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The Chimes

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The Chimes

MySpace tracks users’s habits to customize ads

September 26, 2007

MySpace, the pre-Facebook fad with over a 110 million active users, which lets individuality spill out over a Web page, from layout backgrounds to music to likes and dislikes, has now found a way for the customization of not only the profile itself, but the advertising that runs on it. According to...

Swearing: a release that should be resisted

Are we being salt and light if we're cussing?
September 26, 2007

As I changed lanes on the busy freeway, edging my way in between two cars, I had to brake suddenly and got scared, letting a curse word slip out. My friend sitting next to me was surprised, and I’ll admit I was embarrassed. Recently my language has worsened, but only when I’m driving. Some people...

Students give from the heart

Junior Patty Solinap donates a pint during Wednesday's blood drive in the cafe banquet room.
September 26, 2007

Today at Biola, students lined up to donate their time and blood at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital’s blood drive. The contributors were glad to give. “I think if I have the opportunity to do something that can help someone else, I should do it,” said sophomore Elise Paty. “It doesn’t...

Biolans join high schoolers at See You at the Pole

Students circle the flagpole at Anaheim's Esperanza High School on Sept. 26, praying for revival and renewal on their public high school campus.
College, high school students join hands at on campus prayer
September 26, 2007

For Biola junior Ariel Okamoto, this morning was a flashback – she woke up early and drove to Esperanza High School to pray around the flagpole with members of the Christian Club. But this time around, she came to See You at the Pole as a college student and member of the California School Project...

Senate approves mascot suit, Chimes conference at meeting

September 26, 2007

At the AS Senate's Tuesday meetings, senators give audience to parties requesting money, vote on pending proposals and discuss finances. Here is a rundown of the most recent senate meeting, which was held September 25th. NEW PROPOSALS (have yet to be voted on) Rugby Club: $1900 i. Biola's...

Student protests for justice in Jena 6 case

Demonstrators in Jena, La. begin Thursday's rally in unison, chanting, “We fired up, can’t take no more!”
September 25, 2007

It was Sept. 25, 1957, when the Little Rock Nine marched into Arkansas’ Central High, guarded by the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Fifty years after that dramatic episode of forced integration, the civil rights movement has a new face. Senior Brittney Walker attended a rally last Thursday...

Biola tees off for scholarship fund

Golfers practice at the driving range before the 29th annual Biola Golf Tournament, a fundraiser.
29th annual tournament draws donors
September 24, 2007

This morning marked Biola’s 29th annual golf tournament. Hundreds showed up for the event with their golf bags, ready for a game on the sunny greens of Los Coyotes Country Club in Buena Park. Biola’s cheer squad welcomed tournament golfers as they arrived at the course, ushering them into the...

Bible class to explore disability

Quadriplegic Joni Eareckson Tada speaks in chapel on Wednesday, Sept. 19.
Theology of Suffering and Disability scheduled for spring '08
September 24, 2007

The Bible department is adding a one-of-a-kind upper division course next semester -- Theology of Suffering and Disability. Biola will be the first school in the nation to offer such a class, quadriplegic Joni Eareckson Tada said in chapel on Sept. 19. “Our churches don’t know what to do,” said...

Biola responds to Jena 6 trial

A protester flashes the number six to represent the Jena 6 students
Prayer vigil focuses on racial tension
September 20, 2007

Sophomore Biola student Eileen Evind spent this week passing out fliers for a prayer meeting. Evind was surprised when she received weird looks since fliers are so ordinary at Biola. The flier was an invite to a time of prayer for what she believes is a social injustice. Last night Biola students...

Student Ministries renamed

Revamped department called "Spiritual Life"
September 20, 2007

Sharing the Gospel can be difficult or intimidating, but with the upstart of the new Office of Spiritual Life, students are equipped to be healthy ministers of the gospel in the church and to the world, according to their new page on Biola’s Web site. What used to be known as the Department...

Biola thinks blue at Dodger Day

1,000 show up for centennial event
September 20, 2007

Blue-shirted fans swarmed through Dodger Stadium on Sunday afternoon, but there was a group that clearly stood out from the rest. Sporting blue t-shirts that declared “Biola loves the Dodgers,” the crowd in the right-field bleachers had enough enthusiasm to make the wave travel around the entire...

Horton fleas bug residents

Exterminator called to oust pests
September 20, 2007

A smattering of black specks vigorously leapt about, and red bumps of intense itchiness appeared on various body parts of several dorm residents last week. These were the unhappy symptoms of a flea epidemic that had been experienced by a room in Horton. Kristen Girard, Resident Assistant (RA) of upper...