tabor view issue 4 december 4, 2012-2013

[email protected] December 4, 2012 Issue 4

Fall Sport Awards The All-Conference

awards have been an-nounced

Sports, pg 6-7

What makes Ta-bor Unique?

Find out plus see some signs about

finals week

Features, pg 4-5

12 Days of FinalsGet caught up on what you might have missed from SAB’s 12 days of Finals

Campus Life, pg 8

Now entering its twenty-sec-ond month of civil war, much of Syria has become a disaster zone. The war is responsible for an es-timated 40,000 deaths, 458,555 refugees and the destruction of over 2.9 million buildings.

The conflict started in January 2011 after a group of children and teenagers were arrested for political graffiti. When asked to leave office, Syrian President Al-Assad promised changes, but did hold to it. Now the conflict cov-ers most of the country including Damascus, the capital, and the largest city, Aleppo.

Al-Assad has held the presi-dency for 12 years, since his father died in 2000. He is from an Islamic minority group and he’s filled many government positions with extended family members.

Many of the rebels fighting against Al-Assad are defected soldiers from the military. There are also some civilians who have chosen to fight against the regime. The main opposition group is called the Free Syrian Army and appeared in July 2011. However, there are several other opposition militias who may or

Ben SchmidtReporter

Vaughn JostVaughn Jost, a native of

Hillsboro, Kan., graduated from Tabor with a bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies and Business Management in 1996.

Jost was involved in foot-ball.

After he graduated from Ta-bor, he married his wife, Taryn, also a Tabor graduate.

“Tabor prepared me for mar-riage by luring Taryn to attend Tabor,” said Jost, “and by pro-viding the Schlicting Center and an amazing open house policy.”

After he graduated from Ta-bor, he and his wife spent 12

Kelsey UnruhReporter

Tabor graduates: Where are they now?years living in Hillsboro. While living here, Jost was the associ-ate, worship, and youth pastor at Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church.

After being involved at Eben-feld for 12 years, Vaughn and his family moved to Denver, Colo., where he began his three year journey to his master’s degree. He attended George Fox Evan-gelical Seminary.

Then, after graduating with a master’s degree, Jost, along with his wife and another mar-ried couple, planted a church in southern Denver called The Mi-cah Project.

“We’ve been living the dream of church planting for the past two years,” said Jost.

This semester, Derek Hamm was trying to come up with projects for his graphic design students that would be ben-eficial to the community. As a result, Tabor will soon have a brand new website where stu-dents can publish samples of their creative writing.

Christopher Dick, associate professor of English, had been searching for an inexpensive way for his students to share

their stories with a wider audi-ence.

“Students put a great amount of time and energy into creating their work, but their audience is small—simply the other mem-bers of the class,” he said. The new website will not only give students more readers, but also allow them to post comments on their classmates’ work.

The website is being designed by the four students in Hamm’s Interaction Design class. Ac-cording to Hamm, there have See CONCERTS, pg 2

Conflict continues in Syria

Creative writing website to debut soon

Jared JanzenReporter been some delays in getting the

website into operation, but he hopes it will be up and running over Christmas break.

First, students went through several stages of planning. The next stage was to design the site, including how information should be organized and what colors should be used. The last step was to create the final ver-sion of the website which could

Jost credits Tabor for his suc-cess in the ministry field.

“I am really thankful for Ta-bor’s Bible Department faculty, who challenged and encouraged me in countless ways, and laid a lot of groundwork for how I have thought about ministry over the past 16 years.

“Many of my professors are still at Tabor today, which also shows their level of commitment to the school, and their com-mitment to influencing young people. That’s pretty unique, I think.”

Heather DeckertHeather Deckert has been in-

volved in a lot since graduating

As the semester comes to an end, it has been a time for stu-dents in the music department to show off all of the hard work they have put into perfecting their music over the past few months. In recent weeks, these students have presented a vari-

See WEBSITE, pg 2

may not be unified with the Free Syrian Army.

Many western countries, in-cluding the United States, have imposed economic sanctions on Syria, demanding that Al-Assad step down. Recently the U.N. voted for a resolution that con-demns attacks on medical facili-ties and vehicles of hospital per-sonnel by the Syrian army.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar are be-lieved to be sending weapons to the rebels, but the United States provides only humanitarian aid. Iran supports the Al-Assad re-gime along with Hezbollah.

Although a cease-fire was supposed to occur, violence con-tinues. The U.N. attempted to implement a six-point plan to end the conflict, but it failed to work.

The violence has made it dif-ficult for many people to access the necessities of life. There is great concern that Syria could turn into another Iraq, further destabilizing the Middle East. Syria has also been an active supporter of Hamas and Hezbol-lah; the result of this war could change that. Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. diplomat, once said, “The Arabs can’t make war without Egypt, and they can’t make peace without Syria.”

See GRADUATES, pg 2

Happy Holidays from the TaborView StaffWe hope that everyone has a safe trip home and back and an awesome time

while at home or where ever you end up going

Music department ends semester

with three concertsJared Janzen

Reporterety of music in front of friends, family and community members at three concerts and a senior re-cital.

The first of these concerts was held on Nov. 18 and featured both of Tabor’s choirs: the Con-cert Choir, directed by Dr. Brad

Working hard after TaborAbove: Vaughn Jost and his wife take a pic in their carRight: Heather Deckert posses for a picture

News in brief

2 N E W S 12/04/2012

Tech Team Zeroes In on ‘Genghis Khan’s Tomb’Everyone from archaeologists to grave robbers have been seeking Genghis Khan’s tomb for the past 800 years—and now a team of te-chies from California may have found it, Newsweek reports. Using satellites, radar scans, and thousands of volunteers, Albert Lin’s crew at the University of California in San Diego have built 3-D reconstruc-tions of a large underground struc-ture in northwestern Mongolia. But they won’t dig it up, despite legends of the vast treasure Khan acquired as ruler of an empire stretching from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea. “We do not want to excavate the site,” says Lin. “We believe it should be protected as an UNESCO World Heritage site.”

Vatican: In 9 Days, Pope Will TweetGet ready for one of Twitter’s newer handles, @Pontifex, which belongs to none other than one Pope Bene-dict XVI. The pontiff doesn’t plan on using it until Dec. 12, the Vati-can revealed today, but come next Wednesday, he’ll begin tweeting in six languages. His first tweets will take a Q&A format, with the Qs be-ing questions about faith, reports the AP. It won’t be Benedict’s first foray into the 140-character world, as he sent a tweet last year announcing the launch of a Vatican news portal. A rep says the pontiff will tweet “as often as he wants,” and he’ll likely reach a sizable crowd: His tweetless account already claims 47,000 fol-lowers.

Man Gets Ticket After Running Himself OverIn the and-you-thought-you-had-a-bad-day department: A driver in Salem, Massachusetts, managed to run himself over when the brakes on his pickup truck failed, reports the Boston Globe. Brian Reynolds tried to slow his truck by sticking out his foot and driving up a hill, the result being that he fell out of the truck, which proceeded to roll over his left leg. Luckily, he suffered only minor injuries, and the truck came to a stop after hitting a fire hydrant. Police rewarded his efforts with a $35 ticket for driving with defective equipment.

NFL’s Belcher: Friends Saw No Warning SignsJovan Belcher and his girlfriend seemed just like any other couple in the weeks before the murder-suicide over the weekend, their friends say. The Kansas City Chiefs linebacker and Kasandra Perkins argued, but only about “normal couple stuff,” a friend who took community college classes with Perkins tells the AP. “It doesn’t seem that that would be the end of their story,” she says. “It just seems like if things didn’t work out, they would have gone their separate ways. I would never have thought that this would be how it ended.” The couple, who had a 3-month-old daughter, had lived apart briefly but were back together by Thanksgiv-ing, the friend says.

Source: newser.com

GRADUATESContinued from pg 1

Nov. 4-5 were the selection days for the Presidential Lead-ership Scholarship. The schol-arship is the largest and most selective available to incoming freshmen. It is valued at $16,000 per year or $68,000 total and is renewable.

Its purpose is to recognize students who have been leaders in their high schools. It is to be presented to students who have the potential to make a lasting contribution to Tabor College.

The winners this year were announced on Nov. 20. They are Justin Goble, Salina, Kan.; Tena Loewen, Hillsboro, Kan.;

Macy Root, Minneapolis, Kan. and Logan Whitney, Concordia, Kan.

Students filled out an exten-sive application for a chance to attend the selection weekend. Those who were selected were invited to the Hillsboro cam-pus to compete in a process that tested their skills in areas of pub-lic speaking, writing and group problem solving through differ-ent activities.

These included giving a short speech, playing a team game of volleyball, voting who got thrown out of their life boat and using teamwork to guide a blind-folded student through a maze.

Presidential Leadership Scholars Announced Jessica Vix

News Editor

Philip Yancey presents lecture at Hillsboro MB Church

WEBSITEContinued from pg 1

from Tabor College in 2011.With a Communications

(journalism) degree in hand, she left Tabor to work for the Child Evangelism Fellowship pro-gram.

“CEF is an international or-ganization that seeks to reach children with the Good News of Jesus Christ,” said Deckert.

“We do this through a number of programs, such as Good News Clubs (which meet in schools af-ter school for an hour or an hour and a half), Five-Day Clubs, which meet during the summer, ministries at fairs, and Camp

Good News.”Deckert’s role at CEF is Min-

istries Coordinator. “I line up all the different

ministry events we do and line up workers and volunteers to teach the club,” said Deckert. “I also help with leading trainings and whatever else needs to be done.”

Deckert said that Tabor and her major helped prepare her for her job, even though it isn’t jour-nalism specific.

“I use my journalism classes when I have to write newslet-ters,” said Deckert. “Thanks to those classes, I can, hopefully, write a newsletter that people will actually want to read. I use

those newsletters to keep in touch with the people that help support the ministry. I also of-ten have to promote the different events that we do, which means I get to use my marketing training a lot.”

Deckert also stated that her most rewarding moment since leaving Tabor College was when CEF got to help her hometown of Minot, N.D.

“The summer after I gradu-ated, Minot flooded,” said Deck-ert.

The flood came through the town, destroying one-third of the town.

Deckert’s family’s home was one that was flooded.

Another part of the town that was destroyed was Oak Park, where many families gathered to hold family reunions, con-certs were held in the summer, and Christmas lights were hung in the winter.

The park reopened this sum-mer, and Deckert got to help with the celebration.

“We, CEF, were invited to come to the event and do face painting,” said Deckert. “So, we were able to go and celebrate with the whole city that life was coming back to the valley and the best part was we were able to tell kids about Jesus while do-ing it!”

have writing samples added to it.

Dick hopes that in years to come, the website will be ex-panded to encompass other areas of creativity.

“There is the possibility that this might turn into a more regu-larly updated online journal with art and photography in addition to literature,” Dick said.

To check out the new web-site and admire your classmates’ work, go to tccreativewriting.tumblr.com

ley Vogel, and the Concerto Bella Voce, directed by Mrs. Janie Brokenicky. The concert’s theme was “With Praise and Thanksgiving.”

The songs sung at this concert

included “Now Thank We All Our God,” “Psalm 100” and “I Got a Key.”

On Nov. 19, senior Cody Schroeder performed a trombone recital. The program included four solo pieces with piano ac-companiment as well as a rendi-tion of Pachelbel’s “Canon” ar-

ranged for four trombonists by Schroeder himself.

Tabor’s Chamber Strings and Symphonic Band presented an instrumental concert on Friday, Nov. 30. The theme of this con-cert was “Lauda,” which is Latin for “Praise.” Both groups were conducted by Daniel Baldwin.

The Chamber Strings opened the concert with their five piec-es, one of which was a concerto for two violins and a cello by Arcangelo Corelli. Next, the band performed a selection of five works, including “Lauda,” “O Holy Night” and “Cowboy Christmas.”

Some of the pieces in the concert included unusual instru-ments, including a harpsichord, harp and organ.

For the last song of the con-cert, the string ensemble rejoined the band on stage to play a med-ley of Christmas carols while the audience sang the lyrics.

The final musical perfor-mance of the semester was the presentation of Handel’s “Messi-ah” on Sunday, Dec. 2 by Tabor’s Oratorio Chorus. “Messiah” is a series of songs that tells the story of Jesus’ life on earth.

CONCERTSContinued from pg 1

Tabor has presented “Mes-siah” every year for decades. Be-cause of this long-standing tradi-tion, choir alumni are invited to join current choir students each year for the performance. This tradition has become a symbol that marks the beginning of the Christmas season for many peo-ple in the Hillsboro community.

After all the preparation that students put into these concerts, their impressive performances have helped the semester end on a good note.

Ben SchmidtReporter

Best-selling Christian author Philip Yancey gave a lecture en-titled, “Seasons of the Soul” at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church in Hillsboro, Kan., on Friday, Nov. 9.

Yancey spoke to an audience that nearly filled the sanctuary. He explained that his harmful experiences growing up in what he referred to as a “toxic” church led him to become resistant to God. This resistance was bro-ken down by three elements: the beauty of nature, classical music, and romantic love. His fascina-tion with these elements led him to desire to meet the Artist of such beauty.

Yancey outlined the four “sea-

sons of the soul” or four stages of spiritual life

Spring is a time of life and summer is a time of joy. He em-phasized that Christians have the duty to do the work of the kingdom on earth. Autumn is a season of doubt and pain and winter signifies death.. Yancey explained that often Christians feel they are in a time of spiritual death because of suffering they are enduring. He used the meta-phor of pain being a hearing aid than enables us to tune in to God.

Yancey ended the lecture by asking the audience to evaluate what season of life they were ex-periencing and reminding them, “For those who have God, noth-ing irredeemable can happen.”

Alto soloist Jessica Coldwell performs during Tabor’s presentation of “Messiah.”

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Reporters: Zach Bissell, Kelsey Unruh, Tracie Kith-

cart, Ben Schmidt, Jared Janzen

Photographer: Nicole Tunks

Adviser: Sara Jo Waldron

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Letters

OPINION 312/04/2012

Pray, Give and Stay Informed: Things you can do to help Syria

Zach Bissell

Editor-in-chief

Many news reports, especial-ly over the past several months, have been centered on the riots in Syria. A country in Western Asia, Syria has been a hub for hostility and rioting for the past 21 months.

Many citizens have taken to the streets to attempt an over-throw of brutal government and to demand a change to democ-racy.

The country’s current presi-dent, Bashar al-Assad, has reigned for 12 years, preced-ing his father after his death in 2000. The family has ruled the country for 40 years under a very cruel regime.

This ruling spurred the ri-ots in March 2011, when it was publicized that the Syrian government brutally tortured

a group of children after they sprayed anti-regime graffiti in the city of Daraa.

This cruelty caused an upris-ing that has now reached a death toll over 42,000.

Despite this harsh rule and devastating statistic, it is now up to the United States (and many other countries) to determine the amount of military assistance that we will provide for Syria.

The purpose of the U.S. mili-tary is to first and foremost pro-tect the lives of American citi-zens. Its second purpose is to protect the lives of civilians all over the world.

While this purpose is clear in its intent to protect all civilians, it does not state that our military should intentionally get involved in foreign wars in which it was

Nicole TunksPhotographer

not previously involved. By allowing the military to get in-

volved, it will endanger the lives of the U.S. military. Although it is the job of the military to protect all citizens, it is not their job to do so when the for-eign war has not become a threat to the U.S.

While military aid may not be the best option for the U.S., it is not the only option.

One major way to help Syria at this time is through prayer. Prayer can change lives when we are unable to be the ones to actually provide aid.

You can also donate to relief ef-forts that provide medicine and food to those affected by the riots.

Lastly, it is imperative to stay in-formed about what is going on all over the world. Being an informed citizen eliminates ignorance and helps bridge the cross-cultural gap.

When Christmas time comes around, several movies come to mind. “A Christmas Story” has been a classic movie around this time of year since its premier in 1983.This movie is based on the short stories of Jean Shepherd. “A CHRISTMAS STORY” is an episodic comedy set in the 1940’s about the family life of young Ralphie (Billingsley) as Christmas approaches.The movie takes place in subur-ban Indiana. Ralphie is a nine-year-old boy who is trying to convince everyone that the Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle with a compass in the stock is a perfect Christmas present.“You’ll shoot your eye out kid” is the response that everyone gives him. On Christmas, Ralphie ends up getting his BB rifle and runs out into the yard to use it. On the first shot, the kick of the

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gun hits Ralphie in the face and breaks his glasses. To the nine-year-old, he thinks he has actually shot his eye out.The story is narrated by an older Ralphie as he looks back on those short weeks before Christmas.Ralphie and his brother Randy try to survive the few weeks before Christmas by avoiding the school bully Scut Farkus. For the few weeks Ralphie tries his hardest to convince his teacher, his parents and even the mall Santa that he should be able to own his gun, but they all just laugh and try to con-vince him that he will shoot his eye out.Along the way there are several bits of comedy. Flick, Ralphie’s friend, is triple-dog-dared to stick his tongue to a frozen pole, which results in the fire department being called to un-stick him from the pole. Anoth-er moment is when Ralphie’s father receives his leg lamp. It is literally a female leg that has a light at the top.This is a great Christmas movie and should be seen by every-one. To watch it just flip to TBS on Christmas day. They have a marathon of it every year with it replaying every two hours

Did You Know...• Bring/buy a winter jacket, boots and gloves/mittens--the

weather is always colder after break• Doc Kyle is taking a second generation of students on

trips to Europe• President Glanzer was reappointed for three more years

as President

“A Christ-mas Story”

A Christmas mov-ie must-see! Year

after year!

Freshman Kelsey Skelton

Senior Brenda Drake

“Poker chips. Not even a full set.”

Freshman Nick Ediger

“A coupon book for hugs from my mom.”

“I got clothes from my soon-to-be brother-in-law last year. That was awkward.”

Sophomore Joe Cannon

My mom gave me the same movie three Christmases in a row without knowing it.”

What’s the most random Christmas gift you have ever

received?

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[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-


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

Holiday traditions around the world

Things that make Tabor uniqueChristian Atmosphere

Several teachers are still here teaching from several years past

THE Ben Schmidt

Live chickens in the library

Wittenburg door

Campus theme hous-ing instead of Sororities and Fraternities

Everyone knows EVERYONE

Eating donuts is a night out on the town

Sad i e s /Chr i s tmas Banquet/junior/senior banquet (Dances are still a thing in college)

Rituals (seam, Tabor walk etc)

In Austria on Dec. 5, people dress up as de-monic Santas called “Krampuses” and roam the streets looking for people to beat with sticks. They are sup-posed to terrify kids into being good.

Two sundials

Noel (Christmas) in France

St. Lucia Day in Swe-den is on Dec. 13 and it honors a third-century saint

Hanukkah in Israel is an eight day celebration of the successful Jew-ish rebellion over the Greeks

In Japan, the fast food restaurant KFC adver-tises that fried chicken is part of the traditional Christmas feast, mak-ing it a very popular place to eat on Christ-mas. Some people place reservations there two months in advance.

People in the Nether-lands have a tradition that Sinterklass has a slave named Zwarte Piet (Black Peter) who will kidnap unruly children back to Spain where he and Sinterklass live.

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See STAFF, pg 2



Holiday traditions around the world

Signs it is finals week

Solnal Korean New Years day – usually Jan. 1.

Study Parties in the library (Library is open 24 hours during Finals Week- Sleeping in the library!)

Sleep Deprivation

Sweats and hoodies are the new dress code

Java Jays is busier (students need more coffee!!)

The average college student gets only 1.5 hours of sleep because of cramming for exams

Everyone starts getting sick

You ask someone if they want to play video games later and they say “I can’t. I have to study”

You walk into the caf-eteria at lunchtime and it is completely silent because everyone is studying

Students are hum-ming Christmas carols in the hallways

SAB hosts “12 Days of Finals”

Visions of sugar plums and “A Pluses” are dancing in students’ heads.

People in Caracas, Venezuela rollerblade to the early morning Catholic mass in mid-December. Children go to sleep the night be-fore with a string tied around their big toes and the other end of the string handing out a window into the street. The roller-bladers then tug on each string along the way.

Ta Chiu in Hong Kong.

Omisoka in Japan is their New Years Eve and is the second most important holliday of the year

Mari Lwyd is a Welsh tradition in which a per-son uses a horse’s skull and white sheets to dress as a horse. The person then goes to houses and pubs, sings carols and exchanges riddles with the people there.

In Austria on Dec. 5, people dress up as de-monic Santa’s called “Krampuses” and roam the streets looking for people to beat with sticks. They are sup-posed to terrify kids into being good.

First year of bowling com-petitions off to a good start

The bowling team is off to a good start this season.

Both the men and women’s bowling teams have been able to compete this year, unlike last year. The team has competed in tournaments in Wichita, Lawrence and Davenport, Iowa.

“It’s different than last year because this year we actually get to compete and we get to see and feel what the pressure is like,”

said junior Chario Carter. “We get to see what some of the better schools look like and it pushes us to want to do better.”

Men’s bowler sophomore Tyler Jones also said that the team has improved since this is their first year competing.

“With this being our first year of actu-ally competing, I think that we are getting better as a team and learning how to bowl at the collegiate level,” said Jones.

“This team is definitely still develop-ing,” said Carter. “We’ve got a lot of bowl-ers who are new to the sport, but they are progressing fairly quickly.”

While the bowling team travels to com-pete, they need to be prepared for anything to happen. And that’s what happened when they traveled to Lawrence.

“There was this one time when we bowled in Lawrence, Louie Newport for-got all of his bowling equipment and left it in Hillsboro,” said Jones. “He had to bowl with his old shoes and somebody else’s ball, while that same night he and his dad had to drive back to Hillsboro to get his equipment.”

He didn’t realize it until we actually got [to Lawrence],” added Carter. “The look on Todd’s face was priceless.”

After ending the season with a winning record of 13-7, the conference champion-ship game left the Tabor men’s soccer team with some mixed feelings.

“It was the best season in my four years at Tabor and I’m proud that I was part of a team that had a shot to win the champi-onship,” said senior David Simmet. “Un-fortunately we fell just short in the final against Kansas Wesleyan.”

With the Bluejays losing 4-2 in their final game, they did not start off strong, allowing Kansas Wesleyan University to score the first goal. The Bluejays battled back though and tied the game shortly after on a goal by sophomore Marian Saar.

Starting the second half of the game, Kansas Wesleyan came back strong scor-

Tracie KithcartReporter

ing two more making the score 3-1. Staying in the game, Saar scored his

second goal of the game. Unfortunately while looking for the tying goal, the Coy-otes scored the final goal of the game tak-ing the victory over the Bluejays 4-2.

“It still hurts that we lost the final be-cause I feel like we could have won,” said Saar, “but it was a really good season for the soccer program at Tabor. We went through a lot of ups and downs but man-aged to get close as a team.”

With the season completed, they have next year to look forward to now.

“We had a good season and we were just unlucky in the conference final,” said senior Derick Burkhard. “I think the play-ers that come back next year will strive for a conference championship and help to keep improve the soccer program.”

Men’s soccer ends season in championship

Shoot and scoreAbove: Robert Escobar kicks the ball in a home game earlier this season.Right: David Simmet centers the ball in a home game this season.

Photo by Vance Frick

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Ben SchmidtReporter

Junior Brielle Lund and sophomore Joel Allen flew to Vancouver, Wash. on Nov. 17 to represent Tabor in the NAIA National Cross-Country race. The event was held at Fort Vancouver.

Lund has been running cross-country since the age of twelve. She placed 81st out of 320 who participated. “My jersey got dirty…but otherwise, [the race] went swimmingly,” she said.

Allen and Lund run hard at Nationals


The women’s basketball team is off to a good start with a record of 5-5, 2-0 in con-ference.

In their conference home opener against Sterling College, the Tabor Bluejays won the game 67-52. Senior Katlyn Mary scored 14 points to lead the team.

Tabor was leading 28-16 in the first half of the game and continued to stay strong. Sophomore Becky Bryan scored 11 total points in the game.

“The crowd was really good and intense against Sterling,” said junior Janelle Rust.

At their first conference away game at


McPherson College, the Bluejays took an-other victory from the Bulldogs, winning 66-56. Junior Nikki Lewis led the team in scoring with 17 points. Rust was second in scoring with 15.

Tabor led the first half 34-21 and didn’t let up in the second half to take another win.

“We came out of the opening weekend of conference with two good wins,” Rust said. “We’ve definitely been making im-provements as a team and still have a long way to go to reach some of the goals we have set for ourselves this season.”

Right now there are two teams in the conference that are undefeated and they are Tabor College and Southwestern College.

The next game for the Bluejays is at home against Bethany College on Thurs-day, Dec. 6.

Women’s basketball strong start in conference

Pass and shootLeft: Nikki Lewis passes the ball in a home gameRight: Katlyn Marry takes a jump shot

Photo by Vance Frick Photo by Vance Frick

Tabor Volleyball entered the post-season seeded 4th in the KCAC tour-nament only to end the season in the semifinals.

The Bluejays opened the tourna-ment with an exciting win against the Sterling Warriors in five sets.

The Warriors hung around as the two teams alternated wins in the first four sets, but Tabor finished strong in the fifth, winning the final set 15-13. Katie Vogts and Jessie Vogts each had 16 kills to lead the Tabor offense, and Hollister Wolf had 55 assists on the night.

With the win the Bluejays advanced to the semifinals to face the top-seeded


Volleyball ends in semifinals of playoffs

Both Lund and Allen reported a wet race day with intermittent rain.

Allen has been running since seventh grade. Allen ran in the 8K, a race that’s close to five miles long. Allen ran a 26:05 and place 95th out of 309 participants. Last year he placed 119th.

“I was more disappointed just because I set a really high goal for myself rather than because I didn’t run a good race,” he said. The course was muddy and wet at the time of his race.

Ottawa Braves. Ottawa demonstrated why they went

undefeated in the KCAC in the regular sea-son, and received votes for a national rank-ing, by defeating the Bluejays in three sets.

The Bluejays totaled 33 kills in the match, with Wolf assisting on 32 of them.

Tabor Volleyball finished the season with a record of 18-10, going 12-6 in the KCAC.

Serving

Jessie Vogts serves the ball during a home game

earlier this season.

Vogts helped the team to the forth seed in conference

and a first round victory in the conference playoffs.



The football season for Tabor came to a disappointing end Nov. 11. That was the day that the team found out that they were not going to be playing in the playoffs this season.

The team ended the season 8-2, 7-1 in conference. This ranked them No. 17 in the nation, one spot from advancing to the NAIA playoffs.

The team came together this year by “buying into the coaches system and rely-ing on each other on and off the field,” said senior Chris Sanborn.

The final game of the season was Nov. 10 at home against Friends University. This was also senior night. Sanborn and 15 other seniors including: Tim Rozzell, JP DeJesus, Josh Murphy, Korie Lewis, Mickey Polley, JoJo Galvez, Moustapha


Mbaye, Nate Harrison, Tanner Giffin, Brad Prescott, Jacob Kerschenske, Andy Curtis, Jon-Michael Bergeron, Isain Garcia, and Sean Giroir were honored before the game.

Tabor also honored their seniors by winning easily 31-3 to send the seniors off on a good foot.

The Bluejay rushing attack was led by junior James Monroe Jr. who ran for 126 yards on 28 carries and two touchdowns. Rozzell chipped in 107 yards on five car-ries while sophomore Simon McKee and sophomore Brandon Johnson both had a rushing touchdown.

Defensively Sanborn led the way with eight tackles and a fumble recovery; soph-omore Daniel Krehbiel also had a fumble recovery while DeJesus had an intercep-tion.

Senior night was a memorable moment for Sanborn.

“As an individual it was senior day. My entire family there, and leaving these fu-ture players with a season to remember.”

Football ends in top 25; Just miss playoffs

All six fall sports had at least one stu-dent-athlete win an award this last season.

Awards that were won by Bluejays in-clude: First team all conference, second team all conference, honorable mention, player of the year, coach of the year and assistant coach of the year.

First Team All Conference

Football: senior kick returner Tan-ner Giffin, junior linebacker Nik France, senior defensive lineman Chris Sanborn, senior offensive lineman Jon-Michael Bergeron, junior running back James Monroe Jr., freshman kicker Joe Cannon

Volleyball: junior setter Hollister Wolf, senior outside hitter Katie Vogts

Awards announced for fall sportsWomen’s Cross-Country: junior Bri-

elle LundMen’s Cross-Country: sophomore

Joel AllenMen’s Soccer: sophomore forward

Philipp Wahl, sophomore midfielder Mar-ian Saar

Women’s Soccer: sophomore forward Jessica Renzelman

Second Team All Conference

Football: senior defensive back JoJo Galvez, junior defensive end Terach An-toine, senior offensive lineman Andy Cur-tis, sophomore quarterback Simon McKee

Volleyball: freshman middle hitter Katelin Horstick, junior outside hitter Jes-

Left: Chris Sanborn returns the ball after getting the turnover during the Homecoming game.Right: Simon McKee rushes the ball toward the goal line in a home game earlier this season.


Rocky start for new look men’s basketball


The Tabor College men’s basketball season is well underway. The team cur-rently has a 2-9, 1-1 in conference, record.

This year’s team is full of new players.“At the beginning of the year people

asked me who half the team was and I couldn’t give them an answer,” said senior Ryan Chippeaux

It took eight games before the men could find their first win. That win came in the second game of the Sterling College Classic over Johnson & Wales University 82-64.

Chippeaux led the way offensively with 14 points; Reggie Butler contributed with 11 points. On the glass Chippeaux had 10 rebounds.

Defensively Chippeaux had two steals and two blocks to help the team keep JWU shooting percentage at just 30%.

“Our defense is actually pretty solid,” said Chippeaux.

Conference play started on Nov. 29 with a home loss to Sterling College 71-62.

Junior Nick Sauer led the offensive attack with 12 points while Chippeaux scored 11 points. Chippeaux grabbed eight boards to lead the team in rebounding.

The team turned their game around in just two days. On Dec. 1 they traveled to McPherson College to take on the Bull-dogs.

This game ended with Tabor on top 64-61.

Chippeaux earned his fifth double-double of the season scoring 17 points and grabbing 12 rebounds. Junior Robbie Samuel and Sauer were the only other two Bluejays in double digits for scoring with 11 and 10 respectively.

As the season continues, Chippeaux said that the team will continue to work on their offensive attack.

The next game for the Bluejays is this Thursday, Dec. 6 at home against the Beth-any College Sweeds.

Zach Bissell Editor-in-chief

Eyes on the prizeLeft: Robbie Samuel drives to the basket during the

conference opener against Sterling College.

Right: Ryan Chippeaux goes up for a lay-up and two

of his 11 points against Sterling College.

SPORTS 712/04/2012

sie Vogts Men’s Soccer: senior goalkeeper Ben

Clark, junior defender Adam Morley-Win-ston

Women’s Soccer: freshman forward Nicole Stevenson

Honorable Mention All Conference

Football: senior wide receiver Tim Ro-zzell, senior running back Mickey Polley, senior running back Tanner Giffin, sopho-more running back Brandon Johnson, se-nior tight end Brad Prescott, senior offen-sive lineman Isain Garcia, junior offensive lineman David Myers, senior defensive back Korie Lewis, sophomore defensive lineman Joe Jimenez

Volleyball: sophomore defensive spe-

cialist Amy Jo MaphetMen’s Cross-Country: sophomore

Garrett DaughertyMen’s Soccer: junior midfielder Aram

Najar, senior midfielder Derick Burkhard Women’s Soccer: junior defender

Molly Clark, sophomore midfielder Anna Friesen

Player of the yearSenior Katie Vogts Volleyball

Coach of the YearCoach Gardner FootballGrant Brubacher Men’s Soccer

Assistant Coach of the YearCoach Hickman Football



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4- Christmas Photo booth

5- Christmas Hymn Sing

6- Puppy Chow to take home

*Schedule is subject to change

12 Days of Finals

12 Days of Finals so far ...

YummyDaniele Wendland and Michael Klaassen enjoy some snacks while making their gingerbread houses on Monday night.

DecorationsOne of several trees with presents underneath that helped Lower Oklahoma win the floor decorating contest.

The first event on Sunday evening was decorating Java Jays. Decorations included pa-per chains, stringing KIX cereal and painting ornaments.

Afterwards, the movie “Miracle on 34th Street” was shown. The second event, gingerbread houses, was held on Monday night in the cafeteria.The third night was karaoke on Tuesday night. This was probably the least attended

event, but still had many people show up.On Wednesday, the quad floors were judged on their floor decorations. The winning

floors were Upper South East and Lower Oklahoma.Thursday night, students wore ugly Christmas sweaters while supporting the Tabor

Bluejays basketball teams.Friday, the sixth day, was the instrumental concert held at the Hillsboro Mennonite

Brethren church. Afterwards, a bonfire with s’mores was held at the Tabor fire pit.Saturday was Student Senate’s Christmas Banquet.

Sunday, the Tabor College Concert Choir, Concerto Bella Voce, and alumni singers performed Handel’s Messiah at the Hillsboro MB.

Monday, the ninth day, was a White Elephant Gift Exchange held in Java Jays.On the tenth day, a photo booth was held in the cafeteria.On Wednesday, students are able to sing some of their favorite Christmas songs at the

Christmas Hymn Sing that will be held at the Historic Church.Thursday is the last day of the 12 days of finals. Students will be able to go and grab bags

of puppy chow from the cafeteria.


Smile big

Carly Schaede and Jeremy Davidson

pose for a photo oportunity during the

Christmas dance on Dec. 1

Cheese

Krista Neifert joins Benjamin Wiens in

a photo taken at the photo booth during

the Christmas dance on Dec. 1

Christmas dance

Watch out

Hannah Vogt and Kruze Sanders do

their James Bond pose at the photo

booth during the Christmas dance on

Dec. 1

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