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december 10, 1982
Art faculty supports nude art
"A Folded Rug and a Woman" is one of Patti Dobson's
graphs on display in the Eugene Johnson Gallery of nuAdret pfohro ttho-e
current senior art show.
by Janis Johnson days (4) but exclude the study
For the second year in a day in each term."
row there are classes on Mon- According to Tricia Brown-day
of finals week. Some don't lee, associate dean for aca-mind;
others would like to see demic programs, the policy
it changed. also states summer vacation
That is what CAAC (Cur- should be as long as possible
riculum Administrative Advi- to allow students to work. If
sory Comthittee), in coopera- feasible, fall term should be-tion
with the Dean's Advisory gin after Labor Day and end
Committee (DAC), has been at least a week before Christ-working
on to change. Al- mas.
though it was discussed last The process for planning
year no changes were made. the academic calendar is start-
The academic calendar is usu- ed with proposals by Brown-ally
established by October lee based on the policy. These
of the previous year. are given to CAAC for re-viewal
and the committee
This fall CAAC discussed makes these recommenda-the
change but decided it was tions. These alternative cal-too
late in the year to imple- endars need to be authorized
ment a Monday study day. by DAC.
Faculty members do have the "Students could have an im-option
to cancel classes on portant input on that if they
Monday, Dec. 13. wanted to," said Paul Wilson,
The reason for the Monday chairperson of CAAC. The
classes is a 1973 policy which committee, which is sup-states,
"The fall and spring posed to consist of four faculty
terms should cover 72 class members and four students,
days . . . the 72 class days has only one student on it.
include final examinations Brownlee would like to see
by Mike Doran an. It read:
On display in the Eugene "I find it impossible to
Johnson. Gallery of Art are create and display art work in
several photographs by Patti the repressive atmosphere
Dobson of nude females. A that exists here at Bethel."
notice outside the gallery The Minneapolis Star and
reads: Tribune published a story of
"Prompted by particular this controversial incident last
questions past and present year and the Associated Press
concerning the appropriate- picked it up.
ness of exhibiting the nude, it
President Brushaber, then
is the consensus of [the art] the dean, at the time said
department that the study of Dobson had violated a long-the
nude figure in art is not standing school policy pro-inherently
evil or necessarily hibiting nude photography or
pornographic but quite to the painting at the school. Brush-contrary:
our physical being aber was out of town as this
is one of the good ways in report was written.
which God has made us, and
Dobson said this year she
even one of the ways in which did not restrict or otherwise
we partake of the imago dei. tone down her pictures from
It is therfore an appropriate last year, except that her pho-subject
to explore and ex- tography may be different be-hibit."
cause, as she put it, "I am
The notice continues that always groWing and chang-the
art department is glad to ing as an artist."
discuss with the art-viewing Dobson said that there was
public their reactions to the an apparent change in policy.
display. The apparent change can
The note, left by the art be credited for the most part
department this year is much to the efforts of the new art
different from the note left on deparment head, Tom
the wall last year by Dobsbn
after . the art department re-jected
three of her four photo-graphs
of a young nude wom-by
Jerry Manus
more students on the commit-tee.
"It is hard to get a wide Two prowlers were spot-view
on what the students ted on campus the night of
want," she said. . Thursday, Dec. 2. One of them
CAAC also approves all was caught and arrested, and
course and catalog changes, the other escaped.
appeals for academic dismis- At about 9 p.m. a man was
sals and final student appeals. seen near the band locker
room by two students. When
At the Septmeber CAAC spotted, the man whistled, ap-meeting
motion was made for parently signalling to some-a
change in the 1983-84 cal- one inside the locker room.
endar. . In October an option The two students became
was recommended consisting suspicious and notified Fred
of 72 days, Tues., Sept. 6-Sat., Zobrist, the student custodian
Dec. 17 with a study day supervisor.
between the last day of classes Zobrist notified security
and finals. But DAC was not guard Dave Krueger by radio,
satisfied with it and selected who with the help of the two–
an option of 71 days, Tues., students found the man who
Sept. 6—Fri., Dec. 16 with a had been seen earlier, with
study day. another man outside the food
When asked about schedul- service exit near the trash
ing for future years, Brownlee compactors. When Krueger
said, "I hope we can get a fall asked the two men to produce
break in. Maybe start school identification they started to
in August." If a fall break is run away, but one of them
established, it would come was apprehended.
approximately midway be- In the meantime Zobrist had
tween the opening of school notified the police. When the
and Thanksgiving. man that had been caught
Toperzer, and the new dean,
Dwight Jessup.
"Tom laid the ground work
by talking with the dean,"
said Dobson.
"It is part of my job," said
Toperzer, referring to helping
Dobson. "I think restricting
the subject of nude art is a bit
unrealistic in a college set-ting,"
he added.
Art instructor Dale John-son
agreed, adding that when
he looked at Dobson's pictures
they reminded him of great
past works of nude subject
matter. Johnson said that with
nudes an artist could portray
the beauty of the human body
without interference from
such things as the clothing of
the artist's culture.
While Toperzer said that
restricting the subject of nude
art was unrealistic, he also
stressed the need to be ap-propriate.
From his 12 years experi-ence
as an art museum direc-art,
see page 4
learned the police were corn-ing
he said he wanted to leave.
Krueger knew he could not
forcibly detain the man as no
actual offense was known,
but told the man he would
have to escort him off the
property, hoping to be able to
delay him until the police a-rrived.
As they started to leave,
the man began running, and
Krueger chased him. At that
time two students, Brett
Young and Craig Aycock,
were returning-to campus and
saw the man running with
Krueger in pursuit. Young and
Aycock got out of their vehi-cle
and joined the chase, and
the three of them finally ap-prehended
the man in the cir-cle
parking lot.
At about 9:30 the police
arrived, and at 9:45 they took
the man into custody.
The man was arrested for
loitering. But when band
members returned from the
Festival of Christmas per-formance,
two women discov-security,
see page 2
Security catches
Committee works for finals week study day prowler on campus
editorial
No, there's no editorial this
week condemning Christmas
materialism, calling for true
Christmas spirit, or examining
what Christmas really means.
Instead, we wish our readers a
Christmas full of joy and a
vacation full of rest and re-newal.
the Clarion staff
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Page 2 the Clarion december 10, 1982
Dear editor:
I must confess that this
year I have stopped giving the
Clarion more than a cursory
glance before it hits the trash
can. Surely there must be
more interesting things to
write about than incompletes
and selling used books (De-cember
3, p. 1). I would really
like to see the Clarion expand
its horizons and begin to deal
with things outside the walls
of Bethel College.
The location of Bethel
makes it very easy to become
secluded. The scope of the
articles in the Clarion this
year has nicely illustrated this
seclusion. Local and national
events are of interest to stu-dents
and are not out of place
in a college newspaper. There
is much going on in the Twin
Cities, and it should not be
ignored.
There are many things I
can think of that I would like
to read about in the Clarion.
News from other local cam-puses
would keep us up to
date on what other students
are doing as well as events on
other campuses. Draft regis-tration
and the court cases
against resistors is of interest
to many students who are
also resistors. Legislation in
Washington affects Bethel
students. Local Arden Hillis
politics and events also affects
Bethel students since we live
in the community. It would be
nice to read interviews of local
Christians in business, edu-cation
and politics. (We might
also learn from an interview
of a non-Christian in busi-ness,
education or politics.)
There are many events in the
Twin Cities in the Arts that
students would be interested
in. There really are limitless
possibilities.
I know that we can read of
most of these things in the
local papers, but it would be
nice to read a student review
of a play, or a student inter-view
of a politician or busi-nessperson,
or a student's
opinion of a bill before Con-gress.
.There are many interesting
things happening here at Beth-el,
but there are also events in
the world outside of our Arden
Hills campus that affect us as
Bethel Students. There is no
need to resort to such trivial
things as incompletes, book-selling,
and the Bethel Five
Year Plan to fill the space in
the Clarion.
Perhaps by dealing with a
Dear editor:
I wonder. Perhaps you ask
about what? It's this. While
visiting my Alma Mater this
past week I sensed a bit of
injustice or perhaps just a
"little" oversight. Now what I
saw was not in itself bad or
caused me to sin, but never
the less it was there. Nudes.
Nudes that were photo-
' graphed and hung in the gal-lery.
Now, as- I recall, quite a
stink was raised last year
about a similar incident and
the material was removed.
The first question that comes
to mind for me and is the cen-tral
question here, not to be
muddied by debate, whether
nudes are art or pornography,
but why there is what seems
to be incongruity in a policy
at Bethel College. Now, if I
were an art instructor res-ponsible
for what gets hung
in the gallery and I knew that
it was breaking a rule to hang
something up, I would not
wider scope of events in the
.Clarion, Bethel Students will
begin to come out of seclusion
and look at the community
around. At the same time, the
Clarion may rise from its
mediocre state into some -
thing we will find interesting
and want to read.
Sincerely,
Patti S. Dobson
allow it.
I wish to address the break-ing
of rules by deliberate ac-tion,
which demands repri-manding.
I think that one
warning is enough and some-thing
should be done by a
bdard at Bethel to take care-of
this. Fire an instructor. Dis-miss
a student. Change the
rule to allow it. I advocate
nothing but congruity in our
actionas an institution which
is our witness to' the outside
world. Our mushiness or in-tended
oversight of littly_ugly
sores only leads to infection.
And infection if left untreated
will spread, this we know.
Somebody somewhere had
better take the bull by the
horns before it destroys the
whole china shop. This is my
cause for alarm and reason
for addressing this . incon-gruity.
I want to see Bethel
grow on its virtues, not in
spite of them.
Curly
Class of 1982
God works
in human
inadequacy
Dear editor,
It is often tempting to throw
up my hands and scream at
the top of my lungs, "I QUIT!!"
I look around me, and I see a
world full of discord. I am
struck with "the disconcerting
feeling that I am helpless.
The world is full of war,
famine and injustice. Our own
country is falling apart from
the inside out. Corruption in-fests
the church, and the fam-ily
structure is almost ob-solete.
Imperfections are woven
into the warp and woof of the
human fabric; man is sinful
and alone.
Even at Bethel, Christian
community and all, people are
alone. Even at Bethel there is
pain and discord. But too often
people won't admit they are
hurting.
In myself I recognize that
much of the pain I suffer is a
result of seeing how imper-fect
I am and how many prob-lems
there are to be solved. I
get discouraged.
Then I am reminded that
God works with people, full
of imperfections and inade-quacies.
Throughout all of his-tory
men who have been will-ing
to come to Him and submit
to His guidance have been
used by Him in great and
mighty ways.
God does not say "change
and then I will use you." He
says, "let me use you and you
will change because of it." He
does not call us to clean up
our act so He can love us. On
the contrary "while we were
yet sinners Christ died for us .
11
There will be times when
we get discouraged, but in
Christ we know that victory
is ours.
Ruth D. Hubbard
security, from page 1
ered articles missing from
their instrument locker, a
purse and some money.
It was later discovered that
the man who had been ar-rested
had an outstanding
warrant for other charges. He
was to go to court on Friday,
Dec. 3, according to Tom
Countryman, Bethel security
officer.
Countryman said Bethel
security is improving greatly.
He said this is not the first
time this sort of incident has
occurred at Bethel. "But now
we're finding and catching
them," he said.
Nude art exhibit
shows inconsistency
Choir
included in
German set
by Diane Henry
Heniz Werner Zimmer-mann's
"Crucifixion" is the
choral work 'recorded by the
Bethel College Choir that will
be included in a German Her-itage
Recording.
The German Heritage Re-cording
is a collection of thirty
albums to be released in April
1983. Pieces written from 1945
to 1983 constitute this collec-tion.
A German music critic
heard the choir's album, then
heard it with the Minnesota
Orchestra on Feb. 25, 1981.
After hearing the choir these
two times, he recommended
the Bethel recording to the
producers 'of German Herit-age.
The producers heard the
college choir and asked them
to be part of the German Her-itage
Recording.
Robert Berglund, professor
of music and director of the
college choir said, "The pur-pose
of this recording is to
preserve German works of
merit. In America we have
the American Heritage Musi-cal
Society, which is similar
to the German Heritage Re-cording."
Three thousand album sets
will be produced. Two thou-sand
sets will be given to
European and American uni-versities,
radio stations, and
conservatories. The remaining
1000 will be sold in Europe,
where, incidentally, albums
of the Bethel College Choir
' sell very well.
"We are honored to be in-cluded
in this, new set of re-cordings,"
Berglund said.
tops of trees, was a sacred
plant in the pagan religion of
the Druids in Britain. It was
believed to have all sorts of
miraculous qualities: the
power of healing and fertility,
neutralizing the effects of
poisons, protection from
witchcraft, banning evil spir-its,
and bringing good luck
and great blessings. In fact, it
was considered so sacred that
even enemies who happened
to meet beneath a mistletoe in
the forest would lay down
their arms, exchange a friend-ly
greeting, and keep a truce
until the following day.
A kiss under the mistletoe
was interpreted as a sincere
pledge of love and a promise
of marriage and, at the same
time, it was an omen of happ-iness,
good fortune, fertility,
and long life to the lovers who
sealed and made known their
engagement by a kiss beneath
the sacred plant.
Times have changed! To-day,
a kiss under the mistle-toe
is a token of goodwill and
friendship and an omen of
happiness and good luck.
How is it that the mistletoe
came to be associated with
Christmas? After Britain con-verted
from paganism to
Christianity, the church offi-cials
would no longer allow
the mistletoe to enter the
From this old custom grew
the practice of suspending
mistletoe over a doorway or
in a room as a token of good-
, widl and pear, t 0 A111: ,cionlers
,
december 10, 1982 the Clarion page 3
Women's choir enacts Lucia pageant
by Sandy Holasek Lucia's fiancee found out the darkest and shortest day
she was a Christian and of the year. In each house-
On Monday, Dec. 13 in turned her over to the soldiers hold, at dawn, the eldest
chapel, the women's choir and who were persecuting Chris- daughter wears a white robe
director Mary Fall will parti- tians at the time. She was tor- with a red sash and a crown
cipate in a Christmas tradition tured and martyred for con- of candles on her head. Her
known as Saint Lucia. fessing her faith on Dec. 13, attendants (usually her sis-
According to Jim Spickel- year 304. ters) help by passing out cof-mier,
campus pastor, the Saint Although Italian in origin, fee and little cakes to the rest
Lucia tradition has gone the tradition was adopted in of the household. The figure
through three phases. Saint northern Sweden during me- of Lucia in Sweden is also
Lucia was recognized in Italy dieval times. According to represented in schools, offi-for
her sainthood and was Swedish tradition Lucia ap- ces, churches, and hospitals.
later mixed with folklore in peared one winter night tra- Bethel's festival celebration
Sweden. Today in churches veling across icy lakes wear- will begin with Christmas
she is seen as a symbol of love ing a white robe with a crown carols, followed by the pro-and
Christian charity. of lights in her hair. In her cessional of Lucia and her
The legend of Saint Lucia arms she carried food for the attendants. The program will
began . in the Isle of Sicily in poor. After Lucia left the days ��� z,include solo's, a narration and
300 A.D.' When Lucia was a grew longer, so the Swedish choral pieces.
young woman, about 17 years people claimed that she was The lights on Lucia's crown,
old, she prayed to God to save the giver of light. This Swed- Spickelmier said, remind us
her sick mother. In return for ish folklore eventually became of Saint Lucia's life and in-her
request she promised God enmeshed with Christianity. spire us to consider the influ-that
her entire dowry would -.Today -in- Sweden, a festi- ence that God can have in
go to the church. val of lights begins on Dec. 13, each life.
by Tammy Gregersen
"All I did was knock on the
door. When I stepped in—
Wham! Suddenly I was
bowled over and bombarded
with kisses! Little did I know
I was standing under the mis-tletoe!"
In many American homes,
a cluster of mistletoe, shim-mering
with silver pearls and
pale green leaves, is hung
above the door, on the walls,
or from the ceiling of the room.
The mistletoe gives reason to
snatch a kiss from some un-suspecting
soul.
The history of the mistletoe
and the way in which it be-came
a Christmas kissing
tradition are both unusual and
interesting. The mistletoe, a
parasite that grows on the
/INCH by Marty Stanchfield
At 3:15 a.m., that's in the morning, I rolled over and thought
about the sleep I needed and wasn't getting. The thought of
thinking such a depressing thought so early in the morning
pushed me further into my "negative attitude is the only way
to go" slump. The last time I had a positive thought was when I
replaced the batteries in my pet fish Eric. He likes it when I let
him swim around in the bathtub.
As the thoughts continued to flow rampantly through my
head I realized that the last time I couldn't get to sleep Sammy
showed up. Not again, I thought; there's no way I could go
through another encounter. Then it happened; that unhappy
five-inch cockroach from a Southern Baptist college crawled
up into the night stand and once again sat at the base of my
lamp. As I reached up to turn on the light I muttered, "Why?," a
word I had learned to incorporate into my every thought.
As my eyes adjusted to the light I heard his answer.
"Because."
When I loOked at the cockroach I realized that he was differ-ent.
"Why are you so happy?" I asked.
"That's why I'm here, I have something I think you need to
hear," he answered.
"Could you please make it fast?" I said. "I need my rest."
"Just slow down," he said to me. "You need to hear what I
have to say."
"I don't need to listen to anything that you have to say," I
retorted.
"I see that your attitude is still negative. You need to stop
playing in the past and live for the future." Sammy crossed his
bottom set of legs.
"Explain yourself, please." I was too tired to fight any longer.
"Are you thirsty?" he questioned.
"Yes," I admitted.
He pointed to the glass of water on the table. "So, if you're
thirsty why don't you take a drink?"
"Because I need a full glass of water and there's only half a
glass of water there. It's half gone." I waited for his comeback.
"Do you really need a full glass? You see it as empty because
of what you drank in the past. You need to take a positive
approach. It will only take half a glass to refill it. Now quit
complaining and drink." The cockroach sat back and watched.
I picked up the glass and drank the water that remained.
"There, now the glass is empty," I said as I put the glass back
on the table.
"Yes, that is true," Sammy said. "But you're not thirsty any
more. You need to think on the positive things that you already
have. Don't waste your time thinking about what you can't or
don't have."
As Sammy finished talking I reached up to turn off the light
and took one last look at the empty glass. I did a double take
because I couldn't believe what I saw. The glass was full.
church because it was such a
strong symbol of paganism.
There was one exception,
though. At the Cathedral of
York, at one period before the
reformation, a large bundle of
mistletoe was brought into
the sanctuary each year at
Christmas and solemnly
placed on the altar by a priest.
In this rite, the plant which
the Druids had called "All-heal,"
was used as a symbol
of Christ, the Divine Healer of
nations.
The,people of England then
adopted the mistletoe as a
decoration for their homes at
Christmas. Its old, pagan reli-gious
meaning was quickly
forgotten, but some of the
other meanings and customs
have survived.
Mistletoe sprouts from pagan tradition
Tom Toperzer, associate professor of art, would like Bethel to be the
best place to get a Christian education in fine arts. Copeland/photo
Page 4 the Clarion december 10, 1982
Art chairman wants Bethel to be best in nation
by Bonnie Coleman
He has directed three art
museums within the past 12
years including the Univer-sity
Art Museum at Illinois
State University, the second
largest in Illinois, where he set
up an entire program. He orig-inated
over 300 art exhibi-tions
such as the Illinois and
Minnesota Artist Exhibitions,
published approximately 50
exhibition catalogs and seeks
to bring community attention
to art wherever he goes.
Who is he? Tom Toperzer, a
studio artist and Bethel's new
associate professor of art.
Toperzer is also the chairman
of the art department, coordi-nator
of the fine arts division
(including the music and the-ater
arts departments), and
director of the art gallery.
Philippians 4:13, "I can do
all things through Him who
strengthens me," is a verse
that has helped Toperzer to
believe and be confident in
himself.
"With Tom plus God, there's
really nothing I can't attempt
to do," said Toperzer. "Before,
the fear of failure and success
restricted me, but now I real-ize
you have to fail in order to
understand how far you can
go. And it's okay to fail," he
said.
Although Toperzer's sched-ule
can get very busy, when
given some spare time during
the day he likes to listen to
classical and jazz music (he
listens to two FM radio sta-tions).
He also loves to read.
"I'm a garbage reader," said
Toperzer. "I once went through
a period in my life when I
art, from page 1
tor, he said, "I know of an art
director in a major contem-porary
museum. He was
asked by his board of direc-tors
to remove a couple of
paintings whose subject mat-ter
was torture. They were
about Viet Nam. The direc-tors
found the paintings of-fensive
and asked for their
removal. The issue of appro-priateness
is not unique to
Bethel. It happens everywhere
all the time."
Is there then any policy
appropriately restricting
nudes?
"Not that I know of," said
Toperzer.
"Yes and no," said Jessup.
"Policy has been discussed,
but it becomes subjective
when there are great differ-ences
of opinion. I myself do
not necessarily endorse the
art show."
"The major difference be-tween
this year and last year,".
continued Jessup, "is corn-read
everything that came to
my house. I subscribed to
every magazine you can think
of ... I was looking for art
ideas: I'm an idea person."
His "garbage craze" has
lowed down. Since he came
to the Twin Cities, he started
reading the Minneapolis
newspaper and took up some
more serious reading in the
realm of arts and theology.
"Rainbows for a Fallen World,"
by Calvin Seerval, is the book
he is reading now.
munication."
Last year no one headed the
art department. "Last year
when Dobson, the dean or
anyone else had a problem
there was no one to focus on.
It resulted in a breakdown of
communications and knee-
Patti Dobson spent a great
amount of time finding mod-els,
shooting 20 rolls of film
developing pictures, framing
the 12 displayed photos, and
helping to run the art show
itself (over 500 attended). "I
could not even begin to add
up the hours it took to do it,"
she said.
She also spent a great
amount of money out of her
own pocket. "I spent $250 on
photographic supplies, $350
on frames and glass, $40 on
post card invitations to the
show, and $15 on the recep-tion
itself."
fi i rowdoo n lietg
"I'm hungry to find out what
artists who are Christians
think," Toperzer said. Toper-zer
has a strong concern for
the development of Christian
artists. "I have spent the past
12 years making artists known
or the community become
aware of art, but it has been
almost all secular. Now I'd
also like to help Christian
artists and the Christian com-munity
get together," said
Toperzer.
Bethel is a place, according
jerk reactions. Now there is
someone to focus on—me,"
said Toperzer.
Jessup said that the verdict
has not been decided yet
concerning policy in this case.
"I want to wait and see what
the response is," he said.
field of photography without
the assistance of a faculty
member who specialized in it.
Bonita Wahl, the photography
instructor of last year, was
not rehired for economic rea-sons.
Dobson has been heavily
criticized at times.."I'm afraid
a lot of people hate me for
this," she said.
"Even so, I want everyone
to know that it was well worth
it to me. There are many re-wards,"
she said.
Showing the photographs
is one of these rewards. As
Dale Johnson put it, "It is a
time of celebration."
to Toperzer, that he can use
some of his ideas to enhance
the development of Christian
artists. "Places like Bethel
have many important mis-sions,
I believe the Christian
community is ignorant of the
arts—people are afraid of
them; there's been a fear of
graven images," he said.
Toperzer would like to see
Bethel make itself known na-tionwide
as the best place to
get a Christian education in
the fine arts. "Bethel should
be the immediate place a
Christian high school kid who
wants to be a painter, actor,
ballerina or musician would
want to go to be at the center
of Christian arts."
Bethel can achieve this goal
by constructing a performing
arts center where Christians
can perform and be introduced
to the public, said Toperzer.
"We have a tradition of excel-lence
in the arts at Bethel. I'm
interested in building on that
tradition and making the
Christian community and
others aware of this excel-by
Bonnie Coleman
Following a series of stu-dent
and faculty surveys, the
Academic Policy Committee's
(APC) five-member sub-corn-mittee
is in the process of
finalizing an agenda of topics
to discuss and revise in the
present curriculum.
One of the steps in finaliz-ing
the agenda is to host
faculty meetings to discuss
the sub-committee's proposed
areas of revision.
"General education require-ments
was the primary. em-phasis
in the meeting," said
Stan Anderson, professor of
philosophy and director of the
committee. "There is a strong
division of faculty concerning
the requirements."
Presently 50 per cent of the
34 credit courses needed to
graduate are to be completed
by the general education re-quirements.
Nine to 11
courses are core courses (DO,
CO, EN, CR, Words and Ideas,
and Bible) and six to eight
courses consist of balance
courses not represented in the
student's specialization.
"There should be more flex-ibility
for the student's spe-cialization,"
said Scott Cham-bers,
assistant professor of
chemistry. "I am a strong be-liever
in the value of liberal
arts, but don't think they
should be emphasized so
much that the student is not
lence," Toperzer said.
Toperzer first became inter-ested
in art in high school. "I
wasn't a good student in
school and tried to stay out of
classes that required me to
read and study," he said. Shop
and art classes became the
core of his studies. "The only
reason I went to college was
because I got a football schol-arship
at Southwestern Col-lege
in Kansas," Toperzer
said, smiling. He completed
his B.A. degree at Sterling
College, where he transferred
after two years.
Upon completing his M.F.A.
degree at the University of
Nebraska, Toperzer was of-fered
a job as the first director
at Blanden Memorial Art
Museum by the President of
the Board of Trustees at Fort
Dodge, Iowa.
Toperzer and his wife Carol
have been married 21 years.
She is a tour manager for the
Bethel music department.
They have two sons: Scott, 17
and Max, 13.
adequately prepared to get a
job."
According to Chambers,
within the chemistry special-ization
it is difficult for the
student to get into his/her
program all the classes Cham-bers
wants as an advisor be-cause
of the general require-ments.
"I went to the University
of California-San Diego where
only 40 per cent of the courses
required were in general edu-cation.
I had course work in
humanities, social science,
natural science, math, fine
arts and a foreign language. I
feel adequately prepared in
the general arts."
Bob Weaver, assistant pro-fessor
of business, said, "The
50 per cent of general educa-tion
requirements isn't much
of a problem. The problem
comes with too many seniors
taking introductory courses.
It doesn't benefit the senior or
freshman any."
Weaver is intent to have a
liberal arts education but op-posed
to a drastic change in
the requirements, such as a 40
or 30 per cent emphasis on
general education. "The ques-tion
comes to whether we
want to train highly prepared
generalists or professionals."
"There will never be a way
to totally eliminate the prob-apc,
see page 11
Dobson's experience
General education
discussed by APC
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White Castle 'slamming' tradition lives after midnight
by Ruth Delight Hubbard
White Castle has been serv-ing
its small, square ham-burgers
since 1921. Back then
the delectable "sliders" cost
five cents each. Inflation has
taken its toll. The 100% beef
burgers are now 28 cents, but
can still be purchased 24
hours a day.
To a number of Bethel stu-dents,
"Castle runs" are a vital
part of the college experience.
According to Todd Erickson,
"A Castle run isn't official
unless it is after midnight." A
junior, Erickson has been
going to the Castle since his
father took the family there
when he was seven. As a
freshman in Edgren two years
ago, Erickson began his offi-cial
Castle career. •
There is rumor that Bethel
students have been going to
White Castle late at night for
at least 20 years, but few
graduates of those days will
admit they even know what
you are talking about if you
ask them.
Among those who are proud
of the Castle tradition are Joel
Hodgson and the infamous
"Barking Ducks" and Rick
Purifoy with his "Cellar
Dwellars."
Brian McKay, junior, broke
the "slamming" record when
he was a freshman "Cellar
Dweller" with a time of 4.7
seconds. "Slamming" involves
the consumption of a single
"slider" for time. The idea is to
slam the entire slider into your
mouth and swallow it whole.
Most people prefer to remove
the pickle first so it doesn't
get stuck in the throat.
There is, however, more
than one way to slam-a-slider.
There is the "fold and insert"
method where you simply fold
the slider in half and stuff
into your mouth.
With the increasingly pop-ular
"around-the-world"
method, you swing the slider
around your head with your
right hand and into your
mouth from the left side.
A third method is called a
"gorilla slam" where you
grasp the slider with both
hands behind your head and
quickly slam it into your
mouth.
Besides slamming for time,
some Castle-goers compete for
quantity. Two years ago, Jim
Eaton consumed 24 sliders,
traditionally slamming the
last one, and has held the
record until last week.
At 2:21 a.m., David Purifoy
arrived at the White Castle on
Central Ave. accompanied by
Paul Dahlberg and Blake
Huffman, all from Edgren.
Purifoy ate 22 sliders before
leaving the Castle at 3:47 a.m.
with three in his hand. The
rules state that you must eat
all the burgers in succession,
so Purifoy ate two of the slid-ers
in the car on the way back
to the dorm.
David Purifoy slammed his
twenty-fifth slider at 4:04
a.m., Wed. Nov. 11, 1982, in
room 220 of Edgren dorm in
the presence of Brad Flater,
his RA. Purifoy now holds
the Bethel record for the most
sliders consumed.
The White Castle tradition
is growing in popularity.
Their is little concern about
this becoming too popular,
however. "The hours, and the
grease combined with onions
that make up most of the
'slider' will keep the majority
of people away," commented
an anonymous Castle-goer.
Asked if he had any advice
for people who want to at-tempt
the consumption rec-ord,
Purifoy exclaimed, "Don't
do it! It really hurts bad."
Presbyterian Homes offers students opportunity of growth
by Sandy Holasek
One opportunity for growth
for many Bethel students lies
on the shores of Lake Johanna
at Presbyterian Homes.
Presbyterian Homes is one
of the most unique care facili-ties
for the elderly in the
United States, according to
Allan Reynolds, business in-structor
at Bethel. Reynolds
is in the process of formulat-ing
a Bethel business intern-ship
at Presbyterian Homes.
"I see it as unique because it
offers many services for the
community and provides in-dependent
living quarters for
the elderly," said Reynolds:
Presbyterian Homes serves
not just as a health care cen-ter,
but as home for the retired
and elderly. It also features a
day-care program where el-derly
men and women can be
active on a day-by-day basis.
Most of the Bethel students
that work at Presbyterian
Homes find it very different
from other businesses. "We
are a non-profit organization
so we are interested in caring
for the residents instead „of
making money," said Shellie
Diekoff, junior business major
and receptionist at Presbyte-rian
Homes. Bill Callen, senior
business major, said, "Not
only caring but making the
elderly feel at home is what
makes Presbyterian Homes
different." Callen is a security
guard and bus driver for the
Homes' community day-care
center.
Diekoff pointed out that
Christian commitment seems
to be what strengthens this
caring. "The residents love
the Lord and it shows. The
people I work with go out of
their way; you see a lot of
pride in the employees' work,"
said Kelley Geary, senior ele-mentary
education major and
nurses' aid. Wendell Geary,
senior in international rela-tions
and an orderly, finds the
employees flexible and will-ing
to help Bethel students.
Experiences at Presbyterian
Homes brought growth and
better awareness of the el-derly
to the student em-ployees.
"I found that I needed
to relate to them as persons
and not as objects that are
pushed out of society when
the age of 65 comes along,"
said Diekoff.
"You find that life does not
stop because you are elderly
and that they are still inter-ested
in things," said Kelley
Geary.
According to Callen, most
young people see elderly peo-ple
as reserved and conserva-tive.
"What I found out is that
they have a lot of fun," he
said.
Students working at Pres-byterian
Homes favor Bethel's
further connection with the
Home through internships. "It
will be great because they
will get a chance to learn
about business administra-tion
and how to care for the
geriatric field as a business,"
said Diekoff. Callen said, "It
is a nice place to work and
good for a Bethel program
because it's a non-profit ser-vice,
which is good from e
Christian perspective, be-cause
you're serving the Lord
when you're serving others.
by Jim Holmes
GAMES
The next time you're home for the holidays and pull out that
original word game after turkey and dishes, take a good look at
those little tiles:
Notice the all-important numbers in the right hand corner.
They are actually indications of the amount of information
contained in the letter on the tile. Before you brush this off, let
me quickly explain what is meant by information. We need
only the most elementary of ideas from probability and high-school
mathematics.
Suppose that there are a number of possible results of som-thing
you are trying to accomplish or measure. Perhaps only a
few of the total number of results are actually acceptable ones.
In this case we would say that the probability of getting an
acceptable result is the ratio of the number of acceptable trials
by the total number of possible results.
Several examples are certainly in order. Let's take the letters
in the first paragraph of the article to be the set of all possible
results. The total number of these characters (counting spaces
between words) is 461. Suppose we are interested in the par-ticular
letter "H." The number of times it occurs in this same
paragraph is 23. So for this experiment, the probability of
seeing an "H" would be 23/461 or .049.
Granted, taking only one paragraph for our sample of data is
a bit risky. We really need many more characters on which to
base our probability of seeing a given character. The first
section of the classic text on probability and information the-ory
written by Richard Hamming, co-founder of coding and
information theory contains the letter "H" 251 times. There are
6498 total characters, so the probability of seeing "H" in this
sequence of Hamming characters is:
251 - .0386
6498
Since we have used an entire section of Hamming's text, we
might infer that most, if not all of his writing would contain an
"H"with the same frequency.
Let us now look at the term "information." Mathematicians
have defined the information of an event as the logarithm
(base 2) of the recriprocal of the probability. In the example of
the preceding paragraph the information in the "H-event" is
therefore
log(6498/251) (base 2)
When we actually calculate this number, it turns out to be a
probability, see page 10
Central Baptist Church
420 North Roy Street St. Paul, Minnesota 646-2751
Pastoral Staff:
Rev. Frank Doten, pastor
Rev. Ronald C. Eckert, pastor
Bus Leaves:
Campus 8:45
FT 9:00
SC 9:10
BV 9:20
Services:
8:45 & 11:00
10:00 Sun. School
7 p.m. evening
The communications board, which oversees student publications, is
accepting applications for membership.
CC sponsors all-nighter,
welcome-back bash
page 8 the Clarion december 10, 1982
by Diane Henry
The communications board
oversees student publications:
the Clarion, Roster, and Pas-sages.
Marilyn Starr, dean of
women and administrative
representative on the board
said, "It is a very active board,
and the students on it are
mature and responsible."
Steve Lemon, vice-presi-dent
of Bethel student body
and chairman of the commu-nications
board, said, "The
board deals with the budgets
and other aspects of the pub-lications,
and reviews student
response. The members need
to be open-minded and see
both sides of every situation."
The board has a maximum
Barkey
takes third
in U debate
At the U of M Invitational
on Nov. 17 and 18, Bethel Col-lege
was represented in Lin-coln/
Douglas debate by Greg
Barkey and Kim Pettman..
This type of debate is unique
in that it is "one-on-one" de-bating
as opposed to the more
traditional team concept.
In the four preliminary
rounds of competition Barkey
had a 4-0 record and was the
.top seeded individual in the
semi-final elimination round.
Losing a close debate, he
placed third in the tourna-ment.
In the most recent national
rankings of the Cross Exami-nation
Debate Association
Bethel College improved its
standing from 39th to 23rd in
the nation. This ranking rep-resents
a strength assessment
through a complicated point
system that evaluates all the
debate programs in the Uni-ted
States which participate
in value proposition debating.
In mid-January the debate
topic will change from the
present topic of nuclear freeze
to another topic of social and
political relevance.
of six voting members on it,
but right now there are only
five. They are Bonnie Cole-man,
senior, David Thornton,
Peter Thomas and Cindy
Froeschle, sophomores. Cole-man
is the only returning
member.
Three non-voting members
of the board are JoAnn Wat-kins,
Clarion editor, Sherri
by Tim Nelson
The cafeteria is the place to
be December 13 and 14 if you
need to cram for finals. The
Campus Coordinators are
sponsoring two all-nighters
which will last from 10 p.m.
to breakfast.
"This will give students an
opportunity to get away from
their roommates and study,"
said CC Leslie Schirm. This
will be the first year of CC—
sponsored all-nighters. "It's
kind of an alternative to Per-kins,"
she added.
Coffee and cookies will be
provided in the Lemon
Lounge. Donations of 5 cents
or more will be accepted to
pay for the snacks.
The cafeteria will be the
study area. "No typewriters
will be allowed. It is strictly
for book study," said Schirm.
Rinehart, Roster editor, and
Leann Kicker, Passages editor.
Notices regarding applica-tion
for board membership
appear in the Bethel Bulletin
periodically. Lemon requests
applications, then reviews
them before making recom-mendations
to the BSA presi-dent
Steve Goodwin, who
appoints the members.
"Hopefully the study area will
be quiet," she added.
The Campus Coordinators
will welcome students back
from Christmas vacation by
throwing a welcome back
bash on Wednesday, Jan. 5, in
the Coffee Shop.
"Free ice cream sundaes will
be served in the Coffee Shop
from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.," said
Schirm.
"It will be a good opportun-ity
for friends to get together
and talk about their vacation,"
added Schirm.
by Debbie Myhrer
BRIDGE, a new Bethel pro-gram,
"is an attempt to turn
loose the resources of the in-stitution
into the greater Chris-tian
community," according
to Dr. Harold Christianson,
director of public and church
relations. The program was
designed by the public affairs
department, which recognized
Bethel was "not maximizing
its resource," Christianson
said.
The idea of BRIDGE is to
"enable Bethel to go to the
people to serve their needs
and work." A brochure was
sent to nearly 2,000 United
States' churches. A catalogue
of resources for the use of the
Christian community is being
designed.
Bethel resources to be used
in the BRIDGE program in-clude
educational and inspi-rational
programs, such as
Founders' Week and semin-ars,
and ministry resource
people, such as Bethel faculty
and administrators as speak-ers.
Other resources include
student services involving
students in singing, Speaking,"
and working in church camps,
for example. Communication
materials are also available.
Christianson hopes that
young people exposed to
BRIDGE services will want
to come to Bethel. "The best
way for institutions to grow
is to serve the public," he said.
Another result Christianson
envisions is "a constant
prayer support for the Bethel
student body by our
churches."
Some BRIDGE services will
be provided free of cost and
others for, the minimal up-keep
of the program.
BRIDGE links Bethel, communication
newsbriefs
Board oversees student publications
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type proves the old saying that "puppy love leads to a dog's
life."
Think of being separated from a leash only by death.
5. The Crooner Type.
This singing sobster is a fore-runner or follower of Elvis and cannot
be separated from his "musical instrument." When he sings "I've got
Love and a Dime" it is evident that he over-estimates his financial
holdings. Whenever one is subjected to his nasal whine the thought
comes that the poor campus wolf is no doubt in a trap from which he
will never escape.
6. The "Moon-light Gambler" Type.
This type furnishes the main reason for locking all classrooms and
offices each evening. It is certain that he and his dream girl will be
sitting in a dark room. Each room he enters becomes a dark room and
a petting parlor. Most authorities admit that he does look better in the
dark.
7. The Model-T-Lover (fore-runner of the 1961 model).
The Bethel fieldhouse stands as a worthy monument -on the sacred
ground where one Bethel couple celebrated many a field-day in an old
Model T. The car still had four wheels, but no tires, and, of course, it
was air-conditioned. Love could never have been and never will be
grander in a new Falcon.
8. The "Sputnik" Type—(Space travelers).
This type has no regard for time or place. They return late to the
dormitory and bring with them such "fuzzy" excuses as they have
gathered on their soaring expeditions:
1. "My watch stopped." What a timely tale!
2. "We ran out of gas." Too bad a car can't run on hot air as
there must have been plenty of that.
3. "We got lost in Como Park." No one could doubt that story as
they could get lost on the campus.
4. "We got a traffic ticket for speeding just because we were
trying to get back to the dormitory on time." ahem!
5. "We had a flat tire." This tale falls as flat in 1961 as it did
in 1930.
6. "We went canoeing and while we were in the middle of the
lake we lost one paddle so we could only go in circles." Is it possible
they are still going in circles ?
(A rhetorical question to some of the veteran faculty Romeos-
How many of the above excuses bring back memories of the "good
old days"? )
7. The Ideal-lover Type.
Yes, there is such a type. These lovers maintain high standards of
ethics and of scholarship. They never make public demonstrations of
their love for one another. They return to the dormitories on time.
The greatest number of Bethel couples can be classified in this
group.
CONCLUSION:
1. Love-life on the Bethel Campus in 1961 is much the same as it
was in 1925.
2. The prediction of the author is that the future love activities will
be as interesting as the past have been.
3. What about long-range planning?
Whether the campus is on North Snelling or in the Arden Hills
area the faculty must continue to look, to over-look, to listen, and
"to suffer long and be kind."
(Photo by Franks)
Ralph Hale and Jerry Christensen get the big-freeze" in a pre-
Sno-Daze date attempt.
december 10, 1982 the clarion page 9
from our files, '61-'62
love-Life On Bethel Campus
Illuminated By Dean Nelson
Editor's note : This article is reprinted from the Faculty
Journal where it appeared in February, 196L
by Effie V. Nelson
Dean of Women
AUTHOR'S DEFENSE—REASONS FOR THE ARTICLE:
1. To furnish information on a timely subject about which there
is no reading matter in the Bethel library.
2. To provide light reading for relaxation following the pilgrimage
through the scholarly volume on Dispensationalism which is the re-quired
book for faculty study this month.
3. To meet the challenge presented by a member of the Faculty
Journal committee.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. The thousands of Bethel students whose lives have been read as
open books. The author is indebted to at least sixteen faculty couples
who have furnished invaluable source-material.
2. The diary of the author—complete from 1920 to the present
moment. (Not available to the public.)
INTRODUCTION :
Te be known as an authority on the subject Love-life on the Bethel
Campus is a humbling experience and one which carries great responsi-bilities.
Let it be understood that the vast amount of information has
been gained by observation and scientific research, not by personal ex-perience.
The Bethel campus seems to be a natural habitat far those who love
one another and one of Bethel's aims as an institution interested in
Higher Education is to furnish a "Happy Hunting Ground" for Modern
Youth.
In a careful study of data collected between the years 1925-1961 the
following classification becomes evident.
CLASSIFICATION—TYPES OF LOVERS WHO HAVE ATTENDED
BETHEL:
1. The Starry-eyed Dreamer Type.
These lovers gaze adoringly into each others eyes as they dream—
always and every-where. In a follow-up survey it has been discovered
that they now see stars of much greater brilliance and that the "sweet
nothings" which they have whispered on the campus air really are
nothing.
2. The Purse-bearer Type.
The tall, handsome youth is brave enough and strong enough to
carry "lillums' " heavy purse. After the wedding "lillums" is strong
enough to carry her own purse as well as his, and she holds the purse-strings
"ever after."
3. The Campus-leaders.
The Bethel student senate has a motto: "Every Student a Leader."
There are many who lead each other up the steps, down the steps, down
the hall, and into the chapel where they continue to hold hands. This
type causes much frustration on the part of observers as no one can
determine who is leading whom.
4. The "Puppy-love" Type.
These are the ever-present cuddlers who inhabit the lounges, who
occupy only one-balf, of a car seat, and who make any spot on the ,
campus a "mushing" area.
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Toperzer looks into
by Mark C. Anderson new fine arts facility
In my record reviews, I have
tried to focus in on talented
Christian rock artists who
steer away from a myopic
view of the world, and are
tuned in to the larger picture.
Andy Pratt is another artist
of this calibre, as his mini-album,
Fun in the First World
(on Enzone records), displays.
Andy's targets are clear
from the beginning: material-ism
and lack of compassion in
an aching, doomed world.
"Fun in the First World" is a
satirical song which, with
pointed accuracy, depicts the
attitudes Americans have had
towards the Third World. Sung
against an onslaught of techno-rock
synthesizers, guitars and
a bouncy drum beat, this song
is disguised as a danceable
party tune. The arrangement
is effective when juxtaposed
with the lyrics, which talk
about affluent, self-indulgent
lifestyles that ignore the hard-ship
of the Third World. If
people of the Third World try
to approach us we tell them,
"This is our world—please
don't come."
But our riches and pleasures
are temporal, as the apoca-lyptic
"Burn in the Fire" em-phasizes.
With an intricate
arrangement of driving Super-trampish
keyboards, forceful
bass and guitar, solid-anchor-ed-
down drumming, and top-ped
off with Andy's penetrat-ing
vocals, it is a powerful
statement of our world's need
for repentance. "Paper Money"
carries on with this theme of
the temporal nature of first
world pleasures. It is eerie in
tone and includes a rhythm
part that jars the listener just
as the message of the song
does. Andy sings it so that it
oozes with irony. He says,
"Our money's not worth what
it used to be/ One thing's for
sure, it's worth more than it's
going to be."
"Israel" is a timely song
about the plight of Jews since
1946 in their attempt to estab-lish
a homeland. It opens with
dreamy, mournful synthesizer
and piano, while drums that
sound like explosions pound
in the background. Aided by
blistering guitar, symphonic
sounding synthesizers, and
Andy's emotion-filled voice,
the song reflects the tumult
and terror of the situation in
the Mideast. Both sides are
left screaming, "I wanna go
home," but there is no peace-ful
"home sweet home" in
sight.
"Who Will be My Friend" is
a delicate song of empathy for
lonely widows, orphans, and
elderly. This poignantly ren-dered
song calls attention to
hurting individuals and brings
to mind Christ's words, which
are felt throughout the album,
"As you did it to one of the
least of these my brethren, so
you did it unto me."
There are only five songs
on this venture, but they are
at a reduced price. And there
is not an inch of wasted vinyl.
Because you will not be likely
to find "Fun in the First World"
at a local record store—Chris-tian
or secular—write to:
Enzone records, 545 High
St., Walpole, Massachusetts
02081, if you are interested.
by Amy Goss
Tom Toperzer, associate
professor of art, is beginning
to work on plans for a new
fine arts building.
"I'm getting together the
names of foundations and
other grant agencies who have
expressed interest in giving
money for the arts and/or reli-gious
purposes. I plan to write
a grant proposal and ask them
if they would be willing to
fund a feasibility study for
the building," said Toperzer.
The building would include
a museum for collecting and
exhibiting Christian art, a per-forming
arts center, a chapel,
and classrooms for all the
music, art, and drama classes.
These would move out of their
present facilities, leaving
them open for additional class
space. It might also include
offices for the president and
administration.
The feasibility study deter-mines
if money is available
for this kind of structure and
if not, what it is available for.
It also seeks to determine how
much the project would be
supported by the Christian
community.
"In a feasibility study, you
get all kinds of experts to-gether—
dreamers, men who
are practical and those with
large funds—and determine
what the structure would
include," spaid Toperzer.
Things such A projected en-rollment
and new technologi-cal
advances are explored.
"We have a vision for qual-ity,"
said Toperzer. "We're
dreaming but want to aim
high rather than too low."
One proposed site for the
building is at the end of the
Academic Center stretching
out toward Lake Valentine.
Some supporters are inter-ested
in connecting the col-lege
to the seminary with an
enclosed walkway between
the two. Underground park-ing
has also been suggested.
"I don't see it limited to
being a college facility, but a
landmark for the Christian
community. There are no
Christian museums or places
where a Christian production
should debut. I see this as a
type of Kennedy Center or
Guthrie-Walker Arts center,
a major place for the arts for
the Christian community. lo-cally
and beyond, perhaps
nationwide," said Toperzer.
"It can be done," he stressed.
"It is a matter of making it
happen."
Toperzer, new at Bethel this
year, feels this is part of the
reason he was brought here.
He initiated the art museum
at Illinois State University
and was the director of that
museum.
"Things like this take a lot
of time," said Toperzer. He
estimated that in three to five
years Bethel will make some
hard decisions about the
building.
Finals
Schedule
Tuesday, Dec. 14
E 8:30-10:30
J, K 12-2
A 3:30-5:30
Wednesday, Dec. 15
F 8:30-10:30
I 12-2
B 3:30-5:30
Thursday, Dec. 16
G 8:30-10:30
L 12-2
C 3:30-5:30
Friday, Dec. 17
H 8:30-10:30
M 12-2
D 3:30-5:30
music review
probability, from page 8
4.717; the point number on the "H" tile is 4.
What happens when we calculate tht information asso-ciated
with a letter which occurs less frequently, way a "Q"
which is found only 4 times in Hamming's book? By using
similar calculations we can determine that the information is
log(6998/4),
which works out to a 10. Hamming and the game seem to be in
strong agreement when it comes to "Q" 's!
In summary, letters which occur infrequently are associated
with a much higher information content.
EVENTS
The next time you're walking through life, take a good look
at the actions of those around you. Events (collections of these
actions) which have a high probability contain little informa-tion.
Do you disagree? Consider the event which might be
described as receiving a good, Christian greeting in the halls at
Bethel.
Events occurring infrequently are associated with a much
higher information content:
Event 1. Students spend their afternoon helping, analyzing
and challenging their colleagues as they all work together on
that assignment. The probability of such an event at Bethel
might be .0386 (my guess); if so the associated information, at
least to a semester weary prof is 4.717. Thanks, mathlab gang!
Event 2. Students, on their daily pilgrimage between park-ing
lot and ceremonial stairs leavethe trail to pick up someone's
discarded soft drink container abandoned on the side of the
creek. The probability of such an event might be 4/6498 (my
guess, again). If so, the associated information is 10. Special
thanks, Larry!
Event 3. Members of the Bethel community really forgi\T
other members who have caused hurt or damage. The proba-bility
may be low, especially if this event takes into account the
sum tot al of human experiences; but the information to our
inon=h'rlstian neighbors -is high. Ilhan'ks, gethel.
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december 10, 1982
the Clarion
page 11
Study undertaken on new stadium
by Neal Bernards
George Henry, director of
athletics, is conducting a feasi-bility
study on a multi-pur-pose
stadium that would be
named in honor of Chuck
Schwab. If enough support
can be found, an artificial-surface
playing field could be
ready next fall for Bethel
sports.
Henry suggested Schwab's
name be used as a memorial
to him for his involvement
with Bethel. His initial gift for
the fieldhouse was a challenge
for others to become involved.
Schwab died last April after a
battle with cancer. "Chuck
Schwab is one of the greatest
men I ever knew. I would like
to dedicate a facility of qual-ity
to him," said Henry.
"No definite commitment
has been made by Bethel or
any contributors yet," said
Henry. "So far this study is
independent of Bethel and
done on my own time." Fi-nances
must be met for the
fieldhouse before any new
fundraising drives can be
started. The stadium and
fieldhouse are completely
separate projects.
"If $800,000 can be raised
by April 1983, construction
will start next summer. But
that's an awful big if," said
Henry. "We need half of the
projected $1.5 million cost to
start anything."
Not only Bethel supporters
have been contacted for the
project. Friends of Chuck
Schwab who want to remem-ber
him in a special way have
shown interest.
- •
George Henry, director of athe-tics,
is conducting a feasibility
study. Copeland/photo
The first phase of construc-tion
entails preparation of the
soil, laying a sub-base for the
field, and installing the turf.
Planned for the second phase
are a 400-meter, eight-lane,
all-weather track, permanent
concrete stands (capacity
3000), and possible lighting.
Locker rooms and a conces-sion
stand would be added if
funds were available. The
existing home bleachers will
be moved to the visitors' side,
adding seats for 1000.
"Optimistically I see the
first phase completed next
fall. Realistically, I think it
will be done one year from
September," said Henry.
The stadium, according to
Henry's plan, would be avail-able
to the entire community.
Physical education classes,
intramural sports, joggers,
and area youth teams would
have access.
"It's designed to be used,"
said Henry. "With grass you
always have to worry about
tearing it up." Bethel's current
field is used 14 times per sea-son
and is in poor condition.
Drainage problems account
for the field's deterioration.
Though Henry feels artifi-cial
turf is not necessary to
the survival of Bethel's sports
program, it would aid recruit-ing,
increase visibility, and
bring exposure to Bethel.
Many of the stadium's ideas
came from Hillsdale College
in Michigan. Hillsdale, a
school of 1100, recently built
a $1.8 million athletic field
and a $10.4 million field house.
The stadium is part of an
extensive south campus de-velopment
plan that includes
three dormitories and the field
house. It would be located
west of the present field, in an
area that is presently a marsh.
events
Friday, Dec. 10
WVB—NCAA National Tourney
W1343—Bethel Christmas Tourney, Home, 6 pm.
HOC—St. MarYs , Away, 7:45 pm.
CC—Residence Activity Night
CC—"Nutcrodier Fantasy," Northrop, Bus leaves 7 pm.
Inesis Coffee House, 9 p.m.-12 am.
CC—Rollerskating, 12 am.
All Sports Weekend (Admissions)
IM Broomball Sign-up, Lost Day, IM Office, 3:30-4:30 pm.
Saturday, Dec. 11
ANI3—NCAA National Tourney
WR—Northwestern, Home, 10-.30 am.
HOC—St. Thomas, Away, 3 pm.
MBB—Hamline, Home, 5:30 pm.
ISA—Christmas White Elephant Gift Exchange, TBA, 6 pm.
WI3B—Bethel Christmas Tourney, Home, 6 pm.
All Sports Weekend (Admissions)
Sunday, Dec. 12
Catacombs, FA 312, 8 pm.
Monday, Dec. 13
Chapel—St. Lucia
Lost Day of Classes
XCS—Film, FA 313, 5 pm.
BSU—"Rhema," Prayer & Probe Service, LR 301, 7 pm.
CC—All Night Study Cafeteria
Tuesday, Dec. 14
Begin Final Exams
CC—All Night Study Cafeteria
Wednesday, Dec. 15
Final Exams
Thursday, Dec. 16
Final Exams
Friday, Dec. 17
Last Day of And Exams
Saturday, Dec. 18
MBB—St. Cloud, Home, 5:30 pm.
Residence Halls Close at Noon Senate accepts bill, resignations
by Todd Erickson
A letter of resignation once
again began a Student Senate
meeting, the meeting taking
place Dec-. 6.
The resignations came from
president pro tern Bob Thomp-son
and Junior Senator John
Young. They will both be
spending the spring of 1983 in
Washington, D.C., as part of
the American Studies Pro-gram.
Bills and old business were
discussed at length at the
meeting. The first bill was a
Student Senate reimburse-ment
bill concerning money
spent by Steve Goodwin,
Steve Lemon and Craig S.
Johnson during the summer,
on Senate work. The second
bill was a bill to pay for travel
to the recent Board of Regents
meeting, attended by Steve
Lemon and Bob Thompson,
and this bill was passed.
Campus Coordinator Leslie
Schirm gave a special report
which involved getting feed-back
from fall CC events and
sharing ideas for next semes-ter.
The general consensus
was that the committee and
publicity have both worked
well, and events have been
enjoyable and well-received.
Future ideas include more
movies, a snow tubing trip,
concerts to be worked in con-junction
with the Progressive
Pacer, and a Chanhassen
Theatre outing.
The Senate also discussed
plans for some January work-ing
groups, to give the Senate
members something to work
on during Interim. The pres-ent
plan is for four groups. .
The first would be a Constitu-tion
Revision group, the sec-ond
a Student Senate Forum
Committee, the third group
would cover a future book
sale/exchange, while the
fourth would help Craig S.
Johnson with equipment for
the Student Association.
wrestling, from page 12
"We've got a few soft spots,"
said head coach Dave Klos-treich.
"But it's still early in
the season and not everyone
is in shape yet."
"We're moving into the
toughest part of the dual meet
season," he added. "But after
Christmas it should get
easier."
The Royals wrestled at
home against St. Cloud Wed-nesday,
Dec. 8 and will wres-tle
at Northwestern Saturday,
Dec. 11 as part of their pre-
Christmas schedule.
apc, from page 4
lem of seniors in introductory
level classes, but I think facul-ty
are creative enough to find
a way to work something out,"
Weaver said.
Although the general edu-cation
requirement is cur-rently
a focus with the APC,
sub-committee, and faculty
guidelines for specializations,
cognates, non-standard spe-cializations
and new degrees
are also part of the proposed
agenda.
"Student input is really im-portant.
Students should be
concerned about the curricu-lum
changes," said Beth Tal-
• bot, junior and member of the
APC sub-committee. "We need
to know what they need and
want. They will eventually be
the main critics of this."
Talbot said she hopes to get
a group of about 20 students
together starting interim to
discuss the curriculum revi-sion.
She welcomes any in-terested
students to put a note
in her PO.
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Worship Service at 11:00 AM
Sunday School at 9:30 AM (Special College-age)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM
Church Telephone 631-0211
Pastor Bruce Petersen
St. Olaf tallied five powerplay goals plus three more against the Royals and goalie Bob Atol in a recent
game. Copeland/photo
Auggies, Olies slip past skaters
page 12 the clarion december 10, 1982
by John. Clark
During its four-game trip to
Florida the Bethel men's bas-ketball
team proved that it
could play with the scholar-ship-
laden NCAA division
schools.
However, it's one thing to
play with a team and quite
another to beat it. The Royals
completed their expedition to
the Sunshine State with a 1-3
record.
The Royals opened with
Florida Southern University—
the runner-up in division II
last season. Bethel didn't seem
impressed with Florida South-ern's
reputation and gave
them more than they expected
before losing by a 74-67 mar-gin.
Florida Southern must have
thought the Royals were ref-ugees
from Disneyworld's
Fantasy World as Bethel
trailed by only one point at
the half. With two minutes to
go in the contest the deficit
was only two points for Bethel
but Florida Southern went
into a stall and free throws
helped to pad their lead.
"We took the game away
from them on the inside and
forced them to the outside,"
said coach George Palke.
Jason Velgersdyk and Dion
Wolter caused their share of
problems for Florida South-ern
as they made their pres-ence
known on the inside with
15 and 14 points respectively.
Bethel was unable to repeat
its effort the next night
against Eckard as halfcourt
press "created some prob- .
lems" and 27 turnovers re-sulted
in a 72-55 Royal de-feat.
Wolter again was a
Bethel standout with 19 points
and 16 rebounds.
"They were quick and we
didn't react very well to it,"
commented Palke.
by Wendy Norberg
The Bethel women's bas-ketball
team lost 56-44 to con-ference
powerhouse St. Tho- .
mas Tuesday night, Nov. 30,
in a defensively dominated
game. Due to a problem with
offensive execution and the
excellence of the Tommies'
defense, Bethel managed to
make only 27 per cent of its
shots. The strong point of the
Royal's game was also in their
defensive play.
Despite the loss the team
After one day off, when the
team traveled to Disneyworld,
the Royals returned to the
hardcourt against St. Leo Col-lege.
The Royals found them-selves
in a physical game they
weren't prepared for against
St. Leo's, as well as finding
themselves on the short end
of a 64-57 score. Bethel's twin
towers of power, Velgersdyk
and Wolter, led the Royals.
Velgersdyk had 21 points and
10 rebounds and Wolter
chipped in with 15 points and
14 rebounds.
Bethel's final game of the
tour came on Dec. 4 against
Weber with the Royals trying
to break a four-game losing
streak. The Royals took out a
week of frustrations and near-missed
on Weber as they won
handily 88-55.
"We just took charge and
made them play our game,"
said Palke.
Velgersdyk had another
steller performance with 25
points and 10 rebounds.
Dwayne "Dewey" Nordstrom
had 10 points and 11 rebounds
and Pete Briscoe had seven
points and 12 rebounds in
only six minutes of play.
The front court had to thank
the back court for all its points
as the guard tandem of Mike
Hanley, Bill Lawson and Roy
Lucas played a big part in the
31 assists piled up. The Roy-als
also racked up a school-record
66 rebounds during the
game.
Despite its 1-3 record dur-ing
the trip Palke felt his
squad played well, as he ro-tated
his starting line-ups in
each contest.
"We worked on some phases
we couldn't work on before in
scrimmages," he said. "We
were able to do some different
things on defense and we used
the zone quite a bit."
kept up a hard, fast pace
throughout the game. Coach
Bjorklund was pleased with
the determination and energy
displayed, but saw the need
to work on offensive aggres-siveness
and rebounding.
Karen Almeroth was high
scorer with 12 points and also
played well defensively, rack-ing
up 9 blocked shots. Sue
Deuhn led the team in re-bounds
and an overall im-provement
was seen at the
free throw line as the squad
put in 66 per cent of its shots.
by John Lilleberg
After a superb performance
at the MIAC Thanksgiving
tournament, the hockey team
appears to have come down
to earth again.
The week began with a
heartbreaking 5-4 overtime
loss to defending national
champion Augsburg. Augs-burg
scored first but the Roy-als
tied it at 1-1 with a goal by
Jon Abrahamson, assisted by
Scott Mayer. Following a sec-ond
AugsbLirg goal, Jeff Ek-lund
tied the game for the
Royals with a goal assisted
by Dave Palinguist and Gary
Shibrowski. After another
Augsburg goal, Scott Mayer
tied it at 3-3 with assists
going to Scott Prigge and
Bruce Nord.
Dave Palmquist put Bethel
in the lead 4-3 late in the
game, with assists from Jeff
Eklund and Bruce Nord.
Shortly after Palmquist's goal,
Augsburg tied the score to
send the game into overtime.
The overtime featured a
number of close chances for
both teams. It was highlighted
The JV squad also fell to the
Tommies, 76-66, but a notice-able
improvement was seen
in its offensive play from the
prior week, and the depth of
the Royal bench continues to
develop as the JV gets more
college game experience.
"St. Thomas is expected to
be an MIAC power," com-mented
Bjorklund, "so I was
pleased with the game we
gave them and see it as an
indicator of how we can do
this season."
by Bob Atol's sparkling play
in the Bethel goal. Finally, the
Auggies managed to beat Atol
on an open break to win the
game.-
The effort was summed up
by Coach Craig Dahl, "We
played well, especially the for-wards.
We've lost three games
by one goal. We've just got to
start winning the close ones."
In the next game, a new
powerplay, five powerplay
goals and a slow Bethel start
helped St. Olaf defeat the
Royals 8-4. Scoring for Bethel
by Rich Whybrew
Although the wrestling
team finished fourth out of
seven teams at the Terry
Hawes Invitational on Satur-
' day, Dec. 4, there were some
.fine individual performances
given by Royal wrestlers.
Bethel was given a bye in
Bethel traveled to St. Cath-erine's
Tuesday, Dec. 7, and
plays on campus Dec. 10 and
11 as it hosts the second
annual Bethel Christmas
Tournament. On Friday the
action begins at 6 p.m. with
Augsburg against St. Ben's
and Bethel takes on St. Tere-sa's
at 8 p.m. Op Saturday the
losing teams tip off at 1 p.m.
and the winning teams meet at
3 p.m. to determine tourna-ment
champions.
were Keith Substad, Rob
Skanse, Jim Nelson and Jon
Abrahamson. According to
Coach Dahl, "They scored five
powerplay goals. They threw
a powerplay at us that we had
never seen before. We got bet-ter
as the game went on. We
outshot them 17-6 in the third
period; we've just got to start
quicker."
The Royals' next game is
Dec. 10 at St. Mary's. This is
followed by a game at 1:30
p.m. on Dec. 11 at the State
Fair Coliseum against St.
Thomas.
the first round and then
wrestled Southwest State in
the second round of the tour-nament.
The Royals were de-feated
in the.match 32-18, but
John Snyder, Ben McEachern,
Barry Ahlsten, and Rodger
Sullivan turned in fine per-formances,
winning their
matches.
Snyder was the first Royal
to win a match in the tourna-ment,
pinning his opponent in
the 177 class. McEachern de-cisioned
his opponent 3-2 in
the 167 class, Ahlsten got a
win in the 177 class, and Sul-livan
pinned his 190-pound
opponent to make up Bethel's
scoring in the match.
In the next round the Roy-als
wrestled St. John's and
lost 28-18. Snyder recorded
his second pin of the day and
McEachern also pinned his
opponent. Ahlsten joined
them as the only undefeated
Royal in the tournament.
wrestling, see page 11
sports
Basketball team shines
despite. Florida losses
Tommies overpower Royal defensive game
Individual performances
prove grapplers success