics like how to make a budget and
the importance of diversication
in investing. The two gave furthersound advice in the Q-and-A on sav-
ing (have six months’ worth of your
salary in an emergency savings ac-
count), credit (make sure to pay it off
every month) and different retirement
options (a student may want to con-
sider a Roth Individual Retirement
Account while they are still young).
Price, who graduated in 2010 with
a double degree in marketing and busi-
ness management, said they attended
the rst Life After Graduation last
fall but this time around it was better-
structured and had more support from
the university as a whole.
Tyrrell, who graduated May 2013,
said they were there to impart to stu-
dents the importance and basics ofnancial literacy. He described a mar -
ried couple in their late 40s who came
to him for nancial advice; the hus-
band made a six-gure salary, his wife
around half that. But because they had
not set aside much money for retire-
ment, Tyrrell informed the husband that
he either had to work until 70 to retire
or signicantly reduce his spending.
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Barnabas, over a Chick-fl-A lunch.
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Pat Cordova-Goff, 17, is the rst
transgender student to join Azusa
High School’s Aztecs girls varsity
softball team.
After two weeks of practice,
then four days of tryouts, the cheer
squad member and ASB president’sname appeared on the list of nalized
softball team members. According
to Azusa Unied School District’s
superintendent, Linda Kaminski, the
district believes all students should
have an equal opportunity to partici-
pate in extracurricular activities be-
cause it is healthy for them to do so.
Cordova-Goff, who has played
baseball since she was 4, told the
Clause she feels comfortable and
condent with the transition to soft-
ball.
“I hope that the season goes as
any other season does, but I have a
high doubt that it will go easy,” Cor -
dova-Goff said. “Not many people
agree with me playing and they are
Transgender Azusa High student
joins girls varsity softball team
After playing
baseball as boy,
she will now be
on varsity female
softball team
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vocal about it. I’m not sure if these
people are going to be present at ourgames or not letting us just play the
sport as we should.”
Cordova-Goff said she was born
male but started “expressing [herself]
more femininely” during her sopho-
more year.
At least one expert said Cordova-
Goff’s physique will not present an
unfair advantage to opponents. How-
ever, the student said although some
people have been accepting of her
placement on the softball team, sev-
eral of her classmates have expressed
disapproval.
Cordova-Goff said these criti-
cisms have been “more emotionally
draining” than she had thought they
would be, but to keep going she feels
she only has to remember why shewants to be on the team.
“It’s just a matter of remember -
ing that I am doing this for the right
reasons,” Cordova-Goff said. “I don’t
have the bad intentions that other
people think that I do. It’s a matter
of reassuring myself over and over
again that it’s OK to do this.”
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune
reports that other local coaches
who will compete against the Az-
tecs are not too concerned with her
making the team because they are
confident in the abilities of their
own players.
Kaminski said teachers, coaches
and other faculty were not allowed to
speak to the Clause.
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Fall changes for Hospitality Services
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Students attend gender identity meeting
they cannot express themselves.”
Fiala began his PowerPoint
presentation explaining the im-
portance of a gender identity dis-
cussion at Azusa Pacic. He also
talked about what it means to be
transgender living both in the
school community and outside the
“APU bubble.”
He then used Scripture as a
transition into the topic of identity
and the Bible. According to the
UCC leader, the Bible does not
reference the word transgender.
Instead, it mentions homosexual-
ity. For example, he mentioned
Genesis 1-3, Deuteronomy 22:5
and Galatians 3:27-28.
Later, he discussed the tra-
ditional binary model and alter -
native model of gender identity.
He said the binary model divides
gender into two distinct, vertical
lines: Males are masculine men
attracted to women, while females
are feminine women attracted to
men. The alternative model, he
explained, is like a horizontal line
that ranges from male to female. Sex
and gender can fall anywhere in this
range.
In the middle of his presentation
he had students take a quiz, similar to
last session. This time the vocabulary
dealt with transgender, not LGBTQ-
IA, terminology such as “crossdress-
er,” “drag queens” and “intersex.”
One student with prior knowl-
edge of transgender terms said he still
found the quiz helpful.
“It was nice to get refreshed on
the terminology and to see the APU
community coming together to learn
about people that are different,” said
senior sociology major Ryan Mc-Cune.
Fiala also informed the students
on the statistics regarding transgen-
der identity and issues in the world.
According to The National Gay and
Lesbian task force and National Cen-
ter for Transgender equality:
–90 percent of transgender peo
ple reported experiencing harass
ment on the job
–19 percent reported being home
less due to their identity
–41 percent reported attempted
suicide
–57 percent weren’t able to
maintain family bonds
Sophomore biblical studies ma-
jor Susan Van Bemden said she found
several of the numbers surprising.
“My favorite part of the event is
when Fiala went over the statistics
on the number of transgender people
that reported being homeless,” she
said.
Fiala ended the session with
tips for students regarding trans-
gender identity. He advised students
to ask respectful questions, choose
language carefully and honor one’s
choice of name/gender/pronoun.“I want students to take away
basic knowledge. My hope is that as
a community, APU can have a base
of knowledge we can all operate
from,” Fiala said. “If we have com-
mon ground, we can have discussion
and dialogue, but if we don’t have it,
we are coming from different direc-
tions.”
The student summit will take
place Wednesday, March 19 at 5 p.m.
in the Cougar Dome.
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Hospitality Services will modify
eatery hours this fall to accommo-
date new course times, with classes
that begin as early as 7 a.m.
“Breakfast will start at 6 a.m.
That’s so we provide enough time
for students to come and eat before
they go to the rst class,” Hospi-
tality Services Executive Director
Samuel Samaan said.
Samaan also said on-campus
eateries will continue to honor the
no-meal-zones policy, which was
instituted in fall 2013.
However, new hours aren’t the
only change in store for Hospitality
Services.
“We’re changing the meal plan
to be [a] dining plan, which means
we don’t have any meals anymore,”
Samaan said. “So it’s going to be à
la carte, so the students can order
[whatever] they want at any time —
there’s no restriction.”
According to Samaan, the new
dining plan will be a “point system,”
similar to dining dollars. Students
who purchase a dining plan will re-
ceive a certain number of points to
spend on the food of their choice.
Samaan says this aims to satisfy
students who claim they are wast-
ing money on meals that give them
more food than is necessary.
“You want the burger only and
the fries? That’s ne. You want the
burger and the drink? That’s ne,”
Samaan said. “So you pay for what-
ever you want and we won’t have to
charge you for the whole meal.”
According to Samaan, the 1899
Dining Hall will also receive a
makeover in which food will be set
up in one line to provide more space
for seating, including new outdoor
areas.
Additionally, Samaan said there
will be more vegetarian and gluten-
free options next year with the new
setup.
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Lifestyle
The Center for Student Action is breaking
through borders by sending 29 different action
teams to partner with various organizations
throughout the world this summer. According
to CSA’s site, these short-term mission trips in-
clude, but are not limited to, visits to health care
clinics and orphanages, as well as working in
the elds of educational development, anti-hu-
man and sex trafcking and different prayer
ministries.
Approximately 200 students will have the
opportunity to minister in 28 different coun-
tries. Two teams will stay in the U.S. while the
other teams will travel to various locations in
Africa, Asia and Europe.
Action team applications closed Feb. 7,
but students are still welcome to get involved.
Students who feel called or have recently had
summer plans fall through are encouraged to
partner with CSA and other organizations this
summer, according to Director of Mobilization
Jenny Elsey.
Every team CSA sends out is responsible
for providing its own nances. The ofce has
set benchmark deadlines to help students stayon nancial track. Overall, the nances have
not seemed to be much of an issue, and the
CSA ofce is always
open to accommo-
date any problems
that may arise, said
Elsey. In the future,
Elsey hopes to have a
scholarship program
for students.
The CSA ofce
is looking to partner
with Communiversi-
ty for the Last Bash,
a party on Friday,
April 25 to take a
break from studying
before nals, to helpraise funds for action
teams.
Elsey said stu-
dents who go on
these trips have transformational experiences,
which is a view others in her ofce share.
“Community doesn’t have to be just
your next door neighbor,” Associate Di-
rector of Mobilization Karen Rouggly said.
“The fact that we are opening [students’]
eyes to the global community is really pow-
erful.”
CSA staff tries to be intentional as it pre-
pares students through retreats, including one
recently from Feb. 14-16, and training pro-
grams before each team departs.
The CSA ofce has gone through many dif -
ferent changes over the years and, according to
CSA and Mexico Outreach break Azusa borders
Kimberly Smith GRAPHIC
Outreach will send
more than 300 studentsto Mexicali in one
week while CSA action
teams look to minister
worldwide this summer
Kelyn Struiksmastaff writer
Elsey, is working to reestablish the structure of
the ofce this summer. Elsey wanted to thank
the students “for still being a part of programs
and being patient with us as we gure it out,”
she said.
Elsey and Rouggly are looking to better
connect CSA with the student body by see-
ing what has and has not worked over the
years.
“We understand and don’t want our action
teams to act within a vacuum,” Rouggly said.“We want to incorporate it all together, so it
truly is all one in the same, coming from one
center.”
CSA does not
limit itself to just
action teams but is
also afliated with
Mexico Outreach.
The outreach’s main
avenues are week-
end brigades and
two weeklong trips
throughout the year
to the city of Mexi-
cali.
Sophomore lib-
eral studies major
Jordan Rice works inthe Mexico Outreach
ofce as the student
ministry coordinator
for Mexican rela-
tions. Rice partners with Mexican ofcials in
Mexicali and arranges community service op-
portunities.
Brigades are quick weekend trips that usu-
ally send six different teams: public health,
mental health, special needs, community ser-
vice and two child ministry teams. The main
point is to allow students another opportunity
to give relief for residents living in Mexicali,
said Rice.
Mexico Outreach recently took 42 students
on the nal brigade of the year from Feb. 21-22.
This year, the ofce was unable to partner
with a special needs site, and instead went to
a new shelter for pregnant teens called VIFAC
(which translates as the Life and Family Asso-
ciation), according to senior applied exercise
science major Katie Schlotzhauer, the student
ministry coordinator for strategic alignment
and development. She is also a ministry brigade
coordinator.
“It was so great to reconnect with the
women there and bring them the supplies
they needed,” Schlotzhauer said. “You
could tell they really appreciated justspending time with us and we also enjoyed
it a lot.”
Mexico Outreach is currently working on
nalizing details of the spring break trip that
will take place March 8-13. During the week-
long trip, about 350 students will make up 30
teams that will work in different avenues for
Mexicalians.
Students with valid passports have until
March 5 to sign up for the trip, according to
Rice.
Similar to action teams, Mexico teams are
required to raise their own money. Cost ranges
from $270-$375.
Rice is also a leader of a community service
team called Stephen, which consists of seven
other leaders who coordinate student teams for
the spring break trip to work two-hour commu-nity service shifts.
“God put me in a position where I had to
really challenge myself and listen to what He
wanted instead of what I wanted,” Rice said.
“I fell in love with the country of Mexico and
the city of Mexicali. It was the last place I ever
thought I would end up.”
Students need to be exible when they sign
up for Mexico programs because they may not
know what they will be doing until they arrive,
Rice said.
Rice explained that because of its repeat
trips throughout the year, Mexico Outreach is
unique and allows students to say “see you next
month,” rather than “next year.”
“It really touches you in a way where you
have to act, it’s contagious and you have to go
back and do it again,” Rice said.
After a long process of deliberation,
freshman psychology major Arielle Olson
decided to nally apply to join a CSA ac-
tion team and was placed on team Kipkar-
en with six other female students.
“I am excited to see how God is atwork there,” Olson said. “Every trip I have
gone on in the past, God has made himself
very evident to me. He has ... helped me
see that He is not only at work in my life
but He is at work in other people’s lives,
no matter how far away they are.”
The team will work in a children’s
home and Christian school from May
14-27 in Kipkaren, Kenya. Members will
help lead devotions, organize games, as-
sist parents, cook, clean and work in the
the community training center, according
to the CSA trip description.
“[The Kenyans at the center] love
God and who Jesus is and I have learned
the purpose of me going is to encourage
them in this time,” Olson said.
For Olson, the CSA retreat was anopportunity to bond with her team and
served as a training tool to prepare her
heart for what is to come.
“Missions do not stop when your
mission trip is done,” Olson said. “It be-
comes a lifestyle.”
TEAM KIPKAREN
Team spotlights
Kelyn Struiksma PHOTO
Arielle Olson
Kelyn Struiksma PHOTO
Vanessa Jensen
Sophomore liberal studies major Va-
nessa Jensen was a member of the Young
Life team that traveled to Peru for a six-
week mission trip last summer through
APU. After being pulled out of her comfort
zone and learning more about the charac-
ter of God, she wanted to go on another
trip and learn more about what it means to
serve, Jensen said.
Jensen will lead the South Africa:
Out of Africa team from May 7-June 18.
After her experience in Peru, Jensen
felt called to a bigger role and sees herself
as a leader during this time of preparation,
not only while her group is abroad.
“It’s a huge responsibility, and a lot
goes into being a leader,” Jensen said.
“I consider it a time to be able to mentor
and build relationships.”
Those going on Jensen’s team will work
as a community development team. CSA
describes its ministry as reaching out to the
community by helping support various pro-
grams in George, South Africa.
According to Jensen, raising money
is never the easy part of going on mis-
sion trips, but it is crucial to trust God’s
provision. Jensen is looking forward to
experiencing more of God while walk-
ing alongside her team, even though she
does not have all the answers.
“Sometimes I feel like there is not a
way you can prepare for these trips be-
cause you really don’t know what to ex-
pect, but that is the beauty,” Jensen said.
TEAM SOUTH AFRICA
“Community doesn’thave to be just yournext door neighbor ...The fact that we areopening [students’]eyes to the globalcommunity is really
powerful.”” –Karen Rouggly, associate director of
mobilization
CSA spans the globe. This map includes most
of the sites students will reach summer 2014.
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including Kuiper, outside class time.
Brennan-Lincoln commended
Kuiper for his work ethic as well as
his perseverance. The day before the
seniors left for graduate school audi-
tions, he requested an extra rehearsal
with her in order to continue improv-
ing his monologues, she said.
Brennan-Lincoln will spend thissemester helping her seniors prepare
scenes for Hollywood Showcase at the
end of the semester, which agents and
casting directors will attend. Graduate
school, according to Brennan-Lincoln,
offers more training and may speci-
cally interest actors more passionate
about live theater than lm.
“The seniors really stepped up, all
of them, to the plate,” Brennan-Lin-
coln said. “This is a really good class,
and they were very committed as a
group and an ensemble.”
Feb. 8, Kuiper and the rest of his
senior BFA acting cohort auditioned
for approximately 30 graduate schools
through the University/Resident The-
atre Association. The association is
specically designed to “assist stu-
dents with their transition to the pro-
fession,” according to the website.
APU students auditioned in San Fran-
cisco, one of just three locations of
URTA auditions in the United States.
Kuiper, along with the other APU
students, had a mere two minutes to
introduce himself and perform two
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While most Azusa Pacic students
were still sleeping at 7 a.m., Feb. 17,
senior BFA acting major Scott Kuiper
was wide awake. Then again, this was
no ordinary Monday morning for Kui-
per; Florida State University called
him at the early hour to offer him one
of 12 spots as a Masters of Fine Arts
student at Asolo Conservatory.
To only 12 students a year, the
three-year program offers a full tuition
waiver and stipend, New York show-
case, six-week London program, yearof working in the Asolo Reportory
Theater, and upon graduation, eligibil-
ity to join the Actor’s Equity.
Born and raised in Tempe, Ariz.,
Kuiper began as a commercial mu-
sic major. According to Kuiper, he
was driving home the summer before
his sophomore year when he heard
a voice tell him, “You’re supposed
to be an actor.” After notifying his
parents, he listened to the voice and
changed his major.
Although he has performed in
ve mainstage theater productions
throughout his college career, Kui-
per credits the classroom for much
of his growth. Upon entering the the-
ater program, he was simply ready towork hard and learn as much as pos-
sible, he explained.
“I don’t believe anyone would
even recognize the kid that came into
the department back in 2011,” Kuiper
said. “My journey as a theater major
completely changed my life, and I
mean that in the most non-cliché way.”
Assistant professor Jill Bren-
nan-Lincoln, head of the BFA in act-
ing for the stage and screen, teaches
acting for the camera where she
works with students on auditioning
for professional theater, lm and tele-
vision. In addition, Brennan-Lincoln
directs the students in an Industry
Showcase performed for casting di-
rectors, agents and managers in Los
Angeles in the spring.
In her audition class, Brennan-Lin-
coln teaches the importance of “op-
tions” for an actor. During the fall
semester, she prepared the students pri-
marily for graduate school auditions,
guiding them through the research and
audition preparation. Every Wednes-
day, she met with each of the students,
Acting out: Kuiper’s journey to Florida Senior BFA acting
major is headed to
prestigious grad
school with full-ride
scholarship
Tory Freethstaff writer
Austin O’ Brien Photography COURTESY
Scott Kuiper plays the “Man” in APU Theatre’s latest production
“Seven Stories.”
contrasting monologues for more
than 40 representatives at the URTA
auditions. Called back to six differ-
ent schools, Kuiper spent the rest of
the day meeting with the representa-
tives individually.
“Scott is talented and has an
intense work ethic,” Brennan-Lin-
coln said. “I saw those monologuesthrough the semester grow. They
became what they became at the end
because he just kept working them.”
Prior to auditioning, FSU Aso-
lo Conservatory was Kuiper’s rst
choice of graduate schools. He said
that after receiving the phone call, he
could hardly believe the good news
and waited four days before ofcially
accepting the offer.
“Working with Scott for the past
three years has been really inspir-
ing,” senior BFA acting major Alison
Campbell said. “He is one of the most
passionate and dedicated people I have
ever met, and it shows up in his work.
It is really admirable, and I know that
he has amazing things ahead of him.”
Campbell and Kuiper shared the
stage during their junior year, acting as
Beatrice and Benedick in Shakespeare’s
“Much Ado About Nothing.” Campbell
said they have become best friends.
Hunter Foote PHOTO
Shauna Niequist answers questions about her life and work.
Niequist shares wisdom, witLast week marked the Christian author’s third visit to Azusa
Pacic as she spoke at her third and fourth morning chapel
appearances Wednesday and Friday. For more information
about Niequist’s visit to APU, including her Q-and-A with
more than 80 students, visit www.theclause.org/lifestyle.
In early February, Subway
announced that it would re-
move azodicarbonamide from
its bread production. A variation
of the ingredient has been used
in commercial plastics such as
foamed plastics and yoga mats.
Food blogger Vani Hari, author
of the famous “Food Babe”
blog, wrote about Subway’s in-
gredients in 2012 and launched
a successful petition to remove
the ingredient.
“I think it is great that Sub-
way is removing this product
from their breads, and hopefully
this will prompt other compa-
nies to do the same,” sophomore
theater arts major Michaela
Summers said.
The sandwich conglomer-
ate has followed the example of
What are you eating? An look at common
ingredients and
how they can
harm your healthEmily Leyvastaff writer
For the full article with
information on dyes,
sugar and more, visit
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several other companies. In 2010,
McDonald’s infuriated Americans
with its “pink slime” scandal af-
ter British television chef Jamie
Oliver exposed its common ingre-
dients on his show “Food Revo-
lution.” Processed meat products
were shown to be soaked in ammo-
nium hydroxide, a colorless liquid
chemical solution that forms when
ammonia dissolves in water, which
turned the meat into a pink slime.
Since then, after much public out-
cry, McDonald’s in the U.S. halted
its use of the substance.
Public exposure of bizarre food
ingredients have led to an increased
curiously and awareness about other
articial substances that people are
consuming.
Some of the most unusual in-
gredients are found in prepackaged
foods on grocery store shelves and
even on Azusa Pacic’s campus.
Find out some of the common ingre-dients found in prepackaged foods
and how they can affect your health.
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Opinion
The church often failsthose with mentalillnesses, but the solutionis within our grasp
Alec Blehercopy editor
Mental illness: the Christian perspective
"'What, you broke your leg? Well, you just
need to pray more and keep a positive attitude.
How about you spend some time in the Word?'
This is what it would be like if we, as a majority
of Christians, treated physical injuries the way
we treat mental illness." Senior vocal perfor-
mance major Nathan Robe posted this on his
Facebook prole. He has clinical depression.
Robe is not alone. According to the NationalInstitute of Mental Health, more than a quarter of
American adults suffer from some kind of diag-
nosable mental illness. These include depression,
bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and eating disor-
ders like anorexia and bulimia, just to name a few.
These diseases are a serious problem that require
an appropriate response. By and large, however,
the Christian community is failing in that re-
sponse.
We fail in a number of ways. As Christians we
live under the belief that God is alive and active in
the world around us. We forget that as individuals,
our actions are often how God chooses to act.
"There are times where
I have had more help in
most situations from my
non-Christian or even athe-
ist friends rather than myChristian friends because
they understand that, a lot
of the times, the help you're
supposed receive is from
another person, that that is
the vessel that goes to help
somebody," Robe said.
This is a wake-up call.
We are called to love each
other and reach out to those
who need us and yet non-
Christians sometimes seem
to get what we overlook:
No good thought, intention
or Scripture can replace ac-
tion.
Misunderstanding is the next big hurdle that
stands between people, especially Christians, and
being able to reach out to their peers struggling with
mental illnesses. We act as though they simply have
a negative mindset or perhaps negative experiences
that can be xed with a positive outlook or enough
positive experiences to counterbalance them. This is
simply not true.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness denes
it as "a mental condition that disrupts a person's
thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others,
and daily functioning. ... Mental illnesses are medical
conditions that often result in a diminished capacity
for coping with the ordinary demands of life."
Mental illnesses are just that: illnesses. And like
other illnesses, they have specic symptoms, causes
and methods of treatment. We hear stories of people
who have been miraculously cured of diseases, but
there are millions more who only found wellness
after a long road of recovery.
This is true of so many de-
pressed, bipolar and anorexic
individuals as well.
Prayer and Scripture can
be powerful tools of encour-
agement on the path to re-
covery as they can be in any
struggle, but in the area of
mental disorders, Christians
have the tendency to pres-
ent them as the cure itself.
This is done with the best of
intentions, but intentions do
not change how the advice is
received and the damage that
is done.
"One of the things
that bothered me was be-
ing told I just needed to
pray more or that I needed
to spend more time in the
Word," Robe said. "... It was their way of say-
ing, 'Well, you're doing this wrong and this ishappening to you for a reason. It's because you
don't do these things.' When you start [trying to
be more 'Christian-like'] and things continue to
go the way they have been, you begin to won-
der, 'Am I not doing it right?'"
Whether or not Christians intend to communi-
cate these messages, this is how they are often re-
ceived. Those with mental illnesses are made to feel
less of themselves and then do what is only natural:
They close themselves off and suffer in quiet dark-
ness.
Don't be discouraged or think this is a scathing
review of yet another failing of the modern church.
I point out what is wrong because I rmly believe it
is within our power to x.
"Sometimes, one of the biggest things you can
do for someone who has depression, anxiety, that
litany of other disorders, is just be present, just be
around," Robe said. "I can remember a lot of times
where it really was just, I didn't so much want a so-
lution, as I just wanted someone around."
We want so badly to x things, to make things
right, we forget that it's ultimately in God's hands.
Perhaps we will be that life-changing inuence, but
we need to be there rst. A listening ear can be a lot
more powerful than a problem-solving mouth.
Mental illnesses are incredibly complex and
difcult. No two cases, even of the same medical
classication, are the same. The path to recovery
can be quite long and usually is.
If you want to make a difference in the life
of someone in your community who struggles
with a mental disorder, invest in the person like
you would any friend, and keep investing, espe-
cially when things get rough. Even if it seems
like nothing is getting better, the unseen inu-
ence you may be having can be incredible.
Believe me, I've seen it happen (and con-
tinue to happen) personally in the lives of mul-
tiple people, including that of my close friend, Nathan Robe.
Alec Bleher is a senior Engl ish
major from San Marcos, Calif . In hiswriting he seeks to pursue the truth
founded on God’s kingdom, a taskthat never ends.
Striking a structual balance
Structure.It’s not the sexiest word or concept –
especially for those of us who have beenraised in homes, schools and churches that
have encouraged (or forced) assimilationand compliance – but we as human beingsneed it.
From the wide-open idealism of Marx-ist theory to the unfettered free market sys-tem called capitalism that we as Americans
participate in daily, every sociopoliticalclassication thus far imagined has been
based on st ructure. Seemingly the only ex-ception to this law would be the introduc-tion of nihilism, which is dened as the re-
jection of all religious and moral principles,often in the belief that life is meaningless.
The underlying thread among the sys-tems with tangible design and those withoutis this: Purposeful lives crave and necessi-tate structure. By no means does this implythat capitalistic motives and excessive con-sumption are justied simply because theyare somewhat structured and prosperous.
The fact of the matter is that they work, just as the picturesque ideals of commu-nism or socialism would bring us all clos-er to the purest form of a Christ-centeredchurch if humankind were not fragmentedand corrupt.
Within our own faith, there is a deeplyembedded thirst for structure because itworks and it reminds us that we are undeni-ably fragile creatures. For this same reason,churches set up “life groups,” regimentedBible studies and even weekly service orvolunteer projects.
An average APU student’s structureconsists of ve classes, maintaining a job,
balancing a friend group, making an effortto stay in touch with family, attending threechapels a week and, if there’s extra time,visiting a church. Our community may needto reanalyze the pecking order of what we
deem to be vital in our lives.It is not practical to wholeheartedly
abandon our academics in hopes of becom-ing fully immersed in the fortication ofrelationships or focusing on community de-velopment (none of us have the audacity to
be as radical as the man Himself), yet thereis a marvelous power in developing a struc-tural balance among our priorities.
The fact of the matter remains that whenyou reach that stage and grab the diploma,life’s struggle is just beginning, warmingup its one-two punch. We all pay shockingamounts of money to gain an education, butmore than that, we take four years (or may-
be ve) out of our lives to discover who it isthat we are and how the minute intricaciesof the human clock work.
So I implore you to create your veryown structure, bobbing for the golden ap-
ples of human efciency and compassion.Earnestly take the time to ask how anotherchild of God is doing, regardless of whetheror not your professor will put a meaningless“T” by your name on a grade sheet. Giveyourself permission to ercely love people,
places, adventures, unconventional litera-ture and raw expression because when itcomes down to it, that piece of paper, thosefalse constructs of evaluation in the formof capital letters and the numbers in yourimaginary digital bank account don’t ownyou. Unless you let them.
RAW VISIONS OF A
ZEALOT
Scott Jacob is the Clause opinion
editor and a senior English major with a global studies minor. His passion for
literature and the written word will oneday lead him to write fction novels, own
a bookstore or be a vagabond writer.
“Sometimes, one ofthe biggest things
you can do forsomeone who hasdepression, anxiety,that litany of otherdisorders, is just
be present, just bearound.”
–Nathan Robe, senior vocal
performance major
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It isn’t up to you to judge whether someone fell into the ‘I went to Africa and all I came
back with were these photos’ trap
Ashlee Polarekstaff writer
Mission trip < new profle picture?
Emily Van Winkle COURTESY
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As attendees of a Christian university,
the idea of mission trips is no foreign topic.
It’s been engraved into many students' brains
since they were small children attending
church with their parents.
However, as social media continues to
climb as an outlet of self-promotion, the
thought that mission trips might be used
merely as image enhancers becomes promi-
nent.
The list of reasons behind why people go
on mission trips is extensive. At a place like
APU, it could be for MAS credits, to "find
yourself while helping others" or to serve
God.
Yet how come as soon as people come
back, or get a sta ble
Wi-Fi connection,
their profile picture
is changed to them
with the group of indi-
viduals they are help-
ing, whether that be
children in Mexico,
women in Africa or
students in Peru?
That’s where the question up for debate
comes in. Are people going on mission trips
to get complimentary comments on their
new profile pictures, as a
short vacation or because
they actually care about
the people they serve?
APU sends students to 28
countries over the year.
With that number, you are
bound to hav e one or two
friends who have partici-
pat ed in one of the se mis -
sion trips before.
This mindset of "I’m the only one who
goes on mission trips to help the people"
runs rampant in today’s society when a num-
ber of individua ls believe that they are the
only saints on a campus full of sinners. If
people change thei r p rofi le pictures to them
and children they connected with in Africa,
others may believe they are doing it to get
the confidence-boosting compliments that
will come.
Some students do go on missions trips to
experience India or to make it seem like they
truly care about "that" city in Africa. Some
students do spend hundreds of dollars for that
trip just so they can say they’ve gone. This
does take up valuable spots on mission trips
when maybe a student's talents are needed
in some other country with some other pro-
gram.
As always, there are two sides of every
coin.
"Posting a picture with a child in need isnot only using that child as an object, but us-
ing a missional platform to portray yourself
as 'holy' to those you may or may not know
in the digital world," said junior English ma-
jor Missy Fackler, who will serve in Peru
this summer with an APU team.
But sophomore business major Casey
Adams, who will serve in South Korea this
summer, said what really matters is "not
what they made their profile photo, but what
they did, where they went and what impact
they made."
This debate now comes down to a ques-
tion. Why does anyone care if Jane Doe
actually went to India to help women in-
volved in sex trafficking or if John Doe
only went to Mexico to make the ladies
think he’s great with orphans? In all real-
ity, it doesn’t matter. The trip only affects
the student's life and the lives of those for
which the trip is intended. It is not our place
to critique why people go on mission trips.
Profile pictures are supposed to be repre-
sentations of oneself. If an individual feels
that the best representation of themselves is
a picture of the person in Ecuador building
a house, then that’s that. It's not up to you
to judge.
Ash lee Pol arek is a jou rnali sm
maj or, TES OL min or fro m Azu sa, Ca- lif . She is an asp ir ing trave l wri te r,
pho to jou rnali st and exp lorer of theworld.
Profle picturesare supposed to berepresentations ofoneself.
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Sports
Cougar catch-up: Tennis has successful start to season
With 10 of 22 regular season matches in the books, the Azusa Pacic women’s tennis team
currently holds an 8-2 record after losing two
of its last four games against tough opponents.*
The Cougars began their season with six
straight wins, four of which were on the road.
They suffered their rst loss of the season
against then-ranked No. 10 Fresno Pacic at
Fresno on Monday, Feb. 17 with a 4-5 score.
The Sunbirds now hold a 21-1 all-time record
against the Cougars.
The order of singles players for the women:
No. 1, Emily Harris (5-4); No. 2, Natalie John-
son (8-1); No. 3, Danae Ingwaldson (3-5); No.
4, Lindsey Yeom (5-3); No. 5, Stephanie Quan
(5-0); No. 6, Bethany Duval (4-2).
The order of doubles teams for APU: No.
1, Harris/Ingwaldson (7-2); No. 2, Koetterhe-
inrich/Yeom (4-3); No. 3, Quan/Johnson (5-1).
Nine days after the Cougars’ rst loss, they
scored an 8-1 home win against Westmont. The
next day, they suffered a tough 2-7 loss against
No. 2-ranked BYU-Hawaii as the rst of four
consecutive top-25 opponents in the upcomingweek.
The women’s tennis team faced the Lewis
(Ill.) Flyers on Monday, March 3 and emerged
victorious with a 6-3 win to improve to an 8-2
record.
Their next opponent is No. 3 Barry on
Wednesday, March 5.
The men’s tennis team is nine games into
their season, currently holding an 8-1 record.
After winning six straight matches to start
the season, the last three of those victories dom-
inating 9-0 victories, the Cougars fell to then-
ranked No. 13 Fresno Pacic Sunbirds 6-3 on
Feb. 17. The last time the Cougars lost a regular
season match was also against the Sunbirds,
April 12, 2012, with a 6-3 score.
The order of singles players for the men: No.
1, NCAA-ranked No. 7 sophomore Jan Meyer
Kimberly Smith PHOTO
Sophomore Tomas Aranguiz (6-3) plays No.
6 singles and No. 2 doubles for the Cougars.
The Mel-chine brings power to the Cougars Sophomore rst
baseman helps lead
the Cougars with
turnaround season
Steven Mercadosports editor
There are three words that Azusa
Pacic sophomore rst baseman Jes-
sica Melcher used to describe what
she aims to be: “hard-working, team-
oriented and competitive.”
These qualities have carried
Melcher through her time thus far as
a Cougar.
Her freshman year was full of
growth. She played 34 games and
had a .260 average with 20 hits, fourruns and four RBIs. After an off -
season of adjustments, head coach
Carrie Webber and second baseman
Katrina Oviedo saw Melcher make
big improvements and stretch further
toward the potential she showed from
last season.
“Last year was that transition
year when we were kind of guring
out her swing and guring out what
was going to work for her and getting
her into the best rhythm possible. This
year, she’s starting to see the fruits of
her labor and hard work,” Webber
said. “She’s really determined to be
a good hitter and make the changes
that we’re asking. That goes to show
she’s a very coachable kid and she’s
a hard worker. She’s determined to
be the best player that she can, and
that’s what we’re starting to see in her
sophomore year.”
Melcher’s growth is showing in
the 21 games the Azusa Pacic soft-
ball team has played this season. She
is batting .295, has 18 hits and is cur -
rently leading the team in home runs
with four and RBIs with 19.
The results are primarily due to
Webber and the Cougar coaching
staff working on her swing. Accord-
ing to Melcher, the biggest aw in it
was her step.
“Once I got my load forward
and I got all my weight transferred,
that’s where the power came from,”
Melcher said. “[Before,] everythingwould be on my back side and I
would be popping up everywhere. It
was very hard [to be patient].”
According to Oviedo, Melcher is
not only a different player, but a differ-
ent teammate from last season in her
personality and actions on the eld.
“Last year, she was a freshman,
so she didn’t really know her role and
wasn’t comfortable yet. This year, it’scompletely different,” Oviedo said.
“She knows what she needs to do,
she knows how to communicate with
others, she’s not afraid to tell others
what to do in a certain situation, so
she’s developed a lot.”
Melcher said she owes her prog-
ress and improvement to her team-
mates.
“My game has changed because
I’m a lot more comfortable right now,”
she said. “I love the team that I’m
playing with. I feel the closeness of
our team and I just have fun playing.”
According to Melcher, one of
the biggest things that prevented her
from growing last season was her
negativity and criticism of her own
game.
“Even if I did do something right,
I’d nd something wrong in it,” she
said. “This year, I’ve learned to ...
nd positives in everything that I do.
... The ability to have condence in
myself is what’s changed.”
This condence has brought
leadership on the eld. Having this
emerge unexpectedly has been great
for the team, according to Webber
and Oviedo.
“She brings a good work ethic to
the girls and she’s also learning how
to step up and be more of a vocal
leader, which is something she wasn’t
last year,” Webber said. “She actually
has a very loud voice; we just didn’t
know it last year. She’s going to beone of those mainstays and someone
who is going to anchor our lineup
both offensively and defensively. All
around, she’s a great kid.”
Melcher was born and raised
in Nebraska until she was 12 years
old. She rst started playing softball
by playing fast-pitch softball for 10
and younger. She kept that interest
but didn’t get competitive until her
sophomore and junior years of high
school, when she began to participate
on travel softball teams, which com-
pete normally at higher levels.
John Ortiz, Melcher’s travel ball
coach, helped her to decide she want-
ed to stick with softball and continue
improving.
“He made softball really fun. He
would have high expectations for us,
but at the same t ime, he would make
it fun for us,” Melcher said. “We
would mess around and talk crap
to each other during practice and it
would just be fun. He brought that
comfortability and he was always
there for us when we needed him.”
The transition from Nebraska to
California was tough for Melcher,
who said the culture and people in the
two states are vastly different. How-
ever, she said softball helped ease her
culture shock.
“Softball, for me, is where I met
my best friends and that’s who I am
still friends with today. Those are
teams I was on ve or six years ago,”
Melcher said.
There is no point in playing
sports without close relationships
with teammates, she said.
“If you don’t have people that
care about each other in every aspect,
whether it’s in softball, whether it’s
out, it doesn’t matter,” Melcher said.
“It’s a game that’s not just about the
nine players out there, but it’s about
the players on the bench as well. Ev -
erybody has got to be together to sup-
port each other. Otherwise, the team
isn’t there, regardless of talent level.”
She said she has experienced per -
sonal growth during her year and a
half at Azusa Pacic.
“I’ve grown a lot spiritually over
these last couple of years in ways that
I was able to help people, some fam-
ily members who were going through
a really tough time and maybe
haven’t been as close to God as they
want to be,” Melcher said. “I’ve kind
of helped them get through that.”
The sophomore said big role
models for her spiritual path and jour-
ney at APU overall are Webber and
the rest of the coaching staff.
“I have become a better person
physically, mentally and most impor-
tantly, spiritually because of [them],”
Melcher said. “I love to win, but the
thing I love the most is being able to
make my coaches proud. Coach loves
us so much and it shows. She is al-
ways there when we need her. I just
really hope she knows how much the
team and I appreciate and love her
and all she does for us.”
With 21 games played so far this
season, Melcher looks to continue
being a key contributor to the 15-6
Azusa Pacic softball team.
“I’m just ready to kill the rest of
the teams [this season],” she said.
(8-0); No. 2, senior Freddy Wilkens (6-2); No.
3, freshman Alan Leahy (4-4); No. 4, junior Gary
Yam (6-2); No. 5, freshman Pascal Engel (5-3);
No. 6, sophomore Tomas Aranguiz (6-2).
The order of doubles players for the men: No. 1, Engel/Meyer (4-4); No. 2, Aranguiz/
Wilkens (6-2); No. 3, Leahy/Yam (6-2).
After the Cougars’ rst loss to the Sunbirds,
No. 11-ranked APU had a 10-day break before
facing No. 19-ranked BYU-Hawaii. The Cou-
gars did not let the break faze them and pow-
ered through to a 6-3 victory.
On Monday, March 3, Azusa Pacic beat
Lewis (Ill.) 7-2. The Cougars were spotted three
points because the Flyers only had four players
on their active roster.
The men’s next matchup is on Wednesday,
March 5 against Barry.
*The results in this story are current as of
Monday, March 3. Check theclause.org/sports
for updates on Azusa Pacic athletics, includ -
ing Tuesday’s results of the women’s tennis
match against No. 6-ranked Lynn.
JESSICA MELCHERHEIGHT: 5’9”
POSITION: FIRST BASEHOMETOWN: COLUMBUS,
NEB.
HIGH SCHOOL: LA QUINTA
NICKNAME: JURRLISCA
–Oviedo’s description of her
game: “beast mode.”
–2014 stats: .295 average,
10 runs, 18 hits, four home
runs, 19 RBIs, .492 slugging
percentage
–21 games into the season,
she is one home run away
from tying last season’s
team leader (Rachel Miller, 5)
Steven Mercado PHOTOSophomore rst baseman Jessica Melcher brings a new power swing to the Cougar lineup.
Steven Mercadosports editor
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Following tough back-to-back home losses
that knocked it out of the race for the Pacic
West Conference title, the Azusa Pacic wom-
en’s basketball team headed to northern Cali-
fornia last week for its nal two games of the
regular season. Thursday, Feb. 27, the Cougars
defeated PacWest champion Academy of Art by
double-digits and Saturday, March 1, the team
dealt the same favor to Holy Names.
The Cougars won 82-66 over an Academy
of Art team that clinched the PacWest champi-
onship after the Cougars’ previous game, a loss
against Point Loma. Two monumental runs for
Azusa Pacic gave them a commanding lead
that never dwindled.
The rst was a 19-6 spurt toward the end
of the rst half that gave the Cougars a 37-29
lead. A 24-9 run in the second half solidied the
victory.
Leading the Cougars was junior guard Al-
lison Greene with a spectacular performance.
She scored a game-high 23 points, grabbed ve
rebounds, dished out ve assists and snatched a
game-high four steals.
Five of her teammates scored double g-
ures, including junior forward Sendy Valles
with 15 points, nine rebounds and ve assists
and sophomore forward Kelly Hardeman with
11 points, eight boards and two blocks. The oth-
er two to reach double digits were sophomore
guard Sullivan Ziegler with 10 points and fourrebounds and junior guard Katie Powell with
11 points, hitting 3-of-4 of her three-point at-
tempts.
The Cougars held the Urban Knights to
32.4 percent shooting and out-rebounded them
47-40. They held Academy of Art sophomore
guard Zoie Sheng to three-of-10 shooting,
but she made 11 of her 13 free throws to lead
her team in scoring with 17 points. The only
One fnal goal remains: NCCAA championship After nishing season
with two strong victories,
Cougars head into
playos with sights on
NCCAA championship
Steven Mercadosports editor
other Urban Knight to score in double gures
was sophomore forward Krystal Forthan, who
scored 16 points on 7-of-17 shooting along with
a game-high 14 boards.
Saturday night, Azusa Pacic closed the
season on a high note, beating Holy Names on
the latter’s senior night 72-58.“To play them on their last game and their
senior night, they were pretty emotional and
pumped up. We talked about wanting to have
the intensity we’re looking for to close out
the regular season and be ready for playoffs,”
head coach T.J. Hardeman said. “It was a tough
game, but I thought we were able to dominate
inside and get some easy buckets.”
The top performers for the nal game of
the regular season were Greene and Kelly Har -
deman. Greene scored 17 points, four assists
and once again, a game-high four steals while
Hardeman scored 17 points and grabbed 10 re-
bounds for a double-double. The bench played a
key factor in the win, scoring 21 points opposed
to the Hawks’ ve bench points. A mixture of
well-balanced scoring and sharing the rock pro-
pelled the Cougars to victory in both of their
nal games of the regular season.
“It was a testament of us saying, ‘Hey, our
goal is to be playing for a while longer, so let’s
just sustain that hardened play,” coach Hardeman
said. “On Thursday, we had 20 assists on [27 bas-
kets] and [on Saturday], we had 17 assists off 27
baskets, so I was glad to see us nding each oth-
er, glad to see us making passes, getting good as-
sists and setting each other up. It was good team
basketball, and that’s what we talked about doing
all year. It’s nice to see us doing the things we
wanted to do at the end of the year.”
The Azusa Pacic women’s basketball
team’s back-to-back wins to close the season
earned the squad a rst-round bye in the three-
team NCCAA West Region tournament. APU
faced Point Loma on Tuesday, March 4. After
falling to the Sea Lions on Saturday, Feb. 22,
Hardeman said before the game that it would bedifferent than their game earlier this year.
“They’re a very good team, as we are. We
played them last time and our focus was not
where it needed to be,” Hardeman said. “I think
we’re a lot more focused now as far as being
aware of what we’re playing for and what our
goals are. The goal at this point is to go back to
the NCCAA [championship] and that’s what’s
at stake here.”
Steven Mercado PHOTO
Junior guard Allison Greene led the Cougars with 40 points, seven rebounds, nine assists and
eight steals in the nal two games of the regular season, but the entire team stepped up inthe two double-digit victories.
Men’s basketball closes regular season on high noteThe Cougars win
six straight games
to close regular
season and look to
carry momentum
into playos
Steven Mercadosports editor
The Azusa Pacic men’s basket-
ball team won its nal two games to
cap a six-game winning streak to end
the regular season. Thursday, Feb.
27, the Cougars led the Academy of
Art all game in a 80-64 victory and
on Saturday, March 1, the team pro-duced its largest number of points
in the season with 104 against Holy
Names in their 35-point beat down .
In Thursday’s game against
Academy of Art, senior forward
Bert Hall was the top performer,
shooting 9-for-11 from the eld for
a career-high 23 points and grab-
bing seven rebounds . Three more
Cougars scored in double gures:
Sophomore forward Sharif Wat-
son scored 12 points and grabbed
a team-high eight rebounds, junior
guard Troy Leaf also scored 12, all
coming from behind the arc, and
sophomore forward Jared Zoller
scored 10.
The Cougars were outrebounded
36-31 by Academy of Art, but held
the advantage in second-chance
points, 20-12. According to APU
head coach Justin Leslie in an inter -
view with sports information direc-
tor Joe Reinsch, the Cougars had a
lot of trouble hitting outside shots in
the rst half, but Hall kept the team
in the game. Hall went 5-for-6 from
the eld for 13 points and grabbed
four rebounds in the rst period of
play. The rest of the team shot 8- for-
23 from the eld.
After the win, Azusa Pacic im-
proved to 15-9 overall with a 11-7
PacWest record. Academy of Art fell
to a 6-20 overall record, 4-15 in the
PacWest.
Saturday, the Cougars played
the best team ball they have played
all year. All 10 active players got
to play and eight of them scored
in double-digits. Not only was this
their best offensive performance of
the year, but it was the most points
they scored in a non-overtime game
since 2011, and the 35-point win was
their biggest win against a confer -
ence team since their 37-point vic-
tory against Point Loma (103-66) in
2007.
Leading the team was Leaf with
15 points and four assists, going
5-for-8 from the eld. Junior guardRobert Sandoval scored 10 points,
dished out a team-high ve assists
and snatched a game-high four
steals.
Hall scored 11 points and
grabbed a game-high nine rebounds,
carrying some of his dominant per-
formance from Thursday into Sat-
urday’s game. Sophomore guard
Miller Brown appeared in only eight
of the previous 25 games, but played
a season-high 19 minutes and went
4-for-6 from the eld for a season-
high 10 points, including a half-
court shot at the buzzer that put the
Cougars up 42-27 at the half.
The Cougars dominated in all ar-
eas of the game. They had the advan-tage in eld-goal percentage, shoot-
ing 57.6 percent over Holy Names’
38.3. The Cougars out-rebounded
the Hawks 45-28 and forced them
into 11 turnovers, resulting in 21
points. The Cougars only turned the
ball over six times and allowed but
three points off those turnovers.
A winning streak to end the sea-
son is just what the Cougars needed
as they headed into postseason play.
Azusa Pacic hosted the National
Christian College Athletic Associa-
tion West Regional championship
Tuesday, March 4 against Point
Loma, who they beat in a thrilling
double-overtime game on Saturday,
Feb. 22.
Steven Mercado PHOTO
Senior forward Bert Hall went strong on the inside in the Cougars’ nal two games of the season, including acareer-high 23 point-peformance on Thursday, Feb. 27 against the Academy of Art.
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Odd baseball schedule brings unique dilemmaCougar baseball
will be at home
for 16 more games
before starting
lengthy 21-gameroad trip
The Azusa Pacic baseball team
is off to an up-and-down start to the
2014 season. After the rst 10 games,
the Cougars stand at 6-4, a record that
includes six wins at home and four
losses on the road. Going winless on
the road and undefeated at home so
far, the Cougars look as if they are
extremely comfortable in Azusa and
less so while traveling.
The Pacic West Conference hasfaced scheduling conicts while try-
ing to accommodate travel plans for
schools on spring break. Because of
these conicts, Cougar baseball will
now head into its own “March Mad-
ness,” holding an unfamiliar schedule
in its second season competing in
the PacWest. From this point on, the
Cougars will play 16 straight games
on their home eld followed by a
staggering stretch of 21 consecutive
contests on the road.
The unusual scheduling is a chal-
lenge that head coach Paul Svagdis is
ready for his team to take on.
“We want to get off to a good start
being at home, and on the back half,
playing on the road is going to be agood challenge. I like challenges. I
think that’s why I coach, to see our
players put into adverse situations
and watch them overcome it,” Svag-
dis said. “That’s probably the most
exciting part of my job, is watching
them do things like that.”
The home stand will include se-
ries facing Holy Names, Fresno Pa-
cic, the Academy of Art and UC San
Diego. APU will also face Biola and
Cal State Dominguez Hills for one
game apiece during the stretch.
The 21-game road trip will in-
clude a weekend series at Point
Loma, an exhibition matchup against
the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, a
four-game series at Dixie State and a
trip to the Hawaiian Islands to play
four apiece against Hawai’i Pacic
and Hawai’i Hilo. Following the trip
to the Aloha State, the Cougars will
then head south to face off against
Cal State San Marcos and UC San
Diego, with two games for each.
Being away from home for so
many consecutive games may not be an ideal situation but will not be
looked at as a disadvantage for the
Cougars.
“It just means we really need to
be focused that we’re going to places
that we’re most likely not comfort-
able in, someplace that is not a home
eld, so we have to make sure we
are doing everything we can, focus-
ing on the game and visualizing what
we need to do,” junior pitcher Zach
Hedges said. “Baseball is the same
game no matter where you play it.”
Following the 21-game road trip,
the Cougars will return home to end
the regular season with one game
against Cal Poly Pomona followed by
a four-game series against CaliforniaBaptist.
Grant Walter PHOTO
Senior outelder Matt Kimmel and the Cougars baseball team look to continue enjoying their long home stretch
before embarking on their 21-game road journey