The Collegian Perspectives 2-4 News 5-8 Religion 9 Entertainment 10 Sports 11-12 Vol. 53 - No. Grove City College, Grove City, Pa. Friday, September 18, 1992 A sign of the times welcome back! Grove City College students received a surprise welcome, courtesy GROVE CITY COLLEGE of the sixth college presi- students dent, Jerry H. Combee. welcome great year! The pictured billboard Have a July H. President greeted students coming into town on Route 208. 'Vision & Values' fuel for the next millenium (This is the text of the opening Personally, I doubt that a good for peace, that liberty and to have lost confidence in the in- convocation speech given by Col- movie can be made about Colum- democracy can reign from pole to stitutions, public and private, that lege President Jerry H. Combee.) bus. No movie I can imagine pole. From Berlin to Russia to control our destiny. Perhaps we Good morning and welcome to could ever show the significance South Africa, democratic values have seen one too many cases of all. I hope you've had a good of what be did in human history are bringing down one wall of moral bankruptcy in what we call summer. something completely above tyranny after another. "the Establishment." Examples This October, it will be 500 and beyond his motives. Yes, news of horrible things in abound from Madison Avenue to years since Columbus landed in Columbus showed others the far away places like Sarajevo re- Hollywood, from Wall Street to America. Preparations are under- way to what became an island of minds us that we still live East of Washington. The New York Times way around the world for festivals freedom. As Ronald Reagan said Eden. Even in the dawning of a reads like the National Enquirer, and all manner of celebration. in 1980, "Can we doubt that only new day, the dark side remains. and it's easy to confuse the net- There's even a movie out, a Divine Providence placed this Still, as we move toward a new work news with Geraldo Rivera. Christopher Columbus The Dis- land, this island of freedom, here millennium, it is hard not to feel The truth is that leaders can covery. as a refuge for all those people in that mankind stands on the brink strengthen - or weaken - our vi- I saw it and I'm sorry I did. The the world who yearn to be free?" of apocalypse now. America's sion and values, but they cannot movie is so bad I found myself But America has been more than greatest theologian, Jonathan Ed- create them. Perhaps it is the New wanting to add the producer to an island of freedom. America has wards, who lived back in the World's turn to learn a lesson Clint Eastwood's hitlist in The also been an inspiration of free- 1700s, even then expected such an from the Old. Revolution in the Unforgiven. dom to the world, and in this epoch; he described it in these communist world has come from I understand that even another century, a protector of freedom College President Jerry H. terms: "The absolute and despotic the bottom up. A bureaucratic movie on Columbus is due out in for the earth. Combee speaks at the opening power of the kings of the earth elite fell in a day. October. It will be called 1492. Our revolution started with a convocation for the 1992-93 shall be taken away, and liberty If the people of Poland, the shot heard around the world and school year. The director is Ridley Scott, who shall reign throughout the earth. Ukraine and Russia faced down did the initial Alien movie. After with words heard around the domination by Marxist totalitari- And every nation shall be a free tyranny and changed the world, the first Columbus film, it world. As John Kennedy said in anism. Contained by our force, people, not only with a freedom the people of America, with the wouldn't surprise me to see 1961, "the same revolutionary bc- collectivism is falling of its own from spiritual slavery, but from advantage of constitutional Columbus and his crew trapped liefs for which our forebearers dead weight. civil too, from the tyrannical and democracy, can restore vision and aboard the Nina, Pinta and Santa fought are still an issue around the We live in a world freed from absolute power of men, as well as values to this nation as a land of Maria, chased down by aliens. globe the belief that the rights of the threat of the "evil empire" of from the power of the devil." liberty and opportunity. A USA Today movie review put man come not from the generosity Soviet communism. Mankind can Ironically, at the very moment More than a hundred years ago, it this way: "In nineteen-hundred- of the state but from the hand of hope as never before that swords that its ideals have triumphed, in 1876, a man with vision and and-ninety-two, Columbus sailed God." can be beaten into plowshares, America itself is experiencing a values seized the liberty and op- a screen boo-boo. Let's hope it's Since World War II, America that treasure and genius once har- void a void of vision, and a void portunity America afforded. not the first of two." has stood in the way of world nessed for war can be marshaled of values. Many Americans seem The 'party' man returns to GCC Dr. Anthony Campolo, the popu- join the biggest, the best, and the organization involved in educa- Mrs. lar lecturer and author, returns to most joyous party ever in the hu- tional, medical and economic Grove City College as the feature man race." programs in several Third World speaker for Faith and Life Week, In addition to lecturing, Cam- countries. Campolo is the presi- Sept. 22-24. He will present the polo is a popular author and has dent and executive director of Combee, evening lectures on Tuesday and written 14 books, the most recent Youth Guidance of Southeastern Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Crawford The Kingdom of God is a Party. Pennsylvania, a program for urban Hall Auditorium. Other titles include Who Switched youth. He also serves as an "We welcome what God can do the Price Tags?, Seven Deadly associate pastor of the Mt. Carmel through this Christian preacher Sins, and A Reasonable Faith. Baptist Church in West Philadel- Look and teacher," said Dr. Morledge, Campolo serves as the director phia. Dean of the Chapel at Grove City of the graduate program in Urban College. "We're looking forward Studies and a professor in the De- Although the public is invited to to the enthusiasm and excitement partment of Sociology at Eastern attend, these programs are focused at that we know he can bring to this College, St. Davids, Pa. A gradu- toward Grove City College campus." ate of Eastern College and Eastern students. The doors will open to Page 11 A dynamic speaker, Campolo Baptist Theological Seminary, he area residents at 6:45 p.m. last spoke at Grove City College's received his Ph.D. from Temple Faith and Life Week in 1989, University. Campolo will also address the inviting the audience to join the He is the founder and president students during morning convoca- Dr. Anthony Campolo party in the kingdom of God. He of the Evangelical Association for tion on Wednesday and Thursday called the crowded auditorium "to the Promotion of Education, an at 9 a.m. in Harbison Chapel.