Clarion 1978-02-24 Vol 53 No 16

              Nob Hill apartments may be a housing alternative for returning students.
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.
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THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 16 February 24, 1978
SMP members anticipate,
prepare for varied summers
Bethel health service
"best bargain on campus"
by Suzi Wells
Filling out applications, writing
to home churches for financial
support, and meeting for
fellowship and prayer are all part
of what this year's members of
SMP (Student Missionary Pro-ject)
are doing.
As an SMPer, I have felt the ex-citement
and anticipation, along
with 23 other Bethel students, of
the coming summer. During in-terim,
several of us gathered
together for Bible study, gym
nights, and prayer to meet and
support each other.
The summer missionaries will
be scattered across the United
States and the world, everywhere
from Chicago's inner-city to
Mississippi, from Japan to
Ecuador to Africa.
The SMPers for this summer in-clude:
Vicky Bean, Randy Blake,
Tim Bont, Sharon Bowman, Joe
Brandenburg, Bobbie Dischinger,
Carol Dischinger, Steve Far-quharson,
Paul Hertenstein, Cin-dy
Martin, Sandy Madsen, Mike
Messer, Becky Miller, Dan
Miller, Jim Nelson, Paul Nether-cott,
Dana Olson, Leigh Ann Ret-tie,
Debbie Nash, Sue Sult, Bob
Thorp, Suzi Wells, Tannie
Woods, and Lois Malcolm.
Students' reasons for going out
this summer are varied. "I think it
will be a good opportunity to
share my faith," explained
sophomore Bobbie Dischinger,
who plans to work with Spanish-speaking
people. "Since Spanish
is one of my minors, it will give
me a chance to study the culture
by living right with the people,"
she added.
Tim Bont, sophomore, plans to
work with HCJB (Heralding
Christ Jesus Blessing) short-wave
radio station in Quito, Ecuador
Tim will be working in a hospital
connected with the radio station
down in Quito.
"I want to obtain experience
both in hospital work and medical
missions," he said. "I'd also like to
see if it (medical missions) is a
realistic goal in the future." He
added that he had always wanted
to take off a summer to serve the
Lord in a direct way, and that
working in the hospital would be
an educational as well as a
spiritual experience.
In order for SMP to be an ef-fective
ministry, it needs the
financial support of students and
faculty. Several fund-raising
events are planned in the future,
including a haircutting day on
March 7, bake sales, car washes,
and an auction of all unclaimed
items in the lost and found. Also,
every Friday an offering is col-lected
in chapel.
So far, SMP has collected
about $4225 this year, and its goal
is to have $10,000 by the end of
the year. If each student were to
give about $5 a year to SMP, this
goal could be met.
Besides financial support,
SMPers need support in prayer.
Dan Johnson, president of SMP,
has plans for each new SMPer to
have three prayer partners: one
other SMPer, an old SMPer, and
a student outside of SMP. Also,
one day this semester will be set
aside for prayer for SMP.
by Shelly Nielsen
Bethel administrators Marilyn
Starr and Mack Nettleton are still
struggling with the big question,
"Where are students going to live
next year?"
With old campus finally deleted
as a possibility for upperclassmen
residency, housing directors are
investigating elsewhere. The
prevalent characteristic of their
search, so far, seems to be uncer-tainty.
Hopefully, two new campus
dormitory buildings will be
erected for next year's up-perclassmen.
Planners have turned to the
possibility of leasing Nob Hill
apartments, half of them for nine
months and the other half for six.
On the occasion of the long-awaited
dorms being completed
next year, one-half of the students
housed at Nob Hill will be moved
into the new facilities. The goal,
stated Director of Student Affairs
Mack Nettleton, is to make a
definite announcement of
available residences by spring.
Authorities are sure of a few
aspects concerning housing in the
coming year. Commuters will not
be discriminated against.
Freshmen will, hoWever, be serv-ed
first as far as placement in
campus residences is concerned.
If the new dorms are not com-pleted
as hoped, upperclassmen
will probably not be housed on
new campus next year.
Mack Nettleton stressed that
the apartments finally chosen will
be the "modest kind as opposed
to luxury apartments." They will
contain the functional facilities of
one bathroom and two bedrooms,
Fountain Terrace being the basic
model for comparison.
At present, these are of the few
decided and absolute aspects of
an "iffy" dilemma known as stu-dent
housing '78-'79.
According to Dave Lissner,
Bethel's director of community
relations, the Arden Hills plan-ning
commission will recommend
to the Arden Hills Council that
Bethel be re-zoned to obtain
permits to build their new dormi-tories.
"I expect we will receive
those," said Lissner, optimistical
ly. Lissner said his latest concern
is the looming trade strike to take
place this summer.
The village council will meet in
the Arden Hills Village Hall at 8
p.m. on Mon., Feb. 27.
by Thangi Chhangte
A full-time student at Bethel
pays about $20 a year for health
service care. This is made pos-sible
by Bethel's unique health
service. The health service is not
actually an insurance policy, but
the student's parents' insurance
becomes the primary coverage.
Each year, the health service
receives an alloted sum of money
from the general tuition. This
amounted to $32,000 last year.
The service covers infirmary care,
medical and accident aid, and
hospital assistance.
A commercial group plan would
cost more than the present policy,
so Bethel has continued with this
policy.
There has been one major
change in the policy, since last
year. "Students having no pri-mary
coverage will be reimbursed
for 50 per cent of hospital
expenses up to schedule limits,"
according to the green leaflet
which Bethel students received at
the beginning of the school year.
The pamphlet includes infor-mation
on the health service,
including claim procedures, eligi-bility,
out-patient and hospital
coverage procedures.
"I think it's the best bargain on
campus," said Mack Nettleton,
director of students affairs.
Bethel students apparently agree
with him since he has not
received any complaints about the
health service.
Since tuition does not cover all
expenses, no student at Bethel
pays for the full expenses incur-red
by the school. Contributions
from the Baptist General Confer-ence
and other organizations
supplement the additional ex-penses.
About 50 per cent of the
students body receives financial
aid. This means that most stu-dents
at Bethel do not actually
pay for all the benefits they
receive from the health service.
Not many places can one see
the doctor as much as three times
a week, for less than $25 a year.
—dorm dilemma
Student housing remains
uncertain for '78-'79
Judge rules in legal suit
Earlier this week we received word that the decision regarding
Northwestern College and the Village of Arden Hills ruled in
favor of the village. This essentially prohibits Northwestern from
building the proposed auditorium under its present zoning. Nor-thwestern
is expected to appeal the decision.
Carter proposal
expands existing
loan, scholarship
aid programs
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CCNS)
- Some 60 per cent of the nation's
college students would be eligible
for at least a small amount of
federal aid under a $1.5 billion ex-pansion
of existing scholarship
and loan programs proposed Feb.
8 by President Carter.
Having previously expressed his
opposition to tax credit legislation
currently pending in Congress,
the President said his measure
"will provide more real help than
any tuition tax credit," which he
regards as too costly and wasteful.
The number of students eligible
for assistance under this plan
would increase from the present
three million to five million. Even
more significantly, however, most
of the new money would be ear-marked
for "middle-income"
families in the $16,000-to-
$25,000-a-year category previous-ly
ineligible for many of these pro-grams.
In addition, loan guarantees
would be available to families ear-ning
up to $45,000 annually, corn-pared
with $30,000 under the pre-sent
program.
However,. maximum grants or
interest-subsidies for students
from families in the higher-income
brackets would be only
$250 (also the amount of the tax
credit permitted under legislation
earlier introduced by Sen.
William Roth, R-Del.).
Dr. Paul Bragdon, president of
Reed College, Portland, Ore.,
and chairman of the Government
Relations Advisory Council of the
National Association of Indepen-dent
Colleges and Universities,
told the House Subcommittee on
Post-Secondary Education Feb. 9
that grants to students ought to be
"proportional to income all across
the income spectrum up to
$25,000," rather than a flat $250
for those in the $16,000-$25,000
income range.
Dr. John Dellenback, president
of the Christian College Consor-tium
(and also a member of the
NAICU Government Relations
Advisory Council), - commented
later on the Carter proposal,
which was introduced in the
House of Representatives by Rep.
William Ford (D-Mich.), chair-man
of the House Subcommittee
on Post-Secondary Education.
"I'm pleased at the President's
and the Ford bill's desire to assist
the middle income taxpayer, and
their willingness to earmark more
money to help students obtain
higher education," Dr. Dellen-back
said.
"But I don't think either the
proposed tax credit bills or this
particular forin of expanded stu-dent
aid legislation will equitably
or substantially help students at-tending
evangelical colleges.
From a Christian education stand-point,
two things are particularly
troublesome to me," he said.
"Tax credits would give the
federal government more 'logic'
to its argument that it is assisting
education; therefore, it would
reason that it can more logically
impose restrictions and condi-tions"
on recipients of such
"assistance," including both tax-payers
and colleges.
"The Ford bill, for all its vir-tues,
by spreading its benefits so
thin and widely, doesn't make it
possible for any significant
number of students to attend col-lege
who wouldn't otherwise be
able to do so. Everybody gets a
bite and no one is saved from star-vation,"
Dr. Dellenback said.
Mr. Carter's proposal contains
three major elements:
The present $2.1 billion Basic
Educational Opportunity Grants
(BEOG) program of tuition
scholarships would be expanded
by nearly one-half, to $3.1 billion,
serving an additional 3.1 million
students. The present $15,000
per year eligibility ceiling would
be raised to $25,000.
The current $435 million col-lege
work-study program (sub-sidizing
80 per cent of wages for
by Snzi Wells
Next year, a foreign studies
program in Guatemala City may
be part of Bethel's program for
roughly the same cost as it would
be to attend Bethel.
Students would be studying
Latin American history, Mayan
Indian archeology, and Guatema-lan
culture, and possibly live in
homes in the Guatemala City
area. They would be taking a full
load and it would transfer as such
to the regular curriculum.
part-time student jobs) would be
increased by more than 25 per
cent, to $600 million. An
estimated 280,000 new students'
would be-eligible to participate, in
addition to the 720,000 students
currently in the program.
The present $540 million
guaranteed student loan program
(underwriting loans and subsidiz-ing
interest costs for student)
would be expanded by more than
one-half to $867 million. An
estimated 260,000 new loans
would be available nearly doubl-ing
the number of middle-income
family students.
Maximum grants for low- and
moderate-income family students
would be raised. For those earn-ing
less than $8,000 a year, it
would go from $1,600 now to
$1,800. Those in the $8,000 to
$16,000 income range would also
receive $200 more than at pre-sent.
This proposal would increase
President Carter's fiscal year 1979
federal aid to education budget
by $1.21 billion over the $3.278
billion he submitted a few weeks
earlier.
The students could study at the
Universidades Mariana Galve de
Guatemala in Guatemala City for a
full semester in either the fall or
spring.
President Lundquist is enthu-siastic
about the possibilities of
the new program, which is the
first full semester overseas pro-gram
that Bethel has had. He said
that it is important for students to
get exposure in our "shrinking
world" and "broaden their hori-zons."
Overseas study semester
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—editorial
Senate role questioned:
lobbyist versus voter
The Student Senate has recently been under attack from its student
constituency for being a "rubber stamp" and "do nothing" organiza-tion.
This most recently became obvious in the controversial flat fee
discussions, in which the Senate was very ill-prepared and ill-informed
of what was going on. Even senators have verbally chastised the ex-ecutive
committee for lacking organization and acting as a puppet for
the administration.
When one thinks about it, what has the Senate done this year that
was really worthwhile? Has it really informed its constituency of all the
relevant issues as it was originally elected to do? What programs has it
accomplished that could be considered worthwhile?
In order to construct a little groundwork, allow us to explain some of
the things that Senate does. Most of Senate work begins and ends in
committee. The Tuesday night meetings are mostly for the purpose of
voting on committee decisions. Discussion sometimes ensues from
committee decisions.
The work of two committees, the Public Action Committee (PAC)
and the Communications Board (composed also of students, media
chiefs and one faculty advisor), compose a great deal of Senate work.
PAC does much of their work through raising money for charities by a
variety of fund-raising events, such as volleyball marathons and bake
sales.
The Communications Board regulates and oversees all student
publications, such as the Clarion, Coeval and Passages.
The Senate also has the responsibility of choosing the campus coor-dinators.
They also have a member, usually the president, sit on the
Board of Regents in order to provide some type of student input,
although that student representative has no voting rights.
Senate's most noteworthy piece of legislation has been the institution
of the $10 activity fee charged to all full-time students. This legislation,
an original campaign promise of the Johnson/Carlson administration,
was to aid the floundering campus coordinator program. From present
indications, it seems to be working well.
But since that important legislation was approved by the administra-tion,
Senate has done little in enacting major legislation that may have
a positive impact on students. Their biggest moves have been to make
recommendations to the administration on a variety of minor issues,
such as library space and independent study fees.
Senate's inactivity or rubber-stamping policies can be directly related
to the role that the administration places on them. The administration
tends to delegate to the Senate the role of lobbyist, rather than the role
of decision maker or voter.
A lobbyist's role is that of influencing. When delegated to the role of
a lobbyist, one must be thoroughly knowledgeable of the relevant
topics and able to discuss these topics with a familiarity that predicates
on the intuition of an expert.
Unfortunately, the administration has not even allowed Senate the
ability to influence with any knowledge or familiarity of the topic.
When they do ask for Senate's input, it is after the decision has been
made and with the senators having little knowledge of the matter. This
aids in giving the Senate the stigma of being ill-informed and ill-prepared.
But let us not blame everything on the administration. The Senate
executive committee could have been more forceful with ad-ministrative
decision by voicing student opinion. After all, someone on
the Senate usually knows what will happen in respect to student policy
before it actually occurs. It is more a matter that they do not explain
the implications of these programs to the student body, or even to the
Senate as a whole, in fear of losing administrative confidence.
Student government leaders must raise objections and/or provide a
stimulating input into administrative decisions. Without student input,
administrative policy becomes a "Royal Decree" rather than a substan-tiated
argument.
What this discussion finally comes down to is the true role that
Senate plays in the life of the student body. Should it be a rubber-stamping
organization for administrative decisions, or should it be an
active participant in administrative policies? We believe it should be
the latter.
Why are students so apathetic towards student government? First,
administrative policy towards student organizations dictates the feel-ings
and beliefs of the apathetic student. The administrative leaders of
this school must be willing to give student leaders some voice in the
decision-making process. Without this voice the present tendency
towards student apathy will continue.
Secondly, student government must provide strong leadership in
order to give some relevancy to the needs of students. If the executive
committee is not willing to push its limits of authority, then the student
voice will fall on hardened administrative ears.
This can be summarized in a give and take situation. The Student
Senate is not willing to give anything and the administration is not will-ing
to take anything. Let us try to reverse the roles to where the ad-ministration
is willing to take student input and the Student Senate is
actively engaged in giving student advice. We believe this plan is feasi-ble
and can work if both sides are willing to cooperate.
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If the "flat-fee fiasco" has accomplished anything, it might well be
the shift of emphasis in the Student Senate column from information to
editorial.
The events of recent weeks have evoked a number of feelings, ver-bally
expressed or otherwise, about the effectiveness of student govern-ment
on campus. Perhaps reviewing a year as Student Senate chairman
gives me an opportunity to state what I feel the role of student
representatives at Bethel can and should be.
First and foremost, forget the illusion Bethel is a democracy where
students and administration line up weekly at the ballot box to vote on
handling this week's issues. Some students, including senators, feel
anything short of this is "powerlessness." The naivety of that expecta-tion
is probably understandable since most students have been at
Bethel for fewer semesters than they have fingers on one hand.
However, the recent example of administrative heavy-handedness il-lustrates
the importance of consulting Bethel's consumers—the
students. The dean did offer an apology to the students which is in-dicative
of a concern for the views and feelings of the student body.
Nonetheless, this experience can serve as a reminder to the administra-tion
of the importance of acting upon and consulting the present needs
of students, coupled with the administrative concerns for the stability
of Bethel as an institution.
Simply because our voice at Bethel is not the final determining factor
in making college policy does not mean students should write off any.
sort of student voice and organization, and apathetically accept deci-sions
made solely in administrative towers. The students are both the
consumers and the product of Bethel College, and consequently should
play a vital role in forming and shaping the policies and activities on
campus.
The Student Senate can operate in that role from a persuasive
perspective. In order to accomplish that objective it must have the sup-port
of the students who elect the members. The administration often
looks upon Student Senate members and student officers as spokesper-sons
for the feelings of the student body, a factor which should be con-sidered
when electing representatives and/or running for office.
A prime example of the persuasive ability of the Senate was in the
enactment of the Campus Coordinator fee. At our request the fee was
approved by the dean, although a non-mandatory raise in total fees
many not have been an easy or popular administrative decision.
Finally, my hope is that many concerned students will consider runn-ing
in the next election. Senate can be an effective voice, if you view its
role as a positive and necessary force on our campus—not as a negative
force constantly engaged in battling the administration.
Doors are not always as open as we sometimes wish, but an op-timistic
group of student senators can achieve much positive improve-ment
on campus as long as they have the proper view of their role—to
serve students, and enhance student life at Bethel College.
Dr. Wayne Hensley, expert of "Disciple of Christ" rhetoric.
by Holly Schmiess
Bethel's speech - communica-tion
department has been honor-ed
vicariously through honors
recently granted to chairman Dr.
Wayne Hensley and Assistant
Professor David Lee.
Both have had articles publish-ed
in the "Quarterly Journal of
Speech," a publication of the
National Speech/Communication
Association, Hensley's receiving
special -merit. Both have been
invited to discuss their research
at upcoming national speech con-ventions.
Hensley was awarded the 1977
Article of the Year Award by the
Religious Speech-Communication
Association for his analysis of the
rhetorical vision of the Disciples
of Christ.
Entitled 'Rhetorical Vision and
the Persuasion of a Historical
Movement: The Disciples of
Christ in 19th Century American
Culture," it appeared in the
October, 1975, issue of the
"Quarterly Journal of Speech."
Hensley belongs to the Disci-ples
of Christ and wanted to
clarify the history of the move-ment
in his own mind. He corn-bined
this personal interest with
doctoral studies in Speech-Corn-munication,
American Intellec-tual
History, and American Reli-gious
History at the University of
Minnesota to write his thesis on
the Disciples of Christ in 1972.
The awarded article grew out of
Hensley's doctoral thesis, and
demonstrates, through the Disci-ples
of Christ, the power of rhe-torical
vision for a movement's
persuasive efforts.
According to Hensley, rhetori-cal
vision is "how world views
guide our understanding of e-vents
and how we dramatize that
concept of reality in public state-ments."
Hensley has been invited to
share his research in the form of a
related paper, "The Death of a
J ohnson/Carlson
VP clarifies Senate role
by Mark Carbon
Rhetorical Vision: The Disciples
of Christ and Social Change" at
the national convention of Speech
-Communication in Minneapolis
in N6vember.
This and two other papers, plus
the comments of a critic-respon-dent,
will comprise a panel en-titled
"Religious Social Move-ments
as Educational Environ-ments."
Hensley's paper will emphasize
the need for a movement's rhe-torical
vision to adapt to changing
social conditions to maintain com-munication
with that society.
David Lee, who successfully
completed his preliminary written
and oral exams this month toward
a Ph.D. in organizational corn-munication,
combined the con-cept
of rhetorical vision with
empirical analysis in research of
President Carter's campaign.
Lee and several colleagues at
the University of Minnesota col-laborated
on the article, "The
Carter Persona: An Empirical
Analysis of the Rhetroical Vision
of Campaign '76," published in
the October, 1977 issue of the
"Quarterly Journal of Speech." It
examines Carter's campaign i-mage
as an example of the
success of a rhetorical vision.
Hensley and Lee are now pre-paring
a paper they will read at
the annual convention of Central
States Speech Association in Chi-cago
this April.
"Debate as Encapsulated Con-flict:
Ruled Controversy as an
Approach to Learning Conflict
Management Skills," is a devel-opment
of the theory upon which
Bethel's education-competitive
debate program is built. The
paper is one of five on a panel of
competitive papers in communi-cation
eduction.
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Events Calendar
Friday, Feb. 24 New campus rollerskating at Rosedale
(12-2 a.m.)
Bethel Band concert, 8 p.m., gym.
NAIA Indoor Track Championship at
Kansas City
Saturday, Feb. 25 Men's basketball at St. Thomas (3 p.m.)
American Harp Society concert at
Seminary Chapel (8 p.m.)
NAIA Indoor Track Championship at
Kansas City.
Sunday, Feb. 26 Harlem Globetrotters at Met Center (1:30
P.m.)
Monday, Feb. 27 Clarion writer's meeting (5 p.m.)
Film - "All the King's Horses" in FA313
(7 p.m.) •
Men's basketball at St. Mary's (7:30 p.m.)
Senior recital with Morva Thue and Bob
Storeygard at Calvary Baptist Church (8
P.m.)
Ann Louise Finholt art exhibit opens
through March 16 at Bethel Gallery
Tuesday, Feb. 28 Student Senate meeting in AC lounge (6
P.m.)
Thursday, Mar 2 "All My Sons" opening night in ex-perimental
theatre (8 p.m.)
by Holly Schmiess
Everyone knows Don Larson is
an advocate of personal and
honest communication. And
everyone knows about his wry
manner of using small incidents as
platforms for great principles.
So when he responded to a
Clarion questionnaire last fall
with a criticism of our hand-written
"Don Larson, p.o. 62," it
was naturally concluded that he
was doling out some tongue-in-cheek
'beef' about mimeograph-ed,
mass-produced surveys.
When Larson was discovered
one day at the xeroxing window
with a stack of memos, he was
cornered, a red-handed
hypocrite. But in wide-eyed in-nocence,
he seriously defended
his misunderstood suggestion that
the Clarion use xeroxed address
labels instead of wasting people-hours
handwriting names and p.o.
numbers.
"Look," he commanded as he
set his stop-watch ticking and
wrote out 'Don Larson, p.o. 62.'
"Seven seconds."
"Now think of every office in
this school that sends out piles of
inter-campus memos every day,"
he began the application.
"Multiply seven seconds times the
total number of those memos,
and at $3.25 an hour, or whatever
we pay office help, think of the
waste. Who says we're short of
money?"
Satisfied that the Clarion
survey had indeed received an
earnest reply, (however literarily
irrelevant), the reporter ended
the encounter.
Two months later, the same
reporter was phoned by Don Lar-son
and asked to meet him in the
coffeeshop to "see some material
you might be interested in." What
journalist could resist such
Woodward/Bernstein clandes-tine-
ry?
Don Larson was waiting—with
a whole stack of inter-campus
memos, all hand-addressed, in
ballpoint backhand, fountain pen
scrawl, and penciled printing.
"I've talked to several offices
higher up, and all they do is
politely smile and say 'thank
you, – he began. "Now I'm giving
the Clarion a try—do what you
want with it." Again, the
challenge to figure wasted
employment in dollars and cents.
"Now here's the alternative,"
he said, drawing rows of rec-tangles
on a sheet of typing paper.
"These are xerox-sensitive labels.
Every office here uses them. They
cost Xcents a sheet."
"At the beginning of each year,
the xerox people could type up a
list of every frequently-used
group of addressees—part-time
faculty, department chairmen,
Clarion staff, etc., etc."
He continued in punctuated
horse-sense. "Say I needed to
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for handwritten labeling technique
send something to every part-time
faculty member. I could go to the
xerox window and ask for that
list, copied onto xerox-sensitive
labels."
"Look," he commanded as he
set his stop-watch ticking, peeled
off an imaginary label, and slap-ped
it on a memo. "Three
seconds."
"But isn't that kind of a
mindless job?"
"Is copying it by hand any more
stimulating?" he reasoned.
"The Clarion could try it once,"
said the reporter cautiously after
an expectant silence.
"Oh no, not just once. It would
never pay off," he countered.
"The real dividends would come
after months on this method."
He leaned forward. "You need
to hire headline-writers but don't
have the money in your budget?"
He glanced around and lowered
his voice. "Sell labels. Every
department in the school would
buy 'em. They'd go like hot
cakes."
"Or SMP could," said the
reporter thinking of the Clarion
editor who would politely smile
and say 'thank you,' prior to
heinous laughter.
"Or SMP," Larson agreed.
The moral of this story is:
1. Don Larson is a shrewd ty-coon.
2. Bethel should use xerox-sensitive
labels.
3. Clarion reporters have close
encounters of the third kind.
Chapel Schedule
Monday - Sonday, Bethel
Gospel group
Tuesday Stuart Briscoe
Wednesday - Pastor
Spickelmier
Thursday - S.M.P.
Friday - Convocation:
Denis Goulet
by Dan Erickson
Because of my recent disenchantment of the treatment of the
student body by the administration, I resigned Monday as a stu-dent
senator and as chairman of the rules and finance commit-tee.
It was my undefstanding that the administration would look to
the Senate for student opinion in matters of great importance. I
was deluded.
The harsh facts of life which must become obvious to even the
most callous student senator are that communication between
student and administrator is nil and student input and opinion is
not actively sought.
It is apparent after these recent forums that the administration
regards the Senate merely as part of the communication chain
out to the student without any active input into decisions. The
Senate is being used to placate the student body.
I, as senator, refuse to be used by the administration to
change student opinion. My only alternative is to resign.
My disillusionment has grown in two directions. One came
about specifically as a result of the obscurantism and secrecy
behind the flat fee issue. The other, a more general souring,
came about through an emerging awareness of how isolated the
administration is from both student body and faculty.
In January, I knew as a senator that there might be a proposal
made to change the fee structure, and even that information we
were to keep strictly in confidence. We had no specifics and
were assured that there would be student input before a final
decision would be reached.
Then, right around the middle of January, at least three weeks before
it was presented to the student body, we received information from a
friend in Cambridge that the flat fee rate was being used by the publici-ty
department as the tuition structure for next year in contacts
with prospective students. The Senate called the dean's office and was
assured that this was a mistake, and that there would be student input.
On Feb. 7 in Senate,_ we were told that the fee change was an ad-ministrative
decision and for all intents and purposes the decision was
final.
The other direction my disillusionment takes is harder to put into
words.
As part of the Clarion staff I have seen how hard it is to get a straight
answer regarding things such as the sale of old campus.
A strict enrollment limit was set by the Board of Regents last year at
1825. In the fall the enrollment was 1867. The limitation was walked
over as if it didn't exist.
It is true that people my age have a basic mistrust of authority and
power, but we are especially suspicious when this authority is accom-panied
by isolation and silence. This suspicion cannot help but to have
been heightened by what we have all gone through in national politics
in recent years.
We must all realize that decisions must be made with the future in
mind; that Bethel must look to insure its tradition, scholastically, finan-cially
and otherwise.
But this must be tempered by the respect for the opinions of students
and faculty of today. This can only be accomplished through a constant
dialogue, not through rumors and memos. Perhaps this could be done
if Bethel's leaders stayed on campus more often and got to know the
students.
I am against the flat fee change. It places quite real limits on our
education flexibility here. Bethelis a liberal arts college. Perhaps we
have forgotten all the implications of that. We are to be free to grow in-to
total persons. We are to allow ourselves a variety of experiences
here.
It is hard to keep an even temper at the forum when "the model
student" is discussed. The model student it seems, always finishes in
four years. I was under the impression when I first enrolled that Bethel
treated its students as individuals in its flexible liberal arts setting.
The administration claims that the new plan will save us money. That
is laughable. They are the ones manipulating the numbers and dollar
signs. They could make the two plans cost the same if they wanted. Tui-tion
was scheduled to go up to $320 per course next year. Before the
change to $325, the new plan saved no money.
Also, any way you phrase it, the new plan still cheats the three-class
student. I am against cheating any part of the student body whether 25
per cent, 10 per cent, or one per cent. Bethel still remains proud of its
food system in which you eat whay you pay for. Why the sudden turn
around in the tuition system?
I am convinced that this change in tuition is not an isolated change.
When I started here there were 1400 students. Now there are 1860. By
1980, 2200. The larger an institution gets the more depersonalized the
students get unless that school is very careful.
All the apologies in the world do not change the fact that the ad-ministration
made a mistake in not letting the student participate in this
decision. There will be other decisions to be made in this changing in-stitution.
Let us not let them make the same mistake twice.
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Professor Don Rainbow, director of the Colorful Caravan
of Theatricals.
Briscoe, insightful author
speaks in Tuesday's chapel
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singleness of mind—for a lifetime!
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Medicine wagon theatrics begin
with casting from 65 auditioners
by Lana Weeks
Professor Rainbow's Colorful
Caravan of Theatricals bursts into
rehearsals. The troupe of seven
vagabond actors and actresses are
preparing to present melody, mir-th,
melodrama, and meditations
to audiences from. here to the
West Coast.
The medicine wagon show with
its turn of the century format will
start rolling for a six-week tour of
the Pacific Northwest June 5. The
troupe will perform in the
Dakotas, Montana, Washington,
Oregon and California.
In Fresno, Cal. , Caravan will be
highlighting the Baptist General
Conference meetings. Then the
medicine wagon travels to Col-orado,
Chicago, Michigan, and
back to the Twin Cities around
July 15.
Sixty-five students auditioned
for this year's troupe Feb. 7 and 8.
The call-back audition list of 18
was posted Feb. 9 and the finalists
had one week in which to prepare
their final audition.
The audition entailed selling a
show tune, performing any in-strumental
talent, singing a gospel
song, and claiming a promise of
God in one's life. There was an
option of singing a folk song with
guitar accompaniment or doing
anything one wished to fill the
15-minute alloted time. This
brought to the audience's atten-tion
some Flamenco dancing, oral
interpretations and even a percus-sion
exhibition.
This year's troupe, who will be
bringing the promises of God to
audiences, are Wade Anderson,
Greg Dirnberger, Rick Drake,
Beth Ekberg, Ginny Heuer, Marc
by Meg Zauner and Lana Weeks
On Monday, Feb. 13, Walker
Art Center and the Children's
Theatre presented "5 by 2
Plus"—a modern dance repertory
company out of New York.
The company presented five
works . by different
choreographers (thus the 5 in
their name) ranging from Helen
Tamiris to Merce Cunningham.
The company's artistic directors
Jane Kosminsky and Bruce
Becker (the 2) plus Carol Parker,
Dan Ezralow' and Kathryn
Komatsu interpreted the works
successfully, making for a fine
performance.
The company is strong
technically as shown by the varie-
Maillefer, Lone Vincent and Juan
Ramos, assistant director and
tour manager.
The College Relations depart-ment
is planning this year's tour.
Any church or group who would
be interested in sponsoring
Caravan should contact Jay
Caress.
ty within its program. The first,
"Celestial Circus," exhibited the
dancer proficiency at form and
body control. Although danced
well, Walker's piece was at best
mediocre.
The second work, "Negro
Spirituals" by Helen Tamiris, was
a highlight of the evening. The
work consisted of six spirituals,
differing in pace and drama. "Li'l
David Play on Your Harp" was
lighthearted comedy, while
"Crucifixion" was deeply moving
to the audience.
The work was a solo done by
company director, Bruce Becker.
This black dancer established
tremendous rapport with his au-dience
and became its special
favorite. The excellent lighting,
especially for "Crucifixion," add-ed
new dimensions to the
touching drama.
"Gallopade" by James Waring,
introduced the audience to the
entire company and showed what
fine story-tellers the artists could
be. The piece was fast-moving,
funny and adored by. the viewers.
Encounters, attitudes, and flirting
games were mimicked by the
dancers.
Merce Cunningham's "Night
Wanderings" was the major
disappointment of the evening.
Cunningham, though a well-known
choreographer, failed with
this piece. Quite simply, it was
boring. The dancers executed the
steps in fine style, but it was
nonetheless repetitious and mun-dane.
The night's final piece, "Just
Another Dance," choreographed
by Becker, energized the entire
theatre and abounded with life.
The pure joy of dancing was seen
in every movement of every
dance. It topped the evening most
satisfactorily.
Of special note were costumes
and lighting; both were calculated
to bring out the best in each
work. Only the set lacked. It was
a bare stage with a wrinkled and
poorly hung cyclorama.
"5 by 2 Plus," a technically pro-ficient
group, achieved excellent
communication with the au-dience,
a major goal of dancers
and all artists, but never allowed
this perfection in technique to
overshadow.
by Paul Olsen
D. Stuart Briscoe will speak in
Bethel's chapel service on Tues-day,
Feb. 28.
Briscoe is a noted author and a
frequent speaker at campuses and
major church conventions across
the country.
His books cover a wide variety
of Christian topics and are prac-tical
and often challenging.
He has been secretary-treasurer
and assistant general director of
the Capernwray Missionary
Fellowship of Torchbearers. He is
presently pastor of Elmbrook
Church in Brookfield, Wis.
Torchbearers was founded as
an evangelization effort to British
youth in a refurnished castle in
the United Kingdom. Much of
Briscoe's (and his wife Jill's) work
concentrated on the neglected
and feared inner-city street
culture.
"Where Was the Church When
the Youth Exploded?," by
Briscoe, deals with some insights
gained from his experiences with
British youth.
Briscoe's other works include
"Getting Into God," which gives
practical guidelines to Christian
life, "The Fullness of Christ," and
"Living Dangerously," a challenge
to daring and dynamic commit-ment.
His newest work, "All Things
Weird and Wonderful," is a com-mentary
on Ezekiel, "the
mysterious book of whirling
wheels and dry bones" which can
help in becoming "a better com-municator
to a spiritually dead
generation."
Briscoe's wife Jill spoke at
Bethel this fall and was well
received.
Howell students
perform preludes
Rachmaninoff would be pleas-ed
that his 24 preludes for piano
are going to be performed by 14
artist students of Dr. Gordon
Howell, Bethel College professor
of music, at the Seminary chapel
Tuesday, February 28, 8 p.m.
Rachmaninoff—noted Russian
conductor, composer, and
sovereign pianist—resented the
fact that the world favored his C
sharp minor prelude while neglec-ting
his other works which he
considered far superior. The
preludes, composed from 1892 to
1910, are strikingly individual in
their thematic ideas and luxuriant
in their structural development.
"Study of these preludes has
been a fascinating experience for
me," Professor Howell says, "and
I am pleased that my students
have been willing to work for a
year to get them ready for perfor-mance."
The public is invited to the con-cert
without charge.
—"5 by 2 Plus" reviewed
Dancers energize theatre
with five major works
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convocations.
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contribution to Walker Arts Center
by Dave Terpstra
Some may recall the presence
of Dr. Richard Ward at Bethel.
He taught ancient world history
here for several years.
This spring, he has returned to
teach History of the Classical
Age.
He is now working for Ramsey
County in the tax department. In
addition, the University of Min-nesota
has engaged him in a
project to translate Babylonian-
Assyrian documents which are
written in word-signs.
When asked of the intentions of
the translation, Dr. Ward replied
that the translation itself is not
the important goal, rather the
revelation of "the socio-economic
ways of life around the years
2000-1600 B.C."
The documents he is studying
are records of real estate sales.
While this may not seem like
much data to go on, Dr. Ward
insists, there are many indicators
within the preserved records.
For instance, he is able to
estimate the average size of
homes and fields and what was
necessary to keep them going. He
is able to judge the many types of
buyers and the prices they had to
pay for their property.
He is also able to figure out the
kinds of witnesses who signed
these records, thereby knowing
something of the civilization that
existed long ago.
In other words, they reveal the
socio-economic behavior and ac-tions
of the Abrahamic era.
The process of analyzing the
data is transliteration, not direct
translation of the material. The
difference is that the Babylonian-
Assyrian documents are repre-sented
in another language other
than English—Akkadian.
Dr. Ward's specialty is Akka-dian.
Translated this way, the
documents, retain much of their
literal meaning.
There is a definite significance
in this to Christians and other
closely related religious groups
from that area. It will reaffirm
what scholars have been sug-gesting
for some time.
Dr. Ward received his doc-torate
in ancient history at the U
of M and has taught at the
University of Chicago.
He has achieved a high record
of respect in his field among his
old (and new) colleagues at
Bethel and other institutions
across the Midwest. He will be a
welcome addition to the Bethel
faculty.
by Al Arasim
Seeing a poetry reading at
Walker Art Center is a lot like
Russian Roulette: either sheer
delight or grave disappointment.
Thankfully, last Saturday's ses-sion
with Robert Creeley was a
generous portion of the former.
Considered by many to be the
foremost poet of the post-WWII
era, Creeley is a fiftyish, ec-centric,
sprite of a man with smil-ing
Irish eyes. Born in Arlington,
Mass., he attended Harvard, and
received his B.A. and M.A.
degrees from Black Mountain
College in North Carolina and the
University of New Mexico.
Having taught at Black Moun-tain
and several other colleges, he
is currently on the faculty of the
State University of New York at
Buffalo and is a visiting professor
at the University of New Mexico.
His major works are "The
Island," "For Love," "Pieces," "A
Day Book," and "Selected
Poems," which was recently
published by Scribner's.
Creeley's poems are works of
great warmth, immediately
likable. Completely rejecting
pomposity and sagacious
observations, he offers an
unassuming intimacy: "Pictures of
time, /smoke, /faintness, /still the
dream."
Recounting instantaneous flights
of emotion as if slowed down and
viewed through a microscope: "It
is hard going to the door/cut so
small in the wall/the vision which
echoes loneliness/brings a scent
of wild flowers in a wood;" sur-rounds
himself (and his audience)
with a situation, rather than
Morva Thue and
Bob Storeygard
in senior recital
Morva Thue from Worthington
and Bob Storeygard from Min-neapolis
will be presenting their
senior recital Monday evening,
Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. at Calvary Bap-tist
Church. Morva is a senior
organ major and is studying with
Jean Christian. Bob is a senior
voice major and is studying with
Oliver Mogck.
Composers on the program in-clude
Bach, Handel, Mendels-sohn,
Schubert, Schumann,
Wagner, Bingham, Duke, and
Barber. The composition by
Barber is a feature-length work
for voice and string quartet.
The music department extends
an invitation to the Bethel com-munity
to attend this recital and
also the reception following.
There is no admission charge.
merely entering and then leaving
it.
What he conjures, then, is
often a submissive scrutiny:
"What/has happened/makes/the
world. Live/on the edge/look-ing."
Often minute, but not
insignificant, it contains a kind of
commonplace mysticism.
Such as, in "Fancy," wherein
he asks, "Do you know what/the
truth is" and answers, "In a
by David Shelley
Tickets for the Bethel Choir's
performance of "The Messiah" at
Orchestra Hall on April 2 are now
on sale.
This "homecoming" concert
will follow the choir's 11-day tour
of Florida on which the choir will
perform most of the music from
all three sections of Handel's
popular oratorio.
Accompanying the choir will
be a baroque chamber orchestra
from Bethel. Soloists will be
soprano Jennifer Woods, Bethel
senior; alto Beth Ekberg,
sophomore; tenor Paul Neslund,
a professional musician from the
Twin Cities; and bass Gerard
Sundberg, a Bethel graduate and
voice instructor.
Dr. Robert Berglund, conduc-tor,
describes "The Messiah" as
"extremely dramatic and moving
by virtue of its scriptural content
and the musical genius of Handel
place/I was sitting,/and there/it
was, a little/faint thing/hardly
felt, a/kind of small/nothing." It
is a highly sensual, intensely per-sonal
effect.
"Not wise enough yet to know
you're only here at all
as the wind blows, now
as the fire burns low."
—from "The Children,"
Robert Creeley
(who composed the entire work in
24 days)."
The oratorio's first section
quotes Old Testament Messianic
prophecy and its fulfillment in the
birth of Christ. Part two covers
the victorious death of Christ,
completed in the famous
"Hallelujah" chorus. Part three
expresses Christ's resurrection
and the eventual resurrection of
the saints to sing "Worthy is the
Lamb."
Tickets at a special student
price of $1.50 are available at the
Campus Coordinators' office. The
earlier the tickets are bought, the
better the seating, from a visual
standpoint, though the sound is
good throughout the auditorium.
The choir's homecoming con-cert
last year drew an audience of
over 2000 to Orchestra Hall which
is considered to be one of the
finest acoustically constructed
concert halls in the world.
Tickets on sale for choir's
Orchestra Hall concert
Page 6
Cindy Ramm launches another shot against St. Thomas.
New discipline pioneer
to address convocation
Curiosity foreruns chagrin:
sophomore ponders fate of razors
by. Paul Olsen
Dr. Denis Goulet, a pioneer in
the new discipline the ethics of
development, will address a Be-thel
convocation on Friday,
March 3.
In the first of a two day
symposium on economics, Goulet
will speak on a topic concerning
ethical strategies in global de-velopment.
Goulet's general field of in-terest
is the ethics of develop-ment—
a normative synthesis of
development's troubling ques-tions.
His specific interest is the
economic development of Third
World nations.
According to Goulet (a devout
Catholic), development must be
guided by the Christian's view of
the kingdom of God. He believes
the present division of world
economics is unjust, and it is a
Christian's duty to achieve a just
society.
He says, "God's kingdom is
here very imperfectly, very pre-cariously,
but here in a very real
way. We must be responsive to
the kingdom."
Goulet's goals for the present
kingdom of God include material
equity among nations to abolish
misery, endemic diseases, and
hopelessness. The ideal is not just
world peace, but world justice.
Goulet's ideas spring from a
rich background in philosophy
and political science.
He has a B.A. and an M.A. in
philosophy and a Masters in
social planning. He also earned a
Ph. D. in political science from
the University of Sao Paulo in
Brazil.
He has studied and done
apprenticeships in France, Spain,
Algeria, Lebanon, Argentina, and
four other South American coun-tries.
To gain experience first hand,
Goulet has been a manual worker
in settings of poverty, both rural
and urban. He has also served on
planning teams of national go-vernments
and done much study
in universities and research insti-tutes
across the world.
Goulet's present involvement is
in writing and acting as consul-tant
for the Overseas Develop-ment
Council.
His address on Friday will be
followed on March 14, by a
presentation by Dr. Walter Heller
from the U. of M.
Heller's topic will be, "The
State of the Economy: Analysis
and Proposals."
by Shelly Nielsen
Curiosity killed the cat. What
happens to nosy sophomores?
Within a typical room in an
ordinary dorm is a very plain
bathroom. It is equipped with the
usual, functional medicine cab-inet.
What lies behind the swing-ing
mirror is what produces my
mental torture: a razor blade slot.
Some still evenings I stand on a
grimy bathroom floor thought-by
Steve Erickson
Carrying only five wrestlers,
Bethel finished eighth in the
MIAC Wrestling Meet at
Moorhead last Saturday.
Augsburg took first in the highly
contested meet by winning six of
the ten weight classes.
Bethel's Gary Peterson finished
second in the heavyweight divi-sion
behind three-time champion
Barry Bennett of Concordia who
decisioned Peterson 10-0 in the
finals. Peterson is the only MIAC
wrestler that has escaped Ben-nett's
pin this season. After
receiving the bye in the first
round, Peterson pinned his first
opponent at 6:03.
Although no other Royal
wrestlers finished in the top four,
freshmen Greg Heinsch and Gary
Almquist and sophomore Lonnie
Holmgren wrestled well, each win-ning
one match.
"I wasn't disappointed. Our
guys looked respectable. They
wrestled aggressively," said
Coach Dave Klostreich.
Holmgren won his initial match
in the 167 division, beating
number one seed, Mike Quast
4-1. He then lost to the eventual
runnerup, Mark Heitkamp of St.
Thomas, 11-1.
In the 157 pound weightclass,
Almquist had tough luck, facing
both the defending 150 and 158
pound champions. He lost to
both, but in between he defeated
Tim Sorenson of Gustavus, who
defaulted during the match
because of injury.
150 pounder Heinsch was deci-sioned
in his first match before
coming back and whipping Gary
Braun of Gustavus 10-2. In a
close final contest, Heinsch lost
to a St. John's wrestler 4-2 on a
takedown in the final minute.
"Next year we hope to be more
respectable. We have a good
nucleus of guys returning," said
Coach Klostreich. Besides
Holmgren, Heinsch and Alm-quist,
that includes Dave Fuller
and injured wrestlers Barrett
Holmgren and Scott Martin.
Peterson qualified for the
NAIA nationals. This year's na-fully
brushing my teeth. In an
instant the old sensation of burn-ing
inquisitiveness attacks. From
between grinding teeth comes the
audible, half-hysterical hiss,
"What's behind that slot?"
Suddenly I am overwhelmed by
a mad desire to claw at the metal
chest, to clutch a nail file and pry
the cabinet violently from the
wall, to dig wildly with frantic
fingernails until I discover what
hides behind that label.
tionals will be held at Whitewater,
Wis., March 1-4. For the year,
Peterson's record was 15-5, the
team's only winning one.
The final meet results were:
Augsburg 921/2, St. Thomas 73,
Concordia 521/2, St. Olaf 33,
Hamline 261/2 , St. John's 26,
Gustavus 17, Bethel 121/2, St.
Mary's 10.
Hersch sets new
half-mile indoor
track record
by Laura Woodruff
On Saturday, Feb. 18, four
members of Bethel's women's
track team participated in the
Northwest Open meet at the
University of Minnesota.
Both Lynn Swenson and Tami
McQuoid competed in the
60-yard dash. Brenda Harris ran
the mile and the half-mile.
Bobbi Hersch set a new Bethel
indoor record in the half-mile
with an unofficial time of 2:29.1
Bethel did not place in any of
these events.
by Betty Logan
Women's basketball team
finished with a winning season
this year, but its last game was a
disappointing 67-51 loss to St.
Thomas at the District Tourna-ment
last week,
"We could get the ball up, but
not into the basket," said Coach
Kathy Nevins about the low field
goal percentage. The free throw
percentage was 62 per cent, but
Bethel only made it to the line
seven times.
Unable to play was freshman
Joann Griffin, starting center for
the team. Besides missing the skill
of Griffin, Coach Nevins said,
"Joann's absence made a dif-
"When did it all begin," my
racing brain asks. Did a seminary
student of '42 remove an un-christian
chin growth before his 8
a.m. Greek course and drop the
first corroded blade?
How many thousands, what
astronomical numbers, followed
his down the mysterious chute?
Most important, where have they
been going for the past three
decades? To a basement level no
domitory resident has yet been
allowed to see or even know
about? Why has this been kept so
hush-hush?
Suppose, I reasoned, some
corporation gathers rusty razor
blades below with the shrewd
scheme of recycling them for
resale. (If I uncover their secret
would I get a cut of the profits?)
This is but one example of an
eternal petty snoopiness. My
unnatural preoccupation with the
mysterious has other times led
me down the path to chagrin and
frustration. No one but the overly-inquisitive
would demand to hear
acquaintances' innermost
thoughts even though realizing
they will be painful to hear.
"Well, Shelly, if you must
know, I think you're a prying,
ignorant, useless creep. Sorry, I
didn't want you to know." As a
result of this maddening pro-neness
to research what isn't any
of my business, I get my feelings
hurt at regular, frequent in-tervals.
This quirk also often leads to
embarrassment. What can be
said about an individual who feels
the compulsion to open closed
doors even when they are con-spicuously
labeled "MEN"?
There exists no plausible excuse
to give an unknown upperclass-man
when asked why you were
looking in his P.O.
Not only is curiosity annihi-lating
cats; it's getting one
snoopy college student into a lot
of trouble.
ference in the way the other girls
played." The team couldn't get
their fast-break game going.
Another disappointing factor in
the game was the disputable fouls
called on the Royals. Tommie
Coach Tom Kosel said, "The calls
hurt Bethel, and , you hate to see
that, but there's nothing you can
do about it." The game's high
scorers were Cindy Martin and
Cheryl Luiken, both with 10
points.
Coach Nevins says she's looking
forward to putting things together
next season. She is pleased with
the 11 win-7 loss finish of the
team. Of this year's starters, two
will be graduating: Gail Anderson
and Cindy Martin.
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Peterson shines in MIAC
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The Bethel Hockey club battles with Hamline in a recent match.
Blanchard leads Royals to victory
in 54-46 thrashing over Hamline
Senior Dave Clapp sets new Bethel record in 1000-yard
run.
Anticipate varsity status
Hockey club battles finances,
MIAC teams, in first year
by Carol Madison
Hockey has held the interest of
a few students off and on for the
past 15 years, but this is the first
year that the supposedly number
one sport in the state of Min-nesota
has gotten a strong
foothold as a part of the extra-curricular
activities of Bethel.
Some of the newly sparked in-terest
can be attributed to Dr.
Thomas Correll, faculty advisor
of the club, who is often referred
to as "chief of hockey opera-tions."
Correll, who came to
Bethel from Canada in 1971, has
always had an interest in hockey,
and an added incentive for him is
that his two sons, Tom and
Gregg, are on the team.
"It is our goal that hockey
become a vital part of Bethel's
athletic program," said Correll.
"We want to generate the pro-gram
in a positive set of cir-cumstances."
David Harris, a Christian
businessman from Fridley, is the
coach of the team. He has had ex-perience
in the organization. of
hockey, and has been involved in
the Minor Hockey Association in
Fridley.
The hockey club is not a varsity
team at Bethel, and therefore is
not a part of the budgeting pro-cess.
The -club has had to raise its
own funds this year, and will con-tinue
to do so next year.
Student Senate 'gave the club
$500 at the start of the year,
which went toward new uniforms.
The team has to pay approximate-ly
$50 per hour for ice time, so
funds have had to come from
other sources also.
Individual donations, some
from alumni and contacts in the
community, account for a large
portion of the support. Bake
sales, button sales, and a roller
skating party have added money
to the fund.
Thirteen home games are plan-ned
for Columbia Arena next
year, and the cost of each game
will be substantially more. Each
unit will be about $280, so the
team will have to charge admis-sion,
which is also a policy of the
hockey teams in the MIAC. The
team will have to continue with its
fund-raising program next year.
The hockey club has no
recruiting program. It is instead
made up of good players who
happened to be at Bethel and
were interested in playing. The
team has a nucleus of strong
players who could play on the
larger MIAC varsity teams. Next
year will be well-planned, with a
wide variety of competition. The
schedule will include at least one
game with each of the varsity
teams of the MIAC.
The hockey team club took a
major step forward this year, and
anticipate another giant step next
year.
by Greg Kuntz
The Bethel cagers scored seven
unanswered points inside the last
minute and posted a 54-46
homecourt victory over the
Hamline Pipers Saturday night.
This win avenges in earlier loss
to Hamline. Guard Dave Blan-chard
led the Royals with 17
points and Hamline's Ed Cassidy
poured in 16.
After trailing by five at the half,
Bethel outscored the visitors
36-23 in the second half. The
Royals dominated the boards,
outrebounding the Pipers 32-19,
with "Sugar Ray" Miller pulling
down nine.
Despite outfouling Hamline as
a team 17-14, Bethel hit 10 of 12
free throws, while the Pipers
made six of 10. Most of the
Royals were made in one and one
situations in the second half when
their offense was really clicking.
"We were penetrating down the
middle which opened up a
number of shots and got Hamline
in foul trouble," said Bethel Assis-tant
Coach Wendell Carlson.
Actually, the Royals were
beginning to get into foul trouble
in the first half, and had a slow of-fensive
start, trailing 8-2 five
minutes into the contest.
Hamline then went into their
four-corner offense (which
caught the Royals when the two
teams met before), but the Bethel
defense stayed alert and Miller
tied the score at 12 with seven
minutes to play in the first half.
Hamline creeped ahead and held
on to the lead until intermission.
The Royals kept their poise in
the second half as Blanchard pop-ped
two quick buckets, and the
hosts took the lead for the first
time when center Scott Wilson hit
a turn around jumper on an assist
from Blanchard.
The Royals proceeded to catch
on fire when Curt Oslin scored
after a steal and Blanchard con-verted
a three-point play on a fast
break. When the smoke cleared
the Royals were up by twelve,
39-27.
The Pipers roared back and
threatened the Royals when
Cassidy tied it at 41-all on a 20
foot jumper with 5:30 to play.
Things stayed pretty tense the rest
of the time as the Royals led by
only one with two minutes left.
Miller's foul at the 1:30 mark
darkened the scene momentarily
for Bethel. But then the Pipers
were called for three seconds in
the lane, and namline guard Dave
Dimich traveled with 40 seconds
left, when the Royals had a three
by G.W. Smith
Crossing the finish line at
2:13.5, junior Dave Clapp claim-ed
first place in the 1000-yd. run
and set a new Bethel record in the
Northwest Open, held last Satur-day
at the University of Min-nesota.
Clapp, Curt . Brown and Nate
Allen qualified for N.A.I.A. na-tional
competition to be held to-day
and tomorrow in Kansas City.
Both Brown and Clapp com-peted
there last year and will
enter that meet as veteran runners
and in good shape, according to
Leighton Betz, assistant track
coach.
"We're hoping they'll get in the
finals," said Coach Betz. "They
have a good chance to place."
At the Northwest Open, Brown
ran 1:14.3 in the 600-yd. run to
finish sixth. Allen finished fifth in
point lead, to ice the victory for
Bethel. Oslin's uncontested lay-up
with 24 seconds left put the ic-ing
on the cake.
"We almost gave it away, but
we hung in there," said Carlson.
The Royals travel to St.
Thomas tomorrow afternoon to
take on the Tommies, who upset
St. John's in overtime last Satur-day,
and go to Winona to face St.
Mary's Monday night.
Bethel will try to avenge an
earlier loss to Macalester on
Thursday, March 2 at home, and
close out the regular season at
home March 4 against St. Thomas
at 3 p.m.
the 60-yd. dash and had qualified
for the finals in the 300-yd. run
before suffering a pulled muscle.
In the shot put, Steve Carrigan
set an indoor record of 46'3'A"
but failed to qualify for finals.
John Van Loon marked 40'5" in
the triple jump and Jim Timp
ran the mile in 4:24.6 to round out
the field for the Royals.
According to Head Coach
Gene Glader, "To place in that
meet is a real accomplishment."
Clapp and Brown are the only two
Royals who have notched vic-tories
in the Northwest Open.
Last year Brown won the 600-yd.
run.
"The showing of Bethel kids the
last two years has really been very
satisfying," said Glader. Of the
many private schools in the meet,
Bethel was one of three with a
first place winner.
Clapp, Brown, Allen
qualify for nationals
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