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The following e-mail was sent to the Globe by Matt Robison, Representative John Tierney's campaign manager.
Mr. Rezendes:
In response to your various emails, attached please find an opinion from former IRS legal counsel, D. Sean McMahon. As you will see, Mr. McMahon, an experienced former IRS lawyer actually responsible for bringing cases against taxpayers, very much dismisses as false the allegations in your emails and the purported opinions of your unnamed experts. We have asked Mr. McMahon, and the Campaign's First Amendment/libel counsel, Howard Cooper, to meet with senior editors at the Globe to discuss this matter as we regard it as very serious and unfair. Congressman Tierney repeats that while he respects fully the right of media outlets to vigorously cover his campaign for re-election, false reporting should have no place in the dialogue.
In Mr. McMahon's letter, we are giving you the name of the expert who we have consulted, his opinion and the basis for his opinion. We note that in your pursuit of a story where none exists, you have not extended the same treatment to us. Indeed, given your approach to this matter, we do not take your request for tax returns as made seriously or in good faith, and we will certainly not provide you with material for you to further misconstrue in an effort to publish a false story. Congressman Tierney and his wife readily acknowledge that Mrs. Tierney properly did not include the payments from her brother and mother as income on their tax returns, as those payments were gifts. If you are interested in writing a different story about some other aspect of the returns which does not involve a false and misleading allegation, then Congressman Tierney will of course reconsider providing his returns to you. Please feel free to discuss this with counsel.
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A federal judge rejected claims Tuesday that Azamat Tazhayakov was forced to speak to authorities against his will when they asked him last year about his college friend, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Tazhayakov is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly working with two other friends to impede the investigation into the April 15, 2013, bombings, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Authorities said Tazhayakov helped remove a backpack containing fireworks, a laptop, and several other items from Tsarnaev's University of Massachusetts Dartmouth dorm room. Investigators later found the bag in a New Bedford landfill.
Officers who detained Tazhayakov at his apartment were "in SWAT gear pointing lasers at him," said defense lawyer Diane Ferrone. They held him for questioning at a local barracks for hours without a shirt, she said.
"He was never in a position where he was free to leave, and he was never speaking to the agents voluntarily," Ferrone argued.
But US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock rejected the defense team's attempt to have Tazhayakov's statements thrown out. The judge said, "If he'd asked," Tazhayakov "was free to leave."
"Was the nature of the investigation more rugged than it needed to have been? That's not a question that I think I may properly answer," Woodlock said from the bench.
RELATED: Testimony concludes in trial of Tsarnaev college friend
The decision came during a brief hearing in US District Court in Boston to resolve final issues before closing arguments, which are scheduled for Wednesday. Attorneys also jostled over the wording of specific instructions and questions that will be put before the jury.
On Monday, prosecutors showed jurors video footage of Tazhayakov at the university gym with Tsarnaev the day after the bombings. The two students appear nonchalant, and defense attorneys said the surveillance images are evidence that their client did not know Tsarnaev was a suspect involved in the bombings.
Outside the courtroom after the hearing, Tazhayakov's lawyers, who rested their case Monday without calling any witnesses, said they were "confidently optimistic" as the trial nears its end.
About 15 witnesses, many of them FBI agents, have testified during the trial. Tazhayakov faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Tsarnaev, who allegedly planned the bombings with his brother, Tamerlan, is scheduled to go to trial in November.
BELOW: Three short videos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev entering and exiting a UMass-Dartmouth gym only a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. They were played to jurors Monday in the obstruction-of-justice trial of Azamat Tazhayakov, who is with Tsarnaev that night in the gym. The video is taken around 9 p.m. on April 16th.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Azamat Tazhayakov at UMass Dartmouth day after bombings
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev, charged with obstruction of justice, face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Phillipos, 20, of Cambridge, faces charges of lying to investigators about his whereabouts that night and could face an eight-year sentence if found guilty.
Tsarnaev is scheduled to go to trial in November, and faces the death penalty, if convicted. He and his older brother, Tamerlan, also allegedly killed an MIT police officer. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police in the early morning hours of April 19.
Related coverage
For video, see BostonGlobe.com.

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British actor Patrick Stewart may be best-known for key roles in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "X-Men," but he's also adept at comedy, too. Local audiences have the potential to see this now that Stewart has been announced as a co-host for "The Second City Guide to the Opera," a collaboration between the Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Second City.
Stewart will join Lyric creative consultant Renée Fleming and several actors from the famed Chicago sketch and improv comedy institution for the performance, which is slated for 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. Tickets range from $25-$95. Call (312) 332-2244 or visit lyricopera.org for more information.


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Critics were unkind, calling ["The Soupy Sales Show"] "a mishmash of mediocrity" that was meant for "kids with low IQs." But viewers lapped it up, making it the No. 1 local show by 1962. A survey at the time revealed that more than a third of Sales' fans consisted of adults. Some of them were hosting pie-lobbing parties in their basements....Were you, like me, a teenager in the 1960s? If so, did you cry a tear when you read that the charming, silly comedian has died? Here's a clip from his, which meanders seemingly pointlessly and ultimately gets to his novelty dance-hit "The Mouse":
Don't be afraid that you can't do itThis post is about Soupy Sales, but I've got to throw in a second topic. "The Mouse" got me thinking about all those dance hits from that era. Didn't they all emphasize how easy the new dance was? Don't be afraid that you can't do it. There is really nothing to it. Didn't they all have that lyric? I challenge you to find one of those old dance songs that told you the dance is pretty complicated and you might not be able to do it.
There is really nothing to it
Shake with your hands wiggling from your ears
Make like a mouse push your feet down and cheer...
Hey, do the Mouse...
Don't be afraid that you can't do it
There is really nothing to it
Just follow me and I'll get you through it
Have no fear when Soupy's here
There are so many of those old dance songs. There's Marvin Gaye, doing "Hitch Hike." See how easy that dance is? It's all in the arms. There's Smokey Robinson and the Miracles doing "Mickey's Monkey." Sorry the linked clip doesn't show you how to do the monkey. (Here, this makes it really easy — and reconnects with our kids' show theme.)
A favorite old dance song of mine is "The 81" by Candy and the Kisses. One thing about "The 81" is that no one I knew had the slightest idea what the 81 was supposed to be. Was it just a song with no dance? "There's a new dance going around they call the 81. Everybody's doing it whether they are old or young." But not only wasn't everybody doing it, nobody was doing it. Nevertheless, put on your dancing shoes, feel the beat, get with the groove, and, most importantly, form a big boss line.


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This mountain bike was stolen during a burglary in Featherstone earlier this month.
The distinctive Cannondale Z120, which has a bright turquoise blue chequered seat, was taken from Featherstone Lane between July 4 and 5. Police believe the bike could still be in the area as it was spotted earlier today being ridden by a man in a orange top. The bike is worth £1,800.
Anyone with information should call the Normanton and Featherstone NPT on 101 quoting reference 13140262659.


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Hello Everyone,
I am having major problems with my code and I was wondering if someone could please help me out because I have been trying for a very long time to fix the problems, but really have no clue what to do. I am trying to write a program where members of a team each have a certain number of points ,but then they each get a percentage of their points deducted based on a formula. I already calculated how much each teammate gets deducted in a class and used a helper method called deduction(). Now, I want to put each teammate in an array list and have the deductions of each teammate in the array list. I then want the deductions to be added together to give me the total deductions of the team. However, I really don't know how to use array lists. Can anybody PLEASE help me?
import java.util.ArrayList; public class Team { ArrayList Teammember = new ArrayList(); public void teammemb(points teammember) { Teammmember.add("mark"); Teammember.add("kevin"); Teammember.add("keith"); Teammember.add("eric"); team bluebirds = new team bluebirds; } public double totalDeductions() { for(int i = 0; i < Teammember.size(); i++){ points teammember = (points) Teammember.get(i); } return Teammember.Deductions; }


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A guy or Guy?
A guy or Guy?
I received my book today...anyone else
Got my book today as well!
Well how does it look? Let's hear about it.
I just got home from work and would'nt you know it I got my copy of Mike's book. 288 pages ready for reading. Looks like lots of information, history and "50 Years of Practical Mule Deer Knowlege."
Nice! I'm anxious to get home in the morning so I can check the box.
Does anybody know if it's to late to get special edition (1st 2500)?
A bonafide city boy...that calls the Backcountry his "hood!"
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Brescia is a city in Lombardy, Italy
Brescia is a rich city between the Garda Lake and the Trompia Valley (Val Trompia) (Alps)
Get in
By Plane Brescia has a very small airport located 20 Km from the city centre in Montichiari. It serves only 2 flights a day, 1 for Girona Barcelona and one for London Stansted ( both Ryanair flights). However you can reach Brescia from Milan Orio al Serio Airport which is in province of Bergamo (50 Km away) and it serves a lot of low cost airlines such as Ryanair, AirItaly, Transavia, MyAir, etc. Brescia is also easily reachable via Verona VillaFranca Airport (50 Km away) Milan Linate (100 Km away) and Milan Malpensa airport (150 Km away).
Get around
Brescia is a very rich city and nobody except city inhabitants ( I mean the small city centre inhabitants) and immigrants use the poor service of buses, everybody uses their own car, everybody respects the rules and the pedestrians. However Brescia has an underground system under construction that will make Brescia the smaller city in the world with an underground train system.
Try the true "bresciano" food eating casoncelli in Brescia's dialect "casonsei", homemade tortellini with meat in them and served with "Burro versato" ( dropped Butter ) and sage with a white snow of Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmisan but nobody want to hear this word ! ) Try the polenta ( in winter only )a mush made with durum wheat, Polenta taragna is with a lot of homemade cheeses and butter in it. Try the amazing SPIEDO ( in Winter only ) roasted larks and pork meat cooked for 6-7 hours in oven with butter and flavours or on grill. It's AMAZING and typically Bresciano !!!
Here it's the best part of Brescia !!!!! Brescia is located on the very famous place called Franciacorta, known all over the world for its marvelous white sparkling wines. Brescia is also one of the most night-active city in the whole Italy, try Piazzale Arnaldo ( in the city centre ) just ask to anybody, everybody knows it, for the most in fashion bars with a wide selection of Franciacorta wines and champagne and a wide choices of popular cocktails that are drunk listening house music. Go in Borgo Whurer, a newly made mediaval town with a lot of in fashion bars and a lot of people. Spazio Arnaldo: It's in Piazzale Arnaldo, one of the smallest but most in fashion bars (Nice cocktails)
Viselli's: Small bar with an old man making a patented cocktail ( He has the copyright ), it is a must in Brescia to try the Viselli's Champagnone (Very good but very strong)
Specifico it's in Borgo Whurer, always crowded and nice music, next to other beautiful bars such as Nacio or Hico de puta, in Hico de Puta you'll find everything you want to get drunk
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NEW YORK - The National Hockey League issued a seven- game suspension to Minnesota Wild forward Matt Cooke on Wednesday.
NEW YORK - The National Hockey League issued a seven- game suspension to Minnesota Wild forward Matt Cooke on Wednesday.
Cooke was only assessed a minor for kneeing Colorado defenseman Tyson Barrie just over two minutes into the second period of Monday's 1-0 Minnesota victory in Game 3 of the Western Conference quarterfinals, but Barrie was later diagnosed with a sprained medial collateral ligament and is scheduled to miss 4-to-6 weeks.
The league announced shortly after the contest was over that Cooke was scheduled to have an in-person hearing with the Department of Player Safety, an indicator that the punishment would last for five games at the minimum. That hearing occurred at league offices earlier in the day.
A key stipulation of the punishment is if Cooke's full suspension is not fully served during the current playoffs, the remaining games will be tacked onto the beginning of the 2014-15 regular season.
Game 4 in the best-of-seven set between the Wild and Avalanche is scheduled for Thursday in St. Paul.
"Cooke is leading with his left knee. After Barrie releases the puck, Cooke continues in this posture, further extends his knee, and makes contact with Barrie's left knee. The play is in front of Cooke, from the moment he steps on the ice and begins striding towards Barrie, well before impact is made," the league stated in a video explanation of the suspension.
"The onus is on Cooke to ensure that any check he attempts is executed legally, and through the core of Barrie's body. Barrie takes evasive action and moves to his right in an attempt to avoid contact."
The 35-year-old winger has been suspended six previous times for various offenses during his 15-year NHL career, with the last coming in the spring of 2011. That was a 17-game ban (10 regular-season games and the entirety of the Penguins' first-round series against Tampa Bay) for a blatant elbow to the head of Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh.
Despite his history of supplemental discipline, Cooke is not considered a "repeat offender" from a financial standpoint since his last suspension occurred more than 18 months ago.


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Hey guys, I'm pretty good with Java, except for the GUI. I've started getting myself familiar with it, and well it was going well until I came to a large brick wall. You see I added this JTable onto my frame, and got the scroll and everything working fine. I need to add about 3 buttons now, but it just isn't working out. The GridBagLayout isn't working as it should.
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.io.*; public class BRA extends JFrame { public static int column=0, row = 0, instances; //integers for column, row, and instance numbers public static String[][] data = new String [15][4]; //array which contains the database static JTable table; private JScrollPane scroll; static String columnNames[] = {"Title", "Batman", "Director", "Year"}; static JPanel panel = new JPanel (); public static void main (String [] args) throws IOException { reader(); //calls the reader method, reads data in from text file JFrame frame = new JFrame("The Batman Movie Database (BMDb)"); //frame setup Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize(); frame.setSize (550,600); frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null); // here's the part where i center the jframe on screen frame.setVisible(true); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout()); //panel setup frame.getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER); GridBagConstraints d = new GridBagConstraints(); table = new JTable(data, columnNames); //table.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_ALL_COLUMNS); d.gridx = 0; d.gridy = 0; panel.add(table, d); JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane (table); table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(new Dimension(500,160)); table.setFillsViewportHeight(true); panel.add(scrollPane); JButton add = new JButton ("ADD"); d.gridx = 56; d.gridy = 150; panel.add(add, d); } public static void reader()throws IOException //method to read in data from the text file { //buffered reader to allow for data to be read from the data file BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader (new FileReader ("V2.txt")); String line = input.readLine(); //string that contains each successuve line of the file while(line !=null) //loop that reads a new line until it is a blank { if(line.equals("")){break;} data[row][column] = line; //fills that position of the array with the line column++; //increments the column number if(column == 4) { column = 0; //resets the column number when it reaches 4 row++; //and inrements the row number } line = input.readLine();//reads another line from the file } input.close(); //closes the buffered reader } }
That's my code so far and the file used is attached as well. If you can please help me position 3 buttons in the bottom left corner under the JTable, it would be most appreciated. Thanks!


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Extension > Garden > Yard and Garden > Fruit > Apple pest management in Minnesota home orchards > Codling moth
Codling moth
Back to Apple pest management in Minnesota home orchards
Cydia pomonella
Fig. 19. Codling Moth adult
Photo: Whitney Cranshaw,
Colorado State University, Bugwood.org.
Fig. 20. Codling Moth larva
Photo: Clemson University - USDA Coop. Ext., slide set, Bugwood.org.
Fig. 21. Codling Moth external injury
Photo: Eugene E. Nelson, Bugwood.org
Fig. 22. Codling Moth internal injury
Photo: Clemson University, USDA Coop. Ext., Bugwood.org.
Codling moth is an internal feeder, and infested fruit is not suitable for eating. Codling moth is common in southeastern and central Minnesota, particularly in places where commercial orchards are nearby, and less of a problem farther west and north. If you have never had a codling moth problem in your orchard, then you probably have a minimal population of this pest in your area. If codling moth is common in your area, however, it is very important to manage this pest.
The codling moth larva is large (up to ½" long), and has a pinkish body with a brownish head. Codling moth larvae often tunnel towards the apple cores and feed on the seeds before exiting the fruit. Crumbly golden-brown frass (excrement) is sometimes found at the hole where the larva exited the apple.
Important biology
There are two generations of codling moth in Minnesota. The first generation adults emerge from their overwintering sites in spring, just before bloom. Mated female moths lay up to 100 eggs on small, developing apples (usually only one egg per fruitlet). After hatching, the larvae chew an opening in the apple's skin. If they are protected by leaves, they may feed at the surface of the fruit before they tunnel into it.
When they have reached maturity, the larvae exit the fruit, drop to the ground, and crawl away to seek sheltered places to spin cocoons. Some larvae remain in this stage the rest of the summer and through the winter, pupating and emerging the following spring. Other larvae pupate immediately, and emerge as adult moths two to three weeks later, flying to the tree canopy to mate. A second generation that can start in late July or early August overwinters as mature larvae in cocoons in sheltered areas after they drop from the fruit. Typically, in home apple orchards, this second flight is not important.
As with many other pests of apple, sanitation is important in keeping pest pressure low. But because codling moth adults can fly as far as a mile seeking an apple tree in which to mate and lay eggs, you probably will not be able to control this pest by sanitation alone if you live in an area where codling moths are common.
Home growers can reduce codling moth populations by maintaining superior sanitation in their plantings. Pick up and remove any fallen apples throughout the growing season and after harvest and place them in
the trash.
Sometimes, harvested apples contain codling moth larvae. In storage, the larvae exit the fruit and seek a sheltered place in the storage area. If you store apples in a garage, barn, or other outbuilding, this structure may be a source of codling moth adults the next spring. Wooden apple crates, in particular, provide a good spot for the larvae to overwinter. Inspect your crates and the building in which you store the fruit for silken cocoons, and destroy the insects.
Trapping codling moths
You can trap codling moth males entering your apple planting to determine if codling moths are present. Any number of different insects may find their way into the trap, so you should be able to identify the adult male codling moth. Codling moth adults are medium-sized (about 3/8" long) and light grayish brown. A distinctive band of shiny coppery scales at the rear edges of the males' wings makes them readily identifiable.
Codling moths are trapped using a tent-shaped plastic or waxed-paper trap, hung in a tree. The most common is the "delta" trap; also used are "wing" traps. The interior of the trap is coated with tanglefoot, and the trap is baited with a small rubbery lure that gives off synthetic female codling moth pheromones (attractant chemicals). Male moths seeking a mate detect the attractant pheromone, fly into the trap, and get stuck in the tanglefoot. See Appendix: sources of IPM supplies, for information about where to buy trapping materials. The trap should be hung at about eye level on the outside of the tree canopy, in early May. Lures typically have a useful life of one or two months. When handling the lure, use a pair of tweezers dedicated to handling codling moth lures, or use disposable gloves. Otherwise, you may transfer attractant pheromone to surfaces other than the inside of the trap.
Check the trap weekly starting in mid-May, to determine if you have codling moths in your area. Clean out the moths and any other insects each time you check the trap.
If you don't catch any codling moth adults, there probably isn't a large enough population of this pest to require spraying. In most of Minnesota, the second flight of codling moth is not large enough to require a home grower to spray.
Insecticide sprays
However, if you do trap codling moths, be prepared to treat your apples soon after the first flight has begun. The best timing is to spray at petal fall, i.e. when most or all of the petals have fallen from the apple blossoms. Do not treat before this as the sprays will be ineffective and will also kill pollinating bees. Make a second spray, seven to ten days later (check the label for the exact interval).
Insecticides for codling moth control
Chemicals that control codling moth include esfenvalerate, and malathion. Sprays to control codling moth could coincide with fungicide sprays to control apple scab. In this case, you could mix insecticide and fungicide in the same tank, or use a pre-mixed all-purpose fruit spray that does not contain carbaryl.
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Vol. XLIII—No. 24
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, April 18, 1969
Senators create office of presidency
Eight first place winners were named in Bethel's recent
first annual. Forensics Festival. (See story . . . page 2)
"Unique Mandate" for Shupe
President-elect plans action
by Marjorie Rusche
"I am not afraid of committing myself to a cause
once I have made up my mind to support it. Addition-ally,
I am not afraid of changing my mind."
These are the words of Dave Shupe, Bethel's new
student body president-elect.
When Dave assumes office May 1, he hopes to
have co-ordinated a program of action for next year.
This general program will be presented on May 1 in
chapel. Presently, Dave is using this month to "pull
in ideas, talk to people, contact student leaders on
other campuses to build a working relationship on a
first-name basis."
Dave is no newcomer to the responsibilies and
challenges of leadership. As a freshman, Dave worked
on the Coeval staff. His sophomore year he took over
the editorship of the Coeval, served on the World
Missions student-faculty committee, participated in
IC-3 and festival choir.
This year saw Dave as student senate vice-presi-dent,
president of Christians International, and pro-gram
director of Pi Gamma Mu, the national honor
society of social sciences.
A junior and an anthropology (formerly English)
major, Dave is also a newlywed. The former Della
Gibbs (also a former English and anthropology major)
and Dave were married the Saturday after his election
A unique mandate was given to Dave from the
student body. Originally he had lost out in the elimi
nation primary by four votes. The next week he ar-rived
at school to find people asking him to run as
a write-in candidate.
"All those guys asked me to do was to put my
reputation and beliefs on the line. They did virtually
all the planning and work for the write-in campaign,"
Shupe stated. "I have a great feeling of appreciation
towards those who put me over."
He said the turn-out for the election was very en-couraging
and the election campaigning itself exhibit-ed
a great deal of student involvement.
(See election results . . . page 2)
Dave has a deep desire to maintain and increase
the level of involvement that was exhibited during
the election. "I cannot overstress the necessity for
student concern and action over matters that directly
affect their lives. There are some great opportunities
coming up — New Campus planning and curriculum
changes — for students to get together, organize, and
effectively act."
Dave views his role as president in both an
objective and subjective manner. "Objectively, I see
myself gathering opposing viewpoints, presenting them
to the Senate, generating discussion on issues on
campus. Subjectively, I wish to provide the leadership
necessary to co-ordinate and focus Senate action and
other campus-group action into positive change for
the benefit of the student body."
Clarion ranks excellent,
takes All-American award
Presidency of the Student Asso-ciation
Senate and the Presidency
of the Association were severed
from each other by action of the
Association Senate at its last meet-ing
before vacation.
Senate members approved a mo-tion
submitted by Thomas Ford
and Gregory Saracoff to implement
the change made possible by the
constituional revision of March 12.
The President of the Senate would,
according to the new statute, serve
at the pleasure of the Senate and
would preside over Senate meet-ings.
The Rendahl Commission for con-stitutional
reforms had suggested
that the Constitution be revised
to allow for this possibility since
the President of the Association
"Far Right in America" will be
the topic presented by Dr. Erling
Jorstad who will be speaker at
Dr. Erling Jorstad
is not elected for his abilities to
preside over meetings.
The proposal was an enlargement
of one suggested by L. Ray Sam-mons
in 1967 and one suggested
by Ford in the autumn of 1968.
Both would have created a Speaker
and a Speaker pro tempore of the
Senate, to preside over parts of
the meeting.
The only negative feeling voiced
at the Senate meeting to Ford's
proposal was whether a fixed term
for the Senate President would be
better. A separate motion to make
Dennis L. Olson the first Senate
President, submitted by Ford and
Thomas Mesaros, was tabled until
the Ninth Senate took over April 1.
On motion of Janet Hurt and
Keith Anderson a committee was
a convocation planned for Thurs-day,
April 24.
Dr. Jorstad, who is currently
Associate Professor of History at
St. Olaf College in Northfield,
Minnesota, has just completed the
first volume of a proposed multi-volume
work concerning the re-sponse
of American churches and
churchmen to the changes in Am-erican
life since 1945. The name
of the volume, now at the publish-ers,
is The Fundamentalists of the
Far Right. He is also presently
doing a study of the resurgence
of conservatism following World
War II. Dr. Jorstad's field of in-terest
centers around recent Amer-ican
religious history.
Dr. Jorstad, who expects to be
promoted to full professor in Sept-ember,
is a graduate of St. Olaf
College. He did post graduate work
at Harvard University and receiv-ed
his doctorate from the Univer-sity
of Wisconsin.
established to "review" the com-munications
media and submit re-commendations
for 1969-70, and
(make) suggestions for budget dis-bursements.
Earlier in the meeting Graydon
Held, comptroller of Bethel, dis-cussed
finances. He noted that pro-posed
enrollment for 1969-70 is
the equivilent of 1025 full-time stu-dents
and that like an industry, the
college needs to define its product,
and that both gifts and tuition are
ascending. On motion of Thomas
Mesaros, his report was accepted
with thanks — an extraordinary
(ACP)—A counter-revolution is
emerging on some college campus-es
as students are organizing to
oppose disruptive demonstrations.
One group calls itself SPASM—
The Society for Prevention of Asi-nine
Student Movements. It was
born at Wichita State University
where students staged a "milk-in"
as a "peaceful, intelligent and legal
demonstration" in protest of pro-tests.
At Michigan State University
more than ten thousand students
have signed petitions condemning
"intimidation, violence and disrup-tion."
A group of U.S. Marines studying
at Purdue University have organ-ized
a drive to collect 500 pints of
blood for hospitals—a student an-swer
to disturbances on other cam-puses.
Sgt. Allen Force, a native of San
Francisco who is heading the drive,
said he intends to show that "the
activists, rioting and burning build-ings
are a small minority repre-senting
colleges falsely. The aver-
The Clarion recently received
notification that it has been award-ed
an All-American rating for the
first semester of the 1968-69 school
Evaluation of collegiate news-papers
is a service of Associated
Collegiate Press at the University
of Minnesota's School of Journal-ism.
Student newspapers from
more than 600 colleges and uni-versities
across the nation are
Dennis Olsen was elected Senate
President at Wednesday's Senate
meeting. He will serve until re-called
by the Senate.
The Senate also passed a reso-lution
to make arrangements for
the coffee shop to be left open
Sunday night until midnight.
The Senate moved postponement
of class elections for two weeks.
This will allow members of tour-ing
performing organizations such
as Male Chorus a chance to par-ticipate
in the elections.
age student doesn't dare to get up
and speak against these activists.
This blood drive gives the student
an opportunity to say what he be-lieves
without any particular talent
for rhetoric."
judged on the basis of content,
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This is the second consecutive
semester that the Clarion has a-chieved
the All-American rank and
the sixth semester it has earned
the highest rating since becoming
a member of ACP in 1954.
The Clarion was grouped with
32 other papers, all weeklies put
out by colleges with enrollments
of 701-1200, for its evaluation this
Ratings are based on a system
with 4,000 points representing the
highest possible score. A total of
3,700 points are needed to achieve
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Officials from the School of Jour-nalism
said this week that the
highest score recorded out of the
32 entries in this catagory was The
Star, from Houghton (N.Y.) College,
which accumulated a total of 3,870.
The Clarion was given a total score
of 3,800.
The Clarion received its highest
score in regard to its news cover-age,
which included areas of news
sources, treatment of copy, bal-ance
and creativeness. Several
other areas judged very highly
were content (sports coverage and
editorial page features took per-fect
scores), makeup (perfect
scores on front page and sports
display) and photography (perfects
in picture content and captions).
Convoction analyzes "far right"
Groups react to campus unrest,
stage counter-demonstrations
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the CLARION Friday, April 18, 1969
Students can influence
campus housing plans
Bethel is in a position now that it has never been in before
and may never be in again. And Bethel students now have an
opportunity that very few students ever have.
Bethel is designing a new campus from scratch on a
beautiful site, and Bethel students can help. Hundreds of de-cisions
made in the next few years will affect everyone at
Bethel twenty-four hours a day for the next fifty years.
Making the right decisions will take a great deal of fore-sight.
The campus planners know that every poor move will
be the target of half a century of Monday morning quarterbacks,
and that most of those critics will be students. So they' want to
know what students will be thinking tomorrow. The best way
to find out, though it is far from perfect, is to find out what
they are thinking today.
Most of the discussion about the new campus has cen-tered
around housing, especially since tentative plans were
released for four dormitory clusters as the only accomodations.
A Senate survey showed, if nothing else, that an overwhelming
majority of students would object to four years of dorm life.
Of the different types of housing, dorms are the easiest
(and cheapest) to build and maintain, and the easiest to control
— they are far more suited to social regulations than apart-ments,
for instance. They also foster a sense of community
far more easily than any other type of housing.
But they are still, from the student's point of view, the
least desirable housing. They are the least homelike, the
least individualized, the least private, the least free. It is a
fact of life that most social activities consist of people in pairs
and that there are times when those pairs want to be by them-selves.
A dorm room, because it is a bedroom, cannot be
opened freely to visitors of the opposite sex, so there is no
way that a dorm room can offer that chance to be alone.
But if not dorms, what? Apartments? With two people or
four? With kitchens or without? Should everyone be required
to live on campus? Should freshmen be required to live in the
The problems are many and the decisions have to be
made. The planners are open to (and eager for) suggestions
from students — talk to Mr. Phil Carlson, or talk to someone
in the Student Services Office, or write a letter to the Clarion,
but speak up!
A rousing election
Record turnout favors Shupe's write-in candidacy
by Faith Zwemke
"A completely unique experi-ence,"
was the comment of a stu-dent
following his participation in
Bethel's recent first annual Foren-sic
This comment was one of many
which emphasized the excitement
and enthusiasm that evolved from
the tournament. According to the
director of the event, instructors,
administrators, and students, "For-ensic
Fun" was a resounding suc-cess.
The whole idea of such a local
tournament emerged out of a con-versation
between Marg Erickson
a n d Don Rainbow following a
speech contest at another school.
Both expressed a desire to give
Bethel students a chance to com-pete
in contest speaking, and find-ing
this a good opportunity to
complete an independent study,
Marg took on the tremerldous task
of directing the event.
One of the chief concerns of
those involved in planning the
event was that the interest and
excitement in contest speaking
would be transmitted to Bethel
students who, for the most part,
were totally unfamiliar with speech
tournaments. Some speech students
were given the option of entering
the Festival in exchange for some
class work; others were required
to enter, and still others entered
purely for their own enjoyment.
Commenting about her efforts
to keep the level of excitement
high, Marg Erickson said, "During
the entire tournament we tried to
keep talking, and keep giving ev-eryone
that 'sock it to 'em line!"
The success of such efforts was
clearly illustrated by the change
of attitude from one of disdain to
one of excitement on the part of
those students who were required
to enter.
An encouraging result of the
tournament was the willingness
and desire of many students to par-ticipate
in upcoming tournaments
such as the one in Superior April
18 and 19.
Being the first of its kind at
Bethel, the Forensic Festival in-volved
many uncertainties of which
numbers and quality were not
among the least. The total of those
participating was nearly 100 stu-dents
which was delightfully above
most expectations. The quality of
the tournament also ranked above
par, according to Rainbow, who in-dicated
that the quality and com-petition
here was keener than at
many tournaments Bethel students
have participated in on other cam-puses.
Judges were much aware of the
rigid competition and repeatedly
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
"A 'Relevant Theology" will be
Dr. Clarence Bass's theme for his
three chapel messages next week.
On Monday he will discuss "Un-derstanding
God in a Secular Age."
Tuesday his topic will be "Reve-lation
of Contemporaneous Exper-ience,"
in which he will discuss the
modern Christian's view of Scrip-ture.
"The Theology of Irreligious
Religion" will be his topic on Wed-nesday.
Dr. Bass is professor of
David A. Shupe, write-in candi-date
for Student Association Presi-dent
emerged the victor in what
was the most rousing Student As-sociation
election recalled at Beth-el
in recent years.
A record nearly 70 percent of
the student population turned ont
to vote for their choice for the
posts of president, vice president,
senators-at-large and class senate
Shupe had been eliminated from
the presidential contest by only
four votes in the primary election
on March 21 when they received
third highest vite of the five can-didates
who filed for the office.
In spite of vigorous campaigns
by the top two presidental con-tenders,
Shupe's backing by a "Co-alition
of Concerned Students"
proved successful as he claimed
51 percent of the student votes. A
total of 636 write-in votes were
cast for Shupe with Bruce Otto
claiming 163 votes and Tom Mesa-ros
received 147 votes.
Dave's votes were consistenly
two to one over the other two
candidates in each of the four
classes' voting totals.
It was "an election board night-mare"
as a 10-man emergency
crew counted ballots from the time
the voting poll closed until about
10:30 p.m. Including Shupe's vote,
there were about 1,000 write-in
ballots cast as at least 150 differ-ent
students got into the show with
small write-in support.
In the vice presidential race,
Richard Berggren was the top can-stated
that choosing winners was
extremely difficult. Nevertheless,
they finally arrived at winners in
poetry, prose, oratory, after-dinner
speaking, extemporaneous speak-ing,
and readers' theatre.
Karen Nelson, and Gayle Nelson
received first place trophies re-spectively,
in poetry and prose, and
Wibby Smith won in oratory. Sher-ie
Lindvall and Jon Peterson took
top honors, respectively, in after-dinner
and extemporaneous speak-ing,
and H. McLeod, M. Erickson,
W. Smith, and J. Palen were the
winners in readers' theatre. Jon
Peterson also won the individual
sweepstakes award.
Because of numerous favorable
reactions and comments about the
tournament, speech enthusiasts
hope and predict that the Forensic
Festival will be a continuing event
at Bethel.
theology in Bethel Seminary and
is a popular speaker.
Thursday will be convocation day,
advertised elsewhere in this issue.
Dr. Clifford Larson who served
as Dean of our College for ten
years and is currently professor
of Christian education and acting
Dean of our Seminary, and who
has accepted a position in Fuller
Seminary, will be our Friday speak-er.
This will be his farewell mes-sage
after twenty years of service
at Bethel.
Dave Shupe
didate with a total of 365 votes.
Maurice Zaffke came in second
with 208 votes. Other vice presi-dential
vote getters were: Ron
Hendrickson, 19; Greg Saracoff, 9;
Dennis Zaderaka,2, and one each
for Shupe, Otto and D. Gibson.
Run-offs had to be scheduled
to determine the fifth senator-at-large
(between Barbara Jahr and
Norma Wilcox) and the third class
of 1971 senate seat (between Dale
Berry, Keith Anderson, James Carl-son
and Diane Mattson).
The senator-at-large contest re-sulted
in some oddities as there
were 1,184 abstentions and exactly
100 different write-in candidates
who received less than 25 votes.
Winners of the five senator-at-by
Barb Jahr
In the minds of many Minneso-tan's
the tragic "natural acts of
God" are confined to areas quite
distant, geographically speaking.
However, the spring thaw of 1969
has made such realities into night-mares.
Bethel students returning from
Easter vacation viewed scenes of
loss hard to comprehend as reality.
Water, one of the things Minne-sota
prides itself on having a great
abundance of, has turned into a
violent destructive force. In the
Midwest at least 9,000 persons have
been and will continue to be kept
Baby boom
takes its toll
(ACP)—As a result of the war-baby
boom there's a severe short-age
of eligible men for today's
marriageable girls. Girls who would
normally have married for the first
time in 1967, 1968 or 1969 are the
victims of what Dr. Paul C. Glick,
assistant chief, Population Division,
U.S. Bureau of Census, calls the
"marriage squeeze."
At the time of the 1947 "baby
boom" nobody stopped to think
that girls would probably want to
marry 'boys two years older (born
1945) and that there were a half
million more girls born in 1947
than there were boys born in 1945.
Five possibilities for coping with
the man shortage problem and the
marriage squeeze: 1) go after the
hardcore bachelors 2) rob the cra-dle,
3) displace older wives, 4) wait
for the boys their age to grow up,
or 5) stay single.
Richard Berggren
large positions were: A. Dean Pear-son,
338; Elden John Elseth, 312;
Patricia Faxon, 294; Marjorie M.
Rusche, 289; and Norma Wilcox,
who claimed the run-off victory.
Others who received 25 or more
votes were: W. J. Painter, 46; Greg-ory
Saracoff, 43; Charles Myrbo,
35; and Maurice Zaffke, 25.
Class of '70 senate seats went
to: Janet Hurt, 104 votes; Linda
Sparks, 96, and Steven Lambrides,
66. Newly elected senators for the
class of '71 are: Douglas Warring,
131; Karen Nelson, 121; and James
Carlson, winner of that run-off
election. The Class of '72 elected:
Thomas Ford, 158; Wendell Wahlin,
142; Leland Granlund, 106; and
Philip Humbert, 104.
from their homes until the deluge
In Minnesota approximately 3,-
018 were homeless, South Dakota
came in second with 1,000, Wiscon-sin
about 400 and Iowa 60.
Through Minot, North Dakota
runs the Mouse River. The Mouse
is becoming a vicious beast seek-ing
whom it may devour, and the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers es-timated
that 7,000 people will have
to be evacuated before the crest
this week.
In the Twin Cities the floods
have led to inconvenient traffic
problems and some minor property
damage, in contrast to the vast
destruction elsewhere. In St. Paul
the Mississippi and Minnesota riv-ers
were expected to crest this
week, and the Union Depot has
been closed since last Friday.
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by Pat Faxon
Both sides won.
An experimental attempt to en-courage
church attendance among
Bethel students who are living in
the dorms has been deemed a suc-cess.
Church attendance has been
stimulated and those students who
have no desire to attend Sunday
School but appreciate the church
service, have been granted the op-portunity
to do just that.
'Both Central and Trinity Baptist
Churches report that increased at-tendance
of Bethelites via the 10:30
a.m. buses has been very satisfac-tory.
Central Baptist Church makes
this statement, adding that there
has been no decrease in the num-ber
of 9:30 passengers.
The two churches plan to con-tinue
sending buses at 10:30. Mrs.
Alice Johnson, manager of food
services, who reports a worthwhile
increase in Sunday morning break-fast
attendance, also plans to con-tinue
the extension to 10:15 of that
by Lynn Bergfalk
The spirit of Huck Finn and Tom
Sawyer grabbed two adventurous
Bethel men over spring break, lur-them
down to Missouri for six
days on the Mississippi.
Ron Pederson and Douglas John
Carlson lashed a borrowed canoe
to the top of Ron's car, drove down
to St. Louis where they launched
the canoe on a tributary of the
Mississippi. Twenty miles later they
entered the Mississippi, which they
followed 140 miles to Cairo, Illi-nois,
where the Ohio River joins
the Father of Waters.
Except for two nights and a day
in Cape Girardeau, home of South-east
Missouri State College, Ron
Eastside play is
far from finest
by Chuck Myrbo
The current production at East-side
Theatre is the world premiere
of the English adaption of Isaac
Chocron's "Asia and the Far East."
The play is about patriotism, revo-lution,
the generation gap — that
much is obvious. But what it says
about patriotism, revolution, and
the generation gap isn't obvious at
The play is rambling, ambiguous,
trite, and unbelievingly uninvolv-ing.
It's a musical, but the songs
do nothing to save the play. They
are sung lifelessly, and in many
cases unmusically.
This is the Eastside's sixty-fifth
production, advertised as "the
finest one of all." It is fortunate
for the Eastside Theatre that that's
not true.
and Doug stuck to the river, camp-ing
out along the way.
They traveled light, taking only
nutrient, vitamin tablets, oranges,
bananas, toilet paper, sleeping bags,
a tent, an ax, a pen knife from
Ron's key chain and a can opener.
Ron reported that it was a re-laxing
trip, and that the mile-wide
Mississippi, although high, was not
difficult to navigate. The most ev-entful
part of the trip came while
on land, particularly when attempt-ing
to get back to St. Louis and
Ron's car.
Landing in Cairo, the duo had
planned to rent a car and drive
back to St. Louis with the canoe.
However, they found that they
were too young to rent a car,
although they managed to borrow
a battered pickup with which they
hauled their canoe to a local gas
station for storage.
Then, deciding that bus fare
was too expensive, they tried hitch-hiking.
That failed, so they flew
to Cape Giradeau by private plane.
Doug then took a commercial
flight to St. Louis in order to get
the car which had been left at the
home of (believe it or not) Mrs.
Flo Hyer, who — in the meantime
— had misplaced Ron's car keys.
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was a "young-looking sixty," ac-cording
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Two-man teams witness to other collegians on the beaches
Choir gives home concert tonight
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Friday, April 18, 1969
Spring break happenings • • • Students
'Palefaces' combine
witness with sunshine
What influence can seventeen
Christian college students have up-on
a swinging collegiate beach
town like Ft. Lauderdale?
Late Friday afternoon, April 4,
saw 11 very pale Bethel students
pile into 2 cars and head for the
southern regions of Fort Lauder-dale,
Florida. With great confi-dence
that the Lord was sending
them to receptive people on the
beaches and the strip, this eager
group set off.
Driving through fog and rain,
the group finally saw the famed
beaches of Daytona at 7:00 a.m. on
With only a few miles to go,
(compared to the 1600 already cov-ered)
they soon set out again for
Ft. Lauderdale. As they traveled
down Florida's coast, the r a i n s
caught them again and so it was
decided to take a side trip to
Cape Kennedy.
Impressed by man's feats in
space, but more excited about God's
love for man, Ft. Lauderdale be-came
the next stop.
Lauderdale Baptist Church had
anticipated their arrival and this
group of Beach Missionaries re-ceived
the most warm and hospita-ble
reception possible. Many people
in this small church had opened
their homes to the young people
and in some cases were disappoint-ed
to learn their stay was for
only one week and not for two.
In the meantime, another ear-ful
of students had left St. Paul
and arrived ready to 'hit the beach-es'
on Monday morning.
Armed with suntan oils, towels,
Campus Crusade's "Four Spiritual
Laws" booklets, and the National
Collegiate Religious Surveys, the
two-man teams began talking about
the love of God to collegians from
all over the U.S. Decisions were
made and people prayed but the
day on the beaches was not all.
In the evening the young people
met to walk the strip and once
again decisions were made, prayers
said and lives changed.
One fellow who prayed was just
in town for the day and was going
home to Central America that next
morning. Two others were so ex-cited
they grabbed the Bethelites
and hurried them down the street
to "tell our friends because it's
so wonderful."
Other decisions were made quiet-ly
and thoughtfully as though they
had just been waiting for that
important question to be asked,
Dave Pound, junior co-captain
of the team, commented that mira-cles
still happen in this era. The
team didn't have a lot of talent,
but he is sure that God was work-ing
in the witness that they had.
Staying in homes was an en-riching
experience for both the
Bethelites and their hosts. Dave
Dale Saxon couldn't resist just
a little monkey business
"Is there any reason why you
wouldn't like to receive Christ
right now?"
As for the next year, the group
promised the small church con-gregation
that Bethelites would at-tempt
to double their size if the
church would provide housing a-gain.
The returning 17 students were
a little tanner and a lot more ex-cited
about witnessing for the God
of greatness and love that they
are privileged to have as their
mentioned how strong the bond
of Christ seemed to be because it
was so easy to feel at home and
have fellowship with complete
During the normal part of the
season, a track team will have one
meet and maybe two per week.
However, when five meets are
crowded into ten days, with an
extra work-out on the side thrown
in, something has to give. In fact,
the team did give. The rigorous
schedule put them into top con-dition,
and despite the fact that
they only won one meet, individual
performances got better and better.
The team had ten days of top-notch
weather to help make the
trip a lot of fun rather than a lot
of hard work. For a team which
does not have indoor facilities such
as Macalester, Wisconsin State
schools, and others, ,Bethel's track
trip is a unique and rewarding at
tempt to compensate for adverse
Amidst admonitions and bene-dictions
of well-wishers, three in-trepid
students departed from the
Twin Cities on April 2 with little
more than their knapsacks and
what proved to be some very lucky
Before the journey was over, Jan-et
Appelquist, Sarah Buell, and
Ed Hall had covered hundreds of
miles and found themselves in New
York City on April 4, forming the
first 3/5 of a 5-man welcoming
committee for less adventurous stu-dents
who chose to fly out for the
Art Department tour over Easter
Two other hikers, Jim Skolman
and Randy Cahill (a non-Bethel-ite),
jointed the small group of
three to await the arrival of the
by Wally Borner Such track trips generally fea-
Coach Glader states that he ture a dual role as the men double
knows of no other college in the as a "tract" team. In exchange for
area that does what the Bethel meals and lodging, they participate
College Track Team does—that is, in church services and youth meet-go
on an extended outstate trip ings. This year's squad is not par-during
the early part of the season. titularly blessed with a great deal
And thanks to Minnesota's unpre- of talent; however, Dwight Carl-dictable
spring, such a trip works son's trumpet and a male chorus
to the great advantage of the team. which sang in unison most of the
Coach Glader's thinclads left at time, provided a musical worship
noon Thursday, April 3 for a ten- experience. The musical presen-day
trip with five meets. They took tation was rounded out with tes-two
stationwagons and fourteen timonies.
squad members, (two of whom had
to return home early) and embark-ed
on their rigorous, yet economi-cal
The men stayed in homes of
people from conference churches a-long
much of the way. They spent
one night on the campus of Tarkio
in Missouri, and two nights at
Bethel of Kansas.
Cindermen double as gospel team
Vacation track trip is unique experience
by Karen Rodberg
Just back from their concert
tour of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan, the Bethel College
Choir presents its homecoming
concert at 8 p.m. today in the
The Choir's repertoire features
works from every musical period
since the Renaissance. The major
work is Darius Milhaud's "The Two
Cities," which employs some of the
more modern choral techniques.
Also included in the concert are
several hymn arrangements and
be physically exciting and times
when the messages of each song be-came
especially meaningful to each
member of the choir.
Of course there were times of
fun or, when nothing could go
right—times like beginning the day
at 5 a.m., or watching one member
fall up the risers mid-concert, or
finding yourself being handed
Rich Trinity's red socks in the mid-dle
of a song, or getting even with
a business manager and assistant
conductor, or playing football in
a marsh.
a spiritual. The choir arrived back on cam-
The choir's tour brought a num- pus at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday—a bit
ber of memorable experiences, weary after a rigorous schedule
some aesthetic, some spiritual, and and 14 concerts, but all agreeing
some hilarious. There were times that the tour was well worth their
when acoustics were so live as to time.
rest of the students on Sunday, ler Center, Times Square, the Em-
April 6. pire State Building, the United
Robert Clark Nelson, design Nations, Grand Central Station and
teacher from 'Bethel, led a 7-day the NBC studios.
tour for 16 students (including Mrs. Central Park and Greenwich Vil-
Gduetrya alds cHheaapleyr wonheo a snedr vheeda dd ochuebfl e- loge were two fascinating places
and meal planner). Trinity Baptist the group went. Many of the stu-
Church provided sleeping accomo- dents took the Staten Island Ferry
dations and a kitchen where the boat ride past the Statue of Liberty.
group ate breakfast before leaving The fare was only 5c (which is
for each day's tour. about the cheapest thing in the
As the week wore on, so the whole city of New York).
shoes wore out. The group visited Several students went to the all-some
80 or 90 galleries, most of black cast production of "Hello,
which consisted of one-man shows Dolly!".
contained in the private one-room All in all, the group agreed it
galleries which abound in New was an exciting week which left
York City. Among other activities, the art students with very sore
the group visited Lincoln Center feet but some great ideas for new
for the Performing Arts, Rockefel- works.
"Thumbs-up" all the way
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by Marjorie Rusche
Small private colleges in trouble
Chicago was the site of the As-sociation
of Higher Education Ex-ecutives
conference on the "private
college prediciment." James Bragg,
director of admissions, attended
this session.
"Small private colleges across
the country are in trouble; some
are closing down due to lack of
funds," Bragg noted. "They are
pricing themselves out of a mar-ket.
This year, for the first time
in U.S. educational history, there
has been a decrease in small pri-vate
college enrollment."
Up to three years ago, Bethel
was trying to discourage students
from coming. A new admissions
department was just instituted Feb.
1 and should be in full operation by
Sept. 1, Bragg said.
"A full-scale recruitment pro-gram
is needed to keep enrollment
up during the next five years
when a financial squeeze on small
private colleges is coming. This
recruitment and retention program
must cut across department lines.
"The entire faculty must be com-mitted
to these areas. We must
realize that the school exists for
students, not for the board of edu-cation,
business office, administra-tion,
faculty, or alumni."
Many private colleges have re-ceived
cut-backs in funds for finan-cial
aids programs. The fund-short-age
in state and federal govern-ments
is so acute public education
funds are being drastically cut.
In order for a small private col-lege
to survive, Bragg feels, they
must have a great deal of consti-tuent
loyalty; and there are new
factors threatening the loyalty of
the General Baptist Conference
constituency to Bethel.
"There is a trend among minis-ters
to suggest attendance at a
state college and involvement in
one of the Christian organizations
on campus there to their high
school students. Furthermore, pas-tors
are decreasing in influence as
far as a choice of college is con-cerned
for most high schools now
have a counseling program for
students interested in college, and
this program emphasizes state
"The sophistication and growth
of junior colleges cuts down on
applicants, Another factor is the
state's extensive scholarship and
grant programs."
Bragg feels an action that would
encourage enrollment at Bethel
would be an honest straightforward
approach in printed materials de-signed
to interest prospective stu-dents
and to the whole admissions
"We should not be striving to
create a 'pure' student body. The
college must not be afraid to ident-ify
what students really think. In-stead
of asking on an admissions
application form, 'Have you ever
accepted Jesus Christ as your per-sonal
Savior?' we should be more
concerned with a question like 'Are
you interested in seriously examin-ing
the Christian faith?'," Bragg
Finlay forcasts computerization
Improved management of data
was the concern of the Upper Mid-west
Association of Collegiate Reg-istrars
and Admissions Officers
Conference held April 9, 10, 11, at
Augustana College in Sioux Falls,
Dr. Paul Finlay, registrar, picked
up valuable information about
streamlining record systems at the
As things stand now at Bethel,
each administrative office has a
different type of data system for
gathering and recording informa-tion
about students.
The school plans to work towards
a correlation of these various rec-ords
in the financial aids, student
services, admissions, accounting
and eventually alumni offices. This
can be done by standardizing the
data and computerizing it through
a data processing system.
Bethel hopes to have standardiz-ed
data before the campus moves
to the Arden Hills site.
Chaplains in vulnerable position
A self-study of chaplains occur-red
at the Association of College
and University Chaplain's confer-ence
at Pitzer College in Claremont
Calif. April 8-11.
Pastor Lawson attended the con-ference,
at which representatives
from administration, faculty, and
student groups were present to
give their impressions of chaplain-cy.
"The administrators there were
sympathetic to the idea of chap-laincy.
There was a general feel-ing
among faculty members that we
are now living in a post-Christian
era and there is little place for a
man of religion. A few of the
students were openly hostile to
the idea of chaplaincy."
Pastor Lawson noted a great
concern of the men at the con-ference
over student protests. He
spoke of the men he met. "Many
of the chaplains there are looked
to for leadership by social action
groups due to their marginal posi-tion.
Most of the chaplains are in
a very vulnerable position — they
have no contract, no tenure, and
can be dismissed on a day's no-tice.
Generally quite dedicated and
caught in the role of mediator be-theologically
liberal, they a r e
tween student groups and adminis-trators."
Women Deans "doing a new thing"
"Behold! We are doing a New
Thing" — the theme of the Nation-al
Association of Women Deans and
Counselors conference in Atlanta,
Georgia — reflects the growing de-mand
for challenging new pro-grams
and methods of instruction
on today's campuses.
Bethel was represented at the
April 10-13 conference by Marilyn
Starr, Dean of Women.
Concern was expressed at the
conference over student unrest.
Dean Starr noted, "There is a gen-eral
trend towards tighter and
firmer administration among this
nation's schools. There is the feel-ing
that the administration must
clearly define the rules and stan-dards
of the schools, print them,
give them out, and then enforce
them firmly."
Another trend among college ad-ministrators
was a drive towards
more liberal hours and stricter
visitation. "There is a good possi-bility
for liberalization of hours
next year," Miss Starr stated, "how-ever,
I would like to see more visi-tation
in the lounges and less in the
rooms — including Falcon Manor
as well as the girls' manors. Extra
funds would be necessary to make
improvement in the lounges."
Programs that some schools are
using to encourage a "living-learn-ing"
type of atmosphere in the
dorms and campus include major
or scholarship floors or houses.
Individuals in a certain field or
with a certain G.P.A. would be
voluntarily grouped together on a
floor of a dorm or in a separate
Miss Starr saw a limited possi-bility
of inaugurating this type of
program at Bethel. "It would be
difficult to have a language floor
or house at Bethel, for example,
because there isn't a language
major presently offered," she said.
As far as housing is concerned,
the trend on college campuses is
away from dormitories and towards
apartments. "We'll have to consi-der
this factor in New Campus
planning," Miss Starr stated. "How-ever,
there seems to be a general
Out In Score
C Buettner 47 43 90
B Dave Anderson 34 38 72
C Steinhorst 50 52 102
B Steve Peterson 37 33 70
C Schalihor 41 49 90
B Murray Sitte 40 39 79
C Wudy 53 58 111
B Finch 37 37 74
C Lilleberg 62 63 125
B Moline 41 43 84
feeling that freshmen should still
live in dorms and have hour regu-lations."
Growing openness to experimental
Dr. Walter Wessel journeyed to
Sugar Hills resort at Grand Rap-ids,
Minn. last weekend to attend
the annual Minnesota Inter-college
faculty conference.
The conference concerned itself
with methods of improving college
teaching. Many new ideas were
presented and discussed.
One particular example of the
new trend in experimentation is
the development of a para-college
at St. Olaf. An initial enrollment of
70 is slated for its opening in the
fall of '69 with a projected enroll-ment
of 500.
The faculty of the magnus col-lege
will be hired by the regular
college, but will serve at the ex-perimental
college more in an ad-visory
capacity than in a straight
lecture capacity, Dr. Wessel said.
There are no required courses
that the students must take. The
whole curriculum is very unstruct-ured.
No grades are given.
Students may stay at the col-lege
for 3-5 years. When they feel
they are ready, students take two
comprehensive exams, one in their
area of concentration and one in
the area of general arts. Successful
completion of the two exams are
the only requirements for gradua-tion.
The long-range purpose of the
magnus college is to bring about
substantial change in the larger
college, according to Dr. Wessel.
Dr. Wessel feels there is a grow-ing
openness towards experimental
educational methods on Bethel's
campus. "This openness is evidenc-ed
by the adoption of the interim
term program."
"Hopefully, the new program will
influence the scheduling and pro-gramming
of regular semesters.
Greater flexibility is needed."
Individual Performances —
Track Trip
Name finishes
Fritz Fredeen* 5 3 0 3 413/2
Bob Olsen*** 3 3 10 3 37
Andy Lehman** 1 7 6 1 34
Dave Pearson 1 4 2 1 22
Dave Pound* 2 2 1 1 201/2
Dwight Carlson 2 2 1 0 17
Phil James* 1 2 2 0 15112
Rick Berggren* 1 2 0 0 131/2
Dick Olson 0 2 4 0 11
Darrel Nelson 0 3 0 0 9
George Gulian 0 0 2 0 2
Jim Carlson 0 0 2 0 2
* Participated in mile relay which
took first place twice.
** Set School record in 176 yard
Intermediate hurdles-23.3
***Set School record in shot put-
46'6"; 176 yard dash-19.3
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Friday, April 18, 1969
Baseball team sweeps
doubleheader at NCBC
Bethel's Baseball team took a doubleheader from
North Central Bible College of Minneapolis Wednes-day,
The first game saw the Royals putting together
an eleven-hit attack for a 12-1 victory. The nightcap
was 8-0 with only five hits.
Bethel hit around in the first inning of the first
game and tallied five runs. Dean Ericson led off
with a double and came home on Jim Delich's
triple. Gary Clark and Steve Hanson each singled
and two walks and a sacrifice fly filled out the inning.
The second inning brought in three more runs
and they got single runs in each of the last four
innings. Doug Warring got on base without a hit
four times and scored three runs. Jim Delich went
3 for 3 with a single, double, and triple. Gary Clark
stroked three singles.
Lowell Richardson was the winning pitcher and
was given help from Gary Clark and Bill Painter. They
combined to limit NOBC to four hits.
In the second game, the Royals started out the
same way — this time collecting four runs. They
only managed two hits, but had five walks.
In two innings, Bethel scored without getting
a hit. Their five hits were all singles. Dean Ericson
picked up two hits, with Gary Clark, Doug Warring,
and Bob Brodin picking up one.
Brodinski picked up the win giving up one hit.
Dean Ericson pitched two innings, and NCBC picked
up their second run off Delich in the last inning.
Bethel bobbled the ball only once in the two
games. Bethel's defense this year consists of Bill
Englund behind the plate with Bill Painter backing
him up. The infield is Dean Ericson at first, Doug
Warring at second, Jim Delich at third, with Brodin
and Jim Feldman switching at short. The outfield
is Dick Hunter, Gary Clark, and Steve Hanson from
left to right field.
April 18-24
18 Baseball, Twins vs. California
18 Tennis, Bethel vs. River Falls
Bob Olsen began the season as Bethel's
weight man. However, he has developed into
the teams No. 1 man in the short distance
dashes and a steady performer in the long
and triple jumps. Twice this year he has
broken the school shot put record.
19 Baseball, Bethel at Albert Lea (2)
19 Track, Bethel at Carleton Relays
19 Baseball, Twins vs. California
20 Baseball, Twins vs. California
21 Tennis, Bethel at Gustavus
21 Baseball, Twins vs. Oakland
22 Baseball, Twins vs. Oakland
22 Golf, Bethel vs. Stout State
23 Baseball, Bethel at Carleton
23 Baseball, Twins at Oakland
23 Tennis, Bethel at Hamline ,
24 Baseball, Twins at Oakland
Track trip yields stiff competition, fine conditioning
Seddiete Symposium
New look in the Major Leagues
(Guest Editorial)
by Jim Youngquist
Spring has arrived and with it the beginning of a new
baseball season. Already in its second week, some are still
attempting to get things straight. With the new season has
come four new teams and an expansion into four divisions
of the teams. Also the addition of new teams has resulted in
an extra number of unknowns among the players. The result
could be a wild scramble for rookie of the year honors.
How will the new season shape up? Added to the Ameri-can
League were Seattle and Kansas City. Without Charles
0. Finley to liven things, K.C. might draw less fans than two
years ago.
In the West it will be a three way battle among Chicago,
Minnesota, and Oakland. Chicago and Oakland must rely on
their pitching to pull on top. With the Twins it will be up
to how well Billy Martin leads his forces. With Lopez back in
control and if the Sox can produce a few more runs, it should
be Chicago in the West.
Over in the East there appears to be a five team battle
for the title. All except the Senators have excellent chances
to win it, though Detroit would have to be the favored team.
Entering the year as world champions, the Tigers are
coming back with all but one starter. This is the sharp fielder
Ray Oyler who hit a sizzling .135 last year. McLain, a 31-game
winner last year, Lolich, and Wilson head up the pitching staff.
Then with names such as Mickey Stanley, Willie Horton, Al
Kathie, Norm Cash, Bob Freehan, and Dick McCauliffe in the
lineup, the Tigers will be hard to stop. Rivaling the Tigers
closest will likely be Boston, if Lonborg and Tony Conigliaro
can recover from last year's injuries.
Unlike the American League, the divisions in the National
League are not grouped geographically. For lack of better
terms, unfortunately, they are also divided into East and West.
Favored in the East is St. Louis. Stripped of their title as
World champions by Detroit, they will be shooting for revenge.
Likely to challenge their bid will be the Cubs under the reins
of "Leo the Lip." With "Grandpa" Banks leading the way,
and some help from the pitchers it could be a fierce fight for
the divison title. Included in the division is Montreal, the first
Major League team outside the United States. With a little
luck and some pitchers the Expos may climb to fifth in their
first year.
Traditional rivals, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the
same division, help make the West better balanced. Four
teams, the Giants, Braves, Reds, and Dodgers have a good chance
for the top. Yet with Marichal heading the moundsmen and
Mays the hitters, San Francisco must get the edge. San Diego,
an expansion team, will sweat and toil to win a third of their
Tenth place is now in the past. With the division of the
leagues, teams like the Mets and Astros are hard put. Not
only are they unable to end up tenth but they also have com-petition
for their position from the Expos and Padres.
On the other hand the divisions yield four races instead
of two. It should heighten interest in baseball by increasing
the possibility of at least one or more close races. The division-al
leaders at the season's end are first to pair off in a best of
three-out-of-five series within their leagues. These winners
then will play in the traditional World Series. Who the Series
winner will be anyone's guess—this observer sees the San
Francisco Giants as the new world champs!
drubbed in vacation action
Bethel's track team hit the road
during Easter vacation on a trip
which took them to five meets in
five states. Though they did not
come back with a load of impres-sive
victories, the trip was very
worthwhile for the conditioning of
the team.
The squad left Thursday, April
3 and had a meet that afternoon
with the Mankato State College "B"
squad. Mankato appeared to be
running away with the meet when
they held a 25 point bulge with
only three events to be reported.
Then Bethel jumped back by tak-ing
each place except for a second
in the three jumping events. The
Royals lost by only 63-59.
The next meet was the South Da-kota
Invitational and included 15
teams from the midwest area. This
was the stiffest competition that
Bethel has seen and they picked
up the 12th spot with only a total
of 7 team points.
Fritz Fredeen took fourth in the
120 yard high hurdles and in the
440 yard intermediate hurdles. An-dy
Lehman jumped to a third
place finish in the triple jump.
The first dual outdoor meet was
against a newcomer to the Bethel
schedule. Tarkio College in Tarkio,
Missouri provided the opposition
for Bethel's first win of the sea-son.
The score was 69-66 but in
Golfers sizzle in
The duffers really did it. And for
the first match of the season, it
was an impressive victory.
However, when you only consid-er
the competition, we can't really
brag up the golf team because last
Monday Concordia of St. Paul was
unable to mount anything of a
threat. Murray Sitte was the only
golfer who had any pressure. He
led his opponent by only one stroke
after the front nine but took a ten
stroke edge coming in.
When one considers how the
weather has prevented the team
from getting much action on the
the light of Bethel's main problem
this year, no depth, it was a very
good victory.
Tarkio, in fact, took 11 of the 16
first place honors. However, Bethel
took 12 second place and 11 third
place finishes.
Phil James put out his best per-formance
of the year in the 440
by taking first place with a time
of :51.6. Fritz Fredeen took first
place in both hurdle events. How-ever,
the one who is becoming the
iron man of the squad is Bob
Olsen. Bob took first place in the
shot put as he broke his own record
with a toss of 46'6". He took sec-ond
place in the broad and triple
jumps and third place in the 100
yard dash, javelin, 220 yard dash,
and discus.
Returning to Bethel College in
North Newton, Kansas, the Royals
came into a bit of misfortune. Two
years ago, Coach Glader's squad
easily disposed of their Kansas
namesake. But this year the com-bination
of a much stronger oppo-nent
and our own small numbers
spelled defeat by the score of 74-
The Royals were strong in the
hurdles and distance races as Fre-deen
once again took first in both
hurdle events and Dwight Carlson
took first in both the mile and S-mile
opening meet
links prior to this first match, one
wonders what kind of guys we have
at Bethel when six of them post
sub-80 scores.
Concordia only had five men and
so Bethel sent Dave Anderson,
Steve Peterson, Sitte, Dale Finch,
and Bill Moline against them. Steve
shot a scorching 70 and Dave post-ed
a 72 stroke score. The five men
combined to win the meet by 139
The rest of the team went the
full 18 holes also with Jerry Loomis
and Jim Lindberg postion scores
of 76 and 77 respectively.
The event that stung, however,
was the first event. In the 440-
yard relay, the Royals won by half
a second. But the Kansas team was
awarded first place points due to
a baton exchange in the wrong
lane. That five point error cost the
The final meet of the trip was
in Waverly, Iowa where Bethel
joined William Penn College in a
triangular meet against Wartburg.
Bethel was outclassed as the final
score ended William Penn 87,
Wartburg 71, Bethel 22. At the
finish line for first place, Bethel
was completely shut out. Dave
Pearson was high performance man
with a second, third, and fourth
place finish in high, triple, and
broad jumps respectively.
With that grueling schedule be-hind
them, the team is now in top
condition. Saturday the team will
travel- to Northfield to participate
in the Carleton Relays.
by Wally Borner
The diamondmen took it on the
chin, but at least not without try-ing.
In their April 10 opener a-gainst
Carleton, Bethel dropped a
six to two decision. The problem?
No key hits and no depth in the
Concordia held a two-zip lead
going into the eighth inning when
they scored twice more on two
walks, two singles, and an error.
In the bottom of the inning, Dick
Hunter reached base on an error
and later scored on an error.
However, Concordia scored their
fifth and sixth runs in the top of
the ninth. Don Craft singled to
open Bethel's half of the inning and
scored on Dean Ericson's single.
However, the rally didn't get going
and the team lost a ticker.
The key hit that never came?
In the second inning, Bethel loaded
the bases with one out Steve Han-son
hit into a double play. In the
third inning Gary Clark opened
with a double but was stranded
there. With the bases loaded and
no one out in the seventh, the
Carleton pitcher managed to get
two Royals to pop up and the other
to whiff. And so Bethel won in the
left on base category, as they
stranded 11.
Two days later, the team traveled
to Eau Claire and were trounced
in a double header 13-2 and 9-1.
Again the relief pitching wasn't
there as a Royal reliever gave up
eight runs in the sixth inning of
the first game.
,Bethel's two runs came early.
In the second inning, Doug Warring
singled in Gary Clark. The follow-ing
frame temporarily brought
Bethel to its feet as Dick Hunter
blasted the ball over the center-field
fence. In both of those in-nings,
however, the Eau Claire
pitcher struck out the side.
In the nightcap, Eau Claire
struck early as they scored four
times in the first inning, three in
the second, and twice in the third.
The Royal's loan run came in
the third when Doug Warring
walked and came home on Jim De-lich's
double. Once again, Bethel
had the bases loaded with one out
on two occasions, but could not
'bring anyone across the plate.
This year, the pitching load is
almost entirely on Lowell Richard-son
and Bob Brodin. Both are fine
hurlers, however, this early in the
season, they can't pitch seven or
nine innings without tiring.
The hitting has not been any-thing
to get excited about yet. Bill
Englund has three hits in seven
at bats and Dean Ericson is 3 for 11.
Other than that, no one has more
than one hit and the team has not
been able to get more than six
hits in a game.
If the hits start falling and the
two sophomore pitchers can get
some help, the season will be good.
But until then, there will be no
joy in Mudville.
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Warm winter water holding bait and fish
"I sat there on Beavertail Point, Jamestown with a pair of binoculars looking toward Narragansett Beach. What I saw was astounding, fish after fish, bluefin tuna jumping, one here, and then two over there," said Captain Jim White. The odd thing is that it was the end of January, 2012.
With many documented reports of tuna, menhaden and striped bass in Narragansett Bay this winter, it made me wonder why. The answer seemed obvious ... the weather and the water temperature has been warmer than normal. In fact, the Bay temperature has been heating up for nearly 40 years, but this is a lot warmer than usual.
How warm you ask? Well it used to be very cold. In 1740, Rhode Island Governor William Green of Warwick said in a note "… the Narragansett Bay was soon frozen over, and the people passed and repassed from Providence to Newport on the ice, and from Newport to Bristol" (Upkike, 1907).
The crew of the Brenton Reef lightship measured water temperature at the mouth of Narragansett Bay every day from July 1878 through January 1942. In the coldest winter recorded (1917-18), the water temperature from December through February was 33.2 F. The average for the whole period of their record (64 years) is much warmer at 39.1 F. (Nixon, Granger and Buckley, The Warming of Narragansett Bay, 2003).
However, even this temperature of 39.1 F is far from the warmer water temperatures recorded this Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 … Conimicut Point, 45 F; Newport, 42 F; and Block Island, 46 F.
I mentioned Newport and Jamestown, as this is where bluefin tuna have been crashing schools of herring this winter and a number of dolphins have been spotted off these shores and further into the Bay. And, I mention Conimicut Light because from the Light all the way up the Providence River, schools of Atlantic Menhaden have been around all winter, along with an unusually large amount of striped bass that recreational anglers have been catching.
This week I asked Jason McNamee, marine biologist, Marine Fisheries Division of the RI Department of Environmental Management, his thoughts on the appearance of menhaden, striped bass, tuna and warm water this winter and here is what he had to say.
Jason McNamee said, "… Yes, this is all strange indeed. Our trawl survey has been seeing these menhaden as well, which is quite unique relative to other years. Just as a quick, off-the-cuff-type response, the warm winter we are having has provided an adequate temperature for these species to stay, and survive, over the winter. The bluefin that were spotted (and caught in some instances), I'd say, were directly related to the herring population that came in to our area waters. It is a well researched hypothesis that there is a strong correlation between bluefin tuna and strong water density gradients and I have heard people indicate that there was a rapid change in water temperature from inshore to offshore this winter, thus creating a density gradient. What happens at these density gradients is that you get a collection of things like plankton, so species like herring and menhaden will take advantage of the collection of food by schooling and feeding in these areas, and species like striped bass and tuna take advantage of the aggregation of their food source … It has been a very interesting winter to say the least."
I have to wonder what this might mean for fishing this spring and summer. There is no doubt we can start to fish earlier in the upper portion of the Bay, as we can continue to fish the bass that have decided to stay as anglers have done all winter. Also, one might think that our coastal waters, the Bay and estuaries that are holding more bait than usual for this time of year would attract new migrating striped bass more than usual, too. We will just have to wait and see.
However, I am also interested in what effect this warm winter water might have on the fish in the summer. We know warm water, excessive nutrients and low oxygen levels have had devastating effects (fish kills) in the summer in the upper portions of the Bay, particularly Greenwich Bay and Cove (see Fish need oxygen too at http://noflukefishing.blogspot.com/2011/07/fish-need-oxyen-too.html ).
Again, we will just have to wait and see.
Shallow Water Striper University cancelled
Captain Jim White has canceled Shallow Water Striper University scheduled for February 18 and 19. Captain White said, "Advanced registrations were slow so we had to cancel the two day event."
Let your voice be heard, attend public hearing on fishing regulations
Wednesday, February 22, Public Hearing. 6:00 p.m., URI Bay Campus, Corless Auditorium. Agenda to include proposed changes to the Management Plans for most salt water species including fluke, striped bass, tautog, menhaden, scup and more.
Capt. Dave Monti and Chef Ralph Battista to speak about fluke at RISAA seminar
Two topics, fluke (summer flounder) fishing tips and fluke cooking tips will be featured at the Monday, February 27, 7:00 p.m. Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association (RISAA) meeting this month. Capt. Dave Monti of No Fluke Fishing charters and noted local fishing columnist will share fluke fishing tips from expert guides, charter captains and anglers. Chef Ralph Battista, owner of Luigi's Restaurant and Gourmet Express, Johnston, RI will share fluke cooking tips. When not cooking at his restaurant Ralph spends time with his family aboard his boat Hook'n & Cook'n. RISAA members can bring a friend at no charge; non-members are asked to make a $10 donation. Seminar starts at 7:00 p.m. at the West Valley Inn, West Warwick, RI with optional dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. Visit www.risaa.org for details.
Cod fishing on both the Seven B's (1.800.371.fish) and Francis Fleet (1.800.662.2824) vessels has been good. Larry Norin filed this report on a cod trip he took last Thursday aboard the Island Current out of Snug Harbor. "We left the dock around 5 a.m. and headed to the East Grounds off BI. About 15-20 total people on board. One Captain, two mates, about ten regulars and a few first timers. … We dropped the first clams down while on anchor around 6:30 a.m. Bent rods all over the place with mostly dogfish and the occasional Cod. We moved and re-anchored on the structure and got away from the Dogs. We moved one other time and headed west and very close to the island. It was a slowish pick all day. I managed four dogfish (most caught way more) two conger eels and twelve cod, two were released that were 21 inches the rest were 24-28 inches."
Captain Dave Monti has been fishing and shell fishing on Narragansett Bay for over 40 years. He holds a captain's master license, a charter fishing license, and is a member of the Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Council. Your fishing photos in JPEG from, stories, comments and questions are welcome… there's more than one way to catch a fish. Visit Captain Dave's No Fluke website at www.noflukefishing.com ; his blog at www.noflukefishing.blogspot.com or e-mail him at email@example.com.


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In-season HGH testing to begin this year
Agreement calls for year-round exams, baseline measures of testosterone
By Paul Hagen / 01/10/13 2:35 PM ET
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. -- Commissioner Bud Selig announced significant modifications in Major League Baseball's drug testing program, already the strongest in professional sports, after briefing top executives on the final day of the quarterly Owners Meetings on Thursday.
"As I said to the owners ... when we announced this to the clubs, 'This is a very proud day for baseball.' And I believe that. This is remarkable when you think where we were 10, 12, 15 years ago and where we are today. Nobody could have dreamed it," Selig said.
"I just can't emphasize to you enough, when I think of all that's gone on relative to the steroids and drugs and everything. There's been a lot of conversation again the last day or two. Think of where we were and how we arrived at this day, I meant what I said. This is a proud and a great day for baseball and we'll continue to be a leader in this field and do whatever we have to do. This is good. I don't know how else to say it. This is good. This is really good."
Under the changes, players will be subject to random unannounced in-season blood tests for human growth hormone and baseline testosterone readings will be taken for all players to make it easier to detect the use of synthetic testosterone.
The more stringent procedures, which will begin this season, were implemented and announced in conjunction with the MLB Players Association and will amend the current Collective Bargaining Agreement that runs through 2016.
"This is a very proud day for baseball," Selig said. "We'll continue to be a leader in this field and do what we need to do. You make up your mind you're going to do something, and you do it."
The accredited Montreal laboratory of the World Anti-Doping Agency has been authorized to establish a longitudinal profile program in which every player's testosterone/epitestosterone (T/E) ratio will be established. This data will be maintained by the laboratory with strict protections for confidentiality. That will enhance the ability to detect the use of prohibited substances through Carbon Isotope Ratio Mass Spectometry (IRMS). This will be one of the most significant programs of its kind in the world.
"It is significant because it's a demonstration of the commitment by the Commissioner and the MLBPA to constantly improve our drug programs and make every effort that we can to have our programs as good as they can possibly be and up to the standards that are expected of all sports internationally," said Rob Manfred, MLB's executive vice president of labor relations.
"I give the MLBPA a tremendous amount of credit for making this deal. I think it always takes courage to be a leader and they've always been a leader among the unions in professional sports in this regard. I think the arrangement we made with them as part of the last collective bargaining agreement is creative and forward-looking in the sense that it allowed us to do some blood testing. Allow the players to get comfortable with the concept of blood testing before we moved into the part of the year that is the playing season, where obviously sensitivities are the highest.
"Honestly, and I'll say it again. I think both Commissioner Selig and the MLBPA leadership, [executive director] Mike Weiner in particular, deserve a tremendous amount of credit for staying on this issue and having the fortitude to be a leader in this area."
Said Weiner, in a statement: "The players are determined to do all they can to continually improve the sport's Joint Drug Agreement. Players want a program that is tough, scientifically accurate, backed by the latest scientific methods and fair; I believe these changes firmly support the players' desires while protecting their legal rights."
In the same statement, Christiane Ayotte, director of the Montreal laboratory, said the agreement "makes baseball's program second to none in detecting and deterring the use of synthetic HGH and testosterone."
Manfred said the increased testing sends an important message. "I think it's really crucial for our fans to understand that not only do we have a good program but that we are vigilant in terms of constantly improving that program and making sure that we have a clean game on the field," he said.
Getting players to agree to offseason and Spring Training testing for HGH in the current CBA was a major breakthrough and expanding that keeps baseball on the forefront of attempting to eliminate the use of performance-enhancing substances.
"HGH can be used at any point during the year and we think it's very important from a deterrence perspective that players be subject to blood testing just like they're subject to urine testing year-round," Manfred explained.
The awareness of synthetic testosterone is a relatively recent development.
"I think the most difficult thing about performance-enhancing drugs is it doesn't stand still," Manfred said. "Four years ago, if you'd asked me if synthetic testosterone was a big problem I probably would have given you a different answer than I'd have given you in the middle of the summer this year. But I think the two agreements on the testosterone side -- that is, the use of the best technology, the IRMS testing more aggressively and the union's willingness to buy into longitudinal testing will really strengthen our program.
"We had a number of testosterone positives [last year]. We think this change is very important. That type of individual data makes your testosterone testing program tremendously more robust."


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FORMER Markethill High School teacher and sportsman Lew Huddleston has died suddenly at his home in Donacloney.
Mr Huddleston, who was 68, played football for Portadown during the Gibby Mackenzie management era and had a season at Linfield. He gained a number of hockey 'caps' at Ulster Provincial Schools level and enjoyed the game of golf, which he often played with his brother Ronnie (deceased) who was captain of Tandragee Golf Club.
A graduate of Queen's University in zoology, he spent the bulk of his teaching career at Markethill High, having begun it at Dungannon Royal and having spent six years in Kenya.
Lew Huddleston was a member of a well-known Markethill family, his parents being Nelson and Cissie Huddleston, proprietors of the local newsagents, later taken over by Ronnie, who died about 10 years ago. Lew is survived by his wife Phyllis, daughter Jill, sister Margaret Huddleson and brother-in-law Roy, sister June Haire and brother-in-law Rodney and sister-in-law Andrea.
He was educated at Markethill Primary School, Newry Grammar and Queen's University, and his first post was teaching biology at Dungannon Royal, after which he and a number of friends decided to move to Nairobi in Kenya where he taught for six years in a boys' school - they drove there in a van and he spent happy, productive years there.
After he returned to Markethill, Lew and Phyllis married in December 1981, set up home initially in Loughgall, then Markethill and moved to their present address at Gamblestown Park, Donacloney, in the late 1980s.
As well as his family and career, Mr Huddleston loved sport. With Newry Grammar being primarily a hockey school, he took up the game in the Frontier town, played for a number of seasons with Banbridge, during which he gained Ulster honours. He was a flying winger and also loved football.
He was on the books at Shamrock Park for a couple of season, his hallmark being his speed. His team mates included Jimmy Walker, Harry Robinson, Davy Henderson and Gerry Burrell. He also played a season for Linfield where Tommy Leishman was in charge - the dates were the mid-1960s.
Mr Huddleston also played for a number of junior clubs - at Summer League and Mid-Ulster level - simply for the love of the game, and enjoyed the occasional round of golf with Ronnie and friends, having a natural 'eye' for ball games.
He continued to teach at Markethill until 18 years ago when he retired through ill-health - he underwent a triple heart by-pass operation, and his heart condition finally claimed his life on Thursday of last week.
The funeral service was held in the premises of Bell's Funeral Directors in Banbridge on Wednesday past, conducted by the Rev Brian Martin, Rector of St Patrick's Church of Ireland, Donacloney. Cremation was at Roselawn in Belfast.