text:
The Campus Coordinators host John FiScher for Friday even-ing's
homecoming event. Certain Shapes is the warm-up band.
Bethel band launches
John Fischer concert
Sixteen Bethel freshmen and transfers experienced Wilderness Challenge in August. Rock climb-ing
was only one of the activities (Photo courtesy of Phil Bjork).
Vol. 57, No. 6
Bethel College, 3900 Bethel Dr., St. Paul, MN
16 October 1981
Bethel parking: a problem for all
by Jill Johnson
The perpetual parking
problem has arisen again
this fall to haunt both the
administration and Foun-tain
Terrace and Silver-crest
residents. The prob-lem
is simple—too many
cars and too few spaces.
The solution is much more
As the parking lots at
the apartments quickly fill,
garage space is offered for
a yearly rental fee of $180
at both complexes. At
Silvercrest, all of the 14
available garages have al-ready
been rented, accord-ing
to Greg Hamann, dir-by
Naomi Ludeman
"On belay?"
"Belay on."
"Climb on."
These are familiar corn-ector
of residence man-agement.
Illegal parking
in the fire lane has result-ed
from crowded condi-tions.
Garage space is still
available to Fountain Ter-race
residents. Hamann re-ports
30 of the 39 available
garages are not being used.
The rental charge appears
to be the cause of the lack
of renters.
Garage space is still
available to Fountain Ter-race
residents. Hamann re-ports
30 of the 39 available
garages are not being used.
The rental charge appears
to be the cause of the lack
of renters.
However, all of the gar-ages
were used last year
at the same price, accord-ing
to Hamann. "There's a
whole different attitude
this year," Hamann said.
"Money is just a lot tight-er."
Numerous alternatives
have been proposed only
to be rejected due to var-ious
city ordinances. Tear-ing
down the garages,
paving more of the lawns
and parking on the street
are all options prohibited
by city laws.
Presently, the most
promising possibility lies
in a reappraisal of the
rental fee, Hamann said.
However, this is a major
decision involving a rework-ing
of the budget and could
not be accomplished quick-ly.
Meanwhile, Hamann
urges students to be cour-teous
in their use of the
parking lots. He suggests
leaving the car at home or
on campus if it.will not be
used for extended periods
of time.
"We observed cars last
winter and found some
that sat for weeks without
being moved," Hamann
see page 3
of the wilderness in daily
action-oriented activities.
The wilderness activi-ties
include: bushwhack-ing
for several days (tramp-ing
through the woods
with only a compass, a
topographical map and
one's mind and endurance),
backpacking, canoeing the
Minnesota and Canadian
Boundary Waters, tech-nical
rock climbing and
rappelling, two to three
days of solitude in the
wilderness, a 10 - 15 mile
run and a variety of in-dividual
and group exper-iences.
This past August 16
incoming Bethel freshman
and transfer students
braved Wilderness Chal-see
page 4
by Dyer Davis
Entitled "The Great
Bethel Get-Together," Beth-el
Homecoming 1981 is
planned to encourage mu-tual
student and alumni
participation, according to
Campus Coordinator Sher-wood
Unlike past years, Home-coming
1981 is geared for
both students and alumni.
Campus Coordinators
McKinnis and Lori Droogs-ma
are working with Curt
Fauth, director of alumni
affairs, to achieve greater
by Anne Staus
John Fischer will be in
concert tonight, Friday,
Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. in the
Robertson PE Center.
Tickets are $3.50 in ad-vance
at the Campus Co-ordinators
Office or $4 at
the door.
"Certain Shapes," a new-ly-
formed band composed
of Bethel students, will be
According to McKinnis,
planning activities that
both students and alumni.
would enjoy is hard work.
However, "it was a most
complementary effort be-tween
us and Fauth," said
Homecoming activities
include "Preppy Day" on
Friday, with John Fisher
in concert at 8 p.m. in the
gym. Admission is $3.50
in advance, $4 at the door.
Rollerskating follows at mid-night
for $1.50; preppy
the warm-up band. Band
member Jeff Moen said
"Certain Shapes" will be
playing contemporary
Christian rock and jazz.
The Campus Coordina-tors
said they chOse John
Fischer for the Home-coming
concert because
they think he will appeal
to everyone including stu-dents,
faculty and alumni.
Saturday's events begin
with the Homecoming
football game at 1:30 p.m.
at Bremer Field, including
the halftime coronation of
Host and Hostess. The
First Annual Alumni/Stu-dent/
Faculty 5 K Run will
also begin at halftime.
There is a $5 entry fee,
with T-shirts provided.
The Alumni/Student
Variety Program rounds
out the weekend activities
at 8 p.m. in the gym. There
is no admission charge.
mands for those Bethel stu- rock climbing.
dents who experience the Wilderness Challenge is
one-credit Wilderness an intensive 21-day wil-
Challenge course during derness experience. Stu-
August. The above dia- dents confront stressful
logue is used in technical situations and the power
Bushwhacking Bethelites battle the wilds
Bethel old and new unites in '81
student and alumni inter- clothes are a must.
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Wahl will fill empty gallery position
The Clarion extends its
prayer for healing and
encouragement to Marvin
Hwy. 36 & Edgerton
Rev. Hartley
Worship Service
11 a.m.
Sunday School
9:45 a.m.
Evening worship
6 p.m.
Fuller and family. Fuller,
the manager of purchas-ing
and bookstores, recent-ly
underwent surgery for
amputation • of his leg.
Notes or letters from Beth-el
friends may be sent to
Mercy Medical Center,
4050 Coon Rapids Blvd.,
Coon Rapids, MN 55433.
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Volume 57, Number 6
16 October 1981
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
The Clarion is published weekly by the students
of Bethel College. Editorial opinions are the sole
responsibility of the Clarion staff. Letters are
welcome, and must be signed and delivered in
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Leann M. Kicker, editor
JoAnn Watkins, associate editor
Ellie Feleen, sports editor
Don Copeland, photography editor
Laura L. Phillips, copy editor
Art Gibbens, production manager
Pam Sundeen, business manager
Naomi J. Ludeman, editorial assistant
Beth Nystrom, graphics editor
Tim Larson, graphics
Jim Larson, cartoonist
Kraig Klaudt, columnist
"News and Feature Writing" students
Thoughts slip out of focus. Fine tuning brings them
back into view. But now the perspective is wrong. The
brain tries to clarify, organize and relate. Then values
seem to differentiate into contradictions on a con-tinuum.
Sorting out values if often part of sorting out the mail.
The mailbox is full of press releases of worthwhile
organizations desiring financial or other support. What
is thrown away? What is saved? Should this be sup-ported?
Or this? Is it right to publicize this... and now
that? Are these two compatible within a Christian
There are plenty of worthwhile causes out there.
Infant Formula Actoin Coalition (INFACT) and Inter-national
Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are only two.
But is it consistent to support animal conservation
groups and simultaneously support human welfare
groups? Is it legitimate to support those who help tor-tured
seals when people are starving in the U.S. and the
Every agency has its pet horror story to graphically
demonstrate its need. These stories, tear-jerkers, usu-ally
are factual. According to a recent INFACT press
release, 5,000 infants died of baby-bottle disease in the
U.S. last year. Even more infants died elsewhere in the
world. Last year .IFAW told of the thousands of seal
pups clubbed to death for their pelts.
Are these two agencies worth supporting? Can a
Christian in good conscience support both?
Both the human infacts and the seal pups died
because of greed. People were more concerned about
money, making a profit, than they were about the
implications of making a product. For the sake of large
profits infant formula is sold to parents who can ill
afford it and who may unintentionally kill their child-ren
with it. Also for the love of money and luxury, seal
pups are clubbed to death so pelts can be sold and made
into fancy coats and other items.
IFAW is trying to stop the slaughter of seals for more
profit just as INFACT is trying to stop the sale of Nestle
and other infant formulae for mere profit.
A Christian can simultaneously support two such
groups because the goals of the two different groups are
compatible. Both are attempting to stop exploitation for
the sake of profit. The spirits of the two organizations
are unified. Support, however, must come not only from
the wallet or checkbook, but needs to be manifested in
Christian lifestyle as well.
Clarion wishes quick
recovery to Fuller
to accept the part-time po-sition
of gallery curator.
Dale Johnson, associate
professor of art, and Doug
Giebel, instructor in art,
took the responsibility of
hanging the present Ross/
Ramano show. The curator
position had not been
filled, but Bethel had al-ready
made the commit-ment
for the show.
Johnson said he "was
disappointed no one was
here to run it (the gallery)
in the beginning of the
The Clarion is in need of an editorial
assistant and staff writer. The job includes
at least one weekly writing assignment,
proofreading and layout of the paper every
Tuesday. Some driving may also be re-quired.
Interested students should have already
taken "News and Feature Writing" or the
Contact JoAnn or Leann in the Clarion
office or call them at ext. 6214.
•In this age of nuclear
extremities, widespread
famine and criminal injus-tice,
let us not forget those
who direct the peoples and
countries of the world. Let
us respect the President
and the Pope, and pray for
the countries of this world
who are without leaders,
living in uncertainty and
Let us become Chris-tians
mindful of the world,
recognizing needs outside
of campus life. Let us remem-ber
Titus 3:1 - 2: "Remind
them to be subject to
rulers, to authorities, to be
obedient, to be ready for
every good deed, to malign
no one, to be uncon-tentious,
gentle, showing
every consideration for all
Dyer Davis
by Leann M. Kicker
The first Bethel art show
of the year opened Oct. 12.
That same day a contract
was signed to fill the va-cant
position of gallery
curator. Bonita Wahl, in-structor
in art at Bethel,
accepted the position.
Until last Monday, Oct.
12, Bethel's art gallery had
been empty. The Art De-partment
had been unable
to find a qualified person
year." Since the shows are
scheduled a year in ad-vance,
early shows by
Bethel artists had to be
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Diverse groups gain
Christian support
To: Faculty, Staff, Stu-dents
and Administration:
First it was the Presi-dent,
then the Pope and
now Anwar Sadat. Each
an important leader, each
the victim of senseless and
unnecessary violence.
While two of these leaders
have returned to their im-portant
positions, Anwar
Sadat will never return as
President of Egypt.
Grace Church an evangelical fellowship
9:30 & 11:00
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Renaissance sounds resound in chapel and seminary
by Diane Hudson
Part of the Renaissance
musical group Musica
Antigua will be perform-ing
a lecture-demonstra-tion
in chapel Oct. 23.
Member Barbara Barker
will discuss various Ren-aissance
instruments and
Ellen Thompson will de-monstrate
Musica Antigua was
formed in 1969 by a group
of musicians working in-formally
in the Twin
Cities. They pattern them-selves
after the court musi-cians
of Renaissance Eu-rope.
The entire Musica An-tigua
group will perform
Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. in the
Bethel Seminary chapel.
The ten performers will
dress in 16th century
costumes, sing solos accom-panied
by the lute and
instrument ensembles,
read Renaissance poetry,
and dance.
A variety of Renais-sance
instruments includ-ing
the entire recorder and
crumhorn families, three
sizes of viola da Gamba,
lutes and the spinetino (a
three and a half octave
harpsichord-like instru-ment)
will be featured. The
featured instruments were
all built by Bradley Ben of
According to Oliver
Mogck, associate pro-fessor
of music at Bethel,
"'Delightful intimacy' may
be one way of describing
the music which gives lis-teners
an alternative to the
high-decibel music eman-ating
from our electronic
Mogck said there has
been a tremendous revival
of interest in Renaissance
music and art both locally
and nationally. "The Bethel
community has a rare op-portunity
to hear a fine
group on Friday night," he
"Musica Antigua" performs a lecture-demonstration in chapel on Oct. 23. An evening perfor-mance
at the seminary chapel is also planned.
I.V. offers unity and growth
Pep band supports Royal sports
by Anita Berg
Homecoming this year
will have an added dimen-sion:
the Bethel Pep Band.
Wearing yellow T-shirts
and cowboy hats, the
members will reveal ano-ther
facet of Bethel at home
sports events.
"The pep band really
comes down to the enthu-siasm,
activity and dedi-cation
of the members,"
said Charles Olson, con-ductor
of the Bethel Con-cert
Band. He wants stu-dents
to come to rehear-sals
prepared to work
hard, as there is limited
time for rehearsal.
A student director will
be chosen for the pep band
from three candidates, all
of whom are senior music
majors. "It adds to the
band to have it student-run,"
said Olson.
The pep band has grown
with support from the ath-letic
department. Besides
performing at the Home-coming
football game, the
band will play at the
Parents' Weekend football
game. During basketball
season the band will play
at as many home weekend
games as possible, said
"It's really fun," said Ol-son.
"We want to make
participating in the band
fun, but we also want to
make the pep band an ac-tive,
contributing support
to the athletic teams."
Although the nucleus of
the pep band comes from
the concert band, other stu-dent
musicians interested
in participating in the pep
band are encouraged to
contact Olson. The band
rehearses at 5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays. Olson would
like to have about 50 mu-sicians
to give balance and
volume to the pep band.
by Lori Bemis
Five small group Bible
studies are being offered
this year at Bethel as a
part of Inter-Varsity
Christian Fellowship
(I.V.). The studies include
"Love and Good Works,"
"The Problem of Anger,"
"Everyday •Ethics," "Faith
That Works," and "Living
"The main goal we're
working toward this year
in Inter-Varsity is to create
a feeling of unison and the
opportunity for spiritual
growth among students,"
said Mike Rowe, president
of Bethel I.V.
Technically an organi-zation
for Christian stu-dents
on secular campuses,
I.V. has been active at
Bethel only since 1978. It
was formed when several
students decided that their
present group, Student
Missions Fellowship, was
too exclusive.
"We wanted an organi-zation
on campus that
would serve the needs of
the majority of the stu-dents,"
Rowe said. "Not all
Bethel students will some-day
be on the mission field
per se," he added.
The emphasis this year
will be on the small group
Bible studies, according to
Rowe. "Our aim is to help
people feel unified, not to
promote I.V. as an organi-zation,"
he said.
The Bible studies will
be led by Bethel students
who are members of I.V.
Bethel's I.V. staff includes
Mike Rowe, president;
Paul Christenson, vice-president;
Pam Sundeen,
secretary-treasurer; and
five other students who
lead the Bible studies.
Faculty sponsor Eleanor
Edman offers advice and
support for I.V. at Bethel.
Edman is an associate pro-fessor
in nursing at Bethel
and was involved in I.V.
before coming here. John
Roesler, also an I.V. staff
person, helps students co-ordinate
activities al-though
he is not affiliated
with Bethel.
If the Bible study groups
grow in size, the I.V. staff
plans to encourage other
students within the groups
to become leaders.
Meeting times for the
Bible studies are posted
on the prayer chapel door
and on the Campus Minis-tries
bulletin board.
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Tax man joins Bethel business
by Tami McQuoid
After 15 years in the tax
business, Donald H. Brown
decided it was time for
him to go back to school.
He did not return to school
as a student, however; he
returned to school as a
Brown left a tax manag-er's
position with Peat,
Marwick, Mitchell & Co.,
a large international firm,
to teach business classes
at Bethel College.
When offered a promin-ent
position within his
firm, Brown, with Lucia
(his wife of 16 years) felt
the need to leave his high-ly
pressurized environ-ment.
"It was destroying
my family life and was
counter-productive to my
goals as a Christian," said
About this time, he said,
the Lord led him to a
teaching position at Bethel.
Even though he has
never taught at a college
before, teaching is not
new to Brown. For the past
five years, Brown and his
wife have taught in Bible
Sprucing up what has
been one of the moldiest
Homecoming institutions,
this year's Homecoming
Committee conceived of
the bonfest to be held out
on the Arden Hills cam-pus
Thursday, at 9:00 p.m.
A combination of the bon-fire
and the pep fest (it
could be just as well have
been called a pep fire) the
bon-fest includes every-thing
from cider and
doughnuts to the introduc-tion
of the 1967 Bethel
Royal Football Team.
Actually, the evening's
shenanigans will begin
with a snake dance through
the campus following
which the buses will leave
for the new campus some-time
in the vicinity of 8:30
p.m. The bon-fest will
include the preliminaries
of a tug-of-war, the finals
of which are to be played
off at the Homecoming
game. The victors of the
Frosh, Sophomore duel,
and the Junior, Senior
brawl will compete for the
opportunity to take on a
crew of the alumni who
are also spoiling to get in
the fun.
Following the cheers,
introduction of the team,
and the general bonfire
scene, there will be the
Torchlight Parade when
the royalty alight from
their convertibles on the
Study Fellowship, a non-denominational
study for young adults,
attended by nearly 200
Born and raised in Min-neapolis,
Brown has been
familiar with Bethel for
many years. His sister,
Beverly, attended Bethel
in the sixties.
Brown attended Whea-ton
College for three years,
but received his B.S. in
business from the Univer-sity
of Minnesota. He is a
member of the Minnesota
Society of CPAs and the
American Institute of
Apart from helping peo-ple
with their taxes, Brown
said that being out in the
woods is one of his favor-ite
pastimes. With sugges-tions
from his wife and
three children (ages 11, 8,
and 11/2), Brown designed
and built a log cabin in the
woods near Brainerd,
Minn. His cabin provides
easy access to waterski-ing
and fishing. According
to Brown, waterskiing is
a family favorite.
"Teaching at Bethel has
been fun so far," Brown
crest of Coronation Hill
where the crowning will
take place.
Providing the weather
is inclement, refreshments
will be served in the gym
at the seminary after the
coronation is over.
`Highlight' of the even-ing,
next to the coronation,
will be a burning in effigy
(a popular student inno-from
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"On the whole, I don't
think the experience was
fun. Stressful experiences
aren't fun," said Mike Olm-stead,
a Wilderness chal-lenge
group member. "But
I learned a lot. I learned
about myself, relation-ships,
priorities and how
to live and get along with
Wilderness Challenge
objectives are directed to
the broadening of six
areas: personal develop-ment,
spiritual growth,
interpersonal effective-ness,
environmental aware-ness,
experiential learning
and development of a
group of people with which
to identify.
The course is fashioned
said, "and I know that I
am going to learn a lot." He
views his job as a real
challenge. .
Brown especially enjoys
the relationship he has
with the faculty. The
competition that he is ac-customed
to in the busi-ness
world is not found at
Bethel. "Everyone is so
cooperative," said Brown.
Brown said he hopes
that his presence at Bethel
will help the Business
Department grow. He
wants to use his many
contacts with the business
world to make the busi-ness
student an "accepta-ble
commodity" to Twin
City businesses.
"I would like to be able
to say (about students),"
said Brown, "here is a
product that I know per-sonally
and it is a good
product. I'd like to be able
to bring that student to
businesses and have them
be so pleased with the
student that they will
want more." This, accord-ing
to Brown, should be
the final step in the busi-ness
vation) of the Cougar pig-skin
after Outward Bound and
Wheaton College's Van-guard
"Fear can really take
over if you let it," claimed
Olmstead in regard to the
variety of experiences. "I
learned that I can do more
than I think I can do both
physically and mentally.
It was a challenge to keep
a positive perspective and
The course requirements
include preliminary read-ing,
keeping a daily jour-nal
while on the trail, a
final paper and participa-tion
in the daily learning
experiences. The class is
led by experienced wilder-ness
instructors. A maxi-mum
of eight people make
up each coed group. Wil-derness
Challenge pro-vides
the needed equip-by
Mitch Anderson
Four Bethel students,
Brent Bohne, Ruth Olsen,
Virginia Hope and Debbie
Palm, are studying at the
University of Heidelberg
in West Germany this
The four are among
many students (about 10
per cent of Heidelberg's
total student population)
from all over the world
who, having taken a 30-
day intensive course in
German language and
culture upon arrival in
ment. •
The question presently
asked by Bethel's admin-istration
is, "Will Wilder-ness
Challenge continue?"
"Because of the low
number of participants
this past August we did
not meet the budget," said
Tricia Brownlee, academ-ic
Brownlee and Phil Bjork,
director and instructor of
Bethel's wilderness class,
plan to approach Bethel's
faculty and people outside
of Bethel for support.
"We're looking for peo-ple
with an interest in
wilderness activities to
fund this program," said
She added, "There is al-so
the option that the
course may be offered to
Germany, will be studying
at the University of Heidel-berg.
To qualify for the Hei-delberg
program, a student
must be a college junior,
have a grade-point average
of at least 3.0 and have the
equivalent of two years of
college German.
Rune Engebretson, asso-:
ciate professor of foreign
languages at Bethel, co-ordinates
the program.
Engebretsen said he se-lected
the University of
Heidelberg because of its
fine foreign language
department and its status
as a highly respected Ger-man
"This is the beginning of
what we hope will become
a permanent program in
Germany for Bethel stu-dents,"
said Engebretsen.
This year the total ex-pense
for the semester is
$4,150 which includes
tuition, airfare, room and
board and books. The
students are renting rooms
from families in Heidel-berg,
At the end of the semes-ter
in late December, Bohne
plans to travel to Korea to
study during the second
semester. Hope and Olsen
are planning to spend in-terim
traveling in Europe
and then will return to
Bethel for the spring semes-ter.
Bethel College recently
joined the Minnesota As-sociation
of Private Col-lege
Students (MAPCS),
an organization which
aims to pool the resources
and address the areas of
common interest of private
colleges and universities
in Minnesota. In MAPCS,
shared concerns are dealt
with on a corporate level
rather than on an individ-ual
Until recently, Bethel
was the only private insti-tution
of higher education
in Minnesota that was a
non-member. After review-ing
MAPCS, Bethel's Stu-dent
Association decided
to re-join after having
withdrawn in 1979. The
move to withdraw was
made by recommendation
of the student body presi-dent
at that time.
According to Mark Pub-low,
present student body
president, MAPCS pro-vides
the opportunity for
Bethel to expand its con-ception
of responsibility
as a Christian school, and
to better perceive its ob-jectives
as a Christian
Publow also said that
the organization gives
Bethel the chance to dis-cuss
common concerns
with other area MAPCS
schools and allows Bethel
to pool resources and deal
with shared problems, is-sues
and concerns.
For example, the hous-ing
problem is an issue
common to most area pri-vate
schools. As a member
of MAPCS, Bethel can
discuss this concern and
corporately gather re-sources
and information
to solve the problems that
Lobbying is a major pol-icy
of the MAPCS both at
the state and federal lev-els
through the National
Coalition of Private Col-lege
and University Stu-dents
Both MAPCS and
COPUS have been very
effective in achieving their
goals. COPUS used letter
drives and direct represen-tation
at legislative ses-sions
to reduce the finan-cial
aid cuts proposed by
President Reagan. In Min-nesota,
MAPCS effective-ly
lobbied to give priority
to the financial aid pro-grams
in the aftermath of
the national budget cuts.
Bethel senate
rejoins MAPCS
after 2 yr lapse
by Tammy Gregerson
Donald H. Brown, new teacher at Bethel left a tax manager
position with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. to teach business
classes (photo by Dan Velie).
Bethel german students
study, Heidelberg college
Snakedance, bonfire spark 1967 Homecoming
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Last Friday's blood drive pumped 170 pints of blood from Bethel students (Photo by Don
Red Cross siphons Bethel blood
in advance to give blood,
but not all of them came
in. Of the 170 donors, 35
were first-time donors.
Anita Baerg was in
charge of signing up stu-.
dent workers and donors.
"People can always sign
up to work if they don't
care to donate," Baerg said.
Students were asked to
help with typing, bag
preparation and escorting
donors to the canteen. "It's
Parking, from page 1
said. "That just took up
someone else's space."
Fountain Terrace Resi-dent
Director Dawn Lut-ton
and her assistant dir-ing
on a partial solution
by registering and issuing
stickers to all of their
residents. This is intended
to keep visitors out of the
lot, creating more space
for the residents.
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U of M unveils Luckman piece
by Janet Ewing •
One hundred seventy
Bethel students and facul-ty
donated blood at the
Red Cross blood drive last
Friday, Oct. 9. •
Laurie Lindahl, blood
drive coordinator, set a
goal of 230-260 pints of
blood. "We've always
reached our goal before,"
Lindahl said.
The Red Cross takes one
pint of blood from each
donor. One hundred nine-ty-
eight people signed up
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by Richard Ostrand
A massive, shiny,
15,000-pound stainless
steel sculpture by Stu Luck-man,
associate professor
of art at Bethel, was un-veiled
Friday, Oct. 9, on
the Unversity of Minne-sota
The University of Min-nesota
Alumni Association
commissioned the art
work "Rokker V" for
$50,000 for the commemo-ration
of the Association's
75th anniversary.
At the dedication, Dr. C.
Peter Magrath, president
of the University of Min-nesota,
thanked the Alum-ni
Association and Luck-man
for the sculpture and
encouraged the Minneso-ta
Alumni Association
Sculpture Committee to
continue . to acquire "sig-nificant
art work to beaut-ify
the state campus."
The 16-foot high, 26-foot
long tubular structure is
located between Northrop
Auditorium and William-son
Hall on the East Bank
A video presentation en-titled
"Process: A Public
Sculpture by Stewart
Luckman" may be viewed
at the University Gallery,
Northrop Auditorium,
third floor, 84 Church St.
The show, documenting
the two-year process of
creating "Rokker V," will
be shown through Nov.
15. The gallery hours are:
Monday, Wednesday, Fri-day,
1 p.m.-4 p.m.; Tues-day
and Thursday, 1 p.m.-
8 p.m. and Sunday, 2 p.m.-
5 p.m.
The purpose of the
sculpture was to commem-orate
the Alumni Associa-tion,
but Luckman chose
not to commemorate any
particular person by doing
a statue.
"I don't think the idea is
to honor a person; the idea
is to honor the idea, and
that way to share in the
whole process," Luckman
Furthermore, he said the
sculpture should fit the
location, the University.
"If there is some tension in
the piece, that's 'right on'
because that's the nature
of the environment the
piece is in."
Luckman continued, "I
don't make sculpture to
illustrate a philosophy. I
wanted a piece that would
fit in well. I could do that
best by (simply) making a
sculpture....It doesn't
speak; it doesn't think. I
was more concerned with
Bethel's Film Forum will
present its second feature
film of the season, "Amar-cord,"
Tuesday, Oct. 20, at
7 p.m. in FA313.
Directed by Federico
Fellini, the film recounts
his youth in pre-World
War II Italy. It is the story
of a young man who longs
for the freedom of adult-hood.
Combining the concerns
of his early neo-realist
comedies with the fan-tastic
style of his later
films, this is one of Fellini's
most loving and imagina-tive
films. According to
Newsweek, "Amarcord" is
the most beautiful movie
Fellini has ever made."
Refreshments and dis-cantilever,
angles, balance,
and so on... Art is not
about communication, al-though
it does communi-cate;
it's about poetry."
The University Sculp-ture
Committee reviewed
competing artists' resumes,
recommendations and
slides of previous commis-sions
and private art work
before choosing • Luckman
for this commission. Luck-man
said that he is work-ing
on other commission
propoSals now.
Funds for the commis-sion
of "Rokker V" came
from the Alumni Associa-tion
Board of Directors and
private contributors.
The $50,000 price paid
for materials, transporta-tion
of the sculpture and
its parts (the pipes were
bent in Duluth by a spe-cial,
heavy-duty pipe-bend-ing
company), lawyers'
fees, factory construction
help and Luckman's fees.
The outdoor sculptures
on the Bethel College cam-pus
are by Luckman.
The sculptures are all
on loan from his private
collection, except for "Hill-billy's
Mama" which was
given to the college by
Luckman last year for
Homecoming. It is located
between the Fine Arts and
Academic buildings.
Luckman has a B.A. de-gree
in political science
from Bethel College, a B.A.
degree in fine arts from
Macalester College and a
M.A. degree in sculpture
and art history from the
University of Minnesota.
In addition, he did gradu-ate
work in art education
at Macalester College.
cussion follow the film.
All interested students,
faculty, staff and ad-ministration
are welcome.
The Bethel Film Forum is
co-sponsored by the Philo-sophy
Department and
Campus Coordinators.
a beneficial service pro-ject,"
said Louise Hawes, a
student volunteer.
Bethel has a fall and
spring blood drive each
year. Lindahl will be blood
drive coordinator again
this spring.
events calendar
Friday, Oct. 16
Official "Preppy" Day and Campus Visit Day
CC—John Fisher in concert, Gym; 8 p.m.
CC—"Preppy" rollerskating, 12-2 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 17
MCC—Bethel Triangular, Home, 11:30 a.m.
WCC—St. Cloud, Away
VB—Concordia/St. Paul, Home, 10 a.m.
SOC—St. Mary's, Away, 1:30 p.m.
FB—St. John's, Home, 1:30 p.m.
Coronation of Host and Hostess
5K Fun Run
CC—Variety Program, Gym, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 18
Catacombs, LR 113, 10 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 19
Chapel—John Kyle, Mission Director IVCF
Student Senate meeting, FA 426, 5:15 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 20
Chapel—Paul Redin
VB—Carleton, Home, JV-6 p.m., V-7:15 p.m.
Film Forum—"Amarcord," FA 313 7 p.m.
Odessey Film Series, FA 313, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 21 _
Chapel—Pastor Spickelmier
SOC—Augsburg, Home, 4 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 22
Chapel—Senate Chapel
Friday, Oct. 23
Chapel—Musica Antigua-Convocation
Drama—"Acts," Theater, 8 p.m.
Evening recital—Musica Antigua, Seminary
Chapel, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 24
WCC—Bethel Invitational, Home, 10:15 a.m.
MCC—Bethel Quadrangular, Home, 11 a.m.
SOC—Hamline, Home, 1:30 p.m.
FB—Macalester, Away, 1:30 p.m.
VB—Gustavus Adolphus, Away
Drama—"Acts," Theater, 8 p.m.
Films Forum presents
Felini's Amarcord
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P.E. staff welcomes Girdler
Coach Carol Girdler enjoys parachuting when time allows dur-ing
her hectic schedule (Photo courtesy of Carol Girdler).
Concert given
for INFACT
benefit Oct.19
Internationally famous
recording artist Gil Scott-
Heron, with the Midnight
Band, and special guest
Dave Valentin will appear
at the Riverview Supper
Club Monday evening Oct.
19, at 7 and 10 p.m. in a
benefit concert for the
Infant Formula Action Co-alition
INFACT, an internation-al
grass-roots organiza-tion,
has coordinated the
Nestle Boycott to protest
Nestle's aggressive promo-tion
of infant formula in
the Third World. Over ten
million babies each year
suffer from severe malnu-trition,
diarrhea and brain
damage as a result of in-fant
formula misuse.
Yet "bottle-baby di-sease"
is not limited to the
Third World. Recently,
Public Advocates, a public
interest law firm in San
Francisco, found that over
5,000 infants in the U.S.
die annually from infant
formula abuse in poor,
mostly black and hispanic
Concert tickets are avail-able
through INFACT, Day-ton's
stores and the River-view
Supper Club. Price is
$10 in advance or $10.50
at the door.
a slash in the resources of
the Guaranteed Student
Loans were discussed.
"Students will have an
opportunity to respond to
this proposal by writing
short letters to congress-men
stating who they are
and what their concerns
as students are in this
matter," said Eric Peter-sen.
Petersen is the Bethel
representative of the Board
of Directors of the Minne-sota
Association of Private
College Students.
The Student Senate will
have a table at the Oppor-tunity
Fair providing in-formation,
addresses, en-velopes
and stamps for
By Richard Whybrew
Bad weather and poor
course conditions did not
stop the Royal women's
cross-country team from
turning in a fine perfor-mance
at the Carleton
Cross-Country Invita-tional
Oct. 9, where the
squad finished 10th out of
14 teams.
Wendy Norberg plowed
her way through the
Results of the Spire sur-vey
revealed that most of
the freshmen would be
willing to pay for the
yearbook, according to
Ron Nelson. However, the
upperclassmen were divid-ed
in their decisions. About
half would be wiling to
pay for the Spire, while
the other half indicated
that they would be unwill-ing
to do so. An advisor
from the Art Department
is being sought for the
Spire, said Nelson.
Senior Senator positions
were also discussed. Mark
Chapman, philosophy ma-jor
and Summer Mission-ary
Project participant, ap-peared
before the Senate
by Ellie Feleen
Although Carol Girdler
is new to Bethel's athletic
department, she teaches
enough classes and coach-es
enough sports to be con-sidered
an old-timer.
Girdler was hired by the
PE Department this sum-mer
to teach and coach
full time. Girdler teaches
volleyball, tennis, canoe-ing
and badminton, and
will teach archery during
interim. She is the assist-ant
women's volleyball
coach, and also the worn-en's
softball coach.
Coach Girdler has a very
positive attitude about
teaching. "I teach so the
students will enjoy what
they are learning. I believe
the instructor's attitude is
important in a classroom,"
she said.
Girdler's philosophy car-ries
over into her coaching
in spite of the bad weather
and muddy course, all the
women ran their personal
best times for the season
thus far. He credits this
improvement to the team's
hill workouts the week be-fore
the meet.
The Royal women will
travel to St. Cloud Satur-day,
Oct. 17, to face St.
Cloud State and South-west
as well. She finds coach-ing
a challenge, but enjoys
the challenge and wants
to help each athlete as
much as she can.
Although born in New
York, Girdler traveled
around a great deal to get
her education. She gradu-ated
from Slippery Rock
State University in Penn-sylvania,
earning her
B.A. degree in physical
education. Girdler contin-ued
her schooling at the
University of Iowa where
she earned her M.A. de-gree.
She also taught PE
classes and coached for
two years while attending
the University of Iowa.
From Iowa, Girdler moved
to Ohio where she worked
by Dona Amann
Approximately 750 peo-ple
who donate money to
Bethel attended the Royal
Investors Dinner Tuesday,
Oct. 6. Bethel received
about $145,000 in gifts and
Following the steak
dinner served to the in-vestors,
a group of Bethel
students, directed by
Nancy Johnson, enter-tained
the audience. The
theme of the program was
"Under Construction,"
In years past, the pro-gram
following the dinner
included a speaker and
special music. This year
the Development Depart-ment
decided to try some-thing
new and "the audi-.
ence seemed to appreciate
it," said John Sahlin,
director of development.
Sahlin said that it was
important for the investors
to get a glimpse of what is
happening at Bethel.
Following the produc-tion,
James Bragg, vice-president
of public affairs,
challenged people to help
support higher Christian
education. People res-ponded
generously, said
Sahlin. Seventy-one
people pledged to become
shareholders, those who
give $200 or more per year.
Some renewed pledges
while others contributed
for the first time.
Thirteen new members
joined the President's
Club, those giving $15,000
per year or a one-time gift
of $15,000 or a deferred
with junior high students.
Ready for a change, Gird-ler
applied at a few schools,
among them Bethel. -
Coach Girdler became a
Christian about a year ago
and enjoys working with
Christians. She said, "I feel
pretty comfortable here at
Bethel; I feel like I fit in. I
enjoy coming to work each
morning because it is a
challenge. Bethel is also
good for my spiritual
During the few free mo-ments
Girdler has, she
enjoys riding her motor-cycle,
photography, crafts
and parachuting. Girdler
learned how to parachute
while in school and would
like to pursue this interest
in the future.
gift of $25,000 or more,
and 13 others chose to re-join.
One of the goals for the
President's Club was to
fill its charter member-ship.
The first 50 people to
join become charter mem-bers.
This goal was met
and exceeded by five
The charter members
receive a special marble
paperweight and a wooden
plaque for their contri-butions.
Esquival to
speak on
social justice
Julia Esquivel, a Guat-temalan
will speak at Bethel Mon-day,
Oct. 19, at 4 p.m. in
the Royal Oak Room. Her
topic will be "Repression
of the Church in Guate-mala."
In exile from her native
country, Esquivel is pres-ently
on a nationwide
speaking tour of the Uni-ted
States. She is speaking
primarily to religious
groups. At Bethel, Esqui-vel
will be the second.
speaker in a social justice
speaker sponsored by the
Peace and Justice Com-mittee.
Everyone is invited to
attend this session. For
more information on Es-quivel,
the social justice
speaker series or the Peace
and Justice Committee,
contact Tony Anderson
through PO 270.
swampy course to a 14th
place finish in a very fast
field. Other finishers for
Bethel were Leah Schirm,
Lana Lauwers, Rochelle
Mathiesen and Kathy
Senior Sue Rowland
participated in the JV race,
marking the first time she
has run in actual competi-tion.
Coach Bill Lau said that
Women's X-C steadily improves
Loan cutbackspose major discussion
by Lori Bemis students to use in respond- to express his views re- Varsity Christian Fellow-ing
to congressmen. The garding the position. Sen- ship were also discussed.
Financial aid cutbacks fair will be held Friday, for George Soltero was The movies "Seems Like
for the 1982-83 school year Oct. 16, from noon to 3 considered also, although Old Times" and "The
was a major topic dis- p.m. in the gym. The goal he was not present. Saltero Goodbye Girl" are tenta-cussed
at the Student Sen- of this letter drive is to is a political science major tively set for Friday, Oct.
ate meeting Monday, Oct. send out 7501etters during with a background in 23, in the gym. A small
12. The proposed congres- the week of Oct. 19-23, public relations work. admission fee will be
sional cut of 35 per cent on according to Petersen. riudget cuts for Inter- charged.
Direct Student Loans and Kimmel leads golfers,
teammates place sixth
by Cliff Short Macalester-704.
The Bethel golf team Team captain Travis
ended the fall season on Kimmel led the way for
an encouraging note with Bethel with a score of 165
a sixth place finish at the which included a second
conference golf tourna- round score of 77, one of
ment held in Anoka Fri- the better rounds in the
day, Oct. 9. tournament.
The 36-hole tournament Coach George Henry
was won by Concordia said, "I was very en-with
a team total of 634. couraged by the team's
St. John's and Augsburg overall effort. It was quite
were close behind with an improvement over last
identical scores of 636, fol- year's performance."
lowed by St. Thomas with Henry said he is looking
643, St. Olaf-667, Bethel forward to the possibility
673, St. Mary's-676, Gus- of an even stronger team
tavus Adolphus 691, and next year.
Investors challenged
to support Bethel
The Royal football team was defeated by Concordia last week, 30-17, but Bethel ran fine offensive
plays in the second half (Photo by Don Copeland).
Soccer ranks first in MIAC
Neil Kaiser steals the ball from a St. Thomas player in
Saturday's game. The Royals squeezed by St. Thomas
(Photo by Don Woodward).
The women's volleyball team swept St. Benedicts in three
games last Saturday. The Royals overall record is 11-11 (Photo
by Don Copeland).
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Royals downed 30-17,
Johnson leads offense
by Mark Wollan
The Bethel football team
lost its third conference
game Saturday, Oct. 10,
as it was downed by Con-cordia
The Royals started the
game with an impressive
drive, moving 68 yards in
six plays. The drive was
capped by a 36-yard pass
from Steve Doten to cap-tain
Pete Kramka.
Concordia's first posses-sion
proved to be equally
effective. But a critical il-legal
procedure penalty
forced the Cobbers to set-tle
for a field goal.
The second quarter
proved to be the decisive
one as Concordia ran up
20 points to Bethel's three.
The Cobber offense ran a
controlled ground game
which was highlighted by
the running of fullback Jim
In the second half the
Royals and Cobbers each
scored once. Highlighting
the Bethel offense was the
performance of Bryan John-son
who caught eight pass-es
totaling 75 yards.
The Royals Homecom-ing
game is Saturday, Oct.
17, at 1:30 p.m. against St.
by Lori Pontnack
The Royal soccer team
now holds first place in
the MIAC after triumph-ing
over the St. Thomas
Tommies with a score of
5-4 in an action-packed
game .last Saturday, Oct.
Both teams went into
the game with a 5-1 record
to battle for the lead in the
MIAC. Before the game,
Bethel players Neil Kaiser
and Mark Johnson stated
that the key to winning
was a quick start and play-ing
the mid-field. "If we
get out there and really
play the first five minutes,
that could determine the
game," said Kaiser.
The Royals did get a
quick start with Johnson
scoring the first goal less
than five minutes into the
game. St. Thomas came
by Rob Haglund
The Bethel women's vol-leyball
team played well
in three matches last week,
losing to state champion
Macalester before defeat-ing
Hamline and confer-ence
foe St. Benedict's,
bringing the Royals' sea-son
record to 11-11.
The Royals opened the
week with an impressive
performance against the
highly-ranked Scots. After
Bethel won the first game
16-14, it looked as if an
upset was in the making.
back with a score less than
four minutes later. As the
two teams battled for the
lead, Johnson and Bobby
Clark scored Bethel's sec-ond
and third goals, re-spectively.
At the half the
Royals and the Tommies
were tied 3-3.
The Royals got a slow
start at the beginning of
the second half but were
able to hold the Tommies
in check. With 18 and a
half minutes left in the
game, striker Johnson
came through with the tie-breaking
goal to give the
Royals the lead.
With three minutes left
in the game, Stan Higgs
drove home Bethel's fifth
goal. As the battle reached
its peak, St. Thomas came
back to make its fourth
goal seconds later.
The Royals maintained
the lead by preventing the
Macalester regrouped,
however, and used its
powerful spiking and ac-curate
passing to easily
win the next two games.
In the fourth game Maca-lester
led 14-9 only to have
the Royals rally to 14-13,
but the Scots scored the
next point to take the game
and the match.
Last Wednesday, Oct. 7,
the Royals traveled to
Hamline and had little
trouble defeating the Pip-ers,
a team they have al-ready
defeated once this
The offensive star for
Tommies from making
some close shots in the
last minute of play. Goal
keeper Bo Cedersjo had
several solid saves through-out
the game and helped
secure the 5-4 victory.
Commenting on Bethel's
victory, co-captain Joel
Kraakevik said that it was
a tough but exciting game.
"We had to go all-out, but
every time we scored a
goal we just kept going at
them," he said.
Coach Mark Leigh said
that Saturday's game was
one of the best he has seen.
Although Bethel's defense
could have been tighter,
he said, the Royals domi-nated
the game while St.
Thomas made good use of
its chances to score.
The Royals play at St.
Mary's Saturday, Oct. 17
at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 21, Bethel will host
Augsburg at 4 p.m.
the Royals in the 3-1 vic-tory
over Hamline was
Betsy Koonce who served
12 straight points in the
second game which the
Royals won 15-6.
The Bethel spikers re-turned
home to play St.
Benedict's Saturday, Oct.
10 and swept the visitors
in three games. The turn-ing
point in the match
came in the second game
after the Royals rallied and
won the overtime contest
19-17. The visitors drop-ped
the third game 15-4.
Pam Madson, Gracia
Dahlgren and co-captain
Men's X-C
places and
by Wendy Norberg
Bethel's men's cross-coun-try
team finished 10th out
of 14 teams at the Carleton
Invitational last Friday,
Oct. 9. Again leading the
Royals was Rich Whybrew
whose time of 26:44 placed
him 33rd on the five-mile
Finishing next for Beth-el
was Tom Plocker in 51st
place with a time of 27:26.
Greg Stevens ran 27:48 for
57th place, Ross Allen
came in 61st with 28:02
and Mark Boyer rounded
out the top five with a
time of 28:32 and 68th
Two IV runners will be
seeing some varsity corn-petition
in the future. Dave
Carlson ran 28:03 and Ross
Fleming ran 28:38 as they
led the Royal JV squad in
the JV race.
Coach Steve Whittak-er
noted that at least 14
members of the team set
personal records, many by
a significant amount.
Whittaker mentioned
some of the most impres-sive
improvements were
made by John Pearson who
dropped his time by 52
seconds, Jeff Velasco by
49 seconds, Fleming by 42
seconds and Stevens by
41 seconds.
Saturday, Oct. 17, and
next Saturday, Oct. 24,
races start at 11:00 a.m.
here on Bethel's course.
Oct. 31 and Nov. 7, the
team runs at nearby Como
Park. Both of these races
begin at 1:30 p.m.
Deb Omath all turned in
good performances. against
St. Ben's. Coach Cindy
Book praised the whole
team <for turning the sec-ond
game around.
"We took a time out and
the team just decided that
it wasn't going to give in.
It was a real accomplish-ment,"
said Book.
The JV team also con-tinued
its success under
Coach Carol Girdler. Es-pecially
noteworthy was
the JV's smooth transition
to a new offense (the same
one varsity uses) in up-ping
their record to 9-2.
VB team continues impressive play
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Tourism & Cruises
Fourth of July ushers in summer travel season in South Florida
As the extra-long Fourth of July weekend approaches, South Florida is preparing for its other busy tourist season.
Sure, the snowbirds have flocked back north to more temperate climes and the moneyed Art Basel crowds won't return for months. But despite economic or political instability in their home countries, visitors from Southern Europe and South America flock to Miami-Dade and Broward counties in the summer to shop and hit the beach.
Thursday's holiday, of course, is an all-American celebration — and hotels in South Florida are expecting the promise of waterfront fireworks and all-day barbecues to make for a busy long weekend.
Even though some resorts locally say they expect to be fully booked, a national and state forecast from AAA calls for slightly fewer travelers over the holiday period from Wednesday to Sunday.
Nationwide, the group expects some 40.8 million Americans to travel 50 miles or more from home, down less than 1 percent from 41.1 million last year. In Florida, the prediction is for just over 2 million travelers, a drop of less than 10,000 from 2012.
According to AAA, that drop is likely due to a shorter holiday period, since the Fourth falls on a Thursday rather than a Wednesday. Those who do travel should expect slightly higher gas prices than last year, as well as more expensive plane tickets, hotel rooms and car rental fare over the holiday weekend.
Jessica Brady, a spokeswoman for AAA — The Auto Club Group, said the anticipated small dip in Independence Day travel isn't representative of the larger summer picture, with surveys showing more Floridians planning trips this summer than last.
"I think what it really is is that people are taking their vacations at the non-peak times," Brady said. "People are still looking to save money."
Despite the national and state trends, Miami-Dade hotels surveyed by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau expect about 75 percent occupancy for the holiday, compared to 70 percent last year.
Turnberry Isle Miami in Aventura, which has a full weekend of family activities and fireworks over the golf courses Thursday night, is sold out Thursday and Friday night, said sales and marketing director Kevin Rosa.
"Families are making it a four-day weekend," he said.
In Broward, beachfront hotels are expecting in-state travel.
"I think what they're doing is taking their weekend ahead of the weekend so they can be at the beach," said Nicki Grossman, president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau. "That's just the kind of business we can use."
Grossman said the summer is shaping up to be strong thanks to business from drive markets, sports events and large family reunions.
"As long as we can keep summer gas prices below $4, I think we're going to have an exciting summer," she said. International traffic makes up about 20 percent of visitors in Broward, and Grossman said many of those will be Brazilians, Venezuelans and Colombians hitting Sawgrass Mills for back-to-school and holiday shopping.
"We would love for them to see the beach," she said. "They may never get to do it."
For five of the last six years, July has been the fourth busiest month of the year for hotels in Miami Beach, according to data from Smith Travel Research. (It came in No. 3 in 2011.) County-wide, summer visitor crowds increased 15 percent between 2009 and 2012.
"The seasonality of tourism is definitely something in the past," said Rolando Aedo, chief marketing officer for the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, though rates remain low in the hot, humid months. The bureau's marketing in the summer focuses on value — think restaurant and spa deals — and on eye-catching stunts, such as the recent "It's So Miami Taxi Stand" in New York City.
In late June, the bureau sent exotic cars into the streets of Manhattan to pick up New Yorkers for a short spin, urging passengers to share photos on social media.
The campaign was meant to drum up summer business in the New York market, but statistics from the bureau show that more international tourists than domestic visit during the third quarter of the year.
July brings South Americans, especially Brazilians, who are fleeing winter, and August tends to be full of Italians and French who are getting away during national holidays in their countries.
Those trends are reflected in the sightseeing bus business, said Julia Conway, general manager for Big Bus Tours Miami. While cruise line passengers, mostly domestic visitors, tend to take trips on the double-decker buses in the morning, afternoons in July bring Latin American and European crowds.
"For the Latin American market, they're escaping their winter and they're here for our beaches and to shop," Conway said. "I'd like to say that they're here to do our tour and see the sights, but I'd be lying. They're here to get away from cold weather and to shop. What we've done is connect the dots so they can do all those things."
Fabio Cardozo, a 28-year-old public school teacher from Parnaiba in northeastern Brazil, spent Friday afternoon riding on one of the company's buses exploring Miami Beach, Little Havana and downtown Miami with dozens of other teachers.
He and his fellow educators, about 50 in all, were sent by the government in Brazil to improve their English as part of a program with Florida International University. The teachers study constantly, Cardozo said, but Friday's excursion counted as cultural enrichment.
"Tomorrow we are going to the Seaquarium," he said. "Next week, we plan to go to Sawgrass on our free time."
This was Cardozo's first trip outside Brazil, and he said some of his friends back home were jealous of his six-week stay in Miami.
"It's very famous in Brazil," he said. "It's a paradise of shopping."
At the recently renovated and rebranded James Royal Palm hotel in Miami Beach, general manager Patrick Hatton has studied the trends and tweaked offerings to maximize business.
Expecting families from Brazil this month, the hotel is boosting its offerings for kids at the "Little James Kids Club." For European crowds, Hatton said, the menus will be tweaked to make sure breakfast, for example, has more dried meats and cheeses and the coffee bar has the right offerings.
"The pool and beach will just be packed," he said.
For locals, the hotel has extended a happy hour from 5-7 p.m. to 4-11 p.m. daily through Labor Day on the new Florida Cookery patio, with cocktails half off, a light bites menu and free valet parking.
On a warm Friday night late last month, the hotel threw a party for guests and locals to celebrate the first day of summer and introduce the new patio area of the restaurant. Free wine and beer flowed at the bar and food offerings were plentiful: ceviche in a shot glass, fish dip, grilled shrimp.
Miami Beach residents Kareame Palmer and Misha Harris, both 37, read about the event on a food blog and made a night of it, hanging out on the patio and vowing to return. Both longtime owners of condos at the former Roney Palace, they moved to the city — and met — a couple years ago after visiting the city over the last several years separately.
"I like the summer because it's not as crowded, the water's warm, it's just more relaxed," said Harris, who works in real estate. "It's not the crazy energy of the season."
Said Palmer, a longtime fan of summers in Miami: "The summers here are the new winters."

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Zodac has been set in the past with King Grayskull. Zodak is the present enforcer. We can introduce a new character called Zodax and he can be the future enforcer, set in the NA future.
This is the "alien zodac" version from the sketches of 200X series.
Green skin, robotic legs...
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NHGRI Researchers Develop Gene Test That Differentiates Breast Cancer Types
NHGRI Researchers Develop Gene Test That Differentiates Breast Cancer Types
Technique Can Distinguish Hereditary from Non-Hereditary Tumors; May Lead To New Diagnostic Tests, Future Treatments
February 2001
BETHESDA, Md. - According to their report in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new genetic test that, for the first time, can easily distinguish between hereditary and sporadic forms of breast cancer. This new approach should make it possible for physicians to quickly and accurately diagnose the cause of an individual woman's disease and may ultimately guide decisions about the most effective treatment.
The international team of researchers, led by Dr. Jeffrey Trent, NHGRI's scientific director and head of the NHGRI Cancer Genetics laboratory, used a new technique called gene-expression profiling to differentiate between breast tumors that were caused by inherited genetic changes and those that were not. Based on a laboratory method that uses a type of DNA chip called a microarray, the researchers simultaneously assessed how active some 6,000 genes within breast cancer cells were, altogether making nearly 250,000 measurements. The study revealed clear differences in the patterns of gene activity in breast tumors, patterns that can be as unique as a fingerprint, pinpointing into which group a woman's cancer belongs.
"This powerful new technology gives us a snapshot of exactly which genes are active in a tumor cell," Trent said. "Over the last few decades, scientists have made important progress in understanding the molecular origins of cancer by studying one gene at a time. Now we can look at thousands - and even tens of thousands - of genes as they interact to produce a tumor. This capability will have important implications for both diagnosis and treatment."
Genetics of Breast Cancer
Earlier insights tended to give a fairly static view of the genetic changes that produce a tumor. The current study demonstrates the power of a dynamic analysis that shows the interaction of many genes within a cell's metabolic pathways. In what may become a new research and diagnostic trend, the team has established that it can differentiate between hereditary and non-hereditary breast cancer by studying thousands of genes simultaneously.
Physicians have long known that breast cancer can run in families. Approximately 5 to 10 percent of breast tumors are hereditary; the remaining cases are caused by genetic changes that occur during a woman's life and are commonly called sporadic. In the mid 1990s, scientists identified mutations in genes now called BRCA1 and BRCA2 that are the major cause of the hereditary form of the disease. Women inheriting these mutations have a 40 to 85 percent lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, as well as an increased risk of ovarian cancer.
Telling the tumor types apart with traditional techniques is not easy. "When you look at these tumors under a microscope, based on their shapes and other features, it is very difficult to tell which tumors are caused by BRCA1, and virtually impossible to distinguish cancer caused by BRCA2 from those caused by non-inherited mutations," said another of the study's senior authors, Dr. Ake Borg of the University of Lund. Furthermore, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are very large, and searching through them for mutations is both complicated and expensive.
To determine whether gene profiling could tell the difference between sporadic tumors and those with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, the research team examined samples of tumors that had been surgically removed from 22 breast cancer patients at the University of Lund in Lund, Sweden. Fifteen of the women were known to have hereditary breast cancer based on family history and other analyses. Of the 15, seven had mutations in BRCA1; eight had mutations in BRCA2. The control group was comprised of eight women with sporadic cases that had no evidence of any family history of the disease.
When the team examined the gene-expression profiles for the 22 patients using the microarray analyses, they were able to quickly and accurately differentiate the BRCA1 from the BRCA2 inherited changes as well as from the non-inherited genetic changes.
"We were surprised that we could separate the groups as well as we could," said Ingrid Hedenfalk, one of the two lead authors of the study and a doctoral student visiting NHGRI from the University of Lund. Placing patients in the proper diagnostic category can be critical to a successful treatment. For example, women shown to be carrying BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are at high risk for second breast cancers, and for ovarian cancer, and thus need very close follow-up.
Microarray Analysis
The team's approach relied on a cutting edge technology called a DNA microarray, or sometimes, a gene chip. The microarray itself is merely a glass slide with tiny dots of DNA from different genes arranged in a grid-like array. Using microarrays, the activity of thousands of known genes can be quickly tested in a cell sample.
To perform the analysis, scientists isolate a special collection of molecules from the test cells called messenger RNA or mRNA. These molecules are produced by active genes and indicate which of the estimated 30,000 genes are "turned on" in a cell. The information in the messenger RNAs can be converted into a form of DNA called complementary DNA or cDNA - kind of like copying a music CD to digital audiotape; same information, just in a different form. A fluorescent label can be added to the cDNA made from the test cells. A robot then systematically deposits a sample of the cDNA onto the glass slide. If the sample contains cDNA that matches the a particular gene on the microarray, the cDNA sticks to that spot on the array, like two pieces of Velcro coming together. Unmatched cDNA is washed away.
Automated computerized detectors then measure the amount of fluorescence for each spot. The brighter the fluorescence, the more cDNA has attached to the known gene, and the more active the gene must be in that tissue sample. The result appears as a pattern of spots that are either bright or dark, showing whether the known gene is active or inactive in the tumor cell.
"Our gene expression profiling technology reveals a pattern, a kind of fingerprint for each tumor type," Dr. Trent said. "The fingerprint shows us key genes involved in tumor development and progression."
Because of the number of gene samples, and the number of patients tested, the study produced almost a quarter million data points. To handle the huge amounts of information generated by this process, the researchers turned to computer-based statistical analyses. With the help of statisticians from the NIH's National Cancer Institute, Agilent Laboratories, and Texas A & M University, the researchers were able to show that the differences between the groups of genes from the cancer cells were, indeed, statistically significant.
Diagnostic Impact
In a surprising twist, the scientists found their gene-profiling technique to be so good that it found a previously unrecognized rare event among the classically diagnosed tumors. Among the control tumors that had been originally diagnosed as non-hereditary, one tumor showed a gene-profile that made it look like a hereditary form of the disease caused by mutations in the BRCA1 gene.
After careful ethical advice was obtained, the researchers decided to re-contact the patient to ask for permission to do additional testing. The researchers then sequenced her BRCA1 gene and found no mutations. This puzzling result lead the team to test for a newly discovered mechanism that appears to contribute to the cause of some forms of cancer, even when a critical gene is not mutated. Instead, the gene is somehow abnormally turned off. Scientists call this recently discovered phenomenon gene silencing.
"We discovered that even though the spelling of her BRCA1 gene was normal, it was silenced due to a non-inherited mechanism called methylation," Dr. Trent said. Methylation previously has been identified as a way that a cell may temporarily or reversibly silence the activity of a gene. It remains unclear just what caused the methylation to silence this patient's BRCA1 gene and essentially turn it off.. Nevertheless, Dr. Trent says, several recent studies by researchers elsewhere have shown that gene methylation may be involved in a number of different cancers, including breast and colon cancer, and may be a more common mechanism for tumor formation than previously thought.
Future Directions
Although the research team initially tested thousands of genes to find the pattern associated with the hereditary and nonhereditary forms of breast cancer, computational techniques helped them reduce the number of genes needed to a much more manageable number. "In fact," said co-lead author Hedenfalk, "we were able to narrow the number of genes needed to separate the three groups to just 50 or so."
"Not unexpectedly, these critical genes turn out to be involved in various aspects of cancer progression," said Dr. David Duggan, the study's other co-lead author. These aspects include mechanisms controlling the repair of damaged DNA, cell division, cell death, and other important cellular housekeeping functions.
These 50 or 60 genes are obvious candidates for further research to understand the molecular basis of cancer and are potential targets for the development of new drug treatments. "If you were trying to develop a therapeutic that selected hereditary breast cancer," Dr. Trent said, "these genes would be a good place to start."
The study also sheds new light on how breast cancer develops. "Even though BRCA1 and BRCA2 look nothing like each other in terms of their DNA sequence, they can cause the same net effect - increased susceptibility to both breast and ovarian cancer," Dr. Borg said. By looking at the kinds of cellular genes that are active in these cancer cells, "our results indicate that these two types of inherited genetic changes use quite different pathways, or series of biochemical steps, to cause the same devastation."
Results from the study may also help researchers find additional genes involved in breast cancer. In August 2000, an NHGRI-led team reported finding evidence for a third hereditary breast cancer gene in certain Nordic families. By using gene expression profiling to study these families, the researchers hope to narrow their search for this, and possibly other genes, involved in breast cancer.
Already, the research is being hailed by leading cancer specialists as a breakthrough in basic science with potentially broad clinical applications. "This very important research by a superb group begins to better clarify the different functions of these hereditary breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2," said Dr. Dan Von Hoff, director of the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, Arizona. "This pioneering piece of microarray work will enable us to better design prevention and therapy strategies for patients with hereditary breast cancer and, I suspect, for many other cancers as their genetic basis becomes elucidated."
For NHGRI Director Dr. Francis Collins, the discovery provides a glimpse of the future of genome research. "This work is an excellent example of the kind of research that will characterize the next phase of the Human Genome Project (HGP), as scientists move from sequencing the entire human genetic code to understanding the functions of genes in health and disease," he said.
Members of the research team include (in order of the study's list of authors) NHGRI's Ingrid Hedenfalk, David Duggan, and Yidong Chen; Michael Radmacher of the National Cancer Institute (NCI); Michael Bittner of NHGRI; Richard Simon of NCI; Paul Meltzer of NHGRI; Barry Gusterson of the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Manel Esteller of the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center; Olli-P. Kallioniemi and Benjamin Wilfond of NHGRI; Ake Borg of the University of Lund, Sweden; and Jeffrey Trent, of NHGRI.
Other authors include Mark Raffeld of NCI; Zohar Yakhini and Amir Ben-Dor, both of Agilent Laboratories; Edward Dougherty of Texas A & M University; Juha Kononen of NHGRI; Lukas Bubendorf of NHGRI and the University of Basel, Switzerland; Wilfrid Fehrle and Stefania Pittaluga, both of NCI; Sofia Gruvberger, Niklas Loman, Oskar Johannsson, and Hakan Olsson, all of the University of Lund; and Guido Sauter of the University of Basel.
Their report, "Gene-Expression Profiles in Hereditary Breast Cancer," Hedenfalk, et. al., appears in the Feb. 22, 2001, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, 244:539-548.
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Little Giants Open Football Season Saturdayby Brent Harris • September 10, 2010 Share:
Wabash begins the 2010 football season with a new field, new scoreboard, and new players in several key positions. The Little Giants face the College of Wooster at home Saturday to open the season.
The Little Giants lost 10 starters to graduation from a 2009 team that finished 9-2 with a North Coast Athletic Conference record of 6-1. Wabash earned a berth in the NCAA football playoffs for the third consecutive season, and second in a row under Head Coach Erik Raeburn.
Raeburn begins his third season at the helm with a talented group of wide receivers, led by Kody LeMond and Wes Chamblee. The duo combined to catch 125 passes for 1,837 yards and 20 TDs. Chamblee earned All-America honors as a return specialist. He led the nation in punt return average at the end of the regular season (17.6 ypr).
Tommy Mambourg, Derrick Yoder, and Kyle Stevens return in the backfield for Wabash. The trio was part of a group of running backs that averaged 152 rushing yards per game in 2009.
Chase Belton earns the start at quarterback Saturday versus Wooster. The sophomore from Dayton, Ohio got his first career start at Wooster last season, throwing for 283 yards and four scores. Five offensive linemen will be starting for the first time in front of Belton Saturday, but all five have previous game experience heading into the 2010 season.
The Little Giants return only four starters on defense, but nearly everyone in this year's starting lineup has seen significant playing time previously. CJ Gum begins his senior season at linebacker as Wabash's top returning defensive player from last season. Gum led the Little Giants in tackles with 82 in 2009. Jake Martin was third on the team in tackles. The defensive back also snared four interceptions as a junior. Jake Kolisek started every game at defensive tackle in 2009, finishing with 20 tackles and 2-1/2 tackles for losses. JD McClintic made 14 tackles in six starts last season, as well.
Wabash will dedicate a new playing surface prior to Saturday's kickoff. The College installed FieldTurf Duraspine Pro at Hollett Little Giant Stadium over the summer. The artificial surface is the same that is utilized by 21 NFL teams, including the Indianapolis Colts' games at Lucas Oil Stadium.
A new scoreboard was also erected in the east endzone. The scoreboard provides easier viewing for fans throughout the stadium, and has a message board to display important information throughout the game.
Saturday's game can be viewed live over the Internet on the Wabash web site, thanks to production from Hometown Television and a sponsorship by the Shelbourne Knee Center. The broadcast begins a few minutes prior to the 1 p.m. kickoff. The game can also be heard locally over the radio at 91.3-FM WNDY, the student radio station.
The Little Giants will host their annual Youth Clinic Friday afternoon beginning at 5 p.m. at Hollett Little Giant Stadium. The clinic is free of charge and open to boys and girls in grades K-6.


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Children often are the joy of any travel. Their trusting spirits, contagous smiles and wonderfull laughs. I am always amazed at how happy they appear while having so little as measured by western standards. A simple toy and a friend can make their day.
These pictures are mostly of my travels to climb Mt. Everest in the Khumbu area of Nepal and to Broad Peak and K2 in the Northern Territories of Pakistan.


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