VoltNne XLI—No. 10
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, December 8, 1965
Guatemalan village visited by senior Roger Waldenstrom as part of the 1965 Bethel College Student
Missionary Project.
Committee Evaluates Mission Project;
Languages, Structure Chief Problems
another area for improvement. A,
majority of the 100 per cent mis-sionary
response our committee re-ceived
suggests improvement in
this area.
Realizing the impossibility of
teaching the national language
of the country (even if we could,
there is the problem of dialects)
the most realistic solution is to
give the student a basic practi-cal
speaking knowledge of the
national language complemented
by a willingness to learn.
Even granting the youthful na-ture
of the program there are
several serious weaknesses in the
structural organization. 1. The lack
of continuity of personnel con-cerned
with the program, leads to
organizational confusion and lack
cont'd on page three
Dr. James Burtness
God is positively "dead", and total
secularization of life is necessary.
Paul Van Buren, an Episcopa-lian
linguistic analyst, denies all
concepts which cannot be veri-fied
and thus denies God, but
he lauds the freedom of discern.
ment in the secular world which
Jesus showed.
Resistance to "God is dead" theo-rists
is as ecumenical in scope
as is the movement itself. Cynics
emphasize the incongruity of de-nying
the metaphysical belief in
God and replacing it with another
metaphysical idea,'secular divinity.'
Senior Fred Lund is Chairman
of the Student Evaluation Com-mittee
established to review the
1964 Student Missionary Pro-ject.
The following is part one
of a two part abbreviated ver-sion
of the official report. Copies
of the complete report will be
available to students Monday,
December 13, in the Student
Association office.
by Fred Lund
Any pr o gram will have its
strengths and weaknesses. T h e
student missionary project is no
exception.
One inadequacy of the program
is the lack of sufficient prepara-tion.
This has been shown in
several ways. A complete dichot-omy
exists between students and
missionaries over the matter of
advance communications.
T h e missionaries state that
there is adequate correspon-dence;
the student disagrees.
Participants say, too, that the
advance correspondence from the
missionaries did not have the
desired information with regards
to customs, clothing, etc.
Coupled with this is the partici-pant's
expression of inadequate
preparation and information re-garding
the project itself. An in-service
training program could do
much to alleviate this problem.
Lack of adequate preparation for
meeting the language barriers is
Professor Francois Houtart will nism and Christianity: Present
be on the Bethel campus Thursday Trends." All students are invited
evening and Friday morning and to attend this meeting.
afternoon December 9 and 10. Professor Houtart has traveled
in the Soviet Union, Cuba, and
other communistic countries and
consequently he will speak on the
basis of broad personal experience
as well as the scholarly work of
others. He will also participate in
a discussion of the subject.
Thursday night Dr. Houtart will
speak at a United Faculty meeting.
His subject will be "Sociological
Research at the Service of Chris-tianity
in the Modern World."
Francois Houtart received his
Licentiate in political and social
sciences from the University of
Louvain, Belgium. In 1952 under
a United States Government fel-lowship,
he studied sociology at
Chicago and Indiana Universities.
He received his Ph.D. in sociol-ogy
from the University of Chi-cago.
In 1956 he became Secretary
General of the International Con-
Dr. Burtness To Discuss
Death of God' Theology
Led by a young Lutheran theologian, Bethel College stu-dents
will examine a modern religious controversy in convoca-tion
next week.
Dr. James Burtness, professor at Luther Theological Semi-nary
in St. Paul, will speak Tuesday morning, December 14,
on "The 'Death of God' and Contemporary Theology."
At age 37, Dr. Burtness has had a varied teaching and preaching
career. While studying for his doctorate, he was a teaching fellow
at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1954-55, then began his work
at Luther Seminary.
A pastorate at the Faith Lutheran Church in Albany, Oregon for
two years preceded his appointment to an assistant professorship at
Luther in 1960. He was named Associate Professor of Systematic Theo-logy
in 1964.
In the summer of 1962 and again during the 1963-64 school year,
Dr. Burtness worked and observed life in India. He was Visiting Pro-fessor
of Systematic Theology New Testament Studies at the Gurukul
Theological College in Madras, India during these periods.
Dr. Burtness' interest in recent theological thought is reflected in
the topic of his doctoral thesis, ESCHATOLOGY AND ETHICS IN THE
PAULINE EPISTLES: A STUDY OF SIX CURRENT INTERPRETA-TIONS.
His active interest in contemporary viewpoints has led to his publi-cation
of three books and work as associate editor of the religious
journal, Dialog.
The "Death of God" issue is of special interest at present because
of different interpretations by each supporting theologian, but several
basic ideas prevail.
First, Jesus is considered to be the supreme example to follow,
yet he was not God, but because of his magnitude of morality was
defined as God.
Secondly, man is said to be taking the form of the "image of God,"
the ideal being, and his scientific society has the basic form of the
peak age of history.
Background for the "Death of God" themes is taken from a number
of past thinkers, particularly Dietrich Bonnhoeffer, the German theo-logian
of pre-World War II days, who in his writings spoke both of the
man "come of age" in a highly-developed society and of a "religionless
Christianity."
Also referred to is Bishop John Robinson, whose book HONEST
TO GOD said the essential thing was to live for others as had Jesus,
but denied Christ's deity. The German philosopher Nietzche and his
denial of the existence of God are also included in aspects of the
belief.
The movement is not centralized in one denomination or group of
denominations, nor do all its leaders purport to hold the same tenets.
William Hamilton, from the Bap-tist
school Colgate-Rochester, will
only say that God has withdrawn
to let man take his dominant
role in life, whereas Thomas J. J.
Altizer says the mystic idea of
ference of Religious Sociology. He
is presently serving as Secretary
General of the International Fed-eration
of Institutions for Socio-
Religious and Social Research
(FERES), Director of the Center
f o r Socio-Religious Research of
Louvain, and a member of the
Latin American Bishops Secretariat
in Rome.
Dr. Houtart is the author of
several books in the French lan-guage
published in Belgium and
in France and the co-author of
The Church and the Latin Ameri-can
Revolution and Population and
Food. He has published numerous
articles in the area of the sociology
of religion and the application of
social science perspectives to
church action.
He speaks Dutch, English, Span-ish
and German in addition to
his native French. He was or-dained
to the priesthood of the
Roman Catholic Church by Car-cont'd
on page three
MESSIAH CONCERT
The Music Department will
present the Christmas portion of
Handel's Messiah in the Field-house
during Convocation period
Thursday, December 16 begin-ning
at 9:45. The performance
will feature the members of the
Festival Choir.
A native of Belgium and current-ly
a Professor of Sociology at Lou-vain
University there, he comes
to us directly from the Vatican
Council in Rome where he did a
great deal of background research
and writing on Schema Thirteen,
"The Church in the Modern
World."
Dr. Houtart is being sponsored
by Pi Gamma Mu at a meeting
beginning with a coffee hour at
2:30 p.m. Friday in the Lower
Level B lounge. He will be speak-ing
on the subject of "Commu-
Selective Service Office Issues
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regarding students classified year baccalaureate degree in four
under Class 2-S. years.
Normally, before classifying any This recommendation also de-student
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registrant should be sufficient to not qualify a student for a de-convince
the local board he meets gree in the normally accepted
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A registrant must be a full- trant that if he is not accom-time
student. plishing his stated objective, he
b. He must be making normal must plan to do one of the fol-progress
in his studies. lowing:
c. His normal progress must be 1. Enroll in summer sessions; or
towards a stated objective. 2. Carry a larger credit load dur-
With reference to the satisfac- ing the next school term; or
tory progress of the registrant, it 3. Face induction at the end of
is recommended stronger emphasis the appropriate number of years
be placed on completion of degree with or without his degree.
Vatican Council Researcher Here
To Address Pi Gamma Mu Meeting
Students To Circulate Petition
The following petition will be circulated this week to Bethel
College students by Sharon Johnson, post office box 474.
We, the undersigned, support the U.S. government policy of the war
in Vietnam—because we agree with President Johnson that;
1. If we are driven from the field in Vietnam, no nation can
ever again save the same confidence in our promise or pro-tection.
2. Surrender in Vietnam would not not bring peace—because
we learned from Hitler at Munich that success only feeds
the appetite of aggression.
3. Once the Communists know that a violent solution is
impossible—then a peaceful solution is inevitable.
We must have the courage to resist or we will see it all, all that
we have built, all that we hope to build, all our dreams of freedom—
all will be swept away in the flood of conquest.
Vietnam Policy Requires
Wider 'Interest' Definition
The following impressions were largely gained from the
editor's experiences in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia during the
past summer.
It is a strange paradox of history that moralistic America
is always able to enter the crusade against international Com-munism,
but never quite able to transcend her self-interest in
so doing.
We have become so obsessed with the losses in prestige
which we fear would follow a temporary setback in Vietnam
that we have become oblivious to the much more serious loss
of prestige which accrues by continuing the war in the present
fashion.
Hans Morgenthou reminds us that "The prestige of a
nation is not determined by the success or failure of a
particular operation at a particular moment in history."
"Quite the contrary, it reflects the sum of a nation's qualities
and actions, of its successes and failures, of its memories
and aspirations."
Reinhold Niebuhr states, "The important issue is that
a web of mutual and universal or general interests is discovered
in which the national interests are inextricably related, so that
a narrow definition of the interest of the nation would lead
to the defeat of that interest."
The negotiation of every political conflict necessarily
involves a temporary setback to what each of the competing
nations visualize as its "position of prestige", a position some-what
evolved in the passions and propaganda of war.
Our position ought rather to be based on "a residual
loyalty to values", in Dr. Niebuhr's words, "transcending
national existence, which may radically change a nation's
conception of the breadth and quality of its 'national in-terest'."
The real test is the willingness of a nation to make a
meaningful first offer to the other side, even at the cost of
sacrificing for the time being what it visualizes as its own
interest — the key step the Johnson Administration has yet
to take in world politics.
It was argued in official circles last spring that we were
not in a political position to negotiate because we were losing
the war militarily. By sheer force of manpower and ruthless
use of firepower we have now made the war in South Vietnam
temporarily militarily unlosable — at the cost of possibly losing
completely whatever popular support we had in that country.
The political breakthrough is ours to make. The Com-munists
find it to their long range strategical benefit to
let hostilities die slowly. Certainly the Viet Cong have not
been given a reasonable political alternative.
A major political alternative acceptable to the Communists
at least involves a shake-up of American pre-suppoSitions. A
peace conference must involve all interested governments,
including recognized representatives of the National Liberation
Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. We can hardly begin
to consider the political demands of a government which does
not officially exist.
Finally, the United States of all nations ought to be able
to submit at least some aspects of the Vietnamese conflict to
the United Nations under Article 35 of the Charter and submit
to a United Nations supervised cease-fire. Whatever our moti-vation
in co-operating with the spirit of the organization to
date, its relatively ambiguous structure may be the most
convenient and least politically embarrassing to turn to.
Wessel Praised LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
To the Editor:
Bravo to Dr. Wessel for an ex-cellent,
sane, and inspirational mes-sage
on the Second Coming. This
points up a deficiency in our
churches. We need to hear more
of this blessed, purifying, and com-forting
Hope. II Tim. 4:18. Thanks
Pastor Glenn!
Julius Whitin ger
Roster Misprint
To the Editor:
Due to two slight, but oh!—dis-astrous
misprints in the recently-published
Student Roster, I may be
rendered socially stagnant! With
both my P.O. number and my tele-phone
number somewhat re-con-structed,
I am certain to be both
dateless and letter-less and per-haps,
Christmas-card-less. There-fore,
in order to avoid such dim
prospects, I wish to correct these
errors. P.O. 792—telephone number
825-7992.
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`Proper Setting of Christian Renewal
Still Remains Church,' Says Yerkes
the CLARION Wednesday, December 8, 1965
James 0. Yerkes is an instructor in theology
and apologetics at Wheaton College, Wheaton,
Illinois. The following is the edited version of a
chapel address given at Bethel College Thursday,
December 2nd.
by James 0. Yerkes
In my opinion one of the most heartening trends
in Christendom today is the rediscovery of the role
of the laity in Christian ministry.
But some of us are now beginning to feel if
we're not extremely careful, we shall let the pen-dulum
pass center and swing off into another ex-treme
position.
While biblically it is true all Christians are priests
responsible "for the work of the ministry", it is
equally true that God ordained certain priests among
these priests "for the equipping of the saints for the
work of the ministry" (Ephesians 4:11)
They are His sovereign "gifts" to the church,
and the laity will only be as effective in the work of
ministering as they are taught, counselled and moti-vated
by these specially chosen persons.
Now theoretically we may pay superficial tri-bute
to this truth, but practically it is quite clear
to all of us that fewer and fewer young people
seem interested in this specific vocation among
God's people and the church is already in real dif-ficulty.
My concern here, however, is not simply a matter
of quantity, but also a matter of quality. The thing
that really bothers so many of us on the Christian
college campus is that seldom do we find our ablest
students entering the leadership ministry.
There are two questions I want to discuss briefly,
for in the light of my intention I am sure these two
questions will be of deeply personal significance.
The first question is simply "Is the church
'worth' serving". "Is it worth sticking with?" And
by "church" I mean primarily the church as cul-turally
structured and historically institutionalized.
This is no idle question, for our concerns will
flounder here unless we can justify an affirmative
answer. I am convinced many of you do not consider
the ministry as a live alternative because you have al-ready
answered the question in the negative.
It is not that you believe the body of Christ will
die, but you believe its present institutional forms are
not relevant and you must simply cut out your own
path as a witnessing lay Christian. Well, you're not
AMP AMP'
by Jeff Loomis
Saigon
North Vietnamese troops con-signed
to fighting in South Viet-nam
have now reached the highest
numbers yet in the war.
In the face of this, U.S. military
leaders in the fighting area have
asked Robert McNamara, during
his visit to South Viet Nam, to
expand U.S. forces to about 350,-
000 men, the Korean war level.
Addis Ababa
Five member nations of the
Organization for African Unity
alone in your viewpoint. The pessimists are legion and
they are even among the clergy themselves!
We are feeling this kind of pressure increasing-ly
in our evangelical circles and our peril is even
more acute than the church in general. Many of us
here today are from small and even rural churches
and we are frankly disillusioned about the provin-cial
conservatism and rigidity of ideas characteriz-ing
both the pastoral and lay leadership in these
congregations.
Time and again students in my office have con-fessed
to me that their greatest problem on leav-ing
Wheaton is trying to determine where they can
go to church, when they leave, where they can be
fed and challenged on a relevant level, where the lay
fellowship and pastoral ministry will strengthen them
for their vocation and mission, rather than strangle
and cripple them with irrelevancies.
Is it any wonder, then, that we find fewer and
fewer evangelical young people entering the ministry,
and that the ones who do are increasingly the less
able intellectually and spiritually? The question "Is
it worth it?" is not an idle question.
What can I say in the face of this? i say the
church is worth sticking with!
First, why do I feel this way? Historically, we
have too much to lose. It is impossible for me to ac-cept
the fact that we must cast off all our meaning-ful
worship liturgies, all our profound symbolisms of
architectures and sanctuary, all our rich traditions
of parochial education systems, and all our stabilizing
concepts of church polity in order to experience re-newal
by the Spirit of God.
It is, further, impossible for me to believe these
traditions and concepts wrought out by the spiritually
sensitive souls of the past under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit are irrelevent for and cannot speak to,
our own ego.
Re-newal presupposes something to renew, and
I believe that something is the church here and
now bequeathed to us by the blood, sweat and tears
of millions, who in each successive generation be-lieved
the faith and forms of their fathers were a
gift of God's grace to them in their present hour
of witness.
Secondly, sociologically, we have nothing really to
gain by abandoning the church of today. The three-fold
truth we must learn is that structure itself is a
good; structures must be renewed and changed; and
new structures are begotten, not created ex nihilo.
Third, theologically, we have an
unbiblical and unrealistic view of
sainthood if we think by abandon-ing
the present structure all sins
of the saints will cease. It is not
the structure which so desperately
needs renewal in our day. It is the
layman and cleric alike who con-trol
the structures who need it.
Finally, I am convinced the
church of our day is worth sticking
with because personally I have
been too spiritually enriched
through its structures to callously
abandon it as irrelevant and un-worthy.
I would challenge you to the
ministry of the contemporary
church and the evangelical church
in particular. And I ask, are you
willing to enter into the self-sacri-ficial
service of renewing the evan-gelical
church if God calls you
there?
Amongst many imperfections,
there is something there worth pre-serving.
Basically, that something
is the commitment to a worldview
which believes in the importance
of the individual regeneration
through faith in Jesus Christ and
in the absolute authority of bibli-cal
revelation in matters of faith
and practice.
the CLARION
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
last week urged British military
action against Rhodesia. Without
such action of other effective
means of ending the Rhodesian
rebellion by December 15, the
35 nations will withdraw diplo-matic
ties with Britain.
London
President Kenneth Kaunda o f
Zambia (formerly Northern Rho-desia)
requested Thursday that Bri-tish
troops be sent to guard the
Kariba Dam located between Zam-bia
and Rhodesia. He fears closing
of the dam by the Rhodesians
would gravely harm the Zambian
copper industry.
Jarkarta
The end of the power of the
PM (Communist) party in Indo-nesia
has caused a reappraisal of
Indonesian relationships to R e d
China, according to First Deputy
Premier Subandrio of Indonesia.
He revealed that Indonesian offi-cials
no longer feel any need to
take sides in the Sino-Soviet con-flict.
Houtson
Gemini 7 astronauts Frank
Borman and James Lovell were
lifted into orbit Saturday at the
scheduled time, despite some
last-minute technical difficulties.
Their goal is fourteen days in
space.
Washington
Businessmen, educators, and pop-ulation
experts studying the agri-cultural
surplus program have sug-gested
that government officials
increase supports for production
rather than underproduction, and
send surpluses as economic aid to
underdeveloped nations.
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Complex Political, Moral Issues
Wednesday, December 8, 1965
the CLARION Page 3
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by Stan Olsen
"And We Beheld His Glory", Festival of Christmas 1965 most cer-tainly
deserves multiple lauditories from the Bethel faculty and adminis-tration,
but even more so the student body.
Every year, this is the 9th, the Festival helps to portray the won-derful
message of the birth of Christ in a unique way that reaches
many, the "cultural" crowd for instance, that might never acknowledge
any other way. It is the sincere feeling of your columnist that Festival
1965 expressed this message in a more moving manner than ever before.
He would like to personally thank the members of the music, art,
and speech departments who put hours of effort into the creation and
direction of the undertaking. But more than these, he would especially
like to thank the more than two hundred Bethel students who gave
up their time in lieu of studies and other activities to make the Festi-val
a success.
Friday evening, December 10th, the Minneapolis Symphony in con-junction
with the University of Minnesota Chorus, three hundred voices
strong, present the Minneapolis premiere of Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass.
Nelson Mass in D minor is often considered to be the best of the six
masses he wrote. It is named the Lord Nelson Mass because the trumpet
fanfares in the "Benedictus" are believed to proclaim Nelson's victory
of the French at the Battle of the Nile.
Also on the program for the Symphonic evening are Marcel Mihal-ovici's
Music Nocturne and Paul Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis.
Tickets for a small number of Bethel students may be obtained from
post office box 102 or Stan Olsen. Tickets for the 8:30 performance are
$1.25.
This Saturday, December 11th the Twin City Free Church Choirs
under the direction of Dr. Robert Berglund present HANDEL'S MES-SIAH.
Tickets may be obtained free of charge by contacting Dr.
Berglund or calling any Twin City Free Church. There will also be a
performance on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. The Saturday evening
concert starts at 8:00 p.m. with ticket admission invalidation at 7:45
p.m. and 2:45 p.m. respectively.
December 18 at 8:30 p.m. the Twin City Chamber Choral under the
direction of David La Berge presents their annual Christmas concert
in the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre. Tickets may be obtained at the theatre
box office or from the Dayton's ticket office.
by Dave Fredine
President Johnson stated Ameri-can
goals in Vietnam in his speech
of July 28, 1965.
His paraphrased position is that
in two world wars and in Korea
we have learned that appeasement
does not bring peace. Asian coun-tries
cannot by themselves resist
the "growing might and grasping
ambition of Asian Communism."
Our power is a vital help and if
we get out of Vietnam no nation
can again have confidence in Am-erican
help in the worldwide
struggle against Communism.
The background of the problems
in Vietnam date at least to the
early 19th century when French
Catholic lay preachers tried to pro-selytize
the Buddhist country.
France's colonial rule and Cath-olic
domination continued until
the middle of this century, des-pite
growing resistance. This re-sistance
came to a head in the
war for Indochina. It was led by
national Communist revolution-aries
called the Viet Minh. A-Bethel
College was again well
represented by the Bethel debate
team at the University of South
Dakota on November 20.
Another trophy will be added
to the debate team's collection as
the A division teams, Paul Johnson
and Eva Swanson (4-0) and Sharon
Review Project
cont'd from page one
of continuity. 2. The great com-plexity
of the program demands
unity. Imagine the problems in-volved
if we continue using dif-ferent
selection methods, evalua-tion
procedures, and policy opera-tions
year after year.
3. Up to this time the program
has not included any involve-ment
of the World Missionary
Fellowship or the anthropology
department which are very
strong missionary vehicles on
campus.
The point of all this is a very
urgent need for a completely sep-arate
commission to deal with the
missionary program. This could be
a continuing body with a part of
its membership serving for two
years. Such a body would add the
needed depth and quality to the
work.
Houtart Speaks
cont'd from page one
dinal Sunens, the outstanding
"liberal" leader of Belgium.
Earlier in the day on Friday
Dr. Houtart will speak to three
sociology classes:
7:45 a.m., Seminary Hall 108, on
"The Changing Structures of the
Roman Catholic Church as Decided
by the Vatican Council."
8:45 a.m., Seminary Hall 108, on
"Educational Role of Radiophonic
Schools in Latin America."
11:30 a.m., College Administra-tion
Building 204, on "Religious
Motivations and Social Action."
Students and faculty members
who have a special interest in
those topics are invited to visit
those classes.
Professor David 0. Moberg, a
personal friend of Dr. Houtart,
made this comment: "Even though
we may not agree with him on
details of theological doctrine,
Bethel students and staff will find
Dr. Houtart to be a warm Chris-tian
who can contribute much to
our knowledge and understanding."
mong the prominent leaders was
Ho Chi Minh.
The six-years Indochina War was
ended by the compromise Geneva
Agreements of 1954. The French
withdrew and Vietnam was divided
at the 17th parallel. North Vietnam
was to be run by the Ho Chi Minh
Communists and South Vietnam
was to be run by a Catholic anti-
Communist named Ngo Dinh Diem.
In the re-settlement period im-plementing
the Agreements, how-ever,
several thousand Vietnamese
whose main political sympathies
lay with Ho Chi Minh, chose to
continue living in South Vietnam
for personal reasons.
Diem got neither religious nor
political support from the people
living in South Vietnam. He was
forced to resort to heavy-handed
suppression to keep order.
The agreed upon elections of
1956 were never held because, ac-cording
to Dwight Eisenhower's
memoirs, eighty per cent of the
people favored Ho Chi Minh.
Diem's rule produced a cycle
of greater resistance and greater
Larson and Tim Williams (3-1)
continue their unprecedented
streak of victories for Bethel.
These teams took first place in
competition against schools such as
IOWA STATE MEET
Three Bethel debate teams
ran into some tough competi-tion
at Iowa State on December
3 and 4.
The "A" division team of
Sharon Larson and Tim Wil-liams
did well on individual
speaker points and wound up
with 4 wins and 2 losses. Kathy
Harvie and Dave Nydegger
were initiated into varsity
competition and emerged with
a 4-2 record. Jeanie Stephens
and Gene Peterson balanced
3 wins with 3 losses.
University of South Dakota, State
College of Iowa, Wisconsin State
at River Falls and Northern State
College.
The B-division teams ran into
some difficult competition.
K e n Rollins, Dave Nydegger,
Corrine Lepke and Joe Beitler de-bated
with a total score of two
wins and six losses.
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repressions, which gave Diem's op-ponents
the choice of imprison-ment,
exile or reactivation of the
guerilla resistance. Open conflict
came in the early sixties.
According to Jean Lacouture, in
the NEW REPUBLIC of March 6,
1965, North Vietnamese involve-ment
did not come until 1960
with the authorization and sup-port
of the South Vietnamese
National Liberation Front, the
political organization of the Viet
Cong guerillas.
Regardless of how much foreign
Communist help has come since
the escalation, it seems clear that
the present conflict in South Viet-nam
began as a nationalistic move-ment
revolution.
If this is true, can we say that
we bring freedom and protection to
the people of South Vietnam? Free-dom?—
we are dictating their form
of government. Protection?—pro-tection
from a popular nationalis-tic
revolution?
In the light of the historical
uniqueness of the situation in
Vietnam it is extremely doubtful
that the majority of the people
agree with the American opinion
that Communism is an interna-tional
evil.
If they do not agree, then all of
our previous experiences and opin-ions
concerning Communism will
not add up to a moral justification
for the intervention in the affairs
of the Vietnamese people.
Bill Madsen is the elected presi-dent
of the Bethel College Stu-dent
Association.
by Bill Madsen
The membership of the Student
Senate dropped by one last week
as a result of the request for the
resignation of one of the freshman
class representatives.
One of the significant standing
rules of order for the Senate states
that a senator who misses three
consecutive meetings shall be re-quested
to resign.
The rule was first adopted in
the fall of 1964 after a few of the
1963-64 senators attended far
fewer than half the meetings.
The meeting time for this year's
Senate was set prior to the fresh-man
class elections—late Monday
evening being the only time dur-would
leave the Senate no just
grounds for applying the rule in
the future.
2) The senator could not do
his job of representation without
attending meetings.
3) He had been advised by the
Senate president prior to elections
that he would have to eliminate
either the swimming class or the
Senate from his plans, the legisla-tion
was defeated — that senator
who had proposed it casting the
only affirmative vote.
Thus the request for resignation
came automatically in accordance
with the standing rules of order.
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ing the week (excluding the week-end)
that met with no conflict.
The freshman representative in-volved
inquired of the Senate presi-dent,
before the primary elections,
as to whether or not it would be
possible to remain in a Monday
evening swimming class and also
be a senator. The reply was, "No.
Take your choice."
In the meantime a senate mem-ber
encouraged him to run any-way,
apparently without consult-ing
the rules of order or perhaps
with the hope that the conflict
in schedules could be resolved.
When it became obvious that the
conflict could not be resolved, that
senate member introduced legisla-tion
to suspend the rule on attend-ance
for this case.
On the basis of the facts that 1)
suspension of the rule in this case
Bethel 'A' Debaters Take
Laurels In Dakota Meet
Freshman Senator's Resignation Is
Necessary Result of Rules Violation
The following is re-printed from the newly published first
edition of BETHEL ROYALS SPORTS, the official news organ of
the Bethel College Athletic Department.
by Head Basketball Coach Jerry Healy
We are looking forward to a fine season. The return of all our
regulars, with the exception of Don Moore who is now teaching, gives
us a degree of experience we have not had at Bethel in many years.
We will miss Moore's 23-point game average, but the balance of
this year's club should more than compensate for the loss of Moore.
Co-captains Jerry Moulton, a senior, and Dave Bjorklund, a junior,
are both fine scorers. George Palke and Ed Peterman, both seniors
and Bob Nolin, junior, played a great deal of first team ball the last
two seasons.
Add to this group senior George Harvey and juniors Doug Kelly,
Cabot Dow, and Tom Hagen, and you note the experience advantage.
A definite starter as a freshman will be Ron Pederson from Willmar,
Minnesota. Ron is no doubt one of the outstanding frosh prospects ever
to enroll at Bethel; at 6'5", Ron is a great rebounder and an able
scorer. His high school experience with a highly successful and well
coached team has prepared him well for college basketball.
Ray Peterson, a transfer from Hamline and the son of a former
Bethel basketball coach will be a real help at both the guard and
forward slots.
Jon Bjorklund and Dave Moulton, brothers of our co-captains and
both with good, solid high school experience, are other freshman hope-fuls
who could be helping our varsity before the end of the season.
The schedule is tough as usual. St. Thomas may well be M.I.A.C.
champs this year and should be our toughest opponent.
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by Tom Johnson
When a basketball team loses
by a score of 84-41, which was
the final score of the Bethel game
last Wednesday night, people be-gin
to wonder what has happened
to our team.
The St. Thomas team started out
with a bang as they scored 14
points in the first 5 minutes.
Bethel's Royals seemed nervous
and couldn't get going.
Co-captain Jerry Moulton scored
the first field goal after five
SIOUX FALLS GAME
The Bethel Royals battled
Sioux Falls in close basketball
action Saturday evening, losing
by an 88-79 score.
After passing the lead back
and forth for most of the
game, the South Dakota team
made its move in the final
minutes, going 5 points ahead
with 6 minutes and 37 seconds
remaining and never relin-quishing
that margin.
Top scorers for Bethel were
Jerry Moulton with 20 points,
Dave Bjorklund with 16, and
Bob Nolin with 15.
and a half minutes of play and
it seemed to settle the team
down because for the next 15
minutes the Royals kept up to
the Toms quite well, scoring
18 points to the Toms' 22.
The second half started with
Bethel playing very good ball but
some excellent ball control by the
Toms seemed to dampen the spirits
of the Bethel team and they were
not able to keep up with the
drive.
Ron Pederson, freshman forward,
was high scorer for the evening
with 19 points. He played a good
game for Bethel, and with more
experience, he should turn out
to be an excellent asset to the
team.
George Palke, moving from
forward to the center position,
played a good defensive game,
but was hurt by fouls and was
not able to play as much as he
was needed.
Something must be said about
the Bethel defense, which has been
altered by Coach Healy. Using a
full-court press, the Royals recover
to a zone defense.
The press seems to be working
well for the team, but they seemed
to be a bit slow in recovering
once the ball had crossed the
center line. More experience might
be the answer, and if it is, the
Royals will have a good defensive
game.
The team as a whole seemed
a bit ragged at first, then steeled
down and played together for
a time, but towards the end
fell apart somewhat as they were
trying to close the gap too hur-riedly.
Bethel did not lose completely
because of their own faults, the
St. Thomas team was just too
good.
Wednesday, December 8, 1965
Last Saturday, Bethel College's
revitalized wrestling squad took on
St. Paul Bible College at the Mid-way
YMCA. Showing aggressive in-dividual
performances, Bethel
soundly trounced St. Paul 31-5.
In the 123 pound class Bob Baffa
pinned a first year St. Paul wrest-ler
in the first period. Denny Ny-holm
showed his form as the Most
Improved Wrestler of last year by
taking his man in a nine minute
match 12-0.
Ron Harris at 137 pounds lost
the take-down, but racked up a
score of 5-2 before pinning his
opponent in the second period.
Mike Warring, a 147 pound fresh-man,
put his opponent away with
a Cross-Face Cradle in the second
period. Danny Wilson finally over-came
his 152 pound opponent in
a well wrestled match with a pin
to gain five more points for Bethel
to bring the total score to 23-0.
Next came Paul Anderson who
at 160 pounds faced an opponent
with less moves, but more strength
than he had. He overcame the
strength, but lost the match 7-4
making the score 23-3. John Ben-son,
167 pounds, tied in a some-what
disputed match 2-2.
Remaning were the two heavy-weights.
Bruce Armstrong in the
177 pound class surprised every-one
and put on a magnificent
display of wrestling prowess. He
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by Tom Johnson
Bowlers, take notice. For the
first time since the founding of
Bethel College, bowling has been
introduced as an intramural sport.
Suggested last year, the plans
have been made, and with your
finally pinned his opponent in
the third period.
Warren Johnson at heavyweight
looked a lot nimbler than the 215
pounds that he is. He beat his man
by decision to make the final
score 31-5.
cooperation, we of the Intramural
department hope to have a suc-cessful
tournament.
Also take note that we are
planning this as a coed league.
Guys find your favorite g i r I,
girls make your bowling skills
known.
The tournament will begin in
January. Tuesday nights at 7:00 will
be the time.
Arrangements have been made
to bowl six Tuesdays. The price
is $1.00 per person a night.
A team will have four men
on it and an Intramural team
may have any number of four
man teams.
Each member must find a part-ner
and since we have planned
it co-ed, we hope you will keep
it that way. A bowler's average
will be combined with his part-ner's
for the final average.
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