Clarion 1968-10-04 Vol 43 No 04

              Vol. XLIII—No. 4
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, October 4, 1968
James dies in St. Paul hospital
Marion James, 19, a Bethel sophomore and mem-ber
of the varsity football team died Monday, Septem-ber
30, at St. Paul Ramsey Hospital. Marion collapsed
during a football scrimmage September 25 and never
regained consciousness, despite surgery to remove
a blood clot from his brain.
- The football squad was practicing at McMurray
Field, St. Paul, when James, who was being groomed
for a starting defensive post, collapsed following a
play. In response to Marion's death, Dr. Carl Lund-quist,
president of Bethel College and Seminary, is-sued
the following statement: "The entire campus
community was saddened by the death of Marion
James, a sophomore from Fosston, Minnesota. He was
a representative student who exemplified many of
Bethel's highest ideals.
"Our campus is much poorer without him. Al-though
he collapsed during football scrimmage, it is
now quite apparent that this was not a football in-duced
injury. It could have happened anywhere.
"In piecing together for me some of his recent
experiences his parents indicated a growing aware-ness
of some physical problems that tended to fit
into a pattern but became obvious to them only in
the light of his collapse and death.
"They have voiced their gratitude for the suppor-tive
role played by so many of the Bethel students and
teachers."
Bethel students have circulated a petition request-ing
that the new dormitory being erected on the
Arden Hills campus be named in honor of Marion.
The Bethel Choir has reactivated the Voice Scholar-ship
Fund as a memorial to him.
Marion accompanied the Bethel College Choir on a
six-week concert tour to Europe this past summer.
Marion James was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and
would have become twenty years old December 20.
He graduated from high school in Fosston, Minnesota
in May 1967, ranking fourth in his class and enrolled
at Bethel College the following September.
His father Marion Eugene, Sr., died in 1959 and
his mother later married the Rev. John Olson, now
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survived by two sisters, Marilee and Kriscel, and four
brothers, Paul, Joel, John, and Nathan, all of Fosston.
While in high school, Marion was very active in
sports. He was voted most valuable player in track,
basketball, and football and was All-Conference in
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basketball and football while attending Clover Valley
High School in Duluth.
He also was soloist in the Clover Valley High
School Choir and a member of the National Honor
Society.
When the James' family moved to Fosston during
his senior year, Marion again lettered in football,
basketball, and track, and sang in the school choir.
He was also president of the district Christian Youth
Fellowship.
Funeral services were held in the Fosston Baptist
Church on Wednesday, October 2, with Rev. Maurice
Lawson, Bethel campus pastor, officiating. Coaches
and co-captains of the football team attended the
services, and a quartet from the college choir sang.
Pall bearers included members of the choir and
football team. A number of other students also at-tended
the funeral.
Interment will be Lakeview Cemetery in rural
Duluth.
CLARION posts near perfect score,
achieves All-American honor rating
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Dr. Virgil Olson, college
son, dean of the seminary,
new dormitory located on the Arden Hilt's campus.
dean, and Dr. Gordon John-examine
the interior of the
WBCS Radio begins
broadcasting Monday
by Steve Marquardt
Bethel's big sound in radio,
WBCS, will begin broadcasting
Monday, October 7, 7 p.m. Mark
Kingsbeck, sophomore and gener-al
director, has expressed the ut-most
in both ability and enthusi-asm
by putting in thirty and for-ty-
hour weeks this summer and
nearly 20 hours weekly since class-es
began in preparation for
WBCS's active part in student if-fairs
this year.
What's new about WBCS? Steve
Lee and Charlie Kramerich, techni-cians,
have, along with Kingsbeck,
completely reworked the broad-casting
room from wall to wall.
125 new albums are on file above
the 375 available last year.
Beside the new records and an
experienced, ambitious s t a f f,
WBCS anticipates an active advan-tage
over last year in this fall's
Clarion-Senate-radio approach to
student service. "We want to work
together in serving the students,"
Kingsbeck stated. "We can't effect-ively
serve the students by un-healthy
competition between serv-ice
organizations."
Clarion workers, senators and
radio operators will attempt a
more coordinated expression of
student interest and action. The
aim is coordination, not a triune
organization bias. Service to the
community necessitates not agree-ment
under contract, but simply
a mutual concern to be useful in
the end result—service.
Part of WBCS's part of the plan
involves a more diversified and
complete coverage of sports, tal-ent,
interviews, news, music, poli-tical
discussions and other "talk
shows."
"We plan to continue our pro-gram
called Vocal Point," said
Kingsbeck. "We'll have well-known
people from town on the air and
let the students participate b y
phone." Leonard Sammons will di-rect
Vocal Point, as well as the
news, weather, and sports announc-ing
for WBCS.
A wide variety of music will
include "classical" and "religious"
(with Dave Waite in charge), folk
music, Broadway musicals and
"Popular music."
Kingsbeck approached the deli-cate
subject of musical taboos and
non-taboos rather cautiously. "I
don't believe in isolationism," he
conceded, "but we will use discre-tion
in our selections. If we hear
a good sound in 'rock' we'll con-sider
it." He emphasized "consid-er"
to establish the understanding
that he feels no obligation to play
any particular piece due to its
i)opularity elsewhere.
WBCS operators are still devel-oping
one of their newer ideas
for WBCS sports coverage. They
expect to initiate a keener inter-est
in sports among the students
by taping Bethel "away" basketball
games and playing them back over
the air later for those unfortun-ates
unable to attend in person
and those enthusiasts not satis-fied
with just seeing the game.
"If it seems to meet student ap-proval
and support we may begin
taping other sports. We'll start
with basketball," Kingsbeck said.
For world news and sports
WBCS will be "plugging in" to
KQRS, a Twin City station. WBCS
also has permission to broadcast
WAYL any time of the day.
As far as equipment is con-cerned
WBCS is not entirely up-to-date,
but, as Kingsbeck maintains,
"we work with what we have, and
I'm sure we can produce a pro-fessional
sound—a lot better than
last year's."
A big step in the future of
WBCS involves an increase in pow-er
from the present one hundred
milowatts to a wattage capable of
reaching the new Bethel Seminary
in Arden Hills. Although still in
the planning, the program would
involve building a radio tower in
Arden Hills, switching to FM ster-eo,
purchasing a 1000-watt trans-mitter
and spreading out among
several studios rather than broad-casting
frbrn the very crowded one
in the basement of the College
Building.
The Clarion was awarded an All-
American honor rating for the
spring semester of 1968. The rating
was received Tuesday, October 1.
The evaluation of collegiate
newspapers is a service of Associ-ated
Collegiate Press at the Uni-versity
of Minnesota's School of
Journalism.
This is the fifth semester the
Clarion has achieved an All-Ameri-can
rating since becoming a mem-ber
of ACP in 1954. The distinction
was last earned during both semes-ters
of 1965-66.
Publications are analyzed and
rated according to classifications
by ACP's critical service. The rat-
College and Seminary offi-cials
toured the new dormi-tory
with members of the
board of education during
its recent fall sessions.
Latest official target date
is October 12, when two
floors of college women
will move in. Men will have
to wait until the 26th.
ing a paper receives is intended
to show how is compares with oth-er
papers in the same classification
throughout the nation.
The Clarion was grouped with
29 other papers, all weeklies, put
out by colleges with an enrollment
of 701 to 1200 students. Entries
came from all over the country,
including such states as New York,
Georgia, Texas, and Washington,
besides nearly all the Minneorta
colleges.
So far five All-American ratings
have been awarded in this classi-fication,
including the Clarion's
recognition. The critical service
for the five remaining entries has
not been completed.
Ratings are based on a scoring
system with 4000 points represent-ing
the highest possible total. 3700
points are needed to achieve All-
American recognition. From there,
ratings run down through first,
second, third, and fourth class.
The Clarion's score was 3920 out
of the possible 4000. This is the
highest score recorded out of the
twenty-five entries judged so far.
The Sou'Wester of South Western
College of Indiana currently ranks
second with 3870 total points.
The Clarion received a perfect
score in regard to its news cover-age.
Evaluation in this area was
based on a full use of news sourc-es,
treatment of copy, and creativ-ity.
Content of the paper was also
judged highly, with the Clarion
receiving 720 out of a possible
750 points.
The Clarion also received nearly
perfect scores on its physical prop-erties,
including layout, headlines,
typography, and photography.
Page 2—tribute to Marion
James
—discussion of housing
charges
Page 3—Excerpts from Dr.
Olson's inaugural ad-dress
—rent and rebate deci-sions
Page 4—Bethel Center: End
or Beginning
Page 6—minority recruit-ment
Page 7—new librarian car-ries
appropriate name
In tribute
We will be enshrined in
memory, you and I. But
Junior will not.
He made his way silent-ly
among us, and left si-lently
enough too. Utterly
unpretentious he thrust
himself headlong into ev-erything,
doing so always
with that quiet humility
which skirts anything ap-proaching
drama. His life
was today and tomorrow.
For he gave himself to the
moment without reserve
yet held fast to his goal--
to teach children. To those
who chose to share his
world, he was sincere, to
the few who could call him
friend he was honest, to
the handful that confided
in him he gave himself
carelessly. On the fly leaf
of his soul was written in
regular hand -- I give my-self
to God.
He would have flushed
had we known the mea-sure
of his compassion
that burned within his
heart. For it was this very
passion that rebuked us.
Junior's death is a cele-bration
for he pursued
Life and has now found it.
He pursued it as though it
had been a prey unrelent-ing
-- that it might not es-cape
his sight for a mo-ment.
For as he sang he
did so with gusto in his
soul, as he prayed he did
so with heat, as he played
he did that too with aban-don.
The beginning of a Liv-ing
memory renews the
soul. So I say, celebrate,
with silence and with cym-bals,
for we will remem-ber
Junior's life. Praise be
to God!
Senate action
by Maurice Zaffke
The inertia that accompanied
this years initial Senate meeting
vanished as the student representa-tives
met for their second session,
Monday, October 1.
A constitutional amendment hur-dled
swiftly over the two-thirds
majority needed. The proposed
amendment attempts to define spe-cifically
what constitutes a valid
election.
It states that a candidate must
receive not only more votes than
his opponent but that he must
also receive 40 percent of the
vote. In the event that no candi-date
attains this requirement, the
race would be decided by a run-off
election with no write-ins al-.
lowed.
Student approval will probably
be sought during the balloting to
fill the vacancies in the Senate.
Many modifications were made
in the election code. Most involved
cont'd on page 7
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
college, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Lynn Bergfalk
Assistant Editor Maurice Zaffke
News Editor Sue Bonstrom
Feature Editor Jeanne Seaholm
Business Manager Bill Goodwin
Circulation Manager Pat Faxon
Photographer Warren Disbrow
Proof Reader Karen Rodberg
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed In the CLARION d. not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
A battery of recommendations made by the
Student Services Office concerning rebates and
the current schedule of rents have been ap-proved
by the Business Office. While none of
them can be applauded as a clear indication
that students are actually more important than
dollar bil.s, most of the recommendations —
with notable exceptions—must be recognized
as fair, representing a reasonable compromise
between student interests and the school's fin-ancial
needs.
However, the proposal to reimburse tempor-ary
Edgren residents at the rate of two dollars
weekly is not only outrageous and unjust, but
it is an insult to the whole idea of a rebate.
This recommendation ignores three important
considerations.
The rebate is intended (for Edgren's tem-porary
and permanent residents) to make
amends for the crowded conditions in Edgren's
new wing where three men have, during the
past month, shared a room intended for two.
First, why has no distinction been made be-tween
permanent and temporary residents
when the latter must face considerably more
inconvenience than permanent residents? (Both
parties receive equal rebates).
Men ticketed for the new campus dormi-tory
have moved into Edgren, out of Edgren,
into the new Seminary Apartments, and (hope-fully)
in three more weeks', they will move
again, this time to the new residence.
In addition, the uniform rebate for tempor-ary
and regular Edgrenites assumes uniform
facilities for both parties in regard to living
quarters. This is a fallacious assumption in that
interim residents inevitably wind up sleeping
on the extra cots and possessing little more
than vestiges of desk and closet facilities.
Second, temporary residents paid seven dol-lars
weekly (subtracting the rebate) to live in
Edgren while regular residents paid only five
dollars. Speaking mildly, this is quite unreason-able.
On what basis should interim residents
be charged higher rates for the same facilities,
particularly under adverse conditions?
Since two different schedules of rent are
involved, common sense would seem to dictate
rebates equalizing charges for the same facili-ties.
Students slated to live in the new dormi-tory
should not have the higher rent assessed
for those facilities carried over into interim
housing.
Thirdly, it is unethical for the college to
make money off student inconvenience. The
crowded conditions in Edgren were caused by
delay in the completion of the Arden Hill's
dormitory, and were not the responsibility of
students.
Despite the rebate, the college, however, re-ceived
more income from Edgren during the
time it was utilized as interim housing than
when it is operated under normal circumstanc-es.
It is only fair to request a rebate large
enough to cover the difference between the
combined rents of three occupants compared
to the total for the usual two inhabitants.
One justification for securing higher reve-nue
from overcrowded rooms centered on the
perennial situation in Bodien where several
rooms house extra women. While the rent is
reduced in these cases, it is not lowered pro-portionately.
This situation, which raises some questions
of its own, was pointed out when similar con-ditions
were created in Edgren this fall, and
one inequity was used to justify another. Stu-dents,
however, do not believe that two wrongs
make a right.
In view of these three points, nothing less
than a five dollar rebate for temporary resi-dents
can be defended. The other rebate deci-sions,
while not heartwarm and, in the case of
regular Edgrenites, minimal, are reasonably
fair.
Page 2 the CLARION
Friday, October 4, 1968
College housing rebates
. . . and rents
In addition to rebate decisions, the Student Services' rec-ommendation
that rent charges be left at the announced sched-ules
for this year was also approved by the Business Office.
While the Business Office's approval surprises no one, the rec-ommendation
by Student Services is very disappointing to
students.
While the unfair rebate decision affected only seventy
or eighty men (and about thirty or so temporary residents most
directly), the above rent decision affects all new dormitory
residents. Even more important than the segment of the stu-dent
body directly concerned are the somewhat disturbing im-plications
for the student body as a whole.
A previous editorial delineated the factors causing student
inconvenience in living on the new campus and commuting
to the present campus, and weighed this against the better fa-cilities
of the new dormitory. This discussion built a strong
argument for uniform rents on both campuses, and the case
for uniform rent was strengthened by the implications arising
from the half million dollar gift which made construction pos-sible.
This argument need not be reiterated.
Another consideration, which seems to have been lost in
the confusion, should be noted, however. The different rent
schedules were not announced. Students applied for housing
last spring assuming uniform rent. If there is to be a difference,
it is unfair not to announce it in advance; since this was not
done, this fact should be a consideration in the re-evaluation of
the rent situation.
As it turned out, the majority of students assigned to new
campus housing did not end up there by first choice. However,
they are tagged with higher rent in addition to winding up
with their second or third choice of housing.
Some officials have indicated that "extra services" will be
provided as compensation for these students. They have yet
to demonstrate what and how much, and, if past actions this
fall are a reliable indication of what is yet to come, students
will be understandably pessimistic.
Again, the question has been asked by some officials,
"How do you set a price on inconvenience?" We agree that this
may be difficult, but do not believe it is an excuse for shirking
the responsibility of making equitable adjustments to incon-venienced
parties.
A student enters into a type of contract with the college
for housing. If he does not fulfil the terms of this contract
and choses to live elsewhere after committing himself to col-lege
housing, he forfeits his room deposit. If he cancels out of
college housing during the year, he does not receive a propor-tional
reimbursement.
We feel that this contract is not a unilateral one. Perhaps
those who--are most intimately involved in decision making at
this point have lost sight of the not-so-minor point that the
college is the party which has not fulfilled the terms of this
contract in the case of the new dormitory.
As students, we feel that such carelessness is not excusable.
LETTING- THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY
. . . and students
The recent decisions involving rent and rebate questions
do not enhance the images of either the Business Office or
Student Services Office in student eyes.
Perhaps the most immediate implication of these decisions
concerns administrative promises to grant a rebate in compen-sation
for living in a partially completed building later this
fall, when new dorm occupancy is a reality. Such words have
a somewhat hollow ring to students whose confidence in these
offices has been undermined.
Further implications seem even more threatening from
both student and administrative perspectives. The failure to
meet legitimate student requests phrased in a responsible and
intelligent way with an appropriate response can be nothing
but detrimental to student-administration interaction.
Of course, the rent issue does not rest solely with new
dormitory residents. There has always been some overcrowd-ing
in Bodien without adequate compensation to those involved.
The rent for Falcon Manor is far from fair when its facilities
cont'd on page 3
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Ed. Note: This independent column is prepared by an editorial
board currently composed of four Bethel alumni: Malcolm Avey.
Jim Brand, Al Brown, and Rich Runbeck.
How much obedience does a man owe his state? Or per-haps
to put the question in contemporary language, what does
a man owe his country?
Absolute unquestioning obedience? Obedience tempored
by critical questioning? Strict obedience in some measures and
nominal obedience in others? Can it ever be possible that a
man owes to his state to be disobedient (i.e. civil dis-obedience)?
These are questions which rack the minds of many today.
In particular the questions of obedience in activities of war
seem to cause much confusion.
Christians have historically claimed to be special people.
Maybe then the question for Bethelites should be, "How much
obedience does a Christian owe his state?" Different Christian
groups historically have had varied answers.
The Roman Catholic Church as an institution in Europe
once had so much power that in many respects it was the state.
Canon (church) law had pre-eminence over local (state) law in
many areas and ways. As the Catholic Church began to lose
power to the state, conflicts developed.
The church often fought this change of jurisdiction, nor
were its motives always selfish. Sometimes it condemned a
state because of its alleged wrongful activities. As a result
there is a strong background of potential opposition to state
power in the Catholic Church.
It is probably more than coincidence that the central fig-ure
in the challenge to America's Vietnam war policies is Sen.
McCarthy, a Catholic who once studied for the priesthood.
When one turns to Protestant history and doctrine, he
finds a mixture of belief. The Mennonites and Anabaptists,
sometimes viewed as "fringe" Protestant movements of the
16th century, maintained (and still do) an ambivalent attitude
toward the state.
They would obey in some things, but in others which they
felt contradicted their Christian conscience (such as war), they
refused. They found themselves persecuted by both Catholics
and other Protestants for their position.
The "main line" Protestants, Lutherans and Calvinists,
however, seem to have identified very heavily with state power.
Like the Catholics their motives were mixed.
Being very ardent Biblicists, they siezed upon individual
verses and passages, such as Romans 13, to demonstrate God's
demand for strict obedience. Some Lutheran and Calvinist
princes and rulers, however, used this doctrine to justify non-compliance
with Catholic directives.
As long as they could claim that their state's powers des-cended
from God, they did not need to heed the pope or any
other prince or ruler. The "divine right of kings" doctrine
got a big boost from Protestant doctrine on the state.
All this history might seem irrelevant except that many
Christians behave today toward their state in ways proscribed
by these doctrines. This is particularly dangerous for the "main
line" Protestants.
The pressure of modern experience with state power
weighs very heavily on the conscience. One doubts that a
Christian who was put in charge of the gas chambers in a
Nazi extermination camp could long praise God at the end of
each day. In fact it might seem that this man stands condemned
by Romans 13:9 and 10 which describes love as the supreme
commandment and says "love worketh no ill to his neighbor."
Modern states since the close of WW II have collected even
more potentially horrible weaponry and destructive plans than
the Nazi's. Everything from ICBM's with multiple explosive
heads to the use of Bubonic plague spread by saboteurs is advo-cated
as potential war procedure.
And it's not just the "Bad guys" in the "communist" world
who are doing research in these techniques. The U.S. leads in
much of this research. It is time for Christians to re-evaluate
adherence to and use of state power.
J.B.
Friday, October 4, 1968
the CLARION Page 3
Dean Olson challenges small college
The real issue confronting the
small college in the big world is
survival! . . "the typical Protes-tant
college . . . has little to of-fer
that public colleges do not of-fer
at a lower price, except small-ness,
protectiveness, and some-times
piety.-
. I do not discount the vital
role the church-related colleges
play in the educational future of
America. The reason I have ac-cepted
this position of the vice
presidency and deanship of Bethel
College is . . . that I am here with
just as deep a commitment to the
distinctive mission which I believe
the Christian liberal arts colleges
have to American education.
I see no dichotomy between my
Christian, theological perspective,
my Biblical worldview and the
finest and the highest in liberal
arts education. If liberal arts edu-cation
is the appropriating and
understanding of the total life of
man and his environment . . . the
Christian view is not something
over, under or alongside of. but
it is that integrative soul.
Ed. note : These excerpts are
from Dr. Olson's inaugural ad-dress,
given during academic
convocation Tuesday, October 1.
I am not certain how long a
small college like Bethel can sur-vive
and truly be prophetic. The
patronage function squelches the
prophetic function. .. Small pri-vate
colleges, except a few, cannot
enjoy financial independence.
Too often the prophetic voice of
the college is muted to woo the
concerned constituency, which
usually asks for the healing of
existing insecurities, than to create
greater anxieties by exposing, cru-sading,
contending for ideas, con-cepts
and causes that are less than
popular to the materially afflueni
and the spiritually serene.
Instead of blowing the prophet's
trumpet to the secular world and
crying "Hear ye, Hear ye," we toot
our tin, toy horns that may irritate
the sensitivities of the select, par-ticularly
in the institutional church.
But this noise in the solemn as-semblies
is scarcely heeded on the
The acceleration in the velocity
of history, the rapidity and the
rate of social change means that
inherited ideas, structured iner-rancies
of faith and practice and
institutional forms and patterns
live in constant jeopardy of obso-lescence.
The older generation, which
adopts the pattern and supports,
the position of Bethel, lived in a
day when change was a spectacu-lar
innovation. Time was given for
adjustment to each.
New rents set
Recommendations prepared by
the Student Services Office con-cerning
the present schedule of
rents and the question of rebates
for students affected by temporary
housing were approved early this
week by the Business Office.
Rebates on rent charges were
granted to all students affected
by interim housing. The decision
was made, however, not to change
the current schedule of rents for
any college housing. Meal ticket
alterations were enacted for resi-dents
of the new campus dormi-tory.
Students living in non-Bethel fa-cilities,
excluding the fairground
units, will receive a rebate of $9.00
per week from September 5 to
the time they move into the new
dorm.
Women students living in the
fairground units will be granted
a rebate of $2.00 per week until
the new housing is available. This
means they will pay $7.00 per
week for the motel which equals
expense incurred by the college for
each occupant.
Men temporarily living in Ed-gren
and permanent Edgren resi-dents
who have had an extra per-son
living in their rooms are sla-ted
to receive a $2.00 rebate per
week.
Adjustments in the meal proce-dure
allow students living in the
new dorm a refund for breakfasts.
The special meal ticket policy per-mits
the student to eat any two
meals he chooses in either the
coffee shop or the cafeteria.
Rebates will be given after stu-dents
move into their new hous-ing,
when it will be possible to de-termine
the exact amount to be
refunded. The amount of compen-sation
students are entitled to for
living in a partially completed
building is now under considera-tion
and will be set when the
building is occupied.
other side of the ecclesiastical
moat.
.. We dare not remove the dy-namism
of the Gospel to a con-trolled
conservatory where time
stands still, where there are no
contradictions, where pious phras-es
only have meaning in some Bib-lical
anagram game. . . . We must
take seriously the cost of this dis-cipleship.
If students are intro-duced
to the vital dimensions of
human involvement, it is hoped
that increasingly they would be a
part of the prophetic perspective.
Another characteristic of the pro-phetic
function is that of courage.
I have usually interpreted the
words of Jesus, "If the world hates
you, know that it hated me," to
refer to that big, bad secular world,
full of thieves and murderers. But
when I read the gospel record I
find the prostitutes, outcasts, po-litical
revolutionaries, politicians,
But now our young people
are bombarded by instantaneous
change that threatens their very
personal identity. Communication
is no longer in logical sequence,
including time and distance, but
now it is simultaneous and collec-tive,
it "involves all of us all at
once."
It is easy for the church to think
of its college as a fortress, a place
which will protect young people
from the threatening changes tak-ing
place, as seen so vividly on
the large universities.
The delicate balance between
the ideas that are acceptable and
those that are questionable is in-creasingly
being threatened. The
risks of misunderstanding, aliena-tion
and perhaps a college collapse
are real.
Therefore let me suggest a cri-teria
for relationship: One, the
college ought to remain true to
the Christian faith that makes it
distinctive. I'm referring to the
faith that fights, weeps, consoles,
thinks, struggles, overcomes. I feel
the college can make a contribu-tion
to the church by explicating
a secular theology.
The churches should be able
to commend or criticize t h e
college without the spirit of pa-ternalism,
and the college should
be able to be free to experiment
and test the patterns and preach-ment
of the church establishment
without the spirit of arrogance
or irresponsibility.
soldiers, poor people, children re-ceived
the Saviour.
The tragedy was that the reli-gious
establishment did not re-ceive
him. I'm not so sure that
the secular world is going to hate
the Christian for truly being pro-phetic.
It very likely will be the
religious regiments that are afraid
of anyone breaking step.
The third characteristic for the
performance of the prophetic func-tion
in freedom. I am not even
concerned about the freedom from
outward servility. Many of the Old
Testament prophets were impris-oned
and bound, but still were free
prophets.
This release comes only 'because
the person has met that one who
was sent "to proclaim release to
the captives . . . to set at liberty
those who are oppressed."
. . . A major characteristic of the
prophetic function is faith. A pro-phet
who has no hope, sees no
"city which has foundations, whose
builder and maker is God," is a
"prof," to be sure, but he has no
"it." He is broken in the middle.
This prophetic function may
seem like a dream, dangerous and
delirious to some, but to others
it will be a way, a venture, a
meaningful existence of bearing
the cross of Christ.
Without the ideal of the prophe-tic
function it seems that a Chris-tian
liberal arts college does not
rise much higher than the charac-terization
made by Robert Hutch-ins
who defined the university as
a group of buildings and schools
that share a common heating
plant.
apostolic action
To be a part of a community of
scholars committed to the Chris-tian
world-view which I have set
before you means that education
must be expressed in demonstra-tion.
If Bethel can place the soul
in the life of liberal arts educa-tion,
then it seems that many of
the graduates ought to be motiva-ted
not only to speak to the ills of
the world but also to give healing
to the hurts of the world.
To participate in the mission of
Christ, to be a part of his apos-tolate
ought to be the most chal-lenging
option of our day. Un-fortunately
the apostolate has of-ten
been associated with societies,
special organized projects spon-sored
by institutional churches.
While not trying to be presump-tuous,
I still believe the ultimate
secret for the survival of a col-lege
like Bethel is its belief, its
commitment to that same God who
is our mighty fortress in the midst
of this big world.
opening challenge .. . the college's prophetic function ...
churchly function
Students face unfair decisions
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are compared to other college owned manors and it is certainly
far from being competitive on the open market.
This week's decisions indicate that student interests are
not given adequate consideration. And students could well ask
why no student representative was allowed to represent, first
hand, their own interests in the decision making process. This
is not a request for student made decisions; it is, however, a
very legitimate request for active student participation in de-cisions
which directly concern students.
What student response to the recent decisions will involve
remains to be seen. If the college's goal of producing young
men and women capable of realizing their "unique and sacred
potentialities," of making their "own best contribution to so-ciety,"
of developing a "discriminating awareness of and con-cern
for Christian motives," (page 8 of the Bethel College Cata-log),
if this goal is being reached, the kind of students present
at Bethel will respond with a plea for greater autonomy in areas
that will help prepare them better for the outside world.
But if students continue to sit passively in the face of
token responses to legitimate requests, responses which are
more of an insult to student "pretentiousness" in daring to
question a decision than an acknowledgement of student ex-pression,
than the goal of an evangelical task force capable
of penetrating society is little more than an idle dream.
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Friday, October 4, 1968
Bethel Center: end or beginning?
The Social Ministries Committee
of the Minnesota Baptist Confer-ence
recommends that Bethel
Christian Center cease operation.
Urban Redevelopment gave the
committee the options of either
improving the Center substantial-ly
or discontinuing it.
T h e costs of improvement
ranged from $20,000 to $40,000.
The monetary value of the Cen-ter
approximates $15,000.
Therefore approximately $50,000
would be involved in rehabilitation.
From the perspective of communi-ty
developments such expenditures
seemed unwise to the Committee.
The Seward community, in
which the Center exists, receives
the service of Pillsbury-Waite
Neighborhood Services. In the
process of area renewal an ade-quate
community center is being
established through the joint co-operation
of the Minneapolis Park
Board, the Minneapolis Board of
Education, and Pillsbury House.
This facility will be constructed
in the immediate area of the Cen-ter.
Continuation of this Baptist
organization for multiple purpose
urban outreach would mean both
competition and costly duplication
of community service efforts.
Another negative feature be-comes
apparent in a study of area
geography. The community will
soon be locked in by freeways on
Having spent the first eighteen
years of my life in a small rural
community, I probably experienced
as much culture shock during my
summer in the Inner-City of Min-neapolis
as any of my Student
Missionary friends who traveled
abroad. I gave the name "Urban-ity"
to the life I expected to face
—cold, impersonal neighbors, rat-infested
homes, exhaust-polluted
air and noise.
But mine was a typical neighbor-hood.
The closest thing I saw to
a rat-infested house was one eve-ning
when a wary looking gray
mouse peeked out at me from be-neath
my own stove.
Perhaps the income of the aver-age
member of the community was
a bit below the average for the
city, but the people were of vari-ous
types. There were good Chris-tian
families, the typical American
Church-goers, the Sunday morning
sleepers, and those with a criminal
two sides, railroad tracks on a
third, and the Mississippi River on
the fourth side.
Because of the competitive fa-cilities
and the geographic ina-bility
to attract people from adja-cent
areas, the Social Ministries
Committee felt compelled to rec-ommend
that the program be aban-doned.
On October 3-5 the Annual Meet-ing
of the Minnesota Baptist CQn-ference
will be held in Duluth.
The Committee will make their
recommendation then.
It is expected that the passing
of this resolution will be routine.
In fact, Rev. Westby, full-time di-rector
of the Center, already is
formulating plans to transfer the
Sunday School to Bethlehem Bap-tist
Church by January and the
club program by the following
spring.
When Bethel Center dissolves a
colorful chapter in the history of
the Baptist Church will end. Ini-tially
in 1907 the Bethel Church
almost faced extinction in the face
of a lack of building funds.
Involved in the foreign mission
program and the creation of a
Christian community, the Bethel
Church soon found itself swallowed
by the jaws of the Big City. Then
they experienced neighborhood de-terioration
and now urban renewal.
From a rural church to a labora-record.
I got to know all of the people
in the neighborhood — from the
lonely five year old to the local
prostitutes to dynamic Christian
teenagers. All were my friends.
These friends were not so much
living in financial poverty as they
were living in emotional and spir-itual
poverty.
The real joy of life comes when
we stop telling people about love
and begin to show it. It does no
good to slap the fingers of a drunk-en
teenager and say, "naughty,
naughty." I cannot expect to ap-pease
my conscience by sending
someone else across the sea.
Christianity has become a 24-
hour a day way of life. The real
exhilaration and joy cannot be
related except between those who
have known the same situation.
My opinion of the city has
changed. "Urbanity" may be cold,
impersonal neighbors but they are
tory in urban outreach, the Church
has existed. Now in the renewal,
it must die. With it goes the only
Minnesota Conference supported
urban program.
The relevant question now is,
how will the Baptist movement
reach the urban area?
impersonal only as long as we are
unwilling to go to them. "Urbanity"
may be rat-infested housing but
what are we doing in our comforta,
bly padded pews if this is the case?
"Urbanity" is noise, but look be-yond
the general hub-bub to the
questions of the individual. Urban-ity
is the individual. No where do
we have the opportunity to con-front
more people than in the city.
Ip Joel we read . . . "Your old
men shall dream dreams, and your
sons and your daughters shall pro-phesy,
and your young men shall
see visions. . ." I'm anxious that
the young men and women of
Bethel College will catch the vision
of the city that needs Christ.
It means laughing at yourself,
sharing your very soul with others,
loving people you may have a diffi-culty
in liking. It also means walk-ing
every step of the way with
Jesus Christ. It's Christianity in
action. How about it?
Who gets this sign?
summer of 1968 when the basic theme was "God's
Love Conquers the World."
Participation in a Day Camp situation added
a new dimension to the summer program at Beth-el
Christian Center. Bethel Center participates
with five conference churches in Camp Oh'Beco,
located on Ham Lake north of Minneapolis.
This week provides the Bethel Center kids with
an opportunity to get to know youngsters from
other backgrounds as well as to have some fun
in the out-of-doors.
For teen-age boys in the Bethel Center area
the highlight of the summer comes in August
when Dick takes them on a canoe trip in Northern
Minnesota for a week. This week provides op-portunities
for discussion and dialogue with boys
who seldom think about God and Salvation.
In the winter of 1967 a Sunday service was
started at Bethel Center. This program begins
with an opening session. Dick Westby leads and
the group then breaks up into separate Sunday
School classes for most ages.
Much formal contact is made by Rev. Westby
through casual meetings on the streets, the school
playground and in the homes. Many opportunities
are opened through these contacts to be living
models of Jesus Christ.
Bethel Center does not minister in the normal
way a church does but tries to deal with people
where they are.
Who makes windows?
A curtain falls .. .
Center faces closing
Bethel Christian Center started its existence
in a building formerly known as the Bethel Bap-tist
Church, which began as an offshoot of Beth-lehem
Baptist, located in downtown Minneapolis.
The original community, largely Swedish in
background, was rural in 'nature. Pasture lands
surrounded the original church building which
was erected in 1896 and was replaced by the pres-ent
brick building in 1907.
Throughout the years many well known men
and women began their careers in Bethel Baptist.
Rev. K. J. Carlson added much stability to Bethel
Baptist during his years of service there.
Bethel Baptist also added to the Christian en-deavor
on a broader scale by giving Rev. and Mrs.
Charles Merchant for missionary service in Assam.
As the years went by the community surround-ing.
Bethel Baptist changed. The Swedish people
became a minority and finally became almost
extinct.
With the disintegration of church membership
in the neighborhood Bethel Baptist lost much of
its leadership and financial backing. In 1961 the
situation became critical and the daughter church,
Bethel Baptist, went back to Bethlehem Baptist.
For several years Bethlehem Baptist people
attempted to keep a program going at Bethel
Church. The program mainly consisted of different
interest clubs such as leatherwork, sewing, and
cooking.
After two years of working Bethlehem Baptist
encountered a critical situation in regard to work-ers
and had to give up the work. The Minnesota
Baptist Conference took over possession of old
Bethel Baptist for one dollar.
For the first years the work was carried on by
part-time directors. This method proved to be
unsatisfactory and in October of 1966 Rev. Dick
Westby came as the first full-time director of
Bethel Christian Center.
Since coming to Bethel Center, Rev. Westby,
or Dick as he is known to the area, has added to
existing programs and started severel new pro-grams.
A club program which covered youth in
grades three through nine started with leadership
from Bethel College.
These clubs place college-age youth, who come
from a middle-class orientated church and social
background, in contact with kids who come from
lower-middle and upper-lower social classes and
from limited church backgrounds. The learning
process occurs on both sides in this type of re-lationship.
During the summer a Daily Vacation Bible
School adds an opportunity for the kids in the
neighborhood to come into contact with the Gos-pel
of Jesus Christ in a more formal and structur-ed
manner than is usually associated with Bethel
Center.
Westby trys to instill action and relevance to
the VBS program. For example, consider the
Center stimulates cultural shock by Val Peterson
Closed?
Bethel student interprets
summer work at center
by Larry Day
Friday, October 4, 1968
the CLARION
Page 5
by Dan Johnson
American vagabond travelers or tramps of yesterday who
roamed the continent by foot and rail have almost vanished
from the typical rural scene. Many of the past carefree leisure
travel experiences and opportunities have disappeared with the
construction of concrete slabs connecting the superhighways
with the supersonic airports.
But this has provided tremendous opportunities for con-tinental
and foreign travel. Even though our country is great
for rapid traveling, it often lacks this free spirit of traveling
which students have rejuvenated in many foreign countries.
The popularity of student travel and mobility has inspired
this weekly column. Many Bethel students are "Campus Vaga-bonds"
with their varied experiences of living and traveling
abroad. Others never cross an ocean but keep their wheels
moving on the North American continent.
This newest addition to the CLARION will informally pre-sent
people and experiences while traveling abroad or within
the states. It will be informative about current student travel
opportunities and events internationally.
The "Campus Vagabonds" column will welcome any stu-dent
contributions and comments.
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Students unite for urban action
The challenge of the City is on
the hearts of both Evangelicals and
Secularists at this time in our his-tory.
It is in the city that the
Church is going to be facing its
greatest challenge in the coming
years.
During my summer at Bethel
Christian Center in Minneapolis I
learned a little more about the
urban situation. It was not the
most optimistic time that I have
ever had in my life.
In fact, at times I was very de-pressed
with the apparent lack of
effect upon the kids with whom I
had contact. Most particularly, the
teenagers tried to keep as much
distance as possible between them-selves
and a stranger in the neigh-borhood.
It took almost the entire ten
weeks that I spent in the Seward
Community before I was able to
break down the barriers between
A new look is shaping the Coffee
Shop, making it more accessible
to Bethel's community.
Accommodation has always been
a problem. This year one section
which formerly was isolated by a
divider has been remade into the
Royal Room. New tables and chairs
fill this wing, which is enclosed
by white ironwork fencing. On the
wall the words "Bethel Royals"
surround a gold lion's face.
Remodeling emphasizes one of
the major aims of the Coffee Shop
—to provide a more suitable place
for socializing. It's not necessarily
us. They needed to have time to
look me over and to see if I was
worthy of trust.
Exposure to me was the most
important during the early part of
the summer. After they were sure
that I was all right they began to
talk with me.
This last point may be the most
important one that I discovered
this summer. One must not push to
be accepted as a member of the
"IN" crowd because you never will
be a true member. We can only
sit around and show that we are
concerned and that we won't shove
religion down anybody's throat.
We must just show love and
concern, and hope that they will
be able to realize what is meant
when it is stated that God is
love. This is especially necessary
since not many of the kids have
ever experienced love. They need
direction in how to love and be
oved.
a hang-out for the hungry. Tables
may be reserved for groups or
committee meetings during serv-ing
hours or at night. Often peo-ple
come there just to unwind
their minds or relax their nerves.
Convenience has been a sore-spot
in the Coffee Shop's kitchen.
The time required for dishwashing
didn't allow for efficient service.
Consequently there has been a
change to paper and plastic dish-es.
The renovations in decor and
dishes have helped the Coffee Shop
to serve Bethelites better.
In response to the vacuum in
Baptist urban relations, a social
action committee, Students for Ur-ban
Involvement, has been formed.
Students for Urban Involvement
intends to be an innovative group
dedicated to experimentation in
Christian outreach to various ur-ban
groups.
It hopes to develop within the
Minnesota Conference new atti-tudes
toward Christian social ac-tion.
Another objective concerns
the preparations of the Bethel com-munity
for the enrollment of ur-ban
minority groups.
The committee basically agrees
with the decision to discontinue
the Bethel Center as such. How-ever
it opposes withdrawal from
the Seward area.
If Bethel Center cannot function
in that area, Students for Urban
Involvement contends that the re-structuring
of involvement, not re-treat,
constitutes the proper re-sponse.
Initiation of this action involves
Maurice Zaffke, Arnie Bergstrom
and Larry Day. Other organizers
include Tom Mesaros and Lynn
Bergfalk.
by Marjorie Rusche
With the school year barely start-ed,
the cafeteria has already be-come
a focal point of concern for
many students. Comments about
the quality of the food and effici-ency
of the food service are num-erous.
This article will explore the
operatory of the cafeteria.
Administration of the cafeteria
is done by Mrs. Johnson, food ser-vice
manager, and Wayne Erickson,
administrative assistant. In an in-terview,
they delineated the joint
set-up of the cafeteria.
"Our biggest problem with the
food service right now is finding
enough people to work at noon,
particularly Monday, T u e s d a y,
Wednesday and Friday," they said.
"The evening and breakfast meals
are pretty well covered.
"When we get more workers,
we hope to open up a second line
to ease the situation of long waits
in line. One fellow came to us
and reported standing in line for
45 minutes. We want to try and
prevent this type of thing. We en-joy
hearing all comments about the
food service," they concluded.
Another important aspect of the
cafeteria 'involves the financial
end. Mr. Walters in the Business
office stated, "The cafeteria has a
budget of $235,000. Students con-tribute
all but $15,000 to this."
Salaries of non-student food work-ers
were a confidential matter.
Student wages are $1.30 per hour.
Forty-five per cent Of the total
cafeteria budget is spent for food.
The majority of the budget is used
in salaries and fringe benefits, in-
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Coffee shop caters to patrons
surance, wages, utilities, equip-ment,
maintenance, etc. Walters
predicted that inflationary trends,
increasing food costs, and rising
wages would precipitate a rise in
food costs for the college next
year, and that part or all of this
raise would be passed on to the
students.
Random interviews with student
cafeteria workers provided some
interesting insights into food ser-vice.
One worker was fuming be-cause
Bethelites weren't stacking
their trays correctly. Since only
one person can clear trays, time
and money are saved if students
stack their trays the way they're
supposed to. Another worker was
so physically exhausted after two
hours of working (only two people
were working at a particular job
which required four) that she
broke down in tears when she
reached her room.
So students—have patience with
the cafeteria food service. They
really are trying to provide ade-quate
nourishment for the Bethel
community.
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bus made its initial run to the
new campus. Donning the appear-ance
of a moving van, it trans-ported
twenty-four fellows and
their possessions from Edgren to
the Seminary Apartments, where
they will be, living until the new
dorm is fintihed.
After following some formal
leads with bus companies and a
few informal tips, Bethel purchased
a demonstrator. Advantaged be-cause
the bus is practically new,
the college also has a guarantee
on it and paid 10 percent less than
the cost of a new bus.
Adding character and color to
the Bethel community, the trans-port
system consists of a Chevro-let
chassis topped with a Bluebird
body, lustrously painted "school
bus orange." Bethel College and
Seminary, inscribed on its side, sig-nifies
its membership.
The personnel operating the bus
This morning the Bethel College will be selected under Student Em-ployment.
Fellows who have chauf-feur's
licenses are eligible.
The bus will accommodate thir-ty-
six students each run. Any
member of the Bethel community
including Seminary students are
welcome to ride. Presently no
schedule has been organized for
runs. but one will develop accord-to
the needs of the students.
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Mr. James Bragg joined Bethel
this year as Assistant Dean of Stu-
' dents. Actually he will be spend-ing
half his time with financial aid
and half with recruitment.
Last April during an interview
President Lundquist discovered
that Bragg had been involved in
a program of minority recruitment
at Aurora College in Illinois. In-terested
in the progress of his
campaign, the President asked him
to lead Bethel in a similar pro-gram
to recruit Inner City Blacks.
"Bethel definitely has a respon-sibility
with the Black community,"
Bragg stated. "We will do some-thing,
but maybe we need work
done here first."
On October 7, Bragg; along with
representatives from other colle-ges,
will attend a session on "Pro-grams
for Disadvantaged Stu-dents."
The interaction within the
group will allow him to perceive
the current attitudes of other col-leges.
Radio station
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However, an increase in power
creates listeners outside the Beth-el
community, and this spontan-eously
produces a greater responsi-bility
for WBCS. Kingsbeck
warned, "it would be easy to inno-cently
create a harmful situation
—I mean harmful to Bethel's repu-tation.
"We want to work with adminis-tration,
but I don't presently fore-see
any major organizational chan-ges."
He expects to begin broad-casting
FM stereo the summer be-fore
the college begins classes
in Arden Hills.
Kingsbeck pointed out that the
studio presently owns three tape
decks, three professional turn ta-bles,
a table for 45 RPM records
and another in the recording room;
eight preamplifiers for strengthen-ing
the sound directly from the
turn table, three monitor ampli-fiers,
two program amplifiers, and
one large power amplifier for
broadcasting directly up to the
Coffee Shop; and eight older, aux-iliary
amplifiers to supplement
when needed.
"We also have an open p.o. for
suggestions (box 2044) and will al-ways
seek improvement," Kings-beck
assured. Monday, opening
night, he extends a general invi-tation
(with punch and donuts) for
anyone interested in visiting the
studio below the Coffee Shop.
Friday, October 4, 1968
Bethel's Faculty and Student
Committee on Minority Groups al-ready
has met twice, and plans
are underway for tapping campus
opinion. Questionaires relating to
students' feelings will be circula-ted,
and results will be tallied by
the middle of October.
On the basis of Bragg's former
experience with minority recruit-ing,
the data of other campuses'
reactions, and the position the poll
determines, Bethel will know what
course of action to pursue.
Bragg admitted, "The Blacks will
have to adjust to us, but we will
have more difficulty adjusting to
them."
There will be stress on both
sides. First the problems and re-sponsibilities
for accommodation
must be identified. General atti-tudes,
financing, and academic
needs are a few issues that need
to be probed. Full membership in
the Bethel community would en-tail
equal responsibilities and
rights. What reaction would Beth-elites
have to the dating aspect,
which has appeared as a problem
in other colleges?
Bragg has contacts with high
school counselors, members of the
"Upward Bound" program, and .
Black missions from his work with-in
the Chicago area. At Bethel he
will also work with Minnesota high
school counselors and the Confer-ence
and its missions.
"There's no problem getting
Black students. The problem will
be in our screening, finding those
Bethel can accept and serve,"
Bragg sighted.
In other colleges the Blacks' pat-tern
has been consistent. One or
two won't stay. Either they will
leave or else will come in a group.
At Aurora College Bragg said they
started with three or four Blacks,
but within five years they were
eighty or ninety. Under a careful-ly
instituted program the percent-age
will rise tremendously.
From an informal census in
which members of the Bethel com-munity
have committed themselves
in conversation, it appears that
Bethelites realize that something
must be done. The test now is if
the earnest concern extends to the
extent of advancing openly tow-ards
minority recruitment.
Christ The Tiger
By Tom. Howard
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Bragg spearheads formulation
of minority recruiting strategy
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appropriate name did not influence her interest in a
library career.
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Friday, October 4, 1968 the CLARION Page 7
Bethel's own Dewey directs library
The second year of the embry-onic
beginnings of the Bethel Soc-cer
Club has gotten off to an un-usual
start; the team has been
practicing. Unlike last year's sea-son
of four games and two practi-ces,
the team has been practicing
for three weeks in preparation for
their opener next Monday.
The team will be hosting Pills-bury
College from Owatonna, using
the facilities of Luther Seminary.
Game time will be 3:00 o'clock.
Then, without a rest, the squad will
travel down to Hamline for a 4:00
o'clock Tuesday game.
This year's club is led by Jerry
Jenfa, a foreign student from Ni-geria,
and Rich Swanson, a M. K.
from the same country. Also re-turning
from last year's team are
Tim Larson, Fred Brumm, and Wal-ly
Borner.
Minnehaha Academy has gradu-ated
two very capable performers
The Minnesota Free University,
now in its second year of opera-tion,
will start Monday, October 7.
Its offerings are comprised of
courses not usually included in
the University of Minnesota's regu-lar
curriculum.
The purpose of the free univer-sity,
according to its catalog, is
to "help you control your .own
to the squad. Jon Nordstrom will
be the backbone of the defense
as he tends the goal. Dave
Schmidt will be a help both de-fensively
and offensively. Lee
Granlund, a freshman from Alex-ander
Ramsey High School, will di-rect
the offensive attack.
Tuesday, Sept. 24, the club scrim-maged
Hamline. Though the first
half showed the dire need for more
well-organized practices, the sec-ond
half found Bethel dominating
possession of the ball.
The wind was a big factor, how-ever.
A better game of controlled
passing kept the ball in Hamline
territory. Pete Wicklund scored
on a rebound shot from Lee Gran-lund
midway in that half.
Besides the games with Pillsbury
and Hamline, the team will also
seek to schedule games with Con-cordia,
Macalester, St. Thomas, and
Luther Seminary.
classes, your education," and
courses are open to any interested
individual. Free university teach-ers
include professors, graduate
students, and other people involved
in community activities.
A complete listing of courses is
available at most University of
Minnesota bookstores.
by Margie Whaley
Bethel's new college librarian 'is
enthusiastic about her work here
this year and about plans for a
more adequate library on the Ar-den
Hills campus.
Replacing Bethel's former libra-rian,
Dr. Dalphy Fagerstrom, is
Mrs. Carlyle Dewey of Minnea-polis,
who has had several years
experience in college libraries.
The young mother of a two-year-old
daughter, Mrs. (Margaret) Dew-ey
graduated from Northwestern
College and received her master
of arts degree in library science
from the University of Minneso-ta.
Mrs. Dewey said that having the
same last name as the famous
American librarian who originated
the Dewey Decimal System did not
influence her interest in a library
career. In fact, it was while she
was working on her masters degree
that she met Dewey (her hus-band),
who is an instructor of poli-tical
science at Augsburg College.
In answer to inevitable com-ments
about her "appropriate"
name, Mrs. Dewey simply main-tains
that "it would be a shame
to change to the Library of Con-gress
classification of books!"
During graduate school and two
years afterwards Mrs. Dewey was
assistant librarian at Northwestern.
She also worked in the University
of Missouri library while her hus-band
was in graduate school there.
When she was director of instruc-tional
resources at the St. Louis
(Mo.) Junior College library, she
worked closely with architects on
plans for a new library on that
campus.
Thus, Mrs. Dewey is looking for-ward
to conferences with the ar-chitects
for organizing the library
area of the new campus. Besides
more spacious study and book
stack areas, she also anticipates at
least four or five conference rooms
for student use and at least one
typing room, with several type-writers
provided, in the new cam-pus
library.
With the new librarian occupy-ing
the office just south of the
check-out desk, the former librar-ian's
office at the southeast cor-ner
of the library mezzanine has
been set aside this year as a
conference room. The area is to
be used on a first-come-first-served
basis and will be convenient for
Student senate
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clarification or else the correction
of mistaken wording or order.
NSA student discount cards will
again be sought. NSA provides an
employment service for college
seniors and a record club with a
low membership fee and without
minimum purchase regulations.
Materials such as these are avail-able
to interested students.
Here in the Bethel community
the Senate desires to have the Cof-fee
Shop opened at 11:10 a.m. and
to have the same area available to
students until 12 midnight.
Leonard Sammons, senior sena-tor,
submitted his resignation. It
will be effective October 14. Sam-mons
will continue at his post as
Election Board Chairman.
Although most of the work was
routine, the Senate handled itself
with the dispatch and personal re-straint
that student associations
should be able to expect.
students working on group projects
or persons who wish to use their
own typewriters in the library, ac-cording
to Mrs. Dewey.
Another project embarked upon
this year is that of a central col-lection
of audio-visual equipment
in the library to be checked out
by instructors in the various de-partments.
Added to the library's 50,000 vol-umes
and more than 400 magazine
subscriptions this year is a col-lection
of catalogues of all major
graduate schools. The rack of cata-logues
is to be placed near the
pamphlet file, Mrs. Dewey said.
Library hours have been extend-ed
this year to 10:30 p.m. daily,
in line with the extension of resi-dence
hall hours.
No major policies or library
procedures have been changed
this year, Mrs. Dewey said. She
noted that in the evenings the li-brary
is generally filled to capa-city
and is "just not big enough,"
although librarians attempt to keep
a proper study atmosphere.
A $25,000 budget provision for .
Since September 23, the Junior
Varsity football team has played
two games, tying their first game
and losing the second.
In the first, they met the Still-water
State Prison football team
at Stillwater. The inmates had a
definite weight advantage, however
the Royals were a 'bit speedier and
in better physical condition. The
score of the . contest was 6-6. Good
fortune rested with the Royals as
another Stillwater touchdown was
called back because of a penalty.
In the third period, Bethel re-covered
a Stillwater fumble deep
in the opponents territory, and, af-ter
a short drive, Ric Bakstrom
drove off tackle for the score. The
extra point attempt didn't even
get off the ground as a well-timed
safety blitz stopped the action com-pletely.
On Monday of this week, the
Junior Varsity played the varsity
team from Golden Valley Lutheran
Junior College. After having been
beaten by Stillwater two weeks
the library this year is about $9,-
000 more than last year, but still
not an exceeding amount consider-ing
the rising prices of reading
materials, Mrs. Dewey said.
Bethel's library has several other
new faces and positions this year
in addition to about 25 student
library employees.
James Sheldon, who was former-ly
music librarian, this year is in
charge of technical services. Mrs.
Helen Doble is new to the library
staff and is Sheldon's full-time as-sistant.
Mrs. Art Lewis, who is also a
part-time instrumental music in-structor
at Bethel, has accepted
the position of music ,librarian.
Miss Mary Leimberer has re-turned
as head of circulation and
Mrs. Joan Lethert is order clerk.
With Mrs. Dewey as full-time li-brarian,
Miss Carol Christensen,
assistant, devotes almost full time
to her position as readers' advisor.
Ke is in the library from 1:30
to 10:30 p.m. daily, assisting stu-dents
with particular questions and
research work.
ago, they came back to down the
Royals by a score of 28-13.
Golden Valley went out in front
in the first quarter with two quick
scores for a 14-0 lead. Then, in
the second quarter, the Royals put
on a good rush and blocked a punt
attempt by Golden Valley from
their own end zone.
After a scramble, Jim Johnson
recovered the ball within Golden
Valley's end zone to close the gap
with a 14-6 score. Golden Valley
scored again to bring the half-time
total to 21-6 in their favor.
Each team scored again in the
third period.
For Bethel, Bob Olsen crashed
over from the seven yard-line, ter-minating
a long Royal drive that
began near midfield. The extra
point attempt 'by Cal Harfst was
good, and the final score stood at
28-13, for Golden Valley.
The Junior Varsity will be play-ing
three more games this season,
the next one being October 7 with
Pillsbury.
Minnesota free university begins
second year of classes Monday
Junior varsity ties opener 6-6
but drops second contest 28-13
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Bethel's coaches, Jim Nelson, Jerry Oas, head coach Mo Shields, and Duane Gib-son
will be trying to lead their charges to the season's initial victory tomorrow against
UMM.
The man in the foreground is Jerry Montgomery, sports writer for the Dispatch.
Northland rally tops Bethel 21-7
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The Royals failed for the fourth
straight time to roar from their
cage. This time they were tamed
by Northland 21-7.
Though the final spread was 14
points, the score did not portray
the actual closeness of the game.
Winless in their previous attempts,
the Royals showed determination
as they took the field. Following a
hard week of practice there was
hunger for a victory. In the end,
however, the result was the same.
Bethel was faced again with the
fact that winning is not easy when
seven points is the limit in their
scoring.
Fans for the first time this sea-son
were given something to cheer
about despite the loss. Until the
final stanza the two teams were
deadlocked 7-7. It was anyone's
guess who would finally end up
the victor. The Royals appeared
to have the better team and were
outplaying Northland. But it was
the last punch that carried the
Lumberjacks to victory.
Final statistics showed Bethel
with an amazing 240 total yards.
This was more than the first three
games put together. Bethel led in
net yards gained in rushing 133
yards to 86 for Northland.
However, Northland led in pass-ing
with a total of 114 yards to
107, though having but six com-pletions.
Al Selander passed for
12 completions in 25 attempts, go-ing
for 97 yards in the air. Three
of his passes, however, were inter-cepted
by Northland, one account-ing
for a touchdown. Murray Sitte,
getting his first shot at quarter-back,
hit on 2 of 4 passes. Costly
The Bethel cross country team
lost to Hamline and Gustavus last
Saturday but all of the Royal har-riers
bettered their previous times.
The meet was held at the Como
Course.
The final scoring at Saturday's
triangular meet found Hamline
with 34 points, Gustavus with 43,
and Bethel closely following Gus-tavus
with 44. Bethel's Bill Gei-gert
captured second, Rich Swan-son
placed sixth, Dick Olson fin-ished
ninth, Phil James came in
thirteenth, and Brad Olsson plac-ed
fourteenth.
(In cross country, the lowest team
score wins. Team scores are based
on the sum of the - places of the
teams first five finishers.)
to Bethel was the loss of two fum-bles.
However the Royals held a
definite edge over Northland in
first downs. They had a 15 to 8
edge with 9 coming by rushing.
The game opened under condi-tions
quite the opposite from last
week's slush. Passing for a first
down, Bethel began a quick drive.
It was shortlived though, bringing
Swedberg in to punt.
A 51-yard punt into the end
zone marked the beginning of an-other
excellent punting day. To-taling
seven for the day, Fred av-eraged
42.7 yards per kick, keep-ing
his season average near the
40-yard mark.
Following an exchange of punts,
the Royals again charged. Launch-ing
their drive from the 35-yard
line of Northland, three first downs
left them first and goal on the
3. Here was Bethel's opportunity
for the first lead of the season.
Fans sat anxiously, anticipating
a plunge into the end zone. But
the play was to have a cooling ef-fect
as a pass went astray, landing
in an opponent's hands. The result
—a 100 yard run back by Sam
Komp, and Northland led 7-0.
Not to be outdone, the Royals
stomped back for another drive.
Again it was killed. Northland, tak-ing
over on their own 13, drove to
the 35 of Bethel and a first down.
With fourth down and four yards,
they went for a first down but
Tom Swanson dumped quarterback
Mark Willman for a ten yard loss.
In the closing minutes of the
half Bethel began a drive from
the 41 of Northland. Defensive pass
interference brought a first down
on the 28. On third down a pass
Coach Glader is pleased with his
men's performances. "We have
what is perhaps the best cross
coutry team we've ever had at
Bethel," he said. Unfortunately,
however, improved quality is not
limited to the Bethel team. As
Glader immediately added, "Ev-eryone
else is getting better, too."
The cross country team resumes
competition today when they run
against River Falls (Wisconsin) at
4 p.m. at the Como Course. Their
next meet will be on Saturday
when they travel to St. Peter, Min-nesota
to compete against host
Gustavus Adolphus, St. Thomas
College, and. Southwestern Junior
College.
by Wally Borner
Saturday, September 28, brought
a big surprise to the intramural
sports scene. The faculty, who in
the past have occasionally acquired
the nick-name Faulty Faculty,
fielded an eight man team, and
then to surprise everyone further,
they won.
Third New was the unfortunate
victim of faculty wrath as they
lost by a. narrow 13-12 margin.
Jack "Scrambler" Trager ran over
from the five for the Faculty's
first score, and then passed to Dick
Steinhouse for the extra point.
Their second score was a fifty
yard bomb from Trager to Stein-house.
In the closing seconds, Third
New was behind 13-6, their ice
breaker coming from a pass from
Larry Ostrom to Rollie Kingsley.
The same combination connected
for a second TD to bring them
within one but the extra point try
was unsuccessful to tie down the
Faculty victory.
Dale Saxon and Dan Larson pro-vided
most of the day's fireworks
as they led Falcon to a 25-0 white-wash
over the New Dorm. Saxon
passed to Larson for touchdowns
of 35, 50, and 40 yards and also
connected with Steve Hanson for
a 70-yard score. Wayne Carpenter
was the recipient of the only ex-tra
point Falcon could make.
Third Old whitewashed a six
man team from First Floor by a
en opportunities, failed to capital-ize
on them.
This Saturday the University of
Minnesota, Morris will meet the
Royals. It will be Bethel's fourth
straight home game. The Royals
will be out fighting as a loss would
extinguish any hopes for a win-ning
season.
23-0 score. Al Berg tossed to Tim
Hieb and ran for the first and last
Third Old TD's. Dave Maurer in-tercepted
a pass and ran it back
25 yards for the other. The squad's
tenacious defense also scored when
John Larson put two points on the
board with a safety.
In the last shut-out of the day,
Second New defeated Second Old
by a 15-0 margin. Gary Hasselblad
connected with Gordy Nordmark
and converted for a 7-0 lead with
Rick Berggren.
In the second half, Rory (Nord-mark)
scored the young season's
third safety. To cap off the scor-ing,
Rick Berggren caught a 10-
yard pass from Hasselblad.
Lowly Pit was the only spoiler
as they forfeited to an eager and
strong team from Off Campus.
Dale Saxon now leads all quar-terbacks
by a comfortable margin,
after the first two weeks of the
campaign. The former All-Star End
has tossed five scoring passes and
added two extra points to put up'
32 points to his credit.
Hasselblad, a former All-Star
Halfback, and frosh Rob Graben-kort
of First Floor take up second
place with 13 points.
Dan Larson leads in the regular
scoring department with 25 points
while Jim Feldman has 13, and
Rollie Kingsley 12 to round out
the top three. Fourteen players in
the ten - team league have one
touchdown.
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Bethel Baolestolte
to Jim Wessman was batted in the
air but grabbed by Sitte. Four
plays later Bethel scored on a one
yard run with Don Swanson carry-ing.
Cal Harfst split the goal posts
on the extra-point kick making the
score 7-7.
Neither team managed to pro-pell
a serious drive until the fourth
quarter. Taking the ball from the
mid-field, Northland scored in
seven plays. A 27-yard pass to
Carl Livingston gave the oppo-nents
a 14-7 lead. Before t h e
Royals could think of scoring, the
Lumberjacks were back at it again.
On first down, after a Bethel punt,
Ronnie Jones, a 5'8" freshman, ran
right through the defense for 52
yards and a TD. This was the
clincher as the Royals, though giv-
Harriers lose triangular
despite improved times