Clarion 1961-11-09 Vol 38 No 05

              Everyone gets in on the Nik Dag including assistant English pro-fessor
Lillian Ryberg who was discovered phoning a male, as yet uniden-tified.
the CLARION Volume XX XVIII—No. 5
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, November 9, 1961
Bethel Band Pops Concert
In First-of-Kind Program
An innovation in the way of
entertainment—a Fall pop concert
featuring the Bethel band—will be
presented Tuesday, Nov. 21, in the
fieldhouse. This is the first pro-gram
of its kind at Bethel.
Julius Whitinger, assisted by
Cliff Patterson, student director,
will lead the band in an evening
of musical entertainment which
will include, among many other
popular numbers, a selection from
Peter and the Wolf with a narra-tion
by Carole Lundquist.
One of the unique features of
the program will be a "meet the
sections" which will feature the
flute section, the trombone sec-tion,
and the trumpet section. Ir
keeping with the Civil War Cen-tennial,
the band will present the
Civil War Suite, which will fea-ture
favorite songs of the Civil
War.
A tea garden atmosphere will be
created for concert listeners
through the planning of social
council.
Sports Planned
For Nov. 11
Even the athletic council has
some ulterior motives in schedul-ing
a co-rec night on Nov. 11,
remarked Dick Larson. Since this
is just a week before Nik Dag, it's
an excellent prospecting oppor-tunity
for girls.
Of course, Larson had other rea-sons
too, such as allowing stu-dents
to have physical activity in
a social atmosphere and relieving
tensions and frustrations of mid-semester
exams.
Sports available in the field-house
will be basketball, volleyball,
ping-pong, and trampoline, inter-spersed
with refreshments.
Frosh Forego
Footwear
Attention, freshmen! Don't miss
the freshman "Shoeless Shindig"
on Friday evening, Nov. 10. Buses
leave Bodien at 7:00 p.m. for Elim
Baptist church.
Free food for frosh will be pro-vided,
but "outsiders" must pay 50
cents. The activities are top secret,
but informal dress is suggested,
according to co-ordinators Lynne
Stapp and Dave Johnson.
Dinners Feature
World Affairs
The "Significance of the 22nd
Congress of the Soviet Communist
Party" was the topic before the
first current affairs dsicussion
dinner on Nov. 1, led by Dr. Wal-fred
Peterson.
Other thought-provoking topics
will be brought up weekly, during
the dinner hour, in the president's
dining room. Everyone has been
invited to these informal discus-sions,
and will have an opportun-ity
to participate with questions
and debate.
It is unusual to find three mem-bers
of one family at Bethel all
at once, and even more unusual
when all three are in the band.
The Swanson sisters from Craig,
Col.,—Ruth, senior, Joyce, sopho-more,
and Dorothy, freshman—
play the trumpet, trombone, and
french horn respectively.
Journal Mirrors
Student Skill
Something new for Bethel, a
literary journal, is planned to ap-pear
during Fine Arts week the
first of April. This literary jour-nal
will contain short stories,
poems, essays, art work, and music
submitted by Bethel students.
Richard McNamara, a represen-tative
of Lambda Iota Tau, Mari-lyn
Benson from the Academic
standing committee, and Sharon
Dickau of the CLARION comprise
an editorial board which will choose
an editor and assistant editors
who will select material for use in
the journal.
English and fine arts instructors
will give assignments from which
material for the literary 'journal
can be drawn. Any student who
wishes to submit work for con-sideration
may leave material in
the CLARION office.
Other colleges have had bene-ficial
results with journals of this
type. This group intends to pro-duce
one which will reflect the
composite creative talents of the
student body.
Sophs, Bodien
Share Prize
The sophomore class and Bodien
residence shared the honors as
float and decoration winners dur-ing
the 1961 homecoming.
The sophomore float's theme,
"United We Stand, Divided We
Fall," was appropriate in its re-lation
to the team and the Civil
War. Decorated in red, white and
blue, it featured Lincoln and a
symbolic football player. On the
float committee were Dale Ham-lin,
Jim Egge, Dean Gustafson,
Dave Nelson, Steve Flink, JoAnn
DeVries, and Sue Nyberg.
"Bethel All the Weigh" topped
the Bodien scale as the Royals
out-weighed the Wildcats, carrying
out the theme "Measures of Great-ness."
Helping with the decoration
were Laurel Nelson, Jan Peterson,
Pam Hanson, Doris Shubert and
Carol Armstrong.
Prizes are awarded each year to
the best float and residence dec-oration.
If a residence can win
three years in a row, it keeps the
trophy permanently. It was an
untimely loss for Edgren, up for
a third win. Judging of the floats
and dorm decorations was done by
the faculty.
by Judy Dow
Wiry, dynamic Dr. Kenneth Pike
awed and fascinated the Bethel
mind by introducing the novel and
complex expanse of communica-tion
by linguistics in a Nov. 3
convocation.
Devoting himself to a full day
of lecturing, discussion, and inter-action
with students, Dr. Pike pre-sented
five talks on topics such as
"Bible Translation — Need and
Technique," "The Application of
Linguistics to Language Learning
and Language Analysis," and "So-cial
Structure: The Structure of
Perception and the Gospel."
Opinions, dreams, and hopes
were confided by Pike at the in-formal
luncheon. He strongly op-posed
work on a universal lan-guage,
believing that acceptance
of a language is related to the
cultural and political influence of
the speakers and that the future
emergence of a universal language
is inevitable. He vigorously advo-cated
the acceptance of an alpha-bet
based on the pitch of voice and
the dynamics of pitch. He offered
several examples on the ability
to comprehend poetry more clearly
through the means of variance of
pitch and dynamics. Pike also sup-ports
the belief that if two com-parable
structures of opposing so-cieties
clash, anthropologists, by
employing concepts common to
linguists, could predict the type of
reception which would be given
the Gospel.
Dr. Pike feels three basic prob-lems
in translation are sound,
grammar, and words. In sound,
various meanings are derived from
the rise and fall of pitch and the
tone of voice in different langu-ages.
Every language has dyna-mics
which must be mastered. Al-so,
there are many vowel sounds
not present in one language that
must be translated in another.
Gramatically, many languages con-tain
no plural, thus must be trans-lated
by means of other words.
"A word is a point in space in
which meaning is bled from con-text,"
asserted Pike in discussing
the problem of words. Often words
have no exact translation. "Be-cause
these words have exclusive
Christian content," explained Pike
concerning Bible translation, "they
can never be translated exactly
into a pagan language. In trans-lation,
pagan words are taken !n
a new sequence to give new mean-ing."
A parallel can be drawn between
communication and molecules.
These molecules line up in pat-terns
to form the structure of a
crystal. The language-learning
molecule is not enough. Although
Nik Dag Dates
To Investigate
New York Scene
Bethel women, with captured
males in tow, will be the special
guests of the sophomore class as
they investigate the "Streets of
New York." The Nikolinas Dag
(Swedish for "Sadie Hawkins")
program begins at 9 p.m., Satur-day,
Nov. 18, at Gustavus Adol-phus
Lutheran church.
A list of all men enrolled at
Bethel will be posted in the girls'
dorm on Monday, Nov. 13, ex-plained
Jerry Bias, sophomore
class president. Invitations may be
extended early Monday morning
and names must be crossed off the
list as soon after asking as pos-sible.
Each girl may express her crea-tivity
in making a corsage for her
date which is indicative of his in-terests,
name, or plans. Originality,
humor, and cleverness will be judg-ed
at the program and prizes a-warded.
Following a special dinner date,
music and skits will depict four
sections of New York: Harlem,
Wall Street, Greenwich Village,
and Broadway. The cast includes
over one-third of the sophomore
class under the direction of Eddie
Anthony, Sharon DeLong, Ann
Embry, Doug Huber, Po:31 Ner-lander,
Sue Nyberg, Nancy Rob-ertson,
Dale Rogers, Gretchen Saw-yer
and Doris Shubert. Tickets
for the program are 75c a couple.
language puts people in relation
to one another, other factors such
as social situations are involved.
In translation it is difficult to
analyze another language and peo-ple
in the light of one's own moral
code since the two vary consider-ably.
Dr. Pike is of the opinion
that one must understand the
other's psychology and philosophy
in order to present the Gospel. He
interprets I Corinthians as being
sociologically treated and II Cor-inthians
as being psychologically
treated.
In demonstration Dr. Pike at-tempted
to prove that the nature
of linguistic science is based on
the assumption that language has
many universals, and that sound
is made by moving parts of the
face. He believes there is a close
correlation between action and
sound. With the aid of sticks, bags,
leaves, and nine blackboards, he
demonstrated the technique used
in translating an unknown lan-guage
by means of action.
His magazine, Oct., 1961, pub-lished
Pike's views concerning
"The Current Strategy in Mis-sions."
He remarked that mission
work should be carried out simul-taneously
over the whole spectrum
of spiritual need, that the foreign
missionary of this decade should
(cont'd. on page 5 see picture)
Action and Sound Are Parts
Of Linguistic Science . . . Pike
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EDITOR
ASSOC. EDITOR
BUS. MGR
NEWS EDITOR
Sharon Dickau
Dean Dahlquist
Dale Rogers
Neva Rogers
FEATURE EDITOR Annette Larson
SPORTS EDITOR Rich McNamara
COPY EDITOR Donna Jenkins
CIRCULATION Nancy Robertson
ADVISER Edward Avey
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by Gary Scull
The Soviet Union made Monday,
Oct. 30, 1961, "a day that will live
in—infamy" by detonating the big-gest
nuclear explosion of all time.
This explosion took place in the
Arctic near the island of Novaya
Zemlya, despite an appeal made
to Krushchev by the U.N. general
assembly to cancel plans for the
test.
Soviet Premier Krushchev had
said that the current series, which
had been resumed Sept. 1, would
culminate with the 50-megaton
drop. But it was followed the very
next day with the 27th and 28th
of the series, which were of lesser
power.
Later Krushchev mentioned to
the Communist party congress
that the blast had exceeded 50
million tons of TNT because of a
"slight mistake" by scientists. In-deed,
it was, as various Western
nations had recorded the blast as
upwards of 75 to 100 megatons.
But the main point of world-wide
concern has been centered
around the description of Russia's
act as showing their contempt of
by Sandy Salewski
The Power of Words by Stuart
Chase is a comprehensive study in
which he integrates the findings
of research in different areas of
communication and applies them to
many of the most important
phases of life. He attributes most
of the world's pain and misery to
misinterpretation of words.
Chase believes that an under-standing
of semantics would help
people to counteract the propa-ganda
from Russia. If Stuart Chase
had written this book a decade
later he would say that a better
understanding of semantics would
produce better relations between
Mr. Krushchev and Mr. Kennedy
in the heated Berlin situation to-day.
A good example of misinterpre-tation
of words was given by
James Reston in the Minneapolis
clieca
mankind. It has, in the words of
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson,
"taken the world a great leap back-ward
toward anarchy and disas-ter."
Part of the reason for this feel-ing
is that such a weapon does
not represent prestige in terms of
scientific and technological super-iority.
The thermonuclear device—
unlike the fission weapon, which
has a definite limit to power—is
an "open-end" weapon that can be
made of any size, the only limit
being its military usefulness.
A White House communique has
pointed out that this bomb has no
military justifications. Its main
purpose was political. The state-ment
went on to say : "Any such
weapon would be primarily a mass
killer of people in war—and the
testing of this device was primar-ily
an incitement to frighten and
panic in the cold war."
But the import of all this now
is in the way it forces the U.S. in-to
the position of imminent deci-sion.
The question that faces the
Kennedy administration is, whe-ther
or not the U.S. should herself
resume above-ground testing of
atomic devices. Of course, U.S.
public opinion has significant bear-ing
at this point. And if one wants
to accept the Wall Street Journal's
attempt to measure this opinion,
the citizen's reaction is seemingly
paradoxical: "They fear strongly
the danger of radioactive fallout
from nuclear testing. Yet they
even more strongly urge the U.S.
government to further poison the
atmosphere by resuming above-ground
testing of atomic devices."
Typical of the way many people
resolve this apparent contradiction
is the man who admits he's "un-easy"
now about how atomic tests
will affect unborn children, but
who says, "It's a matter of our
survival against their survival."
One element of direct bearing on
the decision to be made is the re-solution
now in debate in the First
(Political) Committee of the U.N.
The resolution, sponsored by India
and other non-aligned nations, is
in essence a voluntary moratorium
on nuclear weapons tests. The U.S.
opposes this plan, because it does
not provide effective controls. But
in spite of this, reporters think
that the resolution appears likely
to be approved by the 103-nation
committee.
The whole world is waiting to
see what the outcome here will be
—for it is probable that this is
all that Kennedy is waiting for be-fore
he makes his final decision
on THE big question.
NSA Supports
AlgerianStudent
Agitation
Star a few weeks ago. He pointed
out the difficulties and problems
arising from misunderstanding
certain concepts words convey.
Take the word "compromise" for
example. To the Russian, "com-promise"
is a wishy-washy concept
meaning weakness or backing
down. To the American it is not a
step downward; it is a step needed
in the interim before a successful
solution can be reached. Such con-fusion
is magnified many times
over in all other spheres of life.
Chase writes, "Words are what
make us human. At the same time,
words are full of traps, distorting
evaluation, leading to pain and
misery beyond all sense and rea-son."
What concerns Chase most is
how to change and improve our-selves
and the world we live in.
Before we can do any changing we
must try to understand it.
Editor's note : The student
senate recently voted to retain
membership in N.S.A., an or-ganization
geared to voicing stu-dent
opinion in national and in-ternational
affairs. The follow-ing
information is taken from a
recent communique.
The National Student associa-tion
believes that the arrest and
imprisonment of Algerian students
for actions consonant with their
role as students is violation of
students rights. The association
hopes to bring this to the atten-tion
of the United States govern-ment
with a view toward presen-tation
at the forthcoming United
States debate. It also hopes that
France and Algeria will promote
Algerian self-determination and
that the United States will take a
stronger stand in supporting that
self-determination. A letter to this
effect will be sent to the United
States department of state.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
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Editorials:
1961 Homecoming .. .
Homecoming-1961 version—has now arrived at the vantage point
of some perspective after three weeks travel toward oblivion. And for
what result? Many people appreciated a well-produced and well-con-ceived
pageant based on some aspects of Lincoln's life; a sprinkling
of recent alumni met to reminisce and incidentally attended a few func-tions;
some Bethel students gained executive and creative experience;
a Friday afternoon without classes encouraged several home visits; stu-dents,
senate and public are $3,000 poorer.
The success or failure of this year's production is not the most
basic factor for discussion, however. Rather, the entire philosophy of
homecoming must be re-evaluated. Who needs one big, expensive week-end
each year and what purpose does it serve? In the "who" category,
the most logical answer is alumni. But if the entire weekend is being
built around them, surely the numbers attending should be greater to
warrant the expenditure of so much money and time. Besides, Founders'
Week seems to be serving as homecoming for many segments of the
alumni population much more satisfactorily than the homecoming week-end,
which might also serve to point up the kind of program that inter-ests
alumni. In returning to the "who" question, we can easily eliminate
the public in general and are left with Bethel's immediate campus com-munity.
So we ask, do we need to treat ourselves to a sumptuous coro-nation,
pageant, banquet, etc.? The answer? Probably not. But thinking
positively, there are some reasons that could be given to warrant the
inclusion of homecoming in the fall calendar.
Reflections , on Attendance
First, students need to relax, get away from studies, and enjoy
themselves. Cynically, we can dismiss this with "oh, really!" But reason-ably,
does homecoming do this ? Relaxation is impossible with all the
activities, studies are nicely forgotten and probably in ruin for at least
a week thereafter; however, the hedonistic pleasure involved may re-main
unassailed. Then, maybe Bethel needs a splashy, stereotype-collegiate
extravaganza to increase status and win prestige from the
public. This whole idea has expressed itself in the type of program
recently presented. The theory seems to be that Bethel must duplicate
programs more feasibly produced elsewhere, but it seems unreasonable
that we cannot acknowledge incomplete and inadequate facilities and
resources and not feel great compulsion to overcome these and equal
others. Finally, due to a lack of alumni participation, parents have been
invited to enjoy the festivities. It is desirable that parents have the
opportunity to view student life at close range, but why call this home-coming?
Reflections on Program
Turning to the event just past, the actual activities were probably
the best yet staged at Bethel. However, in retrospect, the distortion of
a potentially interesting and valuable theme is only lamentable. Lincoln
was indeed great, serving the Union skillfuly, yet humbly, through a
crucial historical period. Allowing his humanity, his performance in
the White House years is almost awesome; attempting to superimpose
noble destiny on all his life destroys the real greatness that legitimately
belongs to Lincoln's memory. Advertising painted the weekend as a
memorial-type event in a Civil War centennial year. But was this ac-curate?
True, the high points of history were depicted with glowing
tributes but the more sordid reminders of the results of the war were
ignored. What could have been more significant than to shift the em-phasis
to the conditions and problems in the South, one hundred years
after its culture was disrupted and changed. Lincoln freed the Negro
and Christians applaud his action; but many Christians are not willing
to form opinions on the difficulties thus created. What better time than
a centennial commemoration to concern ourselves with vital issues that
have plagued the country for a century. Qualified, respected authorities
in the civil rights field could have been available at somewhat less than
the cost of costumes, music, orchestra, hay-ride, etc. Bethel's liberal arts
commitment and the practical value of Christian concern would have
been enhanced; a challenge to think would have been the keynote, not
selfish entertainment.
Reflections on Finance
Finally, the homecoming committee overextended itself financially.
A report was requested at the last senate meeting but those in charge
were unable to offer any figures. However, a deficit is in the offing;
conceivably the budget may be met but it won't be the result of care-ful
financial planning. This projected deficit points up a certain amount
of irresponsibility of the part of homecoming chairmen and senate, past
and present. Senate is responsible for the debts of the homecoming
program and yet the homecoming chairmen have divorced themselves
quite effectively from senate control by making definite, quite irrevoc-able
plans during the summer before senate approves any plans or
budget committments. This situation must be remedied this year. A
1962 homecoming chairman will be appointed in the near future and
this person should be required to present a budget to senate by May
or be unauthorized to make financial commitments during the summer.
It is possible that, if homecomings are deemed desirable and continued,
the public relations department should be willing to assume some of
the cost burden. Since, if this year's performance is an indication of
the future, Friday evening's program was planned expressly for the
public and was influential in creating Bethel's public image.
Thoughtful non-conformity describes actions and sentiments we
admire. But can Bethel dare to re-think, re-evaluate, and then re-cast
an institution that is somewhat superfluous in the Bethel context?
the CLARION
Thursday, November 9, 1961 Page 2
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
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Morning Services 9 & 11
Church Bible School 10
Young Peoples Dr. R. Youngblood
Evening Service 7:15
ProBuCols 8:30
(Professional, Business, College)
Bus Leaves Bodien 9:40 a.m., 6:50 p.m.
Pastor Warren Magnuson
Minister of Music, Julius Whi+inge ,
Letters to the Editor:
Bethelites Rehash Queens, Parade, Royal, Football
Dear Editor:
Hurrah for the writer of the
gopher hole! Bethel college needs
queens and sweethearts for its
festivals like it needs the bubonic
plague. These modern throwbacks
to ancient fertility cults just don't
fit either our ideals or actual way
of life. Away with queens! Off
with their heads!
But if, indeed, we must be fash-ionable,
if we must conform, let's
be reasonable about it. Why must
we watch a half dozen or more
(who could count them all?) march
in tedious parade to sentimental
music? Why must we listen to
sticky vocal tributes that go on
for ever-so-many weary minutes?
(I thought we had come to praise
Lincoln—not to bury him.)
For those that like that sort of
thing (if there are such), give
them a separate program. In that
separate program let the marchers
march more slowly, let the spot
lights beam more brightly, let the
music be more syrupy, let the
spoken words be more absurdly
solemn.
Unless such a separate program
can be developed for the lovers of
pomp, circumstance, and female
smiles, there should be an anti-royalist
party formed next year or
before Snow Daze. To the barri-cades,
citizens! Off with royal
heads!
From the weasel hole
Dear Editor:
Allow me to join the protest
"From the Gopherhole" against
the featuring of queens, princess-es,
sweethearts, etc., at Bethel ac-tivities.
Such a practice is, in my
opinion, a most prominent evidence
of the growth on the campus of an
essentially humanistic outlook that
bears no relationship to the stated
Christian aims of the college or
the seminary.
The SPIRE of last year included
no less than eleven pages that
featured their highnesses, with
captions that included such phrases
as "making her lovely presence
felt," "reigned so beautifully,"
"poise and quiet charm," "the
lovely girl who reigned," and the
prize, "beautiful, bouncy Sopho-more."
This year's queen was ser-enaded
with a song of the world,
expressing the sentiment that
"some day I'll hold you in my
arms."
As an alumnus, I recall with
pleasure the days when a gracious
host and hostess sought to make
homecoming guests feel genuinely
welcome. In recent years queens
have gushed about how happy they
were to be chosen, how thrilled,
etc., or, as in the recent homecom-ing,
have not been given an oppor-tunity
to speak at all.
May I invite your readers to re-flect
upon pp. 17-18 of the cur-rent
college catalog, and then ask
themselves how we can possibly
reconcile this particular Bethel tra-dition
with the claims of Christ
that are emphasized in these state-ments
of the aims of the college.
"The founders and the constitu-ency
of the school have been tra-ditionally
non-conformists and
have adopted certain patterns of
behavior which were intended both
to challenge and to leaven their
secular environment." Must we be-tray
their Christ-centered non-conformity
by persisting in our
imitation of secular, or only nomi-nally
Christian, colleges with re-spect
to this practice of parading
our lovelies for human adulation
and praise?
I congratulate the homecoming
committee upon the high level of
creativity that was displayed this
year, particularly in the historical
pageant, but I deplore the persis-tence
of that which is merely imi-tative
of institutions that lack the
focal point we profess to have at
Bethel—the only royalty we can
acknowledge with any sincerity,
Christ Himself.
Roy C. Dalton
Parade--essential or
excessive?
Dear Editor:
A hearty word of commendation
is due the homecoming committee
and all others involved in that
weekend's activities for a job sup-erbly
done. All areas of activity—
library display, chapel presenta-tions,
pageant, banquet, etc.—dis-played
a high level of imagina-tive
and mature planning and pre-sentation.
I feel, though, that one area of
change should be considered. The
parade, though this year it was
planned and executed in a manner
worthy of great praise, appears to
be a dispensable part of the acti-vities.
Should so much time, effort,
and money go into a project which,
at most, occupies our attention (if
it does that) for a half hour?
Should the momentary distraction
of a few neighborhood children
from their play motivate such elab-orate
preparation? Should the ra-ther
open stretch of road between
Bethel and Norton field (where
the homecoming game is usually
played) call forth such activity just
to hurry along it unnoticed?
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1691 Snelling
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Towing Brake Work
Or might it not be better to ex-pend
that same imaginative and
preparation on more complete cam-pus
decorations which can be ad-mired
by ourselves and visitors for
the whole duration of homecoming
week? Might not each class be in
charge of decorating a certain area
of the campus—college building,
library, field house, student lounge,
etc? Might not the campus benefit
more—in the creation of a "home-
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SEEK,
Why I?
Why why?
Not who, or when or how?
I choose, and live the
choice.
The why?
I am.
But who?
Not God,
Not beast, not cog, not
clod,—
But Seer of God ... and so
Live saint.
Who? I.
Then how?
How seer?
Thru love, which sees what
is
In Him who gave and lives:
Death, Life,
Love, Light.
When seer?
When love?
Just now, and now, and
now,
In all the winks of time:
God's now
'Til God.
Why now?
I'm now.
No now, no I: no life:
No love: all death. No light.
Why yes
To life?
God!
— F. Wheeler
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For the student on wheels
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coming spirit," in the impressions
made on visitors and passers-by,
by a concentrated decoration job
on campus than a hurried few
moments of dragging floats around
the school and scooting down to
Norton field ? We would do well
to keep these questions in mind
when planning future homecom-ings.
Paul Johnson
Royal shot first in space
Dear Editor:
Although I am still in high
school, I read the Clarion (guess
why!). I read about the discovery
of a Royal. Two points interest
me—the location of the discovery
and the size of the beast!
A check with a map shows that
your fossil was found in the Pa-cific
ocean, just where the water
is the deepest, 16,321 feet deep.
As for size, you now indicate
that the first.living object to reach
into space was a Royal, and not
a Russian! According to your
scale, when the Royal stretched up
its majestic head, its crown—if
the scale is true—was 2,554 miles
above the ocean floor, even at that
depth of water.
By the way, what part of his
7,665-mile frame was at the given
location?
I think the archaeological group
should be commended for their
work, not so much for locating the
specimen (that wouldn't be hard)
but for collecting and recognizing
this colossal fossil.
Malcolm J. Avey
(Son of adviser)
Editor's note : It seems we
have literalists in other fields,
too.
Gophers prefer Soccer
Dear Editor:
The other day our vantage point
from the gopher-hole allowed us
to watch a football game played
by some "Royals" and some other
sort of animals. For awhile we
could sense the excited air of fes-tivity
and school spirit following
those Royals up and down the
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field, and we almost succumbed to
this ourselves. Then perchance we
were brought to our senses by a
trickle of blood running into our
hole after one creature's furry
face had been mashed into it by
a Royal kneecap. Tsk, tsk, we
thought. Couldn't there be a more
profitable, enjoyable, exciting and
less dangerous and expensive acti-vity
for these creatures ?
Well, I recalled that my grand-father
Goferski once told me of a
game called "soccer" that was
played around his hole in the old
country. He said, although I didn't
believe him at the time, that it
required a tremendous amount of
athletic ability, endurance, and re-fined
physical force. On top of
this, it had a great audience ap-peal
because of its continuous ac-tion,
and cost about as much as
two good footballs. But then, my
grandfather was an eccentric, and
he would probably be a football-lover,
too, if he had seen the game
played.
From the gopher hole
Bethel to Receive
"meal-time gifts"
Banks will grace the tables of
conference and alumni families
during the month of November as
the "Gift-a-meal" project of the
Women's Board of the Baptist
General conference and co-operat-ing
church organizations begins to
progress.
Each of these families receives
a bank to place on their table for
the purpose of a prayer reminder
as well as for the collection of
gifts at their meal time.
The "gift-a-meal" program has
been in operation for 26 years.
Last year's proceeds amounted to
more than fifteen thousand dol-lars.
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Elim Baptist Church
685 - 13th Avenue Northwest
Minneapolis
Sunday School-9:45 a.m.
Morning Service-11:00 a.m.
Evening Chapel-7:00 p.m.
College-Business Fellowship-8:30 p.m .
Transportation Provided
Rev. Emmett V. Johnson, pastor
Rev. Frank Shindo, Ass't.
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Brunner's "Truth as Encounter"
Renders Revelation Subjective
However, to the extent that he
reduces the objectified form of
revelation from the Bible he re-duces
revelation itself to an intui-tively
received subjective mystic-ism
which is mediated to man with-out
objective source and without
measurable bounds. The subjective
illumination of revelation is inev-itably
related to its objective
source through its objectified form
in the Bible. This Brunner disa-vows,
and this the Bible asserts.
The Walker art center at 1710
Lyndale in Minneapolis is one of
the foremost galleries in this area.
One of Walker's most attractive
features is its high degree of di-versification;
they show not only
painting and sculpture, but cer-amics,
photography, industrial de
sign and a wide variety of pro-grams
and lectures. Its activities
also include many classes in paint-ing,
drawing, sculpture, drama and
modern dance.
On a recent visit, one of the two
major attractions was a display
of photographs by Alexander Li-berman
called "The Artist in His
Studio." Mr. Liberman succeeded
delightfully in capturing these men
in their many moods, capturing
them in the art of creativity.
Another exhibit that was the
most fascinating was a display of
Editor's note : Two letters art pottery by Alix and Warren
were received and not published McKenzy. Perhaps first I should
because of space difficulties. explore what is meant by the term
These are posted on the CLAR - art pottery: it is a sort of semi-
ION bulletin board. practical sculpture
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by Dr. Clarence B. Bass
"God speaks directly to man:
Man can never understand God un-til
God reveals Himself. This revel-ation
is not a static, dead essence
issuing from the printed page of
a human book, but is alive, pulsat-ing,
vibrating, throbbing, striking
responsive chords in the hearts of
men, caused by the point of con-tact
with the living revelation—
the Mediator. God's revelation to
man is not an immobile dogma, a-waiting
the discovery by man. On
the contrary, it is a person—the
personification of God Himself—
who comes to man in his perverted
state in which he is helpless be-fore
God, and by the quickening
of his intellect and the implanta
tion of faith, speaks directly to his
soul.
Revelation is God addressing
man; not man discovering God. It
is a direct communication as God
speaks afresh; not an indirect com-munication
which is contained in
the pages of a book. It is God de-scending
from His transcendent
peak to fellowship with man; not
God being on a static level await-ing
man to find Him by simply
opening the Bible and reading.
Revelation belongs to God, not
man."
With such a statement as is sum-marized
above, Emil Brunner, as
one of the proponents of crisis
theology, has challenged theologi -
cal efforts with profound thinking
and provocative doctrine. As a neo-orthodox
theologian, Brunner has
attacked some of the basic tenets
of orthodoxy.
Accepting the work of scientific
historical criticism concerning the
structure and origin of the Bible,
Brunner looks askance at the doc-trine
of verbal inspiration. To the
modern mind he proclaims that the
Bible is full of errors, contradic-tions,
myths, and superstitions. It
can never be the acme of revela-tion
for it is dead, static, immo-bile.
But there is a living revela-tion
in the person of Christ. He
lives! He speaks! He is God!
The implications of such a doc-trine
immediately becomes appar-ent.
If the Bible is not revelation,
but only a form of bringing man
to THE revelation, it is no longer
college girls' clothes
for every occasion
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binding upon man. The revelation
which is constantly new, speaking
directly to the heart of man with-out
exterior appendages is entirely
subjective, and has no valid stan-dard
of judgment. Just so, Brun-ner
maintains, it is precisely in
the nature of the immeasurable
that makes it revelation. If it were
capable of being judged, it would
no longer be revelation, but know-ledge
of fact.
The task of theology for Brun-ner
is to turn back the tide of ra-tional
and scientific inquiry in so
far as these have sought to under -
stand the mystery of God and man,
and to recover for modern mental.
ity the sense of faith, as it may
be known in the personal encoun-ter,
in which the language of God
to man might become intelligible
and ultimately save.
Orthodox theology, asserts Brun-ner,
has confused revelation with
propositional truth as it may be
reduced to the writings of man.
Instead of divine revelation mean-ing
the whole of redemptive acti
vity, it has become an objective
instrument of differentiation used
in a legalistic manner to deter-mine
truth or error.
Not only has orthodoxy pervert-ed
the Biblical doctrine of revela-tion,
avows Brunner, but it mis-understands
the nature of faith
He asserts that "faith has always
meant a relation between person
and person," the obedient truth of
man in the God who stoops to meet
him. Revelation is "truth as en-counter,"
and hence faith is "know-ledge
as encounter." But when the
concept of revelation becomes doc-trine,
faith becomes doctrinal be-lief.
Faith is, then, no longer an
exercise of personal trust in a
PERSON, but an intellectual be-lief
in dogma.
There are both salient and ad-verse
features of Brunner's
thought. His emphasis that for the
Bible to be revelation to the indi-vidual
it must speak subjectively
to man is a re-assertion of an
aspect of revelation which is in-herently
found in orthodox theo-logy.
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and Minneapolis post offices for
Christmas employment. The test
required of applicants involves
memorization of streets and postal
zones. Students interested in work-ing
at St. Paul's Union depot
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Students who are interested in
the National defense loans for sec-ond
semester must apply before
Dec. 1, 1961. Selection is based on
academic standing, financial needs,
and vocational goals. More infor-mation
can be obtained from Mr.
Eugene Sprinkel in the student
affairs office.
*
Information on the National
Foundation Health scholarships is
now available in the student af-fairs
office. Those students who
are planning on entering nursing,
occupational therapy, physical
therapy, medical social work and
medicine are eligible for these
scholarships.
The purpose of these scholar-ships
is two fold. First to give
though by no means always, done
on a potter's wheel. Through ar-tistic
use of glaze and a sensi
tivity toward design the potter
achieves a very pleasing, often
useful, piece of work.
Most of Mr. and Mrs. McKenzy's
work has a distinct primitive feel-ing
due both to shape and sort of
earthy roughness often giving one
the feeling that they were hewn
out by wind and water rather than
made by human hands. Their use
of glaze also brightens this effect.
They use mostly earth colors in
designs that remind me of such
things as a pile of twigs, looking
up through interlaced tree branch-es
or ripples in a shaded stream.
My favorites in this exihibit were
a series of oriental-appearing
pieces of unknown use, sort of
roughly done in unglazed red clay.
There also were many different
designs in tea services, vases,
bowls, pitchers, plates and many
other pieces of indistinct use.
Walker also has a fine collection
of works on permanent display in-cluding
such famous works as
Franze Marc's "Blue Horses" and
Jacques __Lipchitz's__ "Prometheus
Strangling the Vulture II" which
dominate the entrance to the build-ing.
For any of you who might want
(or in the case of fine arts stu-dents
have to) visit, it is open
Tuesday through Thursday, 10:00
a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Friday and Sat-urday
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and
Sunday 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. There
is no admission charge.
Just aside: Where the Gopher
Land Cafe used to be in Dinky
Town, a delicatessen called the
Minor Key has opened. Starting
next Friday, Colman Hector's
combo (the former Grotto group)
will be appearing in the down
stairs room.
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financial aid to students who are
interested in careers in the above
listed professions. Also this in-vestment
in human resources will
help alleviate the serious shortage
of personnel in these health fields
and thus assure more adequate
care for patients.
There are approximately 500 of
these scholarships awarded every
year, paying $500 a year and re-newable
annually. Each state of-fers
at least five scholarships, one
for each profession, while in the
larger states 25 scholarships are
available.
The obligation of each recipient
is "to have the serious intention
of completing his education in the
profession of his choice and of
serving the health field as a mem-ber
of that profession."
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Dr. Kenneth Pike clarifies one of his points for a member of the audience after his demonstration,
Nov. 3.
could he look back to analyze his
progress and style development.
Only then could he gauge his path
of direction for the future. He had
experienced and now only he could
know.—Lorrie Porter
Sonata #5
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Wheelock Parkway Baptist
1437 Payne Avenue, St. Paul
S.S. 9:45 a.m. Services' 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Youth Hour 5:30 p.m.
Where Bethel 'Students Serve
Rev. Albert V. Johnson, Minister
Spring Lake Park
Baptist Church
8495 Center Drive, Spring Lake Park
( 1/2 mile N.E. of intersection of Highways 65 & 10)
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Services------8:30. 11 a.m.
Evening Service ---- 7:00 p.m.
Rev. Stanley Starr Al Penner
pastor Youth pastor
Enos Awaits Return to Congo;
Discusses Current Situation
Pike Discloses
Linguistical Art
(coned. from page 1)
tackle those specialized tasks
which the local church does not.
Dr. Pike has been involved in
missionary work for many years.
He is currently a member of the
board of directors of Wycliffe
Bible Translators. This organiza-tion
is set up for the training of
men and women, teaching them
skills which will enable them to
enter areas where no written lan-guage
exists to translate and pre-sent
the Gospel.
Several of Pike's books appear-ing
on display in the Bethel lib-rary
included: Tone Language, a
technique for determining the num-ber
of pitch contrasts in language;
Language, in relation to a unified
theory of structure and human be-havior;
Phonetics, a critical ana-lysis
of phonetic theory; and a
volume dealing with the Intonation
of American English.
Lambda Studies
Works of Joyce
The Beta Beta chapter of Lam-bda
Iota Tau, honorary literature
and language society, will take
special interest this year in the
works and person of James Joyce.
The famed Irish writer will pro-vide
the 1962 theme of the seventh
annual conference for English ma-jors
to be held at Gustavus Adol-phus,
Feb. 16-17, in which chapter
members and interested English
majors will participate. In pre-paration
for the convention, sev-eral
local meetings will be keyed
to greater understanding and ap-preciation
of Joyce.
Officers elected for 1961-62 are:
president Charles Hutchison, vice-president
Richard McNamara, and
secretary-treasurer Ellen Mc-
Naughton. Miss Bohlmeyer was
again chosen advisor.
Who's the man who has made
the scene a pleasant one for you
in the coffee shop, student center
and upon entering the art studio ?
Maybe you can remember walking
way back in the coffee shop to see
the name attached to The Phantasy
of the Blue Sun—you know, the
one with the little blue mass push-ing
the big green one out of the
way. The artist is Mr. Aribert
Munzner of Syracuse university,
Cranbrook academy of art, and,
presently, Minneapolis school of
art.
The picture cited, SONATA #5,
employs a basic media of Mr.
Munzner's works, acrylic polymer
emulsion paints on masonite. The
technique he uses allows the media
to work out the form and subject
in its own way—suggesting mor-phic
forms in organic rather than
geometric style. This example
shows a greater variety of color
span than usually realized by his
strokes. Other medias include
Chinese ink, polymer tempera, dry
pigments, sand, casein, enamel and
oil on rice paper, masonite and
cardboard backing.
But let's stop and look at you
for a moment. Generally the com-ments
were, "Well, I knew it was
suppose to mean something so I
tried to read out of it what it
was."
What are we missing when we
look at it this way ? We are only
relating it to things outside our-selves.
Some were a little closer
to the truth by enjoying the work
mainly for its characteristics of
color and mood. To enjoy the ex-perience
that it brings to you is
the important approach, according
to design professor, Robert Nel-son.
The famous modern artist Mo-holy
Nagy in his book, The New
Vision, has explained that only
after forty years of experience
by Karen Nelson
Mr. Glen Enos, professor of
French, has spent four years in
the Congo working under the aus-pices
of the Evangelical Mission
Covenant in Equatorial Province
in the northwestern part of the
Congo. There Mr. Enos was in
charge of 55 teachers working in
18 government subsidized, elemen-tary
mission schools, distributed
over an area of about 200 miles.
He hopes to return to the Congo
in the future. Recently Mr. Enos
was interviewed on the current
Congo situation.
Is the average Congolese con-cerned
over the Congo situation?
Except around larger population
centers the average Congolese is
not very concerned because he is
poorly informed. It is difficult for
national feeling to develop over
tribal loyalties because of limited
transportation and communication
facilities.
Were you expecting the revolu-tion
when it came?
No, the outbreaks were very
sudden when they did come. Our
mission board had just started a
five-year plan for turning over
work to the Africans that turned
ito a six-month plan because of
the upheaval.
What caused the trouble and
how did it start?
The original outbreak was start-ed
by a group around Leopoldville
who were pressing for independ-ence
for themselves. It actually
started with the revolt of the army
at the time of independence. Many
of the people don't understand the
meaning of the word "independ-ence"
and they were fighting for
the white man's possessions, more
or less. Belgium has been concern-ed
over raising the level of the
masses and has started the train.
ing of leaders to take over the
government.
Was there a notable amount of
Communist activity in the country
before 1959?
There was little communistic
activity in our area. In East Congo
Communism infiltrated from the
Arab states. There are Commun-ist
inspired unions and political
parties, but the original outbreak
cannot be blamed on the Commun-ists.
What has been the effect on the
Christian church?
The church has been made to
shoulder many responsibilities that
were being borne by missionaries.
The leaders have been forced to
think more seriously of their re-sponsibilities
to their own people
and nation. There has been no ap-preciable
change in numbers. The
church is strong and has a real
influence locally and nationally. It
is the best weapon to fight Com-munism
in the Congo.
What do you foresee will happen
to Katanga?
The economy of the Congo as a
whole could not stand the seces-sion
of Katanga, although it would
be unfortunate for Tshombe, who
has shown himself to be pro-Wes-tern
and pro-Belgium, to give con-trol
to neutrals or pro-Commun-ists.
What, in your opinion, is the
Congo's future politically?
It seems the only solution is the
forming of independent states in
a loose federation under a na-tional
government.
. . . internationally?
It will be a while before the
Congo can take part in interna-tional
affairs—she can't yet handle
her internal affairs. The loyalty
among African countries is such
that they will eventually band to-gether.
A united Africa will be a
strong force internationally in an-other
century.
. . . economically?
Africa has a great deal of po-tential
in undeveloped resources,
but there is presently a lack of
technicians and scientists. Corn-munists
have offered to train
qualified students. We should be
getting more students into West-ern
countries for study. As techni-cians
become available Africa will
be able to utilize these resources
to her own advantage.
. . . socially?
The church has a large part to
play in the social development of
the country, for people have brok-en
away from tribal customs and
modes which has left a lack which
Christianity must help them to
fill. Strict moral codes have been
broken down, especially among the
migrants of the population. These
lawless individuals need to be of-fered
a moral code.
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NELSON SCORES—Jim Nelson is shown prancing over from the six-yard line for his second touchdown of
the game and Bethel's third as the Royals blanked Northwestern (Wis.) 20-0 on Oct. 28.
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Royals Drop Final Game
To Beadle Trojans, 6-14
The Bethel college Royals closed
the 1961 football season Nov 4
with a 14-6 setback at the hands
of the General Beadle Trojans.
Beadle kicked off to Jim Nelson,
who returned to his own 42. Bethel
fumbled three plays later with the
Trojans recovering on the Royal
45. A long pass carried the ball
to the Bethel nine, but the defense
stiffened and Beadle was held on
downs within the one yard line.
Three running plays by Nelson
carried the ball to the Bethel 27,
and Bob Larson then gained 11 on
a surprise quarterback sneak but
a penalty halted the drive and
Bethel punted.
The teams then hemmed and
hawed in the middle of the field
through the remainder of the first
quarter and most of the second
until Bethel took a Beadle punt
on their own 48. From here the
Royals scored in 11 plays with
Nelson gaining 28 of the 48 yards.
Purcell Wins
Against St. Olaf
The Bethel cross-country team
maintained their undefeated season
by scoring a 25-36 victory over St.
Olaf at Northfield Oct. 28. Fred
Purcell again won top individual
honors. Dale Pearson finished third
and Paul Sloan, Dale Rogers, and
Bill Carlson finished sixth, sev-enth,
and eighth respectively. This
was the Royal's fourth win in a
row.
Fred Purcell also added to his
rapidly growing list of individual
laurels with a victory in the North
Dakota-South Dakota-Minnesota
twenty kilometers (12 miles) meet.
held recently at St. Paul's Lake
Phalen. Paul Sloan and Dale Rog-ers
placed ninth and eleventh in
the field of 25 runners which in-cluded
the outstanding college and
AAU men in the state. No other
school placed as many as three
men in the top dozen finishers.
The third quarter was nothing
more than a series of slips and
slides until Beadle intercepted an
errant Bethel aerial on the Roy-al's
34. Quarterback Gene Lindahl
then lofted a high pass to end
Norm Johnson who gained control
of the ball after a running jug-gling
act and continued into the
end zone untouched for the touch-down.
Lindahl passed to Joe Det-terman
for the extra point and
the Royals were down 7-6.
The game continued in see-saw
fashion until another intercepted
pass mid-way in the final period
started Beadle on another sustain-ed
drive which culminated in Don
Hansen's two-yard plunge for the
score. indahl passed to Dick An-derson
for the extra point and it
was all over but the shouting-
14-6.
Lakeland College
TakesConference
Football Title
Lakeland College of Sheboygan,
Wis., won the 1961 Badger-Gopher
conference football title Oct. 28 as
they nipped previously undefeated
Northland 14-6 for the crown
Lakeland halfback Jim Cesaroni
won the conference scoring crown
by scoring seven touchdowns for
42 points to edge Bethel's Jim
Nelson, the 1960 scoring leader,
who this year collected six touch-downs
and four extra points for
a total of 40.
The 1961 season marked the
final year of Badger-Gopher com-petition
since Milton, Lakeland,
and Northwestern (Wis.) are
withdrawing in order to start a
new conference which will include
schools in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Final conference standings:
Team
Lakeland 4 0
Northland 3 1
BETHEL 2 2
Milton 1 3
Northwestern (Wis.) 0 4
Five Lettermen
Start Basketball
Five returning lettermen re-ported
to Coach Jerry Healy Oct.
23 as the 1961-62 edition of the
Bethel basketball squad began
practice for their Nov. 28 opener
against LaCrosse. Captain John
Peterson, Lee Bajuniemi, Denny
Wahlstrom, Dave Peterman, and
Jan Kolbrek will lead what an •
pears to be a small but fast squad.
Jim Ekblad, the sixth letterman,
did not return to Bethel this year.
Jerry Biss, Phil Bolinder, and
Roger Olson are other returnees
from the 1960-61 team. Freshmen
participating in varsity drills are
Gene Lindaman, Dan Westerlund,
Bill McCarrell, Bruce Erickson,
and Bob Jacobsen.
Healy does not wish to make
any full-scale predictions until he
has more opportunity to see his
team in practice. Various players
who may report from the football
team may also influence prospects
for this season.
JestersTakezithWin,
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The Jesters, captained by Dave
Buck, copped Bethel's intramural
football championship with a win
over the Barons, Saturday, Nov.
4. The win over the Barons cli-maxed
a perfect,—four win, no
loss record for the Jesters.
The Barons, Counts, and Sem-inary
tied for second place honors,
each with a three win—one loss
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by Rick McNamara
I have just returned from a rather unique football excursion to
the wild plains of South Dakota. It might be interesting to recount
some of the experiences which led to Bethel's losing the final game of
the season to a crew of eskimos who were of obviously inferior football
ability. I am not alibiing but only giving personal opinions.
Saturday dawned cloudy, windy, and cold with perhaps three inches
of snow on the ground, but it seemed as though no one had taken the)
trouble to try and remove any of it from the football field. This was
understandable in light of the fact that Beadle was as yet winless but
they did possess an assorted mass of linemen who weighed anywhere
from 240-260 pounds. Bluntly, it was definitely to Beadle's advantage
to have a field as miserable as possible so that their huge walruses
could control the action without exerting themselves excessively. They
succeeded admirably.
The entire field was covered with from 2-6 inches of snow depend-ing
on how one stood in relation to the various drifts. Beadle took their
pre-game warmups inside and finally consented t arrive at least 10
minutes past the scheduled starting time. It was a cold, cold day but
the steam coming out of Coach Halleen's ears was quite visible—and
entirely justified! It was ridiculous.
Was this all? Not by a long shot. Need it be said that the players
and coaches outnumbered the spectators by close to 3 to 1? Beadle also
had a rather interesting coaching staff. The assistant coach arrived with
a rather large dog of undetermined variety which he tied to the bench.
The head coach seemed to be rather nice but quite timid—his players
seemed to do most of the coaching for him which included a number of
unusual noises and actions not usually seen on a football field. Players
entered and left the game at will for Beadle—the coach's main concern
seemed to be in keeping eleven on the field at one time.
Well, Beadle won the game in spite of a fine individual effort by
Jim Nelson who gained nearly 130 yards rushing behind some fine block-ing
by the Bethel line. Since I cannot quite give an unbiased account
of the extravaganza perhaps the above should be taken lightly—but it's
all true!
The moral of it all? I seriously question the value of Bethel sched-uling
teams such as Beadle who seem to obviously disregard any and
all accepted standards of college-level athletic competition. It doesn't
seem to be a matter of a Christian testimony on Bethel's part but more
a matter of discretion in scheduling suitable opponents which certainly
can be done without assuming an iconoclastic, superior attitude.
Coach Haleen and his taff should be heartily congratulated on a
fine season in many ways. A 4-4 record looks much better than 2-6—a
two-game improvement each season would be highly satisfactory. I'm
sure. Halleen is a fine coach and an equally fine gentleman and he is an
asset to Bethel college. Much credit for a largely successful season
should also go to captain Ray Sheperd who did well throughout the
season both as a football player and a team leader.
Five Minutes From Bethel to
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2120 Lexington Avenue North, Near Co. Rd. B
9:30 a.m. College class with Walt Shearer
discussing Romans
10:45 a.m. Morning Worship —
"In Times Like These, An Impregnable Position"
7:00 p.m. Evening Service —
"Discovering God"
8:15 p.m. College Fellowship
Bus Leaves Bodien at 9:15 a.m.
Robert Fryholm, Pastor Paul Evan, Assistant
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Paul,
Sunday School — 9:45 a.m.
Morning Service — 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service — 7 :00 p.m.
"Probucols" meet at 8:30 p.m. Sunday
Bus Transportation Provided
J. Leonard Carroll, pastor Gordon Sundberg, Youth Dir.
the CLARION
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