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The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

Jena 6 affecting Biola’s campus

September 19, 2007

It is hard to believe something like this is actually happening. It’s 2007, 50 years after Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, and we still have to deal with racism. It’s a complex situation, the conflict at Jena high school in Louisiana. It has completely torn apart the town; the danger...

Why I can’t wait for global warming

September 19, 2007

I am constantly getting phone calls, emails and letters from readers who are seeking out my opinion. And it’s no small wonder. The journalistic integrity oozes so tangibly from The Chimes that it frequently gets readers’ hands sticky with quality. I am frequently approached about the subject of global...

Faithful Mourn Death of Mormon President

In this Saturday, April 6, 1996 picture, Mormon Church President Gordon B. Hinckley smiles while listening to speeches at the 166th Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. Hinckley, the longest-serving president of the Mormon church who presided over one of the greatest periods of expansion in its history, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, a church spokesman said. He was 97.
January 28, 2007

SALT LAKE CITY--Thousands of believers were in mourning Monday following the death of Gordon B. Hinckley, the humble head of the Mormon church who added millions of new members and labored long to burnish the faith's image as a world religion. An announcement of his successor was not expected for days. Hinckley,...

Obama Family shows pride from Kenya home

Sarah Hussein Obama, grandmother of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama sits in front of her home in the village of Nyagoma-Kogelo, western Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. Barack Obama phoned Kenya's opposition leader as diplomatic attempts to end Kenya's political crisis intensified Tuesday.
January 6, 2007

At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic chairs surrounded by chickens and drying corn kernels, listening to radio reports from New Hampshire. Kogelo, the western Kenyan home village of Barack Obama's father, has been...