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Vol. XLV—No. 16 Friday, February 13, 1970 Love your founder as yourself Founders invade campus next week by Jack Priggen By now almost everyone on campus has heard something of the proposed recruiting of minority group students to Bethel. Last Wed-nesday, February 4 the newly formed group, share, showed the film, "Burden of Truth." Thursday, the fifth faculty passed a measure which stated that they were in sympathy with the idea of minority group re-cruiting. This came after some discussion both for and against the pro-posed recruiting, but the recommendation was passed unanimously. On Monday, February 9th 'Bo Conrad's Spit Band' presented a tremendously successful 'concert' to raise money for the share scholar-ship fund which is to provide financial aid for American racial minority students. The group raised almost $190. Thursday, February 26th the faculty hears a tape of an address delivered to the United States Congress on Evangelism, September 9, 1969, by Tom Skinner. Tom Skinner is a black evangelist associated with Billy Graham, one time leader of one of the largest gangs in Harlem, New York, and author of the best seller "Black and Free." Mr. Skinner lays down, in black and white, the responsibilities of evangelical institu-tions to minority groups. This tape should prove valuable showing these responsibilities to the faculty. The first step has now been taken. This step could prove to be small, fruitless, and in short, a farce. It could also prove to be one of the greatest things to ever happen to Bethel. There are several reasons why this program may not get out of the planning stages. Money is one. Clearly the administration will have to allot the recruitment office adequate funding to travel recruiting minor-ity groups. Financial aid will definitely be required to help these stu-dents meet the high cost of education at Bethel. Another area of needed revision will be in both the administration and faculty, namely setting up a program which would attract minority group students to Bethel. If Bethel has nothing to offer the minority student, he will not come. Adjustments may have to be made at all levels by nearly everyone to insure that the minority student once at Bethel will not be discrimin-ated against. In general, preferred treatment of either black, white, or indian in any way would be fatal to the program. Today there are over 25,000,000 blacks in the U.S., but there are less than 100 blacks at all evangelical colleges in the U.S. combined. Is Bethel a segregated, "white ghetto" as the minority committee's recommendation suggested? Do we have in our minds a God who is an Anglo Saxon, middle class, protestant republican? If we want this first step of interest to be a 'giant step' we (students and faculty) may have to "make a lot of noise" for the Administration to hear us, and for the Administration to include in its priorities and budget funds for re-cruiting and financially helping minority students at Bethel. Social action conference planned Bethelites work for minority recruitment Student activism stirs; project 'share' initiated On February 16-18, 1970, a un-ique conference designed after a county fair will be held at the Pick-Nicollet Hotel in Minneapo-lis. The conference will be known as the Action Models Fair. Those attending will be able to draw on the resources of experts in the field of social action from all over the United States and Canada and be able to implement in their own communities, programs in hous-ing, welfare, employment and education. On the three days of the Fair over sixty models of what concern-ed people are doing to bridge the gaps in our society will be on dis-play. This is one of the first at-tempts to create and stockpile a bank of human resources that will tune in the Upper Midwest to what is happening, not only with-in this community, but across the nation as well, to improve the quality of contemporary society. In November of 1968, Town Meeting Incorporated, the Nation-al Urban Coalition and the Amer-ican Institute of Planners organ-ized a conference on communica-tions for the future. It featured addresses by such noteables as Whitney Young, Executive Dir-ector of the Urban League, Ed-ward P. Morgan of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory, and oth-er national figures. It also featured "booths" in the hotel lobby where conferees could see actual dem-onstrations of innovative uses of communications and have the op-portunity to talk informally with communications experts. The "booth" approach was so succesful that many conferees were reluctant to return to the formal sessions, no matter who the guest speaker was. Building on the experience of the November, 1968 conference on communications, George Nel-son Associates, an educational con-sulting firm in Minneapolis, in conjunction with Luther Theolo-gical Seminary in St. Paul and the Urban Affairs Department of Augsburg College decided to uti-lize the "booth - county fair" approach for a conference on soc-ial action. The resulting concept is the Action Models Fair. The Fair will be open to the public from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. There will be no formal sessions, no lectures, no advance regis-tration. The daily registration fee is $1 for students and $2 for others. Twelve meeting and display rooms will serve as the "booths" of the Fair. In these rooms will be experts in such diverse areas of social action as: social comment-ary film-making and the use of the film medium; economic devel-opment processes, rural and ur-ban; uses of communications sys-tems and networks for social change; gearing business to the needs of the community; non-pro-fit, low-income housing projects; emergency or "instant" community service organizations; and total community development processes. A few of the organizations that will have booths at the Fair as resource models are: Christian Act-ion Ministry Academy of Chicago, a highly successful prep school for high school dropouts from the continued on page 4 "To the World with Love" is the challenging theme of Bethel's Founders Week, February 16-20. A number of well-known and some not so well-known speakers will attempt to bring this theme to life. Leading the four days of meet-ings are Horace Fenton, the Dir-ector of the Latin America Mission; Harold Lindsell, Editor of Chris-tianity Today; Donald McGavran, Dean of the Fuller School of World Missions and veteran of 32 years of service in India; Jess Moddy, author of the book with the pro-vocative title A Drink At Joel's Place; Oswald Smith, the founder of the non-denominational Peoples Church, Toronto; and Clyde Tay-lor, Evangelical Missions Associ-tion and a veteran worker in Peru. Activities of the week include Freshman candidate, Penny Watkins was crowned Sno- Daze Queen Thursday evening at the Camelot. a banquet on Monday, a testimon-ial session by students and faculty on Tuesday and the preaching competition on Wednesday. Thur-sday there is a basketball game, Bethel versus Concordia, and on Friday the closing rally. The highlight of the week will be the dedication of the new fac-ilities on the Arden Hills campus which will take place on Wednes-day at 2 o'clock. The speaker will be Harvey Lindsell. Other participants in the activ-ities include Evelyn Christianson, a pastor's wife from Rockford, Illi-nois and active worker in wom-en's work; Mildred Dienert, a dynamic Bible teacher; and of special interest to students, Rene Padilla, head of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in South America. The 1970 Sno-Daze Queen, Pen-ny Watkins, was crowned at the highlight of the Sno-Daze calen-dar last night at the Camelot. Penny, a petite freshman from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was chosen to reign over this year's winter celebration in an all school election that was held Wednesday. She will be formally presented to-night at the half time activities in the game here against Briar Cliff. Also included in the half time activities tonight is the are nual beard judging contest, de-signed to award the Bethel male with the best looking beard. The weekend's events also in-clude skating on the rink in the center of the campus. The idea In addition to these guest speak-ers, twelve Conference mission-aries will be present to act as re-source persons in various work-shops held throughout the week. They include Vernon Anderson, Brazil; Dale Bjork, Japan; Robert Boyd, Argentina; Paul Edwards, India; John Marrs, Brazil; George Johnson, India; Bill Murray, Ethi-opia; Franklin Nelson, Burma; Roy Nelson, Phillippines; Glen Ogren. Brazil; Glen Swanson, Japan; and Herman Tegenfeldt, Burma. Their presentations will be brief,giving time for participation and inter-action. Founders Week is expected to draw more than 1000 visitors from across the nation. They will join with the Bethel Community in seeking to investigate their theme, "To the World with Love." of a skating rink was brought back to the ranks of tradition for Sno- Daze last year by John Goodman this year's Social Committee Chair-man. Work on this year's rink started during interim. The enthusiasm of hockey players using the ice about midnight Wednesday seems to indicate that it is in good con-dition for the weekends's festiv-ities, which, incidentally, include broomball for the non skaters. The home game against Mankato State Saturday evening will close the Sno-Daze activities for another year. In charge of the Sno-Daze calendar this year was Chairman of the Sno-Daze Committee Jim Carlson and Jerry Falr, President of the Sophomore class. Penny Watkins reigns over Sno-Daze Christianity is incompatible with racial bigotry To the editor: In speaking of his experience with the Islam religion, Malcolm X said: "Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races— the "white" attitude was re-moved from their minds by the religion of Islam—. We were truly all the same (brothers) —because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the "white" from their behavior, and the "white" from their attitude—. With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white Am-erican heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster —." Malcolm X grew up exposed to Christianity — his father was even a preacher, but somehow the real message of God's creation of all men in his own image and his commands for justice and love a-mong the brotherhood of humanity was not taken seriously enough to be practiced by whites. Is it any wonder that Malcolm X did not realize Jesus Christ as the answer to his life? The essence of Christianity is an individual's acceptance of God's kingdom or reign over his life, certainly incompatible with racial bigotry. Despite this, it is said that 11:00 on Sunday morning is Am-erica's most segregated hour. God's creation of man, not different kinds of man, but man was in his own image. Do we have a right to make a distinction which God himself did not make? Galatians 3: 28 says "for you are all one in Christ Jesus." How can we then have the audacity to deprive black Americans of their human dignity and rights by forcing them to be our "mascots" or Uncle Toms in order to be accepted? —WE ARE ALL ONE — When will we love and accept them for the individual human beings that they are? Jesus Christ taught and lived the life of love. We too, as his followers are to be known for our love for the brethren — to love one's neighbor as oneself. What if Malcolm X had seen this love practiced by white Christians? "Let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth." (John 3: 18) Love embodies action and its prerequisite is justice. In Christianity and Social__ Justice, Msgr. Luigi Civardi says "to do (one) justice (is) to give him what is due him, and no one can say that he is doing charity to a bro-ther if he has not done him full justice first." God demands justice, "let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream," (Amos 5: 25) and he will have it even at the expense of white, Christian Americans. The Christian conscience has been negligent and silent. The Bi-ble says to love one's neighbor but we won't let Blacks be our neighbors; we've cultivated indif-ference when God has taught us to help others when they have need; we dedicate our minds to sublime things and ignore God in our daily lives where social in-justices occur; and, we delegate our responsibility to the courts, excusing ourselves from exercising the justice God demands of every man. (Paraphrased, Rabbi Heshel) Actually we are isolating ourselves — protecting our self-centered, "safe" lives which risk discomfort from too much awareness or in-volvement in crucial issues. Rev. Will Cambell, author of Race and Renewal of the Church, aptly states, "We are asking, 'what can we do to improve race rela-tions and still maintain the str-ength and rate of growth of the "comfortable institution?" The answer to that question is 'No-thing!' " The life of love for others that Christ teaches involves some personal sacrifice. I ask along with Martin Luther King, "Shouldn't it be our Judeo- Christian faith which transforms the jangling discords of America into a beautiful symphony of bro-therhood?" We have failed people like Malcolm X all too often. Chri-stianity has been marred by our failure to believe and live what Christ teaches; we can and must change — praying for his spirit, seeking to love all men with his love and thereby honor him and his entire creation. Jackie Goodman '71 Senior questions validity of the spirit exhibited in President's message of semester's opening chapel To the editor: After much thought and discus-sion with my fellow students I find I can no longer remain silent; I must express myself. The spirit of Christian Love which grew on this campus during the Interim, on the choir tour and with the study group in Israel was something which made Bethel come alive. Symposium, which I participated in, brought with it a chance to exchange ideas, concepts and beliefs between many stu-dents who would not normally come in contact with one another. Usually students hide themselves in protective shells but the new unity in Jesus overcame this ob-stacle. People who were once "its" became "thous". I began to under-stand what others felt and cared about and we shared love between us and in Christ. This new Spirit seemed to unite everyone together and those of us in Symposium expressed their hopes and prayers at our last meeting that this new found unity centered upon Christ would natur-ally be carried over to second sem-ester. This Spirit was different from others that had come to this campus, it had no emotional up-lifting or impact, just a quiet, deep, mutual caring for one an-other's lives, thoughts and needs. It was a desire to put down streo-types, miconception and to see the The reality of Christ was expres-sed in many ways, for each of us loved Him and received love from Him in unique individual relation-ships. Christ was shared as a per-sonal friend, and with_ in that friendship was the spirit and love we had for one another. That was our guide for life — our goal was to be more like the Saviour. continued on page 3 1— "FORGET IT, BUDDY. MY FRIEND FROM THE LANDLORDS' ASSOCIATION SAYS YOU'RE ON HIS LIST NOT ONLY AS A TENANT'S UNION RADICAL, BUT AS A CARD—CARRYING Page 2 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970 UNIVERSITY STUDENT." Bethel needs minority group recruitment, why? When the North Central examining team visited Bethel's campus a year ago, one of the criticisms they handed down was that the com-munity's population was too homogeneous. Their recommendation was that Bethel must create a greater diversity among its student body by including both more minority students and more disadvantaged students in its campus population, or endanger itself of losing its ac-creditation. In spite of this statement, the faculty committee on Minority Groups has been working for two years to get faculty approval on a mild recommendation which calls for the active recruitment of min-ority students, the expansion of the effort required to make them successful here, the re-examination of curriculum to include, where possible, new courses of interest to minority students and to com-pensate in existing courses for the present under emphasis on the con-tributions of the various minority groups. For two years the recom-mendations bounced back to committee after being tabled for further discussion, revision, re-examination. The recommendation was finally passed by unanimous voice vote last week after a flury of discussion. Attitudes seemed to be generally in favor, but noncommittal. — We need minority students, but there's too much involved. It'll never happen. It'll cost too much and there will be too much effort involved — it's easier not to change. Two courses dealing with different areas on black culture, Black Literature and Rhetoric of Black Revolt, were structured for the Interim. Out of these two classes came a core of students concerned with the role that Bethel is playing in the issue of minority groups and recruitment. They formed a group called share which has committed itself "to provide at Bethel a wider educational experience through the re-cruitment of minority students, to provide an opportunity for educa-tional disadvantaged individuals to obtain a higher education at Bethel." They have already sponsored a film and a concert which raised almost $200. Good. So what? Why do we need minority students at Bethel? First. The North Central evaluation team indicated that to continue on the present trend of homogenity, would jeopardize our accredi-tation as a liberal arts college. Do you want the college to lose its accreditation two years after you leave? How do you think that's going to look on the records? "B.A. from Bethel Colege. Hmmm — Say, didn't that place lose its accreditation just after you graduated?" Second. There must be a reason why the North Central evaluation team thinks that homogenity is bad. There appear to be several reasons. A liberal arts college is supposed to prepare a person to face society when he leaves. Whether we want to recognize the fact or not there are blacks running around outside here and they are becoming more and more a part of everyday life—an everyday life with which Bethel students are not being faced, but will be when they leave. Are we going to face life with the outdated ideas and attitudes of our parents? We may even have good ideas about the way things should be and the willing-ness to change, but there is a big difference between how things should be and how far you can go towards that goal. We need experience. What type of relationship could you or would you develope with a black boss, minister or neighbor? There is a more basic reason why. An environment, to remain fresh and creative, must change. It must "get new blood" into its system. Why do you think cousins are not allowed to marry? Anything that is living is continually changing and adapting. A society is the same way. We, at Bethel are presently committing incest. We need to examine all sides of every question, constantly searching for better ways. And who knows? We may be able to benefit from the relation-ships which would develope. We may learn a better way, or find our own way more meaningful. If we've got a good thing going, its absurd to run scared. Since we are only human beings we must continually examine the possibility that God has not given us WASP's everything there is to have. Third. These reasons why Bethel's population should include min-ority groups are good, but extremely self-interest oriented, which is not what Christians ought to be. The issue ought to be presented from the Christian perspective also. Look around you. How many American minority students do you see? Do you know what percent of the U.S. population is actually what we term minority group? The faculty committee on Minority Groups called Bethel a white ghetto. They were right. We're a racist institution. We love ourselves to the exclusion of everyone else. We are perpetuating that institution of slavery of our great-great grandfathers' time. It is our responsibility as Christians to do all we can to destroy these attitudes. It is our responsibility to attempt to repair the damage— or at least not hinder them in repairing it themselves; to help those who need help. That is why we need minority students at Bethel. Now let's get in there and examine all the possibilities of how it can be accomplished and work towards that goal for next year. 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. 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 Feature Editor Cindy Rosfollan Fine Arts Editor Marjorie Rusche Sports Editor Tim Weko Copy Editor Anne Dalton Bethel Forum Israeli sojourners tell of escapades, gain new perspective of Christianity Friday, February 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 3 Bethel Forum - • • of • 1 . Spirit ot interim must live on by Cindy Rostollan While many students were brav-ing the weather in Minnesota dur-ing Interim, others sang and swam in Florida, still others made a trip to Israel and the Holy Land. In a recent chapel service, var-ious students told of their ex-periences going to, staying in, and leaving Israel, but a total of 81 made the trip, and a few of the other students who made the trip had some interesting com-ments to make. "For almost all of us," said Joyce Bristow, "the Sunday morn-ing service at the Garden tomb was the spiritual highlight of the trip. Everything else seemed so commercialized, with people buy-ing and selling all over, that I soon began to feel, `so what.' But, then when we were there at the place where Christ had been bur-ied, and most important, where he had risen, these other things didn't seem as important. No matter what, Christ had been there and he was there with us." "The hardest thing for me in Israel, was being a blonde," re-lates Kathy Froelich. "In Israel they just aren't used to blonde people, and everywhere I would go, everyone would stop and stare at me. At first, it was flattering, but later it really got annoying. 1 couldn't go anywhere by myself, because people wouldn't leave me alone." For David Auge, one of his most unusual experiences was giv-ing a pint of blood when he was low on money. As he said, "Paul and I were just walking in the old city and a fellow came up and asked us if we'd like to make $9. We thought it sounded fishy, but I was almost broke, so we went with him. He took us to one of the sta-tions in the old city where a kind of Health Clinic was set up. A young guy was sick, and in need of blood, so his folks were paying for the blood he needed. They took me to an old antique looking room, and stuck my arm through a hole in the wall, so they could take the blood out in another room next door. I thought for a minute, I was going to lose my whole arm, so I had Paul check around the cor-ner,— everything was sterile and it looked ok, so . . . When they finished, I got my $9 and we left for the hotel." "What really struck me," began Susan Verunac, "was the land it-self. I expected desert and barren wasteland, and yet it was so green. It really surprised me, it was so beautiful." "What I liked best," said Cora Gaalswyk, 'was the Galilee re-gion. Christ centered most of his ministry there and it was inter-esting to see where He had been. It was exciting to see what I had been hearing and reading about all my life. Everything was so much more alive!" The Masada Fortress, near the Dead Sea, was a real highlight for Gary Mamilton. "It's way out in the desert, not a blade of grass around, and yet there were baths and swimming pools and different other luxuries there during King Herod's time. The contrast of the barren desert to the magnificence of the palace was fascinating." To Betty Pettman, "One of the best parts of the trip was the extra-curricular activities! Another girl and myself had a chance to date a couple of Israeli guys much of the time we were there and . . . you can take it from there." "My most unusual experience," begins Bob Gustafson, "came on our last night. We were in New Jerusalem walking down the street, and suddenly a girl came running and ran into Paul and then me. She then got behind me, trying to use me as a shield be-tween her boyfriend and herself. He was trying to choke her. The military police then came along, and picked me up, thinking I was at fault. When I moved from in front of the girl, the boyfriend jumped at her again, and this time Dave tripped him to stop him. The police picked him up then, and after some explaining, apologized to us." After some thinking, Mary Mey-er said, "What I thought was real meaningful to me was the first time we drove into Jerusalem, and Maurice Zaffke announced this past week that he plans to dedicate one of the issues of the Coeval to the emphasis of musical expres-sion. He said that he is hopeful that the issue will examine all aspects of music, approaching it from an anthropological and philisophical point of view as well as include some original compositions of Be-thel students. "Some of the music classes are required to do some composing," everybody sang "The Holy City." It was probably the first time could really realize the words of the song. It was something you just have to experience." There were many unusual and meaningful experiences in the trip, and yet what seemed to stand out with most of the students was the fact that it was really easy to lose their spiritual perspective while they were there. "We saw so many churches and the different places where Christ had been, that some-times we would forget about our own personal Christ who lives within us." No one had anything bad to say about the trip, instead there were just too many things good to say about it. Personally, as one who didn't go, there is the need to say, "Israel, anyone?" Zaffke reported, "and this is an area of the campus arts that has been neglected in the past." He says that he has contacted mem-bers of the music department and that they will be encouraging their students to submit their work to this issue of the Coeval. "The entries should be of a na-ture that will be of some use to other students,' says Zaffke. This would include work along the lines of church music, folk music, etc. He will also accept critical essays continued from page 2 And as second semester opened you could feel it all around; the spring had come early to Bethel. It was a new home of honesty un-like any other I had seen in my four years here at school — A definite desire to care for and help one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. And Monday as I walked into Chapel (the first of second sem-ester) I expected to worship my Lord in this unity of Love. But I was disappointed by the puritani-cal "Christian" package that was delivered. Here was a time to be-gin a new semester with a spirit-ual message of Christ's Love but in its place we received a message To the editor: Has anyone ever considered freezing the tuition for a student once he has started at Bethel? I, for one, was quite dismayed to learn from last week's Clarion that tuition was being raised an-other $200. This makes a total of $350 in increases since I returned to Bethel last year. I am married and have one child and an un-expected increase such as this is quite a blow to my budget to say nothing of my morale. I think is would improve stu-dent- administration relations a of music and aesthetics. The submission deadline is Ap-ril 24. The editor hopes to have the issue out two weeks after this deadline. on man's rules and regulations for this Christian community (archaic as some may be). The negative tone, the negative attitude and the disillusionment created on our campus through that chapel service is evident by the reaction during that chapel itself and the conversation all dur-ing the following week. I know the Spirit of Interim will live on among the students and faculty whom it has touched. I only pray that it will become more that Christ will be explored more fully and what was so important that Monday morning will drift away from our minds. Thomas W. Mesaros '71 great deal if a student would have to pay the same tuition for any consecutive year he attends Beth-el. I know that this is being done at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. A program such as this would induce more students to stay at Bethel for their com-plete four-year education also. I realize that this is not the complete solution to gaining and keeping students, but believe that it would be a step in the right direction. Duane Peterson Class of '71 Tues., Feb. 10, afternoon and evening saw the Bethel Speech Dept. hosting on campus the Twin City Debate League's annual "For-ensic Fun" tournament for 130 speakers from 14 area schools. The 6 speaking events included two divisions of oral interpreta-tion, original oratory, extempor-aneous speaking, after-dinner and rhetorical criticism. Each partici-pating school was allowed 12 speaking slots to be filled in any way felt to be the most advant-ageous for winning the sweep-stakes award. Bethel placed 3 speakers in final rounds with Carol Shimmin speak-ing in Rhetorical Criticism on Mal-com X's speech "The 'Ballot and the Bullet", Marg Erickson com-peting in extemporaneous and Sherie Lindvall taking a first place in After-dinner with an entertain-ing speech on natural beauty. The Bethel Speakers placed 3rd in the line-up for sweepstakes. Carol and Marg will be partic-ipating in their respective events at Eau Claire this week-end. Some of the schools on campus for the event were Eau Claire, UMD., U of M., Moorehead, St. Teresas, Gustavus, St. Marys, Su-perior State, Mankato with Mac-alester placing 1st in sweepstakes. Carol Shimmin placed in the final rounds with her Rhetori-cal Criticism on Malcom X's speech at the Forensics Tournament here Thursday. Marg Erickson made the final rounds in Extemporaneous Speaking, will go on to Eau Claire. Sherie Lindvall took first in After-dinner Speaking with a speech on natural beauty. Coeval to dedicate issue to musical expression Student questions tuition raise, proposes option to yearly increase Bethel hosts speech tourney, places three finalists The Clarion wishes to thank its readers for responding through letters to the editor. This semester we have established a new policy concerning letters. Letters to the editor must be received no later than Monday evening of a given week and must be typewritten no longer than two pages double spaced. 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Pastor BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:40 P.M. Most folks don't eat at the Arden Inn to save money. But it makes good cents. e eIrden Inn 2131 N. Snelling/Across from Har•Mar/Phone 631-1414 Page 4 the CLARION "You mean I'm really going? I quite frankly didn't expect they'd pick me, I mean I really thought— I wonder where I'll be." Shortly before Christmas, the Student Missionary Committee, headed by Dan Versaw and Dr. Arthur Lewis, made the final de-cision on what students would be taking part in the Student Mis-sionary Project for the summer of 1970. During Interim contacts were being made to finalize the fields for the sixteen chosen students. Now as second semester is in process, most of the students have a definite field waiting for them this summer. Going to Morocco under Trans World Radio, will be Pat Tyberg, a junior from Grantsburg, Wiscon-sin. Pat Chase, a sophomore from Rocky Hill, Connecticut, will be working under Belgium Gospel Mission in Belgium. Though her destination isn't yet certain, Linda Lovgren, a junior from Hinckley, Minnesota, will also be serving in some area of Europe. This summer will be the first time one of the student mission-aries will be serving with mission-aries from our Baptist General Conference. Barbara Lind, a junior from Bloomfield, Connecticut, is going to Brazil under the BGC. With Wycliffe in Mexico, will be Paul Stimers, a junior from Action Models Fair draws national experts in social work continued from page 1 West Garfield Park area of Chi-cago; Operation Switchboard of San Francisco which uses corn-munications systems to render ser-vice to people in trouble; the Southern Center in Chicago, an organization designed to help poor people from Appalachia become acclimated to urban life; the Cen-ter for Dialog of Dade County, Florida which provides a neutral ground for encounter between pol-arized persons and groups leading toward direct action on commun-ity problems; the HELP Unit of San Francisco, organized by Dr. Joel Fort, a highly regarded ex-pert in the field of drug use and abuse and also in the field of human sexuality; the Symbiotic Community of Sioux Falls, South Dakota which presents a new ap-proach to land settlement patterns by combining urban and rural in-gredients in developing regional communities; and the Liberty Plaza housing project of St. Paul — rec-ognized as one of the nation's finest examples of low-income housing built under non-profit, church sponsorship by Dayton Ave-nue Presbyterian Church. Each of the booths will be man-ned by a number of the project staff. Arrangements are being made for each project to make three presentations per day. The whole process will be repeated for each of the three days of the Fair. In this way it will be con-venient for the public to become thoroughly informed about any projects in which he has an inter-est. A Fair Guide will be distri-buted listing each project and re-lated information. Friday, February 13, 1970 Muskegon, Michigan. As of yet, there isn't a definite field clear-ed for Dale Berry, a junior from Isle, Minnesota, but he will probab-ly be working in the area around Central or South America. Darlene Chaddock, a sophomore from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, will be heading north into British Columbia, to work under North American Indian Mission. Working in the United States this summer will be Cindy Ros-tollan, a junior from Saxon, Wis-consin, who will be going to Ko-diak Island, Alaska. Nita Nelson, a sophomore from Brainard, Min-nesota, Rachel Campbell, a junior from Hazelhurst, Mississippi, Dar-lene Griffith, a sophomore from Orlando, Florida, High McLeod, a sophomore from St. Paul, and Har-ley Hanson, a junior from Long Prairie, Minnesota, will all be working under the Baptist Gen-eral Conference Home Mission in Minnesota. The stand-bys, whose fields are not yet definite, are Shelly Daniel-son, a sophomore from Morrisdale, Pennsylvania, Ruth LaBonte, a freshman from Black Mountain, North Carolina, and Marjorie An-derson, a junior from Rockford, Illinois. Pray for these students as they begin planning their summers, and remember while your'e praying, that these that are sent, are your representatives. The budget for this year's Stu-dent Mission Project reaches $4,- 000 and so far, only $1,500 has been realized. To help finances, and for everyone's convenience, there is a box for the missionary project in the coffee shop. If you have any extra money when you're at the banking window (if that is at all possible), the ladies working there will credit it to the Mission Project. There will be not offer-ing as such during Founders Week, so some might like to use these boxes for their weekly offering next week. For those interested, every Mon-day night at 6:30, a short prayer meeting is held for those involved in the Missionary Project. Bethel student missionaries receive notification of summer destinations by Betty Eckstrom How would you like to spend your Easter break on a skiing hol-iday? Don Nelson, in conjunction with the physical education depart-ment, is organizing a ski trip to Jackson. Hole Wyoming in the Teton Mountains. At Jackson Hole, 4,135 vertical feet of skiing, and a wide variety of terrain so that no matter what class of skier you are in—begin-ner, intermediate, expert—you will find something you like. A 2,260 foot long double chairlift serves a gentle ski school slope at the base of the area. The intermediate skier will find on the 2,175 vertical feet of Apres Vous Peak some of the best inter-mediate terrain in America. On Rendezvous Peak, the big moun-tain, the expert and intermediate will be in their glory. The inter-i mediate may choose to disembark from the aerial tram at tower three. He will still have up to five miles of skiing to the Valley Sta-tion. Jackson Hole's 63 passenger aerial tram rises from Teton Vil-lage at 6,311 feet above sea level to the top of Rendezvous Peak, 10,446 feet; one of the world's major tramway installations, it rises 4,135 vertical feet in a dis-tance of 2.4 miles. It required 26 months to build and cost almost $2 million. Now you may be asking not only how you can get in on this fan-tastic trip but also how much it will cost and what will the price include. For $115 you will get all transportation (Greyhound), seven nights of lodging at the Buckrail Lodge, and six full days of skiing with the price of all lift tickets also included. All that is not cov-ered is equipment rental, which you can take care of inexpensively at Bethel, and food, which will continued to page 6 Jilin Ikebieth Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once there was a storie 'bout a thief named Butch an' his bossman, "the kid" an' they did many things tagether an' som were good — but most were bad but bot' a' them were people like you an' me who do som' things good but mostly bad an' this storie was made inta' one a' thos' things call'd movin pi'tures an' it seem'd ta' me that lots a' people really enjoyed it cause was a comedy an' notin' more nobodie tried ta' tell a stork that folks lik' me couldn't understand an' me an my friend went one night an' we laffed so hard we couldn't walk strait an' they did somtine real funny in the beginin' all the people an' buildings were brown an' whit' it was kinda different an' the storie kept us on the tips of our toes ready to run for ol' Sundance and Butch if they got tired and did they ever they got tired a' hunnin' in fac', that wes the whole storie Butch an' Sundance jus' runnin' an' runnin' an' this storie is kinda queer 'cause all a' the sudd'n ya re'lize you lov these people! (oh no! a crying shame!) jus' like the "good ole Book" says 'Lou your enemie!" an' you start ta' think 'bout all the mostly bad things they do an' how it doesn't make any difference 'cause you lov em! an' in the end it comes ta min' that your "enemies" all are gonna die for all the mostly bad things an' you feel real sad, cause you lov em! Tbeetther 3hebieM Mac's rock musical explores black-white relations by Marjorie M. Rusche Speaking of educational reform and innovation (see last week's Clarion), a few Macalester students have worked out an interim pro-ject that innovates not only aca-demically but also musically and theatrically. Their thing is "Freedom Suite", an original rock musical exploring the problem of black-white re-lations, alienation, loneliness, and love. It happens in Macalester's Weyerhaeuser Chapel, which is an octagonal stage in the rooms front center area with the pews grouped around in a semi-circular fashion. "Freedom Suite's" script was written by Larry Jacobsen, a 22 year old black Minneapolis author. He also did many of the lyrics for the songs. Music, mostly hard rock with some folk thrown in, was composed by Jeff Schroeder and John Katsontonis, who also played in "Freedom Unveiled", the back-up group that served the function of a pit orchestra for the musical. The plot centers around Joker, a young black just released on parole, Nancy, a naive white girl (cursed with an over-ambitious senator for a father) who plays "social worker" in a ghetto and falls for Joker. Joker gives Nan-cy security and affection — some-thing she desparately needs due to parental neglect. The security is false (as security usually is), for when she tells Jo-ker that she's pregnant just after Joker proposes marriage Joker decides it's time to cut out and disclaims any responsibility for the unborn child. Nancy runs home to try to talk to her father, but he, busily con-sulting his political advisor over some phraseology in a speech, ig-nores her until she blurts out, "Dad, I'm pregnant." Then he starts listening; no not really listening, but at least re-acting. "What! We warned you! We told you not to hang around that dirty no-good hippie Timmy." (Timmy was Nancy's old boyfriend, whom Nancy had been forbidden to see since he was the "wrong sort" and would ruin her father's political image.) Nancy explains that Timmy's not the one, but Joker, a black man. At discovering this perfidious breach of morality, Senator Day rushes towards his daughter and attempts to murder her. The close of the musical finds Nancy running to her old flame's (Timmy) pad, desparate for a lit-tle understanding and genuine hu-man concern. He, however, is hap-pily tripped out on some "no-no's." Nancy tells her tale of woe to Tim who is dreamily sitting there exclaiming, "It's so beautiful! Wow!." Nancy's crying. Tim says, 'Here, take this." She hesitates, then pops the pill. Her trip is a bad one. All the as-sociation- laden figures from her past and present slowly advance from every direction until they surround and symbolically suf-focate her. She is buried. Her par-ents and "friends" hypocritically cry for her bones, then file off stage and resume their normal lives. The denouncement comes as Jo-ker remains on stage staring at Nancy's dead body. A new white girl comes from the anonominity of the audience and walks into Joker's vision. Joker's pitch comes, "Hey, you look lonely." She nods. They walk off together, leaving Nancy's corpse to rot. Well. That's a sketchy outline of the plot. There are many more subplots dealing with racism, hy-pocrisy, difference between black and white cultures, etc. The play seems overly-obvious while you're sitting through it, but gains com-plexity upon reflection. The music fits well with the drama, thematically and rythmat-ically, although there are some rough spots in transition. Obvious-ly, it makes good theatrical sense to use contemporary music forms to emphasize the contemporary theme of the play. The music was composed fairly well, but gener-ally poorly performed. The actors were much better actors than sing-ers. If you have a chance, take the time to go see the play. It's still running this weekend, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 P.M. in Macalester's chapel. Student tick-ets cost a dollar and can be pur-chased at the door. Friday, February 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 5 by Steve Duinick It seems to be "black week" here at Bethel College and Seminary. I am very happy that this long overdue event has finally made some headway into school. We at our protective institution have had it easy for far too long before someone like the Black Literature class has had the initiative to stick it in our face. For some of us it is a big step out of our way, for others it is the chance to back up God's Word, and yet for others it is the "Natch'l thing." But why are we going out of our way to help educate the blacks when there are many poor whites too? That seems to be a question asked when ever the suggestion of helping the American Negro out of his pit is raised. Questions such as these usually originate from the mouths of those least knowledgeable on the black subject but yet feel themselves well-informed on the current issue. There are reasons why we should help our black neighbors and most of these arguments are beyond our ear range since we are so far out of communication with their world. My early contact with the subject at hand came from my elders and usually sounded something like, "those black should learn their place" or "there is nothing wrong with niggers, everyone should own one." My next confrontation with the dark side came from their soul music that most high school kids latched on to so quickly. It was a style, a Negro at this time, but a date was above and beyond the call of duty. Once I got into Bethel College things changed drastically and I found myself far from any contact with the outside world. It wasn't until this year and a movie called "Putney Swope" that I heard my black brothers screaming for recognition. Dean Pearson has also helped obtain some relations between the colored barriers by having parties involving some of his black friends yet this is only minimal exposure to the sub-ject and needs many times the attention it has received. There is no way I can inform you on the situation here at school (if you haven't already noticed) since I don't believe we even have a situation, or not yet anyway. What I know of their problems you could put under your fingernails and still have room for dirt. Also I don't believe any of us here are authorities on the Negro subject or are even well-informed. That is why their presence is long overdue not matter how painful or injurious they are to our quiet little sub-culture. Bo Conrad and company made an entertaining scene Monday night. Benefits went towards minority recruitment. Spit Band MIN =I `feels fine' Male chorus, historians plan European tour by Carroll Jarp While most of us are busily working this summer some of our fellow Bethelites will be touring Europe. A chartered plane will wing the Bethel Male chorus and a history tour to Frankfurt, Ger-many where each group will pro-ceed to pursue its own course. According to C. Howard Smith, director, this will be the second over-seas tour for the male chorus. The tour will include many of the same countries they toured in 1966: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Scotland, the greater London area, and will finish up in Germany. For the most part, performances will be held in churches. "There are so few young people who at-tend church in Europe," states Smith, "and we hope to draw them into the churches through the ministry of music. The chorus will present their regular repertoire sung in English with a few Swe-dish songs." The 40 members of the chorus will be lodged in private housing tour), Richard Ward, assistant pro-arranged by key people in each fessor of history, will be leading country. "I anticipate little prob- the tour only if sufficient student lem in communicating with the interest is indicated. To date, only people while in their homes," said nine students have signed up for Smith, "since communication on the tour and a minimum of 25 the last tour was very minimal. students is needed. Ward stressed Most European and Scandinavian the fact that the tour will desist young people now days speak Eng- unless more than 20 sudents show lish quite well." The group will an interest by February 18. To-travel by bus, train and boat, giv- tal cost of the history tour is ing a total of 35 concerts. $914, and all interested students The history tour, meanwhile, are encouraged to see Ward by will be viewing historical sights February 18. in England, France, Swetzerland, Smith also stressed the fact Austria, Germany, Italy, Czecho- that there are still available seats slovakia, and East and West Berlin. for any interested students, facul- It is basically a study tour which ty, friends, or relatives wishing to will be historically and culturally visit Europe on their own. The oriented, and will include on sight cost per person for the round study with required reading prior trip flight is $260. Interested per.- to the tour. Students participating sons should contact C. Howard in the tour and fulfilling the re- Smith or Gary McCann. quired reading will be granted Both tours will run from June three credits toward general edu- 7th through July 16th and are cation requirements. being arranged through the Col- Due to the illness of Dr. Dalton lege City Travel Service in North- (who was to have conducted the field. by Janet Appelquist A group called The Lovin' Spoon-ful used to sing, "Well, the doc-tor said, 'Give him jug band mu-sic. You know it makes him feel so fine.' " After listening to the therapeutics of the Bo Conrad Spit Band, what can you say when you "feel so fine"? "Wow" just doesn't quite seem sufficient. But your mouth is smiling so much you can't form the words and your hands are numb from clapping and your feet from tapping. And your heart is happy just knowing you've been around when something great was going on. An enumeration of the events would take forever since every little thing seemed an event in iteself; from Dean Lindberg's fan-cy footwork to Mark Steward's tuxedoed contrast with the rest of the band's less formal attire (understatement!), not to mention the inimitable Steve Duinick and the group's namesake, the one-and-only Harold "Bo" Conrad. Filling out the ensemble were Robert Vork with some fancy "knee"-work (don't ask questions, just keep reading), Bill Moline, Larry Os-trom, and the "big man on the wash-tub bass', Dave Frykman, whose sensational jug band post-ers were auctioned during inter-mission. The versatile Steve Duinick led the sale in true auctioneering style. Proceeds from admissions and the poster sale netted about $190 for the very worthy cause of American Minority Group schol-arships at Bethel. A count of 250 paid admissions indicates that a-bout 25% of the campus had a "real good time" last Monday. As a post-script it should be added that, not only does each member do "his own thing" on stage, but the music produced is really great. The musicianship is surprisingly competent. Besides performing about seventeen old favorites, some of the members demonstrated their versatility by playing their own compositions. With personality and talent like this abounding, the Bo Conrad Spit Band should go down in his-tory (or at least, on record). Page 6 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970 Bethel man Gordy Nordmark watches ap-prehensively as Andy Feldman attempts an-other sinker. Cagers whip Lumberjacks; entertain visiting Briar Cliff and Mankato State by Rich Zaderaka but didn't hold it for long. The The Royals have a rugged week- Royals stormed back, and after end schedule, going against the the lead had changed hands twice, Chargers of Briar Cliff tonight, a tip-in by Andy Feldman put and against the Indians of Man- Bethel up to stay. The Royals kato State tomorrow evening. Both reeled in the next six buckets for opponents will have definite height a 20-7 margin. During the final advantages which Bethel will hope five minutes of the half, the Jacks to offset with the home court fac- shaved the deficit to 26-20. tor. Northland's Dick Lee pumped Bethel opened their season a- in seven points in the opening min-gainst Briar Cliff on November utes of the second half, to pull the 21. The Royals led at half 25-23, Jacks within two at 30-28. The but didn't fare as well in the Royals blasted the game open at second period and lost 56 45. 21.. Dan Larson and Andy Feldman Ed Wiltgen led all scorers with Skiers pack for Jackson Hole each had 13 for Bethel. Mankato has a season record of 4-14, but will be a tougher op-ponent than that statistic indi-cates. The Indians defeated Briar Cliff 73-69 last Friday. On Sat-urday, the Mankato frosh (eight of whom are on the varsity) de-feated the University of Minnesota freshmen 66-54. Rich Pearson, who led Duluth Central to a sec-ond place finish in the state tourn-ament last year, spearheaded the victory over Minnesota with 27 points. Walt Williams, a member of Proviso East's Illinois state championship team, added 12 points and pulled down 11 re-bounds. Last Friday the Royals whipped Northland 70-51. The Lumber-jacks snatched an early 5-0 lead, The Column by Tim Weko Before doing anything else, I must say how glad the basketball team was for the band playing at the game. It was their first appearance of the year, due to other circumstances. Anyone who has ever parti-cipated in a competitive sport realizes the benefit of noise, and the sound level in a gym is raised quickly with the presence of a band. So far as I'm concerned, the band can play "Peter Gun" to their heart's content at all upcoming games. Thanks again, band. Speaking of basketball, the Royals have won three in a row, now and are looking for their fourth and fifth this weekend. The team seems to be rolling finally after a rather choppy take off. But, it seems that just as the team is beginning to move Founders Week is upon us. Founders Week, with all its fans, festivities, founders and fun is nice because a person can go to a lot of meetings free, miss a lot of classes without a guilty conscience, and see his pastor or his parents, (and don't get me wrong, I like to see my folks as much as the next guy) but have you ever tried to practice half-court meaningfully? I mean, here we are hot as pistols with six games to go and practice gets cut to one half hour of taking chairs down, 15 minutes of practice time, and then another half hour to set the chairs up again. After so many times of setting up chairs and taking them down again those chairs seem to take on a personality, and they start to get on your nerves until finally you'd like to heave a couple right across the floor. But, that would be childish, wouldn't it? Anyway, do you think the founders would be offended if someone asked each one of them who was sitting in a chair on the main floor during the last afternoon session to carry it to the side of the floor? You think they'd be offended, huh? What if someone suggested it any-how? At least that way if we can't have the whole floor we can at least have more time. There have been rumors each Founders Week that the basketball game is fixed. I don't mean that the coach or the athletic director or whoever, schedules a patsy, a pushover, someone who the Royals could play with to show the founders what a good team Bethel has. Let me say that these rumors are not true. It is true that the last three Founders Week games have been pretty funny but let me ex-plain: Three years ago Bethel had an intra-squad scrimmage instead of a game because its opponent, Northwestern (Iowa), was snow bound. A legitimate excuse: Two years ago Bethel had to play Northwestern junior varsity again because their varsity coach said the varsity was involved in tournament play and he didn't want to tire them out for the big push. Well, how ridiculous can you get? I mean, when you schedule a game, you're responsible to play it, right? So that's why the Founders Week games in recent years have seemed to be setups. That plus the fact that very few teams, if any, will schedule a game away from home on a Thursday afternoon. It's just not prime time. But this year the founders will have no excuses for sitting meekly back in their seats and silently watching the Royals massacre someone with their third string. I've often wondered how people who could talk all day and all night in meetings could never muster a cheer, even a weak "Hooray," at a basketball game. Founders certainly are strange because when they get a chance to yell and shout and let off all that steam from those musty old meetings they sit passively and occasionally clap their hands. Maybe it's standing for the National Anthem that tires them out. The Founders Week game is notorious for its huge, huge number of fans and its quiet; and fans quiet, by definition, do not belong in the same gym. An engrossed manager and bench watch their teammates whip the Ashland Lumber-jacks. that point to go on top by 46-32, with nine minutes remaining. A layup by Dan Larson at the 4:34 mark gave Bethel a 58-38 advant-age. The biggest point spread was 24 with less than three minutes on the clock. Leading scorers for Bethel were Andy Feldman, Dan Larson, and Gordy Nordmark, with 19, 16, and 11 respectively. Northland's Dick Lee pitched in eight baskets and seven free throws, to take game honors with 23. continued from page 4 cost approximately $3 to $4 per day (unless you have more ex-pensive tastes.) For those who have not made a deposit, $75 is due before Feb. 12 and the remaining $40 is due be-fore Feb. 26. It is to be paid at the banking window, and is also completely refundable until Feb. 28. For those who want skiing credit, the Phy. Ed. department is offering one credit for lessons culminating with the trip to Jack-son Hole. According to the present plans, those going will depart at 4 p.m. on the afternoon of Friday, March 27 and will arrive in Jackson Sat-urday afternoon or early evening. Following a full night of rest, there will be an early morning Easter sunrise service at the base of the slopes. From then until Friday, April 3, the agenda in-cludes skiing! The group will re-turn around 10 a.m. the morning of April 4th and arrive back in the Cities Sunday morning, April 5. That is, those who will not opt to remain at Jackson. To quote a friend, "Whatever your ability, at Jackson Hole, the mountain is magnificent. Try it—it spoils you. It's the Gentle Giant!" Royals host Southwest State after bad showing at Pillsbury Ladies undefeated streak is broken against Carleton Women's extramural basketball The Fairview nureses were Beth-at Bethel got off to a strong start el's next opponents and they were during Interim. Mrs. Marilyn Lind- defeated 44-23. Bethel hosted Con-man stepped in to train and coach cordia and in their fourth game the team since Miss Brownlee was again pulled in a victory. Fan sup-ill. She did her work well — the port was enthusiastic, the final team record now stands at 4 and 1. score was 36-24. Augsburg fell first to the Bethel Then Bethel's only undefeated women, 32-20. Mary Lindman, a team traveled to Carleton. The team started off strong and kept returning player, was high scorer on the pressure until the second with ten points. Mary transferred half when Carleton pulled ahead. to Wheaton for the second semes- Linda Schmidt had a great night ter so the team was left without scoring 8 of the first 10 points one of their leading players. and ending up with 16. Sharon Bethel traveled down to Pills- Johnson followed with 12. How-bury for their second game. The ever, Bethel was defeated 39-54. first half was slow and Bethel The Bethel Women face some trailed 22-9. But the girls sparked aough opponents in their remain-to life in the second half, put ing games: University of Wiscon-together an effective press and sin, River Falls, Uuniversity of poured in 38 points. The game Minnesota, Augsburg, and St. ended with Bethel on top 47-36. Cloud State. Last Saturday the Royal wrest-lers travelled to Pillsbury for a seven team tournament in which, despite a couple of good individual performances by Bob Olsen and Greg Ekbom, they finished in sixth place. This weekend at 2 p.m. Sat-urday, they will meet the South west Minnesota State College Mus-tangs in the Bethel Fieldhouse. At Pillsbury the competition was just too good as Bethel salvaged a sixth place finish ahead of St. Paul Bible. St. John's University won the tourney followed respec-tively by Southwest State, Lea Col-lege, Pillsbury, Carleton, Bethel and St. Paul Bible. St. John's has a fine group of wrestlers as do Southwest and Lea. Bethel manag-ed its sixth place finish by virtue of Olsen's second place finish in the 190 pound class and Ekbom's fourth place finish at 150 pounds. Olsen's first opponent was from Pillsbury. He pinned him with 12 seconds to go in the first period. Later he wrestled Southwest's 190 pound man and pinned him at 4:22. But in the championship round Olsen was beaten, 3-2, by a wrest-ler from Lea College. Ekbom, wrestling in the 150 pound division, won his first match by a decesion against Pillsbury, but lost his next two to Lea and Southwest wreslers for his fourth. The other Bethel wrestlers all lost in the first round which auto-matically meant they could not finish higher than fifth place. Doug Warring injured his should-er during one of his matches and Barry Anderson will probably be out for the rest of the season with a shoulder separation suffered in his first match. He had to for-feit. When asked about the tourn-ament, Bob Olsen said, "We didn't wrestle up to our potential in quite a few weights." With four matches to go the Royals meet Southwest State Sat-urday in the fieldhouse. In a pre-vious meeting between the two weight classes except 126 pound, 167 pound and 190 pound. Bethel must win these three as well as giving a good showing in the other weights in order to have a chance. Warring has beaten his man once before as has Olsen. 32 year old Bob Downey will be meeting a new Southwest wrestler in the 118 pound division who is 33 years old. This will not be the battle of the Titans but should prove to be interesting. Several of the Bethel team are looking forward to this match in order to avenge previous defeats. Added incentive is present in the fact that Royals won-lost record now stands at a 8-7. They need to win to finish with a good season. Upcoming matches, which will round out the season, find 'Bethel at Hamline February 17, at Con-cordia (St. Paul) February 19 dur-ing Founders Week, and finally at Pillsbury again for a dual meet on the 21.
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Title | Clarion 1970-02-13 Vol 45 No 16 |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 45 No. 16 |
Date Published | February 13 1970 |
Decade | 1970 |
Academic Year | 1969 - 1970 |
Frequency | Weekly |
Article Titles | Bethelites work for minority recruitment, Student activism stirs, project 'share' initiated; Social action conference planned; Love your founder as yourself, Founders invade campus next week; Penny Watkins reigns over Sno-Daze; Bethel needs minority group recruitment, why?; Bethel Forum - Christianity is incompatible with racial bigotry; Senior questions validity of the spirit exhibited in President's message of semester's opening chapel; Student questions tuition raise, proposes option to yearly increase; Israeli sojourners tell of escapades, gain new perspective of Christianity; Bethel hosts speech tourney, places three finalists; Coeval to dedicate issue to musical expression; Bethel student missionaries receive notification of summer destinations; Skiers eye the Tetons for break; Film Review, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Theater Review, Mac's rock musical explores black-white relations; Male chorus, historians plan European tour; Protection for Pepperland; Spit Band-- 'feels fine'; Cagers whip Lumberjacks; entertain visiting Briar Cliff and Mankato State; Ladies undefeated streak is broken against Carleton; The Column; Royals host Southwest State after bad showing at Pillsbury; |
Photographs | Freshman candidate, Penny Watkins was crowned Sno- Daze Queen Thursday evening at the Camelot.; Cartoon : FORGET IT, BUDDY. MY FRIEND FROM THE LANDLORDS' ASSOCIATION SAYS YOU'RE ON HIS LIST NOT ONLY AS A TENANT'S UNION RADICAL, BUT AS A CARD—CARRYING UNIVERSITY STUDENT."; Carol Shimmin placed in the final rounds with her Rhetorical Criticism on Malcom X's speech at the Forensics Tournament here Thursday.; Marg Erickson made the final rounds in Extemporaneous Speaking, will go on to Eau Claire.; Sherie Lindvall took first in After-dinner Speaking with a speech on natural beauty.; Does this look like too much for you? Never mind, there's a slope for all skiers at Jackson Hole.; Bo Conrad and company made an entertaining scene Monday night. Benefits went towards minority recruitment; Bethel man Gordy Nordmark watches apprehensively as Andy Feldman attempts another sinker.; An engrossed manager and bench watch their teammates whip the Ashland Lumberjacks.; |
Digital Collection | The Clarion: Bethel University's Student Newspaper |
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Editor | Faxon, Pat (Editor in chief); |
Contributors | Erickson, Marg (News Editor); Rostolan, Cindy (Feature Editor); Weko, Tim (Sports Editor); Rusche, Marjorie (Fine Arts Editor); Dalton, Anne (Copy Editor); Watson, Sharon (Proofreader); Healy, Joey (Circulation Manager); Magnuson, Warren (Business Manager); Amelsberg, Jim (Photographer); Humbert, Phil (Photographer); Reporters: Bogle, Ruth; Ford, Tom; Greener, Dave; Ullberg, Jan; Urspringer, Jan; Smith, Wibby; Roper, Ronald; Olson, Mark (Technical Advisor); Fagerson, Jon (Advisor); |
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Transcript | Vol. XLV—No. 16 Friday, February 13, 1970 Love your founder as yourself Founders invade campus next week by Jack Priggen By now almost everyone on campus has heard something of the proposed recruiting of minority group students to Bethel. Last Wed-nesday, February 4 the newly formed group, share, showed the film, "Burden of Truth." Thursday, the fifth faculty passed a measure which stated that they were in sympathy with the idea of minority group re-cruiting. This came after some discussion both for and against the pro-posed recruiting, but the recommendation was passed unanimously. On Monday, February 9th 'Bo Conrad's Spit Band' presented a tremendously successful 'concert' to raise money for the share scholar-ship fund which is to provide financial aid for American racial minority students. The group raised almost $190. Thursday, February 26th the faculty hears a tape of an address delivered to the United States Congress on Evangelism, September 9, 1969, by Tom Skinner. Tom Skinner is a black evangelist associated with Billy Graham, one time leader of one of the largest gangs in Harlem, New York, and author of the best seller "Black and Free." Mr. Skinner lays down, in black and white, the responsibilities of evangelical institu-tions to minority groups. This tape should prove valuable showing these responsibilities to the faculty. The first step has now been taken. This step could prove to be small, fruitless, and in short, a farce. It could also prove to be one of the greatest things to ever happen to Bethel. There are several reasons why this program may not get out of the planning stages. Money is one. Clearly the administration will have to allot the recruitment office adequate funding to travel recruiting minor-ity groups. Financial aid will definitely be required to help these stu-dents meet the high cost of education at Bethel. Another area of needed revision will be in both the administration and faculty, namely setting up a program which would attract minority group students to Bethel. If Bethel has nothing to offer the minority student, he will not come. Adjustments may have to be made at all levels by nearly everyone to insure that the minority student once at Bethel will not be discrimin-ated against. In general, preferred treatment of either black, white, or indian in any way would be fatal to the program. Today there are over 25,000,000 blacks in the U.S., but there are less than 100 blacks at all evangelical colleges in the U.S. combined. Is Bethel a segregated, "white ghetto" as the minority committee's recommendation suggested? Do we have in our minds a God who is an Anglo Saxon, middle class, protestant republican? If we want this first step of interest to be a 'giant step' we (students and faculty) may have to "make a lot of noise" for the Administration to hear us, and for the Administration to include in its priorities and budget funds for re-cruiting and financially helping minority students at Bethel. Social action conference planned Bethelites work for minority recruitment Student activism stirs; project 'share' initiated On February 16-18, 1970, a un-ique conference designed after a county fair will be held at the Pick-Nicollet Hotel in Minneapo-lis. The conference will be known as the Action Models Fair. Those attending will be able to draw on the resources of experts in the field of social action from all over the United States and Canada and be able to implement in their own communities, programs in hous-ing, welfare, employment and education. On the three days of the Fair over sixty models of what concern-ed people are doing to bridge the gaps in our society will be on dis-play. This is one of the first at-tempts to create and stockpile a bank of human resources that will tune in the Upper Midwest to what is happening, not only with-in this community, but across the nation as well, to improve the quality of contemporary society. In November of 1968, Town Meeting Incorporated, the Nation-al Urban Coalition and the Amer-ican Institute of Planners organ-ized a conference on communica-tions for the future. It featured addresses by such noteables as Whitney Young, Executive Dir-ector of the Urban League, Ed-ward P. Morgan of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory, and oth-er national figures. It also featured "booths" in the hotel lobby where conferees could see actual dem-onstrations of innovative uses of communications and have the op-portunity to talk informally with communications experts. The "booth" approach was so succesful that many conferees were reluctant to return to the formal sessions, no matter who the guest speaker was. Building on the experience of the November, 1968 conference on communications, George Nel-son Associates, an educational con-sulting firm in Minneapolis, in conjunction with Luther Theolo-gical Seminary in St. Paul and the Urban Affairs Department of Augsburg College decided to uti-lize the "booth - county fair" approach for a conference on soc-ial action. The resulting concept is the Action Models Fair. The Fair will be open to the public from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. There will be no formal sessions, no lectures, no advance regis-tration. The daily registration fee is $1 for students and $2 for others. Twelve meeting and display rooms will serve as the "booths" of the Fair. In these rooms will be experts in such diverse areas of social action as: social comment-ary film-making and the use of the film medium; economic devel-opment processes, rural and ur-ban; uses of communications sys-tems and networks for social change; gearing business to the needs of the community; non-pro-fit, low-income housing projects; emergency or "instant" community service organizations; and total community development processes. A few of the organizations that will have booths at the Fair as resource models are: Christian Act-ion Ministry Academy of Chicago, a highly successful prep school for high school dropouts from the continued on page 4 "To the World with Love" is the challenging theme of Bethel's Founders Week, February 16-20. A number of well-known and some not so well-known speakers will attempt to bring this theme to life. Leading the four days of meet-ings are Horace Fenton, the Dir-ector of the Latin America Mission; Harold Lindsell, Editor of Chris-tianity Today; Donald McGavran, Dean of the Fuller School of World Missions and veteran of 32 years of service in India; Jess Moddy, author of the book with the pro-vocative title A Drink At Joel's Place; Oswald Smith, the founder of the non-denominational Peoples Church, Toronto; and Clyde Tay-lor, Evangelical Missions Associ-tion and a veteran worker in Peru. Activities of the week include Freshman candidate, Penny Watkins was crowned Sno- Daze Queen Thursday evening at the Camelot. a banquet on Monday, a testimon-ial session by students and faculty on Tuesday and the preaching competition on Wednesday. Thur-sday there is a basketball game, Bethel versus Concordia, and on Friday the closing rally. The highlight of the week will be the dedication of the new fac-ilities on the Arden Hills campus which will take place on Wednes-day at 2 o'clock. The speaker will be Harvey Lindsell. Other participants in the activ-ities include Evelyn Christianson, a pastor's wife from Rockford, Illi-nois and active worker in wom-en's work; Mildred Dienert, a dynamic Bible teacher; and of special interest to students, Rene Padilla, head of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in South America. The 1970 Sno-Daze Queen, Pen-ny Watkins, was crowned at the highlight of the Sno-Daze calen-dar last night at the Camelot. Penny, a petite freshman from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was chosen to reign over this year's winter celebration in an all school election that was held Wednesday. She will be formally presented to-night at the half time activities in the game here against Briar Cliff. Also included in the half time activities tonight is the are nual beard judging contest, de-signed to award the Bethel male with the best looking beard. The weekend's events also in-clude skating on the rink in the center of the campus. The idea In addition to these guest speak-ers, twelve Conference mission-aries will be present to act as re-source persons in various work-shops held throughout the week. They include Vernon Anderson, Brazil; Dale Bjork, Japan; Robert Boyd, Argentina; Paul Edwards, India; John Marrs, Brazil; George Johnson, India; Bill Murray, Ethi-opia; Franklin Nelson, Burma; Roy Nelson, Phillippines; Glen Ogren. Brazil; Glen Swanson, Japan; and Herman Tegenfeldt, Burma. Their presentations will be brief,giving time for participation and inter-action. Founders Week is expected to draw more than 1000 visitors from across the nation. They will join with the Bethel Community in seeking to investigate their theme, "To the World with Love." of a skating rink was brought back to the ranks of tradition for Sno- Daze last year by John Goodman this year's Social Committee Chair-man. Work on this year's rink started during interim. The enthusiasm of hockey players using the ice about midnight Wednesday seems to indicate that it is in good con-dition for the weekends's festiv-ities, which, incidentally, include broomball for the non skaters. The home game against Mankato State Saturday evening will close the Sno-Daze activities for another year. In charge of the Sno-Daze calendar this year was Chairman of the Sno-Daze Committee Jim Carlson and Jerry Falr, President of the Sophomore class. Penny Watkins reigns over Sno-Daze Christianity is incompatible with racial bigotry To the editor: In speaking of his experience with the Islam religion, Malcolm X said: "Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races— the "white" attitude was re-moved from their minds by the religion of Islam—. We were truly all the same (brothers) —because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the "white" from their behavior, and the "white" from their attitude—. With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white Am-erican heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster —." Malcolm X grew up exposed to Christianity — his father was even a preacher, but somehow the real message of God's creation of all men in his own image and his commands for justice and love a-mong the brotherhood of humanity was not taken seriously enough to be practiced by whites. Is it any wonder that Malcolm X did not realize Jesus Christ as the answer to his life? The essence of Christianity is an individual's acceptance of God's kingdom or reign over his life, certainly incompatible with racial bigotry. Despite this, it is said that 11:00 on Sunday morning is Am-erica's most segregated hour. God's creation of man, not different kinds of man, but man was in his own image. Do we have a right to make a distinction which God himself did not make? Galatians 3: 28 says "for you are all one in Christ Jesus." How can we then have the audacity to deprive black Americans of their human dignity and rights by forcing them to be our "mascots" or Uncle Toms in order to be accepted? —WE ARE ALL ONE — When will we love and accept them for the individual human beings that they are? Jesus Christ taught and lived the life of love. We too, as his followers are to be known for our love for the brethren — to love one's neighbor as oneself. What if Malcolm X had seen this love practiced by white Christians? "Let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth." (John 3: 18) Love embodies action and its prerequisite is justice. In Christianity and Social__ Justice, Msgr. Luigi Civardi says "to do (one) justice (is) to give him what is due him, and no one can say that he is doing charity to a bro-ther if he has not done him full justice first." God demands justice, "let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream," (Amos 5: 25) and he will have it even at the expense of white, Christian Americans. The Christian conscience has been negligent and silent. The Bi-ble says to love one's neighbor but we won't let Blacks be our neighbors; we've cultivated indif-ference when God has taught us to help others when they have need; we dedicate our minds to sublime things and ignore God in our daily lives where social in-justices occur; and, we delegate our responsibility to the courts, excusing ourselves from exercising the justice God demands of every man. (Paraphrased, Rabbi Heshel) Actually we are isolating ourselves — protecting our self-centered, "safe" lives which risk discomfort from too much awareness or in-volvement in crucial issues. Rev. Will Cambell, author of Race and Renewal of the Church, aptly states, "We are asking, 'what can we do to improve race rela-tions and still maintain the str-ength and rate of growth of the "comfortable institution?" The answer to that question is 'No-thing!' " The life of love for others that Christ teaches involves some personal sacrifice. I ask along with Martin Luther King, "Shouldn't it be our Judeo- Christian faith which transforms the jangling discords of America into a beautiful symphony of bro-therhood?" We have failed people like Malcolm X all too often. Chri-stianity has been marred by our failure to believe and live what Christ teaches; we can and must change — praying for his spirit, seeking to love all men with his love and thereby honor him and his entire creation. Jackie Goodman '71 Senior questions validity of the spirit exhibited in President's message of semester's opening chapel To the editor: After much thought and discus-sion with my fellow students I find I can no longer remain silent; I must express myself. The spirit of Christian Love which grew on this campus during the Interim, on the choir tour and with the study group in Israel was something which made Bethel come alive. Symposium, which I participated in, brought with it a chance to exchange ideas, concepts and beliefs between many stu-dents who would not normally come in contact with one another. Usually students hide themselves in protective shells but the new unity in Jesus overcame this ob-stacle. People who were once "its" became "thous". I began to under-stand what others felt and cared about and we shared love between us and in Christ. This new Spirit seemed to unite everyone together and those of us in Symposium expressed their hopes and prayers at our last meeting that this new found unity centered upon Christ would natur-ally be carried over to second sem-ester. This Spirit was different from others that had come to this campus, it had no emotional up-lifting or impact, just a quiet, deep, mutual caring for one an-other's lives, thoughts and needs. It was a desire to put down streo-types, miconception and to see the The reality of Christ was expres-sed in many ways, for each of us loved Him and received love from Him in unique individual relation-ships. Christ was shared as a per-sonal friend, and with_ in that friendship was the spirit and love we had for one another. That was our guide for life — our goal was to be more like the Saviour. continued on page 3 1— "FORGET IT, BUDDY. MY FRIEND FROM THE LANDLORDS' ASSOCIATION SAYS YOU'RE ON HIS LIST NOT ONLY AS A TENANT'S UNION RADICAL, BUT AS A CARD—CARRYING Page 2 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970 UNIVERSITY STUDENT." Bethel needs minority group recruitment, why? When the North Central examining team visited Bethel's campus a year ago, one of the criticisms they handed down was that the com-munity's population was too homogeneous. Their recommendation was that Bethel must create a greater diversity among its student body by including both more minority students and more disadvantaged students in its campus population, or endanger itself of losing its ac-creditation. In spite of this statement, the faculty committee on Minority Groups has been working for two years to get faculty approval on a mild recommendation which calls for the active recruitment of min-ority students, the expansion of the effort required to make them successful here, the re-examination of curriculum to include, where possible, new courses of interest to minority students and to com-pensate in existing courses for the present under emphasis on the con-tributions of the various minority groups. For two years the recom-mendations bounced back to committee after being tabled for further discussion, revision, re-examination. The recommendation was finally passed by unanimous voice vote last week after a flury of discussion. Attitudes seemed to be generally in favor, but noncommittal. — We need minority students, but there's too much involved. It'll never happen. It'll cost too much and there will be too much effort involved — it's easier not to change. Two courses dealing with different areas on black culture, Black Literature and Rhetoric of Black Revolt, were structured for the Interim. Out of these two classes came a core of students concerned with the role that Bethel is playing in the issue of minority groups and recruitment. They formed a group called share which has committed itself "to provide at Bethel a wider educational experience through the re-cruitment of minority students, to provide an opportunity for educa-tional disadvantaged individuals to obtain a higher education at Bethel." They have already sponsored a film and a concert which raised almost $200. Good. So what? Why do we need minority students at Bethel? First. The North Central evaluation team indicated that to continue on the present trend of homogenity, would jeopardize our accredi-tation as a liberal arts college. Do you want the college to lose its accreditation two years after you leave? How do you think that's going to look on the records? "B.A. from Bethel Colege. Hmmm — Say, didn't that place lose its accreditation just after you graduated?" Second. There must be a reason why the North Central evaluation team thinks that homogenity is bad. There appear to be several reasons. A liberal arts college is supposed to prepare a person to face society when he leaves. Whether we want to recognize the fact or not there are blacks running around outside here and they are becoming more and more a part of everyday life—an everyday life with which Bethel students are not being faced, but will be when they leave. Are we going to face life with the outdated ideas and attitudes of our parents? We may even have good ideas about the way things should be and the willing-ness to change, but there is a big difference between how things should be and how far you can go towards that goal. We need experience. What type of relationship could you or would you develope with a black boss, minister or neighbor? There is a more basic reason why. An environment, to remain fresh and creative, must change. It must "get new blood" into its system. Why do you think cousins are not allowed to marry? Anything that is living is continually changing and adapting. A society is the same way. We, at Bethel are presently committing incest. We need to examine all sides of every question, constantly searching for better ways. And who knows? We may be able to benefit from the relation-ships which would develope. We may learn a better way, or find our own way more meaningful. If we've got a good thing going, its absurd to run scared. Since we are only human beings we must continually examine the possibility that God has not given us WASP's everything there is to have. Third. These reasons why Bethel's population should include min-ority groups are good, but extremely self-interest oriented, which is not what Christians ought to be. The issue ought to be presented from the Christian perspective also. Look around you. How many American minority students do you see? Do you know what percent of the U.S. population is actually what we term minority group? The faculty committee on Minority Groups called Bethel a white ghetto. They were right. We're a racist institution. We love ourselves to the exclusion of everyone else. We are perpetuating that institution of slavery of our great-great grandfathers' time. It is our responsibility as Christians to do all we can to destroy these attitudes. It is our responsibility to attempt to repair the damage— or at least not hinder them in repairing it themselves; to help those who need help. That is why we need minority students at Bethel. Now let's get in there and examine all the possibilities of how it can be accomplished and work towards that goal for next year. 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. 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 Feature Editor Cindy Rosfollan Fine Arts Editor Marjorie Rusche Sports Editor Tim Weko Copy Editor Anne Dalton Bethel Forum Israeli sojourners tell of escapades, gain new perspective of Christianity Friday, February 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 3 Bethel Forum - • • of • 1 . Spirit ot interim must live on by Cindy Rostollan While many students were brav-ing the weather in Minnesota dur-ing Interim, others sang and swam in Florida, still others made a trip to Israel and the Holy Land. In a recent chapel service, var-ious students told of their ex-periences going to, staying in, and leaving Israel, but a total of 81 made the trip, and a few of the other students who made the trip had some interesting com-ments to make. "For almost all of us," said Joyce Bristow, "the Sunday morn-ing service at the Garden tomb was the spiritual highlight of the trip. Everything else seemed so commercialized, with people buy-ing and selling all over, that I soon began to feel, `so what.' But, then when we were there at the place where Christ had been bur-ied, and most important, where he had risen, these other things didn't seem as important. No matter what, Christ had been there and he was there with us." "The hardest thing for me in Israel, was being a blonde," re-lates Kathy Froelich. "In Israel they just aren't used to blonde people, and everywhere I would go, everyone would stop and stare at me. At first, it was flattering, but later it really got annoying. 1 couldn't go anywhere by myself, because people wouldn't leave me alone." For David Auge, one of his most unusual experiences was giv-ing a pint of blood when he was low on money. As he said, "Paul and I were just walking in the old city and a fellow came up and asked us if we'd like to make $9. We thought it sounded fishy, but I was almost broke, so we went with him. He took us to one of the sta-tions in the old city where a kind of Health Clinic was set up. A young guy was sick, and in need of blood, so his folks were paying for the blood he needed. They took me to an old antique looking room, and stuck my arm through a hole in the wall, so they could take the blood out in another room next door. I thought for a minute, I was going to lose my whole arm, so I had Paul check around the cor-ner,— everything was sterile and it looked ok, so . . . When they finished, I got my $9 and we left for the hotel." "What really struck me," began Susan Verunac, "was the land it-self. I expected desert and barren wasteland, and yet it was so green. It really surprised me, it was so beautiful." "What I liked best," said Cora Gaalswyk, 'was the Galilee re-gion. Christ centered most of his ministry there and it was inter-esting to see where He had been. It was exciting to see what I had been hearing and reading about all my life. Everything was so much more alive!" The Masada Fortress, near the Dead Sea, was a real highlight for Gary Mamilton. "It's way out in the desert, not a blade of grass around, and yet there were baths and swimming pools and different other luxuries there during King Herod's time. The contrast of the barren desert to the magnificence of the palace was fascinating." To Betty Pettman, "One of the best parts of the trip was the extra-curricular activities! Another girl and myself had a chance to date a couple of Israeli guys much of the time we were there and . . . you can take it from there." "My most unusual experience," begins Bob Gustafson, "came on our last night. We were in New Jerusalem walking down the street, and suddenly a girl came running and ran into Paul and then me. She then got behind me, trying to use me as a shield be-tween her boyfriend and herself. He was trying to choke her. The military police then came along, and picked me up, thinking I was at fault. When I moved from in front of the girl, the boyfriend jumped at her again, and this time Dave tripped him to stop him. The police picked him up then, and after some explaining, apologized to us." After some thinking, Mary Mey-er said, "What I thought was real meaningful to me was the first time we drove into Jerusalem, and Maurice Zaffke announced this past week that he plans to dedicate one of the issues of the Coeval to the emphasis of musical expres-sion. He said that he is hopeful that the issue will examine all aspects of music, approaching it from an anthropological and philisophical point of view as well as include some original compositions of Be-thel students. "Some of the music classes are required to do some composing," everybody sang "The Holy City." It was probably the first time could really realize the words of the song. It was something you just have to experience." There were many unusual and meaningful experiences in the trip, and yet what seemed to stand out with most of the students was the fact that it was really easy to lose their spiritual perspective while they were there. "We saw so many churches and the different places where Christ had been, that some-times we would forget about our own personal Christ who lives within us." No one had anything bad to say about the trip, instead there were just too many things good to say about it. Personally, as one who didn't go, there is the need to say, "Israel, anyone?" Zaffke reported, "and this is an area of the campus arts that has been neglected in the past." He says that he has contacted mem-bers of the music department and that they will be encouraging their students to submit their work to this issue of the Coeval. "The entries should be of a na-ture that will be of some use to other students,' says Zaffke. This would include work along the lines of church music, folk music, etc. He will also accept critical essays continued from page 2 And as second semester opened you could feel it all around; the spring had come early to Bethel. It was a new home of honesty un-like any other I had seen in my four years here at school — A definite desire to care for and help one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. And Monday as I walked into Chapel (the first of second sem-ester) I expected to worship my Lord in this unity of Love. But I was disappointed by the puritani-cal "Christian" package that was delivered. Here was a time to be-gin a new semester with a spirit-ual message of Christ's Love but in its place we received a message To the editor: Has anyone ever considered freezing the tuition for a student once he has started at Bethel? I, for one, was quite dismayed to learn from last week's Clarion that tuition was being raised an-other $200. This makes a total of $350 in increases since I returned to Bethel last year. I am married and have one child and an un-expected increase such as this is quite a blow to my budget to say nothing of my morale. I think is would improve stu-dent- administration relations a of music and aesthetics. The submission deadline is Ap-ril 24. The editor hopes to have the issue out two weeks after this deadline. on man's rules and regulations for this Christian community (archaic as some may be). The negative tone, the negative attitude and the disillusionment created on our campus through that chapel service is evident by the reaction during that chapel itself and the conversation all dur-ing the following week. I know the Spirit of Interim will live on among the students and faculty whom it has touched. I only pray that it will become more that Christ will be explored more fully and what was so important that Monday morning will drift away from our minds. Thomas W. Mesaros '71 great deal if a student would have to pay the same tuition for any consecutive year he attends Beth-el. I know that this is being done at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. A program such as this would induce more students to stay at Bethel for their com-plete four-year education also. I realize that this is not the complete solution to gaining and keeping students, but believe that it would be a step in the right direction. Duane Peterson Class of '71 Tues., Feb. 10, afternoon and evening saw the Bethel Speech Dept. hosting on campus the Twin City Debate League's annual "For-ensic Fun" tournament for 130 speakers from 14 area schools. The 6 speaking events included two divisions of oral interpreta-tion, original oratory, extempor-aneous speaking, after-dinner and rhetorical criticism. Each partici-pating school was allowed 12 speaking slots to be filled in any way felt to be the most advant-ageous for winning the sweep-stakes award. Bethel placed 3 speakers in final rounds with Carol Shimmin speak-ing in Rhetorical Criticism on Mal-com X's speech "The 'Ballot and the Bullet", Marg Erickson com-peting in extemporaneous and Sherie Lindvall taking a first place in After-dinner with an entertain-ing speech on natural beauty. The Bethel Speakers placed 3rd in the line-up for sweepstakes. Carol and Marg will be partic-ipating in their respective events at Eau Claire this week-end. Some of the schools on campus for the event were Eau Claire, UMD., U of M., Moorehead, St. Teresas, Gustavus, St. Marys, Su-perior State, Mankato with Mac-alester placing 1st in sweepstakes. Carol Shimmin placed in the final rounds with her Rhetori-cal Criticism on Malcom X's speech at the Forensics Tournament here Thursday. Marg Erickson made the final rounds in Extemporaneous Speaking, will go on to Eau Claire. Sherie Lindvall took first in After-dinner Speaking with a speech on natural beauty. Coeval to dedicate issue to musical expression Student questions tuition raise, proposes option to yearly increase Bethel hosts speech tourney, places three finalists The Clarion wishes to thank its readers for responding through letters to the editor. This semester we have established a new policy concerning letters. Letters to the editor must be received no later than Monday evening of a given week and must be typewritten no longer than two pages double spaced. 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Though her destination isn't yet certain, Linda Lovgren, a junior from Hinckley, Minnesota, will also be serving in some area of Europe. This summer will be the first time one of the student mission-aries will be serving with mission-aries from our Baptist General Conference. Barbara Lind, a junior from Bloomfield, Connecticut, is going to Brazil under the BGC. With Wycliffe in Mexico, will be Paul Stimers, a junior from Action Models Fair draws national experts in social work continued from page 1 West Garfield Park area of Chi-cago; Operation Switchboard of San Francisco which uses corn-munications systems to render ser-vice to people in trouble; the Southern Center in Chicago, an organization designed to help poor people from Appalachia become acclimated to urban life; the Cen-ter for Dialog of Dade County, Florida which provides a neutral ground for encounter between pol-arized persons and groups leading toward direct action on commun-ity problems; the HELP Unit of San Francisco, organized by Dr. Joel Fort, a highly regarded ex-pert in the field of drug use and abuse and also in the field of human sexuality; the Symbiotic Community of Sioux Falls, South Dakota which presents a new ap-proach to land settlement patterns by combining urban and rural in-gredients in developing regional communities; and the Liberty Plaza housing project of St. Paul — rec-ognized as one of the nation's finest examples of low-income housing built under non-profit, church sponsorship by Dayton Ave-nue Presbyterian Church. Each of the booths will be man-ned by a number of the project staff. Arrangements are being made for each project to make three presentations per day. The whole process will be repeated for each of the three days of the Fair. In this way it will be con-venient for the public to become thoroughly informed about any projects in which he has an inter-est. A Fair Guide will be distri-buted listing each project and re-lated information. Friday, February 13, 1970 Muskegon, Michigan. As of yet, there isn't a definite field clear-ed for Dale Berry, a junior from Isle, Minnesota, but he will probab-ly be working in the area around Central or South America. Darlene Chaddock, a sophomore from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, will be heading north into British Columbia, to work under North American Indian Mission. Working in the United States this summer will be Cindy Ros-tollan, a junior from Saxon, Wis-consin, who will be going to Ko-diak Island, Alaska. Nita Nelson, a sophomore from Brainard, Min-nesota, Rachel Campbell, a junior from Hazelhurst, Mississippi, Dar-lene Griffith, a sophomore from Orlando, Florida, High McLeod, a sophomore from St. Paul, and Har-ley Hanson, a junior from Long Prairie, Minnesota, will all be working under the Baptist Gen-eral Conference Home Mission in Minnesota. The stand-bys, whose fields are not yet definite, are Shelly Daniel-son, a sophomore from Morrisdale, Pennsylvania, Ruth LaBonte, a freshman from Black Mountain, North Carolina, and Marjorie An-derson, a junior from Rockford, Illinois. Pray for these students as they begin planning their summers, and remember while your'e praying, that these that are sent, are your representatives. The budget for this year's Stu-dent Mission Project reaches $4,- 000 and so far, only $1,500 has been realized. To help finances, and for everyone's convenience, there is a box for the missionary project in the coffee shop. If you have any extra money when you're at the banking window (if that is at all possible), the ladies working there will credit it to the Mission Project. There will be not offer-ing as such during Founders Week, so some might like to use these boxes for their weekly offering next week. For those interested, every Mon-day night at 6:30, a short prayer meeting is held for those involved in the Missionary Project. Bethel student missionaries receive notification of summer destinations by Betty Eckstrom How would you like to spend your Easter break on a skiing hol-iday? Don Nelson, in conjunction with the physical education depart-ment, is organizing a ski trip to Jackson. Hole Wyoming in the Teton Mountains. At Jackson Hole, 4,135 vertical feet of skiing, and a wide variety of terrain so that no matter what class of skier you are in—begin-ner, intermediate, expert—you will find something you like. A 2,260 foot long double chairlift serves a gentle ski school slope at the base of the area. The intermediate skier will find on the 2,175 vertical feet of Apres Vous Peak some of the best inter-mediate terrain in America. On Rendezvous Peak, the big moun-tain, the expert and intermediate will be in their glory. The inter-i mediate may choose to disembark from the aerial tram at tower three. He will still have up to five miles of skiing to the Valley Sta-tion. Jackson Hole's 63 passenger aerial tram rises from Teton Vil-lage at 6,311 feet above sea level to the top of Rendezvous Peak, 10,446 feet; one of the world's major tramway installations, it rises 4,135 vertical feet in a dis-tance of 2.4 miles. It required 26 months to build and cost almost $2 million. Now you may be asking not only how you can get in on this fan-tastic trip but also how much it will cost and what will the price include. For $115 you will get all transportation (Greyhound), seven nights of lodging at the Buckrail Lodge, and six full days of skiing with the price of all lift tickets also included. All that is not cov-ered is equipment rental, which you can take care of inexpensively at Bethel, and food, which will continued to page 6 Jilin Ikebieth Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once there was a storie 'bout a thief named Butch an' his bossman, "the kid" an' they did many things tagether an' som were good — but most were bad but bot' a' them were people like you an' me who do som' things good but mostly bad an' this storie was made inta' one a' thos' things call'd movin pi'tures an' it seem'd ta' me that lots a' people really enjoyed it cause was a comedy an' notin' more nobodie tried ta' tell a stork that folks lik' me couldn't understand an' me an my friend went one night an' we laffed so hard we couldn't walk strait an' they did somtine real funny in the beginin' all the people an' buildings were brown an' whit' it was kinda different an' the storie kept us on the tips of our toes ready to run for ol' Sundance and Butch if they got tired and did they ever they got tired a' hunnin' in fac', that wes the whole storie Butch an' Sundance jus' runnin' an' runnin' an' this storie is kinda queer 'cause all a' the sudd'n ya re'lize you lov these people! (oh no! a crying shame!) jus' like the "good ole Book" says 'Lou your enemie!" an' you start ta' think 'bout all the mostly bad things they do an' how it doesn't make any difference 'cause you lov em! an' in the end it comes ta min' that your "enemies" all are gonna die for all the mostly bad things an' you feel real sad, cause you lov em! Tbeetther 3hebieM Mac's rock musical explores black-white relations by Marjorie M. Rusche Speaking of educational reform and innovation (see last week's Clarion), a few Macalester students have worked out an interim pro-ject that innovates not only aca-demically but also musically and theatrically. Their thing is "Freedom Suite", an original rock musical exploring the problem of black-white re-lations, alienation, loneliness, and love. It happens in Macalester's Weyerhaeuser Chapel, which is an octagonal stage in the rooms front center area with the pews grouped around in a semi-circular fashion. "Freedom Suite's" script was written by Larry Jacobsen, a 22 year old black Minneapolis author. He also did many of the lyrics for the songs. Music, mostly hard rock with some folk thrown in, was composed by Jeff Schroeder and John Katsontonis, who also played in "Freedom Unveiled", the back-up group that served the function of a pit orchestra for the musical. The plot centers around Joker, a young black just released on parole, Nancy, a naive white girl (cursed with an over-ambitious senator for a father) who plays "social worker" in a ghetto and falls for Joker. Joker gives Nan-cy security and affection — some-thing she desparately needs due to parental neglect. The security is false (as security usually is), for when she tells Jo-ker that she's pregnant just after Joker proposes marriage Joker decides it's time to cut out and disclaims any responsibility for the unborn child. Nancy runs home to try to talk to her father, but he, busily con-sulting his political advisor over some phraseology in a speech, ig-nores her until she blurts out, "Dad, I'm pregnant." Then he starts listening; no not really listening, but at least re-acting. "What! We warned you! We told you not to hang around that dirty no-good hippie Timmy." (Timmy was Nancy's old boyfriend, whom Nancy had been forbidden to see since he was the "wrong sort" and would ruin her father's political image.) Nancy explains that Timmy's not the one, but Joker, a black man. At discovering this perfidious breach of morality, Senator Day rushes towards his daughter and attempts to murder her. The close of the musical finds Nancy running to her old flame's (Timmy) pad, desparate for a lit-tle understanding and genuine hu-man concern. He, however, is hap-pily tripped out on some "no-no's." Nancy tells her tale of woe to Tim who is dreamily sitting there exclaiming, "It's so beautiful! Wow!." Nancy's crying. Tim says, 'Here, take this." She hesitates, then pops the pill. Her trip is a bad one. All the as-sociation- laden figures from her past and present slowly advance from every direction until they surround and symbolically suf-focate her. She is buried. Her par-ents and "friends" hypocritically cry for her bones, then file off stage and resume their normal lives. The denouncement comes as Jo-ker remains on stage staring at Nancy's dead body. A new white girl comes from the anonominity of the audience and walks into Joker's vision. Joker's pitch comes, "Hey, you look lonely." She nods. They walk off together, leaving Nancy's corpse to rot. Well. That's a sketchy outline of the plot. There are many more subplots dealing with racism, hy-pocrisy, difference between black and white cultures, etc. The play seems overly-obvious while you're sitting through it, but gains com-plexity upon reflection. The music fits well with the drama, thematically and rythmat-ically, although there are some rough spots in transition. Obvious-ly, it makes good theatrical sense to use contemporary music forms to emphasize the contemporary theme of the play. The music was composed fairly well, but gener-ally poorly performed. The actors were much better actors than sing-ers. If you have a chance, take the time to go see the play. It's still running this weekend, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 P.M. in Macalester's chapel. Student tick-ets cost a dollar and can be pur-chased at the door. Friday, February 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 5 by Steve Duinick It seems to be "black week" here at Bethel College and Seminary. I am very happy that this long overdue event has finally made some headway into school. We at our protective institution have had it easy for far too long before someone like the Black Literature class has had the initiative to stick it in our face. For some of us it is a big step out of our way, for others it is the chance to back up God's Word, and yet for others it is the "Natch'l thing." But why are we going out of our way to help educate the blacks when there are many poor whites too? That seems to be a question asked when ever the suggestion of helping the American Negro out of his pit is raised. Questions such as these usually originate from the mouths of those least knowledgeable on the black subject but yet feel themselves well-informed on the current issue. There are reasons why we should help our black neighbors and most of these arguments are beyond our ear range since we are so far out of communication with their world. My early contact with the subject at hand came from my elders and usually sounded something like, "those black should learn their place" or "there is nothing wrong with niggers, everyone should own one." My next confrontation with the dark side came from their soul music that most high school kids latched on to so quickly. It was a style, a Negro at this time, but a date was above and beyond the call of duty. Once I got into Bethel College things changed drastically and I found myself far from any contact with the outside world. It wasn't until this year and a movie called "Putney Swope" that I heard my black brothers screaming for recognition. Dean Pearson has also helped obtain some relations between the colored barriers by having parties involving some of his black friends yet this is only minimal exposure to the sub-ject and needs many times the attention it has received. There is no way I can inform you on the situation here at school (if you haven't already noticed) since I don't believe we even have a situation, or not yet anyway. What I know of their problems you could put under your fingernails and still have room for dirt. Also I don't believe any of us here are authorities on the Negro subject or are even well-informed. That is why their presence is long overdue not matter how painful or injurious they are to our quiet little sub-culture. Bo Conrad and company made an entertaining scene Monday night. Benefits went towards minority recruitment. Spit Band MIN =I `feels fine' Male chorus, historians plan European tour by Carroll Jarp While most of us are busily working this summer some of our fellow Bethelites will be touring Europe. A chartered plane will wing the Bethel Male chorus and a history tour to Frankfurt, Ger-many where each group will pro-ceed to pursue its own course. According to C. Howard Smith, director, this will be the second over-seas tour for the male chorus. The tour will include many of the same countries they toured in 1966: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Scotland, the greater London area, and will finish up in Germany. For the most part, performances will be held in churches. "There are so few young people who at-tend church in Europe," states Smith, "and we hope to draw them into the churches through the ministry of music. The chorus will present their regular repertoire sung in English with a few Swe-dish songs." The 40 members of the chorus will be lodged in private housing tour), Richard Ward, assistant pro-arranged by key people in each fessor of history, will be leading country. "I anticipate little prob- the tour only if sufficient student lem in communicating with the interest is indicated. To date, only people while in their homes," said nine students have signed up for Smith, "since communication on the tour and a minimum of 25 the last tour was very minimal. students is needed. Ward stressed Most European and Scandinavian the fact that the tour will desist young people now days speak Eng- unless more than 20 sudents show lish quite well." The group will an interest by February 18. To-travel by bus, train and boat, giv- tal cost of the history tour is ing a total of 35 concerts. $914, and all interested students The history tour, meanwhile, are encouraged to see Ward by will be viewing historical sights February 18. in England, France, Swetzerland, Smith also stressed the fact Austria, Germany, Italy, Czecho- that there are still available seats slovakia, and East and West Berlin. for any interested students, facul- It is basically a study tour which ty, friends, or relatives wishing to will be historically and culturally visit Europe on their own. The oriented, and will include on sight cost per person for the round study with required reading prior trip flight is $260. Interested per.- to the tour. Students participating sons should contact C. Howard in the tour and fulfilling the re- Smith or Gary McCann. quired reading will be granted Both tours will run from June three credits toward general edu- 7th through July 16th and are cation requirements. being arranged through the Col- Due to the illness of Dr. Dalton lege City Travel Service in North- (who was to have conducted the field. by Janet Appelquist A group called The Lovin' Spoon-ful used to sing, "Well, the doc-tor said, 'Give him jug band mu-sic. You know it makes him feel so fine.' " After listening to the therapeutics of the Bo Conrad Spit Band, what can you say when you "feel so fine"? "Wow" just doesn't quite seem sufficient. But your mouth is smiling so much you can't form the words and your hands are numb from clapping and your feet from tapping. And your heart is happy just knowing you've been around when something great was going on. An enumeration of the events would take forever since every little thing seemed an event in iteself; from Dean Lindberg's fan-cy footwork to Mark Steward's tuxedoed contrast with the rest of the band's less formal attire (understatement!), not to mention the inimitable Steve Duinick and the group's namesake, the one-and-only Harold "Bo" Conrad. Filling out the ensemble were Robert Vork with some fancy "knee"-work (don't ask questions, just keep reading), Bill Moline, Larry Os-trom, and the "big man on the wash-tub bass', Dave Frykman, whose sensational jug band post-ers were auctioned during inter-mission. The versatile Steve Duinick led the sale in true auctioneering style. Proceeds from admissions and the poster sale netted about $190 for the very worthy cause of American Minority Group schol-arships at Bethel. A count of 250 paid admissions indicates that a-bout 25% of the campus had a "real good time" last Monday. As a post-script it should be added that, not only does each member do "his own thing" on stage, but the music produced is really great. The musicianship is surprisingly competent. Besides performing about seventeen old favorites, some of the members demonstrated their versatility by playing their own compositions. With personality and talent like this abounding, the Bo Conrad Spit Band should go down in his-tory (or at least, on record). Page 6 the CLARION Friday, February 13, 1970 Bethel man Gordy Nordmark watches ap-prehensively as Andy Feldman attempts an-other sinker. Cagers whip Lumberjacks; entertain visiting Briar Cliff and Mankato State by Rich Zaderaka but didn't hold it for long. The The Royals have a rugged week- Royals stormed back, and after end schedule, going against the the lead had changed hands twice, Chargers of Briar Cliff tonight, a tip-in by Andy Feldman put and against the Indians of Man- Bethel up to stay. The Royals kato State tomorrow evening. Both reeled in the next six buckets for opponents will have definite height a 20-7 margin. During the final advantages which Bethel will hope five minutes of the half, the Jacks to offset with the home court fac- shaved the deficit to 26-20. tor. Northland's Dick Lee pumped Bethel opened their season a- in seven points in the opening min-gainst Briar Cliff on November utes of the second half, to pull the 21. The Royals led at half 25-23, Jacks within two at 30-28. The but didn't fare as well in the Royals blasted the game open at second period and lost 56 45. 21.. Dan Larson and Andy Feldman Ed Wiltgen led all scorers with Skiers pack for Jackson Hole each had 13 for Bethel. Mankato has a season record of 4-14, but will be a tougher op-ponent than that statistic indi-cates. The Indians defeated Briar Cliff 73-69 last Friday. On Sat-urday, the Mankato frosh (eight of whom are on the varsity) de-feated the University of Minnesota freshmen 66-54. Rich Pearson, who led Duluth Central to a sec-ond place finish in the state tourn-ament last year, spearheaded the victory over Minnesota with 27 points. Walt Williams, a member of Proviso East's Illinois state championship team, added 12 points and pulled down 11 re-bounds. Last Friday the Royals whipped Northland 70-51. The Lumber-jacks snatched an early 5-0 lead, The Column by Tim Weko Before doing anything else, I must say how glad the basketball team was for the band playing at the game. It was their first appearance of the year, due to other circumstances. Anyone who has ever parti-cipated in a competitive sport realizes the benefit of noise, and the sound level in a gym is raised quickly with the presence of a band. So far as I'm concerned, the band can play "Peter Gun" to their heart's content at all upcoming games. Thanks again, band. Speaking of basketball, the Royals have won three in a row, now and are looking for their fourth and fifth this weekend. The team seems to be rolling finally after a rather choppy take off. But, it seems that just as the team is beginning to move Founders Week is upon us. Founders Week, with all its fans, festivities, founders and fun is nice because a person can go to a lot of meetings free, miss a lot of classes without a guilty conscience, and see his pastor or his parents, (and don't get me wrong, I like to see my folks as much as the next guy) but have you ever tried to practice half-court meaningfully? I mean, here we are hot as pistols with six games to go and practice gets cut to one half hour of taking chairs down, 15 minutes of practice time, and then another half hour to set the chairs up again. After so many times of setting up chairs and taking them down again those chairs seem to take on a personality, and they start to get on your nerves until finally you'd like to heave a couple right across the floor. But, that would be childish, wouldn't it? Anyway, do you think the founders would be offended if someone asked each one of them who was sitting in a chair on the main floor during the last afternoon session to carry it to the side of the floor? You think they'd be offended, huh? What if someone suggested it any-how? At least that way if we can't have the whole floor we can at least have more time. There have been rumors each Founders Week that the basketball game is fixed. I don't mean that the coach or the athletic director or whoever, schedules a patsy, a pushover, someone who the Royals could play with to show the founders what a good team Bethel has. Let me say that these rumors are not true. It is true that the last three Founders Week games have been pretty funny but let me ex-plain: Three years ago Bethel had an intra-squad scrimmage instead of a game because its opponent, Northwestern (Iowa), was snow bound. A legitimate excuse: Two years ago Bethel had to play Northwestern junior varsity again because their varsity coach said the varsity was involved in tournament play and he didn't want to tire them out for the big push. Well, how ridiculous can you get? I mean, when you schedule a game, you're responsible to play it, right? So that's why the Founders Week games in recent years have seemed to be setups. That plus the fact that very few teams, if any, will schedule a game away from home on a Thursday afternoon. It's just not prime time. But this year the founders will have no excuses for sitting meekly back in their seats and silently watching the Royals massacre someone with their third string. I've often wondered how people who could talk all day and all night in meetings could never muster a cheer, even a weak "Hooray," at a basketball game. Founders certainly are strange because when they get a chance to yell and shout and let off all that steam from those musty old meetings they sit passively and occasionally clap their hands. Maybe it's standing for the National Anthem that tires them out. The Founders Week game is notorious for its huge, huge number of fans and its quiet; and fans quiet, by definition, do not belong in the same gym. An engrossed manager and bench watch their teammates whip the Ashland Lumber-jacks. that point to go on top by 46-32, with nine minutes remaining. A layup by Dan Larson at the 4:34 mark gave Bethel a 58-38 advant-age. The biggest point spread was 24 with less than three minutes on the clock. Leading scorers for Bethel were Andy Feldman, Dan Larson, and Gordy Nordmark, with 19, 16, and 11 respectively. Northland's Dick Lee pitched in eight baskets and seven free throws, to take game honors with 23. continued from page 4 cost approximately $3 to $4 per day (unless you have more ex-pensive tastes.) For those who have not made a deposit, $75 is due before Feb. 12 and the remaining $40 is due be-fore Feb. 26. It is to be paid at the banking window, and is also completely refundable until Feb. 28. For those who want skiing credit, the Phy. Ed. department is offering one credit for lessons culminating with the trip to Jack-son Hole. According to the present plans, those going will depart at 4 p.m. on the afternoon of Friday, March 27 and will arrive in Jackson Sat-urday afternoon or early evening. Following a full night of rest, there will be an early morning Easter sunrise service at the base of the slopes. From then until Friday, April 3, the agenda in-cludes skiing! The group will re-turn around 10 a.m. the morning of April 4th and arrive back in the Cities Sunday morning, April 5. That is, those who will not opt to remain at Jackson. To quote a friend, "Whatever your ability, at Jackson Hole, the mountain is magnificent. Try it—it spoils you. It's the Gentle Giant!" Royals host Southwest State after bad showing at Pillsbury Ladies undefeated streak is broken against Carleton Women's extramural basketball The Fairview nureses were Beth-at Bethel got off to a strong start el's next opponents and they were during Interim. Mrs. Marilyn Lind- defeated 44-23. Bethel hosted Con-man stepped in to train and coach cordia and in their fourth game the team since Miss Brownlee was again pulled in a victory. Fan sup-ill. She did her work well — the port was enthusiastic, the final team record now stands at 4 and 1. score was 36-24. Augsburg fell first to the Bethel Then Bethel's only undefeated women, 32-20. Mary Lindman, a team traveled to Carleton. The team started off strong and kept returning player, was high scorer on the pressure until the second with ten points. Mary transferred half when Carleton pulled ahead. to Wheaton for the second semes- Linda Schmidt had a great night ter so the team was left without scoring 8 of the first 10 points one of their leading players. and ending up with 16. Sharon Bethel traveled down to Pills- Johnson followed with 12. How-bury for their second game. The ever, Bethel was defeated 39-54. first half was slow and Bethel The Bethel Women face some trailed 22-9. But the girls sparked aough opponents in their remain-to life in the second half, put ing games: University of Wiscon-together an effective press and sin, River Falls, Uuniversity of poured in 38 points. The game Minnesota, Augsburg, and St. ended with Bethel on top 47-36. Cloud State. Last Saturday the Royal wrest-lers travelled to Pillsbury for a seven team tournament in which, despite a couple of good individual performances by Bob Olsen and Greg Ekbom, they finished in sixth place. This weekend at 2 p.m. Sat-urday, they will meet the South west Minnesota State College Mus-tangs in the Bethel Fieldhouse. At Pillsbury the competition was just too good as Bethel salvaged a sixth place finish ahead of St. Paul Bible. St. John's University won the tourney followed respec-tively by Southwest State, Lea Col-lege, Pillsbury, Carleton, Bethel and St. Paul Bible. St. John's has a fine group of wrestlers as do Southwest and Lea. Bethel manag-ed its sixth place finish by virtue of Olsen's second place finish in the 190 pound class and Ekbom's fourth place finish at 150 pounds. Olsen's first opponent was from Pillsbury. He pinned him with 12 seconds to go in the first period. Later he wrestled Southwest's 190 pound man and pinned him at 4:22. But in the championship round Olsen was beaten, 3-2, by a wrest-ler from Lea College. Ekbom, wrestling in the 150 pound division, won his first match by a decesion against Pillsbury, but lost his next two to Lea and Southwest wreslers for his fourth. The other Bethel wrestlers all lost in the first round which auto-matically meant they could not finish higher than fifth place. Doug Warring injured his should-er during one of his matches and Barry Anderson will probably be out for the rest of the season with a shoulder separation suffered in his first match. He had to for-feit. When asked about the tourn-ament, Bob Olsen said, "We didn't wrestle up to our potential in quite a few weights." With four matches to go the Royals meet Southwest State Sat-urday in the fieldhouse. In a pre-vious meeting between the two weight classes except 126 pound, 167 pound and 190 pound. Bethel must win these three as well as giving a good showing in the other weights in order to have a chance. Warring has beaten his man once before as has Olsen. 32 year old Bob Downey will be meeting a new Southwest wrestler in the 118 pound division who is 33 years old. This will not be the battle of the Titans but should prove to be interesting. Several of the Bethel team are looking forward to this match in order to avenge previous defeats. Added incentive is present in the fact that Royals won-lost record now stands at a 8-7. They need to win to finish with a good season. Upcoming matches, which will round out the season, find 'Bethel at Hamline February 17, at Con-cordia (St. Paul) February 19 dur-ing Founders Week, and finally at Pillsbury again for a dual meet on the 21. |
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