BySarahFox
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The teen-age girls raised their
hands and closed their eyes as they
sang along with the band in Pershing
Municipal Auditorium.
But the girls weren’t at Pershing for
the Backstreet Boys or the Spice Girls.
They sang: “I could never quite
express the beauty of Your holiness;
You’re the Holy One.”
More than 6,000 teen-agers and
adults filled Pershing on Monday night
for the Counter the Culture youth
event. The concert was sponsored by
the Dallas-based Josh McDowell
Ministry and the band SONICFLOOd.
The youth event asked teens to
make decisions based on values from
God instead of their emotions.
Josh McDowell asked teens from
the audience what made things right or
wrong.
“Why is lying wrong?” he asked.
“Thou shalt not lie,” a teen replied.
McDowell asked teens why pre
cepts such as not lying are in the Bible.
“You shall not lie because the per
son and character and nature of God is
truth,” McDowell said. “Killing is
wrong because God is life.”
McDowell said he thought some
people think that God is a “cosmic
killjoy.”
However, he said God’s commands
protect people.
McDowell told about a teen-age
boy and his girlfriend who, more than
nine years ago, climbed over a neigh
bor’s fence to use a swimming pool on
a Saturday night.
The boy jumped off the diving
board in the dark and broke his neck
because he didn’t see the pool was
almost empty.
“Those neighbors did not (post)
the precept ‘No trespassing’ to take the
fun out of Greg’s life,” McDowell said.
Chelsey Schlegel, a junior adver
tising major, said she brought a group
of seventh- and eight-grade girls with
her to the concert.
Shlegel works with the girls in City
Impact, a Lincoln-based club for urban
youth in central Lincoln. She said
some of the girls don’t see something
as wrong if it helps them.
“Lying is a huge one with my
kids,” she said. “Lying is a way of sur
vival at times. It just saves their butt.
They’ve just never been taught that’s
wrong.”
Josh Fernandez, 13, came to the
concert with City Impact. Fie and
Jarvis Long, 13, said they face pres
sure to join gangs.
“We have friends who have been in
and out of prison,” Fernandez said.
“They told us we shouldn’t be doing it
because they know how it is.”
Fernandez also said he was pres
sured to be sexually active.
“It’s not just the boys. The girls try
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Lying is a huge one with my kids. Lying is a
way of survival at times. It just saves their butt.
They've just never been taught that's wrong."
Chelsey Schlegel
urban youth worker
to push us into sex,” he said.
Long said he faced similar pres
sures.
“I’m saving myself for marriage,”
Long said.
To encourage teens, about 175
UNL students came to talk to them
afterwards, said Rick Pratte,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln direc
tor of Campus Crusade for Christ.
“A lot of these students already
have a good understanding of their
faith and can talk to others about that,”
Pratte said.
The Counter the Culture youth
event was brought to Lincoln through
Mission Nebraska, which was founded
by University of Nebraska Receivers
Coach Ron Brown and Stan Parker.
Parker said he thought teens would
be interested in how to make good
decisions. v
“I think we’re all looking for
answers in our lives,” he said.
Planet proven to exist outside of Earth s solar system
■ Researchers found the
planet is 60 percent larger
than Jupiter but has 63
percent less mass.
Daily Californian
University of Califomia-Berkeley
BERKELEY, Calif. (U-WIRE) -
Scientists from the University of
California-Berkeley and other
research institutions across the nation
have observed a planet orbiting a
nearby star, providing the first indis
putable evidence thr* a planet exists
outside our solar system.
“For the first time in human histo
ry, we have a confirmed planet
around another star,” said UC
Berkeley astronomy professor
Geoffery Marcy,_whose group has
also found indirect evidence of 18
other planets.
The team of researchers measured
the size of the planet and found it to
be 60 percent larger than Jupiter, the
biggest planet in Earth’s solar system.
“The huge breakthrough here is
that for the first time we have mea
sured the size of the planet,’’ Marcy
said.
Despite the large volume of the
newly-discovered planet, which is a
gas giant, it has a very low density
and has 63 percent less mass than
Jupiter.
Researchers found direct proof of
the planet on Nov. 7 when they
recorded a 1.7 percent reduction in
the amount of light emitted by the star
that the planet orbits.
The reduction was the first con
clusive proof of the existence of plan
ets outside Earth’s solar system.
Scientists were able to measure
the size of the planet by examining
the amount of starlight the planet
blocked when it moved in front of the
star. The amount of light reduction
can be interpreted to find the size of
the planet.
Marcy compared the researchers’
technique to a bug flying in front of a
light source, saying that the bug
reduces the amount of light let off by
the lamp.
“If you have a light bulb serving
as a star and then a bug flies across,
the room would dim a little bit,”
Marcy said. “You could determine the
size of the bug because the bigger the
bug, the more the room would dim.
We know its cross-sectional area
because the bigger the area, the more
light it blocks.”
preg Henry, an astronomer in
Tennessee who worked on the project,
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For the first time in human history, we have
a confirmed planet around another star.”
Geoffery Marcy
UC Berkeley astronomy professor
said after scientists received indirect
evidence of the star’s existence, he
observed the star to see if any changes
in its brightness occurred.
“The amount of dimming of the
star’s light during the transit also
gives us the first-ever measure of the
size and density of an extrasolar plan
et,” Henry said in a statement. “We’ve
essentially seen the shadow of the
planet and used it to measure the
planet’s size.”
The planet was found to orbit star
HD209458, which is part of the
Pegasus constellation and a part of
our galaxy. It is about 150 light years
away, Marcy said.
Previously, the spatial relation
ship between the Earth and many
stars has prevented researchers from
using telescopes to observe “star
blinks.”
The project was funded by
NASA, the National Science
Foundation, Sun Microsystems and
the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.
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