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Jon Fagerson, Assistant Professor of English, joined stu-dents
Dave Pettit and Jim Clay in a 'non-invasion' of classrooms
to remind students of the Tuesday morning 'planning session.'
Freshman Don Dewey was among those who addressed
nearly 200 who attended the 'planning session' in the basement
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Vol. XLV—No. 25 Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Nixon moves troops into Cambodia; Colleges protest Nixon decision;
first optimistic reports prove false four students killed at Kent State
dents protesting the Cambodian
Editor's Note:
Adam Schesch is a Ph.D. in
South Asian History at the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin. He led the
teach-ins at the University of Min-nesota
Monday evening and Tues-day
afternoon and has spoken at
various other campuses in the area
this past week. His article appear-ed
in the May 5 issue of the Minn-esota
by Adam Schesch
"The United States could not
win at checkers, now they have de-cided
to try again at chess."
This comment was made by a
Western military commentator in
March 1965 after the bombings
of North Vietnam had begun and
Washington had announced that
American ground forces were go-ing
to be sent to Vietnam. If the
image was correct then, it is even
more so today. Having lost the war
in Vietnam, the Pentagon, the gi-ant
war corporations, and the hard
line anti-revolutionaries in charge
Last week, April 29 through May
2, the first Evangelical Student
Congress sponsored jointly by stu-dent
leaders and A.A.E.S. (Amer-ican
Association of Evangelical
Students) was held at Spring Ar-bor
College in Michigan.
The purpose of the Congress
was to provide a forum through
which representative students
could speak with an authentic nat-ional
voice, to unite students with
a Christian perspective, to demon-strate
the applicability of Christ
to solving human problems.
The first legislative session of
the Congress convened Thursday
morning with approximately 300
delegates from 35 different col-leges
and Bible Schools through-out
the nation. There was a feeling
of expectancy in the air as the del-egates
approved the format from
which they would be working and
then separated into their five com-mittees
to begin the real work of
the Congress.
The committees were the five
different areas with which the
planning committee felt the Con-gress
should deal. Those areas were
Campus Governance chaired by
Bob Shelley of Messiah College
in Pennsyvania, Educational Dir-ection
chaired by Greg Thompson
of Biola College in California, For-eign
Affairs chaired by Glen
Pierce of Messiah College, Dom-estic
Concerns chaired by Dave
Shupe of Bethel College and Chris-tian
Witness chaired by Harold
of the White House have apparent-ly
decided to risk, not their own
necks but everyone elses in a
move which could easily lead to
World War III.
The sequence of events in Indo-china,
after President Nixon's ad-dress
on Thursday and the inva-sion
by 25,000 U.S. and Saigon
ground forces into Cambodia, is a
nightmare repeat of several years.
On Friday, the giant sweep was
proclaimed a stunning success.
Huge enemy casualties were im-mediately
announced. Vast stocks
of enemy material was supposedly
found and destroyed.
However, the cycle of initial
optimism and then later gloom
came much quicker this time than
in 1965. Almost immediately it
was pointed out that the bulk of
the supposed enemy casualities
were estimated based on bombing
tonnage, a guide which has proven
to be way off the track time and
time again. Soon it was announced
Delany of Asbury College, Ken-tucky.
Before the second legislative
session of the Congress, news of
President Nixon's decision con-cerning
Cambodia reached the del-egates
and when the general ses-sion
convened Friday the main
issue on the floor was what state-ment
evangelical students should
make concerning the move. After
much debate and the defeat of both
majority and minority proposals
from the committe on foreign af-fairs,
the prOblem was sent back to
the committee to hash out.
Lights burned late on the Spring
Arbor campus Friday night and
when the general session of the
Congress convened early in the
afternoon on Saturday the dele-gates
were faced with a two page
agenda. The schedule went fairly
smoothly until the Cambodia
question was reached. Although
former A.A.E.S. president and pre-siding
officer, Steve Honnet did his
best, the debate continued for an
hour and a half. Finally the dele-gates
accepted both the majority
and minority reports which in es-sence
stated that although Chris-tians
must obey their government
and although Nixon may have more
information than the general pub-lic,
the students questioned the
action and called for an explana-tion.
When asked what part Bethel
played in the Congress, Dave
Shupe replied that he thought
continued to page 2
that the mysterious giant Vietnam-ese
Pentagon has not been found,
even though first reports have
brazenly proclaimed the exact spot
on the road map.
Shortly after the first reports,
the casualty figures dropped down
and the truth began to come out.
Someone in the planning rooms
forgot that the NLF-DRV follows
an old guerilla rule: lie low in the
face of unified and massive enemy
assaults, attack only when the mo-ment
is right — that is when the
guerilla force can achieve surprise,
and military superiority in a battle
site of its own choosing.
On Friday, two clues as to when
we can expect the real war to be-gin,
appeared in the New York
Times. First, it was announced
that the Cambodian invasion had
to begin when it did in order to be
"completed" in time for the season
of torrential monsoon rains which
begins in five to six weeks.
continued on page 2
CPS—Students at hundreds of
universities and colleges in the U-nited
States are on strike in protest
of President Richard Nixon's de-cision
to send American soldiers
into Cambodia.
The National Student Associa-tion
(NSA)—which has more than
500 member schools—called for a
shutdown of all American univer-sities
beginning Tuesday.
NSA president Charles Palmer
said he had the support of more
than 200 student body presidents,
90 of whom have signed a call for
the impeachment of Nixon for
"the unconstitutional expansion of
the war in Asia."
There were National Guardsmen
and state troppers on several col-lege
campuses Monday, and at one
—Kent State University in Ohio—
Guardsmen shot four students to
death and injured 11 others.
Kent State president Robert
White closed down the school after
the incident, which took place
during a rally of about 500 stu-intervention.
The Guardsmen had been on the
20,000 student campus since Satur-day,
when the Reserve Officers
Training Corps building was
burned to the ground.
An Ohio National Guard spokes-man
said that Guardsmen fired in
self-defense after being pelted by
sniper fire. There were no reports
of any Guardsmen being shot,
however, and this statement was
later quietly withdrawn.
President Nixon said in a state-ment
that the shootings "should
remind us all once again that when
dissent turns to violence it invites
"It is my hope that this tragic
and unfortunate incident will
strengthen the determination of
all the nation's campuses, admin-istrators,
faculty and students
alike, to stand firmly for the right
which exists in this country of
peaceful dissent and just as strong-ly
against the resort to violence
as a means of such expression."
Vice President Spiro Agnew
blamed the violence — which he
called "predictable and avoidable"
—on the "smug purveyors of
mockery and scorn" who have at-tacked
the principles of the United
Bethel students
stage teach-ins,
march, picket
Although there is by no means
a consensus concerning the war
in Southeast Asia and Nixon's de-cision
to send troops into Cambod-ia
on Bethel's campus, a number
of students, greatly increased over
the number which supported the
Moratorium last fall, are expres-sing
their dissatisfaction over the
recent development in Cambodia.
Tuesday and Wednesday Bethel
students picketted Snelling Avenue
in an attempt to let people of the
community know how they felt a-bout
the issue. Bethel students
joined in other area colleges in a
march from Midway Center to the
Capitol in S.t Paul, Wednesday
afternoon, where Governor Le-vander
was supposed to address
the crowd. Levander did not show
and was replaced on the program
by his assistant.
Wednesday evening students
and faculty staged a teach-in ad-dressing
themselves to responses
to the Cambodian incident and the
Christian responses to the problem
of war.
Opposing views were expressed
at a teach-in Thursday afternoon
with Dr. Harold Chase from the
University of Minnesota speaking.
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Christians must take risks,
examine circumstances, act
As we returned from the Evangelical Student Congress in Spring
Arbor last Sunday morning, I was encouraged as I remembered the open-ess
of the students represented there. Although there was by no means a
consensus, there was an openess to consider and discuss different points
of view. Arriving back on campus, the full realization of what we had
been discussing and its application to daily life in relation to the situa-tion
here dawned.
Somehow looking back on the events of the past few months, I can't
help feeling that Americans have been duped.
Our attention has been drawn away from the war towards domestic
affairs by our pressing ecological crisis and shallow promises of action
while plans of a more serious, although related, nature were being
The reason we have been duped is because most of us do not have
a conceptual overview of our society and thus do not recognize the
connection between the war and our present ecological crisis. Both are
the result of a much deeper problem—that of the orientation of our
western value system. (See other editorial).
Dr. McKenna, president of Seattle Pacific College in Oregon, ad-dressed
the Evangelical Student Congress last Friday night in Spring
Arbor, Michigan. What he said is that Evangelicals are by nature cautious
and conservative. We have always waited for someone to lead and as
a consequence have no approach of our own to todoy's problems. We
have been uninformed and indifferent too long. It is time that we
take the initiative to chitically analyze our situation and inform our-selves,
then act upon that information. His closing point was that
Christians must take risks.
I might add that by denial of the risk of an initial action on issues
facing contemporary man, we are denying the power of Christ in our
lives and in society as a whole.
This past week sincere, serious minded citizens of this nation
were called upon once more to critically evaluate the action of our
government. In an act of reckless oppression, four students at Kent
University gave their lives as their colleagues expressed dissent con-cerning
the president's war policy.
President Nixon's statement on the incident was that he regretted
the action but hoped that students would remember that such action
is the inevitable result of violence and that he hoped that students
would find peaceful means by which to express their dissent.
Have we forgotten the promises made by our President last fall,
that Moratorium activities (which were peaceful) would have no effect
upon his policies? Is he not in affect telling us that we may protest
but it won't hinder him from carrying out his prearranged plan of
action? Is he not negating our rights by inferring the irrelevance of
the expresed viewpoint of those he is supposedly serving?
Americans are being given the run-around for the perpetuation of
a culture based upon corrupt values and the Evangelical Community
remains stolidly silent. Our Christian heritage requires us to be alert
and critically analytical of ourselves and that around us. We are called
upon to stand out against what we see as wrong not just in spiritual
matters but in all areas of life.
Undoubtedly, it is difficult to accept the fact that our "Christian"
culture is actually corrupt and sinful. I had heard and suspected as
much for a year and still upon full realization of the fact, was depressed
almost to the point of immobilization for a week.
Most of you on this campus probably by now realize how I stand
on the moral question of war. To me there is no question. It's wrong and
no argument will ever convince me otherwise. There are better,
more sensible ways to settle differences than going to war.
But that's my thing and I'm not asking you to agree with me on
either the question of our values or war. What I am asking you to do
is to be a critically alert human being — to examine what is going
on around you in the light of the Christian ethic as presented by
Christ and by his power to act upon what you may discover.
Bethel delegation catalyzes ESC
Southeast Asian leaders unite to throw U.S. out
continued from page 1
"Bethel played the role of a cata-lyst.
We were one of the more
liberal delegations." In comment-ing
further, he said "I felt a
greater spirit of unity among the
students on the Spring Arbor cam-pus
than exists on Bethel's. We
also have a long way to go in our
attitudes towards blacks and other
minority groups."
Other delegates expressed a
sense of encouragemnt over the
openess of the delegates to listen,
discuss and seriously consider op-posing
positions on problems for
which there was little consensus.
When asked whether the confer-ence
had accomplished what it set
out to, Norma Wilcox, Bethel's
delegate on the campus governance
committee answered, "I felt that
the Congress not only accomplish-ed
its goals but there was a lot of
ground work laid for future con-gresses
and further cooperation. I
think Bethel's delegates put a lot
into the Congress and also got a
lot out of it.
continued from page 1
On Saturday, it was announced
in a minor column page three,
that the North Vietnamese had
captured Attopeu, a minor provin-cial
capitol in Laos, approximately
15 miles from the Cambodian bor-der
and fifty miles from the Viet-namese
border. The Times noted
the importance of this unknown
town when they stated the Viet-namese
were possibly trying to
clear their flanks for the purpose
of sending North Vietnamese
troops down the Ho Chi Minh
Trail. In fact, Attopeu is one of
the last few towns left in the in-terior
of Laos, and the old royal
capital Lvong Praboeuy in North-ern
The capture of Attopeu and the
disappearance of Vietnamese for-ces
in the "fishhook" and Parrot's
Beak areas along the Cambodian-
Vietnamese border are mere sur-face
indications of what may be
in store for the American public.
Shortly after Nixon's speech, news
of a top level meeting between
Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnemese
and Chinese leaders came to the
West via Radio Hanoi, which an-nounced
that an impromptu con-ference
of Primier Chou En Lai
of China, Prince Souvannou Vong
of Laos, President Nguyen Huu Tho
of the National Liberation Front,
Premier Phan Vau Dong of North
Vietnam, and Prince Sihanouk of
Cambodia had agreed to a unified
effort to throw the United States
out out of Indochina.
The agreement was no idle
threat. If Americans want to make
up their minds about what must
be done over the next few weeks,
then the following military situa-tion
becomes very important.
The first thing that must be
made clear is that the Vietnamese
are not only forces opposing the
U.S. intervention. There are not
only areas of native "Thai" and
Khmer" guerilla strength and op-erations
in Cambodia and Thailand.
but also large Vietnamese forces
in parts of Laos and Cambodia be-sides
"native" revolutionary for-ces
there also. Estimates of Pathet
Lao guerilla strength range from
15,000 to 50,000 men.
In addition to the Vietnamese
National Liberation Front and
DRV forces already in the field,
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On Monday, students from Bethel
and the University who are from
Thailand will report what God is
doing in their lives and among
students from their country. Dr.
Robert Smith, Professor of Phil-osophy,
will speak Tuesday. Pastor
Lawson will bring a portrait of
Jesus on Wednesday. Bill Pannell,
black evangelist who works with
Tom Skinner, will speak on Thurs-day.
The Friday chapel will be
announced in the daily bulletin.
one also has to deal with the
300,000 from line DRV forces still
in North Vietnam.
An examination of independent
journalistic reports of the last
couple of years as well as various
admissions buried in unpublicized
U.S. government studies reveals
the following scenario of recent
events and future possibilities.
Right wing Laotian control is
presently limited to a dozen urban
areas (centers of 10,000 to 50,000
people except for Vientiane). Each
is located from the other on the
ground except by use of major
armored convoys and trips through
Thai territory. The Phathet Lao
can seize the few enclaves at will.
In Cambodia, Prince Sihanouk
has now proclaimed his unity with
the Khmer Rougee, and has open-ly
called for the Cambodian peas-antry
to rise up and overthrow the
Lon Nol government which, as Pre-sident
Nixon was loath to remem-ber,
is an illegal government.
Therefore, the NLF/DRV forces
in Cambodia now under attack can
retreat from U.S.-Saigon pursuit
further into Cambodia with a fair
degree of safety. Signs of this are
already apparent in the necessity
for the armored columns to pen-etrate
not just 10 or 15 miles into
Cambodian territory, but 40 or 50.
The Lon Nol government has
only received support from the
Western educated urban elite. Ear-ly
reports of Vietnamese being
shot in marches on the Cambodian
capitol, Phnom Penh, turned out
to be false. It was Cambodians who
were shot by the Lon Nol regime,
as they marched from their vil-lages
to protest the overthrow of
Prince Sihanouk
In South Vietnam, the situation
for Washington is as bad as in
Laos. What the U.S. public has not
been told is that the NLF has had
the ability to launch a second TET-like
offensive any time they choose
since the last quarter of 1968.
They have not done so for one sim-ple
reason. They know that the U.
S. response will be massive des-truction
of civilian areas and a
massive loss of civilian Vietnamese
life. The old, women, and children
will be the main objects of a new
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Obviously, however, the revolu-tionary
forces will respond to
something which appears to be a
major escalation and a major
threat to their position. They will
respond in their own time and in
their own fashion. This is the key
to the current situation.
The overthrow of Prince Sihan-ouk
by the rightest General Lon
Nol must have caught the Viet-nemese
somewhat off gaurd. The
change from peaceful relations
with Prince Sihanouk would have
forced them to prepare, for pos-sible
U.S. supported attacks in
their rear. It would have been easy
to launch immediate offensives in
many areas but this would have
provided Nixon with an easy ex-cuse
to intervene further.
Washington's actions must be
seen partly as the actions of mad-men.
A real possibility of the U.S.
military using tactical nuclear
weapons, in the coming weeks,
must not be discontinued. The ba-sic
military irrationality of Nixon's
effort must have given the Vietna-mese
and their allies pause. What
has probably happened after Nix-on's
speech is an agreement that
Nixon is going to accelerate the
war, that no amount of moderation
on the part of the revolutionaries
will stop things like the bombing
of North Vietnam or the Cambo-dian
The necessary planning and re-grouping
time corresponds roughly
to the length of time left in the
dry season. Major amounts of DRV
troops can easily strengthen the
interior lines of communication
and allow for a massive Multi-front
counter attack. Given Nix-on's
incredible behavior, one can
only surmise that the U.S. will
respond with massive bombings
all over North Vietnam, a new
troop commitment, and very pos-sibly
with tactical nuclear weap-ons.
We have five to six weeks to
act. Once we are dragged in there
will be little possibility of prevent-ing
major Asian War, and the ob-vious
nationwide repression at
home. The only way to prevent
the coming slaughter is for each
person to act now as if his life
depended upon it. It does.
Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle,
Tom Ford, Dave Greener,
Jan Ullberg, Jan Urspringer,
Wibby Smith
Proofreader Sharon Watson
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Business Manager .... Warren Magnuson
Photographer Phil Humbert
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
Early hours, and cool temperatures did little
to deter several Bethel students from voicing
their feelings on American policy in Cambodia.
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Rich Neufeld joins the "Snelling Picket"
in making the early traffic aware of his stand
on the President's decision in Cambodia.
The second annual art fair will be held one day next week. The
exact day will be selected pending weather reports that week. For further
information, see Jim Carlson, John Goodman, Dean Lindberg, Wayne
Wilson, Lynn Hansen, Jeanne Westwater, or Paul Steimers.
* * *
Lynda Davis will hold her senior voice recital Sunday, May 10 at
3 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church. She will be assisted by Norene Shep-hard
and accompanied by Bev Pearson.
Lynda, a soprano, is an elementary music education major. She
assists Noreen with the Crusader Choir at Trinity Baptist, and works
as assistant to Mrs. Lewis in the music library. Her voice instructor
is Mr. Oliver Mogck.
The numbers Lynda will be performing are:
Song of Penitence
Samson (from the opera
Restless Love
Meine Liebe ist Brun
Forest Solitude
0 Lord my God, Thou Art Very
As Joseph was A-Walking
In the Valley of Humiliation
The Valley
The Bird of the Wilderness
The Festival Choir and the Bethel College Orchestra will present
the Spring Music Festival Thursday, May 14, at 8:30 p.m. in the
field house. The Choir, under the direction of Dr. Robert Berglund,
will perform Mozart's Coronation Mass. Professional musicians from
the Twin Cities area will accompany the choir and will also perform
with the Bethel Orchestra, directed by Julius Whitinger, while it
presents Beethovan's 5th Symphony and Lo Scale De Seta by Rossini.
* * *
The Male Chorus Farewell Concert will be held at Central Baptist
May 17. This is the groups last concert before they leave for their
tour of Europe this summer.
* * *
Ellie Andrews will present her senior orgon recital at Calvary
Baptist May 17 at 3:00 p.m.
Maurice Zaffke will hold a poetry reading Monday night, May 11
at 8 in the Seminary Chapel. He will be reading selections from Carlos
Williams, T.S. Elliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Bly, and Maurice Zaffke. The
poems will alternate subject matter and mood.
* *
Lynn Hanson, senior art major, wil have a senior show of his art
work starting May 11 and running for two weeks. The paintings are
for sale. The show will be set up in the Art department.
In his work, Lynn attempts to synthesize hard-edge and soft-edge
techniques. Lynn states, "I try to make things of beauty while avoiding
the handicraft look."
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Students present concerts
poetry reading, art show
Next fall, when the '70-71 school
year officially begins, new faces
will be abundant. There will not
only be the annual group of fresh-men,
and the envitable transfer
students, but also a few new tea-chers.
This coming fall, we will see at
least seven new teachers appear-ing
on campus. They will fill a
variety of positions, in a number
of different departments.
Coming as a one-year replace-ment
for Gene Peterson in the
math department, will be David
Perry. Perry is a graduate of Beth-el
College and is expecting his
M.A. from the University of Minn-esota
this spring. He has served as
a teaching assistant at the Univer-sity
while going to school there.
In the English department,
Ralph R. Joly will, in a sense, be
replacing Rolland Hein, who is
leaving this spring. Joly will have
the same speciality as Hein, as
they both work mainly in 19th
Century English literature.
Joly's previous experience has
been a B.R.E. from Detroit Bible
College, an M.A. from Eastern
Michigan University of North Car-olina.
He has taught at Detroit
Bible College.
Ruth Ludeman will join the Ed-ucation
department, at first as a
replacement for Dr. Junet Run-beck
who will be on sabbatical
leave, and then as an Associate
Professor there. She received her
B.A. from Colorado State College,
her M.A. from the University of
Minnesota, and is currently a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of
Minnesota. She taught in elemen
tary schools in Minnesota for seven
years, at Northwestern College,
1961-66, and at Augsburg College,
1967 to the present time. (Her hus-band,
too, is in education. He is
currently the Principal of an ele-mentary
school in Richfield).
Coming back after a year's leave,
to finish her degree, will be Carol
Morgan in the Physical Ed. depart-ment.
She received her B.S. at
Wheaton, and is expecting her
M.A. from Colorado State College
in June. She is very interested in
summer camp programs, and has
been involved with Honey Rock
Camp in Wisconsin, (that is) spon-sored
by Wheaton College.
A new member on the Physical
Education staff, will be Charles
Reynolds. Probably best known
as the new football coach, Rey-nolds
received his B.A. from Aug-ustana
College, and his M.S. from
South Dakota State. He has been
a teacher and coach at Akron,
Iowa, Windom, Minnesota and
Park Rapids, Minnesota.
Dr. Vern Lewis, presently at
Biola College, will be an Associate
Professor and the Chairman of
the Department of Psychology.
He received his B.A. from Biola,
his M.A. from California State,
and his Ph.D. from Claremont
Graduate School. Dr. Lewis has
also had years of experience in
counselling. This latter experience
will be further utilized by Bethel
when he serves as a half-time
Lewis is also working with the
Minnesota General Conference in
setting up a large counselling pro-gram
at their new headquarters
(which will be close to the new
campus in Arden Hills). In the
new headquarters, a special suite
of rooms will be set aside for a
counselling center.
In the Art Department will be
Dale Johnson, as Instructor in Art.
He received his B.S. from Western
Michigan University and will be
getting his M.F.A. this June from
Michigan State University. He has
had experience as Art Designer
and Director, and is currently the
Art Director for Allied Develop-ment
Instructor in Sociology will be
Paul V. Johnson. He has his B.A.
from Bethel College, and is expect-ing
his M.A. from the University
of Minnesota in June.
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President Elseth looks to September;
searches for committee participants
The old PLAN AHEAD sign
is hanging up in the Student Sen-ate
office once again and President
Elden Elseth is looking ahead to
September, 1970 when the various
Student-Faculty Committees res-ume
Dean Virgil Olson's office is mak-king
the faculty appointments and
the Student Senate office will be
making student appointments to
the committees.
The purpose of these committees
is to give both faculty and student
members an equal opportunity to
establish policy in the area of
concern. Norma Wilcox, student
member of the Educational Poli-cies
Committee says, "I feel that
students play a very important
part in establishing the policies
of Bethel. We are voting members
of the committees and our vote
weighs the same as a faculty mem-ber's."
"Students interested in serv-ing
on a particular committee
should contact me right away,"
says President Elseth. "It's import-ant
that we put interested students
on these committees but each su-dent
has to take the initiative to
let us know who he is and in what
area his interest lies."
All the student-faculty committ-ees
need students. The committees
include Academic Progress, Admis-sions,
Athletic, Campus Planning,
Chapel & Spiritual Life, Curric-ulum,
Discipline, Educational Pol-icies,
Faculty Growth, Financial
Aid, Interim, Library, Medical Ad-visory,
Minority Groups, Student
Personnel, Teacher Education Ad-visory,
and Urban Studies.
In talking with Dean of Students,
Webster Muck, he said, "Nearly
all the committees like to have a
one-to-one ratio of students and
faculty serving on them. In the
past not all of the student posi-tions
have been filled."
In addition to these committee
appointments Elden is also looking
for students to serve next fall as
committee chairman for Home-coming.
Tom Molin has been ap-pointed
as overall chairman of
Homecoming but several other
students are needed to head decor-ations
and coronation and other
areas of the homecoming week-end.
Once again Elden says, "I am
hoping that interested students
will contact either Tom or myself
regarding these positions."
One set of new appointments
that the Senate will be assisting
in for next year is for the Sympos-ium
Class to be held during next
year's Interim. "The class will be
run by students next year," says
Elden. "The faculty will serve as
advisors. I am hoping to hear from
interested students here again, be-cause
serving on these various
committees can be a very import-ant
part of a well-rounded liberal
arts education."
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Tracksters get it together; capture
3rd place in St. Thomas Invitational
by Richard Zaderaka
Last Saturday Bethel narrowly
bested Hamline for third place in
the St. Thomas Invitational.
"The guys did very well," said
Coach Gene Glader, "considering
that all our shot and discus per-formers
were either sick or injur-ed."
Ace hurdler Dan Mogck was
was gone on band tour and Pete
Roemer was injured so Bethel
didn't participate in the high jump.
Dave Pound won the quarter
mile; Phil James tied for first in
the 220. The mile relay quartet of
Phil James, Rick Berggren, Craig
Anderson, and Dave Pound also
took a first. Coach Glader looks
for this group to break the school
record before the season ends.
Rick Berggren recorded his fast-est
time of the season placing se-cond
in the half mile. The quarter
mile relay placed third. Fourth
place finishers were Mark Ander-son
in the mile, Craig Anderson in
the pole vault, and Paul Stoneberg
in each of the two hurdle events.
Fifths were taken by Dave Solfelt
in the long jump, Tom Laskowski
in the 120 yard hurdles, and Craig
Anderson in the 440.
On Saturday April 25, St. John's
captured the Bethel Relays. Beth-el's
only first came in the javelin
Exuberant Shields heads for Wyoming mountains
by Tim Weko tion. This involves hiring and co- he said, "I think the thing that
ordinating of all the football sold us was the fact that everyone
coaches for grades 7-12. The Cody was so open and enthusiastic."
school system requires two coaches One thing that Shields liked was
for each of grades 7, 8, and 9. The the fact that the athletic funds
high school, grades 10-12 requires come from the gate (admissions
four coaches. to sports events) rather than from
job, but during the football season
Thursday night in which he will
which are called in to him.
assume the assistant principal's
itself he will also have his one
half hour radio program every
be involved in answering questions
Eventually, Coach Shields will
rectly upon the success of the
that kind of pressure."
outs at games which depends di-team.
Coach Shields said, "I like
tem." When asked about his four
income depends on crowd turn-going
back to the high school sys-any
budget. This means that money
He has "been looking forward to
Coach Shields seemed quite ex- years at the college level he re-cited
about the job and his move. plied, "I can't say I'm sorry for
He picked Cody over six other the last four years, "although he
high schools in Wyoming and Col- said that there was a lack of en-orado
and one college in Washing- thusiasm here that is always pres-ton
State. He made personal visits ent at the high school level.
to all of these schools and slowly Though looking forward to leav-narrowed
the field down to Cody, ing for his new position, Coach
which has 600 students in grades Shields has enjoyed Bethel Col-
10-12. Along with the mountains lege, especially "working with the
and the small town atmosphere kids."
Baseball vs. Golden Valley
Tennis vs. U. of M. Morris
Golf at N.A.I.A. District
Bethel Invitational Track Meet
Golf vs. Concordia (St. Paul)
Track at Macalester Invitational
Minnesota Twins vs. Balt. Orioles
Twins vs. Orioles
Baseball vs. Hamline
Golf vs. Lea College
Tennis vs. Winona State
with Darrel Nelson and Fred Swed-berg
combining efforts for a dis-tance
of 311 feet 2 inches. The
Royals mile relay team of Phil
James, Rick Berggren, Craig And-erson
and Dave Pound finished
second in 3:26.6. Dave Solfelt
and Pete Roemer teamed up in
the triple jump to place third.
The sprint medley unit of Pound,
Berggren, James and Mark Ander-son
broke the school record in
placing fourth.
On Monday April 27, Bethel won
the meet against Concordia, Pills-bury
and Anoka Ramsey Junior
College. Fred Swedberg broke the
schooll discus record by more than
six feet with a hurl of 138+ feet.
Jim Carlson recorded his best ef-fort
ever in the javelin with a
throw of 155 feet good for second
The mile and half mile relay
teams each finished first. Phil Friday, May 8
James won the quarter mile and
Dan Mogck was again a double
winner in the two hurdle events. Saturday, May 9
Pete Roemer, Dave Solfelt, Dan Tuesday, May 12
Muska and Paul Stoneburg took
seconds in the high jump, long
jump, 100 and 440 intermediate Wednesday, May 13
hurdles respectively. Thursday, May 14
The team scores were Bethel 70,
Pillsbury 49 1/2, Anoka Ramsey 20. Friday, May 15
An enthusiastic Coach "Mo"
Shields has revealed his newly laid
plans for the future. Shields,
former head football coach and
present golf coach here at Bethel
College, has taken a job as head
football coach at Cody, Wyoming
High School.
Cody, Wyoming is, in his words,
"the eastern gateway of Yellow-stone
National Park." This be-gins
to explain his enthusiasm be-cause
he has been a lover of moun-tains,
streams, and wild life all his
life. Hunting and fishing remain
high on Coach Shields list of
Along with his responsibilities
as head football coach, which will
include continuing a winning tra-dition
— Cody has won the state
championship three of the last six
years — Shields will teach physi-cal
education classes as well as
heading the athletic administra-
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'Mo' Shields, former Bethel
football coach, announces
plans for next year.
Hitting spells
Royals' doom
by Bill Ankerberg
Last week the team chose its
captains for this year. They are
Bill Painter and Dean Ericson.
The baseball team finished its
eleventh game last Saturday corn-ing
out on the short end of a 2-9
season. The poor showing is due
mainly to poor hitting. Coach Jack
Trager said, "One of the problems
we saw for the season was our hit-ting.
For the most part it has
been very disappointing." He also
said, "Our pitching has been much
better than expected but the lack
of hitting coupled with the incon-sistent
fielding has hurt us."
Right now the team has been in
a period of change, one of those
being the switching of Dean Eric-son
from first base to short stop
with Bob Brodin replacing him at
As Of May 5 The Averages Are
Steve Hanson 300
Bill Painter 268
Tim Eddy .207
Bob Brodin 182
Dean Ericson 161
Jim Feldman 158
Doug Warring 150
Gary Clark 067
Jim Delich 033
Dennis Zaderaka 400
Lowell Richardson 111
Dave Pearson 053
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New directives for safer roads in the EU
In its efforts to halve the number of road fatalities by 2010, the European Commission has adopted two proposals for directives today. The first directive aims at improving safety on the major roads, i.e. the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) through infrastructure measures and better engineering. The second directive provides for existing heavy vehicles to be equipped with "blind spot mirrors" in order to reduce the number of accidents involving in particular cyclists and motorcyclists.
Jacques Barrot, European Commission Vice-President in charge of transport, welcomed the adoption of the two proposals. He underlined that in order to bring down the high number of road fatalities, a comprehensive road safety programme was needed that builds on three pillars: infrastructure, vehicles and drivers. Referring to the first proposal he said: "Many lives could be saved and many accidents avoided if the existing road infrastructure was managed according to the best available know-how on safety engineering."
The first draft directive aims to bring road safety management to higher standards throughout the EU. It defines guidelines and best practices for all stages of infrastructure management, including road safety impact assessments, road safety audits, network safety management and safety inspections. The directive does not impose technical standards or procedures but invites Member States to make better use of existing procedures and practices.
The Commission estimates that the proposed measures, if applied to the major roads, i.e. the Trans-European road network, could reduce the number of accidents with injuries by 7000 and avoid the loss of 600 lives every year. With the second directive on retrofitting existing heavy vehicles with "blind spot mirrors", 1200 more lives could be saved on European roads until 2020.
This measure aims at protecting particularly vulnerable road users such as cyclists and motorcycle drivers. Every year approximately 400 road users lose their lives in accidents, because lorry drivers fail to notice them when taking a right turn. New heavy duty vehicles of more than 3.5 tons will already have to be equipped with blind spot mirrors as of next year under an EU Directive of 2003. This will, however, not reduce the risks stemming from the existing fleet of heavy goods vehicles, which in the EU stands at around 5 million today.
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The fuselage of the aircraft, which was on a training flight, smashed into the ground just minutes after children had returned to their classrooms after lunch break.
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The AK-47 — "Avtomat Kalashnikov" and the year it went into production — is favored by guerrillas, terrorists and the soldiers of many armies. An estimated 100 million guns are spread worldwide.
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The definition of "applicant" under UGESP is key to several recordkeeping provisions. The 1979 definition of "applicant" is in Questions and Answers (Qs and As) issued under UGESP by the EEOC and its sister UGESP agencies: the Department of Labor (OFCCP), the Department of Justice, and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The definition is at Q and A 15, 44 Fed. Reg. 11,998 (March 2, 1979).
3. What does UGESP call for?
Under UGESP, employers "should maintain and have available for inspection records or other information which will disclose the impact which its tests and other selection procedures have upon employment opportunities of persons by identifiable race, sex, or ethnic group. . . ." 29 C.F.R. 1607.4A. When hiring, each covered entity should maintain and have available such information with respect to applicants. When promoting, each covered entity should maintain and have available such information with respect to candidates. If tests and selection procedures are shown to have a disparate impact, then UGESP sets forth different methods for determining whether the tests or selection procedures are valid and job-related. UGESP is at 29 C.F.R. Part 1607 (EEOC) and 41 C.F.R. Part 60-3 (OFCCP).
4. Does this document change the text of UGESP?
No. UGESP and the existing Qs and As 1 - 93 (issued in 1979 and 1980) are not changed. This document adds new Qs and As 94 - 98.
5. Does this document change Title VII or Executive Order 11246?
No. This document does not change Title VII or Executive Order 11246.
Under Title VII and Executive Order 11246, as amended, employers and their recruiters are responsible for ensuring that all aspects of their recruitment and selection processes are lawful. An employer's obligation to avoid unlawful practices attaches regardless of the definition of "applicant."
6. Does this document change how the definition of "applicant" is treated?
The existing definition of "applicant" continues to apply to traditional, hard-copy applications. This definition, which can be found at Q & A 15 of the 1979 Qs and As, states:
"The precise definition of the term 'applicant' depends upon the user's recruitment and selection procedures. The concept of an applicant is that of a person who has indicated an interest in being considered for hiring, promotion, or other employment opportunities. This interest might be expressed by completing an application form, or might be expressed orally, depending on the employer's practice."
The new document provides a definition for "applicant" in the context of the Internet and related electronic technologies only.
7. What do you mean by the "Internet and related electronic technologies"?
This includes, for example: e-mail; various web sites such as third party job or resume banks and employment web pages; electronic scanning technology; applicant tracking systems; and internal databases of job seekers.
8. What is the definition of "applicant" in the context of the Internet and related electronic technologies?
In order for an individual to be an applicant in the context of the Internet and related electronic data processing technologies, the following must have occurred:
9. What if the employer uses both traditional and Internet and electronic recruitment and selection methods?
For those positions subject to traditional recruitment and selection techniques, the existing recordkeeping standards apply. For those positions subject to Internet/electronic recruitment and selection techniques, the new recordkeeping standards apply.
10. Do I need to validate all employment tests administered online or in person?
If an employment test has a disparate impact, then it must be validated under Title VII and UGESP, whether administered online or in person.
11. How can I get a copy of this document?
See the Federal Register dated March 4, 2004 for the proposed Q & A.
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Fanfiction (abbreviated fanfic) is a tale or book, generally of short length, that is based in this case on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. Most are based on The Lord of the Rings, and many others on various points in the Silmarillion. Christopher Tolkien would not allow books based on Middle-earth to be published, and therefor most fanfics are printed on various sites. The fanfics fall into several categories.
- Purist. This category is made up of fanfictions that stay (to the best of their knowledge) true to the books. They are often longer than other categories, and perhaps the favorite of hard-core Tolkienists.
- Loose. This category is composed of fanfics that are only loosely based on the books, or are based primarily on the movie's depiction. Often these are far less researched that Purist fanfics, and the details are not as accurate.
- Spoof. This is composed of books that are not realistic to Middle-earth, which is usually parody or "Mary-Sue". See below
The subcategories are divided from one or more of the above categories. Many fanfics fall into more than one of these subcategories.
- Action/Adventure. This subcategory generally falls into the Purist and Loose categories, as being made up of stories of battles and adventures. Primarily these are stories that tell of a particular person at a particular battle. Most are based on Lord of the Rings as opposed to the Silmarillion.
- Gap-fillers. This type of story fills in a gap in Tolkien's works, particularly concerning the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. Some examples include Strider's capture of Gollum and the battle of Lothlórien during the War of the Ring.
- Character-Adventure. This one usually takes a character, such as Glorfindel, and expands upon his or her life. Another example would be a fanfic on Aragorn's early life as a ranger.
- Romance. This subcategory is, obviously, about the romantic relationships of two characters; usually Aragorn and Arwen. Because this can also be used in the Spoof category (such as a character falling in love with Legolas), many Purist sites discourage the use of this subcategory.
- Firsthand Account. This subcategory can fall into all categories, and includes those fanfics whose primary character follows and observes the actions of various Tolkien characters. An example of this along more Purist lines would be one of the ten companions of Finrod Felagund and Beren Erchamion. On the other side, in the Spoof category would be a visitor from Earth that helps and follows the Fellowship.
- "Historical" Novel. This style is usually the longest, and falls into only the Purist category. It usually is more like an actual book, with a character that sees events, battles, and the like taking place. This is usually based on a period in the Silmarillion. An example of this would be an elf of Tirion participating in the Flight of the Noldor. This type usually has a whole plot beneath the main story as dictated in Tolkien's writings.
- Mary-Sue. This falls into the Spoof category. A Mary-Sue is one in which a character from our world (Earth), particularly a girl, ends up in Middle-earth. Usually (particularly after the releasing of the films) the character falls in love with a character, particularly Legolas.
- Slash. This subcategory is one which features gay (homosexual) characters, usually elf-lords. This is prohibited on many fanfic sights, despite its rising popularity, because it is considered by most contrary to Tolkien's ideals and writings.
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Traditional media industries and companies are overwhelmed with an atmosphere of consternation and fear today.
Trade publications and industry association meetings are filled with news of diminished budgets, reorganizations, consolidations, and layoffs. People say traditonal media are declining and will soon disappear. Potential employees are wondering if there is a future for them in the industries and senior employees are hoping their jobs will last until they reach retirement. Everyone is pointing the finger,but most of the blame for killing traditional media is laid on the Internet, mobile media, and young people.
There is just one problem with their scenario. IT'S NOT TRUE. We have deluded ourselves into thinking that well established media are dying and that young people are uninterested in traditional text and audiovisual media.
Although new distributors of information and entertainment abound and video on demand and consumer-created content are increasing daily, consumers' greatest time allocation and advertisers' greatest expenditures remain with traditional media. Although young people have adopted newer media technologies more rapidly than other population groups, most of their media use still involves film, television, magazines, and non-traditional newspapers.
If the death knell for traditional media is not ringing, why do industry personnel keep hearing bells in their ears?
The reason is that significant changes are underway and most people don't understand them. We have reached a era when the collective weight of expanded offerings of traditional media and the appearance of new types of media are ending the relatively undemanding operating conditions that existed due to lack of media choice and are removing the effortless profits that traditional commercial media enjoyed for a half century.
Suddenly there is competition. Suddenly there are financial losses. Suddenly there are company failures. Suddenly audiences are no longer satisfied with the "take content on our terms when we want to deliver it" approach that traditional media have offered. Only it wasn't really sudden. Those factors have been growing incrementally for at least three decades. The problems were certainly compounded by the arrival of Internet and mobile content distribution, but they were not caused by them.
Let's look at the case of the newspaper industry in the U.S. Readership problems have been evident for half a century. Although actual circulation rose continually throughout the twentieth century, reaching a height of 62.6 million in 1993, penetration has declined steadily at 1 to 2 percent each year since 1950. The pace has been steady despite the appearance of additional types of media. The expansion of network television didn't increase the loss, the arrival of cable channels didn't amplify the decline, and the arrival of the Internet didn't boost the pace.
Today, the Internet is having an affect on advertising, but even that is not disastrous despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth. Total U.S. newspaper advertising was $46.6 billion in 1999 and $49.3 billion in 2006. In financial terms newspaper advertising is rising, but when accounting for inflation it has basically plateaued so one can not say the Internet is killing papers. If we look at classified where the biggest substitution exists, classified advertising in newspapers reached a height of $19.6 billion in 1999 and it was $16.9 billion in 2006. Clearly a decline occurred but it was offset by the fact that newspaper online advertising produced $2.6 billion in 2006. Overall, the business has stopped growing and investors are unhappy, but the industry isn't dying.
Certainly, the Internet is having many effects on established media. Research shows that print media business models have been least disrupted, unlike audiovisual media, but that print media work processes are changing most among media. However, Internet, mobile and other new form of distribution are providing all types of traditional media new opportunities.
Similar things have happened in the television business. The change from a limited number of television channels to hundreds of television, cable and satellite channels spread the audience, reduced the viewers of dominant stations, and made advertisers unwilling to continue paying previous prices. The big 3 networks could count on ratings in the 20s to 30s in the 1970s, but today they achieve ratings in the teens and are fighting to stay among the big 3. Nevertheless, viewers want network programming--on TV, as DVD, as syndicated programming, as downloads. There is no sign that demand for interesting programs is diminishing even if the basic television ratings are falling and new ways of monetizing the content are being developed.
We all need to recognize that changes in traditional operations are painful for industries, companies, and their personnel and that the contemporary changes are placing a lot of stress on management and employees. Everyone would prefer to continue doing things in the old ways they know well, but because of the new conditions those business models, processes, and market techniques aren't working as effectively as in the past.
The biggest challenges facing people in traditional media today are pessimism and lack of vision. Morale in publications and stations continues to drop, and doom and gloom are everywhere. That negativism makes things worse internally, reduces confidence of advertisers and investors, and makes it difficult to think about trying new things or even trying old things in new ways. The first step out of this condition is to stop lamenting the passing of the past. Things will never be the way they were. So get over it. Move on. Discover and embrace new ways of operating and new opportunities to prosper and grow.


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Gender bias or marketing to nature?
Crystal Smith, author of "The Achilles Effect," is creating a buzz with Wordle clouds showing the stark differences in terminology used in toy commercials aimed at 6-to-8 year old girls and boys.
Smith analyzed dozens of commercials. She came up with a list of 658 words used to describe boys' toys like Hot Wheels and Transformers and 432 for girls' toys like Barbie and Easy Bake Oven. Her conclusion is stated in her headline: "How Toy Ad Vocabulary Reinforces Gender Stereotypes."
The full lists are available on PDFs linked from her blog, where she writes:
[O]n the boys' list the word battle appears 28 times, compared to two occurrences for words like create and experience. Side-by-side comparisons of the alphabetical lists are also interesting. Scrolling down to the "b" words, we see terms like bash, battle, beat, big, blaster and brawl on one list and words like ballet, beach, beautiful, bling, and butterfly on the other.
Commenters on Boing Boing were divided among those who thought it was obvious, outrageous or a natural result of the differences between girls and boys. Then there was one who thought "killer boots" straddled the line.


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This Month in HIV: Breaking HIV/AIDS Research From CROI 2007
March 2007
People came away from CROI 2007 with a different take home depending, I think, on their perspective and who they were. We thought it would be helpful to get the viewpoint of someone with HIV. Nelson attended CROI and came back with a unique take on the research presented.
So, Nelson, tell me: As a long-term survivor and community activist, do you think we have come closer to knowing when it is optimal to start HIV therapy? If you were newly diagnosed, when would you begin treatment?
I think we're getting closer. But we still have guidelines that tell physicians to prescribe to people that have a CD4 count under 350 or viral loads over 100,000 or a combination of the two or somebody that is actually showing symptoms of HIV or AIDS.
But I think we're getting closer and closer to the reality that we used to actually embrace a few years ago -- to start people at an earlier stage of HIV infection. We don't have anything when it comes to the U.S. HIV treatment guidelines that says that yet. I think we're going to move towards that. That's because, I think, the main factor here is the fact that we have a lot more friendly, or friendlier, treatments -- HIV treatments that are not as toxic and problematic as we used to have. For instance, five years ago, or six years ago, many of us were taking Crixivan [indinavir] plus Zerit [stavudine, d4T] and Videx [didanosine, ddI], and we had a lot of problems with neuropathy, lipodystrophy, lipoatrophy, kidney stones, insulin resistance, diabetes ... you name it. So we kind of walked away from the concept of treating people earlier on in the disease, not only because, even though we had good CD4 response and viral load responses back then, the toxicities were a little too much to justify early treatment.
"We have more and more data that shows there are, of course, immune benefits and viral load benefits to starting treatment earlier."
However, the past few years, we've had treatments come through the market that are a lot more friendly when it comes to toxicities. We have Viread and now, of course, Truvada [tenofovir/FTC], the once-a-day pill Atripla [efavirenz/tenofovir/FTC], Reyataz [atazanavir] a protease inhibitor that has definitely shown lower incidence of lipid abnormalities. We kind of got rid of Zerit. Zerit is not as popular in the United States as it used to be, although, of course, Zerit is being used everywhere else in the world. We cannot forget our brothers and sisters out in Africa and South America and Asia that are taking Zerit and AZT [Retrovir, zidovudine].
We have more and more data that shows there are, of course, immune benefits and viral load benefits to starting treatment earlier. The biggest factor in shifting the pendulum towards earlier treatment will eventually be less toxic treatments. We are already moving in that direction. I think the integrase inhibitor class is going to be shown, in my prediction, to be a lot cleaner in toxicities for treatment-naive patients, too. They are moving towards that. There's data from CROI on Tibotec's drug, TMC278. [Click here to read coverage of the study.] It's a non-nucleoside [reverse transcriptase inhibitor] like Sustiva [efavirenz, Stocrin] or Viramune [nevirapine] that may be as effective as Sustiva, yet not have the neurological complications.
The more drugs we have that are friendlier to patients' bodies, the more the pendulum will swing back to where we used to be, years ago. However, I'm also an activist, so the issue is, "Who's going to pay for earlier treatment?" We're already overburdened when it comes to getting funding from federal sources in the United States. The earlier we start people, the more money we have to spend on healthcare for HIV. That's a big factor, too, that we have to think about. It's not only about the health benefits. I think there's going to be some problems trying to -- especially under the current administration -- get programs funded that justify treatment, for instance, for somebody that has 450 T cells, instead of 350. That's what I'm trying to say.
There are many factors that determine when a person should start treatment. Some people may not choose to take treatment when they have high T cell levels and low viral loads. We have data now that show more and more that, for instance, the gut lymphatic tissue -- i.e., the T cells, the memory T cells in the lymphatic tissue in the gut -- are preserved better if we treat earlier, too.
Why is that important?
We forget that most of our immune system, most of our T cells, memory or naive T cells, are in the gut. In the past three years I myself, as a patient, I have experienced a lot of gut problems. I have had GI [gastrointestinal] problems since day one. I have lived with this for twenty-some years, and I'm always concerned about my gut. It seems like a huge loss of T cells, CD4 cells, memory cells, in the gut lymphatic tissue occurs early on in the disease. That [early loss of CD4 cells in the gut] basically predicts, or predisposes us, to a lower immune response with treatment in the future. So it seems like we lose a lot of memory T cells early on. If we treat it early on -- it's a hypothesis; I think we need to prove it; nobody has really proven it yet -- we may preserve immune function for the longer term.
You asked me a question which I don't think I've answered yet. If I just turned out to be positive today, let's say, and I had 400 T cells and maybe, let's say, 50,000-60,000 viral load, which would not qualify me for HIV treatment under the DHHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] guidelines, would I take treatment? I probably would, as long as I could take a treatment that I can tolerate -- maybe a Truvada or Sustiva -- although I don't tolerate Sustiva very well. Or Truvada + Reyataz. Things of that nature that would not affect me metabolically, or my gut would not be affected. Diarrhea is a big issue for me. Yes, I would definitely consider it. I would be more open to that knowing the data that I've seen at CROI.
Would you consider starting treatment with a CD4 count of 450?
Yes, but I'm also a pill popper. Some people do not want to pop pills, and they have a big barrier to taking medication of any kind. So I think we have some more work to do. I think we're going to move towards that. I think it will probably take a few -- two or three -- years to get there. I really think so ... It's looking more and more promising with less toxic drugs.
My second question is related to my first. Should people who are lucky enough -- or unlucky enough -- to find out they have HIV immediately after getting infected (that's called primary infection) -- start treatment immediately? Did you see any interesting research on the topic at CROI?
It's kind of a gray area. And also, who's lucky enough to run to a doctor while they're going through basically primary infection? They just find out. They don't even find out, actually. They have unsafe sex, and they can feel their bodies changing. They're having night sweats. They're having flu-like symptoms. Their lymph nodes are inflamed. They run to the doctor. The doctor runs their viral load and T cells. Of course, their viral load, it really increases dramatically in that phase. And they get treatment.
Very few people do that. Very few people. [Laughs.] Most people are actually in denial in the first months, or actually, years, of infection, anyway. We are talking about people who actually are smart enough to do that, to run to the doctor and say, "Hey, I may have been infected. Test me. Let's run a viral load, and let's do something about it."
For those people, some studies have shown some benefits from early treatment. Of course, we have studies that show no benefits. But two studies that were presented at CROI were very interesting. One was done in Amsterdam with 332 patients. ... Sixty-four people enrolled in the study started HAART within 180 days of seroconversion, and 32 of these patients then stopped treatment. I forget how many months later, but it was a few months later. What they found out is that for those patients that started treatment right away, within 180 days of seroconversion -- I don't think that's really right away, by the way; it could have been, probably, earlier, to be more effective -- they found that their viral set point was a lot lower once they interrupted HAART. They went on a treatment interruption.
The viral set point for patients treated within 180 days of infection was lower compared to patients who began treatment more than 180 days after seroconversion?
Right. Compared to the arm that was not treated early. But they say that that benefit tended to disappear with time. Of course, viral loads started going up after that. But when they interrupted, compared to those that were not treated early, their viral load was almost .6 log lower.
That makes sense. If you treat early maybe you have some preservation of immune response, but with time, that effect may disappear.
There's another study from Munich, too, that enrolled 200 patients with primary HIV infection. One hundred forty-four were treated right away, and 56 patients delayed treatment. Then they stopped -- 100 patients stopped treatment after almost ten months. And in this study they didn't quite see the differences, the huge differences, in viral load, between treated and untreated that were seen in the study done in Amsterdam, but they saw 87 T cells more in patients who were treated early. The treated arm had a lot more T cells than those others that delayed treatment.
There's actually another study that I haven't mentioned that says that, once again, the gut lymphatic tissue, can be preserved. The CD4 loss that occurs early on in HIV infection can actually be improved if you give treatment early on. That's another area of research that I think we're going to see a lot more studies on.
It's very exciting. I don't think we have an agreement. I think actually this is probably the most controversial part of HIV treatment. I think there are trends that will show us that maybe it is not a bad idea to treat people -- especially now that, once again, we have less toxic drugs to treat them, at least for the first year of their infection. We can see what happens afterwards.
"Why is Sustiva causing a higher incidence of lipoatrophy in the presence of nucleosides? Is it because of the increase of intercellular levels of AZT or d4T? Or is it related to something, when it comes to mitochondrial toxicity of insulin resistance? It's very intriguing."
One more thing I wanted to add that was really shocking for me is that, in the Munich study, [of] those that started treatment and then stopped 12 months later there were two patients that remained undetectable, even after they stopped treatment. I'm hearing a lot more of that. When I go out on my lectures, people raise their hands and say, "Well, I was in treatment. My T cells went up, my viral load went undetectable. Then I wanted a break and had some issues with side effects and took a treatment interruption, and I'm still undetectable. What do you think about that? Am I cured?"
Back two years ago, I thought, "Hmm. Maybe you were diagnosed wrong, right?" [Laughs.] But now I'm seeing more and more of that. So there are some patients -- very few of them -- that start treatment early, go on a treatment interruption and remain undetectable. I'm not saying this is a rule, obviously. Only two out of 100 remained undetectable after months of stopping therapy. That means we need to look at these patients more closely, too. We should ask what's happening to them and why treating them early gave them this kind of response.
We have to jump to the next topic, because our time is limited. Can we talk about your specialty, metabolic complications? Did you see anything interesting on the topic at CROI?
Yes. The study [ACTG 5142] considering Sustiva plus nucleosides, versus Kaletra plus nucleosides, versus Kaletra plus Sustiva without nucleosides. Very interesting. They found a higher incidence of lipoatrophy in the Sustiva plus nucleoside arm versus Kaletra. Definitely something we did not expect at all. So, of course, the nucleosides included AZT, d4T, and I think some patients were also on tenofovir [Viread]. But what we saw is there's a higher incidence of lipoatrophy in the Sustiva arm than in those who are taking also AZT or d4T. I think somebody needs to explain this, and we're going to see data on this eventually, I guess: Why is Sustiva causing a higher incidence of lipoatrophy in the presence of nucleosides? Is it because of the increase of intercellular levels of AZT or d4T? Or is it related to something, when it comes to mitochondrial toxicity of insulin resistance? So it's very intriguing, very intriguing.
"DEXA is a beautiful thing. DEXA scans cost under $150, with them you can get information about your bone density, your lean body mass, your fat mass, in every single part of your body."
There's another study that ... looked at bone density and the treatment of people with low bone density with Fosamax [alendronate] once a week, and calcium and vitamin D supplements. There was a response to Fosamax. It was almost like a 3 percent or so increase -- yes, a 3.38 percent increase in 48 weeks. People say, "Well, that's not much," but the encouraging thing is that it's actually the same response that has been shown in HIV-negative studies in the past. At least we know that this treatment, Fosamax with supplements of calcium and vitamin D, works the same way for HIV-positives and negatives. That was very interesting, too.
I'm one of those activists trying to push for early diagnosis of bone density loss with the use of DEXA [dual energy X-ray absorptiometry] scans. There's also no recommendations, no guidelines, on this topic. I think the earlier we find out whether or not you have problems with bone density, the better. Most people wait until they have a fracture.
Have you gotten a DEXA scan?
Oh, yes, yes. DEXA is a beautiful thing. DEXA scans cost under $150. With them you can get information about your bone density, your lean body mass, your fat mass, in every single part of your body. Let's say we were in an extremely rich society where everybody had good health care. Having a baseline DEXA scan for all of us -- and probably you could get one every two years or so, three years, to see how our bodies are changing, not only because of HIV, but because of aging -- and treating accordingly would be ideal. In a perfect world, that's what we should be doing. DEXA gives you three pieces of information.
So if someone's insurance covers it, you would recommend DEXA?
Yes. I don't recommend anything; I'm a patient. I'm not a doctor. But, yes, yes. It should be a full body scan, though. There are three types of DEXA scans. You can do a spinal DEXA. No. Get a full body DEXA that tells you how much lean body mass, muscle, of course, and fat and bone density you have in every single part of your body. Put it in your chart and have your doctor recheck it two or three years later. Make sure you're doing OK. If not, treat.
Also, I tell people to exercise with weights. Make sure your testosterone is normal and your thyroid hormones are normal because low hormones can decrease bone density and exercise has been shown to increase bone density.
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