Clarion 2007-05-03 Vol. 82 No. 22

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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Volume 82 • Number 22
Northwestern College joins two other CCCU
schools in changing employee alcohol policy
Bethel's Board of Trustees considers CAS Faculty Senate recommendation for similar changes
By Cory Streeter
Three Chrislian colleges around the nation,
including neighboring Northwestern College, will
enact changes next year to allow limited alcohol
use for employees.
These events come when Bethel's Board of
Trustees is debating possible changes to the employee no-alcohol policy, based off last year's College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate recom
mendation in favor of a change.
George Fox University in Newberg, Ore., Taylor University in Upland, hid., and Northwestern
are three evangelical colleges making changes in
the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, an association to which Beihel belongs.
Last April, the CAS Faculty Senate made a
recommendation to the Bethel Board of Trustees,
the group with the power to change policies of
this matter, thai CAS facully be allowed "discretionary use of alcohol,"
Of those who voied, 105 faculty members
were in favor, with 32 opposed, according to Sta-
cey Hunter-Hecht, CAS Faculty Senate president.
The recommendation included limitations stating
faculty would still not be allowed to consume or
possess alcohol on campus, at Bethel-sponsored
events, or with CAS students. It also affirmed lhe
prohibition of alcohol use by CAS students.
From information collected by Provost Jay
Barnes to update the Board of Trustees, lhe three
schools have made changes to their policies similar to the CAS Faculty Senate recommendation.
George Fox's language states the school will
give   employees   and   non-traditional   students
the freedom to consume alcohol in moderation
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SimMan
upgrades
nursing
lab's
teaching
aids
Interactive mannequin imitates
sounds, repsonses
of human body
By Kristen Patrow
When nursing sludents return in lhe fall, they will have a
new palienl lo lend—one worth
about $38,000.
The SimMan is an adult-
sized interaciive mannequin
thai imitates the sounds and responses of the human body. The
SimMan has monitors for electrocardiogram strips, an airway,
a pulse, a place io start an IV
and a compressor in the chest
that creates a breathing movement. "The only thing it can't do
is get up and walk," said Marilyn Hedstrand, nursing lab assistant.
Because there are so many
nursing schools in the Twin
Cities, schools compete for students to gel experience in hospitals, Hedstrand said. SimMan
ensures that each nursing student at Bethel will have a clinical experience, she said.
Another issue, Hedstrand
said, is lhat not all studenis
receive lhe same clinical experience. One student might
see a paiient with a cold; another might have a paiient with
breathing trouble. This device
allows each siudeni to have a
range of medical experiences.
"SimMan is important because il standardizes a scenario
for studenis by giving each lhe
same experience so the facully
can evaluate fthe student],"
Hedstrand said.
The mannequin can be pro-
SimMan continued on page 8
Photo by Anna Husted
During Displace Me in Chicago, Bethel students Korissa Howes and Alii Lauer assemble their home out of cardboard.
90 students travel to Chicago to
be 'displaced' in order to raise
awareness for people of Uganda
By Justin Drieling and Anna Husted
Ninety students drove south for Displace Me on April 28 in
Chicago as part of a national event put on by Invisible Children.
The gathering of thousands of people to 14 other major U.S. cities
represented lhe thousands of people displaced from their homes
in war-torn Uganda.
The 90 students, along with 25 from other area colleges, took
two buses to Chicago and spent the next two days in the Soldier
Field parking lot with over 5,000 others.
The day consisted of building homes out of cardboard, fast
ing on saltines and water and helping io film videos that show
objection io the Ugandan war. The filming included two types of
responses: shots of the crowd wilh heads bowed in silence and ihe
olher with screaming and dancing. Overall, lhe filming took about
two hours. Along with the video, participants also wrote letters to
the president of Uganda and U.S. state senators to urge them to
take action against the war.
Wilh 67,871 participants, Displace Me is the biggest organized Invisible Children event ever. "This event is one of the big-
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TSE
workers
fulfill
essential
roles in
campus
food
services
By Kalli Hubin, Alecia Lubinus,
Caleb Luecke, Sarah Olsen,
Amber Rusch and Christine
Tegtmeier
Students see them around
Market Square and the DC
cleaning up, wiping the greasy
tables and washing the filthy
dishes. Some might know one
as "the napkin guy" or even "the
guy always laughing in the dish
room," but ihey are more than
just random workers on Bethels
campus.
These men and women
are employed through a program called TSE. Though they
have developmental disabilities,
working hard on iheir campus
job provides them with valuable
job skills: team work, multitasking, punctuality and organizational skills.
TSE is a day training and
habiliiation program that provides Training, Support and
Employment lo individuals with
developmental disabilities. This
employment service is specified
to fit each person's individual
habilitation plan with the intention of enhancing each person's
social and physical interaction
with non-disabled individuals.
All TSE workers have the
common thread of having a
disability, bui it is essential to
know them for their individual
characteristics.
So, who is "the guy always
laughing in the dish room" or
lhe "napkin guy?" And why
should we care? Having the
privilege to sit down and talk to
the TSE workers gave us the opportunity to get to know them
and learn how they feel about
Bethel students.
The "napkin guy" does
more than just refill the napkins. Stocking napkins is just
one aspect of who Russell is. He
is also just a person who loves
his job and "likes the people he
works with."
The "laughing guy" is Joe.
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