Walla Walla University - Mountain Ash Yearbook (College Place, WA)

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1 A Faithful Following: Systems Analysis by Kelli Wilson

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religion When I moved out of the dorm and into my own apartment, I remember thinking (a bit smugly) that I had finally beaten the system. No more sitting through the equivalent of five worships a week. No more lists in the dorm hallway reminding me I’m 12 worships behind. No more wild stampedes at 6:28 p.m. through Foreman lobby, across the skywalk and down the stairs to Conard Chapel . . . just in time to breathlessly slide into a pew and hear, “Now let’s turn to hymn 421 and sing ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful,’ all five verses.” I beat the system! So why do I regret missing Wednesday Inner- notes; the music-oriented worship put together by my classmates and friends? Why do I harken back to hall worships every Thursday night and recall how we flopped into chairs or onto the floor and sang songs or just listened to our R.A. read a story? Sometimes I even catch myself humming a few bars of “All Things Bright and . . . .” Okay, so maybe I haven’t beaten the system. I soon found out that village students are free from worship requirements, but they still have to keep up their chapel attendance. You’d think going to chapel would quell even the faintest nostalgia for religious regimentation. (Who hasn’t com¬ plained about those hour-long sit- in sessions when your stomach growls for lunch and your backside yells for mercy?) To tell the truth ... I actually enjoyed this year’s Tuesday morn¬ ing pilgrimages to the church. Of course there were still times when chapel turned into little more than an escapade of daydream-pass- notes-up-and-down-the-aisle- whisper-to-some-three-rows- ahead-of-you-study-for-the-quiz. But on the whole, Walla Walla College offered us a bumper crop of well-prepared, interesting presentations. I know this because every time I skipped chapel, someone would give me rave reviews on it, usually concluding with a remark like, “You should’ve been there!” Once you’ve heard that statement enough you begin to believe it, and your whole perspective changes. So you see, there really is no way to beat the system. WWC’s religious activities and opportunities reach out to me (and you) at every level of our college existence. Our ASWWC spiritual vice presidents, Mark Ranzinger and Karl Haffner, were always plan¬ ning something to get us involved . . . from events simple as a prayer breakfast in the SAC to Bible Con¬ ferences at Camp Wooten to the fall quarter Community Work Day. On that day, roughly 70 students laid aside their books and their Sunday laundry to rake leaves in two of the area’s parks, clean and tidy up a crisis counseling center in Walla Walla and conduct some outside work at the Veterans Hospital. Spring or summer, day or night, the spire of the College Church (left) serves as a land¬ mark that draws faculty, students and community members alike under the all- encompassing shadow of his love. Augustine Chukuma, WWC ' s foremost blind musi¬ cian (below), lifts his praise at a vespers service. Mountain Ash 19