Clarion 1979-02-09 Vol 54 No 13

              The women's basketball team has compiled an impressive 11-6 record, despite reversion to foot-ball
tactics by the opposition.
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registration, p. 6
Vol. 54 No. 13
Bethel College St. Paul, MN
February 9, 1979
KABY needs staff,
soon to make waves by Suzi Wells
Definite plans are being made
to put Bethel's on-campus radio
station, KABY, back on the air,
according to Jim Torgerson, vice
president of student senate
chairman of the communications
board.
Applications are now being ac-cepted
in the student senate office
for station manager, and anyone
interested in working on the radio
staff may also fill out an applica-tion.
This is the second attempt this
year to resurrect the radio station,
which died in 1976, partly due to
lack of student interest, said
Torgerson.
Jon Freeburg, freshman, work-ed
last fall on putting KABY back
on the air, but his attempts were
not successful because, in part, of
a lack of space in the broadcasting
area and to a lack of an advisor.
John Bell Wilson, director of
community relations, has now
been named advisor of KABY. "I
volunteered my services," he ex-plained.
The communications
board has been looking for an ad-visor
since last fall.
Wilson has had experience in
Janitor Keith
breaks bones,
misses work
by Joy Nannette Banta
Keith Tekautz, custodian in
maintenance, has been at
Bethesda Hospital for the last two
weeks.
Keith was shoveling snow off
his roof when he fell off and
dislocated his shoulder, broke his
upper left arm, his right hand, his
nose and shattered his knee-cap.
He had surgery on Jan. 30 to
remove the knee-cap and is
reported to be in good condition.
It will be at least three months
before he can resume his work.
Keith's wife, Judy, said that he
"is itching to get out." But the
doctors hai,e told them that it will
be three or four weeks before he
can go home.
"He sure enjoyed the big card
that the students and faculty sent
him. He is hoping to get in a wheel
chair so he can get close enough to
read the personal messages on it,"
said Mrs. Tekautz.
Mrs. Tekautz also said that he
has really enjoyed the calls and
visits from students and faculty.
TV as floor director of KTCA Ac-tion
Auction. He is also rink an-nouncer
at University of Min-nesota
hockey games.
KABY will be "basically an on-campus
service," said Wilson.
"We're open to all suggestions."
All of the equipment in the sta-tion
is operational, so equipment
and costs are not a problem. "It
doesn't cost us anything to turn
on the switches," Wilson noted.
The radio will not be on the air
until the new annex is completed.
At that time, Roy Wilbee, director
of academic media services, will
be able to relocate his office.
Currently, Wilbee's office is in
KABY's production area. Wilson
will also have an office in the new
annex. He is now working in an
cont. on pg. 3
by Kriste Ericsson
"Catholicism has a great deal to
teach us—we need to interact
more with the Catholics!" said
Bethel junior Tim Nethercott.
Nethercott has just finished an
interim interacting with Catholics
—very closely—in a monastery.
"People have little sense of com-munity
anymore—of belonging
someplace, loving others and hav-ing
others love them. A monastery
is a Christian community," he
said.
Majoring in English literature,
Tim once felt "disillusioned" with
Christianity, but has since found
that it is not "dull and boring, but
exciting." Though he attends a
Protestant church and school, he
respects certain aspects of the
Catholic church which are missing
in many Protestant churches.
Their reverence in worship,
sense of tradition, respect and use
of art in worship, and a balance
between evangelism and social ac-tion
were some of the areas which
he pointed out.
This year he wanted to do an in-dependent
study on monastic life.
When that didn't work out he
looked into other programs and
found a course offered. this in-terim
at Calvin College in
Michigan.
The first part of the program
consisted of one-and-one-half
weeks at Calvin studying the
Trappist monk Thomas Merton,
well-known poet, artist, critic,
and devotional and mystic writer.
A final week was spent at Abbey
Gethsemane, Kentucky, the Trap-pist
monastery where Thomas
Merton worked.
The Trappists are known for
their simple, chaste lifestyle and
for a strict observance of silence.
Though the students participated
in the daily activities of the
monastery, they were not held
strictly to the rules of silence.
The monks' day starts at 3:00
a.m. with vigils. The rest of the
day is spent in sessions or wor-ship
and prayer. Though the
monks also work four hours a day
(usually outside), even this is con-sidered
a form of prayer. During
meals, sermons and devotional or
mystic books are read, and even
then there is no other talking.
"The monk's purpose is to pray
for the world and love it by leav-ing
it. Not all can do this,"
According to a statement to be
issued by President Lundquist, the
names of the new south dorms
have been chosen.
The dorm presently occupied
will be known as Edgren dorm.
The second dorm, scheduled for
occupation in mid-March, will be
called Bodien. The final phase of
the present building program,
Hagstrom dorm, will not be ready
for occupancy until September
1980.
Because the capacity of just
Edgren and Bodien will not ac-comodate
the Bethel population,
Bethel is again in the market for
said Tim. "You have to be called
by God to do it, and only a few of
the monks simply pray."
The emphasis is put on con-templative
prayer with God. This
is not the subject-object type of
conversation which is usually con-sidered
prayer. Its purpose is to
desire God, and nothing else. All
distractions, including thought
must be eliminated. Zen is often a
tool used to achieve this.
However, subjective prayer is
not eliminated. The needs of
others are prayed for, "but that
can be done in a few minutes," as
Tim said.
"The lifestyle of the monks at-tracted
me," said Tim. "Very few
people accept a life of poverty as
an ideal, but I like the simple
lifestyle." He also likes their em-phasis
on the community, and
apartment buildings near the cam-pus.
Mack Nettleton, director of
student affairs, said about 200
people will be housed in apart-ments
similar to Fountain Ter-race.
The apartments will not be as
close to the campus as Fountain
Terrace, but there will be regular
bus service. Nettleton said the
buildings will house married
students once new Hagstrom
dorm is completed.
Nettleton also commented
recently about problems with new
Edgren. The heating problems
which include sauna-like hallways
their efforts to promote more in-teraction
and brotherhood bet-ween
all Christian denominations,
even with those with which they
do not agree on all theological
matters.
"What the church has to offer
the world is community—a sense
of self-esteem and belonging," he
said. "This won't be accomplish-ed
until the church gets on its
ecumenical feet, and starts work-ing
together."
on the inside:
closed minds revisited,
p. 4
snow bunnies, p. 7
and refrigerated rooms are caused
by imbalances in the system—a
common problem in new build-ings.
"Once the bugs are ironed
out, this will be a heckuva
system," said one heating repair-man.
Nettleton said the shower and
toilet stalls have not been
delivered, and no one seems to
know when they will be. The con-
' tractor will begin landscaping
when the weather permits, and
Bethel's maintenance department
is currently working on the pro-blem
of safety to and from the
dorms.
Interaction need seen by monastery observer
New dorms inherit old campus titles, apartments sought