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Carl G. Burton, former president of the school board, breaks the
ground for the Bodien residence addition while board members Marshall
Sawyer and Arnold Wicklund wait their turn in the ceremony.
Ceremony Begins
Building Program
Nik Dag Program Fri.
To Be Unannounced
"As the CLARION would say,
`top secret' is the word on the
Nik Dag program," says sopho-more
president Art Erickson, who
is also chairman of the program
committee.
The Nik Dag program will be
held in the fieldhouse at 8 p.m.,
Friday, November 9. The girls
started asking the fellows out yes-terday
morning at 7:00 a.m.
The girls make corsages that
are appropriate for their dates.
The girls usually take their dates
to dinner before the program.
Then they escort them to the pro-gram
in the fieldhouse. Some cou-ples
go on pow-wows after the
program.
All girls are allowed to be out
until twelve o'clock for this oc-casion.
Nik Dag is sponsored by the
sophomore class.
Dave Shold is general chairman.
Tickets ($1) may be purchased
from Donnalyn Anderson, Karen
Westlund, Kay Kern, and Elfriede
Mohr.
Week At A Glance
Nov. 6—Swedish club, 7 p.m.,
Edgren recreation room
—Camera club, 9 p.m., room
204 (college)
7—Spanish club, 7:30 p.m.,
student center lounge
—German club, 12:20 p.m.,
dining hall and Bodien
lounge
6-1-ieaith examination, 1.2:20
p.m., room 211
9—Nik Dag; program, 8 p.m.,
fieldhouse
10—F.M.F. Smorgasbord, 7 p.m.
dining hall
12-13—Winter quarter registra-tion
12—Student wives assiciation,
8 p.m., dining hall
13—Band concert, 7:30 p.m.,
fieldhouse
15-16—Final examinations
15—F.M.F., 7 p.m., seminary
chapel
19-21—Final examinations
Co-Curriculum
Re-Evaluated
At Retreat
That the leadership retreat this
past weekend cannot be judged a
success or failure until the close
of the school year was one of the
evaluations of the participants at
the closing session.
Six carloads of student leaders
and faculty met at Camp St. Croix
near Hudson, Wisconsin, Saturday
afternoon through Sunday after-noon.
To insure more complete par-ticipation
three groups were form-ed,
which discussed a common sub-ject,
after discussions these uni-ted
to draw general conclusions.
After a keynote address by Pres.
Lundquist the first of four ses-sions
was held Saturday afternoon.
The problem discussed was "What
are the general goals of a co-cur-ricular
program?" It was decided
that (1) to develop leaders and
(2) to fulfil physical, social, and
cultural needs that can't be met
by the curriculum were two of the
more basic goals.
Bethel Selects Ike, McCarthy
by Karen Christensen
President Eisenhower is in again at Bethel — which probably doesn't surprise anyone. In the straw
vote taken here Friday, he received 87 per cent of the votes cast.
However, Democrat Eugene McCarthy was elected to congress with 57 per cent of the votes. Per-haps
the students were influenced by the recent political forum, since they significantly voted in a man
from the less popular party.
With a total of only 397 votes cast, representing about 55 per cent of the student body and faculty,
it is hard to know exactly how everyone feels. If that 55 per cent may be taken as expressing the opin-ion
of the whole, some generalizations can be made.
The classes seem to lean to a more Democratic view as they become more educated. Seniors cast
19 per cent of their votes for Adlai — an increase of 3 per cent over the juniors and 12 per cent over
the sophomores.
But that was for the president. The seniors also shared with the seminarians the distinction of
electing Edward Slettedahi for congress. The seminarians voted 57 per cent for Slettedahl, while the
more cautious seniors put him in with 55 per cent of their votes.
The election proved one thing — students didn't vote a straight ticket. Which goes to show that
Bethel votes for the man, not for the party.
Vol. XXXIV — No. 6
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, November 6, 1956
A groundbreaking ceremony last
Thursday noon started the build-ing
of the annexes to Edgren and
Bodien residences. This is the first
extensive building program at
Bethel since 1952.
Carl G. Burton, past president
of the school board, dug the first
shovelful during the ceremony;
board members Arnold Wicklund,
Marshall Sawyer, and the Rev.
Warren Magnuson also participat-ed.
Nels Stjernstrom began the
service be leading the singing of
"Great Is They Faithfulness." Mr.
Lidbom read from I Corinthians
3, and the Bethel quartet sang.
President Lundquist closed with a
prayer of dedication.
When the new residences are
finished in September, 1957, the
majority of Bethel's student body
will be able to live on campus.
The women's residence will have
facilities for sixty more students
and the men's for another eighty.
The flat-roofed additions will each
have three stories plus basements.
Edgren residence will have four
small living rooms, and the Bodien
addition will have two large rooms
similar connecting the annex to
the older building. The rooms in
both buildings will accommodate
two students each and will be
equipped with two single beds
with foam rubber mattresses,
wardrobe closets with built-in
shelves and dressers, desks, and
book-shelves.
One half of the basement of the
women's residence will be a dining
hall which can be partitioned off
for individual parties, meetings,
etc.. The other half will be an in-'
firmary and nurse's quarters, and
the present infirmary will be con-verted
to dormitory rooms.
The new dormitories are part of
the long-range building program
which also includes an administra-tion
and a classroom building and
a chapel.
7rientily Persuasion
If this were any other week, Betty Mattson and Priscilla Knap would be acting a little forward in their
behavior toward Albin Carlson and Dick Benert. But during Nik Dak week, they are only typical of all
the faier sex on campus.
F.M.F. Sponsors
1110 Banquet
Speakers representing three re-ligions
of the world, Islam, Bud-dhism
and Hinduism, will be fea-tured
at the annual F.M.F. smor-gasbord
in the school cafeteria to
be held on Saturday at 7 p.m.
About twenty-five international
students from the University of
Minnesota will also be attending
this function. The menu for the
smorgasbord will include char-acteristic
foods of five foreign
countries.
The program is designed to ac-quaint
Bethel students with the
culture and foods of foreign coun-tries
as well as to introduce the
visitors to Christianity.
"It seems to me", said FMF
president Ben Cording, "that this
is an opening to influence the out-standing
young citizens of foreign
countries. It is also an opportunity
to learn directly what are their
problems and needs."
Debate Season
Begins Nov. 9
Bethel will be represented at
two major forensic tournaments
in the next two weeks. The de-bate
squad's first trip will take
place on November 9 - 10, when
four women's teams will be at
Mankato State teachers' college to
participate in the Minnesota wo-men's
tournament.
The eight who will represent
Bethel at this contest are Betty
Mattson, Marge Peterson, Lois
Larson, Beverly Voldseth, Marilyn
Hagstrom, Karen Christensen,
Sharon Bergstrom, and Lynn
Weaver.
To the speech tournament at
Bradley university, Peoria, Illin-ois,
on November 16, 17, and 18,
Bethel will send Jack Tierney,
Beverly Voldseth, Marge Peter-son,
and Betty Mattson.
In addition to debate at the
Bradley event, Bethel students
will take part in oral interpreta-tion,
after-dinner speaking, extem-poraneous
speaking, discussion, and
oratory.
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Scare/tea
Student Apathy
A general complaint on campus is that Bethel lacks school spirit.
Examples given are that there were only thirty students at the bus
to see the football team off, and the cheerleaders chant sextets when
a crowd does happen to show up for a game.
But isn't school spirit also involved when the student government
representatives are virtually unknown, or when a convocation fails to
draw half the student body ? Isn't it apathy (or has every one just
given up ? ) when no one criticizes the CLARION when it needs it?
We feel that school spirit involves every area of student activity—
and we fall short not only in rooting at athletic contests. The problem
is that, to support a thing enthusiastically, a student must feel in-volved
and responsible. He must feel that he is responsible to tell the
CLARION to buy a dictionery (if it needs one), and that it is his duty
to urge the Senate to either disband or else discuss matters more im-portant
than unsightly dish rooms.
Perhaps one reason why students at Bethel don't feel involved or
responsible is that they find little to be proud of, compared to what
they see in other schools. Our basketball team doesn't compare to
Hamline's, or our choir to St. Olaf's. We tend to feel that, if our school
gained nation—,or state-wide fame in a particular area, we could be
proud of it, and have proper school spirit.
But we don't seem to realize that one of the reasons we fail to
achieve distinction, and thereby school spirit, is because we don't strive
for it. By a united effort there's a possibility that we may get out of
this vicious circle. But we're probably just too lazy to try.
On Familiar Ground?
by Betty Hendrickson
On a certain campus a group of students, weary of midquarters
and feeling the need for cultural activity, formed a discussion club.
"The purpose of the club shall be to critically evaluate the arts
and to stimulate interest in them," announced the chairman to the
eager group assembled in the coffee shop for the first meeting.
He then unveiled a modern sea painting chosen for analysis. Quickly
the members contributed their varied interpretations. Soon it was ob-vious
that one art lover was colorblind, so out of courtesy to him they
politely changed the subject.
"Let's study 'Hamlet'," proposed a literature student. All agreed
but one wanted to go way over to the library to get the book.
"Why not discuss politics then? Shakespeare has been dead for
a long time anyway. Let's talk about something that matters today,"
suggested a practical-minded individual who had not read "Hamlet"
For a few minutes they considered the issues involved in the coming
election. Suddenly they discovered that one of the group was not a
Republican, and since they did not want to mar the esthetic effect
by disagreement, they were silent.
"Let's go home. I get a headache from thinking anyway," com-plained
one weary member.
"Let's evaluate the food served in the dining hall," proposed one
who did not like to admit failure.
"Truly, the food we always have with us," added another. With
great enthusiasm all entered into the conversation. Even the most shy
became quite eloquent. Far into the night they talked. When the finally
departed for their homes each felt satisfied that he was a well-inte-grated
member of society because he had been able to contribute much
to the conversation.
And absolutely no one had a headache.
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COOKEVILLE, TENN.—(ACP)—This appeared in the Tennessee
Tech Oracle, reprinted by Pageant Magazine. It's called "10 Ways to
Get Through College Without Even Trying."
1. Bring the professor newspaper clippings dealing with his sub-ject.
If you don't find clippings dealing with his subject, bring in
clippings at random. He thinks everything deals with his subject.
2. Look alert. Take notes eagerly. If you look at your watch,
don't stare at it unbelievingly and shake it.
3. Nod frequently and murmur "How true." To you, this seems
exaggerated. To him, it's quite objective.
4. Sit in front, near him. (Applies only if you intend to stay
awake.)
5. Laugh at his jokes. You can tell, if he looks up from his notes
and smiles expectantly, he has told a joke.
6. Ask for outside reading. You don't have to read it. Just ask
for it.
7. If you must sleep, arrange to be called at the end of the hour.
It creates an unfavorable impression if the rest of the class has left
and you sit there alone, dozing.
8. Be sure the book you read during the lecture looks like a
book from the course. If you do math in psychology class and psy-chology
in math class, match the books for size and color.
9. Ask any questions you think he can answer. Conversely, avoid
announcing that you have found the answer to a question he couldn't
answer, and in your younger brother's second reader at that.
10. Call attention to his writing. Produces an exquisitely pleasant
experience connected with you. If you know he's written a book or
an article, ask in class if he wrote it.
These suggestions, incidentally, were put down by a professor,
Robert Tyson of Hunter College.
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Dear Editor:
After reading the stimulating
and challenging articles in the
October 19, 1956 Standard by Dean
Edwin J. Omark on "The Call to
the Ministry" and "Sobering
Facts„ by Chairman of the Board
of Foreign Missions, Lloyd W.
Dahlquist, I wish to express the
feelings of several Bethel semin-ary
seniors.
Why is it that so few of our
seminary men feel the divine com-pulsion
of foreign missions ? Why
are we so willing to shift the bur-den
upon the hearts of our fellow
Christians ? Why won't the peo-ple
of the Baptist General confer-ence
accept the responsibility to
support the missionaries they have
appointed through the Mission
Board ? Why ? Why ? Why?
The New Orleans Baptist Theo-logical
seminary has 808 students.
197 of these are mission volun-teers.
Last year there were 160
mission volunteers. 12 of the 1956
graduates have already been ap-pointed.*
Do we dare to stand idly by
and witness the calling of men and
women of other seminaries ? Should
we not feel that we too have a
part in the missionary outreach?
The Foreign Missions board ur-gently
needs both applicants and
funds. Conference brethren, let us
open our eyes! Let's get some
real Christ-centered vision.
I challenge someone to provide
an answer. Furthermore, I chal-lenge
Conference people every-where
to pray the Lord "to send
forth laborers into the harvest".
This is an urgent appeal. Do you
want us to seriously consider be-ing
your representatives at home
and abroad ? Then pray that God
will open the door for us. We are
ready to be used wherever God
would lead us, but there are many
who need the call of God made
clear to them. Will you pray ? Will
you give? Will you go yourself ?
Consider these issues seriously.
Consider them along with us and
consider them with your Lord,
alone.
Russell H. Voight
Seminary senior
The Watchman Examiner, Octo-ber
25, 1956, p. 906.
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Music
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Art
University of Minnesota theater
"Androcles and the Lion," Shaw
Nov. 1-3, 7-10, 8:30 p.m.;
Nov. 6, 11, 3:30 p.m.
Minneapolis symphony orchestra
Subscription concerts — Friday,
8:30 p.m.
Nov. 9—Orchestral
Nov. 16—Clifford Curzon,
pianist
Twilight concert—Sunday, 3:30
p.m. (note new time)
Nov. 11—Viennese program
Admission, $1 (no reserv-ed
seats)
University Artists course
Robert Casadesus, pianist—Tues-day,
Nov. 20, 8:30 p.m.
University Celebrity series
Carabinieri band — Thursday,
Nov. 8, 8:30 p.m.
Walker art center
Film program—Thursday even-ing,
8 p.m.
Nov. 8—"The Private Life of
Henry VIII"
Nov. 15—"The Ghost Goes
West"
-Nik Dag Schedule
HER
HIM
11:00 p.m.—Arrange sleeping bag 10:30 p.m.—Walk B. home from
by phone. Fill thermos. Set coffee shop (she'll have to ask
alarm for 5 a.m. List prospects me now).
in order of preference. 3:00 a.m Gave roommate sleep-
3:00 a.m.—Fought off sneak at- ing pill���he forgot the C. S.
tack by upperclassmen. tactic.
5:00 a.m.—Safely inside the booth. 5:00 a.m.—Still not daylight.
Nineteen others already in line. 6:59 a.m.—Call operator to check
7:00 a.m.—Call . F. A. Line busy, time.
dare not wait. 7:00 a.m.—Silence. Maybe she
7:01 a.m.—Call J. N. Phone dis- overslept.
connected at subscriber's re- 7:01 a.m.—Wonder if phone lines
quest. are down.
7:04 1/2 a.m.—Already has a date.
7:03 a.m.—Call H. R. He's en-gaged.
How embarrassing —
year.
check list more carefully next
Sad!
7:03 a.m.—Roommate called. Date
7:04 1/2 a.m.—Bet she's just giv-with
E. J., what a sweetheart!
chuckle.)
ing me a bad time. (Hollow
7:06 a.m.—Last resort—call H. S. 7:05 a.m.—Phone rings. Stubbed
7:06 1/2 a.m.—Just my luck—He'll toe running for it.
go. Guess we'll go to the Flame 7:05:10 a.m.—At last! I knew she
instead of Charlies. couldn't resist me.
711adev etew
by Betty Mattson
Twenty-nine states and nine foreign countries have sent students
to Bethel's halls. In the race of states Minnesota is first with 187
students, 40 of them from St. Paul and 37 from Minneapolis. Far- be-hind
and in second place is Illinois with 68. Iowa has copped the third
place spot with 35 students. Fourth is Wisconsin with 30; fifth, Michi-gan
with 24; sixth, South Dakota with 21; and seventh, California
with 19.
Thirty west coast students left their sun and oranges for Min-nesota's
sun and snow. Twenty students from the east coast have for-saken
the Ivy League for the Coffee League. Fifteen students from
the Rocky mountain area have discovered the flat great plains. Six-teen
students have given up southern-fried chicken for Swedish smor-gasbord.
The mid-east with 180 students and the mid-west with 308
students will be trying to win the Intramural championship.
Fourteen students claim Alaska and 13 claim Canada as their home.
China, Cuba, England, Guam, India, Korea and Sweden are also rep-resented.
Quite a family Bethel has!
J.ITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
--50TICEDTOPAY I ALMO5T FELL ASLEEP IN CLASS/
Higher Education
MANHATTAN, KAN. — (ACP)
—There are many quips credited
to college profs and here's an-other
of the better ones. It comes
from the Kansas State Collegian
which credits it to any anonymous
member of the faculty.
A political science professor
who has taught both high school
as well as college summarized the
difference between high school and
college students . . . Here's what
he said:
"When you walk into a high
school class and say 'good morn-ing',
the students reply 'good morn-ing.'
But when you walk into a
college class and say 'good morn-ing'
the students write it down."
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Glen Westin, an 18 year old
frosh from Crystal Falls, Michigan,
is a real keen addition to the
Royals' 56-57 basketball squad.
In 1956, Glen helped lead his
high school to the class C cham-pionship.
In the District Tourna-ment
the same year Glen racked
up 40 points in the final.
Glen is 6' 5 1/2" tall and weighs
180 pounds. He has one sister who
previously attended Bethel for two
years.
This lanky blond has his work
cut out for him as he majors in
math and science in his quest to
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scorers on their championship
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He is expected to add a scoring
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B-Ball Team Lacks Experience
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At the present time the basket-ball
squad includes 18 men. The
hope is, of course, that this year's
club will have more depth and
versitility than we have had in
recent years.
Co-captains Howie Rekstad and
Bill Conrad lead the list of re-turnees
from last year. Both
Howie and Bill are playing their
last year of ball for Bethel. They
have been consistent scorers
Jack Tierney will answer this
article on dropping football in the
next issue of the CLARION.
INTRAMURAL
STANDINGS
(Before yesterday's matches)
Jesters 2
0
Counts 2
0
Barons 2
0
Dukes 1
1
Pages 1
1
Squires 0
2
Knights 0
2
Peasants 0
2
Schedule of Nov. 12
Barons vs. Pages
Knights vs. Squires
Peasants vs. Counts
Jesters vs. Dukes
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throughout their college days and son, Lestes Bonins, Morris R.
last year averaged about 35 points Carlson, Royce Carlson, Cliff Par-a
game together. Paul Ohlin, regu- dun, Dick Graham, Bob Singleton,
lar forward from last year, is Byron Lindaman, Charles Nye,
expected to return for the winter Bruce Erickson, and Bob Reynolds.
quarter, and Ken Albright and The "B" squad will again be
Linden Johnson also return to entered in the league composed of:
bolster Royal hopes. Mpls. School of Business, U. of
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Should We Drop Football?
by Jim Rabb
"Football is nothing but a Roman Spectacle." This was a casual
comment made by a professor at the University of Washington. I at
first took the statement with little afterthought. But the next Satur-day
at the football game when the University was entertaining U.C.L.A.
that statement set me thinking. Midway in the game the going became
tough for the U. of W. With little hope for victory, the game be-came
a contest of retaliation on the part of the Huskies for their
humiliation at the hands of the Bruins. The students in the stands, with
nothing more to cheer for, began to chant "We want blood!" over again
and again. Whenever an opposing player was injured a big cheer went
up from the students. The players had given them blood.
As I sat in the stands, watching and listening, I could not help
thinking that this was a complete debasement of the game. But then
doubts began to spring up in my mind concerning the very nature of
the game itself. My thoughts wandered back to the days when I
played football. The days when I was taught all the little tricks; the
times when we were told to gang up on a good player—"to roughen
him up!" The times when the coach showed how to hold on to an op-posing
player, illegally, without being seen by the ref; or the psy-dhology
of jolting the opposing linesman, upon first contact, as hard
as possible so as to soften him up—an elbow in the face, a knee in
the ribs and all the rest.—Ask any player.
But we did not have to be told these things, they came to us al-most
instinctively. They make up the unwritten law of football. Victory
for a team without using such means is almost unheard of. It's expected
of an opposing team to use these methods and tricks. Even Christian
teams and individual players stoop to use many of these 'unchristian'
methods whether told to do so by the coach or not. The very nature of
the game—the desire to win, split-second decisions, hard hitting body
contact, instantaneous reactions—blind the player, dragging him down
to the bestial level.
Often Christians will have prayer before a game and then go out
on the field with the intent to play as unto the Lord. But rare is the
Christian whose Christianlike attitude remain with him once in the
game. No, it changes as soon as his opposing lineman whacks him in
the face with an elbow. The immediate impulse that enslaves the mind
is retaliation in some form or another. If enacted upon, which is
usually the procedure, we then have a personal dual going on between
the two—a survival of the fittest."
As much as I loved playing the game I can't help raising two
questions: Is it spiritually healthy for a Christian to participate in
football for no other reason than for the glory and love of the game?
Is it spiritually healthy for a Christian college to support a sport,
which is by its very nature antagonistic to the ideas and principles of
Christ?
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Our Hours
Mon. Thurs. 8:30 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. — 10:15 p.m.
Fri. 8:30 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. — 10:30 p.m.
Sat. 8:30 a.m. — 11:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. — 10:30 p.m.
Sun. 5:00 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. — 10:30 p.m.
Winter quarter registration for students already enrolled at Bethel
will take place November 12 and 13. Since the registration will be com-pleted
before the grades for the fall quarter are available, all registra-tions
will be considered tentative and subject to restudy in the light
of the student's progress in the fall quarter.
Students are first asked to corn- ed in the business office. Registra-plete
their registration forms tion for winter quarter cannot be
(class schedule and grade cards) completed unless the student has
and then to go to their adviser made satisfactory arrangements
for discussion and approval. Win- covering previous obligations.
ter quarter registration must b2
approved by the same adviser as
approved the student's fall quar-ter
registration. A fee statement
is to be obtained in the College
office on the date assigned to your
name-group:
A - L Monday, Nov. 12
M - Z Tuesday, Nov. 13
All registrations must be approv-ed
before the day for obtaining fee
statements.
Fees are payable at the bursar's
window during scheduled hours
any day through November 27.
Late fees will be added beginning
the morning of Wednesday, Nov-ember
28. Students are expected to
pay for room and board for the
quarter by November 27. Those
who find it necessary to do so may
defer one-half of this payment for
thirty days. Students with bills
payable to the school should cover
such indebtedness by payment in
full or by application for a formal
loan. Where loans are needed, ap-plication
should be made at least
ten days before the loan is neces- Other colleges participating are
sary for registration purposes. Hamline, Macalester, St. Cather-
Such applications may be obtain- fine, St. Thomas, and Augsburg.
ear Zlau p'ictate
Bethel Invited
To Ed. Meetings
At Hamline
As a school offering a teaching
education program, Bethel has
been invited to join an informal
fellowship of Twin City private
colleges. Convening semi-annually,
the first meeting this year will
be held next Tuesday, November
13 at Hamline university.
Representing Bethel will be
Sheldon Fardig, assistant profes-sor
of education and music; Clif-ford
Larson, dean of the college;
and Royal Bloom, professor of
psychology.
The purpose of this fall's meet-ing
will be to share information
for the improvement of teacher
education programs and to share
audio-visual materials.
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Tuesday, November 6, 1956
by Karen Christensen
Joan Reycraft believes you
should always do as your best
friends tell you. And she has good
reasons for thinking so.
A couple of weeks ago Joan went
up to Larpenteur with some girl-friends.
"Why don't we go into Grey's
drugstore?" one of them suggest-ed.
Joan didn't particularly want to
but she was finally persuaded to
go in and buy 20 cents worth of
salted nuts. She found that it was
grand opening week at the store.
Band Concert
Highlights
Include Trio
A trumpet trio and several in-strumentals
are included on a pro-gram
to be presented by the band
Tuesday, November 13. The con-cert,
primarily far the public, will
begin at 7:30 p.m. in the field-house.
The program is basically the
same as that presented in the
convocation October 25. The band
will play selections from "The
Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovsky,
Offenbach's "Gaite Parisienne,"
and a "Folk Song Suite" by Vau-ghn
Williams. Marches are also
included on the program, includ-ing
Pexidor's "Spanish March."
Members of the trumpet trio
are John A. Anderson, Morris An-derson,
and Gene Thompson. An-other
ensemble, tentatively plan-ned,
is a flute quartet.
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As she paid for the nuts she was
asked to sign for a prize draw.
Last Monday Joan found a note
in her post office box telling her
to call for the $70 polaroid camera
she had won. Thinking it was just
a joke, Joan paid no attention to
it until she realized that the
handwriting corresponded with that
on another notice from the switch-board
operator. She decided it had
to be authentic.
Joan never has been especially
interested in cameras but she is
beginning to change her mind.
Can you guess why?
Adm. Heads
Attend Conf.
President Lundquist, Dr. Lar-son,
Dr. Anderson, and Mr. Bloom
attended the fall semi-annual
meeting of the Minnesota associa-tion
of colleges on Saturday, Nov-ember
3. The meeting was held
at St. Catherine's college in St.
Paul.
The meeting centered on a re-port
from the governor's commit-tee
on higher education and fea-tured
an address on "Humanities
and Liberal Arts" by Dr. Riedar
Thompe, chairman of the depart-ment
of philosophy at Concordia
college at Moorhead, Minnesota.
Describing the outstanding in-cidents
during her trip to Europe,
Lois Larson, sophomore, will ad-dress
the German club tomorrow,
Nov. 7.
Members of the German club
will eat together in the dining
hall at 12:20 p.m. and then move
to the Bodien lounge for the meet-ing.
Miss Effie Nelson, adviser for
the club expressed the hope that
the Domke family will be able to
attend this meeting. The Domke
family recently came to the Uni-ted
States from Germany under
the sponsorship of Bethel college.
Johnson To Show
Slides of Mexico
Eugene Johnson, assistant pro-fessor
of art, will show slides of
his visit to Mexico at the next
meeting of the Spanish club. The
meeting is scheduled for Novem-ber
7, at 7:30 p.m. in the student
lounge in the college building.
Mr. Johnson was on sabbatical
leave in Mexico last year where he
pursued his own interests in
painting and sculpturing. After
the slides the meeting will be
open for discussion.
Faculty Wives Have
Program For S.W.A.
Faculty wives will be in charge
of the monthly Student Wives'
association meeting to be held
Monday, November 12 at 8 p.m.
in the dining hall of Bodien resi-dence.
A program is planned and
refreshments will be served. All
students' wives in the college and
seminary are considered members
of the association.
Northwestern Host
To Mission Rally
On November 17 at 7:30 p.m.,
Bethel, Minnesota Bible college,
Bethany fellowship, Northwestern
college, St. Paul Bible institute,
and other colleges will join at
Northwestern to conduct a service
centered around foreign missions.
The speaker will be Rev. T. A.
Hegre, president of the Bethany
fellowship. After the message.
groups will be formed to discuss
the topic presented. Refreshments
will also be served.
Health Exam
12:20 Thurs.
Students may exempt themselves
from the required health course
by passing an examination next
Thursday at 12:20 p.m. in room
211. Registration for the course
must be made by 5 p.m. tomorrow
in the college office.
The material the test will cover
is from the "Textbook of Health-ful
Living" by Diehl.
By passing the test, a student
only satisfies the two - credit
health course requirement. No
credits may be gained in this way.
Carabinieri
Band Plays
AtUThursday
The Carabinieri Band of Rome,
the colorful 102 man organization
of military-musicians, will appear
in Northrop Memorial audtoriurn
at the University of Minnesota on
Thursday, November 8, at 8:30
p.m. as the first concert in the
new University Celebrity series.
Recognized as an organization
of great virtuoso musicians, the
Carabinieri have been claiming
praise from audiences and criticis
alike for the musical skill of solo-ists
and the magnificent ensemble
playing of the group as a whole.
Uniformed in the claw-hammer
coats and three cornered hats popu-lar
in the days of Napoleon, the
band represents the famous Moun-tain
police of Italy and carries a
heritage that dates back to the
time of the French emperor.
Season tickets for the four con-certs
priced at $3, $4.50, $6, $7.50
and $9 are available at the Uni-versity
Artists Course Ticket of-fice,
105 Northrop Memorial audi-torium
at the University of Min-nesota.
Tickets may also be order-ed
by mail from the same office.
Prices have been aranged to per-mit
season ticket holders an op-portunity
to attend four concerts
for the price of three.
Individual tickets for the per-formance
by the Carabinieri Band
of Rome are also available at $1,
$1.50, $2, $2.50 and $3.
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Johnson Attends
Art Conference
Eugene Johnson, assistant pro-fessor
of art, attended the Mid-western
College Art conference on
October 26 - 27. States from as far
west as Colorado and as far east
as Indiana were represented at
the conference held in Fayette-ville,
Arkansas.
Significant work in the field of
humanities in the college curri-culum
has been done at the Uni-versity
of Arkansas, which spon-sored
the event.
Susan Langer, author of "Phil-osophy
in a New Key" and "Feel-ing
and Farm" spoke Friday even-ing
on "Cultural Aspects of Art."
Other sessions were devoted to art
in the public schools and the small
liberal arts colleges.
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Zike senate ast Volt
by Al Glenn
What is the most important question that must be answered by
our student government? The co-curricular activity promoted by our
Senate this year has far surpassed in excellency the activity of pre-vious
years. As far as the total program of the school is concerned,
so far this has been our finest year. Homecoming was outstanding;
Jack Tierney deserves special plaudit.
However, the door is never closed on further achievement. The
most important question of the Senate is not how is it contributing
to social life, but how is it contributing to full development of Christian
personality. What kind of person if the fully developed Christian? It
would be the Bethel graduate who leaves school as a well-rounded
Christian socially, intellectually, spiritually, etc; that is the develop-ment
of the "whole" man.
The primary purpose of student government here at Bethel is to
provide an adequate program for the development of leadership and
personal Christian maturity in every area of the student's life. To
what extent is our student government achieving this essential purpose
and goal?
Student government includes YOU. What are you doing to achieve
this goal ? The answer lies with you and its fulfillment must began
with you. In what ways are you helping yourself and others to dev-elope?
Do you work in student committees and government? Tell the
Senate leaders you are interested. Do you ever befriend the shy or
pray with the young Christians? How? Do you befriend the socially
shy ? Do you ask a defeated Christian to pray with you?
Apart from your serious consideration of this problem, it is one
that our Senate must face in a very realistic way. Dr. Clyde Taylor
suggests we end "spoon feeding." Then what is the answer? In what
way or ways can student government develope the "whole man"? A
clear understanding of what must be done is a right beginning. Stu-dent
government must provide an answer.
Again this includes you. Is our faith and potential for Christ to
be realized in the dynamic expression of a mature Christian leader ?
"till we all come into the measure of a perfect man, unto the measure
of the stature of the fulness of Christ."
