Clarion 1967-04-28 Vol 41 No 22

              Volume XLI—No. 22 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, April 28, 1967
Edgren Men Drown Women's Dorms;
Women Doused For Reprisal Raid
What is the place of secular literature in the realm of Christian
thought? How should a Christian react to modern literary trends? These
are questions the Church and individual Christians must consider in an
age when he is engulfed with printed material from all sides.
Dr. Calvin Linton, who will be at Bethel to discuss the problems of
Christians and literature, is Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and
Sciences at George Washington University.
In addition he is writing consutant to various government agencies
and is the author of several books on effectual writing.
Dr. Linton will speak at a Convocation on May 2.
Capitol observers said an im-portant
part in the final decision
on the tuition tax credit plan will
be played by Congressman Wilbur
D. Mills, D-Ark., chairman of the 1.
Students on the Bethel campus
should be aware that important
changes are taking place behind
the scenes, especially in regard to
administrative leaders. Though no
approval has been given, leaders
are in search of a dean for the
college next year.
As many on campus are already
aware, a number of faculty mem-bers
are going to be leaving the
college. Among them are Dr. Ray-mond
Bartholomew who is current-ly
teaching in the English Dept.
Dr. Bartholomew is going to Ma-lone
College, a Quaker institution.
Mr. Thomas Correll, Instructor in
the department of Anthropology
will be leaving to go to the Uni-versity
of Manitoba to take up ad-vanced
studies on the Eskimos.
Loren Crabtree who has been
teaching in the History Department
in the area of Asian studeies will
be moving to Colorado State Col-lege
in Ft. Collins. Assistant Pro-fessor
of Political Science, Mr.
Campus Afloat
Sends Councilor
The now famous World Campus
Afloat—Chapman College program
is sending a representative to the
Twin Cities to consult with inter,
ested students on the up coming
semester on the Chapman College
program. The representative will
be at the Holiday Inn, 1313 Nicollet
Avenue, at 2:00 P.M. on April 29.
This program is a semester a-board
a vessel that tours the vari-ous
areas in the world. Courses
offered enroute to the ports of
call are tailored to make use of
the first hand experience afforded
students in the regions visited by
the students.
Credits offered under this pro-gram
are honored by all colleges
here in the United States.
Richard Franklin, though his plans
are uncertain, is considering an
assistantship at the University of
Kentucky where he intends t o
study Appalachia.
Mr. Rolland Hein of the English
department will be leaving on sab-batical
to go to Purdue University.
Another loss to the history depart-ment
will be Mr. James Jordan who
will also be going to Colorado
The Undergraduate Psychology
Convention, an annual conference
started last year on the Bethel
campus for local psychology under-graduates
is to be held at Mac-
Alester College on April 28, 1967.
A unique feature of this con-ference
is the battery of student
papers offered by local students
that have conducted significant re-search
projects on topics of in-terest
to psychology majors.
Dr. Collins, chairman of the Psy-chology
Department here at Beth-el,
was instrumental in planning
this annual conference. Among the
students representing Bethel at the
conference will be Cabot Dow who
will read a paper, "The Aesthetic
Variable in Testing Complexity
Preference" which deals with the
nature of pattern choices on the
part of 10 college and 10 eighty
year-old women. Cabot conducted
his experiment as an appendix to
Dr. Collins' doctoral thesis.
Other interesting subjects which
will see consideration include, "Ef-fects
of Rock-n--Roll and Classical
Music on the Learning of Nonsense
Syllables", and "Three Diverse Ap-proaches
to Poverty; A Critical An-alysis".
The sessions will begin at 1:30
and all papers will be presented
in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts
Center. Special address to the con-ference
will be given by Dr. Her-bert
Pick, on the "Adaptation to a
What was probably the most ex-tensive
water fight in Bethel his-tory
transpired on Tuesday, April
18.
Around 6:00 P.M., approximately
40 Edgren men organized a raid
on the Hagstrom and Bodein resi-dences.
The brunt of the foray
was carried by two - man teams
assigned to cover the main floors
of the women's residences. It is
reported by eye witnesses that the
men made extensive use of water
balloons. Having thoroughly soaked
the dorms, and raised the ire of
supervisory personnel, the men re-treated
with the satisfaction of
having assaulted the impregnable
bastion of the campus coeds.
In the aftermath of the first in-cident,
Gaylord Anderson and an
unidentified accomplice perpetrat-ed
extra curricular terrorist activi-ties
from third floor Edgren, show-
State College in Ft. Collins. He will
be teaching Ancient History.
Mr. Richard Sorvig, Instructor
in the Speech Department, will be
leaving as well. He declined com-ment
as to his future plans.
An addition to the English de-partment
will be Jon Fagerson,
who is currently finishing up his
Doctoral studies at the University
of Minnesota.
Preceptually Distorted World". Dr.
Pick is from the Institute of Child
Development at the University of
Minnesota.
Missions Group
Meets Mondays
Student missionaries bound for
Latin American fields this summer
under the Student Missions Project
are currently meeting Monday
nights in preparation for their sum-mer
work.
The group meets with interested
students in the President's Dining
Room at 5:30 P.M. for a half hour
of conversational Spanish followed
by a prayer session for Latin Am-,
erican mission fields.
Part of their training includes
private Spanish lessons from 6:30
to 8:00 P.M. with Miss Lillian Ry-berg
as instructor.
The World Missions Fellowship
is reshaping its program for the
coming year. Miss Ryberg stated
in a telephone conversation with
the CLARION that the Fellowship
is in need of leadership next year.
Students with a concern for mis-sions
are encouraged by the WMF
to attend their weekly meetings
as indicated above.
ering their own compatriots with
water. Anderson was captured and
doused by his own comrades.
The same evening, members of
the Edgren Dorm council were
discussing matters of new business
with Dean Bajuniemi. The Dean
stated, "I know it's spring, fellas,
but this inter dorm activity has to
stop." His statement was punctu-ated
by a Hagstrom resident who
came bursting through the french
window brandishing a can of hair
spray. (It is reported also that
Dean Bajuniemi remarked, "Spring
is bustin' out all over.")
Hard on the heels of their fear-less,
but as yet unsung hero, were
the rest of the women residents.
One Edgren man awakened by
this rude interruption at the 11:00
o'clock hour claims that a "human
wave" of girls descended on the
hapless Edgren residents.
On entering the dorm, the wo-men
made their way to the third
floor where 20 of them engaged in
can to can combat. Armed with
hair spray, Ban deoderant, and ny-lons
soaked in perfume, the women
succeeded in creating havoc among
their prey.
The men however, having ab-
The United States Senate has
approved by a 53-26 vote a plan
to provide a federal income tax
credit of up to $325 for tuition,
books and fees paid by students in
colleges, universities and other
post-high school institutions. Final
enactment of the plan probably
will depend on the decisions made
by a Senate-House Of Representa-tives
conference committee.
The tax credit plan was offered
Friday, April 14, 1967, by Senator
Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., as an
amendment to a House-passed bill
which would restore the invest-ment
tax credit to businessmen.
Under the amendment offered
by Ribicoff and accepted by the
Senate, the tuition and fee credit
is 75 per cent of the first $200
paid, 25 per cent of the next $300
and 10 per cent of the next $1,000.
The credit is subtracted from the
income tax owed the government.
The credit is available to any
person who pays the tuition. Thus,
it would be available to working
students and wives as well as to
parents and other relatives. Par-ents
with more than one child in
college or graduate school may get
a separate credit for each.
"Over two-thirds of the benefits
of this amendment would go to
families earning less than $10,000
a year," Ribicoff said. A formula
reduces the amount of the credit
available to high bracket taxpay-ers.
sorbed the initial shock of the
attack, quickly blocked all exits,
and proceeded to drench all in-truders.
Most of the invaders re-treated
to the first floor where
they were trapped and treated to
a heavy dose of shaving cream.
Finally, the authorities inter-vened
and were able to bring the
fray to an end, herding all female
antagonists out of the dorm.
Commenting on the scene, sev-eral
girls claim that they feel
poetic justice was meted out, and
that all was requitted. In listing
casualties, it is reported that one
girl lost her shoe and another fell
into a window well outside Ed-gren
and bruised her leg. There
were no other casualties said Hag-strom
sources.
The women complained that the
use of hoses by Egren men was not
legitimate. Conspicuous to the girls
were Warren Withrow's yellow
towel, and Fred Swedberg's r e d
boxer shorts.
There were no comments on any
future activities of this nature.
House Ways and Means Committee.
So far, he has taken no public stand
on the measure which long has
been opposed by the national Ad-ministration.
In offering the tuition tax credit
amendment, Senator Ribicoff said
there is an urgent need for tax
relief for persons faced with the
increasing costs of higher educa-tion.
"In the long run," he said,
"my amendment would serve all
America. For our strength lies not
just in the richness of our soil,
not just in the wealth of the fac-tories
of our vast, complex physi-cal
technology—but in our minds,
in our skills, in our ability to use
these wisely and well."
Announcement From
Registrar's Office
Registration of returning stu-dents
for the fall semester will
take place early in May, according
to announcement from the Regis,
trar. Each student has received a
sheet upon which he can indicate
his choice of adviser. These sheets
should have been returned already
to the Registrar's Office so that
procedures for adviser assignment
can be completed prior to registra-tion.
Students are reminded that un-der
the policy established last sum-mer,
each student is to pay $25 at
the time of spring registration.
This will be applied toward tuition
but will be refunded if the student
officially withdraws prior to July
College Leaders In Search of Dean;
Important Changes Seen In Faculty
Psychology Convention Slates
Presentation Of Student Papers
Senators Approve Ribicoff's Bill;
Collegians Anticipate Tax Relief