| Summary: | October 24, 1980 r- the concordian concordia college moorhead, minnesota 5656O vol 73 no 7 Food complaints aired By Kathy Bliven Last Thursday evening, a small crowd of students gathered in the Centrum to discuss with food Ser-vice Director David Kramer, Treasurer Don Helland and Dean of Students Morrie Lanning their complaints about the food service. SA commissioner Theo Olson moderated the discussion, which was the second such meeting held this year. The major complaint on the part of the students seemed to be the taste and "quality" of the food prepared by the food service. Other issues brought up were the amount of credit allowed at the Normandy, the requirement for on-campus students to eat on-campus and alternate ways of run-ning the food service. At its beginning, the discussion centered around the dropping and then raising of the credit at the Normandy, and the fact that credit allowed at the Normandy is lower than the amount allocated for meals at the Commons or Grant. Fluctuation of board plan credit at the Normandy earlier this year was due to a mistake originating in his office, said Kramer. He said it may have been a clerical error or something, and was overlooked. THe reason those on the board plan are allowed 90 cents at the Saints Alive' is weekend theme "Saints Alive" is the.theme of this years' Church Youth Days on Nov. 1-2. Church Youth Days of-ficially begins at 9:15 a.m. Nov. 1 in the fieldhouse. At that time, breakfast will be served and registration will take place. At 10 a.m. the opening kickoff for the weekend will begin with Herb Brokering giving an in-troductory and salutory speech. Immediately following his presen-tation the participating youth will divide into two separate groups,and mini-sessions will begin at 10:30 a.m. One half of the group will re- Monday is KORD main in the fieldhouse and will watch the film from the Greenland Expedition, featuring Paul Erickson and his team. This will be the first time this film will be shown in the Moorhead area. The other half of the group will go to the Centrum and view the film "Cult Explosion." At 11:30 a.m. the groups will switch places. Dur-ing the films, youth leaders, pastors, and directors will meet in Hvidsten Hall of Music for a meeting, with Herb Brokering as the speaker. At 12:30 p.m. both groups of youth and their leaders will meet in the fieldhouse for lunch and then will head over to the stadium for the Cobbers vs. St. Olaf foot-ball game (formally known as the Lefse Bowl). At half-time, the Fourth Annual Tug-of-War will take place between the four states represented in the Church Youth Days program. During the foot-ball game, the campus swimming pool will be open, and there will be a Christian Media Fair in the Centrum. At 4:30 p.m. Saturday there will be an all-campus talent show in the Centrum, and the Church Youth are invited to attend. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the musical "West Side Story" will be performed in the fieldhouse. On Sunday morning, Nov. 2, at 10:30, all-campus worship will be held in the fieldhouse. Herb Brokering will give the sermon. Questions concerning the pro-gram may be answered by calling Paul Murphy or John Hanson at 299-3415. debut Young scholars to visit Radio station KORD, 7300 on the AM dial, will begin broad-casting to the Concordia campus from its studio in Fjelstad base-ment next Monday between 3 and 5 p.m. Station manager John Halaas explained that the official time will not be announced so that the first perosn to call in after KORD goes on the air will win a prize. KORD, broadcasting from 2:30 p.m. to midnight, will play top 40-contemporary album rock music. Erickson-Hallett Halls, Hoyuxn, Livedalen, Brown, Park — Regionand Fjelstad will receive the broadcasts. A year ago, Halaas, Craig Hert-sgaard, a 1980 graduate, and Dave Congalton, an SCTA instructor last year, came up with the idea of a campus radio station and. form-ed a Radio Club of interested peo-ple. They went before Student __ Senate last winter to request funds A for building a stndio. Outstanding high school seniors vvho are active in their church, community, and school will be participating in the second annual Christian Scholars day, next Fri-day at Concordia, in promotion of Christian higher education. Pastors in every American Lijthern Church in Montana,- North Dakota and northern Min-nesota will select two qualified seniors, one boy and one girl, to represent their congregations at the event. College bound seniors chosen must be active in church affairs, rank in the top quartile of their high school class and demonstrate strong and active leadership skills. Christian Scholars day has two purposes, according to Jim Spencer, assistant director of ad-missions at Concordia. These are to recognize outstanding high school seniors who have made significant contributions in three areas: church, school and com-munity, and to give participants an oportunity to see a college of the church in action. Students will arrive Thursday evening to stay overnight in the dorms with Concordia student hosts. That night they will-attend a special coffeehouse, followed by a mixer, led by Ernie Mancini, college pastor. To get a closer look at the academic life, the high school guests will attend classes Oct. 31. Other activities include a special chapel in their honor and a academic reception with represen-tatives from each department. Christian Scholars Day will con-clude with a recognition banquet, concert by gospel singer John Fischer, and midnight Halloween party and movies. Attendance at this year's event is expected to be 225, compaired to last year's 80 students. Many Christian Scholars may be remain-ing at Concordia for Church Youth Days. Normandy for lunch, and $1.35 at Commons or Grant has to do with food and labor costs. In addition, there are fixed costs' that must be paid — labor, in-surance, etc. THe board plan budgets $3.46 per student per day. Several proposals of alternate methods qf running the food ser-vice were brought up. One stu-dent asked why all on-campus students are required to eat on-campus. That makes it virtually mandatory for freshman and sophomores to be on the board plan, he said. Lanning said that if that re-quirement were dropped, the food service would no longer be able to manage on a budget of $3.46 per student, per day. "Food would cost so much more," he said. Neither the food service, nor an individual student, "could do it (prepare tfiree meals) on $3.46 a day if they had the option to eat off-campus." Meal tickets were another sug-gestion, with students being able to purchase tickets for just the number of meals they actually ate. That would also raise the food cost, according to Kramer. "We wouldn't have the missed meal factor," said Kramer, and in-dividual student costs would pro-bably go from $3.46 to upwards of $5. "We've had an increase of five percent of people on the board plan, and at the same time, the missed meal factor has dropped five percent," said Kramer. "I think that's an indication we're FOOD SERVICE to page 3 David Kramer, Don Helland, Morrie Lanning and Theo Olson listened to students1 complaints about the food service in an open forum last week. [Scott Sternhagen photo] Senate decision sets Sunday Films admission Starting Sunday the cost of Sunday Films will be 50 cents in-stead of the traditionally free movies in the past. The 50 cents charge is the result of an 8 to 3 Senate decision last week. According to Kathi Winegar, chairperson of Student Senate, the charging is the result of a shor-tage of funds. She cited three reasons for the shortage. The first is that they tried to clear old deficits from previous years. Another is that Senate has become more criitical in their allocation of funds. Finally, the rate of infla-tion has increased, causing prices to go up, yet there was no increase in the student activities fee to stabalize this. Senate thinks the charging will bring in revenue which in turn can be used for the students. John Northrup, commissioner of Campus Entertainment, feels that charging for Sunday Films is wrong. He feels that this is the most obvious way the students' ac-tivity fee is returned to them next to the Concordian. Northrup sees two possible reasons for the Senate decision. The first is that CEC's overall budget was too high. By making other cuts in his budget, he thinks he should be able to make the movies free again. The second is that they saw the films as a source of revenue. If this is the reason, he is unsure of what he can do. A complaint this year is that some of the movies are too expen-sive to be shown free. According to Northrup, there are only a few "expensive" films, the rest are cheaper. The showing of cheaper films makes up the amount initial-ly spent on the more expensive ones. This, he feels, balances out the spending. Winegar does not think the 50 cent charge will hurt the atten-dance of the more popular movies but may hurt the less popular ones. Dave Furnstahl, senator, agreed that the reason for the in-crease is a lack of money, stating that Senate invested money in items with long range benefits. He cited two examples of this: new washing machines, and canoes for Outdoor Recreation. Furnstahl feels that students are going to be upset by the charging because they have become "spoil-ed." He thinks that if students understand why it is necessary, there will be no problem. Students interviewed with regard to the charging feel that it is unfair. Traditionally, Sunday films have been free and should remain so. According to them, the movies arc a time when they can go and relax, "leaving their cares behind." If charging is intitiated, fewer say they will go. They also feel that they've already paid their activity fee and should not be re-quired to pay for the movies. Northrup is making an appeal to the Senate at their Sunday meeting, hoping to change their decision. . * * •
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