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The faded wall sign of a by-gone era that encouraged passersby to "Drink Coca-Cola" and "Meet me at the soda fountain" is coming back... with vigor. Its painter is too.
The faded wall sign of a by-gone era that encouraged passersby to "Drink Coca-Cola" and "Meet me at the soda fountain" is coming back... with vigor. Its painter is too.
"The people that do this like me, there ain't many of them left, you see," said veteran wall painter Andy Thompson, 71 years young.
On Friday, he was restoring the Coca-Cola advertisement on the side of Mike's on Main at 303 N. Main St. in downtown Hendersonville. Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated is paying for the restoration.
"I graduated from high school on May 2, 1958 on Friday night and went to work for Coca-Cola that Monday morning. It's the only job I ever had in my life, painting signs," Thompson said.
With 54 years of experience, this "wall dog," as they were called in their trade, has painted and restored Coca-Cola signs throughout the Carolinas and the "edges" of Georgia and Virginia. He's painted signs 58 feet high, standing in the bucket of a boom truck. He's brought signs back to life that barely had any signs of life at all.
"I just enjoy doing them," he said with a smile.
Thompson paints them now in the leisure of his retirement.
"Coke stopped doing this type of stuff in the early 70s, these wall signs," he said. "In 1987 they just closed up the sign shop and I was out of a job."
He retired, but not for long. For the next 10 years, he stayed busy painting Coca-Cola signs paid for by towns, civic groups and store owners eager to hold onto their cherished pieces of Americana treasure.
Thompson painted the Coca-Cola sign on the side of The Wrinkled Egg on N.C. 225 in Flat Rock. He painted the Coke mural on the roof of the former Green Six Oaks convenience store in Tuxedo, which was destroyed by a fire in 2011.
He completed his oldest restoration work nearly a decade ago when he repainted a 1919 Coca-Cola mural on the side of a building at 210 W. Warren St. in Shelby.
"Sometimes I go to them and they're totally just about gone. But I can stand back and look at it long enough and make out outlines of what used to be on there," he said.
Thompson employs an old-school method of chalking and stenciling. He thumbs through one of Coca-Cola's old pictorial pattern books to get his lettering just right, from the swooping script of the capital "C" to the ampersand in "Relieves Fatigue & Exhaustion."
"The one in Shelby, it still had a signed painting out of New York and ... you could barely still see the (painter's) name on it," he said. "When I repainted it, I put his name back on it."
Rather than a black shadow, the lettering was traced with a black outline, the classic white flowing script on a sea of deep red tempting crowds to "Drink Coca-Cola. Delicious and refreshing."
"I've done reproductions of that same one in several places. People like those old classics," Thompson said.
Classic, like the drink itself. The dark caramel-colored soda was concocted by Atlanta Pharmacist John Pemberton in 1886. Hand-painted signs on the walls of buildings in busy downtowns and the sides of barns near major thoroughfares were popular advertising tools in the late 19th century for growing companies like Coca-Cola.
"Back in the early years those old guys just traveled all over the country, painting signs," Thompson said.
But today, Thompson doesn't have to go too far to find work.
"I don't hunt it. They come to me," he said.
In February 2011, the Historic Concord Preservation Trust contracted with Thompson to restore their Cabarrus Avenue wall sign, which depicts a smiling woman holding a frosty bottle of Coca-Cola. Thompson said that when Coca-Cola saw just how cherished the signs were at a dedication ceremony for the restored wall in Concord, his business picked up.
"One of the big wheels at Coke told me, 'Andy, we're going to do some more of them,'" he said.
Thompson, armed with buckets of paint and brushes, traveled to Salisbury, Mebane and Smithfield, bringing his former masterpieces and those of others back to life. He says there are several more signs on the Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated's to-do list.
"These old wall signs," he said, are "just beginning to come back."
After he finished a sign in Salisbury, Thompson said the company challenged its plants to try to find an old sign in little towns that needed restoring. Calls flooded in from as far away as Oklahoma.
Thompson says he's not going out West, but it is nice to see how much people still admire these wall paintings.
There is only one Coca-Cola sign left in the city of Charlotte, Thomspon said, which he restored six years ago, and he's repainted two in Shelby.
One of the Shelby designs is similar to the one on Hendersonville's Third Avenue, which encourages passersby to "meet me at the soda fountain." Although the exact date of when the wall on the side of Mike's on Main was painted is unknown, the soda fountain advertised in the painting first opened in the former Justus Pharmacy in 1907, according to Main Street Director Lew Holloway.
Thompson lives with his wife of 51 years, Hilda, on a farm just outside of Charlotte. The only soda you'll catch him sipping these days is a Diet Coke.
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Bethel girl leaps to catch her Bethel boy. She waited in the most
likely spot to find a man and then ... asked him to Nik Dag.
Vol XL—No. 7 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, November 4, 1964
Goldwater, Miller, Whitney
Win Bethel Mock Election
Ambiguous Bodien Bylaws
Confuse Bethel Women
Girls in Bodien are somewhat confused about the rule that requires
them to be in their rooms by 11 p.m. To avoid confusion in the future,
Dean of Women, Miss Effie V. Nelson, would have all female dorm
residents check their "Handbook for Bethel Women" for exact word-ing
of the regulation.
The rule in the past used to read "Girls must be in their rooms by
11 p.m." After a trial period of "absolute freedom" last spring, the
rule was reworded for this year's handbook printing. It now reads
"Girls are normally expected to be in their rooms by 11 p.m." The hours
for Fridays and weekends remain as they have always been.
Ambiguity of this rule has prompted some female students to ask
why enforcement of the rule differs from Bodien to Hagstrom. "It
seems," says Barbara Rusche, "that the rule, if it exists, is not enforced
in Hagstrom." Residents and counselors in Bodien have differing views
as to enforcement of the rule.
Some residents and counselors agree that the women need more
freedom, while a few of the counselors defend campusing as a reason-able
punishment for violation of the 11 p.m. curfew.
Miss Nelson, when asked how this regulation was to be enforced
said, "It is basically in the hands of the council members and it is
hoped they will strive for consistency and discretion in interpreting
the stipulations of the rule." Bethel women are complaining about
inconsistent enforcement.
HallOWeerl with its ghosts and goblins cast a spell over Bethel's
campus at the "Pit and Pumkin" last Saturday night. The above ugly
was out uglied for the most ugly prize.
Chase Begins
Civil Rights
Lecture Series
A discussion of civil rights in
today's society will be brought to
Bethel's campus through a series
of civil right's convocations Nov.
11, 12 and 13 of next week.
Three aspects of civil rights will
be considered separately by men
informed in each area: the legal
aspect, Negro thought in 1964 and
the Christian and human rights.
Professor Harold Chase, pro-fessor
of political science at the
U of Minn., will discuss the legal
aspect of civil rights on Wednes-day
on the topic "The Civil
Rights Law and its Enforce-ment."
Chase is the author of
several books and is considered
an expert in the study of human
Calvin Walton, Executive Direc-tor
of the Minnesota Governor's
Commission on Human Rights, will
discuss a topic relating to current
negro thought on civil rights in
the Thursday convocation.
Walton, himself a Negro, has his
M.A. in political science, and prior
to his present position with the
state was associated with Urban
League, a voluntary social service
organization for the protection of
minority populations in urban
His current position with the
Commission on Human Rights in-volves
him in investigation and
enforcement of civil rights legis-lation.
Rev. Will Campbell will address
the convocation on Friday with a
topic relating to the Christian and
human rights. There will also be
an evening convocation at 8 in
which Campbell will continue the
theme of the morning convocation,
discussing the Church and human
Rev. Campbell, from Nashville,
Tenn., has had a wide and varied
involvement with the racial issue
in the south. After graduation
from Yale Divinity School, he spent
two years as chaplain of the Uni-versity
of Mississippi. Upon his
resignation, Rev. Campbell became
actively involved with the National
Council of Churches.
Currently he is full time staff
member of the Committee of Sou,
them Churchmen, an organization
founded by Campbell which mir-rors
his conviction that the race
problem should be met with the
Christian Gospel rather than a hu-manistic
Results of the Freshman class
ballot gave David Livingston a de-cided
presidential victory. Other
election returns proved very close,
especially for the offices of secre-tary
and Senate representative.
The following students were
elected to the Freshman class cab-inet:
Vice-President: Dawson Mc-
Secretary: Linda Bickling
Treasurer: Kenny Collins
Senate Representative: Dale
Final Day Approaches
The last day to drop a course
is Nov. 25. The change of regis-tration
form can be obtained in
the registrar's office. In order
to drop a course students must
have a valid reason, the instruc-tor's
signature and adviser's sig-nature.
The change of registra-tion
must be turned in before
5 p.m. Nov. 25.
by Barbara Rusche
Barry Goldwater won in Bethel's
mock election with 53.8% of the
votes cast. Following the Republi.
can trend, balloting favored Whee-lock
Whitney by 51.4%. Approxi-mately
60% of the school voted.
Goldwater's popularity with stu-dents
was slightly higher than his
appeal to the entire campus popu-lation.
With 56.6% voting, stu-dents
favored Goldwater by 54.2%.
The staff also favored Goldwater
while the faculty chose Johnson,
both by a slim margin. Staff and
faculty favored Whitney by 56%4
Class breakdowns show fresh-men
favoring Goldwater 2-1
while seniors were split almost
50-50, Sophomore ballots show a
56% Goldwater preference while
In describing his plans for the
freshman class, President Living-
Livingston .
ston said, "We've begun to unify
around the social committee. Plans
are in motion as far as money
making projects, administrative
committeeing and class parties.
"My first plans are to raise
money for operating expenses. We
Johnson was the choice of 55%
of the juniors voting.
The percentages are most rep-resentative
of senior opinion as
72% of that class voted. In con,
trast, only 43.4% of the freshman
cast ballots.
Although the Republican trend
held, it was not as strong as in
past years. In 1956, with 57% of
the school reporting, President
Eisenhower received 87% of the
votes cast.
In 1960 the campus went
overwhelmingly Republican.
With 70% of the school voting,
nine-tenths favored Nixon.
Mock election results are with-in
the range of the survey publish-ed
in last week's CLARION which,
while predicting a five-sixths prob-ability
of a Johnson victory, also
hope to gain ideas for this from
the Senate files, suggestions from
the student body and from a fresh-man
volunteer committee on mon-ey
making projects.
"There are plans for three class
parties headed by Dawson Mc-
Allister and his social committee,
I am hoping we'll be able to af-ford
a class retreat within the next
year (whether a week-end affair
during this year, or one at the be-ginning
of our sophomore year).
"We, as freshmen, will be look,
ing for and asking advice from
everyone on campus. To the upper
classmen our first efforts will ap-pear
amateurish and even naive,
but we wish to issue the challenge
to both the college and ourselves
that our class wants to be on top
this year and for our entire career
at Bethel.
"We've started the ball rolling.
We'll make mistakes; but we'll be
learning and growing. We want to
be the best . . ."
Freshmen Vote For Class Officers;
Declare Livingston First President
Nik Dag Finds
Bethel Campus
Nik Dag, the annual girl-ask-boy event, contains an entire week of
activities this year. "From the Ridiculous to the Sublime"is the theme
for the week. Hunting season opened Monday and will culminate in
Saturday night's program.
"A Fabulous Tale," directed by John Larson, will be told in a one-act
drama Saturday night in the fieldhouse. The program also includes
"Scenes we'd like to see, scenes we'll never see, and scenes that
aren't," headed by Bill Ledkins. Humorous, witty and more serious
interpretive readings will be presented, directed by Ron Harris.
The Saturday evening program will begin at 7 p.m. in the fieldhouse
to enable the girls to take their dates to dinner following the program.
A list of Nik Dag type restaurants will be suggested at Bodien head-quarters.
Two Laurel and Hardy films will be shown tonight and tomorrow
night at 9 p.m. in the college audi-torium.
Tenor soloist Emmanuel
Mansfield will sing at 8 p.m. Fri-day
in the college auditorium,
sponsored by the Cultural commit-tee.
Corsages, made by the girls high-lighting
the interest of their dates,
will be judged on their originality,
Girls needing tickets or fellows
desiring dates should see Sue
Bauer or Tom Corneil.
indicated that Goldwater could
win by 6%.
Emanuel Mansfield, noted tenor
from Washington, D.C., will appear
in the college auditorium Nov. 5
at 8 p.m.
Mansfield, a former farmer,
stevedore and psychiatric attend-ant,
began his music career in
Philadelphia, Penn. After three
years study he was recommended
for a year's tour of Canada.
On his return to the United
States he won a work scholarship
to Princess Anne Academy (Mary-land
State College) as director and
coach of the school Male Quartet,
Reviewers say he is considered
one of the greatest interpreters of
Negro Spirituals. He holds a gov-ernment
job in Washington which
grants him "leaves" for all exten-sive
tours. He has recently return-ed
from a 21 concert series in
Western Canada.
This event is sponsored by the
cultural committee. No admission
is charged.
Vocalist Sings
Here Tomorrow
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the CLARION Wednesday, November 4, 1964
SeminariansCould Publish
Student Written Magazine
Most readers probably overlooked the rather insignifi-cant
item about changes in the Seminary Quarterly. In fact,
few know that such a publication exists, that it is written and
published by the administration and faculty instead of by stu-dents
and that it is the only publication that comes out of
the Seminary.
Probably because Bethel College and Seminary have been
considered one unit, people have thought that the CLARION,
COEVAL and SPIRE are publications by students in both the
College and Seminary. But not one seminarian holds a position
on the managing or editing staffs of Bethel College and Sem-inary
student publications.
Of course the CLARION covers the major Seminary
news events and prints an occasional article written by a
Seminary student, the SPIRE includes a Seminary section
and COEVAL accepts literary work from Seminary students.
But this hardly seems adequate space to communicate and
record the Seminary experience. What can be done?
One possibility is to give seminarians positions on the
staffs of the CLARION, COEVAL and SPIRE so that they can
bring a seminarian's concerns to these publications. This solu-tion
would still not give much space to the Seminary since
these publications serve almost ten times as many College
subscribers as Seminary subscribers.
When the Seminary moves to the new campus, leaving
the College at the old, Seminary and College students will
find themselves farther apart than ever.
Creation of a Seminary student publication appears to
be a more satisfactory solution. Seminary Senate could appro-priate
part of its budget for this publication as the College
Senate does.
A staff of students interested in writing could form a
staff who would put together a magazine containing such
things as theological debates that go on in the Seminary,
pieces of devotional literature written by students and re-prints
of the best senior sermons. A few brainstorming ses-sions
could bring in many more ideas.
Perhaps the Seminary can begin to publish a student
magazine this year that would serve the needs which the
CLARION, COEVAL and SPIRE cannot serve? Possibly a
magazine given a title like "Theological Currents" could stimu-late
and record the seminarian's experience.
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Letters to the Editor:
Dalton Questions Editorials, Pearson
by John Halvorsen
Lyndon Johnson will be the next
president of the United States.
Though the final official count has
not been announced, returns so far
indicate that Mr. Johnson won by
61.7 percent of the popular vote.
The Supreme Soviet has strip-ped
Nikita Krushchev of all of-ficial
party posts, citing at the
same time communist unity as
their most urgent task. Premier
Chou-En-Lai of Communist China
has expressed hope that relations
between Peking and Moscow will
improve following the downfall of
Krushchev. He called the replace-ment
a "good thing."
The Viet Cong last week carried
on their most destructive attack
thus far against an American in-stallation.
Four were killed, 20 in-jured,
and 17 planes destroyed or
The Berlin Wall opened again
for West Berliners. 964,000 West
Berliners have been issued pas-ses
by the Communists for the
coming weeks and the Christmas
visitation period.
In Rome, prelates of the Roman
Catholic Church argued against a
new look at birth control by the
Roman Church, while at the same
time urging policies of sympathetic
understanding for scientific en-deavor
and charity for those who
commit minor sins.
Nationally, a report of the Sen-ate
Sub-committee on Juvenile
Delinquency charges that there
is a conclusive link between
crime and violence on television
programs and juvenile delin-quency.
General Motors Corporation re-ceived
its workers back last week
Dear Editor:
Permit me to make several ob-servations
regarding the Clarion
of last week.
1. Though I disagree rather com-pletely
with Mr. Clutter's basic
political positions, it was quite ap-propriate
that he be given an op-portunity
to express himself in the
paper. On what grounds, however,
does the simple expression of a
reader's point of view become clas-sified
as a "guest editorial?"
2. The editor of the Clarion,
while endorsing Johnson, fell into
the pattern of dwelling upon the
negatives regarding both candi-dates
to such an extent that one
is left with the impression that he
must choose between two men who
are esentially evil (though the cap-tion
represents a better option of
choosing between two imperfect
To state or imply that Johnson
is a man who is without personal
integrity is to display ignorance
concerning the total man. More
fairly one might say that questions
have been raised concerning his
personal integrity.
3. Mr. Pearson, unknowingly, I
hope, takes an essentially anti-
Christian point of view in his de-fense
of Stormer's book. The es-sence
of his argument is that de-sirable
ends (the alerting of the
public to the dangers of commun,
ism) justifies undesirable means
(bearing false witness, dishonest
use of sources, distortion, etc.).
This is basically Machiavellian,
and it implies that there are no
absolute standards of morality.
How can a Christian defend a book
that has been impartially character-ized
as "a piece of fabrication,
half-truths, distortions and delib-erate
falsification" on the ground
that it serves a noble purpose?
Roy C. Dalton
Weigum Differs
Dear Editor,
It is obviously too late to react
to the pros and cons of Barry Gold-water,
but it is not too late to re-act
to one portion of the letter
in last week's CLARION.
It was said that we can not leg-islate
morals, the implication be,
ing that we should forget the is-sue
of civil rights. How sad it is
that we limit our morals to such
things as the race issue and anti-liquor
Let me ask, "Is murder a moral
issue?" Few would say that it is
not. Few would say that we should
not legislate against it. One might
say, "But this is a crime against
society. We can't allow people to
go around killing each other."
Very true. I agree whole-heart-edly.
I therefore say morals must
be legislated. Maybe the answer
can only be found in the hearts
of men, but this heart varies from
person to person. Some hearts will
always be deviant and must be
What people object to is not the
legislation of morals, but the legis-lation
of their own morals. Ob-viously
this individual does not
object to the legislation of the
Negro's morals. Take for example
the Negro's choice of home occu-pation,
place of employment and
even his choice of life mate.
Clearly the issue is, whose mor-als
are to be legislated? Are we
going to be honest enough to righ-ly
legislate our own or unjustly
rule those of another. Someone
has said "I'd rather be white than
right." Most of us are white, but
maybe we can be right, too.
Marie Weigum
Congrats Losers
Dear Editor:
Seldom after elections do people
congratulate the losers. Therefore,
I would like to take this oppor-tunity
to commend those fresh-,
men candidates unfortunate en,
ough not to receive the majority
of votes in last week's election.
Most of you waged stimulating,
vigorous campaigns. Let me say
that you need not feel badly for
you have exhibited an enthusiasm
Bethel Courtesy
Wears Thin'
by Janice Bloomquist
Christian courtesy at Bethel de-pends
on each person. The Bible
defines Christian courtesy in
Philippians 2:3 which says, "Let
nothing be done through strife or
vainglory; but in lowliness of mind
let each esteem other better than
One cannot say that Christian
courtesy is totally fictitious at
Bethel. However, courtesy does
wear thin in certain situations.
Obviously courtesy is forgotten by
those who crowd into a line with
the excuse, "They are saving me
a place."
Possibly there are some who do
not realize that it is discourteous
to slam books and notebooks or
talk while the professor is trying
to begin the first five minutes or
finish the last five minutes of his
Some people make the chapel
service a social get together. Or
maybe they walk in late to class
or liven up a lecture with smart
Christian courtesy is something
to be practiced every day. Cour-tesy
cannot be a garb put on for
social functions; it must be a spir-itual
function. Christian courtesy
is the natural result of a life sur-rendered
completely to God.
that is all but defunct on this cam ,
You will find a unique situation
here (is that an understatement)
in as much as it is not uncommon
to find the better of the two can-didates
being the loser for wag-ing
a more vigorous campaign.
Let me say in closing that you
have done a fine job and have
nothing to be ashamed of in your
attempt to break into politics on
Bethel's campus.
Consolingly yours,
J. David Patterson
Warren Enjoys
Dear Editor:
I attended an interesting event
last Friday evening as a reporter
for the Clarion. Coeval's presenta-tion
of interpretive readings can
well be noted as one of the better
Bethel cultural programs.
The opportunity for frankness
in expression was in itself re-freshing;
it was a most inspira-tional
literary experience for me.
The casual informality was per-haps
the high point of the night.
Anyone could share a favorite sel-ection,
expressing personal feeling
in the reading.
The program was exceptional,
and I am looking forward to the
next Coeval production. The value
of delving into the poetry of the
world greats cannnot be over-looked
on a Christian campus.
S. C. Warren
Sem Quarterly
Appears Thrice
The Seminary Quarterly, which
the seminary has hitherto publish-ed
four times per year, will ap-pear
only three times this year.
However, it will still retain the
title Seminary Quarterly.
Written by Seminary faculty, the
Quarterly prints research studies
done by professors throughout the
it Wee4 .
Wednesday, November 4
Campus crusade. Room 204. 7
Thursday, November 5
Orchestra. College aud. 7:15 p.m.
Friday, November 6
Concert. Mansfield. College aud. 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 7
Nik Dag. Fieldhouse. 7 p.m.
Monday, November 9
Student senate. College aud. 7
Seminary wives. Dining hall. 8
Tuesday, November 10
Women's intramurals. Fieldhouse. 7 p.m.
MENC. President's dining room. 6:20 p.m.
Wednesday, November 11
Civil rights lecture. Chase. Fieldhouse. 10
SPIRE pictures. Spire office. 12:30-4:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 12
Civil rights lecture. Walton. Fieldhouse.
10 a.m.
Intramural swim meet. 7:30 p.m.
SNEA. College aud. 9 p.m.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
Number 7
June Erickson
Bill Swenson
Rick Yonda
Judy Maim
J. David Patterson
Barbara Rusche
Ron Harris
Pat Jaynes
Hans Waldenstrom
Fran Malmsten
- Gene Peterson
- Bonnie Carlson
Jim Redford
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
when the United Auto Workers
Union voted to call of its month-old
national strike.
In state headlines, Minnesota
has received federal funds of
over $5 million for the construc-tion
of higher education facili-ties.
Public and private institu-tions
may apply to the Minnesota
Higher Education Facilities Corn-mission
for funds.
Four University of Minnesota
students of Alpha Epsilon Pi fra-ternity
beat four professors in a
student-faculty quiz bowl match as
part of the University's Liberal
Arts Week.
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Discussing existentialism, Seminary lecturer Dr. Berkely Mick
elsen confronts Dr. Clarence Bass who teaches systematic theology at
Bethel. Mickelsen spoke in a series of lectures last week on the topic
"Envolvement Grips the Christian." He is professor of Bible and
theoolgy at Wheaton Graduate School.
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Dr. Berkely Mickelsen considers
his teaching on an M.A. program at
Wheaton Graduate School the ex-periment
which confirmed his call-,
ing to the teaching experiment.
After Wheaton training, Dr.
Mickelsen found himself with
enough money for only one quar-ter
at the University of Chicago
Divinity School. He was faced
with the possibility of a doctoral
program strung out over seven
years because of the necessity
of part-time work.
Through an acquaintance who
operated a second-hand bookstore,
Dr. Mickelsen was introduced to a
middle-aged couple who were fin,
ancially able to assist him through
his three years at the University
of Chicago. His book, Interpreting
the Bible is gratefully dedicated to
these generous people.
Interpreting the Bible was a
formidable task when it came to
the necessary subject indexing.
Mickelsen and his student assist-ant
made entries on 3,000 slips of
paper to make up the index. It
took him one full month to cor-rectly
type the entries.
Dr. Mickelsen seeks to main-tain
a balanced reading program,
but he finds it difficult in view
of his keen interest in his own
New Testament field. He reads
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"I don't think anybody knows
how to make tea here," states Dr,
Ralph Martin, guest professor from
London, England, in analyzing ma-jor
differences between English
and American life.
Dr. Martin is at Bethel through
the suggestion of Dr. Robert
Mounce who is on sabbatical this
year. He teaches two college class-es,
"Introduction to Biblical Litera-ture"
and "The Life and Teachings
of Jesus"; in the Seminary he
teaches the senior Biblical Litera-ture
Dr. Martin has studied at the
University of Manchester and
King's College in London. He has
been teaching Biblical and Sys-tematic
Theology at London
Bible College since 1959. He al-so
has served in the ministry for
ten years in two Baptist church-es.
Speaking for public worship
services and lecturing for Chris-tian
fellowship groups adds to
an already busy schedule.
Before flying back to England in
June, Martin, his wife and two
daughters, Mary and Tildon, look
answers are not always possible.
The fear that all answers are not
forth coming removes the ability
to perform. This is true actually
with fear in any area of life," com-mented
"The Evangelical has a good
framework and he must cultivate
a confident attitude grounded in
basic humility." This is hard to
achieve Mickelsen admits.
In view of this the Evangeli-cal
should have no reluctance to
interact theologically with those
of other positions, maintains
Mickelsen. "Our case is strong,
yet we can learn a great deal
from others and such interaction
will make our case sharper and
The current seminary lectures
will be expanded by Mickelsen into
an eight chapter book. This book
will need a larger market and will
be submitted to Harper and Row
for publication.
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forward to extensive sight-seeing.
He describes St. Paul as "a very
attractive city" and is grateful for
the kindness of the people.
"Labor-saving devices are more
common in America," says Dr. Mar-tin,
"but England is slowly catch-ing
Concerning American elec-tions,
"people seem to be more
interested in personalities than
in policies. In England we are
not so blunt or forth-right."
Comparing English students with
American students he says, "Here
the students are far more concern-ed
with the theory of learning. In
England, the students tend to be
more interested in the content
by Cathy Peterson
Last night the Bethel Young Re-publicans
celebrated the comple-tion
of several weeks of work with
an election night party at the
home of Dick Ivance.
During the past two months, the
YGOP has completed a number of
projects lending support to local,
state and national candidates,
Members spent two Monday even-ings
last month working at State
Republican headquarters.
Students called voters and
played a recording of President
Eisenhower supporting Wheelock
Whitney for the U.S. Senate.
Gene Peterson, president of
Bethel's YGOP, reports several un,
usual and interesting responses to
the phone calls, ranging from en-thusiastic
promises of support to
equally enthusiastic refusals to
listen to the recording.
Cheryl Alen headed a project
committee which distributed pam-phlets
for Representative John
Tracy Anderson of the State Legis-lature.
During the door to door
campaign, Bethel students covered
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learned, rather than how they
learn it."
"England's students are more
sensitive to the privilege of go-ing
to college because they con-sider
themselves fortunate." He
thinks a college education is a
more normal aspect of life here.
Further, "Bethel students seem
to have a firm determination in
their work and study. They are
frank in their discussions. The
students and professors are frank
and easy-going in their relation-ships."
Dr. Martin has observed friend-liness
inside and outside of the
college. He speaks for himself and
his family in saying, "We feel at
home because of the friendliness
we have met at every level."
the 43rd precinct (the precinct in
which Bethel is situated).
This particular project nearly
cost them a valuable member;
Jim Johnson was "kidnapped"
while talking to one lady, and
hardly managed to escape by
ducking out when she wasn't
Carol Nelson led a group that
gave out bumper stickers at Hat
Mar Mall as a part of the campaign
of the Midwest Federation of Col-lege
Republican Clubs. In the en-tire
effort, over 200,000 bumper
stickers were distributed.
YGOP members also sold cop-ies
of Barry Goldwater's book,
"Where I Stand," and supplied
information and literature to
Bethel students at their booth
in the coffee shop.
A good representation heard
Governor Scranton when he spoke
at Hamline University and the
group also welcomed Minnesota,
State Treasurer Val Bjornsen as
one speaker in this year's schedule
of meetings and events.
regularly publications in French
and German.
He personally feels that a pro-fessor
must publish or perish. A
book every two or three years is
a good pace to avoid intellectual
Acquaintances of Mickelsen after Athletics are Dr. Mickelsen's
completing their Ph.D. require- main outside activity. He has con,
ments found in some cases that scientiously followed the well
teaching was not to their liking known Royal Canadian Air Force
and are now selling insurance. Dr. exercise for about four years. He
Mickelsen feels this to be a gross enjoys swimming and occasional
waste of intellectual talent. A football games with Wheaton gra-teaching
experience could have duate students.
confirmed future plans. Being well acquainted with
evangelical graduate students of
religion, Dr. Mickelsen points to
a certain inner struggle as a
major area of difficulty. Some
students come to feel that in
their undergraduate days they
were shielded or were not given
adequate answers in certain
areas such as biblical introduc-tion
or inspiration. Sensing this
past inadequacy students some-times
question their while frame
of reference.
"Today's graduate student must
have a genuine awareness that pat
Mickelsen Says Professors Publish
Or Perish to Avoid Mind's Stagnation
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Wednesday, November 4, '1964
raking a break between poses is the Royal football team which attained the best record in Bethel
history this year. The Bethel team was Pioneer Conference champions for the second year in a row.
Coached by Owen Halleen, the Royals lost only one game as they compiled a 7-1 record.
Bethel Rally DumpsJamestown;
Ends Best Season In Grid Annals
with Ron Harris
There is a credo which stands emblazoned on my plaque of life
in large Gothic capitals: NOTHING IS TOO SACRED TO THINK ABOUT.
Nothing that enters the mind of man can transcend the processes of
the mind. The kind of judgment which I deplore is that which would
make certain areas of life or thought taboo from discussion or sacro-sanct
from debate. It is for this reason that I question the request
presented to the president of the Letterman's Club last week that
he resign his position. The reason: He had not maintained a 1.00
average, but a mere .95!
It is not in the defense of said president that I go to bat, for
in my mind he needs no defense. He clearly established himself as a
member of the wrestling team last year, and his spirit this year on
the football team was an inspiration to everyone. My opinion doesn't
necessarily subscribe to the code of this paper or of any club at Bethel.
Just last year a meeting of the Illinois Scholarship Commission
decided that students who did not excel scholastically in high school,
but displayed leadership qualities and attributes, be given college
scholarships. Indiana and Ohio commissions were quick to pursue
the same course of action, as were several Southwestern states. This
year practically all the states have made provision for "Leadership"
The theory behind these particular scholarships is that grades
only provide a superficial knowledge of the student. Perhaps offering
all the scholarships to the top scholastic students is a mistake, they
concluded and proceeded to alter their previous course of action.
They realized that the line between leadership and scholastic
achievement is a thin one and is difficult to define. Evidently we don't
think this to be the case at Bethel, for we slap a "C" requirement on
leadership aspirants. Perhaps it is time to evaluate the real Bob Baffa,
rather than the one superficially portrayed in the grade files, before
deciding on a course of action.
The argument will be immediately advanced that such action is
done for the individual's own good. I do not deny the validity of this
statement. The fact remains that Bob was secretary-treasurer last
year (a position that actually requires more work than the presi-dency)
and yet his grade point average improved.
Is the "C" average to provide the shield of Gardol under which
the presidency and other offices are entrenched? Doesn't the individual's
worth mean more than a 1.00 average in determining our campus
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"The brawny Baptists of Bethel,"
as the Jamestown Collegian de-scribed
the Royal's football team,
invaded Jamestown Saturday and
departed as possessors of the best
record in Bethel football history.
The teams played on almost even
terms in the first half, before the
Royals' big, bruising defense
crumpled the well-oiled Jimmie's
offensive and took advantage of
Jamestown mistakes to hand the
North Dakota lads their fifth loss.
Jamestown, led by the fine
efforts of halfback Hoidal,
marched the length of the field
midway through the first quar-ter.
The drive stalled momentar-ily
on the three, but Hoidal fin-ally
slipped over from the two.
Five seconds later, he again
crashed through the middle for
the extra point.
The lone Royal tally in the first
half was set up by John Benson
as he creamed a defensive back
and blocked a punt. A 20 yard Bob
Nolin to Duane Gibson aerial hit
the mark and Bethel entered the
scoring column. Nolin tacked up
the extra point and the half ended
The Jamestown Jimmies never
came close again.
The Royals' defense met its first
challenge as it held the North
Dakotans and forced a punt. The
offense ignited and marched the
length of the field with Jim Brand
slamming off tackle and Dick
Fredrickson hitting the middle,
Nolin rolled out and lugged the
pigskin 54 yards before being up-ended.
This time Brand's off tackle
smash was good for six points.
Stan Miller booted the PAT.
Midway through the third per-iod,
Nolin connected with Larry
Stair on a twenty yard touch-down
play. Roger Price hit the
middle for the extra point. The
outcome was assured.
The last quarter opened quickly
with a Nolin to Stair aerial good
for a touchdown. Nolin's run a-round
right end was good for a
twenty-eighth point.
The last tally was scored by
Dave Gehrke and the Bethel Blue
Boys. Gehrke also swept right end
for the PAT, making the final
score 34-7.
Bethel's cross country team split
two meets this past week as it
crushed Northwestern (Minn.) last
Tuesday and lost to Carleton and
Macalester on Saturday at the
Carleton Open.
Dale Rogers led the Royal har-riers
as they swept the first six
places and beat the Eagles 15-49.
Rogers was followed by Bob
Chryst, Dave Peterson, Bill Carl-son,
Ron Stone and Riley Combs
in second through sixth places re-spectively.
Rogers, once again the first
Royal finisher, placed thirteenth
at the Carleton Open in 16:26 over
a relatively flat three mile course.
Bethel was probably running a-gainst
the top two cross country
teams in the state as Carleton
has captured the Midwest confer-ence
championship and Macalester
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Brook and Smith of Carleton
finished in a dead heat for first
place with a time of 15:49. They
were followed by Stansbury and
Smith of Macalester.
Carlson, Bethel's second finish-er,
captured 18th spot in 16:55 as
he sprinted past the Royal's Chryst
at the finish line. Peterson,
Combs and Johnson placed 21st,
26th and 30th respectively.
Next week the Royals run in
the Northwest Open which will
Sem Retains
Football Lead
In intramural football last week
the Jesters defeated the Squires
in a closely fought contest.
The Peasants racked up one of
the highest scores in intramural
action as they rolled over the
Pages 27-7.
The Seminary continued its un-defeated
string as they rolled over
the Dukes by forfeit.
The Barons squeaked past the
Knights 7-0, in a contest which
was heated from beginning to end.
The Counts had a bye.
field such teams as the U. of Minn.,
Macalester, Winona, Augsburg and
Gustavus Adolphus. The meet will
be held on the 3.2 mile Nokomis
Park course at 11 Saturday morn-ing.
An organized girls basketball
team practices every Monday
evening at 7:15 in the fieldhouse.
Five colleges play in the league:
Augsburg, Northwestern, St. Paul
Bible, St. Catherines and Bethel.
First game is Dec. 8 with
Thin Clads Crush Northwestern,
Bow To Rivals In Triangular Meet
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Jan. 30, 2006
On January 28, both the men's and women's tennis teams battled Alabama A&M at the Whitworth Racquet Club in Nashville, Tenn. Though it was the third match for the Lady Bisons this season it was only the first for the Bisons. The Lady Bisons lost their match 5-2 to bring their record to 0-3 while the Bisons won 6-1 to get their season off to a 1-0 start.
Singles winners for the women were Mary Beth Muncher and Casey Hall (default).
The men's team earned the doubles point with #1 doubles Mike Sherman & Andrew Harris, and #3 doubles Jeff West and Andy Mizell winning their matches. Singles winners for the team were Andrew Harris, Mike Sherman, David Carrillo, Jeff West, and Daniel Carrillo.
Lipscomb tennis player Colten Jones said, "Despite the fact that I lost my match, I am glad that we were able to win as a team. It is nice to be 1-0 going into a tough match against UT Martin because it gives you a sense of momentum and confidence."
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Last year, Santa brought us a Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber SuperFestive! redux of Mimi's 1994 classic, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," and it sucked. It's like we were on the naughty list last December and Santa wanted to punish us for wearing our roommate's snood without asking. But now, friendsicles, we're on the nice list. We did it! Santa dropped off Mariah Carey on Jimmy Fallon and they and the Roots sang "All I Want for Christmas" like true champions of the holiday spirit.
It's cheer-worthy. Thanks, Santa! (Also, LOL at :34.)
Told you it rocked!
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FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- Alabama won its first women's golf title Friday, holding off two-time champ Southern California by a stroke on the 72nd hole in the NCAA Division I championship.
Oklahoma's Chirapat Jao-Javanil won the individual title by four strokes, closing with a 2-under 70 to finish at 6-under 282.
For complete coverage of the NCAA Division I Women's Finals, go to NCAA.com.
The Crimson Tide gave Coach Mic Potter his first national title and first for a program in its seventh trip to the national tournament when senior Brooke Pancake rolled in a 4-footer for par on No. 18. It's the third national title this year for Alabama, which also won in football and women's gymnastics, and sixth for the Southeastern Conference.
"Coach (Nick) Saban practices at our practice facility all the time," Potter said of the coach who has two national football titles at Alabama. "I feel more on his level."
Alabama finished at 6-over 294 in the fourth round for a 19-over 1,171 total.
Southern Cal trailed Alabama by 14 strokes after 36 holes and by two going into the final round. The national champs in 2003 and 2008 tied the Crimson Tide five times atop the leaderboard and led by five strokes before losing the lead on the back nine. The Trojans shot 293 for a 1,172 total.
"It's never fun to lose by a shot," Southern Cal Coach Andrea Gaston said. "And it really wasn't in our hands this time."
They were followed by LSU (289-1,173) and Virginia (292-1,175), which lost a six-stroke lead in the first round when Elizabeth Brightwell signed an incorrect scorecard.
Jao-Javanil, ranked 59th by GolfStat and 41st by Golfweek, won the first women's individual title for Oklahoma. She got to sit around and watch the scoreboard to see if her score would hold up after not looking at a leaderboard throughout her round.
"I think it was more pressure than actually playing out there because you're looking at the phone and Brooke Pancake's like an awesome player," Jao-Javanil said. "You never know if she could birdie her way in."
The sophomore from Thailand had won this year at the Central District Invitational and the Golf Week Conference Challenge and finished second at the Big 12 Championship as she helped lead Oklahoma to its first league title since 2000. She finished fifth at the West Regional.
She started the final round tied with Giulia Molinaro of Arizona State and bogeyed No. 18, her ninth hole, after hitting into the water to fall into a three-way tie. But Jao-Javanil birdied No. 1 for a one-stroke lead over LSU's Tessa Teachman, while Molinaro bogeyed to fall to 2 under. Jao-Javanil wrapped up the title with a flourish on another tap-in birdie on the par-5 ninth and soon started getting tweets of congratulations from Oklahoma's football players.
"It's really special," Jao-Javanil said. "I mean because I feel like over here in the U.S. football is a really big sport. To get recognition from them ... we're like the women's golf team."
Pancake tried to chase down Jao-Javanil and had plenty of holes to do it a pond away from the par-3 course where she first learned to play. But the Alabama senior from Chattanooga bogeyed No. 16 to fall four strokes back with two to play. Pancake shot 73-286. She was followed by Laura Gonzalez of Purdue (70) and LSU's Tessa Teachman (74) at 287.
That left Pancake to help the Tide win the team title.
"I would take the team championship over an individual one every day," said Pancake, who will be heading to Scotland soon for the Curtis Cup. "It means the world, especially since I got to have a lot of my family and friends and such support. My grandfather got to be here. Yeah, it is amazing to have ended my college career like this."
Southern Cal had gone up by five strokes reaching 13 over with Alabama at 18 over. The Trojans had three bogeys after a couple shots bounced off the hard green into the water on the par-3 No. 16 and finished with eight bogeys and one double bogey in the final five holes combined to just come up short after Sophia Popov and Inah Park birdied No. 18.
"I felt like we got a couple bad breaks," Gaston said. "I don't think we made some bad shots."
Alabama sophomore Hannah Collier looked at a leaderboard on No. 16 and saw the Tide trailed by five.
"What's left to lose? Might as well swing freely, which Mic always tells me to do," Collier said.
She birdied Nos. 17 and 18 in helping swing the lead back.
Alabama junior Jennifer Kirby set up the dramatic finish with a double bogey on the final hole. Chipping from behind the green, her ball went only a few feet, and her next chip went about 6 feet past the hole before she two-putted. Inah Park then rolled in a 5-footer for birdie, pulling Southern Cal within a stroke of Alabama at 20 over.
Pancake laid up on the par-5 18th with her third shot landing in the trees just left of the fairway. Her shot onto the green wound up about 60 feet from the hole, a shot that would have been perfect for the third-round pin. Pancake hit the right side of the cup, and the ball looked like it might go in before going 4 feet past for par. She holed out the par putt to start Alabama's latest celebration.


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LaVerne Lincoln Stubbs, 95, passed away June 19, 2010, at his home in Cascade Locks, Ore. LaVerne was born Feb. 12, 1915.
LaVerne was born one of 13 children and was raised in Little Rock, Wash., the son of J.M. and Carie Millett. He worked for the Port of Cascade Locks from the early 1970s until his retirement in 1993.
In August of 1956, he married Marjorie Lydia Bowers in Stevenson, Wash., and to this union were blessed seven children.
LaVerne was an avid fisherman and outdoorsman, often taking three- to four-week trips to Canada to hunt moose, deer and elk.
LaVerne is survived and will be dearly missed by his wife, Marjorie at their Cascade Locks home; seven children: Joe (and Rhonda) Stubbs, of Baker City, Ore., Wanda (and John) Brunecz, of Fairview, Ore., Marion Stubbs, of Drain, Ore., Glenda (and Jesse) Groves, of Cascade Locks, Barbara (and Irwin) Oelhafen, of Beaverton, Ore., Donna (and Pete) Hallan, of Portland, Ore., and Catherine Steffen, of Portland, Ore.; and 80-plus grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
A service to honor LaVerne is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday, July 3, at the Port of Cascade Locks Pavilion with a potluck reception to immediately follow.
Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson's Tribute Center (Funerals, Receptions, Cremations), 1401 Belmont Ave., Hood River, OR 97031; 541-386-1000. Please visit www.andersonstributecenter.com to sign the family guest book.
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It's our sad duty to report that Nelson de la Rosa, who was known as the world's smallest actor and who was a friend of pitcher Pedro Martinez, has died at the age of 38, of unknown causes. De la rosa had just arrived in the U.S. from Chile to visit relatives. The 2-foot-4 de la Rosa had become known as Boston's good-luck charm after he became friends with Martinez during the Red Sox's championship season in 2004.
We never really liked the notion of people as mascots, by the way, and now feel even more uncomfortable after reading the following:
de la Rosa's body will be sent back to the Dominican Republic after an autopsy and could be put on display in a museum, his agent said.
When we go, please promise we won't be stuffed and placed in the blog exhibit at the Smithsonian.
de la Rosa Dies At 38 [CBS4Boston]


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Minervois. Vigneron Gilles Chabbert.
A blend of Syrah (30 per cent), Carignan (30), Grenache (20) and Cinsault (20).
Very dark purple, almost black in the glass.
Earth and leather on the nose, but the nose subsides into nothing with some air time.
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The Other Side of the Island
While reporting his story on Mohammed Jawad, Michael Paterniti visited Guantánamo Bay to see firsthand the place where Jawad was held for seven years. This is the oral history of his time there
One's second impression upon reaching the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay on the southeast spur of the island of Cuba—as one is shuttled from a plane to a U-boat, and then ferried across the bay itself to the base—is that this could be some rough heaven: the forgotten, rocky coastline, the mangrove swamps lining the inlet, the water in flickering shades of kaleidoscopic blue. Along the way, you pass military men and women with a day off momentarily getting to pose as tourists, wearing tropical shirts, fishing from motorboats, or diving. There's a tropical languor that invites that island feel, a reggae beat, umbrella drinks or coolers of beer.
And yet that vision is tempered by one's first impression of Guantánamo Bay, that you have simultaneously arrived at the site of one of the most notorious detention centers in U.S. history, "the gulag of our times," as a 2005 Amnesty International Report had it. The proof was captured in the images from January, 2002, when the Bush Administration first opened Guantánamo Bay—or "Gitmo," as it became known. What the world saw were uncharged enemy combatants cowering before American soldiers beneath the chicken-wire of a makeshift holding pen known as Camp X-Ray, the prisoners in shackles, orange jumpsuits, and improvised gas masks. Later came accusations, ones coinciding with the 2004 exposure of events at Abu Ghraib, of verbal and physical abuse at Gitmo that were partially catalogued in the Schmidt-Furlow Report, a Department of Defense investigation of interrogative improprieties at the camp.
At its height, Guantanamo's population of alleged combatants swelled to nearly 800. Today, after hundreds have been released or sent back to prisons in their home countries—and while only six have stood military trial—the population has dipped below 200. In January of 2009, President Barack Obama signed an ecutive order to close Guantánamo Bay within a year's time, vowing to continue to fight terror but "in a manner that is consistent with our values and ideals." A plan was considered to move a number of detainees to stateside prisons in order to have them stand trial in civilian court. But then, just this week, President Obama tacitly admitted that the prison facility would remain open when he called for the resumption of military trials, albeit with revamped procedures. The move prompted a wave of headlines and stories from across Europe and the Arab world with the conservative-leaning Telegraph calling Obama's aborted effort to close the facility his "most thorough defeat" and "greatest failure."
So what is Guantánamo like today? It's a place both haunted by its past and oddly self-assured in its present. It mis an attempt at cultural sensitivity and ahistorical obliviousness. It's hard to find anyone who's been working there for more than a year. In order to visit the base as a journalist, one must be invited, as I was last June, along with a French reporter from L'Express. We were put in a nondescript condo at the edge of the base, signed agreements that we would consult our minders before taking photographs or asking questions of personnel, sat through an orientation session in which we were warned against trying to make contact with any detainees, and then what proceeded was a standard-issue three-day press tour, touching on all aspects of the detention center, from the library where favorite video requests include "Tom and Jerry" cartoons and nature shows, to the kitchen where detainees "go wild" for the Shepherd's pie. Many of the interviewees were not allowed to provide their names for security reasons, but then, no questions were off-limits. At the health center, we were almost casually shown the enteral feeds tubes that detainees on hunger strike use to take different flavors of Ensure daily. The only uncomfortable moments came as a result of our minders' relentless diligence, following us everywhere, even into the bathrooms for what they claimed were "security reasons."
The following is a brief oral history of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, as recorded on the tour and from a battery of interviews, most especially one I requested with Paul Rester, the head of interrogations at the detention center, who was there at the beginning, and it could be said represents Guantánamo's institutional memory. While the tour has been repeated over the years for journalists, I was surprised by so many little things: a certain new expansiveness, a pride in what Guantánamo has become, the molecular challenges of everyday, dealing with oppositional detainees, some of whom are waiting nine years later to be charged. History will undoubtedly have much to say about the controversial place called Gitmo, but first here's what the believers and military have to say.
On Why the Island Was Chosen:
Paul Rester [Chief of Interrogation]: Contrary to the popular belief that Guantánamo was chosen because it was outside the rule of law and [we could] bring people here and somehow conceal them from the world—actually if you read the Geneva Conventions—the requirement to provide certain protections, evacuate the enemy from the battlefield, provide comprehensive medical care, and so forth—in December 2001, there was no place outside of Afghanistan [where we were able to] do that. There was no place that afforded this security. You can't escape from here.
Zak [Muslim Cultural Advisor]: [There was] a phone call: Get this place ready for detainees coming from Afghanistan. The only place that was ready was Camp X-Ray.
Rear Admiral Tom Copeman [Commander, Joint Task Force]: It was a substandard facility; it was built to house Haitian [refugees] and so when the decision was made to come here—that's all they had to use.
**Rester: **It would be a stretch to say it was chaotic because it was run with a military precision of sorts, but there certainly was confusion in terms of fog of war-related 'we don't understands,' 'we don't knows,' and so forth. From a purely military standpoint, the individuals that were brought here were deemed to be belligerent, deemed to pose a threat from the standpoint of capability and intent. It's not what somebody did, it's what they are gonna do or might do, and [the idea was to] detain them until we can resolve it.
It was not so much stumbling around making mistakes, but it was learning how to comprehend an environment that we just were not well versed in. And you know, I've been chided for, castigated if you will, by Ted Koppel. Ted Koppel said on NPR, Well, you know, the head of interrogation at Guantánamo said that one of the reasons why there was so much chaos and confusion at Guantánamo in the early days was 'fundamentally a lack of experience, a lack of understanding. But I somehow find that disingenuous.' Well, Ted, I'm sorry if it sounds disingenuous but I was here and I'm one of the guys that was confused and I was frickin' 50-something years old, and I'm being honest with you. It's just the way it is.
On Detention Conditions:
**Rester: **So X-Ray is used for about 90 days, as it was determined that there were more [detainees] than the capacity of Camp X-Ray [could handle]. So that's why Camp Delta was built as a temporary, open-air facility probably not meant to last more than three to five years tops.
**Tour Guide: **It's a $17.5 million facility—all state of the art. It was built in the United States and brought over in pieces and then put together kind of like Lego blocks.
**Guard: **The guys like it over there because it's outside all the time. I like it over there—I like being outside. I mean, this is a state of the art facility, this is probably the most up to speed facility anybody's got. It's pretty Gucci. Pretty Gucci.
**Rester: **The conditions of detention are no different than those in a county jail or a state prison in the United States.
**Tour Guide: **Our cells meet all the American Correctional Association standards— that's 80 feet of unencumbered space, which means it doesn't include the bunk or the toilet or anything. We have two setups here for you: The top being what our compliant detainees get, and the bottom being what our noncompliant detainees get. The main differences being that compliant detainees get three books and two magazines a week, and noncompliant gets two books a week.
**Copeman: **The majority of the detainees here are Yemenis, that's the biggest chunk of population. And then there's North Africans, Saudis, some Pakistanis, Afghans—a pretty diverse group.
**Detention Psychiatrist: **These are very communal living conditions for the most part, which is a shift in the way things have been—the detainee population becomes more and more communal each year.
**Tour Guide: **Communal means they can interact with each other [up to] 20 hours a day. They have up to 6 hours of outside recreational. And then inner recreational they have up to 20 hours a day of TV, radio up to 24 hours—although they can only have one at a time, either TV or radio. And they have up to 7 channels of TV.
**Copeman: **Just in this year we've gone from 40 percent to almost 80-90 percent of the detainees living communally. It's up to the detainees, you know, if they want to obey the camp rules, and most of them have gone that route.
**Tour Guide: **We're very vigilant of their prayer rituals so we have prayer rugs, caps, beads. Every bay and recreation area you'll see an arrow pointing to Mecca. We offer four classes to the detainees: Art, Arabic to English, Pashto to English, and life skills.
**Copeman: **We just started offering life skills about six months ago. It's health, how to use a computer, how to write a resume, small business stuff—stuff that might be of use to detainees in their eventual release.
**Tour Guide: **They can have up to eight books or magazines of their choosing. We got about 16,000 books to choose from, about 1,700 magazines, and they rotate them out as they wish. We also offer three newspapers. We really don't redact very much out of newspapers because they have satellite TV, and by the time the newspapers reach the island they would've already watched it on the news.
**Brigadier General Timothy Lake [Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force]: **I'll go down and walk the detention facility. I communicate with the detainees. I know and they know what we can and cannot do. I cannot open the gates and let you go. I cannot put you on the next flight off of Gitmo. But what we can do is we can schedule a phone call for you, we can schedule a video teleconference or Skype. We can provide you with mail service, we can get you in contact with your lawyer. We can provide you intellectually stimulating events, we can provide you library books, we can provide you magazines, provide you newspapers. They're very much aware as to what's going on both nationally and internationally too—they have big screen televisions down in the detention facility, and when news comes on it comes on. We don't go in and say, 'Oops, turn it off.' We've already vetted the station. You wanna watch CNN, you can watch CNN. No one's gonna be turning it on and off and doing all that.
We redact some information out of the periodicals or the books and the newspapers because they have asked that they don't want to see skin. You know, USA Today comes in, the Egyptian newspaper comes in, and if there's a picture that's explicit and they don't want to see it, they will let us know. To avoid that we've instructed our resource library folks to take a look at it—if it's not in good taste from a religious perspective, we'll remove it.
I think that we're doing the right thing here. We can't make the decision as to what will happen to you. But we're here to ensure that while those decisions are being made, we're providing for you personally, spiritually and intellectually.
**Kitchen Tour Guide: **All of our meals are made daily—breakfast, lunch and dinner. The [preparation] is kept separate from the main troop feeding because a lot of the meat they have is halal, so we cannot get that mid up with regular meat that we use for the troops. Their favorite meal is Shepherd's pie. They love that. I love it. It's very good. That whole day is their favorite day. There are times where they don't really care for what we have, but we try to accommodate them the best we can.
**Zak: **Every year it just gets much better. I mean this year, guess what they're watching? The World Cup, live. Why did we make it available? Because of their behavior.
**Lake: **One request that we can't honor is that they want to go and play soccer on the turf against the guards. And it's like, with all love and respect, that is just one that's uh, that's not permissible.
On Allegations of Torture:
**Rester: **The Guantánamo that everyone loves to hate ceased to exist by the fall of 2003. Every assertion or allegation made, I can trace to that period.
**Zak: **When I first came here, you know, I had a certain picture in my head about Guantánamo just like everybody else had—the pictures you've seen on TV.
**Copeman: **You've seen it, the picture of the twenty guys in the orange jumpsuits kneeling in the gravel with the guards around them, I mean, that's the picture in 95 percent of the stories.
**Zak: **No torture was taking place here. What do you call it, waterboarding? Never happened here. These things are exaggerated. Why? Because we are the United States of America so every breath we take the whole world is gonna look at it differently. I mean, when a detainee dies around here, it's big news. How many detainees kill each other in the prisons in Iraq? Trouble happens, it happens in any camp in Afghanistan or Iraq. Nobody talks about it. But if a detainee cuts his finger here, it's a big story. 'Oh, the guards must have done it to him,' you know? We are in a politically strategic place with everybody looking at us with a microscopic eye. My opinion? There's nothing wrong going on here. From the time I was here in September 2005 to this day. Even when we have detainees not behaving, everybody is following the law.
**Rester: **The truth of the matter is most of these guys were treated very well. And those that make claims to the contrary are doing so out of self-defense because they really don't want their pals to know that they weren't tough guys—they have to maintain this persona. So they get out and they make these claims, 'This happened to me, that happened to me,' so on and so forth. The truth is incredibly simple and incredibly benign, and it just doesn't sell, you know? 'I go home, I want people to think I'm a hero, I toughed it out, and they did all these horrible things to me.' I don't want to go home and say, you know, 'I watched sixteen channels of television for a year.' That just doesn't get the girls.
On the Guards' Behavior:
**Rester: **You've seen the Guantánamo of today. This is not a Potemkin village. That's sixteen channels of satellite, three flavors of ice cream, six menus a week, and 88 percent, you know, communal. Can you imagine, in 2002, with four smoking holes in the ground and a nation in great apprehension, if we had brought several hundred people here, put them in an air conditioned facility, given them art classes, and sixteen satellite channels to include Al Jazeera? Can you imagine?
So it's not a case of having made mistakes, it's a case of working through the processes, and evolving and trying to do the right thing, even though the entire universe really believes the contrary. And there's really no refuting that. It's not so much that mistakes were made, it's that there was a lack of comprehension of what the circumstances were. There was a lack of understanding in how to approach this difficult-to-identify enemy.
**Copeman: **With the exception of one guy, there's nobody convicted of anything here. Like in the United States, you know, until you're convicted of something you can't say, 'He killed an American troop.' They may have all, you know, there's guys that fess up to it and I've had detainees look me in the eye as recently as two weeks ago and tell me they're my enemy and always will be my enemy. I got it but you know, I'm not gonna say, 'Hey, open up the cage and let me in there.'
**Rester: **There's a lot of stuff these guards put up with, and they're expected to be rigidly disciplined. If he goes against instructions—even if he looks like he's going to react to a provocation—that sergeant will be facing an Article 15, commander's punishment, or worse. I don't want their posterity to be rooted in 'Guantanamo's a stain on America,' because these kids ain't a stain.
**Zak: **Everybody who comes to the island goes through training classes. Mine is one of them. I tell them, you know, yes, in this one hour of class you're not gonna learn about other people's culture, but here are the things that you need to recognize right away: How does a detainee look when he's praying? What do we do during the fasting month of Ramadan? When does the month begin, when does it end? What happens during that month?
**Guard: **I would say about 40 percent of training is going over prayer and religion. And the training looks at the worst-case [scenarios], because if you can handle the worst, you can handle the everyday.
**Copeman: **The guards get fairly extensive training including simulated body fluid attacks, so they get used to—I mean, the first time it happens to them on the block isn't the first time it's happened to them. And there's the Joint Stress Mitigation and Restoration Team, which is a psychologist and four psych techs—corpsmen that are trained in that. The corpsmen are always out on the blocks, asking how you feeling, what's going on, all that kind of stuff. When a feces assault happens, the guy is removed from the blocks, he's cleaned up, checked out by medical, the JSMART guys come and talk to him, and 99.9 percent of the time, the guy puts a new shirt on, a new pair of pants, brushes his boots and goes back on the block. They don't want [the detainees] to let them know that it gets to them.
**Guard: **Me personally, I've only been assaulted twice. A detainee spit on me one time because he wanted to go to a different camp. His exact words were, 'I don't wanna be here anymore.' I said, 'Hey man, your request is in.' And he said, 'Okay.' And then he spit on me. He spit on me just so he would leave the camp. I got relieved, and I went to medical, got cleared, and then my chief let me go home for the rest of the day.
The other time I was working in the same place, different section of the camp, and one of the detainees was just acting up. He didn't want to be here—I mean they all don't want to be here—so he threw feces at me and the other guards that were standing around. I got relieved, got checked out by medical. Usually there's nothing you can do as a guard. My job is not to punish the detainee or tell the detainee he's wrong. That's not my job—I'm here to be a guard, I'm here to watch him to make sure he doesn't hurt himself or anybody else. I'm not here to judge him, or say, 'You threw feces at me, I'm going to do something back to you.' It's not my job.
**Guard: **In my case, I'm pretty lucky. I treat everybody the way I'd want to be treated, I don't hold a grudge against anybody, so I don't have a problem with any of them. Even the guy that spit on me—when he came back to the camp there was no snubbing. Not mad at me, nothing.
On Interrogations:
**Rester: **Military intelligence is about capability and intent. It's preventative. You take the enemy's resources out of the battle area and you hold them until they are no longer a threat or the threat diminishes or subsides. Our interest was to a great extent, capabilities, plans and intentions. We wanted to talk to people about their training curriculums. Where did they train? How well did they train? What weapons were they trained on? Who were their associates? How were they organized? And we learned a great deal about that.
Believe it or not because nobody else does, the fundamental military intelligence process is in the open, in an army field manual. There are prescribed techniques that comport with U.S. and international law, and that's in the manual under the Law of Armed Conflict.
The primary methodology [for interrogations] was to have a conversation—compel them to actually sit down in a chair and listen to the questions, encourage them to be helpful. And our folks were actually going out of pocket, buying McDonald's and pogey bait we'd call it, you know, snacks and stuff, and literally trying to make the environment as cordial as possible under very austere and very unpleasant circumstances.
In 2006 it was mandated that no detainee would be compelled to leave their cell to have a conversation with any of my personnel. You know what? Didn't do anything to the statistics. Still had the same number of interviews, had the same number of refusals, still had twenty people a week asking to see their interrogator. Because they want the social interaction—they want to get out, they want to move around. They want the opportunity to inform or dis-inform. Because it's a conduit for knowledge in both directions, because the one thing that incarcerated people need, thirst for more than anything else is information.
The interrogation doesn't begin until somebody asks a question and somebody answers a question. The techniques are motivations to [get someone to] actually engage. You know, you approach me directly, 'I'd like to talk to Mr. Rester,' you know, I'm gregarious, 'Okay, I'll have a conversation with you.' And in the military genre there are seventeen approved approach techniques, which looks just like any, you know, cop book. You might call something Mutt and Jeff, it's good cop/bad cop—a lot of acting, a lot of posturing. We're really engrained, in an Army way, with the first 72 to 96 hours after a uniformed prisoner is captured, you want them to continue to be apprehensive. We don't like to use the word 'fear' anymore, an older approach might be "fear up," to increase that apprehension or anxiety. Police do it all the time.
On Medical Care and Hunger Strikes:
**Doctor: **The most common injuries that we've seen recently are associated with trauma related to soccer: Ankles, shins, knees.
**Medical Officer: **We have very few inpatient behavioral health-related detainees. Most of their care is an outpatient basis, and the techs and the nurses go to them as needed. We do have one psychologist and one psychiatrist, and often they [say] that the pathology that they see is very similar to the pathology you'd see in a detained population in the States. Maybe even a little less than you would see in the prisons that they have in the United States.
**Detention Psychiatrist: **So in the States you might have 20 to 40 percent of the population with a significant mental health disorder, something like major depression or psychotic disorder or something like that. Here, it's like 10-15 percent of the population with a significant mental health issue. The majority of the stressors here are detention-related, adjustment disorder things, the expected reactions that you would have associated with detention: mild anxiety, mild frustration, irritability, that kind of thing, just associated with being here for eight years. The expected reactions anybody would have in detention, not significant psychiatric illness. We provide psychotherapy, we do some meds management—the same things we would do with any patient back in the States.
The other thing that's going on is that they receive a great deal of support from each other. Somebody seems to be stressed—they look out for each other. Whereas up in the States, somebody thinks you're not mentally well, they don't want to have anything to do with you. But here people take care of one another, there's a lot of support.
**Medical Officer: **There's a very small population now of hunger strikers, and even smaller of those who require enteral feeds. The feeds that we've done on my watch have all been voluntary, where they walked to the feed chair and the feed tube is sometimes facilitated by the detainee or placed without effort. Usually you numb up the area you're gonna be placing it in, lubricate the tube in advance of the feeding, and then under the supervision of a registered nurse the feed is conducted. [They're fed] twice a day. And actually, the most popular [feed] right now is butter pecan. You don't taste it when it's going down the enteral feed tube, but sometimes you burp afterwards, you know, you get the taste then.
**Lake: **We've had several hunger strikers, but we've been doing very well recently because once they get into the communal environment they say, 'Well, damn. This is significantly better than where I was.' We have several folks who have hunger striked for many years. You know, not eating, not eating, not eating. Being enterally fed. Why are they doing it? Because [they're] making a statement, this is [their] way of positioning [themselves] in the big picture.
**Zak: **We went through a period of time where people tried to hunger strike and to get attention, you know, they tried to commit self-harm. I mean [that they] used it as a tool to get what they want, okay? To get to move to another location. When people say 'self-harm,' the only real self-harm, you know, are the ones who succeeded. These are the ones who really wanted to do it no matter how much we were watching them, and they succeeded. Everybody else after that—it's just an act. The only real ones are the ones who succeeded. And we still have people every day pretend to be…'Oh I'm depressed,' just to get attention. I mean, the morale of the detainees is so high, just you go to the camps and you'll see.
On What Happens Next:
**Rester: **You are required under the Conventions to protect detainees from public curiosity. They're not proven guilty of anything; they're just combatants in detention. Why would you want to expose poor Mustafa to a lifetime of being branded a terrorist when maybe he's got a chance of going back and having a good life?
We have detainees who we correctly assessed and who we in good faith transferred back to where they came from, who have reengaged and, as we speak, are killing our service members…And that's just the fact of life. We're not the world's jailer, and other nations should take responsibility for their citizens. You know, U.S. citizens who were involved [in terrorism overseas] and picked up and were taken to the United States and they were prosecuted and they were incarcerated. U.S. citizens. Now, I'm not gonna get into policy, but I don't feel encumbered to resettle anybody else's citizen in my particular county. If they came from France or Belgium or Holland or wherever they came from, they should go back.
Our job here is to detain them for as long as the President's authority says to detain them, and to [provide] safe, humane care and custody [that is] legal and transparent. That is not something that we just take for granted. We're mocked for it constantly but you know, so what? I'm here and the critics aren't, so that's okay.
**Zak: **We're using common sense—that's why January 22, 2010 came and went and we're still here. If a mistake was made to open this place in a hurry, it's not going to be closed in a hurry.


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