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Dr. Wendell Bowers packs rooms by talking about buying machinery. This author and retired professor of agricultural engineering, Oklahoma State University, says the biggest mistake farmers can make is to trade too early. On the other hand, keeping a machine too long can increase cost per acre due to downtime, obsolescence or lack of capacity, he says.
If he can accomplish one goal, it's to get farmers to think about the costs involved in owning equipment. "With the high cost of equipment, you can't go by the shiny paint, sticker price or what your neighbor is doing," he says. "It's better to make your machinery investment decisions based on a projected net unit cost per acre."
Recently Bowers spoke to 150 farmers at the Ag Tech conference in Des Moines, IA, sponsored by Farm Industry News. At the meeting, he handed out two 3-x5-in. index cards and gave the farmers two assignments: identify anything in the presentation that would help you in your business, and rate the value of the net unit cost method as it would apply to your business.
The topic at the top of the farmers' list? Leasing vs. owning a 225-hp tractor. "Almost always you can beat the leased cost by owning a machine at least four years," Bowers says. That's because your cost per acre drops with each year of ownership. But you could have limited finances or other special circumstances in which leasing would be the better option.
In response to the second topic, 80% of farmers said the unit cost method would be very valuable to their business. How far are farmers in adopting this method? "Very early," Bowers says. The fact is, many farmers today make machinery purchases solely on instinct. That can be dangerous considering machinery is a farmer's single biggest input cost, other than land. One wrong decision can have a staggering effect on a farmer's bottom line.
Method to the madness. The reason instinct drives machinery buying is that the decision is so complicated, explains agricultural economist Dr. Terry Kastens, Kansas State University. It involves income tax brackets, producer price indexes, depreciation (the amount of market value lost each year due to wear and obsolescence) and other costs farmers must factor in.
"So, what farmers often do is make the decision intuitively from viewing their neighbors and personal experience over the years," Kastens says. What he hopes to do is mix in a little math so farmers can make the decision more objectively.
The good news is there are books and software that can help you do that. Some are available free of charge through your local extension office. Kastens, for example, has written a booklet titled Farm Machinery Operation Cost Calculations. Bowers has authored a book and companion software titled Machinery Replacement Strategies. The guides walk you through formulas to calculate the costs of owning and operating farm machinery. Costs include the "DIRTI 5" (Depreciation, Interest, Repair costs, Taxes and Insurance), timeliness cost (the crop loss incurred from an operation not being performed on time), machinery list price, hours used, fuel and lubricant costs, storage and labor costs.
Once you've added up the costs, divide them by the number of acres you farm to arrive at a net unit cost per acre. If you're looking to buy, do these calculations twice: first to figure the costs to repair and keep your old machine, and second to figure costs for a new machine.
Timing your trade-in. Bowers recommends you project a machine's unit cost per acre for as many years as you expect to own it, stretching it as far as eight years out. That's because most farmers are on an eight-year tax depreciation schedule, called the 150% Modified Accelerators Cost Recovery System (MACRS).
Take your first critical look at costs after the fourth year, he says. By then you will have written off the majority (57%) of tax deductions allowable under the schedule. "I'm not saying trade every four years," Bowers says. "But your tax write-off will be less after the first four years, so you need to evaluate at that time whether it is your best cost advantage to continue owning it."
The next critical time to evaluate equipment cost is at five years. By that time, it's likely you have paid off a loan, which, in turn, affects cost per acre. Take your third critical look at eight years, when you will have used all of your allowable tax deduction. You'll also need to look closely at downtime and repair costs.
Bowers says these timeframes apply mainly to major pieces of equipment with high annual use, such as tractors, combines, planters, forage harvesters and large balers. If you farm around 1,500 to 2,000 acres, your equipment has high annual use. The timeframes won't apply to everyone, but they are a good rule of thumb.
Weighing the costs. Projecting unit costs per acre will help reveal which option - repairing and keeping your old machine or trading for new - is better. To illustrate, Bowers shows how ownership costs change for a $190,000 combine over 10 years at three acreage sizes (see line chart). Look at the line that corresponds most closely to your farm size to see how the costs might play out for you. The biggest cost break occurs at four years on all three farm sizes. The next break comes at six years, and then costs start to level.
"If I were the 2,000-acre farmer, six years is the longest I'd keep the combine because even though costs continue to drop, the reliability and timeliness factors may begin to outweigh the savings," Bowers says. On the other two farms, he would trade no later than eight years. To extend life beyond four years, you need to follow a good preventive maintenance and preseason service program to maintain reliability.
That's one example of how costs change. In general, when you own a machine, you have to consider it will continue to depreciate; that is, it will be worth less every year and every hour of use, explains Dr. Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, agricultural economist, Purdue University. That's a cost, he says. Your older machine also will likely have higher repair costs than a new one. Those have to be weighed against the costs that would be incurred in doing the same job with new equipment, he says.
When you buy a new machine, two costs will go up: depreciation and interest, explains Kansas State's Kastens. That's because its value will be higher than the machine you traded in. You need to weigh those costs against the reduction in repairs likely with a new machine, the increased timeliness due to fewer breakdowns, and increased capacity if the machine you buy is larger. So what's the bottom line? Kastens explains: "If the potential rise in depreciation and interest costs with a new machine is less than the potential rise in repairs and timeliness costs with the older machine, then you'd be better off trading."
Tricks of the trade. There are things you can do to tip the scale when projecting cost calculations. For instance, if you want to minimize the costs of your old machine, you can schedule a preventive maintenance inspection every 1,000 hours for a tractor and every 600 hours for combines, advises Jim Beal, co-owner of Taking Care of Business, a dealer consulting service.
Beal says preventive inspections at these intervals can significantly reduce your repair costs, which would otherwise run, on average, $2,400 for out-of-warranty tractors and $3,600 for out-of-warranty combines in between inspections. "A dollar of preventive maintenance is the equivalent of $2 of repair maintenance," Beal says. The inspection performed by your dealer costs around $300 and will reveal which parts need to be replaced and which ones will go another season. If your equipment is well maintained, you'll also have fewer breakdowns. That, in turn, leads to lower timeliness costs. Downtime is most expensive while planting corn because you have limited days to get the crop in according to Lowenberg-DeBoer. "Every hour in downtime during planting may cost easily from $300 to $500 in lost yields," he says.
On the flip side, you can help justify the cost of a new purchase by leveraging tax breaks, dealer discounts and deferred interest. Another way is by consolidating. For example, you could trade two smaller tractors for one bigger and lower your labor and net cost of use by putting more hours on it, Bowers says. That requires you buy enough horsepower to till and plant in a timely fashion.
Avoid buyer's remorse. Bowers' book helps you estimate timeliness costs, since they need to be projected in your comparative analysis. At his workshop in Des Moines, this was the second biggest topic of interest to farmers. "Apparently, many of them had not tied any figures to what they had always worried about, and that is getting things done on time," he says.
You can take a huge bite out of timeliness costs from the start when it comes time to trade. How? By making sure you buy enough capacity to finish the operation within the optimum window of time. The window is typically 10 calendar days for planting and 21 days for harvest. The windows vary by region, as Purdue's Lowenberg-DeBoer learned firsthand. He grew up in western Iowa where he says the window for planting and harvesting is much wider than it is in the eastern Corn Belt. "So when I got to Indiana, I thought these farmers were enormously overequipped because the equipment they had on, say, a 600-acre farm would be good for double that size in western Iowa."
But, he discovered, because of the higher rainfall and clay content in the soils, farmers in Indiana need bigger equipment to finish on time. "So, what is overequipped in one place is not overequipped in another." He says the size of machinery you select also depends on weather conditions, soils and your risk attitude. "How much are you willing to push that envelope and take the risk that in a particularly wet year you're not going to have the capacity needed to get done?" To be safe, Bowers recommends you overcompensate by buying equipment up to 25% larger than what you think you need. "The worst thing you can do is buy or trade for a new combine or planter and find out two or three years later that you should have gotten one bigger," Bowers says. "Now that's expensive. It forces you to trade much too early."
For a free copy of Kastens' Farm Machinery Operation Cost Calculations, contact the Department of Agricultural Economics-Extension, Dept. FIN, 304 F Waters Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, 785/532-5866 or circle 249.
To order Bowers' book and software, Machinery Replacement Strategies, contact John Deere Publishing, Dept. FIN, John Deere Rd., Moline, IL 61265-8098, 800/522-7448 or circle 250.
For information on preventive maintenance, contact Taking Care of Business, Dept. FIN, Box 38, Allenspark, CO 80510, 303/747-0447 or circle 251.


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Addressing invitations to the all-college banquet, to be held in the
Leamington hotel May 18, is Sharon Dickau, co-chairman.
College Banquet
Culminates Year
Seminary Fetes
Graduating Men
At May Banquet
"Assist Me to Proclaim" is the
theme of the annual seminary
banquet to be held at Captain's
Cove restaurant in Apache Plaza
tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.
Rev. Glenn Anderson of Edina
Baptist church will be the main
speaker, and Dr. Clarence Bass
will serve as master of ceremon-ies.
Two basic ways of spreading
the Gospel are preaching and
living the Word. The second,
that of daily personal witness-ing,
is the basic topic of the
Special entertainment will be
provided by Ron Veenker, who will
present a comedy monologue. Mu-sic
will be provided by the col-lege
choir trio composed of Donna
Swanson, Sharon Olson and Pat
This program is sponsored by
the junior and miJdler classes of
the seminary in honor of the sen-ior
Church Donates
New Light Unit
For Fieldhouse
Bethel is now the owner of a
light dimming unit for the field-house
due to the efforts of Mr.
Clifford Schmitt, the Grace Bap-tist
church and the Superior Elec-tric
company, all of Bristol, Coma.
The unit contains four variable
transformers, each capable of con-trolling
250 watt lighting boards,
and is valued at $725.
After observing the difficult-ies
that the electricians faced
prior to the Festival of Christ-mas,
Bob Carlson, seminary stu-dent,
voiced this need at the
Grace Baptist church. A short
time before, Clifford Schmitt,
engineer for the Superior Elec-tric
company had received a dis-carded
dimmer from the corn-pany
laboratory and had given
it to the church.
The church, on hearing of
Bethel's need, offered the dimmer
to the school if Bethel would ab-sorb
the freight charges.
The dimmer will be used for
dimming house lights, large spot-lights
and large banks of colored
lights, and will make a long-needed
addition to the ten smaller units
obtained from the same company
eight years ago.
Court Honors
Top Students
The annual court of honor, spon-sored
by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce of St. Paul, will honor
six of the top academic seniors
from each of six colleges in St.
Paul May 21.
Bethel students attending the
court of honor are Marilyn Benson,
Paul Edwin Carlson, Richard Mc-
Namara, Ellen McNaughton, Ste-phen
Peterson, and Marjorie Sten-strom.
Speaking at the banquet, to be
held at the St. Paul Hotel, is
President Wilson of the Univer-sity
of Minnesota.
Schools participating in this pro-gram
are Concordia, Hamline, Mac-alester,
St. Catherine, St. Thomas
and Bethel.
Parallel programs will be pre-sented
May 18 and 25 during
chapel, as students receive awards
for outstanding contributions in
co-curricular activities and honor
for academic achievement.
Students who have made sig-nificant
contributions to campus
life in athletics, music, publica-tions,
Christian service, debate and
student government, totaling ap-proximately
125 or 130 students,
Bethel Program
Introduces New
Medical technology training for
work in hospital laboratories and
similar institutions is being intro-duced
to the Bethel program next
The program consists of three
years of study at Bethel with con-centrated
work in chemistry and
biology, and 12 months of study
in the medical laboratories which
Midway Hospital is now setting up.
Upon completion of the re-quirements,
the student receives
a B.A. degree in natural science
from Bethel college, plus official
certification as a medical tech-nologist.
Expected enrollment in this pro-gram
is five or six students per
year. Midway Hospital hopes to
take the first class by 1964.
The new hospital training facili-ties
are being established in con-nection
with the new medical
will be honored May 18 at the an-nual
Awards day. In most cases,
an award signifies participation in
an activity for several years.
Recipients are chosen by the
faculty advisors of these or-ganizations
on the basis of the
quality of the students' contri-bution
and the length of time
of participation within the or-ganization.
Five basic awards are given. The
highest award is composed of a
set of book ends received by the
president of the senate and the
editors of the SPIRE and CLAR-ION.
In descending order of im-portance
are paper weights, letter
holders, and gold and silver pin
Approximate estimates for the
number of awards given to each
group are music, 40; athletics, 30;
publications, 30; Christian service,
12; student senate, 12; and debate,
According to Mr. Eugene
Sprinkel, assistant dean of stu-dents,
these awards are not only
to honor students, but also to
encourage others to consider the
opportunities for personal
growth and creative expression
offered by the various activities.
Honors Day, a formal academic
program characterized by a for-mal
academic processional of fac-ulty
members and honor students
will be held May 25. At this time
all endowed or specially designat-ed
scholarships, representing over
2,000 dollars, will be awarded. Also
announced at this program are the
candidates for honor scholarships.
Paul Edwin Carlson of Cam-bridge,
Minnesota, and George
Dvirnak of Killdeer, North Dakota,
valedictorians of the graduating
Yellow roses complemented by
yellow and green decorations will
accent the second annual all-col-lege
banquet to be held in the
Hall of Cities at the Leamington
hotel in Minneapolis at 6:30 p.m.
on Friday, May 18.
Featured entertainment will be
the Minneapolis Choralaires, who
will perform two groups of light
classical music under the direction,
of Robert Mantzke, a former Bethel
This group has won many a-wards
in the Minneapolis Aqua-tennial
and the Chicagoland Mu-sic
festival, and toured Europe
in 1952, 1955, and 1961.
During the 1961 tour, the Choral-aires
competed with choruses from
22 countries and captured first
place. This was the first U.S.
choral group to win the contest.
Miss Effie Nelson, dean of wo-men,
will be toastmistress of the
program, which will include the
presentation of the SPIRE with an
acknowledgement of the person to
whom it has been dedicated.
Seniors will be toasted and
will give a response. Bethel stu-dents
elected to "Who's Who in
American Colleges and Universi-ties"
will also be recognized.
The evening will close with re-marks
from selected faculty, stu-dent
members, and President
college and seminary classes re-spectively,
will each give a brief
Marilyn Benson of Bigelow,
Minnesota, college salutatorian,
will read Scripture, while Ron
Rietveld of Des Moines, Iowa,
seminary salutatorian, will lead
in prayer. President Lundquist
will make a few brief remarks.
Presentation of class gifts by the
presidents of the senior classes of
the college and seminary will also
be made at this time.
Picnic To Tour
New Campus
The new campus will be the
scene of the all-school picnic Sat-urday,
May 12. The picnic, spon-sored
by the social council, fea-tures
a tour of the site of the new
No evening meal will be served
in the cafeteria, and students plan-ning
to attend the picnic must
sign up on lists posted in the cof-fee
Busses will leave for the pic-nic
at 4:30 p.m., and will park
on Hamline avenue. Students
will hike to the picnic site on the
hills overlooking the lake. After
the meal, a short informal pro-gram
is planned.
Students driving to the picnic
are asked to park their cars off
the grounds.
Because of explosives not yet re-moved
from the property by the
Dupont company, students are re-quested
to refrain from building
fires or entering buildings on the
The all-college banquet was
established last year to provide an
occasion for presentation of a-wards,
distribution of the annual,
and the bringing together of fam-iliar
year-end activities for stu-dents,
faculty and staff.
Tickets for the banquet have
been included in the inclusive
fee. Reservations may be made
by picking up tickets on May 10,
11, and 14-16.
These tickets may be secured in
the dining hall for those on the
meal plan, and others may be ob-tained
in the coffee shop. Faculty
and staff may purchase their tick-ets
in the coffee shop at three dol-lars
The social council is the student
sponsor for this event, with Sharon
Dickau and Annette Larson as co-chairmen.
Six hundred persons attended
last year's banquet, and an equal
number is expected this year.
College Reveals
Class Changes
New 'Cut' Policy
Several changes in curriculum
are planned in Bethel's Christian.
ity, English, music and mathemat-ics
Two courses being added in the
Christianity department to replace
Expansion of Christianity are Mo-dern
Christianity Movements and
Christianity in America.
The entire freshman English
course is being reconstructed
next year. There will be more
materials regarding the history
of the English language, with
use being made of special lec-tures
and writing labs. The plan-ned
emphasis for the first is in
rhetoric, while the second will
spotlight literature.
A new course for non-music
majors, Fundamentals of Music,
will be added to the music depart-ment.
This course is to benefit
those persons who want a more
technical introduction into music
forms and to serve as a basic
course for those persons in an ele-mentary
education program.
The new course in the mathe-matics
department is called Ele-ments
of Mathematics, and will
present a general view of math and
its place in society. This course
may be chosen as a physical sci-ience
elective to fulfill the natural
science requirement.
In all departments the present
"cut" system will be replaced with
full student responsibility for class
attendance to the satsifaction of
the instructor.
The Navy information team
will be on campus tomorrow to
inform all interested senior men
of the opportunities available in
Naval officer training.
Persons interested in learning
more about either of these pro-grams
may inquire of the offi-cer
team located in the student
Further information may be
obtained by writing to the Of-ficer
Programs officer, U.S. Navy
recruiting station, Federal office
building, Minneapolis, Minne-sota.
the CLARION
Volume XXXVIII—No. 14 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, May 10, 1962
Students Receive Awards for Activites,
Win Honors for Academic Achievement
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the CLARION Thursday, May 10, 1962 Easter in Holy Land Evokes
Senate Shows Contrasts Attitudes of Worship, Praise
In CLARION Evaluation
The student senate, governing body of the Bethel student associa-tion,
has this year provided an interesting study in contrasts. While
sponsoring a fairly complete program of extra-curricular activities, it
has nevertheless shown a lack of imagination in the initiation of new
programs. And although an effort was made to substitute discussion
periods for business sessions, the attempt only proved the group to be
ineffectual in the presentation of any practical solutions.
CRITICISMS tions on issues of both national import-
The senate tried to formulate resolu-ance
and general campus interest. How-ever,
the senators appeared reluctant to commit themselves to specific
stands on the issues and often failed to express even general thoughts
on the subjects. Apparently this did not bother the senators, for in they
rediscussion of tabled motions, the "debates" remained just as unin-formed
and non-committal as they were originally.
It is encouraging to note, however, a gradual reversal of the
senate's self-imposed policy to isolationsm. The recent regional
NSA convention on campus and the proposed fall regional AAES
convention indicate an increased awareness of the responsibilities
which Bethel should be assuming in national student organizations.
A perennial problem of the student senate is the overburdening of
the executive board. This year's outstanding example is the publications
board fiasco; the senate, unable to decide on student personnel for the
board, added this duty to the executive cabinet's growing list of respon-sibilities.
Although the administration appointed the faculty members
immediately, the student representatives remain unnamed, and the
CLARION is currently being published by an unrecognized staff.
Prevalent again this year are difficulties with budget enforcement.
To help alleviate the customary frantic end-of-the-year juggling, the
senate should strive for a more realtistic and thoughtful original esti-mation
of expenses and incomes, and then should continually appraise
the financial structure of each committee.
COMMITTEES academic committee has proved a
In its initial year of operation, the
valuable addition to campus life
through its forums, its preliminary honor system studies, and its spon-sorship
of political emphasis week. The regrettable omission of emphasis
on international affairs might be rectified through weekly informal lun-cheons
or coffee hours or through a special world affairs bulletin board.
It would be most interesting to invite foreign students from other schools
for informal discussion concerning their countries, their political and
economic views, and their religious philosophies.
Although the athletic committee has maintained its status quo, the
program it sponsored was well-planned and well-executed. However, as
the athletic department assumes more control of the intramural pro-gram,
this committee should seek additional areas of service, such as
increasing spectator involvement in spring sports and resurrecting
school spirit.
The program sponsored by the cultural committee has been
varied and enjoyable. It is unfortunate that inadequate promotion
of the Schubert club series resulted in poor student response and a
deficit in the committee's budget. A worthwhile project for this
committee would be the sponsorship of several formal concerts
during the year featuring music and drama students. The success
of an earlier program, MOODS, indicates favorable response to
such events.
The sincere concern of the religious committee with the general
spiritual emphasis of the campus has provided a refreshing change
from the attitude of committees of previous years. The magazine rack
in the student center, the forums, and the campus communion services
have all been positive contributions. It would seem desirable to involve
the committee more directly in the planning of religious emphasis
weeks in order to secure more advantageous scheduling for its acti-vities,
and to work for an orientation of Deeper Life week tending
more toward a thoughtful investigation of the Christian experience ra-ther
than what has often been merely a superficial annual rededication.
The social committee has presented an imaginative and well-plan-ned
schedule of events, including the more informal Sno Daze, the
after-game socials, and the dress-up dinners (which might be improved
through the consistent use of entertainment and tablecloths and through
variations in the table arrangements from the current institutional regi-mentation).
The committee might also improve and expand its program
through the co-sponsorship of events with classes.
PROSPECTS president and the student life council
The performance of the new second vice
will be the key factors in the success
of the student senate for the coming year. The vice president must
provide enough imaginative and dynamic leadership to raise his posi-tion
above that of merely a calendar coordinator, and the student life
council must plan together and assume the full responsibilities dele-gated
to it.
For the student senate to become truly effective, its additional
representation must become actively involved in senate special
committee work and must make a conscious effort to voice its
convictions during senate meetings. The senate should strive to
communicate the procedings of its meetings more effectively and to
publicize its programs and activities more widely.
Confronted with the implementation of a new constitution, the stu-dent
senate faces a crucial year with a very inexperienced membership.
However, if the new senate can muster the imagination and intelligence
necessary for effective student government, it can contribute signifi-cantly
to the total campus community.
Editor's Note : The following
is the second article in a series
by Miss Minda Pearson, current-ly
studying at the University of
Easter, the most joyous of
Christian holy days, dawned beau-fully
in the Holy land. For Is-raelis
it was a regular work day,
but for small groups of Christians
throughout the land, it was Easter
Nazareth, the center of Arab-
Christian population, attracted
many tourists, as the Latin (Ro-man)
Catholic churches had spe-cial
festivities. (The Greek Ortho-dox
churches celebrate Easter a
week later.) This city has more
churches than the rest of Israel
by Stephen Peterson
Bethel has produced its first
literary journal. Writing and wait-ing
are over, enjoyment and ap-praisal
have begun.
COEVAL, which can be trans-lated
"contemporary," is composed
of a pleasing assortment of liter-ary
forms and styles. Poetry and
essays are prominent; autobio-graphical
excerpts and academic
monographs also appear. Miss
Erickson's contribution could even
be considered a short short story.
It is unfortunate, however, that
many of the articles do not es-cape
the style of Composition 104
It is necessary, of course, to
understand that COEVAL con-sciously
contains many varieties
of literary expression; the lan-guage
of poetry is not the same
as that of prose. Yet, after ac-counting
for the differences in
written types, the actual quality
of writing is not consistent
throughout the journal.
It is not, however, the forms of
expression in COEVAL that need
seriously be questioned. In true
literature, form and content must
unite in excellence. It is not
enough merely to imitate themes
and ideas traditionally associated
with literature. Literature in its
best sense must be fresh, renew-ing—
coeval. Our journal has all
the themes—love, death, God, des-pair,
beauty—yet by and large the
authors treat these themes in a
rather naive, unenthusiastic man-ner.
One recurring motif is that of for-lornness,
despair. Essay and poem
seem to have been dedicated to
this idea. It is difficult to imagine
Editor's Note : In the April 12
issue of the CLARION, Annette
Larson wrote a critical review
of the April 4-7 national con-vention
of the American Assoc-iation
of Evangelical Students
(AAES). In it, she summarized
the Association's major problem
is "lack of purpose."
Following are portions of a
reply dealing with this criticism
received from Russell C. Ayers,
staff advisor of AAES. Due to
limited space, his answers to
Miss Larson's criticisms of cen-tralization
of power in the or-ganization
and lack of annual
reports at the convention are
not printed here.
For purposes of clarification I
would like to reply to Miss Lar-son's
news article covering the
AAES National Convention. We are
reprinting the article for our mem-ber
schools and prospective mem-bers.
combined, but few worshippers.
Forty thousand pilgrims and
tourists thronged the narrow
stone streets of Old Jerusalem
in Jordan. Father was one of the
thousand Christians who "cross-ed
over" from Israel. On Good
Friday Christians from all over
the world participated in the
Way-of-the-Cross Pilgrimage.
Groups of pilgrims, some carry-ing
crosses, went in procession a-long
the Via Doloroso past the sta-tions
of the cross where each
group gave prayers in its native
tongue. An elaborate ceremony
took place at the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, on the supposed
site of Calvary and the tomb.
Easter morning at the Garden
writing about despair- for the sake
of despair, and yet the authors
have not used their literary in-sights
to give us an indication of
the purpose and direction of their
groping. The second prominent
theme seems to be a rather fright-ened
grasping for a vague, uncle-fined
Both of these repeated themes
reflect a somewhat disparaging
attitude toward that creative, il-luminating
spirit of man which
is so essential to any work of
art. While inspiration may come
from without man, art must
come from within the vital soul
of man, not from despair or
The articles of Mr. Carroll and
Miss Benson seem a welcome balm
amidst forlornness. Mr. Hutchi-son's
"Testimonial" is worthy sat-ire,
although it is directed at a
reasonable conciliation between
the above mentioned themes of
despair and a much-too-small God.
In very good taste, COEVAL
does not confine itself to written
art. The attractive cover and care-ful
selection of worthwhile pictor-ial
art add much to the quality of
the publication. Mrs. Avey's essay
on Indian musical improvisation
brings to our attention audible
A publication such as COEVAL
is necessary to a liberal arts cur-riculum.
Bethel's first journal of
expression by students of both
aesthetic and liberal arts is plea-sant
and well organized. We can
look forward to increased quality
as our student body continues to
mature intellectually and aestheti-cally,
and seeks expressions of
such maturation.
To do so I will quote from the
president's annual report which
was distributed after the conven-tion
"One of the purposes of the
Association is to represent the
views and opinions of the evan-gelical
student in America on a
national level.
"It has been the intention of the
Association to provide stimuli in
matters of political awareness,
academic excellence, and effective
student affairs programming which
would create an aware and con-cerned
student community to rep-resent
to the professional and lay
world. Several items influence this
effort on behalf of a service or-ganization.
"1. The aim of the Association
is to establish communications be-tween
the students on Christian
campuses in America.
"2. These students represent
divergent views, politically, theo-logically,
sociologically. Many
Tomb near Gordon's Calvary, a
thousand people of many denomi-nations
gathered to worship. The
message of Easter hope and the
singing of the blind childrens'
choirs from Bethlehem and Jeru-salem
were the high points of the
sunrise service.
In the old Roman town of Ti-berias
along the shore of Galilee,
a handful of believers gathered
at an early service. The three
oldest Pearson children and the
Lindsey family joined with ten
Europeans in singing Easter
Later that morning in the Scot-tish-
Presbyterian church we wor-shipped
together. Yet part of the
experience was lacking, for all the
things we associate with Easter
were missing.
Both Catholics and Protestants
attended their services, and then
returned home seemingly unaf-fected
by the greatest event in
The feeling we had in Amer-ica
about celebrating an Easter
in the Holy land is different
now. Israel is so engrossed in
present day problems that the
special charm connected with
the Holy land is not here.
As I sat on the shore of the
lovely sea of Galilee, it was hard
to think "this is where Jesus
preached, this is where Peter fish-ed."
While swimming in the Jordan
river, I tried to realize "in this
river Naaman's leprosy was healed,
Jesus Christ was baptized."
And yet, seeing tiny plots of
ground tilled in the manner of
two thousand years ago and an-cient
ruins throughout the land
brings at least a consciousness
that this country was the scene
of the reign of Biblical kings
and the recipient of prophets'
utterances, that here is where
Christ and His disciples minis-tered.
Through the celebration of
Easter in the Holy land, I have
come to understand that the atti-tude
of the heart must be one of
worship and praise—then is the
meaning of Easter real.
"The day of resurrection! Earth
tell it out abroad;
The Passover of Gladness, the
Passover of God."
Christian schools have provincial
and parochial characteristics
which distinguish them from
other Christian schools.
"3. It is therefore deduced that
there will not be a unity of views
to represent. AAES therefore in-tends
to represent the total posi-tion
or representative opinion of
(cont'd. on p. 3)
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Duluth; Larry Peterson, Bethel; Jim Johnson, University of Minnesota;
and Richard Sigwalt, Macalester.
AAES Advisor Defends Delay
In Attempt at Service Program
(cont'd. from p. 2)
the total student community, not
just the majority.
"4. The identification of this
program has been a laborious pro-cess,
in that the staff has desired
to do justice to the opportunity
afforded the student community in
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"a. developing an authentic and
accurate program of tests and
measurements through the coop-eration
of professional sociologists,
educators, psychologists, and aca-demic
administrators, b. initiating
the first tests in the fall of 1962,
c. publishing these results follow-ing
a statistical study and survey
into politics, ethics, and education
as well as other related issues as
the program progresses.
"It is admitted that there has
been delay in the program, but
we feel that it has been justified
by the intention of accuracy and
authenticity, which will not only
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by Sharon Dickau
Bethel's delegation of two which
attended the National Student As-sociation's
spring regional meeting
on Bethel's campus found that
Bethel and NSA are mutually com-patible.
However, Bethel's currently more
aggressive attitude toward the or-ganization
must be further stimu-lated
if the most mutual benefit
is to result.
The regional meeting was con-ducted
in the manner of the NSA
national congress. Student dele-gates
formed legislative commit.
tees on academic affairs, human
relations, international affairs
and student government.
Each legislative committee was
responsible for drawing up bills
relating to its topic, and these bills
were debated and acted upon dur-ing
a legislative plenary in the
late afternoon.
The purpose of passing the leg-islation
is somewhat nebulous. The
stated purpose is to give students
a voice on current issues. Realis-tically,
the value lay in the mental
exercise of drawing up the reso-lutions
and the face-to-face ex-change
of ideas among the people
Value is diffused but still pre-sent
when the resolutions are
sent to member campuses to be-come
part of student senate files;
any further impact of the reso-lutions
on thinking in the world
at large is negligible.
the CLARION Page 3
So, one wonders if NSA actu-ally
believes it is doing a service
to the world. If NSA does believe
this, the organization is amazing-ly
naive. If NSA does realize that
its voice is largely ineffective, why
does it keep up the facade?
When the student senate con-siders
sending delegates to future
,NSA conventions, the type of per-son
chosen should be carefully
considered. NSA is definitely a
political organization and all dele-gates
must appreciate this fact and
be willing and capable of cooper-ating
in the political maneuvering
necessary to obtaining an influen-tial
voice. Delegates dictate the
influence of Bethel on NSA as
well as providing the channel by
which NSA's programs are trans-lated
into ideas usable at Bethel.
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On Tuesday, May 8, the base-ball
team lost a game to River
Falls. The game, played at Dun-ning
field in St. Paul, snapped
a three-game winning streak.
Two of these wins were over
the Stillwater prison team in a
double-header on Friday, May 1.
The next game will be against
Bethany JC at Dunning field on
The tennis team won their
match on Tuesday, beating Con-
-cordia 4-3. Dick Larson, Larry
Peterson, Eddie Carlson won
their singles matches, while Don
Wright and Eddie Carlson in-sured
a team victory by winning
the final doubles match, giving
the tennis team a 2-1 record.
The next track meet is on
Saturday, at Winona.
Bethel Soars
To 33-6 Win
Bemidji college swept a double-header
from our Bethel Royals
baseball squad April 21, 4-1 and
John Holmberg and Kurt Hall-strom
hurled the first game with
Bob Clouse going the distance in
the second. Lyle Anderson, Royal
right fielder, was the star of the
twin bill with three hits, one dou-ble
and two walks in seven appear-ances
at the plate.
Dave Cox, the Bethel captain,
was injured in the first game
when he attempted to play off
a runner stealing second base.
Although he missed the remain-der
of the day's action, he made
the lineup in the next game a-gainst
Northwestern Bible col-lege.
The Royals bounced back on
Thursday, May 3, to win over the
Northwestern Eagles, 33-6. Four
pitchers-John Holmberg, Harold
Erickson, Bob Clouse and Gene
Selander-guided the Royals to
the easy victory.
The pitching staff was aided by
homers from Dave Buck, Don Mc-
Kelvey and Bob Larson. Cox, Mc-
Kelvey and Hallstrom finished the
day with four hits apiece.
Since the Northwestern triumph,
the Bethel squad has lost four
games and won two.
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The opening tennis match against River Falls on April 17 indicates
no less than an exciting season ahead. Three quick singles victories by
Dick Larson, Larry Peterson and Eddie Carlson seemed to begin a short,
sweet afternoon. However, three equally quick defeats in the remaining
singles games left the match in a deadlock.
A victory in the doubles by Larson and Carlson was checked by a
Steve Peterson - Larry Peterson defeat. The match was still tied going
into the last doubles event. Don Wright and John Peterson, who both
failed to win their singles games, saved the afternoon by delivering in
the last match.
Hey look, ma, no players! If you are scanning this page for golf
scores, chances are you've run into a slight problem: no golf team
this year. Actually, a team does exist, but because of certain un-favorable
circumstances (namely, grades and calcium deposits on
the third finger left hand), this team is not officially able to make
the circuit.
Last year's championship team could contribute two top players;
Don Matson and Denny Johnson, not to mention the addition of freshman
Jim "Higgsby" Hultgren who says he's one of the best golfers around .. .
Again I emphasize the fact that this disgustingly impressive array
of golf talent has a greater handicap than their ability indicates. So
great a handicap, in fact, that we won't be seeing them play this spring.
The situation is best stated by coach Jerry Healy: "I think I'll phone
Hamline and tell them to send up their three best ineligible players for
a match. We probably have the best ineligible team in the state."
The Royal cindermen returned
with five new school records to
their credit as they placed second
in a triangular meet with River
Falls and Stout at River Falls col-lege,
Wisconsin, May 5. River Falls
accumulated 79 point, Bethel pick-ed
up 501/2 and Stout got 32 1/2.
Two of the new records were
achieved in the field events. Jack
Buss bettered his own school re-cord
of 41 feet in the shot put
by heaving the 16 pound ball
41' 1/2". Bruce Erickson, hurling
the spear for the first time, threw
the javelin 134' 8", thus erasing
John Peterson's record of 122' 1 1/4"
to take second in this event.
In the field events, the 220
yard dash was shattered for the
second time this year by Dan
Travaille as he sprinted the 660
feet in 22.2 seconds for a first
place, thus beating his old record
by .1 second. Bob Hartzell sliced
.3 second off the old 120 yard
high hurdles record to establish
a new record of 17.4 seconds for
a 3rd place. Erickson, Dave Hag-feldt,
Hartzell, and Travaille
established a new 880 yard re-lay
record with a time of 1.37.5
minutes. This was .5 second fast-
Bill's Standard Service
er than the old record,
Fred Purcell again brought home
three firsts in his specialties-the
half mile in 2:05.3 minutes, the
mile in 4:30.9 minutes and the two
mile race in 10:26.9 minutes. Tra-vaille
placed first in the 220 yard
dash with a record breaking time
of 22.2 seconds, and a first in the
running broad jump with 20' 4"
The Royal racers' next encounter
is a triangular meet with Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, and Winona
State at Winona. May 19 is the
inaugural Bethel invitational, to be
held at Ramsey high school.
• • •
Among the new Bethel track re-cords
are Fred Purcell's 4:22.8
minute mile against Jennings of
Carleton, whose winning time was
4:18.6 minutes, and Dan Travaille's
9.9 seconds 100 yard dash erasing
the old record of 10.3 set by Jim
Jackson in 1958.
Other records are as follows:
Dan Travaille's 22.3 seconds
(23.5) in the 220 yard dash, and
21' 9" (19' 7") in the broad jump;
Dave Hagfeldt's 52.5 seconds
(53.9) in the quarter mile; Fred
Purcell's 2.03 minutes (2:05.2) in
the half miles; Jack Buss' 41 feet
(40' 91/4") in the shot put; and
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More records were broken by
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Erickson, Hartzell, McCarrell, and
Travaille's 48.3 seconds (48.8) in
the 440 yard relay: and Hartzell,
McCarrell, Purcell, and Travaille's
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Members of a key House subcommittee questioned whether the Commerce Department's announcement that it will relinquish oversight of the Internet domain name system next year leaves important Internet architecture open to manipulation.
Under a 1990s contract with the Commerce Department, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit group based in California, is responsible for connecting domains that we see as, for instance, Twitter.com, with the IP for the company. The U.S. developed the architecture for the network and has had responsibility for its oversight.
In March the Department of Commerce announced its plans to cede its control of ICANN, on condition the nonprofit create an oversight mechanism and gain the trust of the global Internet community.
"The Obama administration should bear the burden of proof for why it wants to make this significant public policy change and whether it is in the best interest of U.S. citizens and Internet users around the globe," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican.
Daniel Castro, senior analyst for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, charged that even now – before the change from Department of Commerce control takes effect – it would be extremely difficult for the U.S. to change the announced policy without significant backlash.
However, he and others worry that ICANN could become beholden to the domain-name registry industry, which pays ICANN for managing the top-level domain systems.
"We should be very mindful of creating a global organization with little accountability that can effectively tax the Internet," Castro said.
Lawmakers alleged that the timing was a reaction to international pressure on the U.S. to relinquish its oversight role in Internet oversight after recent revelations that the National Security Agency had been collecting metadata on foreign leaders.
Lawrence Strickling of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration repeatedly defended the proposed end to U.S. oversight of ICANN, noting that since 1998 the goal has been to eventually privatize the function.
The Commerce Department does not exercise any control over policymaking at ICANN, Strickling said. And the U.S. role is largely symbolic. "It's a global multi-stakeholder community that makes Internet policy today."
Further, Strickling said that the transition proposal ICANN must submit to the U.S. before the takeover has to address four specific principles: It must support and boost the multi-stakeholder model; uphold the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet domain name system; meet the needs of global customers; and maintain the Internet's openness.
Strickling added that the Commerce Department made clear it will not accept a deal that replaces the agency's oversight role "with a government-led or intergovernmental solution," attempting to assuage fears that an authoritarian regime could one day tighten Internet control while claiming adherence to international standards.
ICANN's chief executive officer, Fadi Chehade, said it would be virtually impossible for a malevolent group to gain control over ICANN because of its long list of global stakeholders. Citing ICANN supporters such as the Internet Association, Human Rights Watch and the Center for Democracy and Technology, he also said that any change to ICANN's bylaws are posted publicly, and that it welcomes feedback from everyone.
Chehade likened the situation to that of teaching his two sons to ride bicycles. "I think we've been watching lCANN for 15 years, and the training wheels have been largely off, and we're fine. It doesn't mean we should walk away … but this is the time to let go, and to show the world how to trust us."
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4 Emerging U.S. Wine Destinations
Perhaps they're not the first place you think of when it comes to wineries, but these four regions offer character and great wine, without the hoopla.
Walla Walla Valley, Wash.
In the mid-90s when oenophiles started to buzz about the region's Bordeaux-style wines, there were 10 wineries in Walla Walla. Today, there are more than 100, mostly accessible from Highway 12. With wine comes food, and gourmands like Alexa Palmer and Charles Maddrey have been pouring into town in the past decade. Two years ago, Palmer and Maddrey left their jobs as owner and chef, respectively, of an Italian restaurant in Renton, Wash., to open the Fat Duck Inn in the heart of Walla Walla. Each of the four guest rooms at their renovated Craftsman-style bungalow has a fireplace and a large tiled bathroom, and Maddrey can pack box lunches of gourmet charcuterie and cheeses, sandwiches, fruit, and dessert for picnics (fatduckinn.com, rooms from $125, lunch $13). Palmer recommends enjoying them on the outdoor patio near the bocce ball courts at Cougar Crest Estate Winery, west of town on Highway 12 (cougarcrestwinery.com, tasting $5, refundable with wine bottle purchase). The highway takes you back toward downtown Walla Walla, a preserved 19th-century Western town, where food options range from a burrito stuffed with beef, cheese, and local sweet onions at the Tacos La Monarca truck (509/522-2866, $5), to Turkish flatbread wrapped around spiced lamb and topped with yogurt sauce at Saffron Mediterranean Kitchen, whose chef was recently a semifinalist for a James Beard Award (saffronmediterraneankitchen.com, $13). Highway 12 continues east toward K Vintners, a converted farm shed with a capital K painted on its front and a 12-foot cement statue of the letter by the entrance. Here, former band manager Charles Smith blasts music by the Raveonettes and the Ramones—both personal friends—and serves his signature K Syrah in honor of his favorite toast: Que sera (kvintners.com, tastings free, by appointment). —Alison Rohrs
Anderson Valley, Calif.
Twisting from Cloverdale, Calif., to the Pacific Ocean, a 16-mile portion of Highway 128 passes through the organic apple orchards, olive groves, and redwood forests of Anderson Valley. Some of the more than 20 vineyards along the way supply pinot noir grapes for famous wineries in Napa and Sonoma, but you can taste similar vintages at the farm-style Anderson wineries—minus the popped-collar crowds. Navarro Vineyards lets babydoll sheep (too petite to reach the fruit) graze under the vines, and free-range chickens wander the vineyards to help keep pests under control. Daily tours of the grounds and tastings of the star wines—pinot noir and dry Alsatian-style whites—are both free (navarrovineyards.com). About 10 miles northwest along the highway, gewürztraminer grapes thrive in the rich soil and foggy mornings at Lazy Creek Vineyards. Longtime owners of Sonoma's Ferrari-Carano Vineyards and Winery, Don and Rhonda Carano, acquired the rural estate last year (lazycreekvineyards.com, tastings free). Nearby, Husch Vineyards—the oldest in the valley, and actually owned by the Oswald family—has 10 picnic tables: some in the sun, some sheltered under vine-covered pergolas. Past an arch of roses, the family pours complimentary samples of sauvignon blanc and pinot noir in a century-old redwood tasting room (huschvineyards.com). Like their neighbors to the north, Bob and Linda Klein also run a vineyard and farm at LindaVista Bed & Breakfast in Yorkville (a separate wine region in the Anderson Valley). Each of the two huge suites in their 6,000-square-foot French Victorian–style inn comes with a queen-size bed, a separate sitting room with a daybed and trundle, a full bath, and mountain views (lindavista.com, $150). Along the route, you can stop for one of 60 varieties of apples at Gowan's Oak Tree, on an orchard just north of Philo (707/895-3353).—Alison Rohrs
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What the Hermann Wine Trail (hermannwinetrail.com) lacks in size—there are only six wineries along the 20-mile stretch—it makes up for in experience. The region has been producing vintages since the 1840s, before Napa had produced a single bottle. The Captain Wohlt Inn makes an ideal home base—and not just because it's in the center of Hermann's adorable historic district. The breakfasts of upside-down apple French toast, three-cheese quiche, or baked eggs with turkey bacon and herbs are exactly what you need to prepare you for a day of sampling wines (captainwohltinn.com, from $75). Less than a mile away, the family-run Adam Puchta Winery gives free tastings in the estate's original stone house with wood-beamed ceilings. For many of the 16–18 wines, you'll get a bite of something to help you identify the flavors. A Key-lime shortbread cookie brings out the fruit flavors in the vignoles, a sweet white wine, and a piece of chocolate softens the tannins in the dry red Norton (adampuchtawine.com). The picnic tables on the grounds make the perfect lunch spot, so on the way to the winery, stop at husband-and-wife-owned Time for Pie to pick up some bratwurst sandwiches and one of the 15 kinds of homemade pie (time4pie.com, pie $3 per slice). Two and a half miles down the road, Stone Hill Winery is set high on the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River—one can imagine that the terrain reminded German settlers of their native Rhine River valley. Tours of the 162-year-old arched cellars, where wine is still stored, end in the tasting room, where you can try the chardonel, a dry, buttery white that's similar to a chardonnay, and the limited-edition vintage port. Next to the tasting room, Stone Hill's original stable is now Vintage Restaurant, where the menu ranges from hearty German specialties like schnitzel to more refined entrées like filet mignon (stonehillwinery.com, tours $2.50, tastings free). —Beth Collins
Charlottesville, Va.
Virginia's premier wine country, dotted with working farms and over 1,000 acres of grape vines, spreads out around the city of Charlottesville in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The free tour at 20-acre Jefferson Vineyards both explores the winery and recounts the history of Virginia wine making (jeffersonvineyards.com, tasting $5). The viognier, with aromas of honeysuckle and apricot, is an ideal refresher, and from the deck at the tasting room, visitors have a view of Carters Mountain and Jefferson's home, Monticello, a mile and a half north, where a recently opened visitors center introduces guests to the founding father's life and ideas (monticello.org, from $15). Jefferson's master builder also built Dinsmore House, a B&B just a block from the University of Virginia. The decor deliberately recalls the colonial era, but the amenities—Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs—are right up-to-date (dinsmorehouse.com, from $109). South of Monticello is Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard, whose 2005 blanc de blanc has hints of candied apple and lemon custard (klugeestateonline.com, tasting $10). About 18 miles west of Charlottesville, in Crozet, King Family Vineyards occupies 15 acres on a farm where polo ponies are raised; visitors can watch polo matches for free on Sundays from Memorial Day through the end of September (kingfamilyvineyards.com, tasting $5). For a picnic at the vineyard, the Crosé, a dry rosé, pairs well with the tomato sauce on a pie from perennial favorite Crozet Pizza. Be prepared for a wait at the 32-year-old institution; some call this the best pizza in the state, and people come from miles around to combine toppings from the list of over 30 options, including zucchini, peanuts, and bacon (crozetpizza.net, from $11.50). —Thomas Berger


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ATLANTA – LAZ Parking, LLC, a Hartford, Conn.-based national parking company doing business in over 16 states, including Georgia, will pay $46,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its lawsuit, filed on May 7, 2010 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division (Case No.: 1:10-CV-1384), the EEOC charged that LAZ Parking unlawfully subjected a practicing Muslim woman who worked at an LAZ Atlanta facility to discrimination when it terminated her because of her religious beliefs and refusing to remove her head covering (hijab).
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from subjecting employees to discrimination due to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It also prohibits an employer from refusing to accommodate an employee's sincerely held religious belief, as in this case, the wearing of a hijab. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary pre-litigation settlement.
The consent decree settling the suit, in addition to the monetary relief, includes provisions for equal employment opportunity training, reporting, and posting of anti-discrimination notices. In the suit and consent decree, LAZ Parking denied any liability or wrongdoing.
"LAZ Parking worked diligently with the parties in this case to come to a speedy resolution," said Robert Dawkins, Regional Attorney for the EEOC's Atlanta office. "Going forward, we believe LAZ Parking is sincerely committed to avoiding these types of problems."
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lass is a complex term, in use since the late eighteenth century, and employed in many different ways. In our context classes are the more or less distinct social groupings which at any given historical period, taken as a whole, constituted British Society. Different social classes can be (and were by the classes themselves) distinguished by inequalities in such areas as power, authority, wealth, working and living conditions, life-styles, life-span, education, religion, and culture.
Early in the nineteenth century the labels "working classes" and "middle classes" were already coming into common usage. The old hereditary aristocracy, reinforced by the new gentry who owed their success to commerce, industry, and the professions, evolved into an "upper class" (its consciousness formed in large part by the Public Schools and Universities) which tenaciously maintained control over the political system, depriving not only the working classes but the middle classes of a voice in the political process. The increasingly powerful (and class conscious) middle classes, however, undertook organized agitation to remedy this situation: the passage of the Reform Act of 1832 and the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846 were intimations of the extent to which they would ultimately be successful.
The working classes, however, remained shut out from the political process, and became increasingly hostile not only to the aristocracy but to the middle classes as well. As the Industrial Revolution progressed there was further social stratification. Capitalists, for example, employed industrial workers who were one component of the working classes (each class included a wide range of occupations of varying status and income; there was a large gap, for example, between skilled and unskilled labor), but beneath the industrial workers was a submerged "under class" — contemporaries referred to them as the "sunken people" — -- which lived in poverty. In mid-century skilled workers had acquired enough power to enable them to establish Trade Unions (Socialism became an increasingly important political force) which they used to further improve their status, while unskilled workers and the underclass beneath them remained much more susceptible to exploitation, and were therefore exploited.
This basic hierarchical structure (presented here in highly oversimplified form), comprising the "upper classes," the "middle classes," the "Working Classes" (with skilled laborers at one extreme and unskilled at the other), and the impoverished "Under Class," remained relatively stable despite periodic (and frequently violent) upheavals, and despite the Marxist view of the inevitability of class conflict, at least until the outbreak of World War I. A modified class structure clearly remains in existence today.
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Genetically modified plants are not regulated.
No data exist to support genetically modified products.
The public does not have a role to play.
Benefits of biotechnology do not exist.
There is actual harm to health and the environment.
No biotech products are labeled.
The truth about biotechnology has been clouded by half-truths, detail omissions and exaggerations of problems. Stanley Abramson, environmental attorney, recently spoke out about the "myths" about genetically modified plants that are widely propagated by opponents to biotechnology. These myths are disproved in research and field practice, according to Abramson.
He comes well qualified to discuss the issue. Last winter, he completed a committee assignment for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The committee investigated the risks and benefits of biotech crops as well as their regulation. The committee included 10 scientists, one economist and Abramson, who is with the Washington, DC, law firm Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn.
"The report issued by the committee was a consensus report, a unanimous report," he relates. "We found no evidence to conclude that products on the market today pose any harm."
After working on the NAS committee, Abramson categorized the misconceptions about biotechnology into the following six myths.
Genetically modified plants are not regulated. "The first myth is that these products are rushed to market with no special governmental oversight," Abramson says. "This is particularly painful to me because I was at EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] in the 1980s when the early experiments were conducted and the coordinated framework developed. I can speak firsthand about the years of regulation that go into the development of these products."
The coordinated framework requires regulation by EPA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Each agency is responsible for regulating certain aspects of the new products. Using the Bt potato as an example, Abramson says EPA regulated the insecticidal protein, USDA reviewed the plant itself and FDA's jurisdiction included the safety of the entire product.
"In the Bt potato, the health, safety and environmental data were reviewed by the three different federal agencies over a seven-year period. No comparable oversight for conventional hybrids exists," he explains. The three agencies found no Bt protein in the environment or in food products, making the products safe for human consumption.
"Just because a plant is transgenic does not make it hazardous," Abramson says. He notes that the biotechnology industry supports the framework's regulation.
No data exist to support genetically modified products. "I was told just three weeks ago that there is simply no data to support [biotech product] approvals," Abramson says. "The reality is that data are routinely submitted to these three agencies and reviewed by the agencies. There is clearly data and a great deal of it." All the data are available for public review.
All three agencies require a variety of studies from the developers of the products. The studies must consider potential adverse effects, such as the impact on nontargeted insects and insect resistance. If an issue comes up that wasn't considered during the initial reviews, the agencies often ask for more data.
The public does not have a role to play. Through the 1970s and 1980s as the issue of biotechnology developed, the agencies and even Congress held many public hearings and comment periods. "But the reality is that most people didn't care," Abramson says. Beyond industry representatives and a few environmental groups, very few members of the public or the media attended the debates.
Each agency's public records show that these issues were debated in public. And the public continues to have opportunities to participate through Web sites and public comment periods, Abramson says. "Extensive public participation opportunities over the past 25 years have existed," he adds.
Benefits of biotechnology do not exist. "The benefits are well known [to seed developers and growers], but not well known to the public," Abramson says. "In fact, the public is told there are no benefits or only benefits to the developer of the crop. In reality, there are clearly established agronomic, environmental and health benefits from the crops on the market today."
The NAS report considered benefits, he adds. For example, it cited the advantages of Bt cotton, which requires dramatically less insecticide. The report concluded the product causes a reduced application of chemical pesticides, which could lead to greater human health benefits.
Abramson worked at EPA in the 1980s when "we were being told every day that we must take these chemical products off the market. And then when EPA provides the opportunity to reduce the use of these chemical products, the same groups that wanted these off the market came to us in the 1990s and said no because it will cause harm to the environment."
There is actual harm to health and the environment. Abramson reports that, in the past 14 years of intensive governmental, academic and commercial scrutiny, "not a single incidence of actual harm to health, safety or the environment has ever been documented concerning the crops on the market today.
"Am I trying to tell you this is a zero risk situation?" he asks. "Absolutely not. Zero does not exist in terms of risk. But is there evidence of adverse effects? Absolutely not."
Abramson's assertions about safety include Bt corn products. He says field studies show no adverse effects from Bt corn on monarch butterflies. "I'm not talking about lab studies where the monarch larvae have been stuck in Bt pollen in laboratories. I'm talking about in the field under real-world conditions." Instead, loss of habitat and chemical sprays threaten monarch butterflies.
Greenpeace disagreed and filed a lawsuit in 1999 against EPA over the Bt crops. The group asked that all Bt product approvals be thrown out and no further approvals given. EPA answered with a 107-page response, available on its Web site, according to Abramson. He adds that Greenpeace then withdrew its lawsuit.
No biotech products are labeled. "This is simply not the case," Abramson says. "Crops developed through modern biotechnology are subject to the exact same labeling requirements as all other food."
Labeling is required for information that is material to the consumer, he explains. For example, if a new variety of orange is developed with less vitamin C than expected in the market today, that information must be provided.
The labeling line is crossed, Abramson adds, when the government requires labels for societal purposes. "There's lots of information consumers say they want to know, like if oranges come from a farm where workers have adequate sanitation," Abramson says. "It is important information. But is it information the government must put on a label? I don't think so."


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The Lipscomb Lady Bisons (20-3, 15-0) head into Jacksonville, Fla., with a 17-match win streak and a 15-0 Atlantic Sun Conference record to protect. Jacksonville (16-5, 12-2) has won its last 13 matches and is only two matches behind the Lady Bisons.
The Lady Bisons, rated 57th in the RPI rankings for the second week in a row, hold a 6-1 edge in the series which started in 2005.
The match is billed as the A-Sun "Match of the Week". The match begins at 6.
"I guess anytime you have two teams that are on streaks like we both are it is definitely going to be interesting," said Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal. "I think if either one of us had slipped up it would still be a good match-up. Anytime we play Jacksonville it is a good matchup."
Rosenthal stressed that at no time this season has he talked about the streak with his players.
"This team wants to win every match," said Rosenthal. "This team expects to win every match. The streak is to be expected. "I feel that way as well. It is one thing that I feel that way. It is another thing that the girls do. We believe in our abilities. We believe in each other."
Rosenthal and his players have been talking about control and how important that is to being successful on the court.
The Lady Bisons posted a quote at practice that says, "Control is never achieved when sought after directly. It is a surprising outcome of letting go."
"I have to let go and just trust that our girls are ready," said Rosenthal. "In the past couple of weeks we have been working as hard as we can to prepare for matches, but when it comes down to it I have to let go.
"It has been a lot of fun because I have asked our players to do that as well. Letting go doesn't mean you don't work hard or work together. It means you have to know that you are ready to go."
Jacksonville has only lost two matches, one to the Lady Bisons 3-0 Sept. 12 at Allen Arena. In fact, that is the last match loss for the Dolphins this season.
Like the Lady Bisons, the Dolphins have not lost on their home court this season. They are 6-0 at Swisher Gym.
"Jacksonville is playing great volleyball," said Rosenthal. "They have had as equally as good a season as we have.
"It is going to be a battle. When they came here they had a tough weekend and didn't play very well. I am expecting the opposite Friday night. I've been watching them on tape and they are ready to go. I know we are."
Jacksonville has several solid players. They are led by junior setter Hanna Munneke and senior outside hitter Brooke Singleton.
"Jacksonville runs a lot of its offense to the right side of the court," Rosenthal said.
Shelley Walroth, the libero, anchors the defense. She needs 64 digs to move into the top 10 in career digs in NCAA Division I. She leads the A-Sun with an average of 5.53 digs per set.
"She has done tremendous things there," said Rosenthal. "I think she is 15th all-time in digs in the NCAA. She has pretty good numbers.
"Jacksonville is hungry. We are the hunted in some regards. Jacksonville wants to go out there and play its game. Jacksonville has found ways to win even when using players that don't usually start."
Rosenthal also has a lot of respect for Jacksonville coach Shaun Kupferberg.
"There is a lot of respect for each team," said Rosenthal. "I probably see Shaun more than any other A-Sun coach on the road. We both work extremely hard recruiting-wise. We have had many meals out on the road.
"There is a good rivalry there. And then you add in all of the other things like the winning streaks and trying to win the regular season championship and it is even more interesting."
The Lady Bisons are led by junior setter Stefine "Jake" Pease and junior middle hitter Alex Kelly. Junior Meghan Hinemeyer has been a big contributor as an outside hitter.
The Lady Bisons will face Jacksonville Friday at 6. They will face North Florida Saturday, Oct. 31, at 2.


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This is why a story like the one last weekend, where four officers survived being shot in order to apprehend an armed ex-convict, is so important. The stories about police officers being killed in the line of duty are so ugly that they stay with us for weeks, which is why when a cop like Kenneth Ayala can help save his fellow officers, it is a very big story.
There are professional experts in police policy, but after living in New York City for 40 years, a person develops an opinion on all sorts of public matters even if one is only a civilian. Police work in the 1980s was difficult, but today there is a wider range of concerns. Is a truck going over a bridge loaded with explosives? This was not much of a thought in 1985.
But a man sitting in an apartment, like the one in Brooklyn last weekend, waiting for the arrival of police officers so he could open fire, is not a sign of the times. There have been people like this in all decades.
Remember Larry Davis? In 1986, Davis opened fire on six police officers and injured more than a few of them. Davis' case was a little different, as he was accused of killing drug dealers, and then claimed to have been defending himself when the police arrived.
What Davis was found guilty of, however, was having serious illegal weaponry. So how do we get guns out of the hands of very dangerous people?
The weapons are what the Mayor is going to focus on in the next few weeks. He may use cases like the one last week in Brooklyn, the murder of Officer Ed Byrne in 1988, or the case of Steven McDonald, who was left paralyzed in 1986, as reasons to amp up the search for illegal guns. If people can fire on the police, they are even more dangerous to unarmed civilians.
New York City police officers do not make as much as officers in other parts of the state and country. Part of that is due to the sheer resources available to pay all of the uniformed services and their pensions. They do, however, deserve more – even if we cannot up their compensation right now.
How News Has Changed
With Mike Wallace, formerly of 60 Minutes, dying last week, an era of reporters has faded away.
When young writers today wish to join the profession of articulating world events, they seem to imitate the superstars on ESPN – funny, cerebral, etc. In high school, I had a picture of Tom Brokaw taped to the front of my notebook. I was not popular with girls.
I've lived through three eras of reporting. The writers, the news magazine "journos," and the present day info-tainers (see Stewart Scott and Kenny Mayne). There is no gold standard in news anymore. Names like Brian Williams and Katie Couric do not instill viewer confidence.
Wallace had his detractors, but he did interview controversial figures like the Ayatollah Khomeini. Wallace gave a window into parts of the world that some us from Ozone Park would never have seen at the time. He was the tail end of the serious writers, even if he spent most of his time in front of the camera.


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Storm Announce 2013 Coaching Staff; Season Opens Feb. 15
The Sioux Falls Storm continue to build as a team looking towards the February 15 opener at Green Bay.
Tuesday the Storm locked in the coaching staff. Dustan Hovorka will join the Storm as the new receivers coach, while Paul Keizer, Josh Sigfried & James Schrenk return alongside Coach Kurtiss Riggs.
"Anytime you can assemble a staff that is passionate about coaching and has a desire to make others better, than you are very lucky as a head coach," said Riggs. "This is the position that I am in for the 2013 season."
Hovorka will return to the sidelines as the new receivers coach after playing 5 outstanding seasons for the Storm. Hovorka currently works at the University of Sioux Falls as the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator.
Siegfried returns for his second season as the Storm's defensive coordinator. Under Siegfried in 2012, the Storm defense compiled 21 interceptions, 22 sacks, 8 forced fumbles and 669 tackles.
Keizer will be entering his fifth season on the Storm coaching staff. Keizer, a former two-time all-star, played for Sioux Falls in 2007 and 2008. During Keizer's career, the Storm allowed an incredibly low 18 sacks on 836 passing attempts.
Schrenk is back for his second season to coach the defending champion defensive line.
Also in the last month the Storm has signed players to the roster including Charlie Sanders and Myniya Smith to solidify the offensive line. In addition, they re-signed former Augustana Viking Dan O'Keefe and kicker Parker Douglass for the 2013 season.
The home opener is March 17 against Wyoming.


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Lynn Melancon and his five-man crew went flying, slamming into different parts of their boat after hitting a beam in Bayou Perot one December evening a year and a half ago.
Lynn Melancon and his five-man crew went flying, slamming into different parts of their boat after hitting a beam in Bayou Perot one December evening a year and a half ago.
As their boat began taking on water, the injured crew members thought they were going to die.
"My brother-in-law, he grabbed me and said, 'If we go in the water, we're going to drown. I can't swim. I can't move my legs,' " Melancon recalled. "At this time it was dark, so nobody would've known to find us until the next morning."
That's when Chad Breaux, 46, who was navigating his own boat nearby, saw the crew in distress and brought them to safety.
The tugboat captain saved their lives that night, Melancon said, remembering the now fallen mariner. Breaux died last week from serious burns from a fire, when a tugboat he was captaining in that same bayou ran over a Chevron pipeline.
Just as Breaux and his crew helped Melancon and his men in 2011, Melancon said he played a role in rescuing Breaux after the March 12 fire. Melancon's crew was working in the same area, and when Melancon spotted the fire, he called up Texas Petroleum, which had the crew closest to the fire.
They were unaware anything had happened.
"They've got compressors. It's real loud," Melancon said. "If something blew up, they didn't hear it."
Melancon went to the scene with Lafourche Sheriff's Office Water Patrol, but Texas Petroleum employees had already taken Breaux and his crew to shore.
Melancon, who never got to speak to Breaux after the explosion, said he wishes Breaux's story had the happy ending theirs did in December 2011.
Back then, "he called me after, making sure I was OK and checking on everybody. He was awesome. He was an awesome guy," Melancon said.
The two crashes took place about 3 to 5 miles from each other, he said.
Breaux worked for Settoon Towing for about three years, said the company's vice president Mike Ellis.
"That's what mariners do — they help each other," Ellis said. Breaux was "a great man."
The Houma resident was a boat captain for about 20 years, his family said.
Breaux was the only seriously injured crew member involved in the March crash, Ellis said. The three other crew members involved are OK.
The Coast Guard is still investigating the crash, so Ellis said he could not talk about how the crash happened until the investigation is complete.
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