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To the editor:
I guess one could say that I'm a turncoat; a traitor to the cause of bleeding heart liberalism and the Democratic way. Gladly, I plead guilty as charged. I saw the light and was converted in 1994 when-during a chance meeting with Andy Coy and listening, really listening to him describe his forward looking vision for our great county, that I took a step back and said, whoa! This guy is the real deal, a man-not a politician-that I could confidently put my trust in. So, without a backward glance, I changed my party affiliation in order that I might vote for him, mainly because I had become unhinged by the likes of Vicky, Ernie and now Tammy, along with the rest of that selfish and self-serving bunch that has sullied our local government over the years.
And boy, did he ever produce. During the three terms he served as my commissioner, Andy never failed to live up to my expectations, attending every meeting and listening to his constituents. In short, he got things done. The sidewalk that he spearheaded here in my neighborhood of Waterway Estates, so that my children could walk to the bus stop in safety is just one small example. And if you are one of the thousands of Cape commuters that daily take the shortcut from Cape to Bayshore Road in North Fort Myers using Del Prado Extension each morning, you can thank Andy for that convenience. Further, many of you probably don't remember, but he patiently and persistently advocated the construction of the midpoint bridge against intense opposition by the river front fat cats whose property would be 'adversely' affected.
Finally, let's not forget his involvement in pushing thru the construction of Veteran's Parkway and the establishment of the North Fort Myers Community Park.
Bottom line, there is no one better qualified to hold this office. His credentials are impeccable and his character is beyond reproach. Check him out, and you will have to agree, that he's not a politician who tries to dazzle you with foot work and one whose credo is, 'always be sincere whether you mean it or not.'
Yeah, I'm a displaced bleeding heart liberal, but Andy Coy has more than earned my confidence, demonstrating that we can co-exist and get things done without a hard core agenda of partisanship standing in the way.
-David C. Brown
North Fort Myers


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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Nike Sportswear Tiger Classic Cortez – "Year of the Tiger"
Nike Sportswear presents a special Cortez, celebrating the Year of the Tiger. The highly anticipated Nike design to celebrate Chinese New Year will officially launch on Feb. 10th and 13th respectively. Following in the footsteps of its predecessors, this new shoe draws its inspiration from the Chinese Zodiac the year of the tiger. The Nike Chinese Zodiac New Year series started back to 2002 with the Air Force 1, celebrating the year of the horse. The Year of the Tiger Classic Cortez is the 9th design and the first Cortez shoe adopted in the series. As Nike's first running shoe, Cortez has been well known for its comfort, lightweight and heritage. For 2010, the year of the tiger, the Nike designers took a new approach to interpreting the tiger. Instead of using the popular yellow stripe print, they used white tiger to reflect its image of power and prestige in Chinese traditional culture.
The shoe will be available in two different packages: A traditional Nike shoebox or a unique shoebox design limited to 200 pairs only. The limited shoebox is designed with the same inspiration to complement the shoe: white box with tiger stripe prints and Chinese character on Chinese trigrams and are embossed on each side of the shoebox. Finally, the five-finger death grip design is used to open the shoebox in true tiger fashion. The Nike Year of the Tiger Classic Cortez will be available on February 10th with limited shoebox package and on 13th with traditional Nike shoebox at select Nike Sportswear stores in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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The Kabul airport harkens back to the days of the Soviet invasion. It is small, cold, but immigration moves along fairly quickly. Aleem, our invaluable local producer, meets me and has most of the luggage already loaded on a cart. We walk outside and to my surprise, it's empty. Aleem explains that anyone meeting passengers has to wait about 300 yards away from the terminal, outside, at a gate. My first taste of the security situation here.
A quick trip to the hotel, and I get my second taste of the security situation in the city. Most of the roads are lined with walls -- some 15-20 feet high. Gates and doors for access remain closed except when vehicles come and go. Buildings lay behind them, but are not seen and frequently not identified by a sign. The hotel is the same and we -- along with all our gear -- must go through security to gain entry. There was a suicide attack here a year ago on the hotel gym and spa. Taliban militants used grenades and machine guns to gain access to the hotel lobby. Seven people died.
With attacks on the rise, pessimism is up and security fears loom large, even as the United States considers sending more troops to the country.
The city is busy. Dust everywhere. There has been a five-year old drought here. Traffic everywhere, no rules on the road. Vehicles coming within inches of each other, but never touching. Clearly poor, children on the street hawking cassette tapes and maps of Kabul. But there is also a never-ending supply of shops selling appliances, electronics, clothes, one selling expensive-looking western dresses. We pass by bakeries, butcher shops with whole pigs hanging in the open air. There seems to be plenty of commerce taking place.
We visit the headquarters of the polling company that conducted the field work for the ABC/BBC/ARD poll. We accompany a couple of poll workers who are going to survey some local Afghans. We head to the edge of Kabul and visit a couple of simple houses. Our hosts are gracious. From the answers to the poll worker, their main concerns are security and jobs. Later, we find out while working on a separate survey, two poll workers are killed, a reminder of how dangerous the country is.
Humanitarian Mission
Dave Warner is a fascinating guy. Twice a doctor (MD and PhD), he has boundless energy and is convinced the U.S. is going about its mission in Afghanistan the wrong way. He runs a house outside Jalalabad where young people -- generally exceedingly smart international students -- come and help teach the locals what they can produce, using the simplest of tools and resources. It is called the Fab Lab.
Doing Business With the Devil to Survive
One project we see them working on was making a pair of communications towers. Cutting pieces of wood, assembling them together in a concave structure and staple gunning chicken wire to it, they mount the antennas and are able to extend Internet service to the hospital three miles away. It's a cheap, easy, and very valuable way to help win "hearts and minds."
Reflecting on hearts and minds, it seems many people in Afghanistan are stuck. Do they really support the Taliban? Probably not. But if you live in a mud hut with no job and no prospect for the future and someone comes along and offers you a place to stay, food, or money in return for a "job" -- even if it's for something you're not wholeheartedly enthusiastic about -- what are you going to do? You're going to sign up. Especially if you risk death by failing to do so.
Desperate people use different calculations to make decisions than people who have their basic needs met; sometimes doing business with the devil is the only way to survive.
The universal sign of a school in Afghanistan is chairs and desks on the roof. What few schools exist, are so crowded that the desks take up valuable space that could be used to cram in more students. And because there is no trash removal, they can't get rid of the desks, so they put them on the roof to get them out of the way. This school -- with the support of Dave and his group -- now teaches 3,800 students, including over 1,000 girls in three shifts.
Not far from the school is the former house of Osama bin Laden, where he lived before he fled into the mountains of Tora Bora. It is not safe to stop there, but we drive by it, and look through the crumbling walls. It is obvious a missile once targeted the structure.
Sak village is inhabited by nomads, and they are cut off from the rest of Jalalabad by the Kabul River. The only way around is a several hour donkey ride downstream to the nearest bridge, or the way we chose to cross: by water. We get to the village on little rafts built of sticks laid over three partially inflated inner tubes, paddled by an 8-year-old boy using a shovel.
The village consists of a few mud huts. The children have unique appearances. Some have blond hair and blue eyes. Their faces, dirty and stark, are haunting. It was a fascinating look into a centuries-old culture. Dave had promised to bring paper and pens for the children, and as they are handed out, the kids grab them -- not rudely, but just so excited to have something that for them is a real luxury, so prized.
Getting Out From Behind the Wire
Dave explains his philosophy about the U.S. mission in the country to correspondent Martha Raddatz: "The system is broken and that's why we need to get people out and about into the villages to see with their eyes to meet the people and ask them what do they need."
Martha: "The problem is the people [U.S. forces] are not going out enough? Living behind the wire?"
Dave (pondering diplomatic language): "The current system does not promote that behavior."
One of Dave's security men, who has worked in the country more than four years, is more blunt, arguing that overly restrictive security rules prevent American personnel from carrying out their missions.
"... we have doctrine [the counter insurgency Field Manual] ... in that doctrine it says specifically, do not do these things, and the things it says not to do, is everything we are doing here. Do not get on big bases. Do not ride around in armored convoys isolated from the civilian population. Try not to interact with them with helmet, flak jackets and weapons pointed at them because it tends to stifle conversation. In order to get anything done, you have to put in the time, drinking the tea, talking about the weather, checking on the health of every damn person of every friggin' family. Then you got to sit around for a while, just to show that you have the patience to endure the tedium that follows as you negotiate..."
He's got a point. Putting troops on large military bases, separated from the community, and having them ride around in large, armored vehicles is not going to foster better relations with local communities. It can make the locals feel angry. It's been eight years since the U.S. has been in Afghanistan, and there is not a lot to show for it. So the extremists take advantage of Afghans' feeling of isolation and attack a convoy or plant an IED, which means the U.S. military personnel go out even less frequently into the villages, and when they do, they are even more heavily armored, which makes the locals even angrier and feeling more isolated. It is a vicious cycle and it needs to be broken.
We hop a flight to Bagram Air Field and find members of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division -- the "surge" brigade -- who are preparing to convoy down to their new headquarters at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Shank -- where we had been a few days prior with Brigadier General Mark Milley. The convoy of armored vehicles is lined up. Soldiers are finishing loading their HUMVEES and armored trucks and strapping tarps on top. The courage and morale of the soldiers is amazing. Some have spent previous tours in Iraq or Afghanistan, and they are unfailing in their commitment to the mission. The large footprint of tents and huts being constructed at FOB Shank makes clear that U.S. forces will be here for a while.
Bomb Explodes Near U.S. Base
We return to Kabul via road -- not our first choice -- but it is our only choice because the weather prevents flying. A few months ago, making this trip wouldn't have been considered an issue. Today, there is more of a security concern.
We are stopped once at a roundabout by Afghan police, not always known for their discipline or regard for the law. It turns out that some Afghans saw us transferring our gear from our military escort vehicle to our private vehicle outside the Bagram gate and had called the police. Sometimes things are stolen from Bagram was the reason the police gave our Afghan producer who was with us. More likely, the police probably wanted a "piece" of what we had. Corruption rules here. Fortunately, a call from our producer to a police superior at the Ministry of Interior solves our dilemma and we are on our way to the capital.
The next morning we hear sirens. A bomb has gone off near Camp Eggars, one of the military bases within Kabul, and not far from our hotel. Several soldiers -- and many more civilians -- are injured. One soldier later dies.
We had been to Camp Eggars the previous evening to interview the head of U.S. forces training Afghan security forces, Major Gen. Richard Formica. Ironically, the Public Affairs Officer had offered Saturday morning as a possible interview time, which means we could have been at the base when the bomb exploded. It turns out that the room where we had conducted the interview had its windows blown out and pictures knocked off their hooks. It seems as if security in the Kabul is spiraling downhill. Hopefully, through a combination of troop increases and shifts in military and political strategies and tactics, life for Afghans will improve.
We will be back to see for ourselves.
ABC News' Martha Raddatz contributed to this report.


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Bobcats snap Wizards' 3-game win streak 119-114
- Article by: STEVE REED
- Associated Press
- March 18, 2013 - 9:06 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Gerald Henderson had 27 points, Kemba Walker came up big late and the Charlotte Bobcats defeated Washington 119-114 Monday night to snap the Wizards' three-game win streak.
Walker scored nine of his 18 points in the final three minutes to spark a 12-0 run, lifting the Bobcats to only their second win in their last 14 games.
Walker shot 8 of 14 from the field and had seven assists.
Henderson, who came in averaging 22.5 points over his previous five games, was 8 of 16 from the field and 10 of 11 on free throws. He also tied a career high with eight assists.
Ben Gordon had 19 points and Josh McRoberts added 17 for Charlotte.
John Wall scored 25 points and Nene added 21 for the Wizards, who lost three of four games this season to the NBA-worst Bobcats. Emeka Okafor and Garrett Temple each had 17 points.
The Wizards appeared ready to finish off the Bobcats after taking a 111-106 lead with 3:14 left on a Trevor Booker alley-oop dunk off a perfect pass from Wall.
But that's when Walker took over.
The 6-foot-1 point guard drove to the lane and put the ball in off the glass to cut the lead to three. Following a Washington turnover on an inbounds pass, Gordon knocked down a 3-pointer to tie the score.
Walker then converted a 12-footer to put the Bobcats up 113-115.
Wall was called for a charge on Washington's next possession and Walker hit a driving layup at the other end. After a steal by Walker, Henderson knocked down a 3-pointer from the right wing to cap a 12-0 run and give the Bobcats a 118-111 lead.
Martell Webster's 3-pointer cut the lead to four but Wall fouled out with 28 seconds left and the Bobcats held on to win.
The Bobcats tied a season high with 63 first-half points, but led by only four at the break.
The Wizards shot 63 percent in the first half, scoring 30 points from inside the paint. Led by Nene's 6-of-8 shooting, the Wizards starters were a combined 19 of 27 from the field before the break.
The Wizards are now 18-15 with Wall in the lineup after going 23-42 without him.
Wall was named the NBA player of the week before the game after averaging 24 points and 11 rebounds per contest while shooting 61.7 percent in the previous four games.
The Bobcats trailed by one late in the third quarter when Henderson gave his team a huge emotional lift by shifting over on help defense and leaping to stuff Booker with a one-handed block.
That started a fast break 3-pointer by Gordon.
Henderson added a dunk on the next possession and Gordon made a transition layup to build the lead to six heading into the fourth quarter.
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SAN FRANCISCO—The quarterback was different but the result was the same. The San Francisco 49ers dominated time of possession and buried the Packers under an avalanche of rushing yards, scoring a 45-31 win at Candlestick Park on Saturday night that ended the Packers' season in the divisional round of the NFC playoffs.
Colin Kaepernick rushed for 181 yards, an NFL playoff record for quarterbacks, and threw for 263 yards and two touchdowns in a performance that officially crowned him one of the NFL's stars of the future. On a day when Super Bowl-champion quarterbacks
"The execution by the 49ers on the read-option was excellent. We didn't keep him in the pocket. We tried to make adjustments to our pass-rush lanes but didn't get that accomplished," Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy said.
What was most impressive about Kaepernick's performance is that he started the game by throwing an interception that was returned 52 yards for a touchdown by Packers cornerback
"We couldn't start the game any better. We came back with two turnovers in the second quarter that resulted in 14 points," McCarthy said.
McCarthy was referring to an interception Rodgers threw on a deep ball intended for
"That's what happens when you're not on the same page," Rodgers said of the interception.
"For him to drop that ball, there's no excuse for it," McCarthy said of Ross' fumble, which followed an impressive stop by the Packers defense.
Despite the turnovers, the Packers trailed by only three points, 24-21, at halftime, and they tied the game at 24-24 on a
That's when the roof fell in on the Packers' season, as Kaepernick took his game to a higher level and buried the Packers with 21 unanswered points.
Alex Smith was the 49ers' starting quarterback in a 30-22, season-opening win at Lambeau Field. The 49ers dominated that game with 186 yards rushing. Kaepernick replaced Smith in the starting lineup shortly after midseason, and he gives the 49ers a dimension of suddenness they lacked with Smith at quarterback.
"He was running all over the field. We didn't have a whole lot of answers for him," Rodgers said of Kaepernick, whose speed was on display on touchdown runs of 20 and 56 yards. On the second touchdown run, he outran the Packers secondary.
"I don't think he surprised us with his speed. He had one interception and after that he played extremely well," McCarthy said of Kaepernick, who completed 17 of 31 passes for 263 yards, two touchdowns and a 91.2 passer rating.
"I thought Aaron played well. We tried to get
Rodgers completed 26 of 39 throws for 257 yards, two touchdowns, one interception and a 91.5 passer rating.
Compounding the problem for the Packers was Frank Gore's 119 yards rushing, which left the 49ers with 323 yards rushing and 38 minutes time of possession. The 49ers gained 579 yards of total offense, and this by a team known more for its defense.
McCarthy was asked if the Packers should've used a "spy" on Kaepernick.
"You might not know this but we did. We had a couple of different schemes and didn't get that done," McCarthy said.
What the Packers might come to realize is that they ran into a player who's about to become one of the NFL's premier players. Kaepernick looked the part in Saturday night's win and he'll have a chance to lead the 49ers into the Super Bowl, when the 49ers play the winner of Sunday's Seattle at Atlanta game in next weekend's NFC Championship.


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Just days after the release of her record-breaking sophomore album, "21," British sensation Adele performed for a small group of lucky fans at the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club in Santa Monica, CA. Her powerful voice filled the elegant ballroom with hits like "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" from "21," and "Chasing Pavements" from her Grammy-winning debut album, "19," as well as a cover of the soul classic "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." Recorded February 25, 2011, Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, Santa Monica, CA.
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Chelsea winger Eden Hazard has called on his teammates to produce an instant response following their 1-0 defeat to Everton at the weekend.
The Blues were unable to break down the Toffees at Goodison Park in Saturday's late kick-off, with Steven Naismith's goal enough for the hosts to secure victory on Merseyside.
And, the Belgian knows back-to-back losses would not be good for Jose Mourinho's side at this early stage of the season, as the west London outfit prepare to face FC Basel in the Champions League.
"We have another game on Wednesday in the Champions League and we need to win because Chelsea is a big club and if we lose two games it's very bad for us. We need to work in training to help us win that game," Hazard told the official club website.
Despite the defeat, Hazard did see positives in the display at Everton, with the Blues spurning a number of chances early in the match.
Samuel Eto'o, Andre Schurrle and Branislav Ivanovic all had opportunities to put Chelsea in the ascendancy, and the Premier League title chasers ultimately paid the price for an inability to take advantage in-front of goal.
"It was a good match, we tried to do our best and if we'd scored in the first half it would have been a different game," he added.
"We started very well and we had three or four chances. We didn't score but we continued to try to score, and after Everton did, playing away it becomes very difficult."
As well as Basle, the Blues face Schalke and Steaua Bucharest in Group E of Europe's premier club competition.
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also the hieromonk decided to not go on his (Nemzpan) journey to Lake Izzmarg. (already in the main initial post)
"I'm not going crazy. I'm going sane in a CRAZY world!"
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3900 Beihel
St. Paul, Minne he Clarion.
Geese on Lake Valentine are the cause of controversy on campus: to stay or not to stay (photo by
Dan Velie).
Students in cowboy duds, both western and urban, roamed
Bethel's halls during one of five Homecoming "dress-up" days
(photo by Doug Barkey).
Vol. 56, No. 6 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Oct. 17, 1980
`Wellness' takes holistic approach
by Leann M. Kicker
"Wellness is taking the
responsibility to take care
of ourselves. Wellness is a
lifestyle that goes hand in
hand with Bethel's lifes-tyle,'
said Don Mortenson,
director of residence life.
Wellness is a new pro-gram
at Bethel sponsored
by the Student Affairs Of-fice.
Mortenson heads the
wellness student-faculty
commit tee.
According to the Wel-lness
Education Commit-tee
information letter, well-ness
is the integrated ap-proach
to total well being.
It has six dimensions: spir-itual,
emotional, social corn-munity,
intellectual, physi-cal-
nutritional and voca-tional.
The program is essen-tially
an educational ap-proach
to total health. Ac-by
Sue Fahrenkamp
Saturday, October 18 is
homecoming at Bethel, of-fering
a variety of activi-ties
for alumni and stu-dents.
The activities planned
by the campus coordina-tors
are not the only hap-penings
of the homecom-ing
weekend. The alumni
office has planned some
for alumni also, inviting
students to participate in
some of them.
Saturday at noon a cere-mony
will be held between
the Academic Center and
Fine Arts Buildings to un-veil
a sculpture. Alumni
and students are invited.
Stewart Luckman, asso-ciate
professor of art, made
the sculpture in celebra-tion
of the 20- year reunion
of his and his wife's gra-duation
At 1:30 p.m. students
and alumni can watch the
homecoming football game.
They can relax in the even-ng
at .a banquet held in
honor of the Distinguished
Alumni Award recipients.
The banquet, held in the
gym, begins at 6:30 p.m.
cording to Mortenson, "We
(faculty-staff) saw stu-dents
not sleeping enough
or exercising enough and
eating improperly. We
wanted to do something."
To initiate the program
Dr. Daniel Lambrides spoke
in chapel Sept. 23 on the
biblical teaching about
wellness. Since then in-terested
students and facul-ty
have been asked to par-ticipate
in establishing a
student-faculty organiza-tional
The committee tentative-ly
plans to prepare semin-ars
once a month that em-phasize
one aspect of total
wellness. Plans also in-clude
a health fair to be
held in February.
The cost is $5.50 per per-son.
The Alumnus of the
Year Award, The Paceset-ter
Award, and the Decade
Award will be presented.
Four Bethel retirees will
also be honored.
After the awards, a cast
of alumni and students
will perform "These Will
such as food service, phy-sical
education and coun-seling.
St. Cloud State Univer-sity
and Stevens' Point pre-sently
have successful pro-grams
of this type. Many
other colleges, businesses
and industries are initiat-ing
similar programs.
Mortenson said, "I think
it's exciting that secular
people want a good life,
the kind of life Christians
have. Bethel already has a
good grasp on it; we just
have to become more aware
of it. That is what well-ness
can help us do. But it
is not magic, just a tool."
Be the Good 01' Days 20
Years From Now". Linda
Hermann, a Bethel alum-na,
directs the production.
Director of Alumni Curt
Fauth, estimates that over
1,000 alumni will partici-pate
in the festivities, com-ing
from all parts of the
tion after nesting season
next spring. The decision
to move the geese came
during the September 26
meeting of the Site-Devel-opment
Committee. Hugh
McLeod, assistant to the
president, represented the
administration and the Site-
Development Committee.
"The general feeling of
the administration and the
Site-Development Commit-tee
is that they are in agree-ment
that the geese have
become a nuisance, mess-ing
up the walks and green
areas. The Sportsmen's Club
has made repeated efforts
to contain them. There is
no way to contain them, so
the Sportsmen's Club has
offered to remove them.
There are mixed emotions;
most people like the geese
but they are messy," said
Charles Carrier, chair-man
of the Arden Hills
Sportsmen's Club, made a
statement concerning his
decision to remove the
geese. "Bethel has been af-ter
the club for some time
to keep the geese off the
lawn....The committee was
very concerned about the
mess and anxious to see
the number of geese on
the lake reduced....They
were happy, I think. when
I told them if they wanted
the geese gone I would try
to find a new site by
spring. No one appeared
to want the project con-tinued
as stands."
About five years ago
30 giant Canadian geese
were placed on Lake Val-entine
with Bethel's per-mission
by the Arden Hills
Sportsmen's Club. The geese
were pinioned—the first
joint on one wing surgi-cally
clipped to make the
birds permanently unable
to fly, so they would stay
on the lake to establish a
free-flying flock.
Giant Canadian geese,
better known as Canadian
honkers, were thought to
be extinct until 1959 when
a small flock was disco-vered
on Silver Lake in
Rochester, Minn. The geese
on Lake Valentine descend-ed
from the Rochester
flock. At present there are
about 70 on the lake, 20 of
the pinioned, the rest are
According to the "Audo-bon
Society Field Guide to
North American Birds,"
"The giant Canadian goose
is about 35 -45 inches long.
Their habitat includes
lakes, bays, rivers and
marshes. They often feed
in open grassland and stub-ble
fields. They are very
tolerant of man and are
especially noticable in late
summer and early fall,
when they gather on golf
courses and large lawns to
molt." It is during this molt-ing
period that Bethel cam-pus
experiences most of
the mess from the geese.
Fall is also migration sea-son,
so many additional
geese join the regular flock
to molt on the campus.
Bethel has no obligation
to the geese. The shoreline
and a small section of the
lake are Bethel's contribu-tion.
The Sportsmen's Club
pays all the expanses in-volved
in keeping the birds.
They are fed, and in the win-ter
a pump is kept running
to keep a spot of water
open for them. Food—a
supply of corn, soybean
and vitamin supplements-costs
$300 to $400 every
six weeks.
The club pays for the
expenses by having a com-munity
fund-raising raffle
every fall. That usually
brings in about $2000, ac-cording
to Carrier. Also,
every spring the club sells
some of the goslings for
$25 each and raises about
$400. "We usually just
break even," said Carrier.
Carrier has a few pros-pective
sites in mind for
the geese. The most prob-see
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by Leann M. Kicker
The committee hopes to
integrate wellness into al- Lake Valentine's geese
ready existing program will move to another loca-
Homecoming: alumni reunion
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Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness; come before him
with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with
Give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
His faithfulness continues through all generations.
—Psalm 100 (NIV)
A psalm of praise, familiar but extremely note-worthy.
A deviation from the norm, as far as the definition
of an editorial goes. And we continue in an unusual
Praise the Lord for Bethel—people, buildings, bricks,
and all.
Praise the Lord for friends and acquaintances, likea-bles
and the not-so-likeables.
-Praise the Lord for demanding schedules, the things
which make us get our priorities straight.
Praise the Lord for professors who put out their very
best, who are patient with sleepy-eyed students and
who truly care about individuals.
Praise the Lord for roommates who put up with our
idiosyncracies and love us in spite of it all.
Praise the Lord for Jim Beck, the man responsible for
fewer collisions when exiting the coffeeshop. His "wood-work,"
which has replaced the former view—blocking
concrete blocks, is much appreciated and aesthetically
Praise the Lord for the student leaders, student
senate, whose ultimate objective is to make life at
Bethel a pleasant experience.
Thank the Lord for campus coordinators and their
hard work. Social activities, though sometimes thought
absurb, lighten our thoughts and get us away from that
"bogged-down" feeling.
Thank the Lord for sports events that unite the school
in one spirit.
Thank the Lord for open-mindedness among com-munity
members, recognizing that we need not be of
one mind to be of one spirit—one God.
Thank the Lord for the food service and their contin-uous
efforts to make institution food more like home
cooking. We know it's hard work, and we think they are
going a great job.
Thank the Lord for post office workers who put up
with our impatience when awaiting mail delivery.
Praise the Lord for the outside community(ies) that
supports our inside community (Bethel). Living in the
same neighborhood as hundreds of college students can
be taxing on the nerves.
Praise the Lord for the opportunity to study at a
Christian school.
Praise the Lord for a fellowship of believers.
Praise the Lord for He is Lord.
Job board offers work opportunities
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God's principles for all people
Dear Editor:
The letter from Profes-sor
Mike Roe in last week's
Clarion raised two ques-tions
about some facts
which I cited when speak-ing
in chapel in support of
Ronald Reagan's candida-cy
for president. Perhaps I
can briefly respond to
those questions.
First, the 50 per cent
increase in minority em-ployment
in California
state government under
Governor Reagan was an
increase from 14, 745 to
21,357 employees. The lat-ter
figure represented 17.4
per cent of all state em-ployees.
I do not know
how that percentage corn-pared
with the percentage
of minority groups in the
total state population. How-ever,
it is significant that
this large increase took
place while Governor Rea-gan
was holding the total
number of state employees
almost constant.
Second, how significant
is it that Reagan supports
a pro-life amendment to
the constitution while Car-ter
and Anderson oppose
it? I have to say frankly
that to me this is the single
most important issue of
the campaign, the one
which finally persuaded
me to speak out in favor of
one candidate. It is so ser-ious
that Anderson's own
denomination, the Evan-gelical
Free Church, voted
in national conventional
to go on record as oppos-ing
Anderson's "pro-choice"
Some object that govern-ment
should not enforce
"morality." While I would
agree that government
should not enforce religion
(what church to go to, what
doctrines can be taught), I
think government must en-force
moral behavior (not
killing, not stealing, not
committing rape or kidnap-ping
or perjury, not using
heroin, etc.).
But which moral stand-ards
should all govern-ments
enforce? The moral
standards in the Bible.
These are not "my" stand-ards
or only "Christian"
standards; they are the
laws given by the creator
of all people everywhere.
He has also written these
laws on every person's
heart and holds everyone
responsible for obeying
them (Rom. 1: 18-32, 2: 14-
16), just as he holds gov-ernments
responsible for
enforcing them (Rom. 13:
3-4; Dan. 4:27).
The. Old Testament con-tains
many examples of
God's judgment against
unbelieving nations who
seriously disobeyed his
laws: Obadiah prophesied
against Edom, Jonah and
Nahum against Ninevah,
Daniel against Babylon,
Habakkuk against Chal-dea
(Hab. 2) etc. (See also
Isa. 13-23, Jer. 46-48, Ezek.
25-32, Amos 1-2, Zeph. 2).
This is why I am con-cerned:
I see no significant
difference between the si-lence
of many German
Christians while Adolph
Hitler was murdering six
million Jews, and the si-lence
of Christians today
while we have let our na-tion
take the lives of over
seven million unborn chil-dren.
I do not know why God's
patience has waited long-er
with us than it did with
Hitler, but I also see no
reason to think we can
avoid judgment much if
this great evil continues.
Wayne Grudem
Asst. Prof. of Theology
by Sue Fahrenkamp
Need money? The job
board located outside of
the student affairs office,
third floor Fine Arts Build-ing,
offers a variety of posi-tions
in which students
can earn money.
The job board offers an
array of jobs such as coach-ing
a sport, directing choirs,
kitchen work, saleswork
and yard work. Many other
jobs are listed, such as
;housecleaning in which a
student can earn money
without having set hours.
The placement office
runs a job board at Bethel.
Jeanne Sawtell, placement
co-ordinator said, "Bethel
needs letters to different
companies to inquire about
openings." These compan-ies,
and other private in-dividuals,
send informa-tion
about job openings."
The opening is then
posted on the job board
for three to four weeks
before taken down. New
openings are posted every
week. .
When posted, the job is
put on an index card along
with the name, his phone
number and address of the
employer. The student can
contact the employer mak-ing
contacts through the
placement office.
• Sawtell said the job
board has been successful
for students so far. "We
see many students using
the board. We also get pos-itive
feedback from employ-ers
about the students."
The job board is set up
for the students because
not every student is eligi-ble
for work-stUdy. It be-gan
as an effort to make
job hunting as efficient as
possible for the student.
Because the employers list-ed
on the job board need •
help, the Bethel student
has a good chance of get-ting
the job.
For hidden blessings, praise God
C•A MIPAiIiG Ne 19l80
Foreign affairs dominates poll
Bethel's bus scheduling has some difficulties which Tanquist is trying to work out.
Tanquist combating busing problems
Although the writing center doesn't guarantee perfect papers,
they do guarantee Improvements.
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by Patty Sutton
I'm open to suggestions,"
said Mark Tanquist, bus
coordinator. "For the most
part, we haven't changed
too much from last year's
Tanquist said that the
big problem with the sche-dule
was that there was
too much time between
runs to Centennial Gar-from
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able is a spot behind the
new Lake Johanna Fire De-partment.
Little Lake Johan-na
is also being considered,
however, the lake is too
deep and the residents may
object. Carrier is also look-ing
at other sites but he
said they may have to sell
the whole flock if an ade-quate
site is not found.
Carrier has appreciated
the opportunity to use Lake
dens as opposed to the
longer time for runs to Old
Campus last year, but there
are not enough drivers for
more runs.
Tanquist is training-in
new drivers now. At pres-ent,
one person drives full-time
and nine others work
on a part-time basis.
Discussing overcrowd-ing
on the afternoon runs,
he said, "I was waiting to
Valentine. "We have enjoy-ed
the stay on the lake. We
weren't intending to leave
without Bethel's encourage-ment.
But we are here
thanks to Bethel's good
The geese have been a
source of pleasure to many.
Many students are disap-pointed
that the geese may
be leaving. One student
says she "enjoys the geese
when she runs by." Stu-see
if things quieted down
after choir started." Tan-quist
said that it is still too
crowded for his satisfac-tion.
Two changes have alrea-dy
been made. One of the
Har-Mar and Rosedale
runs has been delayed one-half
hour and the 5 p.m.
run leaves at 5:15 instead.
As students have settled
into a regular pattern, Tan-quist
said he expects to be
able to judge better what
changes need to be made.
by JoAnn Watkins
"We can't guarantee to
faculty members that a stu-dent
who comes to the
writing center will turn in
a perfect paper," declared
Lynn Fauth, professor of
English and writing coor-dinator.
"But we can gua-rantee
that the paper the
student does turn in will
be better than the paper he
would have turned in if he
had not come to the writ-ing
The writing center, AC
320, provides a chance for
students to receive any
type of help they need on a
paper. The writing lab
hours are Mondays, 11:30-
5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m.; Tues-dent
Jerry Manus, said "I
like the geese, I like look-ing
at them. I hope we will
always have them. I con-sider
it (the mess) a very
trivial matter.
Dan Taylor, professor
of language and literature,
said, "I want to say one
thing: geese is great. Ser-iously,
there are a lot of
people who are more ex-pendable
than those geese."
by Laura Phillips
Faculty and students
agree that the political
issues of foreign affairs
and economics will influ-ence
them when they cast
their votes in the Novem-ber
4th election, revealed
a recent poll at Bethel.
In a random poll, 22 fac-ulty
members and 230 stu-dents
were asked which
two political issues would
most influence their vote.
Though allowed to iden-tify
two issues, some peo-ple
chose only one. The
choices included abortion,
defense (budget), econom-ics,
foreign affairs, ERA,
energy and distrust of
other candidates.
Of the 463 votes tallied,
foreign affairs received
21.5 per cent, economics
21.1 per cent, defense 16.4
per cent, distrust of other
days, 12 noon-5 p.m. and
7-10 p.m.; Wednesdays,
8:30-10 a.m., 11:30-5 p.m.
and 7-10 p.m.; Thursdays
8:30-10 a.m. and 12 noon-5
p.m.; and Fridays, 11:30-
3:30 p.m. No appointment
is necessary.
The writing center can
help provide ideas for dev-eloping
a topic or help at
any stage of the paper,
according to Dave Healy,
assistant director of the
writing center. "We can do
students the most good
when they come in with
words on paper," he added.
The time spent with a
student ranges from 15-90
minutes. Most students are
in the writing lab for 20-30
minutes. The staff mem-
Beth Stien, senior, ex-claimed,
"You're kidding!
What would Bethel be with-out
Without the pinioned
geese the hope is that Be-thel
will be cleaner. And,
McLeod stated, maybe the
free-flying flock the Sports-men's
Club has established
will continue to come here
every year. But we hope
that there won't be so many
of them.
candidates 11.2 per cent,
abortion 11 per cent, ener-gy
10.7 per cent and ERA
6.2 per cent.
Other issues such as can-didate
character, global per-spective
received 1.5 per cent.
Other than foreign af-fairs,
economics and dis-trust
of other candidates,
faculty and student issue
choices differed substan-tially
(see chart).
With their 421 total
votes, students ranked for-eign
affairs as most per-sonally
influential with 90
votes, economics next with
88; defense garnered third
place with 73; abortion re-ceived
51, distrust of other
candidates 48, energy 43
votes and ERA 23 votes.
With their 42 total votes,
faculty members favored
foreign affairs and econo-mics
equally, with each
receiving 10 votes. Energy
bers are students who ap-plied
for the job or were
recommended by teachers.
The help session begins
with either the student or
the student worker read-ing
the paper aloud. Healy
outlined the general pro-cedure
as looking for a
recognizable thesis of the
work, checking the sup-port
offered by the paper
as a whole, and the "fine
tuning." This includes cor-rections
in usage, arran-gement
of words and gram-mar.
He pointed out that
the writing center is not a
proofreading service for fi-nal
copies of papers.
The reaction of the stu-dents
has been quite favor-able,
Healy reported. He
encourages students to
bring back the paper with
the comments from the
teacher. He would also like
to see more feedback from
the faculty.
We would like to attract
more students who con-sider
themselves good wri-ters,"
Healy said. "We feel
that we have something to
offer anyone; any writing
can be improved," he con-tinued.
"Our aims," Fauth stated,
"are to help the incompe-ranked
next with 7 votes,
followed by ERA with 6,
distrust of other candi-dates
4, defense 3 and glo-bal
perspective 2.
No faculty memberiden-tified
abortion as a per-sonally
influential issue.
Foreign Affairs—Facul-ty
- 10, Students - 90, Total
- 100.
Economics—Facult y -10,
Students - 88, Total - 98.
Defense—Faculty - 3, Stu-dents
- 73, Total - 76.
Distrust of other candi-dates—
Faculty - 4, Stu-dents
- 48, Total - 52.
Abortion—Faculty - 0,
Students - 51, Total - 51.
Energy—Faculty -7, Stu-dents
- 43, Total - 50.
ERA—Faculty - 6, Stu-dents
- 23, Total - 29.
Candidate character and
other issues—Faculty - 0,
Students - 5, Total - 5.
Global perspective-2
Students - 0, Total - 2.
tent writer become a corn-petent
writer, to help the
competent writer become
an excellent writer, and to
help the excellent writer
become a superior writer."
According to Healy, the
majority of the students
using the writing center
are freshmen, but many
upperclassmen have come
back this year. Last year
258 people visited the writ-ing
center. Fauth said that
he has worked not only
with students, but also fac-ulty
and staff. The busiest
time, according to Healy,
is first semester, especial-ly
when the first papers
for "Words. and Ideas" are
The biggest change for
the center, in existence
since 1975, created the pos-ition
of writing coordina-tor
and placed the center
under the department/di-vision
of general studies,
rather than the English de-partment.
"Good writing
does not belong in just
English classes; good writ-ing
belongs in all classes,"
Fauth stated.
"The writing center is in
operation," Healy explain-ed,
"to improve the over-all
quality of writing done
at Bethel College."
Lab helps turn ideas into papers
Sculptures by Stewart Luckman, associate art professor, decorate the Bethel campus.
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Internationally acclaim-ed
Chuck Mangione and
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will appear at Orches-tra
Hall, Minneapolis,
Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. Mangi-one's
current "Fun and
Game," album includes
"Give It All You Got", writ-ten
for the 1980 Winter
For several years the
Olympics and other net-work
sports coverage have
featured Mangione's mu-sic.
Most recently he and
his quartet appeared in
the internationally tele-vised
closing ceremonies
of the 1980 Winter Olym-pics
at Lake Placid, New
Mangione has been nom-
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Royer to perform classics
by JoAnn Watkins
"It's like the culmination
of all of the years of your
study," said Francine Roy-er,
senior, of her coming
recital. The performance
of piano solos begins at 8
p.m. at the seminary cha-pel,
Tuesday, Oct. 21.
The recital will feature
some pieces Royer consi-ders
favorites. By selec-tions
from Bach, Beetho-ven,
Debussy and others
the different periods of mu-sic
are represented.
Royer has a double ma-jor
in applied performance:
piano, and music educa-tion:
vocal K-9. She is a
soprano section leader in
the College Choir and the
choir director at First Bap-tist
Church, Coon Rapids.
Fellowship of Chris-tian
Athletes will meet
Thursday night, Oct.
23, at 8:15 in FA 313.
Guest speaker will
be Gary Esboldt, assis-tant
basketball coach
at South Dakota State
Athletes and non-athletes
alike are wel-come
to the meeting.
inated for an Emmy for
Outstanding Individual
Achievement as music dir-ector/
composer, for corn-posing
and performing
"Give It All You Got."
Mangione, winner of in-numerable
awards includ-ing
two Grammies, was
tagged Male Jazz Artist of
the Year by Rolling Stone
readers' poll, New York
Daily News and Record
World. He was Billboard
Pop Instrumentalist of the
Year, and Cashbox named
him Composer/Arranger of
the Decade.
The Chuck Mangione con-cert
in Minneapolis is spon-sored
by SRO Productions
(612 -341 -4110).
From the October 7, 1949
Bethel homecoming fes-tivities
31 years ago cen-tered
around the home-coming
of former students,
or the alumni. All activi-ties
were scheduled for
two days only, Friday and
Alumni registered at the
library when they arrived
at Bethel, where they could
pick up their "packets con-taining
Homecoming but-tons
and Clarions... Class-es
were open to the alumni
all day Friday.
Decorated dormitories
competed for the Student
Council Homecoming
Award. The old Edgren
residence had won the year
Friday evening's activi-ties
included a smorgas-bord
which featured the
junior class skit, "Coming
or Going?" Afterward, an
alumni-varsity basketball
game was held in the gym.
The main event was Sa-turday,
when the Bethel
"Indians" met Austin Jun-ior
College at a football
game in Highland Stadi-um.
Concluding the two-day
celebration was a pro-gram
in the college chapel,
displaying alumni talent.
Street meetings.
One popular form of evan-gelism
involving Bethel stu-dents
was the street meet-ing.
Teams of students
went to various neighbor-hoods
in the area to sing,
give testimonies and pass
out tracts on street cor-ners.
Students also played
instrumental numbers to
attract passers-by.
The teams were open to
all students, with street
meetings held on Satur-day
evenings. The team
had already visited Anoka
and New Brighton.
Talar Svensk?
Swedish was an impor-tant
part of the foreign
languages department, as -
were the Spanish and Ger-man
languages. French
was not yet a part of the
department's program.
Each of the three groups
also had their own lan-guage
Dorm rules.
Students may think
dorm rules are a hassle in
1980, but Bethel history
reveals that rules were of
a stricter nature 30 years
ago. This was especially
true for women's dorms,
which had frequent "house"
"Freshmen women learn
about house meetings on
one of the first nights of
their college careers. Un-suspectingly
they gather
to be told that the dormi-tory
is their home, but—
and then they are told how
they can and cannot be-have
in their dormitory-home."
Freshmen men did not
share the same degree of
strictness: "Oh, yes, some-thing
was mentioned about
men's dorms. Rules? They
have only one: Conduct
yourselves in such a way
that you won't need any
others. House meetings?
They don't have 'em."
Music minor.
Music was not yet of-fered
as a major or con-centration
in Bethel's cur-riculum,
but it was offered
as a minor. Advanced mu-sic
theory and history of
music were added to the
curriculum, which had on-ly
included the courses,
fundamentals of music, mu-sic
theory and music ap-preciation.
by Patty Sutton
"I hope the sculptures
will enrich people and
bring another part of life
to them," said Stewart Luck-man,
associate professor
of art. "Christians deserve
to be exposed to the fine
arts including sculpture."
Some of Luckman's sculp-tures
are on loan to the col-lege
and located around
campus. Tne one between
the FA and AC buildings
was purchased for Bethel
and will be officially un-veiled
this weekend.
The pieces on campus
have been shown in one-man
shows around the
United States, including
one at the Minneapolis In-stitute
of Art.
"The sculpture adds a
new dimension to campus,"
said Luckman, "as does
the tree-planting and land-scaping.
A fine touch is
here now."
Luckman said that the
sculpture "grows out of
travel and photographs
from sites between Victo-ria,
British Columbia, and
the Adirondack Mountains
in upstate New York."
Each of his pieces has a
title, sometimes having to
do with the piece and other
times it is "just part of my
filing system."
When he finishes put-ting
together a piece, Luck-man
surfaces it with a
black rust finisher. He said
he likes the black steel
look because it is elegant.
"The sculptures should
weather well and only,need
touching up every two or
three years," said Luck-man.
Luckman gets his mate-rials
from factories, junk-yards
and steel-yard stock.
He said that some other
artists are doings similar
types of sculpture, but "the
poetry is very individual-istic,
a singular voice."
Luckman has been at
Bethel since 1966. He grad-uated
in art from Macales-ter
and did his graduate
work at the U of M.
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1WildHoney and Camel Hair
by Ted Lewis
One day as I was stuffing p.o.'s for Olivet Baptist, I
overheard this brief conversation through a mail box.
"Hi Sylvia. Haven't seen ya for ages! How are ya?"
"Oh...fine," replied a higher voice. As a hand entered
the p.o. for seconds on trash candidate, she returned,
"And how are you doin'?"
"Fine. Tomorrow I'm going—"Clinkch! The words
were shut off as the door to the vault was secured.
"Fine," I echoed softly while staring at my feet. "Fine.
Fine? What in the world does 'fine' mean? In comtem-plative
frustration, I resumed my leafletting.
All I could think of was a half-a-lemon being pulped
out until the .rind alone remained. "A nice shiny out-side,"
I whispered satirically, "but an empty inside. A
nice four-letter word, but void of content." Thai night I
.determined to investigate the dubious nature of word
Certain Bic pens are fine because they draw thin
lines, not thick lines. Certain sandpapers are fine
because they smooth wood surfaces, not scratch them.
Certain knives are fine because their blades are very
sharp, not dull.
In short, the word 'fine' is defined by the quality of
something in contrast to its opposite. So when you walk
outside in the morning, stretch your arms to inhale, and
comment, "My, what a fine day today," you imply that
rotten weather is nowhere in view.
Now somewhere in history we started to call our-selves
fine when others asked about our condition. Yet
different from our descriptions of pens and sandpaper,
our opinions about ourselves began to blur the distinc-by
Brad Nauman
Peter Meintsma, one of
Bethel's new faculty mem-bers
for the 1980-81 school
year, has a very unusual
second job. Along with be-ing
a part-time american
history teacher here at
Bethel, and being on the
full-time staff at Anoka-
Ramsey Community Col-lege,
Meintsma is the may-or
of Crystal, Minnesota.
Meintsma first became
involved in politics in 1970
when he ran for the state
legislature and was defeat-ed.
In 1973 he ran for may-or
of Crystal and defeated
the incumbent. This year
Meintsma is once again
running for the post of
state representative. He is
the DFL candidate from
district 44b.
Meintsma feels three
main issues are important
in the upcoming election:
the preservation of prop-erty
taxes, continuing state
support for public educa-tion
and the preservation
of our natural resources.
He is very concerned
about the natural resources
issue. He feels that if we
don't get a proper handle
on pollution, there won't
be anything left for the
next generation.
Meintsma began his col-lege
teaching career at
Northwestern College in
the late 1950s. He was
there for six years. While
at Northwestern he had
current Bethel faculty mem-bers
John Bower, Dave
Klostreich, and Tom Cor-rell
as students.
After leaving Northwes-
Meintsma's involvement
in politics grew out of his
belief that "Christians
ought to be concerned
about others in society."
He has had a long-stand-ing
interest -in government
and says that "government
is there to meet the needs
of the people." He believes
that he has been able to
integrate his faith in Christ
into his job through serv-ing
tive meaning of the word 'fine.' Do we not often voice to
others "Quite fine today, thank you," when in actuality
we are laden with a host of pressures? What fosters this
ironic kind of communication?
First of all, we need neutral words in our conversa-tions.
Unless we are sick, the word protects others from
having to listen to us with concern. Many times honesty
isn't worth the mental energy we exhaust through self-examination.
So we tell others we're fine.
Secondly, our milieu reinforces the notion that it is
good when a person has no personal struggles and bad
if they do. Physical illness is acceptable. But emotional
turmoil, intellectual questioning and conflict with value
systems are deemed as symptoms of the weak person.
To them we silently say, "Something is wrong with
you." And so we tell others we are fine.
The third reason stems from this last notion. We are
extremely concerned about what others think of us.
Because we want others to like us, we hide our unlikea-bles.
We portray an image of ourselves to others—an
image that stays on top of ourselves—an image that
stays on top of things. And so we tell others we are fine.
The core of this issue is not so much being honest
with others as much as being honest with ourselves.
Our habit of saying a hollow `fine' has its good side. But
when we cover-up our own weaknesses without realiz-ing
such supression, we face the dangers of escapism.
In brief, we automatically lie to others about how we
feel because the untruth doesn't hurt them. We do hurt
ourselves, however, when we believe our own lies
about our present state, thinking we are fine when
we're not.
tern, Meintsma spent one
year at Wisconsin State
College, Superior, From
there he moved to Anoka-
Ramsey Community Col-lege
where he has been for
the last 14 years. He con-siders
teaching to be his
number one job and polit-ics
number two.
A typical day in Meint-sma's
life consists of teach-ing
in the morning, cam-paigning
all afternoon and
all evening, coming home
and getting organized for
the next day, and going to
bed. He said, "I wake up
about two or three times
every night and worry
about my campaign."
Meintsma is married and
has two grown sons named
Kurt and Kevin. His wife
Senor, ("Sonny") runs her
own interior decorating
But, just for a change, let's surprise others with the
truth. If we feel rotten when someone asks how we are,
let's say, "Rotten." If we're confused about going through
some foggy period, let's say, "Well, I'm not sure, how I'm
doing." And if we feel content, let's be specific and say,
"Very content today, thank you." Our real friends will
soon unveil themselves. Indeed, what we need is a
revolution of honesty.
An aside: If we equate true spirituality with staying
on top of things, then we must neglect half the Psalms.
We must overlook Christ's emotional agony at Lazarus'
tomb and at Gethsemane. And we must gloss over
prominent New Testament teachings on maturation
which explains the reality of trials and affliction as
essential for growth.
To the contrary, we must redefine spirituality as
being fully human as God designed. We must boldly
stride through the many hardships of life rather than
leap over them. We must admit that we live in tension
between the Fall and Christ's return. Yes, we stand
with the cross in history, where suffering and glory are
inseparable. We too must find life because we lose life
If Sylvia is reading this she'd probably tell me, "Why
make a mountain out of an ant hill? Telling others you
are fine is hardly an issue!"
Perhaps. But little things are often the clearest signs
of bigger things. Could it be that the way we tell others
how we are reflects a much deeper issue at hand: we
hide our weaknesses because we're afraid of exposure.
Well, if that's the case, then we, like film lodged in a
camera, will never get developed.
Meintsma juggles teaching, politicking
Peter Meintsma, history professor, mayor of Crystal, Minn., and state representative candidate
(photo by Doug Barkey).
Paul Varberg, right, and Ray Walkwitz begin their seven-month
trip around the world.
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World travels enrich education for Bethel senior
by Sharon Waller
Paul Varberg, senior,
chose to get an education
last year by taking a trip
around the world. Varberg
traveled for seven months,
visiting 23 countries, for
less than the cost of attend-ing
Bethel for a year. His
purpose was to "see the
world from a mission's per-spective,"
said Varberg.
Their adventure began
in October, 1979, when Var-berg
and his friend, Ray
Walkwitz, flew to London
where they purchased a
Volkswagen van. The van
provided not only trans-portation,
but also a place
to sleep and prepare their
Varberg assumed that
in England they would be
able to communicate well.
The first week, they found
out otherwise when their
van needed a new muffler.
After unsuccessfully ask-ing
many people where
they could get a muffler,
one man replied, "Oh, what
you want is a silencer."
There were numerous
other instances in which
they found it difficult to
communicate, for example,
the English referred to girls
as birds.
In their travels through
Europe, they stopped in
Amsterdam, where Var-berg
was confronted by
many drug pushers. He
said these dealers and pros-titutes
lined the streets and
boldly approached them.
When they arrived in Ger-many
they met three other
Bethel students who were
studying at a school there.
The town of Varberg,
Sweden, was of special in-terest
to Varberg. They
spent time there looking
through Varberg castle
and museum.
They spent Thanksgiv-ing
quietly, at L'Abri, a
Christian retreat center in
Switzerland, then they at-tended
the communion ser-vice
in Italy led by Pope
John Paul.
Varberg's experience in
several communist coun-tries
changed his sympa-thetic
attitude toward com-munism
into one of hatred.
Yugoslavia, one of the
most liberal communist
countries, has much more
freedom than others.
Bulgaria, one of the strict-er
communist countries, is
a backward nation, said
Varberg. "It was like step-ping
back in history to the
depression of the 1930's.
The people wore long, drab
clothing, and their techno-logy
was primitive," he
said. We stuck out like a
sore thumb and everyone
ignored us for fear of the
guards who watched
One young person, who
was planning to defect,
invited them to stay with
him. Varberg said his
changed ideas resulted
from talking with this man,
who explained the fears of
the people living in Bul-garia.
Varberg and Walkwitz
planned to be in Bethle-hem
for ChristMas. They
participated in the celebra-tion
there. They continued
their travel in Israel for
the next month, learning
the geography of the Bible.
Although most Ameri-cans
fear traveling in Tur-key
after seeing Midnight
Express, they found the
people here to be very
friendly. They visited Tar-sus,
Antioch and other cit-ies
on the apostle Paul's
journies. Syria and Jordan
interested them because of
the Crusader and Arabian
One adventure led them
into the desert searching
for an Arabian castle. Af-ter
going 40 kilometers in-to
the desert, without
roads, the van got stuck in
a seasonal river. They
worked for ten hours to
get the van out, but were
Finally, they walked to
the castle to get help. An
Arabian Bedouin with a
shotgun and saber was at
the entrance. Though he
seemed fierce, he cordially
invited them into his room
and served them a thick
tea. He also played his
instrument, made from a
Mobil oil can, a stick, and
hair from a donkey tail.
Realizing that this scraw-ny
Bedouin could not help
them, they returned to their
van which was still in the
middle of the river. They
spent the night here and
prayed that the river would
dry up before morning. By
the next morning, the river
had dried, and they were
able to leave for Saudi
"This was the only coun-try
where I've seen so many
people driving around in
dusty Rolls Royces," com-mented
Varberg. Gasoline
in Saudi Arabia was sold
like water, costing only 25
cents a gallon. But, bottled
water was sold for $1.60.
Varberg and Walkwitz
sold their van and split up.
Varberg flew to Malaysia
where he observed a Hin-du
ceremony. During this
ritual, hundreds of men,
women and children pierced
their cheeks and lips with
prongs, and forced hooks
into their skin in an effort
to gain forgiveness.
Varberg then returned
to the Philippines, where
he had lived with his par-ents
until he came to Be-thel.
He spent the next
three months working with
the churches and travel-ing
into the mountains to
visit the different tribes.
He returned to the U.S.
to finish school this year.
He said that he never had
any problem eating the
The Twin Cities chap-ter
of Women in Commun-ications,
Inc. (WICI) will
sponsor Job Quest '80 at its
third annual communica-tion
career conference on
Saturday, Nov. 8. The con-ference
will be held at Mc-
Neal Hall - 1985 Buford -
on the St. Paul campus of
the University of Minne-sota
from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
The conference is for peo-ple
about to enter or re-enter
the communications
job market. It will provide
practical job hunting ad-vice
as well as detailed
information on specific com-munication
The day will begin with
guest speakers discussing
the topics, "Where Do I Go
From Here: Career Plan-ning"
and "Pounding the
Pavement: Job Hunting
Skills." The latter session
will cover tips on resume
writing, interviewing tech-food
in Saudi Arabia or
Malaysia, but since he has
returned he has had trou-ble
adjusting the food here.
Varberg plans to travel
again and visit the coun-tries
he missed on this
niques, and coping with
Specific communication
careers will be covered in
three rounds of panel dis-cussions
during the after-noon.
Each participant may
select to attend three of
the six panels. WICI mem-bers
and other Twin Cit-ies
communication profes-sionals
will lead work-shops
in advertising, pub-lic
relations, print media,
TV/radio, non-traditional
jobs and re-entry strate-gies.
Panelists will discuss
their daily work activities
and offer tips on breaking
into the field.
Registration deadline is
October 31. Conference fee
is $5 in advance and $6 at
the door. Registrations may
be sent directly to Anne
Gueningsman, Career Con-ference,
4453 Washburn
Ave., South, Minneapolis,
Conference explores
communication fields
CC Homecoming activities
round out October schedule
"Malaysian Gothic." Varberg's travels brought him face-to-face
with Hindu rituals and friendly natives (photo courtesy Paul
Need phone counselors for 24-hour Christian
hotlines. 4 week training in area of counseling
and evangelism offered. Starting Nov. 2. Call
Dan or Audree 379-1199.
by Carolyn Hoist
This weekend rounds out October's activities in a
great way. We would like to thank everyone who
helped us during Homecoming Week, 1980 to make it a
special week for Bethel College.
Friday night, the 24th, join us at Saint's for rollerskat-ing.
Rollerskating is a Bethel tradition, a lot of fun and
great exercise, so come out and join us.
Saturday, the 25th, is Residence Night Life. Check
with your R.A. or A.D. for the evening's activity.
Sunday, the 26th, we will be showing "The Hiding
Place" at 9 p.m. in the gym. Cost for the movie is $1.00.
As most of you know, the film tells the life-story of
Corrie Ten Boom; it is a touching, moving production.
Please join us.
Jeff Siemon, Minnesota Vikings' linebacker, spoke at Bethel
FCA's last large-group meeting.
Central Baptist Church
420 North Roy Street
St. Paul, Minnesota
Garvin McGettrick
Ron Eckert
Stuart Dow
Mike Anderson
Will Healy
Kathy Cupp
Greg Dirnberger
Bus leaves:
Northwestern 9:30
Centennial 9:35
8:45 and 11
10 Bible Study
7 p.m. evening
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Bowl-of-Rice dollar supports orphans
by Laura Phillips
Six Haitian orphans
could not survive if not for
Bethel's support via the
BoWl-of-Rice program.
Every Monday noon fac-ulty,
students and admin-istrators
may buy a bowl
of rice for $1 in the cafe-teria.
The money is credit-ed
to the Public Action Com-mi
lice (PAC) via Bethel's
banking window. PAC's
treasurer, Debbie Bow-man,
junior, then sends a
monthly check to Haiti.
The entire dollar paid
for each bowl of rice goes
to the orphans. Bethel's
food service contributes to
the program by paying for
the rice students eat.
Venita Myrann
The six orphans Bethel
supports are from broken
homes, and/or families
who cannot support them.
The children live in Chris-tian
foster homes in Haiti.
A foster care inspector vis-its
each child once a month.
The six children are: Ra-monde,
12; Venita, 10; Be-nita
, 14; Enoch, 16; En-s'ault,
12; and Belord, 8.
by Debbie Anderson
It is bigger than a bread
box but smaller than the
IDStower and silting right
outside the Bethel theater.
Il is the new theater box
office, built just in time for
the opening of the current
( healer season.
The old ticket booth,
once part of the theater
lounge, was squeezed out
by new offices. Doug
Briggs, assistant professor
in theater arts, said the
The three girls and three
boys are described as
quiet, in good health and
regular church attenders.
Each month Bethel sends
$12 for each child to the
foster parents who oversee
the children's use of the
money. The child
might, for example, buy a
pig, raise it and either sell
it or use it for food. In
addition, Bethel students
send $50 for each child at
World Team Missions,
the agency through which
Bethel supports the or-phans,
takes nothing out
of the $12 and $50 gifts.
The entire amount goes
directly to the foster par-ents.
World Team Missions
recently requested the
monthly gifts be raised to
$15. Due to inflation, the
foster parents are having
difficulty caring for the
orphans on just $12 a
Why eat a bowl of rice?
Why not donate $1?
"We don't like to just
ask for money," said PAC
new location is actually
better. A corner of the
lounge obscured the old
ticket window from view.
The new booth is more
Alita Johansen manages
the booth. Volunteers
work at the window from
12-4 p.m. Monday-Friday.
The ticket booth will open
two weeks before the open-ing
of each show and stay
open through the run of
the productions.
treasurer Bowman. We
like to give students in
return for their donation."
Further, the bowl of rice
is to help students exper-ience
the diet of most of
the poor around the world
and of the orphans they
Ensault Pierre
are supporting.
Last year the Bowl-of-
Rice programs earned an
average of about $175 per
Begun in 1976, the sup-port
of the children is year-round.
They are each sup-ported
until they are 18.
PAC would like to take on
the support of more or-phans
in the future.
PAC, .a five-member in-ternal
committee of the stu-dent
senate concerned
with outreach ministries,
is also involved in other
projects. These projects are
undertaken throughout the
year as needs arise.
"We want to unite Be-thel
students with the out-side
world," said sopho-more
Karen Evans, chair-man
of PAC. "We want
Bethel students to get in-volved."
This year PAC is in-volved
again in the Bowl-of-
Rice program, Hope Pri-son
Ministries and is con-sidering
a program to send
students to Haiti to build
by Brad Nauman
Fellowship of Christian
Athletes (FCA) is a na-tional
Christian organiza-tion
that is open to any-one,
not just athletes. "We
encourage anyone who is
interested in athletics to
attend our meetings," said
Mark Wollan, Bethel's new
FCA leader.
FCA meets as a big
group one night during the
last week of every month
to hear a guest speaker.
Sports Spirit
The group holds Bible
studies every other Sun-day
night to discuss what
the speaker said.
"We hope to be challenged
by the speaker and then
get into smaller groups on
Sunday night and get into
God's word and further
discuss the speaker's mes-sage,"
stated Wollan. "This
will help us to build rela-tionships
with each other
and grow in the Lord," he
The special speaker for
September was Minne-sota
Vikings' linebacker
Jeff Siemon. Future speak-ers
include former cross-country
runner Ron Davis,
pastor of Hope Presbyter-ian
Church, Richfield.
During the Sunday night
from page 8
get on the scoreboard. Be-thel
then scored on a 1-
yard run by Doug Hill and
a 31-yard field goal by
Paul Lindberg. St. John's
second unit scored on a
touchdown in the fourth
quarter to make the final
score 42-10.
While St. John's cele-brated
their coach's 200th
win, Bethel was suffering
their sixth loss against no
wins this year.
Bible study, the group
breaks up into smaller
groups of four or five. Neal
Dutton, Chris Schrader,
Eric Peterson and Paul Lind-berg
lead these groups. "As
the groups grow, we will
need more leaders," said
Special events for this
year will include snow-tubing
and a progressive
dinner. The group plans to
sell donuts door-to-door
as a fund-raiser.
The group's monthly
meeting is held in either
FA 313 or FA 312. The
Bible studies are held in
the listening room across
from the p.o.'s. Anyone in-terested
is invited to at-tend.
This week, in the home-coming
game, Bethel will
take on an improved Mac-alester
team. Macalester
finally broke their 50-game
losing streak this year, but
since then has started ano-ther
with five straight loss-es.
The winner of the game
will move out of last place
in the MIAC. If Bethel
sticks together, as they
have the entire season, they
should come out on top
Saturday. Game time is
1:30 p.m.
Theater box office
built for new season
"Two-minute mile, here I come!"
Bethany Baptist Church
Cleveland and Skillman Avenues Roseville, Mn.
Worship Services at 9:00 & 1 1 :15 AM
Sunday School at 10:00 AM (Special College-age
(See posters for church bus schedule)
Evening Service at 6:00 PM Church Telephone - 631-0211
FCA groups build relationships
Sophomore Andy Larson steals ball from St. John's player and leaves him far behind in last
Saturday's soccer game at home, which ended in a 1-1 tie. Bethel's record is now at 3-2-3 (photo by
Dan Velie).
Royal football coach Dud Lutton has confidence in his team;
strives for consistency.
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Joann Griffin, junior, smashes the ball over the net in Tuesday's
game against Hamline (photo by Doug Barkey).
Bethel placed 10th and
beat both Hamline and Dr.
Martin Luther College at
the Carleton Invitational,
Friday, Oct. 10, on a 5000-
meter, 3.1 mile, course.
Thirteen schools partici-pated
in the meet on the
cold, windy day. Weather
conditions affected the
times of the runners.
Points are based on the
times of the top five run-ners,
of each team. Bethel
had six women participat-ing.
Ellie Abbott, the first of
the Bethel runners, finished
31st, in a field of about 200
runners with a time of
20:28. Lana Lauwers fin-ished
57th at 21:50. Brenda
Harris and Linda Hallblade
finished 3rd and 4th for
Bethel, 65th and 66th in
the field. Their times were
22:39 and 22:40 respective-ly.
Chris LeVe sseur, the last
runner to score, finished
77th place with a time of
24:15. Daryl Peterson was
Bethel's 6th runner in 80th
place with 25:44.
Coach Betz said, "Every-one
competed well." He
also was happy that the
Royals beat Hamline. Ham-line
beat Bethel several
times this year in cross
country, but this is the
first time Bethel beat them.
Betz said, "Finally the
team is healthy and ready
to finish the season in top
by Becky Dye
Tomorrow the women's
volleyball team competes
against St. Thomas at 10
a.m. for their homecoming
match. Bethel beat St. Tho-mas
decisively earlier in
the season but Coach Cin-dy
Book said, "We've learned
not to go into matches think-ing
they'll be a breeze."
Last week the volleyball
team had a light week,
defeating Northwestern in
a thriller match Thursday
in five games, 11-15, 11-
15, 15-3, 15-14 and 15-9.
"We had an extremely
slow start. We couldn't
seem to get continuity; we
couldn't get momentum,"
Phil Almeroth
Amos Alonzo Stagg.
Bear Bryant. John Robin-son.
Most people would
His outlook for the rest
of the season is to just take
one game at a time. He
says the team is playing
good at times but that they
need to strive for consis-tency.
Lutton feels that the
spirit on the team is really
good. "The players' qual-ity
will show through the
adversity," said Lutton.
Even though this is the
smallest team he has ever
coached, Lutton thinks that
the team has its strong
points. "We have the frame-work
for a good passing
game with two very good
passers and good pass
blocking," said Lutton.
When the head coaching
job at Bethel became avail-able,
Lutton was not sure
that this was where the
Lord wanted him. After
visiting the campus and
meeting with the people
here, he decided that if he
was offered the job the
Lord wanted him at Be-thel.
Lutton said, "I believe
that when the Lord opens
doors it is really impor-tant
to investigate them."
He feels that Bethel and its
people have a lot of poten-tial
to do great things for
the Lord and he is excited
to be in an atmosphere
like this.
Lutton and his wife
Dawn currently live in the
Edgren dorm where she is
the head resident.
commented Coach Book.
Bethel was down 10-4
in the third game and Coach
Book called Bethel's final
time-out. As soon as the
huddle broke apart Pam
Madson went in and served
seven straight points.
"We just decided we
couldn't wait any longer;
the women were deter-mined.
They realized they
were the more skilled team.
The momentum changed
and Northwestern fell
apart," reflected Book.
This victory earned Be-thel
a 2-1 conference record.
Bethel also defeated Con-cordia-
St. Paul in three
games, 15-4, 15-9 and 15-
know who you were talk-ing
about if you were to
mention these names in a
conversation. For those
who don't know who they
are, respectively, the late
coach of the University of
Chicago football team in
the early 1900's, the pres-ent
coach at the Univer-sity
of Alabama and the
coach at Grambling Uni-versity.
They were, until last Sa-turday's
Bethel-St. John
game, the only coaches in
collegiate history that have
won at least 200 games in
Coach Book commented
on the victory, "Concordia
is the weaker team, the
scores and different play
combinations. We're get-ting
ready for the state
tournament, so we used
this opportunity to try
some new things."
The junior varsity team
was also successful last
week, defeating Concordia-
St. Paul, 15-4, and 15-9
and Northwestern 15-12
and 15-6.
The women face Ham-line
at home Tuesday, Oct.
their career. But now you
can add the name of - John
Gagliardi to that list. Gag-liardi
has coached St.
John's football Johnnies for
the past 32 years. He be-came
the coach to win 200
games as his team routed
our Royals 42-10. Yes, Be-thel
was a part of history
on Saturday, but it was
nothing to write home
The Johnnies dominated
the game,, piling up 35
points before Bethel could
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Women's X-C
runs strong,
places tenth
by Leann M. Kicker
Spikers win thrilling game
by Brad Naumann
New head football coach
Dudley Lutton isn't discour-aged
despite the team's 0-
4 record. He has faced a
situation like this before.
Lutton comes to Bethel
from Rocky Mountain Col-lege,
a small liberal arts
school in Billings, Mon-tana.
He spent five years
on the football coaching
staff at Rocky Mountain-four
as head coach.
When he arrived at
Rocky Mountain, football
was not a very popular
sport there. The team spent
many Saturdays getting
badly beaten. In one game
the other team scored 96
points against them.
Lutton believes that with-in
three years he will have
his program going here at
Bethel. He feels that by
then he will have the nu-cleus
of a good team and
Bethel will be competing
on a higher level. "Bethel
will be a winner even if we
don't come out ahead on
the scoreboard," said Lut-ton.
Lutton optimistic about Royals
Johnnies win 200, smash Bethel
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New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan on Monday weighed in on what is probably one of the most widely read -- and hotly disputed -- electric car stories in recent memory.
John M. Broder's dramatically headlined Feb. 8 article -- "Stalled Out on Tesla's Electric Highway" -- told the tale of how the high performance car ran out of juice and had to be hauled away on a flatbed truck.
Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, charged that the story was faked and that the car could have gotten much better range, citing point-by-point findings from the car's black box data event recorder.
Broder was doing a run on a relatively cold morning from Newark, Del., to Milford, Conn., about a 200-mile trip between Tesla Motors' two ultra-fast charging stations. As Broder put it, the stations would "in theory, allow a speedy electric-car road trip between here and Boston."


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HARTSVILLE, S.C – The No. 35 nationally ranked Coker men's tennis team dropped a 6-3 match to the Flames of Liberty University on Saturday (Mar. 8) in a non-conference matchup.
Picking up wins for the Navy and Yellow were Tom Sizeland, James Corfield and Martin Moncayo. Sizeland captured a 7-5, 6-4 victory at No. 2 singles, while Corfield notched a three-set win at No. 4 singles 6-4, 1-6, 6-1. Moncayo cruised to a 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 5 singles to round out the wins for Coker on the day.
The Cobras will be in action on Tuesday (Mar. 11) when they travel to GRU Augusta for a non-conference tilt with the Jaguars. First serve is slated for 1 p.m.
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Oh, how I've missed this place... let's all come back, shall we? It'll be like old times
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PC: 91 *sigh* I wish I had been on more during the past few months... I'd so hoped to rise in the ranks! Well, byeeee


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Submission + - Ozone on the Path to Recovery over Antarctica? (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: Ozone layer seems to be on a road to recovery over Antarctica as Satellite images indicate that the hole in the protective layer is the smallest as compared to its size in the past decade. According to Europe's MetOp weather satellite, which is monitoring the atmospheric ozone, the hole over the South Pole in 2012 was the smallest in the last 10 years. The decrease in size of the hole is probably the result of reduction in the concentration of CFCs, especially since the mid-1990s, because of international agreements like the Montreal Protocol.


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Moments after she gave birth to triplets, Olga Robles-Resendiz longed to hold her sons in her arms for the first time, but she said, "They were born so small that they would fit in one hand."
Moments after she gave birth to triplets, Olga Robles-Resendiz longed to hold her sons in her arms for the first time, but she said, "They were born so small that they would fit in one hand."
Because they were premature and needed more intensive care, Robles-Resendiz didn't get to embrace her boys — Alejandro, Armando and Fernando — until she was cleared to take them home from the hospital almost two months later.
"I was extremely happy when they were first born, but I was also very fearful," Robles-Resendiz said, speaking through a translator.
By the time her triplets, now 12, turned 4, Robles-Resendiz said she felt that something was not right.
"As they were growing, I noticed that Fernando, the smallest, could not walk well and was falling a lot," the mother of five said.
However, after she gave birth to the triplets, Robles-Resendiz could not hold down a job in housekeeping or in a restaurant. As her children's health worsened, she took time off to care for them and, consequently, she said she could rarely finish a week of work.
With nowhere else to go and little money to spare, she took her sons to Blue Ridge Community Health Services.
Months of visits later, a pediatrician at the nonprofit health center would diagnose the triplets with muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move.
At first, Robles-Resendiz did not fully understand. It was only after she called her mother and found out that her nephew also had the disorder that she began to fully grasp what was happening.
"I was very desperate, and during that time when they were first diagnosed, I kept asking God to say that it was a mistake on behalf of the pediatricians and that it wasn't so," Robles-Resendiz said. However, further testing by a geneticist in Asheville confirmed the diagnosis.
At the same time, Robles-Resendiz was separating from her husband.
"It was an extremely difficult time," she said. "At first I spent a lot of time crying and asking God 'Why me? Why did you give them to me if you're going to take them right away?'"
Looking back on that stressful time, Robles-Resendiz said she does not know what she would have done without BRCHS or her children.
"They've taught me to be strong and survive and move forward," she said of her triplets. "They have always been extremely happy and have never shown any kind of sadness for their illness."
Today, she is happy the triplets still receive pediatric care for regular checkups at the local health care center.
"From birth, Blue Ridge has always been here for them," she said.
The 50-year-old health care center has also been there for Petra Garcia-Mendoza and her 4-year-old son, Gustavo.
As an undocumented field worker without a license, Garcia-Mendoza faces two obstacles to getting Gustavo the well-visits he needs: money and transportation.
"We work cash-only in the fields, and not many bosses want to sign a letter or put anything in print," Garcia-Mendoza said, speaking through a translator.
Though her neighbor has lent his car to them at times when Gustavo was sick, Garcia-Mendoza knows firsthand how dangerous of a risk that can be. Two years ago, her husband was deported to Mexico after he was caught driving without a license.
Garcia-Mendoza said she often depends on BRCHS Outreach Specialist Daniel Benavides to drive them to appointments.
"We can call him, and other times he just stops by to visit. I let him know we have this or that appointment coming up, he puts us on a schedule and he gets us there," she said. "I'm just thankful for everything."
Last year during a well-visit at BRCHS, Garcia-Mendoza talked to a pediatrician about her concerns that Gustavo wasn't talking a lot and, when he did, his pronunciation was not very good. Now, her son attends speech evaluations every three to four months. This is important, she said, because it would allow her son to begin school next year.
"If God would be willing, I would love to be able to stay here so that he would be able to study and learn," she said. "Life is so hard in Mexico and the economy is so bad there that he wouldn't have much of a chance there compared to what I would imagine he could do here with an education."
Nodding his head, Benavides said he hears these concerns often in his work with the BRCHS Outreach Department.
"People who have been in construction and other aspects of the economy found themselves without any work and many of them went back to their original employment, which is in the fields," he said.
The department is charged with helping the 7,000 to 10,000 farm workers who come to the area each year to harvest and work in the fields, Benavides said, noting that this includes working with roughly 3,000 workers and their families face-to-face and doing health screenings in the community for this population.
Benavides said the local field worker population, which is mostly Hispanic, has been particularly vulnerable in the past five years.
"I think everyone's gotten a little more desperate in the last few years," he said. "There's more and more cases in the last three or four years where people have doubled up and tripled up in homes than there were before."
However, he said the challenge only inspires him.
"Miracles happen," he said. "Every once in a while, you really do impact someone."
For Robles-Resendiz, there is only one word repeated twice used when asked how thankful she is for BRCHS.
"Mucho, mucho," she said.
Very, very.
Reach Byrd at email@example.com or 828-694-7881.


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Course Catalog
MBAD6720 - Facility Management
Spring 2013
This course will focus on the principles and practices of operating sport facilities, including stadiums/arenas, recreation and community centers, golf and tennis facilities, and swimming pools. The course will cover design, financing and construction of such facilities in addition to operational issues of personnel, access, security, scheduling, risk management, concessions, and other related areas. Students will study existing facilities and are expected to design a proposed facility as part of the course.
Prerequisite: MBAD6601 or permission of the department head
3 Credits
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Dear Amy: I cannot deal with my monster-in-law. She's bossy, antagonistic, and gossips about my personal business far too much. As much as I try to care about her, my dislike for her has been surfacing more and more.
I went on antidepressants as I was planning our wedding and almost called off the wedding twice, partly because of her.
Now, blessedly, I am pregnant, and the only thing I hear from her is how we must name our son (if it's a boy) the family name "Bernie" (he would be the fourth one). Neither my husband nor I want to use this name. But she is adamant that we must, and says that if we do not, then she will still call him "Skipper" — the nickname the family uses for all of the other Bernies in the family. No matter how much I ask her not to, she still insists on it. Not only do I hate that name, but I am beginning to hate her for suggesting it.
I don't know what to do, and the more I get upset, the more my husband and I argue. Although he agrees with me, he will not put his foot down because he hates confrontation.
Please give me some advice!
— Angry
Dear Angry: Every time your mother-in-law successfully riles you, she ignites a little spark in you. Then you oxygenate the spark by reacting — or fighting with your husband about it — and before you know it you're in flames (and you've made her day).
Rather than allow her to create discord in your marriage, you should focus on removing her access to combustible material.
If discussing your baby's name always leads you down the same path, then stop discussing it. You just say, "Well, we haven't decided on a name; but we know what your preference is." If she wants to call your baby "Skipper," you can say, "You can call the baby anything you want to, though it might be awkward if that isn't her name."
But you also need to be aware that this behavior might get worse after the baby is born. Given that, the person who prescribed antidepressants to you should also refer you to counseling. I suggest you and your husband seriously discuss strategies for drawing and enforcing boundaries.
Dear Amy: I just got out of a serious relationship.
I've realized how much I compromised to please this woman and how I practically changed myself during the course of our relationship. I over-compromised. I mostly let us do things her way. Then after we broke up, she moved away. She's seeing someone new but she and I are on good terms.
Now I notice that she has changed. She's become more reasonable and more patient. She learned her lesson from our relationship and so have I.
I still have strong feelings for her, and I truly believe that we can make it work this time. However, I don't know if I should chase someone who's no longer in love with me and has moved on.
I really want her back. What should I do?
— Conflicted
Dear Conflicted: You say you changed for your ex-girlfriend. Now you say she has changed — presumably to satisfy a dynamic in her current relationship.
You should not chase someone who is no longer in love with you and is seeing someone else. This could be yet more evidence that you are willing to turn yourself inside out to appeal to her.
You could, however, honestly express your feelings, have a conversation about it — and see where it takes you.
Dear Amy: "Concertgoer" was a 16-year-old whose mother wouldn't let her go to a concert without an adult.
About 20 years ago, my oldest daughter of 16 won two tickets to The Extreme Games many states away. Her mother and I said the only way we'd let her go was if one of us went, too. She and I went for three days and had a wonderful time. It's one of the best memories I have of us spending time together, and I believe she would agree.
— Proud Dad
Dear Proud: Some readers didn't like my idea of a "mom date," but I agree with you — these "forced" experiences can yield great memories for everyone.


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Underclassmen Key Yale's Performance on Day One
BOSTON – Competing at the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) Championships at Boston University, the Elis saw their 4x400-meter relay team put together its best effort of the season (3:14.06), and advance to tomorrow's final in a thrilling race. The team of senior captain Matthew Bieszard, freshman William Rowe, freshman Mario Kranjac and freshman Dylan Hurley bettered its seed time by over 5 seconds in posting the fourth fastest time in Yale history. That milestone is particularly significant in consideration of the fact that three of the foursome are freshmen. Hurley valiantly held off Temple's Alex McGee on the anchor leg of the race to nab the final qualifying spot.
Two other Bulldogs barely missed out on qualifying individually. Bieszard was 15th in the 200-meter dash (21.71), three spots and a mere .07 seconds away from advancing. Bieszard's time was the best he has ever run indoors, and ranks him third on Yale's all-time charts.
Freshman John McGowan, who has emerged as an athlete to watch over the next four years, finished one position out of qualifying in the mile run. He took 11th place with a time (4:11.25) that was .09 seconds off of the Yale freshman record he set earlier in the year on the same track.
The Elis entered two runners into the 3000-meter run, and, despite competing in separate heats, they ran remarkably similar times. Sophomore Ryan Laemel (8:36.73), whose qualifying time was strong enough to land him in the hot heat, and junior Sam Kirtner (8:36.79) finished 25th and 26th, respectively.
Sophomore Daniel Jones came in 32nd place in the 60-meter dash (7.10).
The gun for the 4x400-meter relay final goes off at 2:45 p.m. tomorrow. Laemel is also a qualifier in the 5000-meter run, which will begin at 1:40 p.m. Full results will be available on www.yalebulldogs.com.
Report by Eian Katz '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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As every good storyteller knows, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." That famous opening line from Anna Karenina could well be the chapter heading in a writing handbook, since drama, whether literary or theatrical, depends on proposing, complicating and resolving "unhappy" situations, for good or ill, and families are the archetypal crucibles for these conflicts. Inject a bit of sex, jealousy, revenge and the like, and you've got plot engines that have driven characters from Medea to Othello to Tony Soprano.
So it's not much of a coincidence that two domestic tragedies revolving around adultery come to Valley stages this weekend. One of them is indeed an adaptation of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's epic novel about a young socialite whose boredom with her vapid existence and monotonous husband drives her into the arms of the dashing Count Vronsky. The other is Street Scene, a musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1929 play about a working-class New Yorker whose unhappiness with her domineering and abusive husband drives her into the arms of the milkman.
Street Scene, at UMass this and next weekend, is what its composer, Kurt Weill, called an "American opera." Having fled the Nazi juggernaut for New York, Weill infused his jazz-inflected music, developed in the Weimar-era "threepenny" operas he wrote with Bertolt Brecht, into a kaleidoscope style that embraced everything from operatic aria to Tin Pan Alley. And Street Scene has them all.
Weill admired Rice's play for its big-city story of "love and passion and greed and death." As lyricist, he and Rice enlisted Langston Hughes, poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, "to lift the everyday language of the people into a simple, unsophisticated poetry."
This staging, directed by Gina Kaufmann, is a co-production of the UMass Theater Department and Five College Opera. Its expansive portrait of life in a teeming East Side tenement features a three-story set, a cast of 40—including guest pros from the opera world—and a 30-piece orchestra.
While Tolstoy painted Anna Karenina on an even bigger canvas, Anna K, at Amherst College this weekend, employs a cast of just nine and focuses on the two central, contrasting love stories of Anna and Vronsky, Levin and Kitty. Two onstage Readers portray peripheral characters and fill in plot gaps with narrative from Tolstoy's text.
The play is the senior project of Amherst student Shawna Grajek, who performs the title role. She says that when she first read the novel, "I was absolutely enthralled by Anna. She passionately pursues and fights for love and life, rejecting a society where love is replaced with duty and respect."
Last summer, with Amherst professor Peter Lobdell, who also directs the piece, Grajek adapted the sprawling 800-page novel into a taut, two-hour play. "Initially, the thought of performing such an iconic and beloved text terrified me," she says. "Yet working with a story and character that I passionately care about felt intuitively right. The undertaking has been a delicate balance between staying true to Tolstoy's story while adapting the text to make it relevant to a new medium—the stage."•
Street Scene: Feb. 21-March 1, Rand Theater, UMass-Amherst, (413) 545-2511, umass.edu/theater.
Anna K: Feb. 20-22, 8 p.m., Kirby Theater, Amherst College. Free, no reservations required.
Chris Rohmann is at firstname.lastname@example.com and his StageStruck blog is at valleyadvocate.com/blogs/stagestruck.


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Test cook Bridget Lancaster uncovers the secrets to making perfect Herb-Crusted Beef Tenderloin. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top picks for fondue pots. And finally, test cook Erin McMurrer shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Duchess Potatoes.
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(click on the "listen" button under the gentleman holding the American flag)
As of now if you click on it, it opens a new page. We'd like to just add a little audio button where you can press play (and maybe adjust the volume) and not navigate away from that page. Is this possible in Dreamweaver CS4?
Any help is much appreciated.