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Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

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

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

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

Promise Keepers founder to speak at LC Wildcat Football Celebration

by Al Quartemont

Bill McCartney to headline March 5 event.

LC football coach Dennis Dunn remembers well the first time he met Bill McCartney.

The encounter with the man who led Colorado to a National Championship in football in 1990 and would eventually start the Christian ministry, Promise Keepers, came in February of 1992 when Dunn and his assistant coaching staff at Evangel High School of Shreveport made a trip to Boulder.

"Coach McCartney took us to his house and said 'guys, I want to show you my room,'" Dunn recalled. "So we thought he was taking us to his trophy room. But we walked through that room and went into a small, unassuming room facing the Rocky Mountains. It had a plate glass window and a kneeler in front to that window. He said, 'Men, this is where I meet Almighty God every morning. God has shown me he's going to fill Boulder Stadium with 50,000 men who are going to go back to their homes and be the fathers and husbands God has called them to be.'"

Six months later, Boulder Stadium was filled with 50,000 men and the Promise Keepers ministry was underway.

On Friday, March 5, the Louisiana College Campus will be touched by the Promise Keepers founder in its own way as Coach McCartney will headline the Third Annual Wildcat Football Celebration. The event was started three years ago as a way to raise money for the LC football program - specifically money for equipment and the construction of a new stadium.

Phase one of the stadium is complete. Phase two, which will start as soon as the funding is finalized, will see the enclosure of the stands on the LC side of the field - a structure that will include a visitors locker room, bathrooms, a press box, suites and a new concession stand. Dunn said he would like to see the work on that phase to begin right away.

The final phase will include a three-story athletic training center. It will be home to the LC football team with lockers, coaches offices, meeting and classrooms, as well as serve as the home of the Masters in Athletic Training program. The timetable for that phase is much less certain right now.

But what is certain is the fact that McCartney will again be a big-name drawing card for the celebration. The first year saw former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden and current San Diego Chargers running back Jacob Hester as the headliners. Last year, it was John Curtis High School coach J.T. Curtis. In McCartney, Dunn will bring in a man whose passion and purpose in life are similar to his own.

"It's an awesome opportunity not only for us as a college, but as a community in general to open our arms to someone with his kind of vision, this kind of heart for God," Dunn said. "I think it will go hand-in-hand with our mission."

There will be two opportunities to hear Coach McCartney. The first will be a $250 per person dinner at LC's Granberry Conference center at 5:30 p.m. Each ticket will give people the chance to meet Coach McCartney and have a photo taken with him as well as get an autographed football and an autographed copy of MCartney's new book, "Two Minute Warning."

Following the dinner, the Wildcat Football Celebration will start at Guinn Auditorium at 7 p.m. Coach McCartney will be the featured speaker in an event that will also include LC football players and the 2009 highlight film.

For more information and for tickets, you can call LC's Office of Institutional Advancement, (318) 487-7003 or visit the LC website at www.lacollege.edu.

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