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What? Artist VERSUS Musician? What is this about? Don't they come in one (crazy) package? Well, some do, some don't. Apparently, I must fall into the latter category according to Janice B.'s brilliantly written contemplation on the subject. Reading her article as to what sets the two apart in a way, reminded me of the first time I may have – more subconsciously – found out about that. I am going to have to elaborate a bit for this statement to make sense.
I started playing in bands at around age 13. I had been playing guitar for four years with some minor formal education for two years until the local music school's teacher ran out of material to work on by saying something like "I can't teach you guys anything else." (doh! LOL). I then continued to work with the only other student in my class and we'd somehow figure out how to play Beatles songs on acoustic guitars and singing along in harmony. Something like that. From that and "performing" around campfires – I was being asked to join a band, which I gladly did. From whatever pocket money I had, I bought my first electric guitar (I recall it being a Fender Stratocaster copy) and shared the guitar amp with the other guitarist in the band. Rehearsals took place in the basement of the keyboardist's parents house and let's just say that basement was in questionable condition… But I didn't care, I was so pumped about being in a band and getting to perform in front of people, I put up with mold, freezing temperatures, damp fingers, lack of light and oxygen for hours on end, bickering and disputes over song arrangements and the correct phrasing of vocal and instrumental parts, the usual amount of friction between "ego mammals", transportation issues, juggling school and other chores, making time for rehearsals, bugging out Mom to take me there in winter, in other words: The usual "side effects" of being a musician – right? Right.
So, I kept doing that for a while. At 14, a former buddy comes to visit and runs me over with his moped. Result: Ruptured ligament in the left knee, hospitalization for… the entire summer break (6 weeks in my country)! Back in the day, that meant full surgery under anesthesia, total immobility for two weeks after that, cast, crutches for bathroom "breaks", bed-time, in short: No fun at all! (and this in summer, with high temperatures and such. Can anyone say "scratch me under that thing there? Like NOW!!!!") My dad signed me out of hospital prematurely, so I got to be in my room at least (right under the roof, during the summer the equivalent of a George Foreman grill for human beings). All my friends were gone for the summer break, so noone came to visit. My sister was out and about. My parents were considerate enough not to go on vacation without me. So, no walking around the house or garden, bathroom breaks had to be scheduled, distraction was scarce. What was I to do? … Yup! You guessed it: Pull out the guitar and play all day! It must have been way above 100 degrees in my room ("I like my wesbound well done, please. Thank you! Got a bun and some mustard to go with that? A cold beer? You know, white people tend to be a little chewy"… LOL). I can still feel the sweat running down my chest and back from only thinking about that. But: I believe it was then when the Muse hit me in full. I would actually listen to the records I played along with, analyze what made 'em great for me, emulate the guitar parts as best as I could and improvise with the modest skills I had then (and consider not to be too different by now). So: This may have well been my defining time as a musician first. I say "musician first", because as I went along in understanding, what made the greatness of the song for me, I instantly wanted to do like those great composers and artists. Which is how I got into songwriting, I believe.
To come back to the subject at hand being discussed in Janice's article: I am in total agreement with her as to what makes a musician. And there's no judging on my part as to that, either, whatsoever. Matter of fact, it is now that I feel the ambition to become a better musician and look into ways of accomplishing that (practicing at home is just a part of that equation). And as to artist: In my book, I believe this species to be a being, who look into ways of expressing themselves and their experiences by way of their artform of choice (music, painting, writing… you name 'em). There is a prevalent urge in saying something in such a way that everyone (with open ears and mind, that is) can relate to it. Much as for Janice, to me the greatest joy and reward in music is to write a song. Work out a chord progression. Find nice sounds to go with that. Optionally lyrics to tell a (personal) story. Make the "inner track" audible to the public. That sort of thing.
I've been writing songs eversince (I trashed a large stack of unfinished lyrics when moving out from home at 18). 25 years later – I have just started out (again). With a bit of life on my hands. Some insights, some lessons, some pain and some joy. I consider myself that bottle of wine that stayed dormant in the basement. The door has been opened, new light falls into the room. Time to pick up the narrative and journey.
Care to come along?
wesbound, July 2010
P.S.: On a little less serious note: When you forget the lyrics, it's still better to hum and look involved. Like this:


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House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology (Horn)
On Legislation That Would Prevent The Federal Government From Establishing National Identification Cards (H.R. 220, Paul, R-TX)
Frederick G. Streckewald, Associate Commissioner for Program Benefits Testified
May 18, 2000
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
Thank you for inviting the Social Security Administration (SSA) to testify on H.R. 220, the Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act of 1999, a bill designed to limit the use of the Social Security number, or SSN. Today, I will discuss the original purpose of the SSN, and how its use has expanded over the years. I will also talk about what effect this expansion has had on SSA and the conditions under which we disclose or verify an SSN for third parties. In addition, I will discuss how the number facilitates the data matches used in program integrity to verify eligibility for and benefit amounts of Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and other Federal and State benefits.
At the outset, let me emphasize that SSA has always taken its responsibility to protect the privacy of personal information in Agency files very seriously. When the Social Security program began, people were concerned that information they provided to Social Security could be misused. The Social Security Board, charged with implementation of the Social Security Act, issued press releases and public statements to provide reassurance that information provided by individuals and employers would be regarded as confidential and would be available only to the individuals to whom it pertains and to Government personnel who need access to carry out their official responsibilities.
Almost immediately, these broad pledges of confidentiality were translated into official binding policy when the Board published its first regulation in 1937. This pledge of confidentiality has been an important factor in the cooperation which employers and employees have shown over the years in providing required information.
For almost 65 years, SSA has honored its commitment to the American people to maintain the confidentiality of the records in our possession. We have longstanding and effective practices and procedures to maintain individuals' privacy.
Original Purpose of the Social Security Number and Card
To begin, I'd like to talk about the original purpose of the SSN and the Social Security card. Following the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the SSN was devised administratively as a way to keep track of the earnings of people who worked in jobs covered under the new program. The requirement that workers covered by Social Security apply for an SSN was published in Treasury regulations in 1936.
Initially, the only purpose of the SSN was to keep an accurate record of earnings covered under Social Security and to pay benefits based on those earnings. The SSN card is the document SSA provides to show what SSN is assigned to a particular individual. The SSN card, when shown to an employer, assists the employer in properly reporting earnings.
Growth of SSN as an Identifier for Other Federal Purposes
In spite of the narrowly drawn purpose of the SSN, use of the SSN as a convenient means of identifying people in records systems has grown over the years in steps often taken for good reasons such as, in the public sector to help enforce laws, protect the public treasury, and collect funds from delinquent non-custodial parents.
In 1943, Executive Order 9397 required Federal agencies to use the SSN in any new system for identifying individuals. This use proved to be a precursor to an explosion in SSN usage which came about during the computer revolution of the 1960's. The simplicity of using a unique number that most people already possessed encouraged widespread use of the SSN by Government agencies and private organizations as they adapted their record-keeping and business applications to automated data processing.
In 1961, the Federal Civil Service Commission established a numerical identification system for all Federal employees using the SSN as the identifying number. The next year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decided to use the SSN as its taxpayer identification number (TIN) for individuals. And, in 1967, the Defense Department adopted the SSN as its identification number for military personnel. Use of the SSN for computer and other record-keeping systems spread throughout State and local governments, and to banks, credit bureaus, hospitals, educational institutions and other areas of the private sector. At the time, there were no legislative authorizations for, or prohibitions against, such uses.
Statutory Expansion of SSN Use in the Public Sector
The first explicit statutory authority to issue SSNs did not occur until 1972, when Congress required that SSA assign SSNs to all aliens authorized to work in this country and take affirmative steps to assign SSNs to children and anyone receiving or applying for a benefit paid for by Federal funds. This change was prompted by Congressional concerns about welfare fraud and about noncitizens working in the U.S. illegally. Subsequent Congresses have enacted legislation which requires an SSN as a condition of eligibility for applicants for SSI, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (now called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), Medicaid, and food stamps. Additional legislation authorized States to use the SSN in the administration of any tax, general public assistance, drivers license, or motor vehicle registration law within its jurisdiction.
At the same time legislation was being enacted to expand the use of the SSN, Congress became concerned about the widespread use of the SSN as an identifier. As a result, the Privacy Act was enacted in 1974. It provides that, except when required by Federal statute or regulation adopted prior to January 1975, no Federal, State or local government agency could withhold benefits from a person simply because the person refused to furnish his or her SSN.
However, Congress continued to enact legislation that authorizes certain uses of SSNs in the public sector or required governmental agencies to collect the SSN, limiting the effect of the Privacy Act.
In the 1980's, separate legislation provided for additional uses of the SSN including employment eligibility verification, military draft registration, commercial motor vehicle operators licenses, and for operators of stores that redeem food stamps. Legislation was also enacted that required taxpayers to provide a taxpayer identification number (SSN) for each dependent age 5 or older. The age requirement was lowered subsequently, and an SSN is now required for dependents, regardless of age. The expansion of use of the SSN continued through the late 1980's with the requirement that an SSN be provided by applicants for Housing and Urban Development programs and authorizing blood donation facilities to use the SSN to identify blood donors.
In the 1990's, SSN use continued to expand with legislation that authorized its use for jury selection and for administration of Federal workers' compensation laws. A major expansion of SSN use was provided in 1996 under welfare reform. Under welfare reform, to enhance child support enforcement, the SSN is to be recorded on almost every official document an individual may obtain; e.g., professional licenses, drivers licenses, death certificates, birth records, divorce decrees, marriage licenses, support orders, or paternity determinations. When an individual is hired, an employer is required to send the individual's SSN and identifying information to the State which will verify the information with SSA. This "New Hire Registry" is part of the expanded Federal Parent Locator which enables States to find non-custodial parents by using the SSN.
Private Sector Use of the SSN
Unlike public sector use of the SSN, private sector use of the SSN is not specifically authorized but neither are there any restrictions. People may be asked for an SSN for such things as renting a video, getting medical services, and applying for public utilities. They may refuse to give it. However, the provider may, in turn, decline to furnish the product or service.
Officials from financial services companies advised the General Accounting Office (GAO) for their February 1999 report, "Use of the Social Security Number is Widespread," that, although they ask for an SSN, they generally do not use SSNs as internal identifiers but instead assign an account number as a customer's primary identifier. They expressed concern, however, that if prohibited from using an SSN, their ability to conduct routine internal activities and correctly match a specific individual to a corresponding record of information would be severely hampered.
The SSN as an Identifier
As you can see, Mr. Chairman, the current use of the SSN as a personal identifier in both the public and private sectors is not the result of any single step; but rather, from the gradual accretion over time of extending the SSN to a variety of purposes. The implications for personal privacy of the widespread use of a single identifier have generated concern both within the government and in society in general. Opposition to the use of such an identifier stems from the fear that it will be used improperly to exchange information among organizations or could possibly lead to dossiers about people which would follow them throughout life, make identity theft easier, or compromise a person's privacy.
The advent of broader access to electronic data through the Internet and the World Wide Web has generated a growing concern about increased opportunities for access to personal information. Some people fear that the competition among information service providers for customers will result in broader data linkages with questionable integrity and potential for harm.
On the other hand, there are some who believe that the public interests and economic benefits are well-served by these uses of the SSN. They argue that it would enhance the ability to more easily recognize, control and protect against fraud and abuses in both public and private activities. All Federal benefit-paying agencies rely on data matches to verify, not only that the applicant is eligible for benefits, but also to ensure that the benefit paid is correct. The SSN is the key that facilitates the ability to perform the matches.
SSA Verification Workload
SSA verification workloads relating both to use and misuse of the number have increased as the number's use has expanded. Such verifications are done primarily through regular automated data exchanges. We actively participate in data matches to ensure the accuracy of Federal and State benefit payments, to verify whether applicants are eligible for benefits, to undertake debt collection activities, and to safeguard program integrity. The SSN, as the common identifier, is the key to these matches. In addition, we verify SSNs for employers to ensure the correct posting of wages and for other Federal benefit-paying programs to help reduce their program costs. Where required by law and, in certain circumstances where permitted by law, we verify that the name and SSN in the files of third parties are the same as those on our SSN records.
Examples of disclosures or verifications we perform required by statute include:
- to the Office of Personnel Management for the purpose of administering its pension program for retired Federal Civil Service employees;
- to the Immigration and Naturalization Service to identify and locate aliens in the United States;
- to the Department of Education for verifying the SSNs of student loan applicants;
- to the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine eligibility for, or amount of, veterans benefits; and
- to State agencies and courts to locate absent parents owing child support.
Disclosures we make that are permitted by the Privacy Act include:
- to the Department of Justice for investigating and prosecuting violations of the Social Security Act or for litigation involving SSA components or employees;
- to the Department of Treasury for tax administration and for investigating the alleged forgery or unlawful negotiation of Social Security checks; and
- to Federal, State and local entities for the purpose of administering income maintenance and health maintenance programs, where use of the SSN is authorized by Federal statute.
Matches for Program Integrity Purposes
We rely on data matches to verify eligibility factors, that is, that the applicant is eligible for the benefit, to protect the integrity of our programs, and for debt collection activities. Use of the SSN facilitates our ability and that of other agencies to perform the matches. Many of the data matches are mandated by statute, such as the State death data match which provides State death certificate information to SSA, as well as providing death data to other benefit-paying Federal agencies for them to determine if recipients are fraudulently claiming benefits. We also do matches for prisoner reporting which provides information on incarceration so that SSA can suspend benefits.
While these data matches are invaluable to us, nothing is more important in the operation of our programs than ensuring that the public has confidence that the information placed in our trust is secure. This is a cornerstone of our philosophy. SSA uses state-of-the art encryption software that protects data sent to us and systems firewalls that protect access to our databases. We are constantly reevaluating the security features necessary to protect the information we receive and maintain.
How Does Matching Work?
SSA computer matching, as is true for matching by other Federal and State agencies, is regulated by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, which amended the Privacy Act. The Act prescribes a procedural framework for matching activities, to include mandatory provisions that an individual be provided due process before a benefit is denied or terminated, that appropriate safeguards are adopted to preserve the confidentiality of the data being exchanged, and prohibitions on duplication and redisclosure of the data other than for purposes covered by the match.
Because of our overriding concern for the confidentiality of the personal information in our records, and as required by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, SSA establishes an agreement with another agency to conduct computer matches for a specified purpose. This agreement is specific as to what the receiving agency can do with the information it receives from SSA.
A computer comparison of an entire non-SSA database of information is matched against an entire SSA database (e.g., all Federal Workers Compensation cases compared to all disability beneficiaries). The computer compares the records for discrepant information, and may also identify characteristics of highly suspicious cases. After the computer comparison discovers discrepancies, an alert is sent to an SSA employee to investigate. The employee notifies the beneficiary, advising him or her that information produced by matching may disqualify the individual from receiving benefits or result in a reduction of benefits, but no adverse action will be taken until he or she has had an opportunity to contest the information. Only after due process has been satisfied will SSA take action, if warranted, to change the benefits.
This process is highly efficient for programmatic benefits and allows SSA to quickly determine eligibility and ensure correct payment amount. Our computer matches comply with the due process, notice and individual privacy safeguards required by the Computer Matching and Privacy Act of 1988. SSA estimates savings to the trust funds of $332 million annually from computer matches for title II benefit purposes.
In order to improve the payment accuracy rate in the SSI program, designated by the General Accounting Office (GAO) as a "high risk" program, we are pursuing improved matching of our data with available records on wages, nursing home admissions, and financial accounts. GAO recommended that data matches were an effective means of reducing overpayments in the SSI program. In response to the recommendations, Congress included in the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (enacted on December 14, 1999) authority for SSA to conduct certain matches to capture information that directly affect eligibility and payment amount. The SSN is the key to those data matches. Matching information with various databases holds great promise in preventing SSI overpayments in these areas. Access to such data is vitally important in our efforts to strengthen the management of the SSI program.
Our actions are already showing results. For example, the data matches performed in FY 1999, along with other improvements, are projected to result in substantial savings in overpayment collection and prevention for the SSI program at a comparatively low administrative cost. In FY 1999, SSA saved almost $700 million in both title II and title XVI by sharing data with other Federal and State agencies. Similarly, according to agency estimates, other Federal, State and local agencies also saved about $1.5 billion. SSA and many other Federal agencies use data sharing for three of the most important debt collection tools. The debt collection tools provided for under the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 that rely on data sharing are: Tax Refund Offset where SSA refers delinquent debts to Treasury; Treasury Offset Program which expands offset to government payments other than tax refunds; and Credit Bureau Reporting where delinquent debtors are reported to Equifax and Trans Union.
Public concern over the availability of personal information has encouraged some to consider ways to limit using SSNs to disclose such information. However, GAO's February 1999 report on the widespread use of the SSN indicates that officials from both private businesses and State governments have stated that if the Federal government passed laws that limited their use of SSNs, their ability to reliably identify individuals' records would be limited as would their subsequent ability to administer programs and conduct data exchanges with others.
Which leads to my discussion of H.R. 220. Let me begin by briefly summarizing the provisions that affect SSA. The stated purpose of H.R. 220 is to prohibit the use of the Social Security number as an identifier.
Specifically, the bill would:
- amend title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from using a Social Security number or any derivative as the means of identifying any individual, except for Social Security and certain tax purposes.
- pamend the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose their Social Security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis except for Social Security and tax purposes.p
- p>prohibit any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual, except for Social Security and tax purposes. p
- pprohibit a Federal agency from establishing a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used by any other Federal agency, State agency, or a private person for any purpose other than the purpose of conducting the authorized activities of the Federal agency. p
- pprohibit a Federal agency from establishing a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used for a purpose to which the Federal Government is not a party; or for administrative simplification. p
Mr. Chairman, H.R. 220 would severely limit SSA's ability to perform data matches. The bill would restrict data exchanges which benefit the public. SSA and other Federal, State and local governments use these data exchanges to ensure accurate payment of benefits and to verify eligibility. Limitations or foreclosure of such data exchanges would undermine SSA program integrity initiatives, cost about $1 billion in lost savings, and erode public confidence in SSA's stewardship of Social Security programs. Even though there are attempts to provide an exception for Social Security use of the SSN, the language is not clear as to whether the SSN could be used as a Social Security claim number for benefits. It is also not clear as to whether the exception would apply to use of the SSN for SSI purposes.
In conclusion, I want to reiterate SSA's longstanding and ardent protection of the confidentiality of the personal information in our records. We share Representative Paul's concern about the expanded use of the SSN in every phase of society. However, at the same time, we have an obligation to ensure that benefits are paid only to eligible individuals and that the correct benefit is paid.
The way for SSA and other benefit paying agencies to validate that a benefit in the correct amount is paid only to an eligible beneficiary is to verify the information he or she provided. Without a unique identifier, trying to obtain information from other agencies would be cost-prohibitive, as well as, labor intensive.
In the use of SSNs, we must carefully weigh the balance between protection of individual privacy rights and the integrity of the Social Security programs and other benefit paying programs. We look forward to working with you to find the right balance.
I will be glad to answer any questions you may have.


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Bethel Coll ege, St. Paul, Mi nnesota OL61. 1-m9°4'0 'AuPlid
Photo by Bob Miko
Student Association President Elden Elseth
Elseth, Muck travel to
Presidents' Conference
New curriculum
focuses on basic
human concerns
By Joey Healy
So what's this new curriculum all
about anyway? As students here at
Bethel, we have the right to know
what's going on inside the "sys-tem".
After all, it affects us most
of all.
The Curriculum Committee has
been meeting weekly for two
years; this body presented a "Pro-posal
for Curriculum" to the facul-ty
in May, 1970. Preliminary dis-cussions
had been held at faculty
meetings since 1968.
Quoting from a summary of the
"Curriculum Proposal" by Dr.
Donald Larson, chairman of the
social sciences department, it may
please, surprise, or shock you to
learn that "the student is a human
—with seventeen or more years of
experience behind him when he
comes to Bethel. He has learned
ways to cope with life; ways to
account for his existence. He comes
to us with common human con-cerns."
It is these concerns with which
the new curriculum attempts to
deal. While admitting that it is
humanly impossible to present a
total consensus of all such con-cerns,
the committee has specified
four general areas of concern.
Communication is the first ma-jor
concern; it involves human re-lations.
Secondly, we see the con-cern
for orientation within our
space-time world. Adaptation to
one's physical and sociocultural
environment constitutes the third
concern. And, finally, creativity is
the student's concern for being
himself to the fullest extent pos-sible.
The new curriculum sees the
teacher as a human, as well, hav-ing
even more years of experience
behind him. Although he shares
these common human concerns, he
sees life from a different vantage-point.
He asks, instead, "in what
ways and to what extent is the
phenomena which man encounters
accessible to disciplined inquiry?"
According to the Curriculum Com-mittee,
the four broad categories
of such disciplines are: 1) history-philosophy-
religion 2) humanities
3) natural sciences 4) behavioral
sciences. These are four basic ap-proaches
to human experience.
It becomes quite clear that stu-dents
are oriented primarily to
"concerns", and their teachers to
"disciplines". Reconciliation may
evolve through one of several pos-sibilities.
The student may be ex-pected
to "leave his bag of con-cerns
outside the classroom", or
he may be left to work out a syn-thesis
on his own. Or we may cap-italize
on this natural tension, and
work it out together through the
curriculum. It is this latter alter-native
which is reflected in the
proposed curriculum.
A fundamental assumption to
this whole concept is that all four
disciplines are capable of some
contribution to the student's con-cerns.
All are inter-complimentary
to all other areas.
From the student's point of view,
the proposed curriculum should
help one in the process of finding
and understanding himself. Every
discipline can shine its own unique
illumination on each particular
"The concerns and the discip-lines
are not related, but actually
arise from human concerns—an-swers
to deep and abiding ques-tions
and solutions to ever-press-ing
problems," points out Dr. Lar-son,
former chairman of the com-mittee.
Larson continues, "Perhaps
any discipline can illuminate any
concern, or to state this positively
and passively, every concern can
be illuminated by every pattern of
disciplined inquiry."
Disciplines and concerns may be
seen as two intersecting axes on a
matrix. Valuable insights may be
gained as we apply each discip-line
to each concern. Hopefully,
this will help us to step out of our
fragmented world of learning, into
a new level of integration of
knowledge and application. And
maybe relevant education will
even come into vogue!
By John Moore
"I am delighted that The Asso-ciation
of Student Governments
has arranged for so many campus
leaders and university administra-tors
to meet together to discuss
the problems of the campus com-munity.
. . . I am confident that
yours will be a most successful
meeting. . . . It is my greatest hope
that together you will find the an-swers
you seek." These were the
words of President Richard M.
Nixon in his written invitational
address to hundreds of college and
university Presidents and to the
student body Presidents of those
This was the second annual
"President to Presidents Confer-ence,"
held September 25, 26 and
27 at the Sheraton Park Hotel in
Washington, D.C. The whole af-fair
was organized by the "Associ-ation
of Student Governments"
who invited nearly 300 colleges
and universities from around the
country. Minnesota was represent-ed
by five colleges, Mankato State
College, College of St. Thomas,
College of St. Catherine, Winona
State College, and Bethel College.
Dean Webster Muck and Student
Senate President Elden Elseth at-tended
the Conference for Bethel.
The purpose of the Conference
was to try to prevent campus un-rest
and violence by acquainting
representatives of those campuses
with the Federal Administration's
policies and justifications for them.
The format entailed speech-mak-ing
and seminars. The speakers
would talk for 30 minutes with a
45 minute question and answer pe-riod
following. Some of the speak-ers
included were Melvin Laird,
Secretary of Defense, Walter Hick-el,
Secretary of the Interior, John
Mitchell, Attorney General, and
Dr. Curtis Tarr, director of the Se-lective
Service. The seminars were
then interspersed with the talks,
each seminar having only 25-30
people in it as apposed to the ques-tion
and answer periods where all
the schools were involved.
Topics for the discussions includ-ed
"Campus Conciliation and Me-diation",
"Governing Boards and
the University's Future", "The
White House and Youth" and "Re-actions
Outside the Wall". Dean
Muck attended the last one of the
above and gave his summary of it,
"It had to do with public relations
. . . how could the motives and
purposes of a large institution be
made real to the general public?"
Dean Muck also gave his opinion
of the style of questions posed by
the students, "The questions were
quite pointed, many students ask-ed
questions concerning ways to
get involved". Attorney General
John Mitchell's response to siieh
questions was, "SUN( you_,
out, you're dealing with entrench-ed
Mitchell went on to say one
shouldn't be afraid to speak out
in public if there is definite cause
and concern to. Elden Elseth felt
the students' manner of question-ing
was closer to that of statement
making. This, he felt, typified the
concern present throughout the
country for our growing problems.
Both of our representatives feel
that no major changes in the think-ing
of the Federal Administration
or the student representatives
came about. Dean Muck did view
it as a success in that he is now
more aware, and as he stated,
"That puts men in a position where
I can ask for a change".
LOST—Clean, healthy air in the general vicinity of the
United States. Finder may keep any cash, promotions or retire-ments
realized through destruction of same. Please return im-mediately.
No questions asked.
Rock Rozin and Ron Lewis anticipate the broadcast of bas-ketball
games—home and away—as WBCS begins its 1970-71
broadcast season. For story on this and the Saturday night 'To-night
Show' see page 3.
Photo by Bob Miko
Even the Twin Cities has its share of traffic and air problems, though night time makes you
unaware of them.
Christian life style and the world,
is Bethel's "standard" negativistic?
page 2 the CLARION Friday, October 2, 1970
Ralph Nader attacks
GM, orange juice,
chrome eyebrows
By Jack M. Priggen
You, along with millions of other consumers in this country, are
being cheated, and your life is being endangered by fraud and pollution.
Much of this fraud and danger could be eliminated if the public would
accept the challenge of being informed and concerned. Environmental
specialist, Ralph Nader, gave this challenge to more than five hundred
people on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus on Wednesday,
September 23, during the University's Welcome Week. He bombed the
students with fact after fact of corporation fraud.
The favorite target of Nader and his consumer crusaders is the auto-mobile
industry. In his attack he called the bumper on today's automo-biles
nothing but "chrome eyebrows", and that tests have shown that
crashes into brick walls at five m.p.h. result in an average damage of
$200, and at ten m.p.h. the resulting damage is $500. Crash absorbing
front ends (which have been developed for twenty years) could eliminate
nearly all of the damage to cars in low speed crashes.
Referring to the "infernal internal combustion engine", Nader com-mented
that General Motors products alone contribute 35% of all air
pollution in the United States, and told of one Ford executive who says
that "anything you can dream of, we can build." In other words, if the
demand were• great enough for pollution free cars, the automobile in-dustry
would build them.
The cheapening of consumer products in the form of air, fat, and
water was also criticized by Mr. Nader. Orange juice contains 10% to
15% water which amounts to $150 million dollars per year in "conscious,
hard-core fraud" of the consumer. Hot dogs are "35% fat, 12%
water, coloring, spices, miscellaneous materials, and the rest is substan-dard
meat." Wonder Bread, according to Nader, is nothing but "conglom-erate
putty" which the Wonder Bread Co. chooses to call "enriched
white bread". In making Wonder Bread they process everything good
out and put a little back.
In this country the consumer's life is endangered by pollution and
fraud. In the past fifty years 1.7 million people have died on America's
highways. One out of every two people in the United States are injured
in an auto accident during their lifetime. Much of these injuries and
fatalities could be prevented by better construction of cars. Injuries
caused by pollution penalize the hospitals in the United States. These
preventable injuries make it harder for hospitals to care for people who
have sicknesses, thus endangering their lives.
Many other forms of pollution directly or indirectly affect all of us
at Bethel. Lead base paints poison thousands of children each year. Oil
spills in the off-shore waters of the United States destroy sealife and
beaches. Sources of pollution and fraud of the consumer are areas in
which students should be knowledgeable and should fight to change.
American youth have an abundance of determination to change society
and an enormous willingness to risk. Ralph Nader's challenge to society,
and my challenge to you the Bethel community, is to become informed,
be involved, have a determination to change society in these areas, and
if necessary risk your time, efforts, and resources to bring about this
By Marjorie Rusche
Last Friday night at Gray's Drug
Store, I overheard part of a con-versation
which disturbed me.
"You guys go to Bethel?"
"Are you strict Baptists?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, do you drink or dance
or play cards or smoke or go to
movies or watch TV or anything?"
It is extremely unfortunate that
the image of Baptists and Bethel is
so negativistic. Cultural matters
have turned into religious dogmas;
and the whole message of Jesus
and his life-style has been missed
or neglected due to excessive at-tention
to these peripheral mat-ters.
Whether a person smokes, drinks,
plays cards, dances, watches mov-ies,
or holds hands on the first
date is in large measure irrelevant
to the kind of Christian he is, or
whether in fact he is a Christian
at all.
It seems to me that the kind of
life-style Christ wants us to expe-rience
is one that radiates joy,
spontaneity, love, forgiveness, and
meekness. These are all dynamic
positive elements, about as far re-moved
from lifting your little fin-ger
when you drink tea as you can
We, at Bethel, have substituted
an "acceptable" code of behavior
for the dynamic reality of a Christ-centered
life. Not only has this
false and hollow substitution been
made; worse still, members of the
administration have in the past
asked students who were trying to
live out their conception of a
Christian life but who also smoked
or drank to leave "the Bethel com-munity".
More explicitly, they
were thrown out for violating
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By Pastor Maurice C. Lawson
"Decision and Disenchantment"
will be the subject of Dean Welh-ster
Muck's message on Monday.
The Student Senate, Elden Elseth,
president, is in charge of Tues-day's
chapel. On Wednesday the
Pastor will give another portrait
of Jesus following NEW music. Dr.
Boesel of Faith Academy in the
Philippines will bring a meditation
on Thursday, and on Friday Dr.
Arthur Johnston, president of St.
Paul Bible College, will speak.
school rules which the administra-tion
set up.
Bethel students need to know
how to relate to the world in a
Christ-like manner; they do not
need to be isolated from reality in
order to keep their "purity". It is
time for a re-evaluation of just
what the students, faculty, and ad-ministration
at Bethel think a
"Christian life-style" is. The facul-ty
prepared position papers last
year on various matters relating to
a "Christian life-style". Where are
these faculty reports? Sitting on a
shelf in the President's office,
waiting for some historian fifty
years from now to pick them up
and analyze them? It is time for
a disclosure of these faculty re-ports.
Bethel is not a unified campus.
There is not a consensus concern-ing
what a "Christian life-style" is
here. It is fraudulent to presume
that there is one; and then to sell
a manufactured consensus on life-style
to the constituency of the
Baptist General Conference is
sheer hypocrisy.
Bethel is not a Christian cam-pus.
That is a myth promulgated
by the people whose business is to
make money for the school. There
are some Christian people here,
but the campus is not a Christian
Watch the people come out of
chapel. Notice the white people
ignore the black people that are
sitting in a group in the middle of
the campus playing poker. Notice
the white people walk past the
black people sitting in the coffee
shop or cafeteria. Notice the black
guy who's white date has jilted
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-him
at the last minute. Notice the
black people wonder what all those
white zombies mean when they
talk of Christian love, joy, peace,
and treat the blacks like they have
leprosy. Is this the Christian life
style that Bethel is supposed to be
There's a revolution going on in
this country, in case you didn't
know it. Members of minority
groups, students, and policemen
are being murdered. The judicial
system is falling apart due to the
high degree of corruption among
the police, lawyers, judges and the
inflexibilities of the law.
America is trying to function in
the 20th century with 18th and
19th century concepts and laws.
The legislative system is not func-tioning
fast enough or intelligently
enough on the crisis issues of our
day; and the price of a legislative
seat is too dearly obtained, in both
money and morals. The executive
branch of our country is fostering
an attitude of repression, fear, and
polarization reminiscent of the Mc-
Carthy era of the early '50's. It ig
pursuing imperialistic wars abroad.
How does Bethel relate its Chris-tian
life style to all of this? It
makes sure its students don't
dance, smoke, drink, watch movies,
or play cards.
I've never heard of anybody be-ing
thrown out of Bethel for cheat-ing
on an exam, or failing to re-spond
with love towards other peo-ple,
or being cross and cruel with
someone, or failing to make one-self
knowledgeable about what's
happening in world affairs, or
continued on page 3
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Friday, October 2, 1970 the CLARION page 3
Bethel Forum
Minority recruitment is anti-Bethel; Interim Committee
no preferential treatment for blacks chooses
`Urban Crisis'
as symposium topic
details in next week's Clarion.
WBCS starts broadcast season
with "Tonight Show" Saturday
To the editor:
Over the past three weeks much
change has evolved on Bethel's cam-pus.
Some of it has been good and
some of it not so good. Many stu-dents
have discovered new worlds
to explore and expedite while oth-ers
have continued on in a typical
state of Christian unawareness.
Those of you who are awake and
developing have noticed some anti-
Bethel sentiment around. This has
not occurred by accident; it has
been a carefully planned proce-dure.
To the editor:
I want to share with you what
I feel Christ has been doing.
When I was in high school, I
somehow got the idea that hap-piness
is involvement. So I got in-involved
in church (youth group,
choir, prayer meetings, etc.) So
got involved in school activities:
music, model UN, art shows, etc.
Grades? Just fine, thank you. I
did get here, didn't I? Oh yes, I
came to Bethel as a freshman, full
of the assurance that "success"
gives and sure that I could do it
again—and at college yet! Sure.
17 1/2 credits, 7 "activities," and
a very low g.p.a. later, I wasn't so
"sure" as I had been. I dropped a
few activities and took on a lighter
load the second semester, but it
still wasn't enough. Then my Dad
changed jobs.
I couldn't take it to be deprived
of so much of my security in such
a short period of time. Sophomore
slump? It tended more toward
"sophomore drops out." Tended?
Did! Well, why not. I had my sec-urity
outside that which had al-ready
proved unstable — my
achievements and my Dad's job—
so I couldn't cope when things
The year I spent "outside" was
continued from page 2
slandering someone maliciously, or
playing spiritual one-upmanhsip
games. Why has the administration
fixated on no drinking, dancing,
smoking, playing cards or going to
movies for rules?
A partial answer is because the
administration doesn't want to of-fend
"the friends of Bethel" who
contribute money to the school be-cause
there are rules against
drinking, smoking, dancing, card-playing,
and movie-attendance. An-other
part of the answer is that
some members of the administra-tion
think that drinking, smoking,
card-playing, dancing, movie-at-tendance
are detrimental to a
"Christian witness". If that's how
they feel, and they live what they
say, that's fine with me. I respect
their opinion. However, that does-n't
give them the right to force
their opinion on other people as
the "will of God."
One of the more popular names
for this procedure is Minority Re-cruitment.
As in most cases, a few
people spoil it for the others. These
few who choose to be negativistic
are not portraying the accepted
"Bethel Image" as handed down by
faculty and staff directives. They
are embarking at full speed on a
course deemed for total destruc-tion.
It seems that some of the recip-ients
of the Bethel College Minor-ity
Recruitment program are com-plaining
unduly about the current
when I began to realize that I had
an alternative to despair. I had
accepted Jesus as my Saviour when
I was in grade school, but He
hadn't meant much in an immedi-ate
way for a long time.
Somewhere along the line, I got
caught up in legalism. I could see
justice, but mercy? When I came
back to school, I did not realize
what a hold legalism had on me.
I didn't realize its hold until this
fall—a full year and a half since
I came back to school. I knew
something was wrong somewhere
but how could it have been with
me—after all, I was praying about
Well, don't start praying that
someone else's eyes will be opened
unless you are ready to have yours
opened, too. Don't pray that some-one
else will understand unless
you are willing to understand, too.
You may get turned inside out and
upside down. You may stop talking
to people about nothing and start
to talk about Jesus.. You may see
things differently, or more clearly.
You may see the Spirit bring peo-ple
to their knees in your dorm.
You may even get the Spirit of
the Lord.
Wow and amen.
Betty Ann Eckstrom '71
Bethel students pay 83 per cent
of the operating costs of the col-lege
through student fees. Bethel
students are supposed to be grow-ing
into mature men and women
in Christ. Bethel students are faced
with meaningfully relating their
Christianity to an increasingly
complex and volatile world. Bethel
men and women should be capable
of determining for themselves
what kind of lives they want to
lead, without being coerced to act
in a certain manner.
I maintain that Bethel students,
faculty, and administration should
start doing some serious hard
thinking about what a "Christian
life-style" truly is, then reformu-late
some general standards which
would be constantly open to re-vision.
It is a well-known fact by
students that if Bethel consistently
applied its current rules concern-ing
"no drinking, no smoking, no
dancing, no card-playing, no movie
state of affairs. They are becoming
extremely vehement in their ac-cusations
of discriminatory proce-dures.
If they had not been fore-warned
of existing campus condi-tions,
then their gripes are legiti-mate
and should be dealt with ac-cordingly.
But, on the other hand, if they
knowingly entered this sacred in-stitution
with predetermined pri-orities
and powerful ideas of
change contrary to Bethel's stan-dards,
some measures need to be
explained and enforced by the
proper authorities.
Some black students who are re-ceiving
much from Bethel have
been screaming "discrimination"
because they have not been allow-ed
to participate in varsity athlet-ics.
After checking into these spe-cifics
more carefully the fact of
the matter reveals some interest-ing
conclusions. The responses, re-actions,
and rebellions are emphat-ically
unfounded. According to ex-isting
procedures students are not
allowed to participate on varsity
teams if they: 1) have not complet-ed
registration 2) are transfer stu-dents
(one semester ineligibility)
3) have insufficient grade point
average 4) do not have a high
school diploma or its equivalent,
such as the G.E.D. test.
These are some of the specifics
to consider when an argument
arise between factions. The special
students (according to the Regis-trat)
should not be given prefer-ential
treatment any longer. Since
they have been asked to comply
to most of the existing norms of
Bethel College that are required
of others students, let's try to en-force
or explain these to every-one.
Some confusion could easily
be alleviated.
Since no legitimate "beef" is in
existence, let's try to face up to
our responsibilities of today that
others have managed to function
under. If anyone does not like the
current system and cannot im-prove
or exist under its present
structure, he should leave this in-stitution
to those who wish to keep
it intact by calmly dismissing him-self.
Doug Warring
Class of '71
attendance" there wouldn't be
enough of a student body left to
cover the operating costs of the
school, and Bethel would fold up.
So why not have some under-standable
and reasonable guide-lines
set up by the students on
what their conception of a Chris-tian
life-style is? Perhaps a stu-dent
body convention could be
called to discuss the matter and
come up with some kind of work-able
proposal that the students,
faculty, and administration could
vote on.
Or, a survey could be done re-garding
present student attitudes
and opinions on these matters. Stu-dents
could talk to each other, ex-press
individual or collective opin-ions
in the Clarion, or start circul-ating
petitions. There are any num-ber
of options for keeping discus-sion
going in this area.
Think about it. The life you
save may be your own.
This Saturday night, October
3rd, WBCS will begin its 1970-71
broadcast season with the presen-tation
of the widely acclaimed "To-night
Show". The show begins at
8 sharp in the fieldhouse and
stars Johnny Carson, with Ed Mc-
Melon, Doc Severson and the Band,
and a wide array of comedic and
musical entertainers. This show is
a sequel to the highly successful
"Tonight Show" of last spring.
When asked about the prospects
for a WBCS radio this year, Mark
Kingsbeck, general manager, re-plied,
"Shut up, I'm busy wiring!"
You might do well to note that
every year, this time of year, when
the rest of you boys are out hustl-ing
and doing other assorted good-ies,
Mr. Kingsbeck is holed up in
the basement wiring.
Beginning October 5th at 6 p.m.
WBCS radio will 'begin its regular
broadcasting season with the week-day
hours of 6 p.m. to 12 p.m.
Escape from legalism;
get the spirit of the Lord
Letters to the editor do not
necessarily reflect the
opinion of the CLARION staff.
Bethel life style needs re-evaluation
WBCS is panning many innova-tions
this year which will include
live broadcasts of away basketball
games, remote broadcasts from the
coffee shop of both musical and
talk shows, several editions of "The
Dating Game", and much more.
WBCS will not only be beginning
a new season, but it will be start-ing
out in a newly remodeled stu-dio.
It's all one room this year.
According to Kingsbeck, "Things
got a little crowded last year with
all our partitions. There wasn't
room for more than two or three
persons at a time in the studio .. .
not only that but the ventilation
system was faulty. This year we
want to try something new. With
our large open studio we're wel-coming
students to stop down and
rap with us any time—even while
we're on the air." I might add that
he's even considering installing a
coffee pot.
If you need .a friendly sorta person to catch all thoughs
little problems only you could make seem so big. If you're
really down tonight or any night and want a voice of encour-agement
to pull ya through the hard times, just feel free to
call our number and we'll be glad to help in any way possible.
Ask for Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John
Contact Lenses
272 Lowry Medical Arts
St. Paul, Minn. 55102
Dr. Vern Lewis offers his counseling services to the com-munity's
problems in interpersonal conflicts.
Photo by Bob Miko
John Goodman, Campus Coordinator in his coffeeshop office.
Calendars, committees, tickets
Goodman fills position
of Campus Coordinator
for its trial year
Photo by Bob Miko
Bethel's coffeeshop line . . .
By John Lundgren
Bethel students have a profes-sional
counselor who is available
to , help them work out their per-sonal
problems. Dr. Vern Lewis,
chairman of the psychology de-partment,
is also our new counsel-or.
Dr. Lewis feels his ministry at
Bethel is to develop, encourage,
and support the students, especi-ally
in the areas of their personal
needs. He does not feel his role
should be as much that of a spir-itual
leader or academic counselor,
because these areas are dealt with
by the Campus Pastor and the
Dean's Office. But, he feels his role
is to help the students in the more
general problem areas such as per-sonal
and interpersonal conflicts.
Many students are apprehensive
about seeing a counselor. They
think that this means they are a
"mental case" or at least "unspir-itual."
These feelings, says Dr.
Lewis, "keep many people from ad-mitting
and solving problems that
can really be helped." The confid-ence
and friendship of a counselor
along with professional privacy is
an opportunity that the Bethel
community should take advantage
Dr. Lewis' office is in the psychol-ogy
house, just south of the tennis
courts. His office hours are irreg-ular,
but anyone wanting to make
an appointment with him may sign
the sheet on his office door or call
Extension 201.
Dr. Lewis has an impressive
pedigree. He is a member of the
North American Counsel of Japan
Evangelistic Band and the Ameri-can
Psychological Association. He
is licensed by the State of Califor-nia
as a marriage, child, and adol-escent
counselor. He received his
Doctor of Philosophy degree from
Clarement Graduate School in edu-cational
psychology, specializing in
child and adolescent psychology,
counseling, personality and statist-ics.
Before coming to 'Bethel, he
was chairman of the psychology
department of Biola College.
Dr. Lewis is the head of an ac-tive
family. His daughter, Trudi,
attends White Bear Lake High
School. His wife, Vergene, is Re-gional
Director of Bible Studies
Fellowship and his son, Todd, is
President of the Biola Student
Body at Biola College in Califor-nia.
By Sharon Swanson
Have you been enjoying the
small school calendar you received
in your P.O. a few weeks ago?
Well, you have John Goodman to
thank; Bethel's new Campus Co-ordinator.
You didn't know Bethel had a
Campus Coordinator? That's be-cause
it's a new position this year.
John, a senior with a full load of
credits, has been hired jointly by
the Student Services Office and
the Student Senate and receives
duties from both.
John's major responsibilities are:
1) to prevent conflicts in organ-izing
dates and activities as shown
on the master calendar. All sugges-tions
for campus related activities
must now go through John's office.
A master calendar will be display-ed
in the coffee shop and will con-tain
dates (in red ink) which have
been added since the printing of
the individual calendars.
2) to act as general chairman to
the Social, Cultural, Athletic and
Publicity Committees on campus. .
According to John, members are
still needed for each of these com-mittees
and interested students
should contact him through P.O.
3) to operate a general informa-tion
center for all students. This
center and John's office are locat-ed
right in the middle of the cof-fee
shop. John will try to answer
any questions having to do with
Bethel life (where to get what
done) or life around the Twin Cit-ies.
As a step toward this goal
John has made arrangements with
Daytons to allow Bethel students
to purchase tickets for all Twill
Cities functions at John's office.
4) to aid in the promotion of
inter-campus activities. John is al-ready
working on an exchange pro-gram
which has been named
SWAP. The idea is to exchange
14 students with two other cam-puses
for a week. The students
would exchange meal tickets,
rooms and classes, providing them
with an all-round view of another
campus. This may result in ideas
and suggestions to improve Bethel,
or allow students to make sugges-tions
to the other colleges.
This is a trial year for the posi-tion
of Campus Co-ordinator, yet .
John feels the office will grow in
its importance. When the campus
moves to Arden Hills, the task of
keeping a workable unity will be
a tremendous one!
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Biola professor joins Bethel faculty
as department head, counselor
for interpersonal conflicts
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debaters and Forensics team prepare Getting there by ferryboat
for interscholastic competition Excerpts from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and
An Antique Drum by Thomas Howard
By Dave Greener
The leaves aren't falling; they're
being read. The end of the sea-son
isn't approaching; but a be-ginning
is near. It is fall again
and with it comes the beginning
of interscholastic competition for
Bethel's debate team.
Local debate hopefuls are search-ing
through book-leaves. periodi-cals,
and pamphlets gleaning "evi-dence"
for this season's debate
topic, "Resolved: That the Federal
Government Should Adopt a Pro-gram
of Compulsory Wage and
Price Controls."
"The kids are real willing to
work," says Bethel's new debate
coach and forensics teacher, Marg
Erickson. "They're excited to go
out," she adds, and "I think we
have winning material this year—
both in debate and in other foren-sics."
The first place where Bethel de-baters
will go "out" to is the
Whitewater (Wisconsin) Tourna-ment
scheduled for this weekend.
Nearly everyone on the squad is
debating in this initial tournament.
A pair of South Dakotans, fresh-men
Debbie Omanson and Allie Jo
Moore, will represent Bethel for
the affirmative issues and junior
Julie Palen and freshman Dan Nel-son
will handle the negative argu-ments
as Bethel's foursome in the
"experienced" division.
Sophomore Carol Shimmin and
transfer junior John Ecklund will
be the affirmative pair teamed
with a rotation of sophomore Al
Photo by Bob Miko
John Ecklund, Dan Nelson, Al Cooper, Carol Shimmin, Allie
Jo Moore and 'Coach' Marg Erickson are among the debating
hopefuls this season.
tion of interpretation) and received
high ratings in all speech events.
The 1970 Bethel graduate is mar-ried
to Wayne Erickson, of Bethel's
food service, and in addition to
having their own son, David, they
have been houseparents of Bethel's
Falcon Manor for several years.
Following the Whitewater Tour-nament,
Bethel debaters will jour-ney
to Sioux Falls October 9 and
10. Subsequent tournaments will
include those at Mankato State Col-lege,
Bradley University (in Illi-nois),
and the four Twin City Tour-naments
(Wednesday afternoon
tournaments at local colleges).
As the debate season gets under-way,
the forensics season also ap-proaches.
If other Bethel students
are interested in participating in
debate or forensics or both they
may contact Mrs. Erickson (P. 0.
43), other Bethel speech teachers
or debate team members.
(An Antique Drum, p. 75)
Getting there is a minus quantity ordinarily; it is only time subtract-ed
from what we might otherwise be doing if we could flit from here
to there instantly. If we do anything at all with the trip, we probably
try to fill in the interval by doing something other than traveling: going
to the dining car for coffee, or reading the morning paper, or playing
"I'm thinking of something red" with the children. The trip itself .. .
is only a functional thing, and exists only between this and that—between
say, breakfast and the city. But if we scrutinize our rushed assumptions
implacably enough, it appears that everything we do is "only" functional,
and that we are entangled in a mass of threads that are being drawn not
into a pattern, but into a knot that will throttle us one fine day.
(Siddhartha, p. 86)
I am only a ferryman and it is my task to take people across this
river. I have taken thousands of people across and to all of them my
river has been nothing but a hindrance on their journey. They have
traveled for money and business, to weddings and on pilgrimages; the
river has been in their way and the ferryman was there to take them
quickly across the obstacle. However, amongst the thousands there have
been a few, four or five, to whom the river was not an obstacle. They
have heard its voice and listened to it, and the river has become holy to
them as it has to me.
((An Antique Drum, p. 60)
The whole thing is the "real stuff," (of life) and the irony is that,
unless we take ourselves by the scruff of the neck and make ourselves
reflect upon it, we allow it to tumble past us helter-skelter and never
grasp any of it as real. Here, parenthetically, is one of the losses sus-tained
in growing up: it is in the nature of childhood to live fully in the
moment, savoring the warmth of the sand, the dancing of the dust in
the sunbeam, or the new taste of raspberries, without emasculating the
sensation by worrying over what has just occurred or what is about to
(Siddhartha, p. 32)
He looked around him as if seeing the world for the first time. The
world was beautiful, strange, and mysterious. Here was blue, here was
yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beau-tiful,
all mysterious and enchanting, and in the midst of it, he, Sidd-hartha,
the awakened one, on the way to himself. All this, all this yellow
and blue, river and wood, passed for the first time across Siddhartha's
eyes. . . . Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things,
they were in them, all of them.
"Snoopy" Cooper and freshmen
Rob Robinson and Dave Peterson
as negative speakers for a Bethel
entrant in the "novice" classifica-tion.
(One more team member,
freshman Paul Loth, is not attend-ing
this first tournament.)
As for Bethel's new coach, Marg
Erickson, this and subsequent tour-naments
will find her on the other
side of the speaker's rostrum. Mrs.
Erickson was a Bethel debater for
two years herself, participating in
other forensic activities for Bethel
as well. Effectively, too, it might
be added—while in college at one
time or another she placed in the
finals of every speech form (ex-temporaneous
speaking, rhetoric-al
c. riticism, etc., with the excep-
Page 6 the CLARION
Friday, October 2, 1970
Soccer team loses 3-0; Tattameetaea
Joe Goff battles a Pillsbury
player for the ball.
By Ray Smith
The Soccer team with two big
games this past week have now
boosted their season record to 3
wins and 1 loss.
The loss came last Saturday as
Carlton shut-out the Royals 3-0.
The teams seemed to be even all
through the game until the last
15 minutes when Carlton finally
took control and scored all 3 goals.
However, on Tuesday the Royals
bounced back to put down the
Pillsbury College Comets by a
score of 2-1. Bethel was in control
most of the time but just couldn't
seem to put the ball in the net.
In fact, only after Pillsbury had
scored late in the game could
Bethel muster up enough deter-mination
to start working like a
Finally Pete Wicklund, who leads
the team in scoring, caught a pass
from the center and drove in a
shot to tie the game. Minutes later
Dan Anderson scored a penalty
kick to lead the team to victory.
In general the team is not pleas-ed
with its recent performances
and Captain Joel Goff intends to
work the team over this week in
expectation of Saturday's impor-tant
game against the fine team
from Trinity College. The game
will begin at 10:30 at the home
field on Larpenteur Avenue.
Close games and low scores told
the story of Intramural football on
Saturday, September 26.
Off Campus I remained the team
to beat with its third straight shut-out
of the season, defeating Second
New 6-0. Jim Delich scored the
only touchdown of the game with
an intercepted pass.
Third New also remained tied
for the lead with a 1-0 forfeit vic-tory
over cellar-dweller Pit.
Third Old scored its first touch-down
of the season in defeating
unorganized New Dorm 6-0. Craig
Anderson made a sensational
game-saving interception in the
last quarter of the game to stop
a New Dorm drive near the goal
A dropped extra-point pass at-tempt
with no time remaining en-abled
Off Campus II to hold on to
a 13-12 victory over Second Old.
Faculty won its first game by
coming from behind to beat First
Floor in overtime, 7-6.
Standings W L
1. Off Campus I 3 0
2. Third New 3 0
3. Third Old 2 1
4. Off Campus II 2 1
5. First Floor 1 2
6. Second New 1 2
7. Second Old 1 2
8. New Dorm 1 2
9. Faculty 1 2
10. Pit 0 3
Harriers lose
A young, inexperienced Bethel
cross-country team lost to Bemidji
and UMD at Como Park Satur-day.
The score was Bemidji 22,
UMD 39, and Bethel 82. Phil James
led the Royals, followed by Dan
Brodin, Roger Deneen, Greg Speck,
and Dave Greener. Besides nurs-ing
several knee inujries, many of
the guys have been training for
just one week, so the team was
not up to its full potential.
The next meet will be against
St. Thomas at St. Thomas, Satur-day
at 11 A.M.
Royals rest after loss to Northland;
face Concordia in next encounter
Bethel rolled up 275 total yards
to Northland's 99, but on the score-board,
the Royals came out on the
short end of a 21-0 count. The
Lumberjack defense, which was un-able
to contain Bethel until they
had to, stiffened inside their own
20. That factor combined with faul-ty
backfield execution prevented
numerous Royal scoring threats.
The bright spot on offense was
the hard running of fullback Steve
Payne, who once again led the run-ning
attack. With the 192 yards
gained through the air, the total
offensive effort gave every indica-tion
that the Royals would win the
game. But a 98-yard punt return,
and some key interceptions by
Northland, built a lead for the
Lumberjacks, and prevented Beth-el
from scoring.
Bethel has an open date this
weekend, followed by a game
against Concordia of St. Paul the
following week.
victorious over Comets
Dean Anderson scores on a penalty against Pillsbury.
Royal player runs through Northland defense.
The Hot Corner
By Rich Zaderaka
The best team does NOT always win. Bethel outran, outpassed, and
outplayed Northland last week and has nothing to show for it but anoth-er
loss. No excuses need to be made, Bethel could have and probably
should have won. But there's no need to look back on that game because
it can't be played over. Onward and forward; the Royals must march on.
No one believed me when I said that the Cubs wouldn't win a pen-nant
until they canned Leo Durocher. The Lip has already been rehired
for 1971, which means that Cub fans will have to wait at least one more
One warm fall afternoon a little boy was begging his grandfather
to play football with him.
"But I don't know anything about football," protested the old man.
"You must know something about it," replied the youngster. "Daddy
said we would get a new car after you kicked off."
What does Leo Cardenas have in common with Babe Ruth, Mickey
Mantle, Willie Mays, Frank Howard, Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey?
Each one has struck out over 800 times in his big league career. What
does Leo not have in common with those sluggers? He hasn't half as
many home runs as any big league player who ever struck out 800 times.
Believe it or not . . . I'm pulling for the Twins in the playoffs.
The Vikings defense has managed to carry their insipid offense to
victory in the first two games. 'But their offensive line better be tough
by the time Detroit blows into town, or they'll be calling long distance
for Joe Kapp before halftime. So far the Minnesota offense has had
about as much thrust as a bicycle rider in quicksand.
Last week I survived some upsets and managed 7 right, 3 wrong,
and 1 tie. This week my crystal ball shows:
Phil James ... top Royal harrier
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