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NOV 4 1977 Old campus sale rumors refuted by Bruce Olsen Bethel's old campus has not been sold. Many of the rumors that have been circulating about the supposed sale of old campus are erroneous. The true facts in this case are that Bethel is asking $1.95 million for the purchase of old campus. On the other hand, the govern-ment is only offering Bethel $1.65 million. This $300,000 difference is what is keeping Bethel from selling the Snelling Ave. campus. It all started last week (Thurs-day, Oct. 27) in an article printed by the St. Paul Pionee'r Press reporting the sale of old campus to the United States Department of Labor. The reporter covered accurately statements made by St. Paul Mayor George Latimer, but failed to report Bethel's side of the issue. One Bethel official felt the false reports printed in the Pioneer Press on the sale could possibly have been meant as tactics to in-timidate Bethel into a premature agreement on the government's terms. The Labor Department would use Bethel's old campus as a job corps training center. The center is proposed to house 400 young people between the ages of 16-21 and train them for lifetime voca-tion. Students would not be permitted to have cars on campus and would have to secure passes to go off campus. The $1.95 million price tag was set on old campus by the board of trustees of the Baptist General Conference. The original apprais-al of the campus was $3.6 million, so the board of trustees are re-commending a figure that is much lower than what the Snelling Ave. campus is actually worth. The $1.65 million offer by the govern-ment is considered by some Be-thel officials as a slap in the face. "We want to sell old campus, but we don't want to give it away," said Rev. Norman Ander-son, chairman of the board of re-gents. Anderson's viewpoint typi-fies the sentiments of Bethel of-ficials in regards to the govern-ment's offer. The negotiators for the govern-ment have apparently gone back to Washington D.C. since the sale of old campus has hit a roadblock. As to when negotiations will resume is not known, nor has a deadline been placed on the purchase. The use of old campus as the site for the training center must be approved by Minnesota Gover-nor Rudy Perpich by Nov. 17. If Perpich disapproves of the plan, the Labor Department will not pursue purchase of the site. His approval will place pressure on the negotiators to reconsider their original offer to Bethel. Old campus has been for sale since 1967 when plans to build on the Arden Hills site became final. If the Snelling Ave. campus is sold, five dormitories would be constructed on the Arden Hills campus before next year. Pre-sently two dormitories are being planned for construction for the next school year. 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 publication THE CLARION Bethel College Volume 53 Number 8 November 4, 1977 Snelling Avenue campus neighbors concerned re sale While taking a stroll along Lake Valentine at dusk, one might capture the beauty of a sunset like this one. The serenity of the sight is enhanced by the Indian summer of the past days. by Holly Schmiess Families around old campus are uncomfortable with the pro-spect of a federally-subsidized employment center for juveniles in their neighborhood. Through the Como District 10 Community Council and its aggressive chair-man Barrett Colombo, they're out to nip the project in the bud. The latest attempt .was to dis-suade Governor Perpich from approving old campus as a site for the Job Corps center. Perpich must concur with St. Paul Mayor George Latimer's backing of the center by Nov. 17, or the plan will die and with it Bethel's possible sale to the federal government. Colombo said the governor's rubber stamp would exert pres-sure on Bethel to sell and on the Labor Department to buy. He met with Perpich Tuesday to propose alternative sites for the training center. "The training center is a good idea, but Bethel's campus is not the place for it," said Colombo. "There is a lot of other federal-ly- owned surplus land in the area that could be used." Some of the community's ob-jections are on legal grounds. The St. Paul City Council will soon de-cide whether zoning laws permit the federal institution which will be managed for a profit. Bethel qualified for occupation of the site because it was non-profit based. Colombo emphasized that Ma-yor Latimer approved the project prematurely and failed to look into his city's zoning regulations before speaking out. Other objections are personal. The Labor Department's promise of strict regimen of the center and its 400-plus occupants is little comfort to Colombo. "We feel it will have a serious impact on our way of life because there is no buffer zone around the campus site," Colombo said. He was disturbed to learn that stu-dents would come and go from the center everyday as they held jobs in the community, and not be confined to the extent implied at first by the Labor Department. An anti-project flyer and peti-tion circulating in the old campus neighborhood place enrollment prospects as high as 1200 though the Labor Department estimates 400 occupants. "The point the community is making," said Colombo, "is that once they're there, we have no control over what it becomes. If they find they're not making a profit with just 400, they have space to admit many more." Colombo said the community has had problems finding out what the facts are, first hearing old campus was sold, then learn-ing it was not. He regrets the lack of communication between Bethel and the community around old campus. "I have placed calls to Bethel's president and the director of community relations, but those calls haven't been returned," Colombo said. The community assumes the spirit of the sale has been completed and only the price lacks agreement. "The feeling of the community is this," Colombo summarized. "Bethel wants their money. They want to sell old campus to whoever can pay the highest price, and don't really care about the reaction of the people in the surrounding community." On the inside... Joining a sorority here ain't easy, page 3 Bethel's teachers don't just appear, page 5 `Tartuffe' will be a laughing matter, page 6 Oles crush gridders in Northfield, page 8 Letters to the editor Driver replies to weaknesses in bus system Dear editor, In response to last week's letter concerning bussing, I would like to say "Thank You." Thank you for bringing into light another one of Bethel's many negative as-pects. After all, isn't that what the letters to the editor section is all about? Maybe we have been disillu-sioned all of these years. Maybe the phrase we all love should be changed to "Bethel is problems." I will admit that pe bus system has its problems. No ser-vice of this nature can be prob-lem- free. However, I feel it is necessary to clarify some of the problems discussed in last week's letter. The statement which read, "...Bethel does not want to put the time or money to improve the bus system.." really hurt. I could mention that the budget for last year's bussing program came out to $36,670 and that this year's proposed budget reached $42,050. But, I won't. Obviously, the problems with bussing cannot be solved by writing letters to the editor. On the other hand, this responsibility should not be placed upon the drivers' shoulders. After all, any-one who would generally leave early, forget to stop at Rosedale, drive past people at Har Mar, and run the busses into the ground could never be trusted with such a responsibility. Therefore, I would like to make a few suggestions. (1) Be a few minutes early. A retired Bethel professor once quoted Jude 3:7 saying, "It is better to have walked and waited than to have run and missed." (2) Please don't ask the driver to pick you up at Rosedale if you are not going to be there. The only people who enjoy going into Rosedale are those who are getting off there. (3) Remember that even the Bethel busses have breakdowns. In most cases, it is impossible to get a replacement bus before the next scheduled run. In these cases, the student must find it in his or her heart to forgive the drivers, the coordinators, and the whole bussing system for the in-convenience he or she has suf-fered. In conclusion, I would like to apologize for the problems that have come up this year. Hope-fully, with student cooperation, most of these problems will be ironed out. Sincerely, Dale E. Johnson There will be a writer's meeting for all those inter-ested in writing for the Clarion at 5 p.m. on Mon-day, Nov. 7 in FA 425. CHAPEL SCHEDULE Monday—The Chords Tuesday—Jill Briscoe— 'There's a Snake in My Garden" Wednesday—Pastor Spick-elmier—" Elusive Inti-macy" Thursday—Convocation- Richard Pierard Friday— TBA Motives questioned on confusion over sale Upon learning from the St. Paul Pioneer Press that old campus had been sold, we felt deceived because Bethel students and news services did not hear the news first. Then we heard from Bethel officials that it had not been sold, and we still felt deceived—this time because our side had not even been consulted. In straightening out these reports, we could not help but speculate on the following motives. Our first impression was that the writer for the Press was trying to get the scoop and jumped the gun on this important issue. His pre-mature reporting of the sale would have scooped rival newspapers if the information received was totally true. We then came to the conclusion that perhaps Mayor George Latimer of St. Paul was attempting to earn a few campaign points by revealing this information prematurely. By reporting such a purchase, it would make him look like he was taking great strides to improve the plight of the unemployed of St. Paul. It might mean a few votes in the next elec-tion. But after hearing about the neighborhood's dissatisfaction with the whole idea, we felt there must be another motive behind releasing this false information. It was suggested to us that perhaps the government released this information to pressure Bethel into selling the old campus property at a lower price. By printing this article, it would make Bethel look as if they were reneging on a former promise, thus giving Bethel the appearance of a school which cannot keep promises. In other words, it would dull our reputation as being a fair and honest Christian college. If this be the case, then we would endorse a Bethel holdout in order to obtain the $1.95 million figure. For the government to attempt to intimidate Bethel officials into selling at the $1.65 million price by printing false information in the city paper is a definite cheap shot by the government. We are delighted to hear that Bethel will not fold under such pressure. Besides that, what is $300,000 for the government? Year after year the government spends billions of dollars on defense by constructing elaborate missile sites and various sorts of bombs. And yet the govern-ment is haggling over $300,000 with a small Christian college. To us the idea is simply ridiculous. We do not feel that Bethel's figure of $1.95 million is the least bit unreasonable. When one considers the fact that old campus has been appraised at $3.6 million, it is hard to imagine someone not willing to accept nearly half that price as a final offer. Officials overly cautious "No news is good news," said someone who apparently had no interest in journalism, or in getting a story straight for that matter. Sorry to say, too many news sources at Bethel adopt this adage and make themselves vulnerable to the kind of misinformation and one-sided reporting in the Pioneer Press article about old campus sale last Friday. Bethel should have immediately released a refutation. In fact, publicity director Florence Johnson wanted to do so, but was advised not to by overly-cautious officials who were concerned about offending Mayor Latimer (who should have been confronted if indeed he didn't know what he was talking about). Barrett Colombo, spokesmen for objecting residents around old campus, upbraided Latimer for not consulting the zoning laws of his own city before approving a project that may very well violate those laws. Perhaps Mayor Latimer needs to have someone say, "Now wait a minute, sir!" Why couldn't Bethel have done that, out of civic duty, if not out of journalistic integrity? Another fear seems to paralyze sources of information upon which Bethel's news services depend: that of telling a story in progress. Clarion reporters have often returned with empty notepads, saying, "He says they're just thinking about it," or "They're just talking about it." Or in this case, "They're just negotiating it." Implying there's nothing to say until it's all cut and dried, sewn up, in the bag, and ready to record indelibly. But that's history, not news. People are more interested in knowing what's going on than in what went on. Reticence to share news-in-the-- making shows either a misunderstanding of what is worthy reporting or a misplaced emphasis on finality rather than on progress. If Bethel was offended at not having its side of the negotiations consulted by Pioneer Press, then initiative in telling our side, even if after-the-fact, would be a logical step to take. Instead, our publicity director and the Clarion staff have had to do the toughest investigative reporting on an issue to date this year. That's good for us, but it seems wry to enjoy the thrill of "breaking" a story when the news sources are right here on campus, and the issue is as close to students as their own dormitory rooms. Let's not even mention the residents around old campus, for whom we wash windows each year to prove we care. Risk and trust are two sides of a coin. You have to spend them to get anything in return. To all potential sources of information at Bethel, the Clarion promises to give fair returns. That's our job. But we need your revenue to work. Bethel's image is too important to let people derive from a between-the-lines perusal of outside publicity. If we don't speak up for us, who will? Page 2 Creative faculty publish works by Terri Hanson The joy of accomplishment is worth the pain of creativity ac-cording to several Bethel faculty members concerning their pub-lished works. For example, Florence John-son, the director of publicity for Bethel, has recently written two articles to be published this fall. One, an interview with Elizabeth Elliot will appear in the November issue of The Christian Herald and the other, "Waiting in Line to See King Tut," in the fall bulletin of Field Museum. Although Mrs. Johnson has written numerous publicity arti-cles for Bethel, this is the first time she has ever done any creative writing on her own. She got the idea of doing some creative writing from an exposi-tory writing class she took at Macalester College. Mrs. Johnson does not see herself as a writer, but rather a publicist. "A writer is someone who's really arrived. I'm still learning," she said. Mrs. Alvera Mickelsen, who says she teaches as a hobby and writes as a profession, has just finished writing a children's Bible encyclopedia that will be publish-ed this June by David C. Cook. She has also co-authored (with her husband) "Better Bible Study," a book being used by one of the first level Bible courses. Lorraine Eitel said she hasn't been able to do much writing lately because she's been helping Mrs. Mickelsen write her child-ren's Bible encyclopedia. How-ever, she has written several articles for The Standard, some of which have been reprinted by other magazines, and a chapter in a scholarly book on teaching rhetoric. Tom Correll is in the process of completing three books. One book, on the Eskimos, has already been printed (in part) in a Canadian government paper and as a chapter in the book, "Re-thinking Modernization." He is also working on a book about kinships. This is his first attempt in writing to unify kin-ship, community and Christian-ity. From the political science de-partment, William Johnson, along with John Harrington, has written a book about the metro-politan council, that will be pub-lished by the University of Min-nesota this spring. Because of his knowledge in the political science field, Millard Erickson from the Bethel Seminary asked Mr. John-son to write several articles for the Tyndale Press Family Bible Encylopedia. The encyclopedia deals not only in the Biblical, but several con-temporary issues as well. Mr. Johnson has written articles for it concerning government, interna-tional relations and capitalism. Other Bethel faculty writers include: John Piper whose "Is Self-Love Biblical?" article ap-peared in Christianity Today; Dr. Don Larson who uses his book "Bi-Passing" as a text for his Man, Language and Culture class; and Eugene Glader (inter-viewed earlier by the Clarion) who wrote "History of Amateur-ism: It's History and Philoso-phy." Perhaps Florence Johnson summed it up best when she said, "Writing is hard work. It's scary to look at a blank piece of paper, but somehow it is all worth it when the paper lies finished before you." Swanson lives through odds in Ecuador by Thangi Chhangte Jeff Swanson has survived spinal meningitis with minimal medical treatment. His father, a medical doctor, treated him with antibiotics and penicillin until help arrived. They were stuck in a remote village in the Amazon jungle. Jeff, a 5'10" blonde, trans-ferred from Westmont College, Cal. for this semester. He is a ju-nior and commutes from Rich-field. Dr. Wallace Swanson and his two oldest sons went to Saasaim, a village in east Ecuador, to determine the health needs of the Atshuara Indians. Shortly after their arrival, Jeff came down with a headache and a sore throat. His father gave him antibiotics since there were no other medical facilities nearby. Twenty-four hours later, Jeff was well enough to go hunting with his brother and the Indians. Thinking that all was well, Jeff went ahead with his work the next day. He suddenly had a severe headache while taking a blood sample. "I have never had such a terrible headache," Jeff recalled. Dr. Swanson diagnosed the case as bacterial meningitis but was unable to confirm it. Even though the disease was treated early, Jeff's life was still in danger because they were run-ning out of medical supplies. The nearest radio-station was three days away, on foot. Their airplane was not scheduled to arrive for the next four days. Jeff's father divided up the medication to make it last three more days, so Jeff received only half the required dosage. Dr. Swanson also gave his son peni-cillin injections. Besides the fever and the headache, Jeff had a stiff neck. He was also slightly disori-ented. "I could feel the hand of God acting directly," Jeff said thoughtfully. He said this be-cause of the unusual circumstan-ces. First of all, his father decided to go with them on the spur of the moment. And he also brought extra antibiotics and injectible penicillin, something he doesn't usually do. It was a miracle too that the plane arrived on time. After a gruelling seven-hour trip, Jeff arrived at the hospital in by James Wiegner Quito, Ecuador. He had a spinal Speaker and author Jill Briscoe tap for two days and was treated will bring her wit and wisdom to with massive doses of antibiotics Bethel on Tuesday, Nov. 8. during his ten-day stay at the In the morning convocation ser-mission hospital. vice, Mrs. Briscoe will speak on Jeff lost 18 pounds but he did the topic "There is a Snake in My not lose his life. He said that the Garden." incident made him much more She has authored two popular aware of His presence. books on women entitled "There The Swansons have been living is a Snake in My Garden" and in Ecuador since 1961. Dr. Swan- "Prime Rib And Apple." Both books son was the director for the are in the bookstore. A third book medical department of the HCJB will be published soon. radio-station. They will be return- Mrs. Briscoe was born in Liver-ing to Ecuador in December, pool, England, and graduated along with their two youngest from Homerton College, Cam-children. Jeff's sister Lori is a bridge, England. She taught in freshman at Bethel. His older the public schools for three years brother goes to Luther Seminary. and worked as director of a youth Jeff will be returning to West- club and nursery school for ten mont at the end of this semester. years. by Janice Livingstoned Seagull (3.) Learn the GAMMA ALPHA and Elizabeth Barrett Burnout GAMMA sorority song "I Enjoy Being A Girl," and the GAMMA Unfulfilled funseeking fillies, ALPHA GAMMA cheer; fruitlessly flit no more! Bethel's Your ladies may be foxy, (whoo) first sorority, GAMMA ALPHA But GAMMA girls are so smooth GAMMA (gag), will hold its When you're trucking with our Pledge Week Nov. 7 through 11. fillies To qualify for consideration, Everything's...Frisky. pledges must meet the following requirements: (4.) During Pledge Week one (1.) Develop the ability to recite must never be seen eating any- " Bethel is people" in five Ian- thing but salad and diet Dads and guages and in five seconds or yet gain five pounds. less. 5.) You must purchase at least (2.) Obtain a date with one of the one polyester pantsuit (see Mari-following: lyn Starr). 1.) Pete Ludlow 6.) Convince your R.A. that 2.) Dr. Monte Wolf your roommate has body odor and 3.) James Floyd Grant implore her to "confront" that 4.) Wayne Anthenat roommate. 5.) Bob Love and/or Greg 7.) Be apprehended in Edgren Addington Pit wearing a blueberry facial 6.) Phil Print and/or Bob mask on a Saturday night. Merritt 8.) Attempt to advance place 7.) Mike Anderson out of "Marriage and the Fami- 8.) Steve Hamilton ly" (alternative: write a 500 word Married to Stuart Briscoe, she is mother of three children. One son, Dave, is a freshman at Be-thel. The Briscoe family moved to the United States in 1970 and re-sides in Milwaukee, Wis. There, Mrs. Briscoe has been active as a women's Bible study leader at The Elmbrook Church. In addition, she travels throughout the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and Canada ministering to a vari-ety of groups. She has recently returned from two months of teaching with her husband in South Africa. She is also the director of "Telling the Truth," a multi-me-dia ministry including radio, tapes and T.V. critical analysis in the November issue of "Modern Bride"). 9.) Meditate during an entire chapel while sitting on a football player's lap. (you may need to divert to the Coffee Shop) 10.) In an audible and distinct manner, ask the reference librari-an for Ralph Nader's research into Mark Eden products. Candidates will also be selected on the basis of smile, walk, flirta-tious ability and a 25 word essay on "what Bethel means to me" (excess verbiage and alliteration welcomed). Pledge Week will culminate in the First Annual GAMMA AL-PHA GAMMA Sorority Tea held in the Royal Oak Room Nov. 11 at five in the p.m. (bring your own tray). For further details of this worthwhile organization contact p.o. 1334 or 1704, or Dr. Jeannine Bohlmeyer, GAMMA ALPHA GAMMA sponsor. "I could feel the hand of God act-ing directly," said Jeff Swanson af-ter surviving a case of spinal meningitis in the jungle of Ecuador. Author Briscoe to speak at chapel convocation Unfulfilled funseeking fillies introduce sorority to Bethel Page 3 John W. Ivance Company qt/01 1618 Pioneer Bldg. 224-7358 John W. !wince, Sr. John W. Nance, Jr. John G. Chisholm Russel Akre INSURANCE Life—Auto—Home Business St. Paul, Mn. 55101 FALCON HEIGHTS PHARMACY 1707 N. Snelling Ave. (Larpenteur at Snelling) 646-4555 9 A.M. to 10 P.M_ Daily (Including Sun.) • Fray prescription delivery to Arden Hills campus • We cash checks for Bethel students with ID. NCATE accepts education program for ten years by Paul A. Olsen Years of hard work by Bethel's education department was re-warded this month. The National Council for Accre-ditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) announced that it will continue to accredit Bethel's programs of elementary and se-condary teacher preparation, at the baccalaureate degree level, for another 10 years. In a letter to President Lund-quist, NCATE made the following unusual statement concerning its examination of the Bethel pro-gram. "In its study of the institution, evaluators found no area where they felt a standard had not been met but found several areas in which it was judged that excep-tional strength existed at the institution." It is highly unusual for a letter of this type to be issued without some direct suggestions for im-provement for the school. But of 22 standards that NCATE uses to evaluate education programs, Bethel exhibited exceptional strength in 12 of them. In all other areas, Bethel's program was up to the standards. This high rating not only bene-fits Bethel's status and public image, but it also profits the graduating teacher. There are 30 states that recog-nize the NCATE endorsement. These states accept Bethel's re-commendation for licensure at face value. Thus there is no difficulty with the various state institutions who must clear tran-scripts before granting a license. Although NCATE accreditation has no direct effect in the Minne-sota licensing process, many school districts look for NCATE as a stamp of approval. Dr. Thomas Johnson, chairman of the education department, summarized the benefits of reac-creditation to the student. Of the most direct importance to the teachers is "the fact that they have that kind of endorsement of MAKE MONEY FAST NO CASH NEEDED SELL HI-FI EQUIPMENT Be our exclusive rep on your campus - ALL BRANDS \NPITE AUDIO OUTLET 325 Pascack Avenue Washington Towns*. New Jersey 07675 Attention Arlene Muzyka (2011 666-8868 Dr. Thomas, chairman of the education dept. the program that they have taken NCATE forms its 22 standards. as being high quality." About two years prior to ex- NCATE is a voluntary national piration of accreditation, the pro-accrediting agency with the goal cess for reaccreditation begins. of controling and improving the The school must submit a self-quality of teacher education. It report that shows how the school establishes standards and then complies with the standards. measures each institution against NCATE then sends a visiting these standards. team which investigates the vali- The standards address such dity of the report. The team areas as program development interviews students, graduates, and conceptualization, student and employers of recent gradu-teaching programs, student ad- ates. It also visits the LRC, mission and retention, and qua- classes and local field-work lity of available resources. schools. The models of acceptance are The visiting team makes a developed by the members of report to an evaluation board NCATE's constituent groups. which, after meeting with school These educators submit need officials, makes a recommenda-assessments which are synthe- tion to the full NCATE council. sized to form a current statement In Bethel's case, the evaluation as to what teacher education boards were obviously satisfied should be. From these ideals, with the department's program. Halloween is the most sentimental holiday for me. More than at any other time of the year I am flooded with memories of littlekidhood. I can remember dressing up as a pirate when I was six back in James-town, North Dakota, and going door to door for five hours in the frost. When I got home my mother would hide most of my grocery sacks filled with candy and ration them out for the next month. I would get all upset because I wanted to eat it all that day. Mom said she didn't want me to get sick. I'd laugh. Who could imagine a more beautiful sickness than one caused by eating 1005 chocolate bars. But the real fun at Halloween was getting scared. I'd love to get scared. Bill Cosby, on one of his old records, talked about sneaking downstairs after everyone was asleep and listening to the horror shows. My childhood followed that same pattern. The ticket man at the Star Theater in Jamestown knew he'd be seeing me at every Vincent Price movie. "The Tingler" and "The Conqueror Worm" were my favorites, cause they managed to scare me under my seat. We knew, though, that it was all a game. We knew that there really wasn't a Frankenstein or Wolfman and that people don't really climb up from the grave. But after years of these harmless games, seeds of belief get planted. By the time I was 19, it had been a few years since trick or treats. I took pride in the fact that I was a man, unafraid of anything, self-sufficient, and secure. Just that past summer I'd sat through an Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival and was singularly bored. Life had ceased to have anything frightening to offer. That autumn, though, I decided to take a year off from college and go to work. I ended up as a night orderly in a small hospital in St. Paul. Now, in this small hospital the night orderly, me, ended up doing a lot of different things. There was a drug rehabilitation unit, a mazimum security psychiatric unit, the medical floors, and last but certainly not least, the house orderly had the keys to the morgue. In time, the men who work in the morgue develop their own sense of humor. Because they are always so close to tragedy, they have to ignore it, to look beyond it, or eventually succumb to raving insanity. Hanging on a wall at the end of the morgue was a black baseball bat. A new employee was always told that if anyone in the vaults ever decided that he didn't like being dead and tried to crawl out, the employee was supposed to crack him good with the baseball bat because the paper work involved in someone rising from the dead would be mountainous: The humor wasn't all that original, but you needed it to survive. One rainy thundering night I got a call at 3:30 a.m. from one of the medical floors telling me that the patient who had broken his back in a fall had just died. He was in such and such a room on the fifth floor, and I could pick him up in 15 minutes. I hadn't been working there long, this wasn't just routine yet. I had to admit that I was nervous. Not scared of course, I've just done telling you that I hadn't been scared since my boyhood. The back elevator seemed to be slower than usual that night, and my eyes were kind of dull at that hour of the morning. I hadn't seen any other human beings in about an hour. I got up to the patient's room and found him wrapped up and waiting. I put him on the gurney and pushed it back to the elevator. The elevator door shut and started down five floors. Suddenly in the dimly lit elevator between the third and fourth floors, the body shuttered. I blinked, no longer sleepy. Just as suddenly, my package sat up in the gurney and began to moan softly. My eyes popped out of their sockets and my knees buckled. I turned and tried to scratch my way through the metal door and nearly succeeded. I turned back and looked at the body still sitting up and moaning, scared completely witless. I began running around and around the gurney in the middle of the elevator. Just as the elevator reached the basement, the body laid back down and was silent. The door finally opened. I was on the floor, frightened to death, complet ly exhausted. There were two people right outside the elevator when they saw my white as ghost face, they started to laugh. At their laughter, I began to suspect that a trick had been played on me, that someone had wrapped themselves up for fun to startle me on the ride down. I sat there on the floor of that elevator and got myself good and furious. I pulled off the cover around the head and then jumped back 10 feet. It really was the man with the broken back!! Later on that night the head nurse took some time to expla:n that a person's reflexes don't die off right away, that muscle spasms sometimes occur hours after death. In this guy's particular case, the especially severe muscle spasms that made him appear to sit up might have been caused by his broken back and his messed up spinal column. When the spasms caused him to sit up, his diaphragm was pushed up, air was forced out through his vocal cords and he moaned. I was relieved to know I was still sane and living in a reasonable world. Page 4 The Bethel orchestra, with Wayne Fritchie conducting his own composition, performed their first concert last Friday, Oct. 28. Faculty requirements stipulate Christian, capable teachers HaalatuYs 'Auto Sales H.qhway 69 North P O Box 241 Forpst City, IA 50436 At Bethel Contact: Chuck Haaland Phone 483-8261, P.O. 2040 Hiring year-round process at Bethel by Phoebe Morgan "I came intending to try two years," chuckled one teacher, "and ended up staying 19. I decided I liked working with Swedish Baptists." Bethel employs about 140 teachers in 15 different depart-ments. They represent a broad scope of background, age, and experience. Some have been here as long as 28 years, while others, fresh out of school, have begun their teaching career this fall. Several commented on why they chose Bethel and what was re-quired of them in the hiring process. "I don't actually recall what I wrote on my application," mused Dr. Jeanine Bohlmeyer. "In fact, I would now probably disagree with much that I wrote, but I do remember vividly my interview. Bethel was still on old campus. There were no sidewalks and I remember walking very carefully on long, narrow planks which lay from building to building sup-posedly covering the mud. "I met with just three people; President Lundquist, Dean Clif-ford Larson, and Jerry Healy. I had lunch with them and after lunch we all went to Minnesota's 100-year-old birthday parade. It was a very relaxing afternoon." Dr. Bohlmeyer has, since then, been on interview committees and noticed a major change in faculty involvement. Now pros-pective teachers sometimes meet many hours with department committees, sometimes teach classes, and interact with stu-dents and faculty. "I think those who come now have a much better exposure to the school, and they should," Bohlmeyer said. "They're not just coming to be a part of a department but of the whole college community." One crucial aspect of Bethel's hiring policy revolves around lifestyle. Several teachers com-mented that the standards Bethel requires both impressed and threatened them as they consid-ered taking jobs here. Jerry Healy, English department chair-man in his 23rd year at Bethel said, "I like to level with those I interview. There is no point in trying to smokescreen Bethel's lifestyle policy just to get good teachers. It's their perogative to choose us as well as ours to choose them." Doc Dalton recalls one man from Iran who was asked to respond to the Christian affirma-tion of faith. He said, "If by that you mean me tolerating your point of view and you tolerating mine, I don't think there is any problem." He wasn't hired. Doc emphasized that teachers here are expected to be spiritual counselors as well as academic leaders. "I've always appreciated Bethel's insistence on hiring competent Christian teachers and not just competent teachers." One teacher, new this fall, recalled her reactions to her interviews last year. "Even though everyone was very polite and warm, it was a demanding time for me. It's a day you really can't prepare for. I knew I was there on 50-50 terms. They were selling Bethel and I was selling myself. "Not only did I need to be sure of my qualifications, but I needed to see my limitations as well. As a result, I was probably more critical of the interview than they were." Craig Schmidt, a new chemis-try teacher, said he was impress-ed with the closeness among the students. Observing the interac-tion on a teacher-student level, he saw the opportunity to share both academically and personally. Another teacher said she felt "built up" after she accepted a teaching position at Bethel. The idea of intergrating her faith with her teaching career was exciting, but so was her commitment to a school that upheld Christian life-style standards. Healy detected one weakness in the current hiring procedures. "Recruitment should be based on the applicants' reactions on their own grounds," he said. An ideal would be to send a department chairman to observe them on their own campus and in their home setting." Doc noted the problem of applicants declining jobs because of low salaries. Most small col-leges like Bethel struggle with their budgets more than larger schools. Obviously Bethel's faculty work for more than the money. As one faculty member concluded, "I've not only committed myself to a small liberal arts college but also. to one with clear Christian val-ues." by Mary Smith Bethel's hiring practices for faculty have changed from pre-vious years. Because of stress on equal opportunities and growth in Bethel's size, it has had to become more systemized. This change has not, though, lessened the care taken in hiring teachers. According to Dean George Brushaber, applicants for faculty positions are expected to (1) be effective teachers with a liberal arts orientation; (2) be competent scholars; and (3) be interested in working with maturing students. The dean stated that hiring is "one of the most important ways to bring influence on an institu-tion." How then does Bethel go about finding potential faculty members? Hiring is a year-round process. Usually at the beginning of the school year, Dean Brushaber asks each department to estimate its needs for new teachers for the following year. The dean then determines what facutly members are in line for retirement, sab-batical leaves, or are to be absent for other reasons. He then brings the requests to the divisional coordinator of each department. The divisional co-ordinator serves in staff relation-ship with the dean and director of academic affairs. Their job in-cludes planning and recommend-ing instructual improvements, ac'd teaching schedules. Requests for additional teach-ers are also brought to the board of regents who decide if finances will permit extra hiring. The regents are composed of 15 members elected by the Bap-tist General Conference who give final approval for hiring full-time faculty. The regents decide which requests are to be filled. Once this is done, they identify to the departments which will re-ceive new faculty members. Next, the dean makes a de-scription of the job and circulates it around. Individuals may also submit applications at this time. A frequent source for Bethel is the Christian College Referral A chorus line at a senior re-cital? A husband and wife dis-agreeing about their budget on stage? A married girl recalling her single days with an uncertain smile? Whatever happened to the hour-and-a-half program of clas-sical song? Cindy Kay Dubie will give her senior recital on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. in the seminary chapel. Cindy, a fifth-year senior, has a special program, "Performing Arts in America." Her recital-re-vue will tell the saga of America's arts through music, drama and Service, composed of 35 colleges linked with a computer listing of job applicants with the person's qualifications and preparations. Monte Wolf in the chemistry department is a current example of a faculty member contacted through this system. Bethel also advertises in the "Chronicle of Higher Learning" for possible candidates. Those individuals that have been selected then come to Bethel to meet with various faculty, students, President Lundquist and Dean Brushaber. They are also interviewed by the Appoint-ment, Promotion and Tenure Committee. This committee rec-ommends promotions, termina-tions, and sabbatical leaves. The procedure is long and often complicated, but Dean Brushaber said, "It's better to be careful at the initial hiring than to deal with the wrong teacher later on." If each of the groups that have interviewed the individual ap-prove the applicant, President Lundquist and Dean Brushaber recommend the individual to the board of regents, who makes the final decision. Dean Brushaber said about his feelings regarding hiring, "It is the most satisfying part of my job." The next step is screening. The prospective faculty member sub-mits transcripts, letters of re-commendations, student evalua-tions and his educational philo-sophy. The screening is made by Dean Brushaber and the departments together. This is done in three steps. The first two include (1) elimination of those unqualified for the position; (2) the identifica-tion of those individuals fully qualified—asking them for an interview. Dean Brushaber travels to their home location to do this, stating, "You see them as they are." He feels people perform better in familiar surroundings. The third screening step is to make a report to the departments to see who is the most likely to be selected. dance. The program includes a chorus line of six singing schoolgirls, tapping their toes to the tune of "The Purity Brigade." Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany, from the play, "Fashion," fight to see who gets the last word. Sighing as she recalls her unattached days, Cin-dy sings the blues, "When I Was Single." Through the songs and sketch-es of her recital, the former Cindy Abbott will put to use her musical and theatrical skills, along with directing a cast of 18. Senior recital to blend music, theatrics Page 5 Orgon [John Ness] in "Tartuffe" observes his wife and Tartuffe from under the table. Patriotic Christian to speak Thursday Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 6:30-9, Sun.-Thurs.; 6:30-10, Fri. & Sat. FEATURE Sizzler- $3.95 A sirloin with rich flavor served on a sizzling platter INCLUDES: soup, juice, salad, potato and warm bread West Coraty Rood E of Snelling Across from Flaherty's Bowl. by Suzi Wells Originally intended as a chil-ling murder mystery, the "Arse-nic and Old Lace" performance is the comic hit that it came to be after the original Broadway show. The play, directed by Larry Whiteley, opened at Chimera Theater Oct. 28. The play is about two elderly sisters who poison lonely old men. They believe that their ac-tion is a charity and a blessing to the lonely gentlemen, but their nephew Mortimer cannot under-stand their reasoning. Mortimer does everything he can to prevent these "charitable" actions from recurring. The play features two Bethel students, Carol Jean Anderson as Elaine Harper, and Al Arasim as Officer O'Hara. Carol, a former member of Doc Rainbow's "Colorful Caravan," effectively captures the romantic and vivacious Elaine. Her role as a supporting actress to the Brews-ter sisters was performed well. Carol has also performed in "The Importance of Being Earnest, – the "Diary of Anne Frank," and "Godspell" at Bethel. Both Esther Olson (Abby Brew-ster) and Nancy Gormley (Martha Brewster) were convincingly sweet and naive as the two sem-ingly harmless spinsters. Abby was portrayed as the dominant sister, yet both retained their in-nocence throughout the play. Peter Moore did an excellent job in his role as Mortimer, the only sane Brewster. He made a smooth transition from Elaine's Bethel debaters take first in meet by Sari Winans Last weekend found the Bethel debate team competing at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls. Three teams competed with the team of Scott Larson-Mike Emerson taking first place in the junior varsity division. Larson and Emerson have proved to be the top team this year. Their record includes plac-ing in the elimination rounds of all the debates they have compet-ed in and second place at North Dakota State in Fargo. The team of Ellie Garrett-Mark Ludwig won four rounds and lost four rounds and has seen much improvement. Ellie noted that many schools were present and there was good competition. The next tournament on the schedule will be Nov. 11 and 12 at South Dakota State in Brookings. These same teams will be corn-peting, as well as some students from the debate class. Assistant Coach Bill Fraatz said that debating is open to anyone, and if students are interested to stop into the speech department and talk to either him or Coach David Lee. lover to concerned nephew to hysterical nephew. William Royce as Teddy (Roos-evelt) Brewster added humor with his cry of "Charge!" and comic dash up a flight of stairs. Glenn Tapley as Jonathan Brewster and Thomas Kegley as Dr. Einstein provided the villainous contrast to the Brewster sisters' sweetness. The costuming of the play re-created the era of the early 1940's. Jonathan and Dr. Einstein looked, as well as acted like a by Shelly Nielsen Becky Jo Jacobson, "Tar-tuffe's" capable stage manager, is optimistic about the show, which opens in Bethel's theatre Nov. 10. "This is going to be the best play Bethel has ever put on," she observed. If the enthusi-asm and hard work of cast mem-bers affects the success of drama presentations, she has prophe-sied correctly. "Tartuffe" did create contro-versy when first produced in 1664. The drama is an attack on hypocrisy, but was interpreted by fanatical religious groups of the period as an assault upon reli-gion. Now you can see Moliere's play—the drama infamous throughout French literary his-tory! The story begins when Orgon, a husband and father, finds Tartuffe, the hypocrite, praying in church. He brings the stranger home to live with his family. The guest proceeds to disrupt the harmony of their household by insisting they follow puritanical restrictions he sets up. He con-vinces the trusting Orgon to let him marry his daughter Mariane, although she is already betrothed to Valere. The hypocrite's final conquest for control over this once-happy family is accomplished when he has so blinded them to his vice that Orgon, to prove his trust, signs over his entire estate to Tartuffe. The villain is finally recognized as the hypocrite he is, but only after his destructive personality has wrought its harm. Bob Lockman, who will be playing the part of the hypocrite in the upcoming production, re-ports bluntly that Tartuffe is "a rat," who "plays upon the hypo-crisies of others." The rest of the cast consists of a potpourri of divergent characters. Rick Talbot portrays Damis, Or-gon's son, who is "hot-headed and insecure." Deb Olson, enact-ing the part of Madame Penelle, Orgon's mother who is last to renounce trust in Tartuffe, calls her character "a windbag who dominates." Kati Blackburn reports that she will present the role of the "snoopy and meddling" maid, Dorine, who's "very down-to-earth." Frankenstein and mad doctor they portrayed. The staging and lighting were good—all three acts occurred in the living room of the Brewster home. Some scenes near the front door were hard to see from one side of the balcony, however, where a rail obstructed the view. "Arsenic and Old Lace" will be playing at Chimera Theater through Nov. 27. For more infor-mation, call Chimera box office at 222-0792. Other talent will be revealed by John Ness, in the character of Monsieur Orgon, by Joyce New-some who plays Elmire, his wife, and by Kathy Larson portraying Mariane, the manipulated daugh-ter. Juan Ramos creates the character of Cleante; Cathy Pen-gra, that of Flipote; and Bill Gee, Valere, Mariane's lover. Tickets to this extravagantly-talented production may be pur-chased at the price of two dollars from 1-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Visit the box office or call 641-6247 for reservations. The gregarious and slightly insane members of "Tartuffe's" cast will be "on display" No-vember 10, 12, and 15-17. Girls contemplating Nik Dag dates may be interested to know that "Tar-tuffe" plays through the all-im-portant weekend of November 18 and 19. This drama production, rumored to be Dale Rott's best thus far, is one every Bethel student should witness. His topic at Pi Gamma Mu is, "The New Evangelical Far Right: Implications for the Christian Community." The Pi Gamma Mu discussion will center around the attempted political organization of the evan-gelical right by such people as Bill Bright of Campus Crusade and Congressman John B. Conlan. Pierard is professor of history at Indiana State University at Terre Haute and now secretary-treasurer (and founder) of the Conference on Faith and History, an association of evangelical his-torians. He has his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. In the Oct. 22, 1976 issue of the Clarion it was reported that 52 per cent of the Bethel community would vote GOP and 27 per cent would vote Democratic. This re-veals the apparent political con-servatism of the students. Pierard is relatively liberal politically, claiming in "The Cross and the Flag" that "the devout Christian must have no part of the radical right." In his article, "Positive Patriot-ism" in the July/August, 1976 issue of Vanguard, Pierard asks the question, "Is patriotism something that Christians must reject as foreign to the spiritual and social ideals of the faith?" Other provocative articles have appeared in The Reformed Jour-nal, Christianity Today and one in Eternity entitle, "King George III for President: Would we support the American Revolution?" Pierard has also been involved in the writing of several books, including: "The Unequal Yoke," "Protest and Politics" and "Poli-tics: A Case for Christian Action." Humorous production features Bethelites by Arlan Swanson "Civil Religion and the Evan-gelical" will be the topic Dr. Richard V. Pierard will address in a convocation chapel on Thurs-day, Nov. 10. Pierard will meet with students for discussion over lunch following chapel. Pierard will talk to several classes, concluding the day by speaking at 8 p.m. to Pi Gamma Mu, a social science organization. Tartuffe's cast members display variety of characters in show Page 6 Freshman Brenda Harris has logged many miles in preparing for this cross-country season [photo by Greg Kuntz]. Freshman Brenda Harris leads cross-country team by Jon Fredrickson Women's volleyball is closing out its regularly scheduled season and getting ready for the playoffs. Bethel had a match against a tough St. Benedict's team in which it narrowly lost. The Royals dropped the first two games, came back to win the third game only to be defeated in a very close fourth game. Some bright spots for the Royals in the contest were Jo Watlov's hard spikes and good Football Scoring Schedule 1:25 1st: B— Selvog 18-yard pass from Tom Klitzke (Paul Lindberg kick) 4:53 2nd: St.O— Quinnell two-yard run (Benson kick failed). 3:36 2nd: St. 0— Mylrea 20-yard return of blocked punt (pass failed) 8:28 3rd: St. 0— Benson 22-yard F.G. 13:36 4th: St. 0—Fiebiger two-yard run (Benson kick) 1:42 4th: St. 0—McKay 40-yard F.G. 1:01 4th: B—Selvog 71- yard pass play from Holm-gren (pass failed) Total Offense: St Olaf — 326, Bethel-207. serves. The J.V. team won its match by taking the first and third games. Good performances were turned in by Joy Sorenson and Debbie Anderson. The varsity record for this sea-son of play is 10-10 while the J.V. stands at 9-5. Co-captain Cindy Ramm will be out for three weeks with a hyper-extended elbow and will miss the state tournament. Janet Peterson and Sue Maxwell will be filling in. by Paul Johnson The intramural football season is over for another year. This year like every year, the intramural office has announced the 1977 football all-star team. Offense: Line—Jeff Larson, Edgren Gold; Al Jones, Fountain Terrace A; Tim Nelson, New Dorm. Ends—Randy Oshima, Townhouse 3; Doug Erickson, Fountain Terrace A. Backs—Dan Dye, Townhouse 3; Mark Waller, Fountain Terrace A. Q.B.—Brian Doten, Townhouse 3. Defense: Kicker—David Fen-derson, New Dorm. Linemen— Dave Broza, Townhouse 3; Wayne Hendrickson, New Dorm; Wade Anderson, New Dorm. Backs—Mitch Duininick, New Dorm; Phil Maes, Off East; Kurt Swanson, Off East; Kevin Frank, by Steve Erickson A freshman, who three years ago was too slow and too weak to run sprints in track, is the star of this year's women's cross-country team. She is Brenda Harris, a elementary education major from Shellrock, Iowa. "My track coach in high school told me to go out for cross-country because it makes you stronger," Brenda said. With a little prac-tice, she began to pass most of the other members on the team. As a senior, Brenda was one of the top runners in her high school. Although the team went to state, she did not fare too well there. Already this year, she has broken Bethel's cross-country (three miles) record three times. Everytime she improves her time, she sets a new Bethel record. Going into last week's meet in Mankato, she brought the old record down from 20:51 to 20:07. She hopes to lower her time to 19 minutes by the end of the season. She heard about Bethel through her conference church. Her cousin and teammate, Gail Anderson, also helped influence her decision. With the season nearly over, except for a game with St. Mary's Nov. 1 at home, the team is getting ready for the state tourna-ment at Macalester College Nov. 4 and 5. The seeding for the tourney has not yet been announced. All 29 teams are eagerly awaiting the decision on where they stand and who they will play. Coach Karyl Frye has been working with the girls hard so that they will reach their peak at the tournament. Townhouse 2; Roger Howell, Fountain Terrace A. Townhouse 3 won the playoff championship this year and Foun-tain Terrace A finished first in regular season action. Fountain Terrace A also showed the best offense this year. They ran up 91 points in just four tilts. New Dorm finished second with 49 points. Edgren Gold and Townhouse 1 turned in the best defenses of the year, each giving up just 6 points. On the other side of the coin, Fountain Terrace B and Edgren Green proved to have the worst offenses of the year. Neither team scored a point all year. Fountain B finished last in defense, giving up 68 points. Edgren Green finished close behind, giving up 56 points. "Running makes me feel good. I feel like I've accomplished something," she said. Brenda has no strategy in run-ning. "I just run and concentrate on making it," she said. In prac-tices, she either jogs a 5-7 mile course'or repeats shorter distan-ces. This year because of sickness and other reasons, the runners have not scored as a team in a couple of meets. Five runners are needed for the team to receive a score. At the moment, Brenda is recovering from the flu. She by G.W. Smith Next year Bethel College will enter full competition in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athle-tic Conference (MIAC). The MIAC has requested that Bethel improve its existing athletic facil-ities. Bethel was invited into the MIAC over a year ago and this year entered competition in all sports but football. The following changes speci-fied by the MIAC relate to Bethel's football facilities. The first change requested is the provision of an indoor facility complete with chalkboards and toilet facilities for both the visit-ing team and officials to occupy during half time. Currently there is no such facility and visiting teams often retire to the shelter of a chartered bus. Secondly, the MIAC has re-quested that there be a spotting tower and telephone hookup from the tower to the bench for both teams. Right now no such con-venience exists. Thirdly, the MIAC has re-quested a press-box meeting MIAC standards. There are se-veral requirements for such a facility including compartments for announcer and scorekeeper, sports information directors, and statistics crews from each team, spotters and phone personnel for each team, a radio announcer and equipment, local press, and op-posing team scouts. Bethel's current facility is in-adequate by MIAC standards. In addition to these require-ments of the MIAC, there are several other improvements that need to be made. According to Bethel Athletic Director "Chub" Reynolds, the present football field is wired for 30 amps of electrical current but needs the services of at least three to four times that much. Another necessity would be the provision of public toilets to replace the existing portable fa-cilities. hopes to be ready for the regional and state meets. Although she ranks as Bethel's best distance runner, Coach Shir-ley Dawson said that is primarily a half-miler. Coach Dawson stat-ed, "She should be one of our top three half-milers next spring." Brenda said that she is not as good in cross-country as she is in track. In high school, she finished tenth in the mile in state compe-tition. Her top time last year was 5:29. Next spring she looks forward to competing in her spe-cialty. A third existing need, accord-ing to Reynolds, regards field space for both practice and com-petition. Discounting the indoor sports, only the football and baseball teams currently practice on Bethel property. Other sports, including intra-murals, use such facilities as Perry Park, Como Park and the fields at Valentine Hills Elemen-tary. But this year Perry Park is unavailable for soccer games due to re-seeding, and its use is questionable for softball in the spring. The athletic department has agreed to pay for a portion of the re-seeding process. Reynolds said, "We are humbly thankful for being able to use that facility the way we've been able to." Considering the cost involved, the athletic department is cur-rently exploring alternatives in order to meet the request of the MIAC. Reynolds pointed out that when Bethel first entered the MIAC it was unaware of having to provide the facilities that are now nece-ssary. Although meeting the re-quirements of the MIAC is a concern, Reynolds is more con-cerned with the facilities available to the campus as a whole. "There is an extreme shortage of practice area for outdoor sports, recreational facilities and intramural fields for the 1865 students that are enrolled at Bethel this year." Reynolds estimated that about 500 students each year participate in some form of jogging program and that Bethel has facilities that could be developed into an excel-lent jogging trail. He also pointed out that the Ramsey County Sheriff recently issued a directive against jogging on the roadway. "The first priority of the ath-letic department," said Reynolds, "is the development of fields for classes, intramurals and jogging trails for all Bethel students, not just the athletic community." Spikers prepare for tournament Football all-star selections released by intramural office MIAC requests that Bowls improve football facilities Page 7 St. Olaf defender finds success in relieving John Selvog of a pass reception line [photo by Greg Kuntz]. Freshman kicker-punter Paul Lindberg launches another fine punt against Oles. [photo by Greg Kuntz]. Page 8 Oles crush Royals in MIAC confrontation Kickers avenge earlq season loss to Augies by Greg Kuntz St. Olaf College rushed for 281 yards and held the Bethel Royals to a scant nine yards of rushing. In the second half, the Oles man-handled Royals 25-13 at Manitou field in Northfield last Saturday. St. Olaf nearly doubled the Royals in time of possession and dominated the line of scrimmage in both offense and defense. Sophomore quarterback Lonnie Holmgren completed six of 14 passes for 113 yards. Senior flanker John Selvog caught two for Bethel's T.D.'s, one from running back Tom Klitzke on an option in the first quarter. The Royals tallied first on Klitzke's touchdown pass to Sel-vog who was wide open in the Ole end zone. The senior flanker caught a pass from Holmgren shortly before, but it was ruled incomplete on the basis that it barely touched the ground. Sel-vog caught passes totaling 100 yards in all. St. Olaf went ahead to stay a little more than a minute later, when a Lindberg punt from the Bethel 20 was rejected by Ole linebacker John Nahorniak. It was picked up by Dave Mylrea who ran it in. St. Olaf's sophomore halfback, Mark Quinnell, who led all indi-vidual rushing with 77 yards, plunged into the Bethel end zone from two yards out late in the second quarter for the Oles' first T. D. The Royals hardly had the ball again and had to punt several away as they couldn't put a major drive together. It wasn't until a little more than a minute to play in the game that the Royals tallied again on Selvog's long sprint to the end zone. Ole cornerback Mark Jacobson suffered a broken leg on the play. Lonnie Homgren was sacked several times, especially in the second half. The Royals lost three fumbles, besides the blocked punt, putting St. Olaf in good field position. Defensive backs Russ Ander-son and Randy Fredin broke up two potential Ole touchdown passes late in the game. "It was frustrating. We just didn't have it today," said Holm-gren. Ole Coach Tom Porter said, "We had better control of the line of scrimmage and put together a good ground game. We have respect for Bethel—they'll be tough in the M.I.A.C. This was a big game, but we hope our bigger one is next week against St. John's." Coach Steve Payne said, "They knew what we'd do, and they controlled our offense." Co-captain Mike "Spike" An-derson said, "They trapped us on the inside and ran all over the place." "We didn't read the tackles well and didn't have the ball enough to get anything going," said Coach "Chub" Reynolds. "We were out fundamentally. They blew us off the line of scrimmage, and they confused and influenced our line. They came at our outside linebackers on the rush." St. Olaf is third in the nation in defense against the rush, allow-ing an average of 68 yards. The Royals, now 5-2, face scrappy Concordia (St. Paul) to-morrow at 1:30 p.m. for the season finale at home in Bremer Field. "Concordia's a good team and they're better than last year," said Coach Reynolds. "They'll do anything to beat us." This loss dampened any hopes for the Royals to play in a N.A.I.A. post-season bowl game this season. "This was the single most important game to us—and one that I've ever been involved with here," said Coach Reynolds. "We have over 10 seniors gra-duating so we'll be ready," said "Spike" Anderson. by Becky Dye Amid a host of fans and approximately 90 runners, the Bethel men's cross-country team finished seventh in the 1977 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athle-tic Conference Meet at Como Park Golf Course last Saturday. Bethel harriers, competing for their first time in the MIAC, finished ahead of St. Marys and tied with Gustavus. Coach Gene Glader said, "I feel the guys did as well as could be expected with their abilities. We're a young team. We were hoping to beat St. Mary's and Gustavus—we tied Gustavus. It was a realistic goal. Anything above that would have been a surprise." There were nine schools parti-cipating. Hamline was first with 37, St. Olaf next with 55, St. Thomas 85, St. John's 104, Concordia 163, Macalester 169, Bethel 203, Gustavus 203, and St. Mary's 231. Captain Curt Brown, who fi-nished with a time of 27:44, said by G.W. Smith Earlier in the season, the Beth-el soccer team lost to Augsburg College 5-0. Last Saturday the Royals avenged that loss, defeat-ing Augsburg 1-0 on the Royals' Bremer field. The Royals struggled with themselves in the first half of last Saturday's contest. Their passes lacked the usual crispness and their play lacked the usual enthu-siasm and hustle. When under pressure, fine de-fensive play prevented Augsburg from scoring. But the Royals "The course was nice. Usually when someone thinks of this Como course, the first thing they think of is the long hill, but in the five miles you only run up it twice. I felt good." Phil Schwiezer remarked, "I saw a guy from St. Mary's that beat me last time. When I recognized him I told myself, he's not going to beat me this time." It was one of the few meets this season where the fans outnum-bered the participants. Brent Friesen, who finished slightly behind Curt Brown with a time of 27:59 stated, "I like these big meets. You're always running with someone, and I love the support and encouragement from the spectators." The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, District 13 meet will be held tomorrow at the Como Park Golf Course at 11 a.m. Participants will include a few state schools in addition to all the schools in the MIAC. failed to establish their own offensive punch and the half ended in a 0-0 tie. In the second half the momen-tum shifted. Passing accurately, the Royals quickly gained control of the game and forced the Augies to make costly mistakes. Twice Augsburg players were yellow carded (a warning delivered a player prior to expulsion from the game), and twice the Augs-burg forwards caught the Royals with an open net, only to miss the shot. As the battle ensued, Augs-burg began to experience frustra-tion. No longer in control of the game, they resigned themselves to a defensive contest. But the Augsburg defense wasn't enough. With ten minutes of playing time remaining and the score still tied 0-0, sophomore Dave Nolan scored for Bethel on a corner kick from teammate "Milt" Ander-son. Anderson's kick disappeared in a crowd in front of the Augsburg net and reappeared when Nolan headed the loose ball past the Augsburg goalie. Augsburg attempted to muster an offensive threat to tie the game, but didn't succeed. The Royals, charged by Nolan's score, stole the ball from Augsburg and nearly scored a second goal in the remaining minutes. At the final whistle Bethel still led 1-0. Against St. Thomas on Wed-nesday, October 26, the Royals lost 3-2. St. Thomas scored the winning goal early in the second half on a direct penalty kick. Greg "Homer" Thom scored both of the Royals' goals in that game. Harriers finish seventh in conference meet at Como
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Title | Clarion 1977-11-04 Vol 53 No 08 |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 53 No. 8 |
Date Published | November 04 1977 |
Decade | 1970 |
Academic Year | 1977 - 1978 |
Frequency | Weekly |
Article Titles | Old campus sale rumors refuted; Snelling Avenue campus neighbors concerned re sale; Motives questioned on confusion over sale; Officials overly cautious; Letters to the editor: Driver replies to weaknesses in bus system; Creative faculty publish works; Swanson lives through odds in Ecuador; Author Briscoe to speak at chapel convocation; Unfulfilled funseeking fillies introduce sorority to Bethel; NCATE accepts education program for ten years; Divide by six; Faculty requirements stipulate Christian, capable teachers; Hiring year-round process at Bethel; Senior recital to blend music, theatrics; Humorous production features Bethelites; Bethel debaters take first in meet; Tartuffe's cast members display variety of characters in show; Patriotic Christian to speak Thursday; Freshman Brenda Harris leads cross-country team; Spikers prepare for tournament; Football all-star selections released by intramural office; MIAC requests that Royals improve football facilities; Oles crush Royals in MIAC confrontation; Kickers avenge early season loss to Augies; Harriers finish seventh in conference meet at Como |
Photographs | While taking a stroll along Lake Valentine at dusk, one might capture the beauty of a sunset like this one. The serenity of the sight is enhanced by the Indian summer of the past days.; "I could feel the hand of God acting directly" said Jeff Swanson after surviving a case of spinal meningitis in the jungle of Ecuador.; Dr. Thomas, chairman of the education dept.; The Bethel orchestra, with Wayne Fritchie conducting his own composition, performed their first concert last Friday, Oct. 28.; Orgon [John Ness] in "Tartuffe" observes his wife and Tartuffe from under the table.; Freshman Brenda Harris has logged many miles in preparing for this cross-country season [photo by Greg Kuntz].; St. Olaf defender finds success in relieving John Selvog of a pass reception line [photo by Greg Kuntz].; Freshman kicker-punter Paul Lindberg launches another fine punt against Oles. [photo by Greg Kuntz]. |
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Transcript | NOV 4 1977 Old campus sale rumors refuted by Bruce Olsen Bethel's old campus has not been sold. Many of the rumors that have been circulating about the supposed sale of old campus are erroneous. The true facts in this case are that Bethel is asking $1.95 million for the purchase of old campus. On the other hand, the govern-ment is only offering Bethel $1.65 million. This $300,000 difference is what is keeping Bethel from selling the Snelling Ave. campus. It all started last week (Thurs-day, Oct. 27) in an article printed by the St. Paul Pionee'r Press reporting the sale of old campus to the United States Department of Labor. The reporter covered accurately statements made by St. Paul Mayor George Latimer, but failed to report Bethel's side of the issue. One Bethel official felt the false reports printed in the Pioneer Press on the sale could possibly have been meant as tactics to in-timidate Bethel into a premature agreement on the government's terms. The Labor Department would use Bethel's old campus as a job corps training center. The center is proposed to house 400 young people between the ages of 16-21 and train them for lifetime voca-tion. Students would not be permitted to have cars on campus and would have to secure passes to go off campus. The $1.95 million price tag was set on old campus by the board of trustees of the Baptist General Conference. The original apprais-al of the campus was $3.6 million, so the board of trustees are re-commending a figure that is much lower than what the Snelling Ave. campus is actually worth. The $1.65 million offer by the govern-ment is considered by some Be-thel officials as a slap in the face. "We want to sell old campus, but we don't want to give it away," said Rev. Norman Ander-son, chairman of the board of re-gents. Anderson's viewpoint typi-fies the sentiments of Bethel of-ficials in regards to the govern-ment's offer. The negotiators for the govern-ment have apparently gone back to Washington D.C. since the sale of old campus has hit a roadblock. As to when negotiations will resume is not known, nor has a deadline been placed on the purchase. The use of old campus as the site for the training center must be approved by Minnesota Gover-nor Rudy Perpich by Nov. 17. If Perpich disapproves of the plan, the Labor Department will not pursue purchase of the site. His approval will place pressure on the negotiators to reconsider their original offer to Bethel. Old campus has been for sale since 1967 when plans to build on the Arden Hills site became final. If the Snelling Ave. campus is sold, five dormitories would be constructed on the Arden Hills campus before next year. Pre-sently two dormitories are being planned for construction for the next school year. 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 publication THE CLARION Bethel College Volume 53 Number 8 November 4, 1977 Snelling Avenue campus neighbors concerned re sale While taking a stroll along Lake Valentine at dusk, one might capture the beauty of a sunset like this one. The serenity of the sight is enhanced by the Indian summer of the past days. by Holly Schmiess Families around old campus are uncomfortable with the pro-spect of a federally-subsidized employment center for juveniles in their neighborhood. Through the Como District 10 Community Council and its aggressive chair-man Barrett Colombo, they're out to nip the project in the bud. The latest attempt .was to dis-suade Governor Perpich from approving old campus as a site for the Job Corps center. Perpich must concur with St. Paul Mayor George Latimer's backing of the center by Nov. 17, or the plan will die and with it Bethel's possible sale to the federal government. Colombo said the governor's rubber stamp would exert pres-sure on Bethel to sell and on the Labor Department to buy. He met with Perpich Tuesday to propose alternative sites for the training center. "The training center is a good idea, but Bethel's campus is not the place for it," said Colombo. "There is a lot of other federal-ly- owned surplus land in the area that could be used." Some of the community's ob-jections are on legal grounds. The St. Paul City Council will soon de-cide whether zoning laws permit the federal institution which will be managed for a profit. Bethel qualified for occupation of the site because it was non-profit based. Colombo emphasized that Ma-yor Latimer approved the project prematurely and failed to look into his city's zoning regulations before speaking out. Other objections are personal. The Labor Department's promise of strict regimen of the center and its 400-plus occupants is little comfort to Colombo. "We feel it will have a serious impact on our way of life because there is no buffer zone around the campus site," Colombo said. He was disturbed to learn that stu-dents would come and go from the center everyday as they held jobs in the community, and not be confined to the extent implied at first by the Labor Department. An anti-project flyer and peti-tion circulating in the old campus neighborhood place enrollment prospects as high as 1200 though the Labor Department estimates 400 occupants. "The point the community is making," said Colombo, "is that once they're there, we have no control over what it becomes. If they find they're not making a profit with just 400, they have space to admit many more." Colombo said the community has had problems finding out what the facts are, first hearing old campus was sold, then learn-ing it was not. He regrets the lack of communication between Bethel and the community around old campus. "I have placed calls to Bethel's president and the director of community relations, but those calls haven't been returned," Colombo said. The community assumes the spirit of the sale has been completed and only the price lacks agreement. "The feeling of the community is this," Colombo summarized. "Bethel wants their money. They want to sell old campus to whoever can pay the highest price, and don't really care about the reaction of the people in the surrounding community." On the inside... Joining a sorority here ain't easy, page 3 Bethel's teachers don't just appear, page 5 `Tartuffe' will be a laughing matter, page 6 Oles crush gridders in Northfield, page 8 Letters to the editor Driver replies to weaknesses in bus system Dear editor, In response to last week's letter concerning bussing, I would like to say "Thank You." Thank you for bringing into light another one of Bethel's many negative as-pects. After all, isn't that what the letters to the editor section is all about? Maybe we have been disillu-sioned all of these years. Maybe the phrase we all love should be changed to "Bethel is problems." I will admit that pe bus system has its problems. No ser-vice of this nature can be prob-lem- free. However, I feel it is necessary to clarify some of the problems discussed in last week's letter. The statement which read, "...Bethel does not want to put the time or money to improve the bus system.." really hurt. I could mention that the budget for last year's bussing program came out to $36,670 and that this year's proposed budget reached $42,050. But, I won't. Obviously, the problems with bussing cannot be solved by writing letters to the editor. On the other hand, this responsibility should not be placed upon the drivers' shoulders. After all, any-one who would generally leave early, forget to stop at Rosedale, drive past people at Har Mar, and run the busses into the ground could never be trusted with such a responsibility. Therefore, I would like to make a few suggestions. (1) Be a few minutes early. A retired Bethel professor once quoted Jude 3:7 saying, "It is better to have walked and waited than to have run and missed." (2) Please don't ask the driver to pick you up at Rosedale if you are not going to be there. The only people who enjoy going into Rosedale are those who are getting off there. (3) Remember that even the Bethel busses have breakdowns. In most cases, it is impossible to get a replacement bus before the next scheduled run. In these cases, the student must find it in his or her heart to forgive the drivers, the coordinators, and the whole bussing system for the in-convenience he or she has suf-fered. In conclusion, I would like to apologize for the problems that have come up this year. Hope-fully, with student cooperation, most of these problems will be ironed out. Sincerely, Dale E. Johnson There will be a writer's meeting for all those inter-ested in writing for the Clarion at 5 p.m. on Mon-day, Nov. 7 in FA 425. CHAPEL SCHEDULE Monday—The Chords Tuesday—Jill Briscoe— 'There's a Snake in My Garden" Wednesday—Pastor Spick-elmier—" Elusive Inti-macy" Thursday—Convocation- Richard Pierard Friday— TBA Motives questioned on confusion over sale Upon learning from the St. Paul Pioneer Press that old campus had been sold, we felt deceived because Bethel students and news services did not hear the news first. Then we heard from Bethel officials that it had not been sold, and we still felt deceived—this time because our side had not even been consulted. In straightening out these reports, we could not help but speculate on the following motives. Our first impression was that the writer for the Press was trying to get the scoop and jumped the gun on this important issue. His pre-mature reporting of the sale would have scooped rival newspapers if the information received was totally true. We then came to the conclusion that perhaps Mayor George Latimer of St. Paul was attempting to earn a few campaign points by revealing this information prematurely. By reporting such a purchase, it would make him look like he was taking great strides to improve the plight of the unemployed of St. Paul. It might mean a few votes in the next elec-tion. But after hearing about the neighborhood's dissatisfaction with the whole idea, we felt there must be another motive behind releasing this false information. It was suggested to us that perhaps the government released this information to pressure Bethel into selling the old campus property at a lower price. By printing this article, it would make Bethel look as if they were reneging on a former promise, thus giving Bethel the appearance of a school which cannot keep promises. In other words, it would dull our reputation as being a fair and honest Christian college. If this be the case, then we would endorse a Bethel holdout in order to obtain the $1.95 million figure. For the government to attempt to intimidate Bethel officials into selling at the $1.65 million price by printing false information in the city paper is a definite cheap shot by the government. We are delighted to hear that Bethel will not fold under such pressure. Besides that, what is $300,000 for the government? Year after year the government spends billions of dollars on defense by constructing elaborate missile sites and various sorts of bombs. And yet the govern-ment is haggling over $300,000 with a small Christian college. To us the idea is simply ridiculous. We do not feel that Bethel's figure of $1.95 million is the least bit unreasonable. When one considers the fact that old campus has been appraised at $3.6 million, it is hard to imagine someone not willing to accept nearly half that price as a final offer. Officials overly cautious "No news is good news," said someone who apparently had no interest in journalism, or in getting a story straight for that matter. Sorry to say, too many news sources at Bethel adopt this adage and make themselves vulnerable to the kind of misinformation and one-sided reporting in the Pioneer Press article about old campus sale last Friday. Bethel should have immediately released a refutation. In fact, publicity director Florence Johnson wanted to do so, but was advised not to by overly-cautious officials who were concerned about offending Mayor Latimer (who should have been confronted if indeed he didn't know what he was talking about). Barrett Colombo, spokesmen for objecting residents around old campus, upbraided Latimer for not consulting the zoning laws of his own city before approving a project that may very well violate those laws. Perhaps Mayor Latimer needs to have someone say, "Now wait a minute, sir!" Why couldn't Bethel have done that, out of civic duty, if not out of journalistic integrity? Another fear seems to paralyze sources of information upon which Bethel's news services depend: that of telling a story in progress. Clarion reporters have often returned with empty notepads, saying, "He says they're just thinking about it," or "They're just talking about it." Or in this case, "They're just negotiating it." Implying there's nothing to say until it's all cut and dried, sewn up, in the bag, and ready to record indelibly. But that's history, not news. People are more interested in knowing what's going on than in what went on. Reticence to share news-in-the-- making shows either a misunderstanding of what is worthy reporting or a misplaced emphasis on finality rather than on progress. If Bethel was offended at not having its side of the negotiations consulted by Pioneer Press, then initiative in telling our side, even if after-the-fact, would be a logical step to take. Instead, our publicity director and the Clarion staff have had to do the toughest investigative reporting on an issue to date this year. That's good for us, but it seems wry to enjoy the thrill of "breaking" a story when the news sources are right here on campus, and the issue is as close to students as their own dormitory rooms. Let's not even mention the residents around old campus, for whom we wash windows each year to prove we care. Risk and trust are two sides of a coin. You have to spend them to get anything in return. To all potential sources of information at Bethel, the Clarion promises to give fair returns. That's our job. But we need your revenue to work. Bethel's image is too important to let people derive from a between-the-lines perusal of outside publicity. If we don't speak up for us, who will? Page 2 Creative faculty publish works by Terri Hanson The joy of accomplishment is worth the pain of creativity ac-cording to several Bethel faculty members concerning their pub-lished works. For example, Florence John-son, the director of publicity for Bethel, has recently written two articles to be published this fall. One, an interview with Elizabeth Elliot will appear in the November issue of The Christian Herald and the other, "Waiting in Line to See King Tut," in the fall bulletin of Field Museum. Although Mrs. Johnson has written numerous publicity arti-cles for Bethel, this is the first time she has ever done any creative writing on her own. She got the idea of doing some creative writing from an exposi-tory writing class she took at Macalester College. Mrs. Johnson does not see herself as a writer, but rather a publicist. "A writer is someone who's really arrived. I'm still learning," she said. Mrs. Alvera Mickelsen, who says she teaches as a hobby and writes as a profession, has just finished writing a children's Bible encyclopedia that will be publish-ed this June by David C. Cook. She has also co-authored (with her husband) "Better Bible Study," a book being used by one of the first level Bible courses. Lorraine Eitel said she hasn't been able to do much writing lately because she's been helping Mrs. Mickelsen write her child-ren's Bible encyclopedia. How-ever, she has written several articles for The Standard, some of which have been reprinted by other magazines, and a chapter in a scholarly book on teaching rhetoric. Tom Correll is in the process of completing three books. One book, on the Eskimos, has already been printed (in part) in a Canadian government paper and as a chapter in the book, "Re-thinking Modernization." He is also working on a book about kinships. This is his first attempt in writing to unify kin-ship, community and Christian-ity. From the political science de-partment, William Johnson, along with John Harrington, has written a book about the metro-politan council, that will be pub-lished by the University of Min-nesota this spring. Because of his knowledge in the political science field, Millard Erickson from the Bethel Seminary asked Mr. John-son to write several articles for the Tyndale Press Family Bible Encylopedia. The encyclopedia deals not only in the Biblical, but several con-temporary issues as well. Mr. Johnson has written articles for it concerning government, interna-tional relations and capitalism. Other Bethel faculty writers include: John Piper whose "Is Self-Love Biblical?" article ap-peared in Christianity Today; Dr. Don Larson who uses his book "Bi-Passing" as a text for his Man, Language and Culture class; and Eugene Glader (inter-viewed earlier by the Clarion) who wrote "History of Amateur-ism: It's History and Philoso-phy." Perhaps Florence Johnson summed it up best when she said, "Writing is hard work. It's scary to look at a blank piece of paper, but somehow it is all worth it when the paper lies finished before you." Swanson lives through odds in Ecuador by Thangi Chhangte Jeff Swanson has survived spinal meningitis with minimal medical treatment. His father, a medical doctor, treated him with antibiotics and penicillin until help arrived. They were stuck in a remote village in the Amazon jungle. Jeff, a 5'10" blonde, trans-ferred from Westmont College, Cal. for this semester. He is a ju-nior and commutes from Rich-field. Dr. Wallace Swanson and his two oldest sons went to Saasaim, a village in east Ecuador, to determine the health needs of the Atshuara Indians. Shortly after their arrival, Jeff came down with a headache and a sore throat. His father gave him antibiotics since there were no other medical facilities nearby. Twenty-four hours later, Jeff was well enough to go hunting with his brother and the Indians. Thinking that all was well, Jeff went ahead with his work the next day. He suddenly had a severe headache while taking a blood sample. "I have never had such a terrible headache," Jeff recalled. Dr. Swanson diagnosed the case as bacterial meningitis but was unable to confirm it. Even though the disease was treated early, Jeff's life was still in danger because they were run-ning out of medical supplies. The nearest radio-station was three days away, on foot. Their airplane was not scheduled to arrive for the next four days. Jeff's father divided up the medication to make it last three more days, so Jeff received only half the required dosage. Dr. Swanson also gave his son peni-cillin injections. Besides the fever and the headache, Jeff had a stiff neck. He was also slightly disori-ented. "I could feel the hand of God acting directly," Jeff said thoughtfully. He said this be-cause of the unusual circumstan-ces. First of all, his father decided to go with them on the spur of the moment. And he also brought extra antibiotics and injectible penicillin, something he doesn't usually do. It was a miracle too that the plane arrived on time. After a gruelling seven-hour trip, Jeff arrived at the hospital in by James Wiegner Quito, Ecuador. He had a spinal Speaker and author Jill Briscoe tap for two days and was treated will bring her wit and wisdom to with massive doses of antibiotics Bethel on Tuesday, Nov. 8. during his ten-day stay at the In the morning convocation ser-mission hospital. vice, Mrs. Briscoe will speak on Jeff lost 18 pounds but he did the topic "There is a Snake in My not lose his life. He said that the Garden." incident made him much more She has authored two popular aware of His presence. books on women entitled "There The Swansons have been living is a Snake in My Garden" and in Ecuador since 1961. Dr. Swan- "Prime Rib And Apple." Both books son was the director for the are in the bookstore. A third book medical department of the HCJB will be published soon. radio-station. They will be return- Mrs. Briscoe was born in Liver-ing to Ecuador in December, pool, England, and graduated along with their two youngest from Homerton College, Cam-children. Jeff's sister Lori is a bridge, England. She taught in freshman at Bethel. His older the public schools for three years brother goes to Luther Seminary. and worked as director of a youth Jeff will be returning to West- club and nursery school for ten mont at the end of this semester. years. by Janice Livingstoned Seagull (3.) Learn the GAMMA ALPHA and Elizabeth Barrett Burnout GAMMA sorority song "I Enjoy Being A Girl," and the GAMMA Unfulfilled funseeking fillies, ALPHA GAMMA cheer; fruitlessly flit no more! Bethel's Your ladies may be foxy, (whoo) first sorority, GAMMA ALPHA But GAMMA girls are so smooth GAMMA (gag), will hold its When you're trucking with our Pledge Week Nov. 7 through 11. fillies To qualify for consideration, Everything's...Frisky. pledges must meet the following requirements: (4.) During Pledge Week one (1.) Develop the ability to recite must never be seen eating any- " Bethel is people" in five Ian- thing but salad and diet Dads and guages and in five seconds or yet gain five pounds. less. 5.) You must purchase at least (2.) Obtain a date with one of the one polyester pantsuit (see Mari-following: lyn Starr). 1.) Pete Ludlow 6.) Convince your R.A. that 2.) Dr. Monte Wolf your roommate has body odor and 3.) James Floyd Grant implore her to "confront" that 4.) Wayne Anthenat roommate. 5.) Bob Love and/or Greg 7.) Be apprehended in Edgren Addington Pit wearing a blueberry facial 6.) Phil Print and/or Bob mask on a Saturday night. Merritt 8.) Attempt to advance place 7.) Mike Anderson out of "Marriage and the Fami- 8.) Steve Hamilton ly" (alternative: write a 500 word Married to Stuart Briscoe, she is mother of three children. One son, Dave, is a freshman at Be-thel. The Briscoe family moved to the United States in 1970 and re-sides in Milwaukee, Wis. There, Mrs. Briscoe has been active as a women's Bible study leader at The Elmbrook Church. In addition, she travels throughout the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa and Canada ministering to a vari-ety of groups. She has recently returned from two months of teaching with her husband in South Africa. She is also the director of "Telling the Truth," a multi-me-dia ministry including radio, tapes and T.V. critical analysis in the November issue of "Modern Bride"). 9.) Meditate during an entire chapel while sitting on a football player's lap. (you may need to divert to the Coffee Shop) 10.) In an audible and distinct manner, ask the reference librari-an for Ralph Nader's research into Mark Eden products. Candidates will also be selected on the basis of smile, walk, flirta-tious ability and a 25 word essay on "what Bethel means to me" (excess verbiage and alliteration welcomed). Pledge Week will culminate in the First Annual GAMMA AL-PHA GAMMA Sorority Tea held in the Royal Oak Room Nov. 11 at five in the p.m. (bring your own tray). For further details of this worthwhile organization contact p.o. 1334 or 1704, or Dr. Jeannine Bohlmeyer, GAMMA ALPHA GAMMA sponsor. "I could feel the hand of God act-ing directly," said Jeff Swanson af-ter surviving a case of spinal meningitis in the jungle of Ecuador. Author Briscoe to speak at chapel convocation Unfulfilled funseeking fillies introduce sorority to Bethel Page 3 John W. Ivance Company qt/01 1618 Pioneer Bldg. 224-7358 John W. !wince, Sr. John W. Nance, Jr. John G. Chisholm Russel Akre INSURANCE Life—Auto—Home Business St. Paul, Mn. 55101 FALCON HEIGHTS PHARMACY 1707 N. Snelling Ave. (Larpenteur at Snelling) 646-4555 9 A.M. to 10 P.M_ Daily (Including Sun.) • Fray prescription delivery to Arden Hills campus • We cash checks for Bethel students with ID. NCATE accepts education program for ten years by Paul A. Olsen Years of hard work by Bethel's education department was re-warded this month. The National Council for Accre-ditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) announced that it will continue to accredit Bethel's programs of elementary and se-condary teacher preparation, at the baccalaureate degree level, for another 10 years. In a letter to President Lund-quist, NCATE made the following unusual statement concerning its examination of the Bethel pro-gram. "In its study of the institution, evaluators found no area where they felt a standard had not been met but found several areas in which it was judged that excep-tional strength existed at the institution." It is highly unusual for a letter of this type to be issued without some direct suggestions for im-provement for the school. But of 22 standards that NCATE uses to evaluate education programs, Bethel exhibited exceptional strength in 12 of them. In all other areas, Bethel's program was up to the standards. This high rating not only bene-fits Bethel's status and public image, but it also profits the graduating teacher. There are 30 states that recog-nize the NCATE endorsement. These states accept Bethel's re-commendation for licensure at face value. Thus there is no difficulty with the various state institutions who must clear tran-scripts before granting a license. Although NCATE accreditation has no direct effect in the Minne-sota licensing process, many school districts look for NCATE as a stamp of approval. Dr. Thomas Johnson, chairman of the education department, summarized the benefits of reac-creditation to the student. Of the most direct importance to the teachers is "the fact that they have that kind of endorsement of MAKE MONEY FAST NO CASH NEEDED SELL HI-FI EQUIPMENT Be our exclusive rep on your campus - ALL BRANDS \NPITE AUDIO OUTLET 325 Pascack Avenue Washington Towns*. New Jersey 07675 Attention Arlene Muzyka (2011 666-8868 Dr. Thomas, chairman of the education dept. the program that they have taken NCATE forms its 22 standards. as being high quality." About two years prior to ex- NCATE is a voluntary national piration of accreditation, the pro-accrediting agency with the goal cess for reaccreditation begins. of controling and improving the The school must submit a self-quality of teacher education. It report that shows how the school establishes standards and then complies with the standards. measures each institution against NCATE then sends a visiting these standards. team which investigates the vali- The standards address such dity of the report. The team areas as program development interviews students, graduates, and conceptualization, student and employers of recent gradu-teaching programs, student ad- ates. It also visits the LRC, mission and retention, and qua- classes and local field-work lity of available resources. schools. The models of acceptance are The visiting team makes a developed by the members of report to an evaluation board NCATE's constituent groups. which, after meeting with school These educators submit need officials, makes a recommenda-assessments which are synthe- tion to the full NCATE council. sized to form a current statement In Bethel's case, the evaluation as to what teacher education boards were obviously satisfied should be. From these ideals, with the department's program. Halloween is the most sentimental holiday for me. More than at any other time of the year I am flooded with memories of littlekidhood. I can remember dressing up as a pirate when I was six back in James-town, North Dakota, and going door to door for five hours in the frost. When I got home my mother would hide most of my grocery sacks filled with candy and ration them out for the next month. I would get all upset because I wanted to eat it all that day. Mom said she didn't want me to get sick. I'd laugh. Who could imagine a more beautiful sickness than one caused by eating 1005 chocolate bars. But the real fun at Halloween was getting scared. I'd love to get scared. Bill Cosby, on one of his old records, talked about sneaking downstairs after everyone was asleep and listening to the horror shows. My childhood followed that same pattern. The ticket man at the Star Theater in Jamestown knew he'd be seeing me at every Vincent Price movie. "The Tingler" and "The Conqueror Worm" were my favorites, cause they managed to scare me under my seat. We knew, though, that it was all a game. We knew that there really wasn't a Frankenstein or Wolfman and that people don't really climb up from the grave. But after years of these harmless games, seeds of belief get planted. By the time I was 19, it had been a few years since trick or treats. I took pride in the fact that I was a man, unafraid of anything, self-sufficient, and secure. Just that past summer I'd sat through an Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival and was singularly bored. Life had ceased to have anything frightening to offer. That autumn, though, I decided to take a year off from college and go to work. I ended up as a night orderly in a small hospital in St. Paul. Now, in this small hospital the night orderly, me, ended up doing a lot of different things. There was a drug rehabilitation unit, a mazimum security psychiatric unit, the medical floors, and last but certainly not least, the house orderly had the keys to the morgue. In time, the men who work in the morgue develop their own sense of humor. Because they are always so close to tragedy, they have to ignore it, to look beyond it, or eventually succumb to raving insanity. Hanging on a wall at the end of the morgue was a black baseball bat. A new employee was always told that if anyone in the vaults ever decided that he didn't like being dead and tried to crawl out, the employee was supposed to crack him good with the baseball bat because the paper work involved in someone rising from the dead would be mountainous: The humor wasn't all that original, but you needed it to survive. One rainy thundering night I got a call at 3:30 a.m. from one of the medical floors telling me that the patient who had broken his back in a fall had just died. He was in such and such a room on the fifth floor, and I could pick him up in 15 minutes. I hadn't been working there long, this wasn't just routine yet. I had to admit that I was nervous. Not scared of course, I've just done telling you that I hadn't been scared since my boyhood. The back elevator seemed to be slower than usual that night, and my eyes were kind of dull at that hour of the morning. I hadn't seen any other human beings in about an hour. I got up to the patient's room and found him wrapped up and waiting. I put him on the gurney and pushed it back to the elevator. The elevator door shut and started down five floors. Suddenly in the dimly lit elevator between the third and fourth floors, the body shuttered. I blinked, no longer sleepy. Just as suddenly, my package sat up in the gurney and began to moan softly. My eyes popped out of their sockets and my knees buckled. I turned and tried to scratch my way through the metal door and nearly succeeded. I turned back and looked at the body still sitting up and moaning, scared completely witless. I began running around and around the gurney in the middle of the elevator. Just as the elevator reached the basement, the body laid back down and was silent. The door finally opened. I was on the floor, frightened to death, complet ly exhausted. There were two people right outside the elevator when they saw my white as ghost face, they started to laugh. At their laughter, I began to suspect that a trick had been played on me, that someone had wrapped themselves up for fun to startle me on the ride down. I sat there on the floor of that elevator and got myself good and furious. I pulled off the cover around the head and then jumped back 10 feet. It really was the man with the broken back!! Later on that night the head nurse took some time to expla:n that a person's reflexes don't die off right away, that muscle spasms sometimes occur hours after death. In this guy's particular case, the especially severe muscle spasms that made him appear to sit up might have been caused by his broken back and his messed up spinal column. When the spasms caused him to sit up, his diaphragm was pushed up, air was forced out through his vocal cords and he moaned. I was relieved to know I was still sane and living in a reasonable world. Page 4 The Bethel orchestra, with Wayne Fritchie conducting his own composition, performed their first concert last Friday, Oct. 28. Faculty requirements stipulate Christian, capable teachers HaalatuYs 'Auto Sales H.qhway 69 North P O Box 241 Forpst City, IA 50436 At Bethel Contact: Chuck Haaland Phone 483-8261, P.O. 2040 Hiring year-round process at Bethel by Phoebe Morgan "I came intending to try two years," chuckled one teacher, "and ended up staying 19. I decided I liked working with Swedish Baptists." Bethel employs about 140 teachers in 15 different depart-ments. They represent a broad scope of background, age, and experience. Some have been here as long as 28 years, while others, fresh out of school, have begun their teaching career this fall. Several commented on why they chose Bethel and what was re-quired of them in the hiring process. "I don't actually recall what I wrote on my application," mused Dr. Jeanine Bohlmeyer. "In fact, I would now probably disagree with much that I wrote, but I do remember vividly my interview. Bethel was still on old campus. There were no sidewalks and I remember walking very carefully on long, narrow planks which lay from building to building sup-posedly covering the mud. "I met with just three people; President Lundquist, Dean Clif-ford Larson, and Jerry Healy. I had lunch with them and after lunch we all went to Minnesota's 100-year-old birthday parade. It was a very relaxing afternoon." Dr. Bohlmeyer has, since then, been on interview committees and noticed a major change in faculty involvement. Now pros-pective teachers sometimes meet many hours with department committees, sometimes teach classes, and interact with stu-dents and faculty. "I think those who come now have a much better exposure to the school, and they should," Bohlmeyer said. "They're not just coming to be a part of a department but of the whole college community." One crucial aspect of Bethel's hiring policy revolves around lifestyle. Several teachers com-mented that the standards Bethel requires both impressed and threatened them as they consid-ered taking jobs here. Jerry Healy, English department chair-man in his 23rd year at Bethel said, "I like to level with those I interview. There is no point in trying to smokescreen Bethel's lifestyle policy just to get good teachers. It's their perogative to choose us as well as ours to choose them." Doc Dalton recalls one man from Iran who was asked to respond to the Christian affirma-tion of faith. He said, "If by that you mean me tolerating your point of view and you tolerating mine, I don't think there is any problem." He wasn't hired. Doc emphasized that teachers here are expected to be spiritual counselors as well as academic leaders. "I've always appreciated Bethel's insistence on hiring competent Christian teachers and not just competent teachers." One teacher, new this fall, recalled her reactions to her interviews last year. "Even though everyone was very polite and warm, it was a demanding time for me. It's a day you really can't prepare for. I knew I was there on 50-50 terms. They were selling Bethel and I was selling myself. "Not only did I need to be sure of my qualifications, but I needed to see my limitations as well. As a result, I was probably more critical of the interview than they were." Craig Schmidt, a new chemis-try teacher, said he was impress-ed with the closeness among the students. Observing the interac-tion on a teacher-student level, he saw the opportunity to share both academically and personally. Another teacher said she felt "built up" after she accepted a teaching position at Bethel. The idea of intergrating her faith with her teaching career was exciting, but so was her commitment to a school that upheld Christian life-style standards. Healy detected one weakness in the current hiring procedures. "Recruitment should be based on the applicants' reactions on their own grounds," he said. An ideal would be to send a department chairman to observe them on their own campus and in their home setting." Doc noted the problem of applicants declining jobs because of low salaries. Most small col-leges like Bethel struggle with their budgets more than larger schools. Obviously Bethel's faculty work for more than the money. As one faculty member concluded, "I've not only committed myself to a small liberal arts college but also. to one with clear Christian val-ues." by Mary Smith Bethel's hiring practices for faculty have changed from pre-vious years. Because of stress on equal opportunities and growth in Bethel's size, it has had to become more systemized. This change has not, though, lessened the care taken in hiring teachers. According to Dean George Brushaber, applicants for faculty positions are expected to (1) be effective teachers with a liberal arts orientation; (2) be competent scholars; and (3) be interested in working with maturing students. The dean stated that hiring is "one of the most important ways to bring influence on an institu-tion." How then does Bethel go about finding potential faculty members? Hiring is a year-round process. Usually at the beginning of the school year, Dean Brushaber asks each department to estimate its needs for new teachers for the following year. The dean then determines what facutly members are in line for retirement, sab-batical leaves, or are to be absent for other reasons. He then brings the requests to the divisional coordinator of each department. The divisional co-ordinator serves in staff relation-ship with the dean and director of academic affairs. Their job in-cludes planning and recommend-ing instructual improvements, ac'd teaching schedules. Requests for additional teach-ers are also brought to the board of regents who decide if finances will permit extra hiring. The regents are composed of 15 members elected by the Bap-tist General Conference who give final approval for hiring full-time faculty. The regents decide which requests are to be filled. Once this is done, they identify to the departments which will re-ceive new faculty members. Next, the dean makes a de-scription of the job and circulates it around. Individuals may also submit applications at this time. A frequent source for Bethel is the Christian College Referral A chorus line at a senior re-cital? A husband and wife dis-agreeing about their budget on stage? A married girl recalling her single days with an uncertain smile? Whatever happened to the hour-and-a-half program of clas-sical song? Cindy Kay Dubie will give her senior recital on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. in the seminary chapel. Cindy, a fifth-year senior, has a special program, "Performing Arts in America." Her recital-re-vue will tell the saga of America's arts through music, drama and Service, composed of 35 colleges linked with a computer listing of job applicants with the person's qualifications and preparations. Monte Wolf in the chemistry department is a current example of a faculty member contacted through this system. Bethel also advertises in the "Chronicle of Higher Learning" for possible candidates. Those individuals that have been selected then come to Bethel to meet with various faculty, students, President Lundquist and Dean Brushaber. They are also interviewed by the Appoint-ment, Promotion and Tenure Committee. This committee rec-ommends promotions, termina-tions, and sabbatical leaves. The procedure is long and often complicated, but Dean Brushaber said, "It's better to be careful at the initial hiring than to deal with the wrong teacher later on." If each of the groups that have interviewed the individual ap-prove the applicant, President Lundquist and Dean Brushaber recommend the individual to the board of regents, who makes the final decision. Dean Brushaber said about his feelings regarding hiring, "It is the most satisfying part of my job." The next step is screening. The prospective faculty member sub-mits transcripts, letters of re-commendations, student evalua-tions and his educational philo-sophy. The screening is made by Dean Brushaber and the departments together. This is done in three steps. The first two include (1) elimination of those unqualified for the position; (2) the identifica-tion of those individuals fully qualified—asking them for an interview. Dean Brushaber travels to their home location to do this, stating, "You see them as they are." He feels people perform better in familiar surroundings. The third screening step is to make a report to the departments to see who is the most likely to be selected. dance. The program includes a chorus line of six singing schoolgirls, tapping their toes to the tune of "The Purity Brigade." Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany, from the play, "Fashion," fight to see who gets the last word. Sighing as she recalls her unattached days, Cin-dy sings the blues, "When I Was Single." Through the songs and sketch-es of her recital, the former Cindy Abbott will put to use her musical and theatrical skills, along with directing a cast of 18. Senior recital to blend music, theatrics Page 5 Orgon [John Ness] in "Tartuffe" observes his wife and Tartuffe from under the table. Patriotic Christian to speak Thursday Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 6:30-9, Sun.-Thurs.; 6:30-10, Fri. & Sat. FEATURE Sizzler- $3.95 A sirloin with rich flavor served on a sizzling platter INCLUDES: soup, juice, salad, potato and warm bread West Coraty Rood E of Snelling Across from Flaherty's Bowl. by Suzi Wells Originally intended as a chil-ling murder mystery, the "Arse-nic and Old Lace" performance is the comic hit that it came to be after the original Broadway show. The play, directed by Larry Whiteley, opened at Chimera Theater Oct. 28. The play is about two elderly sisters who poison lonely old men. They believe that their ac-tion is a charity and a blessing to the lonely gentlemen, but their nephew Mortimer cannot under-stand their reasoning. Mortimer does everything he can to prevent these "charitable" actions from recurring. The play features two Bethel students, Carol Jean Anderson as Elaine Harper, and Al Arasim as Officer O'Hara. Carol, a former member of Doc Rainbow's "Colorful Caravan," effectively captures the romantic and vivacious Elaine. Her role as a supporting actress to the Brews-ter sisters was performed well. Carol has also performed in "The Importance of Being Earnest, – the "Diary of Anne Frank," and "Godspell" at Bethel. Both Esther Olson (Abby Brew-ster) and Nancy Gormley (Martha Brewster) were convincingly sweet and naive as the two sem-ingly harmless spinsters. Abby was portrayed as the dominant sister, yet both retained their in-nocence throughout the play. Peter Moore did an excellent job in his role as Mortimer, the only sane Brewster. He made a smooth transition from Elaine's Bethel debaters take first in meet by Sari Winans Last weekend found the Bethel debate team competing at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls. Three teams competed with the team of Scott Larson-Mike Emerson taking first place in the junior varsity division. Larson and Emerson have proved to be the top team this year. Their record includes plac-ing in the elimination rounds of all the debates they have compet-ed in and second place at North Dakota State in Fargo. The team of Ellie Garrett-Mark Ludwig won four rounds and lost four rounds and has seen much improvement. Ellie noted that many schools were present and there was good competition. The next tournament on the schedule will be Nov. 11 and 12 at South Dakota State in Brookings. These same teams will be corn-peting, as well as some students from the debate class. Assistant Coach Bill Fraatz said that debating is open to anyone, and if students are interested to stop into the speech department and talk to either him or Coach David Lee. lover to concerned nephew to hysterical nephew. William Royce as Teddy (Roos-evelt) Brewster added humor with his cry of "Charge!" and comic dash up a flight of stairs. Glenn Tapley as Jonathan Brewster and Thomas Kegley as Dr. Einstein provided the villainous contrast to the Brewster sisters' sweetness. The costuming of the play re-created the era of the early 1940's. Jonathan and Dr. Einstein looked, as well as acted like a by Shelly Nielsen Becky Jo Jacobson, "Tar-tuffe's" capable stage manager, is optimistic about the show, which opens in Bethel's theatre Nov. 10. "This is going to be the best play Bethel has ever put on," she observed. If the enthusi-asm and hard work of cast mem-bers affects the success of drama presentations, she has prophe-sied correctly. "Tartuffe" did create contro-versy when first produced in 1664. The drama is an attack on hypocrisy, but was interpreted by fanatical religious groups of the period as an assault upon reli-gion. Now you can see Moliere's play—the drama infamous throughout French literary his-tory! The story begins when Orgon, a husband and father, finds Tartuffe, the hypocrite, praying in church. He brings the stranger home to live with his family. The guest proceeds to disrupt the harmony of their household by insisting they follow puritanical restrictions he sets up. He con-vinces the trusting Orgon to let him marry his daughter Mariane, although she is already betrothed to Valere. The hypocrite's final conquest for control over this once-happy family is accomplished when he has so blinded them to his vice that Orgon, to prove his trust, signs over his entire estate to Tartuffe. The villain is finally recognized as the hypocrite he is, but only after his destructive personality has wrought its harm. Bob Lockman, who will be playing the part of the hypocrite in the upcoming production, re-ports bluntly that Tartuffe is "a rat," who "plays upon the hypo-crisies of others." The rest of the cast consists of a potpourri of divergent characters. Rick Talbot portrays Damis, Or-gon's son, who is "hot-headed and insecure." Deb Olson, enact-ing the part of Madame Penelle, Orgon's mother who is last to renounce trust in Tartuffe, calls her character "a windbag who dominates." Kati Blackburn reports that she will present the role of the "snoopy and meddling" maid, Dorine, who's "very down-to-earth." Frankenstein and mad doctor they portrayed. The staging and lighting were good—all three acts occurred in the living room of the Brewster home. Some scenes near the front door were hard to see from one side of the balcony, however, where a rail obstructed the view. "Arsenic and Old Lace" will be playing at Chimera Theater through Nov. 27. For more infor-mation, call Chimera box office at 222-0792. Other talent will be revealed by John Ness, in the character of Monsieur Orgon, by Joyce New-some who plays Elmire, his wife, and by Kathy Larson portraying Mariane, the manipulated daugh-ter. Juan Ramos creates the character of Cleante; Cathy Pen-gra, that of Flipote; and Bill Gee, Valere, Mariane's lover. Tickets to this extravagantly-talented production may be pur-chased at the price of two dollars from 1-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Visit the box office or call 641-6247 for reservations. The gregarious and slightly insane members of "Tartuffe's" cast will be "on display" No-vember 10, 12, and 15-17. Girls contemplating Nik Dag dates may be interested to know that "Tar-tuffe" plays through the all-im-portant weekend of November 18 and 19. This drama production, rumored to be Dale Rott's best thus far, is one every Bethel student should witness. His topic at Pi Gamma Mu is, "The New Evangelical Far Right: Implications for the Christian Community." The Pi Gamma Mu discussion will center around the attempted political organization of the evan-gelical right by such people as Bill Bright of Campus Crusade and Congressman John B. Conlan. Pierard is professor of history at Indiana State University at Terre Haute and now secretary-treasurer (and founder) of the Conference on Faith and History, an association of evangelical his-torians. He has his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. In the Oct. 22, 1976 issue of the Clarion it was reported that 52 per cent of the Bethel community would vote GOP and 27 per cent would vote Democratic. This re-veals the apparent political con-servatism of the students. Pierard is relatively liberal politically, claiming in "The Cross and the Flag" that "the devout Christian must have no part of the radical right." In his article, "Positive Patriot-ism" in the July/August, 1976 issue of Vanguard, Pierard asks the question, "Is patriotism something that Christians must reject as foreign to the spiritual and social ideals of the faith?" Other provocative articles have appeared in The Reformed Jour-nal, Christianity Today and one in Eternity entitle, "King George III for President: Would we support the American Revolution?" Pierard has also been involved in the writing of several books, including: "The Unequal Yoke," "Protest and Politics" and "Poli-tics: A Case for Christian Action." Humorous production features Bethelites by Arlan Swanson "Civil Religion and the Evan-gelical" will be the topic Dr. Richard V. Pierard will address in a convocation chapel on Thurs-day, Nov. 10. Pierard will meet with students for discussion over lunch following chapel. Pierard will talk to several classes, concluding the day by speaking at 8 p.m. to Pi Gamma Mu, a social science organization. Tartuffe's cast members display variety of characters in show Page 6 Freshman Brenda Harris has logged many miles in preparing for this cross-country season [photo by Greg Kuntz]. Freshman Brenda Harris leads cross-country team by Jon Fredrickson Women's volleyball is closing out its regularly scheduled season and getting ready for the playoffs. Bethel had a match against a tough St. Benedict's team in which it narrowly lost. The Royals dropped the first two games, came back to win the third game only to be defeated in a very close fourth game. Some bright spots for the Royals in the contest were Jo Watlov's hard spikes and good Football Scoring Schedule 1:25 1st: B— Selvog 18-yard pass from Tom Klitzke (Paul Lindberg kick) 4:53 2nd: St.O— Quinnell two-yard run (Benson kick failed). 3:36 2nd: St. 0— Mylrea 20-yard return of blocked punt (pass failed) 8:28 3rd: St. 0— Benson 22-yard F.G. 13:36 4th: St. 0—Fiebiger two-yard run (Benson kick) 1:42 4th: St. 0—McKay 40-yard F.G. 1:01 4th: B—Selvog 71- yard pass play from Holm-gren (pass failed) Total Offense: St Olaf — 326, Bethel-207. serves. The J.V. team won its match by taking the first and third games. Good performances were turned in by Joy Sorenson and Debbie Anderson. The varsity record for this sea-son of play is 10-10 while the J.V. stands at 9-5. Co-captain Cindy Ramm will be out for three weeks with a hyper-extended elbow and will miss the state tournament. Janet Peterson and Sue Maxwell will be filling in. by Paul Johnson The intramural football season is over for another year. This year like every year, the intramural office has announced the 1977 football all-star team. Offense: Line—Jeff Larson, Edgren Gold; Al Jones, Fountain Terrace A; Tim Nelson, New Dorm. Ends—Randy Oshima, Townhouse 3; Doug Erickson, Fountain Terrace A. Backs—Dan Dye, Townhouse 3; Mark Waller, Fountain Terrace A. Q.B.—Brian Doten, Townhouse 3. Defense: Kicker—David Fen-derson, New Dorm. Linemen— Dave Broza, Townhouse 3; Wayne Hendrickson, New Dorm; Wade Anderson, New Dorm. Backs—Mitch Duininick, New Dorm; Phil Maes, Off East; Kurt Swanson, Off East; Kevin Frank, by Steve Erickson A freshman, who three years ago was too slow and too weak to run sprints in track, is the star of this year's women's cross-country team. She is Brenda Harris, a elementary education major from Shellrock, Iowa. "My track coach in high school told me to go out for cross-country because it makes you stronger," Brenda said. With a little prac-tice, she began to pass most of the other members on the team. As a senior, Brenda was one of the top runners in her high school. Although the team went to state, she did not fare too well there. Already this year, she has broken Bethel's cross-country (three miles) record three times. Everytime she improves her time, she sets a new Bethel record. Going into last week's meet in Mankato, she brought the old record down from 20:51 to 20:07. She hopes to lower her time to 19 minutes by the end of the season. She heard about Bethel through her conference church. Her cousin and teammate, Gail Anderson, also helped influence her decision. With the season nearly over, except for a game with St. Mary's Nov. 1 at home, the team is getting ready for the state tourna-ment at Macalester College Nov. 4 and 5. The seeding for the tourney has not yet been announced. All 29 teams are eagerly awaiting the decision on where they stand and who they will play. Coach Karyl Frye has been working with the girls hard so that they will reach their peak at the tournament. Townhouse 2; Roger Howell, Fountain Terrace A. Townhouse 3 won the playoff championship this year and Foun-tain Terrace A finished first in regular season action. Fountain Terrace A also showed the best offense this year. They ran up 91 points in just four tilts. New Dorm finished second with 49 points. Edgren Gold and Townhouse 1 turned in the best defenses of the year, each giving up just 6 points. On the other side of the coin, Fountain Terrace B and Edgren Green proved to have the worst offenses of the year. Neither team scored a point all year. Fountain B finished last in defense, giving up 68 points. Edgren Green finished close behind, giving up 56 points. "Running makes me feel good. I feel like I've accomplished something," she said. Brenda has no strategy in run-ning. "I just run and concentrate on making it," she said. In prac-tices, she either jogs a 5-7 mile course'or repeats shorter distan-ces. This year because of sickness and other reasons, the runners have not scored as a team in a couple of meets. Five runners are needed for the team to receive a score. At the moment, Brenda is recovering from the flu. She by G.W. Smith Next year Bethel College will enter full competition in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athle-tic Conference (MIAC). The MIAC has requested that Bethel improve its existing athletic facil-ities. Bethel was invited into the MIAC over a year ago and this year entered competition in all sports but football. The following changes speci-fied by the MIAC relate to Bethel's football facilities. The first change requested is the provision of an indoor facility complete with chalkboards and toilet facilities for both the visit-ing team and officials to occupy during half time. Currently there is no such facility and visiting teams often retire to the shelter of a chartered bus. Secondly, the MIAC has re-quested that there be a spotting tower and telephone hookup from the tower to the bench for both teams. Right now no such con-venience exists. Thirdly, the MIAC has re-quested a press-box meeting MIAC standards. There are se-veral requirements for such a facility including compartments for announcer and scorekeeper, sports information directors, and statistics crews from each team, spotters and phone personnel for each team, a radio announcer and equipment, local press, and op-posing team scouts. Bethel's current facility is in-adequate by MIAC standards. In addition to these require-ments of the MIAC, there are several other improvements that need to be made. According to Bethel Athletic Director "Chub" Reynolds, the present football field is wired for 30 amps of electrical current but needs the services of at least three to four times that much. Another necessity would be the provision of public toilets to replace the existing portable fa-cilities. hopes to be ready for the regional and state meets. Although she ranks as Bethel's best distance runner, Coach Shir-ley Dawson said that is primarily a half-miler. Coach Dawson stat-ed, "She should be one of our top three half-milers next spring." Brenda said that she is not as good in cross-country as she is in track. In high school, she finished tenth in the mile in state compe-tition. Her top time last year was 5:29. Next spring she looks forward to competing in her spe-cialty. A third existing need, accord-ing to Reynolds, regards field space for both practice and com-petition. Discounting the indoor sports, only the football and baseball teams currently practice on Bethel property. Other sports, including intra-murals, use such facilities as Perry Park, Como Park and the fields at Valentine Hills Elemen-tary. But this year Perry Park is unavailable for soccer games due to re-seeding, and its use is questionable for softball in the spring. The athletic department has agreed to pay for a portion of the re-seeding process. Reynolds said, "We are humbly thankful for being able to use that facility the way we've been able to." Considering the cost involved, the athletic department is cur-rently exploring alternatives in order to meet the request of the MIAC. Reynolds pointed out that when Bethel first entered the MIAC it was unaware of having to provide the facilities that are now nece-ssary. Although meeting the re-quirements of the MIAC is a concern, Reynolds is more con-cerned with the facilities available to the campus as a whole. "There is an extreme shortage of practice area for outdoor sports, recreational facilities and intramural fields for the 1865 students that are enrolled at Bethel this year." Reynolds estimated that about 500 students each year participate in some form of jogging program and that Bethel has facilities that could be developed into an excel-lent jogging trail. He also pointed out that the Ramsey County Sheriff recently issued a directive against jogging on the roadway. "The first priority of the ath-letic department," said Reynolds, "is the development of fields for classes, intramurals and jogging trails for all Bethel students, not just the athletic community." Spikers prepare for tournament Football all-star selections released by intramural office MIAC requests that Bowls improve football facilities Page 7 St. Olaf defender finds success in relieving John Selvog of a pass reception line [photo by Greg Kuntz]. Freshman kicker-punter Paul Lindberg launches another fine punt against Oles. [photo by Greg Kuntz]. Page 8 Oles crush Royals in MIAC confrontation Kickers avenge earlq season loss to Augies by Greg Kuntz St. Olaf College rushed for 281 yards and held the Bethel Royals to a scant nine yards of rushing. In the second half, the Oles man-handled Royals 25-13 at Manitou field in Northfield last Saturday. St. Olaf nearly doubled the Royals in time of possession and dominated the line of scrimmage in both offense and defense. Sophomore quarterback Lonnie Holmgren completed six of 14 passes for 113 yards. Senior flanker John Selvog caught two for Bethel's T.D.'s, one from running back Tom Klitzke on an option in the first quarter. The Royals tallied first on Klitzke's touchdown pass to Sel-vog who was wide open in the Ole end zone. The senior flanker caught a pass from Holmgren shortly before, but it was ruled incomplete on the basis that it barely touched the ground. Sel-vog caught passes totaling 100 yards in all. St. Olaf went ahead to stay a little more than a minute later, when a Lindberg punt from the Bethel 20 was rejected by Ole linebacker John Nahorniak. It was picked up by Dave Mylrea who ran it in. St. Olaf's sophomore halfback, Mark Quinnell, who led all indi-vidual rushing with 77 yards, plunged into the Bethel end zone from two yards out late in the second quarter for the Oles' first T. D. The Royals hardly had the ball again and had to punt several away as they couldn't put a major drive together. It wasn't until a little more than a minute to play in the game that the Royals tallied again on Selvog's long sprint to the end zone. Ole cornerback Mark Jacobson suffered a broken leg on the play. Lonnie Homgren was sacked several times, especially in the second half. The Royals lost three fumbles, besides the blocked punt, putting St. Olaf in good field position. Defensive backs Russ Ander-son and Randy Fredin broke up two potential Ole touchdown passes late in the game. "It was frustrating. We just didn't have it today," said Holm-gren. Ole Coach Tom Porter said, "We had better control of the line of scrimmage and put together a good ground game. We have respect for Bethel—they'll be tough in the M.I.A.C. This was a big game, but we hope our bigger one is next week against St. John's." Coach Steve Payne said, "They knew what we'd do, and they controlled our offense." Co-captain Mike "Spike" An-derson said, "They trapped us on the inside and ran all over the place." "We didn't read the tackles well and didn't have the ball enough to get anything going," said Coach "Chub" Reynolds. "We were out fundamentally. They blew us off the line of scrimmage, and they confused and influenced our line. They came at our outside linebackers on the rush." St. Olaf is third in the nation in defense against the rush, allow-ing an average of 68 yards. The Royals, now 5-2, face scrappy Concordia (St. Paul) to-morrow at 1:30 p.m. for the season finale at home in Bremer Field. "Concordia's a good team and they're better than last year," said Coach Reynolds. "They'll do anything to beat us." This loss dampened any hopes for the Royals to play in a N.A.I.A. post-season bowl game this season. "This was the single most important game to us—and one that I've ever been involved with here," said Coach Reynolds. "We have over 10 seniors gra-duating so we'll be ready," said "Spike" Anderson. by Becky Dye Amid a host of fans and approximately 90 runners, the Bethel men's cross-country team finished seventh in the 1977 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athle-tic Conference Meet at Como Park Golf Course last Saturday. Bethel harriers, competing for their first time in the MIAC, finished ahead of St. Marys and tied with Gustavus. Coach Gene Glader said, "I feel the guys did as well as could be expected with their abilities. We're a young team. We were hoping to beat St. Mary's and Gustavus—we tied Gustavus. It was a realistic goal. Anything above that would have been a surprise." There were nine schools parti-cipating. Hamline was first with 37, St. Olaf next with 55, St. Thomas 85, St. John's 104, Concordia 163, Macalester 169, Bethel 203, Gustavus 203, and St. Mary's 231. Captain Curt Brown, who fi-nished with a time of 27:44, said by G.W. Smith Earlier in the season, the Beth-el soccer team lost to Augsburg College 5-0. Last Saturday the Royals avenged that loss, defeat-ing Augsburg 1-0 on the Royals' Bremer field. The Royals struggled with themselves in the first half of last Saturday's contest. Their passes lacked the usual crispness and their play lacked the usual enthu-siasm and hustle. When under pressure, fine de-fensive play prevented Augsburg from scoring. But the Royals "The course was nice. Usually when someone thinks of this Como course, the first thing they think of is the long hill, but in the five miles you only run up it twice. I felt good." Phil Schwiezer remarked, "I saw a guy from St. Mary's that beat me last time. When I recognized him I told myself, he's not going to beat me this time." It was one of the few meets this season where the fans outnum-bered the participants. Brent Friesen, who finished slightly behind Curt Brown with a time of 27:59 stated, "I like these big meets. You're always running with someone, and I love the support and encouragement from the spectators." The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, District 13 meet will be held tomorrow at the Como Park Golf Course at 11 a.m. Participants will include a few state schools in addition to all the schools in the MIAC. failed to establish their own offensive punch and the half ended in a 0-0 tie. In the second half the momen-tum shifted. Passing accurately, the Royals quickly gained control of the game and forced the Augies to make costly mistakes. Twice Augsburg players were yellow carded (a warning delivered a player prior to expulsion from the game), and twice the Augs-burg forwards caught the Royals with an open net, only to miss the shot. As the battle ensued, Augs-burg began to experience frustra-tion. No longer in control of the game, they resigned themselves to a defensive contest. But the Augsburg defense wasn't enough. With ten minutes of playing time remaining and the score still tied 0-0, sophomore Dave Nolan scored for Bethel on a corner kick from teammate "Milt" Ander-son. Anderson's kick disappeared in a crowd in front of the Augsburg net and reappeared when Nolan headed the loose ball past the Augsburg goalie. Augsburg attempted to muster an offensive threat to tie the game, but didn't succeed. The Royals, charged by Nolan's score, stole the ball from Augsburg and nearly scored a second goal in the remaining minutes. At the final whistle Bethel still led 1-0. Against St. Thomas on Wed-nesday, October 26, the Royals lost 3-2. St. Thomas scored the winning goal early in the second half on a direct penalty kick. Greg "Homer" Thom scored both of the Royals' goals in that game. Harriers finish seventh in conference meet at Como |
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