Four inches of wet, heavy snow fell last weekend. It was followed by freezing rain which caused
the cancellation of Bethel classes Monday, Nov. 23 (photo by Don Copeland).
Festival combines new and old
The Guthrie: a Bethel tradition
by Laurie Challman
Tickets for "A Christ-mas
Carol" at the Guthrie
Theater will be on sale
again this year. They will
he sold through the Cam-pus
Coordinators' (CC) Of-fice
beginning Monday,
Dec. 7, after chapel. The
student price is $7 per
ticket for the 8 p.m. per-formances
on Thursday,
Dec. 10, and Friday, Dec.
11.
There will also be a sign-up
list posted at the CC
office for those who are
interested in taking a bus
to the Guthrie. "If the sign-up
list indicates a need for
a bus," said Coordinator
Lori Droogsma, "then bus-ses
will be provided."
"In the past, tickets have
sold out quickly so we are
expecting a good turnout
again this year," said
Droogsma.
the Clarion. Vol. 57, No. 12 Bethel College, 3900 Bethel Dr., St. Paul, MN 4 December 1981
Unusual rain freezes classes
by JoAnn Watkins
"We pretty much
thought we'd never do it,"
said Dr. Dwight Jessup,
Bethel's acting dean. "It's
really unusual" is how he
described the situation
which came about Mon-day,
Nov. 23. Due to a
freezing rain which coated
the Twin Cities area with
ice, all classes at the col-lege
were cancelled.
March 1966 was the last
time a day of school was
called off, according to
Margaret Intveld, switch-board
operator and recep-tionist.
About 6:30 a.m. that
Monday things began to
happen which resulted in
Jessup's decision not to
hold classes. Paul Drake,
Bethel's director of auxil-uries,
heard about the
road conditions and the
fact that the city buses
would not be operating.
He decided that the Bethel
buses would not run to
Bethel's off-campus hous-ing.
At 6:45 a.m. Jeff Lind-say,
bus coordinator,was
called by Drake and told
to tell his drivers that the
buses would not be run-ning.
The morning drivers
were already at school to
drive the 7:15 buses. Drake
then called Oscar Iverson,
maintenance supervisor,
to stop the buses from
making the first run.
Drake also called the Res-ident
Directors (RDs) at
the apartments to let stu-dents
know the buses
would not be running.
Jessup notified the
switchboard at 7:15 a.m.
that classes would be can-celed
until noon. He said
that because of registra-tion
scheduled for that af-ternoon,
classes were not
immediately cancelled. At
7:30 a.m. the housing staff
was notified that morning
classes would not be held.
Jessup reported that he
could not get the announce-ment
of Bethel's closure on
WCCO radio, which
would have been the nor-mal
procedure, because
the school no longer has a
code number which is
needed for proper identifi-cation.
At about 9:30 a.m. Tom
Upton, a student bus
driver, said he would try
to drive a bus to Fountain
Terrace. He also drove a
bus to Silvercrest at 10
a.m. Upon reaching Silver-crest
he called Drake and
said that the roads were
unsafe.
After talking with
Drake, Jessup decided to
call off school for the day.
Due to the traveling condi-tions
the Registrar's Of-fice
did not have the peo-ple
needed to operate the
computer terminals used
for registration.
A small number of fac-ulty
and staff did make it
to school. Because of the
large number of students
living on campus the Food
Service operated all day
on a normal schedule. "We
had a small staff but they
worked extra hard," said
Wayne Erickson, manager
of Food Service. Workers
who live on campus were
called to fill in for absent
workers.
The library was also
open regular hours despite
the lack of staff other than
student workers. Some of-fices
operated with skele-ton
staffs who were able
to make it to the college by
walking or traveling on
the icy roads.
by Janice Woodard
Students withdrawing
from Bethel at the end of
the fall term or interim can
apply for a refund of their
enrollment deposit fee by
completing a withdrawal
clearance form available
in the Registrar's Office.
Students leaving at these
times must complete the
process by the first day of
classes in the spring term,
Feb. 2, 1982.
Failure to apply for re-fund
and to complete the
withdrawal clearance be-fore
the deadline results in
forfeiture of the deposit.
All financial obligations
with the college must be
met before the enrollment
deposit is refunded. The
policy is described on page
23 of the 1981-82 Bethel
registration catalog.
The withdrawal clear-ance
form requires these
six signatures: academic
advisor, Student Affairs
by Anne Staus
Silver stars on a blue
backdrop will decorate the
25th anniversary presen-tation
of the Festival of
Christmas at 8 p.m. Fri-day
Dec. 4, and Saturday,
Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec.
6, at 3 p.m. All three per-formances
have been sold
Office, Financial Aid Of-fice,
Business Office, post
office and the Registrar's
Office. This process alerts
all offices of the change
and also gives the school a
chance to find out why the
student is leaving.
For students enrolling
in the fall of '81 the enroll-ment
deposit was $100.
For students continuing
from Spring '81 the deposit
was $50. Continuing the
deposit allows students to
register without payment
of additional registration
fees. The enrollment de-posit
is carried over from
term to term as long as the
student remains at Bethel.
The procedure for re-funding
differs according
to the student's circum-stances.
Enrolled students
who discontinue their
studies prior to gradua-tion
must apply for a re-see
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out since early November.
Each showing will be
viewed by more than 1,800
people. The dress rehear-sal
Thursday, Dec. 3, was
open to students and those
who were unable to get
tickets.
Festival of Christmas is
hard to define. However,
people that are involved
offered their definitions.
Bethel Concert Band Direc-tor
Charles Olson said, "It
is a rebirth of the ideas
held so important."
Gary Drake, a member
of both the Male Chorus
and the Concert Band,
said, "Festival has been a
highlight of my college
career."
Shari Stouvenel, a first-year
participant in Festi-val
and a Concert Band
member, said, "It's a time
Bethel can come together
and give praise and glory
to God and thank Him for
His Son."
Producer Gerard Sund-berg
said, "Our Festival of
Christmas is such a won-derful
celebration. That's
why tickets sell out. It's
encouraging since we all
get bombarded by the non-
Christian."
This year's Festival will
incorporate traditional
and many new features.
"It will be quite different
than anything we've done
before," said Mary Fall,
director of the Women's
Choir, concerning the anti-phonal
singing that will
be done by double choirs.
Fall explained that the Fes-tival
choir is usually corn-prised
of Women's Choir,
Male Chorus and College
Choir but this year it also
includes 40 extra students
and staff.
The traditional candle-light
processional will
again be a part of the pro-gram.
The band will dress
formally and the Festival
choir will be gowned in
200 black and light blue
robes made by the Bethel's
Women Auxiliary.
Dr. Ray Magnuson be-gan
a tree farm the same
year that Festival of Christ-mas
began and is donating
norway, balsam and
spruce trees.
Planning for Festival be-gins
in May. The music
faculty chooses an idea for
a theme and then begins to
build on it. The result is
the annual Festival of
Christmas.
The Concert Band will
play "Carol of the Drum,"
"God of Our Fathers,"
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desir-ing"
and "Variations on a
Medieval Tune" for the
prelude. For its concert
number it will play "Oh
How Shall I Receive
Thee." The Women's Choir
will sing three selections
from "Ceremony of Carols"
by Benjamin Britten. Male
Chorus will perform "Be-hold
This Child," "Christ-see
page 3
Forms now available for
enrollment deposit refund
Bethel encouraged to
update old film policy
Dear Editor: ciate the fact that we've
In response to the arti- been saved from it. On the
cle in the Nov. 13 issue of other hand, I don't think
the Clarion on editing we should limit ourselves
films shown at Bethel, I to Walt Disney to protect
would like to make a few eyes and ears from seeing
comments. or hearing reality.
Because we are a Chris- So what do we do about'
tian college I feel that we the old editing policy? Do
have a responsibility to we cut out films alto-each
other, to outsiders gether? I don't think that
and to the Lord to only is the solution to the prob-allow
entertainment that lem but I do have a few
will in some way, shape or suggestions to offer.
form be constructive for When we show films on
the community as a whole. campus they should have
This does not give us the a specific meaning—one
right to show all the filth
we can to make us appre- see page 3
Bethel needs full-time censors for films and art
Volume 57, Number 12
4 December 1981
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
The Clarion is published weekly by the students
of Bethel College. Editorial opinions are the sole
responsibility of the Clarion staff. Letters are
welcome, and must be signed and delivered in
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Leann M. Kicker, editor
JoAnn Watkins, associate editor
Ellie Feleen, sports editor
Don Copeland, photography editor
Laura L. Phillips, copy editor
Art Gibbens, production manager
Pam Sundeen, business manager
Naomi J. Ludeman, editorial assistant
Dyer Davis, staff assistant
Beth Nystrom, graphics editor
Tim Larson, graphics
Jim Larson, cartoonist
Kraig Klaudt, columnist
"News and Feature Writing" students
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Page 2 letters
People urged to take
issues less seriously
Dear Bethel,
We seem to be taking
ourselves and occurrences
around us a little too serious-ly
of late. An example that
comes to mind is the nikk-ing
during Nik Dag and
the responses that ap-peared
on the Beef Board. I
meandered over that way
after seeing many people
gathered around it. The
tension in the group was
so thick you could've cut it
with a knife. I started to
read and couldn't help but
laugh. Boy, did I ever get
icy stares and hhrumphs.
It seems they also took me
too seriously.
In another incident, I
was one of 47,215 people
at Met Stadium when the
Vikings beat the Saints
Sunday, Nov. 15. It was
the first professional foot-ball
game I had ever at-tended.
It seemed as if the
lives of some of the fans
hung on the calls of the
officials throughout the
game. I wasn't prepared to
see so many people take a
game so seriously.
One final thing I've come
Dear Editor:
The Clarion mundane?
Perhaps so but mundane
compared to what kind of
journalism? Rob Haglund
should be well aware that
newswriting requires a cer-tain
kind of style that
places more emphasis on
presenting the facts than
on entertaining the reader,
especially since Haglund
writes for the Clarion him-across
these past couple of
weeks is all the moaning
and complaining about un-fair
representation. It
bothers me to know that
there are administrators
who 'seem to think that
how the press treats them
is a reflection on them. It's
not, but how they deal
with it is. Administrators
always seem to take things
too seriously.
All these things fall
under the guise of being
serious in dealing with any
problem that seems to
exist. We all like to get our
two cents in. It makes us
feel important. We also
like to let others know
that we've had our say. I
hope and pray we will all
realize that our feeble
actions only get in the way
of God's dealings with this
world. We need to follow
Christ's example of humil-ity
and swallow our pride
so that we can show oth-ers
that we love them.
Seriously.
Walking in His Light,
Curly
self.
There are other reasons
for the seemingly dull writ-ing
found in the Clarion
and a Lake Valentine tidal
wave is not among them.
In her Nov. 6 editorial,
editor Leann Kicker did
not mention the fact that
the majority of Clarion re-porters
are members of
Bethel's News and Feature
Writing class, and that it
Dear Editor:
Why have just a little
bleep here, another edit
there? Why not set up a
Censorship Office through
which all films—in fact,
all art—be considered care-fully
by experts? All films,
paintings, sculpture and
plays would have to pass
through the scrutiny of
these full-time censor-shipers.
is the first time that many
of these people have writ-ten
for a school publica-tion.
Others may have
written for . their high
school publications, but a
good high school newspap-er
is hard to find. At any
rate, these reporters are
doing their best.
If Haglund would like
to find writing that is not
straight "telling it like it
is" journalism, then I sug-gest
that he look in a pub-lication
other than the
Clarion or any other news-paper.
As for myself, the
best way to find out what
is going on at Bethel is to
read the Clarion. Besides,
would Klaudt be as ap-preciated
if the Clarion
were closer in format to
the National Lampoon?
Richard B. Whybrew
This panel, dedicated to
Christian ideals, should con-sist
of members from vary-ing
backgrounds. One
should be from the Bible
Department, another from
the Business Department,
another from the Psychol-ogy
Department—but all
earnestly devoted to con-trolling
what the young
people of Bethel College
see. This way we are cer-tain
to have only an objec-tively
proper selection of
viewing material.
In all due respect to cre-ative
members of our com-munity,
I don't think it
would be appropriate to
have an artist on this panel
because he/she would be
biased about the arts. It is
an artist's nature to al-ways
try to be "creative"
or to find "meaning" in
things and that isn't the
issue.
The real issue here, of
course, isn't the meaning
or creativity in films (the
Film Forum takes care of
that), it's whether or not
the films are proper enter-tainmen`
A movie can be
entertaining and have no
meaning at all.
These are the kinds of
films we should be show-ing
to Bethel students. Stu-dents
need a light break
from their heavy studies.
But we must remember to
exclude any obscene
words because these serve
only to pollute the Chris-tian
mind. And how easily
these words slip into the
otherwise fun films! We
should bleep out these
words so that one can con-centrate
on the entertain-ment.
Art should be the same
way. We should get rid of
all this high-brow "ab-stract"
and heavy social-statement
art that dots the
campus everywhere and
stick it in the gallery where
only the artists will see it.
Then we can replace it
with the pretty kind of
paintings that we enjoy. A
poll should be taken as to
whether the student body
as a whole prefers sea-scape,
wildlife or clown-and-
balloon-type paint-ings.
More important, we
ought to eradicate paint-ings
done by students that
include nudity or other ob-scene
material that advo-cates
a sinful lifestyle. It's
time we stop listening to
their deceptive, intellec-tual
explanations of what
they call "art" and start
taking measures to pre-vent
the students from
even thinking about such
obscene material.
The administration
should set strict rules
about what paintings stu-dents
can paint and what
sculpture students can
sculpt. These rules should
be enforced. The existing
obscene art on campus
should be removed, and if
a student of painting or
sculpture is seen construct-ing
a questionable piece, it
should be confiscated im-mediately.
Of course we can't get
carried away with this.
We should encourage stu-dents
to make pleasant pic-ture
paintings and support
the Campus Coordinators
in finding entertaining
films. It's just this non-sense
that artists call "art"
we need to get rid of.
This should be done on-ly
by set authorities. The
Censorship Office could
set up an official eradica-tion
team who would peri-odically,
without notice,
collect the objectionable
material and take it to the
dump.
Official uniforms could
be given them so that prank-sters
wouldn't fool with
this official function. The
uniforms would not have
to cost much—simple
white smocks would do,
with the official title of the
team on the back. I pro-pose
the title: "Art. Dispo-sal
Team."
I look forward to the
day when these Workers
of Justice patrol the Bethel
College campus as sym-bols
of purity.
Richard Ostrand
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Show calls gallery purpose into question events calendar
by Wendi Engel
This past week the Lor-en
Friesen/Claudia Ess-linger
art exhibit has
by Mitch Anderson
Except for a few minor
finishing touches and
some problems in obtain-ing
needed equipment, the
new addition to the Bethel
Academic Center (AC)
building is practically
completed.
Though the addition is
nearly finished, some
things still need to be com-pleted
such as the electri-cal
connections for the
electron microscope, finish-,
ing the environmental
rooms and making extra
keys for physics rooms.
The departments housed
in the AC addition have
had some problems with
equipment arriving late.
Most of the equipment has
now arrived though the
Biology Department is still
waiting for its autoclave
(a type of pressure cooker
needed to isolate microor-ganisms
for certain experi-ments).
Students and teachers
alike see the addition as a
great improvement over
cramped quarters of years
past. The added space and
equipment give the Biol-ogy
(first floor), Physics
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and function of Beth-el's
gallery for public audi-ences.
Bonita Wahl, gallery
(second floor) and Psychol-ogy
(third floor) Depart-ments
greater convenience
and potential for expan-sion
toward newer and bet-ter
study.
Jim Reynhout, professor
in biology and Biology De-partment
chairman at Beth-el,
is pleased with the ad-dition
so far. "It was hectic
getting all the facilities
moved during school," said
Reynhout. "For the most
part the building is com-plete.
We are still pretty
excited about the capabil-ities
it gives us."
Physics teacher's assis-tant
Jeannie Williams sees
the new addition as "heav-en."
"This year we have so
much more equipment and
space. Everything is so
much more organized...
Labs are easier to do now,"
said Williams.
According to Reynhout,
funding for the addition is
basically completed.
director, discussed the
purpose of the art gallery.
"The gallery is not only to
show Christian works. We
want to show what we
feel is the artist's expres-sion
in his search for truth
and celebration of life,"
she said.
Doug Giebel, assistant
professor in art at Bethel,
was gallery director last
year. He constructed a
three-page statement that
defined the art gallery in
terms of a comprehensive
display of the works of
faculty, students and out-side
artists.
Limitations on the sub-ject
matter and style of
point of view are, to Gie-bel,
not Christ-like. "In our
efforts to attain the mind
of Christ in all things we
must be careful not to
limit that mind to our own
small limitations and
fears," said Giebel.
The goal of the Art De-partment
is that the gal-lery
be a learning expe-rience
for all who come in
contact with it. The Art
Editing, from page 2
worthy of recognition.
Many movies today have
nothing to say except "live
it up," but there are some
that show the real strug-gles
of people in the areas
of life that hit close to
home. Some do help us
realize the depravity of
man and as a result help to
confirm our belief in an
infallible God. In some
cases the films may chal-lenge
our faith and make it
stronger by pointing out
weaknesses in our own
lives.
We also have a need for
entertainment that has a
" non-thinking" release.
Festival, from page 1
mas Night" by Austin
Lovelace and "Carol of the
Bells" by Leon Tovich. The
Festival choir will sing
choruses from Handel's
"Messiah" accompanied
by the Bethel Community
Orchestra directed by
Adron Ming.
Department also seeks in-teraction
concerning the
experiences of the audi-ence.
"Learning comes by
experiencing. I'm disap-pointed
that people don't
come to us (Art Depart-ment
faculty) with their
reactions," said Wahl. She
said that this limited inter-action
concerning the ex-hibits
affects the purpose
and freedom of the gallery
as a learning experience.
Wahl also said, "People
are defensive about the
subject matter displayed
in the gallery because they
are taking the attitudes of
their parents, friends out-side
Bethel, and their
churches."
The recent controversy
between the administra-tion
and the Art Depart-ment
concerning Friesen's
nude drawings was resolv-ed
with a notice on the
gallery door stating that
the exhibition is a depart-mental
showing, not an
exhibit sanctioned by Beth-el.
Everything can't be aca-demic.
But in viewing films
for the sake of entertain-ment
we must also be care-ful
that the world's stand-ards
do not become our
own.
In conclusion, I'd like to
present a challenge to the
Bethel community and to
myself to update the edit-ing
policy by becoming
actively involved in chang-ing
it, not by being passive-ly
involved by complain-ing
about it.
Sincerely,
Dona L. Amann
Refund, from page 1
fund and complete the
withdrawal clearance
form. Refunds are then
granted within 30 days of
the end of the term and/or
the completion of the appli-cation
and withdrawal
form.
Friday, Dec. 4
WBB-Concordia-St. Paul, Away, 6:30 p.in.
HOC-Gustavus Adolphus, Home, 7:45 p.m.
MBB-Aurora Classic, TBA
Festival of Christmas, Gym, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 5
WR-St. John's, Away, 10 a.m.
MBB-Chicago Tournament, TBA
Festival of Christmas, Gym, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 6
Festival of Christmas, Gym, 3 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 7
Chapel-Christmas music
SMP Bake Sale
Student Senate meeting, FA 426, 5:15 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 8
Chapel-Paul Johnson, Sociology
SMP-Candy Cane Flowers Sale
HOC-St. Cloud, Home, 7:45 p.m.
WBB-St. Kate's, Home, 8 p.m.
Odyssey Film Series, FA 313, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 9
Chapel-Pastor Spickelmier
SMP-Candy Cane Flowers Sale
ISA Christmas Party, Bethel Seminary, 6:30 p.m.
WR-Concordia-St. Paul, Home, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 10
Chapel-Jack Nelson, Peace and Justice Committee
MBB-St. Mary's, Home, 7:30 p.m.
CC-"A Christmas Carol," Guthrie Theatre, 8 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 11
Chapel-Rev. Maurice Vaagness, North Heights Lutheran Church
HOC-St. Mary's, Away, 8 p.m.
WBB-Bethel Christmas Tourney, 6-8 p.m.
CC-"A Christmas Carol," Guthrie Theatre, 8 p.m.
CC-Rollerskating, 12-2 a.m.
Saturday, Dec. 12
WR-GVJC, NorthWestern, Away, 12:00 p.m.
WBB-Bethel Christmas Tourney, 6-8 p.m.
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The men's basketball
team defeated Northwest-ern
College 68-66 Satur-day,
Nov. 28.
Although the Royals
were ahead for most of the
game Northwestern kept
the team on its toes. "It
was a tough game," com-mented
Coach George Pal-ke.
"I didn't know it would
be that close and exciting."
Tri-captain Jason Vel-gersdyk
was high scorer
well against the strong
DMLC team. The turning
point came after a close
first half which ended
with the Royals down by
five. Bethel came out slow-ly
in the second half and
the Lancerettes went on a
streak that increased their
by Rob Haglund
If there was any doubt
as to how the Bethel
wrestling team would do
this year, it probably dis-appeared
after the first
two outings of the Royal
grapplers. In the season
opener Tuesday, Nov. 24,
the Royals knocked off the
Northland Lumberjacks
29-24. Saturday, Nov. 28,
the squad finished second
in the Golden Northern
Tournament at Superior,
Wis.
Against Northland (Ash-land,
Wis.) Bethel got a
forfeit at 118 lb., a super-ior
decision (19-4) by jun-ior
captain Russ Reynolds
at 134 lb. and pins by Tim
Kemp at 158 lb., Ben Mc-
Eachern at 167 lb. and
Rick Scwab at 190 lb.
Scwab's pin sealed the vic-tory
for the Royals over an
improved Northland team.
At Superior, Wis., the
team showed that it has
potential. The tournament
was won by University of
Minnesota-Duluth (UMD)
with Bethel finishing sec-ond
followed by Bemidji
State, host University of
Wisconsin-Superior, North-by
Rob Haglund
"The best way to des-cribe
it is that it wasn't a
game we should've won
but it was a game we
could've won." Those were
the words of Head Coach
Carol Girdler in reference
land and the UMD TV.
Five Bethel wrestlers
placed at the tournament
including McEachern,
who won the champion-ship
at 167 lb. Reynolds at
134 lb., James Krier at 118
lb. and Kemp at 158 lb. all
finished second while Dan
Reynertson captured third
at '177 lb. McEachern up-ped
his record to 3 -0 with
a strong effort. "Ben
wrestled extremely well,"
said Bethel head coach
Dave Klostreich.
McEachern's explosive
start this year might come
as a surprise to some but
not to Coach Klostreich.
"Ben is very patient and
very coachable," he said.
"He has worked extreme-ly
hard, often staying af-ter
practice to work out on
his own. He has also done
a lot of weight training
and now it's beginning to
pay off."
Saturday, Dec. 5, the
Royals travel to St. John's
to compete in the Terry
Haws Invitational. The
Royals have done well in
the Terry Haws in the past
and hope to continue that
success tomorrow.
to the women's basketball
team's opening game of
the season, Tuesday, Nov.
24, a 77-65 loss to Dr. Mar-tin
Luther College (DMLC)
in New Ulm.
The Royals were under-dogs
going in but played
for the Royals with 19
points. He also lead the
team in rebounds. Tri-cap-tain
Dwayne Nordstrom
sunk 11 points and Dion
Wolter and Kevin Hugo-son
each added 10 points.
Hugoson also captured
eight rebounds and was
named the "Total Release
Performer" for the even-ing.
Hugoson also helped
hold Northwestern's Scott
Anderson to six points.
Anderson was named an
lead to 12. The two teams
played evenly the rest of
the game. The Royals were
still a dozen points short
at the final horn.
Co-captain Sheila Kroon
had a good game for the
Royals hitting several
shots from outside, and
forward Sharon Huisinga
pllayed a good game in-side.
Bethel's running
game suffered a slight set-back
when guard Sue
Duehn had to leave the
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and was a key player for
the Royals to watch.
The Royal kamikaze
team consisting of Hugo-son,
Rich Jaegar, Roy Lu-cas,
Ron Russell and Mike
Hanley did a fine job hold-ing
Northwestern near the
end of the first half which
gave the starters a rest,
according to Coach Palke.
The Royals travel to Chi-cago
this weekend, Dec. 4-
6, for the Aurora Classic
Tournament.
game in the second half
because of a back injury.
Coach Girdler was dis-appointed
with the num-ber
of turnovers the team
committed but was pleas-ed
with the way the team
battled. "The team didn't
give up after they (DMLC)
got that 12-point lead," she
said. "They hung in there
and battled right until the
end."
The women continue
their season tonight, Dec.
4, at Concordia-St. Paul.
Tuesday, Dec. 7, the Roy-als
will host St. Cath-erine's
at the Robertson
PE Center.
by Lori Bemis
The Royal hockey sea-son
opened Friday, Nov.
20, at Columbia Arena
where the Royals took on
University of Wisconsin-
Stout before a record num-ber
of enthusiastic Bethel
fans.
Perry Espe scored the
first goal only 21 seconds
into the first period. The
final score was 8-2 , Bethel
over Stout, with Bethel
outshooting Stout 57- 28.
Following the success-ful
season opener the Roy-als
moved on to the MIAC
Tournament at St. Cloud
where they took on St.
Thomas in the first round.
Three Bethel goals were
scored during the first min-ute
and a half during this
game but the Royals were
unable to hold their lead,
losing 6-4. Head Coach
Craig Dahl said, "We need
to shape up our defensive-end
play."
After losing to Concor-dia
7-4 in Friday's conso-lation
round the Royals
beat St. John's 16-4 for
seventh place in the MIAC
Tournament. Bethel's
score not only won the
game for the Royals, but
broke the team's record as
well as the tournament rec-ord
for the most goals
scored in one game. "I
thought we played very
well through the whole
weekend," said Dahl,
"Overall I'm very happy
with our young team," he
said. The Royal hockey
team consists of nine fresh-men,
six sophomores,
three juniors and two sen-iors,
according to Mike
Berg, assistant hockey
coach.
The Royals will host
Gustavus Adolphus Fri-day,
Dec. 4, and St. Cloud
Tuesday, Dec. 8, at Colum-bia
Arena.
At 158 lbs. freshman Tim Kemp pinned his Northland opponent in the teams season opener (photo
by Dan Velie).
Royals sneak by the Eagles, 68-66
Women's B-ball team opens season with loss
