Clarion 1990-12-14 Vol. 66 No. 08

              Student Artworks
Vandalized.
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Pastor Turns
Philosopher
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Art Prof Debuts
New Work
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Saudi Arabia Beckons Bethel Reserves For Service
by Joanie Daggett
For those Bethel students-in-the
Reserves, the crisis in the Middle East means
more than just the inconvenience of higher
gas prices. They face the possibility of being
"called up" and having to leave school.
Sophomore Bob Hoebcn has already been called up. According to Dave
Th weatt, a friend of Hoe ben's, he is currently
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in Wisconsin, receiving training for the
Combat Military Police.
Thweatt.aseniorchemistrymajor,
has not been called up. However, Thweatt
chose instead to volunteer for active duty,
and will leave Minnesota on February. He
expects to spend "at least a limited amount
of time" in Saudi Arabia, however his current assignment is at Fort Carson in Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
Thweatt says he chose to volunteer
because, "I couldn't stand sitting around
waiting....It's too stressful just to wait every
day for a phone call. This way I know where
I'm going and when."
Thweatt, who has been in the Reserves for a year, is trained as a combat
infantry soldier with the Army. This means
that, in the instance of war, he would very
likely be in the front lines, as an infantry
man.
According to Thweatt, this pros-
pectdoesnotreally frighten him. He believes
that the situation in the Gulf "is going tocool
off." However, if there is a war, Thweatt
says, "I wouldn't mind fighting....1 would
say I'm a little brainwashed, maybe....I've
been trained to kill people."
Tli weatt says of his decision to volunteer, "I feel good
about it and slightly nervous."
According to Thweatt, most of
his apprehension stems from the
prospect of "a total change of
environment." He also thinks it
will be difficult to be away from
friends and family.
Thweatt is not concerned about leaving school. He
plans to finish his degree while
he is in the Army at a school
close to where he will be stationed.
Steve Bardwell, a
sophomore who is in the Reserves, also faces the possibility
of being called up. He belongs to
the Naval Fleet Hospital at Fort
Snelling, which is currently "on
hold." This means, according to
Bardwell, that, though the unit has not been
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Sophomore Steve Bardwell, member of Ihe Naval
Reserves. Pholo bv Robin Hansen.
Career Development Center Offers
Options, Not Success
by Sean Hoyt
The Bethel CollegcCareer Development and Placement Office helps students at all stages of the career search find
their career direction through seminars, individual counseling, Industry Seminars and
Job Fairs, and the Bethel Placement Bulletin.
According to Paul Redin, Director
of Career Counseling and Placement, the
seminars are the first step in an education
process to help students leam to decide on a
career and make good choices towards that
goal.
The seminars consist of matched
sets of three, given 11 times throughout the
year. "They are offered as early as seven in
the morning and as late as seven at night,"
says Redin. He also mentions that students
don't have to commit to one specific set, but
can work around their schedules, just so
long as they get through all three.
Tammy Wheeler, Placement Coordinator, says that the three seminars focus
on "job search strategy, resume writing, and
interview skills," and they are led by either
Wheeler or Redin.
After the seminars are finished,
students can then make an appointment to
see either Redin, Wheeler, or their associate
David Ylkanen, Assistant to the President
and Corporate Relations. Redin estimates
that he alone handles as many as 500-600
appointments in given year.
According to Redin, the job of the
Career Development and Placement Office
is to help the students decide what they want
to do and to help them to prepare for that
task. He feels that counseling is an important part of that process. There are five basic
steps to the counseling:
1. Figuring out when you need to
decide on a major. The amount of time
varies from student to student. For example:
a freshman may have nine months; a
sophomore may have only two; whereas a
junior or senior may have to consider changing majors.
2. The counselor then goes into
what should be done between then, and up
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Women s Basketball Wins Two, Looses Two
by Lisa Eveland
Bethel's women's basketball team
played University of Minnesota at Morris
on Thursday, November 29. They led 32 to
29 at the half, but were unable to hold on to
the lead. The final score was Bethel 62,
U.M. Morris 67.
"We took away their strengths but
they beat us with their weaknesses," Head
Coach Deb Hunter said. "It was a good
learning lesson for us."
Rebounding for the game was even
for both teams at 23 a piece as was the free
throw percentage at 71 percent for both
teams. Morris outshot Bethel by compiling
a 51 percent shooting average while Bethel
had a 40 percent shooting average.
Allison Rostberg led the Royal
scoring with 21 points. Stacy Wendt had
sixteen points and Chris Easton had twelve.
Jennifer Egge led the team in rebounding
with seven rebounds. She was followed by
Wendt who had six rebounds.
On Saturday, December 1, Bethel
played their first conference game, beating
Senior Caplain Allison Roslbergshools
despite the charge of ihe Hamline
opponeni. The Lady Royals wenl on lo
beat Hamline 60-57 on December 8.
Pholo by Robin Hansen.
Carleton by 15 points. The final score was
65 to 50.
Bethel didn't decisively pull off
the win until the second half. "The first half
started slow," Hunter said. Bethel led by
four at the half. "In the first half we played
in spurts," she commented. "In the second
half our press and defensive pressure were
key factors in our win." Bethel outscored
Carleton 32 to 21 in the second half.
Wendt led the Lady Royals in
scoring and rebounding. She had 26 points
and pulled down eighteen rebounds. Hunter
also stressed the importance of the scoring
from the other players on the team. Ann
Nelson had ten points followed by Rostberg
who had nine points. Jody Vaillancourt,
Miriam Roisum, and Egge each had six
points.
Bethel led in the first minutes of
their game against Concordia Friday, December?. Butlastyear'snumberone ranked
team proved too much for Bethel to handle.
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