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Michael Horner Returns to UNBC |

for Second Round of Lectures and Debate

By: Andrea Larson

This past week the Interfaith
Chaplaincy has once again
put on a series of Spiritual
Awareness Days. This event
lasted from February 7 - 9
and students were invited to
learn more about different
religion and _ spiritualities
through different tables and
displays around campus. The
events were sponsored by
the Interfaith Chaplaincy and
participating churches in the
community. Key events
included were the lectures
and debates given by Michael
Horner.

Horner is a speaker who trav-
els around North America
giving lectures on topics such
as “Does God Exist?” and
“Can There Be Morality
Without God?” He is a grad-
uate of the University of
Calgary in math and psychol-
ogy, with a masters degree in
philosophy from the
University of Toronto. Horner
is also a part time instructor
at Trinity Western University
in philosophy and religious
studies. Horner has also,

worked for Campus Crusade
for Christ for the past twenty
years.

On Wednesday night Horner
tackled the question of moral-
ity in a debate with Deborah

Michael
Christian debater and lec-
turer came to UNBC for
Spiritual Awareness Week.

Horner, noted

Poff, Academic Vice
President and Provost as well
as a professor of political sci-
ence here at UNBC. Dr. Poff
has a masters degree from
the University of Carlton (phi-
losophy) and a doctorate
from the University of Guelph

(philosophy). Lectures were
also given on many other top-
ics such as “Love, Sex and
the Search for Intimacy”.
Horner began his lecture on
love and intimacy with a quick
poll on changing the evenings
lecture topic from love and
sex to a “survey of ancient
Aztec architecture”. Only
about 5 of the 200 students
present was more keen on
the idea of architecture so the
topic of the evening contin-
ued on the trend of sex.
Horner piqued the interest of
the crowd quickly admitting
that he “really likes sex” and
that “if you can’t get fired up
about sex, you better check
to see if you're still breathing.”
He then went on to enumer-
ate the things he has learned
through exhaustive research
and personal experience that
make for great sex. He has
found what he calls the three
love keys “to unlock the door
to fantastic love and great
sex.”

The first love key talked about
is intimacy. Horner quoted
noted sex researchers
Masters and Johnson that

Student’s Celebrate 1

By: Andrea Larson

Students came to school
last Saturday to show their
school spirit, support UNBC’s

athletic teams and of course

chow down on the free food.
The first annual UNBC day
was held in the wintergarden
from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00
p.m. when students were
taken to CNC by shuttlebus in
order to cheer on _ the
Timberwolves.

UNBC day began with
something similar to a pep
rally in which members of
both the men’s and women’s
Timberwolves were _ intro-
duced to the waiting crowd.
Moezine (Moe) Hasham,
Director of External Affairs for
the Northern Undergraduate
Student Society.

Each member of our two
teams nas a history in sports

to be proud of, including sev-
eral players who have been
part of teams that have won
provincial titles. With these
players on our team we're
sure to have great games.

A video montage, put togeth-
er by several team members,
followed the appearance of
the Timberwolves. This video
showed some _ exciting
footage of previous games
played by the Timberwolves
and hopefully gave those
who haven't previously
attended games an interest
in what our UNBC athletes
are doing.

The Timberwolves team
mascot, a large cuddly wolf,
then made an appearance,
and members of the crowd
were invited to name the
Timberwolves mascot. If you
have any suggestions for the
name of the mascot send

them in to the Northern
Undergraduate Student
Society for consideration.

Next several other teams
from around campus were
invited up front including the
UNBC men’s and women’s
rugby teams, and the men’s
junior varsity hockey team.
The UNBC ski club was
unable to attend UNBC day
as they were training “some-
where far out of town.”

After all the teams were
introduced students were let
loose on the food, which was
provided by NUGSS as an
incentive for students to
come out to the event. While
students were munching a
breakfast of fruit, eggs and
other tasty things the
Freeblades fencing club put
on a quick demonstration,
and the Medieval Combat
and Culture Club hosted a

“There is no way for a good
sexual technique to remedy a
poor emotional relationship.”
What Horner feels is the most
important thing for great sex
is great love or intimacy. He
went on to talk about the dif-
ferent ways in which we view
love and the different types of
love saying that “people often
misunderstand love and set-
tle for sex, hoping it will be a
shortcut to love.”

Horner's second love key to
great sex is permanency,
because to truly have great
sex a person needs the
security of not worrying about
losing that partner leaving
you free to enjoy. Horner
related that “marriage is not
the goal, but it is one of the
building blocks of the goal, to
achieve deep intimacy.”

The third and final love key is
chastity, to save oneself for
that one lifelong exclusive
partner. Some people were a
little skeptical on this point so
Horner gave four reasons
why a person would want to
save themselves, based both
on his personal experience
and research. These being:

1) the positive benefits of
waiting, 2) God highly rec-
ommends waiting 3) None of
the arguments for premarital
sex are any good 4) Waiting
provides freedom from the
negative consequences of
premarital sex.

Some of great positive bene-
fits of waiting given by Horner
include a better relationship
between spouses after mar-
riage, greater patience and
better sex. Horner noted that
women who experience
orgasm more than any other
women are conservative
protestant married women.
Horner then asked the audi-
ence whether they would
“want a peanut butter sand-
wich at 5:00 or a filet mignon
at 8:00?”

Horner left the audience of
students -with a lot to think
about after this lecture and if
you would like to know more
about Michael Horner or his
opinions on other matters you
can visit his web site at
www.michaelhorner.com

st UNBC Day

tournament at 1:00.

Finally, when everyone was
full and all the food was gone
students made their way onto
the waiting shuttle to go down

to the game.

For more UNBC day pictures
see page 7 For a story on the
game see page 7

Students Line up for free breakfast at the ist UNBC day