The Sounding Board Vol. 28 No. 25

              The
Sounding Board
Vol. 28,   No. 25,   May 7, 1981
GRACE SCHOOLS,   Winona Lake, Indiana   46590
Dear "Word Sheet"
by J.W. Turner
Executive Editor
Another year has nearly passed and it seems that the attitudes
exhibited at the beginning of the school year are still alive and
kicking after many attempts to kill them. In this same time period
the Sounding Board has printed 25 issues, including this one. All
of these issues were aimed toward a specific goal, and each was prepared so as to improve upon the one preceeding. Many great lessons
have been learned as a result of this endeavor, and everyone on the
staff has made great progress. Anyone who suggests that we have
failed in our goals neither knows what goes on behind the scenes,
nor has any concept of what true progress really is.
The first step the Sounding Board took this year was to improve
the general overall appearance of the paper. This was achieved by
a new masthead, and better layout techniques. The second step
was to drum up some good writers to fill the pages with quality
material. We have found some good writers, and I can count them
on one hand. Our writers are overworked, sometimes writing four
to six articles a week, and this on top of heavy study loads. This
does not lend itself to quality reporting. Our page editors do a fine
job, but they are understaffed and have little back-up, and I as
executive editor am still trying to find the rumored potential that is
supposed to be lurking around on campus. If anyone has any information leading to its where-abouts please contact me. I am sure
it can be utilized.
Apathy, despite popular opinion, is running rampant on the
Grace College campus. The Sounding Board is just one small
example of its practical outworking. We talk a lot, yell a lot, and
complain even more, but we seem to be short on action. The Sounding Board has one more issue this year, and new staff will be needed
to move forward next year. We are all concerned over the quality
of writing that is coming out in the Sounding Board, and next
year's editor will strive to improve on this year. The best way that
we can show true concern is to apply all of that potential sitting out
there. Next year's editor will need a lot of help, because no one can
do it alone. Stop complaining and start acting, and ask yourself
this question:  "Where can I help?"

We Want You
Can you string together two
coherent sentences in a row?
Have continuous parallel lines
on a white page always intrigued you? Have you ever
read, seen, or heard someone
talk about a newspaper before?
If the answer to any of the
above questions is "yes" then
the Sounding Board is just the
thing for you.
The Sounding Board is looking for a few good men and
women to fill next year's staff
positions. Positions will be available for Executive Editor, page
editors, assistant page editors,
writers of all kinds, circulation
staff, photography, and business positions. Anyone working
on the Sounding Board receives
credit pro-rated to the position. This applied credit is
required of all journalism minors.
Applications for next year's positions are available in the
Development Office and at Dr.
Myron Yeager's office in the
library.
A meeting for all interested
will be held Tuesday, May 12
at 8 p.m. in the Seminary
Lounge. Your attendance at
this meeting will better give us
an idea of what we need for next
year.
May Day Celebration Is Here
by Mark McClenning
Tomorrow Grace College will,
hold its annual May Day celebration, sponsored by SAB. The
theme for this year is "A County
Fair." The fair is going to be set
up in the Billy Sunday Tabernacle. Different organizations
from the school will be sponsoring different attractions in
booths placed around the tabernacle. Every class is going to
have a booth. Organizations like
Alpha Chi, SEA, and the Business and Accounting Club are
also involved.
Some of the games featured
will be traditionals like a bean
bag toss, darts and balloons, and
sponge-in-the-face.  Other attrac
tions will be a dunking machine,
a spook house, and a nostalgia
theatre. Clowns and a roaming
band will be mmgling in the
crowd too, plus a few surprises
by SAB.
To participate at any of these
booths, a person will have to
buy a ticket sold by SAB at the
door. Tickets will be a dime
apiece. If a person wins any
game he plays, his ticket will
have his name put on it and
dropped in a bucket. The other
tickets will be put in another
bucket. Both buckets will be
counted after the fair, and SAB
will pay the booth ten cents for
every ticket.
The buckets of winning tickets
of all the booths will be put into
a big barrel. From this barrel,
15 to 20 tickets will be drawn,
and the people whose names
appear on the tickets will be
awarded prizes of stuffed animals.
The schedule for the day
looks like this: After a morning of shortened classes, lunch
will be served down at the park
by Billy Sunday Auditorium.
The doors at the tabernacle
will open at 12:30, and the
fair will officially open. At
2:30 the coronation of the May
Day queen and king will take
place. The games will end
around 4:30, and the drawings for the prizes will be taken.
All the activities will end around
5 p.m.
New Professors For Next Year
by Mark McClenning
Next year there will be two
new faculty members here at
Grace. One of the new professors will be Mr. James Nes-
bitt. He has taught part-time at
the school previously, but this
time he will be hired on as a
full-time faculty member.
Mr. Nesbitt is a graduate of
Princeton University, Dallas
Seminary, and Grace Seminary.
He is presently a doctoral
student at Middlebury College
and Grace Seminary as well as
serving for Unevangelized Field
Missions as a field superintendent. Mr. Nesbitt will become
an assistant professor of modern
languages.
The other new faculty member is Mr. Lowell Owens. He
is a gradute of Bob Jones University and George Washington
University. He has served as an
instructor at Charles County
Community College and as a certified public accountant with
the General Accounting Office
of the U.S. government. Owens
will hold the position of associate professor of business and
accounting.
AT BRIDAL RECEPTION recently were, from left to right, Beth
Anderson, Amy Wilging and June Vanover. (Photo by Leslie Rice)
Concert Series
Continues
A seventy-five member symphonic band from Cedarville
College will appear at 7:30 p.m.
on Friday, May 8, in the Homer
Rodeheaver Auditorium. The
symphony is appearing as the
concluding program of the 1980-
81 Grace College Cultural and
Lecture Series.
This ensemble, one of five
large groups from the Cedarville
(Ohio) College music department, regularly tours over spring
break and performs a major concert on campus each quarter.
Members of the group, selected
by audition, perform a variety
of sacred music while being exposed to other high quality sym-
honic band literature.
The symphony is conducted
by Michael P. DiCuirei. A graduate of the University of Michigan,
DiCuirei is concluding his second
year with the symphony.
A NEW PRESIDENT
WORLD SCENE
by Tom Knight
Just when the world oil glut has Mexican government
officials on edge, the tourist trade—Mexico's number two
foreign-currency earner after oil—is also taking a nose
dive. In Acapulco, hotel occupancy is at its lowest level
in fifteen years. In the coming months, says a leading
Mexican bank, tourism may drop a further 12%. Experts see no easy answers to the crisis, because Mexico's
29% inflation rate and the international economic slowdown have combined to make a Mexican holiday too pricey
for many foreign visitors.
* *   *
As Yougoslavia marks the first anniversary of Marshal
Tito's death, Belgrade officials are seriously worried about
the country's rising ethnic tensions. The latest bone of
contention is the 1984 Winter Olympics. Slovenes are
balking at contributing to the construction of a $160 million Olympic site in Bosnia-Hersegovina. They maintain
that fine facilities already exist in Slovenia. But holding
up the games in Bosnia was part of Tito's own blueprint
to pump money into the depressed area. He was convinced
that economic development is the surest long-term ways to
defuse the country's dangerous ethnic rivalries.
* *   *
State Department officials have been keeping a watchful eye on Alexander Haig's mail since his differences with
the White House broke into the headlines. And they say
that public reaction has been heavy and overwhelmingly
favorable—an unusual development, since secretaries of
state generally attract negative letters and telegrams. The
recent count is 511 letters supporting Haig or praising his
performance on the day President Reagan was shot, versus
only ten reproachful letters. Then again, it's not the public
that   Haig  has  to  worry  about or please,  but just the
President. There he hasn't fared too well.

While   spectators   cracked   the   inevitable jokes about
Japan's take over of American roads, Toshihiko Seko,
24, sped out of the pack to win the 85th Boston Marathon with a record time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 26
seconds. That left four-time winner Bill Rodgers, 33,
trailing in third place behind Craig Virgin, 25. "I respect
Bill Rodgers," said the Tokyo salesman. "In Japan, when
you respect somebody, you show it by going beyond his
achievements." Setting the women's record for the race
was New Zealander Allison Roe, 24. She finished seventeen minutes behind Seko.