Clarion 2000-09-22 Vol. 76 No. 02

              ♦Welcome Week events—pg. 2
Friday, September 22, 2000
♦New faculty—pg. 3
♦Foxfire-pg. 10     ♦Fresh start in football--pg. 13
The Newspaper of Bethel College
►Soccor begins well—pg. 14
Volume 76 *- Number 2
Heritage
exercises
seniority
By Timothy Goddard
StaffWriter
Due to the generosity of an
anonymous donor, residents of
Heritage Hall will no longer have
to make the long trek to the
weight room to work out.
The former game room has
been converted into an exercise
room. This includes a treadmill,
an "elliptical machine," which is,
according to Heritage resident
director Christine Osgood, "a
cross between walking and
riding a bike, without the bike,"
and a universal weightlifting machine.
"This is a wonderful fitness
opportunity for the residents of
that dorm, and it would be wonderful if we could start that trend
throughout campus," Health and
Physical Education Professor
Dottic Haugen said.
The idea for the exercise
room was first conceived this
past January by Osgood and
Heritage resident assistant Malia
Hoffman as a way of combating
winter blues.
"In January and February,
when physical activity is low,
spirits are heavier, and one of the
ways to [raise spirits] is to exercise," Osgood said.
Around that time, Osgood
and Hoffman began to contact
local health clubs to see if any
would be willing to donate their
used equipment to Bethel.
In mid-April, Bruce Kunkel,
vice president for campus services, approached Osgood with
an anonymous donation of
$9,000 lhat was set aside for
Heritage Hall exercise equipment.
After Osgood researched the
type of equipment that would
best suit Heritage, it was purchased in May. Wanda Nelson,
director of campus stores, coor-
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Bethel awarded $300,000 Bush grant
By Jonathan Fast
News Editor
On July 18, the Bush Foundation awarded Bethel a three-
year, $300,000 grant for "Educating in a Technological Society."
English professor Barrett
Fisher, who served as the Bush
Grant Director, said the grant
will, "help faculty do a better job
of evaluating what technology
makes possible."
Provost Jay Barnes said that
because "technology is a key
piece of culture," the grant can
impact Bethel in a significant
way.
One of the key components
of the grant will be funding for
course releases for professors.
Fisher said that $30,000 will
go toward 10 such releases this
year and $60,000 will be spent
for 20 releases each of the next
two years. Such releases will free
a professor from teaching one
class in order to facilitate greater
focus on their specific technological initiative.
Kim Meyer, assistant professor of nursing, one of the participants for this school year, said
her release will allow her to work
more on a class for the PACE
program.
Meyer said that in addition to
a "gentle introduction to programs such as Blackboard and
Dreamweaver" for students, she
hopes the grant can be a precursor to "developing online courses
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Students learn teamwork at the Henotes Degeiro event.
Two resolutions pass at
BGC Annual Conference
Br JENNIELEE BOWEN
Editor
Delegates of Bethel College and
the Baptist General Conference
(BGC) passed both the Edgren Fellowship Resolution and the Committed Pastors Resolution during
their annual meeting last June.
"Simply stated, the
majority of the delegates
wished to go on record
as repudiating the position Dr. Boyd takes on
the way God knows
the future, and the
delegates also voted
to endorse the Position Statement
of the Bethel Trustees in order to
show their support for the way Bethel has handled this theological
controversy," said Bethel President
George Brushaber.
The acceptance of the Edgren
Fellowship Resolution demonstrates that the delegates believe
God's knowledge of all events is
complete. "As far as I am concerned, this settles the issue of
where the Baptist General Conference is on the exhaustive foreknowledge of God," BGC President
Bob Ricker said.
Additionally, the Committed
Pastors Resolution supports the Affirmation of
Faith and approved the
stance taken by the Board
of Trustees.
"The Position Statement
of the Trustees affirms some
important procedural steps that
Dr. Boyd has offered to follow
whenever he teaches in this area of
dispute," Brushaber said. "The
trustee statement affirms that Dr.
Boyd is a faculty member in good
standing at Bethel College.
"Further, it should be noted that
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Edgren Fellowship Resolution
Whereas the Bible reveals and affirms
that God knows all of the past, present and
future exhaustively, and
Whereas both Presidents Ricker of the
BGC and Brushaber of Bethel College and
Seminary have made it clear that the BGC
and Bethel are no "safe havens" for open theism and that no new professors espousing
such a view would be hired, and
Whereas an increasing number of districts and churches have taken action to affirm God's exhaustive foreknowledge and rejection of open theism, and
Whereas Dr. Ricker and the entire BGC Executive Ministry Team (Jerry Shevelanci, Ron
Larson, Ray Swatkowski, Lou Petrie and Steve
Schultz) have already unanimously stated that
open theism is not consistent with the BGC's
biblical or historical understanding of God's
omniscience, and
Whereas the Bible teaches there can be no
real unity apart from the unity of the truth of
God's person.
I therefore move that the following resolution be adopted by the delegates of the BGC
annual meeting.
Be it resolved that we, the delegates of the Baptist General
Conference (who are also the delegates of Bethel College and Seminary) affirm that God's knowledge of all past, present and future events is exhaustive; and, we
also believe that the "openness"
view of God's foreknowledge is
contrary to our fellowship's historic understanding of God's
omniscience.
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