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Near-campus mugging
A middle-aged Asian woman was assaulted
and robbed Wednesday, April 4, at 11:20
p.m. on the corner of Wendell Ave and East
Elm Ave, right outside the back of Wollaston
chapel.
The first responders were ENC security
officers Matt Shibles and Jacob Guevara.
Seniors Chris Cherry and Jon Baboian
were just returning from a late night run when
they heard blood curdling screams. At
first, they were all skeptical because screams
coming from a college area with hundreds of
young adults are not uncommon. After they
decided this was a more serious matter, they
sprinted to the scene of the crime and secu-
rity called 911.
Senior Sekou Benjamin heard the screams
from his house and also ran over. The two se-
curity officers saw the man running away with
the womans purse and they chased the thief
BRUCE FAULKNER
Editor-in-Chief
behind a neighbors fence. Unfortunately, the
man was able to get away. Once the man was
out of the jurisdiction of ENC security, they
stopped pursuit.
Cherry stated that the womans English
was, terrible, but coming from a Haitian
background, Im pretty good with accents.
He was able to help translate some informa-
tion.
Baboian recounted the robbery and as-
sault. Baboian said, [I] could tell she wasnt
kidding because her face was bleeding and
she had a huge bruised lip.
After returning from chasing the man, Shibles
and Guevara stayed with the woman until the
police arrived. They searched the area for any
belongings that he may have dropped, while
Guevara found the victims phone.
Once the police arrived they questioned
everyone at the scene. All described what the
thief looked like.
According to the Quincy Police Depart-
ment, he was a 6 foot tall black male wearing
a black jacket and a black hat with earflaps.
If anyone has any information regarding
this event they should contact Quincy Police
Department.
After the police left and the commotion
was over, Shibles and Guevara patrolled the
rest of campus to make sure there were no
other incidents.
John Gelormini, Security Director, said,
I am very proud of the security officers, both
Jacob [Guevara] and Matt [Shibles], they
followed all procedures and handled the situ-
ation well and in a timely manner regarding
the Quincy Police.
Security sent out an e-mail as a reminder
to all ENC students to be safe about their
choices. Walk in groups late at night and
always carry a cell phone with securitys num-
ber (617-745-3911).
Kaitlyn Jo Yoder contributed reporting to
this story.
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Ham targets professor Stephens
JULIANNE ATWATER
Staff Writer
Ken Ham targeted ENC
history professor Dr. Randall
Stephens in a March 16 blog post
titled What Does This Nazarene
U. Professor Believe?
Ham is responding to an essay
co-written by Stephens, a Ful-
bright Scholar currently teaching
in Norway as part of the Roving
Scholars in American Studies
program, and Dr. Karl Giberson,
a professor at ENC until 2011
and a prominent figure in the
debate over science and Christi-
anity. Their article, posted March
12 on the Religion Dispatches
online magazine, focuses on what
the authors perceive as anti-
intellectualism among American
evangelicals. When it comes to
evolution, they write, There is,
of course, no such controversy in
the scientific community.
In Hams post, he writes that
he reluctantly responded to the
article for the reason of warn-
ing the Nazarene church about
what this professor [Stephens]
believes.
He then lists eight concluding
assumptions about what Stephens
believes and what is thus being
transmitted to the students he
teaches and influences. Accord-
ing to Ham, ENC students are
being taught, among other things,
that The Bible is not God-
breathed and that If you dont
believe in biological evolution,
you are anti-knowledge, anti-intel-
lectual, and anti-science.
Austin Steelman, an ENC
junior History major and Deans
List regular, thinks that Ken
Ham is out of line and really
misguided in his attack on Ste-
phens.
Steelman goes on, I have tak-
en six courses from Dr. Stephens
for a reason: He is an excellent
professor. In taking classes with
him, talking with him, and work-
ing for him as a research assis-
tant, I have come to respect Dr.
Stephens as a strong Christian
and historian. Any call to silence
him is just plain dumb.
Ham not only criticizes the
beliefs of Stephens and Giber-
son, but also their intentions. He
claims that they wrote the Reli-
gion Dispatches article mainly
to sell the book that they co-
authored, The Anointed: Evan-
gelical Truth in a Secular Age.
In response to Hams postulate,
Stephens says, He criticizes us
for promoting the book . . . but
then he turns around and imme-
diately promoted a book of his.
And more than that, he offers a
link where readers can buy it. I
thought that was pretty funny.
In The Anointed, Stephens
and Giberson chronicle the
tendency of American evangeli-
cals to ignore experts in favor of
professionals who are not highly
regarded among their colleagues.
For example, the authors ques-
tion why evangelicals are less apt
to listen to Francis Collinsa
devout Christian who led the
Human Genome Project and
is currently the Director of the
National Institute of Healththan
to Ham, who they say has no
stature of any sort in the scientific
community.
The book is critical of Ham,
one of the worlds leading Young
Earth creationists and President
and CEO of Answers in Gen-
esis (AiG), an organization that
employs a literal interpretation
of the Bible to answer questions
on everything from dinosaurs
to aliens to thermodynamics.
AiGs biggest project is its Cre-
ation Museum, which has had
over one million visitors since it
first opened in 2007. Located in
Kentucky, the privately-funded
park features a planetarium,
four-dimensional movie theater,
and state-of-the-art exhibits of
life-sized dinosaurs. There are
current plans to build a complete
replica of Noahs Ark by 2014.
The Anointeds disparag-
ing portrait of Ham has led to
a hostile repartee between AiG
and The BioLogos Foundation,
an organization founded in 2007
to ease the tension between sci-
ence and faith. Giberson, former
president of BioLogos, says in a
March 17 post on his blog that
Ham and his companions are
looking for ways to push their
critics out of the conversation.
He also writes, I am con-
vinced that Ham is refocusing on
[Stephens] for one reason: He
wants his troops to start pressur-
ing Eastern Nazarene College to
get rid of Randall.
Throughout it all, though,
Stephens says, the faculty and
administration have been very
supportive.
Can there be a range of
opinions on different social issues
at an evangelical college? Can
Christians have different ideas
about society and culture? Im
pretty confident that ENC can
have different views represented.
Adds senior Biology major
Kaitlyn Yoder, Im more fo-
cused on the way God influences
my life and what He has to show
me . . . My views on creation
dont change my belief in God.
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