Vo me XL—No. 24
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, April 14, 1965
Bethel Male Chorus sings during Founders' Week. Together with the Women's Choir and the
College Choir they will tour during Easter Vacation presenting a concert of worship in sacred song.
College Choirs Embark On Tours;
Present Variety In Religious Music
SPAN Selects Bethelites
For '66 Summer Abroad
Four Bethel students have been
selected as SPAN representatives
for the summer of 1966. Barb
Rusche is designated for Greece,
Rick Yonda for Ireland, Joan Meek-ley
for Ethiopia, and Linda Olson
for Argentina.
Sending four Bethel students
provides a major boost for the
SPAN program at Bethel. Bethel
has sent only two SPANers since
its association with the SPAN or-ganization
three years ago.
This significant step will also
help to introduce an element of
international heterogeneity t o
the college atmosphere. The per-centage
of foreign students, or
those who have studied abroad,
in relation to the total student
population at Bethel is presently
rather small.
Finances for the summer's study
of the four students come from
corporation - backed scholarships,
student fund-raising projects simi-lar
to Bethel's Koffee Kup game,
and money raised by the students
themselves.
The SPAN program under which
these students will study is an
accredited course at the University
of Minnesota. It provides eight
semester credits toward the stu-dent's
academic program. T h e
course work includes a year of
preparation previous to the sum-mer
spent abroad and a thesis
Myron S. Augsburger, President-
Elect of Eastern Mennonite Col-lege,
is the featured speaker dur-ing
special Pre Vacation Chapel
Services, April 12-15. Dr. Augs-burger
will be speaking on the
Myron S. Augsburger
events of Easter and their mean-ing
to the Christian life.
Dr. Augsburger has served in
many denominational and inter-
When the seminary relocates on
the new campus next fall they
will need many things to continue
their program, not the least of
which will be books for the new
library. Approximately one third
of the some 78,000 books in our
present library will need to be
moved to the new campus.
Physically moving these books,
however, does not present nearly
so great a problem as creating new
card catalogues and determining
which books belong in which li-brary.
This calls for a major op-eration
on the part of the librar-ians,
a project which is already
well under way.
Dr. Fagerstrom and David Gus-ton
have the task of going
to be written on the basis of the
student's summer research.
Preparation includes lectures
explaining various aspects o f
American culture. They cover
politics, the arts, and literature.
It also entails study on the his-tory,
language, and socio-eco-nomic
cultural patterns of the
countries designated for study.
The students will spend four-teen
weeks abroad. Ten of these,
weeks will be spent in intensive
study on their chosen projects,
gleaning information for their
theses. The remainder of the time
may be spent in visiting adjacent
countries.
The total SPAN program pr3-
sently incorporates ten Minnesota
schools. It was initiated shortly
after World War II with six col-leges.
It expanded to nine. Bethel
joined in 1962. Next year two more
schools will be added.
SPAN makes a conscious at-tempt
to visit developing coun-tries
with the basic purpose of
contributing international under-standing
through its sponsorship
of individual research projects
and international living.
Bethel's SPAN representative for,
this summer (1965) is CLARION
editor, Bill Swenson. He is assign-ed
to Thailand where he will
gather information for a thesis in
the field of government and com-munication.
denominational services and confer-ences.
At St. Andrew's Episcopal
Church in Wilmington, Deleware,
Dr. Augsburger speaks yearly at
the Noon Lenten Series attended
by some five hundred people.
But the major portion of Dr.
Augsburger's time has been de-voted
to evangelism. Most of his
crusades are conducted under the
auspices of Inter-Church Evangel-ism,
Inc. of which he is President.
This inter-denominational group
has conducted meetings across the
United States and around t h e
world.
The special Pre-Vacation Chapel
Services will take place in the
field-house at 10:00 A.M., regular
Chapel time. Mr. Sprinkel, Assis-tant
Dean of Students, has pointed
out that Dr. Augsburger's message
will be "a good sequel to Ethel
Barrett. It is hoped that t h e
decisions made last week at the
`Holy War' series, will be im-plemented
at the special Pre-Vaca-tion
Chapel Services."
through all the stacks and identi-fying
the books as either college
or seminary. Francis Miksa, sen-ior
seminarian, has been placed
in charge of creating the new
card catalogue for the seminary.
T h e r e are approximately six
cards for each book in the library,
which makes the task quite com-plicated.
In addition, duplicate
cards must be made of seminary
books for the union card catalogue
which will be in the college li-brary.
Materials, both periodicals and
books, which are relevant to both
the college and seminary program,
will be duplicated if at all possible.
A direct telephone line between
the two libraries will probably be
by C. David Snyder
As Bethel's students leave her
campus this weekend to be with
their families a n d loved-ones,
four Greyhound buses will carry
nearly one hundred fifty of them
across the country where they will,
blend their voices in service to
God as representatives of Bethel
in. the Women's Choir, College
Choir, and Male Chorus and as
representatives of their Lord Jesus
Christ.
Directed by Mr. Julius Whitinger
and assistant director Vivian Walk-er,
the Women's Choir tour, manag-ed
by Joyce Larson, will include
concerts in Minnesota, Iowa, Neb-raska,
Colorado, Wyoming and
South Dakota.
Presenting a program of praise,
love, and fellowship, the Choir
sings the glory of the Christian
life. Some selections of its reper-toire
include Cooper and An-gell's
"Psalm 93: The Lord
Reigneth", and Pitoni's "Cantate
Domino."
0 sing ye to the Lord, 0 sing
ye a new song.
0 praise Him in the company
of His Saints—
Be joyful, be joyful and praise
God on high.
Also among its selections are
Bach's "Come, Spirits, `Tis His
established, with 24 hour delivery
service of books available. College
students will be free to use the
library on the new campus and
vice versa, when necessary.
"This has been a major opera-tion
for the library," states
Fagerstrom, "but because it is
well-organized we are ahead of
schedule. The card work will
probably be done by the end of
May, and the books will be
physically moved sometime i n
August."
"We anticipate very close c o -
operation between the two librar-ies
so that resources of b o t h
libraries will be available to both
the college and seminary pro-grams."
Day'," the well-known hymn of
love, "Children of the Heavenly
Father," and Felix Mendelssohn's
"If With All Your Hearts."
If with all your hearts ye truly
seek me,
Ye shall ever surely find me.
Thus saith our God.
The largest of the three groups,
the College Choir, will leave this
Thursday for its tour of the Pacific
Northwest. Under the direction of
Mr. Oliver Mogck and assistant
conductor, Bruce Leafblad, the
Choir will present twenty-three
concerts to the people of North
Dakota, British Columbia, Wash-ington,
Oregon, and Montana. The
tour, managed by Pete Johnson,
will include four concerts in both
Vancouver and Spokane and three
in Seattle.
The Choir opens its concerts
with a prayer, Gretchaninoff's
"Our Father."
Thou givest strength to the
weak;
Thou rememberest the poor and
the distressed—
Come to us 0 Lord in splendor
bright,
Fill our hearts with ever-lasting
light. Amen.
Continuing its program as a
double choir, the Choir creates an
atmosphere of joy and praise as
they sing Bach's "Blessing, Glory,
and Wisdom." One of the favorites
of perhaps the entire Choir is
Marshall's "My Eternal King."
—Thou, 0 my Jesus,
Thou didst me upon the cross
embrace,
For me didst bear the nails and
spear,
And manifold disgrace.
Under the direction of Mr. C.
Howard Smith and student direct-or,
Tim Olson, the Male Chorus
will present its program to audi-ences
in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michi-gan,
and Indiana. The tour, under
the management of Ed VanRossum,
will include thirteen concerts, most
of which will be in the Chicago
and Detroit vicinities.
Featuring tenor soloist Kent
Lundholm in four of its num-bers,
the oldest touring musical
group of the college offers a
diversified group of numbers,
appealing to every listener. Be-ginning
its program with per-haps
its best selection, Speratus'
"All Blessing, Honor, Thanks
and Praise," the Chorus prepares
its audiences for an evening of
adoration, love, and worship.
Continuing in its theme, the
Chorus calls on Mr. Lundholm
in the "Alleluia" from Berger's
"Brazillian Psalm."
As a change of pace, the Chorus
renders the Negro spiritual, "No-body
Knows The Trouble I've
Seen," brought to the Chorus by
Mr. Lundholm from his former
director, and the number's arrang-er,
Norman Luboff. And as its
finale, t h e men sing Track's
"Psalm 150", combining the talents
of their tenor soloist, and their
bass soloist, Gary Oman.
In the course of all the concerts,
the audiences are given a personal
touch as the group presidents-cont'd
on page three
Group Sponsors
`Beloved Enemy' The outstanding new Christian
motion picture entitled "Beloved
Enemy" will be shown at the Col-lege
Auditorium on April 27. The
showing is sponsored by the Re-ligious
Committee.
Considered by many to be the
finest Christian film yet produced,
"Beloved Enemy" is the story of
a brilliant young scientist w h o
sets out to disprove the diety of
Christ. Carefully investigating the
accuracy of the Gospels and the
massive evidence for the physical
resurrection of Jesus Christ, he
comes face to face with the un-accountable
man.
pact.
This picture was produced by
Films For Christ Association of
Peoria, Illinois. The film was writ-ten,
directed, and will be shown
by Stanley E. Taylor. Mr. Taylor
is Executive Director of the Films
for Christ Association which is a
non-profit organization specializing
in the presentation of the Gospel
of Christ through the media of
films and television.
The activities of Fi lm s For
Christ are directed by a board of
Christian businessmen representing
several denominations.
Pre-Vacation Chapel Services
Feature Mennonite Evangelist
Seminary Relocation On New Campus
Creates Revamping of Library System
Page 2 the CLARION Wednesday, April 14, 1965
Letters to the Editor:
It is altogether fitting and proper that Bethel Seminary
should call a College Conference on the Ministry. Dr. Carl F.
H. Henry, editor of CHRISTIANITY TODAY, recently termed
evangelicals' application of God's revelation to society "a con-spicuous
and miserable failure."
One of the historic problems of the church has been the
development of missionary zeal while maintaining a high degree
of distinction and identity within the larger society. We of
separatist heritage have of ten been guilty of consciously hold-ing
others of differing belief or theological perspective outside
our "spiritual in-group."
Consequently, conservative Christian communities in urban
America, where they are usually minorities, have often
earned for themselves a dubious "holier than thou" reputa-tion
complete with accompanying symbols of neurotic piety.
The current Christian collegiate "jet set," facing the
dilemmas caused by increasing confrontations with the modern
pragmatic mind, has developed an ideal antidote in a "world-lier
than thou" attitude. Under-classmen bring their super-cultural
value systems with them from high school and develop
major social issues on entertainment, dress and dormitory
rules.
Upperclassmen evolve worldly shibboleths in endless re-definitions
of academic freedom, the New Immorality, or the
latest agnostic fad. Thus it happens that the seminary is called
upon to explain its ministry "in perspective" to an impatient
generation of pyramid climbers.
But paradoxically enough, no one is keener than the
Christian collegian in pointing out how "times have changed"
the mission of the church "in our day." The last several
years of technological advance and vocational specialization
have given birth to an ever growing Federal government
which now invests heavily in the New Testament Church's
responsibilities in caring for the poor (poverty programs, aid-to-
education), the elderly (social security, medical care for the
aged) and widows (ADC).
Curiously, the modern church often finds itself in the
turbulent wake of these great humanitarian thrusts, supporting
higher educational programs which produce graduates for gov-ernment,
medicine, social work—almost any field except the
ministry.
This same societal specialization has also given rise to
that unique paragon of pulpit acrobatics who is able to super-ficially
adapt the Gospel of Christ to the problems of every
known vocation, social crisis or psychological conflict.
TIME magazine described Reverend James Reeb as one
so deeply dedicated to the SOCIAL well-being of his parish-ioners
that he "cared little whether they went to heaven."
While this may not represent the crest of the thinking behind
the gathering of hundreds of ministers in Selma the force
of the trough of the wave cannot be denied.
A beginning may be an admission of the futility of Rev-erend
Average Parson's attempts to "interpret" the Christian
message RELEVANTLY to Joe Everybody in an increasingly
specialized world. One suggestion arising from last weekend's
Conference was that the Right Reverend Relevant of Tomorrow
narrow his role to leading his congregation in theology and
Biblical studies. Only when the members of his congregation
are motivated to find life-direction in the Book will evangelism
be effectively carried out—by them.
Letters to the Editor:
Pyramid Climbing Laity Former Bethel Student Suggests
Considers Role of Minister Re-evaluation of Dormitory Rules
This letter may not have a legit-imate
purpose as it may only voice
my personal disappointment. The
Seminary worked hard at plan-ning
last Friday's Conference on
the Ministry and in one sense it
was to serve as meeting ground
for collegian and seminarian.
It did fulfill that purpose but
only in a limited sense as atten-dance
by both seminarians and
collegians was far less than anti-cipated.
Results often cannot be
measured in numbers, but the dis-appointment
in the low attendance
was still keen. Many reasons can
be given, but is the crux of the
matter this old claim that there
is lack of communication and re-lationship
between seminarian and
collegian?
I have heard many remarks
floating around campus hinting
that the seminarian is the un-seen,
unheard one who hides in
the dark on the northwest cor-ner.
Or, the seminarian is a
mamby pamby who considers
himself a cut above everyone
else by nature of his calling.
Does this criticism really stem
out of criticism of the pastor
and the claim that the church
is irrelevant in our times?
The calling to the ministry does
not make a person of higher quali-ty
stuff than a person called to
any other vocation. The only dif-ference
is that we have different
functions. Perhaps as seminarians
we have failed in our function
upon this campus. Our busy sched-ules
are a very realistic thing,
but they should not overcome that
which we are called to be.
The minister, and we can say
seminarian, is described in Ephe-sians
as the one who is to equip
the people of God for their minis-try.
Forgive us if that is what is
expected of the seminarian and it
has not been realized on this cam-pus.
But, I have already said that
we do not feel we are of a bet-
To the Editor:
As a former Bethel student, I
sincerely feel that my experience
at Bethel was valuable and profit-able.
On the whole I feel that
Bethel offers many unique oppor-tunities
for a student who wants to
use them to become a more effec-tive
Christian. However, I believe
that certain improvements in ad-ministration
policy could be made
that would enable the student to
benefit more from his experience
at Bethel.
One area that especially should
be re-evaluated is that of women's
dorm rules. I believe that there
are many legitimate reasons for
arguing that all women's dorm
rules be abolished except perhaps
signing out and in. Here are five:
1. What is the real reason for
establishing such rules regarding
the time one should be in the
dorm? Is it to protect the woman
from being enticed into a pro-miscuous
relationship, or perhaps
from having too much time to
become too intimately involved
with her steady or her fiance?
Perhaps on a so-called secular
campus one would expect this type
of rule to exist if that is the
thinking behind such a rule. How-ever,
this rule seems incongruous
with the purposes as well as with
the character of those students on
a Christian campus. In other words
one would expect a Christian cou-ple
to avoid promiscuous sexual
involvement simply because they
adhere to Christian values.
In some cases this is naive think-ing,
but for everyone who is not
trust-worthy there must be twenty-five
who are. Is it right to penalize
the many for the errors of the few?
But if the sexual morals of Bethel
students are doubted, perhaps it's
Marines Land in Viet Nam
A fresh battalion of 1400 United,
States Marines began landing near
Da Nang Saturday to reinforce the
leathernecks already stationed at
the U.S.-Vietnamese air base there.
U.S. Ready for Peace Talks
The United States Thursday told
17 neutralist governments it is
willing to take part in "uncondi-ter
quality stuff than anyone
else and in saying we are equal
then we must in some sense
have equal responsibility. T h e
church to my understanding is
composed of people, people cal-led
together to believe in Christ
and then commissioned together
to disperse and proclaim this
belief with love towards G o d
and among men.
The criticisms voiced by col-legians
are legitimate and helpful,
but will continuing criticism open
or close the gap that is said to
exist between collegian and semi-narian,
between clergy and laity?
Rather, isn't it the common re-sponsibility
of collegian and semi-narian
alike to work at establish-ing
relationship if this is what is
desired? I think if we can achieve
this upon our campus, we might
in a very real way be defining
our common ministry to people
in need of reconciliation to God.
Ron Brisson
time that the administration or-ganize
some practical sessions on
how a Christian can better cope
with sex.
2. Do these rules really produce
maturity or do they merely en-force
patterns of existing imma-turity?
I do not think rules as
such produce maturity. I think
the old adage that experience
is the best teacher applies here.
Maturity develops when one is
responsible for making his own
decision regarding how to or-ganize
one's time and how to best
apply Christianity to his own
personal and public life. This is
the way one has to live as an
adult.
Thus shouldn't a Christian col-lege
offer the young woman a,
tolerant environment that would
allow her more freedom in her
quest for maturity than did that
of earlier home restrictions? But
alas, Bethel's environment foists
more restrictions on her than her
parents would have if she still
lived at home.
3. The campusing system neces-sary
to enforce these rules breeds
ill-feeling or even at times a totali-tarian
state atmosphere. One at
by J. David Patterson
Monday, Student Senate acted on
the discussion put forth in the
open forum last Wednesday con-cerning
poorly existing or non-existing
social life. The action
came in the form of passing three
proposals for the enhancement of
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tional" Viet Nam peace talks but
must continue military support of
the South Viet Nam regime.
Reds Rebuff Peace Proposal
Moscow a n d Peking heaped
more abuse on President John-son's
offer for peace talks on
Viet Nam, while Secretary of
State, Dean Rusk Saturday ex-pressed
official U.S. disappoint-ment
over the Red rebuff of the
president's proposal
Castro Arrests Ministers
Prime Minister Fidel Castro's
police swooped down at dawn
Thursday to arrest 40 Baptist
preachers and 13 laymen, includ-ing
t w o American citzens, on
charges of spying for the United
States.
Pope Paul Opens Holy Week
Pope Paul VI bestowed his bles-sing
on the palms Sunday to open
Holy week ceremonies in which
he has introduced personal touches
of humility.
Senate Passes Federal Aid
The senate passed and sent to
President Johnson Friday night
the first broad federal aid for
grade and high schools in the
nation's history—a 1.3 billion-dollar
blueprint to help better
educate the children of poor
parents.
House Passes Welfare Bill
The House Thursday night ap-proved
by a 313-115 vote the big-gest
expansion of welfare benefits
since the depression. It includes a
federal health insurance plan for
the elderly more sweeping than
President Lyndon Johnson h a d
sought.
certain times must be on the look
out for the dreaded campuser who
is expected because of pressures
from above to be diligent in catch-ing
the real and sometimes
imagined offenders.
This type of system was ob-viously
not initiated with the
idea of producing harmony and
trust. It's more like the grade
school where the so-called good
guys tattle on hapless Johnny
to win the teacher's favor.
4. Perhaps the greatest injustice
of all is that the men's dorm has
no rules, which is fine, but it
would seem that if rules are need-ed
for either group the men's dorm
should be first restricted.
I base this assertion on the psy-chologists'
belief that at eighteen
women are from one to three
years more mature than are men.
Perhaps some day this type of rea-soning
if applied could overcome
the farce of the double standard
that now exists at Bethel.
5. Now it seems rather incon-sistent
with Christianity that at
least in the enforcement of dorm
rules there is so little tolerance
for mistakes. Why is there so
cont'd on page three
the Bethel social life. (What ever
that is.)
The discussion at the forum was
interesting for those who attended,
but it seemed to me as I looked
around the room that those who
were there were not the ones who
generally complain about the lack
of social life.
Nonetheless, the ideas suggested
were valuable. There never seemed
to be a clear cut case of the
poorly attended social functions
but rather a myriad of causes.
To help solve these problems
the senate decided to do three
things. It was agreed to institute
a committee to be responsible for
making the various subject houses
available for small groups' use.
Senate also will arrange for a
list of resources for social activi-ties.
To more or less coordinate
the actions of the senate a com-mittee
will be set up to deal with
social awareness and social action
on campus.
As a side comment I might men-tion
that the senate could plan
and initiate the finest social event
in the history of the twin cities
but it takes attendance to make it
successful.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminal y, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 24
Editor Bill Swenson
Assistant Editor Rick Yonda
Assistant Editor Barbara Rusche
News Editor John Halvorsen
Feature Editor Cathy Peterson
Sports Editor Ron Harris
Layout Editor Judy Malm
Copyreader Karin Berg
Office Manager Diane Carlson
Typing Manager Beverly Rusche
Photo Editor Don Bester
Advertising Manager Fran Malmsten
Advertising Assistant .................. Wendell Plucker
Business Manager Gene Peterson
Circulation Manager Linda Burgess
4dviser Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Attendance At College Conference on Ministry
Disappoints Planners, Limits Effectiveness
7latt-Readel1 2,4eat
Senate Acts to Improve
Bethel Social Interaction
SPANers Plan Research Projects;
Explore Topics of Personal Interest
by Kathy J. Swanson
Why would a Bethel student
want to spend eight weeks of his
summer in a foreign country? The
Student Project for Amity among
Nations is not exactly a pleasure
cruise. Participants engage in pro-jects
which take months of plan-ning
and research. Barbara
Rusche, Linda Olson, Joan Meek-ley,
and Rick Yonda have been
selected to represent Bethel in the
SPAN program.
Politics is an important subject
to sophomore Barb Rusche. She
is a political science major and,
secretary of both the YGOP at
Bethel and the St. Paul College
Republican Association. Other ac-tivities
include playing the alto
clarinet in the college band and
being assistant editor of the CLAR-ION.
Barb chose to go to Greece,
where she will survey the atti-tudes
of Greeks toward the Uni-by
Jim Spiceland
Friday and Saturday 75 men
gathered for Bethel Seminary's
second annual Conference on the
Christian Ministry. There was a
large contingent of students from
Bethel, but others came from as
far as the University of Washing-ton,
Seattle.
From the midwest came students
from Sioux Falls College in South
Dakota, as well as the University
of Minnesota at Duluth. Many col-leges
in the Twin Cities were rep-resented.
The fellows had oppor-tunity
for informal interchange
Friday evening at mealtime in the
professors' homes.
The Conference in more formal
sessions explored the ministry
from the perspective of the lay-man
as well as the pastor. The
church and ministry face a
changing world today. The old
traditional ways are changing on
every front, from the technical-material
to the spiritual. Class
conflicts are rapidly changing
the social order.
But the basic meaning of the
spiritual battle has not changed.
We are still fighting against the
principalities and powers of dark-ness.
The strategy of the opponent
is changing. There is great need
Question Rules
cont'd from page two
often merely a legalistic interpre-tation
of a rule as if the rule
were the end instead of the
means rather than a real un-derstanding
and concern for the
individual?
Perhaps it's time those who
claim the right to enforce the rules
show more evidence of true Chris-tianity
before they expect it of
the student. Thus the woman who
is penalized unfairly or unreason-ably
or punished too harshly is
much more likely to rebel and
become bitter against Bethel and
Christianity than she is to reform.
But by abolishing these unrealis-tic
(illogical) women's dorm rules
the administration would give the
student the confidence that i t
trusts her to truly try to find
meaning in life on her own. I be-lieve
that the women in the over-whelming
majority of cases will
try to uphold that trust.
Dave Buck
ted States. The project includes
probing the determinative fact-ors
for these attitudes and writ-ing
a lengthy report on all her
research.
Linda, a cheerleader last year,
chose Argentina as her country.
She plans to make a study of
church growth in Argentina, de-termining
what types of people are
attracted to various faiths.
She has several reasons f o r
wanting to go to Argentina. It is
an excellent opportunity for her
to study Spanish, since her goal
is to teach Spanish someday. She
feels that a knowledge of South
America is vital today and SPAN
is her opportunity to receive this
knowledge. As an after thought,
she added, "I know this isn't a
reason, but I do have friends in
South America, whom I'd like to
see!"
Linda is also very excited about
the opportunity to co-operate
for pastor and layman alike to be
aware of these new forces.
A highpoint of the Conference
was Friday afternoon's panel dis-cussion
composed of Phil Bolinder
and Milt Olson of the Seminary,
and Bob Beckstrom and Jim Keim
from the College. Peppery, e n -
couraging interaction began a real
dialogue between the College and
Seminary, one which deserves to
be continued.
The Collegians at this time re-vealed
the results of a "Gallup
Poll" they had recently taken
in the college, concerning the
image of the ministry and Sem-inary
among the junior a n d
senior men in the College. The
poll gave information on every-thing
from the conceptualized
minister's call to the Seminar-ians'
intramural influence.
The fellows also toured the
Minnesota Baptist Conference
Headquarters in St. Paul after they
met its director, Rev. Bruce Flem-ing.
cont'd from page one
Mary Ann Black, Al Toays, and
Mike Sullivan—and two members
of the organizations bring thanks
and greetings from the choirs, and
share in personal words of testi-mony.
Faculty representatives —
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with students from other col-leges
in preparing for her trip.
She has a real interest in inter-national
affairs and would like
to communicate this interest to
others.
Rick Yonda, a sophomore in the
college, can usually be found in
the CLARION office. He was pro-moted
to assistant editor this sem-ester.
Working on the CLARION
and keeping on the honor-roll are
enough to keep Rick pretty busy,
He wanted to become a SPANer
because it combines travel and
academic study in one unique ex-,
perience. Rick will travel to Ire-land
to study the attitudes of the
Irish toward church-state relations,
He will relate this to the large
Catholic majority in Ireland and
the effect church influence has
on the people. When asked why
he chose Ireland over any other
country, his reply was simply,
"Well, I have red hair."
Joan is a junior and lives off
campus, which makes it difficult
for her to participate in as many
activities as she would like. She
participates in the French club,
though, and she gives Dr. Walfred
Peterson the credit for her in-terest
in foreign affairs.
Ethiopia is her destination. Ten-tatively,
she plans to study the
educational system. Africa is go-ing
to play an important role in
the future of the world. Her one
regret is that many Bethelites
have not even heard of SPAN. "I
almost didn't hear about it."
by Nancy Appelquist
A lively topic of conversation re-cently
has been the current art
exhibit in the Bethel coffee shop.
Paintings on display are the work
of New York artist Frank Pierson,
who features bold hues and geo-metric
shapes to create what he
terms "a sensation in color."
Pierson's unconventional w or k
exemplifies a type of art called
the "Hard Edge School." This
Miss Starr, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Fin-lay,
and Dr. Roy Dalton—travel
with the groups serving as advisors
to the students and as spokesmen
from the College.
It is the request and desire of
every member of these groups
that you, the student body, will
support them in prayer as they
minister for God in this way this
spring.
Sing and rejoice! Sing ye faith-ful
people a song
Sing unto God new songs up-raising,
Sing, thou, 0 world, His glory
praising-
Wednesday, April 14, 1965
school, along with pop art and
optical art, is one of the major
new types of artistic expression
on the East Coast.
Techniques used in Pierson's
creation of a Hard Edge work
of art include the use of mask-ing
tape to outline basic design
shapes. The artist also changes
the shapes of the canvases and
extends them to prevent limit-ing
his paintings.
He does not claim to be work-ing
on a social commentary; he
is merely representing the gaudi-ness
of modern society and reflect-ing
artistically something of our
commercial environment. Clashing
colors are often juxtaposed as the
artist attempts to translate to can-vas
some of society's contrasting
elements.
Pierson got his start as an artist
in Boston and New York with a
series of one-man shows. He is
currently on a two-year teaching
assignment at the University of
Minnesota, and has lectured for
the matrix classes in Bethel's art
department. His work was also
exhibited as part of a four-man
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show last month at the Walker Art
Gallery in Minneapolis.
Student comments on the ex-hibit
range from appreciative to
antagonistic; no one seems to
have been totally unaffected by
the paintings. Art major Mary
Bjurlin commented, "I like Pier-son's
work because of his lack
of color inhibition. He is not
afraid to put unsual colors side
by side. Also his large design
shapes are interesting and at-tract
attention. There is a cer-tain
sameness about some of the
coffee shop paintings but gen-erally
my reaction is favorable."
The reaction of monotony was
registered by several students,
among them Pat Jaynes, who re-marked
that "each one seems al-most
alike, none stands out."
A r t major Janet Appelquist
stated, "They're growing on me.
I wasn't too impressed at first, but
there is more to them than you
see right away."
Several comments were in a
humorous vein. According t o
Bob Beckstrom, "If I felt like
that I wouldn't paint!" Vince
Bloom remarked, "If I tried to
say that verbally I'd be put in
jail!" Observed Phyllis Nelson,
"They're really eye-openers, if
you come into the coffee shop
early in the morning."
Most common student reaction to
the painting was "I don't know
what to think." Perhaps David
Mbiti best expressed the layman's
confusion at the changing nature
of art when he commented, "I am
ignorant of it all—but one thing
I know about it—all is flux."
Collegians Attend Conference;
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College CYF 8:30 p.m. Evening Service 7:00
Rev. Ellis Eklof, Jr., Pastor Roberta Yaxley, Dir. of Music
At ear abbep .. .
a play: in one act
location: Rome
time: approximately 200 A.D.
scene: two Roman citizens meet
Descriminatus: Well, friend Publicus, how does your business go today?
Publicus: Quite well, Descriminatus, and yours?
D: Not so good I'm afraid.
I': How so?
D: I've been having trouble with those despicable creatures called
Christians. They keep coming to my inn wanting to be served.
P: They're not such a bad lot, you know.
D: Now don't get me wrong. I've met a few decent Christians too. Why,
I even used to be a friend of one of them when we were in the
imperial legions together. But on the whole, they're a bad bunch.
P: How's that?
D: Why, don't you know? They're destructive to our moral and political
systems. They teach civil disobedience. Won't even pledge allegi-ence
to Caesar! Besides that, they're lazy. Most of them are un-learned
slaves, laborers.
P: Perhaps they can't help their social position.
D: Nonsense! Anyone who works hard enough and is willing to become
like us can get ahead. But what an uncouth bunch! Have you
heard of their religious services? How uncivilized! They sing and
speak the most peculiar things.
P: I've heard of that. You know, last month a Christian family tried to
buy a home in my neighborhood.
D: Jupiter! They're bold, aren't they! Well, don't let them in. Coming
from the lower classes, the property value will go down. Besides,
you know how they stick together. You let one in, and soon the
place will be crawling with them.
F: I suppose.
D: Of course. Actually, as far as I'm concerned, they should all be kept
in one part of the city. They'd enjoy it more with their own kind.
Or better yet — send them back to Palestine, where they belong!
P: Still, it does seem a bit hard on them.
D: Now, don't tell me you're one of those dirty Christian-lovers. You
know how our honored religious writings say "Come away from
them. Be distinct."
But those words were spoken in an entirely different context.
1): By Jupiter, man, what does that matter? I mean—well, after all—
that is — well, you wouldn't want your daughter to marry one,
would you?!
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class. Dave Norman, Minnesota, de-cisioned
Dick Putnam from Illinois
in the 177 lb. class.
In the 191 lb. class Orlyn Lund-borg,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
sneaked by Mike Rynkiewich, Li-thuanian,
Pennsylvania, with a 9-2
decision. Lowell Gause, Minnesota,
forfeited to Stan Miller, Wiscon-sin,
in the heavyweight division.
The Knights came out team
champions with the Squires taking
second. Injuries seemed to be in
the vogue this year as Mark Zier
was sent to the hospital by Miller,
Ahlberg helped in pulling tendons
in Ken Thornberry's ankle a n d
Putnam suffered from bruised
arms. But all are recovering from
the miseries of intramural wrest-ling.
By the way, where was the
faculty?
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Last Saturday Bethel met Stout and gave them trouble the entire
State and Northland in a tri- meet.
angular track meet at Menomenie, The shot putting was done with
Wisconsin. The meet was held in a hard plastic shot intended to
Stout's new fieldhouse. land on some plywood boards
laid on one tennis court. At the
The beautiful building housed an
same time, the high jumping
oversized gym floor, a tennis court
was being run on the other ten-at
each end of the floor and a nis court with soft bags as a
five- lane track. The tennis court pit. Bethel found its strength in
and track were cement, and the these two events taking first in
track was not banked. Despite its both.
beauty, the cement, non-banked
Jack Buss won the shot with a
track was new to Bethel runners put of 40' 41/2 ". Tim Williams won
Coach Owen Halleenpresents official certificate from the Na-tional
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to Duane Gibson. Gibson,
a three year veteran on the Royal's squad, was named to the Region
13 All-Star team at end. The official rtcognition was recently
presented.
Knights Win Mat Honors
In ChampionshipMatches
by Mike Rynkiewich
As the preliminaries to the Kof-f
ee Kup Game the Intramural
wrestlers fought their champion-ship
matches. Non-varsity wrestlers
with more guts than know-how
muscled it out in unorthodox holds,
Points flew as out of shape ath-letes
strained to get a hold, ran
out of spark, got reversed, near
pinned, rested up, and tried again.
In the 137 lb. class Isaias Cer-vantes,
freshman from Mexico de-cisioned
Jesse Johnson from Ark-ansas.
Karl Smith was pinned by
Wendell Plucker in the 147 lb.
class. Both are from Minnesota.
Guy DePastino decisioned Larry
Stair in the 157 lb. class. DePas-tino
is from Connecticut and Stair
from Arizona. Edgar Peterman,
from Minnesota beat Bob Ahlberg
also of Minnesota. They wrestled
for championship of the 167 lb.
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the high jump with a leap of 5'10".
Larry Peterson took a third with
5'6". But, the story of Bethel's
downfall can be seen in .t h e s e
two events. Though Buss took a
first and five team points, Stout
took second, third and fourth for
six team points. Bethel took seven
points in the high jump and Stout
took four. The Royals were over-whelmed
by Stout's depth.
In the mile run Bob Chryst took
third in 4:56.2 and Dave Norman
took fourth in 4:57.5. In the 50
yd. dash Jim Hammar took second
with 5.7 and Dave Moss tied for
third with 5.8. Williams took third
inthe 440 yd. sprint with 56.6.
The hurdles were run on the
50 yd. straightaway. Andy Leh-man
took fourth in both the lows
and the highs. Stout State swept
the first three places in both.
The two mile run entailed twenty
laps of the track. Ron Stone
picked up a third in this event
with a time of 11:30.9. Stout
took the other places. Hammar
took third in the 220 yd. dash
in 25.1. Norman and Jim Brand
took third and fourth with one
second difference in time. Nor-man
ran in 2:12.5 and Brand in
2:13.5.
In the four-lap relay the North-land
team received their only three
points, as a runner from Stout cut
in front of Lantz Leonard too soon
and Stout was disqualified. Bethel
took first in that relay and North-land
took second. In the final
relay of eight laps Bethel bowed
to Stout and Northland took third.
The final score? Stout State 83 1/2,
Bethel 39 1/2, Northland 3.
Tomorrow morning the track
team leaves for their S o uth ern
trip finishing in Kansas City.
Over the Easter Vacation they
meet Buena Vista of Iowa, then
Ottawa University, Bethel College,
and William Penn University, all
of Kansas.
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There is a law which stands emblazoned on my dirty
dorm wall which states that if anything can possibly go wrong
in this universe, it will. Why else, when I am nestled in the
arms of Morpheus, would my roommate come bustling into
the room, flip on the lights and inform me that I am to move
my car off the north-south street or face the possibility of
later scraping it off the sidewalk? Why else would I discover
after two hours of grueling Greek that I had done the wrong
assignment?
There is another and perhaps more precise statement of
this law: it sets forth the innate perversity of inanimate objects.
There is little doubt that in the scheme of life, all things
devoid of life are endowed with an inherent enmity against
all things animate.
This has actually been proven statistically. In going
through a deck of cards, guessing red or black, it has been
shown that the odds, which are 50% if one calls the same
color throughout, become less favorable if one tries to anti-cipate
by changing his call.
In addition to the enmity of things man actually has a
challenge in the small creatures of the micro-cosmos—the
bacteria, fungi, and viruses; and further along, the insectia,
reptilia, and mammalia. The odds against human survival in
such circumstances are enormous.
Therefore it is only natural that in such an inimicable
environment man should find himself compelled into a union
of desperation and mutual need of his fellow-man. Yet mankind
finds within himself his most dangerous foe. It is quite ridicu-lous
and I think it should be removed.
Now I make no inferences to calling a conference with
the Russians to terminate the cold war or to castigating our
political system and its indoubitable politicking. But we could
start with the little things like—well, not being downright
uncomplimentary when a student is a few minutes late in
arriving in the lunch line; or taking your time in the post
office area after chapel; or taking your glass or cup back to
the proper area in the coffee shop; or not being a pest to the
kind people who run the bookstore, coffee shop, administra-tive
offices or teach in the classrooms.
That irreplaceable word courtesy seems to be disappearing
from our phrenetic pace of modern existence. Every so often
someone will dream up a courtesy campaign, with a splendid
award for a noble display of this regrettably rare quality. Only
when courtesy had been cheapened could such a concept be
tolerable.
Courtesy cannot possibly be rewarded. In its highest
form it represents not that which is done b u t that
which is not done. Courtesy is not helping an old lady across
the street. Courtesy, as any salesman will tell you on a busy
Saturday afternoon, consists not of being extremely affable,
but in not making a pest of yourself in any one of a half-dozen
ways.
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