LEANING RESOUka aNitt,
BETHEL COLLEGE
President Kennedy talked casually with college choir members
in the White House rose garden after they performed "Let All the
Nations Praise the Lord" for him during their tour of the east coast
last spring. In speaking to the group, the late President alluded to the
important part Baptists have played in the forming of this nation. Choir
members recall his warm and personable manner in talking to them
individually.
Healy Looks Toward
Tough CageSchedule
B.ethal Coliege LearniRg Resource Conti,/ the CLARION
Volume XL — No. 11
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, November 27, 1963
Assassin Kills Kennedy;
Campus Holds Memorial
Spring Seme
Offers Paris
by Bill Carlson
Bethel opened the 1963-64 bas-ketball
season last night against
LaCrosse state college in LaCrosse,
Wisc. Coach Jerry Healy says that
"the fellows feel that there is not
a team which we cannot beat and
we are cautiously optimistic about
this year's season."
Senior co-captains Phil Bolinder
and Roger Olson lead the Royals
into a tough 21-game schedule.
The 6' 5" forwards and their team-mates
face the University of Min-nesota
at Morris in the home open-er
Tuesday, Dec. 6.
George Palke will join Bolin-der
as a starting forward. The
6'4" junior transferred last year
from Wheaton college. Bolinder
lead the team in rebounds last
season.
Junior Don Moore will play cen-ter
for the Royals. Moore's 6' 10"
should add rebounding and inside
scoring strength that the Royals
missed last year.
Sophomores Jerry Moulton and
Edgar Peterman will start at the
guard spots. 6' 3" Moulton won a
letter last year as a forward.
5' 11" Peterman led scorers on the
B team during the first semester
last year.
Rich Nelson, a 6'5" transfer
student will join Olson as a re-
Republicans
Review Party
Campus Young Republicans'
membership drive will be held next
Tuesday and Wednesday. Any-one
wishing to join or desiring ad-ditional
information is invited to
talk with the club representatives
in the student lounge.
Bethel's YGOP is affiliated with
the Minnesota federation of Young
Republicans and will be participat-ing
in the state YGOP convention
to be held in Minneapolis Feb. 28
and 29.
Next meeting will be held Wed-nesday,
Dec. 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the
President's dining room. A repre-sentative
from the Ramsey county
Republican club will briefly dis-cuss
party organization from the
local to national levels and lead a
group discussion on "What is Re-publicanism?"
serve forward. Sophomore Randy
Johnson will put his 6'4" be-hind
Moore at center.
Two freshmen guards complete
the traveling squad. Dave Bjork-lund,
an end on the football team
from Henning, Minn., moves his
6' well on the basketball floor.
Quarterback Bob Nolin from Orr,
Minn., is proving to be a 5' 10"
whiz.
Bethel faces a strong Aurora
college team tonight at Aurora,
Ill. This will be the first meeting
of the two clubs. It should provide
a stiff test for the Royal offense.
Royal opponents will probably
face a zone defense much of the
time. A patterned offense built
around Moore will be expected to
keep Bethel winning.
by Paul Larson
Two weekends ago, the Ameri-can
Association of Evangelical stu-dents
met at Marion college, Ind.
The regional convention brought
together representatives of a broad
spectrum of institutions — from
Bible - only institutes to colleges
with relative religious passivity.
Organization of the program was
simple and coherent. Thursday
night, Dr. Herbert Beyrnes, dean
of Huntington college, spoke on
the general theme of the conven-tion,
"Education that is Chris-tian."
His concept of education
was too restrictive in the eyes of
the attending Bethel students, but
he spoke in terms general enough
to include almost everyone.
Friday brought a series of
speakers on specific fields. Mor-ning
chapel consisted of a mes-sage
on "The Christian Way in
the Co-curricular Activities," by
Dan Odle, athletic director of
Taylor university.
Following lunch, Dr. Russel Mix-ter
of Wheaton college gave an
address on the subject "The Chris-tian
Way and the Natural Scien-ces."
Dr. Mixter's main thrust was
that science and Christian belief
should support rather than fight
each other.
Primary value of his message
was its emphasis on a separation
Bethel joined the rest of the
world in mourning the assassina-tion
last Friday of President John
F. Kennedy. Nik Dag festivities
Saturday night and classes Mon-day
were cancelled in honor of
the dead leader. Tuesday morning
during the chapel period the col-lege
and seminary held a joint
memorial service in the fieldhouse.
Monday President Lundquist is-sued
the following statement:
"While every segment of so-ciety
grieves over the unbeliev-
Debaters Await
Third Contest
Bethel is once again participat-ing
in the Twin City Debate lea-gue,
which includes 20 schools in
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The lea-gue
has a series of four tourna-ments
a year.
Two of these debates have been
held. In the first debate Bethel
tied with Macalester for first place.
Lindy Nelson and Sharon Larson
of the negative team won all three
of their debates. Jim Kein and
Fred Lund of the affirmative team
won two.
In the second debate stiffer com-petition
resulted in only one win
for each of the teams. The third
debate of the series will be held
Tuesday, Dec. 3.
Wednesday and Thursday, Dec.
4 and 5, the first team will travel
to Ames, Ia., for a tournament at
Iowa State university. The debat-ers
also plan to ravel to Winfield,
Kan., and to Illinois State Normal
university for tournaments.
Question for this year is "Re-solved:
that the federal govern-ment
should guarantee an oppor-tunity
for higher education to all
qualified high school graduates."
of theology from specific scien-tific
theories.
Leo Cox, division chairman of
religion and philosophy at Mar-
(cont'd. on p. 2)
List Reveals
Summer Jobs
A directory listing 35,000 sum-mer
jobs throughout the United
States for college students is now
available.
Summer Employment Directory
for 1964 gives the names and ad-dresses
of 1,600 organizations
which employ college students. It
also lists positions available, sal-aries
and suggestions on how to
apply.
Many types of jobs are found
at summer camps, resorts, various
departments of the government,
business and industry. National
parks, ranches and summer thea-tres
listed also need college stu-dents.
Students wishing summer work
apply directly to the employers,
who are included in the directory
at their own request.
A copy of the directory may be
obtained by sending $3 to Na-tional
Directory service, Dept. C,
Box 32065, Cincinnati, Ohio 45232.
able death of our president, aca-demic
communities such as
Bethel especially have lost a
friend.
"John F. Kennedy brought with
him into the White House many of
the basic concerns of higher edu-cation:
the integration of intellec-tual
theory and practical politics,
the humanitarian drive to attempt
needed social reform, and the cul-tivation
of the fine arts for the en-richment
of total life.
"As a result the young people of
this generation have seen the high-est
idealism of campuses through-out
America brought into sharp
focus by the example of a single
national leader.
"Although his influence has
been cut short by an assassin's
bullet, some of the values he
emphasized have been given a
momentum that not even death
will slow down.
"These constitute a sense of na-tional
direction, something for
which Mr. Kennedy pled. Alto-gether
they are a legacy which in
death he has bequeathed to every
thoughtful American who dedi-cates
himself to the unattained
goals of his country."
Rev. Lloyd Dahlquist, general
secretary of the board of trustees
of the Baptist General conference,
issued the following statement
Sunday morning:
"Conference Baptists are griev-along
with all Americans at the
tragic death of President John
F. Kennedy. Political party lines
and philosophies dissolve quick-ly
as hearts are melted into a
oness of sympathy for his fam-
Applications for a special spring-semester-
in-Paris program to be
conducted in 1964 by the Institute
of European studies, Chicago-bas-ed,
non-profit institution special-izing
in overseas programs for U.S.
college undergraduates, are due
Tuesday, Dec. 10.
Institute president Robert T.
Bosshart said the new program
was developed in response to in-quiries
about a shorter program
incorporating most of the charac-teristics
of the institute's present
two-semester program in Paris.
He said growing academic in-terest
in the Paris center was
typified by a team of U.S. pro-fessors
who recently inspected it
and described the institute's pro-gram
there as "the strongest
now being conducted in Paris."
The new program will stress
French language study and other
courses taught entirely in French
by French university professors.
The fee for the program will be
$1,230 or $1,590 including trans-
Atlantic passages.
Applicants must be sophomores
with three semesters of college
French or juniors with five semes-ters
in that language. All must
have B averages.
Courses will be offered in
contemporary European history,
politics and economics, art his-tory,
European novel and mod-ern
European poetry, as well as
in French. Language instruction
will emphasize ear and speech
ily as we pray for God's abound-ing
grace upon wife, children
and parents.
"For our new president Lyndon
B. Johnson, we join in supplica-tion
that he may have strength,
wisdom and faith to guide our na-tion
in the ways of God's will.
"Verses six and seven of Psalm
75 may give us assurance that our
Lord guides in the affairs of the
nation. It reads: Tor promotion
cometh neither from the east, nor
from the west, nor from the south.
But God is the judge: He putteth
down one and setteth up another.' "
Athletes Seek
Blood Donations
Lettermen's club will sponsor a
blood drive for St. Paul Regional
Red Cross Blood center on Friday,
Dec. 6. Blood donations will be
taken in Edgren residence from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Jim Nelson is chair-ing
the committee for the blood
drive.
Anyone from 18 to 60 may take
part in the program. Donors un-der
21 must have the written con-sent
of a parent.
St. Paul Regional center and its
86 local chapters provide free
blood for all residents of the reg-ion.
Even when traveling outside
of the region residents may re-quest
blood from the center.
Cost of the Red Cross blood pro-gram
is shared by the Red Cross
and by the hospitals which parti-cipate
in it.
ster Studies
Program
training in small classes and will
be supplemented by language-laboratory
drill.
Students accepted for the pro-gram
will sail February 1, 1964,
and will return after the end of
the program late next June.
Further information is available
from the Institute of European
studies, 35 E. Wacker drive, Chi-cago,
Ill. The institute also con-ducts
full-year and spring-semes-ter
programs at the University of
Vienna and the University of Frei-burg,
West Germany.
Gridders Dine,
Present Awards
Bethel's 1963 football team will
hold its annual banquet Thursday,
Dec. 5, at 6:30 p.m. Guest speaker
for the banquet, to be held at the
Picadilly Supper club, will be Bill
Boni, sports writer for the St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Highlighting the evening will be
presentation of next year's co-cap-tains.
Other awards to be present-ed
will be best offensive blocker
award, best defensive player a-ward,
the new lion award (given to
the most aggressive player), the
goldbrick award, the tapeworm a-ward
(given to the player who
wears the most tap throughout the
season), and the team comedian a-ward.
Bethel Delegate Evaluates
AAES Regional Convention
Page 2
the CLARION Wednesday, November 27, 1963
"Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United
States is dead."
These words ended a few minutes of hope still held by Ameri-cans
after hearing that a bullet had sprawled the President in the
back seat of his open limousine. Americans have mourned the loss
of their youngest President. The world has mourned the passing
of a great leader.
True measure of his greatness can never be made, for we have
only an interrupted record to examine. Yet we can look and see
what he did and what he said during his short life. He closed
his inaugural address with inspiring words that have already be-come
familiar. These sentences were among those read at his
funeral. He said:
. . . if a new beachhead of cooperation can be made in the
jungles of suspicion, let both sides join the next task: creating,
not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the
strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved for-ever.
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will
it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Ad-ministration,
nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
But let us begin.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have
been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maxi-mum
danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome
it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any
other people or any other generation.
The energy, the faith and the devotion which we bring to
this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the
glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow
Americans: ask not what your country will do for you—ask what
you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world:
ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can
do for the freedom of man.
by J. David Patterson
Student senate's Nov. 19 meet-ing
was held up 20 minutes while
President Sorley rounded up
enough senators to complete the
quorum. One of the senators pre-sent
was overheard saying, "It's
ridiculous: those people should be
here." At 7:05 p.m. a bare quorum
was present and the meeting be-gan.
Because Jim Spiceland was one
of the absent senators his report
on the regional National Student
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postponed until the next meeting.
Marcia Daniels was unable to
give her report on homecoming,
since she had lost a portion of
it. Her report was also set aside
until the next meeting.
Ed Carlson presented a report
on the regional American Associa-tion
of Evangelical Schools (AAES)
convention held in Marion, Ind.
Carlson mentioned a plan sug-gested
by a Wheaton student to
exchange chapel programs with
other colleges in the midwest. He
further said that he felt that the
AAES was an organization of sub-stantial
merit and that we need a
campus AAES committee and bud-get.
Mike Peterson questioned the
true merit of the racket squad and
suggested the possibility of a pep
section in conjunction with or re-placing
the racket squad. Bob
Beckstrom moved that the athletic
committee evaluate the worth of
the racket squad and present or-
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`Both Killer and Victim Individuals',
Says Political Scientist Peterson
by Karen Sloan
Assassination of the late Presi-dent
John F. Kennedy is a tragedy
that has significance as the death
of an individual above its signifi-cance
as an assault on a political
office.
The shocking words, "The presi-dent
has been shot!" evoked from
us as mericans a sense of identity
with the tragedy as people feeling
(cont'd. from p. 1)
ion college, was assigned the
topic "The Christian Way and
the Humanities," but spent most
of his time talking in general
terms about academic freedom
within a Christian context.
"No one is objective," stated Dr.
Cox. "The person who frankly ad-mits
a point of view is closest to
open-mindedness."
Friday closed with a disappoint-ingly
vague panel discussion by
the speakers and a series of stu-dent
government shop talks.
Saturday morning brought de-votions
and a message from Dr.
Edward Coleson of Spring Arbor
college on "The Christian Way
and the Social Sciences." Dr.
ganizations for school spirit and
look into the possibilities of a
white-shirt cheering section. The
motion was carried.
Peterson then moved that the
cheerleaders go to other colleges
in an effort to obtain more stim-ulating
cheers. After a few mo-ments
of discussion Peterson
withdrew the motion and Lindy
Nelson moved a similar proposal
referring the matter of sub-stan-dard
cheers to the athletic com-mittee.
After much discussion a question
arose as to whether or not Nel-son's
proposal had been seconded.
The dilemma was resolved by sec-onding
the motion.
At this point advisor Dr. Roy
Dalton interjected that the topic
under such heated debate was cov-ered
under Beckstrom's original
proposal. The point had eluded the
president and other senators.
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It sseeeemms s to me that there is a
definite lack of interest within the
senate. Call it apathy if you will.
It is particularly disappointing
that on two occasions no quorum
was present when the meeting was
to begin. Whether this problem is
a manifestation of the feelings of
the entire student body, or merely
one indicative of the philosophies
of individual senators, it must be
solved if the senate or any legisla-tive
body is to succeed significant-ly.
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a personal grief rather than simply
as citizens. Kennedy's death was
as the death of a man that we all
knew.
In an interview Saturday, Dr.
Walfred Peterson suggested that
the assassin should also be re-garded
as an individual. "No
group can be held responsible."
Peterson, professor of political
science, added, "The group is
Coleson was the least afraid to
voice his opinion.
He believed there to be a sin-gle
Christian economic position,
which has escaped the understand-ing
of twentieth century man.
Final and most valuable address
was delivered by Marion philoso-pher
Duane Thompson. Dr. Thomp-son
pulled out the main emphases
of all the speakers and closed with
a searching analysis of weak points
and subjects needing further ex-amination.
He attacked the idea presented
earlier that Christianity must be
preached in the classroom. He
asserted that Christian truth
should not be forced through a
direct statement of right and
wrong, but should be allowed to
spread through the "holy con-tagion"
of the teachers, that is,
through their commitment AND
honesty.
The convention as a whole was
thoughtfully planned and operat-ed,
though the lack of specific in-teraction
was disappointing. Few
people were really made aware of
the large differences of opinion
and perspective that were present.
This was due in part to the
broadness of the speeches and in
part to the large size of the dis-cussion
groups that followed. Most
of the delegates seemed willing to
accept practically all that was said
without it effecting a vital change
in their way of thinking on spe-cific
issues.
Tlia Week . . .
Wednesday, Nov. 27
Basketball. Bethel at Aurora,
5 p.m. Thanksgiving vacation begins.
Monday, Dec. 2
8 a.m. Classes resume.
Tuesday, Dec. 3
3 p.m. Music recital. College auditorium.
6:45 p.m. Student senate. Room 105.
8 p.m. Bethel vs. Morris here. Fieldhouse.
8 p.m. College wives. Dining room.
9 p.m. WMF. Seminary chapel.
Wednesday, Dec. 4
6 p.m. YGOP. President's dining room.
7-9 p.m. Boys' intramurals. Fieldhouse.
Thursday, Dec. 5
6.30 p.m. Football banquet. Piccadilly res-taurant,
White Bear, Minn.
7 p.m. SNEA. Room 105.
9 p.m. Pre-seminary meeting. Room 106 in
seminary building.
Friday, Dec. 6
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Bloodmobile. Edgren recrea-tion
room.
8 p.m. Basketball. Wahpeton at Bethel.
Fieldhouse.
Saturday, Dec. 7
8 p.m. Basketball. Sioux Falls at Bethel.
Fieldhouse.
Monday, Dec. 9
6:30 p.m. Twin Cities minister and Bethel
faculty Chrstmas party. Bethlehem Bap-tist
church.
7 p.m. Seminary wives. Bodien lounge.
Tuesday, Dec. 10
8 p.m. Basketball. Bethel at Northwestern,
Minneapolis.
Wednesday, Dec. 11
6:30 p.m. Festival of Christmas rehearsal.
Next CLARION edition.
guilty in the sense that it is the
promoter of extremist passions."
He alluded to a public statement
made on the subject of the assassi-nation
by an Eastern political fig-ure
that those who do not con-demn
extremist groups are also
guilty.
Peterson commented that "there
seems to be more hysteria over
this incident on the American
scene than one can account for
considering that this nation has
weathered several major crises
since the last war."
He suggested that it is this
tendency to hysteria in the na-tional
character that promotes
the action of the evidently de-ranged
characters who have been
guilty of such violent assaults.
"American civilization has an
important streak of violence in it
. . . even though the assassination
is regarded as the work of a craz-ed
person," Peterson further re-marked.
He pointed out that in the last
99 years of American history seven
successful or known attempts at
assassination have been made. By
contrast he compared the British
record. No prime minister has been
assassinated over the same period
of time.
"Or to look at it another way,
three out of four of the last
presidents have been victims of
assassination attempts. Even the
French haven't had a similar re-cord."
"U.S. homicide rate is also high-er
than western European coun-tries."
The reason? "Perhaps it is
the result of our nearness to fron-tier
life and its violence."
Peterson's opinions on the new
president are: first, there will not
be any policy changes; and second,
it is a good guess that Johnson
will be the Democrat's presiden-tial
candidate for 1964.
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