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The Chimes

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The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

Students Receive a New Outlook

Dennis Rainey, the president and cofounder of FamilyLife, ended his Family Life series Wednesday morning by encouraging students to address the "god-sized problem" involving orphans around the world.
February 8, 2008

The second week, a second chance. Last semester grades may not have been so good, here is the chance to try again. Chapel makeups may have cost too much last time, start off this year by attending some chapels. This is the time to approach daily life with a new outlook, an outlook committed to doing...

At Least 6 Missing in Ga. Refinery Blast

Smoke billows from behind the main plant of the Imperial Sugar Company during a fire at the plant on the Savannah River Thursday Feb. 7, 2008 in Port Wentworth, Ga. More than 30 people where taken to local hospitals with severe injuries after the blast.
February 8, 2008

Authorities searching for at least six people missing in an explosion that engulfed a sugar refinery in flames as about 100 people worked inside said Friday they expect to find some plant workers dead. Savannah-Chatham County Police Chief Michael Berkow told families of missing workers that rescue...

Southern Towns Look to Cleanup, Recovery

The wreckage of a home is seen next to an open field Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 in Castalian Springs, Tenn. A baby was found alive in the field, shown in center background, Wednesday after the tornado destroyed the home where the baby was believed to be living.
February 7, 2008

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. -- County Mayor Shelvy Linville could only shake his head at the horrific toll left by a deadly series of tornadoes that pounded across the South. ''It really is unbelievable that Mother Nature can create that much devastation,'' he said Wednesday evening at his Macon...

Biola Employees Switch to Web Time Cards

February 7, 2008

Alongside the already popular Blackboard, Biola has taken an additional step toward becoming a paperless university by introducing an online method for Biola employees to record their hours. As of Jan. 21, Biola switched to an online time card processor. Until this date, Biola employees had used traditional...

McCain Pulls Ahead; Clinton, Obama Close

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., and his wife Michelle wave to supporters at a Super Tuesday primary rally Tuesday, Feb.. 5, 2008, in Chicago, Ill.
February 6, 2008

WASHINGTON-- A split decision written across a vast electoral map has locked Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in a protracted struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination, while John McCain goes forward as the clear favorite of the Republican race. McCain, whose campaign once verged...

Striking Writers to Be Briefed on Talks

Writers guild members picket outside Paramount Studios in Los Angeles Monday, Feb 4. 2008. A person familiar with negotiations says the striking Hollywood writers guild remains on track for a possible deal with studios, but specific language of a new contract has yet to be resolved.
February 6, 2008

LOS ANGELES-- Members of the striking Writers Guild of America will gather Saturday in Los Angeles and New York to be briefed on a possible contract with Hollywood studios. If writers are pleased with what they hear, the meetings could be a major step toward a resolution of the three-month-old strike. Guild...

Obama wins Georgia for Democrats, McCain seeks GOP supremacy on Super Tuesday

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., looks on as he goes to vote at Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, in Chicago.
February 5, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama won the Georgia primary Tuesday night, the leading edge of a coast-to-coast struggle with Hillary Rodham Clinton for delegates in the grueling Democratic presidential campaign. Arizona Sen. John McCain challenged his remaining rivals for control of the Republican race. It...

Skipping Chapel Costs Students

Chapel makeups can cost as much as $42 per semester. With the changing chapel schedules, the outcome of makeups this semester are likely to change.
Money goes toward future net costs.
February 5, 2008

Nearly 3,000 chapel and conference makeups were expected to reach the desk of Lauren Turner, chapel accountability coordinator, last Tuesday, February 5. 1,431 students need to make up chapels from last fall, and 1,525 need to makeup conferences. On average, fifteen chapels and 6 conferences per student...

Man Invades Horton Hall

February 5, 2008

A man confronted two female students at 4:15 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, as they came out of their bathroom on North Horton’s 2nd floor. T man described by witnesses as a 19-year-old, 5-foot-10-inch Hispanic man of approximately 145 pounds with an afro said that God opened the doors and let him onto...

Biola Competes in ONE Campus Challenge

People prepare mud cookies on the the roof of Fort Dimanche, once a prison, in Port-au-Prince. Rising prices and food shortages threaten the nation's fragile stability. The ONE campaign aims to reduce hunger in countries like Haiti.
February 4, 2008

Tapping into the competitive spirit and school rivalries that fuel some of the college experience, the ONE Campaign has discovered a new way to involve the younger generation in the fight to end poverty. The ONE Campus Challenge, which began last year, invites colleges and universities to submit the...

Candidates Make Final Super Tuesday Push

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, speaks during a campaign rally in Faneuil Hall, in Boston, Mass., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, one day ahead of the SuperTuesday primary elections. (AP Photo)
February 4, 2008

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-- Sen. John McCain defended his conservative credentials Monday as rival Mitt Romney claimed he was true to core Republican values in the finalpush before SuperTuesday. Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, locked in a tight race, searched for support in the delegate-rich...

SuperBowl May Be Most-Watched Ever

New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress (17) celebrates after scoring the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Giants' 17-14 win over the New England Patriots during the Super Bowl XLII football game at University of Phoenix Stadium on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008 in Glendale, Ariz.
February 4, 2008

NEW YORK --Very preliminary findings from 49 of the nation's biggest markets showed that ratings for the New York Giants' thrilling SuperBowl win over the New England Patriots were up 9 percent over last year's big game, according to Nielsen Media Research on Monday. Experts say those numbers indicate...