The Link student news website at Harding University in Searcy, Ark., reports:
An overnight storm killed four people in Arkansas, knocked down trees across campus and left much of the university without power. Chapel at 9 a.m. was canceled.
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Drum roll, please. Harding University Graduate School of Religion is changing its name. And the new name will be … Harding School of Theology. Administrators describe the change as a branding decision.

While other college students typically spend their spring breaks binge drinking in Myrtle Beach or Daytona Beach, a group of students from Harding University spent the week performing community service and spreading their Christian faith. The Church of Christ in Horseheads, N.Y., hosted a group of 11 students from the university.

In chapel Thursday morning, President David B. Burks defended Harding University’s decision to censor an underground student website, citing his personal feelings and a formal statement by the university. Harding came under scrutiny by several blogs and social media sites Wednesday afternoon after deciding to block the website, HUQueerPress.com.

Funeral services will be held Friday for a Harding University physical resources employee who died Wednesday after falling from the rooftop of the Mabee business building Tuesday morning, The Link reports. Teddy Joe Pike, 61, was installing heating and air equipment on an addition to the building when he fell and landed on the second story’s concrete floor.

After their spouses passed away, Keith Coleman, 87, and Joan Lee, 78, went looking for love, and found it, in an unusual place — a Church of Christ website. For six months their relationship blossomed on the phone and online. Then, on April 7, 2008, the couple married.

The New York Times ran a feature on Lt. Col. David Richardson, a 1988 graduate of Harding University in Searcy, Ark.. The Times reports that he sees himself not as a Marine who paints, but as a painter who fights.

New on The Christian Chronicle’s website is our coverage of the 2010 World Mission Workshop. For half a century, the workshop has rotated among universities and colleges associated with Churches of Christ — connecting mission-minded students with opportunities to serve, at home and abroad.

Two political science professors, a theology dean and a president of universities associated with Churches of Christ were invited to the White House recently to discuss U.S. policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Participants included Randy Lowry, president of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn.; Mark Elrod, political science professor at Harding University in Searcy, Ark.; Mark Hamilton, associate dean of the graduate school of theology at Abilene Christian University in Texas; and Caron Gentry, associate professor of political science at ACU.

Fall enrollment figures at colleges and universities associated with Churches of Christ are starting to trickle in to The Christian Chronicle. Harding University in Searcy, Ark., and Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., both report record numbers of students. Abilene Christian University in Texas reports about 100 fewer students than last year’s record of 4,838 but has a record graduate enrollment and touts the academic prowess of its freshman class. We’ll update readers on enrollment trends at other Christian universities as those numbers become available.