By Sam Watermeier
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Today is the last day of Lifelines’ Pre-Winter Break Awareness Week, the club’s effort to inspire students to make good decisions over the holidays. Lifelines is concluding the week with a movie which students are watching in SRT today, “The Lion King.”

With this movie, Lifelines hopes to deliver more than typical popcorn fare. Lifelines sponsor Rebekah Overbey said, “‘The Lion King’ shows the need to work together regardless of difference, what it means to be a true friend, obedience, truthfulness, not running away from things but working through them, and taking responsibility.”

Students like junior Andrew Johnston, an avid moviegoer, are excited by this entertaining method of educating students.  Johnston said, “By showing a movie, Lifelines is making its message more accessible and fun to be involved in. I like the fact that they are using the ‘Mary Poppins’ principle which says, ‘Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”