theview@tabor.edu October 19, 2011 Issue 2

Winning Photo43 pictures later, you picked the winner of our Facebook contestCampus Life, pg 8

Serving up a heaping helping of Homecoming pictures

Images from Tabor’s 2011 Homecoming weekend

Features, pg 5

Tabor Board MeetingSummary of decisions

and plans made at the latest Board of Directors meeting

News, pg 2

Dine with a Mind program launched by Student Senate

Student Senate has started a new program to encourage stu-dent-faculty relations by imple-menting a new program known as Dine with a Mind.

“It’s an effort on Student Sen-ate’s part to have students have lunch with a faculty or staff member,” said Student Senate President Taylor Funk. “Student-faculty relationships are kind of what we’re working towards.”

Basically, the Tabor faculty has to pay to eat at the cafeteria except for RDs and, now, Stu-dent Senate has made cards for students to give to the teachers to have a meal with them.

“Student Senate talked about it last semester and then imple-

Scott MorrowReporter

Recently, Tabor College re-ceived a generous endowment of $1 million from the estate of Gunther Henry Schmitt. Schmitt, who passed away Aug. 2, 2010, left his entire estate val-ued at over $4,700,000 to the MB foundation for the benefit of several other ministries.

Schmitt learned about gen-erosity early in life. He was the second of six children born into a German missionary fam-ily. While the family was serv-ing as missionaries to Indonesia, his father and grandfather were taken prisoner as a result of the war. They later lost their lives at sea. The rest of the family was fortunate enough to escape to a

Destinee CogburnReporter

Tabor programs to benefit from $1 millionendowment

See ENDOWMENT, pg 2 Statistics for graph provided by Deanne Duerksen, Registrar’s Office

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FOR THE RECORDTC Enrollment out-does itself with 597 students

There are currently 597 students en-rolled and taking classes at Tabor on the Hillsboro campus.

Rusty Allen, vice president of enroll-ment, and Jules Glanzer, president, have both stated that Tabor College is currently in a growth mode. Allen mentioned that growth is currently desirous for the school. One reason for the growth of students this year is new and growing sports teams.

Glanzer said, “We’ve grown in the last

Brennen SmithReporter

four years by over one hundred students. Most of our growth came as a result of ath-letics. Transfers really went up too.”

The present state of enrollment begins with the fact that there are ten percent more students taking classes at Tabor College’s Hillsboro campus than last year. Approxi-mately 54 more students are going to Tabor College at Hillsboro this year.

Allen gives credit to “the recruiting ef-forts of admissions of staff and coaching

mented it in the budget last year,” said Funk. “The lunch cards are in Kaylene Unruh’s of-fice and a student can take three cards per semester.”

The cards are first come first serve and can only be used in the cafeteria only for lunch.

“ T h e idea is to talk with their teach-ers or men-tors to learn from them and get to know them,” said Funk. “We just hope students take advan-tage of it.”

Senate is planning on mak-ing a few chapel announcements and utilize other things to spread

the news.“We just feel that something

unique about Tabor is the rela-tionship between faculty and students,” said Funk.

Senate is hoping to be as much a part of that relationship between students and faculty.

Enhancing the student experience is one thing Senate is focusing on this year es-pecially.

“Not a lot of the faculty knows about it just yet,” said Funk.

Go out and surprise a teacher with a free lunch at the cafeteria sometime.

Student Senate Presents

Visit the Caf with one of your

favorite professors! When you

use the new Dine with a Mind

Card, you’ll be able to treat any

Tabor professor to lunch for

free.

Just invite a mentor and stop by

the Student Life Office to get a

Dine with a Mind Card for their

totally free meal, compliments

of your Student Senate.Who said brain food couldn’t

be tater tots?

User __________________________

Date __________________________

LUNCH ONLY

Take a professor to lunch

C O M P L I M E N TA R Y M E A L

Dept. # 71-7019

Authorized by ____________________________________________

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The Dine with a Mind Card gets your professor in free

Your Jay Card gets you in like usual

Dine with a Mind Cards are available for free in the Student Life Office � Limit of three cards per student

per semester � Only 180 cards available each semester � Availability on a first come, first served basis

Twice a year, the Tabor Stu-dent Senate holds its special requests meeting, in which stu-dents can bring their requests for campus and campus organiza-tions to student senate.

The money for the special requests budget comes from stu-dent fees that each student pays at the beginning of the year.

At this meeting, over $12,000 worth of requests were made, but senate is only able to give away $4,500.

“Whatever request we think will benefit students most is where we allocate (the) money,” said Student Senate President Taylor Funk.

One of the biggest improve-ments students can look forward to are changes in intramurals.

Joe Wuest was awarded $730 to put toward new equipment and ideas for intramural sports.

Destinee CogburnReporter

“I think people will see up-scaling in intramurals,” said Funk.

Other organizations were al-lotted money after this meeting.

They include include the Mu-sic Department for the National Association of Teachers of Sing-ing Convention, baseball for fundraising wristbands, softball for helmets and fundraising ath-letic decals, athletic training for funding for a new ice machine in the training room, the math de-partment for starting a math club and the Theater Department for new lighting.

Senate also gave money to the International House of Tabor for their Taste the World event, as well as money to Java Jay’s.

Funk also wants to remind students that the cares and con-cerns meeting is coming up, and encourages them to come and voice their cares and concerns to the senate.

Student Senate awards money to special requests of Java Jays, Music & Drama Departments, athletics

Tabor College President Jules Glanzer recently received the in-formation about Tabor’s college ranking in the Midwest. Glan-zer’s perceptions of the Carnegie Ranking, which is the current system used to classify colleges and judge their education sys-tem, have been well founded over the years by sagacious studying of the certain aspects that the Carnegie system looks for in a university.

Tabor College is in the top tier for Midwest regional col-leges. Currently, Tabor owns the 45th spot out of the 73 colleges in the top tier. There are 24 col-leges in the second tier.

Glanzer made a point to lay

Brennen SmithReporter

College ranked 45 of 73 in top tier of Midwest evaluations

See TIER, pg 2

Alumnus to be featured on tonight’s episode of Discovery’s MythBustersTabor alum James Wiebe (ball cap) and his wife Kathy own BeLite Aircraft, located in East Wichita, Kan. Wiebe designs and manufactures ultralight airplanes. On Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. on the Discovery Channel the television show MythBusters will feature one of their planes in a new episode.

Sources: Don Isaac and beliteaircraft.com

Recognizing alumni who have carried the Tabor message and mission into their chosen career fields and have made a difference in their professional lives, two individuals were hon-ored at the 2011 Tabor College Homecoming Festival Dinner.

President Jules Glanzer be-stowed the Alumni Merit Award to Alan Peters, Fresno, Calif. Landon Fulmer was presented the 2011 Alumni Medallion Award.

Peters, a member of the Ta-bor College class of 1961, holds a Bachelor of Arts in History; Bachelor of Divinity from the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, Fresno, and a Master of Social Work from California State University, Fresno.

Peters lives in Fresno, Calif. with his wife Jeanie. They have two grown daughters, Stephanie Wait and Julie Brown and seven grandchildren.

His professional career in-cluded working for Fresno

Alumni Award Winners named at Homecoming

Lowe’s to close 20 stores, cut 2,000 jobs

Home improvement retailer Lowe’s will close 20 underper-forming stores and cut 1.950 jobs.

RIM appeases Black-Berry users with free apps after outage

Research in Motion started offering BlackBerry users free apps on Monday in a bid to ap-pease and retain customers af-fected by a three-day service outage last week.

100-year-old Fauja Singh sets marathon record in TorontoFauja Singh set a record by becoming the oldest undisputed runner to finish a marathon Sun-day at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon. Singh is 100 years old, which puts his last place finish in perspective.

Israel’s Mossad gets dragged into latest British political scan-dal

British media have speculated that the man behind the fall of their minister of defense was in cahoots with Israel’s famed in-telligence agency, Mossad, per-haps unwittingly, as the perfect spy.

Medicare releases pa-tient safety tatings for hospitals

The new data, available start-ing this week on Medicare’s Hos-pital Compare Web site, evaluate hospitals on how often their pa-tients suffer complications such as a collapsed lung or a blood clot after surgery. Also includ-ed: death rates for patients with post-surgery breathing problems or those with treatable complica-tion after an operation.

Occupy Wall Street movement now in Lon-don, Rome

The snowballing global cam-paign against corporate greed has reached Europe, particularly the capital cities of London and Rome.

Woman mistakingly texts drug deal to deputy

A North Carolina woman found herself behind bars last week after mistakenly texting a sheriff’s deputy a drug deal mes-sage.

Obama ex-adviser to help develop new busi-ness ideas for Postal ServiceThe National Association of Let-ter Carriers (NALC) announced on Sunday that it had hired Ron Bloom, a former top adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, to help the financially hemorrhag-ing U.S. Postal Service.

Source: allheadlinenews.com

News in brief

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ENDOWMENTcontinued from pg 1

staffs for increased en-rollment.” He also said, “There are a number of marketing strategies we employ that help lever-age the efforts of our re-cruiters, but the relational recruiting skills of our people has the largest im-pact.”

Reportedly, a rough projection for enrollment next year would be an in-crease in students of about seven to ten percent. In retrospect, Allen stated that these enrollment pro-jections were more of a

German colony in China, then later to Reedley, Calif.

While in China, Schmitt’s family received financial sup-port from family as well as sev-eral Mennonite church agencies. Schmitt never forgot that gener-osity, which in his adult life led him to strive to give away 50% of his income each year.

After receiving his doctor-ate degree from the University of California in San Francisco, Schmitt worked as a pharmacol-ogist, internal medicine doctor and radiologist for several years.

Since Schmitt did not have any children, giving became his legacy.

Twenty years ago, his good friend Clarence Hiebert encour-aged him to begin working with the MB Foundation. The MB Foundation, headquartered in Hillsboro, Kan., is a charitable

out the fact that the Carnegie Ranking is largely based on per-ception.

“Twenty-five percent of your score is (based) on the peer as-sessment score. This is what other institutions think of you academically. This whole thing is based on perception. Most people see this as the gospel truth. It’s not; it’s a marketing tool based on perception,” said Glanzer.

Last year Tabor’s ranking was 40th.

The ranking system has been reclassified a bit and more schools entered into the top tier based on the new highlighted areas. Tabor has also been expe-

riencing growth in the last few years.

Glanzer said, “If you are in a growth mode that often hin-ders your score, because you’ve grown and percentages change. Schools that have had shrinking enrollments went up higher in the score because of student/fac-ulty ratios.”

Annual college rankings do not change any of the major goals at Tabor.

On the other hand, the rank-ings do make the staff and fac-ulty aware of things they can do to allow Tabor to be viewed at a more positive level.

The faculty, staff and admin-istrators that love Tabor want to give the world a positive mes-sage about Tabor, Glanzer said.

goal.Going out on a limb,

Allen even spoke of a hopeful enrollment num-ber of one thousand stu-dents in five years. He said that this number was not a projection but more of a goal for the Tabor execu-tive team.

One thousand students on campus would bring space problems and Al-len said this is one of the issues the staff hopes to look at and overcome in the future.

“Growth is a sign of health in an organization,” said Allen.

organization which helps with charitable estate design, life in-come agreements, planned giv-ing solutions and endowment management.

“We provide Biblical finan-cial solutions for the Mennonite Brethren community,” said Pres-ident and CEO of the MB foun-dation Jon Wiebe.

The MB foundation allows Schmitt’s legacy of generosity to live on for several years after he is gone.

“Dr. Schmitt’s desire was to enhance Mennonite Brethren education,” said Tabor’s Vice President for Advancement Jim Elliot.

According to Elliot, three ar-eas of the institution will benefit from the endowed gift. They in-clude: the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, the Clarence Hiebert Excellence in Teaching Award, and also graduate theo-logical education (when the pro-gram is established).

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Courtesy photo by Vance FrickFilled to the brimThe total on-campus head count is now 597 students; the most in Tabor history. In order to meet as one group, students must travel to the Hillsboro MB Church, the above photo taken at the opening convoca-tion, because the on-campus chapel can no longer hold the entire student body.

TIERcontinued from pg 1

County Social Services, retiring as the director of the county pro-gram. He’s probably best known for his work with Mennonite Genealogy. He is the creator of the GRANDMA Project (“Ge-nealogical Registry and Data-base of Mennonite Ancestry”), which has now become the stan-dard worldwide compilation of the combined work of virtually all Mennonite genealogists and family historians, now provid-ing information on more than 1,200,000 persons with Menno-nite ancestry. He is active in his community and church, serving as a worship leader as well as performing with a number of lo-cal chorale groups.

Fulmer, a 2003 graduate who holds B.A. degrees in History and Philosophy from Tabor Col-lege now serves as the State Pol-icy Director for Governor Sam Brownback. During his time at Tabor, he participated in choir, soccer, a study abroad program at Oxford University, and served

Student Senate as its Vice-Presi-dent and President. He received various awards at Tabor, includ-ing the Presidential Scholarship, the Hiebert Merit Award, and the school’s first Fran Jabara Lead-ership Award.

In recognizing the value of a Tabor education, he noted in his response, “You don’t just learn a subject at Tabor College,” he said. “You learn how to live.”

Fulmer lives in Lawrence with his wife Lidiya and their two daughters, Anna, 2 and Vic-toria, 1.

“We are so blessed to be able to call these outstanding individ-uals Tabor alumni,” Jules Glan-zer said in presenting the awards. “They are truly taking the Tabor College mission and making a difference in the world.”

Source: TC Communications

Homecoming meeting leads to decisions by Board of Directors

Every year during homecom-ing the Tabor Board of Direc-tors meets to finalize decisions for the college’s future.

What follows are a few of the voted items that will directly effect students.

1. Approved a three-year capital campaign with the sig-nature project being a fine arts complex with a debt reduc-tion component and a Lohrenz Building component. Total amount: $13 million.

2. Approved negotiating a contract to manage the cam-paign with the Timothy Group. Authorized the president and staff to begin making contacts for the campaign.

3. Approved faculty hiring of Daniel Baldwin, Deborah Penn, Daniel Sigley, Norman Schmidt, Linda Moody and Marlene Pieateracola.

4. Approved the graduates for December, including post-humous degree for Alex Wal-lace.

5. Approved sabbaticals for Bill Kostlevy, Wendell Loewen and Deborah Penner.

6. Approved budget for 2011-12 fiscal year including selected salary increases.

7. Approved Lincoln St. home purchase for housing.

8. Gave the Executive Team the authority to determine tu-ition for next year.

Source: President Glanzer

Editor-in-Chief, News & Features Editor: David Vogel

Opinion & Campus Life Editor: Jordan Giffin

Sports Editor: Zachary Bissell

Reporters: Jordan Giffin, Zachary Bissell, Destinee

Cogburn, Scott Morrow, Brennen Smith

Photographer: Nicole Tunks

Adviser: Sara Sigley

The View Staff

The Zero Men’s Bible Study started about this time last year and has grown astro-nomically since its four-mem-ber inception.

Boasting around 40 mem-bers now, including myself, it has grown to the point that the inner circle of Zero has de-cided to form smaller groups of about 8 or 10 that are affili-ated with Zero.

My experience has been a little mixed.Don’t get me wrong, the guys in charge

of Zero and the Bible studies are great and awesome leaders. I just haven’t clicked with the others in my small group yet.

I’m a very personal and slightly re-served person when it comes to my is-sues. The beginning phases of trust are very rocky for me which results in me not getting everything that I probably should within the group.

I love that Zero has decided to break into smaller groups while continuing their growing main ministry. It’s great for people who may want more than a worship time and then a message.

My only problem is that the guys haven’t chosen their small groups and aren’t as close as already long term friends are.

God works in weird ways, yes, but there is a huge difference between a group of friends you’ve spent time with

and already care about and a group of guys you’ve only seen in passing. There’s something about hanging out with people on a more informal and personal level that has to happen before I feel like I can talk openly.

Overall, I think these small groups will be a great addition to the goals of the men’s Bible study and while these first few meetings will be awkward, some good relationships will be formed. This may just be me, but I’m wondering if I’ll do better one-on-one instead of in a group setting.

The man’s perspective

Go to the library sometime and look at the DVDs on the shelf. There should be a DVD there titled, “The God Who Wasn’t There.” Weird, right? Now, turn it around and the info on the back basically says that those who watch the movie will be questioning the authenticity of Jesus’s life afterwards.

Maybe this movie shouldn’t be at Tabor—a Christian col-lege. Then again, maybe it should be here. The fact that this movie is in the library, sit-ting on a display stand, shows that the librarian believes that Tabor students can rationally think for themselves.

The movie was written, di-rected and narrated by Brian Flemming. Flemming demon-strates his skepticism and his antitheism or anti-Jesus views through his narration and in-terviews during the movie. He even makes an appearance at the “fundamental” Christian school he went to as a child. Later, the superintendent walks out of the interview because he had inferred earlier from Flem-ming that the interview would be a simple question and answer interview, not an attack and de-fend interview.

There are some well-found-ed arguments in the film that I had not heard about before. Some scholars within the movie draw connections between Je-sus’s life and the lives of pagan gods like Dionysus, Theseus, Mithras, and Oedipus. The problem with this comparison is that comparing Jesus to pagan gods is like comparing Mother Teresa to Hitler. They both par-ticipated in human activities like sleeping, drinking, eating, and talking, but they went down opposite paths of life.

One of the main points I noticed was the “resurrection deity” argument. This idea en-tails a god who dies and is then resurrected or somehow reborn. Jesus, and many Greek deities like Baal, Orpheus, Dionysus, and Odin would be good ex-amples.

I believe that this movie is a must-see for Christians who are serious about defending their faith against present-day ac-cusations. This movie should drive believers of God and Je-sus to acquire more knowledge on their faith.

‘The God who wasn’t there’ meant to defy Christianity

In Review

Jordan GiffinPage Editor

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Brennen SmithReporter

Short term campus im-provements requests:

Starting fund: $3463.30n Baseball field improve-

ments: Foul poles: $1983, flag pole: $410, high net: $4000n CRC dumbbells (females

& males): $1604.58n Storage Units for CRC

equipment: $500-$1000n Rower Machine for CRC:

$900

CRC fund options (separate from short-term campus im-provement fund):n Equipment to be checked

out by work study peoplen Work study times: M-F

7-10 p.m.; Sat-Sun: 2-4 p.m.n Paying Anna Wells for pro-

gramming n Programming Times: Mon-

day/Thursday 8-9 p.m.; Zumba, Kickboxing, etc.; Wednesday/Friday 7-8 a.m. – Yoga n Treadmill CRC - $8000

Approved requests:n CRC fund options have

been approved separate from the short-term campus improve-ment.n Baseball sum: $1359n CRC dumbbells:

$1604.28n Storage Units: $500

Total amount distributed for short-term campus improve-ment: $3463.28

Senate awards money for improvements

From the Wire

Did You Know...n Students saved over $10,00 by using the book rental program this year through the Jay Shop!

n Speech Competency is now available to stu-dents!

What is the best way to ask a date to Sadie Hawkin’s?

Talia Doerksen Senior

Tynan Honn Junior

“Interview process.”

“Homemade invite.”

“Embar-rass them in front of the caf.”

“After an an-nouncement in chapel.”

Allison KrehbielSenior

Sara VogtSenior

Staff ColumnScott Morrow

Rather than taking this op-portunity to sum up the political events of the summer, I will as-sume, since you are reading this article, that you are interested enough to have kept yourself largely informed.

I would like to discuss what are the results of one of Presi-dent Barack Obama’s biggest policy initiatives: the 2009 stim-ulus package.

The goal was to influence the economy to the tune of 3.5 million jobs. I say “influence” because the president and Con-gress believed that the stimulus would create or save that many jobs. However, there is no gov-ernment agency that actually measures “jobs saved.”

What we can measure is the

number of jobs lost in connection to the national unemployment rate which currently stands tall at 9.1 percent.

To put that into perspective, the highest unemployment rate that Bill Clinton experienced was a little less than 8 percent, which was right at the beginning of his presidency, and it steadily fell. This tendency continued until fall 2000.

In that year, economies around the world began to turn for the worse. President George W. Bush then signed a stimulus package of about $100 billion … and the unemployment rate continued to rise.

Fast forward through Obama’s election and the fight for his ad-vocated stimulus bill to February 2009. One finds the unemploy-ment rate over 8 percent.

Let’s be generous and assume that the population of the United States is 300 million at the time of Obama’s stimulus package, though, in reality, it was higher. These figures would translate to over 24 million Americans that were actively pursuing employ-ment that could not find work in February 2009.

Moving forward to today with an unemployment rate of 9.1 per-cent means that approximately 27.3 million Americans are ac-tively seeking jobs and cannot find them.

That is an increase of 3.3 mil-lion jobs … lost.

Another way of looking at this is to say that the U.S. government made a $787 billion “investment” into the economy in 2009 with the goal of 3.5 million “created or saved” jobs.

Micah GibsonFrom Lee Clarion via SNCW

Reviewing the stimulus: measuring jobs saved

4 FEATURES

1. Play a few rounds of campus golf. Just make sure you don’t break anything.

2. Watch a snake get fed in the Solomon L. Loewen Natural Sci-ence Center.

3. Go to a Bible study. And get chapel credit!

4. Go to a theme house events and parties.

5. Write one research paper using all three computer labs. Don’t for-get about the lab on the top floor of the MJR!

6. Go to at least one sporting event for each team.

7. Have a campus job. Get some of your money back from Tabor.

8. Light a bon fire at res. The Mar-ion Reservoir is located just a few miles east of Hillsboro.

9. Drive to Canada (Canada, Kan., that is) just to say you did. It’s just a few miles east of Hillsboro, too.

10. Enjoy some Chai at Little Pleasures on a rainy afternoon.

11. Pull a prank.But be nice about it.

12. Give a Shin Hee or Doc Kyle impersonation.

13. Take an interterm trip over-seas. Sign-ups for next year’s trips will start in spring.

14. Go to a church potluck.

15. Play disc golf. The course is lo-cated on the west side of the Wohl-gemuth Education Center.

16. Get the seam in the caf.

17. Take a Tabor walk, which may result in a…

18. Ring by Spring. It’s a Tabor tra-dition.

19. Bake in the basement of East. Sorry, guys: girls only.

20. Go to Druber’s, Newell’s and the Hud-dle House all on the

same night.Bonus: Go on a diet the next day.

21. Go to an SAB event.

22. Write encouraging, anony-mous letters and send them through campus mail.

23. Purchase a pound of Jelly Bel-lies at Little Pleasures.

24. Go on a Main Street shopping spree.

25. Watch a movie with friends in the library movie room. It’s lo-cated just around the corner from the copy machine, and is available for your use!

26. Start a Nerf gun war in your dorm.

27. Check out Thee Bookstore downtown for Christian books and knick-knacks.

28. Go camping at the Marion County Lake.

29. Enjoy Sadie’s with a different date each night.

30. Eat breakfast at the Main Street Café in Durham. It’s locat-ed just a few minutes north-west of Hillsboro. May we suggest the cinnamon rolls or a pancake with homemade syrup?

31. Take in a concert in Java Jays.

32. Visit the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson.

33. Go sledding at the dam after a fresh snow. The slope at the res offers nice speed.

34. Visit the “insane asylum.”

35. Take a bike ride around town. Make sure you use your own bike, though.

36. Play checkers or chess in the library.

37. Throw a dance party in your room or mod.

38. Participate enthu-siastically in volleyball

theme nights.

39. Have a deep conversation while eating kids’ cereal in the caf.

40. Go to the Tabor production of Handel’s Messiah. It’s coming up in December.

41. Go to SPND on Wednesday nights.

42. Play in intramural sport you are not good at.

43. Wear formal clothes for no ap-parent reason.44. Have a Disney movie mara-thon.

45. Go bowling downtown. It’s been recently renovated.

46. Eat something you can’t pro-nounce at La Cabana.

47. Have a crazy photo shoot around campus.

48. Get to knowyour RA.

49. Go to a fine arts performance.

50. Sing “Hey Baby” along with a pep band.

51. Eat a full tray of cheese fries at Newell’s. Surgeon General Warn-ing: share it with friends.

52. Attempt an all-nighter. On a Friday, of course.

53. Eat verenika in Durham or Newton. It’s delicious.

54. Own a pair of TOMS. It’s for a good

cause.

55. Make an appointment to tour one of Hillsboro’s fine museums. The Mennonite Settlement Mu-seum and the Schaeffler House both offer interesting insight into Hillsboro’s past.

56. Take in a concert at the McPherson Opera House.

57. Have a study group at The Well in McPherson.

58. Get a free movie at either the Tabor library or the Hillsboro Public Library.

59. Get a snowcone at the Igloo. It’s a few months away, but it’s worth remembering.

60. Make a late night Wal-Mart or McDonald’s run.

61. Experience a Kirby pie. Just ask him for one.

62. Eat lunch at the snack bar.

63. Take a professor to lunch with a Dine with a Mind card. Compli-ments of your Student

Senate.

64. Ask a faculty, staff or commu-nity member to be your mentor.

65. Go geocachingin Hillsboro.

66. Leave your room door open when you’re there, and count how many more people stop by. Add candy to the mix and you’re guaranteed to have more friends.

67. Walk to Sonic with a friend. It’s not that far away.

68. Visit Coronado Heights at sunset. It’s located out west by Lindsborg.

69. Go to the Brookville Hotel in Abilene for family style fried chicken.

70. Follow the Santa Fe Trail. You can still see the wagon wheel tracks.

71. Go on one of Kevin Hadduck’s hikes. The next one is coming up on Oct 23 at Kanopolis State Park. Check your e-mail for more infor-mation.

72. Volunteer to help at the Main Street food bank on a Saturday morning.

73. Take photos of Main Street at night after the first big snow.

74. Have a rumor started that you are in a relationship with someone. News travels fast around here.

75. Take a Del Gray class.

76. Take a spring break Kansas road trip.

Sights to see: world’s biggest ball of twine in Cawker, the world’s largest hand-dug well in Greens-burg , the Wizard of Oz Museum in Wamego, Mount Sunflower (the highest point in Kansas) in Wallace County, the center of the conti-nental United States in Lebanon, the world’s biggest prairie dog in Oakley, The Garden of Eden in Lucas, the Sternberg Museum in Hays and the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City.

77. Go to a zoo. Choices include the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wich-ita, Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure near Salina, or a free smaller zoo in Hutchinson.

78. Enjoy the 12 Days of Finals by SAB.

79. Visit the Kansas Underground Salt Museum in Hutchinson.

80. Go bowling at The Alley in Wichita.

81. Visit a Renaissance Festival. Dress up, or it doesn’t count.82. Play board games in Dakota.

83. Play Sardines across campus.

84. Catch bugs with Sensenig.

85. Buy strangest thing possible at Hillsboro’s Et Cetera Shop.

86. Go to Alco and buy “As Seen on TV” merchandise to see if they work.

87. Pre-pay for someone’s order at the Wendy’s drive-thru.

88. Rent three movies from Quick Flick, watch them all, and return them the next day.

89. Sit in the gazebo behind the Wohlgy

for conversation with friends.

90. Try each kind of cereal in the caf. Bonus: try all of them at once.

91. Write a comment card in the caf.

92. Take a nap upstairs in the li-brary.

93. Take in a movie in the Boeing Dome Theatre at the Exploration Place in Wichita.

94. Visit Halloween Haunt at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City.

95. Be on Facebook in the com-puter lab just because you don’t want to be in your room

96. Watch a game on a computer lab computer

97. Eat at Late Night in the Caf after SPND.

98. Host a prospective student in your room.

99. Join CHUMS or WUMP to make a difference.

100. Participate inTuesday at 10.

101. Go on a service trip over in-terterm or spring break. Watch for signups, coming soon!

The Bluejay Bucket List101 things to do while a Tabor student

FEATURES 5Scenes from Homecoming 2011

From the musical, to the football game and everything in between, homecoming was en-joyed by all.

“Oliver!,” the musical, was performed Thursday through Saturday night and Sunday afternoon (top right). The student art show (bottom right) and Professor Shin-Hee Chin’s War and Peace exhibit (above) were displayed during the duration of the weekend.

Various sports activities including a 5k

run, men’s and women’s soccer game, alumni base-ball and tennis and the Tabor vs. Bethany football game all took place on Saturday.

Children of retuning alums were also treated to fun and games Saturday morning (bottom left, middle right).

John Frankenfield and Sarah Wyckoff were crowned homecoming host and hostess during the homecoming ceremony, which took place at half-time of the football game.

Photos by Nicole Tunks. Text by Destinee Cogburn

Homecoming weekend brings busyness for students

6 SPORTS

With a current winning season, the Tabor volleyball team’s year is looking promising.

Amy Ratzlaff, head coach of the volley-ball team, said, “We have an amazing group of senior leaders on the team.”

Some mentioned were Cortney Janzen, Corissa Bartel, Tina Frick, Jessica Dixon and Hollie Tabor.

“Along with court leadership I have tre-mendous senior leaders in assistant coach positions,” Ratzlaff said. “Stephanie Ens, Samantha VanRanken and Gina Hullet have provided valuable support in making us suc-cessful.”

Just like other athletic programs, sickness and injuries have contributed to some chal-lenges that the team has had to face through-out the season.

“Our biggest challenge every season is just trying to keep everyone healthy,” she said. “Small nagging injuries are always a part of the season because we play so fre-quently.”

However, the team strives to always work

Winning season, promising year still ahead for Tabor volleyballhard and prevail though challenges faced.

“The team has worked very hard to sharpen their fundamental skills, but second round involves more game strategy and the team has responded well to playing hard and smart at the same time,” she said.

This statement rings true just by the team’s record alone. The team stands at 12-3 overall and 8-3 in the conference, tied for second in KCAC.

The team is scheduled to play McPher-son College in McPherson Oct. 20. Other upcoming games are proving to be ones that will make or break the season.

“Teams in the KCAC are up in level of play this year so most matches should be ex-citing,” Ratzlaff said.

However, Kansas Wesleyan and Sterling will prove to be the toughest competitors.

“On the road our toughest competition will be Kansas Wesleyan and Sterling. Both will be great matches for us,” she said.

Ratzlaff remains hopeful and excited about the rest of the season.

“I believe we are a much better team right now than we were first round, so seeing those teams on the road is not a concern.”

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Return to SenderSenior Jessica Dixon prepares to return a serve during an Oct 10 match against Ottawa University.

Courtesy photo by Ted McFarland

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The men’s soccer season is just about over, and the team is looking forward to playing in the playoffs. The team has a record of 9-3-1 overall and a 3-1-1 record in conference, placing them tied for third in conference.

Saturday Oct. 15 the Ottawa University Braves were in town to play the Bluejays in the home-coming game. Coming into the game, the Bluejays were tied with Ottawa and Friends University for second in the Kansas Colle-giate Athletic Conference.

The game was a good one with Ottawa scoring first early in the game. The Bluejays battled back to tie up the game on a corner kick from senior Robert Masson to Derick Burkhard late in the first half.

Strong men’s soccer season winding down, playoffs to comeThe second half saw several

scoring opportunities for both teams, but no goals. The same thing happened in the first over-time as well as the second over-time. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Playoffs are just around the corner, there are only four games remaining in the season.

The top six teams make the playoffs and the Bluejays are re-ally looking forward to being one of those six.

“With four games left, we’ve got to win three to make it to the tournament for sure,” said junior David Simmet.

The team’s next game is against no. 17 Kansas Wesleyan tonight, Oct. 19.

“I want to thank all our fans that have supported us so far dur-ing the season, and I hope they continue to support,” said Sim-met.

Photos by Nicole Tunks

On Oct. 15 the Lady Jays soccer team faced off against the Ottawa Braves for the homecoming game. Despite their efforts, the Lady Jays fell 3-1 against the Braves.

Within the first few minutes of the game, Ottawa had already scored a goal, making the score 1-0. About 10 minutes later, sophomore Victoria Can-tu tied up the game with a goal of her own.

During the rest of the half, both teams missed opportunities to score goals, leaving the score tied 1-1 at the half.

In the second half, Ottawa scored within the first 10 minutes, increasing the score to 2-1 in their favor. Later on in the game, Ottawa put in another goal to make the final score 3-1

The team has four games left, three of which are at home. The next game is tonight, Oct. 19, here at home against 25-ranked Kansas Wesleyan.

ConcentrationSophomore Molly Clark concentrates on moving the ball forward during the Lady Jays game against Ottawa.

Photo by Nicole Tunks

This soccer season has proved to be a difficult one for Tabor’s Lady Jays. Several injuries and illnesses have kept the team from being able to perform to their full potential. The team currently sits with a record of 4-9, 0-5 in confer-ence placing them in last.

But in spite of a difficult season, the team still manages to keep a positive attitude.

“This season’s been a struggle, but we still plan on finishing strong to-gether,” said junior team captain Molly Dick. “We are slowly gaining back our confidence and playing to the best of our abilities.”

With no seniors on the team, Dick, junior, praises the sophomores on the team for their leadership. “(The) soph-omores have done a good job of step-ping up and helping lead the team,” said Dick.

Destinee CogburnReporter

Women’s soccer team staying positive through struggling season

Mine!Left: Junior Giovanni Martinez knocks over an Ottawa University Brave as he steals the ball right out from his feet. Right: Freshman Jordan Maska dribbles the ball around the field in the Bluejays 1-1 draw against Ottawa.

Photo by Nicole TunksBoot ItSophomore Rachel Strobridge gives the ball a good boot in the Lady Jays 4-1 Loss to Ot-tawa on Saturday Oct. 15

SPORTS 7

The Tabor cross coun-try team doesn’t seem to just be improving, but thriving, especially com-pared to previous years.

“Only one person didn’t get a personal best or a season best,” said coach Daniel Swaney about their meet at Emporia. “She was only two seconds off though and considering it was a harder course than when she did have her personal best means that she had a better race.”

All of the men’s cross country team broke per-sonal records, but the big-gest surprise was fresh-man Chris Lopez.

“He broke his per-sonal record by two min-utes and eleven seconds,” said Swaney. “Assuming Chris continues to run as he did on Friday, and he’s run well in practice since, I think we’ve basically ce-mented our third place in conference.”

Tabor was sixth in con-ference last year and ninth Swaney’s first year as cross country coach.

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The two teams ahead of Tabor are Friends Univer-sity in Wichita and South-western.

“It’s kinda nice that Southwestern is losing since they have won 30 straight conference titles,” said Swaney.

Sophomore Brielle Lund and freshman Joel Allen both got 14th over-all in their respective races at Emporia. This is the third meet in a row that Lund and Allen have gotten the same place af-ter getting 3rd at the home meet and 6th at Friends.

In the latest meet at McPherson the men got sixth out of 11 teams while the women finished sev-enth out of eleven. Lund was third overall while Allen came in seventh.

“I checked and last year was the first time that our top five men were under 30 minutes,” said Swaney. “This year our top five were under 28 minutes and our top seven were under 29 minutes and 30 seconds.

“That was really neat to see.”

XC runners break PRs

Run, Run, RunAt left, freshman Garrett Daugherty and sophomore Dylan Crawford lead a pack during their race. On the right, Hannah Holmes strides it out as the woman’s race peaks.

Courtesy photos by Michael Klaassen

game. Bethany received to begin the game.

The Swedes controlled the first quarter with a touchdown and a field goal. Ta-bor made it easy for Bethany in the first quarter with two turnovers—a fumble and an interception. Tabor tried to come back in the second quarter with a seven yard touchdown run from freshmen halfback Brandon Johnson and a touchdown recep-tion from Duray Gardener, a senior re-ceiver. The score at the end of the first half was 31 to 14; Bethany had a firm lead.

Refusing to give up, the Tabor Bluejays brought the game to within three points in the second half. Spencer Brown, a senior defensive back, recovered a fumble and returned it for a touchdown during the comeback. With four minutes left, Tabor forced Bethany to punt. Unfortunately, Tabor eventually fumbled the ball for the third time and they were unable to score. Bethany won with a score of 35 to 38.

The football team currently has a re-cord of 1-5 and a conference record of 0-5. Their next game is on Saturday, Oct. 22 against McPherson College at home.

Carrying OnFreshman Brandon Johnson tucks the ball tight as he prepares to elude a Bethany Swede defender during the homecoming game at Joel H. Wiens stadium on Saturday Oct 15. Johnson helped the Bluejays make a second- half comeback, only to fall three points short of upsetting a ranked team.

Photo by Nicole Tunks

The Tabor Bluejays played the Betha-ny Swedes at home for the homecoming football game on Saturday. Tabor was 1-4 coming into the game and Bethany had a respectable record of 5-1 and was ranked 22 in the nation.

Looking at the records, the game may seem a little lopsided, but Tanner Giffin, a junior halfback, and Mike Gardner, head football coach, have both seen positive changes in the football team and believed they had a chance to take on and beat Beth-any. Giffin talked about the season up to the recent game against Bethany.

“Obviously this season has not gone ac-cording to plan…but we are working tire-lessly to improve and correct the mistakes that have kept us from previous wins. We are looking forward to the rest of the season and know that…we can get it turned around and make this a successful and memorable season.” said Giffin.

According to Gardner, the Bluejays were focused on controlling Bethany’s run

Brennen SmithReporter

Homecoming FB win elusive

The 2011-2012 bowling team has tak-en a redshirt for the season. A redshirt is where you take a year and develop your-self without losing college eligibility.

“I’m looking forward to improving a lot and having everyone get used to their new

equipment,” said freshman Chario Carter.The team took the redshirt so they are

able to spend an entire year practicing and learning more and more about the sport.

Carter stated that there are a few of the bowlers who are fairly new to competi-tive bowling, and that this year would be a good way of developing their talents into

Redshirt year for Tabor bowling team to practice and developcompetitive form.

The team will not compete in any tour-nament or single competition this year unless it is just for practice. Carter hinted on maybe having a practice competition against Newman University in Wichita.

This year will all be about development of skill for both the men’s and women’s

Zach BissellSports Editor

bowling team.The team has received new equipment,

and will use the upcoming months to get used to it on the bowling lanes here in town during their practices.

At next year’s first tournament, the bowling team will be ready to compete af-ter a full year of practice and development.

ters between Mid America Naza-rene University in Olathe, and Friends University in Wichita.

“My second, sophomore year of college was met by my deci-sion to thankfully settle in at Tabor College, where I remained until graduation,” she said.

Womack’s time spent here at Tabor was full of academic growth as well as strengthening for her faith in Christ.

“I was not only educated solely in the formal fields of marketing and communications, but, more importantly, I was encouraged to-wards a more intimate relationship with God,” she said.

After graduating from Tabor, Womack was first employed by National Catastrophe Restoration, Inc. where she worked as a Mar-keting Administrator. However, in March 2010, Womack became a part of the Inspired Koncepts team, which is the publishing agency for SPLURGE! Magazine.

“SPLURGE! prides itself on

Tabor College prides itself on its amazing and professional peo-ple that call themselves alumni of this institution.

Janelle Womack is a prime ex-ample of this claim.

Womack, the sales and market-ing coordinator for SPLURGE! Magazine of Wichita, graduated from Tabor in 2008 with a de-gree in Communications. She has many responsibilities that are tied into this title.

“Specifically, I manage ac-counts, assist the editorial staff, coordinate fashion, implement on-line marketing strategies and orga-nize events,” she said.

After graduating high school, Womack split her first two semes-

CAMPUS LIFE8Janelle

Preview: Sadie Hawkin’s Oct. 2011 Q&A: 2011 Royalty

Jordan GiffinCampus Life Editor

Where Now?are

they

being the ‘People Magazine of Wichita,’” Womack said. “We try to offer our readers positive, fun, inspiring, and relevant content that they would otherwise not find in town.”

Womack’s continual praise of her job is not complete without her special shout-outs to her fel-low employees at SPLURGE!

“Each of my colleagues are filled with kindness and enthusi-asm for the community of Wich-ita,” she said. “This thoughtful-ness and commonality of purpose thus translates into an exception-ally good, positive work environ-ment.”

Womack is appreciative of both her time spent here at Tabor, as well as how it has prepared her for the line of work that she loves to be a part of.

With regards to the future, “The foreseeable future includes con-tinued growth with SPLURGE! However, beyond that, I welcome all surprises.”

The “It Girl”Womack, a strategic member of the fashion aspect at SPLURGE! Magazine, shows off some of her own fashion tastes with her stunning top and bold earrings.

Zach BissellSports Editor

Meet your 2011 Tabor Col-lege Host and Hostess: Se-niors Johnathon Franken-field and Sarah Wyckoff.

Tabor View: Where are you from?

Sarah Wyckoff: Black-well, Oklahoma.

Johnathon Frankenfield: Overland Park, Kansas.

TV: What brought you to Tabor?

SW: Basketball scholar-ship.

JF: The Christian atmo-sphere.

TV: First impression of Tabor?

SW: I saw some old Men-nonite ladies and thought “Where am I again?”

JF: I thought that it was in the middle of nowhere.

TV: What is your major?SW: Secondary English

Education, Minor in Commu-nications.

JF: Social Science, Minor in Business Management.

TV: Plans for post-gradua-tion?

SW: I am hoping I can write for a literary journal or work for a poetry magazine. Also, go to grad school for Publishing and Editing.

JF: I want to get a job with the state in Topeka.

TV: One thing you would mention in your acceptance speech?

SW: I feel so honored to be Queen Frankenfield.

JF: I would ask President Glanzer if I get an extra scholar-ship now.

TV: One thing that you wish all students would do?

SW: Go mattress surfing in the Lohrenz.

JF: Be open minded.TV: Piece of advice for un-

derclassmen?SW: Sadies is your only

chance to meet a man. Make sure you pick some winners.

JF: Everybody chooses their Tabor Experience.

Photo courtesy of Janelle Womack

Womack

Photo Contest Winner: Rebecca Spurgeon“This is a photo of a sunrise on Lake Vermilion in Minnesota. I woke up ex-tra early to catch the amazing sunrise I had been hearing people talk about. It was definitely worth it. I hope this photo helps to show a glimpse of God’s glory that I witnessed that morning,” Spur-geon said.

Ladies, get ready. It’s time to delve into that right side of your brain and begin contemplating the perfect way to ask those men to the dating weekend of the year.

That’s right, Sadie Hawkin’s is here again.

Coming the last weekend of October, Sadie Hawkin’s is sure to prove to be filled with creative costumes, great food, and fun dancing.

Senior Aaron Stepanek, Presi-dent of Student Activities Board, gave some insight to the themes for this year’s weekend.

“The dates for Sadie’s this year

are Oct. 27-29. The banquet will be in the cafeteria (on Friday). Pictures will start at 7:30 p.m. in Java Jays, with the caf opening up at 8 p.m. for dinner,” he said.

The themes for this year in-clude a Superheroes vs. Supervil-lains Banquet, Fictional Charac-ters Cosmic Bowling and Salsa Dancing.

“There are so many superhe-roes and supervillains out there. If someone is stumped they should perform a Google search,” Ste-panek said. “As it pertains to fic-tional characters, I know Mickey and Minnie are always a good op-tion. You don’t even have to be a specific couple if you don’t want to.”

Cosmic Bowling will take

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place in Newton this year at Play-Mor Lanes. The lanes will be re-served from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. so people are free to come and go as they please, Stepanek said.

Salsa Dancing will be held at the fairgrounds’ Commercial Building here in Hillsboro at 8 p.m.

There will be ticket sales for the banquet but the prices have not yet been decided on. The oth-er two events are free of charge.

“People should watch the SAB board outside the caf for more information,” Stepanek said. “Sa-dies is just a great time to go back to your childhood when you used to make believe you were some-one, or something, else.”

So ladies, begin those brain-storming sessions to decide not only the how, but the who. No need for those fun nights to be ru-ined because you failed to ask the right person.

With all of this preparation, maybe we’re beginning to under-stand how those guys feel a lot of the time. Dancing the night awayTabor students enjoyed a night of swing dance lessons at last year’s Sadie’s event. This year, the dance night will be Salsa Dancing Oct. 29 at the fairgrounds’ Com-mercial Building here in Hillsboro at 8 p.m.

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