
Amazing Facts News Release July 1, 2008
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. The Amazing Facts and Weimar boards have voted to keep the renowned Weimar Academy and College open this coming school year.
Early in 2008, Weimar College faced a serious financial shortfall that handicapped its ongoing basic operations.
Someone just sent this over - it's from a letter to the faculty by the new Columbia Union College President, Weymouth Spence.
I am happy to report that the Columbia Union College Board of Trustees approved the recommendation for Dr. Susan C. Scharffenberg to join the administrative team here at Columbia Union College in the capacity of Provost effective July 1, 2008. I am also happy to report that Dr. Susan C. Scharffenberg has accepted the offer.
We've all seen email forwards like this, but I thought that y'all might appreciate a lil' humor as we move into the weekend.
1. He had only one major publication
2. It was in Hebrew
3. It had no references
4. It wasn’t published in a refereed journal
5. Some doubt He wrote it Himself
6. He may have created the world, but what has He done since?
7. The scientific community can’t replicate His results
8. He never got permission from the ethics board to use human species
PUC is hosting its first ever Green Week starting Thursday, April 17. The week will include several films, speakers, and activities highlighting environmental issues.
Since Darwin published his Origin of the Species in 1859, the debate over the origin of the world among evolutionists and creationists has degraded into a mess of uncommunicative polarization. This bitter dialogue has infiltrated, and in some ways paralyzed, one of the most profound and mysterious topics of the human race. However, not all have the view that science and religion are incompatible.
"After 30 years of training Seventh-day Adventist youth and young adults for lives of consecrated ministry, the Board of Directors of Weimar Institute of Health & Education voted to close the college program as of June 20, 2008. Taking fiscal responsibility, the difficult decision came after seeking various financial and ministries solutions for several years."
A few years ago David Brooks visited Princeton University in an attempt to understand my generation's meritocratic elite. What he found were trained workaholics, their 18-hours-a-day schedules packed with classes, work, extracurriculars, and sports. These students he dubbed Organizational Kids.
Award-winning University of Arizona at Flagstaff anthropologist Cathy Small became a college freshman again.
She wanted to know why so many university students don’t enter into discussions, get by with as little homework as possible, never go to the library, eat, sleep, cell phone, or text message in class, don’t visit their professors, cheat on examinations, plagiarize papers, and maybe worst of all, endlessly ask, “Will this be on the test?”