By Daisy Brenegan In today’s world, recycling is very important. With pollution being a problem, recycling allows products to be reused and reduces the waste in our landfill. Recycling helps to keep the planet green. Up until October 16th, Simpson has been sporadically recycling for five years. Recently, posters and bins have been put up for recycling, leading students to believe Simpson will begin recycling again. Director of Campus Operations, Paul Davis, said “The business club in the past has headed up collecting and turning in recyclables for their club. We would love to support this program any way we can it just needs to be student-driven so they have ownership in this important initiative,” Said Davis. Katie Hollingsworth and her boyfriend Marjoe Delacruz have been recycling their own bottles and cans for quite some time. “My boyfriend takes our recyclables to Northstate Recycling, I think we should have a club on campus to encourage students to recycle because the school does not take any of the recycling on campus to any recycling centers,” Hollingsworth said. After taking a poll with a majority of students that live on campus, 90% voted that Simpson should recycle, 5% voted Simpson should not recycle and 2% said they do not care. Some students were also unaware that the school did not recycle. 83% of students voted that were unaware that Simpson did not recycle. While the rest voted that they already knew they did not. Simpson students are very happy that the school has decided to start recycling again. Hopefully one day a club is formed. For now, we must do our best to recycle. Let’s keep our planet green.

By Hayley Wylie On Saturday, October 19th 2019, Hundreds of Thousands of people walked all over the globe in hopes to put an end to Human Trafficking. A21, a nonprofit organization from Australia that strives to help victims of human trafficking, conducts a Walk For Freedom every year. According to their website, within the past five years, they have organized over 1400 walks in over 50 countries. “It’s an awareness and fundraising event rallying tens of thousands of abolitionists, taking millions of steps in hundreds of cities all over the world,” The official A21 website claims. This year was the first year that the city of Redding has participated in the walk. The walk took place along the Sacramento river trail form Caldwell park to the Sundial bridge and back. Katie Hollingsworth, a Senior at Simpson University, participated in the walk last year in Chico and returned this year for the walk Redding. “This was the first year that the walk was hosted in Redding so it was quite small, but I am really excited to see it grow over the years. Raising awareness for the realities of human trafficking and promoting anti-trafficking organizations is incredibly important and something I’m always glad to be apart of. Hopefully, in the future the Simpson community will be more involved,” Hollingsworth said. The walk can be expected to come back to Redding in October 2020, more information can be found on A21.org

By Hayley Wylie Beware of the dogs on campus. This semester at Simpson University, a new addition has been added to the campus. This addition comes in the form of decoy dogs. Geese have been a common problem in Redding for a few years. The Record Searchlight has reported that “Twice in May the birds caused power outages when they flew into lines above Locust Street and Civic Center Drive near Redding City Hall,” They have also caused Whiskeytown Lake to warn swimmers about E.coli being spread according to The Record Searchlight. However, for the past couple of years, Geese have terrorized Simpson University’s campus as well. “They’re always in the parking lot, making it hard to drive otherwise they could get hurt. I’m also constantly watching where I walk because of the geese poop,” Katie O’Connor, a Sophomore at Simpson said. The solution to this problem could be found in the form of a fake dog. According to Watchdoggoosepatrol.com, the seller of the decoy dogs, all that needs to be done in order to scare off the geese are simple. “Place our dog decoys in the area where geese are unwanted. The geese see the dogs as a threat and will not come back as long as the dog silhouettes are in place. A slight breeze will cause the dogs to move and make them appear real, frightening the geese away,” The site claims. Paul Davis, the Director of Campus Operations, explains that the goal of the dogs is to keep the geese from pooping on the sidewalks. “We have to put them in smaller grass areas to discourage the geese each day. We have to rotate location so the geese never get comfortable,” Davis says via email. But as the weather changes and the sunny days start to disappear, so will the geese when they migrate for the winter. Hopefully giving Simpson students, staff, and faculty, a break.

By Andre Alverez College athletics is one of the most influential factors to a colleges’ popularity and its culture. Athletics has proven to be a driving force for almost all college campuses in the country as many students can relate. As of September 3, the Simpson RedHawks welcomed to the school many new sports to the athletic program. The university will be making their debut in the sport’s bass fishing, men’s volleyball, women’s wrestling, men and women’s swimming and track and field. Simpson University in the small city of Redding, California has made a splash not just in their athletics program, but they have made a big splash this year with their athletics and for the NAIA for the years to come. As a result of the new sports coming in, there is an increase in enrollment with the addition of the five sports in the Simpson RedHawks athletic program. With the new sports, the university is the host to the largest student enrollment in years, resulting in crowded dorm rooms and max capacity size classrooms. In addition to the new sports to the university, these new sports have doubled the number of sports Simpson athletics has to offer, bringing an exciting, packe sports culture to the university. As apart of bringing in these major new athletics to Simpson, Connor Sutton, Sports Information Director, embraces the additions of these sports as “ big add. When you talk about track and cross country, we get events in that aspect for both the fall and springtime. Swimming and diving give us a little bit of a different taste that we don’t typically see in our conference, In women’s wrestling, we are one of the few NAIA women's wrestling teams in the nation. In addition, men’s volleyball is one of the fastest-growing sports in the nation. In the next year, there will be a conference for men’s volleyball.” Simpson University has solidified and embraced their school culture as being a very influential and prominent Christain school in the state of California. The school has embraced and spread their culture of religious faith through its students and community. But now to go hand in hand with the culture of engaging religious faith to the campus, the new sports will now add another aspect of culture, excitement and comradery while engaging the principles and working with the faith of the school. Culture is a significant result of the new sport additions. There is even much excitement form many of the athletes that have been recruited to play these new sports. One of which is swimmer Thomas Higdon who says that, “ I think Simpson adding swimming and other sports was a great step in the right direction. I think a culture that is built on the shoulders of competitive athletes is one that breeds success both academically and athletically and personally I think swimmers are some of the most competitive athletes you'll find.” Simpson has made an impact on the college athletics in California in terms of its success with the sports it’s had for its history. Now with the addition of these new sports, Simpson looks to make a larger splash, not just in the sports world, but expose people to the school’s popularity, diversity, and dynamic as a whole.

By Charisma Anderson Editors note: Since the interview with Eric Wheeler took place the library has reopened for the weekend currently from 2-10pm. However, these hours could change. Students and staff appear to be having mixed feelings about the new library hours in place. In the school year of 2018-2019 the library was available everyday for students with the hours shown below: Sunday: 2:00pm-10:00pm Monday-Thursday: 7:45am-12:00am Friday: 7:45am-6:00pm Saturday: 12:00pm-8:00pm As of July 28th, it was decided that for the 2019-2020 school year the library hours would be as shown below: Sunday: Closed Monday: 7:45am-10:00pm Tuesday-Friday: 7:45am-9:00pm Saturday: Closed Michelle Brady, a student pursuing her teaching credential at Simpson shared her thoughts on the new hours. “I was upset to find out the hours of the library were changing, as I think University libraries should be open and accessible to students most of the time. It also doesn’t seem fair that students only have their dorm and the Bean Scene to go to at night and the weekends,” Said Brady. With the loss of the library hours, Simpson has extended the hours of the Bean Scene to 12:00am, but a couple of students could agree that it doesn’t compare to having the library open till 12:00am. Jessica Johnson, a Simpson nursing student said, “The Bean scene doesn’t have the same resources as the library like books or the ability to print assignments. It’s not an enforced quiet zone and it’s small, so it can be hard to study if people are being loud.” Eric Wheeler, the head librarian shared his knowledge as for the reason of the changes in hours. “Last year a lot of departments spent more than what their budget allowed, and that includes the Library. The school essentially had to raise a lot of money last year to cover up some of those expenses, and then there had to be spending cuts in that context. Leadership is currently prioritizing overdue campus maintenance to address aging buildings and other campus infrastructure. Since the Library is now operating with a reduced budget, I have chosen to prioritize Library resources such as research databases over hours of operation,” said Wheeler. It will be an interesting school year to see how students and staff cope with the new changes to the library, but they can do this knowing that cutting back on expenses now will help the school in the future.

By Hayley Wylie Simpson University WorldSERVE students hosted their annual Celebration Night recently to share the adventures of their student-led mission trips during spring and summer breaks. Nearly 30 students participated on trips to Thailand, Taiwan, India, the Philippines, and Chicago. Students served in a variety of ways, including working in youth centers, mentoring young people, helping with medical missions, and more. On Sept. 19, they gathered in LaBaume-Rudat Hall to worship, share, and listen. A student from each team shared a testimony from their trip. The first to speak was Autumn McCuller, a nursing student who went with other nursing majors to India. The trip involved medical missions work. Students were able to work at clinics and provide service to many people, as well as share the gospel. One day out of the six-week-long trip, they served at a small community three hours from where they were staying. “There were 300 people in six hours in a church no bigger than a garden shed,” McCuller said. “God is in India.” The next to speak was Sarah Stoddard from Team Philippines. Stoddard shared that missions had been placed on her heart, but she was unsure what to expect from the trip. “I had no idea what I was getting myself into,” she said. Their trip dealt with relationship ministry, and the team worked hard to connect with other college students in Manila. “We loved on them. We taught them who Jesus is through our actions, through our love,” Stoddard said. She also revealed that she still keeps in contact with the people she met in the Philippines. “I still talk to them. This is a lifelong relationship that I now have,” Stoddard said. Next was Caleigh Roberts representing Team Thailand, whose focus was coffee shop ministry. They would often go to the same coffee shop and build relationships with people. Roberts mentioned doing a prayer walk through a red-light district on one night of their trip. “It was so strange to feel Jesus in a place that I thought Jesus would never be,” she said. Although going to Thailand wasn’t her original plan, she shared that she was happy she went. “God had a different plan. His plan is always better,” Roberts said. Roberts encouraged other students to go in the future. “I know this makes a difference because it’s making a difference in me,” she said. Annie Christopherson from Team Taiwan shared that she felt called to be a part of WorldSERVE. “If God calls me to go, I’m gonna go,” Christopherson said. She shared that there were difficulties before going to Taiwan, but she believes, “God always makes a way.” Overall, she described the experience as a positive one. “I didn’t know I could grow even more in God in just three weeks,” Christopherson said. The last testimony shared for the night was by Bigane Perez from Team Chicago. The team worked for an afterschool program during spring break last semester. Perez said she was skeptical of the trip at first but ultimately ended up following the calling she felt from God. “I have to be comfortable with the uncomfortable,” Perez said, sharing that she enjoyed her trip. At the end of the night, Samantha Ulnik, a WorldSERVE intern, announced that WorldSERVE is planning on going back to Thailand, Taiwan, Chicago, possibly Mexico, and other places to be announced later. Ulnik also revealed this year’s WorldSERVE theme, from Esther 4:14: “Perhaps you have been chosen for a time like this.” She encouraged Simpson University students to consider participating in WorldSERVE this year. “God is inviting you to something big,” she said. Learn more about the WorldSERVE student missions program at simpsonu.edu/worldserve.

By Daisy Brenegan It was a bit of a bumpy start into the 2019-2020 school year for some students. Moving onto campus on August 30th, students realized they had to start paying for wifi. Mallory Knight, a Junior on campus, was one of the students that were unhappy with the news. “I was pretty upset when I found out that the wifi wasn’t free. Until I found out the wifi that cost money was the premium WiFi. Which is high-speed WiFi for the gamers. The free WiFi is so slow and sometimes unusable that I couldn’t even hook my tv up when I moved in.” Said Knight. Although it affected a lot of students it especially affected the international students. Most of them can only contact their family and friends through Wifi. Joseph Bell, an international student from England were one of the students with problems. “I have been having trouble with the WiFi . A lot of the time it will kick me off then won’t let me connect for a while which is annoying when I am trying to contact my family from back home.” said Bell. Students and faculty use the school Wifi so much. Especially the students that live on campus. It sets them back from doing homework, taking online classes and contacting friends and family. The WiFi is extremely important to the students. With it not working very well it is causing anger and stress to many people. It was time to find out some answers. After requesting interviews with Simpson’s IT department, they declined. Then being forwarded to COO Robert “Wally” Quirk. Two emails were not returned and two attempts to reach him in his office were unsuccessful. However, on September 23, 2019, COO Robert Quirk sent an email to the entire school answering all the questions about the WiFi. COO Robert Quirk said in his email,“The first phase began with the residence hall and will continue across campus as phase two. You should not experience less than last year in any location.”