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Jessica Simpson + Her Girlfriends Share a Kiss [PHOTO]
Jessica Simpson is a busy woman, being an entrepreneur, fiancee and mother of two young toddlers. But she doesn't forget to take time out of her day to hang out with her girlfriends and get a little risque.
The Weight Watchers spokeswoman, designer, actress and singer shared a racy pic on Instagram with two girlfriends as they all go in for a kiss. Notice, none of the ladies actually touch lips or tongues in the pic. Only one of them has her tongue out, Miley Cyrus-style. So this threesome is all very innocent, technically.
But it's also incredibly steamy and suggestive, of course.
Simpson captioned the image: "Girls night out...with our guys watching..@odetteannable @stephenieleighpearson ;) yummy."
Okay, so with that qualification on Simpson's part, none of their dudes, especially Simpson's baby daddy Eric Johnson, have anything to worry about.
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See the sexy, girls-pretending-to-kiss-girls photo below. You know, if J. Simps attends a Bangerz Tour date, she might end out getting mouthy with Miley.


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Munich Chamber Orchestra directed by Hans Stadlmair will
appear at Bethel in concert Monday, October 31 at 8:00 p.m.
Kathie Fjeldheim, Bethel's 1966 Homecoming Queen addresses her
subjects with a Royal proclamation. The coronation took place Friday
evening following the first performance of the homecoming play, "A
Cup of Trembling." The audience was addressed by the 1965 reigning
queen Phyllis Nelson and the crowning done by Senior football co-captain
John Carmean.
Munich Chamber Orchestra Brings
Baroque Mastery to Bethel Concert
The Munich Chamber Orchestra,
under the direction of Hans Stadl-mair,
will appear as the second
offering of the Bethel Concert Ser-ies
at 8:00 p.m., October 31 in the
Bethel College Fieldhouse.
The orchestra, currently on their
first North American tour, was
formed in 1950 under the direction
of Christoph Stepp.
Consisting of 15 strings, the
orchestra is supported by the
city of Munich as a permanent
organization to perform reper-toire
of the old masters through
the Baroque period. It also in-cludes
appropriate works from
the classical and modern periods.
Since 1956, the orchestra has
been under the direction of Hans
In addition to the yearly sub-scription
series in Munich, tours
have taken this unique group to
the concert halls and festivals not
only all over Europe but in Af-rica,
South America and Central
America as well.
These annual tours coupled with
the multitude of excellent record-ings
on the Deutches Grammaphon
Gesselschaft label have earned the
orchestra an enviable international
The present director of the
orchestra, Hans Stadlmair, was
born in Austria and received his
musical training at the Vienna
Academy of Music as a com-position
student under Alfred
Uhl and as a conductor appren-tice
with Clemens Krauss.
He was violinist and violist with
both the Vienna Stattsoper and
Vienna Symphony while continu-ing
training as a conductor. In
1952 he obtained a conducting post
in Stuttgart and was invited in
1956 to become the conductor and
permanent music director of the
Munich Chamber Orchestra.
Maestro Stadlmair is also a com-poser
of reknown, receiving in 1962
the music prize of the City of
Linz, and in 1963 the prize of the
City of Stuttgart for his Violin
Concerto. Bethelites Host
Foreign Guests
The annual World Missions Fel-lowship
(WMF) International Din,
ner will be held Saturday evening,
October 29. President Miriam Man-silla
is heading the dinner which
will be held in the cafeteria.
Two hundred and fifty students
are expected. The diners will con-sist
of Bethel students and foreign
students from schools in the Twin
City area. Each Bethel student at-tending
has been assigned to host
a foreign student.
When he was assigned his for-eign
student, each Bethelite cal-led
and invited him to the din-ner.
The WMF committee is pro-viding
transportation for these
It is hoped that throughout the
coming year more activities will
be held with these same foreign
students with the purpose of build-,
ing closer acquaintances with Beth-el
Commenting on the dinner, a
committee member, Jan Young-quist
remarked, "The dinner is an
education for a Bethel student to
get to know a student from an-other
Food for the banquet will con-sist
of choice dishes from twelve
different countries prepared by
a number of Bethel students.
The program will also include a
variety of entertainment stem-ing
from the cultural heritages
of a number of national groups.
The banquet is offered to Bethel
students at no charge. The bill is
footed by a special fund alloted
for the World Missions Fellowship.
The Bethel College Bookstore is
again offering a $50 grant-in-aid
to a worthy Bethel student in con-junction
with the sale of Campus
Pacs to freshman and transfer stu-dents.
The grant, awarded last year to
Carol Webb, is designed to provide
financial encouragement for a
needy freshman in his first year in
school who is not eligible for an
academic scholarship. It will apply
toward his second semester tuition.
The ten persons receiving the
largest number of nominating votes
will have their names submitted to
the Student Personnel Committee,
headed by Mr. James Jordan, for
final selection. It is to be noted
that a financial statement must
be submitted by these ten to this
The president of Bethel College
and Seminary and the dean of
Bethel Seminary are currently a-broad
attending a conference on
world evangelism. Dean Johnson
and President Lundquist left Chi-cago's
O'hare field on a chartered
non-stop flight for Berlin, Ger-many,
on Sunday evening, October
23. They are expected to return
to their respective offices around
November 15.
On Tuesday, October 25, Dr.
Lundquist and Dr. Johnson were
slated for consultations in East
Berlin with evangelical leaders be-hind
the Berlin Wall. It is report-ed
that they will wear flowers in
their lapels as a means of identi-fication
while crossing at Check
Point Charlie.
The delegates will gather for
the actual congress on Wednes-day,
October 26. Various news
organizations have reported that
a wide spectrum of Christian
thought will be represented at
the congress.
The Bishop of the Mar Thoma
church of India, thought to be the
committee before the final de-cision
is made.
Mr. Bob Bergerud, Bookstore
Manager, expressed the hope that
students would give thought to
their nominees, choosing persons
worthy of such a prize.
He also emphasized that in order
to purchase a Campus Pac students
must present the coupon included
in this week's CLARION filled out
with the name of a nominee. along
with twenty five cents.
The Campus Pacs contain an es-timated
$2.50 worth of retail mer-chandise
and will be on sale in the
Bookstore until next Thursday. In
previous years they have been a-vailable
to the entire campus. This
year, however, they are only avail-able
to freshmen and transfer stu-dents.
oldest established church in the
world (tradition says it was es-tablished
by the doubting Thomas)
will be contrasted by the Auca
Indians of Ecuador, responsible for
the martyring of six missionaries,
who will be represented by two
Among the long list of distin-guished
delegates are Haile Sella-sie,
emperor of Ethiopia and head
of the Ethiopian Orthodox church,
Billy Graham,- noted world evan-gelist,
and Oral Roberts, the faith
healer from Oklahoma.
The two Bethel leaders will
continue on to Moscow, Prague,
Zurich, and Paris holding con-sultations
with their counter-parts
in those countries.
Dr. Lundquist will be communi-cating
to the campus every day
via telephone. It is hoped that
these conversations can be record
ed and played back to the student
body during the chapel hour.
In a typed bulletin Dr. Lund-quist
stated before he left, "It is
our prayer that the trip will en-able
us to see more clearly Beth-el's
mission in the perspective of
the larger Christian witness to
our world and that we can
strengthen the contribution of our
school to Christ's cause."
Walfred Peterson, distinguished
alumnus of Bethel addressed the
students of the college in a Tues-day,
October 25 convocation. He
addressed himself to the topic of
current state-religious matters.
Dr. Peterson commenced with a
short review of Supreme Court
rulings upholding private rights of
religious liberty. He stated that
in no time in American history
have the citizens of this nation
enjoyed more religious freedom
than they are afforded today.
The concluding note of his ad-dress
was a discussion of the
Dirksen Prayer Amendment
which led to a general discussion
of the Supreme Court ruling on
Prayer and Bible reading in the
Speaking for the Baptist Joint
Committee on Public Affairs, of
which he is Director of Research,
he stated that a critical analysis
of the Dirksen Amendment must
necessarily be based on the am-biguous
semantic problem.
On this basis, Dr. Peterson stated
that his organization had no choice
but to oppose this piece of legis-lation
which was eventually de-feated
in the Senate.
The first amendment to the
constitution, Dr. Peterson said,
has and will be the bastion sup-porting
public claims to freedom
of relgious choice. Such legisla-tion
as the Dirksen Amendment
were unnecessary and confusing.
Dr. Peterson has been a Profes-sor
in Political Science on the
Bethel campus. He is currently
serving with the Baptist Joint Com-mittee
on Public Affairs, an organ,
ization primed to keep Baptists at
large knowledgeable about affairs
affecting them as a religious group.
It also serves as a lobbying organi-zation
intended to influence con-gressmen
in the interests of Bap-tist
organizations throughout the
V ume XLI—No. 6
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, October 27, 1966
President Lundquist, Dean Johnson
Visit World Evangelism Conference
Bookstore Proffers Grant-In-Aid
For Qualifying Bethel Freshmen
Hans Stadlmair
Tuesday Assembly Hosts
BPA Research Director
heard of money being stolen
from locker rooms. This leaves
a "Christian" school like Bethel
in a pretty bad light.
Mr. Anderson was active in op-position
to a motion by Bob Olson
that Bethel join the ultra-leftist
National Students Association. Ev-en
when it became evident that
Bethel's Senators would be putting
the name of Bethel into this sewer
of people who generally take anti-
Vietnamese and pro-Red Chinese
positions, Mr. Anderson still re-fused
to vote for it.
It passed 7-0. Mr. Anderson did
not vote at all. To Bob Olson, Jim
Keim, Ron Stone, and Kathy Har-vie
go none of our thanks and all
of our disgust for their being fair-ly
active in favor of this motion.
It ought to put a feeling of shame
in all of us to see the name of our
school put into the muck in this
Mr. Anderson's other major ac-tion
of the evening was his mo-tion
that the Bethel College Stu-dent
Association be on record
as favoring giving physical ed-ucation
credit to varsity athletes.
Mr. Ha!leen indicated that the
Administration probably would
not think much of the idea. The
motion passed by an 8-1 vote.
The Senate will meet Tuesday,
November 1, at 7:00 instead of
Monday because of the concert.
Several non-Senators came to this
week and they contributed great-ly
to the discussion. This includ-ed
three who just lost in the
freshman primary.
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the CLARION Thursday, October 27, 1966
Student As New Power'
Canada Becomes 'Haven of Release
For American Youth Escaping Draft
Molds University Actions
Bethel students just aren't average when compared to the
university student of our present generation. Let me explain.
Nevitt Sanford and Joseph Katz of the Institute for the Study
of Human Problems, Stanford University, writing in the Phi
Delta Kappan, national education magazine state:
"Students have arrived as a new power, a fourth estate
which is taking its place beside the traditional estates of fac-ulty,
administration and trustees. Students have become con-scious
of their power. They read the educational literature.
They quote the reformers and invite them to their campuses.
They take seminars on student life and university problems.
They know that reforms are possible and feel that the colleges
have been letting them down. Above all, they have experienced
success in making their presence felt and in extracting con-cessions."
That really doesn't epitomize Mr. Bethel Student 1966.
Should the same authors examine the typical Bethel situa-tion
they just may conclude with the paraphrazed analysis
that follows: "Bethel students today remain relatively power-less
in molding ultimate policy for their institution, taking
their traditional estate far behind the estates of faculty, ad-ministration
and board of education. They are rather satiated
in their complacency, quite unconscious, by virtue of choice,
of any potential power they might possibly wield. They read
Time, Life, Look, Newsweek, Mad, and the daily paper. They
quote no one, under the guise of fearing the tab "pseudo-intellectual."
"Likewise, they dissect the opinions of that same no one
by inviting him to their campus. They take seminars on Cam-pus
Crusade and How to Lead a Bible Study, but are generally
unconcerned about administrative and academic problems. They
exhibit little concern about reform, except in areas where their
social or recreational life might be extended—e.g. extension
of girls' dorm hours. The Bethel student has experienced great
success in making his presence known (after all he does attend
football games), but rather minute success in making his pres-ence
felt. Oh, yes, he has also had a measure of success in
extracting concessions. After all, the students do sell pop and
popcorn at basketball games."
Alright, so who is to blame? We sight two general causes.
First, the greatest measure of responsibility must be borne by
the students themselves. They have just not cared to sharpen
their analytic powers concerning the complexity of the college
with a knowledge of relevant facts of power, faculty concerns,
curricular arrangements, etc. Call it apathy. Many have. The
students, then, have not wanted to be reckoned as a "new
power, a fourth estate."
The second cause stems from the general principle of
the administration acting "in loco parentis"—mothering the
student through the "turbulent" college years, protecting
him, deciding in a large measure for him. With this attitude,
the student has not been regarded as either mature enough
or responsible enough to make decisions. Should he want
the opportunity, his opinion or decision would carry rela-tively
insignificant merit.
Bethel stands now at a significant juncture in history. With
administration and student body cooperating it is possible for
our college generation to remain in step with the current trend.
To do so, however, students must be willing to actively pre-pare
themselves to become working partners in the educative
process. The college should also overhaul its decision-making
process so students could see the effects of their thoughts and
recommendations much sooner.
Sanford and Katz concluded their report with the summary
that the present challenge to the colleges is "a tribute to the
past educational efforts of the parents and schools that have
produced the current crop of articulate, sensitive, and enter-prising
college students. The present situation in the colleges
can have all the excitement of social pioneering and may allow
us to start a new chapter in the history of education." Let us
allow Bethel to be recorded in that chapter .
Senate Observer
by Leonard Sammons
The Bethel College Student Sen-ate
ended its longest meeting of
the year with both positive and
negative accomplishments.
Dave Anderson, the Senator-of-the-
Week, asked why Bethel's ad-,
ministration consistently refuses to
call in police when students steal
things —e.g. the theft of two post-ers
during the Homecoming play.
Mr. Anderson's suggestion imme-diately
led to the discussion of an
honor system. A motion was pas-sed
which established a committee
of two to report soon with three
proposed honor systems.
But the fact is haunting that
Bethel should have theft prob-lems.
Mr. Anderson said that in
the year he spent at the Uni-versity
of Nebraska he had never
by Roger Rapoport
The Collegiate Press Service
(First of a two-part series)
TORONTO—This month 49,200 men will be in-ducted
into the U.S. armed forces. Expatriate Bob
Thomas will not be among them.
It's not that Bob isn't eligible—he's been 1-A for
the past five months. Rather, he has left his native
Indiana to live here in Canada where U.S. draft laws
do not apply.
Bob (not his real name) is one of a growing num-ber
of Americans emigrating to Canada to escape
the draft. An estimated 2,000 U.S. citizens have
moved to Canada in the past two years for the
same reason. About 400 to 500 have settled in this
modern Ontario provincial capital of nearly 2 mil-lion.
Bob, a soft-spoken 22-year-old, introduces himself
as "your friendly neighborhood draft dodger" to pre-serve
A cum laude English graduate of a top Ivy League
school last June, he returned home to find 1-A greet-ings
from his local draft board.
Bob had no intention of following in the foot-steps
of his 18-year-old brother who joined the Air
Force in April. ("My brother and I gave up dis-cussi9p
Viet Nam, it's useless.")
He carefully weighed the alternative methods of
avoiding the draft. To begin with, Bob is not a paci-fist
or conscientious objector. "Besides," he explains,
"I wouldn't take C.O. status because it's demeaning.
I have no intention of cooperating with the military
system in any way."
The other route was jail—up to five years and
$10,000 for failing to report for induction. "But that
wouldn't do anyone any good. And I see no reason
to make a martyr of myself."
So he decided the only way out was North. He
told his father who was dismayed and his mother
who "cried a lot." When he arrived here in June,
Tom Hyde of the Student Union for Peace Action,
a Canadian affiliate of Students for a Democratic
Society, found him a place to stay. To qualify for
landed immigrant status and legally remain in
Canada he took a job at the University of Toronto
Bob finds Canada "far more relaxed and less hys-terical"
than the U.S. Canada has no draft.
"Any government that tried to start the draft again
would get thrown out of office," explains Tony Hyde.
He says his fellow employes unanimously support
his reasons for moving to Canada. In his spare
Alumni Assign Substantial Gifts
For Current Seminary Complex
Completion of the Arden Hills preaching center in the seminary
seminary complex appeared several chapel at Arden Hills, was given
steps nearer this week following by the Norling Brothers Founda-
President Lundquist's announce- tion of west central Minnesota,
ment Saturday evening of two and the second, also for seminary
alumni gifts totalling $200,000 and additions, was anonymous. Each
especially designated for seminary was $100,000.
construction. Word of the gifts The • donors of the preaching
came during intermission of the center fund own the Norling
Dick and Dottie Anthony concert Brothers Silo Company in Svea,
held as a special feature of Home Minnesota, a producer of silos,
coming weekend. corn cribs, and other farm build ,
Three alumni of Bethel Academy ings. Mentioned as contributors by
made the gifts. The first, for a Dr. Lundquist were two trus-tees
of the firm, Fred and Albin,
and Albin's sons, Rayburn and
Palmer. The elder men, brothers,
are both from Svea and the young-er
two from Willmar and Blomkest.
Dr. Lundquist called it signifi-cant
that both of the elder Nor-lings
are celebrating notable an-niversaries
of their graduation
from the Bethel Academy. Fred
graduated in 1916, fifty years ago,
and Albin in 1921, forty-five years
The preaching center as plan-ned
will include several special
facilities to aid seminarians. Elec•
tronic and recording equipment is
to be available along with practice
rooms for sermon development.
The other $100,000 gift will also
be used to further construction
work at the seminary, perhaps on
other aspects of the chapel or in
the student center. These two units
will complete the complex, which
now includes classroom, adminis-trative,
and multi-purpose sections,
as well as a library.
Senate Joins NSA, Discusses Thefts
time he reads, writes poetry, does watercolors, and
generally leads a tranquil existence.
.Except for the fact that he can never return to
the United States again (where he would face that
$10,000 fine and five years in jail) his life is free of
restrictions. A long-standing pact between the U.S.
and Canadian governments prohibits his extradition.
"From up here," says Bob, "America really looks
like it's going nuts." In fact he goes so far as to
claim that the United States is "on its way to a
collective nervous breakdown."
An armchair analyst, he gives half a dozen
reasons for projecting a national crackup. "For
one thing, the right-wing militaristic mentality that
got us into Viet Nam is going to take control of
the country. Sheer race hatred will result in con-stant
premeditated violence between the races
within three years.
Viet Nam is going to get worse, and in three or
four years we will be doing the same thing someplace
else — there are four or five major candidates.
Inflation will rock the economic structure.
"The psychedelic thing has already won. As
Timothy Leary says, too many people have already
tried it and liked it. And the gap between the gen-erations
will widen. The old people won't be able
to understand our generation at all."
Bob articulates his dire prophecy with a great
deal of pride and was somewhat miffed to riscover
that Newsweek reduced it all to one sentence in
a recent article on draft dodgers. "That reporrter
just didn't understand. The Newsweek guy kept
asking me if I would have fought in World War II.
I probably would have but it's a totally irrelevant
question. I'm not concerned about history. I'm just
against the Amercain role in Viet Nam."
Bob has high hopes of organizing his fellow Ameri-cans.
He is currently starting an expatriate news-letter.
But there may be some difficulty writing
editorials, for the draft dodgers are far from a like-minded
According to Tony Hyde, "Bob is not a typical
draft dodger. In fact, I don't think there is any such
thing. We're finding a lot of political types but for
many people, coming up here is their first political
act. We even had a right-wing type from Arizona
come up recently. He was sort of a Jeffersonian-type
Democrat who didn't want to fight in Viet Nam. His
parents even agreed."
Indeed Bob and his draft-dodging friends dis-agree
strongly on some matters. For example, one
argument flared in a discussion between Bob and
fellow expatriate Allan, a political science doctoral
candidate at the University of Toronto.
"If I were North Vietnamese, I
wouldn't fight for Ho Chi Minh,"
said Allan. "I don't think he is a
lot better than General Ky. The
whole war is a meaningless cause
on both sides."
But Bob disagrees. "I think if
I was in North Viet Nam I might
join up. Ho is far superior to Ky."
Still, Bob contends that his de-cision
to move to Canada was
not political.
"Personal freedom is the reason
I came up here. I want to have the
right to say no to people. I've
got better things to do than bq
used like a robot-like killer dog in
the Army. No one has the right to
tell me to go drop napalm on
people. I want the right to run my
own life."
A box of clothing and personal
articles left at Big Trout Lake
during Welcome Week Retreat
is in the Student Services Of-fice.
These items will be kept
there for reclaiming this week
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminal y, St. Paul 1. Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Editor-in-chief John Halvorsen
Assistant Editor Jonathan P. Larson
News Editor Jeff Loomis
Feature Editor Nancy Johnson
Sports Editor Lyn Bergfalk
Photography George Saunders
Business Manager John Tegenfeldt
Advisor Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
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There is one matter that casts its ugly shadow over our lives, over
everything we do. This is the criminal, brutal U.S. imperialist aggression
against the people of Vietnam. This is the most vicious, savage, uncivil-ized
assault on a small nation in all the annals of human history.
The savagery of Hitler Germany, transporting its victims to the
crematoria, shocked the conscience of civilized man. But now the United
States is operating hundreds of flying crematoria, delivering the de-vouring
seas of flame that engulf villages, towns and the countryside.
Its victims in the first place are women and children.
When before in all the history of human brutalities has any nation
ever set out to destroy by fire and by massive, indiscriminate use of
chemicals everything that grows, every living sprout, every living ani-mal?
Unless this is stopped, Vietnam will be as barren as the surface
of Hitler Germany's contribution, so "depopulation," "defoliation," "sat-uration
bombing," "napalm," are words, concepts and deeds the United
States is contributing to civilization.
If it is possible to compound a crime of such vileness and such
magnitude, then it is compounded by the sickening demagogy, the de-praved
hypocricy of Johnson, McNamara, Rusk and Goldberg. This is
moral degeneracy with no bottom. It is demagogy unsurpassed in history.
On one day last week, while 300,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam sup-ported
by hundreds of warships were raining death on the Vietnamese
people, while U.S. planes were burning villages in South Vietnam and
bombing cities in North Vietnam, while U.S. forces were rushing to
finish new military airfields in Thailand, and while Buddhist monks
who refused to support the miserable puppet Ky were being harrassed
and arrested—while all this was taking place under the orders of John-son
as Commander-in-Chief, on that same day McNamara announced
new troop shipments to Vietnam, Johnson spoke about our great love
for peace and independence, Rusk declared that the nations of the world
had better get on with working for peace, and Goldberg spoke again
of how the U.N. is not doing its part in bringing peace in Vietnam.
This is the dead end to all intellectual honesty���that such depraved
insanity, such gross hypocricy is presented as policy.
This is imperialist aggression . . . On the home front this criminal
aggression creates a backlash like that of a tidal wave. It is eroding and
eating away the lives, resources and moral values of our society.
The war on poverty, the announced attack on slumism, hot school
lunches, housing, school construction, urban renewal are already slip-ping
into the churning waters brought on by the policy of aggression.
They remain empty platitudes in the speeches of Lyndon B. Johnson
and Hubert Humphrey.
The mind of every American must absorb these facts. The con-science
of our people must be aroused by them. We cannot rest until
the last piece of U.S. military equipment, the last warship, the last
plane, the last unit of military personnel has been removed from the
soil of Vietnam. We cannot rest until the people of Vietnam have the
full right to determine their own affairs.
United, aroused, determined, we can put an end to this crime, this
mass murder. We cannot rest until we do.
The preceding is excerpted from the introduction of the Report to
the 18th National Convention, Communist Party, U.S.A., delivered by
Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist Party, U.S.A.
Former Teacher Addresses College,
Explains Present Research Position
by John Sailhamer
Once again the intellectual ma-chinery
in the Bethel community
has been greased by the candorous
wit of Dr. Walfred Peterson, twelve
year veteran of the campus class-room.
Employing his usual concrete
vocabulary to slice fuzzy issues
into smooth doses, he administer-,
ed his theologically-orientated po-litical
medicine in fine style dur-ing
this week's convocation, and
few found it hard to swallow. The
pervasive mood was unanimously
felt as "welcome back."
Since leaving his position in
Bethel's History-Political Science
Department at the close of the
spring semester 1965, Dr. Peter-son
has been involved in exten-sive
background research for the
Baptist Joint Committee on Pub-lic
Affairs, which is a political
brain and mouthpiece for the ov-er
one million Baptists it repre-sents.
It was through his services, for
example, that the Committee was
able to draft a resolution on the
Homecoming weekend was a ver,
y bright one indeed for the har-riers
from Bethel College. Com-peting
in a quadrangular meet a-gainst
Concordia, Gustavus Adol ,
phus, and Hamline, the Royals
tore their way through the cold
to a sparkling victory.
Despite the wind and the forty
degree temperature, five of Beth-el's
runners finished in the top
eleven. And for the first time,
Steve Johnson was not the first
man to finish for Bethel.
Tom Hulst, who did a fine job
in his Bethel debut last week,
covered the 3.8 mile Como Park
course in 20:11, one second a-head
of Johnson. Tom's time was
Elementary and Secondary Educa-tion
Act. His position has also in-volved
him in close study of the
Judicial Review, both before and
after the senatorial hearings, and
examination of the present poverty
When asked about the effects
of his work on over-all decision
making in Washington, Dr. Peter-son
replied with optimistic rea-lism
that immediate results in a
complex political situation such as
Washington were virtually impos4
sible to detect.
However, he continued to point
out that this is common to all
such pressure groups and the
non-materialization of immediate
results was by no means an indi-cation
of a failure to be heard.
As for the opportunities avail-able
for aspiring christian students
in this area of legislative research,
Dr. Peterson expressed hopeful
predictions. "Religious group's lob-bies
are growing." Not only are
they growing in number but also
in sophistication. The situation is
good enough for a fifth place
finish, while Steve grabbed sixth.
Not far behind them in the pack
were three more Bethel men. Dave
Moulton covered the course in
20:45 to take eighth, Rich Swanson
at 21:12 finished tenth, and Steve
Roe came in eleventh with a time
of 21:18.
Concordia had both the first and
second place finishers, but des-pite
this achievement, their over-all
total of 44 points was four
more than the victorious Royal&
Wrolstad and Neugebauer were the
two standouts for Concordia as the
former took first with a time of
19:12 and the latter finished sec-ond
with a time of 19:30.
Hamline racked up 58 points
in taking third place. They had
two men in the top ten with
such as to require "experts instead
of preachers" to quench the need,
Although he has not completely
ruled out the possibility of re-turning
to the educational society,
Dr. Peterson sees no change of sta-tus
in his forseeable future. He
finds both teaching and research
to be equally challenging and
would, quite frankly, prefer "either
Dr. Peterson believes that in
the church-state dicotomy there
are problems which arise and
require effort toward solution.
In a hierarchial arrangement of
these problems as they relate to
Baptist, he feels strongly that
the use of political power for re-ligious
purposes is of paramount
importance, e.g., the Dirksen
Government support of educa-tional
improvement programs and
the use of the church as a possi-ble
channel through which pover-ty
could be combated were also
cited by him as requiring much
time in present research.
Carlson taking fourth at 20:05
and Aufderheide taking seventh
at 20:17.
Jim Skoog was the lone bright
spot for the Gusties as he covered
the 3.8 miles in 20:01 for third
place. The team itself finished
with 74 points.
With two straight victories un-der
their belts, the Royals will be
seeking to extend their skein to
three next Saturday against St.
Paul Bible College.
Intramural Play
Yields Forfeits
by Tom Stocking
Frankson beat the Pit 6-0, the
Seminary overwhelmed Second old
26-0, Third old forfeited to Phelps;
and Third New forfeited to As-bury
in intramural games Sat-urday.
Frankson scored its touchdown
on a pass from Dave Martin to
Andy Lehman. Bill Malyon of
Frankson, and Mary Flodin, Dave
Dahlberg, and Jim Hammar of the
Pit were other outstanding players
in the game.
Duane Johnson threw four
touchdown passes for the Semi-nary,
two to Bruce Ericson, one to
Dennis Port, and one to Mark
Not counting games of October
15, the Seminary leads one league
with a 3-0 record, followed by
First Floor 2-0, Asbury 1-1, Sec-ond
Old 0-2, and Third New 0-3.
In the other league Phelps is 3-0,
trailed by Second New and Frank-son
1-1, the Pit 1-2, and Third
Old 0-2.
Key games this week feature
the Seminary vs. First Floor, and
Second New vs. Phelps.
Thursday, October 27, 1966
Grapplers See
Practice Open
Formal wrestling practice will
begin October 31 at 3:45 p.m. under
the direction of Allan Taylor. Tay-lor,
a graduate of Macalester Col-lege,
will be taking over the coach-ing
duties from the departed Dan
All wrestlers are required to
have their physicals by Dr. Burton
prior to the opening of practice.
They should check out equipment
immediately and start running and
lifting weights for pre-season con-ditioning.
Everyone who is interested in
wrestling is encouraged to come
out for the team. It is not neces-sary
to have had high school wrest-ling
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Harriers Take Top Spot In Quadrangular
As Hulst, Johnson Lead Impressive Win
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Thanks to some "Royal" defen-sive
play and a 76 yard touchdown
scamper by Dave "Who's number
22?" Pound, Bethel successfully
"A-Lionated-the-Trojans" of North-western
of Wisconsin. The Home-coming
victory evened the Royals'
record at 3-3 before a cold but
spirited crowd.
The stage for victory was pos-sibly
set in the initial five minutes
of the game. Bethel received the
opening kickoff, but fullback Lee
Pearson fumbled (after a fine gain)
on the second play from scrim-mage.
Four plays and two first downs
later, the Trojans were knocking
on the scoring door from Beth-el's
ten yard line. However, the
Royals' defensive unit then
tightened. Fullback Verlyn Dob-berstein
cracked the line for
only a yard, and subsequently
three Ray Kobleske passes fell
Following the take-over o n
downs, Behel moved out to the 27
Royal Defenders struggle in vain to prevent Northwestern half-back
Marty Schwartz from plunging into the end zone to tally six of
Northwestern's seven points. Bethel won the Homecoming contest 13-7.
yard line where it was forced to
punt. Steady Fred Swedberg boom-ed
a 54 hard punt to Northwes-tern's
19 yard line. Again the
Royals held and forced a Trojan
punt — a punt which traveled
only seven yards to Northwestern's
40 yard line.
On the first play of the series,
T-end Orlyn Lundborg gathered
in a 22 yard pass from Bill Eng-lund.
In three plays Bethel moved
only five yards to the 13, but on
a clutch play Englund hit Co-
Captain John Carmean for 13
yards and six points. Larry Peter-son
kicked for the seventh point.
Northwestern took the ensuing
kickoff and marched upfield 80
yards to knot the score at 7-7.
The key play in the drive was a
30 yard pass to six feet seven
inch Fred Zimmerman. Marty
Schwartz eventually banged over
for the touchdown, while Dennis
Halvorsen kicked for the PAT.
Whereas the remainder of tho
first half provided no serious,
scoring threats, the third quarter
was quite different. On the third
play from scrimmage, shifty fresh-man
Dave Pound took the pitchout
from Englund and outran the Tro-jan
defenders 76 yards to paydirt.
Pound, incidentally, has been
out for most of the season with a
broken bone in his arm. The try
for PAT failed, but the six points
were enough to bring the Royals
The remainder of the second
half settled down to a scoreless
duel (a 33 yard pass-run score
from Englund to Larry Peterson
was nullified because of a penalty.)
Bethel, who outgained Northwes-tern
275 to 216 total yardage, faces
Mayville State here next week.
by Lynn Bergfalk
One of the main faults of most sport fans revolves on their
ability to criticize without offering solutions. Just about anyone
can pick out faults, but it takes real insight to suggest answers
to these problems.
Since this is true, I would like to forward several sugges-tions
in regard to how Bethel football can become better, more
exciting, and draw larger, more spirited crowds. Here are the
steps the Administration and Athletic Department should take
immediately to achieve these ends:
1. Have all backfield men wear tear -away jerseys.
2. Have all fans look at the flag while the National An-them
is played.
3. Recruit a soccer player who could kick 45 yard field
goals consistently.
4. Buy two real lions for mascots.
5. Don't feed them on Thursdays, Fridays, or Saturday
mornings the week of a game.
6. Chain them to the goal posts in the end zone Bethel
happens to be defending (give them about 30 yards
of chain).
7. Schedule more "name" teams for fan appeal.
8. Join the MIAC.
9. Have Sophia Loren take tickets at the gate.
10. Have Doug King and Bill Ledkins give a running com-mentary
on the action during each game.
11. Give football scholarships.
12. Have a girl's football game as halftime entertainment
each home game.
13. Get the St. Paul taxpayers to build a collapsable dome
over Midway stadium.
14. Establish a scholarship fund by maintaining a pool on
professional and college football games.
15. Fill all residences on campus with ammonia 30 minutes
before game time and have eight buses headed for the
game waiting outside.
Other suggestions could also be made, but these would
perhaps represent too sharp a break from traditional practice
to make sharing them at this time feasible.
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Implemented: October 1, 2006
[As Modified]
A Strong and Prosperous Nation Secured Through a Fair and Inclusive Workplace.
We Promote Equality of Opportunity in the Workplace and Enforce Federal Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination.
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and began operating on July 2, 1965. The EEOC enforces the following federal statutes:
The Commission interprets employment discrimination laws, monitors the federal sector equal employment opportunity program, and provides funding and support to state and local Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs) and Tribal Employment Rights Organizations (TEROs). Additionally, the EEOC sponsors outreach and technical assistance programs that advise individuals and employees of their rights and responsibilities under the law.
Any individual who believes that he or she has experienced discrimination in employment may file a charge with the EEOC in any of its field offices. After investigating the charge, the EEOC determines whether there is "reasonable cause" to believe discrimination has occurred. If "reasonable cause" is found, the EEOC attempts to conciliate the charge by reaching a voluntary resolution between the charging party and the respondent. If conciliation is not successful, the Commission may bring a lawsuit in federal court to remedy the employment discrimination. As part of the administrative process, the EEOC may also issue a Right-to-Sue-Notice to the charging party, allowing the charging party to file an individual action in court.
The EEOC also offers mediation as an alternative means of dispute resolution. Rather than initially going through the traditional charge investigation process, the parties may first elect to resolve the charge voluntarily with the help of a neutral mediator.
The EEOC's federal program differs significantly from its private sector enforcement program and procedures. By contrast to the private sector, in the federal sector individuals file EEO complaints with their own agency employers and the agency conducts the initial investigation of the complaint. Subsequent to the agency investigation, the complainant may request a hearing with an EEOC Administrative Judge. In the hearing, the EEOC Administrative Judge develops a full and appropriate record, adjudicates the claims of discrimination, and issues decisions. If dissatisfied with the Administrative Judge's decision, either the complainant or the federal agency may file an appeal with the EEOC. Relief ordered in a final EEOC decision is mandatory and binding on the agency employer, except in limited circumstances. If dissatisfied with the outcome of a hearing or an appeal, a federal sector complainant, like a private sector charging party, may file a lawsuit in federal court to resolve the claims of discrimination.
The promise of equal opportunity is a legal right afforded to all of our Nation's workers and job applicants, and is woven into the fabric of the American dream. Since its inception in 1965, the EEOC has helped make this promise a reality. Equal opportunity in the workplace is a matter of social justice and a national economic imperative in the United States. Our Nation plays a leading role in today's global marketplace. To continue that role, we must make full use of the Nation's human capital by promoting workplace practices that allow all workers to achieve their highest potential.
Updating our strategic approach is a continually evolving challenge for EEOC. Technological advancements, economic shifts, heightened security alerts, the globalization of world markets, and profound demographic shifts are reshaping the workplace in the United States. Researchers forecast an increasingly diverse workforce. Ethnic and racial minority groups will continue to grow as a proportion of the workforce. Some of the challenges of serving a multi-ethnic workforce were highlighted by a poll released by the Gallup Organization in December 2005. According to those surveyed, 31% of Asians, 26% of African Americans, 18% of Hispanics, 13% of individuals with disabilities, 22% of women, and 17% of persons 40 years of age or over believed that they had been subjected to employment discrimination within the previous year. Promotion, pay, hiring, and general treatment, including harassment, were the four most common discrimination issues reported by survey respondents.
These numbers tell us that we must continue to target and enhance the EEOC's outreach, including those traditionally underserved communities whose culture or experience may not encourage complaints of discrimination. They also tell us that much work remains to be done before the promise of equal opportunity becomes a reality, and that many Americans will continue to rely on the EEOC.
This Strategic Plan provides the roadmap for the agency to position itself for the future. The Strategic Plan has one Strategic Objective (Justice, Opportunity and Inclusive Workplaces) based on the agency's vision and mission. The Objective focuses the agency on preventing discrimination, efficiently resolving claims of discrimination (including the use of alternative dispute resolution), strategically developing our enforcement, litigation and federal programs, and enhancing our internal operations to support this focus. Our Strategic Plan also incorporates many other key initiatives, such as the President's New Freedom Initiative, the EEOC's Freedom to Compete Initiative, our Youth@Work and Systemic Initiatives, and our new E-RACE Initiative (Eradicating Racism And Colorism from Employment).
In this Plan, we describe our Strategic Objective and its relationship to the EEOC's expected long-term outcomes and annual performance measures. All of our measures demonstrate in a concrete way the EEOC's impact on creating fair and inclusive workplaces across the United States. The chart on the next page demonstrates how the Strategic Plan flows from our Strategic Objective through our Long-Term Performance Measures to our Annual Performance Measures and Efficiency Measure.
The agency issued this Strategic Plan For Fiscal Years 2007 to 2012 at the beginning of FY 2007 (October 1, 2006) under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). Although the Plan covers a six-year period, the GPRA requires agencies to review; revise, if necessary; and, reissue their Strategic Plan every three years.
In addition to our GPRA review during FY 2006 in preparation for reissuing our Strategic Plan in the three year cycle, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) assessed the EEOC for the first time using its Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). OMB uses the PART to review Federal programs and their planning and performance measurement approaches. These simultaneous GPRA and PART reviews had a significant impact on the revisions we made to the structure of the Strategic Plan we issued on October 1, 2006; particularly, the agency's performance measurement structure.
During FY 2007, as the agency began to address aspects of the new performance structure, the agency identified further areas which required adjustment. With OMB's approval, these modifications were incorporated into the agency's Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for FY 2007, which was issued on November 15, 2007. In addition to the structural changes, the agency identified final performance goals for FY 2012 for its ten measures. Finally, during FY 2008, the performance structure was modified to remove one measure and targets and final goals for two of the performance measures were adjusted.
All of the modifications to this Strategic Plan For Fiscal Years 2007 through 2012 are incorporated into the chart on the next page and are fully described below.
The EEOC is the Nation's primary enforcer of the civil rights employment laws, which prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, color, religion, sex, age, and disability. The agency began its work in 1965 for the purposes of handling charges of discrimination and securing relief for victims of discrimination. More than 40 years later, the public continues to rely on the Commission to carry out these fundamental responsibilities and bring justice and opportunity to the workplace. Our fight against discrimination goes beyond enforcing the law. The best way to combat workplace discrimination is to prevent it from happening in the first place. Educating employers and workers about their rights and responsibilities under the law is the first step toward promoting an inclusive workplace, where all workers are judged on their talents and abilities without regard to any protected characteristic.
EEOC's major programs and activities are investigating and resolving charges of discrimination; litigating complaints of discrimination; conducting hearings, resolving appeals of discrimination complaints and promoting equal employment opportunity in the federal workplace; and educating the public about its rights and responsibilities. All of these programs and activities are done in the service of four shared goals:
We measure our ability to achieve these outcomes through the Long-Term, Efficiency, and Annual Measures in our Strategic Plan. These measures demonstrate our success by assessing the number of individuals benefited from our enforcement programs and by assessing the public's confidence in our enforcement of the laws.
|Long-Term/Annual Measure 1
|By FY 2012, the number of individuals benefiting from improvements to organizations' policies, practices and procedures because of the EEOC's enforcement programs increases by 20.2%.
We believe it is important to measure our success by looking beyond the monetary and equitable relief we secure through our enforcement actions. Our long-term measure focuses on tracking the improvements that are made in the workplace as a direct result of our enforcement programs. We selected this measure because, when we secure changes in employment policies, practices and procedures through our enforcement programs, we have a positive impact not only on the immediate victims of discrimination, but also on all individuals in the affected workplace. Through organization-wide changes, individuals benefit from a more inclusive workplace and have greater opportunities to compete on a level playing field. With the agency's renewed emphasis on combating systemic discrimination, we expect to make significant increases over time in the number of individuals who benefit from our enforcement activities.
The Long-Term/Annual Measure was developed to focus on all enforcement services we provide to the public that result in workplace benefits. These results include benefits from administrative resolutions (including mediation), litigation resolutions, and federal sector hearings and appeals resolutions. Beginning in FY 2005, we began collecting data on the number of individuals benefited through private sector administrative resolutions (including mediations) only. Based on that experience we adapted the same data collection approach for our other enforcement programs and established annual targets and our final goal for FY 2012.
The Long-Term/Annual Measure is linked to the EEOC's Strategic Objective by focusing on the combined results of all three of our distinct, but complementary, enforcement programs. By combining results of the enforcement programs in this one measure, we ensure that our programs work toward a common goal rather than in competition with one another. If we measured the results separately at each step of the charge process, rather than as a combined result, a resolution providing benefits for the charging party at one step logically would eliminate the ability to resolve the charge at some other step in the process. By measuring the result achieved from all of our enforcement programs as a whole, we make sure that the various programs support and complement one another, while maximizing the total number of individuals benefited.
|Efficiency Measure
|By FY 2012, the number of individuals benefiting from EEOC's enforcement programs for each agency FTE increases by 11.7%.
Enhancing the number of working people who benefit for each agency Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) position demonstrates our efficiency, because over 70% of the agency's budget is dedicated to compensation and benefits. This entirely new area of measurement relies on data of the number of individuals benefited by our enforcement programs, which is collected for Long-Term/Annual Measure 1. As noted in connection with that measure, we identified annual targets and established our final goal for FY 2012.
The correlation to our FTE level is appropriate as it recognizes that our staff are the direct contributors to positive change in the workplace and because staff levels are susceptible to change. We believe that this measure will be a compelling indicator of the efficiency of our operations.
|Long-Term Measure 2
|By FY 2012, the public rates its confidence in EEOC's enforcement of federal equal employment laws at 65% or higher.
|Annual Measure 2.1
|At least 54% of private sector charges are resolved in 180 days or fewer by FY 2012.
|Annual Measure 2.2
|At least 54% of federal sector hearings are resolved in 180 days or fewer by FY 2012.
|Annual Measure 2.3
|At least 70% of federal sector appeals are resolved in 180 days or fewer by FY 2012.
|Annual Measure 2.4
|At least 93% of investigative files meet established criteria for quality by FY 2012.
|Annual Measure 2.5
|At least 95% of respondents and charging parties report confidence in EEOC's private sector mediation/ADR program by FY 2012.
|Annual Measure 2.6
|At least 90% of EEOC lawsuits are successfully resolved during the period ending in FY 2012.
If the public is aware of our enforcement activities and believes that we have handled discrimination complaints effectively, they will be more likely to rely on us to investigate, mediate, litigate, adjudicate a federal complaint, and otherwise resolve allegations of discrimination. Additionally, if the agency's reputation is one of a fair and responsible enforcer of the civil rights employment laws, then employers, attorneys and other members of the public will be more likely to defer to our assessment of discrimination complaints and commit to voluntary compliance through mediation, settlement or conciliation.
To measure the public's confidence in the agency's enforcement of the federal equal employment opportunity laws, the agency engaged a reputable private organization to conduct a survey in FY 2007 of a representative sample of individuals nationwide. From that survey, we were able to establish a baseline value for FY 2007, annual targets, and a final goal for FY 2012.
Annual Measures 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 focus on the resolution of private sector charges, federal sector hearings, and federal sector appeals. We have established final goals for FY 2012 for all of these measures, as reflected in the modifications made to this Strategic Plan. In recognition of the maxim that justice delayed is justice denied, these measures ensure the timely resolution of complaints in each of our major complaint handling activities. The goal of resolving private sector charges within 180 days is important to containing the overall average charge processing time. It also balances the need to provide prompt service with the need to devote the necessary time and attention to charges that present meritorious or complex claims and to remedy discrimination where it is found. The goals of resolving federal sector hearings and federal sector appeals within 180 days reflect our commitment to continue the timely handling of federal sector complaints.
Annual Measure 2.4 ensures that investigative files meet quality standards. As reflected in the modifications, we also established a final goal for this measure. A large proportion of sampled investigative files reviewed will meet two critical quality criteria: 1) the appropriate charge categorization and file documentation to support actions taken, and 2) the resolution of the charge. This measure is intended to ensure that we do not complete our work quickly at the expense of performing our work well.
Annual Measure 2.5 focuses on the EEOC's mediation/ADR program. We recognize that the public's confidence in our mediation program has a significant impact on its perception of the EEOC as a whole. We obtain results for this measure by surveying participants in EEOC's mediation program and tabulating responses about their confidence in using the program. This measure has been used by the agency since 2004, so we have significant trend data upon which to base our targets. The confidence level in this program is consistently high. It is critical to maintain this level of confidence because it helps convince participants, particularly company representatives, of the value of alternative dispute resolution. In that regard, as part of the recent modifications to the Strategic Plan, we include an enhanced final goal for this measure.
Annual Measure 2.6 places a premium on maintaining the high level of successful resolutions in our litigation program. Successful resolutions include cases decided by favorable court order and those concluded through a consent decree or a settlement agreement in litigation. Achieving success on this measure will ensure that we continue to exercise our prosecutorial discretion responsibly, while allowing us to take on challenging issues and litigate complex cases, including cases of systemic discrimination. As our systemic litigation program gets underway, this measure remains significant because the achievement of success in systemic cases is challenging and resource-intensive. Our goal for this measure remains significantly ambitious through FY 2012.
In collaboration with our Fair Employment Practices Agency (FEPA) partners, in FY 2007, we initiated the development of one or more measures that will focus on the influence the actions of the many FEPAs nationwide have on the achievement of our Strategic Objective and our performance objectives. The information will help us and the FEPAs improve our cooperative relationship and common interest in improving the enforcement of our respective employment discrimination laws.
Information and Assistance
Coordination with Partners
Agency Infrastructure and the President's Management Agenda
To support the goals and strategies in this strategic plan and avoid redundancy and duplication of effort, the EEOC works in partnership and collaboration with other government agencies. We highlight below a selection of the agency's significant cross-cutting programs.
Below is a list of key external factors that could significantly affect the achievement of the EEOC's Strategic Objective and its strategies and goals. These factors provide insight on the assumptions used when defining the agency's goals.
Social Factors
Economic Factors
Demographic Factors
Technology Factors
Political Factors
Legal Factors
Program evaluation is an important component of an agency's effort to assure that a program is operating as intended and achieving results. A program evaluation is a thorough examination of program design or operational effectiveness that uses a rigorous methodology and statistical and analytical tools. It also uses expertise within and outside the program under review to enhance the analytical perspectives and add credence to the evaluation and recommendations.
The agency initiated a program evaluation of its private sector charge process, as scheduled in its previous Strategic Plan. An independent contractor focused on answering two key questions or issues about the charge process: 1) whether different charge intake procedures among field offices provide consistent access to charge filing by potential charging parties and affect charge outcomes regardless of where charging parties live, work, or engage EEOC; and 2) whether the agency-wide emphasis on annual charge inventory control and expedited charge processing affects the nature of charge closures at the end of the fiscal year. The contractor issued its final report in November 2006, and the report contained three major findings and recommendations that the contractor believed would strengthen the efficacy of the Private Sector Charge intake and closure processes, and thereby promote more consistent treatment and justice for individuals seeking assistance from EEOC regardless of the field office responding to their inquiries and requests.
The report noted that it was "… impressed by the overall operation of the process, which handles and closes more than 70,000 charges of discrimination annually and results in significant remediation of discrimination in the workplace." It indicated that the agency "… appears to keep the process functioning, handling most charges in a timely manner, achieving more 'meritorious' resolutions, securing greater monetary benefits for complainants, and keeping charge inventories under control as never before."
With respect to its three findings, the contractor found first that "there are many intake procedures that are consistent among the field offices, but there appear to be major inconsistencies in the nature and amount of information provided by EEOC to potential charging parties concerning their opportunities, rights, and responsibilities, as well as the nature of information required of potential charging parties before they could file a formal charge of discrimination. These procedural inconsistencies may result in unequal opportunity for potential charging parties to access EEOC assistance." It recommended that "policies and procedures should be established to ensure more consistency among field offices regarding the information provided by EEOC to potential charging parties regarding their rights, opportunities, and obligations related to the Private Sector Charge Process that may influence their decision to file a charge."
Second, the contractor found that, "while different intake procedures and requirements among field offices may affect access to the EEOC, they do not appear to influence charge outcomes." It recommended that the agency "… should review and correct apparent procedural inconsistencies among field offices that may impact the opportunity of potential charging parties to gain access to the Private Sector Charge Process, including hours of operation and the availability of staff to respond to inquiries and conduct intake (interviews and charge filing), the methods available to potential charging parties to participate in intake interviews or file charges, and the kinds of information required of potential charging parties to file charges."
Third, based on the data reviewed, the contractor found that "field offices close a higher number of charges during months preceding inventory control performance reporting, especially at the end of the 2 fiscal years reviewed for this evaluation. These 'spikes' in charge closures may indicate inconsistent attention to, and treatment of, charges resolved during those performance reporting months relative to other months of the fiscal year." The contractor recommended that "the Commission should conduct periodic assessments of charge closures during months preceding quarterly and end-of-the-fiscal-year inventory control performance reporting by field offices to ensure that charging parties whose charges were closed during those months received equal attention and treatment to parties whose charges were closed at other times of the year."
The agency has established organizational work groups to examine the major findings and recommendations. Additionally, the issues regarding procedural inefficiencies and charge closures will be included in the scheduled reviews of field office operations.
We have scheduled a number of program evaluations for completion during the next several years and will review opportunities to conduct additional evaluations. These evaluations will help guide adjustments or enhancements to these programs.
|Program Evaluation
|Statement of Parameters of the Program Evaluation
|Expected Initiation and Completion
|Priority Charge Handling Procedures
|Evaluate how well the Priority Charge Handling Procedures are working and ways to improve their implementation.
|Initiate FY 2007
Complete FY 2009
|Outreach/Technical Assistance
|Evaluate the effectiveness of fee and no-fee based outreach/technical assistance efforts; for example, agency Technical Assistance Program Seminars (TAPS), Youth@Work activities, speakers at meetings, forums, panels, or other activities designated as outreach or technical assistance.
|Initiate FY 2009
Complete FY 2010
|EEOC External Communications
|Evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the EEOC's external communications efforts, including publicity, the agency's activities with the media, the external web site, and other public communications efforts.
|Initiate FY 2010
Complete FY 2011
|Effect of EEOC's Federal Sector Evaluations and Assistance
|Evaluate the results achieved from EEOC's evaluation and assistance activities with federal agencies that changed policies, practices or procedures.
|Initiate FY 2011
Complete FY 2012
|Systemic Enforcement
|Evaluate the effectiveness of the EEOC's systemic enforcement initiative.
|Initiate FY 2012
Complete FY 2013
The agency made interim modifications to its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2007 through 2012. Many modifications were made and included in the agency's FY 2007 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR), which became effective on November 15, 2007. A final goal for Annual Measure 2.1 was initially determined shortly after that date. Also, although we included baselines for four (4) of our measures in the PAR, we were able to initially determine our annual targets and final goals for these measures several months later. Subsequent to establishing these initial targets and goals, we made further adjustments to better align the performance structure and the annual targets and final goals with our enhanced workload and available resources. All of our modifications to the Strategic Plan are described below:
Initially, Long-Term Measure 1 included two Annual Measures. These integrated measures were designed to demonstrate the EEOC's results in providing benefits to individuals in the workplace because of its enforcement and outreach programs. During the agency's review and preliminary efforts to design an appropriate methodology for collecting data, the agency determined that the enforcement program was the substantial component of the Long-Term Measure, and that it was not currently feasible to develop a reliable method for collecting and analyzing outreach data. In consultation with OMB, the measure was modified to measure the agency's enforcement programs only. The Annual Measure regarding outreach results was removed. Since the remaining Annual Measure for enforcement results was now redundant with the Long-Term Measure, it was also removed. Long-Term Measure 1 was modified to Long-Term/Annual Measure 1 and minor language changes were made.
In reviewing the overall focus of the agency's Strategic Plan, it was determined that a separate Management Objective was not required, since the agency's efforts to improve its internal operations were designed to benefit its front-line enforcement and outreach programs. The agency incorporated the concepts of organizational improvement into the Means and Strategies section of the Strategic Plan; highlighting their important supportive role. Organizational changes and efforts to implement the President's Management Agenda are part of the agency's strategies for doing all of its work more effectively and efficiently.
Also, the concepts described under the umbrella of the Five-Point Plan have always been critical aspects of its work. Although the Five-Point Plan itself provided an overall structure to express these important concepts, it added another organizational layer to the Strategic Plan that the agency now considers unnecessary. With the removal of a separate Management Objective and the incorporation of the essential elements into the Strategic Plan's Means and Strategies, the structure of the Five-Point Plan was less important and may add confusion for the reader of the EEOC's documents. Even though the structure of the Five-Point Plan was removed, the essential concepts remain in the Strategic Plan.
The agency also revised a number of the program evaluations it intends to conduct during the life of the Strategic Plan. The revised program evaluation schedule is included in this plan.
In addition, a completed program evaluation on the Private Sector Charge Process, that informed our revision of the program evaluation schedule, was described.
The organization of the measures was revised to better explain their interrelationship. Since the Efficiency Measure was directly related to the results achieved with the revised Long-Term/Annual Measure 1, it was moved directly after Measure 1 to better connect the relationship.
The agency established initial targets and final goals through FY 2012, with OMB approval, for all of its performance measures and reported its accomplishments in the agency's FY 2007 PAR and its FY 2009 budget submission to Congress in February 2008. Based upon recognition that there was a need to balance the increased agency workload with its available resources, the agency and OMB reviewed and reassessed the previously established performance structure and the initial targets and final goals for two of the agency's performance measures during the second half of FY 2008. Three adjustments were made. For its performance structure, Annual Measure 2.7 was removed, because the agency will be reconsidering how best to collect, use and report on data for describing the achievements for this measure. Finally, baselines, targets and goals were revised for two measures. For Long Term Measure 2, measuring confidence in the EEOC, the baseline for FY 2007, the annual targets and the final goal for FY 2012 were increased because the methodology used to aggregate the collected survey data was revised. For Annual Measure 2.1, measuring the percent of charges resolved in 180 days or fewer, the baseline for FY 2007, the annual targets and the final goal for FY 2012 were reduced to establish ambitious, but more realistic, targets/goals in order to better balance the increasing workload with available agency resources.
A placeholder was added for the development of a measure of the contribution of our FEPA partners toward achievement of the agency's goals. This development effort is required by the PART and the Improvement Plan adopted to change the agency's rating.
In addition, the graphic presentation of the new performance structure was revised to accurately reflect the other revisions made to the plan.


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What is math?
"Math is natures way of communicating with us" - Charlie Eps, Numb3rs
"Math is a gigantic can of whoopass in disguise" - Mikau
Whats your philosophy? What is math?
Last edited by mikau (2005-11-29 18:33:36)
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
"Math is the intelligence and order of the mind of God. This order enforced upon the world holds the physical word together. Without it, nothing could exist. God created the world, but first he created math, and built the world upon it." - Mikau
And btw, the idea of this thread is just to list lots of interesting philosophies about math. Not start a religious debate. If you do not believe in God, just ignore it, I'm not trying to preach or prove anything.
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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
OK, just so long as it doesn't get serious ...
Mathematics is the language of the universe ... whatever universe you want it be the language of!
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
This maths is the cornerstone of this universe, an entityless carcass which holds this world together.
The world is a mathemathic machine, running through it's complex mechanics powered by some unknown something that is time.We are a function of it, making our way following our endless parabola of the world field, determined by the terms "man" and the fractals of it.We do not just exist, we are "allowed" to exist by the model, and therefore we exist.
And who is god?Well, he's just the chief mechanic
As at night, we realise we will never Know and further thinking is pointless....Yet we start again and again
Heres another one!
What is math?
Math is fun! :-D
Last edited by mikau (2005-11-30 04:32:00)
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
I think this great topic is underrated.
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You mean its been reviewed?
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
If you want to get serious about the philosophy of math...
Imre Lakatos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakatos
Lakatos' philosophy of mathematics was inspired by both Hegel's and Marx' dialectic, Karl Popper's theory of knowledge, and the work of mathematician George Polya.
The book Proofs and Refutations is based on his doctoral thesis. It is largely taken up by a fictional dialogue set in a mathematics class. The students are attempting to prove the formula for the Euler characteristic in algebraic topology, which is a theorem about the properties of polyhedra. The dialogue is meant to represent the actual series of attempted proofs which mathematicians historically offered for the conjecture, only to be repeatedly refuted by counterexamples. Often the students 'quote' famous mathematicians such as Cauchy.
What Lakatos tried to establish was that no theorem of informal mathematics is final or perfect. This means that we should not think that a theorem is ultimately true, only that no counterexample has yet been found. Once a counterexample, i.e. an entity contradicting/not explained by the theorem is found, we adjust the theorem, possibly extending the domain of its validity. This is a continuous way our knowledge accumulates, through the logic and process of proofs and refutations. (If axioms are given for a branch of mathematics, however, Lakatos claimed that proofs from those axioms were tautological, i.e. logically true.)
Lakatos proposed an account of mathematical knowledge based on the idea of heuristics. In Proofs and Refutations the concept of 'heuristic' was not well developed, although Lakatos gave several basic rules for finding proofs and counterexamples to conjectures. He thought that mathematical 'thought experiments' are a valid way to discover mathematical conjectures and proofs, and sometimes called his philosophy 'quasi-empiricism'.
However, he also conceived of the mathematical community as carrying on a kind of dialectic to decide which mathematical proofs are valid and which are not. Therefore he fundamentally disagreed with the 'formalist' conception of proof which prevailed in Frege's and Russell's logicism, which defines proof simply in terms of formal validity.
On its publication in 1976, Proofs and Refutations became highly influential on new work in the philosophy of mathematics, although few agreed with Lakatos' strong disapproval of formal proof. Before his death he had been planning to return to the philosophy of mathematics and apply his theory of research programmes to it. One of the major problems perceived by critics is that the pattern of mathematical research depicted in Proofs and Refutations does not faithfully represent most of the actual activity of contemporary mathematicians.
Pretty interesting stuff. I've only read his stuff on the philosophy of science though, not math.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
"Philosophy and Math should not mix. Were it not so, Kepler's discovery of elliptical orbits would not have been controversial."
"Math is, more than any other subject, the training of the brain's logical and computational engines. For this reason, it's hardest to learn, requiring the most effort to master. For this reason, it's impossible to teach--every mind is unique, and must be trained in its own way; teachers of math must learn how to get out of students' collective way. For this reason, most people hate and fear math."
"Math is the tool that has built all societies."
All quotes by me .
I don't think Math should be called a science any more than engineering is a science. I don't see in it a natural law. Rather, it is a tool of our invention that allows us to describe and manipulate our world. It is the glue that holds all sciences together.
And, to mikau, I also think God is a mathematician. "The heavens, they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but they are numbered unto me, for they are mine." -God
El que pega primero pega dos veces.
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
Math is a tool to communicate the logical progression of conceptual ideas. It is like any others science a figmant of the collective conscience. It is useless without a particular subjective viewpoint and set of assumptions. Gravity is no more of a true force than 1+1=2 unless we all agree to say it is so.
Why isn't logic a science?
The understanding of information fields between people can and should be brought down to formulas.
As at night, we realise we will never Know and further thinking is pointless....Yet we start again and again
However, our "wetware" is a complex net of neurons that reaches conclusions based on incomplete data. Very important survival tool, but not good at hard logic.
So a cheap calculator can do something hopelessly beyond us. But the most advanced computer couldn't survive on a camping trip (without help!).
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Ever noticed how our brain works?
It does not calculate with digits or binaries, but with "factors" and "factorial interactions".This intrigues me the most.If we could map this, and push this logic further than our brain can push it, we could "understand" many things.Einstein understood his theories because his brain could resonate up to those high factors, understand their integration, and allow enough room around it to explain it in plain words.
Could it be possible to construct a computer that would use the human brain code as operating module?
What is a brain-factor?Can it be defined (I hope no one will deny it's existence here)
Could it be mathematically noted?
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I have done some research on that subject in my own humble way, and I like to think that we can model brain function on silicon.
Interestingly, what is needed is a true random number generator, or else the machines thinking could be labeled "static".
"Neural Networks" is the subject.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
People are close to achieving true randomness by building a computer that counts the number of atoms in a radioactive sample that decay at any given time.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
Why isn't logic a science?
My dictionary defines science as "The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment" (emphasis mine).
Science involves logic, but logic is not science.
So a cheap calculator can do something hopelessly beyond us. But the most advanced computer couldn't survive on a camping trip (without help!).
Or another example, something we do constantly: image recognition. This is very, very hard to get a computer to do reliably, and is one of the things holding robotics back.
Our brains are broken in odd ways. We have a brain that stores every input it ever receives, and then promptly forgets where. Its autonomous function processing is incredibly powerful--when we train it to do things, it can do a large number of them at the same time. One example is sight-reading music. But, our higher function processing is annoyingly modal (to use a computer nerd term) - that is, only one task fits in there at a time.
I don't know how they came up with the oft-quoted figure that humans only use 10% of their brains, but it feels true to me.
El que pega primero pega dos veces.
Gentlemen, forget those random generators.Everything works with starting values, even the human brain.
Proof: think about a random word.The word that comes up into your imagination isn't completely random, it is a word that you associate with the theme you was thinking on by now.If it wasn't directly associated, then it was indirectly associated (for example, the word wolf somehow reminds me about motorcross, probably something that has happened in the past).But you will NOT come upon a completely random word.
This means, the human brain is not randomizing.
Which means it isn't randomized.
Which means, to simulate it you just have to copy the structure and add hormonal simulators (feelings) to it.
As the "free will" of a human being is directed by the amount of chemicals playing in it's blood, interacting with the analytical function and memory.
Proof: how even the most gallant gentleman can turn into a dirty pig upon the sight of a naked lady.The sexual hormons will affect the "free will", making the person thinking about only one thing: how to get that lady.
As at night, we realise we will never Know and further thinking is pointless....Yet we start again and again
Give her some clothes. Why else would he be a gentleman?
Philosophy of math:
Interpreting order from chaos.
In that case his sense of honor would be bigger than his wanting of sexual pleasure. Still no counterproof.
And what chaos? Where? According to who?
What you call chaos is chaos because it's chaotic to you.
What policemen call "chaos on the streets" is in fact an organized crime hierarchy better organized than any social structure known to men.
As at night, we realise we will never Know and further thinking is pointless....Yet we start again and again
What counterproof?
Your definitions seem bitter.
Would you have us, interpret ohaos from crder then?
Is there even a difference for you?
Significance of numbers and mathematics:
Instead of an apple being just an apple, it becomes 1 apple.
To trade 1 apple for 1 banana ... 3 for 3 ... a dozen for a dozen.
Rather than, "all of what I have for all of what you have".
Which may seem balanced without numbers.
(and that's all ignoring quality ... before even getting to the market)
To cook:
"set it and forget it" rather than the art of BBQ
In manufacturing:
Interchangable parts instead of "eye-balling" each component to size or custom fit.
Maths eliminates guess work. (well, sometimes it is guess work ... or best-option work)
It simplifies into a repeatable process.
Seeing that mathematics is a language, used to read reality ... Math, being an expandable application, can account for items within it's own level of calculability ... The further we advance the art of numbers, the more we could say that whatever we apply that math to is, by extension, mathematics.
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What is so bitter about my definitions?Excuse me, I do not understrand the meaning of that word in context, do you mean bitter as in "pessimistic" or bitter as in "weak, bad,insufficient"?
Take the tangens(sp) of a corner.I am not so interested in what the tangens is at known values (30 degrees root 3/3 and so on) but what really does intrigue me is: we all know that the tangens of 90 degrees is ∞, but if you subtract a number so small that it lies somewhere in the end of the endless PI tail of it, it would be a existing number, almost endlessly far but still existant.That is what truly intrigues me, what does TRULY happen at those edges where traditional maths says that it SUPPOSES something is like that.Those edges beyond all numbers and known defenitions.Perharps it's just my childish ignorance and curiosity playing in me.
I interpret chaos as it is, as I consider there is no order and chaos, only defined and undefined things according to mankind.Your apple is only for us 1 apple, it is in fact no more than a part of "1 ecosystem" which is a part of "1 galaxy" which, at the end, is a part of "1 plane of existance".
So to me, there isn't a difference between order and chaos, they are for me as relative as random, up, beautiful....
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as in taste buds
Now if you want to reorder language, that's your perogative.
Forget Webster.
Read carefully:
Interpreting order from chaos.
Last edited by Jims (2005-12-09 08:07:34)
It's a good definition ... but in the last few decades Mathematicians have been interpreting chaos from order! (Mandelbrot et al)
However, being able to define chaos is (in a sense) creating order.
I believe that "randomity" is one of the basics of nature. Possibly more fundamental than space and time.
If the universe were Newtonian (totally definable and mechanical) then we could write a set of equations (a large set, but still possible) that completely defined the universe from beginning to end. So it would be a static universe.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman


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Minneapolis-Moline introduced the standard-tread U tractor in the summer of 1938. It was rated as a 3-4 plow tractor and its 4-cylinder, high-compression Minneapolis-Moline engine for gasoline produced an estimated 47 belt horsepower. The maximum drawbar horsepower was estimated to be 38 with rubber tires and 33 with steel wheels. The 5-speed transmission enabled the tractor to travel at speeds up to 20 mph on rubber tires. The metal pan seat was supported by a compressed rubber mounting. The MM U tractor was controlled by a hand clutch and the two brake pedals were located behind the rear axle, with one on the left and one on the right. The U was painted the new MM colors of Prairie Gold with red wheels and grill.
An exciting new tractor introduction occurred on September 23, 1938 when Minneapolis-Moline held a National Harvest Festival and Style Show at the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium. With 12,000 people present, the curtains were opened to reveal five examples of the new UDLX Comfortractor, three with an enclosed steel cab and two without. This new approach to tractor design was based on the standard-tread U model, but featured a steel cab, fenders over all four wheels, and a front bumper. With a top speed of 40 mph and upholstered seating for two people, the UDLX was capable of working in the fields and then being driven to town.
The UDLX Comfortractor was powered by the engine from the standard-tread U and carried the same 3-4 plow rating. The 12.75-32 rear tires and the 5-speed transmission combined to provide speeds of 2.7, 3.5, 4.7, 10.2, and 20 mph. A variable speed governor controlled by a "foot-feed" enabled the UDLX to reach the 40 mph speed in fifth gear. The cab was equipped with a heater, radio, horn, windshield wipers, safety glass in the windows, rearview mirror with clock, sun visor, a clutch pedal, and a brake pedal. Starter and lights were standard equipment. The right fender could be quickly removed for belt work and a PTO was available. Magazine articles described the UDLX as the world's most modern tractor, a cornfield limousine, and as a truck-tractor, replacing a truck by pulling a trailer. Minneapolis-Moline said an independent survey of farmers made before the UDLX was introduced revealed 50 percent of the farmers wanted a tractor with a cab. However, this didn't happen in the marketplace as only 150 of the UDLX Comfortractors were produced. It would be the 1960s before cabs for tractors became popular.
Larry Gay is the author of four tractor books published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, including Farm Tractors 1975-1995 and Farm Tractors 1995-2005. These books may be obtained from ASABE at 800-695-2723 or asabe.org, click publications and then click book catalog.
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