Vol. XLII—No. 1
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Saturday, Sept. 9, 1967
The Arden Hills campus (above) is more than 300 acres of wooded rolling hills and lake. Though the conference decision to refuse Federal
Aid offers will curtail the building of the new college complex, planners are still aiming at a 1971 target. On the left is Snelling Ave., on the
right is Hamline Ave. Cutting across the top is Interstate 694. In the upper left corner of the campus is Lake Valentine. The college will be situated
near the center of the campus. Note the seminary buildings. College promotion men are carefully eyeing the incoming class of '71 as Bethel's cen-tennial
year class. It is expected that the centennial class will be the last class to graduate from the old campus.
Harvard Profs Brace For Frosh
Annual Confusion Overwhelming
Cambridge, Mass. - (I.P.) - Under
new rules, Harvard freshmen with
special skills can take advanced .
courses — in Expository Writing
and Social Sciences, for instance
—to meet General Educational re-quirements.
For their chats with the fresh-men
(bright, accomplished, high-ly-
motivated), Harvard College ad-visers
received from Edward T.
Wilcox, director of General Edu-cation,
some samples of what they
illight expect:
Long Questions and Short
Answers
Q. "Four days ago E. B. White
announced publicly that I was the
finest prose stylist in America re-gardless
of age. He based his
opinion on my recently published
volume of expository essays. Ob
viously, by talent precludes work
with ordinary freshmen, but do
you really insist that I take an
advanced course in Expository
Writings?"
A. Yes.
Q. "I have advanced Placemennt
in American History, European
History, and Far Eastern History. I
plan as a freshman to take Eco-nomics
1, Government la, lb, a
Registrar Posts Frosh Schedule
Debutantes Busted At Big Trout
Saturday - September 9
1:00 Football Game - Bethel vs. Hamline Univer-sity
( Board the buses on Arona Street for
transportation to the game.)
4:00-5:00 Musical Auditions continue in rooms listed
6:15 Welcome Week Banquet (dress-up) — Gym
Sunday - September 10
1:30 p.m. Buses leave for Big Trout Lake
6:30 Dinner at Troup Lake Camp
7:30 Evening Service - Dr. Lundquist, "The Presi-dent
Speaks"
8:45 Canteen
9:30 Campfire on the point - Dr. Roy Dalton, "The
Freshman on Campus"
1 1:00 Cabin devotions and lights out
Monday - September 11
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 General Session - The Role of the Student
Senate
10:00 Annual Football Game
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Discussion of book: "On Becoming an Educa-ted
Person"
2:00 Annual baseball game and-or swimming
3:30 Workshops: CLARION, religious, art, music
4:30 Workshops: Sports, drama, cheerleading,
SPIRE
6:00 Dinner
7:00 General Session - Mr. Richard Erickson,
"What to Expect from College"
8:15 Canteen
8:45 Stunt night - staff
11:00 Cabin devotions and lights out
Tuesday - September 12
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 General Session - Miss Marilyn Starr, "Living
for Christ on a Chrstian Campus"
10:15 Pack suitcases and load buses
11:30 Lunch
I 2:15 Capping ceremony
1:15 Buses leave for campus
Wednesday - September 13
8:30 Registration begins - Gymnasium
Appointments will be posted on Official Bul-letin
Board in Administration Building. Check
with your advisor at the proper time.
3:00-6:00 Musical auditions for new students continue
in rooms listed.
Thursday - September 14
Classes begin
Musical auditions for new students continue
Residence Hall meetings. Studnts meet in the
lounge of their respective residence halls.
Friday - September 15
3:00-6:00 Musical auditions for new students continue
The Bethel football team,
having just completed a week
of training camp at Wood Lake,
Wisconsin, will face a tradition-al
rival, the Hamline Pipers, on
the Hamline field, Saturday af-ternoon.
Buses for the game
leave Arona Street at 1 P.M.
The Hamline squad has smoth-ered
the Royals in three of their
last four meetings. Head foot-ball
coach Maurice Shields states
that he has around thirty mem-bers,
including a healthy num-ber
of returning lettermen.
Last year the Royals turned in
a weak 3-5 season. Mr. Sheilds
hopes that a heavier team will
enable the Royals to post a win-ning
season this year.
Revolutionaries
The Outspoken
bers that are out to revolutionize
the Bethel scene.
`Interest in revolution is the
only prerequisite,' says editor Jon
Larson. 'You've got to have some-thing
to say. Whether you're push-ing,
sandalwood soap, or a petition
to oust William Douglas, you'll
find experience with the news:
paper will help you say the things
you want, and give you space to
say them!
As in most newspapers, the
CLARION, encourages students to
make use of the Letters To The
Editor column. (That's for people
who have a little bit to say now
and then).
Contact the Clarion Office, Low-er
Level in the Administration
Building, or leave a note in Box
915.
Freshmen Earn
Scholarships
A number of incoming freshmen
have earned recognition for either
academic achievement, or for dis-tinguished
membership in the Con-ference
Young People's organiza-tion.
Faith Spurlin, hailing from Clo-quet,
Minnesota, has received a
$650 scholarship for high scores
on the National Merit Scholarship
exams. Also receiving a stipend
from National Merit will be Ron-ald
Roper, transfer student from
North Hollywood, California.
National CYF Scholarship win-ners
were: Calvin Emerson, Red
continued on page two
middle-group history course and a
Graduate Seminar in Internation-al
Relations. Will this impressive
array fulfill my basic require-ment
in the Social Sciences-"
A. No.
Q. "I plan to postpone fulfilling
my basic requirement until I find
exactly the courses that suit me.
Now candidly, if I reach senior
year shy one-half course in my
basic requirement, and I have a
full program, and I am in the
process of writing a magna thesis,
contined on page two
CLARION Seeks
Offers Its Ink To
Political strategists the world
world over rate mass media as
an important factor in revolution.
Mussolini, Lenin, Tom Paine, and
a host of other historical figures
influenced nations mightily by
mass media.
THE CLARION, weekly newspa-per
on the Bethel campus, is
looking for prospective staff mem-
7:45
3:00-6:00
9:30
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the CLARION Saturday, Sept. 9, 1967
Spiritual Life Suffers
From Grade Mentality
Because Bethel is a Christian school, one of its aims is to
nurture not only the academic, but also the spiritual lives of
the community members. Unfortunately, for most of us, there
are no term papers due in our spiritual lives, nor are we grad-ed
on semester IBM cards. It is unfortunate that the transfer
of our grade mentality allows us to neglect our spiritual prog-ress.
Most freshmen will be plagued with notes from the Chris-tian
Services office about outlying churches that need help.
Many urban churches send buses to pick up members from the
campus community. In all this confusion, many students are
unable to maintain or realize the importance of intimate par-ticipation
in a specific church.
The suspended interest church attendance is much like a
cafeteria line of this and that. Spiritual growth at Bethel will
probably not be appreciably without intimate identification with
a church—its people, its goals, its troubles (spiritual, financial,
etc.)
The mature attitude which is necessary here will then be
born into the sphere of academics and bring about a dual
revolution on the Bethel campus.
Initial Pressure Unwise;
Weakens Frosh, Clubs
The incoming freshman at Bethel is invariably deluged
with appeals from campus organizations to participate in extra-curricular
activities. Flattered by the sudden interest, the fresh-man
is tempted to submerge himself in a kalaidescope of clubs,
athletics, committees, etc.
Having once caught his perspective, however, the fresh-man
sees his energies squandered on everything but classroom
ends. Stung, and withdrawing, the frosh is prone to pull out of
his various commitments. This is frustrating, not only for the
organizAtions, but also to the college green horn.
In the wake of this frustration, organizations are left with-out
new blood. This is one reason why campus clubs are not
as strong as they might be. Skittish for months, and perhaps
years, organizations are unable to recruit those who had un-happy
experiences in the beginning.
It would be a happy compromise if freshmen eased into
campus life at their own rate, without a traumatic experience
at the outset.
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Pictured above is Ron Bergren, freshman, who won first place in
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Factions Jeopardize Future of India
Enigmatic Leadership Slowly Fades
Political analysts continually
harp on theimportance of China
and India on the Asian scene. To-gether
they account for almost
half of the total population of
the earth. Wetre it not for the
prevalence of illiteracy these two
countries could probably be a ma-jor
power consideration in the
world balance of nations. As it is,
these two countries exert more
political influence than military,
and even what political weight
they have is slowly diminishing.
The Chinese are faced with a mael-strom
of rampaging Red Guards,
a nightmare not only for the work-er,
but for the confused heirarchy
as well.
More quietly still, the Indian
union is disintegrating. It may
well be that this slow death could
ring the death knell for democ-racy
in Asia.
India was born under the
shackles of British imperialism.
Its consciensness as a nation
was arounsed under the heel of
colonialism. And in fact, itidenti-ty
was forged with relation to
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are gone. India's perennial prob-lems
can no longer be pinned
to the British. They lie squarely
at the feet of the Indian people.
The masses are becoming disil-lusioned
with the leadership that
promised them a new life in
freedom.
India nationalism was person-ified
by Gandhi first, and later
Jawaharlal Nehru. Those two men
are gone too, and the enig which
rested in them has not appeared
in either Lal Bahadur Shastri or
his successor, Indira Gandhi.
There is no one left what can per-sonify
India all together. There is
no one who has the character, the
soul, that coud capture the In-dian
eye.
In the subcontinent itself there
are some three hundred lang-guages
and a myraid of local di-alects.
There are almost as many
ethnic groups. There seems to
be no basis on which to build
an Indian unity. Neither Hindu-ism,
nor the language Hindi,
nor the black skin (many In-dians
are Aryan), nor geogra-
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to some common enemy
of the people can tied the In-dian
union into a lasting corn-munity
of diversity.
The recent breakdown of the
ruling Congress party, the growth
of numerous political groups with-in
parialment, the mass identiy
with provincial symbols, the re-jection
by minorities of the Hindi
language, the mass rios over Mos-lem,
Hindu differences, and the
blatant disregard for order during
distressing times of famine, are
all signs that the pole of the In-dian
nation is cracking.
If India cannot find a leader,
she will disintegrate within the
next half century. When that fi-nally
happens, the Chinese, if
they can persist, will be the sole
giant on the Asian scene.
The implication this has for our
foreign policy is enormous, drastic,
overwhelming. That fact that we
will one day have to deal with
China with either bombs or over
a table should be incentive enough
to open up channels that will al-low
us to understand what the
Chinese are trying to say.
Scholarships
from page one
Wing, Minnesota, Barbara Bab?
cock, Maple, Wisconsin; Elizabeth
Creighton, Sioux Falls, South Da-kota;
and Carmen Sheppard, Sioux
Falls, South Dakota.
Winners of area CYF Scholar-ships
included: Samuel Cooke, Min-neapolis;
Greg Ekbom, Willmar;
Dale Berry, Isle; and Marion James,
Fosston; all from Minnesota.
National CYF winners will re-ceive
an award of $600 and state
winners will receive a $100 sti-pend.
Harvard Frosh
from page one
and I find the course I want has
been bracketed that year, would
they actually hold up my degree
for one-half course?"
A. Yes.
Q. "I want to cover the field
by applying to both Natural Sci-ences
5 and. Natural Sciences 6
as first choices for preregistra-tion.
My roommate isn't using his
Natural Sciences card this year,
so I am going to fill out two pre-registration
cards and submit two
`first' choices. In the confusion
will anyone notice that I have
found a way to beat the system?"
A. Yes.
Q. "Which course will they then
assign me too-"
A. Neither.
Q. "Do I have to fulfill the to-tal
General Education Program
in my freshman year?"
A. No.
Q. "How many years do I have?"
A. Four.
Q. "Should I, in that case, post-pone
getting started on the re-quirement
until I find out more
about Harvard or until some 'bet-ter'
courses come along-"
A. No.
