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Homecoming royalty will be chosen Saturday out of this crew of smiling candidates. (Photo
Tom Twining)
KABY airing Christian programs
by Ken Wanovich and doing it for God's glory," he
KABY, Bethel's radio station, Ninety per cent of the disc
started its new broadcasting jockeys are new this year and have
season Monday, with a full pro- been going through training ses-gram
of contemporary Christian sions for the past three weeks.
They have been learning technique
in operating the equipment and
getting familiar with the music
they will be playing.
KABY, see p. 6
the Clarion.. Vol. 55 No. 4 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Oct. 5, 1979
New computer system
to revamp registration
by Susan Peterson
In a monumental move, Bethel
seeks to put students' names, ad-dresses,
course schedules, finan-cial
aid records and more at the
touch of a button on the new com-puter
The mastermind behind
Bethel's new computerized
record-keeping system is John
Burtis, director of systems and
data processing.
This impressive array of elec-tronic
circuitry was installed last
week and should be operating at
full potential by the fall of 1980 in
the admissions, financial aid,
public affairs and registration of-fices,
according to Burtis.
"We're not reducing people to
numbers," explained Burtis, "it's
simply a means of making record-keeping
"The data is only as good as
people make it," Burtis empha-sized.
"You would be surprised
how many people never know
their zip code, and even misspell
their own name."
Burtis said that although the
computer allows us- to obtain in-formation
quickly, it is the
students who determine the ac-curacy
of that information.
Because of the large amount of
personal data on each student,
security will be very tight. Only
authorized personnel will make
use of the system and they will on-ly
have access to information
needed for their particular job.
Each individual will have a
password to - get into their pro-gram.
Passwords will be changed
The computer operators will be
current employees of Bethel,
trained by Burtis. Some student
employees may also have a
password and perform their duties
on the computer.
Every student will benefit from
the new system. "There is no ideal
solution _to registration," said
Burtis, "but the new system
should lessen the agony a little
Step up, give your T.D. number,
name and address, and other in-formation
will show up on a small
T.V.-like screen. State what
courses you want and an up-to-date
class list appears revealing
any openings. You are auto-matically
enrolled in the course.
Your name is added to the class
The faster turnover should
eliminate long lines and make it
easier on the registrars, stated
"Students will receive monthly
statements on where their account
stands," said Burtis. When paying
bills at the window, yciur account
can be called up on the screen giv-ing
a quick, current report of what
you owe.
Much of the computer work
will take place behind the scenes in
the accounting department,
"keeping better control of costs,
watching Bethel's income, and
keeping track of supporters."
Students- will reap the benefits of
more efficient money-management.
Data processing is being done
now by "Progressive Manage-ment
Services Inc," (PMS) a
bureau used by many other col-
TegeS. The changeover from
"PMS" will be gradual.
"The approximate cost of the
system (a Honeywell Series 60
Level 6 'Model 47) is $200,000,"
said Burtis, "normally what we
would spend in three years under
the current methods."
"Prices are constantly coming
down in electronics.' Soon every
home will have a computer,"
predicted Burtis. "Even poverty-level
families will have home corn- .
puters, to calculate their
A wide variety of contemporary
Christian music styles and tempos
will be heard. KABY will attempt
to please students tastes by featur-ing
fast music in the mornings, to
help students wake up, slow music
during lunch and supper to pro-vide
background music for easier
digestion, medium music in the
afternoons to create an at-mosphere
for studying and a
faster pace again in the evenings.
Each evening will also feature pro-grams
developed by individual
disc jockeys.
Program Director Kraig Klaudt
said organization is the trait which
characterizes the station this year.
"Things are falling into place
because our staff of over 50
members is excited, enthusiastic,
On the inside . . •
Homecoming Analysis p. 2
Student Senate p. 3
Open Column p. 5
Miss Minn. candidates p. 7
KABY is broadcasting from 6
a.m. to, 12 midnight to the im-mediate
campus area on 560
megacycles (56 on your AM dial).
The station will also be -heard in
the coffee shop, the cafeteria, and
the hallway area outside the radio
Keith Green in concert
finale of homecoming week
Keith Green will be in concert at
the Minneapolis Auditorium Sat.
night, Oct. 6. Keith's two albums,
"For Him Who Has Ears to
In previous years, KABY has Hear" and "No Compromise,"
not been in operation due to a have been at the top of the con-lack
of financial support. Last temporary Christian music charts.
year student senate raised enough Keith's music is described as
interest for the administration to being able to "reach the non-approve
reopening the station on Christian, yet bless the Christian.
a trial basis.
Homecoming Schedule
Fri., Oct. 5 "Dress-Up Day"
There will be a powder-puff football game at
5 p.m.
"The Royal Celebration" will start at 8 p.m. with
the coronation of the Homecoming host and
hostess, a pep rally and then a bonfire down
by Lake Valentine.
Sat., Oct. 6 Soccer against St. Olaf at 10:30 a.m.
Football against Hamline at 1:30 p.m.
Alumni banquet in the gym at 5:30 p.m. followed
by a student production at 7 p.m. The cost is
$6.50 for the dinner and $.50 for the show.
Keith Green in concert at the Minneapolis audi-torium.
The concert starts at 8 p.m. so busses
will be leaving New Campus at 6:30 p.m. A
free-will offering will be taken, so tickets are
not necessary.
Volleyball against Concordia-St. Paul at 9:30 a.m.
by Lori Rydstrom It is definitely contemporary, yet
not irreverent. It has the musical
quality of the 'pop' market, yet
does not sacrifice spiritual com-munication..."
Born of Jewish parents, raised
in Christian Science, Keith dab-bled
in drugs, astrology, and the
occult. He became a vegetarian
and studied Buddhism and Yoga
before turning his life over to
Jesus in 1973.
Bombardment of lyrics
grates on students' nerves
Usually a Clarion editorial arises from a particular editor's gripe,
pleasure or opinion. He or she sits down and transfers these vague feel-ings
into a publishable opinion.
This one is different. The bone of contention this week permeates the
entire staff. It has crept up on us slowly, established a beach-head on
our fickle memories and now maintains itself as a weekly source of ir-ritation.
We realize that not every practice common to Bethel will be edifying
or even comfortable. We can cope with long cafeteria lines and incredi-ble
oversupply of speed bumps. We can even understand housing pro-blems.
But we've just about lost tolerance for Ah-la-la-la la-la-laleluia.
We've come to expect, with once-a-week regularity, that we'll be told
to grab another foot, tweak another cheek, and hold another hand and
sing, sing along with someone of the same gender whom we barely
know. We're discombobulated.
Not only are we forced into unsolicited physical contact, but we
wander the halls humming the song the remainder of the day. Madison
Avenue should latch onto such a catchy jingle.
We have no Moral, ethical or religious grounds for our opinion, but
the song has worn out its welcome. We sincerely beg and plead to the
powers that be to remove the tune from the repertoire, or at least limit
its intrusion.
Student apathy almost
causes election upset
Last week an incredible political battle went on largely unnoticed by
the Bethel population.
In the race for student senate's transfer senator seat, a write-in can-didate,
Tom Gold nearly pulled off a major coup. The election took
place over two days, and after the first day Gold was leading the only
other candidate by 2-1. That's not the margin, its the actual vote count.
Gold found out about his predicament that night, and decided to go
for the position whole hog; he got his roommates to vote for him. Un-fortunately
for Gold,the announced candidate Steve Jarabeck polled six
votes the next day to win the election going away, 7-4.
Perhaps the voter turnout could be explained by the abscence of a race
for any of the positions. There were four candidates for the four
freshman seats, and one candidate for the lone transfer seat.
The situation would be funnier if not for the implications.
`Honor units' alternative to noise
Next week . • •
Robertson gym
Building hours
the Clarion Vol. 55 No. 4 Bethel College Oct. 5, 1979
The Clarion is published weekly by the students of Bethel Col-lege.
Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion
staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Paul Olsen, Editor
Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Production, Doug Barkey, Photography Editor
Carolyn Olson, Graphics, Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager
Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts, Jay Russell, Staff Writer
Page 2
by Brook Berry
"Why can't we have school
spirit like the University?" one
student was heard to say. "At
other schools, cheerleading and
pep rallies are fun, here they are
With this year's homecoming
the biggest and most radical in re-cent
history, already the students'
eyebrows are being raised. In the
past, homecoming at Bethel has
been a controversial event, and
this year is no exception.
"It's all so overdone," a junior
stated. "I thought I had graduated
from this high school mentality."
Another student commented,
"It's about time we join the other
colleges and stop making
homecoming such a serious occa-sion."
A senior biology major said,
"School spirit doesn't exist here
anymore. Homecoming this year
is riding solely on an artificial
emotion, a kind of pseudo-school
spirit—and it is going to break
some cheerleaders' hearts when
they realize Bethel's mass apathy."
The controversy between
homecoming and school spirit is
not new this year. The most recent
encounter was in 1976, when
Campus Coordinators Lisa Vanzo
and Dan Anderson reintroduced
the idea of a king and queen in-stead
of a host and hostess.
An editorial by Assistant Pro-fessor
G. William Carlson, referr-ing
to that year's coronation,
stated, "The concept of royalty
and external fritter is a symbolic
compromise with Christ's corn-mand
that we live simply and
identify ourselves with the poor
and the downtrodden."
The editors of the Clarion
themselves called the coronation
"a nostalgic regression to a high
by Mari Broman
In response to the age-old com-plaint
of dorm noise, Marilyn
Starr, director of housing, decided
to offer this year's students the
option of living in an "honors
When she proposed the idea last
spring she, Director of Residence
Life Don Mortenson and the resi-dent
directors made no plans for
enforced quiet. She said most of
the noise in the dorms is a "non-thinking
noise," which would be
reduced if all the students in a sec-tion
elected to be in a quiet dorm.
What happens if someone mis-uses
the freedom? Said Starr,
"We'd rather see kids enforce the
quiet themselves, than monitor
Mortenson sees the honors sec-tion
as "part of the education pro-cess"—
teaching kids to take
responsibility and confront room-mates
themselves if problems
school mentality, an unnecessary
display'of pageantry, not at all fit-ting
Bethel's way of life."
The following year, the idea of
a king and queen and a coronation
was unceremoniously dropped.
"The students didn't like the idea
and opted for a host and hostess,"
stated 1977's Campus Coordi-nator
Scott Barsuhn. In 1977 the
Clarion didn't even print the host
and hostess winners.
Even as far back as 1961, when
the delightful Mabel Moen was
queen, there was a controversy
quite similar to ours. An editorial
that year reacted to their
Homecoming stating, "We con-sider
it unfortunate that Bethel
seems to blindly emulate other
schools in making homecoming a
better-because-bigger fall extrava-ganza."
That was the last year until 1976
that there was a homecoming king
and queen.
According to Mortenson, it
would be controlling not
educating if resident directors and
assistants would enforce rules.
Unfortunately, he added, peo-ple
don't always respond accord-ing
to hypothesis. In this case the
resident directors and assistants
should teach them how to respond
and how to live as a community.
However, the relatively weak
response to the honors section
created difficulties in carrying out
the plan. Only about 100 people
signed up, from Arden Village
East, Arden Village West, Foun-tain
Terrace and Bodien.
Therefore some students were put
into or near an honors section
who hadn't wanted it, causing
problems for both parties.
Looking back, Starr said ideally
one whole building should be an
honors or study section, but
Bethel doesn't have the housing
available for such a building or
floor for each housing area.
But, said Mike Berg, resident
director of Arden Village West,
the people in the hohors section
learn respect for other's rights,
"And maybe that's ideal for all
the residences."
Homecoming raises some eyebrows
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by Patty Sutton
Many Indochinese refugees in
the Twin Cities need assistance ad-justing
to their new lifestyle.
These Indochinese come from
Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam.
Only a minute proportion of the
refugees are in the United States.
The majority of them are in
Thailand at refugee camps.
Dr. William Smalley, professor
of linguistics, and his wife are
working with the Indochinese
here, especially the Hmong people
of Laos.
"The Cambodians and espe-cially
the Vietnamese have a better
chance for adjustment to the
States than the Laotians,"
Smalley said. "Many of the Cam-
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give Friday
by Laurie Lindahl
The Red Cross is counting on at
least 300 volunteers to give blood
when they bring the bloodmobile
to Bethel on Oct. 12.
The goal was set at 300 to assure
the Red Cross of getting their
quota of 260 pints to meet the
needs of all participating hospi-tals.
A Red Cross publication said:
"Blood is a very personal resource
which cannot be manufactured.
The person in need of blood
receives this precious fluid only
because another person cared
enough to share."
Senior Carolyn Olson, chairper-son,
has great expectations for this
year's blood drive. "I have faith
in the Bethel community," she
said. "There is no question in my
mind about whether or not we will
get enough donors."
Carolyn also said that the Red
Cross has a very high opinion of
Bethel because of its performance
in previous blood drives. "They
are not only depending on us, but
they're excited to come because
they really enjoy working with
Bethel students."
The Red Cross will need about
25 people per hour to help staff
the operation. Sign-up sheets for
donors are posted at Fountain
Terrace, Silvercrest and each
dorm and townhouse.
Questions concerning the blood
drive can be directed to any of the
following people:
Carolyn Olson and Lori Swan-son—
Tenley Ireland and Margie Tid-man—
worker recruitment,
Jane Shortridge, Carol
Dischinger and Laurie Lindahl-donor
Lori Swanson and Helen Gut-che—
medical worker recruitment,
Thomas Crabtree—set up and
take down equipment.
bodians and Vietnamese are pro-fessional
people, unlike the ma-jority
of small village farmers
from Laos."
Smalley said that the Hmong
people, a Laotian ethnic group,
are being systematically eradicated
by the North Vietnamese. During
the Viet Nam war, the Hmongs
secretly fought under the direction
and training of the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency.
It is estimated that only 25 per-cent
of the Hmongs who try to es-cape
make it to Thailand. To
leave, they must cross the Mekong
River (sometimes four miles wide)
by raft or inner tube or whatever
is available.
"The refugee camps in Thai-land
are inadequate," said
Smalley. "Families may be corral-ed
in there up to four years and it
is overcrowded, lacking in food,
disease-ridden and there is noth-ing
for the refugees to do."
Once at the refugee camp, some
of them are eligible for admission
to the United States. Before they
can enter, someone residing in the
United States must volunteer to
sponsor them.
The sponsor is responsible for
the refugees' immediate needs. He
arranges housing, assists the
refugees in finding work, or if
none is available, he helps them
enroll on welfare and teaches
them essential skills like grocery
At this point, volunteers are
needed. People can help them
learn English by talking to them
so they can understand everyday
language and answering their
The refugees also need
assistance in training for jobs,
learning to drive and use the bus
system, and providing transporta-tion
at times when nothing is
Suzie Lane, social ministries
coordinator, has volunteer oppor-tunities
open for anyone in-terested
in assisting with this ef-fort.
Bethel students can help by
assisting tutors with visual aids
and preparation of class materials.
The Ober Boys, a social work
agency, is working especially with
the Hmong people every Saturday
afternoon. Volunteers could help
teach the Hmongs sports, cook
them • American foods and
generally make them feel at ease in
our culture.
Indochinese need volunteer help
A debate over the filling of a va- Vice-president Susan E. Stone
cant senate seat enlivened last brought Peterson as her choice to
Tuesday's otherwise uneventful fill the seat. After heated dis-senate
meeting. cussion, the senate defeated
Two candidates, Janet (J.P.) Stone's motion, 9-8. The matter
Peterson and Dan Stafne, applied will be taken up again at the next
for the position left vacant when senate meeting.
Phil Thompson resigned. Also to be considered next
Under the Senate constitution, Tuesday are a bill appropriating
when a seat is vacated in mid- $50 from senate funds to support
term, the vice-president screens all a Bethel performance by the
applicants and recommends her Ukranian folk dance troupe,
choice to the senate. The senate DNIPRO, and a bill authorizing
then votes on wheter to accept the $300 in travel expenses to three
official recommendation. students attending the AAES
board meeting in Tulsa, Okla. on
Oct 12-13.
Tannie Woods, Cheryl Thomas
and Caryl Brown serve on the
American Association of Evan-gelical
Students (AAES) board of
directors. The bill states that
AAES makes a contribution to
Bethel's student government, and
that Bethel should support those
involved in AAES.
The senate did not vote on any
bills, but heard reports from corn-mittees
and official board mem-bers.
President Steven Hoswell re-ported
that Dean Brushaber has
secured $1500 for KABY opera-ting
expenses. Because of the un-sure
status of the radio station last
spring, an operating budget was
Until the newly-designated
funds are received, the student
senate will cover KABY expenses.
The Senate meets again on
Tuesday in the student center, in a
meeting open to the public.
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Innocent trek bogs down editor, ends in rescue
by Paul A. Olsen
On Tuesday, Sept. 5, Carl Lun-dquist
was honored by the gover-nor
of Minnesota, the California
Angels won the American League
West pennant, and the Lake
Johanna fire department and the
Ramsey Co. Sheriff's department
combined their efforts to rescue a
Bethel student mired deep in the
clutches of one of the few remain-ing
frontiers of Arden Hills.
Suzi Wells' adventure last week
was certainly a product of Pro-vidence.
What else could explain
the circumstances leading to her
Would Mrs. Mickelsen, assis-tant
professor of journalism at
Bethel, otherwise have broken her
leg? Would Suzi otherwise have
bought a Pinto? Would Suzi's
by Mary Beth Larson
and Bob Schmidt
This is a very special week at
Bethel College! It's the week of
Homecoming Happenings. On
Monday, the nominations for
Bethel's Homecoming Host &
Hostess were announced. The
seniors then voted on Wednesday
and Thursday for the Host &
Hostess of their choice. The mid-dle
of the week was also busy with
"Hat Day" and a Powder Puff
football game.
Pinto have broken down near
Mrs. Mickelsen's house?
Because of Mrs. Mickelsen's
broken right ankle, Suzi's writing
for children class met at Mrs.
Mickelsen's home. Because Suzi
owned a Pinto with a broken
clutch, she found herself stranded
after class and decided to bravely
venture into the great unknown
and walk to Bethel.
"There's a nice little path
leading from Old Snelling right to
our back door," said Mrs.
Mickelsen often.
Suzi, always game for a plea-sant
walk on a sunny day,
thought, "The path should be
easy to find, and I'll just walk
back to school and find someone
to help me with the car."
Today is "Dress-Up Day,"
which leads us right into "The
Royal Celebration" this evening.
The Royal Celebration includes
the coronation of the Bethel Host
& Hostess at 8:00 p.m. in the gym,
along with a bonfire at 9:00 on
picnic hill by the Seminary. Both
the coronation and the bonfire
will include rousing cheers by the
football and soccer cheerleaders.
The players and coaches of both
sports will be introduced at cor-
But finding the path was not so
easy. After searching for several
minutes in the back yards of the
homes along Venus Avenue in
Arden Hills, Suzi found what she
thought was the path.
Following the trail soon prov-ed
Suzi wrong. The ground was
soft and wet and Suzi's sneakers
were getting mucked up. Deciding
to abandon her adventure, Suzi
reversed her tracks.
Then a strange mixture of in-decision
and a will to conquer set
in. "No," she thought, "there is a
trail here, and I'm going to find
it." Once again she turned
The further Suzi went, the wet-ter
she got, but by now her stub-bornness
was all-consuming.
She was stubborn when her
onation. The whole evening is free
and will be lots of fun, so you
won't want to miss it.
Saturday is a big day beginning
with the soccer game at 10:30
a.m., followed by the football
game at 1:30 p.m. Our theme for
the week has been "We're the
Royal Pipe Cleaners," because
our football team is playing the
Hamline Pipers. Everyone should
be at the game to cheer our team
on to victory.
ankles got, wet. She was stubborn
when her knees started getting
wet. She was stubborn as her belt
got wet, and she was stubborn as
she found she had ventured too
deeply into the swamp. She
became mired waist-deep in the
mud and water.
Now, losing her confidence and
quickly becoming frightened, Suzi
decided upon her only recourse.
"Help," she cried, "Help, I'm
stuck in the swamp."
Either no one heard, no one
believed her, or no one cared.
"Help," she yelled again, "I'm
really stuck. Won't anyone believe
After a quarter hour, Suzi
became frustrated and gave up.
But she soon heard someone yell,
"Help," she yelled back.
"Who are you?" said the voice.
"Suzi who?"
"Suzi Wells."
"How do you spell that?"
"Do you live around here?"
"Where are you from?"
"Bethel College," answered
Suzi, still wet and still stuck fast in
the aromatic swamp. The woman
She then said, "What's
Suzi answered, "I'm stuck in
the swamp."
"What should I do?"
"Could you call somebody?"
"How about the fire depart-ment?"
The woman left and Suzi stood
in the swamp. After waiting for
what she considered a proper
To top off the week, we have
the fantastic concert you've all
been waiting for! Keith Green will
be performing at the Minneapolis
Auditorium at 8 p.m. Even
better yet, a freewill offering will
be taken, so no tickets are needed.
You'll want to get good seats, so
be there when the doors open at
7:15 p.m. Buses will leave from
NC at 6:30 p.m.
We hope that Homecoming is
really special for you this year.
We've had a good time planning it
for all of you. Have a Super Great
amount of time, Suzi was convinc-ed
the woman thought she was
joking, and she began to yell
"Help," she said, "Help."
"Sue," someone called from
shore. This time a man was yelling
to her.
"I'm here," said Suzi.
"Where," answered the man,
"I can't see you."
"I can't see you either," said
Suzi, the reeds stretching far over
her head. "Don't come in here,
though, or you'll get stuck."
"If we don't come in, you
won't get out," he said. "Are you
by the beech tree?"
"I don't know, • I can't see
"Well, just keep talking, we'll
come and get you."
Moments later the Johanna
firemen were behind Suzi, and
lifted her from her slimy confine-ment.
As they neared the shore,
Suzi realized she would have a
reception party.
"There must have been ten
firemen standing there waiting for
me," SuZi said. "Then someone
from the sheriff's department
came and asked me whether I of-ten
got into this type of trouble.
There was also a nurse there, and
as we were leaving another fire
truck drove up."
After Suzi met Lori Hammink,
the woman who called the fire
department, and said goodbye to
her rescuers, she began her walk
to Fountain Terrace—via paved
As she walked, tired,
frustrated, wet, and more than
slightly -embarrassed, a tow truck
drove by, hauling Suzi's little
brown Pinto.
Assoc. Editor's note: The names
have not been changed to protect
the innocent (myself) and the
above should not be taken as
totally documented 100 per cent
truth. It is not inaccurate,
however. I have fought tooth and
nail to prevent this from being
printed, but I am now locked up
in the Clarion office until this
paper goes to press. I am only
grateful that I am allowed to write
this note, and that the Bethel stu-dent
body is such a kind, loving
body. NO MORE JOKES,
OKAY?! Thank you.
Chapel Schedule
Monday—Sing and Share
Tuesday—Dr. John Lawyer
Wednesday--Mr. Ray
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Centrex to be replaced by Infatron
by Mari Broman
By late December, Margaret In-tveld's
phone will tell her when
President Lundquist calls, George
Palke can make conference calls,
and William Smalley will park
calls on his touchtone phone.
Infatron, Bethel's new compu-terized
phone system will run
these and over 80 other functions
through a microprocessor, said
Roy Caples, representative for
Electronic Design Company.
The system, purchased in June,
offers more equipment than the
rented Centrex system, yet will
pay for itself in three years, accor-ding
to Caples.
It will not only save money in
rental costs, but also in long dis-tance
fees. Rune Engebretsen
needs only to dial the number for
the German Consulate in Chica-go,
and the computer will
automatically route the call the
cheapest possible way—whether it
be through Bethel's WATTS line,
or by direct-dial long-distance.
Infatron will also save time for
faculty and staff. For example,
when John Sailhamer calls Dean
George Brushhaber and gets a
busy signal, he won't have to keep
trying again and again. He'll just
push in a code number, activating
a signal that bounces between the
two phones. When both phones
are free (whether Sailhamer has
used his phone meanwhile or not),
the signal will ring Sailhamer's
phone, and as he picks it up
Brushaber's phone will begin ring-ing.
Brushaber may decide to have
Robert Stein in on the conver-
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by Joyhn Vayn Anyonmouys
Today I made a discovery. Not a particularly profound discovery, but
a discovery none the less. I was able to pin down the new cliche. It goes
like this; "Hi, how are you? WHAT DID YOU DO THIS SUMMER?"
This is a terrible question to ask anyone. Particularly when your sum-mer
has consisted of: a) walking the dog, b) eating, and c) looking for
the summer job.
The summer job is an odd creature. You almost hate it when you get
it, and if you get it not, you are consumed with guilt. Guilt which is
tripled by snide witticisms that your father throws. out.
My father is a Dutchman. A Dutch immigrant. Dutch immigrant who
came to the New World with less than $300, and made it to the top by
the sheer sweat of his brow. A Dutchman who hates to see inactive sons.
In order, then, to counter the menace of an angry Dutch father, one
must appear to be working. Working hard. Anyone who has ever had a
slack job under a tough foreman will tell you that it is at least twice as
hard to appear to be working as it is to work. And so I worked very hard
at working hard.
My dog got walked 5 miles daily, I ate 7 meals, and applied to every
job in town with such frequency that personnel officers would pay me to
leave them alone. It was very frustrating.
IT IS hard to come from the convivial college atmosphere where profs
are more than willing to put you to work, and go home to find no one
wants you. It is rejection.
But, I was talking about cliches. I remember last year's cliche rather
well. "What's your major?" That's a fun one alright. I used to make up
majors just to pass the time. "WHO ME? Why I'm a CREATIVITY
major." "Yeah, I'm a Gamma Metaphysics Major...'-' Not only was
creating new majors fun to do, but I always imagined a starry-eyed
freshman going to the registrars office to announce herself as a Chris-tian
Charm major.
I try very hard not to be cynical. I dislike cliches very much. To me it's
like counterfeit talk. "Well, looks like I have nothing to say so I better
toss in a cliche..." Maybe I shouldn't be too harsh. Cliches are often us-ed
to open people up. One doesn't want to get too personal at a first
meeting. "Hi, MY name's John. My parents hate me, and are going to
get a divorce just to make me more insecure." It doesn't free the other
person at all.
Cliches, then, are necessary, as long as we don't become bound to
them. As long as they do not set down limits to our dialogue. Can you
imagine asking your wife on your golden wedding anniversary what she
thinks of the no-dancing rule? Our communication must grow up with
our relationships. The cliche can be like T.V. for the mind. Closing us
down as creative people. Cliches are notorious for making short conver-sations
because we usually have stock answers to cliches. We run
through our answer completely uninspired and the conversation is at an
end. We have much to give each other without the notorious cliche.
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the three can have a conference . In order to help faculty and
call. Brushaber can also talk alone staff efficiently use these features,
with Stein, and switch back and Stella Rosenkranz, another repre-forth
between the two in a consul- sentative from Electronic Design,
tation call. will be at Bethel in December for a
If Smalley receives a private call training session. She will have
in the LRC, because he program- groups of 10-15 try the phones
med his phone to ring there while and teach them "to forget that
he was researching, he can punch they've ever used another
the code numbers to park the call system."
in the system. He can then go up Maintenance of the system
to his office and retrieve the call, should pose fewer problems, as
without tying up the LRC phone, Electronic Design Company has
or making someone wait to hang it its main office in Roseville.
. . . all writers with itchy fingers and dormant typewriters:
Watch for more information regarding the literary contest for
Passages, Bethel's very own literary magazine.
Photographers are also encouraged to submit their work.
Prizes will be awarded.
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Page 6 entertainment
Theatre opens season with Bibles for scripts, improvisation
by Juan Ramos is built by the actors with the direr- who has declared that the body of gowns. growth as an actress.
tor. As a unit they take a story one of Antigone's brothers is to Another unique fact of "An-
Sophomore theatre arts major
from the Old Testament, work on remain unburied. Antigone tigone" is the cast. Briggs noted Brian Joyce, who plays the part of
it together and decide on the style. decides to defy Creon even if it that of the twelve members, , only King Creon, is challenged by his means death. three have appeared on the Bethel role. "I feel the cast is excellent, The play is a philosophical and College stage before. The majori- and I look forward to great things spiritual debate between Creon ty of the cast, including the role of for this show." and Antigone on the subject of "Antigone,"" are being played by performance dates for death. It is drama of the serious freshmen and transfer students. It 2"0B, eresith" are October 18, 19, will introduce many new faces. 26, and November 1, 7, 10, 15, 16. Performance dates for "An-
Freshman Rhonda Gilbraith, tigone" are October 25, 27, and
who will play the title role of "An- November 2, 3, 8, 9, 14 and 17.
Stories from the Old Testament
and the classic Greek drama are
approached with innovation as the
Bethel College Theatre Arts
department opens its 1979-80
season with "Beresith" and "An-tigone."
"Beresith" is a Hebrew
transliteration for the word
"beginnings.',' "We want to take
a fresh look at the lives of some of
the early heros of the Old Testa-ment,"
said director Jeff Miller.
Using the form of "Story
Theatre," which was conceived by
Paul Sills in the early 1970's, the
cast of "Beresith" will take nar-rative
pieces from the Old Testa-ment
and make them dramatic
through improvisation.
The only script the actors will
have is their own Bibles. The show
Such a show requires a cast with
unique energy and talent and
Miller is assured that the actors
and actresses in this show meet
those standards.
Senior theatre arts major Deb
Olson, a cast member of "Bere-sith"
said, "It allows you to put a
lot of the skills and knowledge
that you've been learning into
something applicable."
Sophomore Scott Allison, a
psychology and theatre arts major
is challenged as a cast member. It
is a new experience to him and one
that demands a dependence on
God for creativity.
"Antigone" is based on the old
Greek myth of the new king Creon
What is unique about this pro-duction
is that it is a modern ver-sion
based on the Greek myth. It
is an adaptation by Lewis
Galatiere from a version written
by Jean Anouilh.
Doug Briggs, chairman of the
theatre arts department and direc-tor
said, "It is similar yet different
from the Greek version." Anouilh
sets it in a timeless period with
timeless sets and costumes. The
men in the cast will wear tuxedoes
while the women will wear evening
tigone," was surprised when she
was cast in the role. She had first
seen "Antigone" performed a
year ago and was drawn very close
to the role.
She admired the girl who played
the role and received much help
from her regarding her own ac-ting.
Rhonda sees it as almost
ironic that she has the role now.
She is excited and sees depth in the
character which provides for her
Last week the disc jockeys per-formed
a dry run of the perma-nent
schedule, recording their
shows and listening to themselves
with station directors.
Paul Johnson, KABY sport
director, has helped supervise the
training sessions. "This year the
quality of our disc jockeys is as
good as, if not better than most
college disc jockeys in the coun-try.
With the quality of our disc
jockeys and the variety of our pro-graming,
KABY will give Bethel
students a solid alternative to
Twin Cities radio stations," he
Last year KABY played a mix-ture
of secular and Christian
music. This year they will play on-ly
contemporary Christian music.
General Manager Richard Talbot
said "ii is poor business to mix
secular and Christian music.
Tickets are $2 for Bethel Col-lege
students and $2.50 for regular
admission. All performances will
be held in the Bethel College ex-perimental
theatre and will begin
at 8 p.m.
Tickets may be purchased at the
theatre box • office. Tickets may
also be reserved in advance for
either play. For further informa-tion
call the box office at
"Students can listen to several
of the top secular stations in the
United States right here in the
Twin Cities," said Talbot. "The
quality of these stations can't be
beat. KABY is unique because
there are no stations in the Twin
Cities that play exclusively con-temporary
Christian music."
Talbot describes contemporary
Christian music as "a style of
music popular today that glorifies
God, edifies Christians, and con-victs
sinners." Talbot views the
purpose of KABY as more of a
ministry than a club.
"We want to be of service to
the Christian community of
Bethel, to praise God through the
songs we play, and train our staff
for future work in God's
Kingdom," he said.
Klaudt said, "KABY is for the
students to use. We want to serve
students and student organiza-tions
through publicity, rallying
support, and any other way we
can offer our services."
Other student directors on the
KABY staff include Chief
Engineer John Woodside, Music
Director Barbara Huggens, Public
Relations Director Becky Miller,
and Secretary Debbie Watson.
KABY welcomes your sugges-tions
for programming and artist
selections. The station is still on a
trial basis as far as the administra-tion
is concerned. This year will
decide its future.
KABY, cont. from p.1
Randy Bostrom, with Bethel's third best time, helped cross
country finish fourth of seven. (Photo Dan Velie)
Wanted Wanted
Bethel's "other" footbal players enjoyed the Indian summer in
last Saturday's IM games. (Photo Tom Twining)
Page 7
Minnesota pageant contestants call experiences exciting
by Jan Johnson
Visiting a pig farm, riding in a
McDonald's bus, and being
caught in the middle of a tornado
made sophomore Tammy Hanson
and freshman Shelli Rauma's ex-perience
in the Miss Minnesota
Pageant an exciting one.
Both Tammy and Shelli said
that the pageant, held in Austin
last summer, was a memorable oc-casion
for them.
Tammy was crowned Miss
Coon Rapids in January of 1977,
by her good friend Sue Erickson.
Sue was the former Miss Coon
"I couldn't have been more
against it," Tammy firmly stated
when asked about how she got in-volved
in the pageant. She added
that she thought it was in very
poor taste for women...nothing
more than a cattle show.
So what changed her mind?
"I never understood it before,"
she said. "Then Sue started to talk
me into trying out for the pageant,
and the more she explained, the
more I understood."
Tammy explained that it "was
not a beauty pageant, and you
can quote me on that." She said
that the contestants were judged
on talent, a personal interview,
and evening gown and swim suit
"Most people think that the
swim suit competition is just look-ing
for the five-foot-ten, real
`leggy' girls, but that's not true,"
Tammy said. "The reason for the
swim suit judging is to find out
how well a woman takes care of
herself, because how she takes
care of herself affects all areas of
her life."
Tammy said that the whole ex-perience
was one of real growth
for her. She grew in patience,
character, understanding, and
most of all, she felt that the Lord
really used this experience to draw
her closer to Him.
"A lot of people would think I
was being trite if they heard me
say that I did it to honor God. But
the people who enter a pageant
strictly for themselves get nothing
out of it. Even if they win there is
really nothing for them. But by
doing it for Him, there is the real
Shelli agrees with Tammy that it
was a real growing experience. She
also agreed that it was not a beau-ty
by Deanna Monson
"We're really excited about in-tramurals
this year," said Janet
(J.P.) Peterson and Steve Fischer,
coordinators of Intramurals. This
year we have an added event of
Backgammon, a new time for in-door
sports (10 to 12 p.m.) and a
better equalized program."
The reason for the new time for
indoor sports is to have the gym at
a time when it will not conflict
with other gym users.
This year there are IM represen-tatives
on each dorm floor and
townhouse so that they may relay
messages and help with setting up
In cross-country it will be in-dividualized
with perhaps a
special event at the end of the
season. The special event pits 4 of
the top student competitors and 4
of the top faculty competitors.
Women's soccer will meet at
least twice a week on Mondays
and Wednesdays. Organization of
teams will be done then.
Raquetball is open at 7:30 in the
morning. This will give everyone
who wants to play raquetball a
"The Miss USA Pageant is a
beauty pageant. They are not
judged on talent at all. The Miss
America Pageant, which is where
Miss Minnesota goes, is judged
50 percent on talent," Shelli said.
Shelli, who represented White
Bear Lake, played the trumpet as
her talent. She said that a big
reason for getting involved in the
pageant was to force herself to
really practice so that she
wouldn't be out of practice when
she came to Bethel.
Shelli thought that the girl who
won really deserved it, but she
wished that there should have
chance to play that won't conflict
with their class hours. This
schedule and the use of the
Y.M.C.A. courts gives students 24
additional courts.
This year the tournament cham-pions
will receive yellow T-shirts.
There is equipment for rent at a
nominal fee in the intramural of-fice,
located across from the ra-quetball
courts. This equipment
includes canoes and other things.
been more judges who were quali-fied
to judge the talent portion of
the pageant, which counts as half
the point total.
She felt that the judges were
very qualified to handle this type
of pageant, that they were very ex-perienced.
But it surprised her
that they didn't have more who
were in the various talent areas,
such as drama and music.
All in all, though, both Shelli
and Tammy agree that the whole
thing was a very rewarding ex-perience,
and as Tammy put it,
"It may sound hokey, but I really
wish that every girl could go
through it."
Other intramural personnel are:
George Palke, director, Daunna
(Beans) Hage, Bob Giddings, Phil
Almeroth and Leslie Smith.
The activities for spring and in-terim
will be in the intramural
handbook to be delivered in the
For further information about
activities call ext. 6401 or visit the
IM office Monday through Friday
from 2:30 to 3:30.
Intramural program expands schedule
Wanted: Want ads! You
could be utilizing this space for
your own personals, help
wanted, or items for sale. We
will rent this space to students
for the low price of 25 cents per
line (please enclose payments).
Persons outside the Bethel
community will be charged 50
cents per line. This service is of-fered
on a trial basis and will
continue depending on student
interest. Please submit all ads
through inter-campus mail to
The Clarion, box 2381 or bring
them to the office, FA 207.
The Sports Information de-partment
is sponsoring a sports
photo contest. Money will be
awarded for the top three pho-tos.
Pick up an entry form and
contest rules from Mary Harris
in P.E. 206. The deadline for
turning in photos is Oct. 12.
From: Calvary Baptist, Rose-ville
Sorry we were unable to pick
you up last Sunday. Our bus
experienced brain death and
broke down! We will be send-ing
two buses this. Sunday.
The first bus picks up at Sil-vercrest
at 9 a.m., Fountain
Terrace at 9:15, and New Cam-pus
at 9:20. Our second bus
will pick up at the Old Campus
at 9:15. Again we are sorry for
your inconvenience. See you
next Sunday.
Doug Hage (left) and Cory Kulseth (center) attempt to control the ball versus Gustavus. The
Gusties won, 4-1.
Page 8 sports
For the second straight year
Bethel's football theam threw a
scare into St. John's before falling
to the nationally ranked Johnnies.
Last year the Royals led the
whole way until QB John Welsh's
eight yard TD run with less than a
Harriers set records,
effortsyield best times
Johnnies rally, down Bethel
Ken Cooper, shown catching a pass against Mac, pulled down 3
TD's in this past week's loss to St. John's. (Photo Tom,Twining)
by Carol Madison
Personal bests and course
records highlighted the women's
cross country performance at the
5,000-meter race hosted by
Macalester at Como last weekend.
Bethel placed fifth of eight
schools in the meet, but the efforts
by individual team members im-pressed
Coach Shirley Dawson
more than the placement as a
"We had personal bests for this
year from everyone who ran on
Saturday," said Dawson. "This is
the part of the season when prac-tice
is the hardest, and it's en-couraging
that they can work that
hard and still run well."
Wendy Norberg was the top
runner for Bethel, placing 17th of
68 at 19:52, her personal best by
30 seconds.
Her time, as well as the 19th-place
20:01 time turned in by Ellie
Abbott, were course records for
Bethel at the Como course.
Theresa Meredith placed third
for Bethel and tied the freshman
course record. Carla Munson im-proved
her time by 40 seconds
over the last meet, and sophomore
Kristan Dinges cut an impressive
1:15 off her previous time.
Ellie Abbott (Photo Dan
versity of Minnesota. Between the
two of them they racked up nearly
600 yards in passing. Eight of the
nine TD's came via the pass and
five of those were 30 yards or
longer. -
Cooper had another fine day,
hauling down three TD passes in-cluding
a record 89-yarder and a
36-yard halfback option from
Tom Klitzke. Cooper now is the
leading receiver in the MIAC. On
the day, he caught four passes for
151 yards.
Bethel's explosive offense in-cluded
the running of Tom Klit-zke,
who upped a 4 game rushing
total to 380 yards with a 114-yard
by Becky Dye
Tomorrow the Bethel men's
cross-country team will compete
in the St. Olaf Invitational at St.
Olaf at 11 a.m. Last Saturday the
team finished fourth of seven,
behind Carleton, who achieved a
perfect score of 15, Hamline and
St. Thomas.
Mike Culp, a freshman from
Des Moines, Iowa, finished first for
Bethel with 27:27 and twelfth of
the overall 72 runners.
final goal was a breakaway where
they had a wide open shot.
Gustavus had scored three goals
within a five minute period but
Bethel didn't give up. In the last
three minutes of play, Neil Kaiser
scored for the Royals. This was
the first ball that Gustavus let into
the net this season.
Despite the loss, Johnny Starr,
Andy Larson, Wayne Abbott,
and Corey Kulseth played a good
Mike said, "This is the first
time I have run five miles, in high-school
it was only two. It has taken
some time to get used to. It's a big
jump and change."
Brent Friesen, junior and the
team captain finished close behind
Culp with a 27:38 and in the
number 14 spot.
Finishing third for Bethel was
senior Rudy Bostrom with 28:14.
Fourth was Ross Alien, a fresh-man
with 28:36 and sophomore
Ross Fleming finished fifth with
game. Coach Leigh also praised
Joel Kraakevik for playing a smart
The Royals record is now 2-2.
Coach Leigh said, "We're as good
as anyone in the league, but we're
lacking experience both in playing
and coaching. I'm trying to give
the guys confidence."
The Royals next game is home
on Saturday with St. Olaf.
29:26 for the Bethel harriers.
The meet was the first held on
the Bethel track which was design-ed
by Coach Gene Glader and
constructed over the past few
years by track coach Leighton
Betz. Previously Bethel home
meets were held at the Como Park
Golf Course.
Other finishing runners from
Bethel included Dan Hicks,
Dwight Newman, Brian
Galloway, Mitch Johnson, Wen-dell
Geary, Danny Nelson, Paul
Geary and Todd Benson, respec-tively.
Doug Simpson of Carleton was
the number one finisher last
Saturday. He lead his team to a
perfect score of 15 and the meet
Participating schools and scores
were, Carleton 15, Hamline 60,
St. Thomas 90, Bethel 107, Nor-thwestern
119, Dr. Martin Luther
College 50, and Augsburg 220.
by Steve Erickson minute left gave the visiting John-nies
a 19-17 win. This time St.
John's rallied in the second half to
win 45-32 after Bethel led 21-17 at
the half.
The game featured two fine
quarterbacks, Bethel's Jim Ander-strom
and St. John's Joe Smith,
who formerly played at the Uni-by
Ellie Abbott about fifteen minutes left in the
game. Their second goal was also
On Wednesday, Sept. 19, the a Bethel own-goal and Coach
Bethel soccer team lost a home Mark Leigh said, "I don't know
game to Gustavus 4-1. why they happened." -
Despite the numerous scoring Within two minutes Gustavus
opportunities the Royals had in scored their third goal. It was then
the first half, they could not get that Coach Leigh began putting
the ball past the Gustavus goalie. substitutes in for the starting
Gustavus' first point came on a players. Leigh said. "I switched
Bethel own-goal but Gustavus players too much but I was trying
didn't score again until there were to get the best lineup." Gustavus'
After the Royal's regained the
lead 24-23 on Paul Lindberg's
23-yard field goal midway through
the third period, the Johnnies
salted the game away, scoring
three times—all passes from Smith
—to make the score 45-24. A ten-yard
toss from Anderstrom to Ken
"I was happy with their times, Cooper ended the scoring.
and they were too," said Coach
Dawson, "which is nice."
The Royals travel to a meet
hosted by the strong St. Olaf team
tomorrow at 10:15 a.m.
Gusties knock off Royals; own goals do the damage
The Royals (2-2) face neighbor-ing
Hamline at 1:30 tomorrow in
this year's homecoming game.
X-country takes fourth on new track
Volleyball varsity, JV teams break even,
defeat St. Thomas, downed by Augsburg
by Julie Pflepsen
The Royals won one and lost
one in matches played by the
women's volleyball team, Sept. 26
and 27.
In the match agaihst Augsburg
the varsity lost the first game,
2-15. They came back strong in
the second game with a 17-15 \ win.
Although the scores of the 'next
games, 14-16 and 11-15, did not
favor Bethel, Coach krya l Frye
said, "The team put out a good
effort, despite the loss."
The following night Bethel
downed St. Thomas with a 16-14,
15-12, 15-10 victory. Coach Frye
singled out sophomore, Merry
Olmstead as "making excellent
back row digs" and sophomore,
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At its scheduled voting session this afternoon, the Senate endorsed the changes Gov. Chris Christie ordered earlier this week in his conditional veto of a bill overhauling New Jersey's corporate incentives offerings.
The Assembly voted Monday to approve Christie's changes to the Economic Opportunity Act.
The bill seeks to consolidate five current incentive programs into two, while expanding eligibility and placing more focus on job creation.
After months of wrangling among lawmakers, the bill was finally sent to Christie late last month, but he recommended two changes — removing a requirement that union labor be used in construction and building services at projects that receive tax breaks, and eliminating tax credits for hospital redevelopment projects.
The legislation's top sponsor in the Senate, Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) has taken issue with one of the bill's provisions added on over the summer by the Assembly, requiring residential builders who receive subsidies to set aside 20 percent of their units for affordable housing.
Though he said that makes residential development unaffordable in some of New Jersey's cities, he has said he will look to tackle the issue through new legislation, rather than run the risk of delaying the bill any further.
The only dissenting vote in the Senate chamber came from state Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Washington). Doherty called the bill a "form of crony capitalism," adding that he believes it does more to give legislators in certain areas of the state the ability to fund pet projects rather than making New Jersey on the whole an attractive option for businesses.
"We should make the entire state a fertile ground for economic opportunity," Doherty said.
But state Sen. Joe Kyrillos (R-Middletown), a sponsor of the bill, sees it differently. Following the vote, Kyrillos said New Jersey is now nearly ready to compete with other states that also have passed significant business incentive measures.
"Now, we can tell families and job creators that the anxious wait is over, and the Economic Opportunity Act is finally on the brink of enactment to help ensure New Jersey retains and attracts employers in the immediate future," Kyrillos said in a statement.
In a statement released today prior to the vote, New Jersey Business & Industry Association President Philip Kirschner applauded legislators for moving speedily to pass the bill following Christie's conditional veto.
"By acting so quickly, legislators are sending a message that we are serious about making New Jersey more economically competitive, and creating and retaining private-sector jobs," Kirschner said.
One major player in the bill's passage won't see it come to fruition. Former Assemblyman Al Coutinho (D-Newark) pleaded guilty today to theft from his family's nonprofit foundation and falsifying financial disclosure forms with the Legislature.
Coutinho, the bill's primary sponsor in the Assembly, was chairman of the Assembly's Commerce and Economic Development Committee as well as its budget and human services committees.

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Fatal Amherst crash took lives of men from Wilton and MilfordBy BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 22. 2013 8:36PM
AMHERST - The victims of a fatal crash involving a car and a tractor-trailer truck have been identified as men from Milford and Wilton.
Amherst police said that at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, a 1999 Mercury Marquis attempted to make a left turn across oncoming traffic from Schoolhouse Road onto Route 101 east.
The car was hit by an oncoming 2002 Freightliner cab and trailer.
The driver of the car, Keith Bernasconi, 28, of Milford and passenger Robert Carson, 37, of Wilton were killed.
Both Bernasconi and Carlson were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
The driver of the truck, Peter Berube, 59, of Brookline, was not hurt.
New Hampshire State Police are continuing an investigation. The road was closed early Saturday morning as members of the technical accident reconstruction team used surveying equipment to map the scene.


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The union representing 14,500 East Coast and Gulf longshoremen and the representative of 43 port operators and shipping companies completed negotiations on a six-year deal, a federal mediator announced Wednesday afternoon.
The terms of the Master Agreement will now go to the respective memberships of the International Longshoremen's Association and U.S. Maritime Alliance for ratification, said George Cohen, director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The Port of Baltimore has about 1,200 dockworkers represented by four locals.
Contracts between local union workers and individual ports also must been approved before the entire package can take effect. Three locals are continuing to negotiate, the ILA said. Calls to the Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore, which negotiates for port operators, and the local offices of the International Longshoremen's Association were not returned.
Under the terms of the Master Agreement, an experienced dockworker will receive a three-step hourly wage increase from $32 to $35 and a newly hired worker will be able to reach top scale in six years rather than nine years. Container royalties will not dip below the 2011 level of $211 million; USMX and ILA will divide anything over that amount.
The talks, which began a year ago, included two strike threats that would have crippled 14 ports from Maine to Texas. Major retailers warned that a work stoppage could have cost the nation's economy more than $1 billion per day.
"What this means in real life terms is that once again collective bargaining proved up to the task and played a major constructive role in helping to avoid a potential disruption that unquestionably would have had severe impact on the nation's economy — at the precise time that a significant recovery is in progress," Cohen said.


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Book of Unwritten Tales: Critter Chronicles trailer shows prequel madness
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles is a prequel to KING Art's point-and-click series, showing how hero Nate Bonnet first met his sidekick Critter. The game's teaser trailer is full of dancing monsters, party blowers and penguin abuse. It launches December 5th on PC, Mac and Linux. Check it the clip below.


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Dread ripples through me as I listen to a phone message from our manager saying that we (The Doors) have another offer of huge amounts of money if we would just allow one of our songs to be used as the background for a commercial. They don't give up! I guess it's hard to imagine that everybody doesn't have a price. Maybe 'cause, as the cement heads try to pave the entire world, they're paving their inner world as well. No imagination left upstairs.
Apple Computer called on a Tuesday–they already had the audacity to spend money to cut "When the Music's Over" into an ad for their new cube computer software. They want to air it the next weekend, and will give us a million and a half dollars! A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS! Apple is a pretty hip company…we use computers…. Dammit! Why did Jim (Morrison) have to have such integrity?
I'm pretty clear that we shouldn't do it. We don't need the money. But I get such pressure from one particular bandmate (the one who wears glasses and plays keyboards).
"Commercials will give us more exposure," he says. I ask him, "so you're not for it because of the money?" He says "no," but his first question is always "how much?" when we get one of these offers, and he always says he's for it. He never suggests we play Robin Hood, either. If I learned anything from Jim, it's respect for what we created. I have to pass. Thank God, back in 1965 Jim said we should split everything, and everyone has veto power. Of course, every time I pass, they double the offer!
It all started in 1967, when Buick proffered $75,000 to use "Light My Fire" to hawk its new hot little offering–the Opel. As the story goes–which everyone knows who's read my autobiography or seen Oliver Stone's movie–Ray, Robby and John (that's me) OK'd it, while Jim was out of town. He came back and went nuts. And it wasn't even his song (Robby primarily having penned "LMF")! In retrospect, his calling up Buick and saying that if they aired the ad, he'd smash an Opel on television with a sledgehammer was fantastic! I guess that's one of the reasons I miss the guy.
It actually all really started back in '65, when we were a garage band and Jim suggested sharing all the songwriting credits and money. Since he didn't play an instrument–literally couldn't play one chord on piano or guitar, but had lyrics and melodies coming out of his ears–the communal pot idea felt like a love-in. Just so no one got too weird, he tagged that veto thought on. Democracy in action…only sometimes avenues between "Doors" seem clogged with bureaucratic BS. In the past ten years it's definitely intensified…maybe we need a third party. What was that original intent? Liberty and justice for all songs…and the pursuit of happiness…. What is happiness? More money? More fame? The Vietnamese believe that you're born with happiness; you don't have to pursue it. We tried to bomb that out of them back in my youth. From the looks of things, we might have succeeded.


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Pendleton had just finished her final exams on Tuesday when she and some friends walked over to Harsh Park, where she was shot. Friday, dozens retraced those steps in a call for justice.
It was a march to honor Pendleton and a call for the shooter to do the right thing.
The reward for information about the slaying was raised to $40,000.
"Please turn yourself in. Do us all a justice and yourself a justice, too. Just turn yourself in," said marcher Dion Houston.
About 100 people marched from King College Prep to the park a few blocks away.
"I think it's a tragedy that these types of things are happening," said marcher Paul Glenn. "And there's really no answer or a quick fix for it."
A march organizer who didn't want to give his name said Pendleton's death represented a failure of the city's leadership.
"Mr. Mayor, we need you out here in our communities," the organizer said. "Not downtown in City Hall, smiling in front of these cameras right here. It's not going to work."
Friday evening there was a candlelight vigil where mourners walked to Harsh Park, where Pendleton was shot.
"It's very emotional but we need to get things done. We need to bring awareness to our community so things happen," parent Kimberly Walker said.
Pendleton's pastor Rev. Courtney Maxwell said Friday that President Barack Obama personally called the girl's family this week. There has been no White House confirmation of such a call.
Would Maxwell like to see the president at Hadiya's funeral?
"You know, the president has a lot on his plate," said the Greater Deliverance Temple Church of Christ pastor. "And he has already called. And so we thank him for that."
This is hardly the first time the senseless death of a child has sparked this kind of outrage. Six months ago this week, 7-year-old Heaven Sutton was gunned down on the West Side while selling candy outside her home.
"It's not about crime," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel last June. "It's about values. Where were you raised and who raised you? Stay away from the kids."
Now, as another child is mourned, many are asking, "What will it take?"
"There's a collaborative failure here that's going on, and it produces a culture of violence," said Greater St. John Bible Church Pastor Ira Acree.
The reward for information leading to the killer is now $40,000.
According to Pastor Acree, Pendleton's funeral will be Saturday, February 9 at 10 a.m. at Greater Harvest Baptist Church, 5141 S. State St.


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NH gets dismal D-plus ratings in psychiatric careBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 20. 2014 10:12PM
NH's emergency care report cardNew Hampshire ranking among states for emergency care, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians:
• Access to emergency care 30th D-
• Quality & patient safety environment 10th B
• Medical liability environment 41st D-
• Public health & injury prevention 32nd D+
• Disaster preparedness 12th C+
A psychiatric care crisis is affecting emergency rooms throughout New Hampshire, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians, which gave New Hampshire a D-plus overall grade and ranked it 28th in the nation in a state-by-state report card on America's emergency care environment.
The state slipped from a C-plus and 15th ranking in the last survey in 2009, having improved in only one of five categories — disaster preparedness.
In the other four categories — access to emergency care, quality and patient safety, medical liability and public health — the state lost ground, according to the national medical society representing emergency medicine, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
"New Hampshire has long wait times in emergency departments and one of the worse medical liability environments in the nation," said Beth Daniels, M.D., president of the New Hampshire Chapter of ACEP, which represents more than 125 emergency physicians, residents and medical students in the state.
"We must increase the hospital and mental health resources in our state and enact laws to improve traffic safety," said Daniels, an emergency medicine doctor in Manchester and Newburyport, Mass.
The state received a D-minus in the category of "Access to Emergency Care" and ranks 30th in the nation, dropping from a B-minus and 11th place in 2009. According to the study, released last Thursday, the state has a relatively high proportion of adults needing but not receiving substance abuse treatment.
New Hampshire also received a D-minus for its "Medical Liability Environment" because of laws that favor plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases. For example, the state does not have expert witness rules requiring medical witnesses to be of the same specialty as the defendant and licensed to practice medicine in the state.
The state dropped from a C-plus to a D-plus in the area of "Public Health and Injury Prevention." The authors cited the fact that New Hampshire does not require helmets for motorcycle riders, does not mandate seat belts for adults, and does not prohibit cell phone use while driving. New Hampshire has the third lowest rate of front seatbelt use in the nation.
On the positive side, New Hampshire has a good overall "Quality and Patient Safety Environment," with triage and destination policies in place for certain patients, such as stroke victims. In that category, the state earned a B and is ranked 10th in the country, although in 2009 it received a B-plus in the same category.
The state's grade for disaster preparedness went from C to C-plus after the state implemented a patient tracking system, established mutual aid agreements and enhanced training and communication systems.
A call for action
At the heart of the report is the failure of the state to provide sufficient beds for psychiatric patients, who end up in emergency rooms.
"New Hampshire must act immediately to address its under-resourced mental health system, work with hospitals to increase the number of psychiatric inpatient beds and reduce the boarding and crowding in Emergency Departments," wrote the report's authors.
Boarding of mental health patients in the emergency department has likely contributed to New Hampshire's higher than average median time from emergency room arrival to emergency room departure of nearly five hours, according to the report.
The focus on mental health care comes as no surprise to medical professionals in the state, who've been sounding the alarm for years on the decline of psychiatric services in New Hampshire. The state has lost 27 percent of its in-patient psychiatric beds in the past eight years.
Commissioner of Health and Human Services Nick Toumpas told the Executive Council last year that as many as 30 mental health patients a day are being held in emergency room beds across the state, sometimes for days.
Toumpas got emergency approval for renovations at the state hospital to accommodate an additional 12 beds for acute mental health patients.
Sounding the alarm
John Clayton, a spokesman for the New Hampshire Hospital Association, said the report affirms the position of his organization. "Our focus for months has been to bring attention to the state's mental health crisis," he said, "a crisis that is driving psychiatric patients to hospital emergency departments because of the lack of capacity at the New Hampshire State Hospital and cuts to local, community-based mental health centers."
He said at one point last fall, there were 52 patients on the state's waiting list for in-patient, psychiatric beds.
"These patients have experienced emergency departments waits of up to five to seven days at times, with no proper psychiatric care available to them," he said. "This represents a danger to the patients, but also to emergency caregivers. The two headline-making assaults at the Elliot Hospital emergency department are illustrative of a problem that is far more wide-ranging."
A Manchester man was arrested after police said he assaulted two employees at the Elliot Hospital Emergency Department in July. The Manchester Board of Mayor and Alderman passed a unanimous resolution in October, calling on the state to allocate more funds for urgent mental health services after a local man was seriously injured after being jailed following an altercation with a security guard at Elliot Hospital. The man had gone to the hospital seeking psychiatric care.
Clayton said progress is being made. Franklin Regional Hospital is establishing a 10-bed unit for psychiatric patients; the state has added 10 new beds at the state hospital; and the recent settlement of a class action lawsuit should bring more money into the mental health system.
Under the terms of the settlement announced in December, New Hampshire must expand services for severely mentally ill individuals at an estimated cost of about $32 million between now and 2017.


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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's hunts of smaller whales, dolphins and porpoises threaten some species with extinction, an environmental group said Thursday.
Catch quotas are based on data collected as much as 20 years ago and some species have been overhunted beyond the point of recovery, the Environmental Investigation Agency said in its report.
The lucrative market in live catches for aquariums, especially in China, poses another risk, the report said. Live animals can sell for between $8,400 and $98,000, sometimes more than the roughly $50,000 from sales of meat for a single bottlenose dolphin.
Japan set its catch limit for small cetaceans at 16,655 in 2013, far below the 30,000 caught annually before limits were set in 1993 but still the largest hunt in the world.
Japan's Fisheries Agency wouldn't comment on the EIA report because it hasn't seen it. Japan defends its coastal whaling as a longstanding tradition, source of livelihood and as necessary for scientific research.
The London-based independent conservation group said Japan is failing to observe its stated goal of sustainability and urged the country to phase out the hunts over the next decade.
"The government has a responsibility to restore and maintain cetacean species at their former levels," said Jennifer Lonsdale, a founding director of the EIA.
The small cetaceans are among a number of species facing severe declines in Japan. They include Japanese eels, a delicacy usually served roasted with a savory sauce over rice, and torafugu, or puffer fish.
The status of each species varies, depending on its range and hunting practices. Catch limits for Dall's porpoises are 4.7-4.8 times higher than the safe threshold, the report said.
For the striped dolphin, once the mainstay of the industry but now endangered and disappearing from some areas, catches have dropped from over 1,800 in the 1980s to about 100.
That is still four times the sustainable limit, the report said. It urged that the government update its data on the abundance of it and other species and stop transferring quotas from already overfished areas to areas that exceed their quotas.
Under a 1946 treaty regulating whaling, nations can grant permits to kill whales for scientific research.
In July, Japan defended its annual harpooning of hundreds of whales in the icy seas around Antarctica, insisting the hunt is legal because it gathers valuable scientific data that could pave the way to a resumption of sustainable whaling in the future.
Australia has appealed to the World Court to have the whaling outlawed.
Japan considers small cetaceans to be excluded from the international convention on whaling. It most recently published provisional sightings data for 2011-2012 for 17 species in the Western Pacific, Sea of Japan and Okhotsk Sea. It is unclear, however, to what extent such provisional research is taken into account in setting catch quotas, which are based on abundance estimates and assumed population growth rates.


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Dr. David Cleveland, 2009-2010 Champion
The 2009-10 Sustainability Champion was Dr. David Cleveland whose transdisciplinary research and teaching focus is agriculture and food. He is Professor of Environmental Studies, with affiliated appointments in the departments of Anthropology, Geography, and Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology. He was winner of the 2009-10 Leadership and Activities Award for Faculty Involvement from the Office of Student Life, and an internationally-recognized expert on the diversity and sustainability of agricultural systems and their relationship to human ecology. He is also well connected with the local community as founding member of the Santa Barbara County Ag Futures Alliance, California, a member of the Arcosanti Land Use Committee in Arizona, and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, Goleta.
Activities of the 2009-10 Sustainability Champion
Inaugural Public Lecture: "Sustainability: More greenwash or the key to our future? The example of localizing the Santa Barbara County food system."
Dr. Cleveland's team of UCSB undergraduates spent the last year doing research to answer this question. The team found that while Santa Barbara County produces an abundance of fruit and vegetables, we import most of the produce we eat, which contributes to food insecurity and global warming. The team also found that many people are working to localize the system as a way to make it more sustainable, often successfully overcoming skepticism and institutional obstacles. But what effect will this localization have? How can the concept of sustainability be put to work for localization? The lecture ended with a discussion on these very questions.
Sustainable food and agriculture research
During the year Cleveland as co-investigator carried out sustainability related research funded by the UC Pacific Rim Program (Transgenic crops in Pacific Rim centers of origin and diversity: Farmers, risk assessment and sustainable development in China and Mexico). He was also a Co-PI on a project which surveyed 800+ residents of Santa Barbara County (Public Opinion on Tradeoffs between Agriculture, Open Space, and Urbanization) as part of the UCSB Central Coast Survey 2009/2010, funded by the Social Science Survey Center/Benton Survey Research Lab, UCSB.
In addition, Cleveland made many informal presentations during the year on and off campus on sustainability of the agrifood system including: to the Food Studies Research Focus Group, at the Environmental Studies 40th Anniversary Celebration, as faculty lecturer at UCSB's Spring Insight, at several Environmental Affairs Board events on campus, and as discussion leader at the campus Twenty-Sixth Annual World Food Day Teleconference.
The Santa Barbara County Agrifood Systems research project
Cleveland's work with undergraduate students has focused on involving them in new research surveying the sustainability of the Santa Barbara County agrifood system (SBC AFS). This research includes documenting the current system (production, consumption, export and import of fruits and vegetables); the impact of the current system on food security and nutrition; loss of farmland to development and potential for conserving it; the use of migrant farm labor and its effect on the environment and on communities in southern Mexico and Santa Barbara County; the contribution of the current system to climate warming and the potential for reducing it. Its over arching goals are assessing the potential of localization to increase environmental, social and economic sustainability and encouraging community discussion of results, of visions for the future, and of alternative scenarios for increasing the sustainability of SBC AFS.
The SBC AFS involved collaboration with 14 undergraduates ranging from freshmen to seniors, with majors in a range of disciplines (Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Psychology, Zoology). Students carried out the full range of research activities under Cleveland's mentoring: creating a research design, gathering published data and primary data through interviews and observations, organizing and analyzing data, creating and presenting talks using power point.
The research group made six public presentations in 2010 of preliminary results, involving up to 11 students, at the: conference Oil and Water: The case of Southern California, IHC, UCSB (April 10); Roundtable: Some Futures of California Agriculture at the Food Sustainability and Food Security Conference, UCSB (April 10); Earth Day, Santa Barbara (April 18); Santa Barbara County Food Policy Council, Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara (April 24); Environmental Studies, TIFFET, UCSB (May 11); Food for Thought, Community Environment Council (June 10). The research group and individual students also made presentations in several classes on campus, including Cleveland's Small-Scale Food Production class. Cleveland also presented this research at a meeting of the Santa Barbara County Ag Futures Alliance, the Community Sustainable Food Group, the inaugural meeting of the Santa Barbara County Food Policy Council (2009 Dec 7), and to the UCSB Sustainability Change Agents (January 29).
Cleveland also collaborated with off campus groups to further this research and action, including the s'Cool Food Initiative for Santa Barbara County in planning a conference for 2011, and the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis on research collaboration.
All of these activities combined reached about 200-250 UCSB students, and many others both on and off campus, increasing awareness of sustainability activities on campus, and establishing important campus/community relationships, enhancing campus standing in the community for the work we are doing at UCSB.
Cleveland, with 7 undergrad researchers as co-authors, is submitting an article based on the SBC AFS research to a scientific journal. This article documents how the current SBC AFS contributes to the high rates of food insecurity and malnutrition and generation of significant environmental damage, including a large proportion of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), and evaluates the potential of localization to increase sustainability. We analyzed data for SBC on produce grown, consumed, and grown and consumed in SBC, to estimate produce export and import: <1% of produce grown in SBC is consumed in the county, >95% of produced consumed in SBC is imported. However, if there was 100% localization, where all produce consumed in SBC would be grown in the county, it would affect mainly direct transport, and result in reduction of GGE from the SBC agrifood system of <1%. The effect of localization on food security and nutrition is likely to be positive, but is difficult to estimate because it depends on many intervening factors. However, there are potential synergies between reducing GGE and improving nutrition—if localization involved replacing many dietary calories currently supplied by highly processed and animal foods with fresh fruits and vegetables prepared on site, and grown in SBC using environmentally friendly methods, it could not only improve nutrition, but reduce GGE from food production, storage, processing and preparation.
Two other research articles by student researchers and Cleveland are in process, as well as several popular articles based on the research.
UCSB Residential Dining Services
During fall and winter quarters of 2004-05 Cleveland served as Faculty Advisor, for two Sustainable Living Program group study projects on increasing the amount of organic local food in the UCSB Residential Dining Services (RDS) dining halls. He has continued to collaborate with RDS in researching and promoting more sustainable UCSB food system, and during 2009-10 this included: sponsoring student internships through the Environmental Studies Program, serving as faculty advisor to the Real Food Challenge project funded by TGIF, supporting the Environmental Affairs Board's (EAB) Meatless Mondays campaign, and developing a research proposal with RDS and EAB to evaluate the effect of education and outreach on student food choices in the RDS dining halls.
Continuation of Sustainability Champion activities with students and potential for funding
Conference on localizing the agrifood system
A 2-3 day conference in winter quarter on localizing agrifood systems is being planned for 2011, to be held on the UCSB campus and involving the campus and Santa Barbara County communities. The conference will be organized and publicized in collaboration with campus (e.g. Residential Dining Services, Environmental Affairs Board) and community (e.g. Orfalea Foundation's s'Cool Food Initiative, the SB Certified Farmers' Market, Farmer Direct Produce, Ag Futures Alliance, Community Environment Council) and other California organizations (e.g. UC Davis Agriculture Sustainability Institute, and the Occidental College Center for Food & Justice).
Presenters would include the Sustainability Champion sponsored students as presenters, moderators and organizers, UCSB faculty and staff, SB County community members such as the s'Cool Food Initiative, and a few experts from outside the area, for example from the UC Davis Agriculture Sustainability Institute and the Center for Food & Justice, Occidental College The preliminary program includes four foci: Research for change in the agrifood system, Challenges to localizing agrifood systems: From field to plate and beyond, Facilitating change, Field trips to local agrifood sites. Besides the presentations, expert participants would be available to interact with students, staff and faculty.
Santa Barbara County Agrifood Systems (SBC AFS) research
The SBC AFS research will continue, focusing on climate change mitigation, migrant labor and mechanisms for increasing the positive impacts of localization.
UCSB Residential and Dining Services
Cleveland is working with RDS to organize an internship program beginning Fall quarter 2010 that will bring undergraduate students into RDS to work under the direct supervision of RDS staff on their program of increasing the sustainability of the UCSB food system. Activities will involve research on ways of increasing sustainability and evaluating its impacts, education of students in the dining halls and beyond, and outreach to the larger Santa Barbara County community.