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Several members of the Macalester Drama chorus are pictured as
they will appear at the spring banquet, May 19. MD----->r
Journalist Cohn Will Rehearse
Science in Tomorrow's Convo
Dean Larson discusses Court of Honor banquet plans with (1. to r.)
Ray Duncan, Thelma Fredrickson, Truman Turnquist, and Wanda Chand-ler.
Court Features Six
Thirty-six of the city's top college seniors were honored Tuesday
evening, May 2 at the 24th annual College Court of Honor banquet, held
in the St. Paul Hotel Continental Room.
A cooperative presentation of the St. Paul Junior Chamber of
Commerce and the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce, the College
Court of Honor salutes six outstanding senior students from each of
St. Paul's six major colleges, Bethel, Hamline, Macalester, St. Cather-ine's,
St. Thomas and the Williams Mitchell College of Law.
Leading business and professional leaders of the city personally
sponsored the honor students giving recognition to the contribution the
colleges make to the community.
More than 200 persons attended the formal dinner. Highlight of the
event was the presentation of certificates to the 36 students for their
scholastic achievements.
Harry Morgan, special assistant to the president of Macalester
College and recently selected as one of the nation's ten outstanding
young men, was the principle speaker. Master of ceremonies was George
Mairs III, a former Jaycee director.
Students honored from Bethel were Wanda R. Chandler, Omaha,
Nebraska; Raymond L. Duncan, Hancock, Minnesota; Thelma Fredrick-son,
Seattle, Washington; Louise B. Holden, Mount Pleasant, Iowa;
Truman D. Turnquist, Grasston, Minnesota; and Marie Valdas, Toronto,
Victor Cohn, science reporter for
the Minneapolis Tribune, will be
the speaker at a convocation to-morrow
at 10 a.m. in the field-house.
Mr. Cohn's topic will concern the
exciting world of tomorrow and
the many new advances that sci-ence
has brought to us in the areas
of travel, living, and technology.
Awards Day
Will Honor
Campus Service
Awards Day will be held during
chapel on May 22 to honor students
wi-zu e ated wel-fare
of the campus and the com-munity.
Students will be honored
for their service in such extra-curriciular
activities as athletics,
Christian service, Clarion, Spire,
debate, band, women's choir, male
chorus, college choir, radio club,
and student senate.
Students eligible for these a-wards
are chosen on the basis of
the amount, years, and quality of
participation and will be notified
by the student affairs office. This
program of recognition for service
to the campus, constituency, and
community is one of the highlights
of the student life at Bethel.
This Awards Day will be fol-lowed
by the Honors Convocation
honoring academic achievement on
Friday, May 26.
Bethel Debates
The subject of the May 15 convo-cation
will be a debate between
two members of the Bethel debate
team and a team from Northwest-ern
college in Minneapolis. The
topic to be debated is "Compulsory
Health Insurance—Should the Uni-ted
States Adopt It?" This was
the topic of all debate teams a-cross
the country this year.
The two members of the Bethel
team are Dick Sorvig, senior, and
Cal Mortenson, junior. Their op-ponents
from Northwestern are
Jerry Jones, and Chuck Wren.
The method of debate will be
that of the West Coast system, a
modification of the Michigan sys-tem.
In the West Coast system the
speaker speaks for ten minutes
during which time he can stop and
ask questions of the opponents.
After all contestants have spoken,
there is a five minute rebuttal
He will mention our responsibili-ties
and how we must meet the
challenge of Communism in our
everyday life.
Winner of six major awards for
American journalism, Mr. Cohn has
been reporting science and medical
news since 1946, when the New
York Times called him "one of the
best science reporters in the coun-try."
He is the author of a book
published in 1956, 1999: Our Hope-ful
Future, which looks at the
future of the world and our respon-sibilities
in it.
In 1958 Mr. Cohn won the Las-ker
Award for Medical Journalism
for articles urging better care for
Minnesota's mentally ill children.
He was the first two-time winner
of the WestingheuQA prize of th.3
American Association for the Ad-vancement
of Science, and the only
three-time recipient of the Dis-tinguished
Service Award of Sigma
Delta Chi, a journalistic fraternity.
Catholics Now
Change Demand
by Walfred H. Peterson
My last report to the Clarion on
Apr. 13 explained a memorandum
of the Department of Health, Edu-cation,
and Welfare on church-state
relations. This administrative
statement has now produced re-percussions
that need to be noted.
The National Catholic Welfare
Conference, through its executive
director, Monsignor Hochwalt, said
the statement forced them to
change their demands. Since the
memorandum asserted that across-the-
board loans to parochial schools
were as unconstitutional as across-the-
board grants, they would here-after
ask for grants, the logic be-ing
that if both are unconstitu-tional
in the view of the executive,
the Catholic church might as well
push for the one that benefitted
them the most. This logic makes
sense only if there is some hope
that the courts might disagree
with the executive on the consti-tutional
Some Catholics are so convinced
of the soundness of their demands
that they hold such a hope. Few
in informed circles think that that
hope is warranted, and most poli-tical
observers look upon the Hoch-walt
statement as a mere an-nouncement
that the Catholic
church will continue to fight in
spite of the adverse memorandum.
On Apr. 29, the continued fight
was taken up by Cardinal Spell-man.
He noted that the Health,
(cont'd. on page 2)
The first all-school banquet in
the history of Bethel college will
be held Friday, May 19, in Day-ton's
Skyroom at 7th and Nicollet
in Minneapolis. The banquet for
the entire student body will begin
at 6:00 p.m., and no meal will be
served in the dining hall.
All students of Bethel college,
faculty, staff, and administrative
personnel are invited. Students
have paid for their tickets through
Seminarians will relax from the
rigors of finishing a spring quar-ter
of studies at their spring ban-quet
tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m.,
in the Bethlehem Baptist church
in Minneapolis.
The evening's program will re-volve
around a theme of "Go Ye"
and feature Dr. Vernon Grounds as
speaker. Dr. Grounds is the presi-dent
of the Conservative Baptist
seminary in Denver, Colorado.
Dick Anderson will emcee the
entertainment which consists of
B.W.A. Initiates
New 'Big Ms'
An award of $50 will be present-ed
to the "Big Sis" of the year at
the Bethel women's association
meeting on Sunday afternoon, May
21. This award, the first in the
history of B.W.A., will be present-ed
to the "Big Sis" selected from
nominations presented to the ex-ecutive
cabinet. The winner will
be announced at the tea.
If weather permits, the tea will
be held on the Bethel campus lawn,
with graduating seniors as the
honored guests. Roberta Yaxley
has charge of the entertainment
performing throughout the after-noon.
Special numbers will include
a monologue by Ann Embry, a
trombone solo by Judy Lewis, sev-eral
vocal numbers, a violin solo by
Madge Billows, and a flute ensem-ble.
Roberta Yaxley and Sharon
Marsh will accompany the soloists
on a Wurlitzer electric organ pro-vided
by Hugo Hagstrom through
the Lind Piano and Organ com-pany
of St. Paul. The tea will be
held from 2:30 to 5:00.
The newly-elected 1961-1962 of-ficers
for the B.W.A. are Roberta
Yaxley, president; Annette Lar-son,
vice president; Judy Lewis,
secretary; Karen Gregersen, assist-ant
secretary; Joanne Wessman,
treasurer; Kay Wylie, assistant
treasurer; Judy Bergfalk and Mary
Anderson, Big and Little Sis co-ordinators.
the inclusive fee, but the faculty,
staff, administration, and guests
who are not enrolled in the college
may purchase tickets for $3.00
per person. Tickets will be avail-able
in the student center from
May 11 to May 18; everyone at-tending
the banquet must secure a
The all-school banquet was re-commended
by a committee com-prised
of representatives from the
special music by the Bethel string
ensemble and the seminary quar-tet.
Members of the quartet are
Jahn F. Anderson, Bud Malmsten,
Jim Nelson, and Fred Stearns.
Piano accompanist is Ron Veenker.
Senior seminary students are
guests of the underclassmen. Tick-ets
are priced at $2.50 per person.
General chairman of the ban-quet
is Bud Malmsten. Arrange-ments
have been completed by
Dave Strand and Bill Mackinney is
in charge of the program.
student senate and the administra-tion.
The banquet was established
to provide an occasion for presen-tation
of awards, distribution of
the annual, and the bringing to-gether
of similar year-end activi-ties.
"Faces of Bethel" has been sel-ected
as the theme for the even-ing.
The program will feature the
Macalester College Drama Chorus,
in addition to participants from
Bethel. The College Choir, the
Women's Choir, and the Male
Chorus will each be presenting a
section of the program.
President Lundquist, acting as
M.C. for the banquet, will also give
a brief address reviewing this past
school year. At the conclusion of
the program, the Spire for 1960-61
will be presented and dedicated.
Students will be receiving fur-ther
information about provided
transportation from the college;
however, Dayton's parking ramp
will be available for cars. The ban-quet
is to be semi-formal, with
neither corsages nor boutiniers ex-pected
or proper. Students may at-tend
either with or without dates.
the CLARION Volume XXXVII—No. 14
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday May 11, 1961
Daytons Will Be Scene
Of May 19 Banquet
"Go Ye53 Chosen Theme
by Jim Nelson
The book of I John speaks of the "more excel-lent
way," the way of love, and many of its impli-cations
which seem to surround all of Christian
living. Our relation to God is a relation of love,
with God taking the loving initiative and express-ing
His love through His Son. God loved us first;
not because we were attractive to God in ourselves,
or because there was something in us that caused
God to owe us His love, but only because God in His
loving mercy went out to us in utter self-giving love.
Paul admonishes us to be imitators of God. Pre-eminently,
we should imitate God in the way that
He loves; going out first to people before they come
to us; loving for the sake of loving, and not just lov-ing
those who are attractive or useful to us. John's
conception of love is based on this principle: the
manner in which God loves should be the manner
in which we love.
Another principle of love in I John is that love
to God is inseparable from and synonymous with
love of one's brethren (I John 4:20-5:1). Love to
God should give rise to love toward men who are
made in His image. There is a solidarity of God
with men in the man Christ Jesus so that Jesus can
say, "if you have done it unto the least of these my
brethren, you have done it unto me (Matt. 25:45)."
Our love to God makes our love to man worthy.
The fact of our relation of love to God renders pos-sible
the love to man that is of the quality of the
love of God to man. Jahn is not talking about any
type of love done in any number of ways for a
variety of reasons or ends. Above all, John is not
thinking of love that is a corporate selfishness, the
person or persons loving attempting to achieve their
own highest goals through the dove-tailing of self-interest
with others or the community's. We should
not love ultimately for our own ends. Our love to
man should be for God's ultimate purposes and in
His manner as we have just discussed.
Our love should mean that we love people for
the ultimate purpose of their well-being in God. Our
love for people should be unto Christian ends as we
love in a God-like manner and with a motive that
finds its orientation and purpose in God's purpose
for man. Again, what God wants for man we should
want for man. To the ends that God loves should be
the ends that we should love.
Nothing less is meant but this kind of love. Man
can love in a human way for human ends. It is
Christian love that desires what God desires for
people. Often, the manner and p u r p o s e
for which we love, its character and quality, affect
the character and quality of another person's life,
even his eternal destiny. We should carefully con-sider
the place of love in the Christian life, espec-ially
as we find it expressed in the book of I John
in our Bible studies. Love is important to the fel-lowship
of our Christian community at Bethel, for
"perfect love casts out fear (I John 4:18)." With
fear and selfishness removed and conquered through
love our relationships will become one of loving-trust,
with our isolation of fear and selfishness
broken as we come to one another to form more
perfectly His body, the called out community of
Idea by Con Woodall
Art by Bill Porter
Nerve by CLARION staff
Editorials* Motives Behind Christian Love
Foreign Threat Less Vital Stressed as Unselfish, Fearless
greater than the difference be-tween
groups would generally ap-ply
to attributes on which confer-ence
and non-conference students
might be compared.
The second assumption that those
students who seek admission to
our college from non-conference
churches are different from con-ference
students on desirable qual-ities
is open to question. The prob-ability
is high that those from an
out-group who apply for admission
are considerably more homogenous
than conference students, and that
this homogenity is in terms of the
image of the college which is held
by non-conference people.
The third assumption must be
considered in terms of an admis-sion
policy which will not militate
against a program of instruction,
whose products are worthy of be-ing
called liberally-educated and
in which the probabilities for suc-cess
for all students admitted are
Than Moral Disintegration
In conformance to the unwritten maxims of modern-day mass or-ganizations,
the American Association of Evangelical Students (AAES)
has sought to justify its existence and its activity by voicing laudable
purposes. In conjunction with their goal of promoting and exercising
"an active interest in the affairs of national, state and local govern-ments"
AAES adopted "Christianity Answers Communism" as its pro-ject
for the year.
May we say that we feel it is regrettable that an organization en-deavoring
to "make their Christian faith operative in the field of
higher education" would allow itself to be enveloped in an emotional
surge of nationalism and swept along by a basically secular movement.
During the convention, AAES uncritically and unobjectively supported
any anti-communist propaganda. Last week, newspapers declared the
acquittal of Robert Meisenbach, accused of inciting demonstrations a-gainst
the House committee on Un-American Activities last spring.
While the jurors later reported that the verdict did not approve the
demonstration or make any judgment of the committee's work, the deci-sion
does remove some steam from the HUAAC-produced "Operation
Abolition ," the sound track of which adamantly declares, ". . . One stu-dent
provides the spark that touches off all the violence when he leaps
over a barracade, grabs a police officer's night stick, and begins beat-ing
the officer over the head . . ."
This is not to say that we minimize the threat of Communist in-filtration
in U.S. government or the growth of Communist control of
other world nations. We feel that the AAES is deciding that Commun-ism
is of primary importance as a menace to its evangelical beliefs.
External forces, persecution, if you like, has always tended to be
a unifying force when applied against religious groups—and not only
unifying, but strengthening. Thus, communism may be the spur which
will finally jar Christian individuals and communities out of their leth-argic
state. The failure to be challenged to moral integrity and disci-plined
living is more destructive to current evangelical thought than
extraneous movements.
AAES could be commended if it would assume leadership in the
unique area of Christian higher education rather than finding its direc-tion
by the course of superficial wind storms.
Fine Arts Week Lauded ;
Late Publicity Detrimental
The CLARION wishes to commend all those who contributed to the
recent Fine Arts Week. The Cultural Council formulated a well-inte-grated
program which was both entertaining and educational. The ser-ies
of evening concerts and lectures, together with the afternoon film
program, was definitely beneficial to those attending. It is extremely
unfortunate that a lack of interest or desire on behalf of part of the
student body resulted in poor attendance at some of these events. It
has been suggested that since these programs were worthwhile, part of
the lack of participation might have been due to "technical difficulties"
such as inadequate and belated publicity.
The exhibit sponsored by the art classes added much to the general
atmosphere of the week and provided others with the opportunity to
observe the accomplishments of the college's art students. The highlight
of the week was the Royal Players' presentation of May 5 and 6 of
"Christ in the Concrete City." The production was well staged and in-terpreted,
and the actors responded admirably to the challenge of pre-senting
to the audience the message of this modern drama.
Dear Editor: conference and from non-
In order that there will be no conference homes.
misunderstanding as to the ratio 2. In view of existing differ-of
60-40 among previous freshmen ences, students admitted
classes, I wish to point out that with non-conference back-that
ratio was not achieved on the grounds are different from
basis of established policy. Among conference students.
former classes, the ratio was ap- 3. Criteria of ability used at the
proximate, as qualified applicants present in college admission
were admitted regardless of church practices are highly valid
af f ili a t ion s. Furthermore, the as determiners of significant
broader interpretation of the contributions to programs of
terms non-conference over which
the immediate future and of
concern is indicated will result in the distant future.
a differential between previous ra- While the first assumption may
tios and the newly-established ra- not be subject to question as to its
tio which may prove to be consid- validity, interpretations of its
erably below 20 per cent. meaning may be in error. When
Your concerns appear to be pre- groups are said to differ, differ-dicated
upon some assumptions ences are those which are obtained
whose validities may be subject to as measures of central tendency
some questioning. These assump- are compared. This permits for
tions can be stated as follows: considerable overlap between any
1. Differences on various attri- two groups being compared, and
butes or characteristics ex- the often quoted statement that
ist between students from the variation within each group is
high. Anyone attending a confer-ence
on the selection of talented
students who anticipates learning
of research that demonstrates that
a high correlation exists between
(cont'd. on page 3)
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Letters--We Too Get Letters! Comment
On Eichmann, Admissions Ratio, AAES
Catholics Now
Change Demand
(cont'd. from page 1)
Education, and Welfare statement
admitted that certain specific
grants by the federal government
for non-religious aspects of edu-cation
might be constitutional. The
National Defense Education_ Act,___
for example, makes loans available
to private schools for certain lab-oratory
Seizing this precedent, the
Cardinal has decided that the
Church might get "aid" for such
non-religious things as gymnas-iums,
cafeterias, and laboratories.
These, of course, are costly items
in school construction.
The Cardinal would have some
support for his position in both
House and Senate, and if the re-quest
came for long term, low in-terest
loans for non-religious
phases of school construction, he
would have considerable backing.
Also, it seems unlikely that the
Supreme Court, if a case were pro-perly
raised, would approve sweep-ing
grants for non-religious con-struction
in light of the Everson
case. Its decision on loans for non-religious
construction is less pre-dictable
and might turn on the
conditions of the loan agreement.
the CLARION
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Fine Arts student Don Johnson takes notes for class, using as his
subject a painting by Mrs. Starkey. This work won first place in the
informal poll taken at the May 1 reception for the opening of the stu-dent
center display. Second place went to Ken Peterson, while Paul
Sinclair received third. In the sculpture division, Roanne Deckert's
works, "Madonna" and "enceinte," were the top choices. The painting
and sculpture exhibition was comprised almost entirely of abstract
and impressionistic works submitted by Bethel's art students as one
phase of Fine Arts Week.
Assumptions Questioned;
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Bethel's Bible Studies Termed
"Refreshing", "Helpful", Stimulating"
any criterion of ability used in ad-mission
to college and significant
contribution in the college pro-gram
is doomed to disappointment.
Similarly, the correlations between
academic achievement in college
and societally significant contri-butions
in later life are not high.
Your suggestion for a form of
"out-of-conference" tuition may be
worthy of consideration, but the
likelihood is high that while class-ification
as to non-conference or
conference would not be "nebu-lous"
it would become "quite sub-jective"
and might also lead to
practices which one would not wish
to condone.
Royal Bloom
Dear Editor:
There are two articles in the
Apr. 27 issue of the Clarion which
disturb me and upon which I would
like to comment. Both of the arti-cles
are on page two.
In "The Crime of Eichmann;
Cain Revisited," Mr. Mary Ander-son
questions whether or not Eich-mann
should be made to pay his
penalty of death. Mr. Anderson
says, and I quote, "If the world
is looking for a scapegoat . . ."
No one has said the world is look-ing
for a scapegoat. The world is
saying that Mr. Eichmann, accord-ing
to law, the death penalty to
pay. Romans 13 tells us that our
laws are ordained by God, and not
to be resisted. (We cannot say
there were better rulers in power
at the time of this writing, for
when Rom. 13 was written, Nero
was in power.) Mr. Anderson com-pares
our dropping of the atomic
bomb to Eichmann's crime of mur-dering
millions and millions of
Jews for no reason other than hate.
We should remember that the Uni-ted
States dropped that bomb for
the purpose of ending the war, and
that we did not start the war that
Pearl Harbor day. Some will say
Eichmann should not be condemn-ed,
for some other war criminals
have not been dealt with. Accord-ing
to this theory, we would have
to open all our prison doors and
free all prisoners because we do
have some criminals who have not
been punished.
In the second article, "Is AAES
Worthwhile? Should Bethel Retain
Membership?", Dean Dahlquist
says the AAES has too much
"rightist propaganda" and that "It
was our experience that the former
schools, which form the majority
of the organization, showed a def-inite
inability or reluctance to
combine the intellectual approach
with the religious approach in deal-ing
with these problems." He asks
if we should ". . . continue in this
group where our opinions will most
likely continue to be in the minor-ity
and possibly be neither listened
to nor accepted?"
I received this impression: the
article either implied the group
cannot have fellowship with other
evangelical groups if they are pri-marily
"right wing," or else it im-plies
the group prefers to pick up
their marbles and go home if the
game cannot be played their way.
If the AAES is fighting Commun-ism,
would it not be worthwhile
to lend our help in this fight? I,
for one, am very proud to say I am
of the political "right wing" and
I do not believe it is to say the
"left wing" approach is a more in-tellectual
approach, for there are
intellectuals on both sides of the
political aisle.
Sincerely yours,
Harvey Nelson
Just 15 more days until Finals
The beginning of this semester
saw the organization of Bethel's
Friday morning Bible study
groups. The idea has since been
widely and enthusiastically pub-licized.
Following are evaluations
of the program by citizens of the
Bethel community:
Emily Mattson, college junior:
"With the pressures of our aca-demic
schedule ever upon us, the
opportunity for more than brief
and superficial conversation is
often limited. Therefore, to me, it
has been a refreshing experience
to have this period set aside week-ly
for the informal study of the
Bible. I think
there has been a
good balance of
freedom and
guidance b e -
tween the groups
and the office,
with the sugges-tions
of areas of
study and pre-sentations
o f
background material in chapel
"Although we're not complaining
in our group, the only adverse
comment I've heard is that inte-gration
of college and seminary
hasn't been as complete as might
be desired."
Victor Winquist, college senior:
"The Bible studies have been
helpful to me as a means of fur-ther
understanding of the scrip-ture
and of further understanding
of various points of view. Fortun-
-:-. ately, in our
group there were
both those who
stressed theolo-gy
and those
who stressed
practical appli-cation,
and con-sequently
t h e
discussions were
helpful in both
areas. The suggested scripture pas-
Award Deadline
Is Tomorrow
A new incentive to student
writers has appeared at Bethel
in the form of The Robert
Campbell writing award. Fifty
dollars is the first prize with
$25.00 as second prize for the
winning entries.
Manuscripts of materials pub-lished
during the current school
year must be submitted to the
English department by tomor-row
in order to be eligible to
win the award. Published ma-terial
includes articles, stories,
etc., that have appeared in jour-nals,
magazines, Sunday school
publications or newspapers.
Funds for the award have
been donated by Mr. Campbell
of Glenn Flora, Wisconsin.
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sages were well-chosen. The pray-er
time was a rewarding exper-ience.
"Two things should be consider-ed.
First, at times there was a def-inite
lack of preparation, both by
myself, and I think, by other mem-bers
of the group. Second, the num-ber
of combined chapels in the
fieldhouse have been cut consider-ably.
I feel that this is unfortun-ate."
William Cram, seminary senior:
"The program has been very
stimulating in the realization of
the practicability of God's word,
as expressed through fellowship,
prayer, and group study. To sense
the common needs and desires of
fellow Christians, to be able to
consider the divine answer to man's
needs, and then
through prayer
and fellowship
attempt to rea-lize
these "an-swers"
in our
individual lives
has been most
helpful. T h e
challenge to
Christian living
becomes more powerful through
group endeavors such as a group
Bible study."
Classes Elect
During the past few weeks the
freshmen, sophomore, and junior
classes have been activly engaged
in a program of campaigning for
the election of their officers for
the coming year of 1961-62. The
roster of new class leaders was
completed with the final election
on Friday, May 5.
Assuming leadership of next
years' sophomore class will be:
president, Jerry Biss; vice presi-dent,
Ed Anthony; secretary,
Nancy Robertson; and treasurer,
Paul Norlander.
Elected to lead the junior class
are: president, Bob Smith; vice
president, Duane Golden; secre-tary,
Bobbye Driskell; and treas-urer,
Denny Wahlstrom.
The new senior class officers are:
president, Bob Hurt; vice presi-dent,
Cal Mortensen; secretary, Ro-berta
Yaxley; and treasurer, Karen
Edna Schultz, acting registrar:
"I believe the Bible studies have
provided a needed opportunity to
study the Word of God together
and to think of ways to apply it
to our lives.
They have also
given the mem-bers
of our of-fice
and of the
student affairs
office the oppor-tunity
to meet
one another on
a different level.
We have sensed
a feeling of oneness in Christ and
of willingness to serve Him in our
various positions at Bethel — and
this too has been good.
"The Bible studies have been of
special benefit to me personally.
We even hope to continue them
during the summer months."
David Sorley, college freshman:
"Being a P.K., I have sat at
many Bible "banquets"—so many,
in fact, that often I look at even
choice dishes as being trite. I have
long thought of I John as the diet
for "newborn
babes," but my
Teacher has us-ed
the Friday
morning Bible
A study to feed me
this "milk." The
more I drink of
it, the better I
like it. Perhaps
I'm still a babe
in Christ, but praise Him, I'm a
growing one.
"Incidentally, I've also found
quite a quantity of meat. I have
always been fed at these Bible
studies, but sometimes a little
skimpily. Therefore I suggest that
each group should appoint one
member to lead the discussions
each week."
Donna Jenkins, college sophomore:
"In the rush of college life, we
often substitute chapel and other
services for individual Bible study.
I have appreciated the impetus the
Bible study groups have given me
for real study on my own. Then,
the discussions
have clarified
difficult verses
and brought out
many view-points.
if this plan is to
achieve its pur-pose,
it must
have the whole-hearted
and participation of all of us, with
each one studying the passage
prayerfully and attending his or
her group faithfully."
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The cry of "fore" echoes across
the fairways as Bethel's golfers
again tee off on a new season. A
history of successful intercolleg-iate
competition appears to be con-tinuing
as the linkmen have al-ready
posted two wins against only
a single loss. They won from both
Augsburg and Hamline 10 1/2 4 1/2,
While falling to River Falls 10 1/2 -
Three returning lettermen, Don
Mattson, Bob Hames, and Dale
Malaise constitute the neuclei of
the team. Showing good promise
are Denny Johnson, Bob Samuel-son,
and Rich Bergstrom.
Weather permitting, coach Jerry
Healy's parbusters practice daily
for about two hours. Thus, much
effort is being put forth by our
teams as they attempt to further
Bethel's golfing success.
Keller Course is the scene of ac-tion
this afternoon as the links-men
tackle St. Thomas and Ham-line.
Saturday, Mattson and Hames
will participate in a collegiate in-vitational
tournament at Bemidji.
Mattson, who distinguished him-self
last year as medalist winner at
the conference meet, will be in the
District 13 playoffs on May 15. If
he is successful there, he will go
on to national competition.
According to Healy, the carry-over
of golf enjoyment into later
life is truly worthy of the patient
practice of youth. Though frustrat-ing
at times to the novice, golf
can be enjoyed by all. A duffer's
down-the-middle drive can give a
thrill equal to the master's hole-in-
Netmen Capture
The improving Bethel tennis
team has won two of their three
recent meets. They were victor-ious
over Northwestern college in
Minneapolis and Augsburg college,
but were defeated by St. Thomas.
Dick Larson, Rog Jackson, Larry
Peterson, Gary Scull, Jerry Dahlin,
and Eddie Carlson posted a clean
sweep of 9-0 in the Northwestern
contest. Then, the netmen dropped
an 8-1 decision to a strong St.
Thomas squad, the defending
champs of the MIAC Conference.
Larson and Peterson captured
Bethel's only point with a doubles
Playing St. Thomas proved ad-vantageous,
as Bethel tucked a-way
a tidy 6-3 victory over a fair
Augsburg squad. The Auggie's
first and second singles men edged
Larson and Jackson, but then
Bethel's Peterson retaliated to
whip his opponent 6-4. Gary Scull
won a convincing 3-6, 6-0, 6-1 vic-tory,
with Jerry Dahlin winning
his match 6-4, 6-1. Eddie Carlson
finished the meet by smashing
Auggie apposition 7-5, 6-3.
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A completely new system will be
inaugurated for the second annual
Bethel College fall athletic camp
this year according to coaches
Owen Halleen and Jerry Healy.
This year the camp will include
members of the cross-country and
basketball teams as well as mark-ing
the beginning of fall football
practice. The new system will re-sult
in approximately a three-fold
increase in attendance, as the
coaches intend to issue over 60
invitations to potential aspirants
for the three squads. Gene Glader
and Phil Carlson will assist Hal-leen
and Healy in the operation of
the camp. Glader joins the staff
of the athletic department for
1961-62 as head track coach and
assistant basketball coach, in ad-dition
to his role as assistant foot-ball
coach. Carlson, instructor in
mathematics at Bethel, will be
serving his inaugural term as an
assistant to Halleen.
Wood Lake, Wisconsin, will a-gain
be the site of the pre-season
camp, which begins on Sept. 3
with a meeting on the college cam-pus.
Campus facilities will provide
overnight accomodations and the
group will leave en masse on the
morning of Labor Day, Sept. 4.
Halleen, Healy, and their assist-ants
will waste no time in remov-ing
the summer lethargy as the
first football and cross-country
practices are scheduled for Labor
Day afternoon. The basketball
squad will be engaged primarily
in conditioning and training ex-cises
and will not hold formal
practices as such. The group will
embark for the return trip to the
Bethel campus following the even-ing
meal on Sept. 9.
The highlight of the camp will
be an inter-squad football scrim-mage
which will be held under
strict game conditions on Saturday
afternoon, Sept. 9. Halleen empha-sizes
that all interested spectators
will be welcome to attend the
scrimmage and receive their first
look at the 1961 edition of the
Royal gridders.
The purposes of the camp are
three-fold. The athletic department
wishes to develop good group mor-ale
among the various athletes;
to train and condition the athletes
for top performances in their re-spective
sports; and to distinctly
impress in every mind the vital
need for a dynamic relationship
with Jesus Christ, both as mem-bers
of a team and as individuals.
Rev. Robert Brunko, Red Wing,
Minn., will serve as camp pastor
and will lead morning Bible stud-ies
and evening devotional services.
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Lusty hitting by Jack McNaugh-ton
and Don McKelvy carried the
Bethel Royal's diamond squad to a
narrow 13-10 victory over Concor-dia
of St. Paul on May 4. Bethel
had to contain a late rally to gar-ner
the victory as the losers tal-lied
seven of their 10 runs in the
last two innings.
Bethel jumped off to a 5-0 lead
in the first inning, largely on the
strength of McNaughton's grand-slam
home run. The winners tal-
Harrier Purcell
Sets New Record
Bethel's cindermen managed re-spectable
showings against tough
competition largely through the
efforts of peerless distance runner,
Fred Purcell. On Apr. 22, at the
Carleton Relays, Purcell finished
second in the mile run giving
Bethel five of the six points it
earned at the meet. Bethel's sprint
medley garnered the other point
by placing fifth in the sprint med-ley
In a quadrangular meet on Apr.
25 involving the Royals, St. Tho-mas,
Hamline, and Augsburg,
Bethel finished third behind St.
Thomas and Hamline respectively.
Once again Purcell paced the team
as he took three first places to
win fifteen of Bethel's thirty-six
points. Fred won the half mile,
mile, and set a new school record
of 10:37 in winning the two mile.
He had strong support from Paul
Sloan who finished fourth in the
mile and third in the two mile.
Captain Larry Bradshaw finished
third in the 440. Ron Swanson was
impressive in taking fourth posi-tion
in both the high and low hur-dles
and the college mile. The
mile relay team of Bruce Erickson,
Les Weigum, Larry Bradshaw, and
Jan Kolbrek competed in the col-lege
division mile relay.
Narrow Win Makes
Royals Champions
In their return game with Dr.
Martin Luther college, the Bethel
Royals turned the tables and won
their first game 8-7. Behind 7-2
after four innings, the Royals
fought back to tie the game and
then scored in the last of the ninth
for the win.
The Royals were led by Jack Mc-
Naughton with three doubles and
by Dave Cox, Don McKelvey, Larry
Stair, and Lyle Anderson who each
had two hits.
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lied again in the third when Mc-
Naughton's second circuit blow
combined with a three-run blast
by Holmberg netted four runs.
Two hits, a walk, and some shoddy
fielding gave Concordia three runs
in the fifth. The losers scored two
runs in the seventh. Bethel scored
one in the fifth, two in the sixth,
and one in the seventh for a 13-5
lead after seven innings. Coach
Owen Halleen then cleared his
bench and removed Holmberg from
the mound in favor of Chuck
Bloomquist. Bloomquist ran into
control problems and could only
retire one batter. Clouse came on
to shut out Concordia for the re-mainder
of the contest, but the
five runs in the eighth brought the
margin of victory to only three
McNaughton was the hitting
hero with his two home runs, a
single, and some lightning-like
base-running. Holmberg's home
run, two singles by Larry Stair,
and singles by Dave Cox and
Tuffy Bryant rounded out the
Royal's total of 11 hits.
Holmberg pitched well, allow-ing
only two earned runs and six
hits while fanning three over seven
innings. Concordia finished with a
total of 10 hits and the losers com-mitted
five errors. Bethel was
charged with four errors.
Bethel Loses
To Concordia
On Apr. 29, Bethel took the
field against Concordia Junior col-lege
and ran into a strong hitting
opposition. The lack of scoring
punch hampered the Royal nine
and the pitching staff allowed the
junior college 15 runs, resulting
in a final score of 15-8.
The game highlights for the
Royals were three hits by Dave
Cox and Jack McNaughton's sec-ond
home run of the year. The
pitchers were John Holmberg, Bob
Clouse, and Chuck Bloomquist.
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Pity poor William Shakespeare.
Reviled as plagiarist (stole his plots from Holinshed's Chronicle); fraud (his plays were really written by Francis Bacon, or William Stanley, or Christopher Marlowe, or was it Edward de Vere?); anti-Semite (The Merchant of Venice); racist (Othello) and misogynist (The Taming of the Shrew).
Now he's in the public stocks as a consummate political spin doctor who pulled off the Plantagenet smear job of the ages, flacking for an illegitimate Queen Elizabeth and her vile ancestors, those usurping Tudors, who stole the throne by overthrowing the last legitimate British monarch — Richard III — such a nice chap if only you get to know him.
Oh, Lord, propaganda — as if that weren't at the heart of all this historicity, the current silly contretemps included. The letters pages have been replete of late with calls for the rehabilitation of Richard III with the rediscovery of the overthrown king's desecrated bones under a parking lot.
And how did the Plantagenet line of which Richard III was the final "legitimate" king come to power?
We might begin, I suppose, with William the Bastard (um, that refers to his illegitimacy), who killed the reigning English king. Harold's body was so butchered by the winner that only his wife was able to identify the corpse, which was then — like Osama bin Laden — disposed of secretly by the new regime.
Harold's line, which reached back to Egbert, sort of (the English tend to start there and arbitrarily ignore his Mercian, Northumbrian and Celtic predecessors — propaganda, you know), was not without a good deal of assassination and usurping by various factions of its own. Then there was an inconvenient interruption by Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark (maybe this explains Shakespeare's unfair portrayal of royal corruption in Hamlet!) and his descendants, which included the famous King Cnut.
After William's inglorious demise, his corpse was left in the sweltering summer heat so long without burial that it exploded, providing an excuse for unwilling attendants at the funeral to flee the extraordinarily unpleasant proceedings.
His much disliked son, William Rufus, inherited the crown but conveniently died on a misplaced arrow while hunting — his companions left him for the wild animals — as Henry I seized power at home.
Between the first Henry and the last Richard, as various Plantagenet branches struggled for supremacy among themselves (the Wars of the Roses) before finally being offed by the Tudors, we had Edward II removed by means of a red hot poker thrust into his intestines, James I of Scotland (a Stuart) trapped like a rat and murdered in a blocked up sewer (one of his descendants became king of England but was beheaded by the people and another was driven from the throne), and Henry VI was murdered in his cell in the Tower of London to facilitate Richard III's ascendancy, and so on.
If this reads like the story board for a Home Box Office miniseries about the power struggle in a biker gang, you've nailed it. A murderous bunch they were, Plantagenet and Tudor alike, and the early history of the British monarchy is awash in enough gore to satisfy the crudest video game writer, let alone Shakespeare.
But back to The Bard and his history plays, which purportedly treat the ruling Tudor dynasty more favourably than the deposed Plantagenet.
First, Richard III is a play intended to entertain the bloodthirsty groundlings Shakespeare sought to entice to his Globe Theatre. It's a play, not a history text. The history serves the playwright and his plot, not the other way around. Complaining that the play doesn't give a true depiction of the last Plantagenet to rule is a bit like complaining that some medieval miracle play isn't an accurate depiction of Judas Iscariot, that The Iliad is unfair to Agamemnon or that Argo fiddled a bit with the history to make the story more compelling for an American audience.
Second, Shakespeare wrote in a time of immense political paranoia. People were executed, as was Francis Page, for the crime of "being ordained a priest overseas." Or put to torture, as was Mr. Gerratt in 1597 for "receiving letters from the Continent." Henry Walpole was whacked in 1594 for serving as a Jesuit chaplain; William Carter got the chop in 1584 for "secret printing of Catholic books;" William Filbie was disembowelled in public in 1582 for declining to disavow his religion.
Leafing through prison proceedings compiled by Arthur Henry Cook, Chief Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London, one can see why writers — Shakespeare included — chose not to deliberately offend the ruling dynasty by even hinting that their claim to the throne might be illegitimate.
So let us please give Shakespeare and his motives a rest and accept his plays for what they are — funny, witty, tragic and filled with fresh and original insights into the human condition.
Shakespeare's "racist, "anti-Semitic," "misogynistic" and "non-historic" works actually portrayed as fully-dimensional human beings those marginalized characters which at the time were preferred in dehumanizing caricatures.
Richard III can't be reduced to merely an anti-Plantagenet propaganda job for the Tudors, it's also a stunningly contemporary cautionary tale about the abuse of power and its corrupting consequences.
Shakespeare's warnings about authority unrestrained by morality are as true in 2013 for Washington or Ottawa as they were in 1597 for London, which is why the play can be staged with modern characters or set 500 years ago. Whatever the setting, we know who it's about: Us and what we do and should not do to each other in pursuit of power.

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Manchester City have joined Chelsea in the race to sign Fiorentina forward Stevan Jovetic, according to reports in Italy.
Citizens boss Roberto Mancini is keen to add another striker to his squad and has seemingly set his sights on the Montenegro international, who is also a target for Juventus.
City have apparently already tested the water with a bid, only to see it rejected, reports La Nazione.
It remains to be seen whether they will return with an improved offer for the 22-year-old, who Fiorentina value at £25million.
Juventus and Chelsea have also had bids for Jovetic turned down since the transfer window opened, but both remain interested.
The European champions are believed to be putting together a cash-plus-player package featuring Yossi Benayoun in the hope of tempting the Viola to sell.
However, Juventus looks like Jovetic's most likely destination, should Fiorentina finally allow him to leave.
The Serie A champions have failed to tempt either of their main transfer targets – Robin van Persie and Luis Suarez – to move to Turin, and still have a sizeable budget available to spend on a new striker.


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A job search is not something many people do on a regular basis. Some professionals experience shorter periods of employment than others, but no one is really "practiced" in hunting for a new job. Some people have never had to actively look for a job, while others only find themselves hunting employment a couple of times over a decade. If it has been several years since you've had to use your resume, do not make the mistake of thinking you can dust off that old resume and use it for your new job. Resumes change according to the needs of employers, technology, and the condition of the market. A resume written even a few years ago may be out-of-date. A resume originally prepared a long time ago and only added to over the years is a dinosaur!
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Creating Plants
Create plants and write about them.
- Students use writing processes effectively.
- Students write to communicate ideas and information effectively.
- Students describe patterns of structure and function in living things.
- Students create and communicate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas using knowledge of structures and functions of visual arts.
- Have the students take pictures of different plants.
- Import the pictures into Kid Pix.
- Allow students to edit the pictures and create their own plant.
- Write sentences about the plants.
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- Use input devices (e.g., mouse, keyboard, remote control) and output devices (e.g., monitor, printer) to successfully operate computers, VCRs, audiotapes, and other technologies.
- Use a variety of media and technology resources for directed and independent learning activities.
- Practice responsible use of technology systems and software.
- Use technology resources (e.g., puzzles, logical thinking programs, writing tools, digital cameras, drawing tools) for problem solving, communication, and illustration of thoughts, ideas, and stories.
- Digital Camera
- Kid Pix
- AppleWorks
- Students could create their own digital garden, putting all of the plants together on one computer, bulletin board or web site.
- Students could research their plants on the Internet.
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I sent this one zesterdaz, but it did not go through for some reason. Sorrz.
Just a quick update. Internet here costs us roughly $10 an hour, so we are using as little time as possible.
We are in Venice. Right on the Mediterranean, we are feeling the heat and humidity. I am loving it, Amanda not so much so. Last night, I had real Italian pizza and Amanda had real Italian pasta. We are living the life of luxury. We are in a nice little flat right off a campo (miniature piazza) and the place buzzes at all times of the day. We arrived safely here from Salzburg.


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|System: PC, PS3, Xbox 360*
|Dev: DONTNOD Entertainment
|Pub: Capcom
|Release: Releasedate
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Partial Nudity, Strong Language, Violence
The story is largely presented through the aforementioned Memory Remixes and seamless cutscenes, and they look wonderful. Graphically this game shines from beginning to end. The presentation of Remember Me is highly stylized and pays great attention to environmental details. SenSen-like graphical bits float everywhere in the futuristic world, an overlay of information brought to life through your memory interface. Combat looks great and is varied, and the character animations function near flawlessly. A ton of polish was applied to the visual experience. Activating an S-Pressen, delivering a slow-motion kick to the face of a Leaper, or causing a memory overload on a helpless enemy are all graphically impressive and truly make you feel like the badass you are meant to be.
Completing the presentation package, the sound of Remember Me does well in creating a believable near-future environment. Competent voice acting gives the characters depth and emotion and adds greatly to the overall delivery of the story. Additionally, the environmental sounds of Neo-Paris don't disappoint and digitized overtones add to the style, breathing excessive life into the futuristic and culturally degraded city.
So, in the end, Remember Me has a lot going for it--excellent visuals, great presentation, a solid soundscape, and a truly original story. However, it's not without flaws. The average controls can hold the game back. Memory Remixes and the Combo Lab, while fresh and innovative, do not feel fully realized. Sadly, I feel like Remember Me could have been a lot more of a game than it turned out to be. Even though it's a solid experience, it had all the makings of a true fan-favorite and franchise-launching game, but it never really got there.
If nothing else, Remember Me serves as a warning to the social-media-addicted masses. If you continue down your current path, one day you will turn into a memory addicted monstrosity–or an ass-kicking memory hunter–well, it's a 50/50 shot I guess. Good luck with that.
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Lotus Biscoff Cookie Coffee Cake
There is no flour used in this delicious coffee cake - only crushed Lotus Biscoff Cookies!
Crush the Biscoff Cookies in a food processor so that they are finely chopped but not reduced to powder. Toast the coconut and pecans in a 350 oven separately until slightly browned and fragrant. The pecans take about 6-7 minutes and the coconut less time, about 4-5 minutes. Watch the coconut carefully so it does not burn. Allow to cool to room temperature. In a stand mixer, cream the butter with the sugar. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Pour in the milk and vanilla and continue to mix gently. Add the crushed Biscoff Cookies, coconut and pecans and pour into a well buttered mold. Note: I read that some people had difficulty removing this cake from a molds so I brushed my mold with melted butter and then also sprayed them with Bakers Joy and my cakes released perfectly. Bake about 340F (160-170 C). My two small bundt pans were done is about 25 minutes. The cake will take take 50-60 minutes in a larger pan. Check with a toothpick at least 5 minutes before the end of the stated times.
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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 n.7 Cape Town Jul. 2012
The spread of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in South Africa: risk factors for acquisition and prevention
Adrian BrinkI; Jennifer CoetzeeII; Cornelis ClayII; Craig CorcoranII; Johan van GreuneIII; J D DeetlefsIII; Louise NuttIV; Charles FeldmanV; Guy RichardsV; Patrice NordmannVI; Laurent PoirelVI
IA clinical microbiologist in the Department of Clinical Microbiology, Ampath National Laboratory Services, Milpark Hospital, Johannesburg
IIDepartment of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Ampath National Laboratory Services, National Reference Laboratory, Centurion, Gauteng
IIIClinical pathologists at Ampath National Laboratory Services, Cape Town
IVClinical microbiologist at Ampath National Laboratory Services, Port Elizabeth
VDepartment of Critical Care and Division of Pulmonology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
VIService de Bacteriologie-Virologie, Hospital de Bicetre, Assistance Publique/Hopitaux de Paris, Faculte de Medecine et Universite Paris-Sud, K-Bicetre, France
New, effective antibiotics are only likely to become available in 15 - 20 years. To prevent deaths from untreatable Gram-negative infections in South Africa, the rights of any doctor, whether in general or in hospital practice, to indiscriminately prescribe whatever antibiotic they wish, and in whatever fashion, must be challenged. Furthermore, although prevention of the emergence and subsequent spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) has focused on acute and chronic care facilities and inter alia on antibiotic exposure in these institutions, CRE may soon become an issue within entire communities, highlighting a role for public health authorities in CRE prevention efforts.
In 2008, we stated that 'the die was cast' regarding the emergence and nationwide spread of extensively resistant (XDR) and pan-drug-resistant (PDR) Gram-negative fermentative bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.1 This prediction was based on the fact that suboptimal antibiotic management as a whole (excessive duration, use of multiple often inappropriate or unnecessary agents, and a virtual absence of de-escalation) was rife in clinical practice in most institutions, and that prescribers ignored antibiotic 'stewardship' as a means of combating the emergence of XDR and PDR Gram-negative bacilli (GNB).
Subsequently, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have indeed become our 'worst nightmare', locally and internationally, and pose a major threat to the viability of all currently available antibiotics.2-4 These GNB are resistant to all standard antimicrobial agents and salvage therapy with tigecycline, colistin and/or fosfomycin has become the last resort in life-threatening infections. Numerous outbreaks and epidemics with these organisms have been reported, they have become endemic in several institutions, and increased mortality has been ascribed to them.2-4 The imminent threat of untreatable infections is highlighted by the recent emergence, and inter-hospital spread in Greece, of CRE resistant even to colistin.5,6
Carbapenem resistance among Enterobacteriaceae can be conferred by several genetic mechanisms, but epidemiologically the most important of them results in the production of beta-lactamases (carbapenemases), which hydrolyse carbapenems and most other beta-lactams. These genes mostly reside on large plasmids which frequently contain other resistance determinants, such as those that confer resistance to the aminoglycosides and reduced susceptibility to the fluoroquinolones.
The carbapenemases belong to different classes and include:
K. pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPCs) and Guiana extended-spectrum β-lactamases (GESs) (class A)
the metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs), such as the Verona integron-encoded MBLs (VIMs) and the recently described New Delhi metallo-P-lactamases (NDM-1) (class B)
oxacillinase-type carbapenemases such as OXA-48 and its derivates, which also occur in Enterobacteriaceae (class D).
Since 1 March 2010 the Molecular Biology Laboratory at the Ampath National Reference Laboratory has been screening Enterobacteriaceae for the presence of these novel genes, and recently the emergence of NDM-1 for the first time in South Africa, and KPC-2 for the first time in Africa, was documented among clinical isolates of K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae in hospitalised patients in Johannesburg and Pretoria, respectively.4 As depicted in Fig. 1, the emergence of the broad-spectrum antibiotic-inactivating enzyme, OXA-48, and its derivatives among Enterobacteriaceae from hospitalised patients in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth has been confirmed (unpublished, J Coetzee, February 2012). Furthermore, VIMs have been detected in K. pneumoniae in Johannesburg and GESs in Enterobacteriaceae in hospitals in Cape Town (K. pneumoniae), Bloemfontein (K. oxytoca), Witbank (E. cloacae) and Port Elizabeth (Serratia marcescens) (unpublished, J Coetzee, February 2012).
Risk factors for acquisition
Antibiotic exposure
Exposure to antibiotics is a prominent risk factor for CRE. Specific antibiotics and specific antibiotic classes have frequently been implicated as risk factors for colonisation or infection with CRE, and these include all the carbapenems, cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, aminoglycosides and β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitors.3 Studies have also shown that prior carbapenem therapy is not a prerequisite for carbapenem resistance among E. coli or K. pneumoniae.3,4 The plasmids that confer such resistance frequently carry additional resistance determinants that confer cross-resistance to most other antibiotic classes. Consequently, prior use of any antibiotic may select for a carbapenemase-producing GNB.
Healthcare exposure
The major risk factors for acquiring KPCs (colonisation and/or infection) are similar to those for extended-spectrum â-lactamases (ESBLs), the prevalence of which is extremely high in South Africa. For example, the ESBL rate for K. pneumoniae cultured from complicated intra-abdominal infections in private hospitals is 41.2% and that for bacteraemic isolates in the public sector 55 - 74%.7,8
These risk factors include:3,9
organ or stem cell transplantation
intensive care unit admission
poor functional status
severe illness
mechanical ventilation
prolonged hospitalisation
Similar to ESBLs, it also appears that long-term care facilities are reservoirs of KPCs because they act as a point of convergence of patients at high risk, amplified by cross-transmission, and this facilitates regional dissemination.3,10
Emerging evidence suggests that the presence of a high 'invasivedevice score' is also a predictor of CRE. For K. pneumoniae, the presence of a central venous line (odds ratio (OR) 5.22; 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.38 - 11.46; p<0.001) and a urinary catheter (OR 7.53; 95% CI 3.49 - 16.26; p<0.001) are significantly associated with acquisition of KPC.9
Transfer of patients who have been hospitalised in medical facilities or countries where endemicity of CRE isolates has been established is also a major risk factor.
Prevention of CRE
Rapid routine molecular detection of CRE is essential to optimise therapy and improve outcomes, and to limit the spread of such resistance through aggressive infection control, including the screening of high-risk patients and the facilitation of 'search and contain' tactics.4 Detection of carriers of CRE is currently by far the most important factor preventing further dissemination in hospital settings.
Antibiotic utilisation
Delaying the emergence of carbapenem resistance, particularly in areas of South Africa where resistance is still uncommon, can decrease the impact of CRE. In this regard, antibiotic stewardship programmes (ASPs) are crucial to prevent the emergence of CRE. Because so few agents are available to treat the present population of XDR organisms, it is extremely difficult to study restrictive formulary interventions, and if they were employed they would be unlikely to be successful. Rather than targeting a specific class of antibiotics or limiting use of specific agents, an overall reduction in antibiotic burden is recommended as a focus for ASPs.3
Cumulative antibiotic exposure is likely to be the most important factor determining risk for developing a CRE infection. In a 4-year case-control study (N=102), the only covariate independently associated with CRE in multivariate analysis was the cumulative number of prior antibiotic exposures: ORs (95% CI) were 1.43 (1.19 - 1.72), 2.05 (1.70 - 2.47) and 2.93 (2.43 - 3.53) for 1, 2 and >3 antibiotic exposures, respectively.11
It also appears that not only is prior cumulative antibiotic exposure a risk factor, but that the risk increases with increasing duration of treatment. Kritsotakis et al. demonstrated that this was the case for β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations (OR 1.15 increase in resistance per day of use; p=0.001) and also for the fluoroquinolones, where increased duration of treatment amplified the effect of exposure to carbapenems (OR 1.02 for interaction term, p=0.0009).9
Suboptimal dosing may also be a contributing factor for the development of resistance, and as a consequence it is advisable that administration of those agents that are still left for treatment, such as colistin, should be optimised in terms of dose and by avoiding use of these agents on their own.12-14
Recognising the extent to which antibiotics are inappropriately used in South Africa, the Federation of Infectious Diseases of Southern Africa (FIDSSA) recently hosted the 1st South African Antibiotic Stewardship Program (SAASP) in Johannesburg. While ASPs were initiated at pilot hospitals in South Africa, outpatient antibiotic use in this country has not been addressed and it is now crucial also to target general practitioners and the South African public as a whole. However, experience elsewhere suggests that it is not possible to influence antibiotic prescribers without instituting restrictive or even what may be perceived as punitive measures. How this will be implemented in South Africa remains unclear.
Management of invasive devices
CRE have been identified from device-associated infections, particularly catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Limiting the use of invasive devices and using defined strategies that prevent their contamination and infection might be another important intervention to prevent occurrence and spread of CRE.3 These strategies should be urgently implemented in all our hospitals.
Urinary catheters should only be used in those patients who have appropriate indications, should be removed as soon as possible, and should have sterile, closed drainage systems. Aseptic insertion and maintenance of all catheters, according to protocols laid out in catheter 'bundles', are essential and constitute best care.
The Best Care ... Always! (BCA) campaign was initiated in 2009 to support southern African healthcare organisations in implementing specific, internationally recognised, evidence-based interventions that enhance patient safety and constitute current best practice in hospital care.15 Early BCA results are encouraging and significant strides have been made since some of these bundles have been implemented in over 200 South African hospitals. For example, in 40 and 42 acute-care hospitals of two private hospital groups, a significant decrease in central line infections from 5.24 and 5.78 per 1 000 catheter days to 1.34 (p<0.0001) and 1.27 (p<0.0001) line days, respectively, was recently confirmed over an 18-month period (unpublished, A J Brink, February 2012).
Conflict of interests declaration. No external funding was received for the molecular work at the Ampath Molecular Laboratory. AB has received recent research funding from Merck and Sanofi-Aventis, and has served on the advisory board of MSD, Aspen and Pfizer and on speakers' bureau for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Merck, Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis. JvG received honoraria for lectures or assistance for congress travel from the following companies in relation to antibiotics they manufacture or market: Astra-Zeneca, Pfizer, MSD and Aspen. GAR has served on the speaker's bureau of and/or received funding for congress travel from Sanofi-Aventis, Pfizer, Merck and Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Astra-Zeneca, Roche, Winthrop, Aspen, Bayer, GSK, Janssen, Fresenius Kabi and Abbott. CF has acted on the advisory board or received honoraria for lectures or assistance for congress travel from the following companies in relation to antibiotics they manufacture or market: Abbott, Merck, Aspen-GSK, Pfizer, Cipla, Astra-Zeneca and Sanofi-Aventis. Other authors: no disclosure.
1. Brink AJ, Feldman C, Richards GA, et al Emergence of extensive drug resistance (XDR) among Gram-negative bacilli in South Africa looms nearer. S Afr Med J 2008;98:586-592. [ Links ]
2. Nordmann P, Naas T, Poirel L. Global spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Emerg Infect Dis 2011;17:1791-1798. [http://doi.org/10.3201/eid1710.110655] [ Links ]
3. Gupta N, Lumbago BM, Patel JB, et al Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: Epidemiology and prevention. Clin Infect Dis 2011;53:60-67. [http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cir202] [ Links ]
4. Brink AJ, Coetzee J, Clay C, et al. Emergence of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1) and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC-2) in South Africa. J Clin Microbiol 2012;50:525-527. [http://doiorg/10.1128/JCM.05956-11] [ Links ]
5. Kontopoulou K, Protonotariou E, Vasilakos K, et al Hospital outbreak caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC-2 â-lactamase resistant to colistin J Hosp Infect 2010;76:70-73. [http://dolorg/10.1016/j.jhin.2010.03.021] [ Links ]
6. Zarkotou O, Pournaras S, Voulgari E, et al Risk factors and outcomes associated with acquisition of colistin-resistant KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae: a matched case-control study. J Clin Microbiol 2010;48:2271-2274. [http://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02301-09] [ Links ]
7. Brink AJ, Botha RF, Poswa X, et al Antimicrobial susceptibility of Gram-negative pathogens isolated from patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections in South African hospitals (SMART Study 2004 - 2009): Impact of the new carbapenem breakpoints. Surg Infect 2012;13:1-7. [http://doi.org/10.1089/sur.2011.074] [ Links ]
8. Bamford C, Bonorchis K, Ryan A, et al. Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of selected bacteraemic isolates from South African public sector hospitals, 2010. Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection 2011;26:243-250. [ Links ]
9. Kritsotakis EI, Tsioutis C, Roumbelaki M, et al. Antibiotic use and the risk of carbapenem-resistant extended-spectrum-P-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infection in hospitalized patients: results of a double case-control study. J Antimicrob Chemother 2011;66:1383-1391. [http://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkr116] [ Links ]
10. Won SY, Munoz-Price LS, Lolans K, et al Emergence and rapid regional spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Clin Infect Dis 2011;53:532-540. [http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cir482] [ Links ]
11. Patel N, Harrington S, Dihmess A, et al Clinical epidemiology of carbapenem-intermediate or -resistant Enterobacteriaceae. J Antimicrob Chemother 2011;66:1600-1608. [http://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkr156] [ Links ]
12. Hirsch EB, Tam VH. Detection and treatment options for Klebsiella pneumonia carbapenemases (KPCs): an emerging cause of multidrug-resistant infection. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010;65:1119-1125. [http://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkq108] [ Links ]
13. Roberts JA, Kruger P, Paterson DL, et al Antibiotic resistance - what's dosing got to do with it? Crit Care Med 2008;36:2433-2440. [ Links ]
14. Imberti R, Cusato M, Villani P, et al. Steady state pharmacokinetics and BAL concentration of colistin in critically ill patients after IV colistin methanesulfonate administration. Chest 2010;138:1333-1339. [ Links ]
15. Best Care ... Always! www.bestcare.org.za (accessed 17 February 2012). [ Links ]
Accepted 8 March 2012.
Corresponding author: A J Brink (email@example.com)


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Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
About the WorkComposer: Johannes Brahms
© Richard Freed
Brahms began work on his Second Symphony in the summer of 1877 and completed the score in time for Hans Richter to introduce the work with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on December 30 of that year. Hans Kindler conducted the National Symphony Orchestra's first performance of this work, on March 1, 1934; the most recent ones, on November 29-30 and December 1, were conducted by St?phane Den?ve.
The orchestra specified in the score comprises flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons in pairs; 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings. Duration, 40 minutes.
After working off-and-on for some twenty years to produce what eventually became his First Symphony in 1876, Brahms was so heartened by the huge success of that work that he was able to compose his Second swiftly and almost effortlessly in the following year. Where the First had been laboriously hewn from granite, the Second seemed to bloom as spontaneously as a spring blossom in a forest glade. Its genial, outgoing character, among other factors, sets it apart from Brahms's three other symphonies; this is the one understandably regarded as his "pastoral" symphony, and it is surely the most directly endearing of the four.
Brahms tried to conceal this geniality from the Viennese public up to the time of the work's premiere, even remarking that he ought to wear a crape armband "in deference to the solemn and mournful nature of my latest child." While some musical analysts have taken him at his world and have gone to great lengths to show the Second as a "tragic" symphony (the conductor Artur Rodzinski was one who felt "great tragedy" in this music), the very opening of the work assures us that he was only having one of his little jokes, for it establishes at once an ingratiatingly pastoral mood. The radiant second theme is one of Brahms's characteristic outpourings of warm contentment, reminiscent of his beloved "Cradle Song" and the Waltz in A-flat for piano. The first theme is subjected to fugal treatment in the development; new motifs spun off by variations in the rhythm are hailed and dismissed by clipped comments from the brass, and after its vigorous course has been run the movement ends even more tenderly than it began.
The serious mood of the second movement has been cited in support of the "tragic" interpretation of the Symphony, but "solemn" and "meditative"?terms that do characterize this music?are hardly synonyms for "tragic." There is a certain melancholy vein here, which deepens with the appearance of the hymnlike second theme, but it is only in the second half of the movement that the basic tranquility is disturbed briefly by a passing storm?and storms, by long established tradition, are hardly out of place in "pastoral" works.
This basic element is emphasized on a simpler level in the third movement, a bucolic intermezzo of almost na?ve charm and intimacy. The scoring is lighter here than in the rest of the work, and the unexpectedly animated middle section serves to heighten the ingratiating effect of the easygoing Allegretto that enwraps it. At the work's premiere, the delighted Viennese audience demanded and got a repetition of this movement.
Following the energetic but consciously restrained opening of the final movement, its first theme is restated in an exultant orchestral outburst and then, the way cleared by the good-naturedly crackling and snarling winds, the broad second theme makes its entrance in lambent sunset colors. The music builds confidently to the invigorating coda in which the second theme is transformed into a blazing fanfare, ending the symphony on a note of sheer exhilaration virtually unparalleled among Brahms's major works. The conclusions of his First and Fourth symphonies are monumental, that of the Third touchingly elegiac; that of the Second simply abounds in joy.
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Scott Brown was clearly out to make a fast buck
Scott Brown might have attracted less scrutiny by taking a seat on the board of tobacco giant Philip Morris than by getting in bed with a penny stock company.
Did he not watch "The Wolf of Wall Street"?
Brown resigned abruptly Wednesday from the advisory board of Global Digital Solutions Inc., days after a Globe story exposed how he lent his name to an outfit with no products or revenue. For this, our former Massachusetts senator got stock that at one time was worth $1.3 million.
Penny stocks are notorious for luring investors with the thrill of get-rich-quick schemes. Just last month the SEC issued a warning about them. But you don't have to be Warren Buffett to figure out these are high-risk ventures often operated by sketchy characters.
I don't know if Global Digital, a beauty-supply company turned firearms maker, is the next Google or Enron, but people of New Hampshire, you deserve a senator with more common sense than this.
What should also infuriate you is that he wants your vote, but refuses to explain how or why he got involved with Global Digital. In fact, you won't know for months how he has been making his living since a certain Harvard professor ran him out of Massachusetts. That's because Brown has delayed releasing his financial disclosure forms until August. Maybe he's made so much money in the private sector that he's afraid some opponent will call him an elitist hypocrite.
What is he afraid of? Is he protecting the people who got him this unsavory gig? You don't get called out of the blue to serve on a corporate board; it's who you know. And somebody knew somebody to get Brown to sit pretty for Wall Street.
If you take a look at the board and officers of Global Digital, there appear to be plenty of connections between the West Palm Beach, Fla., firm and Massachusetts.
Let's start at the top with chief executive Dick Sullivan and the firm's future president, Jennifer Carroll. Sullivan is from around here, talks like many of us, and up until his divorce, summered at a $2.6 million Buzzards Bay compound. He is also an entrepreneur in residence with Accretive Exit Partners, a Boston company that finances mid-stage private companies.
Carroll is the former Florida lieutenant governor who was forced to resign last spring after a charity scandal. She was also a Mitt Romney cheerleader, serving as a national co-chair of his Black Leadership Council during his presidential bid in 2012.
A month after leaving office, she joined Global Digital as a senior adviser, and Brown came along that fall. Tom Janes, a Romney fund-raiser and Boston private equity guy, joined the advisory board last month.
Brown and Romney are not the closest of political allies, even though you'd think all Massachusetts Republicans would stick together to help stave off extinction. But they have had campaign staffers in common, including ones that helped engineer Brown's victory over Martha Coakley in 2010.
The more I think about it, the only logical way Brown would have gotten involved with this penny stock is if he had been introduced by a guy who co-founded Bain Capital and went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars making bets on Wall Street. But, I am told, Romney did no such thing.
So let's assume Brown got into this mess all on his own. I guess this is what happens when he is left to think for himself. You can even make the argument that he's the political version of a penny stock with his get-elected-quick schemes that come complete with barncoat and truck, or a Hail Mary move to New Hampshire.
It's one thing for rappers (50 Cent), celebrities (Carmen Electra) and athletes (Shaquille O'Neal) to pump penny stocks; it's another when we are talking about a once and — perhaps — future senator.
"Any politician that would join the board of a penny stock company is showing signs of great naivete," said Clem Chambers, whose British company runs InvestorsHub, a giant online forum for penny stocks. "It's a serious lapse of personal judgment."
Brown was clearly out to make a fast buck, trading on his credentials and hoping investors would buy low and sell high. Now it's time for voters to beware.
Shirley Leung is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @leung.


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The American people have just endured a months-long bipartisan battering with words, as politicians and talking heads from both parties insist that they "take their medicine" by enduring severe austerity cuts. Against all evidence, they were told that this would be good for the economy. This illogical argument only has credence because Washington's filled with followers of a free-market religion whose deity is the Market, whose Oracle is the stock exchange, and whose clergy includes bishops named Greenspan, Geithner, Rubin, and Rivlin.
But if Democrats are true believers, Republicans are this religion's fundamentalists. All they need to do is repeat the sacred phrase "Tax cuts produce jobs!" and the whole congregation forms into ranks, prepared to do battle.
Believers in the One True Market believe that their Deity can only be propitiated when they sacrifice the sick, the elderly, and the poor. This lowers government expenditure and reduces political pressure to make the rich and powerful pay their fair share. We're told that this sort of sacrifice reassures the wealthy. These minor deities will then invest and create new jobs, which is why they're given the ritual title of "Job Creator" or "Wealth Creator."
The believers tell us that once these sacrifices are made, money will flow downward like manna from heaven. There's even an obscure mantra called Ricardian Equivalence that explains this esoteric mystery, although debunking it thoroughly (as apostate members of the clergy like De Long and Krugman have done) doesn't discourage the True Believers.
Here's what should discourage them. The all-seeing and all-knowing Stock Exchange, that Delphic Oracle of their cult, has looked upon their handiwork … and frowned. (Or maybe it upchucked. Whatever it did today, it certainly wasn't happy.) No sooner did the President and Speaker Boehner announce their agreement than the stock market fell dramatically. The S&P 500 fell by 2.6% to its lowest point of the year. The Dow fell 2.2%, and Nasdaq dropped 2.8%.
Why does the Lord of the Economy punish its followers so? What has displeased It? For one thing, new economic data came out today and it was terrible. This should come as no surprise to anyone who isn't caught up in the Free Market cult, but the True Believers seem to have been caught off guard.
Consumer spending is down, which is one big reason for today's battering. And why wouldn't it be down? Wages are stagnant, the long-term unemployed can't find work, and people are fearful for the future. A new report showed that U.S. manufacturing growth is flatlining. And is there any cause for optimism on the unemployment front?
As economists like to say: Girlfriend, please!
Another reason for the stock market plunge was the continued threat of a downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating. That's likely to come, if it comes, from organizations which are amusingly described as credit ratings "agencies." They're actually for-profit companies whose decision-making process was shown to be corrupt and intellectually degraded during the run-up to the last financial crisis. Their behavior in the past several months has been equally erratic and obscure. If free-marketism is a religion, they're its corrupt medieval popes, selling their ratings like indulgences while looting the princes' treasuries and lusting after their wives and children.
What will the "agencies" decide to do? If history's a predictor, they'll do whatever their cash-paying client base tells them. Worship of Profit is an individual as well as a collective exercise. But it's the agencies' unpredictability, not the possibility of further regulation, that's making the private sector nervous.
Now, we're not saying that the stock market really is an Oracle. Or if it is it's like the one in the temple at Delphi. There, some researchers believe, the "prophecies" of its priests and priestesses were actually inspired by a hallucinogenic gas seeping up from the ground. Personally, I think of the stock market as a collective agreement about reality that's constantly being changed and updated by real and imagined information, as well as by hopes, fears, misconceptions, and greed. (And, like the temple at Delphi, by the occasional mind-altering substance.) But whatever you think it is, it sure wasn't impressed with yesterday's deal.
Joe Wiesenthal helpfully (if not cheerfully) points out that today marks the eighth day in a row that the stock market has been down, a serial drubbing that we haven't seen since the bleakest days of the crisis in October 2008. It's time to ask our oracle: Why so glum, chum?
Because yesterday's deal is an assault on the economy. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that it will cost the economy 1.8 million jobs and increase the unemployment rate by 0.6% in 2012 alone, while ending unemployment benefits that are currently being received by 3.8 million people. That's going to hurt … a lot. Unemployed people spend most of the money they receive, which means it stimulates the economy. That's also true of lower-income people, who will be hurt by this deal, and of the elderly, who are likely to be hurt in the next round.
This kind of misguided parsimony doesn't just harm the overall economy. Ironically, it also makes it harder to reduce deficits over the long run. Even a consensual hallucination like the stock market can figure that out. Today's results should put fear in the hearts of the free-market radicals. It's telling them to expect a mighty smiting from a great Invisible Hand.
Like deities in all religions, the Lord of the Market is trying to tell its followers to be kinder to the elderly, the sick, and the poor. It's trying to explain that one is never enriched by taking, only by giving. And in a very literal sense, it's trying to tell the flock that "as you do to the least of these, you do to Me."
But like the extremists of all religions, the True Believers refuse to listen.


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As of now, 3 US members in the Top 10!
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Offense Prevails in Red/White Scrimmage
Lincoln – I-back Imani Cross rushed for 100 yards and two scores, while Nebraska's four quarterbacks combined for 356 yards and three touchdowns, as the Red team won the annual Red/White Spring Game with a 55-46 victory Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.
The game featured a modified scoring system with points for both offensive and defensive plays, as the top units faced off against each other during the contest played in front of 61,772 fans.
Fans can watch the Red/White Spring Game tonight on BTN at 7 p.m. (CT) and statewide on NET Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
Cross, who played only the first half, needed just six carries to reach the 100-yard mark, scoring on runs of 20 and 39 yards. While All-America I-back Ameer Abdullah saw limited action, Jordan Nelson and Terrell Newby rushed for 54 and 51 yards, respectively.
Johnny Stanton and Ryker Fyfe continued their battle for the No. 2 spot behind Tommy Armstrong, as the duo combined to go 17-of-24 for 224 yards and three scores. Stanton completed 8-of-12 passes for 135 yards, including scoring strikes to Kevin Gladney (48 yards) and Jamal Turner (25 yards), while Fyfe completed 9-of-12 passes for 89 yards, including a five-yard pass to Taariq Allen.
The White team (defense) jumped out to an early 7-0 lead on the first offensive series, as Nate Gerry intercepted an Armstrong pass. The Red squad came right back on its next possession, going 70 yards in 11 plays, capped by a five-yard pass from Fyfe to Allen.
The White team regained the lead with three straight defensive stops to take a 12-8 lead, but the Red team (offense) marched 70 yards in seven plays, including a 20-yard catch by Kenny Bell, before Cross raced into the end zone for his first score of the day to end the first quarter with the Red team leading 17-13.
After an interception by Anthony Ridder gave the White team a seven-point lead, Cross took over, as the 6-foot-1, 230-pound I-back keyed a three-play scoring drive with an 18-yard run before his 39-yard scamper to paydirt provided the Reds with a 25-20 lead. Two possessions later, the Reds extended their lead to 34-21, as Stanton found Gladney for a 58-yard TD pass on the final play of the half.
The Whites pulled within 34-24 after a three-and-out fueled by a Greg McMullen sack, but the Reds answered by going 70 yards on eight plays, as Stanton completed four straight passes, including a 25-yarder to Turner to make it 41-24. The Reds put the game out of reach later in the quarter as Newby capped an 11-play drive with a one-yard TD run.
The fourth quarter was highlighted by the defense, which outscored the offense, 15-3, including an interception by Josh Bandaras and a sacks by Marcus Newby and Logan Rath.
On the day, the Blackshirts had six sacks and three interceptions, as redshirt freshman Erik Evans had a game-high nine tackles, including two for losses, while defensive end Jack Gangwash added eight stops, including a sack.
The Huskers begin their 125th season of football on Saturday, Aug. 30, as Nebraska hosts Florida Atlantic in the season opener at Memorial Stadium. Kickoff time and television information will be announced later this spring, but the game will be carried across the state on the IMG Husker Sports Radio Network.