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Vol. XLV—No. 15
Friday, February 6, 1970
Jane Cahoon, Penny Watkins and Loretta Mogck were
chosen as 1970 Sno-Daze candidates.
Administration announces
tuition raise for next year
by Bill Sievert
(CPS) — The predominant theme
of campus conferences, conven-tions,
dialogues and teach-ins is
shifting from "campus unrest" to
"the environmental crisis."
The shift does not indicate the
solution of the problems that still
put students at odds with adminis-trators,
regents and politicians as
much as it indicates the discovery
that no students, administrators,
or politicians will remain to tangle
of America de-natures itself out
of existence.
The largest nationwide effort
planned so far is the "Environ-mental
Teach-In" originated by
Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D. Wis.) for
April 22. The teach-in is being co-ordinated
by law, medical and
other professional school students
here.
The plan is for students on in-dividual
campuses to develop their
own programs for studying, ex-changing
ideas, and initiating ac-tion
on environmental problems,
particularly those facing their own
community. Like the Vietnam Mor-atoria,
the teach-in is a national
idea developed on the local level.
Other conferences on the en-vironment
will precede the April
teach-in. The U.S. Student Press
Association's (USSPA) annual col-lege
editors' conference will con-sider
ecology in the light of
"What's the Difference if We
Don't Wake Up?" as it offers edi-tors
and other interested students
"a death trip" in Washington Feb.
27 - March 2. Conservation experts
and ecology promoters will join
political pros such as New York
Mayor John Lindsay, Sen. Edmund
Muskie, and Teach-In originator
Nelson, as well as Secretary of In-terior
Walter Hickel and NBC
News Commentator Chet Huntley.
Mixed media presentations will be
used to demonstrate the coun-try's
ecological plight.
Another conference, this one to
put together student-faculty teams
to develop strategies for solving
ecological problems in their own
communities, is being organized
by former National Student Asso-ciation
(NSA) staff members.
About 200 persons are expected
to participate at Buckhill Inn, Pa.
in February. Buckminster Fuller,
writer and inventor of the geodesic
dome, will be among the invited
participants at the session spon-sored
by the Methodist Church
Population Institute.
A number of similar conferences
have taken place in recent months.
At one meeting at Stanford Uni-versity,
a Student Environmental
Confederation was formed by 200
students at 40 colleges. The con-federation
is to coordinate campus
efforts and serve as an information
clearinghouse on ecological prob-lems.
At some California campuses
there already are more than half-a-
dozen environmental action or-ganizations.
For several years, stu-dents
in the San Francisco Bay
area have been aware of their na-tural
environment as they have
fought to save the Redwoods and
to stop the filling of San Francisco
Bay. Southern California students
likewise have had to deal with oil
pollution of the Pacific around
Santa Barbara and Los Angeles'
smog.
Currently, California ecology cru-saders
are planning a 500-mile
walk from Sacramento to Los An-geles
to exhibit models of ecologi-cally
sound life-styles. Two-hun-dred
walkers are expected to take
part from March 21 to May 1.
The walkers will be aided by a
mobile library teaching unit, smog
free propane-converted vehicles,
solar energized cooking utensils,
a street theater company, and car-nival-
type exhibits. The hike,
which will average 15 to 20 miles
a day, is being organized by Ecol-ogy
Action in Berkeley.
Meanwhile, students in other
states are discovering what air,
water, earth and countless other
forms of pollution (including ani-mal
destruction) mean to them and
their futures, as environmental
courses have become the most
sought after classes on campus
upon campus.
A record enrollment class of
6,000 is taking a course entitled
"Can Man Survive?" at the Uni-versity
of Oregon. The class is
held in the basketball arena. At
the University of Montana 100
students were turned away from
a new ecology course into which
300 students were admitted.
Three North Carolina Universi-ties,
Duke, North Carolina State,
The Dean's office announced
this past week that there will be
a raise in both tuition and room
and board next year. The increase
will amount to a two semester
total of $235 broken down as
follows: $100 per semestar in-crease
in tuition, $12.50 per sem-ester
increase in board, and $5
per semester increase in room.
Administrators indicated that
the increase was necessary be-cause
of an increase in faculty
salaries and college expansion.
The Dean reported that faculty
members would receive, on the
average, a 10% increase in salary
in the coming year. He explained
that on the AAUP salary scale
for professors, which ranges from
A to F, Bethel faculty members
still rated in the 'D' catagory.
Plans for college expansion in-clude
additions to the departments
of Social Sciences, Physical Sci-and
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
are forming a consortium to study
ecological problems with federal
funds.
Almost every university in the
country is becoming involved in
some way, according to Everett
M. Hafner, dean of Hampshire Col-lege's
School of Natural Science.
Hafner has been gathering facts
on ecological education and plans
to publish a directory of environ-mental
study programs this year.
Politicians are also becoming
more concerned with ecology (at
least due in part to the excitement
being generated on the campuses),
and numerous Congressmen, liber-als
and conservatives alike, are
calling the environment the most
crucial issue for Congress to act
on in the new year.
Some students have expressed
concern that too great and too
quick an acceptance of ecological
problems by conservatives and the
"silent majority" brand of Ameri-cans
could result in little being
accomplished. Once people accept
the validity of an issue on a large
scale, they often become lethargic
about it.
In this issue, gaining approving
nods from the public is not enough.
continued on page 4
If long planning and hard work
pay off the way they are sup-ences,
Physical Education, and
Psychology. The addition to the
Psychology Department also in-cludes
a counselor.
Student leaders and members of
the administration have been dis-cussing
the increase ever since
its necessity became evident at
the December meeting of the Board
of Education. Students expressed
concern over the effect of the tu-ition
increase on upper classmen
especially since student retention
is becoming one of the college's
One of the most popular aca-demic
changes in the past year
or two has been the conversion by
the colleges to a 4-1-4 calendar
year. New York's Colgate Univer-sity
was the first school to experi-ment
with the approach in 1966.
The school discarded the tradition-al
semester calendar in favor of
two four month semesters with an
open month between. First semes-ter
examinations were concluded
before Christmas, and second sem-ester
work did not begin until
February.
The change meant intensifying
courses from 10 to 20 per cent,
but there was little or no objec-tion.
Many felt January was a
wasted month anyway, as little was
accomplished due to Christmas va-cation,
exams, and semester break.
This year, Bethel began its ex-periment
with the 4-1-4 program.
After being studied for a few
years, Bethel kicked its program
off, by offering one, or in some
cases two, courses in almost every
field of interest.
Many of the students decided
to stay at Bethel during January
and try the Interim session. For
all it was a new experience, and
most felt it was a good and mean-ingful
one.
Some students voiced their feel-ings
this way:
"Interim? I loved it! It was
great!! It gave me an opportunity
to really enjoy going to Bethel.
Only having one class enabled me
to feel more relaxed, I was able
to get to know the kids in my class
more intimately. Some sound
friendships were formed too. As
for next year — I say, let's have
it again!"
"I thought Interim was very
good, and almost everybody I talk-ed
to liked it. I took the Sociology
posed to, Bethel's 1970 Sno-Daze
will be one of the best ever seen.
primary concerns. It was also felt
by the students that they should
receive more benefit from the tu-ition
increase. Administrators,
however, pointed out that students
were receiving indirect benefit
from the increase in faculty sal-aries.
The discussion also brought out
the fact that tuition increase was
not unique to Bethel, but that
many private colleges seem to be
caught in the same financial sit-uation.
course, and the field trips were
great because we were finally ex-periencing
what we had studied.
Reading about our courts can get
pretty boring, but visiting a court-room
and seeing it at work, now
that is something else."
"I liked Interim but . . . "
"I liked it. I could go to class,
yet there wasn't this feeling of
having to study. It left lots of
time just to goof around and have
a good time. There is one thing
though . . . there could have been
more social activities."
" 'That they'll know we a r e
Christians by our love,' is an ideal
expression of a Christian commu-nity
and I feel Bethel has come
closest to it for me during Interim.
I felt a real unity among the stu-dents
in my class, especially in
the open discussion periods. It was
especially good to get to know
kids outside the senior class and
feeling a lot closer to faculty. As
a student guide for Symposium,
I really appreciated the effort of
the faculty to be part of the
learning group and not the all-knowing
Prof. It's a great step in
the right direction toward a real
community of love and understand-ing."
"My Interim course was a lot
of work, but I cannot say that it
wasn't worth while. I have seen
more card catalogs and periodi-cals
than I ever care to look at,
yet the experience that I have be-hind
me, I know won't be wasted.
I expected a chance to pick up
3 comparatively easy credits in
English, and now I have 3 hard
earned credits, plus more than I
ever expected to learn. Add that
to a month spent in the fellowship
with Christian friends; Interim
was indeed worthwhile!"
A banquet at 7:30 on February
12 at the Camelot Restaurant will
officially begin the events. Car-rying
the theme "Crystal Knights,"
the banquet will be just the right
place for the coronation of this
year's Sno-Daze Princess. As a
special added feature, Ben Pena,
a flamenco guitarist, will present
an hour long program at the ban-quet.
Friday night, February 13, there
will be a basketball game at 7:30
in the fieldhouse. During the half-time,
the Princess and her court
will be presented, and the annual
beard judging contest will take
place.
Candidates for Sno-Daze Prin-cess
this year are: Jane Cahoon,
Loretta Mogck, and Penny Wat-kins.
The candidates, traditionally
from the freshman and sophomore
classes, were nominated by those
classes Monday.
Students focus on environmental crisis
plan for nationwide'teach-in'April 22
Interim 70 stimulates interaction
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the CLARION Friday, February 6, 1970
Bethel's curriculum seems to be
pacing avant-garde education
As most students and members of the faculty will agree, more
experimentation and creative ideas are needed in the field of education.
As part of my interim course this past month I decided to investigate
some of the innovations and new ideas in this area. The general trend
seems to be that of humanizing the educational structure. Educators
seem to be attempting to focus on the individual student, his abilities—
especially the development of his self identity, and his ability to
identify with others and his environment.
Educators in elementary and secondary schools are reviewing the
possibilty that the divisions of twelve grades are not as important
as they once thought they were; they are experimenting with introducing
younger students to courses such as anthropology and sociology.
Social studies courses are particularly under review, with attempts to
inaugurate living-learning educational situations. Elementary children
in the inner city area, for example, need not be taught so much about
slum environments — they know about slums — but they need to know
why things are the way they are and that they needn't always be that
way.
In the arena of college education, there is a movement towards
interdisciplinary courses and less emphasis on the grading method of
evaluation. Brown University, for example, has abolished all graduation
requirements. Freshmen, upon entering the University, take courses
called 'Modes of Thought" which are interdisciplinary, and are later
aided by a Committee of Concentrations in determining a course of
study tailored to the individual's needs and interests. Students must
complete a designated number of courses by the end of each academic
year. The "A, B, C," grading system is being kept only as a transitional
measure.
It is encouraging to see stirrings of educational reform on Bethel's
campus. Interim is a unique educational experience. It offers students
to delve into subjects on their own which are not offered in the
regular curriculum. The looser class structure allows students to ex-perience
learning through different processes, to "do their own thing"
so to speak. It allows them to concentrate their interest and atten-tion
on one particular area instead of being torn in five different direc-tions.
There is more time to interact with other students — which is
an important part of the learning process but is sometimes neglected
during the regular semester because of studying and other pressures.
Interim is not the only area of educational innovation upon which
Bethel has embarked, however. Crisis Colony, an educational experience
available in conjunction with Augsburg College and other area collegs,
and Students for Urban Involvement, a program still in the planning
stages but which would be Bethel's own, are also evidence of curricular
reform and innovation. These programs give students a unique oppor-tunity
to live in, study and learn about the inner city environment.
There is always room for improvement, however. The interim
program should continually seek ways to increase interaction among
students through discussions, films and more social activities. This
should also be the time to take advantage of travel opportunities. De-partments
should attempt to integrate their course offerings and be
alert to chances to supplement traditional learning processes with more
meaningful educational methods and programs.
FRANKLY SPEAKING
ky Phil Frank
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To the editor,
The President has just nomin-ated
a Communist to the Supreme
Court. Twenty-two years ago the
nominee said, "I am a communist
by ancestry, birth, training, in-clination,
belief and practice." Of
course, today he denies that he is
a communist. However his record
as a judge shows he consistently
ruled in favor of communists. In
fact 60% of his decisions on civil
rights were reversed in Appeals
Court because they favored com-munist
supremacy instead of equal
rights for all people. In 1955 this
judge helped turn a public golf
To the editor,
I, a fellow Christian feel I must
warn you. There exists an ever-more
popular movement within
God's Church that threatens to re-place
Love with rules. Man made
rules and worldly considerations
are taking the place of the cup
that overrunneth with love. Don't
be misled! Subject yourselves to
God's leading and accept the in-cidents
that affect your lives as
part of His plan. If you love God,
everything will work out for good.
Often we will not know the good
resulting from things that hap-pen
to us. Perhaps an incident or
situation in your life is allowed
by God to benefit someone else.
Be content with all God allows to
happen. If God is in you, He's in
everything that happens to you.
I find myself in a situation that
has allowed me to see this con-cept
is a reality within myself and
not just an ideal to strive towards.
I hope you will somehow benefit
from this unpleasant position I
now face.
I have been suspended from
school for a semester for drinking.
I have been drinking since I was
15. Here, at Bethel, God led me
to give up this habit (I hesitate
to call it that since I drank mod-erately
about once every twenty
days). I won't go into the details
since you can learn them easily
enough. Because I knew God want-ed
me here, though not certain He
would give me the opportunity to
stay, I appealed this decision be-fore
everyone I could. I received
the final word today: "for your
own good, we can't allow you to
remain with us."
Between you, God and I the
decision will not be for my own
good but it might help you. I
didn't make my decision under the
threat of being caught and the fact
that I turned myself in and was
suspended won't change that deci-sion.
My prayer is that this inci-dent
will give you something to
think about.
God instructs us Christians to
avoid judging one another. We are
told to meet with each other and
help one another with our prob-lems.
This being done, if the prob-lems
are solved, forget the prob-lem
and remember the lesson
found in it. God will forgive you
all your sins and give you assur-ance
that you need not worry
about them. When God forgives
others of their sins, ask Him to
give you the power to do so too.
He will give you the power. God's
way is to forgive and help the
weak along, not to inflict punish-ment
on the wrongdoer. In sep-course
into a private one which
would serve only communists. The
public course was leased to the
communists for one dollar ($1). The
judge at first denied any official
connection with the golf club.
However, when presented with
the evidence he admitted he had
bought $100 worth of stock in the
club and had signed the letter of
incorporation. After all that, would
you believe the President when
he says that the judge has "a re-cord
which is impeccable and
without a taint of communism."?
Would you believe the President
if the word "racist" were substi-arating
the transgressor (in this
case me) from those who can help
him, we trade God's love for man's
rules.
I am not bitter about the out-come
of this situation. I have not
personally been done any harm
though I certainly haven't been
helped. The only regrets I have
over this matter are based on the
position I have put the school in.
I have given them an opportunity
to exercise legalism over Love.
In giving them a chance to follow
man's rules instead of God's in-structions,
I have furthered the
cause of the Holy Rules. The more
often these rules are given a chance
to take the place of Love, the more
To the editor,
We call ourselves Christians.
Who are we trying to kid? Is
there really any difference be-tween
us and the non-Christian
student? We talk about grades.
And how many times have we
said that we're not here for grades,
but for an education? How many
times has the grade been our mot-ivation?
How many times have
we said it hasn't been? Aren't we
saying one thing and living an-other?
Have we ever accused those of
the opposite sex of chasing with
intent to marry? Do we ourselves
seek a partner? Are we really
trusting God with it or are we
only asking Him for His help to
insure our success? Why do many
of us quiver at the thought of not
ever marrying? Maybe because we
are not really trusting God, we are
trusting our own efforts in the
name of God.
And how much of our time is
spent contemplating our future
career? Is it a source of distress
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tuted for "communist"? Read this
letter again: for "communist" read
"racist"; for the "judge" read
`G. Harrold Carswell"; for the
"President" read "Nixon." If you
found yourself upset by a Com-munist
infiltrating the Supreme
Court, are you equally upset by a
racist? Will you do anything a-bout
it? In a democracy it is the
citizen's duty to let his Senator
know what kind of country he
wants to live in. If you are not
part of the solution, you are part
of the problem.
Jon Fagerson
Assistant Professor of English
integral and accepted part of our
Church they become. Don't be
part of it!
In conclusion, I would ask that
those of you who may be doing
the same things I've done to cease
to do so (I hope I'm not preaching).
Don't give them another chance
to reinforce their false righteous-ness
again. Perhaps it's not yet
too firmly imbedded in our Lord's
Church to be cleaned out. Above
all pray about this problem along
with me.
David Hagen '73
P.S. I do not know how to spell
Love with a small 'L', but God
is Love and Love is God. Let God
love through you.
and apprehension? So what if it
is, isn't that a sure sign that it's
God's will for our lives? Some of
us say so, but who are we kidding?
Certainly not Him.
Obviously there is a difference
between us and the non-Christian
student. Most non-Christians are
not victims of a hypocritical life.
Are we? Could it really be us?
Why is our way of life condem-ned
by the ungodly? Probably be-cause
it is not a way of life at all,
it is a way of talk; we live some-thing
else. Something that strives
for the goals and securities that
our society offers. Are we living
for Jesus or are we living for
ourselves and talking about Jesus?
We might fool each other but we
will never fool Him. We are living
alone, and calling ourselves Chris-tians.
P.S. Colossians 2: 20-23; 3:1-4
Galatians 1:10 James 3: 13-18
John 5: 44 7: 16-18 14: 15-17;
25-31
John W. Larson '71
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Coevals will FRANKLY SPEAKING
by Phil Frank
be released
Friday, February 6, 1970 the CLARION Page 3
The Coevals are coming. Three
issues of the Coeval, the campus
literary magazine, will be publish-ed
and released during the months
of February and March.
The first issue, which will be
done all in black and white words
on high gloss paper to achieve
maximum contrast, will materialize
—possibly in p.o. boxes — Monday,
February 9.
It will convey the theme of
"erraticism", not "eroticism" as
was rumored. Actually, as Maurice
Zaffke, Coeval editor, profoundly
states, "the Coeval will speak for
itself".
Graffiti will dominate the sec-ond
issue with the cover and inter-ior
design produced by Steve Gil-bert.
The third issue will be "very
mysterious", states Zaffke, "I'm
not quite sure myself how it will
be organized."
Zaffke is the sole member of
the Coeval staff. "I had to dis-cipline
every body else", Zaffke
reflected, "they were kicked off
the staff since things were get-ting
unruly."
Literary selections may be sub-mitted
to Maurice at any time.
More Coevals shall appear as the
semester progresses.
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by Steve Duininck
A learning experience can come at any time or place and the best
time to find one is when you are not looking. On a recent hitchhiking
expidition I found myself cold, ride-less, and tired of standing a block
away from Bethel. Finally after a heavy twenty minutes a 69' Thunder-bird
pulled over to pick me up. When I got in he plainly told me that
the only reason he stopped was because he was too loaded to drive. He
also said he was a "middle-aged, convention-going, suburban-living, and
a completely miserable drunk."
I was only going to my rented basement apartment but I asked him
to come over for a drink of tea. Much to my surprise he accepted the
offer and when we arrived he started to unfold his life up to the recent
convention. He told me, "Todays youth have all the right answers." Also,
"That I should do my own thing," as he clumsily put it.
He appeared to be answering more because of the situation and less
than from what he really believed. At one point I stood to remove my
sweater and he jumped up to ask me "What are you going to do?" He
also told me he was sick of phoney people who used money to impress
others like the men at the convention he had been attending. I told him
that I thought there were people in every segment of society that are
phoney but I don't believe he grasped much of the idea. The subject of
love ran constantly from a manhood love to the physical type which
seemed to be a very predominant factor in his actions.
After talking awhile longer he passed out or fell asleep so I covered
him with a blanket and hung up his coat. When I woke up in the morning
he was gone with out a trace and I had a warm smile on my freckly face.
Sometimes we get a little too unexposed going to a "Christian col-lege"
and need more exposure in areas such as these. I'm not suggesting
you put yourself in the drivers seat but breaking a few attitude barriers
towards such people could be very educational. It was well worth the
Concert iktbietv hassel of hitch-hiking to come across a goldmine like him.
Trip out with Terry's trumpet blues Inter-collegiate literary journal
Clark Terry has a bad case of announces talent scavenging
the blues. Terry, a nationally re-nowned
jazz artist, is currently
lead trumpet for the Doc Sever-insen
orchestra that is featured
on the Johnny Carson Tonight
Show. He showed his virtuosity
and affinity for jazz and the blues
last Sunday at a Northrup audi-torium
concert which also pre-sented
the University of Minne-sota's
concert band ensemble.
The band played first — some
moderately jazzy concert pieces
composed by Americans — which
warmed the crowd up.
Their numbers were played very
precisely, solidly, with good tech-nical
control. The balance of the
band which leans to a brassy
sound, adapted well to jazz sounds.
Intricate jazz rhythms were hand-led
deftly by the band, although
confusion resulted in places where
the director, Dr. Frank Bencris-cutto,
got overly excited and start-ed
directing in circles instead of
beats.
But the crowd was there to hear
Terry's golden horn. The band,
hook
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along with his own pianist and
percussionist, backed Terry up on
several numbers which included
arrangements of Quiet Nights,
What the World Needs Now, Go-ing
out of My Head, etc. The show
ended with a blues jamming ses-sion
consisting of Terry on trum-pet,
Bencriscutto on tenor sax,
and assorted members of the band.
Terry's sound and spirit are im-posible
to describe. To fully ap-preciate
his "soul," he must be
heard in a "live" concert. His
sound is big, gutsy, alternately
smooth and raspy on the bottom
notes, with piercing flashes of
brilliance when he hits the high.
Terry's playing is not a standardly
straight trumpet sound, it's alive,
organic, an extension of his voice
and lungs. He doesn't play sep-arate
individual notes, but uses
whole blocks of sounds and strings
them together. Notes are meshed
together so your concept of pitch
becomes dislocated as he wah-wah-wahs
his way through the songs.
The close relationship between
old time blues and jazz and current
pop music struck me. There is a
strong strain of blues in some cur-rent
"rock" albums out (i.e. Blood,
Sweat, and Tears) in addition to
straight "blues"' groups (i.e. Paul
Butterfield Blues Band, Janis Jop-lin),
in addition to country western
type rock blues (i.e. The Band).
Some of the sounds, style, and def-inately
the beat go back to Big
Koma jazz—which was and is one
of the main contributions of Amer-can
culture (more specifically
black American culture — they
lived the "blues") to the world of
music.
And jazz and the "blues" are
beautiful. What a vibrant, crea-tive,
alive art form. We should be
proud. Poor Bach is presently
being computerized. (Listen to
Switched on Bach.) A computer
will never be able to play the
blues, because true blues and jazz
are improvised (an existential art
form?) with their spirit coming
out of the agony and ecstacy of
human experience.
In THE COMING OF THE GOLD-EN
AGE, Gunther S. Stent asserts
that the Golden Age was not the
first stage of history as the an-cient
Greeks believed, but is in-stead
the last stage of history and
that we are now entering it.
After recounting the history of
the rise and fall of molecular gen-etics
as his model of creative ac-tivity
and intellectual progress,
Gunther Stent ranges widely
through philosophy, psychology,
music, economics, history and phy-sics
to argue that the arts and
sciences — the main indices of
progress — are unmistakeably
reaching the logical end of their
evolution.
Science is over: there will be no
more breakthroughs. Science will
become the mere filling in of de-tail
in concepts already known.
Art has reached the end: creativity
in any real sense is no longer pos-sible.
The arts will quite appropri-ately
conclude as random sensa-tion.
The end of progress itself is
clearly in sight. These are some of
the claims made by the author
in this provocative book on science,
art and the state of human know-ledge.
Progress itself — which the au-thor
points out is not an ancient
or universal idea, but a relatively
new view of human activity — is
seen to be a self-limiting process
rapidly nearing its end. And with
the end of progress in sight, Dr.
Stent offers his prospectus of a
leisurely Golden Age when every-thing
that can be known is known,
when creative endeavor is im-possible
because everything has
been done before, when the tragi-comedy
of life as we live it will
have become a perpetual happen-ing.
Gunther Stent is a Professor of
Molecular Biology at the Univer-sity
of California, Berkeley. A pro-lific
writer in his own field, Dr.
Stent has published over 80 papers,
a previous book, MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY OF BA(MERIAL VI-RUSES,
and co-edited with John
Cairns and James D. Watson,
PHAGE AND THE ORIGINS OF
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY.
Perceptions HI, an inter-collegi-ate
literary magazine published
at Southwest Minnesota State Col-lege,
is looking for talent.
All students are encouraged to
submit material to the Perceptions
III staff to be judged for possible
publication. Writing competition
is open in the following categories:
essay, description, narration, short
story, poetry, satire, character
sketches, argumentation, speeches,
and plays. Music and art compo-siti,
ons will also be accepted.
IT you have something you're
interested in seeing published
which will draw inter-collegiate
attention, contact Maurice Zaffke,
Coeval editor, P.O. 162, for fur-ther
information.
Manuscripts must be submitted
by February 16, 1970.
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Tomorrow night the Royal cagers
will be challenging the Northland
Lumberjacks of Ashland, Wiscon-sin.
Northland's record this sea-son
is not exactly impressive but
they will be seeking to avenge
last year's twin defeats. The Roy-als
won both games easily by the
scores of 85-69 and 96-68.
Although the Jacks have lost
two of their top starters, Royals'
coach Jack Trager is expecting a
rugged game. Wayne Pennyfeather,
who was averaging 14.6 and Rich
Lang at 17.1, are no longer on the
Northland squad. Dick Lee, who is
Northland's leading scorer, is av-eraging
18.7. Gary Eberling is sec-ond
at 10.2.
In last Friday's game with Dordt,
the Royals muscled their way
through the Defender's karate de-fense
for an 80-72 victory. Bethel
Friday, February 6, 1970
grabbed an early lead and Dordt
resorted to chopping fouls in an
attempt to stop the Royal offense.
Early scoring by Doug Fargo
and Andy Feldman thrust the Roy-als
into the lead. With six min-utes
left in the half, Bethel held
a 23-13 advantage and Dordt got
no closer than nine until the final
score of the game. A 20-foot jump-er
by Bob Brodin with 3:10 left
gave Bethel its biggest lead of the
half at 31-15. The score at half-time
was 39-25.
The Defenders cut the lead to
ten at 58 48 with 7:45 left. A
layup by Dan Larson and a 15
footer by Jim Delich sent the
Royals on another offensive spurt.
With two and one half minutes
left the Royals held a 76-56
lead, and Coach Trager sent in
fresh troops. At this point Dordt
zeroed in on several long range
shots, but couldn't overtake the
Royals. Andy Feldman led scoring
with 22 points. The rest of the
attack balanced with Gordy Nord-mark
and Doug Fargo netting 10
each. Tim Weko and Dan Larson
bagged 9 each and Bob Brodin and
Jim Delich 8 each.
On January 17 the Royals bat-tled
the Albert Lea Lancers. Lea
pulled off a dramatic 62-60 win
on a 25 foot jumper by Howard
Wilkens as the clock ran out.
Dan Larson led the Royal scor-ing
with 18. Feldman and Fargo
chipped in 13 and 12 respectively.
Wilkens led all scorers with 24.
On January 20 Bethel ran into
Winona State's tough zone de-fense
and were grounded 50-39.
Steve Prostman accounted for
half the Warrior points with 25.
Dan Larson led the Royals with 13.
The Column
by Tim Weko
Hi, sports fans. We're back in action again after what I hope was
a profitable lay-off from conventional studies, or for some of you from
studies of any form. To those of you who were enjoying sun I extend a
frost-bitten hand as a welcoming sign back into the land of penguins,
frozen gas-lines, and icy sidewalks. The choir all looked tanned and
healthy after their trip into the South, and their voices didn't seem to
have suffered from all of their performances as they gave a rousing
homecoming concert. I was wondering, however, why the choir had to
charge admission after their good will trip which is rumored to have
raised thousands and thousands of dollars for Bethel.
Even though some things at school had slowed down during interim,
the sports calendar was as loaded as ever with the wrestling team having
tournaments. The wrestlers beat Northland, Macalester, St. Mary's and
Hamline. All of these meets, except the St. Mary's meet were away
which usually gives the home team the advantage, but the Royal grapplers
overcame these handicaps and beat their opponents decisively each
time, particularly at Hamline where the frustration of the Hamline team
was summed up by their 190 pound wrestler who, after Bob Olsen had
nearly pinned him with a figure 4 around his head said so everyone in
the whole place could hear him, "Don't you ever put your legs around
my head again!" How's that for poise? And for those of you who don't
know Bob very well, he proceeded to rub it into the poor boy by trying
to put his legs around his head quite a few more times before the match
was over. Intimidation, anyone?
Lagers win 1, lose 2 during interim;
seek evasion ofavenging Lumberjacks
College Choir sings through Interim in Florida Sun
by Dave Greener
The Bethel College Choir left
Bethel College for its annual con-cert
tour on January 6, at about
5:00 a.m. and returned 18 days
later at 4:00 p.m.
What happened in between?
Florida was the choir's destina-tion
this year. Concerts had been
set up there and at locales en-route.
The choir had practiced long
for their performance and the con-cert
was to be geared to both
achieving musical excellence and
exhibiting spiritual realness as
well.
The trip began with two chart-ered
Greyhounds leaving Bethel
and venturing into the cold, early
morning darkness. Wisconsin. Illi-nois,
Indiana and at the end of a
long day a concert at Indianapolis.
Ohio and a concert at Cincinnatti.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and
a concert at Atlanta.
"Red is trump." The travelers
play rook as the buses roll on.
Or they talk, perhaps in a pseudo-
Southern accent. Or sleep. Or read
or look at scenery.
Finally, Florida — the tourist-beckoning
road signs — the orange
continued from page 1
Drastic action must come quickly,
they say.
An ecology group organizer in
Minnesota maintains, "The prob-lem
is so great that you need ac-tivists
to get anything done, but
a lot of people coming into our
group now would oppose dramatic
things like the burying of the au-tomobile
engine."
Al Record, Formerly with NSA
and a planner of the Buckhill, Pa.
conference says, "The danger is
that they (ecology supporters) may
forget about long-range goals, that
they will forget about race and
war as basic issues." Forcing min-ority
groups to poverty stricken
lives in ghettos and continuing to
develop bombs to carry the world
to fail-safe will destroy man just
as quickly as the continued de-struction
of nature. And vice versa.
One of the first Congressional
moves on ecology since the in-creased
interest in the issue comes
this winter as Rep. John Brademas
groves — more and more tropical
vegetation — and lastly the first
destination, Winter Haven. A sup-per
awaits the travelers at Winter
Haven. This is the normal tour
procedure — supper at a church,
breakfast at hosts' homes, and
lunched packed by hosts.
"Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord of Sab-aoth/
Heav'n and earth are full of
Thy glory . .. " The choir sings
such numbers as Gretchinoff's
"Our Father," Zimmerman's "Make
a Joyful Noise," "Face to Face"
(arranged by their conductor, Rob
ert .Berglund), and (with the brass
ensemble) Pinkham's "Christmas
Cantata."
Not all is work. The group goes
to the beach two or three times.
Some free time in Miami and Tam-pa
is part of this — there too, is
time for washing clothes, hunting
for coconuts, shopping, and a tour
of Cape Kennedy.
And so the trip ends with a
Homecoming Concert at the place
where it had begun. In between
had been thousands of miles of
roads, eleven different states, and
about fifteen concerts.
Some aspects of the journey are
easily enumerated. They are factu-
(D-Ind.) opens hearings on legisla-tion
aimed at helping elementary
and secondary schools teach about
conservation, pollution control, and
other environmental problems.
Brademas, sponsor of the Environ-mental
Quality Education Act,
says he plans to call "top experts
and knowledgeable citizens from
across the country" to testify on
the proposal before the House Se-lect
Education Subcommittee of
which he is chairman.
In the Senate, the bill is spon-sored
by Gaylord Nelson, organizer
of the April teach-in. Two Repub-licans
and another Democrat are
co-sponsoring the bill with Bra-demas
in the House.
The measure would provide fed-eral
grants for developing teach-ing
materials and teachers in en-vironmental
studies and aid to
elementary schools for courses on
ecology, pollution control and na-tural
resources. The bill also would
authorize environmental study
courses for community and indus-al
"data." The choir was able to
sing before a few large crowds —
several hundred at Boca Raton,
one thousand at St. Petersburg,
and about twelve hundred at Chi-cago's
Orchestra Hall. It was in
Chicago that a man said he'd give
a gift of $100,000 and another
man offered one of $70,000. It
was in Tampa that evangelist
Leighton Ford (at a Tampa Cru-sade
where the choir sang two
numbers, one which was televised
locally) referred to the choir as
" . . . one of the outstanding col-lege
choirs in America" and re-ferred
to Bethel as " . . . one of
the outstanding Christian colleges
in America."
Other aspects of the trip are
not so easily delineated, such as
the interpersonal experiences had
by the travelers — with each other
and with their hosts and new
acquaintances. There is also the
exposure given Bethel College, in
many cases perhaps for the first
time. Finally, there is the spirit-ual
uplift definitely experienced
by some (if not all?) travelers and
the hope that their audiences were
bettered spiritually as well.
trial leaders and state and local
government officials.
Day by day support from all
ages and political arenas contin-ues
to surround the issue of sav-ing
the environment. But whether
the new support is serious enough,
whether enough support can be
garnered from industry which is
such a major contributor to the
crisis and whether the last inning
effort is in time remains to be
seen.
The basketball team hasn't fared quite so well, winning only three
of those nine games, although they have been in every one of the games.
In fact, they have lost so many close games that their sleep is reported
to be haunted by score boards that always show them one point behind
with time gone. Coach Trager is looking for a nine game winning streak
to end the season. For the past month the Royals have been ranked be-tween
eighth and twelfth place defensively in the nation among NAIA
schools, which isn't too bad. The Junior Varsity basketball team has also
been playing a full schedule of games, although now there are only
five or six of them left eligible after grades came out. This is nothing
unusual for freshmen who haven't adjusted yet to college life, but which
leaves the freshman team rather short handed. Please study, freshman
athletes. Of course he rest of us who arn't exactly burning our names
onto the dean's list could stand a bit of prodding also.
Have any of you seen a white Snoopy Dog, black ears, a black nose
and a broken neck, walking around? If you do see him, don't let him out
of your sight and try to contact Dan Larson. He can't sleep anymore with
out his Snoopy who disappeared rather mysteriously a couple of weeks
ago. And fellas, remember, Sno-Daze is nearly here. Don't forget to ask
that little lady that you've been eyeballing for the past few weeks. Good
night, Robert.
Support for environmental crisis study mounts
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