The Pilgrim’s Protest

By Elise Newman
It would seem more appropriate given the content I am about to disclose that I would have 95 reasons, which would promptly be nailed to the stage in Shortess Chapel. Nevertheless, I wish to publish a mere ten ways in which the Catholic Church seems more biblical and effective than the Protestant Church. Please note that my intent is that of iron sharpening iron.
1. Celibate leadership.
Growing up as the daughter of a Protestant minister, I have witnessed on more than one occasion the struggle of the married minister between the importance of family and the call of the ministry. Celibate leadership is a principle, which Paul speaks of extensively in I Corinthians 7 when he states, “An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs (vs. 32).” It appears that celibate leadership is the ideal way of doing things. I am not arguing that it is the only way churches should function; I am arguing that it is the best.
2. Holistic worship.
The approach to worship in a traditional mass service involves each of the senses. Incense for smell; architecture for sight; music and chanting for the ear; communion for taste; kneeling and standing for touch.
3. Unity.
A common solution to problems in Protestant churches is for the church to split. This is heartbreaking for believers to endure and is exactly the opposite of what Christ prayed in the garden of Gethsemane when he said, “May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you have sent me.” (John 17:23) The Catholic commitment to unity is attractive to those of us who have witnessed the petty divisions that plague Protestant country churches.
4. Daily mass.
Acts 2:47 mentions the Lord added to the early church daily. This meeting on a daily basis to worship God and support one another in community is something the Catholic Church has maintained throughout the centuries.
5. Latin mass.
Oh yes, reading the Nicene Creed in the original Latin text gives a feeling of unity within the body of Christ which transcends the boundaries of time. When reading the creed you participate in a Christian tradition alongside Athanasius, Augustine and Mother Theresa.
6. Importance of imagery. From crossing oneself to praying the rosary, the Catholic faith is full of imagery that is beneficial to those of us who spend our time thinking or analyzing meaning.
7. Aesthetics.
Closely tied to imagery and holistic worship is the value Catholics place on making their churches aesthetically pleasing. In his book Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton commented on European cathedrals, “Christ prophesied the whole of Gothic architecture when…He said, ‘if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.’” The glory of God is visually realized in cathedrals.
8. Lack of first person singular pronouns during mass.
The only time an individual references self during mass is to acknowledge human failure and our need of Christ. It seems to me that Protestant churches have largely bought into our culture’s rampant individualism and offer ministries for individuals rather than focusing on the whole church body. Mass gives priority to the church as whole and the focus remains not on the individual, but on corporate response to the Word.
9. Pedigree.
The Catholic Church traces its roots directly back to the days in which the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. Because of the commitment to unity within the Catholic tradition, they have maintained a single, unbroken line of leadership.
10. Confession.
The sacrament of confession is beneficial to the individual for the catharsis of inner struggles that we tend to suppress and hide from other believers. I have observed from the student environment at CIU a number of students living in shame over their sins because they were too afraid of what would happen if someone found out. This kind of environment is exactly what the sacrament of confession avoids. We should be free to pour out sins in the confidence of a wise leader.
Conclusion
I could probably write ten reasons why I am not Catholic today, however, this would be irrelevant to the audience that reads this publication. The purpose of writing this article is to implore those of us at CIU to examine different areas of the Christian faith and see God at work in places we may not expect. It is true that some people come out of the Catholic Church wounded or confused; however, I can honestly say that God has chosen to heal wounds I have suffered at the hands of the Protestant church through my interactions with the Catholic Church. Sitting in mass at the Catholic Oratory in Oxford brought healing in my life and revived my love for the Lord. My sincere hope is that this article will inspire critical thought and sharpen your theology. Peace be with you.

By Elizabeth Castellow

What’s the Deal?
CIU students should prepare themselves for a new buzzword on campus: Quality Enhancement Program, or QEP. Perhaps this wasn’t as exciting of a phrase as you were hoping for, but the implications for our school are important.
The facts you need to know are that, as a part of the school’s accreditation (what makes your degree mean something), CIU has to submit a QEP. The CIU faculty and staff have been working for over two years to prepare for visits from the accrediting agencies: SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools), ATS (Association of Theological Schools), and ABHE (Association for Biblical Higher Education). Dean Swift told TPP that, “A significant amount of this time is spent preparing a self-study so that we are well prepared for the criteria and scrutiny of the agencies.” Every school goes through a process where they choose an aspect of their school to look at and to improve upon or change. Spiritual formation is the area being studied by CIU. As stated in the Student Handbook, spiritual formation is “the divinely ordained transformational process by which the Holy Spirit leads believers to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ through the Word of God, and by that relationship become progressively more free from sin and more like Christ. The Spirit’s formative work occurs in the context of a vital engagement with a community of believers.” Whether or not you agree with this definition, this is what drives the school’s view of spiritual formation and the activities and programs that come out of this view.
So what?
If what has just been said sounds like big words that don’t mean much, you are sadly mistaken. If you’ve ever wondered about standards, chapel, why we have chaplains or what Student Life is all about, the root lies in the school’s view of spiritual formation. As a part of evaluating this area of CIU and submitting the QEP information to SACS, CIU is required to get student input and ideas. This means you have a chance to impact how this school functions and change things for future students. TPP asked Dean Rick Swift, for his take on the QEP and what it means for students. He said,
“CIU will be taking a look at how we can better nurture the spiritual transformation of our students. This does not necessarily mean more programs, in fact it may mean less specific programs with a greater emphasis on creating a community environment in which relationships (personal and spiritual) can develop. CIU has a spiritual formation statement in its handbook that refers to this process as a work of the Spirit, fed by the Word, but often realized through dynamic relationships. As a result we realize that there is no “five steps to a spiritually transformed life” program that we can develop. What we can do is create opportunity for relationships to thrive on campus—relationships that utilize various means of grace to create an environment that causes students (as well as faculty and staff) to grow in their dependence on, obedience to, and hope in, God and His Word. This is a five-year project and so everything will not be ready to go right away. We need to think, try, assess, adjust, ask, listen, etc. in order to be where we think we should be. We are in no way trying to replace the role of the church, but CIU presents a fairly unique opportunity for relationships and we need to be stewards of that opportunity.”
Spiritual formation in an institutional context is an issue full of benefits, problems, and potentially problematic situations. There is a balance of how much influence and control a Christian institution should have on the lives of its students. This balance greatly impacts the everyday lives of CIU students. The school’s study of how it does spiritual formation can ultimately have a positive impact for the CIU community as whole.
Now what?
So now you know. The question is, ‘What should you do with what you know?’ As the school pursues the QEP process, don’t slip into a state of apathy. If there is something you believe to be important for spiritual formation or that you would like to see on campus, send an email or have a conversation with your chaplain or dean. As students we have an opportunity to impact the future of the school and how it operates. Input is vital; not only for spiritual formation but also for campus atmosphere and community. In regards to student input, Dean Swift said, “Where do the students fit in? Everywhere! We want and need your ideas. Many have requested the return of small groups. We’re working on them, but you probably have some great ideas that we may not have yet considered. We’ll be revisiting many areas: small groups, chapel, lifestyle standards, accountability, the advising process, and so on. We would love to see the implementation phase drenched with the input of students. This experience is for you and you probably have a good idea as to what is working and what is not. We’ll be recruiting more help with the QEP, but if you are interested, please let me (rswift@ciu.edu) know as soon as possible.” It is clear that without students becoming involved this process may lack what it needs to ultimately be of benefit to students. Fortunately, these opportunities are being given, if only we will take part in this community.

World
Kosovo Declares Independence
On February 17th, Kosovo’s parliament declared independence from Serbia. This has been recognized by the United States, and the majority of the EU. However, the Serbian population, supported by Russia and China are against an independent Kosovo. There have been riots in Serbian capital city of Belgrade and several foreign embassies, including the U.S. embassy, were attacked by mobs.
There is a history of conflict between Albanian Muslims and Serbs. Many Serbs consider Kosovo the heart of their country. However the Albanian majority has long sought independence.
In 1974, the Yugoslavian constitution granted Kosovo status as an autonomous province within Serbia. In 1990, when the ethnic Albanians began campaigning for independence, former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic attempted to suppress their desire. In 1999, NATO led air strikes on strategic targets in Kosovo and Serbia to quell ethnic cleansing of Albanians.
The issue of Kosovo’s independence carries great weight for other countries with autonomous provinces vying for independence as this precedent may encourage others to follow suit.

National
Death of Heath Ledger
On January 22nd, actor Heath Ledger died from an accidental drug overdose; he was 28. The medical examiner announced that Ledger had taken six types of pain killers and sedatives but that the death was accidental. According to CNN, Federal authorities are looking into two pharmacists and trying to discover whether or not the drugs were legally prescribed. Heath Ledger’s first American film, in 1999, was 10 Things I Hate About You; one of his most recent works was the movie Brokeback Mountain. Ledger also starred as The Joker in the movie The Dark Knight, which is scheduled to release on July 18, 2008.

McCain’s Presidential Race
A few months ago it was predicted that Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign was nearly over. Today that has radically changed. According to CNN he is now the presumptive G.O.P. nominee for the Republican ticket.

Local

Parking Tickets
Drivers owe the City of Columbia over three millions dollars. How? In parking tickets. Fines as little as $5 have grown into a significant sum of money. These fines should be paid and city officials cite that the City of Columbia needs the money. The city is even considering going as far as obtaining warrants in order to collect these fines. While some may consider a parking ticket a trivial offense, these fines can add up quickly and it is advisable to pay as quickly as possible.

By Stu Cone

If you’ve been paying attention to television, you may have noticed that many of your favorite shows didn’t last very long after Christmas. The reason is because they had no writers. No writers, means no scripts. And no scripts means there aren’t any productions. No shows. Hollywood more or less shuts down, save for a few films that made it into production in time. But even those films suffer, as they could not have their scripts changed or amended in any way because… that would be writing!
So, what’s the deal? I’m not here to convince you of anything regarding the strike. I am pro-strike. This article is more about making the bullet points of why the strike happened. Why me? I suppose because I’m a writer, because I have access to and interact with WGA member writers, and because I’ve been following the strike pretty closely since before it began because I have a future stake in it. The deal reached in the last few days will possibly be the deal that I inherit as a writer when I become a member of the Guild. So… what’s the deal?
The Writer’s Guild of America is for all intents and purposes a union. Some of you may be familiar with unions, but for those who aren’t, here’s the basic idea: A union is, in a nutshell, an organization that represents workers in a particular field to ensure that they are treated fairly and compensated appropriately. When a union’s members come to a situation in which they believe that they are not being treated fairly, they can legally halt their work and protest, going on strike.
Unions have been around for quite a while in America, and founding them was a hard process for the nation. People died to create a work environment that was beneficial for more than just the bosses.
But, aren’t writers making millions of dollars in Hollywood, Stu?

Some do. A handful.

Worldwide.
Some are in a more moderate bracket, and some are living on residuals.
Residuals are basically royalties. When a writer sells a script, they are selling the rights to use their work for production. Anytime money is made off of the product, they are entitled to a percentage of the profits. That sounds amazing, and it would be if that percentage were in the 25% range.
The agreement leading into the strike was in the 2% range for DVD sales.
For the writers who aren’t in that 10 or so who are inking million dollar deals, striking was more about putting food on the table between scripts. If one sells a script for a movie that costs more than $5 million, the minimum scale pay is $77,000.

Zowie, that’s amazing!

And if you don’t sell another script for 5 years? And you live in Hollywood’s cost-of-living situation?
Ah. It’d be nice to have residuals coming in off of that sale to keep things going until the next sale. And maybe something more than 2.5% of $14.99/DVD.
Now that we understand residuals (and why they are necessary for some) a little better, let’s get to the heart of this particular strike.
New Media
New Media is the term being used to describe streaming content over the internet, more or less. Under the pre-strike union deal with the studios, there was no residuals provision for writers in regards to streaming content over the internet.
That means that if you’ve ever watched LOST through ABC.com, the studio made money from selling ads that streamed with it, but the writers who worked on the episode received nothing.
And the studios wanted to keep it that way, or offer a deal comparable to the current DVD deal.
Imagine writing a fantastic paper for one of your classes. And the Prof went on to showcase that paper in every class he taught as a great example of how to write a paper.
Now imagine he gave you no credit for it, resulting in an F.

It’s sort of like that.
Or, more accurately, imagine that you got an awesome job, worked hard, and then your boss refused to pay you for every other day of work. Ouch.
These analogies aren’t perfect, but I hope you get the point.
Not every writer is rich. Many are not. Employers were doing shady business. That is why any union strikes, and that’s why the WGA went on strike. For more information, I’m including some resources below.

By Amy Roberts

A pastor was giving a children’s sermon and he asked a series of questions: “What has a bushy tail, climbs trees and stores nuts for the winter?” One boy tentatively raised his hand and said, “I know the answer must be Jesus, God or the Bible, but it sure sounds like a squirrel.” Just because the question is asked in church, doesn’t make it a spiritual question. Just because a person is in church, doesn’t make that person a Christian. Are we, the body, closing our eyes to a mission field sitting in the pew next to us? Are we ordaining deacons, elders, Sunday school teachers, youth workers, even pastors because they look like Christians, without making even the slightest effort to apply the standards found in Scripture? Chris Gruver’s testimony is a prime example of this very problem.
Chris Gruver, a junior in Youth Ministry at CIU, lived a life that looked spiritual from outward appearances. His story illustrates a serious deception in our churches that weakens the Body. People are going to hell and they don’t even know it. Here at CIU, we train and equip workers to spread the Gospel. I believe Chris’s story can shed light into a mission field we may not think of very often – the “so-called believer”.
Chris was raised in a strong Christian home. He grew up in a large, religiously active family. His parents are in Christian education and were missionaries to Russia while he was in high school. As a child he attended AWANA, where he received the Timothy Award for exemplary performance, as well as becoming a leader at the national camp. He also attended a Christian school and was well-versed in Christianity. Chris says, “The danger of growing up this way is that Christianity is all you know, you don’t question it, and when you get to an age where you do question it, you are often not in a place where you are surrounded by community who will be able to answer those questions.”
No one ever questioned whether Chris was a believer. When he was ten years old, he first felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit at a Sunday night service. When Chris came forward at the invitation, the pastor said, “What are you doing here?” He didn’t know. At ten he didn’t have words for it. When the pastor asked if he needed to be baptized, Chris thought that must have been the answer. He had been told that he became a believer at 4 and that was all he had worried about at the time.
When he was in high school, his family moved to Moscow where his parents ran a school for missionary kids, but they returned to the States the day Chris graduated from high school. That’s when he hit a crisis point: His father could not get a job, his mother was having her 8th child, and Chris was not able to get the soccer scholarship he had hoped for because he had been overseas. Ten of them were sharing a single wide trailer. While his father was looking for work as a Christian school administrator, Chris needed to work to support the family so he was not able to fulfill his dream to go to college. He was seventeen.
Looking back, Chris says he became angry at God and said, “Forget Christianity”. He still went to church, because that’s what you did, but he was rebelling against God. There was a dichotomy between his behavior on “Christian time” and in reality. As the years went on it became harder and harder to reconcile the two.
Eventually, he was able to attend a Christian college. At school, he continued living a classic double life. He had a group of Christian friends and a second immoral life on the side. Slowly, he retreated from God and the life he had once known. He had previously enjoyed worship and being around Christians, but now he had chosen the other camp. “I was not someone I would have chosen to save,” Chris says. “I was even less worthy, because I pretended that I was worthy. I was a hypocrite in the fullest, most complete sense of the word.”
His sophomore year, God said that was enough. Three weeks into the fall semester, Chris came down with a severe case of mono. He had to drop out of school and was bedridden for 6 weeks, which scared him. When he recovered, he began attending church again because “I was terrified that God was going to kill me. I got involved because that’s what made God happy.” However, his behavior was not a reflection of his heart, but continued to be superficial and legalistic. Nonetheless, Chris believed he was a Christian because his family told him he had come to know the Lord when he was four and had been baptized when he was eleven. He didn’t know that he wasn’t a believer because he fulfilled all the outward requirements.
God intervened again when Life Action Ministries came and did a crusade at his church. Everyone encouraged him to join that ministry, and he did. They put him into training for two months. During that time, Tom Maharis came to speak and Chris immediately recognized that there was something different about this man that was not true in Chris’ life. Maharis spoke on Psalm 26 and for the second time in his life Chris felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit. He went down the aisle and for the second time, a pastor said to him, “Chris, what are you doing here?” This time however, he knew enough to say, “I don’t know, but something’s not right.” He took Chris and asked him all the standard questions. Chris remembers, “I knew all the “right” answers but this time I answered from my heart and not my head. I couldn’t honestly say that Jesus was my Lord, or that I loved His Word.” Instead of sending Chris back to his seat, his pastor challenged him to read 1 John. Chris got into a canoe and paddled to the middle of the lake where he read 1 John to see if he was truly saved. He knew within the first few minutes that he was not walking in the light, and needed to turn his life over to Christ, which he did. As he reflected on 1 John, he realized that everything that typified a Christian, was not true about him. He had been his own god. Even though he was not living in outright sin anymore, the root was still there. He prayed that God would come into his heart, not as someone he’d heard about all his life, but as his Lord and Savior.
Since then he was able to be involved in many vibrant ministries, here in the States and overseas in Indonesia. For One of the villages he went to had a church with believers who love the Lord. This church has started 18 evangelistic outreaches, but their prayer is for leadership training, some type of Bible school. In many places they are so desperate for materials that they often pick up Jehovah’s Witness materials because it is all that is available. Because of this need, Chris plans to do leadership training in Indonesia after graduating from CIU in May.
When asked why he had so many opportunities in his life to work in the ministry without anyone discovering that he wasn’t a believer, Chris had some interesting perspectives to share. “I think modern evangelicalism has confused spirituality with religiosity. Because we don’t have forms that dictate our religious life, it gets gray. I was able to bluff my way through most religious settings and in many places they just needed someone, and I was personable and knew the church language and had musical abilities. I think most people assume that if you’re willing to volunteer for a church position, you are a believer, where in reality the opposite may be true, that people get into the church to hide from God and/or other people. The reality is that very few people will question the internal if the externals are good.”
As we are preparing to go into the world as leaders, we would do well to consider Chris’ story. We are doing a disservice to the people in the pews if we do not help them dig into their own faith stories. True Christianity is more than a lifestyle, but the lifestyle can easily be mistaken for reality. The externals are not what God looks at, but unfortunately it’s what we spend an extraordinary amount of time worrying about. God looks at the heart.

By Sarah Nixon

Underchallenged? Perhaps that’s not the first word that comes to mind when thinking of the CIU populace. It certainly doesn’t jump into mine. But a few weeks ago a chapel speaker came and told the student body very confidently that they were “underchallenged”. While it seems humorous that a visiting chapel speaker could know how challenged CIU students are, was he right? Somehow it seems that he missed something in his assumption.
Between classes, homework, field education, chapel, the work most of us have to do to afford to come to CIU, church, friends and sleep, there is little room for much else. Yet a cry frequently heard around campus is “you ought”. “You ought…to help out the homeless downtown.” “You ought…to tutor elementary school students.” “You ought…to be involved in a church and do ministry there.” “You ought…to make sure that your studies are a priority.” These “oughts” ring in our ears from morning to night!
Unfortunately, these frequent chastisements to be involved, while done with good intentions, could quite possibly do more harm than good. Rather than encouraging students to do ministry, these pleas often seem to be a sort of Christian guilt trip—you aren’t doing enough, you aren’t working hard enough, and you aren’t being a “good Christian”.
Guilt is not a very good motivator for getting people to do things, and a quick glance at the effectiveness of these appeals to obligation can prove that. The Student Senate, despite well-publicizing the Adopt-a-Highway campaign, has to require its members to go or not enough people would show up! And when CIU had a prayer walk down Monticello last semester with pastors from the Crane Creek Alliance, not more than 30 students showed up. Even Refocus segments highlighting ministry opportunities in Columbia and a president who is involved in local ministry have done little to impact the amount of students who do anything about the issues here in Columbia.
So why continue these subtle jabs to the Christian obligation? Is CIU really training world Christians for long, successful ministries, or are they training future ministry burnouts who can’t say no to anything? It seems that many of these people who come forget that first and foremost, CIU students are just that—students. We are here to minister, yes, but primarily we’re here to learn. And while hands-on learning is a vital part of the educational process, our Field Education provides numerous opportunities to put what we learn into practice.
The answer to the problem of CIU students getting involved is not to continually place demands for more, more, more to do. Rather it is to remind them that they are students first and their studies should be the most important thing right now. As Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven”. Once students realize that, they can be free not to accept every ministry opportunity that comes their way. They can look at them as opportunities, rather than obligations. And when they do that, they are more likely to be able to listen to where God actually wants them to minister. So students: Live free, knowing that God has called you to this place to prepare you for the ministry that He wants you to do. Learn to be ok with saying no. Then you’ll be more likely to find that elusive school/ministry balance—not underchallenged, but never overcommitted.

By Gina Russo

In 1972, a group of CIU students published two issues of a newsletter that was released on the CIU campus. TPP was intrigued to find out about this publication because of the similarities in origin between TPP and the 1972 publication. Gina Russo, former Editor-in-Chief of TPP, gives her thoughts on this publication from a previous era in CIU history.
-Elizabeth Castellow,
Editor-in-Chief
Flipping through a 1972 CIU student publication entitled Little People Think, I encountered phrases that were all too familiar to me as a former editor for The Pilgrim’s Protest. “Honest dialogue, forum for students, administration, and alumni,” and trains of thoughts indicating that the publication was not anti-authority or a mouthpiece for bitter former students. It admonished students to think for themselves, encouraged student leaders to have vision, questioned standards, and wondered how effective CIU student culture was in shaping students for mission and ministry. The anonymous authors discussed their perception of the sad state of evangelicalism and controversial subjects such as women’s liberation.
The authors (some alumni and others current students) chose to remain anonymous in order not to be punished by the administration through expulsion or some other disciplinary measures. From reading the articles, one can tell they were bright people, with extensive vocabulary and a keen ability to form sentences.
But a key factor is missing from a paper that claimed to be a forum for ideas: respect. Articles such as “The One Solution” are thick with sarcasm. The author is concerned that the school forms students into “dull holy joes” and then calls support of such treatment “bull.” Such rhetoric is not only unprofessional, is does little towards the Christian’s goal of “speaking the truth in love.” The authors strive to create a “us and them” mentality between the students and administration.
That’s not to say there is no room for sarcasm in persuasive writing; one need only read the works of Henry David Thoreau of Mark Twain to see that humor, satire, and sarcasm can be used effectively, professionally, and persuasively to communicate ideas. The problem with the humor in Little People Think is that it is an unfiltered reaction towards what the authors consider to be an unfair cultural system at work in Columbia Bible College. I am not going to debate whether their feelings are legitimate (a feeling is legitimate in so far as it exists; what one does with that feeling is what needs to be judged and considered), since the relationship between these particular students and the administration of that time is something I am not privy to. However, I can say with some confidence that there are much more effective ways to utilize the power of the written word. The publication was eventually shut down by the administration for being “divisive.” Whether that was due to the unprofessional manner of the publication or if it would’ve been prohibited even if it had respectfully questioned school policy and cultural norms is not something I am able to judge. As a student who has taken great care to work with the student body and CIU administration in writing articles that respectfully question a principle or policy at CIU, I know that effective communication is possible. It can be an uphill battle, and sometimes the students one is striving to serve may accuse the author of attacking the school. It is important for everyone who participates in any side of a debate to prayerfully, respectfully, and professionally present their thoughts and opinions in order that the Body may be uplifted, encouraged, and refined by the Holy Spirit.

In our December 2007 issue, TPP reported on the changes that will be happening in the CIU Village. TPP asked Brion Burns for an update on what is happening with The Village.

In October of last year an announcement was made in a CIU faculty meeting that CIU plans to build apartments. The Board of Trustees had already given approval for the school to have an outside party finance and build apartments on CIU property. Some initial discussions had taken place with a couple companies who work with universities in building this type of housing. Village residents were informed of this announcement via an email message. This message also informed the residents that the Village would be closed over the next few years. No timetable was given.

In the months since the initial announcement was made and the Village residents were informed, there has been a meeting involving administration and residents. Issues and concerns were brought to light in this meeting. A small group of residents has also been meeting with members of the administration to further voice concerns and to explore options for the future. During one of these meetings, President Jones gave assurance that CIU will work together with the residents during the transition period. No owners of mobile homes will be left to deal with the situation on their own. If there is any financial loss, the loss will be absorbed by CIU.

Currently Keith Marion is in discussions with a couple different companies interested in the possibility of building apartments. No agreements are pending at this time. There are still questions that need to be answered before any plans can be formulated. Once an agreement is reached, there will be at least a 24 month period before closing the Village.
Village residents are sent weekly updates via email and meetings between administrators and residents are ongoing.

- Brion Burns
Associate Dean for Student Life