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The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

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...

GM posts record US automotive loss of $38.7B for 2007, offers buyouts to hourly US workers

Unsold 2008 G6 sedans sit in a long row at a Pontiac dealership in Littleton, Colo., on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008. General Motors Corp., the make of Pontiac, reported the largest annual loss for an automotive company Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008 and said it is making a new round of buyback offers to U.S. hourly workers as it struggles to turn around its North American business amid a weak economy.
February 12, 2008

DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help. The earnings report and buyout...

Obama hopes for another primary sweep, McCain seeks a little more distance

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks with reporters on his campaign plane enroute from Kansas to Seattle, while one of his Democratic rivals, Sen. Barack Obama, D- Ill., is seen on an in flight TV screen Friday, Feb. 8, 2008.
February 12, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama looked to continue his winning streak in three mid-Atlantic presidential primaries Tuesday, while rival Hillary Rodham Clinton turned her attention to a future round of contests. Republican John McCain sought to rebound from two weekend losses to Mike Huckabee and...

Influenza Hits Campus

Freshman Lindsay Morgan turns in a health form to the Biola Health Center on Tuesday afternoon. The center has received a large number of patients lately with symptoms of influenza.
February 9, 2008

Eleven states had a flu outbreak during the past few months and the La Mirada area has been elevated to a “high” status as of last week for the incidence of influenza, according to Marsha H. Schreiber, director of Student Health Services. “There have been twenty cases of influenza in the past...

59 dead as violent storms rip across South; crews go door-to-door to find more victims

Students and their families survey tornado damage around campus dormitories at Union University on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 in Jackson, Tenn. The storm, which hit Tuesday night, collapsed buildings, flipped cars and sent about 50 students to the hospital.
February 9, 2008

Residents in five Southern states tried to salvage what they could from homes reduced to piles of debris on Wednesday, a day after the deadliest cluster of tornadoes in more than two decades tore through the region, snapping trees and crumpling homes. At least 59 people were killed. Rescue crews,...

A Primary Handbook

Dear Politically Confused,
February 8, 2008

As I write this, Super Tuesday is slowly being swept behind us. News agencies from around the world are scrambling to report on the results so that they can provide you with the answer to the question that everyone in America is asking: “What the heck just happened?” While CNN and the like are...