Tenney dropped - 1987-88 rev iew, THE BISON, Searcy, Ark . 72143 47 by Janna Wharton Bison staff writer The Counseling Center is sponsoring Wellness Week next week. Cynthia Rowland, former Harding student, will kick off Wellness Week Monday by speaking in chapel about her 12-year battle with bulimia. Wellness Week is designed for students to help them meet their needs. It is based on a "wheel of health" consisting of five basic aspects of a person's life: physical, spiritual, emotional, social and intellectual. The purpose of the wheel is to explain symptoms, causes and treatments for each of the five aspects if a problem should arise in one of the areas. Each chapel day will be used to discuss one of the five areas. There will also be a week-long Wellness Fair in the Student Center where tables will be set up for students to come by and get information on whatever subjects are of interest to them. The tables will be set up with information about various films that will be shown on campus, each one relating to one of the five aspects. Five basic aspects • Physical • Spiritual •Emotional • Social • Intellectual Some of the films being offered are Tough Questions About Sex, It Doesn' t Have To End Here, about suicide and Dick 'n Jane, about drugs. The tables will also have information available on activities for the week, as well as pamphlets and other types of literature. Some tables will have VCR's set up for display of short tapes relating to their topics. ' 'Wellness is really a hot topic right now, and there are workshops all over the country,'' said Sherry Pollard, counselor. Pollard said that Wellness Week could be based on one verse in the Bible: ' 'And Jesus increased in wisdom (intellectual, emotional) , and in stature (physical) and in favor with God (spiritual) and man (social) " Luke 2: 52. Bible Faculty publish text for course by Phillip Tucker Bison ass istant editor For the first time in more than - 25 years, Harding freshmen taking New Testament Survey are not using the black-cover New Testament Survey book by Merrill Tenney. Instead, freshmen this year have begun using a new book written entirely by Harding Bible faculty members. Dr. Don Shackelford, director of the Harding University in Florence program and professor of Bible, was editor of the copyrighted, Harding-owned publication. Shackelford then appointed an editorial committee to serve as readers, correcting awkwardsounding sentences and cutting out unnecessary information. This committee consisted of Eddie Cloer, assistant professor of Bible, and Bob Helsten, professor of Bible. According to Shackelford, the decision to write the new book, also entitled New Testament Survey, came when publishers of Tenney's volume announced a complete revision of the book. This prompted Bible faculty members to evaluate the possibility of writing their own book to use in class and also sell elsewhere. The book had been scheduled to be ready for use by students as soon as school began, but because of binding problems and some late entries students did not receive them until this week. Three thousand copies were printed, estimated by Shackelford to be enough for two or three years ; revisions may be made before the book is reprinted. An ambitious effort, New Testament Survey went from origin to completion in less than one year and one-half, involving 16 writers, many of whom spent their summers writing the chapters assigned to them. Cloer's Searcy company, Resource Publications/Typesetting, Etc., which he operates during the summer, published the book at no cost to Harding and in return he can sell a certain number of copies to interested parties. Cloer said that a total of 1,150 hours were spent doing typesetting and layout, which included 200 hours of work on the index alone. The book was printed by Gospel Light Co. in Delight, Ark., and the cover was professionally produced by the Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tenn. A professional proofreader was hired to proof the entire text, and all maps were drawn by Chuck Hicks, a former Harding staff member who now owns his own art production company. Cloer reported that "no other Christian college in our brotherhood has done anything like this. It 's really something to hoot 'n holler about! " Shackelford, who has spent 16 hours a day on the book the last two weeks, confided, "We (the Bible faculty ) thought for a long time that we should write more, and we felt that we were as capable of writing a textbook as anyone else." He added, " I'm very pleased with it. Like anything else, there is room for improvement. However, every chapter was rewritten at least once, and I have read it at least six times. No one was paid extra for writing their parts of the book; it was written to serve students and others. Every writer took it seriously. We would like suggestions on improvement of the book. We plan to consult freshmen later in the year and get their views and ideas on it." Helsten said of his writing involvement with the book, "I don' t write very much, but I found it fun. After doing it, I thought I might try to write more often. It was definitely a worthwhile experience for the authors and it will be for the readers as well. I'm glad we did it. "There was an attempt to write all chapters in a common pattern, but of course there are differences in style and approach," Helsten added. "Some chapters are appreciably longer than others (30-40 pages for some of the longer books ), and it is possible for the reader to have favorite chapters." The 508-page book costs $19.95 and is available in the Harding bookstore. Shackelford said that other colleges and universities have already called about information on the book, and others are interested in it as an addition to church classes and libraries. ' 'This book is something that Harding's pleased to have its name on," he said. Profits made from sales of the textbook will be used as scholarship money for Bible majors. At this time it has not been determined whether the interest on the money will be used for this, or if existing funds available will be used. New Testament Survey was dedicated to Dr. David Burks, president of the University, last week in a chapel program.
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