Clarion 1983-03-18 Vol 58 No 22

              Rod Long, director of housing, oversees the application process.
Woodward/photo
Bethel students suggest improvements in food service as options are considered for next year.
Copeland/photo
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Feature on
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march 18, 1983 3900 bethel dr., st. paul, mn 55112 vol. 58, no. 22
Housing offers students choice
by JoAnn Watkins
Housing application pro-cess
for' the 1983 -84 year has
begun. The biggest changes
are in the living areas which
are available. Minor changes
have been made in the appli-cation
procedure with first
round applications due before
spring break.
"We'll have a third more
space on campus for upper-classmen,"
said Rod Long, di-rector
of college housing. Up-perclassmen
will be able to
choose housing from two
buildings at Silvercrest, Foun-tain
Terrace, townhouses or a
dormitory. Arden Village East
will be upperclassmen and
approximately 45 per cent of
West will be. A new option
available to upperclassmen is
Nelson Dorm.
"We're going to allow up to
33 per cent of Nelson to be
upperclassmen," Long said.
He explained this would not
be a floor of continuing stu-dents
but mixed floors with
the freshman. He said that
freshmen may be encouraged
by the role models and apply
themselves to studies earlier
in the semester. "The contin-uatation
of residents will
make a stronger residence
council," Long said. He said
he hopes the councils will be
able to move beyond social
functions and become in-volved
in educational and ser-vice.
oriented activities.
There will be an altered
visitation schedule at Nelson,
Long said, and the upperclass-men
townhouses will not have
the same hours as the apart-ments.
"Visitation next year
will be basically from 12 p.m.
to 12 a.m.," Long said, "with
one or two nights closed to
visitation."
"We're having applications
now, one week earlier, rather
than two weeks late," said
Long of the change to turn-applications
in before spring
break. "We want it to be com-pleted
before finals." He said
the timing of the housing as-signment
last year resulted in
a number of people not turn-ing
in their leases. The number
of application rounds has been
reduced from four to two.
Housing will make assign-ments
and return leases to the
students. Students will have
two weeks to sign and return
the leases. After this there are
three weeks in which the lease
can be canceled without pen-alty.
The $200 penalty fee for
cancellations after mid-
August has been extended
from the fall date into second
semester.
Other changes in the pro-cess
include minor changes of
wording in the lease, enforce-ment
of signing up for the
year in full rooms and the
elimination of class level quo-tas.
Long said class level quo-tas
were eliminated as Bethel
was able to meet all housing
requests.
There is no system for over-loading
the apartments with
more people and changes in
the lease provide for possible
space consolidation of apart-ments
with 50 per cent or less
occupancy. "As an alternative
to space consolidation, stu-dents
may choose to rent a
single room for one-and-a-half
times the room rate," said
Long.
Married student housing,
housing, see page 3
by JoAnn Watkins
"Amount of required on-campus
food plan will be de-termined
by Business Office
in May or June," states page
three of the housing applica-tion
instructions.
"I think the earliest will be
the first of May," said Don
Evans, vice-president for
business affairs, of the deci-sion
to set board fees.
Students considering living
on-campus next school year
face uncertainty about the
cost and type of food program
Bethel will be offering. The
possibility of a change in the
$850 food plan of this year
was brought about by dissa-tisfaction
with the present
system.
"Basically, what we're do-ing
is responding to students,
parents and the food service
management," said Evans.
"These concerns regard effi-ciency
and quality. Parents
are concerned with how well
their son or daughter is eating.
"As an element of recruit-ing,
we have to look at how
many students we are losing
by the students' comparison
of food services," he said.
"There are indications that
some potential students are
not coming to Bethel because
of these comparisons." He said
the present system encour-ages
some students to skimp
and not eat well.
"We don't know what kind
of plan would work best,"
said Evans. This is the reason
a minimum figure has not
been cited for board.
"We're trying to provide the
best quality food at the low-est
price," Evans said. "Bethel
needs an idea of how many
people are going to be here
and eat each meal. We need
room to plan and to know
what to expect." He said there
is a number of different situa-tions
to consider regarding
students and the food service
with students living off-cam-pus
and eating on-campus and
others living on-campus and
eating most of their meals off-campus.
"We are looking at
alternative systems and
menus," Evans said.
Possible plans begin consi-dered
are 15- or 21-meal cards,
all you can eat and other diet
options such as health food.
One proposed idea is for an
outside vendor to be respon-sible
for the food program.
Evans said that student in-put
has been sought by form-ing
a food service committee
but students have not ex-pressed
an interest. "Its's very
difficult to run food service
unless you have input," said
Evans. "It's easy to run the
food service at any college if
you don't have a formalized
process to hear student's com-plaints."
A food service program has
not been set up as the process
of looking at other alterna-tives
was begun within the
last month according to
Evans. "I wasn't here until
September, and no one was
on my case to look at the food
service program so it was not
one of my priorities at the
time."
Changes proposed for food service
page 2 the Clarion march 18, 1983
editorial,
Retrospection needed in
academic, spiritual lives
The first half of spring term is soon to be over. It seems
that at this time in each term I look back over past terms
trying to put together all that I have learned during this
time. Usually I can see quite a bit of progress and that
pleases me. But all too often I see an empty spot. I see
something that I know I should have learned, and thought I
had, but conclude that maybe I don't know it quite as well
as I thought.
This "semi-termly" exercise is good for the mind, and
often helps me to better set my sights for my educational
future. But this exercise can be good for the spiritual life as
well. The problem here is that we are not as able to review
our spiritual lives. This retrospection, though, is the one
thing that we should be doing more often. Oh, it's true that
we can always come up with a good reason not to review
our spiritual progress, but what good does it do us if we
never even attempt to mend our "erring ways"?
We learn from our mistakes. This is true not only in our
everyday practical experience, but even more so in our
spiritual lives. God is an all-loving, all-forgiving God, and
we are his children. He is always there to help us and
forgive us, even when we fail miserably.
As we begin the "beginning of the end," let's attempt to
review not only our academic progress, but our spiritual
progress as well. In the end we will be better off if we just
take the time to find and correct our errors. We certainly
would do it to help our academic standing; should not we
then be all the more anxious to do it for our spiritual
standing?
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journalism'
charged
In the spirit of B. Larson's
plea for nonsoporific journal-ism,
from Dave Healy:
Dear editor:
Does.
Dan Taylor
Dear editor:
Does not.
Paul Reasoner
Dear editor:
Does too.
Lynn Fauth
Dear editor:
Does not does not.
Paul Spickard.
Dear editor:
Does too does too.
Dave Healy
Dear editor:
Now boys.
Gerald Healy
letters
pcd Bethel lacks worthy praise
To the editor:
Though I agree with Brett
Larson that the Clarion needs
to arouse student's emotions,
I have trouble accepting the
rest of his argument.
Countless times the Clar-ion
has been labeled boring
and good only as kitty litter
box liner. My question is:
where are these people when
it comes time to fill staff posi-tions?
The Clarion welcomes
good story ideas from other
students because five people
cannot expect to know every-thing
that is newsworthy. No-body
has pounded on the door
the
Clarion
yet demanding that a certain
story be covered. I would love
to see it happen.
The other complaint is that
the Clarion focuses only on
Bethel's events. The present
staff feels it would be a waste
of time and money to repeat
national news for those stu-dents
too lazy to read a news-paper
on their own. State and
national news written in the
Clarion would be a week old
by the time it got published
anyway.
Before any more complaints
are heard, please try to help
the Clarion improve.
Neal Bernards
To the editor:
I am writing in response to
a generally negative attitude I
have sensed in recent issues
of the Clarion with regard to
the institution we call Bethel
College. A few recent articles
have had a grumbling flavor
about them concerning Bethel
which I have found rather
distasteful and unrepresenta-tive
of the quality of this
institution.
I write as one who has stud- .
ied and visited a number of
other colleges across the coun-
To the editor:
try and worked for five years
at another Christian Collge
Consortium school. I can tell
you that on the basis of what I
have seen elsewhere, Bethel
is an outstanding institution.
Bethel is outstanding in many
respects. These include a su-perb
faculty, good facilities,
many excellent programs and
majors, a strong Christian
commitment and an environ-ment
conducive to tackling
the difficult issues facing the
church and society in general
(as opposed to institutions
where the sanctioned taboos
all of her external and inter-nal
senses. She was alive in
her vibrant emotions, inquir-ing
mind, strong will and lov-ing
heart. To be fully alive
means to be open to the whole
human experience. It is a
struggle to climb a mountain,
but the view from the top is
magnificent. She was certain-ly
not oblivious to pain or
confusion, yet she was very
much aware of the wisdom of
Socrates that "the unreflected
life is not worth living."
I would be doing Barb a
disservice if I did not point
out that one of the legacies
Barb has left us is this: people
who truly live Life are those
who are capable of asking the
right questions of life and are
flexible enough to let life (and
include discussion of contro-versial
issues.)
No, Bethel is not perfect. It
couldn't possibly be. After all,
you and I work here, don't
we? There will always be
something for someone to
complain about. But there are
many more aspects of Bethel
that are worthy of praise.
Let us all do more praising
and constructive criticism and
less complaining.
Sincerely,
Scott A. Chambers
Assistant Professor
of Chemistry
death) question them. They
will not live an unreflected
life in an unexamined world.
The impact of that initial
moment of shock, disbelief
and pain when I heard the
news of her death continues
to reverberate within the
depths of my being. I'd like to
say "God has a purpose in
this," and leave it at that. I
cannot. The question that I
have to ask myself, and I ask
you at Bethel: do we have the
courage to put question marks
behind this; can we allow our-selves
to doubt without los-ing
all grounds? 'There is a
risk involved—the risk of that
searing anguish that Jesus felt
risk, see page 3
Student input needed
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College students. Editorial opinions ore the
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Letters are welcome, and must be typewrit-ten,
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before publication.
JoAnn Watkins/editor
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Don Copeland/photography editor
Ginger Hope/copy editor
John Clark/sports editor
Neal Bernards/editorial assistant
Mike Doran/editorial assistant
Lynnetre Monter/editorial assistant
Pam Sundeen/business manager
Tammy Gregersen/ad soles
Brian S. Anderson/graphic editor
Barry Rinehart/cartoonist
Janet Ewing/columnist
Marty Stanchfield/columnist
John Lilleberg/sports writer
Rich Whybrew/sports writer
Don Woodward/photographer
Scott Childs/photographer
To the many who knew,
loved, and were personally
touched by the life and death
- of Barbara Burton I'd like to
extend this letter as my ap-preciation
for tribute to a great
woman. The world will al-ways
be a better place, a hap-pier
place, and a more human
place because she lived,
laughed and loved here.
She was one of those few
people whom one could truly
call "fully alive." By this I
mean that she was someone
who used all of her human
faculties, powers, and talents
(of which she was given
many) to the fullest. She was
alive (and is, in the sense that
she lives on in many of us) in
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Central Baptist Church
420 North Roy Street St. Paul, Minnesota 646-2751
Pastoral Staff:
Rev. Frank Doten, pastor
Rev. Ronald C. Eckert, pastor
Bus Leaves:
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march 18, 1983
the Clarion page 3
news briefs
"The Boat is Full" is a film
about six World War II refu-gees
fleeing from Germany to
"neutral" Switzerland. The
trek of five Jews and one Nazi
deserter across the border
seems dangerous, yet the
Swiss immigration policy is
the greatest threat of all: the
government will not accept
refugees on "racial status"
alone. The film will be shoWn
on March 21 at the Film For-urn,
at 7 p.m. in FA 313.
****
The Bethel Concert Band
will perform a program of
classical favorites and origi-nal
compositions on Tuesday,
March 22 at 8 p.m. in the gym.
Tickets are $1.50 for adults
and $1 for any student with
an I.D.; tickets are available
at the door.
The 53-member band will
perform Holst's "First Suite
for Military Band," Dello Joio's
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That
Good Night," Elgar's "Enigma
Variations," and Rimsky-Kor-sakov's
"Procession of
Nobles." Vivaldi's "Concerto
for Two Trumpets" will fea-ture
Art McGettrick and Keith
Winberg as soloists.
risk, from page 2
at the cross, "my God, my
God, why have you forsaken
me?" To be able to honestly
ask that is difficult—painful,
to say the least. However, it is
this protest that bursts forth
from our bewilderment; it is a
natural response. As we can
accept this we can also begin
along the path of converting
our protest against the ab-surdities
of the human exist-ence
into a prayer that lifts us
beyond the boundaries of our
existence to him who holds
our life in his hands and heart
with boundless love and mer-cy.
Barb recognized and ac-cepted
the mortality of her
This concert is the ensem-ble's
18th appearance this sea-son;
the concert band is re-cording
a disk at the Minne-sota
Public Radio studios
which will be released later
this spring.
"Sexual Assault Violence
Hurts Everyone" is the title of
a seminar that will be held
March 22 and 24 at 7 p.m. in
PE 207. The speaker will talk
about sexual assault: how to
protect against it, the resour-ces
available to those who
have been sexually abused
and in general, helping people
to acknowledge that this prob-lem
exists. These information-al
meetings are for anyone
concerned about sexual as-sault.
*** *
Spring courses for adults
will be offered by Bethel Sem-inary
through its Institute for
Spiritual Growth. Beginning
March 28 for five Monday
evenings, this series of two-existence.
She knew that her
life was not her own and will-ingly
trusted the One who
had given her that life. Sure,
she was "ready" and has gone
to a "better place," but, more
than that, she knew, and con-tinues
to remind me now, that
we can't really know what
life is all about, and that we
don't rule it ordetermine all of
hour length classes will focus
on contemporary Christian
topics and biblical under-standing.
Courses will be "Lord,
Change Me" taught by best-selling
author Evelyn Chris-tenson,
assisted by Lori Keil;
"Understanding, Scripture"
taught by professors Berke-ley
and Alvera Mickelsen;
"Mind-Altering Cults" taught
by theology professor Clar-ence
Bass; "The Parables of
Jesus" led by New Testament
professor Robert Stein; "Gen-esis"
taught by Old Testament
professor John Sailhamer;
"Your Family: Experiencing
the Adventure of Life To-gether"
led by family consul-tant
Daniel Lambrides of
Shoreview Family Physi-cians;
"World Missions: Get-ting
Serious About It in the
Local Church" taught by mis-sions
professor Herbert Klem;
and "Making the Most of Mar-riage"
led by pastoral care
professor and counselor Nils
Friberg.
The registration fee is $20
for the five-week sessions.
For further information, call
Harriet LaBorde at Bethel
Seminary, 638-6180.
its values and goals.
Barb would be the last one
to want any one of us to
accept quick and simple an-swers
to all the questions we
may feel. As we muster the
courage to doubt, and then go
beyond the protesting to
prayer (a prayer which may
still have a question mark
housing, from page 1
at Silvercrest, will be on a
space available basis rather
than the first assignments as
was done this year.
At Silvercrest, Bethel will
be leasing only two apartment
buildings. During the 1981-82
year, six buildings were used
with one building dropped in
behind it) we listen to the
Psalmist: "Know this, Yah-weh
works wonders for those
he loves, Yahweh hears me
when I call to him" (Ps. 4:3.)
Joy L Diacou
(former Bethel student)
1982-83. Declines in student
enrollment and in students
living in campus housing do
not create a demand for the
apartments.
Students staying in apart-ments
during official school
breaks will be required to
inform housing staff this next
year and a $25 fee has been
set for opening housing for
students after the buildings
are closed during breaks.
Roseville Auto Body
2031 W. County Rd. C
Phone: 633-7770
No job is too big or too small
All types of collision repairs
by Janet Ewing
I cannot wait for spring break.
Do you know why?
Is it because I look forward to the luxury of sleeping in my
own bed, eating free meals with my family, visiting my
friends, going to Chicago and eating bagels at Bev and Bob's
Delicatessen around the corner from the Chicago Art Insti-tute?
Yes, these things hold their charms. They do make vacation
an enjoyable experience.
But those things are not what makes spring break worth-while.
They are not the big features.
The absolute best part about spring break is that I can wear
the same pair of jeans, T-shirt and cowboy hat for a week
straight and no one will care.
At my house they don't care what we look like as long as we
don't smell bad.
What joy! What bliss!
The absolute worst part of Bethel is coming up with five dif-ferent
outfits each week. Why should we care what everyone
looks like as long as we don't smell bad? Who cares anyway?
The stress of studying, going to class and running a full so-cial
life (HA) is compounded by the decision that greets me
each morning at 8 a.m. What to wear.
Who knows why we feel we need to wear a different outfit
each day of the week. Look at all the money we spend on
clothes. Is it just to impress each other?
I won an extensive T-shirt wardrobe, and it has occurred to
me that if I wore a different T-shirt everyday I could go almost
a month before doing laundry.
But girls at Bethel do not wear T-shirts. At least not every
day for a month.
At least they don't when they're at Bethel.
I think we all dress up too much. I do it, too. But why not just
dress comfortably and enjoy ourselves without worrying
what others think of us?
Maybe we're too insecure to act ourselves.
I'm pretty secure at home. In fact, I think the essence of home
is dressing in the same T-shirt, jeans. and cowboy hat for a
week. As long as you don't smell no one should care.
I'll be packing light for spring break. I already have a few T-shirts
at home.
Bethany Baptist Church
Cleveland and Skillman Avenues, Roseville, Mn
Worship Service at 11:00 AM
Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM
Church Telephone 631-0211
Pastor Bruce Petersen
Page 4 the Clarion march 18, 1983
Salvador leads U of M politics
by Mike Doran
The U of M is politically
hot again, with El Salvador
causing much of the heat.
Jeane Kirkpatrick's visit to
the campus is a good example
of this activity. Her speech
inside the Northrop Audito-rium
on March 2 drew a lot of
attention.
On the front steps of the
auditorium a group of nuclear
freeze protesters held their
monthly "die-in." Every
month they lie down some-where
and act dead with the
warning sirens. Because Kirk-patrick
spoke on a day the
warning sirens go off, the
group held their death act
where she spoke.
Inside the auditorium Kirk-patrick
was interrupted by
shouts of "Fascist" and "Nazi;"
someone draped a 30 foot Nazi
banner over the second floor
balcony.
Earlier, outside the audito-rium
400 protesters held a
rally. The protesters, organ-ized
by a broad coalition of
committees, included a group
called the El Salvador Solidar-ity
Committee. Allen Dahl of
this committee, the ESSC, em-phasized
that their rally was
peaceful and courteous. The
rally was a protest over the
military support for El Sal-vador
which Kirkpatrick pro-posed—
Kirpatrick, back from
a Central American tour, pro-posed
a Marshall-like plan of
aid to the El Salvadorian gov-ernment.
The general feeling
of the ESSC is that the mil-itary
government of El Sal-vador,
though wearing U.S.
flags on their lapels, rules
with bloodshed and does not
have the popular support of
the people. More arms in their
hands just further the blood-shed,
holds the committee.
The ESSC calls for five
changes in policy: 1) end the
U.S. military aid to El Salva-dor
($82 million last year,
$110 million proposed for this
year), to Guatamala, and to
Honduras; 2) stop U.S. at-tacks
on leftist Nicaragua
(they have supplied El Sal-vadorian
rebels arms through
Cuba and USSR; sometimes
rebel troups are better armed
than government troups);
3) include opposition in nego-tiation
proposals; 4) grant
political asylum for political
refugees from Central Amer-ica;
and 5) use money on so-cial
programs here rather than
bombs there.
The ESSC also belongs to a
coalition of other groups plan-ning
activities commemorat-ing
the anniversary of the
murder of El Salvador's Arch
Bishop Romero. Romero was
killed three years ago, proba-bly
by a right wing death
squad, while saying mass.
Romero wrote a letter to then
President Jimmy Carter, urg-ing
American non-involve-ment.
Romero said that U.S.
guns were going to a military
government which sup-pressed
the political rights of
its citizens and caused a great
deal of bloodshed, all without
popular support of the people
of El Salvador.
The activities are planned
for this Friday, March 18.
First, a memorial service from
noon to 2:30 p.m. at the Wes-ley
United Methodist Church
on 1st and East Grant is
planned.
Then from 3 to 4 p.m. in the
area of the church and the
Mpls. auditorium, a rally is
planned, which includes
slides, films, videos, work-shops,
and speakers.
The speakers include Mary-knoll
sister Mary Malherek,
of the order of Catholic mis-sionaries
who recently had
members brutally murdered
in El Salvador, Rene Hurtar-do,
former member of the Sal-vadorian
Army and planned
speaker at Bethel on March
22, and Russel Packard.
At 4 p.m., the rally will turn
into an eight-block march
down to the Federal Building,
where Clyde Belacourt from
the American Indian Move-ment
will speak. From there
the group will march back
and disperse.
The U.S. government has spent one billion dollars in El Salvador thus
far, 82 million of it in 1982 for military aid. Reagan proposed 110
million dollars in military aid for 1983. Last month retreating guerril-las
shot at an El Salvadorian government chopper, wounding inside
Sgt. Jay T. Stanely, one military advisor of Reagan's self imposed
limit of 55 advisors. Stanely was the first U.S. military casualty in the
war.
PAJC schedules
seminar on C.A.
Bethel College's Peace and Justice Committee is sponsoring
a seminar on Central America. All of the activities will be held
in the AC lounge. The planned schedule for the activities is as
follows:
TUESDAY, MARCH 22—EL SALVADOR
12:15 Film: "Seeds of Liberty"
—interview with military, government and church leaders
both in El Salvador and the U.S.
—examination of the martyrdom of four North American
missionaries.
—scenes of the funeral of assassinated Archbishop Romero
and interviews with the poor.
1:00 Slide Show: "El Salvador; a Country in Crisis"
—update and discussion by El Salvador Solidarity Com-mittee
2:00 Rene Hurtardo
—former member of the army of El Salvador, fled two years
ago, and seeks political asylulm in the U.S.
—participant in St. Luke's Presbyterian Sanctuary pro-gram.
3:40 Debate: U.S. Policy toward El Salvador
—Bob McCaa, professor of history, U of M
—K.G. McDonald, from Reagan's perspective
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23—NICARGUA
12:30 Video: "From the Ashes, Nicaragua Today"
—speaker: Rev. John Sinclair, former missionary to Central
America.
—Response: Herb Klem, director of missions at American
Seminary, and Peter Larson, missionary to Mexico.
3:40 U.S. Covert Operations in Nicaragua
—panel discussion by persons from Nicaraguan Solidarity
Committee who have recently visited Central America.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24—GUATEMALA
12:15 Video: taped interviews
—survivors of massacre in Guatemala.
—a representative of Guatemalan Solidarity Committee
will interact and answer questions during and after video and
slide presentation.
2:00 Church Sanctuaries speak: "The role of the church at
home"
—coordinators of the St. Luke Presbyterian's sanctuary pro-gram
in Wayzata will speak on local supportive action.
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march 18, 1983
the Clarion page 5
U.S. revises domino theory
Twenty-nine year old senior, Mark Levitt, remembers Vietnam's
impact. Copeland/photo
John Lawyer, professor of
political science, commented
that some U.S. policy-makers,
not so pleased about these
two choices, want to avoid
them if possible by stopping
the tipping dominos at the
source—El Salvador.
U.S. policy-makers have
further economic and politi-cal
reasons for keeping the
dominos from tipping. Busi-ness
interests in the region
include oil; U.S. policy-mak-ers
want to keep the flow of
oil running smoothly from
Central America to U.S. fac-tories.
And policy-makers
want to protect large multi-national
corporations such as
United Fruit, the company
which sends bananas to U.S.
breakfast tables. United Fruit
owns large percentages of
land in the area, and is con-
_ cerned over leftist land ac-quisition
acts, especially those
- - - without retribution.
les like these prefer to keep
the status quo and the dollars
which go with it.
And U.S. policy-makers are
6 — - - - ';concerned with the question
--of communism, because in this
...,case the ideological battle
would be fought very close to
'home.
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by Mike Doran
U.S. policy-makers are talk-ing
about the domino theory
again. The theory, revised
from Vietnam to El Salvador,
takes on greater significance
today because of the implica-tions
of revolutions and in-stability
so close to the U.S.
border, as opposed to Viet-nam's
theory which dealt with
countries halfway across the
world. As the theory goes,
with a guerrilla victory in El
Salvador, the seeds of revolu-tion
would spread and grow.
Going south, it could head
across defenseless Costa Rica
like a hot knife through but-ter.
Mike Dirks, senior, visited
Costa Rica in 1979: "Costa
Rica is a small democratic
country, primarily sustaining
itself on agriculture. Most
houses have no running water,
v. .
no electricity, and no tele-phones.
Costa Rica could be
taken overnight, and two-thirds
of the country wouldn't
know about it. They have no
army, though they have a
small police force. Costa Rica
is in a very susceptible posi-tion
to any organized guer-rilla
force."
From Costa Rica this move-ment
could spread further
south to Panama, threatening
U.S. shipping with the canal
in danger.
Going north from El Salva-dor,
it could spread to Hondu-ras,
to Guatemala, reviving
their guerrilla war, and even-tually
to Mexico. Neal John-son
visited Mexico last Janu-ary,
describing a country,
which, though it has a stable
past, is textbook ready for
revolution: "The government
is said to be corrupt. Almost
everyone, from the traffic cop
on the street to the President,
takes bribes. President Lopez
Portillo is the seventh richest
man in the world; the Mexi-can
treasury is the poorer for
it. There are many, many poor
people," he said. "You'll see
beggars every couple blocks:
mothers with their little child-ren
begging—she and her
children are probably starv-ing.
The country is not too far
from bankruptcy. People can
vote, but their votes carry no
power because the govern-ment
picks the candidates.
o -'
Mark Levitt, a senior chem-istry
major, is 29 years old—
he took some years off before
coming back to school. He
belonged to the end of the
Vietnam generation.
Levitt recalls the options
and mood of his generation:
"One option was to voluntar-ily
join the service, or accept
the draft with military ser-vice."
Those who did risked
getting shot at and having to
shoot back. If they came back
from Vietnam alive, said
Levitt, "the American public
did not regard them highly for
their service."
Obviously, the service did
not appeal to many people.
Many searched for a way out
of the service. "They could
accept the draft and go as
COs (conscientious objectors)
for peaceful duty," said Levitt,
"or they could simply register
and hope not to be drafted.
Many, if there were drafted,
went to Canada. Many others
simply did not register. I my-self
put off registration due to
indecision. Fortunately, the
draft ended a few months
afterwards and it did not mat-ter."
"Registration for the draft
was right at high school,"
Levitt continued. "The prin-cipal
usually submitted a list
of students to the government
so they knew who did or did
not register. The government
assigned a number to each
registrant according to the
dates of birth. Then on TV
they would randomly pick a
number and if the number
they picked corresponded to
the number of the date of
birth, it was off to the service.
Some guy would stand in
front of the TV, spin a tank,
pull out a card with a number
on it, and read it solemnly. A
lot of people packed their bags
after he read that number."
Levitt recalled further ac-tivities
of some members of
his generation: "A radical
group took over the dean's
office at the U of M; many
burned their draft cards in
public; a lot of people went to
Canada; groups such as the
Yippies and the S.D.S. held
sit-ins, sitting someplace ille-gally
and forcing the authori-ties
to physically pick them
up and carry them to jail;
there was a counter-cuilture
highly tied in with the draft."
Older student
recalls events
of Vietnam era
by Mike Doran
From what I've seen and
heard, unless something hap-pens,
the country is ripe for
dramatic changes," said John-son.
Just the possibility of in-stability
in Mexico from a
revolution, regardless of
whether the Mexico domino
actually falls, gravely con-cerns
U.S. policy-makers. The
instability probably would
lead to mass movements of
refugees toward the border.
U.S. policy-makers could
choose to close the borders.
This would likely result in
bloodshed and an enraged
Mexican-American popula-tion.
The other choice, open-ing
up the borders, could
create another problem like
Florida has with Cuban refu-gees,
only on a much grander
scale.
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Gallery
Exhibit
Senior art majors Susan Kraft (paintings), Jan Harmelink (ceramics),
Laurie Nichols (computer graphics), and Kevin Olson (drawings) are
displaying their work in the Eugene Johnson Gallery of Art. The exhibi-tion
runs from March 14 to March 25 and is open to the public.
Woodward/photo
Security guards check incoming vehicles to insure safety of Bethel
students. Childs/photo
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Bethel security improves with experience, communication
by Neal Bernards
In the past, Bethel security
was considered a joke, but
that image is quickly chang-ing.
The apprehension of three
vandals on March 2 is proof
of improvement.
At 2:30 a.m. Dan Anderson,
a security guard, was notified
by the gate guard that three
teenage males had driven by
the west parking lot on their
way to visit a friend in Bodien.
"Anyone is allowed on cam-pus
who can supply a name
that checks out," said Ander-son.
"The other guard sensed
they were a bit rowdy so he
called me and I kept an eye on
them."
As the youths left their car
and walked towards Bodien
one of them broke a rear-view
mirror and kicked a window.
Anderson confronted them in
the adjacent dirt lot and es-
Alan Schmidt, a weekend secur-ity
guard, radios a fellow worker.
Childs/photo
corted them back to the car.
A search of the car revealed
a case of beer. All of the youth
were under age. "Immediately
I radioed for someone to call
. the police. They were there in
five minutes," said "Ander-son.
"I separated the group so
they couldn't collaborate sto-ries
and I told the policeman
what happened. From then on
it was in his hands." How-ever,
only the young man re-sponsible
for the vandalism
was charged with criminal
damage to property.
This is the fifth incident
Bethel security has handled
this year. During Festival of
Christmas an intruder was
arrested for stealing purses
from choir members. Two
other men tried to steal An-derson's
car; both of them
were caught near Rosedale. A
prowler was apprehended be-hind
AV West and a car-was
stopped after driving around
the chains on the front en-trance.
None of these events
involved Bethel students.
The reason for more con-frontations
is not a rise in
crime but a tighter security
force. An additional guard has
been added to night shifts,
communication set up be-tween
security and switch-board,
and hours staggered to
provide round-the-clock pro-tection.
Students can improve se-curity
even more by being
observant. "If you suspect a
crime is being committed, call
us," said Tom Countryman,
supervisor of security. "The
best place to call is the switch-board
and tell them the de-tails.
Otherwise call the guard
house at 6232. You can even
call us off-duty if you have a
problem, we don't mind."
Countryman also advised
Bethel students to secure their
property because there are
strangers on campus all the
time. If students need help
during the day they should
call the physical plant at 6200.
"The community could help if
they were more aware of the
crime," said Anderson.
Bethel security guards do
not carry weapons, so tech-nique
is very important.
"When you don't have a night-stick
you have to use your
brain," said Anderson. "I got
my training through the Ar-my's
Military Police (MP).
Each situation calfs. for dif-ferent
tactics." Neither An-derson
nor Countryman
would elaborate on technique.
Code language is used over
the radio because a receiver
was stolen from a bus last
fall. It is necessary for guards
to obscure their location so
vandals cannot hide.
Contrary to popular belief,
the main purpose of Bethel
security is not to write tickets
and keep surveillance on stu-dents.
"The reason we're here
is to make Bethel College less
of a target for theft and van-dalism,"
said Anderson. "Stu-dents
shouldn't get upset
when we check their IDs; it's
for their own good. It's the
only way to keep people who
shouldn't be here off campus."
A particular peeve of An-derson's
is drivers who at-tempt
to enter the front gate
after it has been locked. "What
they don't understand is that
if I open if for them I have to
open it for the next guy that
comes along. Three times cars
have hit the wire when guards
were hoisting it into place."
Anderson feels the chains
are inadequate barriers for
the access road. "What we
need are wooden swing gates
with large reflectors."
Despite this negative aspect
Anderson thinks Bethel secur-ity
is getting better. "Tom
Countryman really cares
about Bethel. He's shooting
for a good security force, com-plete
with uniforms and all.
This used to be known as
Bethel Auto Supply, but not
for long."
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Bethel's Tom Plocker comes off the turn during his heat in the 600 yard dash at the NAIA indoor national
championships in Kansas City, Mo. Mark Murphy/courtesy photo
Randy Karlberg readies to uncork a pitch during the Royal's batting
practice. Clark/photo
Friday, March 18
Donny Anderson—"My Mother Doesn't Dress Me Anymore," $2, Gym,
8:29 p.m.
Theatre Production—Candida," 7:30 p.m.
W Tennis—Hamline, Away, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 19
Theatre Production—"Candida," 7:30 p.m.
W Track—Winona, Away
M Track—Dual at Macalester, Away
Spanish Dept: "El Cid," Gym, 7 p.m.
Monday, March 21
Chapel—Dr. Charles Kraft, Fuller Seminary, Missiologist
Film Forum—"The Boat is Full," 7:00 p.m. FA 313
BSU—Movie: "The Tommy John Story," 504, FA 306, 6-7 p.m.
W Tennis—St. Kates, Away, 2 p.m.
Second Half Courses Begin
Tuesday, March 22
Chapel—Susan Ogden-Malouf
Bethel Concert Band, Homecoming Concert, Robertson Fieldhouse, 8
p.m.
Wednesday, March 23
Chapel—Rev. J. Wesley Forsline—Abortion
Thursday, March 24
Chapel—Shirley Van Wambeke—Abortion
Friday, March 25
Chapel—Rev. Jim Spickelmier
CC—Ski Trip to Utah, Mar. 25-Apr. 2
Bethel Choir Spring Tour, (Mar. 25-Apr. 11)
Male Chorus Spring Tour, (Mar. 25-Apr. 4)
Last Day of Classes
IM sports season
in midst of change
march 18, 1983
the Clarion page 7
Royal wrecks own record
by Rich Whybrew 1
Linda Channer continued
to lead the women's indoor
track team as she took two of
the four places the Royals
captured at the Ole Open on
March 12.
Head Coach Cindy Book
said the 18 team meet was so
competitive that "making it to
the finals in anything was
tough, and to place was even
tougher."
Channer finished third in
the two-mile to begin her day's
performance. The two runners
baseball, from page 8
conference season. We'll try
to see what combinations
work the best on the field."
Dutton's main area of con-cern
is the depth and expe-rience
of his pitching staff.
Gone from last year's 8-20
team are three starting pitch-ers
that Dutton will be hard
pressed to replace.
"It depends on how our
pitchers respond," said Dut-ton
of Bethel's chances on the
field. "If they throw steadily
we'll be all right. We just don't
have anyone who's thrown
for three years. It depends on
how fast they mature."
The experience on the pitch-ing
staff will be needed when
the Royals play nearly all
doubleheaders during the sea-son.
Injuries or inconsistency
on the staff could cause major
problems for the Royals.
"It's taxing on your pitch-ing
staff," said Lutton of the
glut of doubleheaders his team
faces. "You need two starters
and if they get in trouble you
need some relievers. It's
tough."
in front of her, both from St.
Thomas, had finished in the
top five at NCAA cross-coun-try
nationals last fall, where
Channer was twelfth. She
stuck with the St. Thomas
pair as long as she could,
which helped her to shave 18
seconds off her school-record
performance in the two-mile
the previous week. Her time
of 10:40.5 was also a personal
record.
The sophomore took her
second place of the day in the
mile, coming in fifth at 5:18.
But whatever the Royals
may lack defensively they are
capable of making up for of-fensively.
Bethel boosts sev-eral
hitters that hit in the
.300's and one, captain Dave
Fauth, who hit over .400.
With Fauth at first base
and Jeff Eklund in the outfield
and Paul Driver in the desig-
Book said Channer was some-what
drained from the first
race, and her time was the
same as her first mile split in
the other race.
Bethel's other two places
were taken by Jenny Burgess
in the 60 yard hurdles and
Penny Marshall in the shot
put. Burgess ran a season best
of :09.0 for sixth and Mar-shall
threw a personal best of
37'63/4", finishing sixth also.
The team will wind up the
indoor season at Winona on
March 19.
nated hitter spot opposing
teams will have few easy
spots to pitch around.
Dutton is looking to cap-tains
Rich Duehn and Lewie
Schultz to contribute as well
with catcher Cam Muir re-turning
from a strong season
last year as a freshman.
events
The IM sports season is in
the midst of transition from
one activity to another with
the basketball championships
approaching and sign-ups
starting for volleyball.
At press time The Hacks
were leading the A League
basketball standings with a
7-0 record. In second at 6-1
was Censored with the Har
Mar Globetrotters in third
with a 5-2 mark. In the B
League both the Warriors and
the Botches led, their confer-ences
with 6-0 records.
Jeff Westlund is the A
League leader in scoring with
a 25.2 points per game aver-age
and a season high of 36
points in one game. Brad
Vaneps is second in scoring
with a 20.3 ppg average and a
league high of 40 points in one
game.
The A and B League cham-pionship
games willbe played
on Mar. 23 with the B League
title game being played at 10
p.m. and the A League cham-pionship
set for 11 p.m.
Sign-up for coed volleyball
begin today at the IM office
and will run from 3:30-4:30
p.m. Sign-ups will run until
Mar. 24 and will require a $15
forfeit fee. The season will
begin on April 6.
The sign-ups for coed and
men's softball teams are slated
to begin right after the spring
break.
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Layne LaFrombois, pictured here at the indoor national meet, led Bethel at the MIAC championship in winning the 60 yard dash.
Mark Murphy/courtesy photo
page 8 the Clarion march 18, 1983
sports
Royals
race to
places
LaFrombois dashes
to top spot in sprints
by Rich Whybrew
Six Bethel men took places
at the MIAC Indoor Track
Championships at St. Thomas
last weekend in the team's
second to the last indoor meet.
Freshman Layne LaFrom-bois
stunned the competition
in the 60 yard dash, taking the
championship in :06.4. Head
coach Steve Whittaker said
LaFrombois won every heat
from the preliminaries to the
finals as he worked his way
to the top spot.
Bethel's mile relay team
took third in a close race. Its
time of 3:29 was less than one
second from first place.
Torn Plocker and Jay Van
Loon were third and fifth,
respectively, in the 800 me-ters,
but coach Whittaker
thought they could have done
better. "They were caught be-hind
a crowded pack and
ended up having to catch up
. . . it was a hard lesson for
them," he said.
The team took two more
places when Dave Jorgensen
placed fourth in the 500 me-ters
and Pat Townlee ran 52.5 door meet, and that may
for fourth in the 400 meters. change to outdoors if the
"Right now we're making weather is nice."
the transition from indoor That meet will be at Maca-competition
to outdoor corn- lester on March 19, the Roy-petition,"
said Whittaker. als' last meet until after spring
"We've only got one more in- break.
Questions await baseballers
Royal hopes hinge on untested underclassmen
Getting ready for the upcoming season are Rob Bruss (batting) and
Steve Sheedlo behind the plate. Clark/photo
by John Clark
Bethel baseball coach Neal
Dutton faces a bit of a dilem-ma
when it comes to describ-ing
his Royal team—he knows
what he's got but he doesn't
know what he has.
In other words, Dutton has
good ballplayers that have
looked good in the early sea-son
practices but without a
chance to play outside he
won't know what kind of team
he'll have when the Royals
open their season in Texas
during spring break or even
later.
With 20 of the 24 players on
the squad underclassmen the
key element of the team will
be experience, or the lack
thereof. Much of the time in
the gym has been spent "work-ing
on the basic fundament-als."
"It's hard to tell how we'll
do," said Dutton of this year's
squad. "We're real young and
the experience of playing in a
game will be a lot different
than playing in the gym. The
ball takes nice bounces off the
gym floor and our outfielders
haven't even fielded a fly ball
yet. But so far I'm encouraged
by how we've been working
in practice."
The Texas trip will give
Dutton an opportunity to see
all of his players in action. In
playing three doubleheaders
in three days it will also be a
necessity.
"We'll try to get as many
guys in as we can," he said.
"It's kind of a tune-up for our
baseball, see page 7
Bethel kickers try
to make pro team
While most Bethel students
will be heading to the beaches
or the ski slopes during spring
break, three Royal soccer
players will be in Pennsylva-nia
in an attempt to make the
grade on a professional soccer
team.
Bobby Clark, Mark John-son
and Andy Larson will be
participating in a tryout camp
sponsored by the Pennsylva-nia
Stoners of the American
Soccer League (ASL) on
March 26 and 27. If any of
these players impress the
coaches they will be asked
back to take part in the final
tryout camp on April 9 and
10. It will be after the two
camps that the three Royal
players will know if they will
make the ASL team.
Clark and Johnson finished
their collegiate eligibility this
past fall for the Royals while
Larson used up his eligibility
the previous fall although he
is still completing his studies
at Bethel.
All three players received
All-Conference recognition at
Bethel, with Clark also being
named NAIA Honorable Men-tion
All-American and John-son
leading the MIAC in scor-ing
the past two seasons.
Bobby Clark will be trying to dribble his way onto a professional
soccer team along with Mark Johnson and Andy Larson.
Copeland/photo
Erickson,
Prigge
Receive
Honors
Bethel's Jon Erickson
and Scott Prigge received
postseason honor's this
week by being named to
the MIAC's All-Confer-ence
hockey team. Erick-son,
a senior defenseman,
had 3 goals and 10 assists
on the season. Prigge, a
sophomore center, led the
Royals in scoring with
12 goals and 28 assists
on the season.