Clarion 1980-12-12 Vol 56 No 12

              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
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"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
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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
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but applaud congeniality
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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,
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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
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the staff hopes the Bethel
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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.
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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
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There are no major changes
being planned for next year.
"The only minor change
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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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`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