Clarion 1971-03-11 Vol 46 No 18

              Eddie Thomas, a Bethel favorite, promises an enjoy-able
evening in concert March 13.
Better representation
and student vote vital
by Bruce Johnson
"A better representation of
the student constituency," said
Donald Rainbow, assistant dean
of students, "would make Stu-dent
Senate a more vital or-ganization
on campus.
"Right now senators don't
really feel responsible to any-one
because of the lack of class
distinction."
Friday will be the last day
to vote in the primary election
for Student Senate officers and
representatives, with the gen-eral
election being held March
18 and 19. Voting for both elec-tions
is being held in the cof-fee
shop.
Rainbow sees the basic prob-lem
with the senate's ineffec-tiveness
as a voice of the Bethel
student, as being a lack of
student representation by the
elected senators.
Rainbow said, "a redistribu-tion
of where representation
lies would tie the senate to
the constituency."
He suggested that represen-tatives
be elected by organiza-tions
and groups on campus.
"If Edgren had two representa-tives,
and let's say, College
Choir had one, with other
groups electing their own, this
would make the senate more
responsible to student feelings."
He also said that the adminis-tration
is hoping that better
representation of the students
will come about, and that they
are open to new ideas.
"For the most part," Rainbow
said, "senators are now speak-ing
for themselves at meetings,
but with a better representa-tion
they would be speaking
for the students."
Rainbow said not to abolish
student senate, but rather make
it more responsive to student
feelings.
VOTE!
the clarion Bethel College 1480 N. Snelling Ave,
Vol. XLVI—No. 18
St. Paul, Minn. 55101
March.11, 1971
1 Testing to benefit both students, Bethel Monday —A service of praise
arranged by Oliver
Mogck
Tuesday —The Student Sen-ate
will be in
charge with cam-paign
speeches by
candidates.
Wednesday—NEW music with a
portrait of Christ
by Pastor Lawson
Thursday —"Burning Issues
Needing Cool An-swers"
by students
Friday —Dr. Walter Wessel,
head of our Chris-tianity
department,
is speaking
n
This Saurday night, March 13
at 8:00 p.m., the Bethel commu-nity
will be treated to an
evening with C. Edward Thomas
at the piano. Mr. Thomas, a
member of the Bethel Music
Department, will be soloing
by Cindy Rostollan
March 17-18, seniors and soph-omores
will miss their usual
classes to take part in Bethel's
annual testing program. These
tests are part of Bethel's in-stitutionalized
research pro-gram
and will be administered
by Paul Mauger, Psychology
professor.
"With these tests," said Mr.
Mauger, "Bethel will be able
to learn specific things about
the student and will be able to
evaluate the quality of their
educational system."
"The tests are one of the
things accrediting teams look
into when investigating a school
for accreditation," he contin-on
the Steinway, interpreting
the music of such greats as
Beethoven and Mozart for the
first section of the program.
In addition to Mr. Thomas'
performance, Mrs. Jean Ben-crishutto
will be doing a couple
ued. "These tests are also valu-able
for comparing Bethel to
other colleges, and seeing how
grades vary from school to
school."
For seniors, the Under-Grad-uate
Record Examination (UG-RE)
will be given. This exam-ination
is also being used by
510 other schools including
Westmont, Wheaton, Biola, Yale,
Gordon, Stanford, and the Uni-versity
of Mass.
This test covers the work in
each student's area (with the
exception of courses like Chris-tianity
and Anthropology) and
allows both the student and his
major department to compare
themselves with other students
of contemporary numbers on
the flute. She is the wife of
Frank Bencrishutto, director of
the University of Minnesota
Band.
Finally, there will be a group
of spirituals featuring Mr.
Thomas at the piano, and guest
vocal artists, the Zion Baptist
Church Choir. To quote Mr.
Thomas, "They really go!"
All in all, members of the
music department promise a
very enjoyable and entertain-ing
evening.
Tickets are available at the
door or in the Public Affairs
Office. Cost is General Admis-sion,
$1.50 and Students, $1.00.
Refreshments will be served
with all proceeds from the ev-ening
going into the Bethel
Centennial Year Activities
Fund.
"Don't forget," said one mu-sic
student, "Saturday night,
March 13, 8 p.m. in the Field-house,
C. Edward Thomas in
concert — it'll be great!"
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and departments across the
country.
After the tests have been
computer-scored, each student
gets a copy of his scores and
a list of the norms for compari-son.
These scores will be at-tached
to his permanent record,
but will not be used for Grad-uate
School or in evaluating
achievement. The tests- are ba-sically
for the student and
his specific department in or-der
to determine its rank with
other similar schools, and Bethel
itself.
Sophomores will be taking
the Strong Vocational Interest
Blank. This will be used to
compare his interests to people
within a certain occupation. It
is hoped that it will aid the
student in finding a useful
career or major.
Sophomores will also be given
their test results after they
have been scored. These will be
explained in full to each stu-dent,
and according to Mr.
Mauger, times will be set up to
meet and discuss any additional
questions.
Every student in the soph-omore
and senior classes, and
transfer Juniors are required to
On the
take these tests. Information
will be circulated to each stu-dent
before the testing date.
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Saturday evening, March 27,
the Sheraton Motor Inn will
provide the setting for Bethel's
Spring Banquet. This banquet
is the only formal event of the
year, and according to planning
chairman, Dale Berry, it will
replace the traditional fresh-man
- sophomore and junior -
senior banquets.
"Combining the class ban-quets,"
he said, "provides a
bigger budget and thus a better
program."
For the evening's entertain-ment,
Theater in the Round,
a professional acting company,
will present their musical ren-dition
of the play "Spoon River
Anthology."
The planning committee has
also arranged for four pro-fessional
violinists to "create
the atmosphere" during the din-ner.
Cost for the evening will be
$15.00 per couple.
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Thomas and guests provide musical evening
Candidates express opinions page 2
The Wreck offers a friend page 3
Senate approves life-style page 5
Science department grows page 7
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Chapel
Chapel March 15-19
Robert Bergerud
Tom wants increased interest and involvement
by Karen A. Nelson
Why are text prices so high
at Bethel Bookstore?
"He offered me 50¢ for my
Civ. book!"
"He must make 60-70% profit
on books with prices like that!"
How much money does the
bookstore make per student?
If you haven't made one of
these statements yourself, you
have heard them made. After
working for the "establish-ment"
called Bethel Bookstore
for three and a half years I
am tired of the naive state-ments.
Let me try to answer
a few questions that may be
in your mind.
First is the question of high
prices. Book prices are stan-dard,
not set at the whim of
the manager. They are suggest-ed
by the publisher and check-able
at any time in Books In
Print or on an individual in-voice
upon request.
Textbooks cost the store an
unbelievable 80%, with a 20%
mark-up. With operational costs
for any retail store between
20-29% this would leave the
bookstore with a 0-9% loss if
they handled only texts. Be-cause
texts are actually a loss
proposition, no store that is
un-subsidized can sell only
text books.
Two little known facts may
help you to understand the
bookstore's position as far as
mark-up is concerned. The book-store
is not a private business,
but is an auxiliary of the
college. Our manager, Mr. Berg-erud,
is not commisioned but
has chosen to work for a sal-ary.
He is interested in serving
Bethel College.
I was very surprised to learn
the actual bookstore profit re-corded
for the past two years.
In 1968-69 Bethel Bookstore
made $2.95 per student/staff,
and in 1969-70 this dropped to
24c.
Used book prices offer an-other
area of contention. Un-less
there is an understanding
of the business principles be-hind
the buying of used books,
the procedures may seem "com-pletely
immoral" as one student
called them. What constitutes
a used book?
Once a book has a mark in
it (name, underlining) it is clas-sified
by the book sellers as
a used book whether or not it
has been read. If we sell it to
a used book company we must
sell it as a used book, and in
the same way we must resell
it to students as a used book.
We always keep our standard
for buying used books at the
top. Ours is in line with the
top standards in the U.S. The
old standard was to buy used
paperbacks for 1/3 cost and
sell them for 2/3, clothbacks
Bookstore needs help
and understanding
for 1/2 and 3/4. Two years ago
when the University of Minne-sota
raised its standard, we
went along with their decision.
Our present policy is to buy
paperbacks at 1/2 and sell
them for 2/3, clothbacks are
bought at 60% and sold at 75%.
This is for a text to be reused
the following semester.
Why can't the bookstore buy
back books that aren't being
used the next semester? Prob-ably
all of us have gotten "the
bite" when a text we were
using was not to be used the
next semester. Think for one
minute what would happen if
a car dealer would offer trade-in
value for cars with no trans-mission.
He would be consider-ed
a very poor businessman. It
is the same in the book business.
Once a new edition has come
out, the "transmission" has fal-len
right out!
Would you want a biology
book with outdated informa-tion?
Do yOu want a second rate
education? Text books are the
tools of your trade. The reason
teachers change books often is
to stay on the cutting edge of
the subject. (There are only
four faculty members left on
the "Bethel Bookstore Conspir-acy
Team to Raise Bills Through
More Books") If we were to
offer you money for an edition
that we could not sell we would
be very poor business managers
of your store.
Seriously, I would welcome
any questions concerning the
bookstore operation. Just drop
them in p.o. 1202 and I will
do my best to answer them.
Perhaps together we could work
towards an improved enterprise.
(This is not a paid political
announcement — I wish it were)
by Tom Billigmeier
To many at Bethel, the concept of Student
Senate is a vague one. In fact, I have come in
contact with quite a few students who have asked,
"What is it?" or "What is it worth?"
Senate at Bethel does not seem to generate a
great amount of interest or concern. Could it be
because of poor or even vague representation?
Since there are no class distinctions, as such,
should we look for a better, more practical way
to represent the students? Is it because the Sen-ate
seems to have no power or doesn't in matters
of great importance?
Many questions about the existence or im-portance
of the Senate can be asked, but we must
also supply positive and directive answers. Be-ing
a member of the Senate and a student-faculty
committee, I know that Senate can be a very real
and important body as well as being a learning
experience to those who are involved.
I am running for student body vice-president
in order to hopefully increase involvement and
interest by using the Senate's power, within its
O
by Anne Dalton
As a Senator and candidate for vice-president,
I am concerned about many things. I would like
to share just a few of these concerns for Bethel
with you.
There are three areas that I would like to
see undertaken by the Student Senate this
coming year. The first is too involve Bethel
with other colleges in the area, and the second
would be to institute an effective, school-wide
tutoring program.
Bethel is located in a large metropolitan
area, as are six or seven other small colleges.
Yet too many Bethel students, especially girls,
never set foot off Bethel's campus except to go
to church, Har Mar or the Midtown. I would
like to see exchanges of music groups, dramatic
groups and perhaps even a faculty member or
two (temporarily, of course). Exchanges of stu-dents
should be worked out for Interim.
I'd also like to see increased opportunity for
Bethel students to take advantage of what the
Twin City area offers. Good theater entertain-ment
and concerts are in abundance, yet few
go unless required to do so by Intro to Music!
Also of great concern is the Bethel students'
lack of knowledge concerning the world around
jurisdiction, to its fullest. This could only be
possible with the support of the students, and by
formulating a clear-cut definition of the Senate;
its purpose for existence, its actual duties and its
relevancy. This would be put to the students,
faculty and administration, and we would work
only within the definition.
I also feel that students should have more of
a voice in all that affects the community, and we
should work to eliminate the existing "buck-passing"
as Elden Elseth brought out in the last
Clarion.
Therefore, I too, would like to see the com-munity
government idea put into effect, hope-fully
doing away with much of this lack of com-munication
within the community.
There are other things I would like to see
done or continued as vice-president, but space
does not allow me to expound. I would, though,
like to encourage anyone interested and con-cerned
to take time to get to know me, and I you,
talking in more detail as to why I am running
for the office of vice-president.
them. Hopefully more speakers can be brought
in to speak to students on topics of current
interest, such as abortion, the war, conflict in the
Middle East and much more.
Too many students are leaving Bethel be-cause
of academic problems when they could
have been helped if reached in time by a tutor.
Teachers do not have the time to spend hours
with individual students, but students can work
together on a one to one basis for mutual benefit.
Finally, I would like to see the senate adopt
a STUDENT developed life-style and present
it to the administration. It would recognize the
fact that we are not a perfect Christian com-munity
and that a minimum of rules are nec-essary
for the well being of the community as
a whole, even if the individual should disagree.
It must be a life-style that is accepted by students
all year around, on and off campus.
I've only touched on a few problems that
stand out in my mind. Many more exist, but
they can be solved if students care enough. If
Senate is ineffective it is the students' fault,
not the administration's. I'd like to encourage
all students to at least overcome their apathy
enough to vote in the coming elections, both the
primary and actual election. It's important.
El
A modest proposal
by Bob Miko
Today marks the beginning of the primary elections for
next year's student senate offices. It is here we make our voice
known as to who we want to represent us in the student senate.
Once again the campus will be filled with beautiful posters
competing for our attention. Throughout the campus can be
heard the murmurings of small and large groups as they discuss
the virtues of their favorite candidate. From now until March 19,
a few industrious individuals will try to get themselves elected
on the theory that they will best represent the Bethel Campus.
I think, at this point, one must ask the question whether or
not the people who do get elected represent anyone except the
interests of a select few. So let's ask it! Do the people elected
represent a majority of the Bethel students?
I think not ....
Looking back over last year's election returns, it is clearly
shown that only 335 students wanted Eldon Elseth as student
senate President. And even more startling is that some of the
members of the student senate were voted in by 27 votes. To say
that we have a representative senate is a hoax or at best a cruel
joke.
In light of these figures, I must conclude that the true
majority of Bethel students is saying that the best representative
student senate is one without members, and that the $2,600
spent on stipends could be better spent on something "worth-while."
This majority makes it clear that they feel the elections
are a waste of time, and a great drain of student resources that
could be used in more fruitful endeavors.
If we the student use our power of the "no-vote," as we
have in the past we can make our voice known that we, 1) do not
want any student senate representatives 2) that we have no
need of the present student senate and 3) that we just want to
be left alone to do our own thing.
Let us now work together with the power of the "no-vote"
for involvement thru non-involvement!
Now, on a separate ballot, put my name in to represent you, the majority
of students using the "no-vote," so that I may represent you in the non-senate
to deploy the non-senate budget, $26,000 into more resourceful channels representing
us, the "silent majority."
Apathy, ignorance, life-style concern Anne
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Editor-in-Chief
Bob Miko
Copy Editor
Toni Magnuson
Production Editor
Sharon Watson
Sports Editor
Rich Zaderacka
Contributing Writers
Rick Berggren
Tom Billigmeier
Anne Dalton
Mabel Erickson -
Cora Jean Gaalswyk
Dick Halvorson
Dave Healy
Bruce Johnson
Laura Johnson
Paul Loth
John Lundgren
Karen Nelson
Kathy Oleson
Dale Osterman
Sarah Reasoner
Cindy Rostollan
Peter Varros
Dave Pound, a former Bethel student, tugs at his Subscription rate: $4 per academic year
stubborn donkey in a desperate attempt to guard his
opponent in last year's donkey basketball game.
Mr. Healy addresses a group of students at the Wreck.
Central has opportunity for involvement
by Anne Dalton
It has been said that many
of our Conference Baptist
Churches are dying or dead.
This, however, isn't true of
Central Baptist. I'm glad to re-port
Central, located on the cor-ner
of Roy and Shields, is a-live
and doing well.
As a Conference Baptist
Church, Central must try to
meet the needs of many people.
They have to minister to the
young, old, and all those in be-tween.
According to its mem-bers,
the very rich, the very
poor, as well as the good old
middle class are all important
to Central. It tries to meet all
their needs; spiritual, physical,
mental, emotional, and intel-lectual.
Central has the usual church
activities such as Sunday school,
choirs, and active programs for
junior high, high school and
college age groups.
The college kids say that they
pretty well run their own pro-grams.
They meet as a class at
10:00 Sunday mornings with Dr.
Peter Holm, an area dentist,
who acts as a discussion leader.
On Wednesdays the group meets
Friday, March 12 once again
marks the date when ten don-keys
will take to the court
for a hard-hitting round of
basketball.
The Donkey Basketball game
begins at 7:30 p.m. and is
sponsored by the Bethel B-Club.
Besides entertainment,
the purpose of this activity is
to gain funds for the club.
What exactly is donkey bas-ketball?
To describe it, the
floor will be covered with a
tarp and five donkeys will be
provided for each team. The
players may run with the ball,
but are required to hold the
reins of the donkey with one
hand as they do so. One more
rule — players must be seated
on the donkey's back while at-tempting
to shoot a basket.
for an open and informal Bible
study and prayer time run by
different students. "It's nice,"
said one girl, "because people
can come and leave when they
must."
In addition, there are usually
impromptu get-togethers fol-
This second annual affair will
consist of Bethel's "Super-
Athletes" pitted against the in-fallible
faculty, said one B-Club
member. The results of
last season's contest favored the
faculty by a narrow two points.
Thus, it's easy to notice that
the super-athletes will be anx-ious
to avenge that humiliation.
According to the B-Club, thq
audience won't have to just
sit around staring at each
other during halftime. One of
the donkeys attending " is as
smart as a majority of Bethel
students," said one student,
"and he will be illustrating his
intelligence during the inter-mission.
(In other words a trick
donkey will be performing).
In addition, B-Club members
will take part in a "gut-contest"
lowing the evening service.
"Times like these give us a
chance to get to know each
other better as people," said
one.
"Central tries to reach out
into the community," comment-ed
one member. "Located in
and, listen to this females, ath-letes
will be auctioned off to
students with the most loot
and the largest mouths — so,
get prepared!!!
To insure victory, the B-Club
members have set up a second
half surprise for the final
moments of the contest. One
Bethel student warns, "Faculty:
BEWARE!" Cost for the event is
$1.00 for adults and 50c for
children under 12.
by Sarah Reasoner
The Resident Assistant:
a counselor for all sorts of
problems — academic, social,
personal
a representative of the Ad-ministration
at the grass-roots
level — sometimes that's hard,
and sometimes it's easy
a spiritual encourager with
a God-given responsibility
a listener even when the
homework is due tomorrow
a janitor for plugged showers,
running toilets, and faulty dry-ers
a guinea pig for all the prac-tical
jokes the floor can dream
up
a knitter (Bodien only)
a meeting-attender
a friend.
The above list is my practical
experience of what the R.A.'s
position entails.
The Student Services office
describes a R.A. as a "paid
member of the Dean of Stu-dents
staff with responsibilities
in the residence hall for the
following: to orient new stu-dents
to the residence hall and
campus, to give spiritual coun-sel
and encouragement as need-ed,
to provide leadership in
hall government, to establish
and maintain a helpful per-sonal
relationship with each
student, to refer students in
need of assistance to the proper
person or office, to be avail:
the Midway District, Central
could be termed an inner city
church and there are many
needs to be met."
A day-care program is offer-ed.
Program directors have
found that it has been vary ef-fective
in reaching mothers
that otherwise would not have
any contact with the church.
High school students have a
program called the "Wreck." A
part of the church is opened
each Friday evening, and "won-derful
things have been happen-ing
to the 100-150 kids that
visit there each Friday."
Central's three ministers are
all under 40. Rev. John Ander-son
is the Pastor, assisted by
Ron Eckert, assistant pastor and
by Anne Dalton
"What in the world is a
Wreck?" asked one cautious stu-dent,
to which the reply came,
"Not a Wreck, THE Wreck!"
The Wreck is a place for
kids who need a place to go.
According to director Sid Veen-stra,
"It's for kids who are
searching for something and
aren't even really sure of what
they're looking for."
The Wreck is located in the
'basement of Central Baptist
Church on the corner of Roy
and Shields, and consists of
two rooms. The smaller room
is decorated in what one person
called a modern mess. There are
flourescent posters and black
lighting. The walls are done
in burlap and tin foil. Along
one wall is a large psychedelic
mural, which reads "Jesus Loves
You, Love Endures All." Furni-ture
consists of cable tables,
wooden stools and a few bath-tubs.
The other room has one pool
table, two ping pong tables and
able for casual and planned
contacts with individual stu-dents,
and to assist in the ad-ministration
of the residence
hall."
I've been an R.A. for six
months now. I don't know how
much I've helped the people
living on my floor, but I do
know that I have learned a
great deal. When the problems
and pressures mount up, I re-alize
how close God is and how
I've neglected Him before when
the going is smooth. And you
get plenty of rough times as an
R.A.
I've recognized too, my re-sponsibility
to lead in a spiritual
way — and that has been an
exciting challenge. And I've
made many new friends. The
fringe benefits of this position
are really very numerous:
My purpose in writing this
is to urge you to apply. Simply
go to the Student Services Of-fice,
ask for an application, and
return it by March 12. Follow-ing
this is a rather frightening
interview which is really not
frightening.
The pay for this job is room
and board for the school year,
amounting to approximately
$600.00.
Sometimes I feel that the
work is worth doing for the
money. At other times I think
no one could possibly pay me
enough for the work I do. But
minister of music, and Bethel
student Sid Veenstra, minister
of youth. They are enthusias-tic
about Jesus Christ, doing all
they can to make Him alive and
relavent.
Central doesn't want to just
give to you, it wants you to
give of yourself. It's only then
that you can truly receive.
Many Conference churches are
dying because young people to-day
are reluctant to get involv-ed
to change the church. Instead
they just give up on it.
Kids at Central haven't given
up on the church; they're in-volved.
Join us if you don't
mind getting involved. See Sid
Veenstra or Anne Dalton for
rides. ❑
two bumper pool tables, all
of which are in constant use.
However, the Wreck is really
made up of the people who are
there Friday nights; people who
come down because they care
about others and want to share
Jesus Christ, and show the 100
to 150 high school kids that
they care about them.
People who work at the
Wreck say they have a chance
to make friends and to love
someone who needs it very
much. "Some of the kids who
come have never had anyone
who really loved them or cared
what happened to them. All
sharing is done on a one to
one basis. First you must win
the right to be heard as a
friend," staff members said.
"If you care, really care,"
they continue, "stop by some
Friday night between eight and
twelve. It may leave you cold
or blow your mind. It depends
on you and how much you care.
Do you care enough to give
yourself until it hurts?"
I never doubt that the work is
worth doing for the amount
of people-knowledge you gain.
Where else do you get paid
for talking and listening, inter-acting
and communicating with
people?
Donkey Basketball game coming
Students anxious for victory
Wreck only for those who care
Leadership, friendship, counseling
make up small part of R.A.'s duties
Thursday, March 11, 1971
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Body meets
in catacombs
celebration
by John Lundgren
Let's celebrate! Let's cele-brate
God's love in our lives!
Let's worship Him in song and
praise! Let's love Him and love
each other! Let's listen to our
brothers and sisters share their
needs and talk about their vie:
tories! .Let's live this love we
talk about!
The Catacombs celebration is
a gathering of believers. We
meet every Sunday evening at
10:00 p.m. in the candlelit base-ment
of Edgren dormitory. On
any given Sunday night you
might stop to find:
Boisterous singing
Prayerful singing
Worshipful silence
A steady hum of excited dis-cussion
A speaker
Kids sharing and actively
worshipping.
The responses of the 100 to
200 who attend Catacombs week-ly
are varied.
"I feel a oneness with them
all and with Jesus that just ex-cites
me."
"I like the quiet time for
thinking."
"It feels to me like the Body
of Christ.... the' feeling of fam-ily."
"One in the Spirit."
"It's good to know that others
get discouraged."
Catacombs is a meeting, a
program and therefore it has no
intrinsic merit. But the Holy
Spirit is their because kids who
love God go expecting to meet
Him. As he draws us closer to
Himself, the Spirit brings .us
closer to each other. That's
where it's at and that's why
we celebrate.
Mabel makes believe
with Beautiful Gert
Once upon a time in the land of make believe, lived a
happy young couple who became even happier when infant
Gertrude filled the cradle in their home. Mom and Pop were
excited and no one was spared an introduction to the Beautiful
Baby Gert.
Gert was to be a well adjusted girl who knew the value
of a friendship, and she was carefully taught the best ways
to get along in life. It was early when her life philosophy
became, "When in Rome do as the Romans."
Gert had a range of friends from the ultra-conservative
to the ultra-radical and everything in between. By the time
she was ready for college, her conservative type friends urged
her to go to a conservative college while her radical friends
would have her elsewhere.
As it turned out, Beautiful Gert decided it would be much
easier to attend a somewhat conservative college (a little
parental pressure helped here) and then spend her weekends
and after hours with her less conservative frinds. It all looked
so simple, but things became increasingly difficult.
Gert lived in one style at home, another in the dorm, and
still another while visiting her 'other friends.' She adapted
to her religion courses and became thought of as a spiritual
giant; she became the 'dime store psychologist' in her class of
human behavior.
She was the sweet innocent Gert when college officials
and friends were near, but turned into a real swinger when
the campus was 1,1,, block away. With one circle of friends
Beautiful Gert could have moved the saints tD tears of joy
and in another, could have shocked the devil himself !
Gert's philosophy was practiced to the fullest with a dif-ferent
life style for every incident of life. One day it was
Adult Only Art movies while the next day it was 'no movies
of any kind' (sin, you know); one minute it was, 'alcohol and
drugs are tools of the devil' and a few minutes later (in a dif-ferent,
less conservative circle), alcohol and drugs were 'the
means to enlightenment and knowledge.'
The psychology books would have called Gert a schizo-phrenic
but Gert was happy to call herself, 'well adjusted to
any situation.' Besides, in the land of make believe there can
be no schizophrenia!
Things continued to become more and more difficult as
Gert expanded her life situations and consequently her life-styles.
It wasn't long before the Beautiful Baby Gert died in
absolute confusion and exhaustion never having realized that
life could have been so un-complicated and almost completely
enjoyable had she chosen ONE life style by which to live.
May Gert rest in peace (finally!)
7#ta4 p,..eaideatd ded4
Censoring evil does not
answer wider problem
Radical Christianity
"Either it's Christian Ed
or it is not education"
Bethel college is a Christian college and we should be glad. For
the most part its students, faculty, and administration are Chris-tian.
We pray before our classes and most of us attend chapel.
But some of us are begnning to wonder, is this the only dis-tinction
we have from Macalester, Hamline, or the University of
Minnesota?
Some are wondering, what is the difference between the
content of the classroom presentation in these other schools and
in ours?
Are we guilty for the most part of adding or "integrating"
our Christianity to a secular content like so much sugar?
These are dangerous questions to ask! Some will immediately
rise up in indignation and maybe rightfully so, but some members
of the body are asking these questions.
Those asking are not interested in being a movement although
one may start. They are not interested in exalting some Paul or
some Apollos although there are men that they are reading from
and gaining insights. They are interested in being students and
faculty that are together, communally in the will of God.
One problem that faces us all is the tendency to defend the
status quo. We have seen in the past that our way of doing things
has been adequate to meet our tasks, so why change? There must
be something in that old adage "we are creatures of habit," for
we pretty much like things just the way they were. Change means
being unsettled and not being able to hang on to the patterns of
the past.
At this point we see the difference between our talk and our
actions. Our talk is of the Lordship of Jesus Christ, but our freez-ing
of the situation may also freeze the changing and reforming
power of the Spirit.
Because our method of dealing with our task yesterday was
sufficient, is precisely why it cannot be adequate for today. Our
task may be the same but most assuredly our situation is con-tinually
changing. Yet having said and firmly believing this, change
for the sake of change is not what is desired.
The insights of our fathers are not worthless. We would be
most foolish to try to be "original." But this rarely seems to be
our problem.
The principle of reforming seems vague and the word reforma-tion
seems to be relegated to a specific period of time, hundreds
of years ago. Reformation is seen as a hstorical fact, when it should
be seen as a vital ongoing process driven by the Word and led by
the Holy Spirit of God. If we are only interested in preserving the
good things of the past, then why should the Spirit strive with us?
Will he not pass us by?
How does one work for reformation? Well certainly it is not
done individually! The body of Christ is not just a Biblical analogy.
It is living even as Christ lives and should be operating in all that
our lives touch as opposed to being involved in sacred activity and
secular activity.
Those of the local body interested in a continuing reformation
and of learning the relation of the Bible to learning will be meeting
in the Speech house, Friday at 3:30. Hopefully an interim course
will be a product of their efforts.
They meet out of a love and concern for Bethel. They meet
because of a growing belief that education that is not radically
Christian by being driven by the Word of God, is not education
at all.
0
Recently Christians in the Twin Cities have
become polarized over the appearance of the
longlived musical, Hair. Some of my acquaint-ances
have been active protesters before the
City Council, seeking to have the play banned.
Others who seemed no more enthusiastic about
the play itself have defended its right to be
heard.
This controversy points up a dilemma for
the Christian believer in modern America. If
we are a nation committed to individual freedom.
we recognize that we must be prepared to take
some risks. God Himself did that when He
created man a free being and then put him
in the midst of temptation. God neither removed
the temptation by force nor by law, but sought
to develop inner discernment so that man would
resist it. Man failed then as he does now. And we
Christians believe that it is only in Jesus Christ
that man finds both forgiveness for bad choices
in the past and enablement for right choices in
the future.
It does say something however, about the
moral climate of our nation when the faltering
Hair became an instantaneous box office hit
after adding its display of nakedness and its
more explicit sex scenes. Desensitization, as
Paul Rees indicated in one of his recent chapel
addresses at Bethel is a major peril in America.
It may be as serious a threat as depersonali-zation.
To retain our individuality while de-sensitized
to physical immorality does not auger
well for a nation that needs to be strong at its
heart if it is to give moral leadership to the
world. In fact the treatment of people as sex
objects actually robs them of their personhood.
It is not enough in our time to be only half
sensitive. To feel deep anguish about some
moral problems — racism, war, poverty, pol-lution
— and to pay little attention to others
about which the Bible is equally concerned ��
immodesty, eroticism, sex as a plaything, per-version
— is to be but half Christian in our
attitudes. And these are some of the basic
themes of Hair, according to the reviewers, how-ever
they may be muted by dim lights, deafening
music, or obscure lyrics.
I hope that we Christians will feel God's pain
at all forms of evil. Conscience is a tender fac-ulty
that can lose its power through resistance
and rationalization. And the Holy Spirit, the spirit
of holiness, may be grieved and quenched until
we are no longer sensitive to His values.
Whatever influence plays like Hair may have
upon America as a whole, I fear that when
Christians unwittingly include them as enter-tainment,
we gradually will lose our power to
be indignant at evil and concomitantly our con-viction
that the world has sinned grievously
and desperately needs a Savior.
Personally, I wish that plays like Hair and
0 Calcutta, along with a flood of sex-dominated
movies, were not on the market in America. But
much as I share the feelings of the protesters,
I suspect that censorship in occasional local
communities will not solve the wider problem.
America's commitment to individual freedom
and the inability of it courts to draw legal limits
around obscenity and pornography makes ef-fective
censorship virtually impossible and
probably undesireable. It seems inexorable at
this point in history that the tares are going to
flourish right along with the wheat. The most
effective Christian response is the fervent com-munication
of the gospel with its power to
change from within man's values and tastes.
In this kind of world, it is all the more im-portant
that exemplary Christian sensitivity to
evil be heightened. We are to be the salt of the
earth and the light of the world. The presence
of ten righteous people would have saved Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Can God find 10 people — no, 1500 people! —
on the Bethel campus who will rise up in indig-nation
at the moral pollution of our land?
People who will recoil at immorality peddled
under the guise of artistic freedom?
People who deliberately will choose to be un-sophisticated
and "ignorant of that which is evil?"
(I Cor. 14:20)
People who will constitute a moral gyro-scope
at the center of American life?
I pray that God will be more successful in
finding them now than He was in the days of
Abraham!
Carl H. Lundquist, President
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Thursday, March 11, 1971
Student Senate adopts life-style statement
that emphasizes obligation to the community
Rationale
Obligation to a community:
1.A person who willfully becomes a member
of a community is in that act, obligated to
conform to the norms of the community.
(A norm being a standard, model, or pat-tern
for a group. Ed.)
2.A person is obligated to abide by the norm,
unless in so doing his conscience is violated.
However, in a case where he feels he must
disobey, he is obligated to accept the con-sequences
of his disobedience.
THE BETHEL COMMUNITY
We are not a Christian community BUT
we are striving to yield to the leading of the
Holy Spirit. We want very much to become
a Christian community.
Statement
We firmly believe that it is inherent in
the Christian faith that an individual must
have his own convictions which he derives
from the leading of the Holy Spirit, and that
no man's salvation is dependent on anyone
else's faith.
"Be in debt to no one — the only debt you
should have is to love one another. Whoever
loves his fellow man has obeyed the Law.
The commandments, 'do not commit adultery;
do not murder ; do not steal ; do not covet' —
all these, and any others besides, are summed
up in the one command, 'Love your neigh-bor
as yourself.' Whoever loves his neighbor
will never do him wrong. To love, then, is to
obey the whole law.
"You must do this, because you know what
hour it is : the time has come for you to wake
up from your sleep. For the moment when
we will be saved is closer now than it was
when we first believed. The night is nearly
over, day is almost here. Let us stop doing
the things that belong to the dark. Let us
take up the weapons for fighting in the light.
Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people
who live in the light of day; no orgies or
drunkeness, no immorality or indecency, not
fighting or jealousy. But take up the weapons
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop giving
attention to our sinful nature, to satisfy its
desires.
DO NOT JUDGE YOUR BROTHER
"Accept among you the man who is weak
in the faith, but do not argue with him about
his personal opinions. One man's faith allows
him to eat anything, but the man who is
weak in the faith eats only vegetables. The
man who will eat anything is not to despise
the man who doesn't; while the one who eats
only vegetables is not to pass judgment on
the one who eats anything, for God has ac-cepted
him. Who are you to judge the servant
of someone else ? It is his own Master who
will decide whether he succeeds or fails. And
he will succeed, for he Lord is able to make
him succeed.
"One man thinks that a certain day is more
important than the others, while another
man thinks that all days are the same. Each
one should have his own mind firmly made
up. He who thinks lightly of a certain day
does it in honor of the Lord : he who eats
anything does it in honor of the Lord, for he
gives thanks to God for food. He who re-fuses
to eat certain things does so in the
honor of the Lord, and he gives thanks to
God. For none of us lives for himself only,
none of us dies for himself only; if we live
it is for the Lord that we live, and if we
die, it is for the Lord that we die. Whether
we live or die, then, we belong to the Lord.
For Christ died and rose to life in order to
be the Lord of the living and of the dead.
You then — why do you pass judgement on
your brother ? And you — why do you despise
your brother ? All of us will stand before God,
to be judged by him. For the scripture says,
`As I live,' says the Lord, 'everyone will
kneel before me, and everyone will declare
that I am God.' Every one of us, then, will
have to give an account of himself to God.
"So then, let us stop judging one another.
Instead, this is what you should decide : not
to do anything that would make your brother
stumble, or fall into sin. My union with the
Lord Jesus makes me know for certain that
nothing is unclean of itself ; but if a man
believes that something is unclean, then it
becomes unclean for him. If you hurt your
brother because of something you eat, then
you are no longer acting from love. Do not
let the food that you eat ruin the man for
whom Christ died ! Do not let what you
regard as good, acquire a bad name. For God's
Kingdom is not a matter of eating and
drinking, but of righteousness and peace and
joy that the Holy Spirit gives. And whoever
serves Christ in this way wins God's pleasure
and man's approval.
"So then, we must always aim at those
things that bring peace, and that help streng-then
one another. Do not because of food,
destroy what God has done. All foods may
be eaten, but it is wrong to eat anything that
will cause someone else to fall into sin. The
right thing to do is to keep from eating meat,
drinking wine, or doing anything else that
will make your brother fall. Keep what you
believe about this matter, then, between your-self
and God. Happy is the man who does not
feel himself condemned when he does what
he approves of. But if he has doubts about
what he eats, God condemns him when he
eats it, because his action is not based
on faith. And anything that is not based on
faith is sin.
PLEASE OTHERS, NOT YOURSELVES
"We who are strong in the faith ought to
help the weak to carry their burdens. We
should not please ourselves. Instead, each of
us should please his brother for his own good,
in order to build him up in the faith. For
Christ did not please himself. Instead, as the
scripture says, The insults spoken by those
who insulted you have fallen on me.' For
everything written in the Scripture was
written to teach us, in order that we might
have hope through the patience and encour-agement,
enable you to have the same point
of view among yourselves by following the
example of Christ Jesus, so that all of you
together, with one voice, may praise the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 13: 8-14; 14: 1-23; 15: 1-6;
fom G000 News for Modern Man.
We as believers in Christ desire to ex-emplify
the highest forms of love mentioned
in these passages. Because we may harm the
work of the Holy Spirit through our personal
example, we willingly accept the rules.
Expulsion from Bethel is always painful
— to those who must decide upon the act
as well as to those who are expelled. Because
it involves substantial penalties — loss of
credits, forfeiture of tuition and room and
board, as well as difficulties in getting into
other schools, you should be aware of the
fact that there are certain transgressions —
use of intoxicating beverages on or off cam-pus,
sexual promiscuity or immorality, pos-session
or use of harmful narcotics — that
may result in immediate dismissal. Other
habits (e.g., persistent use of tobacco) may
lead to dismissal at the end of a semester or
school year. Even as the college has engaged
in a careful process of preadmission selection
it reserves the right to carry out a post-admission
selection, and it may well ask
students not to return if it becomes clear
that they are not in sympathy with the
Christian aims and standards of the school.
CLOSING STATEMENT
We do not expect everyone to embody
these rules in their personal ethic, but as
long as the individual freely elects to remain
a member of the Bethel community we do
expect that he will submit to them as a
matter of personal spiritual discipline. A
person is a part of Bethel's community on
and off campus and during all vacations un-til
he elects to leave Bethel.
Thursday, March 11, 1971
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Biblical Christianity answers ecology crisis
by Peter Varros
Having used much of Francis Schaeffer's rationale in previous
articles dealing with pollution and the Christian, it would seem
appropriate that I conclude this introductory series in the form
of full quotations from Pollution and the Death of Man. Schaeffer,
being one of the foremost contemporary writers of Christian
apologetics, is better able to express what he believes are work-able
steps toward a "substantial healing" of our earth.
Having felt God leading him to leave his ten-year pastorate
in St. Louis, Schaeffer, with his wife Edith and three daughters,
left his thirteen room home for two rooms and the beginnings
of his ministry as founder and director of the L'Abri Fellowship,
a Christian commune of chalets nestled high in the Swiss Alps,
where people of all social and religious backgrounds come seeking
answers ultimately found in Christ!
"So we have seen that a truly biblical Christianity has a real
answer to the ecological crisis. It offers a balanced and healthy
attitude to nature, arising from the truth of its creation by God;
it offers the hope here and now of substantial healing in nature
of some of the results of the Fall, arising from the truth of
redemption in Christ. In each of the alienations arising from the
Fall, the Christians, individually and corporately, should con-sciously
in practice be a healing redemptive factor — in the
separation of man from God, of man from himself, of man from
man, of man from nature, and of nature from nature. Certainly
this is true in regard to nature. A Christian-based science and
technology should consciously try to see nature substantially
healed while waiting for the future complete healing at Christ's
return.
"For here is our calling. We must exhibit that, on the basis
of the work of Christ, the Church can achieve partially, but sub-stantially,
what the secular world wants and cannot get. The
Church ought to be a 'pilot plant,' where men can see in our
congregations and missions a substantial healing of all the divi-sions,
the alienations, man's rebellion has produced.
" ... Indeed, unless something like this happens, I do not
believe the world will listen to what we have to say . . It is always
true that if you treat the land properly, you have to make two
choices. The first is in the area of economics. It costs more money,
at least at first, to treat the land well ... The second choice in-volved
is that it usually takes longer to treat the land properly. And
these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our en-vironment:
money and time — or to say it another way, greed
and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have
an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we
going to do what we really should do as God's children?
" ... What we, the Christian community, have to do is to
refuse men the right to ravish our land, to insist that somebody
accepts a little less profit by not exploiting nature. And the
first step is exhibitng the fact that as individual Christians and
as Christian communities we ourselves do not ravish our fair
sister for the sake of greed in one form or another.
" ... Now all this will not come about automatically. Science
today treats man as less than man, and nature as less than nature.
And the reason for this is that modern science has the wrong
sense of origin, and having the wrong sense of origin it has no
category sufficient to treat nature as nature any more than it has
to treat man as man.
" In conclusion, then, we may say that if things are
treated only as autonomous machines in a decreated world they
are finally meaningless. But if that is so, then inevitably so am I—
man— autonomous and also equally meaningless. But if individu-ally
and in the Christian community I treat with integrity the
things which God has made, and treat them this way lovingly,
because they are His, things change. If I don't love what the
Lover has made — in the area of man, in the area of nature — and
really love it because He made it, do I really love the Lover at
all?
" ... There are things before me which I now face not as
a cow would face the buttercup—merely the mechanical situation—
but facing it by choice. I look at the buttercup, and I treat the
buttercup the way it should be treated. The buttercup and I are
both created by God, but beyond this, I can treat it properly by
personal choice. I act personally — and I am a person! Psycholo-gically
I begin to breathe and live. Psychologically I am now
dealing on a personal level, not only with men and women, but
also with the things in nature that God has made which are less
than personal in themselves, and the old hang-ups begin to
crumble. My humanness grows and the modern technological pit
and pendulum is no longer closing in on me.
"As a result, then, suddenly there is beauty instead of a
desert. The question of aesthetics is also in place. This surely
is somethng that has importance in itself, and is not to be des-pised.
It does not have to have pragmatic reasons to have value.
So if we did nothing else in our Christian view of nature than
to save and enjoy beauty, it would be of value, and worthwhile.
... But it is not only that as we have seen. The balance of
nature will be more nearly what it should be and there will be
a way to utilize nature for man and yet not destroy the resources,
which man needs. But none of this will happen if it is only a
gimmick. We have to be in the right relationship with Him in
the way He has provided and then as Chrstians have and practice
the Christian view of nature.
"When we have learned this — the Christian view of nature —
then there can be a real ecology; beauty will flow, psychological
freedom will come, and the world will cease to be turned into
a desert. Because it is right, on the basis of the whole Christian
system — which is strong enough to stand it all, because it is
true — as I stand and face the buttercup, I say, Fellow creature,
fellow creature, I won't walk on you. We are both creatures
together."
Feminine viewpoint sought for board
Mrs. Margaret Dewey
by Dave Healy
Bethel, except for its interim
program, still uses the tradi-tional
A, B, C, D, F grading
system exclusively. In this re-spect
it joins only a small min-ority
of schools in the area.
Most other area schools use
theA-F system as a base, but
have also adopted some form
of pass-fail setup, used in vary-ing
degrees. Three schools in
Bethel's immediate vicinity —
Concordia, Hamline, and Mac-alaster
— all employ some var-iation
of the pass-fail system.
Concordia College, St. Paul,
operates under the A-F struc-ture
for all required courses,
as well as those in the student's
major field. For a certain num-ber
of electives, though, stu-dents
may choose a P—N (pass-no
pass) arrangement.
Under P—N, the student's
achievement in the course is
recorded on his transcript but
is not figured into his GPA. A
`no pass' grade simply means
the loss of credit.
The P—N alternative at Con-cordia
is primarily for upper-classmen,
and there are limits
on the number of courses which
may be taken under this sys-tem.
In its second year of op-eration,
Concordia's grading
system seems to have met with
the general approval of its stu-dents
and faculty, and there are
no plans to change it in the
immediate future.
Students at Hamline Univer-sity
have the option of taking
two courses a year on a pass-fail
basis. These courses may
be in any area; requirement,
elective, or major field.
Hamline calls its system
"Grade — No Grade," which
means that a student earning
an A, B, or C will have that
grade recorded, but not figured
into his GPA. This constitutes
the "Grade" part of the system.
"No Grade" is assigned to any
student receiving a D or F. He
receives no credit for the
course, but is not penalized on
his GPA.
Macalaster College, in ad-dition
to its traditional A—F
system, has an S—U (satisfac-tory—
unsatisfactory) setup. Stu-dents
may take courses under
S—U in any area except their
major. Freshmen may take as
many S—U courses as they
want, but upperclassmen are
limited. As with the systems
at Concordia and Hamline, the
S—U grades at Macalaster are
recorded on the student's
transcript, but not computed
in his GPA.
There are currently several
proposals to change the Mac-alaster
grading policy. One of
these would add the instructor's
At this time, Bethel College
and Seminary has no female
representation on its Board of
Regents. Mrs. Margaret Dewey,
the college librarian, is attempt
ing to see that something is
done to rectify this situation.
Mrs. Dewey feels that since
the Board of Regents is the pol-icy-
maker for the campus and
these policies affect women,
they should have some repre-sentation.
Fifty-six per cent of
written evaluation to all S—U
grades.
In conjunction with its cur-riculum
reform, Bethel is con-sidering
some changes in its
present grading policy. Several
proposals to this effect have
been presented to the Educa-tional
Policies Committee.
Bethel's primary concern
the college students and six
per cent of the seminary stu-dents
are women.
The last time Bethel had a
woman on the Board of Regents
was 15 to 20 years ago. Mrs.
Dewey feels it is about time
there was another, "because it is
necessary to have the feminine
viewpoint represented on the
most important policy-making
board of the school."
Mrs. Dewey said she was
now, however, is to make ready
for the new curriculum itself.
Thus, comprehensive consider-ation
of the grading system
must wait. Once the basic prob-lems
of changing the curricu-lum
have been solved, then
greater attention can be given
to Bethel's grading system.
CI
prompted to take action by re-cent
articles in magazines and
newspapers on discrimination
against women. She felt that
although there are other in-equities
i nvolving women on
campus, this would be the most
effective means of calling at-tention
to the problem.
Mrs. Dewey began by circu-lating
a petition among stu-dents,
faculty and staff, and ob-tained
250 signatures. She said
more could have been obtained
if time had been available. The
petition reads as follows:
The first comprehensive
survey of women in higher
education was released in
late November, 1970. A-mong
the findings was the
fact that "though women
trustees are found in in-creasing
numbers in our
colleges and universities,
women are not represented
as fully as they should be,
in view of enrollment of wo-men
and number of alum-nae."
Although forty-one
per cent (nationally) of
students are women, twen-ty-
one per cent of the 450
institutions surveyed listed
no women trustees.
Bethel College and Sem-inary
is among those
schools presently lacking
female representation on its
Board of Regents, though
fifty-six percent of the col-lege
and six per cent of the
seminary students are wo-men.
Recognizing the above con-ditions,
we, the undersigned,
wish to urge the nomination
of a woman or women to the
Bethel College and Seminary
Board of Regents in 1971.
The petition has been pre-sented
to President Carl Lund-quist
and a copy has been sent
to Rev. Warren Magnuson, Sec-retary
of the Baptist General
Conference.
Grading alternatives examined
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Bethel's physics lecture room in the early 1920's.
Sciences react, grow exothermically
by Jim Wilke
"If you come to Bethel as the
Chairman of the Department of
Chemistry we'll let you do what
you want to with it." This was
the offer made to Dr. James
Rodgers before he came here
in 1966. When he arrived at
Bethel he was greeted by a
handful of skeptical students
who said they were Chemistry
majors and a few more who
said they might be, if they liked
the program.
It wasn't much of a start, but
from this the chemistry depart-ment
has grown into one of Be-thel's
main departments. This
last fall 59 students registered
for general chemistry alone.
"That's quite a few, considering
chemistry isn't a requirement,"
said members of the depart-ment.
"Not too many take it as
an elective and you don't usual-ly
find freshmen taking a ten
credit course to fulfill a lab sci-ence
• requirement." New teach-ers
have been added too. Dr.
Dale Stevens joined the depart-ment
in 1968 and Don Witt is
teaching on a part time basis
this year.
The growth has not been just
in numbers. Those people who
carry the smell of all those
wierd chemicals with them
when they forsake the "ivory
towers" of third floor to hit the
coffee shop have developed a
unique unity. Dr. Stevens attrib-utes
this unity to three reasons.
First, learning chemistry requir-es
intensive study. Since it's
hard to learn by yourself, co-operative
group study is the
mode on the third floor.
Secondly, the laboratory work
is also done on a cooperative
basis, partly due to the lack of
facilities and also because of the
group study philosophy of the
department. Where, but at Be-thel
could a timid freshman
girl ask a Ph. D. to explain to
her what the lab assistant did
not understand without feeling
she was intruding on his time?
Thirdly, unity comes through
spending time with one another.
Facilities have also increased.
Men such as Len Erickson and
Arnold and Paul Wicklund have
helped contribute towards the
$20,000 worth of analytical e-quipment
that has been added
since Dr. Rodgers came in 1966.
National Science Foundation
Grants have supplemented the
small budget. Both Dr. Stevens
and Dr. Rodgers have received
research participation grants
from the NSF funds. Bethel's
chemistry department is seek-ing
to cooperate with area
schools in sharing these instru-ments.
Our program and equip-ment
could be very complemen-tary
to that of schools such as
Hamline and St. Catherine's.
Chemistry at Bethel is no
longer taught in the cookbook
recipe style. Second year stu-dents
are gaining research ex-perience
in synthesis. Dr. Rod-gers
said that instead of doing a
simple experiment that has been
done by millions of other par-rots
in white coats, they do re-search
and adapt the procedures
to attempt a synthesis of a new
compound.
Dr. Rodgers is now making a
movie that will show an archaic
method of qualitative inorganic
analysis. After answering ques-tions
and analyzing the data
from the movie, the students
will repeat the experiment in
a more sophisticated method.
According to Dr. Rodgers, this
should give the students an
appreciation for the instruments
as well as a good background
into the problem.
Because some courses will
have to be dropped and most of
them completely changed, the
new curriculum poses serious
problems for the chemistry de-partment.
It will probably take
three years for the department
to completely change over to
the new system. But change and
turnover is nothing new in the
dynamic state of the chemistry
department, said department
members.
Maybe the reaction will just
be a little more exothermic as
the chemistry department seeks
for another new equilibrium
level.
Dr. Dale Stevens assists
with a sticky chemistry as-
Physics facilities expand, improve signment.
Computer, new courses
meet impetus to grow
by Sharon Watson
An old kitchen was the home
of the newly formed Physics
department when Robert Carl-son,
Associate Professor of
Physics, arrived in 1968. Since
then the physics facilities have
been expanded and remodeled.
During 1968 an office, a stor-age
area and technician's bench
were acquired as a result of a
minor renovation project car-ried
out by the Bethel main-tenance
department.
Over this past Christmas va-cation,
Room 213, formerly a
classroom "in a degenerate
state of repair," according to
Mr. Carlson, was cleaned up
and replastered. It was divided
into two rooms, the larger
doubling as a physical-chemical
laboratory, and the smaller
room designated as an eventual
general physics and optics la-boratory.
A storage oscilloscope worth
$2,000 was acquired through
National Science Foundation
funds, the physics department,
and private donations in 1968
Through its Western Electric
gift program, a pulse generator
and power supply were also
obtained. Since then, other sup-porting
equipment has been
purchased.
Tom Moline, Jon Lewis, and
Jim Sperry have contributed to
bringing the electronic capa-bility
of the physics program
up to its present level, said Mr.
Carlson. This past semester, the
upper division physics students
have been analizing and then
constructing transistorized am-plifiers,
known to outsiders as
"gray boxes."
Another project was initiated
by the Acoustics course during
the Interim period. Jim Sperry
was the main technician in the
construction of a hi-fi ampli-fier,
with supporting technician,
Tom Molin, in charge of the
power supply.
111 by Cora Jean Gaalswyk
"The mathematics depart-ment,"
said one math major,
"holds the dubious distinction
of offering the newest science
majors at Bethel and has done
a great deal of changing in re-cent
years."
The most recognizable chang-es
are those in personnel and
facilities. One part-time and
three full-time men comprise
the present faculty.
According to Mr. Phillip Carl-son,
Bethel's math department
has a two-fold purpose; to pre-pare
students for careers in
industry or studies in graduate
school, and to prepare second-ary
school teachers. These pur-poses
in themselves have pro-vided
much of the impetus for
change.
"We have been responsive to
changes in graduate schools
and secondary schools as well
as industry," says Mr.. Carlson.
More advanced level courses
are now offered. For example,
a real variables course taught
this year by Mr. David Perry
was not offered when he was
a student here just a few years
ago. Also, in the area of elemen-tary
education, a combined
math-science concentration is
now offered.
A shift has occured in the
number of majors as well, said
Mr. Carlson, with the number
rising to 12, as compared to
four in 1960. These math majors
have gone into various types
of work, ranging from teaching,
to the ministry, to work in the
computer industry.
A final factor in the changing
math department is the pur-chase
of a computer. Plans for
its purchase are progressing,
reports Mr. Carlson, though no
firm date or final selection has
been made.
Interim courses in computer
programming have been of-fered
using a computer
made available by the Digital
Corporation. When the college
does buy a computer, said de-partment
members, the math
department is considering of-fering
short two week courses
in its operation.
Thursday, March 11, 1971
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Wrestling captain-elect
Dave Ekbom.
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many record sets, too.
Grapplers honor trio,
Ekbom new captain
by Dale Osterman
The Bethel wrestling team
finished the season with a dual
meet record of 5-6-1. Coach
David Klostreich felt that the
season was somewhat disap-pointing,
although it did have
its rewards.
Early in the year the team
was forfeiting two or three
divisions, although they were
able to pick up help later from
Rich Zaderaka, Chuck Jackson,
and Dale Berry.
With only two grapplers
graduating Coach Klostreich
feels that a strong nucleus will
definitely boost the outlook for
next year.
In a team meeting last week
the squad voted upon the
awards for this season. This
year's captain, Greg Ekbom,
was honored as the Most Valu-able
Wrestler for the second
time in his career. Greg had
the best individual record at
11-5.
Dave Ekbom was selected as
captain for next year. Dave had
the second best individual
record at 13-7.
Dave Peterson was named the
Most Improved Wrestler. "Pete"
had a 9-4 record after dropping
to 118.
Final Wrestling Statistics
show Dave Ekbom leading in
takedowns with 24. Following
him are G. Ekbom 13, B. Bar-ringer
11, and B. Bragg 10.
In escapes, Dave Ekbom again
accumulated the largest number
with 10. D. Peterson and G.
Ekbom both recorded 9 and
D. Berry had 8.
B. Bragg and D. Ekbom tied
with 13 reverses, followed by
D. Peterson at 10 and D. Berry
at 8.
Near Pin statistics show B.
Barringer with 11 and D. Ekbom
with 6. B. Barringer had 7
pins throughout the season, and
D. Peterson, 3.
Cummulative team points are;
B. Barringer 49, D. Ekbom 45,
D. Peterson 42, G. Ekbom 39,
and B. Bragg 34.
Women close season 3-5
Redeuie oesiled
by Kathy Oleson
With a victory of 41-28 over
St. Paul Bible College, the
Bethel women's basketball team
ended their season with a 3-5
record.
After the loss to Wheaton,
Bethel hit a losing streak, fal-ling
to St. Cloud, Carleton and
Eau Claire. The St. Cloud game
was truly a challenge according
to most team members. With
three girls on their team close
to six feet tall, St. Cloud looked
as though they would dominate
the boards, but with Linda
Schmid and Lynn Dreesen from
Bethel really hustling, St.
Cloud had their hands full.
Only behind by 9 points at
the half, Bethel tried desperate-ly
to come back, but lost the
game 40-59. Linda Schmid led
lottaliteezatel
A League Standings
L
Second New 3 0
Faculty 3 0
Third New 2 1
Second Old 2 1
Third Old 2 1
First Floor 1 2
Pit 1 2
Off Campus I 1 2
New Dorm 0 3
Off Campus II 0 3
Results—March 3
Third New 72, First Floor 71
(OT)
Pit 56, Off Campus II 47
Faculty 86, Off Campus I 76
Third Old 45, Second Old 43
Second New 66, New Dorm 49
the scoring with 14 points, fol-lowed
by Chris Kimball with 10
points and Lynn Dreesen with
8.
The Carleton game was a
heartbreaker. After jumping
off to an early lead the first
quarter the team held it up
until the last three minutes of
the fourth quarter. However,
Carleton applied a press which
the girls could not overcome,
and they lost 28-31. Linda
Schmid again led the scoring
with 16 points.
The Eau Claire game brought
another loss at 34-45, with Linda
Schmid scoring 19 points.
Rachel Dick and I, both sen-iors,
ended our basketball ca-reers
at the St.. Paul Bible
College game. Rachel has spent
most of her successful basket-
Scoring
Pts. Games Ave.
Tom Meeks (Faculty)
121 3 40.3
Gary Schimbeno (First)
66 3 22.0
John Lundgren (First)
58 3 19.3
B League Standings
L
Second Old 5 0
Third Old 4 1
Second New 4 1
First Floor 4 1
Third New 3 2
Pit 2 3
Faculy 1 4
New Dorm 1 4
Off Campus 1 2
Off Campus 0
5
ball career playing on the court,
most of my career has been
playing 'center of the bench.'
It is sometimes harder to sit
and watch your team go down
than to be actively involved
doing all you can to help. I
love basketball, but being a
substitute can sometimes be
the most frightening experience
in life. While sitting on the
bench I intently watch the posi-tions
I substitute for. I have
mixed feelings about wanting
to play and being afraid of
playing.
When the coach yells "Kathy,
report in for Chris," a cold
chill runs through my body and
my life flashes before my eyes.
What if I get out there and
trip on my new racer-striped
tenny runners! Or what if I
toss a basket in the wrong
goal!
I report in "1 for 99 . . . .
the buzzer sounds . . .. I run
onto the floor .. . . game re-sumes
and I forget all that has
happened previously and con-centrate
on the game, forget-ting
that anybody else exists
except the ten girls on the
floor.
That is how it is for me,
but now it is all over. I wish
next year's team the very best
of luck. For three years I've
thoroughly • enjoyed myself
playing basketball. I just won-der
if they'll retire my number
1?
Track has just begun and
despite a small quantity of com-petitors
the quality has already
proven itself.
The team has competed in
two practice meets along with
a partial team at the North-west
Open. Already many Bethel
indoor records have fallen.
Bob Berggren has led the way
shattering Dave Pound's marks
of 53.0 in the 440 and 1:18.5
in the 600 with times of 51.6
and 1:16.6. His 51.6 quarter
gave him the sixth best time
at the highly competitive North-west
Open.
Phil James has recorded a
fine 52.0 in the 440 and a
school record 34.0 in the 300
followed closely by Dave Asp's
34.2 freshman record.
Gary Hipp has been running
well in the hurdle events taking
a first with 8.0 in the 60 HH,
and a second last Saturday at
Macalester.
Mark Anderson has been
consistent in the 880 and the
mile, posting times of 2:06 and
4:40.
The Mile Relay quartet of
Bob Berggren, Rick Berggren,
Ralph Gustafson, and Phil
James bested the indoor record
for this event at 3:37.7.
The team is looking for ad-ditional
help from Phil McClain
in the sprints, Paul Stoneberg
in the 880, Willie Hill and
Odell Johnson in the jumps,
Ralph Gustafson in the hurdles,
and John Faust in the weight
events.
The team travels to Menomo-nie,
Wisconsin on Saturday with
a meet against Stout State.
0
Chris Kimball dribbles past a St. Paul Bible player
in the team's final game.
Tracksters break indoor
marks, travel to Stout
Faculty, second new in first
D and B's Predictions
March 15
First Floor to demoralize Third Old by 14
Third New to embarrass New Dorm by 21
Second Old to shaft Off Campus I by 17
Second New to rebutt Off Campus II by 15
Faculty to lick Pit by 30
March 17
Faculty to teach Third Old by 7
Third New to nip Second New by 2
New Dorm to shave Pit by 3
Off Campus I to edge Off Campus H by 8
First Floor to ruffle Second Old by 3
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