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The "clubhouse" near Silvercrest i s scene of much late-night ac-tivity (Photo Tom Twining). Conservation essential, but Bethel won't freeze These high school students, shown smoking in the adjacent woods, are causing concern about vandalism and security among Silvercrest apartment residents (Photo Tom Twining). Potential security problems concern Silvercrest residents the Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 7 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Oct. 28, 1979 Nursing program tentative for 1980 by Lori Rydstrom Plans for a new nursing pro-gram at Bethel are well under way. There are still steps to be final-ized, but the projected date for the program to be added to Be-thel's curriculum is September, 1980. No official announcement has yet been made because, according to Dean George Brushaber, "Fin-al hurdles have yet to be cleared." He said four major steps need to be completed before the program becomes official. First, housing for the additional students has to be secured. Even-tually, more dorms will have to be built, but until then, apartments are being considered to house the new students. Secondly, Brushaber would like to see plans well under way for the new science addition to assure needed classroom space. The science addition would be built off of the AC building where the greenhouse is at present. It would house classrooms and labs. Third, a chairperson for the by Laurie Lindahl Due to the installation of two 12,000 gallon oil tanks, there is no danger of running out of fuel this winter, according to Jim Woods, director of physical plant at Bethel. However, Woods em-phasized that other factors make strict conservation of energy essential at Bethel. There were many problems en-countered last winter while opera-ting with one 10,000 gallon tank. Because of these problems, program must be hired. Even-tually, more teaching staff will be added. However, because students will be in a general liberal arts pro-gram for the first two years, one person to head the department would be sufficient. The last step, but one of major importance, is that the pro-gram must be approved by the Minnesota Higher Education Board. Brushaber is confident that the program will be ap-proved, but it has not been final-ized yet. The nursing program would of-fer a four-year baccalaureate de-gree. Graduates then have to take and pass the state board exams to be certified. Brushaber expects en-rollment to be approximately 60 the first year, growing to 80 once the program catches on. If Bethel keeps up with the na-tional average, about ten percent of the nursing students will be men. Brushaber would like to en-courage men to consider the pro-gram seriously because of the ex-cellent career opportunities. -The need for people in the nursing pro-fession far exceeds the number of Woods decided to install the new tanks. Looking back to last winter he saw the main problem as lack of capacity. Since deliveries come only in 7,000 gallon loads, no delivery could be made until the tank was down to 3,000 gal-lons— a three day supply. Due to the rising oil demand, an order called in only three days ahead may not be filled before the oil ran out. "There were times," Woods said, "when I wasn't sure if we would have enough oil to last until the next delivery." Fuel, see p. 3 people certified each year. Brushaber stresses that the nursing students will not be a "special breed." They will have the same liberal arts requirements that other majors have. For the first two years of the four-year program, nursing students will take their balance courses. The last two years will consist of more intensive nursing courses and hospital work. This offers an by Ken Wanovich The potential for vandalism and other related problems are con-cerns of several Bethel students living at Silvercrest apartments this year, according to Don Mor-tenson, director of residence life for upperclassmen. These concerns have come up because of several junior and senior high school students who have made an adjacent field their "hangout." Rick Mehl, resident director of building 2030 at Silver-crest, said the young people have built a small clubhouse in the field, and meet there regularly after school and after supper. Several weeks ago, the New Brighton police arrived to inves-tigate the situation. Mehl talked to the police officers when they ar-rived. "There were no problems at all," said Mehl. "The police were called by one of the high school boys' father to stop an unauthor-ized person who had threatened to tear down their clubhouse." Mortenson has received feed-back from several Bethel students about safety at Silvercrest. Some parents also called and expressed their concern about the security. advantage over other, more inten-sive two-or-three year courses be-cause it gives the student a much broader background. It also gives them the opportunity to switch majors if they find they are more interested in something else. The possibility of a nursing pro-gram at Bethel has been discussed off and on for the past twenty years. Until now, it has not been feasible. One resident said, "I have come home a couple of times at night and have seen non-residents lounging on the step inside the building. This seems to be an in-dication that there is a definite need for more security." In another incident last week, police were called by a Bethel resi-dent because of a window peeker outside the building. Mortenson contacted Jan Janssen, owner of the Silvercrest apartment com-plex, and talked with him about the problem. "Janssen has told me he will immediately evict any non-Bethel tenants found in our buildings," said Mortenson. He will also get-the police involved and will pros-ecute all other non-residents found in the buildings. The Sil-vercrest apartment complex con-sists of six buildings, four of which are occupied by Bethel students. Scott Feltman, a sophomore at Bethel and a Silvercrest resident, said, "I don't think there is a serious problem. When you live in any apartment, you have to take some common sense precautions, but I have seen no indication of Last May, Tom Johnson, head of the academic policy committee, recommended the program to the faculty. The idea was approved and then presented Xo the Board of Regents for consideration. The Regents approved it in June with the stipulation that the ad-ministration be responsible for working out the details. In Sep-tember, the Regents authorized the program to be implemented and the plans got underway. any vandalism." Silvercrest presently has no phone security system, or locks on the outside doors leading to the parking lot, like those at Fountain Terrace. The inside apartment doors are equipped with dead bolt locks which are opened by a key from the outside. No vandalism has occured at Silvercrest, but Bethel's housing supervisors are concerned about the potential. Bethel will be instal-ling locks on the outside doors. Janssen has agreed to contribute one-half the cost for these locks and their installation. Bethel is also inquiring about installing a phone security system. "Bethel accommodates stud-ents from all backgrounds," said Mortenson. "Some are more com-fortable than others living in off-campus housing, and being on their own. If students perceive something to be a problem, we have to act on the situation. Bethel tries to provide comfort-able and secure housing for all students. If these needs are not met, a student will find it difficult to work on other areas of their lives," said Mortenson. Macalester hosts hunger series The "Feeding a Hungry World" symposium, which is be-ing held at Macalester College, will continue on Tuesday, October 30 with a 7:30 p.m. lecture entitled "New Flour for Your Daily Bread," .by Dr. Richard Evans Schultes. - Dr. Schultes is a wbrld re-knowned botanist who spent 12 years of near isolation in the Amazon jungle searching for rare plants. The world's leading au-thority on medicinal and hal-lucinogenic plants, he has also served as a consultant to many underdeveloped nations to help increase their agricultural pro-ductivity and export potential. On Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Walter P. Falcon, direc-tor of the Food Research Institute at Stanford University, will pre-sent a lecture entitled, "How Much Can Uncle Sam Do?— America's Role in Easing World Hunger." Dr. Falcon is an inter-nationally known expert on the economics of agriculture, par-ticularly in relation to under-developed countries. He also is a member of the Presidential Com-mission on World Hunger. The ' 'Feeding a Hungry World" lecture will draw to a close with two more lectures by Dr. Schultes. On Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. he will discuss "The Tropics: The New Garden of Eden" and on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. he will speak on "Save That Plant—The 'Weed' You Kill Today May Be Your Food Tomorrow." The series of lectures, spon-sored by the Macalester College Hubert Humphrey Endowed Pro-fessorship Fund, is free and open to the public. All of the lectures take place in the Olin Hall of Science Auditorium on the cam-pus. Page 2 editorial Not only Christians reveal God's truth In the past two weeks we have noticed an attitude fairly prevalent among Bethel students, that we believe is dangerous, which arose from two seemingly different situations. The attitude concerns the Christian's proper response to non-Christians and secular ideas. It seems that many at Bethel believe that only Christians should ad-dress Christians, and only about Christian things—thus making Bethel a fortress where only such thinking and thinkers are accepted. When Ray Herzog, chairman of hte board at 3M, delivered a convo-cation message on Oct. 10, a common reaction was that he "didn't even talk about God." Some people of course did not, at the time, realize the difference between chapel and convocation—that convocations are not meant as worship services, but as forums for ideas and learning. Donald Maclnnis, however, this week's speaker on China, received a much better reaction, presumably because he came from a Christian background. But, for the people who payed close attention to Herzog, didn't he stimulate just as much thought as MacInnis, even though most world-conscious Christians did not agree with his ideas? We must remember that all God's truth is not contained in the Bible or by Christians. God has poured himself out on all His creation; conse-quently, we can learn something of His truth from everyone. In another situation in a different context, many reacted adversely to the first half of the B.J. Thomas concert last Saturday night. Apparent-ly much of the crowd came to see a Christian artist perform gospel music, and felt that Thomas had an obligation to cater to his audience's taste. But Thomas is an artist and must express himself the way he feels fit. Analogously, one would not view a sculpture exhibition and, disliking the work, tell the artist to make something one does like. In both the concert and the convocation, a man gave something of himself that was not to a group of Christians' liking. Instead of accept-ing the work as viable and using it to develop their own thoughts, the group rejected the work because it was not what they expected, wanted to hear, or it didn't emanate from a Christian's tongue or perspective. This is a dangerous attitude because, when we reject the ideas of others out of hand, we may be rejecting part of God's truth. And, because we Christians at Bethel are quite culture-bound, the part or Truth that filters through our rejecting mechanism may trun out to be an extremely insular portion. Bethel students need to be more open to thinking that challenges their American middle-class Christian Bethel mindset, and they need to be more receptive of the people presenting those ideas. Bethel's appeal to students causes enrollment to grow by Suzi Wells This year Bethel has reached a new high in enrollment, totalling 1989 students at the college, 127 more than last year. What's the reason for this growth? President Carl Lundquist sees several factors contributing to Bethel's growth. First, he said that good programs, such as music, pre-med and athletic, and good teachers attract students. He also mentioned that the positive atti-tude on campus and the Christian commitment here bring prospec-tive students. "Many young people are look-ing for a Christian community," Lundquist said. "There is a con-servative move sweeping through America. The whole evangelical world is flourishing now." More high school graduates are seeking colleges with an evangelical focus. Lundquist also said that he has been told by outsiders that Bethel has the best student recruitment. "Jim Bragg (former director of admissions, now vice-president of Public Affairs) has been acknow-ledged as unusually able," he said. "And Dan Nelson (director of financial aid) has been called the finest in Minnesota. All that makes a difference." Lundquist also said he feels that "God's hand on Bethel" is an im-portant reason for its growth. The kind of personal attention prospective students get is a rea-son Phil Kimball, current director of admissions, said students are attracted to Bethel. "We try to personalize everything we do in admissions," he,said. "We try to build a relationship with parents and students before they get here." The unique recruitment techni-que that the admissions office uses helps bring more students to Bethel, Kimball said. "We do search techniques," he said. These are opposed to the "shotgun ef-fort" of many other colleges and universities. A second-person recruitment method is used. This method is much less expensive than sending several admissions counselors to various parts of the county. In-stead, Kimball said, "We gear our efforts toward parents, pastors, Christian education directors, and present students." This way, those who apply have heard about the college from someone who sees them as good candidates for Bethel. The admis-sions department considers most students referred to Bethel to be acceptable candidates, since they go through this "pre-screening" process. The total number of new stud-ents this year is 785, including transfers (see Clarion, Oct. 19, 1979, "Bethel enrollment statis-tics"). The graduating class last year was Bethel's largest at 406, while the senior class this year,on-ly totals 299, thus a larger percen-tage of underclassmen are on cam-pus this year. President Lundquist hopes to see Bethel continue to grow until it reaches the optimum enrollment of 2250 students (plus 150-200 in the new nursing program). "At 2400 we can still maximize relations between students and teachers," Lundquist said. The president said he is con-cerned with keeping Bethel a small community. "We don't want to go beyond effectiveness," he said. But he pointed out that even the structure of the college promotes closeness and unity. The build-ings, he said, are inter-connected and no lounges are hidden in any corners, but are spread through-out the building. What is Bethel's philosophy about admitting students to Bethel? "We at Bethel are con-cerned with making the biggest impact for Christ through higher education," Lundquist said. the Clarion . Vol. 55 No. 7 Bethel Col lege Oct. 28, 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 Glasses Contact Lenses (Hard & Soft) Sports Glasses Discounts to Bethel Community Elwood Carlson Optician 358 St. Peter St. St1 Paul 227.7818 "The servant of God communicating the Word of God." It's not just our motto. Write to: Dr. Gordon Johnson Bethel Theological Seminary 3949 Bethel Drive, St. Paul, MN 55112 c and Bethel-West In San Diego, CA Programs offered in biblical. historical and theological studies, missions, Christian education. church ministries. and lay leadership at the certificate. master's and doctoral levels Have you tried Bethany Baptist Church yet? 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 FALCON HEIGHTS PHARMACY 1707 N. Snelling Avenue (Larpenteur at Snelling) 646-4555 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Daily 9 A.M. to 2 P.M. Sat. 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Sun. • We cash checks for Bethel students with ID. them. 5 Page 3 Study programs cheapest in summer by Jay Stuart Russell Thinking of doing a directed study or off-campus study pro-gram? Depending on the type of program you choose, you could pay as little as $250 per course cre-dit. Tricia Brownlee, director of academic programs, said that a di-rected study program taken dur-ing the summer will cost $250, which is the same as other summer school courses. If taken during the regular school year, the directed study course is included as a class on the flat fee tuition system. For other programs, such as the American studies program in Washington, D.C., and the urban studies program in San Francisco, students must pay the tuition costs set by the program. The American studies program is sponsored by the Christian Col-lege Consortium, and costs $1925 per term, while Westmont Col-lege's urban studies program is priced at $220 per term. "If it's not a Bethel program," Brownlee said, "then the outside agency sets the price." The Eng-land study tour, which Bethel Fuel, from p. 1 The heating oil bill will probab-ly equal $50,000 this year. That only covers the days when the temperature drops below 20°. When the temperature is above 20°, the college is heated by na-tural gas, which costs 40 010 less than oil. Bethel, like all other large in-stitutions and factories, is subject to "interruptable services" by NSP. This means that when the temperature drops below 20°, in-dividual houses are given priority in the use of gas for heating, caus-ing larger institutions to switch to oil instead. "The reason we have inter-ruptable service is so that we can make sure there is enough gas to go around," said a NSP repre-sentative. The need for conservation ex-tends to the use of electricity as well as heating. This summer, the Department of Energy issued re-gulations in accordance with President Carter's stand-by con-servation plan. For cooling, temperatures can-not be higher than 78°. For heat-ing, temperatures cannot be high-er than 65°. The temperature of hot water must not be set above 105°. These regulations apply to all of Bethel, with the exception of the dorms and townhouses. While there are no limits there, students are asked to maintain the lowest possible level they can. "People are going to notice the 65° temperatures," said Woods. "It just means that they're going to have to start wearing warmer clothes." sponsors, is priced at $3500 per term. "We try to keep down tui-tion costs as much as possible for the programs we sponsor," she Dr. Brownlee (Photo Doug Barkey) by Shari Goddard Three full-time workers joined Bethel's Publications and Public Information Department this year, making it the largest ever. The contest is on! If you can write, take pictures or illustrate you can enter the Passages con-test. Passages is a fine arts maga-zine consisting of student, faculty, or alumni contributions. The magazine seeks to portray life as a student experiences it here at Be-thel. The contest will be open until Wednesday, November 21. Prizes said. An exchange program is ano-ther type of off-campus study. For semester exchanges, students pay their tuition, room and board fees to the exchange college. For interim exchanges, students pay tuition to the college in which they're enrolled, and the room, board, and other fees to the ex-change college. This policy is ef-fective for those colleges that have exchange programs with Bethel. Brownlee said that student in-ternships are priced the same as directed study programs. Student internships are programs in which a student receives credit while working at a job relating to his concentration. Directed studies, formerly called independent stu-dies, are course programs de-signed by a student and faculty member. The additions came after a merger of departments increased publici-ty's responsibilities. "Over-lapping made the merge necessary," said director Florence Johnson. Before the will be awarded for place winners (1st: $25.00, 2nd: $15.00, and 3rd: $10.00) in each of the two categor-ies; writing and photography or illustration. So, if your fingers are itching to create—now is the time. All work should be submitted to the editor, Rob Johnson, P.O. 794. Bethel's new nature trail was designed by Dr. Gregg Johnson, and was built over the summer (Photo Dan Velie). merge, College Relations and Public Affairs held responsibility for their own publications, which included finding their own artist and printers. Publicity now coordinates these responsibilities, "trying to help, to service and to upgrade," said Johnson. David Shelley, former editor of the Clarion, fills a new editor's position this year. He handles the By-line, a Bethel publication about different aspects of college life, and many other publicity pro-jects. "I've never enjoyed a desk job before, but this job has a lot of variety and a great atmosphere," Shelley said. Carol Nelson, a professional ar-tist, designs and coordinates designers for Bethel publications and projects on a three-day-a-week basis. "I'd like to get more of a consistant quality. Usually art work is good, but occasionally there's a real clinker," she said. Debbie Bestland, formerly of College Relations, provides office services, assisted by Lori Olinger and Jane Saari, student employees. Shari Goddard handles student press releases to home newspapers and Janice Clark writes the Public Affair. The department now coor-dinates publications for the col-lege and seminary. "Sometimes I have doubts about whether we've bitten off more than we can chew," Johnson said. "We try to find a way to get the job done, but four people can't do everything." As time allows, the staff helps others with publication projects. If a project can't be handled by a staff member, it may be referred to someone else, either on or off campus. The staff's overall aim will be to get a job done "in the most prac-tical way possible," Johnson said. "We want to keep distinctive creativity, not have everything end up looking and sounding the same. We want to help others to do a job, but not do it all for New department coordinates publicity Dr. Jeannie Bohlmeyer has recorded about 60 books for the Minnesota State Services for the blind (Photo Tom Twining). Page 4 by Jan Johnson Why should the 10,000 blind people of Minnesota be deprived of the experience of "reading" a good book? Jeannine Bohlmeyer, professor of English at Bethel, has raised this question and is working to bring about an answer. For three hours a week she is in-volved with a program that re-cords books for the blind to listen to. "I first became interested in re-cording books for the blind when I met some Bethel students who were blind. They had their text books recorded," Bohlmeyer said. "I called around to see if I could find out how to get involved in such a program." When Bohlmeyer contacted the Minnesota State Services for the Blind, she was asked to audition. The audition consisted of sight reading everything from children's stories to abbreviations of Bible books to foreign words and names. This reading was taped and reviewed by a group of blind people. She passed the audition and was asked to work for them. She doesn't get paid for the work, but the organization does provide the tapes and books. Most of the books she tapes are broadcast on a closed circuit radio Vocal and instrumental audi-tions for the internationally-known Continental Singers and Orchestra will be held Thursday, November 1, from 5:30 to 9:00, in FA 312. Jim Chaffee, talent director for Continental Singers, a non-pro-fit, Christian organization with offices in Los Angeles and Great Britain, will be conducting the au-ditions. Persons between the ages of 16 and 25 are eligible. Continental, Singers perform during the summer months, with rehearsal camp beginning on June 4. Concerts are given nightly, with twelve Continental groups involv-ing over 450 young people travel-ing extensively throughout the United States, Canada, 16 Euro-pean countries, the Caribbean, South Africa, South America, and the Orient. The grand finale con-cert is scheduled for August 23 in Los Angeles. Auditions are being taken for the 1980 and 1981 summer tours, with positions open for vocalists, brass, rhythm, woodwind, and string players for the summer. Of special interest to instrumen-talists will be the 40-piece Con-station that is available for those who are blind or too handicapped to read for themselves. The organization chooses the books she reads. They send every-thing from children's books to travel books. "They usually send me travel books," Bohlmeyer said. "Partly because of my interest in travel, and partly because they know that I have the resources here at Bethel to discover how difficult or for-eign words are pronounced." She estimates that she has read about 60 books since October of 1973. That has involved about 700 hours of taping and 535 hours of actual broadcast time. All of this tinental Orchestra, traveling with a smaller professional vocal group, and two 20-piece Con-tinental Brass tours (horns and saxes), which travel with a 20-voice' choir. "The auditions are simple and should last only a few minutes," says Mr. Chaffee. "Vocalists will be required to sing one gospel solo of their choice; instrumentalists will need to play two selections of varying tempos." by J.D. Klaessy Construction for an addition to the Academic Center may begin by next summer. According to Dwight Jessup, director of aca-demic affairs, the addition could be finished by early fall, 1981. This addition would bring the greenhouse side of the AC51 feet further south, making its outer wall parallel with that of the fine arts building. adds up to an equivalent of about 18 weeks of full time work. The longest book that she ever recorded was the novel "Cashel-mara," which was about 27 hours of air time. Bohlmeyer said that it would be impossible to say which was her favorite book because she has read so many. There are plenty of opportuni-ties for anyone interested in this type of service. To volunteer for the reading program, one must be prepared to go through the diffi-cult audition for the Minnesota State Services for the Blind. If you are a college graduate and are able to pass the audition, you are well on your way to helping someone read who can't read for himself. Individuals who are accepted as Continentals are required to raise support totaling approximately half the total tour cost. Continen-tal Singers meets the remaining ex-penses through offerings and record sales while on the -road. Two Bethel students, Brian Mulder from the college and David Hastings from the semi-nary, will be directing tours this summer. For more information, contact Brian, PO 1080. Money is the main impasse in getting started. Jessup said, "We need to secure revenue, probably through private gifts." He also said that the cost of such an addi-tion would be roughly $1 million to $1.4 million. The addition would house what Jessup defined as "specialized fa-cilities" for the biology, physics and pyschology departments. While it would include several labs there would also be a few fa-culty offices and two-classrooms. One room would have a 30 person capacity, the other would be a lec-ture hall for 80 people that could also be used for demonstrations in biology, physics and psychology. Tentative approval has been given by the Board of Regents for the project. While it is still in the planning stage, Jessup seemed op-timistic concerning the addition, which he described as being "ne-cessary." Along with Jessup on the addi-tion task force is Paul Redin, di-rector of career counseling and placement, David Lee, assistant professor of speech/communica-tion, and Paul Tavernier, asso-ciate professor of chemistry, and senior Ray Boe. Bohlmeyer reads stories for sightless thousands Academic center addition nears construction date Auditions scheduled for tours IT ArL.WAYS HuRrs iN THE 15e3iNt AND EVENTVALLY YOU'LL Ger use -ro LT Mortenson is resident director of Townhouse East and also heads "Wilderness Challenge." Horn is resident director for Bodien and in charge of the stu-dent activity center. He is also in-volved in some program planning. Horn graduated from Bethel in 1974 and then earned his master's degree in English literature from Baylor University. He said, "I love Bethel but when I graduated I never thought I'd be back." This is Mortenson's first time at Bethel. He, unlike Horn, has a family to look after. He and his wife Dawn have a seventeen-month- old son named Eric. Mortenson said he is "pretty busy" but he believes "it's impor-tant to take time for family no matter how busy things get." Both men seem enthusiastic and optimistic about their opportunity to improve things during the rest of the year. by Patty Sutton "Growth," said David Horn, director of residence life for freshmen, "is my primary goal." Horn said, "I want to work toward a community where the student's academic growth could be practiced for growth in all other areas of living as well." Don Mortenson views his job as director of residence life for upper-classmen as a ministry for discipleship. He believes that "for students to grow spiritually, mentally and emotionally, their basic needs must be met first." Mortenson and Horn are responsible for arranging the best possible living situation for students especially through work-ing with the resident directors. 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The Clarion staff extends affectionate congratulations, wishes for many future happy bir-thdays, and prayers that the label "spinster" won't hurt too much . Page 5 —Shelly Nielsen Horn, Mortenson view growth as basic goal Stay home during Nik Dag; avoid quick engagement Once, I obstinately answered that monotonous October question, "Are you going to Nik Dag?" with, "No. Think I'll finish my homework, vacuum the apartment, and—" "Homework? Homework?" My acquaintance gasped, horrified. "Homework? Homework?" She clut-ched at her heart as if in pain. This reaction illustrates the power Nik Dag has at Bethel. What, I ask, is incredible about deliberately avoiding a humiliating, macabre, and emotionally-scarring activity? Everyone admits that the one unchang-ing element of Nik Dag is torment; so - why are we perpetuating the tradition by submitting to and even an-ticipating it year after year? I'm all for school traditions. I'm all for liberating the male from his financial and dating frustrations dur-ing at least one weekend in a long school year. But no one can convince me that November 2-4 is a healthy time to be alive. Nik Dag pressures start long before the actual weekend arrives. Female rivals for the same male nikkee look cloaked (christian) daggers at one another for weeks. (It should be noted that choosing any guy some-one else favors is brave bordering on stupid. This crime is second in seriousness only to borrowing a room-mate's leather jacket without permission.) Guys sweat out a month of uncertainty, translating innocent glances into sure signs of girl's intentions to bid for them. Men and women alike find themselves crying frequently. Animosity is thick. Everyone's fingers, by the end of October, are chewed, bloody stumps. The most inhuman Nik Dag ritual begins that midnight hour when "nikking" season is officially declared "open." This mystical period transforms the sane, Bible-believing woman into a crazed Dionysian gorgon who will stop at nothing short of nabbing that one pre-picked male. No trick is too low, no method too direct or dangerous. She will have friends hoist her to a third floor dorm window with a hemp rope. She will pedal to Brooklyn Center on her little brother's Schwinn 3-speed to nik a commuter. She will solitarily storm a bastion of RA's to charge up off-bound dorm steps. Miles removed from her former book-bearing reserve, she has all the sensitivity and delicacy of a riled lynch mob. The male, conversely, turns into a confused, indecisive coward. He vacillates between screaming in terror when the phone rings and loung-ing enticingly in his bedroom window. He is capable of dramatic cross-campus dashes at unprecedented speeds. He is alternately attracted to and repulsed by the animalistic frenzy warring in his dorm lounge. Upon confrontation with the terrifying opposite sex, he can mimble only caveman gibberish. Relative normalcy returns to the student populace by morning. The observant will discern a prevalent tension, however, that will not disperse until after the cathartic Nik Dag weekend. Bevies of nikkers meet in halls to conduct demeaning inquisitions. "You get him?" "Yes, praise God. You?" "Yeah. Did you hear about Bernice?" `No! She wasn't. Turned Down, was she?" Better Bernice had never contemplated nikking or fall enrollment at Bethel than suffer the pitying glances that will punctuate the remainder of her miserable week. Nik Night survived, the Pie Ritual must yet be endured. It is not enough that a woman face the traumatic possibility of rejection; now she must demonstrate domestic expertise by baking a Nik Dag pie. Women loathe this routine. It forces them to admit how poorly they really did in the baking powder bisquit unit during junior high home ec. I harangued my freshman date in an attempt to extricate myself from this duty. "What does a pie mean anyway? It can't prove my intrinsic worth as a human being. Besides, it's a symbol of woman's oppressed societal role, a sacrifice on the altar of male ego and dominance, an outdated representation of the apple pie and motherhood fallacy..." This argument proving ineffective, I resorted to bargaining. "How about a nice pot of coffee? What's important is that I create something myself, right? No bitterness, no messy grounds." "Lemon meringue." "Pop tarts? Spaghetti-Os?" "No deal." Our final, written compromise stated that in lieu of the usual baking, I would clean his townhouse bedroom and bathroom bi-monthly for the remainder of the semester. The supreme test of the Bethel woman occurs during the heralded weekend. She must completely outdo her competitive fellow-nikkers. This is vital if she's to retain dignity or tell unbelievable stories after The Event is all over. She may be creative ("Meet me on the PE steps. We'll jump rope for 1/2 hour before riding unicycles to the Salvation Army Mission for din-ner"), or she may try the usually more effective approach (I'll pick you up in my father's company limosine. You can change into your tux at the rental store before we pick up the boutonnier and corsage at the florist's. That will give us 45 minutes to drive out to Chanhassen for din-ner and the show"). Whatever style she chooses, the important thing is that she'll later be able to wow listeners with tales of her unparalleled ex-ploits. So you're still bent on experiencing this Nik Dag thing. Despite my prophetic warnings, you'll no doubt cavort obliviously that weekend. Mark my words, there's always a price to pay for flirting with this sort of dangerous frivolity. If emotional trauma and its resultant psychological consequences don't frighten you, how do you react to that annual string of post-Nik Dag engagements? Don't be nervous. B.J. Thomas, battling a faulty PA system, croons hits during Friday's Civic Center concert. (Photo Tom Twining). Bereshith successful In exploring beginnings Attention: Today is the last day to register for Bethel's Fall Speech Tour-nament on Thursday, Nov. 1, 1979. Registration forms are available on the bulletin board in the Speech/Communication Department. Trinity Baptist Church 2220 Edgerton Street at Hwy. 36 St. Paul, MN 55117 774-8609 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 9:10 AM Rent Refrigerators Perfect for Dorms $14.951mo. 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. Central Baptist Church 420 Staff: St. Garven McGettrick Ron Eckert Dana Olson Mike Anderson Will Healy Kathy Cupp North Roy Street Paul, Minnesota 646-2751 Bus leaves: SC - 9:15 FT - 9:25 NC - 9:35 Services: 8:45 and 11 10 Bible Study 7 pm evening John W. Ivance Company 224-7358 John W. Ivance, Sr. John W. Ivance, Jr. John G. Chisholm Russell K. Akre Patrick J. Repp 41111•••!..-- INSURANCE `'" Life--Auto--Home Business St. Paul. MN 55101 1618 Pioneer Bldg. Ito Page 6 entertainment Python's boring, not heretical by J. D. Klaessy With Monty Python's "Life of Brian" came grumblings of hereti-cal content. Many Christians were up in arms about the blasphemous content of the movie. After view-ing the flick twice, which was two times too many, there appeared no heretical material, only five zany Englishmen and one Ameri-can punning and satirizing their way to boredom. While the movie takes place in Judea 33 A.D., the film only hints of Jesus twice. The first occurs in the beginning of the movie in which the main character, Brian, played by Graham Chapman, is listening to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Being at the edge of the large audience Brian cannot hear too well. The Beatitudes are stated and immediately misunderstood. "Blessed are the cheesemakers?" questions one man. Andther is quick to explain that Jesus must have meant, "any manufacturer of dairy products." At another point Brian meets a leper who continues to beg al-though Jesus healed him. After 16 years of being a leper, begging is the only work he knows. The movie has its high point, all of which can be counted on two fingers. Both are pulled off only because of John Cleese's gift for appearing inept. In his first role, Cleese is the Pharisee who organizes all public stonings. By his own scattered wits, while reading a condemned man's sentence, Cleese acciden-tally utters "Jehovah" and is him-self stoned. Cleese's other prime part casts him as a Roman centurion. While on night patrol he catches Brian writing "Romans go home" on a wall. Cleese sees that the phrase is in the wrong tense, so he corrects Brian and orders him to write the corrected graffiti 100 times. Add to this some minor amuse-ment, such as the bureaucratic stricken Judean Peoples Front, and Pilate's lisp, and you have by Joy Nannette Banta For some it was a big disap-cointment, for others it was an af-firmation of what they had ex-pected— a good show of talent. For me it was a time of uneasi-ness. The point in question? The B.J. Thomas concert at the St. Paul Civic Center last Friday night. The performance began with a fifteen-minute wait for the per-formers to step out from the re-cesses of backstage. The first to finally emerge were Paul Clark and Phil Keaggy. Although Keaggy demonstrated his usual skill on the guitar, his rather long solo seemed to be dwarfed by the poor acoustics of the civic center. The lyrics to his songs were clear enough to be un-derstood but Clark's words be-came mumbled jumbles as he join-ed Keaggy for a few duets. Clark stood rather self-consciously off to the side as Keaggy performed. Altogether, their 35 minutes on stage seemed rather monotonous. An audience ready for the "big-name" peformer was told that there would be a ten-minute inter-mission before B.J. would appear. about 30 minutes of comedy pack-ed into a one and a half hour mo-vie. Although the animation was good, and the acting adequate, the material was definitely lack-ing. Instead of following "Holy Grail" with another classic, the Monty troupe has given us a non-heretical, dull movie. Add to the drugery an over abundance of tacky, tasteless scenes, culmin-ating with 25 people singing, "Al-ways Look on the Bright Side," while being crucified, and you wince with pain. When he walked out on stage he was greeted by an exuberant, but impatient, audience. After his first number, Thomas stopped and talked to his tech-nicians because of the interruption of amplification in the middle of his song. He asked them if they could get the p.a. system to work right and added that "there's that buzzing noise again—at least you guys are consistent!" To begin with, the audience seemed to appreciate his striving for good sound and didn't realize that he was actually very mad. It wasn't until after his second song, "Another Somebody Done Some-body Wrong Song," that he showed the audience his real emo-tions. Just as he was about to start the song for a second time, with what seemed like some kind of audience participation, somebody in the crowd yelled out that B.J. should "sing a song for Jesus." Thomas didn't like the implications of the remark. He said he wished that the guy would let him perform like he wanted to and not make him do differently. He was trying to be "an entertainer who is a Christian and not a Christian entertainer." Thomas didn't try to finish the song he had started. The previously excited and re-ceptive crowd did not know how Thomas, see p. 7 ferent roles during the show—roles that include even in-animate objects and animals. There is always something fun to watch on stage. Memorable scenes include David's encounter with his wor-ried Jewish mother, and his subse-quent slaying of Goliath, Daniel's fearless prayers to God and the lions in the den (these creatures can end up on your lap), and the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal who are reluctant to "cut themselves till the blood gushed forth." Director Jeffrey S. Miller, a veteran of the Bethel stage, has chosen a cast that features several actors familiar to the theatre arts department and also several new faces. Such a situation can lead to an unbalanced cast, however, this is not the case. The players com-pliment each other and play well together, creating a very enjoyable harmony. This is more than a show—it is an experience. Tickets are not ex-pensive but are limited, and this is one production that you won't avant to miss. See Bereshith, enjoy an evening, and take a look at our beginnings. Falcon Barber Stylists Upper Midwest Trophy Winner FOR WOMEN'S HAIR STYLING • Call Debbie at 646-2323 by Scott Barsuhn Bethel's first experience with original story-theatre seems to be a very positive one. The audience of last Friday night's perfor-mance, of which I was a part, re-ceived this new production with laughter, smiles, and in parts, blurry eyes. It's called "Bereshith," a He-brew word meaning "Beginning," and it is just that. It is the drama-tization of many Old Testament stories rolled into one continuous evening of entertainment. The plots are mixed with humor and serious times as well as some true to life Hebrew music, singing and dancing. It is story-theatre which means the entire show is the creation of the director and his cast. The creative posssibilities of this situation are endless, and such creativity pours from this produc-tion. The cast members take dif-review Uneasiness mingles with enthusiasm at concert Co-captain Jon Fast heads the ball out of danger as Joel Kraakevik (left) and Bob Genheimer (right) look on. (Photo Doug Barke). Pair of shutout losses hurts soccer Page 7 Thomas, from p. 6 to take this. There was a long pause before a round of applause broke out and Thomas continued with the ever-popular, "Rain-drops Keep Falling on My Head." After that Thomas seemed to lose a lot of his spirit. He could tell that the audience was uneasy and he knew that things weren't going smoothly. Thus he openly apologized to the audience for his outburst—he had had a rough road trip and he was very anxious to leave for home the next day, he said. It was then that he proceeded with his "pep talk for himself," as one student put it. Thomas described the struggle October activities include film in gym, haunted castle tour by Mary Beth Larson and Bob Schmidt Since Halloween is just around the corner, we will be taking a bus load at 7:00, 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. to the "Haunted Castle" in St. Paul. The cost will be only $1.50. After you get back, get into your cos-tumes and catch a ride to the Hal-loween Rollerskating Party from midnight until 2 a.m. Buses will leave NC, OC, FT, and SC around 11:30 p.m. You must have a costume on in order to be ad-mitted. Prizes will be given for the best female costume and the best male costume. What a screamin', scary night! Saturday evening, we'll have "Movie Mania" in the gym at 8:00 p.m. We will show the movie "Other Side of the Mountain, Part II." It's a guaranteed suc-cess, even if you haven't seen Part I. Bring your friends, your bean bag chairs, your pillows, and $1.00 for a night at the movies. See you there! Monday, October 29, we'll have our Nik Dag announcement in chapel. You'll want to make sure you are there, so that you will know how to "nik your nikee!" Nik Dag weekend will be Novem-ber 2nd and 3rd. You'll definitely want to get involved. Have a great weekend and a scary Halloween! that he has had since he became a Christian over three years ago. He had been fighting with himself about what kind of a performer he should be and what kind of music he should sing. His ultimate deci-sion was that he would try to be the best kind of artist he knew how to be—and that would in-clude singing secular as well as gospel songs. "This concert has turned into more of a gospel con-cert than the pop concert that many of you were expecting," he said. The audience warmly applaud-ed him for his decision. I felt sorry for the man. The air of uneasiness permeated the auditorium when, only about 45 minutes after he had begun, he thanked the au-dience and walked off stage, his band in tail. Unknowing disbelief ran through the crowd. They couldn't believe that he was actually done. About one-and-a-half minutes of mild applause followed until the crowd realized that he was really gone and began screaming for him to return. It took a while but he came back, thanking everyone. "Thank you very much," he said. "I really needed you to do that." The last twenty minutes were devoted strictly to gospel songs, including his grammy award-winning song, "Happy Man." There can be no denying that he knows how to produce top quality sound, vocally and instrumental-ly, with his band, but Thomas was not at all "up" for his concert. The audience and Thomas end-ed up on top of it all as he rendered a lively performance of "I've Got Jesus On My Mind." The man has talent—that can-not be denied—but he also has a deep inner struggle that he needs to contend with before he faces many more audiences, or his pop-ularity will steadily decrease. For the meantime, I enjoyed his music and only hope that next time he will be in a better frame of mind. V-ball, from p. 8 The Royals lost their final match of the week to Gustavus 9-15, 11-15, 16-14 and 13-15. The hustle of the Gusties was the deciding factor in the evenly balanced match. "It was the best short-hit game we've ever had," said Frye. "We hit more effectively than Gustavus, but they hustled very well and happened to pick up more balls than we did." The Royals will play their final match of the season at 7 p.m. at Macalester on Tuesday. They will return to Macalester on November 2 and 3 for the state tournament. Neither team could muster many serious chances in a score-less first half. But the Auggies knocked in a tally in the second half and the pressure was on Beth-el to tie the game. But with less than five minutes remaining, Augsburg put the game away with their second goal. The Royals then came to life, hit-ting the goal post twice in the clos-ing moments, but could not score. Against Hamline, all the damage was done in the first half. Ten minutes into the game, the Pipers got the winner on a close range shot. As Bethel failed to clear the ball out of their own zone, Hamline passed towards the goal mouth. A Piper took the pass and fired it into the upper left cor-ner. Hamline scored twice more in the half, including one just before halftime where the player ap-peared to be offside. Bethel, rid-dled by various injuries to starting players, applied pressure throughout the second half but could not break the shutout. Next game for the Royals is tomorrow at Mankato against Bethany Lutheran. The last game of the season is next Wednesday at home against Macalester, who the Royals beat earlier 4-2. MIAC Soccer St. John's 8-0-2 St. Thomas 7-2-1 Gustavus 6-3-1 Augsburg 6-4-0 Hamline 5-5-0 Bethel 4-5-1 St. Olaf 2-4-4 St. Mary's 1-7-1 Macalester 0-9-0 by Steve Erickson The soccer team, once solidly situated in fourth place in the MIAC, is now fighting for a play-off berth (six teams go into post-season play) after two losses this past week. The Royals suffered a pair of shutouts, 2-0 to Augsburg and 3-0 to Hamline. To make it worse, both losses came at home and to teams that are also battling for a spot in the playoffs. On Wednesday, the game be-tween Bethel and Augsburg was very physical and was marred by numerous fouls as tempers flared. In all, three yellow card cautions were handed out by the referee. Bethel Events Friday, Oct. 26 Drama "Bereshith," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre Saturday, Oct. 27 Sports Soccer at Bethany Lutheran, 1:30 p.m. Men's XC, MIAC conference meet, here at 2 p.m. Women's XC at Mankato Football vs. Augsburg, 1:30 p.m., here Drama "Antigone," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre Tuesday, Oct. 30 Sports Volleyball at Macalester, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31 Sports Soccer vs. Macalester, here at 4 p.m. Thursday, November 1 Drama "Bereshith," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre New Effort In the Clarion's continu-ing effort to serve our readers, we are lowering the prices on our classified ads from 25 cents to 10 cents per line. We accept ads of all types, shapes, and sizes, from want ads to personals to help wanteds. This ser-vice is still on a trial basis and is in precarious danger of being discontinued unless we receive a few. , Kris Doble digs in the Royals J.V. victory over St. Ben's last week. (Photo Doug Barkey.) Page 8 sports Bethel takes meet, Culp finishes second by Steve Erickson Football powerhouse Gustavus Adolphus, the nation's number one team offensively with an aver-age of over 44 points a game, could only manage half of that to-tal against Bethel's stingy defense as the Gusties squeaked past the Royals 22-7 last Saturday. At halftime the score stood 6-0 Gustavus (on a Ron Straka 9-yard run) but Bethel played their op-ponents virtually even through the first 30 minutes. In limiting the Gusties to 128 yards, the Royals held them to a poor two-and-a-half yards per running play. In the second half, Gustavus' strong rushing attack began to wear Bethel down as Gustie backs continuously pounded over the line. In all, the Gusties ran 68 times compared with only half that many for Bethel. The Royals stopped Gustavus early in the third period with the score still 6-0 when Dan Stockfish picked off a Brad Baker pass, but the Gusties scored the eventual winning touchdown on their next possession. With the ball on the Bethel 37, QB Baker faked a handoff which held the defensive secondary briefly. He then whirled and threw to Paul Rambow slanting up the by Carol Madison In the first women's cross coun-try meet held on the new Bethel course, the Royals took third place of nine teams, and ran one of the best team efforts of the sea-son. "I was very pleased with the race," said Coach Shirley Daw-son, "because our top four runner s finished close together between the 10th-and 23rd-positions." Wendy Norberg led the team by finishing tenth of 54 runners at 21:01. Ellie Abbott finished 15th at 21:55, and Brenda Harris fol-lowed at 22:08 and 18th place. Carla Munson finished 23rd, and Kathy Zappe finished in 43rd-middle. Rambow raced the final yards for the TD. While some may have thought that Bethel would fold at that point, they did not. Immediately they marched down the field, helped by receptions from Ken Cooper, Tom Klitzke, and Frank Sanza with Jim Anderstrom on the throwing end. A pass interference call gave the Royals a first down on the Gusta-vus three and the single wing of-fencse used earlier in the game was brought in. Three plays later all-purpose back Lonnie Holmgren plunged over from the one. Gustavus scored their final TD soon after, as Baker dove one yard over the left guard on fourth down. The big play of the drive consisted of a pass from Baker to John Hupenbecker that converted a third down and long yardage. Once more Bethel drove deep into Gustavus territory, but this time was thwarted. A pass to Cooper on fourth-and-one gave Bethel a first down on the 18. but Anderstrom was intercepted on the very next play. A safety on the last play of the game accounted for Gustavus's final points. Bethel opened the game in a sin- _g le wing, an offense that the Roy-place. Freshman runner Theresa Meredith did not run due to a stress-fracture in her ankle which will probably keep her out for at least two weeks. "The course was slow and mud-dy," said Dawson, "but our course is challenging anyway be-cause of the hills and turns which tend to slow the runner down. We'll make improvements next year by widening the course and adding drainage, which will make it one of the best courses in Minnesota." The Royals finished behind St. Thomas and Carleton, and Sue Paulson of Carleton set the new course record at 20:00. als have practiced often. Reynolds cited two reasons why they decid-ed to use it. "First, we think we can move the football with the sin-gle wing and the second thing is that we'd use up lots of time." Coach Chub Reynolds was pro-ud of the way his team played. "We played well, particularly on defense. We took the option away from them, but we had opportun-ities on offense that we didn't take advantage of. We were playing the most powerful team in our caliber of school." Reynolds especially liked the play of Stockfish, Rich Hodge, and Sam Hildebrandt on defense. He also said that the defensive secondary played a solid game. In addition to Stockfish, Scott Eng-strom, Dave Vanzo, and Mike Hoffner made interceptions. Tomorrow at 1:30 Bethel (1-4) plays its last home game of the season against Augsburg (1-4). The Royals close out the year with road games versus last year's co-conference champions, St. Olaf • n • rdia. The Bethel cross country team easily captured first place last weekend in a home meet with five other teams. Macalester's Paul Mausling, one of best runners in the state, coasted to a first place finish in 26:36, more than a minute in front of second place finisher Mike Culp. Culp posted Bethel's best time, a 27:48 clocking. But in cross country, strength is •in numbers, as the team score con-sists of the top five finishers. And the Royals had that strength, with by Carol Madison The volleyball season record suffered a blow last week as the Royals dropped four games against one win in competition with both private and state schools. Their record now stands at 7-11. The team lost to Northwestern in five games of a well-played match, 14-16, 15-5, 6-15, 15-11 and 3-15. Joy Sorenson played the center hitter position very ef-fectively for Bethel, and Sonya Olsen contributed with a consis-tent setting game. "Both teams played well," said Coach Karyl Frye. "The match had several long rallies and well-played hits, but their off-speed game and short hits are what hurt us." The Royals then traveled to Mankato to meet U of M at Mor-ris and Mankato in best of three game matches. Bethel took the first game from Morris 15-12, but then seemed to lose control and let Morris domi-six other runners making the top ten. They were: Brent Friesen, fourth; Jim Feleen, fifth; Ross Allen, sixth; Randy Bostrom, eighth, Dwight Newman, ninth; and Dan Hicks, tenth. Final team scores were: Bethel 25, Gustavus 66, Macalester 71, St. Paul Bible, 99, and Augsburg 113. Only four runners partici-pated for St. Scholastica so they did not score. Tomorrow Bethel takes part in the MIAC meet. nate the tempo of the rest of the match, losing 6-15 and 8-15. Mankato also downed Bethel in a match that started out shaky for the Royals, as they lost the first game 3-15. Bethel controlled the offense in the second game and won 15-13, but the match was decided in a close third game which the Royals finally lost 13-15. Sheryl Meyer, returning from an ankle injury, was singled out by Frye as the "player of the match" for her excellent front and back row play. JoAnn Griffin led the team to its sole win of the week with a powerful performance at the net. She scored several points with strong hits to please the crowd and pave the way to an 11-15, 15-5, 7-15, 15-7 and 15-5 victory over St. Benedict. "JoAnn had the best spiking game she has ever had in her three years at Bethel," said Frye. "I have never seen her hit so hard. She inspired the rest of the team." V-ball, see p. 7 Harriers take third, Norberg leads again Leading rusher Tom Klitzke drags Gustie defender as he attempts to turn the corner. Gustavus won the game, 22-7. (Photo Tom Twining.) Gusties edge Royals 22-7 V-ball's record falls After losing week
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Title | Clarion 1979-10-28 Vol 55 No 07 |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 55 No. 7 |
Date Published | October 28 1979 |
Decade | 1970 |
Academic Year | 1979 - 1980 |
Frequency | Weekly |
Article Titles | Nursing program tentative for 1980; Conservation essential, but Bethel won't freeze; Potential security problems concern Silvercrest residents; editorial, Not only Christians reveal God's truth; Macalester hosts hunger series; Bethel's appeal to students causes enrollment to grow; Study programs cheapest in summer; New department coordinates publicity; Auditions scheduled for tours; Academic center addition nears construction date; Bohlmeyer reads stories for sightless thousands; Horn, Mortenson view growth as basic goal; —Shelly Nielsen, Stay home during Nik Dag, avoid quick engagement; Python's boring, not heretical; review, Uneasiness mingles with enthusiasm at concert; Bereshith successful In exploring beginnings; October activities include film in gym, haunted castle tour; Pair of shutout losses hurts soccer; sports, Bethel takes meet, Culp finishes second; Gusties edge Royals 22-7; V-ball's record falls after losing week; Harriers take third, Norberg leads again |
Photographs | These high school students, shown smoking in the adjacent woods, are causing concern about vandalism and security among Silvercrest apartment residents (Photo Tom Twining).; The "clubhouse" near Silvercrest is scene of much late-night activity (Photo Tom Twining).; Dr. Brownlee (Photo Doug Barkey); Cartoon: "Chapel - Homework"; Bethel's new nature trail was designed by Dr. Gregg Johnson, and was built over the summer (Photo Dan Velie).; Dr. Jeannie Bohlmeyer has recorded about 60 books for the Minnesota State Services for the blind (Photo Tom Twining).; Christian Life by Juan Ortiz; As residence life directors, David Horn (left) and Don Mortenson are responsible for the living situation of students (Photos Dan Velie).; B.J. Thomas, battling a faulty PA system, croons hits during Friday's Civic Center concert. (Photo Tom Twining).; Co-captain Jon Fast heads the ball out of danger as Joel Kraakevik (left) and Bob Genheimer (right) look on. (Photo Doug Barke).; Leading rusher Tom Klitzke |
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Transcript | The "clubhouse" near Silvercrest i s scene of much late-night ac-tivity (Photo Tom Twining). Conservation essential, but Bethel won't freeze These high school students, shown smoking in the adjacent woods, are causing concern about vandalism and security among Silvercrest apartment residents (Photo Tom Twining). Potential security problems concern Silvercrest residents the Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 7 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Oct. 28, 1979 Nursing program tentative for 1980 by Lori Rydstrom Plans for a new nursing pro-gram at Bethel are well under way. There are still steps to be final-ized, but the projected date for the program to be added to Be-thel's curriculum is September, 1980. No official announcement has yet been made because, according to Dean George Brushaber, "Fin-al hurdles have yet to be cleared." He said four major steps need to be completed before the program becomes official. First, housing for the additional students has to be secured. Even-tually, more dorms will have to be built, but until then, apartments are being considered to house the new students. Secondly, Brushaber would like to see plans well under way for the new science addition to assure needed classroom space. The science addition would be built off of the AC building where the greenhouse is at present. It would house classrooms and labs. Third, a chairperson for the by Laurie Lindahl Due to the installation of two 12,000 gallon oil tanks, there is no danger of running out of fuel this winter, according to Jim Woods, director of physical plant at Bethel. However, Woods em-phasized that other factors make strict conservation of energy essential at Bethel. There were many problems en-countered last winter while opera-ting with one 10,000 gallon tank. Because of these problems, program must be hired. Even-tually, more teaching staff will be added. However, because students will be in a general liberal arts pro-gram for the first two years, one person to head the department would be sufficient. The last step, but one of major importance, is that the pro-gram must be approved by the Minnesota Higher Education Board. Brushaber is confident that the program will be ap-proved, but it has not been final-ized yet. The nursing program would of-fer a four-year baccalaureate de-gree. Graduates then have to take and pass the state board exams to be certified. Brushaber expects en-rollment to be approximately 60 the first year, growing to 80 once the program catches on. If Bethel keeps up with the na-tional average, about ten percent of the nursing students will be men. Brushaber would like to en-courage men to consider the pro-gram seriously because of the ex-cellent career opportunities. -The need for people in the nursing pro-fession far exceeds the number of Woods decided to install the new tanks. Looking back to last winter he saw the main problem as lack of capacity. Since deliveries come only in 7,000 gallon loads, no delivery could be made until the tank was down to 3,000 gal-lons— a three day supply. Due to the rising oil demand, an order called in only three days ahead may not be filled before the oil ran out. "There were times," Woods said, "when I wasn't sure if we would have enough oil to last until the next delivery." Fuel, see p. 3 people certified each year. Brushaber stresses that the nursing students will not be a "special breed." They will have the same liberal arts requirements that other majors have. For the first two years of the four-year program, nursing students will take their balance courses. The last two years will consist of more intensive nursing courses and hospital work. This offers an by Ken Wanovich The potential for vandalism and other related problems are con-cerns of several Bethel students living at Silvercrest apartments this year, according to Don Mor-tenson, director of residence life for upperclassmen. These concerns have come up because of several junior and senior high school students who have made an adjacent field their "hangout." Rick Mehl, resident director of building 2030 at Silver-crest, said the young people have built a small clubhouse in the field, and meet there regularly after school and after supper. Several weeks ago, the New Brighton police arrived to inves-tigate the situation. Mehl talked to the police officers when they ar-rived. "There were no problems at all," said Mehl. "The police were called by one of the high school boys' father to stop an unauthor-ized person who had threatened to tear down their clubhouse." Mortenson has received feed-back from several Bethel students about safety at Silvercrest. Some parents also called and expressed their concern about the security. advantage over other, more inten-sive two-or-three year courses be-cause it gives the student a much broader background. It also gives them the opportunity to switch majors if they find they are more interested in something else. The possibility of a nursing pro-gram at Bethel has been discussed off and on for the past twenty years. Until now, it has not been feasible. One resident said, "I have come home a couple of times at night and have seen non-residents lounging on the step inside the building. This seems to be an in-dication that there is a definite need for more security." In another incident last week, police were called by a Bethel resi-dent because of a window peeker outside the building. Mortenson contacted Jan Janssen, owner of the Silvercrest apartment com-plex, and talked with him about the problem. "Janssen has told me he will immediately evict any non-Bethel tenants found in our buildings," said Mortenson. He will also get-the police involved and will pros-ecute all other non-residents found in the buildings. The Sil-vercrest apartment complex con-sists of six buildings, four of which are occupied by Bethel students. Scott Feltman, a sophomore at Bethel and a Silvercrest resident, said, "I don't think there is a serious problem. When you live in any apartment, you have to take some common sense precautions, but I have seen no indication of Last May, Tom Johnson, head of the academic policy committee, recommended the program to the faculty. The idea was approved and then presented Xo the Board of Regents for consideration. The Regents approved it in June with the stipulation that the ad-ministration be responsible for working out the details. In Sep-tember, the Regents authorized the program to be implemented and the plans got underway. any vandalism." Silvercrest presently has no phone security system, or locks on the outside doors leading to the parking lot, like those at Fountain Terrace. The inside apartment doors are equipped with dead bolt locks which are opened by a key from the outside. No vandalism has occured at Silvercrest, but Bethel's housing supervisors are concerned about the potential. Bethel will be instal-ling locks on the outside doors. Janssen has agreed to contribute one-half the cost for these locks and their installation. Bethel is also inquiring about installing a phone security system. "Bethel accommodates stud-ents from all backgrounds," said Mortenson. "Some are more com-fortable than others living in off-campus housing, and being on their own. If students perceive something to be a problem, we have to act on the situation. Bethel tries to provide comfort-able and secure housing for all students. If these needs are not met, a student will find it difficult to work on other areas of their lives," said Mortenson. Macalester hosts hunger series The "Feeding a Hungry World" symposium, which is be-ing held at Macalester College, will continue on Tuesday, October 30 with a 7:30 p.m. lecture entitled "New Flour for Your Daily Bread," .by Dr. Richard Evans Schultes. - Dr. Schultes is a wbrld re-knowned botanist who spent 12 years of near isolation in the Amazon jungle searching for rare plants. The world's leading au-thority on medicinal and hal-lucinogenic plants, he has also served as a consultant to many underdeveloped nations to help increase their agricultural pro-ductivity and export potential. On Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Walter P. Falcon, direc-tor of the Food Research Institute at Stanford University, will pre-sent a lecture entitled, "How Much Can Uncle Sam Do?— America's Role in Easing World Hunger." Dr. Falcon is an inter-nationally known expert on the economics of agriculture, par-ticularly in relation to under-developed countries. He also is a member of the Presidential Com-mission on World Hunger. The ' 'Feeding a Hungry World" lecture will draw to a close with two more lectures by Dr. Schultes. On Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. he will discuss "The Tropics: The New Garden of Eden" and on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. he will speak on "Save That Plant—The 'Weed' You Kill Today May Be Your Food Tomorrow." The series of lectures, spon-sored by the Macalester College Hubert Humphrey Endowed Pro-fessorship Fund, is free and open to the public. All of the lectures take place in the Olin Hall of Science Auditorium on the cam-pus. Page 2 editorial Not only Christians reveal God's truth In the past two weeks we have noticed an attitude fairly prevalent among Bethel students, that we believe is dangerous, which arose from two seemingly different situations. The attitude concerns the Christian's proper response to non-Christians and secular ideas. It seems that many at Bethel believe that only Christians should ad-dress Christians, and only about Christian things—thus making Bethel a fortress where only such thinking and thinkers are accepted. When Ray Herzog, chairman of hte board at 3M, delivered a convo-cation message on Oct. 10, a common reaction was that he "didn't even talk about God." Some people of course did not, at the time, realize the difference between chapel and convocation—that convocations are not meant as worship services, but as forums for ideas and learning. Donald Maclnnis, however, this week's speaker on China, received a much better reaction, presumably because he came from a Christian background. But, for the people who payed close attention to Herzog, didn't he stimulate just as much thought as MacInnis, even though most world-conscious Christians did not agree with his ideas? We must remember that all God's truth is not contained in the Bible or by Christians. God has poured himself out on all His creation; conse-quently, we can learn something of His truth from everyone. In another situation in a different context, many reacted adversely to the first half of the B.J. Thomas concert last Saturday night. Apparent-ly much of the crowd came to see a Christian artist perform gospel music, and felt that Thomas had an obligation to cater to his audience's taste. But Thomas is an artist and must express himself the way he feels fit. Analogously, one would not view a sculpture exhibition and, disliking the work, tell the artist to make something one does like. In both the concert and the convocation, a man gave something of himself that was not to a group of Christians' liking. Instead of accept-ing the work as viable and using it to develop their own thoughts, the group rejected the work because it was not what they expected, wanted to hear, or it didn't emanate from a Christian's tongue or perspective. This is a dangerous attitude because, when we reject the ideas of others out of hand, we may be rejecting part of God's truth. And, because we Christians at Bethel are quite culture-bound, the part or Truth that filters through our rejecting mechanism may trun out to be an extremely insular portion. Bethel students need to be more open to thinking that challenges their American middle-class Christian Bethel mindset, and they need to be more receptive of the people presenting those ideas. Bethel's appeal to students causes enrollment to grow by Suzi Wells This year Bethel has reached a new high in enrollment, totalling 1989 students at the college, 127 more than last year. What's the reason for this growth? President Carl Lundquist sees several factors contributing to Bethel's growth. First, he said that good programs, such as music, pre-med and athletic, and good teachers attract students. He also mentioned that the positive atti-tude on campus and the Christian commitment here bring prospec-tive students. "Many young people are look-ing for a Christian community," Lundquist said. "There is a con-servative move sweeping through America. The whole evangelical world is flourishing now." More high school graduates are seeking colleges with an evangelical focus. Lundquist also said that he has been told by outsiders that Bethel has the best student recruitment. "Jim Bragg (former director of admissions, now vice-president of Public Affairs) has been acknow-ledged as unusually able," he said. "And Dan Nelson (director of financial aid) has been called the finest in Minnesota. All that makes a difference." Lundquist also said he feels that "God's hand on Bethel" is an im-portant reason for its growth. The kind of personal attention prospective students get is a rea-son Phil Kimball, current director of admissions, said students are attracted to Bethel. "We try to personalize everything we do in admissions," he,said. "We try to build a relationship with parents and students before they get here." The unique recruitment techni-que that the admissions office uses helps bring more students to Bethel, Kimball said. "We do search techniques," he said. These are opposed to the "shotgun ef-fort" of many other colleges and universities. A second-person recruitment method is used. This method is much less expensive than sending several admissions counselors to various parts of the county. In-stead, Kimball said, "We gear our efforts toward parents, pastors, Christian education directors, and present students." This way, those who apply have heard about the college from someone who sees them as good candidates for Bethel. The admis-sions department considers most students referred to Bethel to be acceptable candidates, since they go through this "pre-screening" process. The total number of new stud-ents this year is 785, including transfers (see Clarion, Oct. 19, 1979, "Bethel enrollment statis-tics"). The graduating class last year was Bethel's largest at 406, while the senior class this year,on-ly totals 299, thus a larger percen-tage of underclassmen are on cam-pus this year. President Lundquist hopes to see Bethel continue to grow until it reaches the optimum enrollment of 2250 students (plus 150-200 in the new nursing program). "At 2400 we can still maximize relations between students and teachers," Lundquist said. The president said he is con-cerned with keeping Bethel a small community. "We don't want to go beyond effectiveness," he said. But he pointed out that even the structure of the college promotes closeness and unity. The build-ings, he said, are inter-connected and no lounges are hidden in any corners, but are spread through-out the building. What is Bethel's philosophy about admitting students to Bethel? "We at Bethel are con-cerned with making the biggest impact for Christ through higher education," Lundquist said. the Clarion . Vol. 55 No. 7 Bethel Col lege Oct. 28, 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 Glasses Contact Lenses (Hard & Soft) Sports Glasses Discounts to Bethel Community Elwood Carlson Optician 358 St. Peter St. St1 Paul 227.7818 "The servant of God communicating the Word of God." It's not just our motto. Write to: Dr. Gordon Johnson Bethel Theological Seminary 3949 Bethel Drive, St. Paul, MN 55112 c and Bethel-West In San Diego, CA Programs offered in biblical. historical and theological studies, missions, Christian education. church ministries. and lay leadership at the certificate. master's and doctoral levels Have you tried Bethany Baptist Church yet? 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 FALCON HEIGHTS PHARMACY 1707 N. Snelling Avenue (Larpenteur at Snelling) 646-4555 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Daily 9 A.M. to 2 P.M. Sat. 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Sun. • We cash checks for Bethel students with ID. them. 5 Page 3 Study programs cheapest in summer by Jay Stuart Russell Thinking of doing a directed study or off-campus study pro-gram? Depending on the type of program you choose, you could pay as little as $250 per course cre-dit. Tricia Brownlee, director of academic programs, said that a di-rected study program taken dur-ing the summer will cost $250, which is the same as other summer school courses. If taken during the regular school year, the directed study course is included as a class on the flat fee tuition system. For other programs, such as the American studies program in Washington, D.C., and the urban studies program in San Francisco, students must pay the tuition costs set by the program. The American studies program is sponsored by the Christian Col-lege Consortium, and costs $1925 per term, while Westmont Col-lege's urban studies program is priced at $220 per term. "If it's not a Bethel program," Brownlee said, "then the outside agency sets the price." The Eng-land study tour, which Bethel Fuel, from p. 1 The heating oil bill will probab-ly equal $50,000 this year. That only covers the days when the temperature drops below 20°. When the temperature is above 20°, the college is heated by na-tural gas, which costs 40 010 less than oil. Bethel, like all other large in-stitutions and factories, is subject to "interruptable services" by NSP. This means that when the temperature drops below 20°, in-dividual houses are given priority in the use of gas for heating, caus-ing larger institutions to switch to oil instead. "The reason we have inter-ruptable service is so that we can make sure there is enough gas to go around," said a NSP repre-sentative. The need for conservation ex-tends to the use of electricity as well as heating. This summer, the Department of Energy issued re-gulations in accordance with President Carter's stand-by con-servation plan. For cooling, temperatures can-not be higher than 78°. For heat-ing, temperatures cannot be high-er than 65°. The temperature of hot water must not be set above 105°. These regulations apply to all of Bethel, with the exception of the dorms and townhouses. While there are no limits there, students are asked to maintain the lowest possible level they can. "People are going to notice the 65° temperatures," said Woods. "It just means that they're going to have to start wearing warmer clothes." sponsors, is priced at $3500 per term. "We try to keep down tui-tion costs as much as possible for the programs we sponsor," she Dr. Brownlee (Photo Doug Barkey) by Shari Goddard Three full-time workers joined Bethel's Publications and Public Information Department this year, making it the largest ever. The contest is on! If you can write, take pictures or illustrate you can enter the Passages con-test. Passages is a fine arts maga-zine consisting of student, faculty, or alumni contributions. The magazine seeks to portray life as a student experiences it here at Be-thel. The contest will be open until Wednesday, November 21. Prizes said. An exchange program is ano-ther type of off-campus study. For semester exchanges, students pay their tuition, room and board fees to the exchange college. For interim exchanges, students pay tuition to the college in which they're enrolled, and the room, board, and other fees to the ex-change college. This policy is ef-fective for those colleges that have exchange programs with Bethel. Brownlee said that student in-ternships are priced the same as directed study programs. Student internships are programs in which a student receives credit while working at a job relating to his concentration. Directed studies, formerly called independent stu-dies, are course programs de-signed by a student and faculty member. The additions came after a merger of departments increased publici-ty's responsibilities. "Over-lapping made the merge necessary," said director Florence Johnson. Before the will be awarded for place winners (1st: $25.00, 2nd: $15.00, and 3rd: $10.00) in each of the two categor-ies; writing and photography or illustration. So, if your fingers are itching to create—now is the time. All work should be submitted to the editor, Rob Johnson, P.O. 794. Bethel's new nature trail was designed by Dr. Gregg Johnson, and was built over the summer (Photo Dan Velie). merge, College Relations and Public Affairs held responsibility for their own publications, which included finding their own artist and printers. Publicity now coordinates these responsibilities, "trying to help, to service and to upgrade," said Johnson. David Shelley, former editor of the Clarion, fills a new editor's position this year. He handles the By-line, a Bethel publication about different aspects of college life, and many other publicity pro-jects. "I've never enjoyed a desk job before, but this job has a lot of variety and a great atmosphere," Shelley said. Carol Nelson, a professional ar-tist, designs and coordinates designers for Bethel publications and projects on a three-day-a-week basis. "I'd like to get more of a consistant quality. Usually art work is good, but occasionally there's a real clinker," she said. Debbie Bestland, formerly of College Relations, provides office services, assisted by Lori Olinger and Jane Saari, student employees. Shari Goddard handles student press releases to home newspapers and Janice Clark writes the Public Affair. The department now coor-dinates publications for the col-lege and seminary. "Sometimes I have doubts about whether we've bitten off more than we can chew," Johnson said. "We try to find a way to get the job done, but four people can't do everything." As time allows, the staff helps others with publication projects. If a project can't be handled by a staff member, it may be referred to someone else, either on or off campus. The staff's overall aim will be to get a job done "in the most prac-tical way possible," Johnson said. "We want to keep distinctive creativity, not have everything end up looking and sounding the same. We want to help others to do a job, but not do it all for New department coordinates publicity Dr. Jeannie Bohlmeyer has recorded about 60 books for the Minnesota State Services for the blind (Photo Tom Twining). Page 4 by Jan Johnson Why should the 10,000 blind people of Minnesota be deprived of the experience of "reading" a good book? Jeannine Bohlmeyer, professor of English at Bethel, has raised this question and is working to bring about an answer. For three hours a week she is in-volved with a program that re-cords books for the blind to listen to. "I first became interested in re-cording books for the blind when I met some Bethel students who were blind. They had their text books recorded," Bohlmeyer said. "I called around to see if I could find out how to get involved in such a program." When Bohlmeyer contacted the Minnesota State Services for the Blind, she was asked to audition. The audition consisted of sight reading everything from children's stories to abbreviations of Bible books to foreign words and names. This reading was taped and reviewed by a group of blind people. She passed the audition and was asked to work for them. She doesn't get paid for the work, but the organization does provide the tapes and books. Most of the books she tapes are broadcast on a closed circuit radio Vocal and instrumental audi-tions for the internationally-known Continental Singers and Orchestra will be held Thursday, November 1, from 5:30 to 9:00, in FA 312. Jim Chaffee, talent director for Continental Singers, a non-pro-fit, Christian organization with offices in Los Angeles and Great Britain, will be conducting the au-ditions. Persons between the ages of 16 and 25 are eligible. Continental, Singers perform during the summer months, with rehearsal camp beginning on June 4. Concerts are given nightly, with twelve Continental groups involv-ing over 450 young people travel-ing extensively throughout the United States, Canada, 16 Euro-pean countries, the Caribbean, South Africa, South America, and the Orient. The grand finale con-cert is scheduled for August 23 in Los Angeles. Auditions are being taken for the 1980 and 1981 summer tours, with positions open for vocalists, brass, rhythm, woodwind, and string players for the summer. Of special interest to instrumen-talists will be the 40-piece Con-station that is available for those who are blind or too handicapped to read for themselves. The organization chooses the books she reads. They send every-thing from children's books to travel books. "They usually send me travel books," Bohlmeyer said. "Partly because of my interest in travel, and partly because they know that I have the resources here at Bethel to discover how difficult or for-eign words are pronounced." She estimates that she has read about 60 books since October of 1973. That has involved about 700 hours of taping and 535 hours of actual broadcast time. All of this tinental Orchestra, traveling with a smaller professional vocal group, and two 20-piece Con-tinental Brass tours (horns and saxes), which travel with a 20-voice' choir. "The auditions are simple and should last only a few minutes," says Mr. Chaffee. "Vocalists will be required to sing one gospel solo of their choice; instrumentalists will need to play two selections of varying tempos." by J.D. Klaessy Construction for an addition to the Academic Center may begin by next summer. According to Dwight Jessup, director of aca-demic affairs, the addition could be finished by early fall, 1981. This addition would bring the greenhouse side of the AC51 feet further south, making its outer wall parallel with that of the fine arts building. adds up to an equivalent of about 18 weeks of full time work. The longest book that she ever recorded was the novel "Cashel-mara," which was about 27 hours of air time. Bohlmeyer said that it would be impossible to say which was her favorite book because she has read so many. There are plenty of opportuni-ties for anyone interested in this type of service. To volunteer for the reading program, one must be prepared to go through the diffi-cult audition for the Minnesota State Services for the Blind. If you are a college graduate and are able to pass the audition, you are well on your way to helping someone read who can't read for himself. Individuals who are accepted as Continentals are required to raise support totaling approximately half the total tour cost. Continen-tal Singers meets the remaining ex-penses through offerings and record sales while on the -road. Two Bethel students, Brian Mulder from the college and David Hastings from the semi-nary, will be directing tours this summer. For more information, contact Brian, PO 1080. Money is the main impasse in getting started. Jessup said, "We need to secure revenue, probably through private gifts." He also said that the cost of such an addi-tion would be roughly $1 million to $1.4 million. The addition would house what Jessup defined as "specialized fa-cilities" for the biology, physics and pyschology departments. While it would include several labs there would also be a few fa-culty offices and two-classrooms. One room would have a 30 person capacity, the other would be a lec-ture hall for 80 people that could also be used for demonstrations in biology, physics and psychology. Tentative approval has been given by the Board of Regents for the project. While it is still in the planning stage, Jessup seemed op-timistic concerning the addition, which he described as being "ne-cessary." Along with Jessup on the addi-tion task force is Paul Redin, di-rector of career counseling and placement, David Lee, assistant professor of speech/communica-tion, and Paul Tavernier, asso-ciate professor of chemistry, and senior Ray Boe. Bohlmeyer reads stories for sightless thousands Academic center addition nears construction date Auditions scheduled for tours IT ArL.WAYS HuRrs iN THE 15e3iNt AND EVENTVALLY YOU'LL Ger use -ro LT Mortenson is resident director of Townhouse East and also heads "Wilderness Challenge." Horn is resident director for Bodien and in charge of the stu-dent activity center. He is also in-volved in some program planning. Horn graduated from Bethel in 1974 and then earned his master's degree in English literature from Baylor University. He said, "I love Bethel but when I graduated I never thought I'd be back." This is Mortenson's first time at Bethel. He, unlike Horn, has a family to look after. He and his wife Dawn have a seventeen-month- old son named Eric. Mortenson said he is "pretty busy" but he believes "it's impor-tant to take time for family no matter how busy things get." Both men seem enthusiastic and optimistic about their opportunity to improve things during the rest of the year. by Patty Sutton "Growth," said David Horn, director of residence life for freshmen, "is my primary goal." Horn said, "I want to work toward a community where the student's academic growth could be practiced for growth in all other areas of living as well." Don Mortenson views his job as director of residence life for upper-classmen as a ministry for discipleship. He believes that "for students to grow spiritually, mentally and emotionally, their basic needs must be met first." Mortenson and Horn are responsible for arranging the best possible living situation for students especially through work-ing with the resident directors. 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The Clarion staff extends affectionate congratulations, wishes for many future happy bir-thdays, and prayers that the label "spinster" won't hurt too much . Page 5 —Shelly Nielsen Horn, Mortenson view growth as basic goal Stay home during Nik Dag; avoid quick engagement Once, I obstinately answered that monotonous October question, "Are you going to Nik Dag?" with, "No. Think I'll finish my homework, vacuum the apartment, and—" "Homework? Homework?" My acquaintance gasped, horrified. "Homework? Homework?" She clut-ched at her heart as if in pain. This reaction illustrates the power Nik Dag has at Bethel. What, I ask, is incredible about deliberately avoiding a humiliating, macabre, and emotionally-scarring activity? Everyone admits that the one unchang-ing element of Nik Dag is torment; so - why are we perpetuating the tradition by submitting to and even an-ticipating it year after year? I'm all for school traditions. I'm all for liberating the male from his financial and dating frustrations dur-ing at least one weekend in a long school year. But no one can convince me that November 2-4 is a healthy time to be alive. Nik Dag pressures start long before the actual weekend arrives. Female rivals for the same male nikkee look cloaked (christian) daggers at one another for weeks. (It should be noted that choosing any guy some-one else favors is brave bordering on stupid. This crime is second in seriousness only to borrowing a room-mate's leather jacket without permission.) Guys sweat out a month of uncertainty, translating innocent glances into sure signs of girl's intentions to bid for them. Men and women alike find themselves crying frequently. Animosity is thick. Everyone's fingers, by the end of October, are chewed, bloody stumps. The most inhuman Nik Dag ritual begins that midnight hour when "nikking" season is officially declared "open." This mystical period transforms the sane, Bible-believing woman into a crazed Dionysian gorgon who will stop at nothing short of nabbing that one pre-picked male. No trick is too low, no method too direct or dangerous. She will have friends hoist her to a third floor dorm window with a hemp rope. She will pedal to Brooklyn Center on her little brother's Schwinn 3-speed to nik a commuter. She will solitarily storm a bastion of RA's to charge up off-bound dorm steps. Miles removed from her former book-bearing reserve, she has all the sensitivity and delicacy of a riled lynch mob. The male, conversely, turns into a confused, indecisive coward. He vacillates between screaming in terror when the phone rings and loung-ing enticingly in his bedroom window. He is capable of dramatic cross-campus dashes at unprecedented speeds. He is alternately attracted to and repulsed by the animalistic frenzy warring in his dorm lounge. Upon confrontation with the terrifying opposite sex, he can mimble only caveman gibberish. Relative normalcy returns to the student populace by morning. The observant will discern a prevalent tension, however, that will not disperse until after the cathartic Nik Dag weekend. Bevies of nikkers meet in halls to conduct demeaning inquisitions. "You get him?" "Yes, praise God. You?" "Yeah. Did you hear about Bernice?" `No! She wasn't. Turned Down, was she?" Better Bernice had never contemplated nikking or fall enrollment at Bethel than suffer the pitying glances that will punctuate the remainder of her miserable week. Nik Night survived, the Pie Ritual must yet be endured. It is not enough that a woman face the traumatic possibility of rejection; now she must demonstrate domestic expertise by baking a Nik Dag pie. Women loathe this routine. It forces them to admit how poorly they really did in the baking powder bisquit unit during junior high home ec. I harangued my freshman date in an attempt to extricate myself from this duty. "What does a pie mean anyway? It can't prove my intrinsic worth as a human being. Besides, it's a symbol of woman's oppressed societal role, a sacrifice on the altar of male ego and dominance, an outdated representation of the apple pie and motherhood fallacy..." This argument proving ineffective, I resorted to bargaining. "How about a nice pot of coffee? What's important is that I create something myself, right? No bitterness, no messy grounds." "Lemon meringue." "Pop tarts? Spaghetti-Os?" "No deal." Our final, written compromise stated that in lieu of the usual baking, I would clean his townhouse bedroom and bathroom bi-monthly for the remainder of the semester. The supreme test of the Bethel woman occurs during the heralded weekend. She must completely outdo her competitive fellow-nikkers. This is vital if she's to retain dignity or tell unbelievable stories after The Event is all over. She may be creative ("Meet me on the PE steps. We'll jump rope for 1/2 hour before riding unicycles to the Salvation Army Mission for din-ner"), or she may try the usually more effective approach (I'll pick you up in my father's company limosine. You can change into your tux at the rental store before we pick up the boutonnier and corsage at the florist's. That will give us 45 minutes to drive out to Chanhassen for din-ner and the show"). Whatever style she chooses, the important thing is that she'll later be able to wow listeners with tales of her unparalleled ex-ploits. So you're still bent on experiencing this Nik Dag thing. Despite my prophetic warnings, you'll no doubt cavort obliviously that weekend. Mark my words, there's always a price to pay for flirting with this sort of dangerous frivolity. If emotional trauma and its resultant psychological consequences don't frighten you, how do you react to that annual string of post-Nik Dag engagements? Don't be nervous. B.J. Thomas, battling a faulty PA system, croons hits during Friday's Civic Center concert. (Photo Tom Twining). Bereshith successful In exploring beginnings Attention: Today is the last day to register for Bethel's Fall Speech Tour-nament on Thursday, Nov. 1, 1979. Registration forms are available on the bulletin board in the Speech/Communication Department. Trinity Baptist Church 2220 Edgerton Street at Hwy. 36 St. Paul, MN 55117 774-8609 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 9:10 AM Rent Refrigerators Perfect for Dorms $14.951mo. 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. Central Baptist Church 420 Staff: St. Garven McGettrick Ron Eckert Dana Olson Mike Anderson Will Healy Kathy Cupp North Roy Street Paul, Minnesota 646-2751 Bus leaves: SC - 9:15 FT - 9:25 NC - 9:35 Services: 8:45 and 11 10 Bible Study 7 pm evening John W. Ivance Company 224-7358 John W. Ivance, Sr. John W. Ivance, Jr. John G. Chisholm Russell K. Akre Patrick J. Repp 41111•••!..-- INSURANCE `'" Life--Auto--Home Business St. Paul. MN 55101 1618 Pioneer Bldg. Ito Page 6 entertainment Python's boring, not heretical by J. D. Klaessy With Monty Python's "Life of Brian" came grumblings of hereti-cal content. Many Christians were up in arms about the blasphemous content of the movie. After view-ing the flick twice, which was two times too many, there appeared no heretical material, only five zany Englishmen and one Ameri-can punning and satirizing their way to boredom. While the movie takes place in Judea 33 A.D., the film only hints of Jesus twice. The first occurs in the beginning of the movie in which the main character, Brian, played by Graham Chapman, is listening to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Being at the edge of the large audience Brian cannot hear too well. The Beatitudes are stated and immediately misunderstood. "Blessed are the cheesemakers?" questions one man. Andther is quick to explain that Jesus must have meant, "any manufacturer of dairy products." At another point Brian meets a leper who continues to beg al-though Jesus healed him. After 16 years of being a leper, begging is the only work he knows. The movie has its high point, all of which can be counted on two fingers. Both are pulled off only because of John Cleese's gift for appearing inept. In his first role, Cleese is the Pharisee who organizes all public stonings. By his own scattered wits, while reading a condemned man's sentence, Cleese acciden-tally utters "Jehovah" and is him-self stoned. Cleese's other prime part casts him as a Roman centurion. While on night patrol he catches Brian writing "Romans go home" on a wall. Cleese sees that the phrase is in the wrong tense, so he corrects Brian and orders him to write the corrected graffiti 100 times. Add to this some minor amuse-ment, such as the bureaucratic stricken Judean Peoples Front, and Pilate's lisp, and you have by Joy Nannette Banta For some it was a big disap-cointment, for others it was an af-firmation of what they had ex-pected— a good show of talent. For me it was a time of uneasi-ness. The point in question? The B.J. Thomas concert at the St. Paul Civic Center last Friday night. The performance began with a fifteen-minute wait for the per-formers to step out from the re-cesses of backstage. The first to finally emerge were Paul Clark and Phil Keaggy. Although Keaggy demonstrated his usual skill on the guitar, his rather long solo seemed to be dwarfed by the poor acoustics of the civic center. The lyrics to his songs were clear enough to be un-derstood but Clark's words be-came mumbled jumbles as he join-ed Keaggy for a few duets. Clark stood rather self-consciously off to the side as Keaggy performed. Altogether, their 35 minutes on stage seemed rather monotonous. An audience ready for the "big-name" peformer was told that there would be a ten-minute inter-mission before B.J. would appear. about 30 minutes of comedy pack-ed into a one and a half hour mo-vie. Although the animation was good, and the acting adequate, the material was definitely lack-ing. Instead of following "Holy Grail" with another classic, the Monty troupe has given us a non-heretical, dull movie. Add to the drugery an over abundance of tacky, tasteless scenes, culmin-ating with 25 people singing, "Al-ways Look on the Bright Side," while being crucified, and you wince with pain. When he walked out on stage he was greeted by an exuberant, but impatient, audience. After his first number, Thomas stopped and talked to his tech-nicians because of the interruption of amplification in the middle of his song. He asked them if they could get the p.a. system to work right and added that "there's that buzzing noise again—at least you guys are consistent!" To begin with, the audience seemed to appreciate his striving for good sound and didn't realize that he was actually very mad. It wasn't until after his second song, "Another Somebody Done Some-body Wrong Song," that he showed the audience his real emo-tions. Just as he was about to start the song for a second time, with what seemed like some kind of audience participation, somebody in the crowd yelled out that B.J. should "sing a song for Jesus." Thomas didn't like the implications of the remark. He said he wished that the guy would let him perform like he wanted to and not make him do differently. He was trying to be "an entertainer who is a Christian and not a Christian entertainer." Thomas didn't try to finish the song he had started. The previously excited and re-ceptive crowd did not know how Thomas, see p. 7 ferent roles during the show—roles that include even in-animate objects and animals. There is always something fun to watch on stage. Memorable scenes include David's encounter with his wor-ried Jewish mother, and his subse-quent slaying of Goliath, Daniel's fearless prayers to God and the lions in the den (these creatures can end up on your lap), and the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal who are reluctant to "cut themselves till the blood gushed forth." Director Jeffrey S. Miller, a veteran of the Bethel stage, has chosen a cast that features several actors familiar to the theatre arts department and also several new faces. Such a situation can lead to an unbalanced cast, however, this is not the case. The players com-pliment each other and play well together, creating a very enjoyable harmony. This is more than a show—it is an experience. Tickets are not ex-pensive but are limited, and this is one production that you won't avant to miss. See Bereshith, enjoy an evening, and take a look at our beginnings. Falcon Barber Stylists Upper Midwest Trophy Winner FOR WOMEN'S HAIR STYLING • Call Debbie at 646-2323 by Scott Barsuhn Bethel's first experience with original story-theatre seems to be a very positive one. The audience of last Friday night's perfor-mance, of which I was a part, re-ceived this new production with laughter, smiles, and in parts, blurry eyes. It's called "Bereshith," a He-brew word meaning "Beginning," and it is just that. It is the drama-tization of many Old Testament stories rolled into one continuous evening of entertainment. The plots are mixed with humor and serious times as well as some true to life Hebrew music, singing and dancing. It is story-theatre which means the entire show is the creation of the director and his cast. The creative posssibilities of this situation are endless, and such creativity pours from this produc-tion. The cast members take dif-review Uneasiness mingles with enthusiasm at concert Co-captain Jon Fast heads the ball out of danger as Joel Kraakevik (left) and Bob Genheimer (right) look on. (Photo Doug Barke). Pair of shutout losses hurts soccer Page 7 Thomas, from p. 6 to take this. There was a long pause before a round of applause broke out and Thomas continued with the ever-popular, "Rain-drops Keep Falling on My Head." After that Thomas seemed to lose a lot of his spirit. He could tell that the audience was uneasy and he knew that things weren't going smoothly. Thus he openly apologized to the audience for his outburst—he had had a rough road trip and he was very anxious to leave for home the next day, he said. It was then that he proceeded with his "pep talk for himself," as one student put it. Thomas described the struggle October activities include film in gym, haunted castle tour by Mary Beth Larson and Bob Schmidt Since Halloween is just around the corner, we will be taking a bus load at 7:00, 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. to the "Haunted Castle" in St. Paul. The cost will be only $1.50. After you get back, get into your cos-tumes and catch a ride to the Hal-loween Rollerskating Party from midnight until 2 a.m. Buses will leave NC, OC, FT, and SC around 11:30 p.m. You must have a costume on in order to be ad-mitted. Prizes will be given for the best female costume and the best male costume. What a screamin', scary night! Saturday evening, we'll have "Movie Mania" in the gym at 8:00 p.m. We will show the movie "Other Side of the Mountain, Part II." It's a guaranteed suc-cess, even if you haven't seen Part I. Bring your friends, your bean bag chairs, your pillows, and $1.00 for a night at the movies. See you there! Monday, October 29, we'll have our Nik Dag announcement in chapel. You'll want to make sure you are there, so that you will know how to "nik your nikee!" Nik Dag weekend will be Novem-ber 2nd and 3rd. You'll definitely want to get involved. Have a great weekend and a scary Halloween! that he has had since he became a Christian over three years ago. He had been fighting with himself about what kind of a performer he should be and what kind of music he should sing. His ultimate deci-sion was that he would try to be the best kind of artist he knew how to be—and that would in-clude singing secular as well as gospel songs. "This concert has turned into more of a gospel con-cert than the pop concert that many of you were expecting," he said. The audience warmly applaud-ed him for his decision. I felt sorry for the man. The air of uneasiness permeated the auditorium when, only about 45 minutes after he had begun, he thanked the au-dience and walked off stage, his band in tail. Unknowing disbelief ran through the crowd. They couldn't believe that he was actually done. About one-and-a-half minutes of mild applause followed until the crowd realized that he was really gone and began screaming for him to return. It took a while but he came back, thanking everyone. "Thank you very much," he said. "I really needed you to do that." The last twenty minutes were devoted strictly to gospel songs, including his grammy award-winning song, "Happy Man." There can be no denying that he knows how to produce top quality sound, vocally and instrumental-ly, with his band, but Thomas was not at all "up" for his concert. The audience and Thomas end-ed up on top of it all as he rendered a lively performance of "I've Got Jesus On My Mind." The man has talent—that can-not be denied—but he also has a deep inner struggle that he needs to contend with before he faces many more audiences, or his pop-ularity will steadily decrease. For the meantime, I enjoyed his music and only hope that next time he will be in a better frame of mind. V-ball, from p. 8 The Royals lost their final match of the week to Gustavus 9-15, 11-15, 16-14 and 13-15. The hustle of the Gusties was the deciding factor in the evenly balanced match. "It was the best short-hit game we've ever had," said Frye. "We hit more effectively than Gustavus, but they hustled very well and happened to pick up more balls than we did." The Royals will play their final match of the season at 7 p.m. at Macalester on Tuesday. They will return to Macalester on November 2 and 3 for the state tournament. Neither team could muster many serious chances in a score-less first half. But the Auggies knocked in a tally in the second half and the pressure was on Beth-el to tie the game. But with less than five minutes remaining, Augsburg put the game away with their second goal. The Royals then came to life, hit-ting the goal post twice in the clos-ing moments, but could not score. Against Hamline, all the damage was done in the first half. Ten minutes into the game, the Pipers got the winner on a close range shot. As Bethel failed to clear the ball out of their own zone, Hamline passed towards the goal mouth. A Piper took the pass and fired it into the upper left cor-ner. Hamline scored twice more in the half, including one just before halftime where the player ap-peared to be offside. Bethel, rid-dled by various injuries to starting players, applied pressure throughout the second half but could not break the shutout. Next game for the Royals is tomorrow at Mankato against Bethany Lutheran. The last game of the season is next Wednesday at home against Macalester, who the Royals beat earlier 4-2. MIAC Soccer St. John's 8-0-2 St. Thomas 7-2-1 Gustavus 6-3-1 Augsburg 6-4-0 Hamline 5-5-0 Bethel 4-5-1 St. Olaf 2-4-4 St. Mary's 1-7-1 Macalester 0-9-0 by Steve Erickson The soccer team, once solidly situated in fourth place in the MIAC, is now fighting for a play-off berth (six teams go into post-season play) after two losses this past week. The Royals suffered a pair of shutouts, 2-0 to Augsburg and 3-0 to Hamline. To make it worse, both losses came at home and to teams that are also battling for a spot in the playoffs. On Wednesday, the game be-tween Bethel and Augsburg was very physical and was marred by numerous fouls as tempers flared. In all, three yellow card cautions were handed out by the referee. Bethel Events Friday, Oct. 26 Drama "Bereshith," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre Saturday, Oct. 27 Sports Soccer at Bethany Lutheran, 1:30 p.m. Men's XC, MIAC conference meet, here at 2 p.m. Women's XC at Mankato Football vs. Augsburg, 1:30 p.m., here Drama "Antigone," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre Tuesday, Oct. 30 Sports Volleyball at Macalester, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31 Sports Soccer vs. Macalester, here at 4 p.m. Thursday, November 1 Drama "Bereshith," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre New Effort In the Clarion's continu-ing effort to serve our readers, we are lowering the prices on our classified ads from 25 cents to 10 cents per line. We accept ads of all types, shapes, and sizes, from want ads to personals to help wanteds. This ser-vice is still on a trial basis and is in precarious danger of being discontinued unless we receive a few. , Kris Doble digs in the Royals J.V. victory over St. Ben's last week. (Photo Doug Barkey.) Page 8 sports Bethel takes meet, Culp finishes second by Steve Erickson Football powerhouse Gustavus Adolphus, the nation's number one team offensively with an aver-age of over 44 points a game, could only manage half of that to-tal against Bethel's stingy defense as the Gusties squeaked past the Royals 22-7 last Saturday. At halftime the score stood 6-0 Gustavus (on a Ron Straka 9-yard run) but Bethel played their op-ponents virtually even through the first 30 minutes. In limiting the Gusties to 128 yards, the Royals held them to a poor two-and-a-half yards per running play. In the second half, Gustavus' strong rushing attack began to wear Bethel down as Gustie backs continuously pounded over the line. In all, the Gusties ran 68 times compared with only half that many for Bethel. The Royals stopped Gustavus early in the third period with the score still 6-0 when Dan Stockfish picked off a Brad Baker pass, but the Gusties scored the eventual winning touchdown on their next possession. With the ball on the Bethel 37, QB Baker faked a handoff which held the defensive secondary briefly. He then whirled and threw to Paul Rambow slanting up the by Carol Madison In the first women's cross coun-try meet held on the new Bethel course, the Royals took third place of nine teams, and ran one of the best team efforts of the sea-son. "I was very pleased with the race," said Coach Shirley Daw-son, "because our top four runner s finished close together between the 10th-and 23rd-positions." Wendy Norberg led the team by finishing tenth of 54 runners at 21:01. Ellie Abbott finished 15th at 21:55, and Brenda Harris fol-lowed at 22:08 and 18th place. Carla Munson finished 23rd, and Kathy Zappe finished in 43rd-middle. Rambow raced the final yards for the TD. While some may have thought that Bethel would fold at that point, they did not. Immediately they marched down the field, helped by receptions from Ken Cooper, Tom Klitzke, and Frank Sanza with Jim Anderstrom on the throwing end. A pass interference call gave the Royals a first down on the Gusta-vus three and the single wing of-fencse used earlier in the game was brought in. Three plays later all-purpose back Lonnie Holmgren plunged over from the one. Gustavus scored their final TD soon after, as Baker dove one yard over the left guard on fourth down. The big play of the drive consisted of a pass from Baker to John Hupenbecker that converted a third down and long yardage. Once more Bethel drove deep into Gustavus territory, but this time was thwarted. A pass to Cooper on fourth-and-one gave Bethel a first down on the 18. but Anderstrom was intercepted on the very next play. A safety on the last play of the game accounted for Gustavus's final points. Bethel opened the game in a sin- _g le wing, an offense that the Roy-place. Freshman runner Theresa Meredith did not run due to a stress-fracture in her ankle which will probably keep her out for at least two weeks. "The course was slow and mud-dy," said Dawson, "but our course is challenging anyway be-cause of the hills and turns which tend to slow the runner down. We'll make improvements next year by widening the course and adding drainage, which will make it one of the best courses in Minnesota." The Royals finished behind St. Thomas and Carleton, and Sue Paulson of Carleton set the new course record at 20:00. als have practiced often. Reynolds cited two reasons why they decid-ed to use it. "First, we think we can move the football with the sin-gle wing and the second thing is that we'd use up lots of time." Coach Chub Reynolds was pro-ud of the way his team played. "We played well, particularly on defense. We took the option away from them, but we had opportun-ities on offense that we didn't take advantage of. We were playing the most powerful team in our caliber of school." Reynolds especially liked the play of Stockfish, Rich Hodge, and Sam Hildebrandt on defense. He also said that the defensive secondary played a solid game. In addition to Stockfish, Scott Eng-strom, Dave Vanzo, and Mike Hoffner made interceptions. Tomorrow at 1:30 Bethel (1-4) plays its last home game of the season against Augsburg (1-4). The Royals close out the year with road games versus last year's co-conference champions, St. Olaf • n • rdia. The Bethel cross country team easily captured first place last weekend in a home meet with five other teams. Macalester's Paul Mausling, one of best runners in the state, coasted to a first place finish in 26:36, more than a minute in front of second place finisher Mike Culp. Culp posted Bethel's best time, a 27:48 clocking. But in cross country, strength is •in numbers, as the team score con-sists of the top five finishers. And the Royals had that strength, with by Carol Madison The volleyball season record suffered a blow last week as the Royals dropped four games against one win in competition with both private and state schools. Their record now stands at 7-11. The team lost to Northwestern in five games of a well-played match, 14-16, 15-5, 6-15, 15-11 and 3-15. Joy Sorenson played the center hitter position very ef-fectively for Bethel, and Sonya Olsen contributed with a consis-tent setting game. "Both teams played well," said Coach Karyl Frye. "The match had several long rallies and well-played hits, but their off-speed game and short hits are what hurt us." The Royals then traveled to Mankato to meet U of M at Mor-ris and Mankato in best of three game matches. Bethel took the first game from Morris 15-12, but then seemed to lose control and let Morris domi-six other runners making the top ten. They were: Brent Friesen, fourth; Jim Feleen, fifth; Ross Allen, sixth; Randy Bostrom, eighth, Dwight Newman, ninth; and Dan Hicks, tenth. Final team scores were: Bethel 25, Gustavus 66, Macalester 71, St. Paul Bible, 99, and Augsburg 113. Only four runners partici-pated for St. Scholastica so they did not score. Tomorrow Bethel takes part in the MIAC meet. nate the tempo of the rest of the match, losing 6-15 and 8-15. Mankato also downed Bethel in a match that started out shaky for the Royals, as they lost the first game 3-15. Bethel controlled the offense in the second game and won 15-13, but the match was decided in a close third game which the Royals finally lost 13-15. Sheryl Meyer, returning from an ankle injury, was singled out by Frye as the "player of the match" for her excellent front and back row play. JoAnn Griffin led the team to its sole win of the week with a powerful performance at the net. She scored several points with strong hits to please the crowd and pave the way to an 11-15, 15-5, 7-15, 15-7 and 15-5 victory over St. Benedict. "JoAnn had the best spiking game she has ever had in her three years at Bethel," said Frye. "I have never seen her hit so hard. She inspired the rest of the team." V-ball, see p. 7 Harriers take third, Norberg leads again Leading rusher Tom Klitzke drags Gustie defender as he attempts to turn the corner. Gustavus won the game, 22-7. (Photo Tom Twining.) Gusties edge Royals 22-7 V-ball's record falls After losing week |
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