text:
Drama troop, T. Harrison Bryant, Bob Drake, and Vince Bloom are
touring the area churches this summer. They also plan to attend the
National Drama Convention in Miami, Florida, presenting the dramatic
worship service, "Sacrifice".
Volume XL—No. 27
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 19, 1965
Illinois Representative John Anderson
To Address Commencement Audience
The Alumni Association will hold
its annual banquet honoring the
seniors on Saturday, May 29, at
6:30 in the Fieldhouse.
Speaker for this occasion will
be Robert Eric Frykenberg, 1951
graduate of Bethel and a 1955
graduate of the Bethel Seminary.
Mr Frykenbero is at present a
member of the history department
at the University of Wisconsin and
is an expert in Far Eastern studies.
His topic for the evening's address
will be, "The Challenge of the
Non-Western World."
This night will be significant
for some of the faculty members
present. The Alumni Association
will announce those of the staff
who are to receive grants to con-tinue
their graduate studies. There
will be $1300 worth of grants
given in this new alumni pro-gram.
The activities of the night will
include a College Bowl Quiz be-tween
the Senior guests and some
of the Alumni. (Last year the
alumni won a resounding victory
but this year the seniors claim to
have a surplus of brain power.)
The classes of '62, '55, '40 and '15
will be honored in a special way.
Seniors and Freshmen will be
the guests of the Alumni this
This summer, from June 7 to
August 15, the Chrismon Quartet
will give concerts throughout the
United States and British Colum-bia,
Canada, as representatives of
Bethel College and Seminary.
Stan Olsen, John Halvorsen, Al
Hawker, and Dennis Port, with
Gareth Olson, accompanist, are the
members of the group.
Most of the concerts will be held
in the many Conference Baptist
Churches throughout the United
States. The five Bethelites will
also perform at Youth For Christ
rallies. Along with the churches
and rallies, the Chrismons will per-form
on Bethel Night at the Gen-eral
Conference in Akron, Ohio.
The songs to be sung at each of
the concerts will be of great var-iety,
but the general program will
year. For others, banquet tickets
cost $2.50 and should be purchased
from Dwight Jessup in the Public
Affairs office.
Continuing their activities as a
unique gospel team, the Royal
Players will be touring this sum-mer
to many area churches, the
Bethel Seminary Pastors' Con-ference
in Green Lake, Wisconsin,
and the National Drama Conven-tion
(AETA) in Miami, Florida.
Mr. Dale Rott, drama coach, ex-plains
that because of enthusiasm
displayed by telephone calls, com-ments,
letters, and requests re-ceived
for the dialogue sermon
script, the players will be avail-able
this summer.
First, the players will be avail-able
within a hundred miles of
the Twin Cities to any churches
desiring their program at either
a Sunday morning or Sunday ev-ening
At these services "Sacrifice," a
dramatic worship service, will be
given. This program is done in
formal worship format and includes
start with a heavy worship, along
with Scripture. Then the quartet
will employ different novelties, in-cluding
solos, duets, and the use of
a saxaphone, trumpet, and violin.
A stereo record, "Come Thou
Fount", of Christian Dynamics, is
expemplary of the Chrismon Quar-tet's
talent. It features a wide
range of music, from Beethoven to
Negro spirituals. Two of the songs
were arranged by Eddy Thomas,
professor of piano at Northwestern
College, one of which was "Come
Thou Fount", the title of the al-bum.
The Chrismon name comes from
an ancient symbol which was used
by the early Christians to repre-sent
Christ. So the Chrismons
hope to represent their Lord
through music.
Bethel's 1965 Commencement
Weekend will begin Friday May
28th, with an Honors Convocation
in the fieldhouse at 10 a.m. In-cluded
in the Convocation program
will be music by the Women's Choir
and College Band, the awarding of
scholarships, and the presentation
of class gifts.
Graduating seniors Vivian Walker
and Kermit Grenz will direct the
choir and band, respectively. Ro-bert
J. Beckstrom, college valedic-torian,
will speak on "The Eloquent
Christian", and Francis L. Miska,
seminary valedictorian, will speak
on "The Responsible Christian".
The convocation will conclude with
a formal academic procession by
faculty and graduates.
Friday evening at 8 o'clock a
Commencement Music Festival
will feature the Bethel College
Orchestra playing selections from
Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Schubert,
and other composers. Tenor Kent
Lundholm will solo two arias
from the "Elijah" by Mendels-sohn.
Sunday's activity begins with the
seminary Investiture Ceremony at
a dialogue sermon presented by
T. Harrison "Tuffy" Bryant, Vince
Bloom and Bob Drake, an oral
interpretation by Mr. Rott and spe-cial
Secondly, the group will b e
available for both Sunday morn-,
ing and Sunday evening in any
church requesting them. In this
case, they will present the drama-tic
worship service in the morning
and a parable sermon at night.
In "Sacrifice(' techniques of
public speech are used, whereas
in the parable sermon, tech-
10 a.m. In this service seminarians
will receive the hoods symbolic of
a graduate in theology.
The sermon for the Bassalaureate
Service, Sunday, May 30th at 11
a.m., will be preached by the Rev-erend
K. William Hagstrom, Bap-tist
General Conference missionary
to India. His topic will be "A Mis-sion
In Today's World."
The Bethel College Band is
again featured Sunday afternoon
as they present a "Concert on
the Green" from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m.
on the college lawn.
The weekend concludes with com-mencement
exercises at 3 o'clock
Dr. Junet Runbeck, chairman of
the Department of Education and
Psychology, announced accredita-tion
of Bethel's elementary edu-cation
program this week.
The Accrediting Committee which
visited Bethel, headed by Dr. Gor-don
M. A. Mock, presented its
niques of oral interpretation are
used. This service will be in-formal.
Players will orally inter-pret
contemporary parables iden-tical
to the kind and with the
same message as Christ's para-bles,
but in a modern setting.
As a climax to the Royal Players'
summer they will travel in the
"Drama Wagon" to Miami for the
National Drama Convention, Aug-ust
22-27. On the 25th the group
will perform as part of a religious
drama presentation to the confer-ence.
on Sunday afternoon. Commence-ment
speaker will be the Honor-able
John B. Anderson, representa-tive
of the 16th district of Illinois
to the Congress of the United
Dean Clifford Larson of the col-lege
and Dean Gordon Johnson of
the seminary will present diplomas
to the respective college and sem-inary
Music for the program will be
provided by the college choir un-der
the direction of Oliver Mogck.
Commencement exercises also con-clude
with the formal academic
findings to the Minnesota State
Board of Education Monday.
The Board unanimously approved
the Committee's recommendation
for full accreditation. The approval
did not carry any waivers or re-strictions
as is usual in an initial
This means the State Department
of Education will now certify each
graduating teacher whom our de-partment
Consequently, the 1965 graduates
in elementary education, the first
graduates of the new two year-old
program, will be fully accredited.
At the same time Dr. Runbeck
announced the re-evaluation and
continued accreditation of the sec-ondary
education program f o r
another five years.
This indicates departmental pro-gress
in meeting the recommenda-tions
of prior evaluation.
System Speeds
Grade Reports
The Registrar's Office will be
conducting an experiment this
spring semester designed to has-ten
grade reporting, it was an-nounced
by Dr. Paul Finlay, Col-lege
Registrar. If successful it
will be adopted by the school next
The system used in the experi-ment
has been used by Macalester
College in the past. However, they
recently adopted the IBM system
and Bethel obtained the materials
no longer useful to them.
The procedure is simply as fol-lows:
In classes students will fill
in cards coded for the department
and their course number. They will
be returned to the professor.
A number is then assigned for
each student and coded on the
card. The professor fills in the
final grade and returns the card
to the Registrar's Office.
Dr. Finlay stated that such a
procedure will allow his office
to sort out all the cards in a day,
thereby greatly speeding their re-turn
to the students.
He also wished to remind stu-dents
that May 27 and 28 have
been designated as study days. No
classes will be held. Chapel, how-ever,
will be conducted Thursday
and the Honors Convocation Fri-day.
In an oft repeated scene around the country, Bethel grads par-ticipate
in the May Commencement marking the finale of their college
Alumni Banquet Honors
Graduating Bethelites
jN '
Quartet To Tour United States
Presenting Sacred Concerts
Royal Players To Present 'Sacrifice'
in Summer Tour of Area Churches
Accrediting Committee Accepts
Elementary Education Program
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the CLARION Wednesday, May 19, 1965
Curriculum Consideration
Precedes Akron Decisions
The academic year is fast drawing to a close and the
large decisions of the Akron Conference press upon us. We
might well ponder some of the footings of educational philo-sophy
here before projecting the problems raised by the
actual construction of the new campus itself.
It is significant that Dr. Robert Frykenberg, Assistant
Professor of Indian History at the University of Wisconsin,
has consented to come and discuss "The Challenge of the Non-
Western World" with us at the Alumni-Commencement Ban-quet.
His address promises to be one of the fine presentations of
the year and the administration is to be congratulated for
arranging his advent at this appropriate event.
Although we welcome all foreign students, too few of them
come from outside the Western hemisphere—especially from
Asian and African cultures. A sharply increased need for
intellectual contact with the numerous components of the
third world power bloc is evidenced by multiplied misunder-standings
in Vietnam, caustic debate among the United Na-tions,
and frantic American "teach-ins". Study of the non-
Western world deserves far more than its present place
in Bethel's curriculum.
More than this, we need to begin participating in depth
programs of foreign study with the great European centers of
learning. A ten week SPAN experience is simply not enough to
develop an appreciation of the classical roots of Western cul-ture.
An increasing number of American colleges are turning
to junior year abroad programs.
Bethel now sends four SPAN'ers, seven missionary assist-ants
and possibly a dozen sightseers abroad annually. The
fine American liberal arts colleges provide a foreign study
experience for 5-10% of their undergraduates.
Study abroad is limited and well it should be. Students
facing significant financial, academic, or social barriers find
a transfer of continents of little benefit. But we at Bethel
have much to do in naturalizing our citizenship in a world
that has little intention of patterning itself after the standards
of the small American liberal arts college.
Perhaps the greatest need is for a comparative, integrated
program in the liberal arts. Students of social science need to
systematically attempt to integrate literature and philosophy
as well as class conflicts and cultural differences. Literature
majors not only need exposure to all the genre, but com-parable
experiences in all the arts: music, painting, sculpture,
architecture, etc.
The rich rewards of a liberal arts education are reaped
in honors programs and inter-disciplinary seminars. Space for
these in curriculum format demands more comprehensive,
challenging introductory courses. Bethel's challenge of the
1960's is none other than to construct upper division programs
which bring all of these rewards to qualified, well-motivated
students. These major changes might be pondered during the
long drive to Akron.
--11,aa-Readeu- v4eat AMP, AMP
Letters to the Editor:
Alumni Director Challenges Decision
To Discontinue Production of SPIRE
Soviet Military Buildup
Allied European defense staffs
are seriously concerned over a
clandestine military build-up by
the Soviet Union and its Eastern
European satellites, informed West-ern
sources said Saturday.
Dominican Revolt
A rebel spokesman said a truck-load
of Dominican troops drove
by the rebel radio station Friday
firing automatic weapons and what
appeared to be bazookas.
The civilian-military junta open-ed
an offensive Saturday against
a rebel pocket in northwest San-to
Domingo. About 1500 junta
soldiers backed by artillery and
tanks were involved. They re-ported
taking away prisoners.
U.S. Suspends Bombing
The United States has stopped
bombing North Viet Nam pending
an intensive reconnaisance survey
of damage done and a further top
level policy decision.
Explosions Rip Ben-Hoa
A series of explosions Sunday
ripped through the big U.S.-Viet-namese
air base at Ben-Hoa, some
miles north of Saigon. A military
spokesman said 11 B-57 jet bomb-ers
were lost and at least 7 persons
U.S. Antimissle System
Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc-
Namara feels development of an
antimissle system to protect the
United States from Red China
"for a decade or two" is "well
worth considering."
Avalanche Sweeps Europe
A giant avalanche swept down
the sun-drenched slopes of M t .
Zugspitze with a "doomsday roar"
Friday, burying scores of persons
under tons of snow. As many as
38 persons were feared dead.
Rusk and Gromyko Confer
U.S. Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko joined Saturday
in publicly calling for peaceful
solution to world problems. They
then met in an extraordinary
"kaffee klatch" conference that
touched on the Viet Nam war and
the new Chinese nuclear explo-sions.
Viet Nam Debate Fizzles
A highly touted debate on John-son
administration policies in
Viet Nam between Cornell Pro-fessor
George Kahin and presi-dential
aid McGeorge Bundy fiz-zled
when Bundy, scheduled to
defend existing policy, cancelled
his appearance at the last min-ute.
Johnson Asks Tax Cut
President Johnson said Saturday,
he would ask Congress to cut ex-cise
taxes on a wide variety of
products and services over the
next few years, with ultimate sav-ings
to the taxpayer of about $4
billion a year.
Frances Perkins Dies
Frances Perkins, 83, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's colorful,
controversial New Deal secretary
of labor, died Friday night. She
was America's first woman cabinet
To the Editor:
Because the executive committee
of the Student Senate and Publi ,
cations Board have solicited the
opinion of only o n e individual
source and have decided to act
upon that singular pessimistic
testimony, their action as recorded
in the CLARION of May 12 is
irresponsible, ill-advised, and ser-iously
damaging to the image of
the SPIRE itself.
The Senate executive committee,
Pulications Board and this year's
editor made no attempt whatso-ever
to either solicit staff for next
year or to make a thorough analy-sis
of the situation. Furthermore,
they made their decision to dis-continue
the SPIRE (unless some-one
attempts a "rescue") on the
basis of information that was in-complete
and noticeably biased.
Had they taken a closer look,
they would have found that:
1. As of May 12 there are at
least five qualified students in-terested
in producing a 1966
SPIRE, at least one of which is
voluntarily willing to serve as
2. At the beginning of this year,
approximately twenty freshmen in-dicated
a willingness to serve on
this year's 1965 staff. As far as
I know, only two or three of them
were ever contacted with specific
assignments or opportunities to
serve. It is obviously unfair to
complain about staff vacancies
when the editors made little effort
to use those students who were
3. There is no proof whatsoever
that this year's Co-Editor and Busi-ness
Manager dropped out of school
because of the "strain" of pro-ducing
the 1965 SPIRE.
It is indeed regrettable that this
year's editors, who had no previous
`Cynic' Views
Passing Scene
by J. David Patterson
This being the last article on the
senate for this year and possibly
the last article I write as a Bethel
student, I thought that I would
deviate from the normal format
of this column.
In living anywhere for a length
of time, you find situations that
should in your estimation be bet-tered.
I, too, in the two years that
I've been here have observed cor-rectable
situations. The remainder
of this article will, therefore, deal
with a few of the matters that
need the Student Senate's perusal
in the coming school year.
I would like to see the Student
Senate attempt to bring a social
life to the campus that is geared
to small interest groups.
It has been evident in the past
year that there is more diversified
humanity poured into this single
city block than a social committee
providing for all school events can
The senate could also strive to
strengthen the attendance of stu-dents
at their meetings. Since the
senate acts on the behalf of all
the students, it would be nice to
see some of them once in a while.
Lastly, I would like to see a
joint student dining hall staff com-mittee
organized to consider the
possibility of improving the quality
of the food service.
yearbook experience, served be-cause
no one else was interested.
This is a situation which should
and can be corrected if handled
in a more objective and construc-tive
manner. There is no reason
why Bethel cannot have a good
yearbook produced by a qualified
and optimistic staff. Wallace Nel-son,
Assistant Professor of Journ-alism,
has already indicated his
willingness to assist in the SPIRE
productions. Publishers' bids have
already been received for next
To the Editor:
I would like to use your paper
to express my opinion of the effi-ciency
of the Business Office. They
have been worse than poor in
meeting their obligations in paying
the part-time employees.
Checks are supposed to be out
on the 15th of every month right
after chapel, if I understand the
statement made in September cor-rectly.
If the 15th falls on Saturday
or Sunday the checks are to come
out on the preceeding Friday. In
spite of the fact that the time
cards have gone in early every
month, the checks have been on
time only once.
It has been reported that the
checks take so long to issue
because of all the signatures re-quired.
The actual signing is
not the real problem but it is
finding the people when they
are supposed to be signed.
It is possible to get stamp dupli-cates
of signatures that are just
as legal. Then any authorized per-son
could sign the checks with the
A second problem lies in the
fact that they no longer trust em-ployees
to figure their own time.
It used to be the policy for the
students to total them up accord-ing
to Business Office directions.
It admittedly saved a lot of time.
It still could if they would realize
that we are not out to cheat them.
All we want is to get paid!
It creates quite a problem when
the office does not meet their
end of the contract. We are usu-ally
low on funds come pay-
Seeks Liberty
Through Christ
To the Editor:
Regarding the evident unrest of
dorm hours and regulations, I
question the underlying reason for
adding fuel to the fire from Ham-line.
Have not all of us received
liberty through Christ — that in-ternal
spirit of voluntary decision,
action, and discipline instead of
law? And don't we realize that He
asks of us our very lives?
Then how can these matters
have so much precedence in our
minds? I hope that we will not
be overly critical of what external
forms we have to operate on, but
rather that we rejoice in the great
freedom that He has given us in
the overall direction of our lives.
May we magnify Him in the ex-pression
of our lives.
John Mason
year's book. That essential element,
"esprit de corps", can be re-estab-lished.
It has often been said that a
pessimist cannot see the roses
because of the thorns; an optimist
cannot see the thorns because of
the roses. It's high time for the
1965 SPIRE editor, Student Senate,
and Publications Board, to lift up
their chins, lock pessimism in the
closet, and encourage the publica-tion
of a 1966 SPIRE.
Dwight Jessup
Alumni Director
day (once a month) and usually
agree to pay other bills on the
basis that we should get paid
on or about the 15th.
All I want is a little efficiency,
a little concern, a little money, and
a chance to express this opinion.
It probably won't do much good
since this is the last month of
school. At least, the Business Of-fice
will know that their employees
are dissatisfied.
David S. Peterson
/ha Wee4 . .
Friday, May 21
10:00 a.m. Awards Day; Field House.
Saturday, May 22
6:15 CST, All-Col lege Banquet; Dayton's
Sky Room.
Sunday, May 23
2:30-4:00 p.m. BWA Commencement Tea,
Bodien Lounge.
9:00 p.m. Twin City Hymn Sing, Field
Monday, May 24
7:30-9:00 p.m. College Senior Reception,
President Lundquist's home.
Tuesday, May 25
8:00-9:00 p.m. Seminary Senior Reception,
President Lundquist's home.
Thursday and Friday, May 27 & 28
Study Days.
Friday, May 28
10:00 a.m. Honors Convocation, Field
11:00 a. m. Al I-School Picnic, New Campus.
8:00 p.m. Commencement Musical, Field
Saturday, May 29
6:30 p. m. Alumni Banquet, Field House.
Sunday, May 30
10:00 a.m. Seminary Investiture Service,
Seminary Chapel.
11:00 a.m. Baccalaureate Service, Field
3:00 p.m. Commencement, Field House.
Monday-Friday, May 31-June 4
Finals Week
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminal y, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 27
Editor Bill Swenson
Assistant Editor Rick Yonda
Assistant Editor Barbara Rusche
News Editor John Halvorsen
Feature Editor Cathy Peterson
Sports Editor Ron Harris
Layout Editor Judy Maim
Copyreader Karin Berg
Office Manager Diane Carlson
Typing Manager Beverly Rusche
Photo Editor Don Bester
Advertising Manager Fran Ma lmsten
Advertising Assistant Wendell Plucker
Business Manager Gene Peterson
Circulation Manager Linda Burgess
Adviser Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
School Employee Asks
Prompt Wage Payment
aC0104 aftd Oared
by Stan Olsen
Monday evening May 10 the trumpets blared, the whistles blew,
and the stage at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre was filled with actors once
again. The 1965 season opens with Guthrie's production of Richard III
by William Shakespeare.
Richard is the black hearted son of the house of York whose ruthless
seekings for power finally cause him to yell the famous line, "A horse!
A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
This year's Shakespeare is Guthrie's only entry in the repertory
group. Tuesday evening May 11 a new play by William Congreave
opened. THE WAY OF THE WORLD tells a story of contemporary
times in a contemporary manner. Both plays are available to Bethel
students at a student ticket price of $1.50.
Performance dates for Richard III are May 19, 21, 22 and 27. The
Way of the World plays at 8:00 p.m. as does Richard II on May 20, 26,
28, 29 and 31. Matinees at 1:30 p.m. are for Richard May 26 and 29;
Way of the World May 19 and 22.
Once again May brings excitement in the hearts of opera lovers.
The Metropolitan Opera Company of New York City is gladly welcomed
once again to Northrup Auditorium.
This year the company's entree is May 19, RIGOLETTO by Giuseppe
Verdi, AIDA by Verdi, May 21 THE LAST SAVAGE by Gian Carlo
Menotti, May 22, TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini at 1:30 p.m., May 22
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLAENDER, by Richard Wagner, and May 23,
MADAME BUTTERFLY by Puccini.
All performances are at 8:00 p.m. unless otherwise denoted. Tickets
are available at $4-$13 in room 106 of Northrup Auditorium. Mail orders
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Bethel YGOP Installs Executives;
Adopts Aid And Rights Resolutions
New officers were elected and
two resolutions passed at the an-nual
meeting of the Bethel College
Young Republican Club, Thursday,
May 6.
Executive cabinet for the next
year consists of Paul Johnson,
president; Barbara Rusche, vice
president; Dick Ivance, teasurer;
and Mary Ellen Wells, secretary.
The following resolution concern-ing
federal aid to Bethel was
WHEREAS the Baptist General
Conference has commenced con-by
Bernard Johnson
The America Gospel Outreach
Team consisting of Jim Carlson,
Ted Van Dyke, Bob Peterson and
Kent Lundholm, will begin an ex-tensive
tour of the Midwest, Cen-tral
Canada and the Pacific North-west
at the close of the school
The tour will take them to
churches in eleven states and Can-ada
where they will be presenting
meetings which will emphasize
evangelism and deeper life.
Jim Carlson and Ted Van Dyke
will alternate as speakers and
program leaders while Kent
Lundholm and Bob Peterson will
handle the music.
Bethel's choruses and chamber,
orchestra will combine forces for
the Commencement Festival on Fri-day,
May 28. Under a grant from
the Recording Industries Trust
Fund, St. Paul Musicians Union
string players, with the coopera-tion
of Local No. 30 of the Ameri-can
Federation of Musicians, will
back up Bethel's smaller sections.
The orchestra, directed by Julius
Whitinger, will feature a von-
Weber overture to Oberon and
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony in
B minor. Solo performances will
be offered by Dave Wedeking ('65)
and Duane Perry ('66) playing Vi-valdi's
Concerto in C for 2 Trum-pets
and Strings, and Kent Lund-holm
('65) singing two tenor arias
from Mendelssohn's Elijah, t h e
popular "If With All Your Heart"
and the less know but equally re-fined
"Then Shall The Righteous
Shine Forth".
The Women's Choir will sing a
Renaissance Cantate Domino, a Ne-gro
spiritual, I'm Going to Sing,
struction of new academic fa-cilities
for Bethel College, and
WHEREAS necessary funds are
not forthcoming from the Con-ference
in the foreseeable future,
WHEREAS some funds are avail-able
from the Federal Govern-ment
for construction of academic
classrooms, libraries, dormitories,
under the Higher Education Facil-ities
Act of 1963, and
WHEREAS the bill explicitly
states that no control will be
exercised "with respect to the
Kent will provide as much as
twenty-five to thirty minutes
of music in most places. Many
of the songs he will use are
presently being arranged by
Dick Anthony of Word Records.
The team has leased a 1965
Chevy travel van for the summer
and this will be "home" for the
fellows while they are on tour.
Finances for the summer are com-ing
in large part from the pockets
of the team members. Love offer-ings
will be taken to supplement
the finances of the summer tour.
When asked how the team was
organized, Jim Carlson said, "It
was more or less a spontaneous
thing, but we have sensed a real
direction from the Lord in all
of our plans." In respect to plans,
all of the arrangements for the
itinerary have been handled by the
team members.
Member's of NEXT YEAR'S
Bethel Male Chorus have every
reason to look forward eagerly to
next year's tour, since as soon as
second semester finals are over
they will leave for six weeks of
concerts in Europe.
The chorus, with nearly fifty
years of continuous ministry at
Bethel, is the oldest choral group.
and The Lord Reigneth by Cooper
and Angell.
The College Choir, under Oliver
Mogck's hand, will perform the
light and rhythmic Ain'a That Good
News, the magnificent and dis-sonant
eight part Crucifixus by
Lotti, and Lekeberg's bombastic
Make a Joyful Noise.
Concluding the program, C. How-ard
Smith's Male Chorus will add
a third spiritual, Soon Ah Will Be
Done, in addition to two romantic
songs of praise, Schubert's T h e
Omnipotence, and Alleluia by Ber-ger.
personell, curriculum, methods
of instruction, or administration
and is thus in accord with the
Rebuplican principle of limited
extension of federal control, and
WHEREAS the act does not vio-late
traditional Baptist concepts of
church-state relations, THERE
BE IT RESOLVED that the
Bethel Young Republican Club
urges that the Akron Conference
accept federal funds available un-der
the Higher Education Facili-ties
Members adopted the following
resolution concerning the voting
rights bill:
WHEREAS the fifteenth amend-ment
has extended to all citizens
of the United States the right to
vote, and
WHEREAS certain criteria for
voting have been highly unstan-dardized
and selectively adminis-tered
by some local and state
authorities, and
WHEREAS the resulting dis-crimination
at the polls is in-consistent
with our ideals of
human equality expressed in
the Constitution and practically
realized to a significant degree
in the United States, and
WHEREAS the Federal Govern-ment
is the institution adequately
representative of these ideals and
solely endowed with the power to
supplement those powers reserved
for the states when the need for
its exercise is evident, THERFORE
BE IT RESOLVED that the
Bethel College Young Republicans
Club urge the passage of the vot-ing
rights bill, H.R. 6400, by the
Congress of the United States.
They will also be pioneering the
European venture, since they will
be the first large group to repre-sent
the school there.
C. Howard Smith, director, may
well have a record number of
tryouts next fall, but will have
to keep the group at about its
present size.
Members will be financing the
trip by themselves, but others may
assist by buying their record which
should come out late next week.
A great deal of the schedule is
tentative but the itinerary should
be complete by next fall. As things
stand now, the group will leave
June 5, 1966, fly to Stockholm and
Wednesday, May 19, 1965
Burton H. Wessman of Birming-ham,
Michigan, controller for Ford
Motors division Sterling plant, will
become vice president of business
affairs for Bethel on July 1.
This is a newly created adminis-trative
post, President Lundquist
says, developed recently by the
Board of Education to coordinate
the administration of Bethel's
financial and business activities as
spend the first two weeks in Nor-way,
Sweden and Finland.
There is a possibility that they
may take part in the 100th an-niversary
and dedication of the
new building at the seminary in
They then fly to the continent,
spending two weeks in Germany,
Switzerland, the Netherlands, and
Denmark. The greatest number of
confirmations to date are from the
British Isles where the chorus
will conclude its concert schedule.
Thanks are extended to Dr. David
Moberg and Dr. Ralph Martin's
secretary for the time they have
contributed in contacting churches,
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the school continues to grow and
its campus relocation is effected.
Wessman is a native of Chicago
with a background rising from
the former Lake View and Ra-venswood
Baptist churches be-fore
their merger into North-west
Baptist Church. He attended
Chicago public schools and is a
graduate of the University of
Illinois. During World War II
he rose to the rank of captain
in the post exchange service
and saw duty in Africa and the
Near East.
Before and following his Army
service, Wessman was associated
with the Arthur Andersen & Com-pany,
a public accounting firm of
Chicago. He joined Ford Motors
in Cincinnati in 1952 and became
controller of one automatic trans-mission
plant in 1955 and of a
second in 1957.
In 1962 he became controller
of the Sterling Plant, one of the
largest in the Ford Motors Com-pany
currently employing m or e
than 7,000 workers, located in sub-urban
"To the bulk of the people it
probably seems almost insane
or foolish to leave this job with
its extremely good pay and all
of the many fringe benefits that
go with large-company employ-ment.
There is only one answer
and that is to devote whatever
talent the Lord has given 100
percent for his service."
Wessman stated, "Since my leav-ing
Ford was officially announced
in May, I have had many oppor-tunities
to tell my fellow employees
about my move to Bethel and to
testify as to the real reason for
such a move.
"And so we are coming to
Bethel realizing that the Lord has
directed us. We trust that what-ever
talents we do have that the
Lord will use them to advantage
in the field of Christian higher
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Transportation from Bodien at 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Netman co-captains Bill Peterson and George Palke hold the top
two positions on the Royals tennis squad. They and the entire squad
will be in action on Thursday against Hamline and will travel to
Ashland, Wisconsin for the conference meet. The team's record is 5-1.
TrackMen Win Invitational;
Team Depth is Main Asset
with Ron Harris
If there is one thing I should like to communicate to my peers, and
for that matter their heirs, it is the concept that no thing is impossible.
One sees startling evidence of this in athletic realms but no limilations
are thereby placed. The same lad who was faced with the enevitable
odds of a loser, overwhelms his opponent and emerges the victor. He
has learned the most significant lesson of his life: it is the inevitability
of the inevitable.
Had George Washington been over-impressed with the invulnera-bility
of the British Empire, the revolution would have been lost long
before it was begun. Granted, America in revolutionary times was en-dowed
with environmental conditions which were favorable to the
creation of giants.
People, crowded into today's small areas, hardly find the neces-sary
ingredient for wanting to affect a change in their surroundings.
When one's neighborhood consists of 15 families, each feels an in-tricate
attachment to the community. When one's community consists
of 15,000 families, the individual feels swallowed up, neutralized,
a non-entity.
But such need not be the case. There is no case in which a group
is not composed of individuals. Even a howling mob is composed of
individuals and although psychologically they lose their identity, there
was a time in the formation of that mob when an individual's change of
heart could have wrought changes in the course of history.
One has evidenced a group of individuals unified on a football field,
basketball court, baseball diamond or track field and has seen the
evitability of the inevitable. Destined to lose, they triumphed.
Washington attempted the impossible and was successful. Granted,
he had a lot of things going for him, like England's pre-occupation
with France, fighting on the home soil and the reluctance of the
British troops. These are rather valuable assets after the fact; rather
questionable before.
Regardless of the circumstances, history continues to be made
by men. Though divergent in origins of belief, they all show one
characteristic: they do not allow themselves to be overcome by the
solidarity of mere numbers: or the shakeable principles of others. The
reason? They believe in themselves. How about you?
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The Bethel track team held a
home invitational meet over the
weekend and emerged the victor
of the seven school meet. The team
score was as follows: Bethel 81,
Jamestown 71, Milton '70, Concor-dia
13, Pillsbury 9, Northwestern
8, Northland 1.
During the day's action Jim
Hammar contributed 191/2 points to
Bethel's total score and the entire
Royals squad copped five first
places. Milton and Jamestown each
had six first place attempts.
In the field events, Don Martin
captured first in the discus with
a toss of 123' 83/4". Jack Buss
placed fourth for the Royals.
Buss then came back to gain
second place in the shot put and
Martin took fourth.
The winning put was 42' 7 1/2"
by Bob Swedish of Milton. In an-other
field event, the high jump,
Tim Williams won fifth place, as
the winning height of 5' 11" was
turned in by John Fenwick of Mil-ton.
Ron Bergman pole vaulted 11'
for fourth place as the winning
height was 12' 6".
Jim Hammar gained his first of
three first place efforts as he won
the 100 yd. dash in 10:3. Dave
Moss placed fourth. The two run-ners
again placed, this time as
Hammar won the 220 yd. dash in
23.2 and Moss placed fifth.
Hammar gained his third first
as he leaped 21' 4" in the broad
jump. Williams and Bob McDon-ald
captured fourth and fifth
places respectively. The hop-skip-and-
jump was another source of
strength as Hammar and Mc-
Donald placed second and third
In the mile run, Dave Harmon
placed third and Bob Chryst placed,
fourth. The winning time was 4:47.
The two mile run was won by
Dale Rogers in 10:29.8 as Chryst
came in third.
The javelin throw saw Dave Nor-man
and Art Dykstra capturing
third and fourth respectively. '.
Andy Lehman competed in the
120 high hurdle and 330 yd. in-termediate
hurdles and placed
fourth and fifth respectively as
the winning times of 15.4 and
44.2 were registered. Williams
meanwhile placed third in the
440 yd. dash. The winning time
was 52.9.
The Pioneer Conference meet
will be held at Ashland, Wisconsin
on May 22 and the NAIA National
Championship will be held June
4-5 at Sioux Falls, North Dakota.
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After suffering an opening clay
defeat at the hands of River Falls
State College, Wisconsin, the Bethel
tennis team has swept to five
straight victories. Early last week
Bethel walked over Concordia, 7-2,
St. Thomas 6-3, and squeaked by
previously undefeated River Falls,
After the singles matches had
been completed, the score was
tied at 3-3. Bill Peterson, undefeat-ed
in duel meets, beat River Falls'
number one man, 6-0 and 9-7.
George Palke was in one of his
more generous moods as he lost
3-6, 2-6 to a former high school
teammate. Gene Peterson fought a
losing battle in losing 0-6, 2-6. John
Tegenfeldt came on strong and
evened the match at 2-2 by win-ning
6-4, 6-2. Craig Anderson play-ed
a good match but lost narrowly,
4-6, 5-7. Ron Sleiter, finishing the
singles matches, paddled his way
to a 6-0, 6-0 victory.
In the all-important doubles
matches, Bill Peterson and George
Palke led Bethel to 6-4, 6-3 victory.
John Tegenfeldt and Gene Peter-son
teamed up for the second
doubles team and lost a marathon
match, 6-3, 5-7, 8-10. In the de-ciding
doubles match Mark Smith
and Craig Anderson narrowly won
3-6, 6-3, 7-5 to extend Bethel's
record to five straight victories.
After Thursday's meet with Ham-line,
Bethel's netmen will journey
to Ashland, Wisconsin to hopefully
with the Conference meet. This
year's team has been Bethel's best,
and with seven freshmen on this
year's team, next year's prospects
look even better.
The Royals baseball team faced
a strong Morris squad last week
and dropped two games, 4-3 and
In the first game Barnett Cox
was assigned to the starting role
of pitcher and kept the Cougars
off until the fourth inning. The
lead-off batter for Morris slugged
a home run to begin the fourth
and the University of Minnesota,
Morris squad added another for
their first two runs.
The Royals started off the scor-ing
in the first inning as John
Dickau hit a long homer over
the left field fence. Doug Kelley
then walked, while Dave Gehrke
went to first on an error. A
little later Bob Nolin singled,
scoring Kelley, while Gehrke was
thrown out at second base.
The ball game was tied up 2-2,
going into the sixth when Morris
scored two runs. The Royals proved
they were not through, however,
as in the seventh inning Jim Austin
walked and Dickau sacrificed him
to second. Hitting a sharp single,
Kelley then scored Austin for the
Royal's third and final run.
In the second game, Dan Gross
was the hurler and was tapped
immediately for two runs. Jerry
Moulton relieved him and gave up
the next four runs to the Cougars.
The St. Paul lads experienced
a dry spell until the sixth inning
when Dickau got to first via a
wild pitch on the third strike.
Kelley and Nolin both followed
with walks and Gehrke scored
Dickau on a fielder's choice. The
only other run for Bethel came
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as Coach Cox successfully called
for a double steal scoring Nolin
in the process.
The Royals will be home for the
next four games, playing three at
McMurray field and the final
game at Dunning. The games in
respective order are: May 19, Beth-any
Junior College; May 22, Pills-bury;
May 25, Willmar Junior Col-lege;
May 29, Concordia of St.
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Baseball Team Loses Doubleheader
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The tallest member of the Santa Clara University men's soccer team became the big man on campus Friday night.
Six-foot, four-inch freshman defender Jide Ogunbiyi (Gwynedd, Penn.) rose high above a crowd in front of the goal to head in a 97th minute game-winner to give the Broncos a 2-1 victory over local rival Stanford in front of 2,040 in Buck Shaw Stadium.
The 13th-ranked Broncos improved to 4-1-0 on the season, while the Cardinal dropped to 1-3-1. Santa Clara travels to Berkeley, Calif. on Sunday to play sixth-ranked Cal in the second game of a doubleheader with the SCU and Cal women at Goldman Field.
"We really got off to a slow start tonight," said head coach Cameron Rast. "But, the game is played for the full 90 minutes and that is the message that we hammered home to our players at halftime. I thought that throughout the game we created enough chances to get the result. Our determination resulted in a goal in regulation then the goal in overtime."
The Cardinal jumped out to an early advantage offensively as they claimed the majority of the game's possession and put the SCU squad on the defensive.
Stanford took an early 1-0 lead in the 21st minute when Marcus Ryan scored on a penalty kick after a series of challenges led to a foul call by referee Bob Martinez in the Stanford penalty area. Ryan calmly deposited the ball into the lower left corner of the goal, just out of the reach of Bronco keeper Christopher Moreo (Las Vegas, Nev.).
At halftime, the Broncos regrouped and the lockerroom discussion revolved around maintaining defensive pressure and taking advantage of opportunities.
"In the second half, we did a much better job of keeping our shape and remaining compact defensively," said Rast. "We really gave them a great deal of respect in the first half due to their team speed and I think that sort of threw us out of our game. When we started to pressure them more, the momentum turned around and we created a number of chances for ourselves."
With Stanford leading 1-0 and the Broncos maintaining a wide advantage in shots, Santa Clara finally found the back of the net in the 86th minute of the game. Preseason All-America Mehdi Ballouchy (Casablanca, Morocco) attracted the Stanford defensive backs and laid-off a neat pass to Keith DeVey (Kula, Hawai'i) on the right side of the top of the penalty box. DeVey took two quick touches and drove a low shot under Cardinal keeper Josh Nesbitt.
In the overtime period, both teams tried to apply offensive pressure. However it was the Broncos who earned the win when Peter Lowry (Fair Oaks, Calif.) lofted a ball from the left side of the field into the penalty area in the 97th minute.
Ogunbiyi, DeVey and a Stanford defender each went up for the ball. Ogunbiyi headed it toward the goal and it appeared to take a slight deflection off the Cardinal player and went past Nesbit for the game-winner.
The goal marked the first collegiate score for Obunbiyi, who has been a member of the Nigerian Youth National Team Program since 2001.

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Arsenal are one win away from ending a nine-year wait for silverware but must put any thought of FA Cup glory to one side as they resume their stuttering charge for a Champions League place when they host West Ham United on Tuesday.
Saturday's 4-2 penalty shootout victory over holders Wigan Athletic following a 1-1 draw after extra time earned the Gunners a date with fellow Premier League side Hull City on May 17 and a chance to win their first trophy since their FA Cup triumph in 2005.
While lifting a trophy at Wembley would undoubtedly offer the club a welcome boost at a time their ability to hold their nerve when the going gets tough has come into question, a top four finish and a 17th consecutive appearance in Europe's elite club competition is arguably more important for the financial rewards it brings.
Following an abysmal 3-0 defeat by Everton eight days ago, Arsenal lost their hold on fourth place when the Merseyside club beat Sunderland 1-0 on Saturday.
They are now on 64 points, two behind Everton with five matches remaining, and manager Arsene Wenger said Saturday's Cup win could help put them in the right mental state for the challenge ahead.
"It was a relief, everybody was happy yesterday, just for having qualified for the final," the Frenchman told reporters on Monday.
"Anything different would have been very negative in our mind and now we can put that out of our mind and focus on the Premiership.
"I feel we've played many many games this season in many different competitions and many tough games, but we've put in a lot of effort in the Premiership, we want to finish strong now.
"They've got the opportunity to start tomorrow because it's a big game, a derby, West Ham is in a comfortable position which means they can play without fear, so we know in this kind of game that it is important that we have a good focus and good tempo in our game."
Arsenal have failed to win in four league matches, with the Everton defeat proceeded by draws with Manchester City and Swansea City and a 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Chelsea.
With time running out, Wenger acknowledged they needed to regain a level of consistency if they were going to overhaul Everton and reach the Champions League, having already seen their title challenge evaporate.
"It's down to consistency and we have just to focus on our results and see where we finish," he said.
"The quality of our performances, the quality of our spirit and our focus (makes me think we can finish in the top four).
"Experience counts of course. But the difference will be the quality of what you produce on the pitch and that is down to desire, to be faithful to our game we want to play and get everybody back in our squad.
"I believe that they have difficult games, and we have difficult games. We want to focus now on what we know we can do. We have a more complete squad and we want to win our games, no matter what Everton does. We want to finish in a strong way."
Midfielder Tomas Rosicky and centre back Laurent Koscielny could return against 11th-placed West Ham after missing the semi-final with thigh and calf injuries respectively, but Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (groin), full-back Nacho Monreal (dead leg) and Aaron Ramsey (muscle tightness) are doubt in doubt, as is forward Lukas Podolski.


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A game that started rather mundane with both teams struggling for offense, ended with more electricity than a downed live power line in a rainstorm.
VANCEBORO � A game that started rather mundane with both teams struggling for offense, ended with more electricity than a downed live power line in a rainstorm.
West Craven (8-10, 3-5) came from behind, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, in a 4-3 win over cross-county rival Havelock (7-11, 2-6).
Havelock�s Chris Toler pitched excellently into the seventh inning, as the Rams led 3-1 entering the final frame.
With two outs and one on, three different Eagle hitters came through while down to their final strike.
With Logan Nobles on first, Michael Coombs coaxed out a walk as did Justin Taylor.
Nobles then scored on a wild pitch, cutting the Rams� lead to 3-2 as Jackson Parker stepped to the plate.
Havelock coach Charlie Smith elected to ride the horse that got him the lead in Toler.
Parker then hit a grounder in the hole that Havelock shortstop Justice Provencher fielded and let loose a throw that ricocheted off the glove of Cameron Carpenter, allowing Coombs to score the tying run and Taylor the clincher.
�It was a huge win for us, a game we absolutely had to have,� West Craven coach Mike McKeel said.
�It�s a tough loss for Charlie (Smith) and the Havelock kids, but sometimes things just go your way and they did for us tonight.�
Taylor hesitated to come home after the ball got away from Carpenter, then slid across the plate and into Rams� catcher Travis Sabdo as the ball skidded away and to the backstop.
Taylor�s actions made the crowd boisterous and McKeel nearly collapse.
�I didn�t see the ball at all so I stopped, then I heard everybody yelling go, so I took off home,� Taylor said.
�As for my at bat, I was nervous with two strikes on me and the game on the line. I was just trying to put the ball in play.�
The Eagles out-hit the Rams 7-2, as Coombs held Havelock to one hit through five innings of work.
Havelock scored two of its three runs off wild pitches or passed balls by the Eagles.
�We made some mistakes early, they made some late and luckily we were able to capitalize on them in a close game and get the win,� McKeel said.
�I thought Coombs and Logan (Nobles) were great on the mound, but we have to cut down two-out walks. I still believe in this team and still think we can accomplish great things.�
Nobles picked up the win on the mound for West Craven and Toler the loss for Havelock.
Anthony Rossi went 2-for-4 with an RBI single and Taylor and Nobles both contributed a double and a run scored apiece.
Josh Little delivered an RBI double for Havelock and Aron Rossi scored two runs.
West Craven will take on Coastal Conference leader D.H. Conley Tuesday at home, as Havelock hosts White Oak.
Havelock 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 � 3 2 4
West Craven 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 - 4 7 1
WP: Logan Nobles
LP: Chris Toler
RBIs: West Craven � Anthony Rossi; Havelock � Josh Little. 2Bs: West Craven � Justin Taylor, Logan Nobles; Havelock � Little. Left on Base: West Craven � 8; Havelock � 6.
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National statistics have shown for years that the rates of teacher turnover in urban school districts are generally greater than those experienced in suburban districts.
National statistics have shown for years that the rates of teacher turnover in urban school districts are generally greater than those experienced in suburban districts.
And that observation generally holds true when narrowing down to Massachusetts, with most urban districts statewide reporting annual turnover rates near or above 15 percent; in suburban districts, rates are generally lower, around 10 percent.
According to statewide data from the last five years, Fall River's teacher turnover rate has consistently ranked among the highest in the state, even higher than in Massachusetts' three largest cities, Boston, Worcester and Springfield.
According to data collected by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, in 2013, Fall River experienced a teacher turnover rate of 20 percent, a number that has mostly held steady in recent years.
In 2009, 19 percent of teachers left; 2010 saw the same percentage; 2011 saw a dip to 15 percent; in 2012, 18 percent; and 2013, 20 percent.
The annual statewide average hovers around 10 percent to 11 percent.
Boston's teacher turnover rate 2013, as reported by DESE, was 13 percent; Springfield was 15 percent; Worcester, 13 percent. Nearby New Bedford had a reported turnover rate of 10 percent.
A few urban districts, including Holyoke (17 percent) and Lawrence (18 percent), came close to Fall River's rate. Holyoke, Boston, Springfield and Worcester are Level 4 districts, like Fall River. Lawrence is designated a Level 5 school district.
Teacher turnover data for nearby suburban districts showed lower rates.
But data also showed that in smaller suburban districts, such as Swansea, teacher turnover rates can fluctuate more dramatically from year to year, mainly because overall staffing numbers are lower.
Swansea's rates over the last few years: 2009, 14 percent; 2010, 7 percent; 2011, 12 percent; 2012, 5 percent; 2013, 10 percent. Somerset saw somewhat higher turnover: in 2009, 13 percent; 2010, 10 percent; 2011, 12 percent; in 2012, 43 percent; and in 2013, 13 percent. 2012's number is high because that is the school year during which Somerset and Berkley officially formed a regional high school district.
But what the data doesn't provide is an explanation for those turnover rates. It doesn't show whether teachers are moving on to similar jobs in other districts, moving on to other careers, or retiring. In 2013, 144 of the district's 738 teachers left, according to DESE.
The reason for Fall River's turnover rate
"We recognize the turnover rate," said Superintendent Meg Mayo-Brown recently. She said many factors contribute to what appears to be a high turnover rate in Fall River.
It's a question that school officials are taking seriously. The district in the last few years began surveying teachers as they move on from Fall River.
The results of the first survey were shared with the School Committee last fall.
In the 2012-13 school year, 131 employees — including teachers and staff — had actually left the district. A little more than half of those given the survey responded. According to the responses that came back, the reasons varied.
Of those employees, 49 had retired, 75 resigned, six were offered resignation, none were fired and one person had died. Fifty-seven percent, or 75, of those former school district employees responded to the survey. When asked why they left, 31 percent said they left to pursue new positions elsewhere; 16 percent said they had left because of personal reasons; and 20 percent said they chose to leave because of the work environment.
Feedback regarding the work environment was generally positive: 61 percent said they would recommend Fall River public schools as a "good place to work." On supervisors and co-workers, 63 percent of respondents said they received "fair and frequent feedback" from supervisors; 71 percent felt supported by peers; and 70 percent said they "felt comfortable discussing concerns or questions with their immediate supervisors."
But, according to other feedback, "the amount of work and time necessary for an urban district is not for everyone, including those starting families."
Mayo-Brown said younger teachers appear to be more mobile — they don't necessarily settle down in a region for very long.
Some teachers left not just Fall River, but the state, Mayo-Brown said, noting a teacher from Viveiros Elementary School who tendered their resignation to move back to Connecticut. A couple more teachers are moving to Texas.
Another number that artificially inflates the turnover rate by a few percentage points is the number of teachers who are let go each year because they were hired on "waivers."
Those teachers received wavers because they await official licensure from Massachusetts, which has its own educator licensing test, known as the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure.
The waivers last for one year. As required by DESE, at the end of the year, "we have to release that educator at the end of the year those teachers.' Their positions are then relisted, Mayo-Brown said, because DESE requires the district to seek Massachusetts-licensed instructors.
"The state requires us to do due diligence," Mayo-Brown said, adding that of the pink slips she signed this past school year, "at least 20 were on waivers."
Mayo-Brown said it is the district's intention to rehire those teachers, who are often licensed to teach in other states, including Rhode Island. And most of them are rehired.
State data showed that about 95 percent of Fall River teachers have Massachusetts licenses. In most other districts that percentage is more than 97 percent.
"Sometimes having a teacher on a waiver can bring a negative connotation," Mayo-Brown said. "A waiver isn't a bad thing. It means teachers just need time to meet Massachusetts requirements."
Other factors
Fall River Educators' Association President Rebecca Cusick said she believes there are other factors that contribute to the city's turnover rates.
Cusick cited Fall River's relatively low teachers' salaries overall, the challenges of working in urban schools and increasing state mandates as contributing factors.
Cusick said that in 2013 "we ranked number 236 out of 328 communities in average salary."
"The city's well-known financial turmoil does not help us retain teachers. Hopefully our new contract brings some stability to that situation," Cusick said.
"The work is very challenging. The needs of our students have changed drastically over the past few years requiring teachers to do more than simply teach. Those challenges, along with the pressures and mandates from DESE, can be frustrating enough to result in teachers looking elsewhere."
Cusick noted that, reflecting national trends, the number of teachers approaching retirement age "at the same time" is growing.
"We need a blend of experience and youth. Both groups have something of value to offer to the other. But I think the biggest issue is making teaching an attractive profession to everyone," Cusick said.
Cusick cited reports in recent years by National Commission on Teaching and America's Future and the National Center for Education Statistics, that noted in 2008-09, 53 percent of Massachusetts teachers were older than 50.
Improving retention
Mayo-Brown said the district is taking steps to improve teacher retention. One is helping teachers feel as though they have a say in their schools' decision-making process. Another is ensuring they feel supported.
Data from DESE shows in the last few years, the Fall River Public Schools district has spent more on average than districts statewide for professional development.
In 2010, 2011 and 2012, districts statewide spent per teacher each year, $3,099, $3,290 and $3,167. The Fall River Public Schools spent per teacher in those same years, $4,644, $5,244, and $5,573, respectively.
That's after a few years of spending under the state average in 2008 and 2009.
"Research is telling us in studies around teacher retention is they are more likely to stay when they feel supported. So the question is how can we best help our teachers feel supported," Mayo-Brown said, pointing out John Doran and Carlton Viveiros schools as schools "with stability"
"They have a strong professional learning community where teachers feel like they own their own schools," Mayo-Brown said. "We want to replicate that."


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At the Matrix, amenities play important role in attracting tenants
At the Matrix, amenities play important role in capturing tenants' attention
Shrewd office-building owners have always tried to get ahead of the competition in luring tenants.
Many do it by offering lower lease rates and deeper concessions than the building down the street, while others focus on providing amenities that companies shopping for space would find hard to ignore.
When it comes to office complexes, Aaron Smiles, director of operations at Matrix Realty Group, owner of the Matrix, a 1.3-million-square-foot office complex in Danbury, believes his property offers amenities that command attention.
After Matrix bought the former headquarters of Union Carbide in 2009, it embarked on a $10 million initial phase of building improvements. To date, Matrix has spent close to $20 million on improvements which include new cooling towers, new chillers, refurbished boilers, 20,000 square feet of solar roof panels and a complete information technology upgrade.
While those improvements were essential in providing a more comfortable and modern workplace, Matrix's expansive amenity offerings have put it ahead of other buildings in the region where the office vacancy rate is about 16 percent.
Amenities figured into NewOak's decision to relocate from Manhattan to the Matrix, but they weren't the telling factor, said Chad Burhance, a partner NewOak, a risk advisory and financial services firm.
"Amenities are key, but they were secondary to the overall building quality, proximity to transportation systems and cost," he said. "That said, what the Matrix is offering there with banking, barber, fitness, eating, covered parking and everything else is pretty special. Employees really like it."
"For Class A office buildings, offering amenities is a prerequisite for many blue-chip companies," Smiles said, adding Matrix offers new amenities every year, including the opening of a wellness center with a nail salon and licensed sports massage therapist on Sept. 1.
Matrix already offers a 10,000-square-foot fitness center, the Goddard Childcare Center, a hair salon, a Starbucks cafe, a dry cleaners, a gift shop, banking services and an automated teller machine, a recreation room, 900-seat cafeteria, 22 conference rooms, a 150-seat auditorium and a ballroom with seating for 400.
"In Danbury, no one come close to what we offer," Smiles said, adding tenants like the 3,000-vehicle, 900,000-square-foot covered parking garage.
Location, rental rate and how a lease is structured still take priority, said Maureen McAvey, a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute, based in Washington, D.C.
"Then they look at amenities," McAvey said. "The biggest is transit accessibility by anything other than a car. This is something that affects your employees. After that, it's the fitness center, the cafeteria and the landscaping. We still have good vacancies in urban centers so tenants can request or demand improvements."
`Actively entertaining' prospects
The lease rate for the Matrix, which is 75 percent occupied, is $24.95 per square foot plus electric.
A broad assortment of amenities plays a role in Matrix's ability to improve the occupancy level at the complex, according to Smiles.
"Since taking ownership in 2009, we have leased approximately 240,000 square feet of new leases in a very soft market, and we have renewed approximately 330,000 square feet of existing leases," he said. "In addition, we are actively entertaining some very large corporations looking for large blocks of space, and it's only a matter of time before we lease up the remaining available space."
In terms of amenities, no other office buildings offer the extent of amenities as Matrix, according to Todd Payne, president of Goodfellow Ashmore, a Danbury-based commercial real estate firm.
"They (amenities) work, but it depends on the tenant," Payne said, adding price, location and building quality are equally, if not more important for many prospective tenants.
Lee Farm, 44 Old Ridgebury Road and 100 Mill Plain Road are Danbury office buildings that offer amenities but at a more limited level, he said.
"Smaller buildings can't offer those types of amenities," Payne said. "They'd have to recover the cost with higher rents."
Some amenities, like gyms, typically are not heavily used, he said, but access to community conference rooms is important, and for those locations with difficult access to restaurants, a good, full-service cafeteria is essential.


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Some of the French papers are trying to see the bright side after France's downgrade by S&P - but there's still plenty of bad news, with crime and unemployment figures out today. There are champagne corks popping too though - for "The Artist" at the Golden Globes.
Le Figaro headlines on the fact that there are still some ratings agencies that have not downgraded France - while La Croix focuses on the resilience of the French economy.
Liberation has worse news though - they say the government has fiddled today's crime figures, and violent crimes have actually been on the rise for the past ten years.
Le Parisien says they're also being dishonest about unemployment - which their study shows is higher than ministers admit - while L'Humanité has already decided tomorrow's presidential summit on unemployment will be a waste of time.
The papers are celebrating too though - as "The Artist" starts to conquer Hollywood.


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A Little Girl With A Severe Infestation Of Lice Gets Her Hair Combed
November 18, 2014
This has got to be one of the most disgusting videos I've ever watched. I don't know how this young girl acquired such a bad case of lice, but I was floored when I saw how much lice this woman was combing out of her hair. There are layers upon layers of lice sticking to the comb every time it's pulled through her short locks. Have you ever had lice or seen a case this bad?
According to the Mayo Clinic, head lice are small, wingless, parasitic insects that feed on your blood. As seen in this case of lice, they develop on the scalp, and are easiest seen at the nape of the neck and over the ears. Head lice live for approximately 30 days, and the females lay nearly six eggs a day, causing the multiplication of lice to be particularly rapid. In this video, it's hard to say how long the young girl has had lice as sometimes it takes up to three months for itchiness to develop. One thing's for sure: she has accrued a ton of the tiny insects!
Because lice are so easily spread, it's important to know how to get rid of it. Lice can be treated with special lotions and shampoos designed for repeated use in the case of head lice. After using a shampoo treatment it is best to rinse the hair with vinegar to help remove nits from the hair shaft. Cutting the hair short is also a good way to help the process of lice removal. Using a fine-toothed comb like the one in this video will remove the actual nits from the hair, but must be performed every three to four days for at least two weeks; hair must be wet for this to work. Above all, it is important to wash everything that could be contaminated by the person carrying the lice. From bedding and clothes, to brushes and toys, anything that could have lice on it should be washed with hot water and dried on high heat. Vacuuming and covering furniture are also important steps to take to prevent the spread of lice.
Warning: this video shows graphic close-ups of live lice.
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People at the Center of Public Policy: The Network as a Platform for Participatory Democracy
Last Friday I spoke at the Metropolis World Congress in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where leaders from the private sector, public sector and NGOs are gathered together to discuss new models and strategies for architecting and running cities around the world. The delegates to this event include mayors from cities like Porto Alegre, Barcelona, Bogota, Rosario, and others that are taking their cities through major transformations and helping to define successful models for urban innovation and revitalization. Through all of these stories, one theme emerges: the concept of participatory democracy, or how citizens around the world are co-creating solutions with government, that will help solve the challenges facing us this century.
The economic and political events of the last few years and the continued challenging circumstances still facing us today have in many ways contributed to this new paradigm; necessity is the mother of invention. But the initial steps started a few years ago by a handful of cities have borne a larger movement, and one that promises to change the very way in which citizens interact with their communities and live their lives. Just as people started to produce their own content through social media channels, eschewing the passive consumption of information distributed from centralized powers, citizens pursuing active engagement in the public realm will foment a new public system, one in which citizens are the innovators and enablers of public sector services – and the public sector becomes the orchestrator of innovation. And we're not far off from that concept becoming a reality.
Let me tell you what I mean. Let's take a few examples from South America. For many decades, Bogota City became synonymous with murder and drugs. As recently as the early 1990s, the city was a murder capital of Latin America. Led by democratically elected mayors, local government campaigns encouraged citizens to take back their public spaces, resulting in the city becoming one of the most attractive centers in Latin America for business. Porto Alegre has been encouraging its citizens to vote on priorities for the city budget for 22 years now, a model that has been replicated in several cities around the world, including four NYC districts just last year.
We think these types of stories will start to spread exponentially because of the underlying driver of interconnectedness, the open network. The vital component of participatory democracy, it's what brings together complex, distributed communities of information, people, and things, tapping into the power, knowledge and ideas of each network and enabling cross-network sharing of those assets to empower much richer patterns of participation and engagement.
Consider this: today, there are more devices than people on earth connected over the Internet. Cisco estimates this inflection point happened sometime between 2008 and 2009 and forecasts that this growth will continue exponentially – doubling to at least 25 billion devices in 2015, and to 50 billion devices by 2020. These smart physical objects and devices, connected to each other and to humans around the world, will use Internet Protocol over public or private networks.
The effect of this technological proliferation and resulting increase in connectedness is to change rules within government as information goes beyond the traditional boundaries of the state and as citizens and community organizations embrace bottom-up collaboration to develop and produce public value independent of hierarchies. The knowledge base and seat of decision-making power, once held at the center, increasingly moves to the edge as technology increases reach, inclusiveness and transparency. This is already happening in sectors like healthcare, education and government.
It's the idea of the Fourth Quadrant, a phenomenon described by author Steven Johnson in his book "Where Good Ideas Come From- the Natural History of Innovation," which describes the space of collaborative, nonproprietary innovation – a space that gave rise to the Internet. Unlike the classic entrepreneur that protects his innovations for financial gain, private corporations that compete, and the amateur individual that invents for the pure joy of discovery, the Fourth Quadrant produces innovations that are owner-less; it's a creation of a group of individuals and organizations with a common goal and no hierarchy. It's a counterintuitive idea, because the Fourth Quadrant doesn't provide financial rewards, and yet it has generated more world-changing ideas than the competitive marketplace in the last two centuries. The reason for this is, quite simply, that increased connectivity and the free exchange of ideas lower barriers to innovation.
So, how can cities all over the world start to make these concepts work for them?
It's not about installing broadband to the home for people to have Internet access; rather, it's about how to put a network at the center of the city, and how that helps the city's healthcare, transportation, buildings, entertainment and other services run on information. It's the way successful cities of the future will run – designed around the citizen so they can more easily navigate, find and use the city's services, in real time.
One example of what that might look like is Songdo, Korea, the world's first smart+connected city that was built from the start with economic, social and environmental sustainability and designed around the citizen's needs. All essential services, including healthcare, government, transportation, utilities, safety and security and education are all within a twelve minute walk, because studies have shown anything further will result in citizens driving instead of walking. As validation of the vision, in September, tens of thousands of residents began to move into the city. South Korean city Busan is built on the "Green u-City" vision, which combines green-growth initiatives and ICT infrastructure, integrates ICT infrastructure, technology, and services into housing, economic, transportation, tourism, safety and security, environmental, and other city infrastructures and systems. It puts more power of choice into citizens' hands so that they can select better options for greener ways of living. San Francisco has made open data gathered from city and county integrated operations centers available to citizens who have built a host of applications to intuitively navigate the city's bus, train and public parking systems. Networked transportation is the key to managing the growing environmental impact of cities. Cities like PlanIT Valley in Portugal are building this way as well, accounting for ICT as a fourth utility in the master plan.
Finally, and most importantly, it's about shifting the way we think about how cities are built and run after hundreds of years of doing it the same way. In the next 10 years, more than 100 cities housing a billion-plus people will be built in China, and India faces similar numbers. It's clear that a fundamental change in the way that cities are built will need to take place so that they are successful in the future. What will these cities of the future look like? At Cisco, we think it will mean:
- Applications, services, and new business models created by the citizens and businesses inhabiting the cities;
- Government and enterprise becoming the enablers and orchestrators of public value creation;
- The open network serving as the platform for holistic city planning and management;
- And the city running on information, so that services are consumed by citizens in much the same way they consume entertainment or retail goods today.
Participatory democracy will come to shape the 21st century in areas reaching far beyond the public arena. Fueled by the increasing interconnectedness with the local and global community, enabled by growing smart networks and infrastructure, citizens all over the world have started to take a hands-on role in shaping the forces that affect their lives. At least, that's the vision at Cisco.
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Gigi Sayfan specializes in cross-platform object-oriented programming in C/C++/ C#/Python/Java with emphasis on large-scale distributed systems. He is currently trying to build intelligent machines inspired by the brain at Numenta (www.numenta.com).
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 1
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 2
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 3
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 4
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 5
This is the third article in a series of articles that explore an innovative build system for complicated projects. Part 1 and Part 2 discussed build systems in general and the internals of the ideal build system that can integrate with existing build systems. This article will explain in detail how the ibs can generate build files for NetBeans 6.x, which is a fantastic free cross-platform IDE that supports multiple programming languages.
To recap: ibs is an invisible build system that doesn't require any build files. It relies on a regular directory and conventions to infer build rules and it detects dependencies automatically. It generates build files for other IDEs or build systems like Makefiles, Visual Studio solutions, or NetBeans projects. It is focused on C/C++ projects, but can be extended to additional languages and other projects types.
Generating a NetBeans Build System
Back in the Hello world project (Enterprise Platinum Edition!!!) trenches Bob and the other developers picked NetBeans as their primary Mac and Linux IDE. NetBeans started as a Java IDE, but grew in leaps and bounds to become a component-based platform for application development in addition to an IDE that supports all the common programming languages in wide use today. The latest version is NetBeans 6.7.1 and it supports C/C++ development very well and even Python via a special early access.
The task facing Bob is to figure out the structure of the NetBeans build files for C/C++ and implement the build system specific parts (the helper and the project templates) to embrace NetBeans into the ibs.
Bob did some reading and poking around and discovered that NetBeans itself is a Makefile-based (build system generator. The way it works is that each project's directory has a common Makefile that includes a bunch of auto-generated sub-makefiles. The NetBeans user interface allows you to add files to every project and set dependencies between projects. All this information is stored in several files that NetBeans uses to generate the proper sub-makefiles. Figure 1 shows the NetBeans IDE with the various Hello World projects.
The NetBeans Build System Anatomy
Let's take a look and see what all these files are about. As a running example Bob suggests the the 'hello' project. This is a static library that contains two files: hello.cpp and hello.hpp. If you are unfamiliar with make-based build systems, you may want to take a small detour and read about it here.
The project Makefile
In the 'hello' directory there is the common Makefile. This file is the same for every project (on a given platform). It sets some environment variables and contains a bunch of make targets and most importantly includes the project implementation makefile (generated based on the actual content of the project). Every target (a step in the build process) has an empty pre and post targets that allow you to customize the build process by executing actions before and/or after each target. The original file has elaborate comments that explain exactly what targets are available and how you can override them. Here is an edited version without the comments and some of the targets of the Mac OS X Makefile:
# Environment MKDIR=mkdir CP=cp CCADMIN=CCadmin RANLIB=ranlib # clean clean: .clean-pre .clean-impl .clean-post .clean-pre: # Add your pre 'clean' code here... .clean-post: # Add your post 'clean' code here... # all all: .all-pre .all-impl .all-post .all-pre: # Add your pre 'all' code here... .all-post: # Add your post 'all' code here... # include project implementation makefile include nbproject/Makefile-impl.mk
The Makefile resides in the project's directory. All the other build files reside in a sub directory called nbproject. There is nothing special about it. It is just convenient to have all the build files in their own directory and not cluttering the project directory. The Makefile is the exception due to limitations of the make program.
Generated make files
NetBeans generates three "sub" make files that are included by the main project Makefile: Makefile-impl.mk, Makefile-Debug.mk and Makefile-Release.mk. Makefile-impl.mk is included directly by the main Makefile and it invokes either Makefile-Debug.mk or Makefile-Release.mk depending on the current active configuration, which is controlled by the $CONF environment variable. In the NetBeans IDE you may select what configuration is active.You may also create your own configurations and they will be available for activation just like the built-in Debug and Release configurations with their own Makefile-your configuration.mk file. Here is the Makefile-impl.mk file of the testPunctuator project:
# # Generated Makefile - do not edit! # # Edit the Makefile in the project folder instead (../Makefile). Each target # has a pre- and a post- target defined where you can add customization code. # # This makefile implements macros and targets common to all configurations. # # NOCDDL # Building and Cleaning subprojects are done by default, but can be controlled with the SUB # macro. If SUB=no, subprojects will not be built or cleaned. The following macro # statements set BUILD_SUB-CONF and CLEAN_SUB-CONF to .build-reqprojects-conf # and .clean-reqprojects-conf unless SUB has the value 'no' SUB_no=NO SUBPROJECTS=${SUB_${SUB}} BUILD_SUBPROJECTS_=.build-subprojects BUILD_SUBPROJECTS_NO= BUILD_SUBPROJECTS=${BUILD_SUBPROJECTS_${SUBPROJECTS}} CLEAN_SUBPROJECTS_=.clean-subprojects CLEAN_SUBPROJECTS_NO= CLEAN_SUBPROJECTS=${CLEAN_SUBPROJECTS_${SUBPROJECTS}} # Project Name PROJECTNAME=testPunctuator # Active Configuration DEFAULTCONF=Debug CONF=${DEFAULTCONF} # All Configurations ALLCONFS=Debug Release # build .build-impl: .validate-impl @#echo "=> Running [email protected] Configuration=$(CONF)" ${MAKE} -f nbproject/Makefile-${CONF}.mk SUBPROJECTS=${SUBPROJECTS} .build-conf # clean .clean-impl: .validate-impl @#echo "=> Running [email protected] Configuration=$(CONF)" ${MAKE} -f nbproject/Makefile-${CONF}.mk SUBPROJECTS=${SUBPROJECTS} .clean-conf # clobber .clobber-impl: @#echo "=> Running [email protected]" for CONF in ${ALLCONFS}; \ do \ ${MAKE} -f nbproject/Makefile-$${CONF}.mk SUBPROJECTS=${SUBPROJECTS} .clean-conf; \ done # all .all-impl: @#echo "=> Running [email protected]" for CONF in ${ALLCONFS}; \ do \ ${MAKE} -f nbproject/Makefile-$${CONF}.mk SUBPROJECTS=${SUBPROJECTS} .build-conf; \ done # configuration validation .validate-impl: @if [ ! -f nbproject/Makefile-${CONF}.mk ]; \ then \ echo ""; \ echo "Error: can not find the makefile for configuration '${CONF}' in project ${PROJECTNAME}"; \ echo "See 'make help' for details."; \ echo "Current directory: " `pwd`; \ echo ""; \ fi @if [ ! -f nbproject/Makefile-${CONF}.mk ]; \ then \ exit 1; \ fi # help .help-impl: @echo "This makefile supports the following configurations:" @echo " ${ALLCONFS}" @echo "" @echo "and the following targets:" @echo " build (default target)" @echo " clean" @echo " clobber" @echo " all" @echo " help" @echo "" @echo "Makefile Usage:" @echo " make [CONF=<CONFIGURATION>] [SUB=no] build" @echo " make [CONF=&gltCONFIGURATION>] [SUB=no] clean" @echo " make [SUB=no] clobber" @echo " make [SUB=no] all" @echo " make help" @echo "" @echo "Target 'build' will build a specific configuration and, unless 'SUB=no'," @echo " also build subprojects." @echo "Target 'clean' will clean a specific configuration and, unless 'SUB=no'," @echo " also clean subprojects." @echo "Target 'clobber' will remove all built files from all configurations and," @echo " unless 'SUB=no', also from subprojects." @echo "Target 'all' will will build all configurations and, unless 'SUB=no'," @echo " also build subprojects." @echo "Target 'help' prints this message." @echo ""
The structure of this file is very uniform. Every command is implemented in the same way (except .help that just echos the help text to the screen). It always invokes eventually the configuration specific make file. Commands may operate on all configurations and on sub-projects too (on by default). For example the default .build command (if you just type 'make') is:
# build .build-impl: .validate-impl @#echo "=> Running [email protected] Configuration=$(CONF)" ${MAKE} -f nbproject/Makefile-${CONF}.mk SUBPROJECTS=${SUBPROJECTS} .build-conf
Let me decipher this line-noise that makes sense only to make-savvy people. The name of the command is .build-impl. It will execute the .validate-impl command, skip the commented out echo command (if you remove the # it will print the text between the double quotes) and run 'make' again on the file nbproject/Makefile-${CONF}.mk (CONF is the active configuration, which is Debug in this case, unless you specified CONF=Release when you run 'make'). Finally it will execute the .build-conf command that is defined in the Makefile-${CONF}.mk. This command builds all the sub projects (if necessary) and finally build the project itself by invoking the C++ compiler and linker.
It sounds complicated and it is complicated. This is the cleanest make-based system I have seen with good separation of concerns, very uniform structure and great extensibility. Most make-based build systems are simply a mess. The nice thing about NetBeans is that it takes care of all the messy parts and lets you work entirely at the IDE level, but still allows you to extend the build process at the makefile-level if you need to do something special.
Let's take a look at the Makefile-Debug.mk file:
# # Generated Makefile - do not edit! # # Edit the Makefile in the project folder instead (../Makefile). Each target # has a -pre and a -post target defined where you can add customized code. # # This makefile implements configuration specific macros and targets. # Environment MKDIR=mkdir CP=cpj CCADMIN=CCadmin RANLIB=ranlib CC=gcc CCC=g++ CXX=g++ FC= # Include project Makefile include Makefile # Object Directory OBJECTDIR=build/Debug/GNU-MacOSX # Object Files OBJECTFILES= \ ${OBJECTDIR}/main.o # C Compiler Flags CFLAGS= # CC Compiler Flags CCFLAGS= CXXFLAGS= # Fortran Compiler Flags FFLAGS= # Link Libraries and Options LDLIBSOPTIONS=../../hw/utils/dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX/libutils.a # Build Targets .build-conf: ${BUILD_SUBPROJECTS} dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX/testpunctuator dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX/testpunctuator: ${BUILD_SUBPROJECTS} dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX/testpunctuator: ${OBJECTFILES} ${MKDIR} -p dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX ${LINK.cc} -o dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX/testpunctuator ${OBJECTFILES} ${LDLIBSOPTIONS} ${OBJECTDIR}/main.o: main.cpp ${MKDIR} -p ${OBJECTDIR} $(COMPILE.cc) -g -I../.. -o ${OBJECTDIR}/main.o main.cpp # Subprojects .build-subprojects: cd ../../hw/utils && ${MAKE} -f Makefile CONF=Debug # Clean Targets .clean-conf: ${CLEAN_SUBPROJECTS} ${RM} -r build/Debug ${RM} dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX/testpunctuator # Subprojects .clean-subprojects: cd ../../hw/utils && ${MAKE} -f Makefile CONF=Debug clean
This file includes the project's Makefile (which includes the Makefile-impl.mk), defines a bunch of variables that point to different tools like C and C++ compilers and it also defines the dependencies of the project (in this case just the hw/utils sub-project). Note the .build-conf command that I mentioned earlier when I discussed the .build-impl command from Makefile-impl.mk. So, there is a lot of interplay between the various make files. This is done in the interest of separating fixed logic like command invocation from very dynamic parts like the files that are contained in a project and its dependencies and also providing clear extension points (the.pre and .post commands in the main Makefile). The bottom line is that most developers don't even need to know that there is a make-based build system underneath and can just stay at the IDE level. Build administrators can automate the build process using this clean and standard make interface and people with special needs can customize the build process very elegantly using the extension points provided by .pre and .post targets, as well as add new targets.


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'Slow, horrible' Wii U: THQ rep unhappy with the way quote has been spun
Metro: Last Light probably isn't coming to Wii U, following some rather damning comments regarding the hardware from a developer at 4A Games. Publisher THQ has stepped in to shed light on why the negative comments were made.
Chief technical officer at 4A Games Oles Shishkovtsov originally made the comment during a NowGamer interview, in which he said, "[The] Wii U has a horrible, slow CPU."
Eurogamer spoke with THQ's 4A Games rep Huw Beynon to get some perspective on the comment, who said, "I think there was one comment made by Oles the programmer – the guy who built the engine.
"It's a very CPU intensive game. I think it's been verified by plenty of other sources, including your own Digital Foundry guys, that the CPU on Wii U on the face of it isn't as fast as some of the other consoles out there. Lots of developers are finding ways to get around that because of other interesting parts of the platform.
However, Beynon is unhappy with the way Shishkovtsov's comment has been handled in the press, and suggests that only half of the story has been reported, "I think that what frustrates me about the way the story's been spun out is that there's been no opportunity to say, 'Well, yes, on that one individual piece maybe it's not as… maybe his opinion is that it's not as easy for the way that the 4A engine's been built as is the others.
"What it doesn't go on to look at is to say that, you know, we could probably get around that. We could probably get Metro to run on an iPad if we wanted, or on pretty much anything.
"Just as in the same way that between PC and current console versions there are some compromises that need to be made in certain places and we strive to get the very best performance that we can from any platform we release on.
It's a natural practice in the press right now – given the scrutiny placed on the Wii U Format – Bynon suggested, "But I understand that there's a real appetite in the media at the moment because the Wii U is a hot topic to spam some stories that are going to attract a lot of links if they present it in a certain way."
Beynon added that a Wii U version is still possible, but rather unlikely, as the small team at 4A Games is currently working on the PS3 version. Given the time required to fully use the Wii U hardware to its potential – rather than just releasing a shoddy port – Beynon suggested it would be a big ask.
What do you think about Shishkovtsov's comment? Blown out of proportion, or a developer speaking freely? Judge for yourself below.


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When the CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2013 gets underway this Saturday it will be the fifth time Tunisia's Issam Jemaa has participated in the pan-African tournament. With the chance to win the continental title for his national team and the opportunity to qualify for the FIFA Confederations Cup at stake, the 28-year-old striker is determined to put everything on the line.
The Gabes-born international has seen many ups and downs in his career. Starting out with Tunisian super-club Esperance ST, Jemaa then moved to France, where he played for no less than four different sides in seven years before finally settling down in the Gulf at Al Kuwait SC, whom he led to glory at last year's AFC Cup. With that success under his belt, the battle-hardened forward is hoping to captain his national team in their quest to become Africa's best.
A dazzling start
After just two years with Esperance ST, a young Issam Jemaa was selected by national coach Roger Lemerre as a member of the Tunisian squad at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. In Tunisia's third and final game against Australia, Jemaa came on as substitute and his international career was launched.
Jemaa told FIFA.com about his memories of that day: "I'd joined up with the team shortly after they won the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time. Coach Lemerre had a lot of faith in me and shortly after moving to Lens in France, I was getting a chance to play. I benefitted a lot from the Confederations Cup."
The conversation moved to his time playing for French sides for Lens, Caen, Auxerre and Brest and the striker was similarly effusive: "I've got wonderful memories of my time in France, especially with Lens where I had a great time at a big club."
"That club gave me so much," he went on, "and I learned a lot. I met a lot of people who really helped me, particularly the club's president Gervais Martel. My time with Lens gave me my best memories of the country."
Disappointments along the way
Even though he came on leaps and bounds in France, it was also the scene of his greatest disappointment. An injury in a domestic game ruled him out of contention for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Germany, and his subsequent dream of making up for that loss by playing at South Africa 2010 was shattered by a qualifying goal from Mozambique's Dario Monteiro.
"In 2006," Jemaa explained, "I was injured just a week before the first game of the World Cup and that really affected me at the time. I tried to see the positive side, though, and made myself work as hard as I could to get another chance."
Mozambique, however, had other ideas, beating Tunisia in their final qualifying match for South Africa 2010 and breaking a certain striker's heart: "I don't know what to tell you!" Jemaa said ruefully. "We hadn't lost a game up until that point and we were on our way through until the 83rd minute. We just dropped too deep, put ourselves under pressure, and then conceded a goal which knocked us out."
We have to keep playing to the same standard to qualify for the final round and ensure the odds are stacked in our favour.
Despite these setbacks, the well-travelled Jemaa prefers to look forward to an exciting future. Tunisia have made a strong start to their Brazil 2014 qualifying campaign, winning their two Group B matches, with Jemaa contributing a goal in each game. The striker, who also scored in the qualifiers for Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010, is cautious but confident.
"We're not in an easy group," he said. "We've played two games and are doing well at the top of the table. Now we have to keep playing to the same standard to qualify for the final round and ensure the odds are stacked in our favour."
Continental dream
Tunisia's current coach Sami Trabelsi has assembled a highly experienced squad for his nation's bid at continental supremacy. Jemaa has played in four previous editions of the tournament and this year he hopes to bring home the title for the first time, and the second in the nation's history.
"I first took part in the Africa Cup of Nations in 2006," he recalled, "and I've some amazing memories of the competition even though I was on the fringes of the side back then. The competition has its own special flavour, and I hope I can put on a great performance in South Africa."
But the Carthage Eagles have no easy task ahead. Placed in Group D alongside the likes of Côte d'Ivoire and Togo, the Tunisians' first game is sure to be a fiery encounter against next-door neighbours Algeria on Tuesday. For Jemaa and his teammates the North African derby is a must-win encounter: "If we want to get off to a good start we have to win the first game."
"Victory against Algeria will give us a big confidence boost," he went on. "All the matches in this group will be equally difficult and the odds are pretty much even. I hope we will be fully mentally and physically focused and see our challenge through to the end."
Mental and physical preparation are important, but Issam Jemaa has another string to his bow, namely the experience of a striker who has played in the continent's biggest tournament four times before. When he runs out on the pitch next week, Jemaa will be looking to give his all in hope of lifting the trophy on February 10.