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The extracurricular side of events also suffers, and this leads directly into our own little department of the Black and Red. When the staff elections rolled around, the number of applications that finally drifted in after a postponed deadline was but a sorry fraction of the number of people who had originally been invited to try out for a staff position. Although this has been a plaguing and discouraging problem for the past several years, the question remains, why does it have to continue this way?

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T 7dlume 7Ts staff safely maintained the V literary standards of the Black and Red and furnished their successors with a num ber of challenges to keep them humble. Not satisfied with mere literary quality, they polled the students in the hope of making the publication more relevant. While at present it is comforting to know that “not failure, but low aim is crime,” we the staff Before any steps can possibly be taken of Volume 72 will endeavor to “keep the to remedy the situation, it would perhaps literary faith” and yet hold your interest. be best to try and unearth the direct causes We shall attempt to assemble material for it, if there are any. An attitude of in which lends itself especially to collegiate difference toward taking part in any school consideration. These subjects should prove activity, whether it be writing for the Black of interest to the general reader and par and Red, trying out for a Forum play or ticularly to our fellow students. With this just attending a football game, is almost purpose in mind and no offense intended, without exception due to a lack of that ma we present our first lead article. Herb gic elixir of success, school spirit. Excep Prahl’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.” “Playboy tions are granted to those who do not pos Mystique" and i article on turtlenecks sess certain talents necessary for some ac could also pi'i;• . ’ resting for today’s col tivities, but what special talent is needed legiate, if on! use of the world around to cheer for the football or basketball team, him. The fir a projected series of in- or what skills are required to usher for a • broaden the reader’s concert? Certainly we are not restricted to terviews di> horizons is tddy Piich, possibly the this campus every minute of the day, but biggest nam« ' /:l at the moment. hopefully the amount of time that we do While we •••■ • HOI conduct a poll of our put into off-campus “fun and jollies” and off-campus w it is not because we do work will not conflict too seriously with not value tli inions. We can appeal paying back our debt to the school. to them for r actions to our efforts. It’s up to the student body to retain the A letters section in the Black & Red could school spirit, for that is preserving the very prove very stimulating with your co-oper essence of the school itself, and this is pos ation. To set immediate precedent for such a column we include the editorial com sible only if each individual puts in his ful ments appended to “Battle for the Bods” lest and best effort. (December, 1967, pg. 114) reprinted in the Those people that did try out for the January issue of the Journal of the Wis Black and Red are to be commended for consin Chiropractic Association. They con their worthwhile efforts. If some of them sidered us worthy of comment and we trust did not get on the staff, they are reminded that this issue and those that follow will that outside contributions are always wel be no less worthy of your response. DuE come. Here a word might also be mention ed to those who think it necessary, because T"1 he lack of enthusiasm for “sticking to of the bonds of censorship, to have a “pri the books” has certainly been no less vate” publication as an outlet for “creative pronounced this spring than it has any writings” or personal opinions. The Black other year. For most of us the lure of the and Red is our official student publication, warm sunshine is admittedly much strong read by a great deal of people in the gener er than the despotic demands of a term pa al public, and therefore we print material per which is falling due, but we usually find that is acceptable to the public. It is hoped ourselves groping for a more justifiable ex that these “creative writers” will reserve cuse when the time comes to account for some of their more refined talents to direct j. z. their opinions to a real public. the belated end product. l

The Playboy Mystique "For the average American male, the phrase PLAYBOY CLUB has a somewhat mystical quality. It connotes a varie ty of things to different people: sex, amuse ment, a sign of material success, a feeling of “having arrived” socially, and so on. But in any event, to many, whatever their rea sons may be, the Club’s famed key (which is now a credit card) is something sought after and desired. Make no mistake about it, the sincere Christian is also often tempted by the seem ingly unique and exciting world that lies behind the door which a Playboy key promi ses to open. But once one has placed the key in the lock and has turned the handle of that door, what actually does lie ahead for him in the wondrous world of buxom bunnies? Upon entering a club, one is immedi ately struck by the glamour and luxury of the surroundings. The carpets are plush and full. The paintings which one sees on many of the walls are all originals and gen erally quite good. The furniture — from the bar stools in the Bunny Hutch to the cush ions on the intimate, semi-private booths in the VIP dining room — is very comfortabe and possesses a marked air of elegance. In fact, the entire decor of the club is of the utmost taste and distinction. The famed “bunnies” of the clubs are numerous and quite attractive. The visitor can’t help noticing them, for they’re every where; they are the one thing that has real ly given the Playboy Club its unique reputa tion. A bunny greets you at the door to check your membership, another takes your coat, still others take your order for drinks or a meal in any one of the many bars or dining rooms of the club. The girls are all very good looking, and their attire, though often made much of, can not really be said to be immoral or indecent when compared to the rest of today’s fashion. One finds no topless waitresses at a Playboy Club, and in this day and age one sees much more of the human anatomy by merely taking a brief stroll along any one of our public beaches on a hot day during the summer. To the truly neutral observer, this magi cal mystery tour, which Playboy Interna tional seems to be offering, is soon exposed

for what it really is, and the atmosphere that one finds at any of the clubs can best be expressed by the simple English word “frustration.” Once settled inside the hal lowed halls of a Playboy Club, after the smoke has cleared, one’s first impression of the place is quickly shattered, and this feeling of utter frustration can be the only way to describe adequately how one is af fected by the new environment after he has taken off his rose-colored glasses. Here is a varied collection of fellow hu man beings, all working desperately to have fun, to enjoy life, to find a meaning in their existence, in short, to “live.” In their fer vent desire to get the most out of life, they miss its very essence. What they find, however, is only more frustration. The world they see before them is full of splendor and beauty. But they must quickly realize, if they have only the least bit of sense, that what they Mid here is not reality. It can only serve a tem porary diversion for a few hours i n their routine. One must still go back a to the real world, a world in which ever. aeal is not a ten-course gourmet extravay. nza and every girl is not a ravishing 20-\ old equipped with a pair of “38s.” Even the sex angle, on which, dayboy has built its fame, becomes only frustra ting facade at its clubs. True, as was stat ed, there are a bountiful number of well endowed bunnies around each club — but only for show. A “look, but don’t touch” policy is strictly maintained. In fact, it would be considered extremely poor taste and bad manners if anyone made a pass at one of the girls. Even if someone did want to ignore this taboo, he soon would find him self “shot down,” for the bunnies are not allowed to date any of the clientele. If they do, the penalty is quite severe: immediate release from their contract. Consequently, far from being the pro mised nirvana, as the Playboy Clubs are usually considered, one finds no real satis faction here — only disillusionment. One leaves a club with the definite feeling that the club no longer has any mystique. Rath er, it has only been a playboy’s mistake. T. Z. 2

soldier problem. They assumed the role that Yeats had outlined earlier: The best lack conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. “The Second Coming” With that in mind, they attacked the Establishment with an approach that left the usually mildly resistant at a loss for words. The soldier’s valor in battle no lon ger took precedence as it once did, but rath er it was consigned to the hinterland of a forgotten age (a Golden Age?). Surely, they began with an ominous subdued tone, for as we read in Stephen Spender’s “Two Armies:” Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded. These have their leave; while new battalions wait On time at last to bring them violent peace. Like the author’s of their day, they be gan a “rationalization of pessimism” (Os wald Spengler’s own) and rejected any form of totalitarianism. They still maintained a collective approach to war and were not so much concerned with the individual sol dier and his hurt. Questions were raised and the balance of Jove went swinging. Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask. Was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young, and so silly Lying under the olive trees, 0 world, 0 death? Spender, “Ultima Ratio Regum” Spender apparently found the balance wanting for justice. For he already forsook the ancient notion of pietas. He regarded man (no longer collective — men) as young, silly, uncertain, perhaps even unaware. There is only one realization, says Spender: Nipples of bullets, precipices, Ropes, knives, all Now would seem gentle As the far-away kisses Of her these times remove . . . For he is no Orpheus, She no Eurydice. She has truly packed and gone To live with someone Else, in upstairs of the sun. “No Orpheus, No Eurydice” Man and love and separation are a un ion more often than not disrupted by the Establishment. The coward’s lack of duty to the Establishment alienates him from society, causing him to withdraw to the safety of himself. There All visions in one instant Changed to this fixed continual present Under the olive trees. There’s no excuse here for excuse.

POETRY AND THE SOLDIER They came to us in 1944 wearing battle fatigues and long rain coats with a poem called “The Coward,” neither their last attempt, nor their first hit. They came to us from Barcelona, a shabby, yet once beautiful metropolis of northern Spain, the pride of a movement called the “loyalists.” They came to us from the School of Hard Knocks. They came to us with indifferent publicity organizations and genteel publish ers for their defense. They were exploited yet they survived because they were good, and for no other reason. Today we have Robert Bly, winner of the 1968 National Book Award (one of six) for The Light Around the Body (a book of poems), who upon presentation of his $1,000 prize \ dropped all courtesies and warned ncrica's plight. Thereup on he turn < 'is check over to Murray Kempton’s • bo represents a draft resistance giv v v e have Raymond Roseberhart. These poets of liep and Ri diversified lot, but one with today are no : war — the war in Viet their mating Nam. Comr.: o sharply with the roman tic, optimistic poets that followed the end of the Great War, these poets are among the young of post-45 who champion the debunking approach to literature in general and poetry in particular. Already I sense an impasse. You say, “This modern poetry is not for me. It makes no sense.” But I say, “Stick with me a little longer.” I hope to show that these poets represent a part of the bible of poetry (not the babel of poetry). It reminds me of the story about a royal figure dressed in the finest ermine, who, on being presented to his court, leaned forward to his aide and said, “You know, all I wear under this is my underwear.” Here is the laundry of three decades of war poetry briefly exam ined. The Spanish Civil War (1937-1939) brought W. H. Auden to exclaim that “the poets (are) exploding like bombs” (“Spain 1937”). After he had raised his alpenstock, C. Day Lewis and Stephen Spender also tackled the grim and mountainous war3

Following a restless peaceful period, circumstances led to the United States’ en try into Viet Nam. The soldier’s question able presence there is not treated lightly by today’s poets. There seems to be an aban donment of the whole dogma of progress with an adoption and/or reversion to the idea that man’s destiny is one of greatness and misery: greatness in his disregard for death and in his decision to act in behalf of a common ideal, misery in the humili ating discovery of his final solitude and self-centeredness (courtesy of Malraux Man's Fate). If sometimes the common ideal is rather remote, it should not dismay us. This remoteness, too, has a way of magni fying and exemplifying the soldier’s final solitude and self-centeredness. Consider E. E. Cummings’ “i sing of Olaf:’’ i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled a( war: a conscientious object-or . . . For this fire and frankness Cummings tells

Nothing can count but love to pour Out its useless comfort here. To populate his loneliness And to bring his ghost release Love and pity dare not cease For a lifetime, at the least. Spender, “The Coward” Into World War II the poets tumbled, but the individual approach to the problem remained. Along with Seldon Rodman and Richard Eberhart and their anthology, War and the Poet, Karl Shapiro and Dylan Tho mas raised their voices. Many poets, like Shapiro, actively served in the war and wrote freely. Some, like Thomas, could not serve actively, yet they could write with authority as well. Wrote Thomas: When you come to talk about one’s duty as a writer, then one can only say that his duty is to write. If to undergo contemporary reality to its most extreme is to join in a war . . . against people you do not know, and probably to be killed or maimed, then one can only say flippantly that the best poems about death were always written when the poets were alive, that Lorca didn’t have to be gored be fore writing a bullsong, that for a writer to undergo the utmost reality of poverty is for him to starve to death, and therefore to be, as a writer, useless. . . . The matey folk-warmth of the trenches can only make for hysterical friendships, do or-die companionships, the joking desperate homosexual propinquity of those about to die: the joy of living and dying with a Saturday football crowd on an exploding ground. Four Absentees Indeed ,Thomas’ “Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” most clearly indicates his sensitivity to war and its individual destruction. He raised a new “intellectual and abstract” standard vali antly taken up and advanced by Eberhart. In “Johnny Dare: The Helldiver Gunner” Eberhart cryptically says of Johnny Dare: And his parachute harness was Thrown back as over a chair. Casually, rather gallantly, Deliberately and debonair. It is unfortunate that Spender at the end of World War II lapsed into the old collective romantic musing that should have been forgotten. In “The War God” he queries: Why cannot the one good Benevolent feasible Final dove, descend? Auden’s response is just as regretful: We envy streams and houses that are sure: But we are articled to error; we Were never nude and calm like the great door, And never will be perfect like the fountains; We live in freedom by necessity, A mountain people dwelling among mountains. “In Time of War”

our president, being of which assertions duly notified threw the............................. into a dungeon, where he died Christ (of His mercy infinite) i pray to see; and Olaf, too preponderatingly because unless statistics lie he was more brave than me; more blond ■ ,,n you. id (inWhat of it? Well, it could be deed, I’m saying it) that the soldiers atti tude reflected by the poet has moved from 1) collective hopeless submission to 2) in dividual uncertainty to 3) defiant decision to 4) reversion to classic simplicity. Of this reversion Roseliep in “Near Saigon” says: He hacks his way into light, bellyflops in the clearing, counts forest furniture an article of faith, free as breath, as birds hullabalooing, his angel withdrawing for a few quick winks and perhaps a drink. He cuts a sudden whistle from a young bamboo, pits it in his mouth and makes it sing softly. Pan comes gladfooted from a blue rose bush, darts up a leafy ladder, Daphne drops, and all the forest rains grenade mortar rain on a boy chasing butterfly light. E. R. 4

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proven correct in all wars since. Why, you’ve all seen pictures of GIs lighting cigarettes on smoking gunbarrels. They sure didn’t have girls to keep them go ing. The great Frenchman Moliere said, “Tobacco is the passion of honest men, and he who lives without it is not worthy of living.” Smoking is universal. A1: (lighting a cigarette and contemplating it) Malarky! Smoking is a human mala dy. Most smokers, including myself, don’t like it. The way every neophyte chokes through his first pack of cigarettes is like the way we blundered into Viet Nam. He knows an incriminating amount of facts, people tell him not to, there are signs up saying “CAUTION; This Might Not Be the Best Thing for You,” and yet what does he do but pick up that little pack, strip it of its wrapper and begin consum ing the contents? Mr. P: No, go ahead and smoke. All that has been suggested to date is that smok ing over a long period of time may be injurious to the health of a relatively small percentage of smokers. Al: You’re out to make money. I and the FTC with its new regulations are really hitting you in the pocketbook. Mr. P: What if a group claims automobiles are unsafe, and candy and soda rot your teeth? I suppose these commodities should not be advertised either? Al: Profits versus public health — I sup pose you’re in favor of stepping up the pace of our lives, too; making us more nervous and dependent on your little money-makers. Mr. P: What you are accusing me of is sell ing something that people want, and I refuse to be condemned for it. Dr. No: Mr. Pine, your ambivalence is wellfounded. (Reading from a little book) “The risk of death — from all causes — for male smokers is 70% higher than for non-smoking males.” (Looks up.) Quit smoking, and the amazing recuperative powers of your bodies will show up. Your deteriorating lung tissue will repair it self. But keep on, and most of the harm ful effects will compound themselves with time. And furthermore, Mr. Peacepipe, not all great men have looked at

Al: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My guests this evening are Dr. No Smok ing, head of the American Bronchitis So ciety and Mr. John Peacepipe, President of the Calumet Tobacco Co. and, as you probably have guessed, the topic is smok ing. Mr. Peacepipe will be discussing his new book, Tobacco is Good. Dr. No will likewise be drawing heavily from his book, Tobacco is Bad. Let’s begin by ask ing Mr. Peacepipe for a brief resume of tobacco’s role in American life. Mr. P.: Thank you, Al, for giving me this opportunity to tell the true story of to bacco, the plant upon which the U. S. was founded. You know, if it hadn’t been for those enterprising colonists who learned from the Indians instead of steal ing from them, Jamestown would have died. But thanks to John Rolfe, who planted a crop of large-leaved Spanish tobacco , • iana tobaccum) and ship ped some V egland in 1613, James town w;i.s ■.:* to get on its feet. Two years late • nia was supplying Lon don with . pound of tobacco for ev ery tweir?plied by the Spanish; by 1619 eqi • ' -urnes of Spanish and Vir ginian toba*.: v went to London; and in 1620 Virgin a exports doubled the 1619 quantity. Al: (his words filtering through a cloud of smoke) Wait a minute, sir. I’ve done a little research, too. Why didn’t you go back a little further to Columbus? He threw Indian presents of tobacco away, considering it a vile weed smoked only by heathen. Only common seamen bor ed with sea life took up smoking those cancer sticks. (He disgustedly butts his cigarette. They even thought smoking had medicinal value. Dr. No: Poor fellows, they didn’t know the things were lethal. Mr. P.: Poor nothing! Great and wealthy men in our early history — Washington, Jefferson, Harrison — loved and grew their own tobacco. Robert Morris, a pa tron of the Revolution, was a great to bacco grower. Washington, in the mid dle of the war, said, “If you can’t send money, send tobacco.” His evaluation of tobacco as a sustainer of morale has been 5

tobacco through a rose window. King Mr. P: Kindly stop including me and many of my friends in that unscruplous group James I in 1604 said smoking was a whose practice you have just described. “custom Lothesome to the Eye, hateful “The tobacco industry” is not some fear to the Nose, harmfulle to the Braine, some, callous machine concerned only dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black with making money. Our industry, like stinking fumes thereof, neerest resemb any other industry, is composed of hu ling the horrible Stigian smoke of the man beings who are just as concerned pit that is bottomlesse.” about the well-being of their fellow men Mr. P: Entirely unproven. That Commit as anyone else. Oh, this is ridiculous! tee of the Surgeon General merely re Dr. No: If you smoke, you are committing hashed some old evidence; they didn’t sui. . . the carpet, Mr. Pine, you’ve set do any original work. Besides, they work the carpet on fire. ed only with non-filtered cigarettes. Al: Somone call the fire department! La Al: But isn’t it also true that you use cheap dies, gentlemen, I’m afraid I’m going to er, stronger tobacco in your filter cigar have to ask you all to evacuate the studio. ettes, and therefore as I sit here inhaling Mr. P: Well, at least it put an end to this this filtered smoke, as much tar and insignificant aspect of smoking. I wish things are lodging in my lungs as if I I could continue my discussion of tobacwere smoking a straight? T. IIco’s. . . CLANG! CLANG!

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Deadly Si •is Junior Herb PrahVs lead article for the lusty month of May HPhe Thirteenth Century was a time -L of great human advancement. Scholas ticism was making a tremendous surge in to prominence. It was as a result of this movement that a lasting philosophical cat egorization of the Christian beliefs regard ing sin appeared. Imagine for a moment the roly-poly monk, stuffing himself with food at the end of a period of fasting. Daily problems such as this were the targets of several scholars, notably Thomas Aquinas. By general consensus the major evils of men fell into a group which has come to be known as The Seven Deadly Sins. Why were seven chosen? It should be mentioned that there are some who mention eight, but they are a minority. Apparently the number seven had special significance for medieval scholars, as evidenced by a like number of virtues and sacraments. We,

too, speak of seven as a lucky number. The ominous distinction of being “deadly" is much easier to pinpoint. These faults should not be considered more serious in degree than any other, for the basic value of every sin is a constant before God. The reference is rather to their inherent power of generating other sins. They are like the spark which, unless put out, starts more and larger fires more dangerous than itself. They are also referred to as the “capital” sins, and under them are the Catholic di visions of mortal and venial sin. Heroes and villains alike have been guilty of them through the years in the writings of innum erable authors. A prominent example that should be familiar to many of us is Dr. Faustus’ confrontation with these seven sins in Marlowe’s famous work of the same name. These sins are applicable to our pre6

ger. Our many, varied and complex sys tems and methods of communication have made possible a massive spreading of opin ions. The misuse of these new methods by story-hungry journalists and militant agi tators has not only made widespread the anger of a few, but has generated strife in countless thousands as well. The fistfight, duel and other traditional outlets for anger may have been more brutal, but their effects were not as totally damaging as their modern counterparts.

sent age as well, but they have undergone what may be termed “sophistication.” Mo derns will listen to a traditional definition of them and then add, “It’s not as simple as all that. Let’s take a look and see how we can interpret the capital sins.

LUST pjNE of the seven which occupies a most prominent place in our nation and the world today is lechery, or lust. No society has been so greatly exposed to this tempta tion as ours today. The Middle Ages were SLOTH by no means puritanical, as many of the church writers of the times made rather vrow move to the opposite end of the clear. But the very fact that they spoke as “spectrum” of sin. Where anger invol vigorously as they did is important. It ved a great display of emotion, this sin re should strike a somber note with us that in quires none. Lack of emotion might even our loose society many commentators feel be called a “qualification” for it — sloth. the ecclesiastics of those earlier periods Although in common usage it has lost made too much of this vice. We seem to be much of the sharpness of the religious riding “high and fancy-free” as yet. meaning we assign to it, sloth has by no How does this capital sin fit into our means died out. Its former concept (in the times? Our problem is that we no longer worst sense) was conveyed by the Latin draw the line will1 feeling instead that “acedia” — spiritual numbness and a refus it is something -• * By doing this we al of joy. The sloth neither loved nor hated deflate an imp.' ace the whole ethical anyone or believed in anything. He lived balloon, as it wy , ■ • upholds our stan- for nothing. The only reason he remained dards. The obvu- ; . happens. A liberalized alive was because, as one writer claims, he code of morals :us an enormous a- had nothing for which to die. mount of exposin' 1 a Playboy, movies, This completely negative concept per novels or even Lf IV < • ements which corn- sisted, largely in regard to theological con pound the siluaf. freedom in our mor- ditions. In time ‘laziness’ crept into the defi als has led to an auuse of this liberty, while nition, and it became a prevalent sin which critics defend the “adults only" movies with received much attention during the medi the cry of realism. How often aren’t these eval age, especially in monasteries. The pictures an escape from, rather than por withdrawal from secular life for meditation trayal of reality? As the moral standards and study tended to slow down all activi decline, so does the importance of marriage ties. Aquinas was well aware of this when and love. Divorce becomes more like dis he remarked that it “implies a certain wear solving a business partnership than sever iness of work.” ing a living body (the comparison is by C. The twentieth century society of auto S. Lewis). The great number of illegitimate mation is guilty of sloth in two ways. Lazi births and sex crimes in recent years readi ness has already been mentioned. Boredom ly point out to us that lust is still a “deadly” is the other problem area. One who is lazy sin. is generally inactive. The bored person will ANGER turn his activities elsewhere (thus the fit Anger is another of these mortal vices. ting term of “deadly” for sloth also, especi “ As defined here, it is a desire for ven ally if this attention should lead in the geance. The number of times it actually re wrong direction). Both types of people suf sults in physical violence is relatively low. fer in more areas than the regular work We would prefer instead to vent our anger day routine. I think we all readily recog in words, either spoken or written. The ri nize politics and religion as two typical ex ots which wrack our country still rely on amples. Public apathy in these areas has verbal and psychological abuse more than to a great extent become the way of life for on physical violence, but they represent on many people. There is much talk in con ly a small segment of man’s release of an- nection with the problems of government, 7

the Negro and religion, but it very seldom goes any further. We seem to exercise lit tle more than our jaw muscles when con fronted with troubles such as these. Erich Fromm, in his book, “Man For Himself,” describes the modern application of this vice: “Our moral problem is man’s indifference to himself. It lies in the fact that we have lost the sense of the significance and unique ness of the individual, that we have made our selves into instruments for purposes outside ourselves, that we experience and treat our selves as commodities, and that our own pow ers have become alienated from ourselves. We have become things and our neighbors have become things. The result is that we feel powerless and despise ourselves for our impotence.” GLUTTONY ’m sure we all have seen the advertise ment which claims to know the magic solution to becoming a “girl girl-watchers watch.” That’s right, drink diet soft drink such-and-such. Men, too, have their bouts with isometrics, weight-lifting, and other health and body-building methods. In such a diet-conscious society as ours, gluttony, the fourth evil, should seemingly have died out. In a certain sense it has, for the per son plagued with obesity is not generally looked upon with chagrin or regarded with alarm, as was once the case. His condition is portrayed as being more comical than wicked. Robin Hood’s merry friend, Friar Tuck is usually seen in drama in this light. He was one of those who found that “the belly is the king of the passions.” Gluttony is indulging beyond reason. “Too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, too daintily,” as a priest once said. Excessive eating, however, remains but one aspect of it. In fact, any obsession car ried to one of the five “too’s” just mentioned will fall into this category. Drunkenness is one that comes immediately to mind. An other that is relatively new to civilized man is smoking, since tobacco is a New World plant. Consider the many rather extreme fads and crazes on one side, while on the lesser side are such things as hobbies and even talking .It is evident on the interna tional level as well, for few nations have, or ever will be free from imperialism, na tionalism, or an “arms race.” While these have all been excesses of quantity, over-indulgence of quality falls in place here also. It is usually very well concealed. One may think he is not a ‘glut-

ton’ if he does not ask for or take too much of one thing or another. Under the guise of practicing temperance he could well have become too selective. Finickiness, the passion for always having things just so, the demand for the exact can be just as great an obsession as over-eating. COVETOUSNESS AND ENVY mHE distinction between covetousness and envy is a fine one. The former also re ferred to as avarice, is the milder of the two. Our modem world has adopted it as one of its major sins. Aquinas limited it to the love of money (the Greek philarguros), since that is “the root of all evil” any how. Under conditions of scarcity avarice often takes the form of hoarding (have you seen many half-dollars lately?), but at all times it is a drive for mastery and control. Covetousness is a cold sin and leads to a hardened heart, deception and even vio lence in gaining its end. In the dog-eatdog game it advocates, “nice guys finish last.” Envy goes one step further. Gregory the Great made one distinction clear when he wrote, “The covetous man wants to pos sess the goods of his neighbor ,whereas the envious man. . . regrets his having them.” This is the major characteristic of envy • n inability to be happy with another’s good fortune. A courageous act becomes fool hardiness or luck, and religious beliefs are naive and old-fashioned. If covetousness requires a cold heart, envy requires an ice cube. There is never any satisfaction as sociated with envy and jealousy, which makes it rather unique in this way. Depres sion, hate and resentment are quick to step in where this deadly sin has once entered. Combined with avarice in a modern equa tion of abstracts, the sum of the two is an xiety. Multiplied by war, innumerable ul cers and the threat of nuclear oblivion, the register totals up the most uncertain and insecure generation in the world’s history. PRIDE of the seven sins is, however, not the least. It is rather “regina peccatorum.” It occupies the last position here be cause any other place would be anticlimatic. According to Christian belief, pride is the most lethal of the capital sins. It leads the way to every other sin. Now don’t con fuse it with the good quality of self-respect, or even with egotism and the joy of suc-

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Two additional points are important to consider concerning pride: what its aim is and how that is reached. Power is the dili gently-sought goal. This must be the stron gest power attainable. For example, it is not enough to be popular. Self-love says one must be more popular than the rest. Hitler was able to inspire his people by ap pealing to their national pride as a superior race. The drive for power can be attained either by direct aggression against rivals, the “kill-him-with-kindness” policy, or snob bery. All three emphasize the superlative. Rationalization has had a strong effect on the modern outlook on sin. In many cases the present interpretation is much broader in meaning and application than in former times. This has strongly weak ened the fear of them, however. The feel ing of guilt for doing something wrong is replaced by shame if one is caught. Only the most flagrant commissions of the Seven Deadly Sins ever appear in a legal court. Correction of the rest must come from the heart. Our society being what it is, any major betrayal of these special sins does not appear very near.

cess. It is instead man’s elevation of him self in the position of God, or as St. Augus tine puts it, “the love of self in contempt of God.” We readily recognize it in the Phari see’s boastful prayer and the Communistinaugurated Five-Year Plan. The one place a secular man rarely sees it is in himself. Pride is rather unique in the company it keeps. More than any other vice, it in filtrates the good citizen. This is what makes it so dangerous. Because he hasn’t done any great wrong, the pride-infected man considers himself to be better than the ave rage fellow. He soon feels he should be able to have more privileges and to get away with more. While thinking he knows the facts, he is actually blind to them. It is only one step more to virtual elimination of God, who by this time has been relegated to a scant hour per week on an occasional Sunday morning. The void is filled by the gods of our nation, which are, as Billy Gra ham says, humanism (setting man fore most), materialism and sex. Sociologist Ruth Benedict noted already in the early 1940’s that our society is becoming domin ated by a “how do vve look to others?” ethic.

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Journal of the Wisconsin Chiropractic Associations editorial comments on “Battle of the Bods” The author’s statement that “Chiropractic simply doesn’t have the pres tige to gain adequate sums of money, and without research it will have a hard time sav ing face as medicine continues to make pro gress.” It is true that chiropractic doesn’t at this time have adequate sums of money to do research, however, in all fairness he ne glects to recognize the financing of medi cal education by the federal government. If it were not for the organized opposition and interference of the AMA the chiroprac tic profession’s efforts to obtain access to tax funds for chiropractic education would be more fruitful. It is logical to assume that when the chiropractic profession gains access to fed eral tax dollars for chiropractic education it will follow that industry and other phil anthropic foundations will contribute to chiropractic research.

It is interesting to note that the author’s opinion as to why medicine objects to chi ropractic is one medical point of view that chiropractic purports to be virtually “an all-inclusive therapeutic approach en compassing virtually the whole field of gener al practice; that is claims to make the use of drugs and most surgery superfluous.” He neglects to point out the role ‘iatro genic disease plays today in the field of health and disease. Medical journals are repeatedly publishing articles on physician generated diseases. Unfortunately, illness and deaths caused by drugs are not among the reportable diseases. It might be pointed out that in life-threatening situations the use of drugs and other procedures (surgery) are certainly warranted; however, what is so frequently overlooked is the use of pow erful and dangerous drugs, or the use of radical and risky surgery when the condidition does not justify it. 9

ATLANTIS "D lato is really to be blamed for the con* troversy and puzzlement of centuries over a lost continent and island paradise of advanced civilization. He spoke of it in his dialogues (“Critias” and “Timaeus”) as a continent that sank into the seas beyond the pillars (in the Atlantic), a myriad of wonders and culture which suddenly dis appeared. And now almost everyone from scientists to eager treasure-hunters has searched for, but not found it. Correction! THRUSH found it in the UNCLE series on TV, and there were crystals there capable of destroying the world; the girl from UN CLE foiled the plot, and Atlantis sank be neath the sea again, to remain a mystery to all and a headache to historians. Maybe the reason no one has been able to find this lost civilization is that all were looking in the wrong place. Plato men tioned the Adantic as its last resting place; there’s a lot of room for looking in the At lantic. Besides, even great men make mis takes. Someone has started looking elsewhere, in the Mediterranean; and now it is prob able that a mystery of the ancient and mo dern world has been solved. At least, the new found site in the Mediterranean has become the front-runner for the title ‘The Lost Continent.” In truth, if this new loca tion proves to be the lost continent, it really wasn’t much of a continent, but rather a diminutive isle. The place is Thera or Santorini Island, 70 miles south of Crete. Quite a bit of it is “non-island,” sitting on the floor of the sea. It sank down there, say the archeologists, in about 1400 B.C., at just the time histori ans believe some great catastrophe gave birth to modern civilization. This wasn’t just incidental or voluntary on the part of the isle, obviously. No, it was quite forced; a big volcanic explosion rocked the small island, probably sending debris more than 50 miles in the air and covering Thera with a 100 foot layer of volcanic ash. Then the whole volcano and much of Santorini sank, leaving a sheer cliff and a boiling sea where once had been a thriving Minoan palace with a series of moats and a well-developed settlement around it.

They had quite an advanced Minoan civilization, as proved by the discovery of fine pottery, beautifully sculptured with round designs. (But not much for holding water at this late date). However, as you may have guessed, the Minoans decided to move in at approximately 1400 B.C. They collected themselves from under molten rocks and hardened lava flows and shipped over to Greece. Was this the catastrophic beginning of culture in Greece? Was this the Atlantis of Plato’s dialogues? These are questions whose answers are still in doubt. However, assuming that the answers are yes, I shall continue. Now, the Greeks were a moronic, thoughtless bunch of characters until then (somewhat like the French of today), and the Minoans were ideal for civilizing Hel las. They gave it art, an alphabet and cul ture. The Greeks have taken credit for ill of this in history. So, be thankful, Greeks! For centuries we’ve been calling you the cradle of western civilization, when actu ally the Minoan cradle got rocked, and you caught the falling baby. Now that Atlantis has at last bec:i found, it is poking around in quite a few fields, even religion. Some say that its vol cano literally “plagued” the Pharoah i;i Egypt, for it was at approximately this tiroe that Moses and God’s children were maki g their exodus. The Lord didn’t really cause all those maladies, but rather the exploding isle of Santorini (Atlantis, if you want); the frogs, the locusts, the blood-red sea, and even the parting of the waters may soon be attributed to the 450 mile distant volcano. As one Greek scientist said, “A volcano may cause waters to turn a rusty red, fish may be poisoned . . . Soon Scientist Sam (the Greek) will say that the frogs were scared out of the sea by the disturbed water and locusts ar rived on the volcanic winds. At present this is just theory. But in the modern world of scientific method, theory becomes “fact” with amazing speed. Yes, Moses, this is no time to trade in your scepter for archeological tools; your role in Scripture is being de-mythologized. We have finally found out your secret. But how about those snakes, and that flaming bush? How did you do that? And do vol canos harden hearts? (It happened to Phar oah.) m. F. 10

HER MAJESTY'S BOOB TUBE ond only to blasphemy, British program ming is considered by American tourists to be far superior to American. This fact does not mean that a viewer can be entirely free from the commercial; this is too much to ask on this earth. A business firm may buy a program. It has no say over when its advertisement will be given, and it is not uncommon to have sev eral consecutive commercials lasting as long as a half hour. This provides for a great deal of pro gramming freedom. The length of the show is completely at the discretion of the pro ducer. Odd lengths are the rule, and there is no definite sign on or sign off time, al though the normal is from 4 PM to 11 PM. British programs are, in the main, simi lar to American programs. They don’t have too many westerns, and there are no soap operas; but they have situation comedies, mysteries, variety shows and so forth. So what’s the difference? The difference is that the presentation of these programs is based on the assump tion that the viewing audience is adult. There is none of the watering down which is so characteristic of American television. Programs of a highly cultural nature, such as opera or live drama, are not categorized as educational viewing intended only for the elite of society. But even more striking is the difference in the area of news broadcasting and docu mentaries. Britain’s equality to the United States would be amazing, considering our superior resources for gathering and dis seminating the news. Somehow the British newscasters have a way of presenting the events so that every Englishman feels that remote happenings are as relevant to him as is what goes on next door. Their por trayal of the news has been characterized as much more honest; one seems to get the impression that a friend is telling you what he saw and giving you his feelings on the subject. It is highly doubtful that the Federal government will ever assume control of our mass media. Even if it did, it would probably take years to develop what the British now have. In the meantime, tele vision is still a notch above doing Greek — T. B. or cranking out B 8c R articles.

TA7hile most students would be loath to V V admit it, the biggest favor Dean Leyrer ever did for us was closing the TV room. For, without a doubt, the average television program is a complete bore and leaves a person with the feeling that it’s only a notch above doing one’s Greek in enter tainment value. Outside of an occasional good movie or a program like Luther, tele vision is worse than valueless; it has a de cidedly negative influence. This negative effect is primarily due to the basic nature of television; it is a mass medium. Almost every home has one or more faithfully viewed idiot boxes. Watch ing television has become our national pas time, and the incessant low-level program ming is undoubtedly a culturally emascu lating agent. This force has invaded even our theoretically highly intelligent campus, as can be seen by the group that vegetates in the TV room evening after evening. But why? Why do we have to put up with this? We don : absolutely have to; we could change tho channel to any of the Na tional Educational Television stations. But the very term "cducational television” makes this flick of the wrist cause the twelve labors to p?de by comparison. Why can’t we get the N h: fits of watching edu cational television from our regular view ing? Many people feci that it is because of our commercial set-up. The program is neither for entertainment n o r enlighten ment, but rather for the sale of the spon sors’ products. Commercials, besides being extremely asinine in themselves, have both an ’external and internal degrading effect on the programs themselves. Evaluating the problem externally, the sponsor wifi reach a very large audience. Consequently, he is unwilling to support any program which might appear too sophisticated for the “average” man. The interior structure of the programming is also affected, for the scripts must be written around and for the time specified by the Almighty Commercial. Perhaps we should look at our mother country (England, not Germany) for in struction in this. In England television stations are owned by the state. Despite the fact that this is an example of socia lism, a sin which some people consider secli

B R and B & R Tohann Sebastian Bach was charged J “with having been in the habit of mak ing surprising variations in the chorales, and intermixing divers strange sounds, so that thereby the congregations were con founded. If in the future he wishes to in troduce some tonus Peregrinus, he must keep to it and not go off directly to some thing else, or as he has hitherto done, play quite a tonum contrarium.” This accusa tion may be from 1708, but it was made in the same spirit as some complaints of the last 50 years in the pages of the B & R. Northwestern students have not been sparing in their denunciation of jazz. Ac tual jazz could be considered roughly as old as the B & R. When it began appearing on the radio and in a few clubs in this area, a kind of dynasty of reactionaries apparent ly thought their anger was righteous and gave voice to it in no uncertain terms. The negative reaction ranged from Gamaliellike advice to let it (doubtless) die by it self, to calling it a blatant insult to cultured ears. A weak spot they didn’t miss was the shady birth and background of jazz. Few people know that Bach was “reproached for having gone to a wine-shop last Sunday during the sermon.” Musicians will be mu sicians. In part, at least, jazz has come out of its murky earlier surroundings today. Some jazz groups have preferred settings other than nightclubs, notably, the Brubeck quar tet. Buddy Rich has no desire to be associ ated with Brubeck (just ask him!), but he told a Chicago audience last fall “it’s very gratifying playing for an audience like you ... this Sunday matinee is worth getting up for because it gives you a chance to see .. . where the future of music lies.” The editor of Downbeat observed “the place (Scotchmist) was packed with well-dressed youngsters, plus a few middle-aged types, sitting transfixed by the hard-driving Bud dy Rich band in full flight.” A couple Sat urday nights previous, he fit in well at the Civic Opera, too. Buddy Rich started at a year-and-a-half as ‘Traps, the drum wonder” and at 50 hasn’t laid his sticks down yet. He’s been drumming the leading bands since the late

thirties and developed into a unique per cussion phenomenon. Even if he does say so himself, he is the greatest - no questions asked. People may talk of Krupa the show man, but if any one drummer is responsi ble for the influence, importance and vir tual supremacy of drums in jazz, it has to be Rich. With the decline of the big bands, Rich had his problems too. He attempted to keep the show on the road and went through more bands and money than most drum mers could shake a stick at. He gained a reputation for financial failures to comple ment his independent personality. All things considered, this struggle showed that he was and remains an honest musician and nothing of the businessman. Amidst rumors of renewed interest in big bands, he organized his latest band in April of ’66. At that time most people would have agreed with Stan Kenton when he said, “Another one of his fancies for the moment.” But Stan was wrong, and his band is probably better off because of it. Rich’s success is of an unusual degre . but it is typical of the plight of jazzmen late ly. Someone has said that by watchin • the country’s jazzmen, one can tell a lot ibout the future of the country. Rich feels that with many of them being married first class people, we may have something to look forward to. Rich’s success is all the more extraordi nary because he has never taken a drum lesson. Considering all the time he’s had to practice, his lack of training may be an asset. A self-taught should show a rudimental deficiency if anything (percussive grammar, if you will). The criticism that Rich gets is that he sounds like he’s right out of a drum-and-bugle-corp. There are grounds for such a statement, but not as criticism. If any drummer is versatile, it's Rich. His solos show that he could handle and develop any individual style from bug les to the beat to Bellson. What makes Rich the drummer’s drummer is the way he has assimilated all the different styles and ap plied his originality to them. He is a truly creative drummer. Hearing his band for the first time can be quite a shock to the inexperienced ear. First, the intensity of the sound is on the order of an amplified rock group. But this is the real thing, not electronics. Only his 12

saxes, piano, and an occasional flute or electric bass are amplified. If any group is justified in being loud, they are. The type of sound the band produces as a whole is as unique as its drumer. It could be considered the culmination of all jazz in this country, with the added benefit of all that we’ve learned from the classical masters as well as the beat sound. The re sult is the ’68 NOW sound at its best. Rich has made it clear, that there were no good ol’ days. Beat plays a big part in the music be cause beat has played a big part in most of the music of the last decade. This band takes the good points of the beat and works them into their arrangements. They devel op the concept of beat further and show the tenny-boppers how it should have been done in the first place. They do the blues, but with them it can only come out New Blues. When a band this hot can do an equally good job on slow tunes, they have to have somethin:. .-.ting for them. The sax section seems to d* -ome borrowing of its own. In addition i wing down the fine points of “stock M-.nnd, they have tak en over the a van; : • ■ and Coltrane hapVvild that one critipenings. They bh--« cal observer wa. • : tsed that Rich let them play ala bh» nowc-r. All this is brought, under one roof by the discipline of the big band. It sounds as if Rich learned a few things after all those years with Artie Shaw, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey and Harry James. This band is a fitting heir of the swing era. The band’s charts have been the sub

ject of some discussion, and are some of the wildest, most unique and most novel interpretations of the best songs of today. They are modem in the best sense of the word; they work with and from the NOW sound. Rich gets his arrangements from men who he claims could do just as well in the “classical” idiom. This evidently is the reason that they are always in good taste and wear so well. Many musicians believe that jazz is America’s main contribution to serious mu sic. After over 30 years in the field, Rich has no question about it. His band is de servedly “what is happening” now, a time when jazz is beginning to get part of the recognition it deserves. Bach had his problems with the press and the establishment. In a 1737 “maga zine” article “Bach’s extraordinary skill in playing the organ and clavier were highly praised, but his compositions were found fault with for their lack of natural grace and pleasing character, for a confused and turgid style and an extravagant display of learned art. Bach’s church pieces are con stantly more artificial and tedious and by no means so full of impressive conviction or of such intellectual reflection as the works of Telemann and Graun.” We have missed the 18th century, but that is no reason to miss the 20th. Bach’s contemporaries had to stretch their ears to listen to him; no more is required to sam ple the closest thing America has to offer. Now that jazz has come out of the alley and attained a measure of respectability, even Du. E. prudes dare experience it.

HISTORY OUTLINE PAGE 2, This is the New-Monasticism.o Conceived in strife and lots of schism, You live your life as in a prison. Awaiting your respective vision..3 Hope for Mohammed’s., re-Hegira And reacceptance in Medina?.-, You find yourself without a pillar,(i Your filthy rags7 a hopeless filler.s Invading Normans,, fail to answer, And Red persuasion 10 spreads like cancer. But though your doom the shutter clicks,u You sail away in leaky viks.12

3 — This sentence refers to "war-babies" who are prisoners of their destinies, but still hope to discover an answer in some supernatural way. 4 — "Mohammed" symbolizes a Great Leader. s — "Medina" — by transference and elimination of letters, Medina becomes Mind — the great all-pervading force of our age. 4 — "pillar" — one of the Five Pillars of Mohammedanism, here representing a rule of right. 7 — "filthy rags" — work-righteous political katharsis which tries to gloss over mistakes in policy. i — "filler" — substitute. 9 — "Invading Normans" — presidential aspirants (McCarthy, Kennedy, Rockefeller, and Stassen, all from northern — "Norman" — states). 10 — "Red persuasion" — Communism. ii — The fate of the nation is so inevitable and real that it could be photographed. „ - "leaky viks" - Viks were small sea-vessels used by the Northmen to depart from their homelands. Here "viks" means avenues of research (the space program) unrelated to and unable to reach peace and "leaky" because they allow problems to drip through them unrestrained. GREG LENZ

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The music department presented its Spring Concert on Sunday, May 5, in the gym. The Prep Glee Club under the direc tion of Phil Lehmann, the Girl’s Glee Club directed by Christine Leitzke and the Col lege Glee Club with student director Rich ard Kugler presented several selections. The band played the overture to “The Bar ber of Seville” and selections from “West Side Story.” Student conductor James Pasbrig conducted the march from Holst’s “Suite for Band” and “I Ain’t Down Yet” as an encore. On May 19 the piano students will hold their recitals in the gymnasium. Inter mediate students will play in the afternoon while the advanced students will present an all Bach prcL^am in the evening, inclu ding several •.! lo-oiano numbers. On May 21 at 7:30 p , the organ recital will be held in the vi Finally, "■> on June 5th the commencemeni e r t will be held in the gym. This evi • ii include all three chor uses and the One of the “highlights” of the even in.. ; be the customary invita Student-Faculty Discussion: tion to forme5, hand members in the audience to play ... march with the band. The Social Gospel final number will be “This Land Is My On Thursday, April 25, the basement Land,” by the Prep Male Chorus and the lounge of Wartburg Hall served as the set band. ting of the second of this year’s studentfaculty discussions. Prof. Spaude spoke on Choice ’68 the topic “Social Gospel.” After an intro On April 24 NWC students participated duction by Paul Schmiege, Prof. Spaude in the “national elections" of Choice ’68, gave a brief history of the social gospel sponsored by Time magazine. The ballot movement in this country and pointed out ing permitted students to vote for their some of the implications of this increasing choice of President, to indicate their pre ly popular movement. He then opened the ference for the degree and nature of U. S. discussion to questions from the floor. involvement in Viet Nam and the method Those who attended felt that this discus of handling the problems of the American sion offered an opportunity not only to city. learn about this movement currently affec It was expected that about 2 million of ting so many churches, but also to see the a possible 6 million students eligible would need for maintaining the proper emphasis vote in the elections designed to show the on Christ and his spiritual kingdom as op political feelings of the 18-22 age group. posed to relieving the ills of this present On Northwestern’s campus 95% of the life. dorm students and 91% of the town stu dents voted. The organizers of the election Tau Delta Theta predict that the results may affect the de Charles Clarey received this year’s Tau cisions of the national conventions this Delta Theta Award for a combination asummer. chievement in athletics (football and ten15

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1968 Football Schedule Oct. 5 — Milton — There Oct. 12 — St. Procopius — Here Oct. 19 — Eureka — There Oct. 26 — Northland - Here, Homecoming Nov. 2 — Lakeland — There Nov. 9 — Concordia — Here j. s.

more about this pattern of escalating idi ocy). One of the numerous trends on the na tions campuses is the idea of student con trol of academic institutions. Actually, it’s not such a new trend, the dream has been blowin’ in the wind for centuries — prob ably as long as there has been a campus “establishment” to contend with. However, if it didn’t seem like an original, revolu tionary idea, no one would bother partici pating. Evidence of this movement was shown recently at a state college where students staged a stubborn - in and wouldn’t allow the president to enter his own administration building, There don’t seem to be many signs on our campus of what A1 Capp has dubbed S.W.I.N.E. (Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything)— the Seniors gave up their beards a long time ago, but there is some question as to the reason behind the Frosh rivalry for the longest sideburns. At rate th're just doesn't seem t0 be much enthusiasm in the student body for a forceful overthrow of the faculty. Such a notion would, then, have to come from the outside . . . Name: Sandy Harris; Age: 20; Pseudooccupation: Student; Occupation: Agent for Young Reactionaries, a nationally afflicted organization whose purpose is the systematic overthrow of established colleges and universities. Sandy’s first solo assignment is to infiltrate the ranks of the student body of Northwestern College, determine the chief grievances, and exploit these grievances to the fullest, thereby causing a campus-wide re volt and eventual establishment of a student government that would determine school policy on matters ranging from what subjects should be taught to where the shrubs should be planted. 16

The initial confrontation was not too pleasant. There were a few embarrassing moments when President Toppe began in structing Sandy on the acceptable hem-line length and the 7:30 campus curfew for coeds. President Toppe apologized profuse ly for the mistaken identity, and Sandy made a mental note to get his hair cut and to stop wearing tight blue jeans. Gaining the confidence of the student body was not difficult, but he did get a dis appointing reaction whenever he hinted at his idea of student control. It ranged from a blank stare to an outright laugh. First objective: contact leader of cam pus organizations. After spending half a semester getting acquainted, it suddenly dawned on Sandy that his progress report was due, and he hadn’t accomplished any thing. The list of organizations was next to non-existent. Male Chorus, Dorm Coun cil, Car Committee, Forum? (The Young Republicans got enough publicity in Vol ume 71 and wouldn’t even be mentioned.) Male Chorus seemed as good a place as any to look for trouble; but while there was enough grumbling. the only concrete gripe was something about having to comb their hair, so it would.: t rest on their angelic foreheads and o;; - rid people’s sensibilities at concerts.

ALUMNI NOTES ALUMNI SOCIETY MEETING WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1968 College Chapel — 3:00 p. m. Luncheon — 5:00 p. m. The annual Northwestern College Alumni Society meeting was called to order in the College Chapel by its president, Prof. G. Baer. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Roll call showed 81 regular members and 10 hon orary members present. The election committee submitted a list of can didates, but by resolution of the Society the rules of order were suspended and all incumbents were re-elected: 17

Looking at the rest of the list, Sandy got excited when he saw the name Forum, envisioning heated debates among disen chanted intellectuals. This would be just like home! But no one could remember for sure when they had met last and, besides, their only real interest was to put on plays; bull sessions you could get into in the dorm. There had been a co-operation gap between director Schmal Piege and his cast over the present final production, but things actual ly seemed to be shaping up, providing Schmal doesn’t succumb to fits of nervous spasms and insomnia over the frustrations of tackling an Arthur Miller play. There was a ray of hope when he got wind of Prof. Scharf’s Viet Nam lectures. Any association at all with that country could be twisted into some sort of trouble. But student opinion was firmly behind him, so Sandy dropped the idea. The final defeat came when someone announced over the intercom that tomor row had been cancelled due to lack of in terest. A confused and broken man, Sandy trudged off campus. Would he ever be ad mitted to the august circle of hard core agi tators? How long before his hair grew out again? Was that sweet old lady still selling pot on the comer at Park Street and Uni M. H. versity Avenue?

President — Prof. G. Baer 1 Vice President — Pastor A. Stuebs 2 Vice President — Prof. E. A. Wendland Secretary — Prof. A. Panning Treasurer — Prof. S. Quam Chronicler — Pastor K. Otto The motion to accept into membership the 40 members of the class of 1967 was carried. The treasurer, Prof. S. Quam, presented the fol lowing report: N. W. C. ALUMNI SOCIETY Report of Income and Expenses From May 26, 1936 to May 29, 1987 Income: Dues & Donations for 1985/67.„..$1330.00 7.82 Interest ............................ 15.00 Centennial Story receipts. .$1352.82 Total Income Expenses: $80.00 Mailing Costs.. 44.00 Printing ......... 20.00 Black and Red .$ 144.00 • Total Expenses ....$1208.82 Income over Expenses

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$ 144.00 .$4561.18 Balance..................... .$3500.00 Less Certificate of Deposit .$1061.18 Balance in Bank..... INVESTMENTS: Certificate of Deposit Bank of Watertown.... .$3500.00 As auditing committee the chair appointed Pas tors F. Nitz and V. Glaeske and Prof. C. Spaude. The floor was next given to the Projects Commit tee consisting of Pastors F. Dobratz and W. Schu mann, and Profs. W. Zell, P. E. Eickmann, and C. Spaude. The committee, W. Zell reporting, sug gested five projects for the Society’s considera tion: 1) a portait of past-president Prof. E. E. Kowalke 2) a series of historical pictures 3) a Luther statue 4) a fountain on campus 5) offset printing equipment. Two suggestions were added from the floor: start ing a Bible collection, and organizing a series of photographs showing the development of the Nor thwestern College CamDUS. The motion to wait a year before undertaking any project involving expenditure of of Society money was carried. The committee was instructed to continue its study of possible future projects. A letter from Winnebago Lutheran Academy, thanking the Society for the copy of The Centen nial Story sent to them, was read. Pastor E. Lehninger relayed greetings from Professor emeri tus E. A. Wendland. The auditing committee reported the treasurer’s books to be correct and in good order. The mo tion to accept the treasurer’s report was earned. The suggestion to transfer the Society’s funds to the Church Extension Fund was discussed but no action was taken. The chronicler, Pastor K. Otto, read the names of those members of the Society who during the past year were called to their eternal rest: John Schaefer — 1908 Herbert Schaller — 1909 Otto Hohenstein — 1910 Herbert Lietzau — 1913 Harry Palmbach — 1913 Waldemar Retzlaff — 1917 Helmuth Schaefer — 19178 Martin Buenger — 1921 John Meyer — 1930 Luther Schliesser — 1932 Armin Roekle — 1936 Clifford Kipfmiller — 1943 Chester Cone — 1958 The Society rose in memory of the deceased. Adjournment at 4:00 p. m. Armin J. Panning, sec. CALLS Pastor Philip Press (’47) has accepted a call to Pigeon, Michigan. Installation will be in June. Pastor Donald Krause (’60) has accepted a call to Hart, Michigan. Installation will be in June.

Pastor Robert Baer (’51) has accepted a call to St. John’s in Westland, Michigan. The installa tion will also be in June. Pastor Jerome Braun (’57) has accepted a call to the Altura-Rollingstone parish in Minnesota. Pastor Keith Kruck (’61) has accepted a call to Redemption in Milwaukee. The installation will be May 5. Rev. Professor Luther Spaude has been called to teach Mathematics and Physics at Wiscon sin Lutheran College. Rev. Professor James Fricke has been called to teach English at Wisconsin Lutheran College. DEDICATIONS Calvary Lutheran in Abrams, Wisconsin dedica ted a new building on March 24, 1938. Pastor R. W. Steffenhagen (’42) officiated. A parish house was recently dedicated by our congregation in Vasser, Michigan. Pastor Or ville Maasch serves the church there. ENGAGEMENTS Pastor George Boldt (’40) and his wife have an nounced the engagement of their daughter, Ra chel, to Lynn Schroeder (’64). Lynn is a Senior at the Seminary and Rachel is a sophomore at Wisconsin Lutheran College. BIRTHS An adopted son, James Stephen, born Oct. 1. 1937 came to Pastor and Mrs. Roger Flemin '’56) on Oct. 27, 1937. Pastor Fleming is an instruc tor of English and Religion at Lakeside Luth eran High School. A son to Pastor and Mrs. William H. Russow ’36) of Flasher, North Dakota on Dec. 4, 1937. The name of the child is Craig Robert. A son, Charles Robert, to Pastor & Mrs. i ard J. Werner (’59) of South Shore, South Dakota on September 27, 1937. A daughter, Pamela Marie, to Pastor and Mrs. Larry Ellenberger (’62) of Hendricks, Minne sota on March 27, 1988. A son, Jon Mark, to Pastor and Mrs. Janies Humann (’61) of West Glendive, Montana on Oct. 17, 1937. A son, Nathan Paul, to Pastor and Mrs. Kenneth Lenz (’54) of Livingston, Montana on Septem ber 1, 1987. RESIGNATIONS Pastor Walter Gutzke (’17) of La Crosse, Wiscon sin will retire effective May 15, 1988. Pastor Carl Schmelzer (’17) of Riga, Michigan will retire effective July 1, 1988. Pastor Alvin Baer (’23) of Salem, Ann Arbor, Michigan has resigned from his congregation, effective as soon as a successor is installed. Pastor Gerhardt Press (’20) of St. John’s, Westland, Michigan has resigned effective June 1938. DEATHS Pastor Edwin Raasch (’31) died at the age of 57 years on April 12, 1938 at Lincoln, Nebraska. The funeral was held at Mt. Olive Lutheran Churh in Lincoln. Pastor Leo Gruendemann (’25) officiated. Pastor Paul Pieper (’09), pastor of St. Peter’s, Milwaukee, for over 40 years was buried on April 13, 1938. Pastor Paul Nitz (’48) preached the sermon. T. z. 18

entertained Mt. St. Paul College of Wauke sha. Milton (who else?) appears to be the toughest opponent on the eight-game sche dule, which features six double-headers. Graduation removed several starters of last year’s squad, especially in the infield and pitching department. It will be up to Coach Pieper to find replacements for them. The catching is solid, with John Schmidt and Warren Hartman sharing the duties. First base will probably be handled by Karl “double bellybutton” Butzky, with “Big Fred Zimmermann” crowding him. Jim Castillo is in a class by himself at second. Marty Schwartz’s old spot at short will be filled by Bob Gurgel. The position for third base is being battled for by two Freshmen, John May and Dave Palmquist. At the moment they’re “even steven.” The outfield is the Trojan’s most solid unit. Denny Smith, Dick Froehlich, and Keith Kuschel are sec ond to no outfield trio in the league. Tom Trapp, a Freshman, will likely see some action in the outfield when Froehlich helps out on the mound. Pitching is the weak spot at the moment with Denny Lemke, Chuck Learman, and Paul Metzger the trail blazers in this de partment. All are untried and inexperi enced. Orv Cullen and Dick Froehlich are the only veteran pitchers returning this year. Ken Stratman, a hurler on last year’s team, decided to give golf a try this year and did not return.

SPORTS League Bowling This year’s bowling season finally rolled to an end and pinned down the standings. Mullen’s Dairy came up with a well deserv ed first place. They captured the high in dividual average with Geyer’s 178 and the high team game of 878. A1 Rippe and Duddeck’s Tap ran a close second and third respectively. The final standings are as fol lows: HIGH TEAM 3 Games HIGH IND. 3 Game Merchants Bank 2500 Ted Lambert 609 A1 Rippe 2461 Maurice Hoppe 608 Mullen’s Dairy 2447 John Guse 588 HIGH TEAM GAME HIGH IND. GAME Mullen’s Dairy 878 Fred Berger 246 A1 Rippe 875 Ted Lambert 236 Mullen’s Dairy 872 Dennis Geyer 227

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Tennis On the noisy side of things, the racket club looks a little better. Prospects for the tennis team continue to be optimistic. On ly Dick Stadler is missing from last year’s league championship team. The veterans are Clarey, Grunewald, Leyrer, J. Pasbrig, and Schuppenhauer. Carl Siegler qualified as the sixth member of the team, but Schwerin and Eckert still remain promis ing challengers. Nine games comprise this year’s schedule, with a tournament May 18 at George Williams. The toughest opponent will probably be the George Williams team, which took a tennis tour during the Easter vacation. Judging from their first match, the ten nis team seemed eager to make this sea son a repeat performance of last year. On their own home courts, the Trojans made Dominican their first victim, with a deci sive 7-2 victory. Wins included four out of

Tournament of Thrills The Profs were again among the big money winners this year as the tournament got underway on April 23rd. The team of Professors Dahlberg 8c Plitzuweit grabbed $10 each with a 1123 series. Tutor Schroeder 8c Prof. Eickmann’s 1111 series was good enough for second place and $5 each. Tied for third place with a 1088 were Har rington 8c Nehmer, and Koelpin 8c Stevens. Spring Sports The baseball team found it necessary to contend with springtime problems again in preparing for the ’68 season. Rainy weather and the long Easter lay-off cut deeply into their much-needed practice time. How seri ously the lack of practice has affected team work and timing can only be proved in ac tual competition. The first test for the new team came on April 27, when the Trojans :

the six singles by Clarey, Leyrer, Schuppenhauer, and Siegler. All three double match es were won in two sets. Only a slight mar gin prevented the two singles’ losses from becoming victories.

Golf With three returnees from last year, the golf team hopes to improve its previous record of 3 wins and 4 losses. This sea son’s veterans are Ted Lambert, a Senior, and Sophomores Fred Berger and John Stellick. Of the thirteen that tried out, eight were chosen. Balza, Hilliard, “Igor” Naumann, J. Schroeder, and Stratman fill the remaining spots. The team is young and the prospects look good. Special thanks go to the pro. Art Huebner, of the Watertown Club. He has more than cooperated in pro viding the team privileges for practice and home matches. Baseball Split NWC 12:8 Mt. St. Paul 8:10 The Trojans got off to a good start on April 27 by overpowering Mt. St. Paul Col lege of Waukesha 12 - 8. Indication of a victory was present from the very beginn ing.. The Trojans took a commanding lead right off the bat with three runs in the first inning. Throughout the game they were never behind. The fourth inning proved

to be another big inning with four runs scored. Powerful hitting was the story. Palmquist was 3-3 with 3 RBI’s, Kuschel was 2-4 with 4 RBI’s, and Smith was 2-4 with 3 RBI’s. Den Lemke was credited with the win, going almost the entire game. The second game was a different story. Mt. St. Paul came on top 10-8. Again the key was batting, but this time it was poor batting. There were only five hits and no one got more than one apiece. Adept coach ing at third base by “Big Fred" contributed to the eight stolen bases which the Trojans got away with. A rally of three runs in the first inning gave Mt. St. Paul the lead. The Trojans pulled ahead in the third inning, but lost their lead in the sixth when St. Paul rallied again for five more runs. Af ter that they were never able to make a comeback. j. s.

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are very conservative in their dress and change their styles very seldom. Because of this, major changes in men’s attire tend to occur in forty year cy cles, and fashions go from one extreme to the other. Therefore, if one were to exam ine the men’s clothing advertisements of the 1930’s, he would immediately notice several of these changes. Since the 1930’s lapels have changed in width, the length of different types of jackets has gone up or down, buttons have moved several inches, and neckties have changed from very wide to very narrow. However, all of the changes are part of the gradual cycle which •■very article of clothing undergoes. One item which is enjoying an up surge in popularity is the turtleneck sweater, a perennial favorite among winter sports en thusiasts. Their popularity stems from the fact that they eliminate the inconveni ence of a necktie, and still can be worn with a sport coat. So great is their popularity on the East Coast that the supply is notable to satisfy the demand. One of New York City’s late night entertainers offered this anecdote to show their value. When he re cently reported that his Cadillac had been stolen, he was not concerned with the loss of his Cadillac, which he could easily and quickly replace, but with the loss of the ten new turtleneck sweaters which he had in the back seat of the car. Pierre Chardin, the designer who is most responsible for their success and whose cre ations sell for about thirty dollars, insists that turtleneck sweaters are suitable for any occasion. However, many of the highclass restaurants do not quite agree and de mand that their patrons wear a suit and tie. However, their only reply is the small sign at the entrance: “No Turtlenecks Allowed’’. Whether the turtleneck is a mere short lived fad or a revolution in men’s clothing is a question which only the future whims of the American man will be able to an* swer. A. B.

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CEditorial ■KT o doubt there were some eyes opened J.N and some consciences pricked when the delegation from the Lutheran Collegi ans chapter at UWM presented their slide lecture and discussion here concerning their activities. As a matter of fact, one could even say that Northwestern was put to shame on the projection screen, where we saw how a group of Lutheran students at a secular university were enthusiastically endeavoring to live and spread their faith. It is ironic that a “hide your faith un der a bushel” sort of attitude should pre vail on a campus where young men are training to preach the message that directs us to let our light shine before men. Grant ed, as one of the pastor?* at. the lecture mus ed, there is little opper unity for a North western student to “rw rt his roommate to Christianity;" but *\. be it from anyone to use this as a exc-r v “serve his time here” and wait ’til ; begin his active work in the minis- ' . . be it from any one to even say the hr • . ill see another day on earth. The “LC-ers” have .found a most effici ent way to burn up gy which many a university student has wasted on protest marches and pot parties. That same ener gy has been lying dormant at Northwes tern, too. Recently, however, it has begun to seep out in the form of the Y-GOP and the short-lived SCI. We have the necessary potential for an enterprising Lutheran Col legian chapter here. Already a number of students have made plans to help out with the Milwaukee inner core project this sum mer. After all, shouldn’t we be interested in letting our fellow Lutherans at the secu lar universities know that we, their future pastors, are also interested in this new op portunity to actually live our faith? j. z. TA7artburg Hall has given our campus f * community occasion for considerable gratitude. Its residents appreciate living in an uncrowded dormitory that has attractive lounges, ample recreational facilities, quiet carpeted hallways. Wartburg is a dorm that has proved itself to be efficient and well-planned. That is the point of these lines, for it is not so much an editorial as a means of

expressing our gratitude for the new liv ing quarters which the Synod has provided for us, within the past year. Many contri butions have helped to enhance our dormi tory. Certainly, we thank the AAL Life Insurance Co. for its contribution in fur nishing the public lounge, as well as indi viduals who have made similar donations. But we are especially grateful to the many synod members who, through the Missio Dei offering, have made this dormitory a reality. Finally, we can all be thankful that this dormitory, by allowing NWC to in crease its student enrollment, is helping to alleviate our pastor shortage. c. L. S is almost here. The count jpleted, down to summer has nearly been com and few of us are disheartened or une

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frustrated because of it. Amid the sighs of relief and formation of new plans that ac company this season, many things will be forgotten. But something that we should not lose sight of is our goal in life, and of more importance to us now, our role as students of Northwestern. Time continually sweeps us into the un certain future. A summer job, perhaps more schooling, or maybe even our choice of vocation remains in doubt. Here at school the activity-packed schedule of the first semester, the winter “drag” and spring fever have taken their toll on all of us. They not only leave us physically sluggish, but slow down our mental activity and am bition also. Have we done our share to earn the label “college-educated?” At one time or another we all have put off some thing we should have done. I am not try ing to refute the adage “all work and no play . . . .” However, if we have made up our minds to be ministers, we should not short-change our chances of entering this high calling. The constant urging not to get behind in schoolwork often falls un heeded. Little can be done now to make up for a bad year except through a lot of extra effort. Many students at state col leges and universities envy our education and student relationships. We tend to take these for granted or make them the butt of our jokes. The vacation period ahead of us is a good time to re-evaluate the reasons we attend NWC and put them into perspec tive. If we don’t, we may regret it later. H. p.

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THE "NORTHWESTERN” OF CENTRAL AFRICA The majority of this, the 97th graduating capital city of Zambia. It property of 40 * class of Northwestern College, have to- acres, which is equal to that of Northwesday completed another step in the long tern, was developed from an old citrus road of preparation for work in the Chris- farm, consisting largely of rough bush land tian ministry. Just about a week ago, in a and several acres of neglected fruit trees, country situated in the heart of Africa, a The present physical plant is able to accomgroup of five natives took partin commen- modate up to 24 students. It centers acement exercises of no less significance, round the administration building which These men graduated from a school which provides two classrooms, offices, a library, one day, with the Lord’s blessing, will play a multipurpose room, and is also used for a role similar to that of Northwestern in the church services on Sundays. The Bible training of ambassadors for Christ. Now School, like Northwestern, has a dormitory the Lutheran Bible Institute of Central Af- for single students. This dorm, with a carica is only four years old and is located pacity of twelve, was converted from a 8000 miles away among a people only two small homestead on the property and congenerations removed from uncivilized pa- tains a student kitchen and dining room, ganism. Thus there are naturally many Married men are housed with their famimore differences than similarities between lies in six separate, two-room dwellings. A the two schools. And yet there is that one publications building, two faculty homes, a basic likeness — both provide at their re- storage barn, and pump house form the spective levels the final stages of Christian other existing structures. The campus in training before seminary work begins, a eludes an area set aside for student recre training which has as its ultimate goal the ational activities as well as large garden preparation of men dedicated to preach the plots apportioned to those who wish to supGospel to every creature. We shall now take plement their rations. As at Northwestern a closer look at some of the features of this great pride is taken in the outward appearremote institution, which one might with ance of the campus. More than 2000 t ees prayerful anticipation and optimism call— and shrubs of various kinds have been The “Northwestern” of Central Africa. planted to transform much of the original The establishment of the Lutheran Bible bush into a park-like setting. Institute fulfilled one of the greatest needs As one would expect at a dormitory of our Central African mission. It was long school, the student body is made up of men recognized that in order to plant a truly in who come from many different regions of digenous church rather than a dependent Zambia and Malawi. No less than five mission, it was essential to inaugurate as Bantu languages are represented, each dif soon as possible a thorough-going training fering from the other by as much, perhaps, program to produce a native ministry of as Spanish from Portuguese. Student ages the Word. To this end the Rev. E. H. Wend- have ranged from 20 to 62, averaging aland was called by our synod in 1962, spe bout 30. Intellects, too, vary greatly, but cifically to organize and supervise such an the most important requirement for a stu endeavor. Although the school was official dent is not intellectual competence but ra ly opened on September 14, 1964, in reality ther spiritual consecration and a real de it had already been in operation for more sire to serve the Lord and spread His Word. than a year prior to this. During this time A basic knowledge of English is also requi our missionaries met regularly with small site. The presence of a number of African groups of native religious workers to deep languages makes it necessary to use Eng en their understanding of Christian doc lish as a common language. Though it, too, trine and to prepare them as lay preachers has its “communication” problems. Mar in the church. ried students are preferred for the practical The campus of the Lutheran Bible In reason that in African society one is not stitute is located in a rapidly growing sub considered a man and hence able to speak division, seven miles east of Lusaka, the with authority until he is married. 22

The faculty, as at most synod schools, is understaffed. Supt. Wendland and mis sionary R. W. Mueller share most of the teaching assignments. Similar training schools of the same size usually have at least three full time instructors. Student-faculty relations have their ups and downs as at any school, and it is especially in this area that an extra meas ure of patience, perseverance, and sancti fied common sense is required. The African student usually does not hesitate to make his complaints known to the superinten dent at any time, day or night. It is often hard for him to get used to a strict schedule of work and study, and if he is unwilling to continue, he will demonstrate this in one way or another. He may deliberately break school regulations, make excuses about having to visit a “sick uncle”, or suddenly pack up and leave without a word. It is es sential to treat each student with absolute equality, for jealousy a m ong Africans is easily aroused because of deep-seated tribal rivalries. The Lutheran Bible Institute is a termi nal school, as yet it is not followed by a seminary program. Therefore its curricu lum differs quite a bit from that of North western, which offers a prc- theological train ing. The two-year Bible School course of study includes all of the major theological disciplines in simplified form. It was nec essary to develop and adapt most of the ba sic material in order to meet the needs of the African student as well as the particu lar society and culture in which he will work. The curriculum avoids subjects which serve merely to import or impose tra ditional patterns of religious expression or order, such as: liturgical services, statuary, hymnology, robing, and others. Rather it emphasizes the transmission of the true Gospel. On weekday mornings following de votion, the students receive instruction in Bible study, church doctrine, church his tory, English, music, and in the practical work of preaching, teaching, evangelizing, and serving a Christian congregation. Class lectures must necessarily be conducted slowly and with great care, for much of the subject matter is completely new to the men and is presented in a language that is un familiar at best. A supervised study period is held in the evening after chapel. The students, many of whom have received lit

tle, if any, formal education previously, must also learn how to study. Practical field work is an essential part of the training program. This may take the form of translating religious instructional materials into the various African vernacu lars, conducting evening chapel devotions, or preaching and teaching under supervi sion in the service and Sunday school held weekly at the Bible Institute. Second-year students cycle on weekends to different vil lages around Lusaka to take care of preach ing and teaching assignments on their own. Thus valuable experience is gained right at the school. In general, the African student spends his free time as any collegiate would: in recreational sport, work, or taking care of personal needs. In addition, the married men usually do quite a bit of vegetable gar dening in the plots provided on campus. A regular afternoon work schedule helps the students earn their school fees or a lit tle extra spending money by assisting in the maintenance of the property or in the preparation of materials for our Christian Literature Program. Routine tasks of sweeping, cleaning, and watering are as signed every week and done by the stu dents without compensation. Since the Bible Institute opened in ’64, ten students have completed its two-year course of study. Nine of these graduates are currently serving as “pastoral helpers” or evangelists in various congregations of Zambia. They preach the Word, adminis ter the Sacraments, conduct instruction classes, and perform other congregational duties. However, these men must still work under the close supervision and guidance of a missionary. The African has tremend ous natural gifts in the way of preaching and teaching but often lacks the necessary maturity to realize the other responsibili ties which go with such work. This can be gained only through supervised practical experience in the classroom. Therefore, it is imperative for the fulfillment of an in digenous church policy, that a seminary course be offered to those evangelists who demonstrate the necessary gifts and faith fulness in the field. Only in this way can a native ministry be trained that will be able to work independently. A seminary is es sential if the African Church is to develop soundly and not to be retarded spiritually.

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Oration in the Field of Humanities: THE WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA 'C’ver since its founding, the United States J-J has enjoyed the reputation of being a country which encourages free enterprise, private initiative, and thrift. Through most of its history, it has beckoned to foreigners as a land of unlimited opportunity, a place where each man’s chances of improving himself were limited only by his willing ness to work. In America there was no poverty, so the glowing reports falsely af firmed. Twentieth-century Presidents, confront ed with the problems of national depression and urbanization, have taken the opposite point of view. The constant growth of Soc ial Security, though many are reluctant to put it in the same category with other re lief programs, gives us some idea of the rapid expansion of government welfare programs. Since we as taxpayers are ex pected to support this and all public wel fare programs, we have the right to exam ine how our money is being spent.

Cleveland denied federal relief to private citizens with his classic statment . “Though the people support the government, the gov ernment should not support the people.” Though some of us are newcomers to Social Security and related programs, our county has been engaged in public wel fare activity for quite some time. Even the bitterest enemy of Franklin Delano Roose velt can’t give him all the blame, for public welfare was in the minds of American leg islators long before he introduced his al most countless alphabetical agencies in his attempt to aid those suffering under the Great Depression and lead the country on the road to recovery. Actually, the first ma jor piece of public welfare legislation, aim ed at assuring the development of an ade quate public school system west of the Alle gheny Mountains, was passed in 1785, when our country was barely nine years old.

The first of the modern welfare pro grams, which provided compensation for Poverty has been present in the United workers killed or injured on the job, was States since its founding. However, our passed in 1911. In 1932 Wisconsin led the early Presidents, depending on private wel other states in offering benefits to the un fare programs and the untapped resources employed. President Roosevelt created a of the West, left litde need for government host of agencies in the years following interference. Even when the country was 1933. Since most of them were short-lived being ravaged by the Civil War, Abraham attempts at providing temporary relief, and Lincoln advocated minimal federal assis few were truly effective, they are notewor tance. As late as 1887, three years before thy chiefly as precedents for modern wel the door was shut on unlimited opportunity fare legislation. One exception is the Social in the closing of the frontier, President Security program, which has been expand24

ed beyond Roosevelt’s wildest dreams since its start in 1935. Coverage has been broad ened and benefits increased to such an ex tent that the program paid out twenty-six billion dollars last year instead of the two billion projected for that year in 1940. Costs have also exceeded Roosevelt’s ex pectations. He believed that the original combined tax of 2% on the first $3000 of income would increase to 6% of $3000 by this year. It is now 8.8% of $7,800.

begins to level off because of the pill, it will consume an even greater slice of the general tax dollar. Besides this, every new federal relief program adds a host of names to the government payroll. Spiraling gov ernment costs may in time require a rate of taxation which would endanger our whole financial structure. The second flaw in current programs is that they lead to over-centralization of government. Though some of the programs are administered by the states, the federal government provides the money and calls the shots, thus limiting their freedom. The ultimate development of the German super state from Bismarck’s welfare state gives us ample warning of the possible dangers in our growing federal welfare bureaucracy.

Oddly enough, World War II, which created the period of prosperity that ended the Depression, also ushered in an era of phenomenal growth for the welfare state. The next decade saw the cost of relief in crease by 98%, while the population only gained by 38%. Since then, the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations have created a welfare system with a scope far beyond that inaugurated by Roosevelt in the depths of the Depression. The federal government subsidizes the merchant ma rine, commercial aviation, farmers, hospi tals, and highways. I? loans money to stu dents, credit unions, small businessmen, homebuilders, and prospectors. It doles it out to the poor, unemployed, handicapped, and aged, and spends >•: on aiding the un derprivileged through programs like Vista and the Job Corps. There are grants avail able for city, county, and state govern ments. Though all the programs are not run directly by the national government, they are all under its supervision and look to it for over half of their funds. In fact, 25% of each state’s total budget comes from Washington.

A third flaw is found in the nature of the various relief programs. Almost all seem to be designed to keep the welfare recipient in his present state of depend ency. A recent survey shows that 70% of those on public relief rolls have never been self-supporting. Though relief benefits are not lavish, they are great enough to dis courage the recipient from worldng for a few extra benefits. The biggest flaw in our welfare picture is its ultimate goal. Judging from current political promises and the insistent voices all around us, our nation is looking to in creased welfare programs as the panacea for all its ills. The experience of other mo dern welfare states has shown this hope to be vain. Despite huge public welfare pro grams, drug addiction, drunkenness, delin quency, and social disease are climbing at an alarming rate. No state, even if it suc ceeds in satisfying all the physical wants of its citizens, is able to legislate itself back into Eden. Since there will always be poor and needy, we cannot hide our heads in the sand and try to sabotage all public welfare programs. As good citizens, we should rather elect those men who will keep the growing system from getting out of hand. If we support officials who see the prob lems connected with public welfare in ad dition to its real benefits to society, we can be assured that the old virtues of free en terprise, private initiative, and thrift will not be lost.

Of course, there are bound to be evils inherent in any system as large at this. Most of us have heard of welfare cheats, mothers who have one illegitimate child after another, and workers who alternate between short periods of employment and long vacations at the taxpayers’ expense. However, all these are minor problems when compared to the major flaws in the U. S. welfare picture. The first flaw is found in financing: All of the programs promise to be an ever heavier drain on federal funds. Social Se curity, which was inaugurated as a selfsupporting insurance program, has until now presented its bill to future generations. However, as it expands its circle of wel fare activity, and the national population

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CLASS PRESIDENT Cambria, Wisconsin GLENN MOLDENHAUER Glenn comes from Cambria, a small town whose name Glenn is quick to point out was the Latin term for Wales. "Mol dy,” as he is called by his friends, has spent the last e; c years of his life at NWC running the gamut of the prep ami college departments. Consequently, he feels his greatest achievement has been making it through Northwestern. During the time spent on campus, Glenn has ‘‘dedicated himself to the better ment of NWC society.” Because of this, he is viewed by many of his classmates as being “one of the last rocks.” During his college career, he has been an avid participant in the ini; mur al program; involved in football, basketball, softball, volleyball, and bowling. In addition to this, Glenn was the 1937 cnbbage tournament champ. He was on the Dorm Council his sophomore year and was a member of Forum during his first three years in college. He regards himself as being not overly scholastic, but rather interested in languages. He has an affinity for October nights and will always have a niche in his heart for NWC. Next fall will find Glenn at the seminary attempting to perpetuate his motto: “Do nothing and rest afterwards.”

VICE-PRESIDENT CARL SIEGLER Bangor, Wisconsin The eight years that Carl’s spent at NWC have been none too long for him. His school spirit remains undaunted to the end, a fact evidenced by his membership in band as a senior. He claims that he’s been faking on his clarinet all that time, but we know better. He and his roommate have been mainstays of the Pep Band and without them it won’t be the same. Al though he’s been called “CJ, the mysterious” and the class raisonneur, his reserve didn’t deter his class from electing him vice-president. Around the library and bookstore his face has been conspicuous for its smile. It has been rumored that Carl is the only Wartburger with a room on the fourth floor. The passage is through his mailbox, which he’s been watching for the past two years. Although he isn’t the high liver that he used to be, he claims to get a sympathetic high with a little help from his other friends too. Carl says he “almost” plays golf and tennis, but he probably limited his varsity tennis ca reer to one day for his roommate’s sake. After a summer at Glacier driving one of the tour buses, he will take his “trips” at the Sem. 26

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SECRETARY-TREASURER New Ulm, Minnesota EDWARD FREDRICH “Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.” Mick drinks in the “deep stuff” en masse - once he sets his mind to it. He’s about as true a scholar as there is . NWC’s competent faculty impresses him, and he likes his language work. Possibly he finds the faculty easier to appreciate than most of us because of his two years of experience in teaching Quinta Remedial La tin. Though he’s better known for his unique critical analysis (emendation) in Greek, he claims his first love is still math and science. The Black and Red gave him the opportunity to solidify his thoughts on topics that interested him, and the re sult was unusually fine writing. The B & R also brought out an other of his characteristics - slowness. But perhaps that’s what makes his scholarly bent so endurable. Mick is well-rounded and even appreciates Risk, fishing, and functioning as mediator between the faculty and “the worst since ’09.” Because he is both broad minded and a little enigmatic, it would be mere speculation to determine where he’ll be drinking deeply next year at the Sem.

DORM COUNCIL PRESIDENT CHARLES CLAREY Milwaukee, Wisconsin Definitely a man of his own convictions, “Chuck” decided to come up here after graduating from Wisconsin Lutheran High School. Despite his firm belief in backbone and conscientious effort, he questions his own efficiency at the post of Dorm Coun cil President. Having piled up more minutes than results, he has come out known . thru laws alone cannot change a stu dent body. “Bubbles ’ hocky form has gained quite a repu tation on the gridiron in the pass interception department, and his tennis racket has helped the team to net a victory or two. As a matter of fact, he has seen action on many extra-curricular fronts, including the choruses and the Black and Red. In his scholastic pursuits, he has been able to stomach at least in part, everything thrown at him, except German, which he claims “should be taught as conversational, if at all .” But that has not prevented him from stumbling upon an AAL scholarship and the Tau Delta Theta award. Next fall, with dimming memories of Frosh snow shoveling, the ball team of ’65 and Coach still in his head, “Chuck” will pack up his Wigwam socks and “Do Not Disturb” attitude and give Sem a year of his life. Mankato, Minnesota MARCUS BIRKHOLZ Marcus, (which the liberal arts tradition of NWC has also managed to turn into a nickname) is thankful that his four years of high school and two years of college at Bethany have afforded him sufficient academic diversion to ward off some of the gripes of the eight-year men on campus. However, lest anyone fall un der the wrong impression, Marc has no complaints about his two years here, and as a conscientious student, has best enjoyed the field of languages (although he admits that German is begin ning to hang out.) On the other side of the fence, he has run the gamut of intramural sports, although his true dedication still remains with skiing, fishing at his “college retreat” and “The Dating Game.” He is perhaps best known for his dabb ling in informal debate (better known as bull sessions). This summer he will again “work” for the Minnesota Highway De partment. In the fall he will enter the Seminary, where he will perhaps fulfill his secret ambition of giving Gary P. a “pinkbelly.”

Bay City, Michigan JOHN BOEHRINGER A cloud of exhaust, a downshift, and John Boehringer (alias Bullwinkle, Bat, Slim and other penciled-in names) returns again from another sortie as chauffeur of the “desert fox” (the official staff car of the class of ’09). As we review some of the high spots that have contributed to his unqualified and perhaps un signed success at NWC, how could one forget his breathless phy sique in the Senior vs. Faculty basketball romp, his membership on the Senior Steering Committee, his cribbage championship, his magnificent chilly-dipping into a second place in bowling, and his support (four years as usher) in Forum productions? Following such a record, his participation in Male Chorus, Mixed Chorus, Glee Club and orchestra, as well as varsity and intra mural sports, serves merely as a prelude in the four-year ca reer of this happy-go lucky, pseudo-student. Putting the “des ert fox” on the rack for the summer, John will take over as chauffeur of a touring bus in Glacier National Park. In the fall he will resume his activities at the Sem.

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MARK BROECKER Chicago, Illinois Mark spent a rather quiet six years on this campus, pre ceded by a year at Concordia, St. Paul, Minnesota a ad a year at New Ulm. His father, a Missouri Synod pastor, recently ac cepted a call to Chicago, and Mark has been enjoyii" the life of a bachelor, complete with an off-campus room. He listens to his short-wave radio and earns his “B_}_” average through diligent work in relatively calm surroundings (drool . case-type dorm students). He thinks highly of the type of education North western offers, but scowls at the idea of Saturday ela.-ses. Prof. Kiessling catches Mark’s interest, as does anyone history7 course he can get into. Fond remembrances of N\\ • include the time he fainted in Prof. Schroeder’s Latin class in Frosh. Mark drives a 1963 Mercury, which is currently for sale. His plans for the future differ somewhat from those of his class mates. In October Mark will resume his education at a semi nary - Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

DENNIS BUETTNER Los Angeles, California Dennis, alias “Bitty,” says he is not a very outstanding guy; he only says, “I am that I am.” Nevertheless, his roommate would have you believe that Bitty is “schizoid with a dominating element of paranoia!” As a lover of cars (the-’54-01ds-type) and a lover of “good-time” parties, he throws his hands up in frus tration when he assures you that he really is apathetic to the situation. He came to NWC for his Tertia year as a fugitive from Mobridge. This year he resided in Wartburg Hall, while in pre vious years he lived in the cramped quarters of East Hall. He has been active in intramural sports. Fifth place in this year’s bowling tourney and second place in last year’s cribbage tourney are his pastime achievements. He leaves his third floor room, Duraclean job and mumbling to who ever wants them. Dennis will enter the Sem this fall.

Morton Grove, Illinois DAVID CLARK After graduating from Michigan Lutheran Seminary, this debonair, studious fellow decided to devote all his time and en ergy to his studies at Northwestern to lay the best possible foundation for his work at the seminary. For this reason he did not participate in any sports or musical organizations. He was not lacking in school spirit, however, as his presence at football games and musical performances indicates. He also enjoys playing tennis and likes to camp out, although both ac tivities have suffered because of a lack of time. Because he be lieves that a sound body is as important as a sound mind, Dave spends his leisure hours lifting weights. Dave has the secret desire to be a member of the Dorm Council, where he believes he could have made several worthwhile contributions. He also believes that a greater number of college coeds would improve several of the lax attitudes prevalent at Northwestern, especi ally student dress. As a Prep tutor, Dave believes that he has gained self-confidence and has had an excellent opportunity to communicate with other people. Dave will spend this summer working for a Chicago moving company, and in the fall he will enter the Sem. Sussex, Wisconsin ORVAL CULLEN Orv is a graduate of Vi consin Lutheran High School. He has concentrated his v< r : : ts efforts on the pitcher’s mound for the baseball team mural football, basketball, and vol leyball have also com m share of his time. However, it was in the field of mun.1 uo excelled. Orv has been active in almost every mu- ' fixation Northwestern has to offer. During an Easter tom r '"re chorus, this “spreader of wild oats” gained his fam a- : miv's man. In Phcenix, Orv met a girl who has relativ< in - v x. As the bus pulled away, Orv yelled to the girl, “See Sussex” — an unwise statement to make within earsii :,.V fellow-students. Orv claims, how ever, that even during mlay, his thoughts were complete ly occupied by a girl named Jermaine. Orv’s other interests range from fishing and mdoov snorts to working with children. This past year, he has been employed as a stock-boy at a local supermarket. This summer, Orv will work on a construction crew, and next fall he will take his winning personality with him to Sem.

MICHAEL ENGEL Maribel, Wisconsin Mike feels his greatest accomplishment at Northwestern has been keeping his cool through eight long years at one school. He thinks NWC could be a good place, but has far too many hang ups. Mike has also been a member of chorus for eight years and remembers the Arizona-California tour of 1987 as one of the best experiences of his college years. He has tried intra murals in basketball and bowling, only to see his star-of-theteam dreams shattered. During his last two years Mike belong ed to Forum and landed major roles in “The Physicists” and “View from the Bridge.” Mike prides himself in having beaten the system by managing passing grades each year, and yet avoiding an ulcer as a consequence of too much studying. Be tween cramming sessions Mike enjoys reading, writing, culti vating the underground and keeping up his inscrutable image. Following graduation, Mike would like to do a few of the things he’s only been thinking about, and next year he plans to give the Sem a try for a year and see what happens then.

Watertown, Wisconsin DOUGLAS ENGELBRECHT If there is indeed a little entertainer in everyone, then Mr. Engelbrecht certainly was blessed with three times his share— and none of us who have ever laughed with him want to com plain. More so than his ability on the basketball court and his scholastic reputation, Doug’s sense of humor sets him aoart from the crowd. During the summer he takes full advantage of it working as a variation of the singing waiter at a Wiscon sin Dells resort, the Cliula-Vista. Along with Adie Harstad and Dick Froehlich, he entertains frequently, singing folk songs and telling jokes. An avid fan of the UW basketball team, he was himself a member of NWC's “buckets” team for four seasons, and a member of the N-Club for three years. As the scholar, Doug wrote for the B & R for two years, his “Campus and Classroom” section being a reliable source of enjoyment. In addition to these things there is a special PK named Gale Mattek to complete the interests of Douglas Engel brecht, a refreshing “change-of-pace” guy who unhesitatingly endorses NWC and NWCP. Next year Sem will await his spe cial kind of vitality.

RICHARD FROEHLICH Hustisford, Wisconsin A Son of Hustisford who lists that town as his chief loyal ty, Dick will be leaving Northwestern after an eight-year so journ. He has, in case no one has noticed, a definite interest in baseball, playing both for the Hustisford town team and lor the college varsity as an outfielder and a pitcher. If all gees well, he hopes to spend the summer in Florida playing at St. P< tersburg. During the non-baseball season he amuses himself o 1 the intramural grid and floor with football, basketball and • ollevball, lest he deteriorate during the long layover. In his moments of less vigorous action, he was a member of the male liorus during his first three years of college and still displays ar affec tion for listening to music (especially the Kingston Trio and Si mon and Garfunkel). With memories of his Senior year still in his mind, Dick plans to adopt the Mequon zipccde in the fall.

GLENN GROTH Hastings, Minnesota On the farm Glenn (“Tiger” or “Rattlesnake”) Groth learn ed to love simple pleasures like fishing, heavy blankets, old-time polkas (“You can’t have a better time than at an old fashioned wedding dance”) and big families. In contrast to this, Glenn has a few profound thoughts and some hangups — many of them typical of NWC students. One is being a five-year man. Glenn is ready to move on to the Seminary, both to reunite with old friends and to leave some old enemies behind. Yet, because he was a “late bloomer” and needed time to “figure out the sys tem”, his status as a Remedial has been a blessing in disguise. Speaking of that incidental feature of school called learning, Glenn says that he always "got along” with languages. To prove it, he even took a Latin elective one year. School is the only place where Glenn has really had any catching-up to do; his driving ability has kept him abreast of both both the finan cial and social scenes. “Bessy”, his ’63 Ford, takes him to New Ulm and Milwaukee, and one of Mel’s orange eyesores in the parking lot keeps his bills paid and lets him be a hero to at least a few people. 30

Watertown, Wisconsin KURT GRUNEWALD A life-long resident of Watertown, “Gruni” was a logical candidate for NWC eight years ago. Now that he has run the gauntlet of courses, he is glad to move on, but not because of a dislike for his alma mater. As a town student, he has become very anxious to get a full taste of dorm life. His immediate access to a car gained for him the nickname of "Joe Taxi.” His service has been recently updated with the acquisition of a ’68 VW. The ’62 Corvair, which he owned previously, gasDed its last after three carefully-plotted round-trips to New Ulm. An A and B student, he enjoys Hebrew class most. For the last two years he has been a member of the tennis team and has participated in two chorus tours. Off-campus hours find him working at Bethesda. One distinction still remains. “Gruni” was the first member of his class to be a father, foster father that is. For ten months he supported Kozui Saito, a six-year old Oriental girl, through donations to the Japanese Children Chris tian Friends Society.

Watertown, Wisconsin JOHN GUSE The students at NWC will always remember “Goos” as being the only “dorm Wiwicnt” who never had to pay room and board. When John w: ; v ending classes, he could always be found on third floor •' cards. Others thought it was his that it was only for the purpose part-time job. But h-. it holastic endeavors. John went all of relaxation from di out on the gridiron . basketball court and joined the ranks of the N-Club. On 11. ■ mural level he played volleyball and softball and bowled, oiv - ' Honey Queen" seems to keep him sweet and adorable, fie >ig weekends his excuses for missing exhaustible. In retrospect John says Monday’s classes se< he wouldn’t think tv. •' doing it all over again. He feels his relations with the wiry, coaches and students have been most rewarding. As to. he Student-Faculty relations, he can’t understand how the profs can put up with the students at times. After a summer of working on a construction crew, he’ll be come a full-fledged dorm student at the Sem.

Echo, Minnesota FREDERICK HACKBARTH “Take your troubles, put them in a box, sit on it and laugh” is “Fritz’s” formula for success, and evidently it has worked. A DMLH3 product and a member of the renowned “Triumvir ate,” “Fritz,” alias “Hacky,” alias “Icewagon,” is always game for any type of fun and believes in saying what he thinks in a bull session. Sometimes, however, he “says” before he thinks and don’t let his size deceive you. His rugged physique won him a place on the football team, and he has taken part in ev ery category of intramurals, holding seven championship Tshirts and an “N” Club membership as proof. Fritz” does find time for books and although he has developed an appetite for Hebrew, he has had to rely on “luck” to bring him through the onslaughts of the music department. That, however, has not dampened his personal taste for classical as well as pop selections. Speaking of tastes, his “craving for good cheer leading” has led him to hold the record number of trips to New Ulm. Following another summer at Continental Can, “Fritz” will trim up his “blond spot” and lead “Big Red” to greener pastures at Mequon.

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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin RUTH HAGEDORN Miss Hagedorn is living proof that the College department of NWC is co-educational. Four years at Onalaska High gave Ruth a taste for languages, and since one can gorge himself on languages here, she came to Northwestern. Two years each of band, Pep Band, orchestra, a year of Mixed Chorus and three years of Forum constitute her extra-curricular experience, but the classroom is her real forte. To hear her talk, you’d think Greek was interesting, and she feels we need more Hebrew to become at all competent in it. She lists Professors Eickmann, Panning and Toppe as her favorites. Her purpose in attending this school was to get a good language background, which, af ter a year in Germany, would have led her into teaching. Then she met Ron. Although a career and marriage do not mix in her mind, she feels her background here will be helpful to him, as he plans to attend Bethany in preparation for the ministry. Ruth’s future, then, is with Ron.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota DENNIS HALVARSON “Halv,” alias the “Swede,” is a graduate of Dr. Martin Luther Academy. Although he is not known as a very studious fellow, he is extremely well-known for his athletic achievements. During his years as a member of the football team, Halv has instilled spirit and fight in his teammates. His ski’ : d deter mination have been rewarded by four letters, and ho >- s helped net several football championships. To a lesser dey . he has made himself known as an outstanding basketball d tennis player. During the off-season, Halv keeps in shape ' y playing intramural softball and volleyball. During his senim year, he was president of the "N” Club. He’s said to have a preference for girls named Kathy, but because of his desire for m occa sional change, he has remained quite free during his years at NWC. Halv, also known as “Craash”, has had several runins with other cars. After a summer of highway construction, this care-free, happy-go-lucky fellow will proceed to Sem.

PAUL HARRINGTON Mount Morris, Michigan After he left his home city of Mount Morris, Paul began his season in Synod schools with four years at Michigan Luth eran Seminary in Saginaw and then hopped across Lake Michi gan to fair Watertown. Since his arrival on the NWC campus, Paul has pursued an active career in intramural sports, par ticipating in everythnig that’s happened on the athletic field or gym floor, and followed an at-school program of employment at Dura-Clean. In his scholastic pursuits, Paul devoted special effort to his history studies, this year’s favorite being American history. Now that he has reached his goal of the moment — making it through — Paul proposes to continue his career in Synod institutions by attending the Sem for at least one year. Then he will either continue there or attend another school to seek a degree in history and a teaching career in a Synod high school or college.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin DONALD HEISE As the years pass, Don will probably be best remembered for three things. One is his reserved, but not shy nature. An other is his clear thinking and quest for education. (Any fellow Dorm Council member can attest to his ability to produce a steady flow of well-organized ideas.) The third is his series of three Easter vacation trips to various parts of the country. A graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran High School, Don has kept his slender bod in shape with an extensive intramural schedule and some bowling besides. On his list of favorites we would find psychology and philosophy, exciting conversation, tinkering with cars and traveling, when possible. Those previously-mentioned Easter trips found him and his companions cruising virtually every part of the country in his ’55 and ’60 Chevys. Don’s sense of humor was often represented in his poems, several of which have appeared in the Black and Red. His biggest joke, though, may be his odd magazine subscriptions. Don leaves with a con structive interest in NWC and may go on to the Sem.

Theresa, Wisconsin ROBERT IIOEPNER “Moses” has the distinction of being the only graduate this year to receive two diploma. Yes, he finally was able to recog nize triangles and gei ' up with his geometry. Bob was a football candidate in 1 chomore year. He then turned his where he participated in all four attention to intramural phases. His wicked i . . ; playing on one Arbor Day will al ways be remembeiv with his interest in the Bernie Roberts Polka Band -li n o time is devoted to writing let ters to Donna and hi.- vo; suids are heavily scheduled with fre quent visits to Chic-1, n i ' 'Iloep" usually spent a couple nights a week in the > .ng to keep Dick in shape. He him self never seems to ! . weight though. Bob has a mildmannered way and was c the object of someone’s sick joke. He’ll turn professional ih; summer when he takes on a job as umpire in the Rock Ri\ ; League. Maybe the acquisition of contacts will help his cads at the plate. At the end of the summer Bob will take his convertible to head up Seminary way.

Grand Junction, Michigan ERNEST KAPPEL Ern is a man of many firsts. In his Freshman year in col lege he distinguished himself by becoming the first in his class to become engaged. On the eighth of June, Ern will become the first member of his graduating class to be married. Ern is a graduate of Michigan Lutheran Seminary. It was during his Junior year at MLS that he met Dawn, the future Mrs. Kappel. He was not active in the musical organizations or varsity sports at Northwestern, but played intramural softball and volleyball to keep in shape. Ern’s time has been divided between Dawn, his car, and his job with United Parcel, a necessity because of his weekly six-dollar telephone calls to Michigan. Ern has managed to succeed scholastically because of his never-give-up attitude and his ability to produce when the chips are down. He is a guy who is easy to get along with and is seldom seen with out a smile. This summer Ern will study at Western Michigan, and in fall he hopes to teach at a Lutheran school.

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Hales Corners, Wisconsin ELWIN KLUMB “Elwin’s Follies” will long be remembered in the annals of Northwestern. If nothing else, his frosh Homecoming display and the only sculpture in our brief Winter Carnival tradition pro duced a bit of humor on campus and an enduring reputation for Elwin. He rather spoiled it, however, when he put on a suc cessful Forum Production, “Readings in American History.” His voice is almost always heard in any discussion, particular ly if the topic is controversial in nature. His favorite subject is history, which he considers important in understanding the present. Although “Pee” rates as his favorite prof, EKvin is also grateful that he had the opportunity to sit at the feet of professors Westerhaus and Schumann. Elwin will miss North western, for it has been his home for eight years and has seen him through many good and bad times. Following the Lord’s leading hand, however, Elwin will take himself and his philoso phy (trying to see the viewpoint of the other person) to the Sem.

Livonia, Michigan PHIL KOELPIN Phil, sometimes known as “Big Phi,” calls Livonia, Michi gan his hometown. Being from the Wolverine state, he spent his high school years at Michigan Lutheran Seminary in Saginaw. During his past four years at Northwestern, Phil has partici pated in virtually every intramural program available: foot ball, basketball, softball, bowling, etc. Scholastically, he has a preference for Greek and history. After having Professor Scharf for much of his history work, he feels he is particularly well acquainted with many of the early fathers of the Church. Regarding Northwestern, Phil thinks that a number of ch. nges could be made that would bring about much improvemen His greatest achievements, he feels, have been “sticking it o! : for four years” and getting his Senior Symbolics papers comp .'ted. By being one of the growing number of “Duraclean Boy .. ” he managed to finance his ’62 Pontiac, which will be heading .long with him in the direction of Mequon next fall when he goes on to the Sem.

DAVID KOEPLIN Bay City, Michigan Definite muscles, a full shock of hair, and a serene appear ance are Dave’s most noticeable features, but don’t let them lull you into complacency. Adept at being just a bit later to class than everyone else and sacking in on weekday afternoons, he compensates handily with frequent trips to Milwaukee to enjoy female companionship and “shuck and jive” to the Mo town Sound. A three-year regular for Coach Umnus at defen sive right end after his stint at Saginaw, he keeps in shape with diligent adherence to a weightlifting program. Other in terests of “Harley Dave” are motorcycles and sports in gen eral, including extensive participation in intramurals. A Dorm Council member in his Sophomore year and a somewhat atten tive student in Hebrew and Panning Greek, Dave holds no bit terness toward NWC. “The place is what you make it,” he as serts. After another summer in the cement plant, he will con tinue his studies for the ministry in Mequon.

Somerset, Wisconsin LARRY KOESTER Larry, eldest of seven children in the family, is pacemaker for his brothers and sisters. What better pacemaking than the training for the holy ministry! After graduation from St. Croix LHS, St. Paul, Minn., he entered NWC under the remedial pro gram. During his first year here he was active in band and the Forum, but in the following years, because of an intense study load, he abandoned the extracurricular activities in favor of academic achievement. Koester, Inc., has received an AAL scholarship to finance his education; furthermore, he has work ed the last two summers for a window manufacturing concern (suspicions are he’ll work there this summer). He is most ap preciative of times when he sat beside Ruthie in chapel (or anywhere). He leaves NWC’s campus with fond memories of those famous digressions in Prof. Schumann’s classes and will head for the Sem this fall.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Eight years ago “Bob” first set foot on the sod of ye olde Northwestern and was promptly told to get off the grass. After getting over the shock of having to live in the “pits” of old West Hall and the initial confrontation with the languages, there has been little else to ruffle hi . easy-going exterior except for the ao among car owners. Bob has auto rules, a common been active in intramio als al’ during his college years but, in general, has lost enthusiasm for things at Northwestern as the years have worn on. As a result of this waning extra-curricular urge he has become move serious about his studies. Due to Prof. Eickmann’s influemv Hebrew has caught his interest, as has Prof. Panning’s dedit ned approach to the Classics. Bob’s time is divided into studyi.ee, working at Kroger’s, playing cards and bull sessions. His weekends are devoted to Sandy, the Pack ers, and an occasional Chicago Black Hawk hockey game. Dur ing the summer he works as a machinist at Advance Tool and Die in Milwaukee. The next hurdle in Bob’s horizon: the Semi nary.

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Hartford, Wisconsin Tom Kuehl is a competent man, able to move in many circles. Fortunately, his head does not follow an orbital path. He hasn’t burdened himself with an over-abundance of “book learnin’,” but rather has come to subscribe to the motto: Never let school interfere with your education; and he has proved his ability to survive in spite of such a motto. What does this the ological offspring from Hartford do with his spare time? Lately he has avoided the arms of the fairer sex, preferring places where his civic-mindedness has a chance to express itself. These included all the intramural theaters of combat. His selfless attitude showed itself already in Prep (which he says has under gone some “frightening changes”), when he saved a whole con tingent of boys from a horrible fate by pleading guilty to a smoking charge. Only when the “Sirens of the books” call out to him in Hebrew does Tom occasionally abandon his self-be grudging course and succumb to their enticements. Once again this summer Tom will refuse to think of himself and support the Hartford ball club before he travels to Sem.

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Manitowoc, Wisconsin RICHARD KUGLER This year is the last of five for “Sammy Coon,” who came to NWC from Manitowoc Luth. During his sojourn here, his forte was music. He participated in all three choruses and the glee club. Richwood received a helping hand from “Sam” when he sang in its choir for two years and served as director this year. The college glee club was “honored” under his direction. This, however, is still being debated by its members. Rich is also a working man. During the school year he began his morn ings with bus driving. He’ll devote this summer to the County Highway Department, where he will haul gravel and play cards. His loyalty to the Chrysler Corp. is unquestionable. Auto me chanics occupies “Sammy’s” spare time. It’s doubtful, though, whether he’ll have to make any repairs on his new Barracuda (The Blue Streak). Next year Rich will serve out his lease on the new car at the Sem.

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THEODORE LAMBERT La Crosse, Wisconsin “Home again?” is a question often asked abou, this PK from Onalaska Lutheran. Although he scorns the idea of spend ing a weekend in Watertown and is attracted by the cash regis ter during the week, he does manage to cram school in parttime. A born Romeo, Ted often darts home to the "greatest city on earth” in his “high performance” ’66 Pontiac Tempest, driven by an attraction for the LSU sororities there. However, Ted will not go without leaving his mark at NWC. • captain of the young golf team, his proficiency in the sport 1; helped to keep it above water. Not only is he the Arnold T. liner on campus, but he also lakes to the outdoors with rod an., gun as well. He has dribbled the intramural “bucketball” and bowled “second-rate” for four years. After taking a crack it Male Chorus and band, he still prefers the folk-rock beat and insists that he could have done better without a course in the subject. Looking back over his trail of hairs at NWC, Ted thinks that “having come, seen and graduated” (hopefully), he will be glad to move on to the Sem next fall.

RICHARD LEMKE Watertown, Wisconsin Rich was one of the many NWC students who went to Expo last summer. He made the trip in a rather unique manner - on his trusty motorcycle. The trip was fairly successful, but Rich had a problem. It rained. That wouldn’t be so bad, but it seems that every time he’s taken a major trip, lie’s gotten wet. An other grief caused by his cycle is his occasional dispute with the police over the proper speed at which one should drive. His interest in cycles is also shown by his year-round job at the Schmutzler Cycle Shop. Another source of income is his bus route, which also provides an avenue for social contacts. Rich, however, is not limited to the world of wheels. He writes poetry in his spare time, and he’s managed to fit a little intramural action and two years of Forum into his schedule. Although leaving Watertown will be difficult for him, the summer will see him touring Germany and going on to the Sem in the fall.

Toledo, Ohio JAMES LIGGETT Jim, alias “JD”, alias the “Romeo of NWC,” comes from Toledo, Ohio. During his high school years, he attended Michi gan Lutheran Seminary at Saginaw. While at Northwestern, Jim has been very active in the intramural program, partici pating in football, basketball, baseball, volleyball and bowling. His ability to bend over backward for his classmates and the impression he gives as being “the All-American good guy” de serve credit for his election to the dorm council staff during his final year at NWC. Besides a special affinity for the music de partment, Jim also has a very special loyalty to his two false front teeth. The circumstances of their acquisition at Northwes tern will always have a spot in his heart. Scholastically sneak ing, he has found his greatest enjoyment in the field of Greek. He regards Professors Panning and Eickmann as the best around. Following another summer of work in Toledo, “JD” will be slaving away next fall at the real Wartburg of the Synod, Mequon.

EARL LINDEMAXN Muskego, Wisconsin The product of a Muskego, Wisconsin, farm, Earl Lindemann is a hard-nosed While this could be a mere descrip tion of one of his saa;;vr features, it is intended to be much more. Earl’s manner :i thinking are as hard-nosed as they should be for one v. 'one through as many athletic con tests for Coach Unm.m' he has. Not only does Earl have fond memories of hi days, like the ’65 championship football season, but • also has some tangible rewards for his efforts, like two ban. ed-up knees and a bulletin board generous ly swatched with black and red letters. His knees will not get a rest if Earl has am king to say about it. He hopes to try out for a semi-pro team dm-mg his trial year at the Sem and “get that old bangin’ back” Some things that Earl would like to see return to NWC are the “real” initiation and a subservient un derclass attitude. Next fall, to be sure, we will be wishing we could get Earl back.

DENNIS MEIER Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Denny attended Fox Valley LHS for two and one-half years before he came to NWC in his Quarta year. Since then he has enjoyed the close-knit friendship his class has had at NWC. He sang in the male chorus in his Frosh and Soph years and only as a Junior did he participate in a varsity sport, golf. He enjoys his golf in addition to good books and evening TV entertainment, but deep in his heart his interests vaciliate between good classi cal music (Brahm’s Third Symphony) and pursuing blondes. During this year he has “gotten rid of” one green Pontiac and has turned to the age-old art of greasing (a bit too late, he muses). Dennis claims NWC is a nice place and the profs are good guys in spite of his difficulties with choral conducting. This fall he will plot his coordinates and head for the Sem. ■

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin PETER NAUMANN “I recommend it for everyone.” This is the advice Pete gives after he tells you about how he spent seven weeks in soli tude atop a fire look-out tower in Montana one summer. He knit himself a sweater up there and thought a lot. The heir apparent (son of 0. J.), who was raised in the nerve center of the Wisconsin Synod, Pete spent his first two years of high school at Wisconsin Lutheran, after which he packed up his violin and came to Northwestern. He made use of it when North western had an orchestra, but that has been the limit of his musical participation here. Intramural teams have made use of his ability all through college. The only subject he has come close to being interested in during his six years is Hebrew. Pete served his Junior year on the dorm council, worked for DuraClean during his college years and will be heading into the western sun again this summer to work for the Conservation Department again. Fall will find him in the Seminary.

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ROBERT PASBRIG Milwaukee, Wisconsin His year at UWM, plus five years as a remedial at NWC, lend a few special distinctions to Bob, also referred to as “Spaz” by those who know him better. Chief among these is the $64 he has paid in parking permit fees, as the first man in NWC history to have had a car on campus for four years. Other dis tinctions include five years in Male Chorus, three concert tours. Glee Club, Forum, intramurals, unofficial stock market advisor and last but not least, his camera ability as school photographer and contributor to the Daily Times, the Black and Red and other syndicated papers. His abundant note-taking immediately pegs him as a conscientious student, although he still clutches before most language tests. Weekends in Milwaukee with a certain R. N. necessitate his non- conforming philosophy on sleep (no more than five hours a night). This summer Bob will again trade in his yellow school bus for a red one in Glacier National Park. After six years of college preparation, Bob is eagerly looking forward to the Sem.

Hokah, Minnesota JAMES PHILLIPS A native of the little-famed town of Hokah and a current dweller in Oconomowoc, Jim came to Northwestern from Onalaska Luther High. While here he was briefly involved in music, participating in male chorus and band. Although his interest in music has not withstood the test of time, his devotion to intramural athletics has extended over the entire four years, in basketball the first three years and in bowling as a Junior and Senior. In the classroom his preferences have been Ger man and English, and he has been working toward entrance at the Seminary. During his stay at Northwestern, he has con tinued to finance himself and his ’65 Ford by working at the hospital in “Coony,” an experience which he values as a good way to learn about people.

Caledonia, Minnesota GARY PIEPER On any given n. : : it’s hard to say what you’d find Gar doing. Probably pinv ;■ c.irds, or discussing horses. You’d see a pair of spurs , i?. be a six-gun — certainly a curling mustache, decided!; . with Gar’s face behind it. Obvious hing western, from riding a horse ly Gar is a supportei to western sideburns • ke a look at his collection of wes tern clothes. A fisl r cowboy, Pieps is also a staunch ■:ie hustled second place in the pool supporter of the Pat tournament this yea. l corn! in the cribbage tourney his soph year. As a juu v lived off campus and for three years Globe Milling Company. Now the has been grinding :. head miller there. In s himself in having learned a trade while tackling NWC. O s languages hold no special attrac tion for the cowboy. ' both history and politics interest him. Altogether Gar prefers :c;.ing a little dirt (or flour) on his hands to white collar work. Next year the Sem looms ahead, and some time in the future, Pieps, who departs NWC with a great admir ation for Coach Umnus’ “pride in your school’’ philosophy, plans to travel through Europe.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin ROBERT PLESS Since Bob came to us from Wisconsin Lutheran, his pri mary claim to fame has been his participation in every intra mural sport offered. Not only has he been a member of a cham pionship intramural basketball team, but he’s also been on the championship team of the NWC bowling league for two consecu tive years. Not content with mere championships, he even held the highest bowling average for a year and twice served as league president. As a Junior he took second in the euchre tournament. With a record like this, it’s only natural that he backs the Packers. Just recently Bob traded off his Honda to become the proud owner of a ’62 Ford, which allows him to visit a certain young blond typist in his hometown more re spectably. This summer will be his fifth summer as greenskeeper at the Bluemound Country Club. Next fall Bob will pack up his bowling ball and golf clubs and cart them off to the Sem.

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin ROBERT POHL Bob has made it eight years straight at NWC. He studies freely and because he is impressed by Yeats, Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel, he has turned to creative writing. The Black and Red has received many submissions from Bob and even printed some of them. His late evening walks and sometimes “heated” argumentation on the status of modern theology are his fondest memories. His creative and original Forum produc tions have honed the consciousness of the NWC student body. Though he is known for “creating controversy” (witness nick name, “The Heretic”), he believes this has had positive reac tions and helped to awaken NWC to a new “awareness of reali ty.” Two years in male chorus and four years of intramural sports participation have cemented his feeling of “being” at NWC. After a productive summer he will head for the Sem.

La Crosse, Wisconsin RICHARD RAABE Dick Raabe was originally a Luther High Black Knight from Onalaska and came to NWC four years ago with two scholar ships. One was from AAL, and the other was a four year schol arship from the Hazel Duling Scholarship Fund. An intelligent student with a newly acquired taste for philosophy, his main source of enjoyment seems to come from working. Dick works and boards at Roger’s Memorial Hospital, a mental institute in Oconomowoc, and commutes with his ’68 Chevellc Malibu. This LaCrosse native is also a fisherman, hunter, bowler and an avid D odger - Packer fan (How those two mix is anyone’s guess!). Indoors he’s a card player and a ping-pong addict, who dislikes losing a lot. Whether or not hospital work has im’.ienced him in his decision, Dick will be staying right in his field when he gets married this summer to Diane Bakken, presently a registered nurse at Bethesda Lutheran Home. Next year, af ter working everywhere from warehouses to short-order restau rants, Dick hopes to get a call to one of our area Lutheran high schools and begin his life’s work in the field of teaching.

RICHARD SCIILIEWE Lebanon, Wisconsin Dick holds the distinction of being one of the few seniors who spent four years in band and chorus. Music ranks as a prime interest in his life, with his specialty being the saxophone. He also participated in the Pep Band and Glee Club for two years and went on the three chorus tours. His favorite of the three was, naturally, the Arizona-California tour, which gave him many lifetime memories. Music has helped make eight years of going to Northwestern more bearable for Dick, a course which he would not be eager to recommend. Actually, he thinks NWC is all right, but he wouldn’t have minded a little less Greek. Dick joins the vast majority of his class in rating “P.” as his favorite prof, and, consequently, Hebrew as his favorite subject. He even goes so far as to say that we should have more courses in Hebrew offered. This summer Dick will again be down on the farm before making the big move to Seminary in the fall.

Two Rivers, Wisconsin GLENN SCHNEIDER Here is a man who achieved the impossible. Starting as remedial, Glenn conquered NWC in a mere four years, although he lacked background in two languages. Of course this made college a real challenge, including 25 hours per week in his first year, plus a seven-hour Monday and a three-hour Saturday in his third. Maybe this is his reason for considering graduation his greatest accomplishment. A reserved guy hailing from Manitowoc Lutheran, he enjoyed sports of all varieties, includ ing four years of intramural basketball, football, volleyball and three years of bowling. The red-head hunts and fishes with dedi cation, a typical member of what he calls “a class of real outdoorsmen, with few exceptions.” Within the last couple of years he added golf to his list of favored activities. Since he lives in Two Rivers, “Packer-backing” tops this list. However, Glenn Schneider’s favorite activity takes a different shape. Her name is Carol, a blond from DMLC. Ask his friends for an opinion of him, and they would probably call him a deceptively quiet guy with an affinity for fine food. Ask him for his fondest mem ories, and he’d include Arbor Day parties and trips to New Ulm. Glenn is looking ahead to parking his ’65 Ford in Sem’s parking lot after a summer of carpentry and farm work. NEAL SCHROEDEIl Watertown, Wisconsin NORTHWESTERN — She’s been Neal’s life for 21 years, and he likes to think that the affair will be renewed after he gets out of the Sem. Artistically, he beautified her by turning the gym into a Greek temple for the ’65 Homecoming. He’s also had his hands in other homecoming displays, and he was responsible for much of the scenery for The Mouse That Roared. A more permanent monuu -r.r. to his artistic prowess is provid ed on the covers of The ■ 'hick and Red, Volume 71. Nor is Nort’s art his only contribution to literature. He did more than his share as assistant eduur to keep the B&R going. Even Neal’s expeditions beyond i ho campus confines have been NWCcentered. Three years of / aIn Chorus netted him three tours. One was all the way-usque h: Californiam. Next year his po sition as self-appointed as V an prep wrestling coach will be vacant. He plans to take something along to the Sem to re mind him of his years here. Nine more years of New Monasticism would put him far beyond the Sem. He hopes that by that time he won’t need remembrances.

PHILIP SCHWERIN New London, Wisconsin “Schwa” needs no introduction to the NWC student body. For four years his smiling face and slightly-thinning locks have been a common sight in and around the canteen, of which he is manager. His modest and unassuming nature is often taxed in defense of the White Sox or his Scott receiver, or when he rationally tries to explain the existence of his true home "town.” Active in intramurals since arriving from Michigan Luth. Sem, NWC’s closest resemblance to the national bird has had his moments as a softball pitcher. His musical record includes three years of male chorus, two chorus tours, four years of band (principal baritone), the last three years in Pep Band, band president his Junior year and instructor of St. Mark’s grade school band brass section, an obvious testimony to his abilities. The ministry is Phil’s goal, but right now he is looking forward to a summer of bus-driving in Glacier National Park.

Morton Grove, Illinois RICHARD STEVENS Dick Stevens will probably be best remembered for his parttime reffing, with which his fellow students did not always agree. Since he is such an ardent sports lover, he participated in all the intramural sports, and he served as a football manager for three years. Work has also taken up some of his spare time, as he labored diligently at the “box factory” and joined the group that helped Wayne Staude keep Watertown clean. Turning to Northwestern, Dick has been thoroughly impressed by Profes sor Eickmann. He has been able to communicate an attitude of genuine Christian love for the individual student. Dick’s great est disappointment is that this feeling has not always been as apparent as it should be on the part of both the students and the faculty. Although he is not quite sure that he will go into the ministry, he will study for at least a year. A strong alter nate possibility is teaching history and physical education on the secondary level. But either way, there’s one certainty . . . Judy.

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PAUL SULLIVAN Watertown, Wisconsin “Sully” is a great-grandson of the famous boxer, John L. Sullivan — at least that’s what he’s been saying for the last four years. His personal background, as he relates it, is quite impressive and provides a testimonial to his creative mind. This creativity overflowed monthly in the pages of Volume 71. In addition to shouldering the burden of the Alumni column. Sully was also the staff’s indisputable premiere writer. His mind exercises itself in many pursuits, such as art, architecture, music, and a mad passion for reading. He likes studying langauges, and his three favorite subjects, English, Greek and Hebrew, correspond to his three favorite profs, Kiessling, Pan ning, and Eickmann. Paul’s personal loyalty to Northwestern is a vague one, but he cares enough to want improvement. He feels that this could be done by adding a new haema in the full sense of the word. He is an admitted under-achiever, but he received a Breuet d ’Etudes award while in France. His future . . . vague.

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin DAVE TIARKS Dave Tiarks thinks the Senior class is “where the action is,” and if we use Dave as a representative of the class of ’68, we see that his opinion is justified. For one thing, Dave has done something which would appear about as e?sy as getting excused from classes. That is, he came to NWC as a partial remedial and made it in four years. As for studies, Dave ap preciates languages, except Latin, more than anything else he has taken. For a further examination of Dave’s hectic college days, we must look at his tight after-school schedule. In addi tion to participation in intramurals and over a year of male chorus, Dave wholeheartedly goes along with the Victorian phi losophy of “Work,” the proceeds of which he lavishes on NWC, his hot ’66 Ford, his ten brothers and sisters on their birthdays, and a faithful friend in Milwaukee. Even though Dave would not trade the Senior class for all the tea in China, he still sup poses “there are always better days ahead” and hopes to find them at the Seminary.

Lusaka, Zambia ERNST WEND LAND The groans you 1 : in entering the gym basement could very well belong to Wcndland, systematically working off his tensions through . lifting. He might have good cause to work off a few tens! . , u “Ernie” can be called a true schol ar. His academic < . will testify to that. During his three years at NWC (he :: ,;a year at Gilbert Rennie Secondary College in Lusaka . her at Montana State University) he has been rewarded : carious scholarships and recently with one of the common:. j ui orations. His favorite field is lan guages, but especial'. L -ew and New Testament Greek. This love for language, p.as spending his last year as an assistant tutor, should prove ( valuable for his upcoming post as teaching assistant at the Bible School in Lusaka, Zambia. Even tually, Ernie hopes to translate some of our basic doctrinal writ ings into the native dialect. The Sem will miss Ernie, and it is with God’s blessings for his future career that we leave him.

MARK WENDLAND Lusaka, Zambia Collegiates without high school diplomas are rare. Mark has the distinction of belonging to this almost extinct breed. After two years of Prep, he transferred to a secondary African school. Languages couldn’t have been the cause. He likes North western’s language program and has no bones to pick with scholarship. The change must have been good for him. His friends say that after his return, he’s been more outgoing. It’s not his fault that the girls he goes out with keep getting mar ried. Not bad morals, just bad luck. Or take the time that he got winded playing basketball at Chicken Little and his tongue showed. Recently his luck in sports has changed. It pays to be a Cardinal fan. A tribute to his personal ability is the euchre trophy he won with Pless. He plans to spend the summer trav eling with his father after he returns home. Next year his cere monial rabbit-burying and pep-rally drum will be at the Sem.

Kaukauna, Wisconsin PAUL ZITTLOW Paul is from Kaukauna, which, he is quick to point out, is the paper capital of the world. Before coming to NWC, he at tended Fox Valley Lutheran High School, where he met a cer tain young woman (now attending DMLC), which accounts for his rather high phone bills and an occasional trip or two in the direction of New Ulm. Paul has many remembrances of the past four years, including helping out a number of “sick” friends on several occasions. One of the things he regrets is the low number of Dr. Kiessling’s English courses available. One of the phrases that particularly stands out in Paul’s mind he picked up during a discussion that ensued after the return of a certain psychology test: “That’s the way the cookie crumbles.” He kept busy at NWC during the winter months by playing intramural basketball. He has also managed to hold down a part-time job, which he uses to finance his Opel Kadett. Paul is looking for ward to the summer, during which he plans to recuperate from his vigorous four years at NWC and be fully rested for the Sem in the fall. V

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Juneau, Wisconsin DALE ZWIEG Dale has been on NWC’s campus for eight years, as a prep and a collegiate. He has esprit de corps for the G 'een Bay Packers and personal loyalty for the Elvis Presley mystique. According to his classmates, he has “remarkable” talent in bas ketball as well as all other intramural sports he has p Ucipated in. He has been active in Forum as a Junior and Senior. This year he helped produce “Requiem for the Masses " He also made a trip to California this Easter vacation with two good friends, “Bitty” and “Moses.” In his spare time, open minded and inquisitive Dale studies modern history, that is, when he isn’t arguing about it. Understandably he cites hi.s greatest achievement as receiving two perfect history (one American) test papers in one day. Two scholarships have helped pay the bills for Dale, who is also president of the Car Committee. Dale is not too sure about his future, but close friends hope that it rests at the Sem.

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DAVID WILLIAM ENGEL Waupaca, Wisconsin On Sunday, October 1, 1967, the Senior class was called to gether and told that one of their classmates had been seriously injured in an accident early that morning. On the following af ternoon the stunning news came that David Engel had died in a Waupaca hospital of head injuries inflicted when he was thrown from the car he had been driving. David was born October 11, 1945, in Portage, Wisconsin, the youngest son of Alfons and Laura Engel. He grew up in Pardeeville, Medford and Waupaca, Wisconsin. In the fall of 1959 he enrolled in the prep department of Northwestern College, where his father and brothers had attended. After graduation from Prep, Dave went on to college at Northwestern, determined to finish and go on to the Seminary at Mequon. However, the Lord stepped in before this and called him home. His friends remember Dave as a likable guy, whose main in terests were hunting and fishing. He loved the outdoors and spent much of his time there. His interests at school lay mainly in Ger man and he often livened up the classes with his candid opinions. It is difficult to understand why something like this happens, but we find comfort in knowing that God’s judgment is infinitely wiser than ours. We will always carry a memory of David in our hearts, and we know that one day we will be reunited with him. “We believe that Jesus died and rose again; so we be lieve that God will bring with Jesus those who have died be lieving in him.” I Thess. 4:14. 44

CARLETON TOPPE English - Religion Since 1948 President Since 1959

ARMIN PANNING Greek - Religion Since 1962 Vice-President

ERWIN KOWALKE Professor 1913 -1966 President Emeritus

ELMER KIESSLING English Since 1927

3acu h DUDLEY RHODA German - English Since 1939

LEONARD UMNUS Athletics Since 1935

ERWIN SCHROEDER Librarian - Latin Since 1944

RUDOLF SIEVERT History - Typing Since 1947

EUGENE KIRST Science - Math Since 1954

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EDGAR PIEPER Athletics - Math Since 1960

PAUL KUEHL Classics Since 1961

ARNOLD 0. LEHMANN Music Since 1962

GEORGE BAER German - Latin Since 1963

SYLVESTER QUAM English Since 1964

JOHN SULLIVAN German- Philosophy Since 1964

ROBERT BEHNKE English - Science Since 1964

DONALD SELLNOW History - Psychology Since 1966

PAUL E. EICKMANN Hebrew Since 1966

CYRIL SPAUDE Greek Since 1966

JAMES THRAMS History - Religion Since 1966

LELAND DAHLBERG English - Math Since 1967

JERALD PLITZUWEIT Greek Since 1967

ERNST WENDLAND Professor 1914 -1959 Emeritus

GUSTAV WESTERHAUS Professor 1916 -1966 Emeritus

WALTER SCHUMANN Greek - Religion Vice-President Since 1925

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SENIOR OFFICERS E. Fredrich (sec-treas.), G. Moldenhauer (pres.), C. Siegler (v. pres.)

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Rear: P. Fetzer, R. Bushaw, D. Jensen, G. Frey, M. Falck, D. Hrobsky, C. Iiolub, M. (z Middle: D. Becker, K. Arndt, B. Kolpack, P. Huebner, M. Crawford, P. Kaiser, G. Jalinke. G. Bonow Front: R. Durow, J. Aderman, K. Kappel, J. Eggert, F. Adrian, R. Gurgel, R. Beyer, E. eldt

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CLaddroom What, then, finally, can we, moreover, say about the Senior class (the particles make such a difference)? Some of them have been stumbling around here for eight years, and after that length of time nothing is very funny anymore, or sometimes every thing is just hilarious. After bumping heads with the likes of Cicero, Virgil, Milton, Shakespeare, Goethe, Xenophon, Eu ripides and mini, mini more, one wants on ly to lie in the lush green grass that grows by the tennis court and burn slowly in the sun. Were it not for the battle cry, “surf’s up”, who’s to say what would have become of them?

Welcome to potpourri, the chaos that serves as this month’s humorous effort. It’s like a big clearance sale, so just run your eyes (or your fingers, if you’re an “Evelyn Wcoder”) down the page and pick out what ever strikes your fancy.

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May, 1952 Prof. Panning struck home with: Overheard on opening day of the fishing season: She: You’re kidding! He: No, I’m not. She: Anyway, it’s not true! He: Why certainly; everybody knows that small mouth bass are the males and large mouth bass are the females. Query of the month: Does Henning go home week ends to keep his lips in shape for trumpet playing, or does lie play the trumpet to keep his lips in shape for the week end? For those who are worried about finals — and who isn’t — the following advice may be of some help. “Use your brains, it’s the little things that count.” Campus: We take you now to high atop the counter of the canteen in Wartburg Hall. Seated there is Ory Haag, and gath ered around him is his Sauerkraut Jag Time Band. Ory has been making regular appearances, descending with his accordi on from the trees of “Monkey Island” where he spends the rest of his time sleeping. It is a rare night that requests are not made, such as from the TV room — “louder”.

Classroom: The diligence with which Dave Unke prepares himself for daily class Soon after the first edition of this vol es is notorious. One noon on his end of the ume came out, a professor made a kind re hall the noise became unbearable. So he mark about this column and mentioned barricaded himself in the trunk room, that he too once wrote it. This prompted me which Sterny “promptly proceeded to” lock to dig around in past volumes and, to my from the outside. Assuming his usual cool, shock, I found that three of the profs I Dave began clawing wildly at the door knob. have this semester are former “C & C wri It broke. Half-way through the next class ters. Following are some examples of their period, Unks emerged from the trunk room smiling. Prof. Panning listened to Dave’s work: excuse with his usual politeness. He then In April of 1948 Prof. Sellnow wrote: declared that, while he hated to set a pre To start off this colum a poem must be written, cedent, being locked in a trunkroom was a So I to comply on my breeches am sittin’ And just starting this column of choicest bull- valid excuse. Life must go on. roar Campus: Pat Bell advises caution in the With just these four lines — and not a foot more exchanging of linen. It seems pajamas are ... I had better ask you readers to patiently bear with me for this next volume of the Black not part of the service, and it’s no fun and Red. If the stuff for this C & C column has searching through sacks of sheets every a foul odor at first, just give it a couple of is one has been sleeping in for a week. sues to ferment, and it’ll really stink. WANTED (desperately): Suggestions April of 1950 found Prof. Spaude spouting: for a method of curing Charles Bonow’s Winter has come and gone, laugh. Reward: peace and quiet, sanity. Spring is already here. The Brotherhood of the Third Floor, But as I arise (?) each dawn Wartburg chapter, has discovered a new It seems like a year. 56

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the “generation gap” syndrome very seriously, he decided one day to join the students. He was accepted, of course, and may now be seen sitting with anyone from the Frosh to the Seniors, adding to the conver sation with his surprisingly up-dated opinions tempered with experience. It’s an opportunity from which both parties gain, Til next fall, a dictum for the summer months ahead: Take it easy, but take it.

Forum Elections The Forum election-meeting was held on May 21st. Taking over for the previous year’s officers were Alan Klessig as Presi dent, A1 Beyersdorf as Vice President, Paul Schmiege as Secretary and Rich Kogler as Treasurer. The new President hopes to sponsor a speech course, or at least lectures by a local business man who received his degree in speech. He also is seeking a re vival of the monthly program which did not materialize this past year.

Senior-Faculty Banquet A cowboy theme dominated the annual Faculty-Senior banquet as cowboys, Indians and gringos gathered at their last round-up to brand and eat their prime rib ala Hanke. This and the rest of the meal was excel lently prepared in the ehuckwagon, while Professor Plitzuweit emceed the whole af fair with a dramatic interlude featuring Doug Engelbrecht with an ode to the fac ulty wives. After the sumptuous meal, all the Seniors introduced themselves and the Dorm Council Election group played campfire games without a Nomination papers for the office of Stu campfire. (This actually provided no pro dent Body President and the Dorm Council blem whatsoever for such a fine group of Chairman were posted from Monday, May entrepreneurs.) Doug Engelbrecht, Dick 13th to Wednesday, May 15th. The three Froehlich and John Boehringer entertained nominees who received the greatest number with their usual banter, and Paul Sullivan of signatures on their nomination papers did an impromptu imitation of a music di were Paul Lemke, a five-year man from rector. Professor Toppe centered his talk near Green Bay, Wisconsin; Herbert Prahl, around the western theme and compared the ’67-’68 Council’s Secretary; and John the pastor-to-be to the early pioneer. “West Seifert, also a member of the outgoing ward” ho, Seniors. Dorm Council. The election was held on May 21st from 11:30-12:30 in the cafe Lutheran Collegians teria. When the ink had dried, John Sei On May 20th a group of co-eds from fert emerged as the new president. Milwaukee, members of the Lutheran Col legians, presented a slide lecture describ Tournaments The cribbage tourney, the second of ing their activities. They showed a typical Lutheran Collegian campus house and ex three student-body tournaments, conclud plained their work in the inner core of Chi ed on April 26th with John Boehringer and cago. Working in conjunction with St. Paul John Guse taking three straight games from Church in this central-city district, a group John Gut and Phil Koeninger in the finals. of LC members has conducted a Bible Scores were 121-103, 121-110 and 121-105. School for about one hundred resident chil Big John and Phil then took second place, dren for the past two years. The work is all while third went to John Stellick and Brian volunteer work and anyone with the time Terrell. The original number of 66 contes and willingness to volunteer their services tants showed that there is considerable in can become involved with the program. An terest in these Soph-inspired contests. 57

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wife). Pathos was seen in the final speech of narrator Mike Engel, who portrayed Mr. Alfieri, a lawyer-friend of Eddie. Choice ’68 Results NWC a radical campus? Ah, the unfor givable transgression of such an implica tion! To even consider this bastion of con servatism radical would turn the head of many a Wisconsin Synod Lutheran. With the results of Choice ’68 in, we may be a “radical” college among colleges. While the rest of the nation’s students were 44.99% for a phased reduction of U. S. military ac tivity, “over 40% of the NWC students” voted in favor of an all-out U. S. military effort. Among a million or so voters, Nixon placed an anemic third to peace candidates McCarthy and Kennedy. At NWC 60.85% hold to the Nixon line. When it comes to peace in the street, a combined total of 78.59% in the nation look to education and job-training employment opportuni ties. The plurality at NWC lay with riot control and stricter law enforcement. M. F. 58

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Milton 8 NWC 1 Milton routed the Trojans 8-1 for their third straight conference loss. Kurt Grunewald, playing the number five position, came up with the only victory. Most of the games went three full sets, but there just hasn’t enough "umph” to turn them into victories.

NWC 5 Concordia 4 A good-sized crowd helped cheer the Trojans on to victory as they knocked off Concordia 5-4. Leyrer, Grunewald and A. Eckert posted victories in singles. Later Pasbrig & Clarey, and Grunewald & Eckert teamed up to bring home wins. 59

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NWC 1 : 6 George Williams 16 : 1 The long trip to Chicago resulted in a split for Northwestern. George Williams slashed the Trojans in the first game 16-1. They had a steady rally of runs throughout the game. Orv Cullen lasted the entire sev en innings on the mound and even got a hit, his second of the year. Gurgel collected the biggest hit, a double. John May’s sacri fice brought in the only Trojan run. One of our outfielders commented after the game that “things were sort of busy out there.” The Trojans turned the tables around in the second game, winning 6-3. Action started in the first when Palmquist drew a walk and later scored. The fifth inning gave the Trojans’ score a little more padding, when four more runs came in. Kuschel’s triple drove in three of them. Both Kuschel and Castillo were two for three. George Williams managed to get one run in the fourth. They were threatening in the sev enth with two runs scored, but the Trojans stopped them. Froehlich pitched the whole game and struck out six.

the first time, Baiza had a low score, 84. Again only a small margin separated the two teams, 552-531. The season for the year was five wins and seven losses, which shows an improvement over last year’s rec ord. With only one \ m member gradu ating, the prospects f->r > / xt year look good. BASEBALL Milton 15 12 NWC 2 : 7 The Trojans were trounced in both games of a double-header with Milton. At the start of the first ?-;ame. Dick Froehlich had trouble on the mound. They scored eight runs in the first inning, with three home runs. Chuck Learman then came on to relieve him and did a good job for the rest of the game. The Trojans tried to keep pace with Milton in the second inning. Jim Castillo’s double accounted for two runs, but that’s where it ended. The Trojans didn’t score after that, while Milton sent seven more runs across home plate. The team wound up with four hits. History repeated itself in the second game when Milton scored early. Five runs in the first inning and six more in the third put them out in front. Lemke started out on the mound, but Learman again came in as the relief pitcher. The high point of the game for the Trojans came in the third in ning when Den Smith blasted one over the fence with two men on. Although the Tro jans came out on the losing end, they gave the Muskies something to remember. Joel Winter’s slide ripped a two stitch wound in one of their players’ legs. Schmidt hit a runner with the ball as he was going home, and Learman beaned a batter with a pitch.

NWC 3 :3 Rockford 2 : 13 The Trojans nipped Rockford in the first game of a double-header 3-2. It was a pitching duel all the way, and Dennis Lemke was the one who came out on top. He gave up only six hits. The Trojans were behind for most of the game until the sixth inning. Schmidt led off with a hit. Then Lemke drew a walk and an error put Gurgel on. With the bases loaded, Den Smith knocked out a double, which drove in three runs. A fine defense kept Rock ford scoreless for the rest of the game. 61

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Smith and Castillo both got two hits. Don Lemke pitched a great game, but then that usual unlucky sixth inning came up. That left us behind 4-3. Three runs on two er rors clinched the game for UW. NWC 4 : 5 Trinity 7 : 2 The Trojans took the middle road as they split a double-header at Trinity. Only three of Trinity’s runs were earned, but the Trojans had their chances, too. We had men on base, but just couldn’t bring them around. Bob Gurgel highlighted his season with a homer in the fourth inning, but the bases were empty. Orv Cullen lasted the whole game. The Trojans started the second game out with a run in the first inning. The rest of the game turned out to be a pitcher’s duel. Learman did an outstanding job and got himself out of some pretty tough situa tions. In the seven'! inning, we finally broke the monotony i‘.i four more runs. The Trojans then pv.L damper on Trini ty, even though they .v <ved them to score two runs in the bottom f the seventh. The Trojans endec! with six runs and and nine losses. Der Smith led the way in the batting departme.. t with a .420 ave rage, while Kuschel rounded in 19 RBI’s. The outfield proved to be the deciding fac tor in many of their victories. The Trojans split almost every double-header; some thing to be improved next year. J. s.

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DEDICATIONS Gloria Dei-Bethesda Church in Milwaukee, Wis consin, was dedicated on May 5, 1938. Rev. Norman Engel is the pastor there. On May 11, 1938, St. Martin’s parish of Watertown, South Dakota, rededicated its newly-decorated church. Former Pastor Walter A Schu mann, Jr. (’41) preached at the service. Trinity Lutheran Church of Winona, Minnesota, dedicated a new church on May 19, 1968. Rev. Larry Zessin (’62) is the pastor there. Faith Lutheran Congregation in Lancaster, Wis consin, dedicated a newly purchased and re modeled church on May 12, 1938. Pastor Don W. Fastenau (’61) serves the congregation.

lHumni ANNIVERSARIES Pastor T. H. Albrecht celebrated his 45th anni versary in the ministry at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Lake City, Minnesota, on April 28, 1938. Pastor Harold Zink celebrated his 25th anniver sary of service to St. Paul’s Congregation of Stevensville, Michigan. Bethlehem Congregation of Watertown, South Da kota, celebrated its tenth anniversary on Sun day, April 21, 1938. Preaching at the service were President 0, J. Naumann and Pastor R. J. Palmer. David Star Congregation of Kirchhayn, Wisconcelebrated its 125th anniversary on May 19, i»o8. Pastor Christoph Weigel serves the con gregation.

CALLS Pastor Edgar Herman (’58) has accepted a call to Flat Rock, Michigan. The installation will be in June. Pastor David A. Witte (’59) has accepted a call to St. Paul’s Congregation in East Troy, Wis consin. The installation was on May 26, 1988. 63

Pastor John Gaertner (’59) has accepted a call to First Luth. Church in Prescott, Arizona. The installation will be June 9, 1938. Pastor David Schultz (’60) has accepted a call to Pilgrim Congregation in Mesa, Arizona. Pastor Dan Pautz (’63) has accepted a call to Emmanuel Congregation at Tempe, Arizona. MARRIAGES Mark Goeglein (’65) took Karen Mueller to be his wife in a ceremony held on April 20, 1988. Gerhold Lemke (’66) will marry Carol Wolfgramm on August 11, 1988. ENGAGEMENTS Ronald Muetzel (’67) has become engaged to Lois Bilse. Tom Zarling (’65) has become engaged to Mary May. An August wedding is planned. BIRTHS A son, Shawn Patrick, to Mr. & Mrs. Terry Deters (’66) on April 4, 1968.

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Ash, Ronald - St. Paul, Menomonie, V. \ Bode, Kenneth - St. Stephen, Adrian, Vich. Dengler, Donald - Zion, S. Milwaukee, W*s. Deters, Terry - Martin Luther, Oshkosh Wis. Ehlke, Roland - Bethany, Kenosha. Wi Hagedorn, Harold - Good Shepherd-Z;on, Phoe nix, Ariz. Hellmann, Robert - Zion, Rhinelander, Wis. Holz, LaVern - Zion, Columbus, Wis. Huebner, John - Grace, South St. Paul, Minn. Ibisch, John - St. Cloud Mission, St. Cloud, Minn. Kante, Paul - St. Paul, Columbus, Ohio. Klein, Carl - North Trinity, Milwaukee. Wis. Lemke, Gerhold - Trinity, Waukesha, Wis. Luchterhand, Lyle - Emanuel, New London, Wis. Luebchow, Roderick - St. John, St. Paul, Minn. Lyon, Curt - Calif. Mission Board, Alpine, Calif. Mittelstaedt, John - St. Matthew, Winona, Minn. Mueller, Wayne - St. John, Juneau, Wis. Pagels, Richard - East Fork Mission, Whiteriver, Ariz. Ruddat, Arnold - St. Paul, Stevensville, Mich. Rutschow, David - Trinity, Neenah, Wis. Schmugge, Jon - Savanna & Mt. Carroll, 111. Shook, Durant - First German Luth., Manitowoc, Wis. Sievert, Clarke - St. Peter, Plymouth, Mich. Trapp, John - St. Matthew, Benton Harbor, Mich. Vogt, Wayne - First Lutheran, La Crosse, Wis. Weimer, Robert - Gloria Dei-Bethesda, Milwau kee, Wis. Winter, Ronald - Salem, Owosso, Mich. TUTORS Stuebs, Martin - Northwestern College Westphal, Walter - Northwestern College Zahn, Allen - Northwestern College Gosdeck, Ronald - Northwestern Lutheran Academy Baumler, Dale - Dr. Martin Luther Brug, John - Dr. Martin Luther Dolan, David - Dr. Martin Luther

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opinions and reflections of NWC we men tion to our friends and relatives can easily be more effective — both positively and negatively — than anything the school cata log or handbook might say. That’s putting T Visitors at the recent Northwestern foot- quite a lot of responsibility upon us. It also V ball games may easily have received leaves us with a choice. We can be one the impression that our student body is of those who continually say, “Just let me in the bleachers merely for entertainment. get out of here,” and do a fairly good job The support given the teams by the stu of convincing people that either we are sub-par students or attend a sub-par col dents has not been good at all. When we do cheer, it’s often because lege, neither of which is the case. The we see something we like. (cf. “Do it again, other alternative is to support our school, we like it”) It’s common courtesy to ex work for it and make the best of its opporH. p. press appreciation. When our team goes tunities. out and plays their best for our school, it’s the least we can do. TTarlier this year the Dorm Council made it a point to commend the good Tube-watching Packer fans do just as much. Showing only appreciation makes attendance at chapel services. One of the us “unprofitable spectators.” We’ve only largest student bodies in Northwestern’s done our duty. The next step is to give history was filling the chapel pews from the team our encouragement. This doesn’t back to front with little room to spare. One mean shouting only when the ball’s inside might hope to find such a situation in a the ten or during the last three minutes pre-ministerial school. of the game. Keep it up during all those As the school year progresses, however, silent spots in the middle of the game. This an old story is repeating itself. Little by is the time when c'o eting may help the little the empty spaces appear, then the team the most. Che. for penalties in half pews, and then the vacant whole our favor is useless. Le d save our energy pews. It’s obvious that a small contingent be useful. for the time when it of students considers a chapel service some We’ve heard the uut, shrill cries from sort of extra-credit period which may be the opposite side of the iield long enough. skipped at will. Such a base attitude can Do we want to be out-shouted by women be attributed to that obnoxious quality of DuE human nature, pride. Quite haughty, in all our lives? deed, is the person who thinks that he can jjuite a few of us. especially in the up- get along on his own in this life, without Siper classes, have at one time or an even showing recognition of his Creator to other heard a professor say, “You don’t whom he is subject. know how good you’ve got it here.” Many This past summer I experienced a of us would have to agree that all too often this a sad reality. The daily grind and mon brush with death that brought reality a otony takes its toll, leaving the bad points bit closer. A head-on collision with another of the day emphasized and the bright side automobile suddenly, without warning, unmentioned. But when we do a little transformed a day which had been going thinking, we easily recall many good points well, like any other day, into a nightmare. of NWC, chief among them being the all- Thoughts flashed through my mind which important Christian schooling and the re had never been there before. Never before sultant close bond of friendship and trust had God felt so near. between classmates and schoolmates. No Other people have had similar exper matter how one wants to compare us with iences, in which they were brought to other schools, in this respect NWC is way greater realization of their dependence on out in front. In this way we are privileged. God. A Christian should not have to go The trouble (if that is an acceptable through such an experience before he real term) with having a privilege is that it izes this. Here at Northwestern, a pre-min necessitates responsibility if it is to be isterial school, there are a proud few who kept. We, the student body, dictate our profess to be Christians, but one rarely J. z school’s reputation in so many ways. The sees them showing it in chapel.

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Focus: Maranatha ,T,he echo of monks chanting in the chapA el was long ago replaced by the higherpitched voices of young boys when Sacred Heart Military Academy took over the buildings of the monastery. The sounds have once again changed. Female voices have been added, and the sign board out front now reads Maranatha Baptist Bible College. While the creeds of the people inhabiting these grounds have changed considerably since last spring, their devo tion, piety and especially dedication to dis cipline have not. Much speculation and rumor have made this new school on the other side of town a topic of conversation here at North western. After speaking with a couple of Maranatha students and their president, I have formulated the following report and herewith present it for your examination. The name Maranatha is taken from I Corinthians 16:22. The word was carried bodily from the Greek into the English by the King James translators and is rendered by J. B. Phillips as “May the Lord soon come!” According to the college brochure, the purpose of Maranatha is “to train Christ ian young people for CHRISTIAN service” (emphasis theirs). All students are re quired to major in “Bible.” Other majors include Biblical languages, Christian edu cation, missions, pastoral studies, evangel ism, Christian service and sacred music. Over half of the students are co-eds. They have courses tailored to their specific in terests, such as church secretarial work. There is even a course on being a pastor’s

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wife. There are also classes in Spanish, French and , possibly by next year, Ger man (one of their students is presently taking Sophomore German at Northwes tern). A Bachelor of Arts degree is given upon graduation. Activities for the nearly 200 students lay heavy stress on music along with dra ma and athletics. Both intra-mural and inter-collegiate sports are directed by an able coach, and they intend to have a fullfledged football team on the field by next fall. Intercollegiate basketball is planned for this winter. The policies and teachin s of the school are those of the ultra-cons live or very strict Baptists. They take .fundamental position concerning the Bibb \nd are "op posed to all forms of New E\ angelism and Ecumenical Evangelism.” Maranatha is entirely independent and does not belong to any type of synod or controlling group. There are five other schools of this type in the country, and they are attended and supported by about five hundred independent Baptist church es. These churches have no say in the governing of the schools, but agree doctrinally and generally hire their ministers from these six institutions. After gradu ating from Maranatha, ministerial candi dates are encouraged to attend Tennessee Temple, San Francisco or Dallas Theolog ical Seminary. Graduation from a semin ary is not required. In fact, even a college education is not demanded if a congrega tion feels that a man is able to serve them acceptably. Such is often the case when a man reaches middle age and then decides to make the ministry his vocation. The driving force behind the founding of the school is Dr. Blaine Myron Cedarholm. He would be quick to correct that

statement to read “human agent” as he considers the very existence of Maranatha to be a miracle. Although Dr. Cedarholm is certainly well qualified (graduate, Uni versity of Minnesota, Eastern Baptist Theo logical Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary; honorary degrees, Northwestern Theological Seminary, Minneapolis; Bap tist Bible College, Denver) it does seem little short of a miracle that a college could be started in three month’s time. There are a number of things that made it easier than usual to get the oper ation moving. The president, faculty and a large part of the student body were all part of Pillsbury, a similar school in Min nesota. A policy dispute prompted the pres ident and his faculty sympathizers to re sign. Dr. Cedarholm was planning to take up the preaching ministry again when a call came from Watertown, informing him that the Sacred Heart property was avail able. Another vital facto s the price. After some discussion the of $160,000 was established; a bargaii 62 acres of land and the building corn, There has been some discussion hero :>wc campus about why our Synod didn'i :ko a more vigor ous attempt to obtar .ho place. A tour of the buildings gives o obvious answer. While they are in go or ..vpair, the accomo dations were made for the military aca demy, not a college body. There are no dorms as such, but rather barrack-like rooms. Into each of them some thirty stu dents are now quartered. More somewhat

humorous reminders of the past are the two rest rooms located in the basement. There are fifty-one sinks lining the peri meter of each room — all of them at a height quite handy if you are a ten-year-old boy. A characteristic of Maranatha that distinquishes it from the majority of colleges in the country is their concept of disci pline. Students are allowed only 150 de merits. When this is exceeded, resignation is requested. Serious violations include smoking, drinking, card playing, going to movies and dances. Anything they deem to be worldly is to be shunned. Dates are restricted to the recreation room, student lounge and snack counter. Hand-holding is also forbidden. Every effort is made to maintain the highest of Christian moral standards. At 10:30 the lights-out curfew is en forced. An exception is made for upper classmen who have some studying to fin ish.. Dr. Cedarholm’s theory is, “If you wear them out during the day, you have no problem with them at night.” This whole system of discipline is en forced with the help of the students. De merit slips which are turned in are acted upon by a discipline committee. The under lying purpose of all this is to build char acter. It is like a 24-hour-a-day studycourse intended to train the student for a lifetime of Christian living. Students are encouraged to spend their week-ends working for the church. There-

fore automobiles are not as restricted as they are at Northwestern. Any student may keep a car on campus. There are about twenty-five married couples attending Maranatha; this is another policy that differs from ours at NWC. Maranatha intends to make Watertown a permanent home. The student that guided us around the campus talked often of

new buildings that were being planned, Any of our students who have had contact with them have found religion to be their main topic of conversation. In view of all this what effect will the activities of this group of zealous Christians to the west have upon our student body? Only time wm e '

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that the Society is comprised primarily of well-to-do Republicans, and somewhat more Catholics than Protestants (for shame!). This study has found that the Society’s appeal is most effective among those to whom economic conservatism and fear of Communism are crucial issues. Gov ernor Reagan would presumably seem to to fill the bill, but California state Senator, John G. Schmitz, a known Birchite, com menting on Reagan’s first year tenure in office, says that Reagan is “a tragic end to the brightest hope on the American pol itical scene today. Many of the best of our citizens may never again be willing to trust the word of a seeker or holder of a high political office.” In general, Tiese slabjawed Fundamentalists, “the quintessence of American Gothic,” have a complex sub merged in self-sufficiency and right think ing; for their leader, Mr. Welch, comes directly from the school of the forties of Father John Cronin, who, in turn, was a student of John A. Ryan, the pioneer of Catholic social thought. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall’s! It is the Bircher’s firm belief that religion must be the underlying motivation in the functioning of an effective state in the combating of world-wide Communism. One tends to agree, but while in the United States reli gion has often been tempted to use the state for its own purpose, the prevailing effect of Christianity has been to set limits to political authority and to define, some what vaguely, the degree of authority of church and state. They do not use religion to condone physical aggression, however, as is evident among some organizations. Nevertheless there is a certain preachiness on the part of Mr. Welch and his Society, and it cannot be considered lightly. While the enlightened few advocate ne gotiation and coexistence, Mr. Welch rum bles force and intolerance. While he does so, the free world sits idly by, as indeed did

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Today our United States is swept by an ailment predominantly know as frustra tion. Out of this plague has arisen what some have dared to call the specter of the Far Right. Now we all have heard for these many months about the Left, the New Left, Brave Left, na, na, na, ad infinitum. Well, a great many people are sick of it, and not only are they sick of being sick of it, but they are on the verge of reaching for a new cure, perhaps a fatal cure. With apologies, I draw from the insights of President John son’s favorite philosopher (the problem as Eric Hoffer himself sets it forth) and ask these questions. What are the ills that afflict the frustrated? What reactions will these ills elicit from the frustrated? Where and how much will these reactions influ ence the general masses of the United States population "over thirty”? Will these reactions in any way, shape, or manner fa cilitate the rise and spread of the ideology of the frustrated? The discussion shall be limited to one fermenting segment — the John Birch Society. October of this year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Birch Society by that little old candymaker, Ro bert “Bob” Welch. The major frustration* that Mr. Welch thrives on is Communism. He says, “Milt’s a Commie, Ike’s a Commie, Warren’s a Commie; oh, hang it all, who isn’t a Commie?” But he is not alone. Others claim these aforementioned men are Commies. Who? About 60,000 Ameri cans who are known members of the Soci ety, plus various sympathizers, perhaps two for every one Society member. A “clin ical” study performed in the heavily popu lated Birchite state of California indicates * consider this term in its broadest sense

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in regard to fellow members is necessary, for their tolerance is of the pre-ecumenical, pre-John XXIII era where there is "individ ual sin, but little social sin.” Subsequently, they feel that a centralized power structure in the Society is important for the nurtur ing of the young organization. Again Eric Hoffer: There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the re sponsibility for acts which are promoted by our own questionable inclinations and impuls es. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience; they acted dis honorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaim ing themselves the chosen instruments of higher power — God, history, fate, nation, or humanity. These pliable masses would seek to de ter the forces of revolution, the guise under which communism spreads. In the process they become the conservative, ready advo cates of firm forcefulness in halting and ending the life of the burgeoning menace. Yet which people and which nations are most conservative in their attitude toward developing communistic societies. It is those which were most exposed to the Age of Enlightenment. They, in the matter set forth by Edmund Burke, seek to stem the revolutionary process by outside interven tion. Needless to say, this is not as wise as one might think. Consider the implications that the Boxer Rebellion in China have, for These frustrated few are not in the example, and how easily it was suppressed. ascendency especially when their past en Yet what a prelude it was to the Chinese rollment is considered. For after an initial Revolution of the twentieth century! The seven-year increase in enrollment, the communists have always relied heavily on numbers they have recruited in the past theory, as opposed to the rather arbitrary three years have steadily declined. But reasoning of Burke in his Reflections. This let it not be said that they are not in there has had a profound effect on the isolation pitching all the time; for they are contin ist and self-centered nationalism of the free uously editing their society paper, which world. We can readily see that it is consul is dedicated to exposing frauds and ap tation with our allies that should take pre peasements in foreign and domestic pol cedence over our direct negotiations with icies related to communistic nations and communistic powers. The bypassing of our organizations. Their Blue Book is standard allies has contributed greatly to the shatter Society material, and it demands faithful ing of free world unity and to the "loss of adherence and obedience to the basic ten continuity in opposing Communism.” It ets set forth therein. The members are ac is going to boil down to questions of Fun tive in their domestic relations department, damentalism versus liberalism and "which and all family men are encouraged to use ever way the wind will blow.” If conditions prevail for the coming the local PTA as a sounding board for at tacks on the communistic tendencies pre year and the Birchites do not gain a new sumably present in their community and ascendancy, a policy of neutralism may school faculties. A harshness and firmness develop. That however, would mean acquiPresident Eisenhower, and watches as one by one the clay pigeons fall to the big armtwister-gun-toter communistic countries. Where indeed did our negotiations and pa tience benefit us? In Hungary, in Cuba, in Czechoslovakia, in Viet Nam — where is a slight pressure being exerted at this present time? No, one has to admit: the Birchers are right in that respect. In a book entitled Reducing the Risks of War the author aptly states that "it is a nation’s vacillation, not firmness, that tempts an aggressor into war. It is accommodation not opposition, that encourages a hostile nation to remain hostile and be aggressive.” You do not judge the success of foreign policy by its effect on the international prestige polls.

escing to the communistic regimes and saying that we are condoning evil for the sake of expediency. An appeal to reason would be unemployable today, for there is a fundamentalism among sections of the American people that regards Communism as the ultimate evil with which no compro mise is imaginable, and toward which no attitude but fear and loathing is permis sible. On the other hand, an isolationist America “at bay in a revolutionary world” would bring forth the worst tendencies in this country, encourage every superpatriot, fan the fire of suspicion and fancied sub version, and submerge the humanitarian impulses that are “the best side of Amer ican national character.” There are those over thirty who can well remember the days of Joe McCarthy, Nixon, Kennedy, and Chotiner. News columnist James Reston claims that “a minority on the right, using the Supreme Court as a whipping boy,” are through coercion leading to a possible “tyranny of the majority” with ex tremely repressive measures against com munist party members and sympathizers. It should be noted that the frustration being nurtured among the disenchanted masses is taking a course that has as its pathfinder one George C. Wallace. It is true that he is neither directly nor indirect ly associated with the Society as such, but he does have among his working ranks many former full-time Birch organizers: Mel Jones and A. W. Castleman, Nevada’s Dr. John H. DeTar, Maj. General Edwin

A. Walker. The list also includes Dan Smoot, a broadcaster for radical right causes on “Life Line,” and presumably, H. L. Hunt, the financial backer of “Life Line.” In foreign policy Wallace takes a typical Birchite tack, encouraging closer trade and social ties with Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. Many call these states re pressive, and for purely idealistic reasons demand non-recognition and non-alliance with these countries. Any Bircher would be quick to point out to you that of the 135 countries and territories to which the Un ited States has loaned $122,258,500,000 from the end of World War II until 1966, we have been paid back in full with inter est by only one country: the Union of South Africa. Furthermore the Republic of Rhodesia has only $7,000,000 outstand ing. This, they say, is the true mark of an ally. Though some of the Birchers seem mis guided or overzealous, perhaps truth will triumph, and the Birch Society will be viewed in the manner suggested by Will iam F. Buckley, Jr. He feds that if only Mr. Welch succeeds in d' .wing people’s attention to public events tich otherwise would remain obscure; f he scourges them into reading and thinking about pub lic affairs; then those sai people intro duced to concern by Mr. Welch, should reasonably reject, Mr. W ioil’s specific counsels and graduate as informed mem bers of the anti-communist community.” e.

Glacier Park Inc. employs from 800 to 1,000 college students every summer. They are screened rather carefully and are an excellent cross-section of students prepar ing for every imaginable walk of life. At Many Glacier, where I was stationed, there were students who were majoring in law, medicine, professional singing, ballet, criminology, drama and even oceanography. Working with such a complete var iety of our nation’s youth was most reward ing. It exposed me to vastly different kinds of thinking and many differing outlooks on life and death. Although this was all very enlightening, it was also quite disturb ing. The vast majority of these students either had no religion at all, were worship-

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ers in name only, or were faithful members in a church which unfortunately did not teach the truth of the Word of God. In listening to them talk, one thing was par ticularly evident — many were searching for some basic truth to hold to; something that would give them a real reason to live. Some, however, were completely content to live life for no more than challenges and pleasures. Meeting people was not the only re warding experience at Glacier. In a onemillion-acre area there are over 1,000 miles of trails. They range in difficulty from a downtown walk to a two thousand-foot climb in less than a mile. All of these trails, long or short, are beautiful beyond description. There are no words to give worthy praise to this example of God’s handiwork. Even pictures fail to capture

the inspiring views of snow-capped moun tains stretching as far as the eye can see, fringed only by an azure sky; or a chain of lakes with their deep turquoise hues as seen from a mountain pass looking out toward the plains. There is really only one way to get a true impression of Glacier National Park. That is to go there and work. It is an ex perience you will never forget, one that should be a requirement for all of us. There you will learn that every man is a minister of God and should be his witness. This is not a responsibility we receive after school. It is a here-and-now thing. The best pait about this is that while you are learning, you can look anywhere around you and see proof of a living, caring God in the unparalled beauty of His creation. JOHN SEIFERT, ’69

Professc Paul R, Boehlke Prof, and Mrs. Boehlke, Joel and Daniel TA7ith the death of professor Paul Eick* » mann, Sr. last year, the NWC science department lost a very capable and effi cient instructor. However, the vacancy has now been filled by a man who, by the sheer force of his enthusiasm for teaching, prom ises to be a worthy addition to the NWC campus and faculty. Upon graduation from his elementary school alma mater, Bethesda Lutheran School in Milwaukee, he attended Wiscon sin Lutheran High School of Milwaukee. From there he went on to Doctor Martin Luther College in New Ulm to pursue his chosen course of study, that of a teacher. 71

In 1961 he graduated with a B.S. in ed ucation and began his career as a teacher in Goodhue, Minnesota, where he taught at Grace Lutheran School. Professor Boehlke also taught science in a departmentalized junior high system at St. John’s Lutheran School in Jefferson, Wis. During all this time he was doing post-graduate work at Marquette University and Winona State College. This past summer after the com pletion of his thesis concerning the Ele mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1963 in reference to the Wisconsin Synod, he received an M.S. in education. He em phasizes however, that he plans to contin-

junior high students. Professor Boehlke’s wife is the former Jeanette Hemker, who is herself experien ced in Lutheran day schools (Goodhue and Jefferson), and will certainly be of assis tance with his paper work and might sup ply a few helpful hints, too. Their pixie like children are Daniel and Joel, three years and nine months old respectively. The one thing Professor Boehlke enjoys most at NWC is the organization and effi ciency of its lab. — “Professor Eickmann must have been a remarkably organized man.”

ue his education, particularly in the field of science. This year, then, is a milestone for Pro fessor Boehlke in many ways, for although he has had experience in junior high school teaching methods, this is his first year of actually teaching high school students. His impressions of them, however, cannot real ly be called first impressions, for he him self was one not too long ago. Yet, he im plies that he remembers high school stu dents to be much more immature than he is finding the Tertianers and Quartaners in his chemistry and physics classes. He calls it a refreshing change from grade school-

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THE OPEN FORUM The October lead article considers ii > 'tews media of today and freedom of the 7ness. Tom Haar, a Junior from Loretto, ' nnesota gives his impression of the m:< . cov erage during the election year. T f one is so inclined, he can inform himself through the news media, of almost everything in an election year: that George Wallace’s mother-in-law refuses to support him; that the vegetarian candidate is being refused equal time in a “possible” TV de bate; that Nixon is now already drinking the same brand of wine used by the Presi dent; that a “Dodge Fever” girl proposed to Wallace; and that Humphrey, in his court ing days, promised Muriel a part in his visionary salvation of the world. Stuff such as this has spiced up the ho-hum, the “Niagra of words” poured forth this year. But what baffles me is why I bother to find out all this pertinent information. I shall not be able to use it in electing the person who taxes me, sends me to Viet Nam, and tries me as an adult; for you see, a twenty-year old is too young to vote. Maybe I hearken to the news and opin ion dispensers because, as is the case with 72

the motion-picture industry, millions of dol lars and much talent are exhausted in their productions. Esquire hired playwrights, novelists and a satirist to cover the conven tion. ABC carried canned debates, pitting William F. Buckley against Gore Vidal. On CBS Theodore White and Art Buchwald chatted. Some good had to ensue. But more then likely I do not avoid reading newspapers and periodicals for the same reason I do not abstain from looking at mini-skirts: they are here, and “Now”, and we are inundated by them. Freedom to print almost anything is one of the greatest liberties we have, and that America is the best place to be if you have some stand to uphold, is common knowledge. If you do not believe this, just ask the editors of either the Northwestern Lutheran, who are permitted to print the Gospel in its truth and purity, or the Daily World, the Communist Party paper. Al-

tests, and all without any independent stu dy? When was the last time a battle raged in an ancient history class over whether Crete dominated mainland Greece or vice versa in the Late Bronze Age? Milton says: “When there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the mak ing?” Students, where is our striving for knowledge? Where are the mind-upsetting experiences of a college education? Nobo dy wants another Berkeley here. But what I am saying is that as maturing Christians we are in much the same position as was Luther in 1517, when he still believed in purgatory: we are learning and stumbling, yet we have our feet planted not in liberal lunacy but in orthodox order. Luther post ed ninety-five theses and begged for de bate. We sit in the dormitory and brood. In effect, the open forum of our news med ia, created by freedom of the press, is more open than many of our minds to the exam ination of ideas. A politician, like an actor, will ascribe to the press a different degree of importance, depending on the reviews he gets. Wallace, constantly blaring his contempt for the ‘liberal press” says, “Time is for people who can’t think, Life is for people who can’t read and Saturday Evening Post is for people who can neither read nor think.” Johnson, when the polls were for him, was an ardent pollster, believing them to be direct mandates from the people. Ro bert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago, said: “I might even say that Mr. Luce and his magazines (Time, Life, etc.) have more effect on the American character than the whole educa tional system put together.” 1968 seems so far to be marking a waning effectuality of the press. Daley and his cops were backed by 56% of the people but condemned by the press. McCarthy was rejected by the Establishment, but adored by the press. And finally, the lowest blow of all, the people are turning out for Wal lace, while the press tries to stymie the “racist.” To be biting the hand that feeds us information to keep our democracy go ing is rather ironic. Let it suffice to say that it is the events themselves, and not what is said about them, that mold public opinion. So far we have discussed freedom of

though the latter could raise a few objec tions, he would agree that in only a few other countries could he call the president an imperialist, a power-grabber, and get away with it. What to do with this freedom is vari ously interpreted by those in positions of power. The editor of the Realist, an under ground paper, self-described as the “maga zine of the lunatic fringe” or the “fire hy drant of the underdog”, may belch out a philosophy of ennui, all the while (he is) making a fool of himself by offering trash in the name of experimentation. On the other hand, the B Sc R is able to stick to a staid format, one befitting its role in our system. Attempting to be democratic, the Saturday Evening Post may carry a column entitled, “Speaking Out”, in which one can read the inspiring words of anyone from Curtis E. LeMay to Stokely Carmichael. In a discussion of the ‘ffects of this freedom, Milton is a good ian to consult. He says in Areopagitica ! her (Truth) and Falsehood grapp! : •'io ever knew Truth put to the worse ; ; ree and open encounter?” Granted, M j lived in a day when absolutes were n u vogue than they are today, yet his word > pply, I think, who may fool to that editor of the Reah some of the people son a he time, but who is going to find it haro liold his audi ence. Let us, for the time being, go under the assumption that all personnel involved with the news media are sincerely trying to tell it like it is. Of course, the truth still takes different shapes, because no two peo ple look at a situation in the same light (cf. the Democratic convention). Syndicated columnist Stewart Alsop says: “For the political reporter, there is no answer to jesting Pilate’s question. There are only bits and pieces of the answer and many versions and variations of those bits and pieces. But because of the self-correcting process, an American citizen, at least most of the time has a better chance than the citizen of any other country to get a fairly accurate idea of what is really going on at home and abroad.” What results then, fos tered again by freedom of the press, is an atmosphere of critical inquiry, obtaining in the press, that is unparalleled even at NWC. How often do we not merely attend the lectures, take notes, reproduce them for 73

with Wallace. The point, that of not lim iting your field, when looking for objectiv ity, to one newspaper or magazine or TV channel, is clear enough. There are two clearly-defined sides to the question of the media Credability Gap, i.e., those of psychologists and of students. To anyone who sees the world as being per fectible and sees reason, plumbed to the depths, as the means to this end, this look at the ideas of a psychologist, a “specializer in the area of human potentialities,” from the Stone Foundation no less, may be profitable. This fellow thinks that bad news is exploited and that good news is played down. He told the forum on “The Influ ence of Communications Media on the Cal iber of American Civilization” that “It is crystal clear that the overwhelming em phasis on ‘bad news’ greatly contributes to the climate of violence which character izes this country today,” and that “so called ‘good news’ as almost non-existent, due to antiquated, editorial definitions of ‘news.’” He went on to say that “bad news” creates anxiety, contributes to the formation of a negativistic outlook about the world’s af fairs, and makes people ue.” Whether being blue on account of rue news causes riots and makes some pe . ;e shoot others is, his whole is questionable. Besides thesis is false to me, whe enjoys the bad news no more than he, bu who sees it as an outward sign of the apostasy of man kind. Most students are berating the press for its distorted coverage. “A newspaper gives the impression that objective news is coming across,” says an English instruc tor at the University of Michigan. “The papers should print different versions of the same incident and allow dissenting points of view. The dissenting and minor ity positions should be presented not by an alien mind, but by a mind that honestly believes in the dissenting view.” Many of his suggestions may have value. But for a minority group that has no alternative pro grams to those it attacks, and that admit tedly resorts to violence to get attention, the students have gotten more than their share of “good press”. To boil the issue down, it must be ad mitted that an inherent danger exists in second-hand information. And starting with George Washington, who “leaked” his Farewell Address to a favorite publish-

the press, that unalloyed plus of American life, and its effects. Objectivity, the next item on my positive checklist, and actually another byproduct of the first amendment, is such a hot issue this year that it must be treated separately. We say, “Give us an accurate, responsible publication, other wise keep your paper!” This reaction is biting at the heels of the media this year, although much of the criticism is undue. In the main, the pages of newspapers and the boob-tube at six and ten o’clock mirror our malaise. A New York University psy chologist believes an onslaught against the media occurs “when certain problems are so massive, seemingly almost impossible of solution, and when they also are capable of inducing guilt in us about our ability to resolve them, we often deny their exist ence. The communications media, in re porting the news, confronts us with the continual presence of these problems and thus become agents which disturb the tran quility for which we yearn.” In other words, as in ancient times, we murder the mes senger of bad tidings. To be sure, an anti-media case can be built up. But to do so one must rely, to a large extent, on isolated cases of sensa tionalism and deceit. The news coverage at a Wallace rally that I saw in Minneapo lis this summer illustrates the point. You could say I was an innocent bystander look ing for some action that I did not get be cause I was sitting as high as you could get in Convention Center. I waited for two hours to hear Wallace speak for fifteen minutes. The delay, bearable only because of the Wallace girls, was due to a few spor adic fights, that were quickly squelched, and to incessant booing and shouting of “Wallace go home” by a few free-speech addicts who believed in allowing only those with whom they agreed to speak. As I stated, the fighting played a very insigni ficant role, but yet, the next morning, when I tuned in the news to see whether I could spot myself, all I saw was one fight scene after another, almost as if they had drag ged in an old World War II film and reeled it off for the benefit of anti-Wallace people (or pro-Wallacites?). Then, that aftenoon I picked up the Minneapolis Tribune. In it I read what I considered to be a very sane, accurate report of what happened, even though I am sure it turned the stom achs of the Tribune reporters even to talk 74

er who he knew would handle ij properly, and culminating in 1962 with a prominent government official who said, "It’s in the Government’s right if necessary, to lie to save itself,” the Government has done noth ing to answer the question of who is at fault for the Credibility Gap: the news makers or the newswriters. Yet our stock must be put in freedom of the press, know ing that it will bring forth a few qualified writers. Let us also hope that the Govern ment’s small (a couple of million dollars spent) beginnings in commercial-free TV do not grow. For the most part this article has been pro-media, but for me it would be incom plete without an expression of dismay ov er the plethora of liberal prophets pervad ing our papers. These men think like a herd of cows. They constantly urge react-

The World

ing to causes of problems rather than to the problems themselves; but, of course, they never reckon with irreligion as a cause. They are deathly afraid of a "swing to the right”. Consider the course taken in their articles this spring and summer. Be fore the President’s announcement of re tirement, they were all undone over the prospect of four more years of Johnson. After the abdication, their exasperation with American politics was complete. Not only did they not have Johnson to lambast, but the only replacement was Hubert. When McCarthy’s star arose, so did theirs, and when his toe was stubbed, they felt the pain. Their present concerns? Try the frustrations of the American people and the answers to what has gone wrong in our system. Their weighty ruminations should keep us supplied with reading matter for a T. H. long time to come.

a Chimney-sweep I'p where the smoke is all billered and curled, 'Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world. lien there’s ’ardly no day nor ’ardly no night, I -lore’s things ’alf in shadow and’alfway in light. "Chim Chim Cher-ee” from Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins

T n the eighteenth century, England was ■*" considered one of the most progressive and modern countries in the world. Yet, although it has been a land of many oppor tunities, England has many shocking events hidden in the pages of its history.

and employed nearly eight hundred work ers in London alone. The need for chimney sweeps arose chiefly because coal and wood, which were burned in the fireplaces, were the only source of heat. With the fireplace the only source of heat, there were many fireplaces in the large man In eighteenth-century England, women, sions. The job of cleaning the chimneys children and young persons were forced to was given to small boys and in some cases do work of all kinds in factories, work girls who were known as chimney-sweeps. shops, and even in the dirty coal mines. To fill the need for small boys, the children They began work early in the morning and were taken from orphanages or in a few seldom returned home until late in the cases were even sold by their parents. The evening. Yet for all their efforts they re age of most of these children ranged from ceived little pay; they worked under un- four to ten years. It was necessary for the safe and unclean conditions, and had very sweeps to be quite young because of the little time off for sleeping and recreation. size of the flues. The flues, or chimney One especially sad and shocking lot was pipes which branched off the main chim that of the chimney-sweep. Chimney ney stack to all parts of the house, were an sweeping was an established trade before average of nine by fourteen inches in size. the time of Shakespeare, but it was not It was these flues, which ran both horizon common until the eighteenth century. By tally and vertically throughout the frame 1785, the number of master chimney work of the mansions, which the chimney sweeps had grown to about one hundred sweeps had to clean. Before climbing into 75

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the flues, the young children rubbed their bodies with grease. Then, having removed almost all of their clothing to prevent be coming stuck, they began to climb the flues using their elbows and knees against the sides of the chimney pipes. If they became afraid or the chimney pipe was too small, there were certain ways to persuade them to continue as far as possible up the chim ney. The master chimney-sweep would ei ther shove a wire or a pin into their feet, or light a fire under them. If the chimney sweep was working too slowly or became stuck, the masters, such as the one in the tales of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, were of no help. This particular master, while commenting on the statement that several young men had been smothered in the chimneys, stated, “Thats acause they (masters) damped the straw afore they fit it in the chimbley to make ’em come down agin. . . that’s all smoke, and no blaze; vereas smoke ain’t o’ no use at all in Chimney-Sweeps Ideal: makin’ a boy come down, for it only sinds Thin As A Twig. him to sleep, and that’s wot he like. Boys is wery obstinite, and wery lazy, gen’lmen, and there’s nothink like a good hot blaze around his neck.” Many a chimney-sweep to make ’em come down vith a run. It’s came to a similar end. humane, too, gen’lman, acouse, even if The sweeps who did escape with their they’ve stuck in the chimbley, roasting their feet makes ’em struggle to hextricate lives were treated cruelly and heartlessly. theirselves.” He was especially proud of They were forced to sleep on soot-bags in his humane method of not smothering the the damp, cold cellars. Their daily work began before dawn, witth no consideration children, but only roasting them alive. being given to the health of the child. Poor Some sweeps were not lucky enough food and sometimes no food at all was not to escape from the chimney with their a rarity. Their clothing was inadequate lives. Such was the case of John Fraser, for their work and seasonal changes in the a young boy whose master was charged weather. Frequent sickness was also asso with his murder. Fraser had entered a flue ciated with the job. Coughs and colds were one afternoon and had become stuck. After common maladies, as well as injured and working for five hours to free himself, Fra burned arms and knees. Many sweepers ser’s attempts failed even though his mas developed malformed limbs because of the ter threatened to shoot him out. Therefore, heavy bags of soot which they were forced his master sent another sweep up the to carry. Eye disease was also common be chimney to tie a rope to one of Fraser’s cause the boys were only seldom given the legs. Despite the child’s cries of pain, the opportunity to wash themselves. The chim master continued pulling on the rope in ney-sweeps hated their jobs so much that, a vain attempt to free the child. After all as Phillips reports, one boy was willing to sounds of life ceased to be heard, the mas have his injured leg amputated after he ter sent for a mason to free the dead boy was assured by the doctor that he would from the flue. As recorded by George L. never be able to climb a chimney again. Phillips in his book England's ClimbingBoys, Fraser was found “lying on his belly, However, as time went on, an ever-in with his hands stretched above his head. creasing number of Englishmen were more He was lying at a turn in the vent, and his frequently heard voicing their disapproval head jammed at the head of the turn; had of the chimney-sweeper’s lot in life. This a towel around his head, and a shirt all awareness is clearly noted in the poetry of 76

the eighteenth century. William Blake, in his poem, The Chimney Sweeper, writes, “When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me when yet my tongue could scarcely cry ‘Weep! Weep! Weep!’ So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.” In another poem he makes refer ence to the sad plight of the chimney sweeps with the words, “How the Chimney sweeper’s cry every black’ning Church ap palls.” Elizabeth Browning also wrote about their suffering in the poem, “The Cry of the Children.” She pointed out that while the dumb animals of the field are allowed to roam freely and unharmed, the young children were being beaten and deprived of their lives as though they were animals. This growing awareness of the need for a change brought forth laws which some what improved the life of the chimney sweeps. It set men’s minds working on new

ways of alleviating the problem without risking the life or health of a child. It was not done away with over night, but a grad ual process achieved success in 1864. On May 10 of that year, the Chimney Sweep Act was passed by the House of Lords. The Act forbade the employment of a child under ten years to do any work con nected with chimney-sweeping. Nor was a master to allow anyone under sixteen years to enter a building where chimney sweeps were at work, or allow anyone un der twenty-one years to do the actual sweeping. It is hard to believe that in a country which was considered one of the most civ ilized countries of the world, such a terrible practice could have existed. England, a land of freedom and liberty, truly marred the glorious pages of its history with the A. B. story of the chimney-sweeps.

1801. The triumphant momeni had chang ed to the tragic dilemma. He had to choose between Jefferson and Burr for President The heat of the August night was noth- of the United States. He disliked and dis ing compared to the stuffiness of the trusted both men, and the Federalist Con room. The man took off his sweat-streaked gress was about to elect Jefferson as Presi wig and threw open the window. As he dent. But he knew that could not be; the looked down on the s rnmering Philadel electors who voted for both intended Jeffer phia street, he saw, with a feeling of re son to be President. Jefferson had some pulsion, two half-drunk commoners walk principles, at least, whereas Burr had none. The constitution was changed. The ing down the street, arm in arm, laughing electors would now vote for President and and singing. Vice-President. Hamilton knew that it had He went over to a chair, removed his been inevitable, for the friction between coat, and undid the lace around his throat. Adams and Jefferson had been an open Thank God, scum like that will never run secret for the last four years. But it really this country! He sat down with a sigh, a didn’t matter much. The power to elect sigh which denoted at once both extreme the President and Vice-President still lay weariness and a successful mission. No, in the hands of the aristocrats. he had not been able to install a limited monarchy — oh, if only I could have gotten 1824-1825. The Era of Good Feeling was dead and buried. Sectional interests divid that through — but at least the President ed the Democratic Party, an indication of would be chosen by the best people. the national trend. Adams from the North What would Tommy Jefferson think east, Calhoun from the South, and Clay of this? Ha! He was probably enjoying and Jackson from the West all ran. Jackhimself in France with all his radical idiot son won a plurality of the popular votes, friends. At least be thankful that he was but he did not gain a majority in the Elec not anywhere near Philadelphia. If Louis toral College. Since Clay came in fourth, XVI knew what was good for him, he’d his name did not go before the House. have Jefferson in the Bastille. All men are Since Adams promised Clay the post of created equal. Bah! Jefferson himself owns Secretary of State Clay threw him his slaves, and he, too, comes from an aristo support, and Adams won. Congress made cratic background. That demagogue, the an attempt to add an amendment to the way he looks down his nose at me! Does Constitution changing the electoral pro he know I’m a . . . ? cess, but it didn’t get too far.

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1876-1877. Things were looking up for the Democratic party. The end of Reconstruction in the South and widespread dissatisfaction with the corrupt, inefficient administration of President Grant made the Democrats think of victory. After the results came in, Samuel Tilden appeared to have defeated Rutherford Hayes by a narrow electoral margin, although he had a clearcut majority of the popular vote. But in three Southern states, which still had some Reconstruction government, there were conflicting results. The lame-duck Republican Congress appointed a special election commission, loaded with the party faithful. This group understandably awarded all twenty disputed votes to Hayes, who won by a one-vote margin in the Electoral College. When the new Democratic Congress came in, it tried to make a change in the system, and it failed. 1888. Grover Cleveland ended his campaign in a state of exuberance. The first Democrat elected since the Civil War had proved himself to be the best post-war President. Although he was very much in favor of the Gold Standard, he successfully avoided disaffecling the populist element of his party. When the results came in, Cleveland swept the South and the West, but the heavy concentration of Republican votes in the Northeast and Midwest put Benjamin Harrison in the White House. Congress again tried to make some chan ges; again it failed. 1960. The nation had just elected its first Roman Catholic President. This election proved to be a turning point in the people’s attitude toward the Electoral College. It had been regarded as an archaic but benevolent institution which could be toleratec*But the election was so close that small Kennedy majorities in several states gave him the election. The affair looked especially bad when the Republicans accused Mayor Daley’s machine of rigging the voting machines in Chicago. Then, to top it off, a Republican elector from Oklahoma voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd. Similar occurrences took place in 1796, 1948, and 1956, but this man had done it simply to assert his independence as an elector. 1968. The Great Society has turned out to be the Sick Society. The man who promised peace has brought war. The Civil Rights laws have added another solemn testimony

of the impossibility of legislating morality. Crime has increased at a rate twice that of the population rise. Five years of riots have ravaged all of the nation’s major cities, except New York. The anti-war demonstrators have taken to the streets and seem to have a double standard on violence and law. Assassination appears to have become a national pastime. a Senator from the Midwest challenged the ieader of his party, His strong showing in New Hampshire brought Robert Kennedy into the race and forced Lyndon Johnson out Kennedy defeated McCarthy in jowa> jost t0 him in Oregon, and won the election in California. Then the second member of a great family was cut down jn his prime by an assassin’s bullet. The Republican convention nominated Richard M. Nixon, as was expected. The Demo cratic Convention was a clash between the Old Guard and the rising young intellectuals. The Old Guard won, but the victory was nothing less than Pyrrhic. Outside the halls demonstrators and police clashed in senseless violence, xhe South is final]y rising again. George Wallace claims that he is the ndidate of tjje COmmon people; the cab-drivers, beauticians and factory workers. 1 to promises t0 ho!d a taut Une jn Viet Nan: ,nd to punish by means of an unbridled police the “communists, activites, militants, and an archists” who he claims are causing all internal disorder. He also says that he will return the states their just powers. His opponents claim that he is a racist, a demagogue, a fascist and an ultra-simplifier of the issues. Political theorists see in his candidacy the swing of the pendulum from left to right. His supporters strongly feel that he is the last hope for America. With three parties in the race, several specters which are no longer just nightmares have suddenly become terrifyingly real. The Electoral College could give a majority to a candidate with a decided minority of the popular vote. If no candidate receives a majority in the College, the next President might be the product of horse-trading in the House of Representatives. If the House should not be in accord by January 20th, the Senators would elect one of the Vice-Presidential candidates to be the temporary President. But it now appears that Nixon will win easily and America will have more time to sleep, t. b. 78

J addroom Here we are again. That statement is probably the brightest item that will appear in this column all year, so take heed. For the benefit of the new students and some of the slower old ones a statement of pur pose is in order: Campus and Classroom (henceforth to be referred to as C & C) is dedicated to the proposition that every Northwestern student has the inalienable right to one chuckle a month. This chuckle is to be dispensed through the official stu dent publication, which has been duly cen sored by the school president and contains his imprimatur. You may feel free to chuckle now, or at an. time during the reading of the article, 'o raucous laugh ter will be tolerated, however, as the qual ity of the material docs not warrant it, and such an outburst would be a clear indica tion of an imbalance in the student’s na ture. Speaking of President Toppe, it is rum ored that he is up for a citation from the Watertown Art Society for his contribution to the culture of the city. The avant-garde op-artists have come up with everything from Campbell’s soup cans to a book that unfolds to a life-size replica of a Greyhound bus, but who would have thought that this man of otherwise impeccable conservative taste would come up with lif-size replicas of a water tower and an air-raid siren? Wild, really wild. Due to the complicated system of communication under which the B & R staff labors, only the air-raid siren is pictured on this page, but as any student here or resident for miles around can tell you, the water tower is fully as magnificent as the siren. A national magazine recently went to great trouble to point out the faults of edu cation today. Northwestern has always been progressive in methods of education. It wasn’t too long ago that English replaced German as a means for communicating in the classroom, and even within this present 79

decade the class load was reduced from the former twenty-six hours a week, along with the addition of a pseudo-elective system. Perhaps the most grueling classes attended here, or anywhere for that matter, are lecture courses. The upperclassmen will easily recognize the situation: a large group of students is herded into a huge, minimally ventilated, ill-lighted room. The student is expected to remain seated in this confined space for nearly an hour with his mouth shut and his pen moving. A pro fessor is also provided. He is expected to give forth even the most abstract ideas with such ability that they are as clear as Kitchitikipi Spring, as interesting as a Ian Fleming plot, as intriguing as a strobe light, as witty as a Peanuts cartoon, as rele vant . . . But such superprofs, if they exist at all, are few and far between. The result of these conditions is a som ber group, closely resembling a herd of contently-grazing cattle. There are only two possible solutions to this dilemma. The less desirable would be to hire entertainers who are also competent teachers — the cost would, of course, be prohibitive. Our only recourse then, would be to turn to science. Surely a society that can send a man to the moon, but not keep order in its streets, can dream up a way to keep students with it in class. B. A. Wake and Associates have, at long last, announced development of a new computer-controlled device that should be the answer. The system consists of an es pecially-designed desk which has an inte grally-wired chair that operates much like a lie detector. It measures temperature, respiration and other physical characteris-

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tics that generally indicate how alert the student is. There is a control panel on the professor’s podium that contains rows of lights, one light for each desk. When a particular light is green the student is avid ly absorbing the lecture. Should it turn red, he is daydreaming, and a flashing red light means he is barely conscious. There is also a button accompanying each light. If a red alert should appear on the board, the professor need merely push the button, and a slight electrical shock is transmitted through the seat of the student’s pants, thus bringing him to a complete awareness of where he is and what he should be do ing, without the slightest pause in the flow of the lecture. There are some of us who are begin ning their eighth year on this campus, and I am sure that there is none of us who can remember a time when the bells work ed consistently from September through June. This has never really grieved any one. Perhaps it is the Classical subject matter that causes this attitude. Most of what is taught happened so long ago that another minute or two one way or another doesn’t seem to make a great deal of dif ference. But this year a new complication has been added: none of the clocks are syn chronized. The phenomenon of people con verging on the chapel-arts building in var ious distinct patterns has been observed

by both my roommate and me since the second day of school from our vantage point on the south side of the Wartburg. As a service to the school we have de termined the discrepancies for the various buildings. Attempting to be as scientific as possible, we adjusted an Accutron watch to coincide with the time given by radio station WTMJ (FM). Although some may object to Northwestern setting its stand ards by the world, it seemed the most unbi ased source. The following observations were made (you are advised to clip this section and paste it in your favorite notebook for later reference — better yet, memorize it): the clock in the office of East Hall is exact, but the one on the wall outside (gift: class of ’64) is eight minutes slow; Wartburg is a minute slow and an hour fast; the library two minutes slow; the chapel-arts building one minute slow and West Hall half a min ute fast. In closing, the award for the category “Funniest Joke Told by a Professor” for this month is the following from the Hebrew department: George Wallace was a bit shaken when the disasterous news came to him that his entire library had been wiped out by fire. Both books were a total loss. The sad part of it was that he hadn’t fin ished coloring one of them. M. H.

dual miracles of Wartburg Hall and milk dispensers in the dining hall. Signs simi lar to the one facing the intersection of College and Western Avenues, have been erected at several street intersections near the college to guide visitors into the cam Opening Day pus. Northwestern’s 1968-69 school year be gan at 2:00 p. m. on September 9th with Forum the opening service in the gymnasium. The Forum Society is once again show At that time the college in general and the ing signs of life after a couple of years of Sophomore class in particular began pre deep thought. On September 19th the first parations to welcome the largest Fresh of the monthy productions was held. The man class in the history of the school. On master of ceremonies was A1 Beyersdorf, that day the Frosh, with the aid of their who began the variety-type show by intro class advisors, began the adjustment to ducing a piano solo by Phil Lehmann. Poet the rigor and discipline of college life. ry readings followed. Paul Schmiege and Aside from the large new class, the old Bob Struve took various selections from hands returning to Resurrection City found their favoite authors. The inner workings that the year had wrought some changes of the mind of Tom Bartz were once again to the campus — though nothing to com laid bare as he presented original poems pare with last year, which brought us the describing his personal existentialist en-

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counter with Christianity. The remainder of the evenings offer ings were musical. Duane Erstad played some modern jazz piano, “Mr. and Mrs. Pasbrig” added a classical touch with a flute duet and a rousing finish was affected by the hard rock sounds of the Squatter’s Rites. The Squatters are headed by Greg Lenz. Dick Werner, Bruce Wales, Randy Kuznicki and energetic Forum President A1 Klessig make up the rest of the group. The whole program was indicative of a new spirit of enthusiasm which should make Forum the respected organization it once was. For a student body as unfamiliar with the value of classical literature and studies as ours is, the Forum Society’s second monthly production of the year, the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, will be a welcome breath of fresh air. The production was given on October 17th in the gymnasium. It was presented in the Greek manner; all the characters wore masks, and all roles were portrayed by men. The play was directed by Jeff Kutil. with assistance from Steve Persons and Jama Werner. The November mo; Jily production is scheduled as “Egad! Wit at. a Cad!” A1 Kles sig will direct it. No. r will also fea ture the election of the do actor for the final production next spring and the selection of the play to be given. A committee has been established to read plays submitted for consideration and evaluate them. Any one desiring to submit a play is invited to do so.

ident, Fred Zimmerman as secretary, and Keith Kuschel as treasurer. The chief ex ecutive post of the Sophomore class was entrusted to the able hands of Rich Kogler, aided by Bob Gurgel and Bob Koester as vice-president and secretary-treasurer, re spectively. Finally, the Frosh selected Dave Bock as their president, Roger Schultz as vice-president, and George Swanson as secretary-treasurer. Y-GOP The Northwestern Young Republican Union resumed its activites on the North western campus this fall in what its mem bers feel will be a successful year for their party in the history of American politics. The group’s greatest thrust of the year oc curred during the week of September 2228, designated “Young Republican Week”. On Monday of that week, a group of stu dents, both members and non-members, drove into Milwaukee to attend a rally for Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon. On Tuesday the collegiate student body was polled in a straw-vote election for both national and state offices and a variety of referenda on issues of the day. The afternoon was highlighted by a dis cussion of the contributions of young peo ple in politics with Gary Fairchild, nation al chairman of the college YR’s. Striking while the iron was still hot from the activ ity of the first two days, on Wednesday the Union conducted a membership drive in an effort to secure its goal of 110 mem bers for the ’68-’69 school year. Lecture The evening of October 3 offered North western students a unique opportunity to hear the experiences of one who is person ally involved in the work of our synod in a foreign mission field. Pastor Ernst Wendland of the Lutheran Bible Institute in Lusaka, Zambia, delivered a slide lecture on the progress of our work in the African mission. In his presentation Pastor Wendland dealt both with the efforts to preach the Word directly in the churches and also with the work of training natives as church workers in the Bible Institute, of which he is director. Both efforts of the Americans involved in this work and the zeal of the native population to hear and teach the word serve as an example of the diligence and dedication that should be found with p. A. in us in the United States.

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Frey, Pastor Immanuel G. (’35), is now serving Zion, Phoenix, in addition to Good Shepherd, Phoenix, Ariz. Pautz, Pastor Daniel (’63), formerly of St, Phi lip’s, Milwaukee, is now at Emmanuel, Tempe, Ariz. _ Sclnvanke, Pastor Myron (’64), was installed July Greetings. As we continue Volume 72 ^ Apache Mission, Peridot, Ariz. from last school year, some of you may be Sonntag, Pastor Lyle (’64), was installed at Our wondering why my name appears as AlumSavior’s Apache Mission, Bylas, Ariz., on Auni Editor rather than Thomas Ziebell. Tom SusJ 4_ . _ . ...... „ , ., , . . .__ . Christman, Pastor Robert ( 64), was installed as decided not to return to NWC this year, assistant pastor at Grace, Tucson, on July 28. but rather to attend the University of Wis- Neumann, Pastor Karl H. (’41), formerly of Redeemer, St. Croix Falls, Wis., is now at Trinity, consin at Madison. So, one might say that Winslow, Ariz. I have been honored with this position by Reaume, Pastor A. Hugh (’58), has moved from default. Trinity, Winslow, Ariz. to Salem, Scottsdale, Ariz. Regardless of the method of arrival, I Schultz, Pastor David (’60), formerly of Grace, find myself in a happy situation because Casa Grande, Ariz., is now serving at Pilgrim, our district correspondents have presented Mesa, Ariz. me with copious information which they Siegler, Pastor Paul (’58), formerly of Christ, Coon Rapids, Minn., is now serving as mission have compiled over the summer. Although ary at Good Shepherd, Albuquerque, New Mex. some of this news may be stale on account of the length of time elapsed between is ANNIVERSARIES The Minnesota District observed its 50th Anniver sues, it will nonetheless be printed here for sary as a member of the Wisconsin Ev. Luth those who depend on the B & R for Synod eran Synod on Sept. 22. David Star, Kirchhayn, Wis., celebrated its 125th events. Anniversary on Sept. 8. CALLS St. John’s, Oak Creek, Wis., observed its 125tli Malchow, Pastor Daniel (’49), formerly of St. Lu Anniversary on Oct. 6. cas, Milwaukee, is now President of North St. John’s, Allegan, Mich., celebrated its Centen western Lutheran Academy, Mobridge, S. Dak. nial on Sept. 8. Leyrer, Prof. Carl (’42), Dean of students at NWC St. John’s, Rising City, Nebr., observed its 75th has accepted a call to St. Lucas, Milwaukee. Anniversary on August 4. Zehms, Pastor Roger (’62), formerly at Ballwin Pastor William P. Haar (’15), celebrated his 50th and Owensville, Mo., was installed on Sept. 8 Anniversary in the holy ministry on Aug. 25 in at Martin Luther, St. Louis, Mo. Salem, Loretto, Minn. Lillegard, Pastor Lawrence (’50), has moved DEDICATIONS from Wabasha, Minn., to Ballwin, Mo. Belle Plaine, Minn, dedicated a combin Stelter, Pastor E. (’54), formerly of Zion, Read- Trinity, ation church and school on Sept. 2S and Oct. 6. field and St. Peter, Larson, Wis., is now at St. The Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Ser John’s, Two Rivers, Wis. vice dedicated a Child Welfare Office Building Geiger, Pastor Gerhard (’34), has moved from and a Residence for the Aging in Milwaukee St. John’s, Gibson, Wis., to Roscoe, S. Dak. on June 23. Baer, Pastor Robert (’51), formerly at Ann Ar bor, Mich., is now at St. John’s, Westland, Mich. MARRIAGES Press, Pastor Philip (’47), has moved from Phoe Pastor Silas Krueger (’60), married Marsha Tobe at Redeemer, Tucson, Ariz., on Aug. 4. nix, Ariz., to St. John’s, Pigeon, Mich. Pingel, Pastor Louis (’39), formerly of St. Paul’s, Pastor Ralph Scharf (’64), and Nettie Boldt were married on June 23 at Jerusalem, Morton Roscoe, S. Dak., is now serving Trinity, Lin Grove, 111. coln and St. John’s, Mio, Mich. Schaumberg, Pastor Glen A. (’64) was installed Pastor Lynn Schroeder (’64), and Rachel Boldt were married on June 23 at Jerusalem, Morton at King of Kings, Willoughby, Ohio, July 14, ’68. Grove, 111. Herman, Pastor Edgar (’58), has moved from Mission, S. Dak. to St. Mark’s Flat Rock, Mich. Mark J. Lenz (’65), and Esther Graf were mar ried on June 8 at Trinity, Waukesha, Wis. Wolfgram, Pastor Arno (’64), was installed at St. Tom Zarling (’65) and Mary Mey were married Andrews, Toledo, Ohio. on Aug. 25 at St. John’s, Newburg, Wis. Schroeder, Pastor Lynn (’64), was installed at St. Oliver Lindholm (’65) and Betty Kluewer were Timothy’s, Maumee, Ohio on July 21, ’68. married on Aug. 11 at Mt. Lebanon, Milwaukee. Strack, Pastor Kenneth (’54), has moved from Cocoa, Fla., to serve Grace, Tecumseh, Mich. Carl Otto (’65) married Barbara Schuetze on Aug. 11 in the Seminary Chapel, Mequon, Wis. Franzmann, Pastor Werner (’25), has left his post as Northwestern Lutheran Editor to serve in RESIGNATIONS the parish ministry at Darlington, Ann Arbor, Pastor W. G. Fuhlbrigge (’16) resigned from the Mich. active ministry on Oct. 1. Gaertner, Pastor John (’59), formerly of Salem, Pastor William P. Haar (’15) resigned from the Scottsdale, Ariz., is now at First Ev. Lutheran, active ministry on Aug. 1 and now resides in Montello, Wis. Prescott, Ariz.

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Pastor Henry Rosin (’14) of the Apache Mission in Peridot, Ariz. resigned this summer after over 50 years of service in the ministry. Pastor William F. Wietzke (’13) of Montrose, Col. resigned after serving in the ministry for 52 years. DEATHS Pastor Victor Bittorf (’58) of Denver, Col., passed away at the age of 31. Pastor E. Ph. Dornfield (’04) left this life on July 21. Pastor Frederick Naumann (’40) was taken from this life on Sept. 7. BESUCH Hilmar Krueger, class of ’25 made surprise visits to his classmates Pastor Wilbur Frank of Stetsonville and Pastor Alfons Engel of Waupaca, also to his alma mater in early September. Hil

mar Krueger used his summer cottage at the Lutheran Retreat in Mount Morris as a point of departure. He spends several weeks there each summer on vacation from his administra tive duties at the University of Cincinnati, where he has served since 1930 as dean of the University College and the University branch es. In 1980 he founded the University College, which this autumn will have 2,400 students. Last autumn he founded the Raymond Walters branch, which this semester will have 1,200 students. This month he begins his third insti tution; a tri-county academic center with 250 students. That center is about 60 miles from Cincinnati on the west end of Appalachia. The counties which it serves have been without a single institution of higher learning, not even a barber college or a secondary school. G. L.

•Sports On Tuesday, Sepl. 8, the practice field of NWC once again rarg out with those familiar sounds of at. football season. Forty-six prospects turned out with the hopes of forming a r ball team that would do justice to the : .me. The team on the w' .' iooks good, with most of last year’s in • turning. Only six were lost through iduation. A good share of talented l’rosh rom NWC Prep, MLS and DMLA bolstered the team’s depth, with a few gaining starting positions. This year a few more pounds have been added to the line, while the back field should be able to get off to a good start with its in creased speed.

ing it out in a close struggle for the quart er-back position. With this year’s offense in an I-formation, Schuppenhauer has land ed the fullback spot, with Freshman Rog Schultz right behind him at tail back . Fred Zimmerman is holding down the outside flanker position. The offensive line looks about the same size as last year, but there is some booming height in ends, Naumann (6-6) and Thompson (6-3). Gut, Rich mond, Kogler, Sternhagen, and Wiederich provide the blocks up front. The defensive line is big, with the front four of Gut, Palmquist, Schroeder, and Zimmerman. Backing up the line are the experienced men from last year: Haar, McWaters, Luetke, Harstad and McAvoy. The rest of the defense is rounded out with Thompson and Schultz on pass defense. This year, because of the late, short season (six games), coach Umnus has had ample time to get a team together. The Trojans have had four weeks of practice, including two intrasquad games. Their first game was against Milton on Oct. 5.

The starting line-ups shape up this way. Harstad and Bill Hartman are battl

MILTON 45 NWC 10 With three games already under their belt, Milton was in mid-season form as they routed the Trojans 45-10 at their own Homecoming. At the start of the game Milton won the toss and elected to receive. For about the first five minutes, the game seesawed back and forth with neither team gaining much ground. Then one of Milton’s backs broke away and whizzed around our end for a 33 yard touchdown. The Trojans were determined to come back in the se cond quarter, but had their plan foiled, as well as their spirits dampened, when Milton returned a pass interception 30 yards for a TD. During that quarter the Wild cats also connected for two TD’s on pass receptions. With about eight minutes left in the third quarter, the Trojans finally got a 65 yard drive started. Hartman bomb ed a 22 yard pass to Hartwig in the end zone. The only other concentrated effort for the Trojans came late in the fourth

quarter. Again we marched down deep in to Milton territory, but were stopped. With only seven seconds left to play, NWC post ed their last score on a 30 yard field goal by Swanson. Milton had little trouble running around our ends, while three touchdowns were scored through the air. For the most part, the Trojans stopped them up the middle. NWC also had problems moving their of fense both on the ground and in the air. First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total yards Passes Punts Fumbles Fumbles lost Yards penalized

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/^ne of the facts of Northwestern life is that when guys get together, they inevitably wind up cutting either the profs or some other guys. We must admit that this is a poor custom and shows that we are not even good conversationalists in resorting to such material. We are Christ ians, however, and cutting may be just an other of our many sins of weakness. We make this assertation on the assumption that in the vast majority of cases, no of fense is ever intended by the cuts and slams. It is possible that often is taken more often than it is meant. n the guy who gets the brunt of the di , slam happens to overhear it, the natvr : reaction is to feel hurt and alienated : ;ng offense is even more understand.iien one finds out indirectly that some has been talk ing behind his back. This is the way it is, but the situation may not be as hopeless and useless as it seems. Since others are always more alert to our faults than we are, their criticism can serve as pointers to areas where we need improvement. It’s not always easy to admit that there may be some basis for the cuts we get. Were cut not only for bad habits, but also for unconsciously get ting on others’ nerves when we’re techni cally not doing anything wrong. Cuts are about the only thing which let us know that we’re not the great personalities that we think we are. When people rub us the wrong way, we shouldn’t file it away under “evidence” and use it at some later date to cut them. We would be better off to realize that peo ple seldom intend to hurt our feelings. In stead of cutting them, we should take it on the chin and put the best construction on it we can. Talking matters over pro vides a more satisfying solution than a slam behind the back. DuE

ur school library is something of which we should be quite proud. It has an extensive collection of useful and interesting books on most subjects, espec ially those relevant to our curriculum. We recognize it as a hub around which much study centers.

There is one portion of the library that comes in for nearly as much abuse as use. This is the reserve shelf. Its primary in tention is to make certain books in demand are available to as many people as possi ble. The trouble is that when these books are most wanted and needed they sudden ly disappear and the whole purpose of the shelf is defeated. Obviously, somethng should be done about it. The best solution would be that everyone would fully honor the usefulness of the reserve shelf and use it in the way for which it has been designed. It is not too much to ask. A solution that might be more realis tic to the student body would involve modi fying the sign-out system now being used. Some books belong to the professors and should remain on the shelf as they see fit. But other books might be made more avail able to students if a longer check-out per iod were allowed. The length of this check out time could be rated according to the need for the book. For example, books in critical demand for a paper or test due within a week or so could be loaned on a one-day basis. Those volumes which are simply meant for general reading and study could easily be checked out for a three-day duration. This would allow a particular student to finish his work with out constantly running to the library. He would be relatively free from paying a rather stiff fine, should he forget to return the book promptly during the day. Such a set-up would be more convenient and more readily appreciated by the students. If the present system or a new one such as mentioned above continues to be too unworkable, the pendulum might swing to much stricter contral. Let’s hope that h. p. will not be necessary.

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T^arlier this year the Latin Quarter in “ Paris made the headlines with protest demonstrations and carousing by students. The University of Paris is one of the old est in the world and has seen similar scenes for centuries. Back in the 12th Cen tury, however, it wasn’t the students who started this tradition of wild parties, but the faculties. When the University of Paris faculties began to increase in number, they developed the custom of welcoming new masters into their fraternities by a kind of initiation. This was accompanied by feast ing at the newcomer’s expense. The feast ing often turned into a wild party. The records of 1121 show that the great scho lar Peter Abelard was prosecuted for at tempting to skip his initiation. This is not surprising in the light of his personality. Peter apparently was an all-around misfit, a fitting patron saint for his present-day counterparts. Students lost no time in imitating their profs, and the custom of initiation has con tinued to the present. In Holland, “green horns have their heads shaved and are an ointed with plates of hot soup. “Baptis mal” ceremonies take place at pools in for mal cutaways and bathing trunks. An un lucky one may get a brain concussion if a hockey stick misses the William Tell-type sphere on his head, but “no harm is in tended.” As Peter Abelard found out, there are no exceptions to the rules of initiation. But when Beatrix, the royal princess, en tered school, the rules were relaxed a little. Hazing has become such an established fact of life that the Dutch Minister of Just ice has no qualms about admitting that some of his fellow students who were in volved in a hazing scandal “finally came to high and respectable posts in Dutch so ciety.” Americans generally seem to take the matter a little more seriously. In New York, the state legislature decided to do something about it. Since 1894, “engaging in, or aiding and abetting, what is com monly called hazing” has been punishable by a year in jail and a $100 fine. The law was never enforced and was soon forgot ten. Within the last decade someone dug

up that law after a boy spent more than a month in a hospital recuperating from his high school initiation. The court decided that it couldn’t define the term “hazing,” and therefore prosecution was not possi ble. High schools may have the rowdier students, but collegiates do not take a back seat when it comes to hazing. In college, hospital cases no longer make the news. Only the deaths receive attention. In 1958 an MIT freshman who was trying to get back to school after a ten-mile ride into the country ended up at the bottom of the Cambridge reservoir. Three years later a USC student in Los Angeles choked on a sandwich-sized slice of oil-soaked raw liver. Death is certainly not intentional, and actual physical harm is probably the ex ception rather than the rule. Ordinarily fraternities can send their “pledges” a cou ple of states away on a one-way plane tic ket and a dime, and they get back un harmed. With a little bit of luck, hitch hiking back can be completed without missing the first hour on Monday. Chances are that the “can of worms’ eaten blind folded is mostly spaghetti. Most pledges realize (or .u least hope) that this is true. In spite o. nuch fear and trepidation, they find that it isn’t nearly as bad as they imagined and try to con vince themselves that they enjoy the pro ceedings, too. Even the harshest critic would agree that Northwestern initiations have result ed in no deaths. One student recently prov ed that it was even possible to undergo the rigors twice with little loss of pride. For many years the “Vesuvius Club” (one time occupant of the now defunct Tertia Smoker/Chewer) did most of the initiat ing. Prospective members acquired old members’ signatures on their paddles only after proper application. The school pump played a prime part in initiation for a long time, although there’s a rumor that one Frosh class revolted at the proceedings. The art of buttoning has advanced steadily with the passage of the years. Re grettably, there is no record of who was the first to say “a hundred quickies.” Back in the Forties there were two weeks of buttoning and a possible third week if the Frosh lost the tug-of-war with the Sophs. 86

Because of the permanent nature of an establishment, this principle usually goes unchallenged. There are not many Peter Abelards. In this case, students are the establishment and often feel that they have a “divine right to initiate.” This feeling is wrong in any group of students, but particularly at NWC. Only the administration has the privilege of ad mitting or dismissing students. It has never delegated it to students. To the ex tent that initiation functions as a passage rite, it is without justification. When one is a student in the “in” group, it becomes more difficult to see that the principle behind initiation is the preserva tion of the social status of the group. Back at the University of Paris, “the masters who at first tried to suppress, though they eventually sanctioned, the coarse and bru tal initiations and demands of entertain ment from the freshmen were also proba bly unconscious of the large part that the same elementary human instinct had play ed in the building up of their own groups.” Educated 20th Century society is as sumed to be civilized, but hazing does not enhance this impression. In 1856 some one was thinking along the same line when he wrote that “the custom which formerly prevailed in the older American colleges of allowing the members of all the upper classes to send freshmen upon errands, and in other ways to treat them as infer iors, appears at the present day strange and unaccountable.” National fraternities have finally done something about this paradox. They have turned their “Hell Week” into a commun ity benefit. Church-associated schools may have a reputation for being behind the times, but Christian schools should not be the last to rid themselves of the poorlymotivated practice of hazing. The effort expended each year on questionable types of initiation could produce useful projects which would retain all the good social benefits which are ideally a part of hazing. Students could escape the stigma of poor motivation, show greater maturity, be in less danger of causing offense and gain more respect than at present by having initiatory activities which actually wel come new students and produce positive results. Even the reputation of the school would stand to benefit. DuE

As long as there are tooth brushes, there will always be Frosh willing to clean the Sprinter. But neither the plunger patrol nor nose-rolling peanuts has been as lucky in the test of time. While this is a rather cruel way to treat those who are trying to enter a strange new society, experience shows that those stand to benefit most who like the idea the least. For those who correspond to the cowboy in one of O. Henry’s short stories and have a tendency to be “loners,” hazing can mean acceptance, whether or not they like or desire it at the time. The more prolonged the ceremony is, the better are the opportunities for getting acquainted with all the classes involved. Hazing has been known to result in antagonism as well as good will. Further more, there are suitable ways of getting acquainted other than the ordeal of cold water and truth serum. While some social benefit may be con ceded, there is little support for the claim that initiation helps new students over come pride. Those who are initiated show the same old pride when they get the chance to initiate other:- Those who have been initiated in high school “need” an other dose when they ge into college. Per haps initiation does not do more than sat isfy the pride of those feel they must in itiate the new students. The humility that they produce is artificial and only on the surface. There is little difference in atti tude before and after initiation that could not be attributed to the mere passage of time. There is also the “underground” vari ety of initiation. This is commonly direct ed at individuals, and no benefits are even claimed. Since actual harm is usually the result of this, the administration takes the matter seriously. Those who are caught receive their reward. Psychologists claim that hazing has a counterpart in ancient tribal ceremonies called “passage rites.” These rites were required for passage from one social stat us to another. One common characteristic of these rites was the exclusion of the noninitiated or profane members of the group. The principle was simply that to enter the “in” group, an individual had to submit himself to any rigors that that group might impose on him. 87

Two Dr. Ott Scholarship Awards of $250 are presented every year for the two best essays entered in the fields of history and English. Two ’68 graduates, Edward Fredrich and Robert Pasbrig, submitted the winning entries last year. Mr. Fredrich's paper dealt with the Northwestern Luth erans series of articles on evolution. Mr. Pasbrig’s entry is presented below in an abridged form.

Edward Fredrich

"DRUIDAE GAUORUM" K.-.i-v it Pasbrig

pie Stonehenge. Finally, the downfall of the Druids will be considered, and the pa per ends with a consideration of the Druids’ influence on modern Europe along with conclusions drawn from this study. Present day knowledge of the ancient Celts, to say the least, is far from complete. What we do know stems primarily from three sources: archeological discoveries, Irish and Welsh folklore, and writings of the Romans and Greeks. The Celts appar ently originated in the area of present day Germany around 700 B.C. during the early Iron Age. Because of the increasing popu lation, their inborn restless nature, and the need for increased food supplies, this group of people began to migrate. By about 500 B.C., they entered the British Isles, and, for the first time, became a farming folk. This era of migration is known as the La Tene period, the second half of the early Iron Age. It was during this time that the Druids, the Celt’s mysterious priesthood, had its beginnings. The Celts were a barbaric people, and

T1 here is little need to mention that the * imaginations of all of us are stirred by the study of ancient peoples and the strange, unexplained events in their lives. We wonder about their civilizations, their religious beliefs, and the influence they have had on present civilizations. This paper is the result of such a curiosity. Its purpose is to examine one of these ancient civilizations, concentrating primarily on their religious beliefs. The civilization is that of the ancient Celts; the religion is that of their priesthood, the Druids. The intent is to study this strange and myster ious religious order, in an effort to deter mine what modem research has and has not discovered about them. The paper be gins with a quick study of the Celtic peo ples themselves, followed by a detailed study of the origin and priesthood of the Druids, with emphasis on the functions of these men in the religious worship of the Celts. A short review is then made of the archeological findings associated with the Druids, especially the massive stone tem88

even the women, according to Ammianus Marcellinus, were strong and war-like. “A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes; especially when swelling her neck, gnashing her teeth and brandishing her snallow arms of enormous size, she begins to strike blows mingled with kicks.” These are the type of people the Druids served. Almost all knowledge of the Druids is derived from casual mention of them in the classical writings of such as Caesar, Pliny, and Ammianus Marcellinus. The problem is, that with the exception of only one, all these allusions were written after the occupation of Gaul by Rome, and as a result, almost all information given is colored by the influence the Romans had on the Druids. Even with these many writ ers the amount of data given is only mea ger and open to debate as to its validity. Unfortunately, monumt :al and epigraphical evidence is also tlmost nil. To Caesar they v.v, professional class of priests, seers, teach' lawyers, and jud ges. Some felt they \ . mainly philoso phers, others that th ae priests of a special oak ritual wh;. vill be discussed later. For our purpose i. might be simply stated that they administered the sacred things of the Gauls, in. some cases prac ticed magic, and apparently possessed a great store of unwritten knowledge. The Druids “united the Gauls in a loose relig ious order”. There is doubt as to where the Druids originated. Some feel it was with the Celts in Gaul, and some claim they never really existed at all as an organized priesthood in Britain. Others believe that the Celts as similated the Druids from one of the peo ples they subdued in the British Isles. The Druids, MacCulloch claims, were origin ally the priests of the Gordels. If this is the case, the Druids would have originated in the Isles and later moved from there in to Gaul. This is the claim of Caesar in his Gallic Wars, vi, 13. “It is believed that their rule of life was discovered in Britain and transferred thence to Gaul.” The organizational strength of the Dru ids is also debated. At least one study con cludes that the Druids powerfully domin ated the Celts from Ireland to Asia Minor, maintaining intact the tradition and reli 89

gious beliefs of that civilization. It has al ready been mentioned that others hardly give the Druids credit for any organiza tional power at all. We might best con clude that most of the information about the origin and power of the Druids is “sure ly hypothetical” but most likely “the Druids were a native priesthood common to both travelers of the Celtic people, and that they had grown up side by side with the growth of native religion”. Caesar tells us about the Druid priest hood education. A 20 year course of study was required in many cases. Studies in cluded philosophy, astronomy, geometry, medicine, and natural science. The Dru ids forbade the recording of any of their knowledge in writing, so a great store of information had to be memorized. “They must have had a considerable oral liter ature of sacred songs, formulae of prayers, rules of divination and magic, but of all this lore not a verse has come down to us, either in their own language or in the form of translation, nor is there even a legend that we can call with certitude Druidic.” Caesar felt that since they were held in such great honor by the people, great num bers must have come to study under them. Their greatest influence probably was in the role of teacher. Once a man completed his studies and became a Druid he was exempted from military service and the burden of some taxes. Information concerning their class structure is also mentioned by several clas sical authors. Three classes of Druids are known to have existed: the Bards, the Seers (the outateis or vates), the Druids proper. The Bards were hymn writers and poets; the Seers were the sacrificers and men of science; the Druids conducted the worship as well as judged, philosophised, and taught. One other special class is also mentioned, the Gutuatri, which apparently was a separate group of priests serving a specific god. Actually, other classes of Dru ids and special priesthoods existed in speci fic localities of the Isles and in Gaul. Each local group, to some extent, may have had their own caste system. The Druids were known to hold a year ly meeting at which an Archdruid was cho sen by vote. At his death either the most prominent Druid succeeded to the position of archdruid or another election was held. At this time public and private disputes

and accusations were also heard. If a per son were found guilty he might be “excom municated” from the worship rites of the people, “a severe punishment in the case of so religious a people as the Gauls”. Often criminals were used for burnt offerings, especially in later years when human sac rifices became more common. More about this later. The Druids were also known to intervene in battles, sometimes actually stopping one by interposing between the warring parties and demanding peace. The practice of some magical rites and the participation in the choosing of a new king were also within the realm of their duties. The Druids were able to retain a strong control over the Celtic peoples until 53 B.C., but, as a result of the battle of Alasia they lost this control. Gaul, under the young Arvemian, Vercengetorix, was mak ing its last stand against the Romans. Many of the Celtic people were involved in the struggle, but those who didn’t live in the area of the fighting refused to help their neighbors. The Druids, like the common people, were divided over the fighting. Some supported the war, some didn’t. The Druids never again had a unified control over the people because the damage to their religious order was irreparable. This was also the end of the effective national assembly and the beginning of the corrup tion of their teaching and the priesthood. From now on they are known to the world only as seers. Diodorus Siculus describes the Druids’ study of the flights of birds, the entrails of animals, and the death movements of a sacrificed man through which prognosti cations were made. Strabo tells us of Rome’s wish to destroy all Druids because of the practice of human sacrifice. Men were shot with arrows, impaled in the tem ples, or offered up in burnt sacrifices along with animals. Caesar describes huge fig ures woven of twigs around men to be offered as a burnt immolation to the gods. If criminals or prisoners of war were avail able, they were used for these sacrifices. If there weren’t any, innocent victims were taken from the tribe. Some authors speak of mothers hiding their children to protect them from being sacrificed, but these state ments have no factual basis. The next pertinent classical reference to the function of the Druids was not writ ten until perhaps 50 years later when Pom-

ponius Mela speaks of their sacrificial off erings, professed knowledge, and teachings about death. By this time the Roman influ ence is becoming quite great and the Dru ids’ teachings are becoming adulterated. Outright slaughter was no longer perform ed, but instead blood was merely drawn from the victims. The Druids claimed, as they had done in years past, to know the size, shape, and movement of the universe, as well as the will of the gods. Immortality of the soul continued to be taught. This is the conclusion of our consider ation of the Druids themselves. We will now take a look at the Celtic religion and the Druids’ function in that religion. The religion of a primitive people such as the Celts usually attempted to explain the personal surroundings of their own “local universe”. These religions can be described as environmental If then we survey the natural religion of primitive peoples in all parts of the world we shall probably discover that it everywhere as sumes one of two forms, which far from being incompatible with each other, are usually found to be embraced simultane ously and with equal confidence by the worshippers. One of there, is worship of nature, the other, worship of the dead.” We find this, generally sp. 'king, to be the case with the Celts. Primitive worship usually follows a specific table of advancement. Primitive animism, the usual beginning, leads to polytheism and then on to monotheism. This, too, was true of the Celts. They be gan with either a fear or reverence for spir its found in every object on earth and in the skies. Slowly, as the Celts overcame their fear or worship of imaginary spirits in objects, the worship of gods evolved. This brought about the advent of the Dru ids. As we will later see, some object wor ship still prevailed, but worship of specific gods was already generally accepted. One chief god, Dis, is mentioned by Caesar, but he also writes that they worshipped Mer cury, Apollo, Mars, Jupiter, and Minerva. The Celts, of course, did not worship the same gods as the Romans, but they were similar to the ones Caesar mentioned. We can, however, conclude that the Celtic reli gion was fundamentally the same as the pantheism of Italy. Pliny describes one of the pecular wor ship practices of the Celts thought to be 90

derived from some sort of ancient tree wor ship. He states that mistletoe was worship ped by the Gauls, especially if it was found on an oak tree. It was considered an “uile” or “all heal” and was gathered as part of a feast at the winter solstice or the 6th day of the moon. A great procession was led into the forest in search of the sacred branch. When one was found, a Druid clothed in white robes and standing bare foot cut the branch with a golden sickle. Other Druids caught the branch in a white linen cloth. It was forbidden to cut the branch with either steel or iron. Two white bulls were then sacrificed. The sacred mis tletoe, after being dipped in the blood of these animals, was laid beneath the altar of the temple. After the fourth day it was broken into small pieces and used as a remedy for sickness, to bring about fertil ity, and as an antidote for poisons. Certain animals wvrc also highly re garded by the Gauls for it was felt they helped man fight evil spirits. This is an other belief the roots :fiich stretch far back to the beginnings . the Celts. The snake particularly had p ial powers. Two of the sun gods, Hu •; Oeredwyn, were said to have chariots c s vn by serpents. ■ .ins have been Many archeological found with carvings oi > hese serpent-dri ven chariots, serpent swnbols, and other indications of serpent worship. Another god of the ancient Britans called Bel, the dragon or serpent king, i* also known. Wor ship to him consisted of sunwise turns, called dheasul, around a sacred lake and then around a sanctuary on which was de picted the serpent king. Pliny again is the writer who describes serpent worship. The snakes were said to entwine themselves in to a ball, called an egg, that was held toge ther by secretions and spittle. The Druids taught that the serpent egg hurled itself into the air and that it had to be caught in a white cloak before it touched the ground. The one who caught the hissing egg had to immediately flee, for the snakes would attack him. The only escape was to cross a flowing stream. These serpent eggs were so highly revered by the Gauls that they made gold and glass reproductions of them. Pliny tells of having seen one of these himself. The egg was credited with having magical powers and, therefore, was often worn on the clothing for good 91

Another of the religious festivals of the Celts was the choosing of a new king, a ceremony normally controlled by the Dru ids. Religious songs and incantations were sung over a sleeping man who may have been hypnotised by the Druids. When the man, who had been fed the flesh of a sa cred white bull slain as a sacrifice dream ed, he would supposedly envision the im age and home of the new king. Often the envisioned man could not be found and the ceremony had to be reenacted. Other Celtic festivals included those which marked the change in seasons. The pattern of fours seemed to have some relig ious function. The day, the lunar month, and the year were divided into the four sections which we still use today. The time of the year was counted by nights rather than by days; the new year began during the night. This has led some scholars to conjure that the “darkness of the earth had a greater hold on the mind than the brightness of day”. The new year began on November 1st at the rite of Samain, our modern day Halloween. A sacred fire was lit, all others were extinguished, and all the new fires were lit from the one sacred flame. Disputes were also settled at this festival. Exclusion from this rite was com parable to excommunication. Even more important than this winter festival was the spring festival held in May, called Bel tane, like our modem May Day. A fire to a sun god was lit, and cattle were driven along a narrow path between two fires to protect them from disease. The hair of the cattle was singed with torches, and sometimes blood was let and used as an offering to this sun god. Another festival was held in mid summer which was very similar to those found throughout the world among almost all the sun worship ping agricultural peoples. Some of the most interesting teachings of the Druidic religion are those relating to death. Caesar tells us that the Druids believed in the immortality and transmi gration of the soul. Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria, and Stromata all indicate that the Druids practiced Pythagorian phil osophy. Although there is a slight possibil ity that Pythagorian teachings spread from the Greeks to the Celts, it is much more reasonable to assume that the Celtic doc trine of rebirth of the soul “was part of the natural religion of a primative society, and

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become the candles of Candlemas, the festival of the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” This carry over of customs can be expected when Christianity comes to a people. “Man’s religion can never be dissociated from his social experience, and the painful stages through which man reached the agricultural life, for example, have left their indelible impress on the mind of man of Western Europe.” Their mythology was so deeply grounded “to the j very fiber of their beings” that it had bei come an “intimate part of the texture of i their minds.”

In summary, then, we can conclude that the Druids indeed were a weak but present unifying factor among the ancient Celts, more powerful on the mainland than on the British Isles. They were the priests of a very complicated religion in cluding plant and sun worship, mythology, and the immortality of the soul. Their religion included the practice of offering human sacrifices to the gods. And finally, although their beliefs were never written down, they were absorbed into the myth ology of the people and lived on to influ ence some Christian customs in later years. ed. note — Footnotes have been omitted.

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MERCHANT MARINE 1,000 ships at present, while at the same time our slice of world trade has dimin ished from 40% to about 8%. The reason is quite simple: wages, materials and la bor have skyrocketed beyond competitive range. Far “more effectively than U-boats” its own unions have helped drive Amer ican shipping off the seas or, as a last re sort against the world’s highest labor cost and taxes, into foreign registry. Thus in war after war we have been caught without sufficient transportation, desperately trying to build ships with a system “that is tied to the mistakes of the past.” To prevent this from happening again, the U.S. government, ever since the Second World War, has granted the Mari time Industry huge subsidies which pre sently total 320 million dollars a year. Paradoxically, of the 333 ships supply ing the Vietnam War, only about 35 of them are from the subsidized fleet of 300. The remainder is composed of chartered foreign ships or ships reactivated from the WW II mothball fleet at a cost of about one-half million dollars each. There is more method in this madness then might be imagined. The reason U.S. shippers aren’t more active is that they can’t afford to deviate from plying their regular trade routes, and thus lose the commercial trade which would bring the maritime industry to the breaking point.

Oeace is poverty, war is wealth” is a •*" statement that adequately sums up the unshipshape condition that the United States merchant marine is in presently. As far back as 100 years ago President Ulysses S. Grant was nagging Congress to do something about the “drooping merchant marine” and to this day, it has re mained a costly thorn in the flesh for the U.S. Government. Except for vigorous spurts of growth in wartime, the U.S. Maritime Industry has been on the brink of disaster. Since World War II, our ships have dwindled in number from some 5,000 to an estimated 93

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thing. Alan S. Boyd, Secretary of Trans portation, has said that "to come up with a reasonable and fully acceptable program takes the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Samson, and the talents of Jezebel. . . What is needed is the provision of incentive so that the inherent energy of free enterprise is able to do the job/' In an effort to put words into action, Secretary Boyd has proposed a long range, 4.8 billion dollar program. This plan en tails: (1) renovating the existing Amer ican flag fleet, two-thirds of which is 20 years or older; (2) increasing the limit of new ships to 50-a-year by allowing Amer ican lines to buy foreign ships; (3) pla cate the American shipbuilders by giving them lump subsidies instead of handling them on a per-ship basis and forbid buyers to shop abroad until the entire subsidy is allocated; (4) fatten the construction sub sidy to provide work of 10,000 workers; (5) launch a 25 million maritime research program. In effect, the shipbuilding industry, beat down by maritime unions and under sold by foreign competition, needs a shot in the arm. This shot in the arm may come through a technical break through which would give this high-waged industry a com petitive edge. Presently, this technological salvation is taking two forms. One of these is box containers. To date, there are over 15,000 containers, each as big as truck trailers, in use. This new approach to loading and unloading, instead of using nets and bales, is responsible for an estimated all-around savings of 38% or more. Besides reducing time and expense, it makes for less pilfer age and breakage and also allows ships to hold almost twice as much, while spend ing less time in port. To keep pace, the ports are also undergoing renovation, and many sea ports are planning 15 to 20 story, landsaving structures in which elevators and conveyors can store or return 25-ton boxes by computer in 1M> minutes. Natur ally, there are still a few bugs to be worked out (such as customs inspection and whe ther or not the unions will handle them). Yet some are hopeful enough to estimate that if we can maintain our lead in this field, the United States may be able to double its share of the world market. Another and perhaps even more feasi94

ble innovation was presented by Spyros Skouras, head of the Prudential line, when he applied for a 250-million-dollar subsidy to build 16 freighters. He proposed that each freighter carry 50 barges in her hold which could be manipulated by huge cranes. This would allow the ship to un load and take on cargo without even going into dock. Such a system would increase the cargo rate from 1000 tons/day to 1000 tons/hour. A final approach has been to decrease the size of the crew by more automation while increasing the size of the ship. In the past few years these ships have turned

into such leviathans that their size can really only be understood when related in similes and catchy comparisons. It is es timated that it would take a good drive and a four-iron to cover the 1,150 ft. long deck of the latest monster. The rivalry between nations as to who can put out the biggest baby has volleyed between Japan, England and Ireland. However, Japan, the inno vator and now possessor of 48% of the world’s total launching, is by far the leader. Where it will all end nobody knows. Al ready there is talk of launching ships of one-half to one-million dead-weight tons.

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MIRROR OF YOUR MIND? John Zeitlcr. • S 'nior from Pound, Wiscon sin, leisure iy ,i:cs a look at Graphology. His “Novemi-i , lead article separates some fact from G'. 'nological fiction.

T had heard about the art of handwriting -■analysis before, but I had always passed it off as another form of quackery such as palm reading. My opinion was altered, however, when I recently had the experi ence of meeting a handwriting analyst in a local restaurant who consented to inter pret my scribbling for me. Although the artist’s prime concern was to entertain din ers with the hope of extracting a generous tip in return, his analysis of my handwrit ing sample impressed me, and my cuiiousity was aroused. It seemed that he could learn more about me from studying three short lines of my script than I myself knew. Not to be dismayed, I attacked as many bound volumes as were available on the subject and came upon some very in teresting reading. Although Aristotle showed an interest in graphology, or the study of handwrit ing, more than three hundred years before Christ, the first actual systematic approach

to the subject appeared in the form of a treatise, ldeographia, in Italy at the begin ning of the seventeenth century. Since then, numerous other works appeared as the art attracted more followers. In France there arose a circle of graphologists, dom inated by Abbe Michon, who concentrated on the study of single letters. In Germany Dr. Ludwig Klages developed a science of expression, which postulated laws and principles governing graphology. Although the art is recognized by most European universities today as an acceptable psycho diagnostic aid, American and British psy chologists have tended to reject it for not being a “suitable scientific discipline.” Since 1940, however, the migration to the United States of European graphologists trained in psychology has resulted in a closer alliance between graphologists and psychologists for the purpose of research. In the 1930’s experiments in expres sive movement were conducted at Harvard

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University by Gordon W. Allport and Philip Vernon. They based their investigation on three assumptions: (1) personality is con sistent; (2) movement is expressive of per sonality; and (3) the gestures and other expressive movements of an individual, such as gait, facial expression, etc., are consistent with one another. The findings of the experimentors are summarized in the following quotation from their paper, Studies of Expressive Movements “Contin ental psychologists see in graphic move ments the quintessence of expression. It is a crystallized form of gesture, an intri cate, but accessible prism which reflects many if not all of the inner consistencies of personality. . . Handwriting provides material that is less artificial than tests, and more convenient for analysis; and since it can be studied at leisure, it is su perior to facial expression, gesture and gait, which are so fleeting and difficult to record. Graphic movement apparently is not activity that is dissociated from the complexities of personality; on the con trary it seems to be intricately woven with deep-lying determinants of conduct. Gra phic movement is therefore expressive movement.” The contentions of Allport and Vernon have not been aging on the bookshelves. Psychologists in our country have fore seen the possibility of using graphology as an aid to the discovery and analysis of an individual. Unlike the European scientists, who have been interpreting handwriting more intuitively than scientifically, our own men have been concentrating on scientific analysis. The possibility that a person’s handwriting may be a mirror of his mind may explain in part why graph ology has so many enemies. Few people are willing to be exposed to the core, much less be betrayed by their own handwriting, especially if they have some undesirable personality trait to conceal. When the graphologist receives a sam ple of handwriting for analysis, he must first gain a general impression from the script. The type of penmanship that the writer was taught in childhood plays an important part here. The more he con forms to the grade school model letters, the more immature and civic-minded he is considered to be. Illegible handwriting is not necessarily a negative characteristic. It will more often be the mark of a crea-

tive, original and well-developed mind, de pending on how intelligently the writer has undertaken the simplification of his forms. The three zones of handwriting are very important to the analyst. The m'ddle zone consists of the “o’s, “c’s”, “e’s” and so forth. Steadiness and regularity in this zone indicates emotional and mental abil ity. A wavering middle zone shows that the writer is easily influenced by others. If the line is uneven and exhibits an un usual number of variations in letter size, the writer is more than likely an unstable person, whose thoughts and actions are in coherent. Exaggerated upper zones (“b’s”, “d’s”, “h’s”, etc.) and lower zone (“g’s”, “j’s”, “p’s”, etc.) have the same connotation. In general, the three zones have the follow ing graphological significance: the upper zone is located in the intellectual and con scious sphere. It shows what the writer thinks, and how he thinks, what he strives for, whether or not he has imagination, his pride and ethical ideal. The lower zone contains manifestations of the uncon scious, especially the unconscious motives of conscious behavior. The middle zone portrays the daily routine, social behavior and relations, preferences, in short, that part of the personality known to the writ er’s friends. The graphologist has hardly begun to tap the storehouse of information housed in the script. Grand and eloquent gestures, combined with a rightword slant reveal a generous approach toward others. A writ er who uses a backward slant, combined with small narrow characters, is less like ly to mix well with other people. The first case would be that of the extrovert, and the second, that of an introvert. Soft and gracious movements with large, round letters reveal an affectionate person who tends to avoid struggle and conflict, and likes to fit in smoothly with the crowd. The writer who uses angular connections is prone to fight for his goals and overcome obstacles. The rounded top on letters and connections belongs to the person who will not come into the open, but will try to cover his actions behind a front of artificiality. A thread-like connec tion gives an impression of running away and shows that the writer is evading some thing. Well-connected letters indicate that the writer will pay proper attention to de tail in his work. Illegible and loosely con96

nected letters on the other hand may show carelessness and irresponsibility. Rhythm and fluency are also valuable characteristics. Rhythmic and regular script must be indicative of quick thinking and good perception. In the opposite case it will mean a lack of concentration and general lack of balance. Pressure is im portant as an indicator of energy for work. A masculine hand will usually exert more pressure in writing than will the more timid female hand. The graphologist will continue on to study such characteristics as spacing, ornamentation, speed, margins and capi tals. It is important that when he draws his final conclusions, he takes every detail of the writing into consideration. Some characteristics may contradict others. This is not unusual, since the mind harbors many inner conflicts. Many samples of the subjects handwriting taken at different in tervals of time should be used. Handwrit ing changes whenever mood changes, and only those characteristics which are obvi ous in all the samples r.c worthy of an alysis. The practical uses of graphology, if ever it is established as a science, would be numerous. Less emphasis would have to be placed on the psychiatrist's couch and

tedious clinical observation for the detec tion of mental disorders before they get out of hand. In the same way criminal tendencies might be detected at an early stage. Perhaps the greatest use would be for vocational guidance, whether it be se lecting a career, or choosing new person nel. Thus it appears that graphology is not just quackery after all. It is now demand ing recognition along with the other reput able branches of psychology. Whether it will attain this goal remains to be seen. Meanwhile, there are those amateurs who will make extravagant claims, although they possess only the scantiest of know ledge in the subject. It is these people who hurt whatever cause there might be for graphology. It is a subject which has many angles to be studied before it can be prac ticed effectively. The handwriting analyst I met at the restaurant claimed that he had been “picking up knowledge” in the subject for thirty years. There are a num ber of graphological manuals available to the public, making it possible for anyone who is interested to experiment with the art. However, it would be best for these people to direct their attention on selfanalysis in compliance with the Greek ad monition, “Gnothi seauton.” Otherwise they may risk losing some friends!

OLD WAY TO NEW LIFE fZJuRU, lotus, asana, ashram. Recognize these terms? They are part of yoga, the philosophy once only associated with bearded Hindus who spent their lives conemplating their navels and little else. Times have changed, for this ancient phil osophy has spread around the world and gained increasing popularity. Within the last decade or so many Americans as well as other westerners have taken up yoga. Mia and the Beatles are some of yoga’s more notable converts. Two factors have contributed greatly to the rise in the practice of yaga. The first is the appeal of hatha yoga, the purely physical form. Its aim is, simply stated, 97

“And in time, through the meditation — and, silly as it seems, through the chants - and then through the breathing exercises, you find that you’ve gained control over yourself. First you control your body and then your mind. Your consciousness is expanded. And then you find you’re tapping cosmic vibrations. You’re developing powers . . . and eventually samadhi. If I made it sound easy, it’s not.” She had gained the stage where Only that yogi Whose joy is inward, Inward his peace, And his vision inward Shall come to Brahman And know Nirvana, The infinite joy claimed for yoga has been compared with that of psychic trips via LSD. There is dispute on just how sim ilar they are. It is apparent, though, that the yoga turn-on will outlast the drug route. First, drugs are physically danger ous, both to the user and to future off spring. Also, LSD-induced hallucinations can too easily shatter the personality, while yoga provides a progress] ■ orderly growth toward its goal of mystii .1 consciousness. Physically, yoga h; provided much for its followers: increase i relaxation, bet ter concentration, a more productive life, etc. It would be benefk u 10 anyone who doesn’t mind the “some kind of nut” label. Yet, its basic existence is as a religion. It harnesses the body, in an attempt to free the mind from distractions and to unite with the cosmic God. A true yogi seeks to reach the center of his being, which he maintains, no less than Brahman, the God While many people practice yoga pure head. Here he hopes to achieve the infin ly for physical benefits, most go further. ite being infinite awareness and infinite True yoga is designed to “attain the ulti joy the material world cannot supply. mate experience of samadhi — a feeling Many have turned to yoga, searching of oneness with the universe.” A supreme for the answers to the eternal questions, tuming-on. A New York housewife recent “Who am I? . . .What am I doing here? . . . ly explained it, “It encompasses just about What’s it all about?” But they do not go everything modern women are searching to Scripture for the answers. In their opin for. They go into it, the way I did, for the ion the church has failed and, as one exercise. You see, it’s perfect. You don’t clergyman put it, “God as a personalized need a golf course, and you don’t have to process operating in the universe seems wait for a tennis court. All you need is a to have no basis in fact.” The hope of re mat, or even a blanket, and some privacy. incarnation is a motivating force, astrol And nobody ever pressures you. At one ogy a way of life. For those Americans point I lost my cool, and my teacher said, who feel the standard religions have fallen ‘Don’t worry about it, honey — you’ve got short, yoga seeks to provide a world that lifeteime after lifetime to learn to stand will be totally different and, it believes, H. P. on your head/ better for mankind.

the complete control of the body and phy sical powers, no easy task in itself. Getting in shape has been emphasized for many years, and joggers and weightlifters are on the increase. Can’t they accomplish as much as yoga? The big difference, says Marcia Moore, a noted American yogi, is that “In Western calisthenics, one depletes his energy; in yoga, he renews it.” Breath control, regulated bodily exercise and the right mental attitude are necessary ingredients for hatha yoga. Discipline, concentration, relaxation and a proper supply of oxygen for the body functions are all benefits of breath control. The exercises (or better: “postures”) do require and develop muscle tone and flexibility, which must be gained through practice. Known as as anas, the most familiar posture is the crosslegged lotus, or Buddha pose. A random selection reveals such positions as Ustrasana (camel pose), Matsyansana (fish pose), Vakrasana (twisting posture) and so on, these being only three of the 840,000 exercises claimed to have been invented over the centuries. Their aims are to de velop a completely controllable body and stimulate the endocrine system. These, the yogis contend, make us what we are. They control our growth, bodily functions, health, sexual power, and temperament. Proper technique in hatha yoga would take years off our bodies, envigorate us and re lieve us of tension. If we concentrate on getting rid of that cold, on gaining youth ful vitality, or on gaining confidence, yoga promises these results are ours. It’s a sort of combination of Aerobics and Power of Positive Thinking, or maybe a step beyond.

A TRIBUTE TO OUR DEAN

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July 11, 1919, in the small town of Hopkins, Michigan, a son, Carl, was born to Pastor and Mrs. Leyrer of Zion Lutheran Church. When he was only nine months old, the family moved to Lansing, where Pastor Leyrer founded Zion Luth eran Church. Here he spent many of the early years of his life. After his gradu ation from a public high school in Mich igan, he began his college education at Central Michigan University at Mount Pleasant. He had studied there only one year, however, when he expressed to his family a desire to enter the work of the church and, therefore, transferred to Northwestern College, Watertown. Already in the early months of his stay at Northwestern, Carl j yrer made quite an impression on his p • . sors and fellowstudents. One of his former professors characterized him as . serious, talented student who never seeim.v to waver in his earnestness to attain hi- . \il, that of pre paring for the work ol Vv. church. He was a polite, quite studen. who never fooled around in class and always had his les sons prepared. His feliow classmates re ferred to him as a student who was easy to make friends with, and who would go out of his way to please. However, he did more than study in his leisure hours. He played the trombone in the band, was in the chorus, Forum So ciety, on the Black and Red staff and a n

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star football player. The crowning point of his football career was Homecoming, November 8, 1941, when he scored the only touchdown in a 6 to 0 victory over Milton College. He seemed to be involved in very few of the pranks which college students have a tendency to pull, or at least, as one of his fellow classmates stated, “he was too sharp to get caught.” Although he worked at a clothing store during his Junior and Senior years, it was to a very limited extent. During the latter part of his college years, he meet Leah Seidensticker, his future wife, also the daughter of a minister. At graduation in 1942 he gave the English oration, since he had the highest average in his class. The following fall he entered the Sem inary at Mequon and, in 1945, he married Leah. At graduation Pastor Carl Leyrer was given a call as missionary-at-large and was sent on a two-month emergency call to Mount Lebanon Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. He then went to canvass the area around Big Bend, Wisconsin, and founded Christ Lutheran Church, where he remained for eight and a half years. Next he traveled to Zion, Illinois, where he spent five and a half years establishing Our Savior Lutheran Church. After four teen years in the parish ministry, he re ceived and accepted the call as Dean of Men at Northwestern College. The job of dean is by no means an easy one. He is the chairman of three commit tees, in charge of discipline on campus, in charge of evening chapel services, student counseling, supervision of the dorms and such student services as the canteen, linen supply, job requests, and permission for hospital treatment. Besides tending to

these duties, he serves as public relations manager between the school and parents, and between NWC and other schools; he also superintends tour groups, and is also responsible for teaching several religion classes. Dean Leyrer has perhaps done more for Northwestern than any other dean. He is responsible for putting order into our school system with the writing of a rule book. Because of his round-the-clock duties, he has often denied himself the pleasure of his own hobbies, woodworking, furniture-making, and golf. Just after school began this fall, the dean received a call into the parish minis try, one of eight which he had received since his arrival at Northwestern. This time, however, he accepted. On November 4th he ended his ten-year calling as dean, and on November 17th, Pastor Carl Ley rer was installed at St. Lucas Lutheran Church, a church of 1600-plus communi cant members located in Milwaukee.

Our dean leaves Northwestern with warm feelings and has “no axe to grind.” He has left because of his desire to re-enter the parish ministry of the church, because he feels Northwestern can benefit from the ideas of a new man, and because the hec tic pace of the job tends to wear one down. Although he admits that the world has had a more noticeable effect on Northwestern today compared to ten years ago, he leaves with very optimistic hopes. He is firmly convinced that our type of training for the ministry and Northwestern’s Christ-center ed philosophy is the factor which has kept Northwestern as effective as it was in for mer years in preparing well-trained, Christ ian men for the all-important task which lies ahead. Northwestern has indeed lost one of its many valuable men. God’s richest bless ings and our prayers go with Pastor Leyrer and his family in their new calling. A. B.

This is an example of one of the many phone calls that I have made this fall, all in the service of the pa«t*T. I must say that this probably was lb easiest call I 261 — what are the other numbers? made, and it certainly <!« uonstrates the gullibility with which m •< people ap 7432. I hope no one’s home. “Hello?” “Good evening, sir. I am a volunteer proach their political dec ons. When I at Campaign Central Election Headquar asked one old gentleman if lie would sup ters. I would appreciate it if you would port Leonard, he answered, “Yes, if lie’s a Republican, I’ll vote for him.” This reply answer three quick questions for me.” might please a more staunch member of “Well, afi right.” “First, if the election were held tomor the party than myself, but [ fear what a row, would you support Governor Knowles large number of these people can do to this country. for re-election?” “Yes, I think so.” Of course, there’s the oilier side of the “Second, would you support Richard coin. Almost ten per cent of the people Nixon for President?” contacted, refused to discuss their prefer “No, I don’t believe so.” ences. Somehow, the majority of these “Would you support Jerry Leonard for people were the ones I phoned. United States Senate?” Calling on the telephone did become “Well, I don’t think I really can say. I boring after a while, especially since we don’t know much about him.” were using the same words over and over (Okay, T., now you’ve got your chance again. The set phraseology helped over to do some real work for the party.) “Well, come the awkwardness of talking to total he’s only thirty-seven years old, but he has stangers. I also enjoyed getting the pre established himself as a leader in the state ferences of a few of the profs. I suppose I senate, and he is one of Wisconsin’s up- benefited from the experience, and it was and-coming politicians.” (Well, I guess I all for the good of the party. I’m not sure blew that one.) exactly how good. We did try to register “Well, then, I suppose he should get Republican (and only Republican, as I was my vote.” told) voters. (What ! ? !) ‘Thank you very much, It also served as a guide for the poll sir. Good-by.” watchers on election day. Every precinct too

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had a faithful Republican volunteer taking down the names of the people as they vot ed. They reported periodically to phoning stations where good Republicans who had not yet voted were called and urged to do so. Another purpose for the poll watchers, I have been given to understand, was to be on guard to see that the Democrats didn’t try anything that was not kosher. This was not the only activity in which we labored for the senior party. A large part of our effort, and most of my own personal involvement, went to help Rick Murray in his bid for the Second Congres sional District seat against Kastenmeier. I spent several nights down at Kroger’s pass ing out bumper stickers and watching my fellow students earn money inside. I have a few golden moments from this experi ence too. The first night we were out there, a little Kastenmeier girl asked me if I got paid for what I was doing. I told her that I didn’t, and that if I would have been, I probably wouldn’t do any work for the par ty. She told me that that was very noble of me. I thought so too. We worked out a SOL't of gimmick to get people to co-operau. \Y; would offer to carry the people’s gio^ s to their cars and ask them to let us pm stickers on their cars. Most of the people re very pleased at this service, but the smiles faded when they were asked to return the favor. It seems that the adhesive material of the bumper sticker is not easy to clean off. This also happens to be Kastenmeier’s

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weeks of introductory psychology, the group was sent out to conduct field experi mentation. Some of the suspects, ah, subjects, were duly impressed with the term “psy chology test” and were certain their inner self was being exposed to the world. Gen eral disappointment was registered when they found out that for fifteen minutes they had been struggling to think up words and the only purpose was to determine if we could get them to say progressively more plural nouns by mumbling “umhumh'” after every one they gave! The reaction of the Seniors to the test was mixed. Some thought it was the bees’ knees and made careful notes and graphs. Others were less than ecstatic — Mr. Willitz, the class familyman, confided that it would have made about as much sense if he had given the test to his pigs. Our campus has not only successfully combated amateur psychology, but it also has survived another Reformation season of Durfey’s canteen jokes (Wartburgers, Popesickles, Tetzel-pretzels, etc.) The Great Race is over; paid political announcements won’t plague the commun ication airways for another four years, and the Y-GOP Union is happy. The vocal min ority turned out to be nothing more than just that. Neither the hippies nor the Wal lace rednecks were able to foil the elec tion as some had direfully predicted. Long live the king. In another less hotly-contested, yet ful ly as important, campaign, the results are still unknown. All breathlessly await the announcement of the man who will tell us that we can’t use our cars in town (“for pleasure and convenience”), remind us the dorm is too messy, chastise the Preps for smoking, and the sundry other duties so ably performed by Dean Leyrer. Filling in for the interim is Prof. Spaude, picked, no doubt, because of his kahlkoepfig resem blance to the former Dean. The “duumvir ate” is completed with Prof. Panning act ing as counselor. Speaking of automobiles, Schmal Piege was overjoyed at the news that the car rules have now been revised, so that cars may be used in town to go to work. Now he doesn’t have to walk all the way from the Wartburg to our library when he is on duty.

The time-differential chart posted in last month’s C & C column doesn’t seem to have been as useful as was originally anti cipated. For people who don’t want to bother using clocks to compute how late you will be for class, a new system lias been devised. Dean Fleming (stage name: Fletch) suggested it one day to the late comers in Hauptschriften class, and the professor, at least, thought it rather strik ing. Fletch’s foolproof suggestion for reckoning the time of day is to watch tele vision constantly. The commercials come every fifteen minutes and are never omit ted. The flaw, he admits, is that you’ll nev er be prepared — but at least you’ll be there on time. Hard times seem to have descended on the otherwise unruffled life of the frat. Not only has the pop corn popper been caused to cease functioning, but Dennis Goodeye’s pennant salesmanship leaves something to be desired: sales. Possible solutions to the latter: maybe Denny could take lessons from Schweppe’s Cutco men, or he could talk roommate Herbie into lending him some muskrat traps to make up the loss on the pennants. Rip van Enderle easily qualified for the marathon sleeping contest, an unsung Ohmpic event. In fact, his in class sack time record was quite impressive; but he overslept the morning he was to leave for Mexico and missed the plane. By the way, by the way, Tom Bartz feels classroom assignments should be giv en with a different attitude. He suggests the Mission Impossible method, referring to the beginning of the show where the tape recorder (the self-destructing one) says “The assignment, should you decide to take it ... ” The Sophomores have once again suc cessfully invaded the big city, and latest reports say that Chicago is now back to normal, regaining its composure after the excitement of their visit. Ken Kappel was so enraptured by the Oriental Institute that he decided to spend the rest of the day there. He says he prefers trains to busses anyway. A volley of commendation to the Frosh, who voluntarily scrubbed the Wartburg basement for Homecoming, School spirit does not consist in cheering at football games alone. M. H. 102

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priate medley of college marches called “College Capers.” After this the N-Club proceeded with its traditional program. Pastor Marcus Liesener of Milwaukee (class of ’60) served as MC. He preceeded to shatter any thoughts one might have had of the typical somber pastor. He was jocund, jovial and extremely entertaining. Though its teams lost, the NWC audience was anything but unresponsive; many pas tors and professors shed their somber mien also and were seen holding their stomachs with laughter — “laughter hold ing both its sides. . . ” The “faithful” were rewarded with a program that saw the Girls’ Glee Club, Prep Glee Club, and the College Glee Club spreading GLEE (hmm) and a number of amusing speakers, who attempted to do the same. The student speaker was Denny “Good-eye” Smith, while Dan Luedtke told all the little secrets of a graduating football player. Exit Northwestern present student, enter Marlyn Schroeder, past NWC stu dent. Introduced as the only female pas tor of the Wisconsin Synod. Pastor Schroe der (who is male despite reports) provided the background, highlighting the “good old days” in NWC’s history, vdien “Coach Umnus only had six helmets and only let us use them in the second halt, if we played a good first half.” There was, however, a doubt in my mind whether or not we would ever get to hear Coach Umnus’ speech, since he was given a long standing ova tion. But the waiting was worthwhile. Coach praised his team by repeating what the captain of the Northland football team told him, “Your boys really hit hard.” For Coach that was enough and for NWC that was enough. Putting a fitting climax on an eventful day, the combined NWC chor uses sang the alma mater and school M. F. songs.

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Fortunately, (or perhaps unfortunate ly), a number of events, which should have been included last time (cf. Mar riages), but failed to make the deadline, will be included in this issue. The normal course of events has re CALLS turned to this column after the summer Bernhardt, Pastor William (’64), was installed in rush. This, of course, means that there Immanuel, Salem, Oregon on July 14. are fewer items to report in this issue than Diersen, Pastor Marcus (’64), was installed in Redeemer, Yakima, Wash, on July 28. in the last issue. It seems that the warm Parcher, Pastor John (’56), has moved from San summer months are more conducive to born, Minn, to serve in Immanuel, La Crosse, changes in the lives of our alumni. Wis. as of Aug. 11. 104

Sievert, Pastor Robert (’58), formerly at Mont rose _ Crawford Lake, Minn., on Sept. 1 took up his duties at St. Paul’s, Onalaska, Wis. Serwe, Pastor Cyrill (’49), has been serving Zion, Eitzen, Minn, since Sept. 1, after moving from Milwaukee, Wis. Kahrs, Pastor Ethan (’61), is assistant pastor at St. Paul’s, Tomah, Wis., since moving from Wabeno, Wis. Beckmann, Pastor Robert (’44), formerly of Lew iston, Minn., is now serving Our Redeemer, Wabasha, Minn, and Grace, Nelson, Wis. Lindemann, Pastor Edward (’58), has moved from Stanton, Neb. to serve Salem, Loretto, Minn. Tetzlaff, Pastor David (’54), formerly at Whitewater, Wis., has accepted a call to St. Paul’s, South Haven, Mich. Hallauer, Pastor Lyle (’38), has moved from St. John’s of Lannon, Wis. to Salem, Ann Arbor, Mich. Balza, Pastor William (’64), was installed at Marlette, North Branch, Mich. Gurgel, Pastor Karl (’64), is serving in the Hart ford, Conn. area. Spevacek, Pastor Kirby (’64), has been commis sioned as Missionary to Central Africa. Frey, Pastor Raymond < ; •, formerly at Ann Arbor, Mich, is now pa*. r: of Mt. Calvary, Kimberly, Wis. Manteufel, Pastor Julius ' >: , has come from Oshkosh Wis. to serve K nnuel, Forestville, Wis. Baur, Pastor H. Paul (’45: , North Platte, Neb. is now serving Christ, I >; m :u’k and Emanuel, Henrysville.

ANNIVERSARIES St. Peter of Appleton, Wis celebrated the 109th anniversary of its founding an Oct. 6. Zion of Peshtigo, Wis. obsi ved the lOOih anni versary of its founding on Oct. 13. Trinity of Kiel, Wis. celebrated the 50th anniver sary of its church’s dedication on Oct. 27. St. James of St. Paul, Minn, observed its 40th anniversary on Sept. 29. Pastor George Boldt (’40), of Morton Grove, 111. observed his 25th anniversary in the ministry on Oct. 20. Pastor Donald Grummert (’40), of Minneapolis, Minn, observed the 25th anniversary of his or dination on Sept. 29. DEDICATIONS The new Library at Wisconsin Lutheran Semin ary, Mequon Wis. was dedicated on Oct. 13. Gethsemane, Davenport, Iowa, dedicated a cha pel-parsonage on Aug. 4,. Trinity, Belle Plaine, Minn., dedicated a com bination church and school on Sept. 29 in three formal services. St. John’s, Alma City, Minn., dedicated its re modeled and enlarged church on Oct. 27.

marriages William Besler (’64) and Judith Blaha were mar ried on June 3. John Braun (’65) married Sandra Brown on Aug. 24. Percy Damrow (’65) and Karen Gartzke were married on Aug. 17.

Robert Diener (’67) married Judith Tews on Aug. 25. Arthur Frenz, Jr. (’65) and Virginia Hoelz were married on July 28. Mark Hallemeyer (’65) married Julyd Fellows, Aug. 10. Andy Martens (’67) and Vicki Johnson were mar ried on Aug. 3. Larry Retberg (’67) married Kay Klockziem on June 22. Keith Schroeder (’67) and Hedy Weiss were mar ried on Aug. 10. Gerald Schroer (’65) married Vicki Jerdee on Aug. 4. Ralph Waack (’67) and Carole Niemann were married on Aug. 31. Douglas Weiser (’66) married Hollie Schiermeister on June 9. John Zickuhr (’65) and Karen Sievert were mar ried on Aug. 18. Raymond Ziebell (’65) married Bernice Schnick on June 17. Paul Ziemer (’66) and Donna Uebele were mar ried on June 22. Pastor Gerald E. Geiger (’63) married Carol Huhnerkoch at Redwood Falls, Minn., on June 23. Pastor Martin W. Schulz (’64) and Karen Busse were married at Two Rivers, Wis., on June 30. Pastor Arnold E. Lemke (’61) married Lorna Schlomer at Glenham, S. D., on Aug. 18. Pastor Vaughn Vogel (’64) and Judy Groth were married at Milwaukee, Wis., on June 18. ENGAGEMENTS Douglas Engelbrecht (’68) is engaged to Gayle Mattek. Paul Kelm (’66) is engaged to Lynne Langenohl. LeRoy Martin (’65) is engaged to Sharon Krenz. Roy Rose (’67) is engaged to Barbara Kuenn. Richard Stevens (’68) is engaged to Judith Lange. Paul Stuebs (’65) is engaged to Carol Rodewald. John Vogt (’67) is engaged to Sandra Scherschel. RESIGNATIONS Pastor Walter Voigt (’22) of Merrill, Wis., is re tiring from the active ministry on Jan. 1, 1939. BIRTHS Pastor and Mrs. Norman Kuske (’63) of rural Buffalo, Minn., became the parents of their first child, Kristine Anne, on Oct. 2. On May 23, a son, Andrew, was born to Pastor and Mrs. Jon Mahnke (’61) of Eugene, Ore. Pastor and Mrs. Paul Albrecht (’58) of Ellensburg, Wash., were blessed with a son, Michael, on May 25. On Sept. 11 a son, Jon, was born to Pastor and and Mrs. Paul Pankow (’54) of Bellevue, Wash. Pastor and Mrs. Luther Weindorf (’54) of Seat tle, Wash., became the parents of a son, Hans Christian, on Sept. 10. MISCELLANEOUS Richard Stadler (’67) has returned to the Sem inary after a year as emergency instructor in English at DMLC. This past summer Dick studied German at the Goethe Institute in Staufen, Germany. After his eight-week course, he hitchhiked through Southern Germany and Aus tria for three weeks. 105

Richard Lemke (’68) motorcycled through Ger many, Austria and Switzerland between work ing this summer. David Voss (’65) has returned to the Sem after working for two years in Two Rivers, Wis. Mark Brcecker (’68) is attending an LCA Sem inary in Chicago. Ruth Hagedorn (’68) is working at a bank in Milwaukee. Ernest Kappel (’68) was married to Dawn Will iams on June 8. He is now teaching at Fairview Lutheran Grade School in Milwaukee. Richard Rasbe (’68) is attending Bethany Sem inary in Mankato, Minn. He was married this summer to Diane Bakken. Ernst Wendland (’68) has been appointed to an assistant administrative and teaching post at the Lutheran Bible Institute in Lusaka, Zam bia, where he is presently carrying out his work.

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Paul Sullivan (’68) and Jerome Stolzman (’68) reported for induction into the army in Octo ber. PROPHETIC PROFILE In this section, I hope to spice up an otherwise unsavory column of the B & R and, thereby, make it palatable for you fickle readers. In each issue a humorous episode from the life of one of the members of the depaited class of ’68 at Seminary will be presented. In this issue John “Bullwinkle” wins our '‘fickle finger of fate.” While Bull was dozing in one of his classes (the professor remsins anony mous), he literally fell into the arms of Mor pheus and demolished his desk. Do we have the makings of another iconoclast?

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NWC 20 OCT. 12 ST. PROCOPIUS 12 After the previous week’s defeat, the team was really keyed up to come up with a victory. A good-sized crowd saw the Tro jans even up their season record as they overcame St. Procopius in a 20-12 battle. Things looked good from the start as the Trojans recovered a St. Procopius fumble on the first play from the line of scrim mage. A touchdown wasn’t that easy as the Trojans were unable to move the ball, and were stopped on St. Procopius’ 14 yard line. A field goal attempt was wide. After two plays, the Eagles again coughed up the ball on a fumble. This time NWC took advantage of it as Roger Schultz romped around the right end for the 3 yard TD. St. Procopius took the ball, found them selves unable to move it, and were forced to punt. In ten plays the Trojans marched 65 yards to the 1 yard line where Mark Harstad plunged over for the TD. Swanson’s extra point was good, making the score 13-0. Late in the second quarter the Eag les posted their first score on an 8-yard gallop. The extra point attempt failed. The Trojans then took the ball and marched deep into St. Procopius territory but failed to score. With just seven seconds remain ing, the Eagles surprised NWC with a broken pass play which was good for a 78 yard touchdown.

_ L. to R. top: L. Wiederich, 1). • uctkc, L. Magic L. to R. bottom: P. Lemke, J. I’oitlcr, C. Ziemer progress. Finally the Trojans got a big break on a recovered fumble. The first three plays spelled trouble for the team as they lost yardage. On fourth down, Coach Umnus elected to go for the TD. Hartwig broke open across the middle and sprinted into the end zone to meet the pass from QB Bill Hartman. Swanson’s extra point rounded out the score at 20-12. The de fense then stepped in to contain the Eag les until the time finally ran out. Now it was up to the Trojans to keep the momen tum going. NWC

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OCT. 19 EUREKA 35 NWC 14 With the previous week’s win under their belt, the Trojans went down to Eure ka with high hopes of making it two in a row. At the very outset NWC took the ball and moved it across the field into the end zone. The touchdown came on a 29 yard scoring pass from Hartmann to Zimmer man. The Red Devils were not to be out done as they came back with an 8 yard run for the TD. The Trojans again drum med up a drive and pushed the ball into the end zone on an option pass from Schultz to Hartwig. The game turned out to be a real battle as Eureka bounded across the goal after a hard-fought drive. Then with 4:13 left in the first half the ice was finally broken. On a fourth down and punting situation, a bad pass from center sailed over our punter’s head and rolled into the end zone, where it was immedi ately claimed for the TD bv Eureka. This seemed to have stymied the Trojans, for the Red Devils turned another drive into a touchdown. At half tiro 1 the score stood 28-14. The whole second half proved fruit less for NWC as the or.L score that was posted came on a 22 \ ; : romp by Eureka’s halfback. The Trojans matched Eureka for about the first quarter. Then th: let themselves get down. The Trojan’s defense was not up to par as Eureka’s running game pro vided most of their power and points. NWC

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mination, the Trojans stomped down into Northland territory, but were stopped short of a TD. On fourth down and long yard age, Swanson was called upon for his kick ing ability. He sailed a 32 yard field goal through the uprights. The Lumberjacks then drummed up another drive, only to have it thwarted by a strong NWC defense. Northland was forced to settle for a 28 yard field goal. Northland came back again, took advant age of an intercepted pass and turned it into a TD. About a minute and a half later, the whistle sounded ending the first half. As the Trojans trotted off the field, the score read Northland 17, NWC 3. About half way through the third quar ter, the Trojan’s spirits were momentarily dampened as the Lumberjacks rushed around the end for 6 yards and the TD. But then the Trojans suddenly brewed up some homecoming spirit and started to post some points. From midfield Rog Schultz bombed a 41 yard TD pass to Thompson. The Trojans’ defense then went to work and held the Lumberjacks on downs, forcing them to punt. The team produced a repeat performance as Schultz again rifled the ball 33 yards to Thomp son in the end zone. The remaining five minutes of the game were packed with both thrills and disappointments as the Trojans tried in desperation to reach that goal line. Time finally ran out and the score stood at 24-15. NWC

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TD. Lakeland came right back and scored. Dave Palmquist gave the Trojans a shot in the arm as he recovered a Lakeland fumble. Dave Schwartz then plunged 2 yards for the TD. The third quarter proved to be scoreless for the Trojans, and the score remained 53-13. But they didn’t give up. In fact, they went on to outscore Lake land in the fourth quarter. Schultz ran for one touchdown, while Thompson grab bed three passes, all for touchdowns. The last TD came with only three seconds left in the game. The game proved to be a battle of the offenses. Lakeland edged out NWC in that department behind a powerful and effec tive running and passing attack. This win brought Lakeland its second straight confenence championship.

half the team was determined to come back and make up for their mistakes in the first half. This is very evident from the fact that Concordia was unable to come up with a first down during the entire se cond half — a credit to the defense. On the whole, the Trojans moved the ball rather well, especially in the second half; but penalties, interceptions, and fum bles kept major gains in check. NWC’s usually potent passing attack was reduced to nothing by good pass coverage on the part of Concordia. NWC

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PLATE LUNCHES _ HAMBURGERS BROASTED CHICKEN & CONES MALTS & SHAKES

Smart Clothes for Men The Store with the Famous Brand Names

904 East Main Street

Phone 261-1922

Picadilly Smoke Shop Paperback Classics

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Open Nitely Till 9:00 Sundays Till Noon 406 Main St. - Dial 261-6027

Dial 261-4174

107 Main Street

BROESCFTS Amphicat

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Sales and Service COOT Snow Mobiles — 1429 E. Main Street

sporting goods

Dial 261-6472

BOB TESCH, Repr. COMPLIMENTS

CLASS RINGS - MEDALS - TROPHIES Graduation Announcements — Club Pins Yearbooks — Chenille Awards P. O. Box 663 — Neenah, Wisconsin Parkway 5-2583

KLINE'S

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WATERTOWN

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LUMBER-COAL-COKE-FUEL OIL All Kinds

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Building Materials

"Everything To Build Anything” ' ^

Dial 261-5676

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COMPLETE CITY and FARM STORE

GLOBE MILLING CO. “SINCE 1 845“

SHIRT

SERVICE

Phone 261-6792 621 Main Street

Watertown

Phone 261-0810

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VOSS MOTORS, INC.

OCONOMOWOC TRANSPORT

LINCOLN and MERCURY

Company

MONTEGO

School Bus Transportation - Charter Trips

301 W. Main Street - Phone 261-1655

HAROLD KERR

WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

5021 Brown St. Phone LOgan 7-2189 Oconomowoc, Wisconsin

PFISTER

Phone 261-5221

PONTIAC-CADILLAC 216 South Third Street WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN Open Monday - Wednesday & Friday to 9 p m.

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Builders of our three new Northwestern homes MAIN OFFICE

"PEPSI PLEASE"

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1215 Richards Ave. 312 Main St. 261-3945 261-0772 WATERTOWN

Merchants National Bank At Your Canteen

“The Bank of Friendly Service”

Drive-In & Free Parking Lot MEMBER OF

F DI C & Federal Reserve System i

"Siuf it uutlt 'V-low&bi"

THE STUDENT'S CHOICE

LOEFFLER Qlonal S/tof.

Our Greatest Asset Is Your Satisfaction

YOU SAVE ON QUALITY CLEANING 412 Main Street - Phone 261-6851

202 W. Main Street — Phone 261-2073

Compliments of

'WatmtoWK DODGE 200 South First Street

Inc.

Dial 261-3870

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Watertown, Wisconsin

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8th and Main Streets

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POTATO CHIPS POPCORN 114 W. Main Street

Watertown 113 Main Street

Co-Mo Photo Company *

Dial 261-0970

Photo Finishing — Cameras Black and White — Color “We Process Films”

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PAINT AND FLOOR COVERING

One Stop Decorating Center

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Watertown

117 Main Street

Dial 261-2860

Phone 261-3011

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Orange Blossom Diamond Rings watches

charms

rings

gifts

WYLER - HAMILTON - BULOVA WATCHES

watch repairing

KEEPSAKE DIAMONDS

217 Main Street

111 Main Street

HAFEMEISTER COMPLIMENTS OF -

Funeral Service FURNITURE

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“OUR SERVICE SATISFIES” Roland Harder — Raymond Dobbratz 607-613 Main Street — Phone 261-2218

Organ Co., Inc.

BRAUN BUILDERS & SUPPLIERS Watertown

1530 Military Road BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14217

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BEAVER DAM WH R ESALE CO. >

"BRAUN BUILT HOMES OFFER MORE FOR LESS”

306 South Center Street Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES ★

PROGRESSIVELY FIRST

A Daily Newspaper Since 1895

BANK OF WATERTOWN WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT

Duraclean of Watertown "FLOWER FRESH CLEANING" of Fine Furniture and Carpets Commercial, Industrial and Institutional Building Maintenance

INSURANCE CORPORATION

WAYNE STAUDE, OWNER

1322 Randolph St.

Dial 261-3350

Watertown Savings and LOAN ASS'N.

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WTTN AM

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600 Union Street

TETZLAFF PHARMACY Prescriptions — Drugs — Cosmetics

Phone 261-3522

116 Main Street

Watertown

Telephone 261-3009

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Phone 261-9941

PHONE 261-7214

SCHLEI OLDSMOBILE New & Used Cars NEWEST & MOST MODERN PAINT AND BODY SHOP IN THIS AREA 311 Third Street

Dial 261-5120

AL. RIPPE

Watertown

Attractive Special Rates For Students Compliments of JERRY ROGERS, M. Photographer

MINAR

113 Second Street

Office and School Supply

Telephone 261-5072

FACTORY TO YOU SAVE MATTRES: BOX SPRINGS

MALLACH PHARMACY

FULL OR TWIN, THREE QUARTER AND SPECIAL SIZES BEDROOM SUITES, +/ BUNK and TKUNDLE BEDS, SOFAS, CHAIRS, ROCKERS, HIDE-A-BEDS, STUDIOS, DINETTE SETS, LAMPS, TABLES, PICTURES

Milwaukee Mattress & Furniture — Manufacturers of Quality Bedding — 45 Years’ Experience

FACTORY STORE - DOWNTOWN 423 N. 3rd. St.- 271-7335 (Between W. Clybourn and W. St. Paul Av.) MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN Open Daily, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Tues. and Sat. to 5 ART KERBET

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KEN DETHLOFF

ART'S SHOE SERVICE

Gerald Mallach, r. ph. Curtis Marten, r. ph. Complete Selection of Men's Toiletries 315 Main Street Phone 261-3717

Watertown

Mullen's Dairy MALTED MILKS Made Special for N.W.C. Students 30c m-m-m 35c m-m-good

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SHOE REPAIR

212 W. Main Street Phone 261-4278

Fast Service — Reasonable Prices 119 N. Second Street

OWNER

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D. & F. KUSEL CO.

Watertown Plumbing & Heating

"Yowr True Value Store” 103 W. Cady Street — Ph. 261-1750

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VOLKSWAGEN

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108-112 W. Main Street

Dial 261-4626 321 Summit Ave. City Highway 16 East Watertown

MEYER'S SHOE STORE

WM. C. KRUEGER AGENCY

PEDWIN & FREEMAN

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"Since 1915"

SHOES FOR MEN 10% Discount for Students 206 Main Street

Telephone 261-2094 Wm. C. Krueger

Wm. C. Krueger, Jr.

TRI-COUNTY REDI-MIX CO.

COMPLIMENTS OF

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Your Walgreen Agency Pharmacy

Proportioned and Thoroughly Mixed To Your Specifications .

Phone 261-0863

Watertown

The Busse Pharmacy A. E. McFarland

R. E. Wills

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SCHNEIDER JEWELRY

HAMBURGERS — HOT DOGS FRIES — CHICKEN SHRIMP — FISH MALTS — SHAKES

Student Gift Headquarters Accutron — Bulova — Elgin Caravelle Watches Columbia Diamonds Expert Watch Repairing

510 Main Street — Phone 261-0774 Watertown, Wisconsin

111 S. Third Street

Dial 261-6769

WATERTOWN BOWL-"18"

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102 W. Cady Street

The Finest In

Phone 281-1796

Family Entertainment

Open Daily at 1 p. m.

East Gate Inn

BOWLING o PRO SHOP

For Your Dining Pleasure

East Gate Drive (Old Hwy. 16)

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Victor G. Nowack WHOLESALE CANDY, GUM, SMOKER’S SUPPLIES

610 Cady Street

Phone 261-7051

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GUSE, Inc. HIGHWAY 19, P. O. BOX 92

WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

hunting and fishing equipment

RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

PLUMBING & HEATING Telephone 261-6545

Why should this Lutheran figure in your future?

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He's a representative of Aid Association for Lutherans . . . a fraternalife insurance society for Lutherans. He's a Lutheran himself . . . interested in many of the same benevolent programs you are interested in. He is highly trained in his profession, with a detailed background in life insurance. He serves all 50 states and 5 provinces in Canada ... he

represents the largest fraternalife insurance society in America. Why should you talk to him today? Because he can help you invest in life insur ance wisely and beneficially Let an AAL representative en ter your future today. Aid As sociation for Lutherans, where there is common concern for human worth.

Forrest E. Winters Agency P. 0. Box 52 Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin 53538

Aid Association for Lutherans 111 Appleton,Wiscorv. Fraternalife Insurance

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RinhUolg, tyloJud Shop Flowers — Gifts — Potted Plants

Open 4 p. m. till ? ?

Free delivery

"We Telegraph Flowers'

Hot to your Door — Closed Tuesday 414 E. Main St. — Phone 261-5455

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS

616 Main Street — Phone 261-7186 Watertown, Wisconsin

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Everything in Paints and Wallpaper

SPRITE

Sign Writers■’ Materials

TAB

304 Main Street

Phone 261-4062

Watertown, Wisconsin

SUNRISE

FLAVORS

AVAILABLE AT THE CANTEEN

CONSOLIDATED PRODUCE, INC

Bowl -A - Fun

Wholesale Fruits and Produce FOND DU LAC, WIS.

LANES

"House of Quality”

766 North Church Street Phone 261-2512

TRI-COUNTY

OPEN BOWLING & BILLIARDS

TOBACCO CO.

Open 1 p. m. Daily Servicing Your Canteen With

School Supplies — Candy

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KARBERG'S SERVICE

Tobacco — Drugs Paper Goods, etc.

Complete Service and Road Service

1301 Clark Street

Phone 261-5561 501 S. Third Street • Watertown

WATERTOWN

DECEMBER 1 2 8 9 15 16 22 23 29 30

Foodsickles for Thought inancial tumaquette, mbellish your material physis 'ith extravagant wishes, et what you wanna’ get.

Of accoutrement’s leisure, Increasingly high-nights.

Dec.

1 — First Sunday in Advent

Dec.

6 — Prep Basketball vs USM Varsity Basketball vs Milton

Dec.

7 — Prep Basketball vs De Sales Pr Varsity Basketball vs St Procoi

Dec.

9 — Varsity Basketball vs Dominica

Dec. 10 — Prep Wrestling vs USM Dec. 12 — Varsity Wrestling vs Milton “Birth of a Song” - Forum

Congressional records Destroy your assimilative powers; Translate and read them for hours. Confessional memoirs.

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Dec. 17 — Prep Basketball vs Concordia Dec. 18 — Prep Wrestling vs Wayland Varsity Wrestling vs UM Waukesh Dec. 19 — Christmas Festival: Forum -6:45 Clia

Li Scon, rich people’s visions Of yesterday’s poverty And living in modesty Complete their derisions.

Dec. 20 — Christmas Recess Begins at Noon

MONTHLY MISQUOTE: "Don’t read too much . . .

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Nov. 27 - Dec. 1 — Thanksgiving Vacation

Irrational fashions Dig deep in your pockets To find some more nuggets. Expect lucre-lesions.

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The angels sang, a star shone

brightly and lowly f M shepherds found their way a to the manger to worship the Christ. The significance of this act of humility still lives today . . . when persons in many walks of life humble themselves in deep adoration of the Messiah. The members of Aid Association for Lutherans extend sincere best wishes for this glorious season of the year. May Christmas be a time of joy and a renewed dedication to the miracle of the Saviour.

Aid Association for Lutherans ::: Appleton,Wisconsin

Forrest E. Winters Agency P. 0. Box 52 Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin 53538

COVER THEME: I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12

STAFF

Duane Erstad Editor

THE BLACK & RED

John Zeitler ............Assistant Editor Herbert Prahl Assistant Editor

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Since 1897 Published by the Students of Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin

Volume 72

December 1968

No. 5

Allen Beyersdorf Art Mark Ilanncmann Campus & Classroom

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EDITORIALS

109

Brothers

110

Baroque Music

111

One and the Same

113

Lead Article: The Origin of Life

115

Eugene Roccker ........... ...... Junior Staff Writer

The Christmas Gift.....

118

Thomas Haar„„........... Circulation Manager

Flash Flash Flash

120

Poem: Upwards

121

Backwoods?.......

122

CAMPUS & CLASSROOM

124

Poem: Flee Not Nineveh

124

NEWS

125

ALUMNI

126

SPORTS

127

Thomas Bartz_______ Business Manager Paul Alliet................-... . . Advertising Manager Mark Falck.................. . ....Advertising Manager Entered at the Post Office at Watertown, Wis., as Second Class Matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Second Class postage paid at Watertown, Wisconsin. Published Monthly during the school year. Subscription $2.50

COVER AND SKETCHES BY ALLEN BEYERSDORF PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAUL WERNER

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T t could be said that there was quiet reJ-joicing recently when the announcement appeared on the bulletin board that an ex ception would be made to the local driving restrictions for those students driving to and from work. It appeared as if the long struggle against what seems to be an arch aic and inefficient car rule had finally found a sympathetic ear in the higher cir cles.

(Editorial "MT ot long ago we had a good system for IN communion registration. Every Friday we were reminded of communion by the space provided on the weekend checkout lists. After seeing the notice on the board in the dining hall, all we had to do was put down an “x.” Our present system doesn’t have these advantages. The reminder on the dining hall chalkboard is now ill-timed. It’s quite easy to forget about signing up before you have an opportunity. Many students have band right after dinner and find it hard to locate a tutor later in the afternoon. It’s also too easy to forget about the matter until the tutor has left for the weekend. Some might even hesu:i; to go to a com munion service because y have not sign ed up. Our present sys m is not particularly conducive to re r communion attendance. We need a convenier.: system for regis tration. The old one wa .-ite satisfactory. If for some reason this -io longer work able, something on the . der of the sick list might be arranged Such a system could give a more accur ate estimation of the number of students who could be expected for local services. At the same time it would give a more ac curate record of student communion atten dance. The main advantage, however, would be that it would encourage, rather than hinder communion attendance. DuE T-I ave you noticed the amounts of the A Aweekly chapel collections lately? The usual thing by this time of year is a mark ed decrease from the amounts of early September. Instead of this the contribu tions are holding quite constant. The fact that this year is not a typical year in this respect should be a sincere joy to all of us. This joy will not only be ours, but will also be felt among the millions in Hong Kong, where the money helps support a Luther an radio broadcast. Let’s continue this fine example of mission spirit throughout the year.

To date, a page of the student hand book is used to set down the regulations governing use of automobiles by students. This is done in very general terms, how ever, since all the little exceptions and more explicit definitions found in the “hid den minutes” of the Car Committee meet ings are not included. The result has been that student drivers have been lax in keeping the rules. The biggest cause for headaches is the local driving restriction. It is no secret, at least not among the student body, that this rule is repeatedly violated. Only occasionally is a driver caught and punished for the act. The widespread student dissent and opposition to this regulation does not nulli fy it, but it does give just cause for recon sideration of its validity. Perhaps the Car Committee could show the original grounds for setting up the rule, something which has been very vague to all of us. Or per haps the Car Committee ought to be dis solved entirely, since it has been very in effective in enforcing the regulations. May be it is time to set up a new and different system for governing the use of automo biles. The fines and other penalties dished out for violations have certainly not effect ed better adherence to the rules. It does not seem fair that one person should suffer for a violation, while countless others get away with the same thing. The recent ex ception made in respect to local driving takes some of the pressure away; but on the other hand it makes a supposedly rigid set of regulations all the more confusing. In my opinion it is time for a complete re vision and clarification of the car system. j. z.

A JOYOUS AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS!

H. P. 109

St. Philips is one of these churches and is of special interest to us at Northwes tern because its pastor, Rev. Gary Schroeder, served as tutor in the Wartburg for two years. A visit with Pastor Schroeder T^he sorrowful Sixties have brought many gives a different view of the Negro, one deep-rooted human problems from their that contrasts with the impression given usual simmer to the boiling point. Glanc us by the newspapers. ing at the whole of mankind’s sordid While it is naive to think that there is events, this proves to be a natural pheno no violence or trouble in the inner core, menon. Man’s hatred for his neighbor rises one must remember that it is not limited and falls with the gentle undulation of to this area alone. It pervades the whole time. city and the suburbs as well, where there But there seems to be a peculiarity in actually is something to steal. A low-in that each age feels it is somehow more vi come neighborhood is not a burglars par tal, more important or in deeper trouble adise. or has more tensions than any of those The nights of the first week which the preceeding. Thus when people of today newlywed pastor and his wife spent in their view a situation such as the Vietnam War new parsonage were disturbed twice by or crime or poverty they are appalled and gunshots. The incidents happened in the outraged that such things should happen, immediate neighborhood, but the pastor without their realizing that it is no novelty. emphasized that they are not the average Another such area of agony that con occurrence. While problems of violence, fronts America today is racial equality. rape and robbery that seldom confront the The modern communication media have average small town Wisconsin Synod pas brought the “Negro Problem” into our liv tor do come his way, such things are, again, ing rooms. We have all seen Negroes tot the decided exception. Inner city residents generally feel more ing off TV sets and furniture as the ghetto billows black smoke in the background. kindly toward a clergyman. Because of Our newspapers bring us detailed accounts this one has to look like one on sight. Be of the crimes committed in the inner city. cause of an incident one night last sum Magazines devote feature articles to depict mer that involved some teen-age boys, Pas ing the abject conditions in which the tor Schroeder now wears a clerical collar black man lives. especially at night. Nothing really happen The “thinkers” tell us we are living in ed, but the police in the squad car that terrible times. We compute TV news films, arrived at an opportune moment suggested newspaper headlines and a hundred other that he wear one. There are other advant irrelevancies and come up with a stereo ages to this simple piece of clothing. When type of the Negro and treat him like a so- making calls on non-members after dark, a time when everyone is more cautious, he cial problem instead of a human being. is more quickly admitted to houses. The result is a view that sees the Negro Because of the unusual circumstances as a discontented, ready to riot, povertystricken, lazy, spat-upon kind of animal, and tremendous mission potential that sur whose first misfortune is existing at all! round Rev Schroeder’s ministry, he is en This is all overdone, of course, and obvi thusiastic about his congregation. He des ously nobody really thinks this way _ or cribes it as being the same as any other do they? There are those who pity the black church in the Synod, but with a lot of race, and they are as disillusioned as any- pluses. The people are generally of Bap tist and Methodist background and are docone else. trinally and spiritually alert. Making calls The inner core of Milwaukee made it on them is rewarding because they respond self a national reputation a couple of sum to the message and participate. Many mers ago. Stories of looting and burning whites are less enthusiastic when the pas were flashed from coast to coast and be§tor approaches them on a personal level yond. Little known to most Wisconsin syn with the Gospel. This is due to backgrounds od members is the fact that we have a half and what is considered to be the proper dozen churches in this area. response. Members of St. Philips are frank no

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ative group and Pastor Schroeder takes advantage of this by taking one of them along on calls to non-church members in the area. This is done only occasionally, but it is sometimes helpful in gaining rap port with the prospective member. The pas tor reports that he has never yet received a hostile welcome while on these congre gation-building expeditions, not even from the group of Black Moslems he once en countered. There is a parochial school at St. Phil ips, and this greatly interests the people. Education is a thing to be cherished and they fully realize it. The school is gener ally of a higher quality than are the public schools in the area. This in itself encour ages interest in the church. Every month Rev. Schroeder and the other inner city pastors meet to discuss experiences and try to determine effective ways of carrying out their mission. The potential for church growth in the inner city is astounding. One easily notices the enthusiasm Rev. Schroeder and his wife have for St. Philips. While less courageous Christians might hedge at the thought of living there, they see little reason for hesitation. They are convinced that only environment and cir cumstances have brought about the diffi culties of the Negro. He must be viewed as a human being, not as a social problem. We have many Christian brothers who are M. H. Negroes.

and honest in their relation to their pastor, and there is little exterior reserve to break through in order to reach them. The fact that he happens to be white causes no problems. One of the stereotyped ideas whites have about Negroes is that they are basi cally lazy. A number of St. Philips’ mem bers do damage to this theory by holding down two full-time jobs. It is not a con gregation of “uncle toms” who view them selves as second-class citizens. They have as much dignity as anyone and are des cribed by their pastor as “solid citizens” trying to make a living like everyone else. Although Lutheran hymns and forms of worship are not a part of their cultural heritage, this congregation adapts itself to it. During Vacation Bible School this sum mer, however, the folk-spiritual tune, “Cum Bia” (“Come By Here, My Lord”), was used to good effect. The children respond to this type of music. Since music is to aid worship, it would be a pity to condemn it simply because it is not . d elsewhere in the Synod. Much of Rev. Schroi , time is divid ed between making cai id conducting adult confirmation clas These classes are numerous because it ifficult to sche dule a substantial group of them at once, due to varied working hours. There are approximately twenty adults now taking instructions. Members of St. Philips are a cooper-

BAROQUE MUSIC \A7ith the transition from Renaissance to * * baroque came a momentous change: the shifting of interest from a texture of several independent parts of equal impor tance to music in which a single melody predominated; that is, from polyphonic to homophonic texture.” Joseph Machdis, The Enjoyment of Music.

fluence on our contemporary trends. Yet these leave untouched a vital part of barwhichinLutherans wouldcupboard: be foolish. to away history.s dark our

There is much of value in the 16001750 era: the art-itself phase, necessary to the development of our western musical culture and the periods continuing in-

own extensive heritage of Baroque musical literature, particularly the eminently erman Lutheran Hymnal. The Lutnera Hymnal with its 660 hymns and song m

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derives 248 from the German and 46 from the Latin: 58 of the 190 known authors are German. Who among us would be so rash as to ignore such gems of hymnology as “Wachet Auf,” “Wie Schoen Leuchtet der Morgenstem,” or “Ein’ Feste Burg”? No less, the purely musical aspect of this heritage of beloved treasures in Lutheran Christendom is in its realm just as appealing and even more extensive. Luther Reed in his volume “Worship” maintains, “The Lutheran Church took the lead in the field of liturgical music, including hymnody, and maintained it for more than two centuries in a comprehensive program that was both conservative and constructive.” We would not wish to deny our contemporary musicians their right of contribution to the church’s continuing worship of our Lord; this freedom and privilege is the right of Christian liberty, perhaps even the duty of stewardship. This freedom from the absolutism and legalism of tra dition is also a cultural characteristic of our American society, an aspect we Luth erans appreciate and utilize, without for getting the value of our heritage (often surprisingly pragmatic). It would be ingrat itude toward our Lord to ignore whatever values He has brought us through history. But what is that practical value, that justifying cause for retaining the baroque music of the Lutheran Church? The value is basically twofold: the inherent nature of the music itself, and convenience in practice. Music of the baroque era is by virtue of inherent characteristic especially suitable for the Lutheran Church. Just as sound Lutheran practice is careful in Scriptural interpretation, reading out of, not into the Bible, so also it is careful in worship, expressing a response from faith toward God. The goal is the glorification of God and the stimulation of man towards God rather than towards self. Special effort is often made to avoid the humanistic and /or the self-engrossed emotionalism of the enthusiasts. Thus appears the value of the musically objective nature of baroque. For us it contains no great appeal to the personal ego to wrap itself in self-centered ecstatics; yet it permits individual expression. Baroque artists were of necessity experts of improvisation. Baroque is concerned with an external purpose or object; it is music which exults in and revolves

around an object, whether hymn tune or vocal text. Such characteristics are of pri mary value and concern for Christian worship - “Joyful concern with God through Christ.” Rather than focusing attention on itself, baroque directs the listener and performer to its object. Baroque is a music of exultation. In contrast to Romantic style, the depths of sorrow and dejection in baroque are never too great for the restoration of life and joy. The “Crucifixus” of Bach’s “Mass in b min0r” is grieving, but is immediately dispelled by the triumphant victory of the “Et Resurrectus.” This is typical of Bach and the baroque in general. The frequent use of trumpets testifies to its joy; the use of oboes its meditation. Incontestably the forte of baroque however, is jubilation, We have yet another aspect to consider: the practicality of the baroque music for use in the Lutheran Church, First, there is an abundance of mater ials. We noted the frequency of German hymns in the Lutheran Hymnal and the musical leadership of the Lutheran Church. This is also shown by the wealth and var iety of arrangements that can be found for any of the common hymn tunes of German ancestry. As the hymnal shows. there is a great frequency of tune repetition. This is helpful both to the congregation, which therefore, need not learn so many tunes, and to the organist, who can thus more readily find preludes and variations on the tune. With 660 entries in the hymnal and 150 composers (59 English and 58 German), only 380 tunes are matched to the almost double number of hymns. Usage again teaches that of the two groupings most frequently included, the German tunes have a strong lead over the English in frequency of repetition. It is for these German tunes, often the favorites of a congregation, that our baroque heritage has bestowed on us an ample supply of arrangements. Their range is for vocal, organ or other instrumental use, as well as combined use. Conducting a quick experiment, this author found the following: on the basis of six musical collections (single volumes likely to be found in the average Lutheran musical library, twelve arrangements were found for five German hymn tunes (randomly selected from the Lutheran Hymnal). This was for organ alone, not including voices or instruments!

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Granted, this experiment is “rigged,” for a Lutheran organist would logically obtain music for the tunes in his hymnals. It does reveal, however, the relative ease of find ing suitable materials in baroque musical collections. At this point let us mention a very few of the Lutheran greats. Samuel Scheidt was a pupil of the Dutch master, Sweelinck, and is considered the father of the chorale prelude. His Tabulaturbuch is a source book for variant hymn-tune set tings. Dietrich Buxtehude is a typical re presentative of the North German group of organists. His is some of the best pure organ music. Johann Pachelbel’s style re veals a convergence of the South and Cen tral German groups. He is quite straight forward and has easily recognizable them atic elements. Additions to such a list could include Bach’s teacher, George Boehm; Handel’s teacher, F. W. Zachow. There’s also the large Bach family, their students and students of the above-mentioned mas ters, such as Vetter, isdorf, Walther, Krebs and Doles. The works of these . 00 other masters are becoming increase available, be cause of both historical eui practical mo tivations. The recent e.\Unsive interest in the baroque era by sch- irs of historical musical development h uncovered pre viously unknown or unlauded artists. Sur prising reevaluations have occured in the history of baroque. While it is difficult to find organ compositions of George Tele mann, the most popular and best-known German musician of his day, the compo sitions of J. S. Bach are abundant today,

One and the Same n QJorry, but I already have a date for . that night,” Karen’s sweet voice re plied to John’s question. “If only you had asked earlier, I’d gladly have gone with John placed the receiver of the phone back on the hook. He was clearly dis appointed in the turn of fate he had just

although they were first considered the work of a hick organist from the hinter lands, an odd fellow given to dangerous modern harmonies. What about actual performance today? This style, like any other, can be learned by exposure. Lutherans, because of the frequent use of baroque music in their churches, have the advantage of life long exposure. This holds true both for perfor mer and congregation. Another advantage is the prevalence of pipe organs in Lutheran churches. Un fortunately many organs are more roman tic than baroque, and have some problems with clarity and tone power. However, the modern desire for the original strength and virility of tone is causing the baroque or gan to reappear. The abundance of amateur musicians on other instruments is another helpful factor. Although the present trend hasn’t revived all of the favorite instruments of the baroque (trumpet, flute, oboe, and strings), whatever is lacking here can be made up in application of another baroque principle, the free interchange of instru ments. In practice, this means the free substitution of instruments, even as far as utilizing such an instrument as the flute for an absent vocal performer. Much of the baroque music will challenge the tech nical ability of the average musician, but practice and familiarization with style will do much to develop proficiency. Neverthe less, there is a sufficient amount of music within the reach of even the minimally accomplished novice. Barry Brandt, ’69 experienced, but he realized it was his fault for having waited so long to ask Karen out. “You know she’s one of the more popu lar girls on campus,” he said to himself, “and waiting to ask her until the week before the Spartan Spectacular is practi cally begging to be ‘shot down’. But then, I hadn’t been certain of the transportation problem or of a place to stay until yester day when Paul asked me to stay at his apartment and ‘double’ with him.” “Now I have to find a date in order not to upset Paul’s plans. I know, I’ll ask Paul’s girl, Sandy, to set up a blind date for me for this weekend.” He told Paul of his plans, and they

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called Sandy that night to ask her cooper on not being able to take Bert’s friend. Boy, ation. She replied that she would be glad this blind date will probably be just that — to find someone for John, and the problem blind, and knock-kneed and pigeon-toed to boot! Well, that’s what I get for being so was solved. Back at the girls’ dorm, Sandy was look blasted honorable. Guess I should have ing for someone to approach with the mat called off this miserable excuse for a dat ter of the blind date, when she received a ing service and taken Bert’s friend any letter from Nancy, one of her girl friends way. Then I’d be looking forward to a real back home. Nancy wrote that she was com exciting evening. But, I made my deci ing to the Spartan Spectacular, and would sion, and I guess I’m man enough to see it arrive early Saturday afternoon. Things through.” “Well, here we are,” announced Paul, couldn’t have worked out more perfectly. Sandy’s problems of finding a date for both “are you all set to meet her?” John and Nancy had been solved by one As they walked to the door, John had a stroke of the favor of the Fates. She called sudden desire to forget the whole thing, Paul and told him she had gotten a date but he quickly put that thought out of for John, but that the girl did not attend mind. Paul rang the door chimes and San the college. The entire situation was shap dy appeared, smiling as usual. ing up to provide an exciting weekend for “Hi,” she said pleasantly, “come on in. all. Nancy’s not quite ready yet, but she’ll be The next day Bert, a friend of Paul’s down in a minute. We can sit in the dorm and John’s, called to say that if John still lounge until she comes.” needed a date, a girl from his home town As John sat down cn the couch, he was coming down for Spartan Spectacular thought, “Nancy was the name of Bert’s and was in need of a date. John replied friend, too. I wonder if • no, they couldn’t that he had already been ‘set up’, but that be the same one.” he was indeed interested in this new possi “I suppose you’ll wa:; to know a little bility because he knew that any girl Bert about Nancy,” Sandy broke into his rev recommended was one of the finest quality. erie. “It was sort of h. ky to get her on Now John was caught in the difficult such short notice. She comes from my position of deciding whether to keep the home town, and just after you asked me date he already had and forget about Bert’s to get you a date, she wrote saying she offer, or to back out of the blind date and was coming down and needed a date for go with Bert’s friend. He had seen pictures Saturday. Well, that was just too perfect, of this friend of Bert’s and wanted even so I snatched her up for you. I almost more to break his blind date to go with didn”t have the chance, though, because her. He argued with himself the rest of she said another friend of hers, a Bert or that day, but his conscience and sense of someone, almost set her up with one of his honor finally overcame his desire to switch buddies, but the guy already had a date. dates, and he called Bert to say he was He’ll wish he had taken Nancy, though, keeping the blind date. Bert then said that because she’s one of the sweetest and most John had made a fortunate decision, since attractive girls I know. Oh, here she comes the girl he had in mind had been set up now.” by another girl from his home town, and As Nancy descended the staircase from was no longer available. the second floor rooms, John took one look When Saturday came, John hitched a at her and glanced over to Paul who wink ride to the college (some 50 miles away) ed back slyly. Now John was glad he had and went to Paul’s apartment to get ready made his decision on the basis of con for the basketball games and hootenanny science and honor. For this Nancy was the which made up the Spartan Spectacular. very same girl for whom Bert had been They left the apartment at 7:00 in or trying to get a date. Somehow Paul had der to pick up their dates in time for the known all along that the two girls were first game. On the way to Sandy’s dorm, one in the same, but he had allowed John John began thinking, “Well, I’m in for it to make his own decision for the sake of this time. First I blow my chance to take personal honor. Tim Schneider, '71 Karen to this ‘shindig*, and then I luck out 114

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE The December lead article presents a Christians view of evolution and the world of scientific research. Allen Beyersdorf is a Senior from Brookfield, Wisconsin.

TATe have been told that the amount of deals with the origin of this first life and » * time which has passed since the earth the second with the development of all liv became a fit place for the production and ing things from this first living cell. development of life is unknown, but the The sudden appearance of the first liv amount must be reckoned at least in the ing cell upon which the whole evolution millions of years. Sin that time, the ary process and development was laid was earth is believed to h. passed through the first problem to be faced. When the numerous phases and < iimatic changes. theory was first introduced, those who up These violent changes ire attributed to held it had no trouble with the problem such occurrences as e quakes, volcanic concerning its origin. The answer to the eruptions and the Greet cc Age. As time question was “spontaneous generation.” passed, the earth also underwent the cus Spontaneous generation was a process by tomary changes due to he weather. The which life, for no explainable reason, sun baked and cracked the soil, while vio arose out of dead material spontaneously. lent rainstorms wore away the mountains When asked for proof that life could come and land masses, carrying them piecemeal into existence in this manner, the evolu into the sea. Up to this time, however, the tionist merely pointed to a puddle of fresh earth merely existed as a collection of life ly fallen rainwater by which he could eas less soil and rock which was surrounded ily uphold this theory, as stated in Byron by dark and lifeless seas. The whole earth C. Nelson’s book, After Its Kind. was destitute of living beings — plants, The first evolutionists pointed to the wellanimals, and man. After millions of years known fact that in pools of clear water de posited by rain myriads of minute living and countless changes, the earth developed organisms soon appeared, and also to the into an abode which was able both to pro fact that in a decaying carcass tiny mag duce and nourish life. By chance, several gots quickly made their appearance. These of the proper ingredients united and form were said to be formed spontaneously out ed the foundation of all life — the first liv of dead matter. ing cell. Concluding this line of thought, This opinion concerning the source of life the theory of evolution then states that this was believed to be unquestionable truth process took place entirely naturally, with until Francesco Rudi, a distinguished scho out the help or miraculous intervention of lar and physician, dealt it the blow which any divine Creator, and that from this sin marked the beginning of its end. Through gle remote ancestor, the first living cell, his experimentation he tried to demon have come or evolved all the living beings strate that the living organisms which in existence today, including man. appeared on inanimate substances were From this theory there have developed not the products of that substance but were two points of conflict which have prompted produced by natural means by living ani limitless research and discussion. The first mals. Hence the maggots and numerous 115

other parasities, which covered the carcass of a dead animal, were produced by living animals which had laid their eggs on the animal. The myriads of minute living or ganisms in the pool of freshly fallen rain were likewise not the products of the rain water, but were produced by other living beings which wandered into the pool after it had been formed by the fallen rain. Thus Rudi successfully proved that “if living causes be excluded, no living things arise” from inanimate objects. Where Rudi con cluded his experimentation, Louis Pasteur, the noted French chemist and bacteriolo gist, began his experimentation with spon taneous generation. Pasteur proved that bacteria, a smaller form of life, also do not come into existence from dead objects but are the products of other bacteria. His ex periments to prove this were quite similar to Rudi’s, as Byron Nelson stated in his book. By thoroughly sterilizing meat or other food and then preventing any of the bacteria that fly in the air from coming into con tact with it, he found that it could be kept for years fresh and wholesome and free from those forms of life that produce de cay, whereas other bits of food substances kept in the same conditions but exposed to germs already existing soon became infest ed with living things. Thus both Rudi and Pasteur completely destroyed the idea of spontaneous gener ation by proving that only living things can produce other living things.

sea water. There the chemicals reacted with each other and the water, forming bigger and bigger molecules. After millions or billions of years of this process, a single molecule — perhaps a nucleic acid — was formed that had the ability to grow, repro duce and evolve into higher organisms. The foregoing statement was found in an article in Time, October 26, 1962. These then are the conditions which Schramm tried to duplicate. He mixed the proper gases, added water to simulate the ocean, and shot electric sparks into it. In this mixture were simple sugars, amino acids (the small molecules contained in nucleic acids) and phosphorus, all of “which could have been formed by natural, nonliving reactions on the lifeless earth.” After treat ing this mixture with heat, pressure, and other influences that were probably present in the ancient sea and analyzing the re sults, he found it to contain a simple nuc leic acid and certain other chemicals which are characteristic of living organisms. However, Dr. Schramm ‘ wants no one to assume that he expected soon to create real living creatures in his laboratory.” Dr. Schramm had not yet found the answer to the origin of life.

The Christian, however, has a better way of “disproving” the theory of evolution than by pointing to the fact that science has not yet created or successfully explain ed the origin of life. For in the opening verse of the Bible one reads that “in the Since this answer to the origin of life beginning God created heaven and earth.” had failed, the evolutionists continued to Therefore we have the firm assurance that search for other possibilities. One such God created or brought into being some possibility was presented by the biochem thing which had not existed before, name ist Gerhard Schramm of the Max Planck ly the heavens and earth, and all the ma Institute for Virus Research at Tubringen, terials out of which they are constructed. Germany. In 1962, at a conference in Mun However, God did not just create (Hebrew ich, he proclaimed that he had managed to words “bara” or “asah” meaning to make, form nucleic acid, one of the most vital create, or bring into existence out of noth compounds in living organisms, in his lab ing) the earth and then allow life, in the oratory by using the same processes which form of plants, animals and man, to devel were thought to have existed and produced op or evolve on its own out of the chance the first life on earth. Schramm believes union of the elements of nature, without that the first organism was produced in an His divine guidance. The Genesis account atmosphere which was quite unlike ours of creation also states that in the six days of creation, which were ordinary 24 hour today. Billions of years ago the newly formed days, God also created plants, animals and earth was covered by an atmosphere that man. God created life in the form of plants had no free oxygen in it. Instead it had and animals in an instant at the command methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and of His voice. They did not evolve over a other gases that cannot be breathed by period of billions of years. The creation of modern animals. Lightning flashes, so the theory goes, forced these gases to form man, however, was undertaken by God in complicated chemicals that dissolved in a special manner. The Bible states that 116

“God created man in His own image” and formed him out “of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” In stead of merely being called into being by a word of God’s almighty power, man was formed by the finger of God out of the dust of the earth. Then into this form God blew the breath of life, which made the lifeless shape of man a living being. If it is possible to produce life in a test tube, it will be produced by God’s guidance and wish. All life was and is instituted by God, and without His wish and blessing, noth ing, including the production of life, is pos sible.

ian must realize that the Bible, absolute truth, has never and will never be proven wrong. It is the theory of evolution which has always been and will be proven wrong. One can clearly see that evolution as a scientific theory rests on a false premise, that is, its basis is not even scientific. The evolutionists cannot explain the origin of life. However, based on this first false pre mise, the evolutionist presents a second false premise. Assuming the origin of all things from a single cell, the evolutionists

Therefore, it is impossible for a Christ ian to believe in the theory of evolution. For the theory bases its whole argument on the unproven, unbiblical assumption that all beings had a common, living an cestor, the living cell, whose origin is un known. The Bible does not allow this. Even with these firm facts against evolution, it has been asked if it couM not have been possible for God to ha • .-mated this first living cell and then foi ' volution of all other living beings to h occurred out of must try to explain the evolution of differ the common origin of tV,; living cell cre ent species which exist today, even though ated by God. This is an oea which is re it remains a proven fact that one cannot jected by the scientists . must immedi cross-breed different species and obtain a ately be rejected by the Christian. The evo new species that will reproduce after its lutionists are totally unwilling to accept kind. Reproduction after its kind is a nec this idea, “for if it be granted that God essary qualification for a group of animals made the first cell, it cannot well be denied to be designated as a new species. This is that He may and could and very likely did both a scientific and biblical fact. For the create other species by distinct creative Bible states that after God created life, acts, as the Bible sets forth,” as stated in He gave the command for each species Nelson’s book, After Its Kind. The Christ to reproduce “after its kind.” However, in ian also has several reasons for rejecting connection with this passage, one must be this idea. In the opening verses of the Bib very careful. By the “kind”, as Byron C. le, it is clearly stated that God created the Nelson states in his book, The Bible does not mean to say that every plants, animals and man, and therefore distinct form of plant or animal men see it is impossible to believe that life and all about them came from the hand of the Cre the different species of living beings evol ator in just the form in which it is beheld. It is not the several types of dogs: fox-ter ved from a single cell. This view clearly rier, dachshund, collie, that were created and definitely denies the Scripture which to remain the same forever, but the one clearly tells us that “God created.” Fur natural species, “dog”. The “kinds” of thermore, to believe that God used the Genesis refer not to the “systematic” spe cies identified by men, but to those natural chance happening of evolution to develop species of which the world is full, which the being which He chose to spend eternity have power to vary within themselves in with would be to deprive God of the glory such a way that the members of the species due Him for His miraculous work of creare exactly alike, but which, nevertheless, ation, and would show a lack of faith in cannot go out of the bounds that the Cre ator set. His recorded Word, the Bible. It is also wrong to try to “rework” the Bible to in Therefore, the Bible is not speaking of new clude the theory of evolution. The Christ- varieties which may arise within a species.

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The prime example of this is the cross breeding of a horse and ass, each of a separate species. The product is a sterile animal, which means it is not a new spe cies. Therefore, mutation or the crossing of species is not the answer to the develop ment of all species from a single cell. It also remains a fact that most mutations are detrimental to the organism instead of helping it to progress. The development of the species from one common ancestor is easily disproved both scientifically and biblically. The evolutionists can offer no definite proof against the creation story as recorded in the book of Genesis. However, evolu tionists will continue to consider ‘‘the most absurd improbabilities . . . more probable than the alternative of real creation” in a vain attempt to prove the Bible wrong, as

The Christmas Gift

Tt was cold. A bitter sword of frigidity had cut the rays of the sun until all its brilliance gave nothing but a heatless, deathly light. The cold took possession of the air, the water and the ground. Even the sky seemed to be frozen into its spher ical shape. The cold ate at the men’s hands, it tore their shins, and it entered their in sides and froze their bowels. It was a cold like Johann had never known before. Cold and snow. One could see why the Russian High Comand relied so heavily on their ally, General Winter. First the snow came to the knees, and then it reached to the waist. Now it averaged shoulder height, and the drifts were burying whole platoons and tanks. They say that it warms up some when it snows, but Johann hadn’t noticed. Of course, the weather hadn’t al ways been this way. In September there was rain — and mud, a veritable sea of filth, and this too came up to the knees. After a week of it Johann was so dirty he didn’t care any longer whether he bathed or shaved. He felt exactly like a vegetable which was in the ground, and he was wait ing to be pulled out and devoured.

stated in the book, The Genesis Flood, by Henry Morris and John Whitcomb. The foundation stone, as well as the bricks of the theory, are biblically and in many cases also scientifically incorrect. From the first evolutionists who believed in spontaneous generation to the modern day researchers, the evolutionists seem to be updating a well-known Biblical passage: For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, be ing understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse; Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but be came vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. More constant than the weather was the relentless Russian artillery. Every se cond that passed brought another shell. Every explosion meant hat some more German lives were lost, and that their ten uous grip on their offensive gains had loos ened a little more. Th cessant thunder kept reminding Johann i' the first times he had encountered a Russian counter-of fensive. There was alw - a man coming at him. He killed them until he had no bullets left, and there was still a squat Mongol headed toward him. Johann killed him with his rifle butt, and then he fell into a fog. Battle fatigue, the doctors call ed it. This happened in the summer. When the fog lifted, the rains began. Now it was cold. It was cold, and the Russians were staging a bombardment. This thunder had become such an integral part of Johann’s consciousness that when it stopped, the si lence became a noise too great for him to bear. Johann lay half on his back; his eyes were turned toward the setting sun. The red of the sky was married to its reflection in the snow, making the entire horizon a crimson fire. It was late afternoon, Decem ber 23, 1943. Johann was in a cellar of what used to be a house in Brundisvotsk, a suburb of Stalingrad. He had been there since September 12. Originally there had been eighteen men with him. Now he was alone. Three of the men were killed when the Russian artillery scored a direct hit on the house. Seven men died from rifle 118

wounds, either instantly, or by having their strong arms around her. But now there blood leak away, or from the gangrene, was no one to comfort him, and only the which rotted away the flesh and spread malevolent Frost would place her arms its greenish venom through every part of around him. the body. Two died of dysentery, after Johann looked up in the sky. It was they had spilled their guts and covered clear now; there was no hint that there the frozen earth floor with their excrement. would be any snow that night. He tried Five froze. Their death was the most piti to count the stars, but there were too many ful of all. One minute they would be lying for him. The stars again caused his mind there, on guard, and the next they were to travel back to Preisenstadt, to a little still in the same position, with their guns house on a back street called Hohenstrasse. cocked and their eyes open, but they were Now was the time that he would put the dead. They passed from life without the little children to bed. He would tell them slightest fanfare, and not even their bud how beautifully they sang in the Christmas dies could heave a sigh of grief. Karl, Jo program. Yes, he had been nervous too hann’s best friend, killed himself. The when it was his time to recite. Then they cold, the disease, the killing and the dying would all sing “Ihr Kinderlein, kommet!” had been too much for him, and he ended Johann would put them all to bed and it. Johann was lying among their corpses, promise to return the minute the Christ arrested in half-decay by the frigidity that Child came with their presents. would not loose its hold on them, even While all this was going on, Mama, though they were dead. Papa, and his older sister would be down “This is the glorious legion of the Third stairs in the parlor. They would be arrang Reich, the victorious G< rman supermen” ing the presents under the tree — a new thought Johann. He null!. a bitter “Heil pair of skates, a set of toy soldiers, and so Hitler” through his cha,,: • blood-caked forth. They would also decorate the tree. lips. Johann himself wa> issing two fin There were only a few artificial balls, of gers, his feet were so ru t by the mud course, and the handcarved wooden Wise and the frost that he could longer walk, men. Most of the tree ornaments would and there was a bullet i < .-• cl in his rib be apples, oranges (before the war), and cage. He had alternating polls of numb lots of candy, a luxury in the “guns before ness and pain, conscious, vss and uncon butter” days of the Third Reich. There sciousness. would probably be two strands around the Christmas Eve. Occasionally, some tree; one of them would consist of a string where between the cold, bleak reality that of popcorn, and the other, a string of cur surrounded him and the warm, sweet ob rants from the bushes in the back yard. livion that would enshroud him, he heard Johann himself would be down to help voices lowing in the distance, “Stille Nacht, with the lighting of the candles. He shed Heilige Nacht” . . . “Schlaf in himmlischer a frozen tear as he remembered how his Ruh!” He spoke a prayer that had filled mother would say a prayer for each of her his mind for weeks. His thoughts traveled children with every candle. When every from the Russian Steppes, over the Ukrain thing was complete, Johann would run up ian plain, into the valley of the Oder, to the stairs, shouting at the top of his voice, the little Pauluskirche in the village of “Das liebe Christkind ist gekommen.” Then Preisenstadt. His thought centered on a the children would rush down, shout with certain honey-blonde soprano in the chior. glee at the sight of their presents, and gaze “Anna Maria.” The mention of her name in wonder at the tree which the Christ was still enough to put warmth into his Child had given them. Johann aroused himself from his rever ice-locked limbs. On that last night, be fore he left with the mighty army of Ary ie. He heard something breaking through ans in its march to the East, she had whis- the crust on the snow. He stared hard into pered that she wished they could always the darkness, but he could not discern any be together like that. Johann had told her forms. His sudden attention drove the that they would be together, but first he numbness from his body, and he became had to help Hitler and the Vaterland in acutely aware of the pain He was espec their fight against their enemies. He had ially conscious of the grumbling of his stilled her passionate sobbings with his stomach. At home, on Christmas, Mama 119

would cook the biggest meal of the whole year. Once they had roast pig with an apple in its mouth. Before dinner they would all go to church, and Johann would take Anna Maria. Then they would go home and eat the luscious meal of the meat, potatoes and gravy, all sorts of fruits and vegetables, pudding, and for des sert some of Mama’s delicious stollen. What little saliva Johann had left watered as he reflected on the scene. After the meal they would gather around the warm stove in the parlor and Father would open the Bible and begin reading, Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit, dass ein Gebot vom Kai ser Augustus ausging, dass alle Welt geschaetzt wuerde. . .” The sun rose. The light glinted into his red eyes, but he felt too weak to turn his head. He wondered whether the little house on Hohenstrasse was still standing. The Amis might have gotten it on one of their bombing raids. It was cold. It was a bitter cold, a cold like Johann had never known before. “Lieber Herr Jesu, lass mich

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T^oes William Styron have a little bit o’ soul? Does The Confessions of Nat Turner have a little bit o’ soul? These ques tions have been going the rounds this last year among black and white literary crit ics, and the responses have not always been expressed clearly. No, perhaps the answers were clearly expressed, but were definitely divided into two categories — ad ulation by white critics and condemnation by black critics. A few weeks back, Dick Gregory on the Rowan and Martin Show castigated white Americans for what he called their “white Christian ethic.” Naturally the set of ethics under which the white author Styron oper ates is white in origin and white in intent. If this novel was only an attempt to keep in step with the current efforts to magnify the role of the American Negro in the birth and growth of the United States of Amer ica, he would not have received the Pulit zer Prize for Literature for 1968.

sterben!” The sun rose into the sky, giv ing a brilliant radiance but no heat. The sun revealed the forms of Rus sians coming into the village. Rapid cross firing followed, and the Russians gained a foothold in the suburb. The fighting died down as both sides dug in to their new positions. The Russians wanted to have a small party commemorating the victory and Christmas Day, but the Communist attached to the unit wouldn’t tolerate it. But he could not be everywhere, and there were several partying groups. One of the soldiers, Sergi Schlamonov, went to one of these. After a few rounds of vodka, he decided to see if he could find his house. It was very difficult for him, since the town was a mass of rubble and blood-red snow. But he finally found what he thought was his house. It was totally demolished. He looked into what used to be the cellar; lie was slightly sick ened at what he saw. There were only the remains of nineteen German corpses. T. B.

The ultimate drabness of white think ing concerning the question of the natural rights of the American Negro is manifested throughout the novel, and it carries the beleaguered efforts of a man forcing him self to recreate the stories of Faulkner and Flaubert. Flashes of American conservatism are present in an overwhelming number of American novels. This is one such novel. It bears the signature of white elitism, but lacks the imprimatur of the Holy Black Power segment of United States society. Hence the verbal fire power of the Amer ican black critic has been felt and is being sounded intensely by black writers on the current literary scene. Their bag is not that a white William Styron has attempted to portray the slave rebellion mastered by (perverted) Nat Turner in the ante-bellum South, but that he has failed miserably — to stick closely to the facts of history as recorded, to displace the emphasis on an assertion of inherent black social hauteur, and to reset Nat’s vain obsession with Mis sy Margaret and his failure to achieve sat isfaction in her. He dwells on the aspects of slavery doc umented by historians Stanley Elkin and U. S. Phillips and makes the slavery pic ture comparable to that of the Nazi con120

centration camps of World War II. Negroes are characterized as victims of sadism, fit only for Saturday night cockfights, where they are beaten into a state of bestiality. Yet, as Nat confesses, it was not the physical beating so much as the mental degradation, that made them willing conspirators in his plan to kill the whites of Southampton County, Virginia. Nat became a visionary with satanic ambition. His visions had a twofold quality: He relied on God to direct him (he

felt like another Moses) and to take him to the New Jerusalem when his work would be done. For a study in preoccupations with colors, with human conditions, and with human desire, and for an intimate review 0f slavery in the antebellum South, this reviewer strongly recommends William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner. In paperback only $1.25, it is a must for participants in History 511. At your local smokeshop and elsewhere. E. R.

UPWARDS Earth-bound creature that I am! Futilely plodding along, step after step, Marching to the Drill-master’s call. Onward. Would that I had wings And dwelt on lofty peaks, Holding dialogue with the fleecy clouds. Not onward, but upward. Hup two three four Ever pacing, rny poor feet call to the skies, Give me release, Give me — Softly nov ; tittle sniff, a lick, some small pain — Down, nr. a hurt no more. The Drill--, - tcr’s voice fades to a whisper, A whisper h xt cries, Take your wings and fly, Soar through the skies. Blue, an endless sea of blue, And now i pass beyond the vale of blue, I reach to touch the stars. Red, green, purple, lavender all fly the tunnel of my ear. Flaming balis flare round my heart. I am flying now, earth lost its claim on me. But where are the clouds? I have much to say, much to hear, much to learn. I can see no birds, in whose fellowship I would fly. Light and dark. Speeding through the tunnel without end, Flashing darkness opens, and I enter, burning with my own heat. Upward. I come unto the gates of pearl and climb the golden stairs. I stop. Earth-bound creature that I am! Futilely plodding along, step after step, Marchng to the Drill-master’s call. Onward. I march forward to my goal, And press onward with one will, Again to fly. But then I’ll talk to the fleecy clouds And soar with the singing birds. I shall sit upon the staircase’s golden crest. And never to earth return. T. B 121

BACKWOODS? TA7ay out in New York is the big, annual W Hi-Fi show where manufacturers vie with each other to make consumers’ eye pop. The show gets national publicity and is always reviewed by the Saturday Review. California has a show which ranks a close second. But what about the Midwest? If you live there, apparently you are just out of it. Under these circumstances, it seems that the only way to hear good sound out of the concert hall is to buy your own Hi-Fi

equipment. Since most Hi-Fi buffs want equipment more expensive than they can afford, this is a rather disconserting thought. “Despair not, despair not.” Milwaukee is a musical Mecca in its own right, too. It’s true that our local symphony doesn’t make recordings like its rivals in Minne apolis or Chicago, but the Windy City boys hold forth in the Pabst a few Mondays every year. Not to be forgotten is the Fine Arts Quartet at UWM. One of the biggest Hi-Fi speaker manufacturers in the coun try, Acoustic Research, uses the quartet to bolster the reputation of their products. In addition to live music, Milwaukee also rates high in Hi-Fi manufacturers. The man who capitalized on the “fad” of stereo earphones, Mr. Koss, operates in Mil waukee. From his original model (the offi cial earphone endorsed by the Northwest ern College library and music department) to his latest electrostatic headset, his pro ducts have had a good reputation. In the enterprising German spirit of Milwaukee, Mr. Koss was not content with just an earphone business. He set his sights on Rek O Cut, one of the big names in record playing equipment. This once flourishing firm was suffering from a case of bad management and was rapidly los ing its reputation. Koss brought the oper ation to north Milwaukee and restored it

to its old glory. This gave him two highquality component lines. One of the first-quality transistor lines was designed and built by Acoustech in Massachusetts. After establishing a good reputation in a very short time, this firm headed for oblivion, somewhat like Rek O Cut. Soon, however, audiophiles began to see the name Acoustech associated with Koss. Mr. Koss had also taken over this operation. The philosophy behind these transac tions has been that by selling a quality line of Hi-Fi products, the company will always have a ready market even when people who buy cheaper equipment have to pinch pennies. Koss not only manufactures quality merchandise, but does considerable re search to get on top of his competition. One of Koss’ more recent acquisitions is a highly-prized acoustical engineer from Electro-Voice: Howard Souther. Mr. Sou ther designed the thirty inch woofer for the Electro-Voice “Patrician,” acknowledg ed as among the best cone-type speaker systems ever designed, with the same in ventive spirit, Koss engineers are working on a new silicon cartridge to outperform the best of today’s m . uetic cartridges. There is also a receiver in the works. The company claims that it will be the best receiver on the market. Of course, Milwaukee has Hi-Fi retail ers as well as manufacturers. Without much doubt, the finest Ili-Fi shop in the whole Midwest is at 26th and Wisconsinum. The proprietor of Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum is prone to making this boast to his custo mers, but evidence tends to support it. Which other Hi-Fi establishment has its own publication? Called the “Fum Ding er,” its appearance is only slightly more erratic than the B & R : “now and then.” Earlier this fall, one of the foremost manufacturers of electronic Hi-Fi gear honored Fum’s headquarters with a “clin ic.” Factory representatives distributed McIntosh apples and tested any amplifier brought to them. Owners were told whe ther their units were committing the sin of “THD” and got actual “spec” sheets to prove it. Those who already had McIntosh equipment got free repairs, tubes and all. Wonders never cease. A month or so later the “Fum Dinger” brought news of an impending visit by fac122

tory representatives from KLH. The occa than the air which surrounds it. He switch sion was the debute of the new KLH tape ed from thirty-inch woofers, etc., to this deck. The Saturday Review had mentioned design because he feels that electrostats such a piece of equipment over a year be are the speakers of the future. Those for fore, but the fulness of time had finally tunate enough to enter the Acoustech labs come. KLH ambassadors and well over find sound equipment just as impressive $10,000 in audio apparatus went to only as that brought by the KLH people. four locations: Washington, California, There may be general agreement that Florida and Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum. electrostats are the “in” thing, but the While the demonstration was prompt agreement goes little further. Mr. Souther ed by the desire to sell this new KLH 40, it says that his competitor’s Model 9 electrowas also an informative experience for any stat is just about dead below 200 Hz. The audiophile. The KLH 40 happens to be the KLH adherents say that if you want un first tape deck to use the “Dolby” system natural sound, all you have to do is get for reducing background noise. (Back an Acoustech X electrostat. ground noise is the “hiss” in the back ground of all recordings.) The KLH engin eers played records which had been made with and without the Dolby. The reduc tion of unwanted noise was obvious. The moral even for those who never bought the KLH 40 was also obvious: Don’t buy “un-Dolbyized” records. Where else but at Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum would i take 810,000 in equipment to tell which records to buy! Those who attended th: linic learned by experience just how bad c.ost records are. One man from the fac*< tated that pre recorded tapes were considerably noisier. O Joy! All were disap >• cted by the re cords they once thought were great, but there was one consolation. They had the opportunity to hear sonic really good elec tronically reproduced sound. The KLH peo ple had in their possession copies of copies of master tapes from a major recording company. (You can’t buy master tapes at any price. All records are copies of copies of copies of master tapes, and pre-recorded tapes are still worse.) When this material Most musicians would probably never was played through three sets of $1,100 notice any difference between them. Na electrostatic speakers with over 400 hon turally, neither system is that bad. Both est watts of power, the audiophiles were have been used to reinforce symphony or spoiled forever at once. Those “unfortun chestras. The Acoustech X was used with ate” few could only return home to their the National Symphony in Washington. own equipment and recordings and weep. The KLH 9 has been used at Lincoln Cen “What’s an ‘electrostat’”? Besides KLH, ter in New York. This uncertainty is almost enough to Milwaukee’s Acoustech is the only other major manufacturer of electrostatic speak drive an audiophile to buy nothing but er systems. In an electrostat, the speaker’s tickets for live concerts and try to forget mass which must be moved is many times about bringing the music into his home. less than in the ordinary cone-type speaker As “Fum” says, however, how many times commonly used. This factor allows for a will you jet to Europe and New York when much more accurate reproduction of you ‘tire” of the Chicago Symphony and sound. Howard Souther points out that the the Lyric Opera. Following pop artists and moving part of an electrostat (little more jazzmen around would be even more diffi DuE than a sheet of mylar plastic) weighs less cult. 123

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It all began at a recent Black and Rea meeting (the purpose of these assemblings of the greatest literary minds on campus is to improve the publication). Someone said they were in approval that C & C was n’t concentrated mainly on the activities of a narrower group of the student body, as has often happened in the past. This was countered by the opinion that it could be more subjective. Giving as little thought as possible to the diverging opinions and procrastinating in the B & R manner resulted in indecision to the last moment. But suddenly the dead line was imminent, and a course had to be chosen. Readers of the November (early De cember) issue will recall that there were a number of people brought to public atten tion. Repercussions from this act are still being suffered. Every name that was men tioned now holds the author (me) in con tempt. Bertram Oleander has more friends. Threats on my life will not, of course, be taken seriously. Throwing all caution to the wind this month of December, in the true spirit of commercialism, we will, at the expense of

the Black and Red, publish a Christmas present list. The ectomorphic character istics (0-0-7) of the C & C writer do not leave any room for a Santa Claus image, but the following list is intended as a guide for others who just can’t think of anything to get for these people. The list is purely arbitrary. If you aren’t mentioned in par ticular, feel privileged. To Deacon: a diploma. To Prof. Scharf: ever newer and more ill ustrative maps. To Hubert Humphrey: a job. To DuEditor: articles that meet the dead line. To Schmal Piege: a greater margin of profit. To Deans Spaude and Panning: a 32-hour day. To A1 Klessig: another drama club “final” to direct. To Friar Brandt: a bird of paradise to keep his parakeet company. To the Smothers Brothers: less smut. To Pas: a 60 gallon fish nk infested with piranhas. To Mort: 10 quarts of o get him safely home for vacation To Jer Hintz: 13 do/.< ch’s” to accom pany some of his “S s . To Mel: scholarly amL.' ion. To Joel Winter: authority legally to change his name to Ron. To Paul Hartwig: a car oi his own. To Paul Alliet: a course in positive think ing. To each and every one of you: A VERY M. H. MERRY CHRISTMAS.!

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Forum Last year’s Forum Society theme ran something like: "Make the students aware of the world around them.” While the pro ductions did contain a wealth of food for thought, many students became dis enchanted with Forum. Frankly, they did n’t care for all the food. Perhaps they were getting all the food they wanted in their classes and other extracurriculars. To woo back the indifferent, Forum now tends toward lighter and more traditional material. The play for the Forum final has not yet been decided upon, but at this time, Moliere’s comedy The Miser looms large on the horizon. The final is planned for sometime in late April or early May and A1 Klessig will be in charge.

Oedipus, complimented the actors when he compared them to past Forum actors and told them that for once they could be heard beyond the second row. Carl Schaumberg filled the role of the protagonist, Oedipus, Mister Kutil's co-directors were Steve Per sons and Jim Werner. “Forum’s on! Let’s go see it,” was the pervading mood that blessed Forum’s No vember production, Egad! What a Cad! directed by Alan Klessig. The sorrowful melodrama from the “Gay 90’s” era had most of the audience in stitches. It could have been that “Egad” cut into the viewing time of Laugh-In, priming many to be ready with a belly full of boos, cheers and

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of the Forum Society this is very hearten ing. This apparent interest in what Forum is doing is consequently having a marked effect upon those directors and producers of the scheduled monthlies to come. One noted factor in the now concluded success ful productions had been the emphasis on quality rather than quantity. What better example than Jeff Kutil’s October program, Oedipus Rex. Although time demanded that Oedipus the King be pared to the bare bones, yet the actors knew their script and carried themselves with certain authority. The clean staging and well-worked masks had marked appeal to the audience. Doc tor E. C. Kiessling, the faculty advisor for

hisses. Because of Forum’s desire to have a rotation of characters, A1 Klessig made sure that all of the faces on stage were fresh ones. Karl Butzky played Manly Rash, the good guy, while his antagonist, Mark Hannemann, played Bertram Olean der, the cad. Three co-eds from the Rostra Society graciously consented to help make the play a success. In December Forum presented two pro grams spaced a week apart. On December 12 the traditional “Stille Nacht” story, . . . And a Song Was Bom, was presented. Directors A1 Beyersdorf and his assistant, Ron Hanson, labored under adverse condi tions, vying with Rostra and basketball to whip the production into shape. Once again new faces appeared on stage. Dan Jensen portrayed twenty-two year old Franz Grueber, the composer of the well known Christmas carols. Rostra December 8 there were two presenta tions of Frank Gilbreth’s heart-warming play, Cheaper by the Dozen. Alan Klessig 125

directed the stage adaptation of the book written by two of the twelve children. The Rostra Society successfully portrayed the “problems” and especially the good times of a large family. The quality of acting was quite satisfactory. Even the big white dog did a good job. Christmas Concert We were again treated to a fine Christ mas Concert on December 15. The brass ensemble under the direction of James Pasbrig played pre-concert music. The con cert opened with an assembly carol accom panied by the Brass Quartet. After the Prep Chorus sang an Advent hymn and

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To all my readers I extend my wishes for a most blessed holiday season, and I hope that you will find this article a welcome change from all the Christmas cards you’ve undoubtedly received. For in a way, this is my greeting to you. CALLS Schwark, Pastor Melvin (’57), has been given a leave of absence by his congregations in Brigh ton and Courtland, Minn., to serve as civilian chaplain for our servicemen in Vietnam. Albrecht, Pastor Paul G. (’58), formerly of Good Hope, Ellensburg, Wash., is now at Divine Peace, Renton, Wash. Pautz, Pastor Larry (’61), formerly of Morenci, Mich., has accepted the call to St. John’s, Whitewater. Lauersdorf, Pastor Richard (’56), of Ontario, Wis., will now serve St. John’s, Jefferson, Wis. Krueger, Pastor Wilbert (’51), has moved from Big Bend, Wis., to be pastor of St. John’s, Lannon, Wis. Frey, Pastor Raymond (’38), formerly of St. John’s, Ann Arbor, Mich., is now serving Mt. Calvary, Kimberly, Wis. Gieschen, Pastor Edgar (’55), recently of Arling ton Ave. Lutheran, Toledo, Ohio, serves now at St. Paul’s, Mayville, Mich. Spiegelberg, Pastor Thomas (’62), of Zion, Mer cer, Wis., has accepted a call to the new mis sion in Indianapolis, Ind. Knickelbein, Pastor Paul (’42), has moved from St. Peter’s, Cleveland, Wis., to serve the new mission in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ANNIVERSARIES St. Matthew’s, Benton Harbor Mich., celebrated its 70th anniversary on Oct. 27. Prof. Delmar Brick (’40), of Martin Luther Acad emy, New Ulm, Minn., celebrated his 25th anniversary in Christ’s ministry on Nov. 10. Prof. Paul Kuehl of NWC delivered the sermon.

two Christmas carols, the Mixed Chorus sang a Christmas carol of French origin and the first chorus from the fourth part of J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Alan Ballenberger was the piano accompanist. The Male Chorus then sang more Advent hymns and Christmas carols. Finally the band played the Overture to Handel’s Mes siah, a selection of Christmas carols and Liturgical Music for Band by Martin Mail man. Liturgical Music for Band is a con temporary composition, using contempor ary harmonies and melodies. It was a very stirring number, and its “Alleluia” was a fitting close to the concert. E. R.

DEDICATIONS St. Thomas Ev. Luth. Church, a mission begun in 1935 in Phoenix, Ariz., dedicated its first wor ship unit, two mobile home units set side by side, on Nov. 10. St. Mark’s Ev Luth. Church, of Duncanville, Tex as, dedicated its first chapel building on Dec, 15. Petra, the Lutheran mission in .St. Cloud, Minn., served by Vicar John Ibi i. dedicated a worship center, church home on Nov. 17 vicar’s residence, and campus assembly for Lutheran Collegians. The new church of Our Sav io) Luth. at South Shore, S. Dak. was dedicated on Oct. 27. A new school addition was dec. seated at St. Mat thew’s, Benton Harbor, Mich on Nov. 10. St. Paul’s of Sodus, Mich., dedicated their new school on July 16. . Martin Luther Congregation, Neenah, Wis., dedi cated an addition to its school building on Nov. 3.

BIRTH Kathleen Marie was born Oct. 28 to Pastor John Brandt (’53) and his wife, Barbara. OF GENERAL INTEREST Gareth Schmeling (’63) received his Ph.D. de gree from the University of Wisconsin on June 10. Schmeling began his graduate studies m the summer of 1933, received his M.A. in 1934, and studied at Rome and Athens on a Knapp Fellowship in 1935-66. He received his doctor ate degree under Paul MacKendrick, and is at present an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. PROPHETIC PROFILE Glenn Moldenhauer is the subject of our attention this month. Since Glenn has been spending most of his time in the TV room at the Sem, trying to catch reruns of the programs he miss ed because of studying for the last eight years, he has aptly gained the nom de plume, “Cap tain Video.” Glenn is a real believer in visual aid for education. G. L. 126

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Intra-Murals The Junior intra-mural team breezed through another football season as they clinched the championship for the second year in a row. They encountered very little trouble throughout the season, with the exception of the last game against the Sen iors. The Juniors pulled it out 34-27 after a hard-fought battle. The team went on to play a game against Maranatha College. The Juniors easily rolled over them 20-6. This meeting with Maranatha might be the start of another tradition here at NWC.

Basketball No sooner had the dust blown off the football field when basketball fever hit and Coach Pieper quickly narrowed his team down to fourteen players. This year’s team, the majority being Freshmen have reason enough to get “keyed” over basketball. Out standing Frosh, such as Hartwig, Thomp son and Schultz have shown real promise although it’s still early in the season. Re turning lettermen from last year include Zimmerman, Castillo, Winter, D. Lemke, Naumann and L. Lemke. The team has had three weeks of prac tice and two scrimmages (WLC and Maranatha College), which they easily won, to get them primed for their first game. Coach Pieper has optimistically summed up his season’s hopes by stating, “These boys are going to win some games for us this year.” Tutor Gronholz, who starred at DMLC in basketball, is serving as assis tant coach. With all the fire and enthusiasm that the team has shown so far this season, let’s give them our support, so that they can bear out Coach Pieper’s summation. Roster NAME

Wrestling What! College wrestling? That’s right! Finally a group of students stirred up a successful, concerted drive to get a wrestl ing team started. In former years, these students looked at the winter season with gloom, because there was no sport for them to participate in. All the hard work they had put into wrestling in high school went to waste. Now they have a chance to shine. This year’s team is being coached by Tutor Zahn, who wrestled during his high school years here at Northwestern. Twentyfive candidiates showed up; Sophomores and Freshmen, with the exception of one Junior. Matches have been scheduled with the UW extensions at West Bend, Kenosha, and Waukesha. Also with Lakeland, MIT and Whitewater’s B-team. Looking into the distant future of four or five years, NWC might be able to build up a very suc cessful team. Northwestern Prep, Mich. Luth. Seminary and Wis. Luth. all have

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floor with some outstanding playing. St. Procopius ended up with a fantastic 53% from the floor, while NWC put the ball through 47% of the time. The opponent’s offense was the key to their success. At times the Trojan defense lagged a little, but they never gave up. Thompson’s shoot ing (41 points) and alert defensive play ing kept the team in the running through out most of the game. Hartwig’s total of 18 points and Winter’s 12 points also add j. s. ed to NWC’s score.

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CHRISTMAS 1968 bits of sky float gently down to clothe in white =irkened world, as men in slumber dream. m silent purity spreads its cloak upon the shame naked earth, and innocence is bom anew. fctened grows the fall of snow, and still more slight, until _ast the air is clear, and silent whiteness covers all. ntle breezes ease among the clouds, and soon 2 moon shines full upon a sparkling scene of peace. wing, dancing bands of light play tag across 3 Northern sky, and race among the tiny stars. . is silent night preludes the day men speak of, :W birth, and sing refrains of “Peace on Earth.” •i

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6 — Classes resume Epiphany 10 — Prep Basketball vs Fox Valley 11 — Prep Basketball vs Manitowoc Varsity Basketball vs Mt. St. Paul Prep Wrestling (Invit.) at Wis. Lui Varsity Wrestling vs Lakeland 14 — Varsity Basketball vs Rockfor Prep Wrestling vs Mil. Luth. 16 — Varsity Wrestling vs Milton 17 — Prep Basketball vs Wis. Luth. Varsity Basketball vs Trinity Prep Wrestling vs Wis. Luth. 18 — Prep Basketball vs Wayland Varsity Basketball vs Eureka 20 — 24 Semester Exams 25 — End of First Semester 28 — Classes resume 29 — Prep Wrestling vs USM 31 — Prep Basketball vs De Sales Varsity Basketball vs Geo. Will. THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH

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Their attitude is one of arrogance and su periority. It is unchristian. This is not only unchristian, but it is also immature, self-destructive and inhib iting. A mature young man does not shut off some people because of what others T have noticed for the last several years may think. It is immature to be willing A the growth of an attitude on the part of to have your conscience dictated to by some of the students on this campus which others, to be told what to do and what not nobody likes at all. Even those who unwit to do. If you are mature, you know your tingly have this attitude, if shown how own mind and you do what it tells you. It wrong they are, would surely renounce it is self-destructive because you become a as unchristian, immature, self-destructive slave of the group. You are not able to and inhibiting. I am talking about the for grow and meet people and do whatever mation of rather exclusive cliques which you want to do. Your horizons don’t widen, seek the approval of only the individual they diminish. It limits your circle of members of their clique and phase out friends, your opinions; everything. It is everybody else. inhibiting because you are not free. You The principle of a Christian is all for can not do or say whatever you want. After one and one for all; like Camelot. Nobody you are a member of such a group for a is better than anybody else, nobody is time, you don’t even want to do some worse than anybody else, and everybody things, things which could benefit you if should act as if he feels that way. Every you did them. You can become an auto body should be responsible to others and mation. be cooperative as much r-s lies in him. If There is nothing wrong with groups or somebody talks to you, ' should listen. circles of friends. It is natural. It is when If somebody calls you. e should come. they become exclusive and excluding that If somebody wants sorru you should they are wrong. I am not talking about a give it to him, if you can ; .'s very humble group, but rather about individuals. I and it’s not cool, but it - he way Christ think that there needs to be more Chris wants it. Anything less than this is un tian tolerance and acceptance of everybody christian. We can have ill the doctrinal and more humility here. Let’s eliminate purity in the world, but if we are froward such open conceit and foolish prejudice to our neighbor or treat him as if he doesn’t from Northwestern. exist, we don’t mean it. An Angry Young Man, David Prust The stumbling-block is group approval of the desire to be cool. Anything that builds you up in the eyes of your group you "^T ow that the semester test clamor has do, and anything that detracts from your ■L * departed and left us to wallow in rest standing in the group you avoid. This ful solicitude for another four months, temptation exists for everybody who has many a dormitory bull session is tabulat friends. All of us are guilty of it sometimes. ing, comparing, degrading and approving I am talking about those of us who are of the scholarly events, experiences and re guilty of it methodically and continually. sults of that trying week. In the course of This takes up some of the things that were these scaled-down intellectual discussions, mentioned in a Black and Red editorial especially those in Senior circles, one un last year which discussed the student’s pleasant topic of conversation is bound to idolatry to whatever is cool. But the worst surface more than once, namely, that the thing about these bad attitudes is the way Juniors outdid the Seniors grade-wise in they treat others. If someone is a little odd the exams for the elective courses. This reflects the old, traditional, soor different, or even if he is thought to be a little odd or different, they will have no_ called problem of the “Senior slide” at thing to do with him. They wouldn’t think Northwestern, the tendency for a Senior to of being associated in any way with him, slough off a bit book-wise as he goes slid for fear of being noticed by another mem ing down into the waiting arms of the Sem ber of the group. The consequences of inary. Perhaps many a different angle group disapproval would be too damaging. plays into the formation of this attitude,

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but one cause seems to be prominent. Northwestern is not the last step in our education, at least not for most of us. The Seminary stands waiting to take up the next four years of our life with more pre paration and study, the final step toward our goal. The Senior may therefore spend more time looking forward to next year and forget about what he should be doing for this year. This also being his last year at Northwestern, he “must” also take more time out to partake in the “joys of life.” Grades suffer, needless to say. Such an attitude is not commendable, yet many a Senior will have to admit be coming a victim of the “slide.” We ought to be making the best use of our talents every minute of our lives, especially when preparing for the ministry . The basic idea of taking one last wild fling at the joys of life has no sound basis either. God never intended that man should be a wallflower. There are plenty of joys to be had in life without sacrificing effort. Ought not the last year at NWC be an uphill struggle for a maximum of preparation, rather than a downhill crash? j. z. Oometimes student life might appear to *^be a carefree existence of parties and bull sessions. While students tend to en joy themselves as much as possible, they also find time to gripe about one thing or another. Some of these problems are justi fied, others are not. In either case rumor poses a real danger. When the facts be hind the situation are not known, many different versions of the same incident ap pear. Finally all that remains is confusion and disgust. The basic solution is to go to the source and get the facts — both sides — before making hasty conclusions. This often seems easier said than done when student — faculty problems arise. The professor cannot always detect the particular prob lems of the students and sometimes comes to wrong conclusions. It is a student’s duty to break through the barrier separating the student from the administration. The op posite is also the case. The faculty lacks any real form of intermediate or liaison body between itself and the student body. The deans at present serve the most active role, but they are limited in scope. The latter holds true for the president as well. Last week’s meeting of the Dorm Council

with the deans provided what could be a helpful suggestion, namely, more extensive availability of, and consultation with, fac ulty advisers. They offer a more varied and more personal link with the faculty. That’s their job. Intelligent understanding on both sides of the fence is an important and necessary step to improving communicaH. P. tions. T"1 here are a few things that one learns J- by working on the B & R staff. One of the first is that an honest effort in written communication is difficult. Getting an “A” from a prof is sometimes relatively easy. Expressing a concept logically and in a way that is easy as possible for a reader to understand demands more than “A” work. It would seem safe to assume that everyone could benefit from the discipline involved in writing material which one knows will be printed and made public. The B & R offers students this challenge. If many students were to take advantage of this opportunity, the B & R would be too small. (Presently that is the least of the B & R's problems. •;* don’t let that con sideration stop you. Please contribute; everyone will benefit i; our effort.) Although the B & R can help students develop their writing . kills, an elective course in composition could do the job better. The seasoned (to., more humbled) B 8c R writers know that they can use ad vice in writing. Doubless the rest of the student body could also benefit from the criticism and advice that a course would offer. Frosh English does not prepare one for a lifetime of communication. The com ments which are sometimes given on pa pers after Frosh don’t help much either. By the time a student is in line for elec tive courses, he is ready for and often needs more help in writing. If there is justification for a course in German com position, there should be the same for English. Our essays and term papers would probably improve. In the future, sermons could be better than they would otherwise be. Communication will be (is) an impor tant part of our lives. We need to be shown how poor we are and ways to im prove this situation. DuE 129

Goethe Haus T was walking in when the stony stare of a classic Goethe arrested my advance. But before I had time to return his stare, a friendly voice was inviting me in and generally making me comfortable. The man behind the voice, Mr. Fred Kluetmeier, was sitting at a corner desk that was generously flanked by rows of books, He asked if I read German. Along with my reply of “sort of”, I included a little on my German background and where I attend school. Inadvertently, two common bonds were established, for besides knowing the German language, he knew of Northwestern. We then talked about the failure of

most German Americans to pass on their heritage to their children; he attributed this to World War II. We did not discuss the inescapably congenital traits of Ger mans, but be that as it may, my introduc tion to the Goethe House was a good one. Politically and economically, for Amer ica and the continent, the Atlantic seems to be getting wider every year. But despite Europe s chafing under our NATO troops, the acute monetary crises and the fact that tew of our “allies” support us in Vietnam, the cultural relations between the U. S. and Europe, especially Germany, have grown closer in every way. There is an exehange of persons: students, educators, politicians, businessmen and tourists. Ger130

many has eight America houses and four German-American institutes whose pur pose it is to give Germans a rounded pic ture of the United States. The parallels in America are the Goethe Houses. Milwau kee’s is rather unique in that little else but the furniture is paid for by the German government. In addition to talking with echt deutsch people like Mr. Kluetmeier and Dr. Edlhauser, who is the head man, one can draw this rounded picture of Germany through the German library, the exhibit room, the classes and seminars, and the many special events included in Goethe House’s schedule. The library contains seven thousand books, fifty-five periodicals, and airmail editions of fifteen daily and weekly German and Austrian newspapers. You can read Germany’s Wednesday news on Friday, which is about as fast as you will get it anywhere. There are German lang uage, history and literature courses, with this year’s history being ‘The Ways to World Wars I and II.” In November the Bavarian Symphony of Munich performed at the behest of the Goethe House. Com ing events include plays by Lessing, Kafka and Kleist, and more musical presenta tions. Right now the exhibit room has a dis play of book bindings, 200 year-old vol umes of the Bible, Schiller, and Goethe, and Bavarian and Rosenthal glassware. Paintings by local Milwaukee artists Elke Nottlemann and Robert von Naumann dec orate the walls, and the oldest painting in Milwaukee hangs in the music room. This room doubles as a meeting room for local cultural groups. I hope that by now the reader’s inter est has been awakened, because even cur sory affiliation with the Goethe House would benefit anyone, especially a student in culturally arid Watertown. After I had walked along Wisconsin Avenue, where pornography stores lure young boys in with their window displays and then throw them out for being underage, it was like climbing out of a sewer and into a palace to enter the former museum that now houses the Milwaukee Public Library and Goethe House. My only regret is that to Mr. Kluetmeier’s question, “Are you going to write this article in German?”, I had to T. H. answer, “Probably not.”

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A ls Gott die Welt geschaffen hatte, und **im Begriffe war, die Dauer des Lebens eines jeden Geschoepfs zu bestimmen, kam der Esel und fragte: "Herr, wie lange werde ich leben?” “Dreissig Jahre,” antwortete Gott; “Bist du damit zufrieden?” “Ach, Herr,” antwortete der Esel, “das ist eine lange Zeit. Denke an mein schmerzvolles Daseinl Schwere Buerden von morgens bis abends zu tragen; Saecke Korn zur Muehle zu schleppen, damit andere Brot essen koennen; nur mit Schlaegen und Fusstritten aufgemuntert zu sein. Erleichtere mir eines Teiles dieser langen Zeit.” Dann hatte Gott Mitleid mit ihm und strich ihm achtzehn Jahre. Der Esel ging getroestet weg, und der Hund erschien. “Wie lange moechtest du leben?” fragte ihn Gott. “Dreissig Jahre sind zu viel fuer den Esel, aber du wirst damit zufrieden sein.” “Herr,” erwiderte der Hund, “ist das Dein Wille? Bedenke, wie ich werde laufen muessen. Meine Fuesse werden nie so lange aushalten, und wenn ich einmal meine Stimme zum Bellen verloren habe, und meine Zaehne zum Beissen, was wird mir uebrigbleiben als von einer Ecke zu einer anderen zu laufen, und zu knurren?” Gott wusste, dass er recht hatte, und strich ihm zwoelf Jahren des Lebens. Dann kam der Affe. “Du wirst sicher dreissig Jahre gem leben?” sagte der Herr zu ihm. Du hast keinen Grund zu arbeiten, wie der Esel und der Hund es muessen, und du wirst dich immer amuesieren” “Ach! Herr,” antwortete er,“Es mag scheinen, als ob das der Fall waere, aber es ist ganz anders. Wenn es Haferbrei regnet, habe ich keinen Loeffel. Ich soil immer lustige Streiche machen, und Gesichter schneiden, die die Leute zwingen zu lach-

en. Aber wenn sie mir einen Apfel geben, und ich in ihn beisse, ist er sauer. Wie oft verbirgt sich die Traurigkeit h in ter der Freude! Ich werde nie dreissig Jahre lang aushalten koennen.” Gott war barmherzig und schaffte zehn fort. Zuletzt erschien der Mensch, freudig, gesund und lebhaft; und ersuchte Gott, seine Zeit zu bestimmen. “Dreissig Jahre sollst du leben,” sagte der Herr, “Genuegt das dir?” “Was fuer eine kurze Zeit!” schrie der Mensch. “Wenn ich mein Haus gebaut habe und mein Feuer auf dem Herd brennt; wenn ich Baeume gepflanzt habe, die bluehen und Frucht tragen, und eben mein Leben geniessen will, soli ich sterben! o Herr, verlaengere meine Zeit.” “Ich werde die achtzehn Jahre des Esels hinzufuegen,” sagte Gott. “Das ist nicht genug,” erwiderte der Mann. “Du sollst auch die zwoelf Jahre des Hundes haben.” “Noch zu wenig!” “Nun gut denn,” sagte Gott, “ich werde dir die zehn Jahre des Affen auch noch geben, aber du sollst nichts mehr haben.” Der Mensch ging weg, aber war nicht zufrieden. So lebt der Mensch siebzig Jahre. Die ersten dreissig sind seine menschlichen Jahre, die bald vergangen sind; da ist er gesund, froehlich, arbeiici mit Vergnuegen, und freut sich ueber sein Leben. Dann folgen die achtzehn Jahre des Esels, wenn eine Buerde nach der anderen ihm auferlegt wird. Er muss das Korn tragen, das die anderen ernaehrt, und Schlaege und Fusstritte sind die Belohnung seiner treuen Dienste. Dann kommen die zwoelf Jahre des Hundes, wenn er in der Ecke liegt, und knurrt, und keine Zaehne hat, womit zu beissen. Und wenn diese Zeit aus ist, machen die zehn Jahre des Affen den Schluss. Dann ist der Mensch schwachsinnig und naerrisch. Er tut alberne Dinge, und die Kinder scherzen ueber ihn. Autor, unbekannt Uebersetzt, Tom Ziebell

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oney, income, possessions and how to l**' attain them is something that has fascinated mankind almost from the beginning. Man has also become increasingly proficient along these lines and has honed his technique of greed to a fine degree,

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is generally near or at the bottom of the income table. Thus while there may be dignity in labor, that’s about all. An interesting question that often comes up is, “Who has more earning pow er, the woman around the house or the man at his job?” The economists of the Chase Manhattan Bank have tried to an swer this question through a comparison of twelve tasks, which the husband and the wife are expected to do daily. The number of hours spent on these tasks and the aver age going rates of these tasks were then tabulated to give the results. The wife’s jobs ranged from that of nursemaid (44.5 hrs./wk. at $1.25) to housekeeper (17.5 hrs./wk. at $1.50) to maintenance man (1.7 hrs./wk. at $2.25). Altogether she worked a total of 99.6 hours a week and “earned” $159.34 a week or $8,285.52 a year.

The husband, in addition to his aver age 39 hrs./wk. of “leisure”, worked an additional 24 hrs./wk. at such jobs as lawnmowing (3JA hrs./wk. at $1.55), gar bage man (% hr./wk. at $2.77) and bar tender (1 hr./wk. at $2.01 plus tips. For his additional efforts he nets $51.01 a week or $2,652.52 a year. The upshot of this little comparative study is that it proves virtually nothing and, if anything, will only help continue the battle of the sexes. It can only be hoped that the “fate” of the everyday house wife doesn’t become so bad that they or ganize into an international union. The whole matter of how much one does or doesn’t have is a very relative thing. What may be considered good for one person may be poor for the next. More over, this doesn’t just apply to money, but to all aspects of life, wherever there is something to gain. I think that this prac tical bit on human nature bears this out.

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The situation: Two students (Joe Pseudo and Tough Luck) are just leav ing the classroom after taking an especially rough examination. J.P. That sure was a rough test, wasn’t it? T.L. Yup. J.P. I don’t see how he can expect half the class to pass, do you? T.L. Nope. By this time J.P. has followed T.L. into his room. T.L. is put ting his books away while J.P. sits on his bed. J.P. I wonder if he’ll use a curve on that test? I don’t see how he can expect to get away without it — unless he wants to see half his class flunk. Don’t you think so? T.L. I suppose. J.P. What really bugs me is that I really studied for this one. What did you do? Did you really study or did you take it on instinct? T.L. I studied pretty hard for it. If I don’t pass this one. I’ll be taking the same test

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It was born in the mind of a man of astounding intellectual power and intense emotional sensitivity. The overflow of his mind and heart produced an immense body of literature, thirty-three volumes published in the space of twelve years. He wrote feverishly, inspired by his own selfappointed mission, that of “being a Chris tian. . .in Christendom.” The words above were written in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript. The author was Soren Aabye Kierkegaard. Des-

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pite the fact that he was acutely conscious of his intelligence and literary ability, if someone had told Kierkegaard that he had founded a philosophy which would become the dominating factor in philosophical thought, he would probably have felt in sulted. He was aware of his role in his tory, but he conceived it to be that of a modern, Christian Socrates; as such he would show people who had deluded them selves into thinking that they were Chris tians that they were really not Christians at all. He felt that at that point in the history of the Church, intelligence had to be opposed, and that the opposition had to come from a man of great intelligence — himself. A knowledge of the “moment in his tory,” both that of the world around him and his own, is an essential element in the understanding of Kierkegaard. The world had just gone through the Period of En lightenment and the Romantic Revolt. It was the beginning of the Modern Age, the age of specialization. ' eniences, and the organization man. T'v irst of the mass media, the press, had !•; me well-estab lished. These trends, as * erful an influ ence as they were on Kle: -aard, pale be side the then current ph: aphical and re ligious climate. The Ev. 1 . lical Lutheran Church of Denmark was (and still is) a state church. This is nevv a healthy state of affairs. Rationalism had replaced the traditional neo-Platonism as the dominat ing Weltanschauung in ecclesiastical cir cles, and the most recent proponent of that philosophy was Hegel. Hegel was a rationalist’s rationalist. Pie believed that he had fully explained life in his system. Some of the gems he pro duced were “The real is the Rational” and “Whatever can be thought can be; what ever cannot be thought cannot be.” The crowning touch was his famous “Thesis, synthesis, and antithesis,” the famous “Both. . .and” syndrome, which Kierke gaard called the “way to hell.” As far as Kierkegaard’s personal life is concerned, the first great event occurred many years before he was born. Some where on the coast of Jutland his father was supposed to have cursed God. He la ter came to peace with his Maker, and he even forced his son, who had been reading philosophy at the University of Copenha gen, to take a degree in theology. Many

Kierkegaard scholars felt that Kierkegaard took his father’s guilt upon himself, and that this was a major determinant in his thinking. Kierkegaard himself was not a very attractive man. He had a rather scrawny body and a humped back. His face was extremely homely, and his only redeem ing features were his eyes. He accepted his physical liabilities with a wry humor, which was a great help to him in latter battles with opponents. While he was a student, he lived like generations of stu dents the world over. Since he had no difficulty with his studies, he had plenty of time for a full, somewhat raucous so cial life. (One of the stag parties he gave was probably the basis for the famous banquet scene in Stages on Life’s Way.) Then came the events which were de cisive in his thinking. He experienced what he felt to be true conversion to Chris tianity. He came to the conclusion that the Church of his day was caught in a web of worldliness. At this time he also came to believe that the ecclesiastical leaders of the day had changed the essential relig ious nature of Christianity into a philos ophy. He felt that the pre-dominant phil osophy of Hegel, who considered himself to be a Christian, was an absolute perver sion. He also developed his theory of the three stages of a man’s life: aesthetic, eth ical and religious. The aesthetic stage is characterized by an immersion in the im mediacy of life. Kierkegaard often said that a child is the perfect aesthetic, de lighting in all the little things of its life. The second stage is the ethical, which is achieved when a man recognizes and tries to fulfill his moral responsibility. How ever, when a person reaches the ethical stage, he does not leave the aesthetic be hind, but takes it with him. The last stage, the religious, can only be reached by tak ing the “leap of faith.” Kierkegaard felt that the Church of his day had only reach ed the aesthetic stage, or at best the aes thetic-ethical. As Kierkegaard was going through these painful religious and philosophical struggles, he fell in love with a girl named Regina Olsen. Regina returned his love and the couple became engaged. Then he decided that marriage and a family, which he wanted so desperately, would be incom134

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ess, especially as an analyst of the religious experience, which he later so masterfully displayed in The Concept of Dread. It also gives an interesting view of the cultural life of the time. Fear and Trembling pre sents what might be considered the dawn of Christian existentialism. He uses the example of Abraham’s giving up Isaac, which sharply paralleled his own surren der of Regina, to demonstrate how univer sal order was set aside in the case of a par ticular individual. Philosophical Fragments poses the question to be answered in the Postscript, “How can an individual, who exists in time, attain Truth, which is eter nal?” Looking at it from a slightly differ ent manner, “How does a man become a Christian?” The Concluding Unscientific Postscript is probably the most important work which he wrote. Here he makes one of the great est attacks on rationalism ever written. He states that the greatest paradox in Chris tianity was that God, an eternal being, be came a man, with a finite existence in time. He also stated that Christianity was a totally subjective experience. “Subjecti vity is truth; subjectivity is reality,” he said, echoing the thought of Socrates. He emphasized the fact that his idea of sub jectivity was not the natural state of mind which comes to all men, but rather an in tense involvement in one’s own being which can only come through conscious effort. After Postscript Kierkegaard’s writing was primarily devotional. The two most famous of these are Works of Love and Training in Christianity The latter work contains two of the basic Kierkegaardian requirements for being a Christian; being a Christian is essentially becoming a Chris tian and that to be a Christian one must attain contemporaneousness with Christ. Works of Love generally brings Kierke gaard the charges of being a believer in work-righteousness and the harbinger of the social gospel. It is true that many Catholics believe that Kierkegaard was closer to the traditional Catholic dogma of justification than to Luther and that many proponents of the social gospel look to Kierkegaard as their spiritual father. Both show an ignorance of the total man. Kier kegaard’s emphasis is on the Christianity of the individual, and he believed in the distinction between individual and social 135

morality. The Present Age clearly shows the mind of an aristocrat, a privileged member of a capitalist society, mourning over the loss of individualism and the com ing of the Mass Man. Kierkegaard’s belief on the subject of Justification requires a bit of dialectics. Kierkegaard did not believe that a propo sition was valid per se, but rather that the strength of its validity depended on what the proposition was directed against. Kier kegaard believed in Justification by faith alone as opposed to the dogma that a man’s works justify him. But he felt that the Church of his day had completely neglect ed the practical, ethical side of Christian ity, and he devoted himself to it. At the beginning of this article I men tioned a number of names, some of the leading secular and ecclesiastical existen tialists. I did this because one of the great est stumbling blocks to studying Kierke gaard is that he is read i. uo light of these men rather than in his p v "moment in history” and in the tot. t context of his in common work. It is true that a bond unites them, but 1 : ve that Kier kegaard was occupied v■ ... hristian con cerns and that he did ncL : - ssess the wild heresies usually associate i with existen tialism. However, I am not saying that I agree with everything that Kierkegaard said. Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the subjective

TAXI - WHAT ? ? T remember that Thanksgiving very well. ^ It was almost midday before I reached Kuehn’s small secluded pond. The frost had made the shoreline firm, and under the overcast sky the weeds and twigs had not lost their icy coating. As I made my way through the cattails on the pond’s marshy north side, two deer flushed from their bed. Their upright tails marked their alarmed flight, and I watched until they disappeared into the hardwoods. A few minutes more and I came to the only closed trap of the three, perhaps four set here. The mink it held was a beauty, drowned and held by thin, crusty ice. This 136

nature of faith led him to a virtual denial of the necessity of an objective standard for that faith. It is true that Kierkegaard believed that only Christianity could be embraced with a passionate total involve ment of the self. But both Nietsche and Sartre have given atheism all the passion ate devotion that Kierkegaard thought could only be given to Christ. When sub jectivity is stripped of its strict Kierkegaardian sense, it also leaves room for whatever a particular individual’s concep tion of “truth” happens to be. Kierkegaard’s idea of the dynamic na ture of Christianity is also subject to pitfalls. It is excellent when he applies it to Christian life, for a Christian must con stantly strive for perfection. It is even rel evant to the study of Scripture, for a per son can never know too much of God’s Word. However, it can also be interpreted as the seeking of a “truth” beyond God’s revealed Truth. Kierkegaard wrote in his Journals that his entire life was lived as an epigram to make people aware. He was only success ful in the case of a relatively small num ber of individuals, but they were his con cern, anyway. As a philosopher, he stands with Parmenides and Plato as the founder of one of the three great branches of Westera thought. As far as the excesses of existentialism are concerned, although Kierkegaard opened the door, he did not go inside.

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cession. Tanning larger animal skins or head mount “scalps” requires a layover of several days to two weeks or more. The final step is mostly drying time and uses an additional one to three weeks. Preform ed plastic bodies and forms, especially for squirrels and deer heads, virtually elimin ate the third step, although sizes and atti tudes are limited. In taxidermy, as in most everything else, there are degrees of difficulty. Be cause feathers can cover bullet and knife holes or a bare spot, and there is a simple body form to work with, birds are easiest to mount. Scaled or bare-skinned animals (fish, frogs, snakes) require considerably more care. They need a smooth body and a paint job to restore the faded colors. Mammals fit somewhat in between the two. An action pose demands extra skill and size also makes a difference. A pheasant, large squirrel or that three-pound bass that didn’t get away are good examples of the happy medium that is neither too delicate nor too clumsy. Probably the biggest misconception which the person curious about taxidermy has is that it is an obscure art beyond his abilities. This just isn’t true. Tools and supplies — knife, pliers, saw, wire, excel sior (wood shavings), string, needle and thread, cotton, salt, clay, alum, even the borax preservative, are common items that are easily obtained. Only glass eyes need a special order. What the individual has to supply is patience, care, attention to detail and time. If he can assemble a plas-

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tic model, he can technically mount a bird, fish or animal correctly. Add a dash each of imagination and creativity, and what might have been just another “stuffed ani-

mal” will become a lifelike mount. The essential need is to reproduce proper pro portion and balance. A deer head, for ex ample, must have the eyes and ears coor dinated with the rest of the head, all focus ing on the same imaginary point. A little time spent studying pictures of animals or the living thing itself, along with some common sense, goes a long way. There are a lot of hunters and fisher men in this school and elsewhere, but taxi dermists seem to be more scarce than “Wallace for President” buttons. Often when I have mentioned taxidermy as a hobby of mine, I received in return a very polite, though very blank, quizzical look, sometimes followed by “Oh, yea”? or “taxiwhat”? I doubt that this hobby will ever crack the ratings of “What Americans do most for fun and profit.” Last year I stopped at a small shop off Center Street in Milwaukee to get a pair of glass eyes. The owner, I guessed in his upper fifties, came out of his back workshop and squint ed a little in the light filtering through the front windows. When he found out what I wanted, he readily began to “shoot the breeze.” I don’t th?Y-k he had just too many visitors in a day Years before he had worked in the ninsciim, he told me, but then he went into lid ness for himself. This, he conceded, was a mistake. Finicky customers and rising costs were turning him into another case history for Excedrin. He said he could not encourage anyone to go into the business. He stayed in it be cause it was the only trade he knew, and because he still received great pleasure

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"They have filled the silent pristine A woods with the sound of lawn mowers,” grumbled one New Hampshire skier. The sardonic remark was made with refer ence to a newcomer to the American amusement scene, the snowmobile, popu larly called the “ten-horse open sleigh.” It is true that most skiers regard the new fangled fun-machines with the same sort of disdain that sailing purists reserve for outboards, but in general the fad is catchlng on, and the sport of snowmobiling has 138

from the actual work. The problems plaguing the pros have not stood in the way of amateurs. A cor respondence school in Nebraska claims over 450,000 students in its taxidermy-by mail course. Of these sportsmen and na ture-lovers, some dabble in it for the same reason I mounted that mink — to preserve a remembrance or perhaps trophy of an especially enjoyable experience. Most want to save the money a licensed shop charges,

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Steering is accomplished by two skis in front, which are connected to a pair of motorcycle-like handlebars. The drive belt varies in width from 15 to over 20 inches, the wider belts providing greater stability. Speeds may vary from 25 to 40 mph for a family model, to 75 mph for the more powerful racing models.

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again caution must be exercised. The dri ver must know his machine, what it can do and how to handle it. He must also take precautions before traveling into some remote region. It’s always easier to drive into an area than to walk out in knee-deep drifts. The cost of a new snowmobile may vary from $500 to $1500, depending, of course, upon what you are looking for. There may also be a number of used mach ines available at some dealers. There are narrow-track and wide-track models, high and low powered models, lighter and heav ier vehicles. Such luxury items as electric starting, speedometers, reverse gears, auto matic transmissions and even wood-grain ed dashboards are available to more afflu ent buffs. It will pay to have a lighter machine when the snow is deep and fluffy and chances of getting bogged down are increased. The quality of the drive belt is also important, since it is exposed to much stress and wear. Snowmobiles may also be rented for certain periods of time. Some resorts, country clubs and ski lodges have stocked machines and offer their customers a pack-

AN ILL WIND THAT BLEW SOMEBODY GOOD \A7hen we list the factors which have * * contributed to the development of our modem wage-oriented society, we rarely list the Black Plague of 1348. The custom of regarding the Plague as an unmitigated curse and destroyer has become so strong that it is now flat heresy to assert that it might have had any beneficial effects whatsoever. Indeed, the obvious effects are all bad. The mere fact that one-fifth to one-third of the population was destroyed is enough to cause it to be regarded as a disaster of unprecedented proportions. This was aggravated by the fact that the great est number of deaths were in the cities, where learning and culture were most ad vanced. In the crowded cities the plague bearing rats had a ready food supply in the waste and garbage tossed into streets and courtyards. If an infected person en tered the city the disease would soon 140

age winter weekend complete with snowmobiling. Rental rates may vary from $4 to $8 an hour. Some rental firms may re quire that you use the machine on their property, while others permit their mach ines to be carted to different areas by trail er. Maps and lists of rental firms in Wis consin are available to the public at no cost. The greater number of snowmobiles has also raised legal problems. The State of Wisconsin has set up some general reg ulations governing the use of snowmobiles, principally on the highways. A snowmo bile may not be operated on any public highway, although a driver may cross af ter he has yielded to all traffic. Operation outside the ditchline is permitted also. Legislative gears are now turning to pro duce a law that will require a snowmobile owner to register his machine. More such legislation is imminent as the number of snow vehicles in the state increases. In conclusion I can only say, don’t miss an opportunity to take a spin on one of the “snow wonders” when offered. If condi tions are right, you may become addicted to these winter lawn mowers. j. z. spread throughout the entire populace in the congestion and crowding. Only the most primitive methods were available against the menace. Although in some areas, especially Italy, quarantines and other measures were put into effect, the conclusion of the University of Paris that the affliction was caused by the pernicious corruption of the air resulting from a con junction of three planets on March 20, 1385, along with other conjunctions and eclipses, was more typical. The disease actually occurred in three forms. The best known was the bubonic plague, named after the swellings (bu boes) caused by the disease in the armpits and groin. The second type, pneumonic, was characterized by sharp chest pains and spitting of blood. This type was par ticularly infectious. The third type, septicaemic, killed by blood poisoning within hours after infection and was so quickly fatal that it was not even recognized by contemporary physicians. All three types were transmitted by fleas on the numer ous rats of the period. It is believed to have originated in the Orient and to have been brought to Europe by traders.

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A country ravaged by the plague was left physically, morally and spiritually bankrupt. It was usual practice to bum the possessions of the dead in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease. In some cases even the corpses were burned. Trade was neglected and men of commerce and skilled artisans, hemmed into the cities, were often virtually wiped out as a class. Many, viewing the death about them, ei ther entered monasteries and lived as aes thetics or, adopting a position of “Eat, drink and be merry — tomorrow we shall probably die,” devoted themselves to the pursuit of pleasure. The great universities in the cities were greatly reduced in num bers and influence, and learning suffered a massive setback. The whole atmosphere became pessimistic, despairing and deathcentered. The one major positive result was, curi ously enough, a breakdown of the old man orial system of obligation and privilege with the beginning of emancipation and a wage economy. While many in the cities were dying, numerous more isolated coun try estates were almost unaffected. Wages

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A light breeze crept • rough the brok en pane of the only window in the lowceilinged inn and merrily tickled the flame of the solitary lantern, so that the flame twisted in contortions so lively that the characters under the tabic seemed to Cas tor to possess true life and bid him come down and join them. Indeed there was a short fat man danc ing about a map. It was not that you could distinguish the features of the map so as to say this was France or this was Norway; nevertheless it was vivid enough to see a river flowing to the sea and many arrows pointing the way to the four winds and their counterparts. To say this scene was impressive would be a falsehood, and yet the hideousness of the whole act was too much to be denied, for here and there the man would jab with a finger. Not any fin ger, the least of the phalanges, with a size so great and unbelieveable that even now I shudder to relate the horror with which he saw him maneuver. For the finger was perhaps two feet long, I dare not say more, and seemed to have the proportion of half his body. Once he even used it in pogo

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two labels. Eventually Castor grew weary and turned away, for there in the next ring of the circus was yet another man. It really wasn’t a man. Rather it was a head adorned with a thick-lensed pair of glasses. I say adorned, for the rest of the head seemed to be of such ugliness that anything on it or over it would be considered an adornment. This apparent ly lifeless head appeared to rest on a closedin French Colonial desk, stacked high with books and all about it, more books. Books of every shape and description, encrusted with dust and thick with dust rolls as great in size as those dust rolls on the floor itself. Surely these books were never used, and even as Castor watched the inactive face, he could sense death. Whether it was death in learning Castor could not tell, for the head never moved, nor was a book page ever turned. In the third ring stood a stick. Noth ing more, nothing less. It moved not, nei ther did it speak. I cannot say what kept Castor inter ested in this fantastic circus or whom the characters represented. Castor only sat there in the silence so necessary to let the world offer itself. Yes; he sat there red nosed and let the world “roll in ecstasy at his feet.” Castor retrieved the title page and sat upright on his stool and reflected. A three ring circus and only one clown. E. R.

EPIPHANY What master was so bold to make commands, But one, and him fold many hands. Ah! What can wyeth or ryder brush, When of primeval dust a world did rush From out the maker’s selfless desire and Raised an uncut jewel from languid mire?

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both player and spectator alike. High scores are run up by both teams, and op posing coaches are forced to earn their salaries. While this whole “school spirit” idea seems to be centered in the wrong place, considering we are a Christian school and overemphasizes sports, it is good to see a little excitment around here once in a while. There are a few Seniors who have a better reason than most for intensely dis liking this miserable winter season. The Three Bus-keteers (better known as Hintz, Klemp and Kirchner) may be seen these frigid mornings trudging into class at any time between 8:15 and 10:30 or so, a little worse for wear after shoveling their school buses out of too many snow drifts, and muttering incoherently about snow, wind, school boards and life in general. Bus driving being what it is, maybe there are some advantages to standing on a swaying scaffold forty feet from the floor with a sponge in one hand while the other one flails madly about in the air. seeking some semblance of balance. You’d have to ask Durfey about that. A sort of high-point of gloom in this night of winter (when even the sun finds it too unfavorable to venture out much) is Semi-annual Cram Week, as one profes sor psychologically views it. It must go down in the mind of anyone who has at tended Northwestern as the most detested week in the semester. No matter what your standing on the grading scale, the tests have to affect your marks, since most of them count a third of your grade.

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What’s this the radio announcer is say ing — it’s 35° above zero? Flinging open the curtains of my perpetually darkened chamber, what should to my wondering eyes appear, but eight goofy upperclassmen making one big snowman. Well, at least some snow sculpturing was done this year, but then maybe the usual mid-winter thaw won’t make mud out of this year’s Winter Carnival. 143

Most of the Seniors may faintly wince when they think back to their Junior re ligion course and recall the weekly voca ble test from the book compiled by that benevolent and learned Bruce Metzger. The Juniors, of course, have to endure the agony now, and the Frosh and Sophs may look forward to it. Not that it isn’t a use ful project, but its practicality does not make it any more pleasant. At any rate the following poem is typical of the atti tude most students have by the time they reach the “Words used 23 to 31 times in the New Testament” stage. We are indebt ed to its author, Dave Krueger, for allow "Sfew'<7r</ship” ing us to use it. JUNIOR’S LAMENT 3-0-2 and 3-0-3 are not Greek jokes, Mentioning Winter Carnival naturally But under the curse of Metzger vocs. brings to mind Karl D. B. B. Butzky (due, Eighteen long weeks we crammed and of course, to his former Ugly Man victory). greased, It is reported that he has thus far admir Rejoicing the day our trouble ceased. ably carried out his New Year’s resolution We thought that day the curse would to never walk in a thunder storm wearing stop; a metallic raincoat. Forget this place is a sweat shop. Also of moderate in'r.st is the news But the next week renewed our grief; that Brother Brandt has .. lined his title Instead of the long desired relief, as Birdman of Wartbu b now having Another curse of Greek purturbs, — not one, but two molting :/:< cn parakeets. We’re under the bane of Cheadle’s verbs! (Top that, Schwartz an i :>»• rbarth — no M. H. matter what you teach yoius to say.)

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stand for the Advent wreath. In this setting a Christmas Festival of Hymns took place on Dec. 19. Dave Haberkorn directed the program that included the NWC Prep Girl’s Glee Club, the Schola Cantorum, a soloist, organ music, a speak er and, above all, congregational singing. Something New All was quiet as a group of young men stood up to sing. A director started the beat and the singers began. When they finished there was a feeling that a posi tive addition to our chapel service had been made. The main reason the Schola Can torum has been revived after close to a decade layoff is to add meaning to the lit urgy with appropriate chants or songs. This often makes the service seem less mechan ical. The Schola Cantorum or School of Singers is directed by John Langston and is composed of about fifteen volunteer singers. So far the group has not sung often, but as things get moving they will make more appearances.

Tournaments While other students are out marching with Eldridge Cleaver, we have been play ing a lot of eucher and chess lately. Pretty decent of us, isn’t it? The winner in the eucher contest was the team of Paul Fetzer and Gene Jahnke. They beat disgruntled teams of Nast-Stellick and Huska-McWaters. Fast on the heels of the on-going chess tournament is a billiard match, so take a cue from Rick and Dick and help this tournament get out from behind the eight ball.

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Forum O, yeah! All you budding comedians, start exercising your voices and try out for a part in a play that should allow you to express your true selves, The Miser. Ang ular A1 has just announced to the world that this play will be presented twice in May by the NWC Forum Society. He also promises the appearance of three minor forum productions prior to the final. The Drums of Oude will be directed by James Rudolph. The second and third performan ces have yet to be determined. Some Real Music Put your finely tuned musical ears to the practical test! Hear Mr. Eugene Pridonoff play Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms March 10 in Northwestern’s own Carnegie Hall. Since age four Mr. Pridonoff has been practicing his art, study ing at Southern Cal, at the Curtis Institute of Music under Serkin, and at Temple University. He is presently Artist in Resi dence and Head of the piano department at Iowa State University. T. H.

Koch, Pastor Henry F. (’51) '■!' Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, is to be installed -*an. 19 at Sts. John and Peter, Cleveland, Wisconsin. DEDICATIONS The new church of St. John’s, Stanton, Nebraska, was dedicated on Oct. 20. Willow Lake Ev. Lutheran, Willow Lake, South Dakota, dedicated its new church on Dec. 15. ENGAGEMENT Wayne Mueller (’66) and Barbara Meier of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, are engaged. DEATHS Pastor Herman Pankow (ex-’12), who was serv ing the Woodville-Wilson, Wisconsin parish, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 77. Philip Mahnke, 2% year old son of Pastor and Mrs. Jon M. Mahnke (’61), Eugene, Oregon, died Dec. 1 of leukemia. PROPHETIC PROFILE James David Liggett, the former inspirational symbol of integrity, has fallen into the dubious honor of being selected for this portion of the article. At a recent wedding in Michigan (my informant was there), J. D., undoubtedly in a moment of weakness, was overheard “applepolishing” certain influential Michigan pastors. His only motive was to obtain inside help in his quest for assignment to Michigan upon graduation from Seminary. Shame, Dave! G. L. 145

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Our team almost pulled this one out and should have in lac The Trojans played well enough to ie .* : for the entire first half, but we let Geo Williams score 10 points in a row in th losing minutes of the half. The second df was almost a repeat of the first. Tb • .rojans kept up at the start, with only a . point deficit, and managed to keep the margin narrow. But again we let the Indians score 13 points just before the horn sounded and ended the game. Larry Lemke, who had his first crack at a starting position, and Schultz were the spark of the team. Schultz played an impressive game with 16 points, while Lemke bagged 11. NWC 94

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The traditional NWC-Sem game again turned out for the good as the team posted its first win of the season. The second team started and got to see most of the action. There must not have been too much of a challenge for the first team, as they did rather poorly when they did play. Nau mann led the scoring department with 22, and Winter dumped in 15. Griep came up with 12, Seeger with 11 and Castillo with 4. NWC 70

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downed by Lakeland. An abundance of talent helped the Muskies along toward victory, with their high school all-stars and their All-American. The team did the best job it could under the circumstances as Thompson came up with 29 points, and Hartwig with 22. NWC 94

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It was the Trojan’s game all the way as we outplayed, outshot, and outrebounded the Moors. From the start of the game things looked promising, as the team pull ed away with a nine-point lead. We fin ished the first half still holding on to our lead, 47-39. The Moor’s only threat came in the second half as they moved to within 3 points of the Trojans. With 9 minutes left to play, after the Moors’ top scorer fouled out, the Trojans began to pull away and racked up a lead as high as 17 points at one time. Thompson was again the top scorer with 33 points. Naumann ran a good second with 23 points and 15 re bounds. Both men shot an amazing 50% from the floor. Seeger took over for one of the starters and did a fine job, coming up with 11 points. The substitute playing of Larry Lemke and Schultz shouldn’t be overlooked as they contributed with their timely buckets and rebounds. The victory brought the Trojans’ record to 2 wins and 5 losses. ROCKFORD 125 NWC 97 The Trojans were overwhelmed by the Rockford Regents in a purely offensive bat tle. During the first half, things weren’t as bad as the score might indicate. The Trojans crept up from behind and ended the period only six points down. An unaggressive defense hurt the Trojans and gave Rockford’s offense time to really ex plode in the second half. Six players for the Regents ended up in double figures. The Regents controlled the boards almost exclusively, often getting 3 or 4 shots. Jim Naumann provided what thrust the offense had with 25 points. TRINITY 96 NWC 84 The Trojans settled down a little more and played a good, serious game. The team was aggressive and alert except for the last six minutes of the game. A cold wave

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pEW students would argue that there isn’t * something lacking in Northwestern’s extracurricular program. This lack is more a symptom, however, than the basic prob lem. There are guys at NWC who are up to their ears in extracurriculars, sports, jobs or responsibilities. It is possible to play a big part in Forum’s activities, hold down a spot on an athletic team, do some pecun iary work and go to a few classes — all in one week. This is not a good situation. It just is n’t possible for one person to do justice to so many activities. Without some rest and relaxation, a person can’t do his best for any activity. As things are, this excessive indulgence is not at all discouraged. Because few peo ple participate in extra< u Titulars, there is not enough competition m prevent spread ing oneself too thin. ) jus it is possible for one person to do a : of second-rate work while others sit around and contri bute little or nothing. There is no denying (hat we have tal ented people doing the work. But are these few the only people on our campus who have potential? Those who don’t contri bute would be insulted if told that they could not do just as good a job. “I could have done it, if I’d have wanted to.” Talk is cheap. Whether it is because of shyness, laziness, disinterest or lack of motivation, many of us are little better than social parasites. What happens when people act that way “out in the world”? No one is thanked or paid for saying, “I could have.” If you play the sheep, how do you expect to be come a shepherd? If more people made contributions to campus life, all of us would benefit. Extracurricuilars would have higher stand ards and would increase in number. In stead of a pain, they would be a privilege. DuE Phe third quarter has moved onto campus in full force and spread a liberal share of “blahs” among the students in the process. All the student “hang-ups” and problems of school life move just that

much farther into the limelight. It would be good for us at a time like this to take a cue from the state motto, “Forward.” Our gaze in life often is turned in every direction but forward. If the ministry is really our prime intention in life, it might be good to step back and evaluate our perspective, to realign and refocus our thoughts. Because “Feeder School No. 6” is exactly that; it is not an end in itself. NWC in its present status will always re main basically a means to an end. We often find this rule or that regulation to be a roadblock in our progress. It is im portant, when we meet these obstacles, to look forward and beyond them. A track man running the hurdles cannot afford to look for long at each barrier as he encoun ters it, or he may well stumble. The com parison of student life to a race might be both familiar and somewhat corny, but it is also very true. The public ministry is the goal of many of us. A steady gaze forward should help prevent us from being tripped H. P. up by hurdles along the way. 7\ merican universities and colleges seem to have found a new interscho lastic sport: that of competing to see who can organize and produce the best student protest and win the greatest number of “just” demands. The rules of the game are gradually being tabulated, as was evi dent in the latest UW disturbance in Madi son, where the protest leaders took special efforts to caution their followers against straying out of the bounds of the law. The result is supposed to have been that a greater number of the students’ demands were met than if pure pandemonium had occurred. Northwestern has not yet partaken in this new sport, although we seem to have the potential for a good team, and equip ment costs would almost be nil. What I am trying to say is that it would be a great deal more difficult to find an NWC student who would say something good about his school, rather than say something derog atory or unfavorable. Judging from re marks heard (in the dormitories, dining hall and classrooms, this school must pos sess the poorest set of academic standards and principles in the nation. So why are n’t we rioting and staging boycotts like others who have gripes? Breathe a sigh of relief that Northwestern’s student body still grasps the cen-

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tral purpose for which the school exists. May a student who claims to be Christian never displays the open lack of respect for the Fourth Commandment which has been so obvious in these demonstrations on other campuses. We gripe about defi ciencies in the faculty, class schedules, gymnasium facilities, meals, etc., etc., etc. As former Dean Leyrer told the Senior class earlier this year; we are small, and such criticism is hard to avoid. We are in a sense a close-knit family with Christ as our Head. There are bound to be cases of discontent within the family, and as long as the discontented don’t dis rupt the family bonds, or worse yet, try to remove the Head himself, they have a

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Oummer is a time to leave behind the ^ books and the institution and just get away from it all. You’ll be better for it when the summer is over. And what bet ter experience is there than to head over seas somewhere for a few months. There is a great big world out there. Each place is as different as its inhabitants; each place offers an education for the young person willing to seek it. Thousands of American students are discovering for eign lands every summer, and thousands more wish they could but shy away be cause of the cost or the complications. Admittedly, there is more involved than just grabbing a toothbrush and exiting, but a trip overseas is actually feasible for anyone with determination. Consider it. The first decision to make is where to go. Only Communist countries and war zones are off limits, but even some of these can be visited with special arrangements. The traveler should be guided by what in terests him, what he would like to see and do, what he would like to learn more about, and how far his finances will take him. Europe is usually the first consideration outside of the North American continent. There are many definite advantages for the foreign student in Europe, but there are also other more exotic areas which are

right to voice their complaints. This is not done effectively over the dinner table, however. The only way to make a com plaint effective is to take it to those on top. Hopefully, faculty-student relations will continue to improve. Faculty advisors do make themselves readily available for dis cussion, despite the claims of the cynics. The student can do his part by carrying his discussion to the conference table, so to speak. Before you gripe about NWC’s standards, remember that although we wear no halos here, you are still dealing with the wisdom of God as compared to the wisdom of men, a fact made so clear in a recent chapel sermonette. J. Z.

worthy of investigation. The Far East is easily accessible, welcomes Americans, and offers a unique experience to the Wester ner. The continent of Africa is not all jun gle, but includes practically every type of geography and climate, ; id opportunities to see almost anythin" rom gazelles to gold mines to go-go girls. Likewise, South America, Australia and : tlier places can be very intriguing vacation spots. A full-fledged tourist who wants only to travel and “see the sights,” can visit any of these places. He will only be restricted by his pocketbook, the time available, and his own stamina. Bui if a young person wants to study, he must of course restrict himself to the country or countries where he can attend classes. Or if he would like to earn money he would be limited to his place of employment. Combinations of tra veling, studying, and working could also be arranged. In view of the pecuniary position of most college students, a summer of em ployment in a foreign land would probably be the most appealing. This also offers a better opportunity to learn the local lang uage and really get to know the natives. There are more opportunites for working abroad than most people realize. But the applicant should not plan on a plush job with high wages and lots of free time. For example, a student in Germany can expect to work in a restaurant or hotel 50 hours a week and earn $250 a month. Only in a few cases will the employer or govern ment help pay traveling costs from the 149

States. And don’t expect a job in a coun try that has its own employment problems, e. g., Japan, India, or the Bahamas. More complete information and help can be ob tained by writing to the United States Na tional Student Travel Association, Inc. (NSTA), 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10011; or to the Commission on Youth Ser vice Projects, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 832, New York, N.Y. 10027; or to the Council on International Education Ex change, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017. In addition, the U.S. government offers overseas employment to American youths. Social work is a won derful experience but offers little or no in come. An alternative might be physical labor on some significant project, or teach ing the underpriviledged. Service Civil In ternational, International Voluntary Ser vice — USA, P.O. Box 9036, Chicago, 111. 60690, offers more details. It is advantageous to begin preparing for the trip several months in advance and to work through an organization such as the NSTA or at least thro; : • a travel agen cy. They know which documents will be necessary and can obtain them with the minimum of red tape am' day. The first consideration is a passport. This costs $10 to $12 initially and is good for three years, renewable for another two. Secondly, many countries, especially outside of Europe, re quire American citizens ic have a valid visa, or permit, to enter the country. Some of these are more difficult to obtain than others. For example, Japan will freely issue a 48-month visa good for multiple en tries, while Tanzania will limit the dura tion to 48 hours if possible and cancel it as soon as the bearer leaves. In addition, on arrival, almost every country will de mand the presentation of a ticket to leave that country before the traveler is even al lowed to step out of the airport or harbor premises. If a student is intending to work, he will probably also need to show proof of a job or sponsor awaiting him or show that he has $100 or more to live on until he finds employment. A few additional forms for students are not mandatory, but very helpful. Member ship in a youth group will entitle one to stay at youth hostels for less than a dollar, including meals. An International Student Identity Card insures numerous discounts on accommodations and travel tickets. For

the person who plans to do much moving around in Europe or Britain, a Eurail Pass or Britrail Pass is worth the investment. There are many financial short cuts for students. Vaccinations should not be too much of a worry. Smallpox shots are necessary. Some countries also require immunization against yellow fever and other diseases. The nearest representative of the U.S. Pub lic Health Service will give more details. The ticket itself can be purchased through a travel agency. There is no direct charge for the service because the agen cies are usually subsidized by airline cor porations. The traveler can choose between sea or air transportation. The cost is rough ly the same when one considers the meals, lodging, and recreation offered on board ship. After one acquires his sea legs, the ocean trip can be very enjoyable and relax-

ing with many chances to make friends, but the disadvantage is the time lost in transit. Airline tickets are generally based upon a simple destination to termination basis. This means that the passenger can arrange as many stops as he wants along the way as long as he does not deviate for more than 25% of the total mileage. Thus it costs as much to fly Chicago-Rome as it does to fly, for example, Chicago-New York -London-Paris-Rome. If there is no alter native but to lay over in a city because of poor connections, the airline will pay for the room and board. This seldom happens in the busy centers of Europe, but can be astutely taken advantage of along less fre quented routes. The itinerant can plan his stops after checking books, travel broch ures, and people who have been there to see which places would interest him most. The cost of a ticket may vary between the on and off season, but as a guideline, a round-the-world ticket comes to $1255. A round trip to London from Chicago is

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A person flying tourist (second) class is allowed 44 pounds of luggage plus read ing material, a coat, camera, umbrella, etc. Sometimes hand luggage is weighed, some times not. Extra poundage can be paid for or sent by mail. One of the best pieces of advice a novice can take is to travel light. This will allow him room to bring home souvenirs and make him about 75% more mobile. The experience of jostling down an airport corridor or across a busy street burdened with two suitcases, a flight bag, a briefcase, an overcoat, and a camera can only be compared to swimming the Eng lish Channel with ski boots on. A good rule of thumb is to lay out what will be needed and then take half of it and twice as much money. A well-planned trip overseas can be rea sonably inexpensive, but one should never cut himself short. It is possible to live in Euiope on $5 a day or less, but it may prove very grueling. Always plan for the unexpected. In an emergency, money may be the only friend available. It is danger ous to carry cash under any circumstances,

and this is particularly true when travel ing. Travelers checks are by far the best arrangement. They can only be cashed by the purchaser, are replaceable if lost, and can be converted into the currency of the country being visited. American dollars are acceptable anywhere and, in fact, are preferred in many nations. For example, some eastern peddlers will offer many times more local money for American cash than the legal currency exchange allows. It pays to scrupulously avoid black market deals such as this. To anyone who has never left home, traveling may seem like a frighteningly complicated process. There are details to take care of, but it doesn’t have to be com plicated. For a successful summer vaca tion overseas try following these guides. Plan early. Last-minute rushing can result in disappointments. Work through a tra vel agent or student organization. These people know the ropes and will offer con crete advice and help. Unless you are the adventurous type and have been saving up cuts for the last four semesters, don’t leave without more than enough cash. Finally, and most important, approach your neigh bors overseas with a good attitude. We Americans have something of a reputation for being brash and uncouth. Students in contact with the people of other countries are ministers for their own nation and leave lasting impressions. Travel with an open mind, and you will return with an ex panded mind. Paul sciiweppe, ’70

traffic between cities — of creating an “interurban.” When the electric railway craze spread to Milwaukee, the local horsecar lines were Tn the present time, when the prestige converted to electric operation. At first the ^■symbol of any city’s transportation sys Milwaukee system used the boxy fourtem is a massive traffic jam, we feel that wheeled cars, often former horsecars re a town is truly progressive only when it equipped for electric operation that were is impossible to move within its borders common throughout the country. Initially during rush hours. But in the latter years the cars served only the city of Milwaukee, of the 1890’s and the first years of this but the southeastern area of Wisconsin century the sign of the big-league town with its numerous cities of moderate size was the electric railway. After the first was a natural area for the development of truly practical system opened in Rich the interurban, and soon the burgeoning mond, Virginia, in 1888, the cities of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light nation rapidly acquired a web of rails and Company planned to blanket the area with wires. As the lines grew, it was only a lines to Chicago, Green Bay, the Fox Ri matter of time before some enterprising ver valley and Madison. This last line was individual thought of applying the idea to to run west from Milwaukee to Waukesha,

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the north through the lake region around to a point between 5th and 6th Streets, Delafield, the west through Oconomowoc, where they rejoined. Then at 5th St. one Watertown and Sun Prairie to its capital line turned north on 5th St., to Main St., terminus. At first the work progressed and then west on Main, while the other well, reaching Oconomowoc in 1903 and line continued down Western Ave. to 2nd Watertown in 1905. The line was half way St. Here there was a wye — that is, the to Madison, and the majestic green and tracks split, forming a letter “Y”, but with yellow cars were rumbling impressively a third track running across the top of the through the countryside. But then misfor “Y’\ closing it. One track went north on tune struck. The Panic of 1907 caught the 2nd St. to Main St., and, turning west on line short of both capital and Capitol. Main, joined the track which had come Strapped for cash, the company was up 5th St. and continued out on Main to forced to halt its work at Watertown until the Chicago and Northwestern Railway funds could be raised for completion of tracks. (This was the abortive line to Madi the work . But this was never to happen. son.) The passenger depot was on this line, The causes are not hard to find. After the at 2nd and Market Sts., one block south of Panic, capital was scarce, and interurbans, Main. Here the cars turned off the street many of which had been ill-conceived and and entered the building to pick up and managed, had fallen into a bad odor. Then, discharge passengers and baggage. The too, the company had attempted to build track that went south on 2nd St. from all its lines at once, and having completed Western Ave. ran to the car barn and none of them to the intended terminal, freight depot just south of the Milwaukee found it impossible to complete any of Road tracks. In the early years, this line them. Finally, materials • scarce dur continued south of town dong the river ing World War I, and following the war to the fairgrounds, near the present air inflation and growing am mobile usage port. made further constructor ippear unwise. For many years the cars rolled through Though completion v. s not economi Watertown. Their dark green colors and cally advisable, they decided io keep exist large size gave them an air of irreproach ing lines without expansion and to im able dignity as they glided down the streets, prove them. The Watertown line, for ex warning impertinent pedestrians from ample, was given a new high-speed en their path with insistent tones from* the trance into Milwaukee. It had formerly en gong. They were a special blend of a city tered the downtown on the city streets. streetcar and a railroad coach. Possessing The new route, known as the Rapid Tran the ability to whip around a curve of short sit, followed much the same route as the er radius than their 45 foot length, and present freeway 1-94 to Waukesha. In fact, able to snake through city streets, they, in many places the freeway is on the old nevertheless, looked like a railroad coach, interurban roadbed. In other places the with spacious windows and an air of im peculiar high-tension towers visible along portance. They had interiors like a rail the freeway show the route — the cars ran road coach, too: deep plush and leather between the legs of the towers. seats, stained and carved woodwork, some In Watertown, meanwhile, the towns times of mahogany, teak, holly and other people, including not a few Northwestern rare woods. But most wonderfully of all, students, enjoyed taking the cars into Mil they could move. Leaving behind city waukee. They were fast, clean, cheap and streets and traffic and entering their own convenient. As the tracts entered Water- private right of way, they could, and did, town from the southeast, they ran up Rich lay back their ears and run, demanding ards Avenue from a point near the present the right of way at country road crossings public athletic field to Western Avenue. as they hurtled past at high speed. They Here, they divided into two tracks and then could fly hollowly over bridges on snowy made the sharp curve into Western Ave. nights as the headlights lit up a tunnel (For anyone inclined to look, the tracks through the night, its beam reflecting off are still buried in the street behind the a million snowflakes as the wet wire above Chapel-Classroom building, and may be gave off flashes when dampness created traced as cracks in the pavement.) The arcs between the wire and the trolley pole. two tracks continued on Western Ave. up There was never before anything of their 152

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As time passed, the decline in traffic occasioned by increased use of the private automobile cut into the line’s business. It was further reduced during the years of the Depression, and various changes were effected. Service with fewer rides became more frequent. As an experiment to en courage riding, a small car was brought here and used for local service within Watertown, running between Richards Ave. and the Northwestern Depot. None

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WHEEL and DEAL TAT hich industry in the United States ” draws one of the largest chunks of the average man’s income? Whether it comes to you as a surprise or not, the an swer is the automobile industry. Because it is such a big business and because it has made itself such an integral part of our lives, it is only natural that it has also be come highly competitive. This vying for a piece of the action is reflected in every move the industry makes, from the design ing room to the type of advertising, to the comer car lot. As I was to find out, the business of selling cars for the corporation is a big business, as well as a very interesting one. I had the pleasure of talking to a certain Mr. Kennedy about his automotive dealer ship. The results were most gratifying. Mr. Kennedy is no newcomer to this bus iness. He started after the Second World War as a car mechanic under the GI bill. From there he went on to own a gas sta tion and later, franchises for Packard, Edsel and Desoto. After he had the rug pulled out from under him three times, he landed a Chrysler-Plymouth franchise on Villard Avenue in Milwaukee, in 1951. Here his business grew, and in 1965 he built a new location on Teutonia Avenue. Since then his Kennedy Giant Chrysler Plymouth has become the second largest Chrysler-Ply mouth franchise in Milwaukee and has twice won the Chrysler Corporation award. To get started in this business, one really needs only two things: a franchise for each line of car he is going to sell, and

money. The first, if the company finds you acceptable after having looked into your background, is often much less a problem than the second. The corporation will all but give a franchise to a well-qualified man and may even go so far as to provide a dealer enterprise, which is to say an almost free loan. This proves to be mutually ad vantageous situation bemuse the corpor ation may then write it ofT as a tax deduc tion. Of course, the dealer had better prove himself worthy of their trust, for no one likes to take a loss for too long a time. Simply stated, the main goal of the cor poration as well as of the dealer, is to sell as many cars as possible. A great many methods and angles arc employed to ac complish this, from the corporation level all the way down to the individual sales man. To achieve this goal requires a great deal of cooperation on behalf of both par ties. The biggest single obligation that the corporation has toward the dealer is to come up with an acceptable car and to let the public know that its car is comparable to the one produced by the competition. This is done by creating a certain image through mass advertising and aiming it at different segments of the buyer popula tion. Just how directly effective this ad vertising is is hard to say. One salesman conjectured that perhaps only 15% of the people bought that type of car because of the advertising. However, one thing is cer tain: if advertising were not constantly there to remind the people that this cor poration is still part of the action, the whole business would soon fold. Advertising is just as important to the local dealer as it is to the corporation, al though his advertising will be done on a

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because he wants to see what his money will buy elsewhere first. It is at this point that the good salesman will give the cus tomer the high ball. That is to say, he will tell the customer, “Would you buy it right now if it could be arranged for $3000 (as suming the original price was $3300)?” This automatically makes the buyer sus picious and in nine out of ten cases he will say no. However, the salesman has accom plished what he was after. He has left the prospect with a price that would surely beat the competition. The customer, after he has finished all his comparative shop ping, is more than likely to come back. It is at that time that the customer finds out that the salesman only said that he would see if it could be arranged, and that he had not definitely committed himself. (This whole deal may be just a bit under handed.) In all probability, however, this first salesman can give the customer as good a price as the next dealer.

One might wonder what determines which salesman will get the prospective customer that happens to be entering the showroom. There are probably as many different methods for determining this as there are showrooms, but for the most part it takes place on a rotation basis, with the first one there getting the first prospect and so forth. It would appear that this system would tend to leave the average salesman with a lot of time on his hands buyer that makes him both apprehensive while he is waiting for his number to come and defensive. There seems to be an old up again. This is not the case. In addition saying that it is fair to cheat the govern to the paper work, etc., that accompanies ment and car salesmen, because if you any job, the more ambitious man will pro don’t get him first, he’ll get you. bably be on the phone calling upon his Actually, this is not the case. With few satisfied customers to see if they know of exceptions the salesman’s purpose is to anybody who is in the market for a car, contract a fair deal and to keep the custo and to tell them to please steer him his mer satisfied. In the long run he cannot way. Surprisingly enough, most people, if afford to do otherwise and maintain a re they feel that they have gotten a good deal, spectable repeat business. This is not to are willing to oblige. Some dealers, per say that a salesman won’t play the angles. haps the less scrupulous, send their men For example, say that John Doe comes in out to shopping centers, etc., to take down to buy a car. Let’s also say that he has license plate numbers. These numbers can never had a car before or that this is go readily be converted into telephone num ing to be his first new one. This is quite bers with a salesman on the line telling an experience for him, and since he isn’t you that all of a sudden he has this trein the habit of spending upwards of $3000 mendous market for whatever type of car every week, he is a bit apprehensive. Thus you happen to be driving, and that he can his first visit is mainly for the purpose of give you top dollar on a trade-in for your comparative shopping. In other words, he old car. As obvious as this little ploy may is not likely to buy from the first salesman seem, it has a tendency to flatter the pro (even though his might be the best deal) spect, and once the picture of him sitting 154

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behind the wheel of a new car has been planted, it is hard to shake. The actual selling of a car to a custo mer is just the beginning of the relation ship established between the dealer and the customer. It is the dealer’s intent to keep this buyer satisfied. The easiest way to do this is to take good care of his car through a good service department. An efficient garage can be a very valuable as set as well as a money-making proposition. This is also the place where all the war ranty work will take place and where var ious optional equipment can be installed. Good garage mechanics are becoming harder to find. It is also understandable that a good mechanic will also want a way to get ahead. This is all very neatly taken care of by a litde book which is set up to assign a flat rate for each repair job. While changing the alternator bearings may be rated as a 7/s hr. job, if a good mechanic can do it in % hr., he is free to go to some thing else. Through this system it is not uncommon for a good mechanic to turn in 1% weeks work every Friday. As for the warranty work he does; the time and ma terials are tabulated and sent into the cor poration. This is another instance where a reputable dealer can be of considerable value. Many dealers have gouged the cor poration so many times that they will re fuse to accept even the valid claims. This, in turn, causes the dealer to tell a custo mer that whatsoever is wrong with his car is not covered by the warranty, when actu ally it may be. Of course, the abuse is twosided, and as a result, some predict that all work may soon have to be done on a deductible basis. Despite all the different ways that a dealer has to entice you into his place and despite the tremendous image-building power of advertising, it is still the mouthto-mouth publicity that makes you decide on one brand over another. Furthermore, if you take a Ford to a Chevy dealer, your trade value isn’t going to be what it would if you took it to another

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Ford dealer. There is a weekly publication known as the “Blue Book”, which deter mines the wholesale value of your car ac cording to its weekly depreciation (to this figure can be added extra $ 100’s for auto matic transmission, power steering and air conditioning on a full-sized car). However, if you trade in a car of the same make, the dealer will almost always grant you a larg er concession. The only truly prospective way to look at a deal is in terms of what you are going to pay for the new car outright. The story that makes this quite clear is that of the little boy who was deeply attached to his dog and played with him every day. One day the neighbor lady saw that the boy had erected a sign offering the dog for sale at a price of $1000. When the neighbor asked the lad if he thought that he could get a $1000 for his beloved little dog, the boy replied that he was sure he could. A few days later the neighbor saw that the dog was gone and asked the lad if he had gotten his asking price The lad replied, “Yes, I did. I got two $500 cats.” Finally, when a dealer has acquired a lot full of cars through new car trade-ins, the sooner he can sell them, the better off he is. If he does not, any profit he had hoped to realize is quickly eaten up by in terest rates and depreciation. It is to take some of the pressure off this situation that car auctions function regularly. Here a dealer may trade in, as an example, three older cars which he cannot sell, for one or two later models which may be in greater demand in his area. The auction affords the dealer a handy method of rotating his stock and gives him the opportunity to sup plement his inventory, if he feels it neces sary. The auction also can be a fairly pre dictable indicator of what type of stock is currendy selling in various areas. In gen eral, it can be a very handy place, it’s only too bad that one has to be a licensed dealer to participate. C. L.

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his daydreams, he now began to wonder whether some of the guilt might rest on his side of the ledger also. The screams of a baby on the television brought him back to reality, and also to enlightenment. The baby’s screams linked Hope’s sudden anger over Sam’s unem ployment to her previously latent maternal instincts. It was rainy and cold the next morn ing as Slothman’s springing strides carried him to Fairbrother’s office. It was just be fore nine and many of the lights of the huge building were still unlit. This caused Sam to slacken his speed, but only slightly, for he found it impossible to go at a normal pace when he was about to take such a giant step back into society. His head was erect and his eye gleamed in anticipation. “Could you tell me who got the job?” Sam inquired passively and with resigna tion to his fate. “Sure,” answered clean-cut Ron Fairbrother. “We found a real go-getter. I don’t know whether you know him or not. Guy by the name of Champion, Frank Champion.” To Fairbrother’s astonishment, Slothman took the news that he was too late extremely well. In fact as he turned at the boulevard, Fairbrother thought that he even detected a smile on Slothman’s face. But one thing he was certain of: he was walking very sprightly and with his head held high. Slothman was not really aware of his outward appearance, llis conscious mind was in a total daze. And so ends another thrilling episode in the continuing story of Sam Slothman, unemployed. Title this one: Another Day, Another Scapegoat. JOEL SCHROEDER, ’71

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the Thirty-Sixth Convention of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Syn od, held during August of 1961, Floor Committee No. 2 “Resolved, that we now suspend fellowship with the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod ...” With this action our Synod ended nine ty years of church fellowship with the Mis souri Synod. It was not an easy step to take. Members of some families suddenly found themselves unable to commune at the same altar. Financial circumstances in joint mission, education and welfare works had to be cleared up as well as many other details that had accumulated in nearly a century of cooperative work. But these were all things of this world. Emotional strain and financial detail had to give way to things of the spirit. Some thought that the move should have been made sooner. These people formed their own synod (Church of the Lutheran Con fession) in 1955. Others were not yet con vinced that such action was necessary — the Resolution passed by a vote of 124 to 49. An examination of the issues involved and the continued actions of the Missouri Synod since 1961 show that separation was a necessary step. Why bring it up now? Although an other point of the Resolution states that “we stand ready to resume discussions with the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod with the aim of reestablishing unity of doc trine and practice,” such discussions are t

not taking place. The whole matter seems to have settled down; why stir up smold ering ashes? The answer is simple: a generation of future pastors is now attending Northwes tern that, at the time of the division, was too young to really grasp what was happen ing. Explanations were printed during the time of the separation for the edification of the Synod in general, but these were done in periodicals and tracts which are now not readily available. While the immediacy of the situation has diminished, the questions about it have not. The aforementioned family ties and friendships with members of Missouri still exist. The basic theology of the Mis souri Synod is still closer to ours than that of any of the major voices in Lutheranism in America. In fact, it must be noted that secular publications such as Time and even a lot of theological quarterlies recognize Missouri as the conservative force among Lutherans in America. The 4% of all Luth erans that the Wisconsin Synod contains simply can’t get a lot of attention. If anyone were to ask a student here why we are no longer in fellowship with Missouri, the majority would have to reply that they were getting too ‘liberal,” a term that really does not communicate much information. The following is an attempt to fill in some of the necessary informa tion. A background of the events that led to separation is given first, followed by a

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discussion of the main conflict at the time of the separation. There was nothing sudden about the decision to break off fellowship. The first noticeable change in relations came in 1938. Before then any controversies had been worked out and quickly settled. To understand what brought about a change, we must look back even further into the history of the two synods. In 1928 many years of negotiations came to a head. The purpose of these ne gotiations was to form a large united body of Lutherans in America. This would make a stronger, more effective church - but agreement in doctrine was lacking. In 1928, representatives of the Buffalo, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri synods drew up a document which became known as the Chicago Theses. During 1929 both Wisconsin and Mis souri rejected the Chicago Theses as being inadequate grounds for uniting. The other synods (Buffalo, Iowa and Ohio) found the theses acceptable and fa. ned the Amer ican Lutheran Church (ALC)*. When the Missouri Synod rejected the Chicago Theses they dm v up a document which was called the Brk'f Statement. It was adopted in 1932, arm as to serve as the doctrinal basis for all future efforts to bring about agreement with the American Lutheran Church. The ALC did not accept the Brief State ment. In 1938 they formulated their own Declaration that emphasized their essen tial points. They said they would accept the Brief Statement “in view of” their Declaration. Missouri accepted this as a basis for future fellowship, although they didn’t actually enter into fellowship. This was submitted to other Synods in the Syn odical Conference for approval. At the 1939 Wisconsin Convention the matter was studied and the conclusion was reached that the terms of ALC’s Declar ation were “not stating the truth clearly, nor excluding error, in the controverted doctrines.” Further reason to doubt the *—The group we know today as the ALC is a res^t of mergers. The old ALC is only about 25% of the present group called the ALC. The largest group in the new ALC is the ELC (Evangelical eran Church), which has taken even more liberal” stands than the old ALC did. The prePresident and vice-president of the ALC are both from the old ELC.

ALC’s intentions came from their actions earlier that same year. Their represent atives had reached an Agreement at Pitts burgh with representatives of the United Lutheran Church on the doctrine of In spiration, “the wording of which is such that a clear confession to the inerrancy of the Scriptures is lacking.” The Wisconsin Synod also objected to having two statements as basis for agree ment. Missouri recognized the necessity of a single document. When they met in 1941, though, they did not repudiate the confessional arrangement adopted in 1938. In fact, they established closer ties with ALC in spite of Wisconsin’s objections. Missouri began cooperative efforts with ALC in foreign mission relief and work among servicemen. In 1943 Wisconsin appealed to Mis souri to stop negotiations with the ALC. This was done because sufficient testimony had been given to show that no real Scrip tural agreement could be reached, and any further efforts would only undermine what had already been stated. The unionistic practices of the ALC were also stressed. Wisconsin was seriously admonishing Mis souri that their Synod was heading in the wrong direction fully seventeen years be fore the final schism. No answer was giv en to the plea, however. Other developments now contributed to the problem. In 1941 Wisconsin decided that to group our pastors under the term “Protestant” and commission them as navy and army chaplains was to deny Scripture principles and foster unionism. Missouri failed to see any conflict of interest and sent many pastors to serve as chaplains. Missouri also abandoned its former position on the Scouting movement. In 1944 a program was initiated in which local congregations sponsored Scouting groups. Such actions also strained rela tions between the two synods. Committees of ALC and Missouri, work ing together, prepared a single document that was to replace the Brief Statement and Declaration as a fellowship basis. The document was presented in 1944 and was called the Doctrinal Affirmation. However, in 1946 at Appleton, the ALC rejected the Doctrinal Affirmation as not being accept able and said they “despaired of attaining Lutheran unity by way of additional doc trinal formulations and reformulations”.

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The very next year they sent “A Friendly was necessary to declare a “break” in relaInvitation,” which stated that they wanted tions. The two Synods were still in fellowto use the Brief Statement and the Declar- ship, but the break constituted a kind of ation as a basis for fellowship. They also final warning that if improvement were said discussions between the two hadn’t not shown soon, fellowship would have to revealed any fundamental differences, and be terminated. that “there is an area where there exists All hoped for a restoration of unity, an allowable and wholesome latitude of Some felt Wisconsin was dragging its feet theological opinion on the basis of the and broke off on their own after 1957 teachings of the Word of God.” Their com- (Church of the Lutheran Confession'). As mittee said that demanding a unified state- the years between 1953 and 1961 passed, ment of doctrine as an absolute condition it became increasingly obvious to many of fellowship was a “threat to evangelical that Wisconsin must have the courage of liberty of conscience.” its convictions and suspend fellowship acThe Missouri Synod decided in their cording to the directive given in Romans 1947 convention that ALC’s proposals were 16:17,18. In August of 1961 the Wisconunacceptable, and they set aside the 1938 sin Synod carried out the demands of this union document and resolutions. They did passage. not, however, retract them. They negoti With the preceding as a general back ated further. ground, we now take up the main principle That same year of 1947 the Wisconsin involved. In the resolution to suspend felSynod sent a memorial to Missouri remind- lowship, the chief reason given was “that ing them of their 1938 statement on Scout- difference with respect to the Scriptural ing, which spoke of “the naturalistic and principles of church fellowship . . . have unionistic tendencies still prevalent in the brought us to an impasse. The Resolution Boy Scout movement.” Wisconsin made a condemned The Theolom; of Fellowship, thorough study of Scouting that year and part which had been drawn up by Misdenounced its religious element and moral souri (all four members of the Synodical training program as being inconsistent Conference were asked to make such statewith the Gospel. ments because of the controversy at hand.) . Although ALC, as is stated above, had In order t0 get t0 the heart of Mis given up hope of attaining unity through siourfs fellowship error it is helpful to any more formulations of doctrinal agree- compare the Missouri Synod’s former stand <¥.dr™ “P Ta new d0™»e?t on this matter with its present status. The with Missouri m 1950. It was called the Brief Statement issued in 1932 supported Common Confession. with Scripture passages the following desAfter a careful study of this document, cription of church fellowship: (paragraphs the Wisconsin Synod informed Missouri 28 and 29 of the Brief Statement are quotthat it “involves an untruth and creates an ed in full, omitting only the Bible passages, untruthful situation, since this action has This is a statement which the Wisconsin been officially interpreted as a settlement Synod can still support and is one of the of past differences which are in fact not reasons for quoting it completely.) settled. “Since God ordained that His Word Wisconsin also pointed out the remark only, without admixture of human doc made in ALC’s Friendly Invitation that trine, be taught and believed in the some latitude was allowable for theolog Christian Church, all Christians are re ical opinion, reminding them that this quired by God to discriminate between challenges the clarity and authority of orthodox and heterodox church-bodies, Scripture. Wisconsin stated that negoti to have church-fellowship only with or ations with ALC should be stopped. thodox church-bodies, and, in case they have strayed into heterodox churchThis warning, as all the previous warn bodies, to leave them. We repudiate un ings, had little effect. Missouri reaffirmed ionism, that is, church-fellowship with its stand in their 1953 convention. That same year Wisconsin met and reviewed the adherents of false doctrine, as dis the developments of the preceding fifteen obedience to God’s command, as caus ing divisions in the church, and as in years. They decided that, in view of Mis volving the constant danger of losing souri’s continued unionistic practices, it

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the Word of God entirely. “The orthodox character of a church is established not by its mere name nor by its outward acceptance of, and sub scription to, an orthodox creed, but by the doctrine which it actually taught in its pulpits, in its theological semin aries, and its publications. On the other hand, a church does not forfeit its or thodox character through the casual intrusion of errors, provided these are combated and eventually removed by means of doctrinal discipline.” (note: italics theirs throughout) The preceding statement was upheld, point by point, with no fewer than ten Bi ble passages. It was a doctrinal confession and not to be taken lightly. Yet the clear stand taken in the Brief Statement is re pudiated it Part II of Theology of Fellow ship. It is much too lengthy to quote in full, but some examples will show the change of position. The document cites passages which are agreed to show the reed for refusing to practice fellowship. These passages are divided into two group “well-defined cases” and “of more gem 1 nature.” These passages which :o addressed to “well-defined cases” are ' , oally relegated to not being applicable any more, since they were meant for know n individuals in specific cases. One might argue that they are to be examples, but going on to pas sages “of a more general nature” we find that these are carefully “explained” as to content and intent and also discarded as no longer applicable to the church today. Matt. 7:22, 24:24 “must not be applied mechanically to erring Christians”; Rom. 16:17-18 “cannot be simply equated with any formal system of doctrine or with any individual unit in such a system” (When is it useful, then? A formal system of doc trine is nothing more than a profession of what is in a Christian’s heart. Indeed, this is the only way to determine what a per son believes, since we cannot look into any one’s heart). By the same token “Titus 3:10 (‘As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing to do with him/ RSV) cannot be applied flatly and without qualification to all members of Christian denominations, who live by the Gospel, but cannot readily rid themselves of erroneous views to which long tradition

has habituated them.” Compare this to Missouri’s 1932 statement which tolerated errors “provided these are combated and eventually removed by means of doctrinal discipline” (Brief Statement). The reasoning behind rejecting all these passages as no longer applicable is that Missouri feels we are in an “altered and complex situation.” Because of this complex situation, such passages “must not be applied mechanically to fellow Christ ians in a confessional-organization fellow ship other than one’s own.” It is pointed out that it would be wrong to condemn “a Christian who has the misfortune of being in a body afflicted with some doctrinal er ror.” It certainly would. But the conflict is not with this individual hypothetical Christian; it is with the erring body to which he belongs. How much greater is the misfortune when you put yourself and many others into fellowship with this body — then everyone is afflicted with the doc trinal error. Missouri now felt that instead of avoid ing such error, it should be forgiven “sev enty times seven.” The Brief Statement had correctly declared that such practice was “involving the constant danger of los ing the Word of God entirely.” Theology of Fellowship introduces a different standard for fellowship: “The words of St. Paul in Gal. 2:14 provide such a criterion: ‘They walked not uprightly ac cording to the truth of the Gospel.’ ” After listing a number of reasons for using this as a criterion, a summary paragraph, al though meant to support the passage, does much to show the shortcomings: “The distinction between the weak, erring brother, who must be forgiven until seventy times seven, and the per sistent errorist, who must for the sake of the church and for his own sake be excluded, will not be easy; there will always be cases where conscientious brethren may differ. But if this criter ion is conscientiously and prayerfully employed, the differences will be such that they can be borne.’ This criterion is so broad as to be in sufficient. Among other things it causes confusion in the church when put into practice. Just one example: two people confess Christ as their Savior and both wish to attend Communion. One of them takes the words of institution literally, the

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regarded has always been the issue behind the issues, and Scripture will be on trial again in Denver. Should the seemingly in evitable fellowship come to pass, the Mis souri Synod will be joined with a group that has, in convention, approved such statements as are written in a book by ALC theologian Dr. William Weiblen, entitled The Bible: Book of Faith: “The infallibil ity of the Scriptures is the infallibility of Jesus Christ and not the infallibility of the written text.” When an ALC pastor who may have these ideas enters a Missouri pulpit, won’t there be some confusion among those who still believe as the Brief Statement con cludes in paragraph #1 concerning Holy Scripture: “Since the Holy Scriptures are the Word of God, it goes without saying that they contain no errors or contradic tions, but that they are in all their parts and words the infallible truth”?

other symbolically. One perceives the body of Christ as being present, the other does not and believes it is only a remembrance of Christ’s death. They are both “consci entious brethren,” yet one of them is in error. If the pastor ignores their difference and serves them both, the man who has the correct belief is bound to be confused by this duality and will, most likely, fall into the error too, since it appeals to hu man reason. The activities that led to the termin ation of fellowship in 1981 are now in the murky past and when compared with what is happening today in the Lutheran scene in America they seem almost small. Not that they are; but they are dwarfed by the seriousness of today’s happenings. This summer the Missouri Synod will convene in Denver to vote on whether to join in fellowship with the American Luth eran Church. How the Scriptures are to

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ther distinct categories when they consider the comparative class load here and else where. Many think that this place is the toughest academic sweatshop on the face of the earth. The group to which I belong, however, feels that Northwestern is a push over which requires very little study, if any. Which group is right ? The answer to this question is very difficult for me to give, since I, too, am a victim of the closed society. The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the same variances in ability, motivation, interests and study habits here are also found on other campuses. Although they are not as severe as at NWC, other schools have requirements which seem highly irrele vant, too. Added to this is the fact that millions of students major in areas where they do not have any real interest or ability. Nor can a person really base a judg ment on credit hours alone. On that basis, of course, we are killing ourselves. The average load on other campuses is 15 cred its, with a minimum of 12 and a maxi- . mum of 18. However, the average prof ex pects two hours of studying per credit hour, while the average here requires one and a half for the same. That comes out to about 30 hours of studying that is done per week — ideally. The ideal is not the real. A girl from the University of Minnesota told me that

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16 hours was a suicide load, and she just about passed out when I told her that I got a four-point carrying 22 hours. On the other hand, a ’68 graduate from the U. of Virginia said that he averaged 12 hours of sleep a day — with six hours devoted to wine, women and song. Students are notorious liars; what is the reality of the situation? Since we are located in Wisconsin, we have some excellent standards of compari son. The University of Wisconsin is one of the most highly rated major universities in the country. Lawrence University in Appleton enjoys a similar position of re spect among the smaller schools of the na tion. Both institutions have a very high regard for our classics department, and students who have gone from here to the University have generally excelled in that area. How do we compare with these two institutions? Lawrence is basically a liber al arts college, and operates on a tri-mester basis. There is a very low failing per centage, but only thos in the top 10% academically (and finaiu iailv) can get in. The school is very much ike our own; one Lawrence student even referred to it as “archaic.” Though it’s sometimes hard to believe, the intelligence on this campus is very high, too; the Synod academies help in this respect by eliminating over half the students. As far as studying goes, I’ve heard many complaints about how much they have to do; but I have heard many of these complaints over a pitcher of beer, which tends to make me doubt their validity. The University of Wisconsin is a school of many colors and great paradoxes. It is rated by Playboy as the number-one fun campus in the country, and educators con sider it to be the number two major univer sity in the United States. It is governed by a very conservative board of regents and run by a very liberal administration. It has one of the oldest traditions of academic free dom, scholarship, scientific research and public service of any school in the nation, .he stodgy intellectualism on Van Heise is answered by the raucous joviality of State Street. It is very hard to compare ourselves with a school one hundred times bigger than we are, but the general com ments of tranfer students can be briefly summarized. More work is expected for an individual class than here. An excellent 164

example of this is a German course which requires the reading of fifteen books. How ever, more total work is done here. UW accepts anyone who graduates in the top two-thirds of his high school class in the state, which means they have a rather high failing percentage. The major cut-off points are frosh English and the first course of a major. This is probably the area which marks the greatest difference in NWC’s academic approach. We simply do not have a course or courses designed to eliminate students. On the contrary, the faculty may some times overlook some academic deficiency, if they think a student is good ministerial material. There are a number of other general differences between Northwestern and the rest of the academic world. The emphasis here is on daily work, while other schools tend to favor long term assignments. Our language work tends to be analytical, ra ther than stressing vocabulary building and literary values. Class attendance is usually not compulsory elsewhere, which is rather nice. Most of the things we rant and rave about — institutionalism, spoon-feeding, “slough” courses, opinionated professors — are all present on other campuses as well. One of my friends at UW-Milwaukee told me that his physics course was easier than the one we had in high school. The state universities are almost notorious in their laxness. I have also been informed that most profs like their own ideas and phrases given back to them on tests. But, you ask, what is the answer to the question? How does our studying com pare to theirs? After wading through many catalogues and talking to many friends and a few enemies, I must conclude that “our” studying doesn’t compare to “theirs” at all. It is purely a matter of the individual. Studying everywhere is as hard or as easy as the individual wants to make it; he gets as much out of his studying as he puts into it. Don’t get me wrong; I haven’t become a staunch defender of the Northwestern educational structure. However, as I was airing my complaints about our theoreti cal academic deficiency to a Lawrence prof, he said, “What do you want from your professors? Do you think they should T. B. be gods?”

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NWC even managed to get them out on the stage a second time for an encore. The highlight of the entertainment was the “Amazing Marlow,” mentalist, mind read er and hypnotist. Before his show someone asked him if that mind-reading stuff really works. He calmly told his inquisitor to wait until af ter the show and see for himself. I’m sure that this person was convinced that there must be some truth to ESP and mind-read ing. Through hypnosis Mr. Marlow had McWaters selling peanuts and popcorn in the audience, a prep doing a war dance and one other fellow refused to sit down because he thought his chair was on fire. Everything was done in fun; and after the volunteers were awakened, everything was back to normal again.

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Lutherland Monday, February 10, was slide lecture day for many of the students here at school. Prof. Delmar Brick from DMLC provided his slides on his tours of Europe. During the morning hours the Roman history stu dents were enlightened by his slides on ancient Rome. At night a somewhat mea ger group showed up for his informative lecture on the areas Luther worked in. This summer Prof. Brick plans to conduct an other tour of Europe and i currently look ing for prospective customers.

The Winter Carnival trophy was also awarded that night. The Seniors captured first place with 92 points. The Juniors followed with 76, while Quarta manage 71 total points. M-C A1 Klessig bid everyone farewell to end the formal proceedings.

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There is one unfortunate happening connected with the Carnival. The mam moth Pinocchio erected the Sophs may have been impressive, but in order to carry it out they had to import a large quantity of snow. Their ambition is to be com mended, but due to a recent Car Commit tee ruling, parking in front of the Wartburg and East Halls is allowed for only thirty minutes. After the first thirty min utes a fine of fifty cents an hour is imposed on any vehicles still parked there. Since that monstrous huge truck you used sat next to East Hall overnight, at fifty cents an hour that’ll run you . . . Speaking of high finance, the Senior class has also been having its difficulties. The traditional practice of leaving behind some memento of a class (commonly call ed the class gift) has brought this class an inordinate amount of migraine-proportion ed headaches. The idea originally settled upon was to equip a kitchen in the base ment of the Wartburg. Since there is a room set aside for this very purpose, it seemed easy enough. It wasn’t. After some congestion within the class committee, combined with a very cautious attitude

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on the part of the Board of Control about the quality of the equipment to be pur chased, the whole project flopped when it reached the slow grinding gears of the state bureaucracy. Nothing has been heard from them yet by way of approval, and prices have since been raised to beyond reach. Although some have suggested that we simply not give anything, that idea was too negative. Schmal Piege has, as usual been a big help gathering information on other suggestions. But in a rare moment of serious thought a few hard core “frat” members expressed the view that extra fire extinquishers should be purchased for the Wartburg. These extra extinquishers would be for the sole purpose of horsing around. Since they would be used only for foolishness, fines of five dollars would be levied on anyone attempting to put a fire out with them. In the interest of educating the student body at large, let us tale note of the fol lowing: a conductor mu .1 always direct the beat with his right The Black ancl Red ha the distinction of being one of the few p radicals in the country that has as yet. made no com ment on the Apollo 8 moo. mission (even such publications as tha. ut out by the Flat Earth Society have made some men tion). This may be just as well. The offi cial statement of Northwestern’s science department has been, no doubt, hungrily snatched up by the press by now. What more is there to say? The event has been attacked from every possible angle. For the sake of originality on the sub ject, we resort to thinking on our own — a feat almost as daring as the Apollo trip itself. Looking at the event from a class room historical viewpoint (there is a differ-

ence: “classroom history” is necessarily academic and therefore dry, while real his tory is very tense because it was once con temporary), we find room for discussion. There are several niceties of classroom history that have grown out of the mono tonous stuffy air breathed there. One of these is “dates”. The historical Date has attained an entity of its own. It stands by itself in importance and often even over shadows the events for which it stands. Seeing how vital the Date is to history, it is sad to note that 1968 does not qualify as a truly historical Date. As a number it just hasn’t got it. Compare the ominous foreboding of “The Ides of March, 44 B.C.” or the pageantry of Charlemagne’s “Christmas Day, 800”. It hasn’t the excitment of Hastings 1066 or the familiarity of 1492. Will it ever stand up to Luther’s 1517 or the United States’ 1776 or Wisconsin’s 1848 (year of statehood)? Never. If someone woke you in the middle of the night, would you remember a Date like 1968? Impossible. We also note with alarm that 1984 is just around the comer. The tumultuous applause died away as the young man mounted the director’s plat form. The silence was deafening in anti cipation. This was his debute. It was do or die. Small beads of perspiration formed on his forehead as he picked up the baton and rapped for attention. He began. After six measures of music the orchestra was raging on, running out of control. What had he done? The cacophony of instru ments playing at the wrong time was earshattering. All his efforts to quell the up rising only made it worse. Then it dawned on him as he noticed his wildly flailing arms. Hans, you boob, he said to himself, you’re directing the beat with your left hand! m. h.

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The alumni desk is usually not strewn with material for the Prophetic Profile sec tion of this article, but this time, thanks to Mr. Fredrich’s valentine to this department, there is an abundance of material. Its good to see that the Sem men haven’t lost their sense of humor. Some of the

CALLS Kemf, Pastor Dennis (’58), of Toma, Wis., has accepted a call to Cross of Christ, Coon Rapids, Minn. Heup, Howard (’55), formerly of Winona, Minn., will be teaching in the Science Dept, at Fox Valley Lutheran High School, Appleton, Wis., next fall. Kitzerow, Pastor Eugene (’49), is now serving Christ, Big Bend, Wis. Henke, Pastor Howard (’44), has moved from Niles, 111., to serve St. Bartholomew, Kawkaw-

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lin, Mich. Seiltz, Pastor Paul (’62), of Globe, Ariz., is now at a new mission in Jackson, Mich. Humann, Pastor James (’61), of Presserville, Mont., has accepted a call to St. John’s, Stan ton, Nebr. ANNIVERSARY Bethany of Manitowoc, Wis., celebrated the 25th anniversary of its organization. DEATH Pastor August Pamperin (’12), passed away at Juneau, Wis., on January 16. BIRTH A son was born to Pastor and Mrs. Carl Pagel (’62), of Baltimore, Md., in December. MARRIAGES John Trapp (’66) to Gail Peterson on December 26, 1958. Bob Pasbrig (’68) to Lynn Gamm on February 9, 1959. Fred Hackbarth (’68) to Ronda Dallmann. ENGAGEMENTS Karl Peterson (’65) to Mary Nelson. Roger Woller (’65) to Mildred Meyer. Jeff Hopf (’67) to Dorothy Gallert. Kurt Grunewald (’68) to Sara Woelfle. Earl Lindemann (’68) to Colleen Wright. Orval Cullen (’68) to Jermaine Hauser. Glenn Schneider (’68) to Carol Moldenhauer. John Guse (’68) to Carolyn Hahm. PROPHETIC PROFILE Larry “connecting vowel” Koester, mild-manner ed member of last year’s heroes, is living proof of the success of Missio Dei at Sem. He finds the atmosphere of the new library shell so plea sant that he spends the majority of his waking

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hours dreamily fingering the faded calfskins in his futile search for an English-language theo logical work. When accused of aspiring to the role of patron saint of the library, Larry wryly replies, “I’m not dead yet.” Keep trying, Larry. Editor’s note. The following is presented ver batim, since I didn’t want to tamper with Sem. grammer. SENIORS Otto has rats. Gerald Schroer flopped his Dog test and is head ed for Peridot, Arizona, A.L.C. D. Saeger has volunteered to be next year’s tutor at N.W.C., since he was voted most popular reindeer of Sem cuz of his massive horns. LeRoy Martin gave away ’56 Chevy — traded for Otto’s 135,000 ’62 Chevy. Karl Peterson entered Seminary and looking back at N.W.C. turned into a candy cane! MIDDLERS Marriage — IBM to I.T. & T , Oct. 31, 1938, at the Federal Anti-Trust Building, 33 East 49th St., New York, N.Y. K. Schroeder has a nice white turtleneck. Jim’s Santa Monica Service offers a free lube job to any Sem. student (offer good only with oil and filter change, ends Aug. 1). LeRoy Ade celebrated 73rd wedding anniversary. Martin Schwartz’s body has gone to pot. 5070 savings on Slim Jims :Wenzel Rozdolowski’s in downtown Cedarburg. JUNIORS Crash Koeplin — 2 busses, one car totally demo lished, next car scratch..( by a semi-trailer truck. Bob Polil — left our midst iV a Lutheran synod of former affiliation and blessed memory. G. L. the Spartans with 12. Let’s keep up the good work!

GEORGE WILLIAMS 78 NWC 95 The Trojans kept their winning spirit as they downed George Williams 95-78. BASKETBALL NWC 95 WLC 60 From the spectator standpoint, it was great The Trojans coasted to an easy victory to see the team win again, but the game in their “scrimmage” with Wisconsin Luth. itself wasn’t really too exciting. The team College. The five regulars began the game took a commanding 13-0 lead right from and after a substantial lead built up, the beginning. The closest Geo. Williams Coach Pieper felt free to put in substitutes. ever came was within 11 points. At times Throughout the entire first half, the team the Trojans even had the gap widened to maintained their lead. At the start of the 25 points. second half, the Spartans did manage to Ed Pruitt scored half of their points come within 6 points of the Trojans, but with an outstanding 31. No one else was a stopper was quickly put on them. We able to complement his scoring. Although got hot and banged in 24 points to their Thompson did foul out with 7 minutes re 2. In the scoring bracket, Fred Zimmer maining in the game, he still managed to man had his big night as he sank his dump in 17 big ones. D. Lemke and Schultz famous hook shots for a 16 point total. worked well together at guard and both Gary Griep was right behind him (as us ended up in double figures. Naumann and ual) with 13. Ex-Prep George Povich led Hartwig furnished the rebounds as the Tro169

basketball together, while the Red Devils played consistently to beat NWC 83-63. The first half was our strong period as the score stood 35-32 at half time. The Trojans handled the ball well but were out-posi tioned on the boards. In the second half, the Trojan’s momentum was halted as L. Lemke had to be replaced because of an injury. Eureka quickly took advantage of the lull and built up a safe lead. Craig Gerder and Mark Stoddart scored 19 and 16 points respectively for the Red Devils. Paul Hartwig played one of his best games of the season as he managed 16 points. Thompon was high scorer again with 21.

jans grabbed 60 of them ro Geo. Williams’ 23. The entire team saw action in the game. Keep the momentum going! CONCORDIA 88 NWC 69 Poor shooting and careless mistakes is’ misguided were the causes of the 1 playing. Our team shot m inflating 27% from the floor and 42% f • ■ • he free throw line. Although the Trojan* . d jump to an early lead, Concordia immediately came back and snatched it away Com them at 25-24. Three minutes later, the score was 43-31, Concordia’s favor. A Iter that, the Trojans were never really in the game. Ron Schroeder was their top scorer with 17, while Thompson had a hot night with 28. NWC 64 DOMINICAN 100 The Trojans met a highly talented and explosive offensive which ran and shot them into the ground. The score was never close during the entire game. The Trojans’ main problem was a weak offense com pared with that of the Lakers’. We were only able to drop in 17 field goals. Thompson and Naumann led the scoring column with 18 and 17 respectively. Our defense had their biggest problem in stopping the fast-moving ball handling of Sam Jones and Nanny Carr, who both hit double fig ures. Guard Dwayne Johnson led the Lak ers with 18 points, while the rest of the scoring was fairly evenly divided. NWC 63 EUREKA 83 The Trojans only put one good half of

MOUNT SAINT PAUL 90 NWC 80 Believe it or not, the Trojans were up set by the Moors 90-80. This was the game that everyone was sure we would win. It didn’t quite turn out that way; maybe everyone was over-confident. The Moors’ startling hustle and phenomenal rebound ing paved the way for their victory, even though they lacked considerable height. The Moors led throughout the entire game, the half time score reading 55-44. Jim Gordon paced the scoring column for the Moors with 29 points. Thompson fouled out late in the game with 25, and Hartwig soon followed him to the bench with 14 points. D. Lemke put on a good show with 16. LAKELAND 132 NWC 89 A huge crowd turned up from the surrounding area to see the power house

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The Spark of life — and all that is alive dies. Impurity permeates all with torpid rapidity. jSA malevolent essence wreaks havoc where only enmity existed from the first. it Time envelopes the relentless brutal cast of truculence. \ve is to die and death is the result of depravity and depravity — our lineage; we fawn upon disobedience and discord, our benevolent parents. ..Fallacy and misconception play with our souls, and we seek their friendship. lv ■ v We strain to destroy what we try to save, and what we try to save was annihilated before our eyes by i close acquaintances. A \ We stand alone to be judged by time, and time terminates what it commences. M ! To be sure, we fight to free sin and perdition, and in the end they will '• thank us for it. ■:

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Mar. 1 — Varsity Basketball vs Northland Grade School Tournaments 7-8 — Prep Basketball Tourney at Lakeside 10 — Eugene Pride : 14-16 — L.H.S. Band

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COVER THEME:

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March 1969

No. 8

EDITORIALS

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NWC’s Other Half

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“If Only. . . ”

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Lead Article: 176

Change ? ! .. Hypocrisy.................

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The Tribe of Golias

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Eugene Roecker _Junior Staff Writer

Samurai

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Thomas Haar.............. ....Circulation Manager

NEWS

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CAMPUS & CLASSROOM

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ALUMNI

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SPORTS

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James Schuppenhauer Sports

Thomas Bartz.............. ..........Business Manager Paul Alliet.................... ...Advertising Manager Mark Falck................... ... Advertising Manager

Poems: Internal Reflections $1

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vantages to the speaker, and demands re sponsibilities of him as an individual. Al though God is the center of our worship, the student speaker is the one who directs this worship. To provide an effective and CJtudents are not known for outspoken rewarding experience, each person should praise. Perhaps that is just as well, demand of himself proper and adequate since it probably would be hypocritical preparation. To a certain degree, these anyway. We make no claims about pure services provide each student with a motivations, but beg your indulgence to chance to express himself on a certain sub make known some of the things about ject or in a certain area. There is also the experience to be gained from the public NWC for which we are appreciative. speaking, an opportunity from which all There are all our Christian friends who help keep us level-headed and somewhat can benefit. Sincerity is more important for a pastor than oratorical techniques. Yet humbled. sincerity combined with tact is necessary, Thanks to all those who make possible and both can be practiced now. the inexpensive education at NWC. In Perhaps the most important reward for clude here all who make scholarships avail the individual student speaker is the fore able. taste of his future work. Though it is quite The faculty deserves to be commended limited, it still is good practical experience for maintaining standards as high as they and is one of the best phases of our cam are. They have to make it tough and still pus life for developing a healthy attitude grind out the ministerial material. toward a goal in the ministry. Offering We should be especially grateful for the God’s message from the lectern in our influx of new profs who have made the chapel now cannot help but evoke within school rougher and given us some much- each speaker a worthwhile realization of needed challenges. the joy those have who now spread the The great demand for pastors is impor Gospel to all men on a larger scale. H. P. tant to us, too. It gives a goal to look for ward to and something to work for. The new system of enlisting volunteers The administration must be thanked ■L from the Senior class as tutors in West for the freedom in extracurriculars that we Hall is nearing the end of its trial year. do have. Lately, we have been reminded that it is a privilege to stay out as late as The results are being studied by the Dorm Staff in order to decide on the course to we want, hold anyone’s hand we want, and follow next year: whether to stick with cut a class when we’ve got a good reason. this system, do away with it, or invent an Although it’s rarely spoken, it’s not pos other one. sible to go through Northwestern without If any of the Senior tutors were asked appreciating how much is done for us by whether they thought their year of service those who do the menial jobs. They save was “worth it,” I rather doubt if any of us a lot of time by doing the cooking, clean them would reply with just a flat “No.” ing the sinks, vacuuming the halls, cutting The benefits outsold the drawbacks. They the grass and making the campus look re had to sacrifice the lush carpeting of Wartspectable. burg for the echoing halls and paper-thin The “we” that we use is not the noble walls of an old brick structure. Yet the plural. It includes the many who would “wooden warmth” and versatility of the sign this if they were given the chance. rooms in West Hall were found to be some what more appealing than the “stone cells” DuE and permanent fixtures of Wartburg. SexEvening chapel offers two distinct oppor- taners and Quintaners tend to be very loud tunities to many students. The one is at times, but, judging from reports, thirdobvious. It is a time to unite in organized floor Wart wasn’t exactly a funeral parlor worship. The other involves the upper this year either. classmen only but still is an important op The list of noble sacrifices could run on portunity. A student-led devotion offers ad- and on, but the Seniors will agree that the

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experience they gained from their work and association with the Sextaners and Quintaners ranks topmost on the benefits list. Often there is the tendency for the collegiate student body to scorn the preps as the “kiddies” on campus. The Senior tutors discovered that these “kiddies” are adolescents undergoing changes and mak ing decisions that will influence them for the rest of their lives. These “kiddies” are struggling to set out on the path that we also set out on years ago. What an oppor tunity to offer a little personal advice and to help them avoid the difficulties we ran into. There was also the opportunity to develop a sense of responsibility — Christ ian responsibility for Christian brothers. I don’t think the student tutor system should be abolished. It is beneficial to the preps as well as the collegiates, because it helps to fill that ugly gap between the cal led Dorm Staff tutor and the student body and provides better co-operation and com-

Oome seem to ignore them. Some seem ^ to like them. The more diplomatic say very little. No matter in which group you fall, most of our student body has an opin ion concerning the coeds. Since our coeds have always been a minority group and since they also have contributed much to NWC’s advancement, perhaps their history and culture also deserves a little recogni tion. Unfortunately not much source mater ial on the NWC coed survives to do her justice. Most of what has been gathered is the result of reading the yellowed pages of Black and Red issues from about 1920 to 1939, during which period they had their own column, called Co-ed Notes. For the most part, Co-ed Notes was ex actly that — a news column of coed activ ities and events. For our purposes a good 9/10ths of the column deals with trivia and must be discounted as chaff. Perhaps it would better serve an archeologist 2000 years from now. By using the coed stu dent body as the average of American wo-

munication. At present the upper and lo wer classes of the prep student body are divided between two dormitories, perhaps an unfortunate situation for high school adolescents. The division was first made to provide for better supervision and order. With an efficient collegiate tutor system. Upper and Lower NWC Prep could be re stored to just NWC Prep once again. There is the possibility that an entire class might be asked to serve as tutors for a year of service to their Lord in the fu ture. However, this would not be under taken without the consent of the class in volved. If it were done, perhaps it would implant a greater sense of responsibility in the collegiate student body — something which seems to have been lacking lately. Whichever course is followed, don’t slam the door on the opportunity to be a colle giate tutor without giving it some thought. There is much to gain, little to lose. Ask j. z. around. manhood of that era he could fairly accur ately chart: which type of sandwiches were served at teas, how many women were stricken with appendicitis, who re turned to visit whom, wh i the coed room got its first light bulb, arious courting procedures, plus the fact that curly hair was in vogue. Although the coed has been a part of NWC almost from its beginning, there was a time when they were barred from the student body. Later on, when hard times fell upon the college, they were again en couraged to enroll. Some, perhaps tongue in cheek, feel that this was because Dr. Ernst, president of the college at that time, had a daughter who had just attained en rollment age. As today, the majority of the coeds lived in Watertown. The 20% that didn’t, stayed in professors’ homes. For those who were n’t lucky enough to acquire such board, there was always a list of homes eager to take on a boarder for a little extra money. The coeds of that time were also repre sented in both departments. In the prep department, the majority of the coeds en rolled because it offered a Christian secon dary education as well as a very highly respected curriculum. It was not too un common for the nuns of St. Mary’s hospi tal (now Watertown Memorial) to send some eighth-grade girls to NWC to get a 172

good foundation for later nursing courses. In the college department the girls usually took the business course and often attend ed only two years before either getting married or transferring to another college to graduate. The overall picture painted by this col umn leads one to believe that the coeds of that day were pretty much the same as to day, although perhaps not as “sophisticat ed.” (example: you reportedly didn’t see the coeds of that day walking around the campus holding hands with their boy friends.) The common complaint then seems to carry over to today’s coeds, name ly, a lack of spirit. While they didn’t have formal cheer-leaders then, (although one column did point out: “We wish to an nounce that Dorothy Pine is our cheer leader — not our mascot.”) they did have their own basketball team. In 1921, the co ed team, “for the first time in history,” played an outside team in basketball. The game was described :’.s see-sawing back and forth until gui i r Irene Schwartz “caged” the ball to wim 15-12. The coeds also did their bit on Arbor day to keep the camp* clean. It was not until 1920 that they supposedly first took an active interest — f• >oy cleaned their room. Some were reported as working very diligently, “while some only worked as hard as the Juniors.” Draw your own conclusions. One shouldn’t get the impression that the coeds of that day weren’t maligned, as I am told they still are. The girls did not take abuse passively and obviously pos sessed the spunk to throw it right back at their antagonists. One coed writer quip ped, “(Don’t put this in if it doesn’t belong here.) Now we know why the boys are so ((

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Derhaps it was an innate desire for A change that motivated us. Or was it a conscious attempt to obtain reinforcement for conservative principles and traditions? Maybe it was just plain curiosity. What ever our motive, when the Black & Red took it upon itself to poll a cross-section of the alumni for their opinions about

polite in tipping their caps when wearing uniforms — their caps have mirrors in them.”

Were the coeds then as up on the times as they are today? So it would appear. At least we can assume that they wore make up, for they reportedly used the curtains in the girls’ room to blot their lipstick. They were also right in step with the latest dances. “The Charleston rage has pene trated the conservative walls of the girls’ room. Many of us have taken it up with a vengeance. An occasional kick on the chin from some particularly limber kicker is quite common nowadays.” Another gripe that they had in their day was the girls’ room, which apparently left something to be desired. In the winter the girls were thankful that they had Syl vester Pirreus to keep them warm. Lest you become shocked, I should tell you, as I found out later, that this was their nick name for the ruptured radiator in the girls’ room. Another problem that found its way into almost every column was that of mice. The following rebuttal would seem to indi cate that this is true. “The alleged 140 newspaper columns’ of space devoted to mice seems to bother the finicky, pipe-suck ing male more than the little beasts them selves bother us. Being a ’he-man from the great open spaces’ (as he fondly im agines), he should be ‘he-man’ enough to overlook the trifling mistakes of others less perfect than himself.” Volumn 41 (1937-38) saw the demise of the Co-ed Notes from the Black and Red. Although the coeds objected, the shrinking coed student body, in addition to the high school column in the Shrdlu (now the Chatter box of the Hornet), no longer made C. L. such a column practical. NWC, the questions which were directed to them were those same questions which are uppermost in the minds of a lot of NWC students today. These might be sum marized with “Can we improve, and how?” Although some may have looked on the questions as being “loaded,” by far the majority replied with enthusiasm, trust ing (hopefully) that we were sincere, and that we had positive aims. The replies were most gratifying. The opinions con cerning the curriculum have already been thoroughly covered in the lead article of this issue. There was one question, how-

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ever, which called not so much for an opin ion as it did for a bit of personal advice. “If you were to start over again, what would you make your prime objectives at NWC? What deserves to be the first con cern of a ministerial student at this stage? What counts and what doesn’t count?” So, guys, without further ado and speaking with all due respect, we now hear from the “pros.” We can take it or leave it, but there is no denying that there is some food for thought here: “Personally, I’d appreciate it if the typ ical NWC student would practice a little more Christianity so that I would not have to grimace when I urge my students to attend NWC.” (From a professor at one of our area Lutheran high schools) “I am tempted to give the standard re ply, ‘Study harder!’ That would be true, but I doubt whether any student would be impressed . I certainly wasn’t when people told me that some years ago. At that time Northwestern had shifted its curriculum. My first love then, as now, was history. I despised the idea of studying ‘four lang uages (English included) and math!’ I told plenty of people that I thought it was a waste of time. Worse yet, I convinced myself. That freshman year at Northwes tern I had allowed my attitude to win over my aptitude. Two near failing grades proved it. I had been convinced that the ‘system’ was stacked against me. What would I do, if I were to start that fresh man year over again? Somehow, I sup pose, develop an attitude to become inter ested in what seemed to be distasteful.” “The ministerial student at this stage need not worry very much about theology, etc. His prime concern should be not to waste 80% of his time and do as much reading and self-study in the classics and sciences as possible.” “I am thankful for all my background, even though I griped at times, like you. It has served me well in my work . . . There is no substitute for faithfulness.” “If I were to do it again, I’d try to take better advantage of the education offered. I’d try to learn, rather than maintain a grade standing. The first concern of the ministerial student is to learn — to accept the training as it’s offered - and not ex pend a lot of energy trying to devise a bet ter curriculum.” “Get all you can out of every course;

become well-rounded; get the foundations for later speculation. Each course has been put into the curriculum for a purpose — I don’t think one should look at some as ‘slough’ courses.” “I would say faithfulness to duties should be important. On the other hand, I feel that a pietistic attitude should be guarded against. The ultimate goal of one’s studies should be kept in mind.” “Students all over the world . . . seem to think that professors do not communi cate with students, that they too often withdraw into ivory towers, plying their specialties and asking not to be disturbed by contemporary problems. If such con ditions exist, I think students are justified in asking for more relevant courses. If, however, relevant means ‘practical’ or ‘get ting involved in current political prob lems,’ I should like to plead the cause of the purely cultural, non-practical, liberal arts courses at NWC.” “Just as no child is brought up by a perfect set of parents in a perfect family situation, so no pre-seminary student will ever spend his years in a perfect prepar atory college. Some will be poor, others mediocre, and some among the best. I would rate NWC very high in such a rat ing. I would advise you to remember the eighth commandment, put the best con struction on everything, as you judge ad ministration decisions, professor’s abilities, and courses offered. I believe everyone in volved with education at NWC is striving to do his best — just as Christian parents try to do the same — and in the main, I be lieve our men are succeeding, in spite of my earlier sophomoric misgivings.” “Cooperation with those called to lead me, when I am still demonstrably unqual ified to choose my own course; learning obedience, if one day I want to lead others; making use of my time for constructive work, and getting over irresponsible ‘goof ing off.’ Learning that life and my chosen vocation are most serious matters, requir ing much learning on my part from those who have already lived and may have valu able things to impart to me!” “I was not a ministerial student. I have spent my life in education. . . I often think of NWC and believe most of its pro gram was excellent. . . This goes back 40 years or more, so I presume there has been a lot of change. Needed then: more think174

ing on feet, less memorization; more in volvement with people and problems off the campus; more social life; less slant toward thinking that prospective and active clergymen are persons set apart.” “My experience is that everything I learned at NWC has proved useful; any thing which I skimmed over lightly or ne glected — well, the chickens come home to roost! . . . Take full advantage of the breadth of the training which this remark able school gives. Make a hobby of your favorite study and do some reading beyond the call of duty, for fun. But take it all in! I’m everlastingly grateful for what NWC has given me — I’ve had contact with quite a variety of men from a variety of schools, including ‘top’ schools, and have never felt at a disadvantage because of my college background.” “If I were to start over again, my prime objective would be to apply myself more diligently and seek to become more profi cient in every subject. “. . . accept the establishment’s offer of education, and make it your own. Noth ing in life comes easy, and a B.A. from NWC must be included. “In the ministry one has precious little time for study and research, therefore get this while you can in school. Our work is chiefly one of communication, so the more you can soak up in the fields of English literature, language studies and history, the better base you have for the future, when you can’t take time to work much in these fields.” ‘The first concern of the ministerial student at NWC is a perceptive under standing of the world and an equally per ceptive understanding of God’s grace in Jesus Christ. Both of these were a bit muf fled, partly through my own fault, but NWC didn’t give me too much direction toward these goals either.” “For a minister whose high calling is to bring Christ to the world, it is especially important to understand what modem men are thinking and why they are thinking as they do. This is something of which I was almost totally unaware when I left NWC.” (from a professor at a secular university) “I’ve heard that there have been chang es at NWC in the past few years. The col lege student of today is more restless, more enthusiastic. This can be a tremendous asset if these energies are directed rightly.

If they are not, the future of our synod is at stake. We need look no further than to the unrest at Missouri’s Seminary at St. Louis. I would hope that humility and ob jectivity will prevail, and that polls such as this can be used constructively to fur ther the goals we share.” “Learn concentration. Practice putting your thoughts down on paper. Become an efficient reader who can absorb what is im portant and skim over the trivia. Be aware of trends in the religious circles of the country and the world. Remember the im portance of completely fidelity to the Word of God.” “I would strive especially for mastery of the Greek and make every effort to per fect my English writing techniques — to achieve proficiency and speed. . . The Sem inary and the ministry require an unbeliev able volume of writing material and organ ized presentation. Your efforts at this will be appreciated by you in later years.” “A fuller assimilation, enrichment and enjoyment of what was offered. A broaden ing and deepening of the courses through generous reading. Also — full participa tion in facets of school life. Concern? Like a young pre-medic — to learn as much and as well as possible. . . What counts? ‘Study to show thyself approved.’ Be Timothys.” “While I was a student, there was a number of things I felt were ‘useless’ in the curriculum. But the longer I am in the Amt, the more I realize how nearly every thing in some way has contributed to the effectiveness of my work . . . Years ago the pastors were about the best educated men in the community, but today it is not so. I feel our NWC and Sem education provides us with enough basic knowledge and culture to keep us from acting like fools. . . Starting over — I’d aim at getting to know my languages better, to really become able and efficient in their use, parti cularly the Greek and Hebrew.” Not all the replies that we received have been printed here because of lack of space. However, I feel that justice has been done to each one of the various points of view that were presented. There is little left to say in the way of comment. One pastor so thoroughly summarizes the thought found throughout this poll, that I shall use his letter to conclude this article. “We have the most important message in the world to proclaim, and we ought to

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sent course of study, as everyone must ake it, is the best possible one in view of the requirements of the ministry. Those who responded to the poll seem ed in agreement that a knowledge of Greek and Hebrew is essential for a true student of the Bible, which all pastors must be. They gave examples to show where errors appeared because of ignorance of Biblical languages. While this is true, not all pro blems are more easily solved with Greek and Hebrew than with ordinary old Engglish. Those who responded most enthusias tically to questions about the classical lan guage program were professional scholars. They had nothing but the highest praise for their education at NWC. Pastors left us the impression that tliey didn’t use lan guages nearly as much. This fact points to our purpose again: to get to the heart of what’s needed in the ministry. Do pas tors really read the church fathers and make use of German sources? We simply assumed that they used ! .reek and Hebrew. When we asked »■.-'• i, was used and why, the answers did :*.:d always square with each other. This would seem to in dicate that the curricu- iai is not as cut nd dried as it looks. o must allow for individual differences hut when the rea sons given contradict each other, there is orobably something more involved. The Visconsin Synod is conservative, and ap parently many of its members fear that any change may be a slow weakening. Needless to say, it was not a synod mem ber who stated: “I’m afraid that inbreed ing has been going on for so many gener ations that it is impossible for Wisconsin o see itself objectively.” Anyone who takes offense at such a suggestion might do well to give it a second thought. Know thyself. LATIN Virtually all who replied were in favor of Latin for any or all of four reasons. La tin is an aid in understanding grammar of all languages. It improves one’s use of English with a knowledge of cognates and associations. It is a strict mental disci pline. A knowledge of Latin allows one to read the church fathers. The difference between the scholars and teachers and the pastors was most evi dent in Latin. One exegete replied, “I en-

joy Latin, especially Horace.” A high school teacher said, “Like Maxwell Taylor, I find (the) Greek great to relax with. There’s nothing like reading the military cam paigns in the original for relaxation. There’s nothing like Greek to chase the cares away at night.” Another scholar said that after reading Latin for a decade after graduation, he was still not comfortable in it. He concluded that since four or five years (NWC presently requires five) is still not nearly enough to allow you to read the language with ease, it is hard to justify ten required semesters of Latin. A pastor got out his Beichtstuhl and confes sed, “I don’t read the church fathers very frequently.” (We should give him the un derstatement of the poll award.) Another put it more candidly: “Latin to read the church fathers and Luther is not realistic.” Although one simply stated that Latin was “needed for the ministry,” he gave no rea sons. Others: “I haven’t had the oppor tunity to use Latin language as such in the parish ministry.” “Latin as language has been of little use.” One suggested an em phasis on church Latin, especially Luther. About the only “Latin” Luther available now is that which has been “conveniently” translated into German for the Hauptschriften course. The church Latin course listed in the catalog has not even been offered for a couple of years. One confessed: “All the Hebrew and Greek grammar that I know is a transfer of high school Latin grammar.” (In the Latin program as it stands, no formal grammar is taught after the fifth semester.) Another wrote: “Latin has helped me write and speak English more correctly (At least I think it has).” A prof found Latin helpful for illustrations and word etymologies. One person thought that the culture gained from Latin was valuable. Another discounted the culture angle: “For culture, however, it is hard to justify mak ing a student spend his valuable time read ing ten pages of Latin, when in the same time he might be able to read several hun dred pages in English.” There was no agreement that Latin offered any mental discipline that couldn’t be accomplished by other courses. Recommendations were to keep Latin mandatory for at least two years, since “without Latin, Hebrew and Greek would seem unintelligible.” A first step might be 177

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a waiver test for possibly eliminating the fifth year. “All past Caesar could be op tional for those who lack linguistic talent or are interested in the practical ministry. If this were done, there should still be the full range of electives for those whose tal ent and interest indicate that they would be valuable.” The program might be more flexible and offer courses in Luther and the fathers. This would spare profs the agony of trying to pound Latin into heads which have built up massive mental blocks soon after Caesar. The classes would be more interesting, with fewer protracted periods of silence, and those who still took Latin might find it more fun. By cutting down on class hours, profs might spend more time combating the widespread and flag rant cheating which is now present. Cheat ing is easy to justify in Latin “cuz it doesn’t matter anyhow.” By the time the student begins work on the Bible, his translation methods are established. Perhaps if the use of James’s weren’t a matter of course by Frosh, NWC would produce more and better Biblical language scholars. A two or three-year Latin program with realistic electives could accomplish more than the course which is forced on everyone at pre sent. GERMAN There was considerable difference of op inion about the reasons for the ten semes ters of German which are required. There were a few who made claims about the desirability of spoken German for congre gations which still have German services. For those in the German program at pre sent, “conversational German is a hopeless ideal and lies outside the scope of our study.” “The ten semesters I had taught little German (got mostly A’s).” Even af ter 13 semesters and all A’s it just isn’t possible to learn an amount of German which is sufficient for conversation. Our synod is expanding, and soon German will be just one of many languages that a lim ited number of pastors will have to learn for isolated areas. Maybe advanced cour ses in German should not be forced on all students, especially those who get little benefit from them and have no intention of ever using Deutsch. A more realistic aspect of German is reading Luther and other church theolo-

gians. Of German the scholars said, “more than half my professional reading is in German, (He learned his German at home, by the way) and “it has enabled me to do history and religion research more effec tively.” A prof states, “Without a reading knowledge of German a pastor has for feited some of the greatest labors ever un dertaken in the New Testament church since the time of the apostles.” A pastor, however, maintained, “German to read Lu ther is nice, but hardly a necessity for the parish. It seems to be ‘gilding the lily’ just a bit.” One person asserted that the Smal~ cald. Articles ought to be read in German. The present symbolics teacher makes only occasional references to the German text. (The class has its hands full with the En glish translation, let alone German) While college seniors don’t bother to read Smalcald Articles in German, another pro fessor spoke of the volume of material ac cessible only in German. Another scholar stated: “with more and more important theological works (like Luther’s) translat ed into English, there is less and less justi fication for real reading proficiency in foreign languages at least for the average pastor. Of course, there will always have to be some to do the teaching and continue the translating and scholarship, but it seems to me, one must go all the way or it hardly pays to begin.” The irony of the situation at NWC is that “classical German is overemphasized and Luther and Reformation literature is underplayed.” As someone stated in re gard to Latin, why read ten pages of urtext when in translation. . . There seemed to be agreement that six semesters are essential and that eight would be an improvement over the ten re quired now. Unless more emphasis is plac ed on Luthrean literature, even those ten will not be used to their full potential. Luther is next to unavailable in Ger man, and it would be wishful thinking to assert that many of those at NWC today will use the German they learned in their ten semesters. When a professor states that less than one-quarter of his German class could benefit from a German elective, there’s considerable room for improvement. GREEK & HEBREW In Biblical languages, our question wasn’t whether they were useful, but how 178

much they were used. Therefore, in addi tion to being an examination of the curri culum, these answers given may prove something to students. Students often won der about how much Greek and Hebrew are used, and answers are usually hard to come by. A reference standard to judge where a given amount of application will get one would be very handy. The replies given on the questionaires ranged from a minimal use of Greek and virtually none of Hebrew to the scholar’s constant need for them. The honesty dem onstrated here is good to see. Perhaps selfcriticism in our synod is not entirely im possible after all. This spread in usage would seem to indicate that the ranks of those who do and those who don’t proba bly remain about the same both before and after graduation. The lesson to students should be that if you use Greek and He brew in school, you’ll probably use them later too. We will not hang out the wash of individuals, but recommendations fol low. “Homeric and Attic emphasis isn’t en tirely misplaced, but somewhat overem phasized.” “The proposition that a good liberal arts education must center on an understanding of classical culture in the original is a pipe dre.vm and neither true nor functional today.' "Read less secular literature and some of the pre-Nicene fa thers.” Some of this is being done now. The Hellenistic course lias been offered with considerable success for two consec utive years. There are also some who would be interested in more than three hours of Greek per week. Nor should the faculty allow the student body to opt the rougher courses out of existence, as has been happening the last year or two. There are students who would take more Greek if they could get it. “My lament is that Hebrew is so diffi cult; two years don’t do it justice. I am currently preaching Old Testament textsHebrew study takes far too long.” “Add more hours to the Hebrew course.” There is some interest in a Hebrew elective. Pas tors maintain that “when the parish pas tor no longer knows Greek and Hebrew, the orthodoxy of our synod lies precarious ly in the hands of a few professors.” A Hebrew elective would put synod Hebrew scholarship on a little firmer ground. That we need.

PSYCHOLOGY Reactions to psychology were generally negative. “Psychology doesn’t help much in applying Law and Gospel.” “Psychology is still a rather primitive science, largely a statement of the obvious.” “I personally fear studying psychology too much lest in voluntarily I classify troubled souls who come to me.” Many felt NWC “has no de ficiency in this area.” They thought that common sense was all that was needed. “Psychological by-products of Bible, liter ature, history study provide more that is valuable than formal study of psychology, especially rat psychology.” Some thought sociology would be better — “if you have the teacher for it.” Possibly the most sen sible suggestion was to have “further study at the seminary after the vicar year and preferably after a couple years of minis try.”

One wonders whether the negative at titude which prevails toward psychology is not largely due to ignorance. Although the course is now double what it was, it is very limited. If some respected Wiscon sin Synod Lutherans would take the time to study psychology and make public their findings, everyone could be better inform ed. If the results were negative, the course could stand as it is. If not, NWC should swallow hard and take the lesson. “Why neglect any modern tools which the Lord has permitted to flourish in the earth?” SPEECH Most of those polled felt that NWC is deficient in the area of public speaking. One said, “Forget it (speech)! Experience in Forum was great.” Chances are that he would have done all right without the ex perience that he got in Forum too. More agreed that Forum is a “poor substitute.” Although “we can detract but not add to God’s Word” and “the pastor is not an orator, debater or slick-tongued salesman,” “it’s a shame that pastors as a lot are some of the worst public speakers around. Boor ish mannerisms, lack of consideration for others, evidence of poor preparation and inability to LISTEN, instead of giving out our wisdom and knowledge on almost any subject — these too frequently prove to be the self-made handicaps we place in the way of our preaching, teaching and our in tercourse with others.” 179

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faculty and what could be done with more profs, the synod might be willing to pro vide a more reasonable staff. (Of course this would apply to other synod schools too.) If money can be raised for bricks, why not for brains? With a concentrated effort. . . . The other factor is the lack of doctrinally sound men with a graduate education to do the job right, even if there were $ to pay them. The synod attitude has tra ditionally been anti-academic; possibly for fear of getting “too smart.” There is a grain of truth in that, but the bad effects far outweigh the good. Although the pre sent faculty is giving secular education a try, more and greater efforts are needed. A school needs a faculty with a very high level of education. Until people look at modern education with a Christian atti tude and assimilate what is of value, all modern helps will look unchristian. North western would benefit from men willing to take the time to do some extensive work in fields applicable to the ministry. A school also need • faculty which is willing to do its best to see that all the students are challenged and that as few as possible “slough oil'.' Things have im proved, but in certain areas there is a long way to go. When the Gospel is involved, there is no excuse foe anyone to take it easy. This should include student, prof, board member and synod layman.

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Non-Christians are for the most part supergross hypocrites. For example, the TLTypocrisy takes many forms in tem- fellows with whom I worked last summer poral Christendom. There are as many would in one breath call original sin stupid materialists who call themselves Christians and claim that deep down all men were as there are bullet makers who condemn good, and in the next breath they would war. There is the seminarian in Eugene, brag of how they had found and used lost Oregon, who permits his wife to belly- gasoline credit cards for months and had dance to put him through school. And there taken advantage of countless girls. Sure, are the NWC students who ask the Chris they judge people “with religion” by differ tian church each day to thank them for ent standards than their own, expecting their great services to the kingdom of God. angels, but when angels do not material All of us and Christ’s kingdom on earth ize, even idiots can see through the hypo could do without such falseness, but in a crites. The guys “with religion” simply do structurally-oriented world, there is a form not practice what they preach and there of hypocrisy that is much greater, namely fore must not believe in what they preach. organizational falseness. Since there are That seminarian who pompously preaches so few witnessing Christians, what else against immorality must not believe what assumes the role of public relations agent he himself mouths. People who do not act for the church, but the church itself, and like Christians are not Christians. in particular, the big noisy church? What this boils down to is that in this

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day of computers, bigness and television, the World Council of Churches convention in Uppsala, Sweden, gets more publicity than a true Christian who helps an old lady across the street. The big Catholic and Baptist churches that poll their mem bers, feed the information into computers and then let their computers be their guides, get a big article in Time, whereas an individual Christian’s fruitful life af fects only those with whom he is in im mediate contact, and rightly so. And then there is the dirtiest piece of laundry, whose smell is not staying in the church base ment, the shocking affluence of organized religion. To reduce the contention to anal ogy, a bad salesman selling a good product should be asked to leave, but a salesman from a worthless company, no matter how good the salesman, should be thrown out on his ear.

You may say that a church has to be realistic, that we are living in an age where money is the shibboleth, and what is more, the Gospel is still being preached. Ah yes, but Jet us learn from Christ. Devotion for God’s house was burning in him like a fire. He drove money-changers from the temple and told them, “Do not make my Father’s house a market-place.” Whatever of gain the money-changers thought they were pro ducing for the church, Christ looked on as loss. Now look at the vulgarity of a bingo game in a church basement. To a rural Midwesterner, seeing such an event at Catholic churches becomes as common as seeing the sun rise in the morning. People fined up on benches, gamble in the church. Step right up! Make your State Fair visit a happy one! Bring home a teddy bear!

Most money-making schemes are not as overt as bingo playing, but with the help of some new books, magazine and newspaper articles, everything the church does in the way of grubbing after green backs is becoming known and discussed by reading and thinking America. In the books, Should Churches Be Taxed?, The Religion Business, The Vatican Empire and The Church Trap; and in various maga zine articles, one outstanding conclusion is drawn by all the writers. The church is now “Big Business”. They have proof. The visible assets of religious organizations are worth $79.5 billion, of which the Catholic church holds $44.5 billion. The Knights of Columbus have 200 million dollars worth of assets and own the land under Yankee Stadium. A priest is quoted as saying the Roman Catholic Church “must be the big gest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in almost every neigh borhood. Our assets and real estate hold ings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T. and US Steel combined.” One won ders that Aristotle Onassis could not have gained some dispensation from the Pope, because their paths certainly must cross in the business world. Not only does the Pope act as a spiritual head, but he also must function as magnate of the Vatican, a major holding company with global in terests that include a large real estate de velopment in Washington, shares in almost every Italian company, as well as in other corporations around the world. The Catholics are not the only ones. A southern California group operates a chain of restaurants specializing in Mushroomburgers. The Mormon church owns a news paper, radio-TV station, department store, more than 100,000 acres of farm-ranch land and a tourist spot in Hawaii. An Ohio Protestant organization owns a shop ping center, an apartment building, a wire and plastic company and a. women’s girdle firm. Most of the wealth is gotten legitimate ly. Few individuals are getting rich off churches, and it will still be a long time before taxes clamp their claws on church coffers. Yet one arrangement of big church finance, the sale and lease-back operation, is an outright scandal and is behind most of the court cases that challenge church tax-exemption. A church borrows money to purchase a business unrelated to its re-

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ligious function, then leases back the oper ation to a private company and they both split the tax savings. Rather than a tax, clergymen are generally in favor of volun tary contributions for such community benefits as fire and police protection. In a larger sense, though, the issue has gone beyond sensational facts and figures to the whole question of secularization of religion. It is easy to point to all the facts and say the church is wrong in doing this. Even though it is hypocritical and repul sive, how does one criticize the leaders who are behind it all, men who are des cribed as having “highly developed social consciences.” Just look at how the church’s economic leverage is being used against the South African apartheid establishment or employers who follow discriminatory policies or in support of labor unions 1 What is wrong with the church using its power of investment to promote social justice? I would ask them what is wrong with keeping a dog with rabies in the house? He looks perfectly fine. And others are asking this same question. Catholics in

Chile gave away 60,000 acres of land to a rural cooperation to pilot a land reform program. Malcolm Boyd, the spokesman of the so called “Underground Church,” describes the true mission of the Christian and his church as “giving up their life, their time, their resources, their activity, for those who haven’t yet heard the ‘good tidings.’ ” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, his con science smarting because of the palaces that pass for parish halls in his Rochester, N.Y. diocese has said, “There never should be a new church built here that costs more than, say, one million dollars. If a diocese insists on spending more for a church, it ought to pay something like a 20% tax for missions.” I cannot say whether these men stand as firmly rooted in the Scriptures as they should. But judging from their words and actions, they are aware of the hypocrisy in nominal Christendom and are willing to buck the tide. Can a church that would rather have men on Wall Street than out in the world preaching the Gospel be called T. H. Christian?

Latin literature shared in the renais sance, or even anticipated it. Songs com posed in Latin were truly international and crossed linguistic frontiers as readily as The clerics of the twelfth and thirteenth the music that went with them. Three J- centuries had a low opinion of literature types of Latin lyric were available to which lacked piety or classical precedent. Twelfth Century scholar-poets. There were Indeed, the place secular writers held in vivid imitations of the Ovid-Horace genre; relation to the total scheme of learning Christian poets created such familiar piec was clearly indicated as the lowest depths es as Dies Irae and Jerusalem the Golden; of perdition. Thus while poets and intel church ministrelsy was assimilated by the lectuals, disciples and successors of Abe tribe of Golias, exemplified by the disrepu lard, a thinker a hundred years ahead of table rhymer who called himself the Arch his age, were insisting that reason as well poet. as authority had a right to be heard, pre This tribe of Golias, hedge-priests, sumably to the greater glory of God, though perhaps some already were beginning to monks out of the cloister, was nomadic, suspect that reason and authority might that is, these vagantes traveled from uni not always accord, they nevertheless met versity to university and became experts spirited opposition. In response to the new at begging, sometimes worse. By the be spirit, vernacular literatures flowered al ginning of the thirteenth century vaga most overnight. Troubadours, trouveres, bond scholars had become a pest which and minnesingers poured out a profusion had to be dealt with sternly. The councils of lyrics. Other makers, not less prolific, of the period contain frequent directions fashioned folk-epics, chasons de geste, and for their suppression. Goliards were com Arthurian romances. Roland, Lancelot, monly linked with jugglers, buffoons and Tristram and Iseult, the heroes and hero other low strollers. When they could be ines of idealized chivalry, came to take caught, they were to be deprived of the their places beside the patriarchs of the tonsure, thus in effect making them out laws with no place in the social order. Old Testament and the warriors of Troy.

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Apparently these measures were success ful, since the Goliards quickly lost status and at length ceased to exist altogether. By the fourteenth century theirs was only a name of reproach. When Chaucer called his miller “a janglere and a goliardeys,” he meant that the man was a foul-mouthed babbler. In their heyday, about 1160, the Goli ards were the ecclesiastical equivalent of jongleurs and court jesters. They wrote Latin poems that were not essentially dif ferent from what the jongleurs were writ ing in the vernacular. In fact, the same person might write at one time as a clerk and at another as an entertainer for the unlearned. In the former capacity he was prepared to supply special diversions for Latin-speaking audiences, and his hiehest ambition was to win a post in the official household of some prince of the Church. The Cambridge Songs, which were written down about 1050, indicate how miscellan eous was the stock-in-trade of an early Goliard. The relation < [ the Archpoet to his patron, the Archbishop of Cologne, is representative of what every Goliard de sired, though few attained it. Necessarily their approach was direct. On occasion the Goliards turned poetic forms developed for churchly purposes to most uncanonical use in celebrating the joys of the flesh and the pleasures of the tavern. Speaking generally, they were re bels against authority and sometimes against decency. And with Primas of Or leans and the Archpoet, we encounter types of the learned vagabond whose dis reputable living was humorously reflected in their writings. These two poets more than any others created the conventional image of the Goliard as a libertine and a reckless wanderer, begging favors with a clever rhyme. Burlesque and parody were often em ployed in Goliardic productions. And, alas, parody quickly degenerated into outrag eous blasphemy and vileness. Certain can ons in council indicate that brazen per sons, Goliards or jesters or other buffoons, had to be restrained from singing profane or silly responses in church. The impulse to mock at the solemnities of liturgical ceremony gave rise to a whole series of parodies under such titles as the Drunk ards" Mass, the office of the Ribalds, the Gluttons’ Mass, and so on, in French as

well as in Latin, where bibamus took the place of oramns and the benediction was “Fraud be with you!” A second main wave of Goliardic poet ry, which may have been stimulated by the moral satires of Walter of Chatillon, attacked the avarice and laxness of both the secular and regular clergy, sparing none from the Pope down. Simony was, of course, a special target for reprobation, but no sins that could possibly be laid to priests and monks were omitted. The de cay of sound learning was a frequent cause for lamentation. In this Age of Faith, the Goliards pro vided the complement to such human types as Becket, St. Francis, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Not all conventual societies discountenanced the graceless muses. The monks of Benedictbeuem in Bavaria gave shelter to a manuscript anthology of secu lar Latin verse, which contained not only the Confessions of Golias, but likewise many kindred productions by Latin-speak ing writers, who exercised their learning in the composition of love songs, drinking songs, parodies, satires and other amuse ments. From about the year 1275 until the early nineteenth century, this collec tion lay perdu in the library of the monas tery, a cuckoo’s egg in the nest of the Holy Church! It would be nice to know how many brothers in the course of five cen turies relieved the boredom of a life of austerity by turning its unsanctified pages. From the Cambridge Songs come these selected tidbits: Nulla inter aves similia est api, que talem tipum gerit castitatis nisi que Christum baiulavit alvo i n viola ta. Vcstiunt Silve Castigatus angustia de levitate nimia, cum angelus non potuit, vir bonus esse didicit. In Vitis Palrum Veterum The Archpoet of Cologne sang: Mihi cordis gravitas res videtur gravis, iocus est amabilis dulciorque favis. . . . Si ponas Ypolitum hodie Papie, non erit Ypolitus The Confession of Golias • * • 183

Quicquid in me malum scitis, amputabo, si volitis; ne nos apprehendat sitis, ero palmes et tu vitis. Faina Tuba Dante Sonum Wrote Walter of Chatillon: Iacct ordo clericalis in rcspectu laiculis, sponsa Christi fit mercalis, generosa generalils; Licet Eger Cum Egrotis This is from the Carina Burana: Tale fedus hodic defedat et inficit nostros ablativos, qui absobent vivos, moti per dativos movent genitivos. Manus Ferens Muncra * * * Cum in scypho reponuntur vinum, aqua, coniunguntur, et talis coniunctio

SAMURAI "Toe College” had been studying intentJ ly (so he thought) for the last thirty minutes or so. All of a sudden he snapped back to reality and realized that he hadn’t even mastered five vocables for tomorrow’s lesson. He complained to himself for hav ing squandered his precious time. It was all just a matter of attention, concentra tion, and self-control.

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non cst bona nec laudari debet, immo noncupari melius confusio. Dcnudala Veritatc Well, as you see, I have selected what are perhaps some of the choicest passages and they are not too choice. The moral character throughout is at its best sensual, and it would be difficult to say which scheme of things they uphold — caritas or cupiditas — as St. Augustine once said all human efforts must either/or maintain. Frankly, it is more interesting to read Miss Helen Waddell’s comments on the Goliards in The Wandering Scholars (1927) than to read the original works. Here was Latin at its lowest — Latin love letters and other junk! The scholars should have been handed over bodily to St. Bruno of Chartrouse and their extant works sealed with “seven seals” and thrown into the deep Atlantic Ocean. E. R.

power of life and death over the common ers and wore two swards as their distin guishing mark. Nov/ hat in the world could all this have to do with attention, concentration, vigilance, and self-control? The story has bee. handed down that Musashi, one of the greatest Japanese swordsmen in that country’s history was eating his dinner in a small Japanese inn. He was constantly being bothered by four flies buzzing annoyingly around him. He resolutely made up his mind to do some thing about it. He merely raised his chop sticks, and in four quick snaps, effortlessly caught all four flies on the wing. Although this story is in all probability fictional, it nevertheless illustrates several facets of samurai psychology. The training and discipline of the sam urai warrior was one of the major preoccu pations of the samurai. Various psycho logical disciplines were developed to im prove their proficiency in the art of war fare. These techniques often included the development of powers of concentration, attention and control over the emotions of fear and anxiety. It was found that these two particular emotions tended to have a negative effect on the individual. Let’s examine some of these techniques to see if they’re applicable to the average person’s life today. The samurai warrior 184

stressed two important points about train ing methods. First, experience was con sidered more important than intellectual explanation. The samurai didn’t merely receive instruction on various aspects of combat, but spent most of his time in sim ulated action. The other major point is the importance of mental development over technical skill. The combat teacher con sidered form more important than accur acy to reach high proficiency. In order to improve their physical skill through mental discipline, the samurai made the development of powers of con centration and attention paramount. They were attentive at all times, always ready and prepared for an assault by their oppon ents. The average person of today usually finds himself trapped in a state of absorp tion rather than concentration. How often hasn’t a student found himself going to the wrong classroom bidding or classroom, where he attended a (1 - the day before. It’s done unconscious1' -md out of habit. The mind is taken up and is absorbed by the thought of lessor. paration, events that are soon to crop conversation. The stimuli of scene* . direction don’t register. When the min*.1 is concentrating, it is more likely to be u nsive to stimuli. One other factor improved the samu rai’s efficiency. That was his control over the emotions, especially fear and anxiety.

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past several years. As a final touch, the cast may appear in full Louis XIV attire. This in itself should make the production noteworthy.

Forum This year’s forum final will be the “fun niest thing up here in the last ten years” if the prediction of Director A1 IGessig holds true. The play, Moliere’s The Miser, was translated from French specifically for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater by Kirk Denmark, who is head of the Drama Dept, at Beloit College. Paul Alliet will try his hand at acting with the lead role of Harpagon. Also making their debuts will be Sarah Zell and Andy Pagel. An in teresting character to watch will be that of La Flesch played by Jerome McWaters. Several innovations are planned by Di rector Klessig. He is hoping to produce the play “in the round,” something which has not been attempted at NWC in the

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Dorm Tournaments A number of tournaments have been held, and several others will still be con ducted this school year. One of these, the Chess Tourney, was recently completed, with Arinin Schwartz defeating Dan Oestreich in the championship match. Third place went to Dave Schottey. Fourteen were entered in the tournament. The cribbage Touranment is now un der way. The game is four-handed crib bage, and seventeen teams are contesting for the first and second place trophies. The ping pong and pool tournaments will begin shortly after Easter vacation.

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53 to S4: “They say if we don’t get a big rainy stretch Arbor Day will be early this year.” 54 to S5: “It’s supposed to rain a lot this spring — that’ll sure mess up Arbor Day.” 55 to S6: “Somebody said they’re not going to have Arbor Day ibis yearl” 56 to S7: “Hey, 1 heard the faculty abolished Arbor Day!!' * * * A large vocabulary is an asset to any profession, especially the one which most of us intend to enter. Be that as it may, some still wince a little at a few of the high-sounding syllables that crop up in a class now and then. A few of these stu dents were wondering what would happen if a professor who chooses to challenge the intellect with 75-cent words were suddenly to be placed in a kindergarten classroom. There might be some adjustment problem, for instance, as he outlined for them what they would be doing that morning: “We are going to have a mildly ecstatic time today, children. I’m sure you’ll find the experience exhilarating and commod ious to your future existence. First I will peruse an apologue for your benefit, and then we’ll paint digitally. Then we’ll ad journ for gymnastics, and then I want you to extract your pallets from their reposi tories and put yourself into a brief sopor...” * * ♦

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lers. Because of the recent upsurge in in terest in such organizations, the book is sure to sell well. The book is a fast-paced account that gives a background of how the frat was conceived and grew. An especially stir ring chapter is the one entitled, “Troubl ous Times,” which tells of their stuggles for existence. Also of interest are the chapters which describe other frat-like activities on cam pus. There is a group of elite Sophs who sport an insignia on their sleeves that in dicates some sort of unity. This insignia, a circle with a triangle in it, closely re sembles the Civil Defense symbol. We sur mise, therefore, that their interests are civic. Several other groups are also mention ed. Some of them wear a hideous green sweat shirt with a porker pictured and the Greek letters Pi Iota Gamma. They have no apparent positive purpose or activity, aside from periodic sejuiri. gun fights on second floor Wart. Another group of sweat shirts has the Greek words “hoi polloi’ scrawled on them, and their wearers don’t even bother with squirt guns. There is some dispute as to the meaning of the words, but “the com mon man” or “the rabble” are generally accepted. Schmal Piege is the unacting president of this unfrat, whose favorite drink is, of course, the Uncola. Some have both PIG and hoi polloi sweat shirts and are then thrown into still

umni This issue of the Black & Red marks the last attempt at progressive journalism (perhaps I should merely say attempt) by Volume 72. Since this is my last effort as Alumni editor, I’d like publicly and grate fully to acknowledge the valuable assist ance given me by the district correspon dents. Without their information, this col umn would cease to exist, because, unfor tunately, we at Northwestern are quite iso lated. CALLS Schneider, Pastor James (’56), of Billings, Mon tana, has accepted a call to the Ontario-Kendall parish in Wisconsin.

another classification, that of “Common PIG”. There is one frat that has escaped the notice of almost everyone. There are only four members in it. They wear blue shirts with a curious emblem on the pocket. The emblem is a circle with a red arrow pierc ing it and in the circle are the letters P-U-R-E. It has been deduced that this possibly stands for “People of Ukrania Reign Eternal” or “Prime Usurpers of Roy al Ecstacy”. Red Henkel has a blue jacket with this occult symbol on it and seems to be the leader of the group. What makes this perhaps the worst of all the frats is that they’re nationally affliated. This na tional organization is called the Union Oil Co. They claim to get their kicks out of pumping gas. * * * In closing, there is a temptation to have a sort of “Chaucer’s Retraction.” A few centuries ago Chaucer concluded the Can terbury Tales by begging his reader’s indul gence, and this also applies here. This column must be written and taken in a spirit of good-natured fun. Dave Prust will take over the position for Vol. 73, and this tight rope is left for him to walk. Commendation must be given to A1 Klessig, alias Frederick Krause, who con tributed ideas, and also many who unwit tingly suggested material. We also thank Schmal Piege for acting as official scape goat. What more is there to say but, Sha lom ! M. H. Ellenberger, Pastor Larry (’62), of Elkton, S. Da kota, is now at Christ our Redeemer, Denver, Colorado. ANNIVERSARIES Bethany, Manitowoc, observed the 25th Anniver sary of its organization in January, 1959. Pastor Alfred Herder’s 25th Anniversary in the ministry was observed on February 12. DEDICATIONS Messiah, Wichita, Kansas, dedicated a combin ation house of worship and pastorage on De cember 1, 1938. A new school was dedicated by St. John’s of Hem lock, Michigan, on February 16. ENGAGEMENTS Walter Westphal (’63), tutor at NWC is engaged to Diane Tomfohr. John Brug (’67), tutor at DMLC, is engaged to Irene Schlomer, instructor in physical educa tion at DMLC. DEATHS Pastor Roman J. Palmer of Pilgrim, Minneapo187

lis, Minnesota, died of a heart attack on Jan. 5, 1969. Mrs. Karl Toepel, wife of Pastor Karl Toepel, emeritus, (’09), died February 17, 1989. BIRTHS Pastor and Mrs. Carl Pagel (’62) were blessed with a son in Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1968. James David, second son of Pastor and Mrs. Da vid J. Plocher (’56), was born in June, 1938. OTHER INFORMATION Pastor Carl Bolle (’21) of St. James in West St.

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MILTON 81 NWC 53 Although the Trojans tried their best to avenge Milton for their previous meet ing, it wasn’t enough as we were downed 81-53. Numerous turnovers and bad pas ses plagued the Trojans throughout most of the game and they never really threat ened the Wildcats. Dale Burgenske from Milton led all scorers with 25 points, while Hartwig came up with 16 for the Trojans. NWC 81 TRINITY 100 The Trojans went to Trinity and played one of the best teams in the league. They tried to keep up as best they could and nev er trailed by more than ten or twenty points. Swan from Trinity gave the Tro jans the most trouble with 26 points. Hartwig and Thompson tied for high scoring honors with 19 each. NWC 81 SEMINARY 79 The Trojans just inched out the Sem inary 81-79 in a fast moving, constantly changing game. Our team got off to an easy start and built up a twenty-point lead. Substitution time came around and at first they didn’t do top badly. Then the Sem settled down and closed the gap to only seven points at the half, 40-33. Their momentum in the second half carried the Sem to a lead of four. Finally the Trojans got going again, erased the deficit and gained a lead of seven points, to which they feverishly clung until the final horn sounded. The two old men from Sem, Kobleske and Halvarson, led Sem’s scoring with 26 and 22 points respectively. Thompson found his usual form again with 27. Hart-

Paul, Minnesota, will spend two weeks in the Holy Land and a third on a tour of Europe as a gift from his congregation in appreciation of 40 years service in their midst. PROPHETIC PROFILE Since this is my last prophetic profile of the class of ’68 (worst since ’09), I’m dedicating it to all their beards. After all, if Alexander the Great hadn’t popularized shaving (no, Joe Namath wasn’t the first), we’d all be wearing beards still — those of us who could, at any rate. G. L. wig and Naumann did an excellent job in controlling the boards. NWC 80 CONCORDIA 94 The Trojans seemed to play only half a ball game — the first half — as they lost to Concordia, 94-80, in the last home game of the season. All the damage was done in the second half. Our team was doing great at the start and had a promising lead at the end of the first period, 46-38. But then sloppy ball handling and bad passing gave Concordia too many oppor tunities to score. Concordia's Ron Schroeder and Dick Guse popped in 24 and 23 points from the outside. Joel Winter got the starting nod and phived an exception al game, adding both inspiration and 17 points. Thompson was high man with 24. NORTHLAND 97:115 NWC 82:90 The Trojans gave it one last try as they traveled up to Northland, but they came out on the short end of the deal when they lost both games. Friday night’s game was most disappointing. Northland controlled the game from the opening jump. Play on the whole was sporadic and wild, but things settled down in the last ten minutes as the Lumberjacks put on an ef fective, damaging stall. In the attempt to break it, the Trojans became flustered, and threw the ball and the game away. Gordy Lake and Dick Lee teamed up to drive the boards and tally a combined total of 48 points. Saturday’s game was just about a re peat performance of Friday’s game. Things got off to a rather slow start at first, with both teams trading baskets back and forth. But then Northland got going and ran away with the ball game on some consistent shooting and sharp rebounding. Thompson ended up with one of the best totals, 30 points, while teammate L. Lemke pop ped in 18. Naumann was tough under the boards with 20 rebounds.

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The Trojans ended up with an overall record of 4 wins and 18 losses. In general, things turned out mighty frustrating for the coach as well as for the players. There was a lack of overall experience and team unity. It was also quite evident that the defense was lacking in speed and in fact, instant reactions. Many times poor defense was the reason for the losses. As far as statistics go, Thompson took the scoring with a total of 513, and a 22.3 point aver age per game. He was also named to the all-conference first team. Naumann made use of his towering size and grabbed a total of 261 rebounds.

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Junior Intramural Basketball Champs Wrestling The Trojans finished out the last four weeks of the wrestling season with an ar dent desire to be in top condition for the invitational tournaments which were held at Lawrence College on Feb. 21-22. In regular season matches :he Trojans seem ed to be getting experience the hard way: Lawrence Frosh (14-30) Madison Tech. School (12-19), Lawiv . - 11-22), Whitewater (14-18). Althoi. ' • couldn’t come up with any victories, :«:! the matches were very close, and were decided by one or two key weight classes.

The Juniors took one more important step in what might be a clean sweep of all intramurals. After capturing the football crown, some of the same players teamed together to snatch the basketball title. They didn’t have an easy time of it though. About mid-season, things looked rather dim as they lost to the Sophs by one point. But as the season drew to a close, a five-way tie resulted. After a massive play-off, the Juniors came out on top by winning every j. s. game by at least 10 points.

The time finally arrived which every wrestler had worked so hard for. The tour nament hosted nine teams from small col leges around the stale and the Chicago area. The Trojans as a team didn’t do too badly, capturing fifth place. McAvoy pul led out a first place win after three gruel ing matches. He edged out his opponent in his last match 9-8. Reich, Schwartz and Heimann ended with third-place wins, while Tollefson and Hartman snatched fourth-place titles.

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SPRITE

Sign Writers’ Materials

TAB

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304 Main Street

Phone 261-4062

SUNRISE

FLAVORS

Watertown, Wisconsin AVAILABLE AT THE CANTEEN

CONSOLIDATED PRODUCE, INC

Bowl - A Fun

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LANES

“House of Quality"

766 North Church Street Phone 261-2512

OPEN BOWLING & BILLIARDS

TRI-COUNTY TOBACCO CO.

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Servicing Your Canteen With

School Supplies — Candy

Sinclair, -J*/

KARBERG7S SERVICE

Tobacco — Drugs

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1301 Clark Street

Phone 261-5561 501 S. Third Street • Watertown

WATERTOWN

WATERTOWN BOWL - "18"

Classic^ WATEPTtfWW

102 W. Cady Street

The Finest In

Phone 261-1796

Family Entertainment

Open Daily at 1 p. m.

East Gate Inn BOWLING For Your 5

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Dining Pleasure

BILLIARDS

East Gate Drive (Old Hwy. 16)

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MEATS and SAUSAGES

Victor G. Nowack WHOLESALE CANDY.

i. SMOKER’S SUPPLIED

610 Cady Stre«.

Phone 261-7051

of All Kinds

Compi' ■■aits of

202 Third Street

GEISER PC ATO CHIPS and POPCORN

WATERTOWN Dial 261-7066 watertown

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GUSE, Inc.

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301 N. Third Street • Phone 261-5402

HIGHWAY 19. P. O. BOX 92

ATHLETIC SUPPLIES — LETTER JACKETS

WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

HUNTING AND FISHING EQUIPMENT

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PLUMBING 6c HEATING Telephone 261-6545

'' •• BOB TESCH, Repr. COMPLIMENTS

CLASS RINGS - MEDALS - TROPHIES Graduation Announcements — Club Pins Yearbooks — Chenille Awards P. O. Box 663 — Neenah, Wisconsin Parkway 5-2583

KLINE'S DEPARTMENT STORE Third

and

HERFF JONES CO.

Main Streets

WATERTOWN

l^nneiff ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY m IN WATERTOWN Fashion Headquarters FOR YOUNG MEN

^SCONSINAVINUI

LUMBER-COAL-CO All Kinds

Build:':

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FUEL OIL ‘mterials

"Everything To Build Anything” Dial 261-56Vd OCONOWOVVOC, WIJCOHV*

COMPLETE CITY and

SHIRT SERVICE

FARM STORE

GLOBE MILLING CO. "SINCE 1 8 4 5"

Phone 261-6792 621 Main Street

Watertown

Phone 261-0810

VOSS MOTORS, INC. LINCOLN and MERCURY MONTEGO 301 W. Main Street - Phone 261-1655 WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

OCONOMOWOC TRANSPORT Company School Bus Transportation - Charter Trips HAROLD KERR 5021 Brown St. Phone LOgan 7-2189 Oconomowoc, Wisconsin

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Phone 261-5221

PONTIAC-CADILLAC 216 South Third Street WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN Open Monday - Wednesday & Friday to 9 p m.

Pontiac-Cadillac ISi!

Compliments of

Renner Corporation SAY .... H

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Builders of our three new Northwestern homes MAIN OFFICE

"PEPSI PLEASE"

OFFICE

1215 Richards Ave. 312 Main St. 261-3945 261-0772 WATERTOWN

Merchants National Bank At Your Canteen

“The Bank of Friendly Service” Drive-In & Free Parking Lot

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F D I C & Federal Reserve System

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THE STUDENT'S CHOICE

LOEFFLER

Shop

Our Greatest Asset Is Your Satisfaction

YOU SAVE ON QUALITY CLEANING 412 Main Street — Phone 261-6851

202 W. Main Street — Phone 261-2073

P hevrolet

Larry Reich's WIL-MOR INN 1500 Bridge Street

lAJifte, 3arr an cl Jrodt, J?nc.

Shop at Sears and Save

119-121 Water Street Tel. 261-2750

SEARS ROEBUCK & CO.

ZWIEG'S GRILL, Fine Food Open Daily BREAKFASTS

On City U. S. Highway 16

SALES & SERVICE

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Watertown

In Watertown It's

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SANDWICHES

PLATE LUNCHES - HAMBURGERS BROASTED CHICKEN & CONES MALTS & SHAKES

Smart Clothes for Men The Store with the

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Famous Brand Names i

904 East Main Street

Phone 261-1922

Dial 261-4174

107 Main Street

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Monarch Review Notes Open Nitely Till 9:00 Sundays Till Noon 406 Main St. - Dial 261-6027

BROESChTS Amphicat

(£wco)

Sales and Service COOT Snow Mobiles — 1429 E. Main Street

sporting goods

Dial 261-6472

Compliments of

TVatentawK DODGE 200 South First Street

Inc.

Dial 261-3870

APPLETON - MILWAUKEE

Watertown, Wisconsin •• f.

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KEY 3teS! PHARMACY

(paqszl'A

D. J. Hamill. R. PH.

“Next to Krogers'* 8th and Main Streets

(BakeJiy

KRKR'S

POTATO CHIPS

: Mins

POPCORN ! ?

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114 W. Main Street

Watertown

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Co-Mo Photo Company Photo Finishing — Cameras Black and White — Color “We Process Filins” 217-219 N. 4th Street i'

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Dial 261-0970

Watertown

113 Main Street

wurtz

Watertown

PAINT AND FLOOR COVERING

One Stop Decorating Center 117 Main Street

Dial 261-2860

Phone 261-3011

SALICK'S

Tflaviett d

Orange Blossom Diamond Rings

WYLER - HAMILTON - BULOVA WATCHES

WATCHES

CHARMS

RINGS

GIFTS

WATCH REPAIRING

KEEPSAKE DIAMONDS

217 Main Street

111 Main Street

HAFEMEISTER COMPLIMENTS OF -

Funeral Service FURNITURE

Schlicker

“OUR SERVICE SATISFIESm Roland Harder — Raymond Dobbratz 607-613 Main Street — Phone 261-2218

Organ Co., Inc.

BRAUN BUILDERS & SUPPLIERS Watertown

1530 Military Road BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14217

"BRAUN BUILT HOMES OFFER MORE FOR LESS”

Serving RESTAURAN' SCHOOLS INSTITUTIONS HOSPITALS in

Central

'.'sconsin

BEAVER DAM WHOLESALE CO. 306 South Center Street Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES ★

PROGRESSIVELY FIRST

A Daily Newspaper Since 1895

BANK OF WATERTOWN WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT

Duraclean of Watertown "FLOWER FRESH CLEANING” of Fine Furniture and Carpets Commercial, Industrial and Institutional Building Maintenance

INSURANCE CORPORATION

WAYNE STAUDE, OWNER

1322 Randolph St.

Dial 261-3350

D. & F. KUSEL CO. : :

Watertown Plumbing & Heating

"Your True Value Store” 103 VV. Cady Street - Ph. 261-1750

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Watertown, Wisconsin

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Smith Import Motors

VOLKSWAGEN

AUTHORIZED DEALER

108-112 W. Main Street

Dial 261-4626 321 Summit Ave. City Highway 16 East Watertown

MEYER'S SHOE STORE

WM. C. KRUEGER AGENCY

PEDWIN & FREEMAN

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"Since 1915"

SHOES FOR MEN

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10% Discount for Students 206 Main Street

Telephone 261-2094

Wm. C. Krueger

Wirt. €. Krueger, Jr.

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COMPLIMENTS OF

MATERIALS ACCURATELY

Your Walgreen Agency Pharmacy

Proportioned and Thoroughly Mixed To Your Specifications Phone 261-0863

Watertown

The Busse Pharmacy A. E. McFarland

R. E. Wills

SCHUETT'S DRIVE-IN

SCHNEIDER JEWELRY

HAMBURGERS — HOT DOGS FRIES — CHICKEN SHRIMP — FISH MALTS — SHAKES

510 Main Street — Phone 261-0774 Watertown, Wisconsin

Student Gift Headquarters Accutron — Bulova — Elgin Caravelle Watches Columbia Diamonds Expert Watch Repairing

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111 S. Third Street

Dial 261-6769

Watertown Savings and LOAN ASS'N.

9 m m

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INSURED ?

3rd and Madison Streets

WTTN

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"Your Pathway to Health"

1580kc - 1000 Watts !

M! L K

104.7mc -20,000 Watts :

SYMBOL OF WATERTOWN'S FIRST

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SOUND SELLING

GRADE A. DAIRY

TETZLAFF PHARMACY 600 Union Street Prescriptions — Drugs — Cosmetics

Phone 261-3522

116 Main Street

Watertown

Telephone 261-3009

r. : Compliments of

WACKETTS Service Station

-KECK FURNITURE

COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS

COMPANY

FOR OVER A CENTURY

110-112 Main St. — Watertown 316 W. Main St.

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PHONE 261*7214

SCHLEI OLDSMOBILE New & Used Cars NEWEST & MOST MODERN PAINT AND BODY SHOP IN THIS AREA 311 Third Street Dial 261-5120 Watertown

AL. RIPPE Attractive Special Rates For Students

Compliments of JERRY ROGERS, M. Photographer

OWNER

MINAR

113 Second Street

Office and School Supply

Telephone 261-5072

FACTORY TO YOU SAVE MATTRESSES-BOX SPRINGS

MALLACH PHARMACY

FULL OR TWIN, THREE QUARTER AND SPECIAL SIZES

> BEDROOM SUITES, BUNK and TRUNDLE BEDS, SOFAS, CHAIRS, ROCKERS, HIDE-A-BEDS, STUDIOS, DINETTE SETS, LAMPS, TABLES, PICTURES

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Milwaukee Mattress & Furniture

Gerald Mallacu. r. ph. Curtis Marten, r. ph. Complete Selection of ; :cn's Toiletries 315 Main Sivcet Watertown

Phone 261-3717

— Manufacturers of Quality Bedding — 45 Years’ Experience

Mullen's Dairy

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FACTORY STORE - DOWNTOWN 423 N. 3rd. St.- 271-7335

MALTED MILKS

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ROY DOBRATZ

KEN DETHLOFF

ART'S SHOE SERVICE x

Made Special for N.W.C. Students 30c m-m-m 35c m-m-good

Across From THE NEW MOOSE LODGE

40c

SHOE REPAIR

212 W. Main Street Phone 261-4278

Fast Service — Reasonable Prices 119 N. Second Street

Watertown

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Watertown, Wisconsin

INDEX TO VOLUME LXXII MAY 1968 TO MARCH 1969

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ALUMNI NOTES Feature Column 17, 63 Thomas Ziebell 82, 104, 126, 145, 168, 187 Greg Lenz Seminary Calls 64 Society minutes 17, Armin Panning CAMPUS & CLASSROOM Feature Column 16, 56, 79*. 101*, 124, 142*, 167, 186 Mark Hannemann CARTOONS Beginners’ Luck 124 Allen Beyersdorf Best Wishes from Volume 72 BC8 Chimneys BC5 EPS BC1 Umni-power BC3 COMMENCEMENT ORATIONS “Northwestern" of Central Africa, The 22 Ernst Wendland Welfare State in America, The 24 Neal Schroeder DR. OTT PAPER “Druidae Gallorum” 88* Robert Pasbrig EDITORIALS ■ i Zeitler B&R Submissions 1 B&R, Volume 72 1 Erstad Car rules 109 John Zeitler Chapel attendance - Prahl Chapel collections Cheering 65 Duan. College tutors 171 tier Communion 109 Composition course Extracurriculars 14, Faculty-student rela Herb Prahl Gangs 128 David Library 85 Herb * Lutheran Collegians Zeitler Offense 85 Duane Protests 148 John Retaining Goals 148 . Prahl School support 65 Senior slide 128 Job 'ier Student appreciation i?i Duane Erstad Student chapel speakers 171 Herb Prahl Vacation 21 Herb Prahl Wartburg 21 Carl Leyrer FICTION Christmas Gift, The 118 Thomas Bartz Die Dauer des Lebens 131 Thomas Ziebell In Speaking Otherwise 141 Eugene Roecker One and the Same 113 Tim Schneider The Lord Helps Those... 155* Joel Schroeder GENERAL INFORMATION A1 Pine Show, The 5 Thomas Haar Atlantis 10 Mark Falck Backwoods? 122* Duane Erstad Brothers 110 Mark Hannemann Do Unto Others Befor. . . 68* Eugene Roecker Electric Trains 151 Paul Alliet Flash, Flash, Flash 120 Eugene Roecker Gcethe Haus 130* Thomas Haar Her Majesty’s Boob Tube 11 Thomas Bartz Hypocrisy 180* Thomas Haar 111 Wind, An 140 Paul Alliet Merchant Marine 93* Carl Leyrer Mission Design 157* Greg Lenz Old Way to New Life 97* Herb Prahl Ours is Not to Question Why 100 Thomas Bartz Playboy Mystique, The 2 Thomas Ziebell Quacks Crack Back 9 Wis. Chir. Journal Revolution in the Making? BC1 Allen Beyersdorf

Samurai 184 James Schuppenhauer Taxi-What?? 136* Herb Prahl Time for Sleeping, A 77 Thomas Bartz Wealth 131* Carl Leyrer Wheel and Deal 153* Winter Lawn Mowers 138* John Zeitler World of a Chimney-sweep, The 75* Allen Beyersdorf ILLUSTRATIONS (cf. starred articles) Allen Beyersdorf LEAD ARTICLES Change ? ! 176* Duane Erstad Individual, The 133* Thomas Bartz Mirror of Your Mind? 95* John Zeitler On the Demise of a Unity 159* Mark Hannemann Open Forum, The 72* Thomas Haar Origin of Life, The 115* Allen Beyersdorf Seven Deadly Sins, The 6* Herb Prahl LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Baroque Music 111* Barry Brandt BR and B&R 12 Duane Erstad Poetry and the Soldier 3 Eugene Roecker Tribe of Golias, The 182 Eugene Roecker NEWS Arbor Day 15* Brick Lecture 167 Choice ’68 15, 58 Christmas 144 Elections 57, 81 Forum 57*. 58, 80, 125*, 145, 185 Homecoming 103*, 104 Lutheran Collegians 57 Musical notes 126 Pridinoff recital 145 Rostra 125 Schola Cantorum 144 Senior Activities 57 Senior-Faculty Discussion 15 Tau Delta Theta 15 Tournaments 58, 145, 186* Vandalism 145 Wendland Lecture 81 Winter Carnival 166* Y-GOP 81 POETRY Christmas ’68 BC5 David Krueger Epiphany 142 Eugene Roecker Flee Not Nineveh 124 Greg Lenz Foodickles for Thought BC4 Greg Lenz History Outline 13 Greg Lenz Internal Reflection #1 BC8 David Haeuser Piano Recital BC6 Eugene Roecker “PIG" BC8 David Krueger Reflections of a Man Without God BC7 Reed Haakenson Upwards 121 Thomas Bartz SCHOOL AND STUDENT Be a Traveling Ministeral 149* Paul Schweppe Boehlke, Prof. 71* Mark Falck Focus: Maranatha 66* Mark Hannemann Glacier 70 John Seifert “If Only ...” 173 John Zeitler N.W.C.’s Other Half 172 Carl Leyrer Studieren. . . 163 Thomas Bartz Tribute to Our Dean 99* Allen Beyersdorf Wrong Rites 86 Duane Erstad SPORTS Feature Column James Schuppenhauer 19*, 59*. 83*. 106*, 127*, 146*, 169*, 188* * — Illustrated Articles

APRIL 6 7 13 14 20 21 27 28

12 8 9 15 16 22 23 29 30

3 10 17 24

4 11 18 25

12 19 26

COMING EVENTS HOME EVENTS IN CAPITALS

24 INTERNAL REFLECTION #1 ;

A tender ache, a low moaning thought Throbs through the vagrant passages Gorging Furywise on the walled flesh » of ravaged cells To bring to fruition the dull, damning despair Which bubbles forth artesian i v From the desolate scape of blasted passion. At night it comes Not with purged red or pure blue But emanates the garish, ominous green of latent hell As a luminescent stone with eerie light, Devoid of ardor, life, the heat of aspiration.

April 1 2 2-13 6 14

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But incadescent splendor shines from without, Slowly takes root awaking brighter thoughts. Grows, submerges the eerie, stony light with Springlight of Day. Scintillating wonder, the Word enters in, and hope, Vivifying the ravaged cells with light, Healing, soothing, restoring the potency of Love For His love only makes me alive And free to make other men free. David Haeuser, ’69

BOTCH FOR THE MONTH:

approved: that from now on our members .simply remain seated and blow their heads” ■X

— an anonymous church periodical

23 — 29 —

April Fool’s Day Easter recess begins — noon Chorus Tour in Michigan Easter Classes resume Touring Chorus concert - chapel, 7 Prep Baseball vs St John’s Prep Baseball at St. Catherine Hong Kong lecture by Rev. Seim Prep Baseball a« USM Tennis vs M dison Tech Golf vs MIT Prep Baser' s Wis Lutii it Ripon - DH Varsity base: akeland Golf, Tennis l vs Milton - DH Varsity Baa lilton Golf, Tennis Wayland Prep Baseb.. SSI

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