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SOUNDING THE BOARD Your words. Our voice. Grace College, Winona Lake, IN September 27, 2012 Volume 59, Issue No. 6 Students in Grace Col- lege’s Art Integrations course are entering the realm of commissioned art: painting a series of murals on the south side of Wi- nona Lake’s Tree of Life Bookstore. Art Integrations was created this year to provide Grace’s art stu- dents hands-on experience within their field. Professor Cynthia Bryan has been guiding students through this Applied Learning pro- cess. Their project inte- grates the creative and the practical aspects of art. Stu- dents spent several weeks working with Tree of Life to compose the perfect im- ages for the murals before the painting began. “My team alone went through over ten images for our mural.” says Alay- na Robinson, a senior art major at Grace. All in all, there are six individ- ual mu- rals being painted, each with four or five students working on it. The murals are meant to impart Tree of Life’s mission and message to the community. “It will be a great accom- plishment,” Robinson said with anticipation. “Once we’re all finished, we can step back knowing we did this together and that it is stunning!” It will be an accom- plishment the whole class will find grati- fying after the long process to finish it. Af- ter priming the outside wall of the book- store, the class projected and traced their images onto the wall over sever- al nights. With all of them traced as of last week, the students are finally getting to bring their drawings to life in color. With two murals already completed, students ea- gerly await the unveiling of their work. An official opening will be scheduled after Fall Break -- provided good weather and steady supplies remain. A WARM AND VIBRANT LIGHT Hayley Bradfield Staff Writer Students Bring Trees to Life in New TOL Mural

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SOUNDINGTHE BOARDYour words. Our vo ice.

Grace College, Winona Lake, INSeptember 27, 2012Volume 59, Issue No. 6

Students in Grace Col-lege’s Art Integrations course are entering the realm of commissioned art: painting a series of murals on the south side of Wi-nona Lake’s Tree of Life Bookstore. Art Integrations was created this year to provide Grace’s art stu-dents hands-on experience within their field. Professor Cynthia Bryan has been guiding students through this Applied Learning pro-cess. Their project inte-grates the creative and the practical aspects of art. Stu-dents spent several weeks working with Tree of Life to compose the perfect im-ages for the murals before the painting began.

“My team alone went through over ten images for our mural.” says Alay-na Robinson, a senior art major at Grace. All in all, there are six individ-ual mu-

rals being painted, each with four or five students working on it. The murals are meant to impart Tree of Life’s mission and message to the community.

“It will be a great accom-plishment,” Robinson said with anticipation. “Once we’re all finished, we can step back knowing we did this together and that it is stunning!”

It will be an accom-plishment the whole class will find grati-fying after the long process to finish it. Af-ter priming the outside wall of the book-store, the class projected and traced their images onto the wall over sever-al nights. With all of them traced as of last week, the students are finally getting to bring their drawings to life in color.

With two murals already completed, students ea-gerly await the unveiling of their work. An official opening will be scheduled after Fall Break -- provided good weather and steady supplies remain.

A WARM AND VIBRANT LIGHT

Hayley BradfieldStaff Writer

Students Bring Trees to Life in New TOL Mural

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WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS:Freshman/Sophomore Dessert

Photo courtesy of Scott Schloss

Over the past year, the Grace College cam-pus has become increasingly aware of the need to stand up against the global sex trafficking indus-try. Daily, underage girls and boys all over the world and throughout the United States are sold into prostitution against their will and forced to service sexual consumers.

These children’s chances of escaping their fates are slim and often go unnoticed by the masses. The question is, what can we as a cam-pus do about it? One student, junior Taylor Snavely, shares her story of where her passions for these girls originated and how she became involved in the organization Destiny Rescue, which helps these children escape a life that was not their choice.

Four-and-a-half years ago, Snavely was able to go to a CIY conference in Illinois where she

connected with a group called Rapha House. At this time she watched a video called Baht, which described the horrors of the sex industry. The story of one girl in particular, Sophie, has affected and inspired Snavely ever since. “I un-derstand and feel for their pain; I know that God has called me to help these kids.”

This past summer, Snavely was able to intern for Destiny Rescue. “We traveled around a lot between Chicago and Cincinnati attending con-ferences. We set up informational booths about our cause and the importance of helping these children escape and transition into normal life. We also sold jewelry made by girls who were saved out of the sex industry, in order to raise money to go rescue more girls.”

Overall, Snavely’s experience with Destiny Rescue helped advance her future calling, but she also knew that she wanted the chance to reach out to our campus to promote awareness and involvement.

“Destiny Rescue was more than willing to partner with the campus in hopes to form teams here who are willing to become further educat-ed about sex trafficking and becoming a part of trafficking response units. We are giving them the means to understand what to look for when finding enslaved kids or potential cases of traf-ficking. The first meeting is Friday after chapel and we could use some help.”

When asked for her most important message about the cause, Snavely said, “I do not want this to become a trendy thing or something peo-ple get involved in like a seasonal sport; I hope people will join this and take this seriously. Ev-ery 26 seconds, another child is trafficked. This group is not for the faint-hearted; it’s for those who are serious about helping.”

For more information on Destiny Rescue and the fight against sex trafficking, visit www.destinyrescue.org/us/.

Liz PalmerStaff Writer

Standing Up Against Sex Trafficking

Gentlemen of Westy bust a move: Kyle Bloomster (left), John Hollister (middle), Caleb Bragg (right)

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October 3rd through the 6th, Grace Beasley, Nina Ferry, Rebecca Roberts, and I will be flying to Boston, Mass. to participate in the Conference on Faith and History at Gordon College. This conference gives history students the unique op-portunity to present a paper to their peers and professionals in the field of history for peer re-view. Accompanying us will be Dr. Norris and Dr. Burkholder, who will serve as session chairs. Burkholder is also the Program Chair for the stu-dent portion of the conference.

This conference is for both students and pro-fessionals and meets biannually, changing loca-tions every time. “A number years ago [the Con-

ference on Faith and History] had an outreach towards undergraduate students, and so at that time they decided to start their biannual confer-ence meetings one day early and do a one day undergraduate segment within the larger con-ference,” Burkholder said about this innovative method for drawing undergraduate history stu-dents into the professional world.

When the conference first started in the 1960s, it was an opportunity for Christian histo-rians to meet with peers who would respect them, since religious history was not widely esteemed in those days. It grew into a larger conference and was eventually recognized as an affiliate of the American Historical Association.

As they grew, the members decided that they wanted to bring in the younger generations of historians. “I’d say within the last ten years, CFH has made a conscious effort to reach out

to students, which I think is one thing that kind of makes CFH unique,” said Burkholder. “One of the first ways that they tried to do this was to create a position on the executive board, the grad student representative.” In 2005, Burkhold-er was the first student to hold this position.

The conference’s undergraduate outreach soon grew out of those initial efforts to reach out to aspiring historians. Today, we students who have the opportunity to go and present our work are thankful for and excited about this rare opportunity. “I am looking forward to the expe-rience of interacting with other undergrad his-tory students and also getting to meet and hear from some of the best Christian historians in the country,” said Ferry. “I look forward to gaining insight and wisdom from historians on the inter-section of the profession of the historian and the Christian faith.”

Hillary BurgardtStaff Writer

Burkholder, Grace Students to Attend History Conference in Mass.

Students taking Introduction to Technology this fall do everything you’d expect for a typical introducto-ry computer course: examine compo-nents like the CPU and motherboard, study programming languages, build their own personal computers and . . . compete in a Lego® robot tournament!

Surprised? So was I. When I en-rolled in Intro to Technology to begin the web design program, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Essentially, the course is designed to teach students how com-puters work, from its physical elements to its “thought process,” and how to program instructions for computers.

This is where the Legos come in: one of the class’s main projects is building a robot out of Legos and pro-gramming it to complete certain chal-lenges. Working in pairs, students as-semble the robot’s basic structure from a modifiable kit. Next, they program their robot to drive, turn, bump and grab objects using computer software.

Since early in the session, students have been trying--and re-trying--to make their fickle robots consistently complete their tasks. But all this effort comes down to the results of Monday, September 24th’s competition. Each team of two had four minutes to com-plete an obstacle course of challenges to earn points using the programs they created. The robots start in a base cor-ner; when a program is running, the ro-bot must move without any assistance from the students.

What Lego challenges face these brave robots and their programmers? In the middle of Philathea room 107 stands a simple children’s building table topped with ten “missions.” In “Astronaut’s Demise,” the robot must shove two Lego astronauts off a plat-form while avoiding the deadly “barrel of plutonium.” In “Bowling,” the ro-bot bumps a Lego truck between two barriers to knock over twelve “pins” (bolts). Other missions include kicking a plastic soccer ball into a cardboard goal, shooting toy soldiers with a mar-ble cannon and activating a crane made entirely of Legos to lift a truck.

Many of these challenges are mod-eled after those Professor Rick Koontz, the course’s instructor, saw at a FIRST Lego League competition several years ago. After watching his son compete, Koontz integrated a version of the con-test into ISM 110’s curriculum.

Right about now you may be ask-ing how playing with Legos is consid-ered a college-level course, or perhaps you’re just looking forward to enroll-ing in Intro to Technology yourself. Regardless, be assured that this Lego competition is more than just goofing off.

Koontz explains, “My goals for students are that they will become bet-ter self-learners, problem-solvers and communicators… the project also forc-es students to be persistent and keep trying.” So, while ISM 110’s Lego competition may seem a little goofy, it definitely has value. As students learn to program through having fun, hope-fully they will realize just how enjoy-able it can be.

How to Train Your Robot

Paige VandergriffStaff Writer

From left to right: Matt Melendez, Prof. Koontz, Nikola Todorovic

Katelyn Witte (left) and Sarah Feasby (right)

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ENTERTAINMENTSeptember 27, 2012

As we have ventured through our years here at Grace, we’ve encountered our fair share of those dreaded creatures -- you guessed it -- professors. These profes-sors are intent on our destruction, as they are with any student, but we have always come out victorious.

Well, nearly always. I mean, come on, one of them is called the Assassin. We were walking dead the moment we stepped in the classroom. (No, no zombies were in-volved. Is watching TV all you do?)

Thus, we have realized THAT the key to enduring the onslaught of long classes and busywork from professors is summed up in this statement: “If there is no strug-gle, there is no progress.”

So, what exactly do we mean by “strug-gle”? Struggle, of course, means conflict.

Practically, then, any time you create con-flict in the classroom, you are initiating struggle, which means progress is being made. What then is this “progress”? We know your elementary teachers and politi-cally astute friends have probably told you it is simply the opposite of “Congress,” but we know there’s another definition. In this context, progress means learning.

Since we have established that con-flict fosters learning, we must now in-form you as to how to go about starting said conflict. First, arrive to class at least five minutes late. Be sure to come in after the attendance sheet has passed your seat. This forces the professor to backtrack and allows your fellow classmates to hear the content again so they can get caught up on their notes. They can pay you for your

trouble later.Second, raise your hand often to ask

questions that barely have anything to do with the content of the lecture. Be sure that there is at least some connection so it is more difficult for the professor to disre-gard. This will allow for a broader expanse of knowledge to be shared, whereas the professor’s original intent was to give you only a limited amount.

Thirdly, and perhaps most important-ly, disagree with the professor on even the most trivial of points. You must show everyone in the room, even the professor, that there’s significance in the details. You are like Sherlock Holmes in this way. Plus, doing this will ensure that the professor doesn’t go over everyone’s head with the material.

Fourthly, cell phones are your best friends. Use them

frequently and noticeably in class.

Most professors have a-no-cell-phone pol-icy and will stop class to enforce it. By do-ing this, you cause the professor to be just as engaged in the classroom as he expects you and your classmates to be.

Cell phones also help create strug-gle outside the classroom. Calling a pro-fessor in the wee hours of the night and/or morning with more trivial questions that you’ve had the entire evening to mull over and perfect reminds him that you can never stop learning, so he must never stop teaching. It also enables him to know what topics to prepare for the next class session.

You are now completely prepared to engage in the most efficient form of educa-tion, taking part in the progressive struggle of learning. If you follow the steps we just gave you, you’ll be well on your way to graduating in three years. Or fewer. Re-imagine that.

“For the Professor Impressor”

Brock and BrunnerKnighted for

achievements in ice sculpting

What They Would Say Stephen Hartman

Photo used with permission from Facebook

Sticky Wickets Kelsi Johnson

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ENTERTAINMENTSeptember 27, 2012

Since moving into the Village, my adven-turing has greatly in-creased. I now have the input of experienced adventurers. You would be surprised how in-credible the ideas of an 80-year-old can be. I’ve heard suggestions to catch snakes off the roof, hide behind the doorway to scare people and throwing toilet pa-per at cars on the road. I may not follow through with all these ideas, but I sure am excited to take Bobby on our next ad-

venture night.A few weeks ago, I

was walking down the hallway and overheard an intense argument. I walked slowly around the corner (not wanting to interrupt), and saw an older woman yelling at the maintenance man about the Venetian lace on the counter. Appar-ently, he wanted to re-place it and she was not a fan of this suggestion.

While occasionally hesitant toward change, the folks over here are very resourceful and

good at saving things. I was over in assisted living and the wom-en were washing their plastic plates and forks. The other week, I was given a poster of dogs that a lady had kept for over fifteen years! The give and take table is an awesome place to get old treasures. My room-mate can attest to that, considering our room is now loaded with “new” items. Life in the Vil-lage is full of such pre-cious surprises

Cassie G

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Katie VanSlotenRA of Grace Village

“Always a Surprise”

You Know You’re an Art Student When . . . Camille Ernst

1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he

will instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

How do we deal with our pain? With the bad things that happen to us and oth-ers? We often question God, don’t we?

We want to understand. We want an-swers. We want to tell God it shouldn’t have happened. In a sense, we pretend to know what is good for us, what we should have and what should happen to us.

But how do we, as finite and sinful beings presume to tell a righteous, sov-ereign and infinite God what He should and shouldn’t do? We are not promised an easy life, but we are asked to place our trust in God.

Not everything in life is going to make sense because we can’t see the big pic-ture like God can. That does not give us the right to question whether or not God knows what He is doing. We know that God can handle our questions and emo-tions; look at the Psalms.

However, there is a difference be-tween asking God why as we express our anger and hurt and questioning His good-ness and His decisions. We can ask God what His plan is without questioning that He has done what is best in his infinite wisdom.

When the pain becomes real, as it of-ten does, God wants us to turn to Him and trust Him. Pour your heart out to Him, but don’t pretend you have the power to in-struct God. Above all, never doubt that God is good through it all.

“God is Good”

Angela StukkieContributing Writer

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6 SPORTSSeptember 27, 2012

THIS WEEK...

Grace women’s tennis defeats Goshen for first win of

season

Goshen-- After winning by two points in their previous match, the Lady Lancers thrashed Goshen in impressive fashion with a 5-0 victory. In singles competition, Kristin Cassidy pulled out a gritty three set match (3-6, 6-4, 6-2) and Nicole Beguin won her match handily (6-1, 6-4). Taryn Wuensch (6-1), Janelle Hess (6-4), Sarah Hinkel (6-1), and Esther Smith (6-0) rounded out the scoring for the Lady Lancers in singles com-petition. They closed out the match with three strong performances by their doubles teams of Cassidy/Wuensch (8-6), Beguin/Hess (8-2), and Hinkel/Smith (8-5). The Lady Lancers (1-5, 1-5 CL) look to continue their success against Huntington University on Tuesday.

Lancers take home two victories

Winona Lake-- Facing a strong Indiana Tech team (4-3) on Tuesday, Grace men’s soccer gutted out an im-pressive win 2-1 in overtime agains the Warriors. An assist by Steven Fiema resulted in a goal off of the head of Ben Cahill in the 30th minute of play. The Lancers held their ground for the next 43 minutes of play un-til a handball in the penalty box resulted in a goal for the Warriors to tie the game at 1 apiece. Less than four minutes into overtime play, Austin Altimus fed the ball to Gift Sibukome who rocketed in the game winner. In the first game of the Crossroads League season, Grace matched up against Huntington University (5-3-2, 0-1 CL) on Saturday. This match was physical, with 35 fouls and six yellow cards, four of which were the For-esters’. Grace opened the scoring with an Altimus cross which resulted in a Kyle Hamlin goal. That proved to be enough as Grace held on 1-0 against a strong team. The Lancers (6-2, 1-0 CL) will next face off at Indiana Wesleyan on Wednesday.

Grace men’s tennis impresses with two victories

Winona Lake-- The Lancers, in the first match of the week on Tuesday, rolled through their match against Bethel College (1-7, 1-4 CL) by only dropping 13 total points in a 9-0 sweep of the Pilots. The Lancers made short work of the Pilots in singles competition with Daniel Sanchez (6-0, 6-0), Michael Blevins (6-0, 6-2), Nikola Todorovic (6-3, 6-1), Aaron Blevins (6-1, 6-1), Michael Humphrey (6-0, 6-1), and Jack Wang (6-0, 6-1) all cruising to victory. In doubles, Michael Blevins and Nikola Todorovic won their match 8-3. The other dou-bles teams of Aaron Blevins/Daniel Sanchez and Josh Beguin/Ethan Grove won their respective matches 8-0 each. After that drubbing, Grace then faced a tough matchup against Goshen College on Saturday. They pulled out a tough victory 6-3 with Michael Blevins (7-6, 6-3), Aaron Blevins (6-4, 6-1), and Jack Wang (6-0, 6-3), who all won their singles matches. The doubles teams of M.Blevins/Todorovic, A.Blevins/Sanchez, and Humphrey/Wang all won their doubles matches to round out the victory. The Lancers (5-1, 5-1 CL) fin-ish up their regular season with matches at Huntington University on Tuesday and at home against Saint Fran-cis on Saturday.

In Lancer Athletics

Credit to Sports Information

Lancers Set Their Sights on the Conference

(Back left) Larry Schuh, Daniel Sanchez, Aaron Blevins, Nikola Todorovic, Josh Beguin, Ethan Grove, Leon Brenneman. (Front left) Josiah Shafer, Ricardo Bedon, Jack Wang, Michael Humphrey, Michael Blevins.

Trey Stoll, GolfTrey is this week’s Player of the Week with his per-

formance in the Holy Cross Invitational on Tuesday. After posting a first round score of 75, Trey found him-self three strokes behind the leader after the first day. In the second day of competition, Stoll fired an even-par 70 to win the tournament by two strokes. Trey has won both tournaments this year after being behind after the first day. He looks to continue his success on Septem-ber 24-25 at the Bethel Invitational.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Grace College, you can look forward to a fantastic season from our men’s tennis team. Leading the way this year are experienced se-niors Michael Blevins, Nikola Todorovic, and Josh Beguin.

Head Coach Larry Schuh anticipates a pro-ductive year from his guys. “When you say next level, I think of conference,” he said. With that goal in mind, he aims for improvement at every level this year, saying, “Everyone is healthy,;we just need to make sure we are firing on all cylinders.”

Schuh’s confidence is not limited to his re-turning players; he also spoke very highly of the freshmen, noting their “great potential.” Schuh explained that, “they weren’t able to crack the lineup this year...Ricardo, Ethan, and Josiah...will help out next year and even more so in the years to come.”

Schuh also praised his three doubles teams, characterizing them as “very solid.” He main-tains that “Our top four guys are quality tennis players and could play for some D-1 schools around here and everyone in conference knows

who they are by name, and they know that they need to play their best to beat them.” Asked about his expectations for this year, Schuh an-swered confidently, “We fully expect to win conference, we really do.”

As for the team’s spiritual goals, senior Mi-chael Blevins asserts this year’s men’s tennis team is striving to “honor God with our play and our attitudes on and off the court.”

The team consensus is that their toughest competition will come from Spring Arbor, IWU, Taylor, Bethel, and Goshen. Those five schools always seem to be Grace’s toughest opponents in almost every sport in Grace Ath-letics.

Looking back on his Grace College career, Blevins said, “I wouldn’t say I’m satisfied yet, I’ll be satisfied when the season is over.”

His brother Aaron is coming off foot surgery last spring and stated “I’m as close to 100% as I am going to get. I look forward to coming back even stronger and hope to have a great season.”

2011-2012 standout junior Jack Wang said that he aims to “work on improving every area of my game so I can be a solid all-around tennis player.”

Be sure you head over to Miller Field this season and see our men’s tennis team in action!

Jordan ButlerSports Writer

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Face-Off: Which NFL Team Will Win Super Bowl XLVII?After years of futility, the Redskins fi-

nally have a team with a very good shot at winning the Super Bowl this year. Head Coach Mike Shanahan has put to-gether a team that can win every week. Two greats drafts over the past two years have given Redskins fans hope for this year and beyond.

Playing in the NFC East, arguably the toughest division in the NFL, provides a very tough and gritty schedule, which can prepare a team for a Super Bowl run. Take the Giants, for instance, who have won two of the past five Super Bowls. The Redskins will have to face the 2011 Super Bowl Champion Giants twice this year, along with two games each against the Eagles and Cowboys. The division schedule by itself is one of the hardest schedules any team in the NFL has to play. The Redskins also have matchups against the Falcons, the Steelers, and the Ravens, three of the toughest defenses in the league. This schedule is going to be difficult but it can definitely prepare a team for a Super Bowl run.

The relative youth of several starters

could hurt the Redskins. Washington will start a rookie quarterback in Robert Griffin III, a rookie running back in Al-fred Morris, and a rookie wide receiver in Aldrick Robinson. All three, though, are coming off stellar college careers, and Griffin joins the team as the 2011 Heisman Trophy winner. Additionally, though the Redskins are very young, they do have two very good veterans on their team, wide receiver Santana Moss on offense and linebacker London Fletcher on defense, both of whom have over 10 years of experience.

The Redskins’ offense is already off to an impressive start this sea-son, currently ranked 11th in the NFL in passing and 4th in run-ning. This team scores points. Their defense, however, is another story, as their passing defense is dead last and their running defense is 10th. The Redskins will have to use their prolific offense to outscore their opponents as their defense will not do them any favors.

It might seem crazy to pick a team with a mediocre defense, but with their tough schedule, impressive rookies and veteran offense. the Redskins have a great chance to win the Super Bowl this year.

by Seth Miller

Sports Editor

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. I am not getting fooled by the 49ers again. I may have missed last year’s Super Bowl pick. So what am I do-ing? Picking them again. Why? Let us see . . . what are the weaknesses for this year’s 49ers team?

It is not the schedule. For starters, they get to play the Rams and Cardinals twice a year. Both teams are improved from last year, but are more pesky than competitive. New York, New England and Seattle are the only teams the 49ers face that are not blips on the schedule. But really, can a rook-ie-led team immediately compete against an elite defense for the division title? With

the Green Bay Packers, Atlan-ta Falcons, Philadelphia Ea-gles and New York Giants all fielding solid teams, the NFC looked loaded. Then the 49ers embarrassed two would-be contenders in Green Bay and Detroit and reminded every-one how good they still were. I am not saying the 49ers will go undefeated, but they should clinch home field advantage in the playoffs.

It certainly is not the defense. In their first three games, the 49rs defense has cre-ated four turnovers. Last season, the team led the NFL in turnover differential at an astounding plus-28. In Bill Barnwell’s “The Inaugural NFL Trade Value Rankings” on Grantland, he listed four 49ers in his top 45 (NaVorro Bowman, Patrick Willis, Aldon Smith, and Justin Smith), all of whom are linebackers or linemen. But it is not just their front seven that is intimidating. According to ESPN Stats and Information, Matthew Stafford and Aaron Rodgers were a com-bined 4 of 12 (33.3 percent) passing with 93 yards and an interception when throwing more than ten yards downfield against the

49ers’ split-safety defense. Simply put, the 49ers have a virtually immovable defense.

So what could go wrong? Alex Smith is scary even to most 49ers fans. But despite the ire of all the hometown Indianapolis Colts fans, maybe the 49ers lucked out in not getting Manning. If (read: when) Frank Gore gets hurt, more responsibility will be put on Alex Smith. Yet so far, Alex Smith is tied for third in the NFL in QBR. Granted, if he starts to throw interceptions, anything goes. But I am not buying the regression that analysts predict for Smith. Maybe he had a fluky 2011 season, but maybe Jim Harbaugh is just really good with quarter-backs.

This 49ers team looks every bit as good this season as they did last year. Led by their mastermind coach in a wide-open NFC race, the 49ers hope to ride their defense all the way to the Super Bowl. After being teased with the opportunity last postseason, I think it is about time we had an all-Harbaugh Su-per Bowl.

Courtesy of Sportslogos.net

by Zane Gard

Sports Writer

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CAMPUS CALENDARSeptember 27, 2012

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Homecoming Ticket Sales: Seniors Only

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First Friday 5-9pm

Downtown Warsaw

VIllage at Winona’s Fall

Festival

GIP all night volleyball

Fall day of worship

Mandatory Hall Meetings

10pm

HC TICKET sales: all students

HC TICKET sales: all students

HC TICKET sales: all students

Fall Break Variety Show Auditions