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the Clarions. Vol. 55 No. 12 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Dec. 15, 1979 Decade winds down: `exciting era' ends .1111 1 ., it/ Of- 1.01. 1:11 drAtwiarAwil fiIVAUF I r:' ,11:;.1 Youth symphony concert displays state's finest by Ellie Abbott On Dec. 16th the Minnesota Youth Symphony (MYS) will perform in the Bethel fieldhouse at 4 p.m. MYS was incorporated in the fall of 1972 as a non-profit organi-zation. It has approximately 200 members in four orchestras who attend 117 different public and private junior and senior high schools within a 110-mile radius of the Twin Cities. The goal of MYS is to provide a by Laurie Lindahl In terms of health insurance, most Bethel students are well-cov-ered. Most parents have family health insurance policies that cover full-time college students until they are 25. Bethel has a sup-plementary health plan that pays the excess of what is not covered under these policies. "Bethel's health plan is not meant to be an individual in-surance policy," said Paul Drake, director of auxiliary enterprises in business affairs at Bethel. "It is to be used only as a supplement." Because of this, students who are not covered under their parents' insurance only receive half of the maximum benefits that others do. For example, an emergency ap-pendectomy would cost approxi-mately $1500: $1000 hospital bill, a $350 surgeon's fee, and a $150 anesthesiologist's fee. As most of the hospital and surgeon's bill will be covered by the student's family policy, what is not paid for will be high level of musical training and experience for students through study, weekly rehearsals, and per-formances. Selections for the concert at Bethel will include the Shostako-vich First Ballet Suite, the Delius Sleigh Ride and the Lutoslawski Little Suite. Tickets will be on sale at the be-ginning of this week and they will also be available at the door on the afternoon of the concert. paid by Bethel. For the student without cover-age under a family policy, benefits would equal approximately $345 on the hospital bill and $225 on the surgeon's fee. Bethel's health plan is a supplement—it helps, but in cannot cover all. While not being covered under a family plan can be critical, the most crucial time for students comes after graduation when they are no longer covered by Bethel's plan or their parent's policy. "Most young people get jobs where they are plugged into a group insurance plan," said Jack Ivance, representative of Ivance Insurance Co. "There are times, however, between graduation and getting a job when an individual will be without any coverage at all." For these cases, there are in-surance plans which can be pur-chased on a short-term basis. "It's very limited coverage," Ivance continued, "but at least it gives you something." by Ann Taylor Remember last January when Bethel's popular custodian, Keith Tekautz, fell off his garage roof? Keith says he doesn't even think ' about it now. Besides a broken left arm and a broken nose, Keith's left kneecap was shattered. It had to be surgically removed and recovery was slow. He spent two months in the hospital and another month at home. "I do everything I did before— only a little bit more cautiously," he said. Keith has worked at Bethel for With the end of the decade ap-proaching, the Clarion interview-ed several Bethel faculty members who have taught here through the last 10 years. The answres to the questions posed by Clarion reporters reveal much about the trends and highlights of the decade. Just , as importantly, the answers reveal something of the personalities of those interviewed. The reporters responsible for the article are: Julie Pflepsen, Pat-ty Sutton and Shari Goddard. Al Glenn Q. How have students changed over the '70s? A. "In terms of exercising the 20 years and he wouldn't change jobs for anything. When alumni return and see Keith jogging down the halls they often say, "You're' still here, huh?" "I know what they mean," said Keith, smiling. "People think `Oh, JUST a custodian,' but when you're doing what you like best and you're doing it for the Lord, you can't top that." NEXT ISSUE The Clarion now com-mences hibernation. We shall awaken on Jan. 18. ChriStian faith, I feel their life-styles are more liberal. Q. What is a significant world or national event of the '70s? A. "The end of the Vietnam war was significant because it led students to go into a 'money-hun-gry' education such as business or economics." Q. Who was a significant per-son of the '70s? A. "There were many people that exemplify what it means to practice a religious lifestyle. Mo-ther Theresa from India might be one such person." Q. What was a predominant mood-attitude of the '70s? A. "After the .Vietnam war the people turned inward to concen-trate more on themselves. They read more fantasy- and science-fiction- types of literature. They examined their own thoughts and sensations more. Their Christiani-ty seems to be introspective." Q. How have you changed over the '70s? A. "I am liberal in terms of so-cial and political issues. In some theological issues I tend to be con-servative. I'm against dominant movements that are opposed to the orthodox views such as the judgment before God, hell, and other biblical truths." Q. How have academic stan-dards changed over the '70s? A. "Bethel has become more demanding in academics." Q. Has involvement/apathy changed over the '70s? A. "Students are always apa-thetic. Christians seem to have turned away from their evan-gelical duties and are concen-trating more on social issues. We're becoming a self-centered, individualistic, withdrawn nation." Q. Do you have any other corn-ments abOut the '70s? A. "The '70s have initiated us into an exciting era, in terms of technology and education. New challenges such as nuclear energy and moral issues have come upon us strikingly. This is good if we can remain biblical." Don Larson Since the late '60s, the student concern for the world and their place in it has diminished because the conservative orinch of Chris-tianity has communicated more in the '70s than the liberal branch. The most significant event on the world scene was the initiative of Sadat in opening up talks with Begin. At Bethel, it was the se-lection of a clean and vice-presi-dent who aren't members of the Baptist General Conference. 70s, Cont. on pg. 3 Graduation heightens need for insurance Donald Larson After slow recovery Keith jogs cautiously Page 2 To the Editor: We all know that there is a problem of overcrowding here at Bethel. There have -been numer-ous complaints of overcrowded dorm rooms and complaints that we don't have sufficient facilities to accommodate the number of students in the various depart-ments. Why isn't anyone bringing up what I consider the most crucial area of overcrowding, namely overcrowding in courses. I feel that by paying the amount of money I do for tuition, I should be entitled to at least my second choice when registering for courses, and then, I should only have to suffer through my second choice for no more than two class-es. In other words, I should be able to get my first choice for at least two classes. Yet last year for Interim, I got my sixth choice. For Interim this letters Early planning may end class trauma editorial Bo Conrad, quadism take Clarion awards The end of any decade brings ample opportunity for the Clarion staff to well up with nostalgia and reflect upon the happenings of the past ten years. So with no further adieu, we offer the deci-annual Subjective Clarion Awards, listing the best, the worst, the most and the strongest traditions, people and events. Football coach of the decade: Chub Reynolds, who came to Bethel in 1970. Most dominating sports team: All off-campus intramural teams Most aptly-named residence floor: The Edgren pit Strongest Bethel tradition: Nik Dag Wisest decisions from the athletic department: 1) the varsity status of soccer and hockey, and 2) entrance to the MIAC Best basketball player: Steve Scroggins; in 1970, the Clarion said, "freshmen showing the most promise so far, as candidates for the varsi ty squad are: Steve Scroggins, a 5 foot 11 inch guard..." Understatement of the decade: see above Most popular musical group: The Bo Conrad Spit Band, famous for "sweet melodies and low-down tones." Students with best career preparation in an extra-curricular activity: 1972, ff. campus coordinator Dave Horn, who is \now a resident director and director of residence life at Bethel. The "But it's not even in the lifestyle statement" award: Four occur-rences of streaking at Bethel in 1974. Number one inflation fighter: -Doc Dalton, who still sells coffee at five cents per cup. Best job by the dean's office: Faculty recruitment Worst job by the dean's office: Faculty retention and public relations in instituting the flat-fee structure. Most popular music group, honorable mention: The Priest and the Scribes. Shortest-lived fad: Qu'adism The "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't" award: The debate team, and the cheerleaders Best silver anniversary celebration: President Lundquist Easiest spoof: Scott Barsuhn Most recurring problem: overcrowding Most enduring tradition: a split campus Most outstanding editorial opinion: Oct. 13, 1972. In supporting Richard Nixon for the presidency, Editor Marshall Shelley said, "Perhaps what America needs is a shrewd, calculating thinker." Best Clarion tradition: The Marshall Shelley ineptitude award. Most incredible basketball performance: by Paul Healy vs. Nor-thwestern of Iowa in 1973. Healy picked up seven fouls in one game by fouling out and adding two technicals. Most courageous Bethelite: Julie Redenbaugh Most entertaining athlete: John Priestly A wise decision: Dropping the yearbook, Spire, and replacing.it with the Roster and Passages. Best Bethel girl joke: Why do Bethel girls wear high heals? So their knuckles don't drag on the ground. Best Bethel guy joke: Did you hear about the man-eating lion at Bethel? He starved. To the Editor: The trauma of registration is over. A few casualties still wander the corridors, clinging to their computer cards and calling, "It can't be closed, it can't be closed!" But, for the most part, we have all survived. However, it is for those broken few which I make this petition. Why should students pay $5,000 to come to school here, and not get into the courses they want, or need? In a school of such fine standing, shouldn't there be enough classes with enough space for those interested? Have our fa-culty and or facilities become so li-mited that we cannot provide stu-dents with the opportunity to stu-dy in their chosen field ? It is very discouraging to put out so much money for tuition and then find three of your four class choices closed. Besides being a Waste of money, it is a waste of "The difference" year, I got my fourth choice, and to this problem is, but I would like for fall classes, I got a fourth to bring it to the attention of choice and a third choice. For the everybody. Could somebody spring semester, I got two seconds please come up with a solution? and a third. Jan Johnson I do not know what the answer P.O. 742 Richie Milke, a third grade student of Judy Berg, Bethel house parent, visited last week with several other third graders. Here, Richie examines a camera in the Clarion office (Photo Doug Barkey). e Clarion Vol. 55 No. 12 Bethel College Dec. 14, 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 years. By settling for second best, then anticipate student interest a student may need to spend an and prepare accordingly. extra semester in school, catching If the classes themselves need to up on credits missed earlier. be made larger, then that is the A little advanced planning on price that we, as students, must the part of the administration pay. could alleviate many of these has- It will take some sacrifices and sles. In our computerized age, a extra planning but students should survey could be taken of students never have to look back on in which they indicate probable semester with regrets, feeling that course selections for the coming valuable time has been wasted. semester. Faculty members could Susan Peterson Nelson's photography enhances Festival My aesthetic, theological and unbounded gratitude and enthu-spiritual sensitivities were deeply siasm to all of you who had a part stirred with this year's Christmas in this magnificent event, one festival. Artist. Nelson's photo- which I hope will continue in-graphy richly enhanced the in- defeasibly year after year! volvement and impact I exper-ienced. Dr. Nils C. Friberg Associate Professor of Pastoral Though I don't know many of Care and Counseling you personally, let me voice my Bethel Theological Seminary Class overcrowding demands solution ■ BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH Cleveland and Skillman Avenues Roseville, Mn. Worship Services at 9:00 & 11:15 AM Sunday School at 10:00 AM (Special College-age Class (See posters for church bus schedule) Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone - 631-0211 BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH 720 13th Ave. S. 338-7653 Minneapolis, MN 55415 S. Bruce Fleming, Minister of Preaching C.J. Sahlin, Minister of Pastoral Care SERVICES Sunday School, 9:45 A.M. Morning Worship, 11:00 A.M. Evening Service, 6:00 P.M. Bus Transportation provided Watch for announcements on Bulletin Board We wish evnyone a (910,1y Oviistrnas and a goyous Tell) cljea ,1! Breakfast Lunch Dinner Located at Snelling and County Rd. E 636-6077 We will be closed Dec. 24 & 25 Open All Day New Year's Eve. Page 3 Watergate, xerox, apathy 'me' reign in '70s 70's cont. from p. 1 The '70s' most significant per-son was Henry Kissinger who en-abled us to back out of the Viet-nam war and make it appear as if we had nothing to do with it. His _ Al Glenn winning the Nobel Peace Prize de-monstrates the gullibility of peo-ple who - think he brought an end to the war in Vietnam. The '70s will go down in history as the decade where people became aware of the finiteness of our resources. I personally have gained a more serious concern for the exploi-tation of the third-world countries by multi-national corporations. I have a growing distrust of profes-sional politicians and am dis-covering how difficult it is for competitive and cooperative sys-tems to exist side by side. During the past five years, the academic standards of the faculty have been steadily toughening up while the administration has been lowering admission requirements. During the past decade, people are putting more and more control of their destinies in other people's hands. Jerry Healy Q. How have students changed? A. "I refuse to answer that." Q. What was the most signifi-cant event of the '70's? A. a) At Bethel... "The in-stallation of the xerox machines; it has changed the lives of all of us." SCHOOL ADMISSION TEST Otadaki-ft KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER Test Preparation Specialists Since 1938 For information, Please Call: 378-9191 b) National... "The arrival of the veg-o-matic." c) World..."When MacDon-ald's went international." Q. Who was the most significant person of the '70's? A. "Other than myself you mean? The inventor of the pet rock; Fred Petros I believe. Not many people realize he was a Greek from the island, of Pat-mos— of the Patmos Petros"' Q. What was the predominant attitude/mood of the '70's? A. "A kind of rampant, con-cerned apathy." Q. How have you changed? A. "I've become much more conservative. I'm a product of the '70's, that rampant apathy, and it has made me the way I am." Q. Have academic standards changed? A. "Yes" Q. How has involvement chang-ed? A. "I'd rather not answer that question, because I don't want to get involved." Additional remarks: "We would all do well to re-member the famous words of John Priestly, which were, "Rich people sure have a lot of money." Chub Reynolds Q. What was a significant world or national event of the '70s? A. "Watergate is the first thing I think of when it comes to events in the '70s." Q. Who was a significant per-son of the '70s? A. "Again, I think of Nixon be-cause of Watergate." Q. What was a predominant mood/attitude of the '70s? A. "Students at Bethel have a tendency to evaluate people in a critical way rather than uphold each other. I'm not sure if this is a general mood around the country or not, but I have noticed this at Bethel." Q. How have you changed over the past 10 years? Chub Reynolds A. "I'm 10 years older and I haven't changed a bit. I've always been conservative and I always will be." Q. How have academic stan-dards changed throughout the '70s? A. "There is more emphasis on teachers getting their doctorate. There are more demanding courses that they must take.' "When I first came to Bethel they gave students 'Fs.' Now they give them no credit which doesn't seem as powerful as an 'F."' Q. How has involvement/apa-thy changed over the '70s? - A. "Bethel students are great people to work with, but they show apathy toward getting in-volved or excited about what other people are doing. For in-stance, in the 10 years that I have 11' Dwaine Lind been here, I have never seen Be-thel students get excited about homecoming. This is not only true with sports but with all Bethel ac-tivities. I don't know if this is a national attitude or just at Bethel but I have especially noticed it over these past 10 years." Dwaine Lind Q. How have students changed? A. "They have changed only in ways that the rest of us have changed. Right now I'm detecting some conservatism." Q. What was the most sig-nificant event of the '70's? A. a. at Bethel... "The move out here; that and the growth." b. Nationally..."What we're seeing right now (in Iran), may well turn out to be." Q. Who was the most sig-nificant person of the '70's? A. "Maybe it was Nixon. Not only did he do a lot of things posi-tively, he caused the United States to react. He really had everyone's attention." Q. What was the predominant attitude? A. "I think it started out re-bellious and has turned to more of a kind of apathy." The whole issue of consumerism has been important, which calls for a level of accountability." Q. How have you changed? A. "I've become less material-istic. I'm more comfortable with my own values." Q. Have academic standards changed? A. "Yes, I think they dropped and there is an attempt to raise them again." Q. How has involvement chang-ed? A. "There's a greater social. consciousness. But, people tend to be very selective about involve-ment, because of the many pres-sures on them." Lillian Ryberg The most significant event of the '70s in our country was the Watergate crisis. At Bethel, the most significant event was the building of and moving to the new campus. The rebellion of the '60s dimin-ished to a greater sense of accep-tance in the '70s, although stu-dents question things more than they did before. Grades are inflated now. There is more emphasis on student in-volvement than a decade ago, but • I wonder if things really change: 30 years ago we were pretty in-volved in the learning process, too. (Faculty photos by Doug Barkey and Tom Twining.) Jerry Healy ry ,!„ Despite the lengthy bus rides, Hagstrom residents enjoy their isolated existences on old campus (Photo Dan Velie). Freshmen adjust to isolation on OC by Jan Johnson "I like living on old campus because I can look outside and not see school," said Beth Alvarez, one of eight old campus residents interviewed. She fairly summed up what the rest of them said. Most agreed that it was nice to get away from school after the end of a long day. Sandy Veen called her dorm room "homey." In fact, only one freshman said that he'd prefer to live on new campus. The people interviewed said that the biggest problem was rid-ing the buses to and from new campus. It added up to about an hour of wasted time a day, accor-ding to general opinion. But even riding the bus has its advantages. Rebecca Reimer said that she got to know a lot of people through riding the bus. Actually, there were only a few times when people said that they'd rather live on new campus: when something was going on at the new campus and they couldn't get there for it; when they forgot something at school; or, as Brad Byker put it, "On cold mornings." "Oh sure, there are a few pro-blems, but things are being work-ed out," said Reimer. Generally, it was agreed that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages. The students said they felt closer to the people they lived with on old campus than they might Trinity Baptist Church Welcomes You 220 Edgerton Street at Hwy. 36 St. Paul, MN 55117 774-8609 Rev. Hartley Christensen Rev. Michael Vortel SUNDAY 8:30 AM Worship Service 9:45 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:00 PM Evening Service Bus Schedule Old Campus 9 AM Fountain Terrace 9:15 AM New Campus 9:25 AM have been if they all lived in the same dorm on new campus. Cindy Record said, "Since we're cut off from the rest of the students, we are kind of forced to get to know each other better, and that's good." Beth Alvarez said that it seemed as though the people on old cam-pus cared for each other more be-cause there was no one else to do it. Marty Stanchfield said that it was just like a big family. "Really," added Alvarez, "if I come back to Bethel next year, I want to be on old campus. It's great." CHRISTMAS PUZZLE RS IDAPNEMES IWEERHTOSS TN ICK A U N L L A E X E G A N N A P S ACT T C A A B U R Z S D R ACKHLGMMANGEROMIENFECI AMUOSK I 0 C N T AP C VOCKSN INMEDS H ODWL DVLHOS SP EMKLE ASJOEGCK TBTEKPULOGIT INI OACSETDHHAR L IGHTSHY IERCiiNPS YUT L I AEYRI ACHTCJNTRVHDGRODUPLVMMLEON B EGOORCSHRCSSNNUV ISVWYXHNLG H CMTRASEIEYXSATWWDUATYTMSL J ESYAKJSZNRGCMSDLMGZIBEISE T OMOLNT YEBREEWOP 00 ACMDBHHE A B S J 0 C N Z AEEDDORQLNRXKJFCEG CS YLHCTEECMFGNIDDUPMULPIPH H HUILIKTNEGHHSOJKLLAMNCOHC E ILALEICLBTILEOSQSUSEJIOEH K DEBLNB.BDRAENHWPERMTQ'NFPRE AKTTCCAEAZIUUTRTSDSRSRTNDS C N I. S AT A E L G V N N Y E K L M R E T S S E S T TS DASBNTHGHGS T ARNOTEUVWE-XN IRENNODCNINNISTLETOEIMARYU ✓ OLREENCY A D I L OHS ILEHTNIGHT P RECNARPEFSJJRVPANGELSYDRZS FRANNXNCENSEOFSNOITAROCEDA S ELDNACDDASHERHPESOJBELVES P LRECN ADGUBHUHHAPPYNEWYEAR Find the 101 or more Christmas words hidden in any direction or position. Central Baptist Church 420 North Roy Street Staff: St. Paul, Minnesota Garven McGettrick 646-2751 Ron Eckert Services: Dana Olson Bus leaves: 8:45 and 11 Mike Anderson SC - 9:15 10 Bible Study Will Healy - FT - 9:25 7 pm evening Kathy Cupp NC - 9:35 Page 4 Christmas Column Ghosts haunt `stoodents' by Charles Stricken a.k.a. Teresa Worrell The Sunday before finals was a rowdy one. It culminated in a party in which ten of us sat around donuts and hot cocoa remembering the best times of the semester—the pranks, the parties, and the raids. We all had a good time, for we weren't studying. I went to bed that night without having opened a book. The townhouse was quiet that night, but at midnight I awoke with a start. There was someone in my room! He appeared to be a ghost, but was bound in chains and dragged an assembly line behind him. "St000-dent," he wailed. I quaked in my bed. Surely he could not mean me! "St000dent," he repeated. "Who are you?" I queried tenaciously. "I am Joseph Party!" he screamed. I trembled in my bed, but my new roommate stayed fast asleep. "I know you remember me," he continued, "I am the one who went out with you night after night, always to have fun but never to study. You remember when I received my academic suspension and dismissal. And now I am paying with this!" He gestured toward the chains and the assembly line. "I am here to see that you don't make the same mistake," he continued, his voice softening. "But I don't understand," I ventured weakly. "You will!" He screamed. I glanced at my roommate, but he still slept. "Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts. The first shall arrive when the clock strikes one." With that, the ghost vanished. I trembled in my bed for a few more minutes, then decided it must have been a dream and went back to sleep. I was abruptly awakened in what seemed like only a few moments. One glance at the clock told me that it was one in the morning. Once again, there was someone in my room. "St000-dent," he wailed. "Who are you?" I queried. "I am the ghost of procrastination past," he said. "I have come to show you your study habits of the past. Come." I was compelled to go. In an instant we were both transformed into light beings traveling through time and space. We were looking upon college life two months earlier. I found myself in this scene, as well as a friend of mine. My friend was speaking as we ran about the campus. "You know, I really should be studying," he said. "Relax," I heard myself say. "You can't let academics interfere with your social life!" I then realized how these words had boomeranged back on me. I wanted to go back, but the ghost led me on. In the next scene I saw myself wearing a toga and running about the academic complex. Before I could make out any details, I saw flashes of myself of Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and Country Kitchen. "No more!" I pleaded, but the ghost led me on. I saw myself raiding late at night and sleeping in, calling up DJ's just to talk, even playing solitaire to avoid my studies. All the while, my books lay hopelessly forlorn on the shelf. By this time I was on my knees begging to go home, so the ghost led me back to my room. In an instant I was back in bed, shuddering tremendously. In an effort to calm myself, I told myself that it was just a bad dream. Reassured, I drifted off to sleep. Moments later I awoke again. It was two in the morning, and once again there was someone in my room. This was beginning to get an-noying. "Who's there?" I challenged. A deep voice boomed out of the darkness. "I am ghost of panic pre-sent! I have come to show you your study habits of the present! Come!" I pulled my quivering body out of bed and followed him through time and space as I had, done earlier. Suddenly I saw myself there, nervously biting my fingernails and scribbling away in a last mad rush to catch up on my reading assignments. ' "Why, this was only yesterday!" I exclaimed. The ghost nodded, and suddenly we were in the library. I saw myself there still, frantically try-ing to cram on my lecture notes. "No more!" I cried. Understanding, the ghost took me back to my room and left me. I thought only briefly of the panic I had experienced lately, then drifted off to sleep. Once again, I awoke with a start. It was now 3:00 a.m., and again there was someone in my room. "Now who is it?" I demanded, a little agitated. "I am the ghost of failure future," he wailed in a hollow tone. "I have come to show you the results of your study habits. Come." I followed him through time and space to a day early the next January. I found myself down at my P.O. box. "Open it," moaned the ghost. I opened the box, but was afraid to look inside. The ghost reached in and pulled out a Bible exam. Written across the top in bold red ink was "NC"—"No Credit." I reeled from the blow, but the ghost was relent-less. He pulled out my psych exam, also marked NC. "No more!" I cried. The ghost ignored me and reached into the box again. I ran, but he had me cornered. Laughing hideously, he threw my Anthropology paper in my face, stained with the dreaded NC. At once it was as if I were bombarded with NCs, all of them red and angry. I screamed and screamed. Suddenly, someone was shaking me. I awoke in my bed, drenched in sweat. My roommate was standing over me. "Are you all right?" he asked. "Yeah, I'm fine," I answered weakly. He turned and started to walk away. "I'll let you go back to sleep then," he said over his shoulder. "No, I can't do that," I said. "I've got to study." open column Spoon-fed learners need attitude change by Ted G. Lewis "In my country we have old saying," uttered a gentle Egyptian to me a month ago, "If a poor man is hungry, don't just give him a fish, but teach him how to fish." Perhaps the original savor escapes the translation, however, the significance of meeting more than temporal needs is clear. Unfortunately, Bethel schools hundreds of starving students who are merely spoon-fed by their teachers. What's more saddening is a prevalent approach to learning that fails to promote students to learn how to learn for themselves. As a result, the student's identity is detached from their studies because they are not personally involved in the learning process. Are these rash conclusions? I don't think so. Recollect the last time you crammed for an exam, pulling an all-nighter. Now, ask yourself why. Satisfied with your reason? Tell me, why do we dread studying and make our prime goal to finish each obligation? But then why do we bend over backwards to know something for our teachers and grades, with little concern for how our studies relate to ourselves. Why do most Bethelites dominantly view the purpose of learning as a means to a smooth job for financial security? (Bear with me, this article thrives on questions!) Is it surprising that the American worker is similarly detached from his work? Let's discuss this topic as a basis for understanding the former themes better. By 'detached' I mean two things. First, the worker's iden-tity is rarely nourished and fulfilled by the actual "doing" side of his work. The second grows out of the former: labor is solely the means whereby one acquires money to satisfy needs external to his job. Karl Marx labeled it "estranged labor," noting the effects of industrialization. He recognized that pre-industrial work affirmed the self-worth of a worker by involving him in the full creation of his product. A shoemaker, for example, could express himself creatively as he designed, sewed and marketed his shoes. He externalized his identity into his work. But when he was put on the assembly line to punch a row of holes in a piece of leather, he lost touch with his product. If you lose touch with your work, you lose touch with yourself. Consequently, human values were forced to change. When Marx saw how labor failed to affirm human worth, he concluded that society exalts man's animal functions as all important (i.e., eating, drinking, sex, recreation, etc.). Such hedonism demands affluency to be the only "real" value, thereby defining human-ness in terms of the quantitative fulfillment of one's animal functions. And since money alone feeds such as value, human worth is reduced to the utility of a worker, proportionate to his salary. The result: man's uni-queness dies, his identity is lost, and labor, being idolized and despised, furthers a subtle dehumanization. Now to draw the crucial parallel. Is the relation between the American student and his studies rapidly ac-cepting a similar divorce? Substitute grades and degrees for paychecks, and teachers for bosses. Now can you see how the persuasive goal of learning is primarily to complete requirements for the sake of securing "nice" jobs. But why do we all want such nice jobs? In our ultra-individualistic society it's staggering to acknowledge how self-centered our work and lives become! Penny's supermarket rates low on the list of stores that budget-conscious students should patronize (Photo Dan Velie). Ethnic foods spice up holidays Page 5 Picky shopping habits relieve tight budgets by J.D. Kiaessy For college students, particu-larly those who live off campus, grocery shopping can be a trial. The main problem connected with shopping is finding a store in the vicinity that's affordable. Recently five supermarkets in the area were scrutinized in order to determine which were cheapest and closest. The five were, Lund's, on North Silver Lake Rd., Country Club, near Silver-crest, The Country Store, in Apache Plaza, Penny's, in Arden Hills Plaza, and Applebaum's, (formerly National) in Har Mar Mall. In all five stores luxury items such as milk, eggs, bread and yo-gurt were all priced about the same. However, the price of ne-cessities varied a great deal. (Necessities being: Twinkies, M & M's, soft drinks, frozen pizza, peanut butter, Tang and the reliable mask-all catsup, or ket-chup for you connoisseurs.) Heading up the bottom of the list is Applebaum's. High priced but clean, this store is too far away for anyone but those on old campus. Next to the bottom is Lund's. While Lund's has a greater variety than any of the other stores, its prices are high. The produce is the best in the area, and fairly reason-able, but this loss is made up in the meat department. (Rumor has by Ann Taylor This week the food service has given us a wide assortment of ethnic foods for lunch and dinner. "If people like these dishes," Falcon Barber Stylists Upper Midwest Trophy Winner FOR WOMEN'S HAIR STYLING Call Debbie at 6464323 it, Lund's meat is more expensive because they use a higher quality red dye in their beef.) Seriously, it is not the place to shop unless you are a vegetarian, or want 24 dif-ferent kinds of olives and seven brands of smoked sardines. While Penny's is close to cam-pus, and its prices fair to mod-erate, the personnel put it close to Lund's for third to last. If you do shop there, bring cash. The questions put to those who pay by check not only try to establish your family's financial past back to 1945, but are also sec-ond only to the Spanish inquisi-tion in extracting said information tactfully. Country Club and The Country Store are not only closer to Bethel's apartments, but are also the cheapest of the stores. While The Country Store's prices are cheaper than Country Club's, un-less you bring your own bags or boxes, you are charged for ones from The Country Store. Another advantage Country Club has is more newspaper coupons every week. Although The Country Store's prices are generally cheaper, Country Club must be rated slightly ahead, for two totally biased reasons. First, because at Country Club you get a free pit-cher with your Tang. Second, because Country Club's prices on Sara Lee coffeecakes can't be beat. said Co-Director of Food Service Wayne Erickson, "we'll serve them in the future. If not, they'll never see them again." The main reason for offering pollo a la Chelindron (Liberian baked chicken dish), Shashlyk (Russian lamb kebabs) or quiche Lorraine, plumb pudding and scones have been to lead us into the Christmas holidays and brighten the week before finals. The climax of this series will be on Monday, Dec. 17, when Swedish standbys (sausage and potatoes) are combined with fare from both the modern and early American periods. "There will be dishes familiar to students from our fast food and take-it-from-a-can culture as well as foods their parents would remember." Erickson said there will be a dessert table that students will not believe, offering fresh fruits, a 20-pound block of carved cheese and assorted sweets. The cost of Monday night's Smorgasbord has not been decid-ed, though, as always, it will be kept as low as possible. Erickson and his staff chose the Swedish/American emphasis for the climax dinner since it is the common heritage of many Bethel students. "We hope it will be fun," said Erickson. What sort of approach to learning fosters our drive towards affluen-cy? (Think back to the shoemaker.) It's an approach that never pro-motes the integration of the student's identity with his studies. Rather, learning is a passive accumulation of knowledge. One learns facts for a quiz for a teacher for a grade, but not for-himself. That is product-oriented learning quite distinct from process-oriented learning. This lat-ter approach is concerned about people, not facts. It stressed the active role of the student's mind to synthesize his studies with who he is. The teacher's - role clarifies the difference between these two ap-proaches. Product orientation sets the teacher as a standard of know-ledge to move toward. Quantity of subject content is the priority. The process perspective sees the teacher as a guide moving forward beside the student. Highlighting the quality of learning process, he confronts the student to discover through' disciplined thinking. The student recognized as a unique individual is pushing to integrate what he learns for himself, thereby discovering his identity. Is this process approach too unrealistic for Bethel's educational system? No it's not. Without denying the structure, a teacher can flavor his subject to encourage students to think. Most teachers here advocate these ideals, but few seem to actually practice them. What is lacking is the proper employment of the question, serving as the basis for learning as a process. Good questions demand unknowns which imply discovery, hence involving the student. Show me a teacher who fails to ask sharp intriguing questions, and I'll show you a poor teacher. At this stage I pivot the challenge to students who do not appreciate thinking. Most of us are products of the , apathetic 70's, undisturbed by the same values that our predecessors of the 60's revolted against. They thought! Campus scenes buzzed with discussions that stretched minds. But we give minimal mental effort expecting maximum return, thereby despising our studies because of no immediate gratification. I think the root of this lethargy is the loss of our own identity. Who we are is solely governed by exterior institutions of work and people. The intention of this article is to provide thought in a covered yet cru-cial area. I threw all the billiard balls at you to wake you up. Perhaps I can throw them one at a time next year, providing a more objective sup-port. Over the holidays (as well as final's week) I dare you to probe my questions. Because, for crying out loud, if you truly are a unique in-dividual, what are you on this planet for anyway? And what are you do-ing now to discover who you really are through learning, in order to develop toward your ambitions? Do you have any ambitions you can call your own? Presently, you face an inescapable choice: either exercise your mind or let it grow flabby. John W. Ivance Company 1618 Pioneer Bldg. 224-7358 INSURANCE Life--Auto--Home Business St. Paul. MN 55101 John W. Ivance, Sr. John W. Ivance, Jr. John G. Chisholm Russell K. Akre Patrick J. Repp Juan Ramos starred in Bethel's 1978 production of "Lillies of the Field." Page 6 entertainment Seventies: Beatles take Wings; Billy Budds by Jan Johnson "Sugar, Sugar" was a hit for the cartoon characters known as the Archies, the Beatles had just released "Let It Be," and on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim's "Company" was the show to see. The year was 1970. As we prepare to move into the '80s, let's take one last look at the world of theatre and music as they evolved in the last decade. In 1971, two giant hits were sweeping New York, and both of them were based on the Gospels. On Broadway, the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" was drawing in the crowds and "God-spell" was doing very well off- Broadway. Both produced very successful cast albums. Here at home, the Guthrie was having a very successful run with Shakespeare's "Richard II," star-ring Richard Chamberlain. It was a successful year all around. In the music world things weren't going quite so well. The Beatles had finally made their break official. Although they may not have been performing toge-ther, they were still making music. Paul McCartney formed Wings, and Ringo Starr got together with George Harrison for "The Con-cert for Bangladesh." In 1971 another group had a good year. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" became the big-gest hit to date for the newly reunited BeeGees. While Alice Cooper was shock-ing audiences with his simulated killings onstage, 1972 became the year of the "teen idol." Donny Osmond was in "Puppy Love." Michael Jackson had "Got To Be There," and David Cassidy wasn't sure. He just kept singing "I Think I Love You." Nostalgia was sweeping the na-tion. Everyone wanted to get back to that "good ol' rock-'n-roll." Sha-Na-Na became big on the concert circuit, and on Broadway, the musical "Grease" was starting its successful run. In 1973, Bette Midler took nos-talgia one step further when she Rent Refrigerators . Perfect for Dorms $14.95/mo. or $35.00/sem. (We also rent color TV's) STANDARD RENTS FURNITURE 3000 University Ave. SE 331.4020 8 Blks. E. of Univ. of Minn. came out with her smash hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," a remake of the '40s hit. On a mel-lower note, John Denver was giv-ing everyone a "Rocky Mountain High." In September, just two months after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" had made No. 1, Jim Croce was killed in an airplane crash. With him went a very promising career. The next year nostalgia fans went even farther back as "The Sting" brought back Scott Joplin's music from the '20s. Jop-lin's "The Entertainer" entertain-ed thousands as it went to the No. 1 position. Meanwhile, the latest thing to do was "The Streak," as Ray Ste-vens explained in his novelty song by that name. Even Bethel wasn't safe from these exhibitionists. But Bethel didn't dwell on this form of "entertainment." Interim `74 saw one of Bethel's biggest productions. "Fiddler on the Roof" became the event of the Bethel social season. "Billy Budd," with its cast of 20 men, was another successful production of that year. That same year, Professor Rainbow organized his Colorful Caravan, and the '74-'75 season found them touring around the Twin Cities area. That set the pace for the next four years of the tour-ing group. In 1975, near "Beatlemania" was caused by a Scottish group called the Bay City Rollers, whose "Saturday Night" had everyone's foot tapping. But it was the BeeGees' "Jive Talkin'" that started everyone dancing. That and their follow-up, "You Should Be Dancing," were the beginnings of the Disco movement. Big things were happening on Broadway too. "A Chorus Line" and "The Wiz" started bringing people back into the theatre after a three year slump. The '75-'76 season at Bethel was very good too. "Godspell" did very well, and Professor Rain-bow's Colorful Caravan made its first European tour of military bases. Meanwhile, Van McCoy had the country doing "The Hustle;" C. W. McCall had everyone get-ting into the CB act after his "Convoy;" and Britain's "Sex Pistols" were bringing "punk rock" into the limelight. Another big production came to Bethel during interim of '77. "Showboat," held in the old cam-pus gym, was a successful follow-up for "Godspell." The Caravan also made its second European On Broadway, the adventures of "Annie" were making her pro-ducers very happy. But the music business lost the "King," when Elvis Presley died in Memphis. But life goes on, and in 1978, the country had an epidemic of "Saturday Night Fever." Led by the BeeGees, disco music swept the country. Hundreds of new dis-cos appeared all over the U.S. But there were other new sounds too. Dolly Parton, voted female country entertainer of the year, moved over the border from country to pop, and soon, "Here You Come Again" was at the top of the pop charts. "Ain't Misbehavin"' became the hit on Broadway, and at the Guthrie the U.S. premiere of Ib-sen's "The Pretenders" did very well. At Bethel, "All My Sons" was a success. The '78-'79 season at Bethel was very productive. Including the three interim productions, seven plays were given. "Lilies of the Field" and "Cain" drew good crowds in the fall, and "The Three Sisters" and "The Fantas-ticks" rounded out the year. In 1979, while Supertramp was having "Breakfast in America," the BeeGees organized a concert for UNICEF, and donated all of the profits from their hit record "Too Much Heaven." Here at Bethel, the theater sea-son got off to a rather slow start, but it picked up as word got out that there were two "winners" playing. "Antigone," for the dra-matic set, and "Bereshith" for the more informal crowd. Both were professionally done. Such was the theater and music in the '70s. Bethel celebrates Christmas parties foreign-style by Mari Broman This past week both the Spanish and German departments cele-brated Christmas foreign-style. Spanish speakers and those inter-ested gathered in the cafeteria Fri-day, Dec. 7 for tacos, Spanish car-ols and pinatas. The program fea-tured flamenco dancer senior Juan Ramos. As part of its international week, the food service served a lunch last Wednesday, open to all students and faculty, of bratwurst and potato pancakes. The evening meal, also in the cafeteria, offered a choice of sauerbraten or roast pork, German potato salad, apple cider and a German dessert. After dinner students went to the AC lounge for skits, games and carols, along with a variety of German desserts baked by the stu-dents. Linda Herrman, Dana Olson, and Tim Zimmerman were a few of the host of student "stars" emoting for Bethel's 1977 produc-tion of "Showboat." Few may recall the popular music poll printed in the Clarion two issues ago. Through a prominently-displayed box in the up-per left-hand corner of page five we asked the readers of the Clarion to choose the most popular song of the 1970's, as a sort of kickoff to this week's nostalgic look at the decade. We hesitate to announce a three-way tie for the most popular. Song Percentage "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell 20 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel 20 "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand 20 "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka 10 "Silly Love Songs" by Wings 10 "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum 10 "I Shot the Sheriff" by Eric Clapton 10 The vote totals were tabulated by an independent judging agen-cy, and the results will be published nationally. The co-winners (Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel will each receive a separate award, due to the demise of their partnership) may be issued in-vitations to the incredible, visionary, inconceivable, impracticable Clarion awards banquet, tentatively scheduled for February 30 in the Orion Room. Lesli Smith sets to pass in Bethel's 63-51 thrashing at the hands of St. Olaf on Tuesday night. Page 7 by Lori Rydstrom Bethel's No. 1 debate team placed third at the national debate tournament held at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. on November 16-19, competing against Notre Dame, Ohio State and other top-ranked schools. The Bethel debate duo of Mar-lene Triggs and Teresa Eliason won five of their six preliminary rounds. They went on to compete in the elimination round and the semi-finals, but lost in the semi-by Ken Wanovich The hockey team won its first game of the season Dec. 4, against Eau Claire, 5-3, but then dropped consecutive games to St. Cloud, 10-2, and Gustavus, 5-2. "Playing well against a good team like Bemidji gave us the ex-perience and encouragement we needed to bounce back and beat Eau Claire," said Coach Harris. "We played a good game against Gustavus on Saturday, but we were a little out of gas coming off Friday's game with St. Cloud." Bethel finished the first third of its season with a record of 1-7. "1 - 7 doesn't reflect the overall ef-fort of the team," said defenseman Mike Jackson. "We've just -Iad too many stupid penalties, and allowed too many breakaway goals." "The team has done rather well in overcoming its lack of depth in certain areas," said Scott Feltman. Feltman was the second leading scorer last year with 17 goals, and will be eligible this year in January. "We will have three very good lines and a much stronger defense with the addition of our presently finals. They placed third behind DePaw University and Butler University. Triggs also placed third overall as an individual speaker. November 29 Triggs and Elia-son competed at Iowa State University. The team again placed third as a team and each placed in the top four individually. Other participants were the teams of Phil Thompson and Steve Penner and Mike Wiseman and Rick Kreutzfeldt. ineligible players," said Feltman. "We are going to surprise some teams taking us lightly. Our goal is to prove we are not the `powder-puff' team in the conference." Bethel will gain five other players in January who are now ineligible. They are Gary Shibrowski, Scott Larson, Steve Harris, Jim Lambrides and Randy Hopp. "We are going to be very competitive with the added depth," said Harris. "We are starting to develop some good team leadership," said Jackson. "The team needs to think like winners, then we will win. We definitely have the talent, we just need to put it all together." The hockey team will play three scrimmage games during Christmas break. After scrimmag-ing the University of Minnesota JV, Stout, and the Hennepin Nor-diques, the team will head for a two-game series at Concordia, Moorhead, Jan. 4 and 5. Bethel has never played on Concordia's home ice. The next home game is Tues-day, Jan. 11, against St. Johns. Game time is 8 p.m. at Columbia arena in Fridley. Bethel lost in the semi-finals to Wheaton College. They won first, second and fourth. This tournament was the last for Fall term. Competition will begin again in January. Free dorm stairs constructed by Conservation Corps by Patty Sutton The new stairs between Town-house West and Nelson Dorm didn't cost Bethel a penny. The federally-funded Young Adult Conservation Corps were giving demonstrations at the State Fair and needed a place to stay. Normally they would camp out but there weren't any camp-grounds near enough to the fair-grounds. Bethel opened up the residences to them and in ex-change they built the stairs. The 1979-80 karate club opened the year in fine fashion as it placed in the first two tournaments of the year. The club, suffering from injur-ies to key players as well as the loss of many players, is rebuilding for the second half of the year. This year's major tournament player has been junior Andy Leong. In the first tournament of the year, the Minnesota Open, Leong placed with two third place tro-phies. Competing against both brown and and black belts from three states and Canada, Leong took third in the weapons divi-sion. Although only a brown belt, Leong beat several black belts for the trophy. He also ranked third in the brown belt form division. At the end of the scoring period, Leong was in a three-way tie for first. In the run-off that followed, Leong was only able to muster a third. The second tournament, the Minnesota Fall Regional, also saw Leong take another third place trophy. It was a frustrating day as he opened by scoring low in wea-pons but came back to place well enough in the brown belt form di-vision for a third place. Head instructor and Coach Ter-ry Warner said he is confident that the club will grow strong as the year progresses. Several new play-ers will be completing the basic karate class and will move into ad-vanced training. Hopefully, the karate club will field a more complete team. But one thing is certain, as time pro-gresses so do the karate players. They are definitely improving and maturing. Women's BB cont. from p. 8 Although turnovers were still nu-merous, a strong defense counter-acted that to give the team the first win of the season against three losses. Karsjens again led scoring with 22 points, and Griffin followed with ten. Griffin grabbed one more rebound than Karsjens to lead in rebounding with nine. The Royals will return to action January 9 at Concordia-St. Paul. They host St. Scholastica on the 11th at 7 p.m., and then St. Ther-esa on the 15th at 5:30 p.m. Hockey wins No. 1, adds players to team Leong stars as karate club improves Top debate pair places third C ) ••■•■■ Help Wanted Personals EUROPEAN SUMMER MI-NISTRY with Eurocorps, a 10-week program of Greater Europe Mission. Spend the summer ministering with other students on evangelism, music or work teams. For more infor-mation, write to: Eurocorps Administrator, Greater Europe Mission, Box 668, Wheaton, II. 60187. Wanted: Drivers: Columbia Transit has immediate openings for school bus dri-vers. Flexible hours. Ideal for students. Paid training program and union bene-fits. Apply in person at 1102 North Snelling or call 645-9137. Equal opportuni-ty employer. Wanted: 2 resident handy-men Feb. 1, for 202-unit apt. bldg. 25 hrs./wk/person; salary and furnished 2-bedroom apt. at discount. Duties include ap-pliance repair, light plumbing, snow shoveling, misc. repairs and maintenance. Hillsborough Apts., Hwy. 36 and Rice. Cally Marty at 484-9642. This may be a bit late, but to whoever left the blueber-ry cupcake in my P.O. I ex-press my thanx. I was kind of hoping that you would make yourself known to me so that I could thank you personally. It was very good and made me appreciate home cooking. Perhaps if you feel daring you could let me know who you are. Art Gibbens, P.O. 2077. CAR TROUBLES? Interested in an auto mechanics class dur-ing interim? Taught by a cer-tified automotive mechanic. For further information put a note in PO 1738 before Wednesday, Dec. 19. Let the hostages know you care; send a Christmas card to: Hostages, United States Em-bassy, 260 Takhte Jamshid Avenue, Tehran, Iran, postage 31C The Royal grapplers upped their record to 4-1 with exciting net action like this last weekend (Photo Dan Velie). Page 8 sports Coach recalls past experiences Enthusiastic George Palke looks for a winning season in his first year as head coach of the Royals (Photo Tom Twining). by Ellie Abbott This is George Palke's second year at Bethel College, but he was familiar with Bethel when he was hired. Palke graduated from Bethel in 1966 and came back to teach and coach basketball in 1978. While attending high school, Palke played basketball, and when he was a junior, his team went to the state tournament. Palke graduated from high school in 1961 and pursued his education as a history major at Bethel. Palke played on the Bethel basketball team and the tennis team for four years. At one point Palke held the career record for rebounds. Gerald Healy was then basketball coach, and while Healy coached, Bethel won two con-ference championships. Doc Dalton was Palke's advisor in college and Palke recalls that Doc ran with the basketball team during pre-season training to stay in shape himself. by Carol Madison Defense seems to be determin-ing the outcome of the women's basketball games, and the lack of it resulted in a loss to Dr. Martin Luther College, whereas an im-proved defense gave the team a win over St. Benedict's. A couple of good outside shoot-ers paced DML over Bethel 80-57 in a game that wasn't really de-cided until the fourth quarter. Bethel was down by only six at the half, but the lack of rebound-ing by the Royals and the strong outside attack by DML put the game out of reach in the final quarter. A neck and shoulder injury forced starter Sheila Kroon out of the game in the first half, and weakened the Royals in the guard Following graduation from Bethel, Palke coached basketball at four high schools. He had eight successful years as a basketball coach at Centennial High School, where his team won two con-ference championships. During the eight year period, Palke's team won 80 percent of its con-ference games. Palke's dream has been to coach basketball at Bethel. "I've always wanted to coach at Bethel. My wife and I bought a house six years ago near Bethel. I applied three times before I was hired, but I knew they would hire me sooner or later," said Palke. Aside from coaching basketball at Bethel, Palke is also the in-tramural director and teaches ten-nis, jogging, volleyball, weight lif-ting and methods class. Palke believes that team spirit is very important and he demonstrates this by wearing a blue and gold suit which his wife made him. She made a pair of gold pants and gold vest and a position. Kroon may be out until after the semester break. The Royals put on a strong of-fensive show with three players scoring in double figures. Beth Karsjens led with 14 points, while Joann Griffin followed with 13 and Deb Sension scored 12 points. Karsjens also led rebounding with six. The lack of strong defense has been evident in the last three games as Bethel's opponents have averaged 77 points. But Bethel's main objective going into the St. Benedict's game was to hold down the opposition's offensive attack, and the Royals were successful as they downed St. Ben's 50-39. Bethel outrebounded St. Ben's and shot 40 percent from the field. Women's B.B. cont. pg . 7 blue sport jacket for him to wear at the basketball games. Another way that Palke demonstrates his team spirit is the sports jackets that he and his team have. Palke said that the basket-ball team was the first sport at Bethel to buy these jackets. Coach Palke looks forward to the rest of the basketball season. He said, "I'm excited about it. I believe that we will be an improv-ed team because we have a lot of experienced players back, plus many newcomers. They are always training too. But the entire MIAC is going to be better, so this year will be a real challenge." Now early in his first season at the reins as head coach, his team is 2-2 in non-conference games. Some MIAC insiders have picked the Royals to finish in the top teams in the conference. by Steve Erickson Bethel's basketball team took its longest road trip of the season last weekend, traveling out west to take on Eastern Montana and Rocky Mountain College and emerging with a split. Eastern Montana was first in line and the home team defeated the Royals 76-63 on Friday. Bethel quickly fell behind by 10 points. "We were too conservative. We decided to slow it down because we had heard they were very quick. But besides a couple players we were probably quicker," said Coach George Palke. All of Eastern Montana's players were under full scholarship, even though it is a Division II school. It plays many large schools this year and hopes to move up to Division I status next season. With a big lead early, EM was able to dictate how the game was played. They went into a four-corner delay offense for three-. fourths of the game. Bethel did narrow the gap to two points but was down six at the half. With four minutes remaining, the Royals inched to within three at 53-50 but Bethel was forced to fouLand EM cashed in at the free throw line. Both games found Bethel in foul trouble. "It was a different style of officiating than what we are used to. Sometimes it was frustrating the way the game was called," said Palke. Saturday against Rocky Moun-tain Bethel jumped to a 14-3 lead using a press and an aggressive man-to-man defense. In all Bethel was charged with 22 fouls in the first half alone but held a four-point advantage. Playing more careful defense in by Steve Erickson Bethel's wrestling team kept on winning last week, crushing Gus-tavus .31-7 and Concordia-St. Paul 38-14. The, junior vaulty also looked strong in topping Golden Valley Lutheran and Northwes-tern on Saturday afternoon. The Royal varsity dropped only four matches—two in each contest —in recording their third and fourth wins of the season. Three wrestlers, Rich Hodge, Paul Frandsen, and Lonnie Holm-gren, remained undefeated through the weekend. Heavy-weight Hodge with two wins up-ped his record to 5-0 while Frand-sen, at 142 lbs., collected a pin in his only appearance for a 4-0 standing. Co-captain Holmgren, wrestling at 158, is at 4-0-1 with a win and a tie. Friday Bethel won in the first seven weight classes to jump out to a 25-0 lead over Gustavus. Russ Reynolds, Greg Widmer, and Jon the- second half, the Royals went out to a 17 margin. "They reacted in a tough, frustrating situation with a lot of poise," said Palke. Dave Blanchard led the way against the mountainmen with 25 points. Greg Edlund made eight clutch free throws in nine attempts to help put the game away. Four players scored in double figures in each game. Scott Wilson is top point-getter for the Royals so far this season with a 16.5 average, but Blan-chard, Rey Miller and Greg Edlund have over ten points a game while Gary Edlund averages 9.3. This weekend the cagers travel to Deerfield, Ill. for the Trinity College tournament. Dec. 27, 28, and 29 they will participate in the Augsburg tournament. Martin all won close, come-from-behind matches. Other winners were Kirk Walters and Greg Heinsch. "We cut down on our mistakes from last weekend and wrestled aggressively," said Coach Dave Klostreich. "We were in better shape than they were because we scored in the third period." Klostreich said Concordia was a similar type of team as the Gus-ties, and the score showed it. Mike Jacoby wrestled for the first time on Saturday, replacing Frandsen, and collected a pin against the Comets. He also added two more falls in J.V. matches. Brian Hallstrom won his first match, too, a decision over a sea-soned Concordia junior. The next meet for the wrestlers comes after break, Jan. 5 in the Winona Invitational. Strength will be added to the team as three in-dividuals will become eligible then. Women hoopsters split decisions in two games Royals 'go west,' play Montana Mat squad wipes out opponents over weekend
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Title | Clarion 1979-12-15 Vol 55 No 12 |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 55 No. 12 |
Date Published | December 15 1979 |
Decade | 1970 |
Academic Year | 1979 - 1980 |
Frequency | Weekly |
Article Titles | Decade winds down: 'exciting era' ends; Youth symphony concert displays state's finest; Graduation heightens need for insurance; After slow recovery Keith jogs cautiously; editorial, Bo Conrad, quadism take Clarion awards; Class overcrowding demands solution; letters, Early planning may end class trauma; Nelson's photography enhances Festival; Christmas Column, Ghosts haunt 'stoodents'; Freshmen adjust to isolation on OC; Picky shopping habits relieve tight budgets; open column, Spoon-fed learners need attitude change; Ethnic foods spice up holidays; entertainment, Seventies: Beatles take Wings, Billy Budds; Bethel celebrates Christmas parties foreign-style; Top debate pair places third; Hockey wins No. 1, adds players to team; Free dorm stairs constructed by Conservation Corps; Leong stars as karate club improves; Coach recalls past experiences; Women hoopsters split decisions in two games; Royals 'go west,' play Montana; Mat squad wipes out opponents over weekend; |
Photographs | Donald Larson; Richie Milke, a third grade student of Judy Berg, Bethel house parent, visited last week with several other third graders. Here, Richie examines a camera in the Clarion office (Photo Doug Barkey).; Al Glenn; Jerry Healy; Chub Reynolds; Dwaine Lind; Despite the lengthy bus rides, Hagstrom residents enjoy their isolated existences on old campus (Photo Dan Velie).; Cartoon: The Differnece - "Happy Holidays - Isaiah 9:27"; Penny's supermarket rates low on the list of stores that budget-conscious students should patronize (Photo Dan Velie).; Linda Herrman, Dana Olson, and Tim Zimmerman were a few of the host of student "stars" emoting for Bethel's 1977 production of "Showboat."; Juan Ramos starred in Bethel's 1978 production of "Lillies of the Field."; Lesli Smith sets to pass in Bethel's 63-51 thrashing at the hands of St. Olaf on Tuesday night.; Enthusiastic George Palke looks for a winning season in his first year as head coach of the Royals (Photo Tom Twining).; The Royal |
Digital Collection | The Clarion: Bethel University's Student Newspaper |
Digital Publisher | Bethel University |
Editor | Olsen, Paul |
Contributors | Wells, Suzi Associate Editor); Madison, Carol (News and Sports Editor); Erickson, Steve (News and Sports Editor); Banta, Joy Nannette (Copy Editor); Nielsen, Shelly (Production); Barkey, Doug (Photographer); Olson, Carolyn (Graphics); Hawkins, Suanne (Business Manager); Ortiz, Juan (Cartoonist); Barsuhn, Scott (Fine Arts); Russell, Jay (Staff Writer); |
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Transcript | the Clarions. Vol. 55 No. 12 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Dec. 15, 1979 Decade winds down: `exciting era' ends .1111 1 ., it/ Of- 1.01. 1:11 drAtwiarAwil fiIVAUF I r:' ,11:;.1 Youth symphony concert displays state's finest by Ellie Abbott On Dec. 16th the Minnesota Youth Symphony (MYS) will perform in the Bethel fieldhouse at 4 p.m. MYS was incorporated in the fall of 1972 as a non-profit organi-zation. It has approximately 200 members in four orchestras who attend 117 different public and private junior and senior high schools within a 110-mile radius of the Twin Cities. The goal of MYS is to provide a by Laurie Lindahl In terms of health insurance, most Bethel students are well-cov-ered. Most parents have family health insurance policies that cover full-time college students until they are 25. Bethel has a sup-plementary health plan that pays the excess of what is not covered under these policies. "Bethel's health plan is not meant to be an individual in-surance policy," said Paul Drake, director of auxiliary enterprises in business affairs at Bethel. "It is to be used only as a supplement." Because of this, students who are not covered under their parents' insurance only receive half of the maximum benefits that others do. For example, an emergency ap-pendectomy would cost approxi-mately $1500: $1000 hospital bill, a $350 surgeon's fee, and a $150 anesthesiologist's fee. As most of the hospital and surgeon's bill will be covered by the student's family policy, what is not paid for will be high level of musical training and experience for students through study, weekly rehearsals, and per-formances. Selections for the concert at Bethel will include the Shostako-vich First Ballet Suite, the Delius Sleigh Ride and the Lutoslawski Little Suite. Tickets will be on sale at the be-ginning of this week and they will also be available at the door on the afternoon of the concert. paid by Bethel. For the student without cover-age under a family policy, benefits would equal approximately $345 on the hospital bill and $225 on the surgeon's fee. Bethel's health plan is a supplement—it helps, but in cannot cover all. While not being covered under a family plan can be critical, the most crucial time for students comes after graduation when they are no longer covered by Bethel's plan or their parent's policy. "Most young people get jobs where they are plugged into a group insurance plan," said Jack Ivance, representative of Ivance Insurance Co. "There are times, however, between graduation and getting a job when an individual will be without any coverage at all." For these cases, there are in-surance plans which can be pur-chased on a short-term basis. "It's very limited coverage," Ivance continued, "but at least it gives you something." by Ann Taylor Remember last January when Bethel's popular custodian, Keith Tekautz, fell off his garage roof? Keith says he doesn't even think ' about it now. Besides a broken left arm and a broken nose, Keith's left kneecap was shattered. It had to be surgically removed and recovery was slow. He spent two months in the hospital and another month at home. "I do everything I did before— only a little bit more cautiously," he said. Keith has worked at Bethel for With the end of the decade ap-proaching, the Clarion interview-ed several Bethel faculty members who have taught here through the last 10 years. The answres to the questions posed by Clarion reporters reveal much about the trends and highlights of the decade. Just , as importantly, the answers reveal something of the personalities of those interviewed. The reporters responsible for the article are: Julie Pflepsen, Pat-ty Sutton and Shari Goddard. Al Glenn Q. How have students changed over the '70s? A. "In terms of exercising the 20 years and he wouldn't change jobs for anything. When alumni return and see Keith jogging down the halls they often say, "You're' still here, huh?" "I know what they mean," said Keith, smiling. "People think `Oh, JUST a custodian,' but when you're doing what you like best and you're doing it for the Lord, you can't top that." NEXT ISSUE The Clarion now com-mences hibernation. We shall awaken on Jan. 18. ChriStian faith, I feel their life-styles are more liberal. Q. What is a significant world or national event of the '70s? A. "The end of the Vietnam war was significant because it led students to go into a 'money-hun-gry' education such as business or economics." Q. Who was a significant per-son of the '70s? A. "There were many people that exemplify what it means to practice a religious lifestyle. Mo-ther Theresa from India might be one such person." Q. What was a predominant mood-attitude of the '70s? A. "After the .Vietnam war the people turned inward to concen-trate more on themselves. They read more fantasy- and science-fiction- types of literature. They examined their own thoughts and sensations more. Their Christiani-ty seems to be introspective." Q. How have you changed over the '70s? A. "I am liberal in terms of so-cial and political issues. In some theological issues I tend to be con-servative. I'm against dominant movements that are opposed to the orthodox views such as the judgment before God, hell, and other biblical truths." Q. How have academic stan-dards changed over the '70s? A. "Bethel has become more demanding in academics." Q. Has involvement/apathy changed over the '70s? A. "Students are always apa-thetic. Christians seem to have turned away from their evan-gelical duties and are concen-trating more on social issues. We're becoming a self-centered, individualistic, withdrawn nation." Q. Do you have any other corn-ments abOut the '70s? A. "The '70s have initiated us into an exciting era, in terms of technology and education. New challenges such as nuclear energy and moral issues have come upon us strikingly. This is good if we can remain biblical." Don Larson Since the late '60s, the student concern for the world and their place in it has diminished because the conservative orinch of Chris-tianity has communicated more in the '70s than the liberal branch. The most significant event on the world scene was the initiative of Sadat in opening up talks with Begin. At Bethel, it was the se-lection of a clean and vice-presi-dent who aren't members of the Baptist General Conference. 70s, Cont. on pg. 3 Graduation heightens need for insurance Donald Larson After slow recovery Keith jogs cautiously Page 2 To the Editor: We all know that there is a problem of overcrowding here at Bethel. There have -been numer-ous complaints of overcrowded dorm rooms and complaints that we don't have sufficient facilities to accommodate the number of students in the various depart-ments. Why isn't anyone bringing up what I consider the most crucial area of overcrowding, namely overcrowding in courses. I feel that by paying the amount of money I do for tuition, I should be entitled to at least my second choice when registering for courses, and then, I should only have to suffer through my second choice for no more than two class-es. In other words, I should be able to get my first choice for at least two classes. Yet last year for Interim, I got my sixth choice. For Interim this letters Early planning may end class trauma editorial Bo Conrad, quadism take Clarion awards The end of any decade brings ample opportunity for the Clarion staff to well up with nostalgia and reflect upon the happenings of the past ten years. So with no further adieu, we offer the deci-annual Subjective Clarion Awards, listing the best, the worst, the most and the strongest traditions, people and events. Football coach of the decade: Chub Reynolds, who came to Bethel in 1970. Most dominating sports team: All off-campus intramural teams Most aptly-named residence floor: The Edgren pit Strongest Bethel tradition: Nik Dag Wisest decisions from the athletic department: 1) the varsity status of soccer and hockey, and 2) entrance to the MIAC Best basketball player: Steve Scroggins; in 1970, the Clarion said, "freshmen showing the most promise so far, as candidates for the varsi ty squad are: Steve Scroggins, a 5 foot 11 inch guard..." Understatement of the decade: see above Most popular musical group: The Bo Conrad Spit Band, famous for "sweet melodies and low-down tones." Students with best career preparation in an extra-curricular activity: 1972, ff. campus coordinator Dave Horn, who is \now a resident director and director of residence life at Bethel. The "But it's not even in the lifestyle statement" award: Four occur-rences of streaking at Bethel in 1974. Number one inflation fighter: -Doc Dalton, who still sells coffee at five cents per cup. Best job by the dean's office: Faculty recruitment Worst job by the dean's office: Faculty retention and public relations in instituting the flat-fee structure. Most popular music group, honorable mention: The Priest and the Scribes. Shortest-lived fad: Qu'adism The "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't" award: The debate team, and the cheerleaders Best silver anniversary celebration: President Lundquist Easiest spoof: Scott Barsuhn Most recurring problem: overcrowding Most enduring tradition: a split campus Most outstanding editorial opinion: Oct. 13, 1972. In supporting Richard Nixon for the presidency, Editor Marshall Shelley said, "Perhaps what America needs is a shrewd, calculating thinker." Best Clarion tradition: The Marshall Shelley ineptitude award. Most incredible basketball performance: by Paul Healy vs. Nor-thwestern of Iowa in 1973. Healy picked up seven fouls in one game by fouling out and adding two technicals. Most courageous Bethelite: Julie Redenbaugh Most entertaining athlete: John Priestly A wise decision: Dropping the yearbook, Spire, and replacing.it with the Roster and Passages. Best Bethel girl joke: Why do Bethel girls wear high heals? So their knuckles don't drag on the ground. Best Bethel guy joke: Did you hear about the man-eating lion at Bethel? He starved. To the Editor: The trauma of registration is over. A few casualties still wander the corridors, clinging to their computer cards and calling, "It can't be closed, it can't be closed!" But, for the most part, we have all survived. However, it is for those broken few which I make this petition. Why should students pay $5,000 to come to school here, and not get into the courses they want, or need? In a school of such fine standing, shouldn't there be enough classes with enough space for those interested? Have our fa-culty and or facilities become so li-mited that we cannot provide stu-dents with the opportunity to stu-dy in their chosen field ? It is very discouraging to put out so much money for tuition and then find three of your four class choices closed. Besides being a Waste of money, it is a waste of "The difference" year, I got my fourth choice, and to this problem is, but I would like for fall classes, I got a fourth to bring it to the attention of choice and a third choice. For the everybody. Could somebody spring semester, I got two seconds please come up with a solution? and a third. Jan Johnson I do not know what the answer P.O. 742 Richie Milke, a third grade student of Judy Berg, Bethel house parent, visited last week with several other third graders. Here, Richie examines a camera in the Clarion office (Photo Doug Barkey). e Clarion Vol. 55 No. 12 Bethel College Dec. 14, 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 years. By settling for second best, then anticipate student interest a student may need to spend an and prepare accordingly. extra semester in school, catching If the classes themselves need to up on credits missed earlier. be made larger, then that is the A little advanced planning on price that we, as students, must the part of the administration pay. could alleviate many of these has- It will take some sacrifices and sles. In our computerized age, a extra planning but students should survey could be taken of students never have to look back on in which they indicate probable semester with regrets, feeling that course selections for the coming valuable time has been wasted. semester. Faculty members could Susan Peterson Nelson's photography enhances Festival My aesthetic, theological and unbounded gratitude and enthu-spiritual sensitivities were deeply siasm to all of you who had a part stirred with this year's Christmas in this magnificent event, one festival. Artist. Nelson's photo- which I hope will continue in-graphy richly enhanced the in- defeasibly year after year! volvement and impact I exper-ienced. Dr. Nils C. Friberg Associate Professor of Pastoral Though I don't know many of Care and Counseling you personally, let me voice my Bethel Theological Seminary Class overcrowding demands solution ■ BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH Cleveland and Skillman Avenues Roseville, Mn. Worship Services at 9:00 & 11:15 AM Sunday School at 10:00 AM (Special College-age Class (See posters for church bus schedule) Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone - 631-0211 BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH 720 13th Ave. S. 338-7653 Minneapolis, MN 55415 S. Bruce Fleming, Minister of Preaching C.J. Sahlin, Minister of Pastoral Care SERVICES Sunday School, 9:45 A.M. Morning Worship, 11:00 A.M. Evening Service, 6:00 P.M. Bus Transportation provided Watch for announcements on Bulletin Board We wish evnyone a (910,1y Oviistrnas and a goyous Tell) cljea ,1! Breakfast Lunch Dinner Located at Snelling and County Rd. E 636-6077 We will be closed Dec. 24 & 25 Open All Day New Year's Eve. Page 3 Watergate, xerox, apathy 'me' reign in '70s 70's cont. from p. 1 The '70s' most significant per-son was Henry Kissinger who en-abled us to back out of the Viet-nam war and make it appear as if we had nothing to do with it. His _ Al Glenn winning the Nobel Peace Prize de-monstrates the gullibility of peo-ple who - think he brought an end to the war in Vietnam. The '70s will go down in history as the decade where people became aware of the finiteness of our resources. I personally have gained a more serious concern for the exploi-tation of the third-world countries by multi-national corporations. I have a growing distrust of profes-sional politicians and am dis-covering how difficult it is for competitive and cooperative sys-tems to exist side by side. During the past five years, the academic standards of the faculty have been steadily toughening up while the administration has been lowering admission requirements. During the past decade, people are putting more and more control of their destinies in other people's hands. Jerry Healy Q. How have students changed? A. "I refuse to answer that." Q. What was the most signifi-cant event of the '70's? A. a) At Bethel... "The in-stallation of the xerox machines; it has changed the lives of all of us." SCHOOL ADMISSION TEST Otadaki-ft KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER Test Preparation Specialists Since 1938 For information, Please Call: 378-9191 b) National... "The arrival of the veg-o-matic." c) World..."When MacDon-ald's went international." Q. Who was the most significant person of the '70's? A. "Other than myself you mean? The inventor of the pet rock; Fred Petros I believe. Not many people realize he was a Greek from the island, of Pat-mos— of the Patmos Petros"' Q. What was the predominant attitude/mood of the '70's? A. "A kind of rampant, con-cerned apathy." Q. How have you changed? A. "I've become much more conservative. I'm a product of the '70's, that rampant apathy, and it has made me the way I am." Q. Have academic standards changed? A. "Yes" Q. How has involvement chang-ed? A. "I'd rather not answer that question, because I don't want to get involved." Additional remarks: "We would all do well to re-member the famous words of John Priestly, which were, "Rich people sure have a lot of money." Chub Reynolds Q. What was a significant world or national event of the '70s? A. "Watergate is the first thing I think of when it comes to events in the '70s." Q. Who was a significant per-son of the '70s? A. "Again, I think of Nixon be-cause of Watergate." Q. What was a predominant mood/attitude of the '70s? A. "Students at Bethel have a tendency to evaluate people in a critical way rather than uphold each other. I'm not sure if this is a general mood around the country or not, but I have noticed this at Bethel." Q. How have you changed over the past 10 years? Chub Reynolds A. "I'm 10 years older and I haven't changed a bit. I've always been conservative and I always will be." Q. How have academic stan-dards changed throughout the '70s? A. "There is more emphasis on teachers getting their doctorate. There are more demanding courses that they must take.' "When I first came to Bethel they gave students 'Fs.' Now they give them no credit which doesn't seem as powerful as an 'F."' Q. How has involvement/apa-thy changed over the '70s? - A. "Bethel students are great people to work with, but they show apathy toward getting in-volved or excited about what other people are doing. For in-stance, in the 10 years that I have 11' Dwaine Lind been here, I have never seen Be-thel students get excited about homecoming. This is not only true with sports but with all Bethel ac-tivities. I don't know if this is a national attitude or just at Bethel but I have especially noticed it over these past 10 years." Dwaine Lind Q. How have students changed? A. "They have changed only in ways that the rest of us have changed. Right now I'm detecting some conservatism." Q. What was the most sig-nificant event of the '70's? A. a. at Bethel... "The move out here; that and the growth." b. Nationally..."What we're seeing right now (in Iran), may well turn out to be." Q. Who was the most sig-nificant person of the '70's? A. "Maybe it was Nixon. Not only did he do a lot of things posi-tively, he caused the United States to react. He really had everyone's attention." Q. What was the predominant attitude? A. "I think it started out re-bellious and has turned to more of a kind of apathy." The whole issue of consumerism has been important, which calls for a level of accountability." Q. How have you changed? A. "I've become less material-istic. I'm more comfortable with my own values." Q. Have academic standards changed? A. "Yes, I think they dropped and there is an attempt to raise them again." Q. How has involvement chang-ed? A. "There's a greater social. consciousness. But, people tend to be very selective about involve-ment, because of the many pres-sures on them." Lillian Ryberg The most significant event of the '70s in our country was the Watergate crisis. At Bethel, the most significant event was the building of and moving to the new campus. The rebellion of the '60s dimin-ished to a greater sense of accep-tance in the '70s, although stu-dents question things more than they did before. Grades are inflated now. There is more emphasis on student in-volvement than a decade ago, but • I wonder if things really change: 30 years ago we were pretty in-volved in the learning process, too. (Faculty photos by Doug Barkey and Tom Twining.) Jerry Healy ry ,!„ Despite the lengthy bus rides, Hagstrom residents enjoy their isolated existences on old campus (Photo Dan Velie). Freshmen adjust to isolation on OC by Jan Johnson "I like living on old campus because I can look outside and not see school," said Beth Alvarez, one of eight old campus residents interviewed. She fairly summed up what the rest of them said. Most agreed that it was nice to get away from school after the end of a long day. Sandy Veen called her dorm room "homey." In fact, only one freshman said that he'd prefer to live on new campus. The people interviewed said that the biggest problem was rid-ing the buses to and from new campus. It added up to about an hour of wasted time a day, accor-ding to general opinion. But even riding the bus has its advantages. Rebecca Reimer said that she got to know a lot of people through riding the bus. Actually, there were only a few times when people said that they'd rather live on new campus: when something was going on at the new campus and they couldn't get there for it; when they forgot something at school; or, as Brad Byker put it, "On cold mornings." "Oh sure, there are a few pro-blems, but things are being work-ed out," said Reimer. Generally, it was agreed that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages. The students said they felt closer to the people they lived with on old campus than they might Trinity Baptist Church Welcomes You 220 Edgerton Street at Hwy. 36 St. Paul, MN 55117 774-8609 Rev. Hartley Christensen Rev. Michael Vortel SUNDAY 8:30 AM Worship Service 9:45 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Worship Service 6:00 PM Evening Service Bus Schedule Old Campus 9 AM Fountain Terrace 9:15 AM New Campus 9:25 AM have been if they all lived in the same dorm on new campus. Cindy Record said, "Since we're cut off from the rest of the students, we are kind of forced to get to know each other better, and that's good." Beth Alvarez said that it seemed as though the people on old cam-pus cared for each other more be-cause there was no one else to do it. Marty Stanchfield said that it was just like a big family. "Really," added Alvarez, "if I come back to Bethel next year, I want to be on old campus. It's great." 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Central Baptist Church 420 North Roy Street Staff: St. Paul, Minnesota Garven McGettrick 646-2751 Ron Eckert Services: Dana Olson Bus leaves: 8:45 and 11 Mike Anderson SC - 9:15 10 Bible Study Will Healy - FT - 9:25 7 pm evening Kathy Cupp NC - 9:35 Page 4 Christmas Column Ghosts haunt `stoodents' by Charles Stricken a.k.a. Teresa Worrell The Sunday before finals was a rowdy one. It culminated in a party in which ten of us sat around donuts and hot cocoa remembering the best times of the semester—the pranks, the parties, and the raids. We all had a good time, for we weren't studying. I went to bed that night without having opened a book. The townhouse was quiet that night, but at midnight I awoke with a start. There was someone in my room! He appeared to be a ghost, but was bound in chains and dragged an assembly line behind him. "St000-dent," he wailed. I quaked in my bed. Surely he could not mean me! "St000dent," he repeated. "Who are you?" I queried tenaciously. "I am Joseph Party!" he screamed. I trembled in my bed, but my new roommate stayed fast asleep. "I know you remember me," he continued, "I am the one who went out with you night after night, always to have fun but never to study. You remember when I received my academic suspension and dismissal. And now I am paying with this!" He gestured toward the chains and the assembly line. "I am here to see that you don't make the same mistake," he continued, his voice softening. "But I don't understand," I ventured weakly. "You will!" He screamed. I glanced at my roommate, but he still slept. "Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts. The first shall arrive when the clock strikes one." With that, the ghost vanished. I trembled in my bed for a few more minutes, then decided it must have been a dream and went back to sleep. I was abruptly awakened in what seemed like only a few moments. One glance at the clock told me that it was one in the morning. Once again, there was someone in my room. "St000-dent," he wailed. "Who are you?" I queried. "I am the ghost of procrastination past," he said. "I have come to show you your study habits of the past. Come." I was compelled to go. In an instant we were both transformed into light beings traveling through time and space. We were looking upon college life two months earlier. I found myself in this scene, as well as a friend of mine. My friend was speaking as we ran about the campus. "You know, I really should be studying," he said. "Relax," I heard myself say. "You can't let academics interfere with your social life!" I then realized how these words had boomeranged back on me. I wanted to go back, but the ghost led me on. In the next scene I saw myself wearing a toga and running about the academic complex. Before I could make out any details, I saw flashes of myself of Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and Country Kitchen. "No more!" I pleaded, but the ghost led me on. I saw myself raiding late at night and sleeping in, calling up DJ's just to talk, even playing solitaire to avoid my studies. All the while, my books lay hopelessly forlorn on the shelf. By this time I was on my knees begging to go home, so the ghost led me back to my room. In an instant I was back in bed, shuddering tremendously. In an effort to calm myself, I told myself that it was just a bad dream. Reassured, I drifted off to sleep. Moments later I awoke again. It was two in the morning, and once again there was someone in my room. This was beginning to get an-noying. "Who's there?" I challenged. A deep voice boomed out of the darkness. "I am ghost of panic pre-sent! I have come to show you your study habits of the present! Come!" I pulled my quivering body out of bed and followed him through time and space as I had, done earlier. Suddenly I saw myself there, nervously biting my fingernails and scribbling away in a last mad rush to catch up on my reading assignments. ' "Why, this was only yesterday!" I exclaimed. The ghost nodded, and suddenly we were in the library. I saw myself there still, frantically try-ing to cram on my lecture notes. "No more!" I cried. Understanding, the ghost took me back to my room and left me. I thought only briefly of the panic I had experienced lately, then drifted off to sleep. Once again, I awoke with a start. It was now 3:00 a.m., and again there was someone in my room. "Now who is it?" I demanded, a little agitated. "I am the ghost of failure future," he wailed in a hollow tone. "I have come to show you the results of your study habits. Come." I followed him through time and space to a day early the next January. I found myself down at my P.O. box. "Open it," moaned the ghost. I opened the box, but was afraid to look inside. The ghost reached in and pulled out a Bible exam. Written across the top in bold red ink was "NC"—"No Credit." I reeled from the blow, but the ghost was relent-less. He pulled out my psych exam, also marked NC. "No more!" I cried. The ghost ignored me and reached into the box again. I ran, but he had me cornered. Laughing hideously, he threw my Anthropology paper in my face, stained with the dreaded NC. At once it was as if I were bombarded with NCs, all of them red and angry. I screamed and screamed. Suddenly, someone was shaking me. I awoke in my bed, drenched in sweat. My roommate was standing over me. "Are you all right?" he asked. "Yeah, I'm fine," I answered weakly. He turned and started to walk away. "I'll let you go back to sleep then," he said over his shoulder. "No, I can't do that," I said. "I've got to study." open column Spoon-fed learners need attitude change by Ted G. Lewis "In my country we have old saying," uttered a gentle Egyptian to me a month ago, "If a poor man is hungry, don't just give him a fish, but teach him how to fish." Perhaps the original savor escapes the translation, however, the significance of meeting more than temporal needs is clear. Unfortunately, Bethel schools hundreds of starving students who are merely spoon-fed by their teachers. What's more saddening is a prevalent approach to learning that fails to promote students to learn how to learn for themselves. As a result, the student's identity is detached from their studies because they are not personally involved in the learning process. Are these rash conclusions? I don't think so. Recollect the last time you crammed for an exam, pulling an all-nighter. Now, ask yourself why. Satisfied with your reason? Tell me, why do we dread studying and make our prime goal to finish each obligation? But then why do we bend over backwards to know something for our teachers and grades, with little concern for how our studies relate to ourselves. Why do most Bethelites dominantly view the purpose of learning as a means to a smooth job for financial security? (Bear with me, this article thrives on questions!) Is it surprising that the American worker is similarly detached from his work? Let's discuss this topic as a basis for understanding the former themes better. By 'detached' I mean two things. First, the worker's iden-tity is rarely nourished and fulfilled by the actual "doing" side of his work. The second grows out of the former: labor is solely the means whereby one acquires money to satisfy needs external to his job. Karl Marx labeled it "estranged labor," noting the effects of industrialization. He recognized that pre-industrial work affirmed the self-worth of a worker by involving him in the full creation of his product. A shoemaker, for example, could express himself creatively as he designed, sewed and marketed his shoes. He externalized his identity into his work. But when he was put on the assembly line to punch a row of holes in a piece of leather, he lost touch with his product. If you lose touch with your work, you lose touch with yourself. Consequently, human values were forced to change. When Marx saw how labor failed to affirm human worth, he concluded that society exalts man's animal functions as all important (i.e., eating, drinking, sex, recreation, etc.). Such hedonism demands affluency to be the only "real" value, thereby defining human-ness in terms of the quantitative fulfillment of one's animal functions. And since money alone feeds such as value, human worth is reduced to the utility of a worker, proportionate to his salary. The result: man's uni-queness dies, his identity is lost, and labor, being idolized and despised, furthers a subtle dehumanization. Now to draw the crucial parallel. Is the relation between the American student and his studies rapidly ac-cepting a similar divorce? Substitute grades and degrees for paychecks, and teachers for bosses. Now can you see how the persuasive goal of learning is primarily to complete requirements for the sake of securing "nice" jobs. But why do we all want such nice jobs? In our ultra-individualistic society it's staggering to acknowledge how self-centered our work and lives become! Penny's supermarket rates low on the list of stores that budget-conscious students should patronize (Photo Dan Velie). Ethnic foods spice up holidays Page 5 Picky shopping habits relieve tight budgets by J.D. Kiaessy For college students, particu-larly those who live off campus, grocery shopping can be a trial. The main problem connected with shopping is finding a store in the vicinity that's affordable. Recently five supermarkets in the area were scrutinized in order to determine which were cheapest and closest. The five were, Lund's, on North Silver Lake Rd., Country Club, near Silver-crest, The Country Store, in Apache Plaza, Penny's, in Arden Hills Plaza, and Applebaum's, (formerly National) in Har Mar Mall. In all five stores luxury items such as milk, eggs, bread and yo-gurt were all priced about the same. However, the price of ne-cessities varied a great deal. (Necessities being: Twinkies, M & M's, soft drinks, frozen pizza, peanut butter, Tang and the reliable mask-all catsup, or ket-chup for you connoisseurs.) Heading up the bottom of the list is Applebaum's. High priced but clean, this store is too far away for anyone but those on old campus. Next to the bottom is Lund's. While Lund's has a greater variety than any of the other stores, its prices are high. The produce is the best in the area, and fairly reason-able, but this loss is made up in the meat department. (Rumor has by Ann Taylor This week the food service has given us a wide assortment of ethnic foods for lunch and dinner. "If people like these dishes," Falcon Barber Stylists Upper Midwest Trophy Winner FOR WOMEN'S HAIR STYLING Call Debbie at 6464323 it, Lund's meat is more expensive because they use a higher quality red dye in their beef.) Seriously, it is not the place to shop unless you are a vegetarian, or want 24 dif-ferent kinds of olives and seven brands of smoked sardines. While Penny's is close to cam-pus, and its prices fair to mod-erate, the personnel put it close to Lund's for third to last. If you do shop there, bring cash. The questions put to those who pay by check not only try to establish your family's financial past back to 1945, but are also sec-ond only to the Spanish inquisi-tion in extracting said information tactfully. Country Club and The Country Store are not only closer to Bethel's apartments, but are also the cheapest of the stores. While The Country Store's prices are cheaper than Country Club's, un-less you bring your own bags or boxes, you are charged for ones from The Country Store. Another advantage Country Club has is more newspaper coupons every week. Although The Country Store's prices are generally cheaper, Country Club must be rated slightly ahead, for two totally biased reasons. First, because at Country Club you get a free pit-cher with your Tang. Second, because Country Club's prices on Sara Lee coffeecakes can't be beat. said Co-Director of Food Service Wayne Erickson, "we'll serve them in the future. If not, they'll never see them again." The main reason for offering pollo a la Chelindron (Liberian baked chicken dish), Shashlyk (Russian lamb kebabs) or quiche Lorraine, plumb pudding and scones have been to lead us into the Christmas holidays and brighten the week before finals. The climax of this series will be on Monday, Dec. 17, when Swedish standbys (sausage and potatoes) are combined with fare from both the modern and early American periods. "There will be dishes familiar to students from our fast food and take-it-from-a-can culture as well as foods their parents would remember." Erickson said there will be a dessert table that students will not believe, offering fresh fruits, a 20-pound block of carved cheese and assorted sweets. The cost of Monday night's Smorgasbord has not been decid-ed, though, as always, it will be kept as low as possible. Erickson and his staff chose the Swedish/American emphasis for the climax dinner since it is the common heritage of many Bethel students. "We hope it will be fun," said Erickson. What sort of approach to learning fosters our drive towards affluen-cy? (Think back to the shoemaker.) It's an approach that never pro-motes the integration of the student's identity with his studies. Rather, learning is a passive accumulation of knowledge. One learns facts for a quiz for a teacher for a grade, but not for-himself. That is product-oriented learning quite distinct from process-oriented learning. This lat-ter approach is concerned about people, not facts. It stressed the active role of the student's mind to synthesize his studies with who he is. The teacher's - role clarifies the difference between these two ap-proaches. Product orientation sets the teacher as a standard of know-ledge to move toward. Quantity of subject content is the priority. The process perspective sees the teacher as a guide moving forward beside the student. Highlighting the quality of learning process, he confronts the student to discover through' disciplined thinking. The student recognized as a unique individual is pushing to integrate what he learns for himself, thereby discovering his identity. Is this process approach too unrealistic for Bethel's educational system? No it's not. Without denying the structure, a teacher can flavor his subject to encourage students to think. Most teachers here advocate these ideals, but few seem to actually practice them. What is lacking is the proper employment of the question, serving as the basis for learning as a process. Good questions demand unknowns which imply discovery, hence involving the student. Show me a teacher who fails to ask sharp intriguing questions, and I'll show you a poor teacher. At this stage I pivot the challenge to students who do not appreciate thinking. Most of us are products of the , apathetic 70's, undisturbed by the same values that our predecessors of the 60's revolted against. They thought! Campus scenes buzzed with discussions that stretched minds. But we give minimal mental effort expecting maximum return, thereby despising our studies because of no immediate gratification. I think the root of this lethargy is the loss of our own identity. Who we are is solely governed by exterior institutions of work and people. The intention of this article is to provide thought in a covered yet cru-cial area. I threw all the billiard balls at you to wake you up. Perhaps I can throw them one at a time next year, providing a more objective sup-port. Over the holidays (as well as final's week) I dare you to probe my questions. Because, for crying out loud, if you truly are a unique in-dividual, what are you on this planet for anyway? And what are you do-ing now to discover who you really are through learning, in order to develop toward your ambitions? Do you have any ambitions you can call your own? Presently, you face an inescapable choice: either exercise your mind or let it grow flabby. John W. Ivance Company 1618 Pioneer Bldg. 224-7358 INSURANCE Life--Auto--Home Business St. Paul. MN 55101 John W. Ivance, Sr. John W. Ivance, Jr. John G. Chisholm Russell K. Akre Patrick J. Repp Juan Ramos starred in Bethel's 1978 production of "Lillies of the Field." Page 6 entertainment Seventies: Beatles take Wings; Billy Budds by Jan Johnson "Sugar, Sugar" was a hit for the cartoon characters known as the Archies, the Beatles had just released "Let It Be," and on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim's "Company" was the show to see. The year was 1970. As we prepare to move into the '80s, let's take one last look at the world of theatre and music as they evolved in the last decade. In 1971, two giant hits were sweeping New York, and both of them were based on the Gospels. On Broadway, the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" was drawing in the crowds and "God-spell" was doing very well off- Broadway. Both produced very successful cast albums. Here at home, the Guthrie was having a very successful run with Shakespeare's "Richard II," star-ring Richard Chamberlain. It was a successful year all around. In the music world things weren't going quite so well. The Beatles had finally made their break official. Although they may not have been performing toge-ther, they were still making music. Paul McCartney formed Wings, and Ringo Starr got together with George Harrison for "The Con-cert for Bangladesh." In 1971 another group had a good year. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" became the big-gest hit to date for the newly reunited BeeGees. While Alice Cooper was shock-ing audiences with his simulated killings onstage, 1972 became the year of the "teen idol." Donny Osmond was in "Puppy Love." Michael Jackson had "Got To Be There," and David Cassidy wasn't sure. He just kept singing "I Think I Love You." Nostalgia was sweeping the na-tion. Everyone wanted to get back to that "good ol' rock-'n-roll." Sha-Na-Na became big on the concert circuit, and on Broadway, the musical "Grease" was starting its successful run. In 1973, Bette Midler took nos-talgia one step further when she Rent Refrigerators . Perfect for Dorms $14.95/mo. or $35.00/sem. (We also rent color TV's) STANDARD RENTS FURNITURE 3000 University Ave. SE 331.4020 8 Blks. E. of Univ. of Minn. came out with her smash hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," a remake of the '40s hit. On a mel-lower note, John Denver was giv-ing everyone a "Rocky Mountain High." In September, just two months after "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" had made No. 1, Jim Croce was killed in an airplane crash. With him went a very promising career. The next year nostalgia fans went even farther back as "The Sting" brought back Scott Joplin's music from the '20s. Jop-lin's "The Entertainer" entertain-ed thousands as it went to the No. 1 position. Meanwhile, the latest thing to do was "The Streak," as Ray Ste-vens explained in his novelty song by that name. Even Bethel wasn't safe from these exhibitionists. But Bethel didn't dwell on this form of "entertainment." Interim `74 saw one of Bethel's biggest productions. "Fiddler on the Roof" became the event of the Bethel social season. "Billy Budd," with its cast of 20 men, was another successful production of that year. That same year, Professor Rainbow organized his Colorful Caravan, and the '74-'75 season found them touring around the Twin Cities area. That set the pace for the next four years of the tour-ing group. In 1975, near "Beatlemania" was caused by a Scottish group called the Bay City Rollers, whose "Saturday Night" had everyone's foot tapping. But it was the BeeGees' "Jive Talkin'" that started everyone dancing. That and their follow-up, "You Should Be Dancing," were the beginnings of the Disco movement. Big things were happening on Broadway too. "A Chorus Line" and "The Wiz" started bringing people back into the theatre after a three year slump. The '75-'76 season at Bethel was very good too. "Godspell" did very well, and Professor Rain-bow's Colorful Caravan made its first European tour of military bases. Meanwhile, Van McCoy had the country doing "The Hustle;" C. W. McCall had everyone get-ting into the CB act after his "Convoy;" and Britain's "Sex Pistols" were bringing "punk rock" into the limelight. Another big production came to Bethel during interim of '77. "Showboat," held in the old cam-pus gym, was a successful follow-up for "Godspell." The Caravan also made its second European On Broadway, the adventures of "Annie" were making her pro-ducers very happy. But the music business lost the "King," when Elvis Presley died in Memphis. But life goes on, and in 1978, the country had an epidemic of "Saturday Night Fever." Led by the BeeGees, disco music swept the country. Hundreds of new dis-cos appeared all over the U.S. But there were other new sounds too. Dolly Parton, voted female country entertainer of the year, moved over the border from country to pop, and soon, "Here You Come Again" was at the top of the pop charts. "Ain't Misbehavin"' became the hit on Broadway, and at the Guthrie the U.S. premiere of Ib-sen's "The Pretenders" did very well. At Bethel, "All My Sons" was a success. The '78-'79 season at Bethel was very productive. Including the three interim productions, seven plays were given. "Lilies of the Field" and "Cain" drew good crowds in the fall, and "The Three Sisters" and "The Fantas-ticks" rounded out the year. In 1979, while Supertramp was having "Breakfast in America," the BeeGees organized a concert for UNICEF, and donated all of the profits from their hit record "Too Much Heaven." Here at Bethel, the theater sea-son got off to a rather slow start, but it picked up as word got out that there were two "winners" playing. "Antigone," for the dra-matic set, and "Bereshith" for the more informal crowd. Both were professionally done. Such was the theater and music in the '70s. Bethel celebrates Christmas parties foreign-style by Mari Broman This past week both the Spanish and German departments cele-brated Christmas foreign-style. Spanish speakers and those inter-ested gathered in the cafeteria Fri-day, Dec. 7 for tacos, Spanish car-ols and pinatas. The program fea-tured flamenco dancer senior Juan Ramos. As part of its international week, the food service served a lunch last Wednesday, open to all students and faculty, of bratwurst and potato pancakes. The evening meal, also in the cafeteria, offered a choice of sauerbraten or roast pork, German potato salad, apple cider and a German dessert. After dinner students went to the AC lounge for skits, games and carols, along with a variety of German desserts baked by the stu-dents. Linda Herrman, Dana Olson, and Tim Zimmerman were a few of the host of student "stars" emoting for Bethel's 1977 produc-tion of "Showboat." Few may recall the popular music poll printed in the Clarion two issues ago. Through a prominently-displayed box in the up-per left-hand corner of page five we asked the readers of the Clarion to choose the most popular song of the 1970's, as a sort of kickoff to this week's nostalgic look at the decade. We hesitate to announce a three-way tie for the most popular. Song Percentage "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell 20 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel 20 "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand 20 "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka 10 "Silly Love Songs" by Wings 10 "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum 10 "I Shot the Sheriff" by Eric Clapton 10 The vote totals were tabulated by an independent judging agen-cy, and the results will be published nationally. The co-winners (Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel will each receive a separate award, due to the demise of their partnership) may be issued in-vitations to the incredible, visionary, inconceivable, impracticable Clarion awards banquet, tentatively scheduled for February 30 in the Orion Room. Lesli Smith sets to pass in Bethel's 63-51 thrashing at the hands of St. Olaf on Tuesday night. Page 7 by Lori Rydstrom Bethel's No. 1 debate team placed third at the national debate tournament held at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. on November 16-19, competing against Notre Dame, Ohio State and other top-ranked schools. The Bethel debate duo of Mar-lene Triggs and Teresa Eliason won five of their six preliminary rounds. They went on to compete in the elimination round and the semi-finals, but lost in the semi-by Ken Wanovich The hockey team won its first game of the season Dec. 4, against Eau Claire, 5-3, but then dropped consecutive games to St. Cloud, 10-2, and Gustavus, 5-2. "Playing well against a good team like Bemidji gave us the ex-perience and encouragement we needed to bounce back and beat Eau Claire," said Coach Harris. "We played a good game against Gustavus on Saturday, but we were a little out of gas coming off Friday's game with St. Cloud." Bethel finished the first third of its season with a record of 1-7. "1 - 7 doesn't reflect the overall ef-fort of the team," said defenseman Mike Jackson. "We've just -Iad too many stupid penalties, and allowed too many breakaway goals." "The team has done rather well in overcoming its lack of depth in certain areas," said Scott Feltman. Feltman was the second leading scorer last year with 17 goals, and will be eligible this year in January. "We will have three very good lines and a much stronger defense with the addition of our presently finals. They placed third behind DePaw University and Butler University. Triggs also placed third overall as an individual speaker. November 29 Triggs and Elia-son competed at Iowa State University. The team again placed third as a team and each placed in the top four individually. Other participants were the teams of Phil Thompson and Steve Penner and Mike Wiseman and Rick Kreutzfeldt. ineligible players," said Feltman. "We are going to surprise some teams taking us lightly. Our goal is to prove we are not the `powder-puff' team in the conference." Bethel will gain five other players in January who are now ineligible. They are Gary Shibrowski, Scott Larson, Steve Harris, Jim Lambrides and Randy Hopp. "We are going to be very competitive with the added depth," said Harris. "We are starting to develop some good team leadership," said Jackson. "The team needs to think like winners, then we will win. We definitely have the talent, we just need to put it all together." The hockey team will play three scrimmage games during Christmas break. After scrimmag-ing the University of Minnesota JV, Stout, and the Hennepin Nor-diques, the team will head for a two-game series at Concordia, Moorhead, Jan. 4 and 5. Bethel has never played on Concordia's home ice. The next home game is Tues-day, Jan. 11, against St. Johns. Game time is 8 p.m. at Columbia arena in Fridley. Bethel lost in the semi-finals to Wheaton College. They won first, second and fourth. This tournament was the last for Fall term. Competition will begin again in January. Free dorm stairs constructed by Conservation Corps by Patty Sutton The new stairs between Town-house West and Nelson Dorm didn't cost Bethel a penny. The federally-funded Young Adult Conservation Corps were giving demonstrations at the State Fair and needed a place to stay. Normally they would camp out but there weren't any camp-grounds near enough to the fair-grounds. Bethel opened up the residences to them and in ex-change they built the stairs. The 1979-80 karate club opened the year in fine fashion as it placed in the first two tournaments of the year. The club, suffering from injur-ies to key players as well as the loss of many players, is rebuilding for the second half of the year. This year's major tournament player has been junior Andy Leong. In the first tournament of the year, the Minnesota Open, Leong placed with two third place tro-phies. Competing against both brown and and black belts from three states and Canada, Leong took third in the weapons divi-sion. Although only a brown belt, Leong beat several black belts for the trophy. He also ranked third in the brown belt form division. At the end of the scoring period, Leong was in a three-way tie for first. In the run-off that followed, Leong was only able to muster a third. The second tournament, the Minnesota Fall Regional, also saw Leong take another third place trophy. It was a frustrating day as he opened by scoring low in wea-pons but came back to place well enough in the brown belt form di-vision for a third place. Head instructor and Coach Ter-ry Warner said he is confident that the club will grow strong as the year progresses. Several new play-ers will be completing the basic karate class and will move into ad-vanced training. Hopefully, the karate club will field a more complete team. But one thing is certain, as time pro-gresses so do the karate players. They are definitely improving and maturing. Women's BB cont. from p. 8 Although turnovers were still nu-merous, a strong defense counter-acted that to give the team the first win of the season against three losses. Karsjens again led scoring with 22 points, and Griffin followed with ten. Griffin grabbed one more rebound than Karsjens to lead in rebounding with nine. The Royals will return to action January 9 at Concordia-St. Paul. They host St. Scholastica on the 11th at 7 p.m., and then St. Ther-esa on the 15th at 5:30 p.m. Hockey wins No. 1, adds players to team Leong stars as karate club improves Top debate pair places third C ) ••■•■■ Help Wanted Personals EUROPEAN SUMMER MI-NISTRY with Eurocorps, a 10-week program of Greater Europe Mission. Spend the summer ministering with other students on evangelism, music or work teams. For more infor-mation, write to: Eurocorps Administrator, Greater Europe Mission, Box 668, Wheaton, II. 60187. Wanted: Drivers: Columbia Transit has immediate openings for school bus dri-vers. Flexible hours. Ideal for students. Paid training program and union bene-fits. Apply in person at 1102 North Snelling or call 645-9137. Equal opportuni-ty employer. Wanted: 2 resident handy-men Feb. 1, for 202-unit apt. bldg. 25 hrs./wk/person; salary and furnished 2-bedroom apt. at discount. Duties include ap-pliance repair, light plumbing, snow shoveling, misc. repairs and maintenance. Hillsborough Apts., Hwy. 36 and Rice. Cally Marty at 484-9642. This may be a bit late, but to whoever left the blueber-ry cupcake in my P.O. I ex-press my thanx. I was kind of hoping that you would make yourself known to me so that I could thank you personally. It was very good and made me appreciate home cooking. Perhaps if you feel daring you could let me know who you are. Art Gibbens, P.O. 2077. CAR TROUBLES? Interested in an auto mechanics class dur-ing interim? Taught by a cer-tified automotive mechanic. For further information put a note in PO 1738 before Wednesday, Dec. 19. Let the hostages know you care; send a Christmas card to: Hostages, United States Em-bassy, 260 Takhte Jamshid Avenue, Tehran, Iran, postage 31C The Royal grapplers upped their record to 4-1 with exciting net action like this last weekend (Photo Dan Velie). Page 8 sports Coach recalls past experiences Enthusiastic George Palke looks for a winning season in his first year as head coach of the Royals (Photo Tom Twining). by Ellie Abbott This is George Palke's second year at Bethel College, but he was familiar with Bethel when he was hired. Palke graduated from Bethel in 1966 and came back to teach and coach basketball in 1978. While attending high school, Palke played basketball, and when he was a junior, his team went to the state tournament. Palke graduated from high school in 1961 and pursued his education as a history major at Bethel. Palke played on the Bethel basketball team and the tennis team for four years. At one point Palke held the career record for rebounds. Gerald Healy was then basketball coach, and while Healy coached, Bethel won two con-ference championships. Doc Dalton was Palke's advisor in college and Palke recalls that Doc ran with the basketball team during pre-season training to stay in shape himself. by Carol Madison Defense seems to be determin-ing the outcome of the women's basketball games, and the lack of it resulted in a loss to Dr. Martin Luther College, whereas an im-proved defense gave the team a win over St. Benedict's. A couple of good outside shoot-ers paced DML over Bethel 80-57 in a game that wasn't really de-cided until the fourth quarter. Bethel was down by only six at the half, but the lack of rebound-ing by the Royals and the strong outside attack by DML put the game out of reach in the final quarter. A neck and shoulder injury forced starter Sheila Kroon out of the game in the first half, and weakened the Royals in the guard Following graduation from Bethel, Palke coached basketball at four high schools. He had eight successful years as a basketball coach at Centennial High School, where his team won two con-ference championships. During the eight year period, Palke's team won 80 percent of its con-ference games. Palke's dream has been to coach basketball at Bethel. "I've always wanted to coach at Bethel. My wife and I bought a house six years ago near Bethel. I applied three times before I was hired, but I knew they would hire me sooner or later," said Palke. Aside from coaching basketball at Bethel, Palke is also the in-tramural director and teaches ten-nis, jogging, volleyball, weight lif-ting and methods class. Palke believes that team spirit is very important and he demonstrates this by wearing a blue and gold suit which his wife made him. She made a pair of gold pants and gold vest and a position. Kroon may be out until after the semester break. The Royals put on a strong of-fensive show with three players scoring in double figures. Beth Karsjens led with 14 points, while Joann Griffin followed with 13 and Deb Sension scored 12 points. Karsjens also led rebounding with six. The lack of strong defense has been evident in the last three games as Bethel's opponents have averaged 77 points. But Bethel's main objective going into the St. Benedict's game was to hold down the opposition's offensive attack, and the Royals were successful as they downed St. Ben's 50-39. Bethel outrebounded St. Ben's and shot 40 percent from the field. Women's B.B. cont. pg . 7 blue sport jacket for him to wear at the basketball games. Another way that Palke demonstrates his team spirit is the sports jackets that he and his team have. Palke said that the basket-ball team was the first sport at Bethel to buy these jackets. Coach Palke looks forward to the rest of the basketball season. He said, "I'm excited about it. I believe that we will be an improv-ed team because we have a lot of experienced players back, plus many newcomers. They are always training too. But the entire MIAC is going to be better, so this year will be a real challenge." Now early in his first season at the reins as head coach, his team is 2-2 in non-conference games. Some MIAC insiders have picked the Royals to finish in the top teams in the conference. by Steve Erickson Bethel's basketball team took its longest road trip of the season last weekend, traveling out west to take on Eastern Montana and Rocky Mountain College and emerging with a split. Eastern Montana was first in line and the home team defeated the Royals 76-63 on Friday. Bethel quickly fell behind by 10 points. "We were too conservative. We decided to slow it down because we had heard they were very quick. But besides a couple players we were probably quicker," said Coach George Palke. All of Eastern Montana's players were under full scholarship, even though it is a Division II school. It plays many large schools this year and hopes to move up to Division I status next season. With a big lead early, EM was able to dictate how the game was played. They went into a four-corner delay offense for three-. fourths of the game. Bethel did narrow the gap to two points but was down six at the half. With four minutes remaining, the Royals inched to within three at 53-50 but Bethel was forced to fouLand EM cashed in at the free throw line. Both games found Bethel in foul trouble. "It was a different style of officiating than what we are used to. Sometimes it was frustrating the way the game was called," said Palke. Saturday against Rocky Moun-tain Bethel jumped to a 14-3 lead using a press and an aggressive man-to-man defense. In all Bethel was charged with 22 fouls in the first half alone but held a four-point advantage. Playing more careful defense in by Steve Erickson Bethel's wrestling team kept on winning last week, crushing Gus-tavus .31-7 and Concordia-St. Paul 38-14. The, junior vaulty also looked strong in topping Golden Valley Lutheran and Northwes-tern on Saturday afternoon. The Royal varsity dropped only four matches—two in each contest —in recording their third and fourth wins of the season. Three wrestlers, Rich Hodge, Paul Frandsen, and Lonnie Holm-gren, remained undefeated through the weekend. Heavy-weight Hodge with two wins up-ped his record to 5-0 while Frand-sen, at 142 lbs., collected a pin in his only appearance for a 4-0 standing. Co-captain Holmgren, wrestling at 158, is at 4-0-1 with a win and a tie. Friday Bethel won in the first seven weight classes to jump out to a 25-0 lead over Gustavus. Russ Reynolds, Greg Widmer, and Jon the- second half, the Royals went out to a 17 margin. "They reacted in a tough, frustrating situation with a lot of poise," said Palke. Dave Blanchard led the way against the mountainmen with 25 points. Greg Edlund made eight clutch free throws in nine attempts to help put the game away. Four players scored in double figures in each game. Scott Wilson is top point-getter for the Royals so far this season with a 16.5 average, but Blan-chard, Rey Miller and Greg Edlund have over ten points a game while Gary Edlund averages 9.3. This weekend the cagers travel to Deerfield, Ill. for the Trinity College tournament. Dec. 27, 28, and 29 they will participate in the Augsburg tournament. Martin all won close, come-from-behind matches. Other winners were Kirk Walters and Greg Heinsch. "We cut down on our mistakes from last weekend and wrestled aggressively," said Coach Dave Klostreich. "We were in better shape than they were because we scored in the third period." Klostreich said Concordia was a similar type of team as the Gus-ties, and the score showed it. Mike Jacoby wrestled for the first time on Saturday, replacing Frandsen, and collected a pin against the Comets. He also added two more falls in J.V. matches. Brian Hallstrom won his first match, too, a decision over a sea-soned Concordia junior. The next meet for the wrestlers comes after break, Jan. 5 in the Winona Invitational. Strength will be added to the team as three in-dividuals will become eligible then. Women hoopsters split decisions in two games Royals 'go west,' play Montana Mat squad wipes out opponents over weekend |
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