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Thank you to everyone who filled out The View’s survey last month.

Madison St. has been closed for construction since November as crews replace storm sewer pipes. Once these renovations are completed, the Madison corridor will be replaced with grass. Photo by Courtney Reed.

Renovations aim to unify campus

The library and the Multi-cultural Student Union have teamed up to host an event called Speak Now in honor of Black History Month. The event is from 8-9:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at Java Jays.

Mikey Wager, President of MSU, hopes for Speak Now “To have every culture be rep-

resented and bring equality.” This is the first time the library has hosted an event for Black History Month.

The event began as a simple idea of an Open Mic Night started by Library Director Ja-net Williams. Black students would speak, sing, dance or play a musical instrument. Wager expanded on this idea by allowing not only black students to participate, but also

everyone who felt the need to speak on matters that are pressing on their hearts.

For students there will be a one-dollar discount off any drink bought at Java Jays dur-ing the event, and snacks will be provided by the library.

Senior Josh Murphy, also known as “J. Murph,” will be rapping for the finale of Speak Now.

See MSU, page 2

The public phase of Tabor’s $16.2 million Signature Cam-paign to raise money for a new arts center will officially begin Feb. 21 at the President’s Din-ner.

More than $6 million of the $9 million needed for the cen-ter has already been raised. The other $7.2 million of the campaign covers recent reno-vations done to the cafeteria, women’s quad and CRC park-ing lot.

The campaign exists in three stages, explained President Jules Glanzer.

The first phase is a precam-paign study in which consul-tants conduct a survey to de-termine the amount of financial support the campaign can ex-pect to receive.

The second phase, called the leadership phase, involves appealing to individuals to commit large gifts to the cam-paign.

Chuck Flaming is one such individual who gave a large contribution in honor of his wife.

“Chuck and Shari Flaming are farmers in Nebraska that have fallen in love with Tabor,” said Glanzer. Because of their gift, the center will be named the Shari Flaming Center for the Arts.

The third and final stage in the campaign is the public stage which includes fundrais-ing through mailings, challeng-es, events such as Homecom-ing, dinners and face-to-face conversations.

“The most important part [of fundraising] is getting in front of people,” said Glan-zer. Speaking to individuals in their homes is the most effec-tive method of fundraising, he explained.

Currently, the Mabee Foun-dation, a nonprofit corporation that aids Christian religious or-ganizations, has issued a grant challenge for the Signature Campaign. If Tabor can raise the remaining $2.7 million needed for the Center for the Arts by Jan. 14, 2015, the Ma-bee Foundation will donate $1 million to the project.

After the fundraising for the campaign is completed, the next step is to appoint a build-ing and planning committee and bring in an architect to draw up the final plans, a pro-cess that will take about six months. The construction is then estimated to take 18-24 months.

Glanzer hopes to break ground for the Center for the Arts during Homecoming fes-tivities in 2015.

Jessica VixSports Editor

Chelsea McWhirtReporter

Even during the winter months, Tabor College is working on construction projects to improve the quality of campus life.

This winter, Tabor has been able to start the construction of the Madison Corridor, which will include several additions between Dakota and the Solomon L. Loewen Natural Science Center.

“The goal of this project is to bring the campus closer,” said Kirby Fadenrecht, senior vice presi-dent for business and finance.

Tabor hired the Vogt’s Parga Construction com-pany for the project, and they are currently work-ing on placing storm sewer piping underground to help with drainage, said Fadenrecht.

As a part of refinancing last summer, the col-lege received $1.8 million, said Fadenrecht.

This was not only used to finance the Madison Corridor project, but also the walkways along Regi-er and Ediger halls in the girls quad and several oth-er campus improvements over the summer.

The current Madison Corridor project will eliminate some of the separation on campus. This will be done by adding more parking spaces, add-ing a few more cul de sacs and adding more side-walks.

Tabor is a school that continues to grow, and the college has made several improvements the past few years, and even more plans are in store for the future.

One of the most significant projects of the near future is the fine arts building. In the past few years, Tabor has built the football stadium and athletic center, as well as Harms Hall, and several

See RENOVATIONS, page 2

Becky Bryan Reporter

Fundraising for new fine arts center continues

Library, MSU plan “Speak Now”

AthleticsBasketball season draws to a close as Spring sports begin

Sports, pg 6-7

Olympic GamesCatch up on all the big

events

Features, pg 4-5

SAB EventsCheck out photos from

the Dating Game and the Winter Banquet

Campus Life, pg 8

Money Raised (yellow): $9,078,446Still Needed (red): $6,965,054Grand Total: $16, 200,000

Funds to Goal

Congratulations to Sam Mosley and Diane Krehbiel for winning the drawing.Enjoy your JayShop gift certificate!

News in brief

Tabor’s eighth annual floor video competition was held Tuesday eve-ning, Feb. 10 with the theme ‘movie trailers.’

“This tradition began in 2007 when two RAs wanted to start a tradition that would help the students on their floor connect at the beginning of spring se-mester,” said Resident Director Sara Sigley. “They came up with the idea of inviting each floor to make a video that would show the rest of campus what life was like on their floors.”

Student life hosted this event and en-couraged every floor to participate.

“We feel like the floor video com-petition gives each floor the opportu-nity to come together and accomplish something as a group,” said Sigley.

Movie trailer inspired renditions from the women’s floors included “Madea Goes to Tabor,” “Scream,” “Pitch Perfect: Tabor Toners” and “Avengers.”

For the men’s floors, versions of movie trailers included “The Secret Life of Tyson Brockel,” “Passion of the Christ,” “Who is Kansas Hall?” and a combination of snippets from “Scar-face,” “Free Willy,” “Star Wars” and the Harlem Shake.

In third place, Upper Oklahoma put together an interpretation of “Frozen” including a scene with President Glan-zer helping a student build a snow-man. Second place came from Lower Regier, with a delivery from the movie “Mean Girls.”

Lower Dakota interpreted its own version of the popular film “Paranor-mal Activity” called “Pretty Normal Activity” that won them first place.

“The idea just came to us out of the blue,” said senior Colton Olsen, RA of Lower Dakota. “We had a whole dif-ferent idea but then at the last minute we switched it up.”

Olsen said he believes that the pur-pose for the floor video competition is to really bring the floor together.

“When you get a bunch of guys to-gether and put ideas together, everyone will get involved,” said Olsen.

Lauren Wall Reporter

Editor’s note: An article in the December 6 issue of The View re-ported on a competition through the business department under the name of the Hope Scholar’s Grant program. Although funding for the business competition originated from a Hope Grant, these compe-titions are two separate programs. The following article will explain the Hope Scholar’s Grant in its en-tirety:

The Hope Scholar’s Grant is a program available to all Tabor stu-dents and faculty that provides money to enhance learning oppor-tunities.

Money is awarded twice each year, with multiple recipients re-ceiving grants each time. The aver-age grant size is $1,500 to $2,000.

Funding for the grants comes from an endowment provided by the sale of New Hope Mennonite Brethren Church in Minneapolis, Minn., several years ago.

“Their generosity allows Tabor students and faculty access to over $15,000 every year for research or engagement,” said Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Frank John-son, who oversees the program.

Since 2007, Tabor has given away the interest from this gift as grants. Because only the interest is used and the body of the donation remains untouched, according to Johnson, the Hope Scholar’s Grant program could continue for endless years.

The deadline for the most recent competition was Jan. 31. Nine of the 17 applicants were students.

Many of these students applied because of science projects with either Dr. Bruce Heyen or Dr. Nor-man Schmidt. Students who wish to apply for this grant must have a fac-ulty member sponsor them.

In recent years, recipients of a Hope Scholar’s Grant include Pro-fessor Shin-He Chin to put her art-work in competitions around the U.S. and Dr. Brad Vogel to attend a conducting symposium in New York City.

Assistant Professor of Theater Laurel Koerner is one of the most recent recipients of a grant award. She plans to use her grant to help develop a play about El Salvador’s civil war.

Johnson said he estimates at least 10 students have received money from the Hope Scholar’s Grant in the past two or three years.

Winners of the Hope Grant are chosen by a committee composed of Johnson, faculty Chairman Dr. David Faber and the four division chairpersons: Dr. Deborah Penner, Dr. Brad Vogel, Dr. Bruce Heyen and Dr. Karol Hunt.

As this council decides whom to award money to, they consider the merits of each proposal, its afford-ability and whether the applicant has already received grant money in the past two years. Sometimes pro-posals must be sent back to the ap-plicant for further clarification.

The number of grants awarded depends on the availability of funds. This means that not every request is fulfilled.

“I wish we had more resources for this sort of creative work,” John-son said.

Jared Janzen Editor-in-Chief

Gold Medalist Waits Half Hour to Greet Last Finisher

It is, as Deadspin says, “your feel-good Olympic story of the day.” Roberto Carcel-en, who happens to be Peru’s first Winter Olympian, finished last today in the 15km cross-country race. And we mean really last, as in about 30 minutes behind the winner. But Carcelen, now a Seattle resi-dent who broke a rib while training just a few weeks ago, got a rousing ovation as he grabbed a Peruvian flag from a spectator in the home stretch. And there to greet him at the finish line was the gold-medal win-ner, Dario Cologna of Switzerland, reports NBC News.

NASA Lays to Rest Mars’ Rock Mystery

Remember when the weird “jelly doughnut” object on Mars made news last month? NASA scientists were hap-pily baffled after it suddenly appeared in images taken by the Opportunity rover. They’re baffled no more: Scientists today said they’re sure that the object is indeed a rock that got kicked into the camera’s view by the rover itself, reports Fox News. (That had been a leading theory at the time, though imaginative skeptics weren’t convinced.)

They figured it out with some old-fashioned sleuthing, notes i09—”they followed the tracks” from the rock (now named Pinnacle Island). “Once we moved Opportunity a short distance, after inspect-ing Pinnacle Island, we could see directly uphill an overturned rock that has the same unusual appearance,” says a NASA state-ment. “We drove over it. We can see the track. That’s where Pinnacle Island came from.”

Woman Found Alive After 6 Days in Woods

Police have—to their surprise—found a 52-year-old Oregon woman alive yes-terday, almost a week after she’d disap-peared. Police had been looking for Sharon Ruth Bates since Saturday. After getting a tip from her sister that she liked to climb Mount David, they searched the area, and found her trapped in the crater of an old well, the Cottage Grove Sentinel reports. She’d survived there without food, and de-spite last week’s snowstorm.

Bates had gone into the woods last Friday for some alone time and got stuck in the pit after finding herself unable to climb out due to the slippery conditions. She used a plastic bag to collect drinking water, but was growing steadily weaker. “Truth is, I didn’t expect to find her alive,” a police corporal tells ABC 9. “It makes me happy.” Bates is currently recovering in the hospital.

Scientists: We’ve Found Amazon River’s True Source

It’s an argument that’s persisted for nearly four centuries: Where does the Amazon River begin? The question is complicated by the number of tributaries that feed into it, with at least five Peruvian rivers grabbing the title at some point since the mid-1600s. Now, a group of research-ers write in Area that the Apurimac River has wrongly been attributed as its source since 1971, and they have a replacement: southwestern Peru’s Mantaro River. If the designation sticks, another change would follow: The Amazon would grow, with an-other 47 to 57 miles being tacked on to its roughly 4,000-mile length.

Source: newser.com

Lower Dakota wins annual floor video competition

NEWS 2 February 19, 2014

Hope Scholar’s Grants enhance learning

other projects. The campus continues renovations,

but completing projects during the winter brings challenges.

The recent snow delayed the proj-ect, but it is expected to be completed before graduation, said Fadenrecht.

They will be able to pour the con-crete once the ground has reached an above freezing temperature.

For students, it seems as though the college is constantly making renova-tions, which is encouraging because it shows the growth of the school.

RENOVATIONSContinued from page 1

“I hope students come and use this opportunity to support fellow students as they express their creativity,” Wil-liams said. “Speak Now is a way to have equal voice, and as a way to remember the struggle that African-American citi-zens fought to win their civil rights.”

Speak Now is just one of many events MSU is planning for the semester.

“Multicultural Student Union has

done more in the past two semesters than it has in five years,” Wager said. “I hope more people join MSU because I don’t want to see the club die out due to of lack of members.”

Wager’s hope for this event is that it will draw the community together.

“People have different views against races and stereotyping, you can’t base it off just one person,” Wager said. “I hope students will use this opportuni-ty to meet others and draw closer as a community.”

MSUContinued from page 1

The Madison corridor east of the Science building has been under closed for several months as renova-tions take place. Photo by Courtney Reed.

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Photographer: Courtney Reed

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Letters

To love or not to love?

Is Valentine’s Day better if you’re dating, or if you’re single?

What is your favorite sport in the Winter Olympics?

“Snowboarding, halfpipe and figure skating.”

Senior Cassie Whiteneck

“Ski jumping.”

Junior Cheyenne Derksen

“Curling.”

Junior Trenton Wilker

“Halfpipe, slope style and hockey.”

Junior Chris Acker

Valentine’s Day comes only once a year. What a perfect day for being single. Here’s my top five reasons for going solo on Valentine’s Day.

It’s the one day a year to gorge myself on chocolate and absolutely not care about scrutiny.

Following this glorious indul-gence is enjoying the evening with my female friends. Often I like to think of my girls as the Powerpuff Girls. They’re people who have been through hardships, yet are the great-est of friends. They’re people I can rely on.

With girlfriends I have multiple people around me showing sympa-thy. If I was in a relationship, my friends wouldn’t feel sympathetic towards me.

Anyone who has a special some-one already knows who he or she is spending the day with. So long to the quiet evening to yourself. As for me, I can lounge in sweatpants and not have any expectations because I’m completely free.

Freedom permits me to be non-committed. I don’t have to date

just a single person on Valentine’s Day. As for couples, there is simply the one date and then it’s over, but for singles everywhere the possibili-ties are endless.

Tabor is rumored that you walk in single and walk out with a part-ner. Well that hasn’t happened to me yet, and what does it really matter if I don’t find someone during my col-lege years? It’s not like being single at this moment is the end of the world. It’s not like I’ll become the old spinster who lives with a dozen cats, because personally, I’m a dog lover.

For every unattached individual, enjoy the freedom this Valentine’s Day.

Chelsea McWhirtReporter

Loving the freedom

OPINIONS 3February 19, 2014

I have always loved Valentine’s Day. From pre-school to junior high it meant receiving valentines, and more importantly, candy, from every person in my class.

Things got dicey once I hit junior high and no one was required to give valentines to everyone in the class anymore. Now it really meant something to send or receive a val-entine. I stuck with the tried and true method of exchanging humor-ous valentines with my four closest girlfriends.

Then I came to Tabor and became the stereotypical “Mennonite finds love at small private college” story. Things are a little more complicat-ed now.

Giving gifts to men is no walk in the park. I’m lucky enough to be able to fall back on a pair of the newest Adidas basketball socks as a gift that I know will be appreci-ated.

But are there special rules for giving Valentine’s gifts to

guys? What is the accepted price range? My best guess is something between a Snickers bar and KU basketball tickets.

By the time anyone reads this, I’ll already have given Joel his gift. Hopefully he’ll be happy with it—or at least let me think he is.

However, as someone now in a relationship for going on two years, Valentine’s Day for me really has less to do with pink hearts, cheesy cards and chocolate than with sac-rifice, service and selflessness. Put simply, having a true valentine is not easy. A successful Valentine’s Day takes effort the other 364 days of the year.


Mennonite finds love

[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

J Jared Janzen

A familiar face is back at Tabor, but this time with a new role on campus.

Joshua Paulus, a 2011 Tabor graduate, returned to his alma ma-ter this semester as an adjunct pro-fessor to teach two sections of Basic Photography.

Paulus was born in Denver Colo., but has also lived in Wyoming, Cal-ifornia and now Kansas.

He developed his interest in pho-tography from a roommate during his years as a college student here. After that, he said photography be-came an addiction for him.

“Once I made the decision to in-vest in a camera that could do pro-fessional work, that was kind of the biggest mile maker for me,” Paulus said.

During his senior year at Tabor, Paulus took a missions trip to Indo-

nesia with proper camera gear and knowledge of photography. Unlike his first visit several years earlier, this time he was able to document his experiences better then when he only had a simple point-and-shoot camera. Being able to take qual-ity photos made a big difference in Paulus’ ability to keep his memories fresh and remember the relation-ships he formed in Indonesia.

After earning a Bachelor’s degree in English from Tabor, Paulus then completed his Master’s degree in English from Emporia State Uni-versity. During this time he taught two English courses at ESU until May 2013.

He got his teaching job at Tabor this semester after learning about the need from Graphic Design Professor Derek Hamm. Also this spring, he began as an adjunct Eng-lish professor at Friends University in Wichita.

Paulus said he is unsure of

whether his career path will take him in the direction of English or the direction of photography. He said that for right now, he is happy doing both.

Making the adjustment from stu-dent to faculty member at the same college was not as hard for Paulus as one might expect.

“It’s easy to disassociate myself with any student experience I had,” Paulus said. “It’s fun to see how it’s changed.”

He said he’s noticed differences in the faculty, staff and how the col-lege looks.

Paulus has also owned a photog-raphy business here in Hillsboro for the past two years. Rather than shooting in a studio, most of his work is done on location for wed-dings and family photos. He said that he doesn’t consider its opera-tion overbearing.

“I don’t lose touch of the fact that I love it as an art,” Paulus said.

Tabor Alumnus Joins Faculty, Teaches Photography

Editor-in-Chief

Lauren Wall

Campus Prayer is a time where students can come together in a group and pray for one another and for the campus on Tuesday eve-nings at 7 p.m.

“There is a lot of hurt and pain on this cam-pus, so prayer that people get saved, and see-ing people get saved is so awesome and en-couraging,” said senior Jasmine Gilkey, leader of Campus Prayer.

A typical night of Campus Prayer includes meeting for about an hour in the prayer room

where students are given ideas or topics to pray for. Gilkey leads this by giving the top-ic, reading scripture and by opening up with prayer.

“It’s cool how God has been faithful with answering a lot of these prayers, it makes us realize that we serve a really powerful God,” said junior Drew Pankratz. “I look forward to going to it just because it’s a good time to con-nect with other people through prayer.”

One meeting a month attendees are encour-aged to write a prayer or a positive note to other students.

“It’s just something we can encourage stu-dents with,” Gilkey said. “We send it through campus mail, so it’s anonymous.”

Campus Prayer will be leading a fasting event and prayer walk this semester. Through this fasting event students are encouraged to pray for specific people and then share among the group how it’s been going.

“We’ll meet in Java Jays and form five groups of five-to-10 people, roam around campus and just pray,” Gilkey said.

Campus Prayer is a ministry that unites stu-dents on campus through prayer.

Becky Bryan

During a week of snowy weather, Hillsboro Men-nonite Brethren Church provided an enjoyable evening in town for fami-lies, friends and couples.

The Valentine’s Extrava-ganza took place Feb. 8 and those who attended received child care, a ca-

tered meal and a concert by the Christian group, Citizen Way.

The Tabor softball team provided complimentary child care for those at-tending, and it was greatly appreciated.

“Being able to have an evening with Audra, and having childcare provided, was really valuable for us,” said Jacob Schenk, campus

pastor at Tabor College.There were 325 people

in attendance at this event, including community members, Tabor students and church members.

Citizen Way, a popu-lar Christian band, came from Chicago to perform at the event. They sang a few of their popular songs, but also played a few clas-sic love songs for the cou-

ples in attendance. Between every song, the

band told stories about themselves and the rea-sons behind many of their songs. They also connect-ed with the audience and celebrated a few couples in the crowd on their many years of marriage.

Schenk said he enjoyed the stories they told and the evening’s coffeehouse

feel. He also said that he enjoyed being able to have a night like this in town, without driving to Wich-ita.

“Citizen Way was awe-some and I felt so blessed leaving the concert after such a wonderful evening,” said Kendra Flaming, Ta-bor College student.” They even gave us roses!”

Reporter

Students Meet Weekly to Pray for Campus

Christian Band Visits Hillsboro

Reporter

Ministry Spotlight:

Joshua Paulus returned to Tabor this semes-ter as Adjunct Professor of Photography. Photo by Jared Janzen

FEATURES 4 February 19, 2014



Tabor Cafetieria

News, pg 2





Features, pg 4-5







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See SENATE, pg 2


See STAFF, pg 2



Excitement in Sochi: World’s Attention Focuses on Winter Games

February 19, 2014 FEATURES 5

Each Winter Olympic Games blends history with modernity in a style as unique as the host country itself. Every four years, returning champions com-pete against rising stars, begging the question whether veteran experience or youthful exuberance will prevail.

This year’s Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, introduce a dozen new events including team figure skating, co-ed luge and biathlon relays, freestyle ski halfpipe, women’s ski jumping, ski and snowboard slopestyle and snowboard parallel slalom.

In addition to the new events, new and ongoing storylines have captured the attention of American and world-wide fans alike.

In bobsled, the Jamaican team made famous by the movie “Cool Runnings” returns for the first time since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. Also competing in bobsled, American track stars and Summer Olympians Lauryn Williams and Lolo Jones hope to add Winter Olympic gold to their repertoire.

Alpine skier Bode Miller competed in his fifth Olympic Games, and snow-boarder Shaun White aimed for his third straight gold medal in the snow-board halfpipe. Unfortunately, the next generation of winter athletes seemed all too ready to take over , as Miller barely tied for a bronze in the super-G slalom and White finished just off the podium in fourth in the halfpipe.

Not returning this year is 2010 gold medalist men’s figure skater Evan Ly-sacek. Lysacek was prepared to defend his gold in Sochi until an ongoing hip injury forced him to withdraw in De-cember.

However, a teammate of the Olym-pic champion and fellow trainee under coach Frank Carroll is causing a buzz

in her first Olympics, due in part to a name that seems destined for success: Gracie Gold. Gold, 18, helped lead the U.S. to a bronze medal in the team figure skating event as the second best woman in the short program. She will be competing for an individual medal Feb. 19-20.

Biathlete Tracy Barnes qualified for her fifth Olympics this year but turned down the opportunity, allowing the next best qualifier, her twin sister Lanny, the chance to compete. Lanny missed several of the races needed to qualify for the Olympics because of illness, but raced in the 15km, finishing 64th, thanks to her sister’s sacrifice.

The U.S. men swept the inaugural run of the men’s ski slopestyle. The events include obstacles such as rails, quarter-pipes and jumps. Joss Chris-tensen and Gus Kenworthy, both 22, won silver and gold, respectively, and 19-year-old Nicholas Goepper walked away with bronze after struggling in his first run.

Medals have yet to be awarded in many events such as curling, bobsled, women’s individual figure skating, short track speed skating and hockey. The last day of competition will be Sunday, Feb. 23.


Alexander Radulov of Russia celebrates after scoring a goal in a shootout against Slovakia during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round.

Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France compete during the Figure Skat-ing Ice Dance Short Dance.

Four years ago in Vancouver, the U.S. brought home 37 medals, the most of any country in a single Winter Games. This year, several athletes will leave Sochi with a piece of the host country itself. Seven gold medals awarded on Feb. 15 contained fragments of a meteor that landed in central Russia last year on the same day.

While the medal count has yet to be determined, the stories to come out of Sochi, whether positive or nega-tive, whether of triumph or heartbreak, will resonate long after the Olympic torch has been extinguished.

Lauren WallReporter

Above:Senior Kristen Harris finished first in both the pole vault and 600m run.

The Tabor track team experienced a successful indoor season this win-ter, with the opportunity to compete more than the previous year.

“We had five weeks of solid competition for our indoor season, four of them leading up to the KCAC Championships,” senior Kristen Harris said. “We started competing two weeks earlier than last year.”

The team finished off their season with a good performance at the KCAC Indoor Championships, held at Ahearn Field House on the campus of Kansas State University. The men finished fourth as a team while the girls placed fifth.

Head Track and Field coach Dave Kroeker said that the team always wants to win the confer-ence championship, but many great individual performances allowed the meet to be a success.

One of the highlights from the meet was a dou-ble gold medal perfor-mance by Harris, winning the pole vault and 600M run. Also on the women’s side was an outstanding performance by senior Brielle Lund, who placed second in the women’s 3k

Bluejays shine at KCAC indoor conference track meet

Women’s basketball looks ahead to final conference games

Janelle RustReporter

The Tabor College women’s basketball sea-son is coming to an end with only two confer-ence games left.

“We have had some games that we have lost and we probably shouldn’t have, but we have bounced back from them and they have made us stronger and helped us know what we need to work on individually and as a team,” said senior Nikki Lewis.

“I love this team and I wouldn’t trade them for the world. They have made my senior year what it is.”

The Bluejays (12-4 KCAC, 17-9 overall) extended their winning streak to six games after a victory over Ottawa on Thursday.

The Lady Jays de-feated McPherson Col-lege 67-54, Sat. Feb 8.

Right:Junior Tonisha Dean runs past a defender while Coach Shawn Reed looks on in Thursday’s game against Ottawa.

Photo by Courtney Reed

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Senior Janelle Rust was a lead scorer putting up 19 points, along with 6 rebounds and junior Tonisha Dean made 15 points. Also, freshman Tena Loewen scored 14 points and 6 rebounds and Lewis had nine as-sists and 13 points.

Tabor faced the Otta-wa Lady Braves Thurs-day, Feb. 13, and won 62-58. Dean had 22 points and Lewis had 14. Loewen hit two crit-ical free throws at the end to secure the win. The attendees were en-couraged to come and show support by wear-ing pink in honor of cancer awareness.

Southwestern College (ranked ninth in NAIA) had a 66-63 victory over the Lady Jays Saturday night in Winfield, Kan.

“Some of the high-lights of the season have been beating a team that was ranked number 10 in the country at the time (College of the Ozarks),

going undefeated at our Tabor Classic and just the success we have shared as a team.,” said Rust.

The Bluejays will be playing Thursday, Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. in Leav-enworth, Kan. against University of St. Mary and then at home Feb. 22 against Friends Uni-versity at 5 p.m.

“The expectations are high because we want want to be one of the top teams in our league and to do that we have to take one game at a time,” said Lewis.

“We can’t look past any opponent because anything can happen at this point.”

and third in the 1000m and mile runs.

On the men’s side, the Bluejay 4x4 and 4x8 relay teams took home the gold. Junior Joel Allen won the

5000m while placing third in the 3000m.

The top individual honor of the meet went to junior Garrett Daugherty, who was named male

MVP after anchoring both winning relays as well as placing first in the mile and 1000m.

Kroeker has especially enjoyed this season be-cause of the group he had to work with.

“This group has been

a lot of fun to coach,” Kroeker said.

“Good upper-classmen leadership, work ethic, and a lot of new folks who want to do well makes my job enjoyable.”

Below:Junior Garrett Daugherty won Man of the Meet and took home four gold medals in the mile, 1000m and 4x8 and 4x4 relays.

Photo by Tania Daugherty

Photo by Tania Daugherty

The Tabor men’s team has only two games re-maining in regular season play as another basketball season draws to a close.

The Bluejays’ record was 9-6 in conference and 16-10 overall at press time; results from Mon-day night’s game against Sterling were not yet available.

“We’ve put together a team that will work hard,” said head coach Micah Ratzlaff. “This team loves to play.”

On Feb. 15, the Blue-jays lost to Southwestern, 67-76.

Tabor had a close win again Ottawa Feb. 13, outscoring the Braves 90-89.

“I bet it was a fun game to watch if you weren’t one of the head coaches,” said Ratzlaff.

High scoring took place and there were 20 lead changes. Tabor played zone defense during the first half but switched to man-to-man coverage for the second half.

They changed back to zone defense with eight seconds left in the game during Ottawa’s final possession, and Ratzlaff credits this to the oppos-ing team’s failure to score a gaming winning shot.

The basketball team had some excitement sev-eral weeks ago when the Feb. 6 game against the Warriors was postponed due to a fire in Sterling’s gym.


Men’s basketball regular season coming to a close

Season starts strong for Tabor softball

Softball season is just getting under way as Tabor had its first two matchups this past week.

The team won its first two games against Langs-ton University in Langs-ton, Okla., on Feb. 15. The score of the first game was 13-12 and the score of the second was 8-6.

Results from Tuesday’s double-header against Central Christian College at McPherson were un-available at press time.

The Bluejays will face Central Christian College in another double-header in their first home game Thursday, Feb. 20.

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First smoke began to appear in the gym, and then flames appeared on one of the walls just be-fore the men’s game was set to begin.

Maintenance crews had been using a blowtorch to thaw frozen pipes, and of-ficials believe this ignited the fire. The gym full of approximately 400 spec-tators was quickly evacu-ated and no one was hurt. This game was resched-uled for Feb. 17.

“I was pretty bummed,” said Ratzlaff. “I felt like we were ready to roll.” But in a situation like that, Ratzlaff said there was nothing they could do but accept it.

Ratzlaff said that one of the challenges this season was getting the team to play as well in games as they do during practice.

“It’s been frustrating at times because we know what our players are ca-pable of,” said Ratzlaff. “They’re more athletic than any team I’ve ever had.”

Looking ahead to next season, Ratzlaff said it will be important to get as many players to return as possible. He expects his players to continue to im-prove on their leadership, focus and consistency.

The Bluejays’ next game is at 8 p.m. Thurs-day, Feb. 20 in Leaven-worth against the Univer-sity of St. Mary. Following that they are scheduled to play a home game against Friends at 7 p.m. Satur-day, Feb. 22.

After spending the winter months practicing indoors, the Tabor base-ball team is ready to take the field for action as their season begins.

There are high hopes for the baseball team this spring as they are receiv-ing votes in the NAIA national poll and were picked to finish second in the KCAC this season.

The Bluejays lived up to those expectations in their opening weekend in Dallas, Texas. Tabor took on St. Edwards Uni-versity, who is currently ranked third in NCAA Division II, and won both games. They also swept Dallas Christian College.

The team has set high goals for their 2014 sea-son.

“A few of the team’s goals are to win our con-ference, then to win our conference tournament, and win the College World Series,” senior out-fielder Kirk Rocha said.

Tabor landed three players on the Preseason All-KCAC Team, which was announced at the be-ginning of February.

Highlighting the team was senior outfielder Kirk Rocha from Modesto, Calif. Rocha was named First Team All-KCAC in 2013, and ranked seventh or higher in 17 of the 24 KCAC offensive catego-ries.

Also receiving honors

were senior outfielder Grant Silva from Tur-lock, Calif., and pitcher Alex Mann from St. Lou-is, Miss. Both Silva and Mann were also named to the 2013 All-KCAC First Team.

The Bluejays will face some challenges as they do not play an easy sched-ule.

“The toughest teams that we will play this year would have to be Ster-ling, Oklahoma City, and York,” Rocha said. “These teams have always been very competitive and well coached.”

The Tabor baseball team looks to find success again this season and ex-ceed the high bar they set last year.

Baseball team looks to build on last year’s successJanelle Rust

Reporter


Above: Junior Dewayne Biggs catches a teammate’s pass in Thurs-day’s win over Ottawa.

Photo by Courtney Reed

Below: Sophomore Ryan Neufeld prepares to take a base during a game in Dallas, Texas.

Right: Katie Henning prepares to take a pitch last year against South-western.

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Winter Banquet 2014

Sara Sagnar stuggles to control her date, Trevor Morris.

Allie Jost and Blake Beye are ready to rock out at the dance following the banquet.

Tyler Funk and Holly Reimer pause for a photo.

All photos by Courtney Reed

Jennifer Crist, Jenessa Hlad, Ellen Janzen, Molly Wiebe, Teea Marr and Laurie Daniel all attend the Winter Banquet at the Big MB on Jan. 31.

Amy Vaughan and Jesse Todd smile for the camera.

SAB’s: The Dating Game

Hannah Vogt emcees the Dating Game on Feb. 9 as contestants Josh Wiebe, Jeremy Davidson and Benjamin Wiens await with mixed emotions.

Becky Spahr offers an answer during the Dating Game.

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