The Banner, Vol. 28 No. 16 - February 25, 1983

              The
BANNER
Vol. XXVI, Issue 16
California Baptist College
Feb. 25,1983
Delays Plague
Student Center
CBC's new student center
still remains unbuilt, the victim of delays imposed by the
city of Riverside's building
inspector.
"We thought the Student
Center would be here and
operating by the second
semester," said Kent Dacus,
ASB Vice-President.
"We didn't realize that it
had to be approved by the City
Planning Commission. After
we cleared that hurdle and
thought we could go ahead
and order our center, we
found out that is only the first
step."
"We recently had to submit
five blue prints to the City
Building Inspector for his
approval."
Although city building
regulations are balking construction Walt Grubb, Dean
of Student Life, feels that the
City of Riverside is being
helpful. "The planning commission gave us a break," he
said. "CBC isn't zoned for
temporary buildings: It is a
mobile home and we did get a
waiver from them." Grubb
feels that the City Building Inspector's office is the actual
cause of the delays.
"He covers every inch of the
facility to make sure all
materials, location, and foundation are suitable. This is a
several week process, and as
soon as we get approval the
company (Fleetwood) will
build our Center."
When asked for a specific
date when construction could
begin Dacus replied, "I won't
give a specific date because
we've tried that before and we
keep getting set back. But
we'll have it soon; you can
count on that."
Face the Changes
CBC students were surprised last week to see a change in
the style of the Banner. The
new look, which involved a
different grade of paper was
actually an experiment.
"We've had several students
suggest that we revert to
newsprint to improve the professional look of the paper,"
stated Editor Joe Pinkerton.
"However, the feelings tend to
run about 50/50 for the whiter
book stock.
"This is a student
newspaper and our goal is to
please  the  students,"  added
Pinkerton. "What we'd like
for students to do is compare
the last issue with previous
issues and see which grade of
paper they prefer. Then let us
know by dropping the comments in the Banner box outside the ASB office."
Other Banner changes involved the staff. Paul Huard
replaced Dana Johnson as
Assistant Editor. Johnson
resigned due to personal time
limitations. Mary Crocker:
resigned as Feature Editor to
become a columnist and Ken
Hudson replaced Kristi Stark
as Photo Editor.
Carrie Garten speaks at Sunday's dedication of the Chuck Garten Memorial.
Preview        BSU'ers Stirred By Mexico
For whom the bell doesn't toll.
Day Held
Prospective students from
various regions of the state of
California converged on CBC
last weekend for the twice annual Preview Day.
Hailing from areas such as
Sacramento, Hayward,
Elmhurst, San Jose* Fresno
and Orange County the 169
prospective students were
treated to the best CBC has to
offer as Preview Day fell on
Homecoming weekend.
The possible future Lancers
were given tours and visited
classrooms Friday morning,
attended chapel, and were
presented with a Financial Aid
seminar. After lunch on
Harden Square the prospec-
tives viewed a concert in the
BOL and later were allowed to
discuss plans with faculty
members.
Deemed a smashing success
by its coordinators, Preview
Day was sponsored by the Admissions Department. "I feel
real good about it," replied
Suzie Goodwin, Admissions
Counselor.
Apparently, so did most of
the prospective students as
evaluations which they turned
in were all "very positive" according to Goodwin. Most expressed appreciation.
Besides Homecoming
festivities the prospectives
were also given free passes to
Thursday night's play.
Ever since the team of 23
CBC students and administrators found themselves
in So,-California ortFebruary
2nd it has been difficult to
keep them silent. Claiming to
be greatly stirred by a two
week trip to the 15 million-
inhabitant megalopolis of
Mexico City, team members
continue to excitedly relate, to
anyone who will listen, stories
of how God proved to be
faithful to a group of crazy
gringos in a very "crazy" city.
One of the first major objectives of the trip was to respond to the invitation of the
Mexican Baptist Students to
come to their University (U of
Mexico), to give testimony of
Jesus Christ. This was done
through music, drama,
athletics, simply making
friends and capitalizing on the
novelty of being Americans in
a non-tourist area. Many
students for the first time had
to face up to the claims of
Christ and some made professions of faith, One young
medical student named
Manuel had been studying the
scriptures for 21 months and
finally gave his allegiance to
Jesus. It is young people like
Manuel who will shape the
future of Mexico in the coming years.
Another objective of the
trip was for the team to learn
from the Mexican Baptist
churches and to try to understand their conception of
Christian Ministry. Two of the
churches were located in impoverished areas and for the
first time many of the team
members were confronted
with the realities of life for
about V* of the world's
population. These times were
especially moving with the
Americans being flocked
around like celebrities and
challenged to understand the
relevance of the gospel to the
poor. Several students commented that being there was an
experience which gave them
the confidence that God could
use them to help the poor.
The third focus was for the
students to get a good
understanding of Mexican
culture. This was accomplished by history lessons, visits to
museums and historical cities,
but primarily by staying in
Mexican families homes,
eating and living like Mexicans. All the team members
have big smiles and lots of nice
words to say about their
"Mexican families", and their
appreciation for chile!
Many, more things and individual experiences should be
included, but Banner articles
have a limit on space.
However, if you would like to
ask, these are the members:
Juanita Blanton, Angie Meza,
Kristen Pfister, Carolyn
Jarms, J ana Hilt, Ann Mc-
Combs, Patti Robertson, Lyn-
nette Crouch, Mark Justice,
Don Eagle, Paul Ingold, Mike
Young, Jake Wayman, Fred
Harms, Guy Farnsworth,
, Randy & Maryann Galloway,
Frank and Anita Cipriani, and
Dr. Staples. I'm sure they
would be excited to answer
your questions.
—Paul Ingold