Rehearsing in preparation for the choir tour are Wayne Nelson,
Henry Swartz, and Tom Young, with Bob Lindaman at the piano.
Clash on Film Policy t h Q, CLARION Council, -Administration
In response to administrative
action which basically said that
film showing on campus (a) be
limited to those areas which in
the main are non-controversial in
our denomination, such as relig-ious,
news, documentary, histori-cal,
scientific, etc., but excluding
the type usually shown as enter-tainment
in local neighborhood
theatres and (b) be selected in
conformity with high technical
standards of performance, the cul-tural
council released the follow-ing
statement to the CLARION:
"The cultural council of the
Student Senate of Bethel college
hereby states that it can no longer
exist under the conditions estab-lished
by the administrative com-mittee
and remain loyal to its own
principles. Because of this, the
council recommends that its case
be aired publicly, preferably in a
convocation, so that the student
body may fully understand the
council's case, and decide accord-ingly.
"If the February 5 decision of
the administrative committee re-mains
final, the cultural council
members suggest that the council
be eliminated from Student Senate
control and be placed directly un-der
the jurisdiction of the ad-ministration,
which, in fact, is the
case at the present time.
"If the council is not granted
its wish for an open forum where
it may present its case, or if the
administration does not rescind its
latest action on film showing re-strictions,
the council asks that it
be considered dissolved and that
the Senate establish another cul-tural
council with new personnel.
"That the Senate may realize
that the council has a case wor-thy
of public consideration, the
council points out the following
facts:
1. The administration, when ask-ed
by the cultural council chair-man
for a policy regarding the
showing of films, stated that the
adviser's affirmation was suffic-ient
approval for showing a pic-ture.
This has not been the case
with two films : "The Bicycle
Thief" and "Lavender Hill Mob."
2. Less than one week before
the administrative committee's
announcement of February 5 was
made, the council was assured by
two members of the administra-tion
that the council, in the final
analysis, could select the films to
be shown. This has simply not
been true.
3. The council was expressly told
at that time, that "Lavender Hill
Mob" could be shown. Now, of
course, the film cannot be shown.
"This seems to us to be reason
enough for our requesting the
action we do."
Campus Calendar
February
20—Sophomore Penny Auc-tion
—Re-registration for spring
quarter
21—FMF, seminary chapel,
7 p.m.
22, 23, 24—COFSA
23—Basketball—Taber (here)
25 - Mar. 2—Final exams
March
4—Basketball—North Michi-gan
(there)
5—Basketball—Michigan
Tech (there)
6—Classes resume for
spring quarter
7—FMF
8—Camera club slide show
9—Frosh roller skating
party
11—Student wives meeting
12, 13—Polio retakes
In response to the cultural coun-cil's
statement, the administration
made this comment:
The administrative committee
realized the need for greater clar-ity
in the school's position con-cerning
movies. For this reason
(cont. page 4)
Amendments
Are Voted On
The proposed amendments to
the constitution of the Bethel stu-dent
association were voted upon
at chapel hour today by the stu-dent
body. A two-thirds majority
vote of those present is necessary
for the adoption of the amend-ments.
The first amendment will cut
the present number of senators
from 17 to 14. Those offices to be
discontinued will be those of fin-ancial
secretary and presidents of
the dormitory councils. A new
member to be added will be the
N.S.A. co-ordinator.
The other amendment concerns
the adoption of by-laws. It is pro-posed
that a two-thirds vote of the
entire Senate be sufficient for
adoption of by-laws rather than
the vote of the student association.
The Student Senate, at the Feb.
7 meeting accepted the amend-ments
to the constitution as pro-posed
by the constitution com-mittee.
These changes have been
posted on the Student Senate bul-letin
board in the library for the
past week.
Results of the student vote will
be posted in the library on tomor-row.
Emer Larson, professional auc-tioneer,
will preside over the
Sophomore Penny Auction which
will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the
fieldhouse tomorrow. "Lots of good
things will be auctioned," reports
Art Erickson, sophomore class
president. However, the contents
of one special prize to be auction-ed
remains "top secret."
They state that you don't have
to be a millionaire to come to the
Westin to Speak
In Sem This Wk
Dr. Gunnar Westin, president of
the Baptist Union of Sweden, will
be speaking in the seminary chapel
on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb.
20 and 21.
"My Impressions of Soviet Rus-sia"
will be Dr. Westin's topic
Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. At
the 9:30 a.m. meetings on Wed-nesday
and Thursday, he will talk
on religious life in Sweden and
the influence of immigration on
church life in that country.
Dr. Westin served as chairman
of the church history department
and dean of theological faculty at
Sweden's Upsala university, the
state Luthern seminary, retiring
last summer. At the same time he
taught at Betel Baptist seminary
in Stockholm.
Last semester Dr. Westin was a
guest professor at the Southern
Baptist seminary in Louisville,
Kentucky. Recently he has been
lecturing in schools in the Mid-west
but plans to return to Swe-den
shortly.
Dr. Virgil Olson, seminary pro-fessor
of church history, has trans-lated
Dr. Westin's book "The His-tory
of the Free Church Move-ment
Throughout the Ages", which
is translated for publication May
1.
auction. Just bring along that sack
full of pennies you've been sav-ing
for the big event. Of course,
this doesn't mean you are limited
to just pennies. Dimes, quarters,
and half dollars will also be ac-cepted.
Both faculty and students
are invited.
Members of the committee who
have been working to make the
penny auction a success are Karen
Westlund, Bud Malmsten, Sue Bo-diem,
and Rlou Guston.
College Choir
To Tour East
Beginning the first lap of their
two weeks' annual tour, the 42
members of the college choir, to-gether
with director C. Howard
Smith, will leave the campus Fri-day,
Mar. 1.
The choir will travel by bus to
Stratford, Ia., Rockford and Chi-cago,
Ill., and Detroit, Mich. Tor-onto
will be the next stop on Mar.
5; and from there it will go to
Cander, N.Y., and across to Gard-ner
and New Bedford, Mass. After
visiting Worcester, the choir will
reach its farthest point—Boston-where
it will give an all-Boston
area concert on Mar. 10. Appear-ances
will also be made at Quincy
and Norwood, Mass.
On the return the major stop-ping
places will be Bristol, Conn.,
New York City, Montclair, N.J.,
Jamestown, N.Y., and Youngstown,
Ohio. On the last day of their
trip, Mar. 17, they will be sing-ing
in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio.
The trip back to Bethel will be-gin
immediately after the Sunday
night concert.
The choir will sing songs rang-ing
from a Bach motet to Negro
spirituals. There will be numbers
by Sateren, Brahms, Christianson,
and Vaughan Williams.
Dr. Westin
COFSA Conference
To Be Held Here
Bethel will be host to the re-gional
Conference on Foreign Stu-dent
Affairs during the weekend
of Feb. 22-24.
The conference will deal with the
value and necessity of foreign stu-dent
programming and the role all
American campuses can and should
play in effecting a mutually opti-mal
cultural exchange, according
to Virginia Schisler and Chuck
Nelson, co-chairmen.
COFSA should be expecially im-portant
to those colleges in the
Minnesota - Dakota Region which
do not have an extensive foreign
student program, the co-chairmen
add.
For the most part the meetings
will take the form of small group
discussion's. Resource personnel
from the national office of the
United States National student
association will be present.
Student Senate president Glenn
Ogren is working with several
University of Minnesota students
in making arrangements.
Mid-West Tour
Planned By Chorus
The Bethel male chorus will be
leaving Friday, March 1, for a
two week tour of Iowa, Illinois,
and Wisconsin. Mr. Fardig, the
conductor, said the sole purpose
of the trip is to praise God through
singing, give encouragement to the
churches, and help advertise
Bethel.
The male chorus is one of the
oldest organizations on the cam-pus.
Dating back fifty years, the
chorus has made trips to the West
coast, Canada, and the East coast.
They will be singing choral works
of Bach, spirituals, folk songs, and
contemporary hymns.
At present the officers of the
chorus are: president, Ernie Kra-tofil;
secretary, John Oase; busi-ness
manager, Fred Thomas; as-sistant
conductor, Howie Rekstad;
accompanists, Mrs. Fred Thomas
and Bob Carlson.
The itinerary for the tour, which
has been set up by Nels Stjern-strom,
director of public rela-tions,
includes at present 14 ap-pearances.
Saturday, March 2, they
give their first concert in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. The next day they
are scheduled for three concerts
to be held in Iowa City, Mon-mouth,
and Davenport, Iowa. The
following week finds them in Bur-lington,
Iowa, Monmouth, Gales-burg,
Moline, Sycamore, DeKalb,
and Evanston, Illinois. Concluding
their tour on Sunday, March 10,
they will again present three con-certs.
The cities visited will be
Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin,
and Waukegan, Illinois.
Bethel Represented
At Conf. On Lit.
Bethel will be one of eleven
colleges participating in a confer-ence
on literature at Augsburg
college, Friday and Saturday, Feb.
22 and 23.
Marjory Peterson and Al Glenn,
seniors, will represent Bethel iii a
symposium on Friday at 2:30 p.m.,
Marjory's topic will be "T. S.
Elliot", while Al will speak on
"Eugene O'Neill".
Presenting a series of sympo-sia
will be students from: Augs-burg,
Carleton, Concordia, Ham-line,
St. Benedict, St. John's, St.
Mary, St. Olaf, St. Scholastica and
St. Theresa.
Topics to be discussed will be:
"American Literature in 1920's".
"American Novel Since 1940",
"Nostromo as a Mirror of 19th
Century Political and Social Prob-lems",
"Some Aspects of Milton
Criticism", "T. S. Elliot: 'Four
Quartets' and William Auden: 'For
the Time Being' " and "Toward
a New Concept of Tragedy".
At a luncheon on Saturday Dr.
William Van O'Connor of the
English Department, University of
Minnesota will speak on "The
Grotesque in Modern American
Literature".
The conference will begin with
an informal coffee hour from 1:30
to 2:30 on Friday afternoon. Fol-lowing
this Dr. Bernhard Chris-tianson,
president of Augsburg,
will give a welcoming address.
The conference is open to all stu-dents.
Vol. XXXIV—No. 12
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tues., Feb. 19, 1957
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Good and Evil
Dear Editor:
The following article appeared
as a meditation in the February
5th issue of the "CLARION bi-weekly":
KNOWING GOOD and
EVIL.
It seems as though there was a
time in history when man lived in
a "cloister" and an "ivory tower"
of purity. Ever since that time
they had sweat blood to get back
to it—BUT IN VAIN. But when
and where was that? If I could
only remember . . .
I seem to hear the voice of John
Milton echo back through the ages.
It travels through time and space
—it is getting softer and softer—
until it becomes an elusive whis-per.
Now I remember! I heard that
whisper once before; some long
time ago. It was there . . . in the
garden . . . and the voice whis-pered:
TASTE AND SEE . . .
TASTE AND SEE . . . TASTE
AND SEE . . .
He didn't stop there . . . he kept
on needling: "How strong is your
God ? Test Him out and SEE. He
is holding out on you . . . GO
AHEAD . . . Experience the other
side. Taste of evil and you will be
WISE and GOOD."
So man did. And as a result, in
that second, the GOOD and PER-FECT
MAN FELL — and great
was his fall . . .
Al Mesko
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Zetteta ea de Edeeen
by Karen Christensen
Why should class attendance be
compulsory ? Why should the num-ber
of cuts be limited?
By the time students reach col-lege
they are expected to be respon-sible
persons who will take res-ponsibility
seriously. If some are
not, will removing the responsibili-ty
by making attendance compul-sory
help to make them any more
reponsible persons by the time they
leave college
If attendance is made voluntary
students will tend to go to interest-ing
classes and cu uninteresting
classes. This will encourage teach-ers
to make their lectures worth
listening to. If the lectures are dry
The other evening, a young man
seeking advice from a counselor
said, "I'm not interested in courses
for cultural enrichment."
"Then what are you interested
in?" asked the adviser. "Courses
to impoverish you?"
"I mean I want to improve my-self,"
said the student. "But cul-ture
is a luxury. I can't afford
a course that dosn't help me get
ahead. You'll have to show me how
literature or philosophy can do
that for me."
The answer depends on where-in
"getting ahead"—a person is
going. All too frequently like the
young man, we draw a line be-tween
the "useful" and the "cul-tural."
Without thinking much
about it, we believe that only in
connection with advancement and
success is further education neces-sary
or desirable. But are such
"bread and butter" courses enough
for a long, happy life?
If we persist in this day-time-and
uninformative, they might as
well be given to an empty room.
The students will get next to no-thing
out of them anyway. Why
should hey have to suffer?
Finally, is it fair for a teacher
to be able to cut a student's final
mark by an entire grade or more
because that student has overcut?
If a student makes an A on the
final exam he has apparently not
missed anything vital to the under-standing
of the course of study by
cutting. If his mark is low that in
itself should be punishment enough
and should encourage regular
class attendance.
So why not make attendance vol-untary
?
night-time split, contentment will
be difficult to achieve. The fact
is that many of the elements that
contribute to the long happy life
are found chiefly in art, literature
—in short, in the humanities.
Technical skill, however, highly
developed, is not enough to live
by. We realize that we must de-velop
a capacity to appraise, un-derstand,
and enjoy many exper-iences
in life that lie quite outside
the area of our technical compe-tence.
The mind—anybody's mind—is
hungry. The study of literature,
philosophy, art, or history can
help to appease that hunger. These
subjects can teach us in what
ways we are important and what
in the world is important. They
can teach us when to value our-selves
and also when to laugh at
ourselves. True, we can "get
ahead" without such "useless
knowledge." But, without it, we
may never find a place to rest.
Cultural
Caleatir
University of Minnesota
University Celebrity series
Feb. 26—Fiesta Mexicana
University theater
Feb. 28-Mar. 2, Mar. 6-9, 8:30
p.m.; Mar. 5 and 10, 3:30
p.m.—"Richard III," Shake-speare
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Exhibitions
Louis Sullivan and the Archi-tecture
of Free Enterprise
Sculpture by John B. Flanna-gan
Landscape Paintings by Am-erican
Artists
Persian Miniatures
Chinese Textiles
Walker art center
Informal talk on American
music
Mar. 3 — "The Influence of
Our Folk Music"
Feb. 28—Film series—"Vol-pone,"
France, 1947
Losing Proposition
Dear Editor:
I have had three experiences
with petty thievery at Bethel. The
first was not so petty. I misplaced
a wallet containing $16 and some
change, a meal ticket, a student
center ticket, an identification
card, and a house key. Despite
this evidence of ownership it was
never returned although a reward
was offered, and it was misplaced
where it was impossible that it
should not be found. Aside from
the monetary loss the wallet had
an especial value to me as an
award for 4H work and several
of the pictures in it could not be
replaced.
Later I "lost" a pair of mittens
from the sleeve of my coat, where
I had placed them while I ate din-ner.
I have just discovered that I
have "lost" an important text-book
— Principles and types of
Speech by Alan H. Monroe—which
I must have to study for my fin-als.
I had left it in the girls'
lounge of the college building
with my coat while I attended two
classes.
The least we can do to put "the
Christian life in practice" at
Bethel is to keep our itchy fingers
off other people's belongings.
A three-time loser
by Dick Bibler
Successful Student
Blessed is the Bethel student
who goofs not off all the time in
the dormitory, nor gabs continually
about unimportant things, nor sits
all day long in the coffee shop.
But his satisfaction is found in
diligent study and from morning
to night he applies himself.
He shall be the pride of his pro-fessors
that bringeth forth A's and
not F's, and his endeavour will
result in a degree.
But the others are not so, for
they flunk out and no more is seen
of them.
They shall not be able to face
exams and when compared to the
diligent are at the lower end of
the curve.
The professors know the ways
of the diligent, and the ways of
the others are unsuitable.
Greeting From Germany
Dear Editor:
Greetings to the Clarion and
Bethel student body from Ulm,
Germany, where my husband is on
military duty.
We enjoy receiving the Clarion
through my father, Mr. Engwall,
though I've noted with some dis-tress
the occasional complaints of
students about the long chow lines.
Realizing this phenomenon fre-quently
accompanies any school's
growing pains, I have no solution
to offer, but hopefully submit a
slogan that may change their at-titude.
(Did you know you can
practically anesthetize people with
slogans, making them virtually
oblivious to any given discomfort ?)
From a former student who
worked her way through your hal-lowed
halls slinging chow (not in
the halls!), here is the slogan,
with sincere apologies to John Mil-ton.
They also are served who only
stand and wait.
Carol Appelquist
Congratulations
Dear Editors:
Congratulations to Jack Tierney
and Dale Nystrom on a great job
on the Valentine's Variety Show.
Best yeti
The cast
Poor Sportsmanship
Dear Editor:
The sportsmanship of the Bethel
followers was excellent until the
Northwestern game. Then, in the
most important and closest game
of the year, the lowest form of
sportmanship occurred. Bethel fans
yelled while an opposing player
was shooting a free throw.
I think it was the cheer leaders
fault.
The cheer leaders are the ones
the crowd follows. If they ask for
silence, they get it. But they were
yelling right along with the crowd.
The player who had committed
the foul was waving his hands try-ing
to hush the noise. But the
cheer leaders were yelling instead
of watching, and the result may
have lowered us in the opinion of
others.
Sincerely,
A good sportsman?
Consistent?
Dear Editor:
This year's Founders' Week is
over, thank goodness. I suppose we
may now be allowed to drag out
our books of contemporary litera-ture,
discuss the controversy re-garding
movies, and in general, be
ourselves again.
It seems to me that this is a
little inconsistent; or does the
verse in the Bible about hurting
our weaker brother apply?
Wondering
Scare/tea
Student Authority
The basic question which the cultural council raises, it seems to
us, is this : 'If a council is given responsibility by the Senate, and its
sphere of action for the year is agreed to by the administration, should
the administration shift ground and take away the council's authority?'
The administration clearly sees this as the issue since in their res-ponse
to the council's statement they point out the need for a discus-sion
of student authority. This we agree is necessary.
We can also agree that if a council abuses its authority its
power should be removed. But this, as we all will agree, has not been
the case. The cultural council made its plans public from the beginning.
The only film which has caused controversy was shown with the ex-press
blessing of the administration. Has the council, then, broken its
agreement with the administration? We do not think so.
But the reverse has been true on two occasions, once after express
consent to a film showing was given. The basic argument on this issue
is not that the administration cannot rule to prohibit films but that,
if they say movies may be shown, they should keep their word. If
they set their rules when the council is appointed—or at the beginning
of the year—any student who disagrees may enroll elsewhere. But if
a rule may be changed at any time, students may possibly be deceived
and councils will become discouraged at leadership efforts.
Compulsory Attendance
Case For Liberal Arts
All it Z-tikes Is Shoes
by Betty Mattson
What are those tracks in the snow? A dog? A rabbit? A bear?
No, it's Darlene Backlund on her snow-shoes. "Snowshoe hiking is a
fascinating winter hobby," says Darlene, a freshman from Grand
Marais, Minnesota.
Darlene was introduced to snow-shoes by some Minneapolis friends.
She then taught four or five of her friends how to use snow-shoes.
The group, including Darlene's dad, goes on a six to ten mile hike
almost every Saturday during the winter. After three or four hours
it's time for a lunch stop in some beautiful pine clearing. Lunch con-sists
of weiners, hard-boiled eggs, cookies, and tea. Everybody carries
his own tea bag. For the delicious flavor—just dip the tea bag into
steaming melted snow!
Then three hours more back into the woods or maybe a little ice
fishing. "The best thing about snow-shoeing," comments Darlene, "is
being able to get back into the woods where no one else has been and
see God's winter beauty."
"Even if you can't skate or ski, you can learn to use snow-shoes,"
emphasized Darlene. "Pay out $20 for a pair of snow-shoes and you
have a real sport."
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Glen Westin's two free throw
conversions after the buzzer
sounded provided the winning mar-gin
as Bethel tipped Northwestern
80-78 Wednesday afternoon, Feb.
13, in Bethel's fieldhouse before
a capacity crowd.
Bethel also stopped the Eagles
by two points over at Northwest-ern
earlier this year, and Westin
scored the game winning field
goal with seconds to go in that
contest also.
Actually the moment when ten-sion
was at its peak came when
Conrad had the opportunity to tie
the game up 78-78 from the free
throw line with ten seconds to
go. He needed to be successful in
both of his attempts, and when he
was, the Bethel fans were jubilant.
With ten seconds to go, North-western
took the ball out and,
after they took an unsuccessful
shot, Westin grabbed the rebound
and was fouled.
It was a close contest all the
way with the lead changing many
times. Northwestern managed to
hold the lead most of the second
half, until Conrad tied it up.
Conrad, Pommerenke, and Wes-tin
were the individual stars for
Bethel, and Becker also filled in
well in the first half. Fode and
Thompson led the Eagles with
strong help from Van Dixhorn and
Gunderson.
It was the first time in three
years that either team defeated
the other twice in the same sea-son.
Bethel
Player FG FT PF TP
Borms 2 4 4 8
Rekstad
2 1 2 5
Johnson 0 0 2 0
Westin 6 8 3 20
Becker 1 8 3 10
Conrad
5 7 0 17
Pommerenke 9 2 2 20
Totals 25 30 16 80
Northwestern
Player FG FT PF TP
Fode 10 3 3 23
Thompson 9 6 5 24
Bragg 0 0 1 0
Snell
0 0 1 0
Gunderson 4 5 2 13
Martin 1 1 3 3
Davis 2 0 2 4
Van Dixhorn 5 1 3 11
Total
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Tops Souix
Bethel revenged an earlier de-feat
at the hands of Souix Falls
college when it rolled to a 103-92
victory over them at Souix Falls
Sat. Feb. 8.
It was a game of red hot shoot
ing, as the score indicates, with
Bethel shooting siuccessfully 53
per cent of the time and Souix
Falls 47 per cent. It was also the
first time a Bethel team scored 100
or more points in a game.
High point man for Bethel was
Westin with 26 points. Six Royals
hit double figures with Westin,
Conrad (20), and Pommerenke (19
leading the list.
Gayle Hoover led all scoring with
39 points and he was backed up
by Bunkers who had 16. Hoover
also scored very well against the
Royals in the first game as he
got 30 points in that contest.
Team Averages
Player Games TP AV.
Conrad 21 374 17.7
Pommerenke 21 273 13.0
Westin 19 245 12.9
Rekstad 21 240 11.4
Borms 21 207 9.8
Becker 11 37 3.4
Johnson 11 37 3.4
M. Carlson 14 46 3.3
Singleton 20 30 1.5
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With about ten minutes left in
the game, Bethel warmed up to
its task, wiped out a ten point
deficit, and rolled to a decisive
victory over Northland in a game
here Saturday night.
The play in the game was ra-ther
dull throughout the first half,
and Bethel left the court with a
halftime deficit of nine points 40-
B-Squad Nears
League Title
The Royals' B-squad basketball
team seems assured of its league
championship for the regular sea-son
since it must only win one of
its next two games to clinch the
title.
Carrying an over all record of
12-4, and a league record of 7-1,
the team has been paced by the
scoring punch of Lindeman,
Becker, and Erickson. Other key
players on the club are Graham,
Roger Carlson, Sundeen, Pardun,
and Larry Anderson.
Their next game is Thursday
against the Chiropractors from
Minneapolis on Bethel's home
floor.
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31. It looked like Bethel would
certainly lose when, with about ten
minutes to go they were behind by
13, and were playing very poorly.
But Rekstad went back into the
game after a brief rest and gath-ered
in rebound after rebound.
Pommerenke, who was high scorer
with 23, started to hit and so did
Conrad.
Northland seemed to fold al-most
as completely as Bethel ex-ploded.
While the Royals scored
23 points, they scored only four.
Powaser was their only consistent
scorer, and he was high on the
floor with 25. Sullivan started fast
with eight points in the first fif-teen
minutes of play, but when he
came in again in the second half
after a rest due to his fouling tac-tics,
he was completely contained,
as was his team.
Bethel
Borms
Rekstad
M. Carlson
Westin
Conrad
Pommerenke
Johnson
Becker
FG FT PF TP
2 6 3 10
2 4 4 8
2 3 0 7
2 3 4 7
6 6 1 18
9 5 1 23
1 3 1 5
1 0 0 2
Totals 25 30 14 80
Northland FG FT PF TP
Buinowski 2 0 0 4
Bystrom 0 0 5 0
Powaser 12 1 2 25
Meehl 1 3 3 5
Arndt 0 2 0 2
Schnackenberg 3 4 4 10
Sullivan 3 2 5 8
Sollie 5 1 0 11
Chuala 1 0 5 2
— — — —
Totals 27 13 24 67
Everything's Going
To Be All Right
All my life I have heard prea-chers,
laymen and all kinds of
people discuss, argue, and get
plenty hot under the collar on the
question of the millennium. The
Pre's say one thing, the Post's
say another, and the A's (that's
ah as in the dental chair) say
that both the others are wrong.
At last comes the new light —
the Pan Millennialists: ur motto:
Relax, everything is bound to pan
out.
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Van Dixhorn, 'Northwestern guard, scores against Bethel in the tra-ditional
Founders' week game. Bethel won, however, on Westin's two
free throws.
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Time For A Change by Vonna Lou Shelton
If you could change one thing at Bethel, what would it be ? This
was the question asked of various Bethel students in a recent survey.
Here are some of their answers.
Rod Earlywine would like to have the quarter system changed
into semesters.
Bob Carlson would like to see wrestling become a varsity sport
at Bethel.
"No restriction on hours for girls to be in their rooms in the dormi-tory,"
was Audrey Chamberlain's reply.
Pat Rogers said she would like to see the exam schedule changed by
"eliminating it completely."
"More Nik Dags," was Glen Johnson's reply.
Bethel's location was first on the list of changes of Betty Hendrick-son
and Betty Ohlin. Miss Ohlin would move Bethel to Florida "where
it's warmer" whereas Miss Hendrickson would be content to move it
closer "to her work."
"All social life and no studies" was Lorraine Eitel's primary desire
for change.
"A larger ratio of boys per girls on campus," replied one pretty
coed who preferred to remain anonymous.
"No more English themes," was freshman Beth Magnuson's an-swer.
"A little more sunshine and a little less snow," said Gay Feiler.
"My grades," was Joe Schintz' solemn reply.
Roger Hunt would like to shorten the waiting period for teachers
who are late to class.
Paul Hackman, who does part time cleaning at Bethel, would like
to "change the minds of students who throw paper on the floor."
"No gym class requirement," replied Dorothy Bajuniemi.
Perhaps echoing the thought of many Bethelites, Barbara Carlson's
only change would be "more time to sleep."
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Midtown Barber Shop
634 Snelling Ave.
Falcon Heights
Pharmacy & Gift Shop
At a new and modern
location
1707 N. Snelling Ave.
Stimulated by coffee and doughnuts and a genial atmosphere, three
Conference visitors discuss old times, new experiences, and their im-pressions
of this year's Founder's week. The service Friday evening
marked the departure of the last of some 580 Conference pastors and
laymen to their homes in 23 states. During the week these guests spent
hours renewing acquaintances and inspecting campus improvements, as
well as listening to devotional messages and educational lectures.
4 Coeds To Attend Debaters Score
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"GOOD HOME COOKING"
OPEN FROM 6 A.M. - 4 P.M.
1558 Como Ave.
FALCON BARBER
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Quality Hair-cutting
1546 W. Larpentuer
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Week-days 5:00 p.m. 'in 9:00 p.m.
(Closed Tuesday)
Snelling & Larpenteur Ave.
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1532 Larpenteur Mi 4-7849
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State Convention
Lois Larson, Kay Kern, Marilyn
Junker, and Pat Rogers will rep-resent
Bethel women at a state-wide
convention to be held at St.
Cloud state teachers college on
March 2. Lois and Kay will repre-sent
the BWA and Marilyn and
Pat, the dormitory council.
The first state-wide meeting of
its type to be held, this organiza-tional
convention is sponsored by
the Association of Women Stu-dents
of St. Cloud state teachers
college.
Women from schools throughout
Minnesota will discuss forms of
women government, common prob-lems,
and ways to meet the needs
of women on the campus. Ex-change
of ideas on women's acti-vities
through workshop periods,
and a closing banquet, will be a
major part of the all day program.
Camera Club
Plans Slide Show
Winter quarter activities at
Bethel will be reviewed at a slide
show, sponsored by the camera
club, in the college chapel, Fri-day,
Mar. 8, at 8 p.m.
Anyone willing to loan slides—
preferably taken since Thanksgiv-ing—
for this program is asked to
contact president Art Coombes by
leaving a note in P.O. 83. The
deadline is Mar. 5.
Application Deadline
For Gov't Jobs Told
Students who would like to be
considered for appointment to
Federal Service jobs before gradu-ation
in June should apply for
the entrance examination before
March 28, Dean Anderson announ-ced
recently.
Those who apply before that
date will be scheduled to take the
exam on Saturday, April 13.
Application forms are available
in the student affairs office.
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Equal Wins, Loss
Five wins and five losses were
scored by the Bethel debate squad
at the Eau Claire speech meet
last weekend. Lois Larson, Lynn
Weaver, Sharon Bergstrom, and
Karen Christensen comprised the
two teams attending.
Entered in the "B" division, Lois
and Lynn won three out of five
rounds while Sharon and Karen
scored two out of three. The Eau
Claire tourney is the second larg-est
of the season with schools at-tending
as distant as Dartmouth,
the winner of the "A" trophy.
Slated next on the Bethel de-baters'
schedule is the Northwest
tournament, Feb. 28 - Mar. 2.
Dr. C. Bass
Hospitalized
Complete bed rest has been pre-scribed
by physicians for Dr. Clar-ence
Bass, associate professor of
Bible and philosophy, who was
hospitalized at Mounds Park last
Tuesday because of a kidney in-volvement.
Dr. Bass is progressing as well
as can be expected under his con-dition,
according to a Saturday
report by Dr. Sommerdorf. How-ever,
because of his need for rest,
visitors are discouraged.
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they prepared an interim (not a
final) statement which is open to
careful consideration b y the
broader campus community.
The cultural council's recom-mendation
points out that we also
need discussion concerning the na-ture
of the authority and respon-sibility
delegated to the student
government. A thorough consid-eration
of this important question
would be most appropriate and
timely.
Our approach to these topics
should include a concern for the
school's objectives and provision
for a democratic procedure in dis-cussion.
Here is an opportunity to
demonstrate mature constructive
leadership and to strengthen res-ponsible
student government.
Burmese Teacher
In History Dep't
For Two Weeks
Originally from Rangoon, Bur-ma,
Mrs. Vernon Jensen has been
substituting in the history depart-ment
for Dr. Fagerstrom for the
past two weeks.
Khin Khin Myint, meaning beau-tiful
fern, was Mrs. Jensen's name
when she came to the United
States in 1950 to study under a
Fullbright scholarship. However,
in the summer of 1951, she met
Vernon Jensen, a native of Min-nesota,
and in 1954 they were
married. At present Mr. Jensen
teaches European history and com-munications
at the University of
Minnesota.
In Burma, Mrs. Jensen received
her B.A. from the University of
Rangoon. "Burmese schools," she
commented, "are quite similar to
English schools because Burma
was under the British government
for such a long time."
Dr. Jensen
Before coming to America, Mrs.
Jensen taught ancient history for
one year at her alma mater, the
University of Rangoon. "It seems
as though the first year teacher
always gets stuck with the ancient
history course," she says with a
smile.
The year following her arrival
in the United States, 1951, Mrs.
Jensen received her M.A. in Am-erican
history from Bucknell Uni-versity
in Pennsylvania. Follow-ing
that she did post-graduate
work at the University of Wiscon-sin
where she was awarded her
Ph.D. in Far Eastern history last
June.
Mrs. Jensen says that she and
her husband would like to teach
in Burma for a few years but plan
to maintain their permanent resi-dence
in the United States.
BISHOP'S
Ladies' and Men's Apparel
in Falcon Heights
1540 West Larpenteur
MIdway 5-1364
Following is a condensation
of facts presented by business
manager Harold Lidbom at the
open forum on student loans
last month.
As you perhaps know, the loan
fund is relatively new on the cam-pus.
It has been made possible by
the kindness of friends of the
school to aid students needing fin-ancial
assistance. The school has
borrowed up to $10,000 at critical
times in recent years to augment
this fund. We are hoping that it
will increase to the point where
long term loans may be made to
students on a plan that will allow
Senate Approves
$1250 Budget
The Student Senate at their
Feb. 7 meeting approved the bud-get
as set up by the executive
cabinet for the remaining part of
this school year. The Senate treas-ury
has $1,250 to spend, this
money coming from a part of each
student's inclusive fee. The ath-letic
council has been apportioned
$190, the cultural council $280, the
social council $300 and the relig-ious
council $50.
Temporarily this leaves $300 for
Prospective Student Days and
some for the miscellaneous fund.
In past years the Student Senate
has paid half of the expenses of
Prospective Student Days. How-ever,
the vice-president of the
Student Senate is approaching the
administration to see if this
amount can be lowered this year,
thus leaving more funds for the
councils.
This is the first time in several
years a budget has actually been
set up. However, this spring the
out-going cabinet members plan
to meet with the newly elected
officers to set up next year's bud-get.
Northwestern Dean
To Speak At FMF
Dr. G. Douglas Young, dean of
Northwestern college, will speak
to the Foreign Missions Fellowship
Thursday, February 21, at 7 p.m. in
the seminary chapel.
Dr. Young, one of the foremast
scholars of the Hebrew language
in the United States, has recently
returned from a trip to Palestine
and the Near East.
His lecture will be centered
around the attempt to christianize
members of the Jewish faith and
the existing problems involved,
since the Israeli government allows
no missionary work or proselyting
within the country. Along with his
lecture Dr. Young will show slides
taken in Rome, Greece, and Israel.
repayment after graduation.
Statistics from the last school
year, 1955-56, reveal that 249 stu-dent
loans were made, totaling
$36,084.94. To augment the amount
available in the student loan fund,
$5,000 was borrowed from the
bank at 4 per cent interest and
$5,000 from other funds. The in-terest
received on the student
loans amounted to $958.91 for the
year out of which $66.67 was paid
to the bank, leaving a balance of
$892.24 or 2.5 per cent of the
$36,084.94 loaned out. This entire
interest accumulation was added
to the loan fund. No administra-tive
costs were charged to the
fund.
The average loan last year was
$144.72. The average student bor-rowing
from the fund paid $3.87
in interest. This compares favor-ably
with the wide variety of
short-term loan funds and defer-red
payment plans used by other
colleges such as Wheaton, Ham-line,
Macalester, etc. Each of these
institutions have slightly different
ways of assessing charges. They
range from 4 per cent on the un-paid
balance to fixed service fees
of $3 to $5 per loan. In most
schools, however, the charges as-sessed
go into the current opera-tions
of the school to cover ad-ministrative
costs and do not aug-ment
the loan fund itself as is
true at Bethel.
For more than two years there
has been discussion of developing
a deferred payment plan with a
fixed service fee. There is a pos-sibility
that this may be done
when the new semester system is
inaugurated. When payment of
student fees is spread out over
the year on an installment basis,
the school itself must borrow ad-ditional
funds for current opera-tions
to take the place of tuition
due but not received. This makes
for costlier operations, and an
appropriate charge will need to
be determined. However, it may
make it possible to free funds in
the present loan fund for longer
term commitments at a lower rate
of interest which will be to the
ultimate advantage of our stu-dents.
At any rate, the administration
is concerned with developing the
most helpful type of financial ar-rangements.
Further questions
will 'be welcomed in my office or
in that of the Dean of Students.
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USED BOOKS
Plan #1. College textbooks to be used again next year may be
sold to the bookstore at 60 per cent of their previous pur-chase
price. Seminary textbooks to be re-used may be sold
at 40 per cent of the purchase value.
Plan #2. College textbooks not being used next year may be sold
through the bookstore to Follets' Bookstore in Chicago.
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