VOL. 65, No. 8 UNION COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER DECEMBER 5, 1990 THE CLOCKTOWER In the News... A uthorities have issued an .Xi.arrest warrant for former East German leader Erich Honecker on charges that he personally gave shoot-to-kill orders at the Berlin Wall. P resident Bush signed the first major immigration law rewrite in a quarter-century last Thursday, increasing by 400,000 the immi- grants to be accepted over the next three years. The law also opens the door to people with special skills or wealth and eases restrictions on visitors once barred for having views unacceptable to the government. Democracy marches on. D ecember 1 French and British workers knocked down the final barrier in a tunnel under the English Channel, a milestone in the 3-year-old, $16 billion project. A ccording to the Associated A Press, 98% of all hostages held by Iraq are from Third World countries. B y January 15, D-Day for war or peace in the Persian Gulf, the U.S.-led alliance will have a force of 550,000 there—making it the globe's mbst militarized region. Facing the coalition across the heavily defended Saudi Ara- bia-Kuwait border are 450,000 Iraqi troops with 3,700 tanks. UNION COLLEGE CAGERS WIN HOME OPENER by Kelly Strom T he Thunderdome overflowed with fans Saturday night, November 10, when the basketball team upset Nebraska Christian College, 67-64, in the season's home opener. Union center Alan Hevener was pleased with the victory, but admits the game was touch and go. "Nebraska Christian's full court press had me wor- ried for awhile," Alan said, "but we pulled together great and Doug Hardt's shaipshooting iced the victory for us." Screaming fans and a lively band added excitement to the game. Fred Beranek, cheering from the pit, felt the highlight of the game was "Big A1 blocking the ball." But to band mem- ber Murray Cox, his own drum playing was the extra push Union needed to win. Hevener says that the year looks promising for Union College basket- ball. Even though the team is young, Alan feels that they are better than last year. Combining great basketball talent with enthusiastic fans should make the season a success. Aft, A Response from the President's Cab- inet page 4 Taskforce Position Cultivates Future page 3 K ristan Nickell joined her skills with eleven other music majors and minors on November 27 for the monthly recital pro- moted by the Music department. The performances con- sisted of two trumpet pieces, four vocals, and six piano numbers. According to Dr. Dan Lynn, Associate Professor of Music, the recitals give music majors and minors performing opportunities providing valuable training as well as feedback. More recitals are planned for the future; Lynn hopes for as many as two per month. Letter to the Editor 2 Union Goes Foreign 4 And So It Goes 8 Backward Glance 9 2 - The Clocktower Letter Dear Editor, I agree that a person's religious expe- rience should be between the indi- vidual and God, but I personally do not believe that Union College has tried to step between by requiring us to attend 35 worships per semester. Union College may not have the capa- bility or ethical right to dictate what every student needs religiously, but as a Christian institution, it is responsible to God for the picture we see of Him while studying here. Speaking from personal experience, I believe that the implementation of required worship credits can indeed Editor Leland Krum Copy Editor Brenda Dickerson News Editor Amy Baugher Advertising Editor Arlin Blood Photo Editor Garcie Monthie Sponsor Greg Rumsey Printer Graphic Masters The Clocktower is a bi-monthly publication of the ASB. It is a forum for a student-oriented news and opinion.. All letters, personals, stories, poems, king-size Snicker bars, dollar bills, and all loose change should be in our mailbox (in the College Bookstore) by Thursday at noon for inclusion the following week. All unsigned edi- torials are the opinion of The Clocktower and will be written by the editors. All other opinions expressed are those'of the author and must bear his or her name. The Clocktower reserves the right to edit and/or paraphrase letters for reasons of clarity and space. Address: 3800 South 48th Street Lincoln, NE 68506 Phone: (402) 488-2331 improve students' religious experi- ences. I admit that if I didn't have to get 35 worship credits in for this semester, there would be many times that I would opt to study or take a break rather than attend worship. But there have been many times when I have heard something at these required worships that has been just exactly what I needed for encourage- ment, or something that got me to thinking more about my relationship with God and how I can share Him with others. I believe Union College is doing its best to teach us to be responsible. Telling people what to do can reduce the amount of responsibility they pos- sess or learn to use if carried out to an extreme. However, I cannot help but wonder how responsible I would have become if, while growing up, my par- ents never told me how to dress taste- fully, eat in a civilized manner, how to relate to others around me, what day Sabbath is, and how to maintain a relationship with God. He holds par- ents, teachers, and church leaders responsible for telling us what His ideal is for us. If we are not taught what is right, how can we be responsi- ble to make right decisions when we are on our own? Worships may not be our source of salvation, but I high- ly doubt they will keep us from salva- tion. As adults with the right to vote for who we believe should be presi- dent, we also have the right to decide what college we will attend. If we choose a Christian school, such as Union College, I think we can also be mature enough to go along with its worship policy during our term of study. More than bringing improvement to students' lives in terms of education, responsibility, and religious experi- ence, Union Col- lege's success will be measured by God in how it pre- pares us for heav- en. "He who co- operates with the divine purpose in imparting to the youth a knowledge of God, and mold- ing the character into harmony with His, does a high and noble work. As he awakens a desire to reach God's ideal, he presents an education that is as high as heaven and as broad as the universe; an education that cannot be completed in this life, but that will be continued in the life to come; an edu- cation that secures to the successful student his passport from the prepara- tory school of earth to the higher grade, the school above." ED 19 I respect Union College for its stand. When my parents attended school here they had both morning and evening worship every day. Ours average out to be litde more than two per week. If nothing else, we can be thankful that we have life as good as it is! Laura Coleman 4035 South 48th Street 'Lincoln 68506 December 5 , 19 9 0 UC News The Clocktower - 3 pftoto by Gmo* Monr«* Union Goes Foreign by Kim Jensen U nion College turned international the weekend of November 16-17 as the Student Missionary Bash provid- ed an opportunity for those interested to talk to previous student missionaries and look at the callbook. The highlight of the weekend took place Sabbath afternoon from 3-5 p.m. in the atrium. A wide variety of people came to see the foreign decorations and pictures. Displays from Taiwan, Majuro, Ebeye, Micronesia, Korea, Pohnpei, Palau, Peru,'Zaire, England, the Philippines, Thailand, and Tanza- nia provided the atmosphere of a World's Fair. The student missionaries who had been to these countries wore their for- eign costumes and showed interesting items such as animal and snake skins. Beads, dolls, carvings, baskets, masks, and many other items were also dis- played. Photo albums and slides pro- vided a look at some foreign faces. Pastor Rich Carlson's rickshaw was dis- played and rides were given. The Sabbath afternoon event was proceeded by an after-vespers alterna- tive Friday evening in the Dick build- ing. A few of the foreign students wore their traditional costumes and handed out refreshments. A scenic film on Bermuda followed, which many attended. Taskforce Posi- tion Cultivates Future by Todd Hoyt Aaron Hatfield, a junior theology student attending Union College, is both a full-time student and a task- force worker during 1990-1991. The title he holds is taskforce student chap- lain. Aaron, along with Campus Min- istries, has some inspiring programs planned for this year. Aaron said that a big old fashioned Christ- mas vespers; a week of prayer by J. Paul Monk, president of the Central States Conference; and a drama vespers are just a few of die plans on the agenda. One of the greatest benefits of having this job is the experience that he's gaining, explained Aaron. With all the planning of chapels, Friday night vespers, Sabbath Schools and weeks of prayer, Aaron should be set for what awaits him in his work in the church. "Taskforce Student Chaplain" isn't the name he usually goes by while work- ing. During work, as well as off work, Aaron said, "I prefer being called just Aaron." (1) Write your personal message on the lines provided below - (2) Cut out the Clocktower Grapevine Personal Coupon (3) Place this coupon in Inter-campus mail slot in the Bookstore Your message will appear in the next Grapevine. SL Get Involved With A Dynamic Power Pak Group! + If s A Study Time ^ It's A Prayer Time + It's With Your Friends To Start One Come To Campus Ministries for Equipment and Instruction! t - The Clocktower UC News International Studies Offered at Union by Becky Lane U nion College is undertaking its own global mission. The divisions of Business/Computer Science and Arts/Humanities are now offering an International Studies major to prepare students for a broad are of foreign work. Dr. Minon Hamm, chairperson of the Arts and Humanities division, explained that the major is being offered because the concerns of our country and church are becoming more international. "Our college mis- sion statement speaks of people carry- ing the message all over the world," she said. "Our church must direct itself more and more to global ministry." International Studies graduates could qualify for careers in internation- al agriculture, economics, marketing, politics, or languages. Dr. Hamm men- tioned that there is a need for accoun- tants, attorneys, and agricultural work- ers within the Adventist denomination. Many other types of foreign workers could also benefit from a broad cultur- al background. The International Studies major will require classes in world geography, government, economics, and history. Ten hours of a foreign language will also be required. Contextual courses include anthro- pology, accounting, computers, and marketing. Students must also take an additional 20 hours in a concentration such as agriculture, economics, politi- cal relations, marketing, management, or modern language. Many of these classes will be taken at Nebraska Wes- leyan University, University of Nebras- ka, or Adventist Colleges Abroad. "We have a tremendous advantage at Union because we are so close to a major university," said Dr. Hamm. She believes that Union's International Studies program may be the only one of its kind among Adventist colleges. A number of new classes are being offered along with the International Pink. If s my favorite color. -Cindy Fleischer Multicolored. Cer- tain parts of the anatomy one color and other parts another color. -Dr. Ward Hill White. I will be well-disguised on the ski slopes. -Graver Barker Peach. It's sooth- ing and soft and represents peace and tranquility. -Maralyn McArthur If you could be a ^•MMHHBcolor, what would Burnt orange. Autumn reminds me that God has put variety into life. -Greg Rumsey Prussian blue. Ifs my favorite color and comes from ferro cyanide of iron. -Keith Riese A Response from the Presi- dent's Cabinet to "The Worship Card that Saved Souls," Clocktower, November 21, 1990, page 3. T: Studies major. These include World Regional Geography, World Religions, and Comparative Governments. Students may begin working toward this new degree immediately. The requirements will appear in the next school bulletin. Dr. Hamm reports that a number of students have already expressed an interest in the new major. "As Ameri- cans, we have a reputation for being so arrogant," she said. "We go over- seas with a limited view, thinking that everyone sees the world exactly as we do. We're too rigid." The International Studies major will open up dozens of opportunities for those who are looking toward careers far beyond the farmlands of Nebraska. "It takes a long time to learn to appreciate other cultures," said Dr. Hamm, "but we must if we want to reach people wherethey are." *he President's Cabinet has no dis- position to stifle the discussion of sensitive topics which appear from time to time in the Clocktower. We would simply like to join in this type of deliberation and present an alter- nate point of view. To balance the five points appearing in the November 21 issue opposing the requiring of wor- ships, the Cabinet would like to sug- gest that there are at least five points in defense of the current practice. 1. Frail human nature may need an element of coercion in order for cor- rect habit patterns to be established. Reward and punishment is admittedly December 5, 1990 Feature The Clocktower - 5 Calendar BTM •» Basketball- Team Men BTW <=- Basketball Team Women December 6 - BTM: Manhattan, KS 7 - BTW: Oklahoma City, OK Vespers: Drama Program VI Alternative: CABLE Cafe SAA Christmas Tree lighting 8 - CVC: Bob Bretsch Sabbath School: 4:00 pm BTW: Oklahoma City, OK ASB: Christmas Film 13 - Dead Day 14 - Dead Day Last Day to Withdraw with •W" Vespers: Christmas Memories • VI Alternative: SM Slides 15 - CVC: Bob Bretsch Sabbath School: 4:00 pm ASB: Late Night Escape 17 - Next Clocktower 17-20 - Final Exams 20-Januaty 6, 1991 - Christmas Vacation a lower level of motivation—but we may need that learning experience on our way to an inner-directed, mature lifestyle. 2. Mild penalties for non-conformity to the norms of a group may simply clarify the guidelines governing the group. 3. Worship attendance within rea- son is voluntarily accepted by students who are admitted to Union College. Failure to attend such services may suggest some confusion of priorities. An appropriately administered sanction is not forcing worship nor distrusting students. It is simply reminding us who are prone to forget what is truly important in life. 4. Mature people live within the boundaries of their environment. An institutional expectation that students attend a certain number of religious services provides an opportunity for corporate worship. Far from being an enslaving experience,»this can enrich student lives by giving them an oppor- tunity to share in the spiritual journeys of their peers, as our current chapel services are doing. When we work only when we feel like it, study only when the urge hits us, interact with others however impulse suggests, and treat our spiritual exercises the same way, we are on the broad path that will not lead to life, either in this world or in the one to come. 5. Admittedly, worship attendance in heaven or in any ideal environment comprised of perfect people does not need to be promoted by any coercive technique. While "God is in His heav- en," as the poet said, we are still on earth. Our natural impulse looks for the course of least resistance. When church-related colleges no longer nudge their students to attend worship through mild sanctions, they tend to lose their uniqueness, and more and more resemble public colleges. Surren- dering their distinctiveness, they forfeit their reason for existence. Rocky Mountain Conference AdvENTisT WINTER FESTIVAI BREcltENnidqE, Coloiudo February 28 - March 4, 1991 • Over 600 people expected! Who's invited? Everyone! Young, Old, Familiei, Singles, Church Youth • Groups, Acadamies, Colleges, Ski Clubs, and You! Costs: Lift Tickets - $21/day Ski Rental - S6.50/day Condos — $ 18-$50/person/night Colorado offers some of the best snow skiing in the world! Sabbath programming: Friday night drama presentation, "hot" Sabbath morning worship service, Sabbath aftemooon Biblical snow carving contest, concert, and more! Sunday features a NASTAR race with an awards party For Information Packet contact Rocky Mountain Youth Department. 2520 So. Downing, Denver, CO 80201. Phone (303) 733-3771, Fax (303) 733-1843. December 5, 1990 6 - The Clocktower And So It Goes S tudentmissions student- missions studentmissions. This is bad introductory technique, because an opening line is supposed to catch one's attention, not drive it away. There are exceptions to every rule; some can be broken at will. Student missions Tanks right up there with Harry Connick, Jr. and Alexandre Dumas' The Three Muske- teers as a subject close to my heart. More than one of you has been forced to listen to one of my monologues on the obvious advantages of serving as a volunteer. I talk and rant and reason and persuade and sell and pray. And for what reason? "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation."* Now I will be the first to admit that I had ulterior motives in going as a student missionary two years ago. At the time of my decision, I was strictly Midwestern: had never been farther east than Chicago, or farther west than Denver. I had never seen the ocean. I wanted to see the world, I wanted to travel, and I poured over the call book like it was a travel guide to the globe. Three years of college had worn me out, and the thought of being the teacher rather than the taught had a curious appeal. I determined that a year overseas would look good on my resume. And aren't student mis- sionaries supposed to be spiritual and religious? My spiritual life would surely benefit by associating with such good people. Many of my illusions were soundly beaten into the ground over the course of my year in Korea. I did travel. I saw more palaces and temples and gardens than I ever wanted to. A year overseas will look good on my resume someday, if I ever have one. But teaching isn't easy. Sometimes one is tired, but one can't skip; 21 people are anxiously waiting in the classroom to hear whatever words of English that may come from one's mouth. Maybe 15 others are waiting to learn even more English in Bible class. Most of them aren't there to learn about the Bible; they are there to improve their hearing and their pronunciation. The religion is thrown in free of charge. Sometimes they stay and listen and ask questions that indicate that there is more than English on their minds. And my spiritual life? The thought never occurred to me that if I was expecting other student missionaries to uplift me spiritually, they might have come for the same reason. So 1 ,(Tis the Season, learned to stand alone with God, and I learned that although we can support one another, we must first have our own individual walk. Three days before I left Korea I dis- covered why I had come. For Friday evening vespers we had chosen to show some of our slides set to music. They were pictures of everything we had done that year: picnics with stu- dents, going to coffee shop with stu- dents, parties with students, playing games with students, laughing with students, teaching students. In that belated moment, I realized that those people were the most important peo- ple in the world, because there were still many of them who had not accepted the good news of the gospel. I had told the student missions screen- ing committee that I wanted to go to spread the gospel, but I hadn't known it for myself. Inadvertently I had been doing it all year. You can be a missionary wherever you are, and you must be. There is no getting around it. It is easy to say "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation" but it is difficult to do. It might mean prolonging your education. It might mean putting off a start to your career. It might mean waiting to start making money. It might not be for everybody. It might mean learning that the gospel is for everyone. It might mean learning that people are more impor- tant than any amount of money that can ever be earned. It might mean finding out that God can use you in capacities you never before thought possible. It might mean being part of the final generation that will spread the gospel to all people, because not until then will the end come. After all, that is the point. Student mis- sions is an attempt to make that day come a little closer. How can you say no to that?* Mark 16:15, NIV. December 5 19 9 0 Service by Kelly V. Schmitt Backward Glance The Clocktower - 7 The Rules of Romance, Conclusion by Garry Treft EVANGELISM 101 Real Evangelism: Whal Is If? Needed: Male or Female willing to work long hours for little pay here in beautiful Den- ver, Colorado. 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To emphasize the faculty horror of a courtship occurring at school, on May 1, 1892, the faculty passed an action refusing re-admission for another year to a young married couple because they were married a few days after the winter term ended and since they had never met before coming to school, it was evident that their courtship was carried on while they were students. "On October 17, 1909, the old boys of East Hall gave a reception for the new fellows. A final feature after music was an old-fashioned spelling match. On Thanksgiving night, 1894, the girls in the dormitory gave a party to the girls outside who had at one time been dormitory students. "The Union College Messenger recorded a celebration which took place in the spring of 1904. The students got together and canned 400 quarts ol strawberries and in conclusion by way of celebration they gathered on the steps of South Hall and sang: "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning," "Nearei My God to Thee," and other familiar hymns. "As a result of the studied policy of segregation of the sexes, many of the programs as viewed from toda/s stand point, were rather tame or col- orless." This ends the glance at romance at Union College in the early days. 8 - The Clocktower Ads 1900 Normandy Lane (Just off 18th & Old Cheney) Kelli Fowler 423-6673 for Appointment Hair Cuts Expires 1-5-91 Perms Expires 1-5-91 We Feature Paul Mitchell, Sam Brocato & Matrix Products Why not work at Glacier View Ranch in beautiful Colorado? Get an application from Rich Carlson's office. If you have skills in: White Water Rafting, Rock Climbing, Rappelling, Kayaking, Mountain Bikes, Swimming Instruc- tion, Backpacking, Canoeing, Sail- ing, Archery, or Horseman- ship, you need to apply! 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