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11111111 II 1110 I ri Ei I EF. I II LP! I t Err - r I El - e.11‘1 if • Because of the change in the re-location date, (from 1971 to 1973), the New Dorm will stand alone, a while longer, on the Arden Hills Campus. •E Vol. XLV—No. 22 Bethel Col lege, St. Paul, Minnesota Fr iday, Apr il 10. 1970 1 "Pt* C n t Elseth views main job of president as motivating people Elden Elseth, newly elected president of Bethel's Student Association. by Marjorie M. Rusche Elden Elseth, newly elected stu-dent body president, views the main emphasis of his job as people-orientation. Says Elseth, "The big-gest part of my job is to motivate people to do things; to work with people, to observe people." Elseth is a transfer student and has previously attended Covenant Bible College in Canada and Whea-on College. Minnesota is his home state. He is a junior majoring in English and possibly Christianity. His future plans entail either go-ing to law school and entering pol-itics or going into the ministry. He has been involved in inter-collegiate debate and forensics and served at student body vice-pres-ident while at Covenant Bible Col-lege. This year, at Bethel, he has performed as a student senator. Bethel has a more relaxed atmos-phere than the other two colleges he attended according to Elseth. He feels that the closeness of people at Bethel is one of its strong points; this closeness is due to the notion that we all have Christianity in common. "The weak points of Bethel are problems of quality," Elseth stat-ed. "We just aren't putting out in some areas like we should be." This was a reference to the need for a beefed up athletic program, more social activities, and more cultural events. "One of Bethel's basic problems is financial," Elseth commented. "This exists on an institutional as well as individual level. Institu-tionally, Elseth ventured that the school had to increase its resources in some way — most likely through better public relations. "We need to make the Baptist General Con-ference aware that we deserve more of their support," he stated. "Or else, possibly we could build up our endowment funds through stock investment." continued on page 3 Shupe structures Symposiums to explore human rights issues Today's seminar gives overview of ecology The month of April will see an increase in paracollege activities on Bethel's campus. Each week, with the exception of the week of April 20-25, students will have the opportunity to involve and inform themselves on one of the contemp-orary and controversial issues fac-ing the American public. Ecology has become a nationally recognized problem. This after-noon there will be a two hour program in the Seminary Chapel dealing with Ecology. At 1:30, Dr. Donald Larson, pro-fessor of linguistics and anthro-pology, will be speaking on, the ecological balance that is needed around the globe. He believe:, that the Christian should tend his God-given environment in responsible ways. During the second hour (2:39- 3:30), films and (or) filmstrips will be used to give another view of the ecology problem. No classes will be formally dis-missed for the ecology seminar. However, faculty members will be sympathetic with those wishing to attend. Besides the issue of environ-ment, the seminars will also deal with Blacks — April 16,17; and American Indians— April 30, May 1. The idea for such a program was the brainchild of former Student Association Preident, Dave Shupe. According to Shupe the issues with which the three symposiums will deal could be thought of under the unifying topic of human rights. "Environment is, after all, a hu-man right," he stated. Shupe said he conceived of the idea after he had received notice that he was to head the Domestic Affairs section of the Evangelical Student Congress sponsored by the American Association of Evangel-ical Students, which will be held in Spring Arbor, Michigan, April 28th through May 2. "I thought it might in some way help Bethel's representatives to the Congress to prepare." After he had started working on the project, however, Shupe said he realized the wider scope it could have and now gives three main objectives for the project. First, each symposium is de-signed to deal with valid and pres-sing issues facing Americans today which the present curricular struc- In the recent meeting of the Board of Education, March 20-21 dates for relocation of the college to the Arden Hills campus was changed from 1971 to 1973. In the past two meetings of the Board of Education, there has been serious examination of the dates for relocation of the college to the Sem Campus in Arden Hills. When the New Campus Building pro-gram was approved by the Baptist General Conference ten years ago in 1961, the date for relocation was set for the centennial year, 1971. By last year, however, with a slowdown in launching the two major fund drives the escalation of building costs, high interest rates and shrinkage of federal loan funds, it became evident that this goal would be impossible to meet. The board then examined the possibility of "establishing an ac-ture does not allow students or faculty to examine adequately. Secondly, Shupe said, "The ad-ministration is really in favor of the idea and hopes that if the pro-ject is successful, that this para-college approach can be a regular occurence. From the student's viewpoint, Shupe sees that it's success could provide a method for the "regular hitting of con-cerns. If this year's project is successful, future ventures in this area may be impressive enough to bring in other colleges." The third objective of the pro-ject is to help the academic at-mosphere of the college. Shupe stated that he hoped it could "aid in breaking traditional curricular-extra curricular and student — professor barriers. ademic beachhead" on the campus by 1971 and phasing the college's move to Arden Hills. However, the problems of operating a split cam-pus apeared so great that this alternative did not seem to be a wise option. The only other alternative, then seemed to be to reschedule the date of relocation. At present it is the wish of the board that the relocation date be changed to 1973 and that the college make a complete move at this time. In light of student opinion and experience gained from the New Dorm, revisions in housing plans will begin soon. The meeting of the Baptist Gen-eral Conference in June in San Diego will determine the extent to which Bethel will participate in the capital funds drive of the Conference. Board reviews college relocation date proposes postponement of move to 1973 Senate arranges peace fast participation; meal refunds to aid relief work in Vietnam Fasting . . .a way for Bethel students to help bring peace in Viet Nam. Next week, April 13-15, the stu-dents involved in the cafeteria program will have a chance to get involved in Bethel's Fast for Peace. The Student Senate has made ar-rangements with the cafeteria ser-vice to allow those students inter-ested in giving up meals to sign up and give the money, normally used for meals, to a peace project. Once the student signs his name to miss a meal, the name is cros-sed off the list in the cafeteria. At the end of the three days of fast-ing, the names of the students who missed meals, and the number of meals missed are brought to the business office, and the Senate will get a refund for those meals. The check is then sent to the designat-ed peace project. This year, the Senate has decided to send the check to the Mennon-ite Central Committee to be used for relief work in Viet Nam. The Mennonite Committee has a world-wide ministery in more than thirty over-seas countries. There are over 700 Christian volunteers involved in this service in the midst of un-speakable poverty and also in the disease and ignorance in North America. The Mennonite Fellowship is commited to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Scrip-tures. They believe their primary allegiance to Christ and His king-dom is to develope their witness to the love of God, neighbor and enemy throughout the world. Since the students will be giv-ing meals for peace in conjunction with the national peace fast spon-sored by the Viet Nam Moratorium, the Senate felt it would be good to send the money to a project who would not only use the money for peace, but to further the message of Christ too. The opportunity to help the search for peace is within our reach. The choice is our own. page 2 the CLARION Friday, April 10. 1970 Ingrown attitudes depict the college Next week, Monday through Wednesday, students will be presented with the opportunity of participating in a nation-wide fast for peace sponsored by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. Instead of sending the money collected to the general fund, however, we will be giving the meal refunds to the Menonites for relief work in Vietnam. The decision to participate was, in my opinion. a good move on the part of the students of the college. I was proud of Bethel when the senate passed the motion to sponsor the fast for those who were willing to participate; though I was a little disappointed that we did not decide to send our refunds to the general fund. Discussion which occurred on the subject after the passing of the bill, however, horrified me. There was under serious consideration the possibility of changing the bill so that the funds we collected would go to the Student Missionary Project. I have nothing against student missionaries, but I was apalled at the ingrown attitudes of students on this campus. Bethel students seem to have the general attitude that they and their causes are the only valid group wihin the sphere of the student world. As a collect the campus is as bad as an ingrown toenail. Citizens of the world today and Christians in particular and students even more paticularly, need to develop a self concept that includes something more than the world on their doorstep. We must not be so hesitant to help other people carry out their good ideas. Just because is wasn't our idea to begin with doesn't make it bad. The biggest part of this problem is the indifference or ignorance of what is happening in the world around us. God created the world for domination by man, but we as Christians cannot dominate if we are ignorant of what goes on in the world. As students our very survival today depends upon what we know about the world. A good place to start learning is with the symposiums presented on campus this month. . . . And you viewers from all 16 states will be able to watch as we endeavor to explore this gas bog which, during the 20th century—believe it or not—was actually a populated area known as "Cal-if-ornia." ebapet Pate5 by Pastor Maurice Lawson College Press Service Shupe analyzes Bethel objectivity, gives evaluation for improvement PERHAPS WE CAN COMPROMISE- T ENFORCE BUSSING- IF YOU PEOPLE AGREE ?O SIT NINE EYCK! Dean Virgil Olson will bring the message on Monday. On Tuesday, Bob Kraning, popular youth speak-er on the West Coast and director of teen activities at Forest Home Christian Conference Center, will speak. He will be on campus throughout the day to interview any who are interested in working at Forest Home during the summer. The campus pastor will bring another portrait of Jesus from the Gospel of Mark on Wednesday, with NEW music. On Thursday Eddie Thomas will give a concert-lecture. The Friday speaker will be announced at a later date. by Dave Shupe, former Student Association President I would like to give my evalu-ation of Bethel College, from my viewpoint as a senior anthropology major and (former) student body president. Such an evaluation might have two approaches: the person — how Bethel has influ-enced me — and an objective an-alysis of the institution. Personally, I am quite satisfied with my time at Bethel. I have gained a social awareness, an en-joyment for learning, training in analysis of problems, and a more refined faith in the person of Christ. I have certainly changed in four years and am very grateful for those (professors and friends) who have contributed to my educa-tion. Admittedly, there are times when I speculate on what I should have learned but did not, which brings me to the second approach, the analysis of the three principal aspects of the institution. (Qualifications to my analysis: 1) I realize that Bethel's negative aspects are more easily seen from my present viewpoint — emphasis on the positive aspects requiring time, distance, and a selective memory — though this does not invalidate my present view of Bethel's problems, and 2) that if I compare Bethel to an ideal rath-er than to institutions with more problems and less freedom I mere-ly reflect my hope for improve-ment.) Social aspect: Perhaps it is a misconception to think that at one time in the near past, one could easily predict some characteris-tics of a Bethel student, but cer-tainly the student body is not now as homogeneous as it has been pre-viously. However, there still seems to be a current image (both pub-lic image and self-image) of the "representative" Bethel students. But such an image is false. With the exception of a spiritual com-mitment, there is no characteristic commen to (even) a majority of Bethel students. One does not need the CLARION Published weekly during the academic year, except during vacation and exami-nation periods, by the students of Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription rate $4 per year. Editor in chief Pat Faxon News Editor Marg Erickson to consider just the "extremes" to see our social diversity, though this diversity is not in principle accepted. The unaccepted diversity, coupled with an assumed but false central image, perhaps can account for the fragmentation of social life, the occasional polarization of attitudes and the lack of school spirit found at Bethel. That is, the image, though false (non-existent), still has influence and keeps us from treating each other with the "unconditional positive regard" that we need to accept each other in our diversity. (The Bethel melt-ing pot is not providing for cult-ural pluralism. Spiritual aspect: Often the term is not used in a social meaning, but a spiritual one, assuming that there is a central characteristic for the institution's spiritual envi-ronment. But the emphasis — pietism, the integration of faith and knowledge, social concern, doc-trinal correctness — are charac-teristic only of segments of the college community. Do we again have a false central image of a "typical evangelical Christian" — (the evangelical tradition expect-ing doctrinal consensus)? If our center be the person of Jesus Christ, the Incarnation, our em-phasis lacks a sense of vitality or "celebration". (Perhaps this ex-plains the seeming consensus that chapel is presently quite uninter-esting.) But, again the diversity is repressed by the false image. Academic aspect: The model of unaccepted diversity around an assumed but false norm is partic-ularly applicable to the academic life of Bethel. Like nearly all other educational institutions, we have an educational philosophy and system wherein the natural students are compared to a norm, through the grading system (and through that, to each other) and are thereby forced to fit their be-havior to that norm (the average student). Everyone goes as far as, but no further than the teacher. On the contrary, I believe ed-ucation to be essentially non- Feature Editor Cindy Rostollan Fine Arts Editor Marjorie Rusche Sports Editor Tim Weko Layout Editor Lynn Hansen Copy Editor Anne Dalton Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle, Tom Ford, Dave Greener, Jan U Ilberg, Jan Urspringer, Wibby Smith, Ron Roper competitive and non-comparative. Such a non-competitive atmos-phere would grant to the student a type of academic freedom which he presently does not have, would both students and disciplines, and would perhaps encourage a new sense of academic vitality. I see, however, a basic lack of trust in the student by the facul-ty in their classes, and by the ad-ministration in student govern-ment. Rarely are we expected to graple with concepts that force our intellectual boundries to their limits. It is not the difficulty of the material which causes failure in college, but the presure of the pedagogy. The successful can stretch to fit the Procrustean system, they master the pedagogy, not necessarily the material. (One "learns how to study, and how to take a test".) Too often this re-sults in a non-functional educat-ion, which limits our ability to penetrate our society, particular-ly the society of our future. In each area then, the model seems to explain the phenomena. We have an unaccepted diversity (differences in social attitudes, spiritual emphasis, and academic interests and abilities) around an assumed but false central image (the typical Bethelite, Christian, and student), the latter, neverthe-less, harmfully influencing the former. If the model is true to the data, the solution to many of our prob-lems would be in 1)identifying a true, rather than a false, concept around which we move, and in doing that, 2) accepting the prin-ciple of diversity (cultural plural-ism). Socially, we would continue to attempt to lower the barriers we have set between us. Spirit-ually, we would encourage the expressions of faith (in chapel) of all types of Christian students. Academically, we would commit ourselves to a curriculum change radical enough to change not only our techniques and structure, but our entire philosophy of educa-tion. Proofreader Sharon Watson Circulation Manager Joey Healy Business Manager Warren Magnuson Photographer Phil Humbert Technical Advisor Mark Olson Advisor Jon Fagerson Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not necessarily reflect the position of the college or seminary. the CLARION Page 3 The Vietnam Moratorium Com-ments of a Peace Fast on April 13-15 which will be largely focus-ed on college and university cam-puses. The endorsements include more than 212 student body pres-idents and campus newspaper ed-itors along with prominent Amer-icans, such as Julian Bond, Ram-sey Clark, Jane Fonda, Rabbi Ab-raham J. Heschel, Senator Harold Hughes, Mayor John Lindsay, and Senator Eugene McCarthy. David Hawk, a co-oordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Commit-tee, explained the purpose of the Fast: "We will fast for peace dur-ing April 13-15 for two reasons. The first is to demonstrate our moral opposition to the continuing and expanding war. The second reason is directly related to the April 15th Tax Payer Rallies. Because the government spends $201 million a day on war and the weapons of war, we are asking people not to eat for three days and to send the money saved while not eating to aid the victims of the war. Proceeds from the Peace Fast Fund will go to the American Friends Service Committee Viet nam Relief Program, the National Welfare Rights Organization, and the United Farm Workers of Amer-ica. The Fast represents our com-mitment to improve the quality of our common life and to allev-iate human suffering." Hawk in-dicated that the Fast will focus on campuses and among groups of religious people. He explained that many students are making arrang-ements with university food serv-ices to turn over money saved by not eating to the Moratorium for distribution to the Vietnam relief agency and poverty groups. He also mentioned that fasting students in some places intended to come to dining halls at meal time to dramatize the Fast. The Moratorium is also organ-izing the Tax Payer Rallies on April 15 in more than 30 cities across the nation. Sam Brown, a co-oordinator of the committee discussed the Committee's plans: "On April 15th across the coun-try, people will once again halt `business as usual' to speak to their countrymen and to their President. They will talk about Vietnam, about the broadening and about the economic crisis brought about by the spending for the war and the Pentagon." Brown underscored the primary focus of the activities in a dis-cussion of the strike of postal continued on page 6 continued from page 1 On an individual level, Elseth observed that he didn't think that Bethel should expect students to pay such high costs. He did not mention any specific proposals or plans for lowering student costs. Bethel should try to completely move out to the new campus as soon as possible, Elseth felt. Delay only means increased costs — a-bout a million extra a year. He noted that the quality of construc-tion in the New Dorm was basic-ally poor. As far as New Campus housing in general, Elseth stated that students should not have to live in campus housing if they didn't want to. The administration should consult students in New Campus planning instead of erect-ing buildings that are unsuited to student needs. Elseth offered no plans as to how students could have an effective, active voice in determining the kind of dwelling that they and hopefully future stu-dents will be living in. Elseth supports recruiting min-ority students for Bethel's campus. "We shouldn't do it just so we can smugly say we have minority stu-dents. We can contribute to each other as people. Education means diversity, different types of people, different backgrounds." He had not Friday, April 10. 1970 as yet drawn up plans or devel-oped a strategy as to how students could encourage the administra-tion and insure minority group recruitment. "Interim was a good thing. I liked the flexibility of courses and the relaxed atmosphere." Elseth stated in reference to educational reform. "I have an intense hatred for grades. Students should have something to motivate them be-sides grades. We should learn be-cause we want to learn. Education should not be a competitive effort, but a co-operative effort." Elseth would like to see stu-dents help structure their own courses. "We're paying for our ed-ucation," he said. "We should get something in the classroom rele-vant to what we want to learn." Better transportation services— such as to athletic events and air-ports; student involvement in off-campus activities, and increased social activities on campus are the goals that Elseth has set for stu-dent government next year. "Beth-el doesn't get any big name groups at all," Elseth stated. "We could provide some kind of cultural ser-ies that would appeal to everyone's taste and include anything from a symphony to rock music." The campus co-ordinator, a pos-ition newly created by the Sen-ate this year, is in charge of co-ordinating all the social and cult-ural events on campus. He also re-ceives $1,300 per year. The co-ordinator is appointed by Elseth and approved by the Senate. Elseth plans to work closely with the campus co-ordinator. Elseth views a main part of his job as student association presi-dent as working with student-facul-ty committees and improving stu-dent- faculty relations on campus. When asked how he would accom-plish this, Elseth replied that he didn't think it was something that could be structured. At present, Elseth has no plans for giving a state of the association address giving his view of where Bethel's students are at now, what goals he would like to see the stu-dent association accomplish, and how to get from where we are to where we should be. as was done last year by former student associ-ation president Dave Shupe. When reflecting on how he thought being student association president would affect him per-sonally, Elseth stated, "I really don't know how it will affect me. It will probably make me more a-ware of the things that are going on at Bethel." Moratorium Committee sponsors college peace fast Elden Elseth feels weak points of to clemonstrate against war Bethel are problems of equality New dorm is the good, bad, and the ugly One of the New Dorm's assets is its quite, park- New Dorm lounge areas combine both "the good" Seams in hallway carpeting are beginning to like setting. and "the bad" with a place for all residents to meet, separate. and . . . interact . . . with each other. by Dave Greener THE GOOD It is located in Arden's Hills, three and one-half miles beyond "The Last Frontier." It is situated by hills and trees, a tiny creek and a nearby lake. It is known as New Dorm and it is the beginning of a new Bethel. The 120 residents ride the bus between the two campuses to-gether. They have socials and open houses. They might see each other more often than if they lived in separate dorms. "It's like our own little family out here," says one female resident and another feels that in this co-ed dorm there is "a sense of unity" and a "bond." A co-ed dorm such as New Dorm can expand social horizons. "It provides easy access to interac-tion," says one male resident, "if you want it." Another guy likes the idea of getting to know other kids and feels its easier to meet girls because its co-ed. One girl believes that with this co-ed dorm she gets to know guys in a brother-ly sense, instead of as dating or marriage partners." But besides the people who live in the dorm, there is the dorm it-self and its surroundings. "I can't believe how quiet it is out here," says one girl resident. "The facilities of the building are really good," says a male resident. Perhaps most significant of these would be the three levels of loung-es separating the two wings. There are also two "recreation" rooms that include kitchen and laundry facilities as well as a television and a ping pong table. Resident's rooms are carpeted and at least one co-ed likes the size of her room, the big closet, the mirror, the bulletin board. Other people enjoy suite living. There are study rooms on four of the wing-floors. Some students appreciate New Dorm's location and atmosphere. One guy terms it a "park-like set-ting," another finds it "nice being removed in the country." For some the daily return to the dorm may be a change of pace and place from the other campus. THE BAD But not all at the New Dorm is "roses." Among other things, there is no food service, the parking lot is not paved or lighted and the recreation rooms have been lacking in suitable furniture. Futhermore, bus service is sometimes a prob-lem. Currently New Dorm students eat meals on the main campus. If they are through with classes in mid-afternoon, for example, they must stay and wait for supper or if they go back to the dorm, they must make an extra trip. Food service in the new semi-nary dining hall had been hoped for this year and had even been promised, through departmental slip-up, to start last March 1. It was discovered, however, that health regulations would necessi-tate using a sanitized van for trans-portation of food from the old campus. This "monkey wrench" at least brought about such compen-sations as another bus run at sup-per and a few more "special meals" at the dorm (the rules permit oc-casional, not regular, food trans-port with the present vehicles). But New Campus food service (at least for suppers—an arrangement might be made for lunch) will come only in an uncertain future. Another "problem" matter is the parking lot. Unpaved, it is in a temporary location. Unpaved it has sand, dirt, and clay that gets wet during snow-melting and rain-fall. This can get onto people's shoes and tracked onto the carpet-ing in the dorm. Futhermore, the parking lot is unlighted—a light might be a deterrent to burglary. Another item is the lack of "com-fortable" furniture in the "recrea-tion" rooms. When first designed, their function was unclear. Most of the furnished chairs were and are comparatively uncomforaoble. Residents await something better and in the meantime are even buy-ing some used furniture to com-pensate. (It might be noted that while the furniture in the lounge area may be more comfortable, it is not always sturdy.) It is things like the parking lot and the furniture situation that give rise to the idea, as expressed by one resident, that the adminis-tration treats things at the New Dorm as temporary, "they never want to do anything out here." For their part, the administration would question the value of spending a few thousand dollars for surfacing a parking lot that will be moved, and $800 to $1000 for the lighting. As for furniture, thus far they have apparently fol-lowed other priorities. In general, various programs have been planned (such as the commons area that was hopefully to have been built onto the dorm this year), but as Dean Muck points out, the phrase "when funds are available" accompanies them. Mo-ney then is a problem for everyone. Bus service is sometimes another "problem." The chief faults have been when buses sometimes are late or don't run at all. For his part, Tom Molin, student bus ad-ministrator, has shown a willing-ness to be flexible on scheduling. THE UGLY Don Rainbow woke up early that morning and so did others. The house parent's first drowsy reac-tion to that brief, yelling-running raid by Edgrenites last month was that the New Dorm was collapsing and people were trying to get out. On the other side of the dorm from Mr. and Mrs. Rainbow lives housemother Mom Sargent. While in their apartment, she and her daughter can sometimes hear tiles falling off the walls of their bath-room. Students first moved into the New Dorm less than two years ago and construction problems have been in evidence to them and others ever since. The stairs are wooden, a person can tell that by simply walking down them (as one student per-haps somewhat exaggeratingly phrased it, "When you come down the stairs, you think you're going to fall through." The wooden floors are not al-ways level—warping has occurred. The dorm is carpeted but the car-continued on page 4 2220 EDGERTON STREET AT HWY 36 ST. PAUL. MINN 55117 J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor C. Bruce Anderson, Asst. Pastor BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:49 P.M. Page 4 the CLARION Friday, April 10. 1970 U.S. cited most overpopulated New Dorm's economical construction in Kentucky Prof's comparison `more money to be spent in repairs' wit.k India's ability to support life continued from page 3 peting is wearing (on the stairs) and the seams are beginning to disconnect in some hall areas. Several floor tiles have come up in the boy's washroom (they have now been glued back) and three doorstops have been pushed through walls (why not? They lacked adequate backing.) Foot-long cracks long ago appeared on some walls when the building be-gan to settle and there have been instances of localized over-heating and one case where condensation from a pipe caused water to ap-pear on the floor of a carpeted room. Why did these problems ever arise? Answers can be found in the by Anne Dalton People, power, pollution and natural resources are the topics that will be dealt with at the 24th Regional Meeting of the North Central Section of the American Scientific Affiliation. The meeting will be held Saturday, April 11 at the Arden Hills Campus of Bethel Theological Seminary. The conference is entitled, The Tragedy of the Commons, or Christian Responsibility and The Enviromental Crisis. Dr. Donald Larson of Bethel's Social Science Department will introduce the ses-sion by reviewing Garrett Hardin's paper entitled "The Tragedy of the Commons", which was pub-lished in 1968 in Science. This will provide a background for all the discussion groups. Following the introduction a Symposium will be held with a member of each discussion group giving a brief 10 minute presenta-tion. Dealing with the topic of People will be Dr. V. Elving An-derson of the University of Min-nesota. Dr. Kenneth Whitby, also of the University, will concern him-self with Power. Floyd Forsberg of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Russell Johnson of Bethel College will deal with Pol-lution and Natural Resources. Following the Symposium the participants will break into small groups for discussion. The basis of discussion in each group will be man's lack of knowledge concern-ing his own contribution to the problems of overpopulation, pollu-tion and the depletion of natural resources. Man therefore turns to outward sources for solutions to his problems rather than looking to himself. history of the dorm. The dorm was the gift of an anonymous donor who stipulated, among other things, that it be con-structed by the end of 1968 and that it contain space for 120 stu-dents. The offer, of course, was unanticipated. Bethel had plan-ned on constructing some of the academic complexes first. The gift was accepted. Original architect plans had to be drawn. Because of the time factor, plan-ning could not be lengthly. Even with the gift of $500,000 finances were limited (besides the stipula-tions of the donor, the costs of excavations and bringing in a gas and water source were of course incurred) and Bethel, at the time could not add much to them. More- Each one of the discussion groups will focus attention on one of the four areas presented in the Symposium. The resource people in each group will include 1) the group discussion leader 2) a spec-ialist (the Symposium speakers) 3) a pastor or theologian 4) a grad-uate student. All of these have given some previous attention to the subject matter. The groups are entitled: Group I—"People" — The Pop-ulation Crisis and Po-tential World Starva-tion. Leader: Robert Bohon, Senior Chemist, 3M Company, St. Paul Group II—"Power" — Electrical Power Generation and Ecological Balanc e. Leader: Robert Carl-son, Department of Physical Sciences, Be-thel College Group III—"Pollution" — An Ef-fluent Society, t h e High Price of Technol-ogical Progress. Lead-er: Oscar M. Lund. De-partment of Agricul-ture, Economics, Univ-ersity of Minnesota Group IV—"Natural Resources"— Preservation or Deple-tion of Natural En-dowments. Leader: James Nordstrom, De-partment of Animal Science, University of Minnesota Following the discussion groups the entire body will reconvene and each group leader will present a brief summary of his group's dis-cussion. The cost of the day is $1.00 ($.50 over, the dorm was a pilot pro-gram; also, within the budget there was some experimentation. The New Dorm was built, ergo almost had to be built, economi-cally. And the results were eco-nomical. As one resident comment-ed "It was rather tragic that it was put together in such a poor manner . . " and went on to point out that more money will be spent in the present structure plus re-pairs than a more adequately con-structed original building. At least, perhaps, things can be learned from the pilot project. Glen Hayne, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, is well aware of construction problems and they are being considered in the planning of the new campus. and one half carpet on stair-worn. for students) which covers the cost of arrangements and publicity. The schedule of the day is: 12:00 Registration 1:00 Welcome and Invocation 1:10 Introduction by Dr. Larson 1:30 Symposium 2:30 Small Group Discussion 3:30 Coffee Break 4:00 Panel — Discussion Sum-maries and Conclusions 4:30 Business Meeting The sponsoring American Scien-tific Affiliation, Inc. is an organiz-ation of evangelical Christians who are trained in biological, physical, and social sciences. Their purpose is to study the relationship be-tween science and Christianity. Students and faculty with ques-tions or desiring more information should see Dr. Don Larson, Robert Carlson, Russell Johnson or Dr. Arthur Lewis. DIAMONDS Sought Cautiously . . Purchased Carefully. Result: An Excellent Investment. Your BankAmericard Weltome Here EMERSON'S JEWELRY A TRUSTED JEWELER IS YOUR BEST ADVISOR 1548 W. Larponteur 646-4114 by Wayne H. Davis, Professor of biology, University of Kentucky (CPS) — The Uuited States is the most seriously overpopulated nation in the world today. I define as most seriously overpopulated that nation whose people by virtue of their numbers and activities are most rapidly decreasing the ability of the land to support hu-man life. Compare the U.S. to India, for example. We have 203 million people and they have 540 million on much less land. But let's look at the impact of people on the land. The average Indian eats a few cups of rice a day, draws a bucket of water from the communal well and sleeps in a mud hut. In his daily rounds to gather dried cow dung to cook his rice he has a rather small impact on his environ-ment. He does not clamor for highways. jet-ports, and steel mils. An American on the other hand. will destroy a piece of land on which he will build a house, gar-age and driveway. His employer will destroy a piece of land to provide him a parking space as will the developer of his shopping center. The government will pro-vide a road to his house and a piece of ground on which to dump his daily eight pounds of garbage. With 38 times the per capita GNP of the Indian, our citizen's demand for the latest fashion will cause cotton farmers to kill the southern streams with endrin, his demand for power will cause the miners to kill streams with silt and acids and his (manufacturer-induced) demand for steel to re-place last year's auto will cause U.S. Steel Corp. to kill the Great Lakes by increasing the daily e-quivalent of 130,000 junked autos Life says it dumps into Lake Mich-igan. And in hundreds of ways he will contribute to the pollution of our oceans causing the final death of our fisheries which the Com-mercial Fisheries Review for Oct-ober, 1969, described as a "nation-al problem" and a trend which has "become precipitous in the past seven years." To supply him with his 26,000,000 gallons of water to pollute in his life-time, we will build a reservoir and flood the farmland. He will contribute his share to the annual 142 million tons of smoke and fumes which killed the spinach in-dustry in southern California, are killing forest trees and decreasing the amount of sunlight reaching our land. He will contribute his share to the annual load of seven million junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 billion cans, 26 bil-lion bottles, and a rapidly increas-ing number of plastic Chlorox and antifreeze containers our environ-ment is expeceted to absorb each year. He will poison the land with the lead, nickel and boron from the 21,000 gallons of gasoline he will use in his lifetime. He wil eat 10,000 pounds of meat. To supply this demand. cattle will eat plants on western range land and the nutrient minerals are pas-sed to our friend who flushes them down the toilet and into the ocean. This life pattern, unknown in the erosion and lowering of the water table by pumping out ground water for irrigation and city and indust-rial use, to hasten the destruction of our land's capacity to support people. Because the American is far more destructive of his land than citizens of other overpopulated lands are to theirs, I want to in-troduce a new term which I sug-gest be used in all future discus-sions of problems of human pop-ulations and ecology. We should speak of our numbers in "Indian equivalents" or IE. An IE I define as the average number of Indian citizens required to have the same detrimental effect on the land's ability to support human life as would the average American. This value is hard to determine. I take a conservative working estimate of 25. My Indian friends say this is much too low. One person sug-gested to me 500 as more realistic. But let's use 25 as our IE. In terms of IE, then, the popu-lation of the U.S. is over four bil-lion. And the rate of growth is even more alarming. We have by far the most serious population growth problem in the world. We are growing at one percent per year. a rate which would double our numbers in 70 years. India is growing at 2.5 percent. Using the IE of 25, our growth rate would be 10 times as serious as India's if our people had their life expect-ancy of 35 years. With our ex-pectancy of 70 years, our growth problem becomes 20 times as ser-ious. But this cannot be true you say. I am playing with statistics. You are right. I am assuming 70 years life for today's baby at today's level of affluence, and such an assumption is absurd. If we con-tinue population growth or rape of the resources, or both, IE will drop so drastically that by the year 2000 we may think the aver-age Indian is fortunate. So we should not worry about the hungry nations. The tragedy facing the U.S. is greater and more imminent than theirs. India will be there after the U.S. is gone. She will have colossal famines, but the land will survive and she will come back as she always has be-fore. Our citizens vary tremendously in IE. If we plot IE vs. its recip-rocal (the percentage of land sur-viving a generation), we obtain a linear regression. Now if we place occupation types on this graph we would find the starving Blacks of Mississippi on one end. They would approach unity in IE and would be least destructive to the land. At the other end of the graph would be the politicians slicing pork for the barrel, highway contractors, real estate developers and public enemy number one — the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. So, blessed be the starving Blacks of Mississippi with their outdoor privies, for they are ecologically sound, and they shall inherit the nation. Young people who are working with these folks in hopes of saving the nation are working on the wrong end of the graph. One doorstop that really worked! After a year ways is already ASA Conference at Arden Hills focuses on environment issues SURPRISE! You'll be surprised when you claim the re-ward . . . a pleasant meal at the Arden Inn. Come soon. ARDEN INN N. Snelling and Co. Rd. B. OPEN: Sundays noon to 9 p.m. Daily 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., 5-9 p.m. Closed Mondays. MI 4 - 2847 by Steve Duininck Everyone must learn to be submissive to elders, laws, and the majori-ty rule. This is the natural order of life until the harmony is broken by an overload of power which leads to injustice and rebellion. Likewise most of the material dispensed at Bethel is digested quietly due to our former training in the submissive field. But something has burdened the otherwise well proportioned system and has promoted re-bellion. To make myself clear I will simply say that the administration has taken advantage of the respectable students and imposed on him a tuitional load for exceeding a just capacity! The reason for the shift of weight lies in the student body as a func-tional force. The Christian students were well trained in the art of lying down to people of higher rank since it is a Christian virtue to be a peace-maker. But what most fail to see is the sin of fogging the students to steal their money. To solve the problem someone mentioned the balance of operating cost between the college and Seminary but no movements have been made. The campaigns used it to win moves to become another cog in our useless government. Time is spent in the senate rolling censored bills up blocked alleys. So things must be done outside of senate and include all sensible students. We pay less per year than Macalester students by 350 dollars and less than Hamline students by about the same, yet our facilities fall so short that a comparison is impossible. One excuse that we are given is that we have a college coming up out somewhere in Arden Hills. As long as I lived there I only saw barren hills and a lot of frustrated dreams. This procrastination of the truth can no longer be accepted and we students must move now. We must talk among each other. We must back our student leaders with our personal views, talk with the administration and ask them who we pay and sup-port and why. Students must come to the realization that this is our school not the president's or the Dean's or our daddy's but ours. We pay, we learn and I hope we unite. Friday, April 10. 1970 The Black Symposium held at Bethel next week will approach the concept of blackness from a personal and cultural viewpoint. Jerry Jenfa, a junior from Ni-geria, will be the featured speak-er next Wed., April 15 in chapel. He will talk on his feelings and attitudes towards Bethel and how he relates to Bethel. Edward Thomas, former Bethel music professor and resident art-ist, speaks next Thursday in chap- Edward Thomas, Bethel Music Professor (on Sabbatical this year) and resident artist, will be speaking in Chapel on Thurs-day and will be giving a recital Thursday evening at 8. the CLARION Page 5 Guy Wuellner to give piano recital tonight Mr. Guy Wuellner, concert pian-ist and professor of piano at Drake Univerity, will present a recital at Bethel College on Friday evening, April 10 at 8 p.m. This is Wuell-ner's second appearance as a re-citalist at Bethel Colllege. Guy Wuellner has participated in the Master classes of Paul Ba-dura- Skoda, Jorg Demus, and Al-fred Brendal at the Internationales Kulturzentrum in Vienna, and in Master classes at Fontainebleau in France under Rafeal Pupana and Robert Casadesus. In addition to the evening re-cital, Wuellner will be teaching a piano workshop at 12:30 to 2:30. Both the workshop and the re-cital will be held in the fieldhouse. There will be no admission charge for either the workshop or the recital. el. He will explain what's happen-ing in relation to blacks and clas-sical music; more specifically a-bout the organization of which he is executive director, the AAMOA (Afro-American Music Opportun-ities Association, Inc.) That evening at 8, Ed Thomas and Mr. John Patton will present a lecture-recital on the history of Black music covering everything from classical to jazz music. Thomas, Jenfa share in black symposium here j-Sooti Planetary generation gap will force cultural change by Marjorie M. Rusche Margaret Mead, a noted anthro-pologist and dubbed a "dirty old women" by a hostile U.S. Senator, has recently (copyright 1970) auth-ored a book, Culture and Commit-ment, which is a study of the generation gap that is "right on". There has always been conflict between generations. However, Mead maintains that the scope of today's generation gap is world-wide. She uses three models of inter-generational behavior to clar-ify her analysis. These are post-figurative, cofigurative, and pre-figurative cultures. Postfigurative cultures Mead i-dentifies as those where children learn appropriate behavior from their forebears (parents or grand-parents). "Change is so slow and imperceptible that grandparents, holding newborn grandchildren in their arms, cannot conceive of any other future for the children than their own past lives. The past of the adults is the future of each new generation; their lives provide the ground plan. The chil-dren's future is shaped in such a way that what has come after child-hood for their forebears is what they, too, will experience after they are grown." Thus, there is no break between the experience of the old and the experience of the young. Postfigurative cultures ex-isted up to the beginning of civ-ilization. In cofigurative cultures the in-dividual's behavior is modeled af-ter that of his peers. Elders still maintain authority, but it is mod-ified by peer group pressure. "Where cofiguration among age mates has become institutionalized throughout the culture, one finds the phenomenon of youth culture or "teen-age" culture; age strat-ification, encouraged by the school system, becomes increasingly im-portant." This model became prevalent in the U.S. around the beginning of the 20th century. The model — which Mead feels is currently the model for behavior on an inter-national scale — also exists where ethnic groups are forced to move into different cultures for various reasons and lose their sense of continuity; or where the state ac-quires and institutionally delegates former parental authority (in post-figurative cultures) for the child's socialization. (Schools are one ex-ample.) Just as the old postfigurative cultures broke down and reformed as cofigurative ones due to tech-nological advance and increased complexity of society; Mead feels the present cofigurative culture pattern is disintegrating and a new model is taking shape — prefig-uration. In prefigurative cultures, the youth reject the older generation's life style or behavior models and create their own based on their unique experience. "Even very re-cently the elders could say: You know, I have been young and you have never been old. But today's youth can reply: You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." The elders, then, ideally look to the generation of youth for guide-lines to behavior; for the youth are more experienced and know-ledgeable about what is going on at the current time. Mead feels that today's inter-nationally dissident and activist youth are leading into the pre-figurative culture form. What con-ditions have brought about an in-ternational youth revolt? Today there is a world community with shared knowledge, change, and in-stant communication. The world keeps on getting smaller through world-wide travel and communica-tion. Today's youth are more aware of world-wide problems and pos-sibilities. We are still reaping results of the scientific revolution that start-ed in the 19th century; such as computers, increased development of food resources so that it is now technically (but apparently not politically) possible for every-one on this planet to have a satis-fying life in material terms. "Youth live in a world in which events are presented to them in all their complex immediacy; they are no longer bound by the simplified linear sequences dictated by the printed word. In their eyes the killing of an enemy is not quali-tatively different from the murder of a neighbor. They cannot recon-cile our efforts to save our own children by every known means with our readiness to detroy the children of others with napalm. Old distinctions between peace-time and wartime, friend and foe, "my" group and "theirs" — the outsiders, the aliens — have lost their meaning. They know that the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children." "Today, all the people of the world are part of one electronic-ally based, intercommunicating network, young people everywhere share a kind of experience that none of the elders ever have had or will have. Conversely, the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal." Mead feels that children today face a future that is so deeply un-known (unlike the assumed pre-dictability of conditions under the postfigurative and cofigurative mo-dels) that the new prefigurative model is needed. Adults have to realilze that they cannot use the values and experi-ence of their own youth to under-stand the youth of today. "We must create new models for adults who can teach their children not what to learn, but how to learn; and not what they should be corn-mitted to, but the value of com-mitment." What is necessary be-tween the generations is co-opera tion, not coercion. Culture and commitment. What is needed to bridge the generation gap is a culture that both gener-ations can honestly be committed to. But this cannot happen when two fundamentally different value systems and philosophical prem-ises underlie the two cultures. So we currently have such symbolic incidents as Abbie Hoffman's wife, Anita, retreating with Abbie from the courtroom shouting to Judge Julius Hoffman, "We'll dance on your grave!" Whatever you think of today's youth, the generation gap, anthro-pologists, or dirty old women who try smoking marijuana, Margaret Mead's latest book offers one of those things called a "viable al-ternative" for the nitty gritty prob-lem of alienation between the gen-erations. Culture and Commitment is engaging and intriguing read-ing. It's well worth taking time to read the book. Vededefen Votede eketc4 Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m. Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m. Pastor—Robert Featherstone Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam Glasses Contact Lenses ELWOOD CARLSON Optician 272 Lowry Medical Arts 227-7818 St. Paul, Minn. 55102 Page 6 the CLARION Friday, April 10. 1970 The Column by Tim Weko I sure hated to see Easter vacation come to an end, especially now that the weather is finally starting to come around. But look at it this way—there are only about 15 Monday-Wednesday-Friday's left. The kite fliers and the guys and girls dotting the lawn to catch the sunshine indi-cate spring fever in its worst form. This is when everyone starts cutting classes in order to prepare his body for the summer tanning season. What this all means, though, is that in a week or so we should start hearing rumors about some upcoming inter-dorm water fight and/or panty raid, for the not-too sophisticated. Last one in is a "dirty rotten egg." This also seems to be the time of year for playoffs of one sort or another. The NBA (National Basketball Association, for the unenlight-ened) is currently involved in its semifinal round. Of course the Mil-waukee Bucks will win it all, I hope. Also the National Hockey League has begun its Stanley Cup tournament, and Minnesota's own North Stars are involved by virtue of a 3rd place finish in its division. If anyone is wondering about the strength of the Western division let it suffice to say that it can't be too tough if the North Stars could lose about 50 games in a row this winter and still finish third. The Eastern division playoffs will probably decide this year's Stanley Cup champion since all the East will have to do is show up to beat the Western repre-sentative. Bethel also has a number of playoffs starting now too. These are the intramural battles including wrestling, coed doubles badminton, various forms of handball. and pingpong. Although intramural teams still collect points for the over all championship from these matches, these are the more individual of Bet1-.e1 intramurals. So far the most interesting event seems to be in the heavyweight division where Dr. James Rodgers reigns unchallenged. It would prove quite interesting to watch Rodgers wrestle, particularly after watching and listening to him during the now finished intramural basketball sea-son. So far Rodgers has no challengers and if this continues he should be able to win by forfeit without too much difficulty. The baseball team, at least a major part of it, stayed here during the vacation and practiced in the fieldhouse. Things were going real well, and the players seem to be optimistic about the season's prospects. Mean-while, the track team was down in Missouri for it's annual Easter track trip. It was termed successful by a number of people. Good luck to both teams. Ladies' basketball team ends successful season Cindermen meet St. Olaf after Missouri S. Dakota Bethel women wrapped up a winning season in pre-Easter play against Eau Claire State University with a 50-46 win. Their record stands at 6 wins and 4 losses. Bethel scored 406 points to their opponents' 391. The team also participated in a basketball tourney at the Univ-ersity of Minnesota where they pulled through with a 2-1 recard. By far the most exciting game of the tourney was the game with the University's "B" team. Barb Elliot won the game for Bethel when she A group of 45 Bethel students were greeted by sun and sand, sea and surf and 100,000 fellow col-legians as they arrived on the famed Daytona Beach, Florida. The group left the Bethel cam-pus on Friday, March 27, in a car-avan of five cars, picked up anoth-er earful in Chicago and met the remaining three carsful in Florida on Saturday evening. As the Bethelites checked in at Daytona they became a part of approximately 2,000 other students participating in a plan called "Operation Sunshine." This group of 2,000 were sharing Jesus Christ on the beaches under the direction of Campus Crusade for Christ. Crusade had scheduled for the Operation Sunshine as a time of spiritual growth and encourage-ment for the tasks they were fac-ing both on the beaches and back on their respective campuses. The speakers included Joshua McDowell, Campus Crusade for Christ staff international; Rev. Peter Lord, pastor of First Baptist sunk a free throw with no time left on the clock. Bethel also de-feated St. Cloud's "B" team, after losing to their "A" team. Scoring honors went to Linda Schmid who had 145 points for the season. Sharon Johnson followed with 127. Karla Ask captured the free throw honors with a 100 per cent free throw percentage. With a winning season behind them and with a majority of re-turning players, the women's bas-ketball team is looking ahead to a good season next year. Church, Titusville, Florida; Dave Perry, student at Asbury College in Kentucky; and Andre Kole, a famed magician and an expert in the area of extra-sensory percep-tion. The sharing done by the Crusade personnel known on the beaches as the God Squad was done on a one-to-one basis with over 2,000 decisions made during the two week operation campaign. The Armegeddon, a band group of Christians, played several concerts open to everyone. At the close of these concerts Crusade workers were available to share with those present who were not acquainted personally with Jesus Christ. All of the Bethel people ex-pressed that they had experienced a real time of renewal in their own personal lives. As Dale Saxon, Director of Christian Service, pointed out, "We don't want this Operation Sunshine experience to become a "mountaintop experi-ence" but instead we want it to become a new plateau of living in the Spirit. by Rich Zaderaka The Royals next track meet was uncertain at this writing because of the cancellation of the River Falls meet, but earlier in the week, Coach Gene Glader was trying to line up a spot in the St. Olaf In-vitational which hosts fifteen oth-er schools. During Easter break the Royal cindermen competed in two meets in Missouri and also in the South Dakota Invitational. Coach Glader summed up the spring trip as follows: "The trip was good not only because it was fun, but also because a trip like nat makes a team a team. Living and traveling with each other for a week helps an athlete really get to know his team mates and helps to create new friendships. We did- Bethel Royal golfers go into ac-tion April 13 against River Falls University of Wisconsin. The Roy-als have been practicing indoors for about a month and outdoors for one week and are looking for-ward to getting into the outdoor season at Como Park. Last year the Royals were 4-2 in dual matches and also were in-volved in two invitationals: they place thirteenth out of 19 teams at the Cougar Invitational and ninth of 12 teams at the Beaver Invitational. Just on the basis of won-lost, the season was fairly successful. This season Bethel will have eleven dual matches and be in-volved in three tournaments. This year they have entered the NALA District 13 Tournament, which Coach Maurice (Mo) Shields says they "should have been in years ago." Coach Sheilds sees this year primarily as a building year due to the addition of some good golf schools for better competition continued from page 3 employees. "While the government finds it possible and necessary to allocate millions each week to Vi-etnam , it finds itself unable to consider a significant and mean-ingful pay increase for these and other government employees. The spending for the war in Vietnam intensifies the problem of infla-dollars that are needed and deserv-ed for domestic purposes," he said. Hawk stressed the economic fo-cus of the April 15 rallies. He said, "The current inflationary spiral was set off by the escal-ation of the war, which caused defense spending to rise from $50 billion in 1965 to $80 billion in 1969. It is this spending that made real wages, in terms of buying power, decrease from 1965 to the present. We hope to begin on April 15th to make clear to the American public that the economic dislocation which punishes nearly everyone will not subside until the war is ended." Marge Sklencar, a co-oordinator of the Committee, is currently re-organizing the Moratorium's of-fices in Chicago and planning the activities for that city on April 15. She said, "The response to our plans in the midwest is tremend-ous. It shows that the middle Am-n't get as much conditioning out of this trip as we have in past ones because of the poor weather (one meet was cancelled.) But it was good to visit other schools. It's really worthwhile for athletic teams to travel and be able to share in worship services as we did." Bethel won the meet against Southwest Baptist of Bolivar, Mis-souri on the strength of three firsts by Fred Swedberg and a pair by Dave Pound. Swedberg won the shot put, discus and jav-elin. Pound won the 220 and 440. Other firsts were captured by Mark Anderson in the half mile, John Zylstra in the pole vault, Paul Youngquist in the two mile and Dave Solfelt in the triple coupled with the graduation of Jerry Loomis and Dave Anderson who had successful records dur-ing their careers. Coach Shields doesn't see anyone to replace them, however he stated that he did have "a good prospect in fresh-man Rich Borncamp" who played at Minnehaha Academy. Captain Steve Peterson heads the list of team members this year and he is looking forward to a good year after being the out-standing Bethel medalist of last year. Other top returners are sophomore Dale Finch, expected to be one of the top three golfers, senior Murray Sitte, and possibly Harley Hanson. Peterson and Sitte are lettermen. Rounding out the roster are Tom Anderson, Bob Elliot, Boeucamp, Dave Healy, Mark Pound, Jeff Swanson and Doug Weberg. Mike Forshier, a good golf prospect could have been helpful but is in-eligible because he transferred last semester from Whitewater State, Wisconsin. erican or the silent American is sick of high taxes and high prices. He is making connection between these problems and the war. The silent are beginning to speak out." Her statements were supported by a survey of the organization's nine regional offices showing a sizeable array of activities in what is generally considered "silent Am-erican country." These ranged from major rallies in Cleveland and Chicago. to leafletting cam-paigns in Denver, to canvassing for votes on an unofficial refer-endum in Madison, to a state-wide rally in Little Rock. David Mixner, the fourth co-coordinator of the Moratorium, scored the Nixon administration, particularly its current Southeast Asia policy. "At the very time polls reveal a decline in support for the Presiden's policies, the war in Southeast Asia is expanding," jump. The mile relay quartet of Craig Anderson, Rick Berggren, Phil James and Dave Pound also placed first. The meet score was Bethel 79, Southwest 65. On March 31, Bethel placed sec-ond in a triangular meet in Joplin, Missouri. Dave Pound, Fred Swed-berg, Pete Roemer and the mile relay nabbed firsts. Seconds were taken by Mark Anderson, Pound and Swedberg. Dan Mogck had a pair of seconds in the two hurdle events. In the USD Invitational Bethel ranked thirteenth of sixteen en-tries. Fred Swedberg placed fifth in the javelin with a throw of 174 feet 7 1/2 inches for the only team points. "On paper were not as strong as last year, but we've got a couple of teams that we added to fill in the holes," the coach said. The team could use fan support also. Shields said, "The crowds were not so big last year that the course couldn't hold a few more people." He added, "With a few breaks and a little luck we could have a good season." Golf Schedule April 13 River Falls April 14 Concordia (St. Paul) April 18 Lea April 20 Eau Claire April 22 Lea April 24 St. Paul Bible April 28 St. Thomas April 29 Stout State May 1 Hamline May 2 Cougar Invitational May 6 River Falls May 8 N..I.A. District May 12 Concordia (St. Paul) May 16 Beaver Invitational at Bemidji he said. He called Vietnamization "a disguise for expansion of our military involvement into Laos and, perhaps, Cambodia." He also remarked that he found present United States conduct in Laos "frighteningly reminiscent of the beginnings of massive involvement in Vietnam." NSA sponsors bargain booklet Coming out in the students Post Office Box this week is a S.O.B. Booklet, Students Own Bargains, which contains many items which students can buy at a savings. The venture is sponsored by NSA, the National Student Association. Sum-mer tours to Europe, magazines (i.e. Playboy at $8.50 per year), posters, cameras, and records are a few of the bargains which stud-ents can take advantage of. Bethelites soak up Florida sun refresh physically; spiritually Gophers think positively, start against River Falls Silent Americans speak; connect war with taxes 12,000 missionaries... ... from over 120 mission boards have received training at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. S.I.L. gives training in language learning, field methods, literacy, linguistics and linguistic principles. It's a summer session and gives 10 semester hours credit. Write for a free catalog and full information. P.S. Tell them you read about it in the school paper. Summer Institute of linguistics, Box 1960, Santa Ana, Calif. 92702
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Title | Clarion 1970-04-10 Vol 45 No 22 |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 45 No. 22 |
Date Published | April 10 1970 |
Decade | 1970 |
Academic Year | 1969 - 1970 |
Frequency | Weekly |
Article Titles | Incumbent Elseth views main job of president as motivating people; Shupe structures Symposiums to explore human rights issues, Today's seminar gives overview of ecology; Board reviews college relocation date proposes postponement of move to 1973; Senate arranges peace fast participation, meal refunds to aid relief work in Vietnam; Ingrown attitudes depict the college; Shupe analyzes Bethel objectivity, gives evaluation for improvement; Chapel Notes; Moratorium Committee sponsors college peace fast to demonstrate against war; New dorm is the good, bad, and the ugly; U.S. cited most overpopulated in Kentucky Prof's comparison with India's ability to support life; ASA Conference at Arden Hills focuses on environment issues; Protection for Pepperland; Thomas, Jenfa share in black symposium here; Guy Wuellner to give piano recital tonight; Book Review, Planetary generation gap will force cultural change; The Column; Ladies' basketball team ends successful season; Bethelites soak up Florida sun refresh physically, spiritually; Cindermen meet St. Olaf after Missouri S. Dakota; Gophers think positively, start against River Falls; |
Photographs | Elden Elseth, newly elected president of Bethel's Student Association.; Because of the change in the re-location date, (from 1971 to 1973), the New Dorm will stand alone, a while longer, on the Arden Hills Campus.; Cartoon : PERHAPS WE CAN COMPROMISE- I ENFORCE BUSSING- IF YOU PEOPLE AGREE TO SIT IN THE BACK!"; Cartoon :.. And you viewers from all 16 states will be able to watch as we endeavor to explore this gas bog which, during the 20th century—believe it or not—was actually a populated area known as "Cal-if-ornia."; One of the New Dorm's assets is its quite, park-like setting.; New Dorm lounge areas combine both "the good" and "the bad" with a place for all residents to meet, and... interact... with each other.; Seams in hallway carpeting are beginning to separate.; One doorstop that really worked!; After a year and one half carpet on stairways is already worn.; Edward Thomas, Bethel Music Professor (on Sabbatical this year) and resident artist, will be speaking in Chapel on Thursday and will be giving a recital Thursday evening at 8.; |
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Transcript | 11111111 II 1110 I ri Ei I EF. I II LP! I t Err - r I El - e.11‘1 if • Because of the change in the re-location date, (from 1971 to 1973), the New Dorm will stand alone, a while longer, on the Arden Hills Campus. •E Vol. XLV—No. 22 Bethel Col lege, St. Paul, Minnesota Fr iday, Apr il 10. 1970 1 "Pt* C n t Elseth views main job of president as motivating people Elden Elseth, newly elected president of Bethel's Student Association. by Marjorie M. Rusche Elden Elseth, newly elected stu-dent body president, views the main emphasis of his job as people-orientation. Says Elseth, "The big-gest part of my job is to motivate people to do things; to work with people, to observe people." Elseth is a transfer student and has previously attended Covenant Bible College in Canada and Whea-on College. Minnesota is his home state. He is a junior majoring in English and possibly Christianity. His future plans entail either go-ing to law school and entering pol-itics or going into the ministry. He has been involved in inter-collegiate debate and forensics and served at student body vice-pres-ident while at Covenant Bible Col-lege. This year, at Bethel, he has performed as a student senator. Bethel has a more relaxed atmos-phere than the other two colleges he attended according to Elseth. He feels that the closeness of people at Bethel is one of its strong points; this closeness is due to the notion that we all have Christianity in common. "The weak points of Bethel are problems of quality," Elseth stat-ed. "We just aren't putting out in some areas like we should be." This was a reference to the need for a beefed up athletic program, more social activities, and more cultural events. "One of Bethel's basic problems is financial," Elseth commented. "This exists on an institutional as well as individual level. Institu-tionally, Elseth ventured that the school had to increase its resources in some way — most likely through better public relations. "We need to make the Baptist General Con-ference aware that we deserve more of their support," he stated. "Or else, possibly we could build up our endowment funds through stock investment." continued on page 3 Shupe structures Symposiums to explore human rights issues Today's seminar gives overview of ecology The month of April will see an increase in paracollege activities on Bethel's campus. Each week, with the exception of the week of April 20-25, students will have the opportunity to involve and inform themselves on one of the contemp-orary and controversial issues fac-ing the American public. Ecology has become a nationally recognized problem. This after-noon there will be a two hour program in the Seminary Chapel dealing with Ecology. At 1:30, Dr. Donald Larson, pro-fessor of linguistics and anthro-pology, will be speaking on, the ecological balance that is needed around the globe. He believe:, that the Christian should tend his God-given environment in responsible ways. During the second hour (2:39- 3:30), films and (or) filmstrips will be used to give another view of the ecology problem. No classes will be formally dis-missed for the ecology seminar. However, faculty members will be sympathetic with those wishing to attend. Besides the issue of environ-ment, the seminars will also deal with Blacks — April 16,17; and American Indians— April 30, May 1. The idea for such a program was the brainchild of former Student Association Preident, Dave Shupe. According to Shupe the issues with which the three symposiums will deal could be thought of under the unifying topic of human rights. "Environment is, after all, a hu-man right," he stated. Shupe said he conceived of the idea after he had received notice that he was to head the Domestic Affairs section of the Evangelical Student Congress sponsored by the American Association of Evangel-ical Students, which will be held in Spring Arbor, Michigan, April 28th through May 2. "I thought it might in some way help Bethel's representatives to the Congress to prepare." After he had started working on the project, however, Shupe said he realized the wider scope it could have and now gives three main objectives for the project. First, each symposium is de-signed to deal with valid and pres-sing issues facing Americans today which the present curricular struc- In the recent meeting of the Board of Education, March 20-21 dates for relocation of the college to the Arden Hills campus was changed from 1971 to 1973. In the past two meetings of the Board of Education, there has been serious examination of the dates for relocation of the college to the Sem Campus in Arden Hills. When the New Campus Building pro-gram was approved by the Baptist General Conference ten years ago in 1961, the date for relocation was set for the centennial year, 1971. By last year, however, with a slowdown in launching the two major fund drives the escalation of building costs, high interest rates and shrinkage of federal loan funds, it became evident that this goal would be impossible to meet. The board then examined the possibility of "establishing an ac-ture does not allow students or faculty to examine adequately. Secondly, Shupe said, "The ad-ministration is really in favor of the idea and hopes that if the pro-ject is successful, that this para-college approach can be a regular occurence. From the student's viewpoint, Shupe sees that it's success could provide a method for the "regular hitting of con-cerns. If this year's project is successful, future ventures in this area may be impressive enough to bring in other colleges." The third objective of the pro-ject is to help the academic at-mosphere of the college. Shupe stated that he hoped it could "aid in breaking traditional curricular-extra curricular and student — professor barriers. ademic beachhead" on the campus by 1971 and phasing the college's move to Arden Hills. However, the problems of operating a split cam-pus apeared so great that this alternative did not seem to be a wise option. The only other alternative, then seemed to be to reschedule the date of relocation. At present it is the wish of the board that the relocation date be changed to 1973 and that the college make a complete move at this time. In light of student opinion and experience gained from the New Dorm, revisions in housing plans will begin soon. The meeting of the Baptist Gen-eral Conference in June in San Diego will determine the extent to which Bethel will participate in the capital funds drive of the Conference. Board reviews college relocation date proposes postponement of move to 1973 Senate arranges peace fast participation; meal refunds to aid relief work in Vietnam Fasting . . .a way for Bethel students to help bring peace in Viet Nam. Next week, April 13-15, the stu-dents involved in the cafeteria program will have a chance to get involved in Bethel's Fast for Peace. The Student Senate has made ar-rangements with the cafeteria ser-vice to allow those students inter-ested in giving up meals to sign up and give the money, normally used for meals, to a peace project. Once the student signs his name to miss a meal, the name is cros-sed off the list in the cafeteria. At the end of the three days of fast-ing, the names of the students who missed meals, and the number of meals missed are brought to the business office, and the Senate will get a refund for those meals. The check is then sent to the designat-ed peace project. This year, the Senate has decided to send the check to the Mennon-ite Central Committee to be used for relief work in Viet Nam. The Mennonite Committee has a world-wide ministery in more than thirty over-seas countries. There are over 700 Christian volunteers involved in this service in the midst of un-speakable poverty and also in the disease and ignorance in North America. The Mennonite Fellowship is commited to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Scrip-tures. They believe their primary allegiance to Christ and His king-dom is to develope their witness to the love of God, neighbor and enemy throughout the world. Since the students will be giv-ing meals for peace in conjunction with the national peace fast spon-sored by the Viet Nam Moratorium, the Senate felt it would be good to send the money to a project who would not only use the money for peace, but to further the message of Christ too. The opportunity to help the search for peace is within our reach. The choice is our own. page 2 the CLARION Friday, April 10. 1970 Ingrown attitudes depict the college Next week, Monday through Wednesday, students will be presented with the opportunity of participating in a nation-wide fast for peace sponsored by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. Instead of sending the money collected to the general fund, however, we will be giving the meal refunds to the Menonites for relief work in Vietnam. The decision to participate was, in my opinion. a good move on the part of the students of the college. I was proud of Bethel when the senate passed the motion to sponsor the fast for those who were willing to participate; though I was a little disappointed that we did not decide to send our refunds to the general fund. Discussion which occurred on the subject after the passing of the bill, however, horrified me. There was under serious consideration the possibility of changing the bill so that the funds we collected would go to the Student Missionary Project. I have nothing against student missionaries, but I was apalled at the ingrown attitudes of students on this campus. Bethel students seem to have the general attitude that they and their causes are the only valid group wihin the sphere of the student world. As a collect the campus is as bad as an ingrown toenail. Citizens of the world today and Christians in particular and students even more paticularly, need to develop a self concept that includes something more than the world on their doorstep. We must not be so hesitant to help other people carry out their good ideas. Just because is wasn't our idea to begin with doesn't make it bad. The biggest part of this problem is the indifference or ignorance of what is happening in the world around us. God created the world for domination by man, but we as Christians cannot dominate if we are ignorant of what goes on in the world. As students our very survival today depends upon what we know about the world. A good place to start learning is with the symposiums presented on campus this month. . . . And you viewers from all 16 states will be able to watch as we endeavor to explore this gas bog which, during the 20th century—believe it or not—was actually a populated area known as "Cal-if-ornia." ebapet Pate5 by Pastor Maurice Lawson College Press Service Shupe analyzes Bethel objectivity, gives evaluation for improvement PERHAPS WE CAN COMPROMISE- T ENFORCE BUSSING- IF YOU PEOPLE AGREE ?O SIT NINE EYCK! Dean Virgil Olson will bring the message on Monday. On Tuesday, Bob Kraning, popular youth speak-er on the West Coast and director of teen activities at Forest Home Christian Conference Center, will speak. He will be on campus throughout the day to interview any who are interested in working at Forest Home during the summer. The campus pastor will bring another portrait of Jesus from the Gospel of Mark on Wednesday, with NEW music. On Thursday Eddie Thomas will give a concert-lecture. The Friday speaker will be announced at a later date. by Dave Shupe, former Student Association President I would like to give my evalu-ation of Bethel College, from my viewpoint as a senior anthropology major and (former) student body president. Such an evaluation might have two approaches: the person — how Bethel has influ-enced me — and an objective an-alysis of the institution. Personally, I am quite satisfied with my time at Bethel. I have gained a social awareness, an en-joyment for learning, training in analysis of problems, and a more refined faith in the person of Christ. I have certainly changed in four years and am very grateful for those (professors and friends) who have contributed to my educa-tion. Admittedly, there are times when I speculate on what I should have learned but did not, which brings me to the second approach, the analysis of the three principal aspects of the institution. (Qualifications to my analysis: 1) I realize that Bethel's negative aspects are more easily seen from my present viewpoint — emphasis on the positive aspects requiring time, distance, and a selective memory — though this does not invalidate my present view of Bethel's problems, and 2) that if I compare Bethel to an ideal rath-er than to institutions with more problems and less freedom I mere-ly reflect my hope for improve-ment.) Social aspect: Perhaps it is a misconception to think that at one time in the near past, one could easily predict some characteris-tics of a Bethel student, but cer-tainly the student body is not now as homogeneous as it has been pre-viously. However, there still seems to be a current image (both pub-lic image and self-image) of the "representative" Bethel students. But such an image is false. With the exception of a spiritual com-mitment, there is no characteristic commen to (even) a majority of Bethel students. One does not need the CLARION Published weekly during the academic year, except during vacation and exami-nation periods, by the students of Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription rate $4 per year. Editor in chief Pat Faxon News Editor Marg Erickson to consider just the "extremes" to see our social diversity, though this diversity is not in principle accepted. The unaccepted diversity, coupled with an assumed but false central image, perhaps can account for the fragmentation of social life, the occasional polarization of attitudes and the lack of school spirit found at Bethel. That is, the image, though false (non-existent), still has influence and keeps us from treating each other with the "unconditional positive regard" that we need to accept each other in our diversity. (The Bethel melt-ing pot is not providing for cult-ural pluralism. Spiritual aspect: Often the term is not used in a social meaning, but a spiritual one, assuming that there is a central characteristic for the institution's spiritual envi-ronment. But the emphasis — pietism, the integration of faith and knowledge, social concern, doc-trinal correctness — are charac-teristic only of segments of the college community. Do we again have a false central image of a "typical evangelical Christian" — (the evangelical tradition expect-ing doctrinal consensus)? If our center be the person of Jesus Christ, the Incarnation, our em-phasis lacks a sense of vitality or "celebration". (Perhaps this ex-plains the seeming consensus that chapel is presently quite uninter-esting.) But, again the diversity is repressed by the false image. Academic aspect: The model of unaccepted diversity around an assumed but false norm is partic-ularly applicable to the academic life of Bethel. Like nearly all other educational institutions, we have an educational philosophy and system wherein the natural students are compared to a norm, through the grading system (and through that, to each other) and are thereby forced to fit their be-havior to that norm (the average student). Everyone goes as far as, but no further than the teacher. On the contrary, I believe ed-ucation to be essentially non- Feature Editor Cindy Rostollan Fine Arts Editor Marjorie Rusche Sports Editor Tim Weko Layout Editor Lynn Hansen Copy Editor Anne Dalton Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle, Tom Ford, Dave Greener, Jan U Ilberg, Jan Urspringer, Wibby Smith, Ron Roper competitive and non-comparative. Such a non-competitive atmos-phere would grant to the student a type of academic freedom which he presently does not have, would both students and disciplines, and would perhaps encourage a new sense of academic vitality. I see, however, a basic lack of trust in the student by the facul-ty in their classes, and by the ad-ministration in student govern-ment. Rarely are we expected to graple with concepts that force our intellectual boundries to their limits. It is not the difficulty of the material which causes failure in college, but the presure of the pedagogy. The successful can stretch to fit the Procrustean system, they master the pedagogy, not necessarily the material. (One "learns how to study, and how to take a test".) Too often this re-sults in a non-functional educat-ion, which limits our ability to penetrate our society, particular-ly the society of our future. In each area then, the model seems to explain the phenomena. We have an unaccepted diversity (differences in social attitudes, spiritual emphasis, and academic interests and abilities) around an assumed but false central image (the typical Bethelite, Christian, and student), the latter, neverthe-less, harmfully influencing the former. If the model is true to the data, the solution to many of our prob-lems would be in 1)identifying a true, rather than a false, concept around which we move, and in doing that, 2) accepting the prin-ciple of diversity (cultural plural-ism). Socially, we would continue to attempt to lower the barriers we have set between us. Spirit-ually, we would encourage the expressions of faith (in chapel) of all types of Christian students. Academically, we would commit ourselves to a curriculum change radical enough to change not only our techniques and structure, but our entire philosophy of educa-tion. Proofreader Sharon Watson Circulation Manager Joey Healy Business Manager Warren Magnuson Photographer Phil Humbert Technical Advisor Mark Olson Advisor Jon Fagerson Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not necessarily reflect the position of the college or seminary. the CLARION Page 3 The Vietnam Moratorium Com-ments of a Peace Fast on April 13-15 which will be largely focus-ed on college and university cam-puses. The endorsements include more than 212 student body pres-idents and campus newspaper ed-itors along with prominent Amer-icans, such as Julian Bond, Ram-sey Clark, Jane Fonda, Rabbi Ab-raham J. Heschel, Senator Harold Hughes, Mayor John Lindsay, and Senator Eugene McCarthy. David Hawk, a co-oordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Commit-tee, explained the purpose of the Fast: "We will fast for peace dur-ing April 13-15 for two reasons. The first is to demonstrate our moral opposition to the continuing and expanding war. The second reason is directly related to the April 15th Tax Payer Rallies. Because the government spends $201 million a day on war and the weapons of war, we are asking people not to eat for three days and to send the money saved while not eating to aid the victims of the war. Proceeds from the Peace Fast Fund will go to the American Friends Service Committee Viet nam Relief Program, the National Welfare Rights Organization, and the United Farm Workers of Amer-ica. The Fast represents our com-mitment to improve the quality of our common life and to allev-iate human suffering." Hawk in-dicated that the Fast will focus on campuses and among groups of religious people. He explained that many students are making arrang-ements with university food serv-ices to turn over money saved by not eating to the Moratorium for distribution to the Vietnam relief agency and poverty groups. He also mentioned that fasting students in some places intended to come to dining halls at meal time to dramatize the Fast. The Moratorium is also organ-izing the Tax Payer Rallies on April 15 in more than 30 cities across the nation. Sam Brown, a co-oordinator of the committee discussed the Committee's plans: "On April 15th across the coun-try, people will once again halt `business as usual' to speak to their countrymen and to their President. They will talk about Vietnam, about the broadening and about the economic crisis brought about by the spending for the war and the Pentagon." Brown underscored the primary focus of the activities in a dis-cussion of the strike of postal continued on page 6 continued from page 1 On an individual level, Elseth observed that he didn't think that Bethel should expect students to pay such high costs. He did not mention any specific proposals or plans for lowering student costs. Bethel should try to completely move out to the new campus as soon as possible, Elseth felt. Delay only means increased costs — a-bout a million extra a year. He noted that the quality of construc-tion in the New Dorm was basic-ally poor. As far as New Campus housing in general, Elseth stated that students should not have to live in campus housing if they didn't want to. The administration should consult students in New Campus planning instead of erect-ing buildings that are unsuited to student needs. Elseth offered no plans as to how students could have an effective, active voice in determining the kind of dwelling that they and hopefully future stu-dents will be living in. Elseth supports recruiting min-ority students for Bethel's campus. "We shouldn't do it just so we can smugly say we have minority stu-dents. We can contribute to each other as people. Education means diversity, different types of people, different backgrounds." He had not Friday, April 10. 1970 as yet drawn up plans or devel-oped a strategy as to how students could encourage the administra-tion and insure minority group recruitment. "Interim was a good thing. I liked the flexibility of courses and the relaxed atmosphere." Elseth stated in reference to educational reform. "I have an intense hatred for grades. Students should have something to motivate them be-sides grades. We should learn be-cause we want to learn. Education should not be a competitive effort, but a co-operative effort." Elseth would like to see stu-dents help structure their own courses. "We're paying for our ed-ucation," he said. "We should get something in the classroom rele-vant to what we want to learn." Better transportation services— such as to athletic events and air-ports; student involvement in off-campus activities, and increased social activities on campus are the goals that Elseth has set for stu-dent government next year. "Beth-el doesn't get any big name groups at all," Elseth stated. "We could provide some kind of cultural ser-ies that would appeal to everyone's taste and include anything from a symphony to rock music." The campus co-ordinator, a pos-ition newly created by the Sen-ate this year, is in charge of co-ordinating all the social and cult-ural events on campus. He also re-ceives $1,300 per year. The co-ordinator is appointed by Elseth and approved by the Senate. Elseth plans to work closely with the campus co-ordinator. Elseth views a main part of his job as student association presi-dent as working with student-facul-ty committees and improving stu-dent- faculty relations on campus. When asked how he would accom-plish this, Elseth replied that he didn't think it was something that could be structured. At present, Elseth has no plans for giving a state of the association address giving his view of where Bethel's students are at now, what goals he would like to see the stu-dent association accomplish, and how to get from where we are to where we should be. as was done last year by former student associ-ation president Dave Shupe. When reflecting on how he thought being student association president would affect him per-sonally, Elseth stated, "I really don't know how it will affect me. It will probably make me more a-ware of the things that are going on at Bethel." Moratorium Committee sponsors college peace fast Elden Elseth feels weak points of to clemonstrate against war Bethel are problems of equality New dorm is the good, bad, and the ugly One of the New Dorm's assets is its quite, park- New Dorm lounge areas combine both "the good" Seams in hallway carpeting are beginning to like setting. and "the bad" with a place for all residents to meet, separate. and . . . interact . . . with each other. by Dave Greener THE GOOD It is located in Arden's Hills, three and one-half miles beyond "The Last Frontier." It is situated by hills and trees, a tiny creek and a nearby lake. It is known as New Dorm and it is the beginning of a new Bethel. The 120 residents ride the bus between the two campuses to-gether. They have socials and open houses. They might see each other more often than if they lived in separate dorms. "It's like our own little family out here," says one female resident and another feels that in this co-ed dorm there is "a sense of unity" and a "bond." A co-ed dorm such as New Dorm can expand social horizons. "It provides easy access to interac-tion," says one male resident, "if you want it." Another guy likes the idea of getting to know other kids and feels its easier to meet girls because its co-ed. One girl believes that with this co-ed dorm she gets to know guys in a brother-ly sense, instead of as dating or marriage partners." But besides the people who live in the dorm, there is the dorm it-self and its surroundings. "I can't believe how quiet it is out here," says one girl resident. "The facilities of the building are really good," says a male resident. Perhaps most significant of these would be the three levels of loung-es separating the two wings. There are also two "recreation" rooms that include kitchen and laundry facilities as well as a television and a ping pong table. Resident's rooms are carpeted and at least one co-ed likes the size of her room, the big closet, the mirror, the bulletin board. Other people enjoy suite living. There are study rooms on four of the wing-floors. Some students appreciate New Dorm's location and atmosphere. One guy terms it a "park-like set-ting," another finds it "nice being removed in the country." For some the daily return to the dorm may be a change of pace and place from the other campus. THE BAD But not all at the New Dorm is "roses." Among other things, there is no food service, the parking lot is not paved or lighted and the recreation rooms have been lacking in suitable furniture. Futhermore, bus service is sometimes a prob-lem. Currently New Dorm students eat meals on the main campus. If they are through with classes in mid-afternoon, for example, they must stay and wait for supper or if they go back to the dorm, they must make an extra trip. Food service in the new semi-nary dining hall had been hoped for this year and had even been promised, through departmental slip-up, to start last March 1. It was discovered, however, that health regulations would necessi-tate using a sanitized van for trans-portation of food from the old campus. This "monkey wrench" at least brought about such compen-sations as another bus run at sup-per and a few more "special meals" at the dorm (the rules permit oc-casional, not regular, food trans-port with the present vehicles). But New Campus food service (at least for suppers—an arrangement might be made for lunch) will come only in an uncertain future. Another "problem" matter is the parking lot. Unpaved, it is in a temporary location. Unpaved it has sand, dirt, and clay that gets wet during snow-melting and rain-fall. This can get onto people's shoes and tracked onto the carpet-ing in the dorm. Futhermore, the parking lot is unlighted—a light might be a deterrent to burglary. Another item is the lack of "com-fortable" furniture in the "recrea-tion" rooms. When first designed, their function was unclear. Most of the furnished chairs were and are comparatively uncomforaoble. Residents await something better and in the meantime are even buy-ing some used furniture to com-pensate. (It might be noted that while the furniture in the lounge area may be more comfortable, it is not always sturdy.) It is things like the parking lot and the furniture situation that give rise to the idea, as expressed by one resident, that the adminis-tration treats things at the New Dorm as temporary, "they never want to do anything out here." For their part, the administration would question the value of spending a few thousand dollars for surfacing a parking lot that will be moved, and $800 to $1000 for the lighting. As for furniture, thus far they have apparently fol-lowed other priorities. In general, various programs have been planned (such as the commons area that was hopefully to have been built onto the dorm this year), but as Dean Muck points out, the phrase "when funds are available" accompanies them. Mo-ney then is a problem for everyone. Bus service is sometimes another "problem." The chief faults have been when buses sometimes are late or don't run at all. For his part, Tom Molin, student bus ad-ministrator, has shown a willing-ness to be flexible on scheduling. THE UGLY Don Rainbow woke up early that morning and so did others. The house parent's first drowsy reac-tion to that brief, yelling-running raid by Edgrenites last month was that the New Dorm was collapsing and people were trying to get out. On the other side of the dorm from Mr. and Mrs. Rainbow lives housemother Mom Sargent. While in their apartment, she and her daughter can sometimes hear tiles falling off the walls of their bath-room. Students first moved into the New Dorm less than two years ago and construction problems have been in evidence to them and others ever since. The stairs are wooden, a person can tell that by simply walking down them (as one student per-haps somewhat exaggeratingly phrased it, "When you come down the stairs, you think you're going to fall through." The wooden floors are not al-ways level—warping has occurred. The dorm is carpeted but the car-continued on page 4 2220 EDGERTON STREET AT HWY 36 ST. PAUL. MINN 55117 J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor C. Bruce Anderson, Asst. Pastor BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:49 P.M. Page 4 the CLARION Friday, April 10. 1970 U.S. cited most overpopulated New Dorm's economical construction in Kentucky Prof's comparison `more money to be spent in repairs' wit.k India's ability to support life continued from page 3 peting is wearing (on the stairs) and the seams are beginning to disconnect in some hall areas. Several floor tiles have come up in the boy's washroom (they have now been glued back) and three doorstops have been pushed through walls (why not? They lacked adequate backing.) Foot-long cracks long ago appeared on some walls when the building be-gan to settle and there have been instances of localized over-heating and one case where condensation from a pipe caused water to ap-pear on the floor of a carpeted room. Why did these problems ever arise? Answers can be found in the by Anne Dalton People, power, pollution and natural resources are the topics that will be dealt with at the 24th Regional Meeting of the North Central Section of the American Scientific Affiliation. The meeting will be held Saturday, April 11 at the Arden Hills Campus of Bethel Theological Seminary. The conference is entitled, The Tragedy of the Commons, or Christian Responsibility and The Enviromental Crisis. Dr. Donald Larson of Bethel's Social Science Department will introduce the ses-sion by reviewing Garrett Hardin's paper entitled "The Tragedy of the Commons", which was pub-lished in 1968 in Science. This will provide a background for all the discussion groups. Following the introduction a Symposium will be held with a member of each discussion group giving a brief 10 minute presenta-tion. Dealing with the topic of People will be Dr. V. Elving An-derson of the University of Min-nesota. Dr. Kenneth Whitby, also of the University, will concern him-self with Power. Floyd Forsberg of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Russell Johnson of Bethel College will deal with Pol-lution and Natural Resources. Following the Symposium the participants will break into small groups for discussion. The basis of discussion in each group will be man's lack of knowledge concern-ing his own contribution to the problems of overpopulation, pollu-tion and the depletion of natural resources. Man therefore turns to outward sources for solutions to his problems rather than looking to himself. history of the dorm. The dorm was the gift of an anonymous donor who stipulated, among other things, that it be con-structed by the end of 1968 and that it contain space for 120 stu-dents. The offer, of course, was unanticipated. Bethel had plan-ned on constructing some of the academic complexes first. The gift was accepted. Original architect plans had to be drawn. Because of the time factor, plan-ning could not be lengthly. Even with the gift of $500,000 finances were limited (besides the stipula-tions of the donor, the costs of excavations and bringing in a gas and water source were of course incurred) and Bethel, at the time could not add much to them. More- Each one of the discussion groups will focus attention on one of the four areas presented in the Symposium. The resource people in each group will include 1) the group discussion leader 2) a spec-ialist (the Symposium speakers) 3) a pastor or theologian 4) a grad-uate student. All of these have given some previous attention to the subject matter. The groups are entitled: Group I—"People" — The Pop-ulation Crisis and Po-tential World Starva-tion. Leader: Robert Bohon, Senior Chemist, 3M Company, St. Paul Group II—"Power" — Electrical Power Generation and Ecological Balanc e. Leader: Robert Carl-son, Department of Physical Sciences, Be-thel College Group III—"Pollution" — An Ef-fluent Society, t h e High Price of Technol-ogical Progress. Lead-er: Oscar M. Lund. De-partment of Agricul-ture, Economics, Univ-ersity of Minnesota Group IV—"Natural Resources"— Preservation or Deple-tion of Natural En-dowments. Leader: James Nordstrom, De-partment of Animal Science, University of Minnesota Following the discussion groups the entire body will reconvene and each group leader will present a brief summary of his group's dis-cussion. The cost of the day is $1.00 ($.50 over, the dorm was a pilot pro-gram; also, within the budget there was some experimentation. The New Dorm was built, ergo almost had to be built, economi-cally. And the results were eco-nomical. As one resident comment-ed "It was rather tragic that it was put together in such a poor manner . . " and went on to point out that more money will be spent in the present structure plus re-pairs than a more adequately con-structed original building. At least, perhaps, things can be learned from the pilot project. Glen Hayne, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, is well aware of construction problems and they are being considered in the planning of the new campus. and one half carpet on stair-worn. for students) which covers the cost of arrangements and publicity. The schedule of the day is: 12:00 Registration 1:00 Welcome and Invocation 1:10 Introduction by Dr. Larson 1:30 Symposium 2:30 Small Group Discussion 3:30 Coffee Break 4:00 Panel — Discussion Sum-maries and Conclusions 4:30 Business Meeting The sponsoring American Scien-tific Affiliation, Inc. is an organiz-ation of evangelical Christians who are trained in biological, physical, and social sciences. Their purpose is to study the relationship be-tween science and Christianity. Students and faculty with ques-tions or desiring more information should see Dr. Don Larson, Robert Carlson, Russell Johnson or Dr. Arthur Lewis. DIAMONDS Sought Cautiously . . Purchased Carefully. Result: An Excellent Investment. Your BankAmericard Weltome Here EMERSON'S JEWELRY A TRUSTED JEWELER IS YOUR BEST ADVISOR 1548 W. Larponteur 646-4114 by Wayne H. Davis, Professor of biology, University of Kentucky (CPS) — The Uuited States is the most seriously overpopulated nation in the world today. I define as most seriously overpopulated that nation whose people by virtue of their numbers and activities are most rapidly decreasing the ability of the land to support hu-man life. Compare the U.S. to India, for example. We have 203 million people and they have 540 million on much less land. But let's look at the impact of people on the land. The average Indian eats a few cups of rice a day, draws a bucket of water from the communal well and sleeps in a mud hut. In his daily rounds to gather dried cow dung to cook his rice he has a rather small impact on his environ-ment. He does not clamor for highways. jet-ports, and steel mils. An American on the other hand. will destroy a piece of land on which he will build a house, gar-age and driveway. His employer will destroy a piece of land to provide him a parking space as will the developer of his shopping center. The government will pro-vide a road to his house and a piece of ground on which to dump his daily eight pounds of garbage. With 38 times the per capita GNP of the Indian, our citizen's demand for the latest fashion will cause cotton farmers to kill the southern streams with endrin, his demand for power will cause the miners to kill streams with silt and acids and his (manufacturer-induced) demand for steel to re-place last year's auto will cause U.S. Steel Corp. to kill the Great Lakes by increasing the daily e-quivalent of 130,000 junked autos Life says it dumps into Lake Mich-igan. And in hundreds of ways he will contribute to the pollution of our oceans causing the final death of our fisheries which the Com-mercial Fisheries Review for Oct-ober, 1969, described as a "nation-al problem" and a trend which has "become precipitous in the past seven years." To supply him with his 26,000,000 gallons of water to pollute in his life-time, we will build a reservoir and flood the farmland. He will contribute his share to the annual 142 million tons of smoke and fumes which killed the spinach in-dustry in southern California, are killing forest trees and decreasing the amount of sunlight reaching our land. He will contribute his share to the annual load of seven million junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 billion cans, 26 bil-lion bottles, and a rapidly increas-ing number of plastic Chlorox and antifreeze containers our environ-ment is expeceted to absorb each year. He will poison the land with the lead, nickel and boron from the 21,000 gallons of gasoline he will use in his lifetime. He wil eat 10,000 pounds of meat. To supply this demand. cattle will eat plants on western range land and the nutrient minerals are pas-sed to our friend who flushes them down the toilet and into the ocean. This life pattern, unknown in the erosion and lowering of the water table by pumping out ground water for irrigation and city and indust-rial use, to hasten the destruction of our land's capacity to support people. Because the American is far more destructive of his land than citizens of other overpopulated lands are to theirs, I want to in-troduce a new term which I sug-gest be used in all future discus-sions of problems of human pop-ulations and ecology. We should speak of our numbers in "Indian equivalents" or IE. An IE I define as the average number of Indian citizens required to have the same detrimental effect on the land's ability to support human life as would the average American. This value is hard to determine. I take a conservative working estimate of 25. My Indian friends say this is much too low. One person sug-gested to me 500 as more realistic. But let's use 25 as our IE. In terms of IE, then, the popu-lation of the U.S. is over four bil-lion. And the rate of growth is even more alarming. We have by far the most serious population growth problem in the world. We are growing at one percent per year. a rate which would double our numbers in 70 years. India is growing at 2.5 percent. Using the IE of 25, our growth rate would be 10 times as serious as India's if our people had their life expect-ancy of 35 years. With our ex-pectancy of 70 years, our growth problem becomes 20 times as ser-ious. But this cannot be true you say. I am playing with statistics. You are right. I am assuming 70 years life for today's baby at today's level of affluence, and such an assumption is absurd. If we con-tinue population growth or rape of the resources, or both, IE will drop so drastically that by the year 2000 we may think the aver-age Indian is fortunate. So we should not worry about the hungry nations. The tragedy facing the U.S. is greater and more imminent than theirs. India will be there after the U.S. is gone. She will have colossal famines, but the land will survive and she will come back as she always has be-fore. Our citizens vary tremendously in IE. If we plot IE vs. its recip-rocal (the percentage of land sur-viving a generation), we obtain a linear regression. Now if we place occupation types on this graph we would find the starving Blacks of Mississippi on one end. They would approach unity in IE and would be least destructive to the land. At the other end of the graph would be the politicians slicing pork for the barrel, highway contractors, real estate developers and public enemy number one — the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. So, blessed be the starving Blacks of Mississippi with their outdoor privies, for they are ecologically sound, and they shall inherit the nation. Young people who are working with these folks in hopes of saving the nation are working on the wrong end of the graph. One doorstop that really worked! After a year ways is already ASA Conference at Arden Hills focuses on environment issues SURPRISE! You'll be surprised when you claim the re-ward . . . a pleasant meal at the Arden Inn. Come soon. ARDEN INN N. Snelling and Co. Rd. B. OPEN: Sundays noon to 9 p.m. Daily 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., 5-9 p.m. Closed Mondays. MI 4 - 2847 by Steve Duininck Everyone must learn to be submissive to elders, laws, and the majori-ty rule. This is the natural order of life until the harmony is broken by an overload of power which leads to injustice and rebellion. Likewise most of the material dispensed at Bethel is digested quietly due to our former training in the submissive field. But something has burdened the otherwise well proportioned system and has promoted re-bellion. To make myself clear I will simply say that the administration has taken advantage of the respectable students and imposed on him a tuitional load for exceeding a just capacity! The reason for the shift of weight lies in the student body as a func-tional force. The Christian students were well trained in the art of lying down to people of higher rank since it is a Christian virtue to be a peace-maker. But what most fail to see is the sin of fogging the students to steal their money. To solve the problem someone mentioned the balance of operating cost between the college and Seminary but no movements have been made. The campaigns used it to win moves to become another cog in our useless government. Time is spent in the senate rolling censored bills up blocked alleys. So things must be done outside of senate and include all sensible students. We pay less per year than Macalester students by 350 dollars and less than Hamline students by about the same, yet our facilities fall so short that a comparison is impossible. One excuse that we are given is that we have a college coming up out somewhere in Arden Hills. As long as I lived there I only saw barren hills and a lot of frustrated dreams. This procrastination of the truth can no longer be accepted and we students must move now. We must talk among each other. We must back our student leaders with our personal views, talk with the administration and ask them who we pay and sup-port and why. Students must come to the realization that this is our school not the president's or the Dean's or our daddy's but ours. We pay, we learn and I hope we unite. Friday, April 10. 1970 The Black Symposium held at Bethel next week will approach the concept of blackness from a personal and cultural viewpoint. Jerry Jenfa, a junior from Ni-geria, will be the featured speak-er next Wed., April 15 in chapel. He will talk on his feelings and attitudes towards Bethel and how he relates to Bethel. Edward Thomas, former Bethel music professor and resident art-ist, speaks next Thursday in chap- Edward Thomas, Bethel Music Professor (on Sabbatical this year) and resident artist, will be speaking in Chapel on Thurs-day and will be giving a recital Thursday evening at 8. the CLARION Page 5 Guy Wuellner to give piano recital tonight Mr. Guy Wuellner, concert pian-ist and professor of piano at Drake Univerity, will present a recital at Bethel College on Friday evening, April 10 at 8 p.m. This is Wuell-ner's second appearance as a re-citalist at Bethel Colllege. Guy Wuellner has participated in the Master classes of Paul Ba-dura- Skoda, Jorg Demus, and Al-fred Brendal at the Internationales Kulturzentrum in Vienna, and in Master classes at Fontainebleau in France under Rafeal Pupana and Robert Casadesus. In addition to the evening re-cital, Wuellner will be teaching a piano workshop at 12:30 to 2:30. Both the workshop and the re-cital will be held in the fieldhouse. There will be no admission charge for either the workshop or the recital. el. He will explain what's happen-ing in relation to blacks and clas-sical music; more specifically a-bout the organization of which he is executive director, the AAMOA (Afro-American Music Opportun-ities Association, Inc.) That evening at 8, Ed Thomas and Mr. John Patton will present a lecture-recital on the history of Black music covering everything from classical to jazz music. Thomas, Jenfa share in black symposium here j-Sooti Planetary generation gap will force cultural change by Marjorie M. Rusche Margaret Mead, a noted anthro-pologist and dubbed a "dirty old women" by a hostile U.S. Senator, has recently (copyright 1970) auth-ored a book, Culture and Commit-ment, which is a study of the generation gap that is "right on". There has always been conflict between generations. However, Mead maintains that the scope of today's generation gap is world-wide. She uses three models of inter-generational behavior to clar-ify her analysis. These are post-figurative, cofigurative, and pre-figurative cultures. Postfigurative cultures Mead i-dentifies as those where children learn appropriate behavior from their forebears (parents or grand-parents). "Change is so slow and imperceptible that grandparents, holding newborn grandchildren in their arms, cannot conceive of any other future for the children than their own past lives. The past of the adults is the future of each new generation; their lives provide the ground plan. The chil-dren's future is shaped in such a way that what has come after child-hood for their forebears is what they, too, will experience after they are grown." Thus, there is no break between the experience of the old and the experience of the young. Postfigurative cultures ex-isted up to the beginning of civ-ilization. In cofigurative cultures the in-dividual's behavior is modeled af-ter that of his peers. Elders still maintain authority, but it is mod-ified by peer group pressure. "Where cofiguration among age mates has become institutionalized throughout the culture, one finds the phenomenon of youth culture or "teen-age" culture; age strat-ification, encouraged by the school system, becomes increasingly im-portant." This model became prevalent in the U.S. around the beginning of the 20th century. The model — which Mead feels is currently the model for behavior on an inter-national scale — also exists where ethnic groups are forced to move into different cultures for various reasons and lose their sense of continuity; or where the state ac-quires and institutionally delegates former parental authority (in post-figurative cultures) for the child's socialization. (Schools are one ex-ample.) Just as the old postfigurative cultures broke down and reformed as cofigurative ones due to tech-nological advance and increased complexity of society; Mead feels the present cofigurative culture pattern is disintegrating and a new model is taking shape — prefig-uration. In prefigurative cultures, the youth reject the older generation's life style or behavior models and create their own based on their unique experience. "Even very re-cently the elders could say: You know, I have been young and you have never been old. But today's youth can reply: You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." The elders, then, ideally look to the generation of youth for guide-lines to behavior; for the youth are more experienced and know-ledgeable about what is going on at the current time. Mead feels that today's inter-nationally dissident and activist youth are leading into the pre-figurative culture form. What con-ditions have brought about an in-ternational youth revolt? Today there is a world community with shared knowledge, change, and in-stant communication. The world keeps on getting smaller through world-wide travel and communica-tion. Today's youth are more aware of world-wide problems and pos-sibilities. We are still reaping results of the scientific revolution that start-ed in the 19th century; such as computers, increased development of food resources so that it is now technically (but apparently not politically) possible for every-one on this planet to have a satis-fying life in material terms. "Youth live in a world in which events are presented to them in all their complex immediacy; they are no longer bound by the simplified linear sequences dictated by the printed word. In their eyes the killing of an enemy is not quali-tatively different from the murder of a neighbor. They cannot recon-cile our efforts to save our own children by every known means with our readiness to detroy the children of others with napalm. Old distinctions between peace-time and wartime, friend and foe, "my" group and "theirs" — the outsiders, the aliens — have lost their meaning. They know that the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children." "Today, all the people of the world are part of one electronic-ally based, intercommunicating network, young people everywhere share a kind of experience that none of the elders ever have had or will have. Conversely, the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal." Mead feels that children today face a future that is so deeply un-known (unlike the assumed pre-dictability of conditions under the postfigurative and cofigurative mo-dels) that the new prefigurative model is needed. Adults have to realilze that they cannot use the values and experi-ence of their own youth to under-stand the youth of today. "We must create new models for adults who can teach their children not what to learn, but how to learn; and not what they should be corn-mitted to, but the value of com-mitment." What is necessary be-tween the generations is co-opera tion, not coercion. Culture and commitment. What is needed to bridge the generation gap is a culture that both gener-ations can honestly be committed to. But this cannot happen when two fundamentally different value systems and philosophical prem-ises underlie the two cultures. So we currently have such symbolic incidents as Abbie Hoffman's wife, Anita, retreating with Abbie from the courtroom shouting to Judge Julius Hoffman, "We'll dance on your grave!" Whatever you think of today's youth, the generation gap, anthro-pologists, or dirty old women who try smoking marijuana, Margaret Mead's latest book offers one of those things called a "viable al-ternative" for the nitty gritty prob-lem of alienation between the gen-erations. Culture and Commitment is engaging and intriguing read-ing. It's well worth taking time to read the book. Vededefen Votede eketc4 Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m. Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m. Pastor—Robert Featherstone Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam Glasses Contact Lenses ELWOOD CARLSON Optician 272 Lowry Medical Arts 227-7818 St. Paul, Minn. 55102 Page 6 the CLARION Friday, April 10. 1970 The Column by Tim Weko I sure hated to see Easter vacation come to an end, especially now that the weather is finally starting to come around. But look at it this way—there are only about 15 Monday-Wednesday-Friday's left. The kite fliers and the guys and girls dotting the lawn to catch the sunshine indi-cate spring fever in its worst form. This is when everyone starts cutting classes in order to prepare his body for the summer tanning season. What this all means, though, is that in a week or so we should start hearing rumors about some upcoming inter-dorm water fight and/or panty raid, for the not-too sophisticated. Last one in is a "dirty rotten egg." This also seems to be the time of year for playoffs of one sort or another. The NBA (National Basketball Association, for the unenlight-ened) is currently involved in its semifinal round. Of course the Mil-waukee Bucks will win it all, I hope. Also the National Hockey League has begun its Stanley Cup tournament, and Minnesota's own North Stars are involved by virtue of a 3rd place finish in its division. If anyone is wondering about the strength of the Western division let it suffice to say that it can't be too tough if the North Stars could lose about 50 games in a row this winter and still finish third. The Eastern division playoffs will probably decide this year's Stanley Cup champion since all the East will have to do is show up to beat the Western repre-sentative. Bethel also has a number of playoffs starting now too. These are the intramural battles including wrestling, coed doubles badminton, various forms of handball. and pingpong. Although intramural teams still collect points for the over all championship from these matches, these are the more individual of Bet1-.e1 intramurals. So far the most interesting event seems to be in the heavyweight division where Dr. James Rodgers reigns unchallenged. It would prove quite interesting to watch Rodgers wrestle, particularly after watching and listening to him during the now finished intramural basketball sea-son. So far Rodgers has no challengers and if this continues he should be able to win by forfeit without too much difficulty. The baseball team, at least a major part of it, stayed here during the vacation and practiced in the fieldhouse. Things were going real well, and the players seem to be optimistic about the season's prospects. Mean-while, the track team was down in Missouri for it's annual Easter track trip. It was termed successful by a number of people. Good luck to both teams. Ladies' basketball team ends successful season Cindermen meet St. Olaf after Missouri S. Dakota Bethel women wrapped up a winning season in pre-Easter play against Eau Claire State University with a 50-46 win. Their record stands at 6 wins and 4 losses. Bethel scored 406 points to their opponents' 391. The team also participated in a basketball tourney at the Univ-ersity of Minnesota where they pulled through with a 2-1 recard. By far the most exciting game of the tourney was the game with the University's "B" team. Barb Elliot won the game for Bethel when she A group of 45 Bethel students were greeted by sun and sand, sea and surf and 100,000 fellow col-legians as they arrived on the famed Daytona Beach, Florida. The group left the Bethel cam-pus on Friday, March 27, in a car-avan of five cars, picked up anoth-er earful in Chicago and met the remaining three carsful in Florida on Saturday evening. As the Bethelites checked in at Daytona they became a part of approximately 2,000 other students participating in a plan called "Operation Sunshine." This group of 2,000 were sharing Jesus Christ on the beaches under the direction of Campus Crusade for Christ. Crusade had scheduled for the Operation Sunshine as a time of spiritual growth and encourage-ment for the tasks they were fac-ing both on the beaches and back on their respective campuses. The speakers included Joshua McDowell, Campus Crusade for Christ staff international; Rev. Peter Lord, pastor of First Baptist sunk a free throw with no time left on the clock. Bethel also de-feated St. Cloud's "B" team, after losing to their "A" team. Scoring honors went to Linda Schmid who had 145 points for the season. Sharon Johnson followed with 127. Karla Ask captured the free throw honors with a 100 per cent free throw percentage. With a winning season behind them and with a majority of re-turning players, the women's bas-ketball team is looking ahead to a good season next year. Church, Titusville, Florida; Dave Perry, student at Asbury College in Kentucky; and Andre Kole, a famed magician and an expert in the area of extra-sensory percep-tion. The sharing done by the Crusade personnel known on the beaches as the God Squad was done on a one-to-one basis with over 2,000 decisions made during the two week operation campaign. The Armegeddon, a band group of Christians, played several concerts open to everyone. At the close of these concerts Crusade workers were available to share with those present who were not acquainted personally with Jesus Christ. All of the Bethel people ex-pressed that they had experienced a real time of renewal in their own personal lives. As Dale Saxon, Director of Christian Service, pointed out, "We don't want this Operation Sunshine experience to become a "mountaintop experi-ence" but instead we want it to become a new plateau of living in the Spirit. by Rich Zaderaka The Royals next track meet was uncertain at this writing because of the cancellation of the River Falls meet, but earlier in the week, Coach Gene Glader was trying to line up a spot in the St. Olaf In-vitational which hosts fifteen oth-er schools. During Easter break the Royal cindermen competed in two meets in Missouri and also in the South Dakota Invitational. Coach Glader summed up the spring trip as follows: "The trip was good not only because it was fun, but also because a trip like nat makes a team a team. Living and traveling with each other for a week helps an athlete really get to know his team mates and helps to create new friendships. We did- Bethel Royal golfers go into ac-tion April 13 against River Falls University of Wisconsin. The Roy-als have been practicing indoors for about a month and outdoors for one week and are looking for-ward to getting into the outdoor season at Como Park. Last year the Royals were 4-2 in dual matches and also were in-volved in two invitationals: they place thirteenth out of 19 teams at the Cougar Invitational and ninth of 12 teams at the Beaver Invitational. Just on the basis of won-lost, the season was fairly successful. This season Bethel will have eleven dual matches and be in-volved in three tournaments. This year they have entered the NALA District 13 Tournament, which Coach Maurice (Mo) Shields says they "should have been in years ago." Coach Sheilds sees this year primarily as a building year due to the addition of some good golf schools for better competition continued from page 3 employees. "While the government finds it possible and necessary to allocate millions each week to Vi-etnam , it finds itself unable to consider a significant and mean-ingful pay increase for these and other government employees. The spending for the war in Vietnam intensifies the problem of infla-dollars that are needed and deserv-ed for domestic purposes," he said. Hawk stressed the economic fo-cus of the April 15 rallies. He said, "The current inflationary spiral was set off by the escal-ation of the war, which caused defense spending to rise from $50 billion in 1965 to $80 billion in 1969. It is this spending that made real wages, in terms of buying power, decrease from 1965 to the present. We hope to begin on April 15th to make clear to the American public that the economic dislocation which punishes nearly everyone will not subside until the war is ended." Marge Sklencar, a co-oordinator of the Committee, is currently re-organizing the Moratorium's of-fices in Chicago and planning the activities for that city on April 15. She said, "The response to our plans in the midwest is tremend-ous. It shows that the middle Am-n't get as much conditioning out of this trip as we have in past ones because of the poor weather (one meet was cancelled.) But it was good to visit other schools. It's really worthwhile for athletic teams to travel and be able to share in worship services as we did." Bethel won the meet against Southwest Baptist of Bolivar, Mis-souri on the strength of three firsts by Fred Swedberg and a pair by Dave Pound. Swedberg won the shot put, discus and jav-elin. Pound won the 220 and 440. Other firsts were captured by Mark Anderson in the half mile, John Zylstra in the pole vault, Paul Youngquist in the two mile and Dave Solfelt in the triple coupled with the graduation of Jerry Loomis and Dave Anderson who had successful records dur-ing their careers. Coach Shields doesn't see anyone to replace them, however he stated that he did have "a good prospect in fresh-man Rich Borncamp" who played at Minnehaha Academy. Captain Steve Peterson heads the list of team members this year and he is looking forward to a good year after being the out-standing Bethel medalist of last year. Other top returners are sophomore Dale Finch, expected to be one of the top three golfers, senior Murray Sitte, and possibly Harley Hanson. Peterson and Sitte are lettermen. Rounding out the roster are Tom Anderson, Bob Elliot, Boeucamp, Dave Healy, Mark Pound, Jeff Swanson and Doug Weberg. Mike Forshier, a good golf prospect could have been helpful but is in-eligible because he transferred last semester from Whitewater State, Wisconsin. erican or the silent American is sick of high taxes and high prices. He is making connection between these problems and the war. The silent are beginning to speak out." Her statements were supported by a survey of the organization's nine regional offices showing a sizeable array of activities in what is generally considered "silent Am-erican country." These ranged from major rallies in Cleveland and Chicago. to leafletting cam-paigns in Denver, to canvassing for votes on an unofficial refer-endum in Madison, to a state-wide rally in Little Rock. David Mixner, the fourth co-coordinator of the Moratorium, scored the Nixon administration, particularly its current Southeast Asia policy. "At the very time polls reveal a decline in support for the Presiden's policies, the war in Southeast Asia is expanding," jump. The mile relay quartet of Craig Anderson, Rick Berggren, Phil James and Dave Pound also placed first. The meet score was Bethel 79, Southwest 65. On March 31, Bethel placed sec-ond in a triangular meet in Joplin, Missouri. Dave Pound, Fred Swed-berg, Pete Roemer and the mile relay nabbed firsts. Seconds were taken by Mark Anderson, Pound and Swedberg. Dan Mogck had a pair of seconds in the two hurdle events. In the USD Invitational Bethel ranked thirteenth of sixteen en-tries. Fred Swedberg placed fifth in the javelin with a throw of 174 feet 7 1/2 inches for the only team points. "On paper were not as strong as last year, but we've got a couple of teams that we added to fill in the holes," the coach said. The team could use fan support also. Shields said, "The crowds were not so big last year that the course couldn't hold a few more people." He added, "With a few breaks and a little luck we could have a good season." Golf Schedule April 13 River Falls April 14 Concordia (St. Paul) April 18 Lea April 20 Eau Claire April 22 Lea April 24 St. Paul Bible April 28 St. Thomas April 29 Stout State May 1 Hamline May 2 Cougar Invitational May 6 River Falls May 8 N..I.A. District May 12 Concordia (St. Paul) May 16 Beaver Invitational at Bemidji he said. He called Vietnamization "a disguise for expansion of our military involvement into Laos and, perhaps, Cambodia." He also remarked that he found present United States conduct in Laos "frighteningly reminiscent of the beginnings of massive involvement in Vietnam." NSA sponsors bargain booklet Coming out in the students Post Office Box this week is a S.O.B. Booklet, Students Own Bargains, which contains many items which students can buy at a savings. The venture is sponsored by NSA, the National Student Association. Sum-mer tours to Europe, magazines (i.e. Playboy at $8.50 per year), posters, cameras, and records are a few of the bargains which stud-ents can take advantage of. Bethelites soak up Florida sun refresh physically; spiritually Gophers think positively, start against River Falls Silent Americans speak; connect war with taxes 12,000 missionaries... ... from over 120 mission boards have received training at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. S.I.L. gives training in language learning, field methods, literacy, linguistics and linguistic principles. It's a summer session and gives 10 semester hours credit. Write for a free catalog and full information. P.S. Tell them you read about it in the school paper. Summer Institute of linguistics, Box 1960, Santa Ana, Calif. 92702 |
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