February 25, 2014

In this issue…

• Current News
• Family Updates
• Personnel Updates

Current News

CBU swim and dive teams win first and second in RMAC 

In its first-ever Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship, California Baptist University’s swim and dive teams grabbed first and second, with the women sweeping the board with accolades.

Head coach Rick Rowland earned RMAC Women’s Swim Coach of the Year for the 2013-14 season, Courtney Chacon won women’s Freshman of the Year, Mary Hanson won women’s Swimmer of the Year and Yosita Hapsari won women’s swimmer of the meet. Breanne Schlenger won women’s Diver of the Year as well as Women’s Diver of the Meet. Sophomore, Josh Hanson earned male Swimmer of the Year and was named male Swimmer of the Meet as well.

Over the course of the four-day meet, the women tallied a staggering 1,092 points with gold medals in 18 of 19 events including 4 team relays and grabbing the gold and silver medals on both the 1-meter and 3-meter platforms.

The men put up a total of 1,059 points with 8 gold medals, 8 silver, and 4 bronze as well as a bronze and silver-medal finish from two of the divers.

After winning the gold medal on the 1-meter platform Wednesday, Breanne Schlenger posted a phenomenal score of 474.60 on the 3-meter board in her final event of the championships for another gold-medal finish and a CBU record in the event.

Lauren Skinner grabbed her second silver medal with her 444 total points on the 3-meter board for a solid finish as a freshman. Miranda King and Millie Moro scored 396.90 and 378.35 in the event for fourth and fifth place, respectively.

Courtney Chacon posted a leading 17:08.81 time in the 1,650-yard freestyle—dropping 21 seconds from her season-best time and grabbing the gold medal for the second time at the championship. Ashley Weedman posted her season-best and NCAA Division II ‘B’ qualifying time for the first time this season with her third-place finish in 17:35.12.

Yosita Hapsari grabbed the gold in the 100 free, touching-first in 51.39. Hailey Golden and Kristina Tchernyshev finished the event in 53.54 and 53.99 respectively.

Mary Hanson broke yet another RMAC, CBU program record, and Colorado Mesa record in the 200-yard backstroke with her nearly ‘A’ qualifying time of 1:59.54, while Kylie Mihld gave the Lancers a one-two finish with her silver medal time of 2:02.5.

Alena Rumientceva won the gold medal while breaking another RMAC, CBU, and Colorado Mesa record with her 200-yard breaststroke time of 2:14.95—just .05 away from the automatic qualifying time.

The CBU women won the gold in a close 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:32.07, which Kyndal Terwilliger, Golden, Abby Mullen, and Hapsari contributed to.

The Lancer men’s dive team competed in a set of trial dives where Kendall Rummell was just two points shy of the national qualifying score and Chris Carlberg landed three points short—a tough finish for the men.

Elijah Barrows broke the CBU program record, as well as Colorado Mesa record, and was just three seconds shy of the automatic qualifying time in the 1,650 free finishing in 15:26.63. Barrows took the race in the last 200 yards for the gold-medal. Derek Wedel, in a .4 difference for fourth place, posted a career-best 15:56.73 time. Mitchell Spezzaferri posted his season-best time in the event clocking in at 16:10.53.

David Ring—the only CBU swimmer competing in the men’s final 100 free—swam neck-and-neck for the gold medal clocking in at a season-best 45.50.

Robert Nichols grabbed the silver medal in a close 200-backstroke race, clocking in a season-best time of 1:47.79. Nolan Brown finished with a bronze-medal time of 1:49.36 in the event to give the Lancers a two-three finish.

Josh Hanson pulled to a gold-medal finish in the last 100 yards of the 200-yard breaststroke race clocking in at a season-best time of 2:01.89. Bryce Arata and Chaffin Blake both finished the event in 2:05.18 and 2:06.75, respectively.

The Lancer men posted a CBU record in yet another close 400 free relay with their silver-medal time of 3:01.05 to close out their first-ever RMAC Championships. Hanson, Ring, Josh Collison, and Nichols swam their heart out in their final event of the meet to take the silver medal just .4 behind Colorado Mesa.

Mary Hanson, Schlenger, Skinner, King, Moro and Brown are among the automatic qualifiers for NCAA Division II National Championships in Geneva, Ohio March 12-15 while the ‘B’ qualifiers who get invited to the competition will be released later this week.

 

Wytsma challenges audience to give lives in pursuit of justice

Ken Wytsma, founder of The Justice Conference, challenged audience members at California Baptist University to give their lives away to achieve true justice in the world.

 “Everyone wants to be justice heroes,” said Ken Wytsma, “but what we really need to be is a faithful and just people.”

Wytsma was guest speaker Feb. 19-20 at California Baptist University’s 2014 Christ and Culture Lectures. He is president of Kilns College and lead pastor of Antioch Church, both in Bend, Ore., as well as author of the book Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things.

He explained that justice is rooted in the character of God and requires action, not just words.

“Jesus isn’t calling us to only give our words away. He wants us to give our lives away,” Wytsma said. “Giving our lives away as Jesus calls us to do requires an understanding of justice.”

He said that justice is really all about sentiment and emotion but that by giving, as opposed to receiving, and serving instead of waiting to be served, the human soul benefits.

“Everyone is going to have different opportunities and different interests,” he said, “but God can ask us to use our unique talents and passions and experiences to pursue justice.”

Wytsma said we are never closer to God than when we pursue justice by serving others.

“When we slow down, engage and are able to enter into the pain and suffering of other people, justice can follow,” he said. “That often occurs when our empathy is kindled.”

CBU’s Christ and Culture Lectures are presented each year to examine how Christianity and culture intersect.

 

CBU celebrates anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation

California Baptist University celebrated the 150^th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by hosting the Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle documentary film series. The documentaries are being presented with the support of a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

“Each film in the Created Equal series highlights both the intentional and unintentional bravery of civil rights activists from a variety of backgrounds,” said Dr. Kenya A. Davis-Hayes, associate professor of American history and coordinator of the series. “As the community views these films over the course of 2014, I pray we are inspired to be as bold in our search for a better society as the people highlighted in the documentaries.”

The first film in the series was PBS’ “The Abolitionists” on Feb. 20, followed by a panel discussion by noted CBU scholars: Dr. Amy Stumpf, associate professor of society and religion, and Dr. Daniel Skubik, professor of law, ethics and humanities.

Other documentaries that will be shown during 2014 include “Slavery by Another Name,” “The Loving Story” and “Freedom Riders.”

For more information, contact Dr. Kenya Davis-Hayes at kdavis@calbaptist.edu.

 

CBU cheerleaders host Little Lancers Clinic

California Baptist University cheerleaders hosted the Little Lancers Clinic Feb. 8 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Participants met in the cheer gym, located in the CBU Recreation Center, and practiced with the cheerleaders from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

“We wanted to teach them a little bit about the sport of cheer and build relationships with some of the youth in our community,” said Tami Fleming, head cheerleading coach. “It was a great way to have fun, get exercise and teach these Little Lancers about cheer.”

The students received a CBU Cheer shirt and demonstrated their new technique at the Lancer women’s basketball game with Azusa Pacific University that evening.

“We were excited to host these young athletes here at CBU and teach them a little bit about CBU cheer,” Fleming added. “We hoped to get them excited about college some day and, hopefully, they will all become Lancers.”

 

CBU food quality ranked No. 2 among California universities

Niche.com has ranked California Baptist University No. 2 among California universities for best quality food.

Dining services for CBU is managed by Provider Food Services, which offers a variety of choices through the Alumni Dining Commons, Brisco’s and Wanda’s.

Kipp Dougherty, director of food services, commented that Provider’s goal is to provide high quality, authentic healthy food to the CBU community.

“From the hearts of our culinary team to the mouths of our campus community, you can taste the love in our food,” Dougherty said.

According to the website, the college rankings cover a variety of student life topics and are based on reviews, polls and facts/statistics.

The rankings can be viewed by clicking here.

 

CBU performances of Eurydice scheduled through March 1

California Baptist University continues the 2014 theatre season by presenting Eurydice through Saturday, March 1.

The play by Sarah Ruhl is a retelling of the Greek myth Orpheus, who lost his beloved Eurydice on their wedding day. In Ruhl’s retelling, she focuses on Eurydice’s relationship with her father, who is already dead and watches her from the underworld. When Eurydice arrives, all her memories are washed away, and her father helps piece them back together.

“Eurydice is a story of loss, memory, consequence and the poetic nature of love and forgiveness,” said Lee Lyons, professor of theatre. “Through a Christian worldview, Eurydice reveals the inadequacies of earthly love and explores the loneliness of pursuing it at all costs.”

Performances are scheduled Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., with matinees at 2 p.m. Saturdays. General admission tickets are $12; discounted tickets are $10 for the Saturday matinees, senior citizens, CBU students, faculty, staff and alumni. For more information, call 951.343.4319.

 

Family Updates

About 115 students and 15 faculty from the Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences attended CBU’s 6^th Annual Natural and Mathematical Sciences Research Seminar on Feb. 22. Dr. Francis Su, president-elect of the Mathematical Association of America and profes­sor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, gave the keynote address, Reflections on Teaching and Research as a Christian Scholar.  Sixteen NMS students presented their research during three breakout sessions in biology/environmental science, mathematics/statistics, chemistry/biochemistry and molecular biology.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Ricardo Cordero, assistant professor of mathematics, arranged for a group from CBU to volunteer at Kids ROCK (Reaching Out in Christ to Kids) in San Bernardino on Feb. 8. In addition to Cordero, the group included Dr. Brad Thomas, assistant professor of mathematics, and nine current and former students from the Math Club and the NMS Department. Kids ROCK is a community-based ministry run by volunteers that serves kids ages 5 – 15 every Saturday with outdoor activities, arts and crafts, Bible stories and snacks.

 

 

 

Dr. Monica O’Rourke, associate professor of kinesiology for Online and Professional Studies, presented research titled Predictors of Attitudes toward Physical Activity as a Function of Secondary School Physical Education Experiences among Adults at the Southern District American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Convention in Lexington, Ky. on Feb. 21.

 

 

 

 

Kristin Waters, secretary in Community Life, was selected as Employee of the Month for March 2014. Her nomination form included the following statements:

“Kristin has become one of the most consistent and reliable employees I have ever had the privilege of leading.  When asked to accomplish a task I know with great confidence that the task will be completed in a timely manner and at the highest level.  While under her leadership, the Community Life brand has become stronger and more recognizable to our students than ever before and our marketing techniques have been far more effective.”

 

 

 

 

Nutrition and food sciences students in NFS210 Experimental Foods attended a training session Feb. 21 in the Food Innovation Center. Randy Bunney, western regional manager for Konica Minolta, trained each of the three teams of students working on an Angel Wings research and development project on the application of the instrument for measuring product quality.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Joseph Pelletier, assistant professor of psychology, was one of six co-authors who published an article titled The role of cognitive abilities in children’s’ inferences about social atypicality and peer exclusion and inclusion in intergroup contexts in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

 

 

 

 

The ISP team East Asia Village Living delivered singing grams for Valentine’s Day as a fundraiser. The team went around campus all week singing love songs.

The photo shows part of the team after delivering a singing gram to Brett Vowell, director of chapel and Compassion Ministries .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Ken Pearce, professor of psychology, participated in the Trauma Competency Conference at Studio City, Calif. on Feb. 6-7 to meet all the requirements as a Certified Clinical Training Professional (CCTP) through the International Association for Trauma Professionals.

 

 

 

 

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) CBU Chapter hosted their 2^nd annual Suture Clinic on Feb. 8. Students practiced sutures on pig feet, learning from special guest surgeons Dr. Sandy Ratner, Dr. Lee Pham and Dr. Nora Vinh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Franco Gandolfi, dean of the Dr. Robert K. Jabs School of Business, published an article titled Organizational downsizing and the significance of the psychological contract in the proceedings of the Mustang International Academic Conference meeting in Las Vegas, Nev.

 

 

 

 

Tickets are now on sale for the 2014 Leadercast, hosted by the College of Allied Health on May 9. Leadercast exists to positively change the way the world thinks about leadership. This year’s theme—Beyond You—challenges leaders to focus outward rather than inward. Speakers this year include Andy Stanley, Malcolm Gladwell, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Laura Bush and Dr. Henry Cloud. Tickets for staff and faculty are $49 and include conference materials, breakfast and lunch. A discount is offered for an office or department group of 10 or more at $30 per ticket. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.calbaptist.edu/leadercast or contact the College of Allied Health at 951.343.4619.

 

 

 

Dr. Alex Chediak, professor of engineering and physics, is author of a book titled Preparing Your Teens for College: Faith, Friends, Finances and Much More, published by Tyndale House on Feb. 21. For more information, click here.

 

 

 

 

Nutrition and food sciences students enrolled in NFS330 Foodservice Management recently toured the construction site for a new grill being built in Lancer Plaza North with Kipp Dougherty, director of food services; Robert Gurrola, project manager; and Eric Dacosta, food services operations manager.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Patricia Hernandez, assistant professor of communication studies for Online and Professional Studies, was selected as one of 25 faculty to participate in the National Communication Associations Student – Learning Outcomes in Communication project. The goal of the project is to productively support curriculum planning and improvement within the communication discipline and to help position communication centrally in institutions’ general education curriculum efforts.

 

 

 

 

Barry Robinson, board member of Second Harvest and former executive of Sysco Corp., spoke to CBU community nutrition students Feb. 5 on the topic Senior Hunger in the region and nationally.

 

Dr. Joseph Pelletier, assistant professor of psychology, and his wife welcomed a son on Feb. 13. John Ford Pelletier weighed 6 and half pounds and was 19.5 inches long.

 

 

 

 

 

Darrell Rainwater, director of advancement services, welcomed his fourth grandchild and third grandson on Feb. 19. Joel Nicolas weighed 7 lbs. 4 ozs. and was 19 ½ inches long. The proud grandfathers says the photo shows Joel already saluting like his mother, who is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army. She is a pilot who flies drones. The family is stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia.

 

 

 

 

Personnel Updates

DATE	DEPARTMENT	POSITION	NAME	STATUS
2/17/2014	Counseling Center	Secretary	Laura Abbott	New Hire
2/17/2014	Career Services	Receptionist	Lisa Singer	New Hire
2/17/2014	Athletics	Assistant Director of Compliance	Anthony Francis	New Hire
2/24/2014	International Center	SEVIS Coordinator	Amy E. Wright	Change
2/24/2014	Athletics	Academic Counselor-Senior Woman Administrator	Rachel Keys	Change
2/11/2014	Enrollment Services	Undergraduate Admissions Counselor/Recruiter	Timothy Hawley	No Longer Employed