Clarion 1990-04-20 Vol. 65 No. 12

              Senior Chris Larson
Accepted to Yale
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Krystal Betz Interviewed
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Clothing Box Can Stay
by Jonna Fantz
The clothing box located on the first level
of the AC building was almost removed,
but it was agreed that the box should stay
where it is for the rest of this year until a
new location can be agreed upon.
The box was overflowing, and Bruce Kun
kel, Director of Institutional Services, received several complaints about it. A
notice went out that the box was to be
removed. After a meeting between Bruce
Kunkel, Peace and Justice leaders Bill
Breen and Kathey Skeie and their advisors
Sandy McNeil, assistant professor of the
writing center, and Don Postema, associate professor of philosophy, the clothing box is now being managed by Jim
Bjork and the Campus Ministries office.
The clothing box was originally organized
by Mike Roe, a previous professor of psychology. When Roe left, the responsibility
for the box bounced between Student
Senate and Peace and Justice. According
to Breen, Peace and justice wanted the
clothing box as "one stable project" for
the organization.
The problem arose when the box began
to be more than Peace and Justice could
handle. Breen says, "The clothes pour in—
which is great, but is hard to keep up
with." The clothes need to be bagged and
hauled to a downtown Catholic charity,
Sophomore James Orvis makes his weekly contribution to the clothing box.
Photo by Paul M. Gunnarson.
where they are distributed to those who
need them. Breen says that it was too big
a project for the two Peace and Justice
organizers.
Breen says when the memo went out,
Peace and Justice assumed that the box
was going to be removed completely.
The students were upset and began a
"Save the Clothing Box" campaign. They
sent petitions to students protesting the
boxes' removal.
Student Body President Chris Shaw told
Breen that he (Shaw) had talked to Kunkel. Kunkel had stated that he did not
want to eliminate the box, he only wanted
to move it. At this point the students
realized that a meeting needed to be set
up with Kunkel to discuss the box.
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CHO REMEMBERS HOMELAND, KOREA
by Chris Tachtck
"I have to tell my family how we will do in
America...! tell them 'Even we live in America, don't lose our smell.'" Dae-Sik Cho
leaned forward, describing what it was
like to board an airplane with his family of
five for the move to America.
"What is smell?" asked Cho's younger
son, then thirteen. Smell, Cho explained,
is the language, the traditions and the
culture of their home country, Korea. Cho
believes its 5,000 year history is the history of every Korean.
Cho is a custodian at Bethel College. The
short, blue-aproned Korean is easy to
locate: he whistles oriental-sounding
melodies as he sweeps around tables and
gathers plates. His English identifies him
as a foreigner, although he is, in fact, an
American citizen.
Senior Show
Opens
by Russ Boldt
The first of two installments of the Art
Department's annual Senior Show
opened Mon, 9 April, with 10 of thisyear's
20 senior art majors each displaying a
body of work. The purpose of the Senior
Show is to mark the "culmination of four
years of study with a show that is non-imitative, creative, and autobiographical,"
says Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art, Karen Berg-Johnson.
The ten seniors in the first show are Dove
Class Fromm, Cynthia Guy, Lisa Johnson,
Scott Johnson, Tara Klienhuizen, Chris
Knott, Chris Larson, Craig Piepho, Laura
Reindal, and Lori Shelly. As part of the Art
major, students are required to take a
senior seminar class which is oriented
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Dae-Sik Cho was born in Korea in 1944,
six years before the Korean War. It was
more to him than the background to a
M*A*S*H episode; he moved 500 miles
with his family, on foot. It took the family
of ten a couple months to reach the
southern, safer end of the Korean
peninsula.
Dae-Sik Cho came from humble beginnings. His father sold rice and other grains,
but didn't make quite enough to keep the
eight children satisfied. "In my boy time,
always hungry," Cho remembers.
Cho graduated from high school in I960,
a time when Korean students were leading nationwide demonstrations following
fixed elections. History has been more
than a general education requirement to
Cho; it's something he's watched
throughout his life.
Twenty-two happy years of teaching followed his graduation from college. He
married, had three children of his own and
taught in elementary schools around
South Korea, sometimes in a mountain
village, other times in a small town.
Korean students have a great respect for
their teachers; Cho smiles as he told of his
first visit back to Korea, only last year: over
two hundred of his past students came to
see him.
Cho's eyes widened with seriousness as
he tells of the national honor medal he
received for his teaching. With the award
came three weeks of expense-paid travel
around several Asian countries. "It was
my first airprane ride," he says.
Cho was content and successful. But in
1986 his wife's parents wrote inviting the
Chos to join them in their new country,
America.
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