Clarion 1980-03-07 Vol 55 No 18

              March 7, 1980
LEARNING KIT:OW:LE CLI4ita
BETHEL COLLEGE
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by Shari Goddard
February 20, President Carter
announced the U.S. boycott of
the 1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow. Eugene Glader, chair-man
of the physical education
Gene Glader
department, supports Carter's
decision.
Glader studied at the Olympic
Academy in Greece during the
summer of '71, spoke at an Olym-pic
symposium at Skidmore Col-lege
during February and has led
UMAIE tours on the "History of
the Olympics," to Europe for
three years.
Glader expressed sympathy for
the athletes, but added that there
comes a point when national and
international interests must come
before others. Afghanistan is that
point. "I'm no longer as naive as I
used to be in terms of how people
and nations use sports...every
country uses the games for their
own politics."
The American Olympic Com-mittee
has not yet announced a
decision on the boycott. They are
not responsible to the govern-ment.
Glader said that the people
on the committee are in a bind;
when they work with the Olym-pics,
they agree to function in a
non-political realm.
Because of America's leader-ship
in the Western world and its
long record of Olympic support,
Glader said our boycott would be
very visible. "The Olympics
without the United States—that's
never happened.
"I think it's difficult to say we
don't like what you're doing in
Afghanistan and then say we'll
help you put on the Olympics.
We're sending two separate sig-nals."
He added that even the
process of trying to become non-political
becomes political,
because it forces people to take
sides.
Glader said the ideals of sports
are high ideals; the ideal of trying
to be non-political. "Whatever
the Olympic committee does, I
basically have high regard for
them." The committee will make
its decision when they meet later
this spring.
David Shelley and Dave Donelson portray Laurel and Hardy in
one of the acts presented in Moods 80 (Photo Tom Twining).
Vol. 55 No. 18 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
US boycott makes impact
by Jay Stuart Russell
Bethel's Art Department has
been involved in a number of con-troversial
art pieces in the past few
years, and this year's Raspberry
Monday exhibition was no excep-tion.
We asked some of Bethel's
artists their opinion about the role
of art at Bethel.
The artists answered the ques-tion:
What responsibility do ar-tists
in the art department have to
the rest of the Bethel community?
Diana Cooper
One of the responsibilities of
the department • is to give an
overall view of the students' art
work. Everyone has different
views and opinions of art. If
someone is disturbed by a certain
piece, he or she should confront
the artist and find out what the ar-tist
had in mind before
Last week some person(s) broke
into the Bethel post office, accor-ding
to Bruce Kunkel, director of
administrative services.
Nothing was stolen, as far as
Kunkel knows, but drawers were
opened, storage shelves were
rummaged through, and a
calculator was knocked over and
broken.
No one knows who broke into
the post office, although a federal
post inspector came to investigate.
automatically assuming the art
student is being a terrible Chris-tian
or is being disrespectful in
some way. I'm sure any student
would be pleased to answer any
question.
Diana Cooper
Dan Dye
The artist should be truthful,
Kunkel stressed the seriousness
of this offense. "Anytime anyone
breaks into the post office or
merely takes a letter from a box it
is a felony," he said. The max-imum
sentence for such a felony is
five years in prison.
"The federal government con-siders
this a federal post office,"
said Kunkel of the Bethel post of-fice.
Any "playing around" in the
post office could involve the
federal government.
and he should explore learning
through guidance from faculty,
peers, and most of all, the Holy
Spirit. His responsibility to the
community is the same as any
other student's responsibility. He
should trust in the Lord and in his
daily growth. It's a daily struggle.
If you're going in a certain direc-tion
and you're not sure of it, you
should trust in the Lord's
guidance. Artists deal with visual
sensitivity, and therefore artists
should try more than anyone to be
sensitive to the visual elements.
We must look at other aspects
of the liberal arts with an open
mind and with an attitude of giv-ing
the other person credit for
what he's studying, and trust his
integrity of the field hers studying.
This applies to other areas besides
art.
Kurt Mueller
The sole responsibility of any
artist to anyone, including him-self:
Integrity (Mueller).
The very forces that first in-spired
man to fulfill his needs and
express his ideas through visual
means are no longer just in the
province of the artist (Dondis).
He has showed you, 0 man,
what is good. And what does the
Lord require of you? To act justly
and to love mercy and to walk
humbly with your God (Micah).
I will not serve that in which I
no longer believe, whether it call
itself my home, my fatherland or
my church: and I will try to ex-press
myself in some mode of life
or art as freely as I can and as
wholly as can (Dedalus/Joyce).
Art almost has its ingredient of
impudence, its flouting of
established authority, so that it
may substitute its own authority,
and its own enlightenment
(Shahn).
Let us affront and reprimand
the smooth mediocrity and
squalid contentment of the times,
and hurl in the face of custom,
and trade, and office, the fact
which is the upshot of all history,
that there is a great and responsi-ble
Thinker and Actor working
where every a man works (Emer-son).
Hatred of mind, of pride,
courage, freedom, libertinage of
mind is Christian: hatred of the
senses, of the joy of the senses, of
joy in general is Christian (Nietz-sche).
In the modern world, it may
turn out that the most intolerable
thing for Christians is to be
tolerated (Eliot). A(foreveretcet-era)
men.
Judy Carlsen
I think an artist as a Christian
does have responsibilities, but I'm
not sure it is to the Bethel com-munity.
I think it is to God, the
final authority. Being a Christian,
the artist's life will hopefully
reflect the Holy Spirit, so his art
should reflect that in his life. It
should be a witness: The artist, be-ing
a Christian, should reflect the
Holy Spirit in his work. It's not up
to the Bethel community to judge,
because we have to be careful to
judge, lest we be judged ourselves.
So the artist has to feel right about
his work, considering his Chris-tian
commitment.
Art,
see p. 3
Regional
speech meet
successful
by Patty Sutton
Colleen Campbell took fourth
place in the Regional speech tour-nament
at Fargo, N.D., last
weekend. She will compete in the
National tournament April 11-13
at the Air Force Base in Ft. Col-lins,
Colo,
Peggy Hardie and Frank La
Tona also participated. Hardie
missed qualifying as an alternate
by three points. Campbell is also
first alternate in the prose
category.
"We are excited about the lear-ning
students have experienced,"
said Coach Rod Broding. "They
have done a good job of repre-senting
us, and Colleen's recogni-tion
is an added bonus."
This weekend there are two
meets. An individual events tour-nament
will be held at Mankato
State. The debate team of Mark
Publow and Teresa Eliason will
also compete in a national level
tournament at Topeka, Ka.
Artists responsible for visual sensitivity
Federal offense occurs
in Bethel post office
Poor John...he keeps forgetting he doesn't have to push it anymore
Reader rumors distort issue
;the Clarion Vol. 55, No. 18 Bethel College March 7, 1980
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, Art Gibbens, Production
Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager,
Jay Russell, Editorial Assistant, Carolyn Olson, Graphics
Doug Barkey, Photography Editor, Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts
Page 2
Dear editor:
I'm the new dean of men here at
Bethel and I would like to take the
time to respond to the letter to the
editor in the Feb. 22 Clarion by
Jonathan Nelson and Timothy
Nelson concerning the Twin Cities
Reader.
I guess I'm confused and a little
disappointed by the letter. Since
I'm the senate advisor I appear to
be the "administration" they are
talking about when they say "ad-
How long can Time, Newsweek
and U.S. News & World Report
make it sound like the main pro-blem
in the Middle East is the
"stubborn Jews" who are dead-locking
the peacemaking progress.
I'd be stubborn too if it were
my land. I'd be stubborn too if my
neighbors had verbally and
publicly declared their intent to
push me into the sea. Persecution
and more persecution for the
Chosen People.
Now, with war, or at least the
threat of it, imminent, with greed
for oil, with the threat against the
Chosen People mounting, can we
as Christians afford to be inactive
politically? Can we be apathetic
about world events? How much
are we in this world? You may
say, 'What's in it for me?' I say,
`You're in it. -God said so.' So
why are there never political ar-ticles,
much less letters, in this
paper?
If this paper mirrors at all the
concerns and activities of this
school, I say, we are very narrow.
What good are my tears and
prayers if I don't do anything, and
what good is an excuse of ig-norance?
We will all be held ac-countable
someday for what we
didn't do.
I don't mean this as picking on
anyone—I mean it as a rebuke to
myself and others—let's be alarm-ed
and let's be called to action!
There's much to be done.
For starters I recommend for
anyone interested in the Are).-
ministration is considering a ban
on the Reader." I should point
out up front that I have trouble
supporting , the Reader, as the
senate advisor. I do see it being in
conflict with my personal objec-tives
as a Christian—but that is
not why I am writing.
I'm writing because for the past
few months I have been in
dialogue with a few senate
members about our responsibili-ties
as Christians to the Bethel
Israeli conflict a book put out by
Near East Report, the
Washington Letter on American
Policy in the Middle East. The
name of the book is: "Myths and
Facts 1979: A Concise Record of
the Arab-Israeli Conflict."
You can get the present price of
this book (it was $2.50 for the
1978 edition) by writing: Near
East Report, 444 N. Capitol St.
NW, Room 412, Washington,
D.C. 20001.
Come, let's start, together!
Sincerely,
, Rebecca Melvie
Dear Editor:
It has been the pleasure of my
wife and I to be great fans of your
basketball team. They had a great
season and provided some
wonderful entertainment which I
dearly loved.
I was not as proud of the "fans
in the stands" last Wednesday
night. When we played Macalester
at Mac, and witnessed their
display of poor sportsmanship, I
could only say "thank God we
don't do things like that!" But we
did—and for me, I was saddened
to see Bethel fall into the same
routine.
The newspaper act (to say
nothing of the mess left for the
campus. The Reader has been a
point of contention that potential-ly
could lead to deeper issues. I
have really enjoyed this interac-tion
with the students and ap-preciate
their willingness to spend
their time in this type of dialogue.
The disappointing element to
me is that this positive interaction
and honest grappling with issues is
taken by two students not involv-ed
with this discussion, and
distorted in an open article in the
Clarion. To this date I have never
met or talked with Jonathan R.
Nelson or Timothy J. Nelson.
My plea is very simple and
maybe a little presumptuous since
I have only been a member of the
Bethel community for six months.
I would expect that since I was
directly involved that I would
have at least been asked a question
or two concerning the rumor. It's
tough to do an adequate job as
dean of men as it is, without hav-ing
to contend with false accusa-tions.
So, I would like to take this op-portunity
to invite anyone con-cerned
about campus problems
that fall into my area to feel free
to come in and talk to me. I would
appreciate it more than you know.
Charles Retts
janitors), the killing of the referee,
and even the "Hoss" antics got
out of hand, plus numerous other
exhibitions of poor sportsman-ship.
Did we forget that the
Gusties were our guests?
The team played like true good
sportsmen and although they
didn't win, that character was not
lost. Too bad the fans could not
display the same.
I pray that next year we will not
forget our Christian commitment
and display the fruits of His Spirit
in true Royal style.
Yours in Christ,
Roger C. Wiese
Member of the
Parents Committee
editorial
`Policing' needed as
violence deterrent
Last week's Clarion reported an incident with the hockey team that
was termed a "brawl." A fight that erupted between Bethel and players
from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, caused the cancellation
of two games between the teams.
Most reports indicate that Bethel was the victim of an overly ag-gressive
opponent, and their involvement in the fight was in self-defense.
Some reports, though, leave doubt as to whether some Bethel
involvement was "beyond the call of duty." But regardless of the actual
details of the fight, violence in sports is a potential problem that the
athletic department should deal with more seriously.
Currently there are no in-house rules to deal with those athletes guilty
of unsportsmanlike conduct in an athletic contest. The athletic depart-ment's
position is that this type of conduct is "frowned upon," and
each case must be dealt with individually, therefore "policing" is not
necessary. This attitude certainly does not act as a deterrent to the
athlete in a-potentially explosive situation.
Professional teams have recently begun taking stands on the issue of
violence in sports. Professional sports has been an arena of violence that
has ended several player's careers. The head coach of the NBA Houston
Rockets was quoted as saying that he would fine any of his team
members who so much as "raises a fist," regardless of the cir-cumstances.
In Bethel's case the issue is not only protection of players, but also
preservation of attitudes and actions that glorify God. The athletic
department needs to take a stand that would govern all athletic teams,
including those participating in intramural programs, where unsport-smanlike
conduct has been known to frequently emerge.
Rather than hide behind the assumption that the Christian athlete
would not allow himself to become involved in violence, the department
should adopt a rule that would include automatic suspension for a set
number of games. This may not only serve as a deterrent to future in-cidents,
but also would show a realistic concern on the part of the
athletic department.
To the editor:
I believe in artistic freedom. I
think everyone really does. Art is
a very public medium of expres-sion
and because of its possible
ambiguity it can address many
people and many situations all at
once. I would now like to draw
our attention to the swastica flag
in the art gallery.
In one of my classes it was
brought up with the inference that
it was too ambiguous and possibly
anti-American, and thus didn't
have a right to be in an American
gallery. That's not at all what I
got out of it.
What I saw in the fusion of the
American stripes and the swastica
was the mounting threat of hate of
any sort, and especially of anti-
Semitism in America today.
Now this isn't at all what it may
have meant since it's a prehistoric
symbol. None the less, it was the
official emblem of the Nazi party
and the Third Reich, so this
naturally suggests to me an indica-tion
toward the Nazi party.
What this means to me is very
threatening as a Christian who
tries to practice humanity.
Anyone who knows what's go-ing
on knows there is a lot of ac-tivity
today in the Nazi Party, not
only here in America, but there is
also a resurgence of it in Ger-many.
This along with the surfac-ing
anti-Semitism I see in the news
brings me to tears and prayer.
letters
Ambiguity in art piece avoids political apathy
Fan actions disregard
sportsmanship standards
Page 3
Student recruitment
expands with BASE
Second-person
recruitment
method works
by Suzi Wells
Curt Fauth, director of alumni, coordinates the establishment of
volunteer alumni centers across the U.S.
by Joy Nannette Banta
. Student recruitment is taking on
a new look as the Bethel BASE
program spreads out over the
country. BASE (a Bridge for Ad-vancement
and Support of Educa-tion)
is setting up volunteer alum-ni
centers across the United States
in an effort to more effectively
reach the over 7000 prospects who
are interested in Bethel each year.
BASE has already established
13 alumni centers since its incep-tion
in 1979 and hopes to have 12
more by the fall . of 1981. Last
month a five-member team travel-ed
to the west coast to visit six of
the already existing centers, con-tacting
well over 400 young people
and talking one-to-one to about
100 students, according to Curt
Fauth, director of alumni, also in
charge of BASE.
The new program has four main
objectives: 1) to cultivate a
postitive attitude about Bethel
among alumni, pastors, parents,
faculty, students and friends, 2) to
assist in student enlistment, 3) to
aid development appeal — fund
raising, and 4) to launch a
volunteer program.
The fourth objective, launching
a volunteer program, involves en-couraging
alumni, parents, pas-tors
and other friends to help
spread the word about Bethel.
That would mean talking to pro-spective
students, bringing pro-spective
students to Bethel for a
visit, keeping current Bethel
materials in churches, showing
Bethel multi-media programs,
helping with Bethel's traveling
groups (music and theatre).
"Alumni are the key volunteer
leaders," said Fauth.
These volunteers can also iden-tify
key persons who can be con-tacted
for development purposes,
identify Christian teachers, coun-selors,
coaches, Campus Crusade
and Young Life leaders, and dis-tribute
Bethel materials to profes-sional
offices (i.e. doctors, at-torneys,
insurance agents).
Terri Sue Hanson and Cory
Dahl, student representatives for
the program this year, will visit
centers on the east coast and in the
Associate Professor Dale
Johnson
Chicago and Sioux Falls areas yet
this year. They will take three two-day
trips to visit six centers in
Boston, Youngstown, Ohio,
Chicago and Rockford, Ill., and
Omaha and Sioux Falls.
The first trip—to California—
was very successful, said Fauth.
Hanson and Dahl will be used for
all of the remaining trips because,
since it has been such a success,
"why change it at this time," said
Fauth.
Next year the program will be in
need of more volunteer student
representatives because they in-tend
to visit all twenty-five of the
center locations.
Students interested in working
with the program next year should
contact Curt Fauth.
by Susan Peterson
"My vote won't count." In a
country of over 200 million people
that seems like a very legitimate
statement. However, in Min-nesota,
the caucus system is used
to select presidential delegates and
zero in on the issues. The precinct
caucus gives anyone the oppor-tunity
to make his or her wishes
known on the grass roots level.
To Bethel's credit, approx-imately
70 students turned out at
the Arden Hills precinct caucus
last Tuesday night.
Sophomore Cheryl Thomas was
one of many students elected to
positions of leadership. Ira King,
Bobbie Dischinger, Becky Dye,
Julie Redenbaugh, Dan Roach,
Chris Green, Steve Fischer, Dave
Thiessen, George Beyer and Steve
Hoswell were among the others
selected to be delegates for their
respective parties at the District
Convention. Thomas pointed out
that most of those students chosen
were first time caucus-goers.
Dale Johnson
There are two prominent goals
of the Fine Arts Gallery, as I see
it. The first is the educational goal
of presenting exhibitions that en-courage
aesthetic growth and art
awareness within the college com-munity.
The art faculty is re-sponsible
to creatively select a
variety of exhibitions from
regional art resources.
The art faculty as working,
producing artists exhibit their own
work, providing valuable oppor-tunities
for students to be ac-quainted
with their professor's
work. Students have an annual ex-hibit
of their work; this exhibit
plays an essential role in the art
department because it allows
students a chance to experience
their own work in a formal exhibi-tion
presentation.
Another goal is to select a varie-ty
of styles and artistic perspec-tives,
providing a rich cultural ex-
Several Bethel students also
worked on a "Bread for the
World" resolution which ad-dresses
the problem of world
hunger. The resolution received
unanimous approval.
Carter and Reagan are the
front-runners in the state,
however, Bethel students seem to
favor Carter or Bush: ThOmas, an
perience for those who choose to
see the monthly exhibitions.
The art faculty has the respon-sibility
to use discretion in its
selections and the freedom to seek
to find original, imaginative and
expressive work for our exhibi-tions.
Don Nelson
Responsibility is a broad sub-ject
that entails the obligation that
one person has toward another
person or group of persons.
Precisely what is required in that
responsibility is determined by a
sense of moral obligation. In turn
this moral obligation promotes a
dialogue of differing opinions,
resulting in an on-going process of
discovering truth for those per-sons
involved. Each person has an
equally shared responsibility to
continue this dialogue, therefore
the artist's responsibility to the
international relations major, sees
a growing political interest among
Bethel students. She believes
Carter, as an avowed evangelical
Christian, has drawn many Amer-icans
out of their apathy. People
are either eager to promote
Carter's re-election or bring about
his defeat.
"We can't separate our Chris-tianity
from being political. Chris-tians
today seem to take a back
seat on major issues," said
Thomas. "We talk about Chris-tian
responsibility, but it's so
much more important to be in-volved...
to become part of the
structure and work within that
structure."
Students who missed the oppor-tunity
to become involved at the
caucuses can still make an impact
through their efforts as volunteers
in the respective campaigns, by
becoming knowledgeable on the
issues and, of course, by exercis-ing
their rights at the polls in
November.
Bethel community is no different
than any other person.
Art is a language that can be us-ed
to make social comments and
critiques, but it is not usually
found doing such in an overt man-ner.
This is a case in which silence
accents the occassional statement
so much so that when one is made,
it tends to be harder to contend
with than a literary statement.
Due to the iconographic
characteristics of art it tends to
have a permanence which is more
intimidating than other forms of
communication. The offense of
the permanence makes it difficult
to accept the art for what it really
is, an opinion. When viewing it as
an opinion, the message of the
piece is then kept in its proper
perspective. Once we have this
perspective we can then discuss
the topic that the art addresses,
rather than discussing the
legitimacy of the artwork.
In spite of the decline in college
enrollment nationwide, ad-ministrators
Jim Bragg, vice presi-dent
for public affairs and Phil
Kimball, director of admissions,
feel "we will survive," and Bethel
will continue to grow.
Recently, two Bethel students,
Terri Sue Hanson and Cory Dahl,
joined a team on a banquet circuit
that toured the West Coast. Sen-ding
students like Hanson and
Dahl is not new policy, Bragg
said. In the past, music and
theatre groups have travelled
representing Bethel. This summer
Bereshith, a Bethel drama group,
will be touring in the western
United States.
The current method of second-person
recruitment is still the most
effective in the admissions office,
according to Kimball, so no plans
to change methods or policy are
being made. "Ten years of history
says this method is working,"
Kimball said.
The second-person recruitment
saves Bethel the expense of sen-ding
a large admissions staff
throughout the country. Instead,
Bethel depends on friends,
pastors, faculty, former and cur-rent
students to spread the word
about Bethel.
Whenever anyone from the col-lege
leaves the campus and comes
in contact with prospective
students, he is in a sense recruiting
for Bethel.
Bragg said that Bethel's strong
constituent support will help it
continue to grow. "We're plan-ning
for enrollment growth," he
said. In spite of the decline else-where,
he said, "I think we may
continue to bend the trend in the
next few years and then level off."
Carolyn Olson
They have the responsibility to
be honest in expressing what they
see, and for the artist that means
visually. Some statements may
seem rather bold, but then com-pared
to life, they may not seem
out of place. I think honesty also
demands sincere love.
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Coordinators: big-name concerts too costly
by Peter Nelson
"As Campus Coordinators,
have you accomplished what you
set out to do?"
Mary Beth: "Yes, I think we
have. Most of the activities we
have planned we have put into
practice. There are very few that
we've canceled, and those were
canceled to avoid conflicts with
the music department or theater
department, etc., and then we've
tried to stick them in the schedule
later on."
Mary Beth Larson
Bob: "Yes, we have. Besides
setting up activities and forming a
program, we've learned a lot and I
wouldn't trade that learning for
anything."
"Do you think the Campus
Coordinators are responsible to
bring in more top quality Chris-tian
concert artists to our campus
and our community?"
Mary Beth: "Mack Nettleton,
our boss, has said over and over
that we are here to serve the Bethel
students, not the surrounding
community. Sometimes we'd like
to bring the whole Community in,
but Mack says, `No, this is for the
Bethel students.' "
"Also, it seems that Bethel
students don't want to pay more
than $4 for a concert, so if our
gym was filled to its capacity of
1,950 people at $4 a head, you
couldn't even book B.J. Thomas
or Andrae Crouch, or some of the
other top Christian performers."
Bob: "Besides the stage price,
there is the sound and lights, air-fare,
printing and publicity, main-tenance,
and it all adds up.
Basically, because of the size of
our gym and the cost of booking
the top Christian artists, we just
cannot have them come here."
Mary Beth: - "Keith Green
would have been in our gym for
homecoming except he wanted
seating for 3,000. What I really
wish is that the students would
trust the Campus Coordinators'
judgment on choosing a concert
artist. If the Campus Coordina-tors
have a concert they should
just assume it's going to be a de-cent
concert. When we pick so-meone
to put on a concert, it
doesn't happen overnight. It takes
three months of listening to
records and tons of prayer to
decide someone is • right for
Bethel."
Bob: "We disagree with the
philosophy that just because
you've never heard of the group
they must not be any good."
"How do you think your job
has gone over with the Bethel
students?"
Mary Beth: "Charlie Retts ask-ed
me how we thought the
students feel about us, and I really
wish we knew. But we don't hear
—anything, except from our
closest friends. I really wish we
could take a poll or something. I'd
really like to know what people
are thinking."
"Do you think rollerskating
gets too much attention as a C.C.
event?"
Mary Beth: "We've had roller-skating
about every two weeks,
and judging by the attendance it
has picked up momentum this
year. I don't know how long it will
stay popular. That's something
the Campus Coordinators will
have to play by ear. As for next
year, I hope they have a lot of it."
"Were there any difficulties in
doing your job that you hadn't
counted on?"
Bob: "We're students and we
can make mistakes, and we have.
We've made mistakes in our plan-ning
where we haven't worked
with other departments as well as
we'd like to."
"Does the C.C. position need
to be altered in any way?"
Mary Beth: "The way it is run
now is the best. You need both the
male and female input, and you
need more than one Campus
Coordinator so that decisions can
be shared. The burden would be
too heavy for one person, and I
also think one Campus Coor-dinator
would have trouble taking
advice. We've learned to listen to
each other's ideas and opinions."
Bob: "I've learned to listen
more than talk."
Mary Beth: "One adjustment in
the program might be leaving one
weekend each month open for
RA's to plan activities. This
would ease the burden on the
Campus Coordinators so they
could spend more time with their
friends."
Bob: "I think that would be
good too. If you had each dorm
having their own activities, they
could get to know the people they
live with better."
Mary Beth: "The expectations
on the Campus Coordinators are
great, but the budget hardly
allows for any more activities.
We'd like to see the overall
amount of C.C. activities for next
year cut back just a little. Bethel is
known for having activities and I
think that's really neat. It keeps
the students here on weekends and
help unify Bethel as a whole. Still,
I say there were a few things we
could have left out."
Bob: "Other schools look up to
us activity-wise. Take Nor-thwestern—
they can't believe
what we have."
"What basically are the Cam-pus
Coordinators responsible to
do?"
Mary Beth: "Coordinate ac-tivities
like social events, but also
work with other departments—
music, theater, sports. We try to
coordinate our activities around
theirs so things don't happen on
the same night. Consequently, our
social activities get the open spots
after everybody else schedules
their events. Students tend to
think we should have social ac-tivities
all the time, but up in stu-dent
affairs they tell us just the
opposite. We're supposed to fit
into the nooks and crannies bet-ween
sporting events, theater per-formances,
and so on."
Bob: "You don't realize how
much there is going on here until
you get into a position like this.
When you have to fit your stuff
around everyone else's, then you
realize how much there is to work
around. During interim we had
our concert and there was a wrest-ling
meet going on all day long.
We needed the gym way ahead of
time, and I don't know how we
did it, but we squeezed six hours
of work into about two hours."
Mary Beth: "It's difficult
because we feel pressure from the
students to have activities every
weekend, but when there is a
theater production on the
weekend, they want at least one
night free of C.C. activities.
Sometimes we don't have much
choice but to overlap other
departments' events."
"What are the high points of
being Campus Coordinators?"
Bob: "'Almost Anything Goes'
was my favorite activity. Running
that was a blast!"
Mary Beth: "A highlight for me
is when we have a good turnout
and we know that the kids are
pleased. Even though a lot of kids
didn't come out for Kathie Lee
Johnson, some said that was the
best concert they'd ever been to.
We lost money on that one, and
yet, to me, it was a total success
because we pleased the students."
"How big a budget do you have
to work with?"
Mary Beth: "$17,900.00 for the
year. It's an okay amount, but
we'll have to be careful the rest of
the year."
Bob: "Whether students know
it or not, our budget subsidizes
every C.C. event, so they are get-ting
a deal on whatever we plan.
When the price for a movie is
$1.50, we could charge $2.00 if we
wanted to break even every time.
We are always losing money from
our budget in this way."
"How much do you receive for
being Campus Coordinators?"
Mary Beth: "$1,250 each. It
comes out to about 10 cents an
hour, but that's okay. The ex-perience
is worth it. We're not do-ing
it for the money."
Bob: "They are planning to add
to the C.C. budget for next year,
but I think inflation will take care
of that."
Mary Beth: "We've also learn-ed
to be thrifty with our budget,
and to be careful dealing with out-side
businessmen."
"How much work does the
C.C. job demand?"
Mary Beth: "Each week varies.
Prior to the Dan Peek concert, we
were in the office from four to six
hours a day, but in an easier week
it's more like two hours a day."
"Are you glad you applied to be
Campus Coordinators?"
Bob: "This is the best learning
and growing experience I think I
could have ever had in four years
of college. The work is hard, but
the experience is definitely worth
it."
The business department's latest acquisition, Kathy Holtzclaw,
appreciates Bethel's atmosphere and her students' motivation
(Photo Doug Barkey). Bethel impresses
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This week's open column is more than most. Due to a marked dearth
of current submissions (we misplaced John van Vloten's piece on rock
music) we have no Bethel student or faculty member's work occupying
this space. We welcome essays, opinions, humorous and fictional
works.
CORRECTION
Last week the Clarion incorrectly identified a Bethel staff
member who made a recruiting trip to California. George Henry,
athletic director, went to California while George Palke was here
in Minnesota coaching the Royal basketball team.
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by Gloria Martin
Kathy Holtzclaw, a new, ac-counting
instructor in the business
department, enjoys what she calls
"the refreshing environment with
highly motivated young students"
she finds at Bethel. Coming to
Bethel from a community college
in Crystal Lake, Illinois, Holtz-claw
said she prefers the atmos-phere
at Bethel over the com-munity
college.
"I have more contact with my
students here," she said. "I often
see them outside of class, which
allows me to get to know them
more."
"At the community college
there were a lot more part-time
students. They were only around
long enough to sit through class.
Bethel students are 'serious
students.' Their studies hold top
priority," added Holtzclaw.
Holtzclaw presently holds a
C.P.A. certificate and is working
on finishing her master's in busi-ness
taxation which will give her
a M.P.T. degree.
CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Monday—Convocation,
Dr. Mike Rynkiewich
Tuesday—Convocation,
Rynkiewich
Wednesday—Pastor Spick-elmier
Thursday—"New Begin-nings,"
Northwestern Col-lege
musicians
Friday—Sing and share
Holtzclaw began teaching at
Bethel part-time in the fall. Dur-ing
interim she started teaching
full-time. This semester she has
classes in Accounting I, Account-ing
II, and an independent study
in accounting.
Chapel committee
surveys to obtain
student evaluation
At the beginning of the year the
Chapel & Spiritual Life Commit-tee,
a student faculty committee,
decided to focus its work on
evaluating the role of the campus
pastor and campus ministries of-fice.
Until now the committee has
been gathering information con-cerning
the philosophy, history,
and organization of the pastor
and campus ministries office.
The committee has decided it
would be beneficial to run a
survey of students, faculty, and
administration to gain input from
the Bethel community.
The survey will be asking ques-tions
concerning chapel, spiritual
life, the campus pastor, and the
campus ministries office. It is
hoped the responses will enable
the committee to be even more in-clusive
and practical in their
evaulation.
To this end the committee
values your participation by
responding to the questionnaire.
It will be distributed in the PO's
on Monday, March 10.
by Shelly Nielsen
With a semester still between
him and graduation, Scott Bar-suhn
can already call himself a
professional graphic designer.
"I'm in the process of becom-ing
a designer," he says. "I don't
feel like I'm totally there yet."
Fact is, he has been recruited
for freelance design jobs with in-creasing
frequency during the past
four years.
His conception of "process,"
of always working toward goals, is
a mindset, coloring all his ac-tivities.
He hit Bethel campus in
'76, ready to try everything.
Result: one overworked, happy
enthusiast whose yearbook ac-complishments
would read like an
information sheet of Bethel extra-curriculars—
campus coordinator
'77, Passages magazine editor,
"The Fantasticks" cast member,
college choir tenor, senate ex-ecutive
board member, welcome
week staffer... He's been ubi-quitous,
racing through school at
breakneck speed, sampling each
department.
"The Lord gave me these in-terests,
and also these cir-cumstances.
They don't just hap-pen
along. I have to use learning
opportunities."
So he throws himself
energetically into every available
project. His latest was a 30 second
commercial. Every day he's ac-costed
by five or six Bethel fans
and souvenir-seekers who scream,
"I saw you on TV last night!"
Scott's tendency toward total
involvement is noted by Jeffrey
Miller, associate professor in
theatre arts. After directing him in
"The Fantasticks," and supervis-ing
the design of many depart-mental
posters and programs, his
observation is that Scott is "100
per cent committed."
"I never have to motivate him.
It's refreshing to work with some-one
who has a desire for ex-cellence
and a professional at-titude,"
said Miller.
Both traits, apparently, are in
demand. Scott has been commis-sioned
for jobs by numerous
Bethel clients. He has constructed
recital, concert, and drama
posters. He has designed banners,
backdrops, fliers, and programs.
His series of plexiglass-cloth
sculpture signs featuring "won-derful
waffles" and a "super
salad bar" adorn the coffee shop.
But having conquered home
territory, he now expands confi-dently
into "outside" markets.
His skills are recognized and soli-cited
by local advertising agencies
and printers.
Associate Professor of Art Dale
Johnson feels that Scott is "profi-cient
at understanding what
clients need and at being able to
translate works into visual
thought. Because of this, his work
has a 'goodness' or 'rightness' to
it."
Thus, Scott is busy, having
gone "national." Current pro-jects
include the design of sta-tionery,
logo, and business cards
for a Minneapolis-based firm, the
creation of a children's growth
chart; and designs for a corpora-tion's
promotional materials—all
intended for national distribution.
When he's not immersed in job.
demands, he's fabricating other
freelance artistic schemes. The im-mediate
future, he predicts, will
see the completion of his own
house plans, the publication of a
children's book, and the sale of a
car design.
In spite of the chasmic range of
his occupational interests—in-terior
design, furniture design,
packaging design, architectural
design, set design—there is still,
Scott insists, "some consistency
through the madness."
"My goal is to make a wide
variety of things better visually. I
don't want to be limited."
His goals are always sureties.
Soon—today, if someone makes
an offer—he'll tackle them all.
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Animal, in typical laid-back style, "eats drums" and steals the show in Moods '80 (Photo Tom
Twining).
by Brook Berry
"If the students want to see
some excellent performances in an
extremely well written and ex-citing
play, this is the one to see,"
Director Jeffrey Miller said about
"The Crucible," Bethel's first
spring production opening next
weekend.
"The Crucible" was written by
Arthur Miller and is believed by
many to be even a greater work
than his "Death of a Salesman."
Set during the 1692 Salem witch
trials, the play deals with the pro-blems
that arise when ideologies
reach such a status of power that
anyone who questions the authori-ty
is seen as a threat and must be
destroyed.
The authority in this case is
religious, which raises questions
on_such issues as individual versus
corporate faith.
Miller is very excited about his
Bethel cast of over 20 students.
"There is some fine acting. You'll
see some exceptional interpre-tations
of difficult parts," Miller
said. "We concentrated on
creating well fleshed-out and
multi-dimensional characters, and
we are definitely seeing results."
Miller stated that he is using
Bethel's thrust stage better than he
has ever done before, going out of
his way to keep the actors visible
and close to the audience.
The costumes are colorful, the
set is menacing, and the evening
will be exciting.
Plan to see "The Crucible,"
running March 13-15 and 18-22.
Buy your tickets soon, it is ex-pected
to sell out fast.
Millers' Crucible'
promises excitement
Dull plot kills Twin Cities film
by Paul Olsen
"Foolin' Around," the first
major motion picture shot entirely
in the Twin Cities, reportedly uses
a few Bethel students as extras.
Should the prospect of seeing
these familiar faces and glimpses
of Snelling Avenue flashing on the
silver screen tantalize one into
spending four dollars and an
hour-and-a-half in the theatre, see -
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the movie.
If, however, one is interested in
a well-made comedy with credible
performances by big-name actors,
"Foolin' Around" fails at almost
every turn of the reel.
The plot concerns a hayseed
Oklahoman (Gary Busey) hopping
around Minneapolis and St. Paul
in pursuit of the pretty girl (An-nette
O'Toole). His misadventures
along the way keep the rich
fiance and his henchmen rolling,
screaming and crying in slapstick
agony.
The plot serves only as a vehicle
for the painfully unimaginative
humor:
The few titters and giggles from
the 9:30 p.m. crowd were elicited
by spoken or visual vulgarities.
Entire scenes are set up for the joy
of hearing Cloris Leachman and
Tony Randall trade vulgarities
and the fun of seeing males get hit
in the groin by a variety of unlike-ly
objects.
The tip-off of the mindless
script came just a few minutes into
the film when a Mercedes driven
by O'Toole's fiance sinks and
burbles deep into fresh concrete as
if it were quicksand.
There are, to be honest, a few
bright spots in the film, including
a tennis-playing "Rocky" se-quence
in which Busey gags on
raw eggs, runs through Minneapo-lis
and tenderizes sides of beef
with his tennis racket. Eddie Al-bert's
portrayal of O'Toole's
grandfather was also enjoyable
and Albert delivers the best joke
of the film, advising Busey of the
dangers of having a girl for a
"friend."
For the most part the jokes are
stale or crude and the film never
gets off the ground. Even the
visual jokes are hopelessly
overstated in the one-dimensional
camera work.
The culmination of the film is
Busey's hang-glider crash through
the stained-glass window at St.
Paul's cathedral; and the crowd
eagerly anticipated this bit of
special-effects trickery.
The hang-gliding sequence was
every bit as clever as "The Flying
Nun" and the actual crash was
filmed in three separate locations:
St. Paul's cathedral, a barn at the
state fairgrounds and St. Mary's
cathedral in Minneapolis. The
editing of the three sequences was
so obvious as to leave no one
wondering, "How did they do
that?"
Busey does a fairly convincing
job with the low-class material he
worked with, but "Foolin'
Around" never delivers the enter-tainment
one hopes for in Min-neapolis'
big screen debut.
Gray walls
go color,
beautiful
To the editor:
This is just a thank you.
Thanks so much to the people
who were busy on the walls during
interim. It was so nice to come
back and see somethings besides
GRAY! And to top it off, those
somethings are beautiful! I can
hardly wait till they're done.
Perhaps we can have more of this
in the future and eliminate the
mouse-gray walls altogether.
With gratitude,
Rebecca Melvie
Members of "The Crucible" cast are currently rehearsing for
their March 13 opening (Photo Steve Paulson).
BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH
Cleveland and Skillman Avenues Roseville, Mn.
Worship Services at 9:00 & 11:15 AM
Sunday School at 10:00 AM (Special College-age Class
(See posters for church bus schedule)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone - 631-0211
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Against Hamline, the Royals overcame the Pipers with relative ease, despite this banner's claim
of divine interference for the school down the road (Photo Doug Barkey).
Hoss, the fans' delight, ter-rorized
Bethel opponents dur-ing
the last seconds of most
games (Photo Dan Velie).
The Royals have become accustomed to playing before a packed
house in the Robertson P.E. center (Photo Doug Barkey).
Bethel basketball:
the fans went wild
Hit slopes, junk food this weekend
"Bando," sitting with pylon/megaphone, and flying "Freddie"
spend evenings at Royal games and spend afternoons devising
tactics to psyche out opponents (Photo Doug Barkey).
Bethel Events
Today, March 7
Sports
Women's track at St. Olaf, 3 p.m.
Saturday, March 8
International Students Association
ISA Banquet, 7 p.m. in the cafeteria
Wednesday, March 12
Sports
Women's track at Concordia/Moorhead, 4 p.m.
Thursday, March 13
Drama
"The Crucible," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Friday, March 14
Music
Band concert, 8 p.m.
Drama
"The Crucible," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
This weekend will begin with
"Movies & Munchies" on Friday
evening. The movies will begin at
7 p.m. in the gym with "The
Barefoot Executive" being shown
first, followed by "Jungle Book."
We will be serving pizza bet-ween
the two movies, and pop will
be available for 25 cents a can.
The cost for our Walt Disney
evening will be a mere $1.50. Br-ing
your friends, and we'll have a
great time together!
Saturday will be a full day on
the slopes for those of you who
like to ski until 4 p.m. for the
price of $9 for a lift ticket and $7
for the rental of equipment.
If you didn't sign up by the
C.C. office to go and would now
L., 1( 1-
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like to go, please contact us so
that we can make sure you get a
seat on the bus. It will be a
refreshing day on the slopes for all
of you ski fans.
For next weekend, we have
planned rollerskating, a
theatre/dessert, and a signspira-tion
for your enjoyment. Details
on these activities will be an-nounced
later. "Spirit Week" is
coming up on March 16-22, so
keep that in mind. Have a good
weekend everyone!
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includes air fare, hotel, tax and
transfers. Contact Campus
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Senior Gary Edlund has been nominated for Academic All-
American (Photo Doug Barkey).
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Bumpkin bolsters Bethel B-ball
by Brice S. Russell
Bethel tracksters headed south
on Saturday for the Southern
Minnesota Relays in Mankato.
Fourteen schools attended the
meet but no score was kept. The
competition included large and
small schools, but according to
Coach Leighton Betz, "Bethel
proved to be competitive."
Many records were broken at
this meet but this was a result t) f
the switch to metric measurement.
This is the second year in the
switch to metric, which meant the
records that were broken were the
ones set last year.
Phil Asay was involved in
breaking three records. He placed
first in the triple jump, fourth in
the 55-meter low hurdles, and
third in the 4 X 160-meter relay.
Other members of that relay were
by Steve Erickson
When Gary Edlund was looking
for a place fo finish his basketball
career, he was not sure who would
want him.
"What are you going to do with
a senior in his last year of eligi-bility?"
said Edlund. "Most
coaches like to develop their own
players. I was fortunate to get in
on Bethel's program."
But after seeing him help Bethel
to its best record ever and a third-place
finish in the MIAC, most
any coach would welcome Edlund
with open arms.
The transformation of last
year's 5-21 team into a contender
with a 18-9 record cannot be
credited to Edlund alone. Corn-bining
seniors Scott Wilson, Dave
Blanchard, Rey Miller, and Tom
Weko with newcomers Jason
Velgersdyk, Greg Edlund, and
others, Coach George Palke has
molded a team that is the talk of
the campus.
Nicknamed "Bumpkin"
because of his laid-back, easy go-ing
style, the 6'5" guard-wing is
frequently asked to guard players
much shorter than him. His long
arms are helpful in cutting down
the passing angle.
Edlund compared the basket-ball
situation at Bethel with that
of his high school in Meadow
Vista, 50 miles from Sacramento.
"Our senior year we finally won
Paul Otto, Barry Jass, and Keith
Johnson.
According to Coach Betz, Paul
Otto turned out to be the top per-former
at the meet by anchoring
the relays.
Other runners placing in the
meet Were Bruce Case, placing
fourth in the 160-meter in-termediate
hurdles, and Greg
Stipe, placing fifth in the triple
jump.
the league title for the first time in
a long time. Basketball here has
been fairly good but could've been
better. Our goal was to win the
league title and get into the play-offs—
to get the program estab-lished,"
said Edlund.
Before coming to Bethel,
Edlund attended Butte Jr. College
in California, and then went to
Central Washington for only a
quarter but still lost a year of
eligibility. -
At Butte, his team won the state
championship his first year and
went to the semifinals the next
season. After starting the first two
games as a freshman, he was used
sparingly the rest of the year but
started most of the time as a
sophomore.
At one time Butte held the
Dean George Brushaber an-nounced
Tuesday that Charles
"Chub" Reynolds has resigned as
head football coach, effective
March 3, 1980.
In accepting the resignation
Dean Brushaber stated that
Reynolds will continue at Bethel
as assistant professor of physical
education and baseball coach this
year and will continue on the
The track team now has two
more meets before they head out-doors
to battle new opponents.
The main battle though, may pro-ve
to be Minnesota's unpredic-table
spring weather. Watch for
the team's improvement as they
continue to get in shape.
longest college winning streak,
victorious in about 90 straight
conference games and 40-50 games
overall. A couple of Edlund's
teammates went on to major col-leges.
A business major, Edlund
wants to go into accounting,
possibly working towards a CPA.
In fact, he was nominated for a
spot on the Academic All-
American team.
"Our main problem was incon-sistency,"
Edlund said, summing
up the season. "We were good
one night, sloppy the next night in
our early season games. There's a
tradition that Bethel lost the close
ones. We had to get rid of that
confidence problem. At the end,
when the going got tight we knew
we were going to win."
Bethel faculty for the 1980-81
school year.
Reynolds came to Bethel ten
years ago and inherited a team
that had lost twenty-one straight
games. The highlights of his
tenure at Bethel were the co-championship
in the Tri-State
League in 1975 and entry into
membership in the Minnesota In-tercollegiate
Athletic Conference
(MIAC) in 1978.
Dean Brushaber commented
that "all of us are grateful for the
excellent work Chub Reynolds did
in laying a foundation for a strong
football program at Bethel. His
dedication, energy, and careful
planning were keys to develop-ment
of the program. Even more
important has been Chub's con-cern
that his athletes grow as per-sons
and as Christian leaders."
Metric records broken in Relays at Mankato
`Chub' Reynolds resigns
as head football coach
Brad Nauman, of P.G. Dozers, blindly attempts to jar the ball loose from John Priestley (iden-tified
by his overpowering grasp) in a loss to the Second Chapter of the Axe (Photo Annette
Loeks).
Steve Anderson (right) and Steve Kramka battle for a rebound in
the Swisher Sweets victory over the Decomposers (Photo An-nette
Loeks).