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The largest manufacturer to date in the Brazos Valley is coming to Bryan with a state of the art $120 million facility.
News 3 was at the announcement at the Bryan Municipal Building Tuesday morning and learned why Prolamsa is setting up shop here with nearly 300 well paying jobs.
A major manufacturer is coming to Bryan with at least 285 new jobs.
Tuesday morning Monterrey, Mexico based Prolamsa group announced plans to construct a massive steel and pipe tube manufacturing facility.
Axis Pipe and Tube will produce 300,000 tons of material per year for the oil and gas industries in Texas and abroad.
"We chose Bryan because of it's business-friendly environment," said Francisco Garza, Prolamsa General Manager and Vice President.
Bryan was selected out of 25 cities.
"It will be a typical manufacturing operation. We'll have basically all the range of jobs that you find typically in an operation in a manufacturing operation," Garza added.
With salaries averaging $40,000 and an annual payroll of $10.5 million.
This will be the second business opening in Texas Triangle Park.
The site in north Bryan has quick truck access to Highway 6 as well as a rail spur to the Port of Houston.
Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski says the city has agreed not to annex the site for ten years while the county is also offering a tax abatement.
"In tough economic times when businesses aren't necessarily expanding you know it's important that we can keep the businesses here that we can, recruit businesses here," Mayor Bienski said.
Construction will start later this summer with operations beginning mid 2014.
The facility will also be recruiting skilled workers graduating from Texas A&M and Blinn College.
The plant is expected to spur other new business including trucking, machine shops and coating facilities.
It's estimated to have a local impact of $20 million in local government revenue in the first ten years.
Prolamsa Press Release:
Prolamsa Group, headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, announced today plans to construct a new pipe and tubular products manufacturing facility in Bryan, Texas. After a comprehensive multi-state search lasting over 15 months, Prolamsa selected Texas Triangle Park, a master-planned, rail served industrial park located in an extra territorial jurisdiction outside of Bryan as the location for their facility. Prolamsa officials cited area workforce, location in the center of the Texas Triangle, and flexibility of the site as top reasons for their choice. Additionally, they were attracted to the Research Valley because the culture is well aligned with Prolamsa Group values.
Prolamsa plans to secure 240 acres in Texas Triangle Park, occupying over 30 percent of the developable acreage at the park. Today's announcement represents the largest manufacturing project to date in the Research Valley, including over $120 million in initial total capital investment. "This project will serve as a catalyst and anchor tenant of Texas Triangle Park and will bring significant economic benefit to Brazos County as a long-term corporate citizen. Our taxpayers will see a significant return on this investment," stated Brazos County Judge Duane Peters.
Prolamsa's entry into the market will also include the direct and indirect creation of over 500 jobs and an estimated $20 million increase in revenue for local governments over ten years. "The City of Bryan is very pleased to welcome Prolamsa to Texas Triangle Park. During the location selection process, we have developed a trusted relationship with the company's leadership based on our shared values of family and faith. We appreciate the significant number of quality jobs that they will create in our community and the economic benefits they will bring as a new corporate entity. I thank the Research Valley Partnership, the Twin City Endowment Foundation, the Economic Development Foundation Board, Union Pacific, Atmos, Bryan Texas Utilities, Clayton Williams Energy, Inc., as well as the staff at the City of Bryan, Brazos County and the Texas Department of Agriculture for all their efforts in bringing Prolamsa to Texas Triangle Park," said City of Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski.
Jim Lewis, Chairman of Board for the Research Valley Partnership, noted, "We are honored to have
facilitated this project and also truly appreciate the Twin City Endowment's investment in Texas Triangle Park. Prolamsa Group's decision to locate in the Research Valley is a testament to the Partnership's economic development planning efforts in the pursuit of economic diversification."
Prolamsa anticipates the official ground breaking to take place in early summer 2013.


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It's in a village of about 165 people and the closest town is a 45 minutes' drive. But for $20,000, a house in Ohura doesn't sound so bad.
The property at 37 Taranui St was one of three homes that sold for $20,000 last year. It tops a list - released to the Herald by PropertyIQ - of the 10 cheapest sales last year.
The 1920s weatherboard home sits on a 1318m2 section and has two bedrooms and one bathroom.
Ohura, about 50km west of Taumarunui in King Country, is flood-prone, but the home was on high ground, said real estate agent Peter Newman, of First National in New Plymouth.
It was originally on the market for $16,000 so was sold for $4000 over the asking price. It had a capital value of $36,000.
Mr Newman said he had had about 20 inquiries in the four months the home was on the market, and four offers.
A Kiwi woman bought the house after making an offer from Brisbane, where she was living. She was moving back to New Zealand and had asked a friend to look through the property in her absence.
The home was one of two being used as rental properties by the same owner. A family had been living there but it had been vacant for a while, Mr Newman said.
Marketed with the headline "handyman required", the house needed extensive renovations inside.
"It needed re-doing inside completely," Mr Newman said.
"It was basically a shell of a house. It had some nice bathroom fittings in it, they were new, but the rest of it was pretty basic.
"Because of its price it went quick."
Residents of Ohura, an old mining town, have left in the hundreds over the past few years. The local dairy - kept afloat by inmates from Ohura Prison buying cigarettes - shut down when the facility closed in 2005.
The prison has since been turned into a backpackers.
"It's very remote, Ohura, no work there," Mr Newman said.
"There are no shops. There's no garage. There's a Cosmopolitan Club and there's a pre-school and a primary school."
But more tours were running down the "Forgotten World Highway", the 150km stretch of road close to Ohura that runs between Taumarunui and Stratford. "There is a bit of tourism just starting to get in there," Mr Newman said.
"I say to people 'Ohura just went to sleep and it's only just starting to wake up'. But great people live there, they'll go out of their way to help you."
He said fibre-optic cable was installed in the town while the prison was open and many home-buyers chose to live in the village as they could work from home.
"They could get all their internet through the cables. They just wanted somewhere quiet, away from the hustle and bustle."
Sales for the 10 cheapest houses last year totalled just $282,000 - which would hardly buy one home in Auckland. The total was $253,000 below the city's median house price of $535,000.
Five of the homes were in the North Island and five in the South Island. They were all in small rural towns. Murupara had the most homes at three.
PropertyIQ research director Jonno Ingerson said the information only covered sales that had settled and registered with the local council so it was possible there were sales that could still make the list for 2012 but were yet to settle.
The cheapest homes sold last year were $10,000 more expensive than 2011's cheapest sale. A home at 15 Milton St in the Southland town of Ohai sold for $10,000. The 10 cheapest for 2011 totalled $207,000.
Paul McKenzie of realestate.co.nz said there were currently more than 13,000 homes across the country with an asking price of lower than $300,000, including 2000 in Auckland.
"While the housing market in Auckland is especially tight - in terms of low numbers of listings and high demand for homes - there are still opportunities to step on to the property ladder with a variety of reasonably priced homes. The reality is that there are plenty of homes in New Zealand that are well below the record high national averages that we've been seeing in recent times.
"First-home buyers who are looking for a home in Auckland should consider houses, units, or townhouses in lower-priced suburbs, which are further away from Central Auckland. If you are keen to be close to the central city, an apartment would be your best option."
He said there were still plenty of homes that were low-priced as they required some renovation.
"If you are prepared to put some work into it - even doing something as simple as giving it a fresh coat of paint - you can find a cheaper do-up home can be just as good as a new one, and even increase its value."
Move to Clinton, where houses still go cheap
Homes in Clinton, South Otago, can sell for as little as $25,000.
First home buyers who feel locked out of the country's city housing markets may want to try the South Otago town of Clinton, where they can pick up a home for $25,000.
The weatherboard house at 22 Main Rd currently has New Zealand's lowest asking price for a standalone home that is not for removal or on leasehold land, according to listings on realestate.co.nz.
Listed last week with the title "DIY'ers Opportunity Here", it sits on a 1,012sqm section with two bedrooms, one bathroom and a car space.
There were 57 homes listed for less than $50,000 around the country, with most in small rural towns, including five in Murupara, 62km southeast of Rotorua.
Avid skiiers may prefer one of five cabins scattered around Queenstown.
The cheapest, on Glasgow St, has an asking price of $17,000. It boasts sweeping views of the Remarkables and has three bedrooms and one bathroom.
There were a handful of houses for removal, including 1008 Cowper Rd in Dannevirke, which has an asking price of $14,500. There was also an 802sqm section at 3B Paraone St in Taumaranui for $25,000.


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In more ways than one, Kelly Williams is like one of her race cars, strategically driving her way forward at high-speed. As spokesperson for Car Care Canada's Be Car Care Aware campaign, Williams brings her experience as a race car driver, educator, safety advocate and promoter to the Canadian public.
Williams has driven race cars for over 15 years, beginning at the tender age of 17. After graduating from teacher's college at the University of Toronto in 1994, she decided to devote all of her energy to a racing career. Her dedication and skills allowed her to quickly move through the ranks of Canadian motorsport. Soon she started competing in the CASCAR Super Series, the most prestigious arena for stock car auto racing in Canada.
Today, Williams travels around the world with the Champcar Series as a Pace Car Driver. She provides VIP tours of the Champcar circuits in one of the pace car team's dynamic sports cars or acts as the official pace car driver.
Williams also uses her training in education to teach advanced driving skills for various vehicle manufacturers with a strong focus on safe driving techniques.
Recently Williams:
"I recently had the pleasure of working with Kelly Williams who ran a Ladies Car Care Clinic for our shop.Her dynamic-energetic approach was an immediate hit with the 36 ladies present. Kelly was able to reach the ladies on a level I am not sure a man could, they listened and asked great questions. I received many excellent comments about Kelly's program she put together. I would not hesitate to use Kelly's services again and in fact I am already getting asked when is she coming back? It is very evident that Kelly loves what she is doing that along with her bubbly personality creates a winning combination" Bruce Eccles, Eccles Auto Service


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It wasn't Bush, and he (Stewart Baker, Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for policy) didn't mention Sony by name.
I guess this episode should become a lesson in all MBA classes. If your company is small then keep your head low and do good business. Once the company becomes big enough, _then_ you get to do the nasty things.
Once you get enough captital to bribe members of the government with, you basically become untouchable.
Now there is a great name for a company! Could it be any more obvious their products contain spyware????
Funny, that's what I thought "freeze their assets" meant.
...it's not like their resouces cant be moved or something.
If anybody cares, there's still a Enternet 300 support site. [efficient.com]
I see the auto-installing IE websearch bars and the "internet optimizer" wares to be some of the most vicious of all spyware.
Hey now, let's be fair. One of those programs was kind enough to let me know my computer was broadcasting an IP address. I installed it and now my comp@##@SSN 709 232 129(*&^^uter is secure.
The hidden windows shares are still advertised by the server, but the windows client ignores them. Try looking at the shares with samba or looking at the network traffic with a sniffer and you'll see the real share list. Gee, does that qualify as a rookit if they're really there but windows is instructed to no show it?
Funny thing is that Windows already hides certain file names anyway. Sony or a virus writer could have simply used one of those.
I wonder what happened... suddenly they started to care about malware...
This is not a troll, at least not intentionally, but at what point does malicious programming become a civil or criminial offense for those who know most intimately what the software does and the issues it involves? Intention is a significant part of legal matters, and while I am entirely against "programming malpractice" law
The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add. -- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court


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NEW DELHI – Britain's prime minister has laid a mourning wreath at the site of a notorious 1919 massacre of hundreds of Indians by British colonial forces.
David Cameron's action Wednesday marked the first time a British premier made such a gesture of condolence at Jallianwala Bagh in the northwest city of Amritsar.
The park was the site of an attack by British colonial troops on unarmed Indians attending a rally. More than 300 Indians were killed during the massacre, which galvanized the national independence movement. Many see the killings as the beginning of the end of Britain's rule over the Indian subcontinent.
Queen Elizabeth II visited the same site in 1997 and laid a wreath there. She called the killings "distressing."


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The City rejected the test results solely because the higher scoring candidates were white. The question is not whether that conduct was discriminatory but whether the City had a lawful justification for its race-based action....Justice Scalia has a concurring opinion to note that it "merely postpones the evil day" when the Court will have to decide whether the disparate-impact provisions of Title VII violate the Equal Protection Clause:
[We do not] question an employer's affirmative efforts to ensure that all groups have a fair opportunity to apply for promotions and to participate in the process by which promotions will be made. But once that process has been established and employers have made clear their selection criteria, they may not then invalidate the test results, thus upsetting an employee's legitimate expectation not to be judged on the basis of race. Doing so, absent a strong basis in evidence of an impermissible disparate impact, amounts to the sort of racial preference that Congress has disclaimed... and is antithetical to the notion of a workplace where individuals are guaranteed equal opportunity regardless of race....
[T]here is no evidence—let alone the required strong basis in evidence—that the tests were flawed because they were not job-related or because other, equally valid and less discriminatory tests were available to the City. Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer's reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions.
[T]he disparate-impact laws do not mandate imposition of quotas, but it is not clear why that should provide a safe harbor. Would a private employer not be guilty of unlawful discrimination if he refrained from establishing a racial hiring quota but intentionally designed his hiring practices to achieve the same end? Surely he would. Intentional discrimination is still occurring, just one step up the chain. Government compulsion of such design would therefore seemingly violate equal protection principles.Scalia (who also joins the Kennedy opinion) writes for himself alone. Justice Alito also has a concurring opinion, and he is joined by
Almost as soon as the City disclosed the racial makeup of the list of firefighters who scored the highest on the exam, the City administration was lobbied by an influential community leader to scrap the test results, and the City administration decided on that course of action before making any real assessment of the possibility of a disparate-impact violation. To achieve that end, the City administration concealed its internal decision but worked — as things turned out, successfully — to persuade the CSB that acceptance of the test results would be illegal and would expose the City to disparate-impact liability. But in the event that the CSB was not persuaded, the Mayor, wielding ultimate decisionmaking authority, was prepared to overrule the CSB immediately. Taking this view of the evidence, a reasonable jury could easily find that the City's real reason for scrapping the test results was not a concern about violating the disparate-impact provision of Title VII but a simple desire to please a politically important racial constituency.
Finally, the dissenting opinion is written by Justice Ginsburg, and she's joined by Justices Stevens, Souter, and Breyer. She chides Alito for "equat[ing] political considerations with unlawful discrimination."
That political officials would have politics in mind is hardly extraordinary, and there are many ways in which a politician can attempt to win over a constituency — including a racial constituency — without engaging in unlawful discrimination....But was it unlawful discrimination?
Were they seeking to exclude white firefighters from promotion (unlikely, as a fair test would undoubtedly result in the addition of white firefighters to the officer ranks), or did they realize, at least belatedly, that their tests could be toppled in a disparate-impact suit? In the latter case, there is no disparate-treatment violation. Justice Alito, I recognize, would disagree. In his view, an employer's action to avoid Title VII disparate-impact liability qualifies as a presumptively improper race-based employment decision. I reject that construction of Title VII. As I see it, when employers endeavor to avoid exposure to disparate-impact liability, they do not thereby encounter liability for disparate treatment.
ADDED: This post incorrectly stated that the Chief Justice joined the Alito concurrence. Tom Goldstein observes:
Judge [sic] Alito's concurring opinion comes much closer to an overt criticism of the rulings of the district court and court of appeals. I found it notable that the Chief Justice - who seems to place a priority on not interjecting the Court into political disputes unnecessarily - does not join the concurrence.
In the end, it seems to me that the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci is an outright rejection of the lower courts' analysis of the case, including by Judge Sotomayor. But on the other hand, the Court recognizes that the issue was unsettled. The fact that the Court's four more liberal members would affirm the Second Circuit shows that Judge Sotomayor's views were far from outlandish and put her in line with Judge [sic] Souter, who she will replace.


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I had heard filmmaker Peter Jackson was turning The Hobbit into a two-part film epic. Since when was it upshifted into a trilogy? Was it the lure of more money, more profits for corporations? It's not as if JRR Tolkien didn't pen other great Middle Earth stories that could be filmed.
It's become a tough choice for me. I can do my part to resist the lemming lure and plunk down an admission or two (or three) to bolster corporate profits. The Tolkien family has refused to sell film rights to other works, so maybe I should have no fear that a single Middle Earth character from the First Age will be developed into a Bond-like franchise.


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The "clubhouse" near Silvercrest i s scene of much late-night ac-tivity
(Photo Tom Twining).
Conservation essential,
but Bethel won't freeze
These high school students, shown smoking in the adjacent woods, are causing concern about
vandalism and security among Silvercrest apartment residents (Photo Tom Twining).
Potential security problems
concern Silvercrest residents
the Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 7 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Oct. 28, 1979
Nursing program tentative for 1980
by Lori Rydstrom
Plans for a new nursing pro-gram
at Bethel are well under way.
There are still steps to be final-ized,
but the projected date for
the program to be added to Be-thel's
curriculum is September,
No official announcement has
yet been made because, according
to Dean George Brushaber, "Fin-al
hurdles have yet to be cleared."
He said four major steps need to
be completed before the program
becomes official.
First, housing for the additional
students has to be secured. Even-tually,
more dorms will have to be
built, but until then, apartments
are being considered to house the
new students.
Secondly, Brushaber would like
to see plans well under way for the
new science addition to assure
needed classroom space. The
science addition would be built off
of the AC building where the
greenhouse is at present. It would
house classrooms and labs.
Third, a chairperson for the
by Laurie Lindahl
Due to the installation of two
12,000 gallon oil tanks, there is
no danger of running out of fuel
this winter, according to Jim
Woods, director of physical plant
at Bethel. However, Woods em-phasized
that other factors make
strict conservation of energy
essential at Bethel.
There were many problems en-countered
last winter while opera-ting
with one 10,000 gallon tank.
Because of these problems,
program must be hired. Even-tually,
more teaching staff will be
added. However, because students
will be in a general liberal arts pro-gram
for the first two years, one
person to head the department
would be sufficient.
The last step, but one of
major importance, is that the pro-gram
must be approved by the
Minnesota Higher Education
Board. Brushaber is confident
that the program will be ap-proved,
but it has not been final-ized
The nursing program would of-fer
a four-year baccalaureate de-gree.
Graduates then have to take
and pass the state board exams to
be certified. Brushaber expects en-rollment
to be approximately 60
the first year, growing to 80 once
the program catches on.
If Bethel keeps up with the na-tional
average, about ten percent
of the nursing students will be
men. Brushaber would like to en-courage
men to consider the pro-gram
seriously because of the ex-cellent
career opportunities. -The
need for people in the nursing pro-fession
far exceeds the number of
Woods decided to install the new
tanks. Looking back to last winter
he saw the main problem as lack
of capacity. Since deliveries come
only in 7,000 gallon loads, no
delivery could be made until the
tank was down to 3,000 gal-lons—
a three day supply.
Due to the rising oil demand, an
order called in only three days
ahead may not be filled before the
oil ran out. "There were times,"
Woods said, "when I wasn't sure
if we would have enough oil to last
until the next delivery."
Fuel, see p. 3
people certified each year.
Brushaber stresses that the
nursing students will not be a
"special breed." They will have
the same liberal arts requirements
that other majors have. For the
first two years of the four-year
program, nursing students will
take their balance courses.
The last two years will consist
of more intensive nursing courses
and hospital work. This offers an
by Ken Wanovich
The potential for vandalism and
other related problems are con-cerns
of several Bethel students
living at Silvercrest apartments
this year, according to Don Mor-tenson,
director of residence life
for upperclassmen.
These concerns have come up
because of several junior and
senior high school students who
have made an adjacent field their
"hangout." Rick Mehl, resident
director of building 2030 at Silver-crest,
said the young people have
built a small clubhouse in the
field, and meet there regularly
after school and after supper.
Several weeks ago, the New
Brighton police arrived to inves-tigate
the situation. Mehl talked to
the police officers when they ar-rived.
"There were no problems at
all," said Mehl. "The police were
called by one of the high school
boys' father to stop an unauthor-ized
person who had threatened to
tear down their clubhouse."
Mortenson has received feed-back
from several Bethel students
about safety at Silvercrest. Some
parents also called and expressed
their concern about the security.
advantage over other, more inten-sive
two-or-three year courses be-cause
it gives the student a much
broader background. It also gives
them the opportunity to switch
majors if they find they are more
interested in something else.
The possibility of a nursing pro-gram
at Bethel has been discussed
off and on for the past twenty
years. Until now, it has not been
One resident said, "I have come
home a couple of times at night
and have seen non-residents
lounging on the step inside the
building. This seems to be an in-dication
that there is a definite
need for more security."
In another incident last week,
police were called by a Bethel resi-dent
because of a window peeker
outside the building. Mortenson
contacted Jan Janssen, owner of
the Silvercrest apartment com-plex,
and talked with him about
the problem.
"Janssen has told me he will
immediately evict any non-Bethel
tenants found in our buildings,"
said Mortenson. He will also get-the
police involved and will pros-ecute
all other non-residents
found in the buildings. The Sil-vercrest
apartment complex con-sists
of six buildings, four of
which are occupied by Bethel
Scott Feltman, a sophomore at
Bethel and a Silvercrest resident,
said, "I don't think there is a
serious problem. When you live in
any apartment, you have to take
some common sense precautions,
but I have seen no indication of
Last May, Tom Johnson, head
of the academic policy committee,
recommended the program to the
faculty. The idea was approved
and then presented Xo the Board
of Regents for consideration.
The Regents approved it in June
with the stipulation that the ad-ministration
be responsible for
working out the details. In Sep-tember,
the Regents authorized
the program to be implemented
and the plans got underway.
any vandalism."
Silvercrest presently has no
phone security system, or locks on
the outside doors leading to the
parking lot, like those at Fountain
Terrace. The inside apartment
doors are equipped with dead bolt
locks which are opened by a key
from the outside.
No vandalism has occured at
Silvercrest, but Bethel's housing
supervisors are concerned about
the potential. Bethel will be instal-ling
locks on the outside doors.
Janssen has agreed to contribute
one-half the cost for these locks
and their installation. Bethel is
also inquiring about installing a
phone security system.
"Bethel accommodates stud-ents
from all backgrounds," said
Mortenson. "Some are more com-fortable
than others living in off-campus
housing, and being on
their own. If students perceive
something to be a problem, we
have to act on the situation.
Bethel tries to provide comfort-able
and secure housing for all
students. If these needs are not
met, a student will find it difficult
to work on other areas of their
lives," said Mortenson.
Macalester hosts hunger series
The "Feeding a Hungry
World" symposium, which is be-ing
held at Macalester College,
will continue on Tuesday, October
30 with a 7:30 p.m. lecture entitled
"New Flour for Your Daily
Bread," .by Dr. Richard Evans
Schultes. -
Dr. Schultes is a wbrld re-knowned
botanist who spent 12
years of near isolation in the
Amazon jungle searching for rare
plants. The world's leading au-thority
on medicinal and hal-lucinogenic
plants, he has also
served as a consultant to many
underdeveloped nations to help
increase their agricultural pro-ductivity
and export potential.
On Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7:30
p.m. Dr. Walter P. Falcon, direc-tor
of the Food Research Institute
at Stanford University, will pre-sent
a lecture entitled, "How
Much Can Uncle Sam Do?—
America's Role in Easing World
Hunger." Dr. Falcon is an inter-nationally
known expert on the
economics of agriculture, par-ticularly
in relation to under-developed
countries. He also is a
member of the Presidential Com-mission
on World Hunger.
The ' 'Feeding a Hungry
World" lecture will draw to a
close with two more lectures by
Dr. Schultes. On Tuesday, Nov. 6
at 7:30 p.m. he will discuss "The
Tropics: The New Garden of
Eden" and on Thursday, Nov. 8
at 7:30 p.m. he will speak on
"Save That Plant—The 'Weed'
You Kill Today May Be Your
Food Tomorrow."
The series of lectures, spon-sored
by the Macalester College
Hubert Humphrey Endowed Pro-fessorship
Fund, is free and open
to the public. All of the lectures
take place in the Olin Hall of
Science Auditorium on the cam-pus.
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Not only Christians
reveal God's truth
In the past two weeks we have noticed an attitude fairly prevalent
among Bethel students, that we believe is dangerous, which arose from
two seemingly different situations. The attitude concerns the Christian's
proper response to non-Christians and secular ideas.
It seems that many at Bethel believe that only Christians should ad-dress
Christians, and only about Christian things—thus making Bethel a
fortress where only such thinking and thinkers are accepted.
When Ray Herzog, chairman of hte board at 3M, delivered a convo-cation
message on Oct. 10, a common reaction was that he "didn't even
talk about God." Some people of course did not, at the time, realize the
difference between chapel and convocation—that convocations are not
meant as worship services, but as forums for ideas and learning.
Donald Maclnnis, however, this week's speaker on China, received a
much better reaction, presumably because he came from a Christian
But, for the people who payed close attention to Herzog, didn't he
stimulate just as much thought as MacInnis, even though most world-conscious
Christians did not agree with his ideas?
We must remember that all God's truth is not contained in the Bible
or by Christians. God has poured himself out on all His creation; conse-quently,
we can learn something of His truth from everyone.
In another situation in a different context, many reacted adversely to
the first half of the B.J. Thomas concert last Saturday night. Apparent-ly
much of the crowd came to see a Christian artist perform gospel
music, and felt that Thomas had an obligation to cater to his audience's
But Thomas is an artist and must express himself the way he feels fit.
Analogously, one would not view a sculpture exhibition and, disliking
the work, tell the artist to make something one does like.
In both the concert and the convocation, a man gave something of
himself that was not to a group of Christians' liking. Instead of accept-ing
the work as viable and using it to develop their own thoughts, the
group rejected the work because it was not what they expected, wanted
to hear, or it didn't emanate from a Christian's tongue or perspective.
This is a dangerous attitude because, when we reject the ideas of
others out of hand, we may be rejecting part of God's truth. And,
because we Christians at Bethel are quite culture-bound, the part or
Truth that filters through our rejecting mechanism may trun out to be
an extremely insular portion.
Bethel students need to be more open to thinking that challenges their
American middle-class Christian Bethel mindset, and they need to be
more receptive of the people presenting those ideas.
Bethel's appeal to students causes enrollment to grow
by Suzi Wells
This year Bethel has reached a
new high in enrollment, totalling
1989 students at the college, 127
more than last year. What's the
reason for this growth?
President Carl Lundquist sees
several factors contributing to
Bethel's growth. First, he said that
good programs, such as music,
pre-med and athletic, and good
teachers attract students. He also
mentioned that the positive atti-tude
on campus and the Christian
commitment here bring prospec-tive
"Many young people are look-ing
for a Christian community,"
Lundquist said. "There is a con-servative
move sweeping through
America. The whole evangelical
world is flourishing now." More
high school graduates are seeking
colleges with an evangelical focus.
Lundquist also said that he has
been told by outsiders that Bethel
has the best student recruitment.
"Jim Bragg (former director of
admissions, now vice-president of
Public Affairs) has been acknow-ledged
as unusually able," he
said. "And Dan Nelson (director
of financial aid) has been called
the finest in Minnesota. All that
makes a difference."
Lundquist also said he feels that
"God's hand on Bethel" is an im-portant
reason for its growth.
The kind of personal attention
prospective students get is a rea-son
Phil Kimball, current director
of admissions, said students are
attracted to Bethel. "We try to
personalize everything we do in
admissions," he,said. "We try to
build a relationship with parents
and students before they get
The unique recruitment techni-que
that the admissions office uses
helps bring more students to
Bethel, Kimball said. "We do
search techniques," he said. These
are opposed to the "shotgun ef-fort"
of many other colleges and
A second-person recruitment
method is used. This method is
much less expensive than sending
several admissions counselors to
various parts of the county. In-stead,
Kimball said, "We gear our
efforts toward parents, pastors,
Christian education directors, and
present students."
This way, those who apply have
heard about the college from
someone who sees them as good
candidates for Bethel. The admis-sions
department considers most
students referred to Bethel to be
acceptable candidates, since they
go through this "pre-screening"
The total number of new stud-ents
this year is 785, including
transfers (see Clarion, Oct. 19,
1979, "Bethel enrollment statis-tics").
The graduating class last
year was Bethel's largest at 406,
while the senior class this year,on-ly
totals 299, thus a larger percen-tage
of underclassmen are on cam-pus
this year.
President Lundquist hopes to
see Bethel continue to grow until it
reaches the optimum enrollment
of 2250 students (plus 150-200 in
the new nursing program).
"At 2400 we can still maximize
relations between students and
teachers," Lundquist said.
The president said he is con-cerned
with keeping Bethel a small
community. "We don't want to
go beyond effectiveness," he said.
But he pointed out that even the
structure of the college promotes
closeness and unity. The build-ings,
he said, are inter-connected
and no lounges are hidden in any
corners, but are spread through-out
the building.
What is Bethel's philosophy
about admitting students to
Bethel? "We at Bethel are con-cerned
with making the biggest
impact for Christ through higher
education," Lundquist said.
the Clarion .
Vol. 55 No. 7 Bethel Col lege Oct. 28, 1979
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staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
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Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
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Shelly Nielsen, Production, Doug Barkey, Photography Editor
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Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
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Study programs cheapest in summer
by Jay Stuart Russell
Thinking of doing a directed
study or off-campus study pro-gram?
Depending on the type of
program you choose, you could
pay as little as $250 per course cre-dit.
Tricia Brownlee, director of
academic programs, said that a di-rected
study program taken dur-ing
the summer will cost $250,
which is the same as other summer
school courses. If taken during the
regular school year, the directed
study course is included as a class
on the flat fee tuition system.
For other programs, such as the
American studies program in
Washington, D.C., and the urban
studies program in San Francisco,
students must pay the tuition costs
set by the program.
The American studies program
is sponsored by the Christian Col-lege
Consortium, and costs $1925
per term, while Westmont Col-lege's
urban studies program is
priced at $220 per term.
"If it's not a Bethel program,"
Brownlee said, "then the outside
agency sets the price." The Eng-land
study tour, which Bethel
Fuel, from p. 1
The heating oil bill will probab-ly
equal $50,000 this year. That
only covers the days when the
temperature drops below 20°.
When the temperature is above
20°, the college is heated by na-tural
gas, which costs 40 010 less
than oil.
Bethel, like all other large in-stitutions
and factories, is subject
to "interruptable services" by
NSP. This means that when the
temperature drops below 20°, in-dividual
houses are given priority
in the use of gas for heating, caus-ing
larger institutions to switch to
oil instead.
"The reason we have inter-ruptable
service is so that we can
make sure there is enough gas to
go around," said a NSP repre-sentative.
The need for conservation ex-tends
to the use of electricity as
well as heating. This summer, the
Department of Energy issued re-gulations
in accordance with
President Carter's stand-by con-servation
For cooling, temperatures can-not
be higher than 78°. For heat-ing,
temperatures cannot be high-er
than 65°. The temperature of
hot water must not be set above
105°. These regulations apply to
all of Bethel, with the exception of
the dorms and townhouses. While
there are no limits there, students
are asked to maintain the lowest
possible level they can.
"People are going to notice the
65° temperatures," said Woods.
"It just means that they're going
to have to start wearing warmer
sponsors, is priced at $3500 per
term. "We try to keep down tui-tion
costs as much as possible for
the programs we sponsor," she
Dr. Brownlee (Photo Doug
by Shari Goddard
Three full-time workers joined
Bethel's Publications and Public
Information Department this
year, making it the largest ever.
The contest is on! If you can
write, take pictures or illustrate
you can enter the Passages con-test.
Passages is a fine arts maga-zine
consisting of student, faculty,
or alumni contributions. The
magazine seeks to portray life as a
student experiences it here at Be-thel.
The contest will be open until
Wednesday, November 21. Prizes
An exchange program is ano-ther
type of off-campus study.
For semester exchanges, students
pay their tuition, room and board
fees to the exchange college. For
interim exchanges, students pay
tuition to the college in which
they're enrolled, and the room,
board, and other fees to the ex-change
college. This policy is ef-fective
for those colleges that have
exchange programs with Bethel.
Brownlee said that student in-ternships
are priced the same as
directed study programs. Student
internships are programs in which
a student receives credit while
working at a job relating to his
concentration. Directed studies,
formerly called independent stu-dies,
are course programs de-signed
by a student and faculty
The additions came after a merger
of departments increased publici-ty's
"Over-lapping made the merge
necessary," said director
Florence Johnson. Before the
will be awarded for place winners
(1st: $25.00, 2nd: $15.00, and 3rd:
$10.00) in each of the two categor-ies;
writing and photography or
illustration. So, if your fingers are
itching to create—now is the time.
All work should be submitted to
the editor, Rob Johnson, P.O.
Bethel's new nature trail was designed by Dr. Gregg Johnson,
and was built over the summer (Photo Dan Velie).
merge, College Relations and
Public Affairs held responsibility
for their own publications, which
included finding their own artist
and printers.
Publicity now coordinates these
responsibilities, "trying to help,
to service and to upgrade," said
David Shelley, former editor of
the Clarion, fills a new editor's
position this year. He handles the
By-line, a Bethel publication
about different aspects of college
life, and many other publicity pro-jects.
"I've never enjoyed a desk job
before, but this job has a lot of
variety and a great atmosphere,"
Shelley said.
Carol Nelson, a professional ar-tist,
designs and coordinates
designers for Bethel publications
and projects on a three-day-a-week
basis. "I'd like to get more
of a consistant quality. Usually art
work is good, but occasionally
there's a real clinker," she said.
Debbie Bestland, formerly of
College Relations, provides office
services, assisted by Lori Olinger
and Jane Saari, student
employees. Shari Goddard
handles student press releases to
home newspapers and Janice
Clark writes the Public Affair.
The department now coor-dinates
publications for the col-lege
and seminary. "Sometimes I
have doubts about whether we've
bitten off more than we can
chew," Johnson said. "We try to
find a way to get the job done, but
four people can't do everything."
As time allows, the staff helps
others with publication projects.
If a project can't be handled by a
staff member, it may be referred
to someone else, either on or off
The staff's overall aim will be to
get a job done "in the most prac-tical
way possible," Johnson said.
"We want to keep distinctive
creativity, not have everything end
up looking and sounding the
same. We want to help others to
do a job, but not do it all for
New department coordinates publicity
Dr. Jeannie Bohlmeyer has recorded about 60 books for the
Minnesota State Services for the blind (Photo Tom Twining).
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by Jan Johnson
Why should the 10,000 blind
people of Minnesota be deprived
of the experience of "reading" a
good book? Jeannine Bohlmeyer,
professor of English at Bethel, has
raised this question and is working
to bring about an answer.
For three hours a week she is in-volved
with a program that re-cords
books for the blind to listen
"I first became interested in re-cording
books for the blind when
I met some Bethel students who
were blind. They had their text
books recorded," Bohlmeyer
said. "I called around to see if I
could find out how to get involved
in such a program."
When Bohlmeyer contacted the
Minnesota State Services for the
Blind, she was asked to audition.
The audition consisted of sight
reading everything from
children's stories to abbreviations
of Bible books to foreign words
and names. This reading was
taped and reviewed by a group of
blind people.
She passed the audition and was
asked to work for them.
She doesn't get paid for the
work, but the organization does
provide the tapes and books.
Most of the books she tapes are
broadcast on a closed circuit radio
Vocal and instrumental audi-tions
for the internationally-known
Continental Singers and
Orchestra will be held Thursday,
November 1, from 5:30 to 9:00, in
Jim Chaffee, talent director for
Continental Singers, a non-pro-fit,
Christian organization with
offices in Los Angeles and Great
Britain, will be conducting the au-ditions.
Persons between the ages
of 16 and 25 are eligible.
Continental, Singers perform
during the summer months, with
rehearsal camp beginning on June
4. Concerts are given nightly, with
twelve Continental groups involv-ing
over 450 young people travel-ing
extensively throughout the
United States, Canada, 16 Euro-pean
countries, the Caribbean,
South Africa, South America, and
the Orient. The grand finale con-cert
is scheduled for August 23 in
Los Angeles.
Auditions are being taken for
the 1980 and 1981 summer tours,
with positions open for vocalists,
brass, rhythm, woodwind, and
string players for the summer.
Of special interest to instrumen-talists
will be the 40-piece Con-station
that is available for those
who are blind or too handicapped
to read for themselves.
The organization chooses the
books she reads. They send every-thing
from children's books to
travel books.
"They usually send me travel
books," Bohlmeyer said. "Partly
because of my interest in travel,
and partly because they know that
I have the resources here at Bethel
to discover how difficult or for-eign
words are pronounced."
She estimates that she has read
about 60 books since October of
1973. That has involved about 700
hours of taping and 535 hours of
actual broadcast time. All of this
tinental Orchestra, traveling with
a smaller professional vocal
group, and two 20-piece Con-tinental
Brass tours (horns and
saxes), which travel with a
20-voice' choir.
"The auditions are simple and
should last only a few minutes,"
says Mr. Chaffee. "Vocalists will
be required to sing one gospel solo
of their choice; instrumentalists
will need to play two selections of
varying tempos."
by J.D. Klaessy
Construction for an addition to
the Academic Center may begin
by next summer. According to
Dwight Jessup, director of aca-demic
affairs, the addition could
be finished by early fall, 1981.
This addition would bring the
greenhouse side of the AC51 feet
further south, making its outer
wall parallel with that of the fine
arts building.
adds up to an equivalent of about
18 weeks of full time work.
The longest book that she ever
recorded was the novel "Cashel-mara,"
which was about 27 hours
of air time. Bohlmeyer said that it
would be impossible to say which
was her favorite book because she
has read so many.
There are plenty of opportuni-ties
for anyone interested in this
type of service. To volunteer for
the reading program, one must be
prepared to go through the diffi-cult
audition for the Minnesota
State Services for the Blind. If you
are a college graduate and are able
to pass the audition, you are well
on your way to helping someone
read who can't read for himself.
Individuals who are accepted as
Continentals are required to raise
support totaling approximately
half the total tour cost. Continen-tal
Singers meets the remaining ex-penses
through offerings and
record sales while on the -road.
Two Bethel students, Brian
Mulder from the college and
David Hastings from the semi-nary,
will be directing tours this
summer. For more information,
contact Brian, PO 1080.
Money is the main impasse in
getting started. Jessup said, "We
need to secure revenue, probably
through private gifts." He also
said that the cost of such an addi-tion
would be roughly $1 million
to $1.4 million.
The addition would house what
Jessup defined as "specialized fa-cilities"
for the biology, physics
and pyschology departments.
While it would include several
labs there would also be a few fa-culty
offices and two-classrooms.
One room would have a 30 person
capacity, the other would be a lec-ture
hall for 80 people that could
also be used for demonstrations in
biology, physics and psychology.
Tentative approval has been
given by the Board of Regents for
the project. While it is still in the
planning stage, Jessup seemed op-timistic
concerning the addition,
which he described as being "ne-cessary."
Along with Jessup on the addi-tion
task force is Paul Redin, di-rector
of career counseling and
placement, David Lee, assistant
professor of speech/communica-tion,
and Paul Tavernier, asso-ciate
professor of chemistry, and
senior Ray Boe.
Bohlmeyer reads stories for sightless thousands
Academic center addition
nears construction date
Auditions scheduled for tours
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Mortenson is resident director
of Townhouse East and also heads
"Wilderness Challenge."
Horn is resident director for
Bodien and in charge of the stu-dent
activity center. He is also in-volved
in some program planning.
Horn graduated from Bethel in
1974 and then earned his master's
degree in English literature from
Baylor University.
He said, "I love Bethel but
when I graduated I never thought
I'd be back."
This is Mortenson's first time at
Bethel. He, unlike Horn, has a
family to look after. He and his
wife Dawn have a seventeen-month-
old son named Eric.
Mortenson said he is "pretty
busy" but he believes "it's impor-tant
to take time for family no
matter how busy things get."
Both men seem enthusiastic and
optimistic about their opportunity
to improve things during the rest
of the year.
by Patty Sutton
"Growth," said David Horn,
director of residence life for
freshmen, "is my primary goal."
Horn said, "I want to work
toward a community where the
student's academic growth could
be practiced for growth in all
other areas of living as well."
Don Mortenson views his job as
director of residence life for
upper-classmen as a ministry for
He believes that "for students
to grow spiritually, mentally and
emotionally, their basic needs
must be met first."
Mortenson and Horn are
responsible for arranging the best
possible living situation for
students especially through work-ing
with the resident directors.
In addition to being directors of
residence life, the two men are
resident directors themselves and
do some administrative work in
the student affairs office.
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Rumor has it that on Oc-tober
24 Carol "Scoop"
Madison reached the ex-alted
age of 22. The Clarion
staff extends affectionate
congratulations, wishes for
many future happy bir-thdays,
and prayers that the
label "spinster" won't hurt
too much .
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Horn, Mortenson view
growth as basic goal
Stay home during Nik Dag;
avoid quick engagement
Once, I obstinately answered that monotonous October question, "Are you going to Nik Dag?" with,
"No. Think I'll finish my homework, vacuum the apartment, and—"
"Homework? Homework?" My acquaintance gasped, horrified. "Homework? Homework?" She clut-ched
at her heart as if in pain.
This reaction illustrates the power Nik Dag has at Bethel. What, I ask, is incredible about deliberately
avoiding a humiliating, macabre, and emotionally-scarring activity? Everyone admits that the one unchang-ing
element of Nik Dag is torment; so - why are we perpetuating the tradition by submitting to and even an-ticipating
it year after year?
I'm all for school traditions. I'm all for liberating the male from his financial and dating frustrations dur-ing
at least one weekend in a long school year. But no one can convince me that November 2-4 is a healthy
time to be alive.
Nik Dag pressures start long before the actual weekend arrives. Female rivals for the same male nikkee
look cloaked (christian) daggers at one another for weeks. (It should be noted that choosing any guy some-one
else favors is brave bordering on stupid. This crime is second in seriousness only to borrowing a room-mate's
leather jacket without permission.)
Guys sweat out a month of uncertainty, translating innocent glances into sure signs of girl's intentions to
bid for them. Men and women alike find themselves crying frequently. Animosity is thick. Everyone's
fingers, by the end of October, are chewed, bloody stumps.
The most inhuman Nik Dag ritual begins that midnight hour when "nikking" season is officially declared
"open." This mystical period transforms the sane, Bible-believing woman into a crazed Dionysian gorgon
who will stop at nothing short of nabbing that one pre-picked male. No trick is too low, no method too
direct or dangerous.
She will have friends hoist her to a third floor dorm window with a hemp rope. She will pedal to Brooklyn
Center on her little brother's Schwinn 3-speed to nik a commuter. She will solitarily storm a bastion of RA's
to charge up off-bound dorm steps. Miles removed from her former book-bearing reserve, she has all the
sensitivity and delicacy of a riled lynch mob.
The male, conversely, turns into a confused, indecisive coward. He
vacillates between screaming in terror when the phone rings and loung-ing
enticingly in his bedroom window. He is capable of dramatic cross-campus
dashes at unprecedented speeds. He is alternately attracted to
and repulsed by the animalistic frenzy warring in his dorm lounge. Upon
confrontation with the terrifying opposite sex, he can mimble only
caveman gibberish.
Relative normalcy returns to the student populace by morning. The
observant will discern a prevalent tension, however, that will not
disperse until after the cathartic Nik Dag weekend. Bevies of nikkers
meet in halls to conduct demeaning inquisitions.
"You get him?"
"Yes, praise God. You?"
"Yeah. Did you hear about Bernice?"
`No! She wasn't. Turned Down, was she?"
Better Bernice had never contemplated nikking or fall enrollment at
Bethel than suffer the pitying glances that will punctuate the remainder
of her miserable week.
Nik Night survived, the Pie Ritual must yet be endured. It is not
enough that a woman face the traumatic possibility of rejection; now
she must demonstrate domestic expertise by baking a Nik Dag pie.
Women loathe this routine. It forces them to admit how poorly they
really did in the baking powder bisquit unit during junior high home ec.
I harangued my freshman date in an attempt to extricate myself from
this duty.
"What does a pie mean anyway? It can't prove my intrinsic worth as
a human being. Besides, it's a symbol of woman's oppressed societal
role, a sacrifice on the altar of male ego and dominance, an outdated
representation of the apple pie and motherhood fallacy..."
This argument proving ineffective, I resorted to bargaining.
"How about a nice pot of coffee? What's important is that I create
something myself, right? No bitterness, no messy grounds."
"Lemon meringue."
"Pop tarts? Spaghetti-Os?"
"No deal."
Our final, written compromise stated that in lieu of the usual baking,
I would clean his townhouse bedroom and bathroom bi-monthly for the
remainder of the semester.
The supreme test of the Bethel woman occurs during the heralded
weekend. She must completely outdo her competitive fellow-nikkers.
This is vital if she's to retain dignity or tell unbelievable stories after The
Event is all over.
She may be creative ("Meet me on the PE steps. We'll jump rope for
1/2 hour before riding unicycles to the Salvation Army Mission for din-ner"),
or she may try the usually more effective approach (I'll pick you
up in my father's company limosine. You can change into your tux at
the rental store before we pick up the boutonnier and corsage at the
florist's. That will give us 45 minutes to drive out to Chanhassen for din-ner
and the show"). Whatever style she chooses, the important thing is
that she'll later be able to wow listeners with tales of her unparalleled ex-ploits.
So you're still bent on experiencing this Nik Dag thing. Despite my
prophetic warnings, you'll no doubt cavort obliviously that weekend.
Mark my words, there's always a price to pay for flirting with this sort
of dangerous frivolity. If emotional trauma and its resultant
psychological consequences don't frighten you, how do you react to
that annual string of post-Nik Dag engagements?
Don't be nervous.
B.J. Thomas, battling a faulty PA system, croons hits during
Friday's Civic Center concert. (Photo Tom Twining).
Bereshith successful
In exploring beginnings
Today is the last day to register for Bethel's Fall Speech Tour-nament
on Thursday, Nov. 1, 1979. Registration forms are
available on the bulletin board in the Speech/Communication
Trinity Baptist Church
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6:00 PM Evening Service
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Python's boring, not heretical
by J. D. Klaessy
With Monty Python's "Life of
Brian" came grumblings of hereti-cal
content. Many Christians were
up in arms about the blasphemous
content of the movie. After view-ing
the flick twice, which was two
times too many, there appeared
no heretical material, only five
zany Englishmen and one Ameri-can
punning and satirizing their
way to boredom.
While the movie takes place in
Judea 33 A.D., the film only hints
of Jesus twice. The first occurs in
the beginning of the movie in
which the main character, Brian,
played by Graham Chapman, is
listening to Jesus' Sermon on the
Mount. Being at the edge of the
large audience Brian cannot hear
too well. The Beatitudes are stated
and immediately misunderstood.
"Blessed are the cheesemakers?"
questions one man. Andther is
quick to explain that Jesus must
have meant, "any manufacturer
of dairy products."
At another point Brian meets a
leper who continues to beg al-though
Jesus healed him. After 16
years of being a leper, begging is
the only work he knows.
The movie has its high point, all
of which can be counted on two
fingers. Both are pulled off only
because of John Cleese's gift for
appearing inept.
In his first role, Cleese is the
Pharisee who organizes all public
stonings. By his own scattered
wits, while reading a condemned
man's sentence, Cleese acciden-tally
utters "Jehovah" and is him-self
Cleese's other prime part casts
him as a Roman centurion. While
on night patrol he catches Brian
writing "Romans go home" on a
wall. Cleese sees that the phrase is
in the wrong tense, so he corrects
Brian and orders him to write the
corrected graffiti 100 times.
Add to this some minor amuse-ment,
such as the bureaucratic
stricken Judean Peoples Front,
and Pilate's lisp, and you have
by Joy Nannette Banta
For some it was a big disap-cointment,
for others it was an af-firmation
of what they had ex-pected—
a good show of talent.
For me it was a time of uneasi-ness.
The point in question? The
B.J. Thomas concert at the St.
Paul Civic Center last Friday
The performance began with a
fifteen-minute wait for the per-formers
to step out from the re-cesses
of backstage. The first to
finally emerge were Paul Clark
and Phil Keaggy.
Although Keaggy demonstrated
his usual skill on the guitar, his
rather long solo seemed to be
dwarfed by the poor acoustics of
the civic center. The lyrics to his
songs were clear enough to be un-derstood
but Clark's words be-came
mumbled jumbles as he join-ed
Keaggy for a few duets. Clark
stood rather self-consciously off
to the side as Keaggy performed.
Altogether, their 35 minutes on
stage seemed rather monotonous.
An audience ready for the "big-name"
peformer was told that
there would be a ten-minute inter-mission
before B.J. would appear.
about 30 minutes of comedy pack-ed
into a one and a half hour mo-vie.
Although the animation was
good, and the acting adequate,
the material was definitely lack-ing.
Instead of following "Holy
Grail" with another classic, the
Monty troupe has given us a non-heretical,
dull movie. Add to the
drugery an over abundance of
tacky, tasteless scenes, culmin-ating
with 25 people singing, "Al-ways
Look on the Bright Side,"
while being crucified, and you
wince with pain.
When he walked out on stage he
was greeted by an exuberant, but
impatient, audience.
After his first number, Thomas
stopped and talked to his tech-nicians
because of the interruption
of amplification in the middle of
his song. He asked them if they
could get the p.a. system to work
right and added that "there's that
buzzing noise again—at least you
guys are consistent!"
To begin with, the audience
seemed to appreciate his striving
for good sound and didn't realize
that he was actually very mad. It
wasn't until after his second song,
"Another Somebody Done Some-body
Wrong Song," that he
showed the audience his real emo-tions.
Just as he was about to start the
song for a second time, with what
seemed like some kind of audience
participation, somebody in the
crowd yelled out that B.J. should
"sing a song for Jesus." Thomas
didn't like the implications of the
He said he wished that the
guy would let him perform like he
wanted to and not make him do
differently. He was trying to be
"an entertainer who is a Christian
and not a Christian entertainer."
Thomas didn't try to finish the
song he had started.
The previously excited and re-ceptive
crowd did not know how
Thomas, see p. 7
ferent roles during the
show—roles that include even in-animate
objects and animals.
There is always something fun to
watch on stage.
Memorable scenes include
David's encounter with his wor-ried
Jewish mother, and his subse-quent
slaying of Goliath, Daniel's
fearless prayers to God and the
lions in the den (these creatures
can end up on your lap), and the
story of Elijah and the prophets of
Baal who are reluctant to "cut
themselves till the blood gushed
Director Jeffrey S. Miller, a
veteran of the Bethel stage, has
chosen a cast that features several
actors familiar to the theatre arts
department and also several new
faces. Such a situation can lead to
an unbalanced cast, however, this
is not the case. The players com-pliment
each other and play well
together, creating a very enjoyable
This is more than a show—it is
an experience. Tickets are not ex-pensive
but are limited, and this is
one production that you won't
avant to miss. See Bereshith, enjoy
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Bethel's first experience with
original story-theatre seems to be
a very positive one. The audience
of last Friday night's perfor-mance,
of which I was a part, re-ceived
this new production with
laughter, smiles, and in parts,
blurry eyes.
It's called "Bereshith," a He-brew
word meaning "Beginning,"
and it is just that. It is the drama-tization
of many Old Testament
stories rolled into one continuous
evening of entertainment.
The plots are mixed with humor
and serious times as well as some
true to life Hebrew music, singing
and dancing. It is story-theatre
which means the entire show is the
creation of the director and his
cast. The creative posssibilities of
this situation are endless, and such
creativity pours from this produc-tion.
The cast members take dif-review
Uneasiness mingles with
enthusiasm at concert
Co-captain Jon Fast heads the ball out of danger as Joel Kraakevik (left) and Bob Genheimer
(right) look on. (Photo Doug Barke).
Pair of shutout losses hurts soccer
Page 7
Thomas, from p. 6
to take this. There was a long
pause before a round of applause
broke out and Thomas continued
with the ever-popular, "Rain-drops
Keep Falling on My Head."
After that Thomas seemed to
lose a lot of his spirit. He could
tell that the audience was uneasy
and he knew that things weren't
going smoothly. Thus he openly
apologized to the audience for his
outburst—he had had a rough
road trip and he was very anxious
to leave for home the next day, he
said. It was then that he proceeded
with his "pep talk for himself," as
one student put it.
Thomas described the struggle
October activities
include film in gym,
haunted castle tour
by Mary Beth Larson and
Bob Schmidt
Since Halloween is just around
the corner, we will be taking a bus
load at 7:00, 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. to
the "Haunted Castle" in St. Paul.
The cost will be only $1.50. After
you get back, get into your cos-tumes
and catch a ride to the Hal-loween
Rollerskating Party from
midnight until 2 a.m. Buses will
leave NC, OC, FT, and SC
around 11:30 p.m. You must have
a costume on in order to be ad-mitted.
Prizes will be given for the
best female costume and the best
male costume. What a screamin',
scary night!
Saturday evening, we'll have
"Movie Mania" in the gym at
8:00 p.m. We will show the movie
"Other Side of the Mountain,
Part II." It's a guaranteed suc-cess,
even if you haven't seen Part
I. Bring your friends, your bean
bag chairs, your pillows, and
$1.00 for a night at the movies.
See you there!
Monday, October 29, we'll have
our Nik Dag announcement in
chapel. You'll want to make sure
you are there, so that you will
know how to "nik your nikee!"
Nik Dag weekend will be Novem-ber
2nd and 3rd. You'll definitely
want to get involved.
Have a great weekend and a
scary Halloween!
that he has had since he became a
Christian over three years ago. He
had been fighting with himself
about what kind of a performer he
should be and what kind of music
he should sing. His ultimate deci-sion
was that he would try to be
the best kind of artist he knew
how to be—and that would in-clude
singing secular as well as
gospel songs. "This concert has
turned into more of a gospel con-cert
than the pop concert that
many of you were expecting," he
The audience warmly applaud-ed
him for his decision. I felt sorry
for the man. The air of uneasiness
permeated the auditorium when,
only about 45 minutes after he
had begun, he thanked the au-dience
and walked off stage, his
band in tail.
Unknowing disbelief ran
through the crowd. They couldn't
believe that he was actually done.
About one-and-a-half minutes of
mild applause followed until the
crowd realized that he was really
gone and began screaming for him
to return. It took a while but he
came back, thanking everyone.
"Thank you very much," he said.
"I really needed you to do that."
The last twenty minutes were
devoted strictly to gospel songs,
including his grammy award-winning
song, "Happy Man."
There can be no denying that he
knows how to produce top quality
sound, vocally and instrumental-ly,
with his band, but Thomas was
not at all "up" for his concert.
The audience and Thomas end-ed
up on top of it all as he
rendered a lively performance of
"I've Got Jesus On My Mind."
The man has talent—that can-not
be denied—but he also has a
deep inner struggle that he needs
to contend with before he faces
many more audiences, or his pop-ularity
will steadily decrease. For
the meantime, I enjoyed his music
and only hope that next time he
will be in a better frame of mind.
V-ball, from p. 8
The Royals lost their final
match of the week to Gustavus
9-15, 11-15, 16-14 and 13-15. The
hustle of the Gusties was the
deciding factor in the evenly
balanced match.
"It was the best short-hit game
we've ever had," said Frye. "We
hit more effectively than
Gustavus, but they hustled very
well and happened to pick up
more balls than we did."
The Royals will play their final
match of the season at 7 p.m. at
Macalester on Tuesday. They will
return to Macalester on November
2 and 3 for the state tournament.
Neither team could muster
many serious chances in a score-less
first half. But the Auggies
knocked in a tally in the second
half and the pressure was on Beth-el
to tie the game.
But with less than five minutes
remaining, Augsburg put the
game away with their second goal.
The Royals then came to life, hit-ting
the goal post twice in the clos-ing
moments, but could not score.
Against Hamline, all the
damage was done in the first half.
Ten minutes into the game, the
Pipers got the winner on a close
range shot. As Bethel failed to
clear the ball out of their own
zone, Hamline passed towards the
goal mouth. A Piper took the pass
and fired it into the upper left cor-ner.
Hamline scored twice more in
the half, including one just before
halftime where the player ap-peared
to be offside. Bethel, rid-dled
by various injuries to starting
players, applied pressure
throughout the second half but
could not break the shutout.
Next game for the Royals is
tomorrow at Mankato against
Bethany Lutheran. The last game
of the season is next Wednesday at
home against Macalester, who the
Royals beat earlier 4-2.
MIAC Soccer
St. John's
St. Thomas 7-2-1
Gustavus 6-3-1
Augsburg 6-4-0
Hamline 5-5-0
St. Olaf
St. Mary's 1-7-1
Macalester 0-9-0
by Steve Erickson
The soccer team, once solidly
situated in fourth place in the
MIAC, is now fighting for a play-off
berth (six teams go into post-season
play) after two losses this
past week. The Royals suffered a
pair of shutouts, 2-0 to Augsburg
and 3-0 to Hamline.
To make it worse, both losses
came at home and to teams that
are also battling for a spot in the
On Wednesday, the game be-tween
Bethel and Augsburg was
very physical and was marred by
numerous fouls as tempers flared.
In all, three yellow card cautions
were handed out by the referee.
Bethel Events
Friday, Oct. 26
"Bereshith," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Saturday, Oct. 27
Soccer at Bethany Lutheran, 1:30 p.m.
Men's XC, MIAC conference meet, here at 2 p.m.
Women's XC at Mankato
Football vs. Augsburg, 1:30 p.m., here
"Antigone," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
Tuesday, Oct. 30
Volleyball at Macalester, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 31
Soccer vs. Macalester, here at 4 p.m.
Thursday, November 1
"Bereshith," 8 p.m. in the experimental theatre
New Effort
In the Clarion's continu-ing
effort to serve our
readers, we are lowering the
prices on our classified ads
from 25 cents to 10 cents
per line. We accept ads of
all types, shapes, and sizes,
from want ads to personals
to help wanteds. This ser-vice
is still on a trial basis
and is in precarious danger
of being discontinued unless
we receive a few.
Kris Doble digs in the Royals J.V. victory over St. Ben's last week. (Photo Doug Barkey.)
Page 8 sports
Bethel takes meet,
Culp finishes second
by Steve Erickson
Football powerhouse Gustavus
Adolphus, the nation's number
one team offensively with an aver-age
of over 44 points a game,
could only manage half of that to-tal
against Bethel's stingy defense
as the Gusties squeaked past the
Royals 22-7 last Saturday.
At halftime the score stood 6-0
Gustavus (on a Ron Straka 9-yard
run) but Bethel played their op-ponents
virtually even through the
first 30 minutes. In limiting the
Gusties to 128 yards, the Royals
held them to a poor two-and-a-half
yards per running play.
In the second half, Gustavus'
strong rushing attack began to
wear Bethel down as Gustie backs
continuously pounded over the
line. In all, the Gusties ran 68
times compared with only half
that many for Bethel.
The Royals stopped Gustavus
early in the third period with the
score still 6-0 when Dan Stockfish
picked off a Brad Baker pass, but
the Gusties scored the eventual
winning touchdown on their next
With the ball on the Bethel 37,
QB Baker faked a handoff which
held the defensive secondary
briefly. He then whirled and threw
to Paul Rambow slanting up the
by Carol Madison
In the first women's cross coun-try
meet held on the new Bethel
course, the Royals took third
place of nine teams, and ran one
of the best team efforts of the sea-son.
"I was very pleased with the
race," said Coach Shirley Daw-son,
"because our top four runner
s finished close together between
the 10th-and 23rd-positions."
Wendy Norberg led the team by
finishing tenth of 54 runners at
21:01. Ellie Abbott finished 15th
at 21:55, and Brenda Harris fol-lowed
at 22:08 and 18th place.
Carla Munson finished 23rd, and
Kathy Zappe finished in 43rd-middle.
Rambow raced the final
yards for the TD.
While some may have thought
that Bethel would fold at that
point, they did not. Immediately
they marched down the field,
helped by receptions from Ken
Cooper, Tom Klitzke, and Frank
Sanza with Jim Anderstrom on
the throwing end.
A pass interference call gave the
Royals a first down on the Gusta-vus
three and the single wing of-fencse
used earlier in the game was
brought in. Three plays later all-purpose
back Lonnie Holmgren
plunged over from the one.
Gustavus scored their final TD
soon after, as Baker dove one
yard over the left guard on fourth
down. The big play of the drive
consisted of a pass from Baker to
John Hupenbecker that converted
a third down and long yardage.
Once more Bethel drove deep
into Gustavus territory, but this
time was thwarted. A pass to
Cooper on fourth-and-one gave
Bethel a first down on the 18.
but Anderstrom was intercepted
on the very next play.
A safety on the last play of the
game accounted for Gustavus's
final points.
Bethel opened the game in a sin-
_g le wing, an offense that the Roy-place.
Freshman runner Theresa
Meredith did not run due to a
stress-fracture in her ankle which
will probably keep her out for at
least two weeks.
"The course was slow and mud-dy,"
said Dawson, "but our
course is challenging anyway be-cause
of the hills and turns which
tend to slow the runner down.
We'll make improvements next
year by widening the course and
adding drainage, which will make
it one of the best courses in
The Royals finished behind St.
Thomas and Carleton, and Sue
Paulson of Carleton set the new
course record at 20:00.
als have practiced often. Reynolds
cited two reasons why they decid-ed
to use it. "First, we think we
can move the football with the sin-gle
wing and the second thing is
that we'd use up lots of time."
Coach Chub Reynolds was pro-ud
of the way his team played.
"We played well, particularly on
defense. We took the option away
from them, but we had opportun-ities
on offense that we didn't take
advantage of. We were playing the
most powerful team in our caliber
of school."
Reynolds especially liked the
play of Stockfish, Rich Hodge,
and Sam Hildebrandt on defense.
He also said that the defensive
secondary played a solid game. In
addition to Stockfish, Scott Eng-strom,
Dave Vanzo, and Mike
Hoffner made interceptions.
Tomorrow at 1:30 Bethel (1-4)
plays its last home game of the
season against Augsburg (1-4).
The Royals close out the year with
road games versus last year's co-conference
champions, St. Olaf
• n • rdia.
The Bethel cross country team
easily captured first place last
weekend in a home meet with five
other teams.
Macalester's Paul Mausling,
one of best runners in the state,
coasted to a first place finish in
26:36, more than a minute in front
of second place finisher Mike
Culp. Culp posted Bethel's best
time, a 27:48 clocking.
But in cross country, strength is
•in numbers, as the team score con-sists
of the top five finishers. And
the Royals had that strength, with
by Carol Madison
The volleyball season record
suffered a blow last week as the
Royals dropped four games
against one win in competition
with both private and state
schools. Their record now stands
at 7-11.
The team lost to Northwestern
in five games of a well-played
match, 14-16, 15-5, 6-15, 15-11
and 3-15. Joy Sorenson played the
center hitter position very ef-fectively
for Bethel, and Sonya
Olsen contributed with a consis-tent
setting game.
"Both teams played well," said
Coach Karyl Frye. "The match
had several long rallies and well-played
hits, but their off-speed
game and short hits are what hurt
The Royals then traveled to
Mankato to meet U of M at Mor-ris
and Mankato in best of three
game matches.
Bethel took the first game from
Morris 15-12, but then seemed to
lose control and let Morris domi-six
other runners making the top
They were: Brent Friesen,
fourth; Jim Feleen, fifth; Ross
Allen, sixth; Randy Bostrom,
eighth, Dwight Newman, ninth;
and Dan Hicks, tenth.
Final team scores were: Bethel
25, Gustavus 66, Macalester 71,
St. Paul Bible, 99, and Augsburg
113. Only four runners partici-pated
for St. Scholastica so they
did not score.
Tomorrow Bethel takes part in
the MIAC meet.
nate the tempo of the rest of the
match, losing 6-15 and 8-15.
Mankato also downed Bethel in
a match that started out shaky for
the Royals, as they lost the first
game 3-15. Bethel controlled the
offense in the second game and
won 15-13, but the match was
decided in a close third game
which the Royals finally lost
Sheryl Meyer, returning from
an ankle injury, was singled out
by Frye as the "player of the
match" for her excellent front and
back row play.
JoAnn Griffin led the team to
its sole win of the week with a
powerful performance at the net.
She scored several points with
strong hits to please the crowd and
pave the way to an 11-15, 15-5,
7-15, 15-7 and 15-5 victory over
St. Benedict.
"JoAnn had the best spiking
game she has ever had in her three
years at Bethel," said Frye. "I
have never seen her hit so hard.
She inspired the rest of the team."
V-ball, see p. 7
Harriers take third,
Norberg leads again
Leading rusher Tom Klitzke drags Gustie defender as he attempts to turn the corner. Gustavus
won the game, 22-7. (Photo Tom Twining.)
Gusties edge Royals 22-7
V-ball's record falls
After losing week
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Linked by rohan_p on Sat 6th Oct 2012 16:00 UTC
Contiki is a lightweight open source operating system designed for the 'Internet of Things': Networked, low-power embedded devices. It's been used for smart grids, smart streetlights, badger tracking systems and connecting a Gameboy to the Internet. Computerworld Australia recently caught up with its creator, Adam Dunkels, to talk about the system's history and future plans, as well as a new company he's founded, Thingsqure, which hopes to make creating applications for the Internet of Things as easy as creating apps for smartphones.
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Also if you want the IPv6 part you have to pry that out as well. A friend of mine did that previously because he wanted to use it for some project of his and he still keeps it around.


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Brown Halts UCLA Professor's Use of Charitable Funds for Personal Business Ventures
Los Angeles –Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today reached a settlement with UCLA Professor Gerald D. Buckberg, M.D., and five officers of the nonprofit L.B. Research and Education Foundation ("L.B.") that forces them to stop using the charity as a "personal bank account" to finance their business ventures.
"Professor Buckberg and his associates used the charity as a personal bank account to finance their research and business ventures," Brown said. "This self-dealing is a clear breach of their fiduciary duties and under today's settlement, Buckberg must return $140,000 in diverted funds to the charity."
Buckberg founded L.B. in 1997 and has served as the charity's director, chief executive officer, and manager. The purpose of the charity, as stated in the articles of incorporation, is to "provide help to persons with physical and psychological problems, provide funding for research activities related to physical or psychological problems and to provide funding for scholarships and other programs that improve education."
Under California law, "no part of a charitable organization's income or assets may inure to the benefit of any director, officer, member or private person." However, an investigation launched by Brown's office in 2007 revealed that Buckberg and L.B.'s officers used the charity's assets to finance their own medical research, the research activities of companies in which they had a financial interest and the development of medical devices that they sold.
On September 9, 2009, Brown sued the charity and its officers to stop these illegal practices. Today's settlement agreement forces Buckberg to return $140,000 in diverted funds to L.B., and:
• Prohibits L.B. from using grants or other funding to directly or indirectly support research by L.B.'s officers and directors or any entity in which they have a financial interest;
• Requires L.B. to report future grant awards to Brown's office;
• Prohibits Buckberg from serving as an officer of L.B.;
• Requires the transfer of control of L.B.'s corporate checkbook and bank accounts from Buckberg to the Chief Financial Officer;
• Requires L.B. to hire experts to educate officers and board members about charitable trust law and their fiduciary duties, to develop a conflict of interest policy and to develop a grant-making review process to ensure that future grants comply with state and federal law;
• Mandates that new board members be elected by a majority of the board and that two independent board members be added; and
• Requires L.B. to keep financial books and records that clearly set forth expenditures.
Under the settlement, Brown's office will also be reimbursed for its legal fees.
L.B. has been primarily funded by Buckberg, although it has received some funding from several other individuals and businesses.
To report charity fraud, contact the Attorney General's Office at 1-800-952-5225 or file a complaint online at: http://ag.ca.gov/charities/forms/charitable/ct9.pdf.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
I Like Tyler Ecker
Yes, Ecker should have run out of bounds towards the end of the tOSU game (though I doubt it would have made a difference in the outcome.)
And, of course Ecker screwed up by not pitching the ball to pleading speedster Steve Breaston at the end of the Alamo Bowl, which would have almost certainly led to a game-winning touchdown and a highlight we would see a few times every year for the rest of our lives.
But I like Tyler Ecker. Here are a few reasons why:
...he's made big plays for us in the past, including a huge 30-yard sideline reception to sew up a victory over tOSU in 2003.
...he spent two years on a Mormon mission in Houston. Texas.
...he will finish next season at almost 25 years of age.
...he is a big guy with dependable hands.
...his middle name is Rand.
...he's Academic All Big Ten.
...he did a sexually suggestive celebration dance after someone else's touchdown last year (Breaston's punt return vs. Minnesota? Winning TD run vs. Iowa? Does anyone know what I'm talking about here?)
...he's majoring in Spanish.
...he's never missed a game at Michigan.
...he could be one of the nation's top tight ends if we make a concerted effort to get him the ball (DeBord helped Tuman become First Team All Big Ten, perhaps he can do the same for Ecker.)
I'm going on record early with the belief that when we are faced with a critical third and six late late in a key game next year, we will want to see the ball thrown to Ecker and we won't be disappointed with the outcome if it is.
12 comments:
- Yost said...
While I hear your points about why you like Tyler, let me tell you my reason why I'm not as enamored:
For cryin' out fucking loud!
- May 16, 2006 3:06 AM
I finally watched that play again for the first time since December 27, and I have to say, I agree with Yost.
- May 16, 2006 7:56 AM
Yeah, that's fine to toss him the ball when we need a dependable 3rd and 5-10 conversion, but just do not let him have the ball when any sort of clock management strategy is required. Clearly he is to late game decision making what Shaq is to clutch free-throws.
Now what the heck sort of celebration did he perform after someone else scored?
- May 16, 2006 9:31 AM
What is a nice Mormon boy doing a sexually suggestive dance for? He didn't get called for excessive celebration?
- May 16, 2006 10:42 AM
- IC said...
Yost and Anon 4:56:
No question you're both absolutely right. Other than to say that Ecker was not being selfish, there is no way to defend his failure to pitch the ball to Breaston.
But I still think he's a solid player and a potentially huge weapon for us. Hopefully, we'll be able to use him as he should be used next year, rather than depending on him to make a smart decision on a circus play or to simply run out of bounds in a chaotic attempt to overcome another blown 4th quarter lead.
Cowolverine and Trojan Mike:
I may be completely off on this, but I vaguely recall Ecker doing some sort of ass-slapping, pelvic-gyrating, riding a pony maneuver during an endzone celebration last year or maybe the year before. I think it was one of the two plays I mentioned in the original post, though perhaps it was after one of our tds at State.
Of course, it's possible he never actually did this dance and that it exists only in my imagination. If that's the case, then I think I need to further explore my feelings for Ecker. And probably have a chat with my wife.
- May 16, 2006 10:50 AM
- Aram said...
The return of the Naked Bootleg? I like that idea. I like that idea a lot.
Let's not forget also that Ecker pulled down that big-time 3rd down conversion down the stretch against OSU in '03.
- May 16, 2006 11:38 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
IC's point is well-taken. Ecker, despite a couple of bonehead plays, is a huge talent. He has great hands, is big, and can get open. If we can effectively use him the way we occasionally have used TEs, it could really open up the offense.
I vaguely remember the dance IC refers to, but can't nail down which game it was performed. I think it was this past season, though, and I recall it was a home game. No penalty was called.
- May 16, 2006 11:47 AM
Don't forget when he took it to the house vs. Minnesota in 2004 to set up that comeback.
OR that the last pass play of the Wisconsin game was an incomplete pass to Ecker as well. I mean, before Henne fell on his ass.
Unfortunately, I regard him with a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately stance. In that sense, he's worthless. He turned what would've been the most amazing play in college football history into dust with his selfishness.
How has he made up for it? In the spring game, Henne's first pass on the first offensive play was a pass to Ecker. Naturally, he dropped it.
I was in the marching band. The Alamo Bowl was the last play I'll ever see in that uniform, in that perspective, with those people. That was my last play I saw as a student. What a miserable and pathetic way to go out. Ecker is going to have a HELL of a year to earn any respect back from me.
- May 16, 2006 12:54 PM
I for one enjoyed Tyler often last season. And I don't mean that in the "Biblical" sense. I guess I just get an un-natural thrill when Michigan uses its tight ends for anything.
Having said that, I bet if they used their TE's more often there would be less "Holy crap, the balls coming to me?!?" stuff going on. Ergo, fewer dropped balls.
- May 16, 2006 2:12 PM
this dialogue is just hilarious - i love.......no LOVE whatching this unfold!!
- May 17, 2006 12:08 AM
- semperfibuck said...
I love Ecker... I have never seen a player, seemingly a smart player, make 2 more bonehead plays. I hope he is stupid, because, otherwise, how can he live with himself?
That said, I love this site. Always good for a laugh, even when it is at the expense of the world famous Buckeyes!
Keep up the mediocre work!
- May 17, 2006 12:19 AM
- Chris of Dangerous Logic said...
I said it after the Alamo Bowl - Ecker is a money man in the last few minutes of a game, but not in the last few *seconds* of a game.
- May 18, 2006 7:10 AM


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Two Killed as Helicopter Crashes in Central London
LONDON—Two people died after a helicopter hit a crane and crashed to the ground during peak rush hour in central London.
London's Metropolitan Police said two people had been confirmed dead at the scene and six more—five for minor injuries and one for a broken leg—had been rushed to south London hospitals following the incident at around 8 a.m. Wednesday morning local time. Seven others were treated at the scene.
The pilot was named by his employer, flight operator RotorMotion, as Captain Pete Barnes. The company said Mr. Barnes, 50, was one of the U.K.'s most experienced pilots with more than 12,000 logged hours. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
The police confirmed the pilot—who they said wasn't carrying any passengers—died in the crash, along with another person who hadn't been in the helicopter but was in "close proximity to the building."
The police said the helicopter appeared to have crashed into the top of a crane on a building site at St. George's Tower in the Vauxhall area of London, just across the River Thames from Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. The helicopter came down on the land adjacent to the building.
"It just went bang, it was the loudest sound I've ever heard," said Reza Islmi, a nearby construction worker. "I saw a helicopter that was going so fast, I just kept my eyes up always and then it crashed into the crane. There was heavy fog this morning, and I don't think the driver saw it."
In the aftermath of the crash police cordoned off an area and patrolled the River Thames by boat as the smell of gasoline spread throughout the area.
Ambulance and fire services also attended the scene and by midday local time all fires had been extinguished. The incident caused disruption to thousands of commuters on their way to work, with Vauxhall underground station, rail station and bus station closed. Roads in the area were also closed and there were some closures on rail lines into London.
"We now must try to get London back to a state of normality as soon as possible," said Commander Neil Basu of the Metropolitan Police.
The police said the commercial helicopter had been diverted from its journey traveling from Surrey, south west of London, to Hertfordshire, to the north of the city, but didn't confirm the reason for the diversion.
A spokeswoman for Italian aerospace company Finmeccanica SpA confirmed the helicopter was an AgustaWestland 109.
Eyewitnesses described a "loud explosion" followed by a "ball of flames" as the helicopter crashed into the ground, spraying debris and hitting cars. The crane remains in a precarious position, according to an eyewitness.
One onlooker said that the helicopter hit the crane and then landed on a car. One man in plain clothes then waved his arms to get people away. Meanwhile, fuel had sprayed onto the side of a nearby building.
Concerns were raised over the visibility of the crane on a misty early morning and police said any complaints would form part of their investigation into the incident.
One eyewitness, Paul Robinson, said he definitely saw the light flashing on the crane before the helicopter hit. "I could see it when I drove across the bridge this morning," he said. Police are looking into whether the light was indeed functioning.
A spokeswoman for Berkeley Group PLC, which owns the St George Wharf Tower, said: "There are lights on the crane, which are checked twice daily."
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said it was monitoring the situation closely. "Emergency services are in attendance. We are monitoring the situation closely and the independent Air Accident Investigation Branch is preparing to send a team of inspectors to the site to determine the circumstances behind this incident."
—Dipti Kapadia and Molly Neal contributed to this article.
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