Clarion 2007-03-15 Vol. 82 No. 18

              NEWS
Over 100 compete in
Mario Kart tournament
-page 2
CULTURE
Celebrating women in
the arts through various
mediums
-page 3
J
SPORTS
Royals split doubleheader
at Metrodome
-page 5
BETHEL  UNIVEI
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Volume 82 • Number 18
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Men's hockey team finishes historical season
By Kris Pulford
The road to Superior will not be paved with royal and gold ihis year, as all of Bethel University
wanted it to be.
Our Men's hockey leam fell to St. Norbert 4-1 last weekend in De Pere, Wis.
This ended the frozen four hopes of the team, but it can't take away a greal season and a great run
for the Royals.
The playoffs started with a trip to the No. 4 ranked team in the nation, River Falls, last Wednesday
night for a showdown with the Falcons in Hunt Arena.
The team came out to a full crowd, for whal seems like lhe 10th straight game, and goi behind
early.
The play was even for the rest of the first period, and the Royals went into the locker room down
1-0.
The second period came in like a lion with Beihel scoring in the first 30 seconds after face-off on a
goal by Bill Menozzi, but went out like a lamb as no other goals were scored.
The action moved to the ihird period where halfway through, Benoit Duhamel drove home a rebound that flew past the Falcon goalie.
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Men s Hockey continued on page 10
Despite the loss freshman goalie, Aaron Damjanovich played an outstanding game.
Computer
network
slowness
to improve
By Luke Reiter
Students and faculty vexed
by the recent difficulty of accessing files and infonnation
through Bethel's network can
breathe easier, according to
Bethel's Information Technology
Services department.
Problems arose when ITS
decided to install an additional
storage disk to Bethel's main
server, giving the server 15 disks
in total. According to Bill Doyle,
vice president for Information
Technology, the complications
were foreseen but unavoidable.
"We had hoped we wouldn't
need to do that until the summer," said Doyle, "but it became
important to do that [install the
disk] now."
"The process of adding lhat
disk became complicated," he
said.
Doyle explained that the
process was further slowed by
the amount of traffic lhe server
experienced during its sensitive
acclimating stage. If a virus were
to infect a student's computer or
hackers attempted to access the
system during the acclimating
stage, the problems would be
felt throughout campus.
Unfortunately for ITS, the
only alternative would have
been to shut out students from
using the server entirely until
after the installation was complete. This was an inconvenience Doyle said would have
been drastically worse.
The disk installation came
at a particularly crucial time for
ITS, as the department is currently in lhe midst of implementing the new Banner database system, a task which brings
many of its own unique challenges to the situation. Banner
is a type of infonnation system
Bethel will use for tasks such as
financial aid, housing registration and human resources. It
replaces Bethel's previous CARS
system.
Wilh this in mind, ITS
moved forward with the procedure with the intention of addressing the ensuing issues in
turn. Most of these setbacks, according to Doyle, were experienced during the pasi week and
have been dealt wilh.
Photos courtesy at Matt Runion
A Bethel students plays with kids from Chihuahua, Mexico.
135 students, 6 destinations, 1 goal
Ninth year of Student Missions Project embarks on local
and global service, focusing on exemplifying Christ
By Maria Jamero
While many students are
headed to trendy tropical getaways this Spring Break, 135
students are participating in
Student Missions Project 2007
on March 17-24. The teams
are collaborating with various
ministry sites and development
organizations in serving and
reaching oul to poverty-stricken
neighborhoods.
Locations include: Minneapolis, Minn.; Slidell, La.; Ap-
palachia, W.Va.; New Orleans,
La.; Chihuahua,  Mexico; and
Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic.
The SMP aims to exemplify
the work of Chrisi in Bethel's
communiiy by connecting with
people and building relationships as a team. Contrary to
previous trips, this year's teams
focus more on being consistent
and solid as a group.
"This is more like marriage,"
said Matt Runion, assistant campus pastor. "We see to it that we
both [Belhel community and
the institutions] commit. Every
year, we will serve as a team. We
don't plan on stopping—we're
dedicated."
Students participating in
the missions trips are not only
expected to fully commit and
serve, but also to immerse
themselves in the whole idea of
Missions continued on page 2
Forensics team returns from
nationals victorious for second straight year
By Cory Streeter
The forensics team took home a naiional Lille for the second
straight year from the National Christian College Forensics Invitational on March 2-3. This year's victory as a leam came in the individual events, where Bethel's cumulative individual score of 347.5
surpassed second place Belmont University by almost 50 points.
Last year's team took home the overall sweepstakes title, the
combined scores of lhe team's individual and debate events. This
year the team placed second in the overall.
Though this year's title wasn't in the overall, the individual
accomplishments are encouraging. David Maus, senior, said individual success "hasn't been a key feature of our team" in lhe past.
The debate portion has been the strength of the team in prior years,
he said. Now, Maus said, is lhe first lime the team has done well in
everything, even through the novice ranks.
Junior David Dickmeyer said there's a lot of promise and potential within the freshman class thai competed this year, and the
team looks to be strong in lhe future. With the freshmen placing in
individual events like they did ai nationals this year, "I don't see any
reason why ihey couldn't do that again," Dickmeyer said.
Photos Courtesy of Terilyn Johnston Huntington
NCCFI—The Forensics team with their various trophies.
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