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Clarion The official student publication of Bethel College Friday/ March 1 / 1996 Volume 71, Number 10 Unside. Variety Video Valedictorians Four Bethel students receive prestigious award. |Not only did they beat out students, they stole the honor from professionals. News Lose 100 Pounds In An Afternoon Bizarre medical condition removed by surgery lightens the load for one woman. Arts Pretty Woman Stars In Ugly Flick Mary Reilly combines the talents of several big names and serves us a recipe of disaster. Babes Embraced By Art Editor's Arms New Guthrie production adds song and glitz to make for an award- winning performance. Opinion Primary Putzes Campaign trial goes mad for plaid and leaves a trail of unsatisfied voters left without a man to beat Clinton. Next Edition March 15 Royal senior shoots for All-American honors By SETH HINRICHS Sports Editor Kitri Peterson came to Bethel in the Fall of 1992 not knowing how good of a basketball player she could be. Averaging 17.6 points and 6.7 rebounds with an 84 free- throw percentage in her senior year, she has been nominated for All- Conference and All- American honors. In addition, Peterson has been the subject of an article in Minnesota Basketball News. She has come a long way in four years. Coming out of Anoka High School, Peterson received more attention for her talent in tennis rather than basketball. She says that one of the reasons she chose to come to Bethel was "because of the Christian atmosphere and because it was a small enough school that I could play both tennis and basketball. If I had to just pick (between the two sports), I couldn't just pick one of them. Tennis is my favorite when I am playing tennis and basketball is my favorite when 1 am playing basketball." Peterson has played both sports all four of her years at Bethel with the exception of her sophomore year when she did not play tennis. Her development as a basketball player peaked during her senior season."My freshman year I just kind of came in and played basketball and then in my sophomore and junior years I just thought about things too much. Then I just started playing and trying to use the talent that God has given me," Peterson said. Women's Basketball Coach Deb Hunter, who recruited Peterson out of Anoka High School, said that at the beginning other freshman year, Peterson was "... probably the second best player on her team. Kit started out pretty quiet and timid. She was a little bit skeptical of her abilities. And this year she has really stepped it up to the point where there are SEE HONORS PAGE 8 Students participate in award nominations By MEGAN LAWTON Contributing Writer For the first time in the ten years that the Faculty Excellence Awards have been awarded. Bethel students have an opportunity to nominate the professor of their choice. The Professional Development Committee is allowing students to be a part of the nomination process in order to get some different perspectives. Karen Ciske, member of the award committee, stated that both the student and peer recognition will help the committee because they might "not be aware of some of the excellent teachers." Ciske also said the students are the recipients of the professors' teachings. Marion Larson, of the Fac- ultv Awards, said the alumni SEE AWARD PAGE 2 Gas execution Student academic rulinq upheld freedom conference By ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO— As California prepared for its first execution by lethal injection, a federal judge's ruling barring use of the state's gas chamber was upheld by an appeals court last week. The ruling, the first by any U.S. court to declare a method of execution unconstitutional, was properly based on evidence of extreme and sometimes prolonged pain suffered by prisoners in the San Quentin gas chamber, said the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The October 1994 ruling by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel requires the state to conduct future executions by lethal injection, until then an unused option under a 1993 state law. "It's an important decision in that it prohibits the state from torturing people to death," said Michael Laurence, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who represented prisoners challenging the gas chamber. "It recognizes that even people on death row who are going to be executed deserve some humanity. "It is not a challenge to capital punishment. It is a challenge to torture," Laurence added. Gov. Pete Wilson called the ruling "shortsighted and misguided" and said he would urge an appeal. "California should not be prohibited from using the gas chamber to perform executions to society's most brutal and heinous killers," Wilson said. The constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment "was not designed to micromanage the state's performance over its constitutional duty to put vicious criminals to death," he said. Patel heard from a battery of scientific experts and expert witnesses and examined a half- century of official execution records during an eight-day trial in her San Francisco court. She found that prisoners in the gas chamber are likely to suffer excruciating pain for between 15 seconds and several minutes. The primary cause of pain is cellular suffocation, experienced as an intense "air hunger," Patel said. "Symptoms of air hunger include intense chest pains, such as felt during a heart attack, acute anxiety, and struggling to breathe," the judge said. She said there may also be other types of pain, including "the exquisitely painful muscle spasms" of a condition called tetany. SEE EXECUTION PAGE 2 BY AMY TUCKER News Co-Editor ST. PAUL—"The freedom of students to learn has been neglected in recent years," said Dan Ritchie, Minnesota Association of Scholars (MAS) president and English professor at Bethel. This observation spurred MAS to approach the Minnesota State University Student Association about cospon- soring the upcoming Conference on Student Academic Freedom. The first collaboration between MAS and the Minnesota State University Student Association (MSUSA) was held on Saturday, February 17, at Dayton's Bluff campus of Metropolitan State University. At the conference, administrators, faculty and students from various areas of higher education discussed students' academic freedoms both in and outside the classroom. "Finally, we are going to be able to get some information and spread our ideas around a little bit better," said Stephanie Hegg, Southwest State University Student Association president. "We will be able to let the legislature, faculty and administration know that we are serious about our education and the way in which it is presented to us. Many great efforts could come out of this, and I feel that they will." According to Ritchie, student academic freedom has been threatened throughout academia. For example: • Officials at the University of Minnesota attempted to revoke the "recognized group status" of the Inter-Varsity (Graduate) Christian Fellowship. •An associate dean and professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls authorized the removal of posters put up by the College Republicans because he considered the clip art (used to depict a stunned student reacting to the result of the November 1994 elections) offensive. •At a fall 1994 forum in Northfield, a professor described education as a necessary form of repression, where institutions must have the freedom to construct the proper setting for repression to take place. MAS and MSUSA members have grown increasingly concerned about reports of students keeping their thoughts to themselves inside the classroom. Because they often see professors as "almighty grade givers" students may wonder, "Why offend the professor? It might hurt my grade," according to Wendy Haavisto, MSUSA Academic Affairs Committee coordinator and graduate student at Winona State University.
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Title | Page 1 |
Alternative Title | The Bethel Clarion |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 71 No. 10 |
Date Published | March 01 1996 |
Decade | 1990 |
Academic Year | 1995 - 1996 |
Frequency | Biweekly |
Notes | This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota through the Minnesota Historical Society from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. |
Digital Collection | The Clarion: Bethel University's Student Newspaper |
Digital Publisher | Bethel University |
Editor | Piehl, Kristi; Remus, Heidi |
Contributors | Martin, Barb (Administrative Advisor); Ashcroft, Mary Ellen (Academic Advisor); Orvis, Renae (News Editor); Tucker, Amy (News Editor); Houser, Robin (Variety Editor); Vogelaar, Jody (Arts Editor); Hinrichs, Seth (Sports Editor); Kastelein, Candy (Opinions Editor); Tan, Winnie (Photo Editor); Groh, John (Copy Editor); Hohnberger, Jason C. (Copy Editor); Schultz, Diane (Business Manager) |
Location |
United States Minnesota Saint Paul |
Time Span of Publication | Newspaper published from 1921 through present day |
Copyright | Reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted for educational and research purposes with proper attribution to the Bethel Digital Library. No commercial reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted under copyright law without the written permission of Bethel University Digital Library. For questions or further information on this collection, contact digital-library@bethel.edu. |
Type | text |
Format | image/jpeg |
Physical Dimensions | 11.5 x 17 |
Original Collection | Printed paper copies of original newspaper in the collections of the Bethel University Library and the History Center: Archives of the Baptist General Conference and Bethel University. |
Original Publisher | Bethel College |
Transcript | Clarion The official student publication of Bethel College Friday/ March 1 / 1996 Volume 71, Number 10 Unside. Variety Video Valedictorians Four Bethel students receive prestigious award. |Not only did they beat out students, they stole the honor from professionals. News Lose 100 Pounds In An Afternoon Bizarre medical condition removed by surgery lightens the load for one woman. Arts Pretty Woman Stars In Ugly Flick Mary Reilly combines the talents of several big names and serves us a recipe of disaster. Babes Embraced By Art Editor's Arms New Guthrie production adds song and glitz to make for an award- winning performance. Opinion Primary Putzes Campaign trial goes mad for plaid and leaves a trail of unsatisfied voters left without a man to beat Clinton. Next Edition March 15 Royal senior shoots for All-American honors By SETH HINRICHS Sports Editor Kitri Peterson came to Bethel in the Fall of 1992 not knowing how good of a basketball player she could be. Averaging 17.6 points and 6.7 rebounds with an 84 free- throw percentage in her senior year, she has been nominated for All- Conference and All- American honors. In addition, Peterson has been the subject of an article in Minnesota Basketball News. She has come a long way in four years. Coming out of Anoka High School, Peterson received more attention for her talent in tennis rather than basketball. She says that one of the reasons she chose to come to Bethel was "because of the Christian atmosphere and because it was a small enough school that I could play both tennis and basketball. If I had to just pick (between the two sports), I couldn't just pick one of them. Tennis is my favorite when I am playing tennis and basketball is my favorite when 1 am playing basketball." Peterson has played both sports all four of her years at Bethel with the exception of her sophomore year when she did not play tennis. Her development as a basketball player peaked during her senior season."My freshman year I just kind of came in and played basketball and then in my sophomore and junior years I just thought about things too much. Then I just started playing and trying to use the talent that God has given me," Peterson said. Women's Basketball Coach Deb Hunter, who recruited Peterson out of Anoka High School, said that at the beginning other freshman year, Peterson was "... probably the second best player on her team. Kit started out pretty quiet and timid. She was a little bit skeptical of her abilities. And this year she has really stepped it up to the point where there are SEE HONORS PAGE 8 Students participate in award nominations By MEGAN LAWTON Contributing Writer For the first time in the ten years that the Faculty Excellence Awards have been awarded. Bethel students have an opportunity to nominate the professor of their choice. The Professional Development Committee is allowing students to be a part of the nomination process in order to get some different perspectives. Karen Ciske, member of the award committee, stated that both the student and peer recognition will help the committee because they might "not be aware of some of the excellent teachers." Ciske also said the students are the recipients of the professors' teachings. Marion Larson, of the Fac- ultv Awards, said the alumni SEE AWARD PAGE 2 Gas execution Student academic rulinq upheld freedom conference By ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO— As California prepared for its first execution by lethal injection, a federal judge's ruling barring use of the state's gas chamber was upheld by an appeals court last week. The ruling, the first by any U.S. court to declare a method of execution unconstitutional, was properly based on evidence of extreme and sometimes prolonged pain suffered by prisoners in the San Quentin gas chamber, said the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The October 1994 ruling by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel requires the state to conduct future executions by lethal injection, until then an unused option under a 1993 state law. "It's an important decision in that it prohibits the state from torturing people to death," said Michael Laurence, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who represented prisoners challenging the gas chamber. "It recognizes that even people on death row who are going to be executed deserve some humanity. "It is not a challenge to capital punishment. It is a challenge to torture," Laurence added. Gov. Pete Wilson called the ruling "shortsighted and misguided" and said he would urge an appeal. "California should not be prohibited from using the gas chamber to perform executions to society's most brutal and heinous killers," Wilson said. The constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment "was not designed to micromanage the state's performance over its constitutional duty to put vicious criminals to death," he said. Patel heard from a battery of scientific experts and expert witnesses and examined a half- century of official execution records during an eight-day trial in her San Francisco court. She found that prisoners in the gas chamber are likely to suffer excruciating pain for between 15 seconds and several minutes. The primary cause of pain is cellular suffocation, experienced as an intense "air hunger," Patel said. "Symptoms of air hunger include intense chest pains, such as felt during a heart attack, acute anxiety, and struggling to breathe," the judge said. She said there may also be other types of pain, including "the exquisitely painful muscle spasms" of a condition called tetany. SEE EXECUTION PAGE 2 BY AMY TUCKER News Co-Editor ST. PAUL—"The freedom of students to learn has been neglected in recent years," said Dan Ritchie, Minnesota Association of Scholars (MAS) president and English professor at Bethel. This observation spurred MAS to approach the Minnesota State University Student Association about cospon- soring the upcoming Conference on Student Academic Freedom. The first collaboration between MAS and the Minnesota State University Student Association (MSUSA) was held on Saturday, February 17, at Dayton's Bluff campus of Metropolitan State University. At the conference, administrators, faculty and students from various areas of higher education discussed students' academic freedoms both in and outside the classroom. "Finally, we are going to be able to get some information and spread our ideas around a little bit better," said Stephanie Hegg, Southwest State University Student Association president. "We will be able to let the legislature, faculty and administration know that we are serious about our education and the way in which it is presented to us. Many great efforts could come out of this, and I feel that they will." According to Ritchie, student academic freedom has been threatened throughout academia. For example: • Officials at the University of Minnesota attempted to revoke the "recognized group status" of the Inter-Varsity (Graduate) Christian Fellowship. •An associate dean and professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls authorized the removal of posters put up by the College Republicans because he considered the clip art (used to depict a stunned student reacting to the result of the November 1994 elections) offensive. •At a fall 1994 forum in Northfield, a professor described education as a necessary form of repression, where institutions must have the freedom to construct the proper setting for repression to take place. MAS and MSUSA members have grown increasingly concerned about reports of students keeping their thoughts to themselves inside the classroom. Because they often see professors as "almighty grade givers" students may wonder, "Why offend the professor? It might hurt my grade," according to Wendy Haavisto, MSUSA Academic Affairs Committee coordinator and graduate student at Winona State University. |
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