2005 Miracle Yearbook

The Male Resis nt Advisors(RAs)this year at Cedarville came from a wide range of backgrounds, cult es, and influences, with some startling contrasts and similarities. Their reasons for b •ng an RA also varied. John Mattheis, a junior RA, said that his motivation for being RA was his love for people. He continued,"It is fun to know someone. It is buildin elationships that keeps me excited about being an RA." For senior David Nickerson, is desire to be an RA sprung from his heart. He said that he wanted to be an RA to elp meet other people's needs" Dan Keslar,senior,said that he became an RA beca e "I had a really great RA who really impacted my life and [I] thought it'd be great t. o the same." While a main job of RAs is I luencing and impacting the lives of their guys, some RAs tend to learn much abs t themselves through the whole experience. Senior Yosef Hassan said that he "w ted the challenge of being a leader in the dorm. I am not the best at confrontatio and I thought that being an RA would bring me out of my comfort zone and force e to do certain things as a leader that I would not want to do otherwise." Senior eph Hague agreed,describing the life of an RA as a "stretching experience." The RAs at Cu may have had numerous reasons oing what they did, buthey all had one thing in common:a passion for encour and touching the lives of their brothers on campus. Junior student Josh Flynn d] being able to be involved in the guys' lives and be their leader. Whenever we something to be done, I led it up and got us together to have fun or serious discussions." Resident Advisors were alike in the way they cared for, encouraged, and inspired their charges. They were also strikingly similar in the way they felt towards discipline:a necessary butsometimes unpleasant part ofthe job.Assenior Yosef Hassan attested, "It [was] really awkward and no fun to go up to random people who break the rules at Cedarville." RA Steve Ziegenfuss and RD Wade Harris discuss Brock business. Lawlor boys dump water on their RD after the Lawlor-Hill football game. 14iActivities