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22 August 2016
There is no indication, we ask
And we head towards the great Teddy bear in the center of the hall. The hotel is behind it but to access it is necessary to go upstairs by elevator. The lobby is welcoming, reception people spoke good English. We paid immediately in dollar and required the alarm for 6.30. They accompanied us to the room that is
Better than standard that we requested. The room actually is huge and has a
Giant TV. The bathroom has a large glass shower, 2 washbasins water close and bidets but it does not work. We have complimentary The coffee and two bottles of water.
The child does not pay and he wasn t
Counted. We realize that there are
Slippers and bathrobe and toothbrush for just one person while we're in 3. We have our toothbrushes with us so no problem. The double bed is spacious, we are comfortably in three and the sheets are very soft. The alarm clock rings, we get up refreshed and ready for the second flight. We are happy with our choice. The second flight begins to take on just when we arrive at the counter. We are in board and here they will deliver immediately to children their complimentary kit. The flight is quiet, many empty seats, in the back rows there are people lying on 4 central places. The breakfast is good and valid service.
Very kind hostess on both flights. bathrooms always clean. We arrive on time. You always travel well with Qatar and We suggest the hotel break in case of long stop in Qatar. I hope in return flight to Pisa we can change the places but in any case we are more than happy with choosing Qatar airways
Travelled August 2016
22 August 2016
Qatar airways. Our summer holiday 2016 were not directed toward the Maldives because due to work problems we didn't know in which period we would get the holidays and then couldn't book flights. It is no secret that early bookers for flights save money. I was always monitoring the
Situation of prices of major airlines and waiting to know when we would have
Had our holidays I looked around. The best rates for August were those of
Oman air then suddenly the company has cancelled direct flights from muscat clutching a partnership with sri lankan Airlines. This resulted with the addition of the stop over in Colombo. The total duration of the flights for us
Did not justify the price. We therefore excluded this company. The turkish was slightly cheaper than the Emirates and Qatar but we didn't
Flew well last year so it wasn't appetizing. I was so looking elsewhere when in April we
Finally got confirmation of the dates of holidays and in those
Days the Qatar launched the promotion for the new airport of Pisa. Discounted tickets went sold out from morning to evening of the same day : the flight that we were interested in was already all sold for promotional rates. We found great rates by making a stopover in outbound flight. As we had the afternoon departure from Pisa and a morning departure from doha we decided to exploit the opportunity of staying inside the new airport In
Doha in Hamad airport hotel. We requested a quote for the minimum duration of stay, between 5 and 8 hours, the price of around $ 200 is not cheap but it seemed preferable than waiting 7 hours at the airport. When we
Booked and paid for the tickets we chose the neighboring places. We were good to go. Three days before departure we receive a route change
For flights to and from Pisa which were
Advanced of 10 minutes. Type of aircraft does not change but in fact The seats are reassigned separating un on The flight. We have not appreciated. Following the instructions of the website we try to go in and edit the seats, of course the site does not allow us to edit the posts, it reports an error loading seating chart. We Called Qatar and they told us that they can't change places but just make a report to keep is near if possible. I try to change seats during the
Check in online but you can't ... We are very disappointed. We understand that the seats are not guaranteed but if you have multiple people on the same ticket
Purchased months earlier and places nearby you cannot intersperse on plane putting a kid in row 9 and The parents lin line 18 and 23. This is ridiculous. I Called again Qatar and they tell me that the most they can do is to put 2 people close and the third remains distant. This I did not really like but had ti accept it.We get to the day of departure, with the new seats. The joke is that many places on
Flight are empty so we don't understand why there were no seats available when during Check in we tried to change places, maybe they all missed the flight? Who knows!
The first flight on a Boeing with 2 rows of three seats, each equipped with screens
Tv. The seats are comfortable. We expected gadgets for children but for our son It was missing
And he was also booked on
Child meal, they apologized but they say on the aircraft they do not have anymore ... We travel in the evening, but they didn't give any travel kit, even sleeping mask, only headphones to follow the movie. Meals are served immediately after take-off to the children, their Briefcase contains a plate of pasta, French fries, fruit mousse, fresh fruit juice
Chocolate chocolate and jam sandwich. The
Children are licking their chops. The
Standard menu includes a choice between chicken and fish, I chose a light meal, chicken and boiled vegetables accompanied by fruit salad. The food is good. They Brought is drinks and then tea and coffee. The flight is quiet and reach the Qatar 10 minutes early. Pass the luggage controls and look for the hotel.
Travelled August 2016
27 November 2015
Smooth transit and day flight.
No comfort packs
My first experience with Qatar has set a very high standard for future flights. I've been flying to and from Maldives since Thomson (at that time called First Choice Airways) offered direct flights between Manchester and Male' and miss those flights!! Since Thomson ceased operation I have found Etihad to offer the best rates and transit times and used them a handful of times and was planning to use them again having found flights around USD930.00 return during high season.
A friend mentioned Qatar currently had a sale on and when I checked their prices I found return seats for USD 697 return, so over 200 USD cheaper! I also really liked a short transit of 1hr 15 minutes even though it made me a little nervous.
The one thing that made laugh was after booking the seats, receiving a mail regarding upgrading my seat from Doha to Manchester for USD800. I'm not sure how many book budget seats and then pay 3 times the amount for the seat to upgrade to Business class!
The online check in was smooth and the flight wasn't full so on one leg I had a row to myself and the second leg a spare seat between me and another passenger. The flight generally was quite empty and many had a row to themselves to space out.
At check in they issued boarding cards for the full journey and bags travelled smoothly from Male to Manchester.
The crew on both flights were friendly and polite. Especially the Male to Doha sector. I think having a reduced number of passengers made everyone a bit more relaxed.
The meals were good, drinks frequent and the cabin wasn't freezing as I've experienced on other long haul flights.
I was impressed with the entertainment as I found a lot of my favourite comedy series with episodes I hadn't seen before. It's also possible to listen to the music and switch to map mode which I couldn't do on Etihad. So you can snooze with music on and check the flight progress every so often without switching screens.
No comfort packs were issued so take your own socks,earplugs and sleeping mask..it may have just been that flight..or standard procedure.
The short transit was no problem, we arrived into Doha ahead of schedule, cleared the security smoothly and the boarding area for the onward flight was very well organised. Boarding was done via Zones. Doha airport was very quiet considering it was the middle of the day. It's not as busy as Abu Dhabi and Dubai airport. Everything is well signposted and labelled with lots of staff on duty keeping everything moving.
We arrived into Manchester 45 minutes ahead of schedule. This is when the bubble burst as there were only 2 staff on the immigration counters and those 45 minutes we saved were then wasted doing what us British do best.. standing in a queue.
But, overall it was the best flight in a long time!. Everything was smooth and leaving Male' at 9.00am and landing at 17.15 the same day felt almost like a direct flight.
Travelled November 2015
5 November 2014
Excellent service
We have departed from Venice on April 15 th 2013 with Qatar Airways, and arrived ontime to the airport in Malè on April 16 th at 7.50. Our flight was comfortable and pleasant. Despite all my fears before the departure, being my first time with scheduled flights and speaking little English, the transfer in the airport of Doha was easier than I thought.
The airport in Doha, that is huge, in my opinion is much better organised of our Italian airports and there I could find, both during the outward journey and during the return trip, some people that have asked me if I needed help.
Then the planes are much more comfortable than the charter carriers (which until that moment I had used), not only for the much wider space between the seats, but most of all for the good service of the crew and for the rich individual screens (sets on the back of every seat) fully functional and full of proposals in order to pass the time on board.
The food was delicious and varied and it could even satisfy the most demanding palates. The only drawback: the waiting time is a bit too long in Doha for the transfer of the second leg of the flight; sometimes this wait might be really heavy in the case of traveling with young children. Despite this, the experience with Qatar Airways is absolutely memorable.
Travelled aprile 2013
20 April 2013
comfortable seats
Flight from Doha to Male and return
We flied with Qatar last August, from Milan to Doha service was excellent, comfortable seats, nice entertainment (each seat with own video) tasty food.
Children had their meal after few minutes take off, good quality. Nice Spongebob kit.
Second flight from Doha to Male' was different. Quality of the food poor. small plane, not so clean. no personal video. The flights back home was ok.
Travelled August 2012
12 November 2012
Very Good
Friendly Staff
Me and my partner booked a holiday to stay on the Meeru Island Resort & Spa in the Maldives in August 2012 this year. We stayed on this holiday island for 10 days and 10 nights and we chose the all inclusive package option - which we would highly recommended - please see my other reviews about this island for more information.
In relation to Qatar Airways, it was both our first time's flying with Qatar Airways and so we were very much hoping that it was going to be a good experience overall, especially because it was such a long flight from London to the Maldives. We were allowed 23 kg for each person's checked baggage allowance and also one piece of hand baggage allowance per person, which should not exceed 7 kg - which me and my partner found a sufficient amount per person for our 10 day and 10 night stay in the Maldives. Our flight was not a direct one and it had 1 stop in Doha, which made the whole journey longer and more tiring. However, once we were on board, we immediately felt better - welcomed and comfortable on the new airline, Qatar Airways. This was simply down to the fact that the lovely cabin crew members were very welcoming, friendly and offered excellent hospitality from the outset and through out of our whole experience. Qatar Airways was voted "Airline of the Year" in 2011 in the Skytrax industry audit, which I would say was well deserved from our experience in August of this year. Although we did not make a purchase onboard, there is a good standard in flight duty free magazine (Shopping Extravaganza) to browse through, where you have the choice of a collection of different items such as fragrances, cosmetics, skin care, watches, jewellery, fashion accessories, children's toys, and also Qatar Airways unique memorabilia. This selection of products is said to be updated every 6 months so it stays quite current and you can also pre-order items online before your flight to guarantee your choice by filling out a form online and emailing it to them in advance.
Me and my partner were both kept entertained during the long flight, with the excellent and free state of the art Oryx Entertainment System. This system offers a good and varied selection of audio and video entertainment options which we found absolutely no problems with at all. You can watch a good movie or a comedy programme for example and you have the choice of more than one thousand entertainment options of different movies, television programmes, games and music. Since our flight was quite long from London the the Maldives, on both flights we received the same high level of hospitality and friendliness from each member of staff that we came in to contact with. Further more, we also found that the meals were ok, the same as always on any flight we have been on. There were no problems at all for us with the flight on Qatar Airways in regards to the food, entertainment system, seating, comfort and service from the staff.
Overall, Qatar Airways and it's cabin crew made us feel very welcome and relaxed during our experience. We both felt that this airline met our individual expectations and it did not disappoint us at all. As a result, we would definitely consider choosing this particular airline again in the future as an option and we would certainly recommend it to other people who are wondering whether to go with this airline or not.
Travelled August 2012
23 September 2012
The diligent care for each customer
Being the winner of the best service airline in the world, Qatar Airways allured us to try their experience. Our expectations were very high, but they managed to fulfill them offering great service, delicious meals, comfy seats.... We have bought a few tickets to fly with them soon and we're definitely looking forward to that!
Travelled January 2012
23 August 2012
Very Good
Friendly cabin crew
For the very first time I chose this Airline to reach my annual dream destination: Maldives.
It was quite a good choice but unfortunately less then expected. Maybe because I had some problems already in the stage of my booking, I needed special information. The web site was out of order for weeks! So that I had no other way to contact them then the traditionl phone call. And the service by phone was absolutely not the "five stars" promised one.
Anyway on board it is comfortable, cabin crew is very friendly, food average. My team was absolutely spoiled by the touch screen entertainement (not on MLE-DOH flight).
Travelled August 2012


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The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet — PART FOUR: The Cage Barack Obama's Put All of Us In
[ Click above to embiggen: Is this the birth of a new meme and a handy warning sign for economic doom on the horizon? ]
A few years ago, a boyfriend I had at the time named Jason took me to a popular breakfast-only restaurant here in Chicago called Orange…which was notorious for not allowing any substitutions or alterations to the menu of any kind. This is the "No soup for you!" attitude found in restaurants that can get away with it — made popular in the 90s by an episode of "Seinfeld". At the time, Orange was one of the most popular spots to eat near Boystown and the wait for a table stretched into hours. Come to think of it, almost all the restaurants in Boystown were always busy like that (more on this later).
Jason had no trouble ordering strictly from what was listed on the menu…but then he kept sending everything back to the kitchen for either being too cold or too hot or not-what-he-ordered. That last one is something I doubt most people would fault Goldilocks for, though, because if a guy orders basil-chai-stuffed-French-toast and instead finds Fruity Pebbles babycakes in front of him, then he certainly has the right to complain and get the breakfast he asked the waitress for in the first place. And right after that, if he's straight, he should demand to know what the waitress is implying by insisting he should have babycakes off the children's menu instead of his desired breakfast.
Ever since that morning with Jason at Orange, I've wondered if sometimes the universe sends people the wrong French toast on purpose.
Jason, oddly enough, later got incredibly sick (and was a giant baby about it, since we're dishing the T-that-stands-for-Truth here)…and I wonder if it was the chai-stuffed nonsense that did it. Maybe the universe sent him the wrong French toast to spare him from whatever the heck knocked him on his butt for a week after that breakfast at Orange. Could the babycakes have averted disaster? Perhaps the oddball things that happen to us and any randomness that's dished up really isn't all that random at all…and the universe (or the Holy Spirit and a higher power, if that's your personal belief) wants us to either learn something or appreciate the oddness as forewarning of some gathering doom.
I sincerely believe "the universe brought me the wrong French toast" five days ago when I went to the Chicago offices of the big law firm Hinshaw & Culbertson and discovered their lobby carpeting to be absolutely filthy…with their men's washroom in even worse shape (stagnant water on the floor…feces bobbing in clogged toilets yellow with urine..mirrors streaked with grime…etc.). This experience launched my ongoing investigation into "The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet" that you are reading now.
I was asked to come to Hinshaw's offices at 222 N. LaSalle in the Loop by Scott M. Gilbert, who is the attorney representing the largest and most prominent gay bar in Chicago in a discrimination suit filed against this defendant in federal court. The judge presiding over the case is widely considered by many in Chicago to be a future Supreme Court nominee…and I find myself to be one of the witnesses in the case who saw firsthand how the employees and owners of this gay bar consistently bully, harass, and persecute Christians (while in often the same breath hypocritically claiming that Christians are an "enemy of the gay community" who bully, harass, and persecute gays). Because of all this, the case is destined to hit the front pages in the months ahead, as it works its way to trial…since the stakes are so very high, with the Left's ability to use gays as a weapon against Christians in jeopardy now that a Christian has taken a gay bar to court and called out its hypocrisy on the record.
Just imagine the ramifications of all this in the relentless war the Ministry of Truth that is our national media wages against all followers of Christ…because if Christians can stand up to gay bullies in the heart of Boystown, then perhaps Christian groups coast to coast will be emboldened to similarly stand up to bullying in the larger Culture War. I'm sure you've noticed that gays are terrified of saying anything ill towards Muslims, for instance; it's reasonably to believe that's because gays know that Muslims will push back against any perceived slights (and then some). Just imagine how different the world would be if Christians banded together and said in a very loud voice that "NO" it is just not acceptable for the "gay community" to continue using believers in Christ as a nonstop punching bag.
Considering this — and the fact that Mr. Gilbert knows I am a writer who incorporates experiences from his daily life into his essays and nonfiction book projects — it's beyond shocking to me that Hinshaw & Culbertson would invite me to their offices and clear me through security when they've allowed their lobby and men's room to become so filthy (as you can see in photos I snapped on my visit). I can't imagine this was something intentional, and the staff I encountered were clearly embarrassed by the filthy carpeting in the waiting area…so I can only conclude the firm just doesn't have the financial resources to keep the carpets clean and the washroom spotless (the way I'd expect in such a big law firm). This really is the best impression they seem able to make to visitors…and that's horrifying for the state of our current Obama economy.
No reasonable person would ever believe that I wouldn't write and tell people about the filthy lobby and men's room I saw if I was asked to visit a business, whether it's a restaurant, a hotel, a doctor's office, or a law firm. If you know who I am and you've invited me over — and your carpet is still filthy and your washroom is still a disaster area — then I can only assume you just don't clean these places (or if you did, then this was the very best you could ever do).
Contemplating this from a "wrong French toast" perspective and praying on it, I've concluded that Hinshaw & Culbertson's filthy carpets and stinky men's room was a collective message from the universe (by way of the Holy Spirit), meant as a warning sign that we're close to the precipice of massive financial ruin in this country. It reminds me of restaurants I used to love that were almost impossible to score a table in…but are now either closed or have been relatively empty since 2008 or so. I also think about the places like Orange that are still in business, but now skimp on either service or the quality of ingredients…so everything has a dingy, downgraded feel where once I'd be absolutely blown away by polish and professionalism. I see this same phenomenon happening in stores along Michigan Avenue that are either shuttered or no longer spend any money on elaborate window displays; or it's like condo towers that used to have doormen and spotless lobbies of their own, but now have automated entry systems and filthy vestibules. Some bars have downgraded from fancy snack mixes to stale peanuts or no bar snacks at all…and even the City of Chicago has doubled the cost of a train ride from the airport into the heart of the city (while simultaneously keeping its trains filthier and nastier than ever). It really feels like the world as we know it is falling apart because there's just no longer any money left to keep everything working like it should.
That afternoon I spent a few days ago sitting on a couch waiting for Mr. Gilbert and staring at the filthiest carpet I'd ever seen in my adult life was a huge shock to my system…and, I think, a message from the universe that filthy carpet in a big law firm really is the 21st Century equivalent of canaries in a 19th Century coal mine.
Think about it…because I bet you'll see it for yourself now that it's been pointed out. And it's one of those things that once you see, you can never un-see.
Those little birds in their cages were the early warning signs for miners that toxic gas was slowly filling up a tunnel…so when the canary dropped to the bottom of a cage the miners would race to the surface (or perish in the bowels of the Earth). Office workers today don't have canaries sitting on their desks…but the health of their employers' firms could realistically be measured by the upkeep, cleaning, and maintenance of the company's public areas. Hotels and restaurants notoriously keep their "backstage" areas unfinished, with bare dry wall and scuffed floors because guests and clients never set foot back there. I have never worked in a law firm, but I have noticed on my visits to different ones that the work spaces of the attorneys are never as glamorous as the lobby and client waiting area. The only places most companies spend big money aesthetically are those that have a "pay off" on that investment…and that's all geared towards giving visitors a strong and confident impression of the firm's competence and financial viability.
It's been my experience that the very last thing a company will cut before it starts a downward spiral into oblivion is the upkeep and maintenance of public areas reserved for clients, guests, and visitors. I've seen quite a few hotels, bars, movie theaters, stores, and restaurants go out of business…and invariably all of them became dirty and messy not long before they closed down for good. In retrospect, it was a canary-in-the-coal-mine type of warning that these businesses stopped spending money on cleaning and maintenance…since they just didn't have the financial resources to keep their establishments looking good any longer.
I have no way of knowing what sort of predicament the big law firm Hinshaw & Culbertson is in right now in this Obama economy…but I just can't imagine a big firm like this willingly allowing its lobby carpeting to become so filthy or for its men's washroom to be such a mess unless the Senior Partners just can't afford to keep their offices presentable any longer. And since they employ so many people, it's scary to think of what will be cut next…if even a rented Rug Doctor carpet cleaner has become too big a luxury in a tightened budget.
I'd really like to hear from those of you out there who've noticed big firms like Hinshaw & Culbertson allowing their offices to become dirty and messy…and if you, like me, see this as a warning sign that the economy is in much greater jeopardy than our nonstop-propaganda "Ministry of Truth" national media leads us to believe. I think we are in uncharted territory here, folks…because even in recessions of the past I don't remember a firm as big as Hinshaw & Culbertson ever allowing the offices of their corporate headquarters to become so filthy. If it's already so bad that THIS is happening…then, Great Merciful Zeus, what's next?
I don't know a whole lot of lawyers but I've reached out to those in my life and have asked them what it would mean at their own firms if suddenly the place looked as terrible as Hinshaw's Chicago offices. Over the last few days, I've written to cleaning experts Ann B. Davis and lifestyle expert "Heloise", inquiring if they could possibly think of any tips for how a struggling business could find easier or more inexpensive ways to keep its office carpets and washrooms clean…but today I wanted to focus on asking an expert on law firms if he could see a "canaries in a coal mine" aspect to all of this the way I do. As noted, I don't know a lot about how law firms work or the culture the Senior Partners set there, so I need some knowledgeable input in that regard. Yesterday's letter to Heloise reminded me that John Grisham was once a guest of the hotel I worked at in Cleveland and that he seemed like a very nice and friendly man when I met him; so I decided to ask his opinion on all of this and see if ever he'd encountered anything like "The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet" while researching his own books (which are excellent, by the way, and are always exciting mysteries set in the legal world that often feature big firms like Hinshaw & Culbertson in some way).
Mr. John Grisham
c/o Doubleday Speakers' Bureau
1745 Broadway
New York, New York 10019
Dear Mr. Grisham,
Recently, I had the pleasure of reading your latest excellent book The Litigators…which was technically not your latest book, because you wrote one after this one that I didn't much like and only got about 50 pages into. The Litigators was great fun, though, and I've actually read it twice because it's set in Chicago and is about a guy who leaves a big law firm and goes to work alongside a pair of crackpots with a loudmouth receptionist from the Southside and some kind of dog. The big firm goes up against this ragtag bunch and that proves to be a spectacular miscalculation because, well, you wrote the book so you probably remember what happens.
I'm writing to you because I suddenly find myself in the bizarre situation of feeling like the protagonist in one of your books…where I arrived at the law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson here in Chicago for an appointment with one of their partners last week and I happened to experience an epiphany about the current state of our dreadful national economy while staring at the filthy carpet in their waiting area (and then later enduring the conditions of their third floor men's room, which could only be accurately described by someone such as Stephen King, whose imagination in the horror realm would no doubt do Hinshaw's men's room accurate justice). As I'm sure you and everyone at Doubleday are well-aware, I've been chronicling my development of the "filthy carpet in a big law firm" theory as a 21st Century version of "canaries in a coal mine"…and have kept track of my investigation in "The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet" (which I realize could easily become, at the very least, an eBook). I believe in times as perilous and strange as these that ordinary citizens should spend a little time working to solve various mysteries they encounter…and that none of us should ever be afraid of investigating something we find odd or scary in the course of our daily activities.
I'm really fortunate to have thousands of readers coast to coast here on HillBuzz.org who share my zeal for mystery-solving…but the one thing I really don't have is any understanding of how a big law firm like Hinshaw & Culbertson operates or who makes the decision on something like allowing the lobby carpets to become filthy. I'm currently operating under the assumption that the only way a big law firm's waiting area and men's room could ever be allowed to degenerate into such filth is if the firm is struggling financially to the extent that they finally had to cut the cleaning and maintenance budgets down to next-to-nothing. Not being a lawyer or a paralegal or even a guy who has a lot of lawyer friends, I only have my experiences in hospitality and consulting firms to inform me in this matter. As I've written about in "The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet" so far, it's just unimaginable for me to ever think of a business that would allow its public and guest/visitor areas to fall into such disrepair…unless the business is in some sort of downward spiral.
What I've always loved about your books is how you relate the goings-on and internal politics of large law firms to novices and "civilians" like me who have no experience with these places apart from reading your books. You have always made me feel like I was inside one of your excellent stories…and that's never been more true than at this moment, when I feel like I've become a character from a "John Grisham novel" in real life. The only difference is that usually most of the lawyers in your books are Southern and I think everyone at Hinshaw & Culbertson is from around the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa tri-state area. The people in your books tend to have funny and colorful names, as well, while people at Hinshaw are called "Scott M. Gilbert" or "Donald L. Mrozek" or "J. William Rogers", with only that last one being a good "John Grisham" sort of name (and if that was the case the "J" would stand for "Jupiter" or "Jaspar" or something sassy like that, only he'd go by the initial in his professional career so as to reserve the sassiness for his private endeavors).
My boyfriend's mother CarolAnne, who thinks the government and other shadowy entities are forever plotting against her, has told me that she thinks I need to abandon "The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet" because she fears that Hinshaw is going to "send goons after (me)"; whenever she gets into something like this, I imagine there being a "Goon Store" adjacent to the neighborhood Petsmart where people can purchase (or possibly rent for the day) "goons" to use against their presumed victims. I told CarolAnne that the Hinshaw firm can't even clean the carpets in their lobby or keep their men's room tidy…so I highly doubt they have the budget to hire or purchase "goons". All this sort of gives me an image of that Donald L. Mrozek guy standing in front of an open window in downtown Chicago encouraging underlings to "Fly, fly, fly my pretties!"…before a handful of interns and paralegals in ill-fitting monkey costumes with homemade, tinfoil wings take splat-destined leaps out into the brisk, winter air.
I do wonder, however, how one of the big law firms in your books like The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Associate, or The Rainmaker would address the fact that an essayist and political writer such as myself happened to observe (and photograph) filthy and unsanitary conditions in that firm's national corporate headquarters. I know it's pretty hard to scream "defamation!" against a journalist who has photographic proof of the story he's covering, considering that every word in his report is 100% true. I'm also aware of "The Streisand Effect", where arrogant people erroneously believe they have the power or resources to shutdown a story…but ultimately discover that in attempting to do so they only blasted the information they're trying to hide to a much wider (and even global) audience. I'm not aware of any power that any authority has in the United States to prevent a journalist from speaking openly about things he observed with his own eyes and ears (and nose, in my case, because the washroom was really stinky)…not to mention photographed accurately.
I've heard that in Thailand the government there can come after anyone who is accused of insulting the King…and that, for instance, a journalist reporting on the filthy carpeting and stinky men's room in King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Grand Palace on the Chao Phraya River (thank you, Wikipedia!) really has something to worry about. You'd know better than I, but I just don't think Donald L. Mrozek in the Hinshaw & Culbertson offices near the Chicago River has a similar ability to prevent someone like me from expressing his First Amendment right to write and talk about the filthy carpeting and stinky washroom at his firm as much as he (or, rather, I) wants.
I know I will never have the chance to get to it, so if you ever feel inclined to add The Filthy Carpet to your row of titles alongside The Client, The Partner, The Runaway Jury and others — in the way of a heart-pounding, nonstop adrenaline account of a big law firm in Chicago that channels CarolAnne's nightmares and sends "goons" out to harm or eliminate a journalist who exposed filthy and unsanitary conditions in their corporate headquarters — then I invite you to incorporate my experiences with Hinshaw & Culbertson into your next bestseller. I only ask that you send Misters Gilbert, Mrozek, and Rogers autographed copies because they don't even have magazines for people to read in their lobby (so maybe people could read your books instead, which would distract them from the filthy carpeting).
I really think I'm on to something with my theory that "filthy carpets in a big law firm" is a real indicator of serious doom approaching in our economy…so I hope you will follow my work as I expound on this theory in the coming days. I plan on contacting leading experts in economics and politics — in addition to retired actresses from tee-vee shows I've always liked — to establish the meme that neglect and poor maintenance of office buildings in the year 2013 is a serious alarm we should treat in our country like an expired canary on the bottom of a miner's gilded cage in a previous age.
Thanks so much for your very entertaining writing and for making almost all of your books excellent and engrossing reads…and for getting back to me soon with any insights you might have into why a big law firm like Hinshaw & Culbertson would purposefully allow their lobby and men's room to be so filthy (when they knew full well they had visitors coming). I need your help in determining if anything other than a financial crunch and cutbacks in staffing or cleaning services is responsible for this…because my entire "filthy carpets in a big law firm" economic theory is based on the presumption that the only time a big law firm would become this dirty is if the firm was on the ropes and just couldn't afford professional cleaning any longer. If that's the case, then I think my theory will hold up when I put it before the experts in the days ahead (or, potentially, ask Marla Gibbs of The Jeffersons fame her opinion on the matter).
If you or anyone else at Doubleday know of any other reason at all that Hinshaw & Culbertson's lobby carpet was so filthy and its washroom was such a stinky mess then I need to know that too. Whatever information you give me I will add to my investigation into 'The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet' and will share with my readership (who are all following this case closely).
Appreciating your help with the investigation,
Kevin DuJan
PS — My favorite book of yours ever was The Associate. Please have that made into a movie starring Matthew Bomer at your earliest convenience. Also, while you are taking requests, please write a legal thriller with an attractive gay male lead character (who is neither a stereotype nor a joke) who could also be played by Matt Bomer in a movie. Give the character a sassy black female friend, a Siberian husky puppy that's just being housebroken, an alcoholic neighbor who looks like Santa and has a wife that resembles Mrs. Claus, and a UPS driver who drops by with intelligence reports about the neighborhood (and have the driver's name be "Gus", which is also the name of the puppy…so when people talk about "Gus" doing something they'll always be wondering if it's the UPS guy doing it or if it's the dog). Sorry if this is not specific enough for you to start with.
QUESTION for COMMENTS: What insight can YOU give into anything else besides financial difficulties that could explain why a big law firm would possess filthy carpeting and stinky washrooms in its national headquarters? Where do you think "The Mystery of the Filthy, Filthy Carpet" should proceed tomorrow in the investigation?
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(photo by Ekdahl)
No refuge can be found on the campus since the annual Nik Dag
festivities have once again arrived. True to the code of behaviour and
tradition handed down to her by two experienced seniors, Gretchen
Sawyer and Linda Brock!, freshman Darlene Palermo has almost secured
her Bethel man.
Service Unit Weekends
Involve Bethel Students
(photo by Veras)
Happy birthday was in order last Thursday as President Lundquist
celebrated his birthday after chapel. Hubert the nameless lion initiated
the surprise and Bob Sorley, student senate president, presented the
President birthday wishes from the student body.
American Friends Service com-mittee
(AFSC), a Quaker organiza-tion,
is the sponsor of the Institu-tional
Service Unit weekends be-ing
held at Anoka State hospital
during the school year.
Bethel students are among the
participators in the program. Earle
Bennett, Dave Buck, Don Ciske,
Julie Johnson, Kathy Johnson and
Gretchen Sawyer participated in
last week's service group.
Week - end activities include in-formal
get-togethers with the pa-atnis,
a Lour of the grounds and
an orientation session with hospi-tal
Leaving the campus at 6:45 a.m.
Saturday, the group members re-turn
to the campus Saturday night
and travel back to the hospital
Sunday morning, arriving in time
for breakfast in the staff dining
room at 7:45 a.m.
Approximately 1,000 young peo-ple
are involved in about 75 week-end
service units. Longer-term
summer projects offer service op-portunities
for nearly 100 young
people in about 10 institutions
each year.
Having sponsored service groups
since 1943, AFSC attempts to re-lieve
human suffering and to seek
for non-violent solutions to per-
Seek Members
Bethel's Young Republicans
(YGOP) will conduct a member-ship
drive in the student lounge
next Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov.
26 and 27. Those wishing to join
or those merely desiring more in-formation
are invited to talk with
the YGOP representatives.
Dues are 50c per semester. A
portion of this goes to the club
treasury to carry out its program,
while the majority of the funds
go to the Minnesota state federa-tion
of YGOP to support its acti-vities.
YGOP filled the offices of vice
president, secretary and treasurer
at their meeting Thursday, Nov.
7. Elected were Mike Kubeck, vice
president; Barbara Rusche, secre-tary;
and Cindie Good, treasurer.
Featured at next month's meet-ing
on Dec. 4 will be a panel from
the Ramsey county GOP club. They
will lead a discussion on "What Is
sonal, national and international
In addition to its work and study
projects for young people, the
committee has world-wide pro-grams
of relief and rehabilitation,
social and technical assistance and
community relations and seminars
and institutes on peace and inter-national
Its work is carried on without
regard to race, creed or politics.
It is supported entirely by volun-tary
Annual Washington seminar on
Federal service will be held at the
Continental hotel, Feb. 18-21 in
Washington, D.C.
Participation in the seminar is
limited to students from colleges
of liberal arts and Bible colleges
that are recognized by the NAE
(National Association of Evangeli-cals)
as maintaining a program of
higher education with an evan-gelical
Christian emphasis.
The seminar includes visits to
the White house, Capital hill and
administrative departments or
agencies in the government.
Maximum representation from
any college is ten, while repre-sentation
of five is suggested as
ideal. Each student selected must
YDFL Explores
Civil Rights
Second meeting of the campus
Young Democrats (YDFL) will be
held at 8:30 this evening in the
seminary lounge. Included in the
program will be a brief organiza-tional
discussion along with con-sideration
of rejoining the state
YDFL of which Bethel was an ac-tive
member several years ago.
Speaker for the evening will be
Sam Richardson, advertising man-ager
for the Applebaum super-market
chain. Active in his church,
president of the local PTA and
chairman of his district Demo-cratic
Farmer Labor party, he is
a frequent speaker for NAACP.
His topic will be "Civil Rights
and the Democratic Party." A dis-cussion
period will follow.
Hunting season for Nik Dag con-tinues
although most girls have
already snagged their dates. Tick-ets
for the play are on sale this
week in the student center from
10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $2
per couple.
"Julie," a play based on Julius
Caesar as some of the more comi-cal
folk of the sophomore class
see him, is the feature for the
evening. Main spots in the play
are held by Denny Port, Bert
Heep, Dave Sprague and Joe Mar-cea.
Sharon Strand has the only
female lead in the play.
The program will be present-ed
Saturday at 8 p.m. in the
Bloomington high school audi-torium,
located at 88th and
Sheridan avenue south in Min-neapolis.
Directions can be ob-tained
with ticket purchase.
A mixed quartet composed of
Marilyn Fahs, Donna Swanson,
by Nancy Dean
"Is missionary life like you
thought it would be?" Mrs. Al Gus-tafson
was asked. Her answer:
"Yes, more or less."
"I guess nearly every missionary
looks to his field before he goes
pay in advance a registration fee
of $5. Each school participating in
the seminar pays an annual fee of
$25 which is due not later than
Feb. 1 of each calendar year.
"Last year," reported NAE sec-retary
of public affairs Clyde W.
Taylor, "113 students and faculty
representing 17 evangelical col-leges
from Massachusetts to Cal-ifornia
were in attendance. We
trust that key students from many
schools will attend this year and
be challenged by the opportunities
Correspondence should be ad-dressed
to Dr. Clyde W. Taylor,
secretary of public affairs, Nation-al
Association of Evangelicals, 1405
G Street N.W., Washington 5, D.C.
Vern Lewis and Stan Olsen will
bring special music to the aud-ience
between the acts of the play.
During the intermission, a cash
award will be presented to the
girl who makes the "best" corsage
for her date. She will be chosen
by a faculty-student committee.
Contestants are urged to keep in
mind their dates' vocations, inter-ests
and names. The judges are
"The choice confronting the
churches today is whether to con-tinue
ministering to fragments of
society or to reform their ministry
in order to participate in the
whole life of the metropolis," says
with a certain amount of romantic
appeal. This seems to wear off
after he's been there awhile."
Former Bethel students Al and
Jeaneatte Gustafson and their four
children will return in December
to mission work in La Rioja, Ar-gentina.
First, however, they plan to take
advanced Spanish study at the lan-guage
school in Costa Rica for
three and a half months. With an
emphasis on conversation, classes
are conducted by national teach-ers
to groups of four or five.
La Rioja is in northwestern Ar-gentina.
Since the country was
settled from the north down, it
remains a "most traditional" area.
Predominant religion is Roman
Catholicism, but very few people
attend services regularly. "While
there are opportunities to point
out certain fallacies in the church's
teaching, we attempt to present
the Gospel in a positive way," the
missionary stressed.
One problem the Gustafsons face
in direct evangelism work is de-termining
what forms of Christian-ity
are really Biblical and which
are only part of our American cul-ture.
Sometimes real problems arise
in the establishment of churches.
(cont'd. on p. 3)
looking for cleverness, humor and
Most girls, in keeping with the
tradition of Nik Dag, will pro-vide
a meal for their dates
either before or after the play.
Committee members Paul Good-man,
Bert Heep, Fran Malmsten,
Joe Marcea and Linda Olson, head-ed
by chairman Vern Lewis, have
worked hard to make this year's
Nik Dag well worth remembering.
Dr. Gibson Winter, tomorrow's con-vocation
Winter will discuss his book, The
Suburban Captivity of the Churches
at 10 a.m. in the fieldhouse. On
special sale in the book store for
75c, his book is an analysis of
protestantism's responsibility in
the expanding metropolis.
On Friday a faculty group will
discuss Winter's book. This panel,
which presented a similar anlysis
of the book at the united faculty
supper Tuesday, Nov. 12, includes
Dr. Gordon Johnson from the sem-inary
and Dr. Robert Mounce of
the Christianity department.
Dr. David Moberg from the so-ciology
department, and a semin-ary
student, Don Pevey, are also
panel members. Devey is associat-ed
with the Bethel Christian cen-ter,
a youth center sponsored in
the inner-city Minneapolis by
Bethlehem Baptist church.
Assistant professor of the Divin-ity
school of the University of Chi-cago,
Winter is widely known for
his part in establishing Parish-field,
a Christian layman's train-ing
center near Detroit, Mich.
A naval chaplain in the Pacific
during World War II, he studied
at Harvard under Talcott Parsons
to earn his Ph.D. in the field of
social relations. He has also writ-ten
Love and Conflict.
Campus Plans
Annual Festival
Festival of Christmas marks its
seventh anniversary at Bethel this
year. Performances will be given
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 13 and
14 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 15
at 3 p.m. The theme will be "From
Fear to Faith."
The annual festival is a co-or-dinate
effort by the music, art and
speech departments. Participating
groups will be male chorus, wo-men's
choir, college choir and the
combined festival choir. Also per-forming
will be a brass ensemble
and orchestra.
Bethel's chapter of the Music
Educator's National club (MENC)
will meet for a supper meeting
next Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 6 p.m.
in the President's dining room.
A special speaker will address
the group.
Officers of the group include
Dave Hage, president; Denny
Port, vice president; and Ferra
Pedersen, secretary. Robert Berg-lund
serves as advisor.
Bethel College Learning Resource Conte the CLARION
Volume XL — No. 10 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, November 20, 1963
Girls Treat Nik Dag Dates
To Dinner, Play 'Julie'
Seminar To Emphasize
Federal Service Work
Bethel Alumna Discusses
Missionary Experiences
Winter Discusses Choice
Facing Today's Churches
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Chapel Silence Should
Encourage Meditation
Most of the campus community continues to attend chapel.
Unfortunately, most of the campus community continues to
talk and joke as they arrive. The pre-chapel babel is matched
only by the post-chapel rush, when everyone crowds for a good
position in the line toward the mailboxes.
Silence in church is not the rule in all Baptist churches,
and the fieldhouse provides anything but worshipful physical
surroundings. But steps shonld be made to encourage quiet
before and after chapel services.
Lights could be kept lower before chapel begins. The
organist could avoid marching songs and select reverent pre-ludes.
Following the benediction the organ could continue the
quiet by playing an amen. Instructions could be given to post-pone
dismantling the chapel setting until the audience has left.
Most important, those attending chapel must see the
value of reverent silence. Chapel furnishes 35 minutes of re-treat
from the academic and social activities of the school day
to focus attention on the spiritual. The daily gathering should
provide both a chance to hear others speak and a time for
meditation and self-examination. Chapel is not now providing
an opportunity for quietness.
Archaeologists Protest Project,
Unearth Neo-Nik Dag Culture
Dear Editor:
I am writing to express my per-sonal
appreciation to all who were
involved in this year's World Mis-sions
week. Although unable to
take full advantage of the week's
opportunities and challenges, I was
greatly influenced by the chapel
services and movies and reminded
once again of the claims of Jesus
Christ on my own life.
Sometimes we forget the fact
that many people had to sacrifice
much in order that we might have
the gospel and many times we tend
to overlook our own responsibility
in witnessing for Christ. This year's
World Missions week was organiz-ed
and carried out in a way that
made it impossible to overlook my
own responsibility in this area.
The communion service seemed
to be the perfect way to end the
week's emphasis. It was wonder-ful
to sit in the presence of mis-sionaries,
foreign students and
other friends and partake of the
Lord's Supper together. Christian
fellowship like this is precious and
we need more of it.
I shall not forget the week and
its challenge and am very grateful
for it.
Jim Spiceland
Week Leaves Impact
Dear Editor:
Many of us are thanking our
Lord for the impression that
World Missions week left on cam-pus.
The visible response as well
as the quiet impact were the great-est
that I have observed since I
have been at Bethel.
Expressions of appreciation
should go to those who had a part
in planning and preparing for the
week. The Special Weeks commit-tee
with the help and co-operation
of World Missions fellowship did
an excellent job in organizing the
morning chapel sessions, the after-noon
films and the evening serv-ices,
as well as the luncheons, in-terviews
and prayer meetings. The
many long hours spent and the
spirit in which they were given
helped to make a good week a
better one.
For different people, different
events during the week stood
out as highlights. By selecting
those that impressed me most
I do not mean to minimize any
of the others.
The film "Monganga," shown
Wednesday afternoon, was an out-standing
representation of the mis-sionary
medical doctor in action.
The humility and dedication that
the doctor displayed deeply im-pressed
Rev. Richard Varberg's compell-ing
challenge Wednesday evening
will long be remembered by those
of us who heard him. He confront-ed
us with reasons why each of
us should seriously consider the
foreign mission field, pointing out
that a "call" is just as much a pre-requisite
for any other vocation
as it is for missions.
I consider it to have been a
great privilege to participate in
Friday morning's communion
service. We were reminded ef-fectively
that Christians of every
nation are all one in Christ. If
everyone who stood to indicate
commitment to Christ really
meant it, our campus should be
different from now on.
The final highlight for me was
a long talk with another student
late Friday night. We shared how
God had directed the circumstan-ces
in both of our lives leading
to our respective commitments re-garding
May none of us forget the mes-sage
of last week.
Bob Sorley
Communion Bears Meaning
Dear Editor:
Another World Missions week
has come and gone at Bethel. In
my opinion it was one of the most
St. Paul's city council has been
plagued by complaints because the
urban renewal project around the
state capitol has been left uncom-pleted.
Unknown to the public, the
archeology and anthropology de-partments
of several Twin cities
colleges have jointly filed a peti-tion
with the council to prevent
the converting of the area into a
parking lot. University professor
Sargon claims that the ancient
city of Frau has been unearthed
by the slum clearance contractors.
Frau was once the capitol of
the Neo-Nik Dag empire, dating
from 4004 to 1066 B.C. Stupendous
buildings, ornate monuments and
grotesque clothing have best sur-vived
the ravages of time. Unfor-tunately,
only the foundations re-main
Professor Sargon says the
sanscrut figures of the once-profitable
I have experienced over
many years here.
Earlier this fall some of us shar-ed
a concern that missions empha-sis
might have become altogether
too academic in recent years. The
planning committee and the mis-sionaries
of the past week achiev-ed
a healty combination of educa-tion
and inspiration in the total
presentation of the week.
It was particularly meaningful
to me during one of the morning
chapel services to have George
Johnson speaking to us, a former
classmate of mine, as well as a
member of the class of 1949 with
which I was graduated from the
This led me to reflect upon the
avenues of services into which the
nine of us were lead. Three are
pastors; two are foreign mission-aries
(George Johnson, Assam and
Vernon Anderson, Brazil) one is
teaching in an Indian mission
school in New Mexico; one is
farming and two are involved in
the task of Christian higher edu-cation.
The widening of the concept of
what constitutes "full-time Chris-tion
service" has, I am convinced,
been a very wholesome develop-ment
at Bethel during the last
decade. But students and faculty
must share President Lundquist's
concern that so few are presently
responding to the urgent needs
presented by the specifically
church-related vocations.
Let us pray that the promp-tings
of the past week toward
self-examination and a candid
consideration of God's will may
persist and even nag any who
have sloughed off such prompt-ings
Dr. Ivan Fah's quiet leadership
of the chapel services was appre-ciated
deeply. The communion
service on Friday morning was
more meaningful to me than any I
have ever experienced before —
towering Obituary Obelisk tell
of the great Palpitate War of
1776 B.C. in which over half of
the Neo-Nik Dag men were kill-ed
by a single warrior-woman,
Royalchen, who swung a lethal
sack of metal coins. Additional
money was secured from the
dead bodies and added to the
A poem, "A Capitol Idea," writ-ten
on the newly demythologized
Ruined Stone, depicts the crown-ing
of Queen Royalchen and the
suggestion that a capitol be erect-ed
with the money. Provincial gov-ernesses,
called satraps ("sa" mean-ing
"male") were appointed, and
all men were to be captured and
chained in the Great Stocks.
Great yards where the stocks
once stood can be seen in South
St. Paul. The university paid South
St. Paul an immense sum for the
g Challenge
perhaps because I was sitting next
to one of several students who have
just recently had fresh, vital en-counters
with God, through Christ,
and I therefore had special reason
to rejoice.
"Blest be the tie that binds ..."
Roy C. Dalton
Interest Keys Evangelism
Dear Editor:
In the Nov. 13 issue of the
CLARION I read with real interest
the letter by Ed Anthony. In his
letter was expressed the opinion
that Bethel college and seminary
should offer academic courses in
personal evangelism. This is a very
sincere and commendable recom-mendation.
I have taken such a course in
the past. I received an A in this
course by (1) memorizing the out-line
of the textbook and (2) mem-orizing
about '75 scripture verses.
I did not become a soul winner
by taking this course. Whatever
success I have had in personal ev-angelism
was not aided in any
great measure by this course.
By the grace of God I have had
the privilege of dealing in various
situations with about 30 folks who
have made decisions for Christ.
When I was in high school back
in Michigan I realized that if I
was to be an effective personal
worker I would have to be inform-ed
as to technique so I went about
on my own to find out what I
needed to know.
If Bethel college and seminary
students really want to know how
to be effective in personal evan-gelism,
if they care enough, they
can find out what they need to
Bethel students make elaborate
plans for Homecoming and Nik
Dag during free time. It is quite
obvious that one can make time
for whatever is most interesting
and rewarding.
Allen Rogers
first stocks discovered, but the
price of stocks has subsequently
gone done.
When all the men were given
separate but equal accomoda-tions
in the stocks the first an-nual
Race of the morning was
held in and around the capitol.
Then women - warriors, armed
with money sacks, were to pur-sue
the then-freed men until
each soldier who had a money
sack had knocked out a man.
If at any time during the course
a man uttered the word "no," he
was considered blaspheming a-gainst
the god Frau, and was im-mediately
dropped from the course
providing he had acquired at least
three cuts.
If two or more women reported
that they had caught the same
man, the court of higher criticism
would make the decision on the
basis of the facts known. Here the
governess of the sovereign satrap
of Mississippi was the judge of
race discrimination.
After a man had been caught
and registered, the woman would
hang her tribal fetish around his
neck and the couple would hire
a chariot to go down into the
city for a night of extravagant
gluttony and revelry. In the fol-lowing
morning the men would
be sent back to the stocks, but
many escaped to return to their
provinces and former occupa-tions.
Under breech of contract the
city council must eventually allow
the contractors hired to finish
black-topping the area. Perhaps
the entire city of Frau will be lost
forever if action is not taken; the
state legislature believes that Sar-gon
has discovered only the base-ments
of the razed slum houses and
will not initiate any protective leg-islation.
Tites Wee4 . . .
Wednesday, Nov. 20
6:15 p.m. Alumni vocational guidance din-ner:
ministry, medical technology and
law. President's dining room.
8:30 p.m. YDFL. Seminary lounge.
Thursday, Nov. 21
10 a.m. Convocation: "Suburban Captivity
of the Church." Gibson Winter, speaker.
6:15 p.m. Alumni vocational guidance din-ner:
nursing and social work. President's
dining room.
7:30 p.m. Campus crusade training class.
Room 203.
8-10 p.m. Boys' intramurals. Fieldhouse.
Saturday, Nov. 23
8 p.m. Nik Dag. Bloomington high school.
Tuesday, Nov. 26
6:30 p.m. MENC. President's dining room.
Basketball. Bethel at LaCrosse, Wisc.
7:30 p.m. Senior recital. Ferra Pedersen.
College auditorium.
Wednesday, Nov. 27
5 p.m. Thanksgiving vacation begins.
Basketball. Bethel at Aurora, Ill.
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Reviewing music with her instructor in piano, Ferra Pedersen,
senior music major, makes some notes for her recital Tuesday, Nov.
26, at 7:30 p.m. in the college auditorium. Her instructor is Miss Clara
Seecamp. Hailing from Walworth, Wisc., Ferra will be working next
fall for a master's degree in music therapy.
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It has been brought to mind that
a great number of relatively inter-ested
persons are not aware of the
many art galleries in the Twin
City area.
Two first class galleries are the
Bottega gallery, at 818 Hennepin
avenue south and the Kilbride-
Bradley art gallery at 68 south 10
street. The Bottego gallery offers
only one or two selections but
changes these frequently and with
much accuracy. Featuring the plas-tic
arts this month, the Kilbride-
Bradley gallery gives the Twin
City student a look at foreign art-ists.
Noteworthy is the reference
Minneapolis institute of arts re-ceived
in the current section of
LIFE magazine. From November
27 through January 19, a major
national exhibition of paintings,
sculpture and decorative arts is
being shown. Its title is "Four
Centuries of American Art." In
conjunction with this are two
other exhibitions, "Three Cen-turies
of American Prints" and
"A Century of American Photo-graphy."
Throughout the month of Nov-ember
the Minneapolis symphony
orchestra will be performing with
various guest soloists. Nov. 22, vir-tuoso
violinist Yehudi Menuhin
performs a Paganini violin con-certo.
Included in the program are
Brahms, Piston and Gershwin's
"American in Paris."
Tickets may be purchased at a
sizable reduction by Bethel stu-dents
from Bethel's chapter of
Peter Nero, a popular pianist,
will perform in the "Adventures
in Music" series on Nov. 24. His
program includes works by lbert,
Enesco, Gershwin and music he
has performed on his numerous
The same day at the Minneapolis
institute of arts, the "Doc Evans
Dixieland Band" will give the last
program of their 1963 series. The
Evans group is considered by many
to be the best of its kind in the
upper Midwest.
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by Karen Neslund
Senior music education major
Ferra Pedersen shares interests in
music and therapy with her fam-ily.
The elder daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. Charles Pedersen, she
began study of the keyboard under
the guidance of her mother.
Mrs. Pedersen, an accomplished
teacher and performer, gives pri-vate
lessons and has served as
adjudicator at regional music con-tests.
Her sister Carol, a senior, is
outstanding in the high school mu-sic
program in Walworth, Wisc.
Rev. Pedersen is director of the
Christian League for the Handicap
ped, an international organization.
After graduate studies, Ferra
plans to integrate music and
therapy. This involves the use
of music and psychology in cases
of mentally and physically han-dicapped
individuals in restoring
them to more normal health.
At Bethel, Ferra has studied
piano under Carl Landahl and
Clara Seecamp. While at the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin her sopho-more
year, she continued piano les-sons
and played oboe in the uni-versity
band. She has also studied
in the American Conservatory of
Music in Chicago.
Ferra has a special interest in
baroque music. Her recital next
Wednesday, November 20, 1963
Tuesday evening will include from
this period Bach's "Italian Con-certo."
Ferra recently auditioned for
the Schubert Club of St. Paul
and has been scheduled to par-ticipate
in a recital with other
college students on Sunday, Dec.
Currently Ferra is student teach-ing
in the West St. Paul school dis-trict.
Her music classes range from
elementary to junior high level
and include observation of senior
high music.
Ferra gives private instruction
to 11 piano students in the com-munity
and teaches a music lab
(cont'd. from p. 1)
What kind of organization or plan
of meetings should be followed?
For example, must Sunday school
and church services follow one an-other
at ten and eleven o'clock
Sunday mornings when the time
for dress-up and gatherings is by
custom from three to five in the
"We meet every kind of people
in Argentina," Mrs. Gustafson ex-plained.
That is why in communi-cating
the Gospel "every bit of
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section in the college fine arts
During her college experience,
Ferra has participated in a var-iety
of co-curricular activities.
A member of college choir, she
is student leader of the alto sec-tion.
Ferra serves as secretary
of the campus MENC organiza-tion.
In addition, she is secretary
of the senior class and of the
cultural committee.
Ferra will be the featured per-former
in the first of this year's
senior recitals next Tuesday. Ker-mit
Grenz, junior music major,
will also perform selections for
trumpet at the 7:30 p.m. program
in the college auditorium.
education, experience and just
plain living you've had can be
used." The statement of the Apos-tle
Paul is relevant to missionary
endeavor, "I must become all
things to all men, that I might by
all means save some."
"Yes, I'm anxious to return to
Argentina," Mrs. Gustafson smiled.
"While there are discouragements
and seeming setbacks, the com-mand
and the promise are still set
before us: 'Go ye, therefore • . .
and lo, I am with you alway, even
unto the end of the world.' "
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rolled over an equally strong Mor-ris
team 33-14.
This year's team concluded the
season with a 65-0 victory chiefly
due to the fact that not one starter
was out of action or even slowed
down. The healthy Bethel team
racked up a grand total of 276
points, good enough for second in
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Royals Conquer
Winona Runners
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Bethel's cross country team
closed their season finishing sec-ond
in the AAU 10,000 meter
championship. The meet, open to
all AAU runners, consisted main-ly
of runners from the Twin Cities
Track club (TCTC), Winona State
college, Fargo Track club and
Ron Daws of TCTC captured first
place as he circled the 6.3 mile
course in 34:58. Thirty three run-ners
entered the race consisting
of three 2.1 mile laps around the
hilly Como Park golf course.
Dale Rogers led the Bethel
harriers, finishing seventh in
37:45. Rogers has consistently
led the Royals, capturing five
first places and setting several
course records.
Dale Pearson, coming strong
during the last few meets, finished
a strong eighth in 37:54, nine
seconds behind Rogers. Captain
Pearson has captured three sec-ond
places and several third places.
Riley Coombs, the third Bethel
finisher, captured twelfth place as
he ran the course in 39:03. Bill
Carlson and Ken Haniwalt, the
Royals fourth and fifth runners,
finished twentieth and twenty-first
in 40:11 and 40:38 respectively.
Dick Aften, an Osseo high
school senior, finished second
with 35:34. Glen Gustafson, Pat
Lanin and Craig Deutsche of
TCTC captured third, fourth and
sixth places with Bruce Smith
of Winona capturing the fifth
(photo by Veras
Bob Nolin eludes would be tacklers on the highly successful roll-out
option play in season's final game at Midway stadium against James-town
college. The Royals won 65-0 while running up a season point total
of 276 points. The impressive total was second highest in the state be-hind
St. John's college.
Five Teams Top League
In Intramural Basketball
Intramural basketball got under respectively in the well-balanced
way last Wednesday night with attack. The Dukes were led by
two games and three on Thursday. Bob Larson and Bryce Khron with
The Seminary, Counts, Peasants, 15 and 10 apiece.
Faculty and the Jesters were all After winning the football victorious, leading the ten team
loop after the first week of play. championship, the Jesters pick-ed
up right where they left off
Seminary opened the season by in football by trouncing the
swamping the Squires 83-64. The Pages 87-53. Don McKelvy and
game featured a scoring duel be- Clint Stark shared the scoring
tween Seminary's Simons and the honors with 21 points each.
Squire's Erikson. Roger Price was the big gun for
the Pages with 16 points.
In the final game, the closest
one of the evening, the Faculty
squeaked by the Knights 46-43. Lee
Bajuniemi led the Faculty with 21
points and Dick Thompson and
Bob Conroy were high men for
the Knights with 15 and 13 re-spectively.
Intramural action continues this
week with a full slate scheduled
for Wednesday and Thursday
nights. Other current intramural
activities include a mixed doubles
badminton tournament and a ping
pong tournament.
Let's take a peek at basketball prospects for the approaching sea-son.
About 18 men have been working out for the past several weeks
and four more have begun practice since the termination of football
season. Although the team has been actually scrimmaging for only about
the last two weeks, there has been ample opportunity to observe the
team in action.
Only three men were lost through graduation last year, but they
were three important men. Lee Bajuniemi, Dave Peterman and Dennis
Walstrom left team-weakening gaps that had many people shaking their
heads about this year's squad.
Certainly we will miss the services of Peterman and Bajuniemi
as guards. I don't think their expert ball handling can be equaled by
anyone on the present team, but this year's squad possesses something
that last year's lacked: depth.
Not one player can feel confident that he has his position cinched.
There are no duds on the team. They are all good and they are all
pressing the person on top for his position.
Returning lettermen include co-captains Phil Bolinder and Roger Olson,
Randy Johnson, Don Moore, Jerry Moulton, George Palke, Ed Peterman
and Gene Selander. Bolstering the group will be freshman guards Cabot
Dow, Doug Kelly and Bob Nolin and forward Rich Nelson, a transfer
First game of the season is next Tuesday, Nov. 26, at LaCrosse,
Scrimmages with Hamline and St. John's have found some of our
guys a little slow in coming around, but this is basically the same team
that had trouble getting started last year. It shaped up then and I'm
confident it will now.
Royals Avoid Injury To Win
by Denny Port
Bethel's football team was able
to shake off the injury bug which
inflicted its forces in 1962. It is
interesting to notice the contrast
in serious injuries between the
two successful Royal teams.
In 1962 Bethel played its final
game at Morris with five regular
offensive starters and a regular
defensive starter on the bench. The
crippled Bethel team eked out a
20-19 victory.
Jerry Oas had long since been
out of action with a broken hand
as had been Bob Larson with a
torn knee. Duane Gibson was out
with a knee injury, and Jim Nel-son
had joined him on the side-lines.
Don Land was inactive with
a broken wrist and defensive line-man
Jerry Kanerva had a broken
All but Larson were back this
year and in fine health as Bethel
TCTC won the team trophy with
25 points followed by Bethel with
46 points and Winona with 49. The
Royals had been beaten by Winona
State earlier in the season.
This year the Royals were 3-3
in dual meets and captured a first On Thursday night the Peasants
and two seconds in triangular opened up by dumping the Dukes
meets. The harriers will be look- 66-48. They were led by Rich Law-ing
forward to next year as the rence, Don Land and Jerry Wahl-entire
team will be returning. strom with 14, 13 and 12 points
Erickson scored 33 points to
Simon's 30. Rich Hallbeck of the
Squires was next high with 17.
Ferris led the way for the
Counts by scoring 20 points, carry-ing
his team to a 57-49 victory over
the Barons. Obinger had 16 points
for the Counts and Larry Stair
led the Baron attack with 13.
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Let $\phi: Y \rightarrow X$ a surjective morphism of projective varieties over $\mathbb{C}$, with dim Y = N and dim X = n. Assume Y has rational singularities. Then X has rational singularities iff X is Cohen-Macaulay and $R^{N-n}\phi_* \omega_Y \cong \omega_X$.
I think I've got Cohen-Macaulay from the fact that X is cut out of Y as a zero scheme of a regular section. The silly part: how do I compute $R^{N-n}\phi_* \omega_Y$ or any other $R^i\phi_* \omega_Y$? I just realized everything I know from Hartshorne assumes nonsingularity.
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Some individuals are smarter than their employers so kudos to them! ** -- LTHoo 04/21/2017 10:15AM
K's coaching tree is like a cactus... -- Guy Caballero 04/21/2017 10:09AM
As much as I really don't care for either, give Collins & Wojo time... -- Rocky Mtn Hoo 04/21/2017 10:45AM
Snyder is coaching a 5 seed team in the NBA playoffs that's sitting at 1-1 -- Haney 04/21/2017 10:20AM
Re: Snyder is coaching a 5 seed team in the NBA playoffs that's sitting at 1-1 -- builtbadgers 04/21/2017 12:48PM
I forgot Quinn was still Coaching until i watched the game the other night -- woodrum 04/21/2017 11:18AM
With the exception of Brey, not a lot to praise in that list. ** -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 10:10AM
Motivation? Parol Evidence, baby ** -- Plano Hoo 04/21/2017 09:42AM
So, he didn't walk around their facilites wearing an Alabama Cap? ** -- Charleston Cav 04/21/2017 09:33AM
The blame is on Stanford and not Dawkins. Stanford has lawyers who -- Wahoo1186 04/21/2017 09:32AM
How does a school, top 5 in law, MBA, & endowment, screw up -- Guy Caballero 04/21/2017 10:23AM
Bunch of dummies at Stanford. UVa is too smart to do something that stupid ** -- confuzionrains 04/21/2017 10:26AM
As we have seen very easily. ** -- Mg234 04/21/2017 10:24AM
Still shocking, though. ** -- Guy Caballero 04/21/2017 10:27AM
Ding ding! ** -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 09:34AM
Interesting circumstances. ** -- SaxonHoo 04/21/2017 09:00AM
Oh, I thought you meant he went all iambic pentameter on their azz ** -- Stimp 04/21/2017 08:42AM
The Guy in the Glass! ** -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 04/21/2017 08:51AM
He was such a sensitive guy. Misunderstood. ** -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 09:02AM
A Pilot. A Chessmaster. A Mirror-Trapped Reflection. A real renaissance man ** -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 04/21/2017 09:11AM
When you are acutely aware of your soul and that soul is peering back at -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 09:16AM
One with nature.. and the 3-4 defense ** -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 04/21/2017 09:19AM
Oh, hell yeah! Staring into the 3-4 looking glass is not for the weak. ** -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 09:28AM
And don't forget his pelt-collecting hobby! ** -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 04/21/2017 09:13AM
Motivations are pretty clear but perhaps not malicious -- HooJet 04/21/2017 08:39AM
Honestly, doesn't matter what his motivation was. If he chose to -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 09:14AM
So when do schools start structuring contracts with different buyout terms -- cavman.03 04/21/2017 10:25AM
Gotta imagine that these articles are flying around among athletic... -- Haney 04/21/2017 10:44AM
That's what caused the problem. Schools trying to lure better coaches are -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 11:17AM
Interesting stuff - first time I've said that about tax law. ;) Thx ** -- Haney 04/21/2017 11:59AM
Another way to look at this is that Stanford took a big chance on Dawkins, -- 3NotchedHoo 04/21/2017 09:47AM
I didn't say it was right, I said it was smart. Like it or not, most -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 10:07AM
Keep in mind Dawkins learned ethics from Coach K. ** -- Roanoke Rich 04/21/2017 10:02AM
Probably, but this is economics. Dawkins negotiated a deal with UCF based -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 10:13AM
My point was no one should expect Dawkins to choose "ethical" (whatever -- Roanoke Rich 04/21/2017 12:15PM
Yeah, hard to expect someone to willingly leave money on the table that -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 1:05PM
What some people call smart, others call bad faith and immoral. -- Warrior Wahoo Wolverine 04/21/2017 09:17AM
I didn't get into the honor/bad faith/morality with you the other day... -- Haney 04/21/2017 10:16AM
Then those people need to read the contracts coaches and ADs sign these -- Hoo Robb 04/21/2017 09:21AM
The contracts say what they say. -- TheManUpstairs 04/21/2017 09:34AM
Pretty sure his wife is an attorney, so they can prob afford... -- Rocky Mtn Hoo 04/21/2017 08:55AM