Highlights

Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Louisiana College ‘Voices’ along with LBC Call for an ‘Awakening’

Debut of project at Evangelism Conference

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

Job Well Done!

by Al Quartemont

173 students celebrate their graduation from LC

For the 173 graduates of Louisiana College, Saturday's commencement ceremony, the 148th in LC's history, carried one clear message: Go out and impact the world for Christ.

At a packed Guinn Auditorium, the graduates and their families heard that message from several speakers, including Dr. Tony Perkins, president of the Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council, who delivered the commencement address.

"There is a world out there that is hoping that you and I as Christians will just pack up and leave," Perkins said. "It is essential that we as believers make a commitment to Jesus Christ that we're no going anywhere."

Perkins pointed out that Christ's first disciples were a small group in number, and yet, as the Book of Acts records, went out and "turned the world upside down."

"That handful of young men literally changed the face of the earth, "Perkins said. "Can you not turn the world upside down, too? Or should we say right side up?"

Perkins, who is a former member of the Louisiana State Legislature, has been one of the leading voices in Washington on issues pertaining to family and and Christian values.

His message seemed especially appropriate on a day where many fathers and mothers were seeing their sons and daughters complete one phase of their lives.

Comprising the graduating class were: 13 Associates of Applied Science, 55 Bachelors of Arts, 50 Bachelors of Science, 22 Bachelors of Science in Nursing, three Bachelors of Social Work, five Bachelors of General Studies and 25 Masters of Arts in Teaching.

Summing up the LC student experience was senior Jason Kees who delivered the speech, "The Journey Begins: A Reflection of Our Collegiate Career."

"Through all the sleepless nights, tears and frustrations, we now stand before you graduated," Kees said. "So, on behalf of my graduating class, I'd like to say thank you to my professors. You made these last four to six years extremely difficult (laugh), but more than that, you modeled Jesus Christ to us."

Now, may the 173 go and do likewise.

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