Vol. XLIII—No. 27
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, May 9, 1969
Play sparks Drama Club participation
Lawson directs Shavian production
Committee ends study
of minority recruitment,
forms recommendation
by Barb Jahr
Bethel Royal Players are open-ing
and closing their major pro-duction
series with this weekend's
presentations of "Arms and The
Man" by George Bernard Shaw.
Anyone familiar with Shaw will
surely recall his unique ability to
insert stage directions. His didactic
set descriptions usually become
very laborious. However, Bruce
Lawson, student director, has de-cided
to "entirely ignore all that
stuff."
One aspect he has utilized, al-though,
is the time and place set-ting.
The period depicted is late
1800's and costuming is Bulgarian
and Serbian. However a few updat-ed
incidents will be sure to bring
laughs.
Lawson, who is directing the
play, is a senior with an English
by Pat Faxon
Changes in Bethel's women's
hours which had been under con-sideration
for two years, according
to the Dean of Men and the Dean
of Women, were announced last
week.
Students have been awaiting the
announcement since early this
spring when the issue of liberaliz-ing
of women's curfew was passed
in a referendum, three to one.
Amid considerable student vocifer-ation,
deliberation continued at
the recent Student Personnel Com-mittee
meeting where representa-tives
from each of the women's
residences presented their views.
The final decision was reached
after the committee meeting by
members of the Student Services
Office.
The decision contained four main
points. First, it was announced that
Falcon and Pascal Manors would
be residences for junior and senior
women only. In these two manors
an experiment with no curfew
is anticipated. Visiting hours will
major and Drama is his related
field. He defines his purpose in the
endeavor as mainly for experience.
Unfortunately for the Drama de-partment,
scheduling has been a
problem all year. After selecting
May 7-11 as production dates, the
director and cast came to the reali-zation
that they had only two and
a half weeks after Easter vacation
to rehearse. However, Lawson has
been quite impressed with the
progress being made by all in-volved.
Of course, there is much more
to production than rehearsing sev-en
cast members. Flats, props,
lights and costumes were all han-dled
by the survey of drama class.
All the women's costumes were
made by members of the Drama
Club. The man in charge of techni-remain
restricted with the specific
details in this area to be arranged
later. Juniors and seniors who will
not be 21 by September 1 are re-quired
to obtain a signed permis-sion
statement from their parents.
(Officials noted this week that,
contrary to some student opinion,
Falcon Manor which is occupied
this year by men students is in
"equally as good condition" as the
women's manors.)
It was also decided that Idaho,
Center, and Eagle Manors would
be residences for sophomore wo-men
and retain the current soph-omore
hours. Bodien, Hagstrom,
and Arden Hills dormitories will
also retain the present hours and
upperclassmen who choose to live
in the dorms will be required to
observe those hours.
Because of the changes, Bethel
coeds will be given the option of
one, two, or three roommates with
graduated rent prices. In spite of
this fact, the administration anti-cipates
no problems providing an
adequate amount of housing for
Bethel women.
cal loose ends has been the stage
manager, Jerry Sather.
Interestingly enough, four of
the seven cast members are fresh-men.
This, of course, is to the
advantage of the department. Not
only do they have enough willing
actors for a slow year, such as
this, but here are some good pros-pects
for the future.
Each year the question of what
type of drama is relevant to Bethel
is raised. Like most of the Shavian
pieces, "Arms and The Man" is a
subtle social and political satire.
This particular work deals with the
superficiality of the "elite" class
and the absurdity of war. How
many of the members of the audi-ence
will find themselves to laugh
at it is another question.
(See pictures, page 3)
Senate honors
Greg Taylor,
outgoing prexy
Greg Taylor, the Student As-sociation's
outgoing president, was
presented with a gavel by Gary
Mueller and Keith Anderson on
behalf of the senators at last
week's Student Senate meeting.
The gavel, which was engraved
with the words "Bethel College
Student Association President 1968-
69 Greg Taylor", was bestowed in-stead
of the traditional title of
President Emeritus.
Jan Wyma and Norma Wilcox
were appointed Student Associa-tion
secretary and recording sec-retary,
respectively, and Steve Jor-gensen
was made an additional
appointment to the communications
review committee.
The re-establishment of an Organ-izational
Chartering Board was also
approved. The purpose of the board
will be to approve the establish-ment
and constitutions of organiza-tions
on campus. Its five members
are to be appointed at a later date.
by Marie Watson
Discussion and evaluation of mi-nority
group student recruitment
for Bethel's campus will culminate
next week as the Minority Recruit-ment
Committee submits its re-commendation
at the faculty meet-ing.
The Minority Recruitment Com-mittee
held its concluding meeting
last week for final discussion be-fore
submitting their recommend-ations
to the faculty. This com-mittee
is made up of ten members,
faculty and students, who have
met periodically during the year.
The overall trend of faculty and
students toward the recruiting of
and the presence of minority group
students on Bethel's campus has
been favorable, as revealed by a
combination survey taken earlier
this year for the committee and
for the Negro in American Culture
course.
The immediate concern of re-cruiting
minority group students
to Bethel is due primarily to the
fact that the North Central exam-ining
team indicated that Bethel
must create greater diversity in
the student body by the admission
of minority group students.
Subtle discrimination as well as
obvious discrimination could be ov-ercome
by encouraging minority
group students to come to Bethel
and making it possible for them to
attend where cultural and academic
differences could be a barrier. This
experience of having minority
An agreement to incorporate
the libraries of Augsburg, Bethel,
Concordia and Macalester Colleges,
Hamline University, and the Col-leges
of St. Catherine and St. Tho-mas,
and the James Jerome Hill
Reference Library recently was
reached by the administrators and
librarians of the eight institutions.
The result will be CLIC (Coopera-ting
Libraries in Consortium).
CLIC, which will be financed in
part by an annual contribution
from each library, will attempt to
obtain a Federal Grant for the joint
purchasing of library materials,
and represents a futher step in a
developing interlibrary cooperation
which dates back to the early
1950's.
Since 1959, the libralians of
these institutions have been meet-ing
regularly in the attempt to
discover new and better modes of
group students here would also
give the opportunity to evidence
our Christian convictions and love,
the chairman of the committee
noted.
Two other reasons noted by com-mittee
members included (1) that
the admission of minority students
is to relieve the guilt feelings that
some experience regarding the fact
that we have had a part in the rac-ial
and minority group discrimina-tion
and (2) that it would be a
helpful experience to the Bethel
community to have minority group
students on campus.
Jon Fagerson, chairman of the
committee, states that "We are all
racists" and he anticipates prob-lems
with the admission of minor-ity
group students. These problems
would be cultural, social, academic,
and the relating of the student to
the faculty and the student body.
Aspects of the student-student re-lationships,
student-teacher rela-tionships,
and the total well being
of the Bethel community have been
discussed and hashed out in the
committee.
Criteria for admitting minority
group students — spiritual and
cultural — has been discussed and
whether differences in these areas
would be compatible with Bethel
standards. The committee states the
fact that they realize that all stu-dents
have to be admitted by the
same sandards; but they suggest,
after careful study, that the stan-cont'd
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interaction. These meetings have
resulted in cooperation in many
ways, but primarily in acquisi-tions,
and in the opening of the
individual libraries to students of
the other cooperating institutions.
In the attempt to take advantage
of possible grants and gifts, it was
decided this month that the in-volved
libraries should proceed a
step further and incorporate.
In addition to the application for
a Federal Grant, CLIC is also con-sidering
the possibility of hiring a
consultant to investigate futher re-search
and development potential-ities
among the eight libraries in-volved.
It is believed that the most
important effect of CLIC will be to
make available to the Twin City
colleges, library materials and ser-vices
which no one of the institu-tions
is able fully to provide on its
own.
Coeds receive liberalized hours
Agreement changes inter-library
cooperation into incorporation
THE EXKURSIONS
Mike Johnson provides guitar skill in the Exkursion's "Like
It Is" program, sponsored by Inter-Varsity. The combo per-formed
in this morning's chapel.
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Correlation between church, chapel goers?
Campus intellectuahlack Survey studys student 'religiousity'
channels for expression
Bethel's intellectual climate has often been disparaged,
and perhaps rightfully so. Critical discussion of ideas and
vigorous interaction among students and faculty are not exactly
trademarks of the Bethel lifestyle.
Instead we have provincial sects of campus "intellectuals"
who isolate themselves in dorm rooms and other private cor-ners.
Finding solace in the solidarity of their own circles, most
students seem to prefer unchallenged seclusion to live dis-cussion.
Likewise, student-faculty interaction is hardly at a pre-mium.
For some students it doesn't exist, and for many others
it is localized in the offices of two or three professors. Although
only the initiated few know for sure, even the amount of
interaction among faculty members is suspect.
Hopefully, such things are not due to the distinctive mold
of the Christian liberal arts college or the cast of the evangel-ical
mind. At Bethel, an intellectually stilted atmosphere may
be due, at least in part, to an absence of adequate channels
of expression.
What is needed is a faculty-student organization devoted
to maintaining a forum for the discussion of various topics
which are of interest to its members. The format might include
films, panel discussions, or outside speakers.
However, the main emphasis should be on the circulation
of papers prepared by both faculty members and students, and
their presentation and discussion at group sessions. This would
maximise the exchange of ideas on campus, hopefully stimulat-ing
meaningful dialogue on a wide variety of issues.
The reluctance to critically examine ideas takes on the
dimensions of a ball and chain in a college community. Perhaps
the formation of an organization along the lines suggested
here would help sweep the cobwebs from the thinking chambers
and knock the shackles from the intrinsically adventerous
spirit of education.
Intellectual stagnation is not an uncommon malady, but
it is one Bethel can do without.
BETHEL FORUM
by Faith Zwemke
The religious attitude or "religiousity" of Bethel
students relating to church and chapel attendance
was the topic of a recent survey taken on campus.
The survey was conducted by seniors in the
methods of social research class which is taught by
James Treece, who will join Bethel's staff full time
next fall. The basic hypothesis that the students set
out to prove was that there is a correlation between
how often a student attends church and how often
he attends chapel.
A random sampling of 158 students provided the
information obtained in the survey. Statistics proved
that the sampling was quite representative of Bethel
insofar as the male and female ratio and class divi-sions
were concerned. Presently 45% of the Bethel
enrollment is male which corresponds to 48% male
of the 158 interviewed. Class divisions were also quite
closely correlated as 28% of Bethel students are
sophomores and 17% are seniors, while 28% and
22% respectively of those interviewed were sopho-mores
and seniors. Other class percentages and
survey percentages also closely corresponded.
Of particular interest to the Clarion was the ques-tion
regarding the effect of the "Chapel Highligths"
column on a student's attendance. Of the 158 sur-veyed,
100 said "Chapel Highlights" did affect their
attendance and of those, 63% attended chapel at
least 3 times per week while 37% attended less
than three times a week. Of those who said "Chapel
Highlights" did not affect their attendance, 60%
went to chapel three or more times every week.
The closeness of the two percentages from each
group would tend to indicate that "Chapel Highlights"
has a positive rather than negative effect on chapel
attendance.
Another question posed by the researchers dealt
with whether a student attended church and chapel
alone or with friends. Mr. Treece, instructor of the
class, suggested before the survey was taken that
girls probably tended to be more sociable and
would probably attend with friends more often than
alone. Percentages bore him out on this question
as only 18% of the girls attended chapel alone while
33%, or nearly one-third, of the boys attended alone.
The survey suggested that students living on
campus were more "religious" than off-campus stu-dents
as 88% attended chapel at least three times
per week and only 75% of the off-campus students
attended three or more times a week.
Another area covered in the survey involved the
mobility of the student in relation to his attendance.
Basically, the thinking behind this question was that
if a student had a car, would he be more apt to run
up to Mr. Donut or a similar place for a coffee break
around 10:30 or would he go to chapel? Also in re-gard
to church attendance, would students go to
church more often if they could drive themselves or
does bouncing on the bus produce more frequent
attendance to a.m. worship services?
Strangely enough, and unexpected by the re-searchers,
85% of those who do not own cars attend
church more than three times a month while only
77% of those owning cars attend as often. Indicated
by the survey, Mr. Donut or someplace, must pro-vide
more "food" than chapel as nearly 47% of
students owning cars take themselves elswhere dur-ing
chapel while 68.3% of those who do not own
vehicles go to chapel at least three times each week.
In regard to the question of whether or not bus
service only to church would produce more attend-ance,
the survey suggested that a bus running only
to church probably wouldn't be much fuller than
those going both to church and Sunday school.. Of
the 158 questioned, 109 said a bus going only to
church had no effect on their attendance.
Conductors of the survey felt that they had a
good representation of Bethel in their survey. In
view of this and other favorable factors, they were
convinced that the questionnaire significantly proved
that students who attend chapel often attend church
often, and those who attend chapel seldom also at-tend
church infrequently.
Also, high percentages recorded in relation to
attenders as to non-attenders appeared to suggest
that Bethel students are quite "religious" in these
two areas of attendance.
Reader sees SUI as 'realistic approach to world'
Secieteor twee& stew dolma Aleuteeu To the editor:
I wish to thank your paper for its
coverage of the Students for Urban
Involvement project which is in
the planning stage at Bethel. I hope
that many students have become
interested in this venture because
of your coverage.
I would also like to take this
opportunity to describe to your
readers my experiences in a situa-tion
similiar to the one which is
proposed by SUI. Since March 10th
I have been involved in a project
which is known as Crisis Colony at
Augsburg College. In this program
15 students and 2 supervisors live
in a burned out funeral home on
Plymouth Avenue in North Minn-eapolis.
We came with the outlook that
the community is the teacher and
we have really received quite an
education. We are receiving 15
quarter credits for our work. One
third of the credit comes from
actually living on the Northside
and the Colony experience. Anoth-er
third comes from reading books
and having speakers from the corn-munity
come in and share with us
on various topics such as education,
politics, religion, police relations,
and minority culture. The last third
of the credit is given for an inde-pendent
study, which allows each
of us to dig deep into some aspect
of the Northside. My particular
topic is related to the churches and
what they are and should be doing
on the Northside.
This quarter has meant a great
deal to me. One important aspect,
as far as I am concerned, of the
Crisis Colony comes from the fact
that you can't be phony on the
Northside. You don't fool anybody.
They can tell when you're faking it.
Because of this I have come to
realize who I am and what I am.
It has also helped me to be able
to react and relate to people as
human beings, not as things or
merely animals as I have in the
past. It is really strange but trivial
and small talk seems to vanish
from conversations in the North-side.
What is spoken of is of ut-most
importance.
Not only has the Crisis Colony
proven to be a unique personal ex-perience
but it has also been shown
to be a possible answer to the quest
for relevance in our schools today.
Many educators from the Twin
Cities, Minnesota, and the Upper
To the editor:
I was somewhat perplexed by
last week's editorial, "Publications
plagued with sagging interests."
Such statements as "Student publi-cations
at Bethel are in a sad
state, and getting into a sadder
one" simply do not square with
the facts.
For example, the Clarion has
just achieved its second successive
All-American rating, and has never
fallen below a First-Class rating
during the past decade. Such an
envious record can scarcely be-long
to a publication in danger of
going "under for that third and
final time."
Coeval also seems to contradict
the gloomy generalization of last
week's editorial. Despite the limi-tations
of the minuscule budget,
Coeval, in contrast to previous
years, has published two issues
and is working on a third. This rep-resents
a definite improvement ov-
Midwest have been very interested
in the outcome of this project and
have looked upon it as a educa-tional
structure of the future.
This brings us to the point where
we at Bethel can participate in
bringing the future into reality
today. I think the SUI proposal is
one realistic approach to enable
students to find out about the
world (No theological implications
intended but they can be added if
you wish) and a chance to be where
the action is.
The choice is yours.
Larry Day
er the single year-end edition of
previous years, a practice which al-lows
little opportunity for the dis-cussion
of its contents.
Again, the comment that "Inter-est
(and especially active interest)
in publications at Bethel seems to
be falling fast" seems unfounded.
Here specific mention is made of
the Clarion in support of this
contention, yet I note the current
size of the Clarion staff (eleven)
is larger than at any other time
during the previous three or four
years.
On the other side of the ledger,
no one can deny that Spire is hav-ing
its problems, and that the
other publications must always re-cognize
the need for improvement.
But let's pin down our generaliza-tion
with facts and focus specifi-cally
on our problems, rather than
discredit the whole set up with
vague and unfounded statements.
Lynn Bergfalk
To the editor:
It's been quite a year! For those
who have been caught in the transi-tion
between the campuses it has
been unreal.
The first chaotic weeks of school
saw 60 girls and about 40 guys liv-ing
in a state of moderate disar-ray.
The girls, living half a mile
away in the fair grounds, and the
guys, crammed three in a room
in Edgren, were off to a challeng-ing
(if not, trying) start. For the
guys things inproved and they
moved into the seminary apart-ments.
But the girls, as the weeks
dragged 'by, were still in the cramp-ed,
cold, heatless, fairground apart-ments.
Finally, in late November, after
no less than three postponements,
approximately one hundred stu-dents
moved into the new dorm.
Of course, it was another month
before we got our desks and dres-sers,
but the "historic" initial step
into the future had been taken for
Bethel College.
One might draw parallels be-tween
this move and Pres. John-son's
decision to send troops into
Vietnam. "The Royal Order of the
Advanced Guard," as we have been
called by Pres. Lundquist, is a truly
motly crew of pioneers who have
succumbed to the challenge of the
call of the wild and taken, as it
were, one step beyond.
Seriously, though, the move to
the new dorm has been great. The
casualties have been few and those
who have hung-on have grown to
enjoy this little enclave. We have
few restrictions and there is much
potential for interaction on all lev-els:
intellectual, spiritual, recrea-tional,
and "military". Of course,
we must not fail to mention the
possibility for romantic encount-ers
(or skirmishes).
On the whole, things are looking
real good for the future. Hopes of a
"commons" for next year lends ad-ded
appeal to life in the Arden
Hills Residence. Responsible in-volvement
between students and
administration will serve to re-move
present inconveniences and
provide the basis for an exciting
and rewarding future.
Sincerely,
Steve Lambrides
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"EXIT THE KING"
Berenger the First, a dying king, savors his last hour of
life with a servant girl in the Eastside Theatre production of
Ionesco's "Exit the King"
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A Sleeping "Chocolate-cream Soldier"
Raina (Poly Jacobson) and Catherine Petkoff (Faye Kulbitski) try frantically to awaken
Blutschli (Ken Fisher) an intruding Serbian soldier. The Bethel Royal Players are presenting
G. B. Shaw's "Arms and the Man" May 7-11.
Friday, May 9, 1969
by Chuck Myrbo
"Why was I born if it wasn't
forever?" King Berenger the First
is not prepared to die��no one
ever is. He has just realized that
his death is imminent, and it is
not a pleasant surprise — it never
is.
Berenger is Everyman. He is the
hero of Eugene Iocesco's "Exit the
King," which just opened at the
Eastside. It will run through June
1.
"Exit the King" is about death.
At the beginning of the play Ber-enger
is told that he is about to
die. At the end of the play he dies.
During the play he has a chance
to get ready to give up his life.
None of the themes are new:
Death is our only inevitable visitor,
the one we have a lifetime to pre-pare
for — but he is always un-the
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expected, we are never ready.
Death is the great leveller. No one
else's death can prepare us for
our own. ("He acts as if no one
has ever died before." "No one
ever has.") And so on.
The themes are not new, but
they are far from trite. Ionesco
and Paul Boesing save them from
that. Boesing plays Berenger in the
Eastside production. It is a diffi-cult
role.
Berenger must shrink during the
play from a magnificent king to a
snivelling, pitiable man. Boesing
manages to put it across. Rosemary
Hartup as Berenger's first queen
is also effective.
This play is staged more simply
and far better than most Eastside
productions. The final scene is
extremely well done. See this one
if you can; it's worth it.
Eastside play carries old
theme of 'inevitable end'
by Susan Bomstad and Judy Olsen
A Bethel education department
endeaver that is quite unique in
Minnesota is its follow-up program
of first year teachers.
For several years, the education
department staff has traveled with-in
about a 50-mile radius of the
college to visit and observe teach-ers
in the classroom during the
second semester of their first year
of teaching. While in a school, they
also talk to teachers and principals
to find out weaknesses and advan-tages
of Bethel's education pro-gram.
This year Dr. Junet Runbeck,
Elliott Donnels and Richard Harris
observed more than 20 Bethel
graduates to see how they are ad-justing
to the experience of
teaching.
Both the principals and the new
teachers themselves were given
questionnaires to evaluate the
teaching preparedness of the for-mer
Bethelites. Some of the areas
evaluated were planning and or-ganizing,
classroom management,
control in the classroom, and en-thusiasm
for teaching.
Dr. Runbeck said the principals
rated almost all of Bethel's first-year
teachers very highly. No one
felt any particular area of prepara-tion
was inadequate and the ma-jority
rated enthusiasm as more
than adequate, she added.
One suggestion often made by
the young teachers was that of
offering a course at Bethel dealing
with the exceptional child, includ-ing
both gifted and handicapped.
Others suggested a course which
would provide information about
the culturally disadvantaged child.
Several changes have been in-stituted
in Bethel's program in
recent years as a result of the
follow-up suggestions, Dr. Runbeck
said. One long-term goal as a re-sult
of the follow-up would be a
kindergarten program.
Most of the new teachers visited
this year were already busy in
some program to contribute to the
teaching profession. These included
such activities as summer teach-ing,
the executive council and cur-riculum
committees.
Dr. Runbeck said the education
department is planning to follow-up
those who have taught three to
five years. This will help Bethel
on its long-range planning.
"Now Say It Right"
Elmer Nelson appears to threaten Laurel Toy between scenes. Dress rehearsals leave little
time to goof off, but the cast takes advantage of every chance to relax.
Unique follow-up program for teachers
aids Bethel's education department plans
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BEHIND-THE-SCENES: CHRISTIANITY DEPARTMENT
Professors Art Lewis (R) and Al Glenn have a chess game
going in Dr. Glenn's office. What's novel about it is that they
just play it one move at a time without the other one being
there necessarily. Dr. Lewis will stop by the office one day and
make a move, leave a note saying that it's Dr. Glenn's move;
perhaps the next day or so he will make a move and leave a
similar note for Dr. Lewis. They are hoping to finish the game
by the end of the semester.
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An issue of involvment
Campus leaders utilize chapel sessions
Rolland will graduate next year
with a Christianity major. With a
basic interest in mission work, he
has two areas in mind for the fu-ture.
One would be to return to
Vietnam and work with the support
program for Wycliff Translators.
"Languages have always come easy
for me. The other alternative would
be to enter the biggest mission
field in our times — the Army,"
he said.
The Evangelical Alliance Mission
(TEAM) will be sponsoring Rolland
as he travels to South America.
Work possibilities include accom-panying
native student evangelists
in their endeavors, distribution in
a Bible bookstore, construction, or
teaching. Departure date for Rol-land
and six other students will
be June 26 at Miami, Florida.
Rolland said he is thankful for
his spiritual growth at Bethel and
is excited that the Lord has led
him to this service in Colombia and
Venezuela.
nis Witlock and Dave Waite; a
string quartet; a string trio; and
two selections with eight strings
and four trumpeters.
Three clarinet compositions will
be played by John Hopkins; vocal
solos will be performed by Dave
Waite and Jane Alquist, who will
be accompanied by two flutists,
Gail Klemetti, and Harriet Nor-gren;
and three choral composi-tions
will be sung by a group of
20-25 Bethel students, accompanied
by Becky Lindaman.
Bethelites join Willmington
for 'unique' senior recital
by Karen Nelson
A summer of opportunity and
decision awaits Rolland Schearer,
Bethel's Student Missionary who
will be traveling to Colombia and
Venezuela.
Originally from Warren, Penn.,
Rolland has also lived in France
and Germany with his father who
is a lieutenant Colonel in the U.S.
Army's Medical Maintenance Div-ision.
After one and a half years at
Penn State, Rolland followed in his
father's footsteps and entered the
Army's Security Agency. He be-came
an interpreter with patrol
status in the 1st Infantry Division.
His army career took him to Tokyo
for a short while and then to Viet
Nam for ten and a half months.
"As an interpreter, I had tremen-dous
opportunities to meet Vietna-mese
people from all walks of
life—not only to meet them, but
to know and appreciate them,"
Rolland said.
Bethel students will be perform-ing
in concert compositions by Ed
Willmington, a double major in
conducting and church music, at 8
p.m. Monday in Calvary Baptist
Church.
This a unique recital—a Bethel
first. Ed will perform, conduct, or
accompany on every one of his 15
compositions that will be presented.
Willmington's concert will in-clude:
one organ and brass com-position
— brass consisting of
three trumpeters, Fred Brumm,
Jim Fulton and Randy Pike, and
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In presenting three out of five
chapels last week, campus leaders
seemed to be encouraging and de-manding
greater involvement on
the part of students, not only in
campus affairs but also in society
through the church.
The chapels could be looked up-on
as a culmination of the work
done and interest exhibited in
these areas during this past aca-demic
year. Monday a panel of
three students including Greg Tay-lor,
former Student Association
President, Dave Shupe, present
leader of the student body, and
Marge Whaley, Clarion editor, con-fronted
members of the administra-tion
represented by President Carl
Lundquist, Dean Virgil Olson, Dean
of Students Webster Muck, and
Harvey DeVries, Vice President of
Public Affairs.
There was considerable disap-pointment
noted among students
as administrators proceeded to give
lengthy and involved answers while
questions continued to come in
from the floor. Among the ques-tions
for which there was no time,
those concerning women's hours
were probably most numerous. Oth-ers
questioned ties within the sem-inary,
relationship and responsibil-ity
to the Conference, college de-cision-
making processes and issues
included in the North Central ex-aminers'
report.
Tuesday members of the student
Church Renewal Group, which has
been meeting since Founders Week
presented the churches' problem
today not as making Christianity
relevant, but as "returning to
Christianity."
According to Dennis Olson, one
of the spokesmen for the group,
the church should be open to a
redefinition of the terms "secul-lar"
and "sacred." Maurice Zaffke,
also a spokesman, expressed the
danger of identifying Christianity
with traditional institutions such
as nationalism and capitalism. The
Wessel writes
in encyclopedia
Dr. Walter Wessel, chairman of
the department of Christianity,
has written two articles for the
new International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia.
The encyclopedia, a four-volume
work and it is scheduled to be
published in 1970. Dr. Wessel's
two articles are about the Ebion,
ites, an early Christian heretical
group, and the epistle of James.
members attempted to bring stu-dents
to account by stating that,
"We are the church," and we can-not
stand idly by and criticize.
Thursday, on the first official
day of their administration, the
new Student Association President,
Dave Shupe and Vice President
Rick Berggren came before stu-dents
to request their support and
participation in the coming year.
Bethel, according to Shupe, has
the uniqueness of combining a
Bethel's Art Department will
sponsor an art show next Wednes-day.
Items on display will include
paintings, sculptures, c e r a m i c s,
graphics and printmaking projects.
All works have been done by art
students at Bethel. Every item in
the show will be for sale with the
Christian and liberal arts college.
Students are presented with a
challenge to continue and improve
this unique quality during the pre-sent
period of re-evaluation. In
closing, Shupe presented his goals
for the coming year, which are
representative of a rising trend at
Bethel. He hopes to develop a
sense of community, distinguished
from paternalism, and to end the
isolation Bethel seems to have im-posed
upon itself.
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by Pastor Maurice Lawson Tough foes, but thinclads shine
Prof. Eddie Thomas will lead the
chapel on Monday and Tuesday
speaking to the theme, "The Ne-gro
and the Evangelical." There
will be opportunities for questions
from the floor on Tuesday.
Wednesday the Pastor will speak
on the subject, "Who in the
World?" Pastor Leland Eliason
will relate his own search for hon-esty
in his life and ministry, on
Thursday. This was announced two
weeks ago but was postponed until
this time.
On Friday, Alice Tegenfeldt,
Bethel '66, will tell us of her
own experiences in being called
to serve Christ in Viet Nam as a
Bible translator. She will be leav-ing
for her new work this month.
Student missionaries will be com-missioned
for their summer work
at the Friday chapel as well.
We will soon be scattered. Let
us all make the most of our Chris-tian
community by being present
in chapel every day, in spite of
end-of-the-semester pressures.
European trip
remains open
For an exciting, carefree summer
in Europe, Bethel students, staff
and faculty and their families can
still obtain plane seats on an Air
France group flight direct to Paris
from New York and return.
The Twin Cities Inter-College Co-ordinating
Committee (IC3), com-posed
of seven private local col-leges
is sponsoring the group flight
round trip ticket for $270. Depar-ture
date is June 18th from New
York and return from Paris on
August 20th. Final payment is due
within the next week. Applica-tion
blanks available from either
Dan Johnson or off from the cam-pus
bulletin boards.
by Tom Stocking
Bethel's track team competed
against four other Minnesota
schools last week and earned an
even split for their efforts. In a
dual meet on April 30 the Ham-line
Pipers overwhelmed the Roy-als
91 to 44. On May 3 the thinclads
bounced back to place second to
St. Thomas in a quadrangular meet.
Hamline, which for many years
was in the lower division of MIAC
track, has developed a talented and
deep squad. The week before the
Pipers captured the Bethel Relays,
and little doubt existed that they
would defeat the Royals.
Led by Terry Larson, Hamline
swept both the 100 Yd. and 220 Yd.
dashes, and later scored a sweep
in the discus. The Pipers managed
to score in every event, as their
superior depth allowed them to
pick up points where the outman-ned
Royals could provide no oppo-sition.
Bethel's strongest event proved
to be the hurdles where the Andy
Lehman-Fritz Fredeen combination
stormed to a one-two finish in the
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dards regarding Bethel's style of
life and education be re-evaluated
as well as the objectives of the
school as a whole.
Questions arose in the committee
as to whether the style of life and
education of Bethel is relevant to
minority group students. This led
to the consideration of its relevan-cy
to the Bethel students at pre-sent.
A committee member mentioned
that it must be remembered that,
especially at first, the minority
students who do come to Bethel
will not necessarily be the "aver-age"
(socially and academically)
minority group student.
A problem encountered at other
schools after the admission of min-
120 Yd. High Hurdles, and one-three
in the 440 Yd. Intermediate
Hurdles. Lehman captured the
highs with a 15.4 followed by
Fredeen with a 15.6. In the 440
Fredeen took the honors with a
57.3 and Lehman showed with a
58. Besides being school record
holding hurdlers, Fredeen and
Lehman also compete in field ev-ents.
Fredeen leaped to a third
place in the Long Jump, and Leh-man
took the same spot in the
triple jump.
Individually, Dave Pearson put
on an excellent performance by
winning the High Jump, 6' 3/4",
the Long Jump, 21' 6 1/2", and sec-ond
in the triple jump, 42' 2".
Pearson alone accounted for nearly
a third of the team's points.
Dick Olson had a fine day taking
third in the 2 Mile just behind
teammate Dwight Carlson, and ran
a good 4:37 mile. Dave Pound
turned in his usual fine race in
the 440 with an excellent 51.0,
and was edged by only .2 of a sec-ond
for first. Rounding out the
scoring for Bethel were: Tim Lar-ority
group students is that many
of these students were not able
to succeed in college life—academ-ically
and socially — leaving the
question in the minds of some
Bethelites as to whether they would
succeed here.
The committee's conclusion and
actual recommendation call for ac-tive
recruitment of minority group
students and the re-evaluation of
Bethel's style of life and educa-tion
as mentioned above.
son, second in the pole vault; Bob
Olsen, third in the shot, and Rick
Berggren, third in the 880.
St. Thomas dominated the quad-rangular
with 83 points, Bethel
came through with 53, UMD scored
36, and Southwest State tallied
1 lone point. St. Thomas, like
Hamline, has a horde of fast run-ners
and strong weightmen. Never-theless
Bob Olsen sprinted with a
10.4 to take second in the 100 Yd.
dash, and Fred Swedberg and
Darrel Nelson placed third and
fourth in the discus with tosses of
124' and 119' 8", respectively.
Pearson duplicated his outstand-ing
performance with two firsts
and a second. His high jump of
6' 2" set an outdoor school record,
and in an amazing feat of consis-tency
his triple and long jumps
were exactly equal to his leaps at
Hamline.
Another school record was es-tablished
in the Mile Relay. An-chored
by Dave Pound's blazing
49.7 the team of Jack Campbell,
Fritz Fredeen, Rick Berggren, and
Pound streaked to a 3.25.8. Earlier,
Pound and Campbell were two and
four in the 440, and Berggren was
fourth in the 880 at 2:03.3.
In the hurdles Fredeen was a
double winner, edging Lehman in
the lows, and running a 57.6 in
the intermediates. In the long
jump and triple jump Fredeen
and Lehman took third places.
Dick Olson bettered his season
mile mark with a 4:36.5, Tim Lar-son
set a personal high in the
pole vault at 11' 6", and George
Gulian jumped 5' 8 1/2" for fourth
in the High Jump.
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Friday, May 9, 1969
BILL ENGLUND, Bethel's senior catcher comes up out of his crouch to take his turn at bat.
Diamondmen go down swinging
Siddiete
Symposium
by Wally Borner
One gets tired of rationalizing all the time about the
stiff competition our athletic teams are put up against. It
seems that most of the teams play someone that will either
clobber them or someone that would make a poor showing
against a neighborhood's kids team. So Bethel athletics is in
the precarious position of not having anyone within the area
of our own ability.
And furthermore, it is just as much rationalizing to put all
the blame on the administration. After all, if the conference
doesn't give enough money, the administration can't give the
department money which isn't there.
So maybe, just for a change of pace, we should look at
it a different way. The administration has been hit often enough.
We know that they are partly to blame for sub-par teams. It
is also the fault of the athletes themselves. All too often, it
appears that they aren't giving all they can. They take on a
defeatest attitude and wouldn't be able to start a rally if they
were going downhill and the opposition had to go up hill. The
players too often look at downhill in the negative sense.
Maybe the coaches just aren't pulling all the ability out
of the athletes that they are capable of. Maybe some of the
players don't have enough respect for their coaches. Maybe
the coaches aren't demanding enough.
Even if we lack lots of great athletes, that is no reason
for a mediocre one to take no part of leadership. Maybe we
have plenty of guys who can say a lot but none who can say
the right thing.
Maybe it's the fault of the students who really don't
support the teams. Yes, we're in college now and it's a lot
different from high school, but if we are going to complain
about the teams, let's make sure we've given them our support
before saying that they don't warrant it.
The fault belongs to all of us so let's stop blaming each
other and think positive.
THINGS I'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND IF I LIVE TO BE 100
Why the Twins have been winning.
Why Al Capp doesn't publish a book on American democracy.
Why vanilla nutrament tastes better than chocolate.
Why the Clarion has been controversial this semester.
Why the COEVAL was ever controversial.
Why pro rassling has to be so insipid, asinine, and inane.
Why people don't realize that Don Riley is right about little
league baseball.
Why students expect our administration to build athletic teams
but not Christianity.
The baseball squad took it on
the chin again in last week's action.
On Wednesday, there was no con-test
as Luther handily trounced
the Royals in a twin bill. Saturday
was another twin bill loss as Ham-line
edged out the home team in
low-hitting contests.
Luther proved to be the excel-lent
team that they have the reputa-tion
for. They won the games by
9-0 and 7-0 scores. In the first
game, Billy Painter was the only
one that did anything offensively
as he stroked the only hit off three
Luther hurlers.
In the second game, Bethel
threatened in the last two innings,
but could not score. In the sixth
inning, Dennis Zaderaka beat out
an infield hit but was thrown out
a couple pitches later 'trying to
steal. Bill Painter followed that
with a single which ran his hitting
streak to seven games. The next
batter walked but the two base
runners were stranded. In the
seventh inning, the first two men
were walked and then stranded as
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For the last five years, the Bethel track team
has always been strong in the hurdles and this
season is no exception as two hurdlers, Fritz Fredeen
and Andy Lehman, have been upholding this tra-dition
very well indeed.
"We've always been able to count on points
in the hurdles," stated coach Glader, and it has been
this way for the last several seasons with such hurdlers
as Greg Peterson and Bill Malyon who have been
strong in this field.
It is unfortunate for the track team, however,
that these two will not be here next year as Fritz is
transfering to the University and Andy will be gra-duating.
"I hope this will not be the end of an era,"
stated coach Glader as there is presently no one to
participate in the hurdles next year and the team
will have to count on new arrivals and have to start
from scratch. All in all, this is indicative of the ability
of these two Bethel athletes.
So far this year, Fritz has been continuing to do
very well, and last year, as a freshman, was con-sidered
the most improved. His teammates say that
he is very consistent and a smooth runner.
Besides participating in the hurdles, Fritz also
runs in the mile relay, the four-forty relay and the
long jump. This is due partially to a lack of personnel,
but to a greater extent to his over-all ability. Much
larger schools use certain athletes in several events
when they have plenty to go around for this reason.
In the one-twenty high hurdles, he has tied his
own record of fifteen point four seconds this year,
which was originally set in 1967 by Craig Peterson.
Also, as a member of the mile-relay squad, he helped
the next three batters went down
in order.
Luther had one big inning in
each game. In the first game, they
scored seven runs in the third in-ning
on five singles, an error, and
a home run. The big frame in the
night cap was the fifth when they
tallied four times on a walk and
four base hits.
The games at Hamline were not
so one-sided but more frustrating.
Hamline took the first on four
runs and five hits to Bethel's two
runs and four hits.
The Pipers struck early by get-ting
three runs in the first which
proved adequate. With one runner
on base and two out, Hamline drew
a walk, picked up a single, reached
base on an error, and added four
stolen bases to their performance.
The Royals scored in the sixth
inning. Gary Clark started things
off with a home run. Bob Brodin
walked, advanced on Dean Eric-son's
single and scored on an er-ror.
In the night cap, Hamline chalk-ed
up two run innings in the first,
second, and fifth frames. Bethel's
only tallies came in the fifth as
they managed two runs again. Dave
Schmidt picked up his first hit of
the season and scored on a single
and error which left Dean Ericson
on second. After Brodin walked,
Gary Clark laced a single, driving
in Ericson.
Each team had seven hits. Gary
Clark had two hits and Delich and
Brodin picked up a hit each. Dick
Hunter stroked a double to mark
his return to the line after being
out several games due to an in-jury.
Andy and Fritz won't be back
Departing hurdlers may leaveigap initrack team
set a new record in this event last Saturday. Besides
this, Fritz also won both the high and the inter-mediate
hurdles at the same meet.
Andy Lehman has also been a consistent and
valuable performer for Bethel in the hurdles along
with the triple-jump. Because of illness he was not
able to participate last season, therefore this season
will be his fourth and final one.
As a freshman, Andy set several records for Col-lege
Freshman in the short indoor sprints and in the
four-forty low hurdles. He has always been a hard
and dedicated worker and was chosen co-captain by
his teammates last year.
Both Andy and Fritz have done well in upholding
the strength in the hurdles in Bethel track, and coach
Glader stated that "from an over-all team standpoint
they've always been an asset in terms of hard work and
performance."
SPORTS CALENDAR
May 9-15
9 Baseball, Twins at Detroit TV
9 Golf, Bethel at Concordia
10 Baseball, Twins at Detroit TV
10 Tennis, Bethel at Eau Clair
10 Track, Bethel Invitational
11 Baseball, Twins at Detroit TV
13 Track, Macalester Invitational
13 Baseball, Twins, vs. Baltimore
14 Baseball, Twins vs. Baltimore
14 Tennis, Bethel at Concordia
15 Baseball, Twins vs. Baltimore
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