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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Bits And Bobs #65
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great shoes, i have a similar pair from moroccoReplyDelete
the slippers are so nice!ReplyDelete
I also like your glasses so much! :)))
Those glasses are so transparent that it's like invisible omg. Love your man-of-the-house slipper, I think you'r meant to find best stuff at bazaars...ReplyDelete
those shoes are great. i still adore your style. your blog is the first fashion blog i have ever read.ReplyDelete
nice slippers :)ReplyDelete
great shoes!!ReplyDelete
Great look! It's very simple, but still looks polished and put together.ReplyDelete
LOVE those shoes :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2011 at 2:57 AM
Lovely shoes!ReplyDelete
sehr simpel aber wunderschön.ReplyDelete
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Love the balance of the b+w plus the red and printed!ReplyDelete
That's a great picture of yourself, and i love the shoes. The pattern is really nice!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousAugust 15, 2011 at 8:40 PM
Really great outfit!ReplyDelete
Great shoes :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2011 at 5:33 AM
Cute pair of slip-ons!ReplyDelete
the Turkish shoes are so versatile and traditional looking, suits you very well! =)ReplyDelete
love it <3 !ReplyDelete
These are the best, most amazing shoes I have seen in AGES! Instant obsession, I'm afraid. Only choice I suppose is to get myself to Istanbul sooner than later. Do you happen to remember about how much they cost?ReplyDelete
lovely loafers!ReplyDelete
I love this outfit ! and your shoes too ..ReplyDelete


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As you probably know, we here at the JPT have little use for some of the ancient ways of baseball scorekeeping. We do not believe that pitchers single-handedly win games. We do not think a batting average that simply pretends walks do not happen is as rigorous as it might be. We do not consider a player who protects a three-run lead in the ninth to be a savior, do not agree with the masses that a batter who drives in a run has done significantly more good than the runner he drives in, do not think a stolen base should be taken away from the runner simply because the defense was indifferent.
But perhaps our biggest beef with the way baseball has been scored involves that concept known as "errors."
Baseball is the only game in the world, I feel sure, where a scorekeeper determines the worthiness of a play before entering it into the record book. If a quarterback throws a bad pass that deflects off a defender's chest and bounces into the receiver's hand, it is considered a completed pass. Of course. By baseball scoring, it would be identified as a defensive error and marked in the quarterback's record as an INCOMPLETE pass.
If a hockey player cracks a slapshot from the blue line, and the goalie sees it clearly and reaches up his glove hand, and the puck deflects off the top of the glove and tumbles into the net, it is considered a goal. Of course. By baseball scoring, it would be marked as a goalie error and recorded in the winger's ledger as an empty shot on goal.
If a basketball player drives to the basket and scores because the whole defense he is facing falls asleep, nobody rotates, nobody even notices, and the coach is frantically calling timeout so he can go crazy on his guys, and Jeff Van Gundy is screaming "DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO PLAY DEFENSE?" it is still considered a basket. Of course. By baseball scoring, it would be marked a "Van Gundy," and recorded as an unearned bucket and marked as a missed shot for the player.
This is the lunacy of baseball errors and how we score them … but, hey, we have been scoring baseball this way more or less since the dawn of time. A batter hits a ball and makes it to first base — it is often called "a single" in baseball terminology. But If someone in the booth high above the field determines that a defender SHOULD have made the play the batter is recorded as out for the back of his baseball card. A batter hits a ball and makes it to third — a triple, some might call it — but someone in the booth high above the field believes that the defense should have stopped him at second, he is considered for all time to have hit a double.
It's dumb. But it's ours. To go back and re-record baseball history — to rewrite all those hit records and eliminate earned runs and ERA from the books — would not make many people happy. This is baseball. We have errors in it. We accept this the way we accept so many of the absurdities of this big and wonderful game.
Except, it seems, on inside-the-park home runs.
OK, let's break down this inside-the-park home run from Denard Span Saturday night. First inning, Giants-Phillies, couldn't be a more meaningless game (except NO Major League Baseball game is meaningless), Jerad Eichoff was pitching for the Phillies. Span led off the bottom of the first and on the first pitch, he hit a long fly ball to right field. Off the bat it looked like it would be an outside-the-park home run but instead, it hit the fence, maybe a foot from the top. It was a blast.
The ball then bounced off the fence, and Philly right fielder Cameron Perkins seemed in reasonable position to glove the rebound and hold Span to a double. But Perkins is 6-foot-5 and and a rookie and the ball dribbled beneath his glove and rolled away. Perkins chased after.
Cameron Perkins then kicked the ball.
I'll repeat myself in case that was unclear: Cameron Parkins then kicked the ball — he kicked it with such force that the ball rocketed past Phillies center fielder Nick Williams, who had come over to help. Span kept running, of course, while Williams raced after the ball, retrieved it and threw it into the infield. By the time the ball had reached the infield, Span had scored.
It was ruled an inside-the-park home. By the rules and longstanding customs of baseball scorekeeping, that was ABSOLUTELY NOT a home run but it was because — my theory anyway — they're ALWAYS ruled inside-the-park homers.
See, few things in sports are more fun than inside-the-park home runs. Official scorers don't want to take them away. You can't blame them. Who wants to be the one to call that super-fun Span play a double and a two-base error?
Earlier the year, Joey Gallo hit this "inside-the-park" homer.
As I wrote at the time, on that play Blue Jays' left fielder Steve Pearce:
- Misjudged how the ball was hit.
- Lost it — perhaps in the lights.
- Took a route so terrible that the ball ended up behind him.
- Mistimed his leap or whatever that was.
- Put his glove in the wrong place to actually catch the ball.
- Went crashing into the wall and fell down.
The Perkins kick is even more egregious — at least in the Pearce thing there is the long-held (and ridiculous) pretense that you don't call errors on outfielders who don't touch the ball. But there is no possible way, using the long-held logic by which baseball games have been scored, to call the Perkins play anything but an error. He KICKED THE BALL.
But they called it an inside-the-parker because they did.
And I couldn't be happier about it. That's really the point here. We can't get rid of the error; that would be a hugely unpopular move for baseball fans. But we can slowly, methodically, systematically stop using them. Sure, people will scream, "Where have the standards gone?" and "They never call error anymore!" and "Joe DiMaggio never threw to a wrong base!" But over time, we can just starve the error until it is no longer any sort of factor in the game.
But over time, we can just starve the error until it is no longer any sort of factor in the game.
Yes, the instinct to give guys inside-the-park homers even on obvious errors is a good one. Great things happen in sports on errors. Hanging curveballs lead to the most awesome home runs. Loose defense leads to the most spectacular soccer goals. One linebacker getting out of his lane leads to 75-yard touchdown runs. Turnovers turn into glorious fast breaks. A tennis serve that just misses its spot leads to extraordinary winners. One drops the left, the other delivers the devastating right cross.
These are the sports we love, it's about the give and take, the fall and rise, the mistake and the triumphant response. Denard Span hit a baseball well, and he kept running, and he scored. It's an inside-the-park home run.
Life is so much more fun this way.

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Ring out the old, ring in the new.
Ring out the old, ring in the new.
Stroudsburg resident Danielle Miller and her fianc�, Rajinder Singh, of Bethlehem, will usher in the new year with the ringing of wedding bells.
The couple plans to be married in a 6:30 ceremony tonight.
"We really liked the idea of starting the new year as husband and wife. Our theme is new year and new life together," Miller said Sunday as she, Singh and their family members set up for the wedding at Pocono Inne Town in Stroudsburg.
Miller says their relationship was "a little bit of a whirlwind romance."
She and Singh began dating about a year ago and got engaged after just a few months, on May 9.
"Right from our first date, we instantly connected. Everything was easy. We could talk and laugh and just appreciate each other's sense of humor. It was very easy from day one," she said.
Their unique ceremony will pay homage to the Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem, "Ring Out, Wild Bells," about starting over in the new year.
Each guest will be given a bell to ring during the ceremony.
Miller will also honor Singh's Indian heritage by changing out of her American wedding gown after the ceremony and into a lengha, or traditional red Indian wedding gown, during the dinner portion of the celebration.
Pocono marriage officiant Lois Heckman will perform Miller and Singh's ceremony.
It's the second New Year's Eve wedding she's performed in eight years.
"I think people do like to pick special dates that are memorable," she said.
Another popular date this year was Oct. 11, or 10/11/12.
Heckman is also performing a ceremony on New Year's Day, or 1/1/13.
"New Year's Eve has extra symbolism to it because you are ringing out the old and ringing in the new," Heckman said.
If a bride and groom are thinking about planning a New Year's wedding, they should keep in mind accessibility, she said.
The couple should make sure they've considered the possibility of bad weather, and make sure guests will have a place to stay if bad weather does hit.
"It's always tricky planning a winter wedding, but it's got a great cozy vibe to it," Heckman said.
There will be three wedding celebrations at the Stroudsmoor Country Inn today and one on New Year's Day, said Stroudsmoor Director of Event Operations Linda Forte.
"It kills two birds with one stone. It's such a great way to celebrate the new year, a new beginning and a new life together — and it's certainly an anniversary date everyone can remember," Forte said.
When planning a holiday wedding, the couple should plan long-term, Forte said.
"A lot of folks make annual commitments for New Year's Eve. It's going to be easier on family if (the couple) can plan at least 18 months in advance," she said.
The advance notice gives family plenty of time to make travel arrangements, including finding airline tickets. Airfare is sometimes more expensive around the holidays, but this time frame would give them plenty of time to shop around, Forte said.
As for whether people will be able to make it, "It's a holiday, so everyone has off," she said.
Miller and Singh will have 80 people at their celebration this evening.
"I don't think it's that popular of a date, but everyone always says they are looking for something to do on New Year's Eve. What better way to celebrate," Miller said.


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Berlin-based interiors blog Freunde von Freunden recently sat down with fashion designer Petar Petrov, who founded his label of the same name during his studies at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. His designs are simple, innovative and elegant clothes for men, and he has slowly but steadily expanded his client base worldwide, now setting his sights on designing fashion for women. Topics covered range from his move from Bulgaria to Vienna,
"I was twenty years old. Back then I didn't really know much about Vienna. The opportunity of coming here just kind of arose out of nowhere. I wanted to work within the artistic scene and therefore decided to study fashion at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. I was lucky and got accepted at my first trial."
The first piece of clothing he designed,
"That must have been during my studies. But I actually don't want to remember those pieces! (laughs) They must have been some really funny ones. But one keeps developing and, especially within the fashion world, almost everything has an expiration date. If one takes a look at older things, one realizes that they don't belong in the present."
And what he shows guests when they are in Vienna,
"First all sorts of tourist attractions, depending on the guest. I can recommend a walk through the cemetery – Wiener Zentralfriedhof. Other than that I really like to check out flea markets. During spring and fall there are many flea markets that are worth a trip and give a good insight into Vienna's soul. Trips outside of Vienna are also really great. For example Südburgenland, the weather is always good and it is a great place to relax. A visit to the holy mass at Orchesterkonzert on Sunday can also be quite the experience."
Take a look at his apartment and atelier in the gallery above, and you can read the entire feature here.
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Join up with the organizations you're already a member of or find out what else is going on around campus.
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Historians hope to discover what happened to Japanese airmen, sailors killed at Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU – Historians hope to solve one of the remaining mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack and discover what happened to 29 Japanese airmen and four sailors missing in action.
Most are believed to have been lost at sea around Hawaii and in Pearl Harbor. But four aircrew members may still lie buried in unmarked graves in Ewa Beach and in the hills above Aiea.
"For a long time, we didn't even know the names (of the Japanese losses)," said Daniel Martinez, chief historian for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. "And I can be honest with you, at a given point in our earlier history, we didn't care, because of the nature of the attack."
Now, Japan is one of the United States' strongest allies and many Americans who survived the bombing have since reconciled with the Japanese attackers.
Martinez says there's a proposal to display the names in an exhibit at the USS Arizona Memorial visitor's center. He said this "will bring total closure to the casualty list that actually exists right here on our grounds."
Martinez said the study will include how some of the enemy Japanese forces were initially buried at Oahu cemeteries and later repatriated.
"I'm just wondering, when those aviators were buried there, what was the feeling in the city about that?" he said
Fifty-four Japanese aviators are believed to have died in or near Hawaii during the Sunday morning attack. A 55th fatality was returned to the carrier Akagi.
Nine sailors who served on five midget submarines are also believed to have died.
Pearl Harbor historian David Aiken said 25 airmen and three submariners were buried at Oahu Cemetery in Nuuanu, Wahiawa cemetery and the Schofield Barracks post cemetery. After the war, the bodies were disinterred and repatriated to Japan, historians say.
Aiken said that leaves 29 airmen unrecovered on or near Hawaii.
Of the nine submariners, the bodies of only three have been found. Two bodies are likely aboard a midget sub found south of Oahu in 2002 by the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab.
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Sue Renno brought the White Swiss Shepherd to the UK.
In Episode 208 of DogCast Radio, you can hear how Kat Chrysostum invented benefab, a fabric that is helping dogs to life as healthily and happily as possible. When Duschanca Singh met rescue dog Jayda at the Mayhew, it was love at first sight. Plus the DogCast Radio News with stories of dogs around the world who are being bribed, learning to cope with being blind, training to lead visually impaired people - and one emotional roller-coaster of a story!
In this episode you can hear Mark Winik talk about his debut novel, The Dog Healers, and listen to Julia Robertson explain why she founded the charity War Dogs remembered. Plus there's the DogCast Radio News, and what Mischief the German Spitz puppy has been up to.
In this episode you can hear about Service Dogs UK, a fantastic charity which trains assistance dogs to support veterans of any service - military personnel, police, firefighters, paramedics and the coastguard - who develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to their job. Also, listen to Dr Jody A Dean, a clinical psychologist talk about how her book, Roxie the Doxie finds her Forever Home, is helping children understand and talk about adoption and other family issues. Plus the DogCast Radio News and some thoughts on the alpha dog myth.
In this episode you can hear about Muffin's Halo for Blind Dogs, and what motivates people to enter their dog in a fun dog show. In the DogCast Radio News, listen to stories about the latest dog related research. Plus there's a new member of the DogCast Radio team!
In this episode you can hear trainer, behaviourist, writer, broadcaster and wolf expert Maxwell Muir talk about what wolves mean to him personally, their plight in a modern world, and his hopes for their future. Plus we have the DogCast Radio News.


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Recently Approved HPV Test Finds Cancer-Causing Types 16 and 18, and Another Dozen to Boot
In April 2011, the FDA approved a new test that identifies high-risk types of HPV, or the human papillomavirus, the most common sexual infection in the US. Although most people clear the infection on their own, some go on to develop HPV-related disease, such as abnormal cell growth called dysplasia as well as various cancers. People living with HIV who have persistent HPV infection are at a higher risk for dysplasia and both cervical and anal cancers.
The FDA approved the cobas HPV Test based upon results from the ATHENA study of more than 47,000 women. One startling result from the study is that 1 in 10 women who tested positive for HPV 16 and/or 18 by using this test actually had cervical dysplasia despite normal results from routine Pap smears.
Although routine Paps have greatly reduced the rate of cervical cancers, more than 12,000 cases still occur each year in the US. This new test may help reduce that caseload even further by identifying the two high-risk types that account for 70% of HPV cancers (16 and 18) in addition to another dozen that can also lead to cancerous conditions.
The same types that can cause cervical dysplasia and cancer can also lead to cancerous conditions of the anus, which leads to more than 5,000 cases each year in the US. Like cervical cancer, HIV-positive people bear more of a burden of this anal condition as well. However, routine anal screening is not yet standard of care, though one hopes the test could be used similarly for preventing anal conditions.
This test adds to the other diagnostic tools that medical professionals can use to help their patients prevent cancerous conditions due to HPV infection and disease.


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PESHAWAR, Pakistan � Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer protecting polio workers during a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan � Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer protecting polio workers during a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said.
The attack took place as dozens of polio workers � including several women � were going door to door to vaccinate children in Gullu Dheri village of Swabi district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said senior police officer Izhar Shah. None of the polio workers the police officer was protecting were hurt in the attack, he said.
�The polio workers were terrified and immediately went back to their homes after the attack,� Shah told The Associated Press. �The anti-polio drive in that village has been suspended.�
Some Islamic militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile. Pakistan is one of the few remaining places where polio is still rampant.
In a separate incident in the northwest, a man wounded a polio worker with an axe.
The attacks occurred on the second day of a three-day campaign against polio that was launched by the provincial government. No one claimed responsibility for the shooting in Gullu Dheri, but suspicion fell on militants.
Suspicion of vaccination campaigns heightened considerably after it became known that a Pakistani doctor helped in the U.S. hunt for Osama bin Laden.
The physician, Shakil Afridi, ran a hepatitis vaccination campaign on behalf of the CIA to collect blood samples from bin Laden�s family at a compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan�s northwest, where U.S. commandos killed the al-Qaida leader in May 2011.
The samples were intended to help the U.S. match the family�s DNA to verify bin Laden�s presence in the garrison city.
In the recently released film �Zero Dark Thirty� about the search for bin Laden, a short scene shows a man going to the compound where bin Laden was hiding as part of a vaccination campaign. But in the movie, it�s portrayed as an anti-polio campaign instead of anti-hepatitis.
In December, gunmen killed nine polio workers in similar attacks across Pakistan, prompting authorities to suspend the vaccination campaign in the troubled areas. The U.N. also suspended its field operations in December as a result of the attacks. They have since resumed some activities, said Michael Coleman, a spokesman with UNICEF�s polio campaign.
The latest campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was launched Monday to give oral drops to children who had missed it the first time around.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling disease is endemic. The virus usually infects children living in unsanitary conditions. It attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze. As many as 56 polio cases were reported in Pakistan during 2012, down from 190 the previous year, according to the United Nations.
Most of the new cases in Pakistan were in the northwest, where the presence of militants makes it difficult to reach children for vaccination.
Pakistan is also struggling to maintain control of its southern province of Baluchistan.
On Tuesday, gunmen driving in a car opened fire on two police constables who were patrolling on motorcycle in a neighborhood of the provincial capital, Quetta, said Nadir Khan, a local police chief. Both the police officers were killed, he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but similar attacks against security forces are believed to be the work of Baluch nationalists who have been pushing for a greater say in use of the province�s resources.
Also Tuesday, gunmen riding on two motorcycles opened fire on a police station in the country�s largest city, Karachi, killing one police constable and injuring two others, said senior police officer Alim Jaffery. He said the gunmen escaped.


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Denver's favorite summer lunch tradition returns! Delicious food, fresh air, gorgeous views, live music and a great cause... The sixth-annual Civic Center EATS Outdoor Café will launch Tuesday, June 7, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and continue every Tuesday AND Thursday through September 29, 2011 (excluding 9/1 and 9/6 for Taste of Colorado set-up and tear-down).
In addition to supporting Denver's growing gourmet food truck scene, proceeds will benefit the Civic Center Conservancy, the nonprofit dedicated to restoring, enhancing and activating Denver's historic Civic Center Park. Civic Center EATS provides an opportunity for downtown employees, residents, and visitors to experience the beauty of Civic Center, enjoy a delicious outdoor lunch, listen to live music and connect with the community. Shaded tables and an on-site ATM are provided.
Civic Center EATS is presented by the Civic Center Conservancy and produced by
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The Denver Post Community, BP, Manpower, Pioneer Natural Resources, Denver Parks and Recreation, Kiewit Building Group, Mile High United Way, Noble Energy, Sherman & Howard L.L.C., SM Energy, Building Restoration Specialties, Inc., Callahan Capital Partners, Hogan Lovells, QEP Resources, Wells Fargo, and JE Dunn Construction.


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Bethel Board of Education Reviews
Recent 1966-1967 Faculty Additions
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the effect of different types of
For example: the facial masks
will be done strictly with stage
makeup, the colors of which are
supposed to correlate with the per-sonality
of the character. For the
parts of Pilate and Caiphus, Direc-tor
Rott is using Greek masks of
papier mache.
A third type of mask will be
made out of a variety of ma-terials.
One has cardboard spray-ed
with a rust-colored paint to
look like metal, suggesting a
"mechanical" man of today, per-haps?
Another mask will symbolize a
"Christ in the Concrete City" "facade," another — "transpar-deals
with the contemporary and ency." Another mask will be made
historical reaction to the Cruci- of foam rubber. Lighting effects
fixion and Resurrection. The cast will be arbitrary instead of moti-is
composed of Jill Graham, vated.
Mary Ruetten, Dale Cope, Dave There is a great deal of motion
Stagg, Roger Inouye, and Daryl on stage as the characters march
Berg. back and forth when they go "on
strike" in one scene, or simply to
suggest a change of time and
"Christ in the Concrete City"
will be given on tour in California
The Bethel College Royal Players
will present an unusual drama,
"Christ in the Concrete City," on
campus March 31 and April 1.
The play was written by Phillip W.
Turner, a priest in the Church of
Turner has been commissioned
to write a religious play for the
Religious Drama Society of Cana-da.
He has also written the play,
"Cry Dawn in Dark Babylon" and
will be the guest speaker for the
annual National Council of Church-es
Religious Drama Workshop to
be held in the Twin Cities at the
end of August.
Each actor plays different roles.
The director, Dale Rott, has em-ployed
the use of various types
of face masks, to supplement the
limited costuming and to provide
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Vol me XLI—No. *19
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, March 30, 1966
Faculty Members Address Campus
In Observing Pre-Easter Holy Week
Wednesday's chapel on "The Self- Tuesday, Mr. Elliot Donnels will
Emptying Christ." lead on Thursday.
Mr. Max James will speak Thurs- A highlight to this week will be
day on "Christ Our Whole Burnt a candlelight communion service
Offering." in the Seminary Hall chapel sched-
Tuesday and Thursday morn- uled for Wednesday evening at
ings from 7:20 a.m.-7:40 a.m. 9:00 p.m.
there are planned meditation Students are urged to attend as
periods in the Seminary Hall many of these meetings as pos-chapel.
Dr. Butler will lead on sible.
Prexy Foes, Keim, Harris
Dr. Virgil Olson
Rev. Al Glenn
tion meeting was marked by few
decisions of any interest to the
student body.
Among them was the authoriza-tion
to create a faculty board Col-lege
Building Committee "in prep-aration
for the forthcoming relo-cation
of the college." One of the
primary purposes of this commit-tee
is the selection of an architect
to design and coordinate the col-lege
with the seminary at the new
Arden Hills site.
Approval was given to the new
$2,354,850 budget for the 66-67
year. This is a 15% increase
over this year's projected bud-get.
The details of the new bud-get
have been reviewed in a
preceding issue of the "CLAR-ION."
Chicago-area Bethel students will
be participating in a new alumni
project this Easter vacation. An
Invitation to Acquaintance with
Bethel College will be held April
16, 7:30 p.m., at the Northwest
Baptist Church in Chicago.
The Chicago Alumni Chapter
thought that it would be a good
idea to take advantage of Bethel
students home for vacation and
planned a get-acquainted event for
prospective students in the area.
Much of the program is planned
around these Bethel students.
Those participating include
Pat Monson, Duane Gibson, Dick
Schultz, Lois Peterson, Ron Har-ris,
Chuck Henrickson, Phyllis
Tuesday Pastor Al Glenn will
speak on "The Mind of Christ."
President Lundquist will address
Dr. Don Larson will be professor
of anthropology and linguistics. He
was awarded his BA at Wheaton,
and later received his Masters and
Doctorate degrees at the Univer-sity
of Chicago. Since 1963, Dr.
Larson has been translation con-sultant
for the American Bible
Society. He is presently director
of the Toronto Institute of Lin-guistics,
a post he will continue
to hold while he teaches at Bethel.
Dr. Larson has spent some
time in Manila as an instructor
in the Missionary School of Lin-guistics,
and has taught at Trin-ity
College in Chicago.
Instructor in Physical Education,
Maurice Shields, has completed his
undergraduate studies at Friends
University and received his MS
from Kansas State Teachers Col-lege.
He is currently engaged at
Waldon, Colorado.
Nelson, Roger Waldenstrom and
Keith Davis.
This marks the first time Bethel
students outside the Twin Cities
have had an opportunity to share
with an alumni chapter in an
activity such as this.
It is hoped that such an event
will serve as a model for similar
programs in the future.
Students will participate in a
panel discussion as well as topi-cal
discussion groups. Those in
attendance will be divided into
three or four groups which will
rotate among Bethel students
discussing varied aspects of cam-cont'd
on page three
Jim Kiem and Ron Harris em-erged
as the two presidential can-didates
after last Friday's primary
elections. In past years, presiden-tial
candidates have usually or-ganized
political parties.
This year has been exceptional
in that many of the candidates
Thomas, Associate Professor of Mu-sic.
He is a graduate of Wheaton
College and the American Conser-vatory
of Music. He is currently
fjnichin hie don'-nrql gtudies
at Iowa State University. Recently
he has been associated with North-western
College of Minneapolis.
The student hospitalization
plan has proved very satisfac-tory,
and an increase in benefits
will be slated while maintaining
the $25 annual premium.
The Board also approved the
transfer of Dean Larson to the
Seminary faculty in conjunction
with the new Master's Degree
Program there.
have waited until the last week to
make a choice between running
on a party or as an independent.
This has made party organization
extremely difficult.
The presidential speeches were
given this morning in a short
convocation. This evening all
students (especially Sophomores)
are encouraged to come to the
Election Rally.
This situation should present op-portunities
to see and meet the
candidates. The rally will be held
at 7 p.m. in Room 106 in the Col-lege
The voting booth will be open
on both Thursday and Friday from
10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The election
committee has extended the usual
one day of voting to two days in
hopes that this will enable more
students to vote.
The results of the voting will
be kept secret until the half
time of the wacky Student Sen-ate-
Faculty Koffee Kup Game.
At that time the winning candi-dates
will be presented to the
The executive officers will as-sume
the responsibility of their
office for the remainder of this
school year until next year at this
Dr. Carl Lundquist
Mr. Max James
Elections Pose
Unique Queries
Hooray for the Sophomore class!
In the primary elections 35% of
the Sophomores voted. The Fresh-men
slipped into second place po-sition
with 28% voting. Only 22%
of the Juniors voted in the pri-maries.
The Seniors, with only
19% of their members voting, are
the "old cow's tail."
A number of Sophomores are also
upset that the presidential speech-es
took place on Wednesday morn-ing
during the Sophomore testing.
This conflict was unavoidable as
the Monday chapel would have
been too early. Tuesday was tied
up with the Senior and Sophomore
testing, Thursday chapel was al-ready
reserved, and Friday would
have been too late due to the
fact that voting begins on Thurs-day.
during Easter break, along with
"Conquest of Burma." "Christ"
will also be presented on campus
April 3, at 9:00 p.m. Mr Rott and
the Speech Chorus will also make
a presentation at that performance.
Musicians Schedule
Chamber Symphonette
Tuesday, April 5, at 8:00 p.m.
in the College Auditorium, the
Bethel instrumental music de-partment
presents in concert the
Bethel Chamber Orchestra under
the baton of Julius Whitinger.
Several brass ensembles are also
included on the program.
The Symphonette is free to the
public and will feature music
from the various musical per-iods,
with emphasis given to the
Baroque and Romantic tradi-tions.
The college is most cordially
invited to enjoy a relaxing even-ing
of pleasing musical enter-tainment.
Last week's Board of Educa- this year while taking courses in
the Seminary. He has had some
experience as an elementary school
teacher and principal.
Perhaps of most interest to the
students was the announcement of
several new faculty members ex-pected
next year. Lyle Hill, In-structor
of Education is a gradu-ate
of Bethel and Michigan State
University. He has been teaching A new addition to the Music
at the college on a part time basis Department will be Mr. C. Edward
Chicago Alumni Chapter Designs
Bethel Acquaintance Discussions
Holy Week, April 4-7, is the
week chosen for Bethel's annual
pre-Easter Deeper Life emphasis.
The events of this week will
provide excellent spiritual prepara-tion
for the Easter commemora-tion.
The meetings planned are
designed to offer spiritual enrich-ment
to those attending.
This year's Deeper Life theme is
"Identification with Christ." The
title is taken from Philippians 3:10
—"Being made conformable unto
His death."
Chapel speakers for the week Vie For Head Senate Post
will be members of Bethel's
faculty. Monday Dr. Virgil Ol-son,
seminary professor, will be
speaking on "Identification with
a Phrase or a Person?"
Royal Dramatists Ready Singular Play,
Foresee Easter Itinerary In California
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Washington, D. C.
With a vote of 27-2, the Senate
approved a bill Thursday giving
President Johnson $13,000,100,000
for more airplanes, missiles bul-lets,
etc. to fight the Viet Nam
war. Senators Wayne Morse and
Ernest Gruening cast the two neg-ative
As yet Indonesia's new leaders
and President Sukarno have failed
to reach any agreement on a new
anti-Communist cabinet. A new
cabinet is urgently needed to cope
with the political and economic
United Nations, N. Y.
The United States reportedly is
considering a seat in the United
Nations for Red China. Qualified
sources report the consideration of
a major shift in policy by the
Dr. Genevieve Knupfer, psychi-atrist,
has proven that bachelors
are the most unhappy adults today.
In contrast, married men worry
less, are less depressed, are hap-pier
in their jobs, and in general
have a brighter outlook on life.
In comparison, single girls seem
to have less problems and malad-justments.
They also seem to have
had happier childhoods and fewer
family problems.
Indira Gandhi arrived Monday in
Washington to begin requests for
more U.S. aid. India is in desper-ate
need of food to combat current
Johnson said in a welcoming
speech that India was indeed ca-pable
of handling its own prob-lems
but needed U.S. financial
backing to accomplish solutions.
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the CLARION Wednesday, March 30, 1966
Significant Campus Issues
Demand Prudent Hearing
The approaching year is of ultimate importance to the
development and very existence of Student Senate. The student
body has expressed in a rather positive manner that it does
in fact want senate to continue, but the manner in which
it continues is of question. Senate now is at a crossroads —
the crucial point between becoming an effective, responsible,
empowered governing body and being shelved into insignifi-cance
by the paternal instincts of the administrative hierarchy.
For this very reason students must recognize the impor-tance
of the present presidential campaign. Issues of signifi-cance
must be raised that demand a hearing from both candi-dates.
The editorial staff of the CLARION would take the
opportunity to bring some of these to the forefront, demanding
a response.
First, in lieu of the tension that has existed this year
between the student publication and the governing body, a
tension, I might add, that is necessary for the active role that
the publication must play in judging and critically analyzing
the decisions of the Senate, it is our recommendation that
the budgets for the CLARION, SPIRE, and COEVAL be
withdrawn from the Senate budget and the publications,
therefore, from their jurisdiction. Funds will be alloted direct-ly
from the student inclusive fees, and control over the
publication administered only by the publications board.
Secondly, we believe student government can and must
become more powerful. Students presently have become dis-illusioned
by the token role they have been given in the
formulation of policy. There is, therefore, little incentive to
spend hours pondering questions concerning institutional
growth when they could be better spent earning grades which
will enhance one's own future.
Therefore, we recommend that students have direct rep-resentation
with voting power on all faculty and administrative
committees. To do this, such representation must be integrated
directly into the governing structure. For example: 1) requiring
reports to be given at senate meetings; 2) having committee
recommendations pass through the legislative process before
they are presented to the appropriate committee; 3) providing
the student government office as a place for the development
of a program to carry out committee recommendations when-ever
It is also important to have student representation at
all Board of Education meetings. Voting privileges could not
be given, but a student voice must be heard when policy
is decided that directly affects the campus community. A
case-in-point — tuition increase.
We also believe in the development and furtherance of all
community facets of Bethel. Therefore, we encourage that
strong consideration be given to the institution of an honor
system similar to the one presented to the student body two
years ago. This would give each student a responsible position
in participating ethically and academically in the Bethel Com-munity.
We realize also that one of the most serious impediments
to an undergraduate's experimentation in various courses other
than his major is the threat of lowering his honor point ratio.
Difficult electives that would broaden his education are, there-fore,
seldom considered. We, therefore, recommend that a pass-fail
system be instituted similar to that of Carleton College
ill certain electives outside one's major field.
We would also favor more effective, critical course
evaluation on the part of students concerning the impact of
professors, subject matter, and curriculum. This could con-sist
of a non-published evaluation administered by a student-faculty
committee to students and seen only by the professor,
or the report of the committee could be issued in a published
form to guide students in choosing a curriculum.
These are but a few important issues. We have raised
them. It is up to the candidates to answer them.
The Registrar's office has just
announced that the selective serv-ice
college qualification test will
be administered on 19 Minnesota
campuses on May 14, May 21, and
June 4.
In the Twin City area, tests will
be administered at Macalester, St.
Thomas and the St. Paul campus
of the University.
Application cards will be made
available in the Coffee Shop
through the Registrar's office.
The selective service college
qualification test, prepared and
administered by Science Re-search
Associates of Chicago for
the Selective Service System, is
intended to give local draft
boards additional information
The CLARION takes the opportunity to pub-lish
editorial opinions from members of its staff
when significant opinions demand hearing. Thus
appears the following article by News Editor,
Jeff Loomis.
by Jeff Loomis
So the call has come again! The voices are
pealing, the bugle sounds. Become involved. Launch
out for Bethel. Join in the Senate chattering, the
activity band. Yes, join, and if you must lose track
of your inner self in the process, do it. Senate needs
The dilemma is clear. Conflict between the ideal-ization
of activity and the need for self-realization
is a very relevant factor in the arguments of some
who would de-emphasize the value of Senate service.
Several senators who took part in the Senate
ban move last month were concerned with this very
problem. Student apathy did not worry them nearly
so much as did the lack of real inner searching among
Bethel students. While interest in campus activity
was ebbing, student mind-probing seemed to be on
the increase.
Evidence of this was seen in the response to
the "Doubt Session" scheduled at Edgren Dormitory
Lounge February 9, when Don Klingberg and 150
students were kept busy in a marathon-length dis-cussion
of the essence of Christian faith from 9:00
p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
These senators rejoiced in such interest, finding
it much more refreshing than Senate campaigns to
obtain students as committee members for some
sort of weekly Sno-Daze funfest.
Student apathy, if it made the average Bethelite
look at himself seriously, if it allowed him to get
alone where he could see the "hole" that something
like constant activity would leave in his search for
a meaning to life, was no curse but rather a blessing.
Yet, there certainly are problems in this type
of approach, also. First of all, it is obvious that all
students who are not among "the involved" are not
among "the searching."
It may well be that the average Bethelite is
rather among David Riesman's "lonely crowd",
by Bruce Lawson
500 college-age demonstrators
gathered outside Buddhist head-quarters
Sunday to denounce the
government of Premier Nguyen
Cao Ky. They accused the regime
of "selling out" to the United
Hong Kong
Chinese Communist leaders have
increased their heated criticism of
Soviet leaders with the approach
of the Soviet Communist party
congress which Peking has de-cided
to boycott.
The Chinese Central Committee
branded the Soviet leaders as "ren-egades
and stool pigeons" and
"freaks and monsters."
degree with a stated college ma-jor),
and achieve a satisfactory
relative class standing among
the men in his class.
The test result alone will not
be cause to deny an applicant a
student deferment. It will thus not
"hurt" a student's chances. If he
is confident he will remain in the
upper fraction of his class, he may
"rest his case" on grades alone.
On the other hand, if his grades
should slip, a good test score might
make the difference with his local
The test may be taken only
Tests given on the three dates
will not be the same, although
test scores on each will be fully
simply moving and breathing and having his being
in a "go-to-class, go-to-lunch, go-to-Chapel, go-to-the
T.V. room" pattern, apparently oblivious to the truth
that there is something more (although I speculate
that he does know, probably more than the most
strifetorn "mind-searcher", the pain of meaningless-ness).
Secondly, Student Senate does not need to be
unalterably opposed to the "searchers", does it? For
Senate can be, and indeed should be, a benefit for
Bethel extracurricular life, traditionally "weighed
in the balances and found lacking" as far as intel-lectual
stimulation is concerned, can use far more
in the controversy line, more speakers who, unlike
the typical Chapel lecturer, will shatter our biases.
Just as we need more all-night doubt sessions in
dormitory lounges, we are wanting in those one-hour
sessions that bring about the necessary doubts.
I am certain that present Student Senate leader-ship
has the hope that Bethel will become a school
where the annual social rituals (Sno-Daze, F-S and
J-S), while probably not eliminated, are not consid-ered
the only responsibilities of the Senate.
Bill Madsen expressed this thought when inter-viewed
for a previous CLARION, when he said: "...
next year's Senate should not spend much time
maintaining the traditional. Having more evening
forums and more off-campus speakers would be one
way to go about it." He also mentions the possibility
of starting a coffee house.
Yet it is a shame that present Senate leaders
haven't been able to do something of this nature
already. I don't believe the problem has been so
much student apathy as it has been no desire among
leaders to overcome apathy by being brave enough,
as students, to do what many adults fear doing.
that is to present the collegian with that different,
at-first shocking conflict between his belief and
another's that will awaken him to realization of a
fuller life, and a knowledge of the real Christ who
puts Christianity on the offensive against other
viewpoints rather than on the defensive.
We must realize that involve-ment
in Student Senate is no such
high-water mark of success as it
is pointed out to be. Mr. Schultz's
comment in the CLARION is
to me of dubious merit: "There
should be the desire to serve and
the desire to get involved in the
activities rather than to sit in the
My answer is that sometimes to
sit in the background(s) when
there is no clear-cut reason for
doing otherwise is an extremely
sensible attitude. Un-involvement
is no "mark of the beast."
Why then call Senate an im-portant
institution simply because
a "democratic process" is a part
of our American heritage? Why
not recognize its real function as
being only that of an instrument
perhaps useful for obtaining some
desirable ends — truly desirable
ends. Then, instead of calling for
more who will answer the "chal-lenge
of involvement", allow those
with purposes beyond the tradi-tional,
purposes which require in-volvement,
to mold it to their ends.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminal y, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Editor-in-chief John Halvorsen
News Editor Jeff Loomis
Feature Editor Anita Palm
Layout Editor Judy Maim
Copy Reader Mae Toedter
Typist Nancy Ballantine
Circulation Joyce Lehman
Photography John Hopkins
Advertising Manager Fran Malmsten
Business Manager Gene Peterson
Advisor Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Involvement As Virtue Questionable;
Campus Requires Purposive Senate
regarding the proper classifica-tion
of registrants who apply for
occupational deferment as col-lege
While the test is not mandatory,
college students, including post-graduate
students, are encouraged
to take it.
Application cards must be post-marked
no later than April 23.
Selective service local boards
will use the test results as supple-mentary
information in consider-ing
registrants for draft deferment
as college students at undergradu-ate
or post-graduate level.
In order to qualify for such
consideration, a registrant must
be a fulltime student, pursuing
an educational goal (in other
words, a candidate for a certain
Selective Service Classifying Test
Becomes Local Reality Next Month
Candidates Keim, Harris Consider
Various Election Campaign Issues
Wednesday, March 30, 1966
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Bernard Greenhouse, who is acknowledged as one of the most
remarkable 'cellists of our time, will perform Haydn's D Major 'Cello
Concerto with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of
Leopold Sipe.
Also programmed for the Saturday concert will be Brandenburg
Concerto No. 4, Symphony No. 77 in B Flat Major, and Royal Invitation.
Saturday night will also see the premier of a work by Donald Harris,
native of St. Paul.
Tickets are available at Dayton's, Field Schlick or at the door.
Salome, a one act opera by Richard Strauss, will be presented by
the Minneapolis Symphony Friday night at Northrop Auditorium. This
particular performance will be in concert rather than staged form.
The Lisowsky Symphonic Orchestra will be presenting two concerts
at the Central high school Thursday night at 9:20 p.m. and 10:20 p.m.
Coming soon is the annual spring productions of the Metropolitan
Opera at Northrop Auditorium. During the five day season, six
operas will be presented: May 18, LA BOHEME; May 19, FAUST;
May 20, IL TROVATORE; May 21 (matinee), THE BARBER OF SE-VILLE;
May 21 (evening), THE QUEEN OF SPADES; and May 22
(matinee), LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
Tickets for these performances will be available by mail order
after April 4 from the University of Minnesota.
College Psychology Department
Plays Host For Local Convention
Jim Kiem, one of the candidates
for the presidency, will be a second
year senior next year in order to
gain enough credits for his second
major, social science.
One of the reasons he is run-ning
for the office is because he
simply likes working with student
Jim Keim
government. When asked what his
qualifications for the office were
he replied, "Well, I have a long
list of losses . . . ."
Concrete experience though has
been gained through working on
the CLARION as a Freshman, be-ing
secretary of Edgren as a Soph-omore,
heading the Religious Com-mittee,
and consequently being a
senator, as a junior, and serving
as a Resident Assistant both his
junior and senior years.
Jim doesn't think that any main
issues will be trumped up for the
campaign. He does, however, think
that some votes will be swayed
through a misunderstanding of his
stand on Freshman Retreat.
Last week's CLARION might
lead people to believe a decisive
change will be made to bring the
retreat closer to campus. This is
not necessarily so. Investigation,
however, will be made of this pro-ject.
Jim would like to see discussion
around campus concerning men's
social organizations based on living
areas. Through these the student
would find an intermediate social
climate between being either simp-ly
an individual or part of the
mass. In other words, it would
give the individual a meaningful
group loyalty.
Concerning the intercollegiate
organization Bethel belongs to, Jim
definitely sees the danger of a
Alumni Project
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pus life—Christian service, aca-demics,
and dorm life.
Mr. Owen Hallen, assistant dean
of students, will be there to rep-resent
the faculty. Dr. Paul Fin-lay
also expects to present a film
syndicated for use by admissions
offices across the nation to ac-quaint
prospective college students
with the rigors and adjustments of
college life.
small campus becoming isolated
and, therefore, sees the advantage
of such a group. Students execu-tives
meet monthly for an ex-change
of ideas, which Jim sup-ports,
but he would like to see the
exchange broadened.
He also recognizes as a school
problem the transportation facili-ties.
As a possible solution he
suggested a local version of the
proposed travel file.
By this means a student wishing
riders to a particular event (or
more broadly, particular city or
state) could be directed to a stu-dent
needing a ride. This, however,
is an area in need of further in-vestigation
before definite plans
are laid.
Jim made no predictions con-cerning
the election, but is look-ing
forward to a lively campaign.
Ron Harris, junior class presi-dent,
campaigns for the Senate
presidency with substantial exper-ience
in leadership, both in sports
and government.
H e has both played football
and has wrestled for three years
and has been co-captain of the
wrestling squad for two years. Al-so
during this year he has been
vice-president of the B-Club. Ron
will represent Bethel at the com-ing
Chicagoland College confer-ence.
Because of his background with
sports, especially football and
football camp, Ron is strong for
holding Freshmen Retreat off cam-pus.
He considers that it was the
time together before the season
started that brought the team into
real fellowship and feels the same
is true of the incoming class. Trout
Lake or some other similar loca-tion
would be far and away more
beneficial to their introduction
into college life.
The college is confronted with
a transportation problem as all
are ready to agree. To combat this,
Ron is working on a program to
investigate the possibility of a more
Readers among the Bethel stu-dent
body should be getting their
personal libraries in order for the
Bethel Bookstore's upcoming con-test
to determine the best student
collection of books. Entries must
be submitted to Robert Bergerud,
bookstore manager, by Friday,
April 8.
Mr. Bergerud has announced
prizes of $20 worth of books for
the first prize winner and a choice
of $5 in books for the second place
From here, the name of the
top winner will be submitted to
the Amy Loveman National A-ward
contest, sponsored by the
Saturday Review, Book-of-the-
Month Club, and Women's Na-tional
Book Association.
Each year these groups select
the best student library in the na-tion.
This competition offers a
$1,000 first prize and two $200
awards for honorable mention.
To participate, Bethel students
must submit a list of thirty-five
books which are in their collection.
integrated social life within the
campus itself. In the realm of
possible efforts would be the con-verting
of specified areas into rec-reational
Ron would like to see much
more action in the spirit of the
campus. Under the direction of the
Athletic Committee, he envisions
more pep fests and bonfires, pos-sibly
utilizing the fair grounds for
Ron Harris
some activities.
A large part of Ron's program
would include more direct Senate
and student relations. Identifica-tion
of the students with their own
governing body is essential to the
smooth operation of the school
as a whole.
In addition, he would like to see
more training of underclassmen by
the experienced upperclassmen to
properly carry on the operation
of the school. This would not only
give proper representation but
would also use a balance of ex-perience
and enthusiasm found in
the four classes.
Ron is running independently
in order to devote his efforts to
policy making rather than party
This number of volumes is the
minimum for consideration in the
Amy Loveman contest.
Sponsors of the Bethel contest
are especially seeking entrants
whose libraries contain a well-rounded
variety of titles. This,
however, should not exclude stu-dents
from entering the contest
whose collections include large
portions of books from particu-lar
authors or on specialized sub-jects.
Books listed should be available
for scrutiny of judges, as much as
Bethel psychology majors are
now finalizing plans for participa-tion
in an area convention of col-lege
psychology departments to
be held on the Bethel campus
Saturday, May 13, 1966.
Aiming at greater interaction
between the local institutions as
well as the acquisition of know-ledge
on the student's part, the
meet will include presentation of
papers in the afternoon, opportuni-ties
to become familiar with pro-fessors
and programs of the var-ious
schools, and an evening din-ner
at which a well-known psy-chologist
will speak.
Undergraduate students are
urged to participate in the con-vention
program by reading a
paper. The types of papers or
their content is not being
strongly regulated, but empirical
this is possible, since many stu-dents
will have books at home
which appear on their lists. All
volumes should be marked with
the student's name.
Also included in the information
turned in by entrants should be a
list of ten books which they would
like to add to their collections and
reasons for their choice of these
The three judges will be chosen
from among the college faculty,
and will be announced in next
week's CLARION.
studies will probably find pre-ference
because they are more
easily presented in a brief oral
form than literature reviews or
broad theoretical discussions.
Those desiring to submit papers
for the convention should submit
their materials to the Program
Committee,__ c/o __Psychology__ De-partment,
Macalester College, by
Friday, April 22.
Necessary material is a two-page
abstract (or more complete manu-script)
of the paper, a statement
of the time necessary for present-ing
the paper, and a brief sponsor-ing
statement from a faculty mem-ber
familiar with the student's
Decisions on the papers to be
presented and a schedule of the
convention events will be mailed
within the week following the
April 22 deadline.
Those schools who will partici-pate
in the convention are Augs-burg,
Bethel, Carleton, St. Cather-ine,
St. Thomas, Gustavus Adol-phus,
Hamline, Macalester, North-western,
St. Olaf, and the Univer-sity
of Minnesota. The Institute of
Child Development will be includ-ed
in the University delegation.
Alpha Theta Psi, the Bethel psy-chology
club, is in charge of spe-cial
arrangements for the conven-tion.
Dr. Gary Collins and the of-ficers
of the club will soon be
forming committees for publicity,
meals, tickets, and other aspects of
the conference plans.
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The basketball and wrestling seasons are hardly completed before
the trackmen, tennis team, and baseball players try nudging their
participants out of the locker room. The baseball players clad themselves
in muddy spikes and the net men in shorts and racket while the
tracksters equip themselves with an aqua lung in preparation for the
long spring practices. One would readily call the Coast Guard to help
the trackmen since they bear the brunt of the melting snow.
Optimism in its purest form runs rampant, especially in the coach's
ranks. Coach Carlson calls his netmen potentially the best team in the
history of the school. Coach Glader looks forward to tough competition
as does Coach Cox — "the kind of schedule we should be playing."
This is not just a pre-season feeling of emotionalism that grips
coaches. Their team may lose the first four meets, but the optimism
of the coaches is never daunted. Perhaps that's what makes them
unique (besides ulcers).
The team will journey to Kansas, and the men will practice and
scrimmage until ripening game time. Then 400 students will pack
stands and watch the men who have worked so hard all spring. Popcorn
will be sold by the Letterman's Club, and cheerleaders will be out in
full force to lend support.
The Student Senate members who so courageously brave the
storms for the basketball games, will stir up support and even attend
the events themselves. Crowning of a queen will take place at one of
the events, and away meets will sport two or three busloads of cheering,
energetic students.
The same professors who so vociferously voice themselves at
other games will shout their approval as a track relay team breaks
another record or a baseball player slams a homer or a tennis player
sweeps a match.
Impossible? Nay. Imperative — if track and baseball and tennis
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April 7 marks the beginning of
the spring jaunt of Bethel's track
team into Iowa, Nebraska, and
Kansas. This marks the second
straight year the team will head
south for the Easter vacation.
Last year's trip was termed a
success by coach Gene Glader, even
though his thinclads won only one
meet. "It was the first time we
succeeded in having regular work-outs
and competition over the
Easter holiday since the ten-day
vacation period was initiated."
"In addition," Coach Glader
continued, "the warmer weather
encountered on such a trip is
very important in helping the
team get in shape."
This weather factor, however,
will have given the southern
schools an advantage over the
Bethel cindermen. Glader antici-pates
tough competition and feels
the team will be fortunate to post
victories in half of the six meets
because of weaknesses in the
weights and distance events.
It is hoped that increased
strength in the hurdles, sprints,
high jump, broad jump, and triple
jump will help offset the weakness
in other areas.
The first meet of the trip is
with Buena Vista College at
Storm Lake, Iowa. From there
the team will move on to Peru,
Nebraska, for a meet with Peru
State College before taking on
Kansas Wesleyan University at
Salina, Kansas.
The next meet is labeled by
Coach Glader as one of the more
coincidental aspects of the trip. It
will pit Bethel versus Bethel—the
other Bethel being Bethel College
of North Newton, Kansas, sup-
Bethel's Student Senate will bat-tle
the faculty in SPAN's Koffee
Kup game on Friday, April 1 at
8:00 o'clock. Upon immediate con
elusion of the game, the famed
Koffee Kup will be presented to
the winning team.
Proceeds of the annual game go
into the SPAN fund. The SPAN
organization underwrites up to
half of each SPAN participant's ex-penses.
This game is the primary
way to raise money for those stu-dents
going out this summer. More
funds will be needed this year
since this is the first year Bethel
is sponsoring two SPANer's.
It is hoped that at least 600
or 700 students will attend this
year's game. The price of admis-sion
is 25 cents. Dr. Johnson
says, "It'll be worth the price of
admission just to see the faculty
try to run up and down the
court." However, the faculty is
again confident of their usual
In previous years, the focus of
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ported by the General Conference
of Mennonites.
Meets with Midland College of
Fremont, Nebraska and Northwest-ern
College of Orange City, Iowa.
finish out the trip.
The team hopes to visit a total
of five churches on their trek,
acting in the capacity of a gos-pel
team. In doing so, Coach
Glader not only hopes the team
can make a contribution to the
churches they visit but that the
participation will "bring new
spiritual depth to us as a team
and individuals."
Visiting the churches will also
help minimize the cost of food and
the first half of the game was
clowning and the second half ser-ious
competition. This year the
evening's humor will stem chiefly
from the running commentary by
Allan Selander and Doug King.
Halftime entertainment will be
provided by a folk singing trio and
a German band. The game itself
is reserved as a contest of strength
between the faculty and Student
Kathy Harvie is in charge of
Student Senate cheerleaders, and
the faculty is planning on hav-ing
their own organized rooting
section too. The faculty has
trained hard under the watchful
eye of coach Jerry Healy.
Faculty wives and their families
have enjoyed the opportunity the
yearly melee provides for seeing
their men in vigorous physical ac-tion.
The students also appreciate
the pitting of teacher against stu-dent
away from the classroom on
the courts where degree counts for
no man.
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Coach Glader said spring trips
are still in the experimental state
although last year's trip indicated
it could be a valuable practice. One
drawback of the trip is its cost,
which presents a problem for some
Also, participating individuals
don't have the opportunity to
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last year, Coach Glader said "the
experience of being and living to-gether,
and taking part in church
services developed an esprit-de-corps
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On drones, Egypt, Paul makes foreign policy mark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Is Rand Paul the next generation-defining senator on American foreign policy?
In just half a term, the Kentucky Republican has shaken up Congress and in some ways the country with his brand of libertarian populism, filibustering President Barack Obama's CIA director earlier this year and leading the fight against authorizing U.S. military action in Syria.
Even in some of his defeats, Paul has been vindicated. The Obama administration's decision this month to suspend much of its $1.5 billion annual assistance package to Egypt is a course Paul unsuccessfully championed only 10 weeks earlier.
"It's presumptuous to say you're driving the debate," Paul said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. Still, he suggested his proximity to voters gives him a better understanding of what Americans are looking for right now in their government's foreign policy.
"I think people are always ahead of their legislature, maybe 10 years or so," he said. "Let's say you're elected for the first time in 1978. That is still who is electing you every time, the people who elected you then, because you perceive that as that was your big hard race and you won. And you still perceive you're representing those people from 1978. ... But you're not really familiar with the wants and desires of 2013, because you still represent then."
For a freshman senator with presidential ambitions, Paul has racked up an impressive list of public relations coups despite few legislative victories.
His 13-hour filibuster failed to prevent John Brennan's confirmation to lead the CIA in March, but it shined a light on some of the unsavory elements of Obama's drone attacks on U.S. terrorism targets overseas — including the deaths of four American citizens. The filibuster helped spark a nationwide conversation. Two months later, Obama revamped his drone policy to set tougher standards for when the U.S. can target and kill al-Qaida or other terrorists who pose "a continuing, imminent threat" to Americans.
Syria was a similar case. After a large-scale chemical weapons attack in August killed hundreds outside Damascus, Obama asked Congress to approve a limited U.S. military intervention against Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
Paul rejected the administration's case that intervening was in America's national interest. He lost as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-7 in favor of authorization, but ultimately won the argument as public opposition and skittishness among members of both parties in Congress prompted Obama to drop his effort and seek a diplomatic solution.
Egypt represents perhaps the most dramatic reversal.
In July, Paul was resoundingly defeated by an 86-13 vote when he proposed stripping the Egyptian military of the annual U.S. aid package it has enjoyed since the 1979 Camp David Accords with Israel, and redirecting the money into bridge-building projects in the United States. An impressive alliance of GOP and Democratic elder statesmen opposed him.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said adopting Paul's amendment would be a "huge mistake"; Sen. John McCain called it a "terrific mistake." Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican, and the party's leader on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called it "terrible public policy." The committee's chairman, Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat, said Paul's proposal "may be good politics but it is bad policy."
As Egypt's military crackdown continued, the debate quickly shifted, culminating in the State Department's announcement earlier this month of a dramatic scale-back of U.S. support for the Arab world's biggest country.
Although it fell short of Paul's call for a complete suspension, the withheld aid includes $260 million in cash assistance to the government as well as 10 Apache helicopters, at a cost of more than $500 million, M1A1 tank kits and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The U.S. had already suspended the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets and canceled biennial U.S.-Egyptian military exercises.
"There are a lot of established interests that have opposed me on every one of these foreign aid votes," Paul said. "My own party, the other party — not one Democrat voted for any of these things, although they're down there changing their minds on some of them."
Paul's objection toward much of what represents consensus U.S. foreign policy thinking is philosophical. A tea party favorite who has taken sometimes radical positions on spending and the role of government, he has gone so far as to suggest cutting foreign aid in half and completely excluding countries, primarily in the Muslim world, that don't share American values. He has won little support beyond hardcore isolationists and fiscal conservatives who place blame for America's economic woes on foreign aid, even if it only accounts for 1 percent of the federal budget.
Yet for a legislator who may be planning a White House bid, Paul is clearly making his mark. U.S. drone strikes continue to be a significant focus of congressional examination in large part because of Paul's gadfly questions, such as whether any Americans might be targeted by the unmanned aerial aircraft as part of domestic law enforcement efforts. The administration ruled out such strikes inside the U.S. after Paul's questioning.
Paul's willingness to take risks sets him apart from another freshman Republican readying a potential presidential campaign: Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a fellow foreign relations committee member.
Membership on the committee is no surefire way to the presidency. Obama was on the committee during his Senate tenure but stirred little controversy. He didn't emerge as an influential or defining voice on foreign policy such as Henry Clay, who helped drive the nation into the War of 1812 against Britain, or 20th century luminaries like the imperialist Henry Cabot Lodge, non-interventionist Robert Taft, multilateralist William Fulbright and anti-communist Jesse Helms.
Paul may be emerging as that type of defining figure, frequently serving as the foil to hawks in his own party such as McCain and Graham. Beyond Syria, he has opposed talk of military action against Iran.
With the economy far outweighing foreign affairs as the top issue for voters, it's unclear if Paul's more iconoclastic positions will help or hurt him if he runs for president.
He has tried to present himself as pro-Israel even after talking about ending "welfare" to the Jewish state. He has propagated a theory about last year's deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic installation in Libya, linking it to a purported CIA gun-running scheme for Syrian rebels. He has accused Obama of plotting with "anti-American globalists" to undermine the Constitution. Two weeks ago, told a conservative gathering that the administration was aiding a global "war on Christianity."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another Republican weighing a presidential bid, calls Paul's brand of libertarianism "dangerous." McCain, who lost to Obama in 2008, has branded Paul a "wacko bird."
The 50-year-old ophthalmologist says he simply argues and votes for what he believes in.
"I had a good job before I came here and I'm willing to go back anytime," Paul said.


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"Breast cancer screening could cause more harm than good," The Daily Telegraph has today reported. The newspaper says up to half of the benefit that some women get from living longer lives could be cancelled out by others having misdiagnoses or unnecessary treatments. For example, some women may have surgery to remove cancers that would not have gone on to cause them any problems. Diagnosis of these cancers is referred to as "overdiagnosis" and their treatment as "overtreatment".
The news is based on a study that updated the Forrest report, the 1986 research that led to the start of the UK breast screening programme. This older analysis included the data available at the time, but did not examine the harms of overdiagnosis or false positives. The current analysis updated the original study's calculations by adding in recent data, and taking into account these potential harms of screening.
Unsurprisingly, the inclusion of these harms reduced the benefits estimated for the screening programme. The updated model including harms suggested that the screening programme may not have yielded a net benefit until about 10 years into the programme, although the balance shifted towards benefit after this. However, no model is perfect, and the researchers acknowledge that their analysis has limitations. For example, the model is based on results from the available trials of mammography, some of which are decades old. Screening techniques and treatments may have improved since then.
Estimating the balance of benefits and harms of screening programmes is complex, and models such as this can help to estimate this balance. An independent review of all relevant evidence is currently ongoing and due for publication next year.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. It received no specific funding. The study was published in the peer-reviewed British Medical Journal.
In general, newspapers covered this study well. While news headlines generally suggest that breast cancer screening does more harm than good, the results are slightly more nuanced than this, with the study predicting there would be an overall benefit from screening, but only after 10 years.
What kind of research was this?
This was a modelling study that aimed to examine whether mammographic breast cancer screening could be doing more harm than good. It was performed in response to recent questioning of the benefit of mammography screening in a systematic review from the Cochrane collaboration.
To examine the issue, the current study used recent research figures to update the analysis in the 1986 Forrest report – the research that led to screening being offered in the UK. This original report had suggested that screening would reduce the death rate from breast cancer by almost a third, with few harms and low cost.
Of note, the model in the Forrest report used the data that was available at that time, which suggested that overdiagnosis might not be a problem. Overdiagnosis is where a woman is treated for a potential cancer identified by screening that would otherwise never have gone on to cause her any problems. However, as it can be difficult to tell which cancer will go on to cause problems and which will not, doctors may decide to treat it just in case it does. In addition, some women who undergo screening will have an abnormal mammogram, but on further investigation will be found not to have cancer (false positives). Some argue that screening could lead to more harm than good due to these potential harms, as a proportion of women will have to go through unnecessary stress and treatments, such as removal of some or all breast tissue.
In order to assess issues such as the impact of screening programmes, scientists turn to a technique called modelling. The technique takes a theoretical population, uses data about factors such as the risk of a disease or of particular outcomes, and then predicts what outcomes would occur among that population. Modelling is often used to help determine the balance of benefits and harms of an intervention by converting benefits and harms into a common unit, usually a "quality adjusted life year" or QALY. Quality adjusted life years are a measure representing not just how long people live, but also how healthy a person is during that time. Living for a year in perfect health gives a higher QALY score than living for a year in poor health. Harms tend to reduce a person's QALY score, while benefits tend to increase it.
Models such as this are based on a number of assumptions and inputs. No model is perfect, and how accurate they are will depend on the validity of the underlying assumptions and inputs.
What did the research involve?
The researchers developed a model similar to the one used in the Forrest report in 1986. They confirmed that their model produced the same results as the original Forrest report when they used the same input data.
The model was based on women aged 50 and over invited for breast cancer screening in England. The updated model combined life years gained from screening with losses in quality of life from 'false positive' diagnoses and surgery. The model assumed that 73% of women invited for screening attend, and analysed the effects of screening over 20 years for a group of 100,000 women.
The researchers updated the inputs into this model by using the mortality rate for breast cancer in England and the chances for undergoing breast cancer surgery in the English NHS. They used data from 1985, before breast cancer screening was introduced, as their "baseline" data. Other data for their model was drawn from systematic reviews where possible, as they are the most robust source of evidence. If systematic reviews were not available, data from individual randomised controlled trials (RCTs) was used, or alternatively data from other published models or from observational studies was used.
The model included estimates of the false positive rate for screening and the reduction in quality of life for women who have false positive results on screening, which were based on available research. These estimates were that there would be a 6.4% false positive rate at the first invitation for screening, and about 3.1% for subsequent invitations. Women who were false positives were estimated to have a 5% reduction in quality of life over 0.2 years.
There was less data on the effects of breast cancer surgery on quality of life, and researchers had to make an assumption about this, based on recent RCTs. They estimated that women who had surgery (necessary or unnecessary) would have a 6% reduction in quality of life over the rest of their lives. This differed from the original Forrest report, which had only assumed a reduction in quality of life with treatment in the additional years of life years gained from screening. This approach only adjusts the quality of life in those who benefit from screening, and essentially assumes that there is no unnecessary surgery.
The researchers looked at what happened if they varied their input data and assumptions. This is called "sensitivity analysis" and shows how robust the model is to these changes.
What were the basic results?
The researchers' model predicted results for a group of 100,000 women aged 50 being invited for screening, over a 20-year period.
The researchers first updated the original Forrest report using the mortality data from the recent Cochrane review. This review had pooled eight existing mammography screening RCTs and found that after 13 years, deaths from breast cancer were reduced by 19%. This analysis did not separate women by age group.
If the model was updated using this 19% reduction in mortality, but not including harms, it suggested that across the 100,000 women mammography screening increased QALYs gained by a total of 195 after five years of screening. After 20 years, screening produced a 3,145 rise in QALYs.
Adding harms to this updated model (false positives and surgery) reduced the QALYs gained to 12 QALYs gained at five years and 1,536 QALYs gained at 20 years.
However, based on the quality of the trials, the Cochrane reviewers felt that their best estimate was that screening would reduce breast cancer deaths by 15% rather than 19%. Running the model using this lower figure and with harms suggested that at five years screening actually reduced QALYs by 31. Screening only became of net benefit at seven years – at 10 years the benefit had increased by 70 QALYs, and at 20 years QALYs increased by 834.
A separate systematic review on behalf of the US Preventive Services Task Force did an independent analysis of the eight existing mammography screening RCTs featured in the Cochrane review, and split the results by age group. It suggested that screening reduced breast cancer deaths by 14% in women aged 50-59, and by 32% in women aged 60-69. Using these figures in the model along with harms also suggested that screening reduced QALYs at five years by 42. By 10 years screening had increased QALYs gained by 27, and at 20 years QALYs increased by 1,685.
Varying the inputs into these models gave similar results, particularly for the first 10 years.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers concluded that their analysis "supports the claim that the introduction of breast cancer screening might have caused net harm for up to 10 years after the start of screening". They say that "from a public perspective, the meaning and implications of overdiagnosis and overtreatment need to be much better explained and communicated to any woman considering screening". They also call for further research to assess the extent of unnecessary treatment and its impact on quality of life.
This study has updated the analyses of the Forrest report, the 1986 report that led to the introduction of screening in the UK. The updated model includes more recent estimates of the effect of mammographic screening on breast cancer deaths, and has added data on some of the potential harms of screening, (effects on quality of life of false positives and surgery).
Unsurprisingly, the inclusion of additional harms in the model reduced the estimated benefits for the screening programme. Overall, the updated model including harms suggested that the screening programme may not have yielded a net benefit until about 10 years into the programme, although the balance did tip in favour of screening after this point.
Balancing the benefits and harms of screening programmes is complex. Models such as the one used in this study are a way of attempting to place benefits and harms on the same scale so that they can be weighed up against each other. Inevitably, modelling relies on assumptions, and no model is perfect. However, models can help researchers and policy makers to visualise these complex scenarios.
The researchers acknowledge that their analysis has limitations, and discuss these in their article. These include that:
- The trials on mammography were mostly carried out outside the UK, and several decades ago.
- The model centres on the use of mammography breast scans, but the screening methods have developed and changed over time.
- They applied a single rate of quality of life loss to all surgeries, but the effect is likely to vary depending on the type of the surgery performed. Also, no effect on quality of life of non-surgical treatments was included.
- When assessing the effects of screening today, researchers may need to disentangle the effects of screening from those of improved treatment, which is difficult.
- Trials provide vastly different estimates of how common overdiagnosis is within screening programmes, reportedly ranging between less than 1% and 30%. This uncertainty could be addressed in future research.
There has been a lot of discussion about the balance of benefits and harms of breast cancer screening. As a result, a review of the effects of breast screening was announced by Professor Sir Mike Richards (National Cancer Director) earlier this year. Professor Richards is carrying out this review with Harpal Kumar, Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK. This review will analyse all relevant research. Independent advisers who have never previously published on breast screening will carry out the review to maintain distance from the current differences of opinion. The review report is expected in early 2012.


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Ask the Doctor: What Do Black Men Need to Know About HIV?
Every month, HIV specialist Theresa Mack, M.D., M.P.H.--an associate medical director at St. Luke's Medical Group in Harlem, N.Y.--will answer your most pressing HIV/AIDS questions.
HIV remains an epidemic in our community, and Black males account for the greatest number of new infections in the United States. Men who have sex with men (MSM) are particularly affected, with young Black MSM between the ages of 13 and 29 experiencing a 48 percent increase (pdf) in new HIV infections between 2006 and 2009.
Regardless of how you self-identify--heterosexual, gay, same-gender-loving, bisexual, MSM or MSMW (men who have sex with men and women)--unprotected sexual activity places you at risk for acquiring HIV.
A number of factors are believed to account for the increase in new infections among Black men:
- Some heterosexual men have sex without a condom because they mistakenly believe that men cannot get HIV through sexual intercourse with a woman. However, that is a myth. If you have unprotected sex, you can get HIV.
- Many young men are complacent about HIV prevention because medical advances are helping people live better and longer, so they have not seen large numbers of people die from AIDS. However, HIV is a disease that is better prevented than treated.
- MSM have a greater risk of acquiring HIV with each sexual encounter, and that risk increases as they age because they are more like to encounter HIV-positive partners. Many young MSM have older partners, which puts the young men at greater risk of acquiring HIV.
- Many Black men don't know their HIV status; stigma keeps them from getting tested for HIV.
Preventing Transmission
Men typically get diagnosed with HIV at an earlier stage in the disease than women do. Another difference between men and women is that women typically experience symptoms at a higher T-cell (CD4) count than men. For example, a man with a T-cell count of 300 is more likely to experience no symptoms than a woman with the same count.
Even if a man experiences no symptoms, it is important for him to begin antiretrovirals as soon as possible after an HIV diagnosis. Treating the disease not only enables him to maintain a longer and healthier life but also makes him less likely to transmit HIV to his sexual partners. This is also true for women.
Studies have shown that male circumcision has decreased the transmission of HIV from positive men to their female partners in African countries. Researchers are currently examining whether this is a prevention option for serodiscordant couples in the United States.
If an HIV-negative male or female has possible HIV exposure (sexual intercourse without a condom or the condom breaks), taking a PEP (postexposure prophylaxis) protocol may prevent HIV infection.
Maintaining Health
Annual checkups with your primary care provider are mandatory even if you are feeling well, regardless of your HIV status. If your physician doesn't talk to you about preventing HIV or, if you're already positive, not transmitting it to others, initiate the discussion and/or consider changing doctors.
Men should be screened not just for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases but also for such conditions as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and kidney disease. Men should also adopt certain healthy lifestyle habits, regardless of their HIV status:
- Avoid smoking. Smokers between the ages of 65 and 75 should be screened for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, a condition in which the blood vessel that transfers blood to the abdomen, pelvis and legs becomes unusually large and can lead to a fatal aortic rupture.
- Maintain a healthy weight.
- Get approximately eight hours of sleep.
- Make sure your immunizations are up-to-date. This means getting a pneumonia vaccine every five years, a flu vaccine every year and a tetanus booster every 10 years.
- Talk to your doctor about getting screened for hepatitis C.
- If you're a Black man, talk to your doctor to determine whether you should obtain a prostate-cancer screening at age 45. If you're HIV positive, speak to your doctor earlier.
- Get a colonoscopy at age 50.
The bottom line is this: Having unprotected sex increases your risk of HIV infection every single time.
Tamara E. Holmes is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who writes frequently about health and wellness.


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The new GPS 1500 antenna/receiver system from Ag Leader Technology offers sub-meter accuracy. It can take advantage of AutoSwath functions used to automatically turn sprayer boom or planter sections on and off based on field maps or already applied or planted areas. Like other Ag Leader GPS receivers, the GPS 1500 outputs a simulated radar speed signal and NMEA position data to other equipment. The unit can accept Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) signal differential corrections. It also can be used to automatically adjust swath width of combines during harvest and to guide tillage, data logging and general mapping operations.
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