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FORT MYERS, Fla. (Oct. 9, 2009) - Led by sophomore Jeremy Bonnevalle (Keerbergen, Belgium), the ETSU men's tennis team earned four wins after first day action of the fourth annual UNF Fall Invitational at the UNF Tennis Center in Fort Myers, Fla.
The second year Buccaneer picked up his first victory of the day with a strong 6-0, 6-4, win over Atlantic Sun Conference rival Florida Gulf Coast player Matthew Rock.
After earning a first round bye, senior Daniel Isaza (Medellin, Columbia) added to the Buc total, in the Flight A bracket, with a second round win over Belmont's Renato Antun.
Fellow senior Jason Ramski (Chicago, Illinois) picked up his first win of the season with a quick straight set victory over Mercer's Victor Dias, 6-2, 6-3.
"Today I thought we played well," said ETSU assistant coach Ricky Rojas. "Anytime you play a number of conference opponents you look forward to see how your team is going to do. After today's matches I believe we have some areas we can improve in, but I look ahead for our guys to compete hard the rest of the weekend."
In doubles action, Bonnevalle, along with Ramski, advanced to Saturday's quarterfinal contest with a dominate duo win over Bethune Cookman's team of Cristian Cruz and Kristofer Martin.
Attached above is a link to day one results. To access the tournament central webpage, courtesy of the UNF athletic department, please click on the link above or visit www.ufospreys.com.
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Opinion: Chechnya's Terrorist Roots
Editorial board member Matt Kaminski on the history of terror and separatism in Chechnya. Photo: Associated Press
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DETROIT, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Morrissey's publicist says the British singer was released from the Detroit-area hospital where he was treated for a bleeding ulcer during the weekend.
Morrissey was admitted to Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Friday. His illness forced him to reschedule several shows.
"Morrissey is expected to make a full recovery and thanks everyone concerned for their support during this time," the recording artist's representative, Lauren Papapietro, told The Detroit News Monday. "Morrissey apologizes greatly for any and all inconvenience and looks forward to continuing his U.S. tour."
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Being in charge of their busy lives, most people would find the enticement of other activities that would fill the emptiness that stress and pressures could bring into their existence. The sense of being able to create something that not all people share the same degree of gratification would simply pertain to an activity that simply entails what fun really is.
This particular kind of activity is known as a hobby. Exaggerations aside, a hobby is something that reflects a persons strong inclination or interest to something. And by merely engaging into such activity, he is able to fulfill the shallowness that they sense deep within.
Some psychologists on a clinical study on 50 people, who were known executives in different businesses, contend that 75% of the total respondents have improved psychologically, emotionally, and even physically after their attention had been diverted into other activities without the pressures of everyday work.
Hence, most psychologists believed that hobbies were not made just for the sake of having it but were created to heal a persons soul by taking interest to something with a different view.
Consequently, along with the different examples of hobbies, collecting seems to be the most preferred diversion of the majority today. Varying from different objects, hobbyists get to collect the object that suits their line of interest. The profundity and the extent of the collected works may show a discrepancy.
Take for example those people who are into stamp and coin collecting. The way they collect their objects may vary according to their specific interests. Hence, it could never be concluded that all of the stamp and coin collectors have the same interests.
History has it that stamp and coin collectors have started collecting their things since its inception. For instance, stamp collectors were born during the birth of the stamps.
Coin collectors, on the other hand, have started collecting coins during the 14th century when capitalism was still the main focus of the economy. It was during this time that people collect coins not because it is a hobby but because they wanted to save their money for future use.
It was only during the moment when Francesco Petrarch, acclaimed as Father of Humanism, had seen the value of the coins beyond its capitalist environment that coin collecting started. After Petrarch had started this wonderful hobby, many people were enticed to lead the same leisure pursuit.
From that time on, numismatics and philatelist, although both referred to the study of coins and stamps respectively, have been used and associated with coin and stamp collectors.
With the sophistication that stamp and coin collecting can bring, more and more people are enticed to join this circle of collecting enthusiasts. However, not everybody who had tried was able to achieve something.
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Experts insist that it is not enough that a person becomes interested into stamp and coin collecting. What matters most is the kind of knowledge about his interest that a would-be collector must learn.
To do this, one should try to learn updated facts as well as the historical data of the stamps or the coins through books, magazines, and any other reading material that could provide the right information about the hobby.
In fact, most of the experienced and successful stamp and coin collectors have asserted that education is the single most significant factor that will trigger the success of the hobby.
2. Collect for the true motivation
Most of the stamp and coin collectors who have failed explained that one of the reasons why they did not succeed in this kind of leisure pursuit is because they were not able to identify the true reason why they started collecting in the first place. Some of them contended that they started collecting because their friends enticed them. It is as like everybody seems to be doing it, so why would not they.
This is where the problem starts. What matters most in stamp and coin collecting is to have the real reason to commit ones self into this kind of hobby, and the only real reason that would drive an individual to stick to this kind of hobby is for him to love the activity. It is his ardor for the activity that he would be interested to find the rarest, buy the item even if it is expensive, and learn things as if it is some object under study.
These are two of the most important things that every stamp and coin collector should know. This is because from these two things, the achievement is clearly defined once a person has a clear distinction between what he really wants and what he thinks he should have. These are two different things: the first refers to the feelings of a true collector, while the second one refers to the person who just wants to go with the flow or trend.


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BJ Penn and Rory MacDonald will look to set an example for others to follow at UFC 152 after both subscribed to the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) for testing.
The image of mixed martial arts has been damaged by a series of high-profile failed drug tests in recent times, but lightweight legend Penn is keen to lift the sport above the murky waters of debates over treatments like Testosterone Replacement Therapy.
Penn has been one of the more vocal voices when fighters have failed tests, always insisting his brand of fighting is 100 per cent natural. On September 22 he and MacDonald will be totally clean, confirmed by the VADA.
"BJ Penn has enrolled in the VADA program and will undergo eight weeks of random blood and urine testing for his UFC 152 bout taking place in Toronto, Canada on September 22, 2012," a statement read.
"He has agreed that all test results will be immediately forwarded to the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC), the Ontario Athletic Commission, and the UFC."
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Thanks for all the advice. It's pretty aired out here now. Sun came out today. Cold, but dry. Tomorrow we'll drain tranny fluid and check her out.
MIskier- Grand Rapids. Keep her at the folks' place on Bella Vista in Rockford. You?
I don't know the best way to remove all the water but I don't think running the motor/trans would be wise at first. The trans internals and cooler hold more fluid than the 2 pts in the reservoir and are likely not contaminated. Running the motor will pickup the water that is in the case and circulate it though out the entire trans, so quick fill and drains would be better but I don't know if that alone would pull water back into solution.
I think IF I found water in my inspection, I would be calling an authorized tech or BW for their input instead of listening to keyboard jockeys with my $$$ transmission on the line.
Assuming OP was just having nubbie stresses and all is fine since we have not heard any conclusion.
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The transmission on our 2007 X2 got water in it when a raw water pump hose blew and pumped a lot of water into the bilge. We were told that the hot transmission could pull in water through the seals as it cooled. The transmission was running motor oil at the time and it looked like a chocolate milk shake. We were told by our dealer to pump out the contaminated oil, and refill with ATF. Then pump that out and refill with ATF. Then pump that out and refill with ATF. After the third refill there will still be some residual water but when the transmission is run up to temp the remaining water will evaporate out. After running the boat for awhile there was no sign of water in the trans(ATF was not cloudy at all) and no noticeable effects from the water.
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I checked it before changing and it was clean (no water detected). When I opened the fill cap, it actually hissed as it was under pressure. Felt that was a good sign. It's running fine and no issues.
I did not read whole thing but I don't imagine you will have a problem, I know my brother I'm laws boat has had more water in it then that on at least 2 occasions (prostar 205) and he never did anything but pump the water out and never had a problem.
I feel your pain
I'm sorry to hear this but perhaps I can help. Exactly a year ago I uncovered my X-30 after 3 years of storage outside. I had been injured and a long recovery had kept me from doing much of anything. I apparently had been in a hurry the last time I put up the boat and left the plugs in. Don't forget I said 3 years!! I uncovered the boat to find 3 feet of black swamp water and a boat full of black mold! My beautiful white interior was non existent! I managed somehow to wade into the boat and after several minutes pulled the plugs. It took over an hour just to drain. I can tell you I was physically wiped out at this point from what I saw. I had always maintained this boat to the 9's and believed all would be a little dirty as it had been in prior years.
In any event I started at removing everything from the boat, then removed all the interior. I scrubbed with every product known to man and nothing really took out the black mold and mildew. I laid all the interior out in my driveway and after 3-4 weeks the sun killed off all the mold and mildew. I had the carpet completely steam cleaned 3-4 times and it came out looking great. I was somewhat lucky to find that the water had stopped just below the air intake of the motor. Another inch and I would have had major damage!! I ended up replacing (2) batteries, the starter, the alternator, serpentine belt, and all pulleys, the perfect pass unit, and several relay's. I changed motor oil and filter 3 times and flushed the transmission 3 - 4 times as well. All in all it took several weeks of work and about $700. I did finally get it back together and the boat ran like a top.
Unfortunately, after 45 minutes on the lake I hit a large rock and destroyed the bottom of the boat and all under water drive gear!!! $10,000 worth of damage!!!!!
Im actually pulling the motor and was on the forum looking for tips and saw your post.
You'll be fine just be thorough and don't rush. Sunlight will take care of most of the mildew if you even have any.
All my best, Bobby T
Thanks for the advice BobbyT. As I last posted, its fine. Have run it several times. It only had the water in it a day or so. Pulled the cover, seats, all hatches, etc and aired it out in the sun. Drained once and replaced since it was still pressurized when I first opened trans seal. It's like nothin happened to it. Looks, runs and sounds like a street racer.
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The test for iron is a blood test, but it's generally a simply finger or heel stick. Nurse through it or right after it and the baby is unlikely to mind much. It's going to hurt you more than him. If you had low iron during pregnancy and baby was low birth weight, IMO you definitely want the test done, even though you are taking a multivitamin. The iron in breastmilk is generally sufficient for the baby's needs, but some breastfed babies do become anemic even when mom's iron status is normal.
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Russia's long-delayed test flight for its first all-new airliner since the fall of the Soviet Union will take place in the first half of May, a source in Russia's state aircraft holding told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Hmm, well as much as I don't generally like mecha, Planetes was so incredibly awesome that I feel compelled to give this show a chance as well.
So long as it doesn't:
1: Have stupid attack names that the pilots yell out.
2: Have pink explosions.
3: Have some dumbass enemy threat that isn't clearly explained.
4: Generally suck.
Then I'll be happy
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I mean hell, Planetes was chock full of real details and was really really awesome for a anime set in space (THERE'S NO SOUND IN SPACE ZOMOOG!) ... but just look at the settings and design of this show, I highly doubt that realism is what it's aiming for
Though I would REALLY love it if they managed to make it a mecha show with some liberties but has so many good details surrounding these that it's very convincing and has its own kind of realism. I hope they play off people's reactions to having large things like that built and the real feeling of things like those walking around the earth... and make the angsty main character (come on, look at him, he's screaming angsty teenager) ... be beliveably angsty.
I suppose it's too much to ask, really, and I'll probably end up being horribly disappointed but it's always nice to entertain the thought. Damn, I wish there was another show like Turn-A GUndam, one of the most truly interesting and creative mecha shows of all time. I don't know how to describe the feeling when you see someone using a Gundam to create a natural swirly-thingy (Sorry I don't remember the term, my geography phails) at the side of a river by sticking its hand into the river-bed and gouging a chunk of earth out.
And then helping to mix soap in and later having the clothes dried on it (it would generate a lot of heat, of course)...
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Nah, seriously, pink explosions just don't do it for me
|2006-09-16, 23:34
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It's better not to set any high standards for any anime labelled mecha. As much as an optimist I am for mecha (( I grew up watching them and Kamen Rider )), it's a generally moot point that mecha series, even if they're good don't really go out of the box these days. Turn-A's not that very much different, even if the principle started differently.
Considering this will not come close to being a Supa or Hybrid series, I just hope that it presents some quality human drama. If anything, I hope the premise surrounding the world of the series is well presented.
The anime world needs more series like LoGH.
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hmm just saw trailer. I may have been seduced by the high frame rate and FLOW's song, but this looks like one of those series that'll just be a ball to watch like scryed was. I suppose so given the director taniguchi, scryed and what i saw of GunSword was just fun barrel full of monkeys dressed up competently. As long as it doesn't take itself too seriously (and lots of fluid battle action) it should prove to be a blast.
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Pink Explosions are a must for a Sunrise mecha series. They are the homage to the original Kidou Senshi Gundam and they have entered the realm of subconscicous anime symbolism a long time ago (along with stuff like angsty protagonist looking at his hand, which is always an homage to EVA today).
It doesn't mean that one cannot exist without the other, but for high-profile shows like Code Geass, and especially for high-profile Sunrise shows, producer influence is very high. I am just not sure what Taniguchi will be able to make of it if he is constantly pressured to make it more marketable and sellable.
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ah, i thought so. I remember reading in newtype that in Planetes he was able to "Produce in" as a opposed to "Market out". " Produce in" in the sense tha because this was not an otaku-type show airing on public NHK, they were able to do what they wished and not worry about a portion of the commercial side of the work (this is paraphrased from interview). That being so, although scryed was you could say "marketed out" taniguchi's balance of the shows more hot blodded shonen aspects and its more mature social commentary aspects (at least until the last 3rd part with Mujo) was done nicely, to make a real fun show that held up to scruinty reasonably well. The screenwriters for Lelouch look pretty good so heres hoping it strikes that same balance (with better animation).
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I wonder if being broadcast after one a.m. reduces or increases producer influence? Does it make profit goals lower, or just mean they have to strive harder to reach them?
In any case, as someone who still doesn't get mecha, this wouldn't be on my list if it weren't for the cast and staff people have been talking about: Fukuyama Jun, Yukana, Sakurai Takahiro. w/Koshimizu Ami, Orikasa Fumiko, Nakata Jouji, Nazuka Kaori, Inoue Kikuko, Chiba Saeko, Ohara Sayaka, Arai Satomi (Mahoraba/Kozue). director: Taniguchi Goro (PlanetES, Infinite Ryvius, GunxSword). script: Okouchi Ichirou (PlanetES, Turn A Gundam), Yoshino Hiroyuki (GSD, Mai-Otome).
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Depends, according to the late night anime article on wikipedia with certain exceptions (everything on Noitamina for one) late night anime broadcasts are really just an advertisment for hardcore nuts to buy dvds/manga/goods of it afterwards (ratings are miniscule so this is understandable). Anyways, im excited to hear Jun Fukuyama will be in it (he's Lelouch) i think. I haven't seen much by him but he seemed GREAT as xxxHolic's Watanuki. I don't expect him to be nearly as manic thouogh, i expect it to be more serious. Anyone know any big name stuff he was in that im overlooking?
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Geass has been the topic of many conversations about anime broadcasting among some otaku, I think. I mean, to repeat myself, why the hell is a show like this airing at 1 am?...
But well, I guess there are a few factors:
-The relative failure of Blood+
-The very strong competitor it has at 6pm on NHK - Major
-The pressure to do certain things at 6pm versus broadcasting at 1pm
Even then, it seems as if a 1pm timeslot would benefit a more mature-sounding anime like Ayakashi Ayashi. And if they're worried about holding up against Major, then wouldn't Geass be the logical choice since it's even got CLAMP?
Perhaps they're relying heavily on otaku - after all, it's a nationwide broadcast if I'm not wrong so they've got everyone's potential eyeballs - rather than kids and otaku (if it was at 6pm), which is risky because there's the competition of MAJOR. Plus, there aren't any shows with comparable clout airing at 1am on other stations (I'm not very sure of this, I'm just guessing + repeating what I saw somewhere)
But then why go through so much towards getting FLOW and CLAMP and all? Well maybe they figure that the returns would be worth it - and perhaps they want to bring over the "somewhat anime fan" kind of audience... And I guess to make up for the lack of the kid's audience they're going to put more elements in the show that will appeal to otaku, which wouldn't be airable at 6pm.
It could go one way - have a lot of gratituous fanservice or stupid things or tons of obviously and purposely moe characters; or it could provide a more chilling and brutal picture of what's going on in the Geass world, and touch better on issues that are sensitive among the nation such as nationalism.
No point second-guessing the producers, but hey, it's fun...
And I think generally shows that are showed later would have less of the producer's influence - because they're not as pressured as prime-time producers to deal with so many tie-ups and what not - but there are probably exceptions: for example, perhaps popular properties like Kanon and Shuffle... because they probably must make sure that it panders well to otaku/serves as a good advertisement...
And also things like Noitanima (the producer influence is very strong here, but not always a bad thing)
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This isn't the first time a big new promising show has a bizarre time slot. Eureka 7 with its 7am sunday airtime always baffled me, considering the dark material it covered in some episodes. This airtime didn't seem to affect its mass appeal. Although airtime in Japan is irrevelant to most of the fansub community.
I'm quite hyped after watching the trailer. But it didn't impress me as much as Bakumatsu.
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Some people said that that was an attempt to create a new 'popular timeslot', but it ended up getting low ratings (though the dvds are selling reasonably well).
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[/QUOTE]Well, I'm just hoping that they'll actually watch it at 2 am... I suppose the weekend airings would be OK, though. I wonder if there's more of a prevailing "late night anime = stuff for weirdos" mindset among people who would have otherwise watched it at 6pm though.[/QUOTE]
I don't expect it to approach Noitamina or most of NTV's late night stuff (especially NANA) ratings, just cause it doesn't look like it goes anywhere/does anything that the more "casual" fans would watch it. I hear you basically have 3 categories,
1. totally populist mainstream works (sazae-san, Maruko-chan and Conan)
2. more niche, but casual anime fandom shows (Keroro Gunso, more standard robot shows, popular adventure/shojo manga adaptions)
3. Hard core fandom shows (anything after golden/prime time in the graveyard slot)
There are exceptions; Noitamina/NTV has blurred the line between 2 and 3 a bit from what ive seen but generally these things hold (this is all 3rd party observation from various accounts, interviews articles and websites so while im confident in this knowledge im not a guru, id have to be in japan.
-to finish, i noticed something about the whole doroku furor. MBS and all them say the numbers were higher than then the regual ol' sat6 anime but RAVE, Zoids and one of the millioin ultraman's (which preceeded seed in the timeslot) seemed to get the same numbers to an extent. Only thing i can think of is that theyre snagging higher demos (middle school and up as opposed to the prolly younger kids normally watching at the time, i guess.). Hopefully Aikawa wont feel the need to have to rope in a teenage girl fandom with Ayashi, cause it looks like it could rope in some non-otaku adult viewers as well (from what i read of the synopsis)
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Well the thing is the last few... alright, the last two big doroku hits, SEED and FMA, were described as being not just guys' anime but being appealing to girls as well (=fangirl factor). Even in other Asian countries there are so many female anime fans who may have otherwise disliked action/mecha anime but loved the human drama that was also present in the two shows. And hey, they're bishie and angsty and there was a lot of delightful stuff going on between Kira and Athrun...
I remember reading reports about how at the events for these shows there was a really significant portion of girls showing up. And about how some who were fans of T.M. Revolution and whatnot would just watch the show and then kind of grow to like it themselves.
And that is why you have something like this
Spoiler for saving space: interview with one of Blood+'s producers, Yutaka Omatsu:
Which brings me to note that this show seems to be doing a bit of the same thing Just look at angsty Lelouch and Suzaku... and the CLAMP designs cleaned up by Kimura. Maybe I'm wrong but it certainly feels very much like that... (helps that in 2ch threads people are billing it as a fujoshi anime as well)
If Bones is going on the same tack as FMA though, they're probably going to try and make Ayakashi Ayashi appeal to girls as well, though.
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hmm, thanks for putting that into perspective. and yea i remember reading that interview with the producer for BLOOD+. That was a part of my beef with it, if FMA could overcome it's shonen limitations and create a fantasticly plotted and crafted show (that relatively little fan pandering at all) with the coincidental nutty fangirl base, then i was almost certain the those ol' boys at IG could/would. It felt like they played it too safe with the material and had to tone it down a few notches. (Some of this is a tad harping to some i know, still a not a bad show, though.) Seed could have too, but B+ is much better then seed (havent seen destiny so no comment on that.
Ayakashi has so many interesting elemens that if left unmangled by the producers it could, just MIGHT rope in a couple of peeps older then the casual doruku viewer base. This would have ensure good ratings cause its a viewing group other then the youths (i assume) watching Major on NHK. PLus in addition to being profitable it could turn out to be a fantastic show to boot.
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Vol. XL- tV—No. 2
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Saturday, September 13, 1969
Senate approves Shupe's proposals;
Action taken to regroup committees
Clarion editor for first semester 1969-70 Coeval Editor
New publication editors stress change
Contrary to tradition, the first
gathering of the student Senate
Tuesday evening was a relatively
brief and profitable meeting.
Under the direction of Student
Association President Dave Shupe,
the members of the senate moved
swiftly to the business at hand
which began with a report by social
committee chairman John Good-man.
Goodman stated that due to
lack of enthusiasm on the part of
the students towards the commit-tee
sponsored social events in pre-vious
years, it was his intention
organizations. The proposal also
recommended that the student and
faculty Athletic Committees be
merged. Besides these recommenda-tions,
the senate also approved
Shupe's appointments to the stu-dent
faculty committees.
Before adjourning their meeting,
senators moved to accept the re-commendations
of the Communica-tions
Board in approving the ap-pointment
of Mark Kingsbeck as
head of WBCS for the following
year and Pat Faxon as editor of
the Clarion for the first semester
In an attempt to increase and
improve its services to students,
the library has increased its staff
and added a new department this
year. Filling the newly created
position of Audio-Visual Coordina-tor
is Mrs. Grace Ross who was
previously at Northwestern Univer-sity.
Besides these additional staff
members, the library has received
a Basic Library Grant of $5,000
from the Department of Health
Education and Welfare. According
to Mrs. Dewey, head librarian, the
money may be used for materials
in any area except religion and
must be spent by June 30, 1970.
Library expands with more staff, money
"I like to write. I have an avid
curiosity about everything," says
Pat Faxon, new Clarion editor, a
gal who likes to be where the
the action is.
Pat is a political science major.
"I picked political science because
it's fascinating," Pat said, "and it
will be an excellent background for
my graduate school studies in jour-nalism."
The Clarion has been Pat's main
extracurricular activity during col-lege.
She was also in debate in her
freshman year. During her sopho-more
year she was active in the
Peace Club and was elected a stu-dent
senator in the spring.
Pat chose to come to Bethel be-cause
her pastor recommended it.
She remains at Bethel because "you
can get a better education at a
small school where there is oppor-tunity
to interact with the profes-sors
on a more intimate basis. There
is also a very great opportunity
for student involvement at Bethel
which is a very important part of
a person's education."
"Service to the students" is the
motto of the new editor. This ser-vice
will see the Clarion raising,
discussing, and providing a student
forum for thought-provoking is-sues;
and also providing more in-tercollegiate
coverage of news and
social events.
Pat bemoans the low level of in-terest
students display in student
government, publications, and o-ther
extracurricular activities.
"Bethel desperately needs more
students willing to think seriously
and realistically about the issues
facing society today with the cour-age
to act upon their convictions
after they have thought and stud-ied
through a problem."
How can this be done? "Students
must be confronted with the issues.
From there on they must take the
initiative and motivation on an in-ternal
level," Pat maintained.
"Part of Baptist theology is the
stress on independent, individual-to
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to run "as few events as well as
possible." After some discussion,
senate members agreed to aid him
in finding the needed members of
his committee and in making ar-rangements
for All-School Banquet
The Senate next voted to accept
Shupe's proposals concerning the
various committees on campus
which included the establishment
of an Intercollegiate Activities
Committee and the Religious
Committee as a coordinator of all
religious related committees and
Mrs. Ross, whose husband is on
the student affairs committee at
the University of Minnesota, will
be centralizing the audio-visual
program so that all materials will
be ordered, received and distribut-ed
through her department in the
library. Through the creation of a
separate audio-visual materials de-partment,
the library is preparing
for its facilities on the new campus
where this area will be expanded
and become a more important part
of the learning process.
The library has also added a full
time reference librarian to its staff.
Mrs. Carol Christensen, a Bethel
graduate who has worked with the
Minneapolis Public libary and Gil-ette
Hospital library has joined
the staff to aid students and fa-culty
in their research work. Mrs.
Christiansen will receive her mas-ters
degree in library science from
the University of Minnesota in De-cember.
Vietnam vs.
(Excerpt from Senator Mondale's
news letter to Minnesotas)
In August of this year, American
deaths in Vietnam passed 40,000;
some 757 of these were from Min-nesota.
Vietnam war costs ran at
the rate of a billion dollars every
two weeks, an amount equal to
what Minnesota spends educating
all her elementary and high school
children over a sixteen-month
Zaffke heads
Coeval staff
by Marj Rusche
This year's Coeval, the campus
literary publication, will take on
a new emphasis in the verbal arts
in its seventh year of publication.
According to Maurice Zaffke,
editor and a Senior English major,
and his assistant Miriam Kling
prose, poetry, short stories and
essays will be emphasized.
"We are going to move away from
pictured art like printing a picture
of a sculpture or a picture of a
painting" said Zaffke. "That's bas-tardization
of form." Zaffke feels
the main emphasis on art should
be the experience of the process,
and not the worship of the finish-ed
"In the Coeval we want to show
poetry and prose as a natural thing;
like breathing," said Zaffke. "An
emphasis on process is not a de-nial
that the end product would be
one of quality, but rather that a
loose attachment should exist be-tween
the artist and his finished
work. There is a connection rather
than merely looking at your poem
and saying oh wow, there it is."
All published literary work is
done by the students, and accord-ing
to the staff, everyone is invited
to submit selections to Maurice,
P.O. Box 162. All pieces submitted,
whether accepted or rejected for
publication will be critiqued in an
attempt to help the student better
express himself.
The Coeval will facilitate both
emotional and personai exposure
of artists and literary exposure.
The general type of writing that
will be emphasized is organic, con-temporary
American writing using
language that is evolving now, in-stead
of standard poetic diction.
"We don't want any sonnets," said
In accordance with last year's
procedure, the Coeval will be pub-lished
several times during the year
rather than in one year-end issue.
Zaffke commented that he is also
considering having the Coeval spon-ser
some workshops on creative
writing, and possibly some public
student readings using the stu-dents'
own material.
Faxon named
Clarion editor
by Marj Rusche
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the CLAROIN Saturday, September 13, 1969
Education involves
The contents of this issue of the Clarion may leave the
reader rather alarmed at the conditions of student related ac-tivities
on Bethel's campus. However, reality sometimes is alarm-ing,
and at times is the proper reaction.
This year the Social Committee is limiting its events to the
bare necessities, the yearbook, Spire, still does not have an edi-tor,
there was contemplation of dropping football, the Clarion
is sadly in need of staff members. In last spring's elections many
contenders for student government positions ran unopposed
while other positions were left completely to the mercy of write-ins.
The senate is perpetually struggling to get a quorum.
Why do students fail to participate? Are they afraid of be-ing
unsuccessful? Or do they prefer to remain in a state of im-maturity
with others making their decisions and accepting the
responsibility? It is hard to believe that the reason for nonin-volvement
in devotion to books.
Perhaps students fail to realize that the campus can be used
for more than classroom, library or matchmaking machine.
One of the most important aspects of being an educated per-son
is being able to relate to people in all situations. By not get-ting
involved in the available areas on campus students are wast-ing
educational opportunities and stunting their personal
Students who never involve themselves in anything but
what is absolutely required are wasting a vast amount of poten-tial.
In a sense they are even sinning. By refusing to find and use
all the abilities God has given them, they are saying, "I want
this much and the rest is unimportant."
Editor's note: The following is excerpted from an editorial
appearing in the March '69 issue of Moderator. The author is
Mr. Sidney Simon, associate professor of education at Temple
In Shirley Jackson's eerie short story, "The Lottery," a
village holds a drawing each year to decide whom they will
stone to death. In our college and universities, we do it twice a
One character in Miss Jackson's story raises a question
about why the villagers continue to perform this inhuman ritual,
but an elder quiets him with, "We have always had a lottery."
So it is with grades, and mid-terms, and true and false
questions, and multiple choices, and essay questions (choose 3
out of 4), and bell-shaped curves, and Dean's lists, and No-doz,
and blue books, and crib sheets, and proctors and the rest. We
have always had them—or something akin to them.
Grades must go. Their only genuine function is to serve
certain administrative conveniences. They do allow the regis-trar
and members of the deanery to decide who is on probation,
and who can take an honors course, and who sits on the dais
at Phi Bet banquets, etc., but they are too destructive to be
allowed to debase what a university could be.
Grades separate students and professors into two warring
camps, both armed with dangerous weapons, none of which have
anything to do with a notion of a community of scholars.
A student cannot praise a professor's teaching within
earshot of other students, or he would be slashed to ribbons
for "brown-nosing." However, in the comfortable privacy of a
professor's office, the slippery students keep their appoint-ments,
and get in the brownie points which, they have well
learned, are one of the practical ways to up their grade point
averages. Sadly, this same information keeps many students
with integrity away from the professor's office.
If praise can't be given, open criticism of a professor to
his face is rare. It simply would not be politic. Even if you
had some hint about how to make his course better, the implied
disapproval would surely earn retaliation. So it passes that
students and faculty — the two groups on a campus which,
most need to find each other — are separated by a wall as
impenetrable as barbed wire, and it is called a transcript.
Grades over-reward the wrong people and often punish
students who need to be punished the least. There is something
basically immoral about a system which passes out its highest
institutional appreciation to a meritocracy based on memoriza-tion,
clever use of mnemonic devices, test-wisdom, and various
symptoms of anal compulsiveness.
Grades have been used systematically to screen out black
students, to decide who to ship out to Vietnam, and to firmly
remind those who will not conform that they are failures. It
becomes increasingly clear that those who knuckle under to
the grading system and learn what reality is all about ("Look,
the guy likes Buber, so I give him Buberisms all semester,")
are the ones who reap the rewards. Those who question the
system or resist it often get flunked out, neatly and sometimes
Grades tend to destroy what learning should be all about.
Students sign up for snap and crap courses they neither need
nor want, but which give a sure "B" without requiring many
papers, or much reading, etc. Students avoid courses which
they might be curious about but cannot afford a low grade
in because it would mess up their "cum".
Only the wastrel reads novels or plats which are not
assigned, and no one except a fool spends more time in the
library than he needs to pad out, with the right number of
footnotes, a paper which the student guesses the professor
will like (whether the student cares deeply about it doesn't
Grades reinforce an archaic notion of "competition" which
may well turn out to be deadly in the 1970's.
God did not make flat, one-sided paper dolls. He made
whole human beings with depth. Let's start being what he made
LETTING-THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY may
God save the marriage where the man is in constant
competition with his wife. Pray for the family where the
siblings are turned against each other's jugular veins. Most of
our efforts to make our neighborhoods and communities
healthier and happier depend on some complex forms of
cooperation. And almost everything the college graduate does
today to make a living demands cooperation.
Almost everything gets done through committees, and the
really valuable co-worker knows the intricate skills of group
process, and has the humanity necessary to control his ego
and his competitive instincts. The point is, we don't have to
teach competition; the beast in us is instinctively competitive.
But we had better do more thinking about how to help ourselves
become more civil so that we develop some range of responses
beyond "what's in it for me?"
Four years and more of this kind of competitive treadmill
might prepare a college graduate for ruthless dashes down
the expressway at rush hour, but I surely would not want to
be the first Negro to move into his block.
01 all the destructive things grades do, probably the uglist
is that they contribute to debasing a student's estimation of
his own worth. The emphasis and extreme focus upon grades
term after term, seems to squeeze a student's identity and
self-image within the narrow confines of his transcript.
Students everywhere are in a quandary. They have too
little else upon which to test themselves. They are saddled
with an extended adolescence. They have no real opportunities
to be either independent or courageous or to test under duress
their love of their fellow man. As a consequence, students
often stake their identity, almost their total sense of self, upon
that grade point average.
The pursuit of grades has dried up the average student's
sense that he can shape and change the world around him.
With his eye on the carrot at the end of the semester, he
does not really believe that he can make a course better. He
doesn't really believe that students can and should have some
stake in evaluating their education. It is almost heresy for
him to believe that he has some valid insights into the hiring
and firing of professors. Not wanting to antagonize the grade
givers, he does not complain about large classes, irrelevant
lectures, inappropriate assignments, unnecessary pre-requisites,
or even an unreadable textbook.
What we really need is a sweeping awareness among
students that they are being short-changed at that supermarket
they call alma mater. They need to realize that they are the
customers and, as such, they have every right to demand that
they get a real education. They must learn to see through
our ruses. They must not allow themselves to be bought
off with green stamps which they glue into their transcripts
and turn in at the redemption center at graduation time for
credentials. Grades must go.
Clarion on decline?
Due to circumstances far, far, beyond our control,
the size of the Clarion staff has been drastically re-duced,
and it is now so small that unless we get help
soon, our products will fall immeasurably short of even
the modest standards that previous Clarions have set.
So, if your particular talent is newswriting, or proofread-ing,
or photography, or feature writing, come down to
the Clarion yesterday, if you can't make it sooner.
And even if you have a particular lack of talent, we
can use you pasting on addresses or keeping the Clarion
boxes full.
Educator maintains that grades are obsolete
Reader states
supermen are
in short supply
To the Editor:
It was a bit of a tragedy when
Margie Whaley recently dropped
the editorship. After all, she drop-ped
school at the same time. The
two matters were not unrelated.
Margie had been told she might
get two or three credits this semes-ter
for fulfilling her position. She
was to have had an editor assistant
for last semester. Perhaps this was
a part of the reason why she took
on the task even though she abso-lutely
didn't want it, unless no one
else would take it.
Well, she was editor, and I be-lieve
that she did not do a bad job
in administering her responsibili-ties.
But, she was not to receive
credits this semester, and she did
not receive adequate assistance
from her assistant last semester.
However, she did receive incom-pletes
for the schoolwork that she
had to take far into the summer.
These of course, are temporary
The headaches and responsibili-ties
of being editor combined with
the headaches and responsibili-ties
of being a student were obvious
causes of weariness. Losing her
car which she used both for her-self
and Clarion business added a
little to her difficulties.
But, the clincher in her two de-cisions
was notification in the lat-ter
weeks of the summer from this
college that she was to lose her
scholarship, loan, and grant be-cause
of her (however temporary)
"F's." This was a fresh bit of news
for the former editor who had been
on the Dean's list the semester be-fore.
She had not been told of this
Thus, with her decisions, the
Clarion was momentarily without
an editor and the former editor
also became a former student. Pre-sently
her plans are indefinite. She
may come back to school and quite
possibly will at sometime.
She didn't ask me to write this,
but I believe it is a good, rather
tragic illustration of the potentially
sad plight of newspaper or year-book
editors at Bethel's campus.
Their publication responsibilities
are compounded by academic ones
and vice versa. Working more on
one may hurt the other and doing
both is a rarity performed by ex-ceptional
people who usually have
to allow such safety measures as
taking fewer credits.
Perhaps more money, credits,
more advantageous scholastic fa-vors,
or a larger, dedicated staff
encouraged by money and credits
would at least partially remedy the
situation. Each of these solutions
have potential drawbacks, but
something must be done—and done
soon. Supermen just aren't in great
Dave Greener
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Pat Faxon
Fine Arts Editor Chuck Marbo
Sports Editor Wally Borner
Copy Editor Tony Magnuson
Layout Editor Sue Bonstrom
Proofreader Karen Rodberg
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Photographer Ray Smith
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the pos iition of the
college or seminary.
Milo and Octavia Weatherwax (Robin Gammel and Allen Hamil-ton)
discuss the future of their son, Lance, in THE BEAUTY
by Chuck Myrbo
Boredom at Bethel there is no excuse for. Absolutely none.
Whatever you happen to be into, you can find a place in the
Twin Cities where everybody is doing it.
Sports fans can go ecstatic at pro baseball, football, and
hockey games. Or the whole set of Big Ten sports. Or the
state high school basketball and hockey tournaments.
Music lovers are just as lucky. There are concerts every
year to suit every taste. Over the summer, I saw the Doors,
the Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Last Sunday night I saw Chuck Berry. The Association will be
coming later this month. And, of all of those seem hopelessly
uncultured, you might find soul fulfillment in the Minnesota
Symphony Orchestra or the Center Opera Company.
If your passion is for movies, there are enough theaters
in the Twin Cities to give you more choices than you could
ever use. If you don't mind last year's shows, the Midtown is
close and cheap.
But maybe you like drama live — you will have dozens
of chances to see plays. Just keep your eyes open. The U of M
and the Twin City colleges put on productions. There are
several professional and semi-pro theaters. There is Dudley
Riggs' Brave New Workshop. There is the Crawford Livingston,
and there is the Guthrie.
Restaurants abound. Ski resorts aren't far away. There's
the Minnesota Dragways. The Twin Cities have a beautiful set
of parks.
So don't complain. Bethel could be in Gothenburg, Nebras-ka
(or Platteville, Wisconsin).
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istic judgment. We have always
been told not to conform to the
world, to make our own moral de-cisions.
Maturity comes when an
individual starts searching and
thinking through what he believes.
"This is why Bethel has so much
potential. We have been brought up
under the ideals of individualism,
independent moral dicisions, non-conformity.
However, I'm afraid
some Christians have put God in a
box. It's a kind of doublethink. We
have to be independent and indi-vidual
from the world, but yet can-not
be individual and make inde-pendent
moral decisions apart from
other Christians."
In conclusion Pat stated, "I sin-cerely
hope the Clarion can expose
and activate some of the potential
lying latent in Bethel students."
Starr resumes
her education
"I'm a little nervous about it,"
were Miss Starr's words as she
made known her plans to return to
school in December. "'It's not the
same as studying for a lecture."
According to her present plans,
Miss Marilyn Starr, Dean of Women
will be taking a counselling course
from Dr. Hulme at Luther Theolog-ical
Seminary. The class, clinical
counselling, is structured for half
class time and half field work. Her
course work will also include Bib-lical
Prolegomena offered by Dr.
Berkley Mickelson at Bethel Semi-nary,
and a course in psychology at
the University of Minnesota.
Miss Starr states her reason for
returning to school is that many of
the problems confronting students
have a theological basis and she
feels that her training in this area
in inadequate. She will remain at
Bethel only half time when she re-turns
to classes and expressed a
bit of apprehension about wgetting
back in the groove" after not hav-ing
been a student for four years
ebetpet Pato
Maurice Lawson
Variety with a purpose will
characterize our chapel services
this year. Since there is no hour
more important than the one in
which the whole community ga-thers
to worship, we want each day
to be both interesting and inspira-tional.
We welcome suggestions to-ward
making it the best possible
experience for all of us.
"Can God use me?" will be the
theme of the Monday chapel with
students providing music and test-imonies.
On Tuesday we will hear
from some of the new students and
faculty on campus.
Wednesday this year will be an
experiment in programming. Under
the direction of a committee head-ed
by Tom Swanson, we will be pre-sented
each Wednesday with fif-teen
minutes of contemporary, and
sometimes experimental, gospel
singing and a short message by the
campus pastor. This week, begin-ning
a series of meditations from
the life of Christ, the subject will
be "Mark, the Boy Who Ran Away".
Dave Shupe, President of the Stu-dent
Association, will provide the
program on Thursday. On Friday,
Bob Hart from Chicago will speak
on evangelism as it relates to stu-dent
"This was the noblest of them all . . ." Charles Keating as An-tony
at the side of the dead Brutus (Allen Hamilton) in Edward
Payson Call's production of Julius Ceasar at the Tyrone Guthrie
Theatre. Ross Bickel!, Michael Moriarty, and Clark Luis are
in the background.
Ruth(Fern Sloan) holds Joey's head in her lap as Max implores
her to look on him as a younger man. Joey is played by Peter
Goetzand Max by Lee Richardson. The shadowy Lenny, played
by Robin Gammell looks on . The setting is the final scene of the
Minnesota Theatre Company's production of Harold Pinter's
Tyrone Guthrie Theatre
Saturday, September 13, 1969
by Chuck Myrbo
The Guthrie will be putting on
five plays this season: "Julius Cae-sar,"
Perelman's " T h e Beauty
Part," Pintar's "The Homecoming,"
O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Elec-tra,"
and Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."
"Julius Caesar" is the classic
tenth grade English drama unit,
partly because it is one of Shake-speare's
fastest moving plays. It is
important not because Shakespeare
told the story of Caesar and Antony
and Brutus well, but because in
telling that story well he told so
many other stories perfectly. The
actions and the passions are not
uniquely Roman.
So the Guthrie, as the Guthrie
often does, has added its own little
twist of theater to the Caesar pro-duction
— it is set in modern Latin
America. The speeches are all the
same (Antony still calls on "friends,
Romans, countrymen) but the cos-tuming
is changed. The character
of the mob is also changed, from
Roman slaves to South Americans
at carnival time.
But nothing else is changed; the
new costumes are fun, but they
add precisely nothing to the play.
The Latin America they create is
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no closer to here and now than
Rome is, and they do get in the
way when the characters talk about
Rome. But the production is excit-ing:
it is the Guthrie and its is
"The Beauty Part" is a burlesque
of the culture explosion, which
has allowed struggling young ar-tists
to stop struggling and has
paid them for every put-on. Tra-dition
is taboo and eccentricity is
lionized. There is money in every-thing
from smut peddling to script
stealing, but mostly in sex.
The play is funny, and it bites.
The combination, along with a few
brilliant characters, makes the play
"The Homecoming" is more dif-ficult.
It is depressingly realistic.
The conversation is flat and life-less;
long pauses are written into
the script. The story seems sensi-ble,
but something about it doesn't
click — and that is almost certain-ly
intentional, and that is what is
difficult about the play. Just what
is Harold Pinter trying to prove?
I've seen the play twice, and I'm
sure I don't know.
Reviews of "Electra" and "Van-ya"
will be coming soon, I hope.
Tbeather Rebieth
Guthrie plays range from
Shakespere to burlesque
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Saturday, September 13, 1969
The Bethel Royals cross country squad began team workouts
this week. Pictured above are Gary Speakman, Dwight Carlson,
Bob Downly, Phil James, Dave Greener and Tom Mesaros. (Larry
Treleven not pictured)
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als will be the strongest is in kick-ing.
Senior Fred Swedberg is one
of the better punters in the five-state
area. Last year he averaged
54 yards per boot against Macal-ester.
Cal Harfst is back to do the
place kicking.
But according to team members
the real spark plugs and inspir-ational
leaders of the team will be
such old warriers as Greg Ekbom,
Sitte and Pound, Tom Swanson,
and Van Epps.
Some of these men will have to
play both ways, and the rookies
will probably get a taste of the
action before they feel they are
ready. But win or lose, the team
is spirited and wants to stay in
every ball game. They won't pro-mise
anything but their best and
their desire could very well win a
few ball games.
From the first day of football
camp, sources report that it look-ed
like Bethel would have either a
short or a long season. Short, mean-ing
non-existent, or long, meaning
that the boys would be lucky to be
in the game for more than one
Twenty-three men showed up on
that first day and 23 men do not
make a football team, no matter
how good they are. Thus, back to
the campus they came for a high
level administrative conference.
The only thing going for Bethel
football was the fact that if it were
dropped for a year, it would make
it difficult to get going next year.
It could possibly die completely.
Also, when the students started
returning to the campus and learn-ing
of the dilemma, some would be
sure to come out to help the ini-tial
So Bethel football will exist this
year, and prior to Saturday night's
encounter with Macalester, the
squad numbers 32.
Before you pronounce the bene-diction
for the gridders, however,
there are a few plus factors. This
year's line aver ages about 15
pounds more than last season. The
team spirit is up despite the various
problems, and Coach Shields feels
that they are farther along right
now than they were at this point
last year.
So, for the second consecutive
year, the Royals open the season
with Macalester. And who knows
what to expect? Macalester has a
new coach this year, and wasn't
real impressive against us before.
Theor 27-0 triumph was due to
three long passes rather than basic
Murray Sitte will call the signals
this year with senior recruit Gary
Hasselblad backing him up. Don
Brandsma and freshman John Pe-terson
will start at end with Dave
Pound at wing.
Fans can expect to see good per-formances
on the line both offen-sively
and defensively. Jim Carl-son
and Larry Van Epps are two of
the most capable and experienced
men on the line. Dale Berry will
hold down the center position a-gain.
One of the surprises of the
year is Don Soule, a sophomore
Shields stated that some of the
top frosh prospects are John Faust,
tackle; Barry Johnson, line backer;
and Peterson, the end. Other fresh-men
who will add strength are Dan
Brown, Walt Geery, Steve Hall-strom,
Jeff Knighton, John Land-berg,
Gary Schimbine, and Ken
The coaching staff has also noted
good performances thus far from
Keith Jung, Bob Olsen, Frosty Pe-terson,
Barry Anderson, Jack An-derson,
Jack Campbell and Dennis
The department where the Roy-
Future for
looks good
Following their first week of full
team practice, Coach Gene Glader
expressed his optimism in a Bethel
Cross Country team which should
be "slightly better than last year's."
The Royals will begin their sea-son
with a five team meet Septem-ber
19 against River Falls, Stout,
Eau Claire, and Barron County
Teachers College at River Falls.
Though minus such talented run-ners
as record-holding Bill Geigert,
Rich Swanson and Dick Olson, last
season's "Most Valuable", Coach
Glader feels that he has another
threesome to lead the Cross Coun-try
team to as many or more
victories as last season's squad.
Junior Dwight Carlson, one of
Coach Glader's prospective leaders,
is looked upon as "a leader in
more ways than one." He worked
with the team last year, but was
ineligible due to transfer status.
According to Glader, sophomore
Phil James from last year's squad
is also a good runner. However,
James' injured ankle must be con-sidered
as a qualifying factor in
predicting the team's success.
Freshman Gary Speakman is con-sidered
to have real potential by
the Coach and could be among the
top three.
Coach Glader is also depending
heavily on the other team mem-bers
to back up or outrun these
three. Senior Tom Mesaros, whose
improvement last year earned him
the "Most Improved" award, junior
Dave Greener, formerly with the
team 2 years ago, transfer Bob
Downly and freshman Larry Trele-
Sedeibte Symposium
Wally Borner
Saturday night's football game promises to be unpredic-able.
The oddsmaker would be sure to favor Macalester, but
the Royals should be able to throw in a few surprises. And you
can bet that there's nothing that would keep any one of the
players from showing up for the kickoff at 7:30.
They've worked hard. They won't be saying, "It's how you
play the game rather than who wins," if they should walk off
the field with a defeat. However, this old stand-by of sports
jargon has merit when you look at individual performances.
The coach isn't going to chew out every player if some of them
put in spectacular performances.
Just for a switch, try to watch each position a bit. It's easy
to see if the quarterback, ends, or running backs play a good
game, but it takes a bit more to watch the guards. For some it
may be difficult to catch what happens, but it may make the
game a bit more exciting if you try to see what happens on the
line. 4, * * *
Our small squad needs a healthy season. This does not
refer only to injuries but also to iPnesses. Last week the flu
bug hit and kept out 15, 17, 14, and 12 men on foisir consecu-tive
days. * * * *
The soccer team set a school record Monday on their first
day of organized practice. They broke four gym windows in a
single practice session. Now it's off to Como Park or Luther Sem
before the team becomes defunct due to lack of finances.
The soccer team will be aided this year by Mr. Justin Abra-ham
from the economics department. The volunteer coach sees
the possibility of a good squa*d * t h*is * y ear.
Informal applications are being taken for sports writers
and a sports editor. Qualifications are practically irrelevant.
However, training will be provided.
scoring positions against each other self-discipline and comradeship as
and opposing teams during the by-products of an experience that
coming season. is consistent with the Christian
Any interested Bethel young men concept of nurturing the mind,
are encouraged by Coach Glader body and soul. As a sport, Coach
to come out for the team whether Glader says that becoming a part
they are experienced or not. In of a team is definitely a part of
Glader's estimation, being part of a liberal arts education.
the team may be a good experience The Royals first home meet will
even if you're not among the top be against Hamline and Gustavus
four or five. at the Como Park course, October
ven will all be vying for high- Among other things, he lists 4.
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Face it, folks. Some people don't need to carry guns – openly or concealed.
Recent tragedies, where innocent people sitting in classrooms, a shopping mall and movie theater were slaughtered by crazed, gun-toting fanatics, are a testament to that fact.
We don't think anyone with common sense will deny that those perpetrators should not be allowed to own or carry a gun for obvious reasons.
Buford High School senior wrestler Dylan Altman has a coveted gold medal to show for his persistence.
Altman, the Jackets' 132-pounder, captured an individual state championship as he won the gold medal on Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Anderson Civic Center.
A year prior, Altman fell short in a bid to capture the 120-pound Class AAA state title to end his junior campaign.
Altman used his miss at the shot of "grabbing the brass ring" to power his run to the state championship this year.
Pretend a hundred of us just landed on an island – our new home. The island possesses all the amenities – fertile land, plenty of timber, fresh water, lots of wildlife – to sustain us and a growing population. Pretty soon, we start to develop our island. We're building houses, cutting roadways and implementing an infrastructure.
Wow, those snowy doughnuts must have been real good. Really, was it that good as you sank in on the treat?
We're not talking a tasty treat here, but rather a dastardly deed.
No good came out of a coward's "joy ride" at the Buford Recreation Department's youth soccer fields Feb. 16.
How could anyone have a good time as they drove an ATV and cut deep-rutted doughnuts into the youth soccer fields?
What was this person thinking? Obviously, he or she was not thinking straight.
Perfection is a major challenge to attain, but a pair of A.R. Rucker Middle School teams did so during the 2012-13 basketball season.
The Rucker girls and boys teams each posted an unbeaten record during the recently completed middle school basketball campaign.
Each team went 12-0 for the season, a first in school history.
Rams athletic director Brett Blackmon noted three key reasons in the teams' success.
"One, we had a great group of kids," Blackmon said. "Number two, we had two great coaches.
Seeing the president of the United States in person made everything about my trip to the nation's capital worthwhile.
Since I chose not to attend the inauguration in 2009, I made it a point to be there this time for the public swearing-in ceremony of our country's commander-in-chief.
Even though it's now been several weeks since the inauguration, I still speak with energy and excitement about my action-filled weekend in and around Washington, D.C.
Arriving in the 'DMV'
Toasts were frequent at the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce's Wine and Stein annual meeting at the Fairway Room on Jan. 24.
The chamber event features a host of awards for deserving folks who make a defining difference in our community.
Mobley Drug garnered its share of awards at the meeting.
The University of South Carolina at Lancaster didn't have to look far to secure an interim dean.
In fact, USCL sought one of its own – adjunct business professor Stan Emanuel.
Emanuel, a fixture at the USC regional campus which is the largest in the USCL system, is close to the situation since he served on the search committee to land a new dean.
Former USCL Dean Dr. John Catalano, who has lead the campus for 11 years and has taught at USCL for 30 years, retired in December.
A 4-10-1 record isn't much to get excited about, but sometimes a look behind the mark shows a little more.
In the case of the University of South Carolina Lady Lancers' soccer team, this is true.
The 2012 USCL women's team, led by first-year head coach Nicole Bulinsky, posted four wins last fall, but there was more.
Indian Land Middle School has been in the limelight a lot lately. The school stepped into the national spotlight early last month when its principal, David McDonald, was named the 2013 South Carolina Middle School Principal of the Year.
A few weeks later, ILMS learned it had been redesignated as a National School to Watch, an honor given to high-performing middle schools.
So the school has had a lot to celebrate lately and it begins 2013 glowing with deserved pride.
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Aug 26, 2013
Slowly but surely, interest rates have ticked upward. As of mid-August, a 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 4.4%, up from 3.91% in mid-July, according to Freddie Mac.
Even so, millions of underwater borrowers (who owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth) should still consider refinancing, advises Robert Koller, a director of Credit Risk Management for Fannie Mae's Single Family Business. "Depending on their current interest rate and type of loan, underwater homeowners could save hundreds of dollars a month by refinancing with the government's Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP)," he notes.
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Tottenham defender William Gallas has insisted his side will not travel to face Lyon at the Stade de Gerland simply hoping for a 0-0 draw.
Spurs go into their Europa League last-32 second-leg meeting with the French side holding a 2-1 lead courtesy of a Gareth Bale-inspired victory at White Hart Lane.
And, though keeping a clean sheet would prove sufficient for the north London club to progress, Gallas says scoring will be his side's priority.
"If we put them under pressure straight away they will be wary because if they concede a goal, they will be in trouble," he told reporters.
"We don't have to try to come back to London with a 0-0 scoreline. We have to play our game, the way we play all the time and then I think then we can qualify," said Gallas.
"If they score and we then fail to score, we'll be out."