Clarion 1969-02-27 Vol 43 No 19

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FOUNDED
Marriage rule revision
would limit paternalism
A proposed change in Bethel's
student marriage regulation is the
"result of good constructive stu-dent
initiative," according to Dr.
Alfred Glenn, chairman of the stu-dent
personnel committee instru-mental
in calling for the revision.
The faculty was scheduled to
vote today on the revision which
states: "Any student marrying dur-ing
the school year must write his
plans to the Student Services Of-fice
to clear past and future hous-ing
arrangements, scholarship eli-gibility,
and any other appropriate
planning."
The previous marriage regula-tion,
which has been in effect for
many years and is included in the
1968 catalog, states: "Any person
becoming married during the
school year will be required to
withdraw from school at the time
of marriage and will not be eli-gible
for re-enrollment for at least
a semester. Under certain unusual
circumstances, marriage will be
permitted by special action of the
administration."
A spokesman for the student
personnel committee reported that
its thinking in working for the
revision was that the school has
manifested arbitrary paternalism
toward students and added unnec-essary
requirements through the
existing regulation.
If a student is a minor, he first
has to get his parents' permission
to marry anyhow. If he is not
a minor, the question is brought
up as to what right the college has
to prohibit his marriage.
It was pointed out that the col-lege's
main interest in effecting
the previous regulation was for the
sake of counseling contacts with
students — "helping them to make
the right decision." A student's
marriage plan does effect the
school records on matters of hous-ing,
changed status, etc., and stu-dents
who are doing poorly aca-demically
or having social or emo-tional
problems were occasionally
advised to postpone marriage
plans.
With the proposed new regula-tion,
the school would still have an
opportunity for counseling but
could not inflict a penalty if the
student decides against its advise.
State Fair dates hinder plans for
proposed 4-0-4 calendar year
Bethel's administration is con-sidering
a schedule change for the
1969-70 school year. According to
the proposed 4-0-4 calendar, first
semester will end before Christ-mas,
and second semester will be-gin
the third or fourth week in
January and end about mid-May.
Both the faculty and the student
senate have endorsed the change,
and it will go into effect if several
problems can be solved, college of-ficials
said.
The biggest problem with the
change is one that is unique to
Bethel and to our present campus.
until the State Fair is over. While
the State Fair is going on there
are no parking places anywhere
near campus, and it would be prac-tically
impossible for students to
move into the dorms.
Next fall the last day of the Fair
(Labor Day) is September 1, so
there would be no problem. But
the next year Labor Day is not
until September 7, and that would
cause problems.
If the change is instituted, there
will probably be no Welcome Week
retreat. Dr. Paul Finlay, registrar,
said that the first four Saturdays
of the semester could be used to
orientate new students.
Discussion has also included a
possibility that Founders Week
could be held during the period be-tween
semesters, so that it would
have less of a disruptive effect on
classes.
Vol. XLII—No. 19
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn.
In order to finish the first sem-ester
before Christmas without
giving up class time, it would be
necessary to begin at least a week
earlier. Thus, registration would
have to be the first week in Sept-
Thursday, February 27, 1969 ember.
But nothing can begin at Bethel
Faculty votes today College choir joins in concert tonight--
Then on to New York's Carnegie Hall
by Richard Trinity
An apparent cacophony issuing from the college
building in late afternoons during the past few months
will culminate tonight as the Bethel College Choir—
armed with 30 pitchpipes, a l95-page score and a
little nervousness—will head for the Cathedral of St.
Paul.
Joining with three other local choirs and the Min-nesota
Orchestra, the choir will participate in a per-formance
of what is said to be one of the world's most
talked of musical works, "The Passion and Death of
Jesus Christ According to St. Luke."
The work is by Krzystof Penderecki, Poland's
great contemporary composer. It received its world
premiere in Poland several years ago and was first
performed in the United States in Minneapolis early
this year.
One week from tonight Bethel Choir is also
scheduled to perform the work in its New York pre-miere
in Carnegie Hall.
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, music director of the
Minnesota Orchestra (formerly Minneapolis Sympho-ny),
will conduct the production which includes Mac-alester
College Choir, St. Catherine and St. Thomas
Chorale, Cathedral of St. Paul Boys' Choir and the
Minnesota Orchestra.
Nearly four months of hard work and many long
hours of practice has gone into the choir's preparation
as a result of its high honor of being selected to
perform the work.
In addition to regular rehearsals, the choir went on
a two-day retreat practicing an average of 10 hours
a day, spent several three-hour evening sessions and
a three-hour morning session of practice, and a dress
rehearsal practicing both alone and with other choirs
and the orchestra. Extra sectional rehearsals were
held as the needs demanded.
The necessity for so much rehearsal time was
mainly the new, unfamiliar vocal techniques and their
indication on the score. The choir had to learn to
produce such things as the highest or lowest pitch
an individual could sing, chanting, loud whispering,
yelling, whistling (several students had to learn for
the first time), rising and falling "t", "p" and "d"
consonant sounds, talking and jeering laughter.
For added variety, these skills fell into three
groups or combinations of unison, ad-lib and staggered
entrances. All of these were done in a 12-tone (no
key) quarter step, whole notes not necessarily whole,
frequent time changes (sometimes every one of two
measures), weird glissando, and two species of Latin
words environment.
When the four choirs and orchestra are performing
together, one can easily imagine the necessity for an
arsenal of pitchpipes and alert concentration.
When the choir was initially challenged with these
minor obstacles, in addition to the familiar music
media, some members enthusiastically offered to mem-orize
the piece. But Dr. Robert Berglund said it
wouldn't be necessary (195 pages? Whew!).
The listener should be certain to read the words
in English in his program for each section in order
to appreciate the moods and visual scenes Penderecki
produces by auditory means (such as the angry crowd,
darkness at the third hour). The event begins with
Jesus praying in Gethsemane and ends with His "It is
finished" utterance as He dies.
If one listens closely, in section 20 he will hear
James Magnuson's one-note solo. Actually, he sings
the second half of the word "omnia" with a morendo
glissando (like a man falling off a cliff). A Macalester
comrade sings the first half of the word. This is one
illustration of the way many words are divided among
the choirs and soloists.
The choir has found it a tremendously satisfying
and enlightening experience to tackle and perform
such a piece.
Students interested in attending tonight's perform-ance
may purchase tickets at the door for the cost
of $2.00.
Report calls prayer proposal "meaningless"
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R., Ill.)
will push again in the 91st Con-gress
for the approval of an am-endment
to the Constitution for
the right of people, lawfully as-sembled,
to engage in "nonde-nominational
prayer" in public
buildings. The Dirksen prayer pro-posal
is identical with the one he
introduced in the 90th Congress.
The current proposed prayer
amendment is now under active
consideration by the Subcommittee
on Constitutional Amendments of
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The subcommittee may schedule
hearings on the amendment. The
decision to hold hearings or not
should be forthcoming in March.
The Dirksen amendment states:
"Nothing contained in this Consti-tution
shall abridge the right of
persons lawfully assembled, in any
public building which is supported
in whole or in part through the ex-penditure
of public funds, to par-ticipate
in nondenominational pray-er."
The staff of the Baptist Joint
Committee on Public Affairs, C.
Emanuel Carlson, executive direc-tor,
isued a special report on the
revised Dirksen proposal. The re-port
states that the new Dirksen
amendment could be viewed as
"meaningless." It might be argued,
the staff pointed out, that the pro-posal
does nothing more than the
First Amendment already guaran-tees.
The provision for the right to
participate in "nondenominational
prayer" raises more serious ques-tions
for the Baptist committee
staff. It observes: "The proposed
amendment ties the right of per-sons
to 'nondenominational' pray-ers
only. Would this mean that if
a group of Baptist students got to-gether
at lunch in a public school
to pray, the location of their prayer
would determine that it had to be
`nondenominational'? That is, does
the proposal limit present rights?"
WHAT'S THE SCORE?
Bethel College Choir members were a bit incredulous when
they were first presented with the 195-page work, "The Passion
and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke," with the corn-poser's
completely original score indications. But after four
months of hard work, they're ready to tackle their first per-formance.
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the CLARION Thursday, February 27, 1969
Let's cancel all classes
during Founders Week
In the aftermath of the 26th Annual Founders Week, it
becomes the 26th annual time to rethink the idea of holding
such a conference on the college campus. This issue gets tossed
about every year with good suggestions and bad suggestions.
Probably the only plausible suggestion for a major change in
recent years has been to have the historic week during sem-ester
break.
Since that first February 26 years back, the campus has
been inundated with alumni, pastors, and various other sorts.
Students have been subjected to unusually slow lunch lines,
limited study time, and even deprived of the necessary facili-ties
of the gym with which they run off their weekly frustra-tions.
The whole idea is not that there shouldn't be a Founders
Week, or that it should not be held on campus where it will
cause the students a lot of grief, but that we should follow the
precedent of the Seminary and cancel all classes and assign-ments.
With a conference like the one just ended, it is ironic that
students should have to attend classes during the day and
then have assignments in the evening while at the same time
being encouraged to attend sessions. And all this is not to
mention the fact that some professors even scheduled tests
during that fateful week.
Founders Week is for the students, also, and if we say that
one of the purposes of Bethel College is to prepare a taskforce
of effective, educated Christian laymen and pastors, the school
is not doing its part when such a paradox of scheduling is extant.
Speakers like Myron Augsburger and Art Blessitt are so
oriented to youth and their problems that they went out of
their way to speak to students. Monday night, Blessitt was in
the cottee shop until 11:30 talking to students. He was also
on campus at 8:00 Saturday morning answering questions from
students in the almost packed college auditorium.
In conjunction with the Peace Club, Myron Augsburger
spoke and answered questions in the Edgren lounge for one and
a half hours. Many students were there who were honestly
concerned about war and peace.
A conference like the one we have just experienced has
something for everyone. President Lundquist must be compli-mented,
at least, for the arrangements of Founders Week.
However, next year, it must be kept in mind that the
students may want to be involved without guilt complexes due
to dusty course books. We must either follow the example of
the seminary or schedule the Week during semester break. If
the school does institute the proposed 4-0-4 calendar system,
then the alternative is all set up for a January Founders Week.
Obviously, the college won't make the same mistake for
the 27th time in a row.
Peace table draws praise
Columnist reacts
Can revolution, religion mix?
(Editor's note: Founders Week was a great suc-cess
in the estimation of the majority of students
and guests on campus. But even more than that,
through various news media many of the week's
activities were shared with much of the local and
area secular community. Following is reprinted from
the St. Paul Dispatch, the Feb. 18 weekly "North
Wind" column by Roger Gratiot, general news col-umnist
for the north area.)
According to Dr. Carl Lundquist, president of Beth-el
College and Seminary, today's revolutionist often
has more in common with the Christian gospel than
he or the general public realize.
"In fact," he said, "the basic values underlying
a large part of the current revolt movement are Chris-tian
values."
These values include the insistence that every
human being is important, that material security
does not have the highest priority, that love ought
to characterize our relationships, that rights are worth
suffering for, that action should square with pro-fession
(that means practice what you preach), that
we need not fear striking off in new directions, and
that what ought to be done ought to be done now.
When one reads daily of campus rioting it's hard
to equate all this with religion of ony type until you
consider what else Lundquist has to say. He observes
that Jesus believed all of the above.
"He too was impatient," he said, "with the religious
establishment of His day. He dreamed of a world of
peace and love and integrity. And he died to make it
possible. His revolution, however, begins within."
And that is what an impressive list of religious
leaders are going to explore this week during Found-ers
Week on the Bethel campus. They, unlike the im-petuous
rabble making today's headlines, believe
life must be remade from inside and then worked out
insofar as possible within the structures of society.
And you can bet your boots it won't be a week filled
with pious platitudes. Each speaker is a unique
expert in his particular field and a couple of them
will be able to "tell it like it is" because they have
lived it.
Arthur Blessit, for example, has a ministry to
hippies, yippies and drop-outs, through a nightclub
called "His Place" on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.
He's like the circuit rider priest of old except his
territory encompasses the night life crowd.
David Wilkerson works with "down and out" teen-agers
in New York and has written a book, 'The
Cross and the Switchblade" which has sold over a
million copies.
It seems so refreshing to learn of a group advoca-ting
change, yet willing to think things through so
that they may take reasoned action.
904efedeird Week 7969
To the Editor:
In my work I meet many young
people who take for granted that
military service is required for all
young Americans except f o r
"preachers, priests, and the rich."
They are convinced that there are
only two alternatives — military
service or jail. It is the duty of the
church to inform its constituency
that there are other alternatives.
Most people are completely ignor-ant
of different alternatives, for
the most common comment is
"When the Army calls, you gotta
go."
I believe the church should help
young men make moral decisions
by providing literature, counsel,
and opportunities to discuss the
complicated social issues of war,
peace, vio'ence, draft, resistance,
pacifism, international relations,
communism.
Young men of draft age are
faced with a momentous moral de-cision
which demands sympathetic
understanding, disciplined study,
and fervent prayer. To participate
in war is a decision which cannot
be made lightly or in ignorance.
This desire to be enlightened and
to have some control over personal
destiny is certainly not unchristian
or unpatriotic.
Silence on the part of the church
only confirms the belief that the
church and the military have an
unwritten alliance. The church by
its acquiescence supports the mili-tary
establishment. Blind accept-ance
of other programs, philoso-phies,
and policies is not the way
of enlightened Christians who have
been freed from all earthly mas-ters
to serve the Lord of light and
life.
I hope that the removal of the
Peace literature table during Foun-ders
Week is not symbolic of
our refusal to face honestly a
particularly moral issue. We can
not afford the luxury of cheap
grace which confines the gospel
to only the non-historical. Christ
has called us to affirm life, peace,
justice, truth in the historical con-text
of the world.
If our Christian witness is to
mean anything in these revolution-ary
times, we must openly and hon-estly
face the moral issues of our
day with the illumination and pow-er
of Christ.
Sincerely,
Richard Westby
(Richard Westby was the direct-or
of the Bethel Center until the
work there was discontinued. He is
now a part-time interim pastor at
the Faith Mennonite Church, and
he is continuing to work with some
of the programs formerly held at
the Center.)
BETHEL
FORUM
Is the money
ratio unfair?
To the editor:
"The college is concerned .. .
with providing pre-ministerial and
lay leadership training. Vocations
outside of church work, however,
are also viewed as sacred."—Bethel
College Catalogue
These being officially stated pre-cepts,
it seems neither fair nor
proper that while college tuition
increases greatly (44% in my brief
life here and it is due to increase
again), seminary tuition remains
relatively low. One reason for this
is that general fund contributions
to Bethel are divided in a 74-26
seminary-college ratio. When one
views the number of seminarians
compared with the number of col-lege
students, this discrepancy be-comes
difficult to justify.
Continually we college students
are being reminded of our re-sponsibility
to the Bethel image.
The reason is obvious — a bad
image is not conducive to the max-imal
solicitation of gifts. Yet we
of the college are receiving little
of this money and it becomes dif-ficult
for us to enthusiastically ral-ly
around the image, at Founders
Week or any other time.
The seemingly fair system of dis-tribution
would be to implement
a student-to-student ratio between
the college and seminary, allowing
for the fact that expenses therein
are different. Besides equity, there
would be two major by-products of
such a distribution—the rendering
of college tuition increases unnec-essary
and the fair expectation of
college personnel to help in the
formulation and preservation of
their own public image.
Leonard Ray Sammons
Student offers
`guilt' alteration
To the editor:
Originally this letter began as
a usual critical reaction to Found-ers
Week. However, yeilding to
some of my conservative values
(those relating to time and space),
I decided to make it brief and
quite limited. The basic idea came
as an inspiration which I received
during Bill Bright's speech on
"Copping-out on real life problems
with Jesus Christ". It comes as
a mere alteration of a suggestion
of Mr. Bright's. I recommend that
we begin making lists of all the
people who make us feel guilty,
and then burn the lists!
Barb Jahr
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MEET THE STARS
The latest productions of Dr. James Rodgers feature his two
sons, Mark and James, as "headliners." Eventually, Rodgers'
movie making techniques will be applied to chemistry depart-ment
curriculum.
Bethel students discuss
"Church Renewal" topic
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Now they're being made here
by Karen Rodberg
It was bound to happen. Holly-.
wood's "corrupt" practice of movie
making has made its way to Beth-el's
very own chemistry depart-ment
(of all places.) As a result of
an alumni grant of $600 awarded
last spring to Dr. James Rodgers,
head of the department of Chemis-try
at Bethel, the school may well
be on its way to notoriety or ac-claim.
But before making any snap
judgments or declaring war on the
department give ear to the good
doctor's plans.
The philosophy behind making
his own films is that of the "mas-ter"
teacher. That is, in writing
his own script and filming his own
techniques "a teacher is in com-plete
control of his curriculum,"
Rodgers points out.
In "doing his own thing" a pro-fessor
can film exactly what he
wants his students to see without
confusion or needless repetition.
Because the films are consistent
with a particular professor's cur-riculum
and pertinent to the exact
problem under study they become
just as much a part of the course
as text or notes. And the student
can work an experiment by obser-vation
— no muss, no fuss!
Besides, it's cheap — relatively
anyhow. (This should prove inter-esting
to the business office.) A
5-minute reel can be produced for
as little as $16 plus time and en-ergy,
Rodgers said, with duplicates
at $6.
Initial costs for a Bolex 150 and
accessory equipment amounted to
$400, Rodgers noted.
Along with saving money, home-made
movies save time and in-crease
accuracy in technique dem-onstration
and can prove a valuable
source of review for many a per-spiring
young chemist.
A change of data each year can
be effected by a simple splice,
by Nancy Larson
Working with the theme "Chris-tian
Witness in Revolutionary
Times," Mrs. Robert Nelson de-signed
a woodcut for Founders
Week. Quite a number of things
can be read into the hands repre-sented.
Too much explanation
would take away from the signifi-cance
of it, since individual inter-pretation
is of major importance.
In the original printing for the
Founders Week schedules the col-ors
chosen have special signifi-cance.
The background is the neu-tral
shade of grey-green. Red and
and sound can be added if desired.
Dr. Rodgers adds that such a
project can even benefit the teach-er
by returning him to the "prim-itive"
situation of the student—yes,
he said "primitive"—by forcing
him, in developing a script, to ex-plore
every possible hang-up his
pupils might have.
At present Rodgers is practicing
his filming technique on such up-and-
coming stars as his two sons,
James and Mark, whose stage-names
are J. Thaddeus and M. The-obald
Shagnasty, respectively.
Considerations are even being
made to commence filming a ser-ies
of silver compound experiments
for use this very semester on those
unsuspecting general Chemistry
students. Auditions for the part of
the "Anonymous Hands" are being
held at Rodger's convenience.
It is now up to the other dis-ciplines
of study at Bethel to latch
onto this new teaching technique
where originality is the name of
the game.
black ink, used in printing the
hands, represent symbols of
strength. The clenched fist being
red, because of the revolutionary
connotation.
Opposites in disposition are evi-denced
in the hands portrayed. The
uplifted hands are symbolic of the
Christian witness. The general spir-itual
encounter of Christians is
most important in our times rather
than that of pulpit preaching. Thus
the everyday witness is stressed.
The clenched fist signifies the rev-olutionary
times of protest and re-bellion
of today's society.
Thursday, February 27, 1969
Bethel Students, Get out your
calendars — you're on the pro-gram!
During the school week of
March 17 through 21 the Religious
Committee will have various rooms
set aside on campus for small
groups to meet and discuss the
very crucial topic of "Church Re-newal."
It is hoped that each group will
meet Monday and Wednesday or
Tuesday and Thursday of t hat
week. Questions as well as sug-gestions
raised at these meetings
will then be compiled at a final
meeting to be held on Thursday
evening, March 20, and then pre-sented
to the entire student body
in a chapel service.
As supplementary to the recent
Founders Week in which many
students were encouraged again to
present the good news of Jesus
Christ to the everyday world, the
religious committee desires to join
the hands of the many on campus
who are questioning the role of—
as well as their role in — the
institutional church.
With all this anticipation, all
students are invited to "be on the
program" by taking part in these
group discussions — March 17
through 21. (Exact times will ap-pear
in next week's Clarion.)
Maybe it's time to cast our nets
on the other side.
the CLARION
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Mrs. Nelson designs cover
for Founder's Week theme
ebaint 31)igbfigbt5 Coeval stimulates campus creativity
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
Dan Bauman and Robert Guelich,
professors in our seminary who
have always had a warm relation-ship
with our College, will have
charge of our Monday chapel. Fol-lowing
the worship period they will
be in the coffee shop to talk with
all who desire information about
our Seminary program.
Tuesday will be class meeting
day. On Wednesday the Pastor's
topic will be "Bitter Pills or Sooth-ing
Balm?", based on Paul's advice
to wives and slaves in Colossians
3:17-4:6.
The Thursday chapel will be giv-en
to singing and sharing. Mikes
will be placed conveniently. Come
prepared to share your joy or
your burden.
On Friday Pastor Emmett John-son
of our Minneapolis Elim
Church will bring the message.
This will be Pastor Johnson's first
visit to our chapel since recover-ing
from a critical illness. His
presence will be a testimony to
God's grace and answer to prayer.
by Marjorie Rusche
This year a change of format
was introduced in Bethel's exclu-sive
literary publication, the Co-eval.
"The idea was to make as
many short issues as the budget
would permit, to get constructive
feedback from the student body so
the Coeval could be a growing
thing" stated Esther Pearson, edi-tor.
Concurring in the drive for flex-ibility
and further creativity in
the Coeval were staff members Jef-frey
Loomis, Associate Editor,
Bruce Lawson, and (first semester)
Betty Dumse.
The Coeval's budget this year
was $750. Approximately $200 was
spent on the first issue, which had
an emphasis on poetry. In an ef-fort
to expand the Coeval into
further levels of artistic expres-sion,
prizes were offered for writ-ing
compositions and art work in
the second issue.
Three prizes were granted for
woodcuts: Dave Moss, first; Gary
Wilson, second; and Woody Dahl-berg,
third. First prize for creative
criticism was awarded to Duane
Perkins. This artistic emphasis on
the second issue was reflected in
its greater cost—$300. (Words are
cheaper than pictures.) About $150
was given out in prize money and
photography and layout; photo-graphy
was done by Donovan Kra-mer,
and layout by Gary Wilson.
Thus, with limited funds left
for a third issue, costs will be cut
by concentrating on prose and
poetry works and cutting the num-ber
of copies printed to 300. How-ever,
out of fairness to musicians,
a prize will be awarded for the best
musical composition entered. It will
be published in the May issue of
Coeval.
The date for submitting art-work,
compositions, prose, and po-etry
has been extended to March
8. Anyone may submit a piece for
consideration, however it must be
understood that the editors are
very selective in what they pub-lish.
This year, the Coeval has been a
potent expression of a limited but
significant literary and artistic a-wareness
on Bethel's campus. In
reflection, Editor Pearson states
"the Coeval was never meant to
be a 'scandal sheet.' We wanted to
allow the creative energies of lit-erary-
minded Bethel students as
full an expresion as possible." With
all the limitations imposed upon
the Coeval by finances and other
factors, it nevertheless has un-dauntedly
served as an uplifting,
creative, and positive part of the
Bethel community.
Feaedem Saizted,t e‘cerd
2 BUS RUNS SUNDAY MORNINGS
LEAVING:
Snelling Manor 8:10 & 9:10
Bodien 8:15 & 9:15
Returning 10:50 & 12:00
EVENING BUS LEAVES
Snelling Manor 6:25
Bodien 6:30
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
Page 4
the CLARION
Thursday, February 27, 1969
Tonight-the end of an era
"Had only one trouble
but it weren't too few
the mule I was riding
was full-blooded Jew
Jerusalem ponies
they don't like to race
until you have fed them
food in their face."
by Lynn Bergfalk
Who writes poetry, plays guitar, paints, sings, and
has size 14 feet?
If you said Leonardo de Vinci you're wrong. It's
Ron Pederson.
Ron is one of those rare animals that can do it all.
He writes his own lyrics and puts them to music. The
result can't be appreciated unless you hear it for your-self.
It'll convince you that what you learned in Fine
Arts was wrong (Myrbo vs. Berglund, 1968).
For instance, it is Ron who has penned the immut-able
lines of "Out in the west central town of Willmar,
I fell in love with a Norwegian girl," a touching love
story about Hilda who has a hairy father named Berle,
and which Ron has set the the tune of "Out in the
west Texas town of El Paso."
The idyllic setting of the poem's opening lines is
forcefully shattered midway through when "I bounced
off his gullet like sweat off a bullet/And right into
cannister three.- There ". . . I swallowed eight bars
of fresh bougthen Ex-lax/Ya, I was sure set for the
rest of the year."
The song consequently ends on a somber note.
"Oh, Hilda and me we were finished with that/She was
so sad that she cried/But I wouldn't marry cuz Berle
he was hairy/So Hilda eventually died."
Even though COEVAL has yet to latch on to it,
don't let that fool you. Humor, in its way, can say
some profound things. Like Ron sings in the chorus of
another song, "I hate dirty sox/But you wear dirty sox/
So I love dirty sox/Cuz I love you."
It would be unfair to leave a discussion of Ron's
esthetic creations without mentioning a composition
that sings to the tune of "More like the Master." It
goes: "More in the basket/Basketballs should go/More
through the netting/Players it should throw/Wouldn't
it be ideal/If we would never miss?/We would never
lose a game/And fans would never hiss."
FROM FIFTH GRADE TO "FAME"
Speaking of basketball, Ron's accomplishments on
the court even outshine his literary and artistic re-nown.
Last Saturday, in fact, he became only the
second collegian in Minnesota history to score 2,000
points during a career. That's not too bad for a fel-low
who, Ron admits with a modest grin, was the
worst player on the starting five of his fifth grade
team.
Four of the five stalwarts on that Pee Wee team
played together all the way up to the high school
varsity level where, as starters, they helped pace
Willmar to outstanding seasons during Ron's last
two years.
Pedeson had grown, from a 5'11" freshman, to a
full 6'5" by the end of his junior year, his first as a
starter on the Willmar varsity. Every day during the
previous summer he had shot baskets and worked on
various moves his coach had given him to practice.
It paid off with Ron cracking the starting lineup in
the third game of the season. With Pederson averag-ing
11 points a game, Willmar won their district
title but fell to Edina in their region tourney.
Willmar won its way into the region tournament
again during Ron's senior year, as he paced a very
balanced attack, scoring at a clip of 17 points per
game. Two of his mates sported 15 point averages,
while the guards added 11 and 10 point averages to the
starting five.
As fate would have it, Willmar came within one
step of the state tourney, losing to the eventual state
champs, Minnetonka, in the regional finals. Ron was
named to the All-Region Tournament team and was
also an All-State selection. His only comparable honor
at Bethel came when he was named to an All-Dorm
team following an Edgren basketball tournament.
BASKETBALL AT BETHEL
A turning point in Pederson's career came when
he enrolled at Bethel. Gerald Healy, who finished
a lotg tenure as head basketball coach during Ron's
freshman year, publicly hailed him as "no doubt one
of the outstanding frosh prospects ever to enroll at
Bethel . . . a great rebounder and an able scorer."
"He almost set a goal for me to work up to my
freshman year. I had to produce," Ron said. In ad-dition
the Bethel squad lacked the balance to which
he had been accustomed, making his contribution all
the more important. Also the opportunity to play
regularly as a freshman built Ron's confidence and
helped him improve.
"Healy gave me confidence in myself that I didn't
have before," Ron said, and it turned out to be that
confidence that opened the doors of collegiate star-dom
for the 6' 6" Willmar ace.
Ron made further strides as a sophomore, playing
under the tutelage of new coach Mac Nettleton.
"Nettleton taught me more than any coach," ac-cording
to Pederson. "He taught me moves from
outside and underneath." Although Ron feels he has
leveled off during the past two seasons, he has relent-lessly
shattered old records while pushing his own
records higher and higher with each game.
Pederson is thinking about pro basketball but
right now he doesn't feel ready. "My defense is weak,
and I don't have that many moves on the outside,"
Ron, who has played center this year, said. "I'd have,
to play forward in pro ball." If I could spend the
summer out east in a basketball camp, playing against
tough competition, I might have a chance of making
it next fall." Of course, military service will likely
interfere with that opportunity.
'I he highlights of Ron's career are tied up in win-ning.
He admitted that even the ceremony following
Saturday's game in which he scored his 2,000th point
was "depressing when the team that has just beat
you is standing there, watching the presentation."
Consequently, the real highlight of his entire
cage career came as a Bethel freshman in a 89-93
defeat of same Morris team against which he tallied
his 2,000th point. Ron rippled the nets for 30 points
in that game, a come-from-behind victory which av-eraged
an earlier loss to the Cougars at Morris.
Twenty-one of Pederson's points came in the second
half, after he had sat out much of the opening half
with foul trouble. The game was also a notable one
record-wise for Ron as he broke Bethel's season re-bounding
record.
Ron has never been thrilled by Bethel fan sup-port.
(The Founders were the worst fans, he said!)
Vocal support during warm-ups has always been nil.
"It really helps to have people there during warm-ups."
Ron said. He also added that "the band's been
worthless; they never get there until the game, starts."
Part of the problem, Pederson 'believes, is that
the "attitudes of a lot of faculty and administration
people just seems to crush athletics." For instance,
having to practice half court for Morris because of
Founders Week (and for Macalester because of Fes-tival
of Christmas) really hurt the team. Yet the
people involved "thought they were doing us a favor
just by letting us practice half-court." Athletic schol-arships
and a willingness to invest a "decent amount"
of money in sports is needed if Bethel is to boast
athletic teams of which the college can justly be
proud.
TONIGHT — THE END OF AN ERA
Tonight, for the last time, Ron will don number
twenty-four and lead the Royals onto the home floor.
St. John's will provide the opposition for Ron's final
game as a collegian, and by virtue of their just-won
MIAC championship, the Johnnies must be reckoned
as the top team in the state. They have already de-feated
the Royals 83-73 on their homecourt.
Ron has only set one goal for his last game — "I
want this one to be good." From a team standpoint,
"I'll consider it a good season if we beat St. John's"
Ron said. "Otherwise . . ."
"Their fans gave us such a raw deal up there,"
he added, with a just noticeable tinge of bitterness
in his voice. "I've been thinking ahead to St. John's
for a long time." Then he added wistfully, after a
little pause, that it would be nice if the "band and
fans could get there early, making a lot of noise
during warm-ups and right through the game. It
could help a lot."
Tonight, as Ron Pederson brings his illustrious
career to a close, it would seem only fitting if his
last performance was in a jammed Bethel fieldhouse.
As one player said, "It's been a real privilege to play
on the same team as Ron." Bethel fans have a similar
privilege which they've never fully appreciated. To-night
they have one last chance to show appreciation
for a four-year era that will likely remain unparal-leled.
And who knows? If the fans get there early and
in force, perhaps they could have the honor of par-ticipating
in the upset of the year. There's nothing
Ron would rather do than end his collegiate compe-tition
with that kind of a "highlight." Maybe it
would even replace the Morris game of his freshman
year as the highlight of his basketball career.
This is how Ron has rewritten Bethel's record book:
SINGLE GAME —
Points 46 Ron shares this one with Don Moore.
Rebounds 30 The book doesn't list the previous record-holder. It just lists the
six best performances, and Ron has turned in all of those.
SEASON —
Points 604 1967-68 ( Ron has 592 this year with one game left.)
Next highest: Dave Bjorklund-495.
Rebounds 379 1967-68 (He has 362 this year, with one game left.)
Next highest: Don Moore-281.
Field goals 245 Next highest: Dave Bjorklund-200.
Free throws 144 This is his total this year, with one game left.
CAREER ��� (He has one game left to improve on these.)
Points 2013 Next highest: Truman Turnquist-1242.
Field goals 799 Next highest: Dave Bjorklund-449.
Free throws 415 Next highest: Truman Turnquist-358.
Rebounds 1384 Next highest: Would you believe George Palke with 636? Ron
broke this career record in his sophomore year.
"In The Groove And On The Move"
Bob Sperlazzo (L), disc jockey, checks through the WBCS record file as Mark Kingsbeck,
manager, makes a campus call in connection with the station's new "Russian Roulette" game.
The staff is attempting to provide a "balanced diet" of music and entertainment this semester.
Communication as the key - -
WBCS revamps broadcast fare
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When confronted with the ques- "It's a farce. They want us to
tion, "What, may I ask, is your print the kind of student expres-opinion
of the most recent issue sion which is an absolute reflection
of Coeval?" students chosen from of administrative metaphysics. That
differing academic, social and ec- bit of idiocy combined with absence
onomic levels of the campus voiced of student interest makes anyone
their evaluations thusly: who takes the effort seriously a
bigger fool than the modal fool,
Rah! Rah! It has been a real thrill
to zealously apply ourselves, ap-pealing
to the lowest common de-nominator.
Alas, we even failed at
that."
"What's co-evil?" Sounds color-ful."
"I thought it was real big, but
it had some rotten stuff in it."
"It was nice."
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Thursday, February 27, 1969
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"A line of communication be-tween
Bethel and the outside
world," is what Mark Kingsbeck,
station manager, hopes to accom-plish
this semester through WBCS'.
During the last semester, the
WBCS staff has been experiment-ing,
revitalizing and developing
various aspects of its broadcasting
philosophy. "We're trying to get
away from the stereotype Christian
radio station in order to get
through to people who don't regu-larly
listen to Christian stations
and religious programs," Kingsbeck
said.
As an example of the staff's con-victions
that carefully selected
("auditioned, censored or what ever
one wants to call it") secular music
can carry a message is one of its
newest programs, "Perspective
Three." Thoughts from contempor-ary
Christian intellectuals are
mixed and matched with secular
by Dan A. Nelson
With a foot and a half of snow
on the ground it is hard to believe
that the Royal baseball team has
its home opener in just six weeks
with Mankato at Dunning field.
Possibly spring is coming after all.
Jack Trager, coaching baseball
for his first year, has nine letter-men
returning. These are pitchers
Bob Brodin and Lowell Richardson;
catchers Bill Englund and Bill
Painter; outfielders Randy Stauter,
music themes during the hour-long,
twice-a-week show.
Establishing a semi-contempor-ary
tone for the young station
seems especially important to WB-CS
as it anticipates an eventual
increase of power and switching
to FM stereo. But its first respon-sibility
is to its listening audience
on campus. WBCS has attempted
this last semester to experiment in
the field of radio, as well as to re-arrange
its programming accord-ing
to the majority of student re•
actions to the first semester em-phasis,
Kingsbeck said
Shows including "Up Beat,"
"Young Sound," "The Search,"
"Reach Out," and "Horizons" in-clude
a varied diet—from solid and
folk gospel music and Christian
drama and narrative to broadway
musicals, movie tracks, classical,
pops and light rock music.
Steve Hanson, and Don Craft; and
infielders Dean Erickson and Tom
Mesaros.
Two of last year's lettermen have
indicated that they will not play
this year. The team lost three let-termen
by graduation. Terry Muck,
star infielder, signed a professional
contract with the Atlanta raves
organization so he is ineligible.
A first meeting for the team will
be 4 p.m. Friday in the fieldhouse.
Practices will begin March 3 and
Coach Trager invites anyone in-terested
to come out for the team.
The season consists of nineteen
games of which seven are at home.
Coach Trager could make no pre-diction
on the team's success, but
as in all sports, fan support will
help very much. It should be a
good season.
Another new attempt this semes-ter
to "get outside" is through the
news department. Instead of
"plugging in" to KQRS, a Twin
City station, WBCS news director
John Walker handles the daily
newscasts of campus, local, nation-al
and international news. Hourly
a general review of the news of
the day is followed by "Viewpoint,"
an editorial comment on one of
the day's big news stories.
Tentative plans are being laid
for purchase of a first teletype ma-chine
for WBCS and for the pur-chase
of several turn tables and
stereo tape deck equipment to re-place
the somewhat worn out items
donated to the station by KSTP.
WBCS plans to cover this semes-ter's
baseball games and hopes to
be able to broadcast live next
year's away basketball games.
In line with its goal of bringing
Bethel students to a closer rela-tionship
to the outside world,
WBCS has changed its motto from
last semester's "New Dimension in
Sound" to "In the Groove and on
the Move," with WBCS radio.
by Faith Zwemke
A win and a loss marked the
end of the regular season for the
Bethel women's basketball team.
Their final record now stands at
five wins and five losses.
Fairview again was the victim
of a sound beating by Bethel on
Feb. 24. Bethel trounced Fairview
45-1 maintaining a comfortable
lead throughout the game.
Bethel had some minor difficul-ties
in the initial period, but be-fore
the half they were on their
way to victory.
Finding the evaluations offered
to be categorized as either witless
ramblings or hilariously satirical
quips, I commenced to record them
word for word, this method of ex-pression
being far more rewarding
and less dangerous than para-phrase.
Further, everyone knows
that spontaneous honesty of expres-sion
is of unquestionable worth.
The Civil Aeronautics Board has
recommended that airline youth
fares be abolished because they are
"unjustly discriminatory." The re-commendation,
which came late in
January, will go into effect thirty
days after that time unless the
Board reviews its decision and re-verses
it.
At present, twenty-four airlines
offer the discounts, either a one-half
or a one-third reduction. In
the past the CAB has upheld the
discounts as a legitimate way to
promote airline traffic. Several bus
Scoring for Bethel was quite ev-enly
distributed as three players
scored in double figures. Leading
the team was Marilyn Edgar with
15 points, followed by Mary Lind-man
with 14 and Karla Ask with
13.
The loss for Bethel came against
the U of M on Feb. 20, 40-26. The
university sported a fine team com-bining
excellent shooting and
strong defending.
Although the score implies that
the U had complete command, this
was not necessarily so. Both teams
What more can I say? A bit taken
aback by reactions of such an emp-ty
nature, I commenced to go di-rectly
to the source of the matter
and consult the staff, namely the
editor and co-editor to gain deeper
insight into the matter, perhaps
enabling me to discover the reason
for such vague and distraught im-pressions
as those given:
"I love Christian prose, but it's
only available in secular magazines.
Ours, unfortunately, is considered
a Christian magazine."
companies instigated the reinvesti-gation
of the discounts.
The National Student Association
has hired lawyers to fight the abo-lition
of youth fares. They will
argue that in view of the educa-tional,
social, economic, and cul-tural
benefits afforded by the
youth fares, the fares should not
be cancelled.
Written arguments were present-ed
to the CAB before February 26.
Oral arguments will be made later.
If the arguments are not successful,
that Christmas trip home to Cali-fornia
will double in price.
5-5 record
played extremely good, clean bas-ketball
and challenged each other
significantly. ethel's main difficul-ty
was inaccurate passing result-ing
in a costly number of turn-overs.
Marilyn Edgar again was top
scorer bucketing 10 points, and
Sarah Reasoner contributed an ad-ditional
8.
The team has concluded their
regular season play, but will cli-max
the year with their participa-tion
in a sportsday on Sat. March 1.
Students react to Coeval,
express varied opinions
by Amory E. Mous "I don't get it — you know what
As an unbiased observer, intent I mean?"
upon collecting various viewpoints "I thought the Coeval was the
on the most recent Coeval publi- culmination of the attainment
cation, I wandered through various Bethel has been striving for. Mr.
areas of a familiar cultural desert Myrbo's poem succinctly . .. oh,
in quest of opinion. forget it!"
Diamond men eye spring training
Women cagers end season with
"Interesting study in pedantry."
"I wasn't entranced by it because
I don't understand it—in fact, it's
a bunch of crud to me. I liked the
quality of the paper though. I guess Without much further adieu, I
I just don't click with the intellect- returned to my wanderings in the
ual level of Bethel." cultural desert . . .
Half-fares may be cancelled
Larry Swanson
BROOMBALL CHAMPIONS . . .
The sophomores won the Sno-Daze broomball competition. Since that time, the rink has
fallen into disuse. Many students are now wondering if it will be skateable (as promised) for the
rest of the winter.
Tate, Morris passing hogtie Bethel
by Wally Borner
Saturday night's basketball game was a study in
frustration. The Cougars from the University of Minne-sota,
Morris came to the Royals' lair with an of-fensive
show which is not often equalled in small
college basketball.
Morris is averaging 83.5 points per game. Their
high game was against Bethel earlier in the season
when they scored 120 points.
Bethel was in the game for the first few minutes.
However, it did not take long for Morris to start
picking apart the Royal defense with an amazing
passing game. The Cougars played as if they had been
together for several years. It was their confidence in
themselves plus a well balanced team which knew
what it was doing before they did it that defeated
Bethel.
Everyone was waiting for Pederson to score 13
points to give him a career mark of 2,000 but it had
to wait till the second half. Bethel played a good of-fensive
game, mainly on the strength of Bob Renwick's
seven consecutive field goals before he missed one.
On the other hand, Maclver and Starns were unstop-pable
as they scored 15 and 14 respectively. The
half ended with Bethel down by only 49-41.
The second half found Bethel cold. Pederson
scored 17 points, but other than that, no one could
hit.
Morris had a double threat. Whenever the Bethel
defense loosened up, they fed the ball to Maclver.
When the defense choked him off, Tate was unstop-
SPORTS CALENDAR
pable. Even when Maclver fouled out of the game,
they had no trouble scoring. Tate, who is only 5' 9",
pumped in 19 points in the second half.
We can't say that Bethel didn't try. The Royals
simply met one of the better teams in the state and
were outmanned. Morris has been known to choke
this year; however, their game here was an exhibition
of how basketball should be played.
In scoring 26 points against Morris, Pederson
shoved his total points for the season to 592. Ron
needs only 13 points to break his previous season
scoring record of 604 which he attained last year.
On the rebound side, he has 362 thus far. The
record for season rebounds will be tougher as he
would need 18 against St. John's tonight.
The St. John's tilt is a very important game. For
one thing, a win would put the season record at
12-13 which is quite respectable. It's always nice
to have a sweet taste in one's mouth when the season
is over.
Several people, the team and lots of fans, are
eager to get a shot at the Johnnies with a home
court advantage. In Collegeville last December, Bethel
lost by a score of 83-73. We know that St. John's has
improved, but so has Bethel. They don't have an
explosive offense; however, they are one of the
strongest defensive teams in the country.
Bethel can win if they move, pass quickly, and
above all, think. Our boys have to be ready for this
one mentally as well as physically. The fans want
it badly enough. It's just a question of whether the
squad wants it badly enough.
Grapplers drubbed in finals
Opening and closing matches
haven't been too good for the Beth-el
wrestlers this year. But there
can only be two of such each
season. Morris drubbed Bethel 25-
8 last Saturday night to close out
the season at 10-8. Macalester had
taken the season opener by a 29-6
score.
Morris has not compiled an im-pressive
record this year, but has
had a tough schedule and has
some fine wrestlers.
Jeff Mourning ran up against one
of these and only lost 4-2. His
opponent is undefeated this year.
The Rose brothers have also had
good years. Mickey beat Greg Ek-bom
9-2 and Charley pinned Tom
Swanson who was filling in at the
160-pound class.
Dale Berry pleased the fans as
he came off a long winless spell
to defeat his foe 8-2.
But it was Bob Olsen again who
really stole the show. Almost im-mediately,
he picked up his adver-sary,
putting a pinning combination
on him, and layed on the mat for a
25-second pin.
WRESTLING BOX SCORES
Bethel 8
Morris 25
123 Anderson (M) dec. Kunde (B) 5-4
130 Hedlund (M) dec. Moruning (B)
4-2
137 Velo (M) dec. Warring (B) 3-2 .
145 M. Rose (M) dec. Ekbom (B) 9-2
152 Ketcham (M) dec. Anderson (B) 4-I
160 C. Rose (M) pinned Swanson (B)
I :35
167 Berry (B) dec. Swanson (M) 8-2
177 Olsen (B) pinned Patenode 0:25
Hwy Lueke (M) pinned Inouye (B) 0:16
March 1-7
1 Women's Basketball, U of Minn.-Sports Day
1 Hockey, North Stars vs. Detroit 8 :00 TV
1 Basketball, Gophers at Northwestern
1 Hockey, Gophers at Colorado College
2 Basketball, Pipers vs. Miami
4 Basketball, Gophers vs. Iowa
4 Basketball, Pipers at Denver
5 Hockey, North Stars at Oakland
5 Basketball, Pipers at Los Angeles
BASKETBALL Richardson
Bethel 105 Renwick
fg ft tpLehman
Pederson 10 -0 30Johnson
Brodin .. 3 I 7Berry
Feldman 6 0 I2Swedberg
Weko .. 2 3 7Hoehl
Delich
BETHEL BOX SCORES
Northwestern 70
fg ft tp
6 113 Thomsen 5 2
I 2 4 Fikse 0 1
10 2 Rens 7 3
3 5 II Bosch 9 I
3 0 6 Townsend 0 0
0 I I Beckering 2 0
13 5 DeVries 11
2 3 .7 Meylink 4 4
Van Gelder I 0
Fouls: Bethel 22—Northwestern 24
Fouled Out: Townsend, Beckering
by Frosty Peterson
In all great organizations, there
are those hard-working people be-hind
the scenes who keep things
running smoothly but receive little
reward. One such person is Larry
Swanson, statistician for the Bethel
basketball team.
This may not sound very impres-sive
at first, but, as coach Trager
stated, "He spends a very signifi-cant
amount of time doing this."
There are numerous kinds of sta-tistics
which must be kept besides
just the number of points scored
and rebounds. For example, such
things as assists are recorded and
even defensive errors of the op-posing
team are noted so that they
might be capitalized upon later.
After the games have been play-ed,
his work is by no means over.
Larry first has to figure out what
Sadeete Symposium
by Wally Borner
There is a little more to sportsmanship than just being
polite on the court or field. There is more to it than being a
humble winner or a gracious loser. When two athletic teams
make up a contract to play one another, they both go into the
contest with the good faith that all terms of the contract are
fulfilled and that they will each play a good ball game with the
better team winning.
When the campus is filled with hundreds of alumni and
a basketball game is scheduled so that they can see the Bethel
team, they should be able to see some good basketball. It can
be very disappointing for both the fans and the team when
something less than the team shows up for the contest.
So for those unaware of the events which transpired last
Thursday during the Founders Week game, the Red Raiders
from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, came up with-out
their starting five. Bethel had no problem in winning the
game, but it degenerated into something less than a well-played
game. It also took away the opportunity to gain revenge after
dropping an 84-69 decision to them on their home court.
Supposedly, Northwestern had a chance to win their
conference and having played Wednesday night and having a
game the following Saturday night, they decided their boys
needed a rest.We can rest assured, however, that providence
caught up with them as Westmar soundly defeated them that
evening.
All we can do now is hope that Northwestern has learned
a lesson, (not from losing that game, but Bethel's questioning
of their action) and hope that next season we can get the kind
of games that we intended when the schedule was made up.
The Founders shouldn't have any worries for next year as we
have already scheduled another team for that historic contest.
* * * *
The last, (and only) time I talked about the North Stars
Hockey Club, they were going into a nosedive which took them
to the cellar of the western division of the National Hockey
League. January 19, the St. Louis Blues defeated the North
Stars running their streak to fourteen games without a victory.
And that was all for coach Johnny Muckler.
Wren Blair, who was the coach and is the general manager,
came down to take over the reins again. Since that time, the
Stars have rung up an 8-5-1 record. It didn't take them long to
get out of the cellar, and last Sunday, with a 7-2 win over
Toronto, they tied Philadelphia for fourth place. In the NHL,
each league has a play-off of the top four teams and those
winners meet for the Stanley Cup, the World Series of Hockey.
The Stars have won several of these games because of
trades besides getting Blair back. Leo Boiven, Orban and
Reid have helped a lot, and chances are that the Stars will finish
third or possibly second. At any rate, they are a hockey
club again. And they have an easy schedule left. Twelve games
are against the Western division teams and only five against
the East. So, keep an eye open. They may surprise a few people.
Fouled Out: McIver
all of these statistics mean and
record them. Each week he com-piles
and sends the results to the
NAIA headquarters in Kansas City
for recording. Newspaper articles
and television sportcasts about
Bethel's games and scores are also
a result of his behind-the-scenes
work.
Another very important task that
Larry has assumed is that of stu-dent
manager for the basketball
team during the games as there is
no manager at the present time.
Those who are familiar with ath-letics
will agree that this job is
important and time consuming, but
equally inglorious. This, coupled
with his job as statistician, amounts
to a good deal of time and effort
spent on his part, and it is greatly
appreciated by the athletic depart-ment.
12 Bethel 68 Morris 90
I fg ft tp fg ft tp
17 Pederson 9 8 26 Maclver I I I 23 ST. JOHN'S DEFEATED DULUTH
19 Feldman 3 4 10 Mielke 2 0 4
0 Weko 4 0 8 Tate II 5 27 MONDAY NIGHT TO CLINCH THE
4
3
Richardson
Renwick
2 I 5 Wennerberg
8 0 16 6 5 17
MIAC BASKETBALL TITLE WITH
12 Lehman I 0 2 Brenner I 1 3 A 12-5 RECORD.
2 Delich 0 I I Starns 6 4 16
Fouls: Bethel I7—Morris 17
Swanson sets record straight
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Thursday, February 27, 1969