Clarion 2001-04-12 Vol. 76 No. 12

              ■ Letter from Guatemala - pg. 8
Thursday, April 22, 200.1
Art- pgs. 10-11 'Josie and the Pussycats - pg. 13
■ Oscars - pg. 13
1 Bands - pgs. 14-15      ■ Game Show Weekend - pg. 17
The Newspaper of Bethel College
Volume 76 •Number 12
CLARION
CR elects Krueger as state chairman
Krueger ascends to the position after year as president of Bethel College Republicans
By Timothy Goddard
Staff writer
Sophomore Michael Krueger
was elected Chairman of the
State Board of College
Republicans at the Minnesota
State College Republican
Convention last weekend.
This gave him the top position in what has been declared
the best College Republican organization in the country. In addition to lhat honor, the state
board gave Krueger the George
W. Bush Activist of the Year
award.
"College Republicans in
Minnesota is a great opportunity
for students. To lead this organization and lo dedicate myself to
working with students from
across the slate to elect a Republican governor and senator will
be a true honor—and a lot of
fun," said Krueger.
Krueger defeated his only
opponent, Phil
Kroll, a student
from the University of Minnesota,
handily, through
the support of
nearly every club
chairman in the
state, and a nomination from Chris
Tiedeman, a former state chairman, the treasurer of the National
"He is one of
those leaders
who's in it for a
cause; he's not in
it for himself."
-Eric Hoplin
Former chairman
College Republicans and University of Minnesota Law School
student. Thai Krueger even had
an opponent was a surprise because Kroll did not announce his
candidacy until rather close to
the convention date—as opposed
to Krueger, who had been planning for two months.
Olher members of Bethel's
College Republicans were
pleased with Krueger's election
as chairman.
"I think [Krueger] is by far
the most qualified person for that
job in all the College Republicans, aside from, perhaps
[formerchairman] Eric Hoplin,"
said Sieve Peterson, a senior and
former head of Bethel College
Republicans, as well as a delegate to lhe convention.
"Mike's election speaks
wonders for College Republicans at Bethel," said Peterson.
"We're one of the preeminent
College Republican
clubs in Minnesota."
"I think that
Mike being elected
is an extreme honor
for Bethel College,
and it shows the high
level of leadership
abilities that Bethel
students possess,"
said freshman delegate and junior vice chairperson of the Bc-
Citrrent Minnesota CR Chairman Eric Hoplin (left) passes the responsibility to sophomore Michael Krueger.
thel College RepublicansTerilyn
Johnston.
In fact, as further evidence of
Bethel's strong presence in Minnesota College Republicans, it
was the only school that had any
alternates present, and was, in
fact, the only school with more
than five delegate slots to fill all
of them.
In addition to the election,
Krueger was also the first recipi
ent of the Activist of the Year
award. When presenting the
award, Hoplin described
Krueger's history of "selfless
service" to the organization.
"He is one of those leaders
who's in it for a cause; he's not
in it for himself," Hoplin said,
referring to a point during the
election when Krueger had the
opportunity to meet the current
vice president, then candidate
Dick Cheney when he was in
Minnesota, Krueger turned down
lhat opportunity in order to run
a mock election on campus. "He
chose hard work on activities
over the perk of meeting the future vice president," Hoplin said.
"[Krueger has] a proven
record of accomplishment,"
Hoplin said. "He is always very
Continued on page 4
McMullen takes first at forensics Novice Nationals
By Shannon Novotne
Staff writer
At the 2001 Novice Nationals tournament at the College of
Eastern Ulah, Mar. 9-11, freshman Steven McMullen led the
forensics team with a first place
finish.
"Steven's national title marks
the sixth national championship
Bethel has received in forensics
since 1998," said Michael
Dreher, a communications professor who is the director of forensics.
As a whole, the team performed well, placing in the top
eight learns for parliamentary
debate. Other individuals besides
McMullen had fine performances.
Interpretation events arc performed with a script and are up
lo 10 minutes long. Taking sixth
place in Dramatic Interpretation
was freshman Jessica Blezien.
Dramatic Interpretation is similar to solo drama in which one
performs multiple characters
from a stage play or screenplay.
Taking seventh place in Oral Interpretation was freshman
Terilyn Johnston. Oral Interpretation consists of two or three
genres (prose, poetry or drama)
organized around a theme.
McMullen performed in
Limited Preparation events for
Extemporaneous Speaking, in
which he had 30 minutes to prepare a seven minute speech on a
topic in current events.
"I gave four different
speeches, each on a different
question, ranging from the politi
cal agenda of the Supreme Court
to George W. Bush's education
policy," McMullen said.
In Public Address events,
freshman Danielle Meyer was
third in After Dinner Speaking,
and Johnston took sixth place. In
Parliamentary Debate,
McMullen and freshman
Katrista Bohne made it to the
quarterfinals.
Dreher has been the director
of the novice nationals tournament since 1998. Attending the
tournament were schools from
12 different states, including
Utah, South Dakota, Kentucky,
California and Kansas.
In addition to the excellent
performance at lhe nationals,
Bethel has had 54 top 10 finishes
this year, as well as six individual
tournament championships-including Bethel's first state championship (Christina Johnson in
Extemporaneous Interpretation).
The forensics team looks forward to next year's Novice Nationals, in hopes of keeping their
good streak alive.