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Monday, February 21, 2011
Science Fiction, Watson
(CHICAGO, IL – February 21, 2011) Even before the computer Watson clobbered its two human competitors in the men vs. machine showdown on Jeopardy last week, horse racing should have been on the alert for possibilities that technology might bring to the handicapping process. The length of time that it takes for people to learn how to read the past performances has forever been viewed by the sport as a detriment to creating new fans. Artificial intelligence may be able to solve the problem.
Educating the uninitiated, an idea that's countercultural and downright ludicrous, has been the superficial solution of port-brained operatives who refuse to accept that most people prefer knowing to learning. Like cavemen teaching apes to use pieces of stone to write on the walls of their shelters, these proponents of organized instructions for prospective fans have made little progress at anything and now represent a species endangered. If nothing else, Watson gave proof that machines can be endowed with the mental agility of Homo sapiens. Someday soon, they'll be doing their work.
"I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords," wrote game show contestant Ken Jennings on his Jeopardy drawing board after suffering a beating by the room-sized computer. Up until Wednesday, Jennings had emerged on top in 74 straight Jeopardy bouts against humans. Facing Watson, he seemed to be slow with his answers and lacking knowledge. The machine, on the other hand, was quick to recall all that was lodged in its "brain" and able to untangle convolutions. Watson was, in effect, solving problems. That's what betting on horses requires.
One reason the challenge can never be met is because horseplayers are dealing with information about events that have happened. What has happened has only some bearing on what will happen next. No matter how sophisticated the data available is, it will be only somewhat predictive. Horseplayers rarely admit that they lose because they've looked backwards instead of ahead – it's always the high rate of takeout or the fault of another or some other injustice that screws them. Doesn't that tell you how strong their belief in the unknown is and how powerful their confidence gets?
Given the tendency for people to believe in themselves, the computers of the future could produce better wagering results than those achieved by an experienced handicapper. Artificial intelligence that's delivered without burdening the horseplayer with the task of analysis could be delivered in a variety of ways. By tapping an app on the face of a telephone and keying in questions to Watson, the patron could summon up a variety of information without having to know how to search for it. What would make this delivery of service appealing is that it would provide options, not conclusion, unlike conventional tip services that start at the end, destroying the fun of the puzzle.
In mere seconds, Watson could analyze the data that advanced players pour over for hours. It could sort out the probabilities associated with each horse in relation to the odds so that bettors know the underlay and overlays in comparison to factual history. The limitation to having an instantaneous answer for any question is merely a function of budget. If the sport locked up the intelligence provider with a license to manage the program's distribution, such delivery of information could provide racecourses an opportunity to offer patrons something they can't find at simulcast outlets or online.
Nevertheless, handicapping by having a machine do your research would be so popular with fans that there'd be no restricting it. For the game to refrain from capitalizing on the enormous bounties that would flow from providing the uninitiated instantly with knowledge that takes years to acquire would be difficult at best. Moreover, who's that organization or person to work on behalf of the many and determine what's best for the sport? The simplest of things are damn near impossible to organize.
What makes these possibilities even more science fictional is that horse racing doesn't have the money to take on a project of this scope, even if it possessed the vision. Racecourse owners have arms too short to reach into the bottom of the bags filled with items that need funding already. The industry's disorganization interferes with its abilities to tackle challenges. Its structure, based on 30 different states determining 30 sets of rules, is antithetical to teamwork.
It would be interesting to know what emotions are being felt in the hearts of the strategic business planners at a publisher of data such as the Daily Racing Form or organizations such as the Thoroughbred Racing Association and The Jockey Club with their Equibase Company asset - entities that derive their purpose in being to fact collection. The unprocessed information that horseplayers receive now from these sources are headed for obsolescence. As a reference tool, the information used for handicapping horse races will be as out-of-date as casebooks for lawyers and medical journals for doctors soon. A de-emphasis of the importance placed on reading the archaic language of past performances will lead to a need for being more observant of proceedings.
Ironically, an information delivery revolution might be just what is needed to turn horse racing's fortunes. Theoretically, the sport's opportunists can turn to Watson to open wide a fascinating game to audiences that heretofore couldn't understand it. Once they do, all the impatient, attention deficit-plagued, give-me-the-baby-without-the-pain types may become interested in gambling the cool way.
Vic Zast posts his ideas about horse racing regularly on Facebook.com and Twitter.com. Please visit him there.
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Our Cav has been walked with the lead for about two years now and is not used to being walked without one.
We are reluctant to let him off the lead just in case he runs off and something happens and we would never forgive ourselves.
I understand if we never let him off he will never learn, but feel that its been too long now are worried to try a walk without.
Just wondered how many of you on here walk your Cavs without the lead? or are we the only one
He is so spoilt he tends to do what he wants and is reluctant to listen which makes maters worse. I now we only have ourselves to blame for this
Any advice/tips with ref the the above are most welcome.


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A California Highway Patrol officer loads an ammunition clip into his rifle near the shooting scene in Santa Cruz, Calif., where two Santa Cruz Police detectives were shot and killed Tuesday.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The quiet of this seaside community erupted in violence Tuesday when two detectives investigating a sex crime were fatally shot while trying to question a man who was later killed in a police shootout, leading the chief to call it the darkest day in the department's history.
Sgt. Loran Butch Baker and detective Elizabeth Butler were shot and killed during an altercation at the home of the coffee shop worker, according to police and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's office.
They were shot while following up on allegations that barista Jeremy Goulet, 35, made inappropriate sexual advances on a co-worker at her home, authorities said. Goulet was arrested Friday and was fired the next day, The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.
In May 2008, he was convicted in Portland, Ore., of peeping on a 22-year-old woman who was showering in her condominium and of carrying concealed weapon, according to a Portland newspaper, The Oregonian. Goulet was on probation but was sentenced to two years in jail after a dispute with his probation officer.
His father, Ronald Goulet, of Rosamond, told the San Francisco Chronicle late Tuesday his son had texted his twin brother to say he was in trouble. He may have been reluctant to return to jail but had never been violent, Ronald Goulet said of his son.
"Why was he on the run? I'm just trying to hang with it, to make sense of it," he said.
Baker, a 28-year veteran of the force, and Butler, a 10-year veteran, had gone to the house where Goulet was living to follow up on the case, authorities said. They were subsequently fired upon and called for backup, and responding officers found Goulet, who shot at police and was killed in the gunfire that followed, authorities said.
"There aren't words to describe this horrific tragedy," said Police Chief Kevin Vogel. "This is the darkest day in the history of the Santa Cruz police department."
Baker's son, Adam Baker, served as a community service officer, and father and son had mailboxes side-by-side at the police department, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported (http://bit.ly/15Qc75M ). Loran Baker told the newspaper in 2010 his son's choice to pursue a career in law enforcement threw him for a loop, but he saw glimpses of himself in Adam.
Loran Baker said he told his son to work hard for the department.
"It's a great community to be a cop in," he said. "You don't get bored."
Butler came to Santa Cruz to study at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then stayed, the Sentinel reported (http://bit.ly/YZ1w2Z ).
The newspaper profiled her in 2005 while she was patrolling downtown. Butler said her job was a mix of public relations and fighting crime and included fielding questions from tourists about the best place for a burger or how to get to the beach.
"You have to be a people person down here," she said. "I really do know people's names."
The shootings prompted the lockdown of two schools and an automatic police call to nearby residents, warning them to stay locked inside. The ordinarily quiet residential neighborhood echoed with a brief barrage of gunfire that killed the suspect about a half hour after the officers were shot.
A store clerk a few buildings from the shooting said the shootout was "terrifying."
"We ducked. We have big desks so under the desks we went," said the clerk, who spoke on condition of anonymity and asked that her store not be identified because she feared for her safety.
After the shootings, police went door-to-door in the neighborhood, searching homes, garages, even closets, to determine whether there might be additional suspects. Law enforcement officers filled intersections, and helicopters and light aircraft patrolled the neighborhood about a mile from downtown Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
The city's mayor, Hilary Bryant, said in a statement that the community about 60 miles south of San Francisco was "heartbroken at the loss of two of our finest police officers who were killed in the line of duty, protecting the community we love."
"This is an exceptionally shocking and sad day for Santa Cruz and our police department," Bryant said.
The shootings came amid a recent spike in assaults, which community leaders had planned to address in a downtown rally scheduled for Tuesday. That, along with a City Council meeting, was canceled after teary-eyed city leaders learned of the deaths.
The recent violence included the killing of a 32-year-old martial arts instructor who was shot outside a popular downtown bar and restaurant; the robbery of a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was shot in the head; a 21-year-old woman who was raped and beaten on the UC campus; and a couple who fought off two men during a home invasion.
Associated Press writer John S. Marshall in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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MOUNT CHACHANI, Peru — The distance between us grows slowly but surely in the gray light of dawn as we head up the steep snowfield 18,000 feet above sea level.
It is not that Richard Hidalgo, Peru's most accomplished mountaineer, is setting a blistering pace. In fact, he's taking short, deliberate strides.
But his metronomic rhythm toward the 19,872 foot summit of Mount Chachani is relentless.
Unlike me, he doesn't need to stop to catch his breath every few seconds, readjust his backpack, or just take in the stunning view of arid, rocky valleys through the clouds below.
Hidalgo is here to prepare for an attempt at Mount Everest in April. If he succeeds, it will be his fifth of the world's 14 summits over 26,256 feet.
Only 26 people are confirmed as having climbed all 14 so far.
Exactly half did so without oxygen. Many more have died attempting these Himalayan giants.
Mountaineering isn't just among the most dangerous sports in the world, it's surely also among the most masochistic.
If the discombobulating symptoms of altitude weren't bad enough, exhaustion and sleep deprivation multiply the effect.
I set off for Chachani from high camp at 3 a.m. Hidalgo left an hour later in the certain knowledge he'd easily overtake me.
Much earlier starts than that — including before midnight — are routine in mountaineering to allow dawn summiting and descents that avoid dangerous afternoon conditions of melting snow and ice.
In the Himalayas — unlike here in the lower, tropical Andes — Antarctic temperatures and unimaginable windchill factors make frostbite a constant threat. "Pee bottles' are a must.
Although it's considered a "non-technical' peak, Chachani nevertheless packs serious altitude, requiring an ice-axe and crampons near the summit, if no rope, harness, helmet or other gear.
"The idea is to acclimatize without using up my reserves of energy and patience,' says Hidalgo, 42. "I'll be needing those for Everest.'
Despite living at sea level in the Peruvian capital Lima, Hidalgo has scaled some of the world's highest peaks in the purest style, without oxygen, solo — meaning no sherpas beyond base camp — and in extremely fast times.
He's also turned on its head the received wisdom that a mountaineer should accumulate fat reserves before spending harsh, long weeks pushing his mind and body to the limit.
The late Polish climber Jerzy Kukuczka, the second person to summit all 14 8,000ers, once recalled how strangers were surprised by his pot belly. He then pointed out how quickly it vanished in the Himalayas.
However, Hidalgo is heading to Everest with just 7 percent body fat, similar to a professional marathon runner or Tour de France cyclist.
No wonder he's a growing celebrity in his homeland, with a lengthening list of sponsors and TV commercials to his name.
He prepares for his trips with daily 15-mile runs in Lima and by spending long weekends scrambling around the 16,000-foot Andean peaks a hair-raising three-hour drive east of the city.
"I wouldn't say he's a mutant, but that is very unusual — to be able to go up and down from sea level to high altitude like a yo-yo without ill effects,' says Peter Hackett, a doctor who is director of Telluride's Institute for Altitude Medicine.
In the final month before setting off for Asia, Hidalgo heads to Peru's third city, Arequipa, where Chachani and several other huge peaks dominate the skyline.
Being supremely fit is a given for a mountaineer. But it's not a substitute for being acclimatized, a process that can only be achieved by spending time at altitude.
Indeed, many top athletes have suffered intense altitude sickness, including soccer pros from Brazil and Argentina playing in the Bolivian capital La Paz, the world's highest at 12,000 feet.
"The best predictor of whether you'll get altitude sickness or not is whether you had it before,' says Thomas Dietz, an American doctor who's worked in Nepal and is the author of the "High Altitude Medicine" guide.
Hidalgo has the mountains in his blood, almost literally. There are just three populations, Himalayans, Ethiopians — world-class standouts in distance running — and Andeans, that have genetic adaptations to altitude.
They include the obvious, such as larger lungs and more oxygen-carrying hemoglobin, as well as esoteric variations of the body's biochemical "pathways' that only scientists and doctors understand.
Those adaptations protect from mountain sickness and, to a lesser extent, the real high-altitude killers: pulmonary and cerebral edemas, fluid in the lungs or brain.
None of which diminishes Hidalgo's accomplishments as he continues on his 14-8,000 quest.
"To do this, you need to absolutely love mountaineering,' he says with monumental understatement. "It's just too much suffering if you're not committed 100 percent.'
Symptoms of mountain sickness, which normally wear off after a few days at altitude, include headaches, nausea, fatigue, loss of appetite, drowsiness and, paradoxically, insomnia.
At the highest altitudes, acclimatization is no longer possible: intense mountain sickness and confused decision-making are a constant lethal threat. Mountaineers refer to altitudes above 26,000 feet as the "death zone' to be passed through as quickly as possible.
Edemas occur suddenly either at very high altitudes or after abrupt jumps in height.
They can be treated only by rapid descent, simulating lower altitudes with a gamow bag, or by an injection of the anti-inflamatory dexamethasone.
Some climbers, usually wealthy clients rather than pros like Hidalgo, even take dexamethasone preventively on summit day — a tactic that may save lives but has yet to be fully studied by doctors.
"A lot of people do that on big mountains, especially on Everest, where they have dropped $40,000 or $50,000,' notes Dietz.
Another medication sometimes used is Viagra, which can prevent pulmonary edemas by opening up blood vessels.
Getting the unwanted side-effect of an erection is unlikely while shivering away at more than 25,000 feet, Dietz notes, although he qualifies his statement: "I don't think that's been studied.'
However, the effects of altitude become less intense with age, particularly in the case of cerebral edemas.
One reason is that the brain shrinks from adolescence, leaving more room inside the skull for swelling as a result of altitude without building dangerous pressure. That helps explain why Hidalgo's profile, of a super-fit 40-something, is typical of world-class mountaineers.
Back on the upper reaches of Chachani, Hidalgo rounds a wall of rock high above me as the early morning sun begins to beat down and finally pulls out of sight.
Predictably enough, keeping up with him even on this relatively straightforward peak, has proved impossible.
He's in good shape for Everest. And I'm looking forward to following him every step of the way — on Facebook.


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3900 Bethel Drive
the CLARION Ministers, Layworkers Examine
'Fresh Winds of The Holy Spirit'
several deal with prophecy and
eschatology, he has published one
volume, The Holy Spirit, on the
Founders Week theme.
Everett L. Cattell, president of
Malone College in Canton, Ohio,
has also written a book on the
Holy Spirit and will continue the
study of this subject at Thurs-day
and Friday 8:45 am. ses-sions.
He also will address Fri-day
morning all-campus worship.
President at Malone since 1960,
Mr. Cattell previously served his
Pointe Woods, Mich., and the
Rev. Eric Lindholm, retired Bap-tist
General Conference minis-ter,
are scheduled to speak that
Adding a feminine touch is Mrs.
Eleanor Searle Whitney, New York
socialite who found commitment
to Christ at the 1957 Billy Graham
Crusade in Manhattan. She now
travels widely to tell of her discov-eries
and has appeared at several
Presidential prayer breakfasts. She
also will sing at Founds Week, hav-ing
formerly been an opera sing-er.
Founders Week this year will
center on the theme "Fresh Winds
of The Holy Spirit." Noted speak-ers
will address delegates f r om
throughout the nation who have
assembled on campus. Seminars
will cover a variety of contempor-ary
issues of interest to both lay-men
and ministers.
According to Dr. Carl Lund-quist,
president of the college, the
hope of Founders Week this year
is to look at some of the innova-ting
ways the Holy Spirit is at
work in the world today, and how
Bethel and the Bethel community
can encourage and enrich these
President Lundquist pointed out
that Founders Week was a rather
unique occasion. He noted that it
provides the best opportunity of
the year for students and consti-tuency
to get together and meet
each other.
A new addition to the full slate
of seminars and sessions will be
made this year. In keeping with
the Seminary's theme, "The Man
of God Communicating the Word
of God," Dean Emeritus Edwin
Omark has established an annual
preaching awards competition.
The contest is open to any full-time
middler or senior student.
Each contestant will submit an ori-ginal
sermon to be judged by a fac-ulty
panel. Three finalists will de-liver
sermons during Founders
Week, with each one being limit-ed
to 20 minutes.
Volume XLII—No. 15
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, February 14, 1968
25th Annual Founders Week Shows
Varied Array of Visiting Speakers
The slate of speakers for this
year's 25th anniversary of Bethel
Founders Week, February 19-23, is
a noteworthy one and includes de-nominational
college and seminary
presidents; outstanding preachers
from church and broadcasting sit-uations;
and a well-known laywo-man.
Sno-Daze Hits College Social Scene
Formal Dinner Returns To Celebration
Dr. Everett L. Cattell
The demominational president is
Arnold Olson, who is currently
serving his fifth 3-year term with
Evangelical Free Church of Amer-ica,
which has its headquarters in
Minneapolis. He will speak at 10:15
a.m. all-campus worship on Tues-day.
Mr. Olson has had twenty-three
years of pastoral experi-ence
and is a well-known speak-er,
besides being author of four
books. The most recent of these,
"Inside Jerusalem: City of Des-tiny",
was released only last
Dr. John Wesley White
Also here on Tuesday, and on
Wednesday, will be Dr. John Wal-voord,
president of Dallas Theo-logical
Seminary in Dallas, Texas.
He will lead Bible study of the
Holy Spirit at 8:45 a.m. sessions
ipoth days and speak at the public
service at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Holder of A.B. and D.D. degrees
from Wheaton College (Ill.), an
A.M. degree from Texas Christian
University, and Th.B., and Th.D.
degrees from Dallas Theological
Seminary, Dr. Walvoord has served
the Dallas school since 1935, when
he became Assistant Registrar.
Long-time Professor of Systematic
Theology, he added the school's
presidency to his offices in 1952.
Author of twelve books, of which
Mrs. Eleanor Searle Whitney
denomination, the Ohio Yearly
Meetings of Friends, as mission-ary
to India for 21 years, and
was elected denominational pres-ident
in 1957. He holds a B.A.
degree from Marion College, Ma-rion,
Indiana, and an M.A. de-gree
from Ohio State University.
A second college official parti-cipating
in Founders Week is Dr.
John Wesley White, associate evan-gelist
with the Billy Graham As-sociation,
who has been Chancel-lor
of Richmond College, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, since 1966. This
Canadian evangelist, formerly a
high school teacher, joined the
Graham Association in 1964. He
has studied at Moody Bible Insti-tute,
holds a B.A. degree from
Wheaton College (Ill.) and a D,
Phil. degree from Oxford Uni-versity.
He will speak Wednesday
evening and lead a 2 p.m. Bible
study meeting all week.
From a small broadcasting min-istry,
Dr. Theodore Epp's Back to
the Bible Broadcast, located in Lin-coln,
Nebraska, has grown since
1939 to become a worldwide effort
engaging in 25,000 weekly broad-casts,
and support of over 300 mis-sionaries
in broadcasting and other
evangelical efforts. Dr. Epp will
lead the emphasis on missions at
Friday evening's meeting.
From church, the local clergy-man's
situation, two pastors will
be contributing in special ways.
The Rev. W. Dale lhrie, highly-recommended
pastor of the
North American Baptist General
Conference church at Grosse
Cagers,, Grapplers
Sweep Northland
The Royals swept Northland in
basketball and wrestling last
Saturday as the Bethelites jour-neyed
into the northern confines
of Wisconsin. The hardcourt men
hung on to top the home team
88-85 in overtime. The grapplers
easily rolled to a 30-12 victory.
The weekend of February 16-17
constitutes this year's Sno-Daze,
Bethel's annual celebration of Min-nesota's
white weather. Various
activities have been planned a-round
its; theme, Icelandic Esca-pade.
The activities begin on Friday
afternoon with the judging of snow
sculptures. Each class will design
its own snow masterpiece, to be
completed by Fridd: noon, in com-petition
with the creations of the
other classes for a monetary prize.
That evening will be the annual
Sno-Daze banquet, a formal affair
to be held this year at the North-star
Inn in downtown Minneapolis.
"Icelandic Cordials" will be served
beginning at 7:00 p.m. with dinner
at 8:00.
Following dinner comes an even-ing
of entertainment including the
coronation of the Sno-Princess. At
the banquet the Princess and her
court will hold the yearly beard
judging. (Yes, girls; this contest
is the excuse of all the hairy males
on campus.)
Another highlight of the evening
will be the presence of King Boreas
Rex, (who is a character take-off
on the king of the St. Paul Winter
Carnival and is akin to the little
black people who have been in-vading
the coffee shop nightly).
Boreas will host the banquet and
preside over the festivities of the
Saturday night, Bodien cafeteria
will be preparing a special smor-gasbord
for the occasion, and will
open at 5:00.
Later Saturday night will be the
International Traying Contest in
Como Park—trayers, meet by the
ski hill near Arlington—to be judg-ed
by the newly crowned Princess.
Hot chocolate and samores will re-fresh
the participants at the con-clusion
of the Sno-Daze weekend.
Sno-Daze activities were planned
under the supervision of Becky
Bloom, committee chairman. Com-mittee
members were: Steve Smith,
Doris Bucklew, Mark Smih, Lin-da
C. Olson, Pris Anderson, Carol
Pedersen, Faith Frykman, Clay
Carlson, Tim Gibson, and John
HEARTY CANDIDATES for Sno-Princess don winter equipment.
Coronation will follow the formal banquet Friday evening.
McCarthy Men Mobilize Support
Summon Campus Meet Today
In anticipation of the Presiden- The Democratic precinct cau-tial
election next fall, several cuses will be held on March 5.
Bethel students are attempting to
organize a McCarthy for President
Club on Bethel's campus.
Senior Senator from Minnesota,
Eugene McCarthy, a Democrat, has
declared his candidacy for presi-dent
in direct opposition to Presi-dent
Johnson. In particular, Sena-tor
McCarthy is opposed to Presi-dent
Johnson's Vietnam policy and
has called for several measures to
de-escalate the war and negotiate
a peaceful settlement.
Senator McCarthy has declared
his candidacy in several state presi-dential
primaries including Wis-consin,
and the nation's first in
New Hampshire. Here in Minne-sota
McCarthy has drawn consid-erable
active support. However, he
has also met strong opposition, Following the chapel service, the
since Minnesota is the state of regular class schedule will resume
Vice President Hubert Humphrey. with fourth period at 11:30.
Senator McCarthy needs a strong
showing in order to have support
from Minnesota's state delegates
to the Democratic National Conven-tion
in Chicago in August.
There will be a meeting in the
coffee shop this Thursday at 6:30
for anyone interested in joining or
participating in the club.
Class Schedule Change
Effective February 21 23
The following changes have
been announced by the Regis-trar's
Office for the Wednesday
and Friday class schedules dur-ing
Founders Week:
Period 1-7:45-8:25
Period 11-8:35.9:15
Period 111-9:25-10:05.
Having just finished first sem-ester
and looking ahead to second
semester, bt is time to reflect on
the inadequacies of the Bethel aca-demic
calendar. Some of these in-adequacies
are evident in the "lame
duck" session from after Christmas
until exams and the perennial
problems which Founders Week
The Christmas break is the na-tural
time to end the first term.
turn is often lost. The last few
weeks before exams should be a
time when all loose ends are tied
together, but under the present
system, days •a re often wasted try-ing
to get back to the level that
one had achieved before the va-cation
period began. What should
be a culmination to what has been
learned during the past semester
often turns out to be a time of
The vacation period not only Founders Week often presents
breaks up the continuity of the even greater frustrations. Students
term, but the student's momen- who would like to attend the var-
WI-I`( YOUR GRAPES NAVE FALLEN 50 LOW -n-11S SEMESTER."
Li ht of Eduation
Process Four-One-Four Academic Calendar
g Lends Itself Well To Bethel Situation
Need Not Threaten Faith
James Baldwin, in his bestseller NOBODY KNOWS MY
NAME, makes an interesting observation. "We do not trust edu-cated
people," he says, "and rarely, alas, produce them, for we
do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a gen-uine
education possible."
This observation focuses on the heart of a massive problem.
Older generations sometimes view with distrust the spirit of
inquiry which should characterize an academic institution. The
questions and activities of many earnest students are often
dismissed as a vague sort of "rebellion" against established
modes of behavior and thought. This attitude tends to dis-courage
intellectual autonomy while, at the ,same time, fosters
a sharper cleavage between generations.
Although the "generation gap" is perhaps as apparent
between the older generation and the student as anywhere
else, the two positions are not as polarized as some would
like to think. This misconception only intensifies the prob-lem,
erecting defensive barriers that thwart efforts to bridge
the gap.
A basic question of honesty lies at the root of the matter.
While evangelicals stoutly maintain the veracity of their be-liefs,
there too often is a hesitancy to expose them to critical
examination. Evangelical youths, as toddlers, sang "This little
light of mine, I'm going to let it shine," and answered the
"hide it under a bushel?" question with a resounding "no!"
They read "so let your light shine before men" as teen-agers.
But sometime, somewhere, in those growing-up years
the thought that their Christianity was too feeble to withstand
the questions and doubts of an inquiring mind was also un-consciously
instilled in them.
Perhaps, if we are honest, we must admit that it is indeed
"our Christianity" that seems so feeble to us that we must
put it "under a bushel basket." Certainly the power of God
does pot need the feeble efforts of men to exist as a reality.
From the viewpoint of an effective witness, it is imper-ative
to encourage frank inquiry, and to face it squarely. Only
one whose personal faith is inadequate can fear dialogue
with those of differing persuasions.
Distrust of the "educated" person—one who has develop-ed
independence of mind—is ultimately distrust of one's own
convictions. It is difficult, in fact, impossible, to face in others
what one cannot face in oneself.
The average student comes to college with a set of values
which are basically external—they are imposed by his fam-ily
and church background and accepted with relatively
little questioning. But one must learn to think independently,
and values must become internal or lose their meaning. This
is the goal of education.
The educational process must not be distrusted. It is the
process that changes ore to steel. The deeper perception and
awareness of the world which stem from true education can
only make the Christian a more able servant of God.
`Other War' Goes Unattended In Viet Strife
Page 2 the CLARION Wednesday, February 14, 1968
ious seminars and meetings often
cannot because of the conflicts with
class schedules. Members of the
faculty are upset because even
more than usual students are not
keeping up with assignments.
Public relations also suffer as
relations between students and "the
founders" are not as cordial as
they might be. Students see "the
founders" as objects who make the
lunch line twice as long or who
crowd them out of the coffeeshop.
"The founders" see the students as
impatient and always in a hurry
when many times they would like
to get acquainted with more Beth-elites.
There are various ways in which
the academic calendar could be al-tered
to accomodate these prob-lems.
One of the best solutions
would be the "four-one-four" sys-tem
or some variation of it. This
system consists of two four-month
semesters and a one-month term
sandwiched between the two sem-esters.
During this term, courses could
be offered other than those already
in the curriculum. Readings or in-dependent
study courses could be
offered on a large scale. Choral
and drama groups could go on
tour. And, if Bethel is not too tra-dition
bound, Founders Week could
be held during this interim in
January rather than in February.
Not only would the "four-one,
four" system alleviate the t w o
main problems created by the
"lame duck" session and Founders
Week, but it would also enhance
the student's liberal arts exper-fence.
There is a greater need for
students to participate in inde-pendent
study courses, especially
if they plan on graduate work.
Furthermore, the interim period
could add a flexibility to the cur-riculum
which is not now availa-ble.
Different courses could be of-fered
each year depending upon
student interest. A "free univer-sity"
type atmosphere could pre-vail
during the interim term.
SAIGON (CPS)—The war in Viet-nam
is really two wars: one mili-tary
and the other socio-economic,
and the two must be fought toget-her,
administration officials ex-plain.
Burt in truth Vietnam remains
overwhelmingly a military opera-tion
with military brass calling the
shots. The excuse is often made
that the Other War cannot really
be waged until the military situa-tion
is under control.
The Other War means the battle
against the poverty, disease, and
illiteracy which plague Vietnam.
The more sophisticated, political
science-oriented advisors here um.
derstand the causes. of the Vietna-mese
civil war. They realize Viet-namese
society is divided between
rich city dwellers and rural pea.
sants. But their understanding has
not helped them win t∎ he war.
There are a number of funda-mental
reasons why the Other War
cannot be won, reasons which are
not considered by the men waging
it. All of the reasons are tied up
with the question of our motiva-tion.
In the Administration's eye,
helping the Vietnamese, winning
their "hearts and minds," is a
means, not an end. Dean Rusk, in
an unusual display of candor, has
admitted as much.
Sometimes it seems our real rea-son
for being in Vietnam is to deny
the Chinese a 'traditional sphere of
influence in Asia. Or perhaps we
seek a wider purpose—to send a
message to revolutionaries through-out
the world that we will zap
them with our counter-insurgency
America's ideology precludes
winning the Other War. We sup-port
the very elements which pro-fit
from the poverty of the Viet-namese
peasants. Eisenhower and
Dulles defended U.S. intervention
in Vietnam in the fifties because
they felt the U.S. couldn't afford
to lose the valuable natural re-sources
in Vietnam to the commu-nists.
Only a small but powerful group
of Americans stood to profit from
U.S. involvement, the major share-holders
in the companies which
process the raw materials. The
American public was neither
harmed nor helped economically.
The Vietnamese civil war is an
example of class warfare. Our anti-communist
allies there are the rich
upper-class, French-trained e 1 e -
ment of Vietnamese society, unrep-resentative
of the whole. Their op-ponents,
always referred to as
"Communist's" in our press, al-though
few are ideologically moti-vated
and all are nationalists, rep-resent
the aspirations and needs of
the Vietnamese peasantry.
Naturally the strongest allied
support force comes from the Park
dictatorship i n South Korea, a
force which fights for the same
land-owning aristocracy that we
defend in South Vietnam. The same
can be said of the Thai contingent.
The Fillipinos come because of
Uncle's aid money; the Australians
are fervant anti-Communists.
The fundamental contradiction
of maiming people one day and
patching them up the next disturbs
many sincere, concerned Ameri-cans
working in Vietnam. These
few Americans like the Vietnamese
people, speak their language, wear
Vietnamese dress and work for
AID or for voluntary agencies like
the International Volunteer Ser-vice
(IVS). This group is deeply
disturbed about the war. It is frau-dulant
to drop bombs, create ref-ugees,
and expect gratitude when
you feed them.
The Pentagon would prefer im-proved
relations with the natives.
The Army handbook warns soldiers
not to abuse Vietnamese women,
talk loud, drive recklessly, or wave
their money around. It says, "Join
with the people. Understand their
life. Use phrases from their lan-
A new classified ad section will
open with the next issue of the
CLARION. The cost of the ad
will be thirty cents a line. (There
are about five words to a line.)
Write your ad on paper or a
card just the way you want it to
appear. Ads must be in by the
Friday p• receding the issue in
which you want it to appear.
Slip your ad in either P.O. 91 or
This will give students a chance
to sell cars, radios, books, or ser-vices
as typists. Cash must ac-company
all ads.
guage. Honor their customs and
laws." But the racism is too deep-ly
rooted. Soldiers do insult the
women, run the men off the road,
and turn children into beggars.
In a land of poverty (relative to
the U.S., not India), American af-fluence
causes resentment and rais-es
expectations beyond the point
at which they can be fulfilled. A-merican
aid personnel frequently
live quite grandly, sometimes in
former French villas. Almost any
Vietnam assignment is more lucra-tive
than a similar stateside job,
U.S. troops are not paid much by
American standards but by local
standards they have money to burn.
Soldiers, even in remote outposts,
frequently have Vietnamese cooks
and servants. While Vietnamese
civilians with near-fatal injuries
must be moved over the rough
roads, U.S. helicopters are involved
in keeping isolated U.S. installa-tions
stocked with American beer.
Our soldiers live well here.
Quarters are frequently aircondi-tioned.
Booze is plentiful. The
Armed Forces Vietnam Network
operates am, fm, and television
stations throughout the country.
Compared with the fairly austere
French, our activity must look
chrome-plated and much more per-manent.
American hegemony in Vietnam
is maintained through control of
the Vietnamese government. Our
relationship with the Thieu-Ky re-gime
is symbiotic. They couldn't
last without American troops here
cont'd on page 3
Such a system would naturally
not be without its own drawbacks
and pitfalls. It would demand more
work and maturity on the pant of
both students and faculty. How-ever,
the value of such a system
outweighs the drawbacks. It' would
not only alleviate some perennial
problems but would give a greater
meaning to Bethel's liberal arts
program while enhancing the stu-dent's
own learning experience.
Every year there are pleas from
various corners on campus to
change the academic calendar. Of-ten
they appear to fall on deaf
ears. However, as long as the
need for reform exists, these pleas
will not be silenced.
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Israeli Reflections
Dear Bethel,
Greetings from "your man in
Jerusalem! !" I would like to try
to tell you all a little of what
has been happening to me in the
past few months. It is impossible
to put into words all the things
that I had the opportunity to ex-perience.
It has been a fantastic time! I
have had the opportunity to travel
all over Israel from the northern-most
tip in what was formerly Sy-ria
to the lonely desert fortress
at Sharm-El-Shek. I have slept
alongside the Suez Canal, swum.
in the Dead Sea, ridden a camel
and seen the tragic remains of the
recent Six-Day-War.
Israel is a living history book.
And yet, alongside the ruins and
remains of civilizations that rose
and fell milleniums ago, there is
a modern, technologically orient-ed
culture that incorporate some
of the best that man has to offer.
I worked on a modern kibbutz
that employed all the latest agri-cultural
advances available while
right across the road was a Bed-ouin
encampment that barely man-aged
a subsistence living. The peo-ple
who lived in their black tents
had no concept of the United States
and did not know they lived in the?
State of Israel.
Just a few miles south of Beer-sheba
in the Negev Desert, in the
same hills that conceal a modern
nuclear reactor, shepherds tend
their sheep and goats in the same
way that Abraham, Isaac and Ja-cob
tended their sheep and goats
thousands of years ago.
I stood in front of the Wailing
Wall which might retain remnants
of Solomon's Temple built hun-dreds
of years ago. At the same
moment, I looked up and saw and
heard the roar of an Israeli Mys-tere
jet, the fastest jet fighter in
the world, as it thundered over.
Israel is certainly an old-new coun-try
and it is exciting to experience
the contrast.
I certainly do miss Bethel
though. I miss the warm fellow-ship
with Christian students and
teachers. I find Hebrew a difficult
language to master. However, I
have an Israeli roommate who can-not
speak English so I am forced
to practice it.
I am taking twenty-seven hours
a week of Old Testament, Jewish
Applications for chairman of
Welcome Week Committee, Home-coming
Committee, and for the
Concert Series are now being ac-cepted.
Interested students should
make their way to the Senate of-fice
as soon as possible.
Snelling Avenue
at Highway 36
Party room for groups
Fri. - Sat. til 3 a.m.
History and Philosophy at the He-brew
University in Jerusalem.
Most of my lectures and a lot of
my texts are in Hebrew so it is
going to be a real tough but, I
think, a rewarding year.
Although it is winter, it is still
relatively warm. Of course I re-turned
to Bethlehem for Christ-mas.
I find it very spiritually in-spiring
to be in the same places
where Christ was born, lived,
taught, died, and rose again. And
to see some of the same things
that Christ found commonplace
makes my faith even more con-crete
and meaningful to me.
I wish that you all could be here
with me. But since that is impos-sible,
I want to extend to you all
peace and the best of wishes.
Gary Downing
"Shop Around"
This is not a letter of attack, but
one of open questioning addressed
to all Bethel students. I have heard
many students raising questions
about real and rumored bookstore
policies, and I would simply like
to verbalize them.
Is it true that sundry items are
higher priced than in outside
stores? May I suggeSt some bar-gain
Is it true that used book prices
are unusually high, that some are
even higher than the new price
printed on the book? (Some stu-dents
have actually complained of
this, though I find it hard to be-lieve.)
Is it true that used Gideon Bibles
have been sold in the bookstore?
Is the faculty discount a reality?
(Some rumors put it as high as
20% to 30%.) This means student
prices must make up the differ-ence,
which hardly seems the Chris-tian
treatment of low or no sal-aried
students to the benefit of
regularly paid instructors.
As we once again approach the
buying of new texts and restock-ing
supplies, let us show some
adult discretion and shop in the
manner that is most economical to
There are a large number of
bookstores in the Twin Cities with
which we can at least compare
our own. Shop around, you may
save a buck.
Norman Stolpe
Art Department
Sponsors Sale
The Art Department has sched-uled
an art sale in the Student
Center today through Friday, Feb-ruary
14-16. Students of the de-partment
are exhibiting their work.
All items can be purchased at a
nominal price, according to Stu
Luckman, art instructor.
The sale includes work in cer-amics,
design, painting, photo-graphy,
sculpture, and drawing.
Anyone interested in purchasing
work should ask for assistance at
the ticket window. All sales are
cash only, and work sold will be
removed immediately from the ex-hibition
Bethel Swearing?
Evangelical cursing . . . Confer-ence
oaths . . . Bethel swearing ...
call it what you like, the increas-ing
use of questionable language
on campus is becoming a problem.
Many of the phrases and words
circulated (and •emulated by both
males and females) are hardly wor-thy
of use. By inserting a new set
of words into our vocabulary, we
are, in essence, substituting for
swear words.
It is granted that the meaning
of some phrases is arbitrary and
peculiar to our definitions, yet this
doesn't make them right. Any non-
Christian or visitor to campus who
won't know our esoteric meaning
can take the feeling or meaning
of a phrase in a wrong way.
To these people or to the user
himself, what is the difference be-tween
"Judas Priest" and using
the name of God's son in the same
from page 2
giving them legitimacy, nor would
any other government allow us to
Some history is helpful. In 1954
it was evident that if the provi-sions
of the Geneva Accords were
executed, the people of Vietnam
would elect a nationalist govern-ment
which, as an historical coin-cidence,
was also Communist. Ra-ther
than allow the Communists
to win an election, the United
States, in collusion with the
French, violated the Accords and
partitioned the country. Half was
to be non-Communist, Diem was
installed in the South, and elec-tions
were not held.
When Diem became too odious
even for the United States, his
palace guard was suddenly pres-sed
into service elsewhere by a
U.S. fiat and the regime fell tc 1
General "Big" Minh, who was pop-ular
with the Buddhists.
The government changed hands
several times before we discovered
Nguyen Cao Ky. Only he proved
ruthless enough to keep a restless
people quiet. But recently he be-came
a liability. So, he was put
in the co-pilot's seat and Kyugen
Van Thieu, another of the junta
generals, who is not as insidious
looking, became number one.
The election that "legitamized"
the current regime was criticized
for the wrong reasons. Cheating
was not the crucial element. The
critical element, making the elec-tion
meaningless, was the disquali-fication
of the only two candidates,
General Minh and Au Trang Thanh,
who represented an alternative and
who were well-enough known to
pose a threat to the incumbants.
It was an election without a choice
and the Constituent Assembly al-most
had the courage to invalidate
The "freedom's champions" in
Vietnam are the men who were
aligned with the French colonial-ists
against the nationalist Viet
manner? Intent of the speaker may
not necessarily be wrong or in
poor taste but the effect is dif-ferent.
We are told to avoid all appear-ances
of evil, but substitution is
not indicative of avoidance. Rather,
it seems to be rapidly approaching
the evil. Some words used in in-nocence
of thought are in the user's
ignorance connotative or specifi-cally
denotative of a foul mean-ing
to someone better versed in
this area.
Is There really any difference
between using Bethel swear words
and coming right out and using
the filthy language of the world?
Are we any less guilty in God's
sight simply because we substitute
words to fit our own need's? Using
this type of language does not
make for the worthwhile or ef-fective
witness we might hope to
Keith Anderson
Minh. They still live like the
French in their villas.. They take
trips to Europe and their wives
pick up the latest fashions in
Paris. Their sons go to Europe for
schooling, thereby avoiding the
Vietnamese draft.
Among knowledgeable Ameri-cans
it is recognized that the Sai-gon
government's anti-corruption
campaign is a farce, something like
putting a wolf in charge of sheep.
The corruption flows from the top
down. It is impossible to assess
the extent of corruption without
an active press, but the Vietnamese
press is impotent.
The newspaper 'Song' was closed
down a few weeks ago because of
its too incessant complaining about
corruption. This was not in the
national interest, the government
said. A columnist for the English-language
Saigon Daily News, writ-ing
under the name Van Minh,
claimed "three 'recalcitrant' jour-nalists
have been picked up in the
last couple of months and drafted
into the Army."
The freedom of the press is not
the only abused institution in
Vietnam. The system of justice al-so
suffers. People disappear daily
without a trace. Over 5,000 politi-cal
prisoners languish in the jails.
Political expression is the most
dangerous offense. Last week the
government busted a 100-peasant-
Is Bethel ... ?
Where is the Bethel I used to
Where have the noted profes-sors
gone—the Walfred Petersons,
the Robert Mounces, the Loren
Crabtrees, the Dr. Butlers, the Jim
Jordans, and the David Mobergs-and
why have they gone?
Why is it that Bethel has so
many part-time instructors? Is this
academic excellence? Why is it
that Bethel does not have a per-manent
dean? Doesn't the dean
have a major role in the college
Why is there so much unrest
on the college campus? Why is it
that Bethel is not getting enough
financial funds? When will Bethel
be out on the new campus? Where
is Bethel going? Is it going for-wards
or backwards?
These are many questions which
are on the minds of the students.
But where are their answers?
An uninformed graduate
Alan Nasman
strong "anti-U.S. whispering cam-paign."
The peasants were held
for over 12 hours for saying unkind
things about America. Any activity
that weakens the "national anti-
Communist struggle" and "all plots
under the false name of peace and
neutrality" are outlawed. Prosecu-tion
under the law is left to mili-tary
The repressive nature, of the re-gime
has polarized Vietnamese po-litics.
Whereas there was once non-violent
and diverse opposition to
the government, now there is the
simple choice, the government or
the NLF. Those who care about
their country either join the Front
or wait until it takes over, believ-ing
there will be more freedom
then. The repression has been a
boon to the NLF.
One of the most notable charac-teristics
of a revolutionary period
is the inefficiency of the central
government. The bureaucratic leg-acy
of the French is amazing to
watch. Row after row of tired
bureaucrats, staring out the win-dows,
reading comic books, or
shuffling papers back and forth,
perhaps initialling each copy; no
one in a hurry to do anything in
the midst of a society faced with
massive dislocation, the glaring in-eptitude,
the lack of concern—all
this makes the revolution so under-standable.
9:15 A.M. and 6:20 P.M.
J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor
American System of Value Hinders
Country's Efforts In Viet Nam War
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Princess Hopefuls Volunteer
Comments On Bethel, Pageant
Founders Week February 19-23 Friday, Rev. Everett Cattell, pres-ident
of Malone College, will bring
Monday, Dean Edwin Omark the address.
Tuesday, Rev. Arnold Olson
Seminary Male Chorus Stagg Produces Wednesday, Mrs. Eleanor Whit-ney
Thursday, Rev. Eric Lindholm Japanese Drama
Special Music by Garvin The Senior Thesis Production of
McGettrick David Stagg, Drama major, is slat-
Friday, Rev. Everett Cattell ed for the first half of second
semester. Stagg follows Jill Gra-
Chapel during Founders Week will ham as the second Bethelite to
be lengthened into a Fellowship participate in this new prgoram.
Hour. Beginning Tuesday, Chapel The production will be staged
services will run from 10:15 to April 4-6 in the auditorium. It is
11:15 instead of the usual times. composed of several dramatic
Monday's service will be at the forms of the Japanese Theatre,
regular time. such as Noh, Kabuki, and Kyogen.
The Fellowship Hour starts Tues- According to the Speech Depart-day
wtih Rev. Arnold Olson, Pres: ment, this will provide a cross-ident
of the Evangelical Free cultural experience for both actor
Church of America, speaking. Mrs. and audience, with possible im-
Eleanor Searly Whitney, promi- plications for the Christian faith
nent New York socialite and for- and its communication to t h e
mer opera singer, will provide spe- world.
cial music as well as speak on Wed- Student director Stagg invites
nesday. She holds an honorary Doc, inquiries from both technical and
for of Music degree, and has fre- acting people. Audition notices are
quently made the list of the ten posted on the Speech bulletin
best-dressed women in America. board. According to Stagg, inquir-
Rev. Eric Lindholm, long-time ies from English, Anthropology,
conference pastor and graduate of Sociology, and other departments
Bethel Seminary, speaks Thursday. are welcome.
by Sue Bonstrom
Highlighting Sno-Daze "68" is
the coronation of the Sno Princess
Friday night, February 16, at the
banquet held at the North Star Inn.
Candidates for princess are chosen
by the freshman and sophomore
classes. This year's candidates are
Sue Kennerud, a freshman, Wibby
Smith, a sophomore, and Jackie
Goodman, also a sophomore.
All three candidates think Sno-
Daze is one of the most exciting
events of the year. They like the
idea of a formal affair. Their re-actions
to being chosen as a can-didate
for Sno Princess were
summarized by Sue's comment,
"I just can't believe it."
Sue's major interest lies in the
field of music. With organ as a
major, her chief interest is in
church music. She enjoys being a
member of a gospel team and
hopes to go into some kind of
Christian service after graduation.
Psychology or Christianity is
a probable major for Jackie. Not
concerned with preparing for
any specific vocation, Jackie
feels that college is a place
where she can develop her mind
and grasp a better understand-ing
of people.
As a leader in Campus Life at
Mounds View High School, she
works with students in helping
them to develop their Christian
lives. This she feels will benefit
her as a prospective summer mis-sionary.
Wibby's trip to the Orient this
past year was a real inspiration
to her. Having lived in Hong
Kong for five months and attend-ing
a Japanese college, she wit-nessed
a culture and a way of
life far different from her own.
Living among these people, she
could feel their life and sympa-thize
with them.
She was disheartened by the vile-ness
of various rituals practiced
by some cults. Frustration from
the sight of people plagued in fear
and paganism was intensified by
language barriers which prevented
her from communicating to them
the love of Christ. Impressed with
the need for missionaries and tea-chers
abroad, Wibby, as an elemen-tary
education major, would some
day like to return to the Orient
as a Christian teacher.
T h e experience of being a
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reign over the weekend's activities.
Bethel student holds much for Saturday night and feel that it
tehaech C phrriniscteisasn. Watimbboys apphperreec itahteast isB "aas kmetobsatl lo aringdin haol cidkeeya .t"a ke pri- Hill Family Foundation Grants
Bethel offers while Jackie values ority in winter sports with the .
the friendly relationship between princesses and Wibby would like Funds For Symposium Series faculty members and students. to see an official hockey team take
A most influential factor in Sue's shape with more student support. The Hill Family Foundation of means to human rights, and corn-
ife was having attended a Chris- All three girls would like to see St. Paul announced Friday, Dec- pulsory military service.
tian high school where she realized Bethel teams backed by more en- ember 15, 1967, that the Minnesota The keynote address is scheduled
just what it meant t6 be a Chris- thusiasm from the students. Inter-Collegiate Symposium, corn- for April 22 at Northrop Auditor-tian;
and now at Bethel, under One of the duties of the new Sno prised of students representing IC- ium, with following debates at
Christian leadership, she can pre- Princess will be to judge the beard 3 and the Minnesota Student Asso- Macalaster, April 23, St. Thomas,
pare herself for some kind of contest, so beware guys!! Sue, dation, was the recipient of a $15,- April 25, Augsburg, April 30, and
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Winter is a welcomed season criteria for judging the best beard symposium series on "Contempor-i age of the symposium series will
for the girls as they favor those are: trimness, uniqueness, fullness, ary Moral Issues." be provided by KTCA.
activities that only snow allows. color?, and how well the beard fits Ron Kirsch, chairman of the
Sue and Jackie prefer skating each young man. symposium steering committee has Dr. Dalton is Bethel's faculty
and tobogganing while Wibby's The three candidates are an- explained that two speakers will delegate on the symposium's advi-favorite
outdoor sport is skiing. xiously awaiting this weekend and be invited to speak on each of four sory committee, while Larry Day
All three princesses are looking invite all students to join in the topics: organ transplants, Ameri- represents the college on the Steer-forward
to the traying contest fun and activities of Sno-Daze 1968. can foreign policy, violence as a ing Committee.
PROGRAM FOR FOUNDERS WEEK BETHEL COLLEGE and SEMINARY
8:45 Prayer Time
John Walvoord Everett Cattrell
Study: Doctrine
of the Holy
9:45-10:15 Fellowship Period
10:15- Arnold Olson Eleanor Whitney Eric Lindholm Everett Cattell
Seminars on contemporary issues taught by Bethel
Faculty members.
Two sessions each. Offered twice, T-W and Th-F.
Dr. and Mrs.
Gary Collins Eleanor Whitney
Dr. and Mrs.
Gary Collins
Seminar for
Pastor's Wives
Dr. and Mrs.
Paul Finlay
Dr. and Mrs.
Paul Finlay
Seminar for
Bible Study
John Wesley White
3:00-3:30 Fellowship Period
First Annual
Seminary Preach-ing
Counselling Chris-tian
regarding College
Paul Finlay
4 p.m.
vs. North-western
of la.
Intl. Students
Testimonies by
Bethel students
from abroad.
onald Larson
6:30 - Annual
Historqicuaelt Ban-
W. Robert Smith
"The Breath of
the Almighty"
John Walvoord John Wesley
W. Dale Ihrie Theodore Epp
Missionary Rally
(All seminars given in two sessions, Tuesday-Wednesday, repeated
Thursday-Friday, 11:30-12:30, unless otherwise noted).
"Faith and Authority"—Clarence Bass (College auditorium)
"A New Day in Preaching"—J. Daniel Baumann (Hagstrom Lounge).
"Seminar for Pastor's Wives"—Gary Collins (Fieldhouse, Room 6).
Tuesday and Friday only.
"Seminar for Laywoman"—Paul and Faith Finlay (Fieldhouse Aud-itorium).
Tuesday and Friday only.
"Preparing Hearts for Revival"—Alfred Glen (Education House,
144 Arona). Tuesday and Thursday only.
"Contemporary Trends in Continental Biblical Studies"—Robert
Guelich (Edgren Lounge).
"A Christian View of Aesthetics in the Light of the Old Testament"—
Stanley Hardwick (Bodien Lounge).
"Space and Communication"—Donald Larson (Fieldhouse, Room 7).
"The Theology of the Garden of Eden"—Arthur Lewis (Language
House, 1450 Anna).
"Small Group Leadership"—James Mason (Speech House, 1492 Aro-na).
Wednesday only, repeated Friday only.
"Learning in Discipleship"—Berkeley Michelson (Seminary Hall Cha-pel).
"The Gospel in Secular Environments"—Virgil Olson (President's
Dining Room).
"Unique Media for Communicating the Gospel"—Dale Rott (Semi-nary
Hall, Room 3).
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Bethel professors from both col-lege
and seminary will conduct a
wide variety of seminars on con-temporary
issues during Founders
Week. Topics are geared to meet
the diverse interests of those at-tending.
"Faith and Authority" will ex-amine
the basis up which faith
and authority may be related
through the ministry of the spirit.
"A New Day in Preaching" will
analyze the contemporary preach-ing
scene and suggest guidelines
for a more effective pulpit minis-try.
A seminar for pastor's wives
will consider neurotic (trends in
the church on Tuesday. Friday the
group will look at communication.
Paul and Faith Finlay will direcct
a seminar for lay women.
"Preparing Hearts for Revival"
will study Bible principles that
prepare God's people to receive
the fullness of the Holy Spirit. A
seminar on "Contemporary Trends
in Continental Biblical Studies,"
will attempt to see implications
that can enhance our ministry of
the Gospel to the contemporary
"Space and Communications"
will examine "cultural space" and
expore implications for the church
in communicating the gospel. The
language and context of Genesis
two and three will be analyzed in
order to define some theological
concepts in "The Theology of the
Garden of Eden."
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directing small group leaders to-wards
creative and cooperative ac-tion.
"Learning and Discipleship"
will deal with New Testament dis-tinctions
between the two, and how
different their Biblical significance
is from their commonly associated
20th century meanings.
"The Gospel in Secular Environ-ments"
looks at the stance of the
church as a new age breaks into
history. "Unique Media for Com-municating
the Gospel" shows the
unique communication formats
used in the church's ministry that
have grown from an attempt to use
contemporary and biblical commu-nication
Since the last Clarion in Janu-ary,
the Royal's basketball squad
has played seven games, winning
three and dropping four. Two of
the losses came on successive
nights by a total of seven points.
On January 12, the Royals bat-tled
River Falls to a 78-78 tie in
Grapplers Win
Three Straight
by Dave Greener
In recent action, the Bethel Col-lege
wrestling team came back
from two losses to win three meets
in a row. Victories were gained
over St. Paul Bible College, Ham-line,
and Northland while the los-ses
were to the University of Min-nesota
(Morris) and Concordia (St.
Paul). Before the '67-'68 season
closes, Bethel wrestlers will have
an opportunity to face some of
these teams again.
Bethel lost to Morris by a score
of 28-11 on January 13. However,
Coach Doug King feels confident
that his men can triumph this Sat-urday
when they encounter Morris
for the second time. He is not mak-ing
a hollow prediction . .. Dale
Pearson will be present (he had to
forfeit last time) and Curt Dokken
and Barry Anderson are expected
to improve their previous perfor-mance,
while it is hoped that Bob
Olson can come through with a
Concordia defeated Bethel by a
narrow margin on January 16. The
final score was 19-16. This meet
was particularly disappointing for
the Royals in that they had pre-viously
defeated Concordia. This
time, however, Bethel suffered
from a shortage of manpower and
consequently lost points by for-feit.
The Royals once again became
victorious on January 20 when they
defeated St. Paul Bible College, 31-
8. There is no question that SPBC
can be defeated again on February
23 when Bethel hosts them in the
Field House.
Bethel earned a victory against
Hamline on January 23. The Pipers
were defeated by a score of 23-16.
Bethel's third victory in a row
came at the expense of Northland
on January 27 as the Royals won
26-13. Northland, like St. Paul
Bible College, has a new team
which is relatively inexperienced.
However, they are potentially dan-gerous
to Bethel . . . especially
since Bethel is beset by forfeiture
problems. Nevertheless, Bethel was
anticipated to offer them strong
competition on their return en-gagement
last Saturday.
regulation time, but dropped an
88-85 decision in overtime. Bill
Malyon led Bethel's attack with 19
counters. Ron Pederson had 15 and
Dan Larson 14.
The following night, the cag-ers
dropped a 76-72 decision to
Morris. The visitors' outstanding
forward, Doug Maclver, did most
of the damage as he scored 24
points and did a fine job on the
boards. Pederson led the Royals,
canning 22.
After the Morris setback, Bethel
won its next two contests. They
topped Concordia of St. Paul by an
86-63 count with Pederson again
leading the way, bagging 23 points.
Dan Larson chipped in with 16,
Lowell Richard had 14, and John
Lundgren contributed 10.
Over semester break, the Royals
soared over the century mark as
they humbled Northland 106-95.
Five cagers finished in double fig-ures.
Pederson paced the squad
with 26, and Weko added 19. Rich-ardson,
Larson, and Robertson fol-lowed
with 16, 13, and 11 respec-tively.
The losers got a 30 point
output from Richard Long, and
Gordy Lake added 23.
The Royals split their two
other games during vacation.
Briar Cliff shot better than 50%
from the field to record a 105-82
victory February 1, as three of
their men chalked up 66 points
between them.
The Bethel cagers had better suc-cess
the next night as they shaded
Dordt, 98-93. Dick Robertson came
up with his top effort' of the sea-son
for the Royals, canning 31
points. However, scoring honors
went to Hospers of Dordt with 51
Plagued by turnovers and shoot-ing
only 30% from the floor, the
Royals were trounced 110-61 by
revenge-minded Augsburg quintet
to open second semester action.
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94-84 earlier in the year.
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by Faith Zwemke
The Bethel Women's basketball
team battled four teams last sem-pster
and were victorious in three
of those contests. After dropping
their initial game to Pillsbury 44-
30, they went on to defeat their
next three opponents, St. Cloud,
Fairview, and River Falls.
Against St. Cloud, Bethel was
in command during the entire
game. The first quarter found
Bethel leading 13-6, and at half
time they still held a six-point
The only threat St. Cloud posed
came in the third quarter as they
momentarily stopped Bethel's of-fense
by effectively using a man
to man defense. However, Bethel
quickly recovered and outscored
St. Cloud 16-5 in the fourth quar-ter.
The final tally found Bethel
with a comfortable win, 42-27.
Top scorers in the game were
Barb Lindman with 16 and Marilyn
Edgar with 12. Karla Ask and Faith
Zwemke contributed 4 and 6 points
respectively while Bev DeGeed put
in 3 free throws and Sheryl Hog-man
sank 1.
Expecting a tough game, Bethel
was pleasantly surprised when they
met Fairview and routed them 62-
31. Because the game was not' a
close one, all of the team members
were able to play and gain valu-able
Fairview lost sight of Bethel
early in the game, and at the half
Bethel led 30-4. Bethel's only prob-lem
arose at the free-throw line
where they sank only 6 of 20 while
Fairview scored 13 of 18.
Barb Lindman copped undisput-ed
scoring honors as she bucketed
35 points, the most she has ever
totaled in a single game. Marilyn
Edgar was the only other Bethel
girl to score in double figures as
she had 10 points.
In their first home game, Bethel
met River Falls in an extremely
tense game. Bethel led narrowly
throughout most of the game and
held a slim two-point edge at the
half. By the end of the third period
Bethel had increased their lead to
five as the score stood 22-17.
Both teams appeared to have
excellent control of the ball, and as
indicated by the low score, both
Wednesday, February 14, 1968
teams waited for the good shot. with 13 and 11 points respectively.
However, neither team did too well Miss Carol Morgan has been
at the free-throw line as Bethel coaching the team, and thus far
scored a scant 4 of 13, and River she has been generally satisfied
Falls dropped in only 3 of 10. with their performance and has
Once again Barb Lindman and high hopes for their continued
Marilyn Edgar were high scorers progress.
WOMAN CAGER cuts loose in Thursday game against Augsburg.
The final buzzer found the Royals on the short end of a 34.22 score for'
the girls' second loss of the season.
Intramural Playoffs Strengthen
Competition In I-M Season Play
An interesting innovation pro- Competition has been well bal-mises
to add a new and competitive anted with most teams playing
dimension to Intramural Basketball about the same caliber of ball. Sev-action
this season. In addition to eral individuals have distinguished
a full round-robin schedule, the themselves in league play.
league will hold a playoff for the
first time. It will consist of the top
four teams.
The scramble for play-off berths
is nearly decided with only three
games remaining. First Floor is
undefeated in six games, while Fal-con
has a clean slate except for a
loss to Second New, who is also
tied for second with but one de-feat.
Off-Campus 2, with two los-ses,
rounds out the top four.
Play-off hopes for the remaining
six teams, are mathematical Only
Second Old, with a 3-3 mark, has
more than an outside chance.
The basketball team is regrouping itself after Monday
night's loss to Augsburg, in preparation for the home stretch
drive. The season so far has been dotted with periods of bril-liance,
but at other times, the needed spark has been missing.
We have ,a young team, including six freshmen and several
sophomores, so a promising future should be in store for us.
In fact, I'm looking for a late season spurt from this year's
squad. The ability is there; a new and more determined desire
is needed! * * * *
The wrestling squad is also young, but despite its youth,
has done a remarkably good job. Under the influence of an
excellent wrestler in his own right, coach Doug King, Bethel's
wrestling future looks gre*at. * * *
Unfortunately, Hockey has become almost extinct at our
college because of lack of finances. One game was played
about two months ago, and ended in a 5-5 tie. Hockey is a very
exciting game, and Bethel has several fine Canadian players
at its disposal. It would really be great if the administration
could give the guys a fina*nci*al l*ift .*
The Women's basketball team is enjoying a good amount
of success so far this season. After last Thursday's 34-22 loss
at the hands of Augsburg, their overall record is 4 and 2.
Barb Lindamen and Marilyn Edgar are ,again the leading
scorers on coach Carol M*org*an '*s s q*u ad.
Would you believe that a group of Bethel guys have or-ganized
a cheering squad for the girl's basketball games?
However, with their knobby knees and "combat" boots, they
certainly have a long way to go before they can come near
our regular female cheerleaders. We ,really appreciate the
great job that the girls have been doing. Thanks to Valerie,
Sheryl, and the three Ca*rols*. Y *o u*'re great!
Despite the zero temperatures which now pervade the
Twin City's area, our spring athletes are longing for the be-ginning
of their respective sports. Trackmen are beginning to
run, baseball practice will soon be starting, and as a golfer,
I've already begun to sharpen up my putting stroke. Yes,
athletics has its own definition of "spring fever."
All students who intend to
graduate in June are reminded
that it is necessary for them
to file an Application for Gradu-ation
with the Registrar prior
to Friday, March 1.
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Fred Swedberg leads the league
in scoring with 134 points, while
pacing Falcon to a 5-1 record. The
Pit's Marion James has totaled 115
tallies, closely trailed by Terry
Muck of Third Old with 112, and
Steve Peterson with 104. Andy
Lehman paces a well - balanced
First Floor attack with an even 100
League games are played Mon-day
and Wednesday nights, and
Saturday mornings. Dates for play-off
games will be posted. John Car-mean
is Intramural Supervisor.
BETHEL MALES go all out to lend moral support to the women's
basketball team. So far it has helped the squad compile a 4-2 mark.
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Last month I attended the 2014 Digital Money Symposium in London, co-sponsored by Citi and Imperial College. The Symposium convened a group of leaders in their fields to explore the state of adoption of digital money and its economic and societal impacts around the world. This is the second such Digital Money Symposium, the first one having taken place in London in January of 2013.
I was a part of the Citi-Imperial team that organized the event. For this year's Symposium, we developed a framework that would enable us to discuss the state of adoption of digital money on a more data-driven, scientific basis. We looked at digital money as a highly complex sociotechnical ecosystem, that is, a technology-intensive system that has major societal, economic and political implications, like cities, healthcare and education. To help us begin to quantify and understand this ecosystem, we developed the Digital Money Readiness Index, a set of global metrics that enables us to link digital money adoption to various measures of socio-economic development…
…For business, digital money improves productivity by reducing the costs of handling cash, as well as providing the opportunity of revenue growth from existing customers and access to new customers. The report cites a study by The Fletcher School at Tufts University which estimates the cost of handling cash to US business at ~ $55 billion.
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Margaux Isaksen is the future face of the modern pentathlon. She finished fourth this past summer at the London Olympics, and she was disappointed.
Make that tremendously disappointed. She traveled to England with the expectation of coming home with a medal.
She's only 21, and has a strong chance to walk around with three, maybe even four, Olympic medals around her neck. Don't doubt her. She has a raging fire in her gut to succeed.
For months, the modern pentathlon seemed doomed as an Olympic sport. If you read American newspapers, and I do, the sport appeared in severe danger.
You can imagine Isaksen's joy when she discovered in February the pentathlon had been spared.
But her joy was not pure. She was stunned, along with a multitude of others, to discover wrestling had been recommended for removal from the 2020 Games.
Isaksen talked Tuesday afternoon between bites of Pad Thai at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center cafeteria. She was wearing gray warm-ups with "The United States of America" in big letters on her back. She only had a few minutes to talk. Her weightlifting coach was waiting.
"I was absolutely happy for myself," Isaksen said, "but my other reaction was, 'Wow, I can't believe they're taking wrestling out of the Olympics.' It's incredibly unfortunate."
Isaksen never believed the pentathlon would be removed. The sport enjoys strong support in several corners of the globe, including Poland, Russia, Hungary, Italy, South Korea and China. The sport struggles for attention in the United States.
Isaksen ignored stories that stated the pentathlon had little chance to survive. She knew better.
"It was the American view of who was on the chopping block," she said. "We don't get the respect we deserve in this country."
Her distress over the removal of wrestling is genuine. Wrestling boasts, like the pentathlon, a long, distinguished Olympic history.
But wrestling fails to grab big TV ratings. The leaders of the Olympic movement are searching for flashy sports to entice TV viewers. This search explains the presence of beach volleyball.
Isaksen's coach, Janusz Peciak, sat beside her while she talked. Peciak competed in the Olympic pentathlon three times, winning gold at the 1976 Montreal Games.
He is angered, but not surprised, by the International Olympic Committee's plans to discard wrestling.
"It's all about the show," Peciak said. "It's all about money. If they had people compete in fencing naked, people would love it. That's what they are doing now. It's all about the sex, or whatever."
Isaksen and Peciak decline to just complain. Both offer concrete plans to construct a better Olympics.
Peciak believes several sports should streamline events at the Olympics. Instead of spending several days on elimination rounds, he said, these sports should rapidly move to medal competition. This would allow additional sports, like wrestling, to remain in the Olympics.
Isaksen has her eyes on swimming. Michael Phelps was given the opportunity to win 22 medals during his illustrious pool career.
That's too many, Isaksen said.
"I'm all for reducing the events," she said. "I'm absolutely for it. I don't even know how many events there are in swimming."
She does know this truth, which should be self-evident:
Wrestling belongs in the Olympics.
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Manchester United striker Federico Macheda scored a late penalty as England Under-21s were defeated 1-0 in their friendly clash with Italy in Empoli.
Shortly after substitute Scott Sinclair had squandered a great chance for the visitors, Ben Mee brought down Niccolo Giannetti to concede a spot-kick with two minutes remaining.
Macheda, who is currently on loan at Sampdoria, made no mistake to deal England a blow in their preparations for this summer's European Under-21 Championship in Denmark.
Manager Stuart Pearce, who saw his squad severely weakened by withdrawals, handed a debut to Middlesbrough defender Joe Bennett while 17-year-old Chelsea midfielder Josh McEachran made his first start.
A quiet start to the match took a worrying turn for England and particularly Everton after little over 10 minutes when Jack Rodwell appeared to suffer a groin problem and was replaced by Jack Cork.
The only clear-cut chance of the first half fell to Ciro Ferrara's Italy as Gianvito Misuraca found space behind the England defence but Frank Fielding got down well to push his shot around the post.
With an hour gone, Pearce, who celebrated his fourth anniversary as manager on Sunday, made a triple substitution, giving debuts to Jonny Howson, Jay Rodriguez and Alex Chamberlain in place of James Vaughan, Henri Lansbury and Nathan Delfouneso.
Highly-rated Southampton youngster Chamberlain made an immediate impact with a run and fizzing cross along the six-yard line but none of his team-mates could get on the end of it.
Sinclair came on for Albrighton with quarter of an hour remaining, and the Swansea winger should have put England ahead with nine minutes left. An excellent through-ball from McEachran found the former Chelsea youngster in acres of space but he shot straight at goalkeeper Carlo Pinsoglio, who then produced another good save from the same player at his near post.
Having stepped up the pace, though, England conceded the only goal of the game in the 88th minute. Substitute Giannetti ran in behind Manchester City defender Mee, who clearly brought down the striker and was promptly shown a red card, with Macheda easily beating Fielding from the penalty spot.
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US Navy SEALs target al-Shabab leader in Somalia after Kenyan mall massacre
NICHOLAS KULISH and ERIC SCHMITT
Nairobi: A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of al-Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, US officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility.
The SEAL team stealthily approached the beachfront house by sea before exchanging gunfire with militants in a predawn firefight that was the most significant raid by US troops on Somali soil since commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, an al-Qaeda mastermind, near the same town four years ago.
The unidentified al-Shabab leader is believed to have been killed in the firefight, but the SEAL team was forced to withdraw before that could be confirmed, a senior US official said. Such operations by US forces are rare because they carry a high risk, and indicate that the target was considered a high priority. Baraawe, a small port town south of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, is known as a gathering place for al-Shabab's foreign fighters.
"The Baraawe raid was planned a week and a half ago," said a US security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity about a classified operation. "It was prompted by the Westgate attack," he added, referring to the mall in Nairobi that was overrun by militants two weeks ago, leaving more than 60 dead.
Witnesses in the area described a firefight lasting over an hour, with helicopters called in for air support. A senior Somali government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed the raid, saying, "The attack was carried out by the American forces, and the Somali government was pre-informed about the attack."
A spokesman for al-Shabab, which is based in Somalia, said that one of its fighters had been killed in an exchange of gunfire but that the group had beaten back the assault. US officials initially reported that they had seized the al-Shabab leader, but later backed off of that account. The senior US official said there were no reports of American casualties in the operation.
The deadly assault on the Westgate shopping mall was a stark reminder of the power and reach of the Islamist group, which has had a series of military setbacks in recent years and was widely viewed as weakened.
The FBI sent dozens of agents to Nairobi after the shopping mall siege to help Kenyan authorities with the investigation. US officials fear that al-Shabab could attempt a similar attack on US soil, perhaps employing several of the group's Somali-American recruits.
Another US official said it was still unclear whether any Americans were involved in the Westgate mall episode, although there were growing indications that fewer attackers took part in the siege than the 10 to 15 militants the government had previously announced.
A spokesman for the Kenyan military said Saturday that it had identified four of the attackers from surveillance footage. Local news media reported their names as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and a man known only as Umayr.
"I can confirm that those are the names of the terrorists," said Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir, the spokesman.
The attack was carried out by the American forces, and the Somali government was pre-informed about the attack.
The footage, broadcast on Kenyan television Friday night, showed four of the attackers moving about the mall with nonchalance, no hint in their demeanour that they had stormed a shopping centre and massacred dozens of people, much less that they feared an imminent counterassault from Kenyan security services.
One loitered in the grocery checkout aisle, talking on his mobile phone . Another slouched in a storage room like a worker on break.
At least one of the four men, Nabhan, is Kenyan, and believed to be related to Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan of al-Qaeda.
The elder Nabhan was a suspect in the bombing of an Israeli hotel on the Kenyan coast in 2002 and the attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
He was one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa when US commandos killed him in September 2009 in an audacious daytime attack. Four military helicopters shot at two trucks rumbling through the desert, killing six foreign fighters, including Nabhan, and three Somali members of al-Shabab.
Nabhan was of Yemeni descent but was born in Mombasa, on Kenya's coast. Kenyan news media reported that the younger Nabhan also came from Mombasa, and was among the Kenyans who travelled to Somalia to train and fight with the Shabab.
Matt Bryden, the former head of the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea, said the tactics used in the Westgate attack were similar to those used by al-Shabab in a number of operations in Somalia this year. But he also said that local help was needed to pull off an attack on that scale, and that several of the men identified as taking part in the attack were connected to group's Kenyan affiliate, known as Al Hijra.
"We should certainly expect al-Hijra and al-Shabab to try again," Bryden said. "And we should expect them to have the capacity to do so."
The raid Saturday appeared to have been intended to blunt those capabilities. A witness in Baraawe said the house was known as a place where senior foreign commanders stayed, although he could not say whether they were there at the time of the attack.
The witness said 12 well-trained al-Shabab fighters scheduled for a mission abroad were staying there at the time of the assault.
There was some confusion as to exactly what happened before sunrise on Saturday. Witnesses described the SEAL team using silencers in the initial attack, but a loud firefight afterward. Before confirmation that a US SEAL team was behind the attack, an al-Shabab spokesman said British and Turkish forces were involved, which both countries immediately denied.
"The attackers were not able to enter the house," the spokesman, Sheik Abdiaziz Abu Musab, said in a telephone interview. "Our fighters were fighting very hard."
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Dec. 7, 2012
Raleigh, N.C. – NC State head football coach Dave Doeren has announced that Ryan Nielsen, a former All-Pac 10 defensive lineman, has joined his staff and will coach that position for the Wolfpack. Nielsen, who will also serve as recruiting coordinator at State, spent last season as the co-defensive coordinator, recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach for Doeren at Northern Illinois.
"Ryan is one of the best technicians on the defensive line that I've ever been around," said Doeren. "He played the game at a very high level and learned to coach from a number of great defensive minds. He has great energy and passion for his players and is a tireless and energetic recruiter."
Prior to spending the last two seasons with the two-time MAC Champion and Orange Bowl-bound Huskies, Nielsen spent a year as the special teams coordinator and defensive line coach at Tennessee Martin, where the team led the Ohio Valley Conference in total defense. Prior to that, he was the defensive coordinator for two years at Central Connecticut State, also coaching defensive line and linebackers for the 2008 and 2009 campaigns. In 2009, CCSU won the Northeastern Conference title and led the league in sacks, forced turnovers, red zone defense and opponent third down conversions.
From 2005 – 2007, the Los Angeles native served for three years as the defensive line coach at Ole Miss. He coached two freshman All-Americans, Greg Hardy and Marcus Tillman, during his time in Oxford. He had a player lead the SEC in sacks twice during his three-year stint.
"I am very thankful to be joining the Wolfpack football family," said Nielsen. "I am looking forward to building on the football tradition here at NC State and want to thank Dr. [Debbie] Yow and Coach Doeren for the opportunity of a lifetime to join this staff. Having worked with Coach Doeren in the past, I'm honored and humbled to join him here at State. I can't wait to begin working."
The 33-year-old received his B.S. in public policy from Southern Cal in 2002. He was an all-conference performer as a sophomore, tallying 39 tackles, and played while Doeren was a graduate assistant coach for the Trojans. He signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Eagles and played Arena football with the Los Angeles Avengers.
After graduation, he served as a volunteer assistant on the Trojan staff for a season, then went to the University of Idaho, where he gained experience as an administrative assistant.
Youth, energy and enthusiasm. Exactly what the program is looking for.
You can click here for the link to Nielsen's profile/biography when he was playing at Southern Cal.


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This film gives an account of the importance of Canada's forests in the national war effort and stresses also the vital part they will play in the reconstructive social planning which will follow. The reckless exploitation of forests in bygone days is contrasted with the care and foresight devoted to the woodlands today, and every citizen is shown how he can assist in the conservation of those forest resources which form so great a part of Canada's wealth.
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Sandy call too, I also got a Rex talking B-day card again, cool.
i see the caller id come up and am assuming i'll here a recorded message from Woody or something. it's an actual person from the ticket office, calling to say happy holidays and let me know that the Chargers game may be flexed to 1pm. i said thanks (didn't have the heart to tell him i already sold my tix), he said if i needed anything to call him. and that was all.
for once, a nice call from the Jets. well done. we bash them enough, so i'll give credit where credit is due.
Sandy call too, I also got a Rex talking B-day card again, cool.
Surprised they did not offer a buy 1 get 3 free offer fo rthe Charger game.
not surprised by this one AT ALL.
This is what you call DAMAGE CONTROL.
You should have said F#ck Off and hung up the phone.
"Yes this is __ from the Jets"
"P-S-L PLEASE STOP LOSING!!! -- *click*"
Getting flexed to 1pm would be a great Christmas present for season ticket holders.