Clarion 1967-05-04 Vol 41 No 23

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VoV XLI—No. 23 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, May 4, 1967
Tuition Question Draws Paltry Crowd;
Crucial Issues See Open Discussion
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Negro Struggle Enters New Era;
Legislation Not Enough, Says King
Only a small number of students
attended the coffee shop program
Saturday evening. The panel dis-cussion
concerned tuition costs at
Bethel, focusing particularly on the
possibilities for a "Guaranteed Tu-ition
Plan" at Bethel College. Mod-erated
by Mr. Owen Halleen, the
other panel members were Presi-dent
Lundquist, Mr. Ken White,
Comptroller, and students Jim
Keim and Art Blessing.
Of the approximately 1000 ac-credited
institutions of higher
learning in the country, only 39
are on a "guaranteed tuition plan"
according to Mr. White. Nearly
all the colleges in the vicinity of
the Twin Cities have a plan of
this type, except Bethel, Concor-dia
Teacher's College and St. Paul
Bible College, although Macalester
and St. Thomas are discontinuing
their plans.
At near-by Hamline University
about 85% of the student body
are currently enrolled in their
voluntary plan. The basic advan-tage
for students is that they can
plan realistically on what their
education is going to cost them in
dollars. An advantage for t h e
school is that the drop-out rate is
lowered—Hamline has experienced
a marked retention of students
since the plan was adopted.
Although Bethel's retention rate
is also rising, students who drop
out from Bethel list lack of fin-ances
as their major reason. It was
also brought out that many upper
division courses have only a hand-ful
of students. The administration
does look favorably on considering
a guarantee plan, but it is up to
students to show interest in this
idea and press for its adoption at
Bethel.
disparity of the high tuition in the
Another major problem discus-sed
concerned the fear that Bethel
will be come a school for the "el-ite"
of the Conference with con-tinued
tuition increases. President
Lundquist and the Board of Trus-tees
share this same fear and are
seeking answers to this problem.
One thing which puts Bethel at a
disadvantage when compared to
other schools is that our income
from endowment funds is relative-ly
low because of the smallness of
our denomination and the fact that
Bethel has only been on a full col-
Although many financial aids
and loan plans are available, they
are not keeping up with the rapid
rise of educational and tuitional
costs. The competitive nature of
faculty salaries across the country
is also helping to increase costs at
Bethel.
There were perhaps four rea-sons
for the lack of interest shown
in the program Saturday: Students
at Bethel are not in any need of
financial help; many were at the
Peter, Paul, and Mary concert;
there was no on-campus activity
earlier Saturday evening to pro-vide
a "carry-over crowd"; or stu-dents
just do not know what a
guaranteed tuition plan is.
Kickapoo Jubilee, a musical ex-travaganza
with a pot pourri of
music, is scheduled for the Field-house,
Saturday, May 6 at 8:00
P.M.
The program is based on an im-aginary
Clan feud in the Ozark
Mountains of the South. Elaborate
set construction is planned for the
evening of entertainment.
Among the featured performers
will be the Sabathini Baptist Choir,
from a local negro church.
Others included in the program
are Harold the Electrician, Bob
Olsen and Dave "Andy" Anderson,
A former Chinese Red Guard who
defected and is now living in Tai-pei,
Taiwan, says that China's
"great cultural revolution" is noth-ing
more than a vast and chaotic
political intrigue on behalf of Mao
Tse-tung.
In an exclusive article in the
May Reader's Digest, 19-year-old
Wang Ch'ao-Tien writes: "The true
purpose of herding millions of
teenagers toward Peking like a
chain of ants was to expose them
to pro-Mao party functionaries who
would give them the strategy and
the frantic courage to destroy lo-
Dr. Martin Luther King, Baptist
minister and well known civil
rights leader, spoke to students
last Thursday afternoon on the
mall of the University of Minneso-ta
St. Paul campus. The relaxed
and docile crowd was without dem-onstators
except for one student
who carried a placard with the
stirring message: Truth, Justice,
Freedom, Peace.
After expressing his gratitude
for being able to be in Minnesota
on a warm day, Dr. King launched
into a discussion of what he con-siders
to be three basic issues that
we must grapple with today.
The first of these issues is rac-ism.
King lamented that the civil
rights advances of the decade have
done little to better the conditions
in the north or penetrate the
depths of Negro depression. While
legal and legislative victories have
been won, the struggle now must
focus upon obtaining genuine e-quality
for the Negro and solving
his social and economic problems.
"The Negro," King stated, "is
going through a major depression,"
and if all Americans shared his po -
sition, the United States would
find itself in a far graver situation
than it experienced during the
1930's:
In order to remedy the Negro's
plight, it is necessary to do more
than condemn extremism; one must
WMF, stated that the retreat is
planned to offer intellectual stim-ulation
to any who come. The
cost is $1.50, to pay for a good
lunch and a weiner roast.
Those planning to attend, con-tact
P.O. 598 and the WMF will
make reservations for you. Cars
will be leaving the Coffee Shop at
9:00 a.m. on Saturday.
who will lead the clans in their
feuding activities.
The program is an attempt to
pull coffeeshop reconstruction cost
out of the red side of the ledgers.
Kickapoo Jubilee is an idea car-ried
over from last year's program,
Talk of the Town, a much publi-cized
and lauded campus social.
This year's program has been pre-ceded
by no less preparation and
thought.
The social Committee invites one
and all to a social spent at Bas-kum
Corners, in the Ozarks, for a
delightful evening of entertain-ment.
cal anti-Mao party forces on their
return home."
Wang is the first defector to
reach the West with the inside
story of the Red Guard movement.
He paints a picture of hunger, di-sease
and chaos in Peking, where
he went at the urging of wall
posters to hear Mao speak. He says
that it took him and his compan-ions
five days to travel the 700
miles to Peking from their village
of Manchouli, a town of 20,000 on
the Soviet border.
In Peking, he writes, he and
thousands of other teen-agers were
jammed into the Workers' Sta-cont'd
on page three
translate a concern for equality
and justice into positive action.
King repeater his conviction that
non-violence is "still the most po-tent
weapon for the Negro in his
struggle." We should not only con-demn
riots, but more important,
the conditions which cause riots.
King believes these conditions can-not
be improved until the ghetto
has been dispersed. Priority should
be given to legislation which makes
discrimination in housing uncon-stitutional.
A second issue which faces us
today is that of poverty. We have
instruments and the wealth to abol-ish
poverty but lack the will to do
it. To alleviate world poverty, Dr.
King suggested the developed na-tions
contribute 2 percent of their
anuual gross national product to a
fund for aiding underdeveloped
countries. To abolish poverty at
home he proposed that the gov-ernment
guarantee an annual in-come
for all families.
War, specifically the war in Viet
Nam, was the third issue King
chose to discuss. Not only is our
present course diverting attention
from the civil rights movement, but
it is "politically suicidal" and "mor-ally
wrong." We see ourselves as
"the messianic, divine policeman
of the whole world." Referring to
Gen. Westmoreland's recent ap-pearance
before Congress, he re-marked
that "we don't need gen-erals
to come back home and cre-ate
a climate for escalation." (Ap-plause)
Not wishing for his dissent to
be equated with disloyalty, Dr.
King claimed that the dissenter is
actually the serviceman's best
friend because he disagrees with
"our boys . . . being killed in a
futile, bloody war." (more clapping)
In closing Dr. King defended his
stand on Vietnam by explaining
that the issues of war and civil
rights are tied together. "I can't
segregate my morality. . .Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere."
This is one of the comments in
No Graven Image by Elizabeth El-liot.
This novel will be discussed
from two points of view in the
morning session of the World Mis-sions
Fellowship retreat on May
6th. Dr. Robert Mounce will discuss
it from the Theological point of
view, and Mr. Claude Stipe from
the anthropological view. There
will also be an opportunity for all
who attend to freely interact with
others about their own views on
The question was raised on the the novel.
The afternoon session will give
college compared to the low tui- lege program for a short number of
tion in the seminary ($550/semes- years.
ter and $8/quarter credit-hour, re-spectively).
President Lundquist
said that this is under discussion
periodically since the philosophy
of Bethel tends to look at all of
life as a "calling of God."
"0 ineffable, sardonic God everyone the opportunity to dis-who
toys with our sacrifices and cuss the topic of missions and mis-smashes
to earth the humble, sionaries . More specifically stu-hopeful
altars we have built for dents can find out who are mis-a
place to put Your name!" sionaries, what they do, how hu-man
they are, etc. Dr. Virgil Olson,
who has just completed a trip to
Japan, Philippines, India and Ethi-opia
will willingly give students an
over-all view of missions.
Miss Ryberg, faculty advisor to
Missions Fellowship Slates Retreat;
Olson, Mounce, Stipe Guide Talks
Fieldhouse Barn Social Takes Off
On Hillbilly Clan Feud Saturday
Former Red Guard Youth Escapes
Gives Candid Look At Revolution