Clarion 1978-12-08 Vol 54 No 10

              Doug Barkey captures the advent of winter on pages 6 and 7.
The Christmas Spirit
pages 5, 8
Bethel College St. Paul, MN Vol. 54 No. 10 December 8, 1978
Faulty Rosters arrive , replacements promised
by Jay Russell
Last week the Bethel Roster
was given to students and was re-ceived
with mixed reactions. We
talked to Greg Kaihoi, Bethel
student and photographer for
the Roster, and asked him about
some of the production problems
this year.
Q.What were your duties in
producing the Roster?
Kaihoi: I wasn't involved with
any of the planning or production
of the Roster, but as a Bethel
student and employee of Phodale,
I became familiar with how the
Roster was being produced. My
job was to take the pictures for
the Roster.
Q: Why did the Roster come
out so late?
Kaihoi: Originally Phodale
Photography, the producers, had
planned to release the Roster Oct.
15, but to do this Phodale couldn't
guarantee that all Bethel students
would be in the Roster with 100,
per cent accuracy. The contract
between Bethel and Phodale was
misunderstood, because the stu-dent
affairs office was under the
by Anne Rosenthal
The college relations office is
the first place a prospective
Bethel student encounters.
A prospective student must
meet a number of requirements
which demonstrate that he has
the necessary ingredients to be a
successful student at Bethel.
The applicant must be ranked
in the top half of his high school
class and must also submit a
PSAT, SAT or ACT test score.
Merri Lee Hipp, recruitment
coordinator, said a student's class
rank carries more weight than his
test score does, because it indi-cates
performance and discipline
in the classroom over four years,
whereas a test score shows per-formance
on one day.
Each applicant is required to
write a faith statement, which
conveys his commitment to Jesus
Christ. A weak faith statement
will cause the committee to deny
the admission of a student.
Admissions also asks for
three references—one from an
adult friend, a pastor and a high
impression that the Roster would
be 100 per cent accurate, even if it
took a little longer to produce.
When Phodale discovered that
the student affairs office wanted a
roster that was 100 per cent
accurate, they had to wait for a
computer printout of information
on every Bethel student. Phodale
then had to compare their records
with the printout, correcting any
errors that were made.
This process delayed produc-tion
of the Roster, so the Roster
wasn't ready for printing when
the deadline arrived. Then, when
the Roster was ready for printing,
it took six weeks to print because
the printers were tied up with
other work.
Q: Why was Phodale concern-ed
with putting the Roster out
early if it wasn't totally accurate?
Kaihoi: In past years the stu-dent
affairs office has produced
the Roster, and their goal has
been to have it in the hands of the
students a week before Nik is ag.
Phodale's philosophy was to get
the Roster in the hands of the stu-dents
as soon as possible, even if
a few students weren't included.
They had the students fill out a
school counselor or teacher. Two
out of the three must be positive
recommendations.
When the three members of the
committee—Paul Finlay, re-gistrar;
Philip Kimball, assistant
director of admissions; and Mack
Nettleton, director of student af-fairs—
read an applicant's file,
they look for the student's poten-tial
to develop academically,
socially and spiritually.
The entire committee has to
concur in its decision before a
student is admitted or denied. "I
believe we have a comprehensive
admissions policy," said Kimball.
"Instead of one person making
the decision, all three of us
debate over each file."
Students who are awarded
participation grants in art, drama,
music or sports are evaluated by
the same criteria as all other
applicants—academic perfor-mance,
faith statement and refer-ences,
said Hipp.
Those who receive grants must
demonstrate their financial need
by filling out the family financial
statement (FFS). They also need
card when their pictures were
taken, and this information was
to be put in the Roster. Since a lot
of students didn't bother to have
their pictures taken, Phodale
didn't have any information on
them. That's why some students
would have been left out.
About 60 students, or 3 per
cent of the student body would
have been excluded from the
Roster, and many of these were
part-time students. Phodale fig-ured
that these students could be
included in the Roster supple-ment
that comes out second
semester.
Q: Why was the quality of
printing so bad?
Kaihoi: The fault was not in
the photography, because the pic-tures
turned out fine. A lot of the
pictures were blacked out or par-tially
blacked out because of a
quality control error in the print-ing.
The streaking was caused by
roller marks. This was evident
primarily in the student section.
The faculty section turned out
pretty good.
Q: Why were most of the pic-tures
taken at such a long dis-tance?
to secure a recommendation from
a teacher or coach.
When an applicant is denied
admittance into Bethel, he re-ceives
a letter stating the reason
for the denial, and is given the
right to appeal the committee's
decision.
by Mark Rentz
An honors program for high
potential students at Bethel may
be proposed and implemented by
next fall.
Last year the faculty develop-ment
committee at Bethel wrote
the Lilly Foundation and received
a grant of $100,000 over a three
year period to improve faculty
developments. The honors pro-gram
study is a part of this
improvement of academic quality.
A six-member faculty commit-tee
is currently making a com-prehensive
study of existing hon-
Kaihoi: Phodale wanted the
pictures taken further away to
give more of a portrait-type look
rather than a mug shot type of
picture. Another reason was be-cause
some of the pictures in last
year's roster were taken at such a
ors programs at other colleges.
The committee is also assessing
how to implement such a program
at Bethel as well as what the
program should consist of to be
successful.
Dr. James E. Johnson, chair-man
of the history department,
and coordinator of the honors
committee commented that,
"People with high potential
should be given an opportunity to
fly. Everyone who enters college
is put in the same stew pot and we
can't identify those who are well
beyond some of the freshman
experiences.
"The purpose of an honors pro-gram,"
said Johnson, "is to pro-close
distance that it was hard to
identify the person. By showing a
part of the body, it would be a
little easier to identify the stu-dent.
cont.. on page 3
vide an opportunity for highly
motivated and/or gifted students
to pursue a special course of
study suitable to their interests
and abilities. Honors courses will
substitute for specified core re-quirements."
"Our athletic department,"
continued Johnson, "goes out to
recruit good athletes who can
pass, kick, and run with a foot-ball.
Their rationale is to have a
better football team. We should
recruit good honor potential. It
will elevate the whole academic
community.
cont. on page 4
Admission policy
Prospective students undergo trials
Honors program for next fall being studied
TWO HAVE MASKS ONE ONE... NO TWO
FORGOT THEIR SHIRTS AND THE REST PRE
Too DARR TO SEE!
the Soapbox
Quie's campaign not so 'Christian'
Saith Wise the First, "It piqueth me,
This season they have slain
With blinking light, with tinseled tree,
With ads for playthings on TV.
Commercial all, doth bruise my brain.
"I tell what Yuletide is instead.
what is was at first.
`Twas babe with halo 'round his head,
And shepherds singing at his bed.
Commercialism be perverse."
Quoth Wise the Second, "Pretty find,
The picture ye have brought.
But scoff I at thy narrow mind.
Your story's long been left behind.
Today's Yule lies in what is bought.
"We need it for to boost our sales,
For presents all enjoy.
Was not this month, we'd be in debt.
Your job you'd lose, I'd quickly bet.
Economy ye would destroy."
With patience Wise the Third would smile,
Then spake e'er all was said,
"Good brethren may I say my fill,
And ye may leave it if ye will,
For know ye I am humbly read.
"The babe's birth was no lovely strain,
In reeking donkey stall.
In pain, born he, as any man,
To agony and death, his plan.
The thought should man the most appall.
"But celebrate enough, not we.
Forgive if trite I sound,
But with him not Yule would not be.
Oh, give and receive joyfully,
And his is joy the most profound,"
Saith he, the wisest of the three.
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Joyous Christmas from
Wise men converse
by David Shelley
(Editor's note: This piece is reprinted by popular demand of the staff
from Dec. 9, 1977 issue of the Clarion in the "Closed Minds Open
Mouths" column.)
Three- wise men sat 'round evening fire
Adorned in green and red,
And spake of Yule, the season nigh,
And sentiments it doth imply.
Conversed they long, though night was said.
David Shelley, Editor
Suzi Wells, news editor
Greg Smith, feature editor
Paul Olsen, copy editor
Thangi Chhangte, copy editor
Debbie Bunger, production editor
Phoebe Morgan, production editor
Patti Backlund, business manager
Steve Erickson, sports editor
Carol Madison, sports editor
Betty Logan, arts editor
Shelly Nielsen, columnist
Rick Chapman, columnist
Juan Ramos, cartoonist
Doug Barkey, photographer
Dear Sir:
Many people have asked me
my feelings about the November
7 election. What concerns me
most about that election, as it
should concern all Minnesotans,
is that Mr. Quie interjected reli-gious
judgments into a political
campaign for his own personal
gain.
1. Quie volunteers leafleting
cars (including ours) on church
parking lots the Sunday before
election with misrepresentations
about my husband (keeping in
mind that Mr. Quie announced
his candidacy back in August
1977, yet he waited until the
Sunday before to distribute the
relgious ads—allowing no time
for a reply).
2. On the night before election,
newspaper ads on Quie's behalf
asking for votes "for the great
Christian for our next Governor"
(is one to assume then that people
practicing Judaism and other
great faiths should be excluded as
candidates for the governship?).
3. Thousands of letters mailed
in the final days of the campaign
with obvious religious overtones.
4. Inferences throughout that
Quie is a Christian and Rudy is
not, including Mr. Quie calling
my husband "Crazy Rudy" and
"Rubberstamp Rudy."
Rudy has been an active Chris-tian
since childhood. He doesn't
believe in using religion as a
political ploy. The standard Web-ster
difinition of a Christian is,
To the editor:
Cold, three-day-old water plugs
the sink. Pots and pans contain-ing
anything from sticky macaroni
and peanut butter remain piled
high for "someone else" to do.
These are typical conditions of
kitchens in girls' dorms at Bethel.
It's disturbing to me to see this
type of filth in a Christian col-lege,
and equally disturbing be-
"Christian - having qualities
demonstrated and taught by
Jesus Christ, as love, kindness,
humility—a decent, respectable
person."
My husband conducted a clean,
honest campaign, based on the
issues. Mr. Quie, in this cam-paign,
carried a Bible in one hand
and a bucket of mud in the other.
Who then is the true Christian?
Sincerely,
Lola Perpich
cause it involves girls. What kind
of housekeepers are these girls
going to be? Have we forgotten
that "cleanliness is next to godli-ness?"
What happened to our inte-grity?
Boxes of cereal, milk,
cheese and fruit "magically" dis-appear
from refrigerators. It's
one thing to share and have a
community refrigerator, but an-other
thing to improvise the idea
that we share (steal) its contents.
It is possible to remedy this
disgusting situation if everyone
participates to work toward a
cleaner, safer, fresher-smelling
kitchen in their dorm.
Next time any of us girls in the
dorms attempt to bake something
and leave a mess, or decide to
quiet our grumbling stomachs by
"snitching Sally's pickles," I
hope we will think twice about our
actions.
Don't forget we are Christians
and are supposed to be living
examples for others at all times.
Thus, don't forget the golden
rule: "Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you."
Sincerely,
Sandee Barton
Christian confronted on practical living issue
page two
Saucy Lynn Faith poses for a portrait to send to "The World Who's Who of Women"
publishers. Does Bethel mean sheltered people?
monest goodness
Non-clone defies syndrom, chews fingernails
by Shelly Nielsen
I didn't even know what a clone
was until one was pointed out to
me in the hall the other day. "It"
smelled of Crest and wore a "Star
Wars" T-shirt. "It" carried a
half-eaten egg-salad sandwich
and moaned something about
getting only three hours of sleep.
"It" was everywhere!
We face a massive identity
crisis. Bethel "groupies"
especially are in danger of losing
their individualism through an
extremely popular, persistant,
and rather boring picture of us
maintained by "members of the
outside."
This Bethelite clone gets
monthly crew cuts, conscien-tiously
chews Sen-Sen, and clings
religiously to a wardrobe similar
to that of the '65 graduates' of
Pillsbury college.
However false this portrait may
be, we yet are threatened with the
possibility of blending - homo-genizing
- into one uninteresting
mass.
Ask yourself, "What is it that
distinguishes me from Joe
Schmuck on the street?" If, like
me, you must answer that it's
nothing more impressive than
your distant relation to Burl Ives,
this expose is addressed to you!
It's time to break out of this
routine mold and become some-thing
different, outrageous, and,
if needs be, outcast.
Fortunately, we have an ex-ample.
The age of strange and
wonderful has not yet passed
completely from this earth. Resi-ding
among us is the epitome of
courageous "weirdness." Here is
uniqueness personified! One of
our very own faculty members
has been nominated for an award
that will separate him from the
commoners and brand his name
in the annals of Bethelite history.
The honor arrived undramati-cally
via a common red, white,
and blue air mail envelope.
Nothing would have distin-
Dear editor,
I guess I'm bringing up a very
volatile issue by criticizing the
music department when ad-mittedly
I am at best a rank
amateur musician. However, it is
for precisely this reason that I see
this year's Festival of Christmas
as a dangerous departure from
traditional concerts sponsored by
Bethel College.
I do not speak of the content
since I am in no position to judge.
What bothers me is the music
department's insistence on a pro-fessional
presentation instead of
allowing students to present our
program.
At first it did not seem like my
place to criticize a department I'm
guished the parcel from the
sheaves of other unimportant
documents but for the word "ur-gent"
printed in block letters at
the corners. L.M. Fauth ripped it
open with trembling, hopeful fin-gers.
Inside was a personal letter be-ginning:
"Dear Biographee:"
Now it seems that the editors of
a volume called "The World
Who's Who of Women" are
clamoring for the personal bio-graphy
of Dr. Lynn Fauth, till
now, unobstrusive, only slightly
radical professor in the English
department at Bethel.
Understandably, his first re-actions
to the letter were not
wholly positive. "I felt tacky and
used," he stated, miffed at what
he considered an objectionable
attitude of "sexist publishers."
However, further consideration
of the opportunity to gee his photo
appear in the fifth annual The
W.W.W. of W. repealed pre-mature
rashness. He plans to
purchase his first edition of the
$49.50 text (not including $4.50
postage) with the change he
collects from beneath couch cush-ions
at Doc's.
Lynn, who describes himself as
a "brainy blond" claims such
sought-after talents as reading
religious poetry cynically and
teaching W.A.R. He also remains
admirably modest and admits to
some negative traits that may mar
his standing among other nomi-nees.
"I chew my fingernails," he
reported, twisting a corner of his
plaid shirt, "and I have a tenden-cy
to interpret poems in a Freud-ian
manner."
He does feel that competition
could pose a bit of difficulty,
especially after the review com-mittee
receives his picture.
"Electrolysis hasn't been work-ing,"
he admitted bluntly.
Asked whether he was con-cerned
that success might harm
his marriage, he jokingly
answered, "Yeah, when my wife,
Toni, finds out I'm a woman."
not involved in, but after speak-ing
to many Festival members,
decided that many feel the same
way; they just don't feel free to
express their frustration.
When activities intended to
promote the school are scheduled
for the benefit of the students and
friends of the school, should the
students be allowed to be the
main participants or should we
"import?"
My opinion is that profession-als
are nice, but many of our
friends can do almost as good a
job and can certainly praise God
as well as any more experienced
artists. Even teachers, as close as
they may be to the students, have
no right to exempt the students
We see the sort of problems
Lynn Fauth, and every coura-geous
soul like him, must endure
in order to nobly express his
individuality.
Here is a man not afraid to
brave opposition, ridicule, and
the especially cruel jeers of his
departmental associates. One
surly, sarcastic fellow wanted to
know whether Lynn's blush was
natural.
This type of intolerance indi-cates
the hum-drum existence
Dear editor:
Over a piece of Mam Rosa's
pepperoni pizza, Josephy Theo-dore
Maltese expressed to me his
impressions of Bethel College.
Joe, being aquainted with very
few Bethel students, has ideas
that have not been relished by
any "insiders."
Maltese, who has only looked
over Bethel one time in his recent
from roles that could be handled
by them.
The basic question is, will God
be more glorified if we give him
the best (professionals) or our
best as a student body?
Sincerely,
Tom Buxton
roster cont. from page 1
Q: Will the phone numbers
and addresses be changed for the
old campus residents moving to
new campus?
Kaihol: No, that information
can't be corrected because the
printer has agreed to reprint the
Roster exactly as it appears in the
original form. If any changes
most Bethelites—a conglomer-ation
of dull students, faculty,
and staff- -will content themselves
with. Dr. Lynn M. Fauth has
transcended this boring mode and
will reap the benefits of his
courage in the impending infamy
he will enjoy.
In an unselfish and enthusiastic
desire to initiate this trend toward
blatant individuality at Bethel,
Lynn unhesitatingly recommends
a list of other faculty members he
deems possible candidates for
existence, has a very limited
view. However, I found his com-ments
most interesting and hum-orous.
As my teeth were attempting to
cut the swiss cheese on my pizza,
Joe remarked, "I thought it was
strange to have an armed guard
at the front gate."
I quickly informed Mr. Maltese
that the guard was armed with
merely a flashlight.
Obviously, a seed of "being
sheltered," as Joe put it, has
been planted in Joe's mind.
"What is your definition of
sheltered in this context?"
"I think the students are
sheltered by the way they keep up
themselves from what is really on
the outside," Joe explained.
He went on to say, "I started to
look around for barbed wire fen-ces."
were made, we would probably
have to pay for it. The address
changes might be printed in the
Roster supplement next semes-ter.
Q: When will the reprinted
Roster come out?
Kabob The new rosters will be
out some time next year, but I'm
not sure when.
awards: Jean Glader, Roberta
Weaver, Chrissy Weintz, and
Gerri Healy.
With this type of leadership
and ingenuity, perhaps we too
may overcome our glaring
"cloneship" to become garrishly
noticeable and outlandish indivi-duals.
Does Joe have a point? Are we
too sheltered at Bethel? Do we
bring it upon ourselves? Do we
like the idea of being sheltered?
Clearly we can see that Joe was
going a little overboard with his
descriptions of Bethel. However,
do we agree that he has a point?
When people shelter them-selves
from the people they wish
to stay away from, for various
reasons, such as, life styles diff-erences,
not only do they with-hold
their personal influence on
these people, but they also be-come
a more self-centered type of
person.
They also lose the challenge of
sharing their faith in various ways
with people of other faiths, or no
faith at all. Thus, they become
colder and colder to outsiders
needs.
There are solutions to this
concept. One might take an hour
out of their time to visit a
children's home or nursing home.
A concerned person might also
wish to share their faith in various
ways simply by living a Christmas
like life as described in the Bible.
Here is a chance to be creative for
your Lord!
Sincerely,
Julie Trones
Bethel import of professionals questioned
page three
This award-winning photograph of Lake Valentine will appear in "Passages" magazine along
with other student visual and literary works.
Royal candy
Caramel business still bloom-ing
Central Baptist Church
420 North Roy Street
St. Paul, Minnesota
646-2751
Bus leaves:
FT - 9:15
N.C. - 9:25
BODIEN
9:45
Services:
8:45 and 11
10 Bible Study
7 pm evening
Staff:
Garvin McGettrick
Ron Eckert
Lloyd Nelson
Cary Olson
Kathy Cupp
The Oregon Extension
Do you belong there?
The Oregon Extension is a one semester, inter-disciplinary,
liberal arts program, sponsored by Trinity College, and con-ducted
in an old lumber mill town in southern Oregon's
Cascade Mountains, just outside Ashland, Oregon. The
course of study runs from August 26 to December 15, 1979,
and offers 15 hours of 300-level credit in a variety of
humanities, social sciences and sciences. Emphasis is placed
on independent scholarly pursuit and small group inter-action.
The goal of the faculty is to help you equip yourself
to be a thinking Christian in today's society. Study is under-taken
in the context of ongoing community relationships,
common work and common worship, extra-curricular learn-ing—
a visit to San Francisco, a backpack in Three Sisters
Wilderness, a strenuous climb of Mt. Shasta. Costs are some-what
less than on most Christian college campuses, and
registration through your own school is possible. Juniors
and seniors with 3.0 (B) or better are given priority. For
complete information, write Dr. James Titus, Oregon Ex-tension,
15097 Hwy 66, Ashland, OR 97520.
"Passages" winners
collect laud, currency
by Sandee Barton
"Here comes the caramel
man," a student comments as 73-
year-old Royal Bloom hurries to-ward
him. The lean, silver-haired
Bloom then proudly presents his
friend with one of his homemade,
mouth-watering caramels.
Bloom was professor of psy-chology,
statistics, and director of
testing at Bethel College for 23
years. He presently volunteers
his services at Bethel's business
office, tabulating time sheets and
working out payrolls.
Dr. Roy "Doc" Dalton, pro-fessor
in history, was a student of
Royal Bloom a "few" years ago.
Some classes Doc took from Royal
include educational psychology,
general psychology, abnormal
psychology and applied psycho-logy.
Doc comments about Royal as
he reflects back to his collegiate
days: "I learned more from the
model he set as a good teacher
than from any other source. He
sincerely cared for his students."
But perhaps Bloom is better
known as "the caramel man"
than for the volunteer work he
does in the business office. For
years he has blessed many
mouths and stomachs with his
chewy goodies.
Caramel-making takes place in
Bloom's apartment where his
wife often helps with the pro-duction.
The traditional time for
making the delectable treats be-gins
right before Halloween and
continues until March.
"I like to make them," Royal
(always dressed in a business
suit) proudly comments. "I enjoy
giving candy away. I don't make
them for myself," he continues,
"because I hardly ever eat any,
but I've got to lick the pan."
Last year Bloom treated every
member of the Concert Choir and
Women's Choir to a box of 12
caramels each, before the choirs
went on spring tour.
The Blooms make about 40
batches of caramels annually, but
this year they are not expecting to
make quite as many. There are
approximately 180 to 200 cara-mels
in each batch.
Every piece is individually
wrapped with wax paper. An
8-inch sheet of wax paper is
divided into 16 sections and each
section, an inch long, is then used
for each caramel. The cooking
process takes only about 35 min-utes,
but to wrap one batch takes
about an hour-and-a-half.
Students sometimes help with
the wrapping, and the Blooms
especially appreciate this help
before and during the Christmas
holidays, when they usually dis-tribute
most of their caramels.
Royal's candy-making business
first began before World War II
when his wife showed him the
recipe from a friend whose hus-band
had developed the candy-making
skill.
He began making caramels for
friends and relatives, but during
the war years (while stationed in
Washington D.C.) he began giv-ing
caramels to men being trans-ferred
overseas.
When he began teaching at
Bethel in 1947, he shared his
tantalizing sweets with students
in his psychology and education
classes, gave caramels as re-wards
in statistics, and sent gift
boxes to alumni all over the
world.
Royal's candy business has ex-panded
now, and he even distri-butes
caramels to students and
faculty as he passes them in the
halls.
"I work in the business office,"
Rebecca Butler comments, "so
Royal is a good friend of mine. He
often brightens up my day when
he tucks one of his delicious (but
fattening) caramels into my pock-ets."
Gardening is also one of Roy-al's
hobbies, and tomatoes are his
favorite. The Blooms live In an
apartment, so they rent a plot of
land from the county for their
garden.
Royal also works at the Greater
St. Paul Volunteer Office two to
three days out of the month. He is
also currently vice-president of
one of Roseville's senior citizen
clubs.
Royal is listed in "Who's Who
in the Midwest," "Who's Who in
American Education" and has
written a chapter in "Personnel
Research and Test Development
in the Bureau of Navy Personnel"
published by the Princeton Uni-versity
Press.
by Shelly Nielsen
"Passages" magazine's annual
talent contest is over. The word
and winners are out. Top entries,
along with other exalted contri-butions
will appear in the spring
edition of "Passages."
An example of winning visual
work is previewed here. Doug
Barkey took his photograph and
called it "Sharing a Sunset."
Bruce Johnson, a senior, pro-duced
the slide series on ceramics
that won second. Remarkably, a
photo of the swamp near the
circle lot was entered by Edith
Harvey and won third place.
Honors, cont. from page 1
Johnson observed that the hon-ors
program will have to be
specifically designed for Bethel
because of the college's size and
its integration of faith and learn-ing.
The committee is in the process
of developing the philosophy for
the program, but Johnson was
convinced that whatever program
is finally presented will be
workable at Bethel.
"It would also enhance our
Christian witness. We not only
need Christian witness, but also
an academic witness. We need to
say that we as Christians are
serious about our academics."
The honors committee is made up
of: James Johnson, professor of
history; Jeannine Bohlmeyer,
In the literary division, senior
Daniel Miller took first with an
autobiographic essay. Second
place winner Scott Barnard, a
junior not attending Bethel this
semester, submitted a poem.
Transfer student Ann Taylor was
awarded third prize for her per-sonal
essay.
Prizes for first, second, and
third place winners were, re-spectively,
$25, $15, $10.
You too may still see your
painting poem, or expose in print!
Submit through P.O. 1653, or talk
to Scott Barsuhn or Shelly Niel-sen.
professor of English; Stewart
Luckman, associate professor of
art; Paul Tavernier, associate pro-fessor
of chemistry; Dale Rott,
associate professor in theatre
arts; and Thomas Correll, pro-fessor
of anthropology.
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Bus Schedule
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Lodging for the night
By Suzi Wells
"Tina, I think we're stuck,"
Cindy said.
"What? Where are we?" her
sleepy sister asked.
"Well, we're about 30 miles
from home, and we're off the
road. I can't tell what's the road
and what's not with all this snow
everywhere, and it's dark. You
would think they'd plow these
interstates, at least."
"Maybe everyone is taking a
holiday. Who wants to be out
plowing snow on Christmas
Eve?" Tina said.
"Oh, I wish we were home!"
Cindy said. "But there's no sense
moaning about that now. We're
just going to have to get unstuck
and get home before Santa Claus
beats us there."
"Do you think we could push
the car out?" Tina suggested.
"I don't think so, but I'll have a
look. You come over and steer,
and I'll try to push us out."
Tina obeyed, and Cindy got out
of the car. The wind was picking
up, and it chilled her thoroughly.
The snow was beautiful though,
falling softly in the night,
blanketing the road and the
ground.
She looked up into the sky,
searching for a star to remind her
of the first Christmas. All she
could see were a million dancing
snowflakes, falling on her bare
face and melting in her hair.
She walked around to the back
of the car. "Okay, put it in
drive," she shouted at Tina. The
wheels spun, but the car didn't
budge.
Cindy walked back to the car,
and scooted in beside Tina.
"Brrr, it's freezing out there. I
don't think we can get very far,
unless we get about ten strong
guys to help us. We may need a
tow, we're pretty far from the
road, and we're pretty stuck too.
It's a good thing we have plenty
of gas, or we just might freeze to
death if we had to sit in a cold
car..."
"Did you say it's only 30 more
miles till we get home?" Tina
asked. "That's only about a half
an hour's drive in the summer."
"But this isn't exactly summer.
I don't know when we'll get
home, maybe never. Wait a min-ute,
I think I see some head-lights."
Cindy dashed out of the
car and ran to the road. But by the
time she got to the road the truck
had passed by. Defeated, she
returned to the car.
"It will be too hard to go
running back and forth every
time a car comes," she said.
"But how else will we get out of
here?" Tina asked. "I can go out-side."
"No, you have a cold. We'll
just wait and see if any help
comes soon—maybe a wrecker
will come by to tow us out."
Two cars passed by without
stopping, even when Cindy ran
out to the road and waved her
arms. Either they couldn't see
her, or they were in too much of a
hurry to get home for Christmas,
Cindy thought.
Back in the car, Cindy said,
"Well, we still have enough gas
to get home, but the tank won't
stay full forever. Why doesn't
anyone stop?"
"No one has time for us, or
room for us, I guess. Just like
Jesus," Tina mused.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, you know the story.
Mary and Joseph couldn't find
anywhere to spend the night. No
one had room for them, and no
one could take time to make them
comfortable. I guess we can i-dentify
with them right now,
right?" Tina wrapped her coat
more tightly around her.
"Yes, I guess you're right.
Mary and Joseph were stranded,
too. And to think, no one had any
room for the Christ child to be
born! They didn't have a place for
God to enter the world!"
"Isn't that incredible?" Tina
said. Then she glanced at the rear
view mirror. "Wait, I see head-lights
again!"
Cindy jumped out of the car,
and waved her arms when she got
to the road. For a minute, she
thought the driver would plow her
over, but then he slowed down
and stopped.
by Rick Chapman
"Deck the halls with boughs of
holly, fa la la la la la la, 'tis the
season to be jolly, fa la la la la la
la. The season of yule has
arrived again.
Was there every any doubt?
Without question the advent of
Christmas has come at a most
significant time, especially for the
Bethel student. Regardless of the
academic dilemmas which pre-sently
loom before nearly every-one,
Christmas brings with it
happiness and joy.
This phenomenon is well docu-mented
by the remarks of a
certain Bethel girl: "Who cares
if I have three book reviews, a
20-page research paper, two
speeches and an oral report re-maining
to accomplish in addition
to finals—it's Christmas!"
Indeed, Christmas is one of the
most influential occasions of the
entire year.
Because of its impact, multi-tudes
flock to the shopping esta-blishments
to exchange their sav-ings
for an assortment of gifts,
homes are decorated with bright-
"Looks like you need some
help," said the man as he jumped
out of his cab.
"Yes, we're pretty stuck. Do
you think you could help me push
us out of here?"
"Well, I'm not sure that would
do any good. Like you said, you're
really stuck. But you're in luck,
I've got a chain in the truck and I
think it's long enough to pull you
out of there. I'll hook it up to your
car and see if it will work."
Cindy jumped up and down,
partly because she was so ex-cited,
and partly because she was
freezing. As soon as the trucker
had hooked them up, she hopped
back into the car.
"I think we're home free," she
told Tina. She put the car in drive
once again, and slowly, the truck
was able to pull 'them back onto
the road.
As soon as they were back on
the road, Cindy ran out to the
truck. "Thanks a lot for your
help," she said to the driver.
"No problem," he said. "Have
a merry Christmas." He was
down the road before Cindy
thought to ask him if they could
pay him for his trouble.
"Maybe this will be a good
Christmas after all," Cindy said
as they headed down the road
once again. "Look, the snow is
letting up! We may get home
before too long."
"Oh, we'll get home," Tina
responded. "Even the innkeeper
had room for Jesus, even if it was
just the barn."
ly colored lights, trees, Santa
Clauses, and what not, and indiv-iduals
who would make Dicken's
Scrooge appear benevolent even
participate in temporary deeds of
kindness and good will.
What is this phenomenon of
Christmas? The term is a deriva-tive
of an Old English phrase
meaning "Christ's mass," which
was first used in the 11th century.
The December 25 date was set
in the fourth century by the
Church at Rome. A Roman pagan
celebration was already held on
this day. Perhaps the Church
purposed to turn the people from
this pagen celebration to a day in
which the Christ-child was
adored.
Christmas, a day which was set
aside to remember the Christ has
developed historically through
a mixture of various pagan ele-ments,
both Roman and from the
practices of later converts in the
northern Germanic areas of
Europe.
So from various sources Christ-mas
has come down as a tradition
to a present position of tremen-dous
influence.
I still remember my favorite
Christmas. It took place in the
mountains of Baguio, a city in
north central Luzon in the Philip-pines.
The family was together.
Evenings were spent sitting about
the hearth of a roaring fire. We
children listened to stories that
our father read to us.
I cannot recall whatever mater-ial
gifts were given or received
that Christmas—only that it was a
truly special experience sharing
gifts of love and life.
That experience demonstrated
to me that the significance of
Christmas did not consist of
material things.
And yet, during this Christmas
season, many will not even have
the warmth and presence of fam-ily
and friends with whom to
share and rejoice, nor even the
rudimentary requirements of life.
There are the hungry, the sick,
the widows, the dispossessed, the
prisoners, and other outcasts of
society, both here and abroad.
I think of Georgi Vins, a leader
of the Reformed Baptists in the
Soviet Union, who is presently in
prison because of his unwilling-ness
to compromise his commit-ment
to Jesus Christ.
How radically different his
Christmas will be in contrast to
mine. What will Christmas mean
to him?
I imagine that through his
suffering Georgi Vins has come to
know the joy and spirit of Christ-mas
very profoundly, not as a
single event in the year, but all -
year long.
Right from his birth, Christ
necessarily looked ahead to the
suffering of the cross. He came to
die. Vins is now privileged to
share in that suffering as a ser-vant
of Christ.
In Dr. Seuss's "The Gtinch Who
Stole Christmas," the Grinch at-tempts
to destroy Christmas by
taking all the outward mani-festations
and symbolic items of
the Whos' Christmas.
The Grinch failed to understand
that their Christmas did not con-sist
in these material objects.
They sang and rejoiced all the
same. If in Georgi Vins' situation,
could I remain joyful or could I
even celebrate?
Christmas in perspective
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by Lisa Pepper
Christmas is coming and it is
bringing many traditions with it.
What are some of the family
`:raditions of Bethel's faculty and
administration?
Randy Johnson, instructor in
philosophy, said, "Each year we
get an ornament with the date on
it. We have one for each year of
our child's life. Aaron is five
now."
Said Pastor Spickelmier, "Our
Christmas is heavily influenced
by my wife's semi-Scandinavian
background. On Christmas Eve
we have a smorgasbord with her
family. We have herring, flat-bread,
cheese, potato sausage,
etc.
"On Christmas Eve morning
we deliver special gifts to shut-ins
and to those who have needs. We
take them candy, bread or some-thing
that we have made."
by Becky Olson
A non-credit study skills course
has been approved by the dean's
administrative council and will be
available to all students during
interim.
Paul Redin and student men-tors
generated the new course. It
consists of 10 sessions covering
the following topics: managing
time, taking lecture notes, read-ing
textbooks, taking examina-tions,
making oral reports, im-proving
memory, concentration,
scholastic motivation, and inter-personal
relations.
According to Gerard Laroche,
professor of French and Spanish,
"It's a time for togetherness, we
try to go places together," he
went on. - Festival of Christmas,
a church with a special program
and other programs are regular
parts of our holiday.
"Before opening our gifts on
Christmas morning we have a
special devotional period. Every-one
is responsible for finding
something to read in the Scrip-ture.
We discuss it and then we
each say five things that we are
thankful for.
"Music is always a part of our
Christmas. My wife plays the
piano, my son plays the viola and
the saxophone and I play the
mouth organ. There is always a
lot of singing."
Lillian Ryberg, professor of
Spanish, said, "On Christmas
Eve we open our presents and eat
lutefisk. Our family always took a
The study skills course should
not be confused with Academic
Improvement Groups (A.I.G.).
This course explores a broad area
of study skills, whereas A.I.G.
deals specifically with managing
time and setting realistic goals.
Two sections, each taught by
two student mentors, will be
offered Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. Working around class
periods, one section will be off-ered
before chapel (9:45-10:45)
and the other offered before
afternoon sessions (11:55-12:55).
Students may register from
cont. on page 12
ride in the car to look at the
Christmas lights. And we always
went: to church on Christmas
morning."
Associate. Professor of Art Ste-wart
"Stu" Luckman asked,
"Traditions?" Then continued,
"I try my best to avoid lutefisk—I
hate it. I'm Irish but my wife is
Scandinavian so we celebrate
with her family on Christmas Eve.
"It's an orgy of cuisine.
Swedish smorgasbords are amaz-ing.
All that food!
"On Christmas day we read the
Christmas story, share in grace
and devotion and eat oyster soup.
Sometimes we have spontaneous
slide shows."
James Mason, professor of
speech and communication, said,
"We always buy our tree three or
four weeks early.
"Each year my wife gives the
children a little trinket for their
tree. With those they are able to
remember special years."
Said Olaf Olsen, professor of
history, "We have an ethnic
tradition because of my Norwe-gian
background.
"We eat a type of porridge
which is made of milk and rice
and spices. It's served in a bowl
and butter is put into a hole in the
middle.
Editor's note: In the
Nov. 17 issue of the
Clarion, the first para-graph
of the non-standard
specialization
story should have read:
"Next semester 14
Bethel students will
graduate with non-standard
specializa-tions."
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"We've always had lots of
cookies and breads."
"Our son always puts on a play
of the Christmas story," said
John Piper, associate professor of
Biblical studies. "He memorizes
it and acts it out with his brother
and with dolls."
"Also, we place a carved wood-en
manger scene on the coffee
table, and put our gifts under-neath.
The only tree that we have
is a "Jesse" tree—it's a gnarled
branch with symbolic ornaments.
"We have an Advent log with
four candles. Each Sunday of the
Advent we light a candle and read
a special passage of the Bible."
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investigates basic study skills
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by Pam Temple
"Student-faculty committees
keep in tune with what is really
going on," said Sue Stone, a
sophomore senator.
Both students and faculty have
input on student faculty commit-tees.
There are 12 committees
and several other informal ones,
each performing a specific func-tion.
The Admissions Committee re-views
petitions from students who
have been turned down for ad-mission
to Bethel.
"We decide whether the stu-dents
should be put on probation
or if they should be allowed to
take just a few classes for credit,"
said Lisa Pepper, a sophomore
member of the Admissions
Committee. "It is a joint decision.
We all get a chance to vote."
Four students and four faculty
members make up the Curri-culum
Administrative Committee
which approves petitions for new
courses suggested by the faculty
for next year's programs.
"Each teacher submits a
schedule for his or her next year's
classes," said sophomore Hellen
Manning. Copies are given to
Tricia Brownlee, assistant to the
dean; Paul Finlay, registrar; and
to the committee.
The committee then expresses
its opinion and returns the peti-tion
to the dean's office for final
decision. "The decision of the
dean always stands," said Hellen.
Students' petitions for non-standard
specializations or
changes in exam schedules go to
the registrar for first approval. If
the registrar approves, the peti-tion
goes to the committee. "If we
approve, then we let It stand. But
a majority vote can override the
registrar's decision," said Hellen.
The Convocation Administra-tive
Advisory Committee plans
speakers for convocation pro-grams.
"We plan educational
things," said Lois Malcolm, a
sophomore senator.
The Communications Board is
an all-student board with a faculty
advisor. Alvera Mickelsen, assis-tant
professor of journalism, ex-presses
her opinions but has no
vote.
This is the board responsible
for the Clarion, Coeval, Passages
and KABY. All student media
are responsible to the Communi-cations
Board for the choosing of
staff, editors, policy and budget.
Another committee is the
Chapel and Spiritual Life Corn-mittee
which plans chapel ser-vices
for the following year.
"The Student Life Committee
is in search of a job," said Tannie
Woods, student senate president.
"It will probably combine with
the Judiciary Committee."
The Judiciary Committee is the
"grievance" committee. For ex-ample,
if students feel they were
unfairly graded, they can appeal
to this committee.
The College Relations Policy
Committee works in conjucntion
with the College Relations Com-mittee.
This year they are review-ing
enrollment problems. "We
are doing a retention study of
other private colleges to see what
their retention rates are," said
Becky Dye, sophomore senator.
Other student-faculty commit-tees
include the Academic Policy
Committee, the Athletic Advisory
Committee, the Student Affairs
and Policy Committee and the
Financial Aid Committee.
One of the informal committees
is the Housing Advisory Commit.
tee. This year they are dealing
with problems involved in moving
people from old campus, and such
things as parking problems at
Fountain Terrace.
There are about 20 students
and faculty on this informal com-mittee.
Any student may bring a
problem to one of the committee
members, who will bring the
problem up at the next meeting.
"This committee allows me to be
involved and personally work on
the projects," said Sue.
"Not every senator has to be on
a student-faculty committee,"
said Tannie, "but every commit-tee
has to have a senator. These
committees allow input into
Bethel's decision making."
by Hellen Manning
John Sailhamer is not new to
Bethel, but his role is different.
He once was a student. Now he is
an assistant professor in the biblical
and theological studies depart-ment.
What brought Sailhamer back
to Bethel? "Opportunity," he
said. "Bethel has had a
longlasting effect on my life. I
always wanted to teach here," he
said. Sailhamer taught at Biola
College and Los Angeles Bible
College, both in California.
Sailhamer has not stopped stu-dying.
He has, since his freshman
year at Bethel, received two
graduate degrees and is currently
working for a Ph.D. at U.C.L.A.
He said he enjoys graduate
school. "The classes are smaller
and the students are highly
qualified and more serious than
undergraduates," he said.
During his years at U.C.L.A. he
studied 12 languages. He is writing
his doctoral dissertation on ancient
near Eastern languages. He would
like to teach Hebrew at Bethel. "I
want students to have a grasp on
Biblical languages," he said.
When Sailhamer went to
California he thought students
would be different. "I don't know
exactly what I mean by different.
But I'm learning that students are
the same everywhere," said
Sailhamer.
"There is a difference in at-titude
toward the instructor here
as compared to Biola, though.
There was less distance between
students and faculty at Biola.
Now when I walk into a classroom
the students get quiet," Sailhamer
said. "I'm not saying that's bad,
just different," he explained.
Sailhamer met his wife, Patty,
at Wheaton College in Illinois.
She was on the Campus Crusade
for Christ staff. They have two
children, David, three, and Betsy,
18 months.
Patty picked their home in
Mounds View. Sailhamer never
saw it until they moved into it.
"The inside's great, the lawn is
too big, (I know because I have to
mow it) but I can't tell you what
the outside looks like," he said.
"Patty does the bookwork. I
tried, but I finally gave the
finances to her. Not that she wants
to do it, but she's better at it,"
Sailhamer said. He believes they
run a traditional home, "though it
may not look like it from what
I've told you," he said. "Patty
loves homemaking, cooking, sew-ing,
and decorating and has no in-tention
of working. She also likes
kids."
Apart from Bethel and his own
studying, Sailhamer loves to
travel. One summer in the
mid-60's he hitchhiked and
travelled on the bus around the
States and Canada. "I did it just
to do it," he said. He especially
enjoys traveling by train.
by Joy Banta
Bethel's top varsity debate
team, Mike Emerson and Scott
Larson, placed ninth out of 33
teams at Iowa State University.
Teams representing 10 states
competed in the regional tourna-ment
in Ames, Iowa last week-end.
Two of Bethel's junior varsity
teams also competed. Ira King
and Jim Torgerson went 4-4 and
Pam Linamen and Ch_ eryl Thomas
went 3-5 in the preliminary
rounds against 33 junior varsity
teams.
Mike and Scott made it to the
octo-finals losing to only three of
the top teams in the region:
University of Kansas, North-western
University and Illinois
State University.
"We lost 2-1 by decision to a
team who was in the top 50 from
Former student returns
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Augustana—in octo-finals. It was
an excellent round and we
thought that we'd won—but so
did they," said Mike.
Coach Dave Lee said, "I was
very pleased with the tourna-ment.
It was excellent competi-tion
and they all debated very
well."
Junior varsity debater Ira King
said, "I thought we did a fantastic
job because the competition was
some of the best, if not the best,
I've seen all year."
As for the tournament overall,
Mike said, "It was a significant
improvement over our last tour-nament
at Bradley University in
Peoria, Ill. where we (Scott and I)
went 3-5."
Bethel's debate teams will not
compete again until January.
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The dance scene from "Amahl" was one of the highlights of this year's Festival of Christmas.
Cindy Wobig, Bethel graduate in music, gives and takes music
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by Becky Dye
"Peep City," a piece of sculp-ture
made of wood, polyurethane
paint and bright, flashing red
neon lights, is causing some con-troversy
on campus.
The sculpture piece is on dis-play
in the sculpture studio win-dow.
Junior Jeff Weissbach
made it late last summer.
Jeff said the idea came while he
was driving in New York City on
his way to Whitney Art Museum.
He noticed a group of tourists
outside an adult bookstore peep-ing
at it curiously but staying at a
distance, as if they were afraid.
Jeff commented, "It amused
me, and I saw a metaphor in the
situation.
by Becky Dye
Bethel's Stage Band is reor-ganizing
this year with plans to
increase its number of per-formances.
Under the direction of Chuck
Olson, the instrumental director,
the band will explore jazz, swing,
rock and blues.
"This kind of music is indi-genous
to America. If done prop-erly,
it has a place and can benefit
people going into music educa-tion.
"Jazz is becoming popular in
high schools; people entering
education should have experience
with this type of music," Olson
said.
Basically the Stage Band is a
new group. Last year it performed
at the spring Pops Concert. But it
was informally structured until
this year.
"We would certainly like to
play at the Pops Concert this
spring." commented Olson.
There are also numerous local
"This particular piece is a
metophor of sorts. At the time I
had more specific intentions, but
now its implications are much
more widespread. The whole idea
of 'peeping' has a signifi-cance."
Stu Luckman, chairman of the
art department and sculpture in-structor
said, "Perhaps people
approach their own senses from a
very unconfident self-conscious
point of view.
"Many people look at ideas,
life and faith almost as if they are
merely voyeurs," he added.
A senior art student corn-mented,
"The sculpture accur-ately
describes many people's
view of the art department. They
come to the art department and
Jazz festivals.
"A group our size is relatively
mobile; there is also the possi-bility
of playing at athletic events.
We're exploring the possibilities
of being a performance group and
we're encouraged about it so far.
The Stage Band will offer im-provisation.
This is something
that Bethel's other groups don't
offer normally," added Olson.
The Stage Band has approxi-mately
17 members and Olson
said that the band still needs
tenor and baritone saxophone
players.
"People who are not in band or
orchestra are welcome. There are
no auditions and anyone with
experience may join us. If the
group starts to go we'll become
even more organized. We're try-ing
to build discipline," said
Olson.
"I can see a strong healthy
program such as this create an
added attraction for protential
students," concluded Olson.
by Ed Scott Palmquist
Cindy Wobig, secretary to the
music department, gives organ
lessons to a handicapped lady.
"She does not play much during
lessons. But we spend the time
discussing the piece she is study-ing,"
said Cindy.
"I think she plays extremely
well considering that she is on a
wheelchair and has limited move-ment,"
Cindy added.
Cindy graduated from Bethel in
1975 with a double major in
church music and education. She
said she decided not to go into
teaching so she could continue
playing the organ. Besides, "my
job allows me time to practice,
teach and perform."
remove the sculpture during the
Festival of Christmas.
"The reactions confirm that
people understand it only one
way—pornographic, dirty book-stores,"
said Luckman. "Jeff is
not working with that; rather he
takes one beyond."
When Luckman first saw Peep
City he commented, "I was
shocked. It looks out of place on
this campus. That may reflect
what I expected to see at Bethel."
Jeff commented, "I'm glad for
the response. People are think-ing;
they're being stimulated. I
may not be happy and may not
think some of their comments are
just, but I'm really glad people
are responding."
"My real love is playing the
organ in church," said Cindy who
is • also the organist for Salem
Covenant Church. Cindy also
likes to sew, cook and read.
Besides the handicapped lady,
Cindy has 14 other students.
Playing the organ for others is
Cindy's favorite type of Christian
service. But she also believes that
by being a secretary she can
minister to students.
"The music department is hard
for some students to go through,"
Cindy explained, "I feel I am
someone the students can turn
to."
Cindy said her job is to sched-ule
and coordinate most activities
that go through the department.
"I also do unofficial advising,"
said Cindy, "and help students
register for ,,private music les-sons."
Every other Wednesday, Cindy
takes lessons from Dr. Robert
Thomas of St. Olaf. "I enjoy my
lessons for many reasons," said
Cindy, "but most of all, I enjoy
taking them in the beautiful Boe
Memorial chapel."
Though Cindy. expressed satis-faction
with her job she admitted
that there were other things she
would like to do. "I hope to go
back to school," said Cindy,
"once I get enough money."
"I like the Twin-Cities so I may
go to the U of M," said Cindy,
"but it's not something I'm de-finite
about." Cindy plans to get
her masters in either fine arts or
in church music.
Cindy believes that if it wasn't
for God she would not have her
job. "It just so happened that I
graduated when the job opened
.up," said Cindy, "I was lucky
enough to have the necessary
secretarial skills."
Cindy said she enjoys her work
because of the students and the
faculty. "I really don't know all of
the work that pertains to my job,"
said Cindy, "there is something
new to do everyday." On Dec. 15
Cindy will be presenting a 40-
minute recital at the First Baptist
Church in St. Paul. The recital is a
part of a series of recitals to be
held at the church during Decem-ber.
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peep. They can't possibly see or
understand all that is behind the
artists' projects."
Luckman continued, "You see,
peeping implies seeing some-thing
you don't do yourself."
"People peep at life through
TV, books etc.," he said. "They
are living at a distance. Perhaps
they are afraid. Maybe, to look at
real life or to see life in another
way would be too much for
some."
Luckman indicated that the
display was not meant to shock or
offend anyone.
But it does offend some people.
Many have expressed their feel-ings
through the Senate's Beef
Board. Jeff also received a note in
his PO asking if he intended to
New band into new kind of music,
groups looks forward to expansion
Controversial art piece kindles response
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Dr. Smalley, former missionary in Southeast Asia, doubled the linguistics department when he
joined this fall.
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Professor William A. Smalley
has spent as much of his life
overseas as in the United States.
The tall, slender man's face
reflects Southeast Asia, where he
worked 23 years as a translation
consultant and missionary to
Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. He
joined the linguistics department
this fall.
"The focus of my professional
life changed when I came to
Bethel. I am enjoying the
challenge of reorienting my think-ing
to teaching college students.
Learning to teach well is a time-consuming
process," Smalley
said.
Smalley sees his work at Bethel
as a different kind of ministry.
"It's another creative service for
the Lord," he said.
His job as a translation con-sultant
involved selecting and
training translators for United
Bible Societies. Linguistic and
anthropological research served
as a basis for teaching translation
principles to Bible translators.
"I left Bible society work for
two reasons. I didn't want to
return to Asia, and I sensed that I
had done my part there. The re-maining
work wasn't particularly
innovative and was primarily to
keep existing projects in opera-tion,"
he said.
"Bethel was a rather attractive
alternative and the opportunity to
work with Dr. Don Larson again
was inviting." Smalley and Lar-son
have written a book together
and have been friends for many
years.
Bethel interests Smalley be-cause,
"I think this college is
stronger than other Christian
colleges in linguistics, anthro-pology
and cross-cultural com-munications."
"The linguistics department
doubles with my coming,"
Smalley said with a chuckle. "We
can now offer a wider variety of
courses and be more flexible. We
have included another course
level by the addition of Linguistic
Skills."
"We are trying to focus on the
more practical aspects of lingui-stics,
rather than the theories.
We believe that fits better with
the liberal arts pattern," Smalley
added.
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years in the Middle East, and
hoped someday to become a
missionary.
At Houghton College, Hough-ton,
N.Y.. Smalley pursued an
English literature degree. After
graduation, Smalley became a
part of the Wycliffe Training
Program at Columbia University.
He received his doctorate in an-thropological
linguistics at
Columbia.
Smalley then became a mis-sionary.
He served in Vietnam,
Laos and Thailand, where he
wrote systems for languages.
In his spare moments Smalley
has several projects underway,
including two books. One book is
about the structure of communi-cation
and the other about lingui-stics
diversity and national unity
in Thailand.
Smalley enjoys tinkering on
cars and gardening. Professional
reading, science fiction fantasy,
popular studies of modern issues
and novels with cultural emphasis
are avidly read by Smalley.
Smalley and his wife have three
children. The oldest is an English
teacher at a Japanese university,
another is a graduate student in
psychology and the youngest is a
photographer in Connecticut.
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by Jim Torgerson
Earlier this year the proposed
resurrection of KABY was arou-sing
a considerable amount of in-terest
in the student body. And,
since the "Nikked Brick" days of
early November, the ever pre-eminent
arrival of the '78-79
Roster has likewise received a
good deal of your attention and
interest.
Hopefully, I will be able to
answer some of the questions
many of you have been asking
about what is happening with
KABY and, now that the Roster
has been published, what
happened to it.
KABY is still tentatively
scheduled to go on the air some-by
Jay Russell
"We hope to have the new
dorms named by the time they're
completed, or else by the fall of
1979," President Carl Lundquist
said.
Lundquist said that if suitable
names are not found for the
dorms, then temporary names
will be given. No plans have yet
been made to give the dorms
permanent names.
According to Lundquist, the
Arden Hills residence and the
-townhouses complexes "aren't
officially named. They were con-veniently
applied but are still
open to permanent names. We
want more distinctive names that
perpetuate our heritage." He
said the college buildings may
possibly be renamed, too.
Lundquist said that possible
names will emerge from Bethel's
history, building donors or from
biblical names. He said that at the
time second term. Our attempts
to begin broadcasting earlier
were stymied by lack of an advi-sor
and insufficient space. Fur-thermore,
we needed time to
carefully define and determine
the policy and programming for
KABY.
These concerns should be re-solved
by February. A couple of
qualified individuals have indi-cated
an interest in serving as
advisor to the station's staff.
With the completion of the
addition to the LRC, we anticipate
having sufficient room to broad-cast.
And hopefully, we will have
developed a policy statement and
program guidelines by then.
As some of you already know,
the Roster was delayed at the
present time, there are no build-ings
on campus with biblical
names.
The seminary residences are
named after people with signifi-cant
influence at Bethel. The
Wingblade residence is named
after Dr. Henry Wingblade, the
second president of the college
and seminary.
Danielson residence bears the
name of the Rev. Walfred Daniel-son,
first dean of Bethel Junior
College, and Widen residence is
named after Dr. Wilford F.
Widen, M.D., a leader in the
development of Bethel's Arden
Hills campus.
The Turnwall residence is
named after the Rev. William
Turnwall, former secretary of
home missions in the Baptist
General Conference, and Wess-man
residence bears the name of
the Rev. Maurice "Duff" Wess-printer
and binders for over a
month. By now you have probably
seen how poorly it was printed.
We have arranged with the
printer to have it entirely re-printed.
The present version will
serve as an interim directory until
the reprinted copy is completed
six-seven weeks from now.
We regret the delay in the
initial delivery of the Roster as
well as the poor quality of the
present version. Hopefully, the
final product will justify our wait-ing.
KABY and the Roster are both
the responsibility of the Com-munication
Board. If you have
any questions or comments about
either, we would appreciate your
input.
man, who provided pastoral lead-ership
and ministry to the com-munity.
The Chalberg missionary resi-dence
was named after Ewald
Chalberg, a medical doctor in
Minneapolis who purchased and
financed the old Chalberg mis-sionary
residence on Como Ave-nue.
According to Lundquist, a con-test
was once held to name the
Arden Hills residence, but noth-ing
emerged from it. "There were
a lot of suggestions," he said,
"but we didn't feel comfortable
with any of them."
"There is a good possibility
that the historic names of Edgren,
Hagstrom and Bodien will be
used on new campus," Lundquist
said.
The names come from pro-minent
leaders in Bethel's early
history. Edgren dormitory bears
the name of John Alexis Edgren,
founder of Bethel Seminary.
Hagstrom is named after G.
Arvid Hagstrom, the first presi-dent
of Bethel College and Sem-inary,
and Bodien dormitory
bears the name of Mrs. Margreta
Bodien, a prominent leader in
establishing a women's residence
on old campus.
Lundquist said that "the auth-ority
to name the dorms rests with
the president's office, but choos-ing
the names will be done with
a lot of consultation."
Student Senate
Radio, Roster complications explained
page eleven
Greg Correll heads up ice during Bethel's 7-3 win over Rochester
C.C. as teammates George Fraser, Jon Fast, and Mark Olson
look on.
The wrestling team looks forward to a successful season, starting the year with two consecutive
wins.
Royals rout Rochester in rough game
Young Bethel grapplers explode to fast start
by Steve Erickson
Off to one of its fastest starts in
recent years, the wrestling team
hopes to continue its winning
ways, taking on Jamestown Col-lege
and the University of Minn-esota-
Duluth tomorrow at home
at 12 noon.
The Royals opened their season
with two wins, defeating Dr.
Martin Luther and Concordia-St.
Paul.
"This is probably the best team
I've ever ha& especially in overall
balance," said Coach David
Klostreich. "Our strength will
show in tournaments more than in
dual meets.
We're off to a good start.
We've got lots of enthusiasm and
by Carol Madison
The season opener against St.
Thomas left some doubt about the
future success of the women's
basketball team, but all fears
were erased when they came back
to soundly defeat Macalester.
The Royals lost to St. Thomas
70-35 after leading at one time in
the first half by 11 points. St.
Thomas overwhelmed Bethel in
the second half, Outscoring them
50-14. Bethel shot only 21 per
cent from the field and 31 per cent
from the free throw line.
"The game was not worth-less,"
said Coach Kathy Nevins,
"because we learned a lot from it.
We need to have our outside
shooters hitting, and we would
like to control the speed of the
game more."
Beth Karsjens was high re-bounder
with 14, and Cindi
Ramm was on top with. 11 points.
An ankle injury to starter Katie
a good attitude."
Returning from last year are
Greg Heinsch in the 150-pound
weight class, Gary Almquist at
158, Lonnie Holmgren at 167, and
Barrett Holmgren at 190. Round-ing
out the upper weight classes
are transfers Mark Swanson at
177 and Richard Hodge at heavy-weight.
Newcomers include Tom
Schrepel at 126, Greg Widmer at
134, and Wayne Reeves at 142.
"We're a young team with
three freshman and only one
senior. But they're all capable of
having a winning season," said
Klostreich.
Heinsch, Swanson, Hodge, and
both Holmgrens have each won
their first two matches of the
Miller may keep her out for a few
weeks.
Bethel came back after their
first loss to down Macalester
68-39. Shooting percentages were
upped to 44 per cent from the
field and 66 per cent at the free
throw line.
The Royals were able to handle
the Macalester press effectively,
and an excellent zone defense in
the second half contained Mac's
best shooters.
"The team can really work to-gether,"
said Coach Nevins,
"and it's a good feeling just
knowing that."
Bethel controlled the boards as
Beth Karsjens had 16 rebounds,
Joann Griffin had 12, and Deb
Sension brought down 11. Kars-jens
also led the scoring with 21
points, Cindi Ramm followed with
17, and Sension had 12.
The Royal's first home game is
tomorrow night at 7 p.m. with Dr.
Martin Luther College. Their next
game is Jan. 4 when they host
Northwestern at 7 p.m.
young season.
"Our goals are to have a
winning season and place six or
seven in the conference meet. We
expect to do much better than last
Led by freshman Scott Felt-man,
the Royal hockey team
rolled to its first win of the sea-son,
downing Rochester Com-munity
College 7-3.
Feltman scored three goals and
added an assist to up his season
total to five goals, tops on the
team. Chuck Engberg added two
power play goals in the first
period for Bethel.
Engberg's goals were the only
scores for either team in the
opening period. Mark Barton
made it 3-0 54 seconds into the
second period on assists from Bill
Ostlund and Tom Correll. Less
than one-half minute later, Felt-man
scored his first tally, the
game winner, from Greg Correll.
Rochester rallied briefly, scor-ing
power play and short-handed
goals to narrow the margin to 4-2.
Feltman's final two goals, seven
seconds apart, made the score 6-2
late in the middle period and all
but sealed Rochester's fate.
Tom Correll finished the scor-ing
for Bethel midway through
the final period with a power play
goal.
The Royals outshot Rochester
37-23 and seemed to be in control
from the outset.
The game was marred by a
large number of penalties. In all,
the referee handed out 40 min-utes
of minor penalities plus two
game misconducts. Bethel goalie
George Fraser will be forced to sit
out a game because of his part in
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now until Christmas vacation in
the Student Affairs Office. If
there are still openings, students
may register in January.
A minimum of 12 and a maxi-mum
of 25 students have been set
year. Barring injuries we should
do very, very well," said
Klostreich. -
Augsburg, Concordia (Moor-head),
and St. Thomas are ex-an
altercation.
Bethel dropped the first three
games of their difficult schedule,
falling to Iowa State, St. John's,
and St. Olaf.
by Paul Olsen
The men's basketball team fol-lowed
last Thursday's victory at
River Falls with a 89-81 loss to
Mdorhead State on Monday. But
the 88-79 win over the Falcons
may prove costly for the Royals
because of a knee injury to fresh-man
forward Randy Moberg.
The Royals jumped to a corn-manding
early lead on the
strength of hot shooting by Dave
Blanchard and Ray Miller. Scott
Wilson controled the ball with 17
rebounds for the game.
Capitalzing on a shovel play
down the lane, which seemed to
confuse the River Falls defense,
the Royals held a 21-point lead at
halftime.
In the second half, Bethel con-centrated
on defense, and River
Falls turned to a full-court press
and began nibbling away at the
lead.
Led by phenomenal play by Al
Rudd, a 7-foot transfer from the U
of Wisconsin, the Falcons fought
back until, with about two min-utes
to play, Bethel's defense
then showed a lot of poise in
holding off the Falcons. River
Falls was forced to foul, and
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Tuition has been set at $20 and
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pected to be the teams to beat in
the MIAC this year.
After Christmas break, Bethel
returns to take on Dr. Martin
Luther Jan. 9.
Tonight the hockey team
travels south to take on St.
Mary's. Tomorrow they return
home to battle rival Hamline at
8:00 at Columbia Area.
Bethel pulled away to win 88-79.
Bragg said, however, "The
victory was a costly one because
we lost Moberg indefinitely, and
Miller was banged up."
The loss of Moberg was crucial
in the Moorhead game as center
Scott Wilson played only 15 min-utes
due to foul trouble, and
Moorhead's strength is in its tall
back line.
Bragg said Ray Miller played a
great game coming off an injury
and pulled down 17 rebounds.
Bethel took an amazing 91
shots in the game but shot only 39
per cent from the field. The
Royals sank three more field
goals than Moorhead, but con-stant
foul trouble accounted for
the Moorhead win.
Moberg's injury hurt the Roy-als
against Moorhead, and Coach
Bragg said, "It is a real blow to us
as long as he's out." He could
return in four to five weeks at the
earliest, but may be out all
season. Moberg's replacement,
Steve Carrigan, is currently re-covering
from a broken hand.
Bethel begins its MIAC con-ference
schedule tomorrow night
at St. Olaf at 8 p.m. The Oles are
considered by Bragg to be one of
the conference favorites along
with Augsburg, St. Mary's and
St. Johns.
Bragg is disappointed with the
teams record thus far, and feels it
can be a first-division team in the
MIAC.
Women cagers lose opener
stage comeback against Mac
Royal B-ballers split games,
Moberg out an indefinite time
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