Clarion 1981-04-10 Vol 56 No 21

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BETHEL COLLEGE
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Bethel students demonstrated their united stand against discrim-ination
as hundreds signed the student manifesto (photo by
Doug Barkey).
e Clarion. Vol. 56, No. 21
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
April 10, 1981
Death threat: students' bubble of idealism burst
by Naomi Ludeman
"It broke Bethel's bub-ble
to its image as a Chris-
- I ian college: We have had
to reflect on just what a
Christian college is. The
threat wasn't an April
Fool's joke,"—Greg Grano,
junior.
"It made me sick to my
stomach when I heard
a bout the death threa t...We
must he real with our-selves,
to talk about our
prejudices with our close
friends and not be afraid
of it."—Jeff Miller, senior.
"We've got to allow for
people to be different be-by
low Nannatte &Alta
It was no April Fool's
joke when Biblical and
Theological Studies Assis-tant
Professor Cheryl Melt-zer
received a threat
against her life Wednes-day
of last week. Quick
action on the part of ad-ministration,
faculty and
students accounts for the
relative easing of the situa-
, lion which demonstrated
a thread of anti-Semitism
on the Bethel campus.
Meltzer began receiving
notes and phone calls of
abuse, hate and anti-Semi-cause
that's how . God
shows off his infiniteness.
Who are we to say that
one part of God's creation
is better than another?—
Garth Renn, sophomore.
"II is sad that the situa-tion
had to happen, but it
made us think about our
prejudices. Hopefully, we
will continue with an atti-tude
of really looking at
ourselves."—Bryan Burton,
senior.
"I was shocked because
of Our blind assumption of
what we thought was a.
so-called Christian commit-ted
community. We have
been blind to a person's or
to a group of people's needs
tism a.s tarty as Thanks-giving
of last year. Dean
George Brushaber was in-formed
of the occurrences
soon after they began, but
the news was purposely
left unpublic.
When the note last Wed-nesday
posed a threat to
Meltzer's life the adminis-tration
felt that it was nec-essary
to go public. "In
light of the attempt on Pres-ident
Reagan's life and sur-rounding
circumstances,
we felt that we needed to
respond," said Brushaber.
The Ramsey County sher-iff
was called in to inves-
• and search.,. What is prej-udice?
It is a learned opin-ion."—
Bonnie Coleman,
sophomore.
tigate as threats ck a per-son's
life is punishable by
law. "When we called they
took it seriously," said
Brushaber. The police in-vestigation
is proceeding
according to standard pro-cedure.
No progress is re-ported.
Outside media are hound-ing
the college and admin-istration
for information
about the threats. There is
a concern that the prob-lems
will be blown out of
proportion. Brushaber
made four points about
the incident:
We're back
Yes, we are back. We
had promised an "irreg-ular
production" this
week, but due to nu-merous
newsworthy
events on campus we
are back with a regular
edition.
Next week there will
be no Clarion because
of Good Friday. The
April 24 issue will be
produced by the 1981-
82 Clarion staff, but
the remaining issues
for the year will be
courtesy of this year's
"old" staff.
"Anger and frustration.
That's what I feel... It is
good that people are final-ly
talking about it and not
1) It is something that
happened which we regret.
2) It is not characteristic
of Bethel, and it is some-thing
that does not hap-pen
all the time.
3) The response of the
student body and faculty
is commendable; the cam-pus
responded positively.
4) Any college, organi-zation
or neighborhood is
susceptible to bigotry and
discrimination; it is a char-acteristic
of society at large
and not unique to Bethel.
Anti-Semitism cannot be
justly associated with
Christians alone.
At this point the admin-stration's
main plan of ac-tion
is to continue support
of Meltzer and find ways
to increase the students'
awareness of bigotry and
discriminatory attitudes.
"This (response) was
reactive," said Brushaber.
The response of the com-munity
came only as a
result of the life threat.
Administrators hope to
keep the demonstrated pos-itive
attitudes alive, among
students and faculty. Con-vocations
are being plan-ned
for next year on the
subject of discrimination.
Brushaber's response to
the community was pres-ented
in Wednesday's cha-pel:
1) Even in a Christian
see page 6
isolating it to one incident.
I praise God for it."—Ca-thy
Tucker, senior.
These are only a few of
students' responses to the
unavoidable evidence of
prejudice on Bethel's cam-pus
Wednesday morning,
April 1, 1981.
Following Dean Brush-aber's
chapel announce-ment
of the death-threat-ening
note to Cheryl Meltz-ger,
a student speak-out
was scheduled at noon at
the AC lounge. It was an
emotionally high discus-sion
of students' response
to the incident. It included
suggestions of concrete
ideas for the student body
to act upon as an apology
to the Meltzers and to re-examine
its discriminatory
behavior.
The time also included
Lor.lci Mark-son
discussed the need to
confront one another in
love. Matt Weber address-ed
the difference between
the Bethel lifestyle and the
Christian lifestyle. "It is so
easy to get in the mind-set
that the Bethel lifestyle
means we are Christians,"
she said. "But the Chris-tian
lifestyle asks us to be
so much more. It seeks for
us to be free from preju-dice.
To fulfill our respon-sibility
to Bethel we are
obligated to do more than
just what the lifestyle state-ment
says....We are all at
fault and it is our respon-sibility
as to how we re-spond
to make it right."
There were approximate-ly
350 students at the
speak-out. The discussion
recessed an hour later and
reconvened in the gym at
1:30 p.m.
In the gym, with ap-proximately
one thousand
students present, a Stu-dent
Manifesto was com-piled
from interaction
among students. A report
on the faculty activities
was also received. The St u-dent
Manifesto was unani-mously
accepted by the
students in the gym.
During the process of
drawing together the mani-festo,
senior Andy Leong
asked about the purpose
of "a piece of paper with
words." Student Body Vice
President Caryl Brown re-sponded
that there needed
to be "an agreement of the
problem, a sentiment of
the whole body and a
spring board for action."
After acceptance of the
Student Manifesto, stu-dents
gave suggestions for
specific action.
see page 7
Student Manifesto
We, the students of Bethel College, do hereby
publicly commit ourselves as a Christian com-munity
and as fellow human persons in a world
community, to the active condemnation of preju-dice
in our community and our world as evi-denced
by both attitude and action.
The incidents of prejudice against members of
the Bethel community directly violate our com-mitment
of love as Christians and human per-sons
and are but a small portion of the prejudices
each of us live with and propogate daily. We
therefore commit ourselves to prayer for self-conviction
and self-repentance, to continued con-frontation
in love of those attitudes and actions
expressive of prejudice in any form, to encourage
one another toward the realization that freedom
in community comes from diversity, and not con-formity,
and to actively rebuke in love any such
action by any member in our community, through
confrontation, encouragement and support for
growth in Christ.
Administration acts quickly
Positive attitudes negate discrimination
Volume 56, Number 21
April 10, 1981
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
The Clarion is published weekly
by the students of Bethel College.
Editorial opinions are the sole
responsibility of the Clarion staff.
Letters are welcome, and must be
signed and delivered in P.O. 2381
by the Sunday before publication.
Joy Nannette Banta, editor
Jay Stuart Russell, associate editor
Shari Goddard, news editor
Ellie Abbott, sports editor
Doug Barkey, photography editor
Mari Broman, copy editor
Art Gibbens, production editor
Suanne Hawkins, business manager
Patty Sutton, editorial assistant
JoAnn Watkins, staff writer
Naomi Ludeman, staff writer
Leann Kicker, staff writer
Beth Nystrom, graphics
Ted Lewis, columnist
Juan Ortiz, cartoonist
Kris Bratland, ad sales
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letters
Lifestyle statement promotes legalism
Page 2
editorial
College members unite:
how long will it last?
Dear Editor,
My colleagues of the Bib-lical
and theological stu-dies
department join me at
this time in support of
Cheryl Meltzer. We affirm
her gifts as a scholar, teach-er
and counselor of stu-dents,
and we deeply ad- .
mire her Christian faith
and character. We learned
only recently of her deci-sion
to leave her teaching
post at the end of this
semester and have sought
to dissuade her of this
plan. We also affirm our
appreciation for her Jew-ish
identity and the many
benefits this heritage
brings to us in her special-ties
of Hebrew language
and Old Testament studies.
It was a shock for us, as
it was for you, to discover
that Cheryl had been re-ceiving
personal attacks
To the Editor:
As evidenced by the
events of the past several
weeks, we've got some ser-ious
problems that need to
be taken care of. Doug New-man's
letter in the March
20 Clarion sparked my
thinking about the Bethel
lifestyle statement. I am
only one of many students
at this school who are hav-ing
trouble with the life-style
statement. Unlike
some others, however, my
discontent lies not in the
fact that it conflicts with
my lifestyle, but in the
fact that I consider its em-phasis
to be a false one.
The present lifestyle
statement forbids such ac-tions
as dancing, drinking,
smoking and gambling. I
understand that this is need-ed
for the protection of the
community, because the
actions have been shown
to be somewhat detrimen-tal
in a group situation.
Unfortunately, however,
people can be legalistic
for being Jewish, and we
repudiate both the intent
and the ideology behind
these cowardly acts which
have threatened her work
and even her life. Our feel-ings
mix shame and regret
that such a thing could
happen on Bethel's cam-pus.
We also wish to thank •
the student body for its
positive expression of
about such things and de-fine
themselves as Chris-tians
simply because they
abstain from these. It may
very well be that your
Christian commitment
leads you to stay away
from these activities, but
they are not criteria for
defining a Christian life-style.
If we look at the Ten
Commandments, nothing
is mentioned about danc-ing,
drinking, or smoking,
Dear Editor:
I was just reading the
editorial, "Futurists avoid
future problems with fore-sight"
(March 20 Clarion).
Your comments regarding
government spending.and
the future of the deficit are
not entirely accurate and
very misleading.
Please be more careful.
The American public
has many illusions about
Christian love and unity
in the Manifesto. We all
have much yet to learn
about the practices of the
grace and humility of our
Lord. We hope the agoniz-ing
experiences of last
week will make us more
sensitive to one another
and more aware of onr
commonality in Christ.
Art Lewis, for the Biblical
and theologiCal studies de-partment.
or the condemnation of
them; instead we find such
things as "You shall have
no other god before Me" or
"You shall not bear false
witness against your neigh-bor."
If our lifestyle statement
must forbid certain actions,
then I move that it be
amended to including ly-ing,
gossip, cheating, "sex-ual
immorality, impurity
and debauchery, idolatry
and witchcraft, hatred, dis-the
cause and cure of in-flation,
and these illusions
are fed by such comments.
It's because of these illu-sions
that politicians have
a hard time taking steps to
cord, jealousy, fits of rage,
selfish ambition, dissen-sions,
factions and envy,
drunkenness, carousing,
and the like" (Gal. 5:19-21).
For no matter how pure
the actions of a man may
be, the Lord looks at the
attitudes of the heart. And
that's a lifestyle statement
I wouldn't mind recommit-ing
myself to every term.
Martha Goodhart
PO 589
help the economy. People
don't believe what they
are doing will help. Infla-tion
is not a simple prob-lem
with a simple cure.
Patti Dobson
At some point in time all things must climax. Some
things take longer to reach their peak than others. Bethel
has of late been tagged as a slow learner. The commun-ity
frequently finds itself reacting to an old problem
with a new twist.
When vandals attempted to destroy a piece of art-work
the art department responded by removing all
artwork from the premises. Vandalism isn't new. When
the significance of a starving nation sunk into the
awareness of a small faction of students a fast was
declared in radical response to the situation. Starvation
has long existed. Now we are faced with a life threat.
One of our own is being forced from her position, fear-ing
her life land liberty. Bethel reacted at a moment's
notice with great fervor. But the root of the problem has
long been growing.
We need to come alive. It is only proper--only
Christian--to get our act together and set our attitudes
on the right track. The question is whether our attitudes
will stay on the right road, or our reaction is merely an
emotional response grounded on fear.
Discrimination is rotten. There is no justifiable rea-son
for judging one race, one creed, one way of life or
one human being inferior to another. Prejudice works to
destroy the fabric of well-knit units. A family is torn
apart; a nation is split in two; an individual pleads for
the right to be heard.
But the problem is not newly-emerged. Discrimina-tion
has long shown its face on this campus and outside
our walls. Why do we respond with one unifying force
when an obvious catalyst has been provided—only
when one life has been threatened?
We have demonstrated that we can pull together. We
are capable of being of one mind, one soul and one spirit.
There is no denying our togetherness on the matter. But
what propels us to stand in defiance of the one(s)
responsible for this act of, yes, terrorism? What is our
prime motivation for the response?
One would hope that there is a deep-founded desire
to stop this terrifying force that threatens to siphon our
lifeblood. But there is the temptation to believe that the
feverish excitement of the past week and a half will
soon die down and become only interesting history.
Bethel possesses the ability to maintain such chal-lenging
attitudes as have been recently displayed. As
Christians we own the spirit which can dispel even the
most dangerous forces that threaten peaceful existence,
but that spirit works only as our free minds will it.
Our community did right to unite in protest against
the party(ies) responsible for the life threat to one of our
faculty members. We hope that our unity won't be for-gotten
as the heat of the threat cools.
-jnb
Bethel joins together to support Meltzer
Illusions of inflation hard on politicians
is" ...... .
Dr. William Smalley, professor of linguistics, helped direct
faculty response to anti-Semitism (photo by Dan Velie).
Registration delay,
deposit change set
Registration dates for the fall term 1981 have
been postponed one week due to delays in print-ing
of the new 1981-82 Registration Catalog and
finalization of the fall schedule. Fall term regis-tration
for continuing students is now scheduled
for May 4-7.
Prior to registration, students must pay a $50
enrollment deposit at the business office banking
window and receive a permit to register.
This charge differs from the former $50 prereg-istration
fee in that it becomes a continuous de-posit
for the duration of a student's enrollment at
Bethel. The enrollment deposit allows the stu-dent
to register each succeeding term without
paying another $50 fee. It is not applied against
tuition, as was the former registration fee, but
refunded to the student upon discontinuation of
studies at Bethel.
For exact details of the payment and refund
policy of the enrollment deposit, see the new
catalog which will be distributed to continuing
students on or near April 20.
This enrollment deposit is established after
study of the practices of similar colleges and
after discussion with Bethel student leaders over
the last two years. It has been determined that
this will be an advantage to most students, par-ticularly
those who in the past have been unable
to register in November or April for the succeed-ing
term because they did not have the necessary
funds.
Page 3
Threat prompts faculty response to anti-Semitism
by Leann M. Kicker
Dr. William Smalley, fa-culty
moderator and profes-sor
of linguistics, prompt-ed
much of the faculty re-sponse
to the threat to
Cheryl Meltzer, assistant
professor of Biblical and
theological studies. After
Meltzer's latest note, Wed-:
nesclay, April 1, Meltzer's
husband called Smalley to
her office.
Afterdiscussing the situ-ation
and the background,
the Mel I zers and Smalley
decided to go to Dean
George Brushaber and the
authorities with the note.
Mier telling Brushaber,
Smalley contacted faculty
I1 embers. He said, "The
first reaction was, "We need
to do something.' A teach-in
was the first idea."
After Wednesday's chapel,
where Brushaber made his
announcement, Smalley
called a faculty meeting in the
gym. The group decided to
meet in the Royal Oak Room
for further discussion.
Smalley started the teach-in
and then went to chair
the faculty meeting.
The Royal Oak Room
was filled with members
of faculty and administra-tion.
Every available seat
and much of the floor was
occupied. The first part of
the meeting was devoted
to "acquainting the fa-culty
with the facts," Smal-ley
said. The remainder
was spent determining what
action to take and devel-oping
a list of resolutions.
The major points were pub-lished
(see page 3).
After the meeting Smal-ley
and a few other faculty
met to plan Thursday's cha-pel.
Smalley said, "It was
an emotionarand energy-consuming
day."
The faculty is taking
some positive action to ex-press
support of the Melt-zerS.
Smalley is sending
them a tape of the Wed-nesday
chapel, because the
faculty strongly agrees
with the Dean's comment.
Also, a let ter has been draft-ed
to C. Meltzer for the
faculty to sign. Many facul-ty
members are also sign-ing
the Student Manifesto
to express their support of
the students ideas.
In addition, the window
to Meltzer's office will be
covered to provide her with
more protection. A teach-ing
assistant will be posted
outside her door to give
her some additional secur-ity.
Beyond that, Smalley
said, "I predict people will
watch carefully to try to
do everything they can to
support her on an imme-diate
level when she re-turns."
The faculty is not trying
to do detective work to
find the person involved,
but Smalley and the rest
of the faculty hope the
person will be found. Smal-ley
said, "If we find the
person, that would take
away the nagging insecur-ity
from Cheryl for the
rest of the year. In any
case we would hope the
person would get the coun-seling
and care s/he must
need."
Smalley was guardedly
optimistic about the ef-fects
of the threat on the
school as a whole:" I hope
this will give force to some
efforts already underway.
I think there will be some
improvements; this was a
strong enough shock, but I
don't know what form (the
improvement) will take."
Faculty Resolutions
1. The faculty unanimously applauds the Student
Manifesto on prejudice within the Bethel community,
and joins the students in adopting it as our own.
2. Students have undertaken the initiative in develop-ing
ways and 'means of dealing with the issues of intol-erance
among us. The faculty unanimously pledges its
complete cooperation.
3. The faculty unanimously agrees to give focus and
visibility to the local and global issues of prejudice and
discrimination in all courses, seeking an increased per-
. sonal and corporate commitment to amore redemptive
style of life.
4. The faculty expresses its outrage for what has
happened and affirms Cheryl Meltzer as a human being
and as a cherished member of this faculty.
5. As the faculty responds to the present crisis we
confess that this instance of anti-Semitism is but one
example of the larger continuing problem of our offenses
against God and human beings, such as racism, sexism,
ageism, nationalism, etc. We repent of our complicity
and will seek personal and corporate healing and
justice.
Methods classes shift in education dept,
by Hellen Gutsche
The education depart-ment
is getting a face-lift.
The change is clue to a new
curriculum, to be offered
this fall, according to De-partnlenl
Chairman
Dwaine Lind.
"Our prime motivation
was to increase student
leaching lime," said Lind.
"Also, I think we are offer-ing
a bet Ier, more educa-
Dear Editor,
I applaud the well-made
distinction drawn by Matt
Weber (Open Column,
March 13) between Chris-tian
subculture values—
that is what "we" or "our
group" normally does or
doesn't do—and the vital-izing
call to an authentic
Christian lifestyle"...free
of hate, gossip, hypocrisy,
racism, sexism, etc. The
latter lifestyle, as Web-ster
put it, "...manifests
the fruit of the spirit and
carries with it the respon-sibility
to act out the re-demptive
qualities initiated
by Jesus Christ." That is a
wonderfully (Ira wn
lion and a vision from
tionally sound program."
The changes are program-matic
and sequential. The
total number of courses
needed for graduation is
no different.
Anticipating State Board
of Education requirements,
the department's changes
will affect only elemen-tary
education majors. The
first students to come un-der
the new curriculum
which new life might grow
in any institution which
makes it the focal point of
its struggle with what it
means to be truly Christ's
in lifestyle.
Blessings,
Phil Bolinder
Chapel Schedule
April 13-17
Monday--Si ng and share
Tuesday--Lee Eliason,
worship
Wednesday—Dr. Anthony
Campolo
Thursday--Dr. Anthony
Ca mpolo
Friday--No classes
will be 1982-83 spring term
student teachers.
Currently, the second
term of elementary educa-tion
students' senior year
is "loaded," said Lind. Dur-ing
February they take two
methods classes and stu-.
dent teach during March,
April and May.
This situation made the
department uncomfortable,
so it presented program
alteration proposals last
fall. The new curriculum
will appear in the 1981-82
Registration Catalog.
The proposed changes
were approved by the
Teacher Education Coor-dinating
Committee and
the Educational Policies
Committee. The depart-ment
worked closely with
Dwight Jessup, dean of aca-demic
affairs, in develop-ing
the changes.
The new curriculum
will give elementary edu-cation
majors the chance
to student teach at two
grade levels, K-3 and 4-6.
The semester will be di-vided
equally between the
Iwo levels.
There will be no meth-ods
classes during Febru-ary,
adding a Month to
student teaching. Those
classes will be offered in
the evening of that term.
Additional changes in
the program include mov-ing
the language arts meth-ods
class to the spring
term of the junior year.
The science and social stud-ies
methods class has been
separated into two one-half
credit classes. Now it
will be offered as science
and math, and social stu-dies,
to be taken in the fall
term of the senior year.
"The content of the meth-ods
courses needed to be
assimilated," said Lind.
These changes give the stu-dent
more preparation be-fore
student teaching.
Transfer students will
now need to be in resi-dence
two full years. The
changes have eliminated
the possibility of fulfilling
the graduation require-ments
in three terms.
"Some students may pre-fer
the old way," said Lind,
"but several graduating sen-iors
have been in and sug-gested
ideas very similar
to these."
Lind suggested that stu-dents
consider these
changes when registering
for fall term. Any ques-tions
should be referred to
I he education depart men I.
Fruit-of-the Spirit qualities
focus on an authentic lifestyle
Page 4
11WildHoney and Camel Hair
We all took a turn at Calvary
Dr. Art Lewis, professor of Old Testament works for new
understanding between Christians and Jews, as in the Inter-faith
conference earlier this Spring (by Doug Barkey).
by Art Lewis
The darkest pages of
church history have to do
with acts of discrimination
and even terrorism against
the Jewish people. The cross
became to the Jews a symbol
of inquisition and death,
and the name of Jesus was
associated with ghettos,
pogroms and hatred. Chris-tians
responsible for such
acts. repeatedly used the
Bible to justify their per-secution
of the race of peo-ple
they held to be guilty
for the death of Christ.
Proof texts had to be twist-ed
out of context for this
evil end. When the Bible is
fairly interpreted there is
no basis in it whatsoever
for anti-Semitism. The bib-lical
evidence for this con-viction
may be summar-ized
as follows:
1.Only an inspired proph-et
could identify any par-ticular
disaster as divine
punishment. The last judg-ment
upon Israel as a na-tion
took place in the 6th
century B.C. when Jerusa-lem
was destroyed and most
of the Jewish people were
carried off to Babylon.
Upon their return under
Cyrus, the prophet said,
"Their iniquity is re-moved;
they have paid dou-ble
for their sins" (Is. 40:2).
Suffering since that time
has been like tht "pogrom"
planned by Haman the Per-sian
against the Jews: un-justified
and ruthless per-secution
(Esther 3).
2.The one exception was
the destruction of Jerusa-lem
again in 70 A.D. by the
Romans. This event was
predicted by Jesus as a
punishment for the trans-gression
of the Law. Christ
linked the city's rejection
of the prophets and of him-self
with the doom of the
temple (Matt. 23:37,38).
This is the only vindictive
prediction against the Jews
in the New Testament and
it is limited to one city and
its political leaders. Con-
, demnation of the Jewish
population in general can-not
be found anywhere in
the New Testament.
3. Only certain of the
chief priests and members
of the Sanhedrin found
Jesus guilty of blasphemy.
Only part of the citizenry
of the city were personally
involved in the trials. The
ones who cried, "May his
blood be on us and our
children" were not speak-ing
for God, nor were they
in any position to call down
such a curse upon their
children. Furthermore, Jesus'
words from the cross, "For- .
give them, Father, for they
know not what they do,"
erased any lingering guilt
for his Jewish enemies as
it did for the Romans who
drove in the nails.
4. The Gentile authori-ties,
Herod and Pilate and
their associates, were ulti-mately
responsible for his
crucifixion. The acts of tor-ture
and death were car-ried
out by Gentiles, while
the Jews looked on or passed
by.
5. The Jerusalem church
after Pentecost was entire-ly
Jewish and was primar-ily
concerned with the win-ning
of their neighbors to
the faith of Christ. Their
attitude toward their Jew-ish
friends was friendly
and positive. Persecution
against the ,first Christ-ians
arose from the same
religious leaders of the
city who had opposed Jesus,
not from the man on the
street. Peter, Paul and the
I have a confession to
make. I, Ted Lewis, killed
the Christ in Jerusalem
some two thousand years
ago.
You gotta understand:
he was a threat to me, a
real threat. You see, I want-ed
to be like him — hum-ble,
wise, wholesome
but no matter how hard I
tried, I just couldn't. And
so I grew to envy him with
a passion.
A walking mirror, that's
other apostles sought to
convict the Jews of the
Lordships of Christ, but
always in non-coercive and
loving ways. For Paul,,it
was "to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek" (Ro.
1:16). He said "To the Jews
I became like a Jew, to win
the Jews" (I Co. 9:20).
6. Gentile believers were
invited to join the saints of
all ages, mainly of the na-tion
of Israel, when they
entered the body of Christ
(Ep. 2). So the Gentiles did
not start a new body, but
were "grafted into" the
Jewish tree of the elect
from a wild olive tree (Ro.
11). Blindness in part to
the Gospel came to the
Jews, but not as a pun-ishment.
According to
Paul it was a question of
personal faith; some res-isted
the light while oth-ers
moved into it.
7. Finally, both the Old
and New Testament agree
that guilt for the cross
must be shared by all men
everywhere. In Isaiah we
read,"For he was bruised
for our iniquities and wound-ed
for our transgressions"
(Is. 53:5). "Christ died for
our sins, according to the
Scriptures" (I Co. 15:3)
The Bible teaches that we,
and with us every member
of the sinful human race,
put the Messiah on the
cross!
In the light of these sev-en
considerations it is ab-surd
to hold all Jews respon-sible
for the death of Christ,
or even all the Jews who
were living at that time,
much less their children.
Such accusations and acts
of persecution are wholly
contrary to the mind of
Jesus and have no support
from the Scriptures.
what he was. Everytime
we'd meet, my own lack
and filth would stare back
at my cringing face. I began
to hate myself. And there's
nothing more I hate than
self-hatred!
So what could I do? The
only way I could live with
myself was to target him
with my hatred. Bull's-eye.
I hammered a nail
through his left wrist. My
face flinched as if sand
were thrown in my eyes.
Rubbing my eyes open,
I noticed blood on my hand
Spring classes for adult
learners are now offered
at Bethel College and Sem-inary
Monday evenings
through May 4. All are
welcome to attend.
The seminary's Lay
School of the Bible five
new courses emphasize bib-lical
guidance for every-day
situations as well as
deeper Bible understand-ing.
Nancy Lundquist, fre-quent
speaker and seminar
leader and wife of Bethel's
president, leads a course
for women on "Advent u-rous
Christian Living." Jeff
VanVonderen, a certified
chemical dependency practi-tioner,
leaches "Good
which had steadied the nail.
"Damn! He must die! It's
either him or me." With
seething madness venting
out of my whole body I
drove a nail through his
right wrist.
Well, look at it this way.
He let himself be killed,
didn't he? Instead of being
like a dumb lamb, he could
have spoken up, right? He
chose to empty himself of
his rights. Yes, he chose
the cross, didn't he'?
So can You blame me?
Anyway, you were there
News for the Chemically
Dependent—and Those
Who Love Them."
Dan Erwin, associate pro-fessor
of preaching, offers
a course on "Managing
Stress and Change." John
Sailhamer, assistant pro-fessor
of Biblical studies
and Old Testament, will
teach "Wisdom from the
Old Testament." William
Travis, professor of church
history, offers a course on
"Positive Thinking: An Ap-praisal"
with a Biblical
view of life.
In the college School of
Adult Enrichment, courses
of poetry writing, commun-ica
lion and counseling are
available. English proles-too.
Everyone was there.
We all took turns at the
hammer. And yet it was
like going into a voting
booth: doing what we had
to do all alone.
I turned on him, I did.
Made him into my scape-goat.
I transferred every-thing
I hated in myself to
him — my lack and filth,
my guilt and decay. How
else could I go on living
with myself?
I have a confession to
make. It was I who killed
the Christ.
sor Jeannine Bohlmeyer
leads a creative workshop
on "Poetry, A Game of
Words." Assistant speech-communication
'professor
David Lee leaches "Com-munication
and Conflict
Management" and psychol-ogy
professor Webster
Muck presents "Counsel-ing
for Emotional Stabili-ty."
Each course meets for
t \No hours, beginning at
7:30 p.m., and includes a
social break. For registra-tion
information on semi-nary
courses, contact Ro-bert
Feat herst one at 638-
6180. Regarding college
courses, call Tricia BroWn-lee
at 638-6367.
Bible condemns anti-Semitism In Memory
Tom Osgood
Former Bethel
student
Freshman, fall
semester 1980
* * *
Drowned March 27,
1981
Cascade River,
Minnesota
Adults spring into Spring classes
Bethel Budget
Other Sources 35.5%
Instruction
(and Research)
32%
Page 5
Production continues
on Native American film
Working one year behind schedule, Roy Wilbee nears the July completion of a promotional film for the North American Indian
Mission (photo by Doug Barkey).
Auxiliary enterprises figure big in budget
by Sue Fahrenkamp
Roy Wilbee, director of
media service in the Learn-ing
Resource Center, is pro-ducing
a documentary film
sponsored by the North
America Indian Mission.
This recruitment film will
be shown in churches and
to college students.
The documentary film,
"The North American In-dian,"
shows how mission-aries
in the program relate
to the Native Americans.
It was filmed partly in
northern Minnesota, but
the primary setting is Brit-ish
Columbia. Some shots
show the missionaries
building fences or the mis-sionaries
and the Indians
hunting and fishing.
The purpose of the film
is to recruit personnel for
the North American In-dian
Mission. Shown to
American churches and col-lege
students, Wilbee hopes
that new people will be
interested in working with
the mission program.
As producer of he rn,
Wilbee has been working
on for over a year. "It was
supposed to have been
done last July, but we
didn't have the available
information," he said. "I
hope it will be done in July
of 1981."
- Award-winning writer
Madeleine L'Engle of New
York began a four-day lec-tureship
at Bethel Semi-nary
Wednesday speaking
on theoverall t heme, "Walk-ing
on Water."
L'Engle has many books
for children and adults-ncl
tiding t he Newbery
Medal winner "A Wrinkle
in Time" and the much-praised
fantasy "The Time
Trilogy."' Her three morn-ing
chapel talks related to
passages in her faith pil-grimage.
At a special lec-ture
Thursday night at 7:30,
she addressed the topic
"The Noes of God."
Saturday, she will lead
a "Quiet Day" retreat at
the seminary from 8:30
a.m.-2 p.m. Included
will be three meditations,
three silent limes, follow-ed
by communkm, a box
by Jay Stuart Russell
Bethel budget: tuition
costs, fuel increases, food
prices. Inflation hits from
all angles in the Bethel Col-lege
and Seminary $13.7
million budget. To under-stand
the costs in operat-ing
a private college and
seminary, the Clarion ex-plores
the top four areas of
revenue and expenditures
within the budget.
Budget, part 4 in a series
of 8.
How much have you
spent on textbooks?
Though classes vary as to
the number and cost of
lunch and time for inter-action
and fellowship. The
cost is $5.00, and reserva-tions
are necessary.
L'Engle has been labeled
"The Compleat Woman."
.Since graduating from
Smith College in 1941, sha
has been an actress, coun-try
storekeeper, wife ( to
TV actor Hugh Franklin),
mot her and librarian at
the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine. These exper-iences
contribute to her
writing-25 books thus
far—an activity she con-siders
essential, like sleep-ing
and breathing." Wha-tever
she finds to do,
of hers observe, she does it
"with a skill and ardor
that manifests the grace of
God."
For further details and
reservations. call 638 -
6165.
books, this year the 2065
Bethel students were pro-jected
to spend $270,000
for textbooks at the col-lege,
according to auxiliary
budget figures. Auxiliary
enterprises at Bethel ac-count
for nearly $3.2 mil-lion-
23 per cent—of Be-thel's
budget, and include
revenue received from the
book store, dining service
and student housing.
In the bookstore, text-books
are by far the larg-est
source of revenue:
$270,000 of a $460,000
budget. Other sources of
revenue include art, school
and office supplies,
$68,000; general books
and music, $44,000; film
and sundries, $31,000; sta-tionery,
cards and jewel-ry,
$25,000; and clothing
(Bethel-style), $22,000.
Both the bookstore and
dining service budgets
have been set up to make a
small profit (about $39,000
in the bookstore and
$43,000 in the dining ser-vice),
but, as is the prob-lem
in many fiscal affairs,
the profit is often lower,
and at times a deficit is
the result.
One college official who
wished to remain anony-mous
said, "By the time
the fiscal year ends, the
profit is usually signifi-cantly
reduced, and often
we'll have a deficit (due to
additional expenses). Let
me stress, however, that
any profit realized goes
back into the Bethel gen-eral
fund and helps pay
the costs of student tui-tion,
which falls far short
of meeting Bethel's ex-penses."
The (lining service,
which includes both the
coffee shop and the cafete-ria,
is budgeted to receive
$770,000 in revenue.
The largest source of re-venue
in the auxiliary area
of the budget comes from
student housing, which ac-
Revenue
counts for about $1.4 mil-lion
in revenue. The 1980-81
budget was based on stu-dent
housing fees of $800
per year.
Housing Director Rod
Long said the revenue re-by
Leann M. Kicker
When the cold and flu
season strikes, Bethel stu-dents
aim themselves tow-ard
townhouse H, ,H 'for
health services and relief.
The health service pro-vides
health care at no
charge to students. This
excludes prescription for
pre-existing conditions. -
There is a $150 limit per
student on prescriptions
and lab test costs.
Although the health ser-vice
does only strop cul-tures,
they are equipped to
take and prepare samples
for other laboratory tests.
Dr. Burton takes the sam-ple
to the lab on his regu-lar
trips. "No other school
pays for prescriptions and
ceived does not cover
housing expenses. "It is
costing Bethel more for off-campus
student housing,
as this involves additional
expenses, such as bus ser-vice."
Next year off-cam-
Expenditures
pus housing will be priced
higher than on-campus
housing.
Long said the $65 hous-ing
deposit is not included
in the revenue figures, as
by law it must be depos-lab
work like Bethel does,"
Flossie Winquist, health ser-vices
director, said.
If students need servi-ces
that the health service
does not provide, like x-rays,
which are govern-ment
controlled, they can
go to Dr. Burton's office at
the Physician's Clinic. The
clinic services most of the
private colleges in the area,
including Northwestern,
Macalester, Concordia and
St. Thomas. Dealing with
so many students makes
the doctors sensitive to stu-dent
needs," Winquist said.
Students must pay for vis-its
to the Physician's Clin-ic.
Overall, the health ser-vice
is a good deal. Stu-ited
in an interest-bearing
account. When students re-ceive
their deposits back,
they are paid interest on
the amount returned.
Other revenue from aux-iliary
enterprises includes
vending machines, $3500;
laundry machines, $10,000;
and summer facilities ren-tal,
$163,000. Bethel earns
revenue during the sum-mer
by renting school facil-ities
to groups such as El-derhostel,
sport camps and
various workshops, such
as the Creative Thinking
Workshop and the Early
Childhood Workshop held
last summer.
Of the $3.2 million aux-iliary
budget, the semi-nary's
portion of the reve-nue
is $373,250, which in-cludes
the seminary book-store,
coffee shop and the
Seminary Village apart-ments.
dents only pay for medi-cations
for pre-existing con-ditions,
and off-campus
medical care, such as x-rays,
casting and surgery
are examples.
Winquist recommends
that all students carry a
good health insurance pol-icy.
Even though the health
service takes care of so
much, just a short stay in
the hospital is very expen-sive.
Bethel does belong to a
group insurance plan. Stu-dents
can buy coverage in
three-month increments
and be covered for the en-tire
year. Because the plan
is with a group, the pre-mium
rates are relatively
low.
The mission's philoso-phy
is first to build rela-tionships
with the Indians.
The missionaries live in
the Indian culture. After
the relationships have
been developed and the
Indians come to know
Christ, the missionaries
conduct a program for dis-cipleship.
They help them
develop Christian truths
for their own culture. The
North America Indian Mis-sion
is located mainly in
British Columbia. .
`Walking on Water':
L'Engle speaks on faith
'H' stands for health service
The 1981-82 Senate includes President Mark Publow; Vice-President Cheryl Thomas; senior
senators: Doug Barkey, Jeff Mann and Roger Laroche; junior senators: Steve Goodwin, Craig
Johnson, Ron Nelson and Jane Stoner; sophomore senators: Marilyn Eliason, Eileen Hermanson,
Elizabeth Talbot and Dave Thornton; and senators-at-large; Steve Jarabeck, Sara Haileselassi, Keith
Mason and Lori Pontrack (photo by Patty Sutton).
Senate: Old unites with new
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• Comparison 'of the theological
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• Extensive travel — through New
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Read and Fry give fine performances
by Mad J. Broman
Theatre Roundabout's
Company of Two from Lon-don
offered the full spec-trum
of "Living and Giv-ing"
in their two-hour per-formance
at Bethel last Fri-day.
Sylvia Read and Wil-liam
Fry, dressed in ver-satile
outfits of green, black
and brown, presented selec-tions
from works of poe-try,
the King James Bible
and short stories of Cha-rles
Dickens and 0. Henry,
as well as an original piece,
"The Boat."
The program, divided in
two parts, dealt with sub-jects
ranging from "Is it
always more blessed to
give than to receive?" to "I
always supposed my feel-ings
were exactly those of
other people's" to "Are we
really forbidden to enjoy
eating?"
The performance flowed
well in most parts, as the
actors tied some selections
together in single scenes.
Although changes in light-ing
could have helped to
vary longer sections, the
stage was well—and sim-ply—
set. Props consisted
of a red oriental rug, a
table, four chairs, a scarf,
a purse, one wrapped pre-sent,
two programs from
the show, a pair of gloves
and a pair of glasses.
With these, characters
came alive even in the shor-ter
excerpts—Brother Juni-community
such as ours
with high ideals and aspi-rations
there are incidents
of discrimination and
bigotry; we deplore such
acts, 2) we have before us
a particularly ugly case of
anti-Semitism. 3) we all
need to repudiate the sen-timent
expressed in this
incident and recognize the
need for self-examination
of our own possible dis-criminatory
attitudes, and
4) we need to find ways to
support Cheryl Meltzer as
she deals with the threats.
There are no suspects in
the situation. "We don't
know who it is, but it is
someone wise enough to
disguise his/er handwrit-ing,"
said Brushaber. "Who-ever
it is is obsessed with
it and keeps coming back,"
he added.
TRINITY BAPTIST
CHURCH
Hwy. 36 & Edgerton
774-8609
Rev. Hartley
Christenson
11 a.m.
Sunday School 9:45
a.m.
Vaughn Ekbom,
Instructor
Evening worship, 6
P.m.
per who "gave to the poor...
whatever he could lay his
hands on," the rich lawyer
of Matthew's and Mark's
gospels and an unknown
author's Russian women
who gave bread to Ger-man
prisoners of war.
Read and Fry carried
the audience with them
better in the second sec-tion,
perhaps because one
knew what to expect. I
had difficulty figuring out
the direction of the play,
the purpose of the excerpts'
order. However, D. H. Law-rence
in "As We Live"
made explicit a theme run-ning
throughout: that giv-ing
should consist not mere-ly
of "handing over to a
mean fool," but "kindling
the life quality where it
was not."
As the concluding scene,
0. Henry's "Gifts of the
Magi" seemed to sum up
"Living and Giving." Della
and Jim, a destitute young
couple, sell their own most
cherished possessions to
buy a Christmas present
for each other. With the
money she gets from her
long hair, Della buys a
platinum chain for Jim's
pocket watch. But Jim has
sold the prized watch to
buy Della the hair comb
she has long coveted. Yet,
0. Henry insists, "Of all
who give and receive gifts
such as they are the wis-est."
The Bethel Women's
Choir homecoming concert
will be tonight at 8 in the
Bethel SeMinary Chapel.
All are welcome to this
free concert, which follows
the choir's concert tour of
the Pacific Northwest.
The 45-voice Women's
Choir is under the direc-tion
of Mary Fall, asso-ciate
prdesssor of music.
The concert selections from
classic choral compositions
by Mozart and Brahms to
three American spirituals
arranged by C. Edward
by Patty Sutton
The old and the new
student senate held their
first joint meeting Tues-day
evening, April 7. They
will be meeting together
for the next two meetings
before the new senate is
totally on its own.
Senate approved a rec-ommendation
that would
lead the Bethel communi-ty
in a solidarity of sup-port
for Cheryl Meltzer
and all Jews. Upon the
Thomas and commissioned
by the Women's Choir. Al-so
included in the program
are two Scandinavian
pieces, "Seek Ye The Lord"
by Knut Nystedt and "Pray-er
of the Norwegian Child"
by Richard Kountz, which
continue this year's Scan-dinavian
emphasis at Be-thel.
The choir will be accom-panied
by flute, violin,
piano and Orff percussion
instruments. Ruth Fardig
of the Music faculty will
be the featured organist.
suggestion of William
Smalley, faculty modera-tor,
senate proposed that
the entire community be-gin
wearing stars of Dav-id.
Jan Hagstrom and Cin-dy
Robinson were select-ed
as co-coordinators of
the Roster for next year.
The recommendation to
begin operation of the vend-inp,
machines on campus
was given final approval.
So was the suggestion that
senate switch from the
Gold Medal Company
which presently stocks the
machines to the Pepsi Cor-poration,
clue to better
selection of types of pop.
If the administration ap-proves
the switch, allow-ing
senate to control the
machines, it is hoped that
senate could begin May 1.
The profit made from
the vending machines
would be senate's to bud-get
as it pleases. The sen-ate
discusses such as put-ting
funds into KABY or
social ministries, both of
which lose their budgets
in next year's cuts.
Discussion . was tabled
on the issue of funding for
KABY. Philip Rohler had
asked t he communications
board if senate could try
to come up with $2000 to
help the radio station, to
supplement the money
raised through the May
concert and other fund-rais-ing.
A hill was passed recom-mending
to the dean that a
statement against preju-dice
be added to the pres-ent
lifestyle statement.
The leadership seminar
scheduled for April 25
was postponed until the
fall semester of 1981-82.
Senate is working to se-cure
sponsorship from Pep-si
Corporation for the field
clay being planned for May
9.
It was suggested that
$1200 be put in for the
outside projects of Project -
Inside-Out.
At I he meet ing Tuesda y,
March 31, Sherwood Mc-
Kinnis and Lori Droop,sma
were appointed as nex'
year's campus coordina-tors.
The censorship bill deal-ing
with art at Bethel and
student input was voted
down, 9-7.
The Ethiopian bill pass-ed
unanimously, giving
$200 specifically to the re-lief
of starvation among
the Ethiopians in Somalia.
The Christian ideal has
not been tried and found
wanting. It has been diffi-cult,
and left untried.
—G. K. Chesterton.
Women's choir performs
free homecoming concert
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Patterns of consumption spoil one-candy bar excuses
Works of Ann Finholt, painter, and Carla Stetson, sculpter, are
on display in the Bethel College Gallery. The Twin Cities artists'
pieces will stay through April (photos by Doug Barkey).
in the process of being
formed. Publow said, "This
group will seek to continue
to try to make students
aware of our prejudices.
Next year we hope to have
several forum discussions.
Also, we hope to have at
least one day each year
centered on the problem of
discrimination on campus."
by Brent Friesen
I am chemically dependent on refined sugar. I have
established this fact through many skirmishes with
diet programs aimed at better nutrition. Even though I
have never launched a full-scale cross-my-heart-and-hope-
to-die eating program, I have come to some pro-found
insights on the problem of dieting.
I realized that eating one candy bar did not make me
an overweight junk food addict. No matter how much I
tried to convince myself that eating a single candy bar
is the reason why I was overweight, I couldn't make the
connection. As a result I continued to buy and eat indi-vidual
candy bars, and I continued to be overweight
and/or improperly nourished. The break-through came
when I realized that I was not overweight because I eat
candy bars but because I had a pattern of consumption
that supplied me with too many calories, i.e., I ate too
much.
While this realization is crucial to dieting it is also
enlighting when considering other problems we must
face. One in particular is the problem of oppression
involving third world countries. Owning blow driers
and electric toothbrushes does not automatically make
us responsible for the plight of the world's poor. Buying
pop cans from a vending machine with shiny quarters
does not make me a violator of human rights.
What does make me a willing participant in oppres-sion
is a pattern of consumption that provides me with
a disproportionate share of the world's human and
material resources. The problem of exploitation and
oppression goes beyond simple cause-and-effect rela-lationships
and cannot be solved by cause-and-effect
solutions, e.0., sending some poor people money. That is
why I could never figure out the connection between
finishing my broccoli and starving children in India.
One candy bar does not cause my waist to balloon;
likewise, one luxury item does not grind the poor into
the dust. However, a steady pattern of increased con-sumption
of luxury and convenience items puts a
burden on the world which it will not bear peacefully.
A suggestion was made erator and drafter of the
for the need for ethnic re- manifesto, were Joel Don-cruitment,
and people ask- aldson, Cheryl Thomas,
ed for continued self-exam- Vice President-elect and
ination. Publow. The student meet-
Assisting Brown, mod- ing ended at 2:30.
It is this pattern that allows for large coffee planta-tions
employing ex-farmers at subsistence-level wages,
bull-dozing rice paddies to enlarge a multi-national
corporation's pinapple plantation and the violent action
against people that organize for better living conditions
in Latin America.
Unfortunately, there is no pill to ease this desire for
convenience and luxury goods; the habit must be
broken bit by bit with awareness of responsibility and
compassion. It is my prayer that the church of North
America will learn what it means to "Defend the cause
of the fatherless, and plead the case of the widow."
"The women's soccer club opened the season with a fall to
Minnehaha Academy, 4-0. Despite the loss, Coach Tom Persico
was pleased and said, "They played a fantastic game and I am
really excited about the rest of the season. (Photo by Don
Copeland)
Students, from page 1
A time of fasting and
prayer was suggested.
Mark Publow, student bo-dy
president-elect, organ-ized
the fast and prayer
groups. The formal fast
went from dusk to dusk,
April 1-2.
An ad hoc committee is
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at a home game last Tuesday. Bethel won 6-0, 7-5 (photo by Doug Barkey).
women's track team swept through a pre-spring break Macalester meet taking first, second
third places in shot put and the 60 and 300-yard dashes.
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Women dominate Mac meet
by Wendy J. Norberg
In the week prior to
spring break the women's
track team participated in
two meets: Wednesday
night at Macalester Col-lege
and Friday night at
the University of Wiscon-sin—
LaCrosse. Although
team scores were not kept
at Macalester, Bethel dom-inated
the meet.
Lynn Severson, Danette
Burgess and Sherri Lind-quist
had a 1-2-3 sweep of
both the 60-yard dash and
the 300-yard dash. The
Women's team
begins first
varsity season
by Becky Dye
In its first year of offi-cial
varsity plan the worn-en's
tennis team had
one victory and one defeat.
The Royals beat St..Tho-mas
7-2 and lost to St.
Scholastica 3-6.
The singles line-up con-sists
of Kathy Lee, Denise •
Nygren, Sarah Runion,
Sharon Johnson, Kathy
Lundborg and Kris Back-
Kathy Lee and Runion,
Nygren and Johnson and
Linda Hallblade and Mela-nie
Bates make up the
doubles line-up:
This afternoon the team
hosts St. Scholastica at 3
p.m. Coach Paul Reasoner
commented, "We should
have a good chance t 0 beat
them at home."
shot putters, Sarah Barker,
Carrie Severson and Ro-byn
Howard, also took the
first three places in their
event.
Ellie Abbott set a new
record in the two-mile run
with an 11:38, taking sec-ond
place. Wendy Norberg
also broke the old record
in that event and took
third. Jennifer Burgess cap-tured
second place in the
hurdles. Deb Sension had
an excellent meet, jump-ing
5'2" in the high jump
for second place and cap-turing
third in the long
jump with a personal best
of 16'2-3/4".
The LaCrosse meet was
a coed-relay meet in which
each relay consisted of two
men and two men. The 4 x
220 relay finished second .
overall. The shot put relay
also finished high. Most of
the Wisconsin state schools
participated, giving Bethel
tough competition in all
events. The men and wom-en
compete together again
in their next meet, the Be-thel
Invitational, Saturday
at Moundsview.
sports
Coach Norlander said,
The team is improving,
and we hope to get a win
pretty soon." Bethel's con-ference
record is 0-3.
Norlander also comment-ed
on the St. Mary's match:
"Mark Johnson, the num-ber
four singles, had a
good match, and the sec-ond
doubles team, Mike
Kim and Johnson, (lid real-ly
well."
Dave McIver, sixth sin-gles,
had a close match at
the St. Mary's meet. He
was defeated in three sets,
7-6, 4-6 and 3-6.
The scheduled St. Thom-as
meet last week •w as
rained out, and the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin-Ri-ver
Falls meet was re-scheduled
for Saturday,
April 25.
Sports.
Events
April 11—Men's and
Women's Track -
Moundsview High
Schobl - Invitational,
10 a.m.
April 14—Men's Ten-nis,
away, St. Cloud, 3
p.m. Women's Tennis,—
away, Normandale, 3
p.m. Softball, Perry
Park - 2:30 p.m.
April 15—Baseball
away, Concordia-
Moorhead, 1 p.m. Soft-ball,
away, Carleton,
3:00 p.m., St. Olaf, 5
p.m.
by Becky Dye
The Bethel's men's ten-nis
team hosts a triangu-lar
meet here t()111 orrow,
beginning at 9 a.m. Bethel
takes on Macalester at 9
a.m. and Augsburg at 2
p.m. Macalester and Augs-burg
will compete between
those two matches.
Coach Mark Norlander
indicated that the match
with Macalester "could go
either way." Bethel lost 4-
5 in a scrimmage against
Macalest er earlier in the
season. Norlander predict-ed
a Bethel victory in the
Augsburg match.
Bethel was defeated by
the University of Wiscon-sin-
Stout, March 17, 9-0.
Last week Bethel lost to
St. Mary's, 2-7.
Norlander see progress,
has confidence in team
Christine Johnson pitches the ball against St. Thomas in
Tuesday's home game at Perry Park (photo by Doug Barkey).
Bethel men's tennis team hosts a triangular meet tomorrow, between Bethel, Macalester and
Augsburg.

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Bethel students demonstrated their united stand against discrim-ination
as hundreds signed the student manifesto (photo by
Doug Barkey).
e Clarion. Vol. 56, No. 21
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
April 10, 1981
Death threat: students' bubble of idealism burst
by Naomi Ludeman
"It broke Bethel's bub-ble
to its image as a Chris-
- I ian college: We have had
to reflect on just what a
Christian college is. The
threat wasn't an April
Fool's joke,"—Greg Grano,
junior.
"It made me sick to my
stomach when I heard
a bout the death threa t...We
must he real with our-selves,
to talk about our
prejudices with our close
friends and not be afraid
of it."—Jeff Miller, senior.
"We've got to allow for
people to be different be-by
low Nannatte &Alta
It was no April Fool's
joke when Biblical and
Theological Studies Assis-tant
Professor Cheryl Melt-zer
received a threat
against her life Wednes-day
of last week. Quick
action on the part of ad-ministration,
faculty and
students accounts for the
relative easing of the situa-
, lion which demonstrated
a thread of anti-Semitism
on the Bethel campus.
Meltzer began receiving
notes and phone calls of
abuse, hate and anti-Semi-cause
that's how . God
shows off his infiniteness.
Who are we to say that
one part of God's creation
is better than another?—
Garth Renn, sophomore.
"II is sad that the situa-tion
had to happen, but it
made us think about our
prejudices. Hopefully, we
will continue with an atti-tude
of really looking at
ourselves."—Bryan Burton,
senior.
"I was shocked because
of Our blind assumption of
what we thought was a.
so-called Christian commit-ted
community. We have
been blind to a person's or
to a group of people's needs
tism a.s tarty as Thanks-giving
of last year. Dean
George Brushaber was in-formed
of the occurrences
soon after they began, but
the news was purposely
left unpublic.
When the note last Wed-nesday
posed a threat to
Meltzer's life the adminis-tration
felt that it was nec-essary
to go public. "In
light of the attempt on Pres-ident
Reagan's life and sur-rounding
circumstances,
we felt that we needed to
respond," said Brushaber.
The Ramsey County sher-iff
was called in to inves-
• and search.,. What is prej-udice?
It is a learned opin-ion."—
Bonnie Coleman,
sophomore.
tigate as threats ck a per-son's
life is punishable by
law. "When we called they
took it seriously," said
Brushaber. The police in-vestigation
is proceeding
according to standard pro-cedure.
No progress is re-ported.
Outside media are hound-ing
the college and admin-istration
for information
about the threats. There is
a concern that the prob-lems
will be blown out of
proportion. Brushaber
made four points about
the incident:
We're back
Yes, we are back. We
had promised an "irreg-ular
production" this
week, but due to nu-merous
newsworthy
events on campus we
are back with a regular
edition.
Next week there will
be no Clarion because
of Good Friday. The
April 24 issue will be
produced by the 1981-
82 Clarion staff, but
the remaining issues
for the year will be
courtesy of this year's
"old" staff.
"Anger and frustration.
That's what I feel... It is
good that people are final-ly
talking about it and not
1) It is something that
happened which we regret.
2) It is not characteristic
of Bethel, and it is some-thing
that does not hap-pen
all the time.
3) The response of the
student body and faculty
is commendable; the cam-pus
responded positively.
4) Any college, organi-zation
or neighborhood is
susceptible to bigotry and
discrimination; it is a char-acteristic
of society at large
and not unique to Bethel.
Anti-Semitism cannot be
justly associated with
Christians alone.
At this point the admin-stration's
main plan of ac-tion
is to continue support
of Meltzer and find ways
to increase the students'
awareness of bigotry and
discriminatory attitudes.
"This (response) was
reactive," said Brushaber.
The response of the com-munity
came only as a
result of the life threat.
Administrators hope to
keep the demonstrated pos-itive
attitudes alive, among
students and faculty. Con-vocations
are being plan-ned
for next year on the
subject of discrimination.
Brushaber's response to
the community was pres-ented
in Wednesday's cha-pel:
1) Even in a Christian
see page 6
isolating it to one incident.
I praise God for it."—Ca-thy
Tucker, senior.
These are only a few of
students' responses to the
unavoidable evidence of
prejudice on Bethel's cam-pus
Wednesday morning,
April 1, 1981.
Following Dean Brush-aber's
chapel announce-ment
of the death-threat-ening
note to Cheryl Meltz-ger,
a student speak-out
was scheduled at noon at
the AC lounge. It was an
emotionally high discus-sion
of students' response
to the incident. It included
suggestions of concrete
ideas for the student body
to act upon as an apology
to the Meltzers and to re-examine
its discriminatory
behavior.
The time also included
Lor.lci Mark-son
discussed the need to
confront one another in
love. Matt Weber address-ed
the difference between
the Bethel lifestyle and the
Christian lifestyle. "It is so
easy to get in the mind-set
that the Bethel lifestyle
means we are Christians,"
she said. "But the Chris-tian
lifestyle asks us to be
so much more. It seeks for
us to be free from preju-dice.
To fulfill our respon-sibility
to Bethel we are
obligated to do more than
just what the lifestyle state-ment
says....We are all at
fault and it is our respon-sibility
as to how we re-spond
to make it right."
There were approximate-ly
350 students at the
speak-out. The discussion
recessed an hour later and
reconvened in the gym at
1:30 p.m.
In the gym, with ap-proximately
one thousand
students present, a Stu-dent
Manifesto was com-piled
from interaction
among students. A report
on the faculty activities
was also received. The St u-dent
Manifesto was unani-mously
accepted by the
students in the gym.
During the process of
drawing together the mani-festo,
senior Andy Leong
asked about the purpose
of "a piece of paper with
words." Student Body Vice
President Caryl Brown re-sponded
that there needed
to be "an agreement of the
problem, a sentiment of
the whole body and a
spring board for action."
After acceptance of the
Student Manifesto, stu-dents
gave suggestions for
specific action.
see page 7
Student Manifesto
We, the students of Bethel College, do hereby
publicly commit ourselves as a Christian com-munity
and as fellow human persons in a world
community, to the active condemnation of preju-dice
in our community and our world as evi-denced
by both attitude and action.
The incidents of prejudice against members of
the Bethel community directly violate our com-mitment
of love as Christians and human per-sons
and are but a small portion of the prejudices
each of us live with and propogate daily. We
therefore commit ourselves to prayer for self-conviction
and self-repentance, to continued con-frontation
in love of those attitudes and actions
expressive of prejudice in any form, to encourage
one another toward the realization that freedom
in community comes from diversity, and not con-formity,
and to actively rebuke in love any such
action by any member in our community, through
confrontation, encouragement and support for
growth in Christ.
Administration acts quickly
Positive attitudes negate discrimination
Volume 56, Number 21
April 10, 1981
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
The Clarion is published weekly
by the students of Bethel College.
Editorial opinions are the sole
responsibility of the Clarion staff.
Letters are welcome, and must be
signed and delivered in P.O. 2381
by the Sunday before publication.
Joy Nannette Banta, editor
Jay Stuart Russell, associate editor
Shari Goddard, news editor
Ellie Abbott, sports editor
Doug Barkey, photography editor
Mari Broman, copy editor
Art Gibbens, production editor
Suanne Hawkins, business manager
Patty Sutton, editorial assistant
JoAnn Watkins, staff writer
Naomi Ludeman, staff writer
Leann Kicker, staff writer
Beth Nystrom, graphics
Ted Lewis, columnist
Juan Ortiz, cartoonist
Kris Bratland, ad sales
O
letters
Lifestyle statement promotes legalism
Page 2
editorial
College members unite:
how long will it last?
Dear Editor,
My colleagues of the Bib-lical
and theological stu-dies
department join me at
this time in support of
Cheryl Meltzer. We affirm
her gifts as a scholar, teach-er
and counselor of stu-dents,
and we deeply ad- .
mire her Christian faith
and character. We learned
only recently of her deci-sion
to leave her teaching
post at the end of this
semester and have sought
to dissuade her of this
plan. We also affirm our
appreciation for her Jew-ish
identity and the many
benefits this heritage
brings to us in her special-ties
of Hebrew language
and Old Testament studies.
It was a shock for us, as
it was for you, to discover
that Cheryl had been re-ceiving
personal attacks
To the Editor:
As evidenced by the
events of the past several
weeks, we've got some ser-ious
problems that need to
be taken care of. Doug New-man's
letter in the March
20 Clarion sparked my
thinking about the Bethel
lifestyle statement. I am
only one of many students
at this school who are hav-ing
trouble with the life-style
statement. Unlike
some others, however, my
discontent lies not in the
fact that it conflicts with
my lifestyle, but in the
fact that I consider its em-phasis
to be a false one.
The present lifestyle
statement forbids such ac-tions
as dancing, drinking,
smoking and gambling. I
understand that this is need-ed
for the protection of the
community, because the
actions have been shown
to be somewhat detrimen-tal
in a group situation.
Unfortunately, however,
people can be legalistic
for being Jewish, and we
repudiate both the intent
and the ideology behind
these cowardly acts which
have threatened her work
and even her life. Our feel-ings
mix shame and regret
that such a thing could
happen on Bethel's cam-pus.
We also wish to thank •
the student body for its
positive expression of
about such things and de-fine
themselves as Chris-tians
simply because they
abstain from these. It may
very well be that your
Christian commitment
leads you to stay away
from these activities, but
they are not criteria for
defining a Christian life-style.
If we look at the Ten
Commandments, nothing
is mentioned about danc-ing,
drinking, or smoking,
Dear Editor:
I was just reading the
editorial, "Futurists avoid
future problems with fore-sight"
(March 20 Clarion).
Your comments regarding
government spending.and
the future of the deficit are
not entirely accurate and
very misleading.
Please be more careful.
The American public
has many illusions about
Christian love and unity
in the Manifesto. We all
have much yet to learn
about the practices of the
grace and humility of our
Lord. We hope the agoniz-ing
experiences of last
week will make us more
sensitive to one another
and more aware of onr
commonality in Christ.
Art Lewis, for the Biblical
and theologiCal studies de-partment.
or the condemnation of
them; instead we find such
things as "You shall have
no other god before Me" or
"You shall not bear false
witness against your neigh-bor."
If our lifestyle statement
must forbid certain actions,
then I move that it be
amended to including ly-ing,
gossip, cheating, "sex-ual
immorality, impurity
and debauchery, idolatry
and witchcraft, hatred, dis-the
cause and cure of in-flation,
and these illusions
are fed by such comments.
It's because of these illu-sions
that politicians have
a hard time taking steps to
cord, jealousy, fits of rage,
selfish ambition, dissen-sions,
factions and envy,
drunkenness, carousing,
and the like" (Gal. 5:19-21).
For no matter how pure
the actions of a man may
be, the Lord looks at the
attitudes of the heart. And
that's a lifestyle statement
I wouldn't mind recommit-ing
myself to every term.
Martha Goodhart
PO 589
help the economy. People
don't believe what they
are doing will help. Infla-tion
is not a simple prob-lem
with a simple cure.
Patti Dobson
At some point in time all things must climax. Some
things take longer to reach their peak than others. Bethel
has of late been tagged as a slow learner. The commun-ity
frequently finds itself reacting to an old problem
with a new twist.
When vandals attempted to destroy a piece of art-work
the art department responded by removing all
artwork from the premises. Vandalism isn't new. When
the significance of a starving nation sunk into the
awareness of a small faction of students a fast was
declared in radical response to the situation. Starvation
has long existed. Now we are faced with a life threat.
One of our own is being forced from her position, fear-ing
her life land liberty. Bethel reacted at a moment's
notice with great fervor. But the root of the problem has
long been growing.
We need to come alive. It is only proper--only
Christian--to get our act together and set our attitudes
on the right track. The question is whether our attitudes
will stay on the right road, or our reaction is merely an
emotional response grounded on fear.
Discrimination is rotten. There is no justifiable rea-son
for judging one race, one creed, one way of life or
one human being inferior to another. Prejudice works to
destroy the fabric of well-knit units. A family is torn
apart; a nation is split in two; an individual pleads for
the right to be heard.
But the problem is not newly-emerged. Discrimina-tion
has long shown its face on this campus and outside
our walls. Why do we respond with one unifying force
when an obvious catalyst has been provided—only
when one life has been threatened?
We have demonstrated that we can pull together. We
are capable of being of one mind, one soul and one spirit.
There is no denying our togetherness on the matter. But
what propels us to stand in defiance of the one(s)
responsible for this act of, yes, terrorism? What is our
prime motivation for the response?
One would hope that there is a deep-founded desire
to stop this terrifying force that threatens to siphon our
lifeblood. But there is the temptation to believe that the
feverish excitement of the past week and a half will
soon die down and become only interesting history.
Bethel possesses the ability to maintain such chal-lenging
attitudes as have been recently displayed. As
Christians we own the spirit which can dispel even the
most dangerous forces that threaten peaceful existence,
but that spirit works only as our free minds will it.
Our community did right to unite in protest against
the party(ies) responsible for the life threat to one of our
faculty members. We hope that our unity won't be for-gotten
as the heat of the threat cools.
-jnb
Bethel joins together to support Meltzer
Illusions of inflation hard on politicians
is" ...... .
Dr. William Smalley, professor of linguistics, helped direct
faculty response to anti-Semitism (photo by Dan Velie).
Registration delay,
deposit change set
Registration dates for the fall term 1981 have
been postponed one week due to delays in print-ing
of the new 1981-82 Registration Catalog and
finalization of the fall schedule. Fall term regis-tration
for continuing students is now scheduled
for May 4-7.
Prior to registration, students must pay a $50
enrollment deposit at the business office banking
window and receive a permit to register.
This charge differs from the former $50 prereg-istration
fee in that it becomes a continuous de-posit
for the duration of a student's enrollment at
Bethel. The enrollment deposit allows the stu-dent
to register each succeeding term without
paying another $50 fee. It is not applied against
tuition, as was the former registration fee, but
refunded to the student upon discontinuation of
studies at Bethel.
For exact details of the payment and refund
policy of the enrollment deposit, see the new
catalog which will be distributed to continuing
students on or near April 20.
This enrollment deposit is established after
study of the practices of similar colleges and
after discussion with Bethel student leaders over
the last two years. It has been determined that
this will be an advantage to most students, par-ticularly
those who in the past have been unable
to register in November or April for the succeed-ing
term because they did not have the necessary
funds.
Page 3
Threat prompts faculty response to anti-Semitism
by Leann M. Kicker
Dr. William Smalley, fa-culty
moderator and profes-sor
of linguistics, prompt-ed
much of the faculty re-sponse
to the threat to
Cheryl Meltzer, assistant
professor of Biblical and
theological studies. After
Meltzer's latest note, Wed-:
nesclay, April 1, Meltzer's
husband called Smalley to
her office.
Afterdiscussing the situ-ation
and the background,
the Mel I zers and Smalley
decided to go to Dean
George Brushaber and the
authorities with the note.
Mier telling Brushaber,
Smalley contacted faculty
I1 embers. He said, "The
first reaction was, "We need
to do something.' A teach-in
was the first idea."
After Wednesday's chapel,
where Brushaber made his
announcement, Smalley
called a faculty meeting in the
gym. The group decided to
meet in the Royal Oak Room
for further discussion.
Smalley started the teach-in
and then went to chair
the faculty meeting.
The Royal Oak Room
was filled with members
of faculty and administra-tion.
Every available seat
and much of the floor was
occupied. The first part of
the meeting was devoted
to "acquainting the fa-culty
with the facts," Smal-ley
said. The remainder
was spent determining what
action to take and devel-oping
a list of resolutions.
The major points were pub-lished
(see page 3).
After the meeting Smal-ley
and a few other faculty
met to plan Thursday's cha-pel.
Smalley said, "It was
an emotionarand energy-consuming
day."
The faculty is taking
some positive action to ex-press
support of the Melt-zerS.
Smalley is sending
them a tape of the Wed-nesday
chapel, because the
faculty strongly agrees
with the Dean's comment.
Also, a let ter has been draft-ed
to C. Meltzer for the
faculty to sign. Many facul-ty
members are also sign-ing
the Student Manifesto
to express their support of
the students ideas.
In addition, the window
to Meltzer's office will be
covered to provide her with
more protection. A teach-ing
assistant will be posted
outside her door to give
her some additional secur-ity.
Beyond that, Smalley
said, "I predict people will
watch carefully to try to
do everything they can to
support her on an imme-diate
level when she re-turns."
The faculty is not trying
to do detective work to
find the person involved,
but Smalley and the rest
of the faculty hope the
person will be found. Smal-ley
said, "If we find the
person, that would take
away the nagging insecur-ity
from Cheryl for the
rest of the year. In any
case we would hope the
person would get the coun-seling
and care s/he must
need."
Smalley was guardedly
optimistic about the ef-fects
of the threat on the
school as a whole:" I hope
this will give force to some
efforts already underway.
I think there will be some
improvements; this was a
strong enough shock, but I
don't know what form (the
improvement) will take."
Faculty Resolutions
1. The faculty unanimously applauds the Student
Manifesto on prejudice within the Bethel community,
and joins the students in adopting it as our own.
2. Students have undertaken the initiative in develop-ing
ways and 'means of dealing with the issues of intol-erance
among us. The faculty unanimously pledges its
complete cooperation.
3. The faculty unanimously agrees to give focus and
visibility to the local and global issues of prejudice and
discrimination in all courses, seeking an increased per-
. sonal and corporate commitment to amore redemptive
style of life.
4. The faculty expresses its outrage for what has
happened and affirms Cheryl Meltzer as a human being
and as a cherished member of this faculty.
5. As the faculty responds to the present crisis we
confess that this instance of anti-Semitism is but one
example of the larger continuing problem of our offenses
against God and human beings, such as racism, sexism,
ageism, nationalism, etc. We repent of our complicity
and will seek personal and corporate healing and
justice.
Methods classes shift in education dept,
by Hellen Gutsche
The education depart-ment
is getting a face-lift.
The change is clue to a new
curriculum, to be offered
this fall, according to De-partnlenl
Chairman
Dwaine Lind.
"Our prime motivation
was to increase student
leaching lime," said Lind.
"Also, I think we are offer-ing
a bet Ier, more educa-
Dear Editor,
I applaud the well-made
distinction drawn by Matt
Weber (Open Column,
March 13) between Chris-tian
subculture values—
that is what "we" or "our
group" normally does or
doesn't do—and the vital-izing
call to an authentic
Christian lifestyle"...free
of hate, gossip, hypocrisy,
racism, sexism, etc. The
latter lifestyle, as Web-ster
put it, "...manifests
the fruit of the spirit and
carries with it the respon-sibility
to act out the re-demptive
qualities initiated
by Jesus Christ." That is a
wonderfully (Ira wn
lion and a vision from
tionally sound program."
The changes are program-matic
and sequential. The
total number of courses
needed for graduation is
no different.
Anticipating State Board
of Education requirements,
the department's changes
will affect only elemen-tary
education majors. The
first students to come un-der
the new curriculum
which new life might grow
in any institution which
makes it the focal point of
its struggle with what it
means to be truly Christ's
in lifestyle.
Blessings,
Phil Bolinder
Chapel Schedule
April 13-17
Monday--Si ng and share
Tuesday--Lee Eliason,
worship
Wednesday—Dr. Anthony
Campolo
Thursday--Dr. Anthony
Ca mpolo
Friday--No classes
will be 1982-83 spring term
student teachers.
Currently, the second
term of elementary educa-tion
students' senior year
is "loaded," said Lind. Dur-ing
February they take two
methods classes and stu-.
dent teach during March,
April and May.
This situation made the
department uncomfortable,
so it presented program
alteration proposals last
fall. The new curriculum
will appear in the 1981-82
Registration Catalog.
The proposed changes
were approved by the
Teacher Education Coor-dinating
Committee and
the Educational Policies
Committee. The depart-ment
worked closely with
Dwight Jessup, dean of aca-demic
affairs, in develop-ing
the changes.
The new curriculum
will give elementary edu-cation
majors the chance
to student teach at two
grade levels, K-3 and 4-6.
The semester will be di-vided
equally between the
Iwo levels.
There will be no meth-ods
classes during Febru-ary,
adding a Month to
student teaching. Those
classes will be offered in
the evening of that term.
Additional changes in
the program include mov-ing
the language arts meth-ods
class to the spring
term of the junior year.
The science and social stud-ies
methods class has been
separated into two one-half
credit classes. Now it
will be offered as science
and math, and social stu-dies,
to be taken in the fall
term of the senior year.
"The content of the meth-ods
courses needed to be
assimilated," said Lind.
These changes give the stu-dent
more preparation be-fore
student teaching.
Transfer students will
now need to be in resi-dence
two full years. The
changes have eliminated
the possibility of fulfilling
the graduation require-ments
in three terms.
"Some students may pre-fer
the old way," said Lind,
"but several graduating sen-iors
have been in and sug-gested
ideas very similar
to these."
Lind suggested that stu-dents
consider these
changes when registering
for fall term. Any ques-tions
should be referred to
I he education depart men I.
Fruit-of-the Spirit qualities
focus on an authentic lifestyle
Page 4
11WildHoney and Camel Hair
We all took a turn at Calvary
Dr. Art Lewis, professor of Old Testament works for new
understanding between Christians and Jews, as in the Inter-faith
conference earlier this Spring (by Doug Barkey).
by Art Lewis
The darkest pages of
church history have to do
with acts of discrimination
and even terrorism against
the Jewish people. The cross
became to the Jews a symbol
of inquisition and death,
and the name of Jesus was
associated with ghettos,
pogroms and hatred. Chris-tians
responsible for such
acts. repeatedly used the
Bible to justify their per-secution
of the race of peo-ple
they held to be guilty
for the death of Christ.
Proof texts had to be twist-ed
out of context for this
evil end. When the Bible is
fairly interpreted there is
no basis in it whatsoever
for anti-Semitism. The bib-lical
evidence for this con-viction
may be summar-ized
as follows:
1.Only an inspired proph-et
could identify any par-ticular
disaster as divine
punishment. The last judg-ment
upon Israel as a na-tion
took place in the 6th
century B.C. when Jerusa-lem
was destroyed and most
of the Jewish people were
carried off to Babylon.
Upon their return under
Cyrus, the prophet said,
"Their iniquity is re-moved;
they have paid dou-ble
for their sins" (Is. 40:2).
Suffering since that time
has been like tht "pogrom"
planned by Haman the Per-sian
against the Jews: un-justified
and ruthless per-secution
(Esther 3).
2.The one exception was
the destruction of Jerusa-lem
again in 70 A.D. by the
Romans. This event was
predicted by Jesus as a
punishment for the trans-gression
of the Law. Christ
linked the city's rejection
of the prophets and of him-self
with the doom of the
temple (Matt. 23:37,38).
This is the only vindictive
prediction against the Jews
in the New Testament and
it is limited to one city and
its political leaders. Con-
, demnation of the Jewish
population in general can-not
be found anywhere in
the New Testament.
3. Only certain of the
chief priests and members
of the Sanhedrin found
Jesus guilty of blasphemy.
Only part of the citizenry
of the city were personally
involved in the trials. The
ones who cried, "May his
blood be on us and our
children" were not speak-ing
for God, nor were they
in any position to call down
such a curse upon their
children. Furthermore, Jesus'
words from the cross, "For- .
give them, Father, for they
know not what they do,"
erased any lingering guilt
for his Jewish enemies as
it did for the Romans who
drove in the nails.
4. The Gentile authori-ties,
Herod and Pilate and
their associates, were ulti-mately
responsible for his
crucifixion. The acts of tor-ture
and death were car-ried
out by Gentiles, while
the Jews looked on or passed
by.
5. The Jerusalem church
after Pentecost was entire-ly
Jewish and was primar-ily
concerned with the win-ning
of their neighbors to
the faith of Christ. Their
attitude toward their Jew-ish
friends was friendly
and positive. Persecution
against the ,first Christ-ians
arose from the same
religious leaders of the
city who had opposed Jesus,
not from the man on the
street. Peter, Paul and the
I have a confession to
make. I, Ted Lewis, killed
the Christ in Jerusalem
some two thousand years
ago.
You gotta understand:
he was a threat to me, a
real threat. You see, I want-ed
to be like him — hum-ble,
wise, wholesome
but no matter how hard I
tried, I just couldn't. And
so I grew to envy him with
a passion.
A walking mirror, that's
other apostles sought to
convict the Jews of the
Lordships of Christ, but
always in non-coercive and
loving ways. For Paul,,it
was "to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek" (Ro.
1:16). He said "To the Jews
I became like a Jew, to win
the Jews" (I Co. 9:20).
6. Gentile believers were
invited to join the saints of
all ages, mainly of the na-tion
of Israel, when they
entered the body of Christ
(Ep. 2). So the Gentiles did
not start a new body, but
were "grafted into" the
Jewish tree of the elect
from a wild olive tree (Ro.
11). Blindness in part to
the Gospel came to the
Jews, but not as a pun-ishment.
According to
Paul it was a question of
personal faith; some res-isted
the light while oth-ers
moved into it.
7. Finally, both the Old
and New Testament agree
that guilt for the cross
must be shared by all men
everywhere. In Isaiah we
read,"For he was bruised
for our iniquities and wound-ed
for our transgressions"
(Is. 53:5). "Christ died for
our sins, according to the
Scriptures" (I Co. 15:3)
The Bible teaches that we,
and with us every member
of the sinful human race,
put the Messiah on the
cross!
In the light of these sev-en
considerations it is ab-surd
to hold all Jews respon-sible
for the death of Christ,
or even all the Jews who
were living at that time,
much less their children.
Such accusations and acts
of persecution are wholly
contrary to the mind of
Jesus and have no support
from the Scriptures.
what he was. Everytime
we'd meet, my own lack
and filth would stare back
at my cringing face. I began
to hate myself. And there's
nothing more I hate than
self-hatred!
So what could I do? The
only way I could live with
myself was to target him
with my hatred. Bull's-eye.
I hammered a nail
through his left wrist. My
face flinched as if sand
were thrown in my eyes.
Rubbing my eyes open,
I noticed blood on my hand
Spring classes for adult
learners are now offered
at Bethel College and Sem-inary
Monday evenings
through May 4. All are
welcome to attend.
The seminary's Lay
School of the Bible five
new courses emphasize bib-lical
guidance for every-day
situations as well as
deeper Bible understand-ing.
Nancy Lundquist, fre-quent
speaker and seminar
leader and wife of Bethel's
president, leads a course
for women on "Advent u-rous
Christian Living." Jeff
VanVonderen, a certified
chemical dependency practi-tioner,
leaches "Good
which had steadied the nail.
"Damn! He must die! It's
either him or me." With
seething madness venting
out of my whole body I
drove a nail through his
right wrist.
Well, look at it this way.
He let himself be killed,
didn't he? Instead of being
like a dumb lamb, he could
have spoken up, right? He
chose to empty himself of
his rights. Yes, he chose
the cross, didn't he'?
So can You blame me?
Anyway, you were there
News for the Chemically
Dependent—and Those
Who Love Them."
Dan Erwin, associate pro-fessor
of preaching, offers
a course on "Managing
Stress and Change." John
Sailhamer, assistant pro-fessor
of Biblical studies
and Old Testament, will
teach "Wisdom from the
Old Testament." William
Travis, professor of church
history, offers a course on
"Positive Thinking: An Ap-praisal"
with a Biblical
view of life.
In the college School of
Adult Enrichment, courses
of poetry writing, commun-ica
lion and counseling are
available. English proles-too.
Everyone was there.
We all took turns at the
hammer. And yet it was
like going into a voting
booth: doing what we had
to do all alone.
I turned on him, I did.
Made him into my scape-goat.
I transferred every-thing
I hated in myself to
him — my lack and filth,
my guilt and decay. How
else could I go on living
with myself?
I have a confession to
make. It was I who killed
the Christ.
sor Jeannine Bohlmeyer
leads a creative workshop
on "Poetry, A Game of
Words." Assistant speech-communication
'professor
David Lee leaches "Com-munication
and Conflict
Management" and psychol-ogy
professor Webster
Muck presents "Counsel-ing
for Emotional Stabili-ty."
Each course meets for
t \No hours, beginning at
7:30 p.m., and includes a
social break. For registra-tion
information on semi-nary
courses, contact Ro-bert
Feat herst one at 638-
6180. Regarding college
courses, call Tricia BroWn-lee
at 638-6367.
Bible condemns anti-Semitism In Memory
Tom Osgood
Former Bethel
student
Freshman, fall
semester 1980
* * *
Drowned March 27,
1981
Cascade River,
Minnesota
Adults spring into Spring classes
Bethel Budget
Other Sources 35.5%
Instruction
(and Research)
32%
Page 5
Production continues
on Native American film
Working one year behind schedule, Roy Wilbee nears the July completion of a promotional film for the North American Indian
Mission (photo by Doug Barkey).
Auxiliary enterprises figure big in budget
by Sue Fahrenkamp
Roy Wilbee, director of
media service in the Learn-ing
Resource Center, is pro-ducing
a documentary film
sponsored by the North
America Indian Mission.
This recruitment film will
be shown in churches and
to college students.
The documentary film,
"The North American In-dian,"
shows how mission-aries
in the program relate
to the Native Americans.
It was filmed partly in
northern Minnesota, but
the primary setting is Brit-ish
Columbia. Some shots
show the missionaries
building fences or the mis-sionaries
and the Indians
hunting and fishing.
The purpose of the film
is to recruit personnel for
the North American In-dian
Mission. Shown to
American churches and col-lege
students, Wilbee hopes
that new people will be
interested in working with
the mission program.
As producer of he rn,
Wilbee has been working
on for over a year. "It was
supposed to have been
done last July, but we
didn't have the available
information," he said. "I
hope it will be done in July
of 1981."
- Award-winning writer
Madeleine L'Engle of New
York began a four-day lec-tureship
at Bethel Semi-nary
Wednesday speaking
on theoverall t heme, "Walk-ing
on Water."
L'Engle has many books
for children and adults-ncl
tiding t he Newbery
Medal winner "A Wrinkle
in Time" and the much-praised
fantasy "The Time
Trilogy."' Her three morn-ing
chapel talks related to
passages in her faith pil-grimage.
At a special lec-ture
Thursday night at 7:30,
she addressed the topic
"The Noes of God."
Saturday, she will lead
a "Quiet Day" retreat at
the seminary from 8:30
a.m.-2 p.m. Included
will be three meditations,
three silent limes, follow-ed
by communkm, a box
by Jay Stuart Russell
Bethel budget: tuition
costs, fuel increases, food
prices. Inflation hits from
all angles in the Bethel Col-lege
and Seminary $13.7
million budget. To under-stand
the costs in operat-ing
a private college and
seminary, the Clarion ex-plores
the top four areas of
revenue and expenditures
within the budget.
Budget, part 4 in a series
of 8.
How much have you
spent on textbooks?
Though classes vary as to
the number and cost of
lunch and time for inter-action
and fellowship. The
cost is $5.00, and reserva-tions
are necessary.
L'Engle has been labeled
"The Compleat Woman."
.Since graduating from
Smith College in 1941, sha
has been an actress, coun-try
storekeeper, wife ( to
TV actor Hugh Franklin),
mot her and librarian at
the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine. These exper-iences
contribute to her
writing-25 books thus
far—an activity she con-siders
essential, like sleep-ing
and breathing." Wha-tever
she finds to do,
of hers observe, she does it
"with a skill and ardor
that manifests the grace of
God."
For further details and
reservations. call 638 -
6165.
books, this year the 2065
Bethel students were pro-jected
to spend $270,000
for textbooks at the col-lege,
according to auxiliary
budget figures. Auxiliary
enterprises at Bethel ac-count
for nearly $3.2 mil-lion-
23 per cent—of Be-thel's
budget, and include
revenue received from the
book store, dining service
and student housing.
In the bookstore, text-books
are by far the larg-est
source of revenue:
$270,000 of a $460,000
budget. Other sources of
revenue include art, school
and office supplies,
$68,000; general books
and music, $44,000; film
and sundries, $31,000; sta-tionery,
cards and jewel-ry,
$25,000; and clothing
(Bethel-style), $22,000.
Both the bookstore and
dining service budgets
have been set up to make a
small profit (about $39,000
in the bookstore and
$43,000 in the dining ser-vice),
but, as is the prob-lem
in many fiscal affairs,
the profit is often lower,
and at times a deficit is
the result.
One college official who
wished to remain anony-mous
said, "By the time
the fiscal year ends, the
profit is usually signifi-cantly
reduced, and often
we'll have a deficit (due to
additional expenses). Let
me stress, however, that
any profit realized goes
back into the Bethel gen-eral
fund and helps pay
the costs of student tui-tion,
which falls far short
of meeting Bethel's ex-penses."
The (lining service,
which includes both the
coffee shop and the cafete-ria,
is budgeted to receive
$770,000 in revenue.
The largest source of re-venue
in the auxiliary area
of the budget comes from
student housing, which ac-
Revenue
counts for about $1.4 mil-lion
in revenue. The 1980-81
budget was based on stu-dent
housing fees of $800
per year.
Housing Director Rod
Long said the revenue re-by
Leann M. Kicker
When the cold and flu
season strikes, Bethel stu-dents
aim themselves tow-ard
townhouse H, ,H 'for
health services and relief.
The health service pro-vides
health care at no
charge to students. This
excludes prescription for
pre-existing conditions. -
There is a $150 limit per
student on prescriptions
and lab test costs.
Although the health ser-vice
does only strop cul-tures,
they are equipped to
take and prepare samples
for other laboratory tests.
Dr. Burton takes the sam-ple
to the lab on his regu-lar
trips. "No other school
pays for prescriptions and
ceived does not cover
housing expenses. "It is
costing Bethel more for off-campus
student housing,
as this involves additional
expenses, such as bus ser-vice."
Next year off-cam-
Expenditures
pus housing will be priced
higher than on-campus
housing.
Long said the $65 hous-ing
deposit is not included
in the revenue figures, as
by law it must be depos-lab
work like Bethel does,"
Flossie Winquist, health ser-vices
director, said.
If students need servi-ces
that the health service
does not provide, like x-rays,
which are govern-ment
controlled, they can
go to Dr. Burton's office at
the Physician's Clinic. The
clinic services most of the
private colleges in the area,
including Northwestern,
Macalester, Concordia and
St. Thomas. Dealing with
so many students makes
the doctors sensitive to stu-dent
needs," Winquist said.
Students must pay for vis-its
to the Physician's Clin-ic.
Overall, the health ser-vice
is a good deal. Stu-ited
in an interest-bearing
account. When students re-ceive
their deposits back,
they are paid interest on
the amount returned.
Other revenue from aux-iliary
enterprises includes
vending machines, $3500;
laundry machines, $10,000;
and summer facilities ren-tal,
$163,000. Bethel earns
revenue during the sum-mer
by renting school facil-ities
to groups such as El-derhostel,
sport camps and
various workshops, such
as the Creative Thinking
Workshop and the Early
Childhood Workshop held
last summer.
Of the $3.2 million aux-iliary
budget, the semi-nary's
portion of the reve-nue
is $373,250, which in-cludes
the seminary book-store,
coffee shop and the
Seminary Village apart-ments.
dents only pay for medi-cations
for pre-existing con-ditions,
and off-campus
medical care, such as x-rays,
casting and surgery
are examples.
Winquist recommends
that all students carry a
good health insurance pol-icy.
Even though the health
service takes care of so
much, just a short stay in
the hospital is very expen-sive.
Bethel does belong to a
group insurance plan. Stu-dents
can buy coverage in
three-month increments
and be covered for the en-tire
year. Because the plan
is with a group, the pre-mium
rates are relatively
low.
The mission's philoso-phy
is first to build rela-tionships
with the Indians.
The missionaries live in
the Indian culture. After
the relationships have
been developed and the
Indians come to know
Christ, the missionaries
conduct a program for dis-cipleship.
They help them
develop Christian truths
for their own culture. The
North America Indian Mis-sion
is located mainly in
British Columbia. .
`Walking on Water':
L'Engle speaks on faith
'H' stands for health service
The 1981-82 Senate includes President Mark Publow; Vice-President Cheryl Thomas; senior
senators: Doug Barkey, Jeff Mann and Roger Laroche; junior senators: Steve Goodwin, Craig
Johnson, Ron Nelson and Jane Stoner; sophomore senators: Marilyn Eliason, Eileen Hermanson,
Elizabeth Talbot and Dave Thornton; and senators-at-large; Steve Jarabeck, Sara Haileselassi, Keith
Mason and Lori Pontrack (photo by Patty Sutton).
Senate: Old unites with new
Oki Srif riketl
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Sponsored by Barrington College
June 15 • July 10, 1981
Featuring
• Intensive study of the religious convic-tions
which led to the founding of our
nation
• Comparison 'of the theological
backgrounds of New England,
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• Discussion of the development of
American Christianity from 1607 to
1776
• Extensive travel — through New
England to Williamsburg and around
Philadelphia
Coal:
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Read and Fry give fine performances
by Mad J. Broman
Theatre Roundabout's
Company of Two from Lon-don
offered the full spec-trum
of "Living and Giv-ing"
in their two-hour per-formance
at Bethel last Fri-day.
Sylvia Read and Wil-liam
Fry, dressed in ver-satile
outfits of green, black
and brown, presented selec-tions
from works of poe-try,
the King James Bible
and short stories of Cha-rles
Dickens and 0. Henry,
as well as an original piece,
"The Boat."
The program, divided in
two parts, dealt with sub-jects
ranging from "Is it
always more blessed to
give than to receive?" to "I
always supposed my feel-ings
were exactly those of
other people's" to "Are we
really forbidden to enjoy
eating?"
The performance flowed
well in most parts, as the
actors tied some selections
together in single scenes.
Although changes in light-ing
could have helped to
vary longer sections, the
stage was well—and sim-ply—
set. Props consisted
of a red oriental rug, a
table, four chairs, a scarf,
a purse, one wrapped pre-sent,
two programs from
the show, a pair of gloves
and a pair of glasses.
With these, characters
came alive even in the shor-ter
excerpts—Brother Juni-community
such as ours
with high ideals and aspi-rations
there are incidents
of discrimination and
bigotry; we deplore such
acts, 2) we have before us
a particularly ugly case of
anti-Semitism. 3) we all
need to repudiate the sen-timent
expressed in this
incident and recognize the
need for self-examination
of our own possible dis-criminatory
attitudes, and
4) we need to find ways to
support Cheryl Meltzer as
she deals with the threats.
There are no suspects in
the situation. "We don't
know who it is, but it is
someone wise enough to
disguise his/er handwrit-ing,"
said Brushaber. "Who-ever
it is is obsessed with
it and keeps coming back,"
he added.
TRINITY BAPTIST
CHURCH
Hwy. 36 & Edgerton
774-8609
Rev. Hartley
Christenson
11 a.m.
Sunday School 9:45
a.m.
Vaughn Ekbom,
Instructor
Evening worship, 6
P.m.
per who "gave to the poor...
whatever he could lay his
hands on," the rich lawyer
of Matthew's and Mark's
gospels and an unknown
author's Russian women
who gave bread to Ger-man
prisoners of war.
Read and Fry carried
the audience with them
better in the second sec-tion,
perhaps because one
knew what to expect. I
had difficulty figuring out
the direction of the play,
the purpose of the excerpts'
order. However, D. H. Law-rence
in "As We Live"
made explicit a theme run-ning
throughout: that giv-ing
should consist not mere-ly
of "handing over to a
mean fool," but "kindling
the life quality where it
was not."
As the concluding scene,
0. Henry's "Gifts of the
Magi" seemed to sum up
"Living and Giving." Della
and Jim, a destitute young
couple, sell their own most
cherished possessions to
buy a Christmas present
for each other. With the
money she gets from her
long hair, Della buys a
platinum chain for Jim's
pocket watch. But Jim has
sold the prized watch to
buy Della the hair comb
she has long coveted. Yet,
0. Henry insists, "Of all
who give and receive gifts
such as they are the wis-est."
The Bethel Women's
Choir homecoming concert
will be tonight at 8 in the
Bethel SeMinary Chapel.
All are welcome to this
free concert, which follows
the choir's concert tour of
the Pacific Northwest.
The 45-voice Women's
Choir is under the direc-tion
of Mary Fall, asso-ciate
prdesssor of music.
The concert selections from
classic choral compositions
by Mozart and Brahms to
three American spirituals
arranged by C. Edward
by Patty Sutton
The old and the new
student senate held their
first joint meeting Tues-day
evening, April 7. They
will be meeting together
for the next two meetings
before the new senate is
totally on its own.
Senate approved a rec-ommendation
that would
lead the Bethel communi-ty
in a solidarity of sup-port
for Cheryl Meltzer
and all Jews. Upon the
Thomas and commissioned
by the Women's Choir. Al-so
included in the program
are two Scandinavian
pieces, "Seek Ye The Lord"
by Knut Nystedt and "Pray-er
of the Norwegian Child"
by Richard Kountz, which
continue this year's Scan-dinavian
emphasis at Be-thel.
The choir will be accom-panied
by flute, violin,
piano and Orff percussion
instruments. Ruth Fardig
of the Music faculty will
be the featured organist.
suggestion of William
Smalley, faculty modera-tor,
senate proposed that
the entire community be-gin
wearing stars of Dav-id.
Jan Hagstrom and Cin-dy
Robinson were select-ed
as co-coordinators of
the Roster for next year.
The recommendation to
begin operation of the vend-inp,
machines on campus
was given final approval.
So was the suggestion that
senate switch from the
Gold Medal Company
which presently stocks the
machines to the Pepsi Cor-poration,
clue to better
selection of types of pop.
If the administration ap-proves
the switch, allow-ing
senate to control the
machines, it is hoped that
senate could begin May 1.
The profit made from
the vending machines
would be senate's to bud-get
as it pleases. The sen-ate
discusses such as put-ting
funds into KABY or
social ministries, both of
which lose their budgets
in next year's cuts.
Discussion . was tabled
on the issue of funding for
KABY. Philip Rohler had
asked t he communications
board if senate could try
to come up with $2000 to
help the radio station, to
supplement the money
raised through the May
concert and other fund-rais-ing.
A hill was passed recom-mending
to the dean that a
statement against preju-dice
be added to the pres-ent
lifestyle statement.
The leadership seminar
scheduled for April 25
was postponed until the
fall semester of 1981-82.
Senate is working to se-cure
sponsorship from Pep-si
Corporation for the field
clay being planned for May
9.
It was suggested that
$1200 be put in for the
outside projects of Project -
Inside-Out.
At I he meet ing Tuesda y,
March 31, Sherwood Mc-
Kinnis and Lori Droop,sma
were appointed as nex'
year's campus coordina-tors.
The censorship bill deal-ing
with art at Bethel and
student input was voted
down, 9-7.
The Ethiopian bill pass-ed
unanimously, giving
$200 specifically to the re-lief
of starvation among
the Ethiopians in Somalia.
The Christian ideal has
not been tried and found
wanting. It has been diffi-cult,
and left untried.
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Patterns of consumption spoil one-candy bar excuses
Works of Ann Finholt, painter, and Carla Stetson, sculpter, are
on display in the Bethel College Gallery. The Twin Cities artists'
pieces will stay through April (photos by Doug Barkey).
in the process of being
formed. Publow said, "This
group will seek to continue
to try to make students
aware of our prejudices.
Next year we hope to have
several forum discussions.
Also, we hope to have at
least one day each year
centered on the problem of
discrimination on campus."
by Brent Friesen
I am chemically dependent on refined sugar. I have
established this fact through many skirmishes with
diet programs aimed at better nutrition. Even though I
have never launched a full-scale cross-my-heart-and-hope-
to-die eating program, I have come to some pro-found
insights on the problem of dieting.
I realized that eating one candy bar did not make me
an overweight junk food addict. No matter how much I
tried to convince myself that eating a single candy bar
is the reason why I was overweight, I couldn't make the
connection. As a result I continued to buy and eat indi-vidual
candy bars, and I continued to be overweight
and/or improperly nourished. The break-through came
when I realized that I was not overweight because I eat
candy bars but because I had a pattern of consumption
that supplied me with too many calories, i.e., I ate too
much.
While this realization is crucial to dieting it is also
enlighting when considering other problems we must
face. One in particular is the problem of oppression
involving third world countries. Owning blow driers
and electric toothbrushes does not automatically make
us responsible for the plight of the world's poor. Buying
pop cans from a vending machine with shiny quarters
does not make me a violator of human rights.
What does make me a willing participant in oppres-sion
is a pattern of consumption that provides me with
a disproportionate share of the world's human and
material resources. The problem of exploitation and
oppression goes beyond simple cause-and-effect rela-lationships
and cannot be solved by cause-and-effect
solutions, e.0., sending some poor people money. That is
why I could never figure out the connection between
finishing my broccoli and starving children in India.
One candy bar does not cause my waist to balloon;
likewise, one luxury item does not grind the poor into
the dust. However, a steady pattern of increased con-sumption
of luxury and convenience items puts a
burden on the world which it will not bear peacefully.
A suggestion was made erator and drafter of the
for the need for ethnic re- manifesto, were Joel Don-cruitment,
and people ask- aldson, Cheryl Thomas,
ed for continued self-exam- Vice President-elect and
ination. Publow. The student meet-
Assisting Brown, mod- ing ended at 2:30.
It is this pattern that allows for large coffee planta-tions
employing ex-farmers at subsistence-level wages,
bull-dozing rice paddies to enlarge a multi-national
corporation's pinapple plantation and the violent action
against people that organize for better living conditions
in Latin America.
Unfortunately, there is no pill to ease this desire for
convenience and luxury goods; the habit must be
broken bit by bit with awareness of responsibility and
compassion. It is my prayer that the church of North
America will learn what it means to "Defend the cause
of the fatherless, and plead the case of the widow."
"The women's soccer club opened the season with a fall to
Minnehaha Academy, 4-0. Despite the loss, Coach Tom Persico
was pleased and said, "They played a fantastic game and I am
really excited about the rest of the season. (Photo by Don
Copeland)
Students, from page 1
A time of fasting and
prayer was suggested.
Mark Publow, student bo-dy
president-elect, organ-ized
the fast and prayer
groups. The formal fast
went from dusk to dusk,
April 1-2.
An ad hoc committee is
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at a home game last Tuesday. Bethel won 6-0, 7-5 (photo by Doug Barkey).
women's track team swept through a pre-spring break Macalester meet taking first, second
third places in shot put and the 60 and 300-yard dashes.
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by Wendy J. Norberg
In the week prior to
spring break the women's
track team participated in
two meets: Wednesday
night at Macalester Col-lege
and Friday night at
the University of Wiscon-sin—
LaCrosse. Although
team scores were not kept
at Macalester, Bethel dom-inated
the meet.
Lynn Severson, Danette
Burgess and Sherri Lind-quist
had a 1-2-3 sweep of
both the 60-yard dash and
the 300-yard dash. The
Women's team
begins first
varsity season
by Becky Dye
In its first year of offi-cial
varsity plan the worn-en's
tennis team had
one victory and one defeat.
The Royals beat St..Tho-mas
7-2 and lost to St.
Scholastica 3-6.
The singles line-up con-sists
of Kathy Lee, Denise •
Nygren, Sarah Runion,
Sharon Johnson, Kathy
Lundborg and Kris Back-
Kathy Lee and Runion,
Nygren and Johnson and
Linda Hallblade and Mela-nie
Bates make up the
doubles line-up:
This afternoon the team
hosts St. Scholastica at 3
p.m. Coach Paul Reasoner
commented, "We should
have a good chance t 0 beat
them at home."
shot putters, Sarah Barker,
Carrie Severson and Ro-byn
Howard, also took the
first three places in their
event.
Ellie Abbott set a new
record in the two-mile run
with an 11:38, taking sec-ond
place. Wendy Norberg
also broke the old record
in that event and took
third. Jennifer Burgess cap-tured
second place in the
hurdles. Deb Sension had
an excellent meet, jump-ing
5'2" in the high jump
for second place and cap-turing
third in the long
jump with a personal best
of 16'2-3/4".
The LaCrosse meet was
a coed-relay meet in which
each relay consisted of two
men and two men. The 4 x
220 relay finished second .
overall. The shot put relay
also finished high. Most of
the Wisconsin state schools
participated, giving Bethel
tough competition in all
events. The men and wom-en
compete together again
in their next meet, the Be-thel
Invitational, Saturday
at Moundsview.
sports
Coach Norlander said,
The team is improving,
and we hope to get a win
pretty soon." Bethel's con-ference
record is 0-3.
Norlander also comment-ed
on the St. Mary's match:
"Mark Johnson, the num-ber
four singles, had a
good match, and the sec-ond
doubles team, Mike
Kim and Johnson, (lid real-ly
well."
Dave McIver, sixth sin-gles,
had a close match at
the St. Mary's meet. He
was defeated in three sets,
7-6, 4-6 and 3-6.
The scheduled St. Thom-as
meet last week •w as
rained out, and the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin-Ri-ver
Falls meet was re-scheduled
for Saturday,
April 25.
Sports.
Events
April 11—Men's and
Women's Track -
Moundsview High
Schobl - Invitational,
10 a.m.
April 14—Men's Ten-nis,
away, St. Cloud, 3
p.m. Women's Tennis,—
away, Normandale, 3
p.m. Softball, Perry
Park - 2:30 p.m.
April 15—Baseball
away, Concordia-
Moorhead, 1 p.m. Soft-ball,
away, Carleton,
3:00 p.m., St. Olaf, 5
p.m.
by Becky Dye
The Bethel's men's ten-nis
team hosts a triangu-lar
meet here t()111 orrow,
beginning at 9 a.m. Bethel
takes on Macalester at 9
a.m. and Augsburg at 2
p.m. Macalester and Augs-burg
will compete between
those two matches.
Coach Mark Norlander
indicated that the match
with Macalester "could go
either way." Bethel lost 4-
5 in a scrimmage against
Macalest er earlier in the
season. Norlander predict-ed
a Bethel victory in the
Augsburg match.
Bethel was defeated by
the University of Wiscon-sin-
Stout, March 17, 9-0.
Last week Bethel lost to
St. Mary's, 2-7.
Norlander see progress,
has confidence in team
Christine Johnson pitches the ball against St. Thomas in
Tuesday's home game at Perry Park (photo by Doug Barkey).
Bethel men's tennis team hosts a triangular meet tomorrow, between Bethel, Macalester and
Augsburg.