ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND A SUCCESS
Alumni Night at Golden Eagles Basketball Game
The Alumni Game on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 , is going to be a very special night on the home basketball floor of the CCU Golden Eagles. Special guests for the evening will be Jim Masters , former UK All-American and Ray Tolbert who played on one of the National Championship Teams at Indiana and went on to a great NBA career. Jim and Ray will be the coaches for the alumni game at 7:00 which will feature " Kentucky " coached by Jim versus " Indiana " coached by Ray. Any former CCU basketball player who is interested in playing needs to call the alumni office at 513-244-8113 to register to play. Former CCU basketball players who are able to attend but are not interested in playing are invited to sit on the bench and be recognized. You may also register to attend using our online form . The game will be played between the CCU Women's game and the Men's game, both against KCU and begin at 7:00 PM .
Floor Dedication - Another special and historic event taking place at the half time of the CCU versus Kentucky Christian game will be the dedication of the basketball floor in memory of Jill Rendel . Jill was the student athlete who perished in an automobile accident while traveling as a senior member of the women's basketball team in 1993. She was to have graduated that spring. A brief ceremony will be held to dedicate the floor in her honor.
- Also at the half time of the CCU/KCU game the 1986 National Championship Team will be recognized and honored on the 20 th anniversary of their championship. Each member of the team will receive a special plaque. Team members were Rusty Russell, Mike McGuire, Jodie Creditt, Junior Moffatt, Chip Mehaffey, Chad Hudson, Mark Cleaveland, Dave strasser, Troy Bock, Dave Gorman, Ken Tracy, Tim Wright, Lawain McNeil with coaches Tony Wallingford and Irvin Hart .
J. Todd Smith, a grad student and full time minister near Middletown , with encouragement from his brother-in-law, entered a Radio Idol Talk Show Contest sponsored by Cincinnati radio station WLW. The contest was a take off on the American Idol TV Series. The fist step was an audition held in a local restaurant emceed by Jim Scott with Bill Cunningham, Mike McConnell and other WLW talk show hosts acting as judges. He had just a few minutes to make an impression by answering questions and doing a brief monologue. Because of his delivery and ability to think quickly on his feet, Todd was one of the four who moved on to the second round.
The second round involved having a clip of Todd's audition on the WLW website with an opportunity for the public to vote. It was at this point that Dr. Jon Weatherly, CBC Academic Dean, encouraged everyone at CCU to go to the website and vote for Todd who became one of the two finalists to advance to the third round.
The third round was a 30 minute segment live in the afternoon with Bill Cunningham on Dec. 1. Todd anticipated the discussion might be about moral issues so in preparation he studied notes form Dr. Pressley's Modern Ethical Problems class. Sure enough the discussion involved abortion and other moral and ethical situations. With the knowledge he learned at CCU and his 25 years of ministry experience, Todd was the top vote getter and won 2 airline tickets to anywhere in the U.S.. In addition he will be on the air again in January, this time for 3 hours.
When asked about his motivation to participate Todd said, "I feel like I have something to say to the world. If we have an opportunity to share the truth, we need to take advantage of it". He also wants to thank everyone who voted for him and especially Dr. Weatherly for encouraging the CCU family to stuff the ballot box on his behalf.
Adam Graunke is a grad student and free-lance writer who sent the following letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial page.
"Your voice" columnist David B. Greenburg ("Study intelligent design as philosophy," Aug. 9) has attempted to prove the irrelevance of intelligent design as science, relegating it in his opinion to the field of philosophy. While my academic credentials probably do not even hold a candle to Greenburg's, I nevertheless came away from his article thinking, "Hmmm ... something doesn't sound right."
One argument is put forth in the following way: "Among the physicists concerned with contemporary cosmology, the suggestion that some higher order is controlling the strings of this multiverse is not a significant agenda item. Rather such philosophical thinking has no place in the real physical world." This after citing that current trends in cosmology suggest the possibility of an "infinity of universes of all possible sizes, shapes and properties ..."
Besides begging the question of the existence of a "multiverse," is not the professor philosophizing about mulitverses in order to prove that ID is a philosophy and not a science? And since no human was there to witness the beginning of the universe, and we cannot attempt to replicate that event, is not any discussion of the origin of the universe, whether accepted by all or by very few, more philosophical than scientific? Something doesn't sound right.
Lastly, he offers a parable to argue for evolution: "If a thousand monkeys, each at a typewriter typing one letter per second, were at that task long enough (say up to 13.7 billion years), they would eventually produce the entire works of Shakespeare."
If this is to be a more accurate argument for evolution, some modifications would need to be introduced, and some guidelines made. Given the immense complexity of the universe and everything in it (let alone the marvel that is the human body), and the countless variables that had to be just right for life to arise from non-life (which in itself sounds ridiculous), the monkeys would have to not just produce the entire works of Shakespeare, they would have to do it word by word, with no errors in between words and no other words but the words of Shakespeare flowing perfectly from their typewriters. Something doesn't sound right.
Oh yeah, one more thing: Someone had to teach the monkeys how to type.
Mark Koerner
Director of Alumni Ministries
mark.koerner@CCUniversity.edu
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