March 12, 2014

[email protected] March 12, 2014 Issue 5

Jessica VixSports Editor

Tabor’s Bible department will be hosting a guest speaker March 24 and 25 who will speak during chapel, an evening event and several classes.

The speaker, Dr. Terry Brensinger, is the dean and vice president of Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary in California. He also serves as professor of pastoral ministry at FPBS.

During the evening session, he will give a lecture called “Rethinking the Smelly Fish in Our Lives” at 7 p.m., Monday, March 24 in the Chapel. The subject is based off the second chapter of Jonah. Chapel credit will be given for this event.

Also on Monday, Brensinger will speak in Dr. David Faber’s Ethics class and Dr.

Doug Miller’s Poets and Sages classes. During Chapel on Tuesday, he will share

a message titled “Converting Prejudice into Compassion” about the fourth chapter of Jonah.

Brensinger has a Ph.D. in the Old Testa-ment from Drew University. He has pub-lished two books and is working on a third, not to mention the numerous scholarly ar-ticles he has written. Some of the other roles he’s held are professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania and pastor at churches in Ken-tucky, New York City and Pennsylvania.

His position as dean and vice president at FPBS began just a few months ago in August 2013.

This will be Brensinger’s first time at Tabor. He first developed connections here when he spoke at the USMB Study Confer-

ence in Phoenix January 2013. Professors Del Gray and David Faber were in atten-dance at that conference, got to know him and invited him to come speak at Tabor.

“He is an energetic and engaging speak-er who can challenge us to think hard about how to be loyal followers of Jesus in cul-ture that itself demands our loyalty,” Faber said.

According to Doug Miller, who helped coordinate this event, it’s been five or six years since the Tabor Bible department has hosted a speaker. However, the Bible de-partments at Bethel and Hesston Colleges have opened their doors to Tabor when they’ve hosted speakers in recent years.

Tabor will be returning the favor to the other two colleges with Brensinger. Bible department faculty from Bethel and Hess-

ton will be invited to share a dinner in hon-or of Brensinger.

Miller said he hopes the student body will make Brensinger welcome during his time at Tabor and will show support by at-tending the events he is speaking at.

Bible department welcomes guest speakerJared Janzen

Editor-in-Chief

Terry Brensinger will visit Tabor March 24-25.

All three performers take the stage as Krista Neifert accompanies Sara Sagner and Trevor Morris dur-ing the recital’s finale, a rendition of “Anything You Can Do.” Photo by Courtney Reed

Three music students perform junior recital

Tabor will begin to main-tain campus-wide records and make room inspections to comply with fire codes af-ter spring break.

In November the fire mar-shal came and inspected the residence halls that resulted in Tabor having about 50 write-ups for the rooms be-cause of a situation with the standard extension cords. The extension cords are not allowed in any of the rooms because it’s against fire code.

“This has been talked about for years now, but it wasn’t until the fire marshal came that we really wanted to start doing something about it,” said VP for Student Life Jim Paulus.

Extension cords can cause a fire or shock and is an electri-cal danger. According to The Electrical Safety Founda-tion International (ESFI), an estimated 3,300 residential fires originate from extension

cords each year, killing and injuring over 300 people.

Tabor came up with a plan to respond to these reports and decided to do room in-spections to comply with the state fire code. Students will be told when these inspec-tions are and the RAs will simply go around and check the rooms for safety with the power outlet.

“We’re not going through students things and we’re not looking for anything oth-er than the power outlets,” said Paulus.

Students will be offered to check out a power strip from Student Life if they are using an extension cord and don’t have any other option.

“We have to document ev-erything based on the fire code,” said Paulus. “Next year it’ll be in the handbook so stu-dents will know that in the middle of the fall and spring semester each year we’ll have to do an inspection.”

Lauren WallReporter

Extension cords lead to concerns with fire safety

InternshipsLearn about students’

experiences learning outside the classroom.

Features, pg 4

New RAsFind out which students

will be resident assis-tants next year.

Campus Life, pg 8

Ministry SpotlightWUMP offers fun to young kids in Wichita.

Features, pg 5

Things to remember:Dormitories will close at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 15 for spring break. They reopen at noon on Sunday, March 23.

Room sign ups for next year take place Monday evening, March 31 for men and Tuesday evening, April 1 for wom-en. To sign up, students must pay a $50 deposit by 4:30 on March 27 in the business office.

Three music majors joined to present their junior recitals in voice and piano Thursday, March 6 in the chapel.

Sara Sagner, a mezzo soprano from Cheney, Kan., is a vocal music education major with an endorsement in secondary special education.

“Although it was hard to mesh three peo-ple’s schedules for practice times, I loved putting this recital together,” said Sagner.

Sagner began the recital with an alto solo from Handel’s “Messiah” and also performed pieces by Franz Schubert, August Holmes

and others, as well as a lively aria from Mo-zart’s famous opera “The Marriage of Figa-ro.” She was accompanied on piano by senior Cora Ruhl.

“The biggest challenge for me is conveying the emotion, message and meaning in each song to the audience,” said Sagner.

Trevor Morris, a tenor from Murdock, Kan., is majoring in music and pre-physical therapy.

Morris, accompanied by sophomore Zach Neumann, performed pieces by Franz Schubert, Stefano Donaudy and Gabriel

See RECITAL, page 2

NEWS 2 March 12, 2014

Jared Janzen Editor-in-Chief

Rather than spending spring break on vacation or at home relaxing, the members of Tabor’s Concert Choir and Concerto Bella Voce will be touring out-of-state, spending their break with a busy schedule of performances.

“The goal is to enrich people through the beauty of music,” said Brad Vogel, director of the Concert Choir.

The 46 members of Concert Choir will have performances in Kansas, Ne-braska, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota this year.

This year’s theme of “I Lift My Voice” focuses on the areas of praise, prayer and proclamation.

Concert Choir’s tour will get a head-start, leaving at 1 p.m. Friday, March 14. Their first concert is that evening in Henderson, Neb.

Sunday and Monday have two perfor-mances scheduled for each day while the choir is in South Dakota.

On Tuesday they sing in Wisconsin before continuing to Minnesota for concerts on Wednesday and Thursday.

They’ll begin heading back on Fri-day, pausing in Omaha, Neb., for an evening concert. Concert Choir’s final two performances will be Sunday at churches in Olathe and Topeka, Kan.

Concert Choir’s busy performance schedule won’t leave much time for other activities, but Vogel does have a visit to the Cheesecake Factory planned for the Saturday before they return.

Concerto Bella Voce will be singing at venues in Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota and Nebraska. They will leave Sunday, March 16 and kick things off right away with two morning perfor-mances at a church in Hays, Kan.

They will spend the next two days performing in Colorado, after which they will travel to South Dakota. Wednesday will be their day to relax, with opportunities for sightseeing in-stead of singing. They plan to visit Wind Cave National Park, Mt. Rush-more and Hot Springs.

On Thursday they’ll be back to sing-ing with a morning performance in Rapid City, S.D. and an evening one in Grand Island, Neb.

The last two performances of Con-certo Bella Voce’s tour will be special because they will be singing at the home churches of two choir mem-bers. On Friday they sing at Evangeli-cal Free Church in Hastings, Neb., the home church of freshman Jenna Thay-er. Their final performance of the tour in Topeka, Kan., will be at freshman Jessica Beasterfield’s home church of Cornerstone Community Church.

Choirs to travel north this year for spring break tours

Science dept. hatches new life

Spring is just around the corner and with it comes new life. Tabor’s science department is performing an experiment to hatch chicken and duck eggs for Zoology and Animal Behavior.

In charge of the experiment is Bi-ology professor Andrew Sensenig. It began Feb. 27, and after 21 to 28 days, the chicken and duck eggs will hatch here on Tabor campus.

“We are incubating six domestic mallard duck eggs and six assorted breed chicken eggs,” said Sensenig.

Sensenig intends for his to stu-dents to understand the physiological development of chickens and ducks in a closed environment.

To begin the process for incubation, the eggs were brought from Sensenig’s farm. During the incubation the eggs are kept at 100 degrees after being at room temperature.

The eggs will begin to develop once they’re kept at this tempera-ture. Then they’re turned three times a day automatically. This simulates what actual birds do in the wild.

After three days a heartbeat will be-gin to develop. At one-week-old, eyes develop. Feathers will develop after two weeks. Finally after three weeks the chicks and ducklings will hatch.

During the incubation process half of the eggs will be sacrificed in order to examine the developing embryo.

Once the birds have hatched they will be kept in tanks until they’re old enough to be outside. How warm the weather is also determines when they will be placed outside.

Sensenig will release the birds at his farm once they are old enough to stay warm and be outside at night. They will then join Sensenig’s other flocks.

This project is done every year by the science department.

Chelsea McWhirtReporter

“We love to try to perform at home churches of the (choir) members if pos-sible,” said Janie Brokenicky, director of Concerto Bella Voce. “It’s an enjoyment for the girls as well as the community.”

They are scheduled to return Sunday, March 23.

This will be Concerto Bella Voce’s second tour experience, as the group was just formed at the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year.

Brokenicky hopes that having a bet-ter understanding of the organization

and the timing of the concerts will make this experience go a bit smoother than its first tour. Last year Concerto Bella Voce experienced a few setbacks, including a bus breakdown and a trip to the hospital.

Brokenicky said she expects the tour to be a fun way to build cohesion with-in the group while they use their talents for the enjoyment of others.

“It’s a great way to provide music min-istry to schools and parishes away from our own,” said Brokenicky.

This map shows the approximate routes where Concert Choir (gray) and Concerto Bella Voce (black) will be traveling over spring break. Graphic by Jared Janzen

News in brief

Junior Trevor Morris sings one of his seven solos during the recital as sophomore Zach Neumann accompanies him on piano. Photo by Courtney Reed

Faure. He also sang two pieces by pop-ular American composer John Jacob Niles, including “Black is the Color of my True Love’s Hair.”

Krista Neifert of Pratt, Kan., is a triple major in music education, piano pedagogy and Biblical and religious studies.

Neifert performed two pieces: “Not-turno, Op. 6, No. 2” by Charles Griffes, and the famous “Rhapsody in Blue” by prominent American composer George Gershwin. With this piece she was joined by Dr. Sheila Litke, professor of piano and piano pedagogy, who played the orchestra reduction on piano.

All three performers then teamed up to perform Irving Berlin’s “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” from the

1946 Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun.”

In this final song, Morris and Sagner donned toy guns and showed off their acting skills in addition to their voic-es, taking on the roles of Annie Oak-ley and Frank Butler, two competing sharpshooters in the musical.

Neifert added some humor of her own when in the middle of the song, she suddenly launched back into a sec-tion from “Rhapsody in Blue” before Sagner stomped over to the piano to correct her.

“This song was a great way to end the recital because it was a time for us to go crazy,” said Sagner. “Also, we kept the part where Krista breaks into her Rhap-sody a secret from our professors so it was a surprise for everybody.”

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Ukraine PM: We Won’t BudgeUkraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk will head

to Washington this week for talks on the Crimea situation. Yatsenyuk said his U.S. visit will seek a "resolution of the situation in Ukraine," after a government meeting. Meanwhile, Yatsenyuk was talking tough, adds the AP, vowing at a Kiev celebration of the country's great nationalist poet that "This is our land. Our fathers and grandfathers have spilled their blood for this land. And we won't

budge a single centimeter from Ukrainian land. Let Russia and its president know this."

Crimea was throwing a party of its own, with 4,000-plus people gathering in the capital of Simferopol to throw their support behind unifi-cation with Russia. "Russians are our brothers," Crimea's parliament speaker told the crowd. "We are going back home to the motherland." A smaller gathering of 500 or so turned out to voice opposition to the referendum. "We will not allow a foreign boot that wants to stand on the heads of our children," said one protester.

Source: newser.com

Students arrive at Tabor from all over the country and are provided with a diverse and essential life-changing experience. Where they live on campus has a lot to do with this experience.

Each student is challenged daily to bal-ance their personal lives and stories, expe-riences, and beliefs with other individuals who are living with them.

The quad is the best place to live because students get the opportunity to engage and live in a place that cultivates a Christian community while promoting academic, spiritual and social growth among other students.

All freshman are first placed in the quads and in exchange they receive an experience they’ll never forget. The mod atmosphere and layout is what really brings a floor together because you are living closer to-gether than in a townhouse or house.

“Students often tell me that when they live elsewhere on campus, they miss the community in the quad. They feel less con-nected because they have to be more in-tentional to connect with a large group of people when they live outside the quad,” said Sara Sigley, RD of the women’s quad.

“When they live in the quad, there are small connections all of the time simply because they are in close proximity with their peers.”

Living in the quad is a great experience because of the weekly event “Tuesday at 10,” which provides a time to eat and have fellowship with your mod mates. You get to have an RA that is committed to invest-ing personally with every student on his or her floor, and the women’s quad has a great location on campus because it’s closest to the caf and my classes.

“My favorite thing about the quad is the growth I see happen all the time because people are in close connection with one another,” said Sigley. “It's a sacred experi-ence when students are able to share life to-gether, figuring out who they are and how they fit into God's plan for the world.”

Lauren Wall Reporter

Quad provides spiritual, social growth

Longer visitation hours. Not having to go out in the cold to get your laundry. Big-ger rooms. These are just a few reasons why living in a townhouse is the best place to live on campus.

I transferred to Tabor at the start of my junior year and was fortunate enough to get into a townhouse right away so I never had to experience the “quad life.” Although I’m sure there are some perks about resid-ing in the quad or a house, there is a large list of things that make living in a town-house special.

One big factor that puts the townhouse above other living areas is the newness of it. The townhouses are some of the most re-cent dorms built on campus, which means the furniture, kitchen area and rooms are in very good condition.

Another benefit of living in a townhouse is the longer visitation hours. Unlike the quads, visitation hours are every day, not just a couple of nights a week. This allows for more freedom and ability to have peo-ple over.

If going out in the cold and switching your laundry doesn’t sound appealing, liv-ing in a townhouse is the place for you.

Each townhouse has its own washer and dryer, which makes doing laundry very simple. It’s also nice because usu-ally you have some type of relationship with everyone in the house so you don’t have to worry about your clothes being stolen or messed with.

Finally, living in a townhouse is a great place to spend your college days because of the sense of closeness you develop with the people you live with. Whether they’re teammates, best friends or people you never met before that year, living in such close quarters fosters late-night con-versations and close friendships.

These are just a handful of the many reasons why choosing a townhouse is the best decision.

Janelle RustReporter

Editor-in-Chief, Opinions Editor: Jared Janzen

Campus Life, Features Editor: Elizabeth Janssen

Sports Editor: Jessica Vix

Reporters: Jessica Vix, Janelle Rust, Becky Bryan,

Jared Janzen, Lauren Wall, Chelsea McWhirt

Photographer: Courtney Reed

Adviser: Sara Jo Waldron

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OPINIONS 3March 12, 2014

What are your plans for spring break?

“Travel home to Colorado.”

Senior Hannah Holmes

“Go on the Spring Serve Mission Trip.”

Senior Esther Schmidt

“Partying.”

Freshman Marshall McShan

“Go back to Texas and visit friends.”

Freshman Simba Ijeoma

Townhouses offer freedom, convenience

“Son of God” is an interesting and theatrical version of the series “The Bible” that aired on the History Chan-nel last year. Husband and wife Roma Downey and Mark Burnett produced both the show and the movie. “Son of God” is the Jesus portion of that series which came out in theaters Feb. 28.

From what I noticed there wasn’t much advertising for this movie and I didn’t know much about it beforehand, but it is explicitly aimed for Christian audiences.

The movie opens with Apostle John describing God’s promise with His people. Thirty years after his birth, Jesus calls Peter to join His mission to transform and the world. It's a theatrical, openly sentimental and extremely intense movie about Jesus’ life from His birth through his minis-tries, crucifixion and resurrection.

The movie is a captivating presentation of God’s greatest act of love and His unending grace when he gave His one and only Son, Jesus. The acting and visual effects are excellent throughout the movie, especially with the powerful crucifixion and resurrection scene. The movie serves as a great medium for delivering a message that is life-changing.

Mary Magdalene’s role in the movie is somewhat sur-prising. She is involved in nearly every scene with Jesus’ ministry. This isn’t the common thought of her role in Je-sus’ life and work. There is no doubt that she is considered to have had a significant role at Jesus’ crucifixion and at his burial site, but the movie gives the feeling that she more or less had the same role as the 12 disciples.

All in all, “Son of God” gives a good visual of the min-istry that Jesus led, as well as the social quarrels that arose due to his work. It gives a sense of exactly how His com-ing to earth made others feel and react at the present time.

Where’s the best place to live on campus?

Lauren WallReporter

“Son of God” depicts life of JesusMovie Review:

[email protected] September 19, 2012 Issue 1

‘Cafe’ ChangesSee what is new and improved about the

Tabor Cafetieria

News, pg 2

Arts and Crafts Fair Photos

See some photos from last weeks

craft fair Campus Life, pg 8

Open Mic NightSAB hosts annual event with a great turn out

Features, pg 4-5

Each edition of the Tabor View will be put on Facebook as well as extra material and contests

Keep an eye on the page for photo contests throughout the rest of this year.

Two major positions have recently been filled this year in-cluding Student Success Coun-selor and Director of Campus Ministries. Both positions were filled with Tabor College gradu-ates.

Erica HaudeThere is a new face in the Stu-

dent Success & Career Services Office. Erica Haude is Tabor’s new Student Success Counselor. She is the supervisor of Andrea Batista, oversees students on academic probation and works on accommodations for students with disabilities. She also does counseling on a referral basis.

She has ample experience for her position. After graduating from Tabor in 2006 she went to Denver Seminary to get her Mas-ters in counseling, which she re-ceived in 2010. She has worked

Ben SchmidtReporter

as a youth pastor for First Men-nonite Brethren in Wichita and for the last two years at a resi-dential treatment center.

While praying for God’s guid-ance she received an e-mail from Directo of Admissions Lee Wal-dron and Vice President of Ath-letics and Enrollment Manage-ment Rusty Allen. She felt like God was telling her not to say no and accepted the job. She feels called to work with people who are, as she says, “on the fringes.” She loves being at Tabor and get-ting to counsel.

Riding her bike in the snow and chasing a possum out of a mod are among the memories Haude has of her time at Tabor. She also remembers being unde-feated in conference while she played during basketball sea-son. You could most likely find her and her husband at sporting events at Tabor.

Haude’s office is in the Stu-dent Success & Career Services

Office in the library. As she says, “I want to get to know people. I want to hear their story.” So go and visit her in her office or find her at a football game, she’d love to get to know you.

Jake SchenkYou may have seen Jake

Schenk around campus and wondered what he does. Schenk is our new Director of Campus Ministries. In this position it is his job to organize the chapels, oversee small group, and get to know and minister to students.

Schenk graduated from Tabor with a dual degree in Physical Education and Bible in 2006. After graduating he coached football. Two years at Tabor and Two at Greenville College Illi-nois, but he always felt called to sports and ministry. As he says, “God gave me football as some-thing to enjoy while He prepared

Photos by Zach BissellWelcome BackLeft: Jake Schenk sits at his desk thinking about several different things that are happening around campus as well as what God is doing.Right: Erica Haude takes a break from helping students to enjoy some company.Both Schenk and Haude are Tabor Grads that have come back to give back to the Tabor community.

One of the new additions to the Tabor College curricu-lum this year is Concerto Bella Voche, the women’s chorale that is directed by new coming professor Janie Brokenicky.

“It’s Italian for ‘a collection of beautiful voices,’” said Bro-kenicky. “Women’s chorale be-fore was a very universal name and you’d hear it and think it could be anyone’s choir. Con-certo Bella Voche will, after a while, become a familiar name for Tabor and help give the group identity.”

Brokenicky joined the Tabor music department after apply-ing for Assistant Professor of Choral Music at the request of Dr. Brad Vogel.

“I’m thrilled to have Janie here,” said Vogel. “When the position opened, I ran into her at the National Association of Teachers of Singing and I talk-ed to her and asked her to ap-

Kelsey UnruhReporter

New Women’s Choral group on campus

ply. There were 30 applicants.”One of the reasons Bro-

kenicky was picked for the posi-tion was because of her previous work records with other chorale groups.

“Getting the group re-estab-lished was the primary goal,” said Vogel. “The goal over 3 years is to have 40 voices in women’s choral. Janie is very good, and has a track record of building good chorale programs. She’s the perfect person for the position.”

Brokenicky is looking for-ward to what the school year will bring.

“I’m excited for the girls to have such a strong variety in musical performances,” said Brokenicky. “We will get to per-form on our own at the Thanks-giving concert and we are tour-ing, but we also get to sing The Messiah with the concert choir. I never got these opportunities in college, so I’m excited for all of these opportunities for the girls.”

Student Senate is planning to help students even more this year than in previous years. They are looking to start a “Ta-bor Proud Campaign.”

“Tabor Proud is a fundraising effort to raise money for students who experience a family cri-sis during the year” said Senate President Mike Klaassen.

Mission statement for the new

See SENATE, pg 2

Former students return to key staff roles

See STAFF, pg 2

Student Senate sets up new campaign

Zach BissellEditor-in-chief

Communications students ex-plore careers through internships

FEATURES 4 March 12, 2014

Behind the scenes: Interns enhance chapel experienceChelsea McWhirt

During chapel students usually pay attention to what happens on stage. They take for granted the little things, such as light-ing and sound. Without freshman Marcina Root and junior Trenton Wilker, chapel wouldn’t be the same.

Wilker and Root are in charge of the sound and lighting during both cha-pels. Root is in control of lighting while Wilker focuses on sound and pro-jection.

Root has had prior expe-rience working as a light-ing and sound technician in high school. Wilker also has prior high school experience.

Wilker and Root are also in charge of sound and lighting during SP&D, as well as setting up and tear-ing down for concerts and guest speakers.

Wilker has been an in-tern since Spring 2012 when he was hired by for-mer campus pastor Mike Broulliette. Root joined Wilker as a technician last semester.

When asked what their favorite part of being an intern was, both replied being in control and being involved. They also like to change the sound and fix problems as they come up.

Wilker will be graduat-ing in 2015. Root will then be in charge of sound and lighting.

“Realistically it would be better to have three people: one on projec-tion, one on lighting, one on sound,” said Wilker. Due to budget restrictions, however, only two people are on staff.

Root and Wilker believe that this internship expe-rience will benefit them later on.

“I’m not fit for pastor position because that’s not where my skill set is and it’s not where my passion is,” said Wilker. “So if I were to work in a church and do something in min-istry it would probably ei-ther in tech or some type of music.”

Both are interns out of enjoyment rather than aca-demic major requirements. They work for minimum wage five hours a week.

Reporter

Junior Trenton Wilker makes an adjustment to the sound system during chapel.

Business students to visit Dominican Republic

Photo by Courtney Reed

For students who play a winter sport or are busy during interterm, there is a new trip being offered this year that will not interfere with either of these.

Members of the Interna-tional Business class are traveling to the Dominican over spring break as a part of their class. They can also get their cultural awareness credit for taking the trip ac-cording to Jesse Schumach-er, business professor who is leading the trip.

“Dave Loewen, Tristian Long, Rafael Marins, Chris Schafers and I are the men who will be going on the trip,” said Schumacher.

The college has approved the students leaving a day before spring break, mak-ing their trip 10 days long.

The students will have the chance to spend time at the beach as well as going to markets, but they will spend a lot of their time meeting people and learning about the ways to do business in a foreign country.

While in the Domini-can, they will visit both American and Dominican

businesses and will have the chance to ask business-owners how they are able to be successful in the Do-minican.

“We will also be visit-ing two universities down there, as well as the presi-dent’s palace,” said Schum-acher. “We will even have a chance to meet Congress.”

Schumacher lived in the Dominican for six years as a child. He returned there in 2001 and lived in the coun-try for two more years.

The students will have the chance to visit a variety of different museums as well as having the opportunity to work with local kids.

Schumacher said they will be visiting a business incubator, which is a facil-ity that helps people to start their own business.

They will have a chance to visit this city and inter-act with Americans living there, as well Americans living in other parts of the country.

Schumacher said they will embrace the Dominican cul-ture while on their trip.

“We will eat the food, go to the restaurants and inter-act with the people.”

Becky BryanReporter

For many students, the thought of entering the job field after college can be intimidating at the very least, but three communi-cations majors are getting a head start this semester by participating in intern-ships.

“I am hoping to learn about working in a real work environment and all that it entails, like work-ing with and under other people and learning basic skills,” said senior Sydney Coughlin.

Coughlin is focusing on organizational com-munications and plans to work in publics relations, event planning or human resources. She hopes to one day be involved with a missions-oriented non-profit organization.

She interns 18 hours a week at MB Foundation in Hillsboro, doing mostly secretarial work.

“I’m trying to really broaden my knowledge of the financial world since that is what MB Founda-tion deals with,” she said. “It’s way out of my com-fort zone. Also, I’m learn-ing about how a Christian organization and a non-profit functions.”

Previously, an internship was required for commu-nications majors, but the major underwent recent changes that negated the requirement. However, Communications Profes-sor Aleen Ratzlaff encour-ages students to take the opportunity to gain experi-ence and learn more about potential career paths.

“I think we (Tabor) see the value of internships,” said Ratzlaff. “They give

people the opportunity to see what it’s really like. It’s helped some people decide, ‘Yes, this is what I want to do’.”

She added that intern-ships provide students with opportunities to network and connect with profes-sionals, which often helps them in their future job search.

Senior Janelle Rust is in-terning for Anthony Mon-son, sports information director for Tabor, writing articles that appear on the Tabor Bluejays website.

Rust usually writes two ar-ticles a week. She focuses on incorporating statistics from the games and works to finish stories before the next morn-ing.

“It is deadline writing, so I have learned to get stories done in a timely manner,” said Rust.

Another challenge is find-ing new and creative ways to write stories, said Rust.

Students considering an internship in any field should consider the time commit-ment and possible expense of driving if the internship is not in Hillsboro.

Junior Becky Bryan is looking toward a career in broadcast and is interning at KAKE news in Wichita.

Three days a week she travels to the studio where she not only observes, but also helps produce broad-casts. Bryan helps run the prompter, create graphics and write stories.

“It is really exciting get-ting to experience the fast-paced news environment,” said Bryan. “I am hoping to learn more about the dif-ferent jobs available in the broadcast industry, and get a better feel for what job suits me best.”

For each credit hour taken, 40 hours at the in-ternship site are required. Students keep a log of how many hours they spend at the site. The site supervi-

sor fills out a midterm and final report and c o l l a b o r a t e s with the stu-dent’s adviser to determine the student’s final grade.

“I would say to do some-thing you have a passion for and something you are excited about,” said

Bryan. “Interning is a great time of learning while you’re still in the class-room setting.”

Internships can be a great opportunity for expanding one’s horizons as well.

“It’s good to find an internship within your range of knowledge,” said Coughlin, “but by going out of your comfort zone you will learn more about your own capabilities and interests and learn new skills you can take into your future workplace.”

Ratzlaff encourages stu-dents in any major to talk to their adviser about the possibility of doing an in-ternship.

“I think we (Tabor) see the value of intern-ships. They give people the op-portunity to see what it’s really like. It’s helped some people decide, ‘Yes, this is what I want to do.’’’

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Theater professor develops historical drama

Laurel Koerner, assistant professor of theater, has been creating a historical play inspired by the Sal-vadoran Civil War in the 1980s. She is working on the project with a colleague, Juan Parada.

Although the project be-gan in 2012, it recently re-ceived a push forward when Koerner received money from a Hope Scholar’s Grant to aid the research and development process, which will include a trip to El Salvador this summer.

The play revolves around Radio Venceremos, a radio station that emerged dur-ing the war. This station became a way for people to

learn about things that the government and military were trying to hide.

“What we’re interested in is the radio as the voice of the people and how this group of guerrilla radio producers could radically change the course of the war through the power of information,” said Koerner.

The project originated when Parada began telling Koerner of the station’s his-tory on the day the two of them graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with Master’s degrees. Koerner said she was fasci-nated by the idea, and they immediately began devel-oping the play.

At this point, the play does not have a title. Ko-

erner and Parada have been referring to it as the Radio Venceremos Project.

For Parada, the project has personal significance because the violence of the Salvadoran Civil War forced him to immigrate to the United States when he was young.

Their trip to El Salvador this summer will be to con-tinue researching, conduct interviews and take video footage that will later be made into a film component.

The Radio Venceremos Project is not being written in the traditional manner of an author or playwright working by himself to type out a complete script. In-stead, Koerner and Parada are taking a much more col-

laborative approach, using what is known as “ensem-ble-based work.”

This means that all the people who will be in-volved with the production get together during the writ-ing process to offer input on what the script should say. Actors and designers get equal opportunity as the playwright and director in determining the language of the play.

“These roles are much more fluid,” said Koerner. “It stems from the belief that breaking down that typical hierarchy can create a more interesting, a more nuanced creative product.”

Koerner and Parada plan to go through this workshop process in Los Angeles, Ca-

lif., and El Salvador over the summer.

Koerner said she has done a number of smaller theater projects using the collabora-tive writing approach.

They’ve had to work on the Radio Venceremos project a little bit at a time because of busy schedules and searching for funding. This makes it hard to know when the final project will be complete, but Koerner would like to have a version of it done by the end of the summer.

“That’s really ambitious, but I would hope… that we could have something to show an audience and then know where we’re at with it and take it another step far-ther,” said Koerner.

Ministry Spotlight:WUMP provides activities to Wichita kids

Friday nights are a prime time for social ac-tivities, but for about 30 Tabor students it is also a time to minister.

Wichita Urban Ministries Plunge (WUMP) is a Friday night kid’s club hosted by Grace Baptist Church in Wichita.

Each week, an average of 50-70 area kids ages 5 to 12 enjoy a meal, crafts, games and Bible lessons all facilitated by Tabor students.

The students travel to Wichita each Friday, leaving campus at 5 p.m. Several students then drive vans from the church to four near-by neighborhoods to pick up the kids.

They start each evening as a large group in the church’s gymnasium before dividing into four groups, classified by age and gender.

Most of the kids come from rough fam-ily backgrounds, explained junior Carly Wil-helm, a member of the leadership team. Many are exposed to violence regularly or have par-ents in prison.

For junior Crystal Holmes, giving up her Friday nights is anything but a chore.

“We are able to love these children out of the grace God has given us,” said Holmes. “It is so awesome to know that God is teaching these kids.”

This is the third year Holmes has partici-pated in WUMP and she is currently on the leadership team. The team meets once a week to discuss any issues and consider changes or improvements.

The program has undergone some signifi-cant alteration in the past few years.

“On my first ever night of WUMP, we had 60 children running and throwing basketballs

in mass chaos in the gym with the leaders sim-ply trying to break up fights,” said Holmes.

Senior Ben Wiens has participated in WUMP since his freshman year and has wit-nessed these positive changes.

“It’s mostly due to the current leadership re-alizing that how WUMP was being run before wasn’t working,” said Wiens. “We then did a complete overhaul of how each night looked.”

Now that the kids are divided into separate groups, their time is much more productive.

“This helps them learn more in the les-son and we as leaders also get to build more meaningful relationships with each student,” said Holmes.

“Sometimes it’s hard to tell if what we’re doing is worthwhile, but there’s nothing bet-ter than seeing the kids show they understand what we are teaching and live differently be-cause of it,” said Wiens.

Wilhelm stated the purpose of WUMP sim-ply: “Our goal is to love them with the love of Christ.”


Above:Sophomore Joe Cannon is swarmed by a group of young girls during WUMP.

Right: Sophomore Katie Pritchard (left)

reads a story to two kids at WUMP.

Photos courtesy of Becky Spahr.

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Above:Ian Thompson (left), a Tabor graduate, returns to coach women’s soccer. Nathan Duell (right) brings 20 years of coaching experience to Tabor’s premier swimming team.

It was a great day to be a Bluejay after both the wom-en’s and men’s basketball teams defeated their oppo-nents and won the KCAC Championship games March 3 in Park City, Kan.

Hartman Arena was full of energy, excitement and anticipation during both of the basketball games. The student section on both sides of the arena was filled with students full of paint and spirit as they were cheering on their Bluejays.

“When I walked into the arena I immediately was impressed by all the blue and was excited by the en-ergy that was coming from our crowds,” said Student Success Counselor Erica Haude. “I know that it helps energize the players to have such an involved, loud and supportive crowd.”

The Lady Jays defeated Southwestern College 85-51.

“I think our game against Southwestern was just a culmination of all the hard work and time we have put into this season. To see it all come together like that was really special,” said senior Janelle Rust. “We took care of business in the conference tournament and

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the team is so excited to be headed to nationals.

The Lady Jays received the number eight seed and will play number one seed Northwestern College from Orange City, Iowa in the first round of the NAIA Di-vision II Women’s Basket-

ball National Championship in Sioux City, Iowa Thurs-day, March 13 at 1:45 p.m.

The men’s basketball team defeated the Sterling College Warriors 97-90 in overtime.

Tabor was led by Fresh-man Lance Carter who com-

New coaches hired in soccer, swimming, cross-country

In the recent months Ta-bor has announced three new coaches.

These coaches are Ian Thompson, women’s soc-cer; Nathan Duell, men’s and women’s swimming and Eric Schwab, men’s and women’s cross-country.

Previously, the women’s soccer team shared their coach with the men.

“This will be great be-cause we will have a coach who will have more time for us,” said junior Jessica Ren-zelman, soccer player.

Thompson, who gradu-ated from Tabor in 2006, made a significant mark during his time on campus.

He earned All-Confer-ence honors for his play in goal, was a two-time All-Academic selection and was also named his team’s most inspirational and most improved player.

“I think his personality fits in with our team,” said Renzelman. “He takes our program seriously but he also has a pretty good sense of humor.”

Duell, men’s and wom-en’s swimming coach, came from Goshen, Ind., where he heard of Tabor through a Mennonite connection. Du-ell swam at Wheaton Col-lege, where he started his now 20-year coaching ca-reer after graduating.

He is currently working on scheduling next year’s meets and recruiting.

There have been two signees already, and 30 questionnaires have been filled out online, which Du-ell said is encouraging for him.

Tabor men’s swimming is the only option for athletes who want to attend college in Kansas and Kansas Uni-versity offers the only other women’s program in the state.

Duell said he is com-municating to students the unique benefits that Tabor has to offer.

At the end of February, Tabor also announced a new cross-country coach.

Eric Schwab, a native of Nowata, Okla., graduated from Austin College where he finished 12th in the mar-athon at the 1989 NAIA

Outdoor Track and Field National Championships.

Schwab spent the past 20 years as head cross-country and track and field coach at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, Calif.

“Schwab is a high cali-ber coach and he brings a degree of experience and excellence that is exactly what the program needs,” said junior Joel Allen, track and field athlete. “He knows

how to recruit to a private Christian MB college, and his track record with his athletes is more than excel-lent at Fresno Pacific Uni-versity.”

pleted the game with 42 points, 17 rebounds and four assists.

The Bluejays started out with a 9-3 lead but fell be-hind for most of the first half. The score at the end of the first half was 46-39 with Sterling in the lead.

The game began to make a change after senior Marc Hopkinson shot a three with less than eight minutes left. The nerve-racking inten-sity was felt by everyone in the arena when Sterling increased their lead to three with only 25 seconds re-maining in the game.

Senior Nick Sauer then tied the score with a three-point shot, sending fans into an uproar of excitement and the game into overtime.

“After such a hard-fought second half, that game-tying shot to force overtime brought me back to my Tabor student days,” said Director of Admissions Lee Waldron. “The energy and emotion in the arena were palpable.”

Tabor took an early lead in overtime and maintained it for a win.

The Tabor College men’s basketball team (20-12 over-all record) will play Indiana University Southeast (25-4 overall record) on Thurs-day March 13 in the NAIA Division II Men’s National Championship Tournament in Point Lookout, Mo. at 5:45 p.m.

Above:Tabor’s men’s and women’s basketball teams pose with their championship banners after winning the KCAC tournament.

Photo by Vance Frick

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The Tabor College softball team has had a strong start to their 2014 season as they have posted a record of 8-3.

Due to the long and harsh winter that the Midwest has been experiencing, they have had a number of games canceled or postponed due to snow.

The Lady Jays started out their season going undefeated in the month of February, get-ting wins against Langston University, Central Christian College and York College.

So far in March the com-petition has been tough, but the Lady Jays have contin-ued to improve and com-pete with some top teams. Earlier this month, they split with NCAA Division II Newman University, as freshman Marilee Burge pitched a great game to re-main unbeaten this year at the mound.

Tabor’s preseason sched-ule has not been easy, but senior outfielder Sarah Massey knows it will pre-pare the team for conference play.

“(Preseason) has defi-nitely been helpful so far in preparing for conference,”

said Massey. “We’ve really pulled together and finished strong against some good teams.”

“We’ll need that team chemistry and effort to be in the top of the conference.”

As conference season is approaching quickly, the Lady Jays have set the bar high for their season.

“Our team goals for this season are to ultimately win conference, which is very doable,” said Massey. “But overall we’d like to beat the top three teams in the con-ference, KW (Kansas Wes-leyan), Friends and Bethany, at least once, if not sweep them.”

Tabor will continue their busy spring schedule as they travel to Tucson, Ariz. to compete in the Tucson Invi-tational March 17-19. There they will face some new competition as they play two teams from North Dakota, one from Canada and three others.

Before the softball sea-son began, the KCAC soft-ball coaches voted on the All-KCAC preseason team. Four Tabor players were named to the team: Burge, freshman first baseman Ara-selly Vargas, Massey and se-nior catcher Katie Henning.

Softball looks to continue early success

Tabor baseball improves record to 11-5

The Tabor baseball team has been on the road for the majority of their season thus far, posting some big wins against ranked opponents.

Twice this season the Jays have traveled to 5th-ranked Oklahoma City University, walking away with a 2-1 re-cord. In the first game, Ta-bor crushed OKCU 11-1.

Another strong team Ta-bor has faced is 6th-ranked York College, with whom they split the two games. Tabor will get some more shots at them coming up, with some of the games be-ing played in Hillsboro.

Other wins for the Jays have been Morningside Col-lege, Dallas Christian Col-lege and St. Edward’s.

Competing against good opponents this early in the

year will serve the Jays well as they head into conference play later in March.

“Playing tough competi-tion early really shows us where we’re at as a team ear-ly on,” said senior outfielder Grant Silva. “We all know if we want to accomplish our goal of going to the World Series we’re going to have to beat some tough teams.”

The Bluejays have had players get individual hon-ors from the KCAC. The first Bluejay to earn an honor was sophomore pitcher Ja-cob Webb, who pitched the 11-1 Oklahoma City win.

Junior Mustain was also named pitcher of the week recently, after leading Ta-bor to their second win over OKCU. For the year Mus-tain has compiled a 2-1 re-cord while opponents are hitting just .145 off him.

Intramurals popular with athletes and non-athletes alikeBecky Bryan

ReporterTabor has a high percent-

age of students who partici-pate in athletics, and peo-ple who aren’t involved in sports can often feel left out.

The school does have an alternative that gives stu-dents who aren’t involved in sports on campus the oppor-tunity to stay active.

Tabor offers five intra-mural sports and is trying is trying to add dodgeball, said Joe Wuest, men’s resident director and intramural co-ordinator.

“Intramurals have been growing in numbers the last several years,” said Wuest. “We had a record 26 teams sign up for three-on-three basketball during inter-term.”

Wuest said the most pop-ular sports are flag football and five-on-five basketball.

“Intramurals have been a great opportunity for me since I no longer play bas-ketball at Tabor,” said Ken-dra Flaming, junior. “It’s been really fun to still be able to play some sports and get to enjoy playing with a team again.”

Indoor soccer is taking place currently.

“It is the only sport that allows the participation of Tabor athletes who play the same sport,” said Wuest.

Another incentive for competing in intramurals is the prize awarded to the win-ning team.

“Winners of each sport get t-shirts as a prize, and they get to submit their own designs,” said Wuest.

Flaming said she has won all three of the sports that have been played so far this year and is currently playing indoor soccer and looking forward to five-on-five bas-ketball.

“I would love to have more female teams sign up as we just barely have enough for each sport,” said Wuest.

He encourages feedback and says he is always look-ing for ways to improve in-tramurals. The final sport of the year is five-on-five basketball. Sign-ups for this will begin after spring break.

“Intramurals provides an-other avenue for students to build lasting relationships,” said Wuest. “It is also a way for non-athletes to partici-pate in competitive sports.”

Above:Michel Herszenhaut dribbles past a defender while Taylor Janzen chases after him during an intramural soccer game.

Photo by Courtney Reed



Even though the season is just getting into full swing, there have already been a number of highlights for the team.

One big highlight was beating Oklahoma City, a team that is one of the pow-erhouses of NAIA baseball, said Silva.

In addition, there have been some great individual performances and overall strong offense that the team is excited about.

“Some of the highlights have been some of the great pitching performances from Webb and Mustain against some really good teams,” said senior pitcher Alex Mann. “When our offense is rolling, that’s a whole high-light reel in itself.”

“However, I think our best highlights are still to come,” said Mann.

Tennis teams look to improve throughout season

After the first three ten-nis meets of the season, both Tabor’s men’s and women’s teams stand at a record of 1-2.

“The athletes on both teams are working hard and it shows in their continual improvement,” said coach John Ruder.

Several challenges have faced the tennis team this sea-son. Due to inclement weath-er, they have had only four practices outdoors so far.

Another obstacle is that this year’s team is very young. Five of the nine players on the men’s team are freshmen.

“There is a big jump between high school and collegiate tennis, and there are technical and tactical adjustments necessary to be successful,” said Ruder.

“This will be a year of de-velopment.”

Despite their inexperience, Ruder believes the teams will still be competitive.

In recent practices they have been focusing on serves, doubles play and at-tacking groundstrokes.

Their first meet was Feb. 15 against Newman Uni-versity. The men’s team swept the competition with a score of 9-0. Meanwhile, the women’s team struggled and ended with a loss of 0-9.

The teams traveled to Nebraska for their next two match-ups Feb. 28 and March 1.

The men fell to Doane College with a score of 1-8. They fared better the next day against Concordia Uni-versity but still came away with a loss of 4-5.

Doane also defeated the Tabor women’s team, 4-5. However, the Lady Jays

came back the next day and secured a win against Con-cordia, 6-3.

Tabor had two home meets scheduled last week but both were canceled.

They faced Central Chris-tian College on Tuesday, March 11. Results from this meet were unavailable at press time.

Ruder is optimistic about the teams’ performance for the rest of the season.

“We have a chance to fin-ish in the top four and qual-ify for the tournament,” said Ruder. “However, we must continue to improve and play well to make that happen.”

The tennis teams will have their next meet at 3 p.m. March 26 against Oklahoma Baptist University here in Hillsboro.

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Track athletes compete at nationalsSeveral athletes from

Tabor competed at the NAIA Indoor Track and Field National Champi-onships in Geneva, Ohio, March 6-8.

The men’s 4x800 meter relay team finished 17th and Alex Grier finished 20th in the 200 meter dash.

The best performance came from junior Garrett

Daugherty who finished 7th in the finals of the men’s 1000 meter run and was rec-ognized as an All-American.

“Being All-American was my goal from the beginning of the year,” said Daugherty.“But it doesn’t change what my goal is in running, which is to run my best for God whether it’s first or last or anywhere in between.”

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CAMPUS LIFE 8 March 12, 2014

Chelsea McWhirt

Have you ever wished you had a butler? Someone to take care of all those me-nial tasks?

Multicultural Student Union offered a solution to that by hosting Butler for Hire Thursday, March 6 at Java Jays.

MSU auctioned off about 35 Tabor men to offer their time to serve their “master.”

Jonathan Guiterrez, Em-ery Schroeder, Drew Pan-kratz, Ben Schmidt, Zach Trostel and Josh Wiebe were a handful of the butlers sold during the event. About a dozen football players were also auctioned off to fulfill their community service re-quirement for football.

“Helping others is some-thing I always grew up with,” said Michael Wager, president of MSU. “Where I’m from we always volun-teered our time to anyone that needed our services.”

MSU put on a simi-lar fundraiser five or six years ago. This year MSU brought it back due to re-quests from the community. If you needed help with any kind of task, MSU provided a way so that you wouldn’t need to lift a finger.

MSU hired Clint Siebel to oversee the event with his 40 years of auctioneer-

ing experience. Siebel has been and auctioneer since 1972. He is also Executive Director at the Hillsboro Development Corp and has served on the college’s advancement staff for 11 years.

Bids began at $1 for one hour of service, $3 for two hours and $5 for three hours.

Butler for Hire was a huge success. Michael Wa-ger said that the fundraiser raised more than $350. Pro-ceeds went to MSU to help sponsor later events.

Some of the 35 butlers were bought by their fel-low students, and others were sold to faculty mem-bers. Marlene Fast, alumni director, hired nine butlers, Aleen Ratzlaff, communi-cations professor, hired five and Norman Schmidt, sci-ence professor, bought two.

“Once you get started and your hand goes up you just have to keep going up,” said Fast. The gentlemen she hired will be painting fences, sweeping her garage and cleaning her car.

“It was a fun atmosphere,” said Fast. She thought more faculty should have attend-ed to support the cause and get cheap labor.

Since the event was such a success, MSU plans to host the event again next year.

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Freshman Michael Beye wonders who will purchase him as Clint Siebel prepares to start the bidding.

Freshman Josh Wiebe watches with amusement while Clint Siebel auctions him off to the student body.

Senior Elizabeth Janssen makes a bid for a butler.

2014-2015 resident assistants announcedNext year’s list of RAs was announced March 3. The Student Life office is still in the process of assigning them to floors.

Women’s RAsBeth NesserMallory ZuercherLauren WallCatherine ChristieCourtney ReedKat WellsLaurie DanielBrooke VandeverCeleste WorthyAllie Jost

Brave New Works festival

Junior Rachel Wedel, freshman Heather Loewen, and sophomore Olivia Kliewer discuss plans for their play during Tabor’s first-annual Brave New Works festival. The event began Friday night, Feb. 28 and lasted through Saturday night, March 1.

Exhaustion begins to set in for sophomore Michael Wager, junior Katie Bair, and junior Andrea Acker. Participants had only 24 hours to create an original play from scratch, which meant that some students pulled all-nighters. Photos by Courtney Reed.

Junior Cheyenne Derksen makes a dra-matic gesture as she and her team plot

out their play.

Photos by Courtney Reed

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