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With parking lots on campus seem-ingly filling up faster and faster each day, off-campus students are left to ponder alternatives to their morning commutes. One option is the Metro Transit College Pass.

The $140 pass allows for unlimited access to buses and light rails in the Twin Cities. “The student rate is re-ally a great deal,” said Jenny Rosene of Student Life. The numbers support her claim. According to Metro Tran-sit, using the pass four days per week saves 65 percent when compared to other passes.

Off-campus students do not need to worry about paying for both a parking permit and bus pass. Those who purchase the pass are not auto-matically charged for an on-campus

parking permit. Student Life ac-

knowledges that the pass is not for everyone. “If you are already using public transporta-tion, it’s very ben-eficial,” Rosene said. “Commuters and stu-dents with off-campus jobs may benefit more.”

For off-campus stu-dents, bus routes should be considered before purchasing the pass. There are no stops within a mile of Bethel’s campus, meaning students must first ride to the Rosedale mall be-fore taking the Bethel shuttle onto cam-pus – adding minutes to the commute. According to Metro Transit, this isn’t a bad thing. They suggest that on the bus, students can “turn travel time into

productive time” through reading and studying. They also cite the decrease in carbon footprint as a reason to buy.

Passes are offered for fall, spring and summer. The current pass is good until May 31. There is no deadline for purchasing a transit pass, but all passes expire on the same date. Passes and ad-ditional information are available in the Office of Student Life.

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NewsWintry world

recordDuring Seattle’s Jan. 12 "Snow Day" celebration,

5,834 people joined in a snow ball fight in Seattle Cen-ter, setting a new world record. The previous record for the largest snow battle was 5,387, set on Jan. 22, 2010, in Taebaek, South Korea. In all, 162,000 pounds of snow was brought into the park for the event. Local organizations competed in a snow fort building com-petition before the chaos began – only to have their work toppled minutes later. The purpose of the event was to raise money for charity and “embrace the inner child in all of us,” according to event organizers.

Jon Westmark News Editor

Obama threatens gun crackdown

On Monday, Jan. 14, one month after the school mas-sacre in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama laid out a plan for both legislative action and potential executive orders to make gun control more stringent. The plan out-lines 19 steps the president can take without legislation from Congress, which is deeply divided on the issue. These steps include new limits on imported guns, increased sharing of mental health records, continued research on gun violence and strict enforcement of existing laws. The reaction from lawmakers was predictably mixed. Rep-resentative Steve Stockman said he would file articles of impeachment, while other representatives called it “the most comprehensive gun safety effort in a generation.”

Death Star a no-goThe White House recently released a statement saying

that it will not build a version of the Star Wars Death Star. Among the reasons given were the estimated $850 qua-drillion cost and that the current administration does not support blowing up planets. The statement was released in response to a petition that garnered more than 25,000 online signatures. The Obama administration requires a response from the White House for such "viral" petitions. The playful response from White House’s Chief of the Sci-ence and Space branch brought about an instant response from Darth Vader on Twitter: “You can never have enough planet-sized lasers."

Morsi under scrutinyEgyptian president Mohammed Morsi is being ques-

tioned about his stance on Israel after videos surfaced from 2010 in which he made inflammatory anti-Semit-ic statements. In the video, Morsi urges Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and Zionists, calling them “descendents of apes and pigs.” The statements were made in the wake of a three-week conflict between Hamas and Israel but are now raising questions about how moderate Morsi’s lead-ership is. No apology or clarification has been issued. Ex-perts say an apology may open him to criticism from his own party, while saying nothing will hurt Morsi’s explicit desire to be “real friends” with the United States.

Jobs for veteransWal-Mart will release a new initiative this month

to hire those who have served in the military. In the largest initiative to hire veterans in history, the corpo-ration plans to hire any veteran who has left service in the previous year and was not dishonorably dis-charged. The program, to begin May 27, will provide 100,000 veterans with jobs over the next five years, according to company officials. The unemployment rate for veterans in 2012 was about two percent high-er than that of non-veterans. Michelle Obama called Wal-Mart’s initiative “groundbreaking” in the effort to decrease veteran unemployment.

Possible crimes against humanity

On Monday, Jan. 14, Navi Pillay, the chief human rights official at the United Nations, called for an inquiry into al-leged human rights offenses committed by the North Ko-rean government. The proposed investigation will look at the network of prison camps said to hold 200,000 people. The camps are believed to enforce inhumane practices on prisoners such as torture, rape and slave labor. Accord-ing to Pillay, Kim Jong-un has not improved circumstances since taking over as leader in December 2011. Human rights groups have been working to persuade Japan to sponsor a resolution in the upcoming U.N. session for an international investigation.

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NewsBU team invited to prestigious cooking competitionnSodexo's Justin Kaderlik is helping change the food culture at Bethel

matt kelleyEditor-in-Chief

While its contempo-raries are more concerned with corndogs than chicken cordon bleu, the Monson Dining Center is home to some of the best chefs in the state. And that’s exactly how executive chef Justin Kaderlik planned it.

As an accomplished chef trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Kaderlik has set high standards when hiring the more than 50 members of his kitchen staff. Applicants must exhibit knife skills, culinary knowledge and a passion for food to even be considered. Most have previous experience either working in or owning a res-taurant, preparing them for the fast pace of professional food service.

“If I don’t get those qual-ity people in the door, I’m not going to have quality food on the lines – simple as that,” Kaderlik said.

But hiring talented chefs is only the beginning of Kad-erlik’s influence over the DC kitchen. As the leader of the entire cooking staff, he purposely attempts to chal-lenge his chefs to be more creative, to create new dishes and to develop their skills.

The most recent exam-ple of this growth plan was the 25th annual Taste of Elegance competition, held Tuesday, Jan. 15. Sponsored by the Minnesota Pork

Board, this cooking com-petition featured 17 of the best chefs in Minnesota. Kaderlik was the only invi-tee who works at a dining hall.

Despite the unique dis-tinction of being a non-restaurateur, Kaderlik feels that his experience at Beth-el has prepared him and his crew for competitive cook-ing.

“What we do at Bethel is more demanding than a competition,” he said. “Here, students are going to be at the door at 11 o’clock whether we’re ready or not. There’s no leeway.”

Since the competition was sponsored by pork farmers, the only rule for creating recipes was that pork – in any form but tenderloin – had to be the main entrée ingredient. But when Kaderlik sat down to create the menu, he real-ized he wanted to challenge himself and his crew fur-ther. He initiated a six-week voting process to select three key ingredients and a country of origin. When the dust settled, he was forced to make a recipe that incor-porated pistachios, morel mushrooms and balsamic reduction into a pork dish, packaged in Spanish or Por-tuguese style.

Kaderlik decided to make a pork belly Redondo de carne, a flat cut of meat stuffed with morel mush-rooms and sweet pimentos then rolled into a log shape.

On the side he served a Spanish onion and olive potato stack and pan-fried asparagus. If it sounds com-plicated, that’s because it is – the recipe is five pages long, single-spaced.

Add the fact that Kad-erlik had only attempted to prepare the dish once be-fore the competition and it’s easy to see why he calls himself a risk-taker.

“I knew how it would look in my mind and I knew how I would do it, but I didn’t know if it would work,” he said of his cre-ation. “The only way to get to that next level of great-ness is to take the risk.”

And according to Nicole Schneider, one of Kader-lik’s assistants at the Taste of Elegance, greatness was achieved.

“It’s so good,” Schneider said after the team’s only trial run. “I’ve never had anything so flavorful be-fore.”

Schneider, who started working at Bethel in August, was chosen as an assistant because she participated in every step of the ingredient selection process. The other assistant was veteran Chris O’Neal, who was next in line after narrowly missing an opportunity to join Kaderlik at a state fair display.

Since he also works at a few other schools and trav-els between them, Kaderlik uses the competitions as ways to develop his staff so they’re not completely reli-

ant on his presence. Schnei-der said the tactic works and that Kaderlik’s knowl-edge and steady presence have made her a better, more confident chef.

And the experience in the DC kitchen has been mutually rewarding. Kad-erlik could have chosen to represent any of the schools that he works at, but he said that Bethel is his home.

“Bethel is a different ani-mal because of the camara-derie and because people care,” he said. “I would much rather represent a college with Christian val-ues like Bethel, because of what I’ve gotten out of the experience here.”

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NewsCarbon monoxide leak causes a stir in Bethel dormnAfter smelling sulfur, the residents of Heritage 404 and Bethel security officers took no chances

Celeste HarloWFor The Clarion

After a long day of classes, students expect to find a sense of peace and home-coming when they return to their dorm rooms. On Nov. 11, senior Heritage resident Christine Carroll and her roommates found no such comfort as they came home to the smell of sulfur, a sign of a natural gas leak.

Carroll called Security and Safety imme-diately for fear of carbon monoxide (CO). Chuck Broz, Bethel’s lead heating, ventila-tion and cooling (HVAC) technician, was contacted, and he shut down the rooftop heating unit producing the CO. The follow-ing day, Bethel HVAC personnel examined the problem unit and made repairs. They believed the unit was working properly. Four days later, the smell returned and secu-rity was again contacted.

An officer responded immediately and arrived to room 404 with a CO detector in hand. Carroll said, “He came into my room and [the CO detector] just started going crazy.” According to Carroll, she was then told to leave her room until she was in-formed it was safe to return. This was not in Bethel’s official report.

Doug Gabrielsen, Bethel’s manager of energy and technical services stated “the CO was not in the building at any point in time, it was in the stack [of the unit]. The smell came in from that, but not the CO itself.”

That night, security contacted the Lake Johanna Fire Department who responded to the call with the Ramsey County sheriff and an Xcel Energy representative. Upon exami-nation by the officials, no CO was found in Heritage. The pipe outside of the problem unit was found to have elevated CO lev-els. Bethel staff decided to once again shut down the unit. HVAC staff monitored the unit carefully and completed additional re-pairs before it was turned on again on Nov. 30.

The next day, Carroll noticed the smell a

third time and contacted Broz directly. The unit once again had elevated levels of CO. Though the levels in and around the unit were within state standards of operation, Broz decided to shut down the unit yet again and complete further testing. State regula-tion allows for 400 parts per million (ppm) of CO in the flue of a unit, but Bethel standards are more strict. “When we hit 101 [ppm] we take our equipment offline,” Broz said. “We know something doesn’t seem quite right with the piece of equipment, so we start testing it.”

The unit ran during the following days under close surveillance and was shut off at night. After the unit ran with no problems for ten days, it was left on overnight. It con-tinues to function properly.

Bethel’s HVAC team has used this inci-dent as an opportunity to consider revisions to their preventative maintenance proce-dures, which will include earlier replace-ment of functioning parts that may become problematic.

The residents of Heritage 404 want this circumstance to become an op-portunity. “What my roommates and I really want to convey is that this could happen to anybody, anywhere in the most unexpected places,” Carroll said. “It can happen in your house, it can happen in your dorm, it can happen in a hotel room.” Carroll and her room-mates hope that their experience will encourage fellow students to educate themselves about CO poisoning.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in low concen-trations, CO can cause headaches, dizzi-ness, weakness, nausea, confusion and mood swings. Carroll said she and her suite-mates each experienced similar symptoms. The investigating officials encouraged them to seek out medical attention and be tested for CO poison-ing. While none of the women were medically tested, they remain convinced

that what they were experiencing was more than typical end of the semester exhaustion. “I was sleeping so many hours,” Carroll said. “I knew something was weird.”

Carroll urges her peers to be aware of the signs and symptoms of the presence of CO. If you smell sulfur, it may be chemicals added to odorless natural gas. If this smell is accompanied with the symptoms previously listed, leave immediately and contact local authorities. Though the symptoms are not life threatening at low levels of CO, higher levels may lead to unconsciousness or death.

Bethel officials do not foresee additional carbon monoxide issues on campus. Molly Holmes, director of operations, confirmed that “student safety is our number one pri-ority.” Along with 24/7 Security and Safety presence, a member of the facilities man-agement team is always on-call in case of emergencies in Bethel buildings.

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Jenny HudallaSports Editor

When Gorpu Sumo left her war-torn home in Liberia to build a life in the United States, she didn’t know she would be asked to aban-don her old way of life. She didn’t know people would make fun of the sound of her name, the lilt of her accent and the smell of her food. As it turns out, Bethel’s cozy campus and agreeable atmosphere are not always as welcoming as she expected.

“I know people don’t intention-ally want to hurt me,” Sumo said. “But they say things out of igno-rance. They’ve heard stereotypes, and they treat me based on that.”

Like Sumo, many minority stu-dents struggle to maintain their cultural identity without assimilat-ing to Bethel’s overwhelmingly white culture. In its effort to im-prove race relations, the university sponsors several groups that aim to both make the school friendlier to minorities and educate the major-ity on issues of reconciliation.

Through the Navigators pro-gram, minority students have the option to move in early and meet other students with similar back-grounds. Many go on to join the United Cultures of Bethel, a group open to all Bethel students seeking dialogue with their peers about is-sues of race, gender and class.

Many white students expressed frustration with groups like Naviga-tors and UCB. Some view the pro-grams as divisive, unnecessary and a form of reverse racism.

Sophomore Sam Twetan said he thinks Navigators is counter-productive. “You’re already getting enough community on your fresh-man floor,” he said. “To have [mi-norities] come early to meet all the

other minority students doesn’t integrate them into the culture. If I were a minority, I would find that offensive.”

Minority students who con-sider these programs a safe space are upset by the subtle growth of opposition, especially because the majority of the criticism comes from white students.

“As a Hmong woman, I would never speak for a white person or a black person,” said Baolue Vang, executive director of intercultural programs. “That would be ignorant on my part and selfish. You have to ask yourself if you’ve asked people of color if this something [they] like and need instead of assuming the negatives about it.”

Josh Phenow, director of the white subgroup within UCB, said resistance to these programs often stems from a place of privilege. Be-cause most white students aren’t faced with the same social chal-lenges as students of color, they struggle to understand why Beth-el’s homogeneity can be suffocat-ing.

“Minorities face the reality [of

white culture] daily, and these pro-grams are one place where they get to be safe,” Phenow said. “If you see these programs as catering to the minority community, you have to view every other aspect of Bethel as catering to white students.”

According to Chief Diversity Officer Leon Rodrigues, most stu-dents and faculty don’t notice Bethel’s whiteness because it suits their cultural norms. But white cul-ture permeates the institution’s theology, the chapel music, the food in the Dining Center and the academic curriculum. Many minor-ity students find themselves stuck in a difficult situation, forced to choose between assimilation and separation.

“I was so excited to have white friends and speak like I’m white, and now my [black] friends make fun of me,” Sumo said. “We feel this pressure to act white and do the things white people do. But it’s not me; it’s not how I want to sound.”

According to Leah Fulton, asso-ciate dean of intercultural student programs, the university needs to bring in more students and faculty

of color so that Bethel isn’t defined by one dominant culture, but en-riched by many cultures that are equally important.

Many students, regardless of their ethnicity, believe Bethel specifically markets to white sub-urbia because of Minnesota’s de-mographics. Some, like Twetan, believe there is nothing wrong with Bethel’s lack of racial diversity.

“I don’t think we need to fix something that isn’t broken,” he said. “Minnesota is a primarily white state. There’s nothing wrong with the student body being mostly white. It’s demographics.”

Although he doesn't think that Bethel explicitly markets to white, middle-class people, President Jay Barnes agrees that population dis-tribution is partly responsible for Bethel’s whiteness.

“If you take students from Min-nesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and Wis-

consin, that’s almost 90 percent of our students in the College of Arts and Sciences,” he said. “If you look at the demographics of those states, they are strongly white. We’re becoming more diverse, but we’re not California or New York.”

Others insist that demograph-ics cannot be used as an excuse for Bethel’s homogenous student body, which they believe is the cul-prit behind the growing trend of intolerance for minority programs and the general lack of race-related education.

“The nature of the culture here is going to perpetuate blindness and numbness to realities and is-sues like these,” Phenow said. “Bethel desires and markets to white, middle-class suburbia, so of course that’s going to get perpetu-ated by who you’re bringing in.”

Fulton said that because the Kingdom of God comprises every

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nation, tribe and tongue, Bethel shouldn’t be complacent with its 6.3 percent faculty of color and 14.9 percent students of color.

“What do we want to be a re-flection of?” she asked. “Minneso-ta? Or the body of Christ?”

Fulton believes Bethel’s Chris-tian roots often encourage stu-dents to define themselves only as children of God, diminishing their unique and individual creation. Ac-cording to her, students and faculty alike use Galatians 3:28 to promote the concept of a colorblind Jesus, asserting that we should not see color.

“It’s not about race or the color of your skin; it’s about being chil-dren of God,” Twetan said. “There aren’t white Christians and black Christians. We’re all Christians, and we all have the same job: to further the Kingdom of God.”

Although many students agree

with Twetan, others point out the danger in affirming the idea of col-orblindness. Sumo, who bought into the concept when she first came to Bethel, later realized that it forced her to deny part of her iden-tity.

“If we don’t see culture, we don’t see the person,” she said. “I feel like my culture is attached to my color. If you don’t see my color, then I have to conform and pretend that I’m white.”

Fulton said the university must do more to educate students about cultural acceptance and unity. Be-cause the faculty and staff are role models, she believes their engage-ment – or lack thereof – with race-related issues communicates what is important.

Edwin Gonzalez, director of Voz Latina within UCB, said neither fac-ulty nor students are doing enough to challenge the preconceived no-

tions of the majority.“Anyone who comes here with

a different background is pointed out as ‘the other,’” he said. “That’s colonization – seeing your culture as a dominant culture that others have to be a part of and conform to. [UCB’s] intention is to create con-versation and say, ‘No. We can all be diverse and unified.’”

Sumo agreed, expressing her belief that Bethel students need to learn more about not just toler-ating but also celebrating cultural differences within the community.

“They put all of us in one cat-egory,” she said. “That bothers me. There’s [a difference between] African American and African. My identity and who I am matters to me. I hate when people put us all in a box.”

According to Phenow, the re-cent push for reconciliation at Bethel might cause white students to feel guilty and attacked. While he said it’s justifiable for white stu-dents to mourn the fact that they’ve inherited a privilege they didn’t ask for, he also believes they have to take responsibility for reaping the

benefits of an unjust system.“Coming to realize that is tough,

and it’s hard to know what to do with it,” Phenow said. “You have to use that privilege in the right way to change things. White people need to kick other white people in the butt to see these realities and use it to deny their own privilege.”

Like Phenow, President Barnes acknowledges he benefits from an unjust social system that makes whiteness the norm. Even if he hasn’t done anything wrong, he knows it is still his responsibility to reverse the historical damages still affecting society today.

“I’m a stakeholder in trying to make Bethel more like the Kingdom of God, which will include people from every tribe and tongue,” he said. “It’s my obligation as a person who has multiple privileges to use my privilege for the benefit of oth-ers who don’t have them.”

Although many people might be tempted to dismiss reconcili-ation as a tired and unnecessary topic, Barnes encourages the Beth-el community to persevere.

“I can get tired of it and decide

to opt out, but if I were [a person of color], I wouldn’t be able to opt out," Barnes said. “If I’m serious about faith and leadership, then I have an obligation to keep trying to make it better.”

Issues of race, ethnicity and cul-ture are difficult topics to breach, especially in a predominantly white setting. Many people refrain from engaging with sensitive issues al-together, but as Vang pointed out, the Christian life is not supposed to be easy.

“It’s uncomfortable, but it’s something we need to engage in to understand the reality of our world and change ourselves,” she said. “We can’t run away just because we feel uncomfortable.”

The Barnes administration is working to prepare students to live in a multicultural society and inter-act with the global church. While many students come to Bethel un-aware of the need for reconciliation, Rodrigues hopes they will graduate with the desire to engage in rel-evant issues of race and culture, no matter how difficult it might be.

“We’re initially uncomfortable with any new skill that we learn,” Rodrigues said. “Never having learned to ride a bike is scary with-out the training wheels or someone holding it for you. We try to hold people and get them to pedal on their own.”

For Sumo, the first step is always dialogue. The ability to talk openly and honestly about taboo issues is crucial to the reconciliation process.

“We need to not be so afraid of the word racism,” Sumo said. “We need to acknowledge that it exists and find ways to eliminate it instead of defending acts of racism and trying to diminish the word. Something that powerful just can’t be diminished.”

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CultureDangers of dumpster-diving

amanda aHlm Culture Editor

Saving a life comes down to a moment in time. It is a moment of chance in which everything works out to bring a person to a certain place during a moment of crisis.

For sophomore Ben Price, this moment was 11:30 on Thanksgiv-ing morning. Price, a Bethel foot-ball player, was still on campus for practice that morning. Practice got out, the sweaty football play-ers changed out of their practice-wear and walked back to their dorms.

With Thanksgiving break on their minds, many may have just walked past the crisis situ-ation. Not Price. He came upon his friend and teammate Danny O’Brien standing by the Arden Vil-

lage West dumpsters with a hock-ey stick in hand.

“You need to come look at this,” O’Brien said. Price went over to find the small head of the fa-mous albino squirrel, a woodland creature revered by students.

He touched it to make sure the animal was still alive, and this was met with a reassuring squirm from the squirrel.

With the hockey stick, the O’Brien-Price duo tried to push in the squirrel’s head, to no avail.

Price knew that something had to be done if he was going to save this prized Bethel creature. He took his extra shirt from practice and jumped into the dumpster.

Once in, he made the decision to try to wiggle the squirrel out of the hole, with slight trepidation that the maneuver would hurt in-stead of help the animal because

of how small the hole was.“It was a tight squeeze,” Price

said. “I didn’t think it was going to come out alive.”

After some wiggling, the squirrel was finally freed. Price wrapped the squirrel up in the shirt just long enough to snag a picture.

The squirrel, without thanks, bit into Price’s hand, leaving a hole in his shirt. Not wanting to further stir the critter’s wrath, he released it.

While there is rumored to be more than one albino squirrel, the loss of one may have affected the Bethel community.

The squirrel is an often-refer-enced part of Bethel’s culture – it even has its own Twitter feed. With Price’s help, this white-haired, red-eyed critter can continue liv-ing the life of a Bethel celebrity.

PHOTOS FOR THE CLARION COURTESY OF DANNY O'BRIEN

nBeloved albino squirrel saved by student

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CultureBetting onnBanking imaginary money on imaginary love

amanda aHlm Culture Editor

With Sean Lowe’s season of “The Bachelor” now airing, the Bethel community has been abuzz about the show and especially about the leading man. While some ladies may be drawn in by his abs and blonde hair, the qualities that really have Bethel women talking are his strong morals and love for family.

These characteristics have led women to raise the stakes for this year’s winner. The woman Lowe chooses needs to be prepared to face the wrath of many die-hard fans.

Lowe, who took third place on Emily Maynard’s season of the “The Bachelorette,” is a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Dallas, Texas. According to ABC’s website, Sean is “confident that he will find his soulmate and a lasting, love-filled relationship this time on ‘The Bachelor.’”

However, the show’s relation-ship longevity statistics leave room for skepticism.

With all the hype, the Clarion staff, consisting of both die-hards

and skeptics, decided that the best way to enjoy this season would be to host a game of Fantasy Bachelor.

Like in any fantasy sport game, before the first episode, the staff hosted a draft. With five partici-pants and 25 bachelorettes, each person was able to choose five “players” based on the ladies’ on-line bios.

The bios weren’t much to work off of, but each person developed his or her own strategy, whether it be to go for the girls who looked the nicest in their pictures, gave the best answers or had the most education.

With the show underway, there are some regrets. One of the big-gest disappointments may have been that the surprise contestant, Kacie B. – from Ben Flajnik’s sea-son – was not available to be drafted. Early in the season, it seems as though she is a frontrunner in Lowe’s mind.

However, with only two episodes aired so far,

it is too early to make judgment calls, as sentiments can change quickly on a show as dramatic as “The Bachelor.”

PHOTO FOR THE CLARION COURTESY OF ABC

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Sports

linnea WHite For The Clarion

On Dec. 26, the women’s hock-ey team left Minnesota and headed for Italy. They spent the next week in Italy and Switzerland, where they competed against European teams and spent time sightseeing and strengthening team camaraderie.

Every four years, the team trav-els overseas to experience hockey in a different cultural setting. Head coach Brian Carlson said the goal is to give all players a chance to travel.

“Because the season’s so long, it’s tough to study abroad,” he said.

This year, the team stayed in Moltrasio, Italy, which is near Lake Como. From there, they traveled to play games and visit famous cit-ies such as Venice, Italy as well as Zurich and Lucerne, Switzerland. In addition to sightseeing, the team did a lot of shopping, according to

junior Casie Ecklund.While in Europe, the team

played three games – one in Brixen, Italy, one in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and one in Zurich. Both Carlson and Ecklund talked about the differenc-es between hockey in Minnesota and hockey in Europe.

“They don’t have the broad-based appeal or support like we do in Minnesota,” Carlson said. “The numbers aren’t very high, and it’s not very well organized.”

Junior Lindsay Burman said the lower level of competition brought out her true love for hockey. “The love for the game consumes you,” she said. “We get so caught up in being the best that we lose sight of what is really important to us and why we're still playing today.”

The teams Bethel played were national teams, but each had women of several nationalities.

“There were girls that spoke

German, girls that spoke French, girls that spoke Italian. There was a girl that spoke Czech and a girl that spoke Dutch,” Ecklund said. “So, even on the same team, they don’t all speak the same language.”

Because the Royals were play-ing shortly after Christmas, the Eu-ropean teams were missing players who were home for the holidays. This gave Bethel’s women a unique opportunity: each game, some of them played for the opposing team.

Ecklund said it was a fun but challenging experience, especially because she played forward in-stead of her usual defense.

Besides differences in hockey leagues, the team also noticed cul-tural differences.

“Their pace is, I think, about half of what the pace is here,” Carl-son said. “They’re not in a big hurry to do things over there.”

Ecklund also mentioned the dif-ficulty of communication. “I didn’t expect the language to be so much of a barrier. I think I almost expect-ed more people to speak English,” she said.

Despite the language barrier, the team was able to connect with its competitors. Sometimes the Royals ate a meal with the op-posing team, giving the players a chance to meet and talk to each other. Many of the European play-ers spoke some English.

Ecklund also shared an unex-pected moment of cross-cultural connection. While the teams were waiting for the ice to dry after the

Zamboni had run over it, the song “Gangnam Style” was playing.

“Some girls on the other team started doing the dance on the ice, and then some of our girls did … It was just kind of funny to have that connection,” Ecklund said.

On Jan. 3, the team returned to the United States. Though short, the trip provided the Royals with many valuable memories and in-sight into hockey in a different part of the world.

“We think we see the full pic-ture of what God has truly done for us and this world," Burman said. "But You don’t truly see it until you go out of your comfort zone.”

Women’s hockey competes in central EuropenThe team skated out of its comfort zone to play hockey in Italy and Switzerland

The team pauses for a photo while touring Lucerne, Switzerland.

PHOTOS FOR THE CLARION COURTESY OF CASIE ECKLUND

During their time off the ice, the team also was able to explore the waterways of Venice, Italy.

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SportsMen’s hockey crosses borders and boundaries nThe team forged cross-cultural friendships during trip to Turkey

Jenny Hudalla Sports Editor

Bethel’s core values aren’t just words on a wall in the Brushaber Commons. They are affirmations of the type of people we aspire to be. While the significance of these values is often lost amidst the bustle of everyday life, the men’s hockey team found time to be salt and light in Turkey during Christmas break.

The Royals touched down in Erzurum on Dec. 22 and spent the next eight days immersed in the culture. Turkey’s social, economic and political systems are much dif-ferent from those in the United States, and its largely Muslim population gave the team an incredible opportunity for cultural exchange. A reduced dependence on technology, daily calls to prayer and a lax attitude toward time were just a few things the Royals had to adjust to.

“We never got a chance to do a formal introduction to how things would be over there,” said team captain Jon Crouse. “We had to just act and think on our toes, but do it wisely.”

On their first night overseas, the Royals went to have coke and tea with the Turkish team that they would be spending time and playing with for the remainder of the trip. De-spite linguistic and cultural barriers, players from both teams quickly established genuine friendships.

“I really felt a connection with the guys I was sitting with and carried those relation-ships throughout the trip,” said sophomore captain Tyler Swanson. “Before games we would always make a point to meet up down in the tunnel and talk about our days, joking and getting to know each other better.”

According to head coach Charlie Burggraf, even the interpreter working with the groups was amazed by the easy interaction between the teams.

“We were coming from the outside, and there’s a lot of animosity for neighboring teams that come in and play,” Burggraf said. “We were really different. And I don’t think our guys even knew that.”

The Royals also did their best to debunk

any faulty stereotypes the Turkish players had regarding Americans. Because hockey is a developing sport in Turkey, foreign teams do not always treat the players kindly after winning. However, after Bethel won the first game 13-1, the coaches decided to mix the teams, creating a unique sense of camarade-rie between cultures. As a result, the Royals displayed a new and positive image of the United States.

“You don’t have to change someone com-pletely to make a difference,” Crouse said. “Most of these people will never have any type of experience with Americans, so we needed to put out a good impression … The slightest acts of generosity can go a long way.”

Besides playing hockey, exploring the city and skiing in the mountains, the team also worked at a youth hockey camp for much of the trip. After recognizing how few resources the children had, the players began giving away everything they had – laces, sticks, elbow pads, shirts – just to see the smiles spread across the children’s faces.

“The kid’s eyes just lit up when I gave him my laces,” Swanson said. “I realized how truly blessed I am to have all the things I have in life.”

Although the players and coaches sensed a certain level of darkness in the strictly run country, they were still willing to go and be a light for the Turkish players. The presence of U.S. troops on the border between Turkey and Syria also gave the team peace of mind.

“I just felt confident that it was the right thing to do, even if I didn’t come back,” Burg-graf said.

Thankfully, the team did come back reju-venated and ready to defend its No. 2 spot in the MIAC, feeding off the team camaraderie strengthened in Turkey. Having witnessed the situation of those less fortunate, the Royals will move forward with a fresh perspective and new appreciation for the game of hockey.

“It always challenges us to have a global worldview,” Burggraf said. “People are differ-ent, but they are people. They’re real and so are we. That’s what is so powerful – crossing political, religious and governmental bound-aries using the platform of hockey.”

During their week-long trip to Turkey, the Royals (5-3 MIAC) ran two youth hockey camps. Captain Jon Crouse said the experience showed the team "how much of an honor it is to play at Bethel and to never take a shift, practice or game for granted."

PHOTO FOR THE CLARION COURTESY OF MITCH HUGHES

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The Clarionion - Bethel's own slice of "The Onion"

Extremist group prepares for the end of broomballCollin d'koppsFor The Clarionion J-Term is actually a cover up

for what is commonly referred to as “Play-as-much-broomball-as-possible Month.” Bethel students embrace this month wholeheart-edly, but aside from the average avid broomball players, one par-ticular group has taken the sport to a whole new level.

They call themselves the Broomsday Clan. The clan consists of 12 members who try their hard-est to play broomball whenever humanly possible.

Senior Jeremy Drake, clan leader, explained, “In the same way that some people prepare for Doomsday, we are preparing our-

selves for Broomsday.” This extremist group of broom-

ballers predicts that Broomsday will occur on Feb. 18, 2013. On that day, all of the rinks in Arden Hills and Shoreview will close until next winter. “Until that fateful day, we will play broomball with all of our might!” Drake exclaimed.

Where are they getting their predictions, you might ask?

“The Mayan calendar may have failed us, but no one can argue with the Arden Hills web-site,” Drake stated.

In an attempt to be on the ice almost 24/7, the Broomsday clan believes it is to their benefit to sleep and eat at the rinks. The clan travels from rink to rink in nomadic fashion, playing broomball, build-

ing campfires and pitching tents. Sophomore clan member Jes-

sica Wolfe commented that this approach to broomball produces an incredible community.

“Sure it’s annoying to search for port-a-potties in the middle of the night, eat only frozen granola bars, and try to sleep in sub-zero temperatures,” Wolfe said. “But when you’re with other people who share your values, those other things just don’t really mat-ter.”

Drake added that he’s encour-aged by the clan’s bond. “When one member laughs, we all laugh,” he said. “When one member falls on the ice and cries, we all cry as we run past them and score a goal. It’s beautiful, really.”

This raises another important component of the Broomsday Clan: injuries.

“It’s a positive correlation,” Drake said. “The longer you play broomball, the greater the chance for bigger and better injuries.”

The clan won’t allow anyone into the group unless they have a minimum of three bruises. How-ever, stitches of any kind trump bruises, and losing one or more teeth trumps all.

With their sense of community as high as a high-sticking infraction and their knees the color of roy-alty, the Broomsday Clan’s main challenge seems to be food. While some clan members, like Wolfe, resort to a steady diet of granola bars, others hunt for the occasion-

al squirrel.“They’re really hard to catch,”

freshman clan member Matt Nor-rel stated. “But when you do, it’s so worth it.”

The Broomsday Clan starts and ends each day playing the game that they love. Some may call them crazy, but they don’t seem to mind. (Or maybe they haven’t heard yet because they’re too busy playing broomball.)

“Broomball is definitely worth it,” Drake said. “When I play broomball, I feel God’s glory.”

If you’d like to compare bruis-es, munch squirrel drumsticks and prepare for Broomsday with the clan, contact Jeremy Drake at one of the various rinks surrounding Bethel’s campus.

JayWatch: Spring Semester Bee Initiativerobin banksFor The Clarionion This spring marks the intro-

duction of our president’s new Barnes’ Bees Initiative!

Starting in early February, Jay Barnes will be making an effort to introduce one of his favorite pas-times to the Bethel community.

“I’ve been interested in bee-keeping since the fourth grade,” President Barnes said. “We took a field trip to an apiary, where we got to see the bees in action and taste fresh honey.” This experience pro-vided direction for Barnes’ life, re-lationships and career.

“I loved the mathematical intri-cacy of the honeycombs, and one of my first dates with Barb was to a bee farm,” he said. “I first visited Bethel on my way to Homestead Apiaries, which is about 40 min-utes away. Honestly, I think the

bees led me to Bethel.”The hives will be located on

the south side of campus, just past the baseball field. Several bee-handling training sessions will be offered this spring (dates and loca-tions TBA), and trained students will be allowed to explore the apiary and witness the incredible complexity of bee life.

Also starting in early February, Bethel staff will endeavor to limit Wi-Fi and cellphone signals, both of which disrupt the bees’ internal communication sensors. Accord-ingly, Bethel’s Wi-Fi network will be restricted to the north end of campus and the main buildings. Cell phone jamming towers will also be placed near Bremer Field and next to the Ona Orth parking lot.

For those of you with bee aller-gies, don’t worry – our president is thinking ahead! EpiPens will be

available for sting victims in the Student Life office, free upon dis-play of student ID and the comple-tion of an incident report form.

“Bees display God’s glory in such a unique way, and I’m over-joyed to share this part of His cre-ation with Bethel,” Barnes said.

Though most students are ex-cited about the bees, a few have expressed concerns.

“I like to pick flowers for my girlfriend – well, this girl I know,” Jacob Perry explained. “The flow-er beds by the CLC are the best place to find them. Now those plots will be swarming with sharp, pointy, vicious stingers. It’s very discouraging.”

However, the overall reaction to the Barnes' Bees Initiative has been positive. As the buzz has spread around campus, students have found that bee fever is catch-ing.