text:
Eighteen white rats are the subjects for the psychology department's personality study (photo
by Dan Velie).
Students struggle for small classes
Crowded classrooms translate into packed hallways before and after chapel, and during class
breaks (photo by Dan Velie).
3900 Bethel Drive
St. Paul, Minnesota 55112 the Clarion. Vol. 56, No. 11 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Nov. 21, 1980
Rats join the Bethel race
by Leann M. Kicker
Do rats have perSonal-ity?
That is the question
Mike Roe, assistant profes-sor
of psychology and Tam-my
Roedel, research assis-tant,
are testing in a study
done here at Bethel.
Eighteen white rats and
about 65 students partici-pate
in the study. The stu-dents
work as raters. The
rater observes the behavior
of the rat in a particular
setting and records the ani-mal's
The research is strictly
observational. "We don't
do anything cruel to the
rats," said Roedel. "We
only observe their behavior.
We don't use shock, for
The purpose of the study
is to prove _t hat animals
have personality. Roe and
Roedel use the definition
of personality based on
the human model that states
that there are "individual
differences in rats," said
The concept that ani-mals
have-personalities con-trasts
with the behaviorist
theory that animals are
empty organisms influen-enced
by their environment.
So far there has been
little work done in this
.area, according to Roedel.
Roe and Roedel intend to
publish the results of the
Roe and Roedel also think
that the results may be an
aid to animal handlers. Roe-del
said that if they find
personalities in rats, that
information might be help-ful
both in learning to han-dle
difficult animals and
in raising animals that are
easier to handle. This would
be similar to the way know-ledge
of human behavior
is used to help individuals
with behavioral problems,
said Roedel.
This study is a "sta-tistical
study of animal be-havior,
not just a verbal
description," said Roedel.
"That ' should make the
study carry more weight."
The rats are given num-bers
rather than names but
Roedel affectionately calls
many of them "Baby."
When the new science
wing is complete, it will
include a large psycho-logy
department with an
animal laboratory. Roedel
said, "Maybe we will have
other animals besides rats
in the laboratory,"
Prayer chain links women and needs
by Shari Goddard
Like an alarm set-off for
a fire, a group of faculty
wives and other women
at Bethel quickly meets
crises with a chain of pray-er.
When someone phones
a prayer request to Mar-garet
Grudem, chairperson
of the project, she calls the
captains of the three indi-vidual
chains, who then
call the next person on
their lists. In this way,
approximately 40 women
eventually receive the pray-er
As they receive a phone
call, each woman writes
down the message, prays
immediately and calls the
next person on the list. If
no one answers the phone,
she calls the next person
on the list. The group han-dles
answers to prayer in
the same way.
"That (prayer), I think,
is one of the greatest things
we can do," said Nancy
Lundquist, a member of
one of the groups. She add-ed
that when a prayer re-quest
"goes through, we
don't chat about it. It is
given verbatim and it is
passed on verbatim."
Any person can call Gru-dem
at (612) 636-2587 with
a request. Lundquist said
that requests often come
through without specific
details, but "that's fine be-cause
the Lord knows the
details." Calls for help
range from students who
are having problems at
school, to prayer for help
during the delivery of a
baby, to a recent request
for prayer for a possibly
abducted child. If some-one
needs meals delivered
during a crisis, Grudem
said they can also help in
that way.
The chain serves as an
outlet for the Bethel Facul-ty
Women's organization.
Open to women, whether
faculty members or the
wives of faculty members,
see page 3
by JoAnn Watkins
"There are over 50 people
in my Bible class," the fresh-man
"I think that is a bit
unusual," a friend said.
"There are about 20 in most
of my classes."
"Yeah, and I couldn't
get those smaller classes
because they were closed,"
a third stated.
As these students discov-ered
the size of classes
vary from under 10 to over
100. The smallest classes
are primarily upper level
classes. Directed study pro-grams
generally involve one
student. The advanced class-es
in departments such as
linguistics, Spanish, social
work and theatre arts enroll
a small number of students.
Different sizes of classes
can be found in all depart-ments.
The introductory
courses have the largest
By departments, the great-est
number enrolled, 977,
is in the physical education
skill classes. The average
class size is 22 with 45 dif-ferent
classes meeting dur-ing
the semester.
The largest class, a sec-tion
of Theology I with
139 students, gives the theo-ogy
department the largest
average class size: 71, The
smallest average class size
is 5 in secondary education
which is compromised of
upper level courses.
The Biblical studies de-partment,
a large depart-ment
at Bethel, has an aver-age
class size of 41 with
733 enrolled.
With 445 enrolled in busi-ness
classes, the average
class size is 28. The aver-age
class size for the bio-logical
science and psycho-logy
departments are res-pectively
16 and 35.
Overall the average class-size
at Bethel is 22. This is
not the same as a student-to-
teacher ratio since some
courses are team-taught.
The sizes were figured
from a departmentalized
fall course schedule. The
average is not based on
the number of different
students enrolled in the
department but the num-ber
of enrollments. Student
teaching and labs held in
connection with another
class were not included in
figuring the averages.
see page 3
Semester end is near:
downhill from here on
To the Editor:
I am writing this letter
in response to Alvera Mick-elsen's
letter to the editor
in the October 31 Clarion.
Since I am composing this
the day after the election
one might think that I
would take the spoils from
the victory of the last twen-ty-
four hours and smugly
be silent.
I cannot. The fact is that
winning an election means
nothing unless one can im-plement
the principles es-poused
in the campaign. I
believe Mrs. Mickelson's
arguments against a hu-man
life amendment are
illfounded for a number of
Logically, if one were to
apply Mrs. Mickelsen's pre-mise
to our governmental
processes we would legal-ize
anything we couldn't
completely control. We
now have laws on the
books in all 50 states mak-ing
rape, the sale of hard
drugs, robbery, murder and
countless other actions il-legal.
Have any of these
crimes against humanity
been eradicated? Have any
even been held in check?
Almost all reports indicate
that these crimes are on
the increase.
Should we then conclude
that since we cannot con-trol
these acts we ought to
legalize them as some sug-gest?
The practical rami-fications
of this line of
reasoning are preposter-ou
Biblically the purpose
of government as stated in
Romans 13:1-5 and I Peter
3:13-14 is to be "The ser-vant
of God" who will "exe-cute
His wrath who do
right." This is obviously
an activist role ordained
by God to "withhold the
onslaught of the barbar-ians"
as William Buckley
once said.
We must be mindful that
this mandate was given in
the New Testament not
the Old s- o there is no ques-tion
of its application to
the present day. Also we
must remember that it was
stated to Christians, who
were living under the dom-ination
of a purely pagan
Roman government.
It seems reasonable to
say that God expects far
more from a nation com-posed
of many individu-als
who claim to be
Christ's, who claim to give
allegiance to His Word and
who are directly involved
in a participatory demo-cracy.
We, after all, are the
government in a far great-er
sense than the citizens
in a Roman dictatorship.
As citizens in a demo-cracy
we share responsi-hilit
y for ils.actions unless
we have done all we could
before God to right the
wrongs we perceive. I ad-mit
Tha l America is not a
Christian nation, but that
fact does not excuse Chris-tians
from having a Scrip-ture-
directed influence in
that society.
I reject the idea that we
ought not get involved in
the abortion issue because
it will continue even if a
human life amendment is
see page 3
Dear Editor,
This morning, before I
turned on the shower, I
prayed that it would be
lukewarm. For the past 60
to 70 days my prayer has
been for hot water, but
every morning it's the same
story — freezing cold. I
thought that maybe I was
asking for more than I real-ly
need, so I reduced my
request from hot water to
lukewarm water. Believing
with all my heart, I step-ped
into the shower.
My bloodcurdling scream
brought my roommates
into the bathroom to see,
what the problem was. When
they realized what I was
screaming about, their only
counsel was to "curse God
and die."
Cold showers are only
part of the problem of liv-ing
in Fountain Terrace
Apartments. In my apart-ment,
the .ceiling is only
half there. Although this
makes a great conversa t inn
piece, ii is an inconven-ience.
We live on the third
floor, so the missing ceil-ing
allows falling rain into
the living room. Who knows
what will happen during
the spring thaw. Maybe
we'll build an ark. The
dripping ceiling also limits
where we put the furni-ture
because we have to
maneuver around the pots
and pans that are catching
the drips.
Our refrigerator is an-other
cause of anguish. Our
freezer doesn't freeze. This
means no pizza, frozen vege-tables,
ice cream, fish sticks
and pot pies because either
they spoil or melt all over.
As a consequence, macaroni
and cheese has been our
diet since September.
October 1 another prob-lem
was added to the list.
The heat went on. No mat-ter
if the thermostat is set
on 50 degrees, our apart-ment
is 78 degrees. I didn't
realize thaI when I signed
the lease I ,would gel a
Other minor problems
are building my
lion. In the bathroom there
is only one spot to plug in
anything. Four girls with
four hairdryers and four
curling irons with an ocas-sional
hot rollers are all
competing for one solitary
Besides this, Our living
room curtains don't shut.
So far this has attracted to
our sliding glass door t
total strangers, water hal-loons,
and pumpkin insides.
The part that scares me
about this is that because
our apartment is so hot,
we have to open the window.
This means anyone could
climb up the balcony when
they see that girls live in
the apartment, because of
the non-shut table curtains,
and walk right into the
living room.
I could go on and men-lion
the problems that Foun-tain
Terrace residents are
having, butt hey corn kvri te
see page 3
Ratify amendment; maintain morality
I should have started with -this one , .
$400 for cold water, hot apartment?
Zoom in. No, not too close. A little bit out of focus. Get
the frame centered on the subject. Ah, back a bit. Got it
in focus? Good. Snap the shutter. You have just photo-graphed
yourself.. You took a while to get into focus.
Things were a bit blurry. It's that time.
Things are at low tide. Depression is setting in.
Things are tough—all over. Spiritual, emotional, social,
Physical—every part of you is tired. We were warned of
this two and a half months ago. But here we are.
Hard to find words. Ideas don't stick together. Com-mas,
periods, semi-colons, question marks—words-land
like a black blob on paper. Topic sentences lack
continuity, paragraphs miss the point. The barrage of
paperwork seems senseless, not to mention endless.
The time we thought we would have for people is
slowly diminiShing; for many it is already gone. We are
on a treadmill that won't stop spinning. At least not for
four more weeks. The end is in sight.
Can you believe it'? We sang a song of beginning only
a short while ago. Now we begin the down side of the
hill, even though th6 climb may feel uphill.
We cry out. "God, it is hard and I nekl your help."
Maybe that's the problem. We forgot to cry out—before
we found ourselves waist-high in immovable mire.
Now we are stuck. We don't have a choice. Only way
out is up. Funny how that works.
Admit it. We have been depending on ourselves more
than we want to confess to. It need not be something to
hide. We are all guilty. If we weren't we wouldn't be in
the mess we are in right now.
We can't turn back and retrace what we have already
done. The future is all we can look for. If we've gotten
ourselves into a predicament, well, we will have to get
ourselves out of that very same predicament. It's tough,
being a student, a prof, a human being. But, you know
what? It can ... it will ... all work out. The picture will
develop clearly—no blurs. God promiSed.
Joy Nannette Banta, edito r
Jay Stuart Russell, associate edi tor''
Shari Goddard, news editor
Ellie Abbott, sports editor
Doug rkey, photography editor
Mari Broman, copy editor
Art Gibbens, production editor
Suanne Hawkins, business manager
ratty Sutton, editorial assistant
Beth Nystrom, graphics
Ted Lewis, columnist
Juan Ortiz, cartoonist
Nance Dornfeld, ad sales
Page 2
Construction on the science addition 'has begun with the familiar onslaught of machinery,
bricks, noise... and mud (photo by Doug Barkey).
Page 3
Faculty open sexuality forum
by Randy Pate
Bethel faculty and admin-istration
were recently in-volved
in the first of five
forums on human sexual-ity.
Glenace Edwall, asso-cialeprofessor
of pscyhol-ogy,
spoke on "A Psycholo-gical
Perspective on Hu-man
To the Editor:
I would just like to take
the time to thank openly
at this point in the year,
Dave Lucas, Caryl Brown,
Cindy Robinson, Warren
Barber, Arnie Abens, Deb
Bowman, Janet Brown, San-dy
Erickson, Karen Evans,
Pete Franzen, Randy John-son,
Rick Kreu tzfeld I, Todd
Magnuson, Lams Maxwell
Steve Prange, Patricia San-toian,
Mark Wollan, Keith
Mason, Bobbie Lee, Micheal
Kleven, Eileen Hermanson
and Rich Bell.
Thank you for working
extra hours to raise funds
for the handicapped stu-passed.
Admittedly abor-tions
will continue. But
this same rationale was
used in history when Su-preme
Court Chief justice
Taney wrote in the Dred
Scott decision prior to the
Civil War that black slaves
"had far more than a cen-tury
before been regarded
as beings of an inferior
order, altogether unfit to
associate with the white
race... and that the negro
might justly and lawfully
be reduced to slavery for
his benefit."
Many of the 35 people
present seemed pleased
with the program. Tom
Correll, professor of an-thropology,
said, "This for-urn
ranks right at the top
of any academic intellec-tual
experiences I have
been involved in during
my ten years as a profes-sor
here." Dale Johnson,
dents at Bethel, for giving
time and money to Hope
Missions and for again spen-ding
hours upon hours in
developing a major project
for this year that will im-prove
Bethel College as
well as support outside
local missions. •
You hang in there even
though there is zero praise
and often ridicule of being
a Bethel College senator.
You're a great bunch of
students and it has been
an honor for me to be able
to work with a group that
has as much character as
Dean of Men
We have heard the
"rights" of the woman car-rying
the doomed child in
her womb to the exclusion
associate professor of art,
said the talks were 'Just
Faculty Development Co-ordinator
Tom Johnson is
in charge of the program.
He wants the lectures to
bring a number of academ-ic
perspectives to the topic
of human sexuality.
The meetings convene
directly after the regular
faculty meetings. After the
lecture, two respondents,
chosen ahead of time, have
a chance to reply on the
subject matter.
Johnson said the feeling
toward the lecture is good.
He is looking forward to
the upcoming January 6
lecture by Tom Correll on
"An Anthropological Per-spective
on Human Sexual-ity."
Class size, from page 1
An average was not fig-ured
for the applied music
department which involves
the performing groups and
private lessons.
Why could the third stu-dent
in the conversation
above not get into a class
if it was small but closed?
A class is closed when the
number of students regis-tered
for the class reaches
a set limit.
"The limit is set by the
of the equally legitimate
rights of the child just as
we chose to hear only the
rights of Dred Scott's "own-er"
to the exclusion of the
human rights of Mr. Scott.
You may claim that the
unborn child is not human
or not created in the image
of God, but if you cannot
partake of that casuistry
then we cannot partake of
the hypocrisy of ignoring
the child's right to life. The
two positions simply do
not mix.
No, Mrs. Mickelsen, abor-tions
will not end, but the
Scripture's mandate for gov-ernment
is to carry out its
task of punishing the evil
doer and protecting the
innocent whether or not it
is completely effective in
that task. We as Christians
can best show our alle-giance
to our Master by at
least "attempting to effec-tively
protect the rights of
all human life and aiding
the troubled mother with
economic help, spiritual
and psychological comfort,
acceptance in Christian
love and compassion re-gardless
of the repugnance
teacher," said Dr. Paul Fin-lay,
registrar. "It is the
number he wants in the
class." Finlay said the prin-ciples
teachers use for set-ting
the limits include their
style of teaching and their
plans for the class.
"Most often its's the capa-city
of the room," Finlay
said. He said that beCause
all the classrooms are used
during B, G and H modules
the classes may be sche-of
her contemplated acts
and if necessary provide
adoption services to her.
We must never in any
way assist her in destroy-ing
the spark of life in her
that also was created in
the image of God. The on-ly
time we are justified in
taking the life of another
is in self-defense when
that life clearly threatens
our own.
In Psalm 94:16ff the
Psalmist asks "Who rises
up for me against the wick-ed?
Who stands up for me
against the evil doer? ...
Can the wicked rulers be
allied with thee, who frame
mischief by statute? They
band together against the
life of the righteous, and
condemn the innocent to
death." The answer to this
question should include
Christians who consistent-ly
apply complete under-standing
of Scripture to
the difficult problems fac-ing
Ken Lewis
Bethel Alumnus
Bethel Field Area Represen-tative
duled in a smaller room
than the teacher originally
In some situations the
number enrolled may be
more than the limit set by
the teacher or the room
capacity. "They needed in,"
said Robert Weaver, assis-tant
professor of business,
who allowed more stu-dents
than his set limit to
enroll in his business re-sources
management class.
He said his reasons for
allowing a student to enroll
in a full class included late
registration and a need for
the class for a concentra-tion
or cognate. He said he
sets the limit lower than
capacity to allow for this.
Classes for spring semes-ter
will vary in size as
they do this fall. Students
who find classes closed
that they need for their
program may find that teach-their
own letters. Besides,
the proper authorities alrea-dy
know about the show-ers,
the heat, and our ceil-ing
because the Fountain
Terrace A.D.s have com-plained
every week at the
A.D. meetings. Other Foun-tain
Terrace residents have
also brought their com-plaints
to ot herofficials.
My real purpose in writing
this, however, is not to
demand luxury: Comfort
would be nice, but I can
live without that for seven
more months. The question
that has been bothering
me is this: why are we
paying nearly four hun-dred
dollars per month?
ers are flexible on the limits
for their class.
Prayer chain
from page 1
not all members of the
organization also belong
to the prayer chain.
Each year chain mem-bers
re-sign for the group,
to insure interest and avail-ability.
This year three
groups have formed. Mem-bers
have the option of
belonging to a morning,
evening or an all-day
group. This helps estab-lish
when a person can
most easily be reached.
"It helps me feel a part
of Bethel," said Grudem.
"The only thing I regret is
not having kept a log of
the answered prayers." She
said that she plans to keep
one this year.
Several apartments in
the area such as Brighton
Village and Chateau Ro-yal
charge between three
and four hundred dollars
per month — but they have
hot water. They probably
have ceilings that don't
drip, freezers that freeze
and curtains that don't al-low
strange men to peer
into the apartment.
Maybe four hundred dol-lars
is for the fan in the
bathroom that automati-cally
goes on when the
light is turned on.
Debra A. Anderson
I doubt that many
thought that the Emanci-pation
Proclamation would
summarily end slavery to
say nothing of racism. Yet
Lincoln proceeded to issue
the edict. I can remember
`Great bunch of students'
loaded with character
Amendment, from page 2
when people used this argu-ment
that one "cannot leg-islate
morality" when the
1964 Civil Rights Act was
being hotly debated. Did
racism cease when the act
was passed? Hardly! Then
should we repeal it?
As important as human
dignity, personal freedom
from slavery and civil
rights are, how much more
important is the most ba-sic
right of all: the right of
the innocent to life itself?
The Dred Scott decision
labelled a certain segment
of humanity as sub-human
and therefore not entitled
That sort of reasoning to basic rights. The Su-ironically
sounds like the preme Court's decision in
slogan that says that "every Roe Vs. Wade in 1973 arbi-child
deserves to be a want- trarily and without prece-ed
child." The implication dent did the same thing. It
being that we are doing relegated the unborn child
the unwanted child a favor to the status of a blob, a
when we permit its mur- fetus or the "Products of
der by abortion. Conception" as the seman-tics
define "it." "It" is there-fore
not worthy of protec-tion
under the Constitution
of our land.
Cold water, from page 2
Rick Talbot, senior, helped establish a Bethel branch of the
Intercollegiate Religious Broadcasters (photo by Doug Bar-key).
for a year or two.
I haven't been through
the unspeakable grief of
having several friends and
family members die in one
winter. But I have had to
learn to let my old nature
die, and that process is by
71, , •
no means painless.
I wasn't taught to fish
and plant corn by the fri-endly
forest dwellers. But
the new friends You gave
me have strengthened me
by their kindness and help-ed
me through the tough
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Friend nearby:
right by side,
now he's gone
Page 4
Modern pilgrim can thank God too
by Sue Fahrenkamp
The Intercollegiate Reli-gious
Broadcasters (IRB)
is a national organization
that students at Bethel can
get involved with to assist
in a broadcasting career.
The IRB is a student
branch of the National Reli-gious
Broadcasters (NRB),
a voice for religious broad-casters.
The NRB is a pro-fessionarorganization
aids new Christian radio
and television stations that
are just starting out. The
NRB also lobbies in Wash-ington,
Students involved in IRB
may attend the annual job
fair, held this year in Wash-ington,
D.C. The members
of IRB pay a reduced rate
at the national and re-gional
conventions. The stu-dents
receive a membership
card and are put on a mail-ing
list. The members of
IRB also get a monthly
magazine entitled "Reli-gious
Students can get invol-ved
in IRB by filling out a
registration form and pay-ing
a registration fee. "This
organization is good for
anyone interested in broad-casting,"
said Rick Talbot,
From the November 5, 1953
Article, "Friend Forgotten"
reprinted in its entirety.
He was always there
when I needed him but I
guess that's the only time I
paid much attention to
him. Besides, I had so many
friends. He used to be
around a lot in the morn-ings
but I preferred to
study, so I didn't have
much time to talk to him.
He took too much of my
One day I remember pro-misinp,
I'd go with him
somewhere—I don't remem-by
Jerry Manus
Thanks, God.
You know I didn't cross
an ocean in a small crow-ded
ship. But I did drive a
long way in a car that I
wasn't sure would make
I didn't stand on alien
shores contemplating the
awesome task of creating
a home in the wilderness.
But I was almost over-whelmed
by the prospects
of adapting to a new life
style, and meeting all the
costs involved.
I didn't permanently exile
myself from my home,
friends and loved ones. But
You know, Lord, it wasn't
easy to say goodbye, even
IRB member.
IRB deals with all areas
of broadcasting such as
radio, television and cable
television. The IRB deals
with Christian radio and
television stations around
the world.
The organization is new
around campus, but not
around the country. Phi-lip
Rohler, instructor in
speech-communication, and
Talbot, a Bethel student,
worked to get IRB estab-lished
at Bethel.
Currently 12 students from
Bethel and Northwestern
College are involved.
ber the particular place—
hut it was where he want-ed
to go. But I forgot about
it. Usually the others want-ed
me with them.
He was always asking
me if I loved him. I don't
know why he always ask-ed
me. None of the others
did. He seemed to want
me for himself but there
wasn't much time for that.
There were always so
many other things to do;
studies, games and organ-izations
and church. I'd go
with him there,-but he still
wasn't satisfied.
see page 5
by Naomi Ludeman
How do you spell relief?
Registering for classes is a
chaotic time. With the pur-chase
of computer termin-als,
Bethel has attempted
to lower the chaos and
pressure during class re-gistration,
Management Information
System (MIS) is the compu-ter
terminal into which fall,
interim and spring classes
were punched. "It's interest-ing
to watch my name and
courses compute onto a
screen," said one student.
Time and cost are chief
advantages of the new sys-tem.
Before last summer, school
registration was a long and
tedious job. The informa-tion
could be fed into a
computer only after the
students registered for their
classes and the computer
cards were collected and
in order.
With the new system,
classes are punched direct-ly
into the terminal and
into students' records. The
system has much less pa-per
work for the registrars.
Laurie Merritt, record su-pervisor,
said, "This fall
registration was more work
because we did it both
ways in case we didn't
operate the machines cor-rectly.".
They did not use
the back-up system for in-terim
or spring registra-
Carol Chryst, the new
registration systems coor-dinator,
said, "The system
will eventually cut costs."
,Previously Bethel bought
time on an off-campus com-puter
system called Pro-gress
Management Services
(PMS). Chryst worked for
PMS for five years before
she came to Bethel.
Anot her advantage of the
new system is the "ease in
handling information," said
Chryst. "I don't have to
look things up in files. It is
great fun!"
The Registrar's Office is
not the only "relieved" off-ice
to use MIS. Public Affairs,
Admissions, Development,
Student Affairs and Stu-dent
Accounts all use the
system. Each office has its
own password into the coin-pu
ter program so that it
can not intrude on other
The disadvantage to MIS
is that it can break down.
"But a repair man usually
comes the same day to fix
it," said Chryst .
Bethel owns two compu-ters.
One is on the fourth
floor near the dean's off-ice.
This is the school busi-ness
computer. The other
is by Doc's corner for st .u-dent
and faculty use. The
purchase of 11 terminals
last spring makes the sys-tem
I didn't travel to a
strange land to find free-dom
to worship You. But I
did come here to learn to
serve You more and to
know You better. So I, too,
am a pilgrim.
And just as the Pilgrims,
after all their hardships,
found it in their hearts to
thank You, so do I. For
considering me worth the
trouble and patience it takes
to cause me to grow, for
watching over me in a stran-ge
place and never turning
Your back on me, I offer
you my own humble thanks-giving.
Thanks God.
Senate turns
project plans
by Sue Fahrenkamp
The student senate plans
a lighted running track and
increased security on cam-pus
as part of Project In-side-
The new t rack, considered
because of the demand,
will be lighted, so stu-dents
can run at night. "A
poll taken at Bethel showed
that over half the student
body jogs," said Janet Brown,
student senator. The type
of surface has not been
A date for the start or
completion of the project
is still uncertain. Pre-sently,
the senate is work-ing
with the administra-tion
to decide where the
track will go. The senate
wants to plan the track
around the new fieldhouse
— in a spot where it will
not be disrupted in five
years by new buildings.
Another senate project
is increased security on
campus. The senate is not
sure which goal will be
completed first.
Senate hopes to raise
funds through Project In-side-
Out. The money will
go for inside projects, such
as the running track, and
projects outside campus,
such as missions.
Project Inside-Out start-ed
last Friday, when sen-ate
sponsored 1 he movie
night. Eight events are plan-ned
throughout the year to
raise money. Sixty per cent
will go for inside projects,
and fort y per cent will go
for the outside project.
IRB aids student broadcasters
Programs offered
in Biblical,
historical and.
studies, missions,
'Christian educa-tion,
ministries, and
lay leadership at
the certificate,
master's and
doctoral levels.
Page 5
WildHoney and Camel Hair
Conformity forces 'means to an end' mentality
Lucie R. Johnson, Bethel's new associate psychology profes-sor,
has a special interest in analyzing children's drawings
(photo by Dan Velie).
Johnson explores art
for children's ideas
Lucie R. Johnson, new
associate professor Of
psychology, fits easily in-to
Bethel's Swedish atmos-phere
with her blond hair
and blue eyes.
Johnson is a developmen-tal
psychologist presently.
working on a project with
children's drawings of peo-ple.
The children are three
to four years old, just begin-ning
to draw and no longer
According to Johnson,
"Drawing is like evolving
a language. To put objects
on paper and,come to the
realization that a circle can
represent a person is excit-ing.
It is problem-solving."
The purpose of Johnson's
project is to try to under-stand
how and what chil-dren
think when they
Johnson is married and
has two children: Marc,
12, and Paul, 10. Her hus-band
Earl works with com-puters
and develops soft-ware—
any kind of instruc-tions
one would give a
computer, according to
In her spare time- John-son
likes lo read in many
different areas such as phil-osophy,
theology • and
science fiction. Sometimes
she does some leather tool-ing.
Johnson says that hob-by
"is kind of dead right
now; at Christmas it comes
by Leann M. Kicker more alive."
Johnson came to Bethel
from the University of Min-nesota
Institute of Child
Development where she
worked in research. How-ever,
she likes teaching
very much as she has
taught in other colleges.
So, when an opportunity
came up at Bethel, she took
advantage of it. She likes
working in a Christian col-lege
framework: "It is nice
because you get to help
integrate faith with learn-ing.
In secular schools you
see the need but cannot do
anything unless they ap-proach
you first," she said.
As lime went by I grew
a little stronger and then I
enjoyed 1 he host of com-panions
grouped about Inc.
But I was rat her neglectful
of him. He would talk to
me often and tell me about
as place we might go ()ge-
1 her some day, if I loved
hint But "someday" seem-ed
so far away. Often I
didn't hear him when he
talked for the other voices
Files, from page 4
Then suddenly—with-out
warning—I grew vio-lently
ill and for daysl lay
upon my bed barely con-scious.
During this lime he
never left my side. My
other friends were there
sometimes, t 00.
by Ted Lewis
Computers or students? I/6u decide. "Pieces of intel-lectual
apparatus, ticking away, waiting for the teacher
to push all the familiar buttons: Important Fact ... Big
Idea ... Assignment Due ... Test Question ... Right
Answer ... Required Reading ... click-click-click.
"Watch the teacher—find out what he wants—do it—
get the grade—pass the course--7 take your degree-get
the job—watch the boss—find out what he wants—
do it—get the raise..." Such was Theodore Roszak's
description of his college students.
Computers don't feel emotional stress. Students do
when they function like computers. Last week the
column unveiled a stress-worn student who felt drained
by his education rather than fulfilled. Why do we face
The symptoms of stress surface through our com-plaints:
"I've got too little time to finish: finish all my
studies and still do other things; I've got too much
homework and too many other things to do; I get so
little fulfillment from dull or difficult studies." So we
hate the pressure, yet submit to the pressure. "Down the
road, it'll pay off," we assure ourselves.
Stress, more common than the common cold, often
results from the virus "disintegratis." When what we do
becomes disintegrated from who we fully are, we're
quite susceptible to this virus. For example, when the
'doing' aspect of washing dishes or writing papers
becomes distasteful to us, the 'finishing' aspect alone
tends to fulfill us. In brief, the process is endured for the
product, be it wages or grades.
If we don't like to study, studying will rub against us.
We all can tolerate certain degrees of stress. In fact,
stress is often helpful, making us adapt to new situa-tions
creatively. But too much stress overloads our
minds and bodies. Some authories say 85 per cent of
all symptoms show a reaction to emotional stress.
- So how do we cope? We can start by opening our eyes
to the 'whats,"whys' and 'knows' of stress and its
causes. The following facts are left open for consider-ation.
Fact: First grade. The sheep are divided from the
goats (and literally in those reading groups with animal
names). Smart ones get rewards for duplicating what
the teacher wants. Dumb ones, labeled 'slow,' get poor
grades. Everyone's status is marked, by and large, for
the next 16 years.
Fact: Even our college grading system rewards "pre-dictable
conformity," reinforcing students to learn
were so loud. As I watched
him, he seemed different
than the others, sort of
quiet but kind and tender,
quite happy. My friends
grew merry—but he grew
Then one day he turned
to me and said, "Lovest
Gradually it became ap- thou me more than these?"
parent that I would get I shook my head. And he
well. They never left my t urned and slowly left the
side, nor did he. I was room.
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what is expected of them. This accumulative learning
approach makes knowledge a means to the end of
grades, and often discourages students from integrative
learning. This latter approach views knowledge as a
fulfilling end when creative and critical thought reward
the student.
Fact: "Listen closely, young American. Do you want
to be successful in society? Then ya gotta earn your
education ... yes, earn that degree... and that nice job.
Then you can earn the American dream. You'll never be
happy without money."
Fact: American colleges are increasingly moving
away from liberal arts education and toward career
training education. Specialization reigns. And Bethel is
no exception. While the humanities wane, business
Fact: Our economy is dovetailed with our educational
structure. The flat-fee tuition promotes students to
take four courses at a time in order to benefit finan-cially.
This ensures a healthy flow of students to pass
through Bethel. Unfortunately, most full-loaders don't
experience a healthy flow in their studies.
Before reading another article, stop and pull these
facts together. Discover how they may contribute to our
stress. The next "Wild Honey and Camel Hair" will
discuss practical alternatives to help restore an integra-tive
learning experience which indeed fulfills us, not
drains us.
Stay tuned to this channel.
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Magician turns to chemistry at Bethel
by JoAnn Watkins
From its beginnings as a
family celebration in Swe-den,
the Saint Lucia tradi-tion
has been observed in
many Swedish areas and
institutions. This year
Saint Lucia is part of the
Festival of Christmas at
The legend of Lucia orig-inated
in Syracuse, Sicily,
around the year 300 AD.
Lucia, a godly girl, was
engaged to a wealthy noble-man.
When Lucia's mother
became very ill, Lucia pray-ed
that God would restore
her mother's health, prom-ising
that if God would do
this she would give her
dowry to the Church.
Lucia became absorbed
in giving aid to the needy
after she kept her promise
to God for healing her mo-ther.
Her fiance turned her
over to Roman soldiers
who placed her in jail. The
Romans, who were perse-cuting
Christians, tortured
her, but she still professed
Her captors gouged out
her eyes and attempted to
burn her at the stake. She
was put to death by sword,
according to the legend, on
Dec. 13, 304. Later, the
early Church declared Lu-cia
a saint. She is now
known as Santa (Saint)
Lucia, who helped the poor
and gave her life for her
One legend tells how,
during a famine in Swe-den,
a large ship came
across Sweden's largest
lake. On the deck appeared
Lucia in a white robe with
a crown of light in her
hair. She distributed large
by Laura Phillips
Bethel's chemistry de-partment
has acquired a
new analytical chemist. A
native Californian, Steph-en
Wheeler is a self-taught
amateur magician. He has
given stage shows and
even built some of his own
magic equipment.
"I've always been inter-ested
in magic," said Wheel-er,
"ever since I was a kid."
While living in Minneso-ta,
Wheeler has performed
two magic shows: one
for U of M students at
Middlebrook Hall and one
in a nearby church. At
Bethel, though, Wheeler lim-its
his wizardry to the chem-istry
amounts of food to the
starving people.
The word. "Lucia" has
been traced to a Latin word
meaning light. When Lucia
is portrayed, she carries a
lamp or torch and her head
is outlined by a halow.
Lucia wears a long, white
robe with a red sash at the
waist and a metal crown
entwined with sprigs of
The tradition of Lucia is
still celebrated throughout
Sweden. On Dec. 13, the
year's shortest and dark-est
day, Lucia comes and
lights begin to shine. Early
in-the morning on this day
the traditional Lucia cof-fee
is served. In most Swej
dish homes, the eldest
daughter serves coffee and
the customary Lucia buns,
"lussekat ter," to the mem-bers
of the household while
they are still in bed.
Saint Lucia and her
cowl will begin the Festi-val
of Christmas this year
)y Serving coffee and little
rakes to members of the
Wheeler grew up in Cali-fornia
where he received
his B.S. in chemistry from
the University of Santa
Clara in 1975. He then
moved to Minneapolis
where he received his
Ph.D. from the University
of Minnesota in 1979.
From 1979-1980 Wheeler
taught at Wheaton College,
filling in for a teacher on
sabbatical. While at Whea-ton
he met Jane Kellar, a
former TEAM missionary
to France, whom he will
.marry January 3.
The soft-spoken Wheel-er
joined Bethel's faculty
this fall. "I came to Bethel
by the 'open-and-shut-door
policy'," he said. The year
Wheeler graduated from
the U of M there was no
chemistry opening at Be-thel,
but there was at Whea-ton.
This year the door to
Wheaton closed, and the
door to Bethel opened.
A, Christian for a little
by Gloria Martin
Soon the Guthrie will
start its annual perfor-over
three years, Wheeler
is interested in chemistry
because "it's one way to
look deeper into God's crea-tion,"
he said. "I think the
Lord wants us to look and
marvel at His works."
Wheeler also sees the
natural sciences as a way
to glorify God.
"God has given ,me some-thing
that I can do and I
think He wants me to use
it," Wheeler said.
What does he like about
Bethel so far?
"I really enjoy the chance
to interact with students,"
Wheeler said. "I enjoy the
personable small college
atmosphere and have ap-preciated
the student in-teractions."
He also enjoys Bethel's
campus. "I really like the
campus setting with the
lake and the jogging trails,"
commented Wheeler. "It's
the prettiest campus I've
mances of "A Christmas
Carol." In Charles Dicken's
delightful Christmas clas-sic
you will see the old
miser, Scrooge, transform-ed
into a loveable man in
one evening. The acting is
exquisite, and the stage is
equally charming.
The Campus Coordina-tors
have purchased 400
tickets for Bethel students.
Tickets are available for
Thursday, Dec. 11 and Fri-day,
Dec. 12. SI mien! s will
pay $4.75 for tickets val-ued
at about $6.00. They
will go on sale Wednes-day,
Dec. 3, on a first-come,
first-served basis.
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But, "It would be nice to
have a window in my 'of-fice,"
he said with a gentle
Wheeler believes he has
a ministry here at Bethel.
Focusing his daily class
devotionals on the theme
of living the victorious life,
Wheeler said, "I want to
do more here than just
teach chemistry; I want to
have an - eternal impact.
My number one goal is to
do something that will
count for eternity."
Though kept busy by
teaching four classes, Wheel-er
would like to be more
involved in research, pre-ferably
collaborating with
the research director at the
U of M. He would like to
pursue the areas of elec-trochemistry
and compu-ter
applications in the chem-istry
lab (e.g. interfacing
computers with chemical
---- see page 7
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Page 7
Pep band adds spirit to sports
The Bethel Royal Pep Band
made its debute at the alum-ni
basketball game Satur-day,
Nov. 15.
Basketball coach George
Palke, athletic director
George Henry and band
director Charles Olson
have been working on plans
for the band for over a
"Were really excited
about having a pep band,"
said Palke. "It adds a lot to
the game."
The basketball team and
the athletic department pur-
"We had a super trip to
Illinois and we also be-came
more spiritually to-gether
this year."
The football team, coached
by Dud Lot ton, ended.
the season with a 2 -6 con-ference
record and an over-all
record of 2 - 8. Concor-dia
was conference champ
with a record of 7-2-0 and
Macalester was behind the
Royals at 0 - 7- 1.
Jim Anderstrom led the
to a m p assing.. fo r 1D 88.
yards and ten touchdowns.
Ken Cooper ended the sea-son
with six touchdowns
and 36 pass receptions for
478 yards. Sophomore
Brian Flater ran a total of
350 yards for the season.
The enthusiasm of the
football team was great
this year and Lift ton was
also pleased with the spir-itual
unity of his team.
The women's cross coun-try
team finished the sea-son
placing sixth out of
eleven teams in the state
and 13th out of 23 teams at
the regional meet in Iowa.
Captain Brenda Harris
ran her last college cross
country race this fall as
the first Bethel cross coun-try
runner to complete four
years of competition. She
also lettered every year.
Coach Betz was new this
fall and enjoyed the sea-son.
Reflect ing on the over-all
season, he said, "We
began the season with two
veterans and 13 newcom-ers
to college cross coun-try.
Ellie Abbott ran stea-dy
all season, showing the
efforts of a good summer
program. Lana Lamers,
Brenda Harris, Linda Hall-
' blade, and Chris LeVeseur
ran their best at the mgion-al
meet al Iowa State.
"One of thehighlightsof
chased uniformS1T-shirts
and cowboy hats) for the
The pep band, composed
of about 50 students, is
not limited to members of
the Concert Band. Any instru-mentalist
able to attend
rehearsals and performan-ces
is eligible.
The Bethel Royal Pep
Band rehearses once a week
under the direction of Steve
Lahm, student conductor
of the Concert Band. The
repertoire includes hit
tunes, marches and t radi-the
year for me was the
Friday morning sharing
time. We claimed a number
of God's promises includ-ing
Phil. 4:19: 'My God
shall supply all your needs
according to His riches in
glory in Christ Jesus."
The men's cross coun-try
team ended the season
in seventh place in the
MIAC 'and sixth place in
the NAIA district meet.
Brent Friesen ran the race
of his life at the district
meet and just missed quali-fying
for the national meet
by eight places.
Friesen, a fourth-year let-ter
winner this fall, re-ceived
a plaque for his
achievements. Ross Allen,
Ross Fleming and Dwight
Newman received two-year
awards and Mike Nel-son,
Bob Peitzman and Tim
Snyder were awarded first-year
Wheeler, from page 6
Though he has no imme-diate
plans for the future
except staying at Bethel,
Wheeler has considered
missions. "I would like to
be a non-professional mis-sionary
and teach the
sciences overseas," he said.
A downhill and cross-country
skier, Wheeler has
also played trombone for
a hobby. He enjoys listen-ing
to classical and roman-tic
symphonic music.
tional pep band pieces.
The band will perform
at one home game each
week throughout the bas-ketball
season. Olson hopes
to see the program expand
to include other sports next
"We're really going to
have a good time in pep
band," said director Lahm.
And that's what pep band
is about, according to Ol-son.
"We're not . trying to
provide a profound musi-cal
experience," he said.
"Our goal is to contribute
enthusiasm, spirit, and
fun to sports events."
Reader contribution by
Dave Anderson, student
Do you feel that the cost of
a college education is in-creasing
uncontrollably? Them
is something you can do to
slow the increasing cost of
a college education.
Director of Physical Plant
Jim Woods estimates that
the electricity for.. the .col-lege
and seminary, plus
heating and cooling for the
acaderhic complex, will cost
about $230,000 for the 1980-
81 schoolyear. With the
utility bills for off-campus
housing and the heating
and other expenses for the
dorms and townhouses, the
figure swells to over
$400,000 — about $200
per student.
Though the utility- bills
at Bethel are • paid by a
special group of alumni,
and students do not direct-ly
pay for the energy they
use, someone pays the bill
for the lights and heat.
There are otherareas where
these funds could be used.
In 1973 the 3M corpora-tion
began an energy con-servation
drive. In the sev-en
years since that pro-gram
began approximate-ly
$40 million was cut
from their energy bill.
Those savings are enough
to operate the company
for one year — free. As of
1979, 26.3 per cent of 3M's
total amount of energy used
per unit of production
was saved.
Bethel's largest energy
consumers are lights, heat-ing
and water heaters. For
every 14 hours that a 75-
watt light is on, it costs
about four cents for electri-city,
for example. At times,
it becomes difficult to stay
warm in townhouses; a
wool sweater or a long-sleeved
flannel shirt can
be just as comfortable as a
high thermostat setting. A
one-degree decrease in ther-mostat
equals a
three per cent decrease in
heating costs.
Hot water is a commod-ity
we seem to assume
will always be there. The
lack of hot water for morn-ing
showers could be avoid-ed
if everyone would (1)
turn off the water while
they lather up, (2) take a
somewhat cooler shower,
with less water pressure,
(3) turn off the faucet while
they brush their teeth, (4)
just let the faucet trickle
while they (guys) shave.
Remember, too, that open
doors and windows, wash-ers',
dryers, electric irons,
ovens, toasters, stereos, tel-evisions,
hair dryers and
so on, also use energy, and
not only small quantities of
Some Bethel students'
actions seem to indicate
an attitude that says, "I
have paid my student ac-count
so I deserve to get
my money's worth." That
is a positive attitude with
reference to classes and
studying, but shouldn't ap-ply
to our thinking about
energy use.
Jesus urges us to be good
stewards of what has been
given to us (Luke 16:10
and Matt. 25:21). Our ener-gy
sources have been giv-en
to us, thus the analogy
Think about snowflakes.
As individual snowflakes
they seem most insignifi-cant.
Add enough snow-flakes
together though, and
they become a snow bank,
difficult to handle. Waste-ful
energy practices also
become more difficult to
deal with as they persist.
Direct any comments or
questions concerning ener-gy
conservation to Dave
Anderson, P 0 265.
, Chapel Schedule
Monday—Dan Taylor
(English prof)
special (faculty)
Wednesday—Lee Elia-son
(worship service)
Johnson, from page 5
Johnson has a verycom-plimentary
first impres-sion
of Bethel. She said, "It
is the friendliest place I
have ever encountered. Peo-ple
talk to one another,
care about one another.
There is a general caring
atmosphere. Maybe you no-tice
it more when you are
new because people go out
of their way to .make you
feel comfortable."
Two of Johnson's stu-dents
said that Johnson is
easy to talk to and very
funny in class. Her soft-spoken
nature makes her
very easy to talk to about
anything, they said
Fall sports wrap-up, from page 8
You can conserve energy too
The men's basketball team lines up to practice for tomorrow night's game at 5:15 p.m. (Photo by Paul Gavic).
Defense operates as basketball key
Coach Dahl's hockey team opens up their hockey season tomorrow as they travel to Eau Claire.
(Photo by Paul Gavic)
Page 8 sports
Royals open season,
defeat alumni team 6-2
by Becky Dye
The Bethel varsity hock-ey
team opened their third
season last Saturday by
defeating the alumni team,
6-2, at Columbia Ice Arena.
Coach Craig Dahl corn-mented,
"We played pretty
well; there was a lot of
hustle. There are some fun-damental
things we need to
work on."
In the first period at
9:40, Eric Bottila blasted
one unassisted from the
blue line. Two minutes la-ter
Brian Hertel intercept-ed
a pass in front of the net
and fired for the second
Alumnus Tom Correll
scored next- with an unas-sisted
goal into the corner
of the net. The Royals an-swered
this goal almost
immediately on a break-away
scored by Dave John-son.
Alumnus Bill Ostlund
then shot one in from the
by Ellie Abbott
The Bethel athletic pro-gram
had its "ups and
downs" this fall, bust for-tunately,
there were more
"ups" than last year. Al-most
every sport improved
their record from last year,
and the coaches already
look forward to next year.
The volleyball team had
the best season in several
years, and Coach Cindy
blue line to make the score
The Royals took off in
the third period scoring
three goals. Dick Smith
scored on a pass to the
front of the net from team-mate
Steve Ries. The same
two teamed up for another
score on a perfectly exe-cuted
play set up in front
of the net by Ries and
tipped in by Smith. The
final goal of the game was
fired in from the blue line
by Guy Kaltman, making
the score 6-2.
Dahl, pointed out that
goalie Eric, "the Sour-dough"
Peterson, "did real-ly
well in the nets." Dahl
also complimented Bruce
Nord's line for doing a "su-per
Tomorrow the Royal
hockey team travels to Eau
Claire, Wisc. Dahl corn-mented,
"They (Eau Claire)
lost to Superior this week.
I think they're in our league;
I think we'll do well."
Book was pleased with
their performance. Reflect-ing
on the season Book
said, "Both the varsity and
junior varsity had one of
the best seasons they have
ever had. The varsity fin-ished
21-11 overall and
the junior varsity finished
the season at 10-3."
The highlight of the sea-son
was the state tourna-ment
in which the Royals
tied for fifth place.
Although Coach Book
by Rob Haglund
This is the second of
two articles on Bethel bas-ketball,
taking a _look at
the strengths, weaknesses
and expectations of the
1980-81 Royal roundbal-lers.
Two things are certain
about the upcoming has-will
lose JoAnn Griffin and
Joy Sorenson to gradua-tion,
the team looks strong
for next year. Book was
encouraged off-season prac-tice
and said, "The return-ing
players are enthusias-tic
about coming back and
hopefully will play in the
spring and summer
U.S.V.B.A. (United States
Volleyball Association) or
attend summer camps."
The soccer team ended
their season with a 6-6-4
ketball season: 1) nothing
is certain and 2) no matter
what happens it should be
an exciting year.
This year's basketball
Royals were hit hard by
graduation, losing four
starters, three of whom
were all-conference. 'How
well the team fills those
vacancies will determine
the extent of their success.
Head coach George Pal-
• ke counts on added quick-ness
and stronger defense
to make up for the lack of
experience. Two players
that the Royals will look
to for experience are co-captains
Greg Edlund and
Andre LaBerge.
Edlund, a 6'5" senior
from Meadow Vista, Calif.,
has the most playing exper-ience
on this year's squad.
He should provide the lea-dership
the Royals need
from his wing position.
LaBerge, a 6'4" junior
from New Hope, Minn.,
will spark this year's team
with his intensity and hus-tle.
Coach Palke obviously
likes the effort LaBerge
puts out: "I doubt if any-one
puts more into the
game than Andre. He will
overall record, compared
to a 5-8-1 record last year.
They finished seventh out
of nine teams in the con-ference.
Coach Mark Leigh
said, "It was really disap-pointing
because we were
one win out of fourth place;
three teams tied for fourth
Sophomore Mark John-son
and junior Andy Lar-son
made all-conference
and all-district this year,
so they will be ready for
action next year.
be our stopper ondefense,"
he said.
Anchoring the front line
will be Jason Velgersdyk,
a 6'8" sophomore from Edi-na,
Minn. According to Coach
Palke, Velgersdyk has pick-ed
up more confidence and
aggressiveness which,
coupled with his outstand-ing
leaping ability, should
make his a threat both
offensively and defensive-ly.
'The "sleeper" on this
year's team could very well
be Dwayne "Dewey" Nord-strom,
a 6'7" soph. from
Chicago, Ill. "Dewey will
do all the right things for
us. He's not flashy and
you don't really notice the
job he does until you check
the statistics after the
game," Palke commented.
The guard position is
still up for grabs. Palke is
closely looking at senior
Paul Lindsay and junior
Cal Lauwers, both from
Anchorage, Alaska, and
sophomores Jeff Westlund
from Richfield and Mike
Hanley, a transfer from
St. Martins, Wash., as well
as several freshmen.
Ion Fredrickson and
Greg Held will both grad-uate
this year. "Jon has
been a big part of the team
for four years, said Leigh.
"And Greg had a lot of
heart. He was a vital part
of the team this year."
Leigh was disappointed
the team did not make the
play-offs, but had some
positive comments also.
See page 7
The Royals should have
some depth. at the post
position with 6'8" sopho-more
Steve Goodwin and
freshmen Jeff Blumer and
Dion Wolter, an all-state
selection from Wisconsin.
The reserves at wing in-clude
juniors Curt Nettle-ton
and Dave Williams, a
transfer from Superior,
Wisc., and sharp-shooting
sophomore Rich (aeger.
Palke said that this
year's freshmen are the
best group to come to Be-thel
since he has been here.
They have come together
as a team better than any
other he has worked with.
Every one of them was
named to some type of all-star
team. This is good
news especially to Assist-ant
Coach Paul Reasoner
who will be working with
the junior varsity this year.
Dave Blanchard, Mark
Stevens and John Priestly
will also serve as assis-tant
coaches. The very capa-ble
and ever-popular Brad
Kroulik works as the team
trainer, and the Royals
boast the prettiest mana-ger
in the conference in
Kim Oshima.
The success of this year's
team will depend on 1)
whether someone can pro-vide
the floor leadership
needed from the point
guard position and 2) how
long it will take the team
to gain the experience need-ed
to compete in the MIAC.
The conference should be
very balanced this year
with every team capable
of beating every other. The
season begins at home to-morrow
night, with the
junior varsity playing St.
Scholastica at 5:15 p.m.,
and the varsity at 7:30
Athletes wind up fall season successfully
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HARRISBURG — A proposal to fully include Penn State and the other three "state-related" universities under the Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law is headed to the House floor following a positive committee vote.
The State Government Committee voted Monday in favor of the bill, which also would pertain to the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University and Lincoln University.
The state-related universities get substantial state funding but aren't state-owned, as are the 14 schools in the State System of Higher Education.
A complete rewriting of the Right-to-Know Law that took effect in January 2009 requires the schools to provide limited disclosure, including the salaries of their highest-paid employees.
The current proposal would treat the four schools the same as the state-owned institutions.
All Republicans and three of nine Democrats on the committee voted for it.

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Sometimes they're entertaining, and sometimes they make you want to throw your controller across the room in frustration, but any way you look at it, glitches are an ever-present part of the gaming experience. Despite thousands of hours of play testing and millions of lines of code, almost no game is safe from the occasional technological breakdown. We combed the web to find video evidence of the most egregious and laughable errors. Here are the most notable gameplay glitches of 2011, plus one lifetime achievement award for a game that's featured the same annoying glitch for years.
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Up Next: Out of body experiences, out of control vehicles, and still life with L.A. Noire.
Up Next: Bench Armor, invisible defenders, and rotating tanks.
Up Next: The glitch of the year, and a special lifetime achievement award.
When you watch a hockey game, you expect thunderous slap shots, players flying down the ice at breakneck speeds, and bone-crushing hits. You don't expect to see a guy go in for a little back door lovin' in front of a crowd of 18,000. This public display of affection brings new meaning to the term "stick handling."
As long as Bethesda has been making open-world role-playing games, players have been getting stuck on rock formations in mountainous regions far from civilization. When a game has as much content and such a vast continent to explore like Skyrim, bugs undoubtedly come with the territory. But you'd think after five entries Bethesda would have found a replicable solution for this all-too frequent dilemma. Congratulations Bethesda on your lifetime achievement award!
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My family came to visit the new baby (and my wife and I) during the Thanksgiving holiday, but only under the condition that I show them where I work. So, late Friday night, while everyone was else was enjoying time off from the office, I snuck my whole family in to take a look. My brother, freelance photographer extraordinaire, takes pictures of everything everywhere he goes, and the Game Informer offices were no exception.
Up above you can see where we record the Game Informer Show podcast, Replays, and Super Replays. That's where it all happens. Below you can see that we have a spiral staircase. This is what it looks like from up top.
This is what it looks like from below.
Matt Miller's desk below is probably second only to Dan Ryckert's as far as amount of stuff goes.
This is the vault where we keep all of the video games from all of history.
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J.W.'s News Update: Monday December 19, 2011
Texarkana Arkansas City Board of Directors meets tonight at 7pm at city hall. The public is invited to attend the open portion of tonights meeting. There will also be a closed executive session towards the end of tonights meeting.
The ouster of one of America's most revered coaches, Penn State's Joe Paterno has been overwhelmingly voted the sports story of the year by the members of the Associated Press. The allegations against former Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky and the apparent university cover-up or lack of action led to the downfall of Paterno. The Penn State story received 172 first place votes compared to the no. 2 story which was the labor strife in the NFL & NBA which received only 15 first-place votes.
Building sentiment has inched up to a reading of over 20. Still it is well short of the 50 points or better which shows a thriving home builders market. The level has not been that high since 2006 during the height of the housing boom.
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Monday Night Football tonight on ESPN features the Pittsburgh Steelers at the San Francisco 49ers.


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The Ringling celebrates and explores contemporary performance this winter arts season with "now HERE: Finding Our Way in the 21st Century."
Framed by the sun's 92-day journey from the Winter Solstice on Dec. 21 to the Vernal Equinox on March 22, "now HERE" offers the opportunity to interact with almost 100 living artists in 17 different performances and exhibitions.
"Contemporary art offers perspectives on the complex modern world." Steven High, executive director of The Ringling says. "nowHERE is a play on words meant to suggest that the answers are now and here for those willing to try something new and experience the work of these brilliant artists."
Celebrate the Winter Solstice and take a break from the stress of the holiday season during "Greet the Light" from 7-11 p.m. on Dec. 21, 2013 in the courtyard of The Ringling Museum of Art. Enjoy live music by DJ Imminent and food and drinks available for purchase. Tickets are on sale through The Ringling's ticket office for $15 with a discount of $10 for Ringling members /college students with a valid id. To purchase tickets call 941.360.7399 or visit ringling.org.
R. Luke DuBois seeks to turn big data into art. The 21st century artist combines film making, computer data and original music into his works. "R. Luke DuBois- Now" will be thefirst solo gallery exhibition for the "new media artist," and it will feature the debut of a video work that highlights Sarasota's circus legacy. The exhibition will run Jan. 31-May 4 in the galleries of The Ringling Museum of Art's Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing.
"R. Luke DuBois Now"will include a series of gallery performances by new media artists.
The first gallery performance will feature Lesley Flanigan on Feb. 27. The "Bioluminescence," performance features Flanigan's voice remixed by DuBois in visual and audio presentation.
Violinist Todd Reynolds will join DuBois for "Moments of Inertia" on April 17. The piece was written for amplified violin and includes video. Reynolds will also play selections from more than a decade of collaborating with DuBois.
Composer Bora Yoon and Dubois will present "Phonation" on May 1. "Phonation" features a multi-instrumental performance by Yoon combined with camera-based projections by DuBois.
The exhibition gallery performances start at 6:30 p.m. and are free for members and with admission to Art After Five. Art After Five costs $10 for adults and $5 for children 6-17.
Gain insight on the contemporary during a series of conversations and performances meant to provide clarity on "nowHERE's" extensive offerings during "Explorations of the Contemporary, Conversation on Process" series of talks at 7 p.m. in the Historic Asolo Theater.
Matthew McLendon, curator of modern and contemporary art and Dwight Currie, curator of performance arts will preview nowHERE on Jan. 16.
Visual artist Fay Ku will discuss the language, science and narrative behind her visual works during "Inside the Artist mind of Fay Ku" on Feb. 13.
Film maker and film historian Bill Morrison will use archival footage of forgotten images to create a presentation that explores collective myth during "Unbearably Beautiful Decomposition of Film" on March 13.
Tickets to Explorations of the Contemporary are free for members and with Museum admission, all others are $5 To purchase tickets call 941.360.7399 or visit ringling.org.
The three-part "Collecting Recollections- Sarasota on the Edge" series records an oral history of Sarasota's cultural past at 10:30 a.m. in the Historic Asolo Theater.
"Annie Solomon Remembers a Colony of Artists" will tell the stories of Syd Solomon, the first contemporary artist to have his work exhibited and collected by The Ringling and of the Sarasota Artist Colony that formed after the Solomons moved to the area in 1946. Annie will speak on Feb. 11.
"Elizabeth Lindsay Remembers" gathers the memories of a community leader who witnessed Sarasota's evolution from a tiny arts community to a thriving cultural center. This discussion will occur on Feb. 25
"Remembering Chick Austin" explores the career of the first executive director of The Ringling. Eugene R. Gaddis, author of "Magician of the Modern: Chick Austin and the Transformation of Arts in America" will speak on March 11.
Attendees to the series will have the opportunity to ask questions. Tickets for the "Collecting Recollections" series cost $5, but are free for Members or with Museum admission.
The five-part "New Stages" series features a mix of contemporary musical and dance performances.
Share an evening with Meklit Hadero, a cabaret singer know for her blend of jazz, soul and folk music, who previously performed at the Ringling International Arts Festival in 2011. The Ethiopian-born singer produces a "cradling, sensuous and gentle sound" according to her adopted hometown's San Francisco Chronicle. Named a TED Global Fellow in 2009, Hadero has been featured on NPR, PBS and National Geographic. Hadero performs at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 23-25 in the Historic Asolo Theater.
Explore the relationship between the individual and the flock during Lostwax Multimedia Dance's "Particular." "Particular" blends ballet, hip-hop, jazz and modern dance with computer graphic projections produced by R. Luke DuBois. Performances will start at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 6-8 in the Historic Asolo Theater.
As a child, Robert Mirabal took part in the Pueblo ritual of "running to the sun" as it rose.The spiritual ritual a part of the culture of the traditional Pueblo community in Taos, N.M. that he grew up in, and it inspired him to write "Music of the Sun," a collaboration with the string quartet Ethel. The program includes original compositions by Mirabal and arrangements of ancient Native American music performed by the quartet and accompanied by Native American flute and percussion. Performances will occur at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20-22 and at an extra show at 2 p.m. on Feb. 22 in the Historical Asolo Theater.
To create "No Hero," director Alex Ketley filmed a series of discussions with people in rural communities in the western United States about their relationship to dance. The performance includes a video presentation of Ketley's journey combined with a live dance performance. The Foundry willperform"No Hero" at 7:30 p.m. March 6-8 in the Historic Asolo Theater.
"nowHERE" and "New Stages" will conclude with "Inuksuit" an immersive musical work for up to 99 percussionists playing on instruments including drums, maracas, gongs, sirens, air horns and conch shells. The performance heightens the audience's awareness of the sights and sounds in everyday life.
With a title inspired by a word that means stone landmark in the language of native Arctic people, composer John Luther Adams created a work meant to be played outdoors. The "Inkusuit" performance is the centerpiece of "Celebrate the Light" in the Courtyard of the Museum of Art at 6:30 p.m. on March 22.
Tickets for these performances cost $30 with a discounted price of $25 for members and $10 for college students with a valid ID. Save 10 percent by purchasing the entire 5-part series for $135 with a discounted price of $112.50 for member and $45 for students. To purchase tickets call 941.360.7399 or visit ringling.org.
"nowHERE" is a part of The Ringling's 2013-14 "Art of Our Time" season, supported in part by a grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.


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Some stem cell scientists are worried they might not be able to live up to some of the promises that have been made about their work, new research has found.
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Thursday, 12 November 2009
A study of bubbles trapped in pumice rock suggests it's a lot easier for volcanoes to erupt than we think, say Australian researchers.
Antioxidants may raise diabetes risk
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Australian researchers have found that antioxidants may increase your risk of developing diabetes in the early stages.
Cold Aussie dinos hid underground
Monday, 28 September 2009
To survive freezing temperatures and huge predators, some species of Australian dinosaur took refuge underground, according to a new study.
Droughts and flooding rains to intensify
Thursday, 24 September 2009
A new breed of El Nino is on the rise causing more intense monsoons over northern Australia, says a climate scientist.
Shower heads home to nasty microbes
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
A US study has found that shower heads can be full of bacteria known to cause respiratory infections.
Astronomers get neutron star's measure
Monday, 7 September 2009
The pattern of x-rays generated by neutron stars may reveal their true size, says an international team of astrophysicists.
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Monday, 24 August 2009
Scientists have genetically modified stem cells to glow red when they develop into premature red blood cells.
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Monday, 10 August 2009
Regular predictive texting, not radiation, affects the brain power of mobile phone using young people, say Australian experts.
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A common spine operation for relieving back pain is no more effective than make-believe surgery, according to two separate studies.
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The debate surrounding the demoted planet Pluto is set to reignite as astronomers meet next week in Brazil.
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Scientists have confirmed parent's long-held suspicions that activity during the day sends kids to sleep faster.
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An analysis of Saturn's atmosphere has resulted in the definition of the planet's 'day' becoming somewhat shorter.
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Mets add Wheeler and five others to 40-man roster
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com | 11/20/12 8:00 PM ET
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2012 MLB.com's Top Prospects: Zack Wheeler was traded to the Mets from the Giants in the Carlos Beltran deal
NEW YORK -- Top prospect Zack Wheeler was among a group of six Minor League players the Mets added to their 40-man roster Tuesday, thereby protecting them from next month's Rule 5 Draft. The team also added right-handers Hansel Robles, Gonzalez Germen and Greg Burke, left-hander Darin Gorski and infielder Wilfredo Tovar.
The Mets had to add Wheeler, 22, to their 40-man roster, or else they would have lost him during the Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings in Nashville. Wheeler is coming off his first full season in the Mets' organization, establishing himself as one of the best prospects in baseball by going 12-8 with a 3.26 ERA in 25 starts split between Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Buffalo.
Wheeler, who struck out 148 batters and walked 59 in 149 innings, will likely follow the same path that similarly-touted prospect Matt Harvey did last year. He is a long-shot to break Spring Training with the club, but should reach New York by September at the latest.
Major League regulations stipulate that any player who signed his first professional contract before age 19 and has been in the organization for five years, or who signed after age 19 and has been in the organization for four years, is eligible to be selected in next month's Rule 5 Draft, if not protected. Thus, players such as Wheeler must be added to the 40-man roster, while fellow top prospects Brandon Nimmo and Gavin Cecchini are safe.
If selected, a player must remain on his new team's active roster or disabled list all season, or be offered back to his original club at a discounted price. The Mets did not make any selections in last year's Rule 5 Draft, but do own the rights to one of the most famous Rule 5 selections of all time, left-hander Johan Santana.
Leaving players unprotected can go both ways. Last year, for example, the Mets opted not to protect pitchers Rhiner Cruz and Collin McHugh, among others. The Astros subsequently selected Cruz first overall in the Rule 5 Draft, kept him on their active roster all season and now own his rights. But no one selected McHugh, who enjoyed a fine season in the Minors, made multiple starts down the stretch for the Mets and will compete for a spot on next year's Opening Day roster.
Robles, 22, went 6-1 with a 1.11 ERA in 12 starts for Class A Brooklyn last season. He led the New York-Penn League in ERA and finished the season without allowing an earned run in his final 45 innings, striking out 66 batters over that span. Robles was a finalist for the MiLB.com Pitcher of the Year Award.
Germen, 25, was 12-12 with a 4.34 ERA in 24 starts and two relief appearances split between Class A St. Lucie, Binghamton and Buffalo.
Burke, 30, appeared in 48 games with the Padres in 2009 and pitched in Baltimore's Minor League system last season, compiling a 3-1 record, 17 saves and a 1.53 ERA in 44 Minor League relief appearances. The Mets signed him to a deal earlier this offseason.
Gorski, 25, went 9-8 with a 4.00 ERA in 25 games with Binghamton last year, including 24 starts. The Mets' seventh-round pick in 2009, he was named Organizational Pitcher of the Year in 2011 after going 11-3 with a 2.08 ERA for St. Lucie.
Tovar, 21, combined to hit .270 with 28 doubles, three triples, one home run, 50 RBIs and 14 stolen bases in 122 games split between St. Lucie and Binghamton last year, and was named to the mid-season Florida State League All-Star team.


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WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) Residents and city officials in Winfield say their town's children will have another playground.
The playground at Island Park was destroyed in an arson fire last month. It was the second time since 2008 that arsonists ruined the playground.
Winfield City Manager Warren Porter tells KWCH that the city received an insurance check of $624,000 last week. However, the insurance company won't give the city replacement coverage again, only liability. Porter says that could change the design of the park.
A Facebook page set up after the fire helped raise another $1,600 in donations.
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January 28 – Happy Birthday Bill White
Bill White appeared in 1,673 big league games but not one of them while wearing a Yankee uniform. Instead, he made his most significant mark as a player as the hard-hitting starting first baseman for the Cardinal teams of the late 1950's and early 60's. In 1964, he helped St Louis win a World Championship, beating the Yankees in a seven game series. The following season, both the Cardinals and White had off-years and St Louis traded him to the Phillies. White completed his playing career in 1969, retiring with a .286 lifetime batting average, 202 home runs and 870 RBIs over thirteen seasons.
He had first gotten involved in broadcasting hosting a radio show while he was playing for St Louis. After he retired from the Phillies, he got into television as a sportscaster for a station in the City of Brotherly Love. In 1971, he joined the Yankee broadcasting team of Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. For the next eighteen seasons, his distinctive voice became synonymous with Yankee baseball. I loved listening to White do Yankee games. He was well-spoken, concise and always prepared. What I enjoyed even more was the banter between him and Scooter that usually left White cackling in laughter.
He remained a key component of the Yankee broadcasting team for eighteen years, becoming the first black person to do play-by-play regularly for a Major League baseball team. In 1989, he accepted Baseball Commissioner Bart Giametti's offer to become the first African-American president of the National League. He served in that office for five years.
I've embedded the above audio clip of White's most famous call as a Yankee announcer. I'm sure listening to it will bring back a great memory for long-time fans of the Bronx Bombers. White shares his January 28th birthday with this one-time Yankee second baseman and this more recent Yankee first baseman.


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UMBERTO ECO in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
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"I am expecting two kinds of readers. The first has no idea that all these things really happened, knows nothing about nineteenth-century literature...The second, however, knows or senses that I am recounting things that really happened." --Umberto Eco on The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco is one of the most inventive writers of our time. His intellectual faculties are diverse: he is an essayist, semiotician, philosopher, medievalist, and novelist. He has written five works of fiction, among them The Name of the Rose andFoucault's Pendulum. His latest novel, The Prague Cemetery, takes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious forgery that inspired Hitler, as its backdrop and blurs the boundaries of fiction and reality by incorporating various historical events and people into the plot.
UMBERTO ECO was born in Alessandria, Italy, in 1932. He is the author of five novels, among them and numerous collections of essays. He has been a professor at the University of Bologna for many years. He has received the Premio Strega and the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. He lives in Milan.
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Last month, new Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) chose Moscow for his first foreign visit. He and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a number of agreements and then traveled to Durban, South Africa, for the fifth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, where they joined with the leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa to announce the creation of a new development bank that could challenge the dominance of the World Bank and the IMF.
The five leaders' speeches referred to a changing world order and Xi said that "the potential of BRICS development is infinite."
It looked as if the BRICS had finally come of age. Three years ago, I was skeptical about the BRICS, and despite the recent summit's apparent success, I still am.
Nearly 12 years ago, then-Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill coined the term "BRIC" to describe the "emerging markets" of Brazil, Russia, India and China. From 2000 to 2008, these four countries' share of global output rose rapidly from 16 percent to 22 percent (in purchasing power parity terms), and their economies performed better than average in the subsequent global recession.
For investors, that outcome justified the creation of the catchy acronym. However, then a strange thing happened: The investors' creature came to life. In 2009, the four countries met for the first time in Russia in an effort to forge an international political organization. South Africa joined the bloc in late 2010, primarily for political reasons.
As O'Neill recently told the China Daily, "South Africa is quite fortunate enough to be in the group, as, economically, it is rather small compared to the others."
Moreover, its economic performance has been relatively sluggish, with a growth rate of just 2.3 percent last year.
So, while the BRICS may be helpful in coordinating certain diplomatic tactics, the term lumps together highly disparate countries. Not only is South Africa miniscule compared with the others, but China's economy is larger than those of all of the other members combined. Likewise, India, Brazil and South Africa are democracies, and occasionally meet in an alternative forum that they call IBSA (the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum).
Also, while the large autocracies, Russia and China, find it diplomatically advantageous to tweak the US, both have different, but crucial relationships with Washington. Both have also worked to thwart the efforts by India, Brazil and South Africa to become permanent members of the UN Security Council.
As I wrote three years ago, in analytical terms, it makes little sense to include Russia, a former superpower, with the developing economies. Russia lacks diversified exports, faces severe demographic and health problems, and, in former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's words, "greatly needs modernization."
Little has changed since Putin returned to the presidency last year. While economic growth benefited from the dramatic growth in oil and gas prices during the past decade, other competitive industries have yet to emerge and the country now faces the prospect of declining energy prices. While it aims to maintain 5 percent annual growth, its economy was relatively flat last year.
If Russia's power resources seem to be declining, Brazil's appear to be more impressive, given it has a territory nearly three times the size of India's, a 90 percent literacy rate and triple the per capita income of India — and nearly twice that of China. However, in the three years since my earlier assessment, Brazil's performance has slipped: Annual economic growth has slowed from 7.5 percent in 2010 to just 1 percent last year, with a 3.5 percent rate expected this year.


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What a cakehead. Wouldn't even tell Luke who his father was.
What a cakehead. Wouldn't even tell Luke who his father was.
The perfect snack for a zombie with a sweet tooth!
I'm pretty sure we are all feeling a little jealous right now. I'd love an entire fridge in which to hide my shame.
Just don't mistake them for the real thing. Otherwise you're gonna chip a few teeth and some lucky deer is about to get a high-velocity snack.
For all the work this undoubtedly took, these better be the most delicious cookies ever made.
Scan your brain, print it out in chocolate, and eat your own brains as a snack. Zombie in training!


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Almost a year after Embraer flew its first midsize jet, the Legacy 500, the company is preparing to fly its smaller sibling, the Legacy 450.
The two models, essentially the same aircraft sized for different markets, are part of the Brazilian airframer's ambitious agenda to offer a product in every major business jet category.
Embraer filled the entry level and light jet niches with its Phenom 100 and 300, the super midsize and large markets with the Legacy 600/650, and the ultra large with the Lineage. Now comes the Legacy 500, an aircraft targeted for the midsize market but with a cabin closer to super midsize.
Delayed more than a year by software issues with its fly-by-wire system, the 500 is progressing toward certification in the first half of 2014. Embraer actually rolled out the initial 500 in December 2011, but first flight did not follow until November 2012 as it worked to address authorities' concerns about the flight control system.
Now, with three prototypes having logged more than 650 of the planned 1,500 hr. of flight tests, authorities appear impressed by the system, says Embraer test pilot Eduardo Camelier. FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency pilots have flown the aircraft within the past six weeks, he says, and their feedback was positive.
While flight testing has not yet hit the halfway point, Embraer has amassed 4,500 hr. of ground evaluations on its "iron bird" and performed 16,000 hr. of systems testing. A good part of this was accomplished before first flight, setting up a smoother test program.
Embraer is checking off key tasks, with test aircraft SN001 undergoing artificial ice shape trials and scheduled for avionics and autopilot certification, along with steep approach tests. SN002, which flew in February, will be used for natural icing and crosswind tests, along with external noise certification.
SN003, meanwhile, made the Legacy 500's first public appearance at the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in May and is here this week. It has undergone avionics and cold soak tests and is now in high-intensity radiated fields and lightning trials. Certification of the 450 is expected to follow about a year behind the 500. Marco Tulio Pellegrini, senior vice president and COO of Embraer Executive Jets, says it may well fly by year's end. The fuselage was joined in August, and wings were mated in late September.
With about 95% systems commonality, much of the work accomplished on the 500 can roll over to the 450, particularly for iron bird trials. Some cables and tubing need to be shortened, but the same rig will be used.
Embraer is working toward a common type rating for both aircraft, which are powered by Honeywell HTF7500E turbofans producing 6,500 lb. thrust for the 500 and 6,080 lb. for the 450. The aircraft share the same cockpit with Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics. Operating procedures and aircraft handling will be the same, says Augusto Salgado da Rocha, senior manager for product strategy and sales engineering.
The primary difference is the target market. With its flat floor, 6-ft. height and 6-ft. width, the 500 cabin is more comparable to that of a super midsize aircraft. But Salgado da Rocha stresses, "We aren't trying to be super midsized." That category typically has ranges of 3,400 nm or more, but he says, "we don't want to go there." Instead, Embraer is comfortable offering a 3,000 nm range midsize aircraft with the first full fly-by-wire system in the category. The goal, he says, is to "create a new standard for the segment." The same holds true for the 450, which is shorter but has the same flat floor and cross section and nearly 2,300 nm range.
Embraer is not detailing sales of the 500, which is priced at $18.4 million, more than $1 million less than Cessna's Citation X but also $1 million more than Bombardier's new Learjet 85. Embraer is also mum on the 450, priced at $15.25 million, just above Cessna's new Latitude.
But Pellegrini points to a Jetnet forecast that midsize jets will be among the fastest growing categories in the next few years. And company executives believe they are well positioned to capitalize on that growth.


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The Celtics had more than 72 hours to recover from and prepare for life without Rajon Rondo. Their reinvention was a rousing success for at least one night, as the Sacramento Kings served as the perfect guinea pigs for the Celtics' desire to compensate with more ball movement and quicker pace.
It was just one game, but the Celtics entered Wednesday night's contest rather insecure about their ability to play and flourish without a true point guard. Coach Doc Rivers simplified the playbook, and stressed to his players that they should pass quickly and often while Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett helped in other categories.
Sparked by 80-percent shooting in the second quarter, the Celtics took care of the Kings, 99-81, at TD Garden with balanced scoring — they had six players in double figures. They won their second game without Rondo and the first since he was declared out for the season with a torn right ACL.
Pierce and Garnett combined for 29 points and, more importantly, 19 rebounds and 9 assists as the Celtics again approached the .500 mark with their second straight win after six consecutive losses. Pierce had 16 points and 10 rebounds as he continues to emerge from his month-long slump, while the bench came through with 50 points, including 12 apiece from Brandon Bass, Jason Terry, and Jeff Green.
Midway through the second quarter it was apparent the Celtics were playing more against themselves than the Kings, rehearsing their new or re-adjusted roles in preparation for a playoff run.
"Not a bad start to our point guard being out," Pierce said. "It has to come from a number of people. You are going to have a lot of opportunities to step up, moving the ball, spread the court. That's the way we need to play. Nobody had the ball for more than a couple seconds."
The Celtics definitely took the Kings seriously. They had just beaten the Wizards on the road two nights earlier and thumped the Celtics at Sleep Train Arena Dec. 30, sending Boston into its first major tailspin of the season.
These Kings, however, looked uninterested and apathetic most of the night, relying on one-0n-one play with little ball movement. Sacramento recorded just 13 assists and just three from the starting backcourt of Tyreke Evans and Isaiah Thomas.
It was Thomas who sank the winning shot against the Wizards and also torched the Celtics for 27 points in the Dec. 30 meeting. He finished with 8 points on 2-for-10 shooting, a testament to the Celtics' increased emphasis on defense.
Sacramento shot 39.2 percent for the game as the Celtics led by as many as 28 (74-46). They spent the rest of the evening staving off Kings rallies and trying to maintain consistency.
"Well, the first game was Miami, but they didn't know it. I did," Rivers said about not revealing the extent of Rondo's injury until after Sunday's win over the Heat. "But it's important. Listen, every game's important for us. And we have to have that mentality every night, that this is a big game for us. We have to win every game."
It was difficult to determine whether the Celtics were that stellar in the second quarter or whether the Kings were that disinterested. Trailing by 2 at the end of the first quarter, the Celtics converted their first 14 shots of the period, forging ahead with a 24-7 run.
Avery Bradley missed a layup at the 2:29 mark of the quarter, snapping the streak, but the Celtics still made 16 of 20 shots in the period and scored 37 points as they led, 59-38, at the half. When Pierce only attempted four first-half shots, Rivers pulled him aside and suggested his ditch the "distributor" tag in favor of "scorer".
"I got on Paul at the beginning of the game because I thought he was trying to be the facilitator — he must've read some of all your articles – and then once he started moving the ball, he was great, because he's still our scorer," Rivers said. "I said, 'Paul, you're still our scorer, by the way.' But overall I thought everybody just played their role, and played great."
Pierce had 11 points in nearly 15 minutes in the second half, reaching the free throw line six times.
"I felt we had a good, good shootaround today, felt we had a good practice and kind of went over what we needed to do," Pierce said. "Everybody's going to have expanded roles, a little more ballhandling from Courtney Lee, a little more ballhandling from myself. A lot of guys have a little bit more responsibilities. I thought everybody played the right way, nobody felt like they had to take all the shots, [we played] tough defense and that's how we have to play the rest of the season."
The Celtics played aggressive D and the Kings responded with poor ball movement. On more than one occasion, center DeMarcus Cousins was left with a guard checking him and his teammates did not bother getting him the ball.
The Celtics were dramatically different in running the floor, using long lead passes instead of the usual Rondo-as-the-first-outlet. It resulted in the Celtics running more than usual and more ball movement. No Celtic recorded more than five assists but they notched 22.
The Celtics said they are going back to basics, realizing they are now decisive underdogs in the Eastern Conference.
"We have to win every game, that's how we think," said Rivers. "We have to go in every single game and look at them as single games now, and try to win them. But it's always nice to get off to a start like this."Gary Washburn can be reached at email@example.com.


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I've been asked by a friend of my partner's to have a look at her computer (Windows), and make sure it's as clean as Windows can be.
The friend has a feeling that her ex has put a key-logger or something similar on to her computer, as the ex has regularly gained access to and taken control of various online accounts she has. Additionally, he seems to be able to get FAR too much information about what she's doing, where she's going and who she is talking to.
I feel that there's also a moderate amount of user-education to be done, regarding good passwords and the like.
I personally would like to just blow Windows away and give her a Linux install, but I haven't got the time to hand-hold through the learning of Linux.
Instead, I would like some suggestions for good boot-disks which will allow me to scan the Windows install and remove anything which shouldn't be there.
I already have Hiren's BootCD on a USB and am quite happy with the tools that I've used on it so far. However, I have mostly used it for hardware testing and Windows password resets, not for scanning for key-loggers and root-kits.
My current USB thumbdrive is bootable, and I can drop ISO files straight on to it, hack up a boot-menu config file and boot in to the ISO file as if it were a real CD, so CD-only bootdisks are fine for suggestions as well.