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How the Equality Act, and the Fairness Act Affects Christian Students

The Equality Act is a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would “prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit and the jury system.”If passed though, this bill could cause several problems for Christian college students.

Problems the Equality Act Could Cause

No access to federal funding.
Religious colleges shutting down.
Having to go to secular universities.

Fortunately there is a bill that the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities supports. Shirley V. Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, said, “The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) supports Fairness for All.”

What is the Fairness Act?

The Fairness for All Act presents the ideology that “all persons are created in the image of God, implying dignity, value and worth,” said Shirley V. Hoogrstra. By passing this bill it would allow christian students, and universities to protect a variety of religious organizations.

Outlaw discrimination against the LGBTQ community
Protect religious organizations like schools, adopting agencies, and marriage counselors.

President Taylor, Professor Bartels and Vice President Sheri Phillips all agree that the best way for students to respond to these changing times is to reflect the love of Jesus and to be informed about what is happening in the world. President Taylor added, ”There is no legislation and there is no government that can destroy the church, that can destroy Christianity.”

The Milly Project Leaves Audiences Inspired

Gillioz Theatre hosted a free performance of the Milly Project in collaboration with Springfield’s NAACP Chapter. Over 400 attendees experienced our nation’s collective “racial trauma”, and were left wondering about its impact.

The play’s factual content originated from the archival investigations of Jack Bologna and Connie Yen, a former reporter for the Springfield New Leader and the current Director for the Greene County Archives and Records Center, respectively.The seven female and two male performers portrayed a variety of characters.

The Milly Project’s Purpose

A key phrase expressed multiple times came from the five Caucasian performers: “Separate but equal,” which the four black performers immediately refuted by stating: “Separate and unequal.”

Before the performance, Robinson spoke to The Lance about the performance’s turn-out. “I hope that they feel inspired, and then go home and think about: how not only the play inspires them, but actually, what kind of community that they can create from it?”

“This story has to be told. What a horrible thing not to tell and hold back,” said Adora Snead, Milly Project ensemble actor.

To catch a performance of the Milly Project for yourself follow ‘The Milly Project’ on Facebook to see available times, and show dates of more performances.

New Media Center Bill for Lewis Hall

Senator Isabella Icenogle presented a bill in senate on Monday for a new media center in Lewis. If passed, the bill will take $1,300 from the Campus Project Fund for one 75” smart 4K UHD with HDR TV for $899 and a full motion wall mount for $98.17.

“We’ve had a lot of requests for this,” said Sen. Icenogle. “A big thing the RA’s have to deal with is people trying to bring their TV’s into the lobby, and we have to shut it down because of copyright laws.”

The Evangel University Handbook Ruling

The 2019-2020 handbook states the following for movie viewing on campus, found on page 25. “In keeping with federal copyright laws, movies (EU’s community standard is PG and under) may be viewed in private living spaces, such as a room or suite. Showing a movie in a lobby, lounge, or hallway requires a license to be legal.”

The media center would be an enclosed space which would make watching things as a group permissible based on the Evangel University handbook rules, and regulations. Lewis Hall would also not be the first hall to have a media center. Scott Hall, Spence Hall, and Krause Hall all already have media centers in their dorms. If the bill is based that would only leave two halls without media centers Walther Hall, and Burgess Hall.

New Education Opportunities Means More Students at Evangel University

The rise in the student body population on campus can be attributed to Evangel’s admissions teams, five of whom pulled through almost 480 new undergraduate students. This exceeds last year’s amount of newly enrolled students which approximated 390 students.New scholarship opportunities and a more generous look into a student’s academic performance have played a key role in the larger amount of interest in Evangel.

Test optional makes it so that only the GPA is viewed as the primary source for academic performance. Allowing people with lower test scores to still attend Evangel University. Along with this change, a new sibling scholarship awards each sibling attending Evangel $1000 in order to honor families who continue to support Evangel.

The Founder’s Scholarship lowered their accepted ACT test score from 25 to 24. Breighann McKnight, director for admissions and recruitment, said, “Opening that up by one more number allowed so many more students to be eligible.”

Evangel University has implemented these new education opportunities for 2019.

The Sibling Scholarship
Test Optional
New Fine Arts Scholarship
Lowering Founder’s ACT score minimum

All of these adjustments, and benefits opened the door to allow more students to be admitted into Evangel University. Allowing more students to have the opportunity to follow God’s plan for their life.

Duncan Gakuru Left Kenya to Run Towards His Dreams

Duncan Gakuru, of Nairobi, Kenya, was thinking about.“In high school, my whole focus was to get a good GPA like my brother did and get a full ride to a university, but that did not work out,” he said.

After barely falling short on the placement test, Duncan wasn’t sure where to turn. Although he wasn’t a runner up to that point, Duncan had played other sports and was used to competition.

“I started running after high school, so that was fun. In high school, I never ran. I played rugby when I was a freshman,” Gakuru said.

With his little experience with running, Duncan packed up his things about a week after contacting the coach of a running camp. His plan was to run fast, take the SAT and get recruited to run in the United States.

After the Running Camp Duncan’s Journey Was Far From Over

At the end of the running camp Duncan caught the attention of the Missouri Southern State track coach.Then something fell through with Gakuru’s passport. Duncan had to sit and, wait on God to move in his life. There were several moments where things fell through.

Things fell through with Missouri Southern State
He got recruited by Southern Baptist University but, injuries kept him from enjoying running.
Transferred over to Johnson County Community College
Finally he visited Evangel University.

Now, two years after his first visit to Evangel, Duncan has found a home and a team where he can thrive.