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Friday, March 6,
At their annual convention February 27 and 28, SMEA
elected Bethel junior Doug Warring state president of the
organization. Richard Harris, Assistant Professor of Education
at Bethel was chosen advisor of the year.
Vol. XLV—No. 19 Bethe l College, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Seek new R.A.'s
Application blanks for the next
year's resident assistants in the
dormitories will be available be-ginning
March 9. The announce-ment
came from the Student Ser-vices
Office this week.
The Student Services office will
be looking for 8 men and 13 women
to fill the positions in Edgren,
Bodien, Hagstrom, and Arden Hills
for the 1970-1971 school year.
These positions are open to stu-dents
who will be juniors or sen-iors
next year. The interested stu-dent
must return his application
blank to the Student Services Of-fice,
complete with the names of
three references by March 20.
Shortly after Easter Vacation,
Dean of Men, Don Rainbow, and
Dean of Women, Marilyn Starr,
along with the respective house-parents,
and a former R.A., will
begin interviews with the appli-cants.
The primary basis for se-lection
will be the letters of re-commendation
and the personal
interview.
The R.A.'s will receive a train-ing
session in May which will
acquaint them further with their
new positions and responsibili-ities.
Some of the responsibilities
are rather routine, such as being
on duty one night a week to help
dorm residents get a key or equip-ment
that is needed; making the
rounds of the dorm to be sure that
all is well. However, "The job is
actually much deeper than this
in many respects," Dean Rain-bow
says. "Students serving as
R.A.'s must show some qualities
of leadership in academic and
social aspects as well as in the
spiritual realm.
"Because these students are in a
place of leadership there must be
an eagerness on the part of the
R.A. to get to know the students
on his floor, to spend time with
them and help them in all areas
of adjustment to college life."
The R.A. has an opportunity to
do some counselling but often it
is a referral either to Student
Services or to Lee Bajuniemi, Col-lege
Counsellor.
While the payment for such a
position is full room and board,
Mr. Rainbow claims, "The real
benefit comes from the invest-ment
the individual R.A. is willing
to make."
WBCS presents
Johnny Parson
and guest stars
What are you doing this Satur-day
night? WBCS has its evening
cut out for it, sponsoring The
Johnny Parson Tonight Show. Hugh
McLeod, who will be the MC, in-formed
the Clarion that the for-mat
will be similar to that of the
Johnny Carson Show.
There will be several guest stars
and the WBCS Good Guys alias
the Mighty Parson Players will
also participate. The majority of
the show will tend toward the hu-morous,
though there will be seri-ous
aspects as well. Among the
featured acts will be "Harold and
His Harmonica;" an audio auto
race by the Players; and "Stump
the Band," a chance for the audi-ence
to participate. (Those who do
succeed in stumping the band will
win albums.)
When will this take place? The
Tonight Show will go on at 8 p.m.
in the Fieldhouse.
by Anne Dalton
The Student Minnesota Educa-tion
Association, better known as
the S.M.E.A., held their convention
on February 27 and 28 at Mac-alester
College in St. Paul. Ap-proximately
30 colleges, including
Bethel, were represented.
The convention dealt with the
areas of teacher preparation, con-tract
negotiation, salaries, public
relations, and policies of educa-tion.
The concensus of opinion on
these topics was sent to the Min-nesota
Education Association (M.-
E.A.).
The S.M.E.A. has approximately
6000 members from all of the
Minnesota colleges. They in turn
elected about 150 delegates to rep-resent
them at the convention.
Bethel's delegates were Sue Bom-stad,
Judy Olson, Sue Hillmer,
Barb Atkins, and Mark Erickson.
Doug Warring from Bethel, who
served on last year's Executive
Board was elected to the office
of President of the state S.M.E.A..
Doug said his duties would be
as follows:
1. Direct and conduct the Execu-tive
Board, whose membership
was decreased this year from 11
to 5 members.
by Tim Weko
Bethel has a new football coach!
Dean Olson announced this week
that Charles R. Reynolds, Park
Rapids, Minnesota high school foot-ball
coach has been signed to re-place
Maurice Shields as head
football coach.
Charles Reynolds comes to
Bethel fresh from a year of coach-ing
at Park Rapids, which marks
his twelfth year of coaching at the
high school level. In his first two
seasons as a coach at Akron, Iowa,
Charles Reynolds, high school
coach from Park Rapids, Minne-sota,
has decided _ to _ attempt
making Bethel football respect-able
once again.
2. Establish 12 committees for ga-thering
and dispersing informa-tion
regarding all aspects of
teaching and school systems.
3. Bring S.M.E.A. proposals to the
M.E.A. for consideration and
passage.
4. Exert pressure on committees
and commissions to obtain what
is wished.
5. Communicate the function of
S.M.E.A. to all the colleges in
Minnesota.
6. Attend national meetings and
report on their activities.
Doug had this to say about his
new position "The Minnesota stu-dent
program is one of the most
active in the nation. My job is to
keep it there with new ideas and
implementation of old ones as
I work with the M.E.A. staff and
the S.M.E.A. Executive Board."
Mr. Richard Harris, advisor to
Bethel's local S.M.E.A. and assis-tant
professor in the Education
Department, was voted Advisor of
the Year. Each college submitted
a recommendation for their ad-visor
and from these recommenda-tions,
Harris was chosen. At a
dinner held on Friday night of
the convention, he was presented
with an engraved plaque.
Reynolds compiled a 10-4-2 won-lost
record. He then moved to
Windom, Minnesota where in nine
years, his teams compiled a re-spectable
record of 42 wins and 26
losses.
An all North Central Conference
center his junior year at Augus-tana
College, Sioux Falls, he was
elected captain his senior year.
Graduating from Augustana in
1953 with a Bachelor's Degree in
Business Administration, he then
spent two years in the armed
forces, after which he took under-graduate
work in physical educa-tion
at the University of Minnesota.
In August, 1957, he received his
M.S. degree in physical education
from South Dakota State Universi-ty.
His coming to Bethel College
marks the fulfillment of a goal
for him. He says, "Throughout the
last several years one of my goals
has been to establish myself as a
capable teacher and coach in a
small, church affiliated college.
My reasons for this are twofold.
First, as an elder in the Presby-terian
Church, my principles of
Christian living and philosophy of
life will be in accordance with
Tutor program
offers to assist
local students
by Dave Greener
A new program was started last
week at Bethel that provides self-help
for students who want it.
The voluntary service seeks to
match students who desire assis-tance
with those who want to
assist them.
Thus far, both Dave Shupe and
Sid Veenstra, who are in charge
of the program, say that they are
"quite encouraged" by the re-sponse
to it. At this point, the
number of people wanting help
and the number of people offer-ing
it is about equal, although, as
Veenstra suggests, this doesn't
mean that they all match by sub-ject.
Now that they've laid the foun-dations
for the program (an ear-lier
start had once been antici-pated
— matters such as last
semester's finals, vacation, Inter-im,
and administrative work help-ed
delay it), Shupe's and Veen-stra's
role is primarily one of co-ordination,
to combine names of
people asking for help with those
who can help them. Once they
do this, the two parties meet as
often (or as infrequently) as they
mutually desire. Should there be
time conflicts or if for some rea-son
it doesn't work out, they can
ask for someone else.
Presently, Veenstra reveals, a
number of people have sought as-sistance
in sciences (chemistry stu-dents
have a program already)
and language. There have also been
a few in Christianity. "Even to-day,"
he said, "someone heard
about the program and asked for
help."
There has been no feedback
thus far concerning any of the
meetings or their sucess. Veenstra
feels that if the program really
helps, students are going to tell
each other. "I think it will catch
on," he says. Shupe's hope is that
once the service (really) gets on
its feet (such as next fall, as he
suggests), everyone who needs help
will be referred to the program.
Comments on the program or
inquiries about it may be made
to Shupe or Veenstra or through
their P.O.'s.
those of the college. Secondly,
some small part of my coaching
philosophy, which I feel to be
right, may be passed on by those
who go on into high school teach-ing
and coaching."
Reynolds will be inheriting a
football team that has won only
one game in the past three sea-sons.
He is fully aware of the dif-ficult
job that awaits him—that of
making Bethel football respec-table.
When asked to summarize his
philosophy of the game, he re-sponded
thusly: "It's like life. It
requires a disciplined life. It
teaches victory over defeat. Win-ning
isn't everything, but it means
a great deal more than some
think."
Next football season all eyes
will be upon the new coach as he
attempts to make his players ap-ply
his philosophy on the football
field as well as off of it. Some
skeptics may lose faith immedi-ately
if he doesn't provide a win-ning
team, but there will be others
to give him the respect and coop-eration
he will need if he is to
establish a winning tradition in
Bethel College football.
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the CLARION Friday, March 6, 1970
Education requires involvement; Bethel Forum
put time where your mouth is
"I could have gone to the university almost tuition free, but I "The Column" provokes response
decided to come to Bethel."
"I started out at a larger school with better facilities, but am glad
I transferred here."
"I gave up a sports scholarship to come to Bethel."
"I was ready to transfer out, my junior year, but then realized what
a mistake that would be."
I decided that this week, I wanted to write a "positive" editorial.
I was both chagrinned and ashamed when, after spending nearly an
hour in serious thought, I had not been able to think of something
to write about.
At that point I voiced my frustration and some one in the office
at the time ventured to ask, "Well, why are you at Bethel?"
Wow! Why am I here? My first mental reply was "Because I'm
a junior and am not anxious to loose more time, credits and money
'by tranferring." Although this is true, I knew it was not the real
reason I was still at Bethel after two and one-half years.
After the first month of my sophomore year here, I was ready
to pack up lock, stock and barrel and leave. I had the uneasy feeling
that, in spite of all the money I was paying out and all the work I
was doing, I was not getting a good education. I felt cheated. I was.
Yet, now I'm a junior, and I'm still here. Why?
An article I read recently in a magazine designed for educators
stated that the best learning takes place when a student interacts with
his environment; when he can relate what he's learning to what he
already knows and what is going on around him. It spoke of a growing
trend toward humanism in education, of considering the individual
personality of the student, of aiding him in the development of his
self concept. It spoke more specifically about teaching children in the
ghetto areas, how slums had developed, how they are perpetuated.
In other words it spoke of helping the student to involve himself
in what he is learning.
After contemplating that particular piece of material for some
time, I decided that the key concept was involvement. Upon consulting
the dictionary, I found the word "involve" to be defined as "to draw
one into entanglement or complication; to embarass with difficulties
or perplexities; to involve one in debt or crime; to complicate or make
intricate in thought or form."
Educational involvement, then, should be an integration of the
learning process with the life process; applying concepts learned in
the classroom situation to general thought and behavior patterns. A
well educated person is not one who has good training in some par-ticular
field, but one who can relate to others, communicate to them
what he wants to get across, and meet problems with a viable solution.
With the change of Clarion editors in the middle of my soph-omore
year, I began writing for the paper. As my reporting ventures
led me into offices, people, and areas of interest I never knew exist-ed
on campus, my own span of interest grew until I was involved not only
with the Clarion, but in many other- areas as well. The frustration
of academic irrelevance had, to a great extent, vanished.
I am willing to say that among institutions of higher education
everywhere, Bethel ranks near the top when it comes to opportunity
for involvement. At a senate meeting early last fall, former IC3
representative, Arne Bergstrom reported that representatives from
other schools on the coordinating committee were astonished at the
number of joint student-faculty committees Bethel had and that many
times he was referred to for help or advice in this area.
If a good education necessitates involvement, then Bethel College
is probably one of the best places you can be.
Students are not taking advantage of the opportunities before
them. I ran for student senate last spring uncontested — there were
five openings and five candidates. For some positions no one ran, so
the person with the most write-in votes won.
Dave Shupe, our Student Association President spent a whole
semester looking for students to fill available positions.
Students who are dissatisfied with Bethel and their education,
have no excuse for complaining, and feeling sorry for themselves.
There are plenty of opportunities to put your time and effort where
your mouth is — and experience isn't necessary, you receive "on the
job training."
To the editor:
Perhaps I can respond to Tim
Weko's comments about my Foun-ders
Week announcement which
was included in his recent column
by writing in this open way. Tim,
you felt that I inferred attendance
at a Founders Week service was
"more spiritual" than attendance
at a basketball game.
Actually , I did not say that. God,
to be sure, is everywhere. Even so,
it is probably true that the average
person is more aware of His pre-sence
and message at a service
devoted to that purpose than at
an athletic event. In my remarks,
however, I was simply expressing
a priority for that particular night
similar to the choices all of us
constantly must make between
To the editor:
For some time now I have heard
from, and read opinions of, sev-eral
students who seem to possess
an incessant calling to ridicule,
renunciate, and reject innumerable
facets of our institution's system.
Some of it I can agree with, some
of it I can tolerate, but now I can
neither tolerate it nor keep silent
about it.
Specifically, I am referring to
the recent letter that expressed
dissatisfaction and disappointment
in President Lundquist's message
at the semester's opening chapel.
If you recall, the author of the
editorial chose to call it "the
puritanical 'Christian' package . .
on man's (archaic) rules and reg-ulations."
Not only do I feel that
this synopsis is totally inaccurate,
but also outrageous and uncalled
for.
As an introduction, the Pres-ident
offered a few words of cor-rection
for the misinformed editor
of Christianity Today and the re-cent
article that falsely claimed
Bethel held school sponsored dan-ces.
From this he went on to define
and reemphasize the three ideals
that do exist here, at least in
theory.
The main emphasis was on the
ideal of differentiation. He spoke
first of the quality of life that
should be characteristic of the
Christian. Not quality as parallel
to affluency, but quality as synon-omous
to genuine spiritually and
practice of righteousness for
Christ's sake. He also mentioned
that it is our responsibility as a
Christian community to make a
difference for Christ, for the true
Christian life is different. It is
different from the placid, worldly,
and sinful existence where self
reigns supreme. It is different be-cause
it is a life where Christ
reigns supreme and every thought,
deed and word should be accept-able
in His sight and committed
to Him. But it is only different
when it is lived!
The President's final word was
simple, fair and very logical.
It was also the part that Mr.
Mesaros failed to listen to. It was
here that he spoke to the individ-uals
who could not identify with
these principles and in fact asked
why they chose to attend Bethel
in the first place, being perfectly
aware of them. I can only reiterate
the same question.
From what I have seen, this cam-pus
seems to be searching for, and
is in need of, some kind of spirit-ual
awakening. I see no such ex-activities
both of which are good.
On this particular evening, I hoped
that many would choose to hear a
man who has never addressed our
student body before but who, in
my judgment, is one of the most
effective Christian leaders in our
world today. We do not have that
opportunity as often as we have
the chance to see our boys play.
Nay own enthusiasm about our
basketball team is indicated by the
fact that when I came to Bethel I
inserted a game for the first time
right into the heart of the Found-ers
Week schedule. That Thursday
afternoon game has been there
ever since. It has become a trad-itional
part of Founders Week
which all of our guests appreciate.
I know of no comparable program-perience
in sight — not until each
Christian here makes a serious
sacrificial commitment to God-liness
and righteousness; and not
until we learn to live life as direct-ed
by the Scriptures and the Holy
Spirit, rather than by personal
evaluations used as excuses and
modern ethics used as justifiers.
If we are going to use the cri-terion
of Mr. Mesaros, then one
of the most "puritanical 'Christian'
packages" ever written was in
To the editor:
Okay, so maybe he doesn't come
across very well to us. Maybe he
is out of touch with us. Maybe he
digs P.R. and we don't. Maybe he
is the spokesman for the fre-quently
lagging constituent estab-lishment.
Maybe his personality
doesn't groove with yours. Maybe
he makes occasional, unintended,
tactless mistakes. Maybe so.
But he isn't rude like we are
either. He doesn't cough or snort
when he's in the audience and
we're talking. He doesn't get up
and leave when we're talking to
To the editor:
Just thought you and the stu-dent
body might like to know the
truth about the "long lines in the
cafeteria" during Founder's Week.
In checking over the statistics
from that famed week, I was able
to discover that the greatest num-ber
of people on any one day in
the cafeteria was 511, which is
only 30 more than usual. Spread
that over 2 hours that the noon
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ming in any similar conference in
America.
I hope you were able to attend
some of the sessions on other
nights, Tim. For me as President
it was greatly inspiring to see our
co- lege students out in such large
numbers both morning and even-ing
— as well as at the after-ser-vice
dialogues with the speakers
in Edgren. And I trust that the
message and the spirit of the week-to
the world with love- always
will characterize us as teachers
and students in our relationships
with those at a distance as well as
with those right here on campus.
God bless you, Tim, as you help
us set our sails in this direction!
Carl H. Lundquist, President
Bethel College and Seminary
Paul's letter to the Philippians:
"Finally, brethren, whatever is
true, whatever is honorable, what-ever
is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is of
good repute, let your mind dwell
on these things." (N.A.S.B.)
May I remind you that these are
the Lord God's Commandments
not "man's rules', and they are
eternal — not "archaic!"
Roger W. Wilde '72
him. He doesn't throw paper air-planes
around when others are
speaking. He doesn't show dis-respect
for another's style of del-ivery
or personality.
Remember a couple of chapels?
Remember well-worn "First take
the plank out of your own eye and
then you will see clearly to take
the speck out of your brother's"?
Remember "Love is patient, gentle,
kind, . . . "? Remember ". . . the
Lord looks on the heart"? Re-member?
You do? Oh.
John Richard Trinity '70
lunch line is open and you average
about 1 extra person every 4 min-utes.
That certainly can't be too
"bloody" or "impossible," can
it? Besides, maybe someday you'll
be old and lonesome for some of
our famous nuggets of nutrition
and then you will return to be
that extra person every 4 min-utes.
Wayne Erickson
Assistant Food Services Manager
Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle,
Tom Ford, Dave Greener,
Jan Ullberg, Jan Urspringer,
Wibby Smith, Ron Roper
Proofreader Sharon Watson
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Business Manager Warren Magnuson
Photographers Jim Amelsberg,
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.
Campus needs spiritual awakening
Is he out of touch with us?
Love is patient, gentle, kind!
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Bethel Forum
Hagen refutes Dean Muck's letter
To my fellow Christians;
It was my sincere desire (via
Bethel Forum) to inform you of
a problem existing in God's church.
I'm certain most of you are vague-ly
familiar with this problem but
I hope you will all view it in a
more immediate way. We must all
take an active part in ridding
Christ's Bride of this inconsist-ancy.
Unfortunately, some of my state-ments
(February 20 Clarion) were
misundertsood and need clarifica-tion.
I have no desire to make any
character assasinations! Please do
not view my remarks as an attack
on any individual.
In his letter to the editor (Feb-ruary
20, Clarion), Dean Muck just-fies
my expulsion in view of the
need to enforce rules that insure
the integrity of Bethel as a Christ-ian
institution. I do not seek the
abolition of reasonable standards
for our Christian school. I advocate
reason and Christ-like love in
handling infractions of these stan-dards.
The chairman of one of the com-mittees
that decided on my sus-pension
stated that, regardless of
the circumstances, suspension im-mediately
follows the establish-ment
of the fact that drinking has
occured. Can all cases truly be
treated that automatically? Should
their be no allowances made in
view of the individual? Can we
judge with no consideration of
attitude and circumstances? I
think the answer to these questions
is demonstrably negative.
It is necessary to dispel a mis-conception
fostered by Dean
Muck's letter. He states that I
drank "a half-week after he (I)
had made the decision — and
announced it — to quit." He fur-ther
states that this 'fact' discred-ited
the reliability of that decision.
At various times the Dean assured
me that he realized that such was
not the case. Perhaps the facts of
the incident are hazy to him now.
The truth of the matter is, that I
decided to quit drinking and then
openly announced my decision. I
was not caught drinking. I openly
told of the four instances of drink-ing
(at Bethel) and explained that
God had asked me to stop. My
decision to quit was forced by a
love for God and not fear of being
caught.
Certainly under these circum-stances,
the reliability of my
decision should not come under
attack. In a letter to my parents
(December 29), however, I'm a-fraid
my reliability was indeed
assaulted. In this letter Dean Muck
says, ". . . he says that he intends
to quit drinking because he feels
that God would have him do so.
I would much prefer that he deter-mone
to quit because he is con-vinced
that drinking is inappropri-ate
for the Christian life." He goes
on to say that feelings change (no
argument) and therefore my de-cision
might be less than unshak-able.
If the administration did believe
my decision would stand up against
time, their decision was at best,
futile. In this case my decision was
not reinforced by my suspension.
All that would be accomplished
is the removing of me from Bethel
(where I matured as a Christian
to a great extent).
Here at Arizona State Univer-sity
I am certainly more apt to fall
than at the institution I was kept
from.
I would like to express my apol-ogies
if I implied that " . . . the
infrequency of his (my) drinking
was a factor that was overlooked"
in my first letter. I meant nothing
of the kind. I merely wished to
establish the fact that I was no
hard core alcoholic who couldn't
(are there any impossibilities with
God?) be expected to quit so quick-ly.
From a strictly humorous stand-point
this could have made a diff-erence
so mentioned it to cover
objections tended in the minds of
those who limit the power of God.
by Cindy Rostollan
and Marg Erickson
Millie Penner, a junior from Ab-botsford,
British Columbia, likes
being an R.A. Why? "I just like
working with people and being
with them. I also enjoy talking
with the girls about any problems
they might have. Being an R.A.
gives me all these experiences."
"For me, being an R.A. has been
the most beneficial and exciting
experience in my college career,"
says Cheryl Gemar, a senior (and
Bodien R.A.) from Sand Coulee,
Montana. "It seems I give so little
in relation to what I receive."
To Jon Peterson, a junior from
Hutchinson, Minnesota, being an
R.A. means limited privacy, but
he has learned that he has not
only gotten to know many of the
"Frosh," but he has gotten to
know himself as well. "I've really
learned about people, and discov-ered
that no one really works
like you do. Everybody is dif-ferent
in many respects."
Being an R.A. does require cer-tain
sacrifices, though. "One of the
main things you learn to do with-out,
is a lot of your own free
time. Kids are always popping in
unexpectedly to talk. Especially
during exams, there are a lot who
have to come in and just talk,
because things are unusually
tense then," says Millie. Cheryl
added to this, "I have tried to have
an open door policy on my floor,
and when my door is open, the
kids are free to come in and
talk, but if it's closed, that means
I'm either studying, or sleeping
or talking to someone else."
Can you imagine life in the
dorm without R.A.'s? Mom Wester-lund
of Bodien says, "Without a
good batch of R.A.s, life as a
housemother would be a horrible
experience. The R.A.s set the cli-mate
of the whole dorm, and they
serve as a kind of liason between
the student and housemother and
the Student Services Office. I know
I depend on my R.A.s to a very
great extent."
Since Bethel is taking applica-tions
for next year's R.A.s very
soon, our experienced RA.s offer-
Finally, I would like to submit
an example of how Jesus handled
the role of a 'judge'. In John 8:
1-11 we find the story of an adult-ress
brought before Jesus. He was
asked what should be done with
her. He answered, "Let he who is
without sin cast the first stone."
When all the woman's accusers
had receded, Jesus told her, "Nei-ther
do I condemn thee; go and
sin no more."
In God's Love,
David Hagen '73
ed some advice to those who plan
on applying. Says Cheryl, "To ap-ply,
you really have to be sold
on the idea of having to live in
the dorm, having hours, and spend-ing
at least 3 nights a week in
the dorm. The girls in the dorm
really rely on their R.A.s, and
they want someone to respect and
someone they can talk to. (They
don't want a mother, though!)
When you're on duty, it means
the girls over your studies, and
if you don't plan ahead, you could
run into problems."
Millie's advice came in this way,
"Lots of kids don't have any idea
about what an R.A. does (or not
the right idea anyway). For one
thing, they have to give some
spiritual guidance to the kids on
the floor, and sometimes it seems
like they have to be almost one
step ahead of their kids. You
really have to learn how to direct
the kids energies in valuable chan-nels.
"To the kids who are going to
be roomates to R.A.s (in Hag-strom),
I'd say they have to give
almost as much as the R.A. him-self.
They are just like the R.A.
because often kids come in and
talk with them too, only they
aren't paid for their work. They
sacrifice the same thing as the
R.A.s do."
"There are a couple of reasons
for applying for R.A.," says Jon,
"there is the money angle (a free
meal ticket if you don't want to
get involved), but there is also
a real liking of people. You can't
help but feel inadequate when
you think of your job, but then
you realize that the kids don't
want an answer, they just want
someone to listen to them. You
should be able to give some spi-ritual
emphasis, but it isn't nec-essary
to be a spiritual giant.
Any satisfaction you get from this
job corresponds to how much you
put into it."
There are certain things that
the housmother (or parents) ex-pect
from their R.A.s. "Our prime
consideration in choosing R.A.s,"
says Mom Westerlund, "is com-continued
on page 4
A student's obligation is to know the rules when he enters
into contract with an institution.
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R.A.'s foremost responsibility is
to "listen and pray" for students
Faye Kulbitski and Phil Deming starred in O'Neill's play
'Long Day's Journey Into Night' presented by Bethel students
at Luther Theological Seminary last Friday and Saturday
nights.
'Beaver' raid damages
draft records statewide
As one of the family's sons, Sam Griffith is driven to
alcoholism by his father in last weekend's presentation of
O'Neill's play.
Page 4 the CLARION Friday, March 6, 1970
ACE releases study of freshmen,
survey meets criticism from NSA
Large quantities of draft re-cords
were destroyed or damaged
late Saturday or early Sunday at
the state Selective Service office
and at local draft offices in down-town
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The FBI and local police have
made no arrests. Officials said
they have no suspects or leads.
Col. Robert P. Knight, state
Selective Service director, said
damage was so extensive that "it
will be difficult to carry out in-ductions
after March." March draft
notices already have been sent, he
said.
In three separate offices — the
state headquarters, the Ramsey
County office and Hennepin Coun-ty
office — file records and draft
registration cards were ripped,
scattered and strewn in piles that
were more than a foot deep in
places.
"Beaver 55" was written on the
walls of all three offices. Beaver
55 is the name of a group whose
R.A.'s grin
and bear it
continued from page 3
mitment to Christ, their interest
in relating to students, and their
dedication to Bethel and what it
stands for. They should be calm
in emergencies, because though
they (emergencies) don't come
often, they are always there. We
like things to be casual around the
dorm, and the girls should give
off this air. There should also be
an ability to keep secrets because
often they are the only ones who
know about many things going
on and who help guide the kids
they talk to. The main job of the
R.A. was and probably will always
be, to listen and pray."
It sounds like a busy, big job;
a job rewarding only to those who
feel they can handle the situations
they are thrust into, and come out
still smiling. It's enough to make
any applicants really think before
handing in that application.
members have claimed respons-ibility
for destroying draft records
in Indianapolis, Ind., and Dow
Chemical Co. records in Midland,
Mich., last fall. However, the or-iginal
group has disavowed know-ledge
of or participation in this
latest action.
In the Hennepin County office,
draft records were hauled out of
open file cabinets and strewn in
three office rooms and the boiler.
Deputy state Selective Service dir-ector
Maj. Abahamson said draft
record defoilers in the Hennepin
County office "knew what they
were doing. They went for the
files and for the registration
cards."
Damage was estimated by some
officials at more than $10,000.
Officials also stated there was no
way of knowing how many indi-viduals'
rcords were involved.
Some observers calculated that the
number would be in the thousands.
In the Ramsey County office,
where the damage was extremely
heavy, many registration cards had
been ripped up.
The supervisor of the Hennepin
County office, Merrill McCabe,
stated that no records would be
lost permanently since every per-son's
file is also kept at some al-ternative
location.
"It's just a matter of finding
which records have been destroy-ed,
and then reconstructing those
files," McCabe said. "It takes a lot
of time, but it can be done."
Knight said some files from
draft offices around the state are
sent to the headquarters in St. Paul
for review and that some of these
files might have been affected.
The "Beaver 55" has subsequent-ly
issued a policy statement justify-ing
their action which is presently
circulating in the Twin Cities area.
The original "Beaver 55" group
responsible for earlier draft file
destructions has dissavowed con-nection
with this latest insurrect-ionary
activity taken by individuals
who have also assumed the name
of "Beaver 55".
WASHINGTON —(CPS)— Large
majorities of the nation's 1.64 mil-lion
freshmen who entered colleges
and universities last fall, favor in-creased
federal involvement, in-cluding
the initiation of crash pro-grams,
for a number of America's
most pressing domestic problems,
according to the controversial
fourth annual American Council
on Education (ACE) freshman sur-vey.
This kind of urgency was expres-sed
by the students with respect
to pollution control (90 percent),
elimination of poverty (78 percent),
consumer protection (72 percent),
and compensatory education for
the disadvantaged (70 percent).
On most of these issues, further
analysis showed even stronger
majorities among women students
and Black students.
A total of 260,016 entering fresh-men
at 390 colleges and univer-sities
participated in the survey
this fall during registration or cam-pus
orientation periods before
classes started. Of this number,
169,190 questionnaires actually
were used in computing national
norms.
Among questions that were ask-ed
the year before, there were
marked increases in the percentage
of students agreeing that "mari-juana
should be legalized" (an in-crease
from 19 to 26 percent);
that "only volunteers should serve
in the armed forces" (an increase
from 37 to 53 percent), and that
"most college officials have been
too lax on student protest" (an in-crease
from 55 to 60 percent).
In answer to some new questions,
more than half of the students
agreed that divorce laws should
be liberalized (60 percent), courts
show too much concern for the
rights of criminals (54 percent),
and capital punishment should be
abolished (54 percent). Forty-two
percent agreed that "under some
conditions, abortions should be leg-alized."
Thirty-three percent of the stu-dents
currently indicate a "liberal"
or "left" political preference, 44
percent "middle-of-the-road," and
23 percent "conservative" or str-ongly
conservative." When asked
how they think they will charac-terize
themselves four years from
now, the students expect to have
more polarized political preferen-ces:
39 percent liberal-left, 29 per-cent
middle-of-the-road, and 32
percent conservative.
The total freshman enrollment
by race shows caucasians, 91 per-cent;
Black students, six percent;
American Indians, 0.3 percent;
Orientals, 0.7 percent; and "others"
1.1 percent.
While the report shows an in-crease
in the numbers of both
Black and white students entering
college this fall, there was no sig-nificant
increase in the proportion
of Black students compared to a
year earlier.
Following are other highlights
from the report:
*56.6 percent of the freshmen are
men, and 43.4 percent are women,
the same percentages as last year.
*Most of the students (55.6 per-cent)
said they grew up in a mod-erately
sized town, or suburb of a
large city. Only 9.7 percent grew
up on a farm, and 13.3 percent in
a large city.
*In answer to a question about
family income, the largest per-centage
— 28.7 percent — estim-ated
this between $10,000 and
15,000. A total of 5.5 percent es-timated
parental income at less
than $4,000.
*Students listed the following
major sources of financial support
during their freshman year: par-ental
or family aid, 49.2 percent;
personal savings or employment,
29.3 percent; repayable loans, 12.7
percent; and scholarships, grants,
or other gifts, 18.2 percent. About
ten percent said financing their
education was a major concern;
55.6 percent said it was a matter
of "some concern."
These annual surveys are part
of a program of research on the
effects of the college experience
on students. It is under the direc-tion
of Dr. Alexander W. Astin,
director of the A.C.E. Office of
Research. The research staff plans
John Denver, guitarist, folksing-er
and song writer, will appear in
concert at Concordia College of
St Paul, Minnesota on Monday,
March 9, beginning at 8 p.m. The
concert sponsored by the Men's
Council, Women's Council, Fine
Arts Club, and student publication
The Sword, will take place in the
Lutheran Memorial Center.
John Denver is an enthusiastic
folksinger with excellent talents.
His present career as solo perform-er
was preceded by two and a half
years as the lead singer in The
Mitchell Trio. The lyrics of John
Denver's songs show a strong iden-tification
with children and nature
and also seem to represent the
feelings and attitudes of many of
today's young people. This folk-singer
is the writer-composer of
the popular song "Leaving on a
Jet Plane."
to conduct mail follow-up studies
of these students after they have
had some experience in college.
The ultimate purpose of the fol-low-
up will be to determine how
the students' achievements, atti-tudes,
and plans are affected by
the types of colleges they attend,
Astin says.
The study has come under critic-ism
by the National Student Assoc-iation
which has charged that the
answers by incoming freshmen
could be used against them. NSA
also questions the accuracy of the
survey since students may be a-fraid
to answer honestly some
questions such as those concerning
drug use and campus disruption.
ACE maintains all answers are
strictly confidential and would not
be released even if they were sub-poenaed
into court.
Tickets are $2 at the door. If
you want to reserve tickets, phone
Mary Soulek at 646-9201.
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by Pastor Maurice Lawson
"The Christian World View" is
the theme of a new three-Monday
series by members of our Christi-anity
department. Dr. Arthur
Lewis will speak this week on, "In
the Beginning, God . . ." The For-eign
Language department will
have the Tuesday program. Wed-nesday
will be NEW music with
the Pastor continuing with Mark's
portraits of Jesus.
The St. Anthony High School
Band will give a concert on Thurs-day,
and on Friday Pastor Richard
Anderson of Minnetonka will
speak.
Former Chad Mitchell member,
John Denver, to be at Concordia
by Steve Duininck
Bethel College is a three ringed circus. The ring in one far corner
holds all the radicals. The opposite side is filled with the conservative
element of Bethel while the middle is filled with those who throw up
their hands in dispair.
If I have failed to notice anything else here I have observed how
these two poles work on each other. They use sneers, jokes, and often
down and out slander. The Clarion has become a battlefield for these
confrontations and its ancient copies show many wounds.
Last year's war was fought against the Music Dept. The radicals,
athletes, and all others who picked up arms against the music men
were unable to win a decisive victory. Moreover both sides ended up
killing each other till none survived. This year President Lundquist
is being shot at for being "out of contact" and prejudiced against the
basketball team. How many funerals will be held this year is unknown
but it should be a new record.
Getting back to the circus idea, I wonder what the audience thinks
of us. Do they see a united Christian body or a bunch of performing
animals? I hope it is the former but I wouldn't bet my dirty socks on it.
The only solution I can forsee lies in dissolving our pride, selfish-ness,
and psuedo-intelligence and using the long forgotten idealism
of love. I don't expect things to change simply because we are human
but maybe someday God will turn us on to love so strong it will take
eternity to tear us apart.
Man must balance society's frustration with God's love.
Concert rebirth
`The Gates of Justice' displays
jazzist Brubeck's musical skill Dave Whitney, Assistant Professor of Speech at Bethel,
will produce In White America Saturday March 14.
Black students will present play
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by Jay Swisher
About a year and a half ago,
when I heard that jazz pianist,
Dave Brubeck had begun writing
extended choral works, I was one
of the first to laugh. How a jazz
composer could turn to writing
"classical" music was beyond me.
I was sure it was all a big joke.
Sunday, March 1, I went to hear
Brubeck's second oratorio, "The
Gates of Justice." Again, I was
laughing when I saw the 350 voice
choir come out on stage with tenor
and baritone soloists, and an in-strumental
ensemble of twelve
brass players, two percussionists,
organ, and the Dave Brubeck Trio.
But when the music started, I
stopped laughing.
Brubeck has come up with a
work of very high quality. It ranks
right up with works by com-posers
like Stravinsky, Copeland,
et al. There is music within the
oratorio for every taste — from
classical to rock to jazz. And all
of it is very exciting.
While I have nothing but praise
for the music, I think the text
leaves something to be desired.
Collected by Brubeck and his wife
from Old Testament Scripture (es-pecially
the Psalms), the prayer
book of Reform Judaism and quo-tations
from Dr. Martin Luther
King, the Beatles, and Simon and
Garfunkel, it suffers greatly from
over-abundance. I found myself
frustrated trying to pull out the
overall message from the entangle-ment
of ideas. At times, I was con-vinced
that justice was the ob-jective.
At other times, it was
praise of God. And even faith.
Generally, the performance was
very good. Baritone solist, Andrew
Frierson demonstrated great pow-er
and vocal ability, while tenor,
Harold Orbach was unimpressive.
The University of Minnesota Chor-us,
350 members strong, was as
powerful as would be expected and
was obviously involved in the
music. The instrumental ensemble
was kept rather busy and per-formed
very well. Conductor, Rich-ard
Sieber was uninspiring. Of
course, the Dave Brubeck Trio
was, to use the vernacular, a real
groove.
I hate to admit it, but it was
honestly a pleasure to be proven
wrong. After all, who ever heard
of a jazz pianist composing an
oratorio?
by Ron Roper
The Society of the Future, Hen-drik
van Riessen, Presbyterian and
Reformed Publishing Co., 1958,
$4.95.
Dr. van Riessen is a Dutch en-gineer,
philosopher, and industrial
sociologist. Although this book is
obviously written for the specialist
in parts, yet the format is sur-prisingly
varied. As the title in-dicates,
the book has reference
to the future. However, the au-thor
is quick to point out that
he is not attempting eschatology.
Instead, he is analyzing views of
society and society itself as they
have unfolded in Wetsern civili-zation.
The author is a Christian. But
much more, he applies a highly
developed and consistent Biblical
insight in his analysis. He is an
original thinker, having his roots
in the Christian Philosophy asso-ciated
with Dr. Herman Dooye-weerd
and Dr. D. M. Th. Vollen-haven.
It is this remarkable back-drop
of Biblical Christianity which
sets off Van Reissen's book from
all others in its field.
"The English reader who is un-familiar
with the school of philos-ophy
to which Dr. Van Riessen
belongs will be surprised, if not
genuinely disturbed, by the intro-duction
of articles of faith into
an analysis of society . . ."
"Van Riessen fully realized that
it is most unusual to introduce
Christian beliefs into philosophical
and sociological discourse. How-ever,
he is convinced that it is
possible to demonstrate on philo-sophical
grounds that a religious,
value free approach to society is
impossible . . . "
"The critical reader ought to
avoid a hasty and final judgement
with regard to the merit of mixing
sociology and religion until he
has become familiar with this ap-proach."
(quotes from the trans-lator's
preface)
____Dr. Van Riessen begins by set-ting
his course before him, and
sketching the outcome of his re-search.
"We do not intend to
visualize the future of society in
a kind of imaginary perspective,
because that would mean a shift-ing
of our present responsibility
into the future. Quite the reverse;
we want to discover the signs of
the future as so many warnings
in the sphere of our present re-sponsibilities."
The author affirms that his
purpose is "to investigate one
particular facet of reality in re-lation
to its future: the structure
of society as organized by man."
Van Riessen is outspoken in his
judgements of secularization (not
as versus ecclesiasticism, but as
arises from Humanism) and the
possibility of "neutral" human ac-tivity.
His anathema up "the con-tinuous
direction of society to-wards
collectivism" is clear also.
I have never read as incisive and
well-aimed a critique of collect-ivism
as I found in the chapter
entitled, "Structural Principles of
Society" and indeed, the entire
book. The appeal to the purpose
of man's life on earth as found in
Scripture, was straightforward and
convincing to me. The bulk of this
pivotal chapter was an exposi-tion
of two basic principles 1) the
balance of authority and freedom
2) sphere-sovereignty.
This exposition was immensely
refreshing! It is very seldom that
one encounters such clearly Bibli-cal
thinking, unencumbered by the
chains of worldly Humanism. "The
most important advantage that can
be gained for our analysis is that
it will free us from the dilemma
resulting from a forced option be-
Friday, March 6, 1970
tween collectivism vs. individual-ism;
the community vs. the indi-vidual.
The author even denied
the necessity of some compromise
position in the middle. A key
thought, often and variously re-iterated,
was that, "since individu-alism
has been defeated in our
society, humanity is confronted
with a decisive choice between a
collective course and a trend which
would recognize the principles of
sphere-sovereignty, and of the bal-ance
of authority and freedom."
The defeat of individualism may
be questioned, especially with the
recent rise of Ayn Rand's "object-ivism"
in some circles. The pre-sent
choice between gross collect-ivism
and the Christian principles,
on the other hand, seems more
certain.
The author traces the "History
of Western Society" with an eye
to social structures and phil-osophical
winds of doctrine.
In a chapter on "Utopias," Van
Riessen critiques so-called ideal
(and a few not-so-ideal) societies
from Plato's to Orwell's. He sees
the unifying theme of all Utopians
to be the search for a road to
paradise that "does not pass along
the station of the fall into sin."
Van Riessen would require an ad-mission
of sin before the possibil-ity
of positive construction along
the lines of the forementioned
principles, could be effected.
In "Science and Technique in
Modern Society," a discussion of
the development and interaction of
science and what we could call
"From slave ship to ghetto riots
—what it has meant for two cen-turies
to be a black man."
This is a brief description of
the play, In White America, which
will be presented at Bethel on
Saturday, March 14, at 8 p.m. in
room 106.
The play will be sponsored by
the Cultural Committee. There will
be no admission charge to this
event, but there will be an op-portunity
for contributions to
share, in an effort to provide for
more funds for minority students.
The play is based on actual
American history and is present-ed
from a black man's point of
view.
Mr. Whitney, director of the
the CLARION Page 5
technology was entered upon. Cy-bernetics,
automation, organiza-tion
and centralization were recur-ring
themes; the next chapter, en-titled
"The Society of the Future,"
related the outcomes that such
achievements portend if not in
accord with the balance of author-ity
and freedom and sphere-sov-ereignty.
And then there was the last
chapter, "The Liberation of So-ciety."
Continuing with the thread
of argument in the previous chap-ters,
it was here that the appli-cation
of a Christian mind, assist-ed
by Scriptural principles, was
accomplished — but only in writ-ing.
Examples of the actual ap-plication
were adduced many
times, but is was apparent that
those who were responsible for
the actual modifications (usually
in industrial contexts), were not
themselves aware of the relation
of the discoveries they stumbled
across to Scriptural principles.
This chapter is a challenge to the
thinking 'Christian who wants to
pursue a career in labor relations,
industrial management, or soci-ology
— a truly fitting finale.
"Social liberation should be ac-complished
by the victory over the
spiritual crisis in our own time.
Without such victory which, at
bottom, requires a re-Christianizing
of life no definite recovery of so-cial
life will be possible . .. such
re-Christianizing is meant as the
faith in the redemption of the
world by Jesus Christ and life
proceeding from His grace."
play and speech instructor here
at Bethel, said that he and the
black students he's working with
were asked to present the play at
Bethel. The play has also been
presented at Miriam Lexington
Presbyterian Church, Hallie Q.
Brown Community House, and
Highland High School.
This production of the play
grew out of the efforts of one
black high school student who
wanted to do a black play. She
got a group of her friends togeth-er
and they then asked Mr. Whit-ney
to direct it for them.. In
order to find out what has hap-pened
since then, you will have
to wait and see, In White America.
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Track team opens season at St. Olaf
by Rick Zaderaka
Tomorrow afternoon the Royals
open the track season with an
indoor meet at St. Olaf. Bethel
will be competing against St. Olaf
and Southwest.
The cindermen began practice
last Thursday afternoon under the
guidance of Coach Gene Glader,
who reports that they have spent
the past week working on condi-tioning
and form.
Returning lettermen are: Co-captains
Dave Pound and Rick
Berggren, Fred Swedberg, Phil
James, Pete Roemer, and Darrel
Nelson. Although Nelson broke his
arm three weeks ago, the team
is hopeful that he will compete
before the season's end. He was
described by senior Dave Pound
as "a hard worker, who has been
an inspiration to the team in the
past."
Hurdler Dan Mogck and javelin
thrower Fred Swedberg were cited
as a pair of the team's top as-sets.
Others expected to give the
tracksters a boost, are distance
runners Mark Anderson and Paul
Youngquist, pole vaulters Jerry
Jenfa and John Zylstra, and
weightmen Jim Carlson and Rick
Casteel.
According to Pound, the weak-ness
of the team appears to be
in the sprints, although some of
the boys who are inexperienced
at this point could prove to be
pleasant surprises.
Coach Glader commented "We'll
probably be as good as last year's
team. Against the smaller schools
like Concordia, we'll do all right;
but against the M.I.A.C. schools,
it's going to be tough."
Glader said the team's strength
will lie in the quarter, half, and
mile, as well as the javelin and
possibly the shot put.
1970 TRACK MEET SCHEDULE
Mar. 7 St. Olaf Reserves and
Southwest at St. Olaf
Mar. 14 Stout and Northland
at Stout
Mar. 21 Superior and Northland
Mar. 30 Evangel College
Springfield, Mo.
Mar. 31 Ozark Bible College
Joplin, Mo.
April 2 Tarkio, Tarkio, Mo.
April 4 U. of South Dakota Invi-tational,
Vermillion, S.D.
April 11 River Falls There
April 18 Carleton Relays There
April 25 Bethel Relays—St. John's
Concordia, Augsburg,
Hamline
April 28 Concordia (St. Paul)
May 2 St. Thomas, U.M., Duluth
Southwest at St. Thomas
May 9 Bethel Invitational—Pills-bury,
Concordia, Lea,
Northland, Southwest
State
May 12 Macalester Invitational and
NAIA Championship at
Macalester
Season prospects are questionable
as baseball team begins practicing
by Bill Ankerberg
Baseball practice will start on
March 16 this year. The prospects
for the season are questionable
at this point. According to Coach
Jack Trager the biggest problems
will probably be with hitting
strength and pitching depth.
This year's team will play 15
games with a squad of 11 re-turning
lettermen. The prospects
are hopeful for the two three-year
veterans Bill Painter and Dean
Erickson, along with last year's
Most Valuable Player, Gary Clark.
The biggest question mark on
the team will be the pitching
staff. Don Brandsma could be a
definite asset if he can regain the
use of his left arm, injured dur-ing
the football season. Coach
Trager is presently looking for
Freshmen pitching talent to aid
the limited staff. In Coach Trager's
words, "If we can find some good
pitchers, we can reshuffle our
players and could come out in
pretty good shape."
A second weakness will probab-ly
be the hitting. Last year we
only had two men hitting over
.300. The team is looking to soph-omore
center fielder Gary Clark
and junior Bob Brodin for help
in this area.
Coach Trager is optimistic about
the coming season. Part of this
optimism is rooted in the fact
that they play fewer doubleheaders
this year. This will enable them
to go all out for a single game
without having to hold players in
reserve, or playing a slightly re-laxed
game.
Last year's team posted a 6-11
won-lost record. Now that Coach
Trager has a year of coaching
under his belt, he should provide
the leadership that is necessary
if the Royals are to improve on last
year's record.
Those interested in going out
A-LEAGUE BASKETBALL
RESULTS
Standings
Team
Won Lost
1. Second New 5 0
2. Faculty 4 1
3. First Floor 5 1
4. Off Campus 4 1
5. Second Old 3 2
6. Third New 2 3
7. Falcon 1 4
8. Pit 1 4
9. New Dorm 1 4
10. Third Old 0 5
Next Games:
Monday, March 9
Wednesday, March 11
for baseball this season are en-couraged
to contact Coach Trager
or any of the players themselves.
B-LEAGUE BASKETBALL
RESULTS
Standings
Team
Won Lost
1. New Dorm 5 0
2. Second New 5 0
3. Third Old 4 1
4. Second Old 3 2
5. First Floor 3 2
6. Pit 2 3
7. Faculty 2 3
8. Falcon 1 4
9. Third New 1 4
10. Off Campus 0 5
Next Games
Saturday, March 7 1
Thursday evening's Donkey Basketball Game was the
scene of much hilarity. — Dr. Donald Larson aided the faculty
as they rode their — (mules) to an overtime victory over
the student delegation.
BASEBALL SCHEDULE 1970
Dunning* May 1 St. Paul Bible
2 Lea
Paul) There 6 Carleton
Dunning 8 Golden Valley
Dunning 14 Hamline
There 16 NCBC
Dunning *Dunning Field
9attameetata
Apr. 9 Hamline
11 OPEN
14 Concordia (St.
17 Northland
18 NCBC
22 Carleton
25 St. Olaf
Dunning
There
Dunning
There
Dunning
Dunning
Page 6
the CLARION Friday, March 6, 1970
The Column
by Tim Weko
Last week Bethel College got its first taste of the boxing craze
that has been silently sweeping the nation the past few days. It seems
that a number of fellas were feeling their Cheerios, or the long cold
winter had affected them adversely, or something equally intangible,
because a group of students were seen in the wrestling room of the
gym throwing punches and absorbing them.
It all started when Larry Swanson and John Peterson were having
a "squirrel fight" and someone suggested that the only way to settle
it properly would be to check out Bethel's boxing gloves and fight
it out like true gentlemen (naturally they were governed by the Marquis
de Queensbury rules). It was decided that the best 2 of 3 rounds of 3
minutes each would determine the fight. Immediately the blood started
flowing.
What had begun as a "friendly" sparring contest turned into an
animal brawl, as first one guy would throw a punch and connect and
the other guy, (not wanting to appear inept in the manly art of fisticuffs
before the gathered crowd of some 20 persons) would swarm his oppon-ent,
trying to hit him with everything he had — including his fists now
and then. The blood flowed early and stayed late as 2 others wanted to
see what they could do with the gloves. Match number 2 began — and
ended 2 rounds later in a pool of blood and 2 sets of glazed eyes.
Oh, how the crowd ate it all up. And so, not to be out done, 2 more
adversaries walked forth, strapped the gloves on their hands, and
duked it out for 2 rounds. Being just a bit sqeamish about such things
I don't want to belabor a point, but that last one was a real blood-bath.
But that was the start of boxing here at Bethel. Next year there
will be intramural boxing with 4 weight divisions. If you're lucky, the
school will buy some 16 ounce gloves and some head gear to keep the
concussions and the cauliflower ears to a minimum. Actually, it's only
in the planning stage or maybe not even that far, but . . . it might
be a good tension reliever. However, the best function would be that
you wouldn't have to talk about a guy behind his back. You could just
go right out, put your "money" where your mouth is, and lay a good
Christian punch right on him — and run.
* * * *
What ever happened to the 16 team Bethel Invitational track meet?
For years we had gone along with tradition, scheduling a 6 team push-over
track meet which got us nowhere, except that we usually took 1st
place. Jack Trager coached track and for some reason the Bethel Invita-tional
or the Bethel Relays, if you prefer, was expanded to an 18 or 16
team event that made Bethel sport's history. There were many fine
schools there and the competition was keen. Bethel didn't finish in
1st place, but if there has been a sporting event in the last 10 years
that has put Bethel College on the map it is that track meet.
But last year we were back to our old 6 team job again. There are
no legitimate reasons for not expanding that meet to the 16 - team size.
The money factor would remain almost the same. Many of the students
could help out on the track just as they did 2 years ago. In fact, it was
really refreshing to see all those Bethel kids working side by side in
order to make that track meet a success (brotherhood, baby).
The track team would get home team glory and still meet other
competitors head on. Most of all, the school would receive some badly
needed prestige. After that meet two years ago, every coach and many
of the participators praised the meet as a success.
If Bethel College ever wants to become anything but a doormat
to the other schools in the state, as far as sports are concerned, she
had better begin now with the things that can be done without a lot
of extra money. A 16 team Bethel Invitational would be a good place
to start.