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More than 400 students gathered in the auditorium at Sherman Indian High School Nov. 28 where the selections for the International Service Project and United States Project teams were revealed, and students found out where they would serve.

The night started with worship and led into the history of ISP and USP. For-ty-two people walked down the center aisle, each holding a flag representing a country where a California Baptist University team has worked within the past 16 years.

“It’s kind of like a

pre-packaged event that we look at every year and kind of tweak and change things around,” said Courtney Wat-son, mobilization coordina-tor for the Office of Mobili-zation. “There was a ton of planning that went into it. Putting together 400 note-books is just a nightmare, but we get it done.”

Each student received a notebook with information about how to raise funds, a schedule of important events and other necessary informa-tion. Organizers say teams were decided and chosen with careful consideration.

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The Operation Christ-mas Child packing party, the first ever to take place on the California Baptist University campus, was a huge success Nov. 15, said Julie Dobbins, assistant di-rector of Chapel and Com-passion Ministries.

Over 100 participants packed 185 boxes, not including the boxes that were packed individually.

The packing party was organized into stations. Each student picked up a box, migrated to the tables with the supplies to pack a box and finished with filling out an “about me” form at

the tables in the back of the room.

Ruby E. Carrillo, fresh-man undeclared major, said she liked the Christmas at-mosphere of the party, and that thinking of the way the children would react when they opened their presents brought her joy.

“A lot of people want to come again next year since they had so much fun,” said Stephanie R. Whiteker, sec-ond-year graduate student in counseling ministry and graduate assistant with Compassion Ministries.

Dobbins said it was nice that everyone took seriously

With 34 minutes left, the California Baptist University men’s soccer team was down 2-0. They trailed No. 1 seed Fresno Pacific in the

game that would determine the 2012 National Christian College Athletic Association men’s soccer National Champion.

Alex Anderson scored and now it is 2-1. Then Paul Oliver heads one in with nine minutes to play. The game is tied.

Overtime is looming over the Lancers when forward Anderson passed the ball to outside left midfielder Marc

Hope. With 7.8 seconds left in the game, he scored to put CBU ahead 3-2. The Lancers went on to win their

second straight NCCAA title.A season of challenges and nail-biting victories

fueled the fire that led CBU to its championship on Saturday.

“We have overcome so much adversity this year, and I am so proud of my team for fight-

ing from 2-0 to come back and win in the last seconds of the game,” said Tyler

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Soccer teams score big

packing party yields over 180 christmas shoeboxes

Tea bags reveal ISP, USP team selections

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photo by Sarah Jane o’keefestudents gather inside sherman indian High school gym nov. 28 looking for their names in binders handed out during the isp, usp ‘team Reveal.’

photo by rachel Mcdanieleva solis, midfielder for the lancers, and the

rest of the women’s soccer team beat southern nazarene university to obtain their second

consequtive national Champtionship.

NCCAA ChampionshipMen, Women win

photo by rachel Mcdanieljonathan Garcia, midfielder for the lancers and the men’s soccer team beat fresno pacific university to win the 2012 national Christian College athletic association men’s soccer national Champion on saturday.

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the “about me” page, which students filled out for the children.

Students colored and drew materials, and Car-rillo explained the form included a place to put a mailing address so the child could write students if they wanted to.

Whiteker also said the students took time to pray over the boxes.

Dobbins said her hope for next year is that there

would be more participation so CBU can meet the goal of packing 250 boxes for chil-dren around the world.

“We could not have done it without our interns, Eliz-abeth Arias, Kevin Cotton and Therasa Phan, who have been working since Septem-ber,” Dobbins said.

Linda Rither, whose daughter is a student at CBU, assisted with the donations and helped make the party successful.

Dobbins also said it would not have been a suc-cessful packing party with-out Janice Lee, who works at the radio station Air1.

The city of Riverside kicked off the 20th annual Festival of Lights in down-town Riverside Nov. 23 at the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa.

The “Switch-on Cere-mony,” with over 3.5 mil-lion lights, was presented by Duane and Kelly Roberts, owners of the famed hotel.

The Festival of Lights fea-tures an outdoor ice-skating rink, entertainment, special-ty vendors, holiday food and carriage rides.

California Baptist Univer-sity’s F.A.I.T.H. Club served the community by volunteer-ing during the night.

“What I liked the most about volunteering was meeting Joe Hamlin (CBU graduate and volunteer),” said Olivia Martinez, junior so-ciology major and F.A.I.T.H.

club secretary. “Since he graduated from CBU, he was really nice. I also enjoyed watching everyone prepare for the light show.”

The event began with a musical preshow featuring the Riverside City College Marching Tigers at 4:30 p.m. The Marching Tigers played various festive songs to the crowds that gathered around downtown.

“The Festival of Lights is a time where families can come together and enjoy the lights, see Santa Claus while enjoy-ing treats and spend time to-gether,” said Yesenia Garcia, junior sociology major.

Several streets were bar-ricaded for the festival, al-lowing the general public to fill the pavement for the “Switch-on Ceremony,” as well as the entertainment.

In addition to Martinez, members of the F.A.I.T.H.

Club who volunteered at this year’s event included presi-dent Dayana Ramirez, senior marketing and journalism and media double major; vice president Yessenia Ramirez, senior liberal studies major; Yesenia Garcia, junior so-ciology major; Irene Zumaya, senior criminal justice major; and Gabriela Gonzales, ju-nior communication disorder major.

CBU’s F.A.I.T.H. Club members played their part by watching over the barri-caded streets to make sure that only vendors with per-mission entered the streets of downtown.

For Yessenia Ramirez, this was her second year vol-unteering at the Festival of Lights.

“My favorite part of this event is being able to interact and meet new people as well as making a positive change,”

Ramirez said.After the Marching

Tigers’ performance was finished, Cindy Roth from the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce welcomed the crowed with a speech and intro-duced Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge.

Duane Roberts, keep-er of the Mission Inn, switched on the lights with Santa Claus and students at 5:30 p.m., lighting up the area with more than 3.5 million lights and a fire-work show by Riverside Public Utilities.

The Festival of Lights will continue daily until Jan. 5. Santa Claus will be in the downtown area every night through Dec. 24.

More information on fes-tivities is available at www.RiversideFestivalofLights.com.

Solve intriguing myster-ies. Search deep inside the human mind. Analyze the very nature of a person’s thought process. This is what the career of a forensic psychologist entails.

Dr. Ana Gamez, associ-ate professor of psychology and practicum director of forensic psychology, gave an introduction to foren-sic psychology and career paths associated with the degree Nov. 12 in the Busi-ness Building.

Gamez explained that forensic psychologists look into details such as a suspect or criminal’s personality, beliefs, values, age, ethnici-ty, IQ, history of substance abuse, presence of a mental disorder, whether or not the suspect feels anxious during crimes and if the criminal’s crimes fit a pattern.

A forensic psychologist can recognize a psychopath through observing behavior for a short time, though this is not the same as diagnos-ing psychosis — the pres-ence of a mental disorder.

Gamez explained that fo-rensic psychologists learn to look for specific personality traits, such as intelligence, lack of remorse, confidence, impulsiveness and manipu-lative tendencies.

However, Gamez contin-ued, a person can possess these characteristics without acting on them.

“It’s not whether you’re psychopath or not; it’s more of the degree to which,” she said.

One potential career path Gamez mentioned as an op-tion for forensic psychology majors is an “adjunct to law enforcement” by becoming a police or jury consultant.

Coquesie T. Monroe, sophomore sociology major, and Maura A. McGowah, sophomore anthropology and psychology double ma-jor, said they learned a great deal about job opportunities and plan on looking into jobs in those fields.

“I like how she showed visuals of criminals” so you can see what you would look for as a forensic psychologist, Monroe said.

McGowah said she learned more than she had anticipated. She said she liked that students get at least one year of experience in forensic psychology with the master’s program, making them better candidates for jobs.

In addition to learning more about jobs, Monroe and McGowah said they liked that Gamez walked the audi-ence through the thought process a forensic psycholo-gist goes through when try-ing to assess suspects.

The fate of the 105-year-old cross on Mount Rubi-

doux rests in the hands of the Riverside City Council following public outcries against a religious symbol being displayed on public property.

The council ruled on Nov. 13 to postpone the decision of whether to sell the .43 acres of land where the cross is located or fight a potential lawsuit from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a group contending that the faith symbol is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Dr. Troy Hinrichs, profes-sor of criminal justice, said he believes there is “funda-mental misunderstanding” regarding the establishment

clause that the government cannot favor an establish-ment of religion and that the clause was meant to refer to denominations, such as Bap-tist and Methodist, rather than Christianity as a whole.

“I do not see it as an is-sue between separation of church and state,” said Jer-emiah C. Cannon, a 2012 graduate of CBU who now attends Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, Calif. “This cross is not a display of the govern-ment putting Christianity as the prominent religion, but taking it away would be put-ting it in the wastebasket.

“If a church is able to stand as a historical landmark be-cause of its prominent struc-ture, this cross should not be taken down because its his-tory is filled with memories of the public that has gone to witness the Easter sunrise

service.”The cross

found its home at Mount Rubi-doux in 1907, when the property was still owned by Frank Miller, the founder of the Mission Inn, and has been the site of the nation’s oldest Easter sun-rise service since 1909. The land became public property in 1955 when Miller’s fam-ily gifted it to the city. The cross, originally made from wood, was replaced with a concrete version in 1963 fol-lowing bouts of vandalism.

Some are fighting for the symbol’s historical value.

“From that standpoint they might have trouble keeping it if it is merely a religious symbol, but if they make a historic argument, they have a better shot,” Hin-richs said. “Whether they should win or not is a dif-

As 2012 draws to a close, Congress has one New Year’s resolution: Keep the nation from going over the “fiscal cliff.”

The fiscal cliff describes the idea of the United States’ economy plunging over the edge into anoth-er recession as a result of about $500 billion in tax increases and $200 billion in spending cuts that take effect Jan. 1.

The combined spending cuts and tax increases equal about 4 percent of the gross domestic product.

Congress remains in the throngs of attempting to come to an agreement of how best to backtrack away from the financial edge.

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R–Ohio,

and his fellow House Republicans remain solid on not increasing taxes. However, President Barack Obama stated he will not sign off on an agreement that does not raise the tax rate for those families earn-ing more than $250,000 or more a year.

“As a result of the recent status quo election, nei-ther party feels compelled to waiver in regards to fis-cal policy, thus making the possibility of going over the cliff a real and danger-ous option,” said Matthew Phillips, sophomore politi-cal science major.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office estimates that going over the financial cliff would raise the nation’s unemployment rate from the current 7.9 percent to 9.1 percent.

The Obama administra-

tion has indicated it might temporarily delay some of the upcoming tax increases and spending cuts in hopes of reaching an agreement with Republicans.

A Pew Research Center and Washington Post poll

has revealed that 53 per-cent of people nationwide would blame congressio-nal Republicans if a deal is not reached by the end of 2012 versus just 27 percent who would blame President Obama for the impasse.

photo by Scott Woodwardthe annual ‘festivsal of ligbts’ display is drawing crowds of admirers to downtown Riverside through dec. 24. the 3.5-million lights is presented by owners of the famed Mission inn Hotel and spa. Members of Cbu’s f.a.i.t.H. Club volunteered to help at the ‘switch-on Ceremony’ nov. 23 during the thanksgiving holidays.

California Baptist Uni-versity students got a chance to take a break from studying for next week’s final exam-inations to enjoy this year’s campus-wide Christmas par-ty and tree-lighting ceremony Thursday.

The event featured egg-nog, jazz band performance, 50 tons of snow and a reading

of the Christmas story.The Christmas party and

tree-lighting ceremony has grown since the event was reinstated three years ago, when Associated Students of California Baptist University and Joe Adcock, assistant dean of students, decided to bring back the tradition.

“I love that the idea of the campus Christmas party came from the students in ASCBU,” Addock said. “I love

that they wanted to provide a time to bring our campus community together to cele-brate Christmas and the birth of our savior.

“It’s exciting that they were able to not only start their own tradition, but bring back the ‘Lighting of the Tree’ tradition as well.”

Adcock said in previous years the event was for the Riverside community and CBU. However, it was limited

to the CBU community as a way to involve the whole campus.

Many members of the CBU community were part of the Christmas tree light-ing ceremony: everyone from ASCBU to Facilities and Planning to the campus bands took part.

Last year’s event fea-tured a battle of the bands, an ugly sweater contest and sledding.

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fall CoMMenCeMentThe 2012 Fall Com-

mencement Ceremony is set to take place Dec. 13, at 7 p.m., and will be held at the Citizens Business Bank Arena located at 4000 E. Ontario Center Parkway in Ontario, Calif.

As of Nov. 30, 317 California Baptist University

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University students must clear their student financial accounts for the spring 2013 semester by Jan. 7.

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California Baptist Uni-versity students leaving campus for the Christmas holiday need check out of student housing Dec. 14 by 5 p.m. Students or graduates checking out of housing for the spring se-mester need to check out with their resident adviser by that same deadline.

Those interested in staying on campus over

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the break must visit the Office of Residence Life to fill out the appropriate paperwork.

The cost to stay on cam-pus is $15 per day. The fee will be added to the spring student account. Students can choose which and how many days they would like to stay on campus. Their ap-plication will be sent to the director of Residence Life for approval.

More Christmas holiday housing information can be retrieved on the residence life page on the “Life at CBU” tab of InsideCBU.

Swiping for dining ser-

students had applied for graduation. Of those, 259 will be walking in the com-mencement ceremony. Those numbers include tradition-al undergraduate students, graduate students and Online and Professional Studies students.

ing the financial clearance deadline and enrollment will be subject to cancellation.

Students must complete one or more of the approved payment options before Jan. 7 to avoid enrollment cancel-lation. International and spe-cial admission students must pay in full by the deadline.

yuleThe annual semi-for-

mal California Baptist University Yule banquet will take place Dec. 7. As is custom, Yule ball will be hosted at the Disney Grand California Hotel. Guests may begin checking in at 6:30 p.m. with dinner being served at 7 p.m. The night is set to feature acrobats, magicians, stilt walkers and more entertainment.

ferent question. I think they should win because what is the big deal? I

am not offended by their atheist symbols, so why are they by mine? If you don’t believe in it, then it is just a powerless symbol.”

The battle for and against the cross comes on the heels of similar fights on the West Coast as the fate of a 43-foot cross at San Diego’s Mount Soledad remains up for debate. Another cross established by World War I veterans was recently resurrected in the Mohave National Preserve after the property was handed back to a private group.

“Ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, we know what the cross means and that trumps everything,” Hinrichs said. “It is not worth hating people over. It

is not worth obviously start-ing a physical altercation over because they can take the cross down, but they are never going to defeat the true cross.

“We have to put things into context. It is not the end-all, be-all as we tend to think in our type of politics.”

Cannon said he would like to see fellow Christians fight for the cross to remain on Mount Rubidoux.

“Christians should stand up for this cross as well as others,” Cannon said. “We are not claiming a particular religion for the government. Only people can do that, but we are standing up for a right to assemble as believ-ers. … Taking that cross, as well as others, away would be a selfish attack on Chris-tianity, taking away our own rights for the sake of theirs.”

“We work in what’s called the ‘war room,’ and we print out all the applications,” Wat-son said. “We project our program, our software, that we have for team placement up onto the wall, and we just sit and start going through applications and teams one by one and start placing peo-ple. It’s kind of like a giant Su-

doku puzzle with 400 people and 42 teams.”

In each notebook was a white envelope with a colored Tazo Tea bag inside. After two hours of explaining how students can raise funds, how many absences are permitted for team meetings and a brief overview of security versus safety, the room parted four different ways.

Colored tape matching the color of the tea bags lined the floor outside the auditorium, leading students to a specific

area where they would find out the makeup of their team and where they were going. Some screamed as they were placed on a team for which they had hoped. Others were taken by surprise.

“It felt perfect because before I came into the reveal, East Asia was the last place I wanted to go,” said Jennifer Leight, a sophomore English major. “But I was convicted through the worship time and reveal, and I knew that because I didn’t want to go

there that was the exact rea-son why I should go there. I have never seen God act that quickly, and I’ve never seen him so thorough and sover-eign than in that moment.”

Teams broke off into sep-arate places throughout the building for the last hour of the event. Each spot was decorated to fit the culture of where a particular team was going. A Baltimore team played the song “Good Morn-ing Baltimore” from the mov-ie “Hairspray” in the back-

ground as they served snacks. The team leader laughed as she held up a gallon of milk and explained it was the offi-cial drink of Maryland.

Another group assigned to Zimbabwe huddled around a blanket that had various ani-mal shapes on it. Two bowls of animal crackers sat on the blanket as the women intro-duced themselves and spent time getting to know each other by asking obscure ques-tions.

Each team laughed and

shared different stories, but every team closed with a word of prayer for the plac-es they were going and the preparation they needed to go there.

“It’s promised in Matthew: ‘This gospel will be preached to the end to all nations and then the end will come,’” Wat-son said. “So we’re doing our best to be good stewards of the Great Commission that God has given us and preach-ing the gospel to all nations, including our own.”

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photo by nathan Baschendebate over the cross’ presence on Mount Rubidoux rages on.

vices in the Alumni Dining Commons, Brisco’s Cafe and Subway ends for the fall se-mester Dec. 14 after dinner. Leftover meals do not roll over to the spring semester.

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