Monthly Archives: February 2013

Written by Erica Siddle. Media by Kelsey Kuethe. Overcoming cancer, breaking records with seven championship titles at the Tour de France, and writing a series...

Hosted by Adam Crouch and Jake Cannon featuring Ryan Stakes. In the episode, Adam, Jake and Ryan discuss the podcast's Twitter account, the winter storm...

Written by Carolyn Fairbanks. Media by Kat Kelley. A recent YouTube video of the Greenville College baseball team doing the Harlem Shake has started making...

Written by Veronica Crisler. Digital Media by Jessica Sturgeon. The Madison Letter is back! After Tuesday night’s open mic performance at the Blackroom Café, the...

I’m amused by the clearly biased. Jim DeMint, former U.S. Senator and soon-to-be president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative “think tank,” really struck my funny bone with his Washington Post article, “Conservative ideas need a new message.” The title sports a statement I can certainly agree with; the conservative GOP really does need a new message if they hope to win over voters in the next round of federal elections. When reading DeMint’s writing, however, I found myself wondering how he thought insistences, like “progressive central planning has failed throughout history and is still failing today,” would win him the ear of informed citizens looking for unbiased alternatives to progressive or liberal ideas. First, “progressive central planning” is misleading. “Central planning,” also known as “economic planning,” is defined as any arrangement or guidance of economic activity outside of the control of our capitalist market. I can almost hear DeMint thinking, “Let’s slap the word progressive on this sucker and make it sound detestable!” Perhaps an unfair sentiment, but I mean, come on—do I really have to bring up FDR’s New Deal to make my point? (Here, conservatives are criticizing his economic interventionism.) Clearly, no matter how one views our current governmental trajectory, economic planning has been a part of our system (as most governmental systems use a combination of free marketing and planning) with winning results for generations. Does DeMint want to see the abolition of the FDA? I didn’t think so. With this in mind, I knew DeMint’s article would be laced with bias, as most political articles are, but I gave it a read anyway, remembering what I perceived to be his central messages: “[c]onservative ideas work,” whereas progressive ideas don’t, and Heritage will demonstrate to citizens how conservative reform is crucial to our government and economy. It was difficult.

Author Ethan Ford; Media by Kelsey Kuethe. Going to Greenville College means many things, but one certainty is that you’ll be required to take a...

Written by Kristi Reindl. Media by Bri Phillips. Memory is used for numerous things on a daily basis, and for college students, a large portion of their...

Written by Kristi Reindl The campus is buzzing about the new mystery of GC Mingle on Twitter.  For the past several weeks, anonymous “love doctors” have...

Let’s face it; The Bachelor in GC terms is equivalent to the most eligible Joy Boy starting the year off dating an entire floor of Burritt, only to find himself with one lucky lady just in time to give her a ring by spring. While it is agreed that this type of behavior would be deemed inacceptable on our campus, damaging to our intentional Christian community, and probably against the lifestyle statement, we find it a perfectly acceptable form of entertainment. Add to the mix the fact that the contestants range from single mothers to straight up crazy ladies and you have The Bachelor.

Red. This color has come to symbolize passion, romance, power, and life. With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, it is especially prevalent in commercials and stores everywhere. Red has a rich history, dating all the way to ancient times. Neolithic hunters believed the color to possess life-giving powers and placed red ochre in the graves of their dead. Many passages in Scripture reference the color, for example: in Exodus, God instructs Moses to have the Israelites make him offerings of blue, purple, and scarlet cloth. The ancient Egyptians associated red with life, health, and victory, often coloring themselves with red dye during celebrations. Even then, the women used red pigments for cosmetic purposes. In ancient Rome, red held an important status of religious symbolism. The Romans wore togas bearing red stripes on special occasions and used red dyes to color the skin of gladiators and works of art.