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Coca-Cola promotes PlantBottle
initiative on campus
LognlUm
Newt Editor
With an extra day in the
month of February Sam-
fond University will join
Coca Cola in raising envi¬
ronmental awareness this
Leap day.
On Feb. 29 Coca-Cola
street team members will
hold special activities in
Talbird Circle as well as
in other select locations
across the South in hopes
of creating awareness for
their PlantBottle packag¬
ing initiative.
The event will feature a
variety of free giveaways
all intended to promote
Coca-Cola’s brand and
packaging pilot awareness,
drive event awareness and
attendance, inspire peer-to-
peer conversation and en¬
courage student feedback
on Sparkling PlantBottle
packaging pilot.
Coke will also be send¬
ing their “REV” (Recy¬
cling Education Vehicle)
to aid in promoting aware¬
ness.
According to a state¬
ment from Coca-Cola
Headquarters, unlike tradi¬
tional bottles, PlantBottle
packaging is made from
Polyethylene Terephthalate
(PET) plastic with up to 30
percent of the ingredients
used to make dial PET ma¬
terial coming from plant-
based material. The Coca¬
s' Coca-Cola
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Noted British director Jason Barnes to
codirect Three Sisters’ this weekend
served as a professor for Samford ’s study abroad
program in London, England where be has taught “The
Samford Theatre. '
Chandler Shrode
News Reporter
Samford’s upcoming the¬
atrical presentation is going
to have a guest director at the
wheel.
London’s own Jason
Barnes, who’s worked with
Britain's National Theatre
for 39 years, will be co-
diredting Chekhov’s play
“Three Sisters” alongside
Samford’s Donald Sand ley.
The story is of three sis¬
ters from an out of luck Rus¬
sian aristocracy longing to
reclaim their idyllic life in
Moscow. “Three Sisters” is
a play that Mr. Barnes has
been dreaming about direct¬
ing for some time.
According to his Pro¬
gramme Notes, Barnes said
T have yearned to revisit the
text since studying it whilst
training at London’s Central
Drama School in the 1960's”.
Jason Barnes started his
theatre career at London’s
Central School of Speech
and Drama, where he gradu¬
ated in 1967. In 1971, he
took the job at the National
Theatre as a Stage Manager
undo- Sir Laurence Olivier,
the Academy Award winning
actor and director.
In 1977, he was put in
charge of the NT’s Courtyard
Theatre, the Cottesloe, a ver¬
satile space theater that can
be laid out in many different
configurations. Over his the¬
atre career he’s worked with
actors like John Thaw, Dan¬
iel Craig and Fiona Shaw.
He’s worked on big time pro¬
ductions like Les Mis^ rabies,
Cats and Starlight Express.
See Barnes, Page 2
Papal priest delivers sermon to divinity students
Sydney Cromwell
News Reporter
On Feb. 21, Beeson Divinity School was honored to
welcome Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the priest to the
Papal Household, to preach during a chapel service.
Father Cantalamessa was appointed to his position in
1980 by Pope John Paul
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and is the only person permitted
to preach to the pope.
He came to Samford at the request of the Divinity School
Dean, Dr. Timothy George, and the Catholic Diocese of
Birmingham to be a part of the school’s sermon series, “This
Sacred Space.”
Father Cantalamessa has advocated greater understanding
and communication between the Catholic and Protestant
churches for over 10 years.
While expressing his gratitude for the invitation, he noted
that “it is precisely because the invitation came jointly from
a Baptist minister and a Catholic bishop that enepuraged me
to add this last station to ... my journey
The news of Father Cental amessa’s coming spread far
beyond Samford’s campus and resulted in a crowd of both
students and community members that filled Hodges Chapel
to capacity.
In a sermon entitled “How to Become Effective Preachers
of Jesus,” he expounded to his audience on the lessons that
could be gleaned from Acts 2:1-12. which describes the
apostles being filled with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost and
speaking in tongues.
“What does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit?” he
asked, then answered his own question, “To be filled with
the love erf God.”
Emphasizing the effect that the love and grace of God
had on those first apostles, Cantalamessa used the story in
Acts 2, supplemented by the writings of the apostle Paul, St.
Augustine and Martin Luther, as a guideline for people in
the 21* century who desire to be bolder and better preachers
of the Gospel.
Imitating the apostles’ self-sacrifice and acceptance of the
Holy Spirit, he declared, would lead to a “move from living
for ourselves to living for God." •
“If we want to shake the modem, secularized world - so
self-sufficient, so self-reliant - we need to unearth the Sword
of the Spirit,” he said. “This Christian message is the Sword
See Cantalamessa, Page 2
Photo Courtesy of Mery Wimheriey
Father Cantalamessa was appointed to Us position in
1980 by Pope John Paul
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and is the only person permitted
to preach to the pope.
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