Issue 6

[email protected] April 15, 2014 Issue 6

Jessica VixSports Editor

Service WeekNICHe House raises money for missionaries in Thailand.

Campus Life, page 8

Ring by SpringGet the inside scoop on Tabor’s engaged couples this year.

Features, pages 4-5

Theme houses announced

Theater deptartment presents “Glass Menagerie”

Signature Campaign nears finish

President Jules Glanzer spoke to the student body in February about the Sig-nature Campaign taking place on campus. Since then the campaign has gone public.

$525,000 has been raised since then, said Ron Braun, vice-president of advance-ment at Tabor College. “We have until January 2015 to raise $2,275,000.”

If this goal is reached, the Mabee foundation has

agreed to donate one mil-lion dollars to complete the fundraising.

“Once we have complet-ed the fundraising, we will start the process of mak-ing contracts with both the architect and engineering companies; then after this construction will begin,” said Braun.

The college is promoting the campaign at various events from now until the end of the year in hopes of reaching this goal.

See CAMPAIGN, page 2

Becky Bryan Reporter

Four theme houses, two men’s and two women’s, have been approved for the 2014-2015 school year.

The SPORTS House is the only newcomer to the list of theme houses. The name stands for “Spiritually Pro-viding Opportunities Relat-ed To Service.” House Coordinator Phil-

ip Magos said the goal of the house members is to “connect to other students through fellowship and com-mon interests from the sport-ing activities we will host.” He added that they hope to

serve both the Tabor and Hill-sboro communities.

The other men’s house, the Symposium House, and the two women’s houses, the NICHe and Title IX houses, will continue on from the cur-rent year despite the loss of graduating members.

The NICHe House will lose eight of its ten members this year. The remaining members, Becca King and House Coor-dinator Cheyenne Derksen, were tasked with selecting girls to fill the open spots in the house.

“Becca and I decided on a mix of upper and lowerclass-men with a heart for travel,

ministry or both,” said Derksen. “The mix of girls will let the house go on for longer without killing it off in a mass graduation.”

The purpose of the theme houses according to the Campus Chronicle is for the students involved to “make valuable contributions to the broader community by providing various programs or events focused on their theme.”

Each year, groups of stu-dents can submit an appli-cation for a theme house through Student Life. The selected theme houses are re-quired to hold two events for the campus each semester.

Spring SportsCatch up on baseball,

softball, track and tennis.

Sports, page 6-7

Amanda Wingfield (Hannah Vogt) offers a toast to her dinner guest, Jim O’Connor (Robert Howell) as her son Tom (Chris Acker) sips coffee.

Tabor College recently put on its spring drama production, “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, with performances running April 10-13.

Dozens of Tabor students and commu-nity members packed the small theater lab of the Lohrenz to enjoy this performance. The story came together perfectly and the acting, lighting and set designs were a big reason why.

In this classic American family drama, Tom Wingfield revisits memories of a mis-erable life with his overbearing mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura, in a small St. Louis apartment. The setting takes place in 1945 as Tom recalls his past in 1937.

The cast of only four people was led by junior Chris Acker playing Tom, with se-nior Hannah Vogt as his mother, junior An-drea Acker as his sister and senior Robert Howell as Jim O'Connor, a gentleman who visits the family for supper one evening.

The production shows how pressure can occur between parents and adult children while living in such close quarters.

Chris and Andrea Acker, who are brother and sister in real life, played brother and sis-ter on stage. However, Chris’s character is two years younger than Andrea’s character while in reality it is the other way around.

“The whole situation of Christopher be-ing my brother in real life and on stage is

Lauren Wall Reporter

Laura Wingfield (Andrea Acker) exhibits her glass menagerie to Jim O’Connor (Robert Howell) during the play’s final scene. Photos by Courtney Reed.

just hilarious to me,” said Andrea Acker. “It's been amazing seeing him learn the ropes of theatre during his first production. I'm so grateful I can see his journey through the lens of his cast mate and his sister.”

Director Laurel Koerner said she was surprised at how intricately the characters developed.

“Our journey into this play every re-hearsal yields a new layer, a new color we hadn't seen before,” said director Laurel Koerner. “Upon first read, it's easy to label these characters, to think of them in neat boxes. It's not so simple, however, once they're fully realized in the flesh.”

Koerner made her debut with this pro-duction as the director of theater at Tabor.

“I arrived at this play for my first production at Tabor because I wanted to begin with a process that would call upon my professional training as an actor to, in turn, bring the best out of student ac-tors,” said Koerner. “This is a play that puts the act-ing at the center, and I saw it as an opportunity to get to the heart of what makes theater exciting: the live performer.”

NEWS 2 April 15, 2014

Students confront issue of pornography

Four Tabor students traveled to Boston, Mass., early in March on a quest to provide a solution to students who struggle with por-nography at Tabor.

Their mission was to receive funding from the Jenza Bar Foun-dation to create a counselling program that would confront this widespread issue.

“(Pornography) is such a huge issue and so few people are will-ing to talk about it,” said junior Ryan Jorgenson, one of the stu-dents involved in the project, which originated in the Presiden-tial Leadership Program.

The other students spearhead-ing this effort are freshman Logan Whitney, sophomore Jeremy John-son and junior Courtney Erwin.

President Jules Glanzer has been overseeing the project. He and his wife Peggy accompanied the students to Boston.

In Boston these students gave a presentation in which they ex-pressed their concerns about this issue and shared some of their personal struggles with it. They had given a similar presentation during chapel on February 25.

The group asked for $13,000 dollars of funding to enact the program. Their vision is to have a Christian counsellor visit campus once a week to work with students in small groups or one on one.

They would also provide free re-sources that could help.

“Our ministry seeks to gener-ate healthy discussion about the dangers of pornography in order to provide assistance to those who are struggling that will then result in renewed free minds within the student body,” said Johnson.

Their next step is to create a detailed written proposal for the judges from the foundation to consider.

The anti-porn project began as a competition within the PLS program. At the beginning of the school year, the twelve Presiden-tial Scholars divided into three groups. The groups were chal-lenged to create a project in an-swer to the prompt, “What irri-tates you beyond description?”

Jorgenson and Johnson’s group focused on the issue of pornography.

“Pornography has been an in-fluential piece in each of our tes-timonies,” said Johnson. “So we knew change was a necessity.”

At the end of the fall semester, all three groups presented before a board of faculty members, and their group was selected as the winner. This allowed them to take the trip to Boston to ask for fund-ing to enact their project.

“We pray that God uses this ministry to ‘break the chains’ that this sin can have in a person's life,” said Johnson.

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All of the offerings made during this year’s spring break choir tours will go to the campaign, and the donations received this year were much larger than in year’s past.

“The donations were over 50% larg-er this year,” said Braun. “The Center for the Arts is something exciting that people want to be a part of.”

On April 27, Braun and Glanzer will travel to Reedley, Calif., to pro-mote the campaign. They are invit-ing alumni who were involved in the arts while at Tabor to this event and anticipate more than 100 peo-ple to attend.

Tabor has also invited Hillsboro businesses to support the cause, as

well as making an application to the state of Kansas Department of Commerce for community service tax credits.

There are currently six people working on the campaign: Braun, Glanzer, Steve Warkentin, Chuck Buller, Kim Weins and Marlene Fast.

“If we ask people we receive do-nations, so it’s imperative that we are asking donors every week for their support,” said Braun. Each person working on the campaign is making 600 calls to alumni, previ-ous donors and friends of Tabor to ask for donations.

Braun said that every time he walks into the cafeteria and sees all of the students, he is encouraged and knows why he is doing what he’s doing.

CAMPAIGNContinued from page 1

English major competes nationally

Junior Cheyenne Derksen, double majoring in English and religious studies, embraced several opportu-nities to compete in national-level critical writing, in both English lit-erature and theater genres.

Derksen first presented a research essay of Edmund Spencer’s “The Fairie Queene” at the National Un-dergraduate Literature Conference in Ogden, Utah from April 3-5.

This yearly conference brings to-gether more than 150 like-minded students within the English commu-nity for lectures and presentations from across the nation.

“I did a Protestant criticism over Book One of the epic poem,” said Derksen. “My work was based in re-ligion and analyzed symbolism with-in “The Fairie Queene” in the scope of the Reformation culture happen-ing when he wrote the poem, along with the focus on Queen Elizabeth.”

While attending the conference, Derksen heard a variety of unique and different topics. In the same day, one could hear essays about Beowulf and punk rock’s effect on society.

Derksen said her favorite part was how a community of people who like the same things came together for the same purpose.

In the realm of theater, Derksen will attend the national com-petition in the 48th year of the Kennedy Center American Col-lege Theater Festival, April 15-19, to compete in writing critical reviews of theater productions in Washington, D.C.

The KCACTF presents an oppor-tunity for students of all disciplines of theater to learn and compete, said Derksen. All concepts about theater become a competition, from stage performers to stage designers.

To qualify for the national com-petition, Derksen viewed award-winning plays and then wrote jour-nalistic reviews as a part of the Institute for Theater Journalism & Advocacy this January. Her clever word choice and malleable writing style won her first place in the com-petition. She will now represent re-gion five at Nationals against com-petitors from the other eight regions across the nation.

“My ability to communicate over-all helped me in the past and will probably be what I can contribute to the group again,” said Derksen.

Chelsea McWhirtReporter

Signature Campaign Phases

Leadership PhaseCompleted $8,950,000

Mabee Challenge PhaseMabee Commitment $1,000,000Challenge goal by January 14, 2015 $2,700,000

Public PhaseRemainder of Annual Fund,Campus Enhancements and Endowment $3,550,000

Total $16,200,000

News in brief

Russian Jet Passed Within 1K Yards of US Warship

A Russian fighter jet made multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes Saturday amid escalating tensions in the region, a US military official said today. In the first pub-lic account of the incident, the official said the Russian Fencer flew within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook, a Navy destroyer, at about 500 feet above sea level. Ship com-manders considered the actions provocative and in violation of international agreements, prompting the ship to issue several radio que-ries and warnings. The fighter appeared to be unarmed and never was in danger of coming in contact with the ship, said the official, and the passes, which occurred in the early eve-ning there, ended without incident.

Middle East Sees Spike in Cases of Lethal Virus

A respiratory virus identified in 2012 has since claimed 92 lives—and recent days have seen cases soar. Last week, Saudi Arabia re-ported 15 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome within four days; this weekend, the United Arab Emirates announced that paramed-ics were the victims in six additional cases. One of the health workers died.

Two days ago, Yemen announced its first case, Reuters reports. There have been some 228 cases in all, the Wall Street Journal reports, with last week seeing the highest numbers so far. "I'm not pretty sure that they are actually seeing how big this thing is," says a doctor at a major Saudi hospital.

Source: newser.com

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OPINIONS 3April 15, 2014

“Eat pizza and watch movies alone.”

Senior Liz Janssen

What’s your best tip to avoid getting a ring by spring?

“Run away.”

Senior Kristen Harris

“Never talk to people of the opposite gender.”

Junior Ryan Jorgenson

How far would you go to support and defend your faith? A newly released movie offered an inspirational answer to this question.

“God’s Not Dead” is about a col-lege freshman, Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), who is put to the test on the first day of classes by his philosophy professor.

Professor Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) is as-sertive and tells his students that they will need to deny the existence of God in writ-ing or they will receive a failing grade.

As students began writing the words “God Is Dead” Josh feels torn. He has to choose between his faith and grade, but especially his future.

When the professor comes and col-lects the papers, Josh refuses and Radisson is livid.

With Josh being the only student who didn’t write those three words, the professor assigns him an intimidating assignment.

The goal is to convince the class to believe that “God’s Not Dead” or he fails a significant portion of the class. Radisson also unexpectedly makes him have a one-on-one debate with him.

A powerful scene is when a local minister, Pastor Dave (David A.R. White) ministers to Professor Radis-son. Radisson admitted in class that he hates God so much because of the pain he felt due to some traumatic events during his childhood.

The movie invoked me to question how I would react in the same circum-stances and was able to inform, enter-tain and encourage people to discover what they truly believe about God.

This film was very powerful and, more importantly for me, challenging.

During the movie I wondered if it was a Christian-only occurrence or if non-believers were just as fascinated and interested in this movie as I was.

However, there were some negative parts too.

I can see how this movie could por-tray stereotypes between the non-be-lievers, so I understand if it comes off offensive, but I think those people are missing the point.

Overall, it’s about letting people know that there is a God worth defending. It is filled with truths and fears that lie at the core of Christianity.

This movie convinced me that God is definitely not dead!


For everyone who grew up going to Sunday school or Vacation Bible School, the Bible story of Noah is a classic.

However, if you were expecting the new movie “Noah,” released March 28, to be a faithful depiction of the story, you’ll find yourself in for some surprises.

Directed by Darren Aronofsky, “Noah” stars Russell Crowe as the title character, with Jennifer Connelly as his wife. The casting also includes Emma Watson as Noah’s adopted daughter and Anthony Hopkins as No-ah’s grandfather.

The film has drawn negative criticism from multiple sources because of its de-viation from the original Bible story.

The basic plot is the same: God is an-gry with the sinful ways of humans so He sends a flood to wipe out the entire race except for the righteous man Noah and his family. God commands Noah to build an ark to save animals from the flood.

One major addition was the beings called Watchers. These are a group of former angles who supposedly left Heaven to help men, but God turned them into misshapen stone giants as punishment for their disobedience.

Another change in the movie is the number of people aboard the ark. The attendance list according to the Bible is Noah, his wife, his three sons and his sons’ wives. In the interest of creating conflicts, though, the director made a few changes.

I believe that the story of Noah and the flood as told in the Bible to be true. Now, I’ll admit the Bible may leave some aspects to the imagination, but I think Aronofsky let his imagination run a little too wild with this film.

I can understand the director’s mo-tivation for some of the changes he made. Movies need interpersonal con-flict to draw in the viewers. And to be fair, movie directors are notorious for changing plot elements of books.

However, making significant changes to this story of religious importance was offensive not just to me, but also to many other viewers.

I have to say that overall, the mak-ers of this film missed an opportunity to make a great retelling of the story of Noah. In the interest of making a tense, action-packed film, they created multiple alterations that have no bibli-cal basis.


This past September my boyfriend, Grant, and I began talking about our in-terest in going on a mission trip. I had not been on one before, so I was very excited when he began sharing about this organization Mission of Hope: Haiti (MOH).

We both prayed about it and felt called to go during spring break. I nev-er would have thought this trip would transform and change me as much as it did.

I’m convinced that mission trips play an essential role in peo-ple’s lives and every-one should experience one at some point dur-ing their life. So why not during spring break or summer vacation?

“The work that we did during the week benefited the Haitians in small ways, but ultimately, we were the ones who walked away from the experi-ence blessed.”

I believe that everyone should make their spring or summer break count by spreading the love of God while having fun and being a part of something big-ger than themselves.

During the week in Haiti, our time as a team comprised of work projects and evangelism/ministry outreach in Tur-pin, a remote mountain village.

The work that we did during the week benefited the Haitians in small ways, but ultimately, we were the ones who walked away from the experience blessed.

One of my favorite moments was worshipping in Haiti. It was very pow-

erful when the Haitians would switch from Creole (Haitian Language) to English for the chorus of a song. It was a good reminder that despite the lan-guage and culture, we were worship-ping the same God.

Haiti is a dark place and about 80 percent of Haitians are Roman Catho-lic and 95 percent hold some Voodoo belief or superstitions.

Almost every single Haitian we met was more concerned about God bless-ing and watching over us than they were about their own conditions.

Despite not having a lot of possessions, the people of Haiti are filled with joy, hope and faith. I saw a love and understanding of Christ in the people of Haiti that changed me the most.

There are many ben-efits to taking a short-term mission trip. These include:. Broadening your perspective of an-

other country and culture.. Getting a better understanding of

people and worldwide needs.. Attaining a greater thankfulness for

what you have at home.. Making a difference in the kingdom. Going on a STM trip will bring life

transformation. It will show you that hurt and suffering exist but also joy in life outside of yourself and with God in the middle of it.


Short-term mission trips have power to transform everyone involved

“God’s Not Dead” challenges viewers “Noah” strays from biblical account

“Be awkward.”

Senior Zach Trostel

Winter has finally released its grip on Kansas and the signs of spring are here—green grass, warm winds, baseball games…

and diamond rings! The Ring by Spring tradition is

alive and well at Tabor this year, and as always, we want to recog-nize the sweethearts who have de-cided to tie the knot and commit to living life together.

[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

Ring by Spring!Engagements abound at Tabor this year

FEATURES 4

Aug. 20, 2010: Nathan and I met in our freshman peer mentor group. Aug. 25, 2010: Nathan sat next to me in BCC and asked me if my favorite color was pink, to which I replied, “Yep…” Fast for-ward three years. Jan. 30, 2013: Nathan and I are in Dr. Penn’s counseling class. I sat two rows behind him pretending not to no-tice his extremely muscular back structure. March 5: I complained to him about a paper. March 6: he brought flowers to class to console me & I forgot to show up. March 19: he asked for my number. April 14: we went on our first date where he proceeded to ask me to have kids with him.

Sour Patch Kids, relax. April 28: he asked my dad if he could date me. April 29: he kissed me. June 15: he told me he loved me. December 11: Nathan surprised me with a trip & after a loonnng day of driving we were in Texas. December 12: we stepped into a Nicolas Sparks book and went up in a hot air balloon where he sang to me and asked me to be his bride. As soon as I remembered to breathe I said “Yes!” He put the most gorgeous ring on my finger and I haven’t stopped staring at it since. August 2, 2014: I’ll become Mrs. Nathan Vogel. August 3: the beginning of forever.

Rachel is a 2013 graduate of Tabor currently living in New-ton. Ryan, a senior, will gradu-ate from Tabor this spring and go

on to attend Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colo. this fall. He and Rachel will be married June 21 in Newton.

Nathan Vogel and Mallea Berglund

Deidre was completing her stu-dent teaching at Goddard Middle School in eighth grade science. Mason contacted her teacher at Goddard without her knowing and planned to come to her class to propose. Deidre was told that a firefighter was coming to the seventh grade class to talk about wildfires and that the “special guest” might swing by the eighth grade hall to talk about a fire sci-ence degree for the high school enrollment coming up.

Deidre had no idea what was about to happen. During seventh hour, Mason showed up wearing all of his firefighter gear and pro-posed in front of the whole class. He even brought homemade sugar cookies for everyone.

Deidre and Mason plan to wed May 29, 2015.

Mason McCarty and Deidre Derksen

Ryan Loewen and Rachel Goering

Silas started liking Micah the first semester of freshman year. A few weeks into school, someone pulled her aside and said that she and a group of friends had decid-ed that Silas and Micah should get together because they were both really “spiritual.”

Micah was NOT about to be set-up, so from that time on, she was dead-set against ever liking Silas. She used to tell her best friend on a frequent basis, “You know I could NEVER marry or date Silas, right?”

For a long time Micah made up what she thought were good ex-cuses when her friend asked why she felt that way. After a while, she didn’t have a good reason anymore.

Micah still purposely avoided him and shut him down frequent-ly, but began to take a little more interest. A few months into soph-omore year, Silas asked her to pray about starting a more “for-mal” relationship. They prayed…had peace…and the rest is his-tory.

Silas and Micah plan to marry on July 19, 2014.

Silas Pedersonand Micah Leake

Technically, Trenton and I met on Student Appreciation Day in the spring of 2011 when he came for a college visit, but he doesn’t really remember that! So, we “officially” met in the fall of 2011 when he came to campus as a freshman. We started hanging out a lot because of a few mutual friends and after much prayer and guidance from family and close friends we started dating on Oc-

tober 26, 2011. We loved to go on walks and make Huddle House runs late into the night but our first official date was at La Cabana not long after we started dating. Even though Trenton is from California and I’m from Kansas, we stuck together through Christmases and summers apart and in return our relationship was strengthened. After almost 2 years of dating, Trenton decided I’d be a good

wife and he asked my dad at the Arts and Crafts fair if he could marry me! Thank goodness, my dad said yes. Masked as my birth-day surprise, on September 27 Trenton took me on a night of adventures, ending with the best of all: him down on one knee in the historic church (a very special place for both of us). Engagement has been fun but we’re both ready for June 7, 2014.

Trenton Wilker and Brittany Hofer

April 15, 2014

Jessica VixSports Editor



Tabor Cafetieria

News, pg 2





Features, pg 4-5







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See SENATE, pg 2


See STAFF, pg 2



April 15, 2014 FEATURES 5

Editor’s note: The stories featured on these pages were submitted to “The Tabor View” by the couples them-selves. Therefore, not every couple that became engaged this school year is included here. We apologize if we were unable to cover your engagement story. All photos are courtesy of the couples

Mennonite Brethren (MB) Mis-sion has a passion and a call to make disciples that make disciples of all nations. The short-term mis-sion programs (Soar, Action, Trek) are aimed toward that passion.This year a group went to Peru in January as a part of the Action: Ta-bor program. The program was led by Joanna Chapa, graduate from Tabor in 2009 and short-term mission mo-bilizer for MB Mission, Midwest USA. The participants from Tabor were Allie Jost and Amy Janzen. “This trip to Peru became avail-able and I felt like it was some-thing I should pursue,” said Janzen. “After talking to Joanna and doing some praying, I decided to go on this adventure.” Peru was a unique trip because it was specifically aimed towards mu-sic. This vision came from a Peru

missionary, Heidi Schmidt, who wanted to bring a worship team to come alongside the first ever Peru-vian National Youth Conference. “This trip was a great opportunity to worship in Spanish along with Joanna,” said Jost. “We focused on worship, but also being disciples of Christ in our training and putting our faith in action.”

Something unique that MB mis-sion is really passionate about is doing a Life Journal. “I was inspired to lead a life journ-aling group, which is a way to study the Bible that we did the whole time we were in Peru,” said Jost. “I saw how well it impacted my life and I wanted to help equip other people to learn how to study the Bible and apply to life. She is currently leading one now and hopes that this will help other people form other life-journaling groups around campus

Becky Spahr, Carly Wilhelm, Aaron Garza, and David Ewert

joined Action: Tabor last year in Columbia. “I like the way MB Mission does it, because they do a couple weeks of training (beforehand) and de-briefing at the end,” said Spahr. “I can see how it’s very beneficial because you have time to process and ask yourself how have you changed? How are you going to live differently?”

Both training and debrief create a margin in life from ‘normal, chaotic life’ and in that margin, participants are solely focused on God, team and mission. “Our reason for debrief is two-fold: process what just happened and prepare to continue to be on mission,” said Chapa. “Because of our deep passion for disciple-ship, we do not want it to stay or end when the teams leave the assignment, but to actually call these individuals to a new per-spective and passion for continual discipleship wherever God has placed them after program.”

MB Missions offers service opportunities to students

Marissa met Kelyn her first day of tennis practice on the Tabor tennis courts. After introductions and wonderful awkward encoun-ters, they started to talk more and they knew they liked each other when Sadie’s came around. It was kind of silly that Marissa did the asking for their first date of salsa dancing, but by spring time that following semester Kelyn asked Marissa’s dad for permission to be Marissa’s first boyfriend. A year and a half later, Kelyn asked her dad again for permission—this time to be Ma-rissa’s husband. On November 19, 2013 Kelyn proposed. It was a Tuesday night and Marissa had no idea he had purchased the ring or anything.

They went out to the Marion Reservoir where Christmas lights were hung in the trees, a bonfire was lit, and a TV was set up with a video of affirmation from close family and friends. The evening was perfected by a surprise engagement party back at the MUG house where the story was relived and memories were made. Marissa and Kelyn plan to be married on July 5, 2014 in Fair-view, Oklahoma with Marissa’s dad and Wendell Loewen offici-ating the ceremony. They will be living in Hillsboro next year as Marissa finishes col-lege and they hope to prepare for the mission field and see where The Lord takes them from here.

Kelyn Vix and Marissa Hiett

The first time Colton and Ra-chel met was their freshman year of high school and they were in-volved in a Pure and Simple absti-nence skit. They didn’t reconnect till Colton’s sophomore year here at Tabor. Rachel’s friend Olivia started praying for them in No-vember and reintroduced them in February at SP&D and the rest is history.

The first date they went on was

with their friends Douglas and Olivia; they went to a restaurant called Noodles and then bowling in Wichita.

They dated a year and four months before Colton proposed. Leading up to the proposal, he had talked to her friends and they did their best to reassure Rachel that he wasn’t going to propose.

After the football game that night, he took her back to her

house where her friends and fam-ily had decorated the front porch. This was the same place where they had first told each other about their feelings for each other. Colton had made a video for her earlier that month; they watched the video and then Colton led her downstairs to the porch where he popped the question.

Their wedding date is June 22.

Colton Olsen and Rachel Thurston

Aaron and I had just spent Christmas in Florida with my fam-ily. We made the two-day trip up to the Wisconsin Dells to spend New Year’s with Aaron’s parents and siblings.

As you can imagine this was quite a drastic weather change. When we arrived in Wiscon-sin there was snow covering the ground and Christmas lights on all the buildings in the resort. We were staying in a quaint log cabin nestled between the snow-covered trees. New Year’s Eve Day started off lazily. We sat around the cabin watching movies and trying to keep warm.

As the evening progressed and

Aaron Annis and Ashlee Cole

the sun went down, Aaron began to get very anxious. He asked me if I wanted to go for a walk up to the main lodge and get some hot cocoa.

Considering the bitterly cold -20 temperature outside, I fought him a bit but he insisted so I agreed. We both layered on hats, scarves and jackets and headed out.

We made our way to the end of the long drive heading to the cabin when Aaron began patting his pockets anxiously. Just as we reached the bottom he told me that he had forgotten his wallet so

we needed to go back. Being the modern women I am I told him that it was fine I would pay for the cocoa, but once again he insisted that we go back.

At that point I was bit frustrated but I turned around and began the chilly trek back up the drive. As we proceeded up the hill, Aaron fell back a few steps and then I saw it.

The front porch of the cabin was dark with just the glow from the candles nestled in the snow-lined banister lighting it. Aaron’s

family had rushed to decorate during our short walk. There were also flowers in vases on either side of the banister.

Aaron then took my hand and we walked up the stairs, and as his family peeked through the blinds he got down on one knee and being the man of little words that he is, said, “We have been to-gether for a few years now, how about we spend the rest of them together too? Will you marry me?” And well, I said yes!

The desire for MB Mission is that the short-term mission trips call participants to an even deeper

longing to live a more passionate discipleship life in Jesus to make disciples of all nations.


After a great start to the conference season, the Tabor College baseball team is in the position they want to be.

In the latest poll, the Bluejays are ranked 10th in the nation, the highest KCAC team ranked in the polls. Tabor posts an overall record of 34-8 and 15-2 in the KCAC.

Tabor has shown why they are the best team in the conference with their dominant wins in KCAC play. The Bluejays beat 21st ranked Friends University three out of four times. They also have won big against other conference schools, scoring as many as 18 runs in a single game.

Coach Mark Standiford is pleased with the perfor-mances so far.

“Our pitching has been very solid the whole year, and once the weather heat-ed up our bats did as well,” said Standiford.

Senior Kirk Rocha con-tinues his outstanding play for the season. He currently

Baseball team rises to 10th in national rankingsJanelle Rust

Reporter

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Above:Senior third-baseman Troy Torres prepares to take a pitch.

Photo by Courtney Reed

ranks first in the KCAC in batting average, runs scored per game and hits.

Sophomore pitcher Jacob Webb is having a great year at the mound. He also leads the KCAC in many catego-ries, ranking first in fewest runs allowed and batters struck out per game.

The baseball team is fi-nally getting the chance to play in warmer weather, which means having more home games.

“Bad weather has forced us to play 28 of our 39 games on the road,” said Standi-ford. “We have played a very difficult schedule and to be where we are at, I am very pleased.”

Despite Tabor’s tremen-dous season so far, Standi-ford recognizes that there is still room to get better.

“The biggest area we need to improve on is our defense,” said Standiford. “We work very hard on it, but we have to improve for us to reach all of our goals.”

As Tabor continues to climb in the rankings, they have their eyes set on a strong finish in conference play and beyond.

The Tabor College soft-ball team continues to im-prove as conference season is in full swing.

Currently, the Lady Jays sit tied with Friends for fourth place in the confer-ence. One of their most re-cent big victories was beat-ing Bethany College, who is receiving votes in the na-tional poll. Tabor won 5-2 and 10-7 over the Swedes.

Tabor is 15-17 overall and 6-4 in KCAC play.

“A highlight (this sea-son) was taking this team to Arizona over spring break to play in the Tucson Invi-tational. The team had an amazing experience,” said Coach Suzanne Unruh. “Families and friends were able to travel and watch us play, we had a huge cheering section each game and that was great for the players.”

At this tournament, the Lady Jays went 1-4 but were able to gain some great ex-perience from playing tough teams from other parts of the country.

Unruh praised her team for the growth she has seen in them from the beginning of the season.

“We grew through play-ing a tough non-conference schedule and playing hard through those games,” said Unruh. “We held our own and never gave up. We may not have won many of them, but I feel that it built strong character and growth within the team and I think it will

make us tougher through KCAC play.”

Two individuals on the team have put together some great performances which have them ranked in the nation for their respec-tive categories.

Senior Katie Henning ranks ninth in the NAIA in home runs with 10. She also ranks number 11 in total bases per game, number 14 in home runs per game, and number 16 in total bases.

Freshman pitcher Marilee Burge ranks 28th in the na-tion in total innings pitched and 40th in total losses with only nine on the year.

While the Lady Jays are currently in good position in conference standings, Un-ruh believes the team has the ability to improve.

“We have high hopes of finishing in the top three this year, and I think if this team keeps working hard to-gether, we can achieve that goal.”

Softball team tied for fourth in KCACJanelle Rust

Reporter

Above:Marilee Burge, currently ranked 28th in the nation in total innings pitched, winds up in a recent game.


Sometimes at Tabor it can feel like everyone is in-volved in a sport and that maintaining a regular work-out can be difficult.

Student Activities Board is offering a solution. Three group classes are offered in the CRC every week and the classes are taught by mem-bers of the community.

“It’s always easier to work out in a group,” said Amber Monson, yoga and aerobics instructor. “It can be hard if you’re not in sports, and this way there are other people to keep you accountable.”

Each of the classes can be modified based on skill level by changing the weight or doing a modified pose, said Monson.

“They are great for be-ginners or for the more ad-vanced.”

In yoga, weights are not used, so it is the class most aimed for beginners. The

class is every Friday at 6:15 a.m. in the CRC gym.

“It is a good way to strengthen through flexibility and balance,” said Monson.

Yoga class is one that is both relaxing and energiz-ing. The class is vinyasa flow, which means it is not power yoga.

It consists of mostly standing and mat activities.

“We practice uujah, which is breathing all in and out through the nose,” said Monson. “It is calming and you can get a deeper stretch.”

This is a class that com-bines cardio, arms, legs and core by using weights. It is of-fered every Monday at 8 p.m.

A lot of lunges and squats are incorporated. The work-out also consists of super sets, which means using the upper and lower body at the same time to get the heart rate up.

There is a warm-up, cool down and cardio every few minutes, and it all takes place while listening to fun, up-beat music.

The most advanced of the three workouts is CrossFit, but it can also be modified for beginners. It is every Tuesday at 8 p.m.

CrossFit combines lift-ing weights along with car-dio much like aerobics, but the lifting takes place in the weight room and usually tar-gets a more specific muscle group, said Chris Ensley, CrossFit instructor.

Ensley chooses a work-out based on the national CrossFit workout of the day. It begins with a warm-up, followed by lifting, a cardio portion and ends with a cool down.

“It is good for those look-ing to get stronger while also incorporating cardio,” said Ensley.

All Tabor students are invited to attend these three workouts every week. However, aerobics and yoga will not be offered April 18 and April 21, as Monson will be running in the Bos-ton marathon.

CRC fitness classes available to allBecky Bryan

Reporter

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2014 Spring Showcase Schedule of EventsTabor’s spring showcase is slated for Saturday, April 26 and will offer spec-

tators a variety of sporting events to enjoy throughout the day. Admission is free for everyone.

The schedule for the day is as follows:• 10:30 a.m. – Football scrimmage at Joel H. Wiens Stadium.• 12:00-1:00 p.m. – Lunch served on the lawn south of the sand volley-

ball court.• 12:00-1:30 p.m. – Sand volleyball tournament: volleyball team vs.

alumni.• 1:00 p.m. – Baseball conference game vs. McPherson at the baseball

field.• 1:30 p.m. – Women’s soccer alumni scrimmage at Joel H. Wiens Sta-

dium.• Half-time of women’s soccer Game – Performance by Junior Jays

Cheerleading Squad.• 3:30 p.m. – Men’s soccer alumni scrimmage at Joel H. Wiens Stadium.

As the school year winds to a close, the outdoor track season is just heating up for the Tabor track team.

In their recent meet at Hutchinson Community College, the men’s teams had a good showing. Senior sprinter Alex Grier won the gold in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.73 sec-onds, which qualified him for the NAIA outdoor na-tional championship in May.

The Bluejays got another

first place when freshman Caleb Blue won the 400 meters with a time of 49.76. Junior Garrett Daugherty continued his winning ways from the indoor track season with a victory in the 1500 meters in 4:06.

On the women’s side, senior Brielle Lund placed first in the 1500 meters with a time of 5:09. Senior Kris-ten Harris won the 400-me-ter hurdles in 1:09 and the pole vault with a jump of 3.20 meters. In addition, freshmen Bailey Clark and Sarah Hagen, junior Han-nah Holmes and Lund fin-

The tennis team is about halfway through its confer-ence season. The women are currently 0-3 and the men are 1-3 in KCAC con-ference play. Results from Monday’s meet against Friends University were unavailable at press time.

Becky Faber, junior, plays number one singles and number one doubles with senior Karly Lindroth-Yates.

She is currently 6-3 overall in singles and 1-2 in conference.

“I need to improve on having more variety,” said Faber. “I tend to play from the baseline and I need to work on moving up to the net and hitting different shots.”

Faber says she is playing similarly to last year, but says the other schools have improved.

“The other schools in our conference have got-ten a lot stronger so that’s

Men’s and women’s tennis teams aim for conference tournamentBecky Bryan

Reportermade my matches more intense and competitive,” said Faber.

In order to qualify for the conference tourna-ment, the women’s team must finish fourth or better in the KCAC. This means they need to win the rest of their conference matches to make it to the tournament.

Senior Tyler Dort plays number two singles and number one doubles along-side senior Kelyn Vix.

“We lost a lot of seniors last year,” said Dort. “We are a young team and we need to grow and experi-ence more as a team.”

The men started their conference season playing two nationally ranked op-ponents: McPherson Col-lege and Bethany College.

To qualify for the con-ference tournament, the men’s team can lose one more match, but must beat Friends University, said Dort.

“We are playing at a higher level of competition

than what we’re used to,” said Dort. However, Dort said his season is going about the same as last year.

Losing last year’s se-niors meant Dort and Vix moved up in the lineup and play tougher competition in conference this year.

Dort and Faber said that this season has been just as windy as past years, and they’ve had matches sched-uled on some of the most windy days.

The men’s and women’s teams have had to play through three matches with wind at more than 20 mph and one match with wind more than 40 mph. Both agreed this completely changes the game.

There aren’t any more home matches for the ten-nis teams, but the men’s and women’s teams invite all to see their next meet April 17 starting at 3:00 p.m. against Bethel in North Newton.

“We love to have people come watch,” said Faber.

Above:Junior Anna Friesen keeps her eye on the ball during a recent meet.


ished first in the distance medley relay.

Coach Dave Kroeker is happy with the way the team has performed this early in the season.

“So far, the season has been very successful,” Kroek-er said. “We already have two individual track athletes qualified for the NAIA Out-door Championships, which is very early in terms of being ready to run their best times. Usually we would be running our best times several weeks from now.”

The Bluejays most recent competition was at Wichita

State on April 12. Tabor’s best finishers were Grier, who placed 12th in the 100 meter dash and 13th in the 200, and Daugherty, 13th in the 800 meter run. Blue and Kristen Harris both placed 14th in the 400 meter dash and pole vault, respectively.

Their next meet is the home invitational that Ta-bor will host April 16. With every meet they compete at, the athletes’ ultimate goal is to qualify for the national

Tabor track and field continues to excelJanelle Rust

Reporter

Above:Freshman Josh Richert goes stride for stride with a runner from Oklahoma Baptist University at Wichita State April 12.


championships, which are May 22-24.

Even though the Blue-jays have had a great start to the season, Kroeker knows that there is still improve-ment to come.

“Times will be com-ing down in the next three weeks and distances and heights will be going up be-cause of the end-of-the-sea-son focus of our training,” said Kroeker.



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The ladies of the NICHe theme house aimed to get students in the spirit of helping others through their annual week of service March 31 through April 4. They organized various service proj-ects during the week and invited all students to participate.

The main focus of the service week was raising money for Mike and Naomi Phillips, missionaries in Thailand. Donations were col-lected throughout the week to build a water-well at the Bible college they founded more than 20 years ago.

“We thought that this year would be fun to do something water related, but we were think-ing outside the Hillsboro com-munity,” said Cassie Whiteneck, resident of the NICHe House. “Then one of the girls suggested also looking to see if there was a missionary that had a Tabor con-nection that we could fund.”

They learned about the Phillips-es ’desire to build a well in Thai-land and it seemed like the perfect idea for their service project.

“God had it planned from the beginning,” said Whiteneck.

The Phillipses recently trans-ferred their college from an urban

location to the country, and one of their greatest needs is a well to pro-vide them with water in their bath-rooms, kitchen and other facilities.

Originally, the goal was to raise $1,200, but when students, faculty, staff and other donors met this chal-lenge midway through the week, the goal was increased to $1,500. They succeeded in meeting this goal down to the exact penny.

This was nearly twice as much as the $850 that the NICHe house raised last year during service week.

It turned out that $1,500 was the amount the Phillipses actually needed to fully fund their water-well, but they had originally giv-en a lower figure due to a misun-derstanding.

As an added incentive to donate, students who gave money to the cause put their names in a draw-ing to shove a pie in the face of a faculty or staff member. The more money they gave, the more times they got their name in the drawing.

Twenty members of faculty and staff agreed to take a pie to the face for service week. These included several coaches, campus pastor Jake Schenk, Vice Presi-dent of Student Life Jim Paulus and President Jules Glanzer.

The residents of the NICHe house also planned several other service projects throughout the week.

On Tuesday afternoon, about 15 students went to Parkside Retire-

ment Home to play games with the residents. Whiteneck said she thought this was a decent turnout considering they had never tried to organize an event like this before.

From Wednesday until Friday, the ladies of the NICHe House collected donations of used cloth-ing and shoes to provide to a Wichita church.

On Thursday the project was to pick up sticks from the grounds be-hind the music building to aid Ta-bor maintenance as they prepared to mow grass again this spring.

Events wrapped up on Friday with the NICHe ladies encourag-ing students to write a positive note to a friend or staff member.

Approximately 27 million hu-mans are slaves in the world to-day, many of whom are women and children who either face sexual exploitation or enter into forced labor. As shocking as the statistics are, human trafficking is an issue that doesn’t always re-ceive the attention it demands.

Tabor’s Social Work Club host-

ed a week of events to help raise awareness for human trafficking from April 7-12.

Events got a head start Friday, April 4 when the Christian band The Afters performed at Hills-boro Mennonite Brethren Church along with solo artist Kyle Sher-man and the Tabor SP&D band.

The crowd lit up the dark with cellphones and other electronic devices as The Afters sang their popular song “Light Up the Sky.”

Freshman Phylicia Don said the concert was a very moving experience.

“I’ve heard all of those songs before, and I listened to them over and over, but for some reason af-ter they finished their show I felt really touched, like the music had a new meaning to it,” said Don.

Lead singer Josh Havens inter-acted with the audience by taking great leaps off the stage and walk-ing on the backs of the pews.

Other events during Human Traf-ficking Awareness Week included several chapel speakers, a panel discussion and a movie screening in the Wohlgemuth called “Trade of Innocents.”

A 5K on the morning of Sat-urday, April 12 finished up the week. Entrants paid a $10 fee to take part with proceeds going to combat human trafficking.

More than 30 students, faculty and staff participated in the Run-

ning Through Traffick according to social club member Elizabeth Nesser. Participants were wel-come to either run, walk or bike.

“It was really fun, said junior Rachel Wedel. “It was nice that there was an option for bikes and options to walk.”

Even though Human Traffick-ing Awareness Week has ended, modern-day slavery is an issue that people must continue to take action against.

Social work club raises awareness of human trafficking

NICHe house leads students in service projects$1500 raised for missionaries to build water-well for school in Thailand

Japanese FestivalTalent ShowMSU Sponsor Aleen Ratzlaff dishes out some Japanese cuisine to freshman Elisha Cairns at the Japanese Festival on April 3. This was the annual cultural event hosted by the Multicultural Student Union.

Seniors Kelyn Vix and Nathan Vogel sing a series of songs from Disney’s “Frozen” during the Talent Show on March 27. The duo went on to win first place.

Freshman David Witt raps with the help of sophomore Ben Schmidt (not pictured), which won them second place.

Jake Schenk and Lee Waldron show off their creamy complexions after getting pied in the face by students on April 8. The event was in conjunc-tion with a fundraiser to build a well in Thailand. Photos by Courtney Reed

Senior Jonathan Gutierrez goes the extra mile and smears pie in campus pastor Jake Schenk’s hair.

Junior Trent Wilker pies Roman Hofer much to the amusement of Brad Vogel and Joe Wuest, who soon found themselves in the same situation.

Senior Ester Schmidt talks with senior Alex Eurit as the two enjoy onigiri and vegetable tempura. In addition to food, the festival included several carnival games, a raffle and entertainment provided by Tabor theater members.

Freshman Michael Beye (left) performs a duet with his brother, senior Blake Beye

Junior Krista Neifert show-cases her ability to yodel.


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