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HARDIN-SIMMONS HOSTS CONFERENCE
by Michael Bus'sey
Editor-in-Chief
According to most modern-
day Americans a leader is someone
with great wealth important title and
a network connection to other well
known citizens. There are many oth-
ers though who would define a leader
in a much different way. You do not
have to have a fancy title or great
wealth just a heart and passion to
lead with a vision and work to serve
God and others over self. There are
many students throughout the world
and especially in Texas who are striv-
ing to do just that. These students
feel as if they have a calling by God to
change their campus to where it glori-
fies Him and educates a society of
Christians the way of leadership and
not just any kind of leadership but
servant leadership.
In the fall of 1997 Brandon
Tidwell a senior and student body
president at the University of Mary-
Hardin Baylor revealed a vision to new
faculty member Dr. George
Loutherback. Tidwell explained to Dr.
Loutherback what his views of leader-
ship were and where he wanted to
take his vision. Tidwell wrote in a let-
ter to conferene participants "The
world's version of leadership is cen-
tered on position anarchy and power.
We believe leadership is about repre-
senting our student body while main-
taining the integrity and values of
God's word." Tidwell and Loutherback
took their idea to the Baptist General
Convention of Texas and in the fall of
1997 the Texas Baptist Universities
Leadership Consortium (TBULC) was
born. UMHB worked hard to get ready
for their first conference to be held in
January 1998. They soon found out
that this was going to take a lot of
woricand enlisted the help of other"
B.gptistUniyersities. They changed
the name to the Christian Association
of Student Leaders (CASL) and
formed a charter to be signed by the
founding schools; Baylor University
Dallas Baptist University East Texas
Baptist University Hardin-Simmons
University Houston Baptist University
Howard Payne University University
of Mary-Hardin Baylor and Wayland
Baptist University. Throughout the
years the universities have taken turns
on hosting the conference. HSU has
College Men Sing
The men of the Christian Association
of Student Leaders sang a special
song for the ladies during the
Thursday night mixer.
(photo by Michael Bussey)
hosted the conference for the second
time first in 2000.
With the name change the
universities saw the opportunity to
open this not only to Baptist universi-
ties but to other denominations as
well. Last week students from
Abilene Christian University Brewton-
Parker College of Georgia Dallas
Baptist East Texas Baptist Hardin-
Simmons McMurray University Mary-
Hardin Baylor and Wayland Baptist
gathered on the Forty Acres for this
year's CASL Conference.
The HSU CASL Steering
Committee headed by CASL director-
junior Wayne Holder and CASL
President senior Alison NewhoGse
decided on the theme of "Building
Community: Chaos to Koinonia". Mr.
Mack McCarter this year's CASL
speaker expressed to the students of
what it meant to be a member of a
community. That community is people
around you. He encouraged students
to not only make your campus your
community but the city around you.
McCarter said in a general session
"In today's world we can know and
talk to someone in Berlin through the
internet but not even know who lives
two doors down from you."
Besides the general sessions
by McCarter students also went to
meetings called roundtables. Sections
included Student Government New
Student Orientation BSM Greek Life
and anything in between. Students in
these meetings bounced ideas off of
the different schools on how to do this
and that. They shared what the cam-
pus had done and what they wanted
to do. Hardin-Simmons took a leader-
ship role in not only planning CASL
but in its participation at roundtables.
Many HSU students at the end of
CASL realized how fortunate they
were to be at such a great campus
where people care about one another
the communication between students
and faculty & the involvement of our
board of Trustees and administration.
Change is inevitable. As Dr.
Johnson talks about in his book "Who
Moved My Cheese?" change is also
around us and is going to happen.
But we all have a choice in how we
handle that change. The members of
the CASL Conference this year chal-
lenged the participants to go to their
campus and with God's guidance
change their campus to glorify God
and to do as HSU does Enlighten
Education By Faith".
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