| Summary: | the concorcfen march 7,1980 concordia college moorhead, minnesota 5656O vol. 72 no. 20 'Rites of Spring' signal end of winter Trvan effort to free this frigid tundra from the icy grasp of winter 'The Rites of Spring" cel-ehration begins on campus today. "The Rites of Spring" is a week of event t? designed to provide students with hitrh qual-ity low cost entertainment, to help them got rid of the winter slump and to gear up for spring, according to Student Produc-tions commissioner. Doug Brek-ke. The week is sponsored by Student Productions. The big kickoff for "Rites of Spring^ is the outdoor beach movies and campout around Proxy's Pond which begins at 11:30 p.m. According to SP staff members, this is the first time something like this has been done at Concordin. All students are urged by SP to bring their tents and sleeping bags around the pond. Questions pertaining to camping equipment can be answered by Steve Tjeltveit or Hong Rrekke in the SP office. Wednesday night communion will feature an SP produced slide tape show. The show is the brainchild of Rrekke. who did a similiar show last year. SP staff members will be helping with other parts of the communion service. The "Rites of Spring" celehra-t ion cont inues t h rough next weekend with the "Rites of Spring" show, a kite flying contest, a formal dance and the annual 3-D movies. "Rites of Spring" T-shirts on sale for $4 in the lunch and supper linos and in the Student Productions office. Heart problem claims senior Kathy Rutherford Steve Danielson and Steve Tjeltveit prepare for uThe Rites of Spring" celebration by taking a dip in Proxy's Pood. Spannaus to speak here Tuesday Minnesota State Attorney General Warren Spannaus will be speaking on campus at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday in the Centrum, lie will he available for ques-tions after a short statement. Spannaus is the top-ranking Democrat in Minnesota state government and is also co-chair-person for Minnesotans for Car-ter- Mondale. The event is spon-sored by Concordia's chapter'of Young Democrats^ Spannaus, a 49-year-old na-tive of the Twin Cities gradu-ated from the University of Minnesota in 1958 and from the U of M Law School in 1963 after serving in the Navy. A member of the Minnesota and the Ameri-can Bar Association, he was on, the Minnesota Democratic Cen-tral Committee from 1967 to 1969. He was first elected Attor-ney General in 1970 and was re-elected in 1974 and 1978. His current term expires in Janu-ary, 1983. Katherine Ann Rutherford, 21, of Hudson, Wisconsin died suddenly Mon-| day n i prh 1 Feb. 25 of a! heart attack. Kathy is sur-vived by her parents, Mr. f and Mrs. Wil-I liam Ruther-ford; brothers' William and Rutherford John; sister Kristine. In memory of Kathy a special service in Thursday morning: chapel will be held. Kathy's family will be present. A senior at (Joncordia, Kathy was majoring in German and education at the time of her death. Due to graduate in May, Kathy would have completed her student teaching this block and added one more summer course. Organizations Kathy was in-volved with at Concordia include AH-KE Outdoor Recreation Society and German club. The Language Villages were another major interest for her. Actively involved in German Camp for several years as a counselor, she also took a part in "Die Wander-tour," a bike trip through Ger-man communities in Minnesota. Born with an irreparable heart defect, Kathy was always limited in her activities, yet still participated as much as she was able. Any memorials in Kathy's name may be taken to the College Pastor's offices. Senators elected to represent the freshmen, sophomore and junior classes are, left to right, Chuck Secora, Paul Schulz, Kathi Winegar, Brad Davick, Robin Heskin, Bill Leadem, Betsy Ellenson, Steve Natterstad, DeAnn Hahn, Dave Furnstahl and Dave Jasperson. Approximately 21 percent of the freshmen class voted, 24.5 percent of the sophomore class voted, while 18 percent of the juniors turned up at the polls. Incoming freshman and transfer students will elect Senators in the fall. Turn to p. 3 for final standing of all candidates. Halaas, Orvick file for top SA post By BARB HOESE Two teams of candidates filed peti-tions for Student Association president and vice president last Tuesday. John Halaas has filed for president with Theo Olson as his running mate, while the team of Mark Orvick and Lynn Johnson also filed. Since there are only two teams running, the schedule of election events has changed, according to SA Vice President Daryl Stensgaard. There is no longer any need for a primary election so two events will be moved up a week. The final debate will be at 7:30 p.m. March 13 in the Normandy, and the general election has been rescheduled for March 18. The open forum will still be held next Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. in the Tabernacle. 'The changes were neces-sary," says Stensgaard, "to keep the process from becoming too dragged out." The two candidates running for pres-ident, Halaas and Orvick, are both juniors and have been involved in SA in the past year. Olson is a sophomore while Johnson is a junior. Halaas, a communications and political science maior from Kalispell. Mont,, is presently academics commissioner of SA and is involved with the Lenten project. Bread and Cheese and KORD radio station. He has also served on the Dean's Search Committee. "Because I have been highly involved with SA over the past year, and I know how' it works.works well and works poorly/' responds Halaas to the question ot why he is running for president. He adds, "I think with my experience I could run SA well." In his work with SA over the past year, Halaas has observed SA and notes some changes he would like to make. "One thing that I think hasn't been working this year is that no one knows what SA is. It s going to have to be really *the voice' like it always says it has been, but it really hasn't been. It's just so essential because there is power in Student Associ-ation if you just get the students behind it, and let the students know what it's about," emphasizes Ha-l a a s . Another change Halaas would like to work with is making Student Senate play a bigger role . in SA and more Halaas effectively utilizing the checks and balances system between the Senate and the executive branch of SA. For ex-ample, he "would like to use the Senate as a sounding board" where commis-sioners would go before the Senate once a semester and report what they are doing." "Every campaign I've seen so far has been a fight for issues," comments Halaas. He continues, "It says something about Concordia when there aren't any major issues," because then the college is obviously being well run. "There are a lot of little issues—I could name off 10 or lb little issues but not major ones," remarks Halaas. He does note that intervisitation is always an issue, and he cites library hours, inefficiencies in the Health Service and clarification of the college's social policies as minor issues. Mark Orvick, from Ellmore, Minn, is majoring in psychology with a biology minor. He has been a Student Senator for the past fiv< • semesters, andwai a cheerleader, a member of the Personnel Selec- '• tion Committeeanc> a member of Chi Zete-Chi Delt society. Orvick says he is running for, president because! ne feels SA "serves its pur-pose and it can serve all the students purposes if run efficiently and with a goal." He continues, "I'd like to be inv61ved with that." "I'd like to see closer affiliation with the Student Senate/* then there is now, says Orvick, especially in "setting down some guidelines and using the office of the president and my running mate with the Student Senate Chairperson." He would luce to see some goals of the Orvick Student Senate and the president set down and explore how the office of the • president could aid in the guidance of the Student Senate. Orvick would also like to see SA maintain the respect of the students and also increase input from the students. "I think Dan and Daryl have done a good job keeping in touch with the students.their council of commissioners have for the most part done a good job." says Orvick. He goes on to explain that if he was elected, he would like to surround himself with effective commis-sioners which would "keep the rapport with the students good, as well as the rapport with the administration without having to sacrifice any of our goals." "I don't see any (major issues) really sticking out.I see a lot of issues that need to be brought out." comments Orvick. 'There aren't any glaring issues." "I think Lynn (Johnson) and I -work well together," says Orvick about his running mate, "We both have our ideas and sometimes they don't agree, but we can work things out and cover a wide perspective of ideas." In the open forum on Tuesday stu-. dents will he able, to address questions directly to the candidates. In Thursday's final debate, the candidates will answer prepared questions for a certain amount of time and then the candidates will accept questions from the floor.
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