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As a reward for magazine sales from the Great American Fundraiser company, students at Campbellsville Middle School recently attended a BMX Bike Stunt Show. Laydon Coffey, third from left, tries to sneak a peek to see if BMX bike rider was ready to jump over the four boys as they remain still on the pavement. Also pictured are Chris Lasley, Chase Cruse and Will Price anxiously awaiting for the BMX bike rider to jump over them. Hayden McCubbin, not pictured, a sixth grader, won a BMX bike for selling the most magazine subscriptions.

Ashley Sidebottom

Campbellsville University

"My prayer is that this day be a day you will look back on as a day of achievement, and one where you felt a blessed sense of appreciation for all those who have helped make this day possible for you," said Dr. Michael V. Carter, Campbellsville University president, at the first-ever fall commencement ceremony in the Ransdell Chapel.

The traditional senior walk morphed into an evening candlelight walk before the 7 p.m. ceremony beginning at the E. Bruce Heilman Student Complex and ending at the chapel.

Transylvania University junior Brooke Bell has been named to the dean's list for the 2007 fall term.

To be named to the dean's list, a student must achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average during the term.

Bell, a political science major, is the daughter of Randall and Sharon Bell of Campbellsville.

I am a recovering nice person. As a former nice person, I rarely said no to anything, even (and especially) to things I really, really, really didn't want to do.

Because I couldn't stand the thought of someone possibly thinking badly of me for saying no, I've done some things I had no business doing - heading up committees, teaching a class, organizing a rummage sale.