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The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

Spring Preview Boasts 285 Prospective Students

Prospective students tour campus on Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, during Spring Preview Day.
February 18, 2008

Spring has arrived at Biola; flowers are blooming, days are sunny, and an influx of prospective students could be seen on Monday, Feb. 18, devouring cafeteria food, making new friends, and generally cramming as much touring into their two day visit as humanly possible. It was the second day of this...

Victims of Campus Shooting Mourned

Mourners at Northern Illinois University console each other after placing flowers at a memorial for the five victims of the Valentines Day shooting on the campus of NIU in DeKalb, Ill., Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. (AP Photo)
February 18, 2008

CICERO, Illinois-- Catalina Garcia, the youngest of four children, was studying to be a teacher. Now, her family is preparing to lay her to rest. Garcia, 20, was one of five young people slain last week at Northern Illinois University by a gunman whose girlfriend said he recently stopped taking his...

US Government Recalls Record 143 Million Pounds of Beef From California Slaughterhouse

A worker throws a piece of meat among cattle carcass scraps dropped into a truck at the Hallmark Meat Packing slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif. in this Jan. 30, 2008 file photo. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from from Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. a Southern California slaughterhouse that is being investigated for mistreating cattle. (AP Photo)
February 18, 2008

LOS ANGELES-- An undercover video showing crippled and sick animals being shoved with forklifts has led to the largest beef recall in the United States and a scramble to find out if any of the meat is still destined for school children's lunches. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered...

Students Petition Administration for Better Internet

Monday, students Allan Bagge and Richard Norris sat outside the cafe in effort to gain support for a petition for better internet on the Biola campus.
February 15, 2008

Students filled out small surveys before entering the café earlier this week in an effort to petition the administration for faster Internet on Biola’s campus. Spearheaded by Hope North Senator Eric Weaver, the effort achieved just under 600 petition surveys filled out by Biola students. “The...

This Week in Photos

Wednesday, Erwin McManus, lead pastor of Mosiac Church in LA, spoke in chapel. He challenged the students to let the knowledge of Jesus and His love be their life narrative.
February 15, 2008

We all know the feeling of a moment passed too quickly, a day gone too fast, and a week that has disappeared before one's own eyes. This Week in Photos is an effort to slow down the passing days and recognize what is happening all around us. In the words of Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast, if...

Biola Media to be Removed from AS

The Chimes and The Biolan separate from AS, meaning all student media will be affected through the new board.
February 15, 2008

Biola University's various student media groups will collectively come under the authority of the recently approved Student Media Board by the end of the semester in an effort to create more effective and professional news media operations on campus. Associated Students (AS) voted Tuesday to officially...

SCORR Conference Promotes Unity

An ordained minister and passionate communicator, Brenda has been traveling the nation speaking about racial reconciliation to a wide variety of audiences. She founded Overflow Ministries Inc. and is currently the President of Salter McNeil and Associates, a reconciliation training and consulting company based in Chicago.
February 15, 2008

Ethnicity, immigration, justice, poverty and racial reconciliation were the topics that many Biola students were challenged to interact with last weekend. Students were faced with topics and issues such as trying to grapple with the true meaning of what is to be the body of Christ at the 12th annual...

Black Retention Rate Low

On Barwell Hall beside the walkway leading to the Cafe stands Biola's famous Jesus mural. For some freshman, seeing the giant “white Jesus” for the first time is a shock.
February 15, 2008

In Biola’s foundation Lyman Stewart proclaimed, “All people, without reference to race, color, class, creed [denomination] or previous condition, will ever be welcome [to Biola]…” To this day, Biola carries out Stewart’s hospitable words, admitting various ethnicities and genders. Although...

Class Schedule Alterations on Horizon

February 15, 2008

Class schedules will be changing for the earlier this Fall. According to Dean of Academic Records and Institutional Research Wayne Chute, every department is required to have one class that begins at 7:30 a.m. or 8:30 a.m. on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. “The morning classes on Mondays,...

Former Student Attacks Campus, Kills 5

Flowers, candles, and small notes sit in the snow Friday, Feb. 15, 2008, on the campus of Northern Illinois University near Cole Hall, the scene where a lone gunman shot and killed six Thursday on the NIU in DeKalb, Ill.
February 15, 2008

The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage had recently ''become erratic'' after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday. The man, 27-year-old former student Stephen Kazmierczak, was also wielding...

Koreans Mourn as the Great South Gate is Destroyed by Fire.

South Korea's " No. 1 national treasure" Namdaemun breaks down as firefighters extinguish a fire in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. Namdaemun, literally 'the great southern gate,' was the southern gate of the original walls surrounding Seoul during the Joseon Dynasty. The construction of this gate began in 1395.
February 13, 2008

Koreans faced the tragic moment as their number one national treasure “Namdaemun” the Great South Gate, the iconic symbol of national pride was destroyed due to fire on Sunday, Feb. 10. The Korean students at Biola University showed concern and sympathy over the destruction of the Great South...

Let the scripts begin: Vote to end writers strike clears path for TV shows

Patric Varrone, president of Writers Guild of America West, announces the the strike against the Hollywood studios is over after the union members voted in favor of ending the 3-month long strike at Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008. The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill.
February 13, 2008

LOS ANGELES-- Members of the Writers Guild of America were planning a return to work Wednesday after voting to end their strike on its 100th day, allowing Hollywood to jump-start stalled production of numerous TV sitcoms and dramas. ''It will be all hands on deck for the writing staff,'' said Chris...