LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
BETHEL COLLEGE
3900 Bethel Drive
Volume XLII—No. 13
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, January 4, 1968
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Chinese Scholar Arrives On Campus
Lectures, Lunches, Chats With Students
ETHEL WATERS
Ethel Waters, noted Gospel sing-er
from Pasadena, California, will
be on campus Monday, January 8.
for an informal concert in the
fieldhouse. She will be acccompan-ied
by C. Edward Thomas, associ-ate
professor of music. The concert
has been arranged as a SPAN ben-efit,
and will assist Bethel SPAN
studens planning to study abroad
next summer.
When a young woman, Miss Wa-ters
entered show business and
starred in many Broadway stage
and screen productions. She trav-eled
the major vaudeville and
night club circuits for years, and
later became active in television
and radio.
Since first attending a Billy Gra-
Setting a historic precedent in
the history of Bethel College in its
association with the Baptist Gen-eral
Conference, the Board of Ed-ucation
recently rejected the facul-ty
recommendation of Dr. Robert
Sandin as permanent dean of the
college.
Dr. Sandin has had a lengthy
association with the college, hav-ing
graduated from the college
and seminary both, in the 1940's.
Since that time, he has appeared
frequently at the chapel and
convocation podium, having spok-en
most recently at the funeral
of the late Dr. Anton Pearson.
His administrative credentials
include the post of dean at the
now defunct Northwestern College,
as well as its acting president.
Since that time he has served as
associate dean at Bemidji State
College. Currently he is holding a
post as chairman of the philosophy
department at Augsburg College.
In addition, he has completed a
book explaining his philosophy of
education for the Christian liberal
arts school.
The Board of Education was de-liberating
in Chicago during the
last few days of November and
announced its decision early in
December.
Commenting on this decision,
President Lundquist stated that
the Board of Education shared
the respect and high esteem in
which Dr. Sandin is held by our
faculty but felt that his evangeli-cal
commitment did not come
through clearly enough to many
of our people to turn to him at
this juncture in Bethel's history.
Certain misgivings also arose in
the area of philosophy of Chris-tian
education. The members of
the Board of Education a r e
anxious that the choice of a
Dean will reflect clearly Bethel's
quest for academic excellence
within its traditional framework
of historic orthodoxy.
Dr. Lundquist went on to state
that the final decision took into
C. EDWARD THOMAS
ham Crusade in New York's Madi-son
Square Garden in 1957, Miss
Waters has devoted herself pri-marily
to church related activities.
She sings occasionally for the Billy
Graham Crusades.
Bethel students who will be
studying abroad next summer un-der
SPAN program are Jane E.
Bergeson and Paul V. Johnson.
Jane, a junior sociology major
from St. Paul, plans to go to Swe-den
,while Paul, a senior sociolo-gy
major from Grantsburg, Wis-consin,
is planning a study project
in Australia.
Admission for the concert is $1.
Tickets will be available at the
door.
account a polling of district and
national officers as well as a vari-ety
of campus reactions.
Prompted by a question con-cerning
the future possibilities
for the office of Dean, he stated
it would be premature to de-vulge
any of the names current-ly
under consideration. These
consist, however, of persons both
on and off campus. He expected
that the College would have a
New York, New York—A colle-giate
presidential primary, involv-ing
nearly 500 colleges and sev-eral
million students, will be held
simultaneously on campuses across
the country on April 24, 1968 Lea-ders
of student organizations at
more than 200 major universities
have already asked to participate
in the vote. Announcement of
CHOICE 68, National Collegiate
Presidential Primary and an invi-tation
to take part will go out to
2200 additional colleges this week.
CHOICE 68 is being run by a
Board of Directors composed of
eleven student leaders, each from
a different region of the country.
The Board is establishing guide-lines
for the Primary, designing
the ballot and providing overall
direction and leadership.
Schools represented by the
Board are the University of Cali-fornia
at Berkeley, Kansas State
Teachers College, University of
Texas, Fordham University, Uni-versity
of Wisconsin, University
of Utah, University of Tennessee,
Michigan State University, Georgia
Institute of Technology, and the
University of Oregon.
Administrative costs are being
underwritten by TIME magazine as
a public service. Results of the
Primary will be freely available
to all media.
Initial response by student lea-
Dr. Wing-tsit Chan, an authori-ty
on Chinese thought and culture,
will be on campus today and Fri-day,
January 4 and 5, as a Dan-forth
Visiting Lecturer. Dr. Chan
is Gillespie Professor of Philoso-phy
at Chatham College, Pitts:
burgh, and first occupant of that
endowed chair.
Dr. Chan's usual program in-eludes
a public lecture on "Domi-nant
Themes of Chinese Thought"
and a convocation address on
"Forces at Work in Asia."
In informal or class meetings, he
discusses "Confucianism in Main-land
China Today" and "China and
Her Neighbors."
After his convocation address
this morning, Dr. Chan will be
present at a noon luncheon open
to interested students and faculty.
Friday he will speak to the com-bined
Western Civilization sections
second hour. Later in the day, at
a luncheon sponsored by the Beth-permanent
Dean by next fall
when the current Acting Dean,
Dr. Walter Wessel, completes his
assignment to that post. T h e
election procedure will involve
the submission of a name to the
faculty for consideration prior
to any action of the Board or
presentation to the Conference.
The reconsideration of Sandin
as a possibility was ruled out by
the president as a realistic option.
ders has been highly favorable. Ac-cording
to Robert G. Harris, Ex-ecutive
Director of CHOICE 68, for-merly
student body president of
Michigan State University, "college
men and women see the Primary as
a meaningful political activity and
a monumental opportunity to make
themselves heard in an effective
way."
In addition to indicating their
choice of presidential candidates,
students will also have a chance
to vote in certain issues of na-tional
concern. The selection of
these issues will also be made by
the Board of Directors.
In its informational prospectus
on CHOICE 68, the Board ex-plained
the philosophy behind the
idea this way: "Never in the na-tion's
history have so many col-lege
students been so well in-formed
about the major issues of
the day . . . yet they have had
little opportunity to express their
views in a unified, coherent man-ner.
CHOICE 68 offers students
the opportunity to express their
preference on Presidential candi-dates
and selected issues — to
speak for the first time as a body
politic."
According to its spokesman, "The
Board expects to turn out upwards
of two million votes on campus,
enough to command the nation's
consideration and attention."
el Corporations Committee, Dr.
Chan will address a group of Twin
City businessmen.
The visiting lecturers program
under which Dr. Chan comes here
was initiated in 1957 by the Arts
Program of the Association of Am-erican
Colleges, and is supported
by a grant from t h e Danforth
Foundation.
Its purpose is to assist colleges
in their efforts to strengthen liber-al
education. Each year several
men and women of outstanding in-tellectual
stature from this country
and abroad are made available to
colleges and universities. They re-main
on campus from two days to
a week.
Dr. Chan was born in Canton,
China, and became an American
citizen in 1951. After graduating
from Lingnan University, Canton.
in 1924 he came to study at Har-vard
University, from which he re-ceived
a master's degree in 1927
and a doctorate in 1929.
Professor Chan returned to Ling-nan
University in 1929 as dean of
the faculty and professor of philo-sophy.
He was a visiting professor
at the University of Hawaii in
1935-36, and stayed on as Profes-sor
of Chinese Philosophy and In-stitutions
until 1942. In 1940-42 he
was chairman of the philosophy de-partment.
In 1942 Dr. Chan came to Dart-mouth
College in New Hampshire
and the following year was ap-pointed
Professor of Chinese Cul-ture
and Philosophy. In 1950-51
he was chairman of the Division
of the Humanities. Until 1966 he
was co-director of the Comparative
Studies Center at Dartmouth.
He returned to China in 1948-49
under a Guggenheim Fellowship,
and received a Rockefeller Foun-dation
grant for research in India
and Japan in 1955-56. He also
spent 1963-64 in Asia doing re-search
under grants from the Rock-efeller
Foundation, Social Science
Research Council, and American
Philosophical Society.
Professor Chan was chairman of
the Council of Christian Higher
Education for China in 1933-34.
He has represented China at sev-eral
international conferences.
He has given many lectures in
Asia, in communities throughout
Students coming back to Bethel
after Christmas vacation will have
a chance to relax on Saturday be-fore
settling down to studying
again. The , cultural committee is
sponsoring a tour of two art gal-leries—
Walker Art Center and the
Minneapolis Institute of Art.
This tour will take place Satur.
day, January 6. Buses will be avail-
DR. CHAN
the United States, and at other
colleges and universities. He has
returned to teach at the Univer-sity
of Hawaii for seven summers.
Dr. Chan has published a num-ber
of books dealing with Chinese
philosophy and religious thought.
He has contributed chapters on
Chinese life and thought for twen-ty-
one books on philosophy and re-ligion,
and has published over sev-enty
articles on China. He has also
served on the board of editors for
"Philosophy East and West", and
is editor for Chinese philosophy of
the forthcoming "Encyclopedia of
Philosophy". He is also a contri-butor
to the "Encyclopedia Brit-tanica".
Professor Chan is a charter mem-ber
of the American Association
for the Study of Religion, formed
in 1958-59, a member of the board
of directors for the American As-sociation
of Teachers of Chinese
and the Association of Asian Stud-ies,
an honorary fellow of the In-stitute
of Oriental Studies of the
University of Hong Kong, an hon-orary
member of the Research of
New Asia College in Hong Kong,
and honorary corresponding asso-ciate
of the Asiatic Research Cen-ter
of Korea University.
He is consultant of the Six-Col-lege
program in Pennsylvania the
State University of New York, and
other college groups. In addition
to his post at Chatham College, Dr.
Chan is Adjunct Professor of Chi-nese
Thought at Columbia Univer-sity.
able for transportation to and from
the galleries. The only cost for
this day's excursion will be 50c
for bus transportation.
Buses will leave at 12:30 P.M.
from the front of Bodien residence.
Students will be able to sign up
for this trip Tuesday through Fri-day,
January 3-5, in the coffee
shop.
WatersThomasTeam For Concert
Shekels Go To SPAN Project
Permanent Deanship Still Empty
Board Rejects Faculty Suggestion
Student Leaders Sample Campus
Opinion On Presidential Election
Cultural Committee Plans For
Browse Through Art Galleries
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Alert student entrepreneurs
were part of the Bethel scene even
before the challenging cry of "stu-dent
power" ("student responsigili-ty").
The diamond ring salesman
and the cookware displayer both
were individuals who recognized
the needs of other Bethel students
and capitalized for their own profit
on these needs.
Until only recently in Bethel's
history, there has seemed to be
little justification for the admis-sion
of business tactics into the
scholarly liberal arts arena. Now,
however, Bethel offers an econo-mics
major in its curriculum and
has supplemented this with sev-eral
business courses.
Furthermore, with the inaugura-tion
of the Business and Economics
Club on the Bethel campus with
its objectives of promoting busi-ness-
type activities for the devel-opment
of its business students
and of acquainting students with
the opportunities for a liberal arts
degree in the business world,
entrepreneurial activity has a legi-timate
ground.
One specific program of the
Business and Economics Club is
to be held Monday evening Jan-uary
8, in the college auditorium.
On this date, the club is sponsor-ing
a speaker in investment brok-erage
to address all interested
Bethel students about the possi-bilities
of the stock market and
job opportunities in the present
economy, with an open session for
questions concerning financial is-sues,
whether personal or academ-ic.
Two Bethel men who realize
that students must at present dis-regard
the capital market in fa-vor
of a financial market are Pete
Porter and Rich Runbeck. Both
A large crowd of boisterous and
enthusiastic fans watched what
may be termed as Bethel's most
promising sport in pre-vacation ac-tion
December 11 as the Royals
flattened St. Mary's of Winona,
29-10.
The Redmen got off to a quick
ten to nothing lead as their en-try
in the 123 pound class pinned
Isaias Cervantes and took five
(ACP) — The hippie movement
may be merely history repeating
itself, a University of Minnesota
history professor says.
Prof. David Noble, in an inter-view
in the Minnesota Daily, said
that attempting to live by perfect
love and to attain salvation on
earth, rejecting the "establish-ment,
and revolting within the
middle class are all manifesta-tions
of the philosophy of puritan-ism."
Noble, who teaches intellectual
history, said purification move-ments
have always been separated
from society in an effort "to divide
the saints from the sinners."
Some 400 years ago, he said, man
tried to reject man-made medieval
society and restore a God-given
way of life.
Today, hippies are rejecting the
artificial tradition of the middle
class and the hypocrisy of their
parents—as all generations do, No-ble
said.
Hippie transcendentalism, h e
said, is partially satisfied by the
Thursday, January 4, 1968
have recently become licensed in-surance
agents. According to Run-beck,
"Insurance is a financial as-set,
probably the basis to a good
investment portfolio and a future
financial estate."
Both Runbeck and Porter feel
that insurance is important but
that students should be knowledg-able
in all aspects of finance. They
are excited about the possibilities
of learning first-hand information
on the stock market. Says Pete,
"Students must be knowledgeable
in money matters in order to be
financially happy in later years."
points in the next weight class on
a forfeit. From then on, Bethel
took hold of each match.
Curt Dokken, a freshman from
Mahtomedi, a member of what is
considered to be the strongest
wrestling conference in Minneso-ta,
started things rolling when he
pinned his opponent midway
through the second period. Greg
Ekbom then walked onto the mat
use of LSD, marijuana, and other
drugs, for two reasons. One is that
such use is in opposition to the
mores of the middle class estab-lishments.
Another reason for transcen,
dente through drugs, Noble said,
is that there is no longer a geo-graphical
frontier. Puritanism sym-bolically
moves from east to west,
but for the hippies the frontier is
gone, Noble said, adding this could
explain why there are so many
hippies in California.
"People regard the hippie as a
member of the extreme fringe,"
but the movement could be an in-dex
of a more fundamental shift
within society, he said.
Any fringe group is bound to
fail, because transcendental philo ,
sophies cannot be expressed in par-ticular,
identifiable forms.
Such purification movements try
to create a timeless product, but
since there is only a "profane sit-uation'
and no "ultimate condi-tion,"
he said, purification is philo-sophically
and logically impossible.
John Bergeson, a former Bethel
student, and myself were aware
o f the rumors circulating about
Father Groppi when we decided
to visit Milwaukee to join the Com-mandoes,
the NAACP youth coun-cil
"special forces" in their dem-onstration
for open housing. Al-though
we realized that most of
the rumors were untrue, the actual
truth was an "unknown".
We were both very aware of
one thing—we were Christians and
as Christians we were concerned
that an injustice, in fact a crime,
was being committed against twen-ty-
two million human beings. We
could not reconcile our conscience
and inaction and thus only one
to power his way to a 7-3 decision
to draw Bethel within two points.
Co-captain Barry Anderson met
a tough foe as he took a decision
but could not administer the pin.
However, the next three Bethel
grapplers pinned their men to put
the Royals out of reach. Doug War-ring,
at 160 pounds, from the same
high school conference as Dok-ken,
looked very good as he put
his man's shoulders on the mat at
3:30.
George Hanson had rough go-ing
and it looked as though Bethel
might lose a match by a decision,
but the blonde freshman got a sec-ond
wind in the last period and
pinned his opponent in the waning
seconds.
By this time the roar of the
crowd was deafening, and as Bob
Olsen stepped onto the mat, the
roof almost left. Bob apparently
didn't feel like wrestling too much
so he quickly put his foe away in
28 seconds.
The Redmen would have liked
to salvage the heavyweight class,
but Dave "Brutus" Anderson said
no as he quickly racked up an
appreciable point total. He ran out
of gas in the last period but had
enough going for him to pull out
the victory.
The grapplers closed pre-vaca-tion
action with a 25 to 11 loss to
St. Johns. Curt Dokken, Greg Ek-born,
and Dave Anderson, a prom-ising
trio of freshmen, decisioned
their men for Bethel's only vic-tories
over the host Johnnies. Bob
Olson battled his man to a draw
to finish the Royal's scoring.
by Malcolm Avey
course was possible—act on our
faith.
Both John and myself were left
with a feeling of fulfillment—a
group of people in Milwaukee were
living their faith. We joined them
and at least during this time we
were living our Christian belief. I
could not help but be impressed
by this group of people that spent
three or more hours every day
since midsummer promoting jus-tice
and freedom.
What is the actual structure and
"modus operandi" of the Comman-does?
First, the marches are plan-ned,
led, and under the command
of a group of young men in their
twenties called the Commandoes.
Father Groppi does not function
in any official capacity except as
spiritual counselor and charismatic
"patron saint". (The day we were
in the city we only saw him for
a few minutes while he gave a
pep talk and answered some ques-tions.)
Besides planning the demonstra-tions,
the Commandoes serve as
protectors of the column against
white racist opponents. An incident
occurred about a week before we
got there where the Commandoes
To the editor:
This is a letter of what I hope
to be constructive protest. It has
been my observation that most stu-dents
and faculty do very little if
anything—constructive or destruc,.
tive. My particular complaint is
that no one takes any interest in
the cultural activities on campus.
Of course, this is not the only
area of apathy. Eight out of fifty
of Bethel's faculty and one thou,
sand plus students bothered to at-tend
a meeting for the Thanksgiv-ing
Freedom Fast.
I can proudly claim that there
has been more interest in cultural
activities — there has been an av-erage
attendance of forty at the
last three concerts held. I do not
believe there has been a great
lack of publicity for these concerts.
There have been posters, P. O.
boxes were stuffed for one concert,
and the last concert was announced
on the radio station. The CLARION
usually prints articles written for
publication (the last concert arti-cle
being the exception).
Do students or faculty care about
I - M LeagueCites
All-Star Team
In an intramural "first," repre-sentatives
from seven of the nine
teams selected a football All-Star
team. Second New, who tied for
third in regular season play, land-ed
three men on the eight man
team.
The team had the Pit's Marion
"Junior" James at quarterback,
with Bill Lehman of first place Sec-ond
Old and Second New's Gary
Hasselblad at halfbacks. Top vote-getter
Dale Saxon teamed with
Third New's Lynn Bergfalk at the
end spots, while First Old's Larry
Swanson joined Bob Craft and cen-ter
Cal Parent, both of Second
New, in the interior line to round
out the team.
Second Old won five straight to
finish with a 6-1 record and cop
intramural honors. Second place
Third New pinned the only loss
on the champs, and finished the
season without being scored upon,
although they lost two games on
yardage.
attacked a van load of twenty
whites armed with sticks and clubs
parked in an alley where the
marchers were about to pass. The
column has a police escort but they
have proven ineffectual in stop-ping
attacks before ten or twenty
marchers have been injured.
The marches themselves have
gone through stages. The first wag,
short forrays around the North
Side ghetto itself. The next phase
was crossing the railroad tracks
into the Polish South Side.
At present, the target is down-town
where the NAACP is agitat-ing
for a boycott for Christmas
shopping. One of the slogans we
chanted was "Black Christmas"—
a cry that is hoped to hit where
the racists are strongest and most
vulnerable — their economic posit'
tion.
As a memorial for the lack of
freedom in America, the Milwaukee
Negroes are not buying Christmas
presents or putting up Christmas
decorations. This Christmas will
indeed be a "Black Christmas";
but it will also be one of hope,
and one with a transcendental aura
of well-being that comes with
standing up for the right.
cultural events? They certainly do
not seem to show any concern. Ap-parently,
Fine Arts has been a
wasted course. Bethel seems to be
a herd of culturally illiterate sheep,
I hope that this attitude will
change in the future. To me, cul-tural
activities are some of the
most worthwhile events to attend.
For the sake of publicity, I will
cite some future events the cultural
committee has planned.
January 6, there will be a tour
of two art galleries—bus transpor-tation
will be provided; February
26 will be the third of a series
o f concerts by the Minneapolis
String Quartet (they are members
of one of the five leading Ameri-can
orchestras); the showing of the
film The Gospel According to St.
Matthew is being planned; a tour
of twin city church architecture
is also being planned; March 18,
the Colorado State College Choir
(one of the nation's best college
choirs) will be performing at Beth-el;
and in April there will be an-other
Minneapolis String Quartet
concert.
I certainly hope that in the fu-ture
Bethel's people will take an
active interest in things worthy
of interest—cultural activities be-ing,
I feel, worthy of the interest
of "sophisticated" college students
faculty, and administration.
Noreen Toth
Cultural Committee Chair-man
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