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Buswell to play Bethel benefit
On Monday, May 9 at 8
p.m. in the Seminary Chapel
the Department of Music will
present a benefit concert by
the distinguished American
violinist James Buswell, ac-companied
by pianist Seth
Carlin. Together they will per-form
works by Mozart,
Strauss, Debussy and Saint-
Saens. Proceeds from the con-cert
will go toward a scholar-ship
fund for future Bethel
string players.
Wherever James Buswell
has appeared, whether in re-cital
or as orchestra soloist,
he is said to have astounded
audiences and critics alike
with his musical understand-ing
and technical mastery of
the violin. He began his music
study with piano lessons at
the age of three and went on
to the violin two years later.
By listening to recordings he
had learned most of Beethov-en's
symphonies when only
four and at an early age mem-orized
one violin concerto
every two or three days.
His first public performance
at age seven was at the Brook-lyn
Academy of Music. He
has studied at the Julliard
School of Music and was a
four-year Dean's List student
at Harvard University, where
he majored in 15th Century
Italian Painting and Sculp-ture.
Buswell has appeared with
nearly every major orchestra
in the U.S. as well as with the
London Philharmonic and
several major Canadian or-chestras.
Critics have consis-tently
described his playing
with rave reviews: "Among
the finest musical events in
New York this season."
"Though still young, he joined
the violin elite years ago."
"One of the finest concerts in
forty years . ."
He is currently Conductor
and Artist-in-Residence at the
Indiana University School of
Music and is heard regularly
in performance on National
Public Radio in performance
with the Chamber Music So-ciety
of Lincoln Center.
His accompaniest, Seth
Carlin, is himself a noted mu-sician
and solo performer who
holds degrees from Harvard,
Julliard and the Ecole Normale
de Musique de Paris.
Tickets are sold through
the music office (FA301) be-tween
8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Admission prices are $5 for
faculty and staff, $4 for stu-dents.
James Buswell, virtuoso violinist, will present a concert in the Semi-nary
Chapel on May 9. TESOL augments linguistics
Curriculum revisers
aim for flexibility
by Paul Davis
Bethel's curriculum revision
will provide an up-dated and
more effective educational
program, according to revi-sion
committee members.
"We want to provide a sim-pler
program," said Dean Eb-ner,
associate dean of academ-ic
affairs. "We want more flex-ibility
and want to satisfy
more of a variety of needs."
According to Stanley An-derson,
professor of philoso-phy
and chairman of the revi-sion
committee, there are three
reasons for the change: 1) The
present curriculum, instituted
in 1971, is outdated and needs
revision. 2) Many faculty
members have come to Bethel
since the last curriculum revi-sion.
The new curriculum will
give the present faculty more
ownership in the program.
3) The present curriculum
has course selection problems.
Most general education
courses are offered only at the
entry level, and more ad-vanced
level courses are need-ed.
Changing the curriculum is
a three-year process. The tar-get
for , integration is the fall
of 1985. "We hope to make
Bethel more exciting and more
relevant," said Ebner. The pur-pose
is to provide more up-to-date
courses, said Anderson,
"to provide programs with
greater integrity."
The new curriculum will
better direct the students
course selection, according to
Anderson. Instructors will
have a better idea of what the
student already knows.
The changes are being su-pervised
by the Academic Pol-icies
Committee, (APC). The
committee consists of six fac-ulty
members, four students
and three administrators.
"There has not been as much
student input this year," said
Anderson. "We hope that stu-dents
will become interested."
Students and faculty have
equal APC voting power. "It's
the best place for the student
changes, see page 3
by Amy Goss
Beginning next fall a con-centration
in Linguistics/
TESOL will be available at
Bethel . The concentration re-quires
a core of linguistics
classes accompanied by two
new classes, Teaching English
to Speakers of Other Lan-guages
and English and a
Third World Language.
Dr. William Smalley, pro-fessor
of linguistics, wrote the
initial proposal for the addi-tion
of the program to the
Bethel curriculum. He feels
the program offers people "an
excellent opportunity to live
and work overseas and to
earn their own way while
doing so." While TESOL is an
obvious opportunity for mis-sion
minded people, it also
offers overseas job possibili-ties
with businesses, govern-ments
or schools.
Though TESOL is primar-ily
a professional program,
Dr. Smalley feels it fits in
with Bethel's liberal arts pos-ture.
"It is not being brought
in on a strictly professional
basis outside of existing pat-terns.
It requires the same
classes as a linguistics con-centration
and adds two new
classes in TESOL."
Dr. Smalley said, "The
TESOL program will
strengthen the Linguistics de-partment
by bringing more
students into linguistic
courses. Cognates are avail-able
in TESOL or for persons
interested in taking only a
minimal amount, a concern-oriented
(CO) class will be
The TESOL concentration
will not give the student certi-fication
to teach in American
schools. The state is in the
process of determining what
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College students. Editorial opinions ore the
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Letters ore welcome, and must be typewrit-ten,
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stand by
To the editor:
Open mind as important
as defense of convictions
These questions have nipped at my heels since coming
here to Bethel. Think about them and see what kind of ideas
pop into mind.
Why do Christians fight for religious freedom only when
it's their religion that is being challenged?
If an evangelical Christian college doesn't support the
Moral Majority, where does the majority come in?
Do dancing students really have a poorer spiritual life
than non-dancers?
If students are mature enough to come up with $7000
annually, why can't they be trusted to decide what is proper
social behavior?
But if there's nothing wrong with breaking lifestyle, why
do we feel guilty when doing it?
To an atheist, is there a difference between being accosted
by a Christian or a Hare Krishna?
When a point is well made by a speaker in chapel, why
does he feel a need to repeat it three times?
If my devotions as a student at a Christian school are
supposed to be better than devotions of students at a secular
school, why do my friends always tell me about their great
spiritual lives?
Since we are one in the spirit, why does everyone keep
pointing out our differences?
The difficulty of these questions come because there are
no concrete answers, but only opinions. Too often these
opinions are formed in haste with scant evidence to support
them. Nothing is harder to overcome than irrational pre-conceived
notions, but when opinions arise from clear think-ing,
they should be defended with conviction. So keep an
open mind, accepting and rejecting what seems right to you,
but remain strong in whatever beliefs you establish.
Governor solicits
feedback about aid
To the editor:
Governor Rudy Perpich has
appointed a commission on
the future of post-secondary
education in Minnesota. We
invite you, whether student,
faculty, administrator, or sup-port
staff, to give us the bene-fit
of your experience, ideas,
and expertise. We want your
views on how to maintain
high quality education in
times of declining enrollments
and serious financial con-straint.
One issue you may want to
address is tuition: do you sup-port
a system based on "abil-ity
to pay"? The system would
lead to higher tuition at public
institutions but would be
coupled with substantial in-creases
in student grants and
We would also be glad to
get copies of articles, reports,
or other material you consider,
significant, and citation of
books or other publicatons
you believe we should not
overlook in our review and
Please consider this an
earnest effort to receive your
Elmer L. Andersen, Chairman
Governor's Commission of the
Future of Post-Secondary
Education in Minnesota
Room 200 Administration
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155
The next best thing to All-
School Banquet will be held
May 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Robertson PE Center. An all-school
cast will be presenting
"Joseph and His Technicolor
Dream Coat." Admission will
be $2.
There will be a free recep-tion
following the show in the
Kresge Courtyard from 10 to
midnight. Entertainment will
be provided by the Bethel Jazz
"This will be a nice semi-formal
evening to spend with
your friends before the end of
the school rush and reality
hits everyone," said Leslie
Schirm, campus coordinator.
"Bring your friends, roommies
and favorite prof to this gala
The slide presentation for
the All-School Program is pro-duced
by Doug Barkey and
Don Copeland. Both producers
have been photography edi-tors
for the Clarion within the
past few years.
The presentation consists
of over 600 slides of Bethel
students and activities. Eight
projecto'rs will be used on
three screens for special ef-fects.
The soundtrack con-tains
a variety of contempor-ary
music, such as Amy
Grant, Styx, Larry Norman,
and Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Buses leave at 11:30 p.m.
Friday, May 6 for rollerskat-ing.
Admission is $1.50 for
the 127 session.
Graduating students who
want to attend the commence-ment
banquet must make their
reservations by Tuesday, May
10 to receive a free ticket. On
Wednesday, May' 11, students
are to exchange the ticket for
a table assignment ticket at
the Alumni office beginning
at 8 a.m. Reservations will be
by table. Students wanting to
make reservations for the
same 10-chair table must pre-sent
their tickets together.
The banquet, Saturday,
May 21, begins at 6 p.m. in the
gym. The evening program is
under the direction of Jeff Mil-ler,
instructor in theatre.
The first Senior Graduation
Party will be held Wednes-day,
May 18. A bring-your-own-
food picnic begins at 4:00
p.m. There will also be games.
At 6:45 p.m. buses will leave
from the school for the Jona-than
Paddleford River Excur-sion
down the Mississippi
River. Tickets for this are
available until May 10 at the
Campus Coordinator office for
A series of short "Organ
Interludes" will be-held dur-ing
the week of May 9-13.
Between 12:15-12:45 the
sounds of the organ will waft
from FA430 where students
Joan Murphy, Ellen Wootten,
Beth Erickson, Mary Brink-man,
and Lisa Hamilton will
present varied programs.
We were extremely flattered
by your article, "League lacks
in team names." Even though
the ranking was a bit self-serving
(Royals is a pretty
common name; not very orig-inal),
it was nice, nevertheless.
There were more than a
few inaccuracies, however.
For one thing, you could have
mentioned the entire legend
of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
as a basis for the Hamline
Pipers. (Yeah, it is hokey.)
Also, the nickname of St.
Thomas College is not the
Tommies; is is the Purple Tide.
The nickname of St. Olaf Col-lege
is not the Oles; it is the
Golden Lions. The nickname
of St. John's University is not
the Johnnies; it is the Jays.
You made errors by reporting
on the nicknames of the nick-names.
And you could have
mentioned the wonderful
story about how the nickname
"Cobbers" occurred—it's
amazing what a shortage of
toilet paper will do.
Again, thanks.
The Student Body
Hamline University
For 1983 -84 the Royal Oak
Room Restaurant will be man-aged
by Dan May. Since he
was chosen, May has been
making plans for next year
and has hired the student
"We're going to try to appeal
to more upperclassmen next
year," said May. He said there
will be theme once a month
centered primarily around the
holidays, additions in the
menu and more varieties of
Dan May
The Oak Room which is
open each Thursday, 4:30 to
6:15 is run as a restaurant by
the students operated through
the food service.
Sophomore Senator 437 Barr/Anderson
121 Gina Pearson 284 Van Sickle/Thompson
Curt Anderson, vice president, and Collin Barr, president, were
elected to serve for the 1983-84 school year. Childs/photo
may 6, 1983
the Clarion newsbriefs page 3
Allan Reynolds, instructor
Schmidt and Pam Sundeen.
** *
Business department se-niors
were guests of the busi-ness
department, Monday,
May 2. Receiving awards
were Kim Schmidt for out-standing
academic achieve-ment
and Pam Sundeen for
outstanding leadership. This
was the first year the awards
have been given.
Five Bethel seniors were,
chosen to be honored at the
St. Paul Jaycees 47th annual
College Court of Honor. Re-ceiving
certificates from Beth-el
were Mary Anderson, Mark
Gustafson, Deb Klenk Harless
David JohnSon arid Ellen
The court honors students
from seven 'Minnesota -col-leges
for high academic
achievement. Representatives
from Bethel are chosen on the
basis of character recommen-dation
"Give me the Bethel Life."
That is what is printed on the
over 100 shirts given out by
the admissions office in a re-cent
recruitment campaign in-volving
current students.
For every list of five pros-pective
students or one com-pleted
application for fall a
student is eligible to receive a
shirt, said Cheryl Staurseth,
recruitment coordinator in ad-missions.
Over 350 students
took the information packet
on Bethel and so far Staurseth
said more than 400 names
have come in.
"We're trying to show that
recruiting is a whole campus
thing," said Staurseth. "I was
encouraged to see so many
students involved.
Carolyn - Dean has been
chosen as the Social Minis-tries
Coordinator for 1983 -84.
As coordinator, Dean said her
responsibility is to recruit vol-unteers
from Bethel and to get
them involved with the agen-cies
whiich work with Bethel.
"One- main emphasis will
be the importance of making
a commitment," said Dean of
her plans for the year. "You're
working in people's lives and
you have to be consistent and
committed." Dean said her
goal is to get as many people
as possible involved and to
raise the. awareness in the
community. of the needs.-
Carolyn Dean
The CoOrdinator's other du-ties
involve planning events
such as chapel, community
awareness-type things, orien-tation
of new volunteers, and
contacting social service agen-cies
to find the needs and plug
students in.
Dean, who will be a senior,
is majoring in social work
and anthropology.
Harry Kelm, a student at
Bethel Seminary, will be the
Gospel Team coordinator.
Three winners picked up
the prize by turning in correct
answers to the cryptogram
printed in the April 22 Clarion.
The winners are Margo Sund-berg,
Timothy Carlson, and
Wendy Vertheim.
The quotation is from
Shakespeare's Macbeth (Act
V, Scene 5), and reads as
Tomorrow, and tomorrow,
and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace
from day to day
To the last syllable of
recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have
lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle! -
Life's but a walking shadow,
a poor player
That struts and frets his
hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more:
it is a tale
TOld by an idiot, full of-sound
and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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The results of the April 25 7
26 senator and BSA officer
elections are as follows:
changes, from page 1
to voice their opinion," said
"Students seem to be more
apathetic right now," said
Beth Talbot, APC student rep-resentative.
"Students need to
take charge of their own edu-cation.
The teachers at Bethel
are willing to teach if the stu-dents
are willing to learn."
Talbot added that the corn-mittee
wants to provide a
broad-base education, includ-ing
vocational experiences.
Some considerations for the
new curriculum include a pro-gram
to make students com-puter
"literate"; an inter-cul-tural
studies program; more
internship experiencial learn-ing;
and career prep courses.
Flower Shop
Payne's Wedding
Flowers in St. Paul
Inexpensive, elegant.
Wedding flowers our
only business for 10
years. Bethel
391 Page Brumley
375 Deborah White
347 Corinne Schneider
(3 of 4 positions filled)
Senior Senator
176 John Zdrazil
121 John Young
(2 of 3 positions filled)
Junior Senator
167 Les Laroche
88 Bryant Day
(2 of 4 positions filled)
The committee is also re-viewing
basic course -require-ments
and core courses. It is
considering additional studies
such as a bachelor of science
degree or a master's program.
For students involved in
the .middle of the transition
period, the changes "will never
be to the detriment.of the stu-dent,"
said both Anderson and
Ebner. Pilot testing of some of
the new programs will begin
next year, with special em-phasis
during interim.
The revision program theme
is: "Educating today's Chris-tian
for tomorrow's world,"
according to Anderson.
86 Amy Gabel
70 Angie Sperfslage
(3 of 4 positions filled)
President/Vice President
306 Barr/Anderson 36.2%
242 Van Sickle/Thompson
238 Carlson/Eliason 28.2%
10 Void
5 Abstentions
34 Write-Ins
The results of the presi-dential
run-off election held
April 28-29 are as follows:
TESOL, from page 1
is necessary for a teaching
credential in TESOL. It does
offer another option for peo-ple
interested in linguistics.
Smalley said, "Some students
are really interested in a lin-guistics
concentration but
don't know what to do with it.
A fair amount are interested
in translation but this opens
up another channel."
Through a survey taken last
year, 82 students indicated
interest in the program. "We
already have three new stu-dents
in the linguistics depart-ment
as a result of the pro-gram.
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The Women's Choir leaves May 23 for a three-week tour of Scandinavia.
Donors reward student contributions
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Women's choir gears up for tour
by Janet Ewing
I just finished reading all the columns I wrote this year.
I'm sorry.
I'm funnier in real life. Or maybe not.
It's hard to figure out what to write for a last column.
Writing a column has been sort of fun and sort of embarrassing.
Should I say how much I've loved Bethel?
No. Lying isn't nice.
I grew half an inch my freshman year. Seriously.
I told my little sister not to come to Bethel because I didn't
want her to blame me if she hated it here as much as I have.
Actually, it's more of a love-hate relationship. Make that a
like-hate relationship.
Aren't you glad it's spring? I got tired of taking off my down
jacket and finding myself surrounded by feathers all day.
Maybe this would be a good time to thank all the people who
made this column possible. Thank you Lousie Hawes. It cer-tainly
has been a festive four years. And Happy Birthday, too.
That reminds me. I hope you all sent your mom a Mother's
Day greeting. Hi Mommy.
I'm graduating May 22. Probably. You know they'll find out
that I'm missing a class or something. That's the way life is.
What am I going to do with my life?
Don't ask me that. What are you going to do with yours?
Do untoasted bagels have any value?
There are actually a few courses I regret not having taken in
my four (is that all?) years at Bethel. I would have liked to have
taken an anthropology course, a course in ceramics, Depres-sion
House and Writing for Children.
There are definitely a few courses I wish I had never taken,
but we won't go into that or I'll get too upset.
Hi Andy. (I had to get that in).
Getting six PE components wasn't exactly painless, but I
lived through it.
Packing is not going to be fun. How do you pack four years
of your life?
I'm going to Bolivia this summer with SMP. My PO is 627.
Feel free to give me money. Just kidding. Not really.
Papers are due. Finals are coming up. My life is crumbling.
Farewell history department. I forgive you.
I'll miss the drive between Illinois and Minnesota. I really
got kind of attached to the orange moose at Black River Falls
The blood drives have been fun, too. I like the cookies.
Yes, there are silverfish at Silvercrest. We've met. Usually
we met at 3 a.m. while I was sitting down in the bathroom.
What do you do? -
I'm not Swedish. I'm not blond. I'm sick of Swedishness.
Do I have any good advice for incoming or continuing
Don't do it.
No, actually. If I can make it, you can, too. HA.
I'd like to thank my parents and all the people who've hired
me over the years for enabling me to attend Bethel.
Think about this one. Graduating seniors get one free ticket
to the Commencement Dinner on Saturday and three free
tickets to the commencement exercises on Sunday. Free? Free?
Maybe you've noticed that I've never mentioned God in this
column. I've no desire to be the first Baptist ever ex-com-municated
for frivolity in a college newspaper.
I'm only doing this for the money, you know.
Well, goodbye Bethel a week or so early. Maybe I'll come
back in a few years for homecoming and talk about the good
old days. No. I doubt that senility will set in that soon.
Thank you for reading this column. And if I ever find out
what unidentified spineless scum wrote about me on the Beef
Board, look out. I took fencing. LWatch for the Coeval
in next week's Clarion
by Ruth Delight Hubbard
The fifty-two voice Bethel
Women's Choir travels annu-ally
throughout the United
States, and this year cele-brates
its second European
tour. The choir will leave the
Minneapolis/St. Paul Inter-national
Airport on Monday,
May 23, landing in Copen-hagen,
Mary Fall, director, and
Jean Hanslin, instructor of
Swedish at Bethel, will lead
the group through 22 days of
sightseeing, singing, and
shopping in Denmark, Swe-den
and Norway. The tour
has been set up through Trav-el-
Wise, Inc., and will be en-hanced
by Hanslin's knowl-by
Paul Davis
Bethel's annual convocation
awards, one of many finan-cial
aid programs, give stu-dents
financial assistance and
The awards range from de-partmental
awards for physi-cal
education, speech or jour-nalism,
to awards for student
leadership and Christian ser-vice.
Individual donors con-tribute
the money and estab-lish
specific stipulations for
the awards.
"It is important for students
to understand that there are
other types of contributions
besides academics," said
Sharon Worthington, director
of financial aid.
The money is considered
part of the Bethel financial
aid, said Worthington. The
money is placed in the stu-dent's
account, and is used to
help pay the next year's bill.
"The awards are there to help
students continue their Bethel
education," said Worthington.
Approximately $22,000 is
edge of the countries; she lived the economy is tight—and
in Sweden until three years these women are in school
ago. with bills to pay—has taught
The choir has 17 scheduled all of us a lesson or two about
concerts in churches through- faith," said Fall.
out the southern part of Scan-dinavia.
On the evenings of
The choir has earned money
concerts, the women will stay by organizing bake sales on
in homes of people from the campus. The biggest one, dur-sponsoring
churches. ing Founder's Week, and with
One of the choir members the help of the Women's Aux-commented,
"This will be one iliary, was also the first place
of the most exciting parts of that "Scandi Choir Support
the tour for me. I am anxious Team" T-shirts were made
to meet families from differ- available for purchase. This
ent cultures who serve the money helps with choir ex-same
God I serve." penses beyond the personal
Making plans for this tour, expense of traveling each
choir members have individ- member pays.
ually come up with $1400
The women's choir will per-each
to cover expenses of the form one last concert in the
tour. "Trusting the Lord for U.S. at Olivet Baptist Church
this amount of money when at 6 p.m. on May 15.
given away each year in the
form of 78 to 80 scholarships,
said _Worthington. The scho-larships,
given during a con-vocation
chapel in May, range
from $75 to $1,000 for the
Students must be recom-mended
by a faculty member
to be eligible for an award.
Finals Schedule May 16-19
11:10-12:00 D—Thursday
12:10-1:10 E—Monday
1:20-2:20 F—Tuesday
12:00-2:00 1:55-3:30
2:30-3:30 I—Tuesday
3:40-4:30 J—Monday
4:30-6:00 K—Monday
7:00-9:00 L—Wednesday
Faculty members submit their
recommendations to the fi-nancial
aid office. The appli-cations
are reviewed by the
convocation committee, and
selects the students who will
receive the awards. The com-mittee
includes faculty mem-bers
and two students.
John Osborn, baker in food service, bakes delectibles while students
study or sleep. Bernards/photo
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110.0 ""•••••611/4
Composite Mean for Bethel Freshmen
Composite Mean for All U.S. Students
*% of freshman # Median
in top 20% ACT scores
of class
Augsburg 44
Carleton 87
Adolphus 66
Hamline 52
Macalester 62
Northwestern NA
St John's 28
St. Olaf
St. Thomas 51
Mankato State NA
St. Cloud State NA
University of
Minnesota NA 21
* Based on 1980-81 figures published in 17 Pri-vate
Colleges, (Hennepin Press/Minneapolis)
# Based on 1980-81 figures as listed in the College
Handbook. Fluctuation possible due to only
50% of entering freshman taking the test.
may 6, 1983
the Clarion page 5
Concocter of Bethel pastry is nocturnal creature
by Neal Bernards
My thongs flapped softly
on the carpeted halls as I
walked through the LR build-ing
late on a Tuesday even-ing.
Clarion lay-out was done
for another week, so I decided
to enjoy the mellow late-night
hours by searching for any
interesting nocturnal crea-tures.
Most "normal" people
W6tild-be watching David Let-terman
about now.
It's an eerie feeling to wan-der
through a place usually so
full of life. The buildings were
more deserted than classes on
a warm Friday afternoon in
spring. Quietly, a figure
ducked into the kitchen so I
followed to see what mischief
would be created at this un-godly
"Hi," I said. "May I talk to
you for awhile?"
"Well, I'll answer your ques-tions
quickly but I'd rather
get to work," said the man I
later discovered to be John
Osborn, baker in food service.
Osborn has a system estab-lished
that allows him to bake
hundreds of muffins and
raised doughnuts for the Cof-fee
Shop each night. My in-trusion
had caused a distur-bance
in the routine.
"Another lady and I make
the Swedish six-inch loaves
for the Oak Room," said Os-born,
"but there's no end to
the muffin batter for me."
Osborn has baked for Bethel
for 16 years, starting back on
the old campus. The obvious
question arose; "Don't you ever
get lonely?"
"Oh, I keep busy enough,"
said Osborn. "Plus I listen to
the Northwestern station on
the radio. Without it work
could become dull."
I was intrigued by this man
who does so much for student
appetites yet goes unnoticed.
The only people Osborn ever
sees at Bethel are night watch-men,
cooks who come in at
5:30 a.m., and an occasional
student when he eats break-fast.
"What does your wife think
about all this night work?"
"I appreciate how she must
feel, but it's become routine to
her. She's used to it."
With a skill like baking I
imagined Osborn had piles of
doughnuts at home with
loaves of bread packed into
the freezer. "No, years ago I
used to bake at home. Now
my wife and I usually eat out.
She works during the day so
she doesn't have time to cook
Osborn's expertise devel-oped
in the Navy when he
was drafted during WW II. "I
served on a repair ship in the
South Pacific. I consider my-self
fortunate, but I have seen
some things I didn't want to."
After six years in the Navy he
got on-the-job training in a
delicatessen in Illinois.
This year marks the first
time in 15 years that Osborn
has worked without Marian
Swanson, who frosted dough-nuts
and made fancy cookies.
Her forced retirement brings
the prospect of retirement to
his mind. "I would enjoy re-tirement
since I would be able
to keep myself busy with car-pentry
and yard work, but I
can't afford it."
During the 16 years he's
worked for Bethel things have
changed, from moving loca-tions
to gaining modern equip-ment,
but the biggest change
may be a new system for the
food service. Since Osborn
has little contact with other
staff he's kept in the dark
about possible changes.
"Wayne (Erickson) and Judy
(Helman) have done every-thing
possible for students,"
said Osborn. "People don't
think about the changes that
would come. Instead of serv-ing
the students, a food ser-vice
wants to turn a profit."
The future holds uncertainty
for Osborn. "I don't know
what will happen."
My bedtime had passed so I
left the man to his work under
the kitchen's harsh lights and
meandered back out into the
darkened halls. In seven hours
I'd be back in class, but at
least there would be a batch
of fresh doughnuts in the cof-fee
Academic rank comparisons have limited validity
by Neal Bernards
Incoming Bethel freshmen
rank academically higher than
the national norm according
to standardized testing scores,
but rank only fair compared
to Minnesota private colleges.
"These figures compare us
with tough company," said
Daniel Nelson, director of en-rollment.
"The study uses as a
base our worst year, 1980. For
some reason we bottomed out
in everything that year, and I
can't explain why.
"We are at or above the
national norm in test scores,"
said Nelson, "But those fig-ures
can be misleading. Dif-ferent
numbers of students
take those tests every year.
For example, only 50 percent
of Bethel freshmen took the
ACT test in 1981 and only 20
percent took the SAT test.
Any derived statistics must
be taken with a grain of salt."
Bethel avoids such fluctua-tion
by basing admission
mainly on high school rank.
"National tests are less of a
stable indicator," said Nelson.
"The most telling fact is high
school rank. It's indicative of
a three or four year perfor-mance
rather than just one
day in a gym." Bethel accepts
an average of 85-90 appli-cants,
with up to 15 percent
on a provisional basis. Those
accepted as provisional were
probably in the lower half of
their class and must meet min-imum
academic requirements
at Bethel.
National test scores de-clined
for 20 straight years
starting in 1962 before im-proving
slightly in 1982. The
decline cannot be easily ex-plained.
"The people who
make up the ACT and SAT
blame the school systems,"
said Nelson. "While the school
systems blame an error in the
testing method. One thing
known is that such testing
discriminates racially, blacks
do poorly."
Another indicator of aca-demic
performance is the per-centage
of students going on
to graduate school. Of Bethel's
1981 graduating class 7 per-cent
went on to graduate
school, while 10 percent at-tended
seminary. In 1982, 4
percent attended graduate
school and the seminarians
remained at 10 percent.
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the Clarion may 6, 1983
Athletic budget belt to be tightened next year
15% cut means Royal athletes will have to learn to get by with less in future
by Rich Whybrew
No exact figure has been
set for next year's athletic
budget, but George Henry,
director of athletics, said next
year's budget will be at least
15% less than this year's fig-ure.
"Everybody (coaches) is go-ing
to have to tighten their
belts next year," said Henry.
This year's belt is about
$300,000 and Henry said ap-proximately
half that goes for
salaries. The other half is used
for equipment, travel, entry
fees, and a small percentage
even finds its way into the
intramural sports program.
Henry said that the per ath-lete
share of the budget is
roughly $250. He declined to
say exactly where all the mon-ey
for sports came from, but if
the budget is completely sup-plied
by students' tuition fees
(which is not the case) the
average cost per student is
Money for athletics also
comes in the form of private
gifts and booster club mem-berships
from the Royal Ath-letic
Club and the Blue and
Gold club. Henry said that
these sources do not supply a
substantial amount of money,
but what does come in is
greatly appreciated.
A general fund holds the
money from gifts and booster
clubs, and its use is deter-mined
by Henry's discretion,
unless the donor states other-wise.
That fund is unaffected by
next year's cuts, but many
things in the athletic depart-.
ment may be affected. "We
are going to have to evaluate
the figures submitted by the
coaches and see what cuts
we'll have to make in travel
and equipment. But the last
thing to be cut will be the
salaries of our staff; they're
doing a great job and we don't
want to hold back on them,"
said Henry.
What is the trend for the
budget beyond next year? "It's
like any other department at
Bethel," says Henry. "The bud-get
will continue to decrease,
so we'll have to get along on
less and less."
track, from page 8
Chris Sorensen in the 100 me-ters
Head coach Cindy Book
said her team was "gearing up
for conference," only a week
away from this Friday and
Saturday. "We have a bunch
of people that are very near
qualifying," said Book. "I hope
we can do it during this week's
Those meets include a dual
at Macalester, May 3 which
will have been run when the
Clarion comes to press, and a
meet at Gustavus tomorrow,
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Royals piled up nine place
finishes. Layne LaFrombois
took two of those, coming in
first in the 100 and 200 meter
dashes with times of 11.04
and 22.3 respectively.
Steinar Engebretsen was
second in the triple jump at
431 6 ,/2" and Matt Simpson
worked his way through the
field for second in the 5,000
meters at 15.46.6.
The 4x800 meter relay team
of Jeff Velasco, Walt Twetten,
Rich Whybrew, and Scott
Zeidler was second in 8:31.19,
and the 4x1500 meter relay
team of Whybrew, Simpson,
Wayne Ebeling, and Curt
Wilken was third in 17:09.4.
In yet another relay event,
the 4x100 meters, LaFrombois,
Page Brumley, Engebretsen,
and Pat Townley took second.
Velasco, Twetten, Townley,
and Brumley formed an ad
hoc 4x400 meter relay team
that took sixth due to a nifty
lean at the tape by anchorman
Chris Anderson completed
the long list of Bethel place
finishes with sixth in the jav-elin
with a throw of 148'111/2".
Whittaker will split the
team again this weekend, tak-ing
14 athletes to Moorhead
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page 7
The women's tennis team
played a strong match against
St. Theresa's but then fell to
Carleton and St. Ben's in one-sided
matches which showed
the effects of the loss of Sarah
Things began well with an
8-1 victory over St. Theresa's.
The match was very impor-tant
for the team's confidence.
Coach Vonda Bjorklund was
pleased with the effort, "It
was our first match after we
lost Sarah. It was a good con-fidence
booster to come back
and win after losing such a
key player."
Against St. Ben's, the loss
of Runion became more of a
factor as the team dropped an
8-1 decision. Kathy Lee won
Bethel's only match. Bjork-lund
summed up the effect of
the injury, "The main prob-lem
is the adjustment of mov-ing
one spot up."
The fact that all the players
must play one spot higher due
to the injury becomes even
more of a problem against a
team the caliber of Carleton.
Carleton also won 8-1 with
Lee winning the only match.
According to Connie Masters,
"It's hard with tougher teams
—they're already tough and it
makes it even harder to move
Today and tomorrow, May
6 and 7, the team will play in
the conference tournament at
Carleton. Coach Bjorklund
seemed unsure of Bethel's
chances. "It's hard to say
where we stand because we
don't play half the conference
teams during the year."
Friday, May 6
"Rockamole," Kresge Courtyard, 3 p.m.
CC—All School Show, "Joseph and His Techni-Color Dreamcoat," Gym,
7:30 p.m.
Softball—States-DMLC, Away
W Tennis—Conference, Carleton
Saturday, May 7
Baseball—Macalester, Away, 12 p.m.
Softba I I —Sta res-DMLC, Away
W Tennis—Conference, Carleton
W Track—Gustavus, Cinder Open
M Track—Gustavus, Away
Monday, May 9
Chapel—Violinist, James Buswell
Student Senate Meeting—FA 426, 5:15 p.m.
Concert—James Buswell, Seminary Chapel, 8 p.m.
BSU—End of School Party
Tuesday, May 10
Chapel—John Lawyer, "Christians in the Military: A Positive View"
Wednesday, May 11
Chapel—Pastor Spickelmier
Thursday, May 12
Chapel 5MP Commissioning Service
Friday, May 13
LAST DAY OF CLASSESilimi
Royal softball squad
rallies in comeback
Victory comes after team hits low point'
Women netters miss Runion
by John Lilleberg
Randy Karlberg fires the ball home. Clark/photo
Fauth continues to pace the
Royals in hitting with his .409
average. With pitchers trying
to throw around Fauth, Dut-ton
will try juggling his lineup
to get him some better pitches.
Fauth also leads the pitching
staff with his sub-3.00 earned
run average.
when you haven't been hitting
you need to be aggressive."
baseball, from page 8
Against St. Mary's on April
30, the Royals had the tying
or winning run on second base
in both games but was unable
to get the run across the plate.
In the first game a fine
pitching performance by Dave
Fauth was wasted as the Roy-als
could only come up with
four hits in a 2-0 defeat. Fauth
only made one bad pitch in
the game and saw it deposited
on the other side of the outfield
fence for a two-run homer.
The Royals again got only
four hits in game two but
managed to turn them into
four runs. However, the win-ning
and tying runs were left
stranded on second and third
base in the last inning of the
5-4 loss.
"We've had good perfor-mances
from our pitchers,"
said Dutton of the week. "But
we've been giving up un-earned
runs. I'm encouraged,
though, by the way the guys
by Dan Blake
After reaching a "low point"
in the season against Carleton
on Wednesday, the Bethel
softball team came back with
two strong performances in
weekend doubleheaders
against Augsburg and Mac-alester.
The Royals lost two close
games against Carleton. The
first game went nine innings
before Carleton pulled off a
10-9 win. The second game
was also close but the Royals
lost 10-7. In the words of
coach Paul Currie, "They act-ed
like they wanted to win
and we didn't."
Things started to come to-gether
against Augsburg,
however, as the Royals played
two strong games against one
of the best teams in the con-ference.
The final 12-2 score
in the first game is mislead-ing.
Bethel played well for
four innings behind the solid
pitching of Pam Mens before
the Auggies broke through
with a big inning in the fifth.
One bad inning also hurt
the Royals in the second game.
Bethel held a 1-0 lead through
five innings before losing it in
the sixth. The final score was
3 - 1. "We are a young team,"
Currie noted, "and our con-centration
dropped off just
The Royals finally seemed
to recover their concentration
in Saturday's games against
Macalester. The Scots edged
Bethel in the first game 3 -2.
Mens pitched well again, as
she has all year. In the second
game, everything came togeth-er
for the Royals as they ex-ploded
for 12 runs and Chris
Johnson pitched shut-out ball.
Currie noted several strong
performances against the
Scots. Dee Peterson had three
hits and Corinne Meyer con-tinued
to catch well. Currie
considers Meyer to be all-conference
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have battled back when were
Bethel's team batting aver-age,
which stood at .259 at the
begining of the week, fell
down to .219 - a mark that has
Dutton concerned.
"We just haven't made con-tact
and we've been striking
out a lot," explained Dutton.
"We probably haven't been as
selective as we should be but
Dave Fauth, who leads the Royals in hitting with a .409 average, gets
set at the plate. Clark/photo
Young men's tennis
team ends season
Reaching for the ball, Tom Mills knocks it back over during the
Royals match at St. John's.
Women have bests
performing at Mac
page 8 the Clarion sports may 6, 1983
Big 'E's' smash
possible victories
Head track coach Steve
Whittaker split his forces last
weekend, sending five runners
on two relay teams to the 74th
annual Drake Relays, and the
rest of the team to the Waseca
Invitational. The first squad
had outstanding perfor-mances
at a high-powered
meet, while the second per-formed
well enough for sixth
place in a 15-team competi-tion.
Tom Plocker, Jay Van Loon,
Greg Wallace, Dave Jorgensen,
and Dave Bradley represented
Bethel at Drake, five competi-tors
among 5,000. Whittaker
said that an example of the
caliber of the competition at
the meet was in the 100 meter
dash, where the two top times
in the world so far this year
were run.
The Bethel athletes did not
run world bests in at the meet,
but on Friday in the 4x400
meter relay Plocker, Van Loon
and Bradley had personal
bests, while Jorgensen was
close to his best time. Bethel
was fifth at 3:20.7 in the fas-test
of seven heats, but did
not place.
Saturday Plocker, Jorgen-sen,
Van Loon, and Wallace
ran in the distance medley
relay. Whittaker said the
Royals were "right up in the
top three or four" overall until
the final lap of the event,
when other runners outkicked
anchorman Wallace.
Some 200 miles to the north,
assistant coach John Skelly
and the rest of the team were
in windy Waseca, where the
waseca, see page 6
by John Lilleberg
The men's tennis team fin-ished
the season with a string
of losses and disappointing
draw at the conference tourn-ament.
Things began with a 9-0
loss to River Falls. The team
was hindered by the strong
winds which traditionally
haunt the River Fall's courts.
Against St. Thomas, the
team played well and kept
things close in many of the
matches. No one was able to
break through the powerful
Tommies' line-up, however,
as the team dropped another
9-0 decision.
St. John's also proved too
strong for the young Royals.
Ken Dahlquist played well
and pushed his opponent to
by John Clark
The error. The big E. In
baseball errors are known by
many names. Errors have
turned the hair of countless
coaches gray before their time.
Now errors are not neces-sarily
all that bad. It all de-pends
on when you commit
Unfortunately, for Neal
Dutton's Bethel baseball team
the errors happen to come at
inopportune moments.
"We're not making that
many mistakes," said the Roy-al
baseball coach. "It's just the
ones we make come at the
worst possible times."
The inconvenient mistakes
coupled with inconsistent hit-ting
added up to a week in
which the Royals dropped
both of its doubleheaders.
Good pitching and a knack
for late inning rallies couldn't
keep Bethel's record from
dropping to 2-8 in the MIAC.
Bethel dropped both ends
MIAC standings
W L Pct. GB
Augsburg 9 3 .750 -
Concordia 7 3 .700 1
St. Thomas 7 3 .700 1
St Mary's 6 4 .600 2
St Olaf 7 5 .583 2
St John's 4 6 .400 4
Hamline 4 6 .400 4
Gustavus 3 5 .375 4
Macalester 3 9 250 6
Bethel 2 8 .200 6
of its twin-bill against St.
John's on April 27 by 6-3 and
5 -3 margins. In both games
Bethel rallied in the final inn-ings
to make the game close.
baseball, see page 7
by Rich Whybrew
three sets. Once again the
team was shut out 9-0.
In the conference tourna-ment
in Northfield Bethel had
one of the worst draws ever
and failed to win a match.
Randy Westlund summed up
the tournament saying, "Most
of us drew number-one seeds.
Still, our guys played pretty
well considering."
The team has struggled all
year but has never given up.
Part of the reason for this is a
positive attitude. The rest of
the reason lies in the fact that
the team consists mainly of
As Scott Meyers put it, "We
look for improvement next
year and the year to come and
the year to come." Apparently
there are some advantages to
having a young team.
by Rich Whybrew
Much of the core of the
women's track team was ab-sent,
but the rest of the women
came through with some per-sonal
best performances at
the Macalester Invitational
last weekend. Three of Beth-el's
top performers, Linda
Channer, Laurie Staurseth,
and Penny Marshall were at
an RA retreat.
Senior hurdler Jenny Bur-gess
took the team's only place
finish, coming in third in the
100 meter hurdles in 16.4. The
race marked Burgess' return
to competition, since she
missed the previous meet due
to a hamstring injury.
Leanne Becker had a throw
of 102'83/4" in the discus, which
qualified her for conference,
and Kendra French ran a per-sonal
best of 66.4 in the 400
Two more personal bests
were run by Rachel Urban in
the 1500 meters (5:55), and
back, see page 6
Budget belt tightened
Bethel athletes will be get-ting
by on less money in the
future due to budget cuts.
Page 6.
Netters miss player
The loss of number two sin-gles
player, Sarah Runion,
has made things tough for
the women's tennis team.
Page 7.
Softball team suffers
Tough losses forced the soft-ball
team to rebound from
a "low point" and record its
only win of the week. Page
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Streaking Pirates best Astros on 9th-inning error
Pittsburgh, PA – Jimmy Paredes was charged with an error that allowed the winning run to score with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates slipped past the Houston Astros, 5-4, in the opener of a three-game interleague set at PNC Park.
With Houston's Edgar Gonzalez (0-1) on the hill and two down and the bases loaded, Russell Martin popped up the right-hander's 2-2 offering into right field, where Paredes and second baseman Jake Elmore bumped into each other. The ball fell to the ground and Travis Snider easily crossed home plate.
Hector Ambriz blew the save for the Astros in the eighth, issuing a two-run homer to Pedro Alvarez which tied the game.
"Our defense has been one of our strong suits pretty much the whole year," Houston manager Bo Porter said. "But tonight, we did not play good defense and we put our self in a position where it cost us the ballgame."
Andrew McCutchen was a triple shy of the cycle, finishing with three hits for Pittsburgh, winners of four straight and seven of eight overall. Justin Wilson (4-0) picked up the win after working around a walk in the top of the ninth.
"It's unbelievable," Alvarez said. "That's baseball."
Matt Dominguez hit a two-run home run for the Astros, losers in seven of their last eight.
With one down in the ninth, McCutchen singled to right, moving Snider to third base. Brandon Inge then hit a slow-roller back to the mound, but Gonzalez juggled the exchange and all runners where safe. Neil Walker struck out to make two outs with the bases loaded before Martin's harmless bloop scored the eventual game-winner.
Pittsburgh trailed 4-2 heading into the eighth, but rallied versus Ambriz. Walker advanced to second on a wild pitch, and reached third on Martin's fly out to center. Alvarez didn't waste any time, as he took the first pitch he saw well over the right field bleachers and one-hopped into the Allegheny River, tying the game at 4-4.
In the fifth, Pittsburgh starter Jeanmar Gomez served up a one-out solo homer to Dominguez to give the Astros a 2-1 lead. Gomez forced two outs with a runner on second, but things quickly got worse.
Robbie Grossman drew a walk and Elmore came through with an RBI single to make it 3-1. Houston added another run as Elmore tried to swipe second with Jason Castro at the plate, but Martin was charged with an error after throwing a low attempt to get Elmore. Walker corralled the ball, though, his throwing error to home allowed Grossman to score and make it 4-1.
The Pirates got one run back in the sixth and forced Houston starter Jordan Lyles out of the game. McCutchen popped up a seemingly innocent shallow fly to right before Houston's Chris Carter had the ball bounce off his glove and allow McCutchen to advance to third with the error. Garrett Jones, Lyles' last batter faced, smacked a double down the right-field line to bring Pittsburgh within 4-2.
Houston took an early 1-0 lead. Grossman doubled to open the contest, advanced to third on Elmore's sacrifice bunt, and scored on Castro's deep fly to center.
"We never give up, we are a resilient group." Added Alvarez.
Lyles, though, labored through the home half of the first, tossing 32 pitches. The third batter he faced, McCutchen, crushed his 0-1 offering over the left- center wall to tie the game.
Game Notes
Houston officially announced the hiring of Reid Ryan as the team's new president of business operations on Friday ... Houston's Lyles tossed five- plus innings, allowing two runs -- one earned -- and striking out four. He entered the game going 0-4 with a 7.77 ERA in five starts against the Pirates in his career ... Gomez gave up four runs, three earned, on five hits over 4 2/3 innings.


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Acclaimed jazz pianist Tamir Hendelman and his trio will present master classes and perform at Hope College on Friday, Oct. 1, in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The trio, featuring Hendelman on piano, Paul Keller on bass and Sean Dobbins on drums, will present clinics from 1 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. and then will perform as a trio at 2:30 p.m.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Award-winning jazz pianist Tamir Hendelman has performed with the Jeff Hamilton Trio, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Harry Allen, Teddy Edwards, Warren Vache, Houston Person, Jeff Clayton, Nick Brignola, Phil Upchurch, Rickey Woodard, John Clayton and Barbara Morrison. His musical travels have taken him from Alaska to New York, and Thailand to Israel.
In his own trio, he explores standards, Brazilian music, blues and his Israeli roots. His debut CD "Playground" (2008) was released in Japan on the Swing Bros. label and was released in the U.S. in December 2008 on CDBaby.com. He is a Resonance Records artist.
Writing for "LA Jazz Scene," Harvey Barkan has said, "Hendelman played with a fullness of content and intensity, bringing new presentations of tunes. Not a fixed position player, Hendelman wears off the ivory over the entire keyboard. The trio yielded a magnificent product, well worthy of repeated listening."
Beginning his keyboard studies at age six in Tel Aviv, Hendelman moved to the United States at age 12 in 1984, winning Yamaha's national keyboard competition two years later at age 14. Concerts in Japan and the Kennedy Center followed.
He then studied at the Tanglewood Institute in 1988 and received a Bachelor of Music Composition degree from Eastman School of Music in 1993. He subsequently became the youngest musical director for Lovewell Institute, a national arts education non-profit organization.
Since returning to Los Angeles in 1996, Hendelman has been in steady demand as pianist and arranger, touring the United States, Europe and Asia, and receiving awards from ASCAP and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. In 1999 he was a guest soloist with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.
Hendelman joined the Jeff Hamilton Trio in 2000, contributing arrangements, recording and touring Japan, Europe and the U.S. In 2001 he became a member of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, with whom he premiered John Clayton's new orchestration of Oscar Peterson's Canadiana Suite in the Hollywood Bowl in 2001. In 2002 he also toured Europe with Tierney Sutton and the Bill Holman Big Band. Tamir musically directed Julia Migenes's "Alter Ego" and played/arranged on Roberta Gambarini's "Easy to Love."
With the CHJO, he has recorded for John Pizzarelli, Gladys Knight and Diana Krall. He is the pianist/arranger on Jackie Ryan's "You and the Night and the Music" and Janis Mann's "A Perfect Time." He is also featured on Natalie Cole's "Still Unforgettable" and Barbra Streisand's upcoming recording.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.


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And in this dark harvest of season
My life has completely lost reason,
For which or against to decide.
All lost in a savage and endless, bleak tide
In sadness and in kindness
In light and in darkness.
In a boat made of hope
I shall sail to tomorrow,
In a winding hurricane
Made of treachery and sorrow.
There's a spear, endless, and colossal spear...
Piercing, slashing though my head.
Starting somewhere in heaven,
Ending somewhere in hell.
Fighting, burning, crying, crashing.
Are the armies within.
In my head they are all thrashing.
On the heaven's and hell's whim.
To be light or to be darkness.
A perpetual array.
It's not merely my choice,
But the choice of the way.
It's an option of the voice,
It's a thin line of gray.
Is it a choice forced by fate,
Is it a pre-set time and date?
Or a choice to which I myself sway?
But here's our story anyway….
"Nothing that I do will matter.
As all things will merely shatter!"
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KDE Architecture - Interface documentation
The KDE team strives to provide documentation for the KDE programming interfaces and libraries that is always up-to-date and correct. Taking ideas from literate programming and Java, we decided from day one to keep the documentation as close to the source as possible.
All the KDE API documentation is contained within the library source itself. Documentation is written using specially-marked comments. This ensures that the latest library is always shipped with the latest documentation, and makes it easy for programmers to update and write documentation as the interface grows and changes.
The KDE project uses Doxygen, a tool to generate easily readable and heavily cross-referenced documentation in a variety of hypertext and printable formats. For an example of it's output, browse the KDE 3.5 API Reference.
We also recommend that application developers use Doxygen while developing their applications, since it acts as a good reference for the developers themselves, or for anyone who wishes to modify or extend the application. Any non-trivial application benefits from an easily browseable and comprehensive API reference.
For detailed information on how to use Doxygen, see the Doxygen home page.
Initial Author: Sirtaj Singh Kang


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SalonCentric is hosting the Mohegan Sun Show for salon professionals on April 13 and 14 in Uncasville, Connecticut. There are opportunities for education for both salon professionals as well as beauty industry students, and exhibitor displays will be showcasing beauty products.
The show will feature demonstrations and educational workshops by industry pros, including the following:
-Ammon Carver and Nicholas French, Matrix
-Bryan Campbell, L'ANZA
-Deannalyn and Ryan Teal
-Jen Planck, business and motivational speaker
-Rocco Vitelli, Farouk
-Gerard Kierans, Surface
-Leon Vannett, Kasho
-Gina Khan, Logics
-Teresa Brown, Malibu
Media personality, producer and hairstylist Stephen Marinaro (TheSalonGuy) will provide red carpet commentary for the annual Red Carpet Media Event on April 13 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Avalon Nightclub. Correspondent Lucy Norris will also be on hand, and Jason Jani and Christian Lagrotteria will serve as masters of ceremony and DJs.
Tickets and hotel packages for the Mohegan Sun Show are available; for more information, visit saloncentric.com/education/uncasville or call 800-282-9686.


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Blackhawk Brigade
Origins and Early History
The Blackhawk Brigade, also known as the 12th Infantry Brigade, is part of the M'Chekian Army. It is one of many Brigades mobilized to defend M'Chek from the Drotid invaders that overran the eastern part of the country, and is currently one of three Brigades Lord Derrington has under his command.
During the War against the Drotid, the 12th Infantry Brigade originally was assigned under the banner of Lord Derrington and was quartered at Derrington Castle, relegated to garrison duties. Commanded by Brigade Commander Tanners, the 500 officers and men of the 12th served as part of Lord Derrington's personal guard.
In a series of unfortunate events, Commander Tanners was stripped of his officer's commission and banished from the nation of M'Chek by War Commissioner Lord Tobias Chasworth. Commander Tanners took part in the infamous raid upon Fort Kasslesstha, acting as commanding officer of a group of foreign mercenaries and a regiment of 200 of his cavaliers. The charges leveled against him include his over stepping his command authority, waging a personal campaign against the Drotid in laying siege to Fort Kasslesstha, and gross negligence in the deaths of nearly all 200 of the men under his command. There is still much speculation as to the level of involvement Lord Derrington had with this matter. At the time of his dismissal from service, Commander Tanners was adamant he was under Lord Derrington's orders in attacking the fortress.
Command Change and a New Direction
In an unprecedented act of authority and ignoring Lord Derrington's right to select his own replacement brigade commander, Lord Chasworth ordered Major Thaylis Beign, Chief of Staff of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, to assume command of the remaining 300 officers and soldiers of the 12th Brigade. Promoted to Brigadier, Brigadier Beign was also to receive command of 600 officers and soldiers of Colonel Brittain's Blackhawk Battalion and instructed to forge the new Brigade into a field command capable of conducting operations against the Drotid invaders. The 12th Brigade adopted the name, Blackhawk Brigade, at Lord Chasworth's recommendation.
Brigade Breakdown
Currently, the Brigade is at 80% strength and consists of 3 Battalions.
The 1st Battalion, comprised of M'Chek's elite Blackhawks, is commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Silver Fox. The Blackhawk Battalion now has a full compliment of approximately 900 officers and men. The core of the Battalion is formed from the men and women who served under Colonel Brittain as the original Blackhawk Battalion and served as M'Chek's elite special forces unit. Their tenacity and discipline in serving M'Chek is renowned. Additionally, rumors abound that Colonel Fox has spearheaded an effort to supplement the ranks of her Battalion with men and women from the M'Chekian penal system. The soldiers of the 1st Battalion form the foundation of the Brigade.
The Brigade's 2nd Battalion, referred to as the Sable Lions, is commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Justin Watersdown and originally consisted of 400 officers and soldiers, with 100 of these siphoned from the 1st Battalion to form the backbone of the unit. Currently, their numbers have swelled to approximately 735 officers and men due to the intensive recruiting campaign, and continue to hone their skills in working as a cohesive unit.
The 3rd Battalion has now been activated and is under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Serria Atterman. Called the Onyx Boars, they serve as the Brigade's primary training battalion. All new recruits into the Brigade will pass through the 3rd Battalion for their indoctrination and training. The primary goal is to instill confidence in the new recruits, instructing them on field operations and battle techniques, as well as getting them on a skill and confidence level equal to the soldiers of the 1st Battalion. The 3rd now has approximately 635 officers and soldiers.
Still undermanned by several hundred soldiers, The Brigade continues an aggressive recruiting campaign to bolster its numbers. At present, the Brigade consists of one full and 2 partial Battalions, with a total number of officers and soldiers for operations at ~2260.
Senior Command Staff
Commanding Officer: Brigadier Thaylis Beign
Adjutant: Major Peter Russborough
|1st Battalion - Blackhawks
|2nd Battalion - Sable Lions
|3rd Battalion - Onyx Boars
|Commanding Officer - Lt. Colonel Silver Fox
|Commanding Officer - Lt. Colonel Justin Watersdown
|Commanding Officer - Lt. Colonel Serria Atterman
|Executive Officer – Captain Rickus va'Alor
|Executive Officer - Major Alfred Greensham
|Executive Officer - Major Peter Russborough
|Current Strength - ~900 officers and soldiers
|Current Strength - ~735 officers and soldiers
|Current Strength - ~635 officers and soldiers
Structure of the Battalions
Each Battalion is identical in structure and follows Colonel Fox's Blackhawk Battalion's organizational plan.
Commanding Officer: Colonel or Lt. Colonel.
Command Staff: Executive Officer – Major or Captain; 2 additional Staff Officers (Major or Captain), Command Sergeant.
The Battalions are comprised of 9 Company's, each commanded by a Captain.
- 1st Company: Heavy Infantry and support elements. 125 soldiers.
- 2nd Company: Heavy Infantry and support elements. 125 soldiers.
- 3rd Company: Heavy Infantry and support elements. 125 soldiers.
- 4th Company: Reconnaissance (Recon). Light infantry or skirmishers, these soldiers are used for intelligence gathering, reconnaissance and interdiction, etc. 125 soldiers and support elements.
- 5th Company: Demolitions and Artillery. 100 soldiers and support elements.
- 6th Company: Battlemage Company. Normally mages will be distributed throughout the ranks as needed, but nominally they will belong to the 6th Company, allowing them to be fielded as a unit in their own right in special circumstances. Numbers are fluid.
- 7th Company: Reserve Line Company. Infantry with support elements. This will be the Company new recruits will be trained in until they can be transferred to another Company. Can be deployed in the field under special circumstances. 100 soldiers.
- 8th Company: Light Cavalry. 100 men + horses.
- 9th Company: Heavy Cavalry 100 men + horses.
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July 12, 2012
Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson California Commercial Real Estate Survey Points to Recovery
Majority of Surveyed Plan New Multifamily Developments in Next 12 Months
LOS ANGELES -- Developer sentiment continues to show signs of optimism and solid indications of impending new commercial development, according to the current semi-annual release of the Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson California Commercial Real Estate Survey. "Since the end of the recession we have seen developer optimism spread to all markets and types of commercial space along with an increased willingness to go forward with new development," says UCLA Anderson Forecast Senior Economist Jerry Nickelsburg. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ex7x2VSbK4)
Multifamily Development is Returning in Bay Area and LA
Promising news also comes from the first Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast survey of multi-family housing developers. Overall, 70% of the survey participants in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles plan to begin new multi-family housing developments in the next 12 months. This turn around in multi-family residential construction is being driven by high occupancy rates and rising rents, particularly in the Bay Area, as household formation begins to rebound in California. "This growth in multi-family housing is encouraging. It is in markets where there have been substantial job gains - especially for younger workers who prefer to rent apartments in urban areas - and where property values are high," said John Tipton, partner at Allen Matkins.
New Office Development in LA and San Francisco
California office space market sentiment has been positive over the past three years, but it did not immediately translate into significant new development. After two and a half years, the Bay Area panel had indicated a change. With the current survey, Southern California developers have joined their Bay Area counterparts and approximately 25 percent of the survey participants are planning to start new development in the coming 12 months.
Industrial Growth Driven by California Manufacturing
Despite uncertainty about Europe' economic future and moderate growth in California import activity, there is strong optimism in California's industrial space markets, that should generate new building activity in the next 12 months as well. This optimism has been present in the survey panel for more than two years with industrial space occupancy rising to 96 percent in both Los Angeles and Orange County driven by growth in California manufacturing exports.
The Allen Matkins /UCLA Anderson Forecast survey indicates that opportunities for new developments have emerged in the industrial space market - particularly in Los Angeles and Orange County markets.
For a copy of the latest Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey and Index Research Project, please visit www.uclaforecast.com.
The Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey and Index Research Project polled a panel of California real estate professionals in the office space and investment market, on various aspects of the commercial real estate market. The survey is designed to capture incipient activity by commercial real estate developers. To achieve this the panel looks at the markets three years in the future, and building conditions over the three year period. It was initiated by Allen Matkins and the UCLA Anderson Forecast in 2006, furtherance of their interest in improving the quality of current information and forecasts of commercial real estate.
About Allen Matkins
Allen Matkins, founded in 1977, is a California-based law firm with approximately 220 attorneys in four major metropolitan areas of California: Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco and San Diego. The firm's core specialties include real estate, real estate and commercial finance, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, construction, land use, natural resources, environmental, corporate and securities, intellectual property, joint ventures, taxation, employment and labor law, and dispute resolution and litigation in all these matters. For more than 30 years, Allen Matkins has helped clients turn opportunity and challenge into success by providing practical advice, innovative solutions and valuable business opportunities. When clients' challenges require experienced trial counsel, Allen Matkins has a proven track record of successful litigation before juries, judges and arbitrators. Allen Matkins is located on the Web at www.allenmatkins.com.
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June 25, 2001
Los Angeles — After marching to the mystical sounds of bagpipes, MBA students in the 60th graduating class received their diplomas during UCLA Anderson's 2001 commencement ceremony June 15.
Dean Bruce G. Willison conferred degrees upon nearly 300 full-time MBA students during the two-hour ceremony in Wilson Plaza, which was filled with more than 3,000 alumni, family, friends and fellow students. Along with the full-time MBA students, 137 students in the Fully-Employed MBA Program received MBA degrees. Nearly 70 students in the Executive MBA Program were listed in the program and will receive their degrees in a Sept. 16 ceremony. In addition, UCLA Anderson awarded five Ph.D. degrees in management and five Master of Science degrees in management.
In congratulating the graduates, Willison noted that he and the 2001 class came to UCLA Anderson at about the same time. "This is my first full class to graduate. I want to say thank you for what I have learned from and about you," he said. "I believe now more than ever that what happens here in educating all of you is a worthy effort that will pay dividends for individuals and communities for decades to come."
Willison said the MBA graduates had the fortune of being in one of the world's leading schools of management during two business revolutions — first the buzz about changed management paradigms of the "New Economy," then the "dot.bomb" and the return of the business cycle.
"More so than many of the recent classes before you, you leave with a more settled view of the realism of the marketplace, albeit with no less alacrity to make your mark in it," Dean Willison said. "No matter if it's the new economy, old economy or our next economy, you are prepared to take advantage of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead."
The graduates also heard words of inspiration from financier and philanthropist Gary Winnick, who gave the keynote address. Winnick, who is chairman and founder of Global Crossing Ltd., which provides communications platforms and value-added services to global corporations, asked the graduates if they were prepared to meet the challenge of global development.
"Can we meet that challenge not by turning our back on the fundamental premise of the free market, but by extending that premise — that promise to the whole world?" he asked. "My answer is not only that we can, but that we must."
Winnick listed three key areas in which the graduates can make a difference: exporting technology, exporting democracy and exporting humanity. He encouraged the graduates to have passion — and patience.
"As new business school grads, I know the word patience isn't in your vocabulary. But it's really key," Winnick said. "Have patience. Pick your spot. And then be persistent ...."
The Dean's Award for Outstanding Service was presented to Iain Corby, who was voted by his classmates as having contributed the most to the overall experience in the full-time MBA Program. A native of Great Britain, Corby assisted in student selection and recruitment efforts in various ways, most notably as a student member of the admissions committee and as UCLA Anderson Days chair last year. He was elected Vice President for Internal Affairs of the UCLA Anderson Student Association.
Eric Mokover, assistant dean and director of the full-time MBA Program, said Corby made a difference in many ways, including facilitating parking, developing new ways for students to schedule breakout rooms for group meetings, and serving as stage manager for Cabaret 2000.
The Dean's Award for Outstanding Service in the Fully-Employed MBA Program went to Grady M. Smith.
The full-time MBA Teaching Excellence Award was presented to Eric Sussman, a lecturer in accounting. William H. Cockrum, adjunct professor in finance, received the Fully-Employed MBA Teaching Excellence Award.


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Picture this: "A Perfect Day" after a big snow
With winter storms again reinventing the Colorado landscape by blanketing the curves and angles with white, take time to appreciate the moments that turn adults into children again.
Carin Berger's "A Perfect Day" follows young Emma through a snowy landscape punctuated by blue footprints, ski tracks and the unexpected hole or two, evidence of floundering in a deep drift.
This storm is benign. No trees or branches fall, only snowflakes. Snow helpfully rolls into perfect balls for the "tallest snowman ever. And the smallest." Battlements adorn snow forts. Sleds and ice skates glide effortlessly. Snow angels cooperate smoothly with their creators. As dusk arrives, the streetlights acquire halos highlighted by the still-falling snow.
It's a lovely book to share with young ones. (Please resist the temptation to point out the omission of gray and yellow snow, of stalled cars, and the sharply cold snowmelt puddles on the kitchen floor.)


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Feathers are everywhere. It's a pretty big trend right now. At least it seems that way. Personally, this sounds odd for me to say, but I actually really like the feather bag trend. There is something magical about feathers. They symbolize freedom, enlightenment, inspiration, and so much more. And this doesn't even scratch the surface of how cool feathers are. Have you ever looked at a feather up close? The structure is incredible. Sometimes it is hard to believe it's just keratin. I know, I am likely boring you now. But I wanted to explain why I feel rather partial to the Edie Parker Flavia Feather Pearlescent box Clutch!
The Edie Parker Flavia is beautiful. It is as simple as that! I love the two feathers printed on the front of this hand poured acrylic clutch. One feather is dark blue and the other is blush pink. A unique choice of colors, if I do say so myself! I also like the swirled cream colored background, which gives it a more sophisticated feel. In fact, it reminds me of mother of pearl. I think the Edie Parker Flavia Feather Box Clutch would make an excellent conversation piece and it would go well with a wide variety of outfits. Above all though, I think it would look lovely paired with a black dress.
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The Top 5 Security Risks of Cloud Computing
Evaluate potential providers based on their responses to these key concerns.
More and more, small businesses are moving to cloud computing, signing up with private providers that make sophisticated applications more affordable as well as setting up their own accounts with public social media sites like Facebook. The trend is confirmed by Microsoft in its global SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011, which found that 49 percent of small businesses expect to sign up for at least one cloud service in the next three years.
Private and public clouds function in the same way: Applications are hosted on a server and accessed over the Internet. Whether you're using a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of customer relationship management (CRM) software, creating offsite backups of your company data, or setting up a social media marketing page, you're trusting a third-party company with information about your business and, most likely, your customers.
Although cloud computing can offer small businesses significant cost-saving benefits—namely, pay-as-you-go access to sophisticated software and powerful hardware—the service does come with certain security risks. When evaluating potential providers of cloud-based services, you should keep these top five security concerns in mind.
1. Secure data transfer. All of the traffic travelling between your network and whatever service you're accessing in the cloud must traverse the Internet. Make sure your data is always travelling on a secure channel; only connect your browser to the provider via a URL that begins with "https." Also, your data should always be encrypted and authenticated using industry standard protocols, such as IPsec (Internet Protocol Security), that have been developed specifically for protecting Internet traffic.
2. Secure software interfaces. The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recommends that you be aware of the software interfaces, or APIs, that are used to interact with cloud services. "Reliance on a weak set of interfaces and APIs exposes organizations to a variety of security issues related to confidentiality, integrity, availability, and accountability," says the group in its Top Threats to Cloud Computing document. CSA recommends learning how any cloud provider you're considering integrates security throughout its service, from authentication and access control techniques to activity monitoring policies.
3. Secure stored data. Your data should be securely encrypted when it's on the provider's servers and while it's in use by the cloud service. In Q&A: Demystifying Cloud Security, Forrester warns that few cloud providers assure protection for data being used within the application or for disposing of your data. Ask potential cloud providers how they secure your data not only when it's in transit but also when it's on their servers and accessed by the cloud-based applications. Find out, too, if the providers securely dispose of your data, for example, by deleting the encryption key.
4. User access control. Data stored on a cloud provider's server can potentially be accessed by an employee of that company, and you have none of the usual personnel controls over those people. First, consider carefully the sensitivity of the data you're allowing out into the cloud. Second, follow research firm Gartner's suggestion to ask providers for specifics about the people who manage your data and the level of access they have to it.
5. Data separation. Every cloud-based service shares resources, namely space on the provider's servers and other parts of the provider's infrastructure. Hypervisor software is used to create virtual containers on the provider's hardware for each of its customers. But CSA notes that "attacks have surfaced in recent years that target the shared technology inside Cloud Computing environments." So, investigate the compartmentalization techniques, such as data encryption, the provider uses to prevent access into your virtual container by other customers.
Although you should address these security issues with the cloud provider before you entrust your data to its servers and applications, they shouldn't be a deal breaker. Cloud computing offers small businesses too many benefits to dismiss out of hand. After all, you already met many of these security challenges the first time you connected your network to the Internet.
What criteria have you used to evaluate how well a cloud computing provider secures data?
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One big think that I have yet to see addressed in any Cloud discussion is what, if any, backdoors are in place for the gov't to access the data? There a gov't mandated backdoors in all public encryption. Is it the same here?
Thanks for sharing security risks
Cloud computing is not my option recently. Traditional way still the best 4 me, since I could control everything manually


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Tutorials are the fastest way of finding out what KDE will do for you, and how to do it. Here is a list of currently available tutorials for KDE4. Material for KDE3 and KDE2 is available on the bottom of this page.
Are you interested in writing applications with KDE 4? This tutorial series is aimed at those completely new to KDE programming.
If you want to improve an existing application, you can usually build and install it easily. This tutorial shows how to build an application in a way that doesn't interfere with your system. If you do not need to modify kdelibs this may be the easiest way to get started with development.
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Ex-Redskin Joe Theismann blasts Tony Romo, Jerry Jones
Former QB says, 'Tony isn't really that good'
Former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann has blasted Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo yet again.
"Soon or later we have to come to the realization that Tony isn't a very good quarterback," Theismann told Brady & Lang on Sportsnet 590 The Fan Tuesday. "He throws interceptions that (make) you shake your head. If it's all the wide receivers' fault then maybe he should get some new wide receivers, or they need to come up with some new route combinations that guys can understand."
Romo matched a career high with five interceptions, two of them returned for touchdowns as the Bears won 34-18 on Monday night.
"What hit me last night is, Tony isn't really that good," Theismann said. "Just because he wears a star on his helmet -- we all think that people who are Dallas Cowboys, 'ooh they're wonderful and ooh they're terrific, ooh they're the next Roger Staubach' or whatever the heck they want to say. They're full of bologna.
"Tony makes bad decisions with the football. And I'll tell you something else; he missed two wide open touchdowns last night that nobody's talking about. Forget about the five interceptions; he misses Miles Austin and Dez Bryant with easy touchdown throws, and he airmails the ball over their heads.
"You can say, 'well, everybody has a bad game.' Tony has too many bad games. Tony Romo is not a very good quarterback. Somebody has to say it so I just did. He should be a lot better, or the reputation he's carried should have him play a lot better."
Theismann also went after Jerry Jones.
"It took him five years too long to change the offensive line, which isn't very good. It took him three years too long to change his secondary. He'll do the same thing again. This is what happens when you're not a football guy.
"You have to ask yourself, 'is the owner holding back this football team with football decisions?' And I think yes.
"I think you have a couple issues in Dallas. Number one, I think you have a team, they think they're pretty good. They're not. Number two, their quarterback thinks he's pretty good. He's really not. Number three, their owner is their general manager and he doesn't make good decisions from a personnel standpoint."
The Cowboys are off this weekend and play the following Sunday at Baltimore.
Theismann has criticized Romo before. Last October, he called Romo "average" and added that the Cowboys need to find a replacement.
"Tony Romo continues to do things to hurt his football team," Theismann said. "He doesn't understand how to play the quarterback position. Somebody had to say it, and I just said it. Tony, you have to start proving to everyone you understand football. You're doing things that Pop Warner kids would get benched for."