There is much excite-ment going around this year at Sterling Col-lege, and it goes be-yond the start of a new year. This year there is a new Writing & Edit-ing major and minor being made available to incoming students.

Students who pursue

the Writing & Editing major will be challenged in their four years at Sterling. The course of study will require pro-gressive work into their skills at a level that many students are not used to.

Another way that this new major will help students achieve their dream career in writ-ing or editing is by re-quiring an internship in

the field. This will give students a valuable op-portunity to practice the skills necessary to suc-ceed in a real-life pro-fessional environment.

Dr. Felicia Squires, chair of the Language & Literature depart-ment, is very enthu-siastic about the new W r i t i n g & E d i t i n g major being added to her department .

The Language & Liter-ature department is also extending the opportu-nity for this beneficial learning to all students on campus by offering a minor by the same title. Squires feels that by also offering the minor it has the potential of making all the students of Sterling more market-able after graduation.

“Students who are

strong writers, in any major , should con-sider supplementing that major with the Writing/Editing mi-nor ,” Squires sa id.

“Imagine how mar-ketable you would be with a Business major with a minor in edit-ing/writing. I think such a candidate would be very attractive to a potential employer.”

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 * THE STERLING KANSAS BULLETIN * PAGE 5

This year over 200 stu-dents were welcomed to S ter l ing Col lege with an action-packed weekend filled with numerous orientation events. Events included a pool party and day at the lake, an outdoor movie, the annual High-land Games, live mu-sic, the Campbell Rave, and the variety show.

Orientation Co-Leader Tillie Ehresman said, “I felt like orientation went

very smoothly this year and all of the committees did a great job organizing their specific events; al-though, the flash mob was definitely my favorite.”

The flash mob Tillie was referring to occurred at Highland Games. About halfway through the event, the new stu-dents were entertained with a surprise flash mob to “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction courtesy of their O-Staff leaders.

Some of the events at Highland Games made some students uncomfortable, includ-ing freshman Cassidy Woodard who said, “It was awkward spoon-feeding a baseball player at Highland Games.”

O r i e n t a t i o n w a s wrapped up with the variety show, which featured acts from all of the dorms, an unfor-gettable performance by the Svaty’s, anoth-er flash mob to “After Today” from The Goofy Movie , and The Men of Sterling Calendar.

VP of Student Life Tina Wohler said, “Orienta-

tion went great this year. We had great orienta-tion leaders who worked very hard planning all of the fun activities. From the family and student evaluations, everyone seemed really pleased with the move in pro-cess and the activities through the weekend.”

ORIENTATION 2012

By: CODY MARTINStaff Writer

Ster l ing Col lege hired several new faculty members this summer. In this issue, The Stir introduces you to two of them. Check back in the coming weeks to meet the rest of the new SC faculty.

Frank Leone, Assis-tant Professor of Edu-cation, is a father of five and recently celebrated his 40th wedding anni-versary. Leone earned his Bachelor’s Degree at University of Iowa and his Master’s at Pittsburg State Uni-versity. He has 24 years of experience in public education and ten years in Christian education.

Leone wanted to slow down from ad-ministration and is ex-cited to get back into teaching. Leone hopes to bring an excitement and fire for teaching elementary math to the education department. He said, “elementary math should be child’s play, but many are fearful of teaching it.”

David Briones, As-sistant Professor of Theology and Minis-try, holds four degrees, two of which he ob-tained while in Eng-land. Briones enjoys spending time with his wife of eight years and his one son, Micah.

Briones was a college pastor for two years and has experience leading small groups and mentoring. As part of his vision for teaching at Sterling College, Briones stated, “I long to provide solid biblical teaching that, by the power of the Spirit, transmits spiri-tual life rather than intellectual death.”

B e h i n d t h e t h r e e l e t t e r s o f ‘ S G A ’ (Student Government A s s o c i a t i o n ) e v e r y year, there are seven outstanding executive

cabinet members who work hard year-round to make events such as Homecoming successful and memorable. This year, seven new officers have taken the reigns. In this issue, you will be introduced to four of

SGA’s executive cabinet members. The rest of the team will be introduced in next week’s issue.

O f t h e s e , M i k e Redondo, President, says his goal for this year is to expand SGA’s budget. O v e r t h e s u m m e r ,

Redondo sent 400 letters out to alumni who served on SGA when they were s tudents . The let ter explained the important role that SGA plays in Sterling College today and how donat ions could provide for greater changes on our campus.

“ A t l a r g e , S G A ’ s mission is to establish personal relationships b e t w e e n s t u d e n t leaders and col lege a d m i n i s t r a t o r s t h a t will allow for healthier communicat ion that r e s u l t s i n e v i d e n t p r o g r e s s , ” s a i d Redondo.

Redondo is a Theatre Arts major, and will be directing The Odd Couple: Female Version this fall as his senior project. Redondo also plans to marry actress Emma Stone, and enjoys the movie Twister.

B r a n d o n M o r r o w serves as SGA’s Executive Chaplain. “I want to

promote a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ to the student body and their SGA representatives” said Morrow.

Morrow is a Sports Management major and has played football for two years. He also enjoys watching the Outdoor Channel, and his favorite colors are Christmas colors, but he likes them independently of each other.

SGA’s Vice President of the Student Senate is Ryan Bretches. “My goal for the year is to raise awareness about our senators. They have such passion, and I want that to be recognized.”

Bretches is a Youth Ministry major and is described by friends as a loyal servant to Jesus Christ. Bretches is also involved in Sterl ing Chorale and Highland Singers, as well as the social media team and

By: ASHLEY AULBACHStaff Writer

SGA ExCab : A cabinet worth opening

By: MEGAN WALKERStaff Writer

Professors Leone, Briones join SC faculty

By: MORGAN ROBINSONStaff Writer

Making some ‘major’ changes

Highland Games, Talent Show highlight Orientation weekend

2012 Cabinet poses for a picture. From left to right: Ryan Bretches, VP of the Stu-dent Senate; Becky Barnes, Executive Secretary; Spencer Childs, Office Consultant; Mike Redondo, President; Alexa Pelton; Treasurer; Alex Lawhon-Bush, Director of Campus Activities; Brandon Marrow, Chaplain. Photo courtesy of Melissa Wisner

The official student-run newspaper of Sterling College Volume 116, Issue 1

Two freshmen attempt to pass a Lifesaver using only toothpicks held in their mouth as a part of the Highland Games.Photo by Nathan Ehresman

Students participate in tug-of-war during the Highland Games on Monday night. Photo by Nathan Ehres-man

Blindfolded, one stu-dent has to spoon-feed a teammate in a race to see which pair can fin-ish first.Photo by Nathan Ehresman

playing ultimate Frisbee. He also has a car named Betsy; however he was not the one to name it.

Becky Barnes is the SGA Executive Secretary. “Homecoming allows for a lot of creativity, so another goal would be to live up to that and throw a week of events that are creative and fun for everybody on campus” said Barnes.

She plans to major in psychology, is a peer mentor for the freshman foundation class, was and plans to be active in Love Sterling, and she works at the Mabee Library. Barnes also once swam a half mile out in the ocean to a 300 foot drop off and coincidentally swam with a hammerhead shark in the Bahamas.

Next week, Be sure to catch part two of our SGA spotlight featuring cabinet members Alexa Pelton, Spencer Childs, and Alex Lawhon-Bush!

PAGE 6 * THE STERLING KANSAS BULLETIN * THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Warriors kicked off the season with their first game on Saturday, September 1 against Benedictine College. Despite excitement and support from fans back at Sterling, with a final score of 59-6, “it was a total disaster from start to finish,” said head coach Andy Lambert.

Lambert said he as-

sumes responsibility for the poor performance and regards the game as a learning opportunity for the Warriors.

“We must coach bet-ter during the week,” he said, “and I, as head coach, need to have the entire program better prepared to play. Our mistakes can be cor-rected.”

John Cardona, a soph-omore quarterback from

Los Angeles, California, echoed Coach Lambert’s positive outlook.

“We really learned a lot about ourselves and what we have to do to get better,” he said. “We’ve been focusing on the little things in practice, such as taking care of the ball and hus-tling more on the field.”

The game was shap-ing up to be a blow to the team’s overall

morale, but it’s clear that the team is actively working to become bet-ter equipped to perform throughout the rest of the season.

“The sen iors and many of the leaders on the team have taken it upon themselves to push the younger guys,” Cardona said. “We look forward to starting con-ference this weekend at Tabor and getting back

on track with what we know how to do.”

The loss was “a tough start to the season,” ac-cording to Kerby Rice, a senior linebacker from Athol, Kansas. “We will have to get back to work on the practice field and make many corrections before we start confer-ence play,” he said.

“Our players are very mature and resilient,” Coach Lambert con-

cluded, “so we plan for steady improvement and expect a much bet-ter performance this week. The team has re-sponded well.”

The team also strug-gled against Tabor last week, but look forward to the challenge of fac-ing Kansas Wesleyan on Saturday for the first home game of the sea-son. The game starts at 6 p.m. at Smisor Stadium.

On the weekend of August 31 and Septem-ber 1, the Sterling Col-lege men’s and women’s soccer teams took a very successful trip to Texas.

On Friday the 31st, both the men’s and women’s teams cruised through Dallas Chris-tian College as the men won 5-0 and the wom-en won 8-0. However, Southwestern Assem-blies of God put up a tougher fight on Satur-day. The women’s team won in a narrow victory of 2-1 by scoring goals in the first half. Fran-cisco Hernandez scored the only goal for the men’s team as they lost in overtime 2-1.

After the weekend the

women have gotten off to a very hot start of 3-0. Coach Justin Morris said about his team, “The girls have been com-peting really well, and that’s one of our goals – just to compete through every game. We don’t want to be a team that only plays half a game or 80 minutes. We want to compete 90 minutes, and that is a key for us to have a bounce-back year.”

Senior Michelle Malette received the honor of KCAC player of the week for her per-formances in the first three contests. In the three games, Malette had a total of four goals and an assist. She has developed into a big scoring threat and a tre-

mendous leader on the field.

“She puts everything she’s got out on the field, and everyone knows that. She shows girls how hard to work, and how important it is to work hard every day,” said Coach Morris.

Freshmen Jerome Joof also received KCAC player of the week hon-ors for his efforts in Texas. Against Dallas Christian, Joof shined by scoring a hat-trick in his first ever game as a Sterling College Warrior. Then against Southwestern, Joof had a quality assist.

Both the men’s and women’s team show great promise this year, and it should be exciting to see the season unfold.

On the weekend of August 31, the Sterling College volleyball team took the long trip out to Las Vegas to take part in a tournament against some of the best teams in the NAIA.

The event was host-ed by the University of Great Falls, a school from Montana. Nine teams were invited in-cluding some ranked in the top twenty five teams in the NAIA.

The Lady Warriors started the weekend Fri-day night by playing against Rocky Moun-tain College, a team ranked seventh in the nation. Though they

lost the match in three sets, Coach John Hard-ing said that they put up a good fight against the formidable team. After that, they had a break until the follow-ing day which held three more matches in store for them.

The first team they played the next day was the host team, the Uni-versity of Great Falls. They lost this match in three sets also, but again the coach cited a won-derful effort on the part of the team.

Following this was another loss in three sets to the twenty-second ranked Carroll College. However, they were able to turn things around in the last game in order to

beat Northern Montana State by a score of three sets to two. “It was re-ally good to end things with a win,” commented Harding.

The goal of the trip was to pit the Lady War-riors against some of the best teams in the sport in order to build their confidence. Following their sweeping victory over Bethel at home last Wednesday in three sets, it was clear to see that the team was seeing the results already.

“We got to play some good teams and we’re looking to play some more good teams at the Baker tournament this weekend,” said Harding in reference to the team’s tournament last week-

end. They are looking to cash these early, diffi-cult games into victories later on this season.

The team’s next test will come on Wednes-day as they face off against Southwestern at home. The team will look to build on its early success and increase their already impressive 6-0 record when playing at home.

The Lady Warriors will look to seniors Sara Steria and Adriana Gon-zalez for leadership, as they both recently won KCAC Player of the Week honors.

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On Tuesday, September 4th, CAB saddled up for Rodeo Night. This event included a mechanical bull, line dancing, country music, and a lot of food.

CAB Publicist Lucas Knauss said of the event, “Unfortunately, it got rained out, but for the time it was going, it was worth the time invested in it. The me-chanical bull was a success and was something that CAB has been trying to get for years.”

Before the rain, many students enjoyed the event including sophomore Chloe Wootton who said, “I went to CAB’s rodeo and YEEEHAW! It’s good to know that after 125 years, Sterling is still horsin’ around. So let’s grab our boots, cinch up the horses and giddy up to next year’s rodeo where the bull will meet his match… again.” Photo by Nathan Ehresman

The volleyball team gathers for a team huddle during a recent match. Photo by Ben Wright

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