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Art department faculty and students canvassed the college buildings, removing all works of art and covering those pieces too large for storage (photo by Doug Barkey). e Clarion. Laotians start anew Vol. 56, No. 12 by Jay Stuart Russell Last week a Laotian fam-ily living in a Thai refugee camp moved from Thail-and to Bethel's Silvercrest apartments. A group of Bethel students (sponsor-ing the Thephrasouvanh family) have made a tern-porary lease agreement with Rodney Long, direc-tor of housing. "When we first learned the sponsorship was ap-proved and the family would be coming, we ask-ed Bethel if they could live in student housing tempor-arily," said junior Kevin Walton, the group's organ-izer. The group spoke with Don Mortenson, director of residence life, Tuesday morning, December 2. "He told us that it was a possibility, but that we should ask the Internation-al Institute if they thought it would be all right," said Walton. The International Institute is the organiza-tion which arranged for the sponsorship. "They told us that it would be a good idea, and then they said the family was corn-ing that evening by plane from San Francisco." "That was the first time we found out when they were coming, so we rushed back to Bethel to see if they could stay temporar-ily in Bethel housing. We were so rushed that we worked out the lease agree-ment only five minutes be-fore we left for the air-port." Thephrasouvanh family has four children, an eight-year- old boy, and three girls aged seven, five, and three. Ounheuane Theph-rasouvanh is 32, while his wife is 31. Although Walton is of-ficially the family's spon-sor and has been organiz-ing the project, he stressed that the other group mem-bers, junior Cynthia Pen-nington, senior Betsy Stark and assistant basketball coach John Priestly, have been just as involved in the project as he has. Bethel College, Walton's involvement in the refugee problem began as a result of a course he took last year at Bethel on the culture of the refugees. He then began tutoring at the International Institute of St. Paul, and later be-came a part of an inde-pendent group of students who tutored families on their own. "We call ourselves SEAD ministries, which means Southeast Asian Domestic Ministries," he said. The group has about 14 mem-bers, including the group sponsoring the Laotian fam-ily at Bethel. "John Priest-ly is involved with a group of high school students from Richfield and White Bear Lake which make up a large part of the group," Walton said. The SEAD group visits about eight families once a St. Paul, MN week, splitting up into pairs. "We all meet toge-ther first, then we split up and spend time with the families." Walton said the purpose of the group is to help the people learn Eng-lish, and to develop friend-ships so that the families will feel accepted by Amer-icans. Walton said the spon-sorship does not involve a financial commitment. The institute gives each refu-gee $200 to help them with initial costs when they ar-rive; in this case $1200 for the family. "This helps them pay for food, cloth-ing, and temporary hous-ing when they arrive." At Silvercrest the fam-ily pays $50 per week for their one bedroom apart-ment. Rodney Long, direc-tor of housing, said the see page 4 Dec. 12, 1980 The Thephrasouvanh family, Laotians sponsored by a Bethel group, will live at Silvercrest until January (photo by Doug Barkey). at Silvercrest Art removed in vandalism protest FOCUS ON A LAOTIAN FAMILY, new life in a strange country—a new home. See page 8. by Shari Goddard At 3:15 p.m., Monday, art students and faculty began the removal of all art pieces from the halls of Bethel. They met in the painting studio, divided in-to teams and spread out to cover specific areas of the campus. As they moved through the halls, they re-moved each work of art and placed it into storage. The removal followed an art department matrix, in which the faculty an-nounced their proposed ac-tions. The decision follows several months of increas-ing vandalism to art, cul-minating in the tipping over of two and damage to at least one of the large sculptures on campus. "I feel responses to these actions were inadequate," said Dale Johnson, asso-ciate professor of art. "I think it has gotten to a point where we should deal with (vandalism) dir-ectly." The art faculty met this morning to discuss the rise of vandalism. They decid-ed to call the matrix and to propose a protest to the situation. Stewart Luck-man, associate professor of art, blamed the rise of vandalism on a hostile en-vironment toward art at Bethel: Dale Johnson add-ed, "I don't think we can tolerate this quantity of vandalism and immaturi-ty." Besides the sculp-tures, several paintings have been damaged. Art Education Instruc-tor Barbara Glenn said, "I don't think this should be an ugly, negative response. It should be a positive one." The art pieces will stay in storage until the art department "can get assu-rances or directives that work won't be damaged," according to Eugene John-son, professor of art. Dean George Brushaber expressed sympathy for the art department's ac-tions. "I was present in the meeting with students," he said. "I recognize this as a valid and important expres-sion of their concern." He added that prior to the meeting the administration had commited itself to ac-tion. A memo placed in every student and faculty member's PO, told about the destruction to the sculp-tures. It was the first step toward finding out who the vandals in this situa-tion are. Brushaber said that just as Bethel will not tolerate infringement on a person or his academic freedom, so they won't tolerate des-truction of artistic expres-sion. If administrators are not successful in dealing with the vandals, Brush-aber said that they may call in the sheriff. The sher-iff has already been con-tacted for advice on the sculpture incident. Brush-aber added that the num-ber of students involved in the vandalism is prob-ably small. Security measures have been instigated. Increased patrols will guard the sculp-tures outside. "The best security is the vigilance and watchfulness of stu-dents," said Brushaber. Con-cerning the tipped sculp-ture by the coffee shop, he added, "I find it hard to believe that something that central could have taken place without somebody seeing it." Reactions to the art re-moval remain mixed among students and faculty mem-bers. "I think it's a good move," said faculty mem-ber Dan Taylor. "I hope it's not a permanent thing. People think of art as most-ly decorative. It's worse than tearing up a book, because books are multi-ple." Others said they thought the move was inapprop-see page 4 Volume 56, Number 12 Dece b r 16, 198 Ilegn is ents inio ity o wel deli ett R dda ott, ke a ens, aw ton tro s, c Juan r z, cartooiliA Nance Dornfeld, ad sales edi soc ed. dit ap 4di tor/4 t/0 ion gdit sin frger 1 a 1st cs ee oll sole on s mus 0. 2 licat Page 2 "Christmas. C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S." Remember the days of the familiar spelling contest? There were times when it was difficult to come up with the correct spell-ings of a long list of tough words. But we learned them—we studied, reviewed, practiced with our friends and begged Mom to recite them to us as we slowly spelled them back to her (what patience she had!). We knew that the C and the H in Christmas went together and made only one sound—like a K. We were taught that the root word of Christmas was Christ, and that's why the word had the K sound at the beginning— it was just like Jesus' "other" name, Christ. Now we are all grown up. No one tells us how to spell any more—except maybe when it comes to words like anthropomorphism or pneumatic. Now no one reminds us that the root word of Christmas is Christ. This is the merchant's wonderland. From the day after Thanksgiving through New Year's Day the com-merciality of the season beckons forth and makes sales people dance with glee. "Tiny tots with their eyes Al aglow" beg Mom and Dad for that special toy they saw on television or heard about from their friends. The falsely-bearded, pillow-stuffed Santa Clauses pack out the shopping malls with kids clamoring for a chance to tell what they want for Christmas. Christmas, that is, without the "Christ." It has been a point of contention at home that one does not abbreviate Christmas by writing "X-mas," no matter what the purpose. An X takes the Christ out of Christmas, even if it is only on paper. We have all become guilty of the X-syndrome. We are letting the "silver bells," the advertisers' catchy slogans, the family spirit and the "warm feeling" dominate our thoughts, forgetting that to let the true meaning of Christmas fill our thoughts would be the ultimate in warm feelings. Not only that, but it would be the best advertisement for the most reliable product around— and it comes with a guarantee! Christmas is a time of joy, a time to share, and a time for family togetherness. Christmas is the chance to give that special someone an extra-special remembrance. Christmas is a time for free spirits, laughter, homemade cookies, rosy cheeks and noses, snowmen, mistletoe and kisses. Christmas is ours to celebrate. Christmas is a time of love... and Christmas is a whole lot more... Merry CHRISTmas! Dear Editor: The last straw finally has broken the camel's back. Vandalism of the visual arts on campus has reached epidemic propor-tions, and as a result, the art department has taken a radical approach to solv-ing the problem: removal of all artwork from the Be-thel campus. In the wake of the recent vandalism of one of Ste-wart Luckman's sculp-tures, we must point out that the decision to re-move visual artworks from campus was taken as a result of a rash of vandal-ism incidents, not solely as a result of the most recent incident. The art department's re-sponse of removing the other works has a three-fold purpose: 1) as a pro-test of the vandalism, 2) as a way of communicat-ing a serious problem, and 3) as a step toward solv-ing the problem. Vandalism of art is a violation of one of our ba-sic rights of freedom of expression; it is censor-ship. It is impossible for an artist to create a piece that will be liked or ad-mired by all, and that is not his purpose. For those apathetic Be-thelites who have repeat-edly conde–mned the vis-ual arts, you have achieved your purpose: gray walls at Bethel College. But for those art appreciators and supporters it is a gray day indeed. We are truly sorry for the inconvenience. There are those who react to the decision by call-ing it silly and immature. Yet they are the ones who don't realize the countless number of paintings, sculp-tures, photographs, etc. which have been damaged in one form or another. It's ironic that we live in an environment of support for our Christian brothers, yet very few of those bro-thers have in the past ex-pressed their support for the art department when a piece has been vandalized. Instead, they condemn the works they do not like. As students, we would like to express our sup-port of the art faculty's decision as a step toward solving the problem. Steven M. Mills Pam Mauer Cathy Lindquist Wendy Voelker Jay Russell Doug Barkey Jane Saari To my dear friends at Be-thel College: I want to thank you for all the involvement you had in my life... this in-cludes faculty and staff as well. All through my high school years, my Christian life was at a stand-still. The year and a half that I attended Bethel was a fan-tastic time for me. I grew tremendously in the Lord. I learned to reach out to people and also to allow people to touch my life. Today I continue to grow in the Lord and it is an Complaints `no shows,' now what? To the Editor, The Theatre Arts Depart-ment just closed a two-week ru.n of "A Celebra-tion of Psalms." I must admit that I'm a little be-wildered! My last produc-tion, "The Matchmaker," was completely sold out before it opened. We had many church groups in at-tendance, the admissions and alumni offices each bought a performance, and many people were turned away. Following the run of "The Matchmaker" we were criticized by church groups, individuals, a pub-lic letter to the Clarion etc., for being "worldly" in content and theme. The cry was for us to do mate-rial which would be more worthy of a theatre depart-ment in a Christian col-lege. Well, we did The Psalms and almost no-body came! Is it any won-der that I'm bewildered? Doug Briggs Chairman Department of Theatre Arts Beth Nystrom Sonya Olsen Lynn Russell Joann Vallejo Dwight Newman Lori Olsen Catherine Schmeltzer Lorelei Markson Susan Torgeson Lynn Olsen Tom Cullen Sam Larson exciting thing. The Lord used you, my friends, to change my life and get it moved for Christ. I thank Him often for the oppor-tunity He gave me to at-tend Bethel. I am now attending a school here in Connecti-cut, where the Lord is us-ing me as a witness. He has been teaching me of-ten through trials, but His name is wonderful. I miss you all, and again thank you all. Love in Christ, Steve Parsons editorial True CHRISTmas comes like 'warmest feelings' —jnb letters Artists find gray day in gray walls Thanks for growth, lesson in out-reach NIL Empty spaces line halls where paintings once hung. The removal of artwork follows an increase in vandalism on campus (photo by Doug Barkey). letters Page 3 Disrespect hinders responsibility Dear Editor, Bethel has been impov-erished. As the writer of Lamentations said, "The garlands have fallen from our heads." We who take aesthetic delight in the artworks which are publicly dis-played within our halls and on our campus have been impoverished because of the removal of those artworks. Those works which engaged our atten-tion, prompted our contem-plation and enriched our lives have been removed as a public statement of protest by the faculty and students of the Art Depart-ment. The faculty and students of the Art Department have been impoverished. Their artworks have been vio-lated by wanton, deliber-ate acts of disrespect. This violation is not inconse-quential. It deeply pierces the life and soul of those creative individuals who are my friends, my com-panions and a part of Beth-el's unique endowment. I share their sorrow and indignation at such an as-sault, and I support their statement which forces all of us to examine the essen-tial role of art in our lives. The Bethel community has been impoverished by the lack of understanding and respect on the part of those few who cannot or will not appreciate the crea-tive, surprising element in life as expressed by their fellow Christians. Lacking understanding and appre-ciation, a minimal degree of respect is the least they could offer to these art-works and their creators. Refusing to see, they des-troy that which could ex-pand their vision. In so doing, they evidence a lack of respect for themselves, for their possible aesthetic growth and enrichment. To the Editor: I would like to thank the Clarion staff for its cov-erage of our animal per-sonality research. The rats were especially apprecia-tive of the becoming por-trait of one of their popu-lation. In order, to clarify parts of the article which may lead to misunderstand-ings, I would like to pres-ent the following state-ments: 1) -First, the purpose of our study is not to prove the existence of personal-ity in animals. Rather, our study is an exploration of the possibility of animal personality. We have no vested interest in finding its existence or not. 2) Second, our definition of "personality" is an oper-ational one. We define per-sonality as behavior con-sistency of an individual animal across changing en-vironments. 3) Last, we do not deny the influence of environ-ments on the behavior of our subjects. We realize the way in which they A shared response affirm-ing the importance of the artists among us and the value of their artworks to us will begin the healing, redemptive process. Let this process begin, return-ing wholeness to our lives and our community. Respectfully, Don Postema have been raised and/or handled may be an impor-tant factor in their visible actions. Once again, thank-you for your support. Sincerely, Tammy Roedel Research Assistant Dear Editors of the Clarion: I'm really a sensitive per-son, so don't get me wrong... but what's going on around here! I'm getting fed up with a few things... let me tell you... Those guys in the art department. What do you think you're doing putting up a sculpture where I play frisbee! What an eye-sore! I mean I don't care if you do it on anything but don't make me see it. I don't have any idea why you do it anyway. And you guys in the music department... knock off that constant need to sing... how stupid... sitting up in that music lounge directing... do you really enjoy that? And what's the big idea using the gym for your music... everyone knows that's for basket-ball games! Honest, I don't care if you do this stuff, just don't make me see it. Drama department... stop acting so weird down in the drama department. I have to walk through there you know. I mean I don't really care if you do it but not in front of me... Why do you like to act anyway? And you campus wha-tever... stop putting up all these posters advertising everything. They're all eye-sores! Every where I look there's a poster. Advertise some other way. I don't have to see it.... And you athletes, what's going on with this lifting weights business. Every-time I walk down the hall I see you guys lifting those dumb-bells... kick the ha-bit, I don't like it... Unless you do it in private, of course. And don't think for a minute that I want to see all those plaques and trophies in that glass box... I didn't do them, why should I have to see them? Keep them in your rooms... And what's going on at Doc's corner? We already have a registered coffee shop, why do we need ano-ther one? Man-non-corn-formists! What a waste. Now really, you art guys- ... What's this rubbish about honoring God through what you can do best? That's really weird. I don't understand that. And what's this stuff in the Bible talking about some lady annointing Je-sus' feet with super expen-sive ointment... Why not give that money or the time it took to raise that money to some worthy causes! What a waste or is it? Judging it, assessing the worth of it, criticizing it. To the Editor: Letters to the editor by faculty members this year have mostly consisted of various wranglings, at-tacks, counterattacks, clar-ifications, reclarifications, and so forth. Lest students get the mistaken impres-sion that their mentors are uniformly disputatious, I would like to state pub-licly that my colleague Dan Taylor is one of the most humane, fair, articulate, broad-minded, versatile, congenial, and intelligent persons I have ever met. With affection and good will, David Healy Dear Editor, While I sat at my desk Grapes, moths and 'odd items' don't mix well Dear Editor, I can handle straw-like things in my meatloaf. I can even take finding a gnat in my cottage cheese. But yesterday when I had finished eating a third of a bag of grapes, something caught my eye. Two moths were sitting on the stem. I'm not writing just be-cause of the moths, but because I feel that I should not have to put up with finding odd items in my food time after time. I think food service could check the food a little more care-fully. I would appreciate getting my protein from a source other than gnats and moths. Sincerely, Ginny Olson We find this is not too hard to do I see your life, you see mine... I see you sing, (not always well), you see me paint, (not al-ways well).... I see you doing sports or something to exhort God in your own way.... You see me painting to exhort God, in my own way... I see you trying hard at a Christ-like life... You see me try-ing to achieve the same Who's to cast the first stone? Sincerely, Jon Mogck recently, a revelation was visited on me that I feel should be shared. It was revealed, as if by a voice from above (or was it from the hall?), that David Hea-ly is an extraordinarily fine fellow. Rigorous logical re-flection confirmed the au-thenticity of this mystical epiphany. He is as insight-ful as he is tall, as com-radely as he is shaggy. His deliberateness of thought and speech is combined with a grace and wit that is all the more remarkable when one considers his parentage. I provide this reminder as an unsolicited service to the Bethel com-munity. With complete candor, Daniel Taylor Psych explorations seek out personality Criticism follows artistic freedom Mentors wrangle often, but applaud congeniality Paul Finlay, retiring registrar (photo by Doug Barkey). PRAY FOR WASH18IN0G TON A Major Conference on Urban Needs Ministries December 30, 1980- January 3, 1981. Washington, D.C. Into Christian fellowship 233 Langdon Street Madison, Vfi 537a3 (608) 257-0263 PUISIJC SUM ADVERTISIMIT FALCON BARBER STYLIST 1713 N. Snelling Men & Women's Hair Styling Bethel 5. x Jim Chet Dave Kathy For appointment call Larpenteur 646-2323 Page 4 letters Finlay cares for students compiled by Jay Russell Dear Editor, Some people at Bethel a-maze me. One is registrar Paul Finlay. I want public-ly to tell of my apprecia-tion for his consistent inter-est in and kindness to me in my two and a half years at Bethel. Finlay's interest in stu-dents as individuals and not just as people who riate. "They (the art depart-ment faculty) are really pouting about this, aren't they? said one student about the removal. As the painting of Christ lay rea-dy for removal in the li-brary, one sophomore said, "Is that the one they de-by Annette Loeks KABY AM 56, the Beth-el College radio station will be back on the air January 5, the day students return from interim. Througholit the first week of interim, KABY will have register for classes amazes me most. He asks about my family and is willing to discuss my personal con-cerns about the future. He also shares his past, fam-ily and future plans. I appre-ciate talking to someone in authority who treats me like one of his peers. Finlay is retiring next semester after 22 years of faced? I couldn't tell." Doug Barkey, a junior art student, said, "I think it's pretty sad. I wish there was something you could do... the only recourse to vandalism an artist can have is to withdraw his work." a special event each day. One highlight during the week will be an open house where people can come in and see what KABY looks like from the inside. KABY is looking for a new slogan. During the month of January, KABY is having a slogan contest to replace last year's slo-gan, "The Sound Alterna-tive." Winner of the best slogan will receive a record album by a top name contem-porary Christian artist. Any-one can participate. Look for details outside the sta-tion's window near the LRC. KABY staff members wish to serve the Bethel commun-ity with news, special pro-grams, live sports broad-casts and music. As KABY starts up the transmitters once again, the staff hopes the Bethel community will tune in to KABY AM 56 and enjoy. MAKE EXTRA MONEY SELL AUDIO EQUIPMENT AT YOUR COLLEGE • No Investment! • Professional Sales Help Provided • Incentive Programs! • Sell over 60 Top Brands! • BE YOUR OWN BOSS! Call or Writs Serious Inquiries ONLY! service at Bethel. We as students have a reservoir of wisdom and knowledge. The adminis-tration and faculty are lis-teners, helpers and friends. Let's attempt to develop this reservoir of friends such as Paul Finlay. But let us also show our grati-tude and respect to our faculty and administra-tion friends just as we would to friends of our own age group. Thank you, Paul Finlay, and other appreciated fa-culty friend-s at Bethel. Respectfully yours, Naomi J. Ludeman Refugees, from page 1 figure was comparable to what students would pay for the apartment. "Hous-ing costs the student about $25 per week at Bethel. We charged the Lao family $50 per week, based on two adults." Long stressed that "we aren't setting a precedent, but this time it was just the right time and place." "The project was student-initiated," Long said. "As a policy for housing, we haven't been taking non- Bethel students in hous-ing, except during the sum-mer. It's really not our goal or mission to rent rooms Long said that under nor-mal circumstances he pro-bably wouldn't have been able to help the students, but in this case they had a vacant apartment at Sil-vercrest. "We normally have very few vacancies." He said it is even more unusual that an entire apartment was vacant. Housing vacancies occur when a student drops out or leaves school. "We had 33 students on a waiting list for housing, but we contacted all of them to see if they still needed hous-ing." Long said none of the students on the list express-ed an interest. The temporary lease agreement, "will last until January 1," Long said. "We've assigned students in the room for second semester." Walton said he plans to help the family look for permanent housing soon, as that is one of the re-sponsibilities of the spon-sor. "The sponsor does not make a legal commitment or a financial commitment; the only commitment he makes is a moral one." "It takes about two to eight months to process an application for sponsor-ship. In my case, they gave me only about a week's notice that the family was coming." Walton said groups such as the Inter-national Institute and Ca-tholic charity groups coor-dinate sponsorships with families. Walton said the spon-sor's responsibilities in-clude finding the family temporary housing, help-ing them shop for food and clothing, signing them up for social security and ap-plying for welfare, help-ing them with the health screening-process, looking for permanent housing and helping the children enroll in school. "It takes a lot of time at first," he said, but after the initial responsibilities are over, the last one is to maintain a friendship with the family," said Walton. Food 'service discontinues tray service Drastic reactions to prop-erty abuse aren't new to. Bethel. As with the art department's recent action, 16 years ago the Bethel food service removed all the trays from the cafete-ria, as a protest against use of the trays as sleds. From the Dec. 9, 1964 issue. Last Friday at 6:45 a.m., Mrs. Alice Johnson, Bethel Food Service manager, af-ter consultation with Dean Muck, discontinued tray service in the dining hall. The tray drought contin-ued until 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5. Concerning the reason for the drastic action taken, Mrs. Johnson said, "We have reason to believe that there are a number of trays in the dormitories. We don't feel that the food service is responsible for supplying athletic equipment and if we don't do something now, at the rate the trays are disappearing half of them may be missing by winter." When asked about the possibility of returning the trays for student use, Mrs. Johnson said that service would be renewed when a "goodly number of trays had been returned." Mrs. Johnson had no word concerning the incon-venience weekend cam-pus guests, the Northwes-tern College Speech Choir, for example, experienced, because of no trays. She did say, however, that she didn't want to be a tyrant in the matter and would like to see the tray service resumed as soon as possi-ble. Student reactions to this disciplinary action were varied. Some raised ques-tions concerning health reg-ulations governing the re-moval of trays. Senate decided to buy 50 acres from the dining hall for traying purposes at $.50 each with the. Stu-dent Services office pay-ing half. These trays will go on sale today in the Senate office for $.25 each. Students may trade their old trays for the new Sen-ate models. Art removal, from page 1 KABY broadcasting begins in interim AUDIO OUTLET, INC. 10 Commerce CI 1Am 217) Newark NJ 07102 12011 622 3250 Bethany Baptist Church Cleveland and Skillman Avenues, Roseville, Mn. Worship Service at 11:00 AM Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age) (See posters for church bus schedule) Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone 631-0211 Page 5 Pete Kramka, senior, works as an AD at the Silvercrest apart-ment complex (photo by Paul Gavic), SALES OPPORTUNITY Bethel Seminary graduate seeks 1 or 2 students to sell on a commission basis to the Bethel community. Will train and give help in obtaining state license. Lee Shelton 631-2420, office 823-2647, home THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES 6740 Highway 10, Anoka, Minnesota 55303 (612) 427-9191 Res: (612) 427-8836 DOBSON, OGREN & ASSOCIATES CHARLES I. OGREN TO THE FACULTY & STAFF OF BETHEL COLLEGE & SEMINARY: As pointed out in the recent (April 1980) issue of Pensions and Investments, The Equitable has again emerged as the largest pension fund manager in the United States. To expand this leadership role, we have introduced a new and extremely attractive Tax Sheltered Annuity. The tax advantages of a TSA are obvious. You save Federal and State Income Taxes at your family's highest tax bracket -- on both your deposits to the plan and the interest yarned. However, if you are participating in another TSAR, you are probably paying a sales charge. Plans that charge 4%, VA, even 9% are not uncommon. Effective March, 1980, The Equitable eliminated this front end sales charge and established a "no-load" Tax Sheltered Annuity. We are offering a Fixed Interest Account with a guaranteed return of eleven percent (11%) for 1980 and 1981, and a minimum interest of 8% for 1982 through 1986. Each year a new annual rate will be established, and the minimum rate will be extended for an additional year. The Tax Sheltered Annuity has always been an ideal way to save money. With the important changes in our program which elimin&Ee sales charges and increase returns, a low minimum contribution of $20.00 per mcnth, the TSA is better than ever. Sincerely, Charles J. Ogren Representative CJO/w +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am interested in receiving additional information about Equitable's new TSA Program. NAME ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER BEST TIME TO CALL Student ADs prove capable in program by Brad Nauman Director of Residence Life Don Mortenson said that the new asssistant director (AD) program at the Bethel apartment complexes is work-ing out well. "We held a meeting with all the ADs to get their feedback on what they think of the program. Everyone agreed that the program is going really well and that they would like to see it contin-ued," said Mortenson. Two ADs serve in each of the separate buildings at Fountain Terrace, Silver-crest and Centennial Gar-dens. The Bethel students perform the same func-tions that the resident di-rectors of the past years performed. In previous years each building had a resident di-rector, usually a married couple, that was in charge of the buildings. The AD duties consist of general building maintenance, plan-ning Bible studies and prayer-and-share meetings, planning of social acti-vities and meeting any other needs that the resi-dents might have. Each apartment complex retained one resident di-rector responsible for the whole complex. Any prob-lems that the ADs can't handle come to the RD. The RDs report to Morten-son. So far everything has been running smoothly, with no major conflicts. Mortenson stressed that the new program does not reflect on the ability of the RDs that were replaced. "We did not replace the RDs because they were not doing the job. We felt that students were complete-ly capable of performing by Mari Broman The rankings from the National Debate Office in California had Bethel's de-bate squad 20th out of 91 schools from 30 states—the highest ever. According to Butch Maltby, debate coach, the office "assigns points according to how you do in tournaments," weight-ing them according to size, number of entries and geo-graphical variety of the participating schools. Because the rankings come out every month, one of Bethel's recent tournaments— Nov. 20-23 at Illinois State University — was not inclu-ded in the last computa-the job so instead of hiring someone outside Bethel, we decided to help out the students by giving them a chance to earn the money," said Mortenson. It was thought that, since the ADs were students, they would be able to relate to the students' needs bet-ter. "The ADs rub shoul-ders with the students every day and are more aware of the needs and problems students have," said Mor-tenson. "They have proved tions. "There's a good pos-sibility that we'll be moved up," said Maltby. "Our last tournament was the best of the year." The tournament included all the highly-rated teams in the Midwest, irres-pective of school size. "We knew that this tournament would give us a good idea how we stacked up in the Midwest," said Maltby. Seven-teen teams from six states participated; Bethel's two teams both made it to the semi-finals. Because debate policy seeded the first and fourth place teams against each other, Bethel's two teams were matched up together, Maltby had to decide which one to advance. Maltby chose the team of Teresa Eliason and Beth Neufeld, which had a 6-0 record, to go into the fi-nals, where Wheaton defeat-ed them with a 3-0 decis-ion. But Bethel teams Elia-son and Neufeld along with Rich Kreutzfeld and Mark Publow, beat Wheaton all three times in the prelimin-ary rounds. "That's never happened before — ever," said Maltby. "We were real-ly excited." Wheaton and Bethel are the only two Midwest teams TRINITY BAPIST CHURCH Hwy. 36 & Edgerton 774-8609 Rev. Hartley Christenson Sunday worship 8:30 & 11 am Sunday School 9:45 am Vaughn Ekbom, Instructor Evening worship, 6 pm Bus schedule: Silvercrest 9 am AH Campus 9:15 am to be very capable in hand-ling any problems that have arisen," he continued. There are no major changes being planned for next year. "The only minor change that we are going to make is that we are going to have a more intensive orien-tation session for the ADs next year," said Mortenson. "I feel that by doing this, we can better prepare them for the problems that they are going to face," he added. ranked highly in the na-tion. Wheaton came in 34th in the November ratings, but placed fifth overall at the end of last year. Bethel's debate squad par-ticipated in 13 tourna-mpnts this semester—as many as all of last year. Last weekend Bethel teams finished 7- 1 and 4 -4, plac-ing 3rd and 5th in a tour-nament at Iowa State Uni-versity. Hockey fan, student and AD Bob Walatka (standing on right) is part of the continuing apartment directors program (photo by Paul Gavic). The debate season goes from September to April, with nationals in April. "We have some students qualified to go to that al-ready," said Maltby. The Cross-Examination Debate Association (CEDA) selects a new topic for each semester. Maltby hopes more stu-dents will get involved next spring, because of Bethel's wealth of information on the probable topic. Maltby said, "I'm pretty sure that it's going to be, Resolved: that further separation of the church and state is desirable." Maltby's goal for the team is to finish the season in the top 20, as it is now. "I think we've got the talent to do it, " he said. "It'll just be a matter of working hard." Bethel debate squad ranked 20th nationally Page 6 Page 7 I put my eyes in the walls I gave my vision to the stone And the stone gave me its vision: Years of blurs of faces And faces of blurs Slum of Do what Simon says Touch your nose You win Or have you lost? "Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it. But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it." (Jesus speaking: Matthew: 7:13-14) Mrs. Thephrasouvanh and her 3-year-old daughter settle into their new life in America. They are temporarily staying in Bethel's Silvercrest apartments. (photo by Doug Barkey). by Brad Nauman Chester (Chet) Duck will Festival of Christmas drew sell-out crowds to all three of its performances. Swedish heritage tied the selections together as the traditional costumes and candle-lit processional highlighted the program. A near-capacity crowd watch dress rehearsal Thursday, Dec. 4 (photo by Dan Velie). Gift-giving Huge dark sanctuary. Single glowing candleflame hypnotizes my eyes, then thoughts. Candle wards off heavy coverlet of darkness, eyes receive gift of sight. Thank You. Huge dark sky Single watery moon lulls sheep-keepers to dreaming. Lord's brilliant countless candlepower wards off heavy coverlet of darkness, world receives gift of Light. Thank You. - Laura Phillips Ounheuane Thephrasouvanh finds the Minnesota winter very cold, but thinks he can adjust to it, along with his new way of life (photo by Doug Barkey). Chet Duck joins Bethel flock Page 8 Harrowing escape ends in flight to Minneapolis by Jay Stuart Russell Christmas marks the sea-son of giving and receiv-ing gifts, but this year Ounheuane Thephrasou-vanh and his family have been surprised by one of the most valued of all gifts: that of having the freedom to once again control their lives. They were sponsored by Bethelites Kevin Walton, Betsy Stark, Cynthia Pen-nington and John Priestly, and are staying temporar-ily in a one-bedroom apart-ment at Silvercrest. Thephrasouvanh and his wife, Kamphit, are origi-nally from Vientiane, Laos. But for the past 17 months he, his wife and their four children were pent up in a refugee camp in Thailand, waiting for someone to sponsor their exodus from the camp. "In the camp we were poor, but they gave us enough food," Thephrasou-vanh said in broken Eng-lish. "We got food once a day, but none on Saturday or Sunday. Three days we had meat; two days we had vegetables." Thephrasouvanh said his family lived in a room ten meters by three meters. "We lived in a large wood-en building with 30 rooms; one family lived in each room," he said The family was wealth-ier when they lived in Laos, because Thephrasouvanh worked in the Lao govern-ment's ministry of finance. His job was to assess prop-erty values. His wife, Kamph-it, worked in public health as a mid-wife in the mat-ernity room. Thephrasouvanh said he and his family had to leave Laos after the communists took control, because he was afraid the communists would capture him and send him to a prisoner camp. "I was afraid of what the new communist government would do to me, because I had a job with the old government." Because Vientiane is lo-cated just across the Me-kong River from Thailand, the Thephrasouvanh fam-ily was able to sneak across the river to Thai-land in a canoe-shaped boat. Thephrasouvanh said they were afraid to cross the mile-wide river in the boat, "because many fami-lies had died while cross-ing the river." He said people drowned when their boats capsized or died when Vietnamese and Laotian Communist groups shot people as they crossed the river. "It was dark when we crossed; it was 4 o'clock in the morn-ing. We were lucky they did not see us cross the river," he said. After spending nearly a year and a half in the refu-gee camp, Thephrasouvanh came to Minnesota on De-cember 2. "I was afraid when I first landed here in the airplane. I'm still afraid because I do not speak well; it's hard to talk to people because I speak so little English." Thephra-souvanh's wife also speaks very little English. What does he like most about the U.S.? "The Amer-ican people are very kind and helpful," he said, but "I do not like the cold. In Laos, the winter is not the same—it is hot all year. It is not a problem in the United States because they have heaters in the houses, and when you go outside, you have coats." Thephrasouvanh does not have a favorite Amer-ican food, because his fam-ily has not been here long enough to try different foods, though they they did eat in the Bethel cafe-teria once. "I liked the food at Bethel. The Lao people like many different foods." His children especially like apples, because they were not so common in Laos. "They eat the fruit because they like it so well, but then they aren't hungry for the other food we eat." Besides speaking Lao and some English, Theph-rasouvanh has studied French for eight years. "Eng-join the Bethel College admin-st ra tion staff January 1 as the new registrar. He will succeed the retiring Dr. Paul Finlay. Duck worked at Thomp-kins Cortland Community College, Dryden, N.Y., for the past nine years. While there, Duck was appointed as registrar twice. Between his two terms as registrar, he served as director of management information services and data process-ing. Thompkins Cortland is affiliated with the State University of New York. Duck attended Bethel for two years. He graduated from the University of Min-nesota with a degree in business administration. He received his master's lish is easier to learn, but French words are easier to say. I learned English for two years, but I had no one to speak it with." If he had not come to the U.S., Thephrasouvanh said he might have wanted to go to France, since both he and his wife speak French. "But I'm glad I came here because it's harder to find a job in France." He said he wants to train for a new job as an auto mechanic. Like most native Lao-tians, the Thephrasouvanh family is Buddist. "We do not celebrate Christmas, but we do celebrate the new year," he said. Thephrasouvanh said he thought all of the trees were dead when he first arrived in Minnesota. "I saw many trees, but no leaves. It is very cold, but the snow is very beautiful and my children like to play in it." degree in guidance and psychological services from Springfield College, Spring-field, Mass., and served as assistant registrar at Spring-field. Duck and his wife Joyce leave behind them a 50- acre hobby farm in Free-ville, N.Y., where they raised hay and corn. They really enjoyed country liv-ing and found it hard to leave the farm and move back to Minnesota. "We felt the Lord was leading us back to Minnesota; it was a hard decision to make," said Duck. Duck was a member of the Rotary club in Groton, N.Y., and served on the board of directors of the United Fund. Jean Lindblom, faculty secretary, celebrates her Bethel. She has been at the school longer than (photo by Dan Velie). 34th year at anyone else Page 9 Lindblom: key to faculty typing by Beth Stien Who types more words than a senior seminar stu-dent in philosophy? Who has known all three presi-dents of Bethel College and Seminary? Who has been at Bethel longer than any other person, president in-cluded? Jean Lindblom, who has been Bethel's fac-ulty secretary for 34 years. Lindblom came to Bethel in 1944 as a student, and after completing a two-year degree was hired as faculty secretary. "Origi-nally, my responsibilities included typing syllabi, tests and short papers," said Lindblom. "Now I type dissertations, books and articles that the faculty writes," She said she can't Lieutenant Jeff Slater tossed his patrolman's hel-met on the couch and strode over to the table where his wife was setting out din-ner. "I tell you, Helen," he drawled, "those immigrants will do anything. Would you believe one of those Mexican women actually had a baby right in a car last night?" "You're kidding," said Helen, setting down a bowl of steaming gravy. "Wish I was," said Jeff, scooting up to the table. "And that ain't half of it either. You know that rab-ble that hangs out all night down at the pool hall? I'll be darned if every one of 'em ain't gone plumb cra-zy. Claim they saw big The corner now boasts a new even begin to estimate the number of words she has typed over the years. "I imagine they must run in-to the millions!" said Lind-blom. Students ought not be surprised if they don't know who Lindblom is. She is a kind of cobbler's elf, working behind the scenes unnoticed in a cub-by hole office across from the copying service. She might pass unnoticed because she is so small, but the twinkle in her sprite-like eyes is hard to miss. Lindblom stayed at Beth-el so long because she feels it is where the Lord wants her. "I enjoy the students and the atmos-phere here. I have made a lights in the sky last night. Said there was music and singin', and a voice that said the Son of God had been born that night in a car, of all things." "Good lord," exclaimed Helen, now genuinely in-trigued. "Imagine the Son of God comin' that way. I mean really Helen, don't they know that He's coming as a King? Born in a car," he snorted, shaking his head and taking a bite of potato. "People are crazy, Jeff. What will they think of next?" "Don't know what this world's comin' to," Jeff mum-bled, reaching for the roast beef. by Leann M. Kicker My mother brought it home in a box, three feet long, two feet wide and one foot deep. I was given the job of putting it to-gether. It was our first artificial Christmas tree. The directions were sim-ple enough: place trunk in stand, sort branches into piles according to size, at-tach branches to trunk start-ing at the bottom and work-ing up; see diagram. The trunk looked like a green broomstick with holes drilled in it. The branches were made of wire fashioned in to a late 60s peace sign and had plastic needles attached to it in some indescribable fash-ion. While I put the thing together, Mom got a can of multitude of friends, and that has been most reward-ing," said Lindblom. In 34 years of work, she has taken only one leave .of absence. Six years ago she went to the Philippines for three months to work as a volunteer in a BGC mission. Santa Pine Scent spray and gave the room a good dose. "To make it smell like Christmas," she said. When I finished assem-bling it, there it stood— exactly six feet of wood, wire and plastic—posing as a Norway pine. The box said, "made in Taiwan." Mom punctuated the air with Santa Pine Scent and said, "Let's decorate the tree." With lights and orna-ments it didn't look too bad. From outside the win-dow you could hardly-tell. But I wanted to cry; I don't know why exactly . Christmas morning I woke to my little sister's telling me what was under the Christmas tree. Tree. Even the thought made me sad. That year I remember Besides her love for tra-vel, she enjoys cross-coun-try skiiing, reading and sewing. And of course, typ-ing. "Unless the Lord has something else in mind, I will probably work here until I retire," said Lind-blom. forcedsmiles, stage smiles, and saying polite thank-yous. I felt hollow inside, almost—artificial. Somehow that tree de-nied all the magic of Christ-mas. Artificial tree. Why not artificial Santa, artifi-cial virgin birth and plas-tic good will? There is one major problem with arti-ficial: it's too perfect, too convenient. A real tree isn't shaped perfectly. The branches are crooked or too thin on one side. And maybe it's a little too dry and the needless clutter the carpet and dust the packages. But Christmas can make an imperfect tree beauti-ful. Just like God makes imperfect people accept-able. by Jerry Manus Havier sat in the front seat of his aged car and contemplated the irony of it all. The child lay sleep-ing on his lap, apparently healthy, though he had known precious little about delivering babies. Florinda slept fitfully in the back seat, exhausted from the hours of labor and the agony of delivery. Ha vier was learning the hard way that a small American town was no place for a migrant Mexi-can worker to look for hos-pitality. The man at the motel had told him there were no vacancies. When Havier explained that his wife was about to give birth, the man had sug-gested that he take her to a hospital. Havier didn't bo-ther to explain that he couldn't have afforded a hospital bill, even if he could have driven there in time. Now it was late at night, and the baby lay peace-fully. Havier gazed across the park where the street-lamps illuminated a neat row of houses, and thought that the child surely should have been born to a home at least as good as those. He looked down in won-der at the little life in his lap, and remembered the vision. Florinda, too, had had a vision, though he hadn't believed it till his own had come. Now he had no doubt, but only amazement that this child should- have come to him. Doe's corner received a Christmas gift from student cupboard and counter-top (photo by Paul Gavic). senate. Who would believe in a modern Messiah? Plastic pine spoils spirit Don Postema, assistant philosophy professor, began a Film Forum in May, 1978 to open Bethel to another form of education. 1750 West Larpenleur Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55113 Est. 1906 ,Yeeime4 rc., STORE and GREENHOUSES Retail 646-7135 Page 10 Festival critics applaud 'Scotland' Bethel's first semester production of "Mary of Scot-land," directed by Jeffrey Miller, was entered as part of the American College Theatre Festival. Part of the participation in the fes-tival included a review by two outside critics. Be-cause of the nature of the critique, the Clarion pre-sents the following ex-cerpts from the written reviews given to the thea-tre arts department. Special notice is also given here to Beth Stien (Queen Mary) who was selected People of all ages die of heart disease and stroke. ‘110 American Heart Association WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE . . , • ,,,.."Csn .,..tz:..-. '', . Va - ' rii.;•:' : - c V. 4' • 'a' ' - 4,..•,-, ' i'• I" '''''''-' .? . 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Dosed on o tremendous desire ro leorn conversononol English LIFE appeals ro rhousonds of Joponese young people With quoliry longuoge instruction and o clear presentotion of rhe gospel many of these young people ore won ro the Lord You can be port of this success story , Write for , information rodoy YES I would like more information about short-term mission opportunities with LIFE NAistE ADDRESS CITY & STATE ZIP LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOR EVANGELISM Dox 200 Afhombro CA 91802 by the festival to partici-pate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship compet-ition. She will present two scenes at the regional festi-val in January. If selected at the regionals she will perform in Washington, D.C., in the spring. Scholar-ships are awarded to both regional and national win-ners. Excerpts from the cri-tique: "Acting — Some excellent work here. I don't know if it was due to the excellent directing/teaching or the basic talents of the cast, or a combination, but it was very good. There wasn't an obviously weak mem-ber in the cast (very surpri-sing in a play with a cast of 22 characters!). Dialects met with mixedsuccess — when they were good, they were very, very good, but when they weren't ... oh well... Acting was astonish-ingly mature. A great depth of character, a willingness to let the play work. "Directorial approach — ... Beautifully directed, with care, taste and a won-derful sense of restraint. A first-rate professional piece of directing, especial-ly in working with the actors... Casting was sound.... Very nice sense of subtle elements in design using the actors on the open stage... "Some strikingly effec-tive stage pictures were achieved—dramatically ef-fective and supportive of the script. The floor plan did, however, force too much of the action in toward a very restricted center area. There was a great deal of area in the periphery that could have been used effec-tively with a less res-trictive floor plan. "Production design and technical execution -- Cos-tume was most impres-sive, especially consider-ing the fact that they were all made for the produc-tion (right down to the boots for the men!). Only little touches were needed to truly complete them (an occasional crest, etc.). ... "Lights — you obviously have trouble with your con-trol board. What you wanted was evident, but your board gave you frequent power surges and flickers in low-er levels ... these were noti-ceable and distracting, but it is a tribute to the direc-tor and the cast that they did not bother me as much as they would have in a less powerful production. "Additional comments — There is a great deal of talent evident here in both director and cast.... A good proscenium theatre would help, but consider this pre-by Laura Phillips "Bethel's Film Forum is designed to help you learn, think, see and feel," said Don Postema, assistant philosophy professor re-sponsible for the Forum. Who started the Forum? "I guess I did," said Pos-tema. "It began in May of 1978." "Film has been misunder-stood and seen primarily as entertainment and/or as intrinsically evil or world-ly," said Postema. "But film is an art form and can be used to see other parts of our world as we would otherwise miss, such as other's relationships, na-ture and God." Postema sees film as edu-cational and thought-pro-voking. "Film creates a world and asks you to en-ter it," he said. "It gives sent room a challenge. You deserve better but for now consider that severe limita-tions bring out the best in an artist. ... "A most interesting com-pany of performers. A breath-taking maturity coupled with a deep sense of caring made for an ensemble that I haven't seen for a long time.... There is a spiritual aspect of all of the art that is so often missing. And although this is not a speci-fically Christian play ... the deep spirituality of the players infected the whole work, giving life, depth and meaning to the whole endeavor. Would that some of our professional threa-tres might have access to the same dimension. "Clearly you are doing something right at Bethel. Whatever it is keep doing it!" you an insight into the world of other persons, and involves you in signif-icant and relevant issues and problems." Postema selects the films himself. "I base my choi-ces on 1) aesthetic merit: does the film illustrate cin-ematic techniques, space, time and perspective? 2) intellectual merit: does it raise problems and issues significant enough for us to consider? 3) variety: films are chosen from dif-ferent countries and tradi-tions of filmmaking, and 4) on the question, 'Would I want to see this film, again or for the first time?"' So far this term, the films "Julia," "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "Blow Up" have been shown. Attendance this year has been high, "about 150 people each showing," said Postema. The next film shown will be "Mr. Klein," Tuesday, Jan. 13th, in FA 313. Be-by Jon Stockfisch A new Bethel program for pre-school teachers has been approved by the Min-nesota Board of Teaching, according to its executive secretary, Kenneth Peat-ross. It involves the licen-sure of pre-kindergarten teachers for the early child-hood education program The new program head-ed by Dr. Vivian Ander-son, associate professor of elementary and early child-hood education, will begin next fall. The program con-sists of a five-course se-quence including field ex-periences in a variety of pre-kindergarten settings and a student teaching ex-perience at the pre-kinder-garten level. Students interested in sides refreshments, an op-tional discussion for clari-fication of and reaction to the film is included. elementary education may wish to take these addi-tional courses to qualify for pre-kindergarten licen-sure. Students with other concentrations, such as psy-chology and Bible, may find the courses beneficial and may choose early child-hood education as a cog-nate. Although the licensure is not yet mandatory, An-derson said it will be a requirement for pre-school teachers by 1984. The program qualifies individuals to teach in nur-sery schools, day care cen-ters or early education pro-grams within public schools. For further in-formation contact Vivian Anderson, LR 327, 638- 6342 or 638-6339. Sell Your Used Textbooks for CASH at BETHEL BOOKSTORE December 17 & 18 If the book has been adopted for 2nd term, you will receive 1/2 of new price for a paper back textbook and 2/3 of new price for a cloth bound textbook. (The Bookstore does not buy back study guides or work books). If the book has not been adopted for 2nd term, you will receive whatever the used book company will pay for the book. Generally speaking, NOW is the time to sell your textbooks from last spring term, 1979-80. Bethel Film Forum screens relevant issues Pre-school program approved by board Doug Briggs, Psalmist, rehearses with cast members for "A Celebration of Psalms." 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Write to: Dr. Gordon Johnson, Dean 3949 Bethel Drive, St. Paul, MN 55112 4747 College Ave., San Diego, CA 92115 Page 1 1 `Psalms' plays with mood by Joy Nannette Banta "Strikingly different" would be one reaction. Sim-ply "unusual" could be an-other. "Obviously sincere" is yet one more response to Bethel's department of theatre arts' second fall production, "A Celebra-tion of Psalms." Unlike the average thea-tre performance, "Celebra-tion" lacks a plot, and most purposefully so. This scripture-based play takes the focus from theme, plot and character portrayal and places it on ritual and mood. It is, in the di-rector's own words, an "ex-periment," a celebration of his faith in the gospel mes-sage as presented in the Book of Psalms. Not only is the "plot" out of the ordinary, but Director Doug Briggs also takes the role of Psalmist and carries the lead in the play. As the lead, Briggs does not become the focus of attention. Rather, he sets the tone of the play, draw-ing the audience into the poetry of the Old Testa-ment book. The six other members of the cast can be referred to as the Psalmist's sup-port crew. It is through their vivid portrayals and energizing role-playing that the works of the Psal-mist come to life. Carol Carlson, Sandy Holasek, Aleta Johansen, Sandra Lind, Kristen Runge and Richard Talbot hold these roles. These cast members do not develop identities of their own in the charac-ters they portray. They work as a unit, each tak-ing care of various tasks thorugh the performance. Voice tones and intonations were first noticed, as a somewhat indescribable re-verence and solemnity com-bined with a tone reminis-cent of Chinese melodra-mas and rituals. One was brought out of the realm of the ordinary and into a world wrapped up in pay-ing homage to the Lord God. The use of tamborines caught the audience's atten-tion in the beginning, and the "wicked" masks worn by the support crew crea-ted an aura of mysticism — an aura destroyed by the righteousness of God and his wrath. One immedi-ately became engrossed in the meaningfulness of the Psalmist's words. "Psalms of Deliverance" were aptly brought to life by the dialogue and inter-action between all the char-acters. The give and take, the presentation of the pros and cons from Psalms 107, 22, 37 and 121, blended into a real-life drama where the audience could actually relate to the emo-tions the characters were feeling. The culmination of the scene with the Psalmist's presentation of the 23rd Psalm added a touch of familiarity that was needed after a long string of Psalms that were relevant, but not too familial'. "Psalms of God in His-tory" were exciting and fun as the verses were acted out in • succession. The support crew reacted spontaneously, like small children, play-acting the pictures created by the ver-ses. The most meaningful part of the play was Briggs' monologue with God, crying out against and in favor of the "Law of the Lord." The Psalmist was so absorbed in his one-sided conversa-tion that he answered his own questions and com-plaints, pleading with God to recognize his worth. The 119th Psalm provided the script for most of this mov-ing scene. The background music for the monologue worked quite well, yet dis-tracted from the message at times. The music in the final segment of praise came as a welcome change. Quiet singing and jubiliant praises with tamborines (once again) would have broken up some of the solemnness of the middle portions of the play. The joyous end-ing left the audience expect-ing more, but leaving with a contented spirit. Technically the play was simple. Only two benches adorned the stage and cos-turning was plain — light brown "shepherd's" suits and moccasins. The play was also well suited to the small theatre atmosphere. The only obvious problem came from above with the lighting. Lights flickered off and on and refused to dim. Distracting shadows also hit actors in the face, and forced what sometimes appeared to be unplanned movement. Of this experiment one could easily say that in "Celebration of Psalms" chemicals mixed well. by Sharon Waller Bethel received its Christ-mas gift early this year. It wasn't wrapped in bright paper and tied with a crisp red bow, but it was what Bethel has wanted for two years. The gift was a $20,000 grant from the St. Paul Foundation to go tow-ard Bethel's campaign, "Un-dergirding the Future." Two years ago Bethel asked the Foundation for the grant in order to com-plete the Learning Re-source Center. It wasn't until this year that it was approved and authorized. The grant is specifically to help pay for the science annex. Cleon Engel, director of community relations at Be-thel, said, "It's not just a matter of getting the mon-ey... you have to work at getting it, but once they give it's not like they're paying for a service. They're giving us a grant. So we have to be apprecia-tive of it." The Foundation is made up of people. People who want to know how the project is going and when it is completed. People who have an interest in sup-porting educational, cul-tural and other charitable needs of the St. Paul area. No. 43, Kathryn Miller, attempts a shot against Gustavus (photo by Paul Gavic). The Royal hockey team was defeated by St. Mary's last Friday night, 7-1 (p,hoto by Paul Gavic). Paul Linsey presses a Concordia ballplayer to lead the Royals to a 97-65 win over Concordia (photo by Paul Gavic). Wrestling team performs well; places second at invitational Page 12 sports St. Mary's skates by Bethel, 7-1 by Becky Dye In the last 15 seconds, the Bethel hockey team scored a goal and spoiled the shut-out threatened by St. Mary's, making the fin-al score 7-1 last Friday evening at Columbia Ice Arena. "We played well in spurts, we need to con-tinue to gain experience. The defensemen are improv-ing each and every game," commented Coach Craig Dahl. Bruce Nord scored Be-thel's single goal, assisted by Steve Larson. "Tom Bergquist, Tom Waage and Steve Kettle-kamp all played well," said Dahl. Waage and Berquist are freshmen. by Rob Haglund The Royal wrestling squad opened their season on a successful note, fin-ishing in second place in the Terry Haws Invitation-al at St. John's University last Saturday. The Bethel grapplers defeated North-western and St. John's be-fore bowing to a powerful Southwest State squad in the championship match. Head coach Dave Klos-treich was pleased by the performance of his squad. "Everyone gave a good ef-fort and despite our youth and injury situation we made a good showing," he commented. The Royals faced North-western in the first match of the tournament and ea-sily handled the Eagles, St. Mary's first goal came at the end of the first period with only four sec-onds left and four on four players. In the second period St. Mary's rallied, scoring four goals. The first was a pow-erplay, five on three, and was put in just as one Bethel penalty was about to expire. The third goal was a slapshot from the blue line when both teams were at full strength. The next goal was scored on a breaka-way making the score 3 -0. At the close of the sec-ond period St. Mary's scored a shorthanded goal on a breakaway making the score 4-0. In third period play, St. Mary's scored three more 42-13. Co-captain Greg Wid-mer at 134 and Ben Mc- Eachern at 158 both pin-ned their opponents. Mc- Eachern's pin came at 1:24 of the first period, the quick-est stick for the Royals this year. By defeating the Eagles, the Royals ad-vanced to the semifinals against an improved and aggressive St. John's team. The match against the Johnnies was by far mo st exciting one of the after-noon. At first it appeared as though the Royals might run away with it. Don Lint, the freshman from Cadil-lac, Mich., got the first col-legiate win by an 8- 5 score at the 118-weight class. Russ Reynolds followed that with a 13 -4 major decision at 126. Not to be outdone, his brother Rich goals, two on powerplays and one on a full strength breakaway. Both Eric Peterson and Curt Almberg tended the goal. Peterson had 29 saves and five goals scored on him, Almberg had 11 saves and two scored on him. Bethel had 31 shots on goal for the game, and St. Mary's 39. During the Thanksgiv-ing break, the Royals com-peted in the MIAC Tour-nament. Bethel lost three games: Augsburg, 12 -2; Concordia, 7-2; and St. Olaf, 5-2. Dahl reflected, "We got better each game. We're young, we have ten fresh-men, nine sophomores, four juniors and three sen-iors." Reynolds pinned his man half-way through the third per-iod. Suddenly the Royals were up 13 -0. The Johnnies came storm-ing back, however, and took the next four weight class-es. At 142, Bethel junior Wayne Reeves was forced to default after suffering a slight concussion. Reeves was hospitalized and will be out of action indefinite-ly. Darryl Morressey was pinned at 150, and then McEachern was pinned at 158 while leading his match in points. Jon Martin was decisi-oned 6-2 at 167 and the Royals were now fighting for their lives, losing 21- 13. The team needed its upper weight wrestlers to come through. Mike And-erson got a big win at 177 with a 19 -12 decision and Steve Bont followed with a 6-3 squeaker at 190. With one match left the score stood: St. John's 21, Bethel 19. It was all up to first year wrestler Mike Quesnell to pull it out for the Roy-als. The storybook ending became reality when Ques-nell registered his first pin of the year with one sec-ond left in the first period. Final score: Bethel 25, St. John's 21. The Royals were then defeated by Southwest State in the championship match 43-0. Coach Klostreich was im-pressed by the attitude his team showed, especially against the Johnnies. "The team never lost their con-fidence and showed real character in coming back against St. John's," he said. The Royal squad will have their first home match of the year tomorrow when the Bethel junior varsity faces Northwestern start-ing at 1:00 p.m. The team will then participate in four away meets before returning home to the Ro-bertson P.E. Center to host St. John's and St. Olaf in a triangular meet January 24. Women's b-ball has slow start, but optimistic by Ellie Abbott The women's basketball team opened up their sea-son with a heart-breaking four point loss to St. Olaf, Monday, Dec. 1. Three days later, the Royals tra-veled to Gustavus and lost 61 -52. Despite the two losses, Coach Marcia LaRock is optimistic about her team and commented, "After los-ing our first two games, our goal is to go into the Christmas break with an average of .500." This means that Bethel must win their two home games this week. Despite the 74- 70 loss at St. Olaf, the Royals had a fine game overall. "We play-ed a good ball game. We played well offensively but our defense wasn't as strong as it should be," said La Rock. Keri DeBoer was the lead-ing scorer for Bethel with 16 points. Deb Sension and JoAnn Griffin were close behind with 14 points each. DeBoer was also the lead-ing rebounder with thir-teen rebounds, and shot 100 per cent on free throws. "Thursday was much harder to lose because we didn't play a smart game; we had too many turnov-ers," said La Rock. JoAnn Griffin and Beth Karsjens led the scoring for the Roy-als with 12 points apiece. The score was tied 31- 31 at the half, but Bethel's defense could not hold. Gus-tavus pulled away to de-feat the Royals 61 -52. Af-ter the game La Rock com-mented, "We had a frustrat-ing game. We worked on our defense, but our of-fense wasn't as good as against St. Olaf. Our key now is to take what we're doing in practice and bring it on the court." Interim Basketball Men's Basketball January 3—St. Olaf Home JV 5:30, Varsity 7:30 pm January 6—Macalester- Away January 8-10—Point Loma Tournament- San Diego, Away January 14—Augsburg-Away Women's Basketball January 8—Augsburg, Home, 7:00 pm January 15—St. Scholastica- Away
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Title | Clarion 1980-12-12 Vol 56 No 12 |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 56 No. 12 |
Date Published | December 12 1980 |
Decade | 1980 |
Academic Year | 1980 - 1981 |
Frequency | Weekly |
Article Titles | Laotians start anew -- at Silvercrest; Art removed in vandalism protest; editorial - True CHRISTmas comes like 'warmest feelings'; Complaints `no shows,' now what?; letters - Artists find gray day in gray walls; Thanks for growth, lesson in out-reach; Disrespect hinders responsibility; Psych explorations seek out personality; Grapes, moths and 'odd items' don't mix well; Criticism follows artistic freedom; Mentors wrangle often, but applaud congeniality; Finlay cares for students; KABY broadcasting begins in interim; From Our Files: Food service discontinues tray service; Student ADs prove capable in program; Bethel debate squad ranked 20th nationally; Harrowing escape ends in flight to Minneapolis; Chet Duck joins Bethel flock; Lindblom: key to faculty typing; Who would believe in a modern Messiah?; Plastic pine spoils spirit; Festival critics applaud 'Scotland'; Bethel Film Forum screens relevant issues; Pre-school program approved by board; `Psalms' plays with mood; Foundation gran |
Photographs | The Thephrasouvanh family, Laotians sponsored by a Bethel group, will live at Silvercrest until January (photo by Doug Barkey).; Art department faculty and students canvassed the college buildings, removing all works of art and covering those pieces too large for storage (photo by Doug Barkey).; Cartoon: "To 'ART' or not to 'ART.' That is the question. What is your answer?"; Empty spaces line halls where paintings once hung. The removal of artwork follows an increase in vandalism on campus (photo by Doug Barkey).; Paul Finlay, retiring registrar (photo by Doug Barkey).; Hockey fan, student and AD Bob Walatka (standing on right) is part of the continuing apartment directors program (photo by Paul Gavic).; Pete Kramka, senior, works as an AD at the Silvercrest apartment complex (photo by Paul Gavic),; "Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it. But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it." (Jesus speaking: Matthew: 7:13-14); Mrs. Thephrasouvanh and her 3-year-old daughter settle into their new life in America. They are temporarily staying in Bethel's Silvercrest apartments. (photo by Doug Barkey).; Ounheuane Thephrasouvanh finds the Minnesota winter very cold, but thinks he can adjust to it, along with his new way of life (photo by Doug Barkey).; Festival of Christmas drew sell-out crowds to all three of its performances. Swedish heritage tied the selections together as the traditional costumes and candle-lit processional highlighted the program. A near-capacity crowd watch dress rehearsal Thursday, Dec. 4 (photo by Dan Velie).; Jean Lindblom, faculty secretary, celebrates her 34th year at Bethel. She has been at the school longer than anyone else. (photo by Dan Velie).; Doe's corner received a Christmas gift from student senate. The corner now boasts a cupboard and counter-top (photo by Paul Gavic).; Don Postema, assistant philosophy professor, began a Film Forum in May, 1978 to open Bethel to another form of education; Doug Briggs, Psalmist, rehearses with cast members for "A Celebration of Psalms."; No. 43, Kathryn Miller, attempts a shot against Gustavus (photo by Paul Gavic).; The Royal hockey team was defeated by St. Mary's last Friday night, 7-1 (p,hoto by Paul Gavic).; Paul Linsey presses a Concordia ballplayer to lead the Royals to a 97-65 win over Concordia (photo by Paul Gavic).; |
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Transcript | Art department faculty and students canvassed the college buildings, removing all works of art and covering those pieces too large for storage (photo by Doug Barkey). e Clarion. Laotians start anew Vol. 56, No. 12 by Jay Stuart Russell Last week a Laotian fam-ily living in a Thai refugee camp moved from Thail-and to Bethel's Silvercrest apartments. A group of Bethel students (sponsor-ing the Thephrasouvanh family) have made a tern-porary lease agreement with Rodney Long, direc-tor of housing. "When we first learned the sponsorship was ap-proved and the family would be coming, we ask-ed Bethel if they could live in student housing tempor-arily," said junior Kevin Walton, the group's organ-izer. The group spoke with Don Mortenson, director of residence life, Tuesday morning, December 2. "He told us that it was a possibility, but that we should ask the Internation-al Institute if they thought it would be all right," said Walton. The International Institute is the organiza-tion which arranged for the sponsorship. "They told us that it would be a good idea, and then they said the family was corn-ing that evening by plane from San Francisco." "That was the first time we found out when they were coming, so we rushed back to Bethel to see if they could stay temporar-ily in Bethel housing. We were so rushed that we worked out the lease agree-ment only five minutes be-fore we left for the air-port." Thephrasouvanh family has four children, an eight-year- old boy, and three girls aged seven, five, and three. Ounheuane Theph-rasouvanh is 32, while his wife is 31. Although Walton is of-ficially the family's spon-sor and has been organiz-ing the project, he stressed that the other group mem-bers, junior Cynthia Pen-nington, senior Betsy Stark and assistant basketball coach John Priestly, have been just as involved in the project as he has. Bethel College, Walton's involvement in the refugee problem began as a result of a course he took last year at Bethel on the culture of the refugees. He then began tutoring at the International Institute of St. Paul, and later be-came a part of an inde-pendent group of students who tutored families on their own. "We call ourselves SEAD ministries, which means Southeast Asian Domestic Ministries," he said. The group has about 14 mem-bers, including the group sponsoring the Laotian fam-ily at Bethel. "John Priest-ly is involved with a group of high school students from Richfield and White Bear Lake which make up a large part of the group," Walton said. The SEAD group visits about eight families once a St. Paul, MN week, splitting up into pairs. "We all meet toge-ther first, then we split up and spend time with the families." Walton said the purpose of the group is to help the people learn Eng-lish, and to develop friend-ships so that the families will feel accepted by Amer-icans. Walton said the spon-sorship does not involve a financial commitment. The institute gives each refu-gee $200 to help them with initial costs when they ar-rive; in this case $1200 for the family. "This helps them pay for food, cloth-ing, and temporary hous-ing when they arrive." At Silvercrest the fam-ily pays $50 per week for their one bedroom apart-ment. Rodney Long, direc-tor of housing, said the see page 4 Dec. 12, 1980 The Thephrasouvanh family, Laotians sponsored by a Bethel group, will live at Silvercrest until January (photo by Doug Barkey). at Silvercrest Art removed in vandalism protest FOCUS ON A LAOTIAN FAMILY, new life in a strange country—a new home. See page 8. by Shari Goddard At 3:15 p.m., Monday, art students and faculty began the removal of all art pieces from the halls of Bethel. They met in the painting studio, divided in-to teams and spread out to cover specific areas of the campus. As they moved through the halls, they re-moved each work of art and placed it into storage. The removal followed an art department matrix, in which the faculty an-nounced their proposed ac-tions. The decision follows several months of increas-ing vandalism to art, cul-minating in the tipping over of two and damage to at least one of the large sculptures on campus. "I feel responses to these actions were inadequate," said Dale Johnson, asso-ciate professor of art. "I think it has gotten to a point where we should deal with (vandalism) dir-ectly." The art faculty met this morning to discuss the rise of vandalism. They decid-ed to call the matrix and to propose a protest to the situation. Stewart Luck-man, associate professor of art, blamed the rise of vandalism on a hostile en-vironment toward art at Bethel: Dale Johnson add-ed, "I don't think we can tolerate this quantity of vandalism and immaturi-ty." Besides the sculp-tures, several paintings have been damaged. Art Education Instruc-tor Barbara Glenn said, "I don't think this should be an ugly, negative response. It should be a positive one." The art pieces will stay in storage until the art department "can get assu-rances or directives that work won't be damaged," according to Eugene John-son, professor of art. Dean George Brushaber expressed sympathy for the art department's ac-tions. "I was present in the meeting with students," he said. "I recognize this as a valid and important expres-sion of their concern." He added that prior to the meeting the administration had commited itself to ac-tion. A memo placed in every student and faculty member's PO, told about the destruction to the sculp-tures. It was the first step toward finding out who the vandals in this situa-tion are. Brushaber said that just as Bethel will not tolerate infringement on a person or his academic freedom, so they won't tolerate des-truction of artistic expres-sion. If administrators are not successful in dealing with the vandals, Brush-aber said that they may call in the sheriff. The sher-iff has already been con-tacted for advice on the sculpture incident. Brush-aber added that the num-ber of students involved in the vandalism is prob-ably small. Security measures have been instigated. Increased patrols will guard the sculp-tures outside. "The best security is the vigilance and watchfulness of stu-dents," said Brushaber. Con-cerning the tipped sculp-ture by the coffee shop, he added, "I find it hard to believe that something that central could have taken place without somebody seeing it." Reactions to the art re-moval remain mixed among students and faculty mem-bers. "I think it's a good move," said faculty mem-ber Dan Taylor. "I hope it's not a permanent thing. People think of art as most-ly decorative. It's worse than tearing up a book, because books are multi-ple." Others said they thought the move was inapprop-see page 4 Volume 56, Number 12 Dece b r 16, 198 Ilegn is ents inio ity o wel deli ett R dda ott, ke a ens, aw ton tro s, c Juan r z, cartooiliA Nance Dornfeld, ad sales edi soc ed. dit ap 4di tor/4 t/0 ion gdit sin frger 1 a 1st cs ee oll sole on s mus 0. 2 licat Page 2 "Christmas. C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S." Remember the days of the familiar spelling contest? There were times when it was difficult to come up with the correct spell-ings of a long list of tough words. But we learned them—we studied, reviewed, practiced with our friends and begged Mom to recite them to us as we slowly spelled them back to her (what patience she had!). We knew that the C and the H in Christmas went together and made only one sound—like a K. We were taught that the root word of Christmas was Christ, and that's why the word had the K sound at the beginning— it was just like Jesus' "other" name, Christ. Now we are all grown up. No one tells us how to spell any more—except maybe when it comes to words like anthropomorphism or pneumatic. Now no one reminds us that the root word of Christmas is Christ. This is the merchant's wonderland. From the day after Thanksgiving through New Year's Day the com-merciality of the season beckons forth and makes sales people dance with glee. "Tiny tots with their eyes Al aglow" beg Mom and Dad for that special toy they saw on television or heard about from their friends. The falsely-bearded, pillow-stuffed Santa Clauses pack out the shopping malls with kids clamoring for a chance to tell what they want for Christmas. Christmas, that is, without the "Christ." It has been a point of contention at home that one does not abbreviate Christmas by writing "X-mas," no matter what the purpose. An X takes the Christ out of Christmas, even if it is only on paper. We have all become guilty of the X-syndrome. We are letting the "silver bells," the advertisers' catchy slogans, the family spirit and the "warm feeling" dominate our thoughts, forgetting that to let the true meaning of Christmas fill our thoughts would be the ultimate in warm feelings. Not only that, but it would be the best advertisement for the most reliable product around— and it comes with a guarantee! Christmas is a time of joy, a time to share, and a time for family togetherness. Christmas is the chance to give that special someone an extra-special remembrance. Christmas is a time for free spirits, laughter, homemade cookies, rosy cheeks and noses, snowmen, mistletoe and kisses. Christmas is ours to celebrate. Christmas is a time of love... and Christmas is a whole lot more... Merry CHRISTmas! Dear Editor: The last straw finally has broken the camel's back. Vandalism of the visual arts on campus has reached epidemic propor-tions, and as a result, the art department has taken a radical approach to solv-ing the problem: removal of all artwork from the Be-thel campus. In the wake of the recent vandalism of one of Ste-wart Luckman's sculp-tures, we must point out that the decision to re-move visual artworks from campus was taken as a result of a rash of vandal-ism incidents, not solely as a result of the most recent incident. The art department's re-sponse of removing the other works has a three-fold purpose: 1) as a pro-test of the vandalism, 2) as a way of communicat-ing a serious problem, and 3) as a step toward solv-ing the problem. Vandalism of art is a violation of one of our ba-sic rights of freedom of expression; it is censor-ship. It is impossible for an artist to create a piece that will be liked or ad-mired by all, and that is not his purpose. For those apathetic Be-thelites who have repeat-edly conde–mned the vis-ual arts, you have achieved your purpose: gray walls at Bethel College. But for those art appreciators and supporters it is a gray day indeed. We are truly sorry for the inconvenience. There are those who react to the decision by call-ing it silly and immature. Yet they are the ones who don't realize the countless number of paintings, sculp-tures, photographs, etc. which have been damaged in one form or another. It's ironic that we live in an environment of support for our Christian brothers, yet very few of those bro-thers have in the past ex-pressed their support for the art department when a piece has been vandalized. Instead, they condemn the works they do not like. As students, we would like to express our sup-port of the art faculty's decision as a step toward solving the problem. Steven M. Mills Pam Mauer Cathy Lindquist Wendy Voelker Jay Russell Doug Barkey Jane Saari To my dear friends at Be-thel College: I want to thank you for all the involvement you had in my life... this in-cludes faculty and staff as well. All through my high school years, my Christian life was at a stand-still. The year and a half that I attended Bethel was a fan-tastic time for me. I grew tremendously in the Lord. I learned to reach out to people and also to allow people to touch my life. Today I continue to grow in the Lord and it is an Complaints `no shows,' now what? To the Editor, The Theatre Arts Depart-ment just closed a two-week ru.n of "A Celebra-tion of Psalms." I must admit that I'm a little be-wildered! My last produc-tion, "The Matchmaker," was completely sold out before it opened. We had many church groups in at-tendance, the admissions and alumni offices each bought a performance, and many people were turned away. Following the run of "The Matchmaker" we were criticized by church groups, individuals, a pub-lic letter to the Clarion etc., for being "worldly" in content and theme. The cry was for us to do mate-rial which would be more worthy of a theatre depart-ment in a Christian col-lege. Well, we did The Psalms and almost no-body came! Is it any won-der that I'm bewildered? Doug Briggs Chairman Department of Theatre Arts Beth Nystrom Sonya Olsen Lynn Russell Joann Vallejo Dwight Newman Lori Olsen Catherine Schmeltzer Lorelei Markson Susan Torgeson Lynn Olsen Tom Cullen Sam Larson exciting thing. The Lord used you, my friends, to change my life and get it moved for Christ. I thank Him often for the oppor-tunity He gave me to at-tend Bethel. I am now attending a school here in Connecti-cut, where the Lord is us-ing me as a witness. He has been teaching me of-ten through trials, but His name is wonderful. I miss you all, and again thank you all. Love in Christ, Steve Parsons editorial True CHRISTmas comes like 'warmest feelings' —jnb letters Artists find gray day in gray walls Thanks for growth, lesson in out-reach NIL Empty spaces line halls where paintings once hung. The removal of artwork follows an increase in vandalism on campus (photo by Doug Barkey). letters Page 3 Disrespect hinders responsibility Dear Editor, Bethel has been impov-erished. As the writer of Lamentations said, "The garlands have fallen from our heads." We who take aesthetic delight in the artworks which are publicly dis-played within our halls and on our campus have been impoverished because of the removal of those artworks. Those works which engaged our atten-tion, prompted our contem-plation and enriched our lives have been removed as a public statement of protest by the faculty and students of the Art Depart-ment. The faculty and students of the Art Department have been impoverished. Their artworks have been vio-lated by wanton, deliber-ate acts of disrespect. This violation is not inconse-quential. It deeply pierces the life and soul of those creative individuals who are my friends, my com-panions and a part of Beth-el's unique endowment. I share their sorrow and indignation at such an as-sault, and I support their statement which forces all of us to examine the essen-tial role of art in our lives. The Bethel community has been impoverished by the lack of understanding and respect on the part of those few who cannot or will not appreciate the crea-tive, surprising element in life as expressed by their fellow Christians. Lacking understanding and appre-ciation, a minimal degree of respect is the least they could offer to these art-works and their creators. Refusing to see, they des-troy that which could ex-pand their vision. In so doing, they evidence a lack of respect for themselves, for their possible aesthetic growth and enrichment. To the Editor: I would like to thank the Clarion staff for its cov-erage of our animal per-sonality research. The rats were especially apprecia-tive of the becoming por-trait of one of their popu-lation. In order, to clarify parts of the article which may lead to misunderstand-ings, I would like to pres-ent the following state-ments: 1) -First, the purpose of our study is not to prove the existence of personal-ity in animals. Rather, our study is an exploration of the possibility of animal personality. We have no vested interest in finding its existence or not. 2) Second, our definition of "personality" is an oper-ational one. We define per-sonality as behavior con-sistency of an individual animal across changing en-vironments. 3) Last, we do not deny the influence of environ-ments on the behavior of our subjects. We realize the way in which they A shared response affirm-ing the importance of the artists among us and the value of their artworks to us will begin the healing, redemptive process. Let this process begin, return-ing wholeness to our lives and our community. Respectfully, Don Postema have been raised and/or handled may be an impor-tant factor in their visible actions. Once again, thank-you for your support. Sincerely, Tammy Roedel Research Assistant Dear Editors of the Clarion: I'm really a sensitive per-son, so don't get me wrong... but what's going on around here! I'm getting fed up with a few things... let me tell you... Those guys in the art department. What do you think you're doing putting up a sculpture where I play frisbee! What an eye-sore! I mean I don't care if you do it on anything but don't make me see it. I don't have any idea why you do it anyway. And you guys in the music department... knock off that constant need to sing... how stupid... sitting up in that music lounge directing... do you really enjoy that? And what's the big idea using the gym for your music... everyone knows that's for basket-ball games! Honest, I don't care if you do this stuff, just don't make me see it. Drama department... stop acting so weird down in the drama department. I have to walk through there you know. I mean I don't really care if you do it but not in front of me... Why do you like to act anyway? And you campus wha-tever... stop putting up all these posters advertising everything. They're all eye-sores! Every where I look there's a poster. Advertise some other way. I don't have to see it.... And you athletes, what's going on with this lifting weights business. Every-time I walk down the hall I see you guys lifting those dumb-bells... kick the ha-bit, I don't like it... Unless you do it in private, of course. And don't think for a minute that I want to see all those plaques and trophies in that glass box... I didn't do them, why should I have to see them? Keep them in your rooms... And what's going on at Doc's corner? We already have a registered coffee shop, why do we need ano-ther one? Man-non-corn-formists! What a waste. Now really, you art guys- ... What's this rubbish about honoring God through what you can do best? That's really weird. I don't understand that. And what's this stuff in the Bible talking about some lady annointing Je-sus' feet with super expen-sive ointment... Why not give that money or the time it took to raise that money to some worthy causes! What a waste or is it? Judging it, assessing the worth of it, criticizing it. To the Editor: Letters to the editor by faculty members this year have mostly consisted of various wranglings, at-tacks, counterattacks, clar-ifications, reclarifications, and so forth. Lest students get the mistaken impres-sion that their mentors are uniformly disputatious, I would like to state pub-licly that my colleague Dan Taylor is one of the most humane, fair, articulate, broad-minded, versatile, congenial, and intelligent persons I have ever met. With affection and good will, David Healy Dear Editor, While I sat at my desk Grapes, moths and 'odd items' don't mix well Dear Editor, I can handle straw-like things in my meatloaf. I can even take finding a gnat in my cottage cheese. But yesterday when I had finished eating a third of a bag of grapes, something caught my eye. Two moths were sitting on the stem. I'm not writing just be-cause of the moths, but because I feel that I should not have to put up with finding odd items in my food time after time. I think food service could check the food a little more care-fully. I would appreciate getting my protein from a source other than gnats and moths. Sincerely, Ginny Olson We find this is not too hard to do I see your life, you see mine... I see you sing, (not always well), you see me paint, (not al-ways well).... I see you doing sports or something to exhort God in your own way.... You see me painting to exhort God, in my own way... I see you trying hard at a Christ-like life... You see me try-ing to achieve the same Who's to cast the first stone? Sincerely, Jon Mogck recently, a revelation was visited on me that I feel should be shared. It was revealed, as if by a voice from above (or was it from the hall?), that David Hea-ly is an extraordinarily fine fellow. Rigorous logical re-flection confirmed the au-thenticity of this mystical epiphany. He is as insight-ful as he is tall, as com-radely as he is shaggy. His deliberateness of thought and speech is combined with a grace and wit that is all the more remarkable when one considers his parentage. I provide this reminder as an unsolicited service to the Bethel com-munity. With complete candor, Daniel Taylor Psych explorations seek out personality Criticism follows artistic freedom Mentors wrangle often, but applaud congeniality Paul Finlay, retiring registrar (photo by Doug Barkey). PRAY FOR WASH18IN0G TON A Major Conference on Urban Needs Ministries December 30, 1980- January 3, 1981. Washington, D.C. Into Christian fellowship 233 Langdon Street Madison, Vfi 537a3 (608) 257-0263 PUISIJC SUM ADVERTISIMIT FALCON BARBER STYLIST 1713 N. Snelling Men & Women's Hair Styling Bethel 5. x Jim Chet Dave Kathy For appointment call Larpenteur 646-2323 Page 4 letters Finlay cares for students compiled by Jay Russell Dear Editor, Some people at Bethel a-maze me. One is registrar Paul Finlay. I want public-ly to tell of my apprecia-tion for his consistent inter-est in and kindness to me in my two and a half years at Bethel. Finlay's interest in stu-dents as individuals and not just as people who riate. "They (the art depart-ment faculty) are really pouting about this, aren't they? said one student about the removal. As the painting of Christ lay rea-dy for removal in the li-brary, one sophomore said, "Is that the one they de-by Annette Loeks KABY AM 56, the Beth-el College radio station will be back on the air January 5, the day students return from interim. Througholit the first week of interim, KABY will have register for classes amazes me most. He asks about my family and is willing to discuss my personal con-cerns about the future. He also shares his past, fam-ily and future plans. I appre-ciate talking to someone in authority who treats me like one of his peers. Finlay is retiring next semester after 22 years of faced? I couldn't tell." Doug Barkey, a junior art student, said, "I think it's pretty sad. I wish there was something you could do... the only recourse to vandalism an artist can have is to withdraw his work." a special event each day. One highlight during the week will be an open house where people can come in and see what KABY looks like from the inside. KABY is looking for a new slogan. During the month of January, KABY is having a slogan contest to replace last year's slo-gan, "The Sound Alterna-tive." Winner of the best slogan will receive a record album by a top name contem-porary Christian artist. Any-one can participate. Look for details outside the sta-tion's window near the LRC. KABY staff members wish to serve the Bethel commun-ity with news, special pro-grams, live sports broad-casts and music. As KABY starts up the transmitters once again, the staff hopes the Bethel community will tune in to KABY AM 56 and enjoy. MAKE EXTRA MONEY SELL AUDIO EQUIPMENT AT YOUR COLLEGE • No Investment! • Professional Sales Help Provided • Incentive Programs! • Sell over 60 Top Brands! • BE YOUR OWN BOSS! Call or Writs Serious Inquiries ONLY! service at Bethel. We as students have a reservoir of wisdom and knowledge. The adminis-tration and faculty are lis-teners, helpers and friends. Let's attempt to develop this reservoir of friends such as Paul Finlay. But let us also show our grati-tude and respect to our faculty and administra-tion friends just as we would to friends of our own age group. Thank you, Paul Finlay, and other appreciated fa-culty friend-s at Bethel. Respectfully yours, Naomi J. Ludeman Refugees, from page 1 figure was comparable to what students would pay for the apartment. "Hous-ing costs the student about $25 per week at Bethel. We charged the Lao family $50 per week, based on two adults." Long stressed that "we aren't setting a precedent, but this time it was just the right time and place." "The project was student-initiated," Long said. "As a policy for housing, we haven't been taking non- Bethel students in hous-ing, except during the sum-mer. It's really not our goal or mission to rent rooms Long said that under nor-mal circumstances he pro-bably wouldn't have been able to help the students, but in this case they had a vacant apartment at Sil-vercrest. "We normally have very few vacancies." He said it is even more unusual that an entire apartment was vacant. Housing vacancies occur when a student drops out or leaves school. "We had 33 students on a waiting list for housing, but we contacted all of them to see if they still needed hous-ing." Long said none of the students on the list express-ed an interest. The temporary lease agreement, "will last until January 1," Long said. "We've assigned students in the room for second semester." Walton said he plans to help the family look for permanent housing soon, as that is one of the re-sponsibilities of the spon-sor. "The sponsor does not make a legal commitment or a financial commitment; the only commitment he makes is a moral one." "It takes about two to eight months to process an application for sponsor-ship. In my case, they gave me only about a week's notice that the family was coming." Walton said groups such as the Inter-national Institute and Ca-tholic charity groups coor-dinate sponsorships with families. Walton said the spon-sor's responsibilities in-clude finding the family temporary housing, help-ing them shop for food and clothing, signing them up for social security and ap-plying for welfare, help-ing them with the health screening-process, looking for permanent housing and helping the children enroll in school. "It takes a lot of time at first," he said, but after the initial responsibilities are over, the last one is to maintain a friendship with the family," said Walton. Food 'service discontinues tray service Drastic reactions to prop-erty abuse aren't new to. Bethel. As with the art department's recent action, 16 years ago the Bethel food service removed all the trays from the cafete-ria, as a protest against use of the trays as sleds. From the Dec. 9, 1964 issue. Last Friday at 6:45 a.m., Mrs. Alice Johnson, Bethel Food Service manager, af-ter consultation with Dean Muck, discontinued tray service in the dining hall. The tray drought contin-ued until 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5. Concerning the reason for the drastic action taken, Mrs. Johnson said, "We have reason to believe that there are a number of trays in the dormitories. We don't feel that the food service is responsible for supplying athletic equipment and if we don't do something now, at the rate the trays are disappearing half of them may be missing by winter." When asked about the possibility of returning the trays for student use, Mrs. Johnson said that service would be renewed when a "goodly number of trays had been returned." Mrs. Johnson had no word concerning the incon-venience weekend cam-pus guests, the Northwes-tern College Speech Choir, for example, experienced, because of no trays. She did say, however, that she didn't want to be a tyrant in the matter and would like to see the tray service resumed as soon as possi-ble. Student reactions to this disciplinary action were varied. Some raised ques-tions concerning health reg-ulations governing the re-moval of trays. Senate decided to buy 50 acres from the dining hall for traying purposes at $.50 each with the. Stu-dent Services office pay-ing half. These trays will go on sale today in the Senate office for $.25 each. Students may trade their old trays for the new Sen-ate models. Art removal, from page 1 KABY broadcasting begins in interim AUDIO OUTLET, INC. 10 Commerce CI 1Am 217) Newark NJ 07102 12011 622 3250 Bethany Baptist Church Cleveland and Skillman Avenues, Roseville, Mn. Worship Service at 11:00 AM Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age) (See posters for church bus schedule) Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone 631-0211 Page 5 Pete Kramka, senior, works as an AD at the Silvercrest apart-ment complex (photo by Paul Gavic), SALES OPPORTUNITY Bethel Seminary graduate seeks 1 or 2 students to sell on a commission basis to the Bethel community. Will train and give help in obtaining state license. Lee Shelton 631-2420, office 823-2647, home THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES 6740 Highway 10, Anoka, Minnesota 55303 (612) 427-9191 Res: (612) 427-8836 DOBSON, OGREN & ASSOCIATES CHARLES I. OGREN TO THE FACULTY & STAFF OF BETHEL COLLEGE & SEMINARY: As pointed out in the recent (April 1980) issue of Pensions and Investments, The Equitable has again emerged as the largest pension fund manager in the United States. To expand this leadership role, we have introduced a new and extremely attractive Tax Sheltered Annuity. The tax advantages of a TSA are obvious. You save Federal and State Income Taxes at your family's highest tax bracket -- on both your deposits to the plan and the interest yarned. However, if you are participating in another TSAR, you are probably paying a sales charge. Plans that charge 4%, VA, even 9% are not uncommon. Effective March, 1980, The Equitable eliminated this front end sales charge and established a "no-load" Tax Sheltered Annuity. We are offering a Fixed Interest Account with a guaranteed return of eleven percent (11%) for 1980 and 1981, and a minimum interest of 8% for 1982 through 1986. Each year a new annual rate will be established, and the minimum rate will be extended for an additional year. The Tax Sheltered Annuity has always been an ideal way to save money. With the important changes in our program which elimin&Ee sales charges and increase returns, a low minimum contribution of $20.00 per mcnth, the TSA is better than ever. Sincerely, Charles J. Ogren Representative CJO/w +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am interested in receiving additional information about Equitable's new TSA Program. NAME ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER BEST TIME TO CALL Student ADs prove capable in program by Brad Nauman Director of Residence Life Don Mortenson said that the new asssistant director (AD) program at the Bethel apartment complexes is work-ing out well. "We held a meeting with all the ADs to get their feedback on what they think of the program. Everyone agreed that the program is going really well and that they would like to see it contin-ued," said Mortenson. Two ADs serve in each of the separate buildings at Fountain Terrace, Silver-crest and Centennial Gar-dens. The Bethel students perform the same func-tions that the resident di-rectors of the past years performed. In previous years each building had a resident di-rector, usually a married couple, that was in charge of the buildings. The AD duties consist of general building maintenance, plan-ning Bible studies and prayer-and-share meetings, planning of social acti-vities and meeting any other needs that the resi-dents might have. Each apartment complex retained one resident di-rector responsible for the whole complex. Any prob-lems that the ADs can't handle come to the RD. The RDs report to Morten-son. So far everything has been running smoothly, with no major conflicts. Mortenson stressed that the new program does not reflect on the ability of the RDs that were replaced. "We did not replace the RDs because they were not doing the job. We felt that students were complete-ly capable of performing by Mari Broman The rankings from the National Debate Office in California had Bethel's de-bate squad 20th out of 91 schools from 30 states—the highest ever. According to Butch Maltby, debate coach, the office "assigns points according to how you do in tournaments," weight-ing them according to size, number of entries and geo-graphical variety of the participating schools. Because the rankings come out every month, one of Bethel's recent tournaments— Nov. 20-23 at Illinois State University — was not inclu-ded in the last computa-the job so instead of hiring someone outside Bethel, we decided to help out the students by giving them a chance to earn the money," said Mortenson. It was thought that, since the ADs were students, they would be able to relate to the students' needs bet-ter. "The ADs rub shoul-ders with the students every day and are more aware of the needs and problems students have," said Mor-tenson. "They have proved tions. "There's a good pos-sibility that we'll be moved up," said Maltby. "Our last tournament was the best of the year." The tournament included all the highly-rated teams in the Midwest, irres-pective of school size. "We knew that this tournament would give us a good idea how we stacked up in the Midwest," said Maltby. Seven-teen teams from six states participated; Bethel's two teams both made it to the semi-finals. Because debate policy seeded the first and fourth place teams against each other, Bethel's two teams were matched up together, Maltby had to decide which one to advance. Maltby chose the team of Teresa Eliason and Beth Neufeld, which had a 6-0 record, to go into the fi-nals, where Wheaton defeat-ed them with a 3-0 decis-ion. But Bethel teams Elia-son and Neufeld along with Rich Kreutzfeld and Mark Publow, beat Wheaton all three times in the prelimin-ary rounds. "That's never happened before — ever," said Maltby. "We were real-ly excited." Wheaton and Bethel are the only two Midwest teams TRINITY BAPIST CHURCH Hwy. 36 & Edgerton 774-8609 Rev. Hartley Christenson Sunday worship 8:30 & 11 am Sunday School 9:45 am Vaughn Ekbom, Instructor Evening worship, 6 pm Bus schedule: Silvercrest 9 am AH Campus 9:15 am to be very capable in hand-ling any problems that have arisen," he continued. There are no major changes being planned for next year. "The only minor change that we are going to make is that we are going to have a more intensive orien-tation session for the ADs next year," said Mortenson. "I feel that by doing this, we can better prepare them for the problems that they are going to face," he added. ranked highly in the na-tion. Wheaton came in 34th in the November ratings, but placed fifth overall at the end of last year. Bethel's debate squad par-ticipated in 13 tourna-mpnts this semester—as many as all of last year. Last weekend Bethel teams finished 7- 1 and 4 -4, plac-ing 3rd and 5th in a tour-nament at Iowa State Uni-versity. Hockey fan, student and AD Bob Walatka (standing on right) is part of the continuing apartment directors program (photo by Paul Gavic). The debate season goes from September to April, with nationals in April. "We have some students qualified to go to that al-ready," said Maltby. The Cross-Examination Debate Association (CEDA) selects a new topic for each semester. Maltby hopes more stu-dents will get involved next spring, because of Bethel's wealth of information on the probable topic. Maltby said, "I'm pretty sure that it's going to be, Resolved: that further separation of the church and state is desirable." Maltby's goal for the team is to finish the season in the top 20, as it is now. "I think we've got the talent to do it, " he said. "It'll just be a matter of working hard." Bethel debate squad ranked 20th nationally Page 6 Page 7 I put my eyes in the walls I gave my vision to the stone And the stone gave me its vision: Years of blurs of faces And faces of blurs Slum of Do what Simon says Touch your nose You win Or have you lost? "Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it. But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it." (Jesus speaking: Matthew: 7:13-14) Mrs. Thephrasouvanh and her 3-year-old daughter settle into their new life in America. They are temporarily staying in Bethel's Silvercrest apartments. (photo by Doug Barkey). by Brad Nauman Chester (Chet) Duck will Festival of Christmas drew sell-out crowds to all three of its performances. Swedish heritage tied the selections together as the traditional costumes and candle-lit processional highlighted the program. A near-capacity crowd watch dress rehearsal Thursday, Dec. 4 (photo by Dan Velie). Gift-giving Huge dark sanctuary. Single glowing candleflame hypnotizes my eyes, then thoughts. Candle wards off heavy coverlet of darkness, eyes receive gift of sight. Thank You. Huge dark sky Single watery moon lulls sheep-keepers to dreaming. Lord's brilliant countless candlepower wards off heavy coverlet of darkness, world receives gift of Light. Thank You. - Laura Phillips Ounheuane Thephrasouvanh finds the Minnesota winter very cold, but thinks he can adjust to it, along with his new way of life (photo by Doug Barkey). Chet Duck joins Bethel flock Page 8 Harrowing escape ends in flight to Minneapolis by Jay Stuart Russell Christmas marks the sea-son of giving and receiv-ing gifts, but this year Ounheuane Thephrasou-vanh and his family have been surprised by one of the most valued of all gifts: that of having the freedom to once again control their lives. They were sponsored by Bethelites Kevin Walton, Betsy Stark, Cynthia Pen-nington and John Priestly, and are staying temporar-ily in a one-bedroom apart-ment at Silvercrest. Thephrasouvanh and his wife, Kamphit, are origi-nally from Vientiane, Laos. But for the past 17 months he, his wife and their four children were pent up in a refugee camp in Thailand, waiting for someone to sponsor their exodus from the camp. "In the camp we were poor, but they gave us enough food," Thephrasou-vanh said in broken Eng-lish. "We got food once a day, but none on Saturday or Sunday. Three days we had meat; two days we had vegetables." Thephrasouvanh said his family lived in a room ten meters by three meters. "We lived in a large wood-en building with 30 rooms; one family lived in each room," he said The family was wealth-ier when they lived in Laos, because Thephrasouvanh worked in the Lao govern-ment's ministry of finance. His job was to assess prop-erty values. His wife, Kamph-it, worked in public health as a mid-wife in the mat-ernity room. Thephrasouvanh said he and his family had to leave Laos after the communists took control, because he was afraid the communists would capture him and send him to a prisoner camp. "I was afraid of what the new communist government would do to me, because I had a job with the old government." Because Vientiane is lo-cated just across the Me-kong River from Thailand, the Thephrasouvanh fam-ily was able to sneak across the river to Thai-land in a canoe-shaped boat. Thephrasouvanh said they were afraid to cross the mile-wide river in the boat, "because many fami-lies had died while cross-ing the river." He said people drowned when their boats capsized or died when Vietnamese and Laotian Communist groups shot people as they crossed the river. "It was dark when we crossed; it was 4 o'clock in the morn-ing. We were lucky they did not see us cross the river," he said. After spending nearly a year and a half in the refu-gee camp, Thephrasouvanh came to Minnesota on De-cember 2. "I was afraid when I first landed here in the airplane. I'm still afraid because I do not speak well; it's hard to talk to people because I speak so little English." Thephra-souvanh's wife also speaks very little English. What does he like most about the U.S.? "The Amer-ican people are very kind and helpful," he said, but "I do not like the cold. In Laos, the winter is not the same—it is hot all year. It is not a problem in the United States because they have heaters in the houses, and when you go outside, you have coats." Thephrasouvanh does not have a favorite Amer-ican food, because his fam-ily has not been here long enough to try different foods, though they they did eat in the Bethel cafe-teria once. "I liked the food at Bethel. The Lao people like many different foods." His children especially like apples, because they were not so common in Laos. "They eat the fruit because they like it so well, but then they aren't hungry for the other food we eat." Besides speaking Lao and some English, Theph-rasouvanh has studied French for eight years. "Eng-join the Bethel College admin-st ra tion staff January 1 as the new registrar. He will succeed the retiring Dr. Paul Finlay. Duck worked at Thomp-kins Cortland Community College, Dryden, N.Y., for the past nine years. While there, Duck was appointed as registrar twice. Between his two terms as registrar, he served as director of management information services and data process-ing. Thompkins Cortland is affiliated with the State University of New York. Duck attended Bethel for two years. He graduated from the University of Min-nesota with a degree in business administration. He received his master's lish is easier to learn, but French words are easier to say. I learned English for two years, but I had no one to speak it with." If he had not come to the U.S., Thephrasouvanh said he might have wanted to go to France, since both he and his wife speak French. "But I'm glad I came here because it's harder to find a job in France." He said he wants to train for a new job as an auto mechanic. Like most native Lao-tians, the Thephrasouvanh family is Buddist. "We do not celebrate Christmas, but we do celebrate the new year," he said. Thephrasouvanh said he thought all of the trees were dead when he first arrived in Minnesota. "I saw many trees, but no leaves. It is very cold, but the snow is very beautiful and my children like to play in it." degree in guidance and psychological services from Springfield College, Spring-field, Mass., and served as assistant registrar at Spring-field. Duck and his wife Joyce leave behind them a 50- acre hobby farm in Free-ville, N.Y., where they raised hay and corn. They really enjoyed country liv-ing and found it hard to leave the farm and move back to Minnesota. "We felt the Lord was leading us back to Minnesota; it was a hard decision to make," said Duck. Duck was a member of the Rotary club in Groton, N.Y., and served on the board of directors of the United Fund. Jean Lindblom, faculty secretary, celebrates her Bethel. She has been at the school longer than (photo by Dan Velie). 34th year at anyone else Page 9 Lindblom: key to faculty typing by Beth Stien Who types more words than a senior seminar stu-dent in philosophy? Who has known all three presi-dents of Bethel College and Seminary? Who has been at Bethel longer than any other person, president in-cluded? Jean Lindblom, who has been Bethel's fac-ulty secretary for 34 years. Lindblom came to Bethel in 1944 as a student, and after completing a two-year degree was hired as faculty secretary. "Origi-nally, my responsibilities included typing syllabi, tests and short papers," said Lindblom. "Now I type dissertations, books and articles that the faculty writes," She said she can't Lieutenant Jeff Slater tossed his patrolman's hel-met on the couch and strode over to the table where his wife was setting out din-ner. "I tell you, Helen," he drawled, "those immigrants will do anything. Would you believe one of those Mexican women actually had a baby right in a car last night?" "You're kidding," said Helen, setting down a bowl of steaming gravy. "Wish I was," said Jeff, scooting up to the table. "And that ain't half of it either. You know that rab-ble that hangs out all night down at the pool hall? I'll be darned if every one of 'em ain't gone plumb cra-zy. Claim they saw big The corner now boasts a new even begin to estimate the number of words she has typed over the years. "I imagine they must run in-to the millions!" said Lind-blom. Students ought not be surprised if they don't know who Lindblom is. She is a kind of cobbler's elf, working behind the scenes unnoticed in a cub-by hole office across from the copying service. She might pass unnoticed because she is so small, but the twinkle in her sprite-like eyes is hard to miss. Lindblom stayed at Beth-el so long because she feels it is where the Lord wants her. "I enjoy the students and the atmos-phere here. I have made a lights in the sky last night. Said there was music and singin', and a voice that said the Son of God had been born that night in a car, of all things." "Good lord," exclaimed Helen, now genuinely in-trigued. "Imagine the Son of God comin' that way. I mean really Helen, don't they know that He's coming as a King? Born in a car," he snorted, shaking his head and taking a bite of potato. "People are crazy, Jeff. What will they think of next?" "Don't know what this world's comin' to," Jeff mum-bled, reaching for the roast beef. by Leann M. Kicker My mother brought it home in a box, three feet long, two feet wide and one foot deep. I was given the job of putting it to-gether. It was our first artificial Christmas tree. The directions were sim-ple enough: place trunk in stand, sort branches into piles according to size, at-tach branches to trunk start-ing at the bottom and work-ing up; see diagram. The trunk looked like a green broomstick with holes drilled in it. The branches were made of wire fashioned in to a late 60s peace sign and had plastic needles attached to it in some indescribable fash-ion. While I put the thing together, Mom got a can of multitude of friends, and that has been most reward-ing," said Lindblom. In 34 years of work, she has taken only one leave .of absence. Six years ago she went to the Philippines for three months to work as a volunteer in a BGC mission. Santa Pine Scent spray and gave the room a good dose. "To make it smell like Christmas," she said. When I finished assem-bling it, there it stood— exactly six feet of wood, wire and plastic—posing as a Norway pine. The box said, "made in Taiwan." Mom punctuated the air with Santa Pine Scent and said, "Let's decorate the tree." With lights and orna-ments it didn't look too bad. From outside the win-dow you could hardly-tell. But I wanted to cry; I don't know why exactly . Christmas morning I woke to my little sister's telling me what was under the Christmas tree. Tree. Even the thought made me sad. That year I remember Besides her love for tra-vel, she enjoys cross-coun-try skiiing, reading and sewing. And of course, typ-ing. "Unless the Lord has something else in mind, I will probably work here until I retire," said Lind-blom. forcedsmiles, stage smiles, and saying polite thank-yous. I felt hollow inside, almost—artificial. Somehow that tree de-nied all the magic of Christ-mas. Artificial tree. Why not artificial Santa, artifi-cial virgin birth and plas-tic good will? There is one major problem with arti-ficial: it's too perfect, too convenient. A real tree isn't shaped perfectly. The branches are crooked or too thin on one side. And maybe it's a little too dry and the needless clutter the carpet and dust the packages. But Christmas can make an imperfect tree beauti-ful. Just like God makes imperfect people accept-able. by Jerry Manus Havier sat in the front seat of his aged car and contemplated the irony of it all. The child lay sleep-ing on his lap, apparently healthy, though he had known precious little about delivering babies. Florinda slept fitfully in the back seat, exhausted from the hours of labor and the agony of delivery. Ha vier was learning the hard way that a small American town was no place for a migrant Mexi-can worker to look for hos-pitality. The man at the motel had told him there were no vacancies. When Havier explained that his wife was about to give birth, the man had sug-gested that he take her to a hospital. Havier didn't bo-ther to explain that he couldn't have afforded a hospital bill, even if he could have driven there in time. Now it was late at night, and the baby lay peace-fully. Havier gazed across the park where the street-lamps illuminated a neat row of houses, and thought that the child surely should have been born to a home at least as good as those. He looked down in won-der at the little life in his lap, and remembered the vision. Florinda, too, had had a vision, though he hadn't believed it till his own had come. Now he had no doubt, but only amazement that this child should- have come to him. Doe's corner received a Christmas gift from student cupboard and counter-top (photo by Paul Gavic). senate. Who would believe in a modern Messiah? Plastic pine spoils spirit Don Postema, assistant philosophy professor, began a Film Forum in May, 1978 to open Bethel to another form of education. 1750 West Larpenleur Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55113 Est. 1906 ,Yeeime4 rc., STORE and GREENHOUSES Retail 646-7135 Page 10 Festival critics applaud 'Scotland' Bethel's first semester production of "Mary of Scot-land," directed by Jeffrey Miller, was entered as part of the American College Theatre Festival. Part of the participation in the fes-tival included a review by two outside critics. Be-cause of the nature of the critique, the Clarion pre-sents the following ex-cerpts from the written reviews given to the thea-tre arts department. Special notice is also given here to Beth Stien (Queen Mary) who was selected People of all ages die of heart disease and stroke. ‘110 American Heart Association WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE . . , • ,,,.."Csn .,..tz:..-. '', . Va - ' rii.;•:' : - c V. 4' • 'a' ' - 4,..•,-, ' i'• I" '''''''-' .? . 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Dosed on o tremendous desire ro leorn conversononol English LIFE appeals ro rhousonds of Joponese young people With quoliry longuoge instruction and o clear presentotion of rhe gospel many of these young people ore won ro the Lord You can be port of this success story , Write for , information rodoy YES I would like more information about short-term mission opportunities with LIFE NAistE ADDRESS CITY & STATE ZIP LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOR EVANGELISM Dox 200 Afhombro CA 91802 by the festival to partici-pate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship compet-ition. She will present two scenes at the regional festi-val in January. If selected at the regionals she will perform in Washington, D.C., in the spring. Scholar-ships are awarded to both regional and national win-ners. Excerpts from the cri-tique: "Acting — Some excellent work here. I don't know if it was due to the excellent directing/teaching or the basic talents of the cast, or a combination, but it was very good. There wasn't an obviously weak mem-ber in the cast (very surpri-sing in a play with a cast of 22 characters!). Dialects met with mixedsuccess — when they were good, they were very, very good, but when they weren't ... oh well... Acting was astonish-ingly mature. A great depth of character, a willingness to let the play work. "Directorial approach — ... Beautifully directed, with care, taste and a won-derful sense of restraint. A first-rate professional piece of directing, especial-ly in working with the actors... Casting was sound.... Very nice sense of subtle elements in design using the actors on the open stage... "Some strikingly effec-tive stage pictures were achieved—dramatically ef-fective and supportive of the script. The floor plan did, however, force too much of the action in toward a very restricted center area. There was a great deal of area in the periphery that could have been used effec-tively with a less res-trictive floor plan. "Production design and technical execution -- Cos-tume was most impres-sive, especially consider-ing the fact that they were all made for the produc-tion (right down to the boots for the men!). Only little touches were needed to truly complete them (an occasional crest, etc.). ... "Lights — you obviously have trouble with your con-trol board. What you wanted was evident, but your board gave you frequent power surges and flickers in low-er levels ... these were noti-ceable and distracting, but it is a tribute to the direc-tor and the cast that they did not bother me as much as they would have in a less powerful production. "Additional comments — There is a great deal of talent evident here in both director and cast.... A good proscenium theatre would help, but consider this pre-by Laura Phillips "Bethel's Film Forum is designed to help you learn, think, see and feel," said Don Postema, assistant philosophy professor re-sponsible for the Forum. Who started the Forum? "I guess I did," said Pos-tema. "It began in May of 1978." "Film has been misunder-stood and seen primarily as entertainment and/or as intrinsically evil or world-ly," said Postema. "But film is an art form and can be used to see other parts of our world as we would otherwise miss, such as other's relationships, na-ture and God." Postema sees film as edu-cational and thought-pro-voking. "Film creates a world and asks you to en-ter it," he said. "It gives sent room a challenge. You deserve better but for now consider that severe limita-tions bring out the best in an artist. ... "A most interesting com-pany of performers. A breath-taking maturity coupled with a deep sense of caring made for an ensemble that I haven't seen for a long time.... There is a spiritual aspect of all of the art that is so often missing. And although this is not a speci-fically Christian play ... the deep spirituality of the players infected the whole work, giving life, depth and meaning to the whole endeavor. Would that some of our professional threa-tres might have access to the same dimension. "Clearly you are doing something right at Bethel. Whatever it is keep doing it!" you an insight into the world of other persons, and involves you in signif-icant and relevant issues and problems." Postema selects the films himself. "I base my choi-ces on 1) aesthetic merit: does the film illustrate cin-ematic techniques, space, time and perspective? 2) intellectual merit: does it raise problems and issues significant enough for us to consider? 3) variety: films are chosen from dif-ferent countries and tradi-tions of filmmaking, and 4) on the question, 'Would I want to see this film, again or for the first time?"' So far this term, the films "Julia," "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "Blow Up" have been shown. Attendance this year has been high, "about 150 people each showing," said Postema. The next film shown will be "Mr. Klein," Tuesday, Jan. 13th, in FA 313. Be-by Jon Stockfisch A new Bethel program for pre-school teachers has been approved by the Min-nesota Board of Teaching, according to its executive secretary, Kenneth Peat-ross. It involves the licen-sure of pre-kindergarten teachers for the early child-hood education program The new program head-ed by Dr. Vivian Ander-son, associate professor of elementary and early child-hood education, will begin next fall. The program con-sists of a five-course se-quence including field ex-periences in a variety of pre-kindergarten settings and a student teaching ex-perience at the pre-kinder-garten level. Students interested in sides refreshments, an op-tional discussion for clari-fication of and reaction to the film is included. elementary education may wish to take these addi-tional courses to qualify for pre-kindergarten licen-sure. Students with other concentrations, such as psy-chology and Bible, may find the courses beneficial and may choose early child-hood education as a cog-nate. Although the licensure is not yet mandatory, An-derson said it will be a requirement for pre-school teachers by 1984. The program qualifies individuals to teach in nur-sery schools, day care cen-ters or early education pro-grams within public schools. For further in-formation contact Vivian Anderson, LR 327, 638- 6342 or 638-6339. Sell Your Used Textbooks for CASH at BETHEL BOOKSTORE December 17 & 18 If the book has been adopted for 2nd term, you will receive 1/2 of new price for a paper back textbook and 2/3 of new price for a cloth bound textbook. (The Bookstore does not buy back study guides or work books). If the book has not been adopted for 2nd term, you will receive whatever the used book company will pay for the book. Generally speaking, NOW is the time to sell your textbooks from last spring term, 1979-80. Bethel Film Forum screens relevant issues Pre-school program approved by board Doug Briggs, Psalmist, rehearses with cast members for "A Celebration of Psalms." 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Write to: Dr. Gordon Johnson, Dean 3949 Bethel Drive, St. Paul, MN 55112 4747 College Ave., San Diego, CA 92115 Page 1 1 `Psalms' plays with mood by Joy Nannette Banta "Strikingly different" would be one reaction. Sim-ply "unusual" could be an-other. "Obviously sincere" is yet one more response to Bethel's department of theatre arts' second fall production, "A Celebra-tion of Psalms." Unlike the average thea-tre performance, "Celebra-tion" lacks a plot, and most purposefully so. This scripture-based play takes the focus from theme, plot and character portrayal and places it on ritual and mood. It is, in the di-rector's own words, an "ex-periment," a celebration of his faith in the gospel mes-sage as presented in the Book of Psalms. Not only is the "plot" out of the ordinary, but Director Doug Briggs also takes the role of Psalmist and carries the lead in the play. As the lead, Briggs does not become the focus of attention. Rather, he sets the tone of the play, draw-ing the audience into the poetry of the Old Testa-ment book. The six other members of the cast can be referred to as the Psalmist's sup-port crew. It is through their vivid portrayals and energizing role-playing that the works of the Psal-mist come to life. Carol Carlson, Sandy Holasek, Aleta Johansen, Sandra Lind, Kristen Runge and Richard Talbot hold these roles. These cast members do not develop identities of their own in the charac-ters they portray. They work as a unit, each tak-ing care of various tasks thorugh the performance. Voice tones and intonations were first noticed, as a somewhat indescribable re-verence and solemnity com-bined with a tone reminis-cent of Chinese melodra-mas and rituals. One was brought out of the realm of the ordinary and into a world wrapped up in pay-ing homage to the Lord God. The use of tamborines caught the audience's atten-tion in the beginning, and the "wicked" masks worn by the support crew crea-ted an aura of mysticism — an aura destroyed by the righteousness of God and his wrath. One immedi-ately became engrossed in the meaningfulness of the Psalmist's words. "Psalms of Deliverance" were aptly brought to life by the dialogue and inter-action between all the char-acters. The give and take, the presentation of the pros and cons from Psalms 107, 22, 37 and 121, blended into a real-life drama where the audience could actually relate to the emo-tions the characters were feeling. The culmination of the scene with the Psalmist's presentation of the 23rd Psalm added a touch of familiarity that was needed after a long string of Psalms that were relevant, but not too familial'. "Psalms of God in His-tory" were exciting and fun as the verses were acted out in • succession. The support crew reacted spontaneously, like small children, play-acting the pictures created by the ver-ses. The most meaningful part of the play was Briggs' monologue with God, crying out against and in favor of the "Law of the Lord." The Psalmist was so absorbed in his one-sided conversa-tion that he answered his own questions and com-plaints, pleading with God to recognize his worth. The 119th Psalm provided the script for most of this mov-ing scene. The background music for the monologue worked quite well, yet dis-tracted from the message at times. The music in the final segment of praise came as a welcome change. Quiet singing and jubiliant praises with tamborines (once again) would have broken up some of the solemnness of the middle portions of the play. The joyous end-ing left the audience expect-ing more, but leaving with a contented spirit. Technically the play was simple. Only two benches adorned the stage and cos-turning was plain — light brown "shepherd's" suits and moccasins. The play was also well suited to the small theatre atmosphere. The only obvious problem came from above with the lighting. Lights flickered off and on and refused to dim. Distracting shadows also hit actors in the face, and forced what sometimes appeared to be unplanned movement. Of this experiment one could easily say that in "Celebration of Psalms" chemicals mixed well. by Sharon Waller Bethel received its Christ-mas gift early this year. It wasn't wrapped in bright paper and tied with a crisp red bow, but it was what Bethel has wanted for two years. The gift was a $20,000 grant from the St. Paul Foundation to go tow-ard Bethel's campaign, "Un-dergirding the Future." Two years ago Bethel asked the Foundation for the grant in order to com-plete the Learning Re-source Center. It wasn't until this year that it was approved and authorized. The grant is specifically to help pay for the science annex. Cleon Engel, director of community relations at Be-thel, said, "It's not just a matter of getting the mon-ey... you have to work at getting it, but once they give it's not like they're paying for a service. They're giving us a grant. So we have to be apprecia-tive of it." The Foundation is made up of people. People who want to know how the project is going and when it is completed. People who have an interest in sup-porting educational, cul-tural and other charitable needs of the St. Paul area. No. 43, Kathryn Miller, attempts a shot against Gustavus (photo by Paul Gavic). The Royal hockey team was defeated by St. Mary's last Friday night, 7-1 (p,hoto by Paul Gavic). Paul Linsey presses a Concordia ballplayer to lead the Royals to a 97-65 win over Concordia (photo by Paul Gavic). Wrestling team performs well; places second at invitational Page 12 sports St. Mary's skates by Bethel, 7-1 by Becky Dye In the last 15 seconds, the Bethel hockey team scored a goal and spoiled the shut-out threatened by St. Mary's, making the fin-al score 7-1 last Friday evening at Columbia Ice Arena. "We played well in spurts, we need to con-tinue to gain experience. The defensemen are improv-ing each and every game," commented Coach Craig Dahl. Bruce Nord scored Be-thel's single goal, assisted by Steve Larson. "Tom Bergquist, Tom Waage and Steve Kettle-kamp all played well," said Dahl. Waage and Berquist are freshmen. by Rob Haglund The Royal wrestling squad opened their season on a successful note, fin-ishing in second place in the Terry Haws Invitation-al at St. John's University last Saturday. The Bethel grapplers defeated North-western and St. John's be-fore bowing to a powerful Southwest State squad in the championship match. Head coach Dave Klos-treich was pleased by the performance of his squad. "Everyone gave a good ef-fort and despite our youth and injury situation we made a good showing," he commented. The Royals faced North-western in the first match of the tournament and ea-sily handled the Eagles, St. Mary's first goal came at the end of the first period with only four sec-onds left and four on four players. In the second period St. Mary's rallied, scoring four goals. The first was a pow-erplay, five on three, and was put in just as one Bethel penalty was about to expire. The third goal was a slapshot from the blue line when both teams were at full strength. The next goal was scored on a breaka-way making the score 3 -0. At the close of the sec-ond period St. Mary's scored a shorthanded goal on a breakaway making the score 4-0. In third period play, St. Mary's scored three more 42-13. Co-captain Greg Wid-mer at 134 and Ben Mc- Eachern at 158 both pin-ned their opponents. Mc- Eachern's pin came at 1:24 of the first period, the quick-est stick for the Royals this year. By defeating the Eagles, the Royals ad-vanced to the semifinals against an improved and aggressive St. John's team. The match against the Johnnies was by far mo st exciting one of the after-noon. At first it appeared as though the Royals might run away with it. Don Lint, the freshman from Cadil-lac, Mich., got the first col-legiate win by an 8- 5 score at the 118-weight class. Russ Reynolds followed that with a 13 -4 major decision at 126. Not to be outdone, his brother Rich goals, two on powerplays and one on a full strength breakaway. Both Eric Peterson and Curt Almberg tended the goal. Peterson had 29 saves and five goals scored on him, Almberg had 11 saves and two scored on him. Bethel had 31 shots on goal for the game, and St. Mary's 39. During the Thanksgiv-ing break, the Royals com-peted in the MIAC Tour-nament. Bethel lost three games: Augsburg, 12 -2; Concordia, 7-2; and St. Olaf, 5-2. Dahl reflected, "We got better each game. We're young, we have ten fresh-men, nine sophomores, four juniors and three sen-iors." Reynolds pinned his man half-way through the third per-iod. Suddenly the Royals were up 13 -0. The Johnnies came storm-ing back, however, and took the next four weight class-es. At 142, Bethel junior Wayne Reeves was forced to default after suffering a slight concussion. Reeves was hospitalized and will be out of action indefinite-ly. Darryl Morressey was pinned at 150, and then McEachern was pinned at 158 while leading his match in points. Jon Martin was decisi-oned 6-2 at 167 and the Royals were now fighting for their lives, losing 21- 13. The team needed its upper weight wrestlers to come through. Mike And-erson got a big win at 177 with a 19 -12 decision and Steve Bont followed with a 6-3 squeaker at 190. With one match left the score stood: St. John's 21, Bethel 19. It was all up to first year wrestler Mike Quesnell to pull it out for the Roy-als. The storybook ending became reality when Ques-nell registered his first pin of the year with one sec-ond left in the first period. Final score: Bethel 25, St. John's 21. The Royals were then defeated by Southwest State in the championship match 43-0. Coach Klostreich was im-pressed by the attitude his team showed, especially against the Johnnies. "The team never lost their con-fidence and showed real character in coming back against St. John's," he said. The Royal squad will have their first home match of the year tomorrow when the Bethel junior varsity faces Northwestern start-ing at 1:00 p.m. The team will then participate in four away meets before returning home to the Ro-bertson P.E. Center to host St. John's and St. Olaf in a triangular meet January 24. Women's b-ball has slow start, but optimistic by Ellie Abbott The women's basketball team opened up their sea-son with a heart-breaking four point loss to St. Olaf, Monday, Dec. 1. Three days later, the Royals tra-veled to Gustavus and lost 61 -52. Despite the two losses, Coach Marcia LaRock is optimistic about her team and commented, "After los-ing our first two games, our goal is to go into the Christmas break with an average of .500." This means that Bethel must win their two home games this week. Despite the 74- 70 loss at St. Olaf, the Royals had a fine game overall. "We play-ed a good ball game. We played well offensively but our defense wasn't as strong as it should be," said La Rock. Keri DeBoer was the lead-ing scorer for Bethel with 16 points. Deb Sension and JoAnn Griffin were close behind with 14 points each. DeBoer was also the lead-ing rebounder with thir-teen rebounds, and shot 100 per cent on free throws. "Thursday was much harder to lose because we didn't play a smart game; we had too many turnov-ers," said La Rock. JoAnn Griffin and Beth Karsjens led the scoring for the Roy-als with 12 points apiece. The score was tied 31- 31 at the half, but Bethel's defense could not hold. Gus-tavus pulled away to de-feat the Royals 61 -52. Af-ter the game La Rock com-mented, "We had a frustrat-ing game. We worked on our defense, but our of-fense wasn't as good as against St. Olaf. Our key now is to take what we're doing in practice and bring it on the court." Interim Basketball Men's Basketball January 3—St. Olaf Home JV 5:30, Varsity 7:30 pm January 6—Macalester- Away January 8-10—Point Loma Tournament- San Diego, Away January 14—Augsburg-Away Women's Basketball January 8—Augsburg, Home, 7:00 pm January 15—St. Scholastica- Away |
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