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THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY 
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A Weekly Newspaper Issue 194, Nov. 16-20, 2009
Seat of Heat Question
President Ted Wardlaw posed this simple question to Student BodyPresident, Kaci Porter during the Presidential Debate of 2009. Heranswer follows.
It’s November 11, 2039, and you have just pulled yourhovercraft onto the campus of Austin PresbyterianTheological Seminary. You’re here for the Board of Trustees meeting and you are the new Board Chair.It’s always a pleasure for you to return to this sacredplace, and before you step onto the moving walkway thatwill take you to the Trull Building and the Boardroom,you look around campus. There’s the top of AndersonHouse in the distance. On the Board agenda for todaythere will be a motion to renovate Anderson House, andto begin a capital campaign for an adjacent structure thatwill enhance its value – the Jinkins Kennels and Shape-Shifter Containment Area.Next door to Anderson House, off to the left, is a series of newer apartment buildings – the Donelson-Saldine-Stubbs Residences. All of these apartments are connected by a new, state of the art, efficient monorail system thatmakes it unnecessary for any student to have to walk anywhere. Now your gaze shifts to what’s closer to youin the foreground.Off to the left, there’s the enhanced library – showing itsage a bit, but still stately with its gothic architecture andits sentimentally-significant Timothy Lincoln gargoylepresiding over the ten-story pair of praying hands thatrise above the now thirty-year old addition.The chapel is still just like it was – beautiful and quaint – but the McMillian Building has been torn to the ground.A fabulously wealthy alumni couple, The Revs. John andKrystal Leedy, now co-pastors at the largest mega-churchin Texas’ largest city, Abilene, have paid for theconstruction of a forty-eight story faculty emporium, inhonor of their twelve grandchildren. Leedy Hall expandsinfinitely into the Austin skyline and features one floor
© 2009 Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Presidential Debate
The simple questionposed by SeminaryPresident to StudentBody President in fulltext.
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Thanksgiving Lunch!
 Join the seminarycommunity for acelebratoryThanksgiving lunch onWednesday!
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Frugal Thanksgiving
Trying to save moneythis holiday season -check out with MaryAnn Kaiser, the friendly financial aideassistant suggests
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Presbyterian YouthTriennium Needs YOU!
Need plans for thesummer? Think aboutvolunteering for PYT.
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Your Brain in Seminary
Stella Burkhalterreflects about theeffects of seminary onone’s brain.
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Student Senate MeetingNotes
Student Senate makestheir notes public.Read them here.
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per faculty member which each faculty member candecorate, staff, and equip in any way they so desire.Suddenly the Trull Hall door opens and out bounds theSeminary President, Dr. Doug Cartwright, to greet andfawn over you like any self-respecting president. Dr.Cartwright, no longer a Spring chicken, still possesses thegreatest asset that any seminary president can everpossess – beautiful salt-and-pepper locks of PresidentialHair. Right behind him is Dean Shane Webb, who is nowin possession of no hair at all, and they are eager to talk with you about the day’s events.A matter of concern is voiced about a disaffected alum, afundamentalist activist named Christian Schmidt. “Doyou remember him from your student days here?” Theyasked. You nod your head tentatively.“Well,” they say,” he recently visited the Crown andAnchor to have a Grape Nehi with Archbishop BrandonMiles – a former student of APTS who was lured awayfrom the fold after the merger of the Episcopalians with aconsortium of moderate Baptists and left-handed SwedishLutherans. Now, an Archbishop, Miles challengedSchmidt to a fist-fight, the winner of which could becomethe next President of the National Council of Churches –an umbrella body representing all four hundred andtwenty of America’s mainline Protestants.An argument developed, and this had led to a front-pagestory in the Austin/Pflugerville American-Statesmanwritten by Religion Editor Mary Elizabeth Prentice. “Astatement about this has to be made.” PresidentCartwright said, “and the question is which one of us hadthe chops to sit eyeball-to-eyeball with Prentice?”Now you have a headache.What’s more, there’s an urgent call coming in to the fillingin your bicuspid – it seems that your robotic nanny back in Chicago, where you’re now the senior pastor at FourthPresbyterian Church, is having a hard time feeding yourchildren their strawberry-flavored breakfast pills.You step into the Theodore J. Wardlaw RestroomEmporium, and suddenly notice that the Calvin tattoo onyour right calf appears to be having and argument aboutsubstitutionary atonement with the Rigby tattoo on yourleft calf. What’s more, and this is something you’ve neverseen before, the Rigby tattoo seems to be gesturing wildlyand somewhat menacingly at the Calvin tattoo, whichremains stolid as usual. You think about calling Dr. Rigbyon that phone embedded into one of your incisors, butthen you realize that she wouldn’t accept your callreadily. After all, when it comes to phone calls, the retiredPresident of Princeton Seminary has been there and donethat.Time is running out.There are a lot of problems to handle. You’ve got to makea decision soon. You think to yourself, “What wouldAllan Cole do?”Not satisfied with that answer, your eyes wander madlyaround the room until they land upon a dusty oil portraitof a wonderful force in your life years and years ago now.Professor Whit Bodman, with his beloved tie featuring thelikeness of the late President Wardlaw, stares downkindly upon you there in the lavatory area – appearing toenjoy his own likeness in the mirror that you’ve beenlooking at. And the question forming in your mind getsreframed a bit:“What would Whit Bodman do?”That’s the question you need to answer now.Student Body President Kaci Porter’s Answer: You wantto know what Whit Bodman would do!?!!
Attention PC(USA)Seniors!!!!
 
PIF Writing SeminarTuesday, November 17
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6:30pm – 8:30pmMcCord 204Dr. Jack Barden, presenting
 
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Thanksgiving CelebrationLunch!
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
11:45 a.m. -1:30 p.m. Academic Dean and Professor of PastoralTheology Rev. Dr. Michael Jinkins will bestowblessings upon the Thanksgiving meal at:11:45 a.m.MENUTurkey and Dressing Green Bean CasseroleMashed Potatoes Cranberry SauceYams RollsCorn SaladPumpkin Pie
Pecan PieCost is $6.00 and includes a drink.Please note that this will be the only meal optionfor this day.
Book Store TemporarySolution
While not required to use these resources, APTS’s Bookstore Committee has set upaccounts with the following websites forstudents to purchase their books. Amazon Associates Account-http://astore.amazon.com/courselists-20
Cokesbury Bookstore -http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/home.aspx?vsl=2575
Students are encouraged to purchase booksearly in order to avoid the delay in delivery.Questions? Contact
Alison Riemersma
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 Administrative Assistant, Office ofAcademicDean
Don’t Be a Turkey, SaveMoney This Thanksgiving
Your friendly neighborhood financial aid assistant, Mary Ann Kaiser,wishes you an easy, breezy, beautiful Thanksgiving.
Ah, the holidays, that time of year when our waistlinesget bigger while our wallets get thinner. Whether youchoose to cook a Butterball or just become one thisThanksgiving, here are a couple of ideas to help you walk (or roll) away from the table with a few extra dollars inyour pocket.
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Here at APTS we talk a lot about community.Why not live that community out this holiday byinviting your neighbors, friends, or colleagues toshare the meal? Not only will this bring youwarm, holiday fuzzies inside, it also cuts costs if everyone is willing to bring a dish rather thantrying to prepare the whole meal yourself. Manychurches also host Thanksgiving meals that giveyou a chance to celebrate together and get to knowmore of your fellow congregants.
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Where two or more gather in the name of consuming turkey, leftovers will always bepresent. Package that extra meat in individual baggies for easy defrosting and then check outwww.eatturkey.comfor alternative ideas on howto get the most from your feathered friend likerecipes for Turkey Salsa Soup or Asian TurkeySalad. Mmm…
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 Just going to be you and another this year? Skipthe stress (and the cost!) of a whole bird by justcooking up a few turkey breasts.
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Even if you aren’t Bobby Flay or Rachael Ray, youcan still make that dish from scratch. Brush up onyour culinary skills and save tons by whippingout Grannie’s cookbook and skip out on the store- bought items. If anyone tries to tell you that yourcooking is less than par, gently yet confidentlyremind them that all creation is “good.”
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Forgo cooking a meal altogether and help provideone for someone else instead. There are manyways to volunteer your time at soup kitchens,hospitals, or retirement homes. Operation Turkey
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