Clarion 1979-11-02 Vol 55 No 08

              Dennis L. Johnson, senior, is presently campaigning for the
Minnesota District 4B House seat.
Completion of Roster
credited to students
j Inside...
Nik Dag opinion,
p. 2
Proclamation will sing next Friday at 8:15 p.m. in the gymnasium for an SMP benefit (Photo
Kurt Christenson).
SMP to feature Proclamation finale
the Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 8 Bethel College St. Paul, MN Nov. 2, 1979
Johnson announces candidacy
by Juan Ramos
Dennis L. Johnson, a 21-year-old
senior political science major
at Bethel, has decided to declare
his candidacy for the Indpendent
Republican endorsement for the
Minnesota House of Represen-tatives.
Johnson gave two reasons for
making this decision. First, it will
give him the chance to put his
education into action. "I feel that
there is a real role for Christians in -
politics," he said.
Second is his sincere interest for
the development of rural Min-nesota,
specifically district 4B
which he will represent if elected.
There are 30,000 to 40,000 people
in this district, which includes his
hometown of Motley, Minn.
Johnson, who will be 22 by elec-tion
time, admits he is young, but
the death of his father two years
ago and the struggle he and his
family have emerged from to keep
the family business intact have
allowed him to mature rapidly. He
by Scott A. Barsuhn
Friday, November 9, SMP will
be hosting a benefit concert at
8:15 p.m. in the gym, featuring
Proclamation.
SMP (Summer Missionary Pro-ject)
is a Bethel organization that
raises the financial support
SMPers will need and sends them
out for a summer serving ex-perience
with different mis-sionaries
around the world. This is
a costly task, and even with
Wednesday chapel offerings ad-ditional
income is always needed.
feels that his age is "not a detri-ment,
but an asset."
When Glen Sherwood, the in-cumbent
representative for the 4B
district of the Minnesota House of
Representatives announced last
spring that he would not seek
another term, Johnson decided to
declare his candidacy for the posi-tion.
Johnson has not officially an-nounced
his candidacy as yet. He
plans to wait until November or
December or possibly until next
February, which is caucus time, to
do so. This will give him the op-portunity
to get better press
coverage.
Johnson is presently visiting
delegates and alternates to the In-dependent
Republican party as
well as supporters of Sherwood
with the hope that they will sup-port
Johnson at the endorsement
convention next April.
As time draws near to the en-dorsement
convention, Johnson is
also concentrating on becoming
familiar with the pertinent issues
The benefit will be a special
treat, featuring the final concert
of the group Proclamation. This
past summer Proclamation toured
for two-and-one-half months in
Japan for World Mission of the
Baptist General Conference.
Many times they would sing two
and three concerts a day in chur-ches
and Bible studies. They also
toured in California for the Bethel
Admissions Office.
Coming to the Bethel communi-ty
with a rich mission experience
in Japan and ministry experience
in California, they should per-of
the 4B district and deciding
where he stands on those issues.
He has estimated that a good
campaign will cost him about
$10,000 in district 4B. The present
state law limits the cost to $7500
with approximately $1000 to
$1500 from public financing.
"I'll put together a finance
committee, and we'll explore
areas where past candidates have
gotten their funds," said
Johnson. He intends to keep
financing from special interest
groups to a minimum and put his
focus on support from concerned
individuals in the • district and
elsewhere.
Johnson hopes to initiate an
organization that will aid him in
bringing Bethel students to his dis-trict,
to help him in his campaign-ing
efforts.
Not eliminating the possibility
of defeat in the endorsement or
election phase, Johnson's alter-nate
plans are seminary, graduate
work in political science or spen-ding
at least a year in Israel at the
Institute of Holy Land Studies.
form an exciting concert.
Feeling that their ministry
together is accomplished, and now
pursuing separate ministries, this
will be the final chance to hear
them in concert, and an excellent
way to support SMP. There will
be no admission cost, but a free-will
offering will be taken.
by Ken Wanovich
When the Bethel Roster was
handed out last week, it signaled
the completion of five months of
work for the Roster staff.
Traditionally, the student af-fairs
office puts out the Roster en-tirely
on its own. In recent years
the Roster budget has been
transferred to student senate, who
paid for most of the Roster. A stu-dent
then coordinated production
of the Roster, working closely
with the student affairs office.
Last year the Roster was con-tracted
to an outside corporation.
The printing quality of the Roster
was so unsatisfactory it had to be
reprinted.
This year, Bethel students Greg.
Kaihoi, Rob Johnson, Suanne
Hawkins, and Kurt Christenson
worked together to produce the
Roster. Kaihoi said, "I took the
job about the middle of last May.
The student senate and student af-fairs
office contacted me to see if I
would coordinate this year's
Roster."
Johnson agreed to coordinate
the graphics, Hawkins sold adver-tisements
to supplement the
budget, and Christenson and his
staff coordinated the photography
during registration.
This year the Roster cost ap-proximately
$7,500, said Kaihoi.
Student senate budgeted $6,000
for it. An additional $1,000 was
raised through the selling of
advertisements and the student af-fairs
office supplied additional
money to pay for Rosters for
faculty members. Students'
Rosters are paid for by their tui-tion.
"A lot of work went into mak-ing
the Roster," said Johnson.
"The first week in October we
received a computer printout of
the complete student body. When
the pictures came back from the
printers, we pasted the pictures on
the sheets."
When students had their pic-tures
taken, they signed their
names on a list. "Greg put in a lot
of hours writing names on the
back of pictures and cutting them
out, getting them ready to paste
on," said Johnson. "The deadline
for getting this to the printer was
October 8, 1979. We picked the
earliest date possible so it would
come out as fast as possible. We
thought it would be nice to have it
out before Nik Dag."
"There should be 1986 students
in the Roster," said Kaihoi.
"However, some people who
registered dropped out of school
in the first couple of weeks. We
whited out their picture and infor-mation
because they are no longer
at Bethel."
cont on page 3
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letters
Editing of explicits inconsistent
editorial The Clarion staff regrets the absence of an extensive opinion but we,
like everyone else, have been overcome by Nik Dag. We believe a picture
is worth a thousand words.
Roster hits deadline
earns student praise The Clarion applauds Greg Kaihoi and his staff for a well-done and
punctual Roster. General feeling on campus is that this year's Roster is
the best yet, and we agree.
The roster, implemented as a low-cost alternative to Bethel's extinct
yearbook, The Spire, fills its role as a directory and yearbook well.
Kaihoi, Johnson, Christenson, Hawkins and the rest deserve our con-gratulations
and thanks. the Clarion
Vol. 55 No. 8 Nov. 2, 1979
The Clarion is published weekly by the students of Bethel Col-lege.
Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion
staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Paul Olsen, Editor
Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Production, Doug Barkey, Photography Editor
Carolyn Olson, Graphics, Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager
Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts, Jay Russell, Staff Writer
Dear editor:
This letter is in reference to
"The Other Side of The Moun-tain,
Part II." No doubt the
viewers Saturday night noticed
that several words and scenes were
missing from the movie.
Apparently certain individuals
considered themselves mature
enough to decide for the student
body what they should or
shouldn't see. However this is not
our point.
Our innocence was visciously
violated and our rights stomped
upon when we had to view those
less-than moral scenes and listen
to the offensive words while we
edited the movie. Many of the
scenes and words were beyond our
frame of reference, so we didn't
understand them.
Nevertheless we all felt a sense
of guilt after we had made the first
few edits. We put our heads
together and brainstormed as to
how we could avoid this sense of
guilt. Finally we hit upon an in-novation
that will no doubt go
down in history of all Christian
Audio/Visual departments as a
breakthrough.
We decided to edit everything in
reverse, thereby avoiding any of-fensive
words. What a relief,
editing "maddog" instead of its
reciprocal!
Seriously, we feel that if secular
films are to be shown, the entire
film should be shown. We should
either do this or stick to films
marketed by Christian producers.
Doug Barkey
David Naegele
Dear editor,
I just wanted to say "thanks"
to everyone in charge of the won-derful
disco atmosphere at Bethel
skating.
You know, when I first came to
Bethel and found out there was no
disco dancing, I was really crush-ed!
But then I found out about
disco skating here at Bethel.
At Friday night skating, there is
usually disco music and always
disco lighting to be counted on.
Why, just the other day a couple
of real drips asked for "Deep Pur-ple"
by Donny and Marie. The DJ
asked if it was disco, but the two
Kelly Bagley
Kurt Pegors
Dan Osgood
P.S. The other side of "The Other
Side of the Mountain" will be
shown in LRC 501 at 8:00 p.m.,
Nov. 3.
losers had to concede that it was
not. In fact, it wasn't even too
fast. So, fortunately, the DJ
didn't play it. Boy, was I glad.
I would like to see some Chris-tian
disco come out—songs about
picking up girls at church bazaars,
or about gay monasteries. Per-haps
then we could really get
down, and satisfy the conservative
types at the same time.
Forever boogying,
Teresa Worrell, PO 1535
P.S. just kidding
Letters cont. on page 3
Disco skating atmosphere
enhances college life
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Sue Stone, vice president, are chairing a session (Photo Steve Paulson).
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Activities center
undergoes change
by Shari Goddard
Two of Bethel's eight speech
competitors placed in the finals of
the B.W. McAurther Tournament
at River Falls last Saturday. Bethel
also scored two semi-final 'place-ments.
Senior Scott Larson took se-cond
in the communication anal-ysis
competition and was a semi-finalist
for persuasive speaking.
Ira King, junior, took fifth out of
38 competitors in the poetry divi-sion
and Terry Beck, senior, was a
semi-finalist for persuasive
speech.
Ira King interpreted "Bells," by
Edgar Allen Poe, to win his fifth
letters
Dear editor:
I don't like to sound negative,
and I am saddened by those who
rant about problems without first
working toward a solution on
their own. In this case I have tried
to help and am trying again.
I feel badly that so few Bethel
people take advantage of the arts
presented at Bethel. Last Saturday
night I saw "Antigone" on
Bethel's stage and was moved by
place position. "I felt good be-cause,
in the semi-final and final
rounds, I saw the best competition
I've ever seen anywhere," King
said.
Coach Rod Broding thought
the meet went well. "I'm pleased
with the development students
have shown. We've had people
competing in the final rounds of
every tournament. And, it's not
always the same people. The new
members of the competition have
shown some encouraging
strength," Broding said.
Other competitors included:
sophomore Marjo Wahlstrom,
persuasion; junior Sherry Knautz,
persuasion; senior Peter Nelson,
the energy and intensity of the ac-ting.
It has a great deal to offer.
Ticket sales have been slow for
the two plays running through
Nov. 17, and I don't know why.
Bethel's theatre production, and
indeed the fine arts in general, are
as exciting as ever.
The cost is very minimal and I
hate to see so many people missing
out because of mere laziness.
Sincerely,
David Shelley
persuasion; senior Denny John-son,
persuasion; and sophomore
Colleen Campbell, prose and poe-try.
Thirty-eight schools competed
in the tournament.
Roster, cont. from page 1
"All students at Bethel have
their names and information in
the Roster," Kaihoi said, "but we
didn't get all the pictures. There
are about 40 students without pic-tures
this year, compared to 98
last year. Having pictures taken in
the registration line cut down on
students without pictures.
"Every year there is an effort to
get every student's picture into the
Roster," said Kaihoi. "But you
have to strike a balance between
the cost of the photographer, and
how much it's worth to track
down those extra people.
"There were just over 2500
copies of the Roster printed," said
Kaihoi. "That may sound like we
have a lot of extra copies, but we
need just about 2000 copies for
students presently enrolled, 100 to
150 copies for incoming students
second semester, and approx-imately
300 copies for faculty and
staff."
Johnson views the purpose of
the Roster as, "a community tool
people can use to contact each
other during the school year, and
after school is out."
Being the director of graphics,
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"In the next couple of weeks,
Bethel students should begin th
see some definite changes in teh e
student activities center," said
Dave Horn, director of residence
life.
The most important change in
the center will be use of the listen-ing
room (the tiered room en-closed
on the east side of the cen-ter).
"Its main function will be to
serve as a study center and a stu-dent
arts gallery," said Horn.
"The room will also be available .
for student organization meetings.
It is an excellent facility and I'd
like to see students make full use
of it."
All student organizations are
encouraged to contact Horn if
they want to reserve the listening
room. It will be available most
evenings, depending upon how
much it will be used for study pur-poses.
The center will be open on
weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to
chapel, and then from chapel to
Johnson designed the cover, laid
out all the advertisements, and
created the Roster's cartoon
character. "Rob's creation of the
cartoon character was meant to
lighten up the book," said Kaihoi.
The lion he chose is listed in the
Roster as 'King of the Campus' to
go along with the Bethel Royals.
"Some of the people on the
cover are people who worked on
the Roster but didn't get any
credit for it," said Kaihoi.
"Others are upperclassmen, and
were chosen randomly. When
Kurt took the Roster pictures, two
pictures of each student were
delivered to me. One picture was
taken to the printer and half
tones—dot prints—were made.
The originals were used for I.D.
pictures, and the half tones were
pasted into the book.
"In order to get the effect
desired on the cover, we had to
use original pictures," said
Kaihoi. "Since all freshmen need-ed
their pictures for their I.D.'s,
Rob and I randomly picked out
people we knew to be up-perclassmen.
Most of them didn't
know they would be on the cover
10:30 p.m. The facility will not
only be closed, but locked during
chapel. On weekends, it will be
open from 12:00 p.m. to 10:30
p.m.
The game room, originally lo-cated
in the middle of the facility,
was moved to the smaller room on
the west side of the center to keep
noise at a minimum. Already
sporting foosball, ping-pong, and
pool tables, the room may soon
see more action with the addition
of a few small electric games.
A committee composed of
members of the student senate has
been formed to effect these
changes. "It is my feeling that a
student activities center should be
student run," said Horn.
He said that the committee's
ideas and suggestions concerning
the improvement of the center will
be of more importance than the
part they play in policy making.
The committee has met twice,
with Horn as coordinator, to dis-cuss
ways to make the center a
better facility.
until it came out."
"This year's Roster is
different," said Johnson, "be-cause
it has its own personality."
"The biggest improvement we
were striving for was in the
graphics," said Kaihoi.
- Senior Brad Nelson said, "I
think this is the best Roster in the
five years I have been at Bethel.
The cover is what the Roster is all
about—phones and people. The
Pink Panther is very creative and
adds a lot of humor to the
Roster."
Junior Judy Austring said, "It
turned out really nice. The
lighting was much better this year.
You can actually see what the peo-ple
look like. The advertisements
are informative and useful to the
students too."
Sheri Stevens, junior, enjoyed
the promptness of the Roster.
Sheila Bennett, a second year
Bethel student, said, "I like the
bigger pictures this year, which
they didn't have last year. I also
think the panther is cute."
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Johnson's ministries
include Grace Chapel
by Patty Sutton
"The key is maintaining ba-lance
and organization," said
Randy Johnson, instructor in
philosophy, responding to the
question of how he keeps his san-ity
while fulfilling a hectic sche-dule.
Johnson teaches three classes.
Two of these classes are Man and
Morality, one of them taught at
the Midway School of Nursing.
He also teaches Society and Mo-rality
which is a new class for him.
Johnson is a part-time pastor at
Grace Baptist Chapel. It is a di-verse
mix of 50-70 people that is
rapidly growing in size. The
church consists of community
residents and is located near the
state capitol in St. Paul.
"I see ministry as trying to meet
the total needs of the person,". he
said. At church he is responsible
for the Sunday worship service, a
weekly Bible study and coordinat-ing
the various ministries.
To carry out his idea of total
ministry, Johnson not only per-forms
his pastoral duties but is in-volved
in the activities of the com-munity
around the church, even
though he lives 20 minutes away in
North Minneapolis.
He is a member of the Board of
Capitol Community Services and
the Crime Prevention Task Force
for District 6. He also chairs the
Chapel and Spiritual Life
Committee at Bethel.
Johnson and his wife Laura
have been married for eight years
and have a six-year-old son named
Aaron. Johnson said, "I have a
general rule not to be away from
my family more than two evenings
a week."
He tries to allow time for all as-pects
of life: spiritual, vocational,
physical, educational, and per-sonal,
including family and out-side
relationships.
"On a practical level I keep a
daily calendar of things to do, a
monthly calendar of dates for
each committee, faculty and task
force meeting and a semester ca-lendar
for class preparation," said
Johnson.
He leaves blank space for his
calendar for flexibility. That way
he can interact with people and do
spur-of-the-moment things.
"Balance and organization
have maintained me," said John-son,
"but I'm trying to slow down
to meet some needs I've discover-ed.
Relationships and reflection
are important."
Johnson also said he felt that
"busy schedules can be an excuse
for not dealing with people and re-flecting
on life."
Although he is not taking class-es
anywhere this year, Johnson
believes education is important
and spends time reading new ma-terial
each evening. He doesn't
have his Ph.D. and said that he
won't- start working on it yet.
"My firgt commitment is
church ministry," said Johnson.
This will probably be his last year
at Bethel since he's not studying to
receive his Ph.D.
He said, "I will stay at Grace
Chapel because it is growing and I
feel a call and commitment to it."
If he quits teaching here, he will
look for part-time employment.
"The most important things are
including all the components of a
balanced life in the proper order
but not being so rigid one can't do
fun things and develop relation-ships,"
Johnson said.
. by Susan Peterson
Cost is one of the major reasons-fewer
concerts are on campus this
year. "They're expensive to put
on, and a lot of hard work," said
Mary Beth Larson. She and Bob
Schmidt are this year's Campus
Coordinators.
"It's not that we're afraid of
hard work, but we have to watch
where the money goes," added
Larson. To get a big-name perfor-mer
like B. J. Thomas costs
around $11,000 while Bethel's en-tire
budget is only $19,000.
Besides cost, Bethel's gym holds
1,900 people. Big names can draw
8,000 at the Civic Center. "We'd
have people pounding on the
doors wanting to get in," said
Larson.
Some complaints were received
regarding the homecoming con-cert
being off campus. "Hearing
that Keith Green was going to be
in town, we tried to get him to
come to Bethel," said Schmidt.
"The fact is, we could have had
him here, but the gym was needed
for the alumni banquet."
Schmidt added that to compete
with Keith Green by scheduling
another artist seemed foolish.
This year there is a concert on
campus every month and a half.
"The students get more excited
about concerts when there are
fewer of them," said Larson.
"They look forward them more."
Rob Johnson and Cheryl Staur-seth
(last year's Campus Coordin-ators)
booked five concerts last
ye'ar - and recommended that only
three be scheduled this year. How:
ever, four are upcoming.
Bethel will play host to Kathy
Lee Johnson on Nov. 10, Dan
Peek on Jan. 26, Found Free on
March 1, and Randy Stonehill/
Daniel Amos on April 11. "They
are really excellent performers but
they're not well-known," said
Larson.
The CC office is promoting
some off campus concerts also.
The Imperials concert on May 3
will be the last one for which tick-ets
will be sold.
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Bethel's English department in-cludes
"no back-of-the-bulletin
verse" in its Christian poetry an-thology,
said Lorraine Eitel,
department chairperson.
The department has been work-ing
for about a year on its collec-tion
of 350 poems. The poems
date from the earliest times to the
present: "From the anonymous,
Middle Ages to modern T.S.
Eliot," Eitel said.
Each member of the depart-ment
selected poems written dur-*
ing the time period in which
he/she specializes. They worked
to compile a collection of high
quality poems with "some Chris-tian
theme," said Eitel. They fo-cused
on the poem itself—whether
it presented such a theme—not on
the orthodoxy of the poet.
All the poems have been select-ed
and typed, copyrights have
been secured, and the volume is in
a preliminary proofreading stage.
The tentative title is "Masters of
Religious Poetry," to be released
by Fleming H. Revell Publishing
Company, New Jersey, sometime
around Christmas, 1980. The vo-lume
will be hard-bound and cost
about $12.
"Masters" began as a response
to student requests for Christian
poems for oral interpretation
classes. Students need poems that
have high quality but are easy to
grasp without a literature back-ground
or a great deal of study.
Teachers found it hard to come
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up with such poems off-hand, and H. Revell Company last fall.
discussed the possibility of assem- Eitel believes the volume will be
bling a collection of their favorites well-received on the Christian
for their own reference. The idea market. "It will find a real va-blossomed
and department cuum in the evangelical domain,"
members wrote to publishers and she said, as a resource book for
received a contract from Fleming ministers or a gift book.
Lorraine Eitel reviews selections in preparation for the upcom-ing
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Lonely? Maybe you
have too many 'friends'
by Doug Barkey
Loneliness haunts the smiles and the dry trickles of laughter that seep
from Bethel's dark halls. It's an emptiness that the visitor won't notice.
It's a harsh slap in the face to those who dare to honestly and vigorously
examine their relationships with other students.
As the freshman arrives for Welcome Week he is confronted with a
barrage of people who apparently are eager to meet and know him.
Hundreds of people are introduced and hundreds of names are for-gotten.
What results, quite naturally, is a host of relationships that are barely
valid, as such. The few people that really seem to be valued are usually
roommates and a few select others.
Roommates, however, can only with much difficulty begin a true
friendship—one in which the barriers that each individual erects are
forever demolished and in their place communication freely flows.
At first, the basic problem is to dissolve the image that each room-mate
would like to project. Each one is interested in being accepted by
the other.
Once acceptance occurs, tensions relax, but friendships do not form. -
They are not created because each person sees his roommate as just that.
Outside of the context of the dorm or townhouse a relationship does not
exist. The roommate relationship is not whole and therefore not a
friendship. This is, of course, a general rule—no doubt there are excep-tions.
The few others that each individual selects for special attention are
also related, in certain contexts, to the classroom, work, sport, etc...If a
person works hard at it and manages to successfully bring a relationship
out of the context it was born in, something beneficial may result.
An example is in order and here is a very simple one. On the way to
Rosedale you sit next to a girl on the bus who is in your anthropology
class. The subject of the conversation will never fail to revolve around
the anthropology course and possibly a few other cliches such as:
"What else are you taking," "What's your major," etc.
Even though the relationship has been taken out of the classroom it
still exists solely in the context of anthropology. When you get off the
bus you hope you never have to sit by that person again because the con-text
is so restricted as to make conversation painfully uncomfortable.
Had you asked her how her family was doing or shared a favorite Bi-ble
verse with her, she might have felt uncomfortable. It would be very
difficult for her to relate to you outside of the classroom subject. What
inevitably develops is a myriad of relationships that only exist in certain
contexts and none that the individual can relate to all the time. The per-son
is surrounded by people, but is actually all alone.
Some people graduate without ever becoming aware of their loneli-ness.
Others discover it after only a few months of experiencing our
"community." There are several ways this awareness occurs, but I'll on-ly
mention two.
One is when two individuals meet outside of their context. Lets say
two roommates meet during the summer by accident. They will very
quickly run out of things to talk about after they have given Bethel the
once-over. They will simply run out of things to say, because there is no
subject they share which doesn't have something to do with Bethel.
Another situation that illustrates an individual's loneliness is his sud-den
realization that he knows what people are (function), but doesn't
really know who they are (true self). "Oh, that Suzie...she's a
cheerleader...I believe she plays in the band also..." It is impossible
even at the best times to not be occassionally lonely, but there are a few
things you can do to remedy the situation.
It has been my experience that the more people one meets, the less
people one gets to know. The freshmen are especially eager to meet
more people, but if you spread your attentions too thin, nothing will
result that is of value.
Absolutely necessary, if a friendship is to survive, is that the relation-ship
be forced out of context. This will either make it or break it. If it
breaks—it wouldn't be worth much anyway.
Take a little time out of your "I'm busier than thou" schedule and
just listen. The saying that "it is more blessed to give than to receive"
does not apply to friendship. The more a person tells you about
him/herself, the closer that person will beCome.
In conclusion, don't overestimate your relationships. You will have
many acquaintances during your stay at Bethel, but very few friends.
Your loneliness will not be satisfied by, those .rnany, but by the few.
Wanted: snow, delivered to Bethel (Photo Doug Barkey).
Poetry text done, set for publication
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The classical Greek tragedy "Antigone" is updated by Bethel thespians. "Antigone" will be
running through Nov. 17 in Bethel's experimental theatre. Good seats are available at the theatre
box office (Photo Steve Paulson).
D.C.'ers face 'Christian politics'
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by Joy Nannette Banta
The lure of our nation's capital
captured three Bethel students for
one semester under the Christian
College Consortium Program in
Washington, D.C. The three be-ing
seniors Jim Torgerson, Kathy
Sears and Sharon Trucker.
By way of return mail these
three were interviewed about their
stay in D.C. The prevalent feeling
throughout the interview was that
they are having a fantastic time.
Wrapped up in classes that run
a month each, Torgerson, Sears
and Trucker are focusing on the
responsibilities of the Christian
toward politics. "Our classes deal
with how we live out the decisions
we make regarding politics and
our involvement in the system,"
said Sears.
SALT II has been a prime point
of discussion in their classes, first
from a domestic view and then
from a larger perspective. "We've
been hearing many different view-points—
secular and Christian—
from those who want disarma-ment
to those who want peace
through strength," Trucker said.
Torgerson said, "Although
some of the guest lecturers treat us
like eighth graders on occassion,
for the most part our seminars are
superb." According to Trucker
the seminars are "very mind ex-panding
and challenging."
The three share the opinion that
watching the "system" firsthand
has been an experience in itself.
Trucker, a history major, said
that seeing one aspect of where
historians work and what they do
has been good for her. Her intern-ships
has her working in the Sen-ate
Historical office.
Torgerson considered the rela-tion
between his political science
major and his Washington exper-ience
"tenuous," but `_`the regis-trar
is giving me credit in that
category nonetheless," he said.
Sears said that her decision to
come to Washington had no direct
relation to her speech-communi-cation
major. "It just fit into my
program," she said.
They unanimously agreed that
the dynamics of the group they are
studying with is definitely an asset
to the program—that group being
the three of them plus a few
others. The group and "the ex-citement
of being close to the ma-jor
area of political debate and
ferment in the world today, the
proximity of a vast array of uni-que
cultural and historical trea-sures
set in a basic context of a
challenging curriculum, combine
to make the entire experience ex-ceptional,"
Torgerson said.
The internships that have been
designed for them suit each indi-vidual,
such as Trucker's work in
the Senate Historical Office and
Sears' work with the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
hearings and the Senate Armed
Services Committee hearings.
"We have history majors,
English, business, speech-com-munication,
and political science
majors here. This program isn't
limited. If someone is afraid to
come because they don't know
anything about politics, don't be
afraid. You'll learn first-hand,"
said Trucker.
Torgerson added, "I support
the program very enthusiasti-cally."
Sears said, "Consortium people
are not terribly popular with the
regulars (of Thompson-Markward
Hall, where the three live). In the
past, consortium students have
apparently been cliquish, unwill-ing
to become acquainted with the
residents."
When one of the residents
introduced herself to Sears and
subsequently found out that Sears
was a Christian and a part of the
consortium program, she fairly
spat out, "The best thing that you
Christians can do is just LIVE
your faith and not TALK about it
so much," according to Sears.
Unprepared for the outburst,
Sears prompted her to share more
of her negative feelings. The end
result has been a developing
friendship. They have even dis-cussed
Christianity.
"Slowly but surely, I am seeing
God work," said Sears. "Sharon
and I are specifically praying that
we can have a significant and
positive witness for Christ
through natural friendships
established with the residents of
the Hall," she added.
All three of the Bethel represen-tatives
in D.C. will be finished
with their college education after
this semester.
Torgerson had one remaining
comment when all of the ques-tions
had been answered. Some
people who were visiting one class
member mentioned their recent
visit to Bethel.
They were both thinking of re-turning
to enroll at Bethel "be-cause
they were so impressed by
all the beautiful women." He
said, "I was proud to hear their
opinions, but very puzzled. I was
finally forced to conclude that
`things' had really changed since
last year!"
Help Wanted
Opportunities for invovle-ment
in writing, production
and photography of the
Clarion are offered every
Friday at 3:30 p.m. Our of-fice
is open daily at
unscheduled intervals for
those interested in helping.
by Ken Wanovich
"This year's Passages magazine
is holding a contest to encourage
competition and get ideas
flowing," said Rob Johnson,
editor of Passages.
Passages is a magazine geared
to capture the lasting memories of
Bethel through the fine arts:
photography, art, and writing.
"We are aiming to have Passages
hit at a more personal level this
year," said Johnson.
by Brook Berry
Although students are constant-ly
reviewing restaurants, rarely
does a restaurant get the chance to
review the students. Five area res-taurants
got the opportunity, or
rather five area restaurant
employees, to discuss and evaluate
the average Bethel student on a
scale from one to ten. These res-taurants
were McDonald's, Per-kins,
the Professor's, Sambo's,
and Godfather's.
A McDonald's employee named
Kathy said, "I have never had any
trouble with Bethel students,. al-though
it is hard to distinguish
them from any other college-age
group."
She added that this particular
McDonald's, located on E2 and
Snelling, has a lot of trouble with
Mounds View students and that
two men in Bethel jackets stopped
a potential fight between some
high schoolers. "As far as Bethel
is concerned, they are great. They
deserve a ten from me."
The employee of The
Professor's, however, had a very
different view of Bethel students.
"Man, did we ever have trouble
with Bethel students," he stated.
Apparently, the crisis came about
when the restaurant offered an
"All you can eat Tuesday special"
and the Bethel students came by
the bus load.
The massive turnout was corn-pletely
unexpected, and many stu-dents
were kept waiting for hours
while the restaurant staff were
"sprinting from table to kitchen."
Bored and bothered by the long
wait, the hungry students began to
get disordei-ly.
"They were banging on the.ta-bles,
and ordering the waitress
around. It was like they owned the
place," he continued. He also said
that the hostess had complained
about many questionable com-ments
and pinches. He sincerely
hoped that this whole incident was
an isolated one and therefore re-fused
to rate the students on the
scale.
A waitress • at Perkin's was
much more optimistic about the
average Bethel customer. The stu-dents
would come in around ten,
she explained, order coffee, stick
their feet up on the table, and sit
there. "They don't bother any-one,"
she stated, "so how can
"We are keeping up the
aesthetic quality, but we're gear-ing
it towards the personal ex-periences
and changes we go
through in college," he said.
Contest catagories include
creative writing and photography
or illustration. "The more people
that contribute, the better the
magazine will be," said Johnson.
"The magazine is limited to 48
pages so we will be able to use on-ly
those submissions that are in
keeping with the general theme
they be any trouble? They are al-ways
as kind as one can be, al-though
they don't tip very well."
Despite their bleak tipping aver-age,
she went on to say that Bethel
students are "terrific" and she
gave them a nine.
The employee of the Godfa-ther's,
located on County Road
D, was much less enthusiastic
about Bethel students. He said
that once they sat down the stu-dents
were all right, but when they
first come in the door and start to
order they can be awful.
"You can tell they are from Be-thel
the moment they walk in the
door," he explained. "They have
that look of intelligence laced with
sarcasm that sets them apart from
the high schoolers." The students
crack jokes and hassle the man at
the front counter, and the
employees do not appreciate it.
"I suppose they are funny," the
man continued, "but after a hard
day of work, it's the last thing one
needs." For that, he gave Bethel
students a six or a seven.
A waiter at Sambo's gave Be-thel
students a nine. For the most
part, he explained, all they did
was study and buy coffee. He told
stories of Bethel students who
have slept in a booth for eight
hours, and even mentioned a man
who had studied there for ten.
"Funny thing, though," he con-cluded,
"most of them never stu-dy.
Sure, they talk for hours and
sometimes play cards, but they
hardly ever get work done. They
hardly ever tip either...."
and maintain a high aesthetic
quality."
The contest runs until
November 21, 1979. All entries
should be submitted to Rob
Johnson, P.O. 794. Prizes will be
awarded in each of the two
catagories: writing and visual ex-pression.
Winners will receive $25
for first place, $15 for second
place, and $10 for third place. In-clude
your name and P.O. with
your entry. All material will be
returned whether or not it is used.
Passages objective. capture memories
Area eatery workers
rate Bethel students
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Royals Dan Stockfish (22) and Steve Kramka (56) pull down an Auggie runner as Randy Fredin
(45) looks on (Photo Tom Twining).
MIAC Football
Concordia 5-1
St. John's 5-1
St. Thomas 5-2
Gustavus 4-2
St. Olaf 4-2
Augsburg 2-4
Hamline 2-5
Bethel 1-5
Macalester 0-6 Bethel Events
Friday, Nov. 2
Sports
Volleyball, State tournament at Macalester, all day and Sat.
Drama
"Antigone," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
CC
Nik Dag dinner and movie
Saturday, Nov. 3
Sports
Soccer, MIAC tournament
Men's Cross country, District 13 meet
Football at St. Olaf, 1:00 p.m.
Drama
"Antigone," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Wednesday, Nov. 7
Drama
"Antigone," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Thursday, Nov. 8
Drama
"Bereshith," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Next Week . • •
Coeval resurrection
Grading policy
Hockey preview
Shelly Nielsen
Chapel program initiated
to uplift daily worship
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by Steve Erickson
Augsburg, behind most of the
game, scored on a five-yard
fourth down pass with 27 seconds
remaining to give the Auggies a
20-17 win over Bethel last Satur-day
in the Royals' last home game
of the season.
The TD pass, from quarterback
Steve Yeazle to Scott Severson,
erased the 17-14 lead Bethel had
taken earlier in the fourth quarter.
Augsburg drove 92 yards in four
minutes, aided by penalties. The
Auggies gained a first down at the
Bethel eight but the Bethel defense
held them to three yards on three
plays. Then Yeazle found Sever-son
on the next play for the win.
Earlier in the quarter, Jim
Anderstrom teamed with Brad
Flater for a 23-yard TD pass.
Anderstrom rolled to his left,
found Hater in the flat, and he
galloped into the endzone.
Bethel held the Auggies
scoreless in the first half, taking
the lead on an Anderstrom pass to
Ken Cooper and a 28-yard field
goal from Paul Lindberg. Cooper
caught the 14-yard toss while
keeping his feet just in bounds.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN,
Tenn. (CCNS) — Daily chapel
programs at Covenant College are
being "enlivened" this fall as a
result of a questionnaire
distributed last spring to students,
faculty, staff and administration
members.
"The overriding concerns in the
responses were for more speakers
Augsburg controlled the third
quarter, holding the ball for near-ly
the whole period. Touchdown
runs of 25 yards and one yard by
Duke Lachinski and Yeazle enabl-ed
the Auggies to capture the lead
14-10.
The emotional game included
17 penalties, many of them major
ones, for 220 yards.
Saturday the Royals do battle
with St. Olaf down in Northfield
at 1:00 p.m. Olaf beat rival
Carletdn last weekend 22-8. One
of the Oles chief weapons is QB
Klefsaas, who scored one TD
rushing and threw for another.
from the college and for more
day-to-day cohesiveness in the
semester-long chapel program,"
the Covenant College News Ser-vice
reports.
"The bolstered chapel program
is expected to lead to greater stu-dent
interest and zeal in what
might otherwise become a deaden-ed
spiritual exercise of daily wor-ship,"
it concluded.
Recreation times
for gymnasium
posted under glass
As a new policy, the physical
education department has begun
posting times in which the gym
will be open for free recreational
use.
These recreational hours were
first posted on Monday, Oct. 29,
on the upper-level bulletin board
outside the gymnasium. This
calendar informs students when
the gym is open and free through
November. The P.E. department
will revise the calendar each
month.
Students interested in checking
out equipment should first check
Central Issue open hours. If Cen-tral
Issue will not be open during
recreation, the student should
plan ahead and check out equip-ment
earlier in the day.
Those interested in checking
out major pieces of equipment
(volleyball standards, etc.) should
see George Palke, intramural di-rector,
who coordinates large
equipment check out.
Augsburg tops Royals
on last minute TD
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Personals
Dear Deb: we couldn't
think of a better way to
advertise your birthday
(November 10). Sorry!
Have a great one. Love,
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All classified ads should be
sent to the Clarion or
delivered to FA 207 with ac-companying
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30 characters). Send ads
through inter-campus mail
to PO 2381.
Wanted
Want tto buy portable elec.
typewriter, contact Phil
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For Sale
Camera. 3 5mm SLR
(Ricoh) body, 135mm lens,
28mm lens, 50mm lens,
Vivitar 270 flash, 80mm-
200mm lens, 3 close-up ex-tension
tubes. All for $300.
Contact Doug Barkey, PO
256, Phone 484-6810.
Help Wanted
Would you like to sell a very
popular product that appeals to
almost everyone? The job in-volves
selling 14 k. gold, ster-ling
silver, and 12 k. gold-filled
jewelry on the party-play sys-tem.
The job is based on com-missions
and is highly profit-able.
You may set your own
hours, and work as often as
you want. For more informa-tion,
contact me in P.O. 2060.
Randy Bostrom participated in the MIAC meet last Saturday.
Bethel finished seventh (Photo Annette Locks). Harriers end season,
take 7th in MIAC
Page 8 sports
Net squad goes to state tourney
Halfback Corey Kulseth dribbles upfield in the soccer team's 3-2
loss to Bethany Lutheran (Photo Doug Barkey).
by Julie Pflepsen
The Royals' busy volleyball sea-son
has drawn to a close as the
team prepares for the state tour-nament
to be held Nov. 2 and 3 at
Macalester College.
Last week was Bethel's final full
week of volleyball for the season.
Tuesday night the Royals lost to
Carleton in five tight scoring
games. The junior varsity played a
6-2 offense for the first time and
won, its match. A 6-2 offense has
two setters in the game but when
the setter reaches the front row
she becomes a spiker. The varsity
also played this offense.
The Carleton game was senior
Sheryl Meyer's last home . game.
Her teammates and fans recog-nized
and honored her before the
match.
On Wednesday night Bethel was
defeated by Hamline. Long rallies
occurred as both teams battled for
points. Junior JoAnn Griffin had
powerful spikes and blocks at the
net but Hamline still came out on
top after three close games, 14-16,
12-15, 14-16.
The junior varsity also lost its
match to Hamline 11-15, 15-4,
6-15.
The next night both teams were
victorious over St. Scholastica in
Duluth. The consistent digs made
by sophomore Merry Olmstead
contributed to the varsity's win of
15-3, 17-15 and 15-13.
The junior varsity scored 15-4
and 11-15 against St. Scholastica
in the first two games and squeez-ed
by with a 20-18 victory in the
third game. Freshmen Betsy
Koonce had many powerful spikes
in this mot,h
Bethel quickly took the lead
again as Jon Fredrickson scored
off a pass headed to him by Mark
Johnson. The overtime was not
sudden death so the game contin-ued.
Betham, 's potent offense
poured in tw -_, :more go ils for the
win.
Now the Royals will enter the
Division 3 state play-offs with an
8-8 win-loss record. According to
Coach Karyl Frye, Bethel's sche-dule
was more difficult than many
Division 3 schools. Coach Frye
said, "The tough schedule was ar-ranged
in order to prepare us for
state."
Sixteen teams will compete in
Division 3, yet no team is highly
favored to win the tournament.
Coach Frye commented, "Al-though
we have had lapses where
we've lost to teams we should not
have, we have come a long way in
refining our techniques. If we can
bring these techniques close to
perfection in our games we will
have good chance to place high at
state,"
The junior varsity closed their
season with an 8-8 win-loss re-cord.
The rest of the team, which in-cludes
Randy. Bostrom, Bryan
Galloway, Ross Fleming, Wendell
Geary, Phil Schweizer and Dan
Hicks, finished close together be-tween
the 62nd and 72nd posi-tions.
"Several runners continued to
improve," said Glader, "but a
couple didn't run as well as
they're capable of running. We
would have looked a little better if
Augsburg and St. Mary's had
competed, because we could have
beaten them with no trouble."
The NAIA District 13 meet will
be held tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. on
the Como Park Course.
—Late result
Royals to
playoffs,
win 4-2
A barrage of second-half goals
helped the Bethel soccer team de-feat
Macalester 4-2 Wednesday
and advance into the MIAC play-offs.
First round playoff action is to-morrow
with the Royals traveling
to Collegeville to take on con-ference
champ, St. John's, who
have yet to lose in the MIAC.
However, Bethel did hand the
Johnnies one of their three ties in
the only meeting between the
teams this year.
Against Mac, Bethel applied
constant pressure, yet trailed 1-0
as Mac scored on its only shot of
the half, a ball that deflected off
two Royal defenders.
But the Royals broke loose in
the second half. Bob Genheimer
pumped in a 25-yarder to start the
scoring. Mark Johnson added two
headball goals before Greg Held
clinched it with a last-minute tally.
The Bethel cross-country team
ended its regular season With a se-venth-
place finish in the MIAC
Conference Championship meet
last weekend. St. Thomas took
first-place honors, followed by St.
John's, St. Olaf, Concordia,
Hamline and Macalester.
"It was a tough meet," said
Coach Gene Glader, "because the
quality of running in the confer-ence
is very good. There are al-most
certain to be several All-
Americans from the conference in
the national competition."
Mike Culp led the Bethel run-ners
with a 36th-place finish out of
79 runners at 27:30. Jim Feleen
was 45th at 28:10, and Brent Frie-sen
and Ross Allen finished 51st
and 54th at 28:26 and 28:39.
Dwight Newman was fifth for Be-thel
and 57th among other runners
at 29:15.
Continuing its late season
slump, Bethel's soccer team drop-ped
two more games last week, 2-0
to Gustavus and 3-2 to Bethany
Lutheran in road games.
The losses dropped the Royals
into seventh place in the MIAC, a
point behind both Hamline and
St. Olaf, going into last
Saturday's game. Soccer also rests
one spot out of the playoffs, as
only six will participate. If both
Hamline and St. Olaf had won Sa-turday,
Bethel would have been
eliminated.
Although Hamline upset Gusta-vus,
St. Olaf was tied by St.
Mary's so Bethel remains alive. A
win Wednesday against lowly Ma-calester
would clinch a playoff
berth. Mac has yet to win a con-ference
game this year.
After a scoreless first half at St.
Peter, Gustavus applied pressure
and sccred 1 t minutes into the
half. Bethel had numerous
chances but could not score. The
Gusties salted the game away with
A Royal slump continues, Bethel drops two games by Steve Erickson five minutes remaining on a shot
from close-in.
Saturday's opponent, Bethany
Lutheran, had not lost to aMinne-sota
team all season, even though
it is just a junior college. But
the Royals continually frustrated
them defensively and took the
lead 1-0 on Greg "Ziggy" Held's
goal early in the second half. Held
outraced a defender to the ball
and shot as the goalie came sliding
out. The goalie tipped it but the
ball hit the back of the net.
It looked as if the Royals were
going to ruin Bethany's record but
Bethel went into a shell and the
Vikings put on the attack. With
five seconds remaining, they tied
it at 1-1 and the game went into
overtime.
Merry Olmstead exhibits one of the strong points of the volleyball team, serving (Photo Doug
Barkey).