VANESSA JORGENSEN, A student at Columbia Union College is featured in several photographs on the Yahoo! Olympics page. Vanessa is sophomore at CUC who is currently spending a year abroad at the Instituo Awentista Villa Aurora, an Adventist college in Florence, Italy. Columbia Union College has affiliations with several overseas schools and each year a number of students take the opportunity to spend a year studying abroad. In addition to the Villa Aurora, recent CUC students have spend a year studying in France, Spain, Austria, and Argentina -- just to name a few. For much more information about studying abroad while studying at CUC, email us at enroll@cuc.edu.

And next time you tune in to the Olympics Games, keep your eye open for Vanessa -- she's the one on the left in the photo.

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IT HAS BEEN a warmer-than-average winter in Washington, DC, with spring-like temperatures and not even a trace of snow since early December. That all changed this weekend as more than a foot of snow fell in the Maryland suburbs. Some areas near the CUC campus saw over 20 inches. And as you can see from the picture at the left, a few people used the occasion to build a snowman in front of the US Capitol Building.

For many CUC students the snow was a welcome sight. After all, we kind of like the fact that we get all four seasons in this part of the country. The only down side to the storm was that it came on the weekend and students didn't get a snow day. CUC opened on time Monday morning and classes ran as usual all day.

You can't have it all!

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THE COLUMBIA UNION College Acro-Airs team may be coming to a gymnasium near you. The team will be heading to Blue Mountain Academy this weekend (Feb 10-11) where they will lead out in worship services, hold clinics, and entertain the campus with a high-flying performance on Saturday night. In early March, the Acro-Airs will head to Ohio to perform at Mt. Vernon Academy and Spring Valley Academy. If you happen to live near any of these schools, you're invited to come out and watch. Email the team at acroairs@cuc.edu to get the complete schedule.

The CUC Acro-Air team is the largest athletic group on our campus with nearly 50 members and it provides students with the opportunity to perform all around the country. The team also performs regularly at NBA half-time shows in Washington, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

You can get a lot more information about how you can be a part of the team (and how you can earn scholarships for college) by contacting Acro-Airs coach Ben Johnson at bjohnson@cuc.edu or logging onto the Acro-Airs homepage.

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THE COLUMBIA UNION College Mock Trial team was narrowly defeated by the University of Redlends on Sunday, February 5. The competition was held in Riverside, CA at the historic City Courthouse. CUC lost in the overall category by only four points, but two CUC students, Tyson Shaw and Andrew Ritland, were singled out as the best witnesses in the competition. This marks the second consecutive time that Shaw and Ritland have won the award for best witness.

The mock trial team members flew to California on Thursday, February 2 and spend most of Friday speaking with area high school students about the pre-law program at Columbia Union College. CUC has more declared pre-law students than any other Adventist college in North America. Over 50 people witnessed the competition on Sunday. If you were there -- or if our team visited your school -- send us a note and tell us your thoughts.

CUC has now competed in two mock trial competitions and has a record of one win and one loss. CUC beat the University of Dayton on January 29. Two more competitions are scheduled: one against the University of Central Florida, and one against the University of Maryland. Stay tuned for more information about those events.

Columbia Union College is the only Adventist college with a mock trial team. For more information, contact Dr. Roy Branson at rbranson@cuc.edu, or visit the mock trial section of our website. For more information about careers in law and public policy, visit the CUC Center for Law and Public Policy.

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THE CALENDAR MAY say that spring doesn't begin for another two months, but for the 18 members of the Columbia Union College baseball team, spring begins this Friday, February 10, when they play their first game of the season against at Nyack College at 12:00pm. The double-header will be played at CUC's home field, Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda, MD. First year coach Mike Ricucci is excited about this year's team. 'We have a lot of new players who come from all over the country. But what is so exciting is that they are basball guys -- guys who are real college players in terms of talent.' This year there are 13 new students at CUC who have come to specifically to play baseball at a Christian school that competes at the NCAA Division-II level.

To catch a game check out the full season schedule. If you like what you see you can get more information about the CUC baseball team by sending an email to baseball@cuc.edu.

Columbia Union College is the only Adventist college to complete in NCAA Division-II athletics. CUC competes basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, track, and cross-country. For more information visit the CUC Athletics home page.

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TWO STUDENTS FROM Columbia Union College will be among the 435 who will come to Washington, DC this April to participate in the first ever Model United States House of Representatives, a five-day program designed to give college students a taste of what it's like to be a member of the US House of Representatives. One student from each Congressional district in the United States was chosen to participate in the program.

The two students from CUC who will attend are Tybee Wall and Henry Johnson, both political studies majors. Check out CUC's official website for the full story.

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ANGELA STEVENS, A former student at Columbia Union College was oh so close to becoming the official voice of Metro, the name given to the Washington, DC subway system. Angela (that's her at the bottom left of the photo) was among ten finalists chosen by Metro officials from among more than 1200 official entries. The new voice of Metro will be used to record the 'doors closing' message that play each time a train is about the leave the station at the nation's second-busiest subway system. The job pays nothing, but hundreds of thousands of commuters, residents, and tourists will hear the voice each year. Metro says the message is played 33,017 times a day, seven days a week.

Angela currently works as a traffic reporter for 1500AM (WTOP), the largest news radio station in the Washington, DC area. Listen to Angela's audition tape -- as well as the tapes of the other finalists, at The Washington Post's website.

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