Clarion 1968-12-12 Vol 43 No 13

              Vol. XLIII—No. 13
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, December 12, 1968
Dwight Jessup (front, center) , political science instructor
poses in New York with his "U.N. delegation" of eleven Bethel
students.
Manhattan Island as seen from the United Nations Plaza,
where a group of Bethel students spent 2 days during Thanksgiving
vacation.
Festival proclaims "Joy Unspeakable"
Welds music, art, drama
into unique production
C. Edward Thomas, will both be
coordinated with slides from the
art department.
The exhuberant version of "Joy
To The World," accompanied by
brass, tympani and piano, presents
a bombastic and fitting close for
"Rejoice with Joy Unspeakable."
The art department has provided
the mural and slides. Elliot Don-nels
has compiled an excellent
script of poetry and scripture, nar-rated
by Sandra Holyer, Janet
Hurt, and Roger Inouye.
crown for a panoramic view of low-er
Manhattan and the harbor. The
leaves still blew around the 'num-erous
parks and squares scattered
throughout the city.
The thought of a full broadway
production became a reality as
many of us saw the performing
theater at its best. Even the musi-cal
and TV stage performances
were realized in their full dimen-sion
at one of the largest musical
halls in the world where we at-tended
a premiere.
As if the city of New York was
not enough, we traveled to Fair-field,
Connecticut, for a Sunday af-ternoon
and evening where the
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Four Bethel students particpiate
in institutional racism conference
Bethelites see U.N. in operation
by Linda Sparks
"Rejoice with Joy Unspeakable"
dominates Bethel's Twelfth Annual
Festival of Christmas this weekend,
December 13-15. As theme, it has
become a major concern for those
in music, speech, drama, and art.
As chill infiltrates the air and
tinsel and colored lights begin to
twinkle across the city, and as
dorm decorations gradually take
shape from tissue paper, glue,
paints, general disorder and hilar-ity,
preparations for Bethel's year-ly
Christmas pageant are speedily
being brought to a climax.
Having begun in September, the
long hours of preparation will cul-minate
this weekend in four Festi-val
of Christmas performances rep-resenting
a joint effort of music,
speech, drama, art, and hard work,
to produce a program of praise to
God for the Saviour's birth. For
students, faculty, staff, parents, and
friends of Bethel, it has become
one of the main highlights of the
year.
This year, an atmosphere of joy
is set by a prelude of carols and
Christmas songs played by the
Bethel Band.
The Festival Choir then marches
into the darkened Fieldhouse, col-ored
candles aglow, on the trium-phant
note, "The King Shall Come."
The choir, a combination of College
Choir, Women's Choir, Male Chor-us
and extras, directed by Oliver
Mogck begins the program with,
"What Strangers Are These?",
written by Purvis. Soloists are Lin-ae
Sunberg, Patricia Sandberg, and
Dan Wickman.
Next is a sweeping piece by But-ler,
"Jesus Is Born, Alleluia," ac-
While fellow students were eat-ing
turkey on Thanksgiving day,
a group of 11 Bethel students and
political science instructor Dwight
Jessup headed for New York City
by jet for an extended weekend of
activities. The major intent of the
tour was to see the United Nations
in action and attend the Interna-tional
Affairs Seminar sponsored
by the Church Center For The
United Nations.
Upon arrival the $2 bus ride
from JFK airport to the downtown
bus terminal conditioned us for the
next five days of cramming into
subways, standing in buses, wait-ing
for trains and ferries, walking,
and catching taxicabs. This was
often half the fun of getting a-companied
by brass and piano.
Christianson's "Lullaby On Christ-mas
Eve" follows with Nola Port
and Sylvia Wilkinson as solosists.
Women's Choir performs "Noel,"
by Kirk. an English carol, accom-panied
by flutes and piano, and "To
Shepherds Fast Asleep," by Davis,
directed by Oliver Mogck.
The spotlight now centers on the
Male Chorus, directed by C. How-ard
Smith, doing "Shepherds,
Awake!" by Davis and a selection
of Deis', "Christus Natu Est." The
men then give way to the most uni-que
part of the program.
"Amahl and the Night Visitors,"
written by the American, Gian-Car-lo
Menotti, so long rehearsed and
perfected by the College Choir;
adds a new dimension to this year's
Festival of Christmas. The opera
includes all the members of Col-lege
Choir, most as shepherds, vil-lagers
and acrobats, with leads
played by Jane Ahlquist, as Amahl,
Lois Lehman as the mother, P.
David Waite, Jonathan L. Larson
and Jon Nordstrom as the Wise-men,
and Richard Trinity as the
page.
Dale Rott, as Producer-Director.
has had the job of making these
excellent singers equally excellent
actors. Dr. Robert Berglund, as Mu-sic
Director, has elicited that same
sound from the choir to which
Bethel has become accustomed.
Following Bonelli's "Tocatta,"
performed by the Brass Choir, the
Festival Choir returns for the tri-umphant
conclusion to an excellent
program. "Lift Up Your Heads, 0
Ye Gates," done in double choir
arrangement, and "Joy To The
World," arranged and directed by
by Dan Johnson
round to see and do things. Due
to the headaches and expense of
parking it was a pleasure not to
have any cars, but it also created
some pains after a few days of
roaming around.
Arrangements for lodging were
made at the Trinity Baptist church
right in Lower Manhattan where
they somehow provided Red Cross
cots for our added comfort. It is
really a unique Conference church
complete with a German Shepherd
dog living in the church with the
caretaker.
Our first major excursion took
us on the Staten Island Ferry for
a roundtrip for ten cents. The
Statue of Liberty even quivered
in the wind as we climbed to the
participants who felt that the NSA
staff had structured the conference
poorly and really wasn't telling
them anything about racism that
the group wasn't cognizant of it-self.
That night general dissatisfaction
with the running of the conference
was augmented by Father Hes-burg's
(President of Notre Dame)
speech dealing with civil rights in
which he engaged in a great deal
of paternalism and double-talk in
order to justify the discriminatory
activities of himself and his Board
of Trustees.
After Hesburg's speech, a third
of the audience left the room to
attend a question-answer session
with Father Hesburg. The other
two-thirds stayed to generally rap
Hesburg's speech and more specifi-cally
the direction (or lack of it)
that the conference was taking.
The NSA agenda for the confer-ence
then completely broke down
and a free university type situation
was planned. Anyone who felt they
had something meaningful to teach
cont'd on page 2
Cuts in funds
hit campuses
(ACP)—Chronicle of Higher Ed-ucation.
Programs under the first
education act signed by President
Johnson are becoming atrophied.
Shrinking funds for grants and
loans under the Higher Education
Facilities Act of 1963 mean serious
dislocations on the nation's cam-puses.
Two years of deep cuts in U. S.
Office of Education facilities grants
and loans have pared funds far be-low
the amounts needed to provide
adequate academic space to meet
burgeoning enrollments.
For many institutions the cut-backs
mean more years of over-crowded
classrooms, inadequate li-braries,
increased student fees, re-luctantly
raised admission stand-ards
to ease the pressures on space,
faculty recruitment difficulties,
curtailment of curriculums, and in-ability
to offer new courses.
The Office of Education expects
more of the same in fiscal 1970.
by Marjorie Rusche
Four Bethel students, Kathy An-derson,
Dean Pearson, Duane Per-kins,
and Marjorie Rusch partici-pated
in a National Student Asso-ciation
conference on institutional
racism held at Notre Dame during
Thanksgiving vacation.
In preparation for this confer-ence,
the members of the group
did research regarding the extent
of institutional racism existing on
Bethel campus. The research and
conclusions were presented in a pa-per
which was mailed to the NSA
two weeks prior to the conference.
Thursday night at the confer-ence,
the film, "No Vietnamese
Ever Called Me Nigger" was shown.
Then participants divided into
groups of fifty for Microlabs.
In the microlabs, a series of ex-ercises
loosened the tension within
each group so students could more
profitably work with each other in
the following days. Exercises in-cluded
verbal and non-verbal com-munication
in both large and small
groups, such as two people alter-nately
leading each other around
with the follower's eyes shut.
Friday morning David Steinberg
of the NSA staff lectured on the
"Introduction, Definition, and Anal-ysis
of Racism in America." Discus-sions
of the analysis extended into
late afternoon. Dissatisfaction, how-ever,
was being expressed among
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Maximum use of facilities
loosens grip of limitations
An important distinction, too often blurred, should be kept
in mind by those who, through their close proximity to the func-tioning
of Bethel, occassionally feel prompted to weigh the
shortcomings and strong points of the college. An evaluation,
to be meaningful, must distinguish between Bethel's resources
and facilities and the utilization of them.
Sometimes dissatisfaction with Bethel can be traced to a
failure to understand the inherent limitations of the college's
resources or facilities. For the most part these limitations are
ones with which Bethel must live; they need to be recognized
and understood in that context.
Such limitations, however, make optimum utilization of
what Bethel does have at its disposal imperative. This is a very
legitimate concern of all members of the college community,
and no one should refrain from according generous praise or
from voicing criticism when a situation calls for it.
This year Bethel has taken some progressive steps, both
small and large, towards extracting maximum mileage from
that which is available. The library, in opening its doors on
Sunday afternoon, has met a dire campus need for expanded
weekend study facilities. Student Services, by conveniently
centralizing campus notices in the Daily Calendar, has stopped
a monumental waste of paper and eased the endless cluttering
of P. 0. boxes with varied notices.
Whether it is something which meets an important student
need (like Sunday library hours) or something like the Daily
Calendar which smooths some of the bumps in the day to day
grind of attending school, students appreciate such action and
would like to see the same spirit carried into other areas.
For instance, it seems wasteful to close the gym Saturday
evenings and Sunday afternoons after seeing the bustling ac-tivity
there during the week. For a few more dollars, Bethel
could make the fieldhouse facilities available to those who desire
some weekend relaxation or to those who are unable to use
the gym during the week.
The student center could also be used more extensively.
The college has permitted students to remain in the area until
midnight this year, an extension of an hour from last year. An
unreasonable closing time of six o'clock on Sundays has been
maintained, however.
By changing one or two locks, the student center area
could be sealed off from the rest of the college building and
left open all night. This would provide an all night study area
for desperate students as well as 24 hour access to Student
Senate, WBCS, SPIRE, and CLARION offices. The area could
be closed off periodically for cleaning purposes.
Other possibilities for increased service could also be ci-ted.
The Accounting Office has carried the proverbial bankers'
hours to an extreme in only opening their window three hours
a day, come registration or high water, and more than one stu-dent
has complained of having the door slammed in his face
promptly at closing time.
Window hours could at least be extended, with a minimum
of exertion, to coincide with those of the post office. During
periods when students are making financial arrangements for
semester expenses, a special extension of hours would seem
expedient.
Such flexibility should be evidenced in many areas, includ-ing
extended library hours and increased access to other study
areas (such as classrooms) during exam periods. Limitations of
existing facilities only emphasize the need for flexibility.
The Bible teaches us to be good stewards, whether en-trusted
with little or much. Each individual at Bethel has a
certain degree of responsibility, to which he must measure up,
and each individual has the right to demand optimum utiliza-tion
of Bethel's facilities and resources by the college and
other individuals.
Using what we have in the best possible manner or putting
out a little more effort to provide better services ought to be
goals held by all segments of the Bethel community. A modest
start has been made this year in furthering such objectives;
let's hope that the "start" is precisely that—a start.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
1M ALL FOR RAISING THE ACADEMIC STANDARDS, B1J T I've
55EN SIGNS A FEW STUDENTS MAY CE ASOUT To CRACK."
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(from Rev. Maurice Lawson)
Chapels this coming week should add a depth dimension to our
Christmas of 1968. On each of the first three days choral groups will
sing a Christmas number, followed by a Christmas message.
Monday Dr. Webster Muck will answer the question, Why should we
keep Christmas? What values are associated with it? On Tuesday, Dr.
Walter Wessel will present a theology of Christmas in a message
on the incarnation. Wednesday Pastor Lawson will relate his message
from Colossians to the Christmas theme as he speaks on the subject,
"The Reason for It All."
"The Ant-keeper," a film produced by Rolf Forsberg (remember
"The Parable," also by Forsberg?) will be the Thursday feature. Filmed
among the ants in an old Mexican crater, Forsberg has created a re-markable
interpretation of the incarnation and redemption in parable
form. No one should miss it. Friday Christmas carols will be interspersed
with nativity poems read by Gerald
Healy.
We pray God's best to everyone
who at this season will be acknowl-edging
the Gift above all.
BETHEL
FORUM
New York trip
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whole group participated in a dis-cussion
for an evening church ser-vice.
The following two days were
spent at the United Nations Plaza,
either in the U.N. general assem-bly
or at the Church Center for
International Affairs. Many cur-rent
world problems such as the
Biafra relief, Vietnam, the Middle
East, and trends in Latin Ameri-ca
were discussed with individuals
from the specific areas.
Racism parley
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on the topic of white racism signed
up for a room and a time slot, and
designated the topic.
For the Bethel delegation, Sat-urday
was by far the most fruitful
and educative day. Courses rang-ing
from "Urban Studies Curricu-lum—
White Identity Courses" to
"Youth Culture as a Revolutionary
Base" to "Tactics," were attended.
A Midwest regional structure
was formed with Dave Goldfarb,
student body president of the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin, at the head.
Within this structure is a more in-clusive
Twin Cites coalition which
will be integrating efforts among
Twin City colleges to combat ra-cism.
Beneath the surface rhetoric, the
overall tone of the NSA confer-ence
was one of pragmatism. Most
of the student delegations there
were already involved in fighting
discrimination (overt and covert)
and swapped ideas with one an-other
concerning specific programs,
tactics, etc. The conference offered
a unique opportunity for this type
of information-gathering.
Although the NSA structuring
of the conference on institutional
racism broke down and things be-came
chaotic at times, the Bethel
delegation greatly benefitted from
the experience. It served an educa-tive
function for members in the
group and as an impetus for devel-opment
of programs which could
be implemented on Bethel's cam-pus.
A more detailed report of what
was learned at the conference and
specific proposals relating to Beth-el
will be forthcoming from the
four Bethel students who attended
the conference.
Meanwhile, anyone interested in
learning more about the conference
and how institutionalized racism
operates in American society in
general and on Bethel's campus in
particular is encouraged to contact
Kathy Anderson, Dean Pearson,
Duane Perkins, or Marjorie Rusche.
Survey finds Viet Nam strife
prime cause of student disorders
(ACP)—Chronicle of Higher Education.* If the bombing halt in Viet-nam
leads to an end of the war there, the principal cause of student
protest in this country will have been removed.
A nationwide survey by Educational Testing Service showed that the
war now ranks first—ahead of dormitory regulations and civil rights is-sues—
in causing unrest among students.
The survey showed that during the 1967-68 academic year, protests
directed at American policy on Vietnam were reported by 38 percent
of the responding institutions, while dormitory regulations were said
to have caused protests at 34 percent of the institutions.
In contrast, civil rights issues, which a few years ago were by far
the leading cause of student demonstrations, last year dropped to third
place—accounting for protests at 29 percent of the institutions.
Berglund 'critiques' draw indepth reply
To the editor,
Dr. Berglund's recent "indepth
critiques" of the New Folk and
Ylvisakers' concerts and concert
reviews was a well-written and ev-en
sometimes logical argument.
However, there were several points
that I would personally take issue
with. Perhaps the best way for me
to do this is to draw parallels be-tween
the New Folk and Bethel
College Choir.
The New Folk's purpose as a
group is to win people to Christ
through the medium of folk music.
The choir's purpose, (along with
training young people musically)
I would imagine, is to honor and
worship God through the medium
of sacred music.
The individuals in both groups
become polished performers in
their particular area of music and
the style of performance that re-lates
to it. Who is to say that the
New Folk, by being used of God
to win people with Christ's good
news, are not honoring and wor-shipping
God just as much as the
choir?
Dr. Berglund asks why "the per-formers
themselves seemed com-pelled
to inform us that they do
not present their 'program' in
churches" and goes on to suggest
that this is because they think it
allright to use a medium of enter-tainment
in college auditoriums
but not in the church.
He seems to have forgotten that
Dennis of New Folk East said that
they quit bringing this program
into the church because of too
much criticism; not because they
themselves thought it wrong, but
because others were judging their
program out of context and not
realizing its purpose or seeing its
results.
I saw the New Folk East at Rich-field
High School on Thursday of
the same week they were in chap-el.
The students responded enthu-siastically
to the music and the
message both. To see each of the
N.F. members talking to small
groups of interested students after
the concert, explaining the claims
of Jesus Christ, should convince
anyone that God is using them in
a very real way to change lives
with His message.
I had the privilege of seeing
New Folk West in concert six times
last school year. Four of these
concerts were at secular institu-tions:
one at Northwestern Univer-sity,
one at the high school from
which I graduated, and two at
Great Lakes Naval Training Cen-ter.
At all these concerts the audi-ence
responded with thundering
applause, at three of them, stand-ing
ovations. I would like to think
that this applause was not only
for their musical performance, but
was also a way of showing the
respect the audience had for a
group of sharp Christian young
people who were not ashamed to
tell others about something they
deeply believed in.
My assumption is held up by the
response—at one Great Lakes con-cert
over 500 sailors were coun-selled
with by the N.F., and other
Christians present. 400 of these
sailors accepted Christ. Some of
these have since been killed in
Vietnam.
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2 BUS RUNS SUNDAY MORNINGS
LEAVING:
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Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
College choir members apply makeup
in preparation for Festival of Christmas performance. Some 6,000
people will attend the four performances held this weekend.
A scene from "Amahl and the Night Visitors"
shows Lois Lehman(mother), Jane Alhquist (Amahl) , Jon Nordstrom and David Waite (Wisenien),
Richard Trinity (page) , and Jonathan L. Larson (wiseman).
Father-son combo earns
degrees simultaneously
by Marie Watson
"It's a little strange!" is the re-action
of the only father-son corn-bination
in Bethel's student body.
This coming June, Arthur Boyd,
40, and his only son, Lanny, 21,
will complete their college careers
and receive their diplomas togeth-er.
Most students are probably ac-quainted
with Mr. Boyd because
of his association with the record-ing,
"Sounds of Bethel," which he
produced for the school year 1967-
68. He has his own recording com-pany
which rates high among his
interests.
He finds that his studies as a
psychology major are very de-manding.
Going back to school has
never been regretted by Mr. Boyd
—"My son is doing the same thing
I am, only I'm a few years late,"
he said.
Boyd served twenty-two years as
an Army colonel. It was in 1962
while he was in this position in
Alaska that he was confronted by
a former Bethel student, Chaplain
`Bud' Peterson, who led him to a
personal acquaintance with Jesus
Christ.
The next year, Boyd said, God
spoke to him at an officer's organ-ization
through Dr. Bob Smith, a
member of Bethel's faculty. He
recalls this meeting on top of one
of Alaska's mountains in a ski
lodge as a paramount experience
in his life, for it was there that
he felt called to the ministry of
Jesus Christ and yielded his life
for that service.
Through the influence of Chap-lain
Peterson and Dr. Bob Smith,
he decided to come to Bethel for
his college education and seminary
training. With college almost over,
Boyd anticipates attending the se-minary
where he will train for
the evangelistic ministry into
which he feels the Lord has called
him.
Lanny Boyd also finds its un-usual,
as he hurries to his next
class, to meet and greet his father
as they pass each other on the
crosswalks. Lanny's main interest
lies in the field of Ecology and
the study of the Biological sciences.
His plans for the future include
graduate work at the University
of Minnesota.
The women of the family, Mrs.
Boyd and a junior high-age daugh-ter,
will be doubly proud as the
masculine half of the Boyd house-hold
march with Bethel's 1969
graduating class.
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Dr. Berglund would argue, how-ever,
that the end does not justi-fy
the means. In part, I agree. I
disagree, however, that the New
Folk's program is sensual and re-lies
on "aesthetic gratification" to
glorify God. With the possible ex-ception
of one girl, who many
people thought overdid it on the
"dancing," I thought their chore-ography
was done in good taste
and fit their music well.
I don't think, though, that we
should be overly critical of newer
Christians in the group who are not
yet to that level of Christian be-havior
which we would consider
"proper." Let God and other mem-bers
of the group deal with them
in real Christian love, changing
them through His power.
Dr. Berglund misquotes the New
Folk concert review by Chuck Myr-bo
as saying, "Their voices weren't
the best, bin they were outstand-ing
showmen." The article said,
"Their voices didn't always match
up, but they had good enough voic-es
to make them an exciting
group." I've heard New Folk East
in practice—they have fine voices
and a full, well-balanced sound
when they're relaxed.
The concert at. Bethel was this
group't, third concert together, and
they were nervous and not yet
used to doing their program in
front of a large crowd. Add to that
the fact that one of their original
girls (who had practiced with them
all summer) came down with mono
nucleosis and had to be replaced
just a few weeks before starting
their tour, and this is a pretty good
explanation for any lack of blend
or musical coordination that was
evident. That Thursday at Richfield
H.S. they already sounded better,
with only a few more concerts be-hind
them.
The New Folk will be ministering
to hundreds of thousands of young
people on military installations
and college and high school cam-puses
this school year. They will
be telling this world unashamedly
of the message of Jesus Christ—
something that we often have too
little time for or are afraid to do.
They will see thousands respond.
I sincerely believe that criticism
like Dr. Berglund's can be of great
use to them, and promise that it
will be. Even more than this, how-ever,
they need the support of
Christians in general through pray-er.
Bill Van Wambeke
Freshman
Campus Vagaboma's
by Dan Johnson
A unique European travel experience open to all Twin City private
college students has been planned by two Bethel students for next sum-mer.
While traveling with the History Study tour last summer, Dan
Johnson and Bob Boone contemplated returning the following summer
with other college students.
They spent the last couple of months talking with other students and
laying out a basic itinerary for travel. The whole idea was then presented
to a Minneapolis Travel Agency which specializes in student travel ar-rangements
for traveling abroad.
The itinerary includes departure on June 5th from New York to
London by way of Trans World Airlines jet. After four days in swinging
London the group will fly to Amsterdam, the surprising city of canals.
A chartered bus then takes the group through Holland to Denmark,
Norway, and Sweden, for almost two weeks of Scandinavian enchant-ment.
The tour continues for another week through Germany and Switzer-land
including visits in major cities but also the smaller towns and
villages. Following the Swiss and German environment they venture into
France for a week, with Paris and vicinity as the major point of interest.
The tour then flies Iberia Airlines to Madrid, Spain, for a two day
visit and shopping spree. The last three days will be by the sunny coast
of Portugal in Lisbon and vicinity.
In 41 days the itinerary covers 10 countries and their capital cities
besides smaller towns and villages. As a group students benefit with
cheaper travel arrangements and hotel accommodations but are not con-fined
to any rigid sightseeing tours. There is ample free time for indi-vidual
interests and visits.
Complete travel arrangements, hotels and breakfasts, with limited
dinners and sightseeing is only 370 pounds or 888 dollars depending upon
your form of currency.
Dan Johnson and Bob Boone check travel flyers
while formulating plans for European jaunt.
Rehash of New Folk virtues
Father and son, senior classmates
register together for second semester. Arthur Boyd and his son Lanny will both march with Bethel's
1969 graduating class.
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by Gordy Dean
( Second of three articles)
Haile Selassie I University (HSIU)
is located in Addis Ababa, Ethio-pia
and is owned and operated by
the Ministry of Education, a branch
of the Imperial Government of
Ethiopia. Approximately 3,000 stu-dents
attend the University, most-ly
Ethiopians, although other East
African countries are represented
along with some Indians and a
handful of Americans.
My home while attending HSIU
is Good Shepherd School, an Amer-ican
school operated by four prot-estant
mission groups, including
the Baptist General Conference. I
am a dorm "brother" to 105 board-ers
in grades 1-12. The majority
of boarders are MKs although a
few come from military, embassies,
United Nations, and other higher
class occupations totalling a rep-resentation
of 13 countries.
As I hop on my small motor-cycle
for school and leave the gate
of my middle class American dwell-ing
I am greeted by African life,
which is so varied and complex
that I marvel at what I see, smell,
and feel on my seven mile trek to
school each morning. Because I
have an interest in existing social
conditions of today's world and
am studying this at HSIU, my tra-velling
experiences have opened
my eyes to the "other half" of hu-manity.
Only 100 feet from the Good
Shepherd gate I pass the first mud
and cow dung hut. Although the
view is interesting, my eyes are
usually "glued" to the road, for
rocky chuck holes along with donk-eys,
sheep, goats, cows, horses, and
masses of humans in the street
make a very interesting and chal-lenging
obstacle course.
As I drive through Makanissa, a
small village, the road narrows. I
Thursday, December 12, 1968
look over the bridge I am cross-ing
and see women washing clothes
in the muddy water; a few feet
away children are taking a bath.
The shoreline is cluttered with gar-bage
from the last garbage truck
whose driver was too lazy to locate
the public dump. As I enter the
city limits of Addis, the road be-comes
wider, and I can now pass
that smelly city bus I have been
following through Makanissa.
Morning rush hour is now in
full swing. Thousands of little Fiat
Taxis crowd the streets. People
rich enough to afford the 10 cents
for a ride hop in until the taxi is
full, while the rest walk. Most ev-evrything
they carry goes on their
head.
After I pass the first congested
"square" and head for the next,
Addis takes on an entirely differ-ent
dimension—the rich. Here I
pass the Ghion Hotel, a lavish
building with a warm-spring Olym-pic
size pool. Across the street a
Mercedes sits along a driveway
lined with bana trees. The chauffer
is waiting to pick up the Captain
for Ethiopian Airlines. The "sa-bunya"
or property guard opens
the huge gate as he antcipates his
master's orders, and customarily
bows as they drive onto the busy
street.
I have now passed the rich sec-tion
and am now on a little "short-cut"
road to the University road.
Because this short-cut is steep,
narrow, and well-known, it is
crowded and traffic moves slowly.
Street salesmen take advantage of
this by soliciting passing cars, sell-ing
everything from birth control
devices to African drums and
spears.
Because bargaining is an art in
Ethiopia, nothing is bought quick-ly
and many times a salesman will
follow me for a mile or more if he
thinks I will buy something. Their
quick humor and persuasive sales
pitch usually makes me fall prey,
and I often arrive at school with
my pockets bulging.
Also along this short cut I see
sights which make me turn my
head—street beggers. These poor
and diseased will find a spot along
the sidewalk and sit all day dis-playing
misfortunes, ranging from
amputated leprocy-diseased limbs
to mothers with starving babies.
Reaching the end of the short
cut road, I turn onto the wide
street leading to the University;
traffic is moving faster. As I look
ahead I see a number of special
police forcing every motorist to
stop. Wondering why they are
clearing the street, I wait and
watch the crowd as it gathers along
the sidewalk.
Suddenly everyone ) becomes
deathly still; a small motorcade
drives by and sitting in a Landrov-er
is His Imperial Majesty, Haile
Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia. Af-ter
the motorcade has passed and
everyone has bowed respectfully,
the police motion traffice on and
the street becomes alive again.
Since I pass His Imperial's Majes-ty's
palace every day, meeting the
Emperor on the street is not too
rare an occurance.
Only a few hundred yards up
the street, I turn into the University
complex, one of Haile Selassie's old
palaces, usually exhausted from the
rigorous drive.
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Faculty mouse hears earful
"Students are people too" but-tons
worn by some Bethel students
suggest that they want to be recog-nized
as people. But it seems to me
it would be to their advantage to
he mice.
Take me, for instance. I'm a
mouse who spends enjoyable hours
eaves-dropping in faculty offices,
finding out all kinds of information
which will help me should I ever
want to become a student.
During the pre-vacation rush of
exams and papers, I find it bene-ficial
to be on the faculty-mouse
staff. Students come into profes-sors'
offices with excuses for turn-ing
in a paper late or for missing
Last Friday night, Bethel drop-ped
the first of two weekend bas-ketball
games. The Sioux Falls
Braves held off a late Bethel rally
to defeat the home team 67-63.
In the first half, both teams play-ed
basic basketball and nothing out
of the ordinary happened as Sioux
Falls built up a four point half
time lead. Coach Jack Trager did
a lot of substituting to try to put
together a combination that could
overtake the Braves, but the at-tempt
fell short.
- Bethel was plagued by cold shoot
ing throughout most of the game,
and especially at the free throw
line where they failed to score on
more than 50% of the gift tosses.
In the second half, however, the
Bethel defense tightened up and
Sioux Falls had to start shooting
from the outside. Kregg and Bak,
the Brave guards were equal to the
task, however, as they hit on a
number of occasions to keep the
lead from the fighting Royals.
With about three minutes left in
the game, Bethel put on a full
court press and started forcing
Sioux Falls to turn over the ball
on errors. At that point, the Roy-als
had a ten point deficit and
Bethel 63 Sioux Falls 67
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think of such convincing alibies.
Can you imagine the predicament
of a student who has slaved for
many hours doing research for a
paper, finished the rough draft,
and is about to type it (five hours
before it is due), and the only
available typewriter slips off the
desk, crashing as it hits the floor?
Or how about a student who has
left ample time for cramming the
last night before the exam. He
finds a perfect, secluded spot to
study in the custodian's closet,
leaves to get a pen, and returns
only to find his notes and books
could not quite overcome the mar-gin
by the time the final buzzer
sounded.
Following Friday night's loss, the
Royals took on a tough St. John's
squad on the opponents' home
court. Bethel came out on the short
end of a 83-73 score in a hardf ought
battle.
St. John's won the game at the
charity line, as Bethel outscored
its opponent by a slim margin from
the field. A rabid group of fans
backed the Johnnies, who sport a
remarkable winning record on
their home court.
Bethel will meet St. John's in a
rematch in the last scheduled game
of the '68-69 season.
SPORTS CALENDAR
13 Basketball, Pipers at Oakland
14 Hockey, North Stars vs. New York
14 Wrestling, Bethel at Morris
14 Basketball, Bethel at Morris
14 Basketball, Gophers at Loyola
15 Hockey, North Stars at Detroit TV
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15 Basketball, Pipers vs. Indiana
15 Football, Vikings at Philadelphia
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16 Basketball, Bethel at Northwestern,
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16 Basketball, Gophers at Notre Dame
17 Hockey, North Stars vs. Oakland
17 Basketball, Pipers vs. Indiana at
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17 Basketball, Gophers vs. No. Dak.
19 Basketball, Bethel vs. Hamline
19 Hockey, North Stars at Philadelphia
20 Basketball, Pipers at Houston
20 Basketball, Gophers at ULCA
20, 21 St. Paul Classic Hockey Tourna-ment
21 Basketball, Pipers at Miami
locked safely in the closet. What
does a guy do when no one will
unlock the door and there is no
other way to retrieve his great
loss?
Thanks to alarm clocks not being
heard by overly-exhausted students,
many have received extended study
time for exams. (This is a particu-larly
good device for students who
prefer a make-up essay exam to
objective tests.)
Being a faculty mouse, I have
found that most professors at Beth-el
are much wiser than we mice in
sifting out the legitimate from the
absurd. They are to be commended
for their "human" understanding
and flexibility, (would you believe,
Christmas spirit?), especially dur-ing
this time when Festival of
Christmas rehearsals and other ac-tivities
make conflicting demands
upon students' time.
St. Mary's College in Winona,
Minnesota fell victim to Bethel's
wrestling team Monday night as
the Royals picked up their fifth
straight win after an opening night
loss.
St. Mary's jumped to a quick
11-0 lead, but then five pins
brought Bethel storming back into
a 25-11 lead.
Bill Kunde opened the meet
struggling against one of St. Mary's
better wrestlers and succumbed to
a pin in the second period. He was
followed by Jeff Mourning who
could not manage to score but was
able to avoid being pinned. Doug
Warring then fell victim to a deci-sion
to set the stage for the Bethel
comeback.
Greg Ekbom, one of last year's
more consistent performers, pinned
his man in the first period. Greg
was followed by Barry Anderson.
Barry needed a little more time,
but the end results were the same
as Bethel closed the gap to one
point.
In the waning seconds of the
Bethel 31 Concordia 10
I23—Kunde (B) pinned Matz (C), 1:58
130—Mourning (B) pinned Gorentz (C),
4:00
I37—Warring (B) pinned Schmidt (C)
3:00
145—Eckbom (B) dec. Herda (C), 4-0
I52—Anderson (B) dec. Roth (C), 6-I
160—Jolsen (B) pinned Dierks (C), 1:00
167—Neal (C) pinned Berry (B), 4:00
I77—B. Olsen (B) pinned Corrie (C),
:50
Hvwt—Lilleberg (C) pinned lnouy (B),
6:00
Thursday, December 12, 1968
by Jim Youngquist
With their game against Macales-ter
tonight, the Royals will be
playing the first of three games
within five days. Sporting a 2-4
record, a sweep of all three would
give them a winning record. It
will be a tough road, however, as
the Royals were dumped by all
three foes last year.
Tonight Bethel will be facing
Macalester. Thus far Mac has a 1-2
record, losing to Wartburg a n d
Wayne State. Their lone win came
against Midwestern in Iowa. Last
year the Royals bowed to Macales-ter
77-65.
Mac has two outstanding players
in Mark Campbell and Tom Hardy.
Hardy is out with an injury, how-ever,
and is a doubtful starter for
tonight's game. Commenting on the
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game Coach Bolstors of Mac said,
"We know Bethel had a good team
last year and there is no reason to
believe they should not be even
better this year."
"We know Bethel has one of the
better players in the state if not
the best," he added. This was of
course in reference to Ron Peder-son
who is averaging 26.7 points
a game this year. As things shape
up it would seem the Royals have
a good chance of coming away with
a close win.
Saturday night Bethel will travel
to Morris. Beaten twice by Morris
last year, the Royals will be out
for revenge. Monday the team tra-vels
to Iowa for a game with North-western.
Both Morris and North-western
will be at Bethel later in
the season to conclude the two
game series.
Anderson, had no trouble in clinch-ing
the meet as he put his oppen-ents
shoulders to the mat in the
frist period.
The string was broken at heavy-weight
when St. Mary's salvaged
the last match with Randy Inouye
falling victim to a pin.
dual meet last week
Bethel vs. Macalester
I23—Turner ( M ) pinned Kunde ( B),
6:00
130—Mourning ( B) dec. Erickson (M),
6-4
I37—Warring ( B) dec. McFalland ( M ),
6-0
I45—Eckbom ( B) pinned Carlson ( M I ,
4:00
152—Bethel forfeits
160—J. Olsen (B) pinned Newell (M),
2:30
167—Bethel defaults
I77—Hellackson ( M ) dec. B. Olsen (B),
6-4
Hvwt.—Inouye (B) pinned Butler (M),
4:00
Sioux Falls, St. John's top
Bethel in weekend games
first period of his match, Jim Ol-sen
picked up his fourth pin in five
matches. Dale Berry, who wrestled
for the first time last year, showed
that he is coming along fast as he
pinned his man to almost put the
match out of reach.
Bob Olsen, co-captain along with
Box scores from triple
Bethel 23 St. Olaf 18
123—Maim ( SO) pinned Kunde ( B),
4:30
130—Mourning ( B) pinned Gyenthner,
3:30
I37—Nyquist ( SO) dec. Warring ( B),
3-I
145—Eckbom (B) pnned Johnson (SO),
6:00
I52—( Bethel forfeited )
160----J. Olsen (B) pinned Golder (SO),
3:00
I67—Berry (B) dec. Hoeman (SO), 8-4
I7—B. Olsen (B) pinned Lunder (SO),
3:00
Hvwt.—Johnson (SO) pinned Inouye (B)
1:00
Cagers challenge
Macalester tonight
5 consecutive pins down St. Marys;
grapplers extend win skein to five
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Thursday, December 12, 1968
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Just a friendly family squable ..
finds big brother riding tough as his kid brother tries a sit-out in an attempt to escape. Bob Olsen
(back) , three year wrestling ace for the Royals, boasts a career mark of 37 wins, 2 losses, and 2
ties for a .926 winning percentage in collegiate competition.
Joining Bob on the Bethel squad this year is his younger brother Jim, a freshman. Jim has opened
his collegiate career by reeling off five straight wins, including four pins. Brother Bob posted a
perfect 16-0 mark in his freshman year.
Olsen duo sparks wrestlers;
brothers terrorize mat victims
by Barry Anderson
Bethel wrestling is heading for
the most successful season in the
school's history. Part of the pres-ent
success can be attributed to
the fine coaching of Doug King
and the fine student support which
has accompanied every match this
year, both home and away.
But a major portion of this year's
achievements is being provided by
two brothers—Jim and Bob Olsen
of Davenport, Iowa.
Bob, a junior, has been the
strength of Bethel's team for the
last two years and is repeating his
role this year. His all-time college
record to date is 37-2-2.
Bob attended high school at Dav-enport
West, where he began his
wrestling career as a 9th grader.
As a senior, he finished the season
with a 10-9-1 record and a third
place in the district tournament.
Here at Bethel, Bob is majoring
in sociology with a related field
in psychology. He plans to use his
education in some area of social
work.
Bob also finds opportunity to
participate in football and track,
although he finds his home on the
mat. As he puts it, "there is no
sport like wrestling. You are on
your own. If I make a mistake, I
am the one who has to make up
for it. Wrestling teaches you self-dependence,
self-discipline, and
gives you a sense of self-confi-dence."
Jim, a freshman, has begun his
college wrestling career in a fash-ion
which promises to equal, if not
surpass, his brother's. In his first
five matches, Jim registered four
pins and a decision for a 5-0 rec-ord.
Although hampered by a pre-season
ankle injury, he has turned
in some fine performances and is
already establishing himself as a
team leader.
Jim also attended Davenport
West High School, where in his
senior year, he sported a 13-7-1 rec-ord
and kept with family tradition
by finishing third in the district
tournament. Jim has tentatively
planned on a physical education
major with a related field in ed-ucation.
Something rather interest-ing
is Jim's love for classical mu-sic.
Commenting on wrestling, Jim
says, "wrestling, unlike football or
basketball, is a sport of guts. It
is a contest between just you and
your opponent. It is not entirely
a sport of muscle, although a little
does help. It is mainly a sport of
speed and moves. It gives you co-ordination
and above an, pride in
yourself."
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Symposium
by Wally Borner
Last week we rationalized away the Royals' cage loss to
St. Cloud as a valiant effort against a . superior team which
had given us a bad drubbing the year before. Sioux Falls al-most
fits into the same category as they beat Bethel by about
forty last season.
But I say almost. We can't rationalize this one away be-cause
Bethel should have won, whether they lost by one or
one hundred last year. Emotions are highly mixed because Beth-el
played some very good ball, but they also "blew" a few to
lose the ball game.
The half-time score showed Sioux Falls ahead by a 33-29
margin, however, in the second half, they padded that a little
despite a tough Bethel defense. Shooting was the key. Bethel
was cold, and virtually frozen at the free throw line, shooting
9 for 19, and the Braves guards were hot.
Kregg and Bak were casting from no man's territory when
they consistently found that they could not work the ball in
close. The way a couple of the forwards looked, we might
have been better off to give them the shorter range shot.
In the late part of the half, specifically with about three
minutes too, the Royals finally decided to do something about
their ten point deficit. They then proceeded to stultify, surprise,
and run ragged the Braves. Herb Buckner appeared to be giv-ing
tooth paste commercials during all the Brave turnovers
in the last few minutes, but it was about one minute too late.
When the Royals did not get the ball on a turnover, Buckner
was at the line making a free throw to keep the game just out
of reach.
To be blunt, Sioux Falls looked really bad against Bethel.
And don't think that it was because they have a bad team, but
that the Royals gave them a real rough time. That is the crime
of losing.
If we really want an excuse, maybe we can say that part
of the reason was that one of our guards was ill. But we have
more pride than that. And we have more bench than that.
Bethel probably has one of the better benches that 'it
has ever had.
WE, and I mean we because the whole school is behind the
team, just had an off night. On any other occasion, we could
possibly beat Sioux Falls by over ten points. Bethel has a good
team this year. Maybe they just haven't realized it yet.
Last week I said that I did not want to make any predic-tions,
but now I want to. The Royals will end up with a 15-10
record and that will include a winning streak of six games near
the end of the season.
Sports Shorts
Joe Kapp is really a great guy. When he was in Canada,
he was known as Peanut Butter Joe. He did peanut butter
commercials on several occasions. He also led his Vancouver
team to the Gray Cup Bowl one year. Anybody that is a peanut
butter fan can (can, not will) pull through when it really
counts.
Prediction: If the Olympics are ever held in Holland,
Tiny Tim will be an entrant in the walking competition and
tip toe to a gold medal.
Beethoven's birthday is December 16.
KSTP broadcasts all of the Minnesota Piper Basketball
games:
WBCS broadcasts all of the home and many of the away
games of the Bethel Royal Cage team.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
Says "Mom" Peterson, Edgren housemother, who donned a black derby and
joined "The Mob" to cheer for the Royals' basketball squad last week. (Members
of "The Mob" make their home on Third Old of Edgren. They are well known
for their hearty cheering at sports events.) Despite their combined efforts, Bethel
lost a heartbreaker to Sioux Falls 61-57 (story on page 5).
For those with a hankerin' for more basketball action, its just a short
piece down, the road to Macalester, where the Royals will tangle with the Scots
tonight.