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Bethel College, Arden Hills, Minnesota
Comet Kohoutek
careful study
by Janet Rutzen
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Comet Kohoutek! This is
the cry that might be heard as David Perry's freshman colloquy
classes view the comet through Bethel's telescope.
Mr. Perry's students will be viewing the comet before sunrise
for a section of Freshman Colloquy dealing with man and
the physical world.
"Scripture is very explicit about studying God's creation
and learning about God," said Perry. "We need to be aware of
God's creation. "
Comet Kohoutek was discovered in March by a German
scientist. It is expected to be even more brilliant than Haley's
Comet. By early December it will be visible to the naked eye
in the western sky just after sunset. At this time, scientists
expect that Kohoutek will appear to be about one-half the size
of the moon and light up one-third of the sky. From about
December 19 to January 1, it will not be visible at all because
it will be travelling behind the sun.
Mr. Perry plans to have his classes photograph the comet.
In the course, students use the Bethel computer, the
telescope, and as much algebra as they can in their studies.
In learning how to find Kohoutek with the telescope,
students also learn how to find other objects in the sky. Mars,
Jupiter, and Venus are now in excellent positions for viewing.
Mr. Perry noted that man may learn much more from this
comet than any other because of Skylab. Astronauts in the
space station are able to view withou t looking through a cloudy
atmosphere. Also, because of its rotation around the earth, it
has 18 mornings and 18 evenings per day. NASA rescheduled
its next Skylab mission to enable astronauts to view Kohoutek
and gather information about it.
Comets are made up of dust particles and gas, possibly
with a core of frozen dust particles and gas. They produce no
light of their own but reflect the sun's rays. Beyond this, very
little is known about them, according to Mr. Perry. Many comets
break up before they are close enough to be studied closely,
and are discovered only every four to six years.
About Comet Kohoutek, Perry said, "We can only speculate
as to what it will do."
Anyone interested in viewing and learning about the comet
should see Mr. Perry or one of his colloquy students. There is
also an article about Kohoutek in "Sky and Telescope" magazine
on closed reserve in the LRC.
Vol. 49 No.5
Friday, Oct. 12, 1973
Two Bethel profs
are for the birds
by Bob Winter
"Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? And yet, not one
of them falls from the sky without the Father knowing about
it. "
In this way, Christ depicted God's care for and involvement
with His creation, even down to the smallest bird. Shouldn't
we people, appointed by Him as caretakers, also care about the
Some teachers here thought so, and when Instructor of
Social Work Don Belton and Stu Luckman, Instructor in Art,
found that birds of every size and type were hurting themselves
on Bethel windows, they tried to do something to stop
it. It seems that birds fly into windows around campus, especially
those on the third-story walkways, and are seriously
stunned or k.illed.
So, Messrs. Belton and Luckman set out to see how they
could help stop this waste of animal life. After seeking support
from the faculty and staff, they received the go-ahead signal
from Hugh MacLeod, Sr., Assistant to President Lundquist.
Their plan, though unconventional, was carefully researched.
While awaiting the official okay, they contacted an
ornithologist at Bell Laboratories for a possible solution. The
answers he offered involved installing draperies, hanging aluminum
pie-plates in front of the windows, and/or placing large
paper cut-outs of predatory birds in the windows.
The only practicable solution, due to cost and consideration
for the view, was the cut-out theory. This method had
been tried at Macalester College; and Belton and Luckman
asked people there if this plan had worked. It had.
Thus, in order to scare small birds away from the windows
and a possible death, dark silhouettes of hawks and other
predators will be placed in windows along the walkways and
in other critical areas.
Student visits
by Dave Greener
When Bethel students go home for the
summer, they usually return to families
they've seen but a few months ago (or
less) and travel perhaps no further than
half-way across America.
However, when Jonathon Leung went
home last summer, he returned to a family
he hadn't seen for fourteen years - and
journeyed half-way around the world in
doing so.
Jonathon's family lives in Communist
China. Jonathon, a second semester
Bethel sophomore, is a citizen of Hong
Kong. Until this summer, he had not
visited the land of his birth since he left
it when he was seven years old.
Jonathon was born near Canton, a
large city in the southeast corner of
China. When he was six, his factoryworking
father sent Jonathon and his
brother and sister to Canton where he
paid someone to take care of them.
Jonathon spent a couple of years in
the Chinese schools there and remembers
such things as work in arithmetic, the
Chinese language, "common sense"
lessons in natural science, and the Russian
After a while, however, Jonathon's
father could no longer afford his childrens'
expenses. He asked Jonathon's
grandmother if she would care for
Jonathon's grandmother lived in Hong
Kong. In the days before the border closing
it was legal, with special permission,
for Jonathon to go join her. (It was, and
still is, possible for her or other people to
enter and leave China, in their capacity
as Hong Kong citizens.)
Jonathon lived most of his years in
Hong Kong at a type of welfare home,
sponsored by an international, interdenominational
church group. Going to
school in Hong Kong, he became interested
in Bethel during the spring of his senior
year. He started attending here one year
later, in 1972.
It was last spring, however, when the
sociology major (with social work cognate)
had the idea of a Chinese homegoing.
"I hadn't seen my parents in such a
long time," he says. Explaining further,
he commented "The Lord gave me a
burden that I should let them (pis relatives)
know about Jesus." "The Lord provided
the money," he continued.
Traveling from St. Paul to China represents
an odyssey of nearly 9,000 miles.
To make it, Jonathon jetted from the
Twin Cities to San Francisco and flew
from there to Tokyo. His next step was
Taipai (Formosa) before a final flight to
Hong Kong.
After waiting for a visa in Hong Kong,
Jonathon took a train to China. There, at
the guardhouses at the border, he felt
"sad ... I had a question: Why is my
family separated - or even other peoples'
families separated? Why can't we live
together? ... We (the Chinese) are the
same people."
Jonathon was to remain in China for
14 days. "I was glad to see all my family
... " he says. He talked with some of
his family about Christ too. His sister, he
says, "didn't even know what (the word)
'church' means" and could not understand
Christianity. His father was impressed
with how God had changed Jonathon's
life - he asked ,Jonathon: was he sure
this Christianity wasn't something from
After seeing part of China again, after
so many years, Jonathon notes that the
people have a better standard of living
now. They get enough food, except meat.
They don't however, in Jonathon's judgment,
have adequate clothing.
Although the Chinese don't exactly
like Americans, Jonathon commented
that his father was proud that the leader
of America (the President) had come to
China. He also noted that, according to
his father, the Chinese currently have a
great deal of enmity toward the Russians.
Although the Chinese seem to be better
off economically, Jonathon felt they
don't know the spiritual purpose of life.
He was able to tell some of his family
about the Hope of his life. But even in
writing since, he has been cautioned by
his father to not mention religion in his
letters - things could be made difficult
for his father if he does.
And in a land whose popUlation is
approaching one billion inhabitants, how
many people haven't been told even anything
of what Jonathon told his father?
residents note
coming election
by Wayne Pauluk
The Minneapolis General Electiol1 will
be held Tuesday, November 6. The new
mayor, aldermen and various other offi-cials
will be chosen at that time.
Any United States citizen, 18 years of
age or older, is eligible to vote if he has
resided in Minneapolis for 20 days.
Anyone not already registered can
register at their polling place on Election
Day. A driver's license or other proof of
residence must be shown. If that is not
available, a registered resident can testify
that the person is a resident of the city.
The League of Women Voters is
sponsoring a series of meetings at which
candidates can be met and questions
answered. For information on the meetings
call 333-6319. Each meeting will be
at 7 :30 P.M. The dates and locations of
the meetings are:
Oct. 16: St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
1917 Logan Ave. So.
Oct. 18: Mayflower Congregational
Church, 5500 Stevens Ave.
Oct. 29: Public Library Main Branch,
300 Nicollet Mall
The Minneapolis Tribune will publish
a voter's guide about a week before the
election. This gives information on all
candidates, and their stands on important
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Beyond those walls:
Twin Cities
teem with art
second in a series
by Doug Johnson
One doesn't have to go beyond these walls to see good art,
not with an exhibition of paintings by nationally-known artist
Cameron Booth right here in the gallery of the Fine Arts
Center. But if you would like to see the town while seeing a
wider range of art, there are many galleries in the Twin Cities
to visit. This listing, chosen by Dale Johnson and Stewart
Luckman, Instructors of Art, may give you some ideas of
where to go.
Walker Art Center, 724 Vineland Pl., Mpls.
Through Oct. 14 - "Printmakers: Midwest Invitational"
and "Photographers: Midwest Invitational."
Nov. 11-Dec. 30 - Louise Nevelson, sculptures.
"The Midwest Invitationals are supposed to be representative
of contemporary ideas in the five-state," said Dale
Johnson," but tend to be on the technical side rather than the
artistic." A Bethel graduate, Phillip Larson, is assistant curator
at Walker and selected the printmakers to be invited.
According to Luckman, "Louise Nevelson is a good sculptor
who also happens to be a woman and an American. "
The Walker also has an outstanding permanent collection
of contemporary art.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Oct. 1-31 - The Design Science of R. Buckminister
Fuller; Northwestern National Bank, 7th St. and Marquette
Ave., Mpls.
The Institute of Arts' building is being remodeled and
expanded, and as a result is having its exhibits in different
places around the city, and its large collection of primitive,
classical, renaissance and modern art not open to the pUblic.
Buckminister Fuller is a contemporary innovator, philosopher
and visionary. This is the first such exhibit of his work and
Peter M. David Gallery, 920 Nicollet Mall, Suite 216, Mpls.
Oct. 1-12 - Nancy Graves and Gene Davis, lithographs
Oct. 13-Nov. 17 - Fritz Scholder, lithographs; Signe
Nelson Stuart, paintings.
Nov. 17-Dec. 29 - William Crutchfield, prints; Frank
Stella, lithographs.
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Through Oct. 20 - Marcel Duchamp.
Oct. 25-Nov. 24 - Ed Moses.
Nov. 29-Jan. 5 - Jim Dine.
The Dayton's Gallery 12 shows and sells very contemporary
art. Marcel Duchamp, a very significant artist, is the father
of Dada art and does what may be called destructive anti-art.
Ed Moses is a west coast abstract artist, and Jim Dine is a pop
artist who has worked with Andy Worhol.
Dean Gallery, 2815 Hennepin Ave. So., Mpls.
Oct. 1-12 - Dennis Brulc, vapor dye prints.
Oct. 13-Nov. 3 - Marshall Ferster, prints and drawings.
Nov. 3-30 - James Rosenquist, horse blinders.
Dec. 3-31 - Gallery Group show, "Volksgraphiks."
The Dean Gallery has both local and international poster
prints. James Rosenquist, the artist showing in November, was
a student of Cameron Booth at the University of Minnesota.
Suzanne Kohn Gallery, 1690 Grand Ave., St. Paul
October - Marko Spalatin, John Page, and Antnony
Stoeveken, prints.
November - Jerry Rudquist, paintings.
Jerry Rudquist is highly recommended by Dale Johnson.
He is an art instructor at Macalester and "has had phenomenal
success this past year."
One Hundred and Eighteen: An Art Gallery, 1007 Harmon
Pl., Mpls.
Through Oct. 6 - James Bruss, paintings.
Oct. 13-Nov. 10 - Dennis Flynn, paintings.
Nov. 14-Dec. 8 - Drawings by three West Coast Artists.
This is usually a gallery featuring regional artists.
Three Rooms Up, 4316 Upton Ave. So., Mpls.
Through Oct. 15 - "Furniture Makers," James Gould,
ing, Shaker forms; Rory King, Oriental forms.
Nov. 3-30 - Jo and Dave Hamilton, pottery and paintings;
Pat and Bill Roach, jewelry.
Dec. 1-31 - Festive Banner Designs, group show.
Three Rooms Up is a craft gallery, established by a Bethel
alumnus in south Minneapolis.
University of Minnesota, University Gallery, third and
fourth floors, Northrop Memorial Auditorium.
Through Oct. 30 - Barbizon paintings and prints from
the Tweed Museum of Art.
Oct. 2-22 - Linda Smith, Thesis exhibition, paintings
and drawings.
Nov. 13-Dec. 16 - Danny Lyon, Ten Years of Photographs.
College of St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul
Through Oct. 18 - Joan Claesgens, paintings, drawings,
and slides, East and West Galleries of Art Building.
Oct. 20-Nov. 9 - Photography exhibition, West Gallery.
Oct. 29-Nov. 9 - Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and
Elsworth Kelly, prints, East Gallery.
Nov. 11-30 - Marvin Bjurlin, pottery, East Gallery.
Dec.6-20 - Senior student show, East and West
A former Bethel instructor of art, Robert Clark Nelson, is
chairman of St. Catherine's Art Department. He is a multimedia
expert and "really doing a great job" according to Dale
Johnson. Marvin Bjurlin is another Bethel graduate, now working
in Fredonia, N.Y., and doing excellent ceramics, according
to Stewart Luckman.
Options in teacher "it might decide to have the students preparing for the teaching
profession receive more on-the-job training."
ed. discussed
As of now, the student teacher goes to various schools to
practice teach. However, they are still responsible to the college
from which they come. In the future, the responsibility may
rest with the classroom educators, depending on what the
Professional Standards Board decides.
by Ruth Johnson
Changing methods of teacher training due to new legislation
was the main topic of discussion at Bethel recently. The
Associated Education Faculties of Twin City Private Colleges
held its semi-annual meeting on campus to discuss the latest
state legislative act on teacher preparation and certification.
Bethel's Teacher Education Advisory Council- made up
of the Education faculty and two student representatives - will
be discussing this issue in its October meeting.
On the whole, this area of teacher preparation is completely
undeveloped. Minnesota is one of the first (if not the
first) to have a board such as the Professional Standards Board.
The Associated Education Faculties is made up of representatives
of the education departments of Twin City private
colleges: St. Thomas, Augsburg, Hamline, Concordia, St. Catherine,
Macalester and Bethel. One of the purposes of this group
is to discuss how such things as the 1973 legislative session
will affect the area private colleges. In this session, a relatively
new act was passed.
This act has brought about a new committee which is
called the Professional Standards Board. What this board will
determine is how teachers should be prepared for the teaching
profession. In the past, the State Education Department
determined the standards for teacher training.
The Professional Standards Board will have its first meeting
on November 1. In this meeting, the role of the college in
teacher preparation will be discussed.
"We don't know what the Board will decide," said
Mrs. Ruth Ludeman, associate professor of education at Bethel,
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Homecoming chapel
Movie - One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich - Friday
Soccer at home - Saturday
Cross Country at Yankton - Saturday
Football at Yankton - Saturday
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Editor's Note: this letter is in response
to an article by Dave
Greener appearing in last
week's Clarion.
We the drama staff would like to congratulate
you for the - Interesting and
informative article "Theatre Opportunities
Abound in the Twin Cities" which
appeared in the last issue of the Clarion.
We are very excited about theatre as a
mode of entertainment and as an effective
means of communication. We are
pleased that your article on theatre was
first to appear in the series "Beyond
Those Walls".
You suggested students find information
on plays in the Feature section of
the Sunday Minneapolis Tribune. To
make it even easier to find out what is
happening around the cities we have
posted a list of theatres and their productions
thru December and also the weekly
calendar of plays from the paper you
mentioned. These are displayed with
posters we receive on the drama bulletin
board in the hall outside the experimental
Thank you for your article and interest
in theatre.
The Drama Staff
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by Charlie Cosgrove and Duane Quinion
Have you heard what happened in the Garden of Eden
*Yes, what do you think He'll do?
He knew it would happen.
*Yeah, that's what I don't get. He knew the whole thing
would blow up in His face and He created them anyway,
knowing He'd lose them all.
I don't think they'll all be lost.
*What do you mean, they won't all be lost. They're all the
same, they're all from the same lump. They'll all be lost.
You're right. It's His own fault. He gave them free will. He
made them a little less than Himself.
*That was His first mistake.
Yeah, I mean you should have seen those two in the Garden -
they were sad!
*Can you imagine what will happen to the rest of them? Why
did He do it to them anyway?
Them? Why did He do it to Himself? You know how much He
loves everything He creates. And these-He created them in His
own image! Can you imagine how He identifies with these?
*That's right, I guess I never realized what He had done. He
gave them free will ...
Yes, and it doesn't just look like they've got it. It's not like
they just think they can make choices and He knows better.
He really gave it to them.
*It's kind of scary. How could He do that?
I think He really believed they might love Him.
*On their own?!
It sounds crazy.
* And they're breaking His heart. He feels everything they
They're in for a lot of pain.
*Someone should tell them what they've done-where they're
They'd never believe it. They'll say, "How can I believe in a
God who creates people knowing all along they will suffer and
spend eternity in Hell?"
*What will they expect Him to do, let them all go to Heaven?
Yes, something like that.
*But Heaven's perfect-
I know.
*And each one of them is always saying "nobody's perfect"I
* And if they were in Heaven it would no longer be perfectBecause
they'd be there.
*Do they think happiness starts on the outside, in their
Yes, and they reason that if they were in a perfect place,
they'd be perfect, and they'd be happy.
*y ou 're kidding.
They're a bit slow.
*But if someone were to point this out to themThey're
much too wise.
*But if someone were to show them what they're really likeThey're
much too proud.
*But if they know they were breaking His heartThey'd
hardly swallow that.
*It's as if He created little gods, and they're all Frankenstein's
What a nightmare.
*1 don't like to think about it. Sometimes I think He'd trade
places with them. By the way, where is He now?
I'm not sure. Wait, isn't that Him down there?
*Yes, it is Him!
**But He looks like one of them ... !
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Proposed Scheduling and
the College Image
A report from the Educational Policies
Committee to the College faculty:
We recommend that the calendar for 1974-
1975 and 1975-1976 be as follows:
1. That the Fall Term for 1974-1975
be from September 3, 1974 to December
13,1974; and for 1975-1976
from September 2,1975 to December
12, 1975.
2. That the Interim Term for 1975 be
from January 6 (Monday) to January
29 (Wednesday); and for 1976 from
January 5 (Monday) to January 28
3. That the Spring Term for 1974-1975
be from February 5, 1975 (Wednesday)
for 1975-1976 from February 4,
1976 (Wednesday) through May 27,
1976 (Thursday).
4. That Spring Vacation be scheduled
in the middle of the SpringTerm, and
that Good Friday be a school holiday.
5. That since the Spring Term covers
one week more of elapsed time than
does the Fall Term that two days
without classes be allotted for registration,
one day without classes for
senior and sophomore testing and the
option of one day without classes
for a Dean's Day for grass roots discussion
of an important issue.
Practical Monetary Considerations
Th~ proposed calendar seems to ignore,
we beheve, several very practical considerations.
To begin the school year on September
3, to end first semester on December
13, and to resume classes for Interim
on January 6, 1975, is to waste students'
and teachers' time and money.
First, if school were to begin on September
3, students are compelled to leave
summer jobs at an earlier time than a later
starting date would require. In addition,
under this scheme teachers are required to
begin preparation even earlier in August,
instead of the traditional post-Labor Day
departure point.
Second, as the proposal presently
stands, there is nearly a month between
first semester and Interim classes. Surely
this long a break is unnecessary. Accordingly,
to vacillitate a later starting date
it would be necessary to push back first
semester termination to approximately
December 18, a date which, we believe,
still affords adequate time for students to
make the journey home for Christmas.
Third, the extra days to be built into
second semester also seem unnecessary. We
feel that classes could be terminated sev-six
era I days earlier than the proposed May 29
if several steps were taken. We do not
need additional days for registration; the
present system, though at times a headache,
is not so bad as to warrant two extra
days to do what is presently done in a concurrent
fashion. Further, extra days for
senior and sophomore testing and the proposed
Dean's Day are both equally unnecessary,
offering little that cannot be
accomplished during the normal course of
the semester.
Moreover, the student body should
caution against proposed extra days which
are grouped around existing recesses, and
which tend to afford certain touring groups
advantages not applicable nor appreciable
to the student body as a whole. We must
confess that such a motive for these extended
vacations, etc., has crossed our
Finally, if these superfluous additions
can be omitted from the calendar, we
should point out that students, to whom
one or two hundred dollars makes a vital
contribution to educational (and other)
financing, would have an extra week to
secure a summer job. It does not take
much insight to realize that a final week
of May, obligated with final exam pressures,
etc., may forfeit the crucial chance
to obtain that job.
In passing we should note that, practically
speaking, commencement exercises
should not be artifically conformed to
those of the Seminary. The same argument
against inflating the school calendar with
extra days, par the students' wallets, applies
here. If so strong a sentiment persists
for combined commencement, the Seminary
should conform rather to the College's
needs, not vice versa. As the larger and
more populous institution, the College
should have primary preference. If such a
preference warrants an earlier and separate
commencement, so be it.
Accompanying the difficulties created
by the proposed schedule, other serious
problems enter in. Currently there appears
to exist a rather marked and unfortunate
disparity between Bethel College's
actual function and the image it has
as presented to the secular world. In the
minds of many of the school's administrators,
Regents, and some of the more
influential members of its constituency, it
seems that Bethel College's primary responsibility
is to serve as a spawning ground
to supply the Seminary with material it
needs to turn out "full time Christian
workers." The roles of the College and the
Seminary, at least in the minds of some,
are so often merged into one continuing
process that due consideration of the separate
role a liberal arts college should
play is seriously neglected.
In actuality Bethel is not serving this
function. Each year the College turns out
graduates in political science, history
economics, mathematics, etc.; yet we feei
their accomplishments are being seriously
jeopardized and disparaged because Bethel
College doesn't have the reputation of
producing students noted for academic
excellence. For those who think we are
picking this idea out of thin air we offer
some examples. We have both h;d outside
observers comment to us that they had
always thought of Bethel as a place where
a student went if he couldn't make it at the
University. Obviously this observation is
wrong; but it does say something about our
reputation as an academic institution.
For a more concrete example one may
turn to the process involved in applying
for admission to a law school. In order to
register for the admission test one must
fill out an application form. In the application
booklet each state is printed, followed
by a list of all significant colleges
in that state. These colleges each have a
number to be used on the application. In
Minnesota, schools such as Hamline,
Augsburg, Macalester, Gustavus, etc., are
all noted. Yet Bethel is not even on the
list. There may, of course, be several
factors contributing to this situation;
but we feel that one major reason is the
lack of interest shown by the administration
in cultivating a good reputation for
the college as an accredited liberal arts
institution, separate from the Seminiary
and its functions. We view this lack of
concern as being both tragic and harmful.
A college graduate at Bethel deserves the
benefit of a degree backed by a college
highly regarded in his chosen academic
field. This is in no way intended to slight
those who are bound for the Seminary. It
is only to call attention to the other
disciplines here.
It is our feeling that one important step
toward this goal is the introduction of
separate commencement exercises for the
College and the Seminary. In addition to
practical advantages, such a move would
serve to begin building a more respectable
academic reputation for the College. The
graduates of both the college and the
Seminary deserve the respect afforded by
ceremonies directed totally at their specific
accomplishments and functions. . .
This is a first step. From here administrators,
faculty, and students must work
seriously in every possible area to build
Bethel's reputation as an academic institution.
This attitude will serve to strengthen
Bethel's witness and to provide truly
more competent "full time Christian
Much of what has been said above has
been geared to the future, (specifically
the 1974-1975 term). We suggest, however,
that definite steps can and should be
taken now to institute the aforementioned
changes for the 1974 spring semester.
Symposium III
The Role of Chapel
What is Chapel's niche at Bethel?
Everyday at 10:30 a.m. a large portion
of the student body gathers in the
gymnasium. Yet, what are the reasons
for such a gathering? In what ways
does this meeting satisfy the spiritual,
emotional, intellectual, or other needs
of the student body? On the other
hand, in our perception of Chapel's
role, have we to date possibly ignored
the needs of others; or does a lack of
interest, on the part of some students,
indicate rather a sort of spiritual apathy
and incongruence to the Bethel "community,"
however defined. Finally, if
there are various heretofore unvocalized
needs, in what ways can we strive to
meet those needs through the vehicle
of Chapel?
by James E. Johnson, Prof. of History
What is chapel at Bethel? This question
was asked about two years ago and the
answers appeared in an issue of the
Clarion. Some expressed their satisfaction
with chapels as then being conducted,
others expressed their discontent. One
person said, "I don't go to chapel to get
educated and I don't like the education
oriented programs such as the convocations."
The article concluded with a summary
from Maurice Lawson giving four
reasons for having chapel at Bethel. They
were: that daily worship in a community
is a good thing; that the gathering of the
community together was a good thing; that
the announcements given in chapel kept
everyone abreast of campus activities;
and that our freedom at Bethel would be
preserved if we attended chapel on a
vol untary basis.
Now the Clarion is asking similar questions
about chapel in Symposium III and
the question can be asked, has the situation
changed in the last two years? There
are, to be sure, more students attending
the college at the present time, but the
precentage of students attending chapel
is probably about the same. Most of us
would concede that it would be unrealistic
to expect all 1300 students to attend
chapel simultaneously with the work
schedules and other normal outside pressures
that demand attention. The numbers
syndrome assumes more importance than
perhaps it should due to the fact that the
chapel service is regarded by some as a
church service. Since numbers present are
one of the indicators of a successful church
service, the counting of heads at chapel
constitutes a sort of campus spiritual
Since there are 1300 student enrolled in
the college, and since that many heads are
not present during the chapel period, the
crucial question is: why aren't they
attending? Perhaps the chapel experience
is not intellectually stimulating to some.
If the sacred-secular dichotomy previously
advocated by the Chapel committee is
still in vogue, then some students are
likely to equate emotional response with
chapel and intellectual response with other
experiences such as classroom encounters
and convocations. It seems as if an
attempt has been made to eliminate all
controversy from the chapel presentations,
but controversy is often the thing
that sets off the thought process.
Now this ought not to be, particuarly
in light of the address given in chapel last
fall by Ken Gowdy. Mr. Gowdy made an
eloquent plea for the sacredness of all
activity for the Christian, but few seemed
to respond to his call for a return to the
Puritan doctrine that study is a very
serious and sacred activity. I would go a
step beyond Professor Gowdy and maintain
that the College library should remain
open during the chapel period. Certainly
any adult that could have been sent to
Vietnam to fight in that conflict, or make
a decision as vital as that involving marriage,
should be left free to make a choice
such as attending chapel or staying in the
library to study for an examination. Both
activities have a sacred dimension attached
to them. Further, the students who cheat
themselves by avoiding intellectual encounters,
skipping classes, convocations,
etc., are committing an offense that might
be equated with that of "skipping"
chapel. In addition, there are some who
will not like the type of presentation
offered on a given morning. For example,
some are turned off by the "sharing"
experience, others by the folk-style music,
and still others feel that they have become
"sermon-saturated." Why should we expect
these individuals to attend against
their better judgement?
What can be done? Perhaps nothing
should be done. The voluntary attendance
at chapel by Bethel students is magnificent
and I personally commend you for
this display of personal effort which probably
is not duplicated at any college in
the United States. An anonymous poll
might help to determine why some are not
attending chapel, and a three day week
chapel schedule might improve attendance.
In sum, the problem is the same as
it was two years ago, and a threat to make
chapel attendance mandatory would not
alter the basic attitudes in the minds of
* * * * * *
by Don Belton, Instr. in Social Work
Both in its large group worship and
ritual reinforcement functions, the chapel
experience meets some needs of most of
Bethel's students. It is inspiring and
exciting to join in song with a large number
of young people who value their
Christian experience. We cannot help but
realize that if we are crazy for believing in
a loving, dynamic God, we are not the
only ones. Few of us can do without that
kind of security.
Chapel services are an affirmation of
Bethel's evangelical position, but other
things happen in our school, as well.
Students from a variety of backgrounds
arrive here and join together with faculty
from still other backgrounds in an educational
milieu. The nature of that milieu
encourages students to raise serious
questions about their world view. The
examination of issues not previously
considered, and new experiences create
feelings not easily resolved.
It is quite natural for thinking people
who are willing to risk asking questions,
to challenge their history and values in
active, intensive ways. These questions
demand a support system that is equally
intensive and intimate. The nature of
chapel is essentially passive and nonparticipatory.
Most questions students
have are not answered in this setting.
Because of the personalness of these
questions, few of them could be raised in
chapel by even a knowledgeable and
sensitive speaker. In fact, many of them
are discouraged by us even in the small
groups that do exist, because we fear
that "weak brothers" will be troubled
and led astray. Yet this is an untenable
position for us if the purpose of a college
is to educate and not to propagandize.
The implication of not encouraging
students' raising and pursuing serious i
questions is that there are no answers; but
what is most difficult to talk about is
usually what needs most to be discussed.
In suburban and small town Baptist
churches (from which most of our students
come) there is seldom occasion to
raise the difficult issues of many social
problems. Our American evangelicalism
typically makes assumptions that are
ethnocentric, and which encourage
zenophobia. Many pastors are reluctant to
raise questions about the implications of
textual criticism, historic theology, or
the physical development of man. They
must assume, apparently, that most
people in such congregations are unable
to handle these questions.
But these types of questions are
raised in classes through study in a variety
of disciplines, and through volunteer
opportunities. The fact that there is no
real forum for students to discuss intimately
their particular constellation of
questions and the implications they rep-seven
resent, while at the same time there is a
continuation of large group, devotional
services daily, further reinforces the
implication that there may be no resolution
within a Christian context. Consequently
we have a large number of students
who become disillusioned, who
either feel it a waste, or are afraid, to
verbalize their feelings. They become
cynical or bitter, and ... they stay away
from chapel.
It seems appropriate that the college
give legitimacy to these students and
their questions by sanctioning some
alternatives to the large group. Christian
faculty wrestling with their own questions
and interacting with students who are
struggling raises the potential of what a
Christian college can offer. Alternatives
could involve, perhaps, a variety of experiences
from small groups involved in Bible
study, departmental chapels involved in
in-depth, faith-learning seminars, soapboxreaction
forums, and one to one discussions
between students and faculty.
Guidelines could be established identifying
frequency of meetings, parameters
for legitimate use of the time, procedures
for establishing alternatives, etc. There are
ways for us to encourage honest investigation,
and it is imperative for all of us
that this encouragement be open and
* * * * * *
by Oliver Mogck, Assoc. Prof. of Music
In order to answer your question, what
is chapel's niche at Bethel, I have done a
little digging for some statements that can
shed some light on your question. The first
finding is an excerpt from the Bethel college
catalogue page four and is given in the
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context of a statement of aims of Bethel to
provide a Christian education:
" ... students are expected to cultivate
a personal devotional life through developing
beneficial habits of Bible study and
prayer, of regular chapel attendance and
church attendance."
In talking with George Robinson,
present chapel and spiritual life committee
chairman, Mr. Robinson told me
that his committee is engaged in a discussion
'of objectives of chapel and general
campus spiritual life development. Part of
this effort will be an attempt to discover
what ideas you as a community can generate
to help to make chapel what you
want it to be. You may be certain that
our campus pastor and the chapel committee
(made up of faculty and students),
will surely listen with eagerness to any
interest in chapel programming expressed
by anyone.
A few years ago I was on the chapel
committee with Dr. Walter Wessel as chairman
and from our files I found these
objectives of chapel services:
1. That the complexities of life as
experienced in the academic disciplines be
related to the analyses and answers to life
as revealed in the scriptures.
2. That students gain a perspective
of themselves in terms of their service for
the world.
3. That growth be stimulated at different
levels of spiritual maturity through
various experiences including meditation
and quiet worship, participation and
A shorter statement as given by this
same committee listed these objectives:
1. Recollection 2. Thanksgiving
3. Participation (singing, proclamation,
exhortation, missions, churches) 4. Expectation.
I heartily concur with the above objectives,
but am not sure to what degree
these were communicated to subsequent
committees. I believe that in order to get
maximum mileage out of the daily chapel
experience we need to seriously look at the
above objectives or any additional ones
that may arise through this Symposium
exposure of the chapel question. These
suggestions need to be channeled to
Pastor Lawson and the chapel committee
for study and implementation.
I for one wish to publicly thank our
campus pastor for his very helpful, Biblecentered
messages and for the leadership
he has given to what is a most demanding
role. May I plead with the community that
we uphold Pastor Lawson with your
prayer, with the encouragement of your
presence at chapel in an attitude of
anticipation and thanksgiving. There will
be varying degrees of apathy in a community
the size of ours, for all of us are
at ' varying levels of spiritual maturity in
our journey of faith. To those of us who
are a bit older in our spiritual pilgrimage,
perhaps a bit more patience and active
assistance to those who are growing and
struggling will help the "Body of Christ"
to grow. To those who habitually absent
themselves, there may be some reasons -
we need to know what these reasons are.
In addition to the statement of goals
for chapel and other more general comments,
let me now be more specific. Lest
we become too monastic in our perspective,
in my opinion we should offer a
larger number of convocation services
as well.
Larson, Whittaker and Anderson take early forward positions in Winona race.
Women Active in Sports
by Curtis Kregness
Women's sports are nothing new at
Bethel College. In fact, intercollegiate
basketball for women has been active at
Bethel since 1952.
But basketball stood as the only intercollegiate
women's sport until just six
years ago, when Bethel's Physical Education
Department hired two new staff
members - Carol Morgan and Patricia
Brownlee. It was through their cooperative
efforts that three more women's
sports were brought to Bethel.
Field hockey was started in 1967,
vo'lleyball was added the next year, and
softball began at Bethel in 1969. These
women's teams compete in separate twomonth
seasons with such schools as Augsburg,
Carleton, Concordia, Macalester,
Pillsbury, St. Olaf, University of Minnesota,
and St. Cloud State.
Miss Brownlee said that 35 to 40 different
women could be expected to participate
in the four intercollegiate sports
throughout the year. Basketball and vol-ley
ball have proved to be the most popular
sports, with last year's basketball
team posting an impressive record of nine
wins and no losses.
The women's volleyball team begins
competition this month, as they meet
Carleton College Oct. 18 in a 7 :00 game
in Bethel's gym.
Many Bethel women have recently
expressed their desire for adding tennis,
track, and gymnastics to the existing list
of women's sports. However, Miss Brownlee
observed that more staff members
would be required before additional
sports programs could be considered.
In addition to intercollegiate competition,
women's intramurals at Bethel
offer a wide range of informal competition
with sports such as flag football, volleyball,
and paddleball during fall semester,
and badminton, table tennis, softball, and
track during spring semester. Cooed
volleyball highlights the intramural sports
program during Interim.
Harriers nip Winona 28-29
by Dave Greener
The cross country Royals raced to a
28-29 home victory over Winona State
Saturday, the first time Bethel has ever
done so against the southern Minnesota
Schedule addition Concordia (St. Paul)
entered three runners in the race but did
not compete as a team.
Jeff Larson again paced the Royal
runners, capturing an individual second
place. His 27.06 clocking shaved thirteen
seconds off his last week's Royal record
time (for a five mile Como course.)
Steve Whittaker finished third, outdueling
a Warrior opponent in a crucial
end of the race sprint.
Scott Anderson nabbed sixth for
Bethel and Dave Peterson captured eighth.
Dan Haggar's ninth place completed the
Royals' score.
Harley Turner (tenth) and John Cox
(eleventh) were Bethel's sixth and seventh
men and helped deflate Winona's total.
Doug Peterson and Dave Christiansen also
competed for the Royals.
Nearly all of the running Royals improved
their last week's Como time.
Commenting on the contest, first year
Winona Warrior coach Jack Rhodes noted
the importance in the meet of Bethel's
middle runners, who took sixth place and
eighth through twelfth. His own rebuilding
team's fifth man was thirteenth overall.
Bethel coach Gene Glader, appreciating
greater team depth than in previous years,
noted his Royals could win Saturday even
though Larry Caldwell (number two
Royal in the first three meets) sat out
the contest because of illness.
Reflecting on the race Bethel harrier
Dan Haggar commented: "I really think
that the Lord has for each meet given us
just enough strength and I think He really
showed it today when we only won by
one point ... This (win) will really help
us be ready for next week ... "
"Next week" brings the Royals to
Yankton, South Dakota, where they run
tomorrow in the multi-team Yankton
Invitational. Tri-State Conference opponents
Sioux Falls, Westmar, and Yankton
may be among the many teams competing
and could help give the Royals a preview
of October 27's conference meet.
The Royals' next home race is October
20 (Homecoming) at the Como Park
Course. As of now the scheduled opponents
include Augsburg, Carleton,
Concordia (St. Paul), and Gustavus
Gridders sunk,
by Curtis Kregness
The Royals were victimized 21 to 0
Saturday by Westmar's passing as the
Eagles posted their third consecutive
victory, remaining unbeaten in Tri-State
Conference play. Westmar passed for 164
yards, and intercepted five Bethel passes
during the game.
The shotgun formation proved to be
effective for the Eagles as they used it to
complete 11 of 20 attempted passes. (In
the shotgun formation, the quarterback
stands away from the center to receive
the snap, instead of directly behind.) The
Royals completed one of 15 attempts for
a 12-yard gain.
The ground game was a different
story. Bethel outrushed Westmar 183
yards to 180, averaging a strong 4.8 yards
per carry. Larry Rocholl and Mark Wood
were the Royals' leading ground gainers,
rushing 70 and 63 yards, respectively.
Probing the Eagles' defensive line,
Bethel found that they could sweep
around the ends for a major portion of
their ground gain.
But the Royals could not hold the ball
on sustained drives, and fell behind 7 to
o at the half. The Bethel defense seemed
to weaken in the fourth quarter, and the
Eagles struck two more times for 14
additional points.
Fred Witzgall, defensive tackle, again
showed his ability for getting to the
opponent's kicker, as he blocked a fourth
quarter field goal attempt by the Eagles.
(In the previous game, Witzgall blocked a
Sioux Falls' punt, which led directly to a
Bethel touchdown.)
The Royals challenge the Yankton
Greyhounds tomorrow at 7: 30 in what
will probably be Bethel's toughest game
of the season to date.
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by John Merritt
I Cor 10:31 reads that, " ... whatsoever you do, do all to
the glory of God." The question I would like to raise is, how
can we glorify God in everything that we do? Let us concern
ourselves with the area of sports, football in particular. How
can a Christian football player charge across the line of scrimmage,
(with the intention of hitting his opponent with every
ounce of strength that he has,) flatten him on the ground, and
do it in the name of the Lord? Or more simply stated, what
does playing football have to do with glorifying God, anyhow?
I first talked with Larry Brandes, offensive tackle. I asked
him if he could play football to the glory of God. And he
responded: "Yes, I believe that I can. But it wouldn't do any
good for me to feel this way if the team didn't -feel this way.
There is a unified spirit that is evident on a Christian team and
it centers around Christ. I know it is there because I can feel
the difference from playing on my high school team."
Terry Karlsgodt, line-backer, responded like this: "Personally,
I respect any football player who can knock his
opponent's block off. But if that man is a Christian, then I
respect him more than for just his football talents because
anywhere a Christian goes he is under a spotlight. Therefore,
he should always be doing his best even on the football field.
If you don't hit your hardest you'll never win and you'll never
be a success." Terry also mentioned the fact that athletics has
played a major role in his life and some of his most meaningful
experiences have been the fellowship that he has had with
other athletes as a Christian.
Craig Hanson, as mean an offensive lineman as you'll find
around in my book, had this to say: "Ever since high school
I've formed the habit of mentioning a prayer before each play,
asking God to help me and the whole line to execute each play
as best we can. This doesn't mean that I do anything I can to
get my job done. I only lose when I resort to cheap or dirty
plays because whenever my opponent does it to me, I'm able
to beat him so much easier. The toughest guys I have to block
are my own defense in scrimmage because they play clean
and solid."
Craig finished up by commenting that, "It can be a real
testimony to your opponent when you can go out there, hit
your hardest and play a good game because he knows that
Bethel is a Christian college. If an opposing team comes to play
with the idea that Bethel athletes are just a bunch of holy
rollers who will be nothing to blow over, but leaves defeated
after discovering how tough those athletes actually were,
that's a testimony."
Craig also mentioned an incident last' year where Fred
Witzgall had a tremendous game against the center for Sioux
Falls. Through Fred's clean play, his vocal "praise the Lord"
out on the field, and a little correspondence, this boy came to
know the Lord. After the game this year, he and Fred threw
their arms around each other like old brothers.
Have you ever heard of reverse psychology? Craig and
Dave Horn will tell you that it works. Following some harsh
cussing and swearing from an opposing team this year, our
guys let out with a few "praise the Lord's" in return. There
was nothing that could have made them shut up sooner.
Lastly, the guy who can so effectively sock an opposing
quarterback for a loss, Phil Aune, defensive end, said: "God
has given me a big body for some particular reason, and as long
as I'm able to, I'm going to use it to give him whatever glory
I can give him. If that means hitting somebody across from me
as hard as I can then that's wha.t I'm going to do. I'm going to
hit him as hard as I can because Christ wants me to hit him
with everything that he has given me."
Both Phil and Craig refuted the commonly held misconception
that some people have which says that players are out
there to literally kill his opponent, or at lease maim him so
that he has to be put out of action. These guys would feel very
bad if they hurt anyone because that is not their intention. As
Phil put it, "I have to hurt him to a certain extent to be
effective." At the same time, Phil told me how scared he was
when he creamed the Sioux Falls punter after he had fumbled
because Phil thought he had hurt him - this was not his intention.
But it was on that play that Bethel scored its first touchdown.
That's just one example of where hard, aggr,essive play
wins ball games.
If we are in close communion with God and constantly
in the center of his will, then everything we do is to His glory.
For some, it is God's will that they should play ball - praise
the Lord that Christian athletes have the God-given ability to
be an athlete and play for His glory.
Soccer Team Continues
to roll, 2-1
by Mark L. Freeman
In one of the most exciting games of the season, the
Royals handed the St. John's soccer team a 2-1 defeat. The
Royals were led by strong play from Pete Wilson, Steve Voth,
Al Vogel, and the Leafblad brothers. Dan Leafblad scored the
team's first goal on a corner kick midway through the first
half. Team scoring leader Pete Wilson added an insurance tally
early in the second half.
The game's first half saw the Royals dominating play_
Though Leafblad's was the half's only goal, there were other
near-scores by Voth, and the pressure was from the Bethel
forces. The second half continued in much the same manner,
until St. John's scored to make the score 2-1 The Johnies
seemed to be fired up by the goal; and only some tight defensive
play prevented a tie or loss.
The Royals were surprised by the extreme roughness of
the St. John's team, and nearly everyone came back with
injuries. Hopefully they will be back in top shape to defend
their 4-1 record in upcoming weekend matches with St. Olaf
and Augsburg.
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Two tools from industry are being applied to the small grains breeding program by a Texas AgriLife Research team to help identify valuable drought-resistance traits in wheat faster and less intrusively than with normal practices.
The team consists of Dr. Amir Ibrahim, AgriLife Research small grains breeding program leader; Dr. Dirk Hays, a cereal grain development professor in the Texas A&M University soil and crop sciences department; Dr. Robert Washington-Allen, a professor in the Texas A&M ecosystem science and management department; and Sean Thompson, a doctoral graduate student in plant breeding.
The study is looking at below- and above-ground traits using high-throughput phenotyping or characterization technologies, Ibrahim said. The goal is to differentiate types of plants with the aim of identifying traits that give the breeding line an advantage when it comes to drought resistance.
Thompson's project is using both ground-penetrating radar and terrestrial laser-scanning tools to look at traits "we have not been able to look at in the past," Ibrahim said.
"What we are trying to do is apply technology that allows us to see further into characteristic traits than we have been able to with the human eye," Thompson said.
Ground-penetrating radar was designed more or less for the construction industry to detect pipes, electrical lines or different densities of objects below ground, he said. This remote-sensing technology has been used to look at crop-water availability, but not to look directly at agricultural plant populations. The team believes they can adapt it so that for the first time, they will be able to look at the roots of wheat as it is growing in the field.
"It's important for us to be able to do this in a non-destructive manner," Thompson said. "In the past, people had to dig up the plant to measure root biomass. It was costly, time and labor intensive, and the plant would not survive."
The ground-penetrating radar can map the three-dimensional spatial distribution, estimate the biomass of roots below ground and may be able to discriminate between different root systems from different crops, he said. The ability to map roots at different depths allows detection of plants with deeper roots or roots that spread out further.
"We think these root systems will provide the plant with more water during a drought situation," Thompson said. "Our idea is if we can identify those plants in a population or be able to characterize the roots below ground, we could adapt our varieties to make them more drought-resistant or drought-tolerant."
Machine components
The machine consists of a computer, the radar, a battery and an antenna that operates at different frequencies, he said. These frequencies are the same as some older cell phones operated on. The unit sends a radio signal into the ground and then receives it back within seconds, and this allows a three-dimensional picture of the below-ground environment to be created on the computer.
"The frequency is able to detect roots since the amount of moisture is more concentrated within them than in the surrounding soil," Thompson said. "This same technology has been used to find tree roots, but obviously there is a big difference between tree roots and those of wheat."
The terrestrial laser scanner creates very high resolution 3-D images, only it works above ground utilizing a small computer and a laser to shoot across a field as far as 300 meters with 4-millimeter accuracy, he said. To put that into perspective, it would be able to see the differences between two wheat plants from three football fields away.
"That's a much more accurate measurement than we've had in the past using a yardstick or ruler," Thompson said. "Typically, we walk through our nurseries looking for characteristics or traits in a plant that give it an advantage over others. We take plant height measurements, which can be related to yield or performance, or we take an overall agronomic score."
AgriLife Research has many nurseries across the state, he said, and as "we spend hours looking at the plants with a naked eye, we become biased to different traits we are scoring. The bottom line is you just can't see enough of the diversity between the plants or see the difference because they are so minuscule between the lines.
"This opens the doors for a technology that allows us to take data both rapidly and accurately," Thompson said. "That's where these tools come into play."
The terrestrial-laser scanner uses a green wavelength that is safe for anyone around it, he said. The laser captures two or three images from different sides of a plot to reduce shadows, which are then joined together in the computer to produce a 3-D point cloud.
This provides breeders with a whole new set of options. A key option is not using the destructive methods that are typical of taking above-ground biomass measurements.
"We wind up killing the plant and damaging the population under traditional methods," he said. "But the laser allows us to set up outside the field and take these measurements multiple times throughout the growing season so we can evaluate lines repeatedly and not have to remove them or destroy them in the process."
Another option is to look at larger populations, Thompson said.
"The more plants you can look at, the greater the chances you have to find something that is going to be very productive in the field for a farmer," he said.

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Last Season: 13th
New Signings: Angeleri, Mignolet, Bramble, Mensah, Riveros, Al-Muhammadi
Key Player: Darren Bent
One To Watch: Jordan Henderson
Needs A Big Year: Kenwyne Jones
Would Quite Like: Long unbeaten runs rather than long runs without beating. Remain ahead the Magpies.
Prediction: 14th
Thoughts: Sunderland started off very well last season before enduring a horrible 14 game run without a win. They recovered towards the end of the season but it felt like they underachieved somewhat. Darren Bent was predictably excellent with 24 goals and Steve Bruce will be looking to him to produce similar numbers.
The surprise departure of captain Lorik Cana after just one season leaves quite a big hole in central midfield so the hope is Lee Cattermole will have a less injury truncated season this time round. Bramble is a decent addition in central defence – let's not forget it was Steve Bruce who got him to a consistent level, while Jordan Henderson will want to continue making an impression.
Kenwyne Jones needs to rediscover the form that saw him linked with big money moves to the likes of Spurs and Liverpool. It's hard to know what to predict for Sunderland – the teams between 9th and 14th are all very even in terms of ability I'd say. The high turnover of players at the Stadium of Light means it might be another season towards the bottom end of the group.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Defining Connections
|Introduction | Varieties of Connections | Other Contexts | The Teacher's Role | Your Journal
Connections in mathematics are of importance because they can help students succeed with new concepts and see that mathematics makes sense. Students should be guided and encouraged in mathematics class to develop the habits of mind of looking for and wondering about connections. Within a topic, for instance, links from basic definitions and situations to complex applications lead to logical development and deeper understanding, while connections among mathematical topics and processes show that mathematics is not a collection of isolated ideas. Connections also help students recall skills and concepts and use them appropriately in problem-solving situations.
It is very important that today's students examine and discuss mathematical connections as a regular part of their classroom experience. In the past, textbook explanations and examples may have been deemed sufficient for helping students see relationships that might be obvious to mathematicians and mathematics educators. But as we have seen in this course, carefully constructed lessons can help students see connections among content areas, among mathematical processes -- like the ones outlined in this course -- and within their own thinking. Ultimately, students should be able to identify and use connections as part of their everyday mathematical learning. It is up to the teacher to guide students toward such proficiency and to continually be on the lookout for additional connections to draw out as part of instruction.
Connections also make it possible for students to apply their knowledge to subjects other than mathematics, including real-world situations. For this reason, opportunities to work with real-world data and the "messy" mathematics such data often entail is appropriate in the high school classroom. For instance, when students see the power of connections in working on a chemistry problem or evaluating poll data as a classroom exercise, they may establish a habit of looking for connections that will carry forth in their future academic work.
In this section, we build a working definition of some aspects of connections that we can use to help high school students gain a better understanding of mathematics.
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Yorkshire Gritstone Bouldering vol. 1
The crags in this guide, arguably, offer the best bouldering in the UK - collected here are all the major grit crags excepting those on Barden Moor and Fell (these will be included in Yorkshire Gristone Volume 2 later this year). The guide includes 29 crags in total, from the popular, Armscliff, to the obscure, Scout Hut, thus comradeship and solitude can be sought in equal measure. Despite being close to major conurbations the crags included in the guide rarely see the crowds the Peak District crags receive and whilst this new guide is advertising their may merits the sheer number of high quality venues should spread the load somewhat.


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After being overshadowed by rival studios for the better part of the last two decades, Disney Animation is officially back on top. It was announced recently that the studio's latest animated fairy tale, "Frozen," has surpassed Pixar's "Finding Nemo" to become the highest grossing original (i.e. non-sequel) animated feature of all time, excluding re-releases.
So far, the 3-D animated feature — the 53rd entry in Disney's Animated Classics series — has earned a cool $368 million in U.S. theaters, with another $545 million from overseas, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. And that's without having opened in Japan, one of the largest box offices after the U.S.
Needless to say, $913 million is a big deal for the House of Mouse, but it's also good news for fans of classic Disney animation. That's because, not too long ago, the future of fairy tale and princess movies at Disney seemed to be up in the air.
In 2010, just a few days before "Tangled" celebrated its theatrical release, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page story by Dawn Chmielewski and Claudia Eller with the headline "Disney Animation is closing the book on fairy tales."
The centerpiece of the article was a quote by the president of Disney Animation Studios, Ed Catmull, that seemed to indicate "Tangled" could be the end of an era for Disney.
"Films and genres do run a course," said Catmull. "They may come back later because someone has a fresh take on it but we don't have any other musicals or fairy tales lined up."
At the time, the L.A. Times reported, Catmull, along with Disney and Pixar's chief creative officer, John Lasseter, had just shut down two in-development animated fairy tales. One of them, which has yet to officially resurface, was "Jack and the Beanstalk." The other was "The Snow Queen," the long-gestating Hans Christian Andersen adaptation that, of course, eventually morphed into "Frozen."
According to the L.A. Times article, Catmull and Lasseter had been encouraging filmmakers to "break with safe and predictable formulas and push creative boundaries." Catmull was quoted as saying, "If you say to somebody, 'You should be doing fairy tales,' it's like saying, 'Don't be risky.' We're saying, 'Tell us what's driving you.' "
Catmull responded to the article the same day it was published with a carefully worded Facebook post:
"A headline in today's L.A. Times erroneously reported that the Disney fairy tale is a thing of the past, but I feel it is important to set the record straight that they are alive and well at Disney and continue this week with 'Tangled,' a contemporary retelling of a much loved story," Catmull wrote. "We have a number of projects in development with new twists that audiences will be able to enjoy for many years to come."
In retrospect, it's obvious that the "sea change" described in Chmielewski and Eller's L.A. Times article didn't last long at Disney.
So what happened? Well, for one thing, "Tangled" opened just three days later, and it proved to be a huge hit.
Worldwide, Disney's first 3-D animated princess movie grossed $591 million ($200 million domestic), according to BoxOfficeMojo.com, and earned an A+ CinemaScore from audiences. Even more importantly, the decidedly modern riff on the Rapunzel story showed that it's possible to break a lot of the classic Disney fairy tale conventions and still achieve a classic Disney feel.
Now, far from disappearing, the Disney fairy tale has been given new life, and it's a genre that doesn't seem to be going anywhere in upcoming years.
Along with a new sing-along cut of "Frozen" now in theaters, Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed to Fortune plans for a live Broadway version that will join the ranks of the company's other animated-to-stage productions like "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast."
Speaking with Fortune, Iger talked about his feelings watching Disney's latest animated fairy tale at its premiere, saying, "It was my proudest moment as the CEO of the Walt Disney Company," he said. "I realized, 'My goodness, Disney Animation is where it rightfully belongs.' "
In the end, it turns out the secret to Disney's first box-office smash in almost 20 years wasn't fewer princesses but more. Two in one movie — why didn't anyone think of that sooner?
A native of Utah Valley and a devoted cinephile, Jeff Peterson is currently studying humanities and history at Brigham Young University.


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Hello, this may be the wrong forum, if so I apologise in advance. I photograph large panoramic images and wish to display them on my website (at a reduced size). I'm currently using quicktimeVR and it's quite effective. What I'd like to know is if anyone has experiences or recommendations they'd be willing to share? Feel free to take a look at: www.craig-stephen.co.uk to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. I've looked at Zoomify and linking to Gigapan and wasn't all that happy - any advice would be gladly received. Thank you, Craig
I use Silverlight and Deep Zoom in my site: http://www.efrench.members.winisp.net/. It's still a work in progress, but should be able to give you an idea of how it can look. I also use Photosynth: http://www.photosynth.net/userprofilepage....;content=Synths. I think Photosynth is better for large FOV panoramas and I prefer Deep Zoom for the macro panoramas. I use Microsoft ICE to stitch most of my panos and it can directly create the Deep Zooms or publish to Photosynth.
Have a look at the krpano player from www.krpano.com Example: http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html
A major stumbling block when using proprietary systems such as Silverlight or Flash is market penetration. Silverlight has only roughly 2/3 of the Win Vista and Win 7 market, much less for XP and MacOS. That means you're missing on 50% or more of your potential visitors by using Silverlight exclusively.Not sure what Photosynth uses (Flash?).Another problem is that they break google crawls, so if you rely on google for your traffic it's advisable to use non-proprietary content delivery (read: HTML) or at least wrap such content around proper HTML pages.
Silverlight is similar in techology to Flash, but uses .NET and XAML for the programming interface. The latest version works on Macs as well as PCs. If you open a website that uses Silverlight and you don't have Silverlight installed, it will prompt you for the install. I don't think you will miss that many potential visitors. Photosynth uses Silverlight.http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ is a Silverlight site that is much more representative of the capabilities.
I don't know the statistics of people rejecting installing of plugins. Let's be optimistic and say only 20% of people are like me and summarily don't install a plugin when visiting a random website because most of them are useless bonzi buddies or phishing scams. According to this (poorly cited) comment Silverlight has 45% market penetration, so let's go with my previous 50% figure.That means that 20% x 50% = 10% of your visitors will not have nor install Silverlight when prompted.The question is can you afford to lose 10% of your potential client base?
I don't think using Silverlight excludes showing panos in the usual small jpeg version. What it does do well is show them in detail. Have you installed Silverlight and looked at how the Deep Zooms work on my site or are you just being theoretical?


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When former St. John Bosco center Elijah Zabludoff first saw Josh Rosen carry the ball, he was skeptical. To Zabludoff, who graduated last season and will be a freshman at Amherst College this year, the quarterback looked like "a bambi guy."
Bambi has since bulked up.
Since coming to Bosco, Rosen has grown two inches and put on more than 25 pounds. After missing a game-and-a-half last year due to injury, Rosen has worked this summer to "build his armor up," Johnson said.
Putting on the extra weight will allow Rosen to absorb more hits this season when he orchestrates Bosco's zone read offense, which requires him to carry the ball. However, the strong-armed righty does most of his damage through the air.
Rosen passed for 3,200 yards and 39 touchdowns with only seven interceptions last season.
With a dynamic set of receivers in Shay Fields and Jaleel Wadood and a speedy running back in Sean McGrew behind one of the biggest offensive lines in Southern California last year, Rosen directed a dynamic and balanced offense that averaged more than 47 points per game.
Read the next part in the series: Quarterback Josh Rosen: Football IQ sets St. John Bosco star apart
"He has a strong arm and he has a really nice spiral, it's not going all over the place," said Wadood, who is a freshman safety at UCLA this year. "It'll hit you right on the money."
Adam Gorney, the west recruiting analyst for Rivals.com, had heard the hype surrounding Rosen two years ago, but had to see the sensation in person.
He was impressed.
Rosen, despite being a scrawny sophomore at the time, still had an arm that launched big throws with laser-like precision, Gorney remembers. In his first year as Bosco's starting varsity quarterback, Rosen completed 55.4 percent of his passes. That mark jumped to 68.6 percent last season.
"He's gotten better and better over the years," said Gorney, who estimates he's seen Rosen on the field at least 100 times over the past two years. "He hasn't settled in and been happy with how he was as a sophomore."
To evaluate prospects for Rivals.com, Gorney considers performances at camps, seven-on-seven tournaments and, most importantly, games, so he can see athletes against various competition in various situations. He combines his impressions from the effort to make his best educated guess about a prospect. But even with all the film available from games and the near-weekly seven-on-seven tournaments, recruiting rankings are not an exact science.
We tried to make it into one, though. To test Rosen's accuracy, we had the senior throw at a stationary target from 10, 15 and 20 yards away.
Hastily duct taped to a piece of plywood resting on an upturned plastic tub, the red target's radius was one-third smaller than that of an average college-sized football. The little red dot proved to a be a big challenge.
The margin of error on the test was miniscule. If the trajectory of a 20-yard pass is off by just four degrees, it can veer off target by almost two feet.
Out of 15 tries, five from each distance, Rosen was on target twice, hitting the red dot once from 10 yards and once from 15. He came within six inches of the target on seven of his 15 throws, but had two miss the wooden board completely, both such attempts coming from 20 yards away.
Photos: Josh Rosen, nation's top-ranked high school quarterback
It was a low-stakes test, but Rosen's competitive nature bubbled out at times: a frustrated clap of his hands, a small shake of his head, a bothered push of his fingers through his blonde hair.
It didn't quite go perfectly for the quarterback who just led his team to a perfect season.
Everything about the stationary target test defied what Rosen's quarterback coaches have told him since he took over the position in pop warner: Quarterbacks don't aim.
"It's more throw to a spot, just kind of react instead of thinking about it too much," Rosen said. "A lot of the reason people in general are good athletes are that they can subconsciously make those little calculations it takes to get a ball through a hoop or get a ball to a receiver's hands or get it in a batter's box, it just happens. It's not something you think about."
Rosen doesn't think about his throwing motion at all at this point. He prefers it that way.
Interactive: The Finer Points: Unwrapping Josh Rosen's throwing motion
A former tennis player, Rosen credits his polished footwork to his time on the tennis court. His throwing motion has roots in his overhead service motion, but for the most part, he can't say much more about the origins of the action that has turned him into one of the most highly recruited quarterbacks in the nation.
It just happens naturally.
"Everybody's different so why would you try to pick someone out and try to emulate someone when we're not all the same?" Rosen said. "I feel like I should keep as close to a natural throwing motion as possible."
Besides, he already has enough to think about on the field.
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Join us for the opening ceremony of the '2010 Fal River Festival on Friday 28th May'. Hopefully the timetable will look abit like this...
The opening ceremony will hopefully be starting at Lander Street Gallery, Truro with some nibbles & drinks whilst being able to browse the gallery before heading down to the Piatza to meander through the local art exhibition 'Lemon Trifle' held by Truro College Art & Design Department whilst jazz quartet, The Matt Jones will be playing.
1645 :: Beer departs Truro
Falmouth Shout singers and invited guests depart Truro Quay with 'THE BEER' from Skinners Brewery aboard the St Mawes ferry 'Duchess of Cornwall' and 'Enterprise'.
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Amazon can give you recommendations, but it can't tell you why or zero in on specific aspects of a book. To do that, you need a human (for now, anyway). So here we go…
Last week saw the release of the latest book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, Blood of Tyrants. (If you're not familiar with Temeraire, here it is in a nutshell: Napoleonic Wars with dragons.) To celebrate, I'm devoting this "If you liked…" post to Naomi Novik.
If you liked…
- The dragons. I will assume you've read Anne McCaffrey. (If not, get thee to a bookstore immediately and look for Dragonflight!) Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett does something a bit different — their dragons are clockwork, in an alternate Russia, bordering an alternate China. On my TBR list are Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton and Dragon's Keep (YA) by Janet Lee Carey.
- The Regency setting. Mairelon the Magician and Magician's Ward by Patricia C. Wrede are fabulous. A teenaged street urchin meets a street magician who's more than what he seems. Shenanigans ensue. (YA, but don't let that stop you!) On my TBR list: Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal.
- The social graces (but not necessarily the Regency part). The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson is set in ancient Japan, a time and place as strongly bound by etiquette as Regency England. Melusine by Sarah Monette is a secondary-world story, but it's still largely about court graces and politics. I believe Tooth and Claw qualifies here as well, along with Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner.
- The ships. I've seen the Temeraire books described as owing much to the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, but somehow I missed reading these…odd, given my childhood love of books about the sea and Arthur Ransome in particular. On to my TBR list they go….
- The human-animal bond. Temeraire is highly intelligent, but he doesn't think like a human. Still, the bond between him and Laurence is one of my favourite things about these books. For a bond where the animals are much more animal-like, I'll put in another plug for A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette (yes, again) and Elizabeth Bear.
Your turn! What can you recommend for people who enjoyed Temeraire?
If you liked this post, you might also enjoy If You Liked… A Game of Thrones and If You Liked… Neil Gaiman.


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A study of the projected economic result of SUPA's business activities, conducted by Nevada Governor Sandoval's office, values SUPA's potential in excess of $165 million in economic stimulation to state and local communities. SUPA is part of a Nevada state program of economic diversification.
SUPA will incorporate sophisticated tactical training facilities and a shooting range to host various state and federal law enforcement training exercises and programs, as well as private and corporate tactical training programs. SUPA will largely be comprised of former military personnel. Lord Neil B. Gibson of Handels Securities explained, "We have been working closely with the state of Nevada Governor's Office as well as the Nevada Development Authority (NDA) in 2012. Saber Ultra Precision Ammunition will create more than 500 jobs over the next 3 years and provide veterans in particular with important career opportunities starting in 2013."
Philip Pritchard, Chairman of DayDra Holdings Group, added, "We are cooperating with the 'Hiring Our Heroes' program of the United States Department of Commerce, as well as the HirePatriots.com organization, in preparation of hiring US Veterans with the skills SUPA will need. We're looking forward to offering our people outstanding career growth opportunities."
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Eyal Press and "Absolute Convictions" the story of early abortion wars in Buffalo. Then, the President can't control his own front yard. Peter LaBarbara with Americans for Truth talks about the sexual politicizing of an Easter Egg roll. Lotsa open conversation about stuff.
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Contempt for politics is the new orthodoxy: Armando Ianucci's "The Thick of It"
Nothing Armando Iannucci has written has been as funny as his acceptance of the Order of the British Empire. Iannucci had seemed so radical when he showed our politicians as sleazy, unprincipled cowards, so concerned with protecting their valueless careers they allowed a foul-mouthed spin-doctor to control them. His language in The Thick of It was violent; his caricatures merciless. Now this fearless debunker, this Swift of our age, has embraced the establishment he derided. And for what? For the most laughable bauble the Conservative-led coalition could dangle in front of him: the Order of a British Empire that no longer exists. As so often, the joke is not that men sell out but how little it costs to buy them.
Loud rang the mockery, but today's criticism of Iannucci misses the point as wildly as yesterday's praise. Whatever his comic talents, Iannucci displayed no originality in The Thick of It. Contempt for British politics is modern television's orthodoxy, as Steven Fielding of Nottingham University will discuss in his forthcoming study of how dramatists showed politics from Oscar Wilde on. (I am indebted to Professor Fielding for allowing me to quote from his unpublished manuscript.) Man is a storytelling mammal, Fielding argues. If you want to understand why the British despise politics, you must look at the stories the British hear. They are invariably scornful. Fielding surveyed political TV drama made in the New Labour years. Spin and the abuse of power dominated nearly every one. Far from being daring, Iannucci was merely mooing with the herd.
Suspicion of politicians is hardly a modern phenomenon. Democracy is a system of organised suspicion, after all. But in today's political drama there is no Trollope to balance Dickens. Politicians are always spineless, untrustworthy and mendacious. Such is the broadcasters' creed. I am just about old enough to remember when British television had more than one act in the repertoire. Like the makers of Borgen or The West Wing in our time, the writers of The Challengers, The Nearly Man, Bill Brand and other dramas from the 1970s showed politicians trying in however flawed a manner to put their ideas into practice. This is not always the soft or flattering option. If you want to understand why a government policy infuriates you, "following the money" is often the stupidest course to follow. An examination of a politician's sincerely held ideology is more likely to provide you with an explanation than corruption. Only one recent British drama — the BBC's Party Animals — came close, however, to presenting a realistic picture of why men and women go into politics. The Corporation cancelled it as quickly as it could.
The scornful strain in British television appears left-wing. Certainly, many television dramatists speak as if they are men of the Left. Peter Flannery, the author of Our Friends in the North, said he believed "we live in an ongoing culture of corruption. Friends in the North is the story of people who tried to do something about it, and failed." Michael Wearing, his producer, said he wanted the series to convey "disillusionment with politics and everything politicians say they can offer". Leigh Jackson, who wrote The Project, an account of the Blair/Brown conflict, declared that he was consumed by "the growing realisation that after 18 years we might have voted in another 'Tory' government, only this one was more efficient and twice as ruthless". Paul Abbott, the writer of State of Play, suggested the oil industry had a tight grip on New Labour policymaking, and added that he wanted to "capitalise on the audience's natural paranoia". Alistair Beaton said his TV dramas, such as The Trial of Tony Blair, aimed to show New Labour as "an authoritarian and right-wing administration".


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What are the rules for putting a full stop after a fax abbreviation? Sometimes I see:
Tel.: xxx-xxx-xxx
Fax.: xxx-xxx-xxx
Is "fax" here an abbreviation?
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What are the rules for putting a full stop after a fax abbreviation? Sometimes I see:
Tel.: xxx-xxx-xxx
Fax.: xxx-xxx-xxx
Is "fax" here an abbreviation?
There is no need for a period. Fax is no longer an abbreviation, but a word in its own right.
I agree with both Alok and Barrie England in part, but suggest that the term fax was never an abbreviation requiring a period (at least in US), but a short form term.
Consider doctor. The abbreviation in US is Dr. (with a period). But there is a short form, somewhat informal, of doc, or more frequently, Doc without a period.
Similarly, the titles of certain religious figures are Brother and Sister. The abbreviations are respectively Br. and Sr. However, the short form for those terms are Bro and Sis (although such short forms would rarely be used in addressing those religious types).
The term telephone also illustrates the point. The accepted abbreviation is tel. or Tel., but there is a short form, phone that never takes a period.
While I have not done any analysis, a brief rumination leads me to the view that abbreviations almost always consist of letters that exist within the word that they represent. Obviously, there is no x in facsimile.
'Fax' is an abbreviation of 'facsimile'; though the full form is far more uncommon than say 'Telephone'


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Too Many Toys! What's A Mom To Do?
Posted by Debra Gray-Elliott at 8:39 AM 2 comments
Let's face it.... my grandson is spoiled. He has way too many toys and not enough room space. Toys are scattered from one end of the house to the other. From top to bottom toys have exploded.
During Hurricane Nick season I have come up with a plan to de-clutter. I call it the out of sight out of mind plan. It actually works!
Nick loves cars, but he has way too many, so I came up with a great way to store his vast collection. I took a heavy duty cardboard box and let him decorate it with anything to do with cars. Once he finished, we turned a plain cardboard box into a garage. So now instead of stepping on cars and breaking them, he can store them in his garage. He likes it. I like it...no more broken cars or toes...
Nick also has a collection of toy men. He loves Rescue Hero's and won't let them out of his sight. This is a major problem. Toy men have taken over the house. There are everywhere, like hidden special forces. I racked my brain on how we could store his special collection, but nothing came to mind until my neighbor threw out old plastic milk crates. Voila! Nick and I gathered about five crates and spray painted them army green. We built a fortress for his "men". Now they had their own special place and I was happy. No more assorted arms and legs everywhere!
Now Nick's collection of toys doesn't end with cars and toy men...Nope! Nick collects trinkets. He loves little Happy Meal toys. He has so many he could open up a toy store. His collection was starting to get on my nerves I was ready to donate all his toys. This job was a tough one, where to keep these toys? The solution wasn't easy to solve, but Nick came up with a great game plan. He suggested all his little toys should be stored in fishing tackle boxes. Brilliant! What a great idea!
Now, no more toys lie willy-nilly everywhere. They have their own special place. I can actually walk through my house without stepping on a car, a toy man or a trinket.
It's amazing just how easy and simple it was to find a solution to Hurricane Nick's toy storm.
We did it together and everyone is happy. He now has a garage for his cars, a fortress for his "men" and his trinkets now stay in tackle boxes.
Nick also loves the new gadget Hot Wheels has come out with. Check out the new Hot Wheels Wall Track It hangs on the wall for hours of fantastic, floorless fun!
He also knows, if his toys don't stay put,what's a mom to do?
Use these ten tips...
1. Heavy duty cardboard boxes.
2. Plastic milk crates.
3. Fishing tackle boxes.
and the other 7 are mine..
4. Laundry baskets make great places to store toys.
5. Wooden or metal shelves
6. Lots of netting
7. Foot lockers
8. Under the bed
9. Plastic baggies for smaller toys
10. Plastic trash can
My motto is.."When in doubt, throw it out, if nothing else works."
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OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities say minor injuries were reported after a crash involving two northeast Ohio school buses sent at least eight students to hospitals.
Dozens of students from the Lorain County Joint Vocational School were returning from a local trip when one bus apparently rear-ended the other Thursday in Oberlin, about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. The reason for the collision wasn't immediately clear.
The students who were not sent to hospitals were evaluated at a nearby fire station and later taken back to school.
A school spokeswoman tells The Chronicle-Telegram in Elyria (eh-LEER'-ee-uh) that the students had been on their way back from a competition at Lorain High School.


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