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the birthday of Enida Allejbeu an Albanian
native with a heart full of love.
Enida freshman biology major overcame
the "restrictions of her parents and having to
hide her Christian faith in a Muslim country to
become a student at ACU and grow in her
faith.
Her first month at ACU and in the United
States was completely different from her home-
town in Albania an Eastern European country
located in between Italy and Greece.
Living with her extended family including
two younger sisters and grandparents was a
blessing to her because family relations are
enormously important for Albanians.
"Youth are tightly relatc'd to their parents
and be more than happy when they share love
with them" Enlda said.
Having her grandparents in the same house
was an advantage because they taught her
about the past letting her appreciate the life
that she was living.
"By knowing our past and making compar-
isons between past and present I became more
responsible for my country" said Enida visibly
proud of Albania.
"Even though it is small in size it has got a'
great heart in its painful history" she said.
Finding her savior
This Albanian woman found out about Jesus
Christ all by herself. Coming from a Muslim
background she was only 14 when she first
heard the word Bible.
"1 used to be a Muslim and my family still'
are 'but 1 decided to change my faith into
Christianity" said Enlda thankful to her good-
hearted family because they allowed her to
take this religious direction.
She was working alone in the garden when
two people knocked on the door introducing
themselves as Jehovahs Witnesses.
"Do you want to be escape?" asked one
man but Enida said she did not understand
what he meant.
"I asked them to explain and they started
telling me about a savior named Jesus. And
there was his word called Bible."
Interested in what she had learned Enlda
secretly started reading the Bible that she kept
under her bed - a gift from the Jehovahs Wit-
ness missionaries.
"After studying the Bible by myself it
became more clear what they mean by escape.
They were asking if I wanted a place in heaven
or not."
Growing in faith
Missionaries started studying the Bible with
Enida twice a week until her parents forbid the
visits because they were worried about who the
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New committees
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Jennifer Smalling
Staff Writer
The. Students' Association
Appropriations Committee met
Feb. 4 for its first meeting granti
ng the first student request of
the semester to students
from the Exercise Science
Department.
SA executive presi
dent Kevin Linderman
senior Bible major from Bel
mont Calif. announced to Sen
ate that the committee granted
each of the five students from the
department $100 to help fund an
upcoming trip to New Orleans for
a Health and Fitness Summit
Exposition April 14-18.
Katie Reasons senior exercise
science major from San Antonio
represented the department at the
committee meeting. After the $500
given to the five exercise science
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dent Request Fund.
Linderman also said four new
subcommittees have emerged from
the Advocacy Committee. Each
committee presented their name
and function. The Students
Against Destructive Decisions
or SADD subcommittee
will address alcohol-
related issues on campus
working with Dean Wayne
Barnard of the Camnus Life
Office. The committee will help
plan a alcohol awareness week
focus for Chapel scheduled the
week before spring break iaid
scnipjr class president Blair
Thomas human communication
major from Dallas. The under-rep-rescfUed
groups is a subcommittee
junior president Darren Keyes
international business major from
See Senate page 8
Dreams come true
for new therapist
Laura Ngoh
Student Reporter
When Helen Marshall was in
the ninth grade a white principal
told her she would never amount
to anything. If only he could see
her now.
Helen Marshall is ACUs newest
therapist in Health Services. She
said she is doing what she always
dreamed of doing. She had dreams
which included going to school
receiving a master's degree bridg-
ing the gap of racism and working
as a therapist
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she experienced frequent beatings
by teachers violent physical abuse
by an alcoholic father abandon-
ment by her first husband her sec-
ond husbands addiction to cocaine
and bankruptcy.
In 1989 Marslull made a life-
changing decision - accepting
Jesus as her personal Lord and Sav-
iour. "Without God in my life I
would not be able to achieve the
things I have achieved. He has
directed my path" said Marshall.
All through high school Mar
shall said she "had no dreams
aspirations and goals." Her rela-
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I would not be able to achieve
the things I have achieved.
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The answer to her last dream -working
as a therapist - came in
the form of a phone call from
Wayne Barnard. Marshall was out
of town for four days attending her
brothers funeral in Alabama when
Barnard dean of students left a
message on Marshall answering
machine asking ifshe would con-
sider a job with Health Services.
Marshall said she jumped at the
opportunity because she missed
ACU when she graduated in 1996.
On Jan. 4 after application forms
and interviews were finished Mar-
shall walked into her new office
located in McKinzie Hall.
Life however has not always
been so pleasant for Marshall.
In her early years Marshall said
tionship with the Lord made her
realize God had plans for her life.
She said she docs not know
where He is going to lead her but
wherever He leads she said she
will follow.
It appears tliat God has led her
to ACU.
While working at the university
Marshall said she hopes to "help
ACU establish relationships with
different cultures." She said she
hopes to help accomplish that
through a Small Group Chapel
which she is sponsoring called My
BrotherMy Sister. This is a discus-
sion group focused on multi-cultural
issues and ways to share.
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Users download computer music -while keeping high quality
Sarah Stroup
Student Reporter
A new electronic file format allows
music users to enjoy high quality music
with less computer disk space.
The new format called MP3 allows
songs that can be downloaded from the
Internet to be stored using less memory
while retaining compact disk quality.
"All the Tile Information slammed
down cut down and reduced - and CD
quality remains" said Derek Van Rhee-
nen graduate student in digital media
from Los Angeles. "MP3 format would
turn a typical 50 megabyte file Into a
four megabyte file and sound perfect."
In order to download an MP3 file
the producers must apply the fonnat to
the music file created for the Internet.
"I just e-mailed Caednions Call and
suggested that they put their music in
MP3 format so people can play it and it
won't sound like a scratched record"
said Brent Campbell graduate student
in digital media from Thousand Oaks
Calif
Although MP3 Is considered ground-
breaking for digital media it is a con-
troversial topic in the music industry.
Bands holding smaller labels are able
to use this as an advertising medium;
however larger labels do not profit
from listeners free access to their songs.
"There are bands who are In support
of MP3 because It takes power away
from record labels" Campbell said.
ACU students are able to download
MP3 files through the Internet system.
"We don't have any official download-
ing policy" Sims said.
James Langford director of Industri-
al technology said "We are concerned
if they have copyrighted matter but we
do not determine students downloaded
material."
There are legal restrictions that apply
to users.
"It is legal to download songs that
are copyrighted if the holder has grant-
ed permission to download and play a
song for personal use" said Randy
Porter Team 55 student worker and
senior youth and family ministry major
from Lcvelland. "It Is illegal to trade
CDs."
Many ACU students are already
aware and using this format to store
more songs. However storage problems
arise when students save too many
files.
Although students are able to access
MP3 files on the schools server their
disk quota is limited to 50 megabytes.
"Last semester we had trouble keep-
ing disk space which slows down the
student server. Wc suspect MP3 files
would cause space problems" Langford.
said.
In 1996 students had a disk quota of
20 gigabytes that doubled in 1997 then
increased to 50 megabytes last fall.
However that is not enough and the
disk quota for students and faculty is.
expected to increase again next year
said Langford
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