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[email protected] September 21, 2011 Issue 1

Off and runningFall athletics are in full swing, with high hopes for the seasonSports, pg 6-7

Grant TerryTabor welcomes

the acousticartist back, along with Jake Ousley

Features, pg 5

Oliver and friendsThe cast of “Oliver!”

prepares for its home-coming performance of the classic musical

News, pg 2

Campus gears up for homecoming eventsBrouillette returns to campus to fill pastor position

Homecoming will be here before anyone knows it. The date for

this year’s homecoming is set for the weekend of Saturday October 15.

There are several events planned for the homecoming weekend.

The drama department will be putting on the musical “Oli-ver!” in the Chapel. There are only a total of four chances to see the musical, so get your tickets early. Tickets can be bought by contacting the Stu-dent Life Office.

Some of the other events in-clude the art show in the library, Shin-Hee Chin’s art exhibit in the Historic Church, a two-mile and a 5k run/walk, music fest in the Wohlgemuth, alumni ath-letic games and the homecom-ing men’s and women’s soccer and football games. The soccer games are against Ottawa Uni-versity on that Friday, with the women playing at 6:00 p.m. and the men playing after. The following Saturday, the football team will take on Bethany Col-lege at 2:00 p.m.

Other events that are go-ing on for the returning alumni include a golf tournament at

See PASTOR, pg 2

Expect athletics, entertainment, games, verenika and a Doc Kyle roast

Courtesy photo by Vance FrickHaving a BallThe youngster of a Tabor alumnus enjoys herself during the children’s games, a staple of the Bluejay homecoming weekend. Classic events like this will return in mid-October, along with some new ones.

Tabor College has decided on a new campus pastor: former baseball coach Mike Brouillette. Brouillette presented in chapel

Sept. 12, giv-ing several bits of background about his per-sonal life, and concluded his session with an inspiring “We are TC” chant.

“I am ex-tremely excited to be here with the great diversity, not just physi-cally, but mentally,” said Brouil-lette in regards to how he feels about the job, which he will be-gin on Oct. 1.

The campus pastor position, reduced to a part-time position nearly four years ago due budget cuts, has been restored to full-time.

Brouillette does not originate from Kansas. He is originally from Goshen, In., where he was a youth pastor for five years.

Brouillette is a graduate of Grace College and Seminary in Winona Lake, In. He majored in

Zach BissellSports Editor


Reflection Ridge Golf Course in Wichita, an alumni brunch with the President Jules Glan-zer, a lunch buffet that includes a chance to impersonate Doc Kyle and an assortment of class reunions.

This year’s class reunions include the graduating classes from 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991,

1996, 2001, and 2006. Alumni from all years will be back on campus regardless to enjoy all of the festivities.

Current students will also have plenty of opportunities to come out and enjoy the home-coming weekend festivities. Eventually students will be re-turning as alumni to have their own homecoming.

Brouillette

Freshmen intro courses undergo reformation again

The freshmen Bible, Commu-nity and Culture course has un-dergone some changes this year in order to help students get the most out of the class. The class, which is a required course in or-der to graduate from Tabor, is a survey of the entire Bible. Gen-esis through Revelation is cov-ered within one semester.

BCC and TC 101, which were originally two classes, merged into one class in the fall of 2009 but once again are being taught as two separate classes.

“We felt like too much was lost when we merged the class-es,” said chair of Tabor’s Bible department Doug Miller.

Miller also hopes to increase the effectiveness of the course by cutting down the class sizes.

“We just threw one hundred-eighty kids into the chapel for a class and hoped that they would learn something,” said Miller of the previous set-up. Since then, they have split students up into smaller groups, with Dr. Dell Gray and Dr. Wendell Loewen each teaching their own BCC and TC 101 classes.

Destinee CogburnReporter

Here at Tabor, students and faculty strive for excellence in everything they do.

In athletics, stu-dents are asked to perform to the best of their abilities with a strict moral conduct that drives them.

Taylor Funk, ju-nior, and Spencer Brown, senior, are two students who are thought to be ex-amples of this and as such were awarded for their strong sense of character in athlet-ics.

Both recipients were first named male and female champions of char-acter for Tabor by the coaches and the ath-letic department.

Rusty Allen, Vice President of Athlet-ics, said, “Karol and I work closely with the nominations.”

Later on, both students were then asked to write an es-say reflecting on the five champion of character values (in-tegrity, respect, re-sponsibility, sports-manship, and servant leadership), and to

Jordan GiffinOpinion &

Campus Life

See FRESHMEN, pg 2

Java Jays, the campus cof-fee shop, will be reopening Wednesday, September 21.

“We have brand-new equipment,” said Java Jays Staff Advisor and Resident Director Patrick Masar. “We started to build momentum last spring that the whole staff is excited to continue.”

Masar is excited to come back to the business after starting to advise last semes-ter. Java Jays will be return-ing, but there will be a few changes in order to continue the success of last semester

Scott MorrowReporter

and thrive even more.“We are going to be of-

fering not as much on the menu but better base options so people can build more on it,” said Java Jays comanager Emily Friesen. “We are still doing a lot of progress things and are in the process of fig-uring a few things out.”

Java Jays will be open Monday, Thursday and Sun-day nights from 8-11 p.m., and will be open Wednesday nights 9:30-11:30 p.m. Java Jays will also be open from 7:30-10:30 a.m. Monday mornings.

“The next step for Java

Jays is to continue to build a brand that we started in the spring,” said Masar. “We are really interested in student feedback.”

Masar continued by ex-pressing that the addition of a new espresso machine with two stations would hopefully reduce the amount of time people are in line.

Friesen, a senior, is co-managing Java Jays with sophomore Brooke Eitzen. Friesen has had experience while working at Starbucks and working at Java Jays the past four years. Eitzen worked at Java Jays last year

Java Jays opens this week with new equipment and old favoritesand worked at another coffee shop before coming to Tabor for a few years.

“Emily and Brooke are stellar managers,” said Ma-sar. “They both have a good understanding of how to run a coffee shop.”

After the winter semes-ter, Friesen will graduate and leave the managing duties to Eitzen.

“She’s going to do awe-some, she’s really, really mo-tivated,” said Friesen. “Awe-some with interaction, she’ll do very well.”

And yes, there will be ice cream drinks.

Character welcomedFunk, Brown honored by KCAC for outstanding character on the field

See KCAC, pg 2

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Photo by Nicole TunksDancing to DickensAgainst the backdrop of a built-from-scratch stage, members of the homecoming musical cast “Oliver!” line up to rehearse some choreog-raphy. They are, from left to right, junior Cassie Kroeker, senior Hanna Vogel, sophomore Silas Pederson, junior Abi Epp and sophomore Kaitlyn Brown. “Oliver!” will be presented in the Lohrenz Building chapel Oct. 13-16. Tickets for Tabor students are $4.

The homecoming musical for the 2011 year has been an-nounced. The musical “Oliver!” will be performed by the Tabor College Theater Department under the direction of Associate Professor of Communications and Theater Judy Harder during Homecoming weekend, October 13-16.

“Oliver!” is based on the 1838 Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.

The musical is an award-win-ning classic that, according to Harder, is very popular.

“Oliver!” premiered on Lon-don’s West End in 1960, and began a successful Broadway run in 1963. The production was made into a musical film in 1968. “Oliver!” has since enjoyed suc-cessful revivals on West End, the most recent ending this year.

According to Harder, the plot follows an orphan who is in search for love and acceptance in 19th century London.

Oliver will be played by Eva Noble, a fourth grade student at

‘Oliver!’ finds home with Tabor drama departmentZach Bissell

Sports Editor

Study finds high per-centage of pedestrians hit by bikes in New York City

Who would have thought that those things could actually hurt and implicate injuries on some-one? A study released by Hunter College professors showed at least 1,000 1,000 pedestrians are hit by bicycle riders each year across New York state. Half of those are in New York City.

Obama vows to do away with millionaire tax cuts, reduce deficit

President Barack Obama on Monday announced his recom-mendations to lawmakers for fiscal moves to enhance revenue flow into the government coffers while reducing the deficit.

Third of American texters prefer to be reached via SMS than call

A growing number of Ameri-cans who use SMS to commu-nicate prefer to be reached via text messaging than voice call based on a survey of the Pew Research Center, which studies U.S. trends.

‘Lion King’ in 3-D roars to top spot at weekend box office

The animated adventure was originally released 17 years ago and featured the voices of Mat-thew Broderick and Jeremy Irons. In its 1994 debut weekend, the film grossed $40.9 million. The re-release in 3-D grossed $29.3 million this past weekend.

NASA satellite expect-ed to crash to Earth Friday

Heads up! When and where six tons of space junk will land has NASA on high alert. The Upper Atmosphere Research sat-ellite, UARS, is expected to fall to Earth most likely this Friday. Scientists say it will break into pieces during its descent.

Indian earthquake prompts ‘wake-up call’

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake on 18 September in northeastern India which also caused deaths in parts of Nepal and China, serves as a stark warning to the earthquake-prone region, experts say.

Markets fall worldwide on renewed fear from Greece

Investors ended last week cheering five full days of gains. This week started with boos and jeers as worries from Greece mounted and sent U.S. stocks tumbling Monday morning. The decline followed the move late Friday from European leaders who postponed a decision about Greece’ next bailout installment until October.

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News in brief

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Hillsboro Elementary School.Landing other major roles

in “Oliver!” are seniors Maria Loewen, who will play the role of Nancy; Aaron Stepanek, who will play Bill Sykes and David

Vogel, who will play Fagin.On October 13, 14 and 15

the musical will be performed at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Oc-tober 16 at 2:00 p.m. All shows will be performed in the Lohrenz

Building chapel. Ticket prices are $12 for gen-

eral admission and $8 for stu-dents. Tickets can be reserved any time by calling or stopping by the Student Life Office.

The campus’s peace and so-cial justice group, PAX, is a small group of students who want to bring awareness of world issues to campus.

The president, junior Brenda Drake, was the sole member of PAX just weeks ago.

“We almost didn’t have (PAX) this year,” said Drake.

But after the Campus Min-istries Council fair held outside the cafeteria on Monday, Sept. 5, nine people signed up to be on PAX.

Drake, who has been a part of PAX since her freshman year, hopes to be able to work more closely with MCC in Newton this year, and possibly cohost some events with IMPACT, an-

New members boost campus peace and social justice group into new semesterDestinee Cogburn

Reporter other campus ministry. Some activities that PAX has

done in the past few years in-clude packing relief boxes for Haiti after the earthquake in 2010, and also showing a video by the Call and Response organi-zation to bring awareness to hu-man trafficking.

Drake encourages students to sign up even if they think they are too busy.

“PAX is flexible,” said Drake.PAX usually meets once a

week and plans its meeting times around people’s busy schedules to make it easier for them to at-tend.

Drake invites students to come with issues that are im-portant to them, or that should be important to the campus and community.

include a document of their academic honors, athletic honors, and campus/community in-volvement, said Funk.

Brown and Funk were then recognized as the two KCAC Champions of Characters on Au-gust 2, 2011, at McPherson College at the Sport Management Conference, where they each re-ceived a plaque.

“It’s cool that the KCAC cares and recog-nizes the importance of character in addition to

Taylor Funk Spencer Brown

athletic ability,” Funk said. “It was really neat to receive this award, but all glory goes to God!”

“There is only one person selected for each award,” Allen said. “But they give out a number of awards each year.”

The award is a KCAC award in support of the National Association of Intercollegiate Ath-letics. It is a prestigious award that is given to both the male and female recipients.

There are a number of awards given each year. However, Tabor has so far dominated the amount of awards received in the past two years that the KCAC has had these awards.

In the past two years, there have been six awards given to players and coaches in the KCAC and four out of those six were awarded to Tabor. Amy Ratzlaff was awarded coach of the year for the 2010-2011 season and Jordan Crosson, a senior who graduated in May, was awarded the Female Champion of Character for the same year.

“It is definitely something to be proud of,” said Allen.

KCACcontinued from pg 1

Students also meet twice a week for TC 101, which is an in-troductory course to college for fresh-

FRESHMENcont. from pg 1

elementary education while at Grace.

Before coming to Tabor, Brouillette worked at Canton-Galva, where he was a counselor for kindergarten through eighth grade, a head baseball coach and assistant football coach. Brouil-lette was an assistant baseball coach here at Tabor for a several years before leaving for Canton-Galva.

While in Kansas, Brouillette was a youth pastor at Alexan-derwohl Mennonite Church in Goessel.

“Nothing brings greater joy to me than seeing younger people coming closer to the Gospel, and I am glad that I get to help,” said Brouillette.

PASTORcontinued from pg 1

man students. Miller hopes that by set-ting up classes in this way, the course will be more en-gaging, and that it would give a chance

for better interaction between the student and the professor.

Though the ba-sic principles of the class have remained the same, a Bible study called a Focus paper is added. This is not as deep as the FORRMAL, elimi-nated from the previ-ous merge.

Dr. Miller said that he is eager for students to do well. His advice to stu-dents who are taking the class is to follow directions, and not to hesitate to talk to the professor when con-fused.

He also said, “My wish would be that (the students) would enjoy the Bible.”

Photo by David VogelWalking Thru the WordFreshmen take down notes during Walk Thru the Bible, an annual seminar for introductory Tabor Bible courses.

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

Living in a room with three people is a brand new and ex-citing adventure.

Not knowing who was going to be in the room just made it even more exciting.

Knowing that the year was going to be an adventure, not just with school but with my new living arrangements, get-ting back to Tabor was a com-plete joy.

Walking into the room seeing that both roommates were all moved in but not there was a surprise.

When packing up to get ready to make the move back to Tabor, not knowing what to bring and what my roommates were bringing started the adventure right. Af-ter getting out here and realizing that the proper stuff was brought, it was a total feel-good moment.

Setting up the new room, a lot was learned about both roommates.

Simple questions like “Where are you

from?” and “What sports do you play?” were asked as well as an-swered.

The room took a little while to become what it is today, but all that time was spent getting to know that this is going to be a fun year with people that have just been met.

One major thing that had to happen at the beginning of the year was figuring out each

other’s sleep cycles. All three of us went to bed at differ-

ent times for the first couple of weeks. We eventually started to get on the same page and go to bed around the same time.

We also had to figure out when each other woke up.

Turning on the light thinking they were out of the room on the first day was hard to apologize for.

As of now we know each other’s sched-ules and approximately when each other wakes up for class or practice.

Triple rooms: Three’s a crowd?

Contagion is a movie about germs, death and science, but it is mostly about the human reac-tion to disease and how easily a disease can spread.

The movie is tension-packed to the brim and the complete re-alism of the characters and of the situation is absolutely terrifying.

A previously unknown strain of virus has hit populations be-fore, so what is preventing it from doing it again? How long before a cure?

Contagion takes all of these questions and makes a com-pletely reasonable “What if…” scenario that makes the movie scarier in a completely different manner than zombies or serial killers.

One of the many interest-ing things about this movie is it follows several different people in several different situations around the world which makes watching it interesting and en-grossing.

The film stars boasts a top notch and very attractive cast including Matt Damon as a mid-dle-aged father with a belly, Kate Winslet as a doctor who only wears sweaters and Jude Law as a blogger with crooked teeth.

Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Elliot Gould also hold important roles.

Surprisingly, the one person to actually steal the show for me was unknown to me: Jennifer Ehle, who plays a doctor franti-cally searching for a cure for the virus.

Steven Soderbergh, known for movies such as Traffic and Ocean’s Eleven, directs this with a very realistic eye. The charac-ters are not looking Hollywood glamour, the camera work brings a sense of dread to simple items that the hand touches and the very air seems to explode with potential energy.

The screenwriter, Scott Z. Burns does something that is very important: he makes multi-dimensional characters with smarts.

I loved Contagion; I love talk-ing about it and I love thinking about it. And then I hate think-ing about it because it could to-tally happen.

Go see Contagion and become a slight germaphobe afterwards.

‘Contagion’ enough to awe audiences

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OPINION 3In this room we have a good variety of

people. There is a baseball player, a basket-ball player, and a non athlete who does par-ticipate in the musical.

With all these different activities it is hard to know the schedule.

With sports it is usually a set time for practice and games, but morning workouts can vary.

The musical is tough to work with. There is a set time for rehearsals and the dates to the performances, but it is a lot of work to do in a short time. He is in and out at ran-dom times.

All in all, the three person room set up is fun to be part of.

There is still time to get to know the ten-dencies of my roommates, and for them to know my tendencies.

All of us will be out supporting each oth-er at their given sport or event throughout of the entirety of the year.

Living together can really turn people into family, and make them as close as brothers.


Two days after Sept. 11, 2001, Mary Lou Habecker distributed scripture portions outside of the American Bible Society (ABS) on Broadway Avenue in New York, N.Y.

As people wandered the ashen streets, searching for loved ones and answers, a line formed in front of her booth. Before long, a well dressed man with a large bag approached Mary Lou, ask-ing how many booklets he was allowed to have. When she told him he could take as many as he needed, he shoveled more than 100 into his bag.

“Thank you so much,” he said. “By the way, I think you might be interested to know, I’m Muslim, but we all need God right now.”

In a generation defined by postmodernism and relativity, truth has become a personal per-spective—a decision left to the discretion of the beholder. We go about our daily lives, logically explaining our beliefs and sys-tematically arranging them.

However, when disaster strikes, it offsets our balance, scattering the pages of our per-ceptions and shattering our

understanding of what is real. We helplessly stumble around the dark corners of our minds, searching for answers in logi-cal places like science and rea-son, but suddenly nothing makes sense.

Events like Sept. 11 remind us that our world is full of ques-tions that can only be partially answered. In a culture con-sumed by the power of personal intellect, we often forget that the most prominent truths cannot be solely sustained by science or reason. Instead, they point us God.

In the hour of Christ’s con-demnation, he said: “For this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me” (John 18:37).

The truth is what we are driv-en to when science seems non-sensical, and reason is unrespon-sive to the questions that plague our minds. Amidst tragedy, truth is not numbers. It is not complex theories or confusing formulas. Instead, truth is what we know, but cannot see, what we feel, but cannot touch, what we experi-ence, but struggle to explain. In a world of uncertainties, truth is what we find after piecing to-

gether the fragments of a reality only partially revealed.

As we try to makes sense of difficult situations like Sept. 11, we yearn for God to intervene, yet His alleged inaction makes Him feel distant—sometimes to the point of nonexistence. But if God did not exist, then truth does not exist, and if truth does not exist, nothing would feel right or wrong in the first place.

Where was God on Sept. 11, 2001? He was in the same place he was as he watched Christ cru-cified on the cross. Yet, thousands of years later Pontius Pilate’s age old question is still on our lips: “What is truth?” Luckily, Christ has already set the answer in our hearts. We find it in the depths of our souls when everything we think we know collapses before our eyes.

Editor’s note: The Tabor View has recently joined the Stu-dent News Cooperative, a wire service for the student newspa-pers of Christian colleges and universities. We will periodi-cally draw from that collection to present a wide range of top-ics and opinions to enhance the overall quality and timeliness of this publication.

Truth in tragedy: We all need GodFrom the Wire

Did You Know...n Each semester, every student has $25 on his or her Jay Card to use at the Snack Bar and Java Jays!

n Equipment checkouts are available in the CRC for racquetball equipment and more!

n Racquetball will be added to this year’s list of Intramurals, as well as others that are in the works!

How do you see your StrengthsQuest strengths

in your life?

Rachel GoeringJunior

Terach AntoineSophomore

Empathy: “In how much I value relation-ships.”

Positivity: “I try to stay as positive in all situations as I can be.”

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Premiere Presidential Leadership Scholars settle into new role2011 marks the first year

that Tabor College offers the Presidential Leadership Scholarship, and the four scholarship winners have arrived.

“I’m thrilled, they are all we had hoped for,” said Ta-bor College President Jules Glanzer.

Courtney Erwin, Maris-sa Hiett, Ryan Jorgenson, and Trent Vogt are the four freshmen that have gotten the leadership scholarship. Along with them, 15 other freshman who applied for the scholarship have come as well.

The four were chosen through a selection pro-cess that a presidential-led council oversaw. The council put the applicants through a series of experi-ences—including speed in-terviews, a photo booth and an impromptu speech—that tested their leadership and charisma under pressure.

“The photo booth was probably my favorite,” said Hiett of Reedley, Calif. “What was killer for me was meeting five minutes with the president; just say-ing where I wanted to go and where I wanted to be.

“When I met with him I really wanted to be men-tored by this guy.”

Throughout the day, the applicants were observed

and were graded on their performance. The top six or seven were siphoned down based on leadership, experiences, science and art.

“I liked writing the pa-per the most because it was the most natural thing for me,” said Ryan Jorgenson of Aurora, Colorado. “I wrote it about my soccer team back home.”

Both Heett and Jorgen-son remember being slight-ly anxious about going back home not knowing if they would get the scholar-ship.

“I probably would have (still come), probably a little more heartbreaking to come though,” said Hiett. “I was really kind of sur-prised; there were plenty of other people that could have gotten it.”

“In a way it was nerve wracking,” said Jorgenson. “I was overjoyed, because I knew then that Tabor was where God wanted me to be.”

President Glanzer is ex-cited to have such promis-ing students on campus.

“What it really is, is a leadership laboratory mo-saic,” said Glanzer. “It is a place where people will learn about influence, it is a laboratory in that we are going to be investigating and discovering, mosaic in that we are putting lots of

pieces together to form a puzzle.”

The mosaic not only has pieces from different states but also different walks of life. Three of the four lead-ership scholars play sports, some come from being stu-dent body presidents, and others as Bible study lead-ers.

“I have a heart for mis-sions; that’s what I want to be when I grow up,” said Hiett.

“I guess I haven’t really decided yet, keeping my options open,” said Jor-genson. “If you can call it a ministry, CHUMS seems

really cool.” Even though they are

freshmen, over the years the Presidential Scholar-ship program is hoped to

affect both community of Tabor and also futures of these promising young leaders.

“The world is our class-room,” said President Glanzer.


All the President’s FellowsAll 15 of the Presidential Leadership Fellows took time to relax on a recent evening at President Jules Glanzer’s (center, back row) basement. The Fellows, including the four scholarship recipients, include (left to right) Becky Faber, Cheyenne Derksen, Carly Wilhelm, Hannah Holmes, Marissa Hiett, Andrea Acker, Jake Nachtigal, Crystal Holmes, Krista Neifert, Tyler Entz, Courtney Erwin, Katy Abramowich, Matt Wiebe, Trent Vogt and Ryan Jorgenson.

Erwin Hiett Jorgenson Vogt

Photo by Nicole Tunks

Student organizations have a fair experienceThe Hillsboro Arts and Crafts Fair was held on Sept. 17. If you looked down Main Street that Saturday, you probably saw a lot of Tabor blue. Students both attended the festival and volunteered for many different organizations and causes. The softball team (above left) sold des-serts, cheerleaders (above middle) helped out at Quilts & QuiltRacks, the baseball team (above) sold t-shirts to raise money for breast cancer research, MSU (left) sold drinks and many students (far left)pitched in to help area churches, the fire department and other organizations sell hamburgers and hot dogs.

Photos and text by Nicole Tunks

It’s interesting to think about different seasons of weather. When God put the sun and the earth in place, he knew that the earth would experience four dif-ferent seasons of weather each year: summer, fall, winter, and spring.

With each passing season peo-ple get the feeling of new temper-atures and types of precipitation along with the nostalgic feeling they had last year during that season. The first snow of win-ter brings back memories of last year’s snow.

Each new year, Tabor brings new staff and faculty in the same way. Just as the first snow of winter will be slightly different in temperature, texture or density than last year’s snow, the new staff and faculty will be different than the people who used to fill that role.

These are some of the new and familiar people that will be around campus this year.

Questions1. What were you doing before

you were hired for this job?2. What made you decide to

take this job?3. Any particular family mem-

bers you would like to mention?

n Whitney Allen, Admissions Counselor and Ministry Quest Advisor

1. I was a student at Tabor Col-lege.

2. I have a passion for help-ing young people experience the abundant life Christ came to offer us and I am passionate about how Tabor College and the Ministry Quest program help students to-wards that.

n Daniel Baldwin, Director of Bands and Orchestra and As-sistant Professor of Instrumental Music

1. I was the assistant director of bands at Garden City High School.

2. It has been a goal of mine

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for a while to teach college and the fact that this is a Christian school was a huge selling point for me.

3. I am married to Misty and have three children: Daryan, Brett, and Eryn.

n Andrea Batista, Academic Support Coordinator and Assis-tant Volleyball Coach

1. Working at Cloud County Community College as the Lab Assistant/Secretary while also being an assistant volleyball and track coach.

2. I played for Amy and ab-solutely believe in everything she does as a coach. The Student Success position was a great op-portunity to help students be suc-cessful.

3. I absolutely adore everyone in my large Portuguese family.

n Dianne Hamilton, Help Desk Manager

1. Information Technology Manager for Hospira, a phar-maceutical company. Graduated from Alcorn State University in Mississippi with a degree in Computer Science.

2. New adventure.

n Andrea Klenda, Financial Aid Representative

1. Stay-at-home mom/home-maker of two boys.

2. I decided to take this job because of the atmosphere. A Christian environment is such a wonderful place to be, where the people around you have similar views.

3. Two boys, Elijah is three and Evan is 11 months. My hus-band, Dale.

n Jim Paulus, Vice President of Student Life, Learning, and Formation

1. Worked at California Bap-tist University as Director of Dis-ability Services and a Clinical Counselor.

2. Tabor Alum. My Tabor ex-perience was very impactful in my life. I enjoy working with and serving college students.

3. Wife Laura is a Tabor Alum as well. Four Children: Sarah is nine, Emily is seven, Aaron 4 and Ruthie is two.

n Shawn Reed, Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Assistant Professor

1. I was Assistant Professor and Assistant Athletic Director at Sterling College.

2. The opportunity to coach again and Tabor’s mission of pro-viding a Christ-centered higher education experience. I was also impressed by the leadership pro-vided by President Glanzer and Rusty Allen.

3. My wife, Miranda, is a Physical Therapy Assistant at Rice County Hospital in Lyons, Kansas and we have three chil-dren: Tristan is nine, Makenna is six and Maren is three.

n Kathleen Regier, Institutional Data and Assessment Coordina-tor

1. I was working with my busi-ness, In-Your-Hand Artwork.

2. It became evident during summer that the Lord wanted me to return to Tabor.

3. Two daughters: Laura, who had mild cerebral palsy at birth but is now a godly, married wom-an and Heidi, a Tabor graduate who loves teaching and lives with her husband in, Arkansas.

n Norman Schmidt, Professor of Chemistry

1. Professor of Chemistry at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia.

2. I wanted to teach in a Chris-tian environment, Georgia South-ern had really grown in size and the emphasis was on research and writing grants instead of teaching, and to get closer to family.

3. My wife, Rachel, is a 1985 Alum of Tabor College. We have four children and they are: Henry, Esther, Sarah and JD.n Dan Sigley, Athletic Train-ing Education Program Clinical

Liaison, Health and Physical Education Instructor, and Assis-tant Athletic Trainer

1. Before this job, I was work-ing for Prairie View as a Commu-nity Support Worker while work-ing on my Master’s degree.

2. I wanted this job because this position allows me to provide health care and train students to be professional Athletic Trainers as well.

3. My wife, Sara.

n Lee Waldron, Director of Enrollment Operations

1. I was a youth pastor and high school football coach in Reedley, California.

2. The Lord opened the door for this opportunity to return back to Tabor. My family felt it was what God was calling us to do.

3. My wife Sara Jo, and daugh-ter Lydia, who is one.

n Cheri Weinbrenner, Admis-sions Counselor

1. I worked at Prairie View as a Community Case Manager. I worked with children who had mental illnesses.

2. I had an amazing experi-ence at Tabor and I felt like God opened the opportunity for me to come back.

3. I am married to Tyler Wein-brenner, who is also a Tabor grad-uate.

From Taborstock to cof-fee shop concerts in Java Jays, many artists have come to Tabor to share their music and testimonies, and

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Reed Regier Schmidt Sigley Waldron Weinbrenner

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Q&A with Grant TerryThe acoustic pop artist returns to Tabor as part of tour with Jake Ousley

provide entertainment for students, aside from a thirty minute drive to Druber’s.

Grant Terry and Jake Ousley are two of these art-ists that have found their previous experiences at Ta-

bor to be enjoyable enough to come back. Ousley was a singer who performed at Taborstock this past spring while Terry graced the stage of Java Jays.

Through a mutual friend the two artists met and de-cided that it could be a great experience to tour together.

On September 25, both Terry and Ousley will re-turn to Tabor with their tour, Two is Better Than One.

Terry was able to take some time out his is busy, touring life to conduct an interview with me.

JG: Tabor again! How

exciting. What made you decide to come back?

GT: I’m so excited to be coming back. Me and Jake both had a great experience at Tabor last year. Once we decided we were going on tour together we both knew we wanted to come back.

JG: For your new tour, how do the songs differ?

GT: I have a few new songs that haven’t been re-corded yet that I’m trying out on this tour, but I’m still playing the old favorites.

JG: Did you work on any of the songs with Jake?

GT: Me and Jake actu-ally are doing two different

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sets. We aren’t playing on each other’s songs which I enjoy because I enjoy watching his set.

JG: How did you two first meet and decide to start a tour together?

GT: We were introduced by a mutual friend about a year ago. We also have the same booking agent. So it kind of just made sense. Plus, we are just good friends so it’s an excuse for us to hang out for a month.

JG: What other places are you visiting for your tour? Any new places?

GT: Where haven’t we been? We have been every-

where it seems. To name a few: Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and now Kansas.

JG: Will we hear more about that “Perfect Mess” of a girl?

GT: (Laughs) Yes, you may.

JG: Anything else you would like to let your fans here at Tabor know? There are too many to count!

GT: I’m just so excited that you guys have em-braced my music and are excited to bring me back out. I’m so grateful!

Photo courtesy of Terry’s Web site


Football is back, even though it didn’t go anywhere when talk-ing about college football. The Tabor football team is well into its season, and has a lot to show from it.

The Bluejays hold a record of 1-1 with a win over the Haskell Indian Nations University, and a loss to the Sterling College War-riors, who were voted to be in the Top 25 in the pre-season.

Both of the games have been away games for the Bluejays.

The game against Haskell was all about the Bluejay’s running attack. The Bluejays gained over 300 yards just by running the ball. The run game was also a big part in the way that they scored. In fact all of the Bluejay’s touchdowns were from the running attack.

Football season off and running

There is a lot of hope for the men’s soc-cer team this year. Well, there is always a lot of hope for every Tabor sports team, but this year signifies a large change in personnel for the soccer team. Out of the 32 players on the soccer team, 13 of them are returning players. That means the other 19 are completely new players to the Tabor Soccer team. Grant Brubacher, the coach for both men’s and women’s soccer, no-ticed that the talent level is significantly higher for his men’s team this year.

“We are talented, but we are young as a team. The competitiveness is significant-ly higher. We should have a significantly higher finish in conference play than last year,” said Coach Brubacher.

As a soccer team at a Christian college, a lot of emphasis is put on showing good character on and off the field. Coach Bru-bacher noticed that some of his players lost

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Sophomore running back James Monroe Jr. led the rush-ing attack with 144 yards on 18 carries, as well as three rush-ing touchdowns. Freshman run-ning back Brandon Johnson had 126 yards on 13 carries and two touchdowns. Junior quarterback Tim Rozell got in on the action as well with a touchdown of his own.

The defense was perfect on the night not allowing a touchdown to be scored. Sophomore linebacker Jordan Moshier and junior defen-sive back Antonio Goodson each had an interception. In total the defense only gave up 108 yards. The Bluejays won the game 48-0.

Week two against Sterling was a completely different story. The defense maintained its strong performance by only allowing Sterling 160 yards of offense, but

the offense struggled to move the ball. Special teams didn’t help the Bluejays either. They gave up a punt return for a touchdown as well as a blocked punt which led to another Sterling score. Monroe got the only score for the Blue-jays on a three-yard run, and then took in the two point conversion. The Bluejays lost the game 24-8.

Week three was a bye week for the team. They used this week to practice and prepare for their week four match up against con-ference foe University of Saint Mary’s. This is the team’s first home game and will be played at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24.

“Were having a good year,” said Junior linebacker Josh Mur-phy. “Each practice were getting better, and there are still good things to come. Come out and support us.”

their heads in their first official game of the year when they played Central Meth-odist College.

“The guys have responded well since the first match. We’ve talked a lot this year about how we represent ourselves (on the field),” said Brubacher.

Coaches have really been stressing the idea of work rate and playing hard, and that showed in their last game against Avila University. The Bluejays lead the first half with a goal from freshman Mari-an Saar about forty minutes into the game. They kept the pressure on with two more goals in the second period and then held Avila to one score during the last thirty minutes. At the end of the game the score-board showed Tabor with three scores and Avila with one.

So far the team is 4-2. Their next game is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21 at Manhattan Christian University.

New Look to Men’s Soccer

Football is Back

Photo by Nicole TunksJunior Tanner Giffin is determined as he stays on his feet, breaking tackles in the Satur-day night football game against Sterling College on Sept. 10. Giffin and the Bluejays left it on the field only to come up short of a win.

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Left: Freshman Marian Saar does some fancy footwork with the ball during one of the Bluejay home games played at Joel H. Wiens Stadium. Above: Freshman Pedro Zavagna takes possession of the ball.


Brubacher said. One captain can be difficult for a team

of freshmen players. However, “sopho-mores have started to fill that void,” Bru-bacher said.

Brubacher is excited about how the non-conference games coming up can challenge and condition the team for when its conference games start.

“They can both challenge us and give us some success before our conference games,” Brubacher said.

This past Friday the women played Avila University in Kansas City and lost 3-0. Their record is now 2-4. Their wins have come against Saint Gregory’s Uni-versity and Southwestern Christian Uni-versity.

The next home game is scheduled for Oct. 12 against Southwestern College.

“I’m pleased with how we’re playing so far, but we have to sharpen our skills in order to reach our potential,” Brubacher said.

Freshman Anna Friesen kicks the ball during the Lady Jays’ win at home over Southwestern Christian Univer-sity on Tuesday, Sept. 13. The team will next play at home on Oct. 12.


This upcoming season is going to be one of young players, but determined hopeful-ness.

Grant Brubacher, head coach for the women’s soccer team, said, “Generally I anticipate our women being really im-proved since a year ago.”

As a team with no seniors and only two juniors, the team is going to be one that is young in years, but full of experience. There are thirteen returning letter winners from the past season, but there are still positions needed to be filled by incoming freshman players.

“We are relying on a lot of incoming freshmen,” Brubacher said.

The beginning of the season is meant for creating cohesive with the team and getting some experience in for the younger players.

“The one good thing about our leader-ship is Molly Dick, our returning captain,”

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Women’s soccer young, determined

Courtesy photo by Vance Frick

Photo by Vance Frick

“It’s a bit of a challenge,” said cross country coach Dan Swaney. “Part of it because we have not had much strength in terms of as a whole team.”

So far though, the cross country teams have shown vast improvement from last year. They had their first meet at the Raft Golf Course in Augusta.

“We had a good first meet, especially if you take out the division one teams and a few undeclared runners,” said Swaney.

Freshman Joel Allen finished seventh for Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference men and Sophomore Brielle Lund finished third for KCAC women when she placed 17 last year at the same meet.

“Overall the women took off 49 points from their score last year and the men took off 94 points overall,” said Swaney.

The women got seventh overall this year and the men got sixth.

“We’ve had a lot more training this year,” said sophomore Nathan Vogel. “We are running about four more miles or so than we did last year.”

The team’s second meet was at the Coli-seum in Wichita, hosted by Friends Univer-sity.

“It was a pretty fast course,” said Vogel. “It was the first time we ran against the whole Friends team.”

Tabor got third in the KCAC schools.“The top five guys were all under 30

minutes and Swaney said that this is the first time since he’s been here that that has happened,” said Vogel.

Due to the training and the overall im-provement of the team, many people are feeling stronger with how they are doing, Vogel said.

“I noticed I could go a lot longer than I used to go,” said Vogel. “Even our bottom guys are working really hard and doing re-ally well for not running cross country.”

Cross Country Up and RunningScott Morrow

Tabor College has taken on a new ath-letic venture this year, which is proving to be successful.

As of this school year, Tabor has a bowling team to add to its plethora of ath-letic teams.

Chris Rangel, the admissions counselor to spearhead in the recruitment process for this new endeavor, has been excited by the team’s success in acquiring members and a

“former Pro bowler, college all American, three-time state champion, college Na-tional champion, and PBA Bowler of the Year,” Todd Zenner as the coach.

“Todd Zenner is a personal friend, and I know he will be pouring into his athletes,” Rangel said.

Rusty Allen, vice president of athletics, and President Jules Glanzer saw the oppor-tunity and began talking about starting to put the idea into action.

“Rusty put me solely in charge of bowl-ing recruiting,” Rangel said. “I was defi-

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nitely nervous, but I knew if I could get the students to look at the campus and meet the students and professors, that we as a team could convince them to make Tabor their home.”

The goal for the team was to have 14 members and this season there are exactly 14 bowlers. “Nik Eagle and Austin Jones helped me spearhead the list,” Rangel said.

“The team has a lot to work on. It’s still early so we have time to improve our flaws. But on the good side we are getting better every practice,” Jones said.

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The team practices Monday through Wednesday at Trail Lanes on Hillsboro’s Main Street, and on Thursdays the bowl-ers have the option to go to Newton for practice at Eastgate Lanes.

“I fully believe that with the talent and team bonding we have had so far, that we will be prepared for the first competition of the season,” Eagle said.

The team’s first tournament, the Mid-States Intercollegiate Bowling Tourna-ment, will be held in Wichita, Oct. 15-16.

Fall sports got off to an early start this season. Because of rule changes in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference, all fall sports teams arrived back on campus, and were allowed to start practicing on Au-gust 15, one week before classes started.

“Coming back when we did ensures we do not give away competitive advantage to other schools in our conference,” said Vice President of enrollment management and intercollegiate athletics, Rusty Allen.

Coming back early benefitted athletes in other ways as well.

“The players have the opportunity to get settled and acclimated prior to start-ing classes and an incredibly demanding schedule,” said Allen.

“It was nice to move back early, I wasn’t as rushed,” said senior volleyball player Tina Frick.

As the temperature climbed upwards of 100 degrees in late August, heat exhaustion was a concern to the coaches. Allen said that a heat contingency plan was in place and was implemented several times during the first few weeks of practice.

Coaches made sure to let their athletes take several water breaks, and modified practices when the heat index exceeded

over 105 degrees. Fans were placed in the gym for the volleyball players, and the soccer and football teams practiced on the grass instead of the turf in order to beat the heat.

With the early arrival, each team got to know its new players and get better pre-pared for the grueling season that was ap-proaching.

“It was good for the team to get to know each other. It gave us more time to prepare for the beginning of the season, and I was just ready to come back,” said junior soc-cer player David Simmet.

Athletes also had to plan out their days kind of like a schedule. Their “schedule”

revolved around practice, eating, and sleeping.

“Coming back earlier got me ready for school, and made me get a good schedule set,” said sophomore football player Ozzie Orozco.

Getting in bed to get up for practice is like going to bed to get up for class, Oro-zco later stated.

The athletic trainers also facilitated ice towels and ice baths for the athletes.

All sports teams are anticipating a great fall season, so come out and support the Bluejays.

Fall sports teams return earlier than normalDestinee Cogburn

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The Tabor volleyball season has started. The Bluejays are off to a slow start. As of Sept. 15 the team was 6-5, 2-1 in conference.

The team started its season on August 26 with a weekend trip to Oklahoma City. While in Okla-homa they played Oklahoma City University, College of the Ozarks, Southern Nazarene University and Southwestern Assemblies of God University. The Bluejays were beaten in three close sets by Oklahoma City, but came back later that day to take three of four sets from College of the Ozarks who received votes for the top 25.

“We’re finally embracing the fact that we can beat any team that steps onto the court across from us,” said senior Hollie Ta-bor. That was proven by beating College of the Ozarks.

Day two was almost identi-

Up and down start for volleyballcal. Southern Nazarene won the game in three close sets, and the Bluejays bounced back again to take three of five sets from the Southwestern Assemblies of God University to come home with a record of 2-2.

The Bluejays easily took care of Mid-America Christian Uni-versity in the first home game of the year. The team won all three sets in convincing manor.

The first conference game was held on Sept. 7 at Ottawa Univer-sity. With this game came the first conference loss for the Bluejays. The team did manage to win one set, as well as take another one into extra serves.

The team then embarked to play another weekend trip, this one at Evangel University in Springfield, Mo. The weekend started off strong as the Bluejays defeated Mid-American Christian for the second time in the same matter they did the first time.

After defeating Mid-American, the ladies played a tough game against William Woods Universi-ty, losing in five sets. The second day in Missouri was even worse as the team got defeated in three sets by Evangel University, who received votes for the top 25.

The team returned home to play and defeated conference foe University of Saint Mary’s. The team won in three sets. The team then played Sterling College in an intense game where the team came back from a two set deficit to win in five sets.

“By keeping a strong desire to win and by approaching each match as an opportunity to not only improve our athletic skills, but to also glorify God, we will be highly successful this year,” said Tabor.

The Bluejays plays McPher-son College at home tonight Sept. 21. The next game is against rival Bethel College on Sept. 24.

Photo by Nicole TunksJunior Abbey Burns tosses the ball to herself in preparation for her serve against Sterling College at home on Thursday, Sept. 15. Burns helped the Lady Jays to a huge comeback win over the visiting Sterling Warriors.

Left: Freshman Joel Allen runs for the Bluejays, finishing seventh for the men. Above: sophomore Brielle Lund finishes third for the women.


American Brass Quintet coming to Tabor

With performances all over the world, in areas such as Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East, Asia, Austra-lia, and all fifty states, the American Brass Quintet (ABQ) has quite the track record. They have literally “been places.” If Ant-arctica was more accommodating to people, the American Brass Quintet definitely would have played there.

As it turns out, the ABQ is now coming to the small town of Hillsboro, Kansas.

“They’re all down-to-earth terrific guys and they’re all world class players on their instruments. I’m looking forward to bring-ing them in and letting the students experi-ence them,” said Daniel Baldwin, Director of Bands and Orchestra.

According to Baldwin and also the ABQ Web site, they will be giving a class on “all aspects of brass playing” to colleges and high schools in the vicinity of Hillsboro.

There will be a master class for brass

Professors’ publications search for truth

Many of the professors of Tabor College have written books. It just goes to say that those who have large amounts of knowledge also want others to be enlightened by that same knowledge.

Dr. Richard Kyle, professor of history and religion, and Dr. Doug-las Miller, professor of Biblical and religious studies, have both finished writing a book in the past year. Miller’s book, “Ecclesias-tes,” was published last year and Kyle’s book, “Apocalyptic Fever: End-Time Prophecies in Modern America,” will be published any-where from April to June next year. He must be wondering if Jesus will come back before or after the book is released.

Miller worked on his book for about 12 years. He said the book is similar to a formal Bible study.

“I did my doctoral dissertation on Ecclesiastes. I accepted (the idea), researched it and wrote it. My dissertation was the beginning of most of my research. And so it was a matter of writing things that fit the format of the series,” said

On September 7 the townhouse R.A.s

hosted a water event. Students came

together on the Dakota Lawn for a slip-

n-slide, and the fire department joined

in and helped to make the event even

more fun with fire hoses and immense

amounts of water! Watch for more fun

activities on campus to grow in fellow-

ship!

Slip-n-Slide


Miller.The book “Ecclesiastes” was

part of a larger series that other learned people had worked on in the past. Miller’s book simply added to that collection. His book identifies verses in Ecclesiastes and breaks it down.

It’s pretty easy to tell what Kyle’s book is about from the title. He builds a sturdy history on the different end of the world predic-tions in America.

Kyle said that he tries to address the question “why do Americans love doomsday?” In 1998, Kyle had written another book that was on the same subject. The interest he has in “doomsday” ideas was his main reason or inspiration for writ-ing these two books.

Concerning the end of the world, Jesus said, “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Matt. 24:36).

Students can be sure that Tabor professors will continue to publish books that are helpful for under-standing the world in a Christian context.


players from 1-3 in the afternoon on the Sept. 28. It should be enjoyable and full of learning for anyone who plays a brass instrument.

The American Brass Quintet will be celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. They will be celebrating fifty years of distinguished brass playing and they have long been internationally recognized as one of the “premier chamber music ensembles of our time,” according to the ABQ’s home Web site.

Since 1987, the ABQ has been promot-ing brass chamber music through educa-tion by being in residence at The Juilliard School and also the Aspen Music Festival since 1970.

Baldwin said that the American Brass Quintet will be having a concert on “Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church.”

It would probably be a regrettable deci-sion to miss out on the concert.

Many changes have taken place on campus this year. A couple changes that many people may take for granted are the new washers and dryers, as well as cable television hookups provided to most of the campus.

The washers and dryers are provided by ASI Campus Laundry Solutions, a company that rents out machines to col-lege campuses nation wide.

The machines on campus are “green” machines, meaning that they are more

energy efficient, can hold a greater capac-ity of clothes and also require less deter-gent to get clothes clean. These washers are the highest rated and most efficient washers according to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency.

Another great fact about the new ma-chines is that you no longer need to have quarters to operate them. Because room rates were established prior to getting the new washers and dryers, you will be able to wash and dry clothes at no expense to you. Next year however, $75 per semes-ter will be added to your tuition in order to cover laundry expenses.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the use of the new washers and dryers, you can e-mail them to [email protected] or call 1-800-726-3452.

Cable is the other new feature added to campus this year. After some debate and deliberation over whether or not add-

ing cable would be a wise choice, the deci-sion was made to provide cable service to the campus.

“There was always the argument about where students should find community,” said Kirby Fadenrecht, senior vice presi-dent for business and finance. “We were concerned about students cocooning them-selves in their room.”

Cable has always been provided in lounges, but a lot of requests have been made over the years to bring cable to in-dividual rooms on campus. All rooms on campus now have a cable hookup, with East Hall in the women’s quad being the only exception.

The structure of the building has made it difficult to run the wiring in order to hook up the cables. Cable could be provid-ed there during Christmas break, but most likely it will be next year’s fall semester before East Hall will have cable television service.

New updates to student housing for this yearDesintee Cogburn

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