Clarion 1977-11-04 Vol 53 No 08

              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.
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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?
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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
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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
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the program that they have taken NCATE forms its 22 standards.
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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
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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.
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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
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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