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This week, students in the University Center had the opportunity to see in action the ReRev technology that the seniors voted to give to Furman as their class gift. As we report in our lead story, this technology captures the kinetic energy expended during exercise and converts it into electricity that can be fed into the University's electric grid.

As a proud 1976 graduate of Furman - back in the halcyon days when there was no Conservative Students For A Better Tomorrow, no FOX News and everyone on campus just got along - I read with interest that Phyllis Schlafly was invited by CSBT to lecture at Furman.

Tenell Felder's Jan 22 column, "Hated for Christ," describes a Furman University that "hates" religion, a place acting to "subject Christianity to persecution and abject revulsion because of it", an institution that works to "silence and threaten" believers.

Tenell Felder's Jan 22 column "Hated for Christ" raised several interesting questions about Christianity's place in the student life and classroom at Furman. As a religion major and a Christian, I found her column particularly thought provoking. Ms. Felder argues that the current campus environment is threatening to students who hold Christian beliefs.

Contrary to Ms. Tuschak's recent column, CSBT never intended its white crosses to be a "holier-than-thou barrage of moral judgment" suggesting "that premarital sex can be eliminated from society" by "guilt tripping." Apparently others took offense as well and attempted to justify their theft of a local church's property by concocting some sort of moral equivalency between an unpreventable natural disaster in Haiti, horrible though it is, and the intentional slaughter of fifty million innocent children on America's altar of sexual degeneracy.

It was inevitable - Haiti has left the headlines. Last Thursday marked the first day the New York Times did not echo the fight for survival in Haiti with a prominent display on its cover. It seems the Apple Tablet is now more interesting. We are moving on.