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In Campus Life In Viewpoints In Sports Students look forward to New ingredients that cause Women’s basketball team interterm trips to Egypt sickness and contamination drops one Thursday night, and Italy upon return from added to food when students heads into weekend 1-7 Christmas break. don’t wash hands. overall. PAGE 5 PAGE 3 PAGE 6 The McPherson College Volume 93, Issue 6 December 12, 2008 PECTATORHE S T UDEN T S VOICE SINCE S T ’ 1917 NEWS BRIEFS Toy drive ends today Let out and locked up Today is the last Days after 1965 graduation, exchange work schedules. day to donate toys for Pope dated little dur- the Business Club’s McPherson alum robs bank, kills 3 ing college, though he did toy drive. The toys have one serious relation- will help support the ship with Ramona Lowe, Wichita Children’s It was graduation day scribed by everyone who also a McPherson College Home. Toys can be at McPherson College knew him as a shy, quiet, student, whom he broke donated for children on May 30, 1965. Nolan polite person, even gentle. up with while still in col- ages toddler to fifth Howell and Duane Pope, “His coaches would yell lege, then later married. grade. Donations fellow classmates, chat- at him to get rougher,” As a student, Pope was can be put in the red ted it up, while they ticked said Noel Grove, 1959 average, said Merlin box in second floor down the 20 or 30 minutes McPherson College alum- Frantz, who was the aca- Mohler. Go out and left before they would nus and author of “Any- demic dean at McPherson get a toy to donate walk across the stage in one But Duane.” College in 1965. before its too late! Brown Auditorium to re- Grove mentions in his “I read his name to get ceive their diplomas. book that Pope, during his diploma,” Frantz said. Seniors named to On the following Satur- football, would hit a team- Who’s Who list day, it was that very con- mate, then catch him as From gentleman to versation that FBI grilled he fell to the ground. But murderer Six seniors from Howell about, when How- this kindness was not to be McPherson College ell realized he could not taken for weakness, as he But this shy, quiet, po- were awarded the tell the FBI what they was a star defensive end lite, gentleman shook the Who’s Who Among wanted to know. He re- for the Bulldogs. small communities of Students in Ameri- alized Pope had not said Pope was named player Roxbury and McPherson can Universities and anything in that short of the week by his team- and caused disbelief of all Colleges award. The time before graduation mates in the Spectator dur- the people he knew just recipients for 2008 that would have tipped ing his senior year. In the days after graduation. award are: Cody Doll, off Howell to a malicious article, written by Ronnie On June 4, 1965, Healy; Adrielle Har- crime Pope would commit Murphy, it said Pope was 22-year-old Pope, dressed vey. Beverly; Brandon on June 4. the only three-year letter in a sport coat, white shirt Luter, Bayfield Colo.; winner during his junior and tie, walked into a bank Contributed by Nolan Howell Tiffany Nichepor, A small-town star year. He earned his fourth in Big Springs, Neb., and This wanted poster is a copy of an original that FBI planned Ness City; Amy letter his senior year and robbed it of about $1,500, to post the day Duane Pope turned himself in. Parnell, Liberal; and Duane Pope grew up in was voted MVP against less than what he had Eric Sader, Derby. Roxbury, a small, now un- Baker University for 13 come for. As recipients of this, incorporated town nearly tackles and one fumble He then demanded that the four people lying be- “Give yourself up…” award the students 25 miles from McPherson. recovery. Pope averaged the four employees in the hind the counter, but soon will select the Profes- With his 6’2”, 185 lb., eight tackles per game. bank over the lunch hour, saw them with pools of Pope fled Big Springs in sor of the Year this strong frame, he excelled “He was a good football lie on their stomachs on blood forming around the a rental car from Salina, spring. in basketball, track and player,” said fellow team- the floor. Pope then pulled wounds on their bodies. driving the back roads, and especially football. Then, mate Art Hoch, class of out a pistol, complete with On the floor lay 77-year- at one time even through a College offers in the spring of 1961, with 1963. “Excellent.” a silencer that he made old bank president Andy field. He returned the car Bulldog Express encouragement from his Hoch not only played in the college’s industrial Kjeldgaard, his nephew to the Hertz agency that teachers at Roxbury High football with Pope, but arts building, and one at a Frank Kjeldgaard, book- night, dented, covered in Next week the Mac School, he enrolled at worked an on-campus job time, shot all four – first in keeper Lois Ann Hothan mud, and gas leaking from staff will provide rides McPherson College. He with him, cleaning the sta- their lower backs, then in and bank teller Glenn holes in the fuel tank. He to the Wichita airport attended in the fall on a dium after football games. the backs of their necks. Hendrickson. then took his Buick to for any students that football scholarship, ma- Hoch said sometimes he He then walked out The elder Kjeldgaard, Wichita, ditched it and may need them. joring in industrial arts and other guys would go the door, greeting a local Hothan and Hendrickson flew to San Diego. Rides will be of- and education. home with friends on the farmer who was entering were fatally wounded and fered twice a day During high school and weekend and Pope was al- the bank. The farmer did Frank Kjeldgaard is para- Please see Murder, page 8 Monday through college, Pope was de- ways a person that would not immediately notice lyzed to this day. Friday. E-mail Karen Caylor or sign up in the Student Union for Buy a shirt, plant a tree rides. Speaking out SAB to provide KR I S TEN KI R KMAN finals snacks Staff Writer Two students protest SOA During finals week, Organic clothing - it’s Students Activities all over the place. It’s ex- BET S Y SHAFFE R Protest. Board, along with pensive. But does it have Campus Life Editor Grandison went on to the college staff, will to be? explain why she feels it provide snacks in Jon Norloff and Amy Have you ever felt is important to voice her the Student Union Ziegler’s new business, strongly about a subject? opinion about the injus- from 9 p.m. to 10:30 Arche Tree Clothing, of- Your family maybe? tices of the world. p.m Sunday through fers organic T-shirts at a A friend? A complete "This was a way that Wednesday. Each day normal price, and accord- stranger? An injustice I could be a part of pro- will have a different ing to Ziegler, sr., Hudson, done somewhere in the testing something that snack: Colo., they are “fashion world? Mira Coulter and infringes on the rights of Sunday: Pizza friendly,” as well as en- Melisa Grandison, two human beings in Latin Monday: Breakfast vironmentally friendly. McPherson College stu- America," Grandison Tuesday: Tex Mex But the best part isn’t the dents, drove 19 hours said. "Plus, as an Ameri- Wednesday: Donuts price. overnight on Nov. 20, to can, I have the right For each shirt bought Columbus, Ga., to protest to take a stand against ‘Rabbit Hole’ to from their online store, a the U.S. Army School of things that I feel are mor- take Mac stage tree will be planted on the the Americas from Nov. ally and ethically wrong behalf of the purchaser. 21 to 23. and it's important to me The play “Rab- This is possible because of The SOA is a combat to exercise that right bit Hole” by David a partnership with Plant It training school for Latin in support of the many Lindsay-Abaire will 2020, which according to American soldiers in other people around the be shown on the its website is a “nonprofit Fort Benning, Ga. world who do not have McPherson College foundation dedicated to “I truly admire the in- the same freedom.” Stage on Jan. 30 and properly planting, main- dividuals who continue Throughout the week- 31 and Feb. 6 and 7. taining and protecting as to lose their lives in end, various bands per- “Rabbit Hole” is many indigenous trees as Photo by Benjamin Denton pursuit of the derechos formed and survivors Cody Doll’s senior possible worldwide.” Jon Norloff, jr., Westminster, Colo., and Amy Ziegler, sr., universales (Universal spoke of their experienc- project and is about This couple has unlimit- Hudson, Colo., show off their earth-conscious T-shirts Rights) that most of us es. Father Roy Bourgeois a the struggles of a ed ideas for when it comes take for granted every was one such survivor family dealing with to their company. to sell green products, but is done by hand. One of single day," said Grandi- who spoke of his expe- the accidental loss of “We both wanted to start to make the company as the many things that make son, soph.