2005 Miracle Yearbook

• ma RAs:Cedarville new them as the rule enforcers,the bodies belonging to those sweet tentative voices,re inding a studentthat a shirt was out of dress code or thatPDA was inappropriate. They ere the distributors of demerits—and not the fun Celtic music featured occasionally the Hive.Yetfor the students living in their units and halls this year, RAs were much ire.As Maddox RA Natalie Weston,a senior, put it,"It's notso much that I'm the RA an they're'my girls,' but its more like they're my bestfriends, and it's my joy to continu setting to know them." If getting to know the gi s they led meant engaging in the random or slightly crazy, these RAs were up fo anything! The wildest might have been found in junior Bethany Gilmour's hall i aith, where she and her ladies attempted the Hairy Challenge: seven weeks w ut shaving their legs! "Not too many of us survived," Bethany said. Printy RAs describe Unit Wars as bei among their funniest memories of the year. Hide and seek in the units, brother/si r dinners, late night gab sessions, squeezing eight people into a car to go bowling, d quality time through prayer, Bible studies, and fellowship topped the list of rea s why female RAs loved what they did. Not only that, but most of them described the blessings received from the experience as well.They learned what it meant to be a leader,ti t another person before themselves, and to, as Natalie described it, "love in a wa t is authentic, selfless, and pure." Most of the ladies agreed that their time as an RA was one of their best Cedarville experiences and one that challenged, strengthened,and grew them. L I T McKinney RAs Elizabeth Hartman,Amanda Allen,Julie Thompson,Abby Fenton, Joelle Marquardt, and RD Susan West enjoy their time together. West commented, "It is such a privilege when the RAs allow me to build into their lives each year and to get to know them for who they truly are—wonderful women of character and personality!" 152 Activities