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The Scribes, a rock and roll 50's band, will appear tonight in the old campus gym. ,/ / • • • • • ,/ • • • .1 • • • • • • on the inside... Challenge of the great outdoors, page 3... Choir tours remembered, anticipated, page 5... Allen, star runner, recognized, page 8... • • • • • • • • .1 • • • • • • • • • • APR 1 4 1978 Sister college to shut down at term's end by Joseph Clem With only five weeks left in the academic year, the Board of Regents of Vancouver Bible Col-lege has recommended to the Baptist General Conference that the school be permanently shut down at the close of the term. The decision was made following a vote taken by the regents at their meeting on Saturday, March 18. When the Board of Regents ac-cepted responsibility for the school three years ago, its inten-tion was to establish the finest Bi-ble College in Canada. The Board had plans for an accredited aca-demic program, an expanded campus, and a sound financial base. It was expected that this would gain momentum, and that at the end of five years a review would indicate the most desirable organizational format for the future of the college. Now, after 20 years, under three different denominational boards and four presidential administrations, Vancouver Bible College has yet to become a viable program for the Baptist General Conference. The school currently faces a deficit of more than half a million dollars. In addition to what seems a hopeless financial dilemma, sev-eral other reasons were stipulated by the regents for the closing down of the Vancouver facilities. Among them are dwindling enrollment, difficulty securing American staff members, and a lack of sufficient gift income from the Conference churches. It had been hoped by the re-gents that a strengthened academic program and improved facilities, f011owing a fire that gut-ted the academic building three years ago, would attract students in larger numbers. The Board was, therefore, willing to engage in deficit financing at the request of the administration, viewing this as seed money. But enrollment within the last five years has increased by only nine students, causing the amount of gift income from the United Mission for Christ program need-ed per student to be three times higher than that of Bethel just to meet the cost of running the school. This does not figure in the interest on the school's half million dollar debt, which has been averaging $50,000 per year, or any attempt to repay the deficit. "With only about sixty of these students coming from Conference Churches," said Board President Norman P. Anderson, "it seems clear after 20 years that our chur-ches are not going to send an ade-quate number of students to the school." Also due to new Canadian policies restricting work for American citizens, it will become increasingly difficult to staff the college, located in the province of British Columbia, beyond any control of U.S. legislation. "In the meantime," said Ander-son, "we shall encourage earnest prayer for those most deeply af-fected by this decision, the teachers, administrators and staff members of Vancouver Bible Col-lege." Bruce Olsen editor Greg Kuntz sports editor The Clarion is published weekly Holly Schmiess news editor Mark Holmes photo editor by the students of Bethel College. Nancy Naumenko production editor Juan Ramos cartoonist Letters to the editor should be sent Suzi Wells copy editor Arlan Swanson business manager to p.o. 91 by the Sunday before production. THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 20 April 14, 1978 Musical Scribes brag improvement :4y Man Pureed The fabulous Scribes, the only Bethel-related group in profes-sional existence, will be presen-ting a dynamic concert of 1950's rock and roll music tonight at 7:30 in the old campus gym. The group, considered by many to be one of the top 50's bands in the Twin Cities, has been playing pro-fessionally for over a year, and vows that tonight's concert will be their best ever. "I don't want to slight Priestley, Healy, Reasoner or any of the old guys, but we're really a hundred times better than we were in the past," commented one Scribe who asked to remain anonymous. Some of the group members were a bit less modest in their ap-praisal of the group and their own personal abilities. "I am, without a doubt or se-cond thought, the greatest guitar player who has ever lived," bragg-ed Gordy "Three Chord" Fran-son, the group's lead guitarist and vocalist. When asked to comment on the abilities of such guitarists as Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee and Roy Clark, Franson respond-ed, "Who?" In addition to Franson, the group consists of: Marty Thomp-son, guitarist and vocalist; Nancy Horvath, drummer; Mary Haden-felt, piano and organ; Jerry Lovegren, bass; and Dee Traudt, who is the lead singer. Marty Thompson, self-appoint-ed spokesman for the group, commented on the groups in-credible diversity and overall talent. "We do songs from "Blue Moon," to "I Wonder Why," and we do them all very well," he said. "In addition, we do a tribute to the greatest singing group of all time, The Beach Boys." Paul Healy, who has been pro-moting the concert, and whose group, the DelAdlawan Founda-tion, will be receiving the pro-ceeds of the concert for their or-phanage project in the Philip-pines, is excited about tonight's activities. "You simply can't miss by corn-ing to see the Scribes. It will be a gala evening, an extravaganza by Thangi Chhangte For several summers, Roy Wil-bee, director of academic media, has worked for the American In-dian Mission (AIM) in British Col-umbia. Wilbee was in the Sum-mer Mission Institutes's (SMI) program which is supported by the AIM. Last Christmas, the director of SMI asked Wilbee to make a slide show out of a filmstrip he had done earlier. The filmstrip was made for churches that support SMI. But slides are designed primarily for Indians. It will be shown for the first time on April 16, in Vancouver, Canada. The slide show, complete with outdoor sound-effects, is about the mission's wilderness-type reminiscent of the golden age of rock and roll music. The old cam-pus gym will bow out in style with one of the greatest concerts Bethel has ever seen." Never at a shortage of superla-tives, Healy added that he is ex-pecting a "magnificent" crowd, but that there are still good seats available. Tickets are available at the Campus Coordinators office to-day, and will also be sold at the door. Prices are $1.50 for Bethel students, and $1.00 for high school students. Buses will leave Bethel at 7 p.m. sharp for New Campus residents. camping program. The camp has a strong spiritual thrust. And its main objective is to help people find Christ. The slides will be used for recruiting Indian youths to the camp. All the music in the slide show is Indian. A Chippewa Indian, Rev. Fred Isham, sings a couple of solos. Dr. Bob Featherstone, assistant professor at Bethel Seminary, is the narrator. When Wilbee showed the slides to Indians in the Twin Cities, they liked it because it presented In-dians in the 70's. It was not a ster-eotyped "Indian with feathers" show. Bethel usually sends three or four SMPers to work with SMI. About 700 college students from USA and Canada participate in the program, annually. Wilbee designs slide show of American Indian ministry BREmkR. faio • •- • • InCE PADDY 004494ING *95 A FOOTBA44 48#1318,914. 0/09,170/190." r D. ) Mounce fitted with artificial limb Dear editor: We really appreciated the undeserved publicity you gave us in last week's Clarion. The buildup was undeserved because neither of us had to overcome any competition to get the jobs, so we deserve no elite classification. Even more undeserved, however, were the photos. We feel they may have marred our already dubious reputations, and would like to clear our names. First, David was not puffing away on a cigarette when that pic-ture was taken. David has never smoked. In fact, he has never been on fire. (He did burn a little in Florida, but that resulted in flaking skin, not smoke.) The truth is, he was puffing away on a yellow Flair pen, and anyone knows that is a normal habit of journalists. (Yellow is a favorite color among journalists.) As for Scott, he was not trying to fly. He has never flown. He has no desire to learn how to fly. Nor does he like fOr 1800 people to be able to look up his nostrils. Besides, he's not all that gleeful to leave the Campus Coordinator job. We are 'both excited about our new jobs, but in the immortal words of a favorite football coach, "We're not done with this year yet." Lovingly, David Shelley Scott Barsuhn editorial Urgent p.e. facility squeeze affects more than just jocks Last month the Clarion reported on the long-range building program being developed by Harvey DeVries, vice president of public affairs, and Arthur Frantzreb, a consultant in college resource development from McLean, Va. The article revealed a projection of future building programs that were being considered by the administration. These projects, which are to take place within the next five years, include the completion of five dormitories (two now under construction), a new annex to the LRC building, development of the athletic fields, construction of an ad-ministration building on the lakefront, expansion of the science facilities, expansion of the seminary, a new chapel auditorium, and a maintenance building. It is obvious that these building projects are all necessities on this growing campus, although some are more urgent than others. But what the five-year program has failed to include is any further expansion of the present physical education facilities. Presently our one gymnasium is used for all intercollegiate sports, in-tramurals, chapel, campus coordinator events, banquets and founders' week. The list could go on. The old campus gym has been used on a number of occasions for intramurals, athletic practices, plays and con-certs. Now that the old campus gym has been sold, and will no longer be available to the student body, what is to be done to relieve this facility drain? The problem is multiplied even further when one thinks of the 1950 students that are projected to come to Bethel next year. By the year 1982, it has been projected that 2250 students will be attending Bethel. Most of these students will also be required to take eight P.E. com-ponents. Where does the school plan to house all of this activity? Hopefully the point has been made—there is a definite need to in-crease the present physical education facilities. It must also be remembered that these facilities are not only used for "jocks," but also for intramural participants, banquets, campus coordinator events, founders' week and chapel. "Jocks" are not the only ones who would benefit from this increase in P.E. facilities. Mack Nettleton, director of student affairs, and George Brushaber, dean of academic affairs, are now working on a feasibility study for a possible field house to be built near the football field. These plans are being developed as a result of the need Nettleton and Brushaber see for additional P.E. facilities. The field house, which presently is not included in the five-year plan, would house an indoor track, raquetball courts, and possibly a maintenance facility. The indoor track could also be used as tennis, volleyball and basketball courts. The building could be built so only eight or ten feet of it is above ground, therefore making it energy effi-cient. The need exists. Now all that remains is for President Carl Lundquist and Vice President DeVries to recognize the urgency of this need. This facility must see priority before many of the other building programs being considered by the college administration if we are to maintain our present level of athletic activity on this campus. Letter to the Editor Future media chiefs clear 'undeserved' images by Holly Schmiess Doug Mounce is not back at Bethel this semester as he hoped he'd be, but he's not idle. He just renewed his driver's license, bought an El Camino, and is enrolled in four courses at Bowl-ing Green University in his Ken-tucky home town. Doug lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident on his way to an SMP assignment in Mexico last summer. (See article in Sept. 16 issue.) He's living with his parents, and will be fitted with an artificial limb in two weeks. After the fitting, the limb will take three weeks to make. "In about a month, I'll be able to walk with the leg, without crut-ches," Doug said in a phone call Monday. The fitting process was delayed until now while Doug tried to gain up to his original weight. A change in size necessitates a new fitting, something the Mounces wanted to avoid. Doug's weight, though not up to his goal, seems to be stablilized enough to go ahead with a fitting. An art student at Bethel last year, Doug is continuing his col-lege education by cor-respondence with Bowling Green University. His four history courses keep him from spending much time at his potter's wheel. Doug plans to come back to Bethel to visit his friends, but ap-parently not as a student. But he will drive his new El Camino, us-ing his recently-renewed driver's license. Will he drive up before gradua-tion? Maybe a few more of us should learn from his attitude: "I don't know. I don't know what I'll be doing even tomorrow." Plans are shown for the two new campus dormitories. Construction for this latest hous-ing project began last Thursday. Page 2 Cheryl Staurseth and Rob Johnson will take over from Cynthia and Scott as next year's Campus Coordinators. Holidays to get special attention by new Campus Coordinators by Carol Madison Candeing, backpacking, rock climbing and repelling, along with a 10-15 mile marathon run and solo expeditions will be some students' first encounter with Be-thel next year. From Aug. 11 to Sept. 1, 16 incoming students will take part in a new program called Wilderness Challenge. The new one-credit course, put together by Dean William Men-ser, will be run like an Outward Bound course taught from a Christian perspective. Only fresh-men and transfers will be allowed to participate in the program led by two faculty members and two upperclassmen. Wilderness Challenge will be more than just a camping trip. An emphasis will be placed on help-ing an individual overcome his physical, emotional and spiritual weaknesses. "It is a small group living ex-perience utilizing stress to pro-duce individual growth," explain-ed Dean Menser. The students will go through a difficult experience for 21 days. Hopefully, these students will grow close to each other. "The formation of identity groups is a factor in the probabili-ty of success in college," said Menser. "This method of orienta-tion has been very successful in other colleges." Students will be bussed up to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota, and will be first taught skills needed to survive through the experience. Some of the major components of the course will include a 7-10 day expedition in the wilderness by canoe and backpack, a solo 2-3 days of solitude, and a final expedition of 3-4 days of intense travel without the presence of in-structors. Participants, chosen on a first-come, first-serve basis, will be ex-pected to read four books pre-vious to the trip, keep a personal Newberg, Ore.(CCNS)—Cres-cent, student newspaper of George Fox College for the past 89 years, is no more, having ceas-ed publication this month due fo apparent student disinterest, ac-cording to the retiring editor. Robert Claiborne, who had the personally distasteful task of blowing out the editor's "torch" rather than passing it on to a suc-cessor, told Christian College News Service in a telephone inter-view that eight students were left to do the work of 20 at the paper's demise. However, he paid tribute to his staff, all of them volunteers. "But we decided," he said, that "it wasn't good stewardship of our time if the student body wasn't in-terested enough." Robert (a religion major who graduated this month) was paid by Becky Olson Employed to contribute to the social and spiritual atmosphere of the Bethel community, Cheryl Staurseth and Rob Johnson were recently chosen by the Student Senate to serve as Campus Coor-dinators. Encouraged to promote a full calendar of events, Cheryl and Rob have decided to place special emphasis on holidays next year. For Halloween,' an all-school mascarade party with a carnival is planned. Prizes such as a 10-speed, camera, or radio may be awarded. For Valentines Day, Rob and Cheryl are planning a Sweetheart banquet. Its unique feature will be that the initiator of the date (guy or girl) will not pay for the ticket, but his or her date will. Plans for Christmas and April Fools are also being con-templated. As Campus Coordinators, Cheryl and Rob are responsible for a balanced social activity pro-gram for all Bethel students. They journal, write a paper at the end, and become involved in discus-sion groups and a service project. An emphasis will be placed on devotions and dependence on God, along with the development of self-understanding and aware-ness. Students will learn leader-ship skills, and find new ways to respond to fear. Welcome Week will be only mildly entertaining to those stu-dents who return from Wilderness an honorarium as editor, but because of the hours he put in, he said he made about 15 cents an hour. But the experience for him has been more than he anticipated, he says. Before he began working on the Crescent, he was "headed toward the parish ministry" (he is a Lutheran). Now, as a result of his editorial experience, he feels a "strong call" to the mission field, working in the area of com-munications, art work and graphics. The college administation is "really disappointed" the paper folded, Robert said. "But we hope that next year, or the year after, students will want to 'resurrect' it. We don't want this to be a perma-nent shutdown," he added. take into account that the social programs should be built around events sponsored by the athletic, music, and drama departments. The positive feedback from movies on campus this year has ' prompted them to consider one movie a month complete with piz-za, ice cream, or popcorn. Plann-ing themes for Homecoming and Nik Dag is also a top priority next fall. Anxious to get to know stu- Minnesota students attending post-secondary educational in-stitutions receive more than $142 million per year in financial aid, says a staff report presented to the Higher Education Coordina-tion Board (HECB) today. Between 1969 and 1978, state appropriations for Minnesota stu-dent financial aid programs have grown from $375,000 to $37,681,751, the report says. On a per capita basis, Minnesota now ranks fifth nationally in need-based aid, at $4.84 per person; and the state ranks first nationally in use of revenue bonds to fund student loan programs at no cost to the taxpayer. The report says that between fiscal year 1975 and 1978, applica-tion to the State Scholarship and Grant-in-Aid Programs increased from 14,650 to 42,900, an increase of 294 per cent. During the same period the demand for student loan assistance through the State Student Loan Program doubled, and the number of financial aid programs administered by the Board increased from four to twelve. In addition to the $142 million per year, the Veterans Ad-ministration provides over $68 million annually in educational benefits to more than 16,000 residents. The totals for Social Security Administration educa-tional benefits are not available but they are substantial, the report says. The report says that fiscal year 1978 state scholarship and grant expenditures will total $21.5 million, and loan and work pro-grams will provide an additional $30 million. This total of over $51 million from state programs represents only about 35 per cent of the more than $142 million figure. About $52 million will come from federal sources and over $38 million from private sources. Sixty-one per cent of the funds go to students attending public in-stitutions, 31 per cent to students attending private colleges and universities and 8 per cent to students in proprietary institu-dents at Bethel, Cheryl and Rob have dedicated themselves to the task of Campus Coordinators. Since neither is involved in any other activities at Bethel, they feel they can do a good job. In order to get a feel for the job, Cheryl and Rob will be serv-ing as assistants for the remainder of this year to Scott and Cynthia who have done a fantastic job in filling the calendar full of events for the 77-78 Bethel community tions. State Student Loan Program volume has grown from $16 million in fiscal 1975 to an an-ticipated $32 million this year. About 18,000 students will be assisted by the state program this fiscal year, the report says. In ad-dition to state lending, private commercial lenders will provide about $16 million of additional resources in fiscal 1978. Although generally not con-sidered financial aid, reciprocity provided indirect benefits averag-ing $1600 to about 5,000 Min-nesotans in Wisconsin institutions and an average of $622 to about 2,600 Minnesotans in North Dakota institutions in 1976-1977, the report says. Minnesota has reciprocal tui-tion agreements with North Dakota and Wisconsin in which out-of-state tuition rates are waiv-ed for students in the neighboring states. "Aside from the highlights in the report, the staff's major con-clusion is that our evaluation mechanism for the aid programs must be improved so that the Board can more effectively assess the results of the state's efforts in this area," HECB Executive Director Clyde Ingle told the Board. Ingle said that rising costs at post-secondary institutions, federal incentives for developing state programs and the Board's identification of financial needs of post-secondary students have contributed to this growth. HECB recommendations to the legislature and the legislative response have emphasized access in student financial aid, "The Minnesota effort in finan-cial aid for the post-secondary education is one of the most outstanding in the nation," Ingle said. "It is comprehensive and serves our citizens and institutions well. The coming decade, however, will bring substantial changes to the character of stu-dent populations and educational programs. Substantial evaluation is necessary if we are to address changing needs." 'Growth through stress,' aim of Wilaerness Challenge program Challenge. Ignored by George. Fox students, paper went away, says editor Minnesota fifth in aid, says financial aid staff report Page 3 FALCON EidR136R0 - CRUST JIM • DAVE • DENISE Tuesday - Friday 8 . Saturday 8 - 5 .For Appointment Call 171314. Snelling 646-2329 St. Paul, MN 56113 e''se''se;Yr:‘,Yr;',Y'r:',)'( )'r-,‘,•?' ,)•(,' )*(4, If you LOOK too far you may miss the new French • eauty salon, Coiffure de Paris. Located just acros he road from Paul's Place at 2960 North Snelling. Shampoo, curl and style—$10 Permanent wave—$16.50 (and up) Call now for an appointment-633-3326 (10% DISCOUNT WITH THIS AD) -17 :fiT iJ Margaret IntVeld is seen at her familiar switchboard post. switchboard "womaned" Margaret IntVeld holds varied job as long-time Bethel receptionist by Thangi Chhangte For 18 years, Margaret IntVeld has been working as a receptionist for Bethel College. Before she started working at Bethel, in 1960, she worked as a swit-chboard operator at West-inghouse. Bethel did not have an official receptionist in the old campus. As a receptionist at Bodien dorm, Margaret had to handle calls for students because they could not dial out. Since she was the only receptionist Bethel had at that time, she had to handle numerous calls. The Centrex system on the new campus has been a big improve-ment, Margaret said. She also has an official receptionist's desk by the main door. Seven • other receptionists also work under Margaret. As the supervisor, Margaret schedules and trains the others. Margaret works full-time, usually from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. She does not work on weekends unless substitutes are unavailable. During the school year, the switchboard is manned (womaned?) every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., except during church hours on Sunday. Being a receptionist involves communicating with the public as well as Bethel students, faculty and staff. When people call Bethel, their first impression of Bethel depends on the recep-tionist's tone. "I think it's a real service to Bethel," Margaret said. Often the calls are demanding. Apparently people expect the receptionist to know everything. Margaret has to know what every instructor teaches, what each department handles, and so on, to satisfy some callers:According to her, her main job is to connect the caller to the right person. Since she has worked at Bethel for such a long time, many people recognize Margaret's voice and several call her by her name. And she remembers voices and faces of people she does not know. Sometimes she recognizes voices from "way back." She also finds out what a former Bethel faculty member used to be, even after the person has not been to Bethel for several years. In between the calls, Margaret stuffs payrolls at her desk. This is part of her work for the credit of-fice. It involves working with the check run for accounts payable, billing for telephones like pay phones, old campus, Fountain Terrace, and so on. Margaret spends most of her spare time with her widowed mother whO is a resident of the Presbyterian Home. She also sings in the choir at Central Bap-tist Church. At home, she does needlecraft work, ceramics, and oil painting. Even though she does not claim to be a professional hairdresser, Margaret cuts her own hair as well as her mother's and her friends. She has been doing this for quite a long time, she said. An avid traveller, Margaret has been to South America and all over the States. She is deeply in-terested in missions and has a special love for foreign people. "I love to meet people and I try. to pick out friends that need help," Margaret said thoughtfully. So, even if you have never met her, Margaret might recognize your voice over the phone. by Dan Erickson Being an American and being a Christianarenotthe same thing. This. has been emphasized quite strenuously in recent years as well is it should. Without recognizing the differences between the two it is easy to become swept into the American Civil Religion that surrounds us on all sides. One can be both an American and a Christian, but as Christians first, we must be careful to strip away the extra cultural and nationalistic baggage from our faith. What is not so apparent to us here is that in this community there is a vast difference between being a good Bethel student and being a Chris-tian. What have I spent the last three paragraphs trying to get at? That one of the greatest threats to a body like this is a religious piety that becomes legalistic and loses its absolute obedience to Christ. It is easy to fall into a habit of following a fixed set of principles. That is why the lifestyle injunctions are here at Bethel for, to create a sense of discipline in our conduct. But it is even easier to lose sight of our reason for obeying this lifestyle. If at anytime our reason for obeying the rules becomes our own self-justification we are guilty of a self-centered piety. On several occasions in the New Testament Christ comes face to face with this piety: At one point he encounters a person who has an uncan-ny resemblance to many Bethel students including myself. The story of the rich young man in Matt.19:16-22, is our story. He asks the questions, "What must I do that I might have eternal life?" Christ asks him if he has kept all the commandments. The young man responds that he has kept them from his youth, and asks again what yet does he lack (perhaps expecting Christ to ask him to give up social dan-cing and card playing). The rich young man wants to know what he can add to his life to make it perfect, what adjustments to make. He is dismayed at the answer Christ gives him. "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor; and come and follow me." Christ's demand is absolute. It demands absolute obedience to Christ and not to a set of rules. Christ looks past the questions that the young man poses back to the young man himself. Bonhoeffer says that Jesus sees that the young man is a victim of a self-centered piety. "And Jesus looking upon him loved him." (Mk.10:21) Jesus sees how hopelessly the young man has closed his mind to the living Word of God, how serious he is about it, and how heartily he rages against the living commandment and the spontaneous obedience it demands." ("Cost of Discipleship") I Christ's absolute demand must reorder our entire lives. It must turn everything in our lives upside down. When we accept Christ We're ac-cepting the person of Christ to identify with and follow, not a set of in-structions. We cannot make subtle adjustments, adding a little of this here and a little of that there. There must be a complete change in our thinking. Don't take me wrong. I believe in the Bethel lifestyle. People must have a lot of sense for a- group of Christians living together and as an RA I've promised to support them. But we are not saved by the rules and the rules will not set us free. I Peter 2:16 says, "Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God." That is the whole key to this problem, living as a servant. Once we escape our self-centeredness and become Christ-centered we break the bonds of responding to a set of rules and find our freedom in our servanthood. We are meant to be servants_ of God and not captives to rules. New position created, filled John A. Burtis of New Jersey has been appointed Director of Systems and Data Processing for Bethel College and Seminary, ef-fective March 15. In this newly created position, Burtis will be responsible for ex-amining Bethel's entire informa-tion collection, unifying pro-cedures, and establishing a com-plete management tool for use by the administration. Formerly, Burtis was president of the Eastern Computer Center for Christian Organizations—a joint venture he founded in 1974 to provide systems analysis, data processing, and management consultation services in the metropolitan New York City area. He received his B.S. in accoun-ting from Rider College, a cer-tificate in data processing from Rutgers University, and was pro-grammer/ analyst for the Foster Wheeler Corporation. His wife Joida and eight-year-old son Jason are soon to join him in Minnesota. Page 4 The Male Chorus, under the direction of Oliver Mogck, will perform a repertoire with emphasis on American music on their upcoming European tour. Male Chorus to give dynamic performances while in Europe This painting by artist Steve Hawley will soon be on display at Bethel on a "permanent loan" basis. Spirit of God evidenced Choir sees Spirit work on southeastern tour by Sari Wells The Male Chorus, in its 66th year at Bethel, will take its fourth trip to Europe this summer. They will visit Scandanavian countries, England and Germany from May 23-June 21. The chorus, under the direc-tion of Oliver Mogck, will have . three more home concerts before leaving for London on May 23. The concerts will be held at 6 p.m. at Bethlehem Baptist on April 16 and Brooklyn Center Baptist on April 23. The- final home concert will be at Calvary Baptist Church at 7 p.m. on May 14. The group will be presenting a variety of numbers, ranging from sacred classics to hymn arrange-ments to American spirituals. Ac-cording to Mr. Mogck, Euro-peans want to hear Americans sing American songs. Rick Alvarez, president of the chorus, added, "The format is geared more toward American composers." He also said that the program is more contemporary than in years past. Accompanying the chorus will be a new feature, • a brass ensem-ble, conducted by Dr. Julius Whitinger, professor of music at Bethel. Also touring with the chorus will be Dr. Olaf Olsen, professor of history. He will be teaching "Topics in the Culture of Northern European Countries." Besides singing and taking Dr. Olsen's history course, the men will write in logs and scrapbooks, and visit museums, historical sites and cultural landmarks. Since travel will include trips to several different countries, the communication gap could be a problem. "We'll learn to smile in seven different languages," Mr. Mogck said. "It will be an in-teresting experience in commun-ication." Professor Olsen speaks Norwe-gian and Mr. Mogck speaks Ger-man. Chorus member Soren Ryberg's knowledge of Danish and the aid of a bi-lingual bus driver and Swedish pastor will help the chorus to "be sensitive to Friday, artist Steve Hawley will speak in chapel. His topic centers on his painting, soon to be on "permanent loan" to Bethel. Last June, the college's art department sponsored a CIVA (Christians Involved in Visual Arts) conference. According to Eugene Johnson, Bethel art pro-fessor currently on sabbatical, about 140 artists attended. Among these was Steve Hawley of Newburyport, Mass. In the fall Dr. Johnson visited Mr. Hawley's gallery and was im-pressed with a large painting of the crucifixion. At that time he hoped that Bethel could "some-how procure it" in the future. • Near Christmas Johnson receiv-ed word from Mr. and Mrs. Croft in Farmington, Mass. that they had purchased the painting and were willing to give it to Bethel on an indefinite loan. The work, valued at $3500, measures approximately 7 by 8 the needs of the people," as Mogck pointed out. The group will travel in one bus for the whole tour, which will simplify travelling arrangements. They will sing primarily in chur-ches and in some concert halls. About 85 per cent of the time, the members will be staying in homes. continued on page 6 feet. Professor Johnson described it as semi-abstract. Through this creation, he stated, the artist has "attempted to describe the physi-cal event of the crucifixion" while at the same time emphasizing that it was more than this. The painting will be on display in chapel Friday. It will then be exhibited in the new lecture room in the FA building. Steve Hawley is a graduate of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has taught there and also at Tufts University. His work is currently represent-ed by the Stephen Straw Gallery in Newburyport, and last spring he exhibited his paintings in a one-man show in Boston. The January issue of "Art in America" carried a full-page reproduction of one of his creations. Mr. Hawley arrives at Bethel on Thursday to speak to art students about the problems and possibilities of making a living as a full-time studio artist. by Kyle Sidlo "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" Those of us on the College Choir tour will have no problem proclaiming this statement. For, by far the most significant part of the tour was the way the Spirit of God worked, through the fellow-ship, through the circumstances and miracles, and especially the music we sang. The lighter side of the tour was the fellowship. Different mem-bers of the group, being very sw-inging and crazy (you had to be there) and others sharing their own special talents (Munchkin imitations and P.M. Special Reports) eliminated and • dull moments. The time on the beach even got its fair share of fellowship. From those great white sands and hot sun of Florida's Gulf Coast most of the Bethel group attemp-ted to absorb some color. The only color I got was var-ious shades of black and blue caused by collisions and from be-ing stepped on. White is not too obvious against white. Others, like. future Clarion editor, Dave Shelley, showed some originality by not putting Sun Stop on evenly. Dave's chest and stomach looked like a bright red sunset on a partly cloudy evening. It may seem, from what has been said so far, that all of the fellowship occurred in the man-ner of "fun and games." But that was only part of it. The real joyous fellowship came through the circumstances and exper-iences God gave us. Something more valuable than a million Deutsche marks is the experience of staying in the homes of people one had never met before. Getting to know them, learning about their ideas and lifestyles, and living in those lifestyles is something the average person does not experience. Tak-ing an opportunity like this means growth. The main fellowship came di-rectly as a result of the whole pur-pose of our being in Florida. Our purpose consisted only in the con-cert and its message. Wanting the "utmost for His highest," to bring glory to His name, meant much work, much prayer, much open-ing up, and much faith (which God gave us). For, time did not pass without problems. Some people became sick and two were in a lot of pain. But, God gave us the faith and we prayed for their healing. Almost all were healed instantly. Others, like in the cases accom-panied with pain, the pain would subside during the concert and then come back afterwards. These things did not exactly lessen our enthusiasm for the music we were singing. The music of Handel's "Mes-siah" uses scriptural texts portray-ing Christ's birth, death, resurrec-tion, and second coming. To per-form it is a high worship ex-perience. God gave us talents to use. He gave us the tour to use them. He gave us audiences to minister to. He even gave us some immediate rewards through standing ova-tions. But, the praise must go to Him. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" Bethel procures painting, studio artist to speak by Shelly Nielsen Page 5 Poet Robert Siegel suggested the use of imagery and im-agination as tools in practicing God's presence. He was a guest on campus last Tuesday. 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Rd, E 636-6077 Events Calendar The Scribes 50's concert, old campus gym, 7:30 p.m. "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," ex-perimental theatre, 8 p.m. Men's tennis vs. St. Scholastica and St. Thomas, 9 a.m. Women's track, Manitou Relays at St. Olaf, 10 a.m. Baseball vs. Concordia-Moorhead, noon Men's track with Bemidji State, Concordia- St. Paul, Northwestern, 1 p.m. Women's softball - DH with Mankato State, 3 p.m., with Moorhead State, 5 p.m., at Mankato "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," 2 and 8 p.m. Male Chorus concert, Bethlehem Baptist, 6 P.m Women's Ensemble concert, Brook Park Baptist, 6:30 p.m. Senior recital, Dennis Wicklund and Jenny Norton, Calvary Baptist, 8 p.m. Women's softball vs. St. Mary's, 3 p.m. Men's tennis vs. River Falls, 3:30 p.m. SSM Film "Mother Teresa of Calcutta," FA 313, 8 p.m. Friday, Apr. 14 Saturday, Apr. 15 Sunday, Apr. 16 Monday, Apr. 17 Tuesday, Apr. 18 Wednesday, Apr. 19 Baseball at St. Olaf, 1 p.m "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," 8 P.m. Thursday, Apr. 20 Men's Tennis vs. Concordia-St. Paul, 3:30 p.m Engaged Couples Seminar, 7 p.m. "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," 8 P.m. Central Baptist Church 420 North Roy Street $t Paul, Mn 646-2751 Staff: Ron Eckert Lloyd. Nelson Preaching interim Jim Spo•kelmier Iles leaves: Fr - 9:15 - 9:25 BODIEN 9:45 Services - 8:45 and II 10 Bible Study 7 pm evening ELWOOD CARLSON Optician Glasses Contact Lenses, (Hard & Soft) Sports Glasses 356 St. Peter Skeet Diswunts to St. Pad, MEL a1112 227.7118 students & faculty Performers lead congregation into creative worship experience by Rick Drake Last Sunday I participated in a truly unique experience. The Howard Hanger Jazz Fantasy, a group of five performers (music and theater), led an ecumenical congregation in a worship service. Utilizing modern dance, vi-suals, creative readings and varieties of musical styles, this worship service was designed to give free reign to the worshipper in a twentieth century frame-work. Howard Hanger, the innovative leader of the group, listed his ob-jectives for the service at the outset: 1.) to worship and cele-brate without cultural limitations, 2.) to incorporate every member of the congregation into the wor-ship and 3.) to involve at least some people all the time. The "Order of Worship" was handed out to everyone as they entered the carpeted, pewless and chairless sanctuary which was fill-ed with pillows. The eight sec-tions of the service progressed well from one to another. They were: 1.) Gathering, 2.) Praise and Adoration, 3.) Confes-sion and Pardon, 4.) Reading and Proclaiming, 5.) Offering, 6.) Remembrance and Blessing, 7.) Sharing of Bread and Wine and 8.) Sending Out. The Jazz Fantasy desired not to perform but rather to lead the congregation into a creative wor-ship experience. They accom-panied readings with program-matic sound effects and incor-porated modern dance into music and the reading of Scriptures. In the reading of Psalm 150, one member of the Fantasy serv-ed as the "Psalm-Sayer," a leader who reads a phrase to be repeated by the congregation in rhythm. Following the brief silence for individual private confession was a voluntary public confession of individual sins through the speak-ing of word symbols. Whenever moved to speak, people would spontaneously speak out a single word representing the attitude or action recognized as sin. Sins such as dishonesty, bit-terness and pride were confessed. This was a very moving moment for me, for when someone con-fesses a sinful attitude, I can do nothing but search my own heart for the same. This experience has opened my eyes to some of the possibilities of creative expression in worship. The creative element seems to en-hance both the objective (focus-ing on God) and the subjective (our response to God) elements of worship. Music in worship functions ex-clusively as a means to the end, the end being "presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God." There are, however, many other means through which we can express ourselves in worship. The source of all creativity is God Himself, so let us look to Him and His Word for creative means to worship Him "in spirit and in truth." WANTED Seward Cafe needs ex-perienced cooks - Half time call 332-1011 be-tween 2 & 5 p.m. continued from page 5 The plans for the summer are just about finalized, and Mr. Mogck is just awaiting confirma-tions for two concerts. Plans for this tour have been in the making since last June. Mr. Mogck start-ed planning the concert tour with the help of Dr. C. Howard Smith, former Male Chorus director, who toured with the chorus in Europe in 1966, '70, and '72. Despite a few problems in plan-ning, Mogck claimed, "There's never a perfect time to do any-thing. You must go on faith and go ahead and do it, and pray the Lord will guide and bless the out-come." Letters of enthusiasm for Eu-rope have encouraged Mogck. Since Bethel choirs have perform-ed in Europe before and been well received, he is optimistic. The men are also enthusiastic about the tour. "I think we have the best chorus in the four years that I've been here," said Rick. "I'd say this is the best year I've had," said tour manager Arlan Swanson. "There's a little more refined talent. When the whole thing falls together, it will be dynamic." Page 6 Aspiring freshman Brad Benjamin serves up another ace in a recent tennis match. Tennis team optimistic as players improve games Chapel Schedule Monday—Kairamin Tuesday—"Does Anybody Care?"—Chuck Colson film Wednesday—Roots: The Liberal/Conservative Divsion—Dr. Garth Rosell Thursday—Roots: Evangelical and New Evangelicals—Dr. Al Glenn Friday—Steve Hawley "The Crucifixion" John W. Nance Company Yl 1618 Pioneer Bldg. 224-7358 INSURANCE John W. warp, Si. Life—Auto—Horne John W. Nana, Jr. Business John G. Chisholm Russo' Akre St. Paul, Mn. 55101 I Wood s/Torgerson I Campaign rhetoric? We hope not! We have spent these first two weeks in office meeting with the dean, cabinet, lobbying for our public relations committee bill and initiating the new Senate. Now, in the spring, is the time when we do the preliminary work for action we want to see accomplished next year. That's part of the pro-cess of turning campaign promises into tangible results. We take those lunch-time leaflets seriously. In our platform we outlined two areas of concern: credible structure and creative service. Currently, we are concerned with implementing the planks of our platform dealing with Senate's effectiveness. While the public relations committee and agenda impact statements are being developed now, the autonomous budget will be dealt with in the fall. On Tuesday night, the Senate unanimously passed the public rela-tions committee bill. This provides for a fourth internal committee, equal in responsibility and authority to public action, special projects, and rules and finance. The duties of the committee as outlined by the bill involve publishing a newsletter, distributing a more readable form of minutes which includes an agenda of issues before the Senate, and any other publicity the Senate deams necessary. That last clause allows Senate the flexibility to reflect the needs of the student body. This public relations committee opens some yet untried possibilities, perhaps some lunch-time leaflets or a "Kidnap your Senator Day." In-forming and involving students is the first step towards a Senate that makes your voice count. With such positive action already taken, this Senate promises to make a difference. Since this is our first column, we will briefly share our philosophy. To be credible and effective representatives of your views, we need to have the respect and trust of the administration with which we work. The benefits of cooperation can only come as a result of cultivating a record of healthy, profitable and constructive confrontation. We see the need for agressive, yet sensitive leadership: leadership that realizes the importance of knowing the facts and takes seriously the responsibility of representing you. If we are going to be your representatives we must know your op-tions, viewpoints, and interests. Consider this an invitation to join us Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the AC Lounge and to stop by our office anytime in FA301 (you can use the phone free!). Men tracksters place second in close Invitational at Macalester Women's track short on runners but places high with available talent by Laura Woodruff The women's track team placed second and claimed five firsts in the Gustavus Cinder Open on Saturday, April 8. Gustavus won the meet with 107 points, Bethel followed with 94, and Winona placed third with 89. St. , Catherine's, Hamline, Augsburg, Carleton and Dr. Mar-tin Luther also attended. Bethel had more firsts than any team. It placed first in: the high jump where Katie Miller tied her 5'1" record; the mile and 880, both run by Denise Egge; the mile relay made up of Lynn Severson, Katie Miller, Bobbi Hersch and Denise; and the 440 run by Bobbi. The Bethel women placed se-cond in these events: the two-mile relay consisting of Brenda Harris, Gail Anderson, Karlene Kline, and Rita. Glasscock; the 800 medley with Katie, Lynn, Bobbi and Gail; the 220 where Bobbi set a record of 28.1. Bobbi also placed third in the long-jumps. Bobbi, Lynn, Katie and Sandi Hobbs placed third in the 440 medley relay. Brenda Harris placed third in the 880. Rita placed sixth in the 400-meter hurdles and Carol Anderson placed sixth in the high jump. On April 5, the Wednesday be-fore the Cinder Open, Bethel par-ticipated in a triangular with St. Cloud State and Drake University and Bethel placed third. Katie Miller set a high jump record with 5'1" jump which plac-ed her third. Lynn, Denise, Katie and Bobbi broke the 440 relay record with 53.1. Denise won the mile with a 5:24. Bobbi won the 440 and broke the record with a 62.0 time. Lynn placed fourth in the 100-yard dash SSM to present media festival next week On April 18 and 25, Students Serious About Missions (SSM) has two media presenta-tions planned for Bethel students, staff and faculty. "Mother Teresa of Calcutta" with Malcolm Muggeridge and Mother Teresa is scheduled for April 18. This is a 50 minute full-length classic movie about Mother Teresa's work with the poorest of the poor in Calcut-ta— people who literally grow up, live and die in the streets. Finally, on Wed., April 25, a new film called "Land of Destiny" will be shown. Slavic Missions Service presents a new perspec-tive on believers in Russia—" a totally Russian film, produced by Russian Christians about Russian believers." For the express purpose of pro-viding an opportunity for people to visit and ask questions infor-mally, each evening coffee and cookies will be served. and in the 220 she tied the record with 28.5. Denise also placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles. The mile relay which was made up of Lynn Severson, Katie, Bob-bi and Denise did well by taking seven seconds off the old record with a time of 4:14.9 Coach Shirley Dawson feels that "we have some top quality by Greg Kuntz The Bethel men's track team placed second only four points behind St. Thomas at the Morgan Taylor Invitational at Macalester last Saturday. "It was a very encouraging day with good individual perfor-mances," said Coach Gene Glad-er. The highlight of the meet was freshman Greg Stipe's tow "hat trick," taking firsts in the long jump, triple jump, and pole vault. His efforts in the triple jump of 45'2.5" and vault of 13'6.5", were both new Bethel records. Junior Bill Whittaker heaved the javelin 163'4" to take first. Sprinter Nate Allen won the 440 in :49.9, but became ill and didn't run any more races. Curt Brown took the 880 in 1:54.4, and runners. We don't have many people but we place high." With this type of team it is often dif-ficult to get a high score against bigger schools even if the women run well. Saturday, April 15, Bethel will participate in the Manitou Relays. This will be a non-scoring meet with irregular-type events. ran a 49.2 quarter mile in the mile relay, which Bethel won in 3:26.7. For the first time the relay con-sisted of Whittaker, John Selvog, Bryan Galloway and Brown. Sel-vog captured first in the 440 in-termediate hurdles in 56.1, and finished second in high hurdles. Dave clapp took the mile in 4:24.8, and he finished right behind Brown in the 880 in 1:57.6. Jim Feleen finished se-cond in the steeple chase. "We're building in a healthy confidence and we should sur-prise a few people before the sea-son's over," said Coach Glader. The Royals host the Bethel In-vitational tomorrow at the new Mondsview High School track, consisting of five teams. The metric meet begins at 1 p.m. "There should be a lot of metric records set," said Coach Glader. by G.W. Smith The Bethel tennis team travell-ed to St. Cloud State last Satur-day, bowing to St. Cloud 3-6 in what Coach Craig Schmidt called the team's best showing this season. Tomorrow morning the Royals face St. Scholastica and St Tho-mas in a 9 a.m. match, their first home match this season. Against St. Cloud Mark Nor- ''. lander and Greg Kuntz claimed victory in number one doubles. "We were playing real well," said Norlander of the 6-3, 6-1, vic-tory. In singles Norlander lost a close match, 6-2, 2-6; 4-6. "That was fun too," he said of the narrow defeat. Kuntz secured a victory in number two singles, defeating his opponent 6-4 in the first set and 7-6 in the second set, overcoming a 5-2 deficit. Competing in number four sin-gles, Peter Nelson defeated his opponent 6-3, 0-6, 6-3, for Bethel's third victory of the after-noon. Battling against St. Cloud's number one singles, Steve Brown lost an exciting match, 6-4, 6-1. According to Coach Craig Schmidt, "We looked by far the best we've played in any match so far this year." Looking forward to a tough conference season, Schmidt ex-pects Gustavus to be "unbeatable" while both St. Johns and St. Thomas will be tough. "I think we can play with them," he said. "We're looking a lot better." Page 7 Allen strides through records with ready mind and sheer guts by Greg Kuntz During the past two years, a lanky athlete named Nate Allen has burnt quite a trail on the track, using his remarkable stride to claim numerous Bethel re-cords. Among the records he attained are indoor records in the 176-yd. dash and the half-mile relay, and outdoor records in the 220-yd: dash, 220 meter run, the 440 relay, 880 relay, and the mile relay. Allen has also tied the record in the 110-yd. dash at 9.9. Twenty-seven years old, Nate enjoys running and believes that any race consists of one half men-tal readiness, 30 percent speed and the remainder is "sheer guts." "Whether it's practice or a meet," said Allen, "it's serious business and I want to give it all." "The main thing that keeps me going is that I continually see myself first place in a race," he said. "I think of the hard training and competition against another individual. "I get tuned up and psyched for the next guy," he continued. "Then, when I beat him, I get ready for the next guy and the competiton continues. I go out with the idea that nobody can beat you." Allen began sprinting in a neighborhood block club in his native Chicago. He attended Dunbar Vocational High School where he won the Illinois State Championship in the 440 two years in a row. He became the city champ in the 100, 440, 880, and part of the 880-yard and mile relays. He ran a :49.5 440 and :09.6 100, and trim-med his 440 to a speedy :46.3. Before he was invited to try out for the '68 Olympic team at Lake Tahoe, he pulled a muscle and couldn't go. He trained with former Olympiads, and in Mayor Daley's Youth Foundation. A sought after athlete, Allen received over 250 track scholar-ship offers, and 50 for football. He first attended Mankato State for two years, and was married while at Mankato, before he was drafted. He was stationed at Whidbey Island, Wash., and was in Viet-nam for a few months on the USS Enterprise. "I stayed in shape by playing a lot of basketball," said Nate. "Our team even won the West Coast Navy championship." Allen got out of the service in June of '75 and then attended Metropolitan Community College in Minneapolis, but the college did not have a track team. He was accepted at the U of Minnesota, Augsburg, U. of M. at Duluth, and Bemidji State, but he contacted Gene Glader at Bethel. He had been in contact with Glader since 1971. "They seemed to care more about me at Bethel than any other place, so I was more interested in coming here," said Nate. "Being brought up as a Christ- Page 8 ian I was attracted to the at-mosphere at Bethel, in the faith and loyalty to God that every-body must have. I had the oppor-tunity to get better relationships, and I wanted a reputable educa-tion because the sports days will be gone sometime." As a business administration major, Allen hopes to work for a company and coach part-time in high school or college. "I want to use my knowledge to make some other athlete better," said Nate. Allen has high hopes for his last by Tim Doten and David Hepburn It is said that a football game is won or lost in the trenches. As of last week, the same could be said of the Bethel baseball team: Once again, for the fourth year in a row, we have donned the waders and shovels in an attempt to dry the rice patty that doubles as an open air outhouse during the football season, and a baseball diamond in the spring. The only other major sport with worse facilities is men's and women's track. The track team members have to make use of the myriads of roads in the area. The sprinters race Columbia Transit buses daily on Old Snelling only to have their egos shattered by losing. What the bottom line comes to is that the powers that be, the president, the regents, the dean and the athletic director, are more than happy to have fine athletic teams, but are unwilling or unable to spend the limited dollars to improve facilities. Hopefully, admission to the M.I.A.C. will pressure the powers to some re-evaluation of this pro-blem. The athletic director obviously must be aware of problems. He is doing all he can to improve the situation. He deals with these pro- . blems daily and has an excellent grasp of all the inadequacies in the department. We come next to the dean. If he attends the athletic events, and he does, he knows at least a minimum of the problems. We have found that he too has a great understanding and is working with the athletic department on this issue. The president and the board of regents remain. The dean and the athletic director have written let-ters and had meetings with the president. Due to these meetings and letters, the president cannot be in the wilds he has traveled to on this issue. The question is, what have the regents and the president done season, and expects that Bethel will win the M.I.A.C. champion-ship in May. "If we stay healthy and keep up the winning pace we'll at least win the M.I.A.C.," Allen said. He has experienced some mus-cle pulls in races. "I live with pain," said Nate, "I ask for strength from upstairs and the pain usually goes away during the race." Nate admits he'll miss compet-ing. "This is it," he said, "and I've never had the opportunity to be a part of a Christian team before I came to Bethel." with their knowledge relating to this? There are approximately 360 student athletes at Bethel, not to mention those involved in in-tramurals. In the president's five-year plan submitted to the faculty last fall, out of $20 million, $250,000 was to be allocated for field development. Still, we want fine teams to be remembered. It seems that Bethel is on the brink of a very fine and respected athletic department personnel wise, but we also need adequate facilities to maintain what we have now without losing ground. With the current budget, the athletic department is not able to handle any one major undertak-ing. It is only with the freeing of other funds that we can achieve these ends. It is important to understand that we are blaming no one. We are happy for what we have. But, we are bringing to light an issue that can no longer be avoided. Women's tennis opens season at St. Thomas The women's tennis club open-ed its season last Saturday with a match against a tough St. Thomas team. The team lost 7-2 with Ruth Swenson and Lisa Mills receiving the only two victories of the day. Karen Koehn, a freshman on the team this year commented," The club did quite well consider-ing it was our first match of the season." She added, "The wea-ther was also a real battle for us." Another player said, "It is good to go from here now, knowing what our weak points are and how we will be able to remedy them." The club will face the U of M and St. Paul Concordia on April 29 there. by Steve Erickson Going into the final week of double elimination playoffs, four teams in A league and seven in B league remained alive in IM basketball. The only unbeatens were the Probes and Weightroom Woosies in A and the Decom-posers and Fly Girls in B. In an exciting game, 'Probes nipped the Buckwheats 60-57 behind Dave Hepburn's 18 points and Greg Nelson's 16 markers. Phil Print scored 17 for the losers. The Probes have yet to lose a game and seem to be the tourney favorite. Two days later, the Buck-wheats stayed alive by eliminating Beef Jerky 51-36. John Merritt pumped in 17 points while Ron Nilsson and Jack Senter had 10 apiece for the Wheats. Tom Klitzke again pa.-ced Weightroom Woosies to another win, his 16 points helping WW defeat True Grunt 50-44. Steve Kramka added 10 for the victors. Grunt's big guns, Al Jones and Roger Howell each hooped 15. After eliminating the Rotors earlier in the week, Who Cares knocked True Grunt out of the playoffs 61-54. Tim Haugen led four teammates into double figures with 16 while Jones was credited with 17 for the losers. In B league action, Decom-posers stretched their unbeaten streak to eight games by beating a tired Nicks, Hags and Steers 43-23. Steve Brown led a balanc-ed Decayer attack with 9 points. Bruce Olsen scored 12 for NHS. In a game of two other B league powers, the Swedish Fly Girls handed Arnel Oil its first loss 58-52 as Greg "Homer" Thom bucketed 20. Arnel's Tim Traudt and "Sparky" Anderson dropped in 24 and 12, respectively. Star Wars, with Dan "DJ" Johnson's 14 points, leading the way, held off the Jackrabbits 51-46. Dave Thiessen scored 16 for the Rabbits. The Mob was eliminated by the NBA 41-37 when they failed to control the Butcher's Steve Car-rigan and Dave Terlouw. The pair, with 22 and 17 respectively, scored all but one basket for their team. 6 ft. Under stayed alive by crushing Bergland's Bongos 53-29. Towering Dave Fernlund flipped in 21 markers and Chris Brumley 12 for the winners. Mark Rapinchuk and Steve Johnson were a two-man team as Richie Vallenz Jr. High clubbed All the President's Men 56-37. Rapinchuk has 25 and Johnson 17 while John Klaessy pumped in 16 for ATPM. Playoff finals conclude this weekend, but one of the league directors, Wally Brown, an-nounced plans for a all-star game and possible playoff between A and B league champions to be scheduled soon. Senior Nate Allen claimed two indoor and five outdoor Bethel records in his 'sprint' here. IM playoffs whittle contenders to four Soggy Bremer prompts appeal to 'powers that b
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Title | Clarion 1978-04-14 Vol 53 No 20 |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 53 No. 20 |
Date Published | April 14 1978 |
Decade | 1970 |
Academic Year | 1977 - 1978 |
Frequency | Weekly |
Article Titles | Sister college to shut down at term's end; Musical Scribes brag improvement; Wilbee designs slide show of American Indian ministry; editorial, Urgent p.e. facility squeeze affects more than just jocks; Letter to the Editor, Future media chiefs clear 'undeserved' images; Mounce fitted with artificial limb; Holidays to get special attention by new Campus Coordinators; Minnesota fifth in aid, says financial aid staff report; 'Growth through stress,' aim of Wilderness Challenge program; Ignored by George. Fox students, paper went away, says editor; switchboard "womaned", Margaret IntVeld holds varied job as long-time Bethel receptionist; Divide by six; New position created, filled; Male Chorus to give dynamic performances while in Europe; Bethel procures painting, studio artist to speak; Spirit of God evidenced, Choir sees Spirit work on southeastern tour; Performers lead congregation into creative worship experience; Women's track short on runners but places high with available talent; Woods/Torgerson; Tennis team optimistic as players improve games; SSM to present media festival next week; Men tracksters place second in close Invitational at Macalester; Allen strides through records with ready mind and sheer guts; Soggy Bremer prompts appeal to 'powers that be'; Women's tennis opens season at St. Thomas; IM playoffs whittle contenders to four.; |
Photographs | The Scribes, a rock and roll 50's band, will appear tonight in the old campus gym.; Cartoon: "Bremer Field - "... a rice paddy doubling as a football field, baseball diamond."; Plans are shown for the two new campus dormitories. Construction for this latest housing project began last Thursday.; Cheryl Staurseth and Rob Johnson will take over from Cynthia and Scott as next year's Campus Coordinators.; Margaret IntVeld is seen at her familiar switchboard post.; The Male Chorus, under the direction of Oliver Mogck, will perform a repertoire with emphasis on American music on their upcoming European tour.; This painting by artist Steve Hawley will soon be on display at Bethel on a "permanent loan" basis.; Poet Robert Siegel suggested the use of imagery and imagination as tools in practicing God's presence. He was a guest on campus last Tuesday.; Aspiring freshman Brad Benjamin serves up another ace in a recent tennis match.; Senior Nate Allen claimed two indoor and five outdoor Bethel r |
Digital Collection | The Clarion: Bethel University's Student Newspaper |
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Transcript | The Scribes, a rock and roll 50's band, will appear tonight in the old campus gym. ,/ / • • • • • ,/ • • • .1 • • • • • • on the inside... Challenge of the great outdoors, page 3... Choir tours remembered, anticipated, page 5... Allen, star runner, recognized, page 8... • • • • • • • • .1 • • • • • • • • • • APR 1 4 1978 Sister college to shut down at term's end by Joseph Clem With only five weeks left in the academic year, the Board of Regents of Vancouver Bible Col-lege has recommended to the Baptist General Conference that the school be permanently shut down at the close of the term. The decision was made following a vote taken by the regents at their meeting on Saturday, March 18. When the Board of Regents ac-cepted responsibility for the school three years ago, its inten-tion was to establish the finest Bi-ble College in Canada. The Board had plans for an accredited aca-demic program, an expanded campus, and a sound financial base. It was expected that this would gain momentum, and that at the end of five years a review would indicate the most desirable organizational format for the future of the college. Now, after 20 years, under three different denominational boards and four presidential administrations, Vancouver Bible College has yet to become a viable program for the Baptist General Conference. The school currently faces a deficit of more than half a million dollars. In addition to what seems a hopeless financial dilemma, sev-eral other reasons were stipulated by the regents for the closing down of the Vancouver facilities. Among them are dwindling enrollment, difficulty securing American staff members, and a lack of sufficient gift income from the Conference churches. It had been hoped by the re-gents that a strengthened academic program and improved facilities, f011owing a fire that gut-ted the academic building three years ago, would attract students in larger numbers. The Board was, therefore, willing to engage in deficit financing at the request of the administration, viewing this as seed money. But enrollment within the last five years has increased by only nine students, causing the amount of gift income from the United Mission for Christ program need-ed per student to be three times higher than that of Bethel just to meet the cost of running the school. This does not figure in the interest on the school's half million dollar debt, which has been averaging $50,000 per year, or any attempt to repay the deficit. "With only about sixty of these students coming from Conference Churches," said Board President Norman P. Anderson, "it seems clear after 20 years that our chur-ches are not going to send an ade-quate number of students to the school." Also due to new Canadian policies restricting work for American citizens, it will become increasingly difficult to staff the college, located in the province of British Columbia, beyond any control of U.S. legislation. "In the meantime," said Ander-son, "we shall encourage earnest prayer for those most deeply af-fected by this decision, the teachers, administrators and staff members of Vancouver Bible Col-lege." Bruce Olsen editor Greg Kuntz sports editor The Clarion is published weekly Holly Schmiess news editor Mark Holmes photo editor by the students of Bethel College. Nancy Naumenko production editor Juan Ramos cartoonist Letters to the editor should be sent Suzi Wells copy editor Arlan Swanson business manager to p.o. 91 by the Sunday before production. THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 20 April 14, 1978 Musical Scribes brag improvement :4y Man Pureed The fabulous Scribes, the only Bethel-related group in profes-sional existence, will be presen-ting a dynamic concert of 1950's rock and roll music tonight at 7:30 in the old campus gym. The group, considered by many to be one of the top 50's bands in the Twin Cities, has been playing pro-fessionally for over a year, and vows that tonight's concert will be their best ever. "I don't want to slight Priestley, Healy, Reasoner or any of the old guys, but we're really a hundred times better than we were in the past," commented one Scribe who asked to remain anonymous. Some of the group members were a bit less modest in their ap-praisal of the group and their own personal abilities. "I am, without a doubt or se-cond thought, the greatest guitar player who has ever lived," bragg-ed Gordy "Three Chord" Fran-son, the group's lead guitarist and vocalist. When asked to comment on the abilities of such guitarists as Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee and Roy Clark, Franson respond-ed, "Who?" In addition to Franson, the group consists of: Marty Thomp-son, guitarist and vocalist; Nancy Horvath, drummer; Mary Haden-felt, piano and organ; Jerry Lovegren, bass; and Dee Traudt, who is the lead singer. Marty Thompson, self-appoint-ed spokesman for the group, commented on the groups in-credible diversity and overall talent. "We do songs from "Blue Moon," to "I Wonder Why," and we do them all very well," he said. "In addition, we do a tribute to the greatest singing group of all time, The Beach Boys." Paul Healy, who has been pro-moting the concert, and whose group, the DelAdlawan Founda-tion, will be receiving the pro-ceeds of the concert for their or-phanage project in the Philip-pines, is excited about tonight's activities. "You simply can't miss by corn-ing to see the Scribes. It will be a gala evening, an extravaganza by Thangi Chhangte For several summers, Roy Wil-bee, director of academic media, has worked for the American In-dian Mission (AIM) in British Col-umbia. Wilbee was in the Sum-mer Mission Institutes's (SMI) program which is supported by the AIM. Last Christmas, the director of SMI asked Wilbee to make a slide show out of a filmstrip he had done earlier. The filmstrip was made for churches that support SMI. But slides are designed primarily for Indians. It will be shown for the first time on April 16, in Vancouver, Canada. The slide show, complete with outdoor sound-effects, is about the mission's wilderness-type reminiscent of the golden age of rock and roll music. The old cam-pus gym will bow out in style with one of the greatest concerts Bethel has ever seen." Never at a shortage of superla-tives, Healy added that he is ex-pecting a "magnificent" crowd, but that there are still good seats available. Tickets are available at the Campus Coordinators office to-day, and will also be sold at the door. Prices are $1.50 for Bethel students, and $1.00 for high school students. Buses will leave Bethel at 7 p.m. sharp for New Campus residents. camping program. The camp has a strong spiritual thrust. And its main objective is to help people find Christ. The slides will be used for recruiting Indian youths to the camp. All the music in the slide show is Indian. A Chippewa Indian, Rev. Fred Isham, sings a couple of solos. Dr. Bob Featherstone, assistant professor at Bethel Seminary, is the narrator. When Wilbee showed the slides to Indians in the Twin Cities, they liked it because it presented In-dians in the 70's. It was not a ster-eotyped "Indian with feathers" show. Bethel usually sends three or four SMPers to work with SMI. About 700 college students from USA and Canada participate in the program, annually. Wilbee designs slide show of American Indian ministry BREmkR. faio • •- • • InCE PADDY 004494ING *95 A FOOTBA44 48#1318,914. 0/09,170/190." r D. ) Mounce fitted with artificial limb Dear editor: We really appreciated the undeserved publicity you gave us in last week's Clarion. The buildup was undeserved because neither of us had to overcome any competition to get the jobs, so we deserve no elite classification. Even more undeserved, however, were the photos. We feel they may have marred our already dubious reputations, and would like to clear our names. First, David was not puffing away on a cigarette when that pic-ture was taken. David has never smoked. In fact, he has never been on fire. (He did burn a little in Florida, but that resulted in flaking skin, not smoke.) The truth is, he was puffing away on a yellow Flair pen, and anyone knows that is a normal habit of journalists. (Yellow is a favorite color among journalists.) As for Scott, he was not trying to fly. He has never flown. He has no desire to learn how to fly. Nor does he like fOr 1800 people to be able to look up his nostrils. Besides, he's not all that gleeful to leave the Campus Coordinator job. We are 'both excited about our new jobs, but in the immortal words of a favorite football coach, "We're not done with this year yet." Lovingly, David Shelley Scott Barsuhn editorial Urgent p.e. facility squeeze affects more than just jocks Last month the Clarion reported on the long-range building program being developed by Harvey DeVries, vice president of public affairs, and Arthur Frantzreb, a consultant in college resource development from McLean, Va. The article revealed a projection of future building programs that were being considered by the administration. These projects, which are to take place within the next five years, include the completion of five dormitories (two now under construction), a new annex to the LRC building, development of the athletic fields, construction of an ad-ministration building on the lakefront, expansion of the science facilities, expansion of the seminary, a new chapel auditorium, and a maintenance building. It is obvious that these building projects are all necessities on this growing campus, although some are more urgent than others. But what the five-year program has failed to include is any further expansion of the present physical education facilities. Presently our one gymnasium is used for all intercollegiate sports, in-tramurals, chapel, campus coordinator events, banquets and founders' week. The list could go on. The old campus gym has been used on a number of occasions for intramurals, athletic practices, plays and con-certs. Now that the old campus gym has been sold, and will no longer be available to the student body, what is to be done to relieve this facility drain? The problem is multiplied even further when one thinks of the 1950 students that are projected to come to Bethel next year. By the year 1982, it has been projected that 2250 students will be attending Bethel. Most of these students will also be required to take eight P.E. com-ponents. Where does the school plan to house all of this activity? Hopefully the point has been made—there is a definite need to in-crease the present physical education facilities. It must also be remembered that these facilities are not only used for "jocks," but also for intramural participants, banquets, campus coordinator events, founders' week and chapel. "Jocks" are not the only ones who would benefit from this increase in P.E. facilities. Mack Nettleton, director of student affairs, and George Brushaber, dean of academic affairs, are now working on a feasibility study for a possible field house to be built near the football field. These plans are being developed as a result of the need Nettleton and Brushaber see for additional P.E. facilities. The field house, which presently is not included in the five-year plan, would house an indoor track, raquetball courts, and possibly a maintenance facility. The indoor track could also be used as tennis, volleyball and basketball courts. The building could be built so only eight or ten feet of it is above ground, therefore making it energy effi-cient. The need exists. Now all that remains is for President Carl Lundquist and Vice President DeVries to recognize the urgency of this need. This facility must see priority before many of the other building programs being considered by the college administration if we are to maintain our present level of athletic activity on this campus. Letter to the Editor Future media chiefs clear 'undeserved' images by Holly Schmiess Doug Mounce is not back at Bethel this semester as he hoped he'd be, but he's not idle. He just renewed his driver's license, bought an El Camino, and is enrolled in four courses at Bowl-ing Green University in his Ken-tucky home town. Doug lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident on his way to an SMP assignment in Mexico last summer. (See article in Sept. 16 issue.) He's living with his parents, and will be fitted with an artificial limb in two weeks. After the fitting, the limb will take three weeks to make. "In about a month, I'll be able to walk with the leg, without crut-ches," Doug said in a phone call Monday. The fitting process was delayed until now while Doug tried to gain up to his original weight. A change in size necessitates a new fitting, something the Mounces wanted to avoid. Doug's weight, though not up to his goal, seems to be stablilized enough to go ahead with a fitting. An art student at Bethel last year, Doug is continuing his col-lege education by cor-respondence with Bowling Green University. His four history courses keep him from spending much time at his potter's wheel. Doug plans to come back to Bethel to visit his friends, but ap-parently not as a student. But he will drive his new El Camino, us-ing his recently-renewed driver's license. Will he drive up before gradua-tion? Maybe a few more of us should learn from his attitude: "I don't know. I don't know what I'll be doing even tomorrow." Plans are shown for the two new campus dormitories. Construction for this latest hous-ing project began last Thursday. Page 2 Cheryl Staurseth and Rob Johnson will take over from Cynthia and Scott as next year's Campus Coordinators. Holidays to get special attention by new Campus Coordinators by Carol Madison Candeing, backpacking, rock climbing and repelling, along with a 10-15 mile marathon run and solo expeditions will be some students' first encounter with Be-thel next year. From Aug. 11 to Sept. 1, 16 incoming students will take part in a new program called Wilderness Challenge. The new one-credit course, put together by Dean William Men-ser, will be run like an Outward Bound course taught from a Christian perspective. Only fresh-men and transfers will be allowed to participate in the program led by two faculty members and two upperclassmen. Wilderness Challenge will be more than just a camping trip. An emphasis will be placed on help-ing an individual overcome his physical, emotional and spiritual weaknesses. "It is a small group living ex-perience utilizing stress to pro-duce individual growth," explain-ed Dean Menser. The students will go through a difficult experience for 21 days. Hopefully, these students will grow close to each other. "The formation of identity groups is a factor in the probabili-ty of success in college," said Menser. "This method of orienta-tion has been very successful in other colleges." Students will be bussed up to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota, and will be first taught skills needed to survive through the experience. Some of the major components of the course will include a 7-10 day expedition in the wilderness by canoe and backpack, a solo 2-3 days of solitude, and a final expedition of 3-4 days of intense travel without the presence of in-structors. Participants, chosen on a first-come, first-serve basis, will be ex-pected to read four books pre-vious to the trip, keep a personal Newberg, Ore.(CCNS)—Cres-cent, student newspaper of George Fox College for the past 89 years, is no more, having ceas-ed publication this month due fo apparent student disinterest, ac-cording to the retiring editor. Robert Claiborne, who had the personally distasteful task of blowing out the editor's "torch" rather than passing it on to a suc-cessor, told Christian College News Service in a telephone inter-view that eight students were left to do the work of 20 at the paper's demise. However, he paid tribute to his staff, all of them volunteers. "But we decided," he said, that "it wasn't good stewardship of our time if the student body wasn't in-terested enough." Robert (a religion major who graduated this month) was paid by Becky Olson Employed to contribute to the social and spiritual atmosphere of the Bethel community, Cheryl Staurseth and Rob Johnson were recently chosen by the Student Senate to serve as Campus Coor-dinators. Encouraged to promote a full calendar of events, Cheryl and Rob have decided to place special emphasis on holidays next year. For Halloween,' an all-school mascarade party with a carnival is planned. Prizes such as a 10-speed, camera, or radio may be awarded. For Valentines Day, Rob and Cheryl are planning a Sweetheart banquet. Its unique feature will be that the initiator of the date (guy or girl) will not pay for the ticket, but his or her date will. Plans for Christmas and April Fools are also being con-templated. As Campus Coordinators, Cheryl and Rob are responsible for a balanced social activity pro-gram for all Bethel students. They journal, write a paper at the end, and become involved in discus-sion groups and a service project. An emphasis will be placed on devotions and dependence on God, along with the development of self-understanding and aware-ness. Students will learn leader-ship skills, and find new ways to respond to fear. Welcome Week will be only mildly entertaining to those stu-dents who return from Wilderness an honorarium as editor, but because of the hours he put in, he said he made about 15 cents an hour. But the experience for him has been more than he anticipated, he says. Before he began working on the Crescent, he was "headed toward the parish ministry" (he is a Lutheran). Now, as a result of his editorial experience, he feels a "strong call" to the mission field, working in the area of com-munications, art work and graphics. The college administation is "really disappointed" the paper folded, Robert said. "But we hope that next year, or the year after, students will want to 'resurrect' it. We don't want this to be a perma-nent shutdown," he added. take into account that the social programs should be built around events sponsored by the athletic, music, and drama departments. The positive feedback from movies on campus this year has ' prompted them to consider one movie a month complete with piz-za, ice cream, or popcorn. Plann-ing themes for Homecoming and Nik Dag is also a top priority next fall. Anxious to get to know stu- Minnesota students attending post-secondary educational in-stitutions receive more than $142 million per year in financial aid, says a staff report presented to the Higher Education Coordina-tion Board (HECB) today. Between 1969 and 1978, state appropriations for Minnesota stu-dent financial aid programs have grown from $375,000 to $37,681,751, the report says. On a per capita basis, Minnesota now ranks fifth nationally in need-based aid, at $4.84 per person; and the state ranks first nationally in use of revenue bonds to fund student loan programs at no cost to the taxpayer. The report says that between fiscal year 1975 and 1978, applica-tion to the State Scholarship and Grant-in-Aid Programs increased from 14,650 to 42,900, an increase of 294 per cent. During the same period the demand for student loan assistance through the State Student Loan Program doubled, and the number of financial aid programs administered by the Board increased from four to twelve. In addition to the $142 million per year, the Veterans Ad-ministration provides over $68 million annually in educational benefits to more than 16,000 residents. The totals for Social Security Administration educa-tional benefits are not available but they are substantial, the report says. The report says that fiscal year 1978 state scholarship and grant expenditures will total $21.5 million, and loan and work pro-grams will provide an additional $30 million. This total of over $51 million from state programs represents only about 35 per cent of the more than $142 million figure. About $52 million will come from federal sources and over $38 million from private sources. Sixty-one per cent of the funds go to students attending public in-stitutions, 31 per cent to students attending private colleges and universities and 8 per cent to students in proprietary institu-dents at Bethel, Cheryl and Rob have dedicated themselves to the task of Campus Coordinators. Since neither is involved in any other activities at Bethel, they feel they can do a good job. In order to get a feel for the job, Cheryl and Rob will be serv-ing as assistants for the remainder of this year to Scott and Cynthia who have done a fantastic job in filling the calendar full of events for the 77-78 Bethel community tions. State Student Loan Program volume has grown from $16 million in fiscal 1975 to an an-ticipated $32 million this year. About 18,000 students will be assisted by the state program this fiscal year, the report says. In ad-dition to state lending, private commercial lenders will provide about $16 million of additional resources in fiscal 1978. Although generally not con-sidered financial aid, reciprocity provided indirect benefits averag-ing $1600 to about 5,000 Min-nesotans in Wisconsin institutions and an average of $622 to about 2,600 Minnesotans in North Dakota institutions in 1976-1977, the report says. Minnesota has reciprocal tui-tion agreements with North Dakota and Wisconsin in which out-of-state tuition rates are waiv-ed for students in the neighboring states. "Aside from the highlights in the report, the staff's major con-clusion is that our evaluation mechanism for the aid programs must be improved so that the Board can more effectively assess the results of the state's efforts in this area," HECB Executive Director Clyde Ingle told the Board. Ingle said that rising costs at post-secondary institutions, federal incentives for developing state programs and the Board's identification of financial needs of post-secondary students have contributed to this growth. HECB recommendations to the legislature and the legislative response have emphasized access in student financial aid, "The Minnesota effort in finan-cial aid for the post-secondary education is one of the most outstanding in the nation," Ingle said. "It is comprehensive and serves our citizens and institutions well. The coming decade, however, will bring substantial changes to the character of stu-dent populations and educational programs. Substantial evaluation is necessary if we are to address changing needs." 'Growth through stress,' aim of Wilaerness Challenge program Challenge. Ignored by George. Fox students, paper went away, says editor Minnesota fifth in aid, says financial aid staff report Page 3 FALCON EidR136R0 - CRUST JIM • DAVE • DENISE Tuesday - Friday 8 . Saturday 8 - 5 .For Appointment Call 171314. Snelling 646-2329 St. Paul, MN 56113 e''se''se;Yr:‘,Yr;',Y'r:',)'( )'r-,‘,•?' ,)•(,' )*(4, If you LOOK too far you may miss the new French • eauty salon, Coiffure de Paris. Located just acros he road from Paul's Place at 2960 North Snelling. Shampoo, curl and style—$10 Permanent wave—$16.50 (and up) Call now for an appointment-633-3326 (10% DISCOUNT WITH THIS AD) -17 :fiT iJ Margaret IntVeld is seen at her familiar switchboard post. switchboard "womaned" Margaret IntVeld holds varied job as long-time Bethel receptionist by Thangi Chhangte For 18 years, Margaret IntVeld has been working as a receptionist for Bethel College. Before she started working at Bethel, in 1960, she worked as a swit-chboard operator at West-inghouse. Bethel did not have an official receptionist in the old campus. As a receptionist at Bodien dorm, Margaret had to handle calls for students because they could not dial out. Since she was the only receptionist Bethel had at that time, she had to handle numerous calls. The Centrex system on the new campus has been a big improve-ment, Margaret said. She also has an official receptionist's desk by the main door. Seven • other receptionists also work under Margaret. As the supervisor, Margaret schedules and trains the others. Margaret works full-time, usually from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. She does not work on weekends unless substitutes are unavailable. During the school year, the switchboard is manned (womaned?) every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., except during church hours on Sunday. Being a receptionist involves communicating with the public as well as Bethel students, faculty and staff. When people call Bethel, their first impression of Bethel depends on the recep-tionist's tone. "I think it's a real service to Bethel," Margaret said. Often the calls are demanding. Apparently people expect the receptionist to know everything. Margaret has to know what every instructor teaches, what each department handles, and so on, to satisfy some callers:According to her, her main job is to connect the caller to the right person. Since she has worked at Bethel for such a long time, many people recognize Margaret's voice and several call her by her name. And she remembers voices and faces of people she does not know. Sometimes she recognizes voices from "way back." She also finds out what a former Bethel faculty member used to be, even after the person has not been to Bethel for several years. In between the calls, Margaret stuffs payrolls at her desk. This is part of her work for the credit of-fice. It involves working with the check run for accounts payable, billing for telephones like pay phones, old campus, Fountain Terrace, and so on. Margaret spends most of her spare time with her widowed mother whO is a resident of the Presbyterian Home. She also sings in the choir at Central Bap-tist Church. At home, she does needlecraft work, ceramics, and oil painting. Even though she does not claim to be a professional hairdresser, Margaret cuts her own hair as well as her mother's and her friends. She has been doing this for quite a long time, she said. An avid traveller, Margaret has been to South America and all over the States. She is deeply in-terested in missions and has a special love for foreign people. "I love to meet people and I try. to pick out friends that need help," Margaret said thoughtfully. So, even if you have never met her, Margaret might recognize your voice over the phone. by Dan Erickson Being an American and being a Christianarenotthe same thing. This. has been emphasized quite strenuously in recent years as well is it should. Without recognizing the differences between the two it is easy to become swept into the American Civil Religion that surrounds us on all sides. One can be both an American and a Christian, but as Christians first, we must be careful to strip away the extra cultural and nationalistic baggage from our faith. What is not so apparent to us here is that in this community there is a vast difference between being a good Bethel student and being a Chris-tian. What have I spent the last three paragraphs trying to get at? That one of the greatest threats to a body like this is a religious piety that becomes legalistic and loses its absolute obedience to Christ. It is easy to fall into a habit of following a fixed set of principles. That is why the lifestyle injunctions are here at Bethel for, to create a sense of discipline in our conduct. But it is even easier to lose sight of our reason for obeying this lifestyle. If at anytime our reason for obeying the rules becomes our own self-justification we are guilty of a self-centered piety. On several occasions in the New Testament Christ comes face to face with this piety: At one point he encounters a person who has an uncan-ny resemblance to many Bethel students including myself. The story of the rich young man in Matt.19:16-22, is our story. He asks the questions, "What must I do that I might have eternal life?" Christ asks him if he has kept all the commandments. The young man responds that he has kept them from his youth, and asks again what yet does he lack (perhaps expecting Christ to ask him to give up social dan-cing and card playing). The rich young man wants to know what he can add to his life to make it perfect, what adjustments to make. He is dismayed at the answer Christ gives him. "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor; and come and follow me." Christ's demand is absolute. It demands absolute obedience to Christ and not to a set of rules. Christ looks past the questions that the young man poses back to the young man himself. Bonhoeffer says that Jesus sees that the young man is a victim of a self-centered piety. "And Jesus looking upon him loved him." (Mk.10:21) Jesus sees how hopelessly the young man has closed his mind to the living Word of God, how serious he is about it, and how heartily he rages against the living commandment and the spontaneous obedience it demands." ("Cost of Discipleship") I Christ's absolute demand must reorder our entire lives. It must turn everything in our lives upside down. When we accept Christ We're ac-cepting the person of Christ to identify with and follow, not a set of in-structions. We cannot make subtle adjustments, adding a little of this here and a little of that there. There must be a complete change in our thinking. Don't take me wrong. I believe in the Bethel lifestyle. People must have a lot of sense for a- group of Christians living together and as an RA I've promised to support them. But we are not saved by the rules and the rules will not set us free. I Peter 2:16 says, "Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God." That is the whole key to this problem, living as a servant. Once we escape our self-centeredness and become Christ-centered we break the bonds of responding to a set of rules and find our freedom in our servanthood. We are meant to be servants_ of God and not captives to rules. New position created, filled John A. Burtis of New Jersey has been appointed Director of Systems and Data Processing for Bethel College and Seminary, ef-fective March 15. In this newly created position, Burtis will be responsible for ex-amining Bethel's entire informa-tion collection, unifying pro-cedures, and establishing a com-plete management tool for use by the administration. Formerly, Burtis was president of the Eastern Computer Center for Christian Organizations—a joint venture he founded in 1974 to provide systems analysis, data processing, and management consultation services in the metropolitan New York City area. He received his B.S. in accoun-ting from Rider College, a cer-tificate in data processing from Rutgers University, and was pro-grammer/ analyst for the Foster Wheeler Corporation. His wife Joida and eight-year-old son Jason are soon to join him in Minnesota. Page 4 The Male Chorus, under the direction of Oliver Mogck, will perform a repertoire with emphasis on American music on their upcoming European tour. Male Chorus to give dynamic performances while in Europe This painting by artist Steve Hawley will soon be on display at Bethel on a "permanent loan" basis. Spirit of God evidenced Choir sees Spirit work on southeastern tour by Sari Wells The Male Chorus, in its 66th year at Bethel, will take its fourth trip to Europe this summer. They will visit Scandanavian countries, England and Germany from May 23-June 21. The chorus, under the direc-tion of Oliver Mogck, will have . three more home concerts before leaving for London on May 23. The concerts will be held at 6 p.m. at Bethlehem Baptist on April 16 and Brooklyn Center Baptist on April 23. The- final home concert will be at Calvary Baptist Church at 7 p.m. on May 14. The group will be presenting a variety of numbers, ranging from sacred classics to hymn arrange-ments to American spirituals. Ac-cording to Mr. Mogck, Euro-peans want to hear Americans sing American songs. Rick Alvarez, president of the chorus, added, "The format is geared more toward American composers." He also said that the program is more contemporary than in years past. Accompanying the chorus will be a new feature, • a brass ensem-ble, conducted by Dr. Julius Whitinger, professor of music at Bethel. Also touring with the chorus will be Dr. Olaf Olsen, professor of history. He will be teaching "Topics in the Culture of Northern European Countries." Besides singing and taking Dr. Olsen's history course, the men will write in logs and scrapbooks, and visit museums, historical sites and cultural landmarks. Since travel will include trips to several different countries, the communication gap could be a problem. "We'll learn to smile in seven different languages," Mr. Mogck said. "It will be an in-teresting experience in commun-ication." Professor Olsen speaks Norwe-gian and Mr. Mogck speaks Ger-man. Chorus member Soren Ryberg's knowledge of Danish and the aid of a bi-lingual bus driver and Swedish pastor will help the chorus to "be sensitive to Friday, artist Steve Hawley will speak in chapel. His topic centers on his painting, soon to be on "permanent loan" to Bethel. Last June, the college's art department sponsored a CIVA (Christians Involved in Visual Arts) conference. According to Eugene Johnson, Bethel art pro-fessor currently on sabbatical, about 140 artists attended. Among these was Steve Hawley of Newburyport, Mass. In the fall Dr. Johnson visited Mr. Hawley's gallery and was im-pressed with a large painting of the crucifixion. At that time he hoped that Bethel could "some-how procure it" in the future. • Near Christmas Johnson receiv-ed word from Mr. and Mrs. Croft in Farmington, Mass. that they had purchased the painting and were willing to give it to Bethel on an indefinite loan. The work, valued at $3500, measures approximately 7 by 8 the needs of the people," as Mogck pointed out. The group will travel in one bus for the whole tour, which will simplify travelling arrangements. They will sing primarily in chur-ches and in some concert halls. About 85 per cent of the time, the members will be staying in homes. continued on page 6 feet. Professor Johnson described it as semi-abstract. Through this creation, he stated, the artist has "attempted to describe the physi-cal event of the crucifixion" while at the same time emphasizing that it was more than this. The painting will be on display in chapel Friday. It will then be exhibited in the new lecture room in the FA building. Steve Hawley is a graduate of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has taught there and also at Tufts University. His work is currently represent-ed by the Stephen Straw Gallery in Newburyport, and last spring he exhibited his paintings in a one-man show in Boston. The January issue of "Art in America" carried a full-page reproduction of one of his creations. Mr. Hawley arrives at Bethel on Thursday to speak to art students about the problems and possibilities of making a living as a full-time studio artist. by Kyle Sidlo "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" Those of us on the College Choir tour will have no problem proclaiming this statement. For, by far the most significant part of the tour was the way the Spirit of God worked, through the fellow-ship, through the circumstances and miracles, and especially the music we sang. The lighter side of the tour was the fellowship. Different mem-bers of the group, being very sw-inging and crazy (you had to be there) and others sharing their own special talents (Munchkin imitations and P.M. Special Reports) eliminated and • dull moments. The time on the beach even got its fair share of fellowship. From those great white sands and hot sun of Florida's Gulf Coast most of the Bethel group attemp-ted to absorb some color. The only color I got was var-ious shades of black and blue caused by collisions and from be-ing stepped on. White is not too obvious against white. Others, like. future Clarion editor, Dave Shelley, showed some originality by not putting Sun Stop on evenly. Dave's chest and stomach looked like a bright red sunset on a partly cloudy evening. It may seem, from what has been said so far, that all of the fellowship occurred in the man-ner of "fun and games." But that was only part of it. The real joyous fellowship came through the circumstances and exper-iences God gave us. Something more valuable than a million Deutsche marks is the experience of staying in the homes of people one had never met before. Getting to know them, learning about their ideas and lifestyles, and living in those lifestyles is something the average person does not experience. Tak-ing an opportunity like this means growth. The main fellowship came di-rectly as a result of the whole pur-pose of our being in Florida. Our purpose consisted only in the con-cert and its message. Wanting the "utmost for His highest," to bring glory to His name, meant much work, much prayer, much open-ing up, and much faith (which God gave us). For, time did not pass without problems. Some people became sick and two were in a lot of pain. But, God gave us the faith and we prayed for their healing. Almost all were healed instantly. Others, like in the cases accom-panied with pain, the pain would subside during the concert and then come back afterwards. These things did not exactly lessen our enthusiasm for the music we were singing. The music of Handel's "Mes-siah" uses scriptural texts portray-ing Christ's birth, death, resurrec-tion, and second coming. To per-form it is a high worship ex-perience. God gave us talents to use. He gave us the tour to use them. He gave us audiences to minister to. He even gave us some immediate rewards through standing ova-tions. But, the praise must go to Him. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" Bethel procures painting, studio artist to speak by Shelly Nielsen Page 5 Poet Robert Siegel suggested the use of imagery and im-agination as tools in practicing God's presence. He was a guest on campus last Tuesday. 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Rd, E 636-6077 Events Calendar The Scribes 50's concert, old campus gym, 7:30 p.m. "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," ex-perimental theatre, 8 p.m. Men's tennis vs. St. Scholastica and St. Thomas, 9 a.m. Women's track, Manitou Relays at St. Olaf, 10 a.m. Baseball vs. Concordia-Moorhead, noon Men's track with Bemidji State, Concordia- St. Paul, Northwestern, 1 p.m. Women's softball - DH with Mankato State, 3 p.m., with Moorhead State, 5 p.m., at Mankato "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," 2 and 8 p.m. Male Chorus concert, Bethlehem Baptist, 6 P.m Women's Ensemble concert, Brook Park Baptist, 6:30 p.m. Senior recital, Dennis Wicklund and Jenny Norton, Calvary Baptist, 8 p.m. Women's softball vs. St. Mary's, 3 p.m. Men's tennis vs. River Falls, 3:30 p.m. SSM Film "Mother Teresa of Calcutta," FA 313, 8 p.m. Friday, Apr. 14 Saturday, Apr. 15 Sunday, Apr. 16 Monday, Apr. 17 Tuesday, Apr. 18 Wednesday, Apr. 19 Baseball at St. Olaf, 1 p.m "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," 8 P.m. Thursday, Apr. 20 Men's Tennis vs. Concordia-St. Paul, 3:30 p.m Engaged Couples Seminar, 7 p.m. "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," 8 P.m. Central Baptist Church 420 North Roy Street $t Paul, Mn 646-2751 Staff: Ron Eckert Lloyd. Nelson Preaching interim Jim Spo•kelmier Iles leaves: Fr - 9:15 - 9:25 BODIEN 9:45 Services - 8:45 and II 10 Bible Study 7 pm evening ELWOOD CARLSON Optician Glasses Contact Lenses, (Hard & Soft) Sports Glasses 356 St. Peter Skeet Diswunts to St. Pad, MEL a1112 227.7118 students & faculty Performers lead congregation into creative worship experience by Rick Drake Last Sunday I participated in a truly unique experience. The Howard Hanger Jazz Fantasy, a group of five performers (music and theater), led an ecumenical congregation in a worship service. Utilizing modern dance, vi-suals, creative readings and varieties of musical styles, this worship service was designed to give free reign to the worshipper in a twentieth century frame-work. Howard Hanger, the innovative leader of the group, listed his ob-jectives for the service at the outset: 1.) to worship and cele-brate without cultural limitations, 2.) to incorporate every member of the congregation into the wor-ship and 3.) to involve at least some people all the time. The "Order of Worship" was handed out to everyone as they entered the carpeted, pewless and chairless sanctuary which was fill-ed with pillows. The eight sec-tions of the service progressed well from one to another. They were: 1.) Gathering, 2.) Praise and Adoration, 3.) Confes-sion and Pardon, 4.) Reading and Proclaiming, 5.) Offering, 6.) Remembrance and Blessing, 7.) Sharing of Bread and Wine and 8.) Sending Out. The Jazz Fantasy desired not to perform but rather to lead the congregation into a creative wor-ship experience. They accom-panied readings with program-matic sound effects and incor-porated modern dance into music and the reading of Scriptures. In the reading of Psalm 150, one member of the Fantasy serv-ed as the "Psalm-Sayer," a leader who reads a phrase to be repeated by the congregation in rhythm. Following the brief silence for individual private confession was a voluntary public confession of individual sins through the speak-ing of word symbols. Whenever moved to speak, people would spontaneously speak out a single word representing the attitude or action recognized as sin. Sins such as dishonesty, bit-terness and pride were confessed. This was a very moving moment for me, for when someone con-fesses a sinful attitude, I can do nothing but search my own heart for the same. This experience has opened my eyes to some of the possibilities of creative expression in worship. The creative element seems to en-hance both the objective (focus-ing on God) and the subjective (our response to God) elements of worship. Music in worship functions ex-clusively as a means to the end, the end being "presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God." There are, however, many other means through which we can express ourselves in worship. The source of all creativity is God Himself, so let us look to Him and His Word for creative means to worship Him "in spirit and in truth." WANTED Seward Cafe needs ex-perienced cooks - Half time call 332-1011 be-tween 2 & 5 p.m. continued from page 5 The plans for the summer are just about finalized, and Mr. Mogck is just awaiting confirma-tions for two concerts. Plans for this tour have been in the making since last June. Mr. Mogck start-ed planning the concert tour with the help of Dr. C. Howard Smith, former Male Chorus director, who toured with the chorus in Europe in 1966, '70, and '72. Despite a few problems in plan-ning, Mogck claimed, "There's never a perfect time to do any-thing. You must go on faith and go ahead and do it, and pray the Lord will guide and bless the out-come." Letters of enthusiasm for Eu-rope have encouraged Mogck. Since Bethel choirs have perform-ed in Europe before and been well received, he is optimistic. The men are also enthusiastic about the tour. "I think we have the best chorus in the four years that I've been here," said Rick. "I'd say this is the best year I've had," said tour manager Arlan Swanson. "There's a little more refined talent. When the whole thing falls together, it will be dynamic." Page 6 Aspiring freshman Brad Benjamin serves up another ace in a recent tennis match. Tennis team optimistic as players improve games Chapel Schedule Monday—Kairamin Tuesday—"Does Anybody Care?"—Chuck Colson film Wednesday—Roots: The Liberal/Conservative Divsion—Dr. Garth Rosell Thursday—Roots: Evangelical and New Evangelicals—Dr. Al Glenn Friday—Steve Hawley "The Crucifixion" John W. Nance Company Yl 1618 Pioneer Bldg. 224-7358 INSURANCE John W. warp, Si. Life—Auto—Horne John W. Nana, Jr. Business John G. Chisholm Russo' Akre St. Paul, Mn. 55101 I Wood s/Torgerson I Campaign rhetoric? We hope not! We have spent these first two weeks in office meeting with the dean, cabinet, lobbying for our public relations committee bill and initiating the new Senate. Now, in the spring, is the time when we do the preliminary work for action we want to see accomplished next year. That's part of the pro-cess of turning campaign promises into tangible results. We take those lunch-time leaflets seriously. In our platform we outlined two areas of concern: credible structure and creative service. Currently, we are concerned with implementing the planks of our platform dealing with Senate's effectiveness. While the public relations committee and agenda impact statements are being developed now, the autonomous budget will be dealt with in the fall. On Tuesday night, the Senate unanimously passed the public rela-tions committee bill. This provides for a fourth internal committee, equal in responsibility and authority to public action, special projects, and rules and finance. The duties of the committee as outlined by the bill involve publishing a newsletter, distributing a more readable form of minutes which includes an agenda of issues before the Senate, and any other publicity the Senate deams necessary. That last clause allows Senate the flexibility to reflect the needs of the student body. This public relations committee opens some yet untried possibilities, perhaps some lunch-time leaflets or a "Kidnap your Senator Day." In-forming and involving students is the first step towards a Senate that makes your voice count. With such positive action already taken, this Senate promises to make a difference. Since this is our first column, we will briefly share our philosophy. To be credible and effective representatives of your views, we need to have the respect and trust of the administration with which we work. The benefits of cooperation can only come as a result of cultivating a record of healthy, profitable and constructive confrontation. We see the need for agressive, yet sensitive leadership: leadership that realizes the importance of knowing the facts and takes seriously the responsibility of representing you. If we are going to be your representatives we must know your op-tions, viewpoints, and interests. Consider this an invitation to join us Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the AC Lounge and to stop by our office anytime in FA301 (you can use the phone free!). Men tracksters place second in close Invitational at Macalester Women's track short on runners but places high with available talent by Laura Woodruff The women's track team placed second and claimed five firsts in the Gustavus Cinder Open on Saturday, April 8. Gustavus won the meet with 107 points, Bethel followed with 94, and Winona placed third with 89. St. , Catherine's, Hamline, Augsburg, Carleton and Dr. Mar-tin Luther also attended. Bethel had more firsts than any team. It placed first in: the high jump where Katie Miller tied her 5'1" record; the mile and 880, both run by Denise Egge; the mile relay made up of Lynn Severson, Katie Miller, Bobbi Hersch and Denise; and the 440 run by Bobbi. The Bethel women placed se-cond in these events: the two-mile relay consisting of Brenda Harris, Gail Anderson, Karlene Kline, and Rita. Glasscock; the 800 medley with Katie, Lynn, Bobbi and Gail; the 220 where Bobbi set a record of 28.1. Bobbi also placed third in the long-jumps. Bobbi, Lynn, Katie and Sandi Hobbs placed third in the 440 medley relay. Brenda Harris placed third in the 880. Rita placed sixth in the 400-meter hurdles and Carol Anderson placed sixth in the high jump. On April 5, the Wednesday be-fore the Cinder Open, Bethel par-ticipated in a triangular with St. Cloud State and Drake University and Bethel placed third. Katie Miller set a high jump record with 5'1" jump which plac-ed her third. Lynn, Denise, Katie and Bobbi broke the 440 relay record with 53.1. Denise won the mile with a 5:24. Bobbi won the 440 and broke the record with a 62.0 time. Lynn placed fourth in the 100-yard dash SSM to present media festival next week On April 18 and 25, Students Serious About Missions (SSM) has two media presenta-tions planned for Bethel students, staff and faculty. "Mother Teresa of Calcutta" with Malcolm Muggeridge and Mother Teresa is scheduled for April 18. This is a 50 minute full-length classic movie about Mother Teresa's work with the poorest of the poor in Calcut-ta— people who literally grow up, live and die in the streets. Finally, on Wed., April 25, a new film called "Land of Destiny" will be shown. Slavic Missions Service presents a new perspec-tive on believers in Russia—" a totally Russian film, produced by Russian Christians about Russian believers." For the express purpose of pro-viding an opportunity for people to visit and ask questions infor-mally, each evening coffee and cookies will be served. and in the 220 she tied the record with 28.5. Denise also placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles. The mile relay which was made up of Lynn Severson, Katie, Bob-bi and Denise did well by taking seven seconds off the old record with a time of 4:14.9 Coach Shirley Dawson feels that "we have some top quality by Greg Kuntz The Bethel men's track team placed second only four points behind St. Thomas at the Morgan Taylor Invitational at Macalester last Saturday. "It was a very encouraging day with good individual perfor-mances," said Coach Gene Glad-er. The highlight of the meet was freshman Greg Stipe's tow "hat trick," taking firsts in the long jump, triple jump, and pole vault. His efforts in the triple jump of 45'2.5" and vault of 13'6.5", were both new Bethel records. Junior Bill Whittaker heaved the javelin 163'4" to take first. Sprinter Nate Allen won the 440 in :49.9, but became ill and didn't run any more races. Curt Brown took the 880 in 1:54.4, and runners. We don't have many people but we place high." With this type of team it is often dif-ficult to get a high score against bigger schools even if the women run well. Saturday, April 15, Bethel will participate in the Manitou Relays. This will be a non-scoring meet with irregular-type events. ran a 49.2 quarter mile in the mile relay, which Bethel won in 3:26.7. For the first time the relay con-sisted of Whittaker, John Selvog, Bryan Galloway and Brown. Sel-vog captured first in the 440 in-termediate hurdles in 56.1, and finished second in high hurdles. Dave clapp took the mile in 4:24.8, and he finished right behind Brown in the 880 in 1:57.6. Jim Feleen finished se-cond in the steeple chase. "We're building in a healthy confidence and we should sur-prise a few people before the sea-son's over," said Coach Glader. The Royals host the Bethel In-vitational tomorrow at the new Mondsview High School track, consisting of five teams. The metric meet begins at 1 p.m. "There should be a lot of metric records set," said Coach Glader. by G.W. Smith The Bethel tennis team travell-ed to St. Cloud State last Satur-day, bowing to St. Cloud 3-6 in what Coach Craig Schmidt called the team's best showing this season. Tomorrow morning the Royals face St. Scholastica and St Tho-mas in a 9 a.m. match, their first home match this season. Against St. Cloud Mark Nor- ''. lander and Greg Kuntz claimed victory in number one doubles. "We were playing real well," said Norlander of the 6-3, 6-1, vic-tory. In singles Norlander lost a close match, 6-2, 2-6; 4-6. "That was fun too," he said of the narrow defeat. Kuntz secured a victory in number two singles, defeating his opponent 6-4 in the first set and 7-6 in the second set, overcoming a 5-2 deficit. Competing in number four sin-gles, Peter Nelson defeated his opponent 6-3, 0-6, 6-3, for Bethel's third victory of the after-noon. Battling against St. Cloud's number one singles, Steve Brown lost an exciting match, 6-4, 6-1. According to Coach Craig Schmidt, "We looked by far the best we've played in any match so far this year." Looking forward to a tough conference season, Schmidt ex-pects Gustavus to be "unbeatable" while both St. Johns and St. Thomas will be tough. "I think we can play with them," he said. "We're looking a lot better." Page 7 Allen strides through records with ready mind and sheer guts by Greg Kuntz During the past two years, a lanky athlete named Nate Allen has burnt quite a trail on the track, using his remarkable stride to claim numerous Bethel re-cords. Among the records he attained are indoor records in the 176-yd. dash and the half-mile relay, and outdoor records in the 220-yd: dash, 220 meter run, the 440 relay, 880 relay, and the mile relay. Allen has also tied the record in the 110-yd. dash at 9.9. Twenty-seven years old, Nate enjoys running and believes that any race consists of one half men-tal readiness, 30 percent speed and the remainder is "sheer guts." "Whether it's practice or a meet," said Allen, "it's serious business and I want to give it all." "The main thing that keeps me going is that I continually see myself first place in a race," he said. "I think of the hard training and competition against another individual. "I get tuned up and psyched for the next guy," he continued. "Then, when I beat him, I get ready for the next guy and the competiton continues. I go out with the idea that nobody can beat you." Allen began sprinting in a neighborhood block club in his native Chicago. He attended Dunbar Vocational High School where he won the Illinois State Championship in the 440 two years in a row. He became the city champ in the 100, 440, 880, and part of the 880-yard and mile relays. He ran a :49.5 440 and :09.6 100, and trim-med his 440 to a speedy :46.3. Before he was invited to try out for the '68 Olympic team at Lake Tahoe, he pulled a muscle and couldn't go. He trained with former Olympiads, and in Mayor Daley's Youth Foundation. A sought after athlete, Allen received over 250 track scholar-ship offers, and 50 for football. He first attended Mankato State for two years, and was married while at Mankato, before he was drafted. He was stationed at Whidbey Island, Wash., and was in Viet-nam for a few months on the USS Enterprise. "I stayed in shape by playing a lot of basketball," said Nate. "Our team even won the West Coast Navy championship." Allen got out of the service in June of '75 and then attended Metropolitan Community College in Minneapolis, but the college did not have a track team. He was accepted at the U of Minnesota, Augsburg, U. of M. at Duluth, and Bemidji State, but he contacted Gene Glader at Bethel. He had been in contact with Glader since 1971. "They seemed to care more about me at Bethel than any other place, so I was more interested in coming here," said Nate. "Being brought up as a Christ- Page 8 ian I was attracted to the at-mosphere at Bethel, in the faith and loyalty to God that every-body must have. I had the oppor-tunity to get better relationships, and I wanted a reputable educa-tion because the sports days will be gone sometime." As a business administration major, Allen hopes to work for a company and coach part-time in high school or college. "I want to use my knowledge to make some other athlete better," said Nate. Allen has high hopes for his last by Tim Doten and David Hepburn It is said that a football game is won or lost in the trenches. As of last week, the same could be said of the Bethel baseball team: Once again, for the fourth year in a row, we have donned the waders and shovels in an attempt to dry the rice patty that doubles as an open air outhouse during the football season, and a baseball diamond in the spring. The only other major sport with worse facilities is men's and women's track. The track team members have to make use of the myriads of roads in the area. The sprinters race Columbia Transit buses daily on Old Snelling only to have their egos shattered by losing. What the bottom line comes to is that the powers that be, the president, the regents, the dean and the athletic director, are more than happy to have fine athletic teams, but are unwilling or unable to spend the limited dollars to improve facilities. Hopefully, admission to the M.I.A.C. will pressure the powers to some re-evaluation of this pro-blem. The athletic director obviously must be aware of problems. He is doing all he can to improve the situation. He deals with these pro- . blems daily and has an excellent grasp of all the inadequacies in the department. We come next to the dean. If he attends the athletic events, and he does, he knows at least a minimum of the problems. We have found that he too has a great understanding and is working with the athletic department on this issue. The president and the board of regents remain. The dean and the athletic director have written let-ters and had meetings with the president. Due to these meetings and letters, the president cannot be in the wilds he has traveled to on this issue. The question is, what have the regents and the president done season, and expects that Bethel will win the M.I.A.C. champion-ship in May. "If we stay healthy and keep up the winning pace we'll at least win the M.I.A.C.," Allen said. He has experienced some mus-cle pulls in races. "I live with pain," said Nate, "I ask for strength from upstairs and the pain usually goes away during the race." Nate admits he'll miss compet-ing. "This is it," he said, "and I've never had the opportunity to be a part of a Christian team before I came to Bethel." with their knowledge relating to this? There are approximately 360 student athletes at Bethel, not to mention those involved in in-tramurals. In the president's five-year plan submitted to the faculty last fall, out of $20 million, $250,000 was to be allocated for field development. Still, we want fine teams to be remembered. It seems that Bethel is on the brink of a very fine and respected athletic department personnel wise, but we also need adequate facilities to maintain what we have now without losing ground. With the current budget, the athletic department is not able to handle any one major undertak-ing. It is only with the freeing of other funds that we can achieve these ends. It is important to understand that we are blaming no one. We are happy for what we have. But, we are bringing to light an issue that can no longer be avoided. Women's tennis opens season at St. Thomas The women's tennis club open-ed its season last Saturday with a match against a tough St. Thomas team. The team lost 7-2 with Ruth Swenson and Lisa Mills receiving the only two victories of the day. Karen Koehn, a freshman on the team this year commented," The club did quite well consider-ing it was our first match of the season." She added, "The wea-ther was also a real battle for us." Another player said, "It is good to go from here now, knowing what our weak points are and how we will be able to remedy them." The club will face the U of M and St. Paul Concordia on April 29 there. by Steve Erickson Going into the final week of double elimination playoffs, four teams in A league and seven in B league remained alive in IM basketball. The only unbeatens were the Probes and Weightroom Woosies in A and the Decom-posers and Fly Girls in B. In an exciting game, 'Probes nipped the Buckwheats 60-57 behind Dave Hepburn's 18 points and Greg Nelson's 16 markers. Phil Print scored 17 for the losers. The Probes have yet to lose a game and seem to be the tourney favorite. Two days later, the Buck-wheats stayed alive by eliminating Beef Jerky 51-36. John Merritt pumped in 17 points while Ron Nilsson and Jack Senter had 10 apiece for the Wheats. Tom Klitzke again pa.-ced Weightroom Woosies to another win, his 16 points helping WW defeat True Grunt 50-44. Steve Kramka added 10 for the victors. Grunt's big guns, Al Jones and Roger Howell each hooped 15. After eliminating the Rotors earlier in the week, Who Cares knocked True Grunt out of the playoffs 61-54. Tim Haugen led four teammates into double figures with 16 while Jones was credited with 17 for the losers. In B league action, Decom-posers stretched their unbeaten streak to eight games by beating a tired Nicks, Hags and Steers 43-23. Steve Brown led a balanc-ed Decayer attack with 9 points. Bruce Olsen scored 12 for NHS. In a game of two other B league powers, the Swedish Fly Girls handed Arnel Oil its first loss 58-52 as Greg "Homer" Thom bucketed 20. Arnel's Tim Traudt and "Sparky" Anderson dropped in 24 and 12, respectively. Star Wars, with Dan "DJ" Johnson's 14 points, leading the way, held off the Jackrabbits 51-46. Dave Thiessen scored 16 for the Rabbits. The Mob was eliminated by the NBA 41-37 when they failed to control the Butcher's Steve Car-rigan and Dave Terlouw. The pair, with 22 and 17 respectively, scored all but one basket for their team. 6 ft. Under stayed alive by crushing Bergland's Bongos 53-29. Towering Dave Fernlund flipped in 21 markers and Chris Brumley 12 for the winners. Mark Rapinchuk and Steve Johnson were a two-man team as Richie Vallenz Jr. High clubbed All the President's Men 56-37. Rapinchuk has 25 and Johnson 17 while John Klaessy pumped in 16 for ATPM. Playoff finals conclude this weekend, but one of the league directors, Wally Brown, an-nounced plans for a all-star game and possible playoff between A and B league champions to be scheduled soon. Senior Nate Allen claimed two indoor and five outdoor Bethel records in his 'sprint' here. IM playoffs whittle contenders to four Soggy Bremer prompts appeal to 'powers that b |
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