Torch, Summer 1999

, President Receives E.J. Nutter Award P resident Paul H. Dixon was awarded the E.J. Nutter Award at the Tenth Annual Greene County Community Dinner on April 7. The annual award is presented to a citizen of Greene County who has affected and advanced the growth of the county. During the past 21 years of Dixon' s leadership, the College experienced a 162 percent jump in emollment at a time when most institutions experienced downturns. The introduction of so many new students to Greene County each year has impacted the county' s economy and has led to the creation of several hundred faculty and staff jobs at the College. Dixon' s leadership has also resulted in the largest student volunteer program in the nation. During any given week, up to 1,600 students volunteer in churches, hospitals, nursing homes, and over 100 other social agencies throughout the Miami Valley. Students give an estimated 80,000 hours of volunteer service each school year. Dixon has built many bridges between the College and the community by launching such activities as Community Night on campus, serving on local committees and boards and encouraging other College personnel to do likewise, and taking an active role in community events. His current memberships include the Key Bank Regional Board of Directors and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He is also a board member and officer of the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges and the Association of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio. Republican Presidential Candidate Visits Cedarville Gary Bauer, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, was guest speaker for the College' s May 25 chapel service. Bauer, who worked in Ronald Reagan' s administration for eight years and served as president of the Family Research Council, shared his message of conservative social and moral issues with the College family and guests from the community. Bauer offered an informative question and answer session after the chapel service. Students Raise Awareness of the Sudan C edarville' s social work students have used a variety of means to raise awareness of the persecution of Sudanese Christians this academic year. They recently organized a Sudan prayer vigil at an historic site on the Underground Railroad; approximately 50 students, faculty, staff, and community members attended. Social work students brought Faith McDonnell, an international religious liberty associate for the Institute on Religion and Democracy and a member of the Religious Persecution Task Force, to campus for an evening lecture on the Sudan situation. Students used a slave box (above) to remind the College family to pray for enslaved Sudanese. Christians as well as other non-Muslim groups are being killed and enslaved in the Sudan because of their beliefs; more than 1.5 million people have been killed in the last 10 years. Additional Cedarville College events for attracting attention and prayer to the Sudan are planned for next year. Cedarville Named One of Yahoo's Most Wired Colleges For the second year in a row, Yahoo Internet Life has listed Cedarville College as one of Ame1ica' s most wired colleges. < : . Out of the 571 four-year institutions surveyed, Cedarville ranked 39th overall, just behind Yale University. Yahoo researched all aspects of a school' s wired life, from student web usage and the number of computers available to network speed and net resources for the seeing- and hearing– irnpaired. Cedarville scored particularly well on the percentage of wired dorm rooms, the number of computers per 100 students, and the types of online resources available. For Yahoo's complete listing of most wired colleges, visit www.zdnet.com . Check out Cedarville's web site at www.cedarville.edu . Torch 17